TO HIS LOVE

THE island dreams under the dawn

And great boughs drop tranquillity;

The peahens dance on a smooth lawn,

A parrot sways upon a tree,

Raging at his own image in the enamelled sea.

THE island dreams under the dawn

And great boughs drop tranquillity;

The peahens dance on a smooth lawn,

A parrot sways upon a tree,

Raging at his own image in the enamelled sea.

THE FALLING OF THE LEAVES

AUTUMN is over the long leaves that love us,

And over the mice in the barley sheaves;

Yellow the leaves of the rowan above us,

And yellow the wet wild-strawberry leaves.

The hour of the waning of love has beset us,

And weary and worn are our sad souls now;

Let us patt, ere the season of passion forget us,

With a kiss and a tear on thy drooping brow.

EPHEMERA

‘YOUR eyes that once were never weary of mine

Are bowed in sotrow under pendulous lids,

Because our love is waning.’

And then She:

‘Although our love is waning, let us stand

By the lone border of the lake once more,

Together in that hour of gentleness

When the poor tired child, passion, falls asleep.

How far away the stars seem, and how far

Is our first kiss, and ah, how old my heart!’

Pensive they paced along the faded leaves,

While slowly he whose hand held hers replied:

‘Passion has often worn our wandering hearts.’

The woods were round them, and the yellow leaves

Fell like faint meteors in the gloom, and once

A rabbit old and lame limped down the path;

Autumn was over him: and now they stood

On the lone border of the lake once more:

Turning, he saw that she had thrust dead leaves

Gathered in silence, dewy as her eyes,

In bosom and hair.

‘Ah, do not mourn,’ he said,

‘That we are tired, for other loves await us;

Hate on and love through unrepining hours.

Before us lies eternity; our souls

Are love, and a continual farewell.

BUILDING A GOOD RELATION WITH YOUR PET DOGGY

From the moment you choose your puppy, there is some considerable urgency regarding socialization and training. There is no time to waste. Basically, an adult dog's temperament and behavior habits (both good and bad)are shaped during puppyhood—very early puppyhood. In fact, some puppies are well on their way to ruin by the time

they are just eight weeks old. It is especially easy to make horrendous mistakes when selecting a pup and during his first few days at home. Such mistakes usually have an indelible effect, influencing your pup's behavior and temperament for the rest of his life. This is not to say that unsocialized and untrained eight-week-old pups cannot be rehabilitated. They can, if you work quickly. But while it’s easy to prevent behavior and temperament problems from the beginning, rehabilitation can be both difficult and time-consuming, and it is unlikely that your pup will ever become the adult dog he or she could have been. Learn how to make intelligent choices when selecting your pup. Learn how to implement a course of errorless housetraining and errorless chewtoy-training the moment your puppy arrives at her new home. Any house soiling or chewing mistake you allow your puppy to make is absolute silliness and absolute seriousness: silliness because you are creating lots of future headaches for yourself, and seriousness because millions of dogs are euthanized each year simply because their owners did not know how to housetrain or chewtoy-train them.

If your pup is ever left unsupervised indoors he will most certainly chew household articles and soil your house. Although these teeny accidents do little damage in themselves, they set the precedent for your puppy's choice of toys and toilets for many months to come. You should treat any puppy house soiling or house destruction mistake as a potential disaster, since it predicts numerous future mistakes from a dog with larger bladder and bowels and much more destructive jaws. Many owners begin to notice their puppy's destructiveness by the time he is four to five months old, when the pup is characteristically relegated outdoors. Destruction is the product of a puppy's boredom, lack of supervision, and a search for entertainment. Natural inquisitiveness prompts the lonely pup to dig, bark, and escape in his quest for some form of occupational therapy to pass the day in solitary confinement. Once the neighbors complain about the dog's incessant barking and periodic escapes, the dog is often further confined to a garage or basement. Usually though, this is only a temporary measure until the dog is surrendered to a local animal shelter to play the lotto of life. Fewer than 25 percent of surrendered dogs are adopted, of which about half are returned as soon as the new owners discover their adopted adolescent's annoying problems. The above summarizes the fate of many dogs. This is especially sad because all these simple problems could be prevented so easily. Housetraining and chewtoy-training are hardly rocket science. But you do need to know what to do. And you need to know what to do before you bring your puppy home.
As soon as your puppy comes home, the clock is running. Within just three months, your puppy will need to  meet six crucial developmental deadlines. If your puppy fails to meet any of these deadlines, he is unlikely to achieve his full potential. In terms of your dog's behavior and temperament, you will probably be playing catch-up for the rest of your dog's life. Most important of all, you simply cannot afford to neglect the socialization and bite inhibition deadlines.

UPON GOD

I PASSED along the water’s edge below the humid trees,

My spirit rocked in evening light, the rushes round my knees,

My spirit rocked in sleep and sighs; and saw the moorfowl pace

All dripping on a grassy slope, and saw them cease to chase

Each other round in circles, and heard the eldest speak:

Who holds the world between His bill and made us strong or weak

Is an undying moorfowl, and He lives beyond the sky.

The rains are from His dripping wing, the moonbeams from His eye.

I passed a little further on and heard a lotus talk:

Who made the world and ruleth it, He hangeth on a stalk,

For I am in His image made, and all this tinkling tide

Is but a sliding drop of rain between His petals wide.

