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 Saturday, 31 January 2009 19:00 | | 
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Three cheers for porcine champions, Jamie Oliver, Joanna Lumley, Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall and Tracy Ward (aka the Marchioness of Worcester) who have admirably used their high profiles to raise awareness of the pig industry in a number of television programmes aired this month.
Pigs generally suffer from a bad press and arguably are the most mistreated of all farm animals, something that was confirmed late one night when I slipped into an industrial pig factory in Berkshire along with the animal welfare charity VIVA, who were filming undercover footage.
Published on Thursday, 29 January 2009 05:40 | | |
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I have a photograph of myself, aged 7, posing suggestively against the wall in my Grannie's hotel room in the Chelsea Cloisters, wearing her high heels, with a drink in one hand and a long cigarette holder in the other.
I wish I'd known then how prophetic this photograph would be in my own future battle to overcome my addictions; but then, as a child following the role-models in my young life, how could I tell which personality aspects were admirable, trustworthy and life-affirming - and which not?
Published on Wednesday, 28 January 2009 10:12 | | |
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The Shministim are Israeli high school students who have been imprisoned for refusing to serve in an army that occupies the Palestinian Territories.
December 18 was the launch date of a global campaign to release them from jail. You can help to set them free.
Find out more HERE.
Published on Monday, 26 January 2009 19:00 | | |
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With ideas borrowed from David Bohm here. "The Field as a Hologram." See the links in Part 1 to the Pari Centre for New Learning to get more science.
Published on Sunday, 25 January 2009 19:00 | |
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Batman
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Published on Saturday, 24 January 2009 19:00 | | |
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Customers and shopkeepers in India's capital will soon face jail sentence or stiff fine for using polythene bags writes Julia Stephenson
Fed up with the devastating effects of plastic refuse in their city, Delhi is in the process of banning plastic bags. Meanwhile other countries and cities as diverse as Rwanda, Zanzibar, Los Melbourne, China, Israel and Los Angeles have already banned plastic bags - or are in the process of charging for them, with a view to eventually banning them for good.
Published on Friday, 23 January 2009 19:00 | |
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Jeni
Reddy enjoys a mud walk in Britain’s first barefoot park