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Tuesday, July 18, 2006
LOVE
Love is a condition or phenomenon of emotional primacy, or absolute value. Love generally includes an emotion of intense attraction to either another person, a place, or thing; and may also include the aspect of caring for or finding identification with those objects, including self-love. Love can describe an intense feeling of affection, an emotion or an emotional state. In ordinary use, it usually refers to interpersonal love, an experience usually felt by a person for another person. Love is commonly considered impossible to define.

The concept of love, however, is subject to debate. Some deny the existence of love, calling it a recently invented abstraction. Moreover, approximately 13 percent of cultures reportedly have no word for love.[1] Others maintain that love exists but is indefinable; being a quantity which is spiritual, metaphysical, or philosophical in nature. Love is one of the most common themes in art. An unfinished debate about the authenticity of love as other-regard began with Friedrich Nietzsche's charge that love is merely an ideology constructed by the weak to mask "resentment" about their lack of power. Critics of Nietzsche's view find gratuitous his assumptions that self-interest and the "will to power" overshadow all other concerns.
 
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Monday, July 17, 2006
Q & A: Avocado pluses win out
Q: A friend of mine, who is a nutritionist, says I should eat avocados to reduce my risk for heart disease. My doctor says not to eat them-they're too fatty. Can you settle this and tell me what to do?

A: Sure, but what kind of answer do you think you'll get? I love avocados and believe that the benefits far outweigh the fat content.

Technically, both your nutritionist and your doctor are correct. Avocados are high in calories-about 200 calories for half a cup, according to the USDA Nutrient Database. Between 70 and 90 percent of the calories in avocados are from fat, but it's mono-unsaturated fat, which lowers cholesterol and subsequently your risk for heart disease. It's the same with olives and olive oil.
The avocado beats all other fruits (yes, it is a fruit) in beta carotene and potassium content.

If you are on certain diuretic drugs and have been told to eat a banana or drink orange juice daily for potassium, you should know that avocados are even better-at 485 milligrams each, they contain more potassium than both bananas and OJ. For diabetics, avocados are a great choice because they don't contain a lot of sugar or starch.

Avocados contain heaps of protein, potassium, folic acid, thiamin, riboflavin, biotin, niacin, pantothenic acid, vitamin E and vitamin K. Two other nutrients stand out as crucial to health. The first is beta sitosterol, which may ease symptoms of BPH (benign prostatic hypertrophy). Guys, you may end up needing medicine costing hundreds of dollars a month, but one avocado will set you back about a dollar, and lab analysis shows that avocados contain about 76 mg beta sitosterol per 3 1/2 ounces of raw, edible fruit. I'm not suggesting dollops of guacamole on top of meat-stuffed cheese burritos; I mean sliced avocados on top of a salad.

The second nutrient in avocados is glutathione. You need glutathione to stay alive and process dangerous byproducts in the body. We produce it, but aging, certain drugs and disease conditions wipe it out. Avocados contain 15 to 20 mg of glutathione per 3 1/2 ounces. Glutathione is so helpful to the liver and digestion that studies have shown a correlation between eating glutathione (from fruits and veggies) and a lower risk for cancer, specifically oral and pharyngeal cancer.

Glutathione may be depleted from the body by many drugs, including acetaminophen (Tylenol), and depletions can cause joint pain. If you take this medication, it's good to supplement with glutathione, or eat lots of foods that contain it.
 
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Sunday, July 16, 2006
Lifestyle classifications
A number of lifestyle classifications have been proposed by market researchers, including the following:

'AIO (Activities, Interests, Opinions)'. This approach seeks, via long questionnaires (such as those proposed by Joseph T. Plummer), to measure respondents' positions on a number of dimensions spread across these categories (as well as the more usual demographic groupings). Based on their responses, they are then allocated (using sophisticated computer analysis techniques) to the AIO (life-style) groups.

'VALS (VAlue Life-Styles)'. Arnold Mitchell (of SRI International) developed similar groupings. He drew up four main categories subdivided into nine life-styles, again based on long questionnaires:
  • need-driven groups: "survivors" and "sustainers"
  • outer-directed groups: "belongers", "emulators" and "achievers"
  • inner-directed groups: "I-am-me", "experientials" and "societally conscious"
  • combined outer-and inner-directed groups: "integrated"

According to this framework, the outer-directed groups, `belongers' (conventional, conservative and so on), `emulators' (ambitious, upwardly mobile and so on) and `achievers' (leaders who make things happen and so on) account for two-thirds of the US population. Thus the 'Times ' newspaper, to take a UK example, might expect to target `achievers', and possibly to address a larger total market segment than the 'Guardian ', which might be looking to the `societally conscious' for its most ardent supporters. Less widely reported is that the VALS typology also suggests that there is a possible progression within the life-styles --from `survivors' through to `integrated'.

Lifestyles can apparently even be used by a range of non-profit organizations. One Wisconsin blood centre reportedly turned a deficit of 7000 donors into a surplus of 7000, by concentrating its attentions on people who were affluent, busy and had close-knit families.

