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Golf...my favorite...

noreply@blogger.com (Shaik) — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 05:33:00 +0000

Golf is my favorite game. I have learnt it from my father. Not only for me, but for many people in the world, golf is remaining as the most favorite game. It gives me pleasure when I play golf. I would like to say a few word about my most favorite game, which is golf. Many people think that golf is an expensive game and they stay away from playing golf. It is not true. Any one who has interest and passion in golf can enjoy playing it.

It is the most exciting part of my year. Every year, I make plans to play golf and I search for many golf packages. Every time I get satisfied with golf and they stay in my memory all the time.

If you are looking out for golf vacations or golf packages, I would like to suggest you to go for Beach Golf. They are offering a good service and guidance in Golf. They have a variety of golf vacations and golf packages from which you can pick the one that attracts or well, interests you.

In my every single year planner, there will be a space for Beach which makes my whole year a pleasure one. I would like to thank the Myrtle people for giving me a memorable golf events every year. You can check out the Myrtle golf web site to know more about their services and guidances. You can also get helps from them which will guide you in making your golf vacation plans. I welcome every one in to the world of Golf, which is exciting and makes your life, a happy one.

EMILY ELIZABETH DICKINSON:-2

noreply@blogger.com (Shaik) — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 05:33:00 +0000

EMILY ELIZABETH DICKINSON

Her artistic technique minimizes smoothness, especially its disregard for niceties of rhyme and places full emphasis on substance.

Because of her shyness, she did not circulate her work widely, and only a handful of her poems were published during her lifetime.

After her death, hundreds of her lyrical jewels were discovered and brought to life in the pages of posthumous works. Many were finished and studiously copied, while others were clearly not yet where the author wanted takes them. The first collection of Emily Dickinson’s work was published in 1890, but the third was not issued until 1945.

Her poems speak of great renunciation and hint that the “atom” she preferred was an unnamed married man, but this attachment seems to have been more a matter of introverted devotion than outgoing passion.

EMILY ELIZABETH DICKINSON:

noreply@blogger.com (Shaik) — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 05:33:00 +0000

The daughter of a prominent lawyer, Emily Elizabeth Dickinson was born in Amherst, Massachusetts, where the spent nearly her entire life. She attended Amherst Academy and spent one year at Mary Lyon’s Female Seminary in South Hadley, now Mount Holyoke College. An extremely shy and introspective person, she remained quietly at home and did not travel, from the time she was 19 until her death. After she was 30 she withdrew more and more from casual contact with the world in order to concentrate on her writing.

Emily Dickinson’s work is remarkable for its defiance of Victorian convention, for its absolute honestly, for its intensity and for the way that the author displayed such reverence for intrinsic values.

Alarm to save a life...

noreply@blogger.com (Shaik) — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 05:18:00 +0000

No one in the world will deny a particular statement. It is none other than a saying which tells the importance of having a good health. The statement goes like this, "If health is lost, every thing is lost". It is very true. We can get back wealth, assets, friends and every other things if we lost them. But when we lose our health, we will lose everything. Therefore we have to give more prioritry to health. When it comes to elders' health like our grand father or grand mother or both of their health, we have to be even more careful about it.

Let me ask a question. What will you do when you come to know about a news that your grand father or your grand mother fell down at his / her place when he/she was alone at home?
You will get a shock ultimately right? Most of the grand parents in the world are helpless when they stay alone at home. That too when they meet with some accidents like falling down or any other things happen, they will be helpless to the extent that they cant contact any one and report about the problem.

Technology, as usual, comes here to help the man. You can now fix Alarm at your home, which will help your grand parents greatly when they are alone. There are cases where the grand parents are not even able to push a button. This Alarm would help them to get help in such situtations. Check out the web site to get more information about the new two products that ensure security to your life.

Jules Verne

noreply@blogger.com (Shaik) — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 07:20:00 +0000

Jules Verne sought to convey mystery by setting his works in places which were unfamiliar, yet believable and realistic. The Mysterious Island (1875) was set on the same, while Captain Hatteras (1866) and The Sphinx of Ice (1897) took place at the poles.

Readers also loved Jules Verne’s books because they had thrilling, fast-paced plots. In the immortal classic Around the World in Eighty Days (1873), the engaging hero Phineas Fogg is constantly in motion, never pausing for more than a couple of days in any one place, because he is taking part in the race of his lifetime.

