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Replace Garfield with a cat and what do you get? A WAY FUNNIER COMIC.
(maybe should find a way to do it with my book)
Replace Garfield with a cat and what do you get? A WAY FUNNIER COMIC.
(maybe should find a way to do it with my book)
Haw! I've seen Garfield cartoons with all of Garfield's thought balloons removed, leaving him as a mysteriously smiling observer, but this version trumps that one, handily. I think it's kind of awesome, to be honest. Thanks for posting it!
Cute cat
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The ways people change this horribly unfunny comic to make it funny are stunning. I've seen the no garfield one, the no garfield dialog one, and the "lets rearrange the comics in random order!" one. now this one….Genius.
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I think this is just as clever as the Garfield minus Garfield comics…Not only does the cat look a lot less cartoonish, but it doesn't react *AT ALL*…Garfield is too "human"; Realfield is like a real cat, and really shows off the insanity of one who converses with their pet cat…
I still believe the best form of this joke includes Garfield as a silent witness.
The addition of this cat is unnecessary and absurd to me.
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This is the funniest thing I've ever seen! I just can't stop smiling! Good show!
Just a bad ripoff of this site:
HAHAHAHA this is the most funniest thing ever!!! =D I can't stop laughing!!!!
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Realfield came first. For that matter Silent Garfield did also.
The irrefutable futility of life itself is made astoundingly clear in these enormously relevant, intensely satirical, and deeply scathing vignettes. I'm nearly tempted to gouge out my eyes, as there can be no greater universal truth then what has been seen here at this time.
This reminds me of real cats, the weird way they focus on your face.
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my bike got burrowed after the Anubis burn on Thursday night, I left it on a structure to get on the purple palace then when I returned during a dust storm, it was gone.
it was blue with a tacky silver spray paint job on it, with a glow bear on the handle bars and pink fur on two parts of the frame, there is a name tag on the back Ian from New Hampshire, the gent I bought it from two burns ago. I would really like it back, since I put 100 bones into getting it playafied and well its my playa bike and I miss it.
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Tonteldoos is a small town in Mpumalanga, established in 1883 and originally populated by poor but resourceful burghers.
The word 'tonteldoos' means tinderbox. While no-one is certain how the town got its unique name, the story goes that the local land surveyor lost his tinder-box in the area whilst surveying the farmlands.
Tonteldoos is located in a peaceful valley near Dullstroom, a popular fly fishing destination. It is surrounded by farmlands and the town itself has a pub, a cheese farm, a country kitchen and some places to stay.
The valley is known for having three species of arum lilly including the rare yello arum, and has another rare plant species, the Aloe reitzil.
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|Non-syndromic association of congenital hepatic fibrosis and bilateral cystic renal dysplasia.
MedLine Citation:
|PMID: 11155779 Owner: NLM Status: MEDLINE
|Congenital hepatic fibrosis (CHF) is associated with autosomal recessive polycystic kidney disease (ARPKD). Although cystic renal dysplasia (CRD) is the most common form of newborn cystic renal disease, this disorder of anomalous metanephric differentiation is only rarely found concurrent with CHF. Our literature review found only 13 sporadic and 12 familial non-syndromic cases of combined bilateral CRD and CHF reported outside Taiwan. We report the first domestic case, occurring in a fetus of 18 weeks' gestational age, which was the second pregnancy of a 24-year-old mother with a previous history of spontaneous abortion at 10 weeks' gestational age. Postmortem autopsy confirmed the concurrence of bilateral CRD and CHF without associated anomalies of other visceral organs and external appearance. This particular association must be differentiated from ARPKD and liver disease, in regard to ultrasonographic examination and genetic counseling.
|H Y Huang; H Y Huang; W J Chen
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|Title: Journal of the Formosan Medical Association = Taiwan yi zhi Volume: 99 ISSN: 0929-6646 ISO Abbreviation: J. Formos. Med. Assoc. Publication Date: 2000 Nov
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|Created Date: 2001-01-11 Completed Date: 2001-01-25 Revised Date: 2004-11-17
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Leonhard Euler.
Amsterdam ; Boston : Elsevier, 2007
|Leonhard Euler; Leonhard Euler
|Biografie, Dokument, Internetquelle
|Internet-Ressource, Computer-Datei
|Alle Autoren:
Robert E Bradley; Charles Edward Sandifer
|9780444527288 0444527281 9780080471297 0080471293
|1 online resource (viii, 534 pages) : illustrations.
|Foreword (C.E. Sandifer and R.E. Bradley) --
Introduction (C.E. Sandifer and R.E. Bradley) --
Leonhard Euler: Life and Thought (R.S. Calinger) --
Leonard Euler and Russia (P. Hoffmann) --
Princess Dashkova, Euler, and the Russian Academy of Sciences (R.S. Calinger and E.N. Polyakhova) --
Leonhrd Euler and Philosophy (W. Breidert) --
Images of Euler (F. Fasanelli) --
Euler and Applications of Analytical Mathematics to Astronomy (C. Wilson) --
Euler and Indian Astronomy (K. Plofker) --
Euler and Kinematics (T. Koetsier) --
Euler on Rigid Bodies (S.G. Langton) --
Euler's Analysis Textbooks (V.J. Katz) --
Euler and the Calculus of Variations (R. Thiele) --
Euler, D'Alembert and the Logarithm Function (R.E. Bradley) --
Some Facets of Euler's Work on Series (C.E. Sandifer) --
The Geometry of Leonhard Euler (H.S. White) --
Cyclotomy: From Euler through Vandermonde to Gauss (O. Neumann) --
Euler and Number Theory: A Study in Mathematical Invention (J. Suzuki) --
Euler and Lotteries (D.R. Bellhouse) --
Euler's Science of Combinations (B. Hopkins and R. Wilson) --
The Truth about K̲nigsberg (B. Hopkins and R. Wilson) --
The Polyhedral Formula (D. Richeson) --
On the Recognition of Euler among the French, 1790-1830 (I. Grattan-Guinness) --
Euler's Influence on the Birth of Vector Mechanics (S. Caparrini) --
Euler's Contribution to Differential Geometry and its Reception (K. Reich) --
Euler's Mechanics as a Foundation of Quantum Mechanics (D. Suisky) --
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|edited by Robert E. Bradley, C. Edward Sandifer.
