I will explain the main difference between a dedicated server and a VPS.
What is a dedicated server
A dedicated server refers to the exclusive use of a web server or computer that can be provided by most hosting companies. A dedicated server is usually needed for a website that has a lot of traffic or high demands. For example, a site that must handle up to 20 million hits a day. The user can configure it and has full access and control of all its resources.
What is a Virtual Private Server (VPS)
A virtual server that appears to the user as a dedicated server. But that is actually installed on a computer serving multiple websites. A single computer can have several VPSs, each one with its own operating system (OS) that runs the hosting software for a particular user.
So the resources of a Virtual Private Server are shared between between all users. Therefore may not be able to handle a website with high traffic as resources are split between different websites or hosting accounts.
Finally, The VPS still has its own ram, processor and storage. But it’s a virtualised slice from the main server so resources are split with other users. VPS servers are great because they are quick to setup, easy to maintain and are low cost.
Where as a dedicated server is a full website server available with its own ram, processor and storage and the user has full control. These tend to be very expensive with high data and hosting costs.
Unless a website has high traffic or high demands, VPS tends to be a far more cost effective option. Plus there is plenty of offers and promotions by most hosting companies on there hosting plans.
Hopefully this post on explaining the difference between a dedicated server and a VPS was helpful. Please feel free to leave any comments or suggestions below and thanks for reading!


Illinois Sees First West Nile Death
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (KMOX) — The Illinois Department of Public Health (IDPH) is reporting the first West Nile virus related death in Illinois for 2011.
A Cook County man in his 60s, who had underlying health conditions, was diagnosed with West Nile virus in August and died earlier this month.
“Although temperatures have been cooler recently, we continue to see West Nile virus activity across Illinois,” said Illinois Department of Public Health Director Dr. Damon T. Arnold. “People need to continue to protect themselves against mosquito bites by using insect repellent or staying indoors.”
Currently, the Illinois Department of Public Health is reporting eight human cases of West Nile virus in Illinois. The first human cases of West Nile virus were reported on August 19 and occurred in a Cook County man in his 80s and a Franklin County man in his 30s.
This year, Missouri has reported only one positive human case of the West Nile virus. The St. Louis County Health Department announced earlier this month that a 12-year-old Wellston boy was briefly hospitalized after catching the virus. He has since recovered.
West Nile virus is transmitted through the bite of a mosquito that has picked up the virus by feeding on an infected bird.
Common West Nile virus symptoms include fever, nausea, headache and muscle aches. Symptoms may last from a few days to a few weeks. However, four out of five people infected with West Nile virus will not show any symptoms. In rare cases, severe illness including meningitis or encephalitis, or even death, can occur. People older than 50 are at higher risk for severe illness from West Nile Virus.
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PLYMOUTH COUNTY, MASSACHUSETTS SOIL SURVEY UPDATE
Carver Soils: Very deep, excessively drained soils formed in thick deposits of coarse and very coarse sands. Carver soils are in broad areas on outwash plains, terraces and deltas.
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Carver Pedon Description 2325201
Carver Pedon Description 2325903
Carver Pedon Description 2325905
Unit (s): 252A, 252B, 252C, 252E, 259A, 259B, 259C
Map Unit Phases:
Classification: Mesic, coated, Spodic Quartzipsamments.
Drainage Class: Excessively drained.
Parent Material: Coarse sand eolian deposits underlain by fluvial deposits.
Permeability: Very rapid throughout.
Available Water Holding Capacity: Very low.
Soil Reaction: Extremely acid to moderately acid throughout.
Depth to Bedrock: Greater than 65 inches.
Seasonal High Watertable: Depth: greater than 5 feet. Type: apparent.
Hydrologic Group: A.
Hydric Soil: No.
Flooding/Ponding Potential: Frequency and Type: None.
Potential Inclusions: Plymouth, Windsor, Merrimac and Hinckley soils are similar inclusions. . Moderately well drained Deerfield and Sudbury soils are on lower elevations, adjacent to poorly drained Wareham and Pipestone soils.
Agriculture: Poorly suited for most agricultural uses due to droughtiness. Irrigation is needed for optimal yield.
Woodland: Poorly suited for woodland productivity due to droughtiness. Trees commonly growing on Carver soils are Pitch Pine, Scrub Oak, and White Pine.
Development: Carver soils have few limitations for development. They are associated with aquifer recharge areas and measures should be taken to protect the aquifer.
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Each fan gets a characteristic curve, also known as P-Q curve, which indicates the correlation between fan air flow rate and static pressure.
Fan’s air flow rate is total amount of air passing through fan itself per unit of time, the three most common measures for the air flow used are Cubic Feet per Minute (CFM), cubic Meters per hour (m3 / hr), and liters per minute (l / min).
The maximum air flow rate at one end of the curve refers to the maximum air flow rate that the fan can provide in a total free and open space without any impedance.
The static pressure is the resistance that fan can overcome; the maximum static pressure refers to the measured wind pressure in the fully enclosed channel.
While the fan is installed in different systems or products, actual airflow blowing through may vary due to flow impedance from the system, which is known as “fan’s operating point”. The air flow rate at the operating point is the amount of air actually passing through, which can be calculated by CFD simulation or by experiment with wind tunnel equipment.


This educational course is based on readings from The Office on Child Abuse and Neglect Children’s Bureau publication:Protecting Children in Families Affected by Substance Use Disorders. There are many factors that place children and families at risk when there is substance use within the family. This educational course will cover prevention and treatment strategies to address these risk factors. This education covers the treatment planning skill of the Eight Counselor Skill Groups ascribed by NAADAC and NCC AP.
- Demonstrate knowledge of how parental substance use disorders affect children;
- Explain the nature of substance use disorders;
- Describe how to treat substance use disorders;
- Describe home examination, screening, and assessment of substance use disorders.
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Bania, also spelled Baniya, (from Sanskrit vāṇijya, “trade”), Indian caste consisting generally of moneylenders or merchants, found chiefly in northern and western India; strictly speaking, however, many mercantile communities are not Banias, and, conversely, some Banias are not merchants. In the fourfold division of Indian society, the innumerable Bania subcastes, such as the Agarwala, are classed as members of the Vaishya, or commoner, class. In religious affiliation they are generally Vaishnavas (worshippers of the Hindu god Vishnu) or Jainas and tend to be strict vegetarians, teetotallers, and orthodox in observing ceremonial purity. The Indian leader Mohandas Gandhi belonged to a Gujarati Bania caste.
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Agarwālā, important mercantile caste in India, belonging to that group of merchants, bankers, landowners, and shopkeepers that are called Bania in northern and western India. According to caste tradition, its members are descended from a nāga,or snake goddess; hence, they do not molest snakes, and they observe a special…
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Gary, Indiana was a boom town. It literally rose from the sand dunes; transforming a barren landscape into a small city within a matter of a few years. Many of the first buildings were developed by the steel company. Others were developed by land developers and contractors who took advantage of the influx of people and businesses.
Schmidt Brothers, a contracting firm from Chicago, who were building many of the early Gary structures, hired Joseph Silsbee to design a hotel. The early hotels in Gary operated more like single room occupancy or SRO buildings than traditional overnight hotels; becoming long-term living arrangments for unmarried workers. The Schmidt Brothers' Hotel was occupied primarily by employees of the General Electric Company. After only a couple years, it was then used by the City of Gary and the steel company as their first hospital. Like many of these early buildings, it is no longer standing.


In their Nature paper, TSP researchers also analyzed the patterns of genetic changes seen among different subgroups of lung adenocarcinoma patients, including smokers.
About 90 percent of lung cancer patients have significant histories of cigarette smoking, but 10 percent report no use of tobacco. In the TSP study, the number of genetic mutations detected in tumor samples from smokers was significantly higher than in tumors from never-smokers. Smokers' tumors contained as many as 49 mutations, while none of the never-smokers' tumors had more than five mutations. More work is needed to determine what these differences may mean for the management of lung cancer. However, doctors do know that in some other types of cancer, high mutation levels may cause a tumor to spread rapidly and/or be resistant to treatment.
"Our findings underscore the value of systematic, large-scale studies for exploring cancer. We now must move forward to apply this approach to even larger groups of samples and a wider range of cancers," said Richard K. Wilson, Ph.D., a senior author of the paper and director of the Genome Sequencing Center at Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis.
The TSP team also included researchers from Baylor College of Medicine, Houston; Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston; Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York; the University of Cologne, Germany; the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor; and the University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston.
"Clearly, much still remains to be discovered. We have just begun to realize the tremendous potential of large-scale, genomic studies to unravel the many mysteries of cancer," said Richard Gibbs, Ph.D., a co-author of the lung adenocarcinoma paper and director of the Human Genome Sequencing Center at Baylor College of Medicine. <
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The Durable (Water)Melon
The origin of watermelons date back as far as 5,000 years ago, in the deserts of South Africa. This melon had the ability to grow in drought-ridden conditions and to store water within the fruit; hence the name watermelon. It was a great food source for some ancient African tribes to have as they ventured across deserts. However, the taste was much more on the bitter side. Around 2000 BCE, the watermelon also made appearances in the burial chambers of ancient Egyptian royalty. In some of the hieroglyphics written on the walls of the burial chambers, the watermelon is depicted.