He had an amazing insight into the trend of scientific invention, and many of his imaginary creations, from the submarine to the fax machine, were actually invented.

JULES VERNE-1

noreply@blogger.com (Shaik) — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 07:20:00 +0000

Jules Verne smooth, fast-paced writing style and his detailed descriptive passages truly anticipate the style of twentieth century science fiction. Riding the crest of public interest in science and invention in the nineteenth century, Verne’s books became immensely popular. Not only were they well-paced adventure stories, but they also transported readers to places they had never been. Verne focused the action of his novels in yet unexplored locations like outer space, the bottom of the ocean and deep inside the Earth, but in novels such as The Children of Captain Grant (1868), he carried his readers to South America and Australia, lands that were just as remote and exotic for most Europeans as the moon.

JULES VERNE

noreply@blogger.com (Shaik) — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 07:14:00 +0000

The father of modern science fiction, Jules Verne was born in Nates, studied law in Paries, and wrote for the stage before he began contributing science fiction to the Magazine of Education. His enormously successful Five weeks in a Balloon (1863) was the first of a long series of imaginative tales which exploited popular interest in the actual and potential achievements of nineteenth century science.

His success continued with A Journey to the Center of the Earth in 1864 and Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea in 1870. The latter of which featured the legendary arch-villain Captain Nemo, skipper of the enormous submarine Nautilus.

FYODOR DOSTOEVSKI-3

noreply@blogger.com (Shaik) — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 07:14:00 +0000

While he was out of Russia, he wrote The Idiot (1868) and The Eternal Husband (1870) and began The Possessed. Back in St. Petersburg, he completed this tale, which attacked the embryonic Russian revolutionary movement. HE also composed the novels A Raw Youth (1875) and The Brothers Karamazov (1879-1880), his crowning achievement.

In his last years he took time off from the writing of fiction to start work on his memoirs. He commented on current events and his opinions on a wide variety of topics, including the virtues of Russian folklore and Russia’s messianic destiny. He contributed these to a conservative weekly which he edited in 1873.

WALT WHITMAN-3

noreply@blogger.com (Shaik) — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 18:44:00 +0000

The 1860s saw the beginning of a growing recognition of Whitman. The year 1871 saw the publication not only of the fifth regular edition of Leaves of Grass, but also of Democratic Vistas, a book about post-Civil War America. On February 22, 1873, in Camden. Partially recovered, he spent several summers on a nearby farm and traveled extensively in the East, the Far West (1879) and in Canada (1880). He published Specimen Days and Collect (1882) and November Boughs (1888). In 1888, another strike confined him to a wheelchair, but he continued to write and to visit with the many admirers who traveled to Camden.

WALT WHITMAN-2

noreply@blogger.com (Shaik) — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 18:44:00 +0000

Whitman refused, as a rule, to employ regular rhythms. Although his poem in conventional meter, “O Captain! My Captain!” is his most popular. His verse is not rhymed, and the line lengths are not metrical units, but units corresponding to the cadences of oral delivery.

Between 1857 and 1859, Whitman was an editor of The Brooklyn Daily Times. When the Civil War began, Whitman became a volunteer nurse in Washington, supporting himself by reporting for various newspapers and by working part time in an army paymaster’s office. After the war, he worked in the attorney general’s office.

Drum Taps, based on his war experiences, was published in 1865. Although he was never in actual combat, some scholars have called him, with some justification, “a war-born poet” because he drew so much from the soldiers he met.

WALT WHITMAN

noreply@blogger.com (Shaik) — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 18:40:00 +0000

Considered by some to be the greatest American poet of the nineteenth century, Walt Whitman was born in West Hills, Long Island. His temperance novel Franklin Evans; or The Inebriate was published in the magazine The New World (1842), and he also published a number of sentimental poems.

In 1848, Whitman became editor of an antislavery newspaper, The Freeman, and between 1850 and 1854, he supported himself by working for several newspapers, contributing to various periodicals, and in partnership with his father, building and selling houses.

In 1855, Whitman published the first collection of his new poetry in free verse, Leaves of Grass. It was an extraordinary publication, and is considered one of the most interesting first editions in American literature. His thoughts were influenced by that of the Quakers and of the French and American romanticists, particularly Ralph Waldo Emerson. “I was simmering, simmering,” wrote Whitman. “Emerson brought me to a boil.”

