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Managed Object Model
Managed Object Model can be defined as the set of objects that are used to form a blueprint describing the managed object we use in our application. In other words, the Managed object model can be seen as a schema that the CoreData uses.
It is an instance of NSManagedObjectModel class. However, the Managed Object Model includes the application's entities, the properties, and the relationship between them. In the previous section of this tutorial, we have created entities and added values to them.
A managed object model allows Core Data to map from records in a persistent store to managed objects that we use in the application. The model is a collection of entity description objects (instances of NSEntityDescription).
An entity description describes an entity, the name of the class used to represent the entity in the application., and it's properties.
Creating an Entity
As we have discussed in the previous section of this tutorial, if we want to use CoreData in the XCode project, we need to check the Use CoreData checkbox.
This will create a.xcdatamodeled class. To create an entity, click Add Entity button in the xcdatamodeled class, as shown in the below image.
Defining an Entity
We can define the entity in the entity pane in the right of the XCode. Here, we must notice that the entity name and the class name are not the same. The entity structure in the data model may not match the class hierarchy. The entity pane is shown in the following image.
An entity is abstract if we do not create any instances of that entity. We make an entity abstract if we have a number of entities that all inherit from a common entity that should not itself be instantiated. For example, in the Student entity, we can define Person as an abstract entity and specify that only concrete subentities (Student) can be instantiated. By marking an entity as abstract in the Entity pane of the Data Model inspector, We are informing Core Data that it will never be instantiated directly.


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There are very few experimental studies identifying hydrological pathways within rain forest slopes. Such knowledge is, however, necessary to understand why forest disturbance affects rainfall-riverflow response and nutrient migration. This study examines flow pathways within lowland rain forest slopes comprising Udults of the Ultisol soil order. Experimentation was conducted on four SE Asian hillslope units (each 5 × 5 m in plan) in the Bukit Timah catchment (Singapore Island), and in the W8S5 catchment (Sabah, Borneo Island). The flow pathways were identified by artificial tracer experiments. We evaluated how well hydrometric calculations based on tensiometry and permeametry measurements predicted the tracer patterns. The tracer work indicated much faster subsurface flows at Bukit Timah than W8S5 for the storms studied. Some explanation of the greater subsurface waterflows at Bukit Timah in comparison to W8S5 is afforded by the less steep moisture release curves which maintain hydraulic conductivity as the soil dries. Vertical flow of the tracer through the upper 1 m of soil predominated (>90 per cent of percolation) in the Bukit Timah slopes. In some contrast, a major component (approximately 60 per cent) of the tracer percolation was directed laterally within the W8S5 slopes. The flow vectors calculated using the hydrometric methods did, however, grossly under-estimate the degree of lateral deflection of waterflow generated at W8S5 and to a lesser extent over-estimated it at Bukit Timah. In part, these errors may relate to the inability of traditional hydrometric techniques to fully characterize the effect of the large and small natural soil pipes present within both catchments. In conclusion, the study indicates that marked variations in flow vectors exist within the Udult great group of SE Asian soils and hydrometric calculations may be poor predictors of these dominant pathways. Copyright © 2005 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
This paper details the findings of the first replicated tracer experiment in rainforests and forms the basis for a completely new conceptual model of riverflow generation within the humid tropics. The idea was Chappell's; Sherlock was his student and conducted the tropical fieldwork. RAE_import_type : Journal article RAE_uoa_type : Earth Systems and Environmental Sciences

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You've been working at a desk and sitting too long all day. You may be active in between but suddenly one fine day you feel like you're sitting on something and you experience a gradual pain starting form a dull ache to a constant discomfort in your tailbone also called your coccyx. Like thousands of people worldwide, you have developed coccydonia or tailbone pain which may be characterized as a throbbing aching pain almost like a muscle spasm but in your coccyx, the other word for your tailbone. So what do you do about it?
1. Most common cause of tailbone pain is sitting too long
Coccydonia can occur suddenly after an injury or for no apparent reason although sitting to long is one of the prime causes of the condition. The pain ranges from dull aching to spasms that can spread to the thigh, hips and rectum. Sitting becomes a problem and you may in severe cases find it difficult to sleep.
2. Home remedies can help manage the condition
If you are perplexed about it, don't worry as there are many home remedies to manage the condition. Even doctors will tell you that it is more your lifestyle changes, exercise and home strategies that will do much to relive your condition which may go away on its own although it may take some time to do so.
3. Where do you feel the pain?
The pain from coccydonia is felt in the tail bone. It can be a dull constant ache or it could also be sharp stabbing pains. In certain cases it could feel like a throbbing ache. Sometimes you may feel as if your tailbone is lengthened or swollen because you may experience the sensation of sitting on something. Sometimes when left untreated it can spread down the legs and the back.
p> The pain may radiate down the legs or up the back. It can feel like it is in the tailbone itself, or in the surrounding muscles and structures.
4. Causes of tailbone pain
Tailbone pain is associated with various causes that could be minor or serious. These include
- Injury to the tailbone or to surrounding muscles.
- Sitting too long for prolonged periods and also sitting awkwardly.