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The International Standard Wine Number or ISWN, similar to the ISBN for books, was a coding scheme intended to give a unique identifier for each wine worldwide. The ISWN system had a consistent unique code for each wine producer (ISWN-P), each wine brand or product (ISWN-W), each vintage variant of a wine product (ISWN-V), and the bottle variants (ISWN-B). The ISWN was allocated by the ISWN Organization on the basis of a global reference database of wine producers and wines worldwide. The database was improved through wine producers updating their own data with the ISWN Manager module. The ISWN Organization was a Non-profit organization sponsored by the wine industry.
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Professor Darius A. Spieth's research restores attention to the life and work of Frank Hayden (1936-1988). Hayden was a Notre Dame graduate (MFA '59) and a leading African-American mid-century sculptor of the South. The uniqueness of Hayden’s art is defined by his place at the intersection of Catholic faith, the Civil Rights movement, and the combination of modernist aesthetics with solid craftsmanship. Spieth's richly illustrated talk presents a visual overview of Hayden’s most important sculptural works – executed in wood, bronze, and fiberglass – from the key decades of his career, ranging from the late 1950s to the late 1980s. Hayden loved his work to be accessible and to serve the public. Many of his sculptures, including some of the nation's first public monuments to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., can still be found in open spaces and churches in southern Louisiana, as well as in public and private collections.
This talk is free and open to all. The program is generously supported by Percy A. Pierre.


Güssing or the alliance between economy and ecology
Développement Durable.com | Elsa Sidawy | 06.21.10
Güssing is first of all the story of a change. Twenty years ago, two thirds of the working population in this town of 4,300 inhabitants in Eastern Austria were unemployed. This situation was all the more difficult to handle that the cost of fossil fuels was high. But thanks to the EU’s financial support and mayor Peter Vadasz’s initiative, the creation of a European Centre for Renewable Energies in 1995 was the turning point of the Güssing energy policy.
The town chose to build mainly on its biomass: instead of letting its forests uncared for, the town cleans them up and sustainably exploits the wood that cannot be used by the industry. Wood chips are exploited by a power station thanks to a gasification process. Organic waste from maize, clover and grass are converted into biogas, and rape into biodiesel. Solar energy also has a part to play in this energy mix since water-heaters, photovoltaic and thermal panels are used as well.
As a result, CO2 emissions diminished by two thirds and the town is so independent in terms of energy that it produces more than it consumes, the surplus bringing in 20 million Euros per year. This change in terms of energy production created 1,500 new jobs and encouraged companies attracted by costs stability to settle. Icing on the cake: 300 to 400 tourists visit the town each week to discover this brazen success. For Reinhard Koch, director of the centre, named by Développement durable le journal (Sustainable development newspaper), the “change for renewable energies considerably improved the quality of life in Güssing. Today young people picture themselves in the future here.”
A France 2 report
Photo credit: Town of Güssing
Translated by Oona Bijasson


Created to Worship
newly expanded and revised. Author Hughes Old presents an historical study of
the worship of Israel and the early church and traces the development of
worship through the period of the Reformation and beyond. These are the first
words of chapter one.
CREATED TO WORSHIP
We worship God because God created us to worship him. Worship is at the
center of our existence, at the heart of our reason for being. God created us
to be his image—an image that would reflect his glory. In fact, the whole
creation was brought into existence to reflect the divine glory. The psalmist
tells us that "the heavens are telling the glory of God; and the firmament
proclaims his handiwork" (Psalm 19:1). The apostle Paul in the prayer with
which he begins the epistle to the Ephesians makes it clear that God created
us to praise him.
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ,
who has blessed us in Christ with every spiritual blessing
in the heavenly places, even as he chose us in him before
the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and
blameless before him. He destined us in love to be his
sons through Jesus Christ, according to the purpose of his
will, to the praise of his glorious grace . . . (Eph. 1:3-6)
This prayer says much about the worship of the earliest Christians. It shows
the consciousness that the first Christians had of the ultimate significance
of their worship. They understood themselves to have bee destined and
appointed to live to the praise of God’s glory (Eph. 1:12).
— Hughes Oliphant Old, WORSHIP: REFORMED ACCORDING TO SCRIPTURE, Revised and
Expanded Edition, Louisville: Westminster John Knox Press, 2002, p. 1. ISBN
Have a great day!
Director, Institute for Christian Worship
School of Church Music and Worship
Southern Baptist Theological Seminary


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(where the element in row and column is , not ). Thus an arbitrary element of is of the form
(sometimes denoted by or by ) and the product of two elements and (order matters) is where
The elements of are known as Hamiltonian quaternions.
Clearly the subspaces of generated by and by are subalgebras isomorphic to and respectively. is customarily identified with the corresponding subalgebra of . (We shall see in a moment that there are other and less obvious embeddings of in .) The real numbers commute with all the elements of , and we have
for and .
If and , then
with equality only if
which means that qualifies as a normed algebra when we give it the norm .
Because the norm of any nonzero quaternion is real and nonzero, we have
which shows that any nonzero quaternion has an inverse:
Other embeddings of into
One can use any non-zero to define an embedding of into . If is a natural embedding of into , then the embedding:
is also an embedding into . Because is an associative algebra, it is obvious that:
and with the distributive laws, it is easy to check that
Rotations in 3-space
Let us write
An arbitrary element of can be expressed , for some real numbers such that . The permutation of thus gives rise to a permutation of the real sphere. It turns out that that permutation is a rotation. Its axis is the line through and , and the angle through which it rotates the sphere is . If rotations and correspond to quaternions and respectively, then clearly the permutation corresponds to the composite rotation . Thus this mapping of onto is a group homomorphism. Its kernel is the subset of , and thus it comprises a double cover of . The kernel has a geometric interpretation as well: two unit vectors in opposite directions determine the same axis of rotation.
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UNL art student Sara McDonald is sharing her skills with the next generation of artists.
It's all part of UNL's community art class.
McDonald says, "We're not just painting. We're coming in and teaching the kids about the elements and principles of art and kind of get them into a basic understanding of what we do as students."
McDonald is paired up with McPhee Elementary 4th grader Mariah Chamberlin.
Together, they're working on a new mural for the school.
Chamberlin says, "I didn't know what some of the words meant, how to paint that way. I would have just painted it like I usually would but she taught me how to dab and everything."
Teacher Sarah Bumm says art can help students who struggle in more traditional subjects.
She says, "A lot of times it's the kids that maybe aren't quite as successful in the academic areas and they'll be able to come in here and still have a voice, no matter what their past experiences have been."
The teachers here say this is more than just a chance for the kids to get hands on with art.
Each grade gets a chance to work on the mural so when it's complete it represents the entire school and brings the students together.
When the mural is complete, it will hang in either the library of cafeteria at McPhee Elementary.


Chapter 3.2: Establishment of Goals and Objectives for Job Access Planning
Collectively, stakeholders determine mutual interests and outcomes for moving people from welfare to work. Working through this exercise in the beginning helps to develop a consensus among stakeholders and sets the direction for the committee. Goals such as "to identify unmet transportation needs" or "to maximize existing resources" are broad goals. As stakeholders become more familiar with the subject, goals and objectives become better focused to identify specific issues. Some communities have found that beginning with easily implemented, short-term strategies helps to develop success early in job access planning and gains trust among stakeholders.
Not all issues that are brought to the planning process are equally important or can be addressed in the same timetable. Making a list of the issues and prioritizing is one way to approach the most important tasks. Many of the issues identified in this process are related to the following:
- Job Locations - these change as a person moves from an initial, sometimes part-time job to a full-time one, from a lower paying to a higher paying job and /or from one close to home to one further away
- Time of Job
- Transportation to Childcare
- Transportation Options - access to an auto or to transportation services


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Blessed Juan Diego
Feast Day: December 09
Born: 1474 :: Died: 1548
Juan Diego was born in Mexico and lived a simple life as a weaver, farmer and laborer. Juan was a member of the Chichimeca people (an Indian tribe). They called him the talking eagle. His Christian name was Juan Diego.
On December 9, 1531, Juan rose before dawn to walk fifteen miles to Mexico City to attend daily Mass. As he passed Tepeyac Hill, he heard music and saw a glowing cloud encircled by a rainbow. A woman's voice called him to the top of the hill.
There he saw a beautiful young woman dressed like an Aztec princess. She said she was the Virgin Mary and Mother of the true God. She asked Juan to tell the bishop to build a church on that site, so she could be present to help and defend those were suffering and in pain.
After Juan's mission was completed, he became a hermit. He spent the rest of his life in prayer and penance.
His little hut was near the first chapel that was built on Tepeyac Hill. He was greatly respected and parents wished their children would grow up to be holy like Juan Diego.
Juan took care of the little church and met the pilgrims who began to come there to honor their Mother of Guadalupe. He would show them the miraculous tilma or cloak that preserves Mary's beautiful image.
The pope personally visited the magnificent church of Our Lady of Guadalupe and prayed there for all of the people of Mexico.
He prayed especially for those who were killed during the terrible persecution of the Church in the early part of this century. An he prayed for all the pilgrims who come to this beautiful church with such faith in the Mother of God.
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The Digital Fossils meeting has just ended its three day meeting held in the Museum fur Naturkunde in Berlin, organised by Heinrich Mallison...and what a splendid meeting! It seems that fossils have truly made their way into the 21st Century.
In the past ten years a series of image acquisition developments have dramatically increased the rate, size and format of data recoverable from fossils. The elegant simplicity of a line drawing often tried to capture the complex three-dimensional (3D) nuances of a fossil with the hindering constraints of a two-dimensional (2D) medium. Photography was rapidly adopted as a cost-affective medium from which multiple images might project the complexities of form. This simple and economic approach has now been heavily augmented by 3D photogrammetric techniques. These basic starting-points for data acquisition are still used in the acquisition of morphological data in palaeontology and are now augmented with the advances being made in photogrammetry. The digital revolution in photography has almost certainly advanced the ease of data acquisition, but increasing file size and sheer numbers have sunk many ‘standard’ 500 megabyte hard drives. External drives of 1-4 terabytes have become the norm as sinks for such digital photograph databases, but larger digital files are now being generated by a host of new imaging techniques being applied to the study and analysis of fossil samples.


