Why drink beer?

Beer is probably the worlds favorite beverage and no doubt in Nepal too. There is more to drinking beer then to get wasted . Thomas Jefferson rightly said ‘Beer, if drank in moderation, softens the temper, cheers the spirit, and promotes health.’ Let us find out better reasons to drink our favorite drink. Who ever thought there would be health benefits to drinking beer? Well, there is! Studies have revealed that beer can produce the same benefits as drinking wine. Whether you prefer ales, lagers, stout, bitter or wheat beers, studies show that one drink a day for women or up to two drinks a day for men will reduce your chances of strokes, heart and vascular disease. What’s interesting is that it was proven (New England Journal of Medicine – Nov. 1999) that those who drank one beer a week compared to those who drank one beer a day experienced no variance in reducing stroke risks. It is said that light to moderate drinkers will decrease their chances of suffering a stroke by 20%. A researcher at the Texas Southwestern Medical Center (May 1999) reported that those who consume moderate amounts of beer (one to two a day at the most) have a 30-40% lower rate of coronary heart disease compared to those who don’t drink. Beer contains a similar amount of ‘polyphenols’ (antioxidants) as red wine and 4-5 times as many polyphenols as white wine. Alcohol has also been attributed of its ability to increase the amount of good cholesterol (HDL) into the bloodstream as well as help to decrease blood clots. Beer also contains vitamin B6, which prevents the build-up of amino acid called homocysteine that has been linked to heart disease. Those of us who have high levels of homocysteine are usually more prone to an early onset of heart and vascular disease. A new study performed at the TNO Nutrition and Food Research Institute in Utrecht indicates that those who drink beer had no increase in their homocysteine level but those who drank wine or liquor had an increase of up to 10%. Also noted was the fact that those who drank beer experienced a 30% increase in vitamin B6 in their blood plasma, thereby proving that beer (in moderation) is actually healthier to drink than wine and other liquor. Did you know? - Beer is nutritious if consumed in moderation - That beer is fat-free and cholesterol free? - Beer has a relaxing effect on the body thereby reducing stress. - It can help you sleep better - It helps prevent heart disease and improves the blood circulation - It has proven to have positive effects on elderly people. It helps to promote blood vessel dilation, sleep, and urination. An average beer contains the following: 0mg of cholesterol, 0g of fat, 13g of carbohydrate, 25mg of sodium, protein, calcium, potassium, phosphorus and vitamins B, B2, and B6

रुखले पानी पार्दा...

तनहुँको ब्यास नगरपालिका १ गल्बुबेशीस्थित जंगलमा रहेका तीनवटा रुखबाट लगातार पानी बर्षिन थालेपछि यस क्षेत्रका बासिन्दाहरु आश्चर्यमा परेका छन् । पान्चायन मन्दिरको छेउमा रहेको रुखबाट शनिबार बिहान ८ बजेदेखि पानी पर्न थालेपछि रुखको दर्शन गर्न जानेहरुको ठूलो घुइँचो लागेको छ । आकाशमा बादलको नामोनिशान नै नभएको समयमा अचम्मलाग्दो गरी मन्दिरअगाडि रहेका दबदबेको रुखबाट पानी बर्षिन थालेको हो ।स्थानीयबासी खेमराज अधिकारीले यस्तो घटना आफूहरुले पहिलो पटक देखेको बताए । मन्दिर नजिकैको रुख भएकोले दैवी शक्तिको प्रभाव भन्दै भक्तजनहरुको घुइँचो लागेको छ । दर्शनार्थीले रुखमा चढाएको भेटी, फलफूल र अक्षता मन्दिरमा लगेर राखिएको छ ।दर्शनार्थीहरुले धमाधम पानी संकलन गरेर प्रसाद भन्दै आफ्नो घर लगेका छन् । आफ्नो रक्षा र कल्याण हुने विश्वासमा उक्त रुखको बर्षामा नुहाउनेको पनि कमि थिएन ।यता दमौली परासर कलेजका विज्ञान शिक्षक शिवराज बरालले बिरुवाहरुले कहिलेकाही पानी फाल्नु नियमित प्रक्रिया भएकोले अचम्म मान्नुपर्ने कुरा नभएको टिप्पणी गर्नुभएको छ । उहाँले गर्मीको समयमा सोसिएको पानी बढी भएमा रुखको माथिल्लो भागबाट पानी फाल्न सक्ने नियमित प्रक्रिया भएको बताउनुभएको अनलाईनखबरडटकमले आफ्नो समाचारमा जनाएको छ ।यति हुँदाहुँदै पनि राजदरबार हत्याकाण्ड भएको ६ वर्ष पुगेको दिन बिहानै जेठ 19 मा यसरी रुखले पानी वर्षाएको दृश्यलाई गाउँघरका व्यक्तिहरुले उति सहजसँग विज्ञानको तर्कलाई मान्ने छाँट देखिएको छैन ।