- Traumatic childbirth.
- Degeneration of nerves or joints.
- Pelvic floor dysfunction.
- Nerve compression during pregnancy.
Levator syndrome also causes coccyx pain and inflammation. Lumbar disc disease, spine surgery and spinal problems may also lead to tailbone pain.
However the most common cause of tailbone pain is sitting for prolonged periods for weeks on end without frequent breaks in between. This is why the condition is also known as weaver's bottom.
5. Can it go away?
Yes tailbone pain form common causes or even injury can go away provided you commit yourself to managing the condition. Coccydonia can go away on its own which usually happens between 8-12 weeks.
6. When should you see a doctor?
Consulting a doctor for coccydonia or tailbone pain depends on the severity and causes. Obviously for injuries, it is wise to see a doctor or your therapist. However, in common cases and tailbone pain from sitting or no reason, you could wait a couple of weeks before seeking medical intervention. But, it is also advisable to start your own home strategies to arrest the problem from developing further. The decision to see a doctor depends entirely on your ability to bear the problem, your discomfort and its severity.
7. If you experience the below symptoms, then see a doctor immediately
Loss of sensation, bruising, problems in movement and coordination, tingling that suggests a broken structure, it doesn't go away after a week, fever, your home remedy worsens the problem or other symptoms develop.
8. How to manage the problem
There are many strategies to manage tailbone pain. Here are some of them
- Stretches. 5 best stretches are provided at the end of the article
- Exercise and yoga. Both yoga and pilates can help alleviate tailbone pain
- Taking frequent breaks during work especially when having to sit too long at a desk job
- Using a coccyx cushion
- Ice pack. Apply an ice pack compress for 15 to 20 minutes
- Hot and cold compress: apply heat compress for 15 minutes. Rest and again apply ice compress for 15 minutes. This reduces the inflammation.
- Tailbone massage. You can use the help of a masseuse or get a family member to massage the coccyx area.
- Topical creams. Analgesic or anti inflammatory pain relief creams are also advised for application daily.
- OTC. Over the counter medication such as NSAIDS like ibuprofen or acetaminophen are also prescribed in management of tailbone pain. However, your doctor will be the best person to decide which medication to prescribe you depending on the severity of your condition.


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La Banque nationale de Belgique a publié récemment ces 3 documents de travail (en anglais):
In this paper, we present for the first time a qualitative and quantitative comparison between trade in services and trade in goods at firm level for the same country. We focus first on static features of trade such as participation rates, firms' characteristics, heterogeneity, concentration and trade variation. Secondly, we explore dynamic aspects focusing on entry, exit, firm survival and growth strategy. On the one hand, our results reveal qualitative similarities between services and goods trade at firm level, suggesting that heterogeneous models of trade can be a good starting point for the analysis of trade in services. On the other hand, we highlight dramatic differences in quantitative terms and in some key characteristics that pose new challenges to current trade models.
Large exporters are simultaneously large importers. In this paper, we show that this pattern is key to understanding low aggregate exchange rate pass-through as well as the variation in pass-through across exporters. First, we develop a theoretical framework that combines variable markups due to strategic complementarities and endogenous choice to import intermediate inputs. The model predicts that firms with high import shares and high market shares have low exchange rate passthrough. Second, we test and quantify the theoretical mechanisms using Belgian firm-product-level data with information on exports by destination and imports by source country. We confirm that import intensity and market share are the prime determinants of pass-through in the cross-section of firms. A small exporter with no imported inputs has a nearly complete pass-through of over 90 %, while a firm at the 95th percentile of both import intensity and market share distributions has a passthrough of 56 %, with the marginal cost and markup channels playing roughly equal roles. The largest exporters are simultaneously high-market-share and high-import-intensity firms, which helps explain the low aggregate pass-through and exchange rate disconnect observed in the data.
This paper provides concordance procedures for product-level trade and production data in the EU and examines the implications of changing product classifications on measured product adding and dropping at Belgian firms. Using the algorithms developed by Pierce and Schott (2012a, 2012b), the paper develops concordance procedures that allow researchers to trace changes in coding systems over time and to translate product-level production and trade data into a common classification that is consistent both within a single year and over time. Separate procedures are created for the eightdigit Combined Nomenclature system used to classify international trade activities at the product level within the European Union as well as for the eight-digit Prodcom categories used to classify products in European domestic production data. The paper further highlights important differences in coverage between the Prodcom and Combined Nomenclature classifications which need to be taken into account when generating combined domestic production and international trade data at the product level. The use of consistent product codes over time results in less product adding and dropping at continuing firms in the Belgian export and production data.


Single, childless, female and ageing - the grim future facing some Australian women
ALONE AND VULNERABLE: Single older women without children face unique challenges. Image: Pixabay
Many single women without children are doing it tough in their senior years, according to new Australian research.
Whereas much past research has focused on the'motherhood penalty' faced by older woman who took time off from work to look after children, the new research by Council on the Ageing (COTA) NSW board member Associate Professor Myra Hamilton and colleagues has found that single women without children (SWWC) face particular challenges which can leave them vulnerable to poverty and isolation.