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The Collinsville Community Unit School District’s budget is developed annually and is designed to meet the requirements of local, state and federal government regulations. The budget, which is adopted by the board of education, outlines the plan for accomplishing the district’s fiscal goals each year. The Director of Business Affairs develops the tentative budget which contains anticipated revenues and expenditures as well as a statement of estimated cash expected to be on hand at the beginning and end of the fiscal year. The tentative budget is placed on display 30 days prior to a public budget hearing. During the hearing, details of the tentative budget are explained and the public may ask questions or provide input. The budget is then voted on and adopted (or rejected) by the board of education at a public board meeting held after the budget hearing. Illinois law requires that the budget be adopted by the board of education prior to the end of the first quarter of the fiscal year (September 30).
Like 90% of Illinois school districts, the Collinsville school district uses the cash basis of accounting. The district undergoes a thorough financial audit each year. Results of the financial audit are presented to the board of education both verbally and in writing.
Current budgets for both Collinsville Community Unit School District No. 10 and Collinsville Area Vocational Center are available above.
Additional information about the mechanics of a school district budget can be found in the Illinois State Board of Education’s A Guide to Understanding the Illinois School District Budget Process document at http://www.isbe.net/finance/.


Synopsis: No one can escape a sense of awe when reflecting on the workings of the mind: we see, we hear, we feel, we are aware of the world around us. But what is the mind? What do we mean when we say we are “aware” of something? What is this peculiar state in our heads, at once utterly familiar and bewilderingly mysterious, that we call awareness or consciousness?
In Physics in Mind, eminent biophysicist Werner R. Loewenstein argues that to answer these questions, we must first understand the physical mechanisms that underlie the workings of the mind. And so begins an exhilarating journey along the sensory data stream of the brain, which shows how our most complex organ processes the vast amounts of information coming in through our senses to create a coherent, meaningful picture of the world. Bringing information theory to bear on recent advances in the neurosciences, Loewenstein reveals a web of immense computational power inside the brain. He introduces the revolutionary idea that quantum mechanics could be fundamental to how our minds almost instantaneously deal with staggering amounts of information, as in the case of the information streaming through our eyes.
Combining cutting-edge research in neuroscience and physics, Loewenstein presents an ambitious hypothesis about the parallel processing of sensory information that is the heart, hub, and pivot of the cognitive brain. Wide-ranging and brimming with insight, Physics in Mind breaks new ground in our understanding of how the mind works.
Published: January 2013 | ISBN-13: 978-0465029846
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Alexander Papagos was born in 1883. He became an officer in the Greek army in 1906, and rose rapidly through the ranks. In 1935 he became minister of war, and the following year he was made army chief of staff. He was commander in chief of the Greek army in World War II and gained great prestige, particularly for the Albanian campaign when the Italian's under Mussolini invaded and were repelled by the inspired Greek army . In 1949 he led the army in the final stages of the war against the Communist rebels, and by 1950 he had become field marshal and head of the armed forces. He resigned in May, 1950, and formed the conservative Greek Rally party with the help of the Americans who viewed him as the alternative to the right-wing which was riddled with fascists and Nazi collaborators. In 1952 he became prime minister, serving until his death in Oct.1955. He strengthened Greek ties with the West and developed the country's economy. He concluded the 1954 alliance with Yugoslavia and Turkey and improved Greek relations with Bulgaria and Albania. Whether he was a great general depends on your viewpoint. True he defeated the communists but really he was in the right place at the right time. The communists were pretty much defeated and the Americans had just given the Greeks millions in military equipment. Though he got some credit for his leadership in the Albania campaign it has been written that he fought the war from the Hotel Grande Bretagne in Athens and it was the individual valor of the Greek troops that defeated the Italians. As for his years as the Prime Minister it was the Americans who got him elected and it was the Americans who he answered to, and their money made his job a lot easier. Certainly he was a better choice for the country than the extreme right. Whether he was a better choice than the parties of the center I suppose we will never know.
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What Is Electricity?
In the search for novel forms of superconductors — phases of matter that that conduct electrical present without loss — scientists are investigating materials that encompass multiple layers. You can convert mechanical vitality into electrical vitality, a generator does this. But you still need to put the identical amount of energy in. Scammers generally speak about perpetual movement in connection with free vitality however it doesn’t exist.
Scientists have fabricated a flexible material that lights up brightly when stretched and/or when an electric area is applied. The results show promise for the development of shiny, sustainable, … Researchers have established a low-cost methodology of magnetization reversal on perpendicularly magnetized ferromagnets. Not needing an exterior magnetic subject, the tactic brings reverse magnetization …
They are also cleaner sources of power that do not pollute the environment with carbon emissions. If you’ve a wire stuffed with copper atoms and need to induce a flow of electrons by way of it, all free electrons want somewhere to move in the identical common course. Copper is a good conductor, perfect for making costs circulate. If a circuit of copper wire is broken, the charges can’t circulate by way of the air, which may even forestall any of the charges towards the middle from going wherever. While energy sources like wind and solar are gaining floor, nuclear energy makes up about 19 % of the electricity produced within the United States, the world’s largest uranium client.


One of the tools I plan to use in my classroom next year is Kelso’s Choice. Kelso’s Choice is a conflict management skills program designed to make children independent problem solvers. Kelso the Frog is the mascot for the program and teaches children nine different ways to solve a small problem. I really like this program because it teaches the differences between small problems and big problems. Big problems are those that require an adult’s help because something serious is going on or someone may be hurt. This program empowers students to be problem solvers and peacemakers. Here are the nine choices for solving problems:
1. Go to another game
2. Wait and cool off
3. Make a deal
5. Tell them to stop
6. Talk it out
7. Share and take turns
8. Walk away
9. Ignore it
I LOVE that these choices include verbal and nonverbal ways to solve the problem. I think it’s so important to provide students with choices and empower them to solve their own problems. So, when children come to you with a small problem (that they want you to solve for them) you can ask them, “What two of Kelso’s choices did you try to solve the problem?”
The program has tons of great resources you can order on their website that I would LOVE, LOVE, LOVE to have for my classroom. They have DVDs, posters, puppets and even games to help teach Kelso’s Choices to your students. They also have a few free resources HERE and a grant program HERE. I am really hoping to have some of these resources for my classroom next year! In the meantime, I printed out a copy of the Kelso's Choice wheel ( I found the color version here) to introduce my kids to Kelso!
Does anyone use Kelso’s Choice in their classroom? I would love to hear your ideas and thoughts!


Cockell, Charles; Horneck, Gerda; Rettberg, Petra; Arendt, Jo; Scherer, Kerstin; Facius, Rainer and Gugg-Helminger, Anton
Human exposure to ultraviolet radiation at the Antipodes - a comparison between an Antarctic (67°S) and Arctic (75°N) location.
Polar Biology, 25(7) pp. 492–499.
We used ultraviolet radiation dosimeters to investigate human exposure at two polar latitudes with a 24-h photoperiod: at Rothera Station (UK) (67°S) and at a field camp in the Haughton impact structure in the Canadian High Arctic (75°N). Mean personal UV radiation exposure in the Antarctic location was 4.3 times greater than that in the Arctic location, even in the absence of ozone depletion. More than zenith angle accounted for the higher UV exposure. Widespread snow and ice covers, and probably less atmospheric pollution, caused higher personal exposures. Although the mean exposures were higher in the Antarctic location, the mean exposure ratio in the Antarctic (0.20-0.09) was similar to the value measured in the Arctic (0.27-0.09) on clear days. We use the Antarctic ratio to provide quantitative estimates of UV-radiation exposure for workers at the Geographical South Pole for the winter solstice under a constant 24-h photoperiod. Exposure ratios can be used to translate measurements of UV radiation by horizontally fixed spectroradiometers into estimates of the mean exposures expected in populations at polar latitudes, although variations between individuals are large. The data have implications for determining the UV exposures of indigenous high-latitude populations.
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I’M A VIRUS BY BRIDGET HEOS
Scary science is introduced with humour-laced facts in this new nonfiction picture book series from a prolific, *award-winning children's book author, starting with our tiniest invader--the common cold virus, and its more frightening relatives!
How does a virus make us sick? How does it spread? And what can people do to beat them?
Hi, I'm Virus! And I'm here to answer all these questions and more!
In friendly, simple text, the most common virus, rhino virus (the common cold) explains how viruses work and spread. With funny, engaging, and informative illustrations, this is the perfect way to explain viruses to young children who have questions in the wake of a pandemic. The non-threatening common cold walks readers through the basics of viruses, and then features past viruses we have defeated, as well as introducing COVID-19.
The start of a new series designed to make scary science seem more approachable, Science Buddies is here to explain the world around them to curious young minds!


