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ബുധനാഴ്ച, ഒക്ടോബർ 19, 2005
SHAIJU
The Widow and Her Son
Night fell over North Lebanon and snow was covering the villages surrounded by the Kadeesha Valley, giving the fields and prairies the appearance of a great sheet of parchment upon which the furious Nature was recording her many deeds. Men came home from the streets while silence engulfed the night.
In a lone house near those villages lived a woman who sat by her fireside spinning wool, and at her side was her only child, staring now at the fire and then at his mother.
A terrible roar of thunder shook the house and the little boy shook with fright. He threw his arms about his mother, seeking protection from Nature in her affection. She took him to her bosom and kissed him; then she say him on her lap and said, "Do not fear, my son, for Nature is but comparing her great power to man's weakness. There is a Supreme Being beyond the falling snow and the heavy clouds and the blowing wind, and He knows the needs of the earth, for He made it; and He looks upon the weak with merciful eyes.
"Be brave, my boy. Nature smiles in Spring and laughs in Summer and yawns in Autumn, but now she is weeping; and with her tears she waters life, hidden under the earth.
"Sleep, my dear child; your father is viewing us from Eternity. The snow and thunder bring us closer to him at this time.
"Sleep, my beloved, for this white blanket which makes us cold, keeps the seeds warm, and these war-like things will produce beautiful flowers when Nisan comes.
"Thus, my child, man cannot reap love until after sad and revealing separation, and bitter patience, and desperate hardship. Sleep, my little boy; sweet dreams will find your soul who is unafraid of the terrible darkness of night and the biting frost."
The little boy looked upon his mother with sleep-laden eyes and said, "Mother, my eyes are heavy, but I cannot go to bed without saying my prayer."
The woman looked at his angelic face, her vision blurred by misted eyes, and said, "Repeat with me, my boy - 'God, have mercy on the poor and protect them from the winter; warm their thin-clad bodies with Thy merciful hands; look upon the orphans who are sleeping in wretched houses, suffering from hunger and cold. Hear, oh Lord, the call of widows who are helpless and shivering with fear for their young. Open, oh Lord, the hearts of all humans, that they may see the misery of the weak. Have mercy upon the sufferers who knock on doors, and lead the wayfarers into warm places. Watch, oh Lord, over the little birds and protect the trees and fields from the anger of the storm; for Thou art merciful and full of love.'"
As Slumber captured the boy's spirit, his mother placed him in the bed and kissed his eyes with quivering lips. Then she went back and sat by the hearth, spinning the wool to make him raiment.
Night fell over North Lebanon and snow was covering the villages surrounded by the Kadeesha Valley, giving the fields and prairies the appearance of a great sheet of parchment upon which the furious Nature was recording her many deeds. Men came home from the streets while silence engulfed the night.
In a lone house near those villages lived a woman who sat by her fireside spinning wool, and at her side was her only child, staring now at the fire and then at his mother.
A terrible roar of thunder shook the house and the little boy shook with fright. He threw his arms about his mother, seeking protection from Nature in her affection. She took him to her bosom and kissed him; then she say him on her lap and said, "Do not fear, my son, for Nature is but comparing her great power to man's weakness. There is a Supreme Being beyond the falling snow and the heavy clouds and the blowing wind, and He knows the needs of the earth, for He made it; and He looks upon the weak with merciful eyes.
"Be brave, my boy. Nature smiles in Spring and laughs in Summer and yawns in Autumn, but now she is weeping; and with her tears she waters life, hidden under the earth.
"Sleep, my dear child; your father is viewing us from Eternity. The snow and thunder bring us closer to him at this time.
"Sleep, my beloved, for this white blanket which makes us cold, keeps the seeds warm, and these war-like things will produce beautiful flowers when Nisan comes.
"Thus, my child, man cannot reap love until after sad and revealing separation, and bitter patience, and desperate hardship. Sleep, my little boy; sweet dreams will find your soul who is unafraid of the terrible darkness of night and the biting frost."
The little boy looked upon his mother with sleep-laden eyes and said, "Mother, my eyes are heavy, but I cannot go to bed without saying my prayer."
The woman looked at his angelic face, her vision blurred by misted eyes, and said, "Repeat with me, my boy - 'God, have mercy on the poor and protect them from the winter; warm their thin-clad bodies with Thy merciful hands; look upon the orphans who are sleeping in wretched houses, suffering from hunger and cold. Hear, oh Lord, the call of widows who are helpless and shivering with fear for their young. Open, oh Lord, the hearts of all humans, that they may see the misery of the weak. Have mercy upon the sufferers who knock on doors, and lead the wayfarers into warm places. Watch, oh Lord, over the little birds and protect the trees and fields from the anger of the storm; for Thou art merciful and full of love.'"
As Slumber captured the boy's spirit, his mother placed him in the bed and kissed his eyes with quivering lips. Then she went back and sat by the hearth, spinning the wool to make him raiment.
posted by shaiju @ 1:27 AM
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SHAIJU
THE LOVE SONG
A poet once wrote a love song and it was beautiful. And he made many copies of it, and sent them to his friends and his acquaintances, both men and women, and even to a young woman whom he had met but once, who lived beyond the mountains.
And in a day or two a messenger came from the young woman bringing a letter. And in the letter she said, "Let me assure you, I am deeply touched by the love song that you have written to me. Come now, and see my father and my mother, and we shall make arrangements for the betrothal."
And the poet answered the letter, and he said to her, "My friend, it was but a song of love out of a poet's heart, sung by every man to every woman."
And she wrote again to him saying, "Hypocrite and liar in words! From this day unto my coffin-day I shall hate all poets for your sake."
Gibran
A poet once wrote a love song and it was beautiful. And he made many copies of it, and sent them to his friends and his acquaintances, both men and women, and even to a young woman whom he had met but once, who lived beyond the mountains.
And in a day or two a messenger came from the young woman bringing a letter. And in the letter she said, "Let me assure you, I am deeply touched by the love song that you have written to me. Come now, and see my father and my mother, and we shall make arrangements for the betrothal."