SWWC make up around nine per cent of the surveyed population aged 45 and older in the National HILDA (Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia) study which follows 17,000 people throughout their lives.
I did find though that because I was single and had part time work it was assumed (by many people, not just my brother) that I would be the main carer. Of course I wanted to - it was my mum, but my health and energy were not even considered. It was hard, but I wouldnt have had it any other way.
Research participant
Myra said the research challenged the misconception that SWWC generally have uninterrupted careers and a healthy superannuation balance, instead finding they often have interrupted career paths from various causes - redundancy, ill heath, and the expectation they were available to care for elderly or disabled family members.
Associate Professor Myra Hamilton.
Associate Professor Myra Hamilton.
Housing was a major issue for many older SWWC who cannot rely on a partner to help get and pay off a mortgage making it more of a struggle to enter and stay in the housing market; and single women were less able to absorb temporary financial shocks than a partnered person; so a redundancy, illness or caring responsibility can result in them losing their home and having to move to rental accommodation.
The historical gender factor plays an enormous impact. The facts that these women have often worked in the workforce in maybe casual jobs, part time works. Lower paid work where either no superannuation was required to be paid or a minimal amount of superannuation was required to be paid. So that absolutely impacts their financial security
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Also while single women were more likely to bear the lion's share of caring for ageing parents, they were the least likely to have someone to provide informal care and support for them in later life, leaving them at risk of needing early entry to residential aged care.
Being single and aging is scary. I look around me and my siblings and friends who have children have a network around them as they get older. Who will be the young people in my life to lift me up and support me? Sure I'll have friends, but they'll all be old like me.
Research participant
The report's recommendations include:
 - Address the effect of family care on employment and income
 - Amend anti-discrimination legislation to clarify that discrimination against people without family responsibilities is also unlawful
 - Develop more affordable housing options for older women
 - Provide advocates in the aged care system to help older people without informal support
 - Make financial advice more accessible, affordable and catering to women's needs and communication styles.
Security in old age for older single women without children, presents findings from a collaborative project between the Universities of Sydney, New South Wales and Curtin and was funded by CPA Australia.
This story The single woman, no kids paradox first appeared on The Senior.


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Diaspora Humanitarian Training
This online training course has been created by DEMAC to provide diaspora responders with information, tools and guidance for enhancing a humanitarian response.
The course is made up of 3 modules which will take 125 minutes in total (extra time may be taken to complete activities in a supporting workbook) and you will be able to download a certificate after you have completed all the modules and the feedback form.
This course has been designed to enhance your knowledge in:
- The Humanitarian Principles
- Needs Assessments
- Safety & Security
- Accountability & Transparency
- Organisational Development
- Advocacy and Policy
- Project Development
- Bid Writing
- Monitoring and Evaluation
This course has been made in response to frustrations, questions and development assistance requests from diaspora organisations and their local partners.
The course will provide you with the following:
- Simple breakdown of the humanitarian principles
- Responses to the challenges diaspora face following humanitarian principles
- Increased knowledge in advocacy tools
- Steps to contribute to policy development
- What donors are looking for when funding projects
- Information for effective fundraising
- Recording the work you do to become a tool for partnerships and funding
- Monitoring and evaluation skills that apply to your project


The coffee experience in Naples, Italy: Local coffee culture might be different from what you expect
Naples, Italy. While this city might not be a popular mainstream attraction such as Rome or Venice, it certainly stands out as one of the most culturally interesting cities in the country.
Historically, Naples has been one of the most important harbors on the Mediterranean, and it has been one of the world's most culturally diverse cities for centuries. Neapolitan culture is not only related to its southern Italian roots, but also to the influence of Spanish, French and Arabic colonists who dominated the area over the century.
Naples is famously highly regarded for its cuisine. It is home to various specialties that made their way across the world, including pizza and mozzarella cheese!
Even in Naples, coffee machines such as Tassimo are highly sought-after, thanks to some unique design quirks including the Tassimo pods holder technology, which contributes to a perfect cup every time. The city is also well-known throughout the country for its coffee culture, which went on to influence coffee drinking all over the world.
Where does the coffee come from?
Neapolitans love coffee with a distinctively bold, earthy aroma. Locally roasted coffee is often sourced from Latin American countries such as Brazil and Colombia.
While coffee sourced in Africa is known for its fruity properties, Latin American blends are often appreciated for their creamy, rich taste, often compared to hazelnut or dark chocolate. Coffee roasting company "Kimbo" is known as one of the most popular coffee brands available in the area, and it is known for his quality South American coffee blends.
The roasting style
Neapolitan coffee roasters often prefer a medium/dark roast, which highly complements the coffee they use and highlights its natural quality. While some coffee drinkers prefer to highlight the fruity nuances of coffee, Neapolitan coffee experts prefer coffee with a bold, rich and creamy aroma. A medium/dark roast leaves enough room for the natural qualities of the coffee to shine through, yet it adds a bold and decisive flavor to the mix.
The Coffee Ritual
In Naples, and in most of Italy, people refer to coffee shops as "bars". This might cause some confusion and might mislead foreigners, who might understand the "bar" as a place where you go for a pint of beer at night rather than for a shot of espresso".
