Dear NCCU Students,
 
Please join us in making our lives easier and healthier, and our world greener.
Right now, the NCCU campus lacks vegetarian options. The vegetarian environment around the campus is not ideal either. I believe that all NCCU students and faculty members should be given the opportunity to eat VEGETARIAN FOOD on the campus. And accessing vegetarian food should be as fast and easy as possible.
I also believe that the importance of having the right to choose vegetarian food has never been greater, as we are facing so many ecological challenges today*.

Therefore, we hope NCCU could provide VEGETARIAN BUFFET!
A chance for us to have a HEALTHIER LIFESTYLE and ENVIRONMENT and to complement the already beautifully green surroundings of National Chengchi University with another green facet! 

If you are a vegetarian or a meat eater who loves to occasionally enjoy vegetarian food, please join our petition and let the NCCU president hear our request!
Please “Like” the NCCU Goes Green Facebook page and share the news with more people.

Let's make this difference together!

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Industrialized meat production leads to:
- extensive water consumption (20,000 liters of water to produce 1kg of meat!) 
- water pollution (from fertilizers, pesticides)
- greenhouse gas emissions (carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide)
- soil erosion
- deforestation (50 sq. meters of rainforest to produce 1kg of meat)
- animal waste accumulation
- biodiversity loss

重要提醒：

親愛的政大同學：
 
請加入我們！
讓我們一同努力，使我們的生活更簡單、更健康，讓世界更環保綠化。
目前政大校園內所提供的餐飲選擇，僅有葷食。
附近的素食環境也不盡理想。我們認為政大學生應有在校園中可以選擇吃素的機會。而且可以讓學生方便且快速的選取素食餐。
在面對諸多環境變遷挑戰的今天*，讓我們一起向「綠色」邁進，提供政大校友機會享受健康與綠化的環境。
請政大校長批准在政大校園內設立素食自助餐！
讓我們的身體與環境更健康！

若您是素食者或是偶而想吃得健康的葷食者，歡迎連署讓政大校長聽到我們祈求！或是幫我們的臉書專頁 ”NCCU Goes Green” 按讚！與更多人分享～

讓我們一起改變校園！
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*工業化肉類生產導致的問題：
- 大量的耗水量（生產1公斤的肉需耗費兩萬公升的水）
- 水污染（化肥及農藥所造成的）
- 溫室氣體排放（二氧化碳，甲烷，一氧化二氮）
- 土壤流失
-森林濫伐（生產1公斤的肉需耗費50平方公尺的熱帶雨林）
- 動物糞便堆積
- 生物多樣性的喪失

　　先前在偶像大師的官方部落格上，公佈了將在2013年2月10日舉辦偶像大師冬季演唱會「THE IDOLM@STER MUSIC FESTIV@L OF WINTER!!」，並且將在日本全國共五十個電影院實施實況轉播。

昨年末アイドルマスター公式ブログにて、2013年2月10日に行われるアイドルマスター冬ライブ「THE IDOLM@STER MUSIC FESTIV@L OF WINTER!!」の、日本全国50箇所のライブビューイング開催映画館が発表されました。

　　偶像大師不只是一個在日本受到歡迎的作品，在世界各地也有許多的支持者，台灣也不例外。有鑑於過去台灣的威秀影城多次與日本合作演唱會的實況轉播，希望這次的偶像大師冬季演唱會也能透過威秀影城和日本NBGI公司以及PROJECT IM@S合作實況轉播，讓台灣的偶像大師同好們也能偶像們一起度過一個難忘的農曆新年。也藉此機會，希望不久的將來能在台灣參加到偶像大師的演唱會而進行連署，。

アイドルマスターは日本だけで大人気のコンテンツではありません。世界中にファンが居て台湾も例外ではありません。
台湾のシネコン「VIESHOWシネマ」にてAKB48やミクパなどの、日本のライブイベントのライブビューイングが開催された経緯があります。
私たちは今回の冬ライブも台湾でのライブビューイングが開催されるよう、台湾のVIESHOWシネマと日本のバンダイナムコゲームスに希望します。
奇しくも2013年の2月10日は旧正月の元旦であり次の一年が始まる日です。
私達台湾のアイマスファン一同にも日本のファンと一緒に、忘れがたい新しい年の思い出を作らせて下さい。
またこの署名運動に合わせ、遠くない将来台湾でのアイドルマスターライブが開催されることを望む署名を同時に実施します。