Age Of Love

Like most emotions, love in a dream is usually a direct expression of that feeling, or a compensation for not receiving it. So one question to ask is whether you are trying to compensate for a lack in your life. Apart from that it may be helpful to see in what way the love is being expressed in the dream.

The following stages of love may help in defining this.

Baby love:
Completely dependent upon the loved person for ones needs, physical, emotional and social. Great anger, jealousy or pain if the loved one relates to anyone else, is lost, or threatens to leave. In an adult this enormous feeling reaction may also be felt at a time of emotional withdrawal of the partner, even if there is no ign of them withdrawing physically. There is a desire for unconditional love and a need to be always with the loved one. In an adult with this level of love, sex may be a part of the relationship, but the main need is a bonded connection. This is sometimes felt as a need to have the loved person want you as much, or as desperately, as you want/need them.
Possibly the greatest fear, that can trigger great anger or an enormous desire to placate or earn love, is the threat or fear of being abandoned.

Adolescent love:
Initial uncertainty or clumsiness concerning emotional and sexual contact. Desire to explore many relationships. Still finding out what ones boundaries and needs are. Great sexual drive. Partner will probably be loved for dreamers own needs - for example the dreamer wants a family and loves the partner to gain that end; the dreamer loves the partner because in that way they can get away from parental home. Great romantic feelings and spontaneous love which are difficult to maintain in face of difficulties.

Adult love:
Growing sense of recognising needs of partner yet not denying ones own. Ability to be something for the partners sake without losing ones own independence or will. Becoming aware of the issues that colour or influence relationship, and meeting them as partners. Independence and closeness together. Caring sexual partners through discovering each others needs and vulnerability.

Beware Of Love

Okay, so it's a strange title, but it's true. When somebody says they love you they are usually telling a big lie.
What they really mean is, "I will be nice to you and share myself with you as long as you do exactly what I want you to do."
In detail this means that I will have all those exotic and erotic feelings about you as long as you don't dare look at another person, and as long as you fulfil all my needs of dependency, fear, and all the other hang-ups I don't really admit to myself.
The word love in the English language is a crazy word. If you look up its meaning it simply says that you love somebody, or care about them. That is really no definition at all. And when most people tell you they love you, what they really mean is, "I will let all my childhood dependency, unfulfilled need for love and attention that I didn't get from my parents; and all my fears of being abandoned, all my need to possess somebody and have them do what I wish, be projected onto you."
Most of us have not actually matured to the point of being capable of love. The very roots of love arise out of the incredible survival drives of a baby totally desiring its mother to give utter and complete attention to it. Without that attention, millions of years of survival in harsh environments, tell the baby it will die. So it holds on to that connection with its mother or carer with every jungle trick it knows. These includes tantrums, acting out sickness, sulking, anger, emotional cut off to see if the parent still cares; and if you haven't outgrown those, then you will use them in your adult relationships.
Quite honestly, few of us have outgrown them, so we are mostly five or six year olds when it comes to the business of love.
Usually we make a satellite character of the person we "love". In other words we try to make them swing around us in the way that suits us. Notice how many people have breakdowns, depression, or even commit suicide when their partner leaves them, goes with another person or dies. Those things point to pretty desperate internal situations - in other words the baby level of feeling response.
What 'lovers' are really saying is, "I will love you if - if you don't go against any of my childhood needs - if you remain my possession - if you don't do those things that remind me I am a vulnerable baby."
Mature love is when we accept that the person we care for is a separate and unique individual with their own needs and directions in life. We do not love them "if". We love them simply because they are who they are, because we respect and admire them, and we allow them the freedom that hopefully we give ourselves. This is an unconditional love. It doesn't place the conditions on the other person of only being loved or lovable when they remain our satellite. When we do that we make of them a possession, somebody manipulated by our own moods, emotional blackmail, or underhanded tricks.
To grow up and become a mature lover takes courage. Each time we try to possess the other person, lash out at them through jealousy, curtail their life through our fears and insecurities, we need to stop and say, "This is childhood behaviour. I will not let this anger, possessiveness, jealousy or emotional blackmail be perpetrated on the person I presumably love. I will face this and deal with it as a problem in my character, and will not rationalise and excuse it by saying to my partner that I love them. That is an underhanded excuse. It is not love."
So, how about it? How about growing up?