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The year 2007 marks the 300th anniversary of the birth of one of the Enlightenments most important mathematicians and scientists, Leonhard Euler. This volume is a collection of 24 essays by some of the worlds best Eulerian scholars from seven different countries about Euler, his life and his work. Some of the essays are historical, including much previously unknown information about Eulers life, his activities in the St. Petersburg Academy, the influence of the Russian Princess Dashkova, and Eulers philosophy. Others describe his influence on the subsequent growth of European mathematics and physics in the 19th century. Still others give technical details of Eulers innovations in probability, number theory, geometry, analysis, astronomy, mechanics and other fields of mathematics and science. - Over 20 essays by some of the best historians of mathematics and science, including Ronald Calinger, Peter Hoffmann, Curtis Wilson, Kim Plofker, Victor Katz, Ruediger Thiele, David Richeson, Robin Wilson, Ivor Grattan-Guinness and Karin Reich - New details of Euler's life in two essays, one by Ronald Calinger and one he co-authored with Elena Polyakhova - New information on Euler's work in differential geometry, series, mechanics, and other important topics including his influence in the early 19th century.


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Update on AndreiAndrei is one of the best clients of Hope Ukraine in his town. He uses microloans all the time. This is very practical for him since loans allow him to replenish his working capital quickly. This time, Andrei needs to buy wholesale a big lot of [polyethylene] film.
Andrei's business is going well. He has many loyal customers who buy [polyethylene] film from him. This is why Andrei is now able to sell out of his home, without traveling to the market. This allows him to save time, which means saving money too.
В бизнесе Андрея все в порядке. У него много постоянных клиентов, которые покупают у него пленку. Поэтому сейчас Андрей торгует у себя дома, на рынок не выезжает. Это экономит ему время, а значит и деньги.
Previous Loan DetailsAndrei is married with a 9-year-old daughter, called Angelina. He is a farming businessman from Dneprovka, south-eastern Ukraine. Andrei sells polyethylene film, seeds, and other agricultural supplies in one of the local markets called "Stroika." He is the only entrepreneur who offers polyethylen... More from Andrei's previous loan »
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About HOPE UkraineHOPE International, a Christian faith-based non-profit organization, has been operating in Ukraine since 1997. HOPE Ukraine was the organization's first international venture. In addition to its core microfinance activities, HOPE also supports an active children's ministry in Ukraine in the form of "Tomorrow Clubs," after-school programs that teach children the gospel through games, skits and songs.
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This borrower has been listed on Kiva before, so you'll see an updated loan description, as well as excerpts of the original descriptions from earlier loans. Most borrowers take out loans consecutively, meaning that they receive a second loan after having repaid the first. However, sometimes our Field Partners give out concurrent loans, allowing borrowers to take out one primary loan and a secondary "add-on" loan along with it. These "add-on" loans are typically smaller than the borrower's primary loan and serve a different purpose. Because Field Partners can now post loans as successive and concurrent loans, you will be able to track borrower progress over time and see the various ways a borrower is working with our Field Partners through funds from Kiva's lenders.
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Emery Tour Diary, Part Three!
Joel from Emery hooked us up with this latest installment of their tour diary. Check out parts one and two, then read on!
Whoa. Lots of stuff to write about. Heading into Chicago, you'Äôre going to drive through about a million toll booths. Jason and I were pretty much out of change by the time we got to the last one. There are the exact changes lanes, and there are the ones with people in case you don'Äôt have exact change. We began to roll through the exact change-forty cent lane with thirty-five cents. I figured, you know, thirty-five cents IS really close to forty. Jason threw the money into the basket, and much to our surprise, the gate didn'Äôt come up. Weird. So we sat there for about three minutes getting flipped off, cussed out, and laughed at. All the while, I'Äôm screaming at an attendant to help us. He didn'Äôt hear me. I think he was 120. Then, magically, the gate went up.
We played a show at Central College in Pella, IA. It was fun. They had a pep rally, I think it was homecoming or something, and afterwards we played. Name Taken was in their second song when the PA went out. For quite awhile. They got that straightened out, yada, yada, yada. While we were playing, I guess is when we found out that there wasn'Äôt a wall at the back of the stage. Josh was in the back drumming his heart out, when all of a sudden he wasn'Äôt drumming anymore. He was falling off the back of the stage, drum stool in hand. Crazy.
Man, we had some long a'Äîdrives those couple of days. I think Friday I was awake for like 21 hours straight. I drove until I started hallucinating at about 4 am.
Jason and I hit up this air/flight museum Saturday. It was pretty cool. They had flight simulators and this 4-D movie theater. I learned that a 4-D movie theater is really a 3-D movie theater where the seats move and they use smoke and stuff to make it more realistic. It was freaking cool. The flight simulator was way cool. It actually moved according to what you made it do. For example, when you did a barrel roll, the thing you were in rolled. Needless to say, we did a s-load of barrel rolls.
We played a big show in Detroit Saturday night. There were two shows going on in the same building, so they combined them. It was fun because we got to play with our old friends alexisonfire. Also there were Hopesfall and Moneen. Afterwards we drove to Toledo to meet up with our good friends The A.K.A.s. Man, I love those guys.
Been eating a lot of Denny'Äôs lately. The Boca burger is off the hook. That'Äôs all I ever eat when I go there. If you haven'Äôt tried it, I highly recommend it.
I'Äôm gonna take off now. Sorry this thing is so long, but a lot has happened and it'Äôs been awhile since I'Äôve written. I hope you'Äôre doing well. I'Äôll talk to you soon. Take care.
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Only 6 pack sized coolers allowed to be carried into the Grandstands.
Grandstand gates open at 5:00 pm
Racing starts at 6:00 pm
Adults $12.00 / Senior citizens $10.00 / Kids 7 -16 $10.00 / 6 and under free with paid adult
Track Personnel
Promoters: Annette Mazur 585-344-2142
Race Director: Burt Stevens 585-943-5818
Pit Steward: Chad Dart
Tech Inspector: Surprise
Safety Inspector: Tim Claus 585-813-3888
Head Starter: John Powell
Assistant Starter: Tina Powell
Turn 2 Track Entrance: Vicky Richardson
Turn 1 and 2: Paul Gavenda
Turn 3 and 4: Rick Walch
Track Announcer: Dave McCredy
Scorers: Jessica Ball, Angie Newton
Points Keeper: Burt Stevens
Track Prep: Rich Mogavero/Burt Stevens/Tyler Lang/Colby Polcock
Track Photographer: Rick Franclemont
Roving Reporter, Mower, and whatever keeps me busy: Burt Stevens - 585-943-5818
EMT's: Cathy "3 out of 4 cool grandsons ain't bad" Skeet and Karen "Tywer's Mommy" Lang
Video Dude: Robert Stevens II
Pit Gate to grandstands: Don Manes
Pit Gate vehicle entrance: Dave Gleeson
Office/Pit Sign in Workers: Christine Stevens, Amy something or other
A little bit about Raceway5.
