Salt Bridge

うーん、やっぱり資源を握ってる国は強気だよなぁ。 今度の冬も乗り切れるんだろうか？ 過去記事はここクリック。

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Reuters Indiaより抜粋

Sweden downplays EU gas payment loans to Ukraine
Thu Nov 5, 2009 1:58am IST

WASHINGTON, Nov 4 (Reuters) - The European Union is not responsible for loaning money to Ukraine to help the country pay for Russian natural gas supplies this winter, Sweden's Enterprise and Energy Minister said on Wednesday. Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has repeatedly called on the European Union to help with Ukraine's gas problems by providing financial assistance. "That's not our role," Sweden's Maud Olofsson told Reuters TV in Washington. "The role for the European Union is to secure the energy supply for Europe," she said.

downplay : 軽視する

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Moscow Newsより抜粋

Putin warns of Gas War III
The EU has been warned of another potential winter gas war between Russia and Ukraine which could affect fuel supplies to much of Europe. A spokesman for Vladimir Putin said that the Russian Prime Minister spoke to his Swedish counterpart Fredrik Reinfeldt by telephone, after uncovering concerns that Ukrainian president Viktor Yushchenko was blocking payments for Russian gas supplies.
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Putin warned that payment problems could lead to difficulties for European consumers receiving Russian gas via Ukraine. A dispute between Moscow and Kiev at the start of the year over gas debts and 2009 deliveries left millions of Europeans without gas in January.

dispute : 論争

海外に住んでいる約１２万人のフランス人のうち１０万人はイギリス在住。ロンドンのサウス・ケンジントンにはフランス人地区があるんだそうな。

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Independentより抜粋

French to elect the member for South Kensington
By Kevin Rawlinson Tuesday, 27 October 2009

It already has its own French language school, French consulate and French cultural institute, now South Kensington is to get its own representative in the French parliament after a law was passed in Paris meaning that French nationals living abroad will be able to elect their own MPs.

In an attempt to give their two million expatriates more of a political voice, French MPs have created 11 new constituencies. The third such constituency covers Northern Europe, including the UK, Ireland, Scandinavia and the Baltic states.

consulate : 領事館
MP = Member of Parliament : 国会議員
expatriate : 国外居住者
constituency : 選挙区

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Times Onlineより抜粋

French expatriates in UK to have MP in national Parliament
Adam Sage in Paris, October 26, 2009

Legislation has been passed to give French citizens who live abroad their own MPs in the 2012 national elections. The law creates 11 constituencies for expatriates ― a move that officials say is without international precedent.

The third constituency covers the UK, Irish Republic, Scandinavia and the Baltic states. But 102,470 French voters are registered in the UK, compared with 22,071 in all the other countries that make up the seat, and authorities believe that the real number of French residents in Britain is at least double the official figure.

legislation : 法律制定
precedent : 前例

日本で言うところのNHK的存在？な放送局RTEが

お出かけ生放送。

たまーに食べたくなるエセ日本食（笑

わりと繁華街にございます。

ランチは６ユーロくらいだったかな？バーガーキングより少し安いくらいだったと思う。 過去記事１・２

今更感がありますが、２００４年に発表され注目された研究が２００５年末に捏造発覚。そして２００９年に刑が確定。捏造が発覚するまでの間、世界中の研究機関がその「間違った方法で」莫大な人材／経費／時間を投資してしまいました。詳しくはここクリック。

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NZ Heraldより抜粋

Stem-cell researcher found guilty of fraud
4:00AM Tuesday Oct 27, 2009

SEOUL - A disgraced stem-cell scientist has been found guilty of fraud in a case that shocked the scientific community. Hwang Woo-suk, 56, once hailed as a South Korean hero for his research on stem cells and famous for creating "Snuppy", the first cloned dog, was on trial for fraud, misusing state funds and violating bioethics laws. The trial has lasted more than three years.

stem-cell : 幹細胞、ES細胞　（様々な組織や臓器に成長する元となる細胞）
fraud : 詐欺
disgraced : 不祥事を起こした
hailed : もてはやされる
trial : 裁判
bioethics : 生命倫理

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LA Timesより抜粋

Disgraced cloning scientist Hwang Woo-suk guilty of embezzlement
By Ju-min Park October 27, 2009

Reporting from Seoul - Disgraced South Korean cloning scientist Hwang Woo-suk was found guilty Monday of embezzling from his stem cell research fund and illegally buying human embryos.
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Hwang's surprising findings in his stem cell research drew him a cult-like following. Immediately after he disclosed the findings in 2004, many medical experts and patients hoped that the breakthrough might lead to cures for diseases such as cancer.
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But a local television report raised ethical questions about the human eggs used for his research, and eventually his two published papers on the research were found to have been fabricated.
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In 2006, prosecutors charged him with fraud and embezzlement of about $700,000.

embezzlement : 横領
embryo : 胚　（受精卵が分裂を始めてから分化する前までの状態）
fabricated : 捏造された
prosecutors : 検察当局

ストックホルムぶらぶら。

新市街に帰ってきました。

見所の無い普通の道のはずだけど、なかなかいいね。

広場に出てきた。

マーケット。

オランダでコーヒーショップと言えば、、、初めて知った時にはショックでしたが＾＾； ちなみに写真は隣国ベルギーね。

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Javno.comより抜粋

Dutch cannabis shop owner goes on trial

The owner of the Netherlands' biggest cannabis-vending coffee shop went on trial for drug trafficking Tuesday accused of storing more than the allowed amount of the soft drug on site.
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Though technically illegal, the Netherlands decriminalised the consumption and possession of under five grammes (0.18 ounces) of cannabis in 1976 under a so-called "tolerance policy". Cannabis cultivation and mass retail remain illegal and are in the hands of criminal organisations in a black-market business worth some two billion euros (three billion dollars) per year. There are around 700 licensed coffee shops in the Netherlands which are allowed to keep no more than 500 grammes of cannabis on their premises, though this limit is often flouted.

cannabis : 大麻
decriminalise : 処罰の対象としない
flout : （ルールを）無視する