शान्ति सम्झौताको एक वर्ष २३४ को हत्या

शान्ति सम्झौताको एक वर्ष २३४ को हत्या

कान्तिपुर संवाददाता
काठमाडौं, मंसिर ५ - सरकार र माओवादीबीच शान्ति सम्झौता भएको एक वर्ष बितिसके पनि हत्या र गम्भीर मानव अधिकार उल्लंघनका घटनाहरू जारी छन् । गत वर्ष मंसिर ५ मा शान्ति सम्झौता भएयता राज्य, माओवादी र अन्य समूहले गरी २ सय ३४ जनाको हत्या गरेको अनौपचारिक क्षेत्र सेवा केन्द्र -इन्सेक) ले जनाएको छ । राज्यबाट २८, माओवादीबाट २२ र माओवादीकै युवा संगठन वाईसीएलबाट एक व्यक्ति मारिएका छन् । यसमा माओवादीले छाडेको घरेलु बम विस्फोटमा परी जेठ १५ गते पाल्पामा मारिएका नौ जनासमेत जोडिएको छ ।
त्यस्तै मधेसी जनअधिकार फोरमबाट ३३, जनतान्त्रिक तराई मुक्ति मोर्चाबाट २, जनतान्त्रिक तराई मुक्ति मोर्चा -गोइत) बाट १८ र ज्वाला सिंहबाट २७ व्यक्तिको हत्या भएको छ । संयुक्त जनतान्त्रिक तराई मुक्ति मोर्चाबाट ३, तराईका अन्य समूहबाट ५ र अज्ञात समूहले १५ जनाको हत्या गरेका छन् । यो अवधिमा ७ सय ७२ जनालाई अपहरण गरिएको छ । अपहरणमा राज्यबाहेक हत्यामा संलग्न सबै पक्ष संलग्न छन् । सम्झौता यता ५ सय ४८ कुटपिट, २ सय ४४ धम्की र २ सय ७९ घटनामा सम्पत्ति कब्जा गरिएको इन्सेकद्वारा बुधबार जारी विज्ञप्तिमा उल्लेख छ ।
शान्ति सम्झौता अनुगमन गरिरहेको अधिकारवादी संस्था पपुलेसन वाच/इन्हुरेड इन्टरनेसनलले सम्झौता पालना नभएकाले आम जनतामा अझै डर, त्रास र चिन्ता रहेको जनाएको छ । वाचले बुधबार राजधानीमा सार्वजनिक गरेको प्रतिवेदनमा राज्य र माओवादी दुवै पक्ष सम्झौता उल्लंघनमा संलग्न रहेको उल्लेख छ । 'राज्यभन्दा पनि माओवादी सम्झौता उल्लंघनको घटनामा बढी उद्यत देखिएको छ,' प्रतिवेदनमा छ । प्रतिवेदन सार्वजनिक गर्ने क्रममा अधिकारकर्मीहरूले शान्ति सम्झौतालाई सरकार र माओवादी कुनैले पनि स्थानीय निकायसम्म नपुर्‍याएको बताए ।
'शान्ति सम्झौता अप्ठ्यारो मोडमा छ,' इन्हुरेड इन्टरनेसनलका अध्यक्ष गोपालकृष्ण सिवाकोटीले भने- 'संक्रमणकालीन अवस्था भनेर आँखा चिम्लन सकिने अवस्था छैन, अवैधानिक कर, जबर्जस्ती चन्दा असुली, अपहरण र कुटपिट पछिल्लो समयमा बढेको छ ।' वाचले पाँचै विकास क्षेत्रको एक/एक जिल्लालाई लिएर गत असारदेखि कात्तिकसम्मका घटनाहरूको अनुगमन गर्दा माओवादीबाट २ सय ४२ र राज्य पक्षबाट १२ उल्लंघनका घटना देखिएको जनाएको छ ।
राष्ट्रिय मानव अधिकार आयोगले पनि शान्ति सम्झौताका आधारभूत मानव अधिकारका विषयहरूमा दुवै पक्ष उदासीन रहेको जनाएको छ । 'सम्झौताअनुसार राज्य र माओवादीले ६० दिनभित्र बेपत्ता बनाएकाहरूको स्थिति सार्वजनिक गर्ने, कब्जामा लिएका घरजग्गा फिर्ता गर्ने तथा विस्थापितलाई पुनःस्थापनाको व्यवस्था गर्नेलगायत प्रतिबद्धता पूरा गरेका छैनन्,' आयोगका संरक्षण तथा अनुगमन महाशाखा प्रमुख यज्ञ अधिकारीले कान्तिपुरसँग भने- 'यसले गर्दा दण्डहीनताको अवस्था आएको छ ।' आयोगमा ६ सय ४२ राज्यको सुरक्षा फौज र २ सय ८४ माओवादीबाट बेपत्ता बनाएको उजुरी छ ।
आयोग र अन्य अधिकारवादी संस्थाका प्रतिनिधिहरूले पछिल्लो समयमा मानव अधिकार रक्षकहरूमा समेत त्रास बढेको बताएका छन् । तराईका जिल्लामा सशस्त्र समूहहरूले अधिकार रक्षकलाई समेत निसाना बनाएको उनीहरूले बताए । इन्हुरेडका अध्यक्ष सिवाकोटीले महेन्द्रनगरका पत्रकार प्रकाश ठकुरीको अपहरण प्रतिवेदन सार्वजनिक गरेपछि अधिकारकर्मीलाई धम्की आएको जनाए ।
माओवादी नेता मोहन वैद्यले भने शान्ति सम्झौताप्रति आफूहरू इमानदार रहेको उल्लेख गर्दै अनुशासनका केही पक्षमा कमजोरी भएको बताए । 'सरकारले सुरक्षा प्रत्याभूति दिन नसक्दा समस्या देखा परेको हो,' उनले भने- 'हामीले आफ्नातर्फबाट पूर्ण इमानदारीका साथ सम्झौता पालना गरेका छौं ।'

