Ecological Homeostasis

Are We Short of Water and Food ??

http://www.lovinghut.com/
Since the vegetarian diet is the most effective solution to global warming, under Supreme Master Ching Hai's guidance, members of The Supreme Master Ching Hai International Association recently opened a chain of Loving Hut vegetarian restaurants around the world, in the United States, Japan, Indonesia, Au Lac and Formosa. These places provide affordable and high-quality vegetarian delicacies to the public, bringing a positive impact on the food and beverage industry...
Meat or vegetables? Independent online (SA)
A recent study has revealed that giving up meat could drastically reduce one's carbon footprint. A diet with meat is responsible for producing in a year (as many) greenhouse gases as driving a mid-sized car for 4,758 km, the Institute for Ecological Economy Research (IOeW) said last week. But the food a vegetarian consumes in (the same period of time) is responsible for generating (gases only) as driving for 2,427km, the IOeW said in a study commissioned by independent consumer protection group Foodwatch...
Vegetarian Shoes And Bags
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From All Corners of the Galaxy

Which Stars Are You From?
  • Galactic Highway - The Wormhole

    • Wormholes are a valid consequence of Einstein's general relativity view on the universe. A wormhole, in theory, acts as a shortcut or tunnel through space and time. There are several versions on the same theme (i.e. wormholes may link different universes; they may link the two separate locations in the same universe; they may even link black and white holes together), but the physics is similar, wormholes create a link two locations in space-time, bypassing normal three dimensional travel through space. Also, it is theorized, that matter can travel through some wormholes fuelling sci-fi stories like in the film Stargate or Star Trek: Deep Space Nine.

    If wormholes do exist however, it is highly unlikely that you'll find a handy key to open the mouth of a wormhole in your back yard, they are likely to be very elusive and you'll probably need some specialist equipment to travel through them (although this will be virtually impossible).

    Alexander Shatskiy, from the Lebedev Physical Institute in Moscow, has an idea how these wormholes may be observed. For a start, they can be distinguished from black holes, as wormhole mouths do not have an event horizon.

    Secondly, if matter could possibly travel through wormholes, light certainly can, but the light emitted will have a characteristic angular intensity distribution. If we were viewing a wormhole's mouth, we would be witness to a circle, resembling a bubble, with intense light radiating from the inside "rim". Looking toward the center, we would notice the light sharply dim. At the center we would notice no light, but we would see right through the mouth of the wormhole and see stars (from our side of the universe) shining straight through.

    Source:http://www.universetoday.com/

  • Stream of Time

    • Plato argued that time is constant - it's life that's the illusion. Galileo shrugged over the philosophy of time and figured out how to plot it on a graph so he could get on with the important physics.

    Albert Einstein said that time is just another dimension, a fourth one to go along with the up-down, side-side, forward-back we move through every day. Our understanding of time, Einstein said, is based on its relationship to our environment.

    Weirdly, the faster you travel, the slower time moves. (Is it truely weird? Not quite!!) The most radical interpretation of his theory: Past, present, and future are merely figments of our imagination, constructs built by our brains so that everything doesn't seem to happen at once.

    Source: http://www.socialtext.net/

2009-03-14

Vegetarian Restaurants in Xiamen, China

◆LOVING HUT“爱家”素食
电话：0592-2087117
地址：厦门市思明区演武路4号富万邦商业广场
乘车指南：2/17/20/22/29/48路车，厦大西村站下车
营业时间：早上 10：00-晚上 10：30, 全年无休
档次：中档
客容量：50人
特色菜: 漫波排饭、纽约排饭、红油抄手、台湾红烧汤面、三明治、爱家炸酱面...
是否纯净素食：纯净（无蛋、无奶、无酒精、不加五辛,餐厅内禁止吸烟、喝酒）
Source: http://tieba.baidu.com/f?kz=369829326

◆厦门天荷素食餐厅
电话：2197837 8888709 13055518188
地址：厦门市演武花园顶澳仔10-2（厦大邮局斜对面）
乘车指南：2/17/20/22/29/48路车，厦大西村站下车
老板及部分员工：素食者
联系人：王先生、 姜先生
营业时间：早上 8：00-晚上 9：00, 全年无休
正餐时间：中餐 11am-2pm 晚餐 5pm-9pm
档次：中档
客容量：80人
包厢：2
洗手间： 有
停车位：5
是否外送：快餐及素食成品负责外送,须提前电话联系,不需额外收费
贵宾卡：优惠价88%
付款方式：限人民币现金
特色菜：酸菜海鲜锅仔 脆皮素全鱼 鱼香茄盒
是否纯净素食：纯净（无蛋、无酒精、不加五辛,餐厅内禁止吸烟、喝酒）
经营理念：以素心经营素食 以爱心服务大众

