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传道书 3:11Chinese New Version (Simplified) (CNVS)

他使万事各按其时，成为美好；他又把永恒的意识放在人的心里；虽然这样，人还是不能察觉　神自始至终的作为。

 Ecclesiastes 3:11New International Version (NIV)

He has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in the human heart; yet no one can fathom what God has done from beginning to end.

  קֹהֶלֶת 3:11The Westminster Leningrad Codex (WLC)

אֶת-הַכֹּל עָשָׂה, יָפֶה בְעִתּוֹ; גַּם אֶת-הָעֹלָם, נָתַן בְּלִבָּם–מִבְּלִי אֲשֶׁר לֹא-יִמְצָא הָאָדָם אֶת-הַמַּעֲשֶׂה אֲשֶׁר-עָשָׂה הָאֱלֹהִים, מֵרֹאשׁ וְעַד-סוֹף.

“Even if there is only one possible unified theory, it is just a set of rules and equations. What is it that breathes fire into the equations and makes a universe for them to describe? The usual approach of science of constructing a mathematical model cannot answer the questions of why there should be a universe for the model to describe. Why does the universe go to all the bother of existing?”
― Stephen Hawking, A Brief History of Time

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  1. TOKYO – German Chancellor Angela Merkel, referring to Germany’s own experience, reminded Japan yesterday of the need to squarely confront its wartime past, but also signalled that neighbouring countries must do their part to achieve reconciliation.

    In a speech at the start of her first visit to Japan since 2008, Dr Merkel referred to a 1985 speech by the late German president Richard von Weizsaecker in which he called the end of World War II in Europe a “day of liberation”, and said those who closed their eyes to the past were “blind to the present”.

    She said the war is a bitter memory for Germany, and her country will never forget the history, adding that the 70th anniversary of the end of World War II this year is significant for both Germany and Japan.

    Dr Merkel’s polite reminder came as Mr Abe is preparing to issue a statement to mark the 70th anniversary of Japan’s defeat in World War II, the legacy of which still plagues the country’s ties with China and South Korea.

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  2. Summary of Lim Yan Liang’s article.

    Madam Choo, a secretary, was among the three dead and 33 injured in the worst bomb attack in post-war Singapore when a bomb planted by two Indonesian saboteurs exploded at MacDonald House in Orchard Road.

    Ms Wong found solace in another form yesterday evening, on the 50th anniversary of the attack, when she joined 200 other family members of victims, veterans and guests at the unveiling of a memorial to the victims of Konfrontasi at Dhoby Ghaut Green, across from MacDonald House.

    Although it happened five decades ago, we as Singaporeans must never forget this part of our nation’s history,” said Brigadier-General (NS) Winston Toh, president of the Singapore Armed Forces Veterans League (SAFVL), which organised the memorial service.

    The memorial was built after the SAFVL petitioned Mr Wong last year to find suitable ways to remember the victims of Konfrontasi and educate younger generations about this chapter.

    Mr Wong said the memorial “will be a lasting reminder of the victims of Konfrontasi, and those who risked their lives defending our country”.

    Today’s News 2015-03-11

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  4. http://time.com/3744486/world-sleep-day-animals-sleeping/

    Summary of Dirk De Korne’s article.

    It’s time to remove the stigma attached to mental disorders they are illnesses, not character flaws.

    HIS death has called my attention to a topic that I had often been thinking about during my journey with him: the terrible stigma associated to mental illness.

    Whenever I asked a taxi driver to take me to the Institute of Mental Health (IMH) to visit John during one of his many admissions, they would look at me twice.

    Mental disorders are, however, chronic medical illnesses just like heart disease and diabetes.

    Research shows there are genetic and biological causes for mental illness, and often they can be treated effectively.

    Studies show that mental illnesses are not that uncommon.

    A mental illness is an illness, not a character flaw.

    Although people with mental illness can play a big part in their own recovery, they did not choose to become ill.

    Someone’s religious faith can be protective and supportive when it comes to mental illnesses.

    However, Christians can also be discouraging to patients if they relate mental illness to a lack of faith or a result of specific sins.

    As Christianity is growing in Asia, more work is needed to develop local Bible-based views on mental health and the relation between medical and pastoral care.

    JOHN’S life has taught me that someone with a mental issue can be a very good friend.

    As the Singapore Association for Mental Health (SAMH) advises, we can do much to support our suffering family or friends.

    Former United States president Bill Clinton said once: “Mental illness is nothing to be ashamed of, but stigma and bias shame us all.” If sharing my friend John’s story here with the consent of his family can be helpful in advancing such understanding, our “wefie” was not taken in vain.

    The writer is a Dutch health scientist working in Singapore.

    A mental illness is an illness, not a character flaw. It has nothing to do with being weak or lacking willpower. Although people with mental illness can play a big part in their own recovery, they did not choose to become ill.