सत्र वर्षछि हत्यारा पक्राउ

2007-11-21,Wednesday,

उदयपुर, ४ मंसिर छिमेकीको हत्या गरी फरार भएका एक अभियुक्तलाई प्रहरीले १७ वर्षछि पक्राउ गरेको छ । खोटाङको बाहुनीडा"डा-२ का केशव कार्कीलाई घर आएका बेला प्रहरीले मंगलबार पक्राउ गरेको हो । उनले छिमेकी ढकबहादुर कार्कीको हत्या गरेको च्यासीमटार प्रहरी चौकीले जनाएको छ । जग्गासम्बन्धी मुद्दामा आफूले हारेपछि ढकबहादुरको हत्या गरी उनी भारततिर भागेको प्रहरीले जनाएको छ । हत्यामा केशवसहित तीनजना संलग्न रहेको र अन्य दर्ुइजना सजाय भोगी मुक्त भइसकेका छन् । यसैबीच, पर्सर्ाांवाददाताका अनुसार वीरगन्जमा पनि दाजु र पत्नी हत्याका दर्ुइ अभियुक्तलाई प्रहरीले पक्राउ गरेको छ । दाजु हत्याका अभियुक्त वीरगन्ज उप-महानगरपालिका-१४का प्रभु महतोलाई वीरगन्ज बसपार्कबाट गस्ती प्रहरीले सोमबार पक्राउ गरेको छ । उनले ०६२ साल चैतमा दाजु रामबाबुको हत्या गरेको जिल्ला प्रहरी कार्यालयले जनाएको छ । प्रहरीले मृतककी श्रीमती प्रमिलालाई पनि पक्राउ गरी तारेखमा छोडेको छ । त्यसैगरी, श्रीमती हत्या गरेको आरोपमा अलौ गाविस-३ अलि अख्तर मिया"लाई पनि वीरगन्जको रानीघाटबाट प्रहरीले सोमबार पक्राउ गरेको छ । उनले ०६३ साल साउनमा श्रीमती सलमा खातुनको हत्या गरेको भनी ज्रि्रकामा उजुरी परेको थियो । उता, टेलिफोनको तार चोर्दै गरेको अवस्थामा गस्ती प्रहरी टोलीले सोमबार राति तीनजनलाई पक्राउ गरेको छ । पक्राउ पर्नेमा वीरगन्ज भिस्वाका मखु शेख मिया", नगवाका सरोज श्रीवास्तव र इनर्वा गाविसका राजु राउत रहेको ज्रि्रकाले जनाएको छ । उनीहरूको साथबाट टेलिफोनको तारबाट निकालिएको २० किलोग्राम तामासमेत बरामद गरिएको छ ।