 
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Lifestyle
In sociology, a lifestyle is the way a person (or a group) lives. This includes patterns of social relations, consumption, entertainment, and dress. A lifestyle typically also reflects an individual's attitudes, values or worldview.

Having a specific "lifestyle" implies a conscious or unconscious choice between one set of behaviours and some other sets of behaviours.

In business, lifestyles provide a means of targeting consumers as advertisers and marketers endeavor to match consumer aspirations with products.

The word "lifestyle" apparently first appeared in 1939. Alvin Toffler predicted an explosion of lifestyles ("subcults") as diversity increases in post-industrial societies. Pre-modern societies did not require a term approaching sub-culture or lifestyle, as different ways of living were expressed as entirely different cultures, religions, ethnicities or by an oppressed minority racial group. As such the minority culture was always seen as alien or other. Lifestyles, by comparison, are accepted or partially accepted differences within the majority culture or group. This tolerance of differentiation within a majority culture seems to be associated with modernity and capitalism.

Within anarchism, lifestylism is a belief that by changing one's own personal lifestyle, and by retreating from class struggle, an anarchist society can be formed.

One who is in the "lifestyle" is someone who engages in what is more commonly called swinging. Also called the "alternative lifestyle", people in the lifestyle most commonly are part of a couple; often a married couple. They meet other like-minded couples or occasionally singles to engage in sexual acts. People in the lifestyle meet on various different websites, as well as in private and public clubs.
 
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Saturday, July 15, 2006
Indonesia
Indonesia, officially the Republic of Indonesia (Indonesian: Republik Indonesia), is a nation of islands consisting of almost 18,000 islands located in the South East Asian Archipelago. Jakarta, formerly known as Batavia, is Indonesia's capital. Indonesia (from Greek: indus = India nesos = islands) is the world's largest archipelagic nation, bordered by the nations of Papua New Guinea, East Timor, and Malaysia. This nation is home to more than 200 million people, and thus is the most populous Muslim-majority nation in the world and the fourth most populous overall.
The area now comprising the archipelago of Indonesia, specifically Java, was inhabited by Homo erectus - the Java Man - approximately 500,000 years ago, while the island of Flores was home to a newly discovered species of hominid, Homo floresiensis. The region was an important trade route to China, thriving in trade of spices. Regional Hindu kingdoms expanded religious and cultural influences of Hinduism as well as Buddhism, and in the middle ages the islands came under the influence of Islam. The region was colonized by the Netherlands as the Dutch East Indies. The people across many islands rebelled in the early 20th century against Dutch control. Following a brief occupation by Imperial Japan during World War II, nationalists declared independence in 1945, and a united and independent Indonesia was recognized in 1949.
Indonesia is a unitary state, and was governed by Sukarno, leader of the national freedom struggle, and military dictator Suharto for most of its modern history. Democracy was restored following the revolution of 1998. Although the national language is Indonesian (called Bahasa Indonesia in Indonesian) and the population is overwhelmingly Muslim, there are several hundred diverse linguistic and ethnic groups across the country, as well as other religious communities. Although Indonesia's economy is progressive and regionally important, the problems of poverty, illiteracy, political instability and regional separatism remain major issues hindering national development.
 
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Friday, July 14, 2006
Transport in Indonesia
Indonesia's transport system has been shaped over time by the economic resource base of an archipelago with thousands of islands, and the distribution of its more than 220 million people highly concentrated on a single island.

All transport modes play a role in the country’s transport system and are generally complementary rather than competitive. Road transport is predominant, with a total system length of 370,500 km in 2003. The railway system has four unconnected networks in Java and Sumatra primarily dedicated to transport bulk commodities and long-distance passenger traffic.

Sea transport is extremely important for economic integration and for domestic and foreign trade. It is well developed, with each of the major islands having at least one significant port city. The role of inland waterways is relatively minor and is limited to certain areas of Eastern Sumatra and Kalimantan. The function of air transport is significant, particularly where land or water transport is deficient or non-existent. It is based on an extensive domestic airline network where all major cities can be reached by passenger plane.

 
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Wednesday, July 12, 2006
Paul McCartney's First Guitar Up For Sale

Paul McCartney's first guitar is to be auctioned this month at the Abbey Road studios in London. The instrument is expected to fetch around $100,000 in the sale, which takes place at Cooper Owen's Music Legends auction on July 28.
Sir Macca is understood to have learnt to play on the Rex acoustic, which was owned by his best friend, Ian James, who is now selling the guitar. Mr. James, 64, who went to school with McCartney, is selling the instrument, which comes with a letter of authenticity, to aid his retirement.


The letter from the music legend comments: "The above guitar belonging to my old school pal Ian James was the first guitar I ever held. It was also the guitar on which I learned my first chords in his house at 43 Elswich Street, Liverpool 8."
McCartney apparently played the guitar to John Lennon at a school fete in Liverpool in July 1957, prompting the pair to form the partnership that changed music forever.
 
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