The race track at the Genesee fairgrounds is as old as dirt. This works out well since it is dirt. It is a 3/8 oval that used to be known as Genesee Speedway. The new name was derived from the fact that it's a raceway, and it's located on route 5 (we're not talking about Einstein here folks). Almost every type of motorized vehicle has used the track in some fashion. From motorcycles, to tractor pulls, stunt cars and of course race cars. There have been some exciting times on the track, and the 2011 will be no exception.
With the new promoters, Jim and Annette Mazur at the helm, the upcoming year is poised to be something special. Jim has raced first asphalt and then dirt for many years. His experience as a driver will serve him well in his new role as promoter (OK Annette "Co-promoter" sheesh). Jim has since retired from racing to dedicate his time to helping his son JJ race, along with building the proven Lo-line race car chassis, and running Mazur Auto.
Through all of Jim's years of racing he has won over 100 feature races and several different track championships. During this all this time, his wife Annette of 30 long agonizing years, has been right there with him. Mind you not always because Jim wanted her there, but like the good Reverend said, "through good times and bad". This combination gives them over 60 years of experience to see what does and doesn't work to make a track successful. Anyone who knows Jim, knows that when he sets his mind to something, it hard to change the channel. This new challenge is no different and something Jim has attacked with passion.
What can you expect this year at Raceway5. Some of the most competitive racing in years, and some very fan friendly amenities. Jim and Annette are running 5 classes this year. Sprint 600's, Mini stocks, Street stocks, Late Model, and Sportsman Modified. The goal is to put on the best show possible for both racers and fans alike. They plan to run 15 races this year, weather permitting, starting at the end of May. The Raceway5 website (www.raceway5.com) will have current weather conditions along with many other useful tools. Please check it out. We will also be trying to send notifications when a race event is canceled or postponed due to weather via the website, and/or Facebook, twitter, or having Annette yell from atop the press box.
Some changes you will see are a slightly different layout in the pits, new victory lane, quicker turn around between races, and a pit reporter that is one handsome son-of-a-gun. Jim will have plenty of help from friends, relatives, and people that may have owed Jim a nickel from 30 years ago (you didn't think he'd forget about something like that, did you).
In all seriousness, if you're looking for an affordable night out with family or friends on a Saturday night this coming summer, come to Raceway5. The track will be fast, the food hot, and the beer cold. Put down the remote, the game controller and live a little. I can promise you this, if you come to race track and sit in the stands, you'll be outside!


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I had considered starting apost on this very topic, but I stpped myself, for the reasons you mentioned amongest others.
Yes it was a great technical achievment, flying at 60ft with nothing but a couple of spotlights to tell them they were at 60ft, a bouncing bomb.
Though do we really glorify war when we mark these days? Or is it a way of commerating those who fought for our freedoms? Perhaps in this case it is because it's the 70th anniverdsary of the raid it is getting attention, will the 71st anniversary garner as much attention?
Think about it the 68th Anniversarry of VE day passed by just over a week ago, and I don't recall seeing a thread about it. In many respects perhaps the one day in the UK outside of Remembrance Day and/or Remberance Sunday that perhaps gets a bit of attention would be the 15th September
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Yes, you will have to go through these gymnastics. If you have wisdom, you don't have to go through the pain to learn. When there is lack of wisdom, you go through pain, but you will come out of it in sometime, don't worry. This is why it is important for one to have a larger context to life. When you have a larger context, all these trivial things don't really bother you. They are all like waves on the surface of the ocean, they rise and fall; like ripples in the lake, they rise when the wind blows, and when there is no wind, there are no ripples. So, have a bigger context. That is atma gyaan (knowledge of the self); nothing can shake me, I am much bigger than the emotions, I am much bigger than the world around me, people around me. Their praise and their blame doesn't matter. I am much bigger than all this! This awareness uplifts us, then one does not drown in the ocean of emotions, and hurt.
There are four ways to look at hurt.
1. Someone who has hurt you is pained. They have scars, they are unhappy and miserable. They can only share what they have. They are hurt and they are sharing the hurt with you. So with those people who are inflicting pain on you or hurting you, which you think they are doing purposefully, in fact it is because they do not have happiness inside them. They don't have joy, they don't have peace. They have pain and they are wounded so they are causing you hurt. So, for a wounded person what is required? Compassion. So you have to be compassionate to those who hurt you, because they are hurt and wounded themselves. This is number one.
2. Those who are causing hurt to you are ignorant. They don't have a broad vision of life. They don't know themselves and they don't know what they are doing. They are ignorant and arrogant. You can only feel sorry for them and hope that someday they will become intelligent. They don't know that their actions are hurting others, and you wish for them to be more sensitive.
3. It is just karma. You had to get this hurt and if not this person then someone else would have given it to you. We must have caused some hurt to someone in the past so nature is bringing it back to us now. When you know that it's just the karma being repaid, you feel very settled. Isn't it?
4. It is being done to make you strong. Nature is bringing this to you so that you become strong; so that you discover the strength and power within you. Usually in the pandals (temporary shelters/structures made of fabric and bamboo poles). After putting a pole in its place they shake the pole to see whether it is strong enough or not. Hurt is just that, to see whether you are well established in yourself, whether you are in wisdom or not.
Every hurt is trying to shake you, to see whether you are strong or not. It tests your strength. It is to make you stronger.
If you think a wise person or someone intelligent is hurting you, then you should be thankful because there is some purpose in that. They want you to be strong. If your mother is scolding you, she is not doing it with a bad intention. If your father is scolding you, you can't say, 'Oh my father hurt me! My mother hurt me!' Your parents are not hurting you; they are coming from a space of care and concern for you. We must recognize that they are doing things out of their limited understanding and love for you.
There are two major things that you feel when you are hurt - lack of communication and lack of understanding.
Another reason for hurt, if you want to count is being over sensitive to irrelevant or ephemeral things. Events are all ephemeral, they are all moving. Everything is changing. You don't need to become over sensitive, 'Oh he said this thing to me, she said this thing to me!'
In Kannada, there is a proverb that says, 'God has not put a bone in the tongue; the tongue rolls, moves in all directions.' Never mind what words come out of people's mouths.
This is a big issue in the world today. The root cause of so many diseases and conflicts is that we don't know what we should put in the mouth, and we don't know what should come out of the mouth!
People keep stuffing all sorts of things in their mouths. In this little hole, tons and tons of food goes in, and volumes and volumes of garbage come out; this is the misery of the world.
Again, a poet in Kannada said, 'All the fun people have in the world, is only by words!'
Jokes and comedy happens because of words, all the conflicts and hatred is also through speech. It is speech that entertains, makes you laugh, and again, it is speech that creates divisions in the society, and hatred amongst people.