    HELPLINES

    If you or someone you know needs help on a mental health issue, you can find help here:

    SAMH helpline on 1800-283-7019, or go to http://www.samhealth.org.sg;

    IMH helpline on 6389-2222, or go to http://www.imh.com.sg; Samaritans of Singapore on 1800-221-4444, or go to sos.org.sg

    Today’s News 2015-03-13

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  9. In Germany, they came first for the Communists, And I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a Communist;
    And then they came for the trade unionists, And I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a trade unionist;
    And then they came for the Jews, And I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a Jew;
    And then . . . they came for me . . . And by that time there was no one left to speak up.

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    Friedrich Gustav Emil Martin Niemöller (14 January 1892 – 6 March 1984) was a Protestant pastor and social activist.

    http://blog.23andme.com/23andme-research/23andme-studies-the-genetics-of-sexual-orientation/
    23andMe Studies the Genetics of Sexual Orientation.

    http://world.time.com/2013/10/02/the-worlds-most-expensive-coffee-is-a-cruel-cynical-scam/
    The World’s Most Expensive Coffee Is a Cruel Cynical Scam.
    For the most part, civet coffee (Civet Cat Kopi Luwak) is not harvested in the wild in limited quantities but mass produced by animals kept in appalling conditions — it’s high time we stopped drinking it.

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  15. Heavens – shâmayim – שמים

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    Simply translated as “heaven” or “heavens”, the Hebrew word shâmayim – Strong’s H8064 or שמים – may also refer to the sky or “abode of stars” (see BDB lexicon for H8064). Curiously, the Hebrew term שם (shâm, Strong’s H8033) is can also mean “there” or “name”, and the verb שים (śı̂ym, Strong’s H7760) means “to place” or “to put”. Thus, ending in the Hebrew plural “ים”, the Hebrew “שמים” might be thought of as “a multitude of places”, or as “a multitude of names”, given that the stars all have names and God has counted them all. Finally, there may be a connection between שמים and water, as the Hebrew word for water is מים and the ש is used as a preposition for “that is”, making שמים = ש + מים or “that is water”.

    Take a break from meat

    Showering and hydration are hardly your main uses of water—but food is. The average American uses 7,500 liters of water each day, according to the U.N. If you’re eating meat, your water usage shoots way up; a steak dinner for two requires 15,000 liters of water for the meat alone. Eating more meat and dairy has been the single greatest factor for water consumption in the past 30 years, says the group—so going vegetarian, even temporarily, can make a difference.

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  16. Singapore’s first Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew dies aged 91 SINGAPORE: Mr Lee Kuan Yew, who was Singapore’s first Prime Minister when the country gained Independence in 1965, has died on Monday (Mar 23) at the age of 91.

    “The Prime Minister is deeply grieved to announce the passing of Mr Lee Kuan Yew, the founding Prime Minister of Singapore.

    Mr Lee passed away peacefully at the Singapore General Hospital today at 3.18am.

    Mr Lee, who was born in 1923, formed the People’s Action Party in 1954, then became Prime Minister in 1959.

    He leaves behind two sons Lee Hsien Loong and Lee Hsien Yang and a daughter, Lee Wei Ling.

    From early in his life, Mr Lee Kuan Yew had braced himself to face history’s tumultuous tides head-on.

    Born to English-educated parents Lee Chin Koon and Chua Jim Neo, Mr Lee was named “Kuan Yew” which means “light and brightness”, but also “bringing great glory to one’s ancestors”.

    Mr Lee’s political life began right after he returned to Singapore in 1950, when he began acting as a legal adviser and negotiator representing postal workers who were fighting for better pay and working conditions.

    In a marriage of convenience to overthrow the British, Mr Lee formed the People’s Action Party in 1954 with these pro-communists and other anti-colonialists.

    Leading the PAP, Mr Lee fought for their release and ran a campaign against corruption in the 1959 elections for a Legislative Assembly.

    The PAP won by a landslide, and Mr Lee achieved what he had set out to do Singapore was self-governing, and he was Prime Minister.

    Mr Lee and his team were well aware of the hard fight they faced against the pro-communists, having seen up close how they could mobilise the masses through riots and strikes to paralyse a Government.

    There were compelling economic reasons for merger, but Mr Lee was also clear about its political necessity.

    After an intense public contest that pitted him against his political opponents, Mr Lee won and most Singaporeans voted in favour of the union with Malaysia.

    On Sep 16, 1963, which coincided with his 40th birthday, Mr Lee declared Singapore’s entry into the Federation of Malaysia.

    Mr Lee addressed the Malaysian Parliament in May 1965, in both English and Malay, laying out his case against communal politics.

    But a year after racial riots were sparked off by what Mr Lee called Malay “ultras”, creating a deep divide, Singapore separated from Malaysia on Aug 9, 1965.

    And despite the daunting task that loomed ahead, Mr Lee chose to set his sights on building a country of the future, and he never veered from that vision.

    In the face of these looming challenges, Mr Lee and his team soldiered on to hold the fledgling country together, and to make it work.

    With first-world standards of service and infrastructure, Mr Lee saw the potential for Singapore to become the hub for businesses seeking a foothold in the region.