Otoplasty is the surgery to correct abnormalities in the structure of the ear. The surgery is for children preferably age 5 or over. Adults also choose to have cosmetic ear reshaping.
Otoplasty can correct many abnormalities including large ear lobes; “lop ear,” which means your ear tip folds down, and trends forward; or “shell ear,” which means certain features of a normal ear are missing, such as the curve in the outer rim and other natural fold. There are many ways an ear can be reshaped. One involves cutting out the cartilage of the ear and another involves folding and stitching that cartilage instead of cutting it away. In either case, Dr. Marion will begin by making a small incision at the back of your ear, allowing him or her to access the cartilage and conduct the necessary procedure. After the surgery is complete, the incision site will be secured with stitches.


Norse, of Course! 4 Book Set
Norse, of Course! children's books are for intermediate and advanced readers and help improve reading skills with an expanded vocabulary. Establish familiarity with basic Norse stories from Nordic lore, Norse mythology, and Viking history.
These books are Norse mythology retold as historical fiction that provides an introduction to Norse and Viking stories modernized in fun rhyme. Each book features the Nordic ancestors and their evolution in this original series.
The Roots of Yggdrasil is Nordic lore for children. Read along as Odin reflects on the great war & the ways of the Vanir, pursues wisdom to advance the Norse culture, and introduces the first three laws.
Ginnungagap to Asgard is Nordic lore for children. Read along as Heimdall tells the beginning story - the evolution of the Norse ancestors, and about Ymir the frost giant, a jealous adversary. Learn about the Aesir-Vanir war, the formation of Asgard, and how the Norse people began.
Sif's Golden Hair is Nordic lore for children. Read along as Loki doesn't understand love, cuts off all of Sif’s hair, and schemes to fix the mess he causes!
Building of the Wall is Nordic lore for children. Read along as the wall of Asgard is rebuilt, a Jotun observes the Norse people, Loki’s bad judgment, and meet Sleipnir, Odin’s legendary horse.


Rotavirus is a virus that causes severe diarrhea. Most also will experience vomiting and fever along with the diarrhea. It is most severe in babies and young children because they can easily become dehydrated.
Although Rotavirus is not the only cause of severe diarrhea it is one of the most serious. Each year in the United States rotavirus causes up to 70,000 hospitalizations and between 20 and 60 deaths as well as more than 400,000 doctor visits.
Almost all children in the United States will be exposed to and become infected by rotavirus before they are 5 years old. The rotavirus vaccine can help prevent severe rotavirus.
Rotavirus vaccine is an oral vaccine, given in the mouth to swallow. It is not given by injection. The rotavirus vaccine dose will not prevent all diarrhea or vomiting, but it is very good at preventing these symptoms when they are caused by rotavirus. The rotavirus vaccine is about 98% effective in preventing severe rotavirus and about 74% of those getting the vaccine do not get rotavirus diarrhea at all.
There is a rotavirus vaccine schedule. The vaccine is routinely recommended to begin between 6 and 12 weeks of age. It is given as a 2 or 3 dose series.
The recommended rotavirus vaccine dose is as follows:
1st Dose: 2 months of age
2nd Dose: 4 months of age
3rd Dose: 6 months of age, if needed
There is rotavirus vaccine age limit, as all doses of the vaccine should be given before 32 weeks of age.
There can be some mild rotavirus vaccine side effects, including temporary diarrhea or vomiting with in 7 days after getting the vaccine (only 1-3% of children are likely to experience this). Moderate or severe reactions have not been associated with this vaccine. Like all vaccines, the rotavirus vaccine will continue to be monitored for unusual or severe problems.


The black spruce beetle has been reported in pine, spruce, fir, larch, oak and walnut.
The black spruce beetle is a broadly distributed and fairly common species that infests wood used for solid wood packing material (SWPM). It is considered a secondary pest (i.e., attacks weakened or recently killed trees, including a number of conifers) in Europe and Asia, but the black spruce beetle was also not considered to be a threat to apparently healthy trees. The potential of this species to attack and damage living trees in the U.S. is largely unknown.
The black spruce beetle is not known to occur in Indiana


In a study published in the Journal of Consumer Research in January, American researchers set up four pizzas — two sliced into eighths and two sliced into 16ths — and placed some on a large table and some on a small one. They observed 219 university students and found they took the least amount of pizza when the slices were small and served from the large table. Researchers concluded that a large table makes it hard to correctly judge the size of a serving, and smaller portions would appear larger, or at the very least, regular-sized.
Christine Tenk, a professor of psychology at Brescia University College in London, Ont. says this happens all the time. “When objects are presented in a large visual frame, like the moon high in the sky for example, we have a harder time interpreting the accurate size of the object.”
The study tracked how many slices the students took, but not what they actually did with them. “This study did not actually measure true consumption,” says Tenk. “Data was collected about how many servings participants choose but the amount of food actually eaten was not directly measured. This means we don’t know if the effects on food selection carried over to consumption or if the pattern of eating changed once the pizza was on the participant’s plate.”
How you serve food impacts how it is perceived and how much people take, however, it is not necessary to change your table size. “A large table at home may not affect our eating at all. This study did not mimic real world eating settings,” says Tenk.
Instead of altering your table size, she says that more reliable research has been done looking at plate size and found that eating from smaller dishes reduces total consumption.


Birds' songs change over time
JUST as the Bee Gees' disco style sounds antique compared to hip-hop, birdsong can also go out of fashion. Such stylistic changes may help explain how mating barriers arise, eventually leading to new species.Derryberry received a research award in 2004 from the American Ornithologists' Union for "The impact of culture and selection on vocal performance: implications for song evolution."
Behavioural ecologists have long known that some songbirds develop local dialects, and that individual birds respond more strongly to their own dialect than to a foreign one. Less is known about how, or how quickly, such differences arise.
To study how a dialect changes over time, Elizabeth Derryberry, a behavioural ecologist at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina, compared recordings of male white-crowned sparrows' song from 1979 - when the Bee Gees topped the charts - and 2003. The modern song, she found, was slower and lower in pitch.
Ilustration courtesy of WhatBird.com


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Because of the wealth of natural resources found in Grant County, agriculture, ranching, and timber industries naturally grew with and contributed to the development of the county. In the early days, sheep formed a large part of the agricultural base and the area boasted some of the largest sheep bands in the world, supplying a great volume of wool to, among others, the world-renown Pendleton Wool Works in Pendleton, OR. By the 1920 and 1930s, however, cattle ranching became—and continues to be—the dominant sector of the agricultural industry. Crop farming, dairy production and orchards operated on small scales during the late 19th and early 20th centuries, but declined during World War II due to changing market and labor pressures. The commercial timber industry in Grant County grew rapidly in the 1920s, and again during and after World War II. Livestock raising and timber harvesting remain important sectors of Grant County’s economy.
Grant County is an arid to temperate region, with average annual precipitation in the valleys between 12 and 14 inches (360 mm), while the uplands or highlands of the county average between 16 and 24 inches (610 mm). Grant County averages between 40 and 60 days each year that see more than 0.10 inches (2.5 mm) of precipitation. A great deal of the county’s precipitation comes in the form of winter snow in the mountains. This snow pack is vital to recharge aquifers, resulting in spring run-off, and in-stream flows of water throughout the year.


I am kinda not sure if this is correct, but I have read a grammar book in which the author said one of the repeated article can be omitted in a sentence, for example:
1) The dog has a long tail and a long body
He said the sentence above can be re-written like this:
1.b) The dog has a long tail and long body.
I doubt if he is correct.
Look at the following example,
Peter has a black and a white cat.
It means Peter has both a black cat and a white cat.
However, if the indefinite article in the second part is omitted, for example,
Peter has a black and white cat.
That means Peter has only one cat which is black and white in colour.
Did you see the differences, kwfine?
(Not a teacher)


The Kyrenia Liberty Ship
An Ancient Greek merchant ship dated since Great Alexander’s reign in the, 4th century it is one of the oldest ships in the world and was gliding the whole of the east aegean sea. It used to carry olives, olive oil, wine and almonds. When it’s wreck was found in 1965 in Kyrenia, 384 amphores were also found along. Since its discovery there were three replicas created. The original wreck is kept in Kerynia castle in the occupied area of Cyprus and it is protected by UNESCO. The current replica can be seen in Limassol Marina and it is a Beauty taking part in philanthropic actions and more. A must see!


