2012年9月12日 星期三

You can become HAPPY!

By using this book: Self Analysis


"Do you really know yourself? Now you can, with Self Analysis. This book will take you through your past, your potentials, your life. First, with a series of self-examinations and using a special version of the Hubbard Chart of Human Evaluation, you plot yourself on the Tone Scale. Then, applying a series of light, yet powerful processes, you embark on the great adventure of self-discovery."

"The barriers of life are really just shadows. Learn to know yourself, not just a shadow of yourself. Self Analysis shows you how."


2012年9月11日 星期二

Don't waste our food--Foodbank network

Source: Foodbank network
            Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations

Global hunger map



Hunger touches every community, every nation, and every region of the world.
  • Worldwide more than 925 million people do not have enough to eat. That means one in seven people are suffering from hunger.[1]
  • Hunger and malnutrition are the number one risk to health worldwide. Each year the death toll exceeds that of AIDS, malaria, and tuberculosis combined. [2]
  • Every day, nearly 16,000 children die from hunger-related causes. That's one child every five seconds. [3]
  • Approximately 60% of the chronically hungry are women, and one-fifth are under the age of five. [4]
[1] The State of Food Insecurity in the World 2010, FAO
[2] World Food Program, 2011
[3] United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon, Nov. 17, 2009
[4] World Food Programme, 2011

One Billion Hungry and More Than a Billion Tons of Food Wasted


  • Every year, consumers in rich countries waste almost as much food (222 million tonnes) as the entire net food production of sub-Saharan Africa (230 million tonnes)
  • The amount of food lost or wasted every year is equivalent to more than half of the world’s annual cereals crop (2.3 billion tonnes in 2009/2010)
  • Per capita waste by consumers is between 95 and115 kg a year in Europe and North America, while consumers in sub-Saharan Africa and South and Southeast Asia each throw away only 6 to11 kg a year.

2012年9月9日 星期日

About L. Ron Hubbard

Original article: http://www.dianetics.org/#/faq/about-l-ron-hubbard


“To know life you’ve got to be part of life,” L. Ron Hubbard wrote. “You must get down there and look, you must get into the nooks and crannies of existence, and you must rub elbows with all kinds and types of men before you can finally establish what man is.”

He did exactly that. From the open ranges of his home state of Montana to the hills of China, from the frigid coast of Alaska to the jungles of South Pacific islands, whether working with men on explorations or teaching inexperienced naval crews to survive the ravages of a world war, L. Ron Hubbard truly learned what Man and life are all about.

Armed with a keen intellect, boundless energy, limitless curiosity and a unique approach to philosophy and science which emphasized workability and practicality over all else, Ron embarked upon his study of life and its myster while still in his teens.

Traveling extensively throughout Asia and the Pacific, he studied the wisdom of Far Eastern philosophies yet observed widespread suffering and poverty. If there was such profound wisdom in the East then why all this, he asked.

After returning to the United States in 1929, Ron pursued the study of mathematics and engineering, enrolling at George Washington University. He was a member of one of the first American classes on nuclear physics and conducted his first experiments dealing with the mind while at the university. He found that despite all of mankind’s advances in the physical sciences, a workable technology of the mind and life had never been developed. The mental “technologies” which did exist, psychology and psychiatry, were actually barbaric, false subjects—no more workable than the methods of jungle witch doctors.

Ron set out to find the basic principle of existence— a principle which would lead to the unification of knowledge and that would explain the meaning of existence itself—something other philosophers had attempted but never found.

To accomplish this, he began to study man in many different settings and cultures. In the summer of 1932, upon leaving the university, he embarked upon a series of expeditions. The first expedition took him to the Caribbean where he examined the primitive villagers of Martinique. Returning to the West Indies a few months later, he studied cultures of other islands, including Haiti and their esoteric beliefs in voodoo; and later he observed the beliefs of the Puerto Rican hill people.

After his return to the United States, Ron began to substantiate the basis of a theory, and in 1937, he conducted a series of biological experiments that led to a breakthrough discovery which isolated the dynamic principle of existence—the common denominator of all life—SURVIVE!

With these discoveries now in hand, through the first weeks of 1938 Ron wrote his findings in a philosophic work entitled “Excalibur.” Upon completion of this historical manuscript he allowed others to review the work. The response was dramatic, and more than a few publishers eagerly sought it. But even as the offers arrived, he knew that he could not publish the book as it did not contain a practical therapy. That is not to imply that the discoveries in “Excalibur” were not later used, as all of its basics have been released in other books or materials by Ron.