All different types of wealth come to you by your speech. Speech is a real gem in the world. So all hurt is only speech. Some words come out and someone says, 'Oh, I am hurt!'
Now, if someone is trying to physically hurt you, you just be careful, equip yourself. I am not saying if someone comes to hurt you, you fall at their feet. No, you be intelligent, and protect yourself; especially ladies and girls, they should not go alone here and there.
The problem is that the consumption of alcohol has gone up three times more, and proportionately violence has also increased in the world. Men are not bad, but what makes them bad is alcohol. Don't think that India has all bad men, and so many bad things are happening to women; it is the influence of alcohol.
The only bad act a person does is he gets drunk. When he is drunk, he is not himself, and women are not safe around drunken people. Women should take up this cause of shutting down all this alcohol business; instead women are joining hands and drinking with them!
This big thing happened for women's protection; hardly anyone spoke about prohibiting alcohol consumption or production. In states of India where alcohol prohibition has been introduced, crime rates have come down as compared to states where there is no prohibition.
Even all the god and goddesses have weapons to protect people. Sri Ram has a dhanush (bow and arrow), Sri Krishna has a sudarshan chakra (a weapon in the form of a disc). So, don't be too naive and move around anywhere. Especially when there are elections and holidays around.
When you try to know any one of them, you will get to know both because they are one and the same.
If there is a cup and I move the cup from here to there, is it the same space or has the space changed? It is the same, yet different, isn't it? The space in the cup here is the same, when you move it, it is still the same space, yet it is different. It is just like that with Shiva and Krishna.
Krishna walked on this planet Earth. Shiva was not a person, it is an energy, it is in the subtle only. Inside all of you is Shiva, when you realize this, that is Krishna. That is why we sing (the song) "Shivoham, Shivoham (I am Shiva, I am Shiva)". God is not sitting somewhere up in the heaven. Just sit, be still, and you will see that there is nothing other than Shiva in the whole Universe.
Do you know how they describe Shiva? They say, "The whole universe is your Jata". The whole universe is the body of Shiva, that is why Shiva is depicted in blue. Blue is not the color of somebody, it is just the energy in which we are always living, and that energy is Shiva.
Suppose these people would never have done The Art of Living course, then how would they have been? They would have been much worse.
Some people do The Art of Living course, but they do not practice the exercises after the course ends. If they do not practice it, whose fault is it? Is the course at fault or the people at fault? If they have done the course, and they are showing some ego, then what is needed? Practice! They need to do the exercises again and again!
Six or eight hours after eating, you will feel hungry and need to eat again, isn't it? You cannot say, "I ate food yesterday, how come I am getting hungry today?" You take shower everyday but you do not question, "Why do I have to take bath again? I took bath yesterday, why am I smelling today?"
So if you have taken bath once, that is not enough. You have to take a shower again and again. If you have taken a bath, that freshness lasts for half a day or one day. But again and again, you have to repeat certain things.
Yes, our subtle bodies can do that. In the subtle body, you can appear in many people's dreams at the same time. All that is possible.
For the physical bodies, in theory, teleportation is possible because we are all just energy. If an image can be transported from one place to another by transforming it into electricity and then get printed somewhere else (referring to the fax machine), then anything is possible.
When you try to know any one of them, you will get to know both because they are one and the same.
If there is a cup and I move the cup from here to there, is it the same space or has the space changed? It is the same, yet different, isn't it? The space in the cup here is the same, when you move it, it is still the same space, yet it is different. It is just like that with Shiva and Krishna.
Krishna walked on this planet Earth. Shiva was not a person, it is an energy, it is in the subtle only. Inside all of you is Shiva, when you realize this, that is Krishna. That is why we sing (the song) "Shivoham, Shivoham (I am Shiva, I am Shiva)". God is not sitting somewhere up in the heaven. Just sit, be still, and you will see that there is nothing other than Shiva in the whole Universe.
Do you know how they describe Shiva? They say, "The whole universe is your Jata". The whole universe is the body of Shiva, that is why Shiva is depicted in blue. Blue is not the color of somebody, it is just the energy in which we are always living, and that energy is Shiva.
Well, that is because you lost touch with it somewhere along the way. Yes, everyone is a born yogi, but if you had retained that same child-like innocence as you grew up, then there would have been no need to learn and practice yoga again. We have moved away from that child-like innocent nature and have collected so many impressions (samskaaras) along the way. We have spoiled our balance and peace of mind. This is why we need to do yoga and sadhana in order to keep our body, intellect, mind and emotions healthy and in balance.
See, when you get tired, just relax and meditate. You will go deeper into meditation then. We need to make meditation a part of our lifestyle.
When you feel tired doing seva, relax and meditate for a while. When you become bored of meditating, then get up and do some seva. When you grow tired of both, then read or listen to knowledge. There are so many options given to you here. Why is it so? It is because we know that initially it all feels like you have to strive and put in efforts to get something. Over a period of time, you yourself will realize by your own experience that in the beginning it does take some efforts. And you should make some efforts in the beginning as well. After some time it will all seem so effortless to you, as if it is your very nature.
Just do one thing: for one whole week, do not do any sadhana, do not do any meditation at all and see what happens to you. See what the state of your mind is. When you sit somewhere by yourself, you will automatically go into meditation. Then you will realize, "Oh, this comes so naturally. It is my very nature".
No, not at all. In fact, doing sadhana will help you strengthen and maintain your enthusiasm and positivity. Do not think that by doing sadhana you will become passive and lose the will to fight. If that was the case, then why would the Bhagavad Gita have been recited in the midst of the battlefield? Why would Lord Krishna encourage Arjuna to fight? Lord Krishna's very purpose behind reciting the Gita was to fill Arjuna with enthusiasm from within. Arjuna had become dejected and lost the will to fight; he just wanted to run away from the battlefield and retire into the caves of the Himalayas as a recluse.
He told Lord Krishna, "O Lord, what would I possibly need? Just two square meals a day to sustain myself? I would readily get that there also. Why engage in all this bloodshed? I can live off the fruits from the trees".
But Lord Krishna persisted and told Arjuna, "O Arjuna! It is not so. All this is just the weakness of the mind that you are caught up in. Drop all this and fight".
See, sometime or the other, even a strong soldier gets caught up in emotional weaknesses of the heart and mind. He may feel loneliness, or he may be overcome with doubt and fear. For a soldier to be able to rise above all such negativity, sadhana will be of utmost help. So do not ever think that one loses enthusiasm and zeal because of doing sadhana. Yes, by doing sadhana, one becomes free from the clutches of anger, aversions and envy, but you will never lose your sense of duty and responsibility.