The foreskin (prepuce) is a retractable, double-layered fold of skin and mucous membrane (the only such example on the human body), and uniquely constructed for its sexual purpose. It covers and protects the head of the penis (glans) and the urinary opening (meatus). Its outer layer is the same as the skin of the shaft of the penis, but the inner layer is mucous membrane, like the inside of the eyelid. The mucous membrane keeps the glans moist, providing a natural lubricant.1
Similar to the eyelid, the foreskin is able to move freely. When not retracted, muscle fibers keep it in position over the glans, but leave it elastic enough to retract backward up the shaft. The foreskin is tethered to the underside of the glans by a highly sensitive strip of tissue (frenulum, or “little bridle”), which helps return the foreskin to its normal position over the glans. The human body has other frenulums, including one under the tongue.
The inner foreskin includes a ring of specialized tissue (ridged band) that is extraordinarily rich in nerve endings. A typical American circumcision removes the most sensitive portions of the penis—all or nearly all of the foreskin and frenulum, and in all cases the entire ridged band—leaving the glans, the least sensitive.2
This information has been reviewed by our panel of experts and other trusted advisors, however, it is not a substitute for professional medical, legal, or spiritual advice.


What is ACL Tear?
ACL or Anterior Cruciate Ligament tear is a common knee injury. Most athletes playing high impact sports like: Football, Cricket, Hockey, Kabbadi, Basketball etc., are prone to injure their Anterior Cruciate Ligament because of the overstretching of the ACL.
The knee joint is a complex structure of bones, ligaments, tendons and other tissues working together. Ligaments, being strong bands of tissue, connect one bone to another and the ACL is one of the two ligaments crossing in the middle of the knee connecting your thighbone (femur) to your shinbone (tibia). It is the knee joint’s internal stabilizer.
Its main function is to prevent Hyperextension, state where the angle between the body parts or joints is really high. ACL also has a secondary function to restrain tibial rotation and varus/valgus stress.
Anterior Circulate Ligament Tear
Anterior Circulate Ligament Tears or injuries usually occur during sports or fitness activities, when the following happens:
The patient will have the following symptoms:
If you experience any of the above symptoms while playing or exercising, then:
Diagnosis And Treatment
In a physical examination, the doctor will check the injured knee for swelling and tenderness, comparing it with the uninjured one. The injured ligament will be subjected to clinical test and integrity will be assessed, and overall function of the knee will be tested.
The following tests will help in confirming the diagnosis:
Some measures to be taken to prevent ACL tears are:


The New York Times
By NICHOLAS BAKALAR OCTOBER 14, 2015 10:00 AM
Researchers have found that living near hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, operations is associated with premature births.
Scientists studied records of 10,496 singleton births by 9,384 mothers from 2009 to 2013 in Pennsylvania where fracking is conducted. They recorded gestational time, birth weight, five-minute Apgar score and size for gestational age.
The study, in Epidemiology, controlled for many environmental, health, behavioral and socioeconomic factors. It used dates and depth of drilling, volume of production and distance to the mother’s home to estimate exposure.
The 25 percent of mothers most exposed to fracking were 40 percent more likely to give birth preterm (after less than 37 weeks of gestation) than the quarter least exposed. There was no association with Apgar score or being small for gestational age.
“Our study doesn’t tell us anything about mechanism,” said the lead author, Joan A. Casey, a postdoctoral researcher at the University of California, Berkeley, and the University of California, San Francisco. “And we don’t claim this is the end of the conversation. But there have been multiple flags that there could be problems. Before we continue, we ought to take public health conditions into consideration.”
Energy in Depth, an energy industry group, said on their website that the study “attempts to link fracking with premature births. But the actual data don’t support that conclusion.”
Onlline source: http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/10/14/fracking-tied-to-premature-births/?_r=0


With school back in session (online), here’s a simple math circle activity to try at home when you need a break. 🙂
- A trapezoid is a quadrilateral with at least one pair of parallel sides.
- A hexaright is a hexagon with all sides at right angles.
- A reptile is a polygon that can be divided into four congruent pieces, all similar to the original.
This figure at right is a trapezoidal reptile; note that the horizontal sides of the trapezoid–both the ‘big’ original along with the four ‘little’ copies–are in a 2:1 ratio.
Show that the trapezoids and hexarights below are also reptiles. From there, try to make up a new reptile of your own!


Carressa Romane April 6, 2021 Coloring Pages
On the contrary preschool teens that are exposed to such easy learning process that makes things interesting and easier for them to study, they develop better learning skills and enjoy learning throughout life.
Parents can be instructed to go online and print out replacement printable coloring pages.
To get the alphabet coloring pages it is very simple.
Children who begin coloring at a young age will enjoy the benefits it can bestow for years to come.
And the more exposure your child has to coloring, the more they will learn about the typical colors of objects, and they will begin to choose specific colors for specific items, such as red apples, or green leaves.
Armed with this new information, dont you feel that providing your child with these powerful learning tools is something that you should do? Coloring pages offer a great way to combine learning and enjoyment for your child.
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“Montessori method provides a unique educational approach to meet the individual needs of each child,The Montessori method allows for
unrestricted growth of every child.”
- A child is allowed to work independently at their own pace and to choose which activities she would like to pursue from many
- There is an emphasis on learning through all five senses rather than the traditional listening, watching and
- There is a focus on learning that leads to concentration, self-discipline and a love of learning in Montessori
- "Teachers work with children on the floor or at tables rather than at the front of the classroom.
- The teacher’s role is to observe and guide children’s learning rather than instruct. “The teacher is a quiet observer only interfering if
she/he sees that a child may need assistance,” “The teacher's responsibility is to create the environment that entices and enhances the development of each child. The child then acts on this
prepared environment at their particular stage of development.”
- Teachers keep notes and records on each child’s progress and introduce lessons according to the needs of the children in the
Other Distinguishing Features
- "Montessori classrooms are typically multi-aged. The age span will usually be 3 years.
- Older children help the younger children master skills.
- Often the teacher and children stay together as a group from year to year, especially in programs that continue into elementary or even
- Children in a Montessori classroom are part of a caring community. They are trained to be kind to one another and help each


The microscopic worlds contained within a droplet of water are just as fascinating—and just as inaccessible to humans—as the farthest reaches of space. But the universe of the very small is now a little closer thanks to a highly-automated, cell counting microscope-camera hybrid from GE.
The Cytell machine from GE Life Sciences is a table-top device for research laboratories that not only visualizes routine samples for researchers using its digital microscope, but also images and analyzes them through its onboard automated cell counter and cytometer. It's essentially three lab devices in one.
"It's similar to the point-and-shoot camera," GE Life Sciences researcher Gary Sarkis told GE Reports. "It helps take a lot of the microscopist out of getting the perfect shot. It wasn't until Cytell that I felt I could spend 5 minutes on the microscope and get a great image that I could show my friends."
It's also highly-autonomous. The Cytell relies on a stable of five "preconfigured biological applications" that the company has branded BioApps. Each app operates much like a macro, directing the system through common tasks and lab tests, and reducing much of the drudgery of routine sample testing to a few button presses. "It allows them to simply set up very specific kinds of experiments and automatically receive data in the form of graphs, charts and reports to see if they worked," Sarkis continued.
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Reading aloud is one of the most important ways to help your child’s communication and language skills grow and develop. In fact, reading aloud helps support your child’s talking, listening, and attention skills. It also sets a foundation of reading for many years to come!
How you read to your child will change over time as they grow. Here are six tips for reading aloud to your toddler:
- Read together every day!
- Notice what your toddler likes about books. This could be a new interest like trucks or animals, or an action like pointing out everything in the picture.
- Share your lap or snuggle with your child as you read.
- Offer a variety of books to read. Your toddler is growing more independent and will like choosing the book, even if he or she chooses the same book every day. Toddlers love repetition!
- Choose reading times when your child is most relaxed, such as before or after a nap or just before bedtime.
- Bring a book along with you to restaurants or appointments so you and your child can read a few pages at a time while you wait.
- Go beyond simply reading the words. Point out what’s happening in the story—ask how many animals are in the pictures or what will happen next in the story. This helps increase a child’s vocabulary!
- Continue to visit the library for book recommendations. The library may also have a designated story time for children!


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Bartleby.com: Walt Whitman
- Searchable works, quotations, small portrait. Also a chapter on Whitman from a history of American literature.
The Walt Whitman Hypertext Archive
- E-text of works, letters, biographical materials, and contemporary reviews.
The Academy of American Poets: Walt Whitman
- E-text of works, biography and links.
American Poems: Walt Whitman
- E-text of works and brief biography.
I Hear America Singing: Walt Whitman
- An illustrated history of the poet's life from a musical perspective, with biography, timeline, selected works, and video clips. From PBS.
The Poet at Work
- Recovered notebooks and cardboard butterfly that disappeared from the Library of Congress in 1942. They were returned on February 24, 1995.
Spartacus Educational: Walt Whitman
- For schoolchildren. A picture and a biography of the nineteenth-century poet, and some excerpts from his prose writings about the American Civil War.
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- Site contains biography, photographs, and selected poems.
Whitman, Walt (1819-1892)
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GE - General Electric Company
Thomas Edison formed the Edison Electric Light Company in 1879. Edison was a prolific inventor, holding 1,093 patents in his name in the U.S. his inventions are electric light, power utilities, sound recording and motion pictures.
General Electric Company was formed by merging Edison General Electric Company and the Thomas-Houston Company.
Every 2 Seconds an aircraft powered by GE engine technology takes off they are the first company to create a 3D printed aircraft engine component and a sensor housing. GE Aviation's flight management team system provides the technology to enable south-west airline pilots to fly navigation at eleven airports.
General Electric Company was selected to supply India's railways with 1000 diesel locomotives for India to upgrade their 162-year-old rail network, Which transports then out of millions of people on a daily basis.