And the poet answered the letter, and he said to her, "My friend, it was but a song of love out of a poet's heart, sung by every man to every woman."
And she wrote again to him saying, "Hypocrite and liar in words! From this day unto my coffin-day I shall hate all poets for your sake."
Gibran
posted by shaiju @ 1:19 AM
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SHAIJU
THE LOVE SONG
A poet once wrote a love song and it was beautiful. And he made many copies of it, and sent them to his friends and his acquaintances, both men and women, and even to a young woman whom he had met but once, who lived beyond the mountains.
And in a day or two a messenger came from the young woman bringing a letter. And in the letter she said, "Let me assure you, I am deeply touched by the love song that you have written to me. Come now, and see my father and my mother, and we shall make arrangements for the betrothal."
And the poet answered the letter, and he said to her, "My friend, it was but a song of love out of a poet's heart, sung by every man to every woman."
And she wrote again to him saying, "Hypocrite and liar in words! From this day unto my coffin-day I shall hate all poets for your sake."
Gibran
A poet once wrote a love song and it was beautiful. And he made many copies of it, and sent them to his friends and his acquaintances, both men and women, and even to a young woman whom he had met but once, who lived beyond the mountains.
And in a day or two a messenger came from the young woman bringing a letter. And in the letter she said, "Let me assure you, I am deeply touched by the love song that you have written to me. Come now, and see my father and my mother, and we shall make arrangements for the betrothal."
And the poet answered the letter, and he said to her, "My friend, it was but a song of love out of a poet's heart, sung by every man to every woman."
And she wrote again to him saying, "Hypocrite and liar in words! From this day unto my coffin-day I shall hate all poets for your sake."
Gibran
posted by shaiju @ 1:19 AM
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തിങ്കളാഴ്ച, ഒക്ടോബർ 17, 2005
SHAIJU
Jokes
A Sardarji finds himself in dire trouble. His business has gone bust and he's in serious financial trouble. He's so desperate that he decides to ask Bhagwan for help. He goes into the temple and begins to pray.
"Oh Bhagwan, please help me, I've lost my business and if I don't get some money, I'm going to lose my house as well, please let me win the lotto". Lotto night comes and somebody else wins it.
The Sardarji goes back to the synagogue. "Bhagwan, please let me win the lotto, I've lost my business, my house and I'm going to lose my car as well". Lotto night comes and the Sardarji still has no luck!!
Back to the temple... "My Bhagwan, why have you forsaken me?? I've lost my business, my house, my car and my wife and children are starving. I don't often ask you for help and I have always been a good servant to you. Why won't you just let me win the lotto this one time so I can get my life back in order???".
Suddenly there is a blinding flash of light as the sky parts open and the Sardarhi is confronted by the voice of the God: "SARDARJI, MEET ME HALF WAY ON THIS ONE, BUY A DAMN TICKET".
A Sardarji finds himself in dire trouble. His business has gone bust and he's in serious financial trouble. He's so desperate that he decides to ask Bhagwan for help. He goes into the temple and begins to pray.
"Oh Bhagwan, please help me, I've lost my business and if I don't get some money, I'm going to lose my house as well, please let me win the lotto". Lotto night comes and somebody else wins it.
The Sardarji goes back to the synagogue. "Bhagwan, please let me win the lotto, I've lost my business, my house and I'm going to lose my car as well". Lotto night comes and the Sardarji still has no luck!!
Back to the temple... "My Bhagwan, why have you forsaken me?? I've lost my business, my house, my car and my wife and children are starving. I don't often ask you for help and I have always been a good servant to you. Why won't you just let me win the lotto this one time so I can get my life back in order???".
Suddenly there is a blinding flash of light as the sky parts open and the Sardarhi is confronted by the voice of the God: "SARDARJI, MEET ME HALF WAY ON THIS ONE, BUY A DAMN TICKET".
posted by shaiju @ 10:24 PM
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OCTOBER
O hushed october morning mild,Thy leaves have ripened to the fall
Tomorrows wind, if it be wild,
Should waste them all.
The crows above the forest call;
tomorrow they may come and go.
O hushed october morning mild,
Begin the hours of this day slow.
Make the day seems to us less brief.
Hearts not averse to being beguiled,
Beguile us in the way you know.
Release one leaf at break of the day;
At noon releases another leaf ;
One from our trees, and one from far away;
Retard the sun with gentle mist;
Enchant the land with amethyst.
Slow, slow!
For the graper's sake,if the were all,
whose leaves already are burnt with frost,
whose clustered fruit must else be lost..
For the grapes sake alone the all...
ROBERT FROST
posted by shaiju @ 6:46 AM
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Loneliness...Oh...Now I can perceive myself...
through your chilling calmness..
posted by shaiju @ 6:00 AM
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SHAIJU
"Hunter's Moon"
According to folklore, October's full moon is called the "Hunter's
Moon" or sometimes the "Blood Moon." It gets its name from hunters who
tracked and killed their prey by autumn moonlight, stockpiling food for the
winter ahead. The Hunter's Moon of 2005 is due on Oct. 17th.
If you live on the Pacific side of Earth (California to Alaska, Hawaii,
Japan and Australia), you can see a partial eclipse of the Hunter's
Moon. The best time to look is Monday morning at 5:00 a.m. PDT (Oct. 17,
1200 UT) when the edge of the Moon dips into the darkest part of
Earth's shadow. Only a little bit of the Moon will be shaded. A casual
observer might not even notice the eclipse; but if you know what to look for,
you'll definitely see it.Scientists have long known that the magnetic pole moves. James Ross located the pole for the first time in 1831 after an exhausting arctic journey during which his ship got stuck in the ice for four years. No one returned until the next century. In 1904, Roald Amundsen found the pole again and discovered that it had moved--at least 50 km since the days of Ross.
Earth's Inconstant
Magnetic Field
The pole kept going during the 20th century, north at an average speed of 10 km per year, lately accelerating "to 40 km per year," says Newitt. At this rate it will exit North America and reach Siberia in a few decades.