Do not think that if there is no sense of hatred or aversion, then you will not be able to fight. It is not so. Hatred and aversion only make you weaker. A person filled with hatred may appear to be angry and very strong on the outside, but in reality he gets shaken because of this and the mind becomes weak and unsteady. Even our muscles and sinews grow weak. So when you fight, do not fight out of hatred and feverishness; instead fight with a firm determination and steady mind. There is a huge difference between these two states, When you fight, fight with full enthusiasm and also with total awareness. This is the spiritual path, this is Dharma.
See, the very first layer of our body is the Annamaya Kosha (the gross or outermost layer of the body nourished and sustained by food). Food affects the prana (subtle life force) and our prana has an effect on our mind. The mind is the seat of knowledge and knowledge takes one to joy and bliss. This is the way of life. So food is responsible for our existence. That is why food is necessary for all living beings to nourish and protect the prana . It is the most basic source of sustenance. What will happen to you if you do not get any food? If you do not get any food to eat, then you will simply discard all the knowledge in the dustbin. What will be the value of all the education you have received without any food? It is of no use. Having food to eat gives value to all the other aspects of life.
Food is the basic foundation of life. This is why donating food is a noble deed that one can do. Even if you cannot do this every day, at least once every few days you should do so. You can donate on your birthday, or you can choose a day to donate food in the memory of your ancestors. This is why in our culture, we have specific days set aside especially for this. On such days, we donate food in the name of our ancestors; or during festival days we prepare good food and share it with everyone. This has been a regular part of all our customs.
In the Ashram, not only do you get good knowledge, you also get good food to eat. Isn't it so?
Even when you go to a temple, you don't just get to see the deity, you also get some prasadam (sacred offering) to eat before you leave. So this is the importance of Anna-daan. This has been in practice in India since many centuries.
It is said, "Anna-daanam param daanam vidhya-daanam tat param". It means that imparting and giving knowledge to others is even higher than the act of donating food. But at least to start with, one can always begin with donating food grains from time to time.


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The Magazine
Child's Play
The fairy-tale world of Model United Nations
Aug 19, 2013, Vol. 18, No. 46 • By JAMES KIRCHICK
Indeed, evidence of the organization's fecklessness is ever new—consider the violence in Syria two years into a civil war that has taken nearly 100,000 lives, despite daily cries for restraint by U.N. bodies and officials. Yet, year after year, students flock to MUN conferences; the growing global popularity of the program is in inverse relationship to the mounting evidence of U.N. impotence. "Cambodia encourages member states to pressure these uncooperative parties into signing treaties," I wrote in an airy position paper for the Peacekeeping Committee. "How?" asked my long-suffering civics teacher in red pen. It was a good question—the kind of question that, if asked regularly of students, might turn MUN into a forum for useful learning. Most faculty advisers, however, having already embraced the U.N. gospel, steer clear of such awkward challenges to adolescent thinking.
According to the MUN mantra, no problem is beyond the world body's reach. A 2009 Washington Post story about an elementary school MUN team quoted a 9-year-old who spoke about "the global effort of total elimination of racism and racial discrimination," as if racism were something the U.N. had it in its power to eliminate—and as if racism weren't the official policy of numerous member states. Yet the sentiment was not merely the naïve wish of a fourth grader. The U.N. actually has an entire bureaucracy devoted to the "Elimination of Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance," which has hosted two international conferences. The United States and its allies walked out of both in protest of the egregiously anti-Semitic nature of the proceedings. Reading my own MUN position papers of a decade ago, I see the starry-eyed musings of a teenage idealist. But I was only mimicking what I read in actual U.N. resolutions.
A decade has passed since I attended my last Model U.N. conference as a student participant. So to refresh my memory, I paid a visit to a recent Ivy League Model United Nations Conference—aka ILMUNC, one of the country's premier MUN conferences, which I myself attended while in high school—organized by students at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia every year since 1984.
I arrived at the Sheraton Philadelphia City Center shortly before the opening ceremonies. As over 2,000 high school students (the boys in ill-fitting suits, the girls nearly all wearing pantyhose) swarmed about, I was reminded of the main motivation (aside from a precocious interest in world affairs) for most kids' participation in Model U.N.: It's a great way to spend a long weekend. Essentially a four-day slumber party with your friends in a major city hundreds of miles from home, MUN gives you a school-sponsored opportunity to crash at a swanky hotel, mingle with members of the opposite sex (ILMUNC even set up its own rose-gram system for amorous delegates), and eat out three times a day, all with minimal adult supervision. And don't forget the Delegate Dance on Saturday night, a staple of every MUN conference. Even in their monkey business—passing silly notes to one another, slinking off at night to drink alcohol, and generally behaving as teenagers—the Model U.N.ers faithfully mimic the grown-up version. They unwittingly resemble the international diplomatic corps and high-priced hangers-on who descend upon Manhattan to carouse at overpriced restaurants, splurge on 5th Avenue, and neglect to pay parking tickets. Late in my weekend at ILMUNC, I encountered a bleary-eyed teacher who had sat awake in the hallway outside her students' rooms until 2 a.m. "If they're going to do anything bad, they're going to have to leave their room to do it," she muttered.
What could possibly possess the collegians running the conferences to undertake months of onerous preparation in order to spend a weekend overseeing a bunch of rowdy, overambitious, acne-afflicted high school students? Their motivation became clearer after I visited the conference "control room," the nerve center of ILMUNC operations, where various under secretaries general and deputy secretaries general noshed on potato chips and Red Bull. "My last conference, I just BS'd it," one Penn student confessed to a younger colleague. "NAIMUN sucks so badly," said another, referring to the North American International Model United Nations, a rival intercollegiate conference hosted by Georgetown University undergraduates.
As I partook of the free food, Penn students buzzed in and out, communicating on Secret Service-style earpiece walkie-talkies. Over the course of the weekend, I would watch these collegiate Tracy Flicks officiously roam the hallways enforcing curfew. And in committee meetings, I would see them bang their gavels above the din as they doled out speaking slots. In the mold of the U.N. bureaucrats they're impersonating, many of the college students who run MUN do it for the power trip. Of course, ego inflation and carnality are not mutually exclusive. The guidebook for the ILMUNC Secretariat lists reasons not to consume alcohol during the conference. Reason #9 is, "Because you don't want to hook up with a [sic] high schoolers at the conference. Right? Right?" Reason #1 is a joke that, in my experience, is uttered in some form at every MUN conference: "Because any pickup line involving Djibouti is totally unacceptable, drunk or not."