“Forged in the Jim Crow South, the deceptively-named “Right-to-Work” movement is steeped in a decades-long legacy of bigotry and violence.” Early proponents were racists and misogynists who lobbied state legislators to protect whites against race mixing and miscegenation, according to sources cited on AFSCME’s new webpage entitled “The Racist Roots of ‘Right-to-Work”.
The phrase itself was popularized in the 1930’s by political lobbyist Vance Muse, a self-described white supremacist who created the Christian American Association in 1944 and joined the campaign to bring “Right-to-Work” laws to Texas, Arkansas, and ultimately the whole of the South.
During that campaign, his fearmongering, racist, and anti-union statements included,
“White women and white men will be forced into organizations [labor unions] with black African apes whom they will have to call ‘brother’ or lose their jobs.” -Vance Muse
Since that time nearly 80 years ago, 27 states have successfully passed this anti-union legislation, stretching from the South to the Midwest and including former union strongholds in Michigan and Wisconsin.
This Spring, the U.S. Supreme Court will render an opinion on Janus vs. AFSCME, a case that could make “Right to Work” the law of the land.
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Health systems need to set priorities fairly. In one way or another, part of this important task will fall to physicians. How do they make judgments about resource stewardship, and how should they do so? How can they make such decisions in a manner that is compatible with their clinical dutiesto patients? In this book, philosophers, bioethicists, physicians, lawyers and health policy experts make the case that priority setting and rationing contribute significantly to the possibility of affordable and fair healthcare and that clinicians play an indispensable role in that process. The book depicts the results of a survey of European physicians about their experiences with rationing and other cost containment strategies, and their perception of scarcity and fairness in their health care systems. Responding to and complementing these findings, commentators discuss why resourceallocation and bedside rationing is necessary and justifiable. The book explores how bedside rationing relates to clinical judgments about medical necessity and medical indications, marginal benefits, weak evidence based medicine, off-label use. The book highlights how comparative studies of healthcare systems can advance more effective and fair bedside rationing through learning from one another. From a practical standpoint, the book offers a number of strategies for health care systems and clinicians to work in tandem to allocate and ration resources as fairly as possible: how to foster more attention to fairness when rationing at the bedside, how to avoid exacerbating health disparitieswhen allocating resources, how to teach about bedside rationing to students, how to discuss rationing more explicitly in the public arena and in the doctor's office.


UNLABELLED: The anemia with iron deficiency is frequent in the elder subjects. Few studies have reported the practice of the geriatric medicine about anemia.
METHODS: A national survey asked geriatric medical practitioners of hospital geriatric ward from June till September, 2013. Questionnaires were sent, filled over the phone. On 568 sent questionnaires, 312 (55%) were filled. The frequency of the anemia is considered of 46 ± 21%. The definition of the anemia in an elderly person is on average 10.7 ± 0.8 g/dL, taking into account the situation of the patient. The wanted biological examinations are the haemoglobin and the ferritinaemia, but many people suggest measuring also folates and vitamin B12 given strong prevalence of comorbidity. Prevalence of iron deficiency anemia estimated between 20 and 80% because of high prevalence of mixed cause which modified the answer. The major causes were reported as of digestive, gynecological and post-operative origins. The treatment is proposed from 9 g/dL. The oral iron and the transfusions are the most quoted. The possibility of injectable iron is reported only by 17%, of the geriatricians.
CONCLUSION: The answers of the geriatricians show strong coherences in the management of the iron deficiency anemia. Guidelines should be adapted for elderly people for exercice capacity, mainly on high frequency of mixed cases.


These holes are not only amazing, but some of them are truly terrifying. The sheer scale of these holes reminds us just how tiny we are.
Kimberley Big Hole - South Africa
Apparently the largest hand-dug excavation in the world, this 1,097-meter- deep mine yielded over three tons of diamonds before being closed in 1914.
Glory Hole - Monticello Dam, California
This is the "glory hole" at Monticello dam, and it is the largest spillway of its kind in the world, its size enabling it to consume 14,400 cubic feet of water every second.
Bingham Canyon Mine - Utah
This is supposedly the largest man-made excavation on earth. Extraction began in 1863 and still continues today, the pit increasing in size constantly. In its current state the hole is miles deep and 2.5 miles wide.
Great Blue Hole - Belize
This incredible geographical phenomenon known as a blue hole is situated 60 miles off the mainland of Belize. There are numerous blue holes around the world, but none as stunning as this one.
Mirny Diamond Mine - Serbia
This one holds the title of largest open diamond mine in the world. At 525 meters deep, with a top diameter of 1200 meters, there's even a no-fly zone above the hole due to a few helicopters having been sucked in.
Diavik Mine - Canada
The mine is so huge and the area so remote that it has its own airport with a runway large enough to accommodate a Boeing 737. It is equally impressive when the surrounding water is frozen.
Sinkhole in Guatemala
This is a sinkhole that instantaneously appeared when the soil beneath was eroded as a result of a broken water main last year in Guatemala. The hole swallowed a dozen homes and killed at least 3 people.
Rat Hole - Washington, D.C.
This horrific hole is capable of sucking down trillions of U.S. dollars annually. Once the money disappears within its gaping maw, it is never seen again.


- Books, Literature, and Writing
Find Inspiration for Your Writing Daily
Journal on Your Journey
Take a deep breath.
Now you are ready to truly think through new possibilities for your writing. Your daily life can require a change of routine, even a change of scenery. The best thing that may happen to you and your writing may simply come from experiencing and observing daily life in a new way.
Walk in the Woods
One of my favorite authors would have to be Henry David Thoreau. He left the comforts of society to live in the woods, growing closer to nature. Based upon his experiences, he created a labor of love that was entitled Walden.
Take a page from Thoreau's life. Start getting closer to nature. Go beyond driving an eco-friendly vehicle and buying organic veggies. Venture out into nature. Take a walk in the woods or hike in the mountains. Go on a tour of a desert preserve or a rocky coastline. Get out and grow a little closer to nature. See what it produces.
Journal about your journey. Take notes. Research on the area. Discover the natural nuances of the wild. Observe plant and animal life interacting with weather and sunlight. Talk with docents and tour guides at national parks and other such places in your area.
A Writer's Resource List
Observe and Report
Make daily observations of people, places and things.
Don't just wait for ideas to come to you. Spend your lunch break at a sidewalk cafe and watch people. Listen to what you can overhear from nearby tables. Keep your notebook or pad ready with a pencil or pen. Jot down story and poem ideas as you listen and watch others.
Look at how you can add some twists and turns to that story about losing a bundle at the poker table to create a suspense thriller or murder mystery. Think through the tearful sobs of a jilted lover and create a poetic version of the sad story. Take on some ideas with a new perspective.
Make your observations. Generate story and poem ideas. Get creative about what you see and hear.


Various steps involved in writing IELTS task 2 essays in a systematic way are sequenced in the given flowchart.
It is clear from the chart that there are six crucial steps prior to writing the task 2 essays, which ranges from 9 to 15 minutes. Of these, the primary step is critical reading and understanding of the question, followed by realizing the motive of the question. The careful isolation of the topic or topics from the question, to which the answer is related, is the next step. Thereafter, ideas and examples which are closely related to the topic are generated. The time allotment for these four steps is between 7 to 11 minutes. Ranking and organizing the selected ideas is the subsequent step and the ultimate step before writing the essay is outline framing. The next 15 to 20 minutes is the most significant part of the process: writing the essay legibly in the correct format. The process is incomplete without a mandatory proof reading (3-5 minutes and an optional editing, which should fit to the available time left.
Overall, it is clear that this step by step method of writing essays is an organized and time based one.
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(1919–90). American jazz drummer Art Blakey was noted for his brilliant playing and for the Jazz Messengers, a band that he led for 35 years. The sounds of his cymbals and drums were unique, and he played them with rare sensitivity. Many of the young musicians he trained in his bands went on to become major jazz figures themselves.
Blakey was born on October 11, 1919, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. As a teenager he performed first on piano, later on drums, in jazz clubs in the evenings while working in the steel mills by day. Beginning in 1939, as a drummer, he performed with several bands, most notably that of Billy Eckstine (1944–47). Among the artists he met and performed with during that period were Dizzy Gillespie, Sarah Vaughan, Charlie Parker, Dexter Gordon, and Billie Holiday.
When Eckstine’s band broke up, Blakey traveled to Africa, a trip that led to his conversion to Islam and his adoption of the Muslim name Abdullah ibn Buhaina. Upon his return to the United States he was hired to play drums on several Blue Note Records recordings with jazz pianist Thelonious Monk. With Horace Silver, Blakey founded the Jazz Messengers (1954), toured Europe, and recorded a brilliant string of records for the Blue Note label between 1955 and 1961.
As a drummer Blakey accompanied soloists with lively accents, and he played solos with cross-rhythms and drum rolls that began as quiet tremblings and grew into frenzied explosions. His own playing and his aggressive bands, which played original songs composed by his musicians, were important developments of the hard bop tradition. He hired young musicians for his Jazz Messengers, and he gave them valuable experience as jazz performers. Over the years his groups included such notable jazz artists as Clifford Brown, Benny Golson, Johnny Griffin, Jackie McLean, Lee Morgan, Wayne Shorter, and Wynton Marsalis. Blakey died on October 16, 1990, in New York, New York.


