Welcome to the ezine produced by SGI Buddhists that prompts the positive, kindles the constructive, highlights the hopeful and leaves you feeling - well, up!
Published on Friday, 29 May 2009 19:00 | 
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Florence Nightingale took pets into her hospitals because
she believed they helped her patients both physically and psychologically. A recent
study conducted at UCLA concluded that dog owners required much less medical
care for stress-related problems than non dog-owners. Tanis Taylor
investigates the therapeutic properties of pets.
Published on Thursday, 28 May 2009 19:00 | | |
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In April 2009, literary giant JG Ballard died after a long battle with cancer
Among the obituaries and accolades was a moving memoir by his daughter, Bea Ballard, about her idyllic childhood with the man who, she says, filled their lives with love.
Published on Thursday, 28 May 2009 04:51 | | |
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TWEAKING THE DREAM: A CRYSTAL METH TRUE STORY
by
Clea Myers
Tweaking the Dream is about my descent into the human hell of addiction whilst living in LA; a crumbling portrait of soul-destruction, alongside depraved humanity, and subsequent re-generation
Available now at www.amazon.co.uk
** If you buy it today, Friday 28th May 2009
for £6.99, 50% of sales will go to CHICKS, a fantastic kids’charity **
Published on Sunday, 24 May 2009 19:00 | |
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Now watch Dean Martin and Foster Brooks in the drunk pilot sketch...
Published on Thursday, 21 May 2009 19:00 | |
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‘Individual and apolitical’ is how the young generation of female artists animating the Iranian art scene describe themselves. And yet much of their work is a provocative challenge to the way their culture treats women. Vida Adamoli reports.
Over the past five years things have become more liberal in Iran. As a result the lines of conflict between artists and the conservative, religious clergy are less clear-cut than they used to be. In a country where everything from schoolrooms to ski slopes to public buses is segregated, women artists are taking more risks than ever. The photographer, Shadi Ghadiria, is one of them.
Published on Wednesday, 20 May 2009 19:00 | | |
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In this human-centric age of group hugs, self-help gatherings for most disorders and abberations, as well as the wide range of psychological and alternative therapies available, why not a communal scream to round off the day?
And even better, make it art: Paola Livi has organised a 'scream happening'- like those popular back in the 60s- by holding it at the Tate Modern on Monday, 25th May at 17:00.
As a keen dabbler in healthy alternatives to chemical release, a hearty scream into a pillow at home has often helped me release suffocated emotion. But the opportunity to gather with like-minded souls and scream together seems like a great opportunity for releasing some poison, or just plain angst, on a Monday afternoon, as well as celebrating what we have in common, the desire for a free Tibet.
Published on Wednesday, 20 May 2009 05:44 | | |
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Queen's Vice-Chancellor Professor Peter Gregson conferrred an honorary
Doctorate of Laws on Daisaku Ikeda - the international peacemaker and
educationalist - in Japan on 18 May
Queen’s has strong ties with Japan, and is cementing research and study abroad links with the prestigious Soka University in the areas of law, politics, management and sociology. In addition to signing an agreement which will see the exchange of students between Queen’s and Japan, Professor Gregson conferred an honorary Doctorate of Laws on Daisaku Ikeda. A prolific writer, poet and peace activist, Dr Ikeda is recognised as the world’s leading interpreter of Buddhist philosophy.