Keeping track of the north magnetic pole is Newitt's job. "We usually go out and check its location once every few years," he says. "We'll have to make more trips now that it is moving so quickly."
Earth's magnetic field is changing in other ways, too: Compass needles in Africa, for instance, are drifting about 1 degree per decade. And globally the magnetic field has weakened 10% since the 19th century. When this was mentioned by researchers at a recent meeting of the American Geophysical Union, many newspapers carried the story. A typical headline: "Is Earth's magnetic field collapsing?"
Probably not. As remarkable as these changes sound, "they're mild compared to what Earth's magnetic field has done in the past," says University of California professor Gary Glatzmaier.
Sometimes the field completely flips. The north and the south poles swap places. Such reversals, recorded in the magnetism of ancient rocks, are unpredictable. They come at irregular intervals averaging about 300,000 years; the last one was 780,000 years ago. Are we overdue for another? No one knows.
Earth's magnetic field comes from the iron interior, which is an electrically conducting fluid in constant motion. Sitting atop the hot inner core, the liquid outer core seethes and roils like water in a pan on a hot stove. The outer core also has "hurricanes"--whirlpools powered by the Coriolis forces of Earth's rotation. These complex motions generate our planet's magnetism through a process called the dynamo effect.
Using the equations of magnetohydrodynamics, a branch of physics dealing with conducting fluids and magnetic fields, Glatzmaier and colleague Paul Roberts have created a supercomputer model of Earth's interior. Their software heats the inner core, stirs the metallic ocean above it, then calculates the resulting magnetic field. They run their code for hundreds of thousands of simulated years and watch what happens.
What they see mimics the real Earth: The magnetic field waxes and wanes, poles drift and, occasionally, flip. Change is normal, they've learned. And no wonder. The source of the field, the outer core, is itself seething, swirling, turbulent. "It's chaotic down there," notes Glatzmaier. The changes we detect on our planet's surface are a sign of that inner chaos.
They've also learned what happens during a magnetic flip. Reversals take a few thousand years to complete, and during that time--contrary to popular belief--the magnetic field does not vanish. "It just gets more complicated," says Glatzmaier. Magnetic lines of force near Earth's surface become twisted and tangled, and magnetic poles pop up in unaccustomed places. A south magnetic pole might emerge over Africa, for instance, or a north pole over Tahiti. Weird. But it's still a planetary magnetic field, and it still protects us from space radiation and solar storms.
According to folklore, October's full moon is called the "Hunter's
Moon" or sometimes the "Blood Moon." It gets its name from hunters who
tracked and killed their prey by autumn moonlight, stockpiling food for the
winter ahead. The Hunter's Moon of 2005 is due on Oct. 17th.
If you live on the Pacific side of Earth (California to Alaska, Hawaii,
Japan and Australia), you can see a partial eclipse of the Hunter's
Moon. The best time to look is Monday morning at 5:00 a.m. PDT (Oct. 17,
1200 UT) when the edge of the Moon dips into the darkest part of
Earth's shadow. Only a little bit of the Moon will be shaded. A casual
observer might not even notice the eclipse; but if you know what to look for,
you'll definitely see it.Scientists have long known that the magnetic pole moves. James Ross located the pole for the first time in 1831 after an exhausting arctic journey during which his ship got stuck in the ice for four years. No one returned until the next century. In 1904, Roald Amundsen found the pole again and discovered that it had moved--at least 50 km since the days of Ross.
Earth's Inconstant
Magnetic Field
The pole kept going during the 20th century, north at an average speed of 10 km per year, lately accelerating "to 40 km per year," says Newitt. At this rate it will exit North America and reach Siberia in a few decades.
Keeping track of the north magnetic pole is Newitt's job. "We usually go out and check its location once every few years," he says. "We'll have to make more trips now that it is moving so quickly."
Earth's magnetic field is changing in other ways, too: Compass needles in Africa, for instance, are drifting about 1 degree per decade. And globally the magnetic field has weakened 10% since the 19th century. When this was mentioned by researchers at a recent meeting of the American Geophysical Union, many newspapers carried the story. A typical headline: "Is Earth's magnetic field collapsing?"
Probably not. As remarkable as these changes sound, "they're mild compared to what Earth's magnetic field has done in the past," says University of California professor Gary Glatzmaier.
Sometimes the field completely flips. The north and the south poles swap places. Such reversals, recorded in the magnetism of ancient rocks, are unpredictable. They come at irregular intervals averaging about 300,000 years; the last one was 780,000 years ago. Are we overdue for another? No one knows.
Earth's magnetic field comes from the iron interior, which is an electrically conducting fluid in constant motion. Sitting atop the hot inner core, the liquid outer core seethes and roils like water in a pan on a hot stove. The outer core also has "hurricanes"--whirlpools powered by the Coriolis forces of Earth's rotation. These complex motions generate our planet's magnetism through a process called the dynamo effect.
Using the equations of magnetohydrodynamics, a branch of physics dealing with conducting fluids and magnetic fields, Glatzmaier and colleague Paul Roberts have created a supercomputer model of Earth's interior. Their software heats the inner core, stirs the metallic ocean above it, then calculates the resulting magnetic field. They run their code for hundreds of thousands of simulated years and watch what happens.
What they see mimics the real Earth: The magnetic field waxes and wanes, poles drift and, occasionally, flip. Change is normal, they've learned. And no wonder. The source of the field, the outer core, is itself seething, swirling, turbulent. "It's chaotic down there," notes Glatzmaier. The changes we detect on our planet's surface are a sign of that inner chaos.
