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Buddhists come out for equality
Seeded on Fri Apr 27, 2012 7:49 PM EDT ()
The House of Representatives public hearing on same-sex marriage, held at NSW Parliament on April 12, saw the largest non-Christian religious faith in Australia come out in support of marriage equality. “Well before Christianity and Islam appeared, and independent of any …
The Importance Of Inter-Religious Harmony
Seeded on Fri Apr 27, 2012 7:44 PM EDT ()
It is a common and idealistically beautiful notion, that all the religions of the world essentially practise and preach the same teachings for the betterment of the world. In fact, this forms part of the spirit that makes harmonious inter-religious dialogue possible – w …
Military Working Dog Adoptions, Help them Keep Serving and Retire
Seeded on Thu Apr 19, 2012 10:01 PM EDT ()
There are many forms of service to others. We can never know how many we may help by only helping one. Military working dogs served all of us and have saved thousands of lives. Then when adopted (retired) because the DOD considers them "equipment" they are done unless someone st …
Buddhist Channel | Buddhism News, Headlines | Dharma Dew | Buddhism in a Nutshell: The Four Seals of Dharma
Seeded on Wed Apr 18, 2012 1:10 AM EDT ()
Unfortunately, in the West Buddhism seems to have landed in the religious department, even in the self-help or self-improvement department, and clearly it’s in the trendy meditation department. I would like to challenge the popular definition of Buddhist meditation. Man …
Fix income inequality with $10 million loans for everyone! - The Washington Post
Seeded on Sat Apr 14, 2012 6:38 PM EDT (The Washington Post)
Are you concerned about growing income inequality in America? Are you resentful of all that wealth concentrated in the 1 percent? I’ve got the perfect solution, a modest proposal that involves just a small adjustment in the Federal Reserve’s easy monetary policy. B …
Free webcasts of Pillars of Peace Hawaii’s Dalai Lama visit | Hawaii 24/7
Seeded on Thu Apr 12, 2012 2:42 PM EDT ()
The Dali Lama will be in Hawaii this weekend. Three talks with him participating will be webcast LIVE. If anyone is interested just read the story and follow the link. The Hawaii Community Foundation (HCF) has announced three Pillars of Peace Hawaii events featuring Tenzin Gyat …
Pakistani boy dies after setting himself on fire because family couldn’t afford school uniform - The Washington Post
Seeded on Sun Apr 1, 2012 8:59 PM EDT (The Washington Post)
Like many in Pakistan, 13-year-old Kamran Khan’s family did not have enough money to send him to school. He was such a promising student that a local private school allowed him to attend for free, according to his older brother. Kamran never asked for anything, his brot …
"The Hero With A Thousand Faces" by Joseph Campbell, or How to Understand Mythology and Live With It.
Fri Mar 30, 2012 8:07 PM EDT
I first read this book about 20 years ago and in doing so after I saw a PBS TV program called the "Power of Myth" with Joseph Campbell and Bill Moyers, was able to change my life in a more positive direction. From reading this book and the many others that Campbell published I le …
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Red Jacket Defends Native American Religion - Christian Missionaries Call It The Works of The Devil
Sat Mar 24, 2012 6:40 PM EDT
In 1805 a Boston missionary society requested Red Jacket's permission to proselytize among the Iroquois settlements in northern New York State. Red Jacket's forceful defense of native religion below, caused the representative to refuse the Indian's handshake and announce th …
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One Alternative to Mandated Contraceptive Coverage Especially for Rushie Poo
Tue Mar 6, 2012 11:34 AM EST
Come here rushie dear...I'm ready...
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Oh yeah, the economy is improving...
Sat Jan 28, 2012 3:57 PM EST
The reality is that any growth recently reported was from businesses restocking their inventories: Here is the fraud report " At first blush, the numbers posted by the Commerce Department for gross domestic product in the last three months of 2011 looked strong.
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New two-million degree laser could unlock the secrets of the universe | The State Column
Seeded on Wed Jan 25, 2012 11:56 PM EST ()
Two-million degrees Fahrenheit. That is temperature produced by a new laser beam, according to the U.S. Department of Energy’s SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory.
Police Use of G.P.S. Is Ruled Unconstitutional - NYTimes.com
Seeded on Mon Jan 23, 2012 2:49 PM EST (The New York Times)
The Supreme Court on Monday unanimously ruled that the police violated the Constitution when they placed a Global Positioning System tracking device on a suspect’s car and monitored its movements for 28 days. But the justices divided 5-to-4 on the rationale for the decis …
Best Vegetable Seed Companies
Seeded on Tue Jan 10, 2012 8:02 PM EST (MOTHER EARTH NEWS)
It's seed catalog time. I get a lot of them and I love them.