◆南普陀寺素食馆 电话：2087281 2085908
地址：厦门南普陀寺内
档次：高档
客容量： 300人
包厢：六间，在普照楼2楼
泊车位:20
洗手间：6,每层楼各有两间
特点：佛教名刹中的高档素食餐厅，菜式为传统佛家素菜。
坚持素菜素作，素料素名，独树一帜。
特色菜:南海金莲 香泥藏珍 半月沉江 蜂巢雪莲
纯净程度：该店所用原料中的“日式豆腐”含鸡蛋成分!
吃全素者需说明不加酒、蛋、葱蒜

◆大方素食馆 电话: 2093236
地址: 厦门市思明南路412—11号
营业时间：8:30-22:00
档次：中档
客容量:100人
包厢：1间
洗手间： 2
泊车位:须停到对面南普陀寺内
是否纯净素食：该店所用原料中的“日式豆腐”含鸡蛋成分!
吃全素者需说明不加酒、蛋、葱蒜

◆虎溪岩寺素餐馆 电话： 2121799
档次：中档
客容量： 80人
包厢：2
洗手间： 4
停车位：10
特色:寺院素食，餐厅坐落于绿树掩映的半山腰，远眺可饱览鼓浪屿风光。
中午从11点到1点，比较多人，有时需先订桌，晚上4：30 到7点，比较少人。
靠纪念碑，厦门宾馆对面，在警备区里，沿路都是上坡，
坐TAX比较轻松，从闹区中山路约15元左右

◆心素食坊 电话：2285366
地址：禾祥西路12号1F禾祥苑一期，环境幽雅,菜清淡素雅。佛教色彩浓重。

◆素食之美 电话：5825998
地址：禾祥东路12-6号，豪客来附近，有包厢。老板是个年轻人，信佛。

◆山水茗素食茶楼
电话： 2233138；2233348
地址：湖滨南路91号非矿大厦二楼；有包厢

◆太平岩寺素食部 电话： 2048015
地址：万石植物园内太平岩寺

◆素味派时尚餐厅 电话： 2396519
地址：厦门市禾祥西二路华侨海景城19号(轮渡远洋大厦对面)。
素食披萨、意面、焗烤饭、各色色拉、铁板，是厦门第一家西式素食餐厅。

◆三摩地
5361689
西提别墅A#115

◆如园休闲养生
2121588
鹭江道海滨商城26A

◆绿柳居
2399369
禾祥西2路华侨海景城300~304

◆竹缘阁
5869999
桥岳路仙岳公园南侧天竺岩寺内

◆国姓泉
2067680
鼓浪屿港仔后45号
◆蔬活馆 禾祥西路 96号

◆ABB企业内的素食快餐（天荷）

◆鹭江大学宿舍内的素馆（天荷）

◆善缘素食 湖滨南路 闽南大厦对面

◆厦门白鹿斋素食馆
电话：0592--3919023
地址：厦门白鹿路白鹿洞寺内

◆功德素食馆
电话： 0592-2085590
地址： 思明南路418-10号

◆湖里荣华酒楼普济观音素食馆 华昌路90号一楼
电话: 6026555

◆“如园”--养生素食天地
ruyuan vegetarian house
地址：厦门市鹭江道还宾商城2a
电话：0592-2121588
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小灵通

“小灵通”介绍:

无线市话俗称小灵通，是一种新型的个人无线接入系统。它采用先进的微蜂窝技术，将用户端（即无线市话手机）以无线的方式接入本地电话网，使传统意义上的固定电话不再固定在某个位置，可在无线网络覆盖范围内自由移动使用，随时随地接听、拨打本地和国内、国际电话。

“小灵通”，具有性能优质、超低辐射、话费经济、使用灵活、轻巧时尚等诸多特点。

“小灵通”资费标准:
本地网无线市话新的试行资费标准分为两档：一档基本月租费为25元/月，本地网营业区内通话费为0.20元/分(单向收费)；另一档基本月租费为35元/月，本地网营业区内通话费为0.15元/分(单向收费)。由各省、自治区、直辖市可以根据当地实际情况，选择其中一档为标准。
(资料来源：http://tech.sina.com.cn/focus/PAS/index.shtml）

中國電信確定C網將向3G升級 4G路線倒向LTE
聯通:1/3中高端小靈通用戶將轉向C網

小靈通並不是中國人的專利，他來自日本，學名PHS.PHS是日本開發的網絡係統，日本人稱之為“個人手持電話係統”，就是我們常說到的個人無繩市話係統，于1995年7月開通運營。它可以在流動中接聽、撥打電話。但它的致命弱點是需要建大量的信號站，通話效果差，不容易漫遊，一旦車速超過60公裏，基本就不能通話了
“有事呼我。”隨著尋呼機市場的自然消亡，這句90年代風靡一時的潮流用語早已封存在了人們的記憶中。“有事打我小靈通，接聽不要錢。”近年來，這句話隨著幾大運營商變相的“單向收費”策略，也幾近絕跡。“有事呼我”沒人說了，尋呼機也沒人用了，那小靈通呢？

