What is Blog?????

A blog is a type of website or division of a website. Blogs are typically maintained by an individual with regular entries of commentary, descriptions of events, or other material such as graphics or video. Entries are usually displayed in reverse-chronological order. Blog can also be used as a verb, meaning to maintain or add content to a blog.

Most blogs are interactive, allowing visitors to leave comments and even message each other via widgets on the blogs and it is this interactivity that distinguishes them from other static websites.

Many blogs provide comments or news on a particular subject; others function as more personal online diaries. A typical blog combines text, images, and links to other blogs, Web pages, and other media related to its topic. The ability of readers to leave comments in an interactive format is an important part of many blogs. Most blogs are primarily textual, although some focus on art (Art blog), photographs (photoblog), videos (video blogging), music (MP3 blog), and audio (podcasting). Microblogging is another type of blogging, featuring very short posts.

A new era for Tipplers

The Sustainable City Future Committee today recommended to adopt immediate management arrangements for South Stradbroke Island Resort when Council takes over as custodian on 2 March 2009.

Committee Chair Councillor Peter Young said it was important that Council retain some services for the precinct in the interim.

“It is proposed to retain the kiosk at Tipplers to provide the camping ground and boating community with essential supplies,” said Cr Young.

“Caretakers will be installed on the site to secure and maintain structurally sound assets until such time as planning for the area has been completed and the former Club B structures have been removed.

“The Committee’s recommendation includes looking into the possibility of utilising some of the existing facilities in some way to provide short term assistance to those doing it tough during the current economic conditions.”

Mayor Ron Clarke said Council’s resolution to purchase South Stradbroke Island Resort and Club B was aimed at securing the future of the Tipplers Passage Precinct and retaining its unique natural environment.

“The island is an environmental gem, consistent with Council’s Bold Future vision of green, blue and gold, and a long-time tourist destination that has retained much of its natural environment,” said Cr Clarke.

“The Master Plan vision is for the leased areas, incorporating the existing Tipplers site, to be a family-orientated environmental destination.

“While the island will be moving into a new era, it is important to acknowledge the Grollo family, the resort’s former owners, and manager Garry Klein for their contribution to tourism on the Gold Coast over the past 25 years.

“Council will now spend the next 12 months or so planning for the central part of Tipplers to become a community/recreational hub, with a distinct ‘nature-based’ appeal.”

Divisional Councillor Grant Pforr said the hub could include an environmental and cultural heritage education centre.

“In line with Council’s environmental vision for the island, research could possibly be undertaken on the feasibility of ‘green power’ alternatives, such as tidal energy,” said Cr Pforr.

Hundred Years War

The predefined definition of the Golden Rule is that those with the gold make the rules. In the other words, those with the gold have the power as well as those with the power have the gold. The History books will reveal the general reasons for war such as freedom from adversity or freedom from religion. But the real issue for any war is the thirst for power and control; and the means to finance them are the economic Nations will endure years of fighting for power and control. The European countries like France and England fought each other for more than a hundred years to have control of the Channel trade routes. So this century of warring was known as The Hundred Years' War and is the longest war in record history. The war has been began in 1337 when King Edward III invaded Normandy and ended in 1453 when France won the Battle of Bordeaux. Even though, it was not a hundred years of constant battle; there were periods of truces One cause for the Hundred Years' War was the claim to the French throne. He became a French regent and upon Charles VI's death, the King of England would succeed to a dual monarchy. Consequently, the archer could destroy the effectiveness of a French Calvary charge. King Richard II was not a good general. Among the other European countries, France was the richest country in Europe and its army was much larger than England's. But the political conditions of 1442-53 they might have able to resist the bribes, threats, and sanctions employed by a stronger and wealthier monarchy. The English people occupied the side of a small hill, while the heavy number of French men-at-arms and hired Genoese crossbowmen were at the foot of the hill on a plain. However the archers were below the knight on the social ladder, they were not ashamed to fight side by side. Subsequently, France gradually gained control of the Channel trade routes The war soldiers were happy to receive a salary and eager to fight on French soil. The maintenance of a dual kingdom became a financial strain and England was far in debt on military wages. Or France would raid unprotected towns and villages, take what they could, then burn them to the ground. The English pastures produced fleeces that were the envy of Europe which Flanders depended on for its wool and linen market.