GEORGE ELIOT-3

noreply@blogger.com (Shaik) — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 18:40:00 +0000

The result was Romola (1863). It was her longest and most complex work, but lacked the charm of her earlier fiction. Felix Holt, the radical (1866) was a melodramatic story of a young political reformer. Poetry in this book prepared her readers for The Spanish Gypsy (1868), a laborious effort in verse which enjoyed popularity though it never approached true poetry.

Her last works were Middlemarch (1871-1872), in which she returned to the study of provincial manners, Daniel Deronda (1876), a fictionalized view of Zionism, and Impressions of Theophrastus such (1879), was a collection of short stories. After Lewes’ death she edited some of his unpublished work and established the George Lewes scholarship to aid students engaged in scientific work. In May 1880, she married John Walter Cross, an intimate friend of both Lewes and herself, but she died in December of the same year.

GEORGE ELIOT-2

noreply@blogger.com (Shaik) — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 11:33:00 +0000

George Eliot tales of country life formed the collection Scenes from Clerical Life (1858), which made her one of the most important English writers of her time. However, because of discrimination against women writers, she wrote under the pseudonym “George Eliot”.

Adam Bede (1859), her fist novel, brilliantly displayed her talent for evoking background and atmosphere, and won her an even wider audience. In 1860, she published the auto biographical Mill on the Floss, a revealing analysis of a child’s emotions and reactions. It was followed by Silas Marner (1861), a story of a country miser. In 1861 she visited Italy in search of a theme for a historical novel.

GEORGE ELIOT

noreply@blogger.com (Shaik) — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 11:33:00 +0000

Known by her pen name, George Eliot, Mary Ann Evans was born in a village in Warwickshire and attended school in Coventry. From 1853 she was assistant editor of a local newspaper, The Westminster Review and formed close friendships with a number of distinguish writers and philosophers, notably Herbert Spencer and George Henry Lewes. She fell in love with Lewes and lived happily together until Lewes’ death in 1878; although Lewes remained married to his estranged first wife.

At the suggestion of Lewes she made her first attempt at fiction, and in 1856 produced a short story, “The Sad Fortune of the Reverend Amos Barton,” which was published in Blackwood’s Magazine (1857).

reasons for failure - 2

noreply@blogger.com (Shaik) — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 03:28:00 +0000

Constantly seek approval and validation from others
Bragging
Submissive or timid behavior
Lack of assertiveness
Conformist Behavior – Giving in to peer pressure in order to be accepted.
Attention seeking behavior and the class room - Clown

• Indecisiveness due to lack of courage and fear of criticism
• Anti-Social and withdrawn
• Lack of sense of direction and an I don’t care attitude
• Cannot give or accept compliments graciously
• Too much emphasis on material things
• Shabbily dressed
• Taker not contributor

REASONS FOR FAILURE - LOW SELF ESTEEM OR THINKING “I’M AVERAGE”

noreply@blogger.com (Shaik) — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 03:28:00 +0000

Self Esteem is the way we think about ourselves. Our opinion of ourselves critically influences performance, relationships and accomplishment. Low self Esteem does not entertain conviction, competence or Accountability, causes pessimism, unfulfilled relationships, and insensitivity and drives away ambition away ambition.

CHARACTERISTICS:

• Gossip Mongers
• Criticize every thing and everyone
• Egoistic, Arrogant and mistakenly believe they know it all
• Close – Minded, prejudiced
• Constantly make excuses – always justifying failures
• Never accept responsibility – always blaming others
• Fatalistic Attitude, waiting for things to happen
• Unwilling to accept criticism, become defensive, jealous by nature
• Exhibition of vulgarity
• Cannot cultivate genuine friends because of lack of genuineness in their part.
• Make promises they know they are not going to keep
• Irritate, bored and also uncomfortable when alone
• Erratic, senseless and imbalanced behavior, sweet and nice to you one day and insulting venomous the next day
• Touchy – Gets hurt easy and becomes dejected, frustrated and depressed
• Lack Confidence:

CHARLOTTE BRONTE and EMILY BRONTE…8

noreply@blogger.com (Shaik) — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 17:58:00 +0000

In 1854 Charlotte married Arthur Bell Nicholls, who had been a clergyman at Hawoth and returned to aid her father. Charlotte died in the following year, having already written two chapters of a promising fifth novel, to be called Emma.
The revenging character, Heathcliff, is a tragic figure who despite his cruel and brutal traits wins a measure of the reader’s admiration.