Much of his research was financed by his professional literary career as a fiction writer. He became one of the most highly demanded authors in the golden age of popular adventure and science fiction writing during the 1930s and 1940s—interrupted only by active service in the US Navy during World War II. Partially disabled at war’s end, in the spring of 1945 he resumed his work in earnest at Oak Knoll Naval Hospital in Oakland, California, where he was recovering from injuries.

Among the 5,000 naval and Marine Corps patients at Oak Knoll were hundreds of former American prisoners of war liberated from Japanese camps on South Pacific islands. He noticed that the medical staff at the naval hospital were engaged in trying to do something for the ex-POWs who were in terrible physical condition from starvation and other causes.

In an attempt to alleviate at least some of the suffering, Ron applied what he had learned from his researches. He made further breakthroughs and developed techniques  which made possible not only his own recovery from injury, but helped other servicemen to regain their health.

During the years that followed, he spent thousands of hours codifying the first-ever workable technology of the mind. Ron had been steadily accumulating notes on his research, in preparation for a book on the subject. To further verify his theories, he set up an office in Hollywood, California, where he could work with people from all walks of life. It wasn’t long before he was inundated with a wide variety of people, eager for his help.

By late 1947, he wrote a manuscript outlining his discoveries of the mind. It was not published at that time, but circulated amongst Ron’s friends, who copied it and passed it on to others. (This manuscript was formally published in 1951 and is today titled Dianetics: The Original Thesis.)

In 1948, he spent several months helping deeply disturbed inmates in a Savannah, Georgia, mental hospital. “I worked with some of these,” he recalled, “interviewing and helping out as what they call a lay practitioner, which means a volunteer. This gave me some insight into the social problems of insanity and gave me further data in my own researches.” It also restored sanity to a score of previously hopeless cases and once again proved that his discoveries were applicable to all, no matter how badly off they were.

As word of Ron’s research spread, a steadily increasing flood of letters asked for further information and requested that he detail more applications of his discoveries. To answer all these inquiries he decided to write and publish a comprehensive text on the subject—Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health. With the release of Dianetics on May 9, 1950, a complete handbook for the application of his new technology was broadly available for the first time. Public interest spread like wildfire and the book shot to the top of the New York Times bestseller list, remaining there week after week.

Following the release of this phenomenal bestseller, Ron’s time became less his own as he was called upon to give demonstrations and provide more information about Dianetics. He launched into further research, keeping the public informed of his latest breakthroughs with lectures and a flood of published bulletins, magazines and books.

As 1950 drew to a close, and in spite of growing demands on his time by tens of thousands of Dianetics readers, he intensified research into the true identity of “life energy,” which in Dianetics he called the “center of awareness,” or the “I.”

“The basic discovery of Dianetics was the exact anatomy of the human mind,” he wrote. “The aberrative power of engrams was discovered. Procedures were developed for erasing them. The amount of benefit to be gained from running half a dozen engrams exceeded anything that Man had ever been able to do for anybody in the history of the human race.”

“The discovery of what it was that the mind was coating was the discovery of Scientology.

“It was coating a thetan. A thetan is the person himself—not his body or his name, the physical universe, his mind, or anything else; that which is aware of being aware; the identity which IS the individual. The thetan is most familiar to one and all as you.”

These discoveries formed the basis of the applied religious philosophy of Scientology, the study of the spirit in relationship to itself, universes and other life. Through Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health the application of Scientology technology, desirable changes in the conditions of life can be brought about. It incorporates Dianetics, a vital and basic branch of Scientology, and encompasses techniques which raise personal ability and awareness to heights not previously thought attainable.

It was Ron’s lifelong purpose to complete his research into the riddle of Man and develop a technology that would bring him up to higher levels of understanding, ability and freedom—a goal which he fully achieved in the development of Dianetics and Scientology. Ron always considered it was not enough that he alone should benefit from the results of his research. He took great care to record every detail of his discoveries so that others could share the wealth of knowledge and wisdom to improve their lives.

“I like to help others,” he said, “and count it as my greatest pleasure in life to see a person free himself of the shadows which darken his days.

“These shadows look so thick to him and weigh him down so that when he finds they are shadows and that he can see through them, walk through them and be again in the sun, he is enormously delighted. And I am afraid I am just as delighted as he is.”

His works on the subject of Man, the mind and spirit alone, comprise tens of millions of published words recorded in volumes of books, manuscripts and over 3,000 taped lectures and briefings.

Today, his works are studied and applied daily in over a thousand Dianetics centers, Scientology churches, missions and organizations around the world.

L. Ron Hubbard departed his body on January 24, 1986. His legacy is the fully completed research and codification of Dianetics and Scientology technology. The greatest testimonies to Ron’s vision are the miracle results of his technology and the millions of friends around the world who carry his legacy forward into the twenty-first century. Both continue to grow in number with each passing day.