    Mr Lee most likely saw the possibilities for Singapore, including eventually enjoying the world’s highest per-capita income, and becoming a leading business centre for Asia.

    Besides the challenge of ensuring sufficient security for the country’s borders, Mr Lee and his team had a more fundamental problem to tackle that of a housing crisis.

    Mr Lee saw early on that English would be a unifier that would give Singapore an edge in the international arena.

    The formative years of the PAP, the battles against communism and extremism and the racial riots he lived through meant that Mr Lee never underestimated the potentially explosive nature of race relations.

    Mr Lee also took special interest in ensuring that Singapore’s different communities would all have a share in its prosperity.

    But he felt that part of the success of Singapore is due to leaders like Mr Lee, who shunned racial politics.

    In an earlier interview in 2003, Mr Shanmugam said: “I think most sensible people in the Indian community, particularly those who went through the earlier struggles, who are older than me, accepted this that we have the space and we have far more liberty and opportunity in Singapore than we would have if we were 6 per cent in any other society, including India, where many of the so-called upper caste Indians in Singapore would not have had a chance.” Mr Lee Hsien Loong said that the elder Mr Lee remembered the situation that had existed in Malaysia before Singapore became an independent state.

    Mr Lee said at the time: “I am convinced that we will thrive and flourish, provided there is an honest and effective Government here.” When the PAP Government took office, Mr Lee and his team turned up in all-white as a promise to the people that their leaders will not stand for corruption and will be “whiter than white”.

    Mr Lee expressed his passion for greening Singapore in practical ways.

    Mr Lee wrote in his memoirs: “After independence, I searched for some dramatic way to distinguish Singapore from other Third World countries and settled for a clean and green Singapore.

    Mr Lee’s original vision of a Garden City evolved over the years into the concept of a City in a Garden, with about 2 million trees planted around the island.

    Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong said this was just one example of how Singapore’s living environment is being transformed.

    Mr Lee Kuan Yew was not known to be sentimental about buildings or landmarks, and he was practical yet ambitious about transforming the nation’s landscape, even when it came to defying nature.

    In Mr Lee Kuan Yew’s own words: “You begin your journey not knowing where it will take you.

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    Please watch my poem: “小红点” about our great leader LKY on YouTube – 小红点: 请点击：
    http://youtu.be/mO3pB2j2u3k.

    让我们大家向新加坡伟人–建国总理李光耀先生致敬致哀！-白振华写的歌词“小红点”，请转发给朋友和家人，谢谢！

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  21. Summarized facts and ideas from the article ‘Of Arab and Asian autocrats’ in the NEW YORK TIMES by Thomas L. Friedman.

    We focused on Taiz because, as a result of Yemen’s devastated ecosystems, residents of Taiz get to run their home water taps for only 36 hours every 30 days or so.

    China Crackdown

    The news out of China is the crackdown on kindergartens teaching maths and English too early, and the news out of Yemen is that Sunni and Shi’ite factions are fighting over a town that is already so cracked up the water comes on only 36 hours a month, and the rest of the time you have to rely on roving water trucks.

    After World War II, Asia was ruled by many autocrats who essentially came to their people and said, “My people, we’re going to take away your freedom, but we’re going to give you the best education, infrastructure and export-led growth policies money can buy.

    Over that same period, Arab autocrats came to their people and said, “My people, we’re going to take away your freedom and give you the Arab-Israel conflict.” Asian autocrats tended to be modernisers, like Singapore’s former Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew, who died last month at 91 and you see the results today: Singaporeans waiting in line for up to 10 hours to pay last respects to a man who vaulted them from nothing into the global middle class.

    Arab autocrats tended to be predators who used the conflict with Israel as a shiny object to distract their people from their own misgovernance.

    In 2002, a group of Arab social scientists produced the United Nations’ Arab Human Development Report.

    So now they’ve got where they were going: state collapse and a cauldron of tribal, sectarian (Shi’ite-Sunni, Persian-Arab) civil wars in a region bulging with unemployed, angry young people and schools that barely function, or, if they do, they teach an excess of religion, not maths.

    I read about President Abdel- Fattah el-Sissi of Egypt declaring that “the challenges facing our national Arab security are grave, and we have succeeded in diagnosing the reasons behind it”.

    (In China, illiteracy is at 5 per cent; in Iran, 15 per cent.) My heart goes out to all the people in this region.

    If so, it would be the first case of a country where 25 per cent of the population can’t read, sending troops to rescue a country where the water comes through the tap 36 hours a month, to quell a war where the main issue is the seventh century struggle over who is the rightful heir to the Prophet Muhammad Shi’ites or Sunnis.

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  23. Pledge

    We, the citizens of Earth, pledge ourselves as one united people, regardless of race, language, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, physical ability, physical attractiveness, intellectual ability, exceptionality, socioeconomic stratum, geographical area, age, creed, skin/hair/eye pigmentation, national origin, or ethnicity, to build a happy gay cheerful society, based on justice and equality, so as to achieve happiness, prosperity, and progress for our world.

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