　　希望大家能多多支持此連署，凝聚大家的力量，一起將心聲轉達給官方，近一步達成「The world is all one!!」！アイマスは人生！アイマス最高！

皆さんの支持とチカラがこの署名に集まることを願っています。
共に私達の声をアイドルマスター公式に届け、「The world is all one!!」の実現に一歩近づこうではありませんか！
アイマスは人生！アイマス最高！

The wasteful, inhumane practice is done to satisfy a demand for shark fins, which can fetch as much as $300 per pound. The meat, on the other hand, is far less valuable, so fishermen toss it overboard to save space for more fins.

Not only is it an intensely wasteful and harmful practice, it's also essentially pointless since shark fins have no nutritional or medicinal value. And they're practically flavorless. Yet, finning continues, to the point that these animals so vital to the ecological balance of our oceans are about to be wiped out completely

What's so great about shark fin soup? Really, nothing. They have no nutritional value and are practically tasteless. When it comes to shark fin soup, all the flavor comes from the broth. The fins are added just for texture and novelty. The shark fin is merely a status symbol and a mark of tradition. Still, shark fin soup is part of Asian culture, particularly in China and Taiwan, as a meal eaten during celebrations among the wealthy. But with their economies rapidly growing, more people can afford to buy this symbol of a luxurious life and the demand for shark fins is increasing. Unfortunately, it is increasing in conjunction with a serious decrease in shark populations globally.

Finning is responsible for the death of between 88 million to 100 million sharks every year. Exact numbers are unknown because the practice is illegal in many places and hauls aren't accurately counted.
Because sharks are at the top of the food chain and have few predators, they reproduce and mature slowly. That means their numbers are slow to replenish when a population is overfished. At the rate humans are going, we're set to wipe out sharks entirely in as little as 10-20 years.

Sharks are an apex predator. Apex predators are invaluable for keeping the populations of everything else in the food chain in balance. The oceans depend on them to keep the numbers of other fish and mammal species in check and weed out the sick, injured and dying so that populations of fish stay strong and healthy. Without sharks -- from bottom feeders all the way up to Great Whites -- the balance of the ocean's food chain is in danger.

This is not just a guessing game, either. We've already seen the impact a loss of sharks can have on an ecosystem. According to Shark Savers, a scientific study conducted in the mid-Atlantic part of the United States showed that when 11 species of sharks were nearly eliminated, 12 of the 14 species those sharks once fed on became so plentiful that they damaged the ecosystem, including wiping out the species farther down the food chain on which they preyed. The negative effects trickle out as the ecosystem gets thrown out of balance.

E.L.F and Super Junior 13 forever!!!!

Super Junior 05 debuted on SBS's music program Popular Song on November 6, 2005, performing their first single, "TWINS (Knock Out)." A digital single with "TWINS (Knock Out)", "You are the one", and three additional tracks were released online on November 8. A physical CD single was scheduled to be released the following week but a more complete album, SuperJunior05 (TWINS), was released on December 6, 2005 instead. Their debut album sold 28,536 copies in the first month of release and debuted at #3 in the monthly chart of December 2005.[13][c] In that same month, they released "Show Me Your Love," a collaboration single with TVXQ. "Show Me Your Love" became the best-selling record of December 2005, selling 49,945 copies that month.

In February 2006, Super Junior 05 began performances for "Miracle", the second promotional single from their debut album. "Miracle" was the group's first single to peak #1 in online music charts of South Korea as well as the music charts of Thailand, drawing interest from international markets.[14] As promotions for "Miracle" came to an end, SM Entertainment began selecting new members for Super Junior's second line-up project, Super Junior 06. The company even prepared a list of chosen members that were to graduate from the group. However, no members were taken out and a thirteenth member was added instead in May 2006. The line-up project has been abandoned since then, and the group became known as just Super Junior, without the suffix "05".

