The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) is an international institution (a programme, rather than an agency of the UN) that coordinates United Nations environmental activities, assisting developing countries in implementing environmentally sound policies and practices. It was founded as a result of the United Nations Conference on the Human Environment in June 1972 and has its headquarters in the Gigiri neighborhood of Nairobi, Kenya. UNEP also has six regional offices and various country offices.
Its activities cover a wide range of issues regarding the atmosphere, marine and terrestrial ecosystems, environmental governance and green economy. It has played a significant role in developing international environmental conventions, promoting environmental science and information and illustrating the way those can be implemented in conjunction with policy, working on the development and implementation of policy with national governments, regional institutions in conjunction with environmental Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs). UNEP has also been active in funding and implementing environment related development projects.
Achim Steiner (born 1961 in Brazil) is a German expert in environmental politics. From 2001 to 2006 he was Director General of the International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources (IUCN). Since June 2006 he has been Executive Director of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP).
Acting on the nomination of Secretary-General Kofi Annan, the UN General Assembly unanimously elected Steiner as the Executive Director of UNEP on 16 March 2006 for a four-year term, effective 15 June 2006. In this office he succeeded Klaus Töpfer. He became the fifth Executive Director in UNEP's history. From 1 March 2009 to 15 March 2011, Steiner was also Director-General of the UN Offices at Nairobi (UNON).
At its 83rd plenary meeting, on 22 April 2010, the General Assembly, on the proposal of the Secretary-General, re-elected Steiner as Executive Director of the United Nations Environment Programme for another four-year term of office beginning on 15 June 2010 and ending on 14 June 2014.
Jacqueline Myriam McGlade (born May 30, 1955) is a British-born Canadian leading marine biologist and environmental informatics professor. Her research focusses on the spatial and nonlinear dynamics of ecosystems, climate change and scenario development.
She is the current Executive Director of the European Environment Agency in Copenhagen, Denmark. Following this appointment, she took leave from her post as Professor of Environmental Informatics in the Department of Mathematics at University College London.
Professor McGlade completed her BSc in Marine Biology, Biochemistry and Soil Science at the University College of North Wales, UK, in 1977. She obtained her PhD degree in 1980 on aquatic sciences and zoology from the University of Guelph in Canada. In 1987, she obtained a MA degree from the University of Cambridge in the UK.
McGlade’s PhD research on the mathematical and statistical analysis of the phenotypic and genotypic variability showed the critical importance of spatial dynamics in determining evolutionary divergence and ecological sustainability in freshwater and marine fish populations. This work led to her establishing the first population dynamics and genetics laboratory in Fisheries and Oceans Canada.
Paul Watson (born December 2, 1950) is a Canadian animal rights and environmental activist, who founded and is president of the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, a direct action group devoted to marine conservation.
The Toronto native joined a Sierra Club protest against nuclear testing in 1969. He was an early and influential member of Greenpeace, crewed and skippered for it, and later was a board member. Watson argued for a strategy of direct action that conflicted with the Greenpeace interpretation of nonviolence, was ousted from the board in 1977, and subsequently left the organization. That same year, he formed Sea Shepherd Conservation Society. The group is the subject of a reality show, Whale Wars.
He also promotes veganism, voluntary human population control, and a biocentric, rather than anthropocentric, worldview.
Paul Watson was born in Toronto to Anthony Joseph Watson and Annamarie Larsen, and grew up in St. Andrews, New Brunswick. After working as a tour guide at Expo 67, the World's Fair that took place in Montreal in 1967, Watson "rode the rails" in boxcars west to Vancouver.
Li Bingbing (born February 27, 1973) is a Chinese actress and singer.
Li had no intention of becoming an actress initially and enrolled specifically in a high school for prospective school teachers. However, upon graduation, she discovered her interest in acting and was eventually persuaded by a friend to join the Shanghai Drama Institute in 1993.
Her film debut was Zhang Yuan's Seventeen Years (1999), which won her the "Best Actress" Award in the 1999 Singapore Film Festival. In 2001, Li starred in the television series Young Justice Bao, which propelled her to become one of the most famous actresses in China. That year she was awarded the title of one of the "Top Ten Best TV actors/actresses in China". From then on, Li was approbated as an "action actress" as she starred in a number of wuxia television dramas, such as Taiji Prodigy and Eight Heroes.
In 2004, Li starred in the romantic comedy film Waiting Alone, which received three Chinese Academy Award nominations, including Best Picture and Best Actress. That same year, Li won the title of "The Most Popular Actress" at the 12th Beijing College Film Festival. She went on to star in Feng Xiaogang's A World Without Thieves, which earned her a nomination for "Best Supporting Actress" Award at the 2005 Golden Rooster Awards.