The opening ceremony about to begin, I ventured into the hotel's massive main ballroom. The delegates and their faculty advisers were assembled in row after long row of chairs, the Secretariat, made up of Penn students, facing them from behind a long desk on the dais. The whole set-up had the feel of a Chinese Communist party congress. Flipping through the glossy delegate guide, featuring Philadelphia restaurants alongside the conference schedule, I came across a full-page advertisement for a "Model U.N. Summer Program" run by Julian Krinsky Camps & Programs, long a popular organizer of tennis and golf camps. Lately, Krinsky has started running "leadership" programs ("great for building your résumé") for upper-middle-class high school students frantic about getting into the college of their choice. For the most go-getting, Model U.N. is an excellent résumé builder, demonstrating interest in world affairs and extracurricular achievement, not to mention the opportunity to win awards, in the form of honorary gavels dispensed by committee chairmen at the end of the conference.
Another person hoping to profit off these ambitions is Ryan Villanueva, a recent Yale graduate who left his lucrative job with Goldman Sachs in 2010 to start "Best Delegate," described on its website as "an education company that helps students and teachers worldwide succeed at Model United Nations and beyond." Best Delegate runs seminars, summer camps, and other "institutional services" for high schools hoping to win more prizes on the Model U.N. circuit. To help schools and students achieve this, Best Delegate offers private Model U.N. classes for groups or individuals, on everything from the rules of procedure to "How to Win Awards." And if the tuition is prohibitive, the book How to Win Awards in Model United Nations can be purchased for just $19.99.
The sort of student whose parents will pay money to increase his chances of winning an award in Model U.N. doesn't just spend an inordinate amount of time preparing for each conference; he obsesses. In my day, one high school notorious for its cutthroat MUN team would provide each of its delegates a binder featuring the name and official seal of his country. And there were always a few delegates fitted out with formal stationery, entire pads headed "A Message from the Permanent Representative of St. Kitts and Nevis to the United Nations" (below which would inevitably be written, in chicken scratch handwriting, some insight such as "Pakistan is being such a douchebag"). Especially patriotic delegates sported flag pins.
Shortly after gaveling the opening ceremony to order, a member of the Secretariat reminded the delegates that they were to be dressed in "Western business attire" throughout the weekend. The decree was a rare departure from political correctness; such colonialist dress codes, after all, do not apply at the U.N. itself, where one expects to see Africans in dashikis and Iranian delegates sans ties. Delivering the keynote address was Peter Yeo, a vice president of the United Nations Foundation, a nongovernmental organization founded with a grant from Ted Turner that advocates for greater American deference to the U.N. "For the next four days," Yeo intoned, "you are real diplomats, dealing with real problems, coming up with real solutions." The U.N., he said, is "promoting America's national interest." Lest there be any doubt about the political agenda he was trying to convey, Yeo boasted that, under the Clinton administration, in which he had served as a deputy assistant secretary of state, the United States paid its U.N. dues "in full and without conditions," whereas by the end of the Bush administration, Washington was again in arrears. Fortunately, under President Obama, America has fully paid its debts, a statement that earned massive applause. At the end of his speech, Yeo received a standing ovation, and the secretary general presented him with an ILMUNC T-shirt.
The secretary general banged the gavel marking the official start to the conference. The students giddily dispersed throughout the Sheraton, where every conference room and banquet hall had been commandeered by a U.N. agency. I chose to attend the Disarmament and International Security Committee, or DISEC in MUN shorthand, the very first committee I ever served on as a freshman delegate to the Rutgers Model United Nations way back in 1998.
About 150 students filled the room. The first order of business was the roll call, a process briefly rescued from its tediousness when the delegate from Niger, a French exchange student, interjected a "point of order" to insist that the chair pronounce the name of the former French colony correctly (it's Nee-jayr, not Nigh-jer). Following the roll, the delegates had to decide which of two topics the committee would discuss first, the illicit arms trade or nuclear-free zones. That these subjects were almost identical to the ones I debated 10 years ago—and a brief perusal of the ILMUNC delegate guide revealed the same about practically all the topics—is a small but telling indication of U.N. futility.
"Decorum!" the committee chair shouted over the chattering mass, banging her gavel on a conference table draped in pleated ballroom tablecloth. This is the favorite command of the MUN conference chairman and the word by which authority is exerted over the delegates. When the chair asked which countries would like to speak, nearly every hand shot up, each holding a placard bearing the name of a U.N. member state. The chair surveyed the floor and started reading off countries, while one of her vice chairmen frantically wrote them down on a dry erase board.
What followed was a series of 30-second speeches in which each delegate explained why one or the other of the topics was more pressing for the "international community" while also bearing some relation to his own country's national interest. Determining the national interest of one's country, however, was a highly subjective endeavor, reflecting the delegate's personal preferences rather than any informed assessment of real-world policies, allegiances, and so on. After the delegate from Lebanon expressed support for discussing the illicit arms trade as opposed to nuclear-free zones, the representative from Finland rose to speak, and, pointing his finger at his Lebanese counterpart, declared, "How can a person in the Middle East even sleep at night knowing they may be the victim of a nuclear attack?"
Bored, I took the elevator to the top floor, where the conference was hosting a wine and cheese reception for faculty advisers. Many knew each other from the Model U.N. circuit, and the grizzled veterans traded war stories. A recent Brown University MUN, one teacher told me, had featured a Security Council simulation of the Cuban Missile Crisis. "When Sunday came around, they had nuked each other," he chuckled. A youngish math teacher at the New York City Lab School for Collaborative Studies admitted that some of his students joined the club to buff their "transcripts for college." Others, however, "love the work. They want to make the world a better place. They actually have aspirations of being delegates to the U.N." I asked him if he thought Model U.N. offered students a reasonable picture of international relations. He admitted that it's "unrealistic that they pass all these resolutions," and recalled an "inexperienced Italian delegate who didn't realize she was part of NATO." He also noticed that some delegates, "newbies" primarily, "don't adhere" to their country's stated policies. All in all, though, he thought MUN a positive endeavor. "It's a learning experience."
Other advisers were more skeptical. I met one, a recent Ivy League graduate teaching at a tony New England private school, for a drink at the Sheraton bar. "Most of the kids do it to get into college," he explained, telling me that he had just come from a committee room where he'd watched one of his students doodling a cat. The previous year, his school had had the honor of representing Kazakhstan, and the students, predictably, "wanted to be Borat." (Cultural stereotyping is a regular occurrence at Model U.N.; a high school friend interviewed for this piece recalled how, representing Greece before the International Atomic Energy Agency, he and his partner had donned hotel bed sheets as togas and produced a Top 10 list of Greek achievements that included "Chest hair is the best hair," "Michael Dukakis," and "Stamos!") While my private school interlocutor conceded that the "conferences are like circuses," he insisted there is an upside, which is that "the kids are learning about modern history." Current events, maybe. But he conceded it lends itself to simplistic solutions. "I believe we solved malaria in four hours," he said of a recent MUN experience. "We sent out nets and antibiotics."