We hypothesized that decision-making strategies in juvenile animals, rather than being immature, are optimized to navigate the uncertainty and instability likely to be encountered in the environment at the time of the animal’s transition to independence. We tested juvenile and young adult mice on discrimination and reversal of a 4-choice and 2-choice odor-based foraging task. Juvenile mice (P26–27) learned a 4-choice discrimination and reversal faster than adults (P60–70), making fewer perseverative and distraction errors. Juvenile mice had shorter choice latencies and more focused search strategies. In both ages, performance of the task was significantly impaired by a lesion of the dorsomedial frontal cortex. Our data show that the frontal cortex can support highly flexible behavior in juvenile mice at a time coincident with weaning and first independence. The unexpected developmental decline in flexibility of behavior one month later suggests that frontal cortex based executive function may not inevitably become more flexible with age, but rather may be developmentally tuned to optimize exploratory and exploitative behavior for each life stage.
Johnson C and Wilbrecht L. 2011. Juvenile mice show greater flexibility in multiple choice reversal learning than adults. Dev Cogn Neurosci. 2011 Oct;1(4):540-51. doi: 10.1016/j.dcn.2011.05.008 (Full Text)


If you are playing a baritone ukulele, then you need to be reading a chart written for the baritone ukulele. If you play a chart written for the other ukulele sizes, it will not sound as intended.
Soprano, concert, and tenor ukuleles are all (normally) tuned the same way, which is different than a baritone uke. When transcribing music from one to the other, there are two differences that need to be addressed.
Soprano, concert, and tenor ukes are tuned to GCEA. Baritone ukes, however, are tuned 5 semitones lower than that, to DGBE. If you put a capo on the 5th fret of your baritone you will have GCEA on your strings; however, it still won't sound the same as a standard uke because of reentrant tuning.
On a standard uke, the top string (G) is tuned at a higher octave than the other strings, meaning that the top string is at a higher pitch than the next two strings. (This is called reentrant tuning.) The baritone strings, however, are tuned with the top string low; the top string is the lowest pitch, and the pitch goes up as you move down to the next string. So even with a capo in place on your baritone uke, any notes you play on the top string will sound an octave lower than they would on a standard ukulele.
That having been said, the relative interval between any two strings is the same whether you are using a standard ukulele or a baritone. As a result, if you try to play a standard chart, it may sound just fine, even if it isn't the same notes as the composer intended.


This is a very tall (to 2m) bristly, patch-forming wildflower frequently found throughout Ireland on roadsides, ditches, fields, coastal cliffs and beaches. It flowers from July to October and is one of the most attractive of the Sowthistles. Rich yellow flower-heads (4-5cm across) are held in loose clusters on slender stalks, which when broken exude a milky sap. The florets are all rayed and behind these are sticky, pointed bracts. The dark-green, narrow, alternate, shiny leaves have softly spiny margins, the middle and upper leaves clasping the stems with round lobes. The lower leaves are stalked and all the leaves are greyish below. Reproduction is by both seed – dispersed by white pappus – and widely spreading roots. New plants are able to establish themselves from very small pieces of these roots and this plant is commonly regarded as a 'weed'. It is a native plant belonging to the Asteraceae family.
My first record of this plant is in Ballitore, Co Kildare in 2003 and I photographed it on that occasion.
If you are satisfied you have correctly identified this plant, please submit your sighting to the National Biodiversity Data Centre


Which type of spine surgery has a greater success rate?
Each type of back surgery comes with its own risks and benefits, with spinal fusion being the most commonly performed. The chance of success depends on your specific problem, your health, your medical history and your everyday habits.
Minimally invasive spine surgery was first performed in the 1980s and was developed as an alternative to traditional open surgery in order to treat disorders with less disruption to the muscles. Contrary to open surgery, MIS requires only a small incision. Thus, the patients experience less blood loss and quicker recovery, returning to normal function in a shorter period of time.
Although minimally invasive spine surgery has a number of benefits that open surgery does not provide, the potential benefits of it should always be weighed carefully against its risks. A large percentage of patients who had MIS reported significant symptom and pain relief, but there is no guarantee that surgery can help every individual.


Definition of first lady
1 : the wife or hostess of the chief executive of a country or jurisdiction
2 : the leading woman of an art or profession
Examples of first lady in a Sentence
The President and the First Lady attended the concert.
the first lady of American dance
First Known Use of first lady
FIRST LADY Defined for English Language Learners
Definition of first lady for English Language Learners
: the wife of the U.S. president
: a woman who has great importance, influence, or success in a specified activity or profession
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There are several ways that physicians and other medical professionals can make diagnostic mistakes.
Not surprisingly, the incidence of misdiagnosis is much higher in emergency settings. Increased time pressure translates into less time to investigate differential diagnoses. And the severe nature of many emergency room illnesses and injuries means that a missed or incorrect diagnosis is more likely to result in harm to the patient.
In an emergency room, less common illnesses and conditions are more likely to escape correct diagnosis. Conditions that are uncommon in certain patient populations are also less likely to be correctly diagnosed. For example, a young woman experiencing gastric distress (one symptom of a heart attack) is less likely to be diagnosed with a heart attack than an overweight, middle-aged man with the same symptoms.
Examples of conditions that are commonly misdiagnosed in an emergency room include heart attack, stroke, pulmonary embolism, and meningitis. Appendicitis is misdiagnosed in 28% to 57% of children under the age of 12 and in close to 100% of infants. (To learn more about medical malpractice occurring in emergency settings, see Nolo's article Medical Malpractice During Emergencies.)
Medical malpractice cases are highly regulated by complex rules that vary considerably from state to state, so it's often essential to get advice or representation from an experienced medical malpractice lawyer.
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In the case of scalars with a range starting at other than zero, it is possible in some cases to specify a size smaller than the default minimum value, and in such cases, GNAT uses an unsigned biased representation, in which zero is used to represent the lower bound, and successive values represent successive values of the type.
For example, suppose we have the declaration:
type Small is range -7 .. -4; for Small'Size use 2;
Although the default size of type
Small is 4, the
clause is accepted by GNAT and results in the following representation
-7 is represented as 2#00# -6 is represented as 2#01# -5 is represented as 2#10# -4 is represented as 2#11#
Biased representation is only used if the specified
cannot be accepted in any other manner. These reduced sizes that force
biased representation can be used for all discrete types except for
enumeration types for which a representation clause is given.


In the seventh of his celebrated twenty-three problems of 1900, David Hilbert proposed that mathematicians attempt to establish the transcendence of an algebraic number to an irrational, algebraic power. Partial solutions to this problem were given by A. O. Gelfond in 1929, R. O. Kuzmin in 1930, and K. Boehle in 1933. In 1934 the complete solution was obtained independently by A. O. Gelfond and by Th. Schneider. The partial solutions were based on ideas reminiscent of the nineteenth proofs for the transcendence of e (Hermite, 1873) and for the transcendence of pi (Lindemann, 1882); both of the general solutions relied on a new idea that opened the way for the development of a theory of transcendental numbers. In this course we will very briefly look at nineteenth century transcendence methods, examine the partial and complete solutions to Hilbert's seventh problem, and then study three ways in which mathematicians have generalized the theorem of Gelfond and Schneider. Our examination of these three generalizations will illustrate several of the novel ideas that played significant roles in twentieth-century transcendental number theory and allow us to offer several open questions. Prerequisites: Introductory courses in functions of a complex variable and abstract algebra. References: 1. Nesterenko, Yuri V. Number Theory IV: Transcendental Numbers. Springer, 1998. 2. Burger, Edward B. and Robert Tubbs. Making Transcendence Transparent: An intuitive approach to classical transcendental number theory. Springer, 2004.
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Math - Class 4 – Angle Basics/ Naming Angles/ Interior and Exterior of an angle/Angle Introduction/ Identify geometric solids - Key Points/Notes/Worksheets/Explanation/Lesson/Practice Questions
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After researchers recently reported the discovery of the new Fujian-like strain
of the avian influenza
virus, it emerged that the Chinese agriculture ministry has not yet provided the WHO
with samples of this strain. This is in spite of the fact that 95 percent of samples collected in China between April and June this year were the Fujian-like strain.
The Fujian-like strain is widespread among poultry in China and has caused human cases there, and has also been detected in poultry flocks in other Asian countries including Hong Kong, Laos, Malaysia and Thailand.
Julie Hall, an infectious-disease expert at the WHO’s Beijing office, said: ‘There’s a stark contrast between what we’re hearing from the researchers and what the Ministry of Agriculture says. Unless the ministry tells us what`s going on and shares viruses on a regular basis, we will be doing diagnostics on strains that are old.’
While the new strain has been linked to human cases of avian influenza and has doubtlessly taken root in poultry in some Asian countries, there is no sign that it is more lethal than the existing H5N1 strain.
The WHO’s Michael Perdue said, ‘If you look at the mortality rate and the disease, the Fujian-strain infections are no different.’


