FROM Hari Om Adhikari
Tucson, Arizona
Eddies of dust swirled in my
half-bright room,
As usual, embracing the pain and cursing
my own life,
I have begun another gloomy day.....
Pain has become a significant
friend of mine,
with every breath I take,
a new pain embraces me,
with every tear-drops I shed,
an essence of pain emerges..
Happiness is an impossible
mission to me,
All the jolly moments,
I have experienced..
has faded away ...
in the dark clouds of sadness..
the only thing I can elucidate is ...
my misery and despair.
Everything around me is a bunkum,
agile minded, selfish people:
they are more sympathetic than me,
you know why?
because I can embrace pain by myself,
can croon a sentimental tune
about my sufferings,
which they cannot....do
This is my aphorism,
a long experience from
the sleepless nights
due to anxiety
more importantly ...it is
the pain that has
embraced me
and me living a
life ...embracing pain...
PR Web Newswire
12 Apr 2010. p.NA
Source: General Reference Center(http://www.prweb.com/releases/2010/04/prweb3857274.htm)
Port Washington, NY (Vocus/PRWEB ) April 13, 2010 -- With Circuit City out of the picture for a year now, the change in the consumer electronics retail landscape has been concentrated around two retailers, Best Buy and Walmart. According to leadingmarket research company The NPD Group's new report New Look at Retail: Post Circuit City, Best Buy and Walmart captured two-thirds of Circuit City's total dollar share during the March-December period in 2009 when Circuit City was no longer in business.
Best Buy extended its lead in U.S. retail in some of the industry's most important product segments. Best Buy's dollar share in flat-panel TVs increased by more than five points as its position as the only national electronics retail chain allowed it to make especially strong gains in the premium priced over $1000 TV market. Walmart also gained presence in the TV category as a result of the Circuit City closing. Flat-panel TVs was Walmart's best performing category in overall share gains among the top categories after Circuit City left the market.
PCs were another bright spot for both retailers. Best Buy firmly established itself as the dominant 3rd party seller of computers in the U.S., with a large part of its gains coming through its Web site. Walmart saw its year-over-year share growth increase faster in notebooks than any other category.
Digital cameras was another strong area of growth for Best Buy which increased dollar share just as much in digital cameras as it did in notebook PCs. Walmart saw its dollar share climb above its previous levels during the crucial fourth quarter of 2009.
"As its nearest competitor, both in store locations and in consumer perception, Best Buy was certain to be the big beneficiary from Circuit City's closure," said Stephen Baker, vice president of industry analysis at NPD. "However, with the closures coming at the same time as an economic recession, tumbling ASPs in both PCs and TVs, and Walmart's renewed focus on consumer technology as a growth opportunity, it is not surprising that Walmart also managed to grow its share during this period."
While Walmart has traditionally has its highest market share in the South, Best Buy was also able to make significant gains in that region as the retail landscape changed. Walmart increased its dollar share by two percentage points, while Best Buy gained four percentage points in the southern U.S.
"We expect that in 2010 all retail channels will focus on their share growth opportunity in technology as new products, a better economy, and renewed consumer interest deliver an exciting sales outlook for the remainder of the year," stated Baker.
Methodology:
The data used in New Look at Retail: Post Circuit City was collected from NPD's Consumer Tracking Service. NPD's online panel consists of more than 1.8 million registered adults and NPD information is based on responses from nationally representative samples of panelists, and results are demographically balanced.
1.Attention, Walmart Shoppers: Clean-up in Aisle Nine.
Rockwood, Kate.
Fast Company (1085-9241)
Feb2010, Issue 142, p30-32.
Source: Business Source Premier
The first part of Walmart's three-phase plan--a 15-question survey asking its top suppliers to pony up info on the current state of their sustainability efforts--was completed in October. Walmart began meeting with vendors, industry by industry, to discuss the next steps last month, and scientists are now starting trials to get a handle on what this labeling system might look like. "We're on the cusp of a major transition in the marketplace of what consumers demand to know and producers have to tell," says Dara O'Rourke, CEO of GoodGuide, which independently rates the health, safety, and environmental impact of 50,000 consumer products. Even though Walmart execs have said that its index won't be ready before 2013, the early discussions reveal just how roiling this initiative will be.
Although Walmart is framing its Sustainability Index as something positive for both consumers and companies, Matt Kistler, senior vice president of sustainability, acknowledges that "it is creating a new level of competition in ways that, historically, manufacturers have not competed. And when it comes down to it, it's going to be an algorithm that creates a score, and it will reward some suppliers better than others." Consumers won't be the only ones selecting or snubbing products based on their scores; Kistler confirms that high-scoring products will earn preferential treatment--and likely more shelf space--in Walmart stores.