The next morning, I paid a visit to the Social, Humanitarian, and Cultural Committee (SOCHUM), typically the largest at any Model U.N. By this time, the delegates were already writing resolutions. Competing groups draft formulaic documents offering solutions to the problems at hand and, through a process of diplomatic horse-trading and adolescent spitefulness, attempt to win the support of their fellow delegates. One high school friend recalled trying to form a "Bloc of the Attractive" to lure in wayward countries. "Sure, you could get resolutions drafted if you were smart and knew what you were talking about," he wrote me. "Or you could get a couple of hot girls to help draw attention to your cause/resolution/alliance." Whatever tactics they employ, delegates must follow official U.N. format and lingo. So, for instance, a group of nations "affirming"—or, better yet, "solemnly affirming"—the existence of water scarcity may be "fully alarmed" at the extent of the crisis and, "having examined" the issue, "deplore" its prevalence and "reaffirm" the committee's commitment to preventing such shortages in the future.
Often, the coalitions formed in support of resolutions bear little resemblance to actual geopolitical alliances. At ILMUNC, for instance, the delegates to SOCHUM were dealing with the grammatically challenged problem of "Poverty Reduction in Women." A motley crew including Italy, Kuwait, and Ethiopia put forth a resolution that encouraged "women to occupy positions of political power," a nice sentiment. The resolution called for the creation of "U.N.-supported community all-in-one centers" (paid for by?) that would teach women "skills . . . not limited to embroidery, basket-weaving, carpet weaving, handicraft painting, processing raw materials into commercial goods." These centers would also provide "sexual education" and "family planning." Somehow, this resolution was sponsored by Sudan, Armenia, the Palestinian Authority, North Korea, and, what the hell, South Korea.
"People don't act as their countries," a sophomore from a New York-area high school representing China complained to me during a break in his committee, UNICEF. They were discussing the plight of child soldiers, he said, and all of the countries on the committee rose up to decry it, in spite of the fact that "in real life half of these countries use kids in war." The willingness to ignore a nation's actual record, of course, could be seen as a taste of reality, a dose of the disingenuousness of the U.N. enterprise itself. At the actual U.N, insincerity is king, and nations frequently denounce the very abuses they regularly perpetrate. Sitting in the back row of a small conference room hosting UNICEF, I listened as the delegate from the Russian Federation thundered on about how "the United States is one of two countries that have not signed the U.N. Convention on the Rights of the Child," a pleasant-sounding document that must be pointless considering all of the authoritarian, child soldier-employing, basket-case regimes that have signed it. In a moment of perhaps unintended honesty, the delegate representing the United States channeled Obama administration thinking when he responded, "We are a very bureaucratic government and it's taking a long time, but we do want to ratify it."
Concerned that the high drama of global politics is not sufficient to capture the interest of high schoolers, some MUN clubs are resorting to a desperate tactic: using scenarios based not on world events but on pop culture entertainment. A recent article in the New York Times discussed the prevalence of "crisis committees," fanciful simulations where students represent, say, gangsters in a Prohibition mafia war or characters from Harry Potter. While crisis or "historical" committees existed in my MUN salad days (I fondly recall representing the Soviet Union during the Turkish invasion of Cyprus), they usually dealt with actual events in which the U.N. played some role, not popular television series or films. The Times put a positive gloss on the phenomenon, attributing the shift in focus to the perception that "governments are no longer the only ones shaping the global order, while social-media tools provide individuals with wider platforms from which to mobilize." Another possibility is that a growing historical amnesia and mosquito-like attention spans are at fault.
Even in my day, the seeming intractability of the world's problems was no obstacle to their resolution at Model U.N. Rather than expose students to the rude fact that some challenges are, at best, slowly ameliorated, MUN has always encouraged fantasy remedies. I recall a delegate to UNICEF stating that "local celebrities," and "not just Brad Pitt and Angelina" (the latter of whom is an official U.N. goodwill ambassador), should hold seminars in villages teaching the rural poor about water purification. Another delegate, asked how some vast new program should be funded, replied that "in undeveloped countries where money is extremely scarce, morality is enough to provide incentives."
Another tried and true solution for any Model U.N. delegate is simply to call for the establishment of a new agency, committee, or working group to "address" a problem. A resolution I picked up from the Commission on Sustainable Development, for instance, opened with the nonsensical clause "Aware that the parameter of human activity is nature's capacity," before calling for the establishment of a "panel of experts" to "mediate between conflicting countries and regions as they assess, adjust, and improve their water practices." And if all else fails, a delegate can always insert the word "microfinance" into a position paper, speech, or resolution. This system of small-scale, low-interest loans pioneered in Bangladesh in the 1980s is the sacrosanct panacea of Model U.N.ers worldwide, regardless of its suitability. Want to forge ethnic harmony in the Balkans? Microfinance! End the dispute over the Falkland Islands? Microfinance! Finally achieve that two-state solution? Microfinance!
As easy as it is to mock the students' silly solutions, it would be wrong to blame them. I did occasionally hear well-reasoned arguments; for instance, the delegate from Bulgaria professed skepticism of his colleagues' attempt to curb the illicit small-arms trade by registering every gun produced on earth: "This is the illicit arms trade," he pointed out. "There's a reason it's illicit." Yet most of what I heard at ILMUNC and throughout my own years of Model U.N. was meaningless, hopelessly earnest, and comically overwrought verbiage. What the students can't be blamed for is that their teachers tolerate this—and that those traits reflect the U.N. itself.
"The Model U.N. phenomenon has really clouded the minds of two or more generations of young people," Charles Hill tells me. "It just gets bigger and bigger and bigger." A former executive aide to secretaries of state Henry Kissinger and George Shultz, Hill held senior diplomatic postings in Israel and Taiwan during a long career in the Foreign Service. He's also intimately familiar with the inner workings of the U.N., having served as a special adviser to former secretary general Boutros Boutros-Ghali. In retirement, Hill settled down at Yale University, where he serves as a diplomat-in-residence (and I was his student).
What harm does MUN do students? "It creates in their minds the idea that international affairs are easy," Hill says. "We solved the Arab-Israeli conflict last Saturday afternoon, and why can't other people do it? It must be because they're stupid or nefarious or in the pockets of some faction or lobbyists." Model U.N., Hill says, "has given young people in America a completely distorted idea of what the United Nations is."