They've also learned what happens during a magnetic flip. Reversals take a few thousand years to complete, and during that time--contrary to popular belief--the magnetic field does not vanish. "It just gets more complicated," says Glatzmaier. Magnetic lines of force near Earth's surface become twisted and tangled, and magnetic poles pop up in unaccustomed places. A south magnetic pole might emerge over Africa, for instance, or a north pole over Tahiti. Weird. But it's still a planetary magnetic field, and it still protects us from space radiation and solar storms.
posted by shaiju @ 2:39 AM
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ഞായറാഴ്ച, ഒക്ടോബർ 16, 2005
SHAIJU
Maxwell relations
Maxwell's relations are a set of equations in Thermodynamics which are derivable from the definitions of the four thermodynamic potentials. They involve the following quantities:
V is volume
T is temperature
P is pressure
S is entropy
The equations u refer from books.
A mnemonic used by physics students to remember the Maxwell relations in thermodynamics is "Good Physicists Have Studied Under Very Fine Teachers", which helps them remember the order of the variables in the square, in clockwise direction. Another mnemonic used here is "Valid Facts and Theoretical Understanding Generate Solutions to Hard Problems", which gives the letter in the normal left to right writing direction.
Maxwell's relations are a set of equations in Thermodynamics which are derivable from the definitions of the four thermodynamic potentials. They involve the following quantities:
V is volume
T is temperature
P is pressure
S is entropy
The equations u refer from books.
A mnemonic used by physics students to remember the Maxwell relations in thermodynamics is "Good Physicists Have Studied Under Very Fine Teachers", which helps them remember the order of the variables in the square, in clockwise direction. Another mnemonic used here is "Valid Facts and Theoretical Understanding Generate Solutions to Hard Problems", which gives the letter in the normal left to right writing direction.
posted by shaiju @ 11:31 PM
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SHAIJU
mnemonics
Chemistry
Oxidation/Reduction Reactons
OIL RIG -Oxidation Is Loss Reduction Is Gain.
Order of geological time periods:
(Cambrian, Ordovician, Silurian, Devonian, Carboniferous, Permian, Triassic, Jurassic, Cretaceous, Paleocene, Eocene, Oligocene, Miocene, Pliocene, Pleistocene, Recent)
Cows Often Sit Down Carefully. Perhaps Their Joints Creak?
Persistent Early Oiling Might Prevent Painful Rheumatism
Chemistry
Oxidation/Reduction Reactons
OIL RIG -Oxidation Is Loss Reduction Is Gain.
Order of geological time periods:
(Cambrian, Ordovician, Silurian, Devonian, Carboniferous, Permian, Triassic, Jurassic, Cretaceous, Paleocene, Eocene, Oligocene, Miocene, Pliocene, Pleistocene, Recent)
Cows Often Sit Down Carefully. Perhaps Their Joints Creak?
Persistent Early Oiling Might Prevent Painful Rheumatism
posted by shaiju @ 11:19 PM
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SHAIJU
RESEARCH QUOTES
If a man will begin with certainties, he will end in doubts; but if he will be
content to begin with doubts, he will end in certainties.
-Francis Bacon (1561-1626),_Advancement of Learning_
A scientist is a mimosa when he himself has made a mistake, and a roaring
lion when he discovers a mistake of others.
-- Albert Einstein, quoted in Ehlers, Liebers Hertz.
"Experimental confirmation of a prediction is merely a
measurement. An experiment disproving a prediction is a discovery."
-- Enrico Fermi, Italian physicist, 1901-1954
"...it doesn't matter how beautiful your theory is, it doesn't matter how
smart you are -- if it doesn't agree with experiment, it's wrong." --
R.P. Feynman
It is a capital mistake to theorise before one has data.
Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories
instead of theories to suit facts." - Sherlock Holmes
"Science is built upon facts, as a house is built of stones;
but an accumulation of facts is no more a science that a heap
of stones is a house." -- Henri Poincare' in Science and Hypothesis
"If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research,
would it?". -- Albert Einstein (1879-1955) [German physicist]
We have a habit in writing articles published in scientific journals to
make the work as finished as possible, to cover up all the tracks, to not
worry about the blind alleys or describe how you had the wrong idea first,
and so on. So there isn't any place to publish, in a dignified manner, what
you actually did in order to get to do the work.
-- Richard Feynman, American physicist, Nobel Lecture, 1966.
Every great scientific truth goes through three stages. First, people say
it conflicts with the Bible or great holy books. Next they say it had been discovered
before. Lastly they say they always believed it.
so Four stages of acceptance:
i) this is worthless nonsense;
ii) this is an interesting, but perverse, point of view;
iii) this is true, but quite unimportant;
iv) I always said so.
If a man will begin with certainties, he will end in doubts; but if he will be
content to begin with doubts, he will end in certainties.
-Francis Bacon (1561-1626),_Advancement of Learning_
A scientist is a mimosa when he himself has made a mistake, and a roaring
lion when he discovers a mistake of others.
-- Albert Einstein, quoted in Ehlers, Liebers Hertz.
"Experimental confirmation of a prediction is merely a
measurement. An experiment disproving a prediction is a discovery."
-- Enrico Fermi, Italian physicist, 1901-1954
"...it doesn't matter how beautiful your theory is, it doesn't matter how
smart you are -- if it doesn't agree with experiment, it's wrong." --
R.P. Feynman
It is a capital mistake to theorise before one has data.
Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories
instead of theories to suit facts." - Sherlock Holmes
"Science is built upon facts, as a house is built of stones;
but an accumulation of facts is no more a science that a heap
of stones is a house." -- Henri Poincare' in Science and Hypothesis
"If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research,
would it?". -- Albert Einstein (1879-1955) [German physicist]
We have a habit in writing articles published in scientific journals to
make the work as finished as possible, to cover up all the tracks, to not
worry about the blind alleys or describe how you had the wrong idea first,
and so on. So there isn't any place to publish, in a dignified manner, what
you actually did in order to get to do the work.
-- Richard Feynman, American physicist, Nobel Lecture, 1966.
Every great scientific truth goes through three stages. First, people say
it conflicts with the Bible or great holy books. Next they say it had been discovered
before. Lastly they say they always believed it.
so Four stages of acceptance:
i) this is worthless nonsense;
ii) this is an interesting, but perverse, point of view;
iii) this is true, but quite unimportant;
iv) I always said so.
posted by shaiju @ 10:58 PM
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SHAIJU
Hey,
This is wonderful and the fact of life............go ahead,read it....and you will get to know how wonderful it feels to have a good & true friend.......for life...