The fact that Neapolitans refer to coffee shops as "bars" actually shine a light on how coffee is normally enjoyed.
People seldom spend some time sitting at a cafe, and often prefer to enjoy a shot of espresso quickly, straight at the bar, and move on to enjoy the rest of their day.
People do occasionally sit down at bars and grab a table, but this is considered quite a luxury in Naples. When sitting down at a table in a bar, snacks such as peanuts, crackers or candies are often complementary. Sparkling water is also often offered to customers. Prices on the "table" menu might actually be more expensive than "bar prices", but customers often receive a rather luxurious treatment, especially in bars in the city center. Some bars have actually been around for centuries and patronizing them is truly an experience to remember!
Popular Choices
High-quality espresso is usually affordable and even the most expensive and elaborate coffee drink is generally going to be cheaper than most countries. While most people prefer to drink straight up espresso shots, many other options are also very popular, including macchiatos, cappuccinos or lattes. However, most people will only include milk in their coffee drinks in the morning, and seldom after lunch. In the afternoon, sweet coffee drinks are popular as a "merenda", or afternoon snacks. Locals love "caffe del nonno", a sweet iced coffee made with milk, cream, and sugar.


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It is commonly accepted that production control systems should correspond to the context within which they are operating, i.e. the production situation. However, rarely is this context indicated or made explicit; for example, the boundary conditions or the range of validity of a particular production control method. Thus, it is the aim of this paper to analyze how the production context could more systematically be taken into account when determining which production control system to use. Whilst it is acknowledged that contextual issues can be approached in a variety of ways, this is dependent on the perspective being considered (e.g. from a management hierarchy perspective, or a process stage perspective). This investigation looks at context from a process stage perspective and firstly considers the major production control approaches (such as CPM, Line-of-Balance, Last Planner System and Critical Chain) to determine their range of validity. Secondly, we endeavour to identify a typology of production control situations (ideal types), together with a suggestion for production control in each case. Finally, we attempt to deconstruct production control into its constituent elements and evaluate the alternative suggestions at this elemental level in relation to their contextual assumptions. In the paper, all three approaches are discussed and illustrated, based on prior literature and field observations.
Production control, Methods, Typology, Decision functions.


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The Dog Daily: Bonding
Where Do Breed Names Come From?
By Liz Palika for The Dog Daily
My breed of choice, Australian Shepherds, didn't actually originate in Australia. Although there is much debate concerning the origins of the breed, the most generally accepted theory is that the ancestors of the first Australian Shepherds came to the United States during the western gold rush of the mid-1800s with Basque sheep herders from their homeland in Europe. Flocks of sheep were imported from Australia to feed the miners. Because the sheep came from Australia, the dogs were assumed to have originated there as well, and the name stuck.
Most dog breed names have more logical origins than do the Aussies. Many really are named for their country of origin, such as German Shepherds, German Shorthaired Pointers, Welsh Corgis, Shetland Sheepdogs, and Afghan Hounds. Rottweilers weren't named after a country; they got their name from a town, Rottweil, in western Germany. It's said that when the breed was in decline, a few surviving Rottweilers were found in this town and they became the foundation of a new era for the breed. Alaskan Malamutes, the strongest sled dog breed, are named for an Innuit tribe, the Malimiuts, in Alaska. The Chukchi people of Siberia first bred Siberian Huskies.
Some breeds get their name from physical characteristics. Papillons are an excellent example: The word papillon
is French for "butterfly," and the breed's large upright ears, fringed with flowing silky hair, resembles the wings of a large butterfly. Basset Hounds got their name from their short legs; bas
in French means, "low slung." German Shorthaired Pointers and German Wirehaired Pointers are differentiated by the differences in their coat types, and this is reflected in their names.
Some breeds were named for the person who originally developed the breed. One story is that the Scottish Duke Alexander IV of Gordon created Gordon Setters in the 1600s. The most famous instance of a breed being named after a man has got to be Doberman Pinschers. In the mid to late 1800s, Ludwig Dobermann created an intelligent working breed from German Shepherds, Great Danes and Pinschers. This breed eventually carried his name.
Breed names have been known to change, too. In most instances records simply show the change in name but don't tell us why it occurred. The Old English Sheepdog was originally known as the English Old-Fashioned Bobtail Sheepdog. One could surmise that the change was to shorten that long mouthful of a name. Maltese were originally known as Maltese Terriers, but became simply Maltese in the early 1900s. In this instance, perhaps the "terrier" was dropped because the Maltese was being shown in the American Kennel Club as a toy dog rather than a terrier.
One of the biggest name changes, and the most controversial, was with German Shepherd Dogs. German Shepherds originated in Germany, as their name suggests, and were developed to be an all-purpose working dog. They rapidly gained popularity with law enforcement and military personnel and were exported to other countries as premier working dogs. During and after World War I, many British dog enthusiasts and working dog handlers owned or were working German Shepherds, but the anti-German sentiment of the time carried through to anything German -- even the dogs. So German Shepherds in Britain were renamed Alsatian after the French region of Alsace Lorraine, which bordered on Germany. Although the name German Shepherd has re-surfaced, many British dog enthusiasts still recognize the breed as Alsatian.
As with so much of human history, much canine history has been lost. Written records have been damaged, and verbal histories have been forgotten. It's a shame, because some of the histories we do know are fascinating. It would be wonderful if we knew how some of our favorite breeds came into being and how they were named. But than again, mysteries are fun, too.

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A little mouse called Delia lives in a hole in the bottom of a
tree.....How many days will it be before Delia has to take the same
Investigate the number of paths you can take from one vertex to
another in these 3D shapes. Is it possible to take an odd number
and an even number of paths to the same vertex?
You can trace over all of the diagonals of a pentagon without
lifting your pencil and without going over any more than once. Can
the same thing be done with a hexagon or with a heptagon?
Could you draw the shapes without removing your pencil from the
paper. Which ones were possible and which ones impossible?
These are the networks that Mithran, who is from Australia,
could follow. He has sent in his results and shown with arrows the
path that he took in completing the shapes. Try some for


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What happens to water under high pressures without possibility of escape?
It depends on what you mean for high pressure and on the temperature, however water phase diagram can help you to understand what will happen. This is from wikipedia User Cmglee:
You can see that at high pressure water assumes a solid form (ice): you will have ice X at 100 GPa and ice XI at 1 TPa (temperature range 0° to 650 °K) these sort of ices have different lattice and internal energies.
What would happen to water as pressures increase towards infinity without possibility of the water escaping confinement?
Unfortunately chemists don't deal with infinity, basically however there will be a point where the water molecule wont longer exist all the bonds will brake. After that probably you will have something called electron-degenerate matter have a look here, here is all about quantum mechanics, Pauli exclusion principle and black holes so on more Physic S.E. stuff.
Could triple points in water play a role in keeping temperatures low under high pressures via fluid thermodynamics?
You can also note that there are others triple points like (100 k, 62GPa) this however don't directly affect the properties of water but are the properties of water that determine where are the triple points. In a close system kinetic energy is constant so I think that fluid thermodynamics doesn't matter in this case is more related to equilibria.
More info about water phase diagrams here.


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FRANK JAMES JEMMETT
Not much is known about him. He was killed on Malta 22 April, 1942. The following anecdote about him was found:
Other sources suggest that Frank had to scramble without his parachute because it had been stolen. A gibbet was erected afterwards to warn people of the consequences of any similar occurrence of items being stolen from the base. Frank was shot down, made a crash landing and was later pulled from the burning plane by another pilot and some army personnel. He later died in hospital.


This is why we have bank holidays - and the history behind the Spring bank holiday in the UK
Friday, 28th May 2021, 2:11 pm
Do you have plans for this late May bank holiday? (Photo: Shutterstock)
In May there are two bank holidays – the May Day bank holiday is the first of two bank holidays, and it takes place at the start of the month, and the Spring bank holiday takes place at the end. But why exactly do we have bank holidays?
This is everything you need to know about bank holidays - from their history to how many we have left in 2021 to enjoy.
Why do we have bank holidays?
Bank holidays were first introduced by banker, politician and scientific writer Sir John Lubbock, who drafted the Bank Holiday Act in 1871.
He added Easter Monday, Whit Monday, the first Monday in August and Boxing Day to the two common law holidays that already existed, which was Good Friday and Christmas Day.
Originally, it was just banks and financial buildings that closed on these dates, which is where the name "bank holiday" comes from.
A briefing paper from the House of Commons Library on bank and public holidays explains: "The Bank Holidays Act 1871 sought to address the fact that, while most employers were able to give their workers day off on "public" holidays, it was difficult for banks to do so because the holders of bills of exchange had the power to require payment on those days."
Gradually, the likes of businesses, shops, schools and the Government also joined in on these holidays.
The Bank Holiday Act was repealed and replaced by the Banking and Financial Dealings Act 1971, which remains in force today.
What's the difference between bank holidays and public holidays?
Bank holidays generally refer to the certain number of public holidays that we get every year - eight if you live in England and Wales, nine if you live in Scotland and 10 if you live in Northern Ireland
The Government explains that, according to the law, there is a distinction between the two holidays.
Bank holidays are holidays created under the Banking and Financial Dealings Act 1971, and they include days that are specifically listed in the Act, as well as days that are proclaimed by the Queen.
Public holidays are common law holidays in England, Wales and Northern Ireland, and include Christmas Day and Good Friday. In Scotland, the term "public holiday" holds a different meaning, where it refers to specific local holidays.
While there is a difference between bank holidays and public holidays, the difference is largely academic and in practice generally operate in the same way.
In Scotland, bank holidays are a devolved issue. This enabled, in 2007, the creation of a ninth bank holiday, St Andrews Day.
Northern Ireland also has a proclaimed bank holiday to mark the Battle of Boyne, in addition to St Patrick's Day which is listed in the 1971 Act.
When is the Spring bank holiday?
The Spring bank holiday will take place this year on Monday 31 May.
Originally, the second bank holiday in May started as the Monday after Pentecost, also known as Whitsun or Whit Monday. Whit Monday was a holiday marked after Pentecost, a Christian celebration that takes place 50 days after Easter Sunday.
It served to commemorate the descent of the Holy Spirit upon the Apostles and other followers of Jesus while they were in Jerusalem celebrating the Feast of Weeks.
Whit Monday would generally take place around the start of June but it was replaced with the Spring bank holiday in the UK in 1971 by the Banking and Financial Dealings Act 1971, following a trial period from 1965 to 1970.
This moved the date of the holiday from the beginning of June to the last Monday of May.
What bank holidays are left in 2021?
There are a number of bank holidays still to take place throughout the rest of the year in the UK.
If a bank holiday falls on a weekend, a 'substitute' weekend becomes a bank holiday instead, usually the following Monday.
In Scotland, these dates of the bank holidays that are left this year:
 - Spring bank holiday - Monday 31 May
 - Summer bank holiday - Monday 2 August
 - St Andrew's Day - Tuesday 30 November
 - Christmas Day (substitute day) - Monday 27 December
 - Boxing Day (substitute day) - Tuesday 28 December
England and Wales mostly have the same line-up of bank holidays except the exemption of St Andrew's Day on Monday 30 November, which is only observed in Scotland.
Bank holidays in Northern Ireland are, again, generally the same with only a few differences. Like England and Wales, St Andrew's Day is not a bank holiday. Northern Ireland also has an additional bank holiday on Monday 12 July for Battle of the Boyne (Orangemen's Day).
A version of this article originally appeared on our sister site NationalWorld


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Create an Elegant Patterned Vector Owl in Illustrator
Follow this step by step Adobe Illustrator tutorial to create a stylized vector owl illustration with simple shapes and patterns. We'll start by building the basic owl character with various vector shapes, then begin bringing it to life with colour, shading and pattern fills.
The owl character we'll be creating is built from a range of basic shapes to create a simple and elegant style. The illustration is brought to life with shading effects which add depth, and a range of pattern fills to give a feathered impression. To finish off the design it's brought into Photoshop for some grungy textures to rough up the clean vectors to give a cool tactile feel.
Open up Adobe Illustrator and draw a large circle on the artboard. Hold ALT and drag the circle to one side to make a duplicate, then use the Subtract option from the Pathfinder palette to punch out the circle from the original.
Draw a Rounded Rectangle with max corner radius (press the right cursor key) and carefully align it to the width of the crescent shape. Toggle outline mode (CMD+Y) to ensure everything lines up. Merge these two shapes with the Pathfinder palette.
Draw another circle, this time overlap it across the top edge of the owl body. Use the Subtract option from the Pathfinder to create a couple of simple ears on the head.
Elsewhere on the artboard draw a circle, then with the Convert Anchor Point tool remove the bezier handles from the upper and lower points. Use the Direct Selection Tool to drag these points upwards and downwards respectively to lengthen this shapes to produce a simple wing.
Rotate and move the wing into place on the body of the owl. Draw another circle as move into place as an eye. Use the Pucker and Bloat effect to convert the shape.
Copy the shape then paste in front (CMD+F). Hold Shift while rotating to limit the angle to 45 degrees, then go to Object > Expand Appearance to convert the effect into solid shapes then merge the two with the Pathfinder.
Add a few more circles aligned to the centre of this shape. Paste each new circle then scale it while holding Shift and Alt. Finish the eye with a couple of smaller circular highlights.
Duplicate all the shapes that make up the eye and move them to the opposite side. Merge the surrounding shapes to blend them together where the two overlap.
Create the basics of what will be the owl's beak using three circles – Two small circles placed side by side, then a larger one at the exact with of the two smaller circles. Use the Direct Selection Tool to select and delete the upper most point from the larger circle.
Drag the lower most point downwards vertically (hold Shift) and remove the bezier curves with the Convert Anchor Point tool.
Overlap the shapes then use the Merge option from the Pathfinder to blend them together. Move the beak into place between the eyes.
Use the Pen tool while holding Shift to draw a flowing shape. Keeping the bezier curves on strict angles should help keep the curves flowing smoothly.
Move all the shapes into their final positions to create the basic structure and outline of the owl character.
Add a basic blue fill to the body of the owl, then head to Effect > Stylize > Inner Glow. Select a darker tone of blue and adjust the blur so the glow subtly flows in from the edges. Add the same fill and Glow settings to the wings.
Use similar Inner Glow styling, but this time with grey tones on the 'eyebrows' and shapes that surround the eyes.
To make the eyes stand out that little more, add a Drop Shadow. Adjust the options so there's no offset and the Opacity is around 40%.
Add a grey to white radial fill to the outer circles that make up the complete eye. Move the gradient slider so the grey only creeps in slightly from the edge.
Give the next circle an orange/yellow radial fill to create a bright iris colour, and add another subtle Drop Shadow.
Elsewhere in the document draw a small circle. Drag the upper most point upwards with the Direct Selection Tool then remove the bezier curves with the Convert Anchor Point tool.