Talanoa is a concept recognised in many Pacific island nations including Niue, Tonga, Fiji, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Hawai’i and the Cook Islands. Broadly speaking, talanoa usually entails inclusive, participatory and transparent dialogue between all parties without a set format or structure.
The talanoa panels are intended to lay down the first strands of weaving in what is hoped, over time, will become sturdy baskets of knowledge in each area. There will be further opportunities for community engagement and discussion around these topics following the Pacific hearing.
Session 2: A Pacific lens on redress
The second talanoa panel will open a discussion around redress. Panellists will explore ideas around what effective redress principles, processes and systems might look like for Pacific survivors.
Facilitated by: Helena Kaho
Dr Michael Ligaliga
Dr Jean Mitaera
Dr Siautu Alefaio-Tugia


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Cutting the amount of electricity used also decreases water use. Electricity is often used to pump water to locations where the water is used. According to the U.S. EPA WaterSense Web site, U.S. power plants use 136 billion gallons of fresh water each day in the production of electricity.
: Contact information, types of fuel, conservation and consumption of electricity is provided on the Web site.
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EPA Water Sense Program
: WaterSense was developed by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to provide a market for products that improve water efficiency.
Salato Native Plant Program
: The Kentucky Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources provides information about native Kentucky plants and offers a native plant sale for residents wanting to purchase native plants for their gardens.
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: Fun water facts and statistics, water conservation and customer service information are located on the Web site.
Water Utilities in Kentucky
: Statewide water utility contact information for utilities not listed individually or for those that do not have a Web site may be accessed from the Kentucky Infrastructure Authority.


I was interested to read in the MSM recently that the UK was fortunate in that it was "impossible" for us to be hit by a Tsunami like the one that recently devastated Japan.
between six to eight thousand years ago, Great Britain and the northern British Isles was inundated by a huge Tsunami which wiped out the coast of the North Sea.
Whereas most tsunamis are caused by undersea earth quakes, some are caused by undersea "landslides".
The North Sea tsunami was caused by a huge submarine landslide off the coast of Norway, and the area is now known geographically as the "Storegga Slide".
There were actually three major slides in the area, the first was around 50,000 years ago(BP), a second one around 22,000 BP, followed by one around 7300BP. This lasttsunami is estimated to have been between 19-25m high in the shetlands, and around 9m high along the coast of NE England.
Here is a computer simulated map of the extent of the slide, with the height of the average "run up" of the Tsunami- (as opposed to recorded peak heights due to wave focus, which were much higher in places such as river mouths etc)
T. Bugge, R. H. Belderson, N. H. Kenyon “The Storegga Slide” Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London 1988


bought OR brought?
The words bought and brought have very different meanings, but they are often confused—even by native English speakers.
First of all, they are both verbs. (They are both irregular verbs.) And they are both in past tense (V2) and past participle (V3) form.
- buy, bought, bought
- bring, brought, brought
As you see, bought is the past tense and past participle of the verb buy—meaning to get something in exchange for money.
We use bought with the past simple tense and with present perfect and past perfect tenses. Here are some example sentences:
- When did you buy your house? We bought it last year. (Past Tense)
- Have you bought a new TV yet? (Present Perfect)
- I'd already bought a Sony when Mary said she preferred Samsung. (Past Perfect)
We use brought with the past simple tense and with present perfect and past perfect tenses. Here are some example sentences:
- I didn't bring the dog but I brought my children with me. (Past Tense)
- Can you lend me $5? I haven't brought any money. (Present Perfect)
- If I had brought my glasses I could have helped you with your homework. But I left them at home. (Past Perfect)
How to remember the difference
It's really very simple. Just remember the R!
- bring → brought
- buy → bought


Definition of round off
1 : to trim or finish into curved or rounded form
2 : to bring to symmetry or completion rounded off his property by purchase of the additional land a term in Congress rounded off his career
3 : round 7a round all decimals off to the nearest thousandth
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Concentrated industrial wastewaters and sludges are pre-treated in a wet oxidation plant before being discharged into a biological sewage treatment plant.The chemical oxidation of organic and inorganic compounds with oxygen proceeds in the aqueous phase under high pressure and at high temperature. Oxygen is supplied as air or as pure oxygen.
High or low pressure wet oxidation with pure oxygen allows for milder reaction conditions in relation to pressure and temperature and thus simpler plant engineering. The smaller gas volume flow also simplifies exhaust gas treatment and avoids foam problems during operation. For many concentrated industrial wastewaters and sludges, wet oxidation with pure oxygen is the most cost-effective pretreatment method.
The advantages of wet-oxidation with oxygen at a glance:
- Milder reaction conditions
- Simpler plant engineering
- Space-saving and low-maintenance
- Low investment and operating costs
- Most economical solution
Messer supplies a costomised oxygen supply system, adapted to the required operating pressure, for both new plants and for existing plants that aim to increase their capacity. Messer also offers feasibility studies and pilot tests in expert laboratories and supervises every start-up and operational test.


Hart's-tongue - Asplenium scolopendrium
Unique amongst British ferns in having strap-shaped, evergreen, undivided leaves. It is a tufted plant with fronds 10 to 60 cm long and 3 to 6 cm wide, rich, glossy green above with stems up to half the length of the leaf blade. Sori are linear 1 to 3 cm long borne in pairs.
Damp and shady places, woods, hills and banks, walls and rocks.
All year round but spores ripen July and August.
Perennial and evergreen.
Frequent throughout most of Britain except Northern Scotland.
Fairly frequent in damp shady places in Leicestershire and Rutland. In the 1979 Flora survey of Leicestershire it was found in 76 of the 617 tetrads.
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The research and development departments of the world’s defense companies have barely begun to explore all the different applications for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV), or drones.
And governments, aware of this, are growing increasingly eager to find out what else they could do. In early June, the European Commission came up with a new plan to hand out 1.5 billion euros ($1.7 billion) of taxpayers’ money to arms companies every year to develop new military technology.
And yet from the handheld Black Hornets to the 40-meter wingspan of the Global Hawk, military drones are so varied that no single company, or even country, dominates their manufacture. Here are the basic types and where they come from.
Micro- and nano-drones
Insect-sized spy machines may have become part of the furniture in blockbuster movies, but they’ve also been visible on battlefields for several years. The most obvious example is the 1-inch-by-4-inch Black Hornet, which British soldiers have been using to
... read more at: http://www.dw.com/en/a-guide-to-military-drones/a-39441185


Domain analysis in SEO refers to the process of analyzing a domain or website to gain insights about its performance and potential for search engine optimization (SEO). This involves examining various factors that impact a site’s ranking in search engine results pages (SERPs), such as its content, structure, backlink profile, and technical configuration.
Domain analysis is important in SEO because it helps website owners and SEO professionals to identify areas of improvement and opportunities for growth. By conducting a comprehensive analysis of a website, one can identify factors that may be hindering its search engine visibility, and take steps to address them. This can help to improve a website’s ranking in SERPs, drive more traffic to the site, and ultimately increase conversions and revenue.
Some of the specific benefits of domain analysis in SEO include:
- Identifying technical issues: Domain analysis can help identify technical issues that may be preventing search engines from properly crawling and indexing a site. This could include issues with the site’s structure, URLs, sitemaps, or robots.txt file.
- Analyzing content: Domain analysis can help identify gaps in a site’s content, as well as opportunities to optimize existing content for specific keywords or topics.
- Understanding backlink profile: Domain analysis can help identify the quality and quantity of backlinks pointing to a site, as well as any potential issues with the site’s backlink profile (e.g. spammy or low-quality links).
- Monitoring competitors: Domain analysis can help identify competitors in a particular niche or industry, and provide insights into their SEO strategies and tactics. This can help website owners and SEO professionals to identify opportunities for improvement and stay ahead of the competition.
Overall, domain analysis is an essential component of effective SEO, as it provides valuable insights into a website’s performance and potential for growth.


A religious war is a war started in the name of a certain religion usually against a differing and/or opposing religion. Such wars have occurred since the formation of religion and, as with all wars, have led to bloodshed and suffering of not only the proponents of such wars, but of innocents as well.
Examples of religious wars
Not all examples are negative. Constantine's civil war with Licinius was fought over Licinius' persecution of Christians. The war ended with Constantine's victory and the persecutions stopped. A Byzantine victory against Varahran V of the Neo-Persian Empire forced him to end his policy of persecution against Christians as well.


Grape and wine production has great economical, social and strategic importance in Dubrovnik-Neretva County, like it did throughout the history.
Viticulture was undoubtedly influenced by superb connection with the world that Republic of Dubrovnik had. New grape varieties and technologies were introduced, encouraging easier development and cultivation, especially of the red grapes.
In 2007, According to Croatian Bureau of Statistics, Dubrovnik-Neretva County was the fourth wine producing county in Croatia (with 7% of total wine production), while in 2011 6.200.000 liters of wine were produced. Nationally, importance of Dubrovnik-Neretva County in national context is evident knowing that the first Croatian wines with protected geographical originare from this area: Dingač(1961) and Pošip(1965, protected in 1967).
Area of Dubrovnik-Neretva County is a part of winegrowing sub-region of Central and South Dalmatia and covers the area from city of Ploče to far south, Neretva valley and the islands.