2012年3月28日 星期三

The countries in the world today:

We Are The World 25 For Haiti - Official Video

Somos el mundo (spanish version to We are the world) (versão espanhola) 

We Are the World - Ai [愛] Tsunami - Allstars

愛 - 愛心無國界 We are the world - Cantonese version

 

Africa:

Algeria
Abyssinia
Angola
Benin
Botswana
Burkina Faso
Burundi
Cameroon
Cape Verde
Central African Republic
Chad
Comoros
Republic of the Congo
Democratic Republic of Congo
Ivory Coast
Djibouti
Egypt
Equatorial Guinea
Eritrea
Ethiopia
Gabon
Tha Gambia
Ghana
Guinea
Guinea-Bissau
Kenya
Lesotho
Liberia
Libya
Madagascar
Malawi
Mali
Mauritania
Mauritius
Morocco
Mozambique
Namibia
Niger
Nigeria
Rwanda
Sao Tome and Principe
Senegal
Seychelles
Sierra Leone
Somalia
South Africa
South Sudan
Sudan
Swaziland
Tanzania
Togo
Tunisia
Uganda
Zambia
Zimbabwe

Asia:

Abkhazia
Afghanistan
Akrotiri and Dhekelia
Armenia
Azerbaijan
Bahrain
Bangladesh
Bhutan
British Indian Ocean Territory
Brunei
Cambodia
China
Republic of China
Christmas Island
Cocos Islands
Cyprus
East Timor
Georgia
Hong Kong
India
Indonesia
Iran
Iraq
Israel
Japan
Jordan
Kazakhstan
Kuwait
Kyrgyzstan
Laos
Lebanon
Macau
Malaysia
Maldives
Mongolia
Myanmar
Nagorno-Karabakh
Nepal
Northern Cyprus
North Korea
Oman
Pakistan
Palestine
Philippines
Qatar
Saudi Arabia
Singapore
South Korea
South Ossetia
Sri Lanka
Syria
Tajikistan
Thailand
Turkey
Turkmenistan
United Arab Emirates
Uzbekistan
Vietnam
Yemen

Eurpoe:

Aland Islands
Albania
Andorra
Austria
Belarus
Belgium
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Bulgaria
Croatia
Czech Republic
Denmark
Estonia
Faroe Islands
Finland
France
Germany
Gibraltar
Greece
Guernsey
Hungary
Iceland
Ireland
Isle of Man
Italy
Jersey
Kosovo
Latvia
Liechtenstein
Lithuania
Luxembourg
Macedonia
Malta
Moldova
Monaco
Montenegro
Netherlands
Norway
Poland
Portugal
Romania
Russia
San Marino
Serbia
Slovakia
Slovenia
Spain
Svalbard
Sweden
Switzerland
Transnistria
Ukriane
United Kingdom
Vatican City

North America:

Anguilla
Antigua and Barbuda
Aruba
Bahamas
Barbados
Belize
Bermuda
Bonaire
British Virgin Islands
Canada
Cayman Islands
Clipperton Island
Costa Rica
Cuba
Curacao
Dominica
Dominican Republic
El Salvador
Greenland
Grenada
Guadeloupe
Guatemala
Haiti
Honduras
Jamaica
Martinique
Mexico
Montserrat
Navassa Island
Nicaragua
Panama
Puerto Rico
Saba
Saint Barthelemy
Saint Kitts and Nevis
Saint Lucia
Saint Martin
Saint Pierre and Miquelon
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
Sint Eustatius
Sint Maarten
Trinidad and Tobaco
Turks and Caicos Islands
United States
United States Virgin Islands

South America:

Argentina
Bolivia
Brazil
Chile
Colombia
Ecuador
Falkland Islands
French Guiana
Guyana
Paraguay
Peru
Suriname
Uruguay
Venezuela

Oceania:

American Samoa
Ashmore and Cartier Islands
Australia
Baker Island
Cook Islands
Coral Sea Islands
Fiji
French Polynesia
Guam
Howland Island
Jarvis Island
Johnston Atoll
Kingman Reef
Kiribati
Marshall Islands
Micronesia
Midway Atoll
Nauru
New Caledonia
New Zealand
Niue
Norfolk Island
Northern Mariana Islands
Palau
Palmyra Atoll
Papua New Guinea
Pitcairn Islands
Samoa
Soloman Islands
Tokelau
Tonga
Tuvalu
Vanuatu
Wake Island
Wallis and Futuna

Antarctica:

Bouvet Island
French Southern Territories
Heard Island and McDonald Islands
South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands