A rough text archive, without html markups and links, of weblog posts in following order seperated by dot dashes '.-.-.-'
Posts from
- postandtelegraph.blogspot.com referred to as postandtelegraph at blogspot
- virasat.livejournal.com referred to as Virasat livejournal
- livewise.blogspot.com referred to as livewise at blogspot,
=> (includes an archive of lifecosm.blogspot.com posts referred here as Lifecosm at blogspot archives. As such lifecosm.blogspot.com have been merged with the weblog universeoflife.blogspot.com. But here lifecosm at blogspot archives are presented seperately for reference.)
- universeoflife.blogspot.com referred to as universe of life at blogspot
[Minus the lifecosm.blogspot.com posts already archived above]
=> (includes an archive of xanga.com/lifecosm weblog posts till October 2004, referred here as Lifecosm Universe of Life at xanga)
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Weblogs, start-wise, :
Most recent first,
Current: postandtelegraph.blogspot.com
virasat.livejournal.com
livewise.blogspot.com
universeoflife.blogspot.com
lifecosm.blogspot.com
xanga.com/lifecosm
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postandtelegraph at blogspot, 2007
June 12, 2007
Notes
big picture
& lives [... ?]
Posted by VM at 9:40 AM
Labels: bigpicture, lives
Note
sense of being ... or biases ...
desire to - play - host ...
justness
Posted by VM at 9:12 AM
Labels: being, bias, desire, host, justness, sense
June 10, 2007
Note
How are people perceived, behave who are closer to the human end of interactions ... ?
What pressures do processing [/-levels] put on human activities ... ?
Do people fear for their well being, health, belonging ... ?
[How do science, humanity behave ... ? ]
[How] [Can/] Do people persist in an environment/(s) ... ?
How do environments, systems, influence people's behavior, life, living ... ?
How do people's approach, living, life, [ behavior ] influence environment ... ?
[When / why ] do people - have to - spread them[-]selves out ... ?
How are flow[s] and turnover[/s] different ... ?
...
Posted by VM at 10:30 AM
Labels: activity, belonging, economy, environment, flow, health, human, humanity, interaction, level, movement, perception, pressure, science, system, turnover, wellbeing
Note about tags at blogspot
A limited number of tags are allowed while posting at blogger [blogspot]. A weblog post may have more tags.
Please see http://del.icio.us/lifewise, and http://del.icio.us/qualityoflife for more tags, if any, for the post.
=> A weblog post may not be fully covered by the tags mentioned.
Posted by VM at 4:20 AM
Labels: note, tags
June 8, 2007
Notes
contexts, patterns
...
[behavior ... ]
pre-
post-
...
war & economics
and people
loss and effect on women
[ compromising or is it understanding better ... ]
globalisation ...
and ...
privacy
trust
perception
groups
trigger
knowledge, for acquisition ... ?
[measures of] 'values' as tricks
flogging the victim [and 'reaction' ... ?]
disconnect & learning
expected behavior
[from ... ]
[editing & change[s] & script
& pattern
& learning[,] behavior ... ]
society, requirements & relationships
stability requirement [?]
need for belonging ... ?
and behavior ... ?
'need' for belonging [reinforced, created ... ?]
what is civilisation ... ?
depiction and 'focus'
[law,] success, exclusion ...
interests - inside outside
what is pride [of], and [what is] value ... ?
can [unreasonable] liberality be - become - a cover for, induce extremism [on all sides] ... ?
... for interests ... ?
desire for home[base] ... ?
how is it [created] reinforced ... ?
success ... stamped with ... ?
by ... ?
Posted by VM at 10:39 AM
Labels: acquisition values, compromise, depiction, disconnect, extremism, globalisation, home, pattern, pre, pride, privacy, stamp, trigger, trust, victim, war
June 1, 2007
Note
economy and maintenance [level(s)] ...
[ [simplicity], [clarity], being, ] understanding, nature, ...
[nurture]
Posted by VM at 9:58 AM
Labels: being, clarity, complexity, economy, level, maintenance, nature, nurture, simplicity, society, understanding
May 29, 2007
Note
focus ... [?]
... and effect ...
?
out of focus ...
life goes on ...
?
as usual ...
?
Posted by VM at 8:48 AM
Labels: attention, effect, focus, life, participation, perception, sense, usual
May 23, 2007
Notes
What do people become used to
& how it influences trade ... ?
living the old life,
abroad ... ? ... with a twist ... ?
love structure sex
hinterland a refuge for ....
[ human ... ? ]
human, sense of self
and influence of [ nature of ] work ...
how was - human - speech informed by times ... ?
structure
- limits
- calibration
possibilities for
love
hate
sex
living, growing, [with] structures
- self containment
- self expression
social, relations & structures
interaction
possibilities
stability and relations
and person and
structures
living structures
living love
living life
living being
how do relationships happen ...
distinctions between
old, and new, and de-colonisation ... ?
form - over time - and substance
maintaining form as connection to past, but substance is ... ?
where ... ?
embellishing form ...
spirit ...
[ how do you understand past ... ? ]
How important is the micro view of a society ... ?
for perspective ... ?
Does macro view hide differences
and project others ... ?
Does micro hide differences
and project others ... ?
Does shared processing reduce hubris ... ?
How do same - named - peoples differ in different locales ... ? do they ... ? [why ... ?] are they same ... ?
[How] are fears and opportunities different or - appear different - perceived differently at micro, and macro levels ... ?
independent ... ?
together ... ?
[are there] connections between micro and macro levels ... or not ... ?
[ does it influence perception, ... understanding ... ? ]
sense of reality ...
access to patterns ... across levels ...
disconnect ... open to speculation ... or exploitation ...
resources, combined with power, and momentum ...
outcomes ...
well being ... ?
market size,
and reverse flows,
& influence
different places, contexts,
costs & settings,
& life
imports and effects
desire to be someone
else ... ?
[ own life ... ? ]
[ [ self ] governance ]
resources & power
& interests &
opportunities
& wellbeing ... ?
does alienation from the surroundings influence / define nationalism ... ?
[internationalism ... ?]
how far does [alienation &] desire to apply knowledge acquired seek out resources ... ?
how does terror as state differ from external terror ... ?
what does together mean ... ?
at aggregate level
at individual level
at intermediate level
where are the social structures ... ?
level ... ?
how does a structure based on tacit understanding survive ... ?
[does it ... ?]
education and alienation
what is the importance of illegal acts in membership initiation ... ?
and retention ... ?
can federalism - evolve - be a - centralising - force in itself ... ?
[ permitting flows
and well being ... ? ]
can values shift from difference [exploitation] to productive functioning ... ?
processes & fertility
[& menopause]
and management
[and women]
across a divide ...
lifeforce approach ... ?
[force ... ?]
just-in-time, for ... ?
making up [shaping] [buying] history
to justify
acquired knowledge
to 'make history' ... ?
global nature of knowledge ...
discovering neighbours
[as a new entity ... ]
appreciation of where
you are headed ...
acknowledging
whole ...
identity and differences and settings
identity and setting
aggregation held together .... by ...
portrayal of individual against structure ...
how do people sustain / maintain [?]
social relations across /
within structures ?
[why] do they ... ?
battle for mediocrity ... ?
needs - beyond stances - which acknowledge good and its expression ... ?
how are they filled [instead] ...
[
can one see linkage between behavior and - a - society ... ?
can people empathize ... ?
]
[how] does geography and climate insulate cultural expressions ... ?
when climate changes
and geography does not insulate ... [?]
Posted by VM at 10:31 AM
Labels: acknowledge, alienation, appreciation, climate, federal, good, illegal, love, macro, mediocrity, micro, nationalism, sex, stability, structure, substance, trade, whole, work
May 15, 2007
Note
How does degree of precision equal the degree of guarantee of occurrence [non-occurrence] [less than, greater than, ... ] of an [event,], process ... ? [does it ... ?]
How does it influence the resources, utilisation, linkages, processes, human, life ... ?
how does it influence the depth of focus ... ? does it ... ?
influence / lack of - wider - life experiences, exposures, experiences, ... ?
curiosity of ... ? life - being - out there ... ?
here ... ?
[[momentary] excitement, addiction, 'system', ... ? ]
Posted by VM at 10:54 AM
Labels: curiosity, experience, focus, guarantee, human, life, occurrence, precision, process, resources, utilsation, wellbeing, wide
May 10, 2007
Notes
[politics & life
& living
politics of survival |
politics of well being ]
human structures and [human] well being
[improvement]
focussed [ structures ] --> welfare structures ... ?
humans and nature
[ humans in nature ... ]
under siege mindset
and behavior ... ?
[trauma]
[&]
skepticism
& reality ...
[scale ...
& ]
human behavior
[ technology
& ]
human behavior
space and segregation ...
dividing - in order - to conquer ...
[costs ... ]
snobbery
[groups]
internationalism
&
parochialism ...
direction, attitude, & interaction ... ?
dream,
effect on 'masses' ... ?
impact on 'masses' ... ?
efficiency ... over time ... ?
resource consumption ... over time ... ?
opportunity and education ...
[match ... ]
mood and sense
how is a country different from a city ... ?
exposure ....
what to presume about it ... ?
boredom & relief
[relief &] expressions ...
awareness ...
interaction & expression ...
learning curve ...
[heat]
sustenance ...
colony, colonise, colonised, ...
attitude(s) ... ?
sense of danger --> group -- [response] randomise -- security ... ?
--> non-, inter-, extra- group -- [response]] ... ? [structured ... ?]
space | resources ... ?
centripetal
centrifugal
forces
random ...
groups ....
topping off
snobbery -- levels ...
benefit - fervor - scale - reality
representation --> exaggeration ... ? -- aspirations -- scale -- [responses -- ] standards -- well being ... ?
delusion
[value in opposition evoked ... ? ]
rights ... and others ... ?
where do mis-fits, 'un-fits' -- at various levels -- go ... ?
adversity as ...
as reconnection for ...
changed structures ... ?
... ?
taxes & welfare - approach - & impact on way of life .. ? ... & flow(s) of life ... ?
aggregation value ... ?
structure and - being - good ... ?
- sense of - loyalty,
transparency, functioning ... ?
hyper-inflation & - sense of - need for standards ... ?
-- > ...
freedom is ...
[think is] ...
and structure(s) ...
- sense of - freedom,
institutions, functions,
society ...
spirit ...
entertainment, and charity ... ?
exaggeration [appreciated ... ? in children]
value of moderation [in adults]
[representation & exaggeration ... ]
laws and - effect on - behavior ... ?
[ [desire for ... ?] differences in lifestyle ... ? ]
does technology allow - rich ... , [poor ... ] - to vacate slots in lifestyle ... - for - ... ?
attraction of new ... ?
[among people ... ]
welfare
regulation ....
and benefit to poor ... ?
and benefit to rich ... ?
Posted by VM at 9:41 AM
Labels: adversity, attitude, boredom, charity, colony, delusion, direction, dream, fervor, lifestyle, masses, politics, regulation, skepticism, spirit, survival, technology, wellbeing
May 4, 2007
Notes
Do the [young] people have a sense of justice which makes them seek a partner who resembles their iterations ... ?
... ?
is war an attempt at ... [ internal / external ... ? ... ?] [victory] ... possession ... ownership by 'right' ... ?
sexes grouped apart ... and competition ... and camaraderie ... -->
life ...
others ...
conquest ...
women / men, up for anything ... ?
access / or talk ...
wealth at disposal of ... and at pleasure of ...
can we appreciate the good in others, among other aspects ... ?
can we see the connection with other aspects, [... if any] ... ?
marketing and heart
and reality
and time
and feeling
desiring, wishing
and
reality ... ?
when achieved ... ?
war and - demand of - loyalty to people ...
exposed vulnerable
envelope(s)
sharing
direct interaction ...
indirect interaction ...
.. and - the - sense of ...
success, aspects, approaches, parents,
children, measures, approaches, life, work,
repeating experiences on others ...
opportunities to do good ... ?
youth[,] change, and behavior ...
physical [value] --> physical [expressions] ...
immorality and rationale for behavior with others ...
kind and language ...
opportunity to be productive ...
human path[s]
& behavior
background - drive - ability, resources, opportunity - vulnerability - envelope(s)
How does whole ... ? be ... ?
Where does human begin ... ?
end ... ?
Where does life begin ... ?
end .. ?
Where does universe begin ... ?
end ... ?
What is humane,
in context ... ?
When one attempts to know the past,
what does one want the present, future to be ... ?
operating with impunity in the laws ... one does not 'belong' to ...
goodness in people ... ? --> ... in objects ... ?
aspirations ... & fulfillment ...
via ... ?
[sense of belonging ... ]
[stress on [belonging] ... ]
well being, empathy, value
possibility/ies, flow,
signs of system heating up ... ?
the - extra - need for - and the usage of - resources ...
[accessing --> preparing]
how gender-wise is industrial / development ... ?
[how] are women - also - being involved directly in / by - external - structures ... ?
gender specific functions changing, dissolving ... ?
trade and flow ... and benefit ... [?]
Posted by VM at 10:47 AM
Labels: access, context, drive, envelope, flow, gender, good, humane, interaction, marketing, opportunity, partner, past, productivity, sense, talk, trade, war, wealth, whole
April 29, 2007
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Posted by VM at 9:10 AM
Labels: fyi, note, relatedtags
April 28, 2007
Note
Can humans be switched on and off ... ?
[role, participation, work, ... ]
[in the mean while ... ]
How are - other - aspects of life - re-defined or - influenced ... ?
What gives people a sense of identity ... ?
What is people's sense of identity ... ?
How do critical mass influence response(s) ... ?
What do settings provide people with ... ?
How does it interact with continuity of life ... ?
How do humans respond to their - needs and - settings ... ?
Posted by VM at 8:54 AM
Labels: aspect, automation, continuity, criticalmass, expression, identity, off, on, participation, response, setting
fyi note
My access to media and news outputs is quite limited. In part, voluntarily.
I can access the internet only occasionally.
I can not claim to timeliness.
Posted by VM at 8:50 AM
Labels: fyi, note
April 24, 2007
Surfed by / visited ...
Lady Yule
A P J Taylor
[Please note, in many cases, in Surfed by / visited ... , I may not have much more information ]
Posted by VM at 4:25 AM
Labels: surfedby/visited
Surfed by / visited ...
German General Staff
January Club
Five Year Plan
Posted by VM at 4:23 AM
Labels: surfedby/visited
Notes
fantasy [,] | joy
living, resources ...
human needs fulfillment environment
opportunity cost on the whole
[whole person]
personal ambitions
expressed through ...
models for imitation ...
osmosis / reverse osmosis
inter / intra community
confirm ...
mediocrity ...
controlling access to keep checks on people educated ...
tensions providing cover for
slant and conscription ... ?
fantasy <- as -> reality ...
freedom, words, beliefs,
reality, wholeness,
functioning, behavior,
approaches, consequences,
benchmarks, romance,
guideline, options ... ?
possibilities ... ?
How do people contribute to society ... how does society contribute to people at large ... ?
automation & [need for] beautification ... ?
interaction and ...
change [rate of]
role of public private
structures spaces
[ rate of ] changing spaces
changing structures
[need for ... ] [rate of changing ... ]
private structures in public spaces
public structures in private spaces
acceptance .. ?
admittance ... ?
holding patterns ...
withholding patterns ...
[ participating ... as whole ... being ... ]
whole [life, living[,] ]
well being
spirit timescale perspective
scale diversity quality service
values
functioning
| whole
| means
avenues
appeal
satisfaction
assuage
depth beneath [for] : ... living ...
... soul ...
... self ...
... life ...
How do individuals live
and families live
and people live
and whole be
what is the nature of
interaction between individual & structure ... ?
what forms do survival take ... ?
what is [the possibility] the ability to participate productively in all levels of functioning for people ... ?
what is the value [big or small ... ?] to whole ... ?
life ...
person ...
being ...
Are images of value or success different from value or success ... ?
Means of production
change
human appreciation,
participation
expression beyond image
expression as potential
expression as productivity
image of aspiration & aspiration ... ?
flux, threat, caught in between, and
opportunity for self-expression .... ?
or / and for becoming a part in an '-ism' ... ?
for survival ... ?
Options for well being
at all levels of living ... ?
... and across functioning ... ?
validity ... of options .... ?
... of causes ... ?
draft or dodge ...
legal or illegal ...
effect on psyche
Posted by VM at 2:48 AM
Labels: ambition, automation, environment, fantasy, flux, joy, mediocrity, model, opportunitycost, osmosis, possibilities, private, public, reality, society, whole
April 17, 2007
Notes
dense connections ... ?
[effects on expression ... ?, being ... ?, ]
healthy connections ... ?
institution making, and closure for [ / of ... ? ] issues ... ?
institutions, and functioning ...
[structure, access, reformability, ... ... ]
Posted by VM at 12:57 AM
Labels: closure, connection, dense, functioning, healthy, institution, issues, reform
April 13, 2007
Notes
Caught up in minutiae, out of context ... ?
the need for holding onto [representations of values] ... ?
[How well are the systems' - functioning - in - living ... - values of - life ... ? ]
Posted by VM at 4:31 AM
Labels: context, detail, functioning, hold, life, living, minutiae, needs, representation, systems, values
April 8, 2007
Notes
How do effects of systems show up in people ... ?
How influential is role of parents in nuclear families ... ?
How do children take their individual experiences of growing up into adult life ... ?
[victory and cleansing of image ... ?]
progress ...
& responses of interests ... ?
success and associations ...
impact on success, benefits, well being, .... ?
what do children grow up to associate with their sense of duty or ideas of success ... ?
inadequacy of social functioning - responses, and ...
human behaviors in crises ... ? ... in life ... ?
connections, affection, ...
connections, [turnover], rewards, ... [?]
[rate of] processing <--> markets <--> resources <--> consumers <--> impact <--> structures <--> wholeness <--> values <--> expressions <--> ...
- availability
- nature of growth and development
- asynchronicity in [factors &] market devellopment
- impact on nature of relations in system, ssociety, economy, ...
- integrity for living
- change(s) in causative factors & impact & functioning & aims
- values; validity, space, expressions
- entities; form, development, stage, characcteristics,
- sense of being, identity with
sex appeal as appeal
.... and working, and functioning of [and reflection on ... ] society ... ?
[simple --> complex ... ? ... ?]
pace and context ....
momentum of resources ...
ability of parts, to be whole ... ?
relationship of parts to whole ... ?
to each other ... ?
ability to survive, live ... ?
[as whole ... ? ]
accumulation, ability to maintain, need for security, discrimination ... [?]
are intra-unit crimes condoned .. ?
does intolerance within units, at times, come - burst - out between units ... ?
passage of time and [its] expression on humans ... ?
generation gap ... ?
sense of time ... ?
curiosity, experience [lack of],
fatherland <--> abandoning of families ... [?]
['masculine'] aims in terms of achievement ...
and unsettling down in - current - relationship
men & women ... ?
understanding of life ... ?
behavior ... and prosperity and freedom ... and changing contexts ... ?
prosperity, scale & expressions
effects ...
behavior [extension] on a larger scale, [ - in chang-ing / -ed context ], action ... - ... outcomes, ... ?
market[ing] - system / cycle - focus ... ?
[need for ...] validation ... ? [attention ... ?]
[expectations ... ? ]
[requirements of changing contexts ... ?]
[can it precipitate crises ... ? [what] forms ... ? ]
why do breaks occur ... ?
what support / structure is required for tradition .. ?
what fails ... ?
what succeeds ... ?
what endures ... ?
negotiations [as means]
and their abuse for advantage ... ?
[sense of skill ... ? ]
depressed providing art for consumption of the - stressed - rich ... ?
processing ....
and discontinuities
and formats
and participation
and expressions
and means and ends
and pace
and change
sense of life, behavior
from personal experiences ... ?
active participation & values & contribution ... ?
those who change, over-run a system, and their dependence on who know the system, to run it ... ?
[how old is this ... ?]
like children ... [?], learning [in life ... ] &
showing it with others ... ?
processing ...
and desire for exclusivity
and costs
and 'need' for better
and marketing
and relations
and fix
and flows
[what is the ] balance between creating similar contexts and appreciating different contexts ... ?
how are resources utilised ... ?
How are values of living met / lived ... ?
what are differences between standards of livng and, standards for products, and - for - services, ... ?
How do compatibility and need(s) relate ... ?
How do compatibility and needs relate at personal as well as / or group levels ... ?
where do needs come from ... ?
constancy & pace & interactios of system(s) &
how do forces build up ... ?
forces & pressures ... ?
abstraction and automation
and distances [& linkages]
at ...
market,
social,
levels ...
social understanding ... ?
services ... [?] ...
mechanisation ... ?
market exploitation ... ?
[sustenability ... ?]
'market-driven' ... ?
service role ... ?
product role ... ?
service / product ... ? living ... ?
services[,] & social [- understanding / -]level of abstraction & automation ... ?
human understanding
in differing contexts ... ?
opportunity to understand ... ?
valuing ... ?
understanding self ... ?
understanding, valuing flows ... ?
suppression --> [distortion in ] value construct ... ?
expression <--> value construct ... ?
inevitability ...
need for system ...
& ... opportunism ... ?
space <--> fashions
[saved]
[extra]
resources for well being ... ?
purposes, institutions, traditions, flows ...
processing & pace [& movement] & patience ... ?
people [interaction ... ]
processing ... & sensibility ...
Posted by VM at 5:35 AM
Labels: abstract, appeal, automation, context, discontinuity, discrimination, exclusivity, experience, gap, marketing, momentum, opportunism, pace, patience, processing, scale, sensibility, system, whole
April 4, 2007
Notes
[one's] fun ... [?] ,
what does it mean to others ... ?
vice versa ...
Posted by VM at 10:32 AM
Labels: fun, other, perception, sense
Notes
experimenting ... ? ,
or is it controlling ... ?
controlling ... ? ,
or is it experimenting ... ?
Posted by VM at 10:28 AM
Labels: control, experiment
April 3, 2007
just fyi note
My accessing of [news] media outputs [has been] is quite sketchy.
[just fyi]
Posted by VM at 10:00 AM
Labels: note
Notes
"in" thing and economics
importance - in civil society functioning ... - of recognizing merit, service [and contribution], [recognition] by source above [any particular] government apparatus, and of value ...
space for relations on [a] local, / [a] unit(ary) levels ... ?
system pressure more ... ? towards / for
one-to-many ... ?
many-to-one ... ?
'endurance' as a value ... ?
... aids used ... ?
co-option & loss ... ?
(of) values ... , and war ... ?
expression, avenues
- mediated ... ?
- segregated ... ?
- assembly line ... ?
shift [well being]
[from] wholeness, integrity, utility, working ... ?
horizontal, local, unit(ary),
whole, integrity, productivity,
expression, opportunity,
space, time, place,
sense of life, living,
being
[not necessarily limited to local]
productivity concepts
& wellbeing
& human functioning
& human function
being
[system, ['productivity',] ... ]
pumps, direction, flow,
expression
association, setting
setting ... --> market
market - ...
[distance]
[control]
distance[,] & conveying sense of being ...
values, expression, & artificial extensions of arousal, & emotions
turnover & relationships
turnover & distance
standard of living, & sources
standard of living & turnover
turnover & standard of living
standard of livng, turnover, distance
distance, turnover, standard of living
standard of living, turnover, distance, relationships
relationships, distance, turnover, standard of living
settings, market & sense of living, [distance, turnover]
sense of living ...
money, and means of exchange
and value
money and ability to terminate, break off, form relationships ... ?
money and social relationships
[and addressing
social needs
humans needs]
where does creativity find expression ... ?
what opportunity ... ?
what is [/gets] associated with creativity ... ?
everyday
living ... ?
buying into a fantasy ... ?
selling - buying ... ?
avenues in everyday life, as a unit, for creativity ... ?
associations with living & well being ... ?
association of well being,
sense of well being,
of pleasure,
of memories,
of moments,
with things, settings, ...
settings
settings & marketing ...
[& things ... ]
value expression[,] and money
... 'unifying' diverse expressions ... ?
... a 'sense' of interchangeability ... ?
values' value ... ?
values' expression ... ?
relevance ... ?
beyond exchange ... ?
diversity beyond opportunity costs ... ?
value beyond [money,] market ... ?
value .. ?
value to working ... [ ... of whole ]
[ ... of well being ]
[varied] [diversity of] expressions & [/in] sense of well being & working ... ?
opportunities to express self ... ?
values .. ?
appreciate ... ?
as a unit ... ?
as whole ... ?
[towards] well being ... ?
[towards] working ... ?
as human ... ?
as life ... ?
as nature ... ?
as being ... ?
[
Is sense of being, being associated with, identified with, constructed, consumed, expressed in terms of settings, things, ... ?
[Where is the] sense of being ... and living ... transfered, 'lived' through ... referenced through ....
]
how do people continue to participate as whole, in increasing[ly] mediated living .. ?
where distance and standard of living are more avenues and settings for expression / impressions ... ?
how do ... people understand impressions / expressions ... in terms of personal validity ... ? ,
... validity at personal level ... ? ... at local, unit(ary) levels ... ?
Posted by VM at 8:08 AM
Labels: control, cooption, creativity being, distance, endurance, fantasy, horizontal, marketing, mediated, merit, relationship, standardise, system, turnover, unit, whole
March 31, 2007
Notes
... [multiple, linear, non-linear, ... ] interactions ...
living [<->][&][<->] learning <--> reality [<->][&][<->] truth <-->
technology [<->][&][<->] fantasy <--> games [<->][&][<->] drama <-->
processing [<->][&][<->] war <--> [...] access [<->][&][<->] acceptance
... <--> living [<->][&][<->] learning ...
... [?]
Posted by VM at 9:23 AM
Labels: acceptance, access, drama, fantasy, games, interaction, learning, livelihood, multiple, processing, reality, technology, truth, war
Surfed by / visited ...
The land without sorrow
Posted by VM at 9:21 AM
Labels: phrase, surfedby/visited
March 29, 2007
Browsed by ...
"Expressing their diverse feelings is important. I am continually amazed at those on both sides--the ones who went and those who didn't--who told me they were speaking of their experiences for the first time. Maybe in their coming together, some of the past can be laid to rest.
"Above all, this is a generation in transition. Their sense of history will change ten, twenty years from now. But there is enough distance, now, for a beginning.
"Enough distance, so that we can begin to erase our collective amnesia over the Vietnam War.
"Enough distance so that we can begin to heal the wounds of our nation's most troubled decade of war."
- Myra MacPherson, Long Time Passing, Vietnaam and the Haunted Generation, 1984
Posted by VM at 10:09 AM
Labels: browsedby, conflict
March 28, 2007
Connotea
Lifewise
Posted by VM at 10:06 AM
Labels: bookmarks, note, tags
Facts in fiction
Facts in fiction
Posted by VM at 10:05 AM
Labels: blog, note
cross currents
How are people's perceptions of others influenced by past, ignoring the present ... ?
What do people - also - take back from an interaction ... ?
[win win or loss loss or ... win loss ... or .. ?]
influence ... ?
setting ... and beyond ... ?
What do people aspire for ... or are inspired by ... ?
[How] useful ... ? in context ... ?
how ... ? useful ... ?
What are the human factor ... ?
Posted by VM at 9:46 AM
Labels: behavior, context, crosscurrent, factor, human, influence, interaction, lifestyle, past, perception, present, setting
March 27, 2007
Notes
Does intolerance extend / be within and without ... ?
Would - access to - media depictions of people as people (not as representing something (directly) ) help ... ?
[
balancing of ...
... power ...
... [lack of ... ] levels of interaction ...
... [ideas of, need for .. ] space ...
... images [dis/]empowering ...
[... or not ... ?]
and
satisficing stereotypes ... ?
[or not ... ?]
]
balancing of power ...
[lack of ... ] levels of interaction ...
[ideas of, need for .. ] space ...
images [dis/]empowering ...
[... or not ... ?]
and
satisficing stereotypes ... ?
[or not ... ?]
ego massage - of - and effect on leaderships at home, abroad ... ?
ego massage and validity of values ... ?
[How] do people have a sense of duty ... ? what is it ... ?
[ ... how [']informed['] ... ?]
What would a federation be, which can [be] / is ... ?
tribal rhythms, & ties, ...
& uses ... ?
and communication ... ?
and direction ... ?
[understanding ... ? utility ... ? ]
Does technology drive resource exploitation ... ?
Who ... or what is enriched ... ?
How do interactions continue to influence ... ?
in what way ... ?
cross currents of human interactions ...
Posted by VM at 8:30 AM
Labels: abroad, balance, behavior, depiction, duty, ego, exploitation, federation, interaction, leadership, massage, resources, rhythm, satisficing, space, stereotype, tolerance, tribal, values
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Posted by VM at 8:27 AM
Labels: note
March 23, 2007
Qualityoflife tagcloud
Qualityoflife at del.icio.us tagcloud of all tags here.
Qualityoflife at del.icio.us displays related tags, which Lifewise at del.icio.us does not. There is some mismatch / discrepancy between the tags and bookmarks between the two. But most are same or similar.
See other notes for some more information.
Posted by VM at 10:57 AM
Labels: note, tags
Notes
People who only remember the past are bound to repeat it ... ?
human behavior ...
[women ...] and need for ensuring livelihood ... ?
[men ...] and need for ensuring creation ... ?
both ...
family ...
[beyond ... ]
living ...
Camaraderie in life ...
role of camaraderie ...
forms of camaraderie ...
Inter-relationships between family and camaraderie ...
family <--> camaraderie
condition of family[,] and camaraderie ...
condition of family and camaraderie ...
[
Man in relation with ...
animals
plants
growth, cycle ...
movement, place ...
both ...
[approaches .. ]
'domestication' first ... of plants / animals ...
]
People value - seek - what is available (made available) ... ?
[ good or bad ... ? ]
technology validates beliefs ... ?
costs validate aims ... ?
human as :
['planned' system]
... means of production -- depreciation ... ?
[and state as consumer ... ? ]
['market' ]
... means of consumption -- writing off ... ?
[and state as producer ... ?]
Posted by VM at 10:06 AM
Labels: aim, animals, behavior, belief, camaraderie, cost, creation, cycle, depreciation, domestication, family, livelihood, movement, past, plants, state, technology, value, writeoff
March 22, 2007
a rough note
A rough note on use of [], double dashes :
While this not an accurate guide to use of square brackets, double dashes at the site and the weblogs, generally speaking these punctuation marks are used in keeping with the idea of thinking, understanding, what is being put in words.
It allows at times to convey a lot more within a single sentence. Their usage can go beyond or be - somewhat - different from their traditional use in punctuation.
Ellipses :
At times '...' are used. Again these can often be about thinking, understanding, what is being put in words.
A general rough note :
The understanding, thinking, ... can go beyond the - few - words expressed.
In many cases, as in many Posts entitled Notes or Note, when holding a lot of ideas separated by spaces, the ideas can - and do - relate / come together, but not necessarily so. [They do not - necessarily - follow a linear order of relationships. Or linear relationships only.] The ideas can also be referred to via tags, such as related tags, to get some sense of a wider picture, or connections.
I do not make claims to accuracy or expertise. Specific problems and contexts are beyond the scope. Please bear this in mind.
Please refer other notes for some more information.
Posted by VM at 1:40 AM
Labels: note
March 20, 2007
Notes
What sort of ads ... precede wars ... ?
[authenticity, nature of ads ... ? ]
Do people - like to - play god ... ?
[ In what - different - forms , ways ... ?
Are there echo(es) ... ?
Do they spread ... ? ]
[ change, flow, ... ]
discovering [anew] value in [ life and ] relations ... ?
Is immigration - the - answer ... ?
to what extent ... ?
[whose immigration ... ?]
[what are requirements of ] international trade ... ? of colonisation ... ?
how far are problems, issues resolved [ at home ] ... ?
when do effects become known ... ?
returning value ...
industrial revolution and - effect on - need for precision skills in humans ... ?
[how] do you value values, skills which have been part of [a] people's existence and living for long ... ?
does it buffer change ... ?
make change productive ... ?
Humans adjusting to new ... ?
time ... ?
Reaction ... ?
depiction ... ?
bias ... ?
authenticity [ of values ] and fusion ...
values [people]
spread for work ...
spread to live ... ?
VCR in the life of a city ... ?
expression, place for expression ... ?
division within,
skills,
export of skills and people, ...
singsong of the non-written & [learning] & living ...
maximising ...
through utility and disutility ... ?
idea of maximimising ... ?
having it both ways ... ?
what are people good at [today] ... ?
what skills have - been - developed ... ?
are they being utilised ... ?
[in what ways ... ? ] Are people turning nomadic ... ? [all over ... ?]
[out of choice ... ? ] [and] [ or not ... ? ] [interaction ... ? ] [quests ... ?]
where is sustenance ... ? where is possibility of expression ... ?
punctuality and truth ...
are "anything goes" zones being defined ... ?
how ... ?
are they [so] ... ?
what is the attraction ... ?
Do people judge others by standards of - the - others ... ?
What role does expectation play in society, economy ... ?
[How] do stereotypes relate to expectations ... ?
reporting [a] phenomenon ... ?
[ expressing [a] phenomenon ... ? ]
flow, accuracy ... ?
[ formal / informal ... ? ]
value, utilsation ... ?
freedom[,] and movement ... ?
[ ... movement, - as in - migration ... ?]
[- sense of - delay and ... ?]
freedom[,] and movement ... ?
Posted by VM at 11:14 AM
Labels: ads, change, discover, effect, expression, freedom, God, immigration, informal, maximising, movement, nomad, place, report, utility, value, vcr
March 16, 2007
Surfed by / visited ...
Admiral Sir William Wordsworth Fisher
[Don't have much more information]
Posted by VM at 11:34 AM
Labels: person, surfedby/visited
Notes
scale
and
humanity ...
[activity]
desire for creativity ...
Posted by VM at 11:28 AM
Labels: activity, creativity, desire, humanity, scale
March 13, 2007
Note
What was life like in Harappa ... ?
Posted by VM at 11:51 AM
Labels: notes, qualityofife
Notes
Where do people perceive the emphasis of society / socieities is on ...
... emphasis on inclusion ... ?
... emphasis on exclusion ... ?
What do people / societies make of it ... ?
How does it square with reality ... ?
What is exclusion or inclusion ... ?
How does contact, prejudice, social systems interact ... ?
contact <--> prejudice <--> social system <--> contact <--> prejudice ...
[Is there a ...] fear of random violence ... ?
... family's, society's ability to bear ... ?
ability / possibility for return to nature, allows for return ... ?
development, and possibilities for revival ... ?
what is the basis for comparison ... ?
[ living ... ?]
[ example, comparing men and women ... ]
context for examination, evaluation, being ... ... ?
[in terms of living ... ? ]
[ example, context for evaluation of efficiency, ... ]
elements, location, properties, utilisation, effect on humans .... ?
[example, metals, substances, mined, utilised, ... ]
[example, effects arterial, mental, ... ? effects - of properties, utilisation - on living ... ?]
How long does it take for someone's sorrow to become one's sorrow ... ?
why ... ?
does sorrow create a wall (around) ... ?
can sorrow isolate, unite, divide, ... ?
can sorrow be a tool ... ?
Posted by VM at 11:15 AM
Labels: comparison, contact, context, effect, elements, exclusion, fear, isolate, prejudice, reality, societies, sorrow, system, violence
March 11, 2007
Surfed by / visited ...
Gorilla
Posted by VM at 9:24 AM
Labels: surfedby/visited
Surfed by / visited ...
Erasmus
Posted by VM at 9:21 AM
Labels: person, surfedby/visited
Surfed by / visited ...
Super Trouper album, ABBA
Posted by VM at 9:20 AM
Labels: abba, song, surfedby/visited
addiction
Does addiction take signals of life processes [moving towards resolution,] and makes them signals for - engaging in - addictive (substance) behavior ... ?
[ ... and may appear as a necessary cause in achieving resolution ... ? ]
*Just jottings ... not reliable information*
Posted by VM at 9:08 AM
Labels: addiction, behavior, jottings, process, signal
creativity ...
desire for creativity ...
[and activity]
Posted by VM at 9:06 AM
Labels: activity, creativity, desire
freedom, relationships, services, ...
ideas of freedom ...
... and - ideas of - relationships ... ?
... and - ideas of - services ... ?
Posted by VM at 9:03 AM
Labels: freedom, relationship, service
Note about search and navigation
Latest pages - bookmarked - from the site and blogs (shown with tags)
A list of LifeInsight pages - titles, with tags (not up-to-date)
Archives map (not up-to-date)
Site and blog navigation and search :
- Tags, combinations of tags, and visual navvigation (via tagcloud) at del.icio.us/lifewise.
You could look up pages with a specific tag, or with a combination of tags here.
A tagcloud of all the tags is at livewise.blogspot.com. (For viewing a tagcloud, you need javascript enabled in the browser.)
Related tags: You may also get some sense of how the tags are related at Qualityoflife at del.icio.us. The related tags feature seems to work at Qualityoflife at del.icio.us and not at Lifewise at del.icio.us. Qualityoflife at del.icio.us contains more or less same pages and tags as Lifewise at del.icio.us upto early March 2007.
Qualityoflife at del.icio.us might be useful for getting some sense of related tags, but it is difficult to update, and unlikely to be regularly updated. Also, for some reason, there seems to be some discrepancy in pages and tags listed between the two.
For accuracy and latest, Lifewise at del.icio.us ought to be better.
Click on the '+' sign in related tags, to view pages - bookmarks - from the site and weblogs with both the current tag and the related tag.
Note: To speed up loading of pages at http://del.icio.us/lifewise or at http://del.icio.us/qualityoflife, click on one of the the 'tag options' given at bottom of that page to reduce the number of tags listed on the side of the page. Example, del.icio.us/lifewise?setminposts=5 Requires cookies to be accepted from the site.
- Text-search of archives
At furl.net/members/lifewise, you could search for text within the pages from the site and the weblogs which have been archived there.
Also see : search note, search (not updated)
Many of the "Surfed by / visited ..." links are included in either of two sets of bookmarks,
- Links with some connection with quality off life in a broad sense are included at http://del.icio.us/qol as well as at http://furl.net/members/qualityoflife.
- Links of a more general nature (some of thhe links may not be directly relevant to the site) are included at http://del.icio.us/somelinks as well as at http://furl.net/members/somelinks.
Please see notes : About Surfed by / visited ..., and A note about "Surfed by / visited ...." links.
- From Search & navigation at geocities.com//lifeinsight.
Posted by VM at 4:43 AM
Labels: bookmarks, note, searchsite, tags
March 8, 2007
Notes
Life coming together ...
as a whole, on screen ... ?
for screen ... ?
Do poor trade flows support immigration ... ?
Do immigrants value - seek - possessions ... ?
qualified ... success ...
qualified success ... [?]
people biases ...
living with ... beyond ... biases ... [?]
people - everywhere - feel under siege ... ?
[seem to ...] confirm - to - biases ... ?
When biases become actions ... ?
[ allocated economy ...
allocates privileges as well ... [?] ]
living regulation modes connections reactions [connection-reaction] settings [safety] wellbeing living regulation ...
how does a representation of an abstraction have scope of the abstraction ... ?
when illegal provides access, - and - legal does not ... ?
[ products, services, [resources,] ... ... ]
Posted by VM at 10:11 AM
Labels: abstract, access, bias, connection, flow, illegal, immigration, mode, onscreen, possession, privilege, reaction, regulation, representation, safety, success, supernatural, trade, whole
March 5, 2007
appearance of belonging ...
appearances and belonging ... [?]
belonging and appearances ... [?]
Posted by VM at 10:29 AM
Labels: appearance, belonging
March 3, 2007
Note
[How] to ensure - access to - understanding beyond devices ... ?
Do people require - 'need' - resources at their disposal ... ?
[How] are resources available ... ?
feasibility [of enterprises] and [applications of] law ... [?]
[parallel] structures and survival ... ?
[ Are people using means from pre-independence ... ? ]
[ How do people self-govern ... ? ]
flows and controls
flows and well being ...
controls and well being ...
[What] Are barriers of entry and / or exit set to define / confine [...?] / make work ... systems ... of society ... & economy ... ?
[how ... ?]
[what ... ?]
[What does it say [about system] ... ?]
Does understanding, valuing good allow for - more - flexibility and - better - flows ... ? [across ...? ]
Does it - also - allow for - better - workability, [& for identity/ies] ... ?
How can universally applicable values be understood beyond homogeneous settings ... ?
Do people [often] appreciate - exemplars of - good values ... ?
[ Can lack of enthusiasm for a particular projection / presentation of an exemplar of good values be mistaken for ...
a lack of appreciation for the exemplar of good values, or
a lack of appreciation for good values ... ?
a lack of some - shared - commonality of good ... ? ]
Posted by VM at 5:38 AM
Labels: access, appreciation, barrier, control, exemplar, feasibility, flow, good, identity, law, resources, self-governance, share, structure, system, understanding, values, wellbeing, workability
postandtelegraph at blogspot, 2006
December 30, 2006
Note
system and - effect on - attractiveness between genders ...
trade within and effect
trade external and effect
economy <-> lifestyle - maintenance and - changes
fantasy and reality
[ ducks paddling ]
[outlook, expectation, and ... ]
migrant experience
and return
[ changes ... ]
interaction on return ...
What is (are) the connection, links one misses in someone's culture / behavior / expression ... ?
[How appreciative - and fascinated - are people with ... ] Action in service of a good cause ... [?]
[ media ]
What is a good cause ... ?
How do people get ideas of a good cause ... ?
What does a good cause 'look' like ... ?
Who is a hero ... ?
What does a hero do ... ?
Where do people get ideas about a hero ... what he or she does ... ?
[how do] genders inspire each other ... in creating ... and living life ... ?
gender and reciprocity ...
vestigeal organs and [reciprocal] expression ... [?]
imitation and arousal ...
imitation and nurture ...
imitation and nature ...
complimentarity ...
mechanical models and - scope for ... role of ... impact/effect on - genders ...
humans and flexibility ...
humans and environment ...
human lifespan and ...
activity
changes in inputs [over a lifespan]
adaptation
changes in quality
changes in processes
can you speed up quality ... , for how long ... ?
| developing | and | sharing |
[interaction ... ]
how does migration within country differ from migration between countries ...
comedy and past
flow, essentials of wellbeing, distance
honesty, language, law, justice ...
humans and flexibility,
roles, demeanour,
society, people, individuals,
wellbeing
law and order, health
professionals [ stated task, and overburden due to effect of system's (lack of) functioning on wellbeing ... ?]
influence, role and behavior
How do we moralise the past ... ?
and the future ... ?
Do people see ... ?
What do people see, when they see ... ?
What do people do to belong ... ?
Who are they themselves ... ? [what is themselves ... ?]
[ Is victory the end ... ? ]
How do bad ideas persist ... ?
... from one host to another ... ?
scholarship and livelihood ...
profession and ...
livelihood
influence
corruption
regulation
burden
profession and education
profession and training
profession and biases
profession and awareness
profession and context
profession and [- its - need for] interaction and working with society ...
profession and [the given ...? ... task of] patching up ... ?
[ ... [of] the system ... ?]
stated role, role ...
working of system ..., administration ..., whole ..., well being ..., and professions
profession and wider context, participation [of individuals, all, society ... ] and efficacy
profession as cure, and wellbeing [and the working or otherwise of the system ... ]
profession and prevention
profession and whole
profession and sense(s) of self, of effectiveness, of contribution, of community, ...
[non] migrant professions and power ...
Function 'role' connection whole
Profession 'role' connection whole
life and simulation
within humans within machinery
processes processes
consciousness
attentions to within - outside ...
processes ...
connection of within to wellbeing
... to whole
[looking at within, consciousness] - professions - processes - working - [wellbeing - overall] ... whole
life work as connection to life & living ...
space for ...,
awareness of ... differences
... life [beyond/beneath] differences
humans or components [... ?]
humans or ingredients ...
arousal, imitation, processes, machinery, gender, humans, role ...
what is - the - focus ...
Posted by VM at 6:16 AM
Labels: cause, complimentarity, consciousness, creation, focus, gender, good, hero, imitation, life, profession, reciprocity, whole, within
December 27, 2006
Note
utility and risk
technology and myth
regulation and skill
machinery and perspective
perspective and sensibility
[ critical mass and [definition of] good ... ] ... ?
Posted by VM at 9:26 AM
Labels: criticalmass, good, machinery, myth, perspective, regulation, risk, sensibility, skill, technology, utility
stereotype
Can a stereotype be / give a sense of empowerment ... ?
in conditions of - less interaction ... - isolation ... ?
How game-like [it can become] ... ?
How real in effect ... ?
[symbols and sense of - need for - fulfillment ... ?]
[communications and - recourse to - symbols ... ?]
Posted by VM at 9:20 AM
Labels: empowerment, fulfillment, life, qualityofife, stereotype, symbol
Destruction as consumption
Destruction as consumption ... ?
[ ... and cleaning up ... ] .... ?
[ and building again ... ] ... ?
Posted by VM at 9:17 AM
Labels: building, cleaning, consumption, destruction
Surfed by / visited ...
Ode to Billie Joe - Bobbie Gentry
Posted by VM at 9:16 AM
Labels: surfedby/visited
December 25, 2006
Note
regulated environment and idea of fun ...
fizzy colas ... and life ..
separation (reasons ... ) | divorce
common practice(s) ... how do they come about ... ?
beauty and its terror for the beautiful
fathers and daughters
looks and the world
sheltered and war
[How] do [over-]tightening of the screws bring support to extra-legal elements ... ?
[what is over-tightening ... ?]
How does state control the letter and spirit of law ... ?
link between circumstances and behavior ...
How important is letting go in life ... today ... ?
What [did] seem to be the promise ... ?
How important is holding on ... today ... ?
fizzy colas, drinks
contact <-> context
sense <-> perception
access <-> abuse
war
inside <-> outside
everyday <-> event
What is the parochial impact of media ... ?
[new [local] media ventures]
How does desire for impact [in the market] impact people's lives ... ?
How divided are people ... ?
How do they come together in [apparently] mutual benefit ... ?
How salutary ... ?
Sense of community ... ?
Sense of gain ... ?
later ... ?
Who gets hounded ... ?
[How] is leadership installed ... ?
benefit ... ? token ... ?
who gains ... ?
who controls ... ?
How do satellite [states] dictate policies ... ?
while bearing the brunt ... ?
and amplifying the impact on the sponsor ... ?
How are people held to hostage ... ?
How is environment manipulated ... ?
How do people be fair ... ?
How do people live ... ?
How do people access what is important [to them] ... ?
How is situation exploited ... ?
[How] are good values held to ransom ... ?
Until they can be utilised ... ?
by ... ? for what ... ?
is it required ... ?
mass ... ?
effect ... ?
Who gets blamed for abuse ... ?
Who stands out ... ?
How do temptations or availability interact with a densely populated society ... ?
Where do resources go [towards] ... ?
How do you value social wellbeing [parameters] within a society ... ?
How are they disrupted ... ?
What are alternatives to - such - lifestyles ... ?
How well rounded is such a lifestyle in a densely populated society ... ?
How might it impact consumers in such a model ... ?
How long [and] what does it take ... ?
for something to work ... ?
How do stories influence ... ?
[perceptions of life, living ... ]
edits ... ?
transitions ... ?
plots ... ?
How driven by "old" ... ?
... by "royalty" ... ?
access and well being, and ideas
financial muscle and network
code and application
values and structure
revolutions [political, economic, social ... ] and effect on life ...
[break ups ]
impact, break up and consolidation ... ?
What is - the - grievance ... ?
[the] sponsors ...
their influence ... ?
their agenda ... ?
society
cooperation
peace
[can] peace time [be] a mover ...
[attack as mover]
[how] do measures have a way of becoming practiced without change as per application ... ?
How do willingness to allow, be open to concerns of others make genuine needs be met ... ?
Are logjams used to free resources to gain [... ?] edge ... ?
does it ... ? till ... ?
Down the drain ...
impact, and impact on 'beneficiaries' ... ?
benefit ... ?
importance of self-help
animal welfare and care
and facilities
and collection
and hoarding
and reasons ...
Heroes cut off from life ...
in depiction and ...
[segregation in some areas - of life - and ... ]
Opportunity to put together life ... ?
A sense of quality deficit in all sections of society ... ?
[migration ]
and difficulty in letting go ... ?
sense of every day life ... ?
[ spiritual connection ... ? ]
[sense of being ignored ... ?
[also] among the privileged ... ?]
actors aging and depiction of life ... ?
puritanism and opportunity / slots for other people ... ?
bigger scale and ...
impact,
impact [on livability],
inertia,
trashing,
wastage,
[un]concern,
transition [possibilities] ...
exclusion of needs ...
sympathy manipulation and outcome ...
sympathy and life ...
customer relations and retail stores
[wide] scale and coverage and exclusion
people, concerns, understanding, cooperation ... ?
depth of understanding and ability to apply ...
repression and contact
empathy and contact
sympathy and contact
frustration and contact
rationality and contact
humanity and contact
understanding and contact
misunderstanding and contact
alienation and contact
exclusivity
... and control
... and persistence of image
... and dissonance
Posted by VM at 12:10 AM
Labels: alienation, contact, control, cooperation, customer, deficit, dissonance, edit, exclusion, image, impact, participation, population, revolution, scale, self-help, sympathy, understanding, welfare
December 19, 2006
buzz
froth, bubbles of air in water
desire for contact
contact as communication
contact as expression
how come ...
non commital contact
possibility for commitment
conservation
conservative behaviour
democracy
interaction between democracy, behaviour and conservation ...
Posted by VM at 6:54 AM
Labels: communication, conservation, contact, democracy, expression, self
December 17, 2006
Surfed by / visited ...
Julian Byng
Posted by VM at 9:42 AM
Labels: person, surfedby/visited
Note
How does rhetoric without power differ from rhetoric with power ... ?
How do rhetoric and power affect people and life ... ?
How do people have quality products, services, quality of life even in times of scarcity ... ?
How can regulation help ... ?
How useful is education, awareness ... ?
What does control, concentration of resources - come to - mean ... ?
How useful - vital ... - can flow be to well being, quality of life ... ?
[How] does it help utilise resources ... ?
How important is ...
understanding, knowledge,
changes in understanding and knowledge,
feedback ... ?
How do institutions be responsive or open to feedback from people ... ?
... about their services, policies, products ... ?
How does sense of flow and participation and the above [mentioned] work at individual ( / micro) and macro level ... ?
How do values interact with ... / influence results ... ?
aspirations and living
aspiration and control and concentration of resources
aspirations and scarcity
aspirations and means
aspirations and ends
aspirations and (diversity of) life
aspirations and skills and values
aspirations and aptitude
aspirations and wellbeing
How do people come to aspire what ... ?
Is control and concentration of resources an aim ... ?
Is control and concentration of resources a result (product) of efficiency and values ... ?
What - gets / - is praised ... ?
Who - gets / - is praised ... ?
What makes things work .. ?
How can what makes things work (in life) be valued ... ?
How do people value resources, aptitudes, skills, values ... ?
... in themselves ... ?
[ How can what makes people work (in life) be valued ... ? ]
[can there be,] are there - differences in / - different ways of respecting an idea ... ?
Is pride is always quickly or overtly expressed ... ?
What range of degree or concentration (dilution) is conducive to life ... ?
What are relationships between power and money ... ?
How do people implement - their - ideas ... ?
How does technology interact with systems ... ?
[How ... ] are people dispersed ... ?
How do people and technology interact with local systems ... ?
Posted by VM at 6:55 AM
Labels: aspiration, awareness, degree, flow, macro, micro, money, power, praise, pride, quality, regulation, response, rhetoric, system, technology, wellbeing
December 15, 2006
Surfed by / visited ...
Russell L. Ackoff
Norman Angell
Avicenna
Posted by VM at 9:30 AM
Labels: person, surfedby/visited
How do technology and education cost and opportunities interact with work and family ... ?
Posted by VM at 9:25 AM
Labels: cost, family, opportunities, technology, work
Do societies go through a process of shedding skin ... ?
how much a part of ... or response to development ... ?
Posted by VM at 9:20 AM
Labels: development, jottings, process, societies
how do wonder and rapture remain part of humans ...
... with development ...
Posted by VM at 9:18 AM
Labels: development, human, rapture, wonder
blind love
love ... ?
Posted by VM at 9:17 AM
Labels: love
frenzy
Posted by VM at 9:17 AM
Labels: frenzy
wonder and rapture
Posted by VM at 9:16 AM
Labels: rapture, wonder
December 11, 2006
Note
Are there phases in utilisation of technology ... ?
Does it involve a period of cheap replication ... in terms of ideas and production ... ?
When does a street or geography become a living space-place ... ?
Does perceiving human, living beings in [geography] spaces help ... ?
migration ...
slavery ...
patterns ...
How are countries with states or without states [different ] ... ?
balance of power ... how important ... ?
[how do changes in power influence behaviour(s) ... ?]
Classification as a source of joy and sorrow ... ?
[How] do symbol integration perpetuate status quo ... ?
Technology
... spur to and dedicated to pace and movement ... ?
... [which] requires standardisation ... ?
... allows for [flexibility and quickness in] manipulation ... ?
... a focus on, concentration on presentation ... ?
... preferences for quick [cure or surgery] over healing ... ?
... [excessive] emphasis on 'work is worship' ... ?
... 'No time', 'All the time' [vacuum ... ? ] modes .... ?
... Solutions in terms of catharsis ... ?
Freedom does not ... / equal(s) to ... pace, movement ... ?
Freedom as sense of life ...
Life ... circles ... wider circles ... [movement, pace, ...] inertia ... effects ... living ... life ... ?
[[does] Freedom - hope - become a variable onto which other less evaluated ideas ride on ... ?]
How do means of freedom or for freedom turn ...
authoritarian ... ?
oppressive ... ?
Image of happiness ...
boredom and self respect ...
concepts of beauty ...
[concepts of] beauty and [promise, perception of] -instant - gratification ... ?
perception of beauty, and life ... ?
perception of life, and beauty ... ?
marketing and - artificial - scarcity of life values ... ?
marketing and placeholders for life values ... ?
flow of life, and business ... ?
flow of life, and of business ... ?
marketing and flow of life ... ?
marketing, and flow of life ... ?
respect marketed
respect
respect and, flow of life
life
processes
services
products
divergence [between above four and below two]
marketing
business
intermediaries and use of image ... ?
middleman and exploitation of image ... ?
discrimination ... , and lack of participation ... ?
outcome ... ?
marketing
life flow and values
in -its - midst
marketing and bracketing
attributes shifted to sale
value fragments
hope [as a] flow ... ?
and outcome ... [as a] product .... ?
[marketing, and life flow ]
hobbies as life ... ?
displacement
belonging and behaviour
belonging and lack of activity ...
... shared activity ...
geography and living
self and pleasure
circles of life
and range and cycles ...
does technology encourage dispersal ... ?
[leaving the centre empty ... ?]
What values makes life flow .... ?
privileges as life ... ?
sense of natural ownership ... ?
[what is - natural - ownership ... ?]
only with those who own ... ?
not with users, consumers ...
who [do so] excessively over others ... ?
belonging and behaviour ... ?
Can environment be outsourced ... ?
Can tourism substitute for quality of life ... ?
How do people behave outside their grouping ... ?
How do people behave as tourists ... ?
How do (possibilities, opportunities of) migration, travel, movement, (affect) interact with interest of - sustainability and stability of - quality of life in an area ... ?
How free are secular people from threat of conflict ... ?
How do countries try to resolve a situation without upsetting the system too much ... ?
When decisions ... are
How easy is it to make-believe with movies ... ?
Ideas become ... ?
biases ...
sides ...
story ...
How do people keep score of their lives and work ... ?
... of life ... ?
... stay in touch ...
Victor-victim complex
[victor or victim, victor-victim, victim-victor, ... ]
polarisation
people at war with (them)selves
movies, depiction , ...
people looking at life, people, selves through stories ...
people living life through stories ...
Art in search of villains .... ?
... attributes people hate in themselves ... ?
... attributes people seek ...
transfer to hero, and villain ... ?
self, reality,
How unreal [is] depiction ... ?
impact ... ?
stereotype values with characterisation ...
character and characterisations
affect people's perception ... ?
utility to life ...
Do people come out ...
hating selves, or deluding selves ... ?
Or living their selves ... ?
(for a while ? )
Connecting for a while ... ?
with self, hopes, fears, others ... ?
Have something to share with others ... ?
To justify life ... ?
To effect change ... ?
How is the change beneficial ... ?
why ... ? why not ... ?
poor thought and action depiction
commercial or art ...
Hate
Medium to channel hate
hate and repercussion in life ... ?
understanding ... , and effect on hate ... ?
sense of human ... , and hate ... ?
measure
for life, living ... ?
goal as a measure ... ?
[after ... ?]
flow as a measure ... ?
freedom measured as a goal ... ?
[after ... ?]
freedom measured as a flow ... ?
flow and living ... ?
flow and goals ... ?
goals as flow ... ?
flow as goal ... ?
flow as life, as quality of life, as living ... ?
on what scale ... ?
scales ... ?
for whom ... ?
including whom ... ?
flow and life
flow and living
values taught ... , and reality ...
belonging ... , and peers ...
[and interaction with ... ]
transitory [...?] ... [and/or] more permanent[-like] ... behaviour ...
Posted by VM at 8:28 AM
Labels: behaviour, belonging, classification, depiction, effect, flow, geography, human, life, marketing, measure, power, qualityofife, technology, values
December 5, 2006
Surfed by / visited ...
Margaret Thorsborne
Dipper (Water Ouzel)
Posted by VM at 8:54 AM
Labels: person, surfedby/visited
people and work
Are human endeavours being - have been - designed to work better with children ... ?
How do you take human longevity into account ... ?
How do you design work that suits adults (and maturer population) ... ?
Posted by VM at 7:52 AM
Labels: children, humans, work
Surfed by / visited ...
Rensis Likert
Axonometric projection
Posted by VM at 7:50 AM
Labels: person, surfedby/visited
December 4, 2006
quality and marketing
What is conducive to quality ... ?
How does marketing affect quality ... ?
Posted by VM at 5:59 AM
Labels: marketing, quality
December 2, 2006
Surfed by / visited ...
Nikolai Inozemtsev
Posted by VM at 9:10 AM
Labels: person, surfedby/visited
Surfed by / visted ...
Mr. Moto (by John P Marquand)
Posted by VM at 1:57 AM
Labels: surfedby/visited
Notes
How do privileges associated with growing up change in a lifetime ... ?
Can faith be understanding ... ?
Does understanding involve - a degree of - faith ... ?
What does - lack of / - social welfare mean (imply) ... ?
Do beauty contestants, telling nice things, complete the picture ... ?
How interesting would it be to go to travel / visit destinations shown a few decades ago and see their condition today ... ?
why ... ?
What happens to - all - the news that didn't make it ... ?
How does film display from projection to TV screen and analog to digital, change the perception ... ?
What changes from moment to next, how ?
How is the perception different ... and changed and changing ... ?
How is history created ... ?
and future written ... ?
How is history written ... ?
and future created ... ?
mind, and hands ...
How do fashions impact management ... ?
How does management impact fashion ... ?
How does - arrival of - women traveller influence - relations - ... ?
What is the relation between power and claims ... ?
What is the relation between claims and power ... ?
Is romantic - style - at times a way of depicting what might be considered - by maturer audiences - as an uglier side of life ... ?
Can an appreciation of discomfort be valuable ... ?
Do people seek comfort ... in what forms ... what kinds of .... ?
How do people relate to a discomfort, - once in, or - from a position of a comfort ... ?
Does comfort require keeping a lid on the tensions ... ?
How do tensions show up ... ?
How important to deal - interact - with discomfort ... ?
Can / does romanticising contribute to failures to understanding and resolutions ... ?
perspective of other
can being open to or not closed to perception of other - about one's ways - help understanding ... ?
promotions, policies, outcomes ...
How does a development model - which states one thing and delivers another - interact with the larger society ... ?
[When the development model benefits a few, what can one say about its impact on the poor ... ? Is it so ... ? ]
How are demands met ... ?
Do people realise what their demand involves ... ?
Why is something valued ... ?
How do people be aware ... ?
Posted by VM at 1:16 AM
Labels: beauty, claims, comfort, demand, development, digital, display, entertainment, faith, fashion, future, history, management, news, power, romantic, tension, understanding, welfare
December 1, 2006
Surfed by / visited ...
Peter Cooper
Eugene Pleasants Odum
Howard Thomas Odum
Jan Smuts
Posted by VM at 9:36 AM
Labels: person, surfedby/visited
November 29, 2006
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John Milton Hay
Abac�
Shade tree
Barbed Wire
Acid Test (Liquidity Ratio)
Posted by VM at 9:36 AM
Labels: person, surfedby/visited
Surfed by / visited ...
Lee De Forest
Trygve Haavelmo
Richard March Hoe
Henry Moseley
John Rolfe
Posted by VM at 9:30 AM
Labels: person, surfedby/visited
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Stanley Melbourne Bruce
George Canning
Lawrence Durrell
Charles James Fox
Kuno Francke
Albert Gallatin
Francis Rawdon-Hastings
John Vereker
Posted by VM at 8:51 AM
Labels: person, surfedby/visited
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Ford Madox Brown
Whistle Down the Wind (1961)
Kitchen sink realism
Posted by VM at 8:45 AM
Labels: person, surfedby/visited
November 28, 2006
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Managerial Grid Model
Posted by VM at 9:55 AM
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Erich Jantsch
Charles Geoffrey Vickers
Posted by VM at 9:51 AM
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amativeness
Posted by VM at 9:10 AM
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Chicken Kiev
Chicken Maryland
Posted by VM at 9:04 AM
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Walter Bagehot
Nathan Mayer Rothschild
Posted by VM at 8:33 AM
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Surfed by / visited ...
Heln Hunt Jackson
George Lillo
Love and Marriage by Frank Sinatra
Posted by VM at 7:45 AM
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Surfed by / visited ...
Eschatology
Polyphenism
J. Lyons and Co.
Carpetbagger
Bobbin lace
Cambric
Chlorosis
Posted by VM at 7:11 AM
Labels: person, surfedby/visited
November 25, 2006
Do attempts at exploring or exploiting creative tension in media products impact people ... ?
Do people find themselves in midst of underutilised or unutilised power in modern societies ... ? How does it interact with their sense of self, of life expression ... ?
Do children make the toil of living bearable for poor ... ?
about rich ... ?
How do you be thankful ... ?
Should people be ashamed of past ... ?
How does concept of surnames influence - people's - living ... ?
Are "convent educated" people, at times a little reticent in expressing love ... ? Is it so ... ?
Dress, self expression, sharing ( of values ... ? ) ...
Self expression and Sharing
[Sharing and Dressing ]
Role playing and Self expression
Self expression and Democracy
Democracy and Freedom
Role playing and Charm
Role playing and Risk
Self expression and Charm
Self expression and Risk
Charm and Risk
Roleplaying
ingredients - global accumulation,
packaging, individual
Self expression
Local [level]
Democracy
expression ... information
Freedom
Freedom and Democracy
Love and Responsibility
scope for responsibility ... ?
Role playing and Responsibility
Role model and Responsibility
Role modelling and Responsibility
Role playing and Love
Self expression and Love
Living and Love
Are people emotion ... ?
Do people seek to be emotions ... ?
Do people seek to relate ... ? Seek humans as support, and family ... ?
Are people blueprint ... ?
Can one see real spiritual perspective in the day-to-day life and actions of humans relating ... ? ... today ... ?
How much is attrition a part of politics and strategies ... [ today ... ] ?
How does keeping a system running impact those outside ... ?
Does a system involve foregoing some personal responsibility ... ?
Does a system allow for less personal responsibility ... ?
Or, ... is responsibility required to be concentrated in some areas ... ?
What about other areas ... ?
Market and Marketing
How does - desired - image of country interact with its approach ... ?
Parallel structures and their tyranny
Structures and their tyranny
How do parallel structures interact with structures ... ?
How do they influence behaviour ... ?
How do you give access to, utilise talents of people ... ?
- disposition
- education
How can a state influence ... ?
Are conflicts between states a fairer game for reporting than within states ... ?
endangered tribe people ...
How does market utilise talent ... ?
How does market utilise talent when there are barriers ... ?
Where does talent go ... ?
- underground, unorganised, abroad ...
How does marketing spread disinformation ... ?
How does marketing create an image of talent ... ?
Are people attracted ... ?
How suited ... ?
How satisfied with reality ... ?
Does entertainment seek to give people a momentary sense of fulfillment through distraction ... ?
How important in modern society ... ?
fulfillment or distraction ... ?
fulfillment of what ... ?
What does it say about life ... ?
Where does news fit in ... ?
How do (same) (similar) aspirations come to be ... ?
How are aspirations brought in line for success ... ?
How is success shared or distributed ... ?
What are people's aspirations ... ?
Does unity mean total intermingling ... ?
Do people want that ... ?
Should unity be limited to adversity ... ?
How useful is unity based on adversity ... ?
Does a nation(hood) call for more homogenity than a country does ... ?
Can demands and pressures of nationhood affect its young, and drive them away ... ?
As - need for - contact with communities decreases, might or do communities see or project - self and other perceived - needs of communities in antagonistic terms ... ?
Posted by VM at 9:06 AM
Labels: charm, democracy, dress, entertainment, expression, freedom, infformation, local, love, nation, past, people, poor, power, risk, role, share, society, system, values
November 21, 2006
Fossil fuels - are the living of the old providing fuel for the living of today ... ?
Do people presume a behaviour befitting 'higher' status or power ... ?
How aware are people of the new - not experienced first hand - ways of fighting conflicts and their consequences ... ?
Women and environment for ...
caring
rearing
nurturing
values
culture ....
- new environment
- girls from outside
How do they achieve ... ?
How do they respond ... ?
[Are there steep highs and lows in people's response to success or otherwise of others ... ?]
Should there be such highs & lows in the way people respond (media responds ... ? ) to successes or otherwise of people ... ?
Boundaries
adminstrative units
Bureaucracy
ablility
human living
Can - are - boundaries be an expression of inefficiency within, outside ... ?
ways to: protect inefficiency ... ?
control access to resources ... ?
How do ideas without first hand experience - second hand ideas - influence ... ?
How are structures of reality used to express ideas ... ?
Reality as a protrayal of ideas through structures ... ?
[Is ... ] Can brutality be presented as an either / or - else - "chance" - for people - to a "future" by authorities ... ?
With an eye on history ... ?
How does brutality persist ... ?
[ Brutality, how much do people know ... ? How is it carried out ... ? ]
What are ideas about home ... ?
How does it influence people's behaviour ... ?
[How] do common sounds of nature get expressed differently in different languages ... ?
[Can ... ] Do works that seek to conserve create false enchantment and value - for the valued - outside their context ... ?
What is the (level of) sensibility that a distributed programme can presume ... ? or not ... ?
Are people running away from everyday values ... ?
And, also ...
seeking not to be ignored ... ?
Would they feel ignored, if they valued and worked with everyday values ... ?
How do forces take over from icons ... ?
Do they ... ?
How much appreciation of the beneficiaries do people have ... ?
Suburbia ...
Urbia ... ?
How can attractive be destructive ... ?
How can destructive be attractive ... ?
Can progress be brutal ... ?
[In what situation ... ?]
Is progress a way of getting attention ... ? [And - later - it becomes ... ? [... get caught in it ... ?] ]
Do people need attention ... ?
Do people feel not attended to ... ?
What are people attending to ... ?
Do people not want to feel ignored ... ?
How can knowledge be ignorance ... ?
Is there a connection between a state of feeling ignored and state of being ignorant ... ?
Connection between feeling ignored, ignorance, and brutality ... ?
between attention, progress and brutality ... ?
What does home mean ... ?
Are we paying less attention to values of everyday living ... ?
Are we paying more attention to getting attention ... ?
What does being attended to or having attention mean ... (access to ), (sense of ) living ... ?
Are we
... running away from everyday values ... ?
... seeking not to be ignored ... ?
If we paid attention to eveyday values ... ?
do we feel that ignored ... ?
Is there lack of first hand appreciation of life (as a whole) ... ?
Is there an appreciation of beneficiaries ... ?
Is there a push toward an either / or opportunity for progress from the authorities ... ?
Does it involve violence, brutality to others ... ?
Does it require (affecting) others ... ?
How is it presented attractively ... ?
When in it, who gains ... ?
What do they seek to gain from it ... ?
Why do they seek it ... ?
How do they be in such a situation ... ?
Can technology make you ignorant (of others) and (un)informed ... ?
Can (some) knowledge (of a field) be ignorance of wider area ... ?
How do, why do people toe the line ... ?
Why can people not be good ... ? How is it perceived as ... ?
Who benefits from division ... ?
- In what name ... ?
- When is whole, a division ... ?
Who bears the brunt ... ?
How do people face a technologically well equipped force ... ?
How high can the cost of - achieving - admired look be ... ?
How is illusion of continuity ...
part of human ...
perception
expression
understanding
... or not ... ?
[How digital ... ?]
How are theories of natural processes utilised by humans ... to achieve ends ... ?
How do natural processes contribute to life ... ?
How are natural forces utilised or developed ... ?
How does such use benefit life, living ... ?
How do existence or lack of social relations affect conflicts in an area ... ?
Do areas where social relations are on a blink find conflicts extending wider to gain support structures ... ?
Does stretched linkages contribute to human perception and involvement ... ?
How do social relations and structure define outcomes, and outcomes after outcomes ... ?
How are human - social - structures (designed to work) well ... ?
Can trying to be happy like someone else be a source of unhappiness ... ?
can not being aware of the unhappiness in them [ others ] be a source of unhappiness ... ?
How are people happy ... ?
Can attempts to better nature, turn extreme ... ?
What does better - ing - nature mean ... ? why ... ?
When does better become worse ... ?
In style ... what do people make do with ... ?
What is - made - available ... ?
How does "soul" respond to machine ... ?
Posted by VM at 8:14 AM
Labels: behaviour, belonging, boundary, brutality, care, confict, culture, environment, everyday, experience, fuel, nurture, option, perception, power, progress, response, status, women
November 16, 2006
Surfed by / visited ...
Brien McMahon (senator)
Posted by VM at 9:44 AM
Labels: person, surfedby/visited
natural assets
How are people with natural assets - personal or resources - viewed ... ?
How do people with natural assets respond [ to the attention ] ... ?
Posted by VM at 9:23 AM
Labels: assets, attention, demand, natural, perception, pressure, qualityofife, resources, response, supply, wellbeing
social infrastructure
Does social infrastructure assist people in overcoming shortcomings of physical infrastructure ... ?
Does social infrastructure exert influence on how people live their lives ... ?
How does social infrastructure interact with availability of physical infrastructure ... ?
How do people respond to availability of - physical and / or social - infrastructure ... ?
[How] do people adjust to conditions of plenty ... ?
Posted by VM at 9:01 AM
Labels: availability, benefit, effect, infrastructure, life, living, physical, plenty, qualityofife, social, wellbeing
Euphoria and effect
Does euphoria seek to replicate the sense of euphoria ... ?
Do people get into situations which create euphoria ... ?
Posted by VM at 8:43 AM
Labels: effect, euphoria
pace and humans
[To what extent ... ] Is - faster - pace about exploiting imperfection ... ?
How does pace interact with human life ... ?
[With - faster (and slower ... ?) - pace,] Do people get extended in various directions ... ?
Do people feel tied down ... ?
Taut ... ?
Taut like a string [ stretched ] ... ?
[ Relationships stretched ... ? ]
Vibrating - seeking to vibrate ... ? - to stimuli ... ?
[ (seeking to) vibrating in harmony ... ? ]
How do people live ... ?
How useful is a sense of perspective ... ?
A perspective in terms of reality and life ... ?
How do volume, turnover and pace relate to humans and - their - enterprise(s) ... ?
How do volume, turnover and pace relate to reality ... ?
How do - how can ... - people value ..., are valued ... ? ... as whole ... as humans ... [besides money ... ? ] ... ?
Can values of simplicity and life contribute ... ?
To better sense of life and quality of life ... ?
To pace in tune with living ... ? with life ... ?
Can making procedures in tune with life and reality contribute ... ?
Accounts people can maintain ... ?
Are people required to lie ... ? Cook the books ... ? Make unreal projections ... ?
How do legal frameworks be in tune with - concerns of - living and reality ... ?
Does structure in tune with living and reality go some way towards addressing - different - issues in lives of people, of person ... ?
Posted by VM at 7:58 AM
Labels: flow, imperfection, interaction, legal, lie, life, lifestyle, living, money, nationalism, pace, reality, string, structure, taut, turnover, volume, wellbeing, whole
November 12, 2006
Surfed by / visited ...
Beghrir
Crepe Marocaine
British-India Steam Navigation Company
Sven Hedin
Josiah Stamp
Posted by VM at 2:37 AM
Labels: person, surfedby/visited
pace, time, place and well being
How does pace relate to human well being ... ?
Is it easier to gain something, than be able to work with it ... ?
Do - some - things require time ... ?
How do people live well [ alongside / together ... ] ... ?
How do tradition and contexts live ... ? ... travel ... ?
How does one understand them ... ?
How does where and how people live influence them, their behaviour ... ?
Posted by VM at 2:22 AM
Labels: pace, place, time, wellbeing
November 10, 2006
Surfed by / visited ...
Callaeidae
Pachydermata
Posted by VM at 7:27 AM
Labels: surfedby/visited
living being
How do people respond, react ... ?
Is reaction instantaneous ... ? [ always ... ? ]
How does understanding, participation, values, ... influence how people respond ... ?
How do people interact with things they do not understand and participate in ... ?
How do people react to machines ... ?
How do people respond to machines ... ?
How do people react to people ... ?
How do people respond to people ... ?
How does understanding, values, participation inform response ... or reaction ... ?
Do people at times feel there is not any least common denominator of shared ness with others ... ? Is it so ... ?
How valuable is working together ... as humans ... ? Beyond apparatus, structures ... ?
Does prevention call for a macro approach ... ?
Does prevention look at how the system works ... ?
Is solution about fixing particulars ... ?
Is solution about how to remove people from the system ... ?
[How people behave ... ? ]
How does solution be a part of prevention and well being ... ?
How do scale, size, variety respond to life needs and values ... ?
[Of the ways], Are there ways of doing things which cause fewer, lesser issues as a consequence ... ?
[How] is appreciating diversity of life and reality valuable in and [/or] a part of expressing - applying - life's values ... ?
Posted by VM at 6:27 AM
Labels: diversity, influence, instant, interaction, needs, participation, prevention, qualityofife, reaction, reality, response, scale, share, solution, system, understanding, values
human participation and living
production ... distribution ... utilisation ... participation ... living ... flow ... production ...
[ joy ... pride ... living ... ? ]
production | distribution, utilisation, participation, living, flow ...
(gap [|] ... ?)
[ joy <---> thrill
pride <---> paranoia
living <---> abuse ]
joy | thrill
pride | paranoia
living | abuse
living moment and next moment moments non moments living flow ...
Posted by VM at 5:46 AM
Labels: abuse, distribution, flow, human, joy, living, moment, paranoia, participation, pride, thrill, utilsation, wellbeing
human and instant
What is the scope for human - expression and - satisfaction, beyond the instant ... ?
Posted by VM at 5:40 AM
Labels: expression, human, instant, satisfaction, scope
November 9, 2006
Surfed by / visited ...
Kids Company
Posted by VM at 6:56 AM
Labels: person, surfedby/visited
=> [From http://postandtelegraph.blogspot.com/]
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Virasat livejournal, 2006 and 2004
life, values, and guardianship and abandonment ... [Nov. 4th, 2006|07:31 pm]
[ Tags | abandonment, guardinship, life, values ]
Is there a meeting place between - beyond - guardianship or, and abandonment ... ?
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Service � la russe
Talking blues
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Surfed by / visited ... [Nov. 2nd, 2006|08:59 pm]
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Autumnwatch (BBC)
Equation of time
Heartsease (wild flower)
Sapwood and heartwood
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Surfed by / visited ... [Nov. 1st, 2006|09:01 pm]
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The Impartial Spectator - Adam Smith's Moral Philosophy, D D Raphael (not yet published)
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Surfed by / visted ... [Nov. 1st, 2006|08:42 pm]
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David Astor
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Viktor Frankl
E. F. Schumacher
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Micha? Kalecki
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Surfed by / visited ... [Oct. 31st, 2006|06:54 pm]
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Chiquitita, ABBA
Games People Play, Joe South
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Surfed by / visited ... [Oct. 31st, 2006|06:32 pm]
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Hans Magnus Enzensberger
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Heather Bullock
Anthony Smith
Raymond Williams
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development and migration ... [Oct. 31st, 2006|05:03 pm]
[ Tags | culture, development, effect, jottings, migration ]
How does developed society interact with its requirements and with poverty ... ?
How do people adjust ... ?
Can or does developed society create its own migrants ... ? why ... ?
Where can they go ... where do they go ... ?
How do they respond ... ? How do they adjust ... ?
[how multicultural ... ?]
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technology [Oct. 31st, 2006|04:43 pm]
[ Tags | history, technology ]
Does changing technology play a role in creating - a sense of - history ... ?
[ a sense of (and a need for ... ?) belonging ... ?, possession ... ?, ]
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empathy [Oct. 31st, 2006|04:29 pm]
[ Tags | empathy, harm, identity ]
Does lack of empathy lead to harm to all, whether part of the identity or not ?
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values and pursuit of rights [Oct. 31st, 2006|04:22 pm]
[ Tags | rights, values ]
In pursuit of rights, can people lose touch with values which make those rights worthwhile ... for all ... ?
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quality [Oct. 29th, 2006|05:45 pm]
[ Tags | expression, humans, nature, quality, qualityoflife, quantity ]
What quality (qualities), nature do humans express .. ? with each other ... ?
Is it a matter of quantity ... ? is it ... ?
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irreconcilable differences [Oct. 29th, 2006|05:22 pm]
[ Tags | coping, differences, humans, individual, life ]
Is any - group or - relationship exempt from "irreconcilable differences" showing up ... ?
[How do] people live with - beyond - irreconilable differences ... ?
What is irreconcilable differences ... ?
[ Are they more common in societies where people have to cope more on their own ... ?.. have more to cope with ... ? ]
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state, union [Oct. 29th, 2006|05:08 pm]
[ Tags | state, union ]
How does any state in a union express itself ... without having to make the whole union be like it or be according to it, to do so ... ?
Does a state need to make the whole union be like it (or be according to it), to express itself ... ?
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human, technology, behaviour [Oct. 29th, 2006|04:48 pm]
[ Tags | behaviour, coping, empower, expression, human, life, living, machine, material, nature, qualityoflife, reaction, system, technology, whole ]
How does technology influence human behaviour ... ?
in various spheres of activity ... and endeavour ... ?
Does technology empower humans ... ?
Do humans empower technology ... ?
Does human pursuit of materials empower technology ... ?
What can or does it lead humans towards ... ?
reproduction as production ... ?
How do prevailing ideas or modes of production influence human perception, behaviour, approach ... ?
[ human machines - machine beings ]
How do humans interact with humans ... ?
How do humans value each other ... ?
rich or poor, rich and poor, etc ...
How humans interact with machines ... ?
How do humans interact with humans ... ?
How do machines interact with machines ... ?
How do humans not interact ... ?
... with each other ... ?
How do machines react ... ?
How do humans react ... ?
How do machines work ... ? ... together ... ?
How do humans work ... ? ... together ... ?
How do machines and humans work ... ? ... together ... ?
How do we approach humans ... ?
How do we approach machines ... ?
How do machines approach machines ... ?
How do machines approach humans ... ?
How do machines react to one another ...?
How do humans react to one another ... ?
What happens when a machine does not function ... ?
What happens to system ... ?
What about humans ... ?
How are capital goods depreciated ... ?
How are they lease financed ... ?
What about humans ... ?
How do humans differ from technology ... ?
Does technology empower humans ... ?
How do humans handle power ... ?
How do humans handle technology ... ?
Do humans empower technology ... do they follow the technology ... ?
How does technology, potential, relate to humans, living ... ?
How does people with technology respond ... ?
How does it influence behaviour, life ... ?
How do machines react ... ?
How do humans react ... ?
How do technological systems react ... ?
Does technology simplify ... ?
Is human life - processes - simple ... ?
How do systems respond to needs and values of life ... ?
Are human needs being fulfilled ... ?
How does clockwork - [ technology ] - benefit .. ? or not ... ? when not ... ?
How do humans respond ... ? ... react ... ? ... live ... ?
What quality (qualities), nature do humans express .. ? with each other ... ?
Is it a matter of quantity ... ? is it ... ?
How do humans value each other ... ?
How do humans interact with each other ... ?
How do they interact with technology ... ?
How do they interact with life ... ?
How predictable are humans ... ?
How predictable is technology .. ?
How do people meet their needs ... ?
How do people cope ... ?
What is the expression ... ?
What avenues are available ... ?
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reproduction [Oct. 29th, 2006|04:45 pm]
[ Tags | approach, reproduction ]
reproduction as production ... ?
How do prevailing ideas or modes of production influence human perception, behaviour, approach ... ?
[ human machines - machine beings ]
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Surfed by / visited ... [Oct. 28th, 2006|09:10 pm]
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The New World Information and Communication Order
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Surfed by / visited ... [Oct. 28th, 2006|08:29 pm]
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Honne (in Japanese)
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Surfed by / visited ... [Oct. 28th, 2006|08:18 pm]
[ Tags | surfedby/visited ]
Castile soap
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Surfed by / visited ... [Oct. 28th, 2006|07:27 pm]
[ Tags | person, surfedby/visited ]
Maimonides
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movies and paranormal setting [Oct. 28th, 2006|07:07 pm]
[ Tags | film, horror, lighting, paranormal, production, setting ]
[Why] do some movies which deal with the paranormal and horror, at times tend to have very natural - normal - looking settings, lighting, and production design ... ?
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Surfed by / visited ... [Oct. 27th, 2006|08:50 pm]
[ Tags | person, surfedby/visited ]
The Calculus of Consent by James M Buchanan and Gordon Tullock
Peter Dahlgren (Lund University, Sweden)
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Surfed by / visited ... [Oct. 27th, 2006|08:33 pm]
[ Tags | person, surfedby/visited ]
Olaf Caroe
Clark Clifford
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Surfed by / visited ... [Oct. 27th, 2006|08:00 pm]
[ Tags | person, surfedby/visited ]
Grace Halsell
Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan
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cotton and world [Oct. 26th, 2006|11:14 am]
[ Tags | activity, border, cotton, human, interaction, issues, living, politics, world ]
Does one see a -higher- degree of human - labour-related - activity and human issues, cross border relation issues, in cotton growing - and producing - regions of the world ... ?
What about countries which are surrounded by cotton producing countries ... ?
How are regions with organic cotton production working ... ?
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Surfed by / visited ... [Oct. 25th, 2006|09:33 am]
[ Tags | person, surfedby/visited ]
Maggie Lee Sayre
Thomas Malthus
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Surfed by / visited ... [Oct. 23rd, 2006|04:35 pm]
Joseph Corn
Marshall Hodgson
Committee on Social Thought
I Can See Clearly Now
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awareness, access, technology, wishes, fulfillment, persona, gap, living [Oct. 23rd, 2006|03:10 pm]
[ Tags | access, awareness, behaviour, cult, gap, human, living, need, persona, qualityoflife, symbol, technology, wellbeing, wishes ]
How does awareness link with - relate to - access ... ?
[ How does access link with - relate to - awareness ... ? ]
Does technology make people more aware of things which are distant ... ?
Does technology make access possible with out - prior - awareness, or need ... ?
Does technology make things distant ... ?
Does the more immediate awareness of distant, mean - imply - access ... ?
How keen is the awareness ... ?
Does technology make distance possible ... ?
How much of a physical or concrete gap or distance exists between awareness and access ... ?
How are needs fulfilled ... ?
Does the gap mean wishes ... ?
Does it fuel and engender - new - wishes ... ?
How are wishes fulfilled ... ?
Are there substitutes ... ?
How do they influence wishes ... ? ... awareness ... ? ... access ... ?
Does wish fulfillment become an important aspect of human behaviour and approach ... ?
How useful ... ?
How do symbols come into action ... ?
How do symbols come to represent wishes ... ? and their fulfillment ... ?
Does it come to be represented by persona ... ?
embodiment ... of wishes ... ?
Personality cult ... ?
How does awareness, access, wish fulfillment, personality cult, technology, well being, - etc. - interact ... ?
How does it influence sense of well being, and well being ... ?
How does it relate or connect with reality ... ?
How do people live ... ?
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Surfed by / visited ... [Oct. 22nd, 2006|02:30 pm]
[ Tags | person, surfedby/visited ]
John Howard
Gary Becker
John Ermisch
Jonathan Gershuny
Ian Miles
North Carolina Family-Centered Meetings Project
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Surfed by / visited ... [Oct. 21st, 2006|06:57 pm]
[ Tags | person, surfedby/visited ]
Horatio Alger, Jr.
Billy Hughes
Justus von Liebig
Gottfried Liebniz
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Surfed by / visited ... [Oct. 21st, 2006|05:41 pm]
[ Tags | person, surfedby/visited ]
Beer Hall Putsch
Erik Erikson
Hetty Green
Elizabeth Gaskell
Howard Hughes
My Cousin Vinny
Shaolin Soccer
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modern, real, spirtual living ... [Oct. 21st, 2006|05:20 pm]
[ Tags | context, life, living, modern, people, spirituality, wellbeing, whole ]
Does one see real spiritual perspective in the everyday modern relationships, living ... ?
[ context, times, application, values, understanding, ... ? ]
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Surfed by / visited ... [Oct. 20th, 2006|07:31 pm]
[ Tags | person, surfedby/visited ]
Dabke
Dressmaker
Raglan sleeve
Manufactory
Munich Agreement
Richard Arkwright
Donald T. Campbell
Alfred Kazin
Joan Littlewood
Raoul Naroll
Colin Wilson
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biggest bang for buck [Oct. 20th, 2006|07:24 pm]
[ Tags | charity, country, focus, nation, poor, reality, resources, rich, value, values ]
Does charity focus end up abroad for rich nations ... ?
Does resources focus end up abroad for poorer nations ... ?
And in reality ... ?
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bang for buck [Oct. 20th, 2006|01:48 pm]
[ Tags | basics, down, globalisation, home, living, requirement, resources, specialisation, values, wellbeing ]
Does globalisation and specialisation need to come at the cost of basic requirements of living at home ... ?
requirements for well being during down times ... ?
values and resources when things are not going well ... ?
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songs [Oct. 19th, 2006|06:51 pm]
[ Tags | song ]
Lulu says I'm a tiger,
Cat Stevens says It's a wild world
Paul Simon says I am a rock
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Surfed by / visited ... [Oct. 19th, 2006|06:21 pm]
[ Tags | surfedby/visited ]
Wa
W. H. Davies
An Atlas of World Affairs by Andrew Boyd
(amazon.com)
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good administration [Oct. 19th, 2006|06:14 pm]
[ Tags | administration, good, law, result ]
Is a good administration able to achieve results without having to make - many - new laws ... ?
Are people more open to ideas for new legislation from good administrations ... ?
Is there a need to be careful in what policies or laws you create ... ?
What is a good administration ... ?
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fall back on [Oct. 19th, 2006|06:12 pm]
[ Tags | network, people, resources, support ]
What do people have to fall back on ... ?
What do people fall back on ... ?
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The Starved by W H Davies [Oct. 19th, 2006|04:10 pm]
[ Tags | poem ]
The Starved
My little Lamb, what is amiss?
If there was milk in mother's kiss,
You would not look as white as this.
The wolf of Hunger, it is he
That takes away thy milk from me,
And I have much to do for thee.
If thou couldst live on love, I know
No babe in all the land could show
More rosy cheeks and louder crow.
Thy father's dead, Alas for thee:
I cannot keep this wolf from me,
That takes thy milk so bold and free.
If thy dear father lived, he'd drive
Away this beast with whom I strive,
And thou, my pretty Lamb, wouldst thrive.
Ah, my poor babe, my love's so great
I'd swallow common rags for meat--
If they could make milk rich and sweet.
My little Lamb, what is amiss?
Come, I must wake thee with a kiss,
For Death would own a sleep like this.
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self, image and contribution [Oct. 19th, 2006|03:00 pm]
[ Tags | contribution, image, perception, productive, self ]
How valuable is it not to get too bound by images of greatness in order to be productive and contribute ... ?
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Surfed by / visited ... [Oct. 18th, 2006|04:24 pm]
[ Tags | person, surfedby/visited ]
Robert Chambers
Valentina Leontyeva
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fake real value [Oct. 18th, 2006|04:20 pm]
[ Tags | fake, real, value ]
Does fake, or, depicition, depend on real for value ... ?
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Copying Applying [Oct. 18th, 2006|04:16 pm]
[ Tags | application, copy ]
Does copying contribute to division ... ?
Does applying contribute to building two way bridges ... ?
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Surfed by / visited ... [Oct. 18th, 2006|03:40 pm]
[ Tags | surfedby/visited ]
G�tterd�mmerung
Ragnar�k
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Surfed by / visited ... [Oct. 18th, 2006|10:07 am]
[ Tags | person, surfedby/visited ]
Arlie Hochschild
Edward O. Laumann
Neil J. Smelser
Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (CASBS)
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Surfed by / visited ... [Oct. 17th, 2006|07:54 pm]
[ Tags | person, surfedby/visited ]
Katherine A Lynch
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Surfed by / visited ... [Oct. 17th, 2006|06:45 pm]
[ Tags | surfedby/visited ]
Cottonopolis
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Surfed by / vistied ... [Oct. 17th, 2006|06:16 pm]
[ Tags | person, surfedby/visited ]
Ruth Finnegan
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Surfed by / visited ... [Oct. 17th, 2006|12:07 pm]
[ Tags | person, surfedby/visited ]
Max Planck
Max Planck Society
Interdisciplinarity
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Surfed by / visited ... [Oct. 16th, 2006|07:07 pm]
[ Tags | person, surfedby/visited ]
Hobart Earle
John Hunter
David Puttnam
Dorothy Rowe
Giorgio Spini
Free Spirit Publishing
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make believe and living [Oct. 16th, 2006|04:37 pm]
[ Tags | belief, fashion, life, living, makebelieve, politics, relating, result ]
Does make believe make it easier or freer to be any way you like ... ?
How does make believe become part of living ... ?
Is make believe becoming part of relating ... ? ... of politics .... ? ... of fashion .... ? ... of belief ... ?
With what consequences ... ?
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living resources [Oct. 16th, 2006|04:32 pm]
[ Tags | capital, consumption, distress, human, living, production, resources, wellbeing ]
how do - all - resources respond to what they are used for ... ?
how do resources respond to being utilised for living ... ?
how do resources respond to being utilised for production, consumption ... ?
how do people relate to living ... ?
how do people relate to resources ... ?
how do resources relate to people ... ?
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Surfed by / visited .... [Oct. 14th, 2006|08:27 pm]
[ Tags | person, surfedby/visited ]
Mecanisme et Limites de L'Association Humaine by Jacques Novicow (Yakov Aleksandrovich Novikov)
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Surfed by / visited ... [Oct. 13th, 2006|10:20 pm]
[ Tags | person, surfedby/visted ]
Fay Godwin
A Bushman Can't Survive (song) by John Williamson
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Surfed by / visited ... [Oct. 13th, 2006|08:50 pm]
[ Tags | person, surfedby/visited ]
Johann Galtung
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Surfed by / visited ... [Oct. 12th, 2006|11:29 am]
[ Tags | person, surfedby/visited ]
Hubert Morse Blalock, Jr.
Ching-chih Chen
George Mosse
A. L. Rowse
Global Memory Net - Home
Memory of the World: UNESCO-CI
UNESCO Charter on the Preservation of the Digital Heritage
WorldCat at a glance [OCLC - Introduction]
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A note about "Surfed by / visited ...." links [Oct. 11th, 2006|02:01 pm]
[ Tags | note, surfedby/visited ]
Some links that have a connection with quality of life (in a broad sense) are included at http://del.icio.us/qol as well as at http://furl.net/members/qualityoflife.
Links of a more general nature are be included at http://del.icio.us/somelinks as well as at http://furl.net/members/somelinks.
Please note, all links included here may not be for or relevant to the site, (for instance, they may be for Miscellany).
Also, please note this is not an exhaustive list.
=> Please do see the URL of the links here, if you would like to, before clicking on them. As the words surfed by and visited suggest, they could be from various sites, etc.
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environment [Oct. 10th, 2006|11:57 pm]
[ Tags | environment, living ]
What environment suits living at different stages of life ... ?
What environment suits living ... ?
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ghetto [Oct. 10th, 2006|11:23 pm]
[ Tags | ghetto, living ]
Is what is not a ghetto, a ghetto ... ?
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children perspective [Oct. 10th, 2006|11:22 pm]
[ Tags | children, perspective, space, young, youth ]
Does the perspective of a child vis a vis its surroundings give them space ... ?
What happens when they grow up ... ?
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music beat [Oct. 10th, 2006|11:21 pm]
[ Tags | beat, music, song ]
What songs are memorable ... ?
Does their beat, rhythm have to do with it ... ?
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beat eternity [Oct. 10th, 2006|05:46 pm]
[ Tags | beat, eternal, pace, rate ]
Does a beat want to become eternal ... ?
Increase the rate ... ?
Slow down ... ?
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Some Links [Oct. 9th, 2006|09:37 pm]
http://furl.net/members/somelinks
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representation whole [Oct. 9th, 2006|08:18 pm]
[ Tags | living, representation, understanding, wellbeing, whole ]
How do people relate to, understand the whole ... ?
How do they have quality of life ... ?
How far is whole ... ?
How near ... ?
How do representations of particulars symbolically include ideas of whole ... ?
How are they useful or not useful in life ... ?
Is representation literal or real ...?
How much do you really need to possess ... ?
How does life work ... ?
How does whole work ... ?
[What ...] How much do you need to recreate or possess at personal or individual level ... in order to live well ... ?
What is living ... (what is) life ... ?
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whole representation wholesomeness [Oct. 9th, 2006|02:43 pm]
[ Tags | particular, representation, whole, wholesomeness ]
How do people view the whole ... ?
How is whole portrayed or included in representations of particulars ... ?
How do people develop ideas of their relationships or understandings of the whole through the presentations of whole in representations of particulars ... ?
[how literal or not are the presentations of whole ... ?]
What is wholesomeness ... ?
How do people be sensitive towards - others - ... ?
How does that relate to preception or relation of people to whole ... ?
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Surfed by / visited ... [Oct. 8th, 2006|04:42 pm]
[ Tags | person, surfedby/visited ]
Eric Carlton (amazon.com)
Richard H Veith
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Surfed by / visited ... [Oct. 8th, 2006|02:30 pm]
[ Tags | person, surfedby/visited ]
Abdallah al Nadim
- also mentioned at Al Haram Weekly review bby Rania Khallaf of Radwan el-Kashef's book "Freedom and Justice in the Thought of Abdallah al-Nadim"
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self, expression, environment [Oct. 8th, 2006|02:23 pm]
[ Tags | diversity, environment, expression, self ]
How do people express themselves in a diverse environment ... ?
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punctuality, society, people, living [Oct. 8th, 2006|02:19 pm]
[ Tags | living, people, punctuality, society ]
What are the connections between punctuality - or unpunctuallity -, society, people and living ... ?
How does it influence people's perception and living ... ?
How does it connect with life ... ?
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analog [Oct. 8th, 2006|02:15 pm]
[ Tags | analog, digital ]
Does digital yearn to be analog ... ?
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Surfed by / visited ... [Oct. 7th, 2006|05:01 pm]
[ Tags | person, surfedby/visited ]
David L Norton
Ray Pahl
A Day in the Life Series from Rick Smolan and David Ellen Cohen, 24/7 Media Group
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child loss [Oct. 7th, 2006|04:31 pm]
[ Tags | children, loss, nature, nurture, wellbeing ]
How does child loss affect people ... ?
the mother ... ?
the father ... ?
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every day wellbeing [Oct. 7th, 2006|04:28 pm]
[ Tags | everyday, wellbeing ]
How do people learn the ways of well being ... part of every day living ... ?
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Surfed by / visited ... [Oct. 7th, 2006|03:49 pm]
[ Tags | person, surfedby/visited ]
Walter Tandy Murch
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Surfed by / visited ... [Oct. 7th, 2006|03:41 pm]
[ Tags | surfedby/visited ]
Path� Fr�res [us]
Path� Pictures International [gb]
Path� [gb]
[from http://www.imdb.com/]
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high stakes [Oct. 7th, 2006|03:30 pm]
[ Tags | consumption, production, qualityoflife, risk, survival, wellbeing ]
Are high production, high consumption societies also high stakes political economies .... ?
Are low production, low consumption socieities prone to below sustenance conditions .... ?
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whole [Oct. 5th, 2006|11:40 pm]
[ Tags | person, response, whole ]
How does one respond ... ?
Do you respond to whole ... ? ... that which connects to the whole ... ?
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Surfed by / visited ... [Oct. 5th, 2006|10:30 pm]
[ Tags | person, surfedby/visited ]
Gopal Krishna Gokhale
Michel de Certeau
"Reading Television" by John Fiske and John Hartley
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Surfed by / visited ... [Oct. 4th, 2006|11:39 pm]
[ Tags | person, surfedby/visited ]
Shaikha Haya Ali Al Khalifa
Sheikha Haya Rashed Al Khalifa
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Surfed by / visited ... [Oct. 4th, 2006|09:27 pm]
[ Tags | person, surfedby/visited ]
Patrick White
William Gudykunst (obituary)
Adrian M. McDonough (obituary)
From the World Brain to informatorium - With a little help from Manfred Kochen - by Eugene Garfield
John Lent
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human, technology, wellbeing, approach, development, land, environnment, nature, turnover, fear, [Oct. 4th, 2006|08:56 pm]
[ Tags | approach, development, environnment, fear, human, land, nature, technology, turnover, wellbeing ]
Is fear a force that holds the pace in check, and gives pace ... does it keep a community from disintegrating ... does it spur a community into action to achieve ends ... ?
Is pace a part of modern day life ... ?
How do we understand the nature of technology and nature of human beings ... ?
Are we trying to approach technology as human, and humans as technology ... ?
Where is the balance or exchange ... ?
Does technology and work seek expression and require nature as its landscape to fulfill wishes ... ?
Does concern against environmental protection stem from fear of inablity to access resources, to generate turnover ... ?
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Surfed by / visited ... [Oct. 3rd, 2006|11:05 pm]
[ Tags | surfedby/visited ]
Quinoa
Monera
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Surfed by / visited ... [Oct. 3rd, 2006|09:08 pm]
[ Tags | person, poem, sonnet, surfedby/visited ]
Sonnet XLIII, Edna St. Vincent Millay
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Surfed by / visited ... [Oct. 3rd, 2006|09:04 pm]
[ Tags | person, surfedby/visited ]
Subsidiarity
George Santayana
Beryl Bainbridge
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Surfed by / visited ... [Oct. 3rd, 2006|08:41 pm]
[ Tags | person, surfedby/visited ]
Frances McDormand
Selena
Spy Kids
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local, human conditions [Oct. 3rd, 2006|08:09 pm]
[ Tags | condition, development, expression, human, local, nature, population, qualityoflife, resources, wellbeing ]
How do you appreciate - and carry out - development keeping in mind human and local conditions ... ?
Does Nature take over eventually ... ?
When do humans come to terms with their new environment ... ?
Do developments in health delivery and knowledge help in removing biases, fears, - and - ... to better relations between humans ... ?
How do humans try to protect themselves or their ways of life ... ?
How do humans try to retain or better express their heritage ... ?
How does a stratified society funnel resources ... ?
Are societies fascinated with the question of how generations can continue to enjoy a high quality of life ... ?
How do people interact ... ?
How does an older society ... or a more densely populated society approach development ... ?
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humanity and living [Oct. 1st, 2006|02:48 pm]
[ Tags | countries, humanity, living, war ]
How do people with no where to go, respond ... ?
How do people understand the predicament of fellow humans ... ?
How do people end up with no where to go ... ?
How do costs of war linger ... ?
How do countries protect, or help, one another ... ?
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Surfed by / visited ... [Oct. 1st, 2006|02:37 pm]
[ Tags | person, surfedby/visited ]
Carol Kidd
Archibald Wavell
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help and humanity [Oct. 1st, 2006|02:21 pm]
[ Tags | help, humanity, inhumanity ]
Is there a connection between a sense of being unable to help and inhumanity ... ?
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perception and identity [Oct. 1st, 2006|02:02 pm]
[ Tags | identity, perception, stereotype ]
Do people begin to identify themselves more with something which others are pointing out - positively or negatively ... - in them, whether it is so or not ... ?
Does threat perception have to do with stereotypes ... ?
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Surfed by / visited ... [Oct. 1st, 2006|01:47 pm]
[ Tags | surfedby/visited ]
The Bicycle Thief
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Surfed by / visited ... [Oct. 1st, 2006|01:24 pm]
[ Tags | person, surfedby/visited ]
Wayne Morris
Dimitri Shostakovich
Symphony No. 7
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Browsed by ... [Oct. 1st, 2006|01:02 pm]
[ Tags | browsedby ]
"The brutal fact about American society today is that a whole constellation of forces, agencies, and circumstances, whose origins are different, whose operations are fragmented, and whose jurisdictions are separate, have converged in the cities, The effect of this constellation bearing down upon us has been disastrous."
Paul Jacobs, in his study of Los Angeles riots, in 1967
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Surfed by / visited ... [Sep. 29th, 2006|04:52 pm]
[ Tags | person, surfedby/visited ]
Sarah Vowell
William Knox D'Arcy
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Surfed by / visited ... [Sep. 29th, 2006|04:21 pm]
[ Tags | person, surfedby/visited ]
The Theory of Moral Sentiments by Adam Smith
Individualism and Economic Order by F A Hayek
(amazon)
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Surfed by / visited ... [Sep. 29th, 2006|03:09 pm]
[ Tags | person, surfedby/visited ]
Hermann G�ring
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Surfed by / visited ... [Sep. 29th, 2006|02:58 pm]
[ Tags | person, surfedby/viited ]
Dennis Banks
Kenneth K S Dadzie
Connie Francis
Peter Kennedy
Shobana Chandrakumar
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human, environment , atmosphere ... [Sep. 29th, 2006|01:21 pm]
[ Tags | creator, humanity, nature, reality, wellbeing, whole, world ]
How do young people participate in society ... ?
How useful are values and skills in being able to participate well in society ... ?
Do - religious - people have an internal environment and world ... ?
Is there a desire in people to have their relations acknowledged symbolically in open ... ?
How do people's internal environment and world, relate with / to the external environment and world ... ?
Is part of the external world made up of thoughts, ideas, tensions, views, perceptions ... ?
Does an incident at times become the centre of a bigger situation ... ?
How does the incident or action become or come to be connected with other parts of the internal and external environment and world ... ?
How do you people stay in touch with nature, reality, humanity ... ?
Is there a desire in people to be in touch ... ?
... with others ... ?
How does environment and atmosphere - internal and external - interact with and influence human expression ... ?
[... including technology ... ?]
How do people in stay in touch values of humanity, with reality, with nature ... and within - environment of - diversity at various levels ... ?
How does technology affect human lives over time ... ? what effects ... ?
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Surfed by / visited ... [Sep. 27th, 2006|03:05 pm]
[ Tags | person, surfedby/visited ]
Tanzania
Zambia
Manifest Destiny
Einstein-Bohr debates (quantum mechanics)
"My love" Stevie Wonder and Julio Iglesias
Ferdinand Foch
Alexander Selkrik
Larisa Dolina
Margaret Smith Court
American crocodile
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Jottings ... [Sep. 27th, 2006|12:49 pm]
[ Tags | building, human, hunter, influence, jottings, living, nature, prey, vision ]
Can birds sense when they are being focussed upon ... ?
- Can they sense the dynamics of - human - eyes ... ?
Do humans prefer to live in buildings ... ?
arboreal ...
How does growing up and living in buildings influence ... ?
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Media and world ... [Sep. 26th, 2006|10:15 pm]
[ Tags | audience, content, film, influence, media, perception, theme, treatment, world ]
Some films that did well before 2001 worldwide included :
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial,
Forrest Gump,
Home Alone,
Independence Day,
Jurassic Park,
Lion King,
Men In Black,
The Sixth Sense,
Star Wars,
Star Wars: Episode I - the Phantom Menace,
Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back,
Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi,
Titanic
Films that were released in the Nineties include : Forrest Gump, Independence Day, Jurassic Park, Lion King, Men In Black, The Sixth Sense, Star Wars: Episode I - the Phantom Menace, Titanic.
What have been the themes and content of these films ... ?
How were they received ... by various audiences ... worldwide (including the USA) ... ?
Some popular movies from 2000:
Cast Away
Dinosaur
Gladiator
How Grinch Stole Christmas
Meet the Parents
Mission: Impossible II
The Perfect Storm
Scary Movie
What Lies Beneath
What Women Want
X-Men
Some popular movies released in 2001 :
A Beautiful Mind
Harry Potter and the Socerer's Stone
Hannibal
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
Jurassic Park III
Monsters, Inc.
The Mummy Returns
Ocean's Eleven
Planet of the Apes
Pearl Harbor
Rush Hour 2
Shrek
Of these, the following were released before September,
Hannibal
Jurassic Park III
The Mummy Returns
Pearl Harbor
Planet of the Apes
Rush Hour 2
Shrek
And these after September,
A Beautiful Mind
Harry Potter and the Socerer's Stone
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
Monsters, Inc.
Ocean's Eleven
How do films influence ... ? Do they ... ? In what way, if they do ... ?
Note : This is just a very rough sketch of what films were popular (when released), it is not meant to be understood as an exact or even - fully - accurate representation. These are some movies which were more or less popular when released, or for the time period considered. The movies have been listed alphabetically.
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country expression [Sep. 26th, 2006|09:40 pm]
[ Tags | choice, countries, country, equilibrium, expression, force, group, human, international, migration, people, rights, success, territory, together, values, wellbeing, whole ]
Is there a difference between the experience and approach to life between those who sought to migrate - to escape persecution, chose willingly, etc. ... - to other lands and those who were forced to - as labour, etc. - ... ?
... approaches to living which cut across racial lines ... ?
Are there rights of people, as there are rights of humans, and rights of countries ... ?
How do societies live well, as humans, people, countries, and, internationally ... ?
How do countries find equilibrium in the way they achieve success ... ?
How do they find equillibrium beyond success ... ?
How do they respect the rights of other countries, of people, of humans ... ?
How do countries live their values ... internationally ... ? How do they be aware of their values in practice ... ?
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quality of service [Sep. 26th, 2006|09:30 pm]
[ Tags | market, product, quality, qualityoflife, service, wellbeing ]
How useful would providing a good quality of service be to provider and recipients ... ?
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Surfed by / visited ... [Sep. 25th, 2006|11:00 pm]
[ Tags | surfedby/visited ]
Mona Lisa - film directed by Neil Jordan (1986)
Essentialism
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Surfed by / visited ... [Sep. 25th, 2006|09:58 pm]
[ Tags | person, surfedby/visited ]
Susan B Anthony
George Washington Carver
Puya raimondii
Myopia research page at School of Applied Vision Sciences, University of Sydney
Mortality - WHO health topic (World Health Organization)
World War II casualties
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Symptoms, information, context [Sep. 25th, 2006|09:45 pm]
[ Tags | context, detection, information, professional, representation, symptom, use ]
How useful would be ability of professionals of first contact to detect conditions requiring more specialised support ... ?
How to keep accuracy of information (during utilisation) ... ?
How does information representation change as it moves away from its context ... ?
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note [Sep. 24th, 2006|02:16 pm]
[ Tags | aspiration, being, change, demographics, direction, economy, excite, expression, helplessness, identity, image, interaction, liberty, life, living, money, nature, opportunity, other, participation, people, politics, qualityoflife, reality, representation, resources, rites, role, self, sense, technology, wellbeing, whole ]
How are humans living ... ?
Is there a sense of helplessness to contribute to people around you ... ?
How do images or representations from others aspire humans ... ? why such aspirations ... ? what is life like ... ?
How do these representations and aspirations relate to reality of their own lives and of others (being represented) ... ? How does it influence behaviour, or not ... ?
Who are others ... ?
How does what excites become what people seek ... ?
How do representations - seek to - excite ... ? What effect ...
Are human rites and rituals becoming more democratic ... ? Is it an expression of liberty ... ? How is it perceived ... ? What is the dynamic between people(s) .... ?
Does technology make work more respectable (to do) ... ? Open up opportunities for people to move ... ? Does it open up opportunities all around ... ?
How do people view rate of change, or of opportunity ... ?
How does demographic relate to politics ... ?
How self -directed and -sourced. and humane are humans, being ... ?
How do humans relate to nature ... ?
How is money being used to represent return for and means of human endeavour ... ?
Are human efforts and returns being collected back into the soceital economy ... ?
How do you understand and utilise money in life ... ?
How do people participate and live lives ... ?
What are the roles and identities and participation for people(s) ... ? How do they interact ... or not ... ? How do people interact ... ? live ...
How do - or can - people relate at human level ... ?
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potential action [Sep. 23rd, 2006|03:22 pm]
[ Tags | action, being, development, difference, energy, flow, growth, human, life, living, nature, potential, qualityoflife, resource ]
How useful or instrumental is potential difference in facilitating growth ... ?
... in resource development ... ?
How does human, as an energy entity and potential for thought -intelligence - and action, work in creating or being part of the potential difference in nature, and his environment ... ?
How do beings or nature be in midst of plenty ... ?
What is the place of human ( intelligence, action, volition, ...) in scheme of nature [ which he is a part of ... ] ... ?
Do humans seek to create or generate potential difference ... ?
on what levels ... ?
How does flow relate to value generation ... ? ... to life ... ? ... to living ... ?
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Surfed by/ visited ... [Sep. 22nd, 2006|03:57 pm]
[ Tags | person, surfedby/visited ]
Stamford Raffles
Syed Hussein Alatas
Rafflesia arnoldii
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Surfed by / visited ... [Sep. 21st, 2006|08:40 pm]
[ Tags | person, surfedby/visited ]
Willie Daly (matchmaker)
Lisdoonvarna
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Surfed by / visited ... [Sep. 21st, 2006|08:12 pm]
[ Tags | person, surfedby/visited ]
Elise Boulding
Peter Farb
Paul Tournier
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Surfed by / visited ... [Sep. 19th, 2006|10:59 pm]
[ Tags | person, surfedby/visited ]
Donald MacKay obiturary
Judith Jamison
Albie Sachs
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Search update [Sep. 18th, 2006|05:40 pm]
[ Tags | note, search, tagcloud, tags ]
Google search seems to give better results than Google Blog Search for the site and blogs.
You may also search at http://furl.net/members/lifewise, which contains pages bookmarked and archived from the site and blogs.
[Though the bookmarks may not as up to date as at del.icio.us/lifewise]
- At furl, you could search for text within the pages from the site and the blogs which have been archived there.
- At del.icio.us, you could look up for tagss or combination of tags. For an overview of the tags, you could also look at the tagclouds at livewise ( which includes all the tags), or at the tagcloud page, (a shorter version of the tagcloud, made up of tags used more frequently).
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Lifewise tag cloud [Sep. 16th, 2006|10:13 pm]
[ Tags | note, tags ]
Lifewise tag cloud at livewise.
[Towards the end of the page]
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Browsed by ... [Sep. 16th, 2006|09:14 pm]
[ Tags | browsedby ]
"Q: You think that some way could be found to be friends with both Arabs and Israelis?
"KENNEDY: I think there must be. I think it would be the greatest mistake to attempt to appease the Arabs by joining the Soviet Union on denunciation of Israel. At the same, no one would do a service to Israel to say that only Isreal must stand in the Middle East, and that the rest of the Arab world must sink to an increasingly lower standard of living. That gives no security to the Middle East, no security to the United States, certainly no security to Isreal. The Arabs want to be neutral. They want to build the Middle East. I think there's a great Pan-Arab feeling which could be expressed in economic terms. I think that's in the long-range interest of the United States. I would like to see the Arab world strong enough to be independent of either the Russians or the West, and not trying to play one side against the other in order to defend their security. The greater economic unity and political independence those countries have in the Middle East, the more secure is the Middle East."
-- John F Kennedy in a discussion with John Fischer, editor in chief of Harper's Magazine, December 9, 1959
[John F Kennedy ran for the president of the United States of America in 1960, and was sworn president on January 20, 1961]
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Surfed by / visited ... [Sep. 15th, 2006|11:08 pm]
[ Tags | person, surfedby/visited ]
[E] Colin Cherry
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Surfed by / visited ... [Sep. 15th, 2006|10:13 pm]
[ Tags | person, surfedby/visited ]
Mridula Sarabhai
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nature, living, [Sep. 15th, 2006|09:43 pm]
[ Tags | behaviour, being, classification, connection, expression, life, living, nature, qualityoflife, reality, statement, together, understanding, wellbeing, whole, working ]
how do assumptions waste energy, life ... ?
does working together imply homogenisation .... ?
how is classification utlised ... ?
how do you understand nature of nature ... ?
does simulation, stimulate ... ?
how does theory, construct provoke curiosity ... ?
how does theory, simulation, concept, understanding, relate to reality, nature, whole ... ?
how does one interact, be in reality ... ?
how does construct, understanding, parts, without connection to the whole, reality, nature, behave ... ?
how does one connect, be in nature, reality ... ?
how humane ... ? being ...
statement vis a vis being ...
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Surfed by / visited ... [Sep. 13th, 2006|10:59 pm]
[ Tags | person, surfedby/visted ]
Arja Saijonmaa
Robert Worcester
Water Sanitation and Health (WSH), World Health Organisation site
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Surfed by / Visited ... [Sep. 12th, 2006|05:37 pm]
[ Tags | person, surfedby/visited ]
Saifuddin Kitchlew
Wilhelm Wulff
Frances W Pritchett
Thomas R Trautmann
Media South Asia project
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goodness, human value, individuality, nature, communication, wellbeing, access [Sep. 12th, 2006|05:16 pm]
[ Tags | communication, emotions, energy, human, individual, language, life, living, nature, people, positive, pyramid, qualityoflife, scarcity, sharing, success, time, together, unknown, value, wellbeing, whole ]
How do people stay in touch with - thier - goodness ... ?
Does development seek to make scarce, and - so - create value, ... ?
- does it create a structure of a pyramid off value and access and sharing ... ?
How is value distributed among humans .... ?
How do humans come to value people and things ... ?
What positive emotions - and time - do they have access to in relation to those ... ? how ... ?
How individual is individual ... ?
What does individual depend on - as part of nature - to survive ... ?
What are the connections between communication, energy and life ... ?
How is well being achieved ... lived ... ?
How do humans try to formulate or preserve it ... and reproduce it ... ? with how much success ... ?
What do we not understand about well being and quality of life, yet or at times ... ?
What is the experience of quality of life and well being of people(s) ... ?
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Surfed by / visited ... [Sep. 10th, 2006|05:22 pm]
[ Tags | person, surfedby/visited ]
Sabreen
- Kamilya Jubran
Council for a Livable World
Katey Walter, study of methane in permafrost
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Surfed by / visited ... [Sep. 7th, 2006|05:13 pm]
[ Tags | person, surfedby/visited ]
Michio Kaku
Seyyed Hossein Nasr
Clifford A. Pickover
Frederick Turner
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Tag note [Sep. 5th, 2006|04:58 pm]
[ Tags | note ]
Tags at Lifewise : at del.icio.us, and at furl (refered to as topics), have been updated a bit.
- Related tags feature for a particular tag at del.icio.us does not seem work as it did previously. Just click on any tag which appear alongside a tag to get a list of all bookmarked links with that tag. Please see section on tags at Livewise: Search for more options.
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Surfed by/visited ... [Sep. 4th, 2006|11:25 pm]
[ Tags | surfedby/visited ]
Portrait of "Cosette" by Emile Bayard (Les Mis�rables) - at wikipedia
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The way to the future for the internet and companies [Sep. 2nd, 2006|08:45 pm]
[ Tags | being, community, companies, human, internet, life, living, qualityoflife, sustainable, value, wellbeing, whole ]
Internet is a powerful medium, how do internet companies become more relevant to the the people in thier lives ... ?
Intenet is powered by electricity, and a significant portion of human lives is spent disconnected. How does internet input become relevant to the general flow of life and vitality of life ?
How do inputs become useful to people in their lives ?
How can people take with them the inputs for living well ?
How inputs be relevant to aspects and life ?
How do humans and internet and product / services interact ethically, respecting humans all around and the - human - community [ which makes up internet] ?
What sort of inputs can people take into thier lives [ non electrically] ?
What size, range, frequency, quality, accuracy, value of inputs can the people take into thier lives [well] ?
How does this -attributes - work in terms of feedback or inputs into the wider internet from people ?
How do you price or create value from this, if that needs to be done, so that no one is exploited, is seamless [?], intuitive [?], and the value creation or exchange benefits -- is sustainable ?
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Surfed by / visited ... [Aug. 21st, 2006|11:37 pm]
[ Tags | person, surfedby/visited ]
Larry Gonick
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nature, humans, emotions, euphoria, survival, cycles, living, information, focus, [Aug. 21st, 2006|10:31 pm]
[ Tags | action, boom, bust, emotion, ends, euphoria, factor, focus, human, life, living, love, means, nature, options, qualityoflife ]
what factors does nature consider ... ?
what factors do humans consider ... ?
how does paucity of information or partial information influence or inform - or activate - emotions, euphoria ...?
how do emotions, - sense of - euphoria activate people ... ?
do humans in certain situations seek to focus on somethings in particular and put their resources to those ends ... ?
how natural ... or not ... ? inevitable ... is it ... ? what are the options ... ?
how do booms and bust play a role in human living ... ? how inevitable or not ... ?
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human endeavour [Aug. 6th, 2006|05:48 pm]
[ Tags | continuity, endeavour, human, living, longevity, nourish, nurture, organisation, qualityoflife, roots, system ]
Do human endeavours seek continuity - roots - and thus, longevity ... ?
when they - also - need to look at living [itself] ... ?
What nurtures, nourishes life, living, ... ?
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recyle [Aug. 6th, 2006|05:43 pm]
[ Tags | human, nature, recycle ]
Nature appears to have its own recycling effort,
a recycling effort for human endeavours ... ?
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Browsed by ... [Aug. 6th, 2006|03:25 pm]
[ Tags | development, nature, science ]
"One of the penalties of an ecological education is that one lives alone in a world of wounds. Much of the damage inflicted on land is quite invisible to laymen. An ecologist must either harden his shell and make believe that the consequences of science are none of his business, or he must be the doctor who sees the marks of death in a community that believes itself well and does not want to be told otherwise."
Aldo Leopold in 'Round River"
from "A Sand County Almanac with essays on conservation from Round River"
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Browsed by ... [Aug. 6th, 2006|02:20 pm]
[ Tags | cooperation, depression, great depression, war ]
"The Great Depression exhibited in exaggerated form the general symptoms characteristic of all such depressions. Everywhere it grew out of the boom period of 1924-1928, marked by rising or stationery price levels, a great increase in almost all lines of production, high wages, huge profits, tremendous investments at home and abroad, credit expansion, and wild specualtion in securities. Sales began declining in 1929 as markets became incapable of absorbing the flood of goods, even under the impetus of installment purchasing, long-term credits, and high-pressure advertising. Declining sales brought declining production and price cutting. The lofty structure of inflated credit and security values began to topple. The New York stock market panic of October-November 1929, initiated a prolonged and progressive collapse of security prices which brought ruin to millions of speculating investors. Commodity prices and production began to decline rapidly. Factories closed, wages fell, unemployment increased, and purchasing power fell more swiftly than prices. In a desperate effort to save something of their vanishing markets, some producers and distributors cut prices stilll more severely, and others kept their prices artificially high and thus prevented deflation from restoring an equilibrium. All fixed obligations become increasingly difficult to meet. Banks closed, corporations became insolvent, tax revenues declined while millions of hungry unemployed clamored for relief."
Page 437
Frederick L Schuman, in his book "International Politics: The Western State System in Transition", 1941 edition
The author further writes on the economic crisis [ internationally, including Germany, Great Britain and the United States ] :
"Economic nationalism in all its aspects played a large role in percipitating the crisis, and governments confronted with ruin reacted defensively by becoming more nationalistic and mercantalistic than ever. In this frenzied fashion, they aggravated the conditions they strove to ameliorate. ... There was general agreement that only international cooperation could be effective. International efforts required cooperation among governments still primarily interested in national power and prestige and in the profits of their own nationals. Such cooperation was difficult to achieve and was often ineffective because of its halting and hesitant character."
Later, he writes :
"... But a "cure" was at long last discovered, first by Adolf Hitler and Hjalmer Schacht. It enabled the German government, and eventually others, to revive the capital goods industries, abolish unemployment, restore prosperity, and spend money in ever larger amounts. The cure consisted in colossal armament programs in preparation for Armageddon. Men who lacked wit and will to abolish poverty and achieve plenty through a reordering of resources and labor to serve human needs found it easy to attain both objectives by devoting resources and labor to prepartion for war. International trade became more and more a weapon of Realpolitik. National economies became more and more military economies, "socialist" rather than "capitalist" in their controls and incentive to productivity.
"The tribes of men, having reduced themselves to beggary by the efforts of each to enrich itself at the expense of others, refused to abandon old ways and meet new problems with imagination. As beggars, they once more made themselves rich --or fancied themselves rich-- by beating idle plowshares into swords and idle pruning hooks into spears."
Page 458
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past, and independence [Jul. 9th, 2006|08:46 pm]
[ Tags | break, independence, past, qualityoflife ]
how much does degree of break desired from past(s), influence the independence achieved ... ?
and quality of life ... ?
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icons, means [Jul. 9th, 2006|08:37 pm]
[ Tags | ends, icon, means, values ]
do iconic personalities galvanise people around them .... ?
are icons utilised to acquire means ... ?
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love as anger [Jul. 9th, 2006|08:23 pm]
[ Tags | anger, group, love ]
is anger used as an expression of love by those who address groups ... as a form controlling excesses along with expressing love ... ?
anger just as anger ... ?
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art and confined spaces [Jul. 9th, 2006|08:22 pm]
[ Tags | art, space ]
how does confined spaces influence art ... ?
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informal education [Jul. 9th, 2006|08:20 pm]
[ Tags | education, informal, media, public ]
how to reach basic modern society information to those without access to formal education system where such information may be given ... ?
[crossing the road, health, ... ]
public media sources ... ?
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work and humanity [Jul. 9th, 2006|08:16 pm]
[ Tags | ethics, humanity, solidarity, work ]
how to connect ethics - & solidarity - of work with humanity ... ?
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contradiction [Jul. 9th, 2006|08:04 pm]
[ Tags | behaviour, contradition, reaction ]
saying one thing, doing something else ...
both going together
either out of necessity
either as reaction
how necessary ... ?
how contradictory is the reaction ... ?
are people doing things without so much contradiction ... ?
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tv and lifestyles [Jul. 9th, 2006|08:02 pm]
[ Tags | lifestyle, media, products, tv ]
how does tv influence food product sales, recipes ... ?
dress styles ... ?
how does FM radio influence sales of hi fi audio equipment ... ?
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weather and migration [Jul. 9th, 2006|08:01 pm]
[ Tags | location, migration, weather ]
how does weather influence where people seek to or choose to settle ... ?
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old networks [Jul. 9th, 2006|08:00 pm]
[ Tags | change, networks, work ]
how do old networks work in changed times ... ?
do they ... ?
what ... ?
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systems [Jul. 9th, 2006|07:58 pm]
[ Tags | benefits, law, society, system ]
how are benefits, rewards distributed in a society ... ?
what is the role of law ... ?
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beyond [Jul. 9th, 2006|07:56 pm]
[ Tags | being, evolution, human, nature, senses, value ]
beyond senses,
value human
valuing
beyond evolution
Being
in touch with life,
nature ... ...
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war and people [Jul. 9th, 2006|07:53 pm]
[ Tags | behaviour, management, people, power, resources, war ]
how do management practices of the times influence war behaviour, practice, aims, means, outcomes ... ?
what is the influence of the conquered, ruled ... ?
what trappings of power, and behaviours and practices of the conquered are acquired ... ?
how does contest for resource acquisition influence the political environment ... ?
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new country [Jul. 9th, 2006|07:52 pm]
[ Tags | country, issues, new ]
Do new countries have to deal with chaos, crime, anarchy, more than those with a past ... ?
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truth [Jul. 9th, 2006|07:50 pm]
[ Tags | truth ]
can you experiment with truth ...
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sex and context [Jul. 9th, 2006|05:07 pm]
[ Tags | approach, love, sex, technology, times ]
how does world and times in which people live influence the act and expression of sex ... ? [ and love ... ? ]
what is the influence of technology to approach ... ?
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hormones and behaviour [Jul. 9th, 2006|05:04 pm]
[ Tags | behaviour, food, hormones ]
what is the influence of hormones given to animals on humans ... ?
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upbringing and living [Jul. 9th, 2006|05:01 pm]
[ Tags | life, upbringing ]
how does upbringing prepare young for life, ... what is their perception of life, what sort of life are they habituated or prepared to go through [motions of ] ... ?
can they lose touch with the bigger picture, values, and opportunities of life ... ?
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democracy and policy [Jul. 9th, 2006|04:58 pm]
[ Tags | democracy, policies ]
policies from one government to next in democracy ...
democracy from one government to next ...
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pan movements and common causes [Jul. 9th, 2006|04:47 pm]
[ Tags | issues, life, living, reality, resolution, together, values ]
do various issues and wants get grouped together in common causes ... ?
can this become counter productive ... ? ... to resolving particular situations or issues, at times ... ?
connecting to reality ... life ... values ...
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singapore and cuba [Jul. 9th, 2006|04:45 pm]
[ Tags | cuba, qualityoflife, singapore ]
singapore and cuba
what are similarities ... ?
what are dissimilarities ... ?
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system [Jul. 9th, 2006|04:43 pm]
[ Tags | system, work ]
how important is for a system to work when things are down ... ?
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children and future and relations [Jul. 9th, 2006|04:39 pm]
[ Tags | children, education, future, relations ]
how important are good relations to children's future ... ?
should parents care about providing them with - grounds for - good relations in - future - life, just as they work to provide them with good education, etc ... ... ?
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impulse society [Jul. 9th, 2006|04:34 pm]
[ Tags | aquisition, impulse, repeat, resources, society ]
are we moving towards a impulse driven society ... ?
does it help those who seek to gather or acquire resources ... ? whether youth, wealth, sales, power ...
are people prompted to act on impulse ... ?
and repeat it ... ?
are repeats built in ... ?
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human values [Jul. 9th, 2006|04:24 pm]
[ Tags | acting, being, effect, entry, ideas, institutions, life, rules, values ]
acting and impression ...
values and expression ...
does being out of touch with life, or not being - able to be - in touch with certain values lead to overt, over the top expression of values ... ?
how do other people associate themselves with these ideas ... ? what are their needs in life ... ?
how may institutions representing values end up distorting their expression by how they define the rules for who gets entry into the institution ... ?
does it encourage or give refuge to the values and people whom they seek to castigate ... ?
what happens to values ...
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respectability, development, belonging, [Jul. 9th, 2006|04:14 pm]
[ Tags | appreciation, belonging, development, millieu, respectability, values ]
What are the connections between respectability, development, and belonging ... ?
what is the idea of respectability ... ?
does change in millieu, development, make people seek to belong afresh, differently ... ?
how does seeking respectability relate to development ... ?
how do you appreciate values ... whether expressed new or since before ... ?
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adoption, ideas, appearances [Jul. 9th, 2006|04:11 pm]
[ Tags | adoption, confusion, ideas, influences, media ]
how do people adopt influences ... ?
do they ... ?
what are appearances of adoption ... ?
do depictions of adoption in media products play a role in this .... ?
do people adopt without adopting ... ?
does it lead to confusion ... ?
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meditation and past [Jul. 9th, 2006|04:10 pm]
[ Tags | meditation, past ]
What is the difference between meditation and return to past ... ?
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survival and specialisation [Jul. 9th, 2006|04:05 pm]
[ Tags | desire, living, qualityoflife, society, specialisation, survival, well being ]
Does modern day society require people to specialise in order to survive ... ?
Does it require them to have a higher degree of desire or inclination for something in order to achieve it ... ?
Does it lead to division of life ... ?
How does it influence well being ... ? ... society ... ?
Are people often working in survival mode ... and have less time for other aspects of life ... ?
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dream images [Jul. 9th, 2006|04:04 pm]
[ Tags | image, life ]
how do dream images cost ... ?
[ home, figure, ... ]
how productive, in tune with life are dream images ... ?
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thinking, understanding, being, living, connection, flow, space, living [Jul. 8th, 2006|10:15 pm]
[ Tags | being, connection, diversity, flow, living, market, participation, space, thinking, understanding ]
how are people held hostage ... to ideas ... , for votes ... , ....
[ why ... ?]
how do people participate ... [ contribute ... ]
how important is it to think, to understand,
how does it help make ideas,democracy, ... life ... work ... ?
is there diversity to [in] life ... ?
does the ability of participants to correct or not repeat their mistakes help the market, and the invisible hand of market, work ... ?
how does flow of money affect / influence this ... ?
how do spaces influence life ... ?
how does it influence health, well being, life, living, sense of life, quality of life, wholeness ... ?
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cosmopolitan city [Jul. 5th, 2006|11:41 pm]
[ Tags | city, cosmopolitan ]
do cities which are growing and attract people find a little bit of cosmopolitanism helpful for newcomers to adapt to changes ... ?
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fairytales life [Jul. 5th, 2006|11:31 pm]
[ Tags | fairytales, life ]
do people look for fairytale like life ... ?
how do they respond to reality ... ?
how do people gain an appreciation, knowledge of and connection with life ... ?
is there a circle of fairytale through the lifecycle ... ? and of horror stories ... ?
do people seek to enact these through acts like drinking, dance, etc. a moment of fairytale life or in reaction to lack of fairytale life in reality ... ?
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life context [Jul. 5th, 2006|11:03 pm]
[ Tags | conservatism, culture, development, diversity, empathy, flexibility, identity, include, means, money, needs, opposition, other, pace, politics, prosperity, resources, respectability, response, society, transaction, waste, work ]
how is flexibility part of life and living ... ?
how do people cope with the situation they find themselves in ... ?
how do you have empathy for people ... ?
does it help people in moving ot a better place in life ... ?
are transaction of resources as clear cut and business like as they seem, both for where resources are sourced or taken from, and where theya re used or taken to.
how does the transaction affect, influence lives and how do you need need to be be aware of this ... ?
how do societies utilise resources for well being and develop ... ?
where do moneys end up .. ?
does prosperity seek to divide the environment around it ... ?
tried and tested methods
- of failure,
adopted ... ?
being human
is there an association of respectability with conservatism ... ?
what are the aims of development, what are its effects,
what do people seek ... ?
[ how do beneficiaries seek to be seen as respectable ... ? ]
what is people's response to pace ...
pace of change, of development ... ?
how much are they willing to go with or desire to go with ... ?
how do they respond to more pace ... ?
what limits do people set ... or able or willing to pursue ... ?
what does tilting at windmills indicate ... ?
excess positive energy ... ?
does division leave people open to attack ... ?
how to respect varied, other affiliations of people ... ?
how important or useful is it to give diverse people place, space, acceptance ... ?
identity definition ... ?
fighting, capitulating, becoming part of, ...
what happens to the people ... ?
waste disposal ... does it indicate attitude to life ... ?
how do you include all who are there as a region / political entity ...
how does society work ... ?
how to meet needs, function as a society
what is the role of other aspects besides politics, culture towards meeting societal needs ... ?
how does politics, culture influence ... ?
how do you provide for, look at everyone's needs ?
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societies division survival [Jul. 5th, 2006|10:59 pm]
[ Tags | division, societies, survival ]
do societies divide out of sense of surviving ... ?
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divisions together work [Jul. 5th, 2006|10:54 pm]
[ Tags | divisions, together, work ]
divisions are signs of working together ... ?
work together with each other, not via divisions ... ?
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affection opportunities [Jul. 5th, 2006|10:52 pm]
[ Tags | affection, love, sex ]
are there lack of avenues for expressing affection in society ... ?
does love, affection find expression in sex ... ?
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society [Jul. 5th, 2006|10:41 pm]
[ Tags | health, opportunity, poverty, society, wellbeing, work ]
how to understand well being in society ... ?
how to understand health indicators across groups ... ?
how does one see work in society - legal, outside legal, and the interface ... ?
poverty in society, and its effects and influence on life ... ?
opportunity in society ... ?
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flexibility life [Jul. 5th, 2006|10:39 pm]
[ Tags | flexibility, life ]
how important is flexibility to life ... ?
does it provide space for movement, action, for life ... ?
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resources [Jul. 5th, 2006|10:38 pm]
[ Tags | resources ]
resources, also come with ...
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words ideas cultures world [Jul. 5th, 2006|10:31 pm]
[ Tags | cultures, ideas, words, world ]
how would access to words which express similar ideas across languages help ... ?
often there are words in languages which express quite similar ideas, concepts, things, which are not commonly known by others ... ?
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global words local dialects [Jul. 5th, 2006|10:29 pm]
[ Tags | communication, global, local, word ]
do global words become part of local dialects ... ?
how do these words get updated, change with times ... ?
[how are they pronounced ... ?]
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pictogram [Jul. 5th, 2006|10:28 pm]
[ Tags | communication ]
do pictograms help communicate ... across regions, nationally, internationally ... ?
do the communicate the same ... ?
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forced hybrid consciousness [Jul. 5th, 2006|10:26 pm]
[ Tags | consciousness, hybrid ]
does forced hybrid affect consciousness ... ?
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games expression [Jul. 5th, 2006|10:19 pm]
[ Tags | expression, games ]
what about move from body --> fingers ... and games ... and joy ... ?
how does it represent the move in life and concepts ... ?
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fun and games life living joy [Jul. 5th, 2006|10:12 pm]
[ Tags | games, joy, life, living ]
what role do games play in life ?
are there things, activities that people do as a substitute in life ... ?
how do substitutes become a part of life ... ?
what conditions exist in life ... ?
how is life changing ... ?
how are games changing ... ?
what skill sets are required in life ... ?
how are 'games' - at various levels - about them ... ?
... 'fun & games' ...
how does winner takes all affect outcomes ... ?
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mothers belonging society [Jul. 5th, 2006|09:50 pm]
[ Tags | mother, society ]
how do you assauge the sense of belonging of mothers in patriarchal society ... ?
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children parents [Jul. 5th, 2006|09:49 pm]
[ Tags | children, parents ]
how do children associate with parents ... ?
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loss person life [Jul. 5th, 2006|09:47 pm]
[ Tags | life, loss, person ]
how does loss of person affect the space of life ... ?
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bureaucracy programmes [Jul. 5th, 2006|09:45 pm]
[ Tags | bureaucracy, programmes ]
how does bureaucracy ensure room for improvement in their programmes ... ?
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societal bias [Jul. 5th, 2006|09:43 pm]
[ Tags | bias, society ]
how do societal biases be understood ?
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innocence interaction missing [Jul. 5th, 2006|09:36 pm]
[ Tags | innocence, interaction, missing, nurture, young ]
how important is interaction ... ?
how do societies strive to protect their young ... ?
how do they seek to protect their innocence ... ?
does innocence mean ignorance ... ?
does it lead to bias ... ?
how do the young sense the missing ... ?
what do young need to know to live ... and be human ... ?
how far do societies go to give their children a 'good life' ... ?
how does it meet their needs as persons, as humans ... ?
how does bias go in name of / in place of innocence ... ?
what is innocence ... ?
how does knowledge go with innocence ... ?
can innocence be a breeding ground for ignorance and bias ... ?
why do societies seek to protect their young from interaction ... ?
how does society nurture its young ?
how do young see the society ?
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basics structure form expression [Jul. 5th, 2006|09:34 pm]
[ Tags | basics, expression, form, structure ]
how do basics express themselves ... ?
[ through what ... ?]
what is the relation between structure, form and expression ... ?
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cultural affiliations borders world [Jul. 5th, 2006|09:29 pm]
[ Tags | affiliation, border, culture, world ]
are there cultural affiliations across borders all around the world ... ?
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country conception, power [Jun. 29th, 2006|08:56 pm]
[ Tags | colony, concept, country, power ]
How is a country conceived as ... ?
How does the conception in reality influence who gets power ... ?
How is a country viewed as a colony ... ?
How is an independent country viewed as ... ? ... in reality ... ?
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personality, issues, people [Jun. 29th, 2006|08:47 pm]
[ Tags | inclusion, issues, people, personality ]
Does a personality come to be a rallypoint or associated with some issue or struggle ... ?
How does that affect the issue or struggle ... its definition, scope, width, depth ... ?
How do people feel included ... ?
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development, differentiation, migration [Jun. 29th, 2006|07:37 pm]
[ Tags | control, development, differentiation, environment, migration, modern, partition ]
How does modern development thrive on control ... ? [ opportunity for control ... ? ]
Do groups try to differentiate in order to gain control ... ?
Does modern development have a greater requirement for controlled environment ... ?
What is a controlled environment ... ?
How does change in variables affect relations ... ?
Does differentiation result in partition at times ... ?
Does the process of modern development lead to migration to areas where resources, opportunities and environment for application of these is more conducive ... ?
Does a backward - forward linkage occur between the migrant community and the elite at the country of orign where modern development paradigm is a commonality ... ?
How do you address the needs of the country ... ?
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Surfed by / visited ... [May. 23rd, 2006|06:12 am]
[ Tags | film, song, surfedby/visited ]
Madeline (1998) film
Green Green Grass of Home (song)
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Site and blogs -- Tags also at furl.net [May. 23rd, 2006|05:55 am]
Site and related blogs -- tags also at furl.net, besides del.icio.us.
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Tags : site and related blogs [May. 15th, 2006|06:28 am]
Site and related blogs -- tags at del.icio.us/lifewise
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[Apr. 27th, 2006|05:23 am]
[ Tags | foreign ]
a country's foreign policy approach may reflect its approach to its own peoples, and vice versa... ?
[from Livewise at xanga.com dated April 22, 2004]
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Surfed by / visited ... [Apr. 27th, 2006|02:13 am]
[ Tags | surfedby/visited ]
The $39 Experiment
Sleeptracker
Branded Electronic Outdoor Pet Boundary Fence Kit [?]
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[Apr. 27th, 2006|02:05 am]
[ Tags | awareness, life, understanding ]
Humans are good at pursuing and developing things which they have an understanding of. But in life there are so many things which make it livable. Yet many of these aspects of life are not yet at a level of awareness and understanding where people are using them in their lives with a higher degree of conscious effectiveness.
Making money or producing children or getting married are some activities that mark human lives. Yet it takes lot more to make each of these and other such aspects to come together in a fulfilling way. The way a mother can hold together a family. How the job market influences the family life. How does human goodness shine through all the actions of daily living.
Exploring life, understanding, appreciating, realising the value of all that which together makes life livable... and through that process making it more available in our daily lives. Not regimenting it, or even necessarily formulating it. Observing good life in action... and seeing it tick... the process... making more of public space - not tired words but appreciation - for what all it takes to make life come alive ... raising the level of appreciation for these aspects in every day talk and action not as jargon but as acceptance of all aspects of life... exploring life... seeing where we are not paying attention to all that which brings value to our lives, enhances our life experience... the smile of a child, her grooming, understanding how men and women can live together, making it possible for families to stay together, what does it mean to explore one's potential, what does it mean to live fully...
[from Lifecosm at xanga.com dated February 27, 2004]
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Aspiration, the Other's Storytelling & Copying. [Apr. 27th, 2006|01:52 am]
[ Tags | behaviour, context, media, reality ]
People often aspire to the wonderful things in another country or place or people that they see in the media. Yet what may seem magical or absolutely desirable to someone from outside, may not be desirable to that very extent to the people who are living it. For often it is easy to see what appears attractive, it is difficult to see what it takes to achieve that: What work goes into it. What is the cost of getting something. What price is paid for achieving it.
These things usually do not come out in the media, and even when they do, they are often glamorised. You see less of the reality of it, more the feeling it is supposed to evoke in you. It becomes a source of sensations. Broken families get glamorised, poverty gets glamorised, violence gets glamorised.
Media, both news and creative media, usually highlight events or exaggerates some aspects of it in their story telling, which would give a distorted view of the reality if one relied solely on them for the full picture. Yet media is often a very big source for our perception of others in the world.
Without direct access to the real thing, and some clearer understanding of what it really is, people often times rely on the media depictions of life in other places. Media depictions usually serve a purpose other than accurate overall depiction of life in a place. Either telling a story or reporting on something out of the ordinary that has occurred there or even portraying something as out of the ordinary. Giving a sense of life either as more abhorrent or desirable than it is. People may aspire for what they see, but can not access it. Nor often do have clearer understanding of the real deal. They often turn to the what is easily available through the media. What is available and accessible are depictions of people doing things in a certain way in context of a story or description of some out-of-the-ordinary occurence.
So without some compass to tell how real or fanstastic something is you may end up adopting something which is quite unreal. That is you have examples of behaviour which a local person could easily tell as being real or fantastic, but an outsider would not be able to tell that apart so well. People turn to these depictions and mannerisms depicted in such stories and news - as if they were every day desirable behaviour - whether that has much value or actual benefit in their own life or not. When people aspire for somethings outside their own setting and can not access them, but have easy access to media depiction of the glamorised angst - a product of that very desired setting - of the people in those "desired" settings, one finds people adopting those mannerisms, regardless of how relevant and in tune with thier own long term requirements it is. As if such mannerisms can lead them to the life that they apparently so desire. In doing so, they often times invite newer problems in their own lives.
Besides the media products are made for a local audience which would understand it intuitively as they are living with the issues depicted, this is not so with people outside. You might take the depiction out of context. Even if such issues outside of our own context did truly strike some chord in us, wholeheartedly wholehog adopting these "side effects" of another society on its road to progress can not deliver such progress to us or benefit everyone of us. May be looking at or focussing on how that success was achieved and at what cost and whether one is willing to pay that price, probably offers a better avenue for our energies and efforts. For the benefit of all of us. It would be a virtuous circle where you show the way for yourself and others, and not blindly ape the negatives that go with progress.
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Making quality new information easily available to the public. And some related issues. [Apr. 27th, 2006|01:46 am]
[ Tags | access, information, quality, understanding ]
At times viewing a TV documentary gives you a sense of what is going on in a subject area - a sense not that easily conveyed by other media today.
But often with such documentaries, it is not possible to clearly catch everything that is said or presented in one viewing. Apart from taping the program, it would be helpful if transcripts were easily available. (After all a program would have scripts to begin with.) Better still would to have proper articles made to complement or bring out the ideas expressed in the documentary. Transcripts and articles for various programs stored online could extend the utility of the documentary as written word is easier to store, access and reproduce. A common repository of such articles or at least easy access to them would be a good idea..
Much information that is shared in such programs is often difficult to find elsewhere, not even in research journals, as such programs often bring together different experts and viewpoints. Using jargon-free language, they can give us an overview and understanding of what is currently happening in a subject.
Such comprehensive coverage of developments in a field is more likely to be found today in a TV program than in newspapers and magazine reports. Newspaper and magazines tend to highlight the news aspect - focusing on stating what has occurred. News reports may be sketchy as parts of a story get edited out due to space constraints. Magazine articles too are hampered by space. While TV documentaries have the advantage of time on their side in developing a topic, of doing background research and of looking at the subject from a various angles to give a more rounded picture. So transcripts or articles could be handy adjuncts to the documentary.
Often the material presented in such documentaries has the advantage of experts speaking. Unlike presenting work in academic journals, conveying ideas to a lay audience makes them try and present their work in a new and more lucid manner. They can paint a more complete and comprehensible picture of the subject connecting the dots for the audience which less wellversed presenters or writers may leave hanging. They convey not just their ideas as a unit, but also their fascination for the subject. Speaking of what they are doing right now, what they find interesting; experts in a well-made documentary give information which may not be laid out formally in an academic journal. Or in a book. Such programming shares new information which might not be available to the public elsewhere. It takes time for ideas to be reproduced in scholarly journals or in books. Even then few people get to know and understand them through these sources.
Often the questions and answers to many issues in science or arts or any sphere of life have already been better understood, yet the public does not have access to them. This gap or lag can be reduced by providing quality information in a comprehensible manner. While not the best way to go about it this, transcripts can be one step in the direction - a useful add-on to the documentary.
I am not advocating programming or news reportage over research rigor, excellence and accuracy. And we would do well to approach any information with caution. There might be distortions in it. And subject matters themselves are open to exploration and further understanding.
The point is to use the good work which already has been collected in a documentary and give it wider access and life. Very often good quality programming suffers from reduced lifespan due to lack of time slots or other reasons. TV is an audiovisual medium, which transcripts can not convey well. Articles produced alongside documentaries, which bring the strengths of the written medium, could be a good idea. Articles and transcripts can extend the life of this good content a little more and give the viewer another avenue for quality information.
A further step could be to adopt the comprehensive approach of documentaries in other media.
Like with any reportage, TV programs too can oversimplify things. Often times, many information products address their markets by sensationalising their content - simplifying things and reinforcing stereotypes. One needs to careful. For example many nature documentaries on animals are full of scenes of mating and prey kill as an item by itself. Not paying as much attention to bringing out how these acts fit into the scheme of the ecosystem there.
Overall, one needs to be careful and critical in using information however presented. Aware of the distortions that might have entered it. And try to understand the nature of the subject as well as its treatment.
[from Lifecosm at xanga.com dated February 01, 2004]
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Experiences and Power [Apr. 27th, 2006|01:36 am]
Our experiences shape our vision. Particularly important when it comes to people who have come into positions of power. I hope we can retain a sense of balance,..I hope.
If we experience life's lemons, I hope we remain balanced in our actions that follow, and not counter by taking such a major anti line that our purpose of living life is not served.
Balance, inclusiveness may achieve more of what we seek in life than say if angst and bitter experiences lead us to act more as anti-something rather than pro-living (I am not talking of pro-life as in abortion debate, just talking about being in tune with life for purpose of living well. Defining ourselves largely as being anti-something only, may cage us from living our own lives fully which is not mere absence of something.) A thot...to think over...? :)
[from Lifecosm at xanga.com dated June 12, 2003]
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fads, insular, reaction, inexperience [Apr. 18th, 2006|06:17 am]
How prone are fad driven socieites to outbursts ... ? Why are societies driven by fads ... ? Where are connections of life ... ? How does lack of experiences in life influence the ability to deal with life ... ? What substitutes ... ? How does media fill in ... ? How does media depiction of life fall short, what techniques does it use to cover up ... ? How does depiction affect perception, how does perception affect behaviour and expectations and measures of 'success' in life ... ? How do people feel secure ... ? How do people find ways of living more in tune with living ... ?
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Surfed by / visited ... [Apr. 16th, 2006|11:36 pm]
[ Tags | person, surfedby/visited ]
Patricia Auberdene
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courtesy [Apr. 16th, 2006|10:29 pm]
how important is courtesy in a society ... ? how is courtesy expressed in societies or groups ... ? how do people understand courtesy across groups, society ... ?
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text and hard copy and concepts [Apr. 16th, 2006|09:05 pm]
has computing freed text from hard copy ... ? how do societies without written language deal with ideas, comprehension, theories and transmission ... ? how useful is text to transmitting, developing concepts, ideas ... ?
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good and competition [Apr. 16th, 2006|09:00 pm]
[ Tags | competition, good ]
how does good stay good ... ? what proportions makes good - good - for living beings ... ? how can competition remain so, and good ... ? when do cycles - virtuous or vicious - turn not so good ... ?
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Place for quality of life being: place for quality of life expression, for its issues, the thinking [Apr. 16th, 2006|12:12 am]
Everywhere traditional sources of integrated life such as a society's culture, family, etc. are being reconstructed or fragmenting, and are influenced by factors from across the world. The local is influenced by forces from outside. So life has newer issues and needs to address. Yet the need for a sound and a well rounded and integrated life remains. But the traditional resources are not available in adequate number, nor do they answer the more global-influenced issues of life today.
Even if such changes were not taking place, it would be useful to look at how well integrated and fuller life we can lead. Has this been human quest? Particularly in today's time, and also in the past, humans look for happiness and satisfaction in life. For ways that define us as humans. We have invented and discovered, we have created societies and technologies. We have found ways of living in peace, and we have fought wars.
How we integrate our various on-going achievements in various areas to an enrichening, fuller life for each of us, and all of us as humans and the planet. How can we ensure that achievements are not at cross purposes with living. How can we keep in sight that our achievements in various spheres all pool and nurture life. How do we see that our curiosity, abilities, human qualities, talents, instincts, achievements further life. How do we see the connection of various aspects to life and in doing so have build a more integrated life for ourselves, and the world..
Human person, and the world around us, and how we interact with it provide a rich source of inspiration, curiosity and discovery for all of us. Many times our understanding of the world makes us see it in a certain light, as we discover more we see it in newer light, possibly getting a slightly more complete picture of ourselves and the world around us, and in turn may express our lives in new ways and more fully.
[from Lifecosm at xanga.com, March 2004, reproduced here.]
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Surfed by / visited ... [Apr. 15th, 2006|11:21 pm]
[ Tags | person, surfedby/visited ]
Margaret J. Wheatley
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Surfed by / visited ... [Apr. 10th, 2006|09:35 pm]
[ Tags | person, site, surfedby/visited ]
Eva Cassidy
The End of Suburbia
Peter Ivers
[Do not know much more, yet ... ]
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Surfed by / visited ... [Apr. 7th, 2006|10:46 am]
[ Tags | person, surfedby/visited ]
Laura Branigan
Leila Pahlavi
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waiting for inspiration at the space bar ... [Apr. 7th, 2006|08:58 am]
waiting for inspiration at the space bar ... [ a pun ]
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Some words ... [Apr. 7th, 2006|08:54 am]
today's education [system]
biting the hand that feeds ... ?
financial sleight of hand
Rupture & rapture
cubicles of cuticles
[finding, making do, making out]
carousel of arousal
vox populi ? hoi polloi ?
santa sanity
sock puppets ?
menses measures ...
kisses tear apart
raging
aging
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Some site categories relating to life quality from dmoz.org [Mar. 30th, 2006|08:53 pm]
Some site categories relating to life quality from dmoz.org directory
World
Health: Senior Health: Assisted Living
Society: Issues: End-of-Life
Health: Mental Health: Self-Help
Business: Business Services: Consulting: Medical and Life Sciences: Regulatory Affairs
Science: Biology: Products and Services
Health: Conditions and Diseases
Society: Issues: End-of-Life
Science: Environment: Sustainability
Science: Technology: Energy: Conservation
Home: Family: Childcare
Science: Biology: Methods and Techniques
Science: Methods and Techniques
Science: Social Sciences: Methodology
Society: Disabled
Society: Issues: Health
Society: Issues: Children, Youth and Family
Science: Environment: Water Resources
Shopping: Health: Mental Health [?]
Health: Senior Health
Health: Organizations [?]
Society: Issues: Environment
Business: Human Resources
Health: Medicine: Medical Specialties: Palliative Care
Reference
Health: Public Health and Safety
Business: Financial Services: Insurance: Carriers: Life and Health [?]
Shopping: Health: Disabilities: Assistive Technology
Society: Issues
Society: People
Society: Work: Work-Life Balance
Society: Work: Work_and_Family
Science: Social Sciences
Science: Social Sciences: Urban and Regional Planning
Science: Social Sciences: Sociology: Academic Papers
Health: Home Health: Home Care
Health: Medicine: Medical_Specialties: Geriatrics
Society: Issues: Warfare and Conflict
Society: Issues: Global
Health: Specific Substances: Tobacco
Health: Conditions and Diseases: Immune Disorders:
Reference: Education: Colleges and Universities
Health: Conditions and Diseases: Neurological Disorders
News
Society: Issues: Fraud
Regional
Science: Technology: Quality_Engineering
Science: Reference: Standards
Science: Math: Operations_Research
Science: Technology: Industrial_Engineering
Shopping: Publications
Science: Technology: Space: Colonization: Life_Support
Science: Math: Applications: Complex_Systems: Abstract_Organisms: Tree_of_Life_projects
Science: Math: Applications: Complex_Systems
Science: Technology: Cybernetics
Science: Math: Chaos_and_Fractals: Chaos
Computers: Artificial_Life
Science: Math: Applications: Information_Theory
Science: Software: Simulation
Science: Earth_Sciences: Paleontology: Education: College_and_University: History_of_Life
Science: Astronomy: Extraterrestrial_Life
Health: Aging [?]
Games: Board_Games
Health: Aging: Life-Cycle
Society: Death
Society: Religion_and_Spirituality
Health: Child_Health
Health: Men's_Health
Health: Senior_Health
Health: Teen_Health
Health: Women's_Health
Society: People: Women: Issues: Health
Health: Reproductive_Health
Society: Sexuality
Health: Medicine: Medical_Specialties: Andrology
Health: Public_Health_and_Safety: Indigenous_Health
Home: Family: Family_Resources_and_Support
Home: Family: Parenting
Society: Relationships: Divorce: Children's_Issues
Society: Relationships: Marriage
Home: Family: Babies
Home: Family: Grandparents
Home: Family: Childcare
Health: Medicine: Medical_Specialties: Pediatrics
Health: Medicine: Medical_Specialties: Geriatrics
Society: People: Generations_and_Age_Groups: Seniors
Recreation: Travel: Specialty_Travel: Family
Home: Consumer_Information [?]
Society: Philosophy: Ethics: Applied: Bioethics
Science: Science_in_Society [?]
Society: Issues: Science_and_Technology [?]
Society: History: By_Time_Period: Ancient: Rome: Daily_Life
Science: Technology: Cybernetics: K1_and_K2_-_General_Cybernetics
Society: History: By_Topic: Social_History
Society: History: By_Time_Period: Middle_Ages: Daily_Life
Society: History: By Topic: Social History: Domestic Life
Arts: Television: Programs: Reality-Based
Business: Management
Business: Business_Services
Home: Personal_Finance
Reference: Knowledge_Management
Regional: North_America: United_States: Government: Legislative_Branch: Senate: Proposed_Amendments: Human_Life
Society: Issues: Animal_Welfare: Farming
Science: Agriculture
Business: Agriculture_and_Forestry
Science: Environment: Biodiversity
Science: Biology: Flora_and_Fauna [?]
Health: Animal [?]
Shopping: Niche [?]
Home: Rural_Living
Home: Urban_Living
Home: Apartment_Living
Home: Homemaking
Society: Issues: Environment: Sustainable_Development
Society: Work: Rethinking_Work [?]
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Livejournal ... [Mar. 29th, 2006|06:07 am]
http://community.livejournal.com/naturalliving/profile
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Living quality [Mar. 29th, 2006|03:05 am]
livingquality is about quality of life in its aspects - as a whole - and living.
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Hello again [Mar. 27th, 2006|01:12 am]
My name is Virasat Mirza. Some more information about me here at LifeInsight site. For recent updates, please visit Livewise at blogspot.com.
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[Oct. 3rd, 2004|10:04 pm]
Hello ...
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=> [From http://virasat.livejournal.com/ ]
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Livewise at blogspot, June 2006
valuing relations
how do people value their relations, past, ... ?
does following blindly help or value ... ?
V M # 6/04/2006
=> [from http://livewise.blogspot.com/2006_06_01_archive.html]
Livewise at blogspot, May 2006
Quality of Life at google groups
Quality of Life at google groups, announcements only right now.
V M # 5/27/2006
freedom
how free do the well off producers (as in consumers, producers, .... ) feel ... ?
what choices in living well can they avail of ... ?
does freedom at one level translate to other levels ... ?
what is living well ... ?
how is it perceived ... ?
V M # 5/24/2006
Search and archives updated
Search and Full archives pages have been updated.
Changes to Search:
=> The earlier search syntax used here for searching the blogs with Google blog search stopped giving results.
.
Use this search syntax instead to search,
searchterm blogspot.com livewise OR universeoflife OR linksandstuff inpostauthor:"V M"
For example, to search for "quality of life"
"quality of life" blogspot.com livewise OR universeoflife OR linksandstuff inpostauthor:"V M"
Please note that the new search syntax can include results from outside the blogs / sites being searched for.
Also, now the search results come grouped according to the site they are from.
For more search results within the sites, look for "[More results from]" links in the results.
Example, a link such as [More results from Livewise]
So if a term is searched across three sites, and is found many times in all three sites, the results would have links like, [More results from Livewise], [More results from Universe of Life], and [More results from Links and Stuff].
Search page.
V M # 5/24/2006
hair styles car styles
Is there a connection between hair and car styles ... ?
V M # 5/24/2006
literature for adults
Is there life-wise literature for adults ... ?
As there seems to be for children ... ?
V M # 5/24/2006
stereotype
is stereotyping one of the worst things that can be done to people ... ? and to self(s) ... ?
[
how true are stereotypes ... ?
what is a stereotype ... ?
how do humans live life ... ?
]
V M # 5/24/2006
nature repair
Can nature repair itself ... ?
Are organic-sourced products easier to repair ... ?
V M # 5/24/2006
Site and blog -- Tags also at furl.net
Site and blog -- tags also at furl.net, besides del.icio.us.
V M # 5/22/2006
identity, development, living
how do humans express themselves ... ?
how do humans interact with change ... ?
what is the relationship of humans to their beliefs ... ?
how much are beliefs a part of their identity ... ?
how does development interact with their beliefs ... ?
how does development interact with their sense of identity ... ?
Are people, communities, countries dealing with issues of identity and of development ... ?
... of identity and development ... ?
how much of a development comes from outside ... ?
how do people benefit from development ... ?
how do they perceive their beliefs, identity and ways of living in its midst ... ?
Does development - [much of] which is from outside, global ... ?- benefit people, equip with resources, allow people to participate, to come together in new ways ... ?
Does development or changes make people look at or for their - sense of - identity ... ? sense of self ... ?
Does changes, development prompt people to seek and or reassert their identity ... ?
How is that identity different ... ?
How do people cohere as groups and continue to participate in the world ... ?
Does modern development focus on individual experiences while shortfalls are shared more collectively ... ?
How can achievements of modern developments be continued and sustained within a community ... ?
How do the resources be part of the community ... ?
How is change part of life ... ?
Do people seek a say in the changes, in the development ... ?
What role does force or sense of being forced play in the way people respond to development ... ?
Such as colonisation, authoritarian rule, or global forces of change ... ?
How do people work with identity and development ... ?
How does the migrant sense of [ quest for ... ? ] identity influence politics and society in areas they come from ... ?
How does people's perception of society and self change with development or migration or changes ... ?
How do people perceive their society ... ? or sense of identity ... ?
How do people express themselves ... ?
How do people appreciate the reality of society beyond their perceptions ... ?
How do people express themselves with appreciation of the wider world they are part of ... ?
an awareness of the linkages with the wider world which makes up life and living, being human ... ?
- how human and alive do people feel ... ?
how does development connect with life ... and living ... ?
V M # 5/17/2006
living connection
Does disconnection with life find expression in a fascination for possession ... ?
... an expression in fascination ... ?
Is it human means searching for connection with life ... ?
Does change bring about a degree of disconnection ... ?
Is disconnection part of life ... ?
Is a fascination with possession a part of life and living ... ?
Does connection give experience and awareness of functioning in life and living ... ?
Does it make one focus on living ... ?
Does it see things in how they are part of living life ... ?
How are disconnection and connection part of life ... ?
Are connection and disconnection artificially created ... ?
How does a sense of connection make one feel a thing or act is a part of living life ... ?
How does disconnection makes one fascinated with possessions ... ?
How do these play are role in one's life ... ?
Does it help market or create groupings ... ?
What qualities get emphasised ... ?
How do institutions connect or disconnect with life ... ?
How can means be refined for ends ... ?
How do people understand life and living ... ?
How do people not be carried away by promises ... ?
How do people live ... ?
How do people be connected with living ... ?
How do people realise living beyond targets ... ?
V M # 5/15/2006
potential sync
how do people appreciate others ... ?
how does potential flow and ebb ... ?
what is the life experience ... ?
how do people get along ... ?
V M # 5/14/2006
Lifecosm at blogspot archives
Lifecosm at blogspot is now Universe of life.
So the Universe of life archives include the archives of Lifecosm at blogspot.
Yet for search purposes (being old and so not picked up by Google Blog Search), these were posted again, at
* Lifecosm at blogspot archives 2003, 2004
* Lifecosm at blogspot archives 2005 Part 1 of 2
* Lifecosm at blogspot archives 2005 Part 2 of 2
V M # 5/09/2006
Miscellany (archive for search)
Miscellany
* Note * please read
Any one catch Hey Arnold! on Nickleodeon ... Arnold, friends and family, and the neighbourhood where they live ...
[ ... at times the stories tend to revolve around the main character ... ]
Bonnie Behrend
During the days of tech bubble, Bonnie's hourly news bulletins as CNBC news update anchor provided a degree of perspective with the human and life related stories included in the short bulletins ... much appreciated ...
Suze Orman
The Suze Orman show on CNBC tries to answer personal finance issues of advice seekers in the US. In terms of personal relationships and finances, some solutions may seem ( are ?) rather drastic ...
[ Suze featured in General Motors' Lock n Roll financing plan ads ( around Nov - Dec 2004 ? ) which became a topic of discussion over the ethics of doing so, according to some press reports. ]
ResearchBuzz.com
Tara Calishain's site on developments relating to information search on the internet ...
French TV
Some programming formats from French television. As I do not know the language, I can not say how good the programmes are in practice, yet their format and presentation may be of interest ... [ PS: saw these programmes a while back on cable television. ]
Among others, programmes such as ...
Un Livre, Un Jour a two-minute daily programme "A book, a day" presented by Olivier Barrot. Sandrine Treiner, r�daction en chef.
Thalassa, Le Magazine de la mer "The magazine of the sea" Georges Pernoud, Directeur et pr�sentateur.
C�t� Jardins a programme on gardening ...
Vie priv�e, vie publique "Private life, Public life" presented by Mireille Dumas.
ABBA
Wikipedia appears to be expanding its scope ... [ Wikipedia - a free online encyclopedia - an interesting step in wiki-based knowledge content generation, still in its early stages so remains to be seen how well it turns out ... It has its origins with Bomis and the earlier Nupedia project ... ]
Meta-Wiki is a support website for Wikimedia Foundation's projects.
craigslist seems, at first glance, to be simple and to the point, spread across local communities in different cities ... by Craig Newmark, San Francisco ... there is also a best of craigslist [?] at : http://www.craigslist.org/about/best/ ... Recently ebay took a stake in craiglist ...
Opera internet browser
With Internet Explorer getting some bad press recently, Opera is an alternative browser made by a small company in Scandinavia. It is supposed to be securer and faster than Internet Explorer. It includes a new type of mail and newsfeed reader ... and several user friendly browsing shortcuts and customizations ...
Aabadlives
www.geocities.com/aabadlives
a site for people of Ahmedabad to contribute to their lives ...
- links to a message forum at bravenet.com
( set up by me )
Please note: A mention on the site does not imply endorsement.
For more, you may want to visit Links & Stuff and Livewise at blogspot.com.
Home page
(Located at http://www.geocities.com/lifeinsight/misc.html) (Archived here for search)
V M # 5/09/2006
LifeInsight (archive for search)
Welcome to LifeInsight
All life Whole life
Life - Today, Past, Future - Life Continuum
Life - 360 degrees
Life - me, you, us, around us
Life nurtured and nourished Life conserved for future
LifeInsight - a look
Focus, Scope and Approach
Life Centered Approach
Lets get specific...
Evolving ideas
An important note * please read *
Recent at LifeInsight
Weblogs at blogspot.com - Universe of Life, Livewise, Getting in touch, and at xanga.com - Lifecosm.
Living quality at Livejournal.com
email
About me
Miscellany
Sharing information with experts, professionals, ...
Living life information ...
A privacy note ...
sign guestbook view guestbook
LifeInsight
Life Whole Life.
You, me, life around us, all of us
Life before us, and life that will be
Generations past shaped us in our genes and knowledge, similarly we pass on to tomorrow
And we see that civilisations rise and fall.
What can we leave behind which makes life better for future.
Our today can be no less engrossing.
With scope for introspection, clarity, and life-wise technology.
This site and endeavour seeks to be in touch with that Universe of life (Lifecosm)
The flower called life
To understand and live life fully today
And leave a legacy of empowerment for future.
A place to query. To be our selves.
A place to be in touch with life.
To share our best ...
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The Focus
Life is multifaceted, and extends in many directions and forms and so does our scope and focus...
Each of us is a living being, and know life at first hand. Making this endeavour personal and self directed at a basic level.
Looking at : human life, and life as a whole
The idea being to nurture and nourish both.
In other words, at one level, this site is
a call to our own human-ness, or humanity
in our dealings with
ourselves, with others, and with the life world in general.
It could be called a quest to search for what embodies being human at its
living-most.
That is, how do we be or live so that our lives are most fulfilled, in relations to our own selves, others around us, and life itself in general.
Which may lead us to some more characteristic circles of endeavour,
As individuals, our personal lives are closest to us,
and so on for ourselves as humans, and as living beings.
We could look at how activities geared to humans can best serve human beings and life in general.
That is, pursue a Life centered approach in activities for human fulfillment and the world of life.
* co-existence of life and human life today and in future.
* Fuller, more enriched, more fulfilling - wholer - lives for ourselves in the present and with similar hopes for life in future....
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Life Centered Approach
Simply means keeping life in mind when defining products, services and activities which affect life. Keeping in mind: their nature, interests, requirements.
Taking a broader overall look at needs and wants, and their fulfillment. How can means of fulfillment such as products, services, policies, etc. fulfill life on the whole as they aim at particular needs or wants. Looking to fulfillment for the person and life as a whole. Not damaging life overall or in other aspects, while seeking to meet a particular want or need.
For example, take bread, an everyday product which meets some crucial human needs, and wants. How can we ensure that bread meets these and other needs well, and ensure that it does not harm us?
Does bread meet our requirements? Can we enhance its usefulness? How do current production and marketing practices affect the way people consume bread? Is the packaging good for keeping it fresh? Are the ingredients suited to different people? Does it promote more than necessary carbohydrates consumption? How does refined flour affect people? Can bread be put to new uses? Should bread become more of a complete food than it is now, containing nutritional supplements or other food elements in it? How do we eat bread, in a social environment? What does it mean to "break bread"?
When viewing bread from the perspective of whole human and life, one can look at it from various perspectives which can enhance its utility to us over all.
For a living being, anything to do with one part of the person affects the whole being and through that may affect other people and life.
Products and services which keep in mind the whole person and life, could create value for the consumer, markets and life in general. And products and services which do not meet human or life requirements can turn harmful.
Similarly for policies. How far are real living human beings, or the true scale and scope of life considered and incorporated into policies? How well are they monitored for effectiveness or harm ?
For instance, the Great Depression and the 1990s technology boom saw big influx of the small investor in the stock markets. Are there some similarities in the way the markets went up in both instances before the bust. Could policies have been put in place to protect these investors ?
The makers are dealing with living beings, and could benefit from keeping the whole person and life in focus or at least in the back of their minds, which may help ensure that their product or service or policy, etc. fits in well with overall human well being and life in general.
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Lets get specific.....
We continue our journey....
A little about the approach :
Our experience of life is a result of many influences. Our personality, family, the society around us, etc. This life palette varies for each person. And may vary for the same person over time. This is all part of what makes up life. And goes into making individual lives different from each other.
No Solutions:
Problems affecting particular lives and entities need to be studied closely which is beyond the aims, scope or ability of what we do here. So please note that solutions are beyond the scope of what we can do here. Nor would attempting to solve problems in this manner be appropriate or do justice.
Life is so full and expresses it's self in so many ways, and we look at that here, but it does not mean we can or do provide solutions. Just to be clear, we do not provide solutions.
The idea is : to approach life, life issues or queries, as fully as possible. Such as looking at the underexamined aspects of life. To gain insight into them. And possibly useful information for living better. And more.
Valuing the Undervalued :
In life, there are contributors to our overall wellbeing that may go under recognised and possibly undervalued. For example, mother's role in keeping a family going and raising children well. Or the love of a father. Or, to take a different area, the contribution of the civic services to the wellbeing of our living environments. Or the unknown innovators who have contributed to the way we live today.
Arriving at a better understanding of life, and of what it takes to keep life ticking along fine.
Looking at issues /aspects which increase our understanding and appreciation of the host of factors which contribute to making our life lifeworthy. In doing so, possibly get in touch with greater ability to make life more alive.
Whole Life :
Looking at the whole - the big picture - and the interconnections in it. The focus is the full spectrum of life, the whole life experience. Look at various issues / aspects of life and how they make up our life as a unit. Noticing values that are worthwhile yet seldom addressed.
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Certain evolving ideas...
We are not a charity.
The work here is about our lives, and life, and not a charity.
We hope to give free access and support participation.... while respecting the rights of others.
I am not an expert on all things life...
I have an interest in, possibly some affinity for what I have presented here. This does not make me an expert in all the many areas of life that get covered here. While I am interested in this area, I do not claim to be an expert in those terms.
In more simple terms, one basic idea is to create a communication area for all life, and particularly human life.
A place where we look at life-as-a-unit and bring our understanding of its facets and aspects to make our whole life more alive, fulfilled, well-lived. That is one of the points here.
Even more so, is the idea that life is experienced in its wholeness by us... and that there is a joy in the company of other human beings... just as there is and can be in company of self ... and being aware of the presence of self and other living beings ... and being in touch with our human selves ... our values ... in touch with life ... and nature ... being in tune with life ...
Because when we are living in this way [expressing self, life, living in tune with life, nature, ... ], even when doing nothing, there can be joy, a joy that also can be shared or enjoyed by others ...
When we are living, our beings even in silence communicate our living, a sense of well being may be in the air - a joy which can add to life quality of ourselves as also others ...
So this is not so much about activities, doing things, learning, etc. by themselves - which all take place in living life - it's life living , life expression ...
[ which in its way also facilitates ways to make life livable ... ]
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The work will continue to evolve, and grow... so will our ideas...
This work is not at all limited to this endeavour, or site, or me, it concerns life ....
C h e e r s !
All rights rest with the author. LifeSight, LifeInsight, Life Continuum, Lifecosm, Universe of Life, Life 360� (Life 360 degrees) are terms coined by the author in this context.
Please note:
I am not perfect, nor am I an expert. Individual or personal problems are not addressed here. No claims to accuracy of information are made. There are no affiliates.
Thanks.
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V M # 5/09/2006
About "Surfed by / visited ... "
A generic post title "Surfed by / visited ... " is used for ease of access and search.
As the title suggests these are sites I have surfed by or have located on the internet out of interest. In most cases I do not have much information beyond finding the resource interesting and worth sharing. That is the idea behind putting them here. And also at Living quality community at Livejournal.com.
The links primarily refer to to people and institutions which I have found interesting or relating to quality of life, communication, development, etc. It does not mean I concur (fully) with them. Or indeed, in most of the cases, so far, know about their work beyond first glance. In many cases it has been their areas of work which I may have found interesting or of relevance and so referenced it here, without further information.
[I think I came across a reference to a few of the people mentioned here in two bibliographies. Hope to add the names of bibliographic sources in future when I can relocate them.]
The "Surfed by / visited ... " links can be searched with Google Blog Search. For example, use the following in the search box :
intitle:Surfed site:livewise.blogspot.com OR site:universeoflife.blogspot.com OR site:linksandstuff.blogspot.com
V M # 5/09/2006
help
How does one help ... ?
[ Does one's help, help ... or does it add to the problem(s) ... ? ]
V M # 5/09/2006
poverty
How important is it to be concerned about poverty, as a society ... ?
V M # 5/09/2006
market and the world
How good is the market at dealing with that which do not change hands between individuals ... ?
How much of human experience or quality of life comes from that all which do not change hands between individuals ... ?
V M # 5/09/2006
feedback button ...
Do feedback buttons in interactive forums shape content ... ?
V M # 5/08/2006
design, technology, communication
How can design and functionality better reflect the nature and manner of human communication - or interaction ... ? - using new technologies ... ?
Can technology substitute for function ... ?
When and how does technology support function or objective or process or purpose ... ? ... why ... ?
V M # 5/08/2006
Surfed by / visited ...
Medical Humanities, New York University School of Medicine
Robert Graves
Paul Fussell
V M # 5/08/2006
life, processes and taking a break from reality
arts
do arts at times seek to capture human moments before resolution of emotional and mental turmoil ... ? and repeat it ... ?
development
do parents in developed societies have the perk of fulfilling their wishes through their children ... ? do they try to delay their children's interaction with reality ... ?
growth
Do institutions acquire prestige over time ... ? Do they attract people who seek prestige ... ? How does it influence their functioning ... ?
marketing
Is a part of marketing giving a sense of break from reality, or adding to reality ... ?
How do processes which are part of life work towards taking a break from reality ... ? For how long ... ?
How does it benefit or affect the people ... and their interaction with reality ... ?
How do people connect to living ... ?
V M # 5/08/2006
Surfed by / visited ...
Do not have much more information :
The Opera Singer and the Silent Film by Paul Fryer
Progressive Era
Jane Addams
Women's Auxiliary Territorial Service (ATS)
Nan Enstad
Book News
European Media, Technology and Everyday Life Network (EMTEL)
International Association for People-Environment Studies (IAPS)
Towards a New Urbanism (2000)
Real Boys : Rescuing Our Sons from the Myths of Boyhood by William Pollock
Elliot Liebow
V M # 5/07/2006
unreal expectations
how do people come to have unreal expectations for their relationships ... ?
how does it influence relationships ... ?
V M # 5/07/2006
learning living
To what use do people put learning ... ?
V M # 5/07/2006
Lifecosm at blogspot archives 2005 Part 2 of 2
2005
[Note: Lifecosm posts are now at Universe of life at blogspot.com. ]
June 2005
generalisations and particular situations
How do you apply a generalisation to a particular situation ... ?
How applicable is a particular situation as a generalisation ... ?
V M # 6/25/2005
lifestyles
How long lasting are lifestyles ... ?
V M # 6/25/2005
Countries
Can countries get bogged down and over stretch their resources in a fight ... ?
How do countries address legitimate concerns of people ... ?
How do countries address day-to-day good governance issues closer at home ... ?
V M # 6/24/2005
harmful
Does news and entertainment end up making harmful look attractive or desirable ... ?
Also, how harmful can be what is depicted as attractive or desirable in news and entertainment ... ?
V M # 6/24/2005
Work and family
How aware is the workplace that people have families ... ?
How important is it for families to be there for children and young people, particularly when they are growing up ... ?
V M # 6/17/2005
autocracies
Is there a dilemma that an autocracy comes down and makes way for another autocracy ... ?
How do people participate in good governance ... ?
V M # 6/17/2005
Spilling blood
How useful are associations based on spilling blood of others ... ?
V M # 6/17/2005
Young people and 'acceptance'
How wary should young people be of 'acceptance' by others ... ?
V M # 6/17/2005
generating resources, living
how do individuals and people develop resources within themselves ... ?
how do people live ... beyond buying, paying, using, observing, learning, practicising, experiencing, ... ?
how do people connect to living ... ?
V M # 6/10/2005
things, services, living
what are things ... about ... ?
what are services ... about ... ?
what is living ... ?
V M # 6/10/2005
modern society and issues
How much does it cost to survive in a modern society ... ?
What costs and issues have become part of modern society living ... ?
Are these costs and issues being addressed ... ?
Are people finding avenues to come to grips with these issues ... ?
V M # 6/06/2005
consuming relationships
Does the economy affect people ... ?
Do relationships get affected by the economy ... ?
Is there a situation where shorter term relationships find more acceptance in an economy ... ?
Is there a 'need' - in the economy ( and people ... ) - to (re)new demand ... ?
Is relationship moving towards consumption ... ?
How does it affect people's quality of life ... ?
How can the economy and people both thrive ... ?
V M # 6/06/2005
mobility and relationships
Does mobility and moving influence relationships ... and people ... ?
V M # 6/06/2005
quality in relationships
How important are - human - relationships ... ?
How do people have quality in their relationships ... ?
How can people have quality in their lives and relationships when they have had not so good experiences ... ?
V M # 6/06/2005
consumption, economy and life
Does consumption drive an economy ... ?
What and how much consumption suits humans and living ... ?
How can the economy respond ... ?
How do people associate consumption and products with survival and living ... ?
How can people - produce, consume - live well ... ?
V M # 6/05/2005
sexes, economy, humanity, completeness
How do the sexes respond to the economy ... ?
How do the sexes respond to the aspirations of each other ... ?
How much humanity can be seen in their responses ... ?
How can people have sense of fulfillment in life ... ?
V M # 6/03/2005
July 2005
economy
How would an economy benefit itself and others ... ?
V M # 7/31/2005
sameness
Could a quest for sameness hamper the ability to apply values to individual circumstances across life ... ?
V M # 7/31/2005
good
How can people identify what is good ...?
V M # 7/31/2005
clothes and quality of life
How do tight clothes affect the quality of life of people ... ?
V M # 7/23/2005
environment and flora fauna
How do you depict the interaction of the flora fauna and the environment ... ?
V M # 7/23/2005
resources and development
How do you move human resources and other resources with changing needs of the society ... ?
How useful would be to make use of resources - and the economy ... [?] - for development ... within ... and beyond borders ... ?
What is development ... ?
V M # 7/23/2005
freedom
Can what someone sees as freedom be seen as lack of freedom by other ... ?
How do we think of others ... ?
V M # 7/23/2005
options and choices
Can people lack options despite many choices ... ?
How do people have options that meet their needs ... ?
V M # 7/23/2005
uncertainties
How much do people value the values in their life ... ?
How unwilling are people to give up values in their life ... ?
How do people cope with loss of a value ... ?
How well do societies which already have gone through such a loss on a wider level deal with it ... ?
Do societies differ in the uncertainties that they face ... ?
Can societies learn from one another ... ?
V M # 7/23/2005
beyond a generation ... ?
Are people(s) willing to look at where they were ... where they are ... ?
Can some things take a longer time to happen ... ?
If you seek to achieve them quicker ... what are the costs ... ?
Are people willing to take, and give, the time it may take ... ?
V M # 7/23/2005
helplessness
Do people feel helpless in helping others ....
despite development ... ?
How do people think and act ... ?
How do people work with others ... ?
V M # 7/23/2005
entrenched positions
How do entrenched positions over time influence the life lived by people ... ?
How do people understand ... ?
V M # 7/23/2005
pyramid schemes and society
Is there a touch of pyramid schemes
to the economy ... ?
to the society ... ?
to the world ... ?
Do people have to recruit others into deceptive, false or negative claims to further their selves ... ?
Is survival being linked to deception or negative values ... ?
V M # 7/23/2005
development consumption
Do people struggle to keep up with and consume the opportunities that development may open up ... ?
Can this effort engross, and dehumanize people and their interactions ... ?
V M # 7/23/2005
administrative skills
How does a society learn administrative skills ... ?
V M # 7/23/2005
story and life
How do stories condense life in their limited space ... ?
Are shortcuts used ... ?
Do they involve summations ... ?
How do stories differ from life ... ?
V M # 7/23/2005
life flow, events, associations
Do people make associations with events or occurences in their lives ... ?
Do these play a role in their sense of self and belonging - and spirituality ? - ... ?
Does this inform their - sense of - life flow ... ?
V M # 7/23/2005
understanding ...
how useful is it to try and understand what you are getting into when you follow the example of others ... or participate ... ?
V M # 7/16/2005
local communities
How do local communities work ... ?
How valuable are local communities ... ?
How do local communities face pressures and challenges from outside and within ... ?
How do people in local communities live and work ... ?
How do local communities sustain themselves ... ?
How do local communities interact with outside, and within ... ?
How do you have good governance at local levels ... ?
V M # 7/14/2005
How important ...
How important ...
are the means used to achieve ends ...
is it to examine the models of success ...
is it to look for hidden, or not so obvious, costs which societies may end up paying for ...
is it to look beyond areas of expertise, at areas where work needs to be done ...
is it to look beyond stereotypes ...
are the role of administration and law and order bodies ...
is it for societies to develop ...
is it for communities to interact ...
are the concerns, issues, characteristics of societies ...
V M # 7/08/2005
incomplete
do people seek to fill their lives with things, stuff ... ?
V M # 7/06/2005
poor
Are we turning into a society where being poor is no longer a viable life option ... ?
V M # 7/06/2005
needs
How does the economy address real and diverse needs in the people ... ?
V M # 7/04/2005
fantasy depicted
depicted fantasy ...
how symbolic ...
how real ...
... ?
V M # 7/04/2005
experimenting and living
How is experimenting different from living ... ?
V M # 7/03/2005
humanity
how valuable is humanity to - human - life ... ?
V M # 7/02/2005
express
how do humans express love as human beings ... ?
V M # 7/02/2005
August 2005
fads and utility
How do products which were once fads and have enduring utility be available ... ?
V M # 8/29/2005
power
how does power act ... ?
how does power flow ... ?
can power be stored ... ?
how can power be used for good ... ?
V M # 8/29/2005
a note
Just to note that the posts here at lifecosm.blogspot.com are by me.
V M # 8/29/2005
adrenaline
how has adrenaline been part of human life ... over the - many - generations ... ?
have the sources of adrenaline rush changed ... ?
how connected to survival is it ... ?
what are the effects of artificial means of adrenaline rush such as movies, video games, etc. on human life ... ?
what are effects of adrenaline rush from activities like playing games ... ?
V M # 8/28/2005
drama in real life
has drama been a part of life ... ?
is it becoming more so now ... ?
what are the influences ... ?
is media and entertainment an influence ... ?
how does drama in real life influence or affect living ... ?
V M # 8/28/2005
living space
big spaces, small living spaces ... ?
V M # 8/26/2005
life and recession
how recession-proof are globalized lifestyles ... ?
what values do people appreciate in a globalized lifestyle ... ?
how do people and society sail through ups and downs ... ?
V M # 8/22/2005
simplicity
does also valuing simplicity make for greater satisfaction in life ... ?
V M # 8/21/2005
snacks
How important are easy, home-made, healthy, inexpensive snacks to people's lives ... ?
V M # 8/19/2005
media meeting
Does pop fiction in mass media and entertainment provide people from different backgrounds a meeting point ... ?
Does it keep people current with the trends, fads ... ?
Does media help people stay current with the developments, language, pulse of the society ... ?
How manufactured, or not ... ?
V M # 8/19/2005
tv
How are people's life affected by spending time watching tv ... ?
V M # 8/19/2005
body and activity
Does the human body activate or deactivate itself in response to lack of or excessive activity respectively ... ?
In what ways does it do so ... ?
V M # 8/16/2005
quality of life
How do people get or be in touch with or be aware of things which have made our lives better ... ?
How do every day activities in life contribute to better quality of life ... ?
V M # 8/13/2005
children
How do children grow up into adults with a healthy appreciation of life ... ?
V M # 8/13/2005
small scale industry
How does the small scale industry find products and services that are particularly suited to its scale ... ?
V M # 8/13/2005
development, expression and self
Can the process of sustainable development express a sense of self worth and promote well being ... ?
what is sustainable development ... ?
V M # 8/13/2005
expression, learning, youth
How much time do young people spend expressing themselves ... ?
How much time do young people spend learning, understanding or appreciating life ... ?
Do the activities go together ... ? can they be one unit ... ?
Can either activity take away time from the other ... ?
Can they spur one other ... ?
Does the emphasis lie on one or the other ... ?
... in a society ... ?
V M # 8/13/2005
men workplace
how exploited are men in the workplace ... ?
V M # 8/11/2005
society, hearing, sustainability
how well do societies, economies listen to or are open to hearing about areas where work needs to be done to make them more sustainable ... ?
what fears prompt people from improving things ... ?
V M # 8/11/2005
women life expectancy
How are we as a society responding to better longevity ... ?
How are we relating to women who have lost some of their near ones ... and are living by themselves or somewhat isolated from their near ones ... in their advanced years ?
V M # 8/10/2005
nature, life functioning
how do - what makes - nature, life function ... ?
what is behind the mechanics of nature, life ... ?
V M # 8/10/2005
basic tests for health
How useful would it be to have modestly priced, simple, accurate, energy-efficient, accessible tests for tasks like verifying basic product quality or for diagnosis of common but harmful health issues, designed for the consumer ... ?
How attainable or appropriate are these ... ?
V M # 8/10/2005
family
How valuable are families to the well being of humans ... ?
How far can the society design means to substitute for what families can do ... ?
How effective are these ... ?
What are the pressures facing families ... ?
What are costs of families becoming less available in human lives ... ?
How well do nuclear families deal with life they find themselves part of ... ?
V M # 8/09/2005
ideals and presentation
Can ideals and values get lost in their presentation ... ?
V M # 8/03/2005
Reality and Media
Inaccuracies about reality may end up in media, news and entertainment.
In some cases, there may be no pressure to stick to facts, such as in case of fiction. In some other cases, inaccuracies may creep in due to human error, spin, etc.
It may be useful to address these inaccuracies at times ... such as simpler errors of fact ...
To an extent, the idea, in doing so, may be awareness ...
And the process may spur creativity and thinking ... ?
V M # 8/01/2005
September 2005
environment and living
how do people live with the environment ... ?
V M # 9/01/2005
states and the union
how does the state look at the union [ of states ] ... ?
how does the union look at the states ... ?
how the states and union look at people ... ?
how do the people look at the states and the union ... ?
V M # 9/01/2005
momentum of resources
Do the resources being developed exert a momentum on the society ... ?
V M # 9/01/2005
entertaining relationships
Is entertainment replacing or substituting a wide range of human relationships ... ?
Is entertainment becoming a model for behaving, relating, relationships... ?
V M # 9/01/2005
advertising and needs
Do advertising, artificial flavours, etc. look at human needs more closely than do the products and services they represent or are part of ...
How effective ... ?
V M # 9/01/2005
October 2005
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V M # 5/06/2006
Lifecosm at blogspot archives 2005 Part 1 of 2
2005
[Note: Lifecosm posts are now at Universe of life at blogspot.com]
January 2005
reference and knowing
what may be a lifetime for humans, may be a moment in time from another yardstick
the extent of our knowledge, and what we do not know ...
V M # 1/29/2005
Religion and science
Does man turn to religion for what lies beyond limits of the known ...
for the whole
V M # 1/29/2005
orientation
are we orienting ourselves towards fixing things over appreciating intactness, wholeness ... ?
V M # 1/25/2005
Personality craze and society needs
can or does the hero worship and craze over popular personalities or personae indicate some need or needs in the society .... ?
V M # 1/25/2005
fixing
Are we more interested in fixing things than in appreciating intactness ... ?
V M # 1/20/2005
Non commercial, personal use
How do companies define commercial, and non commercial use ... ?
V M # 1/19/2005
Opportunities to learning, skills, and rights
How does one continue to learn, become skilled, outside the education system without violating the rights of the knowledge resource authors ....
V M # 1/19/2005
Software and privacy, security issues
People without indepth knowledge of software and its technologies may not always grasp the privacy and security implications of using a software.
Could companies making the software provide information about the possible privacy, security or other issues that the software might have.
Could they provide easily accessible and upfront options to enhance privacy or security, or to give greater control over software's functioning.
Can reviewers include these issues as one of the regular areas to be reviewed.
Such actions could not only improve a particular software, it could raise the general level and quality of awareness of the issues involved, and also spur development of software products.
V M # 1/19/2005
moon afternoon
moon in clear after noon sky ...
V M # 1/18/2005
Life information
A lot of our information and impressions about the world come from two sources, news and fiction.
Both have well established as well as new - evolving - ways of passing on their content to people.
A lot of information around us in the general public space reaches us and gets mediated through either news or fiction. Whether it is through print, TV, radio, cable, satellite, internet, public fora, etc. At times, it is difficult to tell apart news and fiction.
Both news and fiction have a role to play. But life requires information besides news and fiction.
Both have certain characteristics which may influence information. News, for example, may be characterised by focus on fresh happenings. While fiction may be more imaginative with its stories. Each avenue of conveying information can influence the presentation and quality of information. And given their pervasive presence, the wider ambit of life does get covered by news and fiction, either as a backdrop, or directly as their subject, or both. The information of life presented through these media may become less in tune with reality and living, given the nature of these media.
Yet life goes beyond the edge of a breaking news story or construct of imagination. Despite their wide scope, news and fiction do not make up full range of information pertaining to life. Nor do they always cover life in ways that further it.
A lot of information pertaining to life occurs on the edges of the main content and flow of mediated information. A lot of activities are taking place across the world, people living their lives, enjoying life, creating things, meeting challenges, working on projects, ideas, issues, expressing their selves individually and with others, discovering, inventing, living out traditions, all taking place ongoingly. All this activity and information is occuring in the world. But within media - fiction or non fiction - their coverage may be slim, sporadic or in terms of a slot or genre, for example, as a lifestyle segment, or within 'alternative' media, etc., on the edges of main content and its flow.
We may have a view of the world drawn from pervasive impressions in news and fiction. Both may have content flows giving priority to the sensational, or to the exaggerated, etc.; or content matter detached from the daily life experience of persons, or content depicted in ways the persons see little or no influence, direct or otherwise, over the outcome or resolution. If such is the information sphere around people, how does it influence their lives ?
There is so much more in life, more to life, all across the world, besides news or fiction ... how would it benefit people to be able to access such information pertaining to living life ... ? [ whether it is applicable to their particulars of life or not is another question to consider ... ? ]
note: terms, news and fiction, are used in their usual as well as wider, more comprehensive senses. And news and fiction are by no means the only sources of information. They are just focussed upon in this article. Other major information sources would include, among others, education and life experience itself.
V M # 1/11/2005
"Killing me softly with his song" song background
Might be interesting to check out the link ... Link
V M # 1/07/2005
February 2005
human life and living as a flow
Human life and living have their complexities.
Would it be more useful to look at human life and living as a flow ... ?
where the multiplicity of variables and factors in human life and living can be seen and understood better ... ?
[ live better ... ]
V M # 2/02/2005
country as world
if countries looked upon themselves individually as a world, of course very much within and part of, and not distant or aloof from, the world as we usually use that term, how would it benefit the country and life in it, and similarly for the world ...
[ the country-world ( to use a descriptive word for that idea ) is not described here as some entity distant or aloof from but is part of the One world that, by definition, all countries share ( or to extend it to the descriptive word or phrase ) country-worlds share ]
would people feel freer and at more ease with each other within the country as world ... ?
would the experience of world within countries further or make possible the experience of the world as we usually describe it ... ?
V M # 2/01/2005
beyond the known
how do you know what are the limitations of what you think you know ...
V M # 2/01/2005
March 2005
solutions in action
how do solutions fail to appreciate complexity and values of life ?
V M # 3/24/2005
[ side ] Effects celebrated ... ?
Why are coping mechanisms or particular accomodations or outcomes of a course or path of development taken, viewed as desirable by others outside who do not have similar circumstances ?
To what end ?
Why does such a lifestyle come about ?
Are behaviours without rationale being copied ?
Are we less prepared for the side effects of adopting a lifestyle ?
What makes it attractive ?
Are we looking at effects as causes of development ?
Are we unaware of other ways of doing things better or more suited to requirements ?
Are we aware of the trade offs ? what is lost and for what ?
How valuable are the outcomes ?
How do we arrive at solutions and outcomes which are life wise and life appropriate ? meet life requirements ?
V M # 3/16/2005
cheap, low battery indicator for clocks
How are people's day-to-day lives affected by slowing down timepieces which display incorrect time every so many days as the battery weakens ... ?
Is there a low cost solution - may be an L.E.D. indicator ? - available for the many low-priced clocks in the market, particularly alarm clocks, about when the battery needs to be changed ?
V M # 3/16/2005
life values
how do life values contribute to life
V M # 3/14/2005
collaborative arts
what makes the whole greater than the sum of parts ...
V M # 3/14/2005
unmanifest
how does the unmanifest manifest ...
V M # 3/14/2005
media and patterns of behaviour
does fictional behaviour on media influence behaviour and outcomes in real life ...
V M # 3/14/2005
history, perception and life quality
does false idealisation of history lead to bitterness in life in the present ?
V M # 3/14/2005
society and community
Are societies having more of a community way of life, better at retaining and utilising their energies and resources for the wellbeing of the community and others ... ?
V M # 3/09/2005
perception of sexuality and generation gap
Does a lower perception and appreciation of prior generations as sexual beings and 'role models' contribute to the generation gap ?
V M # 3/09/2005
attraction and associations
how do associations make attractive ... ?
V M # 3/04/2005
sustainability and sense
sustainability beyond fear ... ?
V M # 3/04/2005
wellbeing
what is wellbeing ?
how far do measures of development indicate wellbeing ?
how pleasurable are what appear to give pleasure ?
how much do people aspire for them ?
how does it influence development ?
V M # 3/04/2005
April 2005
People and finished products
People as consumers of finished products
Is there an emphasis on people as consumers ?
Is there less emphasis on people as producers ?
As humans ?
Are people seen as consumers ?
Are we not passing on knowledge along side consumption ?
Can people become ill equipped or unfulfilled despite higher pace of production ?
how important is the person who can no longer be a consumer or purchaser ?
how do societies deal with this situation ?
V M # 4/01/2005
May 2005
animals - flora fauna - in human settings
are animals which are living in human settings affected by similar problems as humans ... ?
V M # 5/30/2005
closeness
does modern society as it 'develops' make it difficult for people to be close ... ?
are people trying to find ways to deal with it ... ?
how important is closeness to quality of life ... ?
V M # 5/30/2005
social interaction
how important is social interaction ... ? what is social interaction ... ?
V M # 5/27/2005
pace
what sort of pace suits human living ... ?
V M # 5/27/2005
Generations and well being
Does a following generation try to do better than their parents ... ?
What was considered good in earlier generation, is it required to be done better today ... ?
What is requirement of present ... ?
What is good ... ?
V M # 5/24/2005
Behaviour and populist fiction
Does populist fiction seek to reassure people ... ?
Does it aim at making people feel okay about their behaviour ... ?
Associate their behaviour with the successful achievements of the hero ... ?
Make the behaviour of the villain extreme enough to disassociate with their own behaviour ... ?
Make people ( target audience ) feel okay about their current behaviour ... ?
Does populist fiction re-draw the boundaries of the acceptable to make people feel okay about their own behaviour ... ?
... does it encourage poor behaviour ... ?
Does it dilute the connection between behaviour and results ... ?
V M # 5/23/2005
Reality and fiction
How is reality portrayed in fiction ... ?
How real ... ? how accurate ... ?
V M # 5/23/2005
living people
How do people connect with their reality ... ?
How do people live well in their immediate environment ... ?
How does the neighbourhood become livable for people ... ?
How can children and young people participate in their environments productively ... ?
How can young people get in touch with life directly and healthily ... ?
How can adults deal with pressures and temptations ... ?
How can people have satisfying work and resources ... ?
How can new identities not cost the people(s) ... ?
V M # 5/20/2005
sex hope
How much of hope is tied up with sex ... ?
How does media [ or people ] build up sex by associating products, services, achievements, desires, fulfillment, happiness, identity, ... with sex ... ?
Is sex at times a substitute for something else in life ... ?
what is sex ... ?
V M # 5/20/2005
Production and living
When does production become harmful to living ... ?
V M # 5/20/2005
Learning from serious inhumanity
Can we all learn from serious inhumanity where ever it may have occurred ...
V M # 5/19/2005
specialisation and division
can division of labour and specialisation also mean ... ?
... more time spent doing one or particular thing
... lesser time for other aspects of life
... less experience and exposure to aspects of life
... lesser fulfillment as a human being ... ?
How is division of labour and specialisation useful, beneficial, ... ?
How much division of labour and specialisation ... ? in what way(s) ... ?
at what cost ... ?
how do you integrate it with life ... ?
how does it integrate with life ... ?
What are the benefits of division of labour and specialisation ... ?
How do humans benefit ... ?
How can humans benefit ... ?
How can life benefit ... ?
How does life benefit ...
V M # 5/18/2005
more, responsibility, simplicity ...
Does more require more responsibility as well ... ?
Is more also more simplicity ... ?
Is simplicity at the base of complexity ... ?
Simplicity allows for life as a whole ...?
Does simple(r) living open up life as a whole ... ?
V M # 5/18/2005
Change
How can change benefit all ... ?
V M # 5/15/2005
Education and lifestyle
Would education lead to more expensive lifestyle ... ?
Would lack of education lead to more expensive lifestyle ... ?
what is education ... ?
what leads to more expenses ... ?
V M # 5/15/2005
Knowledge and development
Does knowledge lead to development ... ?
How does life and society benefit from knowledge ... ?
V M # 5/15/2005
Life and change
How do societies and people deal with change ... ?
How is change part of life ... ? and isn't ... ?
V M # 5/15/2005
Life and stuff
Is life being adapted to suit stuff or stuffs ... ?
V M # 5/15/2005
Living societies
Do socieities address existing issues, and issues which come up, ongoingly ... ?
V M # 5/15/2005
nature wonder
Nature displays the known and the unknown
we may wonder ...
human society based on the known ... ?
Is there a fear of the unknown ... ?
Would being with nature help give us some perspective and appreciation of life on the whole ?
How important is it to be in touch with nature ... ?
How important is it to conserve nature ... ?
[ nature includes humans .... ]
Do humans try to understand and arrive at what is (already) in nature ... ?
V M # 5/14/2005
Living beings
People as consumers
earning to consume ... ?
People as living beings ...
V M # 5/13/2005
identity and quality of life
How can people have quality of life ... ?
V M # 5/10/2005
V M # 5/06/2006
Lifecosm at blogspot archives 2003, 2004
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2003
May 2003
Hi there :)
It is has been while since I have wanted to introduce myself to the larger blogspot community. I am hosted at Xanga at http://www.xanga.com/home.aspx?user=lifecosm Or simply http://www.xanga.com/lifecosm, thought I ought to get to know the blogspot community better. My site is www.geocities.com/lifeinsight/index.html
V M # 5/16/2003
2004
January 2004
God of nature
...and..
Life expression
PS: one wonders what does "Nature's God" mean to the founding fathers of USA in the declaration of Independence....
V M # 1/10/2004
July 2004
To get in touch...
Hi there,
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August 2004
Life + driver ?
V M # 8/21/2004
choice and expression
There is so much we share,
probably what we need to do is let people choose,
and what we may need to watch out for is not choice but probably for signs of decay ...
?
V M # 8/20/2004 - comments 0
Love and life
How can love be part of every day life ?
V M # 8/12/2004 - comments 0
September 2004
revolution lop sided ?
It may be quite wonderful to see the results of success , what are we not seeing, what too has happened ...
V M # 9/30/2004
Human effect
How does the society influence people's behaviour ... ?
V M # 9/30/2004
Silent feelings & Listening
In diverse societies, if people know that others are not feeling too good about something, it is more than likely they would respond to their feelings, ... and it is not difficult ...
Many times, this sense of hurt can fester ...
But, it needn't ... in larger societies, it may be the case that peoples' issues may not get the timely attention that they could use and deserve, and yet, those who provide succour immediately may not always offer solutions which work out very well ... so even while feeling let down and cold, it may be useful to not lose all the faith and hope in values held ...
Yet it is useful if people were able to express themselves naturally without going over the top ... and without being embarassed of being themselves ... problems often comes from the larger than life expressions of what is valued ... making at times moral mockery of what it is ...
V M # 9/29/2004
Attention span and effect
What is the connection between attention time span and critical information processing ...
Does human time get frittered away between too many things or objects demanding or attracting attention ...
What gets more attention ...
How do activities that get attention influence ...
what about soap operas, or sports events ...
How much time or attention is given to self, family, ...
why ... ? if not ... why not ... ?
what is the role of cyclical or episodic connectivity ...
Does leisure time put stress on ... affects ... lives ...
V M # 9/28/2004
Time and technology
Technology is making new products which do more, are able to store more, display more and provide more information through combination of many sensory outputs, and provide more interactivity, ...
making time more important or scarce ...
V M # 9/28/2004
upward social mobility
How does groups in a society assert their desire for better social position and power ... ?
How does the activity within a group find an echo across other groups ...
Is it a societal phenomenon across groups in a society ...
Or across societies ...
how do these groups make their presence felt ...
V M # 9/27/2004
Professional fatigue ...
are professionals expected to achieve results in a situation where they do not have full knowledge and factors over which they have little or no control ...
how do they deal with the responsibility of achieving results ...
do professionals deal on a daily basis with problems and issues facing people ...
how does that affect them ...
how do they deal with this ...
V M # 9/27/2004
affiliations ...
Are humans multi dimensional ... ?
Do they have varied affliations ... ?
Do these help balance life ...
V M # 9/27/2004
Community and communication
Communication in a society does not always take place face to face or even through two way conversations ...
Particularly in the more diverse socieities, where there are many communities within communities, and groups which have lesser day to day interactions on a more social level between themselves ...
This may be communication in the absence of [ direct, social, ] communication ...
It may be like nightmares which come alive in the dark ...
Similarly for communication between societies ...
Which is not to suggest that there are no issues between communities ...
Often there is a common ground of living well and is not a compromise either ...
and this is an alive activity ... ?
... part of living ... ?
V M # 9/27/2004
Beauty and maintenance ...
Great civilisations, as we usually call them, have works of art, and beauty and lifestyle, how hard is it to maintain such a way of living ... and at what cost ... ?
If a few live in much luxury, is it necessarily at the cost of others ? Or is it ? What sort of an effect does it have on resources ... and does it end up drawing those resources from all over the world ... while poverty lives its midst ... ?
how can people's lives be beautiful ...
V M # 9/26/2004 - comments 0
Company
Company
two people
may be more ...
then, there is organisation ... company
V M # 9/25/2004
Sun drags a weary path ...
Sun drags a weary path, wary of people's wrath
Knows he must first wishes fulfill, Or he will be soon down hill
Such knowledge is bitter sweet, the sense of self quite incomplete
But the satisfaction it brings, would make any one's heart sing ...
V M # 9/23/2004
Specialisation and commitment
It is wonderful to go deep into some thing or aspect, to explore, yet if this comes at the cost of the links of life which that aspect is a part of, than it may be a moment to ponder and take stock ...
In the zest to learn something, to explore, do people unconsciously apply modes of behaviour which may have been deemed or assumed successful in their urban modern settings - of specialisation, of achieving a specific target, ... [ even when one may be seeking to move away from that way of life ... ] ... ?
When researching, studying or exploring something not all that well understood, or which we seek to understand better, it might be useful to see if this process is not endangering the very thing that we seek to value or explore and understand ...
Should specialised nature studies take into account and look at the wider ecosystem and the human inhabitants at some level ?
Similarly for initiatives within urban settings, should the broader picture be kept in mind ?
...
V M # 9/22/2004
Mass media conclusions
how dangerous are the conclusions that media draws from incidents and reports ... ?
V M # 9/22/2004
conflicts and mass media
Does mass media thrive on conflicts and not on its resolution ... ?
how does it affect the sensibilities of the persons in the field ... ? who gets attracted and does well in such situation ... ?
V M # 9/22/2004
others
Can you really speak authoritatively about others, without knowing them ... ? as many commentators do at times ... ?
V M # 9/22/2004
Open-ness
Has openness put another layer over the person's private person ? Or has it been openness ?
V M # 9/22/2004
Wait and watch
Delay in supporting the weak and oppressed can have catastrophic results for the community and its aftereffects may afflict those who did not act more vigourously when they could ...
V M # 9/22/2004
Human nature and condition
Certain characteristics have come to define either sex, man or woman, how true is that ? How much of what is often attributed negatively to either sex is an outcome of the way they live ?
V M # 9/22/2004
happiness
happiness is a bird that sings sweetly on the hand that feeds life
... just a thought
V M # 9/22/2004
world, peace and living ...
Communities of people, across the earth, vary from each other in the way their groups have come about, and where they are today, and what is happening within them. An appreciation of this could be useful in smoothing things between communities and in the world.
It may be useful to see how much of one's own perspective on things one applies on a community ...
It would also be useful to understand way people react the way they do ... which is not to justify it, which mostly likely is not what those people themselves are seeking, what they are seeking is probably a chance to live ...
Beyond the trials of daily suffering and hardship which may have its momentum and reactions, there may be the reasons for living ...
powerful players can play a positive role ... for the people, how do you do that ... and where do you draw the line ... how do you value sovereignity ... how do people become free of being pawns in international politics ...
V M # 9/22/2004
Hope and governance
Can bureaucracies and governments be so inefficient that they do not see hope of bettering their lot through improved results at their end, and seek to do so by getting involved with businesses who thrive through government patronage ...
V M # 9/21/2004
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V M # 9/18/2004 - comments 0
Informal knowledge ...
What is informal knowledge ... how do you share informal knowledge ... how does one gain informal knowlege ...
how important is it ... ?
V M # 9/18/2004
Porn and knowledge discovery
Accessing porn on the net is easy, it is frequently updated, there are many independent operations, and they cater to a variety of tastes and demands. They even link one to the other sites offering similar or different offerings, as per the inclination expressed with a click ...
And it is something any child can usually access if they are on the net ...
porn is just an example, and may not be the best, aesthetically or even as a model for information dessimination, for there is a undercover of ethics and exploitation which may go on in that industry. Besides there may be lot of recycling and re-hashing of material and may use devices to attract to material which may not be as good as the teaser ...
Knowledge on the other hand, may seek to expand one's mind, views and approach, opening vistas, and exploring life in tune with values which further life... and not exploit to titilate ... which is not to be insulting to those who earn their daily sustenance from that industry ...
does it seem like that there is so much more that could be made possible on the net, in giving the children and every one the information they could use...
Without a study, it is difficult to say if updated, detailled knowledge on the net is freely available or not, it would seem that that free access on the net to information dealing with life in general and its various aspects could be more than what it is...
wikipedia.org is one example of a step in that direction, how well it turns out really remains to be seen...
yet there are organisations with a lot of information at their disposal, some of whom use that information for their bread and butter, that is, is one of sources of their earnings, some like universities, etc. may have less incentive not to share their information more publicly... in either case, or generally speaking, much more information can be made available... Information and knowledge it seems is being generated ongoingly in various spheres but is not being shared, when it could so easily be made available... providing so much more that the children and youth could use, and so could everyone what ever their age...
V M # 9/18/2004
Lingua franca
Do we need a lingua franca, besides native language or mother tongue, and the local languages and dialects, and the international languages ? So that language is not a big barrier to communication ... ? ... need not have to be a fullfledged language ... ?
V M # 9/18/2004
Care and City
As humans move to cities, and to other parts of the world, the ties of one place and location and family and community which took care of his needs, including those of the very young and the old, are stretched ...
Can the city [ not necessarily the government, but city as the place where most people now live ... ] provide some of caring and nurturing and such, that took or takes place within families, and communities ...
Cities can be very diverse, and have many people from different backgrounds ...
Can certain good [ as is usually understood, not extreme ] values help the city live well ... and country and world ... ?
V M # 9/18/2004
Humans and complexity
Man may be a complex being [ is he ?], he may not always grasp complexity very well ... ?
V M # 9/18/2004
Joie de Vivre
What does joie de vivre mean ?
V M # 9/18/2004
Penpals
Penpals may be a good way for school children to get to know about the world, and appreciate people from across the world ... ?
V M # 9/18/2004
Countries
What does countries which were under one rule mean ?
V M # 9/14/2004
Can search create meaning ... ?
V M # 9/03/2004 - comments 0
October 2004
unreal information and questioning
Sometimes in society, we may find unverified, misunderstood, or snipped information out of context, or propaganda, accepted at face value, which may lead to false beliefs based on such information ...
... such as pop statistics, for example, about what is the probability of a certain thing happening to a person, or the likelihood of an illness or not.
Or accepted beliefs about how things are done in a society, even when this may be quite far from being ideal, yet it may be accepted, "well, this is how it really is" ... when, there may be no absolute necessity to believe so ...
V M # 10/11/2004
standards of behaviour and binary numbers
Does society tend to over simplify the teachings of prophets ... ? Do they see all the factors that the messiahs consider in a given situation and arrive at what is appropriate ... ?
Or do people tend to turn to more absolute or unrefined positions ...
Is the black and white like two block chunks of one black and one white, or is it like the binary zero and one codes that make up computer software messages, which together in their multitude answer human queries and creates a response of what look like greys which are in reality individual pieces of black and white working ... ?
V M # 10/10/2004
supply management and USSR
How did supply management affect the survivability of USSR .... or did it affect it any way ... ?
V M # 10/10/2004
human life and stories
Human lives are stories at one level, and there are stories that we read, hear or see around us. While personal lives may strive - or not - towards living well, how does the picture of living life that is around us, whether in real life or in fiction, or in its presentation, etc. affect personal lives ...
V M # 10/10/2004
inert plastic
How can we make a more inert plastic which is also easier to recycle, and removes contents that might have stuck to it - during usage - before disposing it off in which ever way, as a new product or as a more bio-degradable waste ...
V M # 10/10/2004
breather ...
How important is it to take a breather ... from what ever you are busy with ...
does it add value to life ...
V M # 10/04/2004
Age and outlook
Does outlook change with age ... ?
V M # 10/04/2004
at home with ...
Does loss and isolation make people yearn more for things that they think they are at home with ... ?
V M # 10/04/2004
Appeal [ of art ]
Could a reason why art, its performers, appeals to people because it connects with or relates to [ only ] parts of their life which are personal, some of which may be fantasies, away from the realities of life ....
So also could happen with people or things people find attractive ... ?
V M # 10/03/2004
empty streets
What do empty streets look like ...
V M # 10/01/2004
December 2004
"Old friends say homeless man was literary genius" - Lawrence Journal-World, KS, USA
Also came across reviews of a memoir "Another Bull**** Night in Suck City" by Nick Flynn, where the author, working at a homeless shelter, comes across his absentee father ... this occurred in 1987. Since then, his father has moved into a place of his own. The author currently teaches a semester in the creative writing programme of a university ...
The link points to the news from Journal-World. Link
V M # 12/27/2004
Information for experts
Experts or professionals may not necessarily be up to date with the developments in their field. People - particularly those who would be impacted in some way by these developments - may have heard of them through the media, books, etc.
Could such information be shared with the experts to refer and find out more about ?
Would this help in the quality of work ?
If there is some information you would like to share for free and voluntarily and is legal to do so, please use the comments. Please do not share anything that you would not like to be publicly available.
Apart from information, such an effort may give a sense of being valued in a wholesome way to the people in the profession. While providing an opportunity for people to pitch in ...
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V M # 5/06/2006
Surfed by / visited ...
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
V M # 5/04/2006
Surfed by / visited ...
Future Search Network
Sandra Janoff, Marvin Weisbord, co-directors
V M # 5/04/2006
change and tradition
How do people who have traditionally played a role in society participate ... ?
What role does culture play in the life of a society ... ?
How to understand quality of life ... ?
What makes up life experience [of people] ... ?
How comfortable do people feel with change ... ?
How does progress benefit people's lives ... ?
What problems come with progress ... ?
How to understand progress ... ?
V M # 5/04/2006
unrooted
Is there a tendency in society to move towards whatever gets the job done ... ?
Does this require that people be freed up of other responsiblities and opportunities that make up their life, and devote themselves to achievement of tasks at hand ... ?
Does this give an impetus to fuel modes of behaviour and support geared towards fulfilling this ... ?
Do people get caught up in a desire to create a temporarily workable atmosphere where people interact with each other easily through adoption of lowest common denominator and enticements aimed at sustaining participation in achieving the targetted or aimed for results ... ?
How does this affect their quality of life or well being as a person ... ?
Do such activities requre a higher rate of turnover to sustain themselves ... ?
What is their impact on the environment that people live in ... ?
Are people finding themselves living in a world which keeps changing (in order to to keep afloat like acrobat's balls in the air) ... ?
Does this give people a sense of being unrooted ... ?
Do they find themselves bereft of values ... ?
Do people find their quality of life expressed through particular activities and possessions, whether animate or inanimate ... ?
Can defining quality of life, more in terms of internal attributes, such as health, concepts of quality of life, etc. help in having more control over the sense of well being and quality of life ... ?
V M # 5/04/2006
life ...
how does one build in accountablity ... ?
how do powerful institutions deal with issues in their interaction with the community ... ?
How do they not become a victim to their own power ... ?
Can some issues require that power not be used ... ?
Does power make institutions tend to use it, to avoid loss of face when questioned by others ... ? ... or not to appear weak ... ?
How do you arrive at understanding ... ?
How do you interact with people and address issues raised by people, which concern people ... ?
Can changing or modifying policies be more difficult than continuing with policies which affect the lives of people ... ?
Can governments involve people in addressing issues which require changes ... ?
V M # 5/04/2006
ideals, values, symbols, leadership, action
Do people look for an idealised life ... ?
Do they seek an idealised life for their children ... ?
Is there an idealised life ... ?
Do people look for values ... ?
Do icons or leaders come to embody or symbolise such values - as a composite - for the people ... ?
How feasible or desirable is it to carry out at individual levels the exact circumstance and expression of values symbolised or expressed in icons or leaders ... ? If done, what would be the results ... ?
What do people assume about or add onto icons or leaders ... ?
How does blanket attention influence perception ... ?
How can symbols of values be actualised in real life in tune with living ... ?
What more needs to be done - beyond the symbolised - to achieve so ... ?
V M # 5/03/2006
ABBA and American values
Did ABBA present American values the way people around the world related to, like to ... ?
V M # 5/02/2006
hospitality and generality
Is there a dichotomy between personal experiences and foreign policy ... ?
V M # 5/02/2006
18
Does 18 mark a transition point in lives of - some - families and societies ... ?
What happens to nuclear families where moving out is considered normal for children who are no longer minor ... ?
V M # 5/02/2006
Surfed by / visted ...
Caroline E. Crocoll, CSREES Family Science And Human Development (FSHD) program
Ruth Weston, Australian Institute of Family Studies
[via ISQOLS expertise database]
V M # 5/01/2006
Surfed by / visited ...
Frances Cairncross
V M # 5/01/2006
Surfed by / visited ...
Mary P. Andrews
V M # 5/01/2006
Surfed by / visited ...
Categoriz - Sitemap to WEB 2.0 Products and Services [ a very new site ?, do not have much more information ]
V M # 5/01/2006
human
When humans step out of their homes and settle elsewhere, or go annd work somewhere else ... how do people where they came from view their situation ... ?
How much does the internal situation determine the response people give to occurences elsewhere ... ?
What role do perception builders play - consciously or unconsiously - in what people think is the appropriate way to react ... ?
How does migration - for work or living - influence politics of places where migrants came from ... ?
How do newer affliliations influence ties in the places where the migrants came from ... ?
How do people be sensible ... ?
How does society institute policies, and work towards understanding and appreciation of issues before they begin to fester ... ?
Do places achieving a certain amount of development find themselves targets of acquisition ... ?
How do people and institutions prepare themselves for the task of governance which may be wider and broader than particular concerns and approaches ... ?
How do people and institutions govern responsibly ... ?
Do the - economic - beneficiaries of development seek a new leadership ... ?
How useful or in tune with living is such leadership ... ?
[ In - newly - free societies, do people continue to rely on their their survival mechanisms from pre-freedom times ... ? ]
How does migration of talent influence quality of life ... and approaches ... ?
V M # 5/01/2006
=> [from http://livewise.blogspot.com/2006_05_01_archive.html]
Livewise at blogspot, April 2006
Surfed by / visited ...
Wink a social search engine, in beta.
V M # 4/30/2006
Surfed by / visited ...
World Database of Happiness
V M # 4/30/2006
behaviour and change
how do people look at behaviour in others that they may consider primitive ... ?
how do people remember that such behaviour [and much worse] can [and does] show up in their own communities ... ?
how do you compare figures of death and destruction ... ?
is it useful to be aware of human nature ... and human condition ... ?
how do you work ... ?
V M # 4/29/2006
life and words
how do words represent concepts ... ?
how is life lived ... ?
what do words denote ... ?
how is life expressed in words ... ?
what do words mean to people ... ?
what do words denote over time, from person to person, context to context, ... ?
how do differences in appreciations of concepts influence how people look upon behaviour relating to concepts ... ?
V M # 4/29/2006
Surfed by / visited ...
Grandparents Raising Grandchildren Resources Directory
[an older site, do not have much information ... ]
V M # 4/29/2006
Surfed by / visited ...
Service Employees International Union
V M # 4/29/2006
young and living
How much attention do people need, and when, and how... ?
Does money provide for attention ... ?
What all do people need in their life ... ?
How does money become important ... ?
Why does money become important ... ?
How are human joys stripped ... ?
What remains ... ?
Who gains ... ?
What do the coming generations learn about life and relationships ... ?
How do they seek to meet life ... ?
How do they look upon traditional relationships ... ?
Do they have experience of functional traditional relationships ... ?
Do they have experience of human nurturing ... ?
How do they seek to fulfill their lives ... ?
What is the world they live and work in ... ?
How valued is the feminine touch ... ?
Are human lives stripped off other means of joy in life in order to serve or meet some goals ... ?
Are humans working or living in order to serve or service goals besides the well being of their own lives and that of others ... ?
What is required to keep people doing so ... ?
What is the distintions between joy and sensation and well being ... ?
Do the younger generations have a sense of joy or experiences of joy beyond products and services and sensations ... ?
How do the young seek to make sense and re-connect with life ... ?
How much experience do they have relating ... ?
What factors will continue to be available to them to live fuller lives where money is but one part ... ?
What makes lives joyous ... ?
V M # 4/28/2006
connection human ...
What makes for human - and mammal - reproduction, child rearing and living ... ?
Does the full body (person) of a man and of a woman play a role in the formation of sperms and egg respectively ... ?
In human scheme of reproduction what role does rearing after birth play ... ?
Do humans seek to have a personal connection with the larger picture ... ?
How do humans understand the larger picture ... ?
How does their personal connection keep them in touch with the larger picture ... ?
How do humans view the larger picture as it is, at a personal level ... ?
V M # 4/28/2006
resource function
how far is human expression a function of resources ... ?
including development, inventions, technology ...
V M # 4/27/2006
marriage
Does marriage thrive on social / family ties ... ?
V M # 4/27/2006
aspirations, living, humanity
How do you provide avenues for aspirations in a society ... ?
How do you provide avenues for humanity in a society ... ?
How do you provide avenues for living and being in a society ... ?
How does living influence aspirations and humanity ... ?
V M # 4/25/2006
news propogation and perception
What kind of news, images and views are beamed to people across the world regarding people and places ... ?
Do these stories and information influence the perception of the people and places ... ?
Does the fast, global, propogation of news of today make a single story appear across the world, and as it spreads through propogation does it give it a global or much wider spread or applicabilty, or even perceived as occurred or valid more widely ... ?
Does it evoke reaction on a wider scale ... ?
Does a single story get repeated, and appears to have spread to other areas and become applicable there as well, just through propogation or dessemination ... ?
What role does a general and contextual lack of information and understanding play in furthering these perceptions ... ?
How important, if so, is to ensure the validity of the story in the first place, in its original context ... ?
Is propogation of news in itself seen as an end, an achievement of result or a resolution.
What role does emphasis on and resources devoted to top stories and headlines play in propogating such a news coverage and such a sense of news, if so ... ?
Does limited coverage, subject-wise, repeated over time colour or influence the perception of people, places on the whole ... ?
Do the fastness and global reach of these news headlines, subjects, top stories available immediately around the world give them a wider validity; of having occurred closer .... and do these portrayals end up providing an impetus to the depicted and / or providing as a cover to activities among the people, in the places in real life which such a quick or short depictions did not portray ... ?
How do you keep the portrayal real ... ?
V M # 4/24/2006
understanding belonging ...
understanding belonging ...
understanding, belonging ...
understanding and belonging ... ?
what is the role of understanding to belonging ... ?
how important is understanding to belonging ... ?
are there pressures or needs to belong ... ?
what do people gravitate around, belong ... ?
how does intensity of pressure or need to belong affect or influence people ... ?
Does it move people towards uniformity of behaviour ... ?
Does it give more importance to uniformity over the behaviour itself ... ?
Can that be harmful to well being and living ... ?
Does it move people towards least common denominator ... ?
Does it prompt people to accept or follow behaviour without understanding ... ? beyond their own personal qualms ... ?
Do people come under pressure to conform without understanding ... ?
What behaviour do people end up following ... ? what behaviour is available ... ?
Can societies and people become vulnerable to misappropriation in an atmosphere of such uniformity ... ?
Can such acceptance and belonging affect the ability to live life ... ?
What can be the outcomes ... ? What is aimed for ... ? What is achieved ... ?
How do people understand belonging ... ?
How do people be, live well ... ?
V M # 4/24/2006
thought and understanding
what is the place for thinking, for understanding, and for appreciation of the unknown in living ... ?
V M # 4/23/2006
Surfed by / visited ...
When They Were Young: A Photographic Retrospective of Childhood from the Library of Congress
Dorothea Lange
Charles Handy
V M # 4/23/2006
understanding belonging
understanding belonging ... ?
V M # 4/23/2006
when
when good comes to be associated more with extremism ...
when bad comes to be associated more with survival ...
what society are we giving ourselves ...
V M # 4/23/2006
life times
how do adults seek to meet their childhood ... ?
how do children be adults ... ?
how does time and life go in world ... ?
how do we miss out and why ... ?
What all matters in life ... ?
V M # 4/22/2006
being and economy
how do people be, live ... ?
[how does economy move beyond making believe ... ?]
V M # 4/21/2006
reality
how do people seek to connect with reality ... ?
[ what comes in the way ... ? ]
how do people relate to / connect with unknown ... ?
how do people seek to understand the nature of being ... ?
V M # 4/21/2006
imagination and leadership
What role does imagination play in leadership ... ?
How useful ... ?
How informed, and beneficial - to all - is the imagination ... ?
V M # 4/21/2006
produced living
Are people forced to live life through products and services ... ?
[What is the quality of consumption, and of systems of consumption ... ?
Are humans living ... ? How does consumption, systems of consumption influence them ... ?
How does it reflect in their person and living ... ?
What ways are available to the economy to continue to operate / function ... ?]
How do people live life ... ?
V M # 4/21/2006
human equity and value
how does growing economic inequity affect men, and women ... ?
do men become / seem more disenfranchised relative to women in work ... ?
V M # 4/20/2006
chair and perspectives
Does changing the angle change perspective ... ?
Does it help relax ... ?
How do people sit on a bar stool ... ?
How useful is a swivel chair in office ... ?
is it ... ?
V M # 4/19/2006
couple and positive "strokes"
Can couple provide each other with - all - the positive attention and strokes they need ... ?
Where does reinforcement and life experiences come to people from ... ?
How do couples choose ...
cope ...
make do ...
why ...
or not ... ?
V M # 4/19/2006
pace and well being
How does the pace of a society and pace of people interact ... ?
Does pace of a society influence who travels well with it ... ?
Do people who are in tune with the pace of the society travel well ... ?
How do people(s) whose pace differs from society's, live ... ?
What pace(s) suit living ... ?
V M # 4/18/2006
Some titles from Lifecosm at xanga.com
Some titles from Lifecosm at xanga.com, arranged by month and year.
(Only months where I could locate a title are mentioned. In some cases, I have used the first line as title.)
Note: Most entries at Lifecosm at xanga.com do not have titles.
To reach an individual title, please go to the Month page link, and use the Find feature, Ctrl+F, of the browser
Lifecosm Universe of Life at xanga - October 2004
Life's fluidity
Why do people travel ... ?
How often does one see people who are happy with their lives, in the public limelight ...
Lifecosm Universe of Life at xanga - September 2004
Is education a joy ... ?
Life is not a bureaucracy ....
How do governments act as a drag on the progress of a society ...
How do you reduce layers of communication between people ...
do people operate and act from a belief that some one's gain, is some one else's loss ...
How long lasting is the trauma or effects of war on a society and peoples ...
Do time periods of moral abandon and [ financial ] corruption precede international conflicts ...
how do people communicate ?
What are the linkages, if any, between a sense of being endangered and focus on vocational or business skills within a group ...
Talent and economy
Sleep deprivation
Lifestyle diseases and conditions
what role, if any, does seduction play in creating a relationship ...
How do we communicate with people ... ?
How are schools different from the world outside schools ?
What are super powers remembered for ?
we meet we touch we go
When the train rattles by
Find the happy medium, if it exists ... in a situation ... it usually may ... ?
shades of green
we meet we tango we go
A point of view ...
media products express,
Work hard, play hard
We love - and die - because we must !
In the name of love - U2
... looks good on tv ...
Sonnet XXXV
Lifewise
Below is the forward from "With the "Die-Hards" in Siberia"
by Col. John Ward, C.B., C.M.G., M.P.
victory becoming a snap shot of good ?
New term
A world power ...
Lifecosm Universe of Life at xanga - July 2004
Substance
Lifecosm Universe of Life at xanga - June 2004
Tolerance ...
"Desired"
Technology influencing human lives.
Lifecosm Universe of Life at xanga - April 2004
trust
change
representation
complacency
questions...
Lifecosm Universe of Life at xanga - March 2004
Understanding vs Force
Prolong the youth
Place for quality of life being: place for quality of life expression, for its issues, the thinking, ideas, a place to query, to discover, to answer, a resource, etc.
Regimentation and good values
Food for thought in prevailing times?
exaggeration/amplification senses possibilities understanding living
Film frame, persona, and emotions
Lifecosm Universe of Life at xanga - February 2004
Media products are a result of a collaboration of many people and technology
curiosity, human life, and technology
Aspiration, the Other's Storytelling & Copying.
Hormones, Youth and a Marketplace
Making quality new information easily available to the public. And some related issues.
Lifecosm Universe of Life at xanga - January 2004
Life in each of us.
Life goes on, so does the media and so does media-ted living.
Lifecosm Universe of Life at xanga - June 2003
Life's Prism
Where to from here
Experiences and Power
Lifecosm Universe of Life at xanga - May 2003
Living, Discovering
Understanding USA
Hello every one.
A note I can't stress enough:
V M # 4/13/2006
Livewise at blogspot.com - Archive by month
(updated till April 2006)
Livewise at blogspot.com - April 2006
Livewise at blogspot.com - March 2006
Livewise at blogspot.com - January 2006
Livewise at blogspot.com - December 2005
Livewise at blogspot.com - November 2005
V M # 4/12/2006
Archives
Archives :
LifeInsight archives - Home page, Miscellany, Recent at Lifeinsight
Lifecosm at xanga.com - Archive by month
Universe of life at blogspot.com - Archive by month
( which includes Lifecosm at blogspot archives)
Livewise at blogspot.com - Archive by month
Virasat at livejournal.com - Archive by month
Living Quality community at livejournal.com - Archive by month
Search :
search
Lists of post titles :
Some titles from Lifecosm at xanga.com
Some titles from Recent at LifeInsight
Universe of Life and Livewise blogs at blogspot.com (updated till April 8, 2006, month-wise)
Note: While most entries at Universe of Life and Livewise blogs at blogspot have titles, most entries at Lifecosm at xanga.com and at Recent at Lifeinsight do not.
Tags :
Site and blog tags at del.icio.us
- and also at furl.net (not always up to datte)
Tags at Virasat at Livejournal.com
Tags at Living quality community at Livejournal.com
Directory (via directory tag) at Living quality community
Notes:
* Please note : I am not an expert. Neither am I perfect. Individual or personal problems are not addressed here. No solutions are offered. No claims to accuracy of information are made. A mention here does not imply endorsement. Thanks.
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* About "Surfed by / visited ... "
* About links : I am not very clear about the - deep - linking and other policies of various sites, so I may not cover them. On the other hand, Wikipedia links are accessible. But please be clear, Wikipedia is a wiki-based encyclopedia. Please read Wikpedia disclaimers.
V M # 4/12/2006
Lifecosm Universe of Life at xanga - Archive by month
Lifecosm Universe of Life at xanga.com entries collected by the month at Universeoflife.blogspot.com, for easier access.
Lifecosm Universe of Life at xanga - October 2004
Lifecosm Universe of Life at xanga - September 2004
Lifecosm Universe of Life at xanga - August 2004
Lifecosm Universe of Life at xanga - July 2004
Lifecosm Universe of Life at xanga - June 2004
Lifecosm Universe of Life at xanga - May 2004
Lifecosm Universe of Life at xanga - April 2004
Lifecosm Universe of Life at xanga - March 2004
Lifecosm Universe of Life at xanga - February 2004
Lifecosm Universe of Life at xanga - January 2004
Lifecosm Universe of Life at xanga - June 2003
Lifecosm Universe of Life at xanga - May 2003
Please note, most entries at Lifecosm at xanga.com do not have titles.
Some titles from Lifecosm at xanga.com
V M # 4/12/2006
progressive laws and implementation
how enlightened the enforcers of progressive laws need to be ... ?
where do progressive laws move away from their spirit in the process of implementation ... ?
can the process be dehumanizing ... ?
how do enforcers of laws find the process ... ?
what are the options people choose, or not ... ?
V M # 4/08/2006
family, relationship, distress, distance and conflict
does war act as a way of bring a country together ... ?
does a period of distance in relationships or breaking ties of relationships precede wars ... ?
does war provide an impetus to social acceptability ... ?
does the period preceding wars show a greater difficulty in starting or surviving as a family ... ?
what role does attempts at accelerated production play in human relations ... ?
V M # 4/08/2006
numerical success
what awaits countries which measure success in numerical terms alone ... ?
how can such success be maintained ... ?
V M # 4/08/2006
non monetary assets
how do you value non monetary assets ( and liabilities ) of a company ... ?
How do you arrive at and compare such values - between companies or - more generally ... ?
V M # 4/07/2006
self governance
how do people self govern ... ?
V M # 4/04/2006
life and story script
what would a story script be like if it were to depict life as it is ... ?
what would life be like if it were to depict a story script ... ?
how much is diversity a natural part of living ... ?
V M # 4/04/2006
neighbour effects
do countries live out their feelings through their neighbours ... ?
V M # 4/04/2006
consumption circles
the more resources are consumed, more round and round peoples go ...
[circle is the most efficient use of resource ... ?]
like water going down a sinkhole ... ?
dizzy ...
V M # 4/04/2006
tyranny of routine ...
is the public undergoing unnecessary toil and problems due to legal processes which can be re-formed, simplified ... ?
what about the problems for the enforcers of these routines ... ?
V M # 4/04/2006
Aurangzeb, policies, expansion, resources, results
What was the outcome(s) of policies practised by the Indian ruler Aurangzeb ... ?
V M # 4/03/2006
human err
humans may understand ...
humans may err ...
how do we react ...
how do we respond ...
V M # 4/02/2006
waiting for inspiration at the space bar ...
shifted to http://virasat.livejournal.com/2294.html.
V M # 4/02/2006
Some words ...
shifted to http://virasat.livejournal.com/2045.html.
V M # 4/02/2006
identity and value
how is heritage developed ... ?
by consolidating an identity ... ?
or by doing good ... ?
and that reflecting on your overall identity ... ?
whichever it is ... ?
V M # 4/02/2006
technology and past
does technology help past to linger on [via, media] ... ?
how does it affect life ... ?
V M # 4/02/2006
needs, wants
how easy is it to generalise, market and supply for wants ... ?
how difficult is to generalise, market and supply for needs ... ?
V M # 4/01/2006
strength of ephemeral connections
what is the strength of ephemeral connections ... ?
[how important are ephemeral connections to [true] value in a society, its ability to respond to life ... ?
how do ephemeral connections be in a society in decline ... ?]
V M # 4/01/2006
=> [from http://livewise.blogspot.com/2006_04_01_archive.html]
Livewise at blogspot, March 2006
Quality of life as a category or tag or page
Life quality, as mentioned earlier, is a term which by its nature, covers a lot of ground. And in its self, can be an index or measure, however hazy, of life.
Both these facets - comprehensiveness and ephemeral singleness - could provide fertile grounds for collating information along these lines.
Information and knowledge services like directories, search services, databases, news sources, ... may want to look at how to provide life, in its entriety, a space in their midst. This may seem too broad or indefinite, yet a category or service oriented towards life information can - despite its haziness - be clarifying and a grounding experience for the user of information. To connect with life and live. Beyond information and sectoral disconnects, and overloading.
V M # 3/31/2006
Surfed by / visited ...
Gather
Thomas A Gerace, CEO, founder
[Do not know much more]
V M # 3/31/2006
human touch, market, values
how is human touch affected by markets ... ?
how has masculine touch come to be perceived ... ?
how is feminine touch being perceived ... ?
V M # 3/30/2006
Surfed by / visited ...
Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics (SASE)
V M # 3/30/2006
new technology, sensation, usage
does a new technology prompt greater awareness or consciousness of its effects and possibilities, which are explored, felt at a sensory level, and expressed in those terms, later the technology becomes a part of every day or day to day life, expressing more so that aspect of life.
V M # 3/29/2006
Surfed by / visited ...
Sunita Narain, director, Centre for Science and Environment
V M # 3/28/2006
"Surfed by / visited ... " links
Some of the sites and people I have surfed by or visited are listed under "Surfed by / visited ... ". (I may not know much more about them.)
To see these links, please search for "Surfed by / visited ... " in the Search This Blog form at the top of the blog. Or at blogsearch.google.com, pasting :
"Surfed by / visited ... " site:livewise.blogspot.com
in the search form.
A mention under "Surfed by / visited ... " does not imply endorsement, as with any other mention. Several sites may have some relevance to living quality.
V M # 3/28/2006
humans and sex
how is human sexual behaviour informed by - prior - experiences and - newer - opportunities ... ?
what is sought ... ? what is got ... ?
V M # 3/28/2006
Surfed by / visited ...
Scripting News a personal blog by Dave Winer
Socialtext Enterprise Wiki
Ross Mayfield, CEO
V M # 3/28/2006
Surfed by / visited ...
Henry C. Cowles and Ecological Succession
The Breakfast Blog
MSN-Manaichi Daily News
Columbia Encyclopedia
Australia Talks Back
Handmade etc.
Mary Ellen Mark
Aldo Leopold
Stay in touch Yahoo!
V M # 3/27/2006
change, society, survival
does experience of change - within/without - influence human behaviour ... ?
does experience of change influence societal behaviour ... ?
how do societies survive ... ?
what do societies need to survive ... ?
what are the needs of a more complex, 'developed' society for survival ... ?
what are the needs of relatively 'less developed' society for survival ... ?
what values are valued ... ?
how does the survival needs and values of a society influence or affect others ... ?
does complexity and rate of change influence resource consumption and behaviour ... ?
how does experience of change influence behaviour ... ?
V M # 3/27/2006
Surfed by / visited ...
Comet Hale-Bopp
Calvin and Hobbes
FlyLady
V M # 3/27/2006
Surfed by / visited ...
Click Online, BBC News
Sperling's Best Places
Greatest engineering achievements of 20th century
V M # 3/27/2006
police and soceity
Is police a cure ... ?
Is police part of the problem ... ?
How are police similar to society ... ?
How does authority seek to equate its stature in financial terms ... ?
Can police alone resolve issues ... ?
what sort of support and help is available to police and people ... ?
how are issues being addressed ... ?
V M # 3/26/2006
joy of honesty
where and how do people look to be honest ... ?
is there a joy in honesty ... ?
does honesty make one feel in touch with self ... ?
what is perceived to be honesty ... ?
what is honesty ... ?
what layers lie around people ... ?
how do people see and be honest, and live well ... ?
V M # 3/26/2006
House sparrows ...
How territorial are house sparrows ... ?
V M # 3/26/2006
democracy ...
Do we need an education (specially) for - working - a democracy ... ?
V M # 3/26/2006
Surfed by / visited ...
Mary Schmich
V M # 3/26/2006
Surfed by / visited ...
Mary Kingsley
Royal African Society was formed after her death. Mary Kingsley profile at RAS.
Richard Dowden is director of the society.
V M # 3/26/2006
Surfed by / visited ...
Farah Pahlavi
Sattareh Farman Farmaian
Qurratulain Hyder (also at Qurratulain Haider)
Dr. Dalip Kaur Tiwana
V M # 3/25/2006
Browsed by ...
Golden Peak by Kathleen Jamie, her travels in Gilgit.
Ms Jamie re-visited the region in post September 2001 period, and the book was republished incorporating new material [which I haven't read as yet].
V M # 3/24/2006
Browsed by ...
"Aunt Jane did the churning too, and worked the butter into the big round cakes that a small person felt free to cut into lavishly, breaking our usual habit at home of slivering off a minute slice."
from a memoir The Preacher Had 10 Kids by Frances Bradsher, the last child, growing up in turn of the century USA. Aunt Jane was an orphan who became part of her grandfather's family.
V M # 3/24/2006
living
Is it interesting to know how countries are lionised and then pushed off the pedestal ... ?
Is it interesting to see how countries set themselves up as targets ... ?
How important is it for countries to be just within their borders ... ? And fair and good outside ... ?
It is one thing to achieve material success, and efficiency, yet ... what about the moral and spiritual connection and nourishment ... ? What about thinking ... ?
Do countries give up their ways near to success when they did not need to compromise with their humanity ... ?
Who gains from compromise ... ?
How do you look at pride ... ? How are people proud of themselves ... ?
Do people need to understand the values that make for living when geographies and societies consolidate ... ?
How do values at a smaller scale when consolidated at a larger scale, without accompanying understanding and value for the diversity that comes alongside leaves the society open to vulnerability of powerful institutions ... which may not have the means to address the situation ... beyond short term, emotional appeals ... ? How do such approaches seek to sustain themselves ... ? With what consequences ... ?
How do institutions and mindsets view life ... ? How do they grapple with issues that other societies have grappled with ... ? How do you define yourself ... ? How do you view the reality, include people, change, move towards well being, retain skills for well being in a society, be good ... ?
How do societies be better for all ... ? [ The prosperous and powerful included ... ] For every one ...
V M # 3/24/2006
Surfed by / visited ...
Vanderbilt Kennedy Center for Research on Human Development
Shiftwork Services
The Work Foundation
Rural Community Assistance Partnership (RCAP)
V M # 3/24/2006
driven
what determines purpose ...
what determines behaviour ...
how do we view humans ... ?
how does our view of humans determine the way we behave towards them ... ?
how does the needs of a society determine its behaviour towards humans ... ?
[is it easier to take - away - resources from those who are considered less than human ... ?]
how does a society grow and prosper without too much dependence on resources from others ... ?
How do societies share ... ? work towards well being ... ?
how can society develop in various areas of well being besides which require excessive resources from other places ... ? how does a society not become insular or insensitive ... ?
can drives of an economy take over humans ... ?
do people seek [substitute for] a sense of well being and belonging, and productivity from economic and other activities ... ? driven ... ?
how do people belong within their society ... ? how do people make a productive contribution ... ? how do people get a chance to participate ... ? how do people accomodate ... and live well ... with fellow beings ... ?
how do we give priority to life and human beings ... ?
how do people utilise their abilities ... ?
how does society make room for journey of life ... ? Of satisfaction ... ? Contribution ... ? Productivity ... ? Beyond survival ... ?
V M # 3/24/2006
Surfed by / visited ...
Ecology of Absence
V M # 3/20/2006
Surfed by / visited ...
Networks of Centres of Excellence (NCE) Program
V M # 3/19/2006
institutionalising care ...
how far can you institutionalise human care ... ?
V M # 3/19/2006
sex, freedom, pace, behaviour, joy, approach ...
is the sexual behaviour an effect, a symptom, [of life being lived or experienced] ... ?
how keen are people for freedom ... ?
what do they do when they get freedom ... ?
how does 'bad' behaviour come to be associated with identity ... ?
how does changes in pace of life or dimensions of life affect quality of life ... ?
how do technology change the timespan, speed ... ?
what do goal posts achieve ... ?
what are goal posts ... ?
how do you value life ... ?
is life lived incrementally .. ?
what is quality of life ... ?
how to understand quality of life from one generation to next ... ?
how to measure and appreciate quality of life ... ?
how is attractiveness defined on partial or limited information [or context] ... ?
V M # 3/19/2006
in the name of ...
in the name of good ...
how has the identity come to be associated with 'bad' behaviour ...
what do people perceive is required of them to be accepted ...
how do people find satisfaction in life ...
what is defined as success ...
what is quality of life perceived to be ...
V M # 3/19/2006
Surfed by / visited ...
National Federation of the Blind of the United Kingdom
Very Special Kids
European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions
V M # 3/19/2006
new technology, adaptation, developing countries
How do early technlogy adopting regions of developing country respond to the technology ... ?
How are they able to deal with the promise and opportunities opened up by the technology ... ?
Do they have the resources to actualise its potential ... ?
How do they understand the need for, and the grammer of the technology in their own context ... ?
How do they interact with and respond to products which are designed for a developed country, and its context ... ?
How does it influence or impact the quality of life of people ... ?
V M # 3/19/2006
stage
how do we appreciate the stages in a society or a community or a section or a person's life ... ?
going on alongside and with each other ... together ... apart ... going on ... alongside ... one place ... places ... lives ... life ...
how do you understand each other ... ?
how do you live ... ?
V M # 3/18/2006
Trends, fads and lives ...
How do changes in fads, trends affect, influence lives ... ?
V M # 3/18/2006
Surfed by / visited ...
Stockwell Partnership
Neighbor Power: Building Community The Seattle Way
Coffee Kids
V M # 3/18/2006
bias, interaction, survival mode ...
bias ... pre-judging people without knowing them ... ?
how does limited or lack of interaction inform bias ... ?
how does survival mode affect human interactions ... ?
why do people be in survival mode ... ?
V M # 3/18/2006
Surfed by / visited ...
The Civic Trust
St Paul's Unlimited Community Partnership
Rethink - Severe Mental Illness
May Logan Centre for Healthy Living
Local Solutions
V M # 3/17/2006
Surfed by / visited ...
Boundless Playgrounds
Stopping Sprawl Main Page - Sierra Club
The Gloucester Fishermen's Wives Association
Los Angeles County Bicycle Coalition (LACBC)
Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation
Regional Plan Association (RPA)
The Bay Area Economic Forum
Seminary Consortium for Urban Pastoral Education (SCUPE)
Chicago Festival Association (CFA)
V M # 3/17/2006
Surfed by / visited ...
The Atlanta Project (TAP)
Latin American Association
Virginia's Center for Innovative Technology
Citizens for a Better Eastern Shore (CBES)
The Oral History Association
V M # 3/17/2006
Suze Orman
Bubbly personal finance consultant on air in the US. Also mentioned here.
V M # 3/17/2006
Surfed by / visited ...
Alla Pugacheva
Umm Kulthum
The Ventures
V M # 3/17/2006
Surfed by / visited ...
Nutrition & HIV Research project, Department of Public Health and Family Medicine, Tufts University School of Medicine
Victoria Native Friendship Centre
GLSA (Graduate Linguistics Student Association)
Sustainable Cites Research Institute
Pets on Wheels, Fairfax
Heathrow Association for the Control of Aircraft Noise (HACAN)
Arizona Association for Economic Development
Arizona Commission for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing
Institute for Human Development
Centers for Disease Control
V M # 3/15/2006
Surfed by / visited ...
Sustainable Environment for Quality of Life (SEQL) program
Beehive Online Community Network from Northcliffe Electronic Publishing (NEP), online arm of the Northcliffe Newspaper Group
V M # 3/15/2006
Market for unemployed ...
There are markets for the employed ...
What about a market for the unemployed ... offering quality, useful, good services to the unemployed, to get - back - into employment ... ?
V M # 3/15/2006
media arts - life flow
Does media arts prolong human experiences, make them unrealistic ... ?
Can its - distorted - expression of human dilemmas and sentiments obstruct people's ability to live ... ?
V M # 3/14/2006
Browsed by ...
"The central conservative truth is that it is culture, not politics, that determines the success of a society. The central liberal truth is that politics can change a culture and save it from itself."
quote attributed to Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan (1986), in a book.
V M # 3/14/2006
Lucille
Lucille sung by Kenny Rogers (1977), written by Roger Bowling and Hal Bynum.
V M # 3/14/2006
Democracy and republic
Does democracy give people power ... ?
Does it give power to the silent majority (which cuts across all of society) ... ?
Do people have to worry about thier own interests in face of a majority vote ... ?
Do people need to be more responsible in a republic ... ?
Would perpetuating issues and problems of old, help ... ?
Would harming people today for problems of the past, help ... ?
How do people ensure their own well being and of others ... ?
How do people appreciate or understand diversity and humanity of each other, and selves ... ?
V M # 3/14/2006
Surfed by / visited ...
Project USE (Utilization, Social Support, and Education)
The College of Agriculture and Life Sciences at the University of Arizona
ASU Center for Nonprofit Leadership and Management at Arizona State University
The School of Design, Engineering & Computing
The Institute of Health & Community Studies
The School of Services Management
The Business School
Bournemouth Law School
The School of Conservation Sciences
Bournemouth Media School
Sheffield Institute for Studies on Ageing
- Homeless People and Homelessness - problemms and needs of older homeless people
The Community Foundation of Howard County
The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee
Comox Valley Community Foundation
The Greater Des Moines Community Foundation
The Seattle Foundation
Greenfield Community College
Department of Family and Child Ecology at The College of Social Science at Michigan State University
Lifeline Systems
EdenCan - for elders living in a long term care facility
Please note: a mention here does not imply endorsement.
V M # 3/13/2006
Surfed by / visited ...
The College of Applied Life Studies
V M # 3/12/2006
Some site categories relating to life quality from dmoz.org Part 3
Some site categories relating to life quality from dmoz.org Part 3
Arts: Television: Programs: Reality-Based
Business: Management
Business: Business_Services
Home: Personal_Finance
Reference: Knowledge_Management
Regional: North_America: United_States: Government: Legislative_Branch: Senate: Proposed_Amendments: Human_Life
Society: Issues: Animal_Welfare: Farming
Science: Agriculture
Business: Agriculture_and_Forestry
Science: Environment: Biodiversity
Science: Biology: Flora_and_Fauna [?]
Health: Animal [?]
Shopping: Niche [?]
Home: Rural_Living
Home: Urban_Living
Home: Apartment_Living
Home: Homemaking
Society: Issues: Environment: Sustainable_Development
Society: Work: Rethinking_Work [?]
Please note : a mention here does not imply endorsement.
V M # 3/12/2006
Dr. Reg Revans
Dr. Reg Revans, Action Learning
[Do not have a lot more information]
V M # 3/12/2006
Dr. Richard Pascale
Dr. Richard Pascale,
associate fellow, Templeton College, University of Oxford.
author,
Surfing the Edge of Chaos: The Laws of Nature and the New Laws of Business
The Art of Japanese Management
[Do not have a lot more information]
V M # 3/12/2006
Life On The Farm Board Game
[Surfed by ] Life On The Farm Board Game
V M # 3/11/2006
Some site categories relating to life quality from dmoz.org Part 2
Some site categories relating to life quality from dmoz.org Part 2
Shopping: Publications
Science: Technology: Space: Colonization: Life_Support
Science: Math: Applications: Complex_Systems: Abstract_Organisms: Tree_of_Life_projects
Science: Math: Applications: Complex_Systems
Science: Technology: Cybernetics
Science: Math: Chaos_and_Fractals: Chaos
Computers: Artificial_Life
Science: Math: Applications: Information_Theory
Science: Software: Simulation
Science: Earth_Sciences: Paleontology: Education: College_and_University: History_of_Life
Science: Astronomy: Extraterrestrial_Life
Health: Aging [?]
Games: Board_Games
Health: Aging: Life-Cycle
Society: Death
Society: Religion_and_Spirituality
Health: Child_Health
Health: Men's_Health
Health: Senior_Health
Health: Teen_Health
Health: Women's_Health
Society: People: Women: Issues: Health
Health: Reproductive_Health
Society: Sexuality
Health: Medicine: Medical_Specialties: Andrology
Health: Public_Health_and_Safety: Indigenous_Health
Home: Family: Family_Resources_and_Support
Home: Family: Parenting
Society: Relationships: Divorce: Children's_Issues
Society: Relationships: Marriage
Home: Family: Babies
Home: Family: Grandparents
Home: Family: Childcare
Health: Medicine: Medical_Specialties: Pediatrics
Health: Medicine: Medical_Specialties: Geriatrics
Society: People: Generations_and_Age_Groups: Seniors
Recreation: Travel: Specialty_Travel: Family
Home: Consumer_Information [?]
Society: Philosophy: Ethics: Applied: Bioethics
Science: Science_in_Society [?]
Society: Issues: Science_and_Technology [?]
Society: History: By_Time_Period: Ancient: Rome: Daily_Life
Science: Technology: Cybernetics: K1_and_K2_-_General_Cybernetics
Society: History: By_Topic: Social_History
Society: History: By_Time_Period: Middle_Ages: Daily_Life
Society: History: By Topic: Social History: Domestic Life
Please note : a mention here does not imply endorsement.
V M # 3/11/2006
The Creative Life with Cheryl Fall
[ Surfed by ] The Creative Life with Cheryl Fall
V M # 3/11/2006
Joseph M. Juran
Joseph M. Juran
V M # 3/11/2006
news and business
Does news as a business seek stability, growth ... ?
Does news as - a service or product - vocation seek to question the status quo when necessary ... ?
V M # 3/10/2006
Trust, participation, expression, and wanderlust
How important is trust in relatively complex - [or] developed - societies ... ?
Do complex -[ relatively developed ] - societies disenfranchise their citizens ... ?
How do citizens respond ... ?
How do societies have a human scale ... ?
How do people have a sense of participation, or belonging, expression ... ?
Do people seek to find a home elsewhere ... ?
[ What skills, needs, people bring ... ? ]
How do societies be livable ... ?
What are the effects on people, on other places, societies ... ?
V M # 3/10/2006
Some site categories relating to life quality from dmoz.org
Some site categories relating to life quality from dmoz.org directory
World
Health: Senior Health: Assisted Living
Society: Issues: End-of-Life
Health: Mental Health: Self-Help
Business: Business Services: Consulting: Medical and Life Sciences: Regulatory Affairs
Science: Biology: Products and Services
Health: Conditions and Diseases
Society: Issues: End-of-Life
Science: Environment: Sustainability
Science: Technology: Energy: Conservation
Home: Family: Childcare
Science: Biology: Methods and Techniques
Science: Methods and Techniques
Science: Social Sciences: Methodology
Society: Disabled
Society: Issues: Health
Society: Issues: Children, Youth and Family
Science: Environment: Water Resources
Shopping: Health: Mental Health [?]
Health: Senior Health
Health: Organizations [?]
Society: Issues: Environment
Business: Human Resources
Health: Medicine: Medical Specialties: Palliative Care
Reference
Health: Public Health and Safety
Business: Financial Services: Insurance: Carriers: Life and Health [?]
Shopping: Health: Disabilities: Assistive Technology
Society: Issues
Society: People
Society: Work: Work-Life Balance
Society: Work: Work_and_Family
Science: Social Sciences
Science: Social Sciences: Urban and Regional Planning
Science: Social Sciences: Sociology: Academic Papers
Health: Home Health: Home Care
Health: Medicine: Medical_Specialties: Geriatrics
Society: Issues: Warfare and Conflict
Society: Issues: Global
Health: Specific Substances: Tobacco
Health: Conditions and Diseases: Immune Disorders:
Reference: Education: Colleges and Universities
Health: Conditions and Diseases: Neurological Disorders
News
Society: Issues: Fraud
Regional
Science: Technology: Quality_Engineering
Science: Reference: Standards
Science: Math: Operations_Research
Science: Technology: Industrial_Engineering
Please note: a mention here does not imply endorsement.
V M # 3/09/2006
Browsed by ...
"Bill Corson knows his business. ... He was in command of the United States Marine Corps' Combined Action Platoons in South Vietnam. His small organization of 1,200 Marines, spread thin over 78 hamlets, brought about the one true American sucess in Vietnam. When the Vietcong launched their Tet offensive in January 1968, the Marine CAP hamlets held fast. This was so because these fourteen-man Marine Corps teams had won the Other War in those hamlets. They had the support and loyalty of the South Vietnamese peasants, who fought voluntarily with the Marines against the Vietcong, and for the right reason - because they had a personal stake in victory. In many instances, the people who fought with Corson's Marines were former Vietcong who came home because the Marines had helped the villagers make conditions there more attractive than the revolution."
writes William J Lederer (April 18, 1968) in his introduction to Lieutenant-Colonel William R Corson's book "The Betrayal" (first edition 1968)
V M # 3/09/2006
freedom
what are important ...
appearances of freedom ... ?
freedom ... ?
its context ... ?
what is freedom ... ?
what is freedom within context ... ?
V M # 3/08/2006
Freedom to appear so ...
[ Was there less freedom to appear as you wish to earlier ... ]
Can or does more freedom to appear as you would like to lead to some of the confusion in relationships ... ?
V M # 3/08/2006
Suggesting a new root category for dmoz: life or quality of life
Subject: Suggesting a new category all together
Hi,
Quality of life is an all embracing, yet quite unique term which includes issues from health, to community. A separate category, at the root, would be a good idea. Particularly because a lot of sites addressing life quality or living quality issues or more particularly "quality of life" issues, currently do not have a single reference place to go to.
While it is quite appropriate for a specific site focussing on particular quality of life issues to be referenced at a spot deep within the directory, it might help to have a root category which comes up at that location, if appropriate, which a searcher can also refer to.
I would like to stress that :
- if possible you could also broaden this too a root category called life, with a sub category for life quality.
- also quality of life as I use the term herre refers to a broad range of activities, and approaches dealing with life or living quality, and quality of life.
with regards,
Virasat Mirza
http://geocities.com/lifeinsight/index.html
PS: I will be referencing this to my blog.
[Feedback sent to dmoz.org]
V M # 3/07/2006
media
why do people turn to media ... ?
V M # 3/06/2006
blood, genes, expression
how does blood and genes express itself through major changes ... ?
how do people feel about abandoning their flesh and blood ... ?
what appears,
what doesn't
what expresses ... ?
V M # 3/06/2006
change, choices and qol
How do you understand change
& choices ?
& qol,
& happiness ?
& life ?
V M # 3/06/2006
stamina and migration ...
how does stamina, ability to thrive in a new environment influence migration there ... ?
V M # 3/06/2006
one mindedness, needs, wishes
Is one minded ness sought as long as it supports one's needs, wishes ... ?
how do diversity or singularity relate to needs ... ?
V M # 3/06/2006
sex
sex as gratitude
sex as embarrassment ...
vice versa
V M # 3/06/2006
democracy
democracy as voting process ...
democracy as learning process ...
democracy as understanding reality and others ...
V M # 3/06/2006
geography
Competitive geography and nationalism ...
Competitive nationalism and geography ...
V M # 3/06/2006
technology, and excess
Can technology make excess possible ... ?
V M # 3/06/2006
Browsed by ...
qali: snow that collects on trees
api: snow on ground
[ snow terms used by forest eskimo ... ]
gourd dipper
V M # 3/06/2006
technology, human characteristics, character
How do changing technology promote different human characteristics ... ?
What character prevails ... ?
V M # 3/06/2006
=> [from http://livewise.blogspot.com/2006_03_01_archive.html]
Livewise at blogspot, February 2006
Straight Dope
Straight Dope, a question answering newspaper column and a message board.
V M # 2/28/2006
english words
English is a global language today. Do some english words and their meanings have a particularly English connotation ... ? Does that sense persist ... ?
example: overseas ?
V M # 2/28/2006
The College of Health and Human Development
[Surfed by] The College of Health and Human Development defines its mission as:
"Our mission is to improve human well-being across the life span through interdisciplinary research, teaching, and service."
V M # 2/28/2006
Surfed by / visited ...
Rate Your Students at blogspot. [?]
V M # 2/28/2006
Surfed by / visited ...
Rosanna Arquette's new documentary, All We Are Saying, is to premiere on Showtime. Among other things, according to the site, the musicians will talk about their experiences of trying to balance family and relationships, and work.
Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of American History launches a multi-year hip hop initiative which includes collecting objects related to hip hop arts and culture.
V M # 2/28/2006
Cleaning up the plate and obesity in children
Children are often taught to eat up everything in their plate. That is, clean up their plate.
There is a mention of eating habits formed in childhood in an episode of Scientific American Frontiers, Fat and happy?, hosted by Alan Alda, where Dr. Leanne Birch points to some of these habits.
Dr. Leanne Birch, Director,The Center for Childhood Obesity Research and Children's Eating Lab.
V M # 2/28/2006
John Naisbitt
John Naisbitt
V M # 2/27/2006
Toffler Associates
Toffler Associates
V M # 2/27/2006
What a Wonderful World
What a Wonderful World
V M # 2/26/2006
Songs and meanings
Do the often repeated phrases define the sense of the song, over all the words included ... ?
"Strangers in the Night"
and
"Ever since that night we've been together
Lovers at first sight, in love forever
It turned out so right for strangers in the night"
V M # 2/26/2006
cannon fodder
What crop do we raise which ends up as cannon fodder ... ?
All dressed up and no where to go ... ?
where ... ?
useful skills for life, living, in tune with life ...
V M # 2/26/2006
Choices for the 21st Century - a high school program in the US
Came across Choices for the 21st Century, from the Watson Insitute of International Studies, at Brown University, which seeks to engage high school students in historical and current international issues.
Do not know much more about the programme as yet.
V M # 2/25/2006
In the Mix
Came by this PBS series on the net. Executive producer, Sue Castle. Dealing with issues facing young people.
In the Mix
V M # 2/25/2006
A word of appreciation
Just a word to appreciate people in news media. There are many people - one gets to know through their work - to name. And many I do not know about.
V M # 2/25/2006
times ...
How are the ethos of society defined by the dominant strengths within the society ... ?
How do these strengths cope with change and down swings ... ?
How do the rivalries and tensions of Union find expression in the life of a city ... ?
How do people respond ... ?
How do people in the city find a sharedness with those from within the city ... ?
What forces may strain the family relations and how does that stress find expression ... ?
V M # 2/24/2006
Structure and living
How do advances in technology and technique create structures which bear them out ... ?
How well do they suit human usage ... ?
How far can humans refine structures to suit their individual and group requirements ... ?
How does monotony and uniformity of actions and time affect humans ... ?
Does human ability put a premium on physical space ... ?
How can such ability find space ... ?
How does society regulate ... ?
How does society meet the basic needs of all ... ?
How does society make room for the enjoyment of life ... ?
How do people structure their lives to see the bigger picture ... ?
How does diversity allow for appreciation ... ?
How do man and woman be together ... ?
V M # 2/24/2006
Success and influence
How does success of a particular endeavour define the outlook and approach of the business group's other - different - activities ... ?
V M # 2/24/2006
automated morality ... ?
Are our mores defined by what we see, what is visible ... what is appreciated ... ?
Does it influence how we perceive others ... ?
Does it influence our reaction to people without knowing them ... ?
Based on what we see or is visible about them, and whether that is appreciated ... ?
Does this make for a somewhat automatic response without much thought ... ?
With possible effects on the person, and selves in how we try to come across ... ?
Does it waste personal resources, and more generally ... and affect quality of lfe ... ?
V M # 2/24/2006
nationalism and universal-ism
Can genuine love and feeling of fellowship be restricted to one level ... ?
How does this feeling flow and find expression ... ?
Does genuineness at one level translate to other levels ... ?
Does it corrupt ? - and become possessive ? - when restricted in definition ... ?
How do societies do well for themselves within and with others ... ?
V M # 2/24/2006
Expressing happiness
How important is it for people to express their happiness ... ?
V M # 2/24/2006
Robot Wisdom
Jorn Barger's Robot Wisdom weblog.
I have visited the site only a few times. Posting a link here.
V M # 2/23/2006
email
Please repeat email if necessary ...
regards
V M # 2/23/2006
Search
Search & Navigation :
- LifeInsight is the main site.
- Related blogs are at blogspot, livejournall, and xanga.
- Tags for the site and related blogs are att del.icio.us and furl.net.
- Much of xanga (monthly) and LifeInsight arrchives have been included at blogspot for easier navigation, access and search.
=> For title-wise listing of posts, and for site-wise archives, refer full archives.
Please note that the earlier search syntax (format) given here for searching the sites with Google Blog Search no longer works. A new syntax which works has been added below in its place. The problem with the new syntax is that the search is now not restricted to sites, and can include outside results. See here or below for more.
Quick guide to search and navigation:
=> Use Google's Blog Search to search for the main site LifeInsight, and the related blogs at blogspot and xanga.
To search the site and blogs, add the following to the search terms in the search box,
blogspot.com livewise OR universeoflife OR linksandstuff inpostauthor:"V M"
=> Use LJseek.com to search for blogs at Livejournal.com. LJSeek.com is an independent search service for Livejournal.com.
Tags :
Site and blog tags are at del.icio.us/lifewise and also at furl.net/members/lifewise (not always up to date).
del.icio.us/lifewise tags
- There is a 'tag cloud' on the homepage of livewise.blogspot.com, showing the tags and their frequency (indicated by size).
- Each tag page at del.icio.us/lifewise may display related tags, if any.
- Clicking on the plus '+' sign before the rrelated tag shows the posts or urls having both tags.
- Also see, navigation help at del.icio.us ssite, and see this post at the del.icio.us blog for search syntax.
- For tags relating to a particular blog posst or url,
copy the post URL (link), paste at the "check url" form at http://del.icio.us/url/.
furl.net/members/lifewise tags and archives (not always up to date)
Unlike del.icio.us, the tags are called topics at furl.net. They can be easily accessed from the drop down menu at the archives page.
While del.icio.us allows a search on tags or combination of tags within the archive (as noted above), there does not seem to be a similar feature at furl.net for combining topics.
Keywords search available at furl.net does not work at the lifewise archives, as there are only topics here, not keywords.
But at furl.net, one can use any of the usual search parameters: '+' plus sign to include a term, "-" minus sign to exclude a term, AND, OR, NOT, etc. For more information on search, please refer syntax notes and examples at Furl.net FAQ.
Search guide (longer version) :
All sites (blogs) are searchable either with Google Blog Search or via Livejournal search with LJseek.com.
Also included here are Words to search for, and a search for the links Surfed by / visited ... .
=> Sites searchable with Google Blog Search , older site first :
* LifeInsight (main site)
* Lifecosm at xanga.com
* Lifecosm (moved to Universe of Life)
* Links and Stuff
* Universe of Life
* Livewise (usually the most current site)
Note:
The archives of the two non blogspot sites (LifeInsight and Lifecosm at xanga.com) have been included at Livewise at blogspot.com for easier access, navigation and search.
=> To search the six sites above with Google Blog Search :
1. Enter search terms in the search form
2. Now add the following to restrict search to the relevant sites.
blogspot.com livewise OR universeoflife OR linksandstuff inpostauthor:"V M"
Example,
life OR living blogspot.com livewise OR universeoflife OR linksandstuff inpostauthor:"V M"
Note:
- Search results may include results not froom the sites.
- Search results are likely to be grouped byy site they come form. For more results from each site, look out for 'More results' link in the results. For example, like this link here [ More results from Livewise ].
- Advanced blog search options are availablee at Google Blog Search.
- gettingintouch.blogspot.com has only a feww posts yet, so it has not be added to the search. It may be simpler to visit it directly. To include it in the search, just add OR gettingintouch to the search.
=> Livejournal sites (older site first) :
* Virasat
* Living quality community
Livejournal sites can be searched via LJSeek.com (an independent company offering search for Livejournal)
Or via tags at Virasat or at Living quality.
Tip: LJSeek powered search is available from the userinfo page of the journal, by clicking the search icon.
=> Some words to search for or Word frequencies
- Some common words at these sites are referrred to at the Some words to search for post.
- The data is not uptodate, and a bit jumbleed up.
=> Searching "Surfed by / visited ... " links
The "Surfed by / visited ... " links can be searched with Google Blog Search (as above). For example, use the following in the search box :
intitle:Surfed blogspot.com livewise OR universeoflife OR linksandstuff inpostauthor:"V M"
=> Surfed by / visited ... tag at Virasat and at Living quality community at livejournal.com.
note: There may be repeats in Surfed by / visited ... links as, they may be posted together, and seperately, and in directory, etc
.
* About "Surfed by / visited ... "
V M # 2/23/2006
Blogstreet directory
Adding site to Blogstreet directory ...
[ Link required to be posted ]
V M # 2/22/2006
About '... ?' :
'... ?' in posts may not always or only indicate a question.
The idea in many cases may be to be active, interactive, to think, query, introspect, to further understanding, ...
V M # 2/22/2006
Tags: life, living, quality
livewise.blogspot.com/2005/12/older-notes-qol-basic-life-process.html
universeoflife.blogspot.com/2005/09/what-it-takes.html
universeoflife.blogspot.com/2005/09/life-quality-and-study.html
Love as an electro motive force in life ...
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Life quality as an expression of life ...
universeoflife.blogspot.com/2005/03/media-and-patterns-of-behaviour.html
livewise.blogspot.com/2005/12/older-notes-quality-of-life-and.html
universeoflife.blogspot.com\2005\09\lifecosm-universe-of-life-_112683640694802348.html
V M # 2/21/2006
memory and motions
Do people seek to honour memory by holding on to motions, activities ... ?
How do people honour memories and carry on activities which are suited for life ... ?
V M # 2/21/2006
isolation and hostage
Does isolation end up promoting values in life which were sought to be protected against by doing so ... ?
Do people feel they are held hostage from within their own ... ?
... particularly through isolation ... ?
how do people live values of life ... ?
V M # 2/21/2006
consolidation and weakness ...
Can consolidation of strength or skill turn into weakness ... ?
Can the skills go out of sync with requirements of living ... ?
What does it take to make skills work in living life well ... ?
V M # 2/21/2006
Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam, President of India
Website of Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam, President of India
While I have not read his books, one can see Dr. Kalam's interest (and involvement, at times) in various spheres of endeavour reflected in his speeches, glimpses of which I sometimes catch on air.
V M # 2/20/2006
market and living
how does market value living, beings ... ?
how does market value relations, humans ... ?
how do people value living ... ?
V M # 2/19/2006
a sense of proportion ...
how important is a sense of proportion to life ... ?
how does market influence sense of proportion ... ?
V M # 2/19/2006
Creator
Is Creator that which who provides the quality of being to a being [,] thing ... ?
V M # 2/19/2006
consumption, identity, interaction, sustenability, turnover, means
how satisfying is consumption ... ?
does consumption reduce scope for interaction ... ?
what does interaction contribute to life ... ?
what is interaction ... ?
how sustainable is interaction ... ?
how does consumption pattern affect identity and identities ... ?
what fuels consumption ... ?
how important is interaction and sustainability to life ... ?
how important is turnover to consumption ... ?
how does sustainability understand turnover ... ?
what is consumption ... ?
V M # 2/19/2006
Some posts
older notes: QOL - basic life process & activity
QOL is an essential step that each individual takes as he experiences himself and the world and arrives at an idea of who he is, the man is, and the world is. This in turn - this internal, basic, primary ongoing self-started probe and its results arrived at - leads us to pursue life on a wider, &, similar way. Exploration patterns are set by our experiences, our learning, essentially telling us how and what connections are made by us. So we see the world, and are able to see it the way we do & see it the way we do through our ongoing QOL experience, its abstraction, implementation, &, curiosity, exploration... which tells on our life's living - how we live as individuals, and humans as a kind.QOL is an essential ongoing process in each of us which begins with ourselves, and so it affects our lives' activity and our lives in turn. So, how we see our QOL ( what is man, his characteristics, range ... ) as 'connected' by us, imprints our life.So QOL is not only desired goal, but the essential basic step in our life & its activity; in our living and the quality of it.
Some contributors to life quality and awareness
Some vital contributors to life quality may be prone to error and misuse, it may be useful to be aware of that as well.
- Information
Humans use information to make sense of their world and to interact with it.
- Media
Media mediates and presents information in a variety of forms, print, audio-visual, etc. Errors may creep in during the process of mediation and presentation of information. Information may be manipulated during mediation and presentation.
- News
News focuses on freshness and newness, which can allow for errors and incomplete information. Time and space constraints, self-censorship, spin, bias, etc. can also affect the quality of information which the user accesses.
- Entertainment
Entertainment can make everything, in a manner of speaking, look attractive which may not necessarily be what works for living well.
Distances between people - personal as well as geographical - can make entertainment appear more appealing or realistic than it is, may be due to lack of exposure and options.
- Education
Education has become an integral part of society's supply chain. Yet the term education itself might have become more limited. There may be gaps in providing for all round needs of humans through education. In turn, it may affect the ability of people to apply their learning to and participate in life.
Education, as in graded learning for many years, may stretch the subjects so much through one year to the next that the connections within the subject matter may be lost for the student. And the move from simple to more complex, as the students grow needs to be carefully addressed, otherwise over simplification can lead to misconceptions and inaccuracies. While complexities may become incomprehensible without clarity and connections, and affect the desire and willingness to query and understand.
- Quality
Life may require a certain level of quality in its inputs.
At times quality is looked in a limited sense for a particular product and service. How do you look at quality delivery across the various inputs which together make for a good life quality ... ?
Often quality control stops at a point, and beyond it quality measures may be slack. Such gaps in quality delivery can affect people's life. For example, a carton of milk is advertised as a hygienic, long shelf-life product, yet how much attention is being paid to hygenic storage of those cartons.
- Thought
At times manipulation can be a source of error in thought which can affect people's life quality significantly.
- Group
Group, whether society, community, etc., may end up not valuing or involving the young and various segments, which may leave them open to manipulation ... ?
- Action
Way and manner in which things get done can influence life quality. Means to an end can determine the outcome and their effects.
Even minor actions can have consequences. Example, the way we sit or lift things.
- Methodology
Methodology errors are another area to look at for enhancing effectiveness and life quality. Effects of faulty or inefficient methodology can be significant, recurring and cummulative. It can affect the outcomes significantly and drastically.
- Approach
Errors in approach may occur early, and may be more glaring in hindsight. How do you look at issues, decisions, in terms of approach beforehand. How unidimensional or exclusive is approach ... ?
Life quality and study
How do you understand and appreciate life quality as a whole ... ?
Life quality as an expression of life ...
Life quality as an expression of life ...
older notes: QOL as experience of life ...
QOL as the experience of life, as the needs, desires, requirements for living which a man seeks to fulfill to 'live' in all ways. In all different circumstances of his life. That's the overall media. Specific needs, wishes which make up the QOL dimensions of man emphasised by people will be given highlight. In this way, QOL will be furthered and promoted in its wholeness.
Aim at the wholeness, The connections, (to) address specifics, promote 'em, show how work is being done on 'em, Develop, show various specifics, Show / address whole-ness of QOL. Keep QOL issues in highlight as issues important to living in proportion to their importance to living.
older notes: Pristine Quality of Life
Perenial / basic / more nature-, self-, human-, relation- oriented, less dependent Quality of Life. Therefore less focus on products, more on Q.O.L. as the subject.
- Provide fora for people to know their issuues on QOL and what is happening to address the questions and also know what's happening. Be there in their life.
- People pressure, focus, prioritisation, toop level prioritisation important, vital in putting QOL on equal footing as is needed for life living.
history, perception and life quality
does false idealisation of history lead to bitterness in life in the present ?
older notes: Quality of life and fullness of human being
Quality of life as an estimation of the fullness or varied or parts or/and aspects which make up a human being's life: this comprehensivity, sensitivity to man as a being. Approaching man the customer, the consumer, the individual you interact with in light of his fullness of being - what therefore, are his aspects which make for Quality of living - when you service him, make a product for him, provide him a deal, or meet him as a person.
So looking at human being as a total person when you may be dealing / interacting / relating with him as a consumer, customer or person.
This extends to other relations in life Products, Services, interaction which address the full person: how components for the full aspects (apart from just a consumer statistic in [)]
Enlarging his perception of the person in totality as a person.
What makes a person tick? live?
What aspects are under addressed?
How does addressing, including full person view in commercial operations assist greater (profits) Opportunities & satisfaction.
What is the sublime? What is most fullfilling? What expresses full joy for humans?
What liberates? What facilitates life for man? Who am I? How do I work? How do I develop?
How do I enjoy? What occupies me?
quality of life
How do people get or be in touch with or be aware of things which have made our lives better ... ?
How do every day activities in life contribute to better quality of life ... ?
identity and quality of life
How can people have quality of life ... ?
Living beings
People as consumers
earning to consume ... ?
People as living beings ...
Living societies
Do socieities address existing issues, and issues which come up, ongoingly ... ?
nature wonder
Nature displays the known and the unknown
we may wonder ...
human society based on the known ... ?
Is there a fear of the unknown ... ?
Would being with nature help give us some perspective and appreciation of life on the whole ?
How important is it to be in touch with nature ... ?
How important is it to conserve nature ... ?
[ nature includes humans .... ]
Do humans try to understand and arrive at what is (already) in nature ... ?
Life and stuff
Is life being adapted to suit stuff or stuffs ... ?
Life and change
How do societies and people deal with change ... ?
How is change part of life ... ? and isn't ... ?
V M # 2/18/2006
Some words to search for here
Life
people
living
human
society
information
well being
human being
being
quality
lives
humans
media
good
things
issues
work
societies
resources
sense
real
understanding
products
affect
useful
local
values
times
person
nature
development
technology
full
whole
part
often
learning
ideas
experience
need
country
reality
influence
knowledge
countries
solutions
home
family
expression
touch
within
relationships
content
mean
list
context
available
communities
economy
older
children
aspects
self
services
another
few
power
show
behaviour
access
community
education
means
value
name
change
medium
fiction
love
benefit
role
requirements
identity
communication
environment
accuracy
interaction
expert
requirements
together
imply
effect
sex
women
film
success
think
benefit
meet
outside
doing
V M # 2/17/2006
characters and persona
Does long term utility of fictional characters require that their persona does not change significantly ... ?
Does it bind its fans ... does it affect their approach ... ?
V M # 2/17/2006
quality of basic product
Do companies compromise the quality of their basic product in order to sell brands and products that build on it ... ?
V M # 2/17/2006
Surfed by / visited ...
Manushi Madhu Kishwar, founder editor
Anitabora.com
V M # 2/14/2006
Note for Lifecosm at xanga posts
Lifecosm at xanga.com posts by and large do not have titles.
Here are a few titles from:
February 2004 posts
curiosity, human life, and technology
Aspiration, the Other's Storytelling & Copying.
Hormones, Youth and a Marketplace
Making quality new information easily available to the public. And some related issues.
January 2004 posts
Life goes on, so does the media and so does media-ted living.
June 2003
Life's Prism
Experiences and Power
V M # 2/14/2006
Some titles from Recent at Lifeinsight
Here is a list of titles within Recent at Lifeinsight
Please note that quite a few entries at Recent at Lifeinsight do not have titles.
Recent at Lifeinsight has been reproduced here at this blog. With posts numbered.
(Note: If at all you need to locate titles within Recent at Lifeinsight, please use the Find feature - Ctrl+F - of the browser .)
love and life
languages, interaction and living
Information in context
... being aware of and appreciating the goodness in our selves and
others ...
body and soul together ...
glamourous lifestyle
expressing love
rich society
human element
side-effects before effects ?
disassociation
battles by proxy ?
If it is too good to be true ... may be it is too good to be true
catharsis or false angst ?
whole life action
creation exploration
technology window
connecting the dots ...
human actors
Nobel peace prize
design
Valuing menial and physical labour ...
children-powered society ... [ or infantile ...
] ?
knowledge, centres, privacy, culture
standard formats and life
'western' education
building blocks ...
war goods, how good ... ?
greed
beautiful moments
social technology
the structure for
communication
How...
To be in someone's shoes ...
history
mediated separation or identification
human individuals
animal programming
women
women
survival environment
Need to see good working ... ?
Re-runs
Quirks
Human discovery
V M # 2/14/2006
Title-wise listing of posts to Universe of Life, and Livewise blogs, including titles from Lifecosm at xanga.com and Recent at Lifeinsight
[Titles marked with asteriks * and in bold indicate are a group of titles, that is, there are more titles within such entries, from Lifeinsight and Lifecosm at xanga.com.]
Titles from livewise.blogspot.com
April 2006 (upto 8th April)
progressive laws and implementation
family, relationship, distress, distance and conflict
numerical success
non monetary assets
self governance
life and script
neighbour effects
consumption circles
tyranny of routine ...
Aurangzeb, policies, expansion, resources, results
human err
waiting for inspiration at the space bar ...
Some words ...
identity and value
technology and past
needs, wants
strength of ephemeral connections
March 2006
Quality of life as a category or tag or page
Surfed by / visited ...
human touch, market, values
Surfed by / visited ...
new technology, sensation, usage
Surfed by / visited ...
"Surfed by / visited ... " links
humans and sex
Surfed by / visited ...
Surfed by / visited ...
change, society, survival
Surfed by / visited ...
Surfed by / visited ...
police and soceity
joy of honesty
House sparrows ...
democracy ...
Surfed by / visited ...
Surfed by / visited ...
Surfed by / visited ...
Browsed by ...
Browsed by ...
living
Surfed by / visited ...
driven
Surfed by / visited ...
Surfed by / visited ...
institutionalising care ...
sex, freedom, pace, behaviour, joy, approach ...
in the name of ...
Surfed by / visited ...
new technology, adaptation, developing countries
stage
Trends, fads and lives ...
Surfed by / visited ...
bias, interaction, survival mode ...
Surfed by / visited ...
Surfed by / visited ...
Surfed by / visited ...
Suze Orman
Surfed by / visited ...
Surfed by / visited ...
Surfed by / visited ...
Market for unemployed ...
media arts - life flow
Browsed by ...
Lucille
Democracy and republic
Surfed by / visited ...
Surfed by / visited ...
Some site categories relating to life quality from dmoz.org Part 3
Dr. Reg Revans
Dr. Richard Pascale
Life On The Farm Board Game
Some site categories relating to life quality from dmoz.org Part 2
The Creative Life with Cheryl Fall
Joseph M. Juran
news and business
Trust, participation, expression, and wanderlust
Some site categories relating to life quality from dmoz.org
Browsed by ...
freedom
Freedom to appear so ...
Suggesting a new root category for dmoz: life or quality of life
media
blood, genes, expression
change, choices and qol
stamina and migration ...
one mindedness, needs, wishes
sex
democracy
geography
technology, and excess
Browsed by ...
technology, human characteristics, character
February 2006
Straight Dope
english words
The College of Health and Human Development
Surfed by / visited ...
Surfed by / visited ...
Cleaning up the plate and obesity in children
John Naisbitt
Toffler Associates
What a Wonderful World
Songs and meanings
cannon fodder
Choices for the 21st Century - a high school program in the US
In the Mix
A word of appreciation
times ...
Structure and living
Success and influence
automated morality ... ?
Expressing happiness
nationalism and universal-ism
Robot Wisdom
email
To search sites Livewise, Universe of Life, Lifecosm
Blogstreet directory
About '... ?' :
Tags: life, living, quality
memory and motions
isolation and hostage
consolidation and weakness ...
Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam, President of India
market and living
a sense of proportion ...
Creator
consumption, identity, interaction, sustenability, turnover, means
Some posts
Some words to search for here
characters and persona
quality of basic product
Surfed by / visited ...
Note for Lifecosm at xanga posts
Some titles from Recent at Lifeinsight
Title-wise listing of posts to Universe of Life, and Livewise blogs, including titles from Lifecosm at xanga.com and Recent at Lifeinsight
Recent at Lifeinsight *
society, people ...
dreams and empowerment
communities
[local] communities
civility and well being
sharedness and vitality
structures aspirations
families and society
appreciating family makers
individual solutions
youth needs
society living
liberation, abuse
fill in the media with personal values ...
power puff girls
specialisation, and living resources
aggression, resource diversion
Browsed by ...
skills and migration
changing and living
Working poor
Joy of work
Browsed by ...
Surfed by ...
Pop, art and sense
Browsed by ...
Browsed by ...
tax and power
appearance and expression
self contained media
movement and joy
Valent�n
Travellers Lonely Planet
The Girl in the Picture
Mermaid
Prancer
World Peace Bell
skills, resources
Flapper
Becquerel
Siege of Leningrad
a quote ...
Unto This Last
John Ruskin Vs. James McNeill Whistler
January 2006
migration, liberation
leaderships and relations
humanity, humans
pollutants, human condition, progress
new, old, utility
mediating effect of whole
lure of new
life as process
smaller community
traits, survival, life quality
endangered state
places atmosphere
order - humanity ...
common people
hearts of humans
Lived in places vs. new territories
light & mood
Silver Shark - Walking Catfish
human scale, pace, and living
Artel
superstition & well being
feral plants
Life in a squatter camp - John Steinbeck
Surfed by / visited ... in one post
Surfed by / visited ...
Global Dialogue EXPO 2000
good neighbourliness as a virtue
belonging and a sense of completion
tribals and communication
Surfed by / visited ...
Jacob Riis
Public sector employment in UK
Surfed by / visited ...
Occam's razor - Ceteris Paribus
Rolex awards for enterprise
Virtual Helsinki
Julia Margaret Cameron
Those were the days, sings Mary Hopkin
Surfed by / visited ...
Ms. Gonick
Surfed by / visited ...
Surfed by / visited ...
Surfed by / visited ...
R K Laxman, cartoonist
statistical levels and life
Surfed by / visited ...
man made losses
human inter connections
addicted to adrenaline ... disconnected
city, complementary resources
children and parents
indepth, understanding, principles, practices
Surfed by / visited ...
sense and living
Surfed by / visited ...
Surfed by / visited ...
War and Europe
Surfed by / visited ...
marriage ...
Landsgemeinde
real lives of reel people ...
destructive power and trust
nationalism and humans
Nationalgeographic.com
Economist.com
Lifehacker.com
Researchbuzz.com
Surfed by / visited ...
Surfed by / visited ...
Surfed by / visited ...
Surfed by / visited ...
opportunity to see
migration and relations
society and labour
Surfed by / visited ...
December 2005
Surfed by / visited ...
Surfed by / visited ...
Surfed by / visited ...
Surfed by / visited ...
stress, work and women
children, time and life
local heritages
acting and relating ...
Surfed by / visited ...
Browsed by ...
Surfed by / visted ...
Bonnie Behrend
human needs, issues and laws
Surfed by / visted ...
"Straight up" - sung by Paula Abdul (lyrics Elliot Wolff)
looks
documentation & nature
modern
Surfed by / visited ...
Surfed by / visited ...
Surfed by / visited ...
Surfed by / visited ...
Surfed by / visited ...
Surfed by / visited ...
surfed by / visited ...
Surfed by / visited ...
Friedrich Hayek
Solaris
Masanobu Fukuoka
Surfed by / visited ...
Girlscientist's blog at blogspot
Surfed by / visited ...
Surfed by / visited ...
Surfed by / visited ...
Surfed by / visited ...
products and needs
sex currency and relating
Surfed by: LoveByte Singapore
Ramesses II
Surfed by / visited: Ingmar Bergman's Scenes from a marraige and Saraband, its sequel
Hugh Foot, Paul Foot
Neanderthal and Cro Magnon man
Eleanor orphan elephant ...
MEMS Microelectromechanical Systems
Koko and Dr Penny Patterson
Surfed by / visited: David Lykken on Happiness
older notes: wildlife - drugs
older notes: Modern - traditional
older notes: Quality of life and fullness of human being
Alice in the cities
older notes: QOL make it (fun) ...
older notes: QOL - basic life process & activity
older notes: QOL and ideas ...
older notes: facility for QOL issues
older notes: QOL as experience of life ...
older notes: Pristine Quality of Life
Surfed by / visited: barbaraehrenreich.com
Chindogu
Une �poque formidable...
Amanda Burrell, researcher, documentaries
QoL update - basics
November 2005
Professor Carol Dweck on effects of praise on children
Percy Spencer, Al Spencer - inventors
Surfed by / visited: Exponent Inc - failure analysis
Surfed by: Summer of My German Soldier
Marshall Plan - Treaty of Versailles
Jiyu Gakuen - alternative school
sun parlor
Daredevil - film title sequence
Glimpsed: music videos directed by Sophie Muller
Guernica - A Summer Night
Ushguli, Georgia - Shiprock, New Mexico, USA
Surfed by: Lifetime Real Women
http://livewise.blogspot.com/2005/11/news-livingcom-and-imageguide.html
letters and development
trading community issues
Tokyo Bay reclamation and Yatsu Higata tidal mudflat
Pikas in nunataks
Hannah Hauxwell
Lifewise
Titles from Universeoflife.blogspot.com
October 2005
on break
a personal note
past, future, present
domestic requirements and imports
human value, expression, energy, potential, store, process
scale of production
life after
literary shorthands and life
resource-rich countries and rapid growth
pre
wholeness - - despair, attractiveness, purchase
differences
violence
fast foods
sustaining economy
countries and living
before
unknown in education
interactions, identity
September 2005
alt. newsgroups at Google Groups
health, hygiene, quality, service in unorganised service enterprises
livable ness
human needs, assumptions, trust, status quo, failure, market
company success, market size, consumer
differences and similarities
MNC product quality
society joy
Lifecosm Universe of Life at xanga - by month *
Lifecosm Universe of Life at xanga - October 2004 *
Lifecosm Universe of Life at xanga - September 2004 *
Lifecosm Universe of Life at xanga - August 2004 *
Lifecosm Universe of Life at xanga - July 2004 *
Lifecosm Universe of Life at xanga - June 2004 *
Lifecosm Universe of Life at xanga - May 2004 *
Lifecosm Universe of Life at xanga - April 2004 *
Lifecosm Universe of Life at xanga - March 2004 *
Lifecosm Universe of Life at xanga - February 2004 *
Lifecosm Universe of Life at xanga - June 2003 *
Lifecosm Universe of Life at xanga - January 2004 *
Lifecosm Universe of Life at xanga - May 2003 *
real life and programming
Public services and citizenry
human settlement and flora fauna
Life quality and study
Life quality
life before a technology
quiet contributors to life quality
What it takes ...
Some contributors to life quality and awareness
Awareness, programmes, everyday learning (in one page)
Last few posts ...
Some tips
Integrity of information
Some ideas
Everyday learning
programmes
Awareness
environment and living
states and the union
momentum of resources
entertaining relationships
advertising and needs
August 2005
fads and utility
power
a note
adrenaline
drama in real life
living space
life and recession
simplicity
snacks
media meeting
tv
body and activity
quality of life
children
small scale industry
development, expression and self
expression, learning, youth
men workplace
society, hearing, sustainability
women life expectancy
nature, life functioning
basic tests for health
family
ideals and presentation
Reality and Media
July 2005
economy
sameness
good
clothes and quality of life
environment and flora fauna
resources and development
freedom
options and choices
uncertainties
beyond a generation ... ?
helplessness
entrenched positions
pyramid schemes and society
development consumption
administrative skills
story and life
life flow, events, associations
understanding ...
local communities
How important ...
incomplete
poor
needs
fantasy depicted
experimenting and living
humanity
express
June 2005
generalisations and particular situations
lifestyles
Countries
harmful
Work and family
autocracies
Spilling blood
Young people and 'acceptance'
generating resources, living
things, services, living
modern society and issues
consuming relationships
mobility and relationships
quality in relationships
consumption, economy and life
sexes, economy, humanity, completeness
May 2005
animals - flora fauna - in human settings
closeness
social interaction
pace
Generations and well being
Behaviour and populist fiction
Reality and fiction
living people
sex hope
Production and living
Learning from serious inhumanity
specialisation and division
more, responsibility, simplicity ...
Change
Education and lifestyle
Knowledge and development
Life and change
Life and stuff
Living societies
nature wonder
Living beings
identity and quality of life
April 2005
People and finished products
March 2005
solutions in action
[ side ] Effects celebrated ... ?
cheap, low battery indicator for clocks
life values
collaborative arts
unmanifest
media and patterns of behaviour
history, perception and life quality
society and community
perception of sexuality and generation gap
attraction and associations
sustainability and sense
wellbeing
February 2005
human life and living as a flow
country as world
beyond the known
January 2005
reference and knowing
Religion and science
orientation
Personality craze and society needs
fixing
Non commercial, personal use
Opportunities to learning, skills, and rights
Software and privacy, security issues
moon afternoon
Life information
"Killing me softly with his song" song background
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love and life
Does love make life come alive ... ?
Does love help people express themselves... evolve ... ?
Also, love spurs evolution ... ?
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languages, interaction and living
Do phrases, terms from the mother tongue get used directly or in literal translation while conversing in another language ... ?
Is it also a two way street ... ?
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Information in context
How important is it to know ( and understand) the context to appreciate information properly ... ?
Can people be misinformed by lack of or poor context ... ?
'News' often travels fast, does its context also travel along as fast, or as well ... ?
How well is news presented within context ... ?
How important is access to context of news, particularly for global or international audiences ... ? Or audiences not close to the source of news ... ?
Can news presented without its necessary context give rise to incomprehension and differences among people ... ?
Can use of information lacking in appropriate context cause harm ... ?
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Legal products within reach of consumers, but priced beyond their reach. Society where status is defined by possessions and marketing. How do people keep up with their neighbours. How do people define their quality of life. How do they consume these products and services.
How does consumption of products and services - beyond their legal means - affect the society and people ... ?
How can companies price products so that illegal consumption comes down ... ?
How useful is consumption of such products and services ... ?
What are the longer term effects on society when people are viewed and used as consumers ... ?
- a quest to goad new demands in people ... segmented for returns and production ... ?
How do human lives begin to react to marketing and consumption ... ? From one generation to next ... ?
What happens when society is unable to provide for the learning and resources, that the market in unable or unwilling to provide ... ?
How do economies move beyond what makes for easy production and management to what makes for production that suits humans ... ?
How do producers suffer as consumers too ... ?
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Does freedom of expression at times lead to people closing off into groups of like minded people at the cost of not finding the common ground that may exist among people ...
What ways besides voting are available or can be explored to express or find the common ground in democracy ....
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software is today part of the life of many around the world, how do
inefficiencies in software affect that ...
do the challenges of software development make us appreciate nature ...
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what lies behind what is appealing ... ?
What does it take to make what appears appealing ...
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how can the education and training meet the needs of a country ... ?
when or why does trained manpower seek opportunities outside the
country ... ?
how do you connect education to needs and resources at home ...
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how much information pertaining to living life is available to people
.... ? how accessible is living life information ?
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how can people make their means of survival more in tune with life ...
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how useful is it to portrary man and world as adversaries ...
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do entities desire to express themselves ... how can they do so in tune
with living, and lives that they touch ...
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How do people stay alive and thrive as humans ...
producers, consumers - as humans living beings ...
how do people feel secure in their living space ...
how can people appreciate and understand the nature of human beings and
diverse values in life
how can society thrive and be appropriate to human life
how can change benefit people all affected ...
how can technology be applied for sustenance of life ... how can
enterprises continue to provide for human needs and wants and
requirements and also sustain themselves as entities
should enterprises grow and refashion themselves to survive and thrive
how can they continue to meet human needs and uses, and be less
dependent on fashioning human needs and wants to ensure their own
survival ...
can entities plan for closing down and or renewal ... may be as other
entities or free up, supply or generate resources and people potential
to move into ways and means which continue to meet human needs, wants,
requirements
should such processes be an inherent part of living for humans
and entities ... and / but in tune with living life ...
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can we be sensitive to the feelings of hurt in others ... ?
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How do people relate to and appreciate each other across, and with,
their varied identities and roles ... how do people appreciate each
other in a way that furthers selves, each other, others, life and
living ... how do people express themselves with their identities
and selves ... in fulfilling ways to selves, others and life in
general ... how do people appreciate each other as humans
and in tune with living ...
how does forced extended seperation between the sexes due to various
reasons, such as wars, education, work opportunities, etc. affect the
way the sexes relate to one another and among themselves ...
how do humans pass life skills and values, sense, and experience from
one time to the following ...
do humans need to explore life skills suited for the current times ...
how important are life values which can be passed from one "generation"
to the next "generation" in terms of living well as humans
and sustaining what we can call human lives ... in a fuller sense ...
how does the experience of life when growing up influence the way
people behave as adults in life ...
how are people affected by the expectations that are put upon them ...
how do people deal with "public" perceptions of their persona or
identity ...
do people study subjects and areas where they have lack of competence
in their own lives ... ?
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is life experience turning symbolic , the joy turning symbolic ... ?
are symbols, or appearances of life, being developed or marketed more
...
looking healthy, appearing beautiful, may indicate health and beauty
but are we content [?] to appear so and consume that ... are we
really content so ...
is life being turned into smaller separate modules or parts which
people take up ...
are we looking at appearances of well being and not at the well
being of person ... or the person ...
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how do solutions depicted in stories work or not work in reality
...
do they attract people ...
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what is or are the other sides of what we know ... what do we not
know ...
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quality of life in the wider world
quality of life in expression
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Is there a fascination with automation ... if so ... in what ways does
it influence human pursuits ... ?
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What is the value or values of touch in human life ... and society
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are humans social beings ... ?
if they are, what happens when their social connections are denied ... ?
how do they cope ... ?
how can a public communication and expression in terms of an
aspirational norm - and deviations from that norm - address
issues as experienced in people's personal lives ...
when we take care of those who are afflicted in some way or some time,
do we reiterate the social nature of human beings ... which
contributes to human well being and expression ... do we get in
touch with our own individual diversity, needs, and issues ...
individuality ... self and expression ...
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how does any subject or art differ from reality and real life
how do you follow any subject so that you understand it, and know where
it differs from [ larger ] reality
should any subject, knowledge or art or skill be applied literally or
without a fuller understanding , to life ... ?
how does human perception of life, and behaviour come
to be affected by re-creations or depictions of life around us ...
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how do you have a sense of society ...
can other countries, communities and the world play a more active - not
implying interventionist - and humane role in problems within
communities, countries, big or small ... before the
problems begin to get serious ... can countries or communities, big or
small, at times require or benefit from expertise or positive
experiences and ways of dealing with a situation or issue from
the world ... how can the world rally to and work with communities in
some distress ...
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how do you have [ ensure, sustain, further, ... ] structures that
facilitate living ...
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in life, things are often divided for work; how to put together
so they work in life ... ?
how useful is putting people down , or keeping people down ... is it ?
can society ensure a good life quality for all ... ?
does democracy and freedom mean, attempting to live like kings and
queens,
or as free people ... ?
does trying to live like a "dream" make for a wasteful, unsustainable
lifestyle ... ?
do people come under unrealistic pressures themselves and put such
pressures on peers ... in lifestyle terms ... ?
can the economy be sustained and thrive without lifestyle consumptions
... ?
where and how should the resources be utilised ... if such distribution
is to be attempted ... on maintaining and contributing to well being ,
or on treating illnesses and problems that arise from lack of well
being ... ?
is well being a constant ... ?
can problems and illnesses be prepared for in advance ... ?
can problems strike people suddenly ... ?
how do you gear for situations which affect well being ... ?
does sudden problematic situations leave people vulnerable to advice of
experts who are supposed to know on how to deal with these ... ?
can people and experts gain some idea of the problems that are likely
to be faced with and what all can be done about it ... ?
does it help to focus on adults also, just as there is supposed to be a
focus on the young, in terms of equipping them for life ... ? would
focussing on equipping adults for life as well, help in some way make a
better atmosphere in which children and the coming generations
live ... ?
can the perceived attractions of a society be ways of that society in
coping with the lack of other options to live well ... ?
do people realise the value of what they have before it becomes scarce
... ?
should countries share the upside as well as the downside of the
paths they took ... ?
does media leave people feeling that they do know something quite well
... do they ... ?
Are people finding it difficult to reveal their humanness and express
themselves deeply as humans ... relate ...
are they finding shorthands to do so in ways that they may perceive as
not compromising their sense of security ... ?
... through sex, sports followings, games, jargon, .... how well
or not ... how effective ...
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... being aware of and appreciating the goodness in our selves and
others ...
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body and soul together ...
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humans tend to explore in order to develop and understand life ... to
live life
... in time one may get some idea of what makes life tick ... and that
may at times be different from what people were made to think made
up life ... young people face this dilemma as they go through that
journey ... and would it benefit them to see adults who have gone
through these years, turning a new leaf based on their own learing
of the journey so far ... for the challenges that face the
young are similar, the pressures are similar, if not the same as those
which met and influenced - in what ever way - people older than them
today ... the pressures often stem from the choices that the society
makes in order to achieve what it would, and with what it costs ... and
with what "benefits" or by products ... when does this process of
society building [ and living ] become a process of society building
alone, where
human life get pieced up to become fuel for keeping that model of
development going ...
Can this become less a way for better or good living, and more of a way
which produces negative reactions in people ... and ways to profit from
that ? with people
finding ways to cope with these ... fears, pace, uncertainty,
fracturing relationships, challenges, behaviour, etc. sex may be one
way of
coping... while "sexual freedom" may be a by product of the times ...
or is it more
a
way of coping with life as it is experienced now ... ? what happens to
relationships ... ? and family life ... and continuity ... ? what are
people seeking through this ...
how can people find a wholeness to their life ... a sense of well
living, of experiencing what human life is, beyond
going through sensations, motions, corruptions, ...
how does the way societies evolve or revolutionise affect human needs
and expression of their human person ... ? how can the cost of
achieving
something be understood ... ? how does this cost become regularised as
part of life ... how does it become the the main environment for the
generations which follow ... yet does it make them ready for the
challenges of life in such an environment, to survive and thrive, and
live ... human lives ... how sustainable are lifestyles and life
changes that are occurring ... are they intensifying over time, just so
that the society's "development" and economy continues to survive ...
in the way it has ... will it survive this way ... will human lives
suffer ... what did the sweat shops of old probably have that today's
longer lives and
better conditions probably do not ... can poverty be a blessing in some
way... ? how can
societies progress without turning a blind eye to problems, and with
openness to improving our lot ... how can we be in touch with
ourselves ... as humans
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Are economies geared towards life ... ? or towards lifestyles
... ?
- how does that affect people's expectationss of and preparations for
life, particularly the young ... ?
are human lives for facilitating the vibrancy of economies
are economies for facilitating vibrancy of human lives
how far can the economy alone contribute to overall life experience ...
are economies being "burdened" with having to make decisions for
or influence more of overall personal life quality ... ?
do declining morals - in a broader sense of the term - affect democracy
and peace ?
can pride be based on spilling blood ...
how are linkages between alcohol and aggression used ... ?
need for ways out of exploitation and abuse and towards life ... ?
what are the techniques of fiction and techniques of science which
distort reality ... ?
can education break up or keep a society together ... how can it meet
the diverse needs of a society ... ?
immigration to developed economies meets demand for talent and labour,
and for traditional values ... ?
If one consumes more , one has a life ... ?
are people made to believe that if one speaks, dresses, acts,
behaves in certain ways, one has made it in life ... ?
are more developed economies highly dependent and based on a supply of
virgin, natural resources ... ?
... which gets consumed and dumped ... ?
should resources be consumed this way, at a fast rate ... ?
or conserved ... ?
are we able to find more benefit from same resources with time
... ?
glamourous lifestyle
does being in a glamourous business affect personal life ... ?
would personal life be different otherwise ... ?
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expressing love
can making good products and services be a way of showing or sharing
love ?
Or, making well-made products and services be a way ... ?
if so, how does that work in an industrialised or service economy ... ?
can there be other ways of expressing love ... ?
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rich society
... when money can give you access to so much that is available ...
... what can money not get ... ?
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human element
how do you quantify or depict the human element ... ? can it be done
... should it be ...
how important is the human element in life ... ?
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side-effects before effects ?
Do problems and issues arising from "development" reach communities
before development itself ... ?
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disassociation
how does a lifestyle or approach of disassociating or disconnecting
various elements of living and life that go together in nature affect
quality of life ...
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battles by proxy ?
Tensions between the "secular minded" and the "religious" within a
religion may be played out in behaviour towards other religious groups
within the country and in behaviour towards other countries and people
outside ... ?
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If it is too good to be true ... may be it is too good to be true
...
... ? ...
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catharsis or false angst ?
where does catharsis end and false angst begin ... ? does it ... ?
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whole life action
- unreality reaction
how do we take action or behave so that whole life is fulfilled ...
unreality - whether as stories or wishes, etc. - may project a part of
life as aspired but which may not work well when extended in similar
way to other aspects of life ... such visions or views of life may seem
real when presented as stories, or pictures, or sensations, but that
sense of fulfillment that they project may be difficult to replicate in
reality as they do not reflect the character of life or reality as a
whole unit ... the 'fulfillment' that they hold out may find expression
only in further works of fiction or such projections,
and not in reality where they may be frustrated ...
unreality that way may evoke reactions, from being unreal and not
fulfilling in real life ... yet they may be alluring and perpetuate
returns to the world of unreal projections whether in stories, or
projections in real life - such projections may work at some levels,
but may not work in whole life ...
in life, people can learn things, and gain mastery over something to
some extent, and derive satisfaction from doing that ... in life there
are aspects which may not have been well understood or projected in
their realistic proportions and utility to life ... people may be
receiving more information or projections on how things can go wrong
and less on how life works ...
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creation exploration
can we wonder at the [ grand ] creation, world, life,
... ?
There is much we do not know, and we may tend to see what is through
what we know, and what we know changes, evolves ...
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technology window
technology may extend what we may do. It can bring a lot of things to
us. Technology, such as a phone call, or a television screen or the
computer, mobile or internet, or car, or oven, or rail, could bring to
us stuff which we could not physically access ... we may, when compared
to this, be relatively still.
what all may be now around us, beyond what we could ourselves do
physically.
may be even at effect of all this which is beyond our physical reach
without the technology, yet with it, all this reaches us and may affect
us ...
so much at our doorstep, window to the world, or world at our window
...
desired ... ?
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connecting the dots ...
making sense of the variables in play how they influence and are
influenced by each other in life
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human actors
are humans living out life in a badly written play, as per a script,
difference being, in life, they have to live with the consequences of
the actions ...
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Nobel peace prize
how much does it contribute to peace ...
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design
can design - good and cheap - be accessible to all, how does it
improve quality of life ...
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Valuing menial and physical labour ...
not valuing physical labour and menial tasks lead to a more divided
society ... ?
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children-powered society ... [ or infantile ...
] ?
do current technology developments find expression in children related
products ... does that give them greater [ undue ? or unsought for ? ]
public space and influence, and also influence the way marketers
project or sell ideas or products ... how does the overall or wider
functioning and approach of societies get affected by this and / or
respond to this ... whether children desire so, or really influence so,
or know so, or not ...
what was it like in earlier times in terms of technology showcasing or
products or developments ...
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knowledge, centres, privacy, culture
people from societies and areas which are more traditional, come to
centres in a quest for knowledge and education. Here they may come upon
a different sort of culture than back where they come from, face some
culture incompatibility and shock or feel they are having
to compromise
with their sense of values ... do knowledge providers and
settings take undue advantage of a person's unawareness or
exposure, and of his or her sense of privacy ...
how can knowledge acquisition and privacy issues be addressed ...
how can knowledge delivery be more localised and culture-sensitive, and
respectful of person ...
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standard formats and life
formats may help collect and structure information, but in the process
it may make it less real ... which may in turn make people try to fit
their lives to - real or unreal - snapshots of life so organised,
when information and organisation of information could be so put
together to be useful to the real life, and real life issues that an
individual may face in his life ... and live life ... [ not just
formats ... ? ]
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'western' education
does it need to be tuned for needs of a society ... ? and, that
way enhance job satisfaction as well ... ?
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building blocks ...
a clearer understanding of basic words may help understand
subjects, context better, and people
may learn, discern on their own ... ?
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war goods, how good ... ?
association with war of positive change in society, and of growth and
fortune can make it
attractive ... whether similar or more could have been achieved even
without it, with out the losses and costs it incurs in the short term
and longer term ...
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greed
how does greed influence people's life
and relations between people
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beautiful moments
how do beautiful moments affect or influence life and its flow
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social technology
can technology suit human institutions and relationships ...
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the structure for
communication
Humans get to know each other through communication
which may occur at many levels
some is not verbal, some is instinctual
humans and life in general has a need for flow it would appear at times
in the process of communication when there appear to be lack of flow of
communication between people, all sorts of non-communicated
"communication" can take place between them ...
besides communication is not only emotions ...
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How...
do you remain in know of the parameters affecting life quality at a
personal and social levels ... and community and societal levels ...
how is life quality lived ... ?
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To be in someone's shoes ...
does not imply that you have to do what they do or did ... ?
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history
what else beyond heroics and tragedies ... ?
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mediated separation or identification
does media heighten a false sense of identification or separation among
people who come in contact with each other through it ...
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human individuals
is there a joy in coming to see people as individuals beyond their sex
and associated roles ... ?
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animal programming
is one appeal of tv programs on animals the chance to discover
the diversity and individuality in life ... ?
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women
do men need things outside their person more than women ... ?
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women
have women through out the journey of life come to embody, for men,
qualities of life which allow women to be valued for their person
without as much need for external possessions ... ?
are women so valued for who they are ... ?
similarly for men ... ?
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survival environment
Can the plant and animal life on earth survive without the environment
it is a part of ... ?
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Need to see good working ... ?
How does the human desire to see something good working in
reality
make people more willing to accept at face value something
presented
as a "success story", whether it is so or not ... ? at what cost
... ?
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Re-runs
assessing the value of older products and services, and
programming,
from developed countries which are finding new markets in developing
countries ... how relevant or useful ... or not ...
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Quirks
A way to improving or studying quality of life may be to observe the
quirks in current surroundings, whether they are products, services,
policies, the general environment, etc. ... and try to see what
is
the
value of what we observe ... are some things essential to the well
being or functioning of something ... for example, can a certain
feature be improved ... is a feature there because it took the
designer's fancy when it was originally designed or invented ... or is
it a redundant feature continuing as a stylistic add on for continuity
sake like some horse carriage design continuing in automobiles... what
do such features bring to quality of life, for example ...
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Human discovery
Humans discover new things and make connections, observe patterns in
thier daily lives ... some of these patterns may be useful if more
widely shared ...
a mother may observe how her children behave in a particular situation
... would it have relevance to other parents ... ?
a doctor may observe certain characteristics which accompany certain
sort of illnesses which are not usually noted in text books ... ?
an engineer may see what is relevant to designing a product which is
much more robust ... ?
how about sharing something that you have found to be very relevant and
genuine and tested to be so ... ?
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society, people ...
how do societies be successful in people's work, and their ability to do well for themselves and family and next generations ...
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dreams and empowerment
Do - very - big dreams disempower life ... ?
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communities
what are the common experiences of a community
how do different people share somethings in common ... ?
how do these interactions and sensibility aid in health, wellbeing and viability and vitality of communities ...
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[local] communities
How do communities come together at local levels, despite differences at other levels ... ?
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civility and well being
Does civility aid in justice, and well being of all ...
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sharedness and vitality
how useful are some degree of an informal sense of shared-ness, affiliation or empathy between people - such as for example, work, education, locality - to vitality, health, vibrancy and resource effectiveness of habitats ?
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structures aspirations
how do traditional structures accomodate and validate aspirations ... ?
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families and society
How can and does society contribute to raising families well ... ?
- How are people enabled with resources, suppported ... ?
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appreciating family makers
Here's appreciating people being part of families, raising families ...
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individual solutions
Do solutions that work in individual circumstances apply to everyone ... ?
Should individual solutions be disdained ?
Should they be seen as threats ?
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youth needs
is it easy to criticize the youth ...
more difficult to provide what they need ... ?
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society living
Do societies that concentrate on themselves do well ... ?
Do societies which have more egalitarian structures do well ... ?
Do societies where peoples have some shared or common life experiences, empathy at different or varied levels do well ... ?
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liberation, abuse
should liberation be abusive towards others ... ?
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fill in the media with personal values ...
Do people fill in the blanks in the media with their own values and subjective responses ... ?
Does it allow greater interactivity ... ?
Does the scope for doing so reduce with more definite and concrete representation, for example, in case of multi media as against radio or print ... ?
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power puff girls
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specialisation, and living resources
Does specialisation deprive local societies of living resources ... ? resources, activities, relations, processes... which make lives livable ... ?
what are the costs ... ?
Does distance between markets and production reduce attention to rights and well being ... ?
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aggression, resource diversion
how is aggression diverted within, between societies ... ?
how are resources utilised ... ?
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Browsed by ...
Oleg Popov
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skills and migration
how do skills influence migration of people and of resources ... ?
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changing and living
how can well being of living beings ensured in changes ... ?
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Working poor
Working poor
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Joy of work
Can a sense of joy in work indicate health of an economy or society ... ?
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Browsed by ...
Highland cattle
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Surfed by ...
Rare Jazz Tapes Uncovered
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Pop, art and sense
Does art, mass art (including mass media) seek to give a 'sense' of accomplishment, resolution ... ? a 'feeling', or a 'sense' ?
Does it ?
do people base their actions in real life on this 'sense' ... ?
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Browsed by ...
Chesapeake Bay Foundation
AfricaTown, USA
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Browsed by ...
Mstera paintings
Skopin pottery
Russian gingerbread
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tax and power
Is a reason, among others, why people avoid paying taxes, is out of a sense of not giving too much power to governments over their lives ... ? Do they tend to be from well established networks of power ... ?
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appearance and expression
Is there a greater tendency to react to, express based on what you see, what appears ... ?
Is there an influence of acting ... ?
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self contained media
Are oil and paper popular because they do not require a mechanism to store them as medium for energy or news - unlike renewable or other sources ... ?
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movement and joy
Do certain movements produce joy in humans ... ?
Are they liberating expressions ... ?
Such as some solo dance moves - developed by people - ...
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Valent�n
Valent�n (2002) an Argentinian film
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Travellers Lonely Planet
Ian Wright
Megan McCormick
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The Girl in the Picture
The Girl in the Picture (1986) a film
V M # 2/03/2006
Mermaid
Mermaid (2000) a tv film
V M # 2/03/2006
Prancer
Prancer - a film.
V M # 2/03/2006
World Peace Bell
World Peace Bell
V M # 2/03/2006
skills, resources
How does lack of access near by to - skills and - resources affect family structures, and cause stress ... ?
How does changing work patterns affect family structures ... ?
How do people adapt ... ?
[ Are people unwilling to travel out more stressed ... ? ]
How do people deal with changes ... ?
How do societies deal with changes ... ?
V M # 2/03/2006
Flapper
Flapper
V M # 2/01/2006
Becquerel
Henri Becquerel, scientist
His grandfather, father, and son.
V M # 2/01/2006
Siege of Leningrad
Siege of Leningrad
V M # 2/01/2006
a quote ...
"The simplest, most efficient, and most economical plan would be to select five hundred or more of the most courageous, experienced, and efficient men from the police department, and form them into a separate battalion, and have them drilled in such evolutions, manoeuvres, and modes of attack or defence, as would belong to the work they were set apart to do. ... "
- a part of suggestion for New York city aftter study of riots upto 1873 there.
[ just a mention ]
V M # 2/01/2006
Unto This Last
Unto This Last
V M # 2/01/2006
John Ruskin Vs. James McNeill Whistler
John Ruskin Vs. James McNeill Whistler
V M # 2/01/2006
=> [from http://livewise.blogspot.com/2006_02_01_archive.html]
Livewise at blogspot, January 2006
migration, liberation
Is migration a liberating experience ... ? is it ... ? in what ways ... ?
V M # 1/28/2006
leaderships and relations
Is it - also - for the collection of leaders on either side to be convinced of the other side's collection of leaders ... besides what the people prefer ... ?
V M # 1/28/2006
humanity, humans
do people loose humanity when they do not perceive others as humans ...
and, when they perceive them as more than humans, superhumans ... ?
V M # 1/28/2006
pollutants, human condition, progress
does progress bring with it activities to which there are no or very few non human options of working ... ? which affect human workers severely ... ?
are new forms of effects becoming less directly seen or carried out, and more indirect and more pervasive ... ?
V M # 1/28/2006
new, old, utility
are there particular ways in which a new thing will work well, do those conditions and ways exist abundantly, what does it take to create them ? what cost ?
how do people minimize loss ?
what about old approaches and their interaction with new ways of doing ... ?
V M # 1/28/2006
mediating effect of whole
How does media try to move beyond its limitations, to convey the effect of whole ... ?
Does it accentuate the particulars it can, to re-enact the 'effect' of the whole with the means available ...
can representation be a distorted one ... ? can it distort life ... ?
does classic representation differ from reactive one ... ?
V M # 1/28/2006
lure of new
lure of 'the new'
'regular' offerings of the 'tweaked'
& reactive marketing
the rising / lowering decibel, pace, new model, tweaked old, tweaked whole, beyond the whole being, living - for "new"
loss of wholeness - result from and means to reactive sales ?
activity - emptiness - activity - emptiness
on - off ?
fashions, trends, fads, passing out of fashion, strangeness [ of old fads ], new atmospheres, changes, "new",
living in own worlds,
unsure, resigned about future
every day is new ... [ by itself, - why - tweak ... ? ]
can built-to-last be an innovation and be part of innovation ... progress ...
activity - living environment - activity - living environment ...
V M # 1/28/2006
life as process
V M # 1/28/2006
smaller community
what is the financial stress and need of a smaller community vis a vis a larger community ... ? Is it - seen as - greater ... ?
are - very - small communities more attentive towards image ... ?
V M # 1/28/2006
traits, survival, life quality
what traits are appreciated?
deemed / seen as necessary in a complex society ?
what talents contribute to quality of life ?
how far do traits perceived as important in order to survive, contribute to life quality ... ?
V M # 1/28/2006
endangered state
does the mating ( and other ) behaviour differ for a species in an endangered state vis a vis abundant state ...
V M # 1/28/2006
places atmosphere
Do places have atmosphere
what do form and activity contribute to the atmosphere in a place ...
how do people respond to and contribute to atmosphere ...
V M # 1/28/2006
common people
What are common people capable of ?
V M # 1/28/2006
order - humanity ...
neatness, order, minus humanity ... ?
life ... ?
V M # 1/28/2006
hearts of humans
What rises in the hearts of men ?
when ?
how ?
why ?
what ...
V M # 1/28/2006
Lived in places vs. new territories
Do new territories offer space for action without stepping on and changing other's idea of that place who came before and their sense of change ? or loss ?
V M # 1/28/2006
light & mood
Does light perk up mood ... ?
V M # 1/28/2006
Silver Shark - Walking Catfish
Silver shark (Balantiocheilus melanopterus), endangered ?
Walking catfish (Clarias batrachus)
V M # 1/28/2006
human scale, pace, and living
Does machine made tend to increase scale, pace, and standardisation beyond what suits humans ... ?
How do you match quality to requirements ... ?
Does handmade suit living ... ?
What problems crop up with achievements of machines ... ?
Are a sense of community, and of direction in life lost in the scale, pace of a more machine made life ... ?
How do people seek to re-connect to a sense of community and a sense of direction in life ... ?
V M # 1/18/2006
Artel
Artel
V M # 1/17/2006
superstition & well being
Is superstition associated with well being for those who believe in it ... ?
V M # 1/17/2006
feral plants
We know about feral animals, which were once domesticated, and have gone wild, what about feral plants ... ?
and their fate ... ?
V M # 1/17/2006
Life in a squatter camp - John Steinbeck
"The information is taken and filed. That is that. It has been done so often, and so little has come of it. And there is another way for them to get attention. Let an epidemic break out, say typhoid or scarlet fever, and the country doctor will come to the camp and hurry the infected to the pesthouse. But malnutrition is not infectious, nor is dysentry, which is almost the rule among the children."
John Steinbeck, in San Francisco News, 21 October, 1936, describing an 'Okie' squatter camp in California.
[ reproduced in an anthology ]
V M # 1/17/2006
Surfed by / visited ... in one post
Surfed by / visited ... in one post (Nov-Dec 2005) - just for convenience
Lifetime Real Women is the site for a cable tv channel with "true-to-life" programming for women.
The lifetimetv.com site appears to have an active message board.
Summer of My German Soldier
A novel by Betty Greene about a jewish girl in the US befriending a young German POW.
Exponent Inc, previously known as Failure Analysis Associates.
barbaraehrenreich.com
David Lykken on Happiness
Happiness Is a Stochastic Phenomenon, David Lykken and Auke Tellegen, University of MinnesotaPsychological Science Vol.7, No. 3, May 1996
The Heritability of Happiness David LykkenArticle published in the Harvard Mental Health Letter.
Ingmar Bergman's Scenes from a marraige and Saraband, its sequel
Scener ur ett �ktenskap (Scenes from a marriage) (1973)
Saraband, sequel (2003)
LoveByte Singapore
LoveByte - a government effort to encourage graduates in Singapore to marry.
Franklin Becker
Fernando Flores
Erving Goffman
Richard L Gregory
Irene Greif
Edward T. Hall
Larry Hirschhorn
Vera John-Steiner
Thomas S Kuhn
Bruno Latour
Robert Levering
Kevin Lynch
Thomas W. Malone
Elton Mayo
Lewis Mumford
Ted Nelson
Neil Postman
Howard Rheingold
Donald Schon
Robert Sommer
Sherry Turkle
Robert Weisberg
Langdon Winner
Terry Winograd
JoAnne Yates
Samuel Alexander
Francis Herbert Bradley
John Bagnell Bury
John William Draper
Francis Galton
John Atkinson Hobson
David Hume
Gustave Le Bon
George Edward Moore
Gilbert Murray
Thomas Paine
William Winwood Reade
William Robertson Smith
Richard Henry Tawney
Ludwig von Bertalanffy
Kenneth Ewart Boulding
John Seely Brown
Jerome Bruner
Vannevar Bush
Eric Cassell
Ernst Cassirer
William C. Clark
Mary Douglas
Anne Harrington
Alice Kessler-Harris
Karen Horney
Ervin L�szl�
Linda E Olds
Anatol Rapoport
Michael Schrage
AustralianUnity Wellbeing Index site
Rosabeth M. Kanter
Metasearch.com
Microsoft Small Business Directory
Violence Against Women, Australia Says No
gURL
SHAPE magazine
Santa Fe Institute
Ralph McTell's song �Streets Of London�
Mary Kaldor
Bruno S. Frey
Norman Barry
Julian Lincoln Simon
Policies of Infill Development and Quality of Living Environment
Henry Hazlitt
Caregiver Credit Campaign
Phil Ochs
S�ren Kierkegaard
Andy Kershaw
Erla Zwingle
Michio Kaku
Will Wright
Douglas Hougen
Eddie Startz
Oasis of Peace
Dylan Thomas
Michael Argyle
Peter L. Berger
John Berger
International Council for Philosophy and Humanistic Studies
Laura A Fleet
Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research
University of Salford
Monterey Institute of International Studies
Learning and Skills Council (LSC) Skills for Life Quality Initiative
Pathways to Life Quality
Urie Bronfenbrenner - obituary
Bronfenbrenner Life Course Center, Cornell University
ILR School, Cornell University
College of Human Ecology, Cornell University
UK Government Sustainable Development Framework indicators
Centre of Expertise on Culture and Communities
Flynn Research
Quality of life
Baroness Susan Greenfield
Shekhar Gupta
Radhika Bordia - 24 Hours
Lisa Peattie
Michael Weinstein
Deena Weinstein
Edna St. Vincent Millay
Antony Flew
Gordon Allport
Halina Pos'wiatowska
James Lovelock
Robert Sapolsky
Stephan Schmidheiny
The Survival of Jan Little
Michael Kolowich
Victim Support
Yukio Tsuda
Merlin
Cleo Paskal
Amy Bruckman
Sir Peter Hall
Insight programme, CNN
Lou Dobbs
Maria Bartiromo
Google - Company Overview
Yahoo! - Company Overview
Opera Software - Vision
craigslist facts & figures
About Metafilter
Georges Simonen
Lucien Maxwell
Research Institute of Human Engineering for Quality Life
Quality of Life Research Center
International Society for Quality-of-Life Studies
International Society for Quality of Life Research
European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions
Canadian Policy Research Networks
Council on Family and Work at MIT
Physical quality-of-life index
The Abell Foundation
Quality of life study project for students
Becky Anderson
Rosemary Church
Hala Gorani
Jeff Greenfield
Jenny Harrison
Daryn Kagan
Kristie Lu Stout
Jonathan Mann
Colleen McEdwards
Monita Rajpal
Shihab Ratansi
Fionnualla Sweeney
Charles Russell
Runa Laila
clearwing butterfly
brumby
North Pacific Gyre
Chinook wind
Khamaseen
Top of the World of Stamps postage stamp alliance
Gezelligheid
Overseas Workers Welfare Administration, Philippines
Schools Adopt Monuments, Naples, Italy
Sarabhai vs Sarabhai, sitcom, India
V M # 1/15/2006
Surfed by / visited ...
Takin
Rock Dove
Dwarf Willow
V M # 1/15/2006
Global Dialogue EXPO 2000
Global Dialogue EXPO 2000
V M # 1/15/2006
good neighbourliness as a virtue
how worthy is good neighbourliness as a virtue ...
V M # 1/15/2006
belonging and a sense of completion
Does belonging afford people participation in day to day activities in group, and as personal experience ... ?
V M # 1/15/2006
tribals and communication
Are people from tribal communities more expressive ... ? ... with words ... ?
V M # 1/15/2006
Surfed by / visited ...
A Scattering of Seeds - The Creation of Canada, documentary series based on personal archive materials.
V M # 1/15/2006
Jacob Riis
Jacob Riis
V M # 1/15/2006
Public sector employment in UK
Public sector employment in UK
V M # 1/15/2006
Surfed by / visited ...
Toyohiko Kagawa
Lafcadio Hearn
V M # 1/15/2006
Occam's razor - Ceteris Paribus
Occam's razor
Ceteris Paribus
V M # 1/15/2006
Rolex awards for enterprise
Rolex awards for enterprise
V M # 1/12/2006
Virtual Helsinki
Virtual Helsinki
V M # 1/12/2006
Julia Margaret Cameron
Julia Margaret Cameron, photographer
V M # 1/12/2006
Those were the days, sings Mary Hopkin
Those Were the Days, sings Mary Hopkin.
V M # 1/12/2006
Surfed by / visited ...
Our Living Resources, A Report to the Nation on the Distribution, Abundance, and Health of U.S. Plants, Animals, and Ecosystems
The Endangered Species Program of U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.
V M # 1/12/2006
Ms. Gonick
Ms. Gonick's column Failing At Living. A witty, idiosyncratic, thoughtful offering ... and more.
Her earlier work includes Mostly True Confessions: Looking for Love in the Eighties.
( I learnt from the author that her essay finds a place in the recently published Single Woman of a Certain Age, edited by Jane Ganahl, also a columnist at San Francisco Chronicle.)
V M # 1/12/2006
Surfed by / visited ...
The opulent eye of Alexander Girard at Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, Smithsonian Institution
Fashion in colors exhibit at Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, Smithsonian Institution
The Fashion in Colors symposium, Feb. 11, 2006 [upcoming], at http://cooperhewitt.org/
V M # 1/10/2006
Surfed by / visited ...
Deirdre McCloskey
On the Line millennium project
Centre for Life, Newcastle upon Tyne
V M # 1/08/2006
Surfed by / visited ...
Category:Humans at wikipedia
Portal:Personal life at wikipedia
V M # 1/08/2006
R K Laxman, cartoonist
R K Laxman, cartoonist, Times of India newspaper, whose humorous sketches depicting scenes from everyday life can be quite realistic in portrayal (if a bit dated). Famous for his 'You Said It' single-column size cartoons.
V M # 1/08/2006
statistical levels and life
How do traditionally used - usual - confidence intervals and statistical significance levels affect perception, theories and sense of life ... ?
V M # 1/08/2006
Surfed by / visited ...
Diana King
Carolyn Bennett Patterson
Urban sprawl
Baron Deedes
Rene Champion
Stepfamily Association of America
Jarri Schwartz, decorator, Monster House series, Discovery
Purple Martins
Zuni indians
Pueblo Bonito
Carol Beckwith and Angela Fisher
Christiana, Copenhagen
V M # 1/07/2006
man made losses
Are people in developed societies coming to expect certain kinds of human losses ... are they desensitised to them ... ?
Does development driven by humans require humans to give up some sense of their human self ... ?
Less understood, and experienced by those still driven more by losses by nature versus development ... ?
V M # 1/07/2006
human inter connections
Why does 'love' between two people fail ... ?
What is the role of human interconnections between people in love and others ... for longer term 'love' relationships between couples ... ?
What does it say about love ... and humans ... ?
V M # 1/07/2006
addicted to adrenaline ... disconnected
Are modern lives deriving a sense of joy defined by addiction to adrenaline, 'climaxes', connecting with the larger mediated entity, desire for connection and expression at grander scale ... ?
with lesser access and opportunities for more immediate connection, and larger access to and opportunities to mediated - technological - connections ... ?
V M # 1/07/2006
city, complementary resources
Need for resources in city which complement the life of its varied citizens, to explore, to expand, to be wholesome ... ?
V M # 1/07/2006
children and parents
Is following their life in tune with its requirements, a greater gift that children can give their parents ...
than pursuing the aspirations of their parents or do what they did ... ?
V M # 1/07/2006
indepth, understanding, principles, practices
Indepth knowledge, understanding necessary before reacting ...
without it, there is possibility of doing harm ... in pursuit of good ?
Principles, their priorities, and practices
without understanding of their rationale and relative importance of principles, practices may become lost within a cultural and societal context, running counter to spirit of well being ... ?
V M # 1/07/2006
Surfed by / visited ...
London String of Pearls
@Bristol
Sustrans
V M # 1/07/2006
sense and living
What is the sense of life (& self) of other living beings or creatures ?
V M # 1/07/2006
Surfed by / visited ...
Sechsel�uten in Z�rich
Romansh language
R�tli
V M # 1/07/2006
Surfed by / visited ...
American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (AFTRA)
American Federation of Teachers (AFT)
American Library Association (ALA)
V M # 1/05/2006
War and Europe
What would Europe's development been if there hadn't been a war ?
How could the factors that spurred the war have been addressed ... ?
V M # 1/03/2006
Surfed by / visited ...
Dorothy Espelage on bullying in schools.
Number 96 (TV series)
Kagu
The 100 Most Frequently Challenged Books of 1990�2000
StoryArts, Inc.
Hook (music)
Margaret Bourke-White
V M # 1/03/2006
marriage ...
Is marriage becoming one to-experience item on their list for women ... ?
and for man ... ?
V M # 1/03/2006
Landsgemeinde
Landsgemeinde
V M # 1/03/2006
real lives of reel people ...
How do people relate to the happenings in their own lives while they produce, alongside, fictional ( reel ) life for audiences ... ?
V M # 1/03/2006
destructive power and trust
Does more destructive power with mankind make humans more sensitive to perceptions of the motives of others ...?
V M # 1/03/2006
nationalism and humans
Does nationalism make humans seem more black or white than actually are ... ?
How do people live and express ... ?
V M # 1/03/2006
Nationalgeographic.com
Nationalgeographic.com
V M # 1/03/2006
Economist.com
Economist.com
V M # 1/03/2006
Lifehacker.com
Lifehacker.com on 'hacks' for information technology and productivity, for people.
V M # 1/03/2006
Researchbuzz.com
Researchbuzz.com focussing on search, research and reference resources on internet, and in database format.
V M # 1/03/2006
Surfed by / visited ...
Barren-Ground Caribou
Barren-ground Caribou information at Northwest Territories wildlife division site
- Barren-ground Caribou Survey Results
LookSmart's FindArticles - Den�solin� (Chipewyan) Knowledge of Barren-Ground Caribou (Rangifer tarandus groenlandicus) Movements
Arctic, Jun 2005, by Kendrick, A,
Lyver, P O'B
V M # 1/03/2006
Surfed by / visited ...
European Network of Cultural Administration Training Centres
Millennium Dome
V M # 1/01/2006
Surfed by / visited ...
Prince Edward Island, Canada
Delacroix Island, Louisiana, USA
V M # 1/01/2006
Surfed by / visited ...
Tiffany Pearsall finds the teamspirit pretty amazing amongst her swimming team mates.
Her college, Randolph-Macon, highlights its belief in "moments of connection".
V M # 1/01/2006
opportunity to see
opportunity to see & connect to know your own response to life around
V M # 1/01/2006
migration and relations
What are the relations of immigrants to others, and other communities, in their country of origin ... ?
V M # 1/01/2006
society and labour
Do societies with well defined social and work boundaries prefer single discipline focus over multidisciplinary approach ... ?
V M # 1/01/2006
Surfed by / visited ...
City Market of Los Angeles
Bonnie Hill
Wat Trimit
Camille Parmesan
V M # 1/01/2006
=> [from http://livewise.blogspot.com/2006_01_01_archive.html]
Livewise at blogspot, December 2005
Surfed by / visited ...
Sarabhai vs Sarabhai, sitcom, India
V M # 12/31/2005
Surfed by / visited ...
Top of the World of Stamps postage stamp alliance
Gezelligheid
Overseas Workers Welfare Administration, Philippines
Schools Adopt Monuments, Naples, Italy
V M # 12/31/2005
Surfed by / visited ...
Chinook wind
Khamaseen
V M # 12/31/2005
Surfed by / visited ...
clearwing butterfly
brumby
North Pacific Gyre
V M # 12/31/2005
stress, work and women
How does stress affect women working outside their home ... ?
Do they respond similar to men ... ?
V M # 12/30/2005
children, time and life
Is children's time spent in school and homework ... how do they connect with life around them, and participate ... ?
V M # 12/30/2005
local heritages
In a world where people are on the move geographically, how useful would it be to be sensitised about, value, conserve local heritages ... ?
V M # 12/30/2005
acting and relating ...
Does enacting relationships, exhaust, leaving actors empty to relate emotionally in real life ... ?
How do they approach relationships and what is their sense of relationships in real life ... ?
V M # 12/30/2005
Surfed by / visited ...
Charles Russell
Runa Laila
V M # 12/30/2005
Browsed by ...
Quentin Reynolds on the Brooklyn he grew up in ...
"The Brooklyn I grew up in was the world. It had everything. When we wanted to go fishing, we had the whole Atlantic .... We had the theater. When plays finished their Broadway runs, they crossed the East River to Futton
Street, their first stop on the road. ... Later, when we studied art ..., our teacher took us to the Brooklyn Art Museum, and there we learned to appreciate what made a great painting great. The zoo at Prospect Park was our lab when we studied natural history ...."
- from "By Quentin Reynolds"
V M # 12/30/2005
Surfed by / visted ...
Becky Anderson
Rosemary Church
Hala Gorani
Jeff Greenfield
Jenny Harrison
Daryn Kagan
Kristie Lu Stout
Jonathan Mann
Colleen McEdwards
Monita Rajpal
Shihab Ratansi
Fionnualla Sweeney
V M # 12/25/2005
Bonnie Behrend
Bonnie Behrend, journalist.
Also at http://www.geocities.com/lifeinsight/misc.html
V M # 12/25/2005
human needs, issues and laws
How far can law-related bodies respond effectively to human needs and issues ... ?
V M # 12/25/2005
Surfed by / visted ...
Research Institute of Human Engineering for Quality Life
Quality of Life Research Center
International Society for Quality-of-Life Studies
International Society for Quality of Life Research
European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions
Canadian Policy Research Networks
Council on Family and Work at MIT
Physical quality-of-life index
The Abell Foundation
Quality of life study project for students
V M # 12/25/2005
"Straight up" - sung by Paula Abdul (lyrics Elliot Wolff)
V M # 12/23/2005
looks
do good looks go with the peak of civilisations ... ?
V M # 12/23/2005
documentation & nature
does documentation make it easier to let go of nature ... ?
V M # 12/23/2005
modern
How we think we are modern
how surprised would we be to learn that much [?] of our ideas / thoughts might have been current in the past ... ?
V M # 12/23/2005
Surfed by / visited ...
Georges Simonen
Lucien Maxwell
V M # 12/23/2005
Surfed by / visited ...
Google - Company Overview
Yahoo! - Company Overview
Opera Software - Vision
craigslist facts & figures
About Metafilter
V M # 12/23/2005
Surfed by / visited ...
Insight programme, CNN
Lou Dobbs
Maria Bartiromo
V M # 12/23/2005
Surfed by / visited ...
James Lovelock
Robert Sapolsky
Stephan Schmidheiny
The Survival of Jan Little
Michael Kolowich
Victim Support
Yukio Tsuda
Merlin
Cleo Paskal
Amy Bruckman
Sir Peter Hall
V M # 12/21/2005
Surfed by / visited ...
Baroness Susan Greenfield
Shekhar Gupta
Radhika Bordia - 24 Hours
Lisa Peattie
Michael Weinstein
Deena Weinstein
Edna St. Vincent Millay
Antony Flew
Gordon Allport
Halina Pos'wiatowska
V M # 12/20/2005
Surfed by / visited ...
Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research
University of Salford
Monterey Institute of International Studies
Learning and Skills Council (LSC) Skills for Life Quality Initiative
Pathways to Life Quality
Urie Bronfenbrenner - obituary
Bronfenbrenner Life Course Center, Cornell University
ILR School, Cornell University
College of Human Ecology, Cornell University
UK Government Sustainable Development Framework indicators
Centre of Expertise on Culture and Communities
Flynn Research
Quality of life
V M # 12/19/2005
surfed by / visited ...
Phil Ochs
S�ren Kierkegaard
Andy Kershaw
Erla Zwingle
Michio Kaku
Will Wright
Douglas Hougen
Eddie Startz
Oasis of Peace
Dylan Thomas
Michael Argyle
Peter L. Berger
John Berger
International Council for Philosophy and Humanistic Studies
Laura A Fleet
V M # 12/18/2005
Surfed by / visited ...
Caregiver Credit Campaign
V M # 12/16/2005
Friedrich Hayek
Friedrich Hayek
V M # 12/16/2005
Solaris
Film Solaris by Andrei Tarkovsky. From novel by Stanislaw Lem.
V M # 12/16/2005
Masanobu Fukuoka
Masanobu Fukuoka
V M # 12/16/2005
Surfed by / visited ...
Julian Lincoln Simon
Policies of Infill Development and Quality of Living Environment
Henry Hazlitt
V M # 12/16/2005
Girlscientist's blog at blogspot
Hedwig's blog on birds and her life.
V M # 12/15/2005
Surfed by / visited ...
AustralianUnity Wellbeing Index site
Rosabeth M. Kanter
Metasearch.com
Microsoft Small Business Directory
Violence Against Women, Australia Says No
gURL
SHAPE magazine
Santa Fe Institute
Ralph McTell's song �Streets Of London�
Mary Kaldor
Bruno S. Frey
Norman Barry
V M # 12/14/2005
Surfed by / visited ...
Ludwig von Bertalanffy
Kenneth Ewart Boulding
John Seely Brown
Jerome Bruner
Vannevar Bush
Eric Cassell
Ernst Cassirer
William C. Clark
Mary Douglas
Anne Harrington
Alice Kessler-Harris
Karen Horney
Ervin L�szl�
Linda E Olds
Anatol Rapoport
Michael Schrage
note:
I do not have much more information. Some of the topics, subjects covered may be of interest to life quality, et. al.
V M # 12/09/2005
Surfed by / visited ...
Samuel Alexander
Francis Herbert Bradley
John Bagnell Bury
John William Draper
Francis Galton
John Atkinson Hobson
David Hume
Gustave Le Bon
George Edward Moore
Gilbert Murray
Thomas Paine
William Winwood Reade
William Robertson Smith
Richard Henry Tawney
note:
I do not have much more information. Some of the topics, subjects covered may be of interest to life quality, et. al.
V M # 12/09/2005
Surfed by / visited ...
Surfed by ... (not much more information)
Franklin Becker
Fernando Flores
Erving Goffman
Richard L Gregory
Irene Greif
Edward T. Hall
Larry Hirschhorn
Vera John-Steiner
Thomas S Kuhn
Bruno Latour
Robert Levering
Kevin Lynch
Thomas W. Malone
Elton Mayo
Lewis Mumford
Ted Nelson
Neil Postman
Howard Rheingold
Donald Schon
Robert Sommer
Sherry Turkle
Robert Weisberg
Langdon Winner
Terry Winograd
JoAnne Yates
note:
I do not have much more information. Some of the topics, subjects covered may be of interest to life quality, et. al.
V M # 12/08/2005
products and needs
what were the original needs which a product sought to meet ... ?
what were the particulars that the product sought to respond to ... ?
how well does a product meet needs in a new context where the particulars may be different ... ?
V M # 12/08/2005
sex currency and relating
How much of our view of life experience and expression is sex taking up ... ?
Is sex increasingly defining the avenues, sense ( and most ? ) of meaningful interaction ... ?
Has sex becoming a currency in people's interactions ... ?
in expressing life ... ?
What are the opportunities for people to relate ... ?
Does the quest to seek new frontiers come at the cost of opportunities to experience varied human relationships in day to day life ?
Does it make one lose touch with, become stranger to, become curious about different forms of relating as humans ...?
How useful are varied - ordinary - human relationships part of life to the experience of life ... ?
How valuable is ability and opportunity for relating ordinarily ?
V M # 12/08/2005
Surfed by: LoveByte Singapore
LoveByte - a government effort to encourage graduates in Singapore to marry.
V M # 12/05/2005
Ramesses II
Ramesses II, pharaoh
V M # 12/05/2005
Surfed by / visited: Ingmar Bergman's Scenes from a marraige and Saraband, its sequel
Scener ur ett �ktenskap (Scenes from a marriage) (1973)
Saraband, sequel (2003)
V M # 12/05/2005
Hugh Foot, Paul Foot
Hugh Foot, British diplomat who saw several colonies move towards independence during his service.
His son Paul Foot, journalist.
V M # 12/05/2005
Neanderthal and Cro Magnon man
Neandertal interaction with Cro-Magnons
Neanderthal
Cro-Magnon man
V M # 12/04/2005
Eleanor orphan elephant ...
http://www.sheldrickwildlifetrust.org/asp/orphan_profile.asp?N=21
V M # 12/02/2005
MEMS Microelectromechanical Systems
V M # 12/02/2005
Koko and Dr Penny Patterson
Gorilla, Koko uses sign language.
V M # 12/02/2005
Surfed by / visited: David Lykken on Happiness
Happiness Is a Stochastic Phenomenon, David Lykken and Auke Tellegen, University of Minnesota
Psychological Science Vol.7, No. 3, May 1996
The Heritability of Happiness, David Lykken
Article published in the Harvard Mental Health Letter.
V M # 12/02/2005
older notes: wildlife - drugs
If wildlife 2nd biggest international illegal trade, & drugs is No. 1 then why not a channel for addiction problems ...
( when we have for the No. 2 like Discovery channel)
V M # 12/02/2005
older notes: Modern - traditional
Modern society and traditional society interface. Providing communities with inputs about the direction they are choosing to head in (the positives / negatives) and how they plan to give continuity / or change in their context.
a value analysis, introspection, direction, merging & emerging, old +new ?
V M # 12/02/2005
older notes: Quality of life and fullness of human being
Quality of life as an estimation of the fullness or varied or parts or/and aspects which make up a human being's life: this comprehensivity, sensitivity to man as a being. Approaching man the customer, the consumer, the individual you interact with in light of his fullness of being - what therefore, are his aspects which make for Quality of living - when you service him, make a product for him, provide him a deal, or meet him as a person.
So looking at human being as a total person when you may be dealing / interacting / relating with him as a consumer, customer or person.
This extends to other relations in life Products, Services, interaction which address the full person: how components for the full aspects (apart from just a consumer statistic in [)]
Enlarging his perception of the person in totality as a person.
What makes a person tick? live?
What aspects are under addressed?
How does addressing, including full person view in commercial operations assist greater (profits) Opportunities & satisfaction.
What is the sublime? What is most fullfilling? What expresses full joy for humans?
What liberates? What facilitates life for man? Who am I? How do I work? How do I develop?
How do I enjoy? What occupies me?
V M # 12/02/2005
Alice in the cities
a film by Wim Wenders
V M # 12/02/2005
older notes: QOL make it (fun) ...
QOL make it (fun) engaging and inbuiltly imbued with a sense of I-can (say) monitor-&-regulate-&-produce-my-QOL : inventorise, prioritise, devise ways, be creative, cooperative, joyous, in QOL, QOL status listing, monitoring & regulating, nourishing ... Make QOL (concept) accessible in a do-able and empowering manner to all: villagers to the top educateds. QOL as a commonly shared-&-enjoyed-experience, abstract is part of their life's do-able / live-ability aspect, like e.g. antakshari (a game of popular songs) in India : But more important as self creativity in life (self / all), nourishment, appreciation of self / others; not competition
V M # 12/01/2005
older notes: QOL - basic life process & activity
QOL is an essential step that each individual takes as he experiences himself and the world and arrives at an idea of who he is, the man is, and the world is. This in turn - this internal, basic, primary ongoing self-started probe and its results arrived at - leads us to pursue life on a wider, &, similar way. Exploration patterns are set by our experiences, our learning, essentially telling us how and what connections are made by us. So we see the world, and are able to see it the way we do & see it the way we do through our ongoing QOL experience, its abstraction, implementation, &, curiosity, exploration... which tells on our life's living - how we live as individuals, and humans as a kind.
QOL is an essential ongoing process in each of us which begins with ourselves, and so it affects our lives' activity and our lives in turn. So, how we see our QOL ( what is man, his characteristics, range ... ) as 'connected' by us, imprints our life.
So QOL is not only desired goal, but the essential basic step in our life & its activity; in our living and the quality of it.
V M # 12/01/2005
older notes: QOL and ideas ...
Figure out ( and also study) as work how developments in one area affect life in entriety ? Also how developments in one area affect that area in life ?
Ideas come up - all of them. - People interacting with each other. That's the idea.
People have ideas about the Quality of Life as they see it, they may address a particular area of concern / interest, have ideas, reach out for information. QOL occurs as a subject and potentialiser / activater / it lives and is supported in that in various ways : to history of QOL : developments, interactions, ways societies have lived : determinants of QOL, what persists, what is required, Science, how it gives QOL, Arts : how it works. Individual life, Projects, Companies, Products, Services, Money; Other important ways of QOL : attitudes, interaction rules, important values for life and for QOL ( the difference between the two, and the balance for life and for QOL), skills, resources, group interaction, communication, mob management, life enrichment, family management, societal interactions, and cohesion and space for living for all, generation gap, and its mending, the need for differentiation between generations, people, individual, groups, survival of all not us vs. them, how survival is effected in life Nature's forces : use and ability
V M # 12/01/2005
older notes: facility for QOL issues
Provide the facility for QOL issues in each person / family, people's life to look at their own QOL, direct it, tackle issues, Provide the space in which their most basic / essential / key / vital elements for QOL issues can be encouraged and facilitated.
- Also, QOL as an individual('s) requirementt & worldwide prioritisation ...
V M # 12/01/2005
older notes: QOL as experience of life ...
QOL as the experience of life, as the needs, desires, requirements for living which a man seeks to fulfill to 'live' in all ways. In all different circumstances of his life. That's the overall media. Specific needs, wishes which make up the QOL dimensions of man emphasised by people will be given highlight. In this way, QOL will be furthered and promoted in its wholeness.
Aim at the wholeness, The connections, (to) address specifics, promote 'em, show how work is being done on 'em, Develop, show various specifics, Show / address whole-ness of QOL. Keep QOL issues in highlight as issues important to living in proportion to their importance to living.
V M # 12/01/2005
older notes: Pristine Quality of Life
Perenial / basic / more nature-, self-, human-, relation- oriented, less dependent Quality of Life. Therefore less focus on products, more on Q.O.L. as the subject.
- Provide fora for people to know their issuues on QOL and what is happening to address the questions and also know what's happening. Be there in their life.
- People pressure, focus, prioritisation, toop level prioritisation important, vital in putting QOL on equal footing as is needed for life living.
V M # 12/01/2005
Surfed by / visited: barbaraehrenreich.com
V M # 12/01/2005
Chindogu
"unuseless" inventions
V M # 12/01/2005
Une �poque formidable...
A film in French.
V M # 12/01/2005
Amanda Burrell, researcher, documentaries
Amanda Burrell worked as researcher on some interesting tv documentaries.
V M # 12/01/2005
QoL update - basics
How do you keep updated with subjects that affect life ... ?
In a world of hierarchies of defining success, how do you get and remain in touch with basics which make for quality of life ... ?
V M # 12/01/2005
=> [from http://livewise.blogspot.com/2005_12_01_archive.html]
Livewise at blogspot, November 2005
Professor Carol Dweck on effects of praise on children
V M # 11/29/2005
Percy Spencer, Al Spencer - inventors
Percy Spencer, a self educated inventor of microwave ovens, received 300 patents.
His older brother, Al, developed metal discs which snapped with heat changes and were used as themostats. [?]
V M # 11/29/2005
Surfed by / visited: Exponent Inc - failure analysis
Exponent Inc, previously known as Failure Analysis Associates.
V M # 11/29/2005
Surfed by: Summer of My German Soldier
A novel by Betty Greene about a jewish girl in the US befriending a young German POW.
V M # 11/29/2005
Marshall Plan - Treaty of Versailles
V M # 11/29/2005
Jiyu Gakuen - alternative school
Jiyu Gakuen, "Freedom School" founded by Yoshikazu Hani and his wife, Motoko Hani.
An alternative school which sought to promote thinking beyond rote learning.
V M # 11/29/2005
sun parlor
V M # 11/29/2005
Daredevil - film title sequence
Karin Fong, and team at Imaginary Forces, designed the title sequence for the comic book hero movie, Daredevil. Ms Fong and Imaginary Forces have worked on other films as well.
V M # 11/28/2005
Glimpsed: music videos directed by Sophie Muller
Caught glimpses of some music videos directed by Sophie Muller.
V M # 11/28/2005
Guernica - A Summer Night
Pablo Picasso's Guernica
Winslow Homer's A Summer Night
V M # 11/28/2005
V M # 11/28/2005
Ushguli, Georgia - Shiprock, New Mexico, USA
Ushguli is a village in the mountains of Georgia, where life seems to have changed little from the past.. It is considered the highest continuously inhabited village in Europe.
Shiprock, a volcanic marvel of geology, which spreads out within the Four Corners area where the US states of Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona, and Utah meet.
V M # 11/25/2005
Surfed by: Lifetime Real Women
Lifetime Real Women is the site for a cable tv channel with "true-to-life" programming for women.
The lifetimetv.com site appears to have an active message board.
V M # 11/25/2005
news: living.com and ImageGuide
living.com is using EAT.TV's ImageGuide to deliver content to its users. The emphasis seems to be on accessing content visually. ImageGuide, it appears, makes it easier for the companies to display ads without the user nixing them.
V M # 11/25/2005
letters and development
Can frequency of exchange of - personal - letters among citizens be an indicator of development in earlier communities ... ?
V M # 11/23/2005
trading community issues
What are some issues that may affect trading communities ... ?
V M # 11/23/2005
Tokyo Bay reclamation and Yatsu Higata tidal mudflat
Tokyo Bay area houses a big chunk of Japan's economy and population. Over the years, land has been reclaimed from the sea altering the ecology of the region significantly.
Yatsu Higata, a small 40-hectare tidal mudflat, looking like an artificial pool, enclosed on all sides by reclamation, is now isolated about 200 km [?] inland from the bay, staying connected to the Tokyo Bay by two narrow channels for inflow and outflow of tides.
It is considered an important stopover for migratory birds, particularly with loss of much of tidal flats in the Tokyo Bay.
V M # 11/23/2005
Pikas in nunataks
Collared pikas surviving in nunataks, small icefree mountain tops amidst glaciers.
Also at the site ...
Canada's boreal region
Decline in rusty blackbird population
V M # 11/23/2005
Hannah Hauxwell
Hannah Hauxwell used to live on her family farm by herself after her mother's death. A tv documentary about her life made her well known to viewers. Later, I learn, she travelled to Europe and the US. According to net postings, she has retired from the farm, and now lives in Cotherstone, a nearby village.
Durhan Wildlife Trust website mentions a reserve, Hannah's Meadow, formerly part of the farm owned by Hannah Hauxwell's family. http://www.wildlifetrust.org.uk/durham/Reserves/HannahMeadow.html
V M # 11/23/2005 0 comments
Lifewise
living life wise ... and with joy and life
V M # 11/22/2005
=> [from http://livewise.blogspot.com/2005_11_01_livewise_archive.html]
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Universe of life at blogspot, October 2005
n break
The blog's on a break for a while.
warm regards,
VM
V M # 10/29/2005
a personal note
For some who have wondered ... :)
The need of the times and situation required me to pursue certain priorities. I had quite a few of the ideas presented here, and a broader outline, in some form prior to that. Within the circumstances, I have persevered at an individual level.
Looking to further work ...
warm regards,
Virasat Mirza
V M # 10/25/2005
past, future, present
How do countries be responsible with their - developing - power, for their well being as part of the world community ... ?
Does growing power make countries vulnerable to ideas of grandeur ... ?
What is the human cost of falling prey to such ideas ... ?
V M # 10/25/2005
domestic requirements and imports
how interchangeable are products and services across countries ... ?
how do imported products and services meet the requirements of a person or society ... ?
V M # 10/22/2005
human value, expression, energy, potential, store, process
how valuable is the human ability to do things ... ?
how does the potential of the youth express it self ... ?
how do values which make up life find expression in humans ... ?
how valuable is process in nature ... ?
how valuable is ability and access beyond having to employ external energy to use it, how valuable is direct access to knowledge and skills beyond external means of energy to activate it ... ?
how valuable is simplicity as a value in society and human living ... ? Does it facilitate living through different times in society and living ... ? Does it make human relations more cordial ... ? Is it useful in living well ... ?
how valuable are skills ... ?
how valuable are values ... ?
how valuable is human ... ?
V M # 10/22/2005
scale of production
Does the need of a larger scale of production, whether export-oriented or not, withold resources from the diverse, the more subtle, or 'advanced' needs in an economy ... ?
Does it affect what people consume ... ? what is available to consume ... ? are people being marketed, and (or) are over-consuming what is available ... ?
what needs are not met ... ?
V M # 10/15/2005
life after
how does people's yearning to grapple with, understand, or grasp life beyond death find expression ... ?
does the vocabulary and expression that resonates, communicates, or expresses these yearnings to people vary ... ?
V M # 10/15/2005
literary shorthands and life
There are literary devices - shorthands - used in literature, fiction, entertainment, media, news to convey feelings, to develop the story.
How do people realise - when - these shorthands may not be an actual - or a literal - depiction of life and occurences ... ?
Do they de-sensitise people to real life, as experienced by others ... ?
V M # 10/15/2005
resource-rich countries and rapid growth
do countries with natural resources in high demand, find themselves much better off economically, rather suddenly, and face challenges of rapid change to lifestyles and ways of doing and living ... ? looking at a multitude of new possiblities and attractions ... ?
how rapid ... ?
how does the world consumption rates impact resource-rich countries ... ?
V M # 10/08/2005
pre
there are departments for emergencies, should there be mechanisms for catching situations which have the potential of becoming emergencies or catastrophes or big problems before they do so ... ?
V M # 10/08/2005
wholeness - - despair, attractiveness, purchase
how is wholeness of human life valuable ... ?
do we find valued 'components' from human wholeness put to use to sell products and services ... ?
what does the form or smile of a woman signify ... ?
does despair at not being able to have wholeness of life experience, move people to purchase products and services as substitutes of wholeness or human values ... ?
how does lack of wholeness in life and relationships aid in selling products and services ... ?
is wholeness of life sought to be fractured to achieve ends ... ?
what happens when people are turned into objects in pursuit of ends ... ?
what happens to relationships when either sex is turned into an object ... ? what happens to the other sex ... ?
do the results of some actions show up over a longer period of time ... ?
does attractiveness invite its degradation ... ?
does making something attractive entice people ... ?
how are things made attractive ... ? what human values are superimposed ... ?
when do humans seek attractiveness as an outside object by itself ... ?
what does it say about life quality ... ?
when do people show a greater propensity to possess ... ?
what does it say about the environment around them ... ?
what do people - come to - associate with life and living ... ?
what behaviours do people come to associate with expressions of life ... ?
when do people get a chance to get in touch with thier own self ... and sense of life ... ?
how does the world respond to sense of life ... ?
how valuable is wholeness of human life ... ?
note: this is not a generalisation of human - market interactions.
V M # 10/07/2005
differences
are differences opportunities to understand ... ?
V M # 10/07/2005
violence
Is there a connection between (lack of) respect for women and violence ... ?
V M # 10/05/2005
fast foods
Do fast foods tend to be fattening ... ? why ... ?
Non-fattening fast foods ... ?
V M # 10/05/2005
sustaining economy
how to sustain an economy over the long haul ... ?
how to make results sustainable ... ?
how does the approach for longer term achievements differ, if at all, from that which yeilds results in the short term ... ?
V M # 10/03/2005
countries and living
how do countries define their identity ... ?
how do societies work out what is best for them ... ?
is it possible or desirable or worthwhile to pursue standards of living which exist elsewhere ... ?
to what extent can they be pursued usefully ... ?
how do countries trust each other ... ?
how are countries perceived by their neighbours ... ?
how do countries cooperate with the world community ... ?
how do other countries perceive a country ... ?
how do countries and neighbourhoods live ... ?
how does speculation affect flow of life ... ?
how do societies move resources and develop capabilities to meet requirements ... ?
how do societies provide people with the support and openings to move from areas of low requirement in society to those which benefit their own lives and the society ... ?
how do people figure out ways of living well which work in the larger framework - of the country - as well as provide for their own identity and well being ... ?
how do countries perceive themselves in the context of their region and the world ... ?
how do nations identify themselves with the world community and their region ... ?
V M # 10/03/2005
before
how did wonderful things exist before human intelligence ...
V M # 10/03/2005
unknown in education
Are children left with the impression that the knowledge, as presented to them, depicts the reality of the world absolutely ... ?
Alongside providing knowledge, should children be told a bit of what is yet little known to us ... ?
Would it make their interaction with the world more real ... ? ... more productive ... ? ... better in tune with living ... ?
V M # 10/03/2005
interactions, identity
are people - everywhere ? - re-looking at their identity ... ?
re-looking everywhere ... ?
how concerned are people about identity ... ?
do people see their identities in terms of opportunities or perceptions of opportunities ... ?
how does loss of former interactions affect people ... ?
how valuable are interactions between different people in a community or society ... ?
V M # 10/01/2005
=> [from http://universeoflife.blogspot.com/2005_10_01_universeoflife_archive.html]
Universe of life at blogspot, September 2005
including Lifecosm at xanga.com from 2003 to October 2004
alt. newsgroups at Google Groups
It seems that the groups that do well in the usenet format, in terms of high activity, in particular with reference to alt newsgroups, may have a well-defined, encompassing need; be dispersed geographically; without much of a need for proprietorship; ... ?
V M # 9/27/2005
health, hygiene, quality, service in unorganised service enterprises
How vital are the products and services provided by the small, individual-run, private enterprises ... ? Whether it is a barbershop, or a roadside fastfood stall ... ?
They might serve a resource-scarce market ... ?
How do the workers in the unorganised service sector gain the necessary awareness, knowledge, skills and support towards delivering quality products and services in a healthy, hygienic way to their customers ... ?
V M # 9/23/2005
livable ness
What more is there to the identity of a society, which makes it more livable ... ?
How is society organising its resources around ... does it make living more fulfilled as a unit ... or in parts ... ?
Is work a force around which everything else gets organised ... ? Including lives, families, human needs ... ?
Are structures of living more defined to suit 'work' ... ?
Does development exert a certain pressure on human life ... ?
What does it take to maintain development ... ?
What also occurs with development ... ?
Where do you balance work as a resource for staying alive and well and as a means to achieve results ... ?
What can people be aware of in their lives ... that also happens alongside development ... ?
How does society cope with or relate to the pace of change taking place in it ... ?
How much growth or change can society respond to coherently ... ?
How do people stay aware of the benefits of development and the ways in which society has to be prepared to cope with its demands ... ?
Are people prepared for the social and human skills and responses to cope with development ... ?
Does the society prepare for what is to come ... ?
How can the society with the power and the magnitude of change, how does it react ... ?
Does development give power ... how do you relate that power to life and living ... ?
V M # 9/21/2005
human needs, assumptions, trust, status quo, failure, market
How many of the products and services are for failures to meet human needs and wants ... ?
How much is assumption a part of society's understanding of the world and life ... ?
How important are assumptions becoming in life and living ... ? ... and in society ... ?
What are the sources of faulty assumptions ... ?
What is the role of trust ... ? How important is trust becoming in society ... ?
How is trust perceived ... ? what criteria are used ... ?
How much gravity does status quo exert in society and living ... ?
Does status quo influence the definition of trust ... ? of assumptions ... ?
Do - some - answers lie outside the status quo ... ?
How much of the market is based on failures to meet human needs and wants ... ?
How important have failures become ... ?
How can society be in touch with living needs and wants ... ?
... with humans ... life ...
V M # 9/17/2005
company success, market size, consumer
Do companies view their customers through - and / or in terms of - company's own success and growth ... ?
What if the success of the company is based not so much on the ability of its customers to pay more as on the - potential - market size ... ?
How does a company respond ... ?
V M # 9/17/2005
differences and similarities
how far are differences between people an expression of similarties ... ?
V M # 9/17/2005
MNC product quality
Is there a significant difference in the quality of MNC products in different markets ... ?
V M # 9/16/2005
society joy
can society have occasions when everyone can feel good ... ?
should it ... ?
V M # 9/16/2005
Lifecosm Universe of Life at xanga - by month
Lifecosm Universe of Life posts at xanga.com have been collected by the month in the preceding posts.
May 2003
June 2003
January 2004
February 2004
March 2004
April 2004
May 2004
June 2004
July 2004
August 2004
September 2004
October 2004
V M # 9/15/2005
Lifecosm Universe of Life at xanga - October 2004
October 27, 2004
Charm harms
[ words that also appeared on an Oprah episode ... ]
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October 21, 2004
What does a woman feel who is pregnant with a child which the society may have deemed illegitimate ?
'Necessity' often times is a reason why some women display their bodies in public arena ... does necessity have to do with the prevalent standard of living ... ?
What are the opportunities available for men in present times to play the 'traditional' role of bread winner ... ?
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October 18, 2004
Little knowledge can be dangerous ...
Be aware of the hunger for knowledge ... be more aware of the authenticity and quality of knowledge ... ?
In a situation,
... would it be useful to see what one can do as a person ... ?
... also, observe own behaviour and attitudes, etc. ... ?
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October 14, 2004
development can it remain optimal ... does it have to decline ...
does development have to be a trade off ...
what is development ...
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October 13, 2004
a society may be in informal agreement on the direction of progress, which may be affected by reactions of groups to each other's voicing their own interests - in a bargaining sort of way - a few notches above what is suitable ... ?
when a side expresses what looks like solidarity and common cause beyond the national borders, the other side may seek to replicate a similar identity for itself by finding a common cause with the opposite camp in the international scene ... when both could have seen the desire to express identity in the other ... ?
how does colonisation, followed by new freedom affect the behaviour of people ... how do people seek to express their freedom ... how do people try to get in touch with their identity ... how much of this facet affects religious expressions ... ?
how do people express their opposition to lack of freedom or lack of improvement in their lot, despite independence ... ?
how important are healthy and responsible personal or private institutions in a secular society ... ?
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October 09, 2004
How genuine are people in presence of the world (wide web) .... ?
why not ... ?
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Humans can carry values in them and can be attractive to one another, and enjoy each other's company, they can retain a freshness in their interaction and a lively sense of life and value ...
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How do companies emulate life, and or sustain themselves and stay alive and healthy and be productive ...
How do the retain the freshness and productivity of their output ...
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What happens to people's performance in organisations which are deemed essential and not allowed to fail, generally speaking, such as government, police, essential services, ...
How can they keep their work and satisfaction levels high ....
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How does the flow of life in which people are caught up affect their person and how does it impact on their behaviour in life and with others ...
How do people measure the success or health of their relationships ...
How accurate or real is that ...