Music

Music is an art form consisting of sound and silence expressed through time. Elements of sound as used in music are pitch, rhythm and sonic qualities of timbre, articulation, dynamics, and texture.

The creation, performance, significance and even the definition of music, varies according to culture and social context. Music ranges from strictly organized compositions and performances to improvisational or aleatoric forms. For purposes of discussion and exploration of the topic, music is divided into genres and sub-genres, although the dividing lines and relationships between music genres are often unclear and/or controversial. Within "the arts", music can be classified as a performing art, a fine art, or an auditory art form.

Music may also involve generative forms in time through the construction of patterns and combinations of natural stimuli, principally sound. Music may be used for artistic or aesthetic, communicative, entertainment, ceremonial or religious purposes and by many composers purely as an academic instrument for study.

Weather and climate

The atmosphere of the Earth serves as a key factor in sustaining the planetary ecosystem. The thin layer of gases that envelops the Earth is held in place by the planet's gravity. Dry air consists of 78% nitrogen, 21% oxygen, 1% argon and other inert gases, carbon dioxide, etc.; but air also contains a variable amount of water vapor. The atmospheric pressure declines steadily with altitude, and has a scale height of about 8 kilometers at the Earth's surface: the height at which the atmospheric pressure has declined. The ozone layer of the Earth's atmosphere plays an important role in depleting the amount of ultraviolet (UV) radiation that reaches the surface. As DNA is readily damaged by UV light, this serves to protect life at the surface. The atmosphere also retains heat during the night, thereby reducing the daily temperature extremes.

Terrestrial weather occurs almost exclusively in the lower part of the atmosphere, and serves as a convective system for redistributing heat. Ocean currents are another important factor in determining climate, particularly the major underwater thermohaline circulation which distributes heat energy from the equatorial oceans to the Polar Regions. These currents help to moderate the differences in temperature between winter and summer in the temperate zones. Also, without the redistributions of heat energy by the ocean currents and atmosphere, the tropics would be much hotter, and the polar regions much colder.

Calculator

A calculator is a machine for performing calculations. Although modern calculators often incorporate a general purpose computer, the device is calculated for performing specific operations, rather than for flexibility. Modern calculators are more convenient than most computers, though some Pads are comparable in amount to handheld calculators.

In the past, some calculators were as huge as today's computers. The first automatic calculators were mechanical desktop devices which were replaced by electromechanical desktop calculators, and then by electronic devices using first sung valves, then transistors, then hard-wired integrated circuit logic. New calculators are electrically powered and come in innumerable shapes and sizes varying from cheap, give-away, credit-card sized models to more sturdy adding machine-like models with built-in printers.

Gear

A gear is a wheel with teeth around its circumference, the purpose of the teeth being to mesh with similar teeth on another mechanical device possibly another gear wheel so that force can be transmitted between the two strategies in a direction tangential to their surfaces. A non-toothed wheel can transmit some tangential force but will slip if the force is large; teeth put off slippage and permit the transmission of large forces.

A gear can mesh with any device having teeth friendly with the gear's teeth. Such devices include racks and other non-rotating policy; however, the most common condition is for a gear to be in mesh with another gear. In this case revolution of one of the gears necessarily causes the other gear to rotate. In this way, rotational motion can be transferred from one position to another. While gears are sometimes used simply for this reason to transmit rotation to another shaft perhaps their most significant feature is that, if the gears are of asymmetrical sizes, a mechanical advantage is also achieved, so that the rotational speed, and torque, of the second gear are dissimilar from that of the first. In this way, gears provide a means of increasing or decreasing a turning speed, or a torque.