A little way within the gloom a roebuck raised his eyes

Brimful of starlight, and he said: The Stamper of the Skies,

He is a gentle roebuck; for how else, I pray, could He

Conceive a thing so sad and soft, a gentle thing like me?

I passed a little further on and heard a peacock say:

Who made the grass and made the worms and made my feathers gay,

He is a monstrous peacock, and He waveth all the night

His languid tail above us, lit with myriad spots of light.

A 10.30pm WALK

A 10.30pm walk

Tonight at 10:30 I went out

for my walk. In the distance

I heard a major commotion

of geese. At first I thought

a flock might fly overhead,

though the hour was far too late

for geese to be aloft.

But the sound wasn’t moving.

I heard a train’s rumble,

then its mournful horn.

A freight was crossing

the railroad bridge

over the Fox River

close to where the geese

were over nighting.

As I turned around toward home

I still could hear them fret and scold

in chaotic counterpoint with

the diesel’s basso continuo.

And the stars tonight burned

bright holes in the sky, decorating

bare tree branches overhead

like lingering holiday lighting.

After the train had rumbled off

to where nocturnal trains all go,

the neighborhood assumed a hush

perturbed only by my footsteps.

Hardly anything is quieter

than distant sleeping geese

and star-bespeckled trees.

SPEED OF ELECTRICITY

Speed of electricity

Free electrons in a conductor material are pulled from one atom to another one and so on. By moving that extremely short distances in the case of being forced through electricity, the electricity itself develops a speed of around 320,000 km/h.

As the electrons are moving they temporarily rotate around each new centre. We already know an electron carries a negative charge of electricity and so the electron flow (current flow) is assumed to be from negative to positive.

Electron drift

The rate of drifting of the free electrons from atom to atom determines the amount of current. To create a drift of electrons through a circuit we must have an electrical pressure, the voltage. The more electrons the stronger the current.

That means i.e. in the case of a starter battery, the greater the concentration of electrons at a battery, the higher the pressure between the electrons and the greater that pressure is, the greater is the flow of electrons.

Volts, Amperes, Ohms, Watts

The pressure between the electrons, namely voltage, is measured in volts (V).

One unit of volt is the Potential Difference (P. D.) between two points of a conductor by a constant current flow of one ampere (1 A) when the power dissipated between these points is equal to one watt (1W).

The flow of electrons, the current, is measured in ampere (A).

One unit of ampere is that constant current (I) that (if maintained in two parallel rectilinear conductors of infinite length of negligible cross section and placed at a distance of one meter apart in vacuum) would produce between the (these) conductors a force equal to 2 × 10−7 Newton per meter length.

Opposing the flow of electrons is the resistance of the conductors measured in ohms (?).

One unit of electrical resistance (R) is the resistance between two points of a conductor if a constant

Potential Difference of one volt (1 V) applied between these points produces a current of one ampere (1A) and the conductor isn’t the source of an electromotive force.

Some materials offer a bigger resistance to the electron flow than others. For example the resistance of iron is higher than the resistance of copper, but the resistance of silver is less than the one of copper.

Also the length and the size of a wire are important facts to look for in that case.

The electric power (P) is the product of voltage (E) and current (I) and is measured in watt (W).

P = E × I; (P = U × I)

Electrical loads such as i. e. electric motors, coils and bulbs will consume power.

Ohm’s Law

The Ohm’s Law is the understanding of the mathematical relationship between voltage (E), current (I)

and resistance (R) in an electrical circuit. Each and every one affects the other one.

All that is the same and that means:

The Potential Difference (PD = voltage) in a conductor is under constant conditions equal to the current flow multiplied with resistance (oppose directed to the current) of the conductor.

The current through a conductor under constant conditions is proportional to the difference of potential across the conductor.

Types of electrical circuits:

We do know three general types of electrical circuits:

Series circuit; Parallel circuit; Series−parallel circuit. For all circuits there are a need for an electricity source (battery), electrical equipment (switch, bulb, etc.) and electrical conductors (wires) to connect the equipment with the source.

Series circuit: The current passes from the power source to each device in turn and then flows back to the other terminal of the source (only one path has the current). The amount of current will be the same in all

parts of the circuit.

Parts of a simple electrical circuit:

− source of electricity

− switch

− cable

− consumer

Parallel circuit: One terminal of each device is connected to a common conductor, which leads to one

terminal of the source. There is more than one path for the current to flow and therefore each and every

path has a separate amount of current flow depending on the equipment by forcing a weaker current flow or

stronger one.

Parts of a circuit:

− one source of electricity

− cable and eventually cable connectors

− the quantity and kind of switches and consumer depends on the kind of the circuit

Series−parallel

Series−parallel circuit: Such kinds of circuits have electrical devices connected in series and others connected in parallel. That means we do have more than one path for the current to flow.

Measuring resistance

To find the total resistance (RT) of a series circuit is to add the resistance of each device.

This means as well, when a number of resistance’s are connected together in series the current is the same in every part of the circuit.

In series the P. D. (Potential Difference) across each resistance is in general different. The overall P. D.

is equal to the sum of all P. D. across the individual resistances

In a parallel circuit we do have more than one path for the current flow. Therefore the total resistance of all the devices will be less than the resistance of any single device. Resistance is the ability of any wire or electrical component to oppose the flow of current.

Conductance is the reciprocal (opposite) of resistance.