What would you do
if it all came back to you?
Each crest of each wave
bright as lightning
What would you say
if you had to leave today?
leave everything behind
even though for once, you're shining
Standing on higher ground
when you hear the sounds
you realize it's just the wind
And you notice it matters
who and what you let under your skin
Put to the test
would you step back from the line of fire?
Hold everything back
all emotions set aside it
Convince yourself
someone else
and fight from the world
your lack of confidence.
What you choose to believe in
takes you much too far
takes you much too far
No one else around you
no one to understand you
no one to hear your calls.
Look through all your dark corners
you're backed up against the wall
step back from the line of fire
What would you do
if it all came back to you?
each crest of each wave
bright as the lightning
do the same as you do
do the same as you do
do the same as you
do the same as you
I do the same as you,
Do the same as you
do the same as you do
What you choose to believe in
takes you much too far
No one else around you
no one to understand you
no one to hear your calls.
Look through all your dark corners
you're backed up against the wall
Step back from the line of fire
Step back from the line of fire
Step back from the line of fire
Step back from the line of fire
Step back from the line of fire
Step back from the line of fire
Step back from the line of fire
Step back from the line of fire
Step back
Step back
Still protecting the magic feather
Holding tight to a supporting crutch
Writing scripts on worn out leather
Still waiting on a divine touch
Try to ride on waves of activity
In every direction
You're the center and you're always free
In every direction
Feeling safe enough to abandon the void
Ban the zero, ban the noise
Quiet sounds picked up and dissected
All faint shadows reflected
Try to ride on waves of activity
In every direction
You're the center and you're always free
Relieved whenever life is out of red
But old scars force you down in defensive pose
Dark, blue skies always tumbling over you
Connect all disparate dots and label them as true
You're straying off point
Through a fixed kaleidoscopic view
Narrowing the field
Without adding anything new
Intuitive stories aren't easy to unlearn
Only collective peaks remain
Dark, blue skies always tumbling over you
Just repeat old fables until they feel brand new
You're straying off point
Through a fixed kaleidoscopic view
Narrowing the field
Without adding anything new
You're straying off point
And preferring to live a lie narrowing the field
Regress and self-amplify
Step in front of a runaway train
just to feel alive again
Pushing foward through the night
aching chest and blurry sight
It's all far so far away
Cold wind blows into the skin
can't believe the state your in
Who are you trying to impress
It escaped your attention, a single moment
Now you're running down wrong tracks
Left a notice on the pavement
Don't think you'll be ever coming back
Haven't you noticed
All the chickens are running wild
Have your lotus ready
We're bringing out the chimes
It escaped your attention, that single moment
While you were out changing lanes
Left a notice on the pavement
Don't think you'll be ever coming back
Haven't you noticed
All the chickens are running wild
Have your lotus ready
We're bringing out the chimes
Haven't you noticed
all the soldiers are running mad
Have your lotus ready
We're bringing out the chimes
If you weren't told about any divinity
If someone showed you our fallibilities
If you weren't told about the trinity
Would you still know what in the world created all this?
Wouldn't you like to figure out what's pulling the strings?
Did you know about varying degrees of free will?
Compatible with senseless building blocks
Did you know of adaptive or emergent properties?
How a lump of grey is making you talk?
Now wouldn't you like to figure out what's making you howl?
Ill equipped to deal with infinities
Never getting past the anthropic principles
Ill equipped to deal with probabilities
Can't help assigning intentions to all kinds of things
Wouldn't you like to figure out what's pulling your strings?
Now we could still talk about moral responsibility
We could still talk about our common human goals
What leads to happiness, what leads to suffering
What leads to exuberance and flourishing of the soul
She feels she needs to leave
When the fields are all covered in frost
And the dreams begin to breathe
Opening the partly open locks
While the others start to disagree
On returning to rough and moving grounds
And if I should come to be relieved
Would it be without you?