Select the Rotate Tool then Alt-Click just underneath the shape. In the subsequent options box enter 10 degrees and hit the Copy button.
Repeatedly press the shortcut CMD+D to generate a complete circle of radial shapes. Remove the black stroke and group them all together (CMD+G).
Move the radial shapes into place over the iris. Use the shortcut CMD+[ to alter the stacking order so it sits under the pupil of the eye.
Finish off the eye with a black to grey gradient on the pupil and leave the highlights with just a white fill. Use the same colours from iris to colour the beak with a fill and Inner Glow. Don't forget a good old Drop Shadow to list the objects from the screen.
Draw another small circle elsewhere on the artboard. Delete the upper most point to leave a semi-circle. Give this semi-circle a vertical gradient fill from the darker blue tone used on the body to transparent.
Hold ALT and Shift while dragging the shape to one side to align multiple circles side by side, then select and drag this row downwards to duplicate a series of further rows.
Align a guide to the centre of the first circle, then move the second row until the edge of the circles aligns with this guide. Repeat the movement on each alternating row using the shortcut CMD+D then group them all together.
Use three more guides to carefully outline a repeating area within the series of rows. Zoom right in to ensure the guides sit perfectly against the centre points and outlines of the circles. Draw a blank square inside these guides.
Select both the group of circles and the blank square and click the Crop option from the bottom row of the Pathfinder to trim the pattern down to size. Drag this graphic into the Swatches palette.
Copy the main body shape and press CMD+F to paste it in front. Delete the Inner Glow from the appearances palette then replace the fill with the newly created pattern swatch. Change the blending mode to Color Burn.
Repeat the process on the wings, but also go to Object > Transform > Rotate. Select just the Patterns checkbox and enter 30 degrees into the Angle to rotate the pattern to match the orientation of the wing.
Make another duplicate of the wing and give it a black fill. Use a large temporary circle with the Pathfinder to clip the shape down.
Add a large Gaussian Blur (Effect > Blur > Gaussian Blur) of around 40px.
Press CMD-[ to send the black shape underneath the main wing, then rotate it slightly so the blur creeps out slightly further from the lower edge. Change the blending mode to Multiply at 30%.
Draw a large oval over the chest area of the owl. Adjust the Stroke options to 30pt Weight with Round Cap and Bevel Join, check the Dashed Line option and change the dash to 0 and gap to match the stroke weight of 30pt.
Go to Object > Expand and select just the Stroke option to convert the stroke into basic shapes. Right click and Ungroup, then merge everything together with the Pathfinder.
Use a duplicate of the main body shape as a tool along with the Intersect option from the Pathfinder to trim the chest shape down to size.
Give it a basic blue fill then set it to Multiply at 40%.
To finish off the design with some rough textures, paste it into a large Photoshop document with a grey background.
Paste a copy of the body pattern fill from Illustrator and scale it up to fill the whole document. Set this to Color Burn, then add a rough texture and set it to Color Dodge at 80%.
Import another texture file then load the selection of the owl illustration by clicking the layer thumbnail while holding the CMD key. Inverse the selection (CMD+Shift+I) then clear out the excess.
Set this new texture overlay to Color Burn at 70% opacity to finish off the illustration with some dirty distressed marks.
There we have one complete owl illustration. The basic vector shapes help build a simple and stylized illustration while the subtle shading effects add depth and dimension to the design. None of my designs are complete without a dirty texture to rough things up, which in turn give the clean vectors a more tactile feel.


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purpose: Characterization of left ventricular function is important in managing patients with coronary artery disease. Although many methods are available to assess left ventricular function, most are either expensive, invasive, or both. In this study, we examined the ability of normal or near-normal resting electrocardiographic findings to predict resting left ventricular ejection fraction, measured by resting radionuclid angiography, in 874 patients with chest pain and suspected coronary artery disease. patients and methods: A retrospective review was undertaken of 4,410 Mayo Clinic patients who underwent rest and exercise radionuclide ventriculography for the evaluation of chest pain and known or suspected coronary artery disease; of these, 874 patients met the inclusion criteria for the current study. A 15-lead electrocardiogram, which was interpreted by the cardiologist or cardiology trainee working in the laboratory, was obtained at the same evaluation as the radionuclide study. results; In 590 patients with no previous history of a myocardial infarction and entirely normal resting electrocardiographic results without non-specific ST-T wave abnormalities, the mean left ventricular ejection franction was 0.63± 0.004, and 559 patients (95%) had a normal resting ejection fraction (defined as 0.50 or more). Both nonspecific ST-T wave abnormalities (p <0.001) and, to a lesser degree, a history of myoacardial infarction (p = 0.06) were independent predictors of an abnormal resting ejection fraction. In 185 patients with non-specific ST-T wave abnormalities and no history of myocardial infarction, the mean left ventricular ejection fraction was 0.61 ± 0.009, and 85% had a normal resting ejection fraction. In 36 patients with nonspecific ST-T wave abnormalities and a history of myocardial infarction, the mean left ventricular ejection fraction was 0.53 ± 0.021, and 72% had a normal resting ejection fraction. conclusion: Thus, an entirely normal result on an resting 12-lead electrocardiogram in patients with suspected coronary disease but no history of a previous myocardial infarction is a reliable (95%) predictor of normal left ventricular function. If non-specific ST-T wave abnormalities are noted, particularly if there is a history of a previous infarction, to the predictive value of the electrocardiographic findings in diminished.