"Your friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you."
"Friends are like melons; shall I tell you why? To find one good you must
try hundreds."
"Some people come into our lives and quickly go. Some stay for awhile and
leave footprints on our hearts. And we are never, ever the same."
"A friend loves at all times." -.
"In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures."
"A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out."
"A friend hears the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails."
"A faithful friend is the medicine of life."
"Count your age with friends but not with years."
"Plant a seed of friendship; reap a bouquet of happiness." "No man is useless while he has a friend."
"A true friend is someone who is there for you when he'd rather be anywhere else."
"Good friends are good for your health."
"A true friend is one who overlooks your failures and tolerates your success!"
There is a reason for every person to come
in our life and when that reason is fulfilled
no matter whether you need them or not
they will move away from your life in one way
or the other so we will have to accept that
and move on ...
This is wonderful and the fact of life............go ahead,read it....and you will get to know how wonderful it feels to have a good & true friend.......for life...
"Your friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you."
"Friends are like melons; shall I tell you why? To find one good you must
try hundreds."
"Some people come into our lives and quickly go. Some stay for awhile and
leave footprints on our hearts. And we are never, ever the same."
"A friend loves at all times." -.
"In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures."
"A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out."
"A friend hears the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails."
"A faithful friend is the medicine of life."
"Count your age with friends but not with years."
"Plant a seed of friendship; reap a bouquet of happiness." "No man is useless while he has a friend."
"A true friend is someone who is there for you when he'd rather be anywhere else."
"Good friends are good for your health."
"A true friend is one who overlooks your failures and tolerates your success!"
There is a reason for every person to come
in our life and when that reason is fulfilled
no matter whether you need them or not
they will move away from your life in one way
or the other so we will have to accept that
and move on ...
posted by shaiju @ 9:47 PM
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SHAIJU
Hey,
This is wonderful and the fact of life............go ahead,read it....and you will get to know how wonderful it feels to have a good & true friend.......for life...
"Your friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you."
"Friends are like melons; shall I tell you why? To find one good you must
try hundreds."
"Some people come into our lives and quickly go. Some stay for awhile and
leave footprints on our hearts. And we are never, ever the same."
"A friend loves at all times." -.
"In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures."
"A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out."
"A friend hears the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails."
"A faithful friend is the medicine of life."
"Count your age with friends but not with years."
"Plant a seed of friendship; reap a bouquet of happiness." "No man is useless while he has a friend."
"A true friend is someone who is there for you when he'd rather be anywhere else."
"Good friends are good for your health."
"A true friend is one who overlooks your failures and tolerates your success!"
There is a reason for every person to come
in our life and when that reason is fulfilled
no matter whether you need them or not
they will move away from your life in one way
or the other so we will have to accept that
and move on ...
This is wonderful and the fact of life............go ahead,read it....and you will get to know how wonderful it feels to have a good & true friend.......for life...
"Your friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you."
"Friends are like melons; shall I tell you why? To find one good you must
try hundreds."
"Some people come into our lives and quickly go. Some stay for awhile and
leave footprints on our hearts. And we are never, ever the same."
"A friend loves at all times." -.
"In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures."
"A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out."
"A friend hears the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails."
"A faithful friend is the medicine of life."
"Count your age with friends but not with years."
"Plant a seed of friendship; reap a bouquet of happiness." "No man is useless while he has a friend."
"A true friend is someone who is there for you when he'd rather be anywhere else."
"Good friends are good for your health."
"A true friend is one who overlooks your failures and tolerates your success!"
There is a reason for every person to come
in our life and when that reason is fulfilled
no matter whether you need them or not
they will move away from your life in one way
or the other so we will have to accept that
and move on ...
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SHAIJU
JOKES
1.Microsoft VS. GM
At a recent computer expo (1996 COMDEX), Bill Gates compared the computer industry to the automotive indusrty by stating: "If GM had kept up with technology like the computer industry has, we would all be driving cars that cost $25.00 and get 1,00 miles to the gallon."
In response to Bills comment, General Motors issued A press release making the following statement: "If we (GM) had kept up with technology like the computer industry has, we would all be driving cars with the following characteristics:
1) for no reson whatsoever, your car would crash twice per day.
2) Every time they repainted the lines in the road, you would have to buy a new car.
3) Your car would occasionally stop on the freeway without reason. In order to get started again, you would have to pull off to the side of the road, close all the windowsshut off the car resart it and open all the windows again. For some unknown reason, you would simply do this without question.
4) Occasionally, executing a maneuver, such as a left turn, would cause your car to shut down and refuse to resart, in which case you would have to reinstall the engine.
5) Only one person could use the car at one time unless you bought "Car95" or "CarNT", but then you would also have to buy more seats.
6) The new seats you would need would force everyone to have the same size butt.
7) You would press the "start" button to shut off the engine.
8) The oil warning light, water warning light, and alternator warning light would all be replaced by a single "Unidentified System Error" light.
9) The air bag would ask ur freshly mangled body "are you sure" before going off.
10) Occasionally, for no reason whatsoever, your car would lock you out and refuse to let you back inuntill you simultaneously lifted the driver side door handle, turned the key, and grabbed the radio antenna.
11) The radio antenna would be internally mounted on the passenger side of the car.
12) buying a new car would force you to also purchase a new set of Deluxe Rand McNally road maps, dispite the fact that you niether need nor want them. Attempting to delet this otion would immediately cause your cars performance to diminish by 50% or more.
13) every time GM introduced a new car, people would have to learn to drive all over again because none of the old controls would function in the new car.
14) Macintosh would make a car that was five times faster, ten times more reliable and easier to mantain, twice as easy to drive, but would only run on five percent of the roads."