Wuthering Heights is a monumental work of English literature. Though it has been widely praised, critics cannot even begin to express the full essence of the novel. Not even Charlotte, who wrote the introduction to the second edition, could summarize the full breath of its power.

CHARLOTTE BRONTE and EMILY BRONTE…7

noreply@blogger.com (Shaik) — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 17:58:00 +0000

The symbols of light and darkness in the characters are used with a subtlety and consistency which suggests an influence on William Conrad and James Joyce.

A middle-aged housekeeper tells the story to a gentle young man from the south without really understanding the full importance of the incidents related. HE adds to her story, but, despite his greater range of understanding, he falls short of grasping the essential meaning. These persons serve as the reader’s representatives in the midst of a strange world and aid him in believing in the remarkable events and experiences which are the heart of Emily’s subject.

google pr update

noreply@blogger.com (Shaik) — Fri, 22 May 2009 10:51:00 +0000

I have got news from my friend. It is going to give shock to few people and happiness to few people. Google is going to do page rank update. This is going to be done for next three days. Bloggers who mainly do blogging for the sake of earning money be careful in these three days. Even I am very scared about my blogs. Those who have weird posts should remove it to save themselves from getting chucked out of page rank. Put as many original posts as possible to save your page rank. I wish all bloggers a good luck to get page ranks and to get saved from the existing one.

RITZ

noreply@blogger.com (Shaik) — Fri, 22 May 2009 10:42:00 +0000

As a competitor to Tata nano, the maruti company has released a car called maruti ritz. The cost of the car ranges from 3 lakh to four lakhs. The basic model comes with the price 3.25 lakhs. Around five people can go comfortably and it’s a small car similar all other small sized car. The introduction of the car was held recently in india. The manager for sales in india released the car. They are expecting around one million cars sale in india. Let us wait and watch the show.

India and elections

noreply@blogger.com (Shaik) — Fri, 22 May 2009 05:22:00 +0000

The elections in India got over recently. Everybody would have seen the media about the results. It is the congress party that won the game. The exit polls and other reviews about the election were always confusing this time. No one got a clear picture about the winner till the results came. Even during the day of result counting, the results were fluctuating. Only the top leaders have got concrete results. Few top most leaders of a party got chucked out of the game since they have got very less number of votes. This is not BJP’s year. They got screwed to the core. If allowed, the entire BJP leaders may commit suicide. The results went very bad for the BJP. BJP has started the election campaigning a year ago. They have been campaigning in internet, public toilets and in many places. But the sad news is, the time doesn’t turn for them. BJP can wind up their venture and should run away from India.

SSLC results…

noreply@blogger.com (Shaik) — Fri, 22 May 2009 05:15:00 +0000

The SSLC (secondary school leaving certificate) exams got over a month ago. Now it’s the results time. Like the Newton’s law, “For every action, there is an equivalent re action”, the results are going to be announced tomorrow. The controller of exams told the media that the results for 10th standard (both matriculation and state board) will be announced on 23rd may 2009 at 9:00 am. I pray that the results would be a positive for all and I wish all the tenth standard students a good luck and get success in every good thing they do in their life.

AMBITION OF LIFE...