Coffee quarantine proposal comes under fire | West Hawaii Today
Seeded on Fri Jan 6, 2012 12:20 PM EST ()
The Hawaii Department of Agriculture wants a permanent quarantine to prevent the spread of coffee berry borer, evident by its proposal available until today for comment. However, some Kona coffee growers are questioning the motives behind the proposed amendments, particularly …
Kona farmers want more coffee labeling details
Thu Jan 5, 2012 7:46 PM EST
Kona coffee growers want Hawaii's labeling law modified to provide more details on packages of coffee blends that contain Hawaii-grown beans.
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Annie Murphy Paul: The Secret Strategies of Skilled Listeners | TIME Ideas | TIME.com
Seeded on Sat Dec 10, 2011 3:40 PM EST (TIME)
So what are these listening strategies? Skilled learners go into a listening session with a sense of what they want to get out of it. They set a goal for their listening, and they generate predictions about what the speaker will say.
Taking a crack at roasting coffee beans at home - latimes.com
Seeded on Thu Dec 1, 2011 4:56 PM EST (The L.A. Times)
Raw coffee beans get the do-it-yourself treatment as java aficionados jump at the chance to roast their own blend. Four students are standing over a hot stove in the creamery of the Institute of Domestic Technology on a late-October Sunday at the Zane Grey Estate in Altadena.
Luck Is Just the Spark for Business Giants - NYTimes.com
Seeded on Sat Oct 29, 2011 10:15 PM EDT (The New York Times)
BETTER to be lucky than good, the adage goes. And maybe that’s true — if you just want to be merely good, not much better than average.
Weasal, Definition, Name Your Favorite federal, state or local of the day...
Fri Oct 28, 2011 4:17 PM EDT
Weasels ( /ˈwiːzəl/) are mammals forming the genus Mustela of the Mustelidae family.
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Agreement to tie kilogram and friends to fundamentals - physics-math - 25 October 2011 - New Scientist
Seeded on Wed Oct 26, 2011 12:31 AM EDT ()
The first sign that the SI was flawed was noticed in 1949 in a check on a lump of metal kept inside a vault at the International Bureau of Weights and Measures (BIPM) in Paris.
Sanatoriums could battle drug-resistant TB boom - health - 26 October 2011 - New Scientist
Seeded on Wed Oct 26, 2011 12:14 AM EDT ()
Tuberculosis resistant to antibiotics is booming in Europe. In Minsk, Belarus, 35 per cent of new cases of TB are already multiple-drug-resistant (MDR) when the patient is infected, new research reveals.
Here is the Winner, who needs Dancing With the Stars
Seeded on Mon Oct 17, 2011 1:00 AM EDT ()
What can one say...when you got you got and this dog does!!!
"Gray Market" companies exploit, profit from short supply of life-saving drugs - CBS News Investigates - CBS News
Seeded on Thu Oct 13, 2011 11:07 PM EDT (CBS News)
MIAMI - Sara Danielsen, 39, was diagnosed with a rare form of appendix cancer in March.
Buddhist Channel | Buddhism News, Headlines | Personality | Steve Jobs' Mantra Rooted in Buddhism: Focus and Simplicity
Seeded on Wed Oct 12, 2011 10:17 PM EDT ()
San Francisco, CA (USA) -- Long before Steve Jobs became the CEO of Apple and one of the most recognizable figures on the planet, he took a unconventional route to find himself -- a spiritual journey that influenced every step of an unconventional career.
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Rosen, who is openly lesbian, appeared on ABC’s This Week roundtable and castigated those who view same-sex marriage as a threat to its traditional counterpart. “Sorry, but straight people don’t need any help tearing down the institution of marriage …
- It didn't take 'divide and conquer' video to sway this Wisconsin police union against Walker
Here we have another instance of Walker's lies before his election concerning unions. It also shows another glimmer of hope that Walker will be out of office by thi time next month. To paraphrase the union rep quoted in the article, Cops usually vote Republican but not this time.
- Jerad Wheeler, Georgia Police Officer, Under Investigation For Kicking Pregnant Raven Dozier
A police officer in Georgia is under criminal investigation for allegedly kicking a woman who was nearly nine-months pregnant in the stomach before charging her with obstruction of justice. In an incident report filed on Dec. 12, 2011, Dekalb County Police Officer Jerad Wheele …
- Senate Bill 2109 Seeks to Extinguish Navajo and Hopi Water Rights
Once more a Treaty given rights of Native Americans to the resources on their land is threatened by Government and corporations. Water Rights is life rights in this part of the United States.
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