QUOTES
"Gravitation can not be held resposible for people falling in love"
Here are some more Einstein quotes:
When asked how World War III would be fought, Einstein replied that he
didn't know. But he knew how World War IV would be fought: With sticks and
stones!
"Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute, and it seems like an hour.
Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it seems like a minute.
THAT'S relativity."
sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing.
Einstein, Albert (1879-1955) *
-- Albert Einstein (1879-1955) [German physicist]
MOLES - GO - ROUND
Theme for MOLE DAY 2005
(chorus)
The moles go round and round
the moles go round and round
On the carousel of chemistry
the moles go round and round
(verse 1)
Chemistry is like a carousel
That is spinning round and round
It's dynamic and exciting
and you'll want to jump right on
You'll learn about that famous mole
Or maybe you have heard
Containing 6.02 times ten
to the twenty-third
(chorus)
(verse 2)
You're gonna learn the reasons for some
scientific tricks
Why stainless steel is stainless
Why oil and water just won't mix
Why food won't stick on teflon
But teflon sticks on pans
So many things that chemistry
will help you understand.
(chorus)
(verse 3)
You're gonna learn how light sticks work
And how detergents clean
Why batteries can explode
How they manufacture gasoline
You'll learn how suntan lotion works
How soft drinks get their fizz
Why snowflakes have those special shapes
That will be on your quiz
(chorus)
(verse 4)
You'll learn how bleach can whiten clothes
And the reason iron rusts
You'll learn why ice floats on water
And what makes things combust
Hey .............what is jello anyway?
Do you really want to know?
If you want to find the answer
Chemistry's the place to go!
1.Microsoft VS. GM
At a recent computer expo (1996 COMDEX), Bill Gates compared the computer industry to the automotive indusrty by stating: "If GM had kept up with technology like the computer industry has, we would all be driving cars that cost $25.00 and get 1,00 miles to the gallon."
In response to Bills comment, General Motors issued A press release making the following statement: "If we (GM) had kept up with technology like the computer industry has, we would all be driving cars with the following characteristics:
1) for no reson whatsoever, your car would crash twice per day.
2) Every time they repainted the lines in the road, you would have to buy a new car.
3) Your car would occasionally stop on the freeway without reason. In order to get started again, you would have to pull off to the side of the road, close all the windowsshut off the car resart it and open all the windows again. For some unknown reason, you would simply do this without question.
4) Occasionally, executing a maneuver, such as a left turn, would cause your car to shut down and refuse to resart, in which case you would have to reinstall the engine.
5) Only one person could use the car at one time unless you bought "Car95" or "CarNT", but then you would also have to buy more seats.
6) The new seats you would need would force everyone to have the same size butt.
7) You would press the "start" button to shut off the engine.
8) The oil warning light, water warning light, and alternator warning light would all be replaced by a single "Unidentified System Error" light.
9) The air bag would ask ur freshly mangled body "are you sure" before going off.
10) Occasionally, for no reason whatsoever, your car would lock you out and refuse to let you back inuntill you simultaneously lifted the driver side door handle, turned the key, and grabbed the radio antenna.
11) The radio antenna would be internally mounted on the passenger side of the car.
12) buying a new car would force you to also purchase a new set of Deluxe Rand McNally road maps, dispite the fact that you niether need nor want them. Attempting to delet this otion would immediately cause your cars performance to diminish by 50% or more.
13) every time GM introduced a new car, people would have to learn to drive all over again because none of the old controls would function in the new car.
14) Macintosh would make a car that was five times faster, ten times more reliable and easier to mantain, twice as easy to drive, but would only run on five percent of the roads."
QUOTES
"Gravitation can not be held resposible for people falling in love"
Here are some more Einstein quotes:
When asked how World War III would be fought, Einstein replied that he
didn't know. But he knew how World War IV would be fought: With sticks and
stones!
"Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute, and it seems like an hour.
Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it seems like a minute.
THAT'S relativity."
sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing.
Einstein, Albert (1879-1955) *
-- Albert Einstein (1879-1955) [German physicist]
MOLES - GO - ROUND
Theme for MOLE DAY 2005
(chorus)
The moles go round and round
the moles go round and round
On the carousel of chemistry
the moles go round and round
(verse 1)
Chemistry is like a carousel
That is spinning round and round
It's dynamic and exciting
and you'll want to jump right on
You'll learn about that famous mole
Or maybe you have heard
Containing 6.02 times ten
to the twenty-third
(chorus)
(verse 2)
You're gonna learn the reasons for some
scientific tricks
Why stainless steel is stainless
Why oil and water just won't mix
Why food won't stick on teflon
But teflon sticks on pans
So many things that chemistry
will help you understand.
(chorus)
(verse 3)
You're gonna learn how light sticks work
And how detergents clean
Why batteries can explode
How they manufacture gasoline
You'll learn how suntan lotion works
How soft drinks get their fizz
Why snowflakes have those special shapes
That will be on your quiz
(chorus)
(verse 4)
You'll learn how bleach can whiten clothes
And the reason iron rusts
You'll learn why ice floats on water
And what makes things combust
Hey .............what is jello anyway?
Do you really want to know?
If you want to find the answer
Chemistry's the place to go!
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വെള്ളിയാഴ്ച, ഒക്ടോബർ 14, 2005
SHAIJU
Sternberg's Triangular Theory of Love
It has been suggested that triangular theory of love be merged into this article or section. (Discuss)
In the triangular theory of love, love is characterized by three elements: intimacy, passion and commitment. Each of these elements can be present in a relationship, producing the following combinations:
Combinations of intimacy, passion, and commitment
Liking or friendship- intimacy
Infatuation or limerence - passion
Empty love - commitment
Romantic love -intimacy+passion
Companionate love -intimacy+commitment
Fatuous love - passion+ commitment
Consummate love -intimacy+ passion+ commitment
Liking includes only one of the love components - intimacy. In this case, liking is not used in a trivial sense. Sternberg says that this intimate liking characterizes true friendships, in which a person feels a bondedness, a warmth, and a closeness with another but not intense passion or long-term commitment.
Infatuated love consists solely of passion and is often what is felt as "love at first sight." But without the intimacy and the commitment components of love, infatuated love may disappear suddenly.
Empty love consists of the commitment component without intimacy or passion. Sometimes, a stronger love deteriorates into empty love, in which the commitment remains, but the intimacy and passion have died. In cultures in which arranged marriages are common, relationships often begin as empty love.
Romantic love is a combination of intimacy and passion. Romantic lovers are bonded emotionally (as in liking) and physically through passionate arousal.
Companionate love consists of intimacy and commitment. This type of love is often found in marriages in which the passion has gone out of the relationship, but a deep affection and commitment remain.
Fatuous love has the passion and the commitment components but not the intimacy component. This type of love can be exemplified by a whirlwind courtship and marriage in which a commitment is motivated largely by passion, without the stabilizing influence of intimacy.
Consummate love is the only type of love that includes all three components--intimacy, passion and commitment. Consummate love is the most complete form of love, and it represents the ideal love relationship for which many people strive but which apparently few achieve. Sternberg cautions that maintaining a consummate love may be even harder than achieving it. He stresses the importance of translating the components of love into action. "Without expression," he warns, "even the greatest of loves can die" (1987, p.341).
It has been suggested that triangular theory of love be merged into this article or section. (Discuss)
In the triangular theory of love, love is characterized by three elements: intimacy, passion and commitment. Each of these elements can be present in a relationship, producing the following combinations:
Combinations of intimacy, passion, and commitment
Liking or friendship- intimacy
Infatuation or limerence - passion
Empty love - commitment
Romantic love -intimacy+passion
Companionate love -intimacy+commitment
Fatuous love - passion+ commitment
Consummate love -intimacy+ passion+ commitment
Liking includes only one of the love components - intimacy. In this case, liking is not used in a trivial sense. Sternberg says that this intimate liking characterizes true friendships, in which a person feels a bondedness, a warmth, and a closeness with another but not intense passion or long-term commitment.
Infatuated love consists solely of passion and is often what is felt as "love at first sight." But without the intimacy and the commitment components of love, infatuated love may disappear suddenly.
Empty love consists of the commitment component without intimacy or passion. Sometimes, a stronger love deteriorates into empty love, in which the commitment remains, but the intimacy and passion have died. In cultures in which arranged marriages are common, relationships often begin as empty love.
Romantic love is a combination of intimacy and passion. Romantic lovers are bonded emotionally (as in liking) and physically through passionate arousal.
Companionate love consists of intimacy and commitment. This type of love is often found in marriages in which the passion has gone out of the relationship, but a deep affection and commitment remain.
Fatuous love has the passion and the commitment components but not the intimacy component. This type of love can be exemplified by a whirlwind courtship and marriage in which a commitment is motivated largely by passion, without the stabilizing influence of intimacy.
Consummate love is the only type of love that includes all three components--intimacy, passion and commitment. Consummate love is the most complete form of love, and it represents the ideal love relationship for which many people strive but which apparently few achieve. Sternberg cautions that maintaining a consummate love may be even harder than achieving it. He stresses the importance of translating the components of love into action. "Without expression," he warns, "even the greatest of loves can die" (1987, p.341).
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SHAIJU
British playwright Harold Pinter is announced as the winner of the 2005 Nobel Prize in Literature.
Harold Pinter
Early life and career
Pinter was born in Hackney in London to working class Jewish parents and educated at Hackney Downs Grammar school and, briefly, at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA). He published poetry as a young man, and began working in the theatre as an actor, under the stage name David Baron. His first play, The Room, was first performed by Bristol University students in 1957.
The Birthday Party (1958) was initially a flop, despite a positive review in the Sunday Times by leading theatre critic Harold Hobson, but following the success of The Caretaker in 1960, which established him, it was revived, and this time was well received. These plays, and other early works such as The Homecoming (1964), have sometimes been labelled as displaying the "comedy of menace". They often take an apparently innocent situation, and turn it into a threatening and absurd one by means of characters acting in ways which seem inexplicable both to the audience and, sometimes, to other characters. This style has inspired the adjective "Pinteresque". Pinter's work was marked by the influence of Samuel Beckett from the earliest works onwards, and the two men became long-standing friends.
New directions
Pinter began to direct more frequently during the 1970s, becoming an associate director of the National Theatre in 1973. His later plays tend to be shorter, and on subjects which might be thought of as more political, often appearing to be allegories on oppression. It was around the 1970s that Pinter began to be more vocal on political matters, taking a distinctly left-wing stance. He continually strives to bring human rights violations and oppression to the public's attention. Letters from Pinter often appear in Britain's newspapers, such as The Guardian and The Independent.
In 1985 Pinter travelled to Turkey with the American playwright Arthur Miller and met many victims of political oppression there. At an American embassy function honouring Miller, instead of exchanging pleasantries, Pinter spoke of people having an electric current applied to their genitals—which got him thrown out. (Miller, in support, left the embassy with him.) Pinter's experience of oppression in Turkey and the suppression of the Kurdish language inspired his 1988 play Mountain Language.
Pinter opposed the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan and 2003 Invasion of Iraq. In 2005 he announced that he was retiring from writing plays to dedicate himself to political campaigning. Pinter is an avowed critic of the Iraq war and famously called President Bush a mass murderer and Blair a deluded idiot. He has likened the Bush administration to Adolf Hitler's Nazi Germany, saying the U.S. was charging towards world domination while the American public and Britain's "mass-murdering" prime minister sat back and watched. [1]
Pinter is also an active delegate of the Cuba Solidarity Campaign, an organization that supports Fidel Castro's regime on Cuba and campaigns against the U.S. embargo on the country, and a member of the International Committee to Defend Slobodan Milosevic, an organization that appeals for the freedom of Slobodan Milosevic.
Pinter was appointed CBE in 1966 and became a Companion of Honour in 2002, having previously declined a knighthood. He is a supporter of the RESPECT coalition.