隨著電信重組的消息在坊間迅速傳播開去，購買了聯通CDMA網絡及業務的中國電信還會保留小靈通業務嗎？

2008年5月23日，傳聞已久的運營商高管調整名單終于塵埃落定，同時中國移動公告稱將與中國鐵通合並。由電信重組引發的民間第一波思潮已經出現———中國電信購入CDMA、中國網通與中國聯通合並，在GSM和CDMA兩大固話運營商朝思暮想的移動通信業務面前，原有的小靈通業務將何去何從？

據了解，目前廣東共有850萬小靈通用戶，但已遠不如巔峰時期。市場反應已說明了一切，再加上將擁有技術上更為優秀的CDMA網絡，中國電信要放棄小靈通業務似乎也成了情理中事。

關于小靈通的未來，目前業界盛傳的兩種方案包括：1、中國電信目前針對小靈通的具體方案包括在獲得CDMA網絡後，鼓勵小靈通用戶不改號轉C網；2、在獲得移動牌照後升級網絡，讓小靈通用戶也可以實現全國漫遊，然後與CDMA用戶一同過渡到3G.


廖曉濱認為，無論是技術演進還是市場選擇，第二種方案不可能。“小靈通又稱PHS，源起日本，但已是被淘汰的技術，肯定是生產力，但不是先進生產力。”他指出，拿小靈通的人是希望可以移動通話的，當然也是希望能快速移動通話，在這方面CDMA優于PHS.

其他運營商在資費上的調整讓小靈通價格優勢不復存在。加上無法漫遊、維護成本較高等問題，前景並未被看好，業內不少觀點認為引導小靈通用戶轉向CDMA網絡是中國電信的明智選擇，小靈通將像無線尋呼業務一般，因為技術和市場的雙重導向而逐漸消失。


(资料来源：http://big5.xinhuanet.com/)
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2009-01-12

Janez Drnovšek


Janez Drnovšek (May 17, 1950 – February 23, 2008) was a Slovenian liberal politician, President of Yugoslavia (1989-1990), Prime Minister of Slovenia (1992-2002) and President of Slovenia (2002-2007). He was born in Celje, then part of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, today in Slovenia. He died on February 23, 2008 in Zaplana (near Vrhnika), Slovenia.

Drnovšek's presidency was highly controversial. In the first three years in office, he rarely appeared in public, save for the most important official duties. In 2006, however, a change of style became visible.

He launched several campaigns in foreign policy, such as a failed humanitarian mission to Darfur and a proposal for the solution of the political crisis in Kosovo.

In January 30, 2006, he left the Liberal Democracy of Slovenia. Shortly afterwards, he founded the Movement for Justice and Development and became its first president.

He claimed this was not meant to be a political movement, but rather a wide initiative, aiming to "raise human consciousness and make the world a better place".

On June 26, 2006, he announced that he would not be running for a second term in an interview on TV Slovenia.

During his time in office as the President of Slovenia, he wrote and published several books in spiritual philosophy, including Misli o življenju in zavedanju ("Thoughts on Life and Consciousness"), Zlate misli o življenju in zavedanju ("Golden Thoughts on Life and Consciousness"), Bistvo sveta ("The Essence of the World"), and his last one called Pogovori or Dialogues.

According to his own accounts, it took him only two or three weeks to write each of his books, due to - in his words - "the higher consciousness" he was able to access.

Because of his new lifestyle and the content of his books and blogs, he was often regarded as an adherent of the New Age movement, although he rejected such a qualification as being too narrow. His lifestyle was a mixture of elements from various traditions: from the veganism of Hindu philosophy, the non-attachment of Buddhist philosophy, to the monkish traditions of Celtic Christianity. He also valued the indigeneous traditions of the world, being the only foreign dignatory at the inauguration of Evo Morales', the first native American president of Bolivia. He later hosted Bolivian ethnic musicians in the Presidential Palace in Ljubljana.

He revered the spirituality held within these traditions. He repeatedly claimed nature was his best cure, and he spent much time at his home in Zaplana. He died there on February 23, 2008, aged 57. His body was cremated shortly afterwards. He was buried with honors in a private memorial service in his native Zagorje ob Savi, along his parents.

(Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/)

We are people, and as people we have a great task before us: to change the world of suffering and lies into a world that is deserving of life...More

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