Last October's survey added to companies' concerns. It touched on everything from investments in community-development activities to water-use-reduction targets, and "there's a wide variance of how prepared suppliers are to answer these questions," says Kyle Tanger, president and CEO of carbon-management firm ClearCarbon, who guided a number of companies through the questionnaire. More than 1,000 companies responded, according to Kistler, "the vast majority" of those asked. That said, analysts estimate that just 10% of Walmart suppliers are prepared to measure and report their sustainability.
To persuade 100,000-plus firms to spend the time and money tracking and lessening their environmental impact--and to get buy-in from the scientific community and the government--Walmart has tried to minimize its own influence over the project. It created an independent Sustainability Consortium, and while the Bentonville behemoth has a seat at the table, so do NGOs, government agencies, suppliers, other retailers, and researchers. "This has to be more than Walmart or it won't achieve standardization," says Jay Golden, codirector of the Sustainability Consortium, who has worked in environmental enforcement at the federal and state levels and has a PhD in sustainable engineering.
The consortium has attracted everyone from Monsanto to Disney, Seventh Generation to the EPA. To help manufacturers innovate more quickly and cheaply and to make life-cycle assessment an easier feat, it is currently developing a tool called Earthster. The open platform will pool existing databases and models, then tap participants to share data and research so companies can mine ideas.
But companies are just beginning to grapple with the big questions. "One fear is figuring out who gets to prioritize the different pieces of sustainability," says Karen Hamilton, VP of vitality and environment at Unilever, a consortium member. "Who's to decide if greenhouse-gas emissions are more pressing than water conservation?"
The labels could be designed so that consumers would be the ultimate decision makers. "We've been thinking of nutritional labels as a proxy," Kistler says, with carbon emissions, water use, and solid waste displayed like calories, fat, and sodium. Other ideas being considered: a minimum-standard, organic-style seal; a terror-alert-style color code (level-orange dish soap!); and a 100-point scale for judging a 26-point breakfast cereal against a 73-point one.
Chemical-intensive products (such as household cleansers), electronics, and food will be the first three trial categories this winter; the consortium will attempt to apply scoring and solicit feedback. "We thought about doing this in a traditional, academic fashion, picking one category and studying it to the nth degree, but as a society we can't take a long time to get it 100% spot-on," Golden says. Gannon Jones, VP of portfolio marketing at Frito-Lay, says, "There's definitely the hope that the Sustainability Index can help shoppers compare companies' level of commitment and push manufacturers."
More bluntly: When every package is awash in claims of using less plastic and water, a standardized measure would separate sustainability lightweights from products that truly deserve their green halo.
Like something
Like something troubling me
Since I wake up this morning
Full of anxiety and hopelessness
The dreamless head moves....
Up and down ...counting the spins
Like something ..disturbing me
Everything over head
World... the fragrance.. messed up
the streets blacked out
Helly boy at mall
shouted at me" hey dude"
like something irritating me
Symtoms of trust disappears
the way I was on... is still on
music boring.. so boring indeed
coz you know what...
I loved you.... "not funny"
Like something going on
on and on
Since I wake up this morning
Full of anxiety and hopelessness
The dreamless head moves....
Up and down ...counting the spins
Like something ..disturbing me
Everything over head
World... the fragrance.. messed up
the streets blacked out
Helly boy at mall
shouted at me" hey dude"
like something irritating me
Symtoms of trust disappears
the way I was on... is still on
music boring.. so boring indeed
coz you know what...
I loved you.... "not funny"
Like something going on
on and on
Do you love yourself?-Rabin Adhikari
It’s not just me who hate this crazy world, where only stress, worry and busy schedule with just anxiety hindrance the prosperity. Is that only one should conquest and become triumph and other should forfeit and cry with affliction always although having same doctrine. I feel me too pretty much moron to let me live here in the crowd of egocentric clan who just care only own with not knowing the meaning of love. This crazy just love the damn world finding the pleasure without actual love, without love oneself. Without loving myself how can I love my nature? Yes I do strive to love myself till I can find the flawless love upon myself from my heart. I will be crazy in this crazy world till I can able to love myself truly. I can boldly say that I am able to progress this much loving myself. I find this world is crazy with marching river of agony but I discovered my own heaven within me where nature amour me I kiss her and live ecstatic zest life.
Rabin Adhikari.41 Belmont avenue apartment 2
Springfield,MA,01108.Cell number-4136936644
Rabin Adhikari.41 Belmont avenue apartment 2
Springfield,MA,01108.Cell number-4136936644
Me A Crazy Boy?