On October 13, 2005 the Swedish Academy announced Pinter was the recipient of the 2005 Nobel Prize in Literature, stating that, "in his plays [he] uncovers the precipice under everyday prattle and forces entry into oppression's closed rooms".
Film work
Pinter's first screenplay, The Servant, was written in 1962. He later wrote scripts for The Go-Between and John Fowles' The French Lieutenant's Woman, among others. He also published a screenplay based on Marcel Proust's In Search of Lost Time, but this has never been filmed. Several of Pinter's plays have also been adapted for the cinema: The Caretaker (1963), The Birthday Party (1968), The Homecoming (1973) and Betrayal (1983). He has been nominated for an Oscar for best adapted screenplay twice ("The French Lieutenant's Woman" -- 1981; "Betrayal" -- 1983.)
Personal life
In 1977, Pinter caused a public scandal by leaving his wife, the troubled actress Vivien Merchant whom he had married in 1956 and who still loved him, for Lady Antonia Fraser, the eldest daughter of the 7th Earl of Longford and a Roman Catholic, whom he eventually married in 1980 after his divorce. Merchant died in 1982. His play Betrayal (1978) is sometimes claimed as a depiction of this liaison, but is actually based on an earlier seven-year affair Pinter had with Joan Bakewell, the television presenter.
Subsequently, he had a public falling out with theatre director Peter Hall over the depiction of a frequently drunk Pinter in Hall's Diaries published in 1983, though the two men returned to friendly terms later.
Once a heavy smoker, Pinter underwent chemotherapy for esophageal cancer in 2002, and has been in frail health since.
Pinter is a great fan of cricket and is the chairman of the Gaieties Cricket Club. He is also an Honorary Associate of the National Secular Society.
Harold Pinter
Early life and career
Pinter was born in Hackney in London to working class Jewish parents and educated at Hackney Downs Grammar school and, briefly, at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA). He published poetry as a young man, and began working in the theatre as an actor, under the stage name David Baron. His first play, The Room, was first performed by Bristol University students in 1957.
The Birthday Party (1958) was initially a flop, despite a positive review in the Sunday Times by leading theatre critic Harold Hobson, but following the success of The Caretaker in 1960, which established him, it was revived, and this time was well received. These plays, and other early works such as The Homecoming (1964), have sometimes been labelled as displaying the "comedy of menace". They often take an apparently innocent situation, and turn it into a threatening and absurd one by means of characters acting in ways which seem inexplicable both to the audience and, sometimes, to other characters. This style has inspired the adjective "Pinteresque". Pinter's work was marked by the influence of Samuel Beckett from the earliest works onwards, and the two men became long-standing friends.
New directions
Pinter began to direct more frequently during the 1970s, becoming an associate director of the National Theatre in 1973. His later plays tend to be shorter, and on subjects which might be thought of as more political, often appearing to be allegories on oppression. It was around the 1970s that Pinter began to be more vocal on political matters, taking a distinctly left-wing stance. He continually strives to bring human rights violations and oppression to the public's attention. Letters from Pinter often appear in Britain's newspapers, such as The Guardian and The Independent.
In 1985 Pinter travelled to Turkey with the American playwright Arthur Miller and met many victims of political oppression there. At an American embassy function honouring Miller, instead of exchanging pleasantries, Pinter spoke of people having an electric current applied to their genitals—which got him thrown out. (Miller, in support, left the embassy with him.) Pinter's experience of oppression in Turkey and the suppression of the Kurdish language inspired his 1988 play Mountain Language.
Pinter opposed the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan and 2003 Invasion of Iraq. In 2005 he announced that he was retiring from writing plays to dedicate himself to political campaigning. Pinter is an avowed critic of the Iraq war and famously called President Bush a mass murderer and Blair a deluded idiot. He has likened the Bush administration to Adolf Hitler's Nazi Germany, saying the U.S. was charging towards world domination while the American public and Britain's "mass-murdering" prime minister sat back and watched. [1]
Pinter is also an active delegate of the Cuba Solidarity Campaign, an organization that supports Fidel Castro's regime on Cuba and campaigns against the U.S. embargo on the country, and a member of the International Committee to Defend Slobodan Milosevic, an organization that appeals for the freedom of Slobodan Milosevic.
Pinter was appointed CBE in 1966 and became a Companion of Honour in 2002, having previously declined a knighthood. He is a supporter of the RESPECT coalition.
On October 13, 2005 the Swedish Academy announced Pinter was the recipient of the 2005 Nobel Prize in Literature, stating that, "in his plays [he] uncovers the precipice under everyday prattle and forces entry into oppression's closed rooms".
Film work
Pinter's first screenplay, The Servant, was written in 1962. He later wrote scripts for The Go-Between and John Fowles' The French Lieutenant's Woman, among others. He also published a screenplay based on Marcel Proust's In Search of Lost Time, but this has never been filmed. Several of Pinter's plays have also been adapted for the cinema: The Caretaker (1963), The Birthday Party (1968), The Homecoming (1973) and Betrayal (1983). He has been nominated for an Oscar for best adapted screenplay twice ("The French Lieutenant's Woman" -- 1981; "Betrayal" -- 1983.)
Personal life
In 1977, Pinter caused a public scandal by leaving his wife, the troubled actress Vivien Merchant whom he had married in 1956 and who still loved him, for Lady Antonia Fraser, the eldest daughter of the 7th Earl of Longford and a Roman Catholic, whom he eventually married in 1980 after his divorce. Merchant died in 1982. His play Betrayal (1978) is sometimes claimed as a depiction of this liaison, but is actually based on an earlier seven-year affair Pinter had with Joan Bakewell, the television presenter.
Subsequently, he had a public falling out with theatre director Peter Hall over the depiction of a frequently drunk Pinter in Hall's Diaries published in 1983, though the two men returned to friendly terms later.
Once a heavy smoker, Pinter underwent chemotherapy for esophageal cancer in 2002, and has been in frail health since.
Pinter is a great fan of cricket and is the chairman of the Gaieties Cricket Club. He is also an Honorary Associate of the National Secular Society.
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