To illustrate, he cites a Yale senior who once visited him during office hours. This individual, who Hill stresses is "very knowledgeable and mature" and has "high prospects for a terrific job in the U.S. government," started to talk about "the U.N. sending troops somewhere." The only problem, Hill explained, is that the U.N. cannot "send" troops anywhere. "This guy had done Model U.N. since sophomore year in high school and was simply conditioned to think of something that looks like near-world governance." He had been persuaded of the supposedly all-encompassing, mollifying powers of the U.N., and was thus "misled," Hill says. "It took 20 minutes to go through how the Security Council actually works, with Chapter 7" of the U.N. Charter, the article allowing the council to authorize a member state to take military action, a far cry from the U.N. deploying its own (nonexistent) army. Hill tells me that he frequently has such encounters with MUN veterans. "They look at me stunned."
Despite its fairy-tale depiction of foreign relations, encouragement of mediocre thinking, and indoctrination of students in the gospel of world government, Model U.N. continues to grow apace, with new clubs sprouting up across the country and around the world. Greater than a mere extracurricular activity, it is a reflection of our post-national, consensus-obsessed, and credential-crazed culture. The problem with Model U.N. is not that it teaches kids about international cooperation, but that it misleads them about how the world actually works. Some students who participate in MUN grow up to see beyond its inanities and clichés, nonetheless valuing the public speaking and debating skills it helped them acquire. For me, MUN was an excellent channel for an early interest in international affairs and a nerdy habit of reading the Economist.
Yet as I entered college and began to see international relations in a more sophisticated light, I also recognized the false pieties of the U.N. Unfortunately, many of the students who participate in MUN become zealously committed to the United Nations, forever viewing it as the arbiter of international politics, and one whose pronouncements have greater legitimacy than the prerogatives of democratic governments. Model U.N. offers more than esoteric debates and weekend fun. It propounds a jejune and deceptively comforting worldview—instead of doing the serious work of education, which is readying the young to put away childish things.
James Kirchick is a Berlin-based fellow with the Foreign Policy Initiative and a columnist for the New York Daily News, Ha'aretz, and Tablet.
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Detroit - Adam Deadmarsh, the popular former Avalanche winger who has battled concussion problems the past three years, has decided to retire from the NHL.
"I've been living on hope the last three years I'd be able to play again, but my body is just telling me it's not going to happen," Deadmarsh said Wednesday from his home in British Columbia.
Deadmarsh has yet to file retirement papers with the league, but will soon. Traded by the Avalanche to Los Angeles in February 2001, Deadmarsh played 567 career games, finishing with 184 goals and 373 points.
"I played almost 600 games and wanted to play another 600 more," said Deadmarsh, 30. "When I think of all the memories I could have had if I kept playing, it's a little tough. But I'm thankful for the time I did have and all the memories. There were a lot of great ones in Colorado, that's for sure."
Deadmarsh had his first serious concussion with the Avs in November 2000 after a fight with Vancouver's Ed Jovanov- ski. Deadmarsh recovered but suffered a more serious concussion in November 2002 after accidentally being kneed in the head by a Kings teammate.
The headache and dizziness have diminished to where he feels good most of the time, but the symptoms are exacerbated by physical activity.
Avs general manager Pierre Lacroix said he was sad to hear of Deadmarsh's decision.
"But the one thing I have no doubt about is that he's a great man with a lot of potential after hockey," Lacroix said. "He's got a great wife and a great family, and he's still got a lot to look forward to."
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The Head Argon 155 squash racket is Mohd Azlan Iskandar's favorite racquet.
Here's a snip of Iskandar using the racket in November, 2011. He's actually using the Head Argon2 155.
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Oh never mind, here's a video of fabric made of Innegra™ stopping a bullet:
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Speaking in support of military action against Syria, Alexander Bolton of The Hill reports, Senator Harry Reid brought up the example of Nazi Germany and the Holocaust:
"Millions and millions of civilians and prisoners of war were murdered by gas in Nazi death camps, Treblinka, Auschwitz. 'Never again,' swore the world. 'Never again would we permit the use of these poisonous weapons of war.' "
Reid really poured it on, as Shane Goldmacher at the National Journal writes, when he:
...read – twice – a quote he attributed to Dante: "The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who in times of great moral crisis maintain their neutrality."
It seems, however, that the quote cannot be found in any Dante's works. That, anyway, according to this exchange in Snopes.
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I read the third through ninth A Time to books and really thought that each of those books got progressively better as they went along (the last three are outstanding), but after that the only TNG book I read completely was Q&A which I loved. I skipped DIW and Resistance because most of the reviews for them seemed rather mixed, and I quit Before Dishonor after about 80 pages or so (but intend to go back eventually). As for Titan, well I can some up my feelings on that front by saying that the series is one of my favorite Trek series. Oh, and after you finish ATT, and the first two Titan books you pretty much have to read Articles of the Federation since it ties up alot of the unresolved plotlines from those books, and also because it is a terrific book.
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Marketing & PR: Size of Vision Marks out the Winners from Losers; Clive Palmer Highlights a Lack of Marketing Nous among Small Businesses and Says It Is Usually Only When Trouble Looms or Stretching Goals Are Set That People Look to Marketing as Part of the Solution
Byline: Graham Sidwell
There is a marked absence of experienced marketing management in small and medium-sized companies according to a survey carried out by Intamark, a Midlands based marketing management firm.
'The ongoing effect could be holding many firms back from increased performance and better strategic focus', said Clive Palmer an Intamark marketing manager working with small and medium-sized businesses.
Forty-one companies with an estimated turnover ranging between pounds 850,000 and pounds 10 million were interviewed by Intamark, which operates from Cadeby in Leicestershire.
Intamark manages marketing activities on a project-by-project or contract basis for small and medium-sized companies across the Midlands.
The aim of the survey was to establish how small and medium-sized businesses conduct marketing; who does the marketing and how experienced they are.
'Of all the companies in the survey, just five per cent had a named marketing manager or marketing director,' said Mr Palmer.
'The divide between those companies that do have some kind of marketing function and those that do not appears to be defined by turnover.'
Over half the companies with under pounds 1 million turnover said they had no marketing function at all.
In contrast, of those who said they did have a marketing function, 70 per cent had a turnover of more than pounds 1 million per annum, with 25 pc of those turning over between pounds 3-10 million.
While the cost of employing a marketing manager is seen as a barrier (35 pc of companies with a marketing function sighted cost as a reason why they do not do so), so too is the unseen risk of employment and selection.
Mr Palmer said that there is much confusion about what marketing actually is - especially by companies under pounds 1 million turnover.
However, over 80 pc of companies with no marketing function regard business strategy, marketing planning and customer acquisition as the activities they would value most - given the chance of professional marketing management.
'So there is a definite need,' he concluded.
Some of the reasons, given by firms who said they did not do any marketing, range from: 'Tried it once - didn't like it!' to 'We've never needed to. …