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October 03, 2004
Life's fluidity
Words, expressions can be static. They can convey something, and there
may be more ... For example, talking about a person, an idea, a place --
there would be more to that person, idea or place than what is currently
being said... if you talk about a person's job then there is his
personal life, for example, which we are not talking about, to put in
very simple terms.
In life, one does so many things to be alive, you eat, sleep, work,
think, and are a boss, a worker, a mother, a father, a child, a friend,
and this is all part of the fluidity of life.
Does this fluidity make for living well ... ?
Do stereotypes do people justice ... ?
Is there more to people ... ?
Would being aware of the fluidity and comprehensiveness of people's
lives make other people less biased about them, more empathetic ... ?
Do ideas fail to depict this comprehensiveness or fluidity of life ... ?
Can media, and other sources of impression about life, convey this
fluidity well ... ? Can they move towards expressing this fluidity and
comprehensiveness ... ?
Do static images or impressions give an incomplete or wrong picture of
things ... ?
angst ... ?
How does _this_ fluidity form part of categorisation and freedom of
personal expression ... ?
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October 02, 2004
Why do people travel ... ?
could one reason be ... to feel welcome ...
another one ... to search ...
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October 01, 2004
How often does one see people who are happy with their lives, in the
public limelight ...
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V M # 9/15/2005
Lifecosm Universe of Life at xanga - September 2004
The details of this post are available in full at its post page which can be accessed by clicking '#" sign below which is the permanent link for that post page.
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September 30, 2004
Is education a joy ... ?
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September 29, 2004
Life is not a bureaucracy ....
or is it ... ?
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How do governments act as a drag on the progress of a society ...
How can they be more effective ...
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How do you reduce layers of communication between people ...
are they necessary ...
do these layers stem from a sense of self preservation ... ? from what
... ?
could fewer layers of communication make for more human communication
... ? and more alive ness ... ? productivity ... ?
how few ... ? how many ... ?
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September 28, 2004
do people operate and act from a belief that some one's gain, is some
one else's loss ...
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do people tend to view situations that they see as, "that is how they
must have been meant to be" ... or will continue to be ... even if they
would like them to be different ...
do they tend to accept the ideas which seem to be propping these
situations as valid just because the situation exists ...
do they think about the validity or real value of the way things are ...
how a situation might have been hijacked away from the way it could have
been better ...
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How long lasting is the trauma or effects of war on a society and
peoples ...
how is it manifest ...
does success in war promote war as a means of resolving issues even if
the costs have been high ...
does it lead to less attention to more peaceful ways of resolving crises
...
how do you deal with dictatorships which are not benevolent ...
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When looking back in time, do people in the present tend to view the
people in the past in terms of the physical things they had or not ...
in doing so, do they tend to see them as successful if they lived
lavishly ...
do they tend to view people living without much of the technology today
as being dull, backward ...
do they see them as people like themselves ...
...
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Do time periods of moral abandon and [ financial ] corruption precede
international conflicts ...
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how do people communicate ?
Is it in the voices
is it in the blood
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What are the linkages, if any, between a sense of being endangered and
focus on vocational or business skills within a group ...
how useful is it ...
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September 27, 2004
Talent and economy
what are the talent and labour requirements of high velocity economies
are they able to meet these at home
what are the factors which attract talent to an economy and society
what are the factors that push the talent out of an economy and society
what happens to societies that lose talent
what happens to the talent in new societies
what linkages are established between these socieities
how do high velocity societies survive
do they benefit other societies ...
what strategic interests, if any, may be at play
how do other people in the society see themselves ...
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Sleep deprivation
how does sleep deprivation affect people, their behaviour, work ...
their relationships ...
is it a component of modern life ...
has it become a component of consumerist economy ...
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Lifestyle diseases and conditions
how do diseases and conditions such as diabetes, heart conditions
whether diagnosed or not, affect behaviour ?
Are these affecting people's responses and reactions ?
is this happening on a wide scale ?
what are the outcomes ... ?
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September 26, 2004
what role, if any, does seduction play in creating a relationship ...
Do people turn to seduction when they feel their current relationship is
losing its spark or is waning ...
what makes a relationship ...
is seduction a lie ?
what are people not seeing [ and may be is working ] ...
What brings two people together in a close relationship ...
what do people value in each other ...
where is the joy of a relationship ...
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September 25, 2004
How do we communicate with people ... ?
Do we reach out and touch their lives ?
Or do with interfere in their lives ?
Where do we find ourselves in midst of all this ... ?
where does life and communication meet or mix or are one ... ?
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September 24, 2004
How are schools different from the world outside schools ?
What is good about the schools which may be useful if adopted by the
world outside schools ?
What do students leave behind, or can not find, in the world outside
once they leave their education ?
Should schools adapt more to the world outside ?
Is school the most important influence on a child's life in the
formative years ? Or how important is it ?
Is the long duration of schooling and education desirable ? why so ? or
why not ?
how are schools being depicted in media, how does that influence
behaviour of students and others ... ?
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How does absence of extended family and community promote physical
relationships as a substitute, how successful are these attempts at
meeting what is sought, are people aware of this behaviour ... ?
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September 23, 2004
Children going to a local pond with their teacher, microscopes, and
other gear in tow, to do some field work, and discover what flourishes
there ...
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Do some very icon like, symbolic entities take up much of the attention
of the world when there is much more work that could be done ...
Is the bureaucratic manner of resource distribution responsible for this
state of affaris ...
how do issues and problems get the resources and attention they need
beyond the few "success stories" which get repeated leases of life and
support and are like a tokenism ... ?
Which is not to discount any work of merit these entities may have done;
but do they harm their own efforts when they become a text book example
repeated in meetings and media, without real expansion of efforts any
where near the scale that it required to resolve issues that they are
purporting to address through their work ...
It might be inappropriate to expect a single entity to resolve a society
wide issue, nor just because an entity has been projected as a success,
does it become one in real terms ... ?
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What are super powers remembered for ?
The contribution they have made to the lives of people ...
Or are they remembered for the grand structures that they built ... ?
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September 21, 2004
Loving your children as they grow ...
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September 20, 2004
Internet seems to have made the world into a universe like in science
fiction ... where you see diversity [ and uniformity, even monotony ]
people, backgrounds, cultures, ethnicity, points of view ... getting to
know ... the world and others and self ... ?
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we meet we touch we go
life on ice
is that slice
of life
sugar and spice
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When the train rattles by
through the country side
in the night
past yellow lights of hamlets and houses
what do you see
when the train rattles by
at the railway crossing
squares of yellow flashing by
what do you see
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September 20, 2004
How can it be ensured that people's goodwill leads to good ...
?
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Life coming alive with life ...
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Rites and rituals can be ways of coming to terms with cycles of life in
company of fellow humans ...
... are they ?
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Humans may be fragile, but may not be all that fragile ...
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Humans are able to do things with nature on a big scale, they are using
it, consuming it, and affecting it ... nature may adapt to these changes
... species die ... ?
can humans adapt ... ?
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Find the happy medium, if it exists ... in a situation ... it usually
may ... ?
In a situation there may those who wish the status quo to continue, and
still change may occur in life, opposing one another for sake of
opposition to one another might not be all that useful exercise if it
means giving up on life ... and what keeps life ticking ... and thriving
... question does remain what is life ... how do people view it ...
?
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shades of green
nature's variety
reddish green young leaves to bright greens to dark greens to patchy
greens, like an orchestra ... or symphony ... all around ... ?
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we meet we tango we go
life on ice
is that slice
of life
sugar and spice
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September 19, 2004
*A point of view ... *
"All standards were relaxed in the stormy-sultry wartime atmosphere. It
wasn't only the boys of my age, those serving in the army, who were
transformed by events: their sisters and younger brothers were affected
in a different fashion. With their fathers away, perhaps, and their
mothers making bandages or tea-dancing with lonely officers, it was
possible for boys and girls to do what they pleased. For the first time
they could go to dances unchaperoned, drive the family car and park it
by the roadside while they made love, and come home after midnight, a
little tipsy, with nobody to reproach them in the hallway. They took
advantage of these stolen liberties--indeed, one might say that the
revolution in morals began as a middle class children's revolt.
"But everything conspired to further it. Prohibition came and surround
the new customs with illicit glamour; prosperity made it possible to
practice them; Freudian psychology provided a psychological
justification and made it unfashionable to be repressed; still later the
sex magazines and the movies, even the pulpit, would advertise a
revolution that had taken place silently and triumphed without a
struggle. In all this Greenwich Village had no part. The revolution
would have occurred if the Village had never existed, but--the point is
important--it would not have followed the same course. The Village,
older in revolt, gave form to the movement, created its fashions, and
supplied the writers and illustrators who would render them popular. As
for American business, though it laid no plots in advance, it was quick
enough to use the situation, to exploit the new markets for cigarettes
and cosmetics, and to realize that, in advertising pages and movie
palaces, sex appeal was the surest appeal."
Malcom Cowley, in /Exile's Return,/ (first published 1934), on the 1920s
in the US...
[ from /The American Scene,/ 1966 ]
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Could some reasons why relationships do not last a lifetime be
the pace of change in life is much more rapid
people do not find what others were able to find
frontier spirit, to explore new horizons
multiple loyalties which pull in different directions
...
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September 18, 2004
Many situations take place but do not often make news ...
cross border prostitution smuggling, for one ... ?
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Having faith, understanding human nature, making choices, making
decisions, all go together ... ?
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September 17, 2004
Should students conducting experiments in a laboratory be required to
deliver results within a certain range of what was done before ...
Can there be other variables at play ...
What does experiment mean ....
--------------------
Are doctors equipped to deal with problems encountered ?
--------------------
While aspirations and frustrations do come into play during election
campaigns, and voting, it would help to note whether the edge to these
emotions isn't clouding judgement ...
--------------------
Do clouds behave like mirrors reflecting sun's rise and set ... the
burnished golden clouds go into gold veined marble exteriors, and
turning into pulls of cotton plugs, dispersing into the setting dusk ...
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Drum beat Violin how different, is violin a beat, and drum a flow,
because a drum beat resonates, and the violin goes through rapid twists
and turns like a beat, a beat, a beat,... Or differently is violin about
change in intensity and drum about spacing ..
why do tribal functions have a drum in the dance ?
how does a fiddle figure in folk music ?
how does it get people's feet tappin' ?
analog digital
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Deja Vu ...
How often ?
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Today's bid for survival means parents and children are working hard to
gain a good professional education and vocation. But when it comes to
applying their skills, it may dawn that they are not all that well aware
about the wider world of people whom they have to interact with, beyond
what they have been told or have been led to believe... this at the
least may create a small hurdle that an intelligent person could
overcome, but more vitally, it is the ability to deal with people as
humans, what ever hue or shade they are, which comes in handy. In
continuing to learn through life, and live life without being frustrated
by stereotypes...
It may even be the case that when applying professional knowledge, which
can be a very satisfying experience, yet may get marred by a certain
inability to draw upon your own moral compass, which may have not been
nurtured to the degree that professional knowledge and training has
been... Or quite the opposite, it may have been suppressed...
How can people get as adept at their ability to be with fellow humans,
not as great communicators necessarily, but as fellow beings, just as
well or better than the way they have been trained to diagnose symptoms,
or construct solutions...
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People in a smaller group, when they interact with a larger group; they
may come across the layers of bureaucracy, and deprivation, which may
stifle their existence and anger them. Yet, to the upper rungs of the
larger group, who do not face such trials on a daily basis for
sustaining life, and are somewhat cut off from the daily frontline world
of struggle at the outer reaches may react with dismay, scorn and
disgust at the violent reactions of the smaller group facing a life and
death struggle in the outskirts of power.
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Does technology impose mediation between man and his elements to the
extent that he is no longer in control and in direct appreciation of,
but more at effect ... of the many diverse and near and far variables
which are beyond him, both physically and operationally ?
Does it differ from the dependence on fate in face of nature in less
technologically advanced societies ...
Here the source of complexity and variability is of human design and
efforts... ?
Does it ease the way for leaders promising certainty and greatness which
can become another way of inviting dictatorship ... ? Can technological
progress automatically be equated with freedom at all levels ... ?
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Socieities have evolved over the years, people there choose how much of
what they want, and what they are willing to pay for it as a community,
which is not the same as lack of differences or diversity within the
community, yet as a manner of speaking, societies might seek to retain
that choice of how they wish to proceed with their lives...
Keeping in mind the quirks, the requirements, and special needs of each
community, some things can be done which benefit the people there, and
hopefully that translates into a force for good and goodwill in
international community...
Not realising those variables in human groups, at one level, might be
inviting problems as imposing ideas, however good in principle, but if
not tailored in practice to their requirements can only disillusion the
do-gooder and put off the recepient ...
Individuals and societies can decide what is good for them, people on
the outside would benefit and be more useful if their reactions and
support includes closer understanding of and empathy with the people and
society.
One could understand constructive criticism, and support for the forces
of good within the country, and for basic rights... yet here, patience
and a historical timeframe may be more useful and honest in the eyes of
the society ... besides an appreciation for the variety that is life...
How far are such differences a natural human characteristic ... ? And
what is indeed shared ... ? Do these differences need to be shunned or
ignored or feared ? How can they be understood ? How do we appreciate
these characteristics in their sum, and use them for well being and
living ... Are there such identifiable differences, at all ... ?
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September 16, 2004
How does social and economic emancipation influence consumption
... and society
Does more attention need to be paid to the post-emancipation issues and
concerns... ?
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What does it take to elect the right person for the job ... ?
--------------------
How can societies deal with stress and frustrations and issues in their
people at the individual or micro level ?
--------------------
There are so many different occupations and vocations... how do their
families look at the work ?
--------------------
What is not produced sustainably means it costs the earth a lot, and is
not easily replenishable, does the same apply to what happens to humans
when they consume products, and services made this way...
--------------------
Is it easier to insitute a practice, and much more difficult to
substitute it with something better ...
--------------------
How does factory farming of animals to produce milk products, eggs,
meats, etc. affect human beings as consumers ?
Do healthier, happier, more fulfilled animals make a difference to human
health and well being ... ?
And similarly for vegetable produce ?
And for all food sources ...
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dust particles dancing in sunbeam
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September 15, 2004
media products express,
or
disconnect ...
... ?
--------------------
how do people live ? media gatekeepers - who decide what gets shown on
screen, what gets published - play a role ... ?
--------------------
People may not drag down each other's aspirations ...
stereotypes may ...
?
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Trees waving hello, hi in the breeze, with sun mellow on thier face ...
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September 13, 2004
How does production and consumption differ in products and in services ?
How does it affect humans ?
Is there any special influence of service on humans as it has direct
human involvement in the process ?
Product production can be modified for norms ...
how does poor norms affect humans in services... both as servers and
service consumers, as humans ... how does it affect life ...
does service affect people's approach to life...
does product cycle, manufacture to consumption affect people's approach
to life...
what happens to life quality ... what can be done ...
how can services be according to life's requirements ...
--------------------
how important is aptitude in modern economy ....
--------------------
what needs in modern society does a bar meet ? does it ?
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Work hard, play hard
where do you fit in family hard or live hard ?
Or 'hard' can not go with overall living ?
can play hard be another way of making people work hard, and nothing
else ? Is it really that useful ?
how important is work hard and play hard to country's standing in the
world ?
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super powers are one who have lot more power than others... so how does
that affect the temptation to take over other countries... and how does
the need to check mate other super powers play in how they handle
resources and people spread across countries... what happens to lives,
across the world... and at home...
how does this lead to world wars ? does it ? ...
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We love - and die - because we must !
( words on a recent Blondie song video )
true ... ?
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September 12, 2004
History viewed as history - stories and incidents narrated sparsely with
dates and important events and actions - can seem very different from
the present reality... yet, when viewed as actions of humans in
circumstances, one can find that it may not be all that different.
Technology and physical conditions may differ, but human characters and
the engagements and behaviours seem just about as complex or varied as
in real life in the present day... ?
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Extreme posturing can push people apart, beyond their actual
differences... and create grounds for artificial conflicts... fuel
misapprehensions which could harm life and property of those who do not
hold these views and look for a peaceful life... and even for those who
are seeking, wittingly or unwittingly, a path of aggression for
themselves and others...
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In the name of love - U2
One man come in the name of love
One man come and go
One man come, he to justify
One man to overthrow
In the name of love
What more in the name of love
In the name of love
What more in the name of love ...
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... looks good on tv ...
how strong an influence is tv, on how issues and interests and tragedies
are enacted or played out today ... ?
what is good ... ?
to whom ... ?
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For no one in particular, but may say something for the prevailing
times... the sentiment expressed are not meant to be a personal
expression ...
Sonnet XXXV
William Shakespeare
No more be grieve'd at that which thou hast done:
Roses have thorns, and silver fountains mud;
Clouds and eclipses stain both moon and sun,
And loathsome canker lives in sweetest bud.
All men make faults, and even I in this,
Authorizing thy trespass with compare,
Myself corrupting, salving thy amiss,
Excusing thy sins more than thy sins are;
For to thy sensual fault I bring in sense,--
Thy adverse party is thy advocate,--
And 'gainst myself a lawful plea commence:
Such civil war is in my love and hate,
That I an accessary needs must be
To that sweet thief which sourly robs from me.
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September 11, 2004
Lifewise
an expression ...
[ wise as in wisdom, and as in appropriate ... and as in ... .... as in
flow ... as in spring ... ... ... ... ]
an expression i thought up ... and the word is to be found elsewhere
too. This is how i look at it...
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What happens to memorabilia ?
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September 10, 2004
Do humans deal differently with nature's uncertainity and human
uncertainity ?
Does technology increase scope for human uncertainity ?
Is that more visible in urban centres ?
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Any thoughts on Neighbour Wilson of Tim Allen's Home Improvement ?
[In the comedy serial, it looks like he is the person who knows a lot,
and both Tim and his wife, and family, turn to him when something is on
their mind ... that is, talk to him across the fence between their
houses... ]
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Where do the young of the flies grow ? Why are they not seen ? Or are they ?
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What is the role of immigrants to the success and vibrancy of an economy ?
How tenable ?
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Can products of development substitute for life ?
Are we substituting so ?
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Is life one ? Are we approaching it in parts ?
what happens to life ?
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If nature is one, why do we approach it in parts ?
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September 09, 2004
A place, space for information, exploration, experiencing, being in
company of, understanding, living human life in its beauty and ability
... more than a place or space for communication for argument, ...
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Sun shining through green foliage, shimmering, dappled, swaying with the
breeze, twinkling, dark and light...
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Check out the animated video of We Will Rock You, by Forever Young...
interesting
[ the song and video is a sort of indirect advertising, the "Water Boy"
animation has been produced by an ad agency for Evian, the mineral water
producer...apparently the Evian version of the song has been sung in
children's voices, who have then gone on to re-sing some 10 other
popular songs from the 80's, all released in the album Forever Young... ]
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How come we don't even talk no more
And you don't even call no more
We don't barely keep in touch at all
And I don't even feel the same love when we hug no more
And I heard it through the grape vine we even beefin now
After all the years we been down
Ain't no way no how, this bullshit can be true
We family and ain't a damn thing changed, unless it's you
- from "How Come", "D12 World" album, byy D112
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"The two girls had not yet registered, and our search for them seemed
hopeless; but Joseph was not to be put off, and suddenly we opened a
door and there they were, and in a trice brother and sister were in each
other's arms. There was something in the scene which made it belong to
the ancient world, or at least to an era before letters, telegrams,
trains, all the communications of our modern world existed. And because
this ordinary scene--a brother meeting a sister--was so miraculous,
making one feel that the lights of the world had gone up again, it
seemed to me that it was a measure of the extent to which Europe in our
day had gone back into the Dark Ages."
This is how Francesca M Wilson, working with Unrra in Germany
immediately after peace was declared in world war II, described the
experience of helping a brother find his sister and cousin at the
Landsberg Camp in her book, Aftermath.
[ Background : Joseph a young Polish jew with a doctorate in science,
thought his sister, Judith and cousin, Polly had died in Budapest, but
learns now that they are alive. The girls thought he was dead. They had
been living with an old Bavarian peasant couple in the village since
their liberation from Dachau, but hoping for a quicker repatriation
moved out to the camp a day before Joseph and Francesca came searching
to the farmhouse. The couple wants the girls to come back and invite
Joseph to stay as well. Wilson adds, "Neither Joseph nor the girls
thought it strange that fate had guided them to kindly Germans." There
were no signs of repatriation to Hungary [yet], and Joseph persuades the
girls to go back to the couple's place, promising to join them in a few
days. ]
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"The Americans are not a military nation. They are learning how to
fight. They don't know how to attack on one side and manoeuvre to
another, to bypass and encircle--if they see an obstacle their only idea
is to wipe it out, after which they can't move for ruins. ... Warnings?
Yes, the Americans dropped leaflets announcing their attacks, but many
fell in the fields. And there was nowhere to go, for the countryside was
strewn with mines."
Words of an old Frenchman from Granville, on the destruction of Norman
towns and loss of lives in the American battle-zone during World War II.
Granville, he adds, was saved as the German commander gave in without a
fight. He also says within the same quote, "...The Americans will learn.
They have bypassed the Germans in the Ruhr."
- Information and quotes from Aftermath..
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How does violence affect people's ability to interact with other peoples ?
Does the fear of keeping the flock from scattering have a role to play
in such violence ?
--------------------
What do mothers think combing their children's hair ?
What do fathers think while on an outing with the children ?
What do children think ...
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September 08, 2004
"The reindeer men looked at the sky. Not much wind; not too cold. The
weather seemed set for the day. As they talked, Forell had no doubt of
their meaning--they were content to stay where they were. The herd,
consisting of about eight hundred reindeer were finding plenty of moss
under the snow. In a few weeks' time, so Laatmaai succeeded in
explaining, they would be joined by two more herds, each roughly of same
size. Then they would set off for the village, for the /kolchoz/. For
the first time, the German had heard a word that frightened him.
Somewhere, then, there was a collective farm, even for the wandering
shepherds like these. But, in that case, they were not independent, but
a part of the System, outposts, almost of the Communist Regime, and for
an escaped prisoner-of-war who had come in contact with them the
consequences might be highly unpleasant."
Clemens Forell (not real name) is a German lieutenant who escapes from a
Soviet labour camp in Siberia and manages to reach home after a
three-year plus journey through various countries in December 1952.
In the above quote, Forell has come across native herdsmen who, despite
his initial fears, accept him so fully and help him out at considerable
risk to themselves. His biography has been written in "As Far As My Feet
Will Carry Me" by J M Bauer, and translated into English by Lawrence
Wilson.
[Do not have much more information on the incidents connected with this
journey apart from the descriptions in the book... ]
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Dowel, Dobet, Dobest
dates back to about 14th Century... ?
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Came across an interesting [ religious ] concept, if I got it right that is,
Charity once it leaves the hands of the giver, and is in the hands of
the receiver, it is no longer charity ...
[does it remove the baggage at times associated with the term 'charity'
and does it re-define or clarify charity at the level of principle and
in implementation... ]
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September 07, 2004
Below is the forward from "With the "Die-Hards" in Siberia"
by Col. John Ward, C.B., C.M.G., M.P.
[ reproduced from an etext of the work ]
"FORWARD
Originally written for the private use of my sons in case I did not
return, this narrative of events connected with the expedition to
Siberia must of necessity lack many of the necessary elements which go
to make a history. I wrote of things as they occurred, and recorded the
reasons and motives which prompted the participants. Many things have
happened since which seem to show that we were not always right in our
estimate of the forces at work around us. Things are not always what
they seem, and this is probably more evident in the domain of Russian
affairs than in any other. It would have been comparatively easy to
alter the text and square it with the results, but that would have
destroyed the main value of the story.
The statesman and the soldier rarely write history; it is their
misfortune to make it. It is quite easy to be a prophet when you know
the result. You can, as a rule, judge what a certain set of people will
do in a certain set of circumstances, but where you deal with State
policy which may be influenced by events and circumstances which have
not the remotest connection with the question involved, it is impossible
to give any forecast of their conduct on even the most elementary subject.
The recent tragic events played out in the vast domain of Siberia are a
case in point. It is certain that Admiral Koltchak would never have gone
to Siberia, nor have become the head of the constitutional movement and
government of Russia, if he had not been advised and even urged to do so
by the Allies. He received the most categorical promises of
whole-hearted support and early Allied recognition before he agreed to
take up the dangerous duty of head of the Omsk Government. Had these
urgings and promises been ungrudgingly performed a Constituent Assembly
would be now sitting at Moscow hammering out the details of a Federal
Constitution for a mighty Russian Republic or a parliamentary system
similar to our own.
On the declaration of the Koltchak Government, General Denikin, General
Dutoff, General Hovart, and the North Russian Governments made over
their authority to Omsk. There was at once a clear issue--the Terrorist
at Moscow, the Constitutionalist at Omsk. Had the Allies at this
juncture translated their promises into acts, from what untold suffering
Russia and Europe might have been saved!
The mere act of recognition would have created a wonderful impression on
the Russian mind, in addition to giving the Allies a lever by which they
could have guided the course of events and stabilised the Baltic. It
would have given security to Russian finance, and enabled trade
relations to have commenced with the wealthiest part of the Russian
dominions.
The reconstruction of Russia, about which the Allies talk so glibly,
would have gone forward with a bound by natural means, which not even
Allied bungling could have prevented. The Omsk Government could have got
money on better terms than any of the Allies, because, accepted within
the comity of nations, it could have given better security than any of
them, even including America. Europe would have been fed, Russia would
have been clothed, and the world would have been saved from its greatest
tragedies. All this and more would have naturally followed from the
barest performance of our promises.
We did worse than this. Breach of promise is only a negative crime. The
Allies went to the other extreme; their help took the form of positive
wilful obstruction. The Japanese, by bolstering up Semianoff and
Kalmakoff, and the Americans, by protecting and organising enemies, made
it practically impossible for the Omsk Government to maintain its
authority or existence. The most that could be expected was that both
would see the danger of their policy in time to avert disaster. One did;
the other left when the evils created had got beyond control. Koltchak
has not been destroyed so much by the acts of his enemies as by the
stupidity and neglect of his Allied friends.
As the Bolshevik rabble again sweeps over Siberia in a septic flood we
hear again the question: "How can they do so unless they have a majority
of the people behind them?" I answer that by asking: "How did a one-man
government exist in Russia from 'Ivan the Terrible' to Nicholas II?"
Both systems are autocratic; both exist by the same means--"Terror."
There is, however, this difference. The autocracy of the Tsars was a
natural product from an early form of human society. The Bolshevik
autocracy is an unnatural product, and therefore carries within itself
the seed of its own destruction. It is an abortion, and unless it
rapidly changes its character cannot hope to exist as a permanent form
of organised society. It is a disease which, if we cannot attack, we can
isolate until convalescence sets in. There is, however, the possibility
that the patient during the progress of the malady may become delirious
and run amok; for these more dangerous symptoms it would be well for his
neighbours to keep watch and guard. This madness can only be temporary.
This great people are bound to recover, and become all the stronger for
their present trials.
JOHN WARD.
February, 1920."
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A quote on an Italian lady's site :
"Cercavo qualcosa di piccolo in un immenso mondo e ho trovato qualcosa
di immenso in un piccolo mondo.."
which it appears translates to :
"I tried something of small in an immense world and have found something
of immense in a small world."
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When people are taught that sky is the limit and are not equipped with
the means to grow, what happens to their efforts and frustrations ...
and who benefits ?
why does this happen ? What can be done ?
How can every one benefit ...
--------------------
victory becoming a snap shot of good ?
Does what ever done in the moment of victory become valid ? How does
this affect the society ? human behaviour?
Does the exhilaration and joy of victory end up giving patronage to the
not so savoury behaviour ? How is human behaviour affected ?
Does such behaviour affect future issues and situations ?
Does victory require study of what could have been done better or
differently ?
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Was reading the first few pages of a book, by a war relief expert from
the world wars, and a quote there from a Frenchwoman during the World
War II struck me, and so sharing it here :
"... When Paris was liberated, this woman worked for the America Army.
Disillusioned by her own countrymen, she was also disillusioned by the
liberators. The trouble with the Americans, she said, was that they
thought France was a night-club which never shut, and did not realise
that the majority of the French are more rather than less shocked than
other peoples by drunkenness and licentiousness."
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September 06, 2004
Ol' Man River, dat Ol' Man River
He must know somethin' but don't say nothin'
He just keeps rolling, He keeps on rollin' along
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Some people say a man is made outta mud,
A poor man's made outta muscle an? blood,
Muscle an? blood an? skin an? bones,
A mind that's weak and a back that's strong!
You load sixteen ton, what?a ya git?
Another day older an? deeper in debt,
St. Peter, don't you call me, ?cause I can't go,
I owe my soul to the company store!
written by Merle Travis
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If routine were the solace of the lonely, could it also be that routine
can further separation of people from people ... ala tv programming, etc.
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September 05, 2004
What role does the fear of retribution play in the struggle to sustain
an unjust status quo ?
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Do people do better in places where they can be free of the stiffling
prejudices and animosities of the old ?
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People look after their interest, and may hurt as well when these are
affected ...
Looking at things from other's perspective, as a matter of course -
though probably not like a routine - with the other being aware of this,
may help smooth the interaction ...
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People could have tea on the net ... ?
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how important is it to look at what we do and can or would do vis a vis
looking at what was done ...
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Can socieities become more sensitive, so that every one has a better
quality of life ...
Can we tackle problems before they become big ...
Are our means limited to dealing with issues only when they reach a
certain proportion, and not before ...
Does that contribute to growth of problems to a certain size before they
are tackled ?
Are we equipped to identify and resolve issues at an early stage ...
In what way does that add to the quality of life for every one
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September 03, 2004
Is science coming up with approaches [ like chaos studies ? ], which may
be used in studying human life quality beyond ceteris paribus, that is,
to move beyond the assumption that all other things be equal or remain
the same when studying [causal] relationships or factors in human life
quality ... ?
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There may be nothing like an "average" life of a country or a people,
yet some help in understanding a country or a people might be welcomed
by those who are not part of it. And this is not about dumbing down
things either.
Many things which may seem obvious to a local, may not be so obvious to
a non-local person.
For example, the slang that is used by actors in films may be totally
inappropriate in certain contexts, even though the actors use it in such
settings in films, and many foreigners might mimic these.
Similarly people may draw ideas about life in the country from what they
are told, stereotypes they would like to believe or are led to believe,
the information they get - whatever its quality or purpose, etc. ...
It would help to answer some of the obvious questions. One way would be
to clarify how some of the stuff that is presented in media is just not
accurate, and giving some estimate of what is more likely. To do this, a
local person can look at any media product, that is also available to
outsiders, whether it is movies, tv programming, news, speeches, plays,
stories, novels, guides, expressions, slang, etc. and see if they find a
literal falsehood. that is, if someone did not know more about the local
context and culture and if they were to take that thing literally at
face value, they would be making a mistake. Once such a problem area is
identified, a reasonable description can be given about how doing so
would be wrong, and possibly follow it up with what would be more
accurate or realistic instead. The latter, that is giving an accurate
substitution may not be easy because it is easier to spot and point out
when something specific is off the mark, it may more difficult to give a
range of typical subsititutes as these are more subjective and vary from
person to person, which also means that the person trying to offer
substitutes may have to look at the other realistic substitutes besides
the ones he or she would use. Real life in any country or people has its
own variations.
Doing this exercise might be a way to consciously appreciate your own
culture, country or environment...
Such efforts can help people see people in more real light, which can
reduce unrealistic pressures on countries and people... and gain some
understanding of what they see or receive in media ...
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try to avoid false connections, assumptions ...
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How can people derive pleasure and joy of discovery from daily
occurences ? Trains connect cities and towns... running through country
side, villages, towns, historic sites, natural features... can a train
carry charts or flyers giving the approximate time and detail about the
features which can be seen from the train as it travels to its
destination ...
...
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As technology progresses, humans are retreating ... ? into sensations ... ?
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People's lives and the world around may seem less than perfect, and
chaotic,
are people trying to come to terms with their life's challenges and
opportunities the best they can ... if one looks closer ?
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Are people whole beings each, and so can tap into the whole on the outside ?
Can people relate to the market similarly ?
When people are in touch with their wholeness, they are able to tap into
the whole better ?
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Do people ride on bicycles with headlights powered by dynamo ?
Can you hear the fiddle of a radio dial as it catches different
frequencies ?
Or the creak of a cycle in the dark on a night ?
... Has tv taken over evenings ?
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How does the sunset look like in different parts of the world ?
In how many parts of the world do you find dew on the grass in morning ?
Where all can you hear the sound of insects at dusk or night ?
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New term
How to minimise the cost, may be a question both in the US and abroad ...
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When faced with what looks like superior cultural and economic
challenges, do members of some communities take it out on the weaker
sections instead, and attempt to find a common cause, in doing so, with
the challengers and come to terms with them reluctantly or
aspirationally through such a process ... ?
What gains ... ?
How difficult is it to accept a larger identity while voicing to do so ?
And should there necessarily be a high cost ?
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Do mass consumption media offerings [such as movies, TV, ...] in a
diverse society need to go short on human values and good scripting in
name of wider appeal ?
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Relationships and communities forged over years can come to have an
often unorganised, even seldom spoken resource for dealing with issues
and opportunities within those relationship and community sets, acted on
and passed down and worked on through the generations...
When relationships and communities broaden, that resource may dissipate,
be lost, become somewhat less useful in the new circumstances...
and as this process of change becomes more rapid, it may become more
difficult to find pointers to resolving issues and opportunities through
traditional resources and networks, nor enough time to create new
resources tradtionally given the pace of change... ?
calling for more overt resources to deal with evolving issues and
opportunities ... ?
What happens if such change is not well understood, studied and backed
with resources ... ?
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A world power ...
...does not want to be seen as weak
A world power ...
...affects the lives of people
somewhat circular ?
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How do people, especially children and youth, in conservative societies
deal with the just about only physical contact between man and woman
shown in the movies and other programming that gets through the censors,
that is, rape scenes ?
How are the values of a changing society affected, if any, by such
depictions of sex ?
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September 02, 2004
How often does the visualisation of a well liked song live up to its
promise ... ?
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Today some aspects of daily living, such as information products like
news, films, songs, media programming are easily distributed and
received world wide. Yet people in other parts of the world may find it
difficult to put these products in a context as they do not know or live
the reality of life in the country or society of origin. Which would
make it more difficult for them to tell how well these products
correspond to reality. [It is quite another matter that their own
reality and understanding would give them a view on these products ]
Today US information products are easily available and received by
people from different cultures across the world. Their response to them,
without access to reality of life in the US, may lead them to draw
inferences about life there, from these products. Which might project a
somewhat different picture of the US and its people than it is in
reality. Some people might be excessively attracted or repelled by what
they see or receive.
Similarly for people in the US, who receive inputs from around the world ...
...
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Is such a lengthy education system necessary ... ?
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Do people fear assimilation ... ?
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What does a smile do to the human body ... ?
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Can landscaping ideas be applied to other areas of living such as homes,
offices, public spaces, or to approaches to work, to study ?
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Why do some period movies or productions use a lot of phrases and slang
which are largely typical of the present ?
Does the very modern lingo and expressions take away from the attitudes
and values of the period being depicted ?
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What happens to efforts when the structures are ineffective ?
Are structures designed by humans keeping up with changing requirements ?
Can human desire for progress be misused by structures tweaked for
deceitful purposes ?
How can structures be robust enough to withstand human misappropriation ?
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What are signs of life ... ?
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September 01, 2004
Do traditionalists or conservatives have the advantage of formal and
informal organisation on their side ?
How effective are the occasional, or occasion-linked demonstrations by
different liberal groups coming together ?
What has been the effect of the post USSR situation ?
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Are outlets for men and women to participate in the society in their
natural way becoming more difficult ... ?
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Adults need time and resources to come up to speed with developments in
technology and other opportunities and challenges in life ...
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Generosity of women, of the sexes versus the games of attraction and
extraction ?
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Turning incidents or personages from history into fables for school
children can at times over simplify and misrepresent things to such a
degree that they become counter productive, unrealistic, or lies ... ?
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Are the extreme stances, resulting in greater isolation of groups, an
attempt to keep the flock together ?
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Are there struggles for ascendency within the religious right, which are
being fought in postures and actions towards people outside their group ?
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What, if any, has been the role of democracies in fanning dictatorships...
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People are whole beings each, is that how they are able to tap into the
unknown wider whole world and
live ...
connect ...
discover ...
elaborate on aspects of the world and life ...
despite the breadth and scope of the wider world of nature and life ...
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Lifecosm Universe of Life at xanga - August 2004
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Tuesday, August 31, 2004
Values for living, in times of changing fads ...
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When does a society's development and growth become a burden on its
citizens ?
How can a society develop and grow sustainably for the longer term where
today's growth is not a burden for the tomorrow's generation ?
Are people's lives spent servicing structures and "high" standards of
living rather than the other way round ?
Are people living to sustain buildings, or are buildings being geared
for human living ?
just a thought...
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Are human stand up comics able to convey their underlying message or
comment better than sitcoms ? why ?
Do sitcoms end up promoting the behaviour instead of the comment on the
behaviour ?
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Some standup comics - and shows - might express what people think in
their head, but which does not find clear expression in media and
analysis... this way, the comics might hit closer to home about the
state of affairs and perceptions... when media shies away
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Monday, August 30, 2004
Look to the people ...
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Wednesday, August 25, 2004
Communication as awareness of fellow human beings can enhance well being
of persons and societies
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When we feel we are going to be harmed, we might try to prevent that
from happening to us. Are we equipped to identify what causes us harm
and prevent us from being harmed ? Do we end up destroying aspects which
do not harm us ?
Are there ways to pinpoint find out what harms us ?
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August 24, 2004 *
"Successful" societies also pay the price of their success : the strain of having to be top notch hook or by crook, the ruthless competition within the society and its effects on people's lives and sense of self.
The unremitting participation in keeping the economy bubbling by participating in the consumer boom.
They can give other nations a headstart in understanding what is to follow.
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there are points in life of a city when people could benefit from having shared confidence in each other and being sensitive to one another, that can come in very useful in keeping the relations at the community level at a normal level, and not turn suspicious of one another.
It might be a good idea to see how people express points of convergence...
External factors can play heavily particularly if the social interaction between communities is less than optimal and both sides are not particularly keen to think for themselves.
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Thank you to fellow travellers ... whether fellow or not ... a thanks for what i saw in you ... a reflection of self values... and your own expression of your values .... some what... may be
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Vision and the means to the wonderful ideas ... how tos
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Who is whose parent, and who whose child, where did the genes come from and where do they go
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what can you do in the situation ...
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Freedom may give you the means to do what ever,
what gives happiness gives happiness
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Tenacity of nature ... ...
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Tough love
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How is quantity different from quality
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How is debating, discussing, arguing different from exploring, discovering, living ...
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Love as an electro motive force in life ...
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Life quality as an expression of life ...
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Is war used to prime ruined domestic economies which have lost their working ways through instant gratification ?
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Is it possible that some people on one side of a divide have a valid perspective on the goings on of [fringe... ] elements in the other side ?
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What do humans want to be known for, the buildings they built or for the quality of lives of the people ... ...
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August 22, 2004
Humans love to watch embodiments of what they value... can this become exploitative for both ?
Why are values not displayed as being more widely available than the specific embodiments ?
Why only a small subset of human values expressed repeatedly ?
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Why are humans attracted to colour ?
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Subjugation has ways of recoiling on the subjugator ?
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There are barriers in society, in families, between ages, sexes; display or lack display of an expression of life on one side of a "barrier" may evoke fears of handling life responsibly on the other sides ...
and evoke a reaction
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What is the role of mitochondria in patriarchal society ?
[Mitochondria is passed on exclusively from mother to children ... ]
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expressed paves the way for unmanifest ... ...
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Stupid sounding outbursts may front some deeper issues ... and may find resonance with those who are in touch with these at some level
Wise words may not always reflect content ...
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When the larger identity furthers or does not threaten the more personal identity, it may make for better overt expressions of the innate affiliation to that larger identity .... ?
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August 21, 2004
Does a media spotlight speed up results in a court trial ?
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How can bodies keep pace with minds ?
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How natural and useful is extended company of animals ?
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The unspoken can be fluent and updated, the spoken can be transitory ?
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What is the value of a human settlement largely self reliant for its basic needs and that of a human settlement which relies on outside itself for meeting a big part of its basic needs ?
Can both ways be designed to co-exist in one settlement ?
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Could people live any better with each other if they all followed certain ideas ?
Is the nature of [any] grouping given to fractures ?
How useful is honest, sustained, loving, dialogue and actions to overcome challenges ?
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Is there a time delayed effect of persistent media products such as violent cartoons or games viewed and played since very young ?
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Do we find similar body and facial structures and features across racial lines ?
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Every society has its requirements, another society need not feel rejected if a society pursues value expressions which are steeped in its needs ...
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Are productive assets for investing lesser than money seeking returns ?
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August 20, 2004
Simple conversation between people ...
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August 19, 2004
rituals may appeal to participating people and facilitate life aspects in ways they may not be fully aware of before participating ...
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Looking at life through fresh eyes ...
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How do election cycles determine the quality of life of people ?
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Does dance reflect the reality of life of a people ?
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Does the everyday language reflect a general direction of a people ?
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Why can the hero do the stupidest things and still stay alive ? Do children learn that it is more realistic to be a villain ? Or that being a hero does not pay ?
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Can a developing country government move away from social responsibility of providing jobs and safe employment ?
Can efficient enterprises be socially relevant ?
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Is a stratified society de facto reservation ?
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Nature has been 'scientist' longer than man ...
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August 18, 2004
How affordable are standard of living linked increments in pay package for government and public sector employees in a developing country ?
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August 17, 2004
Can the education process become a way to subsidise unemployment ?
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How do children realise that what they have grown up with is not necessarily something which has always existed ?
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How useful would a resource of full length speeches, comments, etc. be for the public to understand news for themselves beyond the analysis or spin of media
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Limber thinking and interaction among humans might help people utilise progress to their benefit rather than be swept away by its potential ...
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Human thinking processes and interactions may keep people better equipped for the challenges thrown up by progress in various spheres ...
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water water every where but not a drop to drink, is that how life can be at times ?
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assumptions can turn out to be false ...
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There are a lot of things which seek to get your attention and keep it, you may need to switch them off [figuratively] to listen to life ...
and do the needful ...
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Listening to self ...
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August 16, 2004
Could it be that some people who perceive themselves as having been losers, adopt aggressive postures which do not go well with living well...
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country may need to more inclusive - than culture - for its [diverse] citizens
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what may seem desirable culturally, may not be so suitable as a political force ...
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be careful of what you seek to achieve, you might not like it when you have it.
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When you adopt a practice from elsewhere, however progressive it may be, it brings with it a larger scenario - the way it comes to life. Remaining aware of this when implementing it, and being in touch with and knowing what you want achieve can help somewhat in adapting these practices to your requirements. otherwise, blind adoption can mean adoption of failings as well of such practices. having a moral or ethical compass, and thinking while practicising, might help. for example, 'Western' education, may imply certain ways of working, living and approaching which can be tuned to suit the local requirements of the people and society. blind copying may not meet the requirements and may generate problems which could have been avoided, resolved or minimized, ...
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cultural products may play out the issues in that community in a way that lives out the desires of its constituents, or rights a wrong in an over-the-top way; all of which may seem less than wholesome to people from outside that community who are not in know of the often-times unspoken or unwritten - mostly experienced - context to these works of art or expression.
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August 15, 2004
Keeping factors which make life livable thriving [in midst of growth or change] ...
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August 14, 2004
When viewing the world do we see humans as separate from it ?
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Aren't humans part of the environment of earth ?
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August 13, 2004
Death is part of life
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[Humans live on the surface of earth which revolves, as do other planets, around the sun, and there are other suns.]
Humans are part of nature ...
How rare are we ...
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August 11, 2004
What role can love play in life ?
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August 10, 2004
Does human seek to relate to the whole through religion ?
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Man and Woman go together...
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Is there a cycle at work between films from one time period to next where the more recent films end up showing the effects on people's lives of the what was depicted in the films of an earlier period ?
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August 09, 2004
How important is what is left out of a depiction ?
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How important is what is left out of a depiction ?
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Has the "hero" of stories become so super human, that he or she is no longer "real" ?
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Lifecosm Universe of Life at xanga - July 2004
July 28, 2004
Service industry : how exploited, how exploitative ?
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July 27, 2004
How do we treat people as humans in everyday formal situations ?
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July 23, 2004
Substance
People present their ideas and it may move people.
This effect may be recreated by going through the motions of the original presentation.
Technique can repeat effects. And it can fade.
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July 17, 2004
Joys in hearts of each community may not be so different after all ... people may be closer than they think ... words may differ
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Does inclusion mean loss of identity for either ? does it ?
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Truth may be a guide to better living even when things may look bleak ...
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July 12, 2004
Trying to live the life of the earlier generation may not meet the requirements of the present
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A country has its own resources and requirements
the progress of other countries may have been based on their resources and requirements
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July 11, 2004
Societies have people who are poor, who may not be well off, or having tough times, how can we have a society which can take its problems with its successes ...
How can a society carry on with its all, and live well
How can a society thrive
How can "losses" on a profit loss account of a compay not derail it ...
Is the society viewed as a company ?
as a limited liability company ?
as a entity that can fail or be closed down /
that has one purpose ?
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July 05, 2004
Life in more complex societies may become driven by material product manufacture and consumption cycles in which lives may become enmeshed. Leaving lesser avenues for other aspects of life.
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When societies are developed, their demands of their citizen's standard of living may turn higher, and what would have been acceptable earlier on, may be deemed below par and rejected as below the norm ... affecting people, families, ... till corrective measures realising this effect are put in place... and so on...
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Lifecosm Universe of Life at xanga - June 2004
June 30, 2004
How far are the children and young people a 'product' of the societal
influences beyond the grooming and upbringing of their families ?
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June 27, 2004
How to apply good values and principles to every-day life in its diversity ...
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Tolerance ...
Each can express themselves, without threat to their identity nor as a threat to the identity of others ... ...
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June 26, 2004
"Desired"
Direct more-than-sufficient experience of the "desired" may lead to a definitive realisation whether it is really desirable or not
Mediated experience of the desired, that is, its depiction through some senses, may romantacize it or represent it incompletely or inaccurately, as it does not affect a person as direct experience might
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June 10, 2004
Humans have talent. How do we express it so that we all benefit ?
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June 08, 2004
How effective are the developments in a developed country resource-wise?
How can the developing countries achieve better quality of life?
How can development and quality of life be sustainable?
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As our approach to life becomes more life-wise, our life may become more livable.
When our interaction with nature becomes more life-wise, would it reduce the reaction to our attempts to overcome problems?
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June 07, 2004
In life, the grooming provided by families, societies, circumstances to the younger people is likely to influence their behaviour in the years to come.
What is desirable or worthwhile in life may take shape during these growing up years.
If certain things are presented as bringing joy or desirable, they may become part of what the younger people want out of life. Whether they are, in reality, suited to living or not.
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June 04, 2004
Technology influencing human lives.
We may see technology as one means, among others, to make our ideas of a good life come alive. What we may need to look at is the influence of technology in our real lives, quite distinct from our personal visions and wish lists of what we would like it to do.
As a technology becomes viable and available widely in a society, its nature and character, in association with humans, exerts its own influence.
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June 03, 2004
As technology progresses, we end up with more information about events further removed from our immediate lives; at times even more than what we might know about people near us. Yet we do not have the understanding of the lives of those far away peoples, and equally we might not know about the lives of those who are living near us.
Still we have that information with us, in small pieces, at intervals, but we do not get the bigger picture. Same may happen with our neighbours.
In ignorance and absence of other avenues of interaction, people can become media driven. Both the viewer and the subject.
Media, with its shortcomings, seems to be the only connection between people, at times. Does this reflect how we are relating with each others as humans? How does information mediation and filteration affect human empathy and interaction?
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Lifecosm Universe of Life at xanga - May 2004
May 31, 2004
Humans explore nature with science, with arts, with experience...
Humans show a need to know the whole
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May 29, 2004
A good media product, such as a film usually does well on some of these aspects : as a whole, it clicks with the audience, it connects with them at some level; there is sense of being one whole product - the elements come together well like more than sum of the parts; the various aspects of production are well done.
Often a successful product is copied, particularly ingredients from it may be incorporated and even amplified in an attempt to re-create or spice up a desired effect.
People offered such products may not appreciate the excesses, but the makers often respond saying that such excesses are largely a reflection of the society.
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May 26, 2004
Children try to follow in the footsteps of their parents, and do better, how useful would it be to look at life more broadly?
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While we may find our families attempting in some fashion to give their children and themselves as whole a life as possible, it is a bit more difficult to see similar examples in the wider world, whether it is the society at large, or various components which are part of it.
At times, the priorities of the institutions whether government, society, culture, media, law, etc. are geared towards some aspect and the effect of this on the human person and on human groups as living beings is less than optimal.
May be the society is not focussing its energies and resources and capacities to what furthers the well being of human beings to extent it could, at times it seems its focus and energies are moving in the opposite direction.
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May 24, 2004
Do developed economies have the effect of enmeshing the people into their economic and market life cycles? Playing a big role in the way people organize or not organize their finances?
Does keeping people ignorant about or deprived of resources to better evaluate life's requirements make it easier for people to stay in business, whether in politics or in markets?
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Lifecosm Universe of Life at xanga - April 2004
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April 23, 2004
how important is the nurture of human beings for a society to do well in governance, approach to issues, or even competition?
without the nurture of the human, could these aspects of a society become exploitative?
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April 22, 2004
trust
sides may not be so far apart as they appear, it may be a question of trust, at times
when the society is so divided, the people on each side may tolerate some people's behavior in their side which they protest against in the other side
change
in democracy, single party rule over a long period of time, may lead to inefficiencies in governance and may affect open, healthy representation of people's voice from various segments.
representation
in a democracy, and otherwise, civilised representation of people's voice from various segments can help people understand each other better, and lead to better governance.
complacency
in a democracy, people may need to voice themselves when they find something over the top... in a civilised manner, with understanding.
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a country's foreign policy approach may reflect its approach to its own peoples, and vice versa... ?
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April 18, 2004
each time, it seems, has its own expertise, or achievements, which gained a certain skill or scale in those times. later, the situation may not have suited or required that scale or level of work. it may be useful to stay in touch with that workmanship, skill, expertise, art, or technology.
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what of our past would we did like to share with those who will come in the future?
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Human values have a range to them, and nuances which may not be easily described partly because they are dynamic in application. while an attempt to prove credentials to possessing a value may require it to be done in a more standardised manner. Often times such repeated attempts demanding proof of possession of values, whether related to gender, race, ideology, color, nationality, etc. may be missing the point when attempting at associating certain identifiers with possession of certain values or identity.
The repeated requirement to prove one's identity could indicate a flawed perception of such identity in the first place. causing anguish, wastage & diversion of resources all around.
It could stem from flawed understanding or possibly from a deliberate design to keep people under the thumb, (prompted by misplaced fear), among other things.
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people on either side of the argument may present their case against each other in a manner which may wrongly present or generalise about the other. this may hurt the sentiments of the other. it may perpetuate stereotypes of each in the other. and further unnecessary hindrances to co-operation, peaceful co-existence or finding common ground.
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April 12, 2004
newspapers are read by many as the first thing in the morning, every day, more or less. from the time they are young, through the years.
newspapers and the other media give their audience a view of the world at large. They contribute to the framework of how their audience perceives the world
newspapers tend to report the "news", that is, what is new, what is happening. most times, what gets reported is bad news or events in the turning of the wheels of the system.
Such news can make its audience aware of such occurences and even give them something to talk about. but the world includes much more...
the media does not do such a good job of placing the news in context. it does not connect it to reality in a manner that provides a clearer, more useful picture to its audience in understanding it.
while the media has become fluent - almost automatic - in its system of presenting the bad incidents, (at least, in some form); it has not gone much forward towards their understanding.
while the main work of media may be news, its influence on its audience goes beyond a mere paper or hourly bulletin and extends through these daily habitual interactions to how the audience perceives - its own self, the society, others, and what each can or can not do.
it is one thing to report something as bad, it may be quite another thing to understand it, and put it in life's context.
it is one thing to report on the bad with some understanding, and quite another thing to have an understanding of the good, and see how it works in the context of life.
When there is understanding, the report can go beyond a formuliac description of what occurred.
At times, the focus and the presentation of reports seems to work against better understanding for the audience, and, to an extent, for the reporters as well.
Reports which lack context or some sense of responsibility may do little to inform the audience even if they are repeated in that pattern over the years.
It may be one thing to do things spectacularly at a particular point in time, and quite another thing to ensure well being of the society over time.
It is easy to turn people into ogres when repeated news reports are not backed by more in depth and broad-based reporting.
It is easy to suffuse the air with despondency when the reports do not lead to understanding.
also, if the media were to pay more attention to the good that is happening in the society - not as tokenism or as a corny cliche, it could be doing (its job and) a service in widening the perception of the people to what else is going on in their world, and outside.
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April 10, 2004
In urban areas, one may be less in touch with cycles of nature.
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April 08, 2004
Science is full of so much wonder, and seems to be buzzing with things in different spheres and disciplines, and within them.
If one could look at all the work that is going on in the world, it might be quite a picture. The new problems, the unsolved problems, the unexplained, the ideas and areas that people are exploring. From attempts to understand our prehistoric past to future technology to our behavior as humans.
Getting in touch with its exciting developments and becoming aware of the fascinating principles which fuel them can broaden and perk our understanding of life. So as we find things from chemical bonds to cellular interactions to genetic material to human behavior to geology to space, one can understand things better and see what science is upto and how it does that, and understand the scientific approach, and probably, stay comfortable with what science may bring into our lives almost on a daily basis. Having grasp of basic principles may help understand the technology that we may be using in our lives.
As with many things, once a person has first hand experience of it, some understanding of it, the excitement and interest in the field or fields may continue in life. Such joyous association and understanding of a field can make us receptive to enjoying and contributing to developments of science. Seeing the good and the bad, the un-understood, with interest, in context of living.
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April 07, 2004
The countries that emerged as superpowers following ww 2 also suffered the trauma of the war.
How much have these victors been affected by that experience?
How does this experience show up in their policies and actions in the world since?
Apart from the experience of the ww 2, is their behavior something which pre-dates ww 2?
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Are there ways of organising society apart from confrontation and war?
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What signals do assigning political appointees, with distinguishing characteristics, to positions of power, send to the public, and to the people that have to interact with them? How can the integrity of the task be preserved?
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April 06, 2004
[One often finds that those, who try to attract and keep people to their side, may fuel their fears and dreams, vis a vis others, it is rarer to find issues in these dreams and fears addressed in really resolvable manner so that the society on the whole feels one, productive and there is a sense of being able to contribute.]
One often finds that those, who try to attract and keep people to their side, may fuel their fears and dreams, vis a vis others. They seem less surer of keeping their folk if they look at the issues involved in those dreams and fears in a manner which lead to real productive results.
For a section of people, the sense of worth in life, seems to come from being part of a movement, how ever real or unreal it may be. Most else in life seems to be tainted with corruption or just not there, whether as aspirations or reality.
It is rarer to find issues in these dreams and fears addressed in really resolvable manner so that the society on the whole feels one or less divided, and more productive and contributive.
Fear can hold people back from doing what is right. People (all across) may want to give back to others in the society for what they have gained from them. Instead there are continued stances - which go beyond the basic points of grievances - along with lack of information and understanding of issues, and of each other, which may lead to longer stand offs simmering with tensions and hatred.
May be, through this all, some realisation of self governance and freedom may emerge, and negative images from the past will no longer hold sway....
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questions...
Is it necessary that everything be bipartisan? Why not more? Or why should every thing be partisan? Where is the common ground for life, or the diversity in life? What happens when everything in life is turned bipartisan? What happens when one has to choose one or the other?
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[One may observe patterns (and variations) in life.
One could be : life experienced by those who are left handed. Or the way it is experienced by an only child.
Or the life of turning adolescent? Or when people retire?
Or when economies develop and mature?]
One may observe patterns in life. Some patterns in life may be influenced by an individual's experience and perspective. Such patterns as :
Are you right handed or left
Are you an only child, or have siblings
Do you have brother or sisters or both
Are you first-born, second-born, etc.
Do you live in a single parent family
How are the relations between the parents
Are you a member of the minority or the majority
Are you an adolescent
Are you retired or working
Are the elections around the corner or are they over
Is the stock market bubble building up or has it burst
Is the political system changing [for example, from communist state to democracy]?
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April 05, 2004
When various segments of a society (can) participate in building the progress of the society, there is lesser tension between them, and better scope for more resilience, goodwill and a sense of unity within the society.
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April 04, 2004
Life has so many facets. within each facet, there are so many more. and so on. and each facet of life plays a role in how we experience life. when we explore facets, we bring them into the public consciousness where it can be pursued and its value understood and utilised. this diversity of human facets, of life has the potential to contribute positively to our well being.
when we have something that works, we all like to pursue that. yet there are so many more facets to life that are not pursued as clearly as others we are conscious of. and i am not talking of theories here. theories ought to understood, but not necessarily revered as the ultimate. for example, ideas of freud's on human identity and conflicts have left a big impression. these theories do not explain everything, nor i suppose do they make such claim. to continue the example, it would be much more life enhancing to look at the field of psychology and see what areas of our life it touches and how; instead of, say, to take up a theory in its simplistic sense as a lens to view everything from. by being observant, even relaxed we may come across so much which can become productive in our lives.
if we only look to technology for solutions and do not concurrently develop a sense and consciousness of approaching life with wonder, sense and discovery, plus learning and contributing, we may not have brought those aspects of life into action which make experience of life more worthwhile.
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April 03, 2004
when a country is attacked. the international community may respond on its side. the country attacked can retaliate with international sanction. how do people without a country protect themselves?
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each society, whether big or small in size, is made up people - with many facets. there is the economic side, there is the personal side. small countries, dependent on foreign trade such as tourism or natural resources, have families, governments, social relationships, lives, besides resorts, oil, wood, commodities, safaris, beaches, carnivals.
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a society may have people with different characteristics living in it. injustice towards a person or persons when addressed well and wisely regardless of their characteristics can go some way in keeping the society healthy.
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societies often have a need to maintain their winning ways. yet winning is not always about doing the same thing and may be about doing what we understand to be better than earlier. how can a society keep its edge as an economy, as a country, alongside conserving life and resources in other societies...
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Is the world tiring of giving symptomatic relief to problems?
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do birds and animals who live near or in human settlements try to communicate or relate to humans?
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April 02, 2004
can people practise telepathy? can people communicate across distances with their own natural abilities?
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how can we move ideas from the esoteric to more fathomable (and real)?
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can we develop ways of spotting diseases and illness before they manifest themselves fully? (beyond genetic predisposition)
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what is the effect of vibrations on humans?
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what does "good vibrations" mean?
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can differences and interests find common grounds for well being? can we look at this as an action and an always engaged in process which is part of the context? can we move beyond the rhetoric of the capitulation of the other as the starting point for peace and co-existence?
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why does symbolic support by the dominant side for splinter groups (or for some individuals who usually are the constituency) of the opposite side work to the detriment of the relations between the groups? Or can such support lead to rapproachment and new common ground?
Is the support opportunism? Is it a short sighted ploy to fracture the other side or a longer term plan to foment a decisive showdown? Or is it just laziness? Or is it a way to keep the other side down? from cohering into something positive for themselves and everyone else? Or is it fear of the different?
What can the other side do to assuage the fears of the dominant side while continuing to maintain its identity and values?
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what is lingua franca? is it essential?
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can more than one ways of doing co-exist? can humans still relate to each other while being well aware of the differences?
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humans have observed animals and learnt more humane ways of being with them. we have a better understanding than before of horses. do we focus on humans. what have we learnt about how to interact with humans. is the learning being debated and understood as well as that for the animals.
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V M # 9/15/2005
Lifecosm Universe of Life at xanga - March 2004
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March 31, 2004
Every generation - or several generations together - learns what it takes to live well,
and pass on to the next,
and so may connect the two with love and goodwill.