She feels she needs to leave
To avoid a messy aftermath
Alone between lines of anguished needs
Rearranged to allow a newborn path
While the others start to disagree
On returning to rough and moving grounds
And if I should come to be relieved
Droning chords and distant bells
Humming over empty shells
Holding on tight onto a dead sky
Nomadic moves across a lawn
Inch by inch into the dawn
Holding on tight onto a dead sky
Turn a deaf ear no matter what they might say
Always
Turn a deaf ear pushing you further away
Always
Droning chords and distant bells
To what's been over since the fall
Holding tight to what's been felt
Holding on tight onto a dead sky
Turn a deaf ear no matter what they might say
Always
Turn a deaf ear pushing you further away
It escaped your attention, a single moment
Now you're running down wrong tracks
Left a notice on the pavement
Don't think you'll be ever coming back
Haven't you noticed
All the chickens are running wild
Have your lotus ready
We're bringing out the chimes
It escaped your attention, that single moment
While you were out changing lanes
Left a notice on the pavement
Don't think you'll be ever coming back
Haven't you noticed
All the chickens are running wild
Have your lotus ready
We're bringing out the chimes
Haven't you noticed
all the soldiers are running mad
Have your lotus ready
We're bringing out the chimes
Running up the hill with a new lit love
pass a silver lining and then a white dove
caught up in first names all colors but blue
mirrors right and left unambiguous clues
Surrounding everything a thin white smoke
rings of ornaments out of leaves and fine strokes
helplessly engaged in a game with no end
sweet and bitter taste webs following a trend
Sweet and bitter taste
Immediate and steep lifted crossing roads
repetition will displace all eventual codes
converging heavily to a systems offshoot
unfold into a tree redirected hard root
Jennifer Juniper lives upon the hill
Jennifer Juniper, sitting very still
Is she sleeping? I don't think so
Is she breathing? Yes, very low
Whatcha doing Jennifer, my love?
Jennifer Juniper rides a dappled mare
Jennifer Juniper, lilacs in her hair
Is she dreaming? Yes, I think so
Is she pretty? Yes, ever so
Whatcha doing Jennifer, my love?
I'm thinking of what it would be like if she loved me
You know just lately this happy song it came along
And I like to somehow try and tell you
Jennifer Juniper, hair of golden flax
Jennifer Juniper longs for what she lacks
Do you like her? Yes, I do, sir
Would you love her? Yes, I would, sir
Whatcha doing Jennifer, my love?
Jennifer Juniper, Jennifer Juniper, Jennifer Juniper
Jennifer Juniper vit sur la colline
Jennifer Juniper assise trs tranquille
Dort-elle? Je ne crois pas
Respire-t-elle? Oui, mais tout bas
Qu'est-ce que tu fais, Jenny mon amour?
Disconnect all loops
reasons and to do list
breathing without rules
Shifting thoughts of flight
skin and colored waves
rest all weary eyes
Observe body dissolve
altered focal point
timelessness unfold
So disconnect all loops
reasons and to do's
She's over you
Boy, you know it's true
But you can't stay here
You had it coming for years
Pull yourself together
Draw the line
Pull yourself together
Can't stand to see you cry
It's your life, it's your call
Stand up or enjoy your fall
It's your life, it's your call
Stand up or enjoy your fall
It's over now
You've been taking your time
But you can't stay here
Boy, dry up your tears
Pull yourself together
Draw the line
It's your life, it's your call
Stand up or enjoy your fall
It's your life, it's your call
Stand up or enjoy your fall
Pull yourself together
Draw the line
Pull yourself together
Can't stand to see you cry
No point in looking back
Over your shoulder
Leave your worries behind
For a while
You'll forget everything
As you get older
It's your life, it's your call
Stand up or enjoy your fall
It's your life, it's your call
Stand up or enjoy your fall
Stand up, stand up
Stand up or enjoy your fall
It's your life, it's your call
Stand up or enjoy your fall
Pull yourself together
Draw the line
Pull yourself together
Wherever you look,
It's always the same,
So many people,
And the same game.
I didn't imagine,
We would end up here,
Now that it's fading,
And I feel so clear.
Wherever you look,
It offers the same,
So many people,
Living the same way.
I didn't imagine,
We would end up here,
When our petals have fallen,
And I feel so clear.
If it's alright with you,
Then it's alright with me,
And I feel so clear.
Wherever you look,
It offers the same,
So many people,
Playing the same game,
I didn't imagine,
We would end up here,
When our petals have fallen,
And I feel so clear.
If it's alright with you,
Then it's alright with me,
We're all walking lightly
We're all walking lightly
Let these moments last
Could be gone so fast
We're all walking lightly
We're all walking lightly
Let these moments last
Could be gone so fast
We're all walking lightly
We're all walking lightly
Let these moments last
Could be gone so fast
We're all walking lightly
We're all walking lightly
Let these moments last
Could be gone so fast
We're all walking lightly
We're all walking lightly
Let these moments last
Could be gone so fast
We're all walking lightly
We're all walking lightly
Let these moments last
Faded to the grain
Can't hear the mumbling complaints
Where canons rust
Swim against the current with trust
Running up hill
In the morning when waters are still
Ropes are cut
Unclear patterns when eyes are shut
Tu, kurs mëgsti mënulá naktá,
Garbinti
Savy tamsos blogá
Ten, kur kiekvienà ...