I dreamed of a world
where would be u n me
with all behind us
swimming in love sea
Would not be any pain
when ur eyes with mine
Just romance and only that
with always love sign
Would be heavenly peace
like a queen and king
in the palace of joy
with angels' dance and sing
My closed eyes ever
listened? sounds hey?
since my heart broke out
As you walk away
Without footprint a duck
in the heart of a lake
let no one yells at u
As I stand 4 ur sake
With a smile of the day
in the garden of roses
May god bless you
to kiss ultimate success
In the peak of world
came true my dream???
I feel like I am
white gel of a cream
Was our love a true?
Or may be was a fun
With ME A CRAZY BOY?
N a girl who's gone
where would be u n me
with all behind us
swimming in love sea
Would not be any pain
when ur eyes with mine
Just romance and only that
with always love sign
Would be heavenly peace
like a queen and king
in the palace of joy
with angels' dance and sing
My closed eyes ever
listened? sounds hey?
since my heart broke out
As you walk away
Without footprint a duck
in the heart of a lake
let no one yells at u
As I stand 4 ur sake
With a smile of the day
in the garden of roses
May god bless you
to kiss ultimate success
In the peak of world
came true my dream???
I feel like I am
white gel of a cream
Was our love a true?
Or may be was a fun
With ME A CRAZY BOY?
N a girl who's gone
LOVE ( AN OPINION OF A PERSON)
( THIS ARTICLE IS WRITTEN BY ONE OF MY FRIEND)
Note: His name is not given as per his wish.
Love, a simple four letter word that is so pure and complete in itself. Something that everyone desires, few lucky ones find it, most don't but one thing is for sure, everyone needs it. I am a strong believer in love and for me love comes ahead of everything else. I can talk intellectually, think with my grey matter seriously but when it comes to love I can become a complete fool. But being a fool in love never bothered me. For me love is unconditional and my friends laugh at me for the very same reason. They think I live in a fantasy world which never exists but for me it is as real as my very own existence.
I believed in my dreams and I knew I would find her some day. One of my friends once told me "You don't have to search for your love, it will be a divine accident and your heart will know her". Life may be tough but it is love that makes it living worthwhile. You may not get everything you want in life but that doesn't stop you from loving someone. Love should not be your support; it should be your strength. It should not give you pain; it should fill your life with joy. Miles apart I can see her watching the sunset and thinking about me. I just want to let her know that far away from her someone is happy because she is happy. She may never read this but if she does I just want to say
There wouldn't be life if there was no desire
There wouldn't be desire if there were no dreams
And those dreams would not have come true
For If it was not you …. Happy Valentine's Day honey!!
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TWO POEMS FROM OP- OM PRAKASH CHAPAGAIN
1) I LOOK IN YOUR EYES
I look in your eyes-they shine
like a starryevening. Oh,
how they gleam toward mine
with an external fire's glow!
Stars and silvery moon
oh heaven's blue arc appear,
and far up, Venus soon
stands tremulous and clear
The shining arc displays
celestial words of fire.
From high above they blaze:
You're all that I desire!
2.
What You Are I Cannot Say
What you are I cannot say;
Only this I know full well-
When I touched your face to-day
Drifts of blossom flushed and fell.
Whence you came I cannot tell;
Only-with your joy you start
Chime on chime from bell on bell
In the cloisters of my heart.
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I look in your eyes-they shine
like a starryevening. Oh,
how they gleam toward mine
with an external fire's glow!
Stars and silvery moon
oh heaven's blue arc appear,
and far up, Venus soon
stands tremulous and clear
The shining arc displays
celestial words of fire.
From high above they blaze:
You're all that I desire!
2.
What You Are I Cannot Say
What you are I cannot say;
Only this I know full well-
When I touched your face to-day
Drifts of blossom flushed and fell.
Whence you came I cannot tell;
Only-with your joy you start
Chime on chime from bell on bell
In the cloisters of my heart.
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Huge explosion in Sarpang, 4 killed and 2 wounded
Gelephu, December 31: A huge blast from a detonator planted underground on the road near Singay village in Sarpang district claimed the lives of four injuring two yesterday.
Department of forest mentioned that those who met the scene were foresters were on a tractor, which was massively blown up early morning.
Locals in Singay village reported that several rounds of gun-fire were heard early 3 am.
"The attackers fired us mercilessly," said one of the injured victims in Gelephu hospital adding, "They looted SLR and some mobile sets."
The regime-mouthpiece Kuensel suspected the involvement of Communist Party of Bhutan quoting the spokesperson of Bhutan Police.
Department of forest mentioned that those who met the scene were foresters were on a tractor, which was massively blown up early morning.
Locals in Singay village reported that several rounds of gun-fire were heard early 3 am.
"The attackers fired us mercilessly," said one of the injured victims in Gelephu hospital adding, "They looted SLR and some mobile sets."
The regime-mouthpiece Kuensel suspected the involvement of Communist Party of Bhutan quoting the spokesperson of Bhutan Police.
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