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why do people take scientific achievements to be absolutes? is it because they seem to work, or offer better than what was? why do people raise questions about the character of people until a scientific basis or physical basis for their behavior is better understood? why is that once science pronounces a certain behavior to have scientific basis that people who do that are considered either better or worse than others as if that is all that they are made up of, and that others can not suffer from other things, just as they might have good things in them, yet to be discovered? why does a single "flaw" or "quality" comes to mark the whole of a person when there is so much more to each person, and so much more to learn about humans
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Why do we treat scientific understanding as the last word on the subject, when science keeps on coming up with new ideas which expand, better explain or show in new light previous understandings, or show them to be flawed. Often many scientists have discovered or invented things when going about daily life, gaining an insight or understanding something that way. can we not see the less-understood or new things in our life?
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Can the state of being powerful or powerless influence human behavior somewhat similarly across gender, ethnicity, prosperity? Is the nature of such behavior influenced by what power means in that context. Can changing the definition of power influence the behavior?
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Why do we feel happy when we see flowers blooming in the sun?
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Should the countries whose economies are maturing aspire for better products and services and approaches which meet their unique circumstances and also leap frog the developed countries to more efficient means rather than follow same aspirational path even when it could be wasteful?
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March 30, 2004
Is human life too fragmented? Are humans looking for a wholer life? Are humans overcompensating for what is missing with what is available? Is the fragmentation of life leading to more unresolved issues?
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March 30, 2004
Are new ways of relating taking place of older ones?
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March 29, 2004
Understanding vs Force
As we come to understand nature better, we are less forcing it to do our biding and are more in touch with what it takes to get what we need in a more humane way.
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March 26, 2004
One may encounter trickery, con or deception in various spheres of life. How useful would it be to have a pool of resources which helps to be aware of, detect, and prevail over these in their various contexts? And have some more general tips?
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What is the influence of a person's name, its meaning, and its associations on the person's life?
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What is the influence of siblings in one's life?
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March 25, 2004
Life has memories. Memories often have a certain milieu. It could be the smell of an eating place, the style of an advertisement board, the cut of a dress. When viewed, they evoke a certain memory.
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Prolong the youth
Youth is often a time of gay abandon. Many may try to prolong this phase in their life. (discouraged by sour experiences of others in more settled life?)
Youth can be viewed as potential, possibilities.
Youth can be a time of generosity and good will and good wishes.
Are these values limited to youth?
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A word, synonymous with a word from another language, can convey a lot more beyond the literal meaning. The words have a context around them of the times and culture.
What about globalized words...
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What do we lose when we lose a language?
Is that natural?
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March 24, 2004
Life is life, many dimensions seamlessly [?] integrated... Some areas of life are subjects of deep research, study and education, others are not so much. Some areas are covered by institutions, others not to that extent. Some are informally taught and learned - many times relying largely on how life is experienced.
For the young, there are schools and religious institutions, just to name two prominent ones. For adults, the institutions for preparation and growth seem to lessen, only coming back at some level as they get older.
Are institutions an answer to our needs as humans in our journey through life? Do they meet some of our needs? What needs do they not meet well?
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Live and let live ?
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Does hedonism (as we define it in modern times) require a belief that the world as we know it is going to end?
Does a belief that the world as we know it is going to end seek outlet in hedonism?
Or? ...
also,
is it used for political ends?
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Groups of people at odds with with one another can end up promoting the downfall of the other, perpetuating the very things that they so vociferously oppose publicly in the other - by turning a blind eye to activities or fomenting situations which keep the other side caught up in irrational fears and acts, a drain on the resources for life all around...
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March 22, 2004
Media seems to talk through one supposedly standing in for many. A spokesperson, a scene, a "hero", a "villain". People, scenes in media try to stand in for reality. Characters become composites of many people, with many qualities. A "hero" may be made of many good qualities. A villain representing many bad qualties. Or a hero may be a complex of a lot of qualities, very human, and portrayed as achieving things, very super-human.
Soundbites, shots, photographs, debates, speeches try to represent many through one person, one photograph, one speech, one opinion.
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War has been known to galvanise nations, but at what cost? Peace could be a value to pursue for all, the militarily well organised and the not so well organised, this side of the conflict and that. Because if peace is not a value in the equation than how do you aim for peace, get peace? Do conflicts follow conflicts? How are issues resolved? What is the role of justice? What is peace?
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March 21, 2004
Place for quality of life being: place for quality of life expression, for its issues, the thinking, ideas, a place to query, to discover, to answer, a resource, etc.
Everywhere traditional sources of integrated life such as a society's culture, family, etc. are being reconstructed or fragmenting, and are influenced by factors from across the world. The local is influenced by forces from outside. So life has newer issues and needs to address. Yet the need for a sound and a well rounded and integrated life remains. But the traditional resources are not available in adequate number, nor do they answer the more global-influenced issues of life today.
Even if such changes were not taking place, it would be useful to look at how well integrated and fuller life we can lead. Has this been human quest? Particularly in today's time, and also in the past, humans look for happiness and satisfaction in life. For ways that define us as humans. We have invented and discovered, we have created societies and technologies. We have found ways of living in peace, and we have fought wars.
How we integrate our various on-going achievements in various areas to an enrichening, fuller life for each of us, and all of us as humans and the planet. How can we ensure that achievements are not at cross purposes with living. How can we keep in sight that our achievements in various spheres all pool and nurture life. How do we see that our curiosity, abilities, human qualities, talents, instincts, achievements further life. How do we see the connection of various aspects to life and in doing so have build a more integrated life for ourselves, and the world..
Human person, and the world around us, and how we interact with it provide a rich source of inspiration, curiosity and discovery for all of us. Many times our understanding of the world makes us see it in a certain light, as we discover more we see it in newer light, possibly getting a slightly more complete picture of ourselves and the world around us, and in turn may express our lives in new ways and more fully.
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March 20, 2004
How far does the economy influence social structures and relationships?
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How important is it to conserve diversity so that the future generation have access to it? Just as we are able to find new things to do with the wealth of nature when we come to understand it better.
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What are the advantages of a one winner approach? What about the wealth of ideas and human abilities which resides in the other participants and their ways of doing things? Does the winner-takes-all approach promote unethical means over quality?
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Should people who steal someone's heart be punished?
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When groups of people do unjustice to one another they suffer in many ways even after the immediate battles are won or lost. The winners in such cases do not always win.
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March 19, 2004
Regimentation and good values
[There are difficulties associated with regimenting good values. The process of regimentation has its own values which can impress themselves quite acutely on the students. Defining for them what is success and how it is achieved. And what is their conception of human beings. Can institutions substitute for the role of the wider world which includes the society outside and the family, etc. in a person's life? Can it alone equip the students for the wider world? What is the relevance of the ability to think, and tailor good values effectively as humans to a particular setting in the world?]
Parents, guardians, and those seeking to learn or grow, often entrust themselves or their children or wards to certain institutions for education, learning and all round development. This could take the form of a school, boarding school, military academy, university, etc. A person coming from a different culture with a set of values, and hopes to augment them with further positive values of the culture and setting of the institution. Often what these institutions have become is a way of succeeding in life through tried and tested methods. But in the process a person may be re-fashioned somewhat at odds with his earlier ideas of life and self. The individual's personality is often, it would seem, subjected to values which strengthens certain patterns, and trains in certain habits of thinking and action and behavior which can give the student an edge in the competition in the outside world. Besides the name recognition of those institutions and networking.
It can also make a person approach life from a certain frame of reference of how to go about doing things. While they are able to go out into the world and do well in their particular endeavors (almost anywhere in the world...), their training and learning having equipped them to approach things in a certain fashion which makes them efficient or "successful" and they may pass on the same yardsticks and methods to other areas of life without the same degree of success. Abstractions put into action can achieve results, but may not cover all aspects of life and millieu. The frame of reference may not understand or value local settings or where you have come from. Even when equipped with "good" values, they may find it difficult to translate them into something more meaningful beyond the efficient in a real context. That is, if they realise that there is a such a problem in the first place. On the other hand, being efficient or achieving a goal might become the yardstick for everything in life and evade further scrutiny? Such success seems to extract a price.
Institutions imbue the students with not just learning, but more importantly in formal or informal way with attitudes and techniques and experiences that they come to associate with achieving success. Some of these may not be pleasant or ethically sound. They might have struggled with such aspects, or may be struggling yet. (Many institutions have been around for a long time, and their "success" is precisely what makes them in demand with guardians and students.) This package does seem to give them a certain measure of "success". While they may welcome the success, they might struggle internally with how to make their lives more livable on a human plane. Beyond the regimentation and success.
Institutions can leave a deep imprint on the minds of people (may be more so if they did not know what awaits them). Family's interaction and influence in child's development has its own place and may play a role in how a student uses the experience at the institution positively. How important is it to make a person's training and learning at institutions more applicable to life? and how can successes be integrated so that life on the whole is a more fulfilling? How can a person be "successful" and not feel alienated?
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Quality of life as an expression
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March 18, 2004
There are many societies in the world. They overlap and interact. If it were possible to think in terms of societies deciding their course, one could possibly say that a society decides what it seeks to achieve and at what cost. Looking at it this way, a certain society will have achieved something and in that process must have had to put up with some of its side effects. Another society will have given priority to something else and have moved in that direction and probably had to pay for that achievement in some other fashion.
So societies have successes and areas which are deficient. One society may be deficient in one thing, which another society may have achieved. So societies can seek and admire some things that they see in other societies. But it is not enough to just see something - say as in a TV image - but to understand clearly what exactly is it that they admire there, whether it is really what they think it is. Without such clarity, an adoption of some society's "good" point might more be a motion, an action without substance or utility.
Today in a world where different cultures and societies are beamed into homes across the world, the scenes seen on TV can provide a partial and mistaken image of what that society is like. They can evoke curiosity, fear, anger, desire, but not necessarily with a proper understanding of the very things we feel so strongly about. To put a more real basis for our emotions would require among other things an understanding of that society, why and what it does in the context of its history and present day situation.
If we could look at societies in terms of a evolution, one could see that many things seen in several of the eastern societies were not uncommon only a few decades or more ago in many of the western societies. For example, issues surrounding rights of women, the sanitary conditions, electricity, educational levels, etc.
While people see the "good" and "bad" in other societies, what we probably do not talk about more in the public discourse are the aspects that we may "desire" from those societies. The bad is usually talked about more whether it is the discussion of the eastern or the western societies. While not being unreal in approach and ignoring what we may see as a lacunae or area for improvement in another society, it would help matters to see where we are approaching that society from. Is it that we do admire many things in that society? Is it that we have major problems at home? Is it that there are solutions or approaches we see in other society? Is it that we have something to offer others?
Deploring what is "bad" (something which might have been quite common only few decades in own society) in another society is one thing. What about admiring the "good" that you see there. After all, is that not what the people desire. Sure, there may be connections between the "good" and the "bad" of a society as it went down the road to development. But the pursuit of a fuller human life can move us towards aspects which can remedy some of the "bad".
To achieve success at home and move in that direction does not necessarily have to depend on the achievements of or inspiration from other societies. If only we could be open about our own problems and work to their solution...
Besides, when deploring the "bad" in other societies takes up much of the debate in a globalising world, a world where societies are looking to each other in their quest to develop. And are more dependent or affected by each other. Deploring the "bad" may end up promoting the very thing the societies might be trying to avoid: The adoption of "bad" of each society by the other. (which would leave people worse off) In a world where perceptions of attitudes and approaches of a society toward others are generated and conveyed rather quickly. Perception of societies as "bad" by each other can engender negative reactions. And fuel a chain reaction. The nature of the globalising world is such that people and societies look to other societies for their ideas and assurances whether it is for survival, security, or development - Their idea of future well being.
In this quest, it is not difficult to see that in such circumstances the debate soon turns to what will ensure survival and success. A key aspect of that would be to achieve self protection or defence against the "bad" of the others or the enemies. In turn, it could lead to adopting those very same "bad" qualities as a way to counter the threat (like deterence?). What appears threatening is adopted to threaten in turn. (A question is whether what appears threatening is so in reality?)
So what discourse goes on in the world public space can determine what course or practices societies adopt, or end up with. Even when a society may admire and seek to emulate other societies for their successes, if the discourse in the public space is essentially focused on deploring the "bad" then how much scope is there for highlighting or appreciating the "good" practices or positive aspects of another society. To meet their desire of development or betterment, what resources do the societies have available in the world pool: examples of the bad and harm that other societies can do to them. The lure of the successes of a society combined with the focus on and abundant access to the perceived "bad" aspects of that society can make for a heady mix. A society desiring to emulate the success of another society may find itself without access to the good practices or causes for its success and end up with access only to the bad side "effects" of its journey of success. It may rationalise what ever it can access as "this is what it takes" to succeed or is part of the package to reach there. Making the easily available "bad" a representation of the success, and thus, desirable. But essentially in doing so trying ineffectually to substitute effects for cause. Add to this a perception of threat from the very society that you admire, and you have facilitated the process of adopting the negatives of the admired society. The admirer tries to acquire the means it feels threatened by. It might be a reactive and defensive position. Or it could be taken as a que sanctioning such behavior from the big brother or the mob.
In a world where societies have some access to and look to others in the world, the nature of public discourse worldwide can determine where and how the energies and resources of the societies get utilised. If the world looks largely at deploring the "bad" in each other, the same world where every one is looking for survival, answers and assurances from each other, and if that world only has access to a public space with images of the "bad" and threats of the other countries, what would one think the societies have to go on with or move forward positively with: whether, say, it is a developing country trying to chalk a path of development or a developed one seeking to maintain its lifestyle and security.
When the public discourse in the world is about the "good" in and the well being of a society and an appreciation for the "good" and the circumstances of other societies, it can have the positive effect by focusing energies and resources toward society's own well being and freeing up the energies and resources from the defence of the society against perceived threats from other societies and a reduction in extreme postures. Societies' perception of each other can be more real. In turn they can be more open and feel less of need to react to observations of others, keeping it in perspective, primarily as they are already engaged in introspection of their own issues. Seeing others as people in the fellow quest for living well. For they too are involved in their lives. The outside world does not pose that much of a threat or hindrance to growth. The fear and dependence of the other is lessened. Acceptance of and appreciation of the "good" may be increased as something in the other, as also existing in the self.
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March 17, 2004
Why do we still remember the legend of Archimedes running out naked from his bath shouting eureka? Is it because it is such a funny sight? Or is it more so because of the beauty and power of that moment - when we all realise something for the first time, the moment of insight? The joy of realising something which answers a query we are pondering over? Archimedes' action seems to capture the power of that moment.
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Food for thought in prevailing times?
From the story "The Sign of the Broken Sword" in "The Innocence of Father Brown" by G. K. Chesterton
[The character Father Brown, a priest, is an amateur detective. He says,]
"Where would a wise man hide a leaf? In the forest."
The other did not answer.
"If there were no forest, he would make a forest. And if he
wished to hide a dead leaf, he would make a dead forest."
There was still no reply, and the priest added still more
mildly and quietly:
"And if a man had to hide a dead body, he would make a field
of dead bodies to hide it in."
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March 14, 2004
exaggeration/amplification senses possibilities understanding living
You can use technology to extend human capabilities and senses, and go beyond their limitations. Make things which are faster, louder, more colorful, etc. You can see beyond what the eye can see, explore sounds beyond what the ear can hear. Reproduce sounds more clearly, individual instruments or in concert. Or as in human relationships, use technology not to reproduce. You can do so many things with more power, speed, detail, definition, clarity, control, sensation, etc. Such "amplification" of senses and capabilities open up possibilities. Humans can get caught up in exploring them. And new techological improvements keep coming about all the time.
How are human desires and their "fulfillment" influenced by the capability to explore senses, abilities, etc.? How far do these possibilities influence our approach to life and our idea of ourselves? Do such possibilities skew our perception of our interests in life? Does the engrossment with the technology mean we are too focused or enchanted to see the bigger picture? Can such narrow perceptions lead to misunderstandings? How much common grounds for living and understanding are there in face of narrow perceptions? Can such acute perceptions of interests help one's life?
Can information and knowledge lead to fuller understanding of human beings? Can it make us aware of our limits in understanding ourselves? Can it give a definite stamp of approval to something as the real deal? Do developments in science and technology jolt us from one view of life to another, and from one overdose of technology till the next? Can technology be used to benefit the whole human being? Can the possibilities in one area be well rounded to benefit the whole being?
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What is the joy and power of just being in company of other beings?
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March 04, 2004
Film frame, persona, and emotions
The film frame plays a role in how actors are placed together in a film shot. For example, in order to accomodate two characters conversing in a shot, not unlike a group photo session, they are often positioned much closer than they would be in real life. This is one example of how scenes from every day life which may look realistic enough in a film, but are not as accurate a depiction as they seem. There are other artistic and technical limitations of cinematic storytelling, among other aspects, which differentiates reality from the way it is treated and presented in cinema and media.
Do the alluring images of life on the screen affect the norms of the soceity? Does life imitate art?
Understanding these techniques and shorthands of cinema may help see how cinematic reality is created and how it deviates from real life. People in the field would know of many such techniques and have experiences to share.
Then there is the role of the actors in giving life to this reality. How important is emoting - expressing feelings - in an appealing way to a visual medium? Does that brighten the chances of attractive looking people as leading characters? Why is attractive shown as equal to good and capable? And how does repeated association of an actor or actress with good or heroic roles perpetuate his/her image beyond a particular film? How does the popularity and image of actors and actresses in key roles distort the story treatment? How does the popularity of an actress or actor influence the lives of those who look like them?
People see the on-screen and off-screen lives of actors and actresses: from where they started their career to what they are today; and over the years, the actors become like people who have grown before your eyes, that you have come to "know" and are familiar with. The good or bad feelings associated with the characters they play on the screen can get transferred in some part to them. The feeling evoked by the roles can get associated with the actor.
So actors and actresses can come to represent in their person certain qualities from their media persona and the roles they have played. As if the actor personally has those qualities. More broadly, often certain looks can become associated with certain characteristics. Not necessarily an accurate representation of life?
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Lifecosm Universe of Life at xanga - February 2004
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February 27, 2004
Humans are good at pursuing and developing things which they have an understanding of. But in life there are so many things which make it livable. Yet many of these aspects of life are not yet at a level of awareness and understanding where people are using them in their lives with a higher degree of conscious effectiveness.
Making money or producing children or getting married are some activities that mark human lives. Yet it takes lot more to make each of these and other such aspects to come together in a fulfilling way. The way a mother can hold together a family. How the job market influences the family life. How does human goodness shine through all the actions of daily living.
Exploring life, understanding, appreciating, realising the value of all that which together makes life livable... and through that process making it more available in our daily lives. Not regimenting it, or even necessarily formulating it. Observing good life in action... and seeing it tick... the process... making more of public space - not tired words but appreciation - for what all it takes to make life come alive ... raising the level of appreciation for these aspects in every day talk and action not as jargon but as acceptance of all aspects of life... exploring life... seeing where we are not paying attention to all that which brings value to our lives, enhances our life experience... the smile of a child, her grooming, understanding how men and women can live together, making it possible for families to stay together, what does it mean to explore one's potential, what does it mean to live fully...
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Media products are a result of a collaboration of many people and technology. Who and what we see in such products is a result of many people's efforts behind the scenes.
The people we see, often seem like us. And they are often not like us. For example, there may be two newsreaders chatting and reading news. Or a sitcom may depict a family's life. People here seem so well groomed (unless of course the scene demands otherwise...). Their lives on screen often go through twists and turns and laughs, usually coming to end with a smile for us. Their lives and interactions fit a time slot, with a beginning and an end.
Many of these images seems so good and desirable. But what makes it so is the effort of many people behind the screen: the make up artistes, the dress designers, the news script writers, the dialogue writers, not to mention the many re-takes before the okayed shots we see. Even if it is a simple shot of a couple sitting together at a table celebrating an anniversary.
Such images of life (and what it can be) reach us from various sources: TV, newspapers, films, music, etc. And these images can influence the scale and pace of our aspirations. We may yearn for the many things we are shown by these media products, even if happens to be a correspondent in a war zone. Or switch a channel to see characters in a serial happily balancing work and family life thanks to the script.
Such easy looking desirable images, sounds, ideas are depicted through the hard work of many people. Yet, these do not show the full picture of what it takes to achieve just one of those images in real life, if at all.
These images are directed ongoingly at people from all types of sources and directions. Their pace is fast and exciting, and attractive. It does not seem to account for the human need to rest.
Whether it is a model's walk on the ramp or the music or the way scenes follow one another in sports coverage or a movie. A pace quicker than human heart beats?
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February 26, 2004
curiosity, human life, and technology
Curiosity drives so much of human life. Thoughts, feelings, desires, actions.
And technology - that is applied science - keeps on making things which evoke curiosity. contraceptives made it possible to explore sexuality without fear of pregnancy, airplanes flight. (there is the american author in world war I newly arrived in london who during his first experience of the bombing raid is unable to resist the desire to peek out of the hotel and go to the darkened street outside as the german planes carry out their raid, wondering among other things how these fly one hundred and fifty miles across the Channel and southern England, bomb London, and fly back again by midnight.)
Whether it benefits or not, technology evokes human interest. And expands what humans can do. Technology can evoke your curiosity and so spur you on even when it brings destruction. Technology makes it possible to do a lot more whether to our benefit or not, which can mean that we have to be careful as to how we use it, to our benefit. [What is our benefit?]
While the potential of technology often reaches many, what is not often distributed alongside is the debate, understanding, ability or training to use it to our benefit. It is as if humans turn guinea pigs in trying out the technology. how do you live with the consequences of what technology does to your life? technology lets you do things in life, but can't be your living life by itself...
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February 19, 2004
Humans find many events in life which are new or first time for them. Growing from infant to youth to old age. From schools to jobs to retirement. From blood relations to friendships to colleagues to companionship. You get the idea.
Many others have gone through this before us. Their experience can be useful in understanding some thing of what lies ahead. We often think in terms of youth as a major stage a person's life, yet there are other stages when you need similar support preparing for what lies ahead. They are all new experiences. Getting married. Loss of a some one.
Many of these events or phases are usually part of everyone's life. Some idea of them or preparation to meet them could help. A place on the Net where people could come and browse such events or aspects of life would be useful. It is not to lose the freshness of one's own experience of life as it unfolds. But in case you would like to know how others have gone through a certain phase in life. Get to know what things they think they learnt going through that phase. What they think would have been useful to them had they known it then. And such other content.
In earlier times, (it seems) people lived closer to their extended families and changes in family life were not so drastic. So people could observe and learn from their near ones what all lay ahead. Today people seem to living through much more change. Societies evolve at different rates and may globalise as well. So many in a society might find some pointers and lessons to their current dilemmas in the experiences of the people in other societies rather than in the lives of their own earlier generations.
You could share your experiences. People may prefer to remain anonymous to relate their experiences more accurately (not necessarily in exact details but ), to say freely what they would like to.
The point to consider would be how well someone else's experience can translate into something useful in your context. Copying and misunderstandings can cause problems. Thinking on one's own counts for a lot in life, and other's insights can not substitute for it. Thinking can help consider the insights critically in your own life context.
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February 12, 2004
Aspiration, the Other's Storytelling & Copying.
People often aspire to the wonderful things in another country or place or people that they see in the media. Yet what may seem magical or absolutely desirable to someone from outside, may not be desirable to that very extent to the people who are living it. For often it is easy to see what appears attractive, it is difficult to see what it takes to achieve that: What work goes into it. What is the cost of getting something. What price is paid for achieving it.
These things usually do not come out in the media, and even when they do, they are often glamorised. You see less of the reality of it, more the feeling it is supposed to evoke in you. It becomes a source of sensations. Broken families get glamorised, poverty gets glamorised, violence gets glamorised.
Media, both news and creative media, usually highlight events or exaggerates some aspects of it in their story telling, which would give a distorted view of the reality if one relied solely on them for the full picture. Yet media is often a very big source for our perception of others in the world.
Without direct access to the real thing, and some clearer understanding of what it really is, people often times rely on the media depictions of life in other places. Media depictions usually serve a purpose other than accurate overall depiction of life in a place. Either telling a story or reporting on something out of the ordinary that has occurred there or even portraying something as out of the ordinary. Giving a sense of life either as more abhorrent or desirable than it is. People may aspire for what they see, but can not access it. Nor often do have clearer understanding of the real deal. They often turn to the what is easily available through the media. What is available and accessible are depictions of people doing things in a certain way in context of a story or description of some out-of-the-ordinary occurence.
So without some compass to tell how real or fanstastic something is you may end up adopting something which is quite unreal. That is you have examples of behaviour which a local person could easily tell as being real or fantastic, but an outsider would not be able to tell that apart so well. People turn to these depictions and mannerisms depicted in such stories and news - as if they were every day desirable behaviour - whether that has much value or actual benefit in their own life or not. When people aspire for somethings outside their own setting and can not access them, but have easy access to media depiction of the glamorised angst - a product of that very desired setting - of the people in those "desired" settings, one finds people adopting those mannerisms, regardless of how relevant and in tune with thier own long term requirements it is. As if such mannerisms can lead them to the life that they apparently so desire. In doing so, they often times invite newer problems in their own lives.
Besides the media products are made for a local audience which would understand it intuitively as they are living with the issues depicted, this is not so with people outside. You might take the depiction out of context. Even if such issues outside of our own context did truly strike some chord in us, wholeheartedly wholehog adopting these "side effects" of another society on its road to progress can not deliver such progress to us or benefit everyone of us. May be looking at or focussing on how that success was achieved and at what cost and whether one is willing to pay that price, probably offers a better avenue for our energies and efforts. For the benefit of all of us. It would be a virtuous circle where you show the way for yourself and others, and not blindly ape the negatives that go with progress.
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February 04, 2004
Hormones, Youth and a Marketplace
Young people have "raging hormones" as someone put it. They are to an extent under the influence of the changes taking place in their body, and seem so open to experiences of life. Their youth gives them tremendous potential, but probably not enough ability to steer that potential. Often times, this makes them a target of advantage seekers who know how to push just the right buttons for their own ends. Whether it is to sell drugs, sex, votes, goods, etc. This is the age when the young transition into responsible adults. And adverse experiences can have lasting impact.
( It is another matter that in their abuse, the corrupters or exploiters may debase themselves. )
It also perpetuates a cycle of the abused turning abuser.
How you groom or assist them can count.
In times of change and under peer pressure, how to deal with desires and at the same time build a future may seem confusing. The older people who have already gone through this phase can share their experiences which might resonate with the young even if the specifics may not be the same.
Pop culture often times just plays on and amplifies this confusion and angst in the youth - perpetuating images and stories too destructive or too fantastic. Neither address their need for a way out. Some guidelines on what to expect, how to tackle it, how to avoid the pitfalls, etc. may be useful.
It is often sad to see the potential with not enough avenues to go to.
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February 02, 2004
Ever wonder how you get to know so much more about a famous person from his obituary and wish you had known these things when he or she were alive?
Newspapers often keep obits of famous people beforehand. It could be useful if they were edited and issued in some fashion while the gentleman or lady is still alive and well, we could get somewhat better acquainted wtih them. When I go through an obit I am better able to understand the person, wishing it could have been earlier. (Even when you want to get such information while they are alive, it is not easy to get the comprehensive details given in an obit) For example, reading his life events like education, key events, associates, where he was raised, how he was raised, what all he has been doing apart from his public persona, - all help.
It helps to put his life and actions in a context. It may not be an exact science, nor is there so much detail, but getting some well verified background information on a famous personality - one whom you have formed an opinion about - is very useful to see if you actually do understand him as well as you think or just might not have figured him out as well as you think.
More importantly, background information gives you insight into the person. It also helps you see, especially in case of pop icons who are often emulated uncritically, how their very personal life issues or factors shape their work. So despite the beauty and charm of their persona or work, it allows you to see whether you should follow their example or not.
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February 01, 2004
Making quality new information easily available to the public. And some related issues.
At times viewing a TV documentary gives you a sense of what is going on in a subject area - a sense not that easily conveyed by other media today.
But often with such documentaries, it is not possible to clearly catch everything that is said or presented in one viewing. Apart from taping the program, it would be helpful if transcripts were easily available. (After all a program would have scripts to begin with.) Better still would to have proper articles made to complement or bring out the ideas expressed in the documentary. Transcripts and articles for various programs stored online could extend the utility of the documentary as written word is easier to store, access and reproduce. A common repository of such articles or at least easy access to them would be a good idea..
Much information that is shared in such programs is often difficult to find elsewhere, not even in research journals, as such programs often bring together different experts and viewpoints. Using jargon-free language, they can give us an overview and understanding of what is currently happening in a subject.
Such comprehensive coverage of developments in a field is more likely to be found today in a TV program than in newspapers and magazine reports. Newspaper and magazines tend to highlight the news aspect - focusing on stating what has occurred. News reports may be sketchy as parts of a story get edited out due to space constraints. Magazine articles too are hampered by space. While TV documentaries have the advantage of time on their side in developing a topic, of doing background research and of looking at the subject from a various angles to give a more rounded picture. So transcripts or articles could be handy adjuncts to the documentary.
Often the material presented in such documentaries has the advantage of experts speaking. Unlike presenting work in academic journals, conveying ideas to a lay audience makes them try and present their work in a new and more lucid manner. They can paint a more complete and comprehensible picture of the subject connecting the dots for the audience which less wellversed presenters or writers may leave hanging. They convey not just their ideas as a unit, but also their fascination for the subject. Speaking of what they are doing right now, what they find interesting; experts in a well-made documentary give information which may not be laid out formally in an academic journal. Or in a book. Such programming shares new information which might not be available to the public elsewhere. It takes time for ideas to be reproduced in scholarly journals or in books. Even then few people get to know and understand them through these sources.
Often the questions and answers to many issues in science or arts or any sphere of life have already been better understood, yet the public does not have access to them. This gap or lag can be reduced by providing quality information in a comprehensible manner. While not the best way to go about it this, transcripts can be one step in the direction - a useful add-on to the documentary.
I am not advocating programming or news reportage over research rigor, excellence and accuracy. And we would do well to approach any information with caution. There might be distortions in it. And subject matters themselves are open to exploration and further understanding.
The point is to use the good work which already has been collected in a documentary and give it wider access and life. Very often good quality programming suffers from reduced lifespan due to lack of time slots or other reasons. TV is an audiovisual medium, which transcripts can not convey well. Articles produced alongside documentaries, which bring the strengths of the written medium, could be a good idea. Articles and transcripts can extend the life of this good content a little more and give the viewer another avenue for quality information.
A further step could be to adopt the comprehensive approach of documentaries in other media.
Like with any reportage, TV programs too can oversimplify things. Often times, many information products address their markets by sensationalising their content - simplifying things and reinforcing stereotypes. One needs to careful. For example many nature documentaries on animals are full of scenes of mating and prey kill as an item by itself. Not paying as much attention to bringing out how these acts fit into the scheme of the ecosystem there.
Overall, one needs to be careful and critical in using information however presented. Aware of the distortions that might have entered it. And try to understand the nature of the subject as well as its treatment.
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Lifecosm Universe of Life at xanga - January 2004
January 29, 2004
Life in each of us.
Life is so rich. Each one of us has his or her own experience of it. We learn from it. We might want to share it.
We all come from so many diverse backgrounds, with our work, life experiences...that there might be something of value we could share with the world.
Today in the media - whether TV, films, newspapers, news agencies, cultural icons,... - we have become so USA centered or so defined by USA, whether attracted by it or in reaction to it, that we probably fail to realise that we can not put the huge responsibility on USA's shoulders for our well being.
Quite apart from its global impact, power and contribution, USA can not think for rest of the world. Who better to comprehend the needs of a people then the individuals from within them. By valuing our capacities and avoiding blind aping of others, we could open new doors for everyone. And make our world more livable and sustainable - for all of us.
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January 16, 2004
Life goes on, so does the media and so does media-ted living.
Media-ted Living is a life influenced by media and a life lived via media. A life today increasingly characterised and defined by perceptions of reality as filtered to us by mediated contents and contexts. Such as news, personalities, spin doctoring, movies, TV, talk shows, chats, computer games, etc. Particularly influencing our perception of the meaning and nature of life, of self, of what is desirable, and how we view Others. Such media-ted perception has its limitations in conveying Reality. Yet more removed we are from something, less direct and more media-dependent our perception of it might be.
While Media can be a window to the world, Media is limited both by its nature and by its users in projecting reality. Unlike real world, media projects what its medium allows - audio, visual, written. While in life, we perceive reality through various senses, and ongoingly. Media can be manipulated in depicting what appears real to us whether or not it happened that way like in a movie or even in a news report. This distortion can be a cause of lot of emotional tumult as it can show as seemingly real and very likely or desirable or feared, what in real life is rare or not likely. It can cook up new scenarios and make them seem real. It can be made to juxtapose things together whether they occur that way or not. It can be made to show life being lived at a different pace and attitude. It can be used to construct ideas of what it means to live fully or live well. Media delivery and technology also plays a role in how reality is projected. Whether media content is delivered live or the next day or week, how it is edited, what is viewed and what is left unviewed, what is focussed on, etc. Those who presenting it - whether journalists, writers, directors, etc - also influence and define the mediated reality. When we rely on media to arrive at our perception of the world, we have to be aware of the distortions that can come with it. While media can be a window to the world, it can not bring the whole world as it is to us.
Increased use of media in our lives means more time spent with media-ted reality, which means lesser time apart from it. More time spent within media constructs of reality and conversely less time engaging directly with reality as it were. More time, for example, looking at images of violence and sex, or any other such "product", and less time engaging with people around us. The continuous and multi-sensory outpourings of media can consume our senses and energy so fully from one scene to next that there is little time left to contemplate and think through beyond say the constantly "breaking news". It is here that more time to real living, as it were. and getting direct real life experience of what we seek to understand can be so important for a well rounded view of things. While media saturation might be an part and parcel of our lives today, educating ourselves about it and being aware of how it is influencing us can be important to our well being.
How clearly we view and understand Others is crucial to our well-being in today's world where we are constantly in touch with Others through the media. When understanding one's self can be quite a task to begin with, what can one say for what passes as a representation of one's views or person in the media. Limitations of such representations both due to media and the representer become obvious. Yet this process of self discovery itself can helps us see the Other in a more rational perspective. When we look at issues in our lives and those nearer home and see our role in them, we are less likely to blame everything on Others, and in so doing move a step closer to resolving problems.
Media-ted images can also make Others seem more different or unlike us then they actually are since they tend to highlight certain aspects and repetitively so. It could make someone more desirable or more despicable. As gaps between humans increase, and communication between people decreases, stereotypes and misplaced feelings often fill the gap. When we have a media-filtered limited view of the Others, it is likely that it would frustrate us. For what we see is a distorted view of Others, a construct of media, images, and ideologies which arouses emotions in us. The distortion could be so great as to make the Other seem almost non-human and non-natural, an entity with whom a human being would find it difficult to come to terms with, or even understand in the first place. It would seem like there is very little shared or common between us and the Other. Or it could make the Other very desirable. Yet a better appreciation of their life in context could allow us to see them as humans and more like us. In the process allows us be more human while interacting with each other, and not remain as images of foes, or the desired and desiree, etc.
The full context of life as lived by us is hard for us to comprehend in and of ourselves, let alone by others who are very much removed from us. Still, as more human ways replace the very limited and non-human way of getting to know each other, chances of rapproachment increase.
Often media can end up promoting such less-than-human stereotypes in a climate of Us-against-Them fostered cyclically to polarise people into groups for votes, national identity affirmation, or as they seek to whip up appetites and interest for media products whether it is "news" 24/7, or movies, etc.
Often such stereotypical images, phrases or characterizations about Others in the media are an eazy shorthand for fitting complex identities into the limited media space of a headline or a sound bite or an image, and for quicker comprehension. These dangerously can take on a life of their own, the caricature-like shorthand stereotypes which highlight differences can almost become the real thing from repeated use. (Such stereotypes when applied to a whole society when they probably only come close to representing a fringe can often end up giving a sense of power and limelight to such fringe elements in that society.) Without direct access to or a better understanding of the Other, it is easier to accept the Other as presented to us in the media, rather then as human beings like ourselves, living life in their unique circumstances, like we do in ours.
When people end up with a stereotypical view of the Other devoid of the fullness of reality, that is, with a restricted, limited and distorted view of them, it is possible that they may find themselves at a loss to understand them or deal with them. The Other might come across as irrational and unreachable to any solution.
A better understanding on all sides of each other would make each more real and human to the other and in the process could create an atmosphere where opportunities for solutions and living may flourish.
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Lifecosm Universe of Life at xanga - June 2003
June 20, 2003
Life's Prism
Sunlight comes in through one end, and the rainbow of colors out the other. Thats prism for you.
Life and us we interact and come up with so many things. New things. Creating new ways of interacting as humans. Understanding ways of ourselves to live fuller.
What is human-ness? How do we continue to live lives as humans?
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June 12, 2003
Where to from here
Over the past few days I have had the privilege and opportunity to visit various online blogs. I thank them for this opportunity. To most I have been a surfer, so I thank them as some one they do not know as a person. Each person has had something say, whether it is a personal emotion, an experience, or something that they are trying to express in their lives - creative expression or sharing a dream or sharing their lives online. Many have built communities of friendships, or support, or sharing knowledge and tips...
At Lifecosm, you could share your ideas, your tips beyond your close circle of friends, and readers, to an audience which could include a wider sphere of people who you would interact with in your day-to-day life. So if you did like to share something which you think is appropriate for a wider audience, may be just so that they get a glimpse into your personal area of interest - whatever it is - if you can set it out so that a general public, which would be composed of everybody, could understand what you are putting across, I would welcome your postings at the links page at www.geocities.com/lifeinsight/index.html
This way a wider audience would probably gain an insight into your issues. Which in turn would lead to bridging the communication gap that we often find amongst people. To achieve that, I would request you to put your point of view across in a way that people "get it" - possibly in a manner that would further understanding...
I am a newcomer to the world of weblogs, if any one wants to add their voice for a more general viewership or readership please do feel free to interact with me at my email address. Or post a link. Thanks. I may add, I am somewhat erratic right now due to certain reasons, when it comes to checking out emails, and posts, but please free to send them...I will look in and and if required get back. Thanks again
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Experiences and Power
Our experiences shape our vision. Particularly important when it comes to people who have come into positions of power. I hope we can retain a sense of balance,..I hope.
If we experience life's lemons, I hope we remain balanced in our actions that follow, and not counter by taking such a major anti line that our purpose of living life is not served.
Balance, inclusiveness may achieve more of what we seek in life than say if angst and bitter experiences lead us to act more as anti-something rather than pro-living (I am not talking of pro-life as in abortion debate, just talking about being in tune with life for purpose of living well. Defining ourselves largely as being anti-something only, may cage us from living our own lives fully which is not mere absence of something.) A thot...to think over...?
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Lifecosm Universe of Life at xanga - May 2003
May 23, 2003
Living, Discovering
A dear fellow Xangan told me something about living life to the full while you can, not worry so much about the deeper side. I agree with the good wishes, but you know both need not be contradictory.
What do I mean, for example, at times in life, we find ourselves facing new or unfamiliar situations whether taking up a job for the first time, becoming a mother, getting to a new country.... Which is all part of living life to the full... If we could just get the basic info on these things good info useful and to the point it would help... I am not saying living your life second hand, but yes, as people on the wall street say a little visibility helps, may be.
So while we live full lives ourselves may be we could in the process leave behind something which provides some useful sign posts for those to come. Like the way we are benefitting - or may be not - from what the people before us (or those around us) did or didnt do. And why just for the future, this looking at life's aspects and discovery process that follows it, as we live it fully, could come in handy to our fellow travellers. And to ourselves. And that is how I view many of the Xangans. Sharing life. Views. Enriching, Broadening the life experience of ourselves, of fellow Xangans. may be?
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May 15, 2003
Understanding USA
Much of the cultural space of the world today is defined by the US. Whether you aspire for it, or you detest it.
Yet, for many people who react to American values, they have very little first hand contact, if at all, with America or its people. A part of the debate about US cultural values, it would seem, is defined by mediated imagery - whether Hollywood films or flashy newsreports - which may not reflect American lives fully or clearly. But may reinforce extreme stereotypes about the country and people.
Wouldn't we all be much better off, if the world understood America a little better, (and vice versa). I do not mean simply as in "good guys", but as human beings, and also understand each others problems. At least try and get a clearer picture of what life and values in America are.
Example: For those whose ideas about America are formed by viewing its action movies, America might come across as a place where physical prowess is all important, senseless killings are the order of the day, and heavy slang is the accepted medium of communication. May be it would be worth finding why such films appeal to an American audience. And how close to reality or not these films are for Americans from different life settings.
Those who think Americans have it all made; wouldn't a peak at the underbelly of the poor America not give a much needed counter point.
Wouldn't it be a good idea here to see America, great in its achievements, in its human dimensions, as fellow human beings acting in their particular life context like others in theirs. Whether it is the need for a work hard, play hard attitude, or the suing game that is played right across America, or the large number of single mothers.
[Which is not to say that as a dominant power America hasn't had an impact on the lives in other parts of the world, more so than many other countries....]
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May 12, 2003
More we try to fit things to a pattern, the more we meddle with nature. The more unexpected consequences flow. Just a thot. Not meant to stop technology :)
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May 11, 2003
Hello there. Here is the second entry. Just wanted to say that life is all inclusive, while we may strive for the best, the most, etc. we know that no justice will be served if the problem aspects of life are not considered. This is all fairly obvious but just for clarity's sake, I have inputed it here :)
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Hello every one. This is a place where I hope to give some idea of what I am trying to do. And taking it up from there as we go on....
Lifecosm = Life + Cosm (Life + Universe)
Life Universe
I hope to have a place on the web and extending into the real world for everything connected to life, and living well, including the problems.
Focus is life, living well, and enriching life.
Personal lives. And create a resource for others to come.
Check out the following site for some ideas on this.....http://www.geocities.com/lifeinsight
A note I can't stress enough: I have no personal solutions for anyone. I just have here, to begin with, a certain framework for a communication area for approaching issues on life in a dynamic and wholistic way. Hopefully, eventually it becomes a kind of reference place. A safe haven. An area where u can comfortably comtemplate life, share your issues, problems, including how u resolved them.
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real life and programming
How much programming is aimed at the requirements and needs of the poorer segments of the audience ... ?
Is a large chunk of programming aimed at the richer segments ... ? Is it aspirational in nature ... ?
How can programming address the issues in the lives of the poorer segments ... ?
Is there a viable market for such channel or programming ... ?
Can a wide range of programmes from news, to documentary to serials, etc. be devised focussing on the needs of the poorer audiences which may form the bulk of the market population ... ?
How does it influence the life quality of people ... ?
V M # 9/13/2005
Public services and citizenry
How do citizens work with public services ... ?
Can citizens and public services get to know each other better in terms of the work that is involved ... ?
Can this help in better appreciation of each other ... and cooperation towards better services ... ?
Does it help bring about better public services, reduce the burden on service providers to remedy situations ... ?
How important is it that all segments of society are involved in this ... ?
V M # 9/13/2005
human settlement and flora fauna
How do flora fauna and human live ... in settlements urban, rural ... ?
Can settlements ongoingly devise and monitor ways to optimise for or accomodate the needs of flora fauna, in their midst, and provide it a livable environment ... ?
What are the benefits that accrue to human settlements ... ?
Can settlements landscape ... ?
How can private and public spaces participate ... ?
Is there enough body of knowledge and experience available to make it worthwhile for all ... ?
What is the stress level in flora fauna in and around human settlements, facing shrinking habitats ... ?
Is there a sense of endangerment in flora fauna ... ? How aware is the society of the losses - or gains - in flora fauna that may be taking place in its midst ... ?
How 'normal' is the behaviour of flora fauna in such settings ... ?
How do communities become aware and get to know diverse, local flora fauna, seasons, life ... ?
V M # 9/13/2005
Life quality and study
How do you understand and appreciate life quality as a whole ... ?
V M # 9/13/2005
Life quality
How do you gauge life quality in palpable terms ... ?
V M # 9/12/2005
life before a technology
what was life like before a or some - of the - technology ... or invention ... ?
V M # 9/12/2005
quiet contributors to life quality
What are the little things which make life quality better ... ?
V M # 9/12/2005
What it takes ...
Would it be useful to look at what it takes to achieve something, in a programme for everyday learning ... ?
There is the perception of somethings around us, and then there is the experience of those who live it. People may have a certain perception of others, of their life, of success, of certain work, etc. This perception may or may not correspond to reality. Some assumptions may linger on in this uncertainty.
Would relating what is perceived or desired to its reality clarify misconceptions, give a sense of what it takes, and whether it is the thing that some one thought it was, and would want to, or are suited to, pursue ... ?
Would it foster a more real appreciation and understanding of others, and life ... ?
Would it help people be more grounded and satisfied in life ... ?
V M # 9/11/2005
Some contributors to life quality and awareness
Some vital contributors to life quality may be prone to error and misuse, it may be useful to be aware of that as well.
- Information
Humans use information to make sense of their world and to interact with it.
- Media
Media mediates and presents information in a variety of forms, print, audio-visual, etc. Errors may creep in during the process of mediation and presentation of information. Information may be manipulated during mediation and presentation.
- News
News focuses on freshness and newness, which can allow for errors and incomplete information. Time and space constraints, self-censorship, spin, bias, etc. can also affect the quality of information which the user accesses.
- Entertainment
Entertainment can make everything, in a manner of speaking, look attractive which may not necessarily be what works for living well.
Distances between people - personal as well as geographical - can make entertainment appear more appealing or realistic than it is, may be due to lack of exposure and options.
- Education
Education has become an integral part of society's supply chain. Yet the term education itself might have become more limited. There may be gaps in providing for all round needs of humans through education. In turn, it may affect the ability of people to apply their learning to and participate in life.
Education, as in graded learning for many years, may stretch the subjects so much through one year to the next that the connections within the subject matter may be lost for the student. And the move from simple to more complex, as the students grow needs to be carefully addressed, otherwise over simplification can lead to misconceptions and inaccuracies. While complexities may become incomprehensible without clarity and connections, and affect the desire and willingness to query and understand.
- Quality
Life may require a certain level of quality in its inputs.
At times quality is looked in a limited sense for a particular product and service. How do you look at quality delivery across the various inputs which together make for a good life quality ... ?
Often quality control stops at a point, and beyond it quality measures may be slack. Such gaps in quality delivery can affect people's life. For example, a carton of milk is advertised as a hygienic, long shelf-life product, yet how much attention is being paid to hygenic storage of those cartons.
- Thought
At times manipulation can be a source of error in thought which can affect people's life quality significantly.
- Group
Group, whether society, community, etc., may end up not valuing or involving the young and various segments, which may leave them open to manipulation ... ?
- Action
Way and manner in which things get done can influence life quality. Means to an end can determine the outcome and their effects.
Even minor actions can have consequences. Example, the way we sit or lift things.
- Methodology
Methodology errors are another area to look at for enhancing effectiveness and life quality. Effects of faulty or inefficient methodology can be significant, recurring and cummulative. It can affect the outcomes significantly and drastically.
- Approach
Errors in approach may occur early, and may be more glaring in hindsight. How do you look at issues, decisions, in terms of approach beforehand. How unidimensional or exclusive is approach ... ?
V M # 9/11/2005
Awareness, programmes, everyday learning (in one page)
Awareness
In times of rapid change, awareness could be a key part of the way people keep up with change, live well.
Many times, people are presented with information, whether through advertisements, conversations, news, education, etc., which does not give the fuller picture.
At times, information is not available to the people. Changes take place. Older connections may weaken with changing demographics and developments. The quest for growth and knowledge itself may involve changes in older structures of living. Yet how well is the knowledge gained and growth achieved in tune with living well ?
Awareness may be useful in putting knowledge and growth possibilities in perspective in terms of living well.
Programming
Apart from work whether in the home or outside, a chunk of people's time is taken up by entertainment and news.
Could some of that time be used everyday to learn, to become aware, to grow ... ? For the whole family ... and particularly the adults ... ?
Can programming be developed which informs in terms of life and current developments ... ?
Everyday learning
Lack of access to resources to grasp the changes taking place in life and the world around may give rise to a sense of disconnect with society and impair the ability to interact with life effectively ... ? This lack of access may be more so in case of adults.
There are programmes available 24 hours a day. Be it news or serials, or programmes of diverse kinds. Yet how much learning from these programmes can be assumed to be accurate ... ? One can learn from the programming available. But learning is not the focus there. And without access to other resources to do so, such programmes may substitute.
This is not to say that the current programming does not inform. It often informs by-the-way, not directly, and in doing so, it is up to the viewer to determine whether the information so gained is accurate or is properly understood. When information is presented directly, the focus may be on the subject being discussed or on making a point, and not on conveying the basic ideas which a viewer needs to know in order to understand and follow the information accurately.
Everyday learning can be a bridge in day-to-day life for learning, particularly for adults, and family as a whole, and those without access to resources for such learning.
Even for those studying in educational institutions, some information and developments are not covered by education. Or may not have made it into formal education as yet.
Yet people need to understand and use the information in day-to-day lives.
Programme aimed at providing weekday learning can be part of their everyday lives, and may help people connect to life around them a little better.
Some ideas
Present information which is relevant, accurate, sourced from origin, understandable.
Be relevant to the audience,
Provide information that allows people to understand and interact with the local living environment.
Be accurate,
Accuracy has to be the key feature.
Include warnings, precautions, notes regarding the use of information, where necessary.
Provide the context of information, so that people know how the information works, and where it may not work.
Make people aware of the misinterpretations of information.
Source from the origin,
Get the information from people who know the subject.
They may be able to give a more complete picture, and explain in a way that is understandable to everyone.
They may be able to connect the information to the living environment of the people.
Understandable,
The information has to be accurate and comprehensible to persons who do not know, or do not study, the subject in depth.
Information should not give rise to myths and misunderstandings.
The information is for everyday learning, to understand and interact with their living environment.
Integrity of information
An important aspect of programmes today is entertainment, which may over-ride the integrity of information presented. Be it serials, news, or documentaries.
This also has the effect of misrepresenting reality. Whether it makes claims of being entertainment-oriented or not, programmes may be more entertainment than reality-conscious - whether the presentation is about 'hard facts', or romance, or humdrum.
Everyday learning programmes would need to go beyond putting on an attractive or entertaining face and packaging when they work for effective understanding and interaction with changes and developments and for living well.
Here, more so than in many other programming, accuracy, integrity and relevance of information would be key.
Some tips
Avoid PR, flashiness, interviews, personality driveness
Focus on basics,
Try to be relevant through time.
Do not waste time in the programme trying to figure out the information. Be prepared with relevant, useful, accurate and understandable information. See how the information can be engaged on the programme.
Focus on learning.
Stay interactive and in loop with the audience.
Be proactive and responsive.
Develop database and archives, with precautions that information may be out of date. Update information if possible.
Use the range of media options to communicate, interact, and respond.
Have follow ups.
V M # 9/10/2005
Last few posts ...
The last few posts can be read in one post in the following order ...
Awareness
programmes
Everyday learning
- Some ideas
- Integrity of information
- Some tips
- [ These posts go together under Everyday llearning ]
V M # 9/10/2005
Some tips
Avoid PR, flashiness, interviews, personality driveness
Focus on basics,
Try to be relevant through time.
Do not waste time in the programme trying to figure out the information. Be prepared with relevant, useful, accurate and understandable information. See how the information can be engaged on the programme.
Focus on learning.
Stay interactive and in loop with the audience.
Be proactive and responsive.
Develop database and archives, with precautions that information may be out of date. Update information if possible.
Use the range of media options to communicate, interact, and respond.
Have follow ups.
V M # 9/10/2005
Integrity of information
An important aspect of programmes today is entertainment, which may over-ride the integrity of information presented. Be it serials, news, or documentaries.
This also has the effect of misrepresenting reality. Whether it makes claims of being entertainment-oriented or not, programmes may be more entertainment than reality-conscious - whether the presentation is about 'hard facts', or romance, or humdrum.
Everyday learning programmes would need to go beyond putting on an attractive or entertaining face and packaging when they work for effective understanding and interaction with changes and developments and for living well.
Here, more so than in many other programming, accuracy, integrity and relevance of information would be key.
V M # 9/10/2005
Some ideas
Present information which is relevant, accurate, sourced from origin, understandable.
Be relevant to the audience,
Provide information that allows people to understand and interact with the local living environment.
Be accurate,
Accuracy has to be the key feature.
Include warnings, precautions, notes regarding the use of information, where necessary.
Provide the context of information, so that people know how the information works, and where it may not work.
Make people aware of the misinterpretations of information.
Source from the origin,
Get the information from people who know the subject.
They may be able to give a more complete picture, and explain in a way that is understandable to everyone.
They may be able to connect the information to the living environment of the people.
Understandable,
The information has to be accurate and comprehensible to persons who do not know, or do not study, the subject in depth.
Information should not give rise to myths and misunderstandings.
The information is for everyday learning, to understand and interact with their living environment.
V M # 9/10/2005
Everyday learning
Lack of access to resources to grasp the changes taking place in life and the world around may give rise to a sense of disconnect with society and impair the ability to interact with life effectively ... ? This lack of access may be more so in case of adults.
There are programmes available 24 hours a day. Be it news or serials, or programmes of diverse kinds. Yet how much learning from these programmes can be assumed to be accurate ... ? One can learn from the programming available. But learning is not the focus there. And without access to other resources to do so, such programmes may substitute.
This is not to say that the current programming does not inform. It often informs by-the-way, not directly, and in doing so, it is up to the viewer to determine whether the information so gained is accurate or is properly understood. When information is presented directly, the focus may be on the subject being discussed or on making a point, and not on conveying the basic ideas which a viewer needs to know in order to understand and follow the information accurately.
Everyday learning can be a bridge in day-to-day life for learning, particularly for adults, and family as a whole, and those without access to resources for such learning.
Even for those studying in educational institutions, some information and developments are not covered by education. Or may not have made it into formal education as yet.
Yet people need to understand and use the information in day-to-day lives.
Programme aimed at providing weekday learning can be part of their everyday lives, and may help people connect to life around them a little better.
- Some ideas
- Integrity of information
- Some tips
- [ These posts go together under Everyday llearning ]
V M # 9/10/2005
programmes
Apart from work whether in the home or outside, a chunk of people's time is taken up by entertainment and news.
Could some of that time be used everyday to learn, to become aware, to grow ... ? For the whole family ... and particularly the adults ... ?
Can programming be developed which informs in terms of life and current developments ... ?
V M # 9/10/2005
Awareness
In times of rapid change, awareness could be a key part of the way people keep up with change, live well.
Many times, people are presented with information, whether through advertisements, conversations, news, education, etc., which does not give the fuller picture.
At times, information is not available to the people. Changes take place. Older connections may weaken with changing demographics and developments. The quest for growth and knowledge itself may involve changes in older structures of living. Yet how well is the knowledge gained and growth achieved in tune with living well ?
Awareness may be useful in putting knowledge and growth possibilities in perspective in terms of living well.
V M # 9/10/2005
Note: Weblog posts below from lifecosm.blogspot.com - before re-named / shift to universeoflife.blogspot.com
environment and living
how do people live with the environment ... ?
V M # 9/01/2005
states and the union
how does the state look at the union [ of states ] ... ?
how does the union look at the states ... ?
how the states and union look at people ... ?
how do the people look at the states and the union ... ?
V M # 9/01/2005
momentum of resources
Do the resources being developed exert a momentum on the society ... ?
V M # 9/01/2005
entertaining relationships
Is entertainment replacing or substituting a wide range of human relationships ... ?
Is entertainment becoming a model for behaving, relating, relationships... ?
V M # 9/01/2005
advertising and needs
Do advertising, artificial flavours, etc. look at human needs more closely than do the products and services they represent or are part of ...
How effective ... ?
V M # 9/01/2005
=> [from http://universeoflife.blogspot.com/2005_09_01_universeoflife_archive.html]
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About '... ?'
'... ?' in posts may not always or only indicate a question.
The idea in many cases may be to be active, interactive, to think, query,
introspect, to further understanding, ...
For some rought notes on use of other punctuation marks, and more, please
visit http://postandtelegraph.blogspot.com/2007/03/rough-note.html or
http://www.geocities.com/lifeinsight/roughnote.html.
About "Surfed by / visited ... "
A generic post title "Surfed by / visited ... " is used for ease of access and
search.
As the title suggests these are sites I have surfed by or have located on the
internet out of interest. In most cases I do not have much information beyond
finding the resource interesting and worth sharing. That is the idea behind
putting them here. And also at Living quality community at Livejournal.com.
The links primarily refer to to people and institutions which I have found
interesting or relating to quality of life, communication, development, etc. It
does not mean I concur (fully) with them. Or indeed, in most of the cases, so
far, know about their work beyond first glance. In many cases it has been their
areas of work which I may have found interesting or of relevance and so
referenced it here, without further information.
[I think I came across a reference to a few of the people mentioned here in two
bibliographies. Hope to add the names of bibliographic sources in future when I
can relocate them.]
A note about "Surfed by / visited ...." links
Some links that have a connection with quality of life (in a broad sense) are
included at http://del.icio.us/qol as well as at
http://furl.net/members/qualityoflife.
Links of a more general nature are be included at http://del.icio.us/somelinks
as well as at http://furl.net/members/somelinks.
Please note, all links included here may not be for or relevant to the site,
(for instance, they may be for Miscellany).
Also, please note this is not an exhaustive list.
=> Please do see the URL of the links here, if you would like to, before
clicking on them. As the words surfed by and visited suggest, they could be from
various sites, etc.
About links
I am not very clear about the - deep - linking and other policies of various
sites, so I may not cover them. On the other hand, Wikipedia links are
accessible. But please be clear, Wikipedia is a wiki-based encyclopedia. Please
read Wikpedia disclaimers.
Time shown on weblog posts may not correspond to local time.
Please do not mind a delay in reply as I can access internet only occasionally.
- You are not likely to receive personal or unsolicited email / communication.
- Please do get in touch again if need be.
My accessing of / access to news and media outputs, including print, is quite
sketchy / limited.
A privacy note ...
http://www.geocities.com/lifeinsight/privacy.html
Site and blog navigation and search
- Tags, combinations of tags, and visual navigation (via tagcloud) at
del.icio.us/lifewise.
You could look up pages with a specific tag, or with a combination of tags at
http://del.icio.us/lifewise.
A tagcloud of all the tags is at livewise.blogspot.com. (For viewing a tagcloud,
you need javascript enabled in the browser.)
Related tags: You may also get some sense of how the tags are related at
http://del.icio.us/qualityoflife. The related tags feature seems to work at
http://del.icio.us/qualityoflife and not at http://del.icio.us/lifewise.
http://del.icio.us/qualityoflife contains more or less same pages and tags as
http://del.icio.us/lifewise.
http://del.icio.us/qualityoflife might be useful for getting some sense of
related tags, but there may be a delay in updating it. Also, for some reason,
there seems to be some discrepancy / mismatch in pages and tags listed between
the two.
For accuracy and for latest, http://del.icio.us/lifewise ought to be better.
Click on the '+' sign in related tags, to view pages - bookmarks - from the site
and weblogs with both the current tag and the related tag.
A tagcloud of all the tags of http://del.icio.us/qualityoflife is at
http://www.geocities.com/lifeinsight/qualityoflifetagcloud.html.
Note: To speed up loading of pages at http://del.icio.us/lifewise or at
http://del.icio.us/qualityoflife, click on one of the the 'tag options' given at
bottom of that page to reduce the number of tags listed on the side of the page.
Example, del.icio.us/lifewise?setminposts=5 Requires cookies to be accepted from
the site.
(It seems you can set setminposts in the above example beyond 5 to say 100, like
http://del.icio.us/lifewise?setminposts=100, for even faster loading.)
=> Please do not reduce the number of tags displayed on the page, if you
wish to see all the related tags.
- Text-search of archives
At furl.net/members/lifewise, you could search for text within the pages from
the site and the weblogs which have been archived there.
Also see: http://del.icio.us/lifewise/searchsite,
http://livewise.blogspot.com/2006/02/search.html (not updated)
=> Please refer search & navigation at
http://www.geocities.com/lifeinsight/#searchandnavigation for details.
* Many notes also tagged at http://del.icio.us/lifewise/note. *
home page : http://www.geocities.com/lifeinsight/index.html
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