Kiekvienà naktá koðmaras
Tai ðviesos maiðto pabaiga
Adventas Ozirio
Pradþia Ãëtono judesio
Tai nëra letargo sapnas
Nebus melo inicialas
Setas èia karalius
Ozirio sukapoti gabalai
Susigërë þemëj kaip lietaus laðai
Ir tamsa jo ryto saulei
Mirtis tai mëginimas iðeit,
Mirtis tai siûbuojanti neþinomybës ðaka,
Mirtis tai amþina kûryba
Ir spalva jos juoda.
Mirtis iðsipildanti bûties knyga,
Mirtis tai perskyra pirma,
Mirtis tai vakar ir ryt,
Mirtis tik iðtart to nemoka.
Mirtis tai naktis visagalë,
Mirtis tai lûpos iðbalæ,
Mirtis tai ðlovës priglaudëja,
Mirtis tai kario likimo fëja.
Mirtis tai karstas giliai þemëje,
Mirtis tai kas nesunku mes manëme -
Veltui!
Mirtis uþdaro vartus, kai mes mà stome
Apie JÃ ir kas bus
Mirtis priklauso ir mums...
Mirtis, kai kaþkieno akys sudrëksta.
Mirtis, kai temperatûra tavo atvësta.
Mirtis tai pergalë ir paguoda,
Mirtis kuri atima ir duoda.
Mirtis tai nauja saldi gyvybë,
Ateikit
O, nakties vaikai,
Pakilkit
Laiptais á bokðtà tylos
à bokðtà â laikrodá nakties.
O kaip ðauksmÃ
Kurio trokðtÃ
Rankos neðanèios kardà ,
Kardà vardu iðminties â
Iððaukiantis viltá.
Ir jis neiðkaltas ið plieno,
Rankom neliestas
Ir nedega ugnis jame:
What's up ladies? this is j.p. and I just
Wanna know... have you ever been sung to while
Being made love to?
Baby won't you have a seat
Give me a second while I start this beat
I've been goin thru much doin what I do
But now that I'm home I'm gunna do it for you
See the bed is my stage girl
But the spotlight shines on you
We made love a 1000 times but tonite this is
What I'm gonna do
[Chorus:]
I'm gonna make your body sweat
With a performance that you won't
Forget
I'm gonna give you a private show
And show you how low these vocals go
Do you mind if I sing to you while I
Make love to you baby
Do you mind if I sing to you while I
Make love to you baby
I been around the world and I've seen pretty
Face after pretty face
Sung my heart out on stages
But it seems like it was such a waste
Now don't get me wrong I love my fans
And I thank god for the voice that brought me
Fame
But instead of the girls in the front row
Now I can you screamin my name
[Chorus]
Would you mind if I
Take my time
Touchin you kissin you, you're so fine
Start from your head, down to your toes
1000 kisses till you can't take no more
[x2]
Come here girl give daddy a hug tonite your gonna
Be loved by a thug
I'm on top of you, you on top of me, I'm freakin
You, you are freakin me
Let me love you, let me say that I do
If you lend me your ear, I'll make it clear the way that I do
Let me whisper it, let me sigh it
Let me sing it, my dear or I will cry it
Let me love you, let me show that I do
Let me do a million impossible things so you'll know that I do
I'll buy you the dawn if you'll let me love you today
And if that's not enough, I'll buy you the first of May
Let me love you, let me show that I do
Let me do a million impossible things so you'll know that I do
I'll buy you the dawn if you'll let me love you today
And if that's not enough, I'll buy you the first of May
Hahahaha.
It's Johnny Boy, bitches
Envy, lust, greed, and pride
That's my life. No truths; no fucking lies.
Envy, lust, greed, and pride
That's my life. No truths; no fucking lies.
Bitches wanna be me. Bitches wish the knew me.
Bitches keep on talking, while Pedos keep on stalking.
Bitches always ask 'Why are you so effin hot?'
Why dont you ask your boyfriend?
Apparently you're not!(Apparently you're not.)
Envy, lust, greed, and pride
That's my life. No truths; no fucking lies.
Envy, lust, greed, and pride
That's my life. No truths; no fucking lies.
Bitches need to fall back.
They need to understand,
that Johnny Boy is here,
and I'm gonna take your man.
If you think I'm joking,
I'll help you understand.
I'll knock your ass the fuck out;
Have fun in Neverland.
Have fun in Neverland.
and I'm gonna take your man!
Envy, lust, greed, and pride
That's my life. No truths; no fucking lies.
Envy, lust, greed, and pride
That's my life. No truths; no fucking lies.
It's Johnny Boy, bitches