In fact, an across-the-board freeze has been implemented. CLA stated firmly on Feb. 9 that only new applications would be affected for the reason of protecting migrant workers’ and employers’ rights in Taiwan. On the same day, however, Taipei Economic and Cultural Office in the Philippines (TECO) had announced a new rule, that 4 documents were newly added to the essential application documents including a Philippine Social Insurance Number card, which has been stopped providing for years because it isn’t a compulsory insurance in the Philippines.

Therefore, all the Filipino workers are technically frozen because all the applications will never be approved, no matter it’s a new application, reentry or direct employ. Jennifer Wang said earlier that they were well-prepared and ready for a freeze of indefinite duration.

Pilot whales (Calderon dolphins) are two species of cetacean in the genus Globicephala. The genus is part of the oceanic dolphin family (Delphinidae). The two species are the long-finned pilot whale and the short-finned pilot whale. The two are not readily distinguished at sea. They and other large members of the dolphin family are also known as blackfish.

The short-finned pilot whale has also been hunted for many centuries, particularly by Japanese whalers. In the mid-1980s the annual Japanese kill was about 2,300 animals. This had decreased to about 400 per year by the 1990s. Killing by harpoon is still relatively common in the Lesser Antilles and Sri Lanka. Due to poor record-keeping it is not known how many kills are made each year, and what effect this has on the local population.

Both species are also collaterally caught and killed in longline and gill-nets each year.

Taiwan has around 700,000 migrant workers and immigrants comprising 3% of the total local population in the island. Migrant workers particularly the domestic household workers have no legal protection since they are not included in Taiwan Standard Labor Law. The household workers have no day-off and are vulnerable to abuses.

We call on the international community to sign this petition for Taiwan government to ratify this convention as we celebrate the convention's 20th anniversary on December 18, 2010.
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請求各位一起聲請中華民國台灣政府批准『保護所有移徒工人及其家庭成員權利之國際公約』，敬請聯結此網址http://www.gopetition.com/online/36739.html 並詳讀陳情書及於下方簽署，謝謝您！

那禮叟 神父

Petition for a Reduced Sentence for the Injured Worker Liu Hanghuang on Humanitarian Grounds

On 16 June 2009, Liu Hanghuang, a factory worker in Dongguan, fatally stabbed two of his Taiwanese employers and left a third critically injured. This is definitely an unbearable tragedy for both sides, especially an irreparable regret for the family of the Taiwanese businessmen.

However, based on the following reasons, we hope that the courts in China can take into consideration the extenuating circumstances.

As a migrant worker from the Province of Guizhou, Liu Hanhuang hoped to improve the economic conditions of his family, but unfortunately his hand was severed in an industrial accident. All hope was lost with a crippled body. Liu had tried to discuss the issue of compensation with his employers for a year without reaching agreement. It is fully understandable how a worker in a subordinate position, facing the much more powerful company and lacking necessary support, felt both helpless and hopeless.

The fact that Liu attempted suicide by threatening to jump from a fifth-floor ledge at the factory before the murder bears witness to his pressures and pains. It is of course illegal and unacceptable to commit homicide, but a sympathetic understanding is indeed possible if this case is placed in the context of “going off to work → occupational injury → prolonged negotiation of compensation → the subordinate position of the worker → the worker’s pressures and pains.”

As it was aired, it caught millions and millions of viewers getting an average rate of 4.4/5 (88%). This drama, obviously, made a great impact in whole asia. The casts and the crews has indeed shown an excellent work making this unique drama one of the bests.

But still few questions were cliffhanging. What will happen next after the mistress's stay in America? Will Nan Feng Jin and Mai Qiu Sui get married? What will happen to the Huangfu Corp? There were loads of questions left unanswered. We, the undying fans of Romantic Princess, certainly want to perceive a happily-ever-after finale.

Vast number of us demands you to please consider making another season. We utterly love to witness Huangfu Shan's life once again.

Thank you very much.