noreply@blogger.com (Shaik) — Sat, 02 May 2009 02:58:00 +0000

A person without ambition is like a ship floating aimlessly. Such a person has no destination to reach. He gets nowhere. He achieves next to nothing in life.
Having ambition in life is very worthwhile. But just having one is not enough. Whatever the ambition, there has to be continuous effort towards achieving it. If a person has a target but does nothing, it is like day dreaming or just having a pious resolution.
There are different ambitions with different persons. The ambition varies from person to person depending on family background, upbringing, social position and economic condition. Some people have an ambition to amass wealth no matter how. That is why some parents ask for huge dowries at the time of marriage of their sons. At times, persons with such aim get into anti-social activity like smuggling, black marketing. Thus corruption spreads.
However, money is not everything in life. Man does not live by money alone. Some wish to become famous like artistes, journalists, scientists, sports persons and others. Along with getting well known they earn a lot of money too. There are others who neither want wealth nor fame but wish to serve humanity at large. Under this category come people like Swami Vivekananda, Mahatma Gandhi and Mother Teresa gave abundant care and love to the destitute.
For glamorous life, some young folk may choose to become film artistes. If a person succeeds in this profession, both wealth and fame are there. At present times, many wish to go abroad for settling down there. Here one earns a lot and has also to spend a lot. As far as I am concerned, I wish to have neither untold wealth nor fame. And working for the cine world does not appeal to me. Becoming a politician is also ruled out as it is said politics is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
I have ambition of becoming a teacher. There are justifiable reasons for my choice. First, less than 50 per cent of the country's population is illiterate. They are steeped in ignorance. They are superstitious. By becoming a teacher I will be able to do something about widespread illiteracy, ignorance and superstition.
Second, though there is not much money in the profession, it is yet a noble profession. The profession will enable me to bring into action the Gandhi’s principle of simple living and high thinking.
Third, my aim will enable me to serve the cause of education. According to Plato, education is the turning of the inner eye towards light. My being a teacher will help me in this task.
Fourth, the teaching profession calls for missionary zeal and a sense of dedication. I think I have these qualities in good measure. There is aptitude for the teaching profession. My work as a teacher will give me job satisfaction. I will get what I have aimed for in life.
Last, students of today are citizens of tomorrow. The profession will enable me to make my contribution in the building of pupils' character. As Swami Vivekananda has said they will become men. I will also instill the spirit of nationalism and patriotism in them. My ambition is character-building and I will spare no effort achieving it Dr S. Radhakrishnan is my role model.

FULL OF LOVE...

noreply@blogger.com (Shaik) — Fri, 01 May 2009 15:12:00 +0000

Meditation is way of living full of love and consciousness. It is not about going to temples, praying hurriedly and yet continues living life mechanically and accidentally. Meditation means to bring spiritual awareness to each act big and small.

The quality of love and acts of meditation go hand in hand. If you meditate, says Osho, you will be simply loving; it will be just a quality of your being. And then it has a different flavour and does not create a bondage. Then you share unconditionally and your love is just the way you naturally are.

Osho tells a story. Once a mystic was traveling with his disciples. They come to a sarai. In the morning, the keeper of the sarai offered tea and snacks. While they were drinking their tea, suddenly, the keeper fell at the master's feet, ecstatic crying with joy.

The disciples were puzzled. How could he know that this person was the master? It was supposed to be a secret and the disciples were told that nobody ought to be told who the master is. They were all dressed alike.

The master was moving incognito. Who has told this sarai-keeper? The disciples looked worried. They inquired, but nobody had told; nobody had even talked to that man, the owner. The master said: "Don't feel puzzled. Ask this man himself, how he recognized me. Nobody has told him; he has recognized."

So they asked: "We cannot recognize. Even we are suspicious about whether he is truly enlightened or not, and we have lived with him for many years. Still, a suspicion somewhere goes on lurking. How have you recognized?"

The man said: "I have been serving tea and breakfast and food to thousands of people. I have been watching thousands of people, and I have never come across a man who has looked with such deep love at the teacup. I could not help but recognize. I know all sorts of people passing from here but I have never seen anybody looking at the teacup with such love, as if somebody is looking at one's beloved."

Osho explains that this man must have had a totally different quality; he must be full of love. Otherwise, who looks at a teacup with such love? A teacup is a teacup. You have to use it. It is a utility. You do not look at it with love.

In fact, you do not look at your own wife with love. She is a utility, a teacup is just to be used and kept aside. You do not look at your husband with love. The husband is a means.

Love is possible only when everything becomes the end. Then even a teacup has the quality of the beloved.

Microcontroller

noreply@blogger.com (Shaik) — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 16:47:00 +0000

A single chip of microcontroller is obtained by integrating all components of a microcomputer in one IC package. Hence it will contain its own clock generator, ROM or EEPROM, RAM and I/O parts with some additional features like timer/counter. It can act as master as well as slave. It is more reliable and cost is less. For the memory and the less cost we are using P89V51RD2 controller.

The P89V51RD2 is an 80C51 microcontroller with 64 kB Flash and 1024 bytes of data RAM.A key feature of the P89V51RD2 is its X2 mode option. The design engineer can choose to run the application with the conventional 80C51 clock rate (12 clocks per machine cycle) or select the X2 mode (6 clocks per machine cycle) to achieve twice the throughput at the same clock frequency. Another way to benefit from this feature is to keep the same performance by reducing the clock frequency by half, thus dramatically reducing the EMI