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Rummy Rules: How to Play Online Rummy
How Many People Play Rummy Online?
The 13 cards of rummy game usually played between 2 to 6 Players. For two players, 1 deck of 52 cards and for more than 2 players, 2 decks of 52 cards are used.
What is a Deck of Cards?
It is a complete set of 52 cards, which consists of 4 suits (SPADES, CLUBS, HEARTS, and DIAMONDS) with 13 cards each. Cards of each suit rank from low to highsuch as Ace 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 J Q K.
What is Set?
It is a group of three to four cards of the same suites, whether it can be a SPADES, CLUBS, HEARTS, and DIAMONDS.
What is Sequence?
Sequence, where three or more consecutive cards belong to the same suit.
What is a Drop?
Drop is a powerful rummy trick. The player has the flexibility to skip any particular round before drawing the first card.
What is the First Drop?
A player can exercise the first drop in his/her very first turn. He/she will get only 20 points for the first drop.
What is Middle Drop?
In which, players can skip or choose not to play after a round starts by either drawing or discarding any cards. You will get 40 points. If a player decides to drop the game in the second or third turn, then it is considered as a middle drop.
What is a Table in Rummy?
It is a place where a game of rummy is played. Basically, one set of the rummy game is played on Table.
What is Joker?
 - Wild JokerIt can be selected randomly from a closed deckand the player can use this in place of any card to create a set or sequence. For example, if you have 1, 2, and 4 cards of the same suit, then you can use Joker after 2 to create a set.
 - Printed JokerIt also has the same role in a rummy game. A player can use it in order to create a pure sequence. For example, you can replace any card with a printed Joker.
What are Chips?
To play rummy on, Chips are required. When a player wants to play rummy on our online platform, some specific amount of chips are deducted from his/her 6ixxer Rummy account. There are three types of Chips, such as –
 - Practice Chips: Play with chips are free and it can be reloaded anytime the balance falls below 1000. To avail of this, you have to register yourself with us. Players can get unlimited numbers of Practice Chips in batches of 10,000.
 - Real Chips: It is for Real Play. In which, you have to play with cash and win cash. In order to avail Real Chips, the player needs to buy them online (by depositing cash through multiple available options) before entering a game of Real Play.
What is Dealing?
To start playing, cards are dealt in a clockwise direction.
What is Draw and Discard?
For arranging 13 cards whether in a SET or in a Sequence, a player has to discard his unwanted card and pick the needed card from Open Deck, which is just discarded by his previous player and has to draw a card from Closed Deck. To put it simply, there are 2 stacks from which each player can select cards, thereby drawing a card. Once a player draws a card, he has to get rid of one card - this is called discarding. To draw, a player can do this either from the closed un-dealt cards or the open discarded pile.
What is Meld and Show?
In Rummy Game, each player is provided with 13 cards. In this game, players need to arrange all the cards either in a set or in a sequence. Once, he/she made a set or sequence, he/she can submit the cards in groups for validation.
 - Show -The process of submitting cards is known as Show.
 - Meld or Melding-In order to have a successful Show, the players have to arrange all the cards into Lives or Setsand the action of arranging cards is called Meld or Melding.
What is a Group?
Grouping depends on the player's choice. If a player arranges two or more cards, he/she is shown in the "Group" button. What you need to do is, click the "Group" button and create a separate group for the selected cards. At 6ixxerrummy, you can create a maximum 6 on the table at one point in time.
What Does Term Full Count Means?
The maximum possible score for one Round is 80 points at 6ixxer Rummy.
What Does the Terms Deck Reshuffling Mean?
When all cards are finished, 6ixxer Rummy reshuffle the cards to resume playand this process is called reshuffle. This process is done by using all the cards whether it is discarded or dropped by the players. Initial dropped and middle dropped cards are also included in this process.
How are Scores Calculated in Rummy?
Cards of each suit rank from low to highsuch as Ace 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 J Q K. Ace is used no. 1. All cards are assigned with points like AJQK are assigned 10 points & the rest of the cards are assigned points based on their FACE Value.
By default, three autoplay rounds will be provided for disconnected players. And after that, the system will decide future courses based upon players' saved group scores.
 - If you saved groups score is less than middle drop count, the game will keep in auto play mode till some other player places a show.
 - If your saved group score is more than the middle drop count, the player will be considered for the middle drop.
What are the Validation Rules?
Players must have at least 1 Pure sequence & set (Life) and (1 Life) I set or sequence with/without jokers. It can be selected randomly from a closed deskand the player can use this in place of any card to create a set or sequence.
What is Life?
A Life is a sequence or set should be arranged at least 3 cards of the same suit. You can't create a set with more than four cards. In case, you add a joker in a set of four cards, then it will be considered as an invalid set. Apart from this, Joker is the most powerful card that helps you to win the game.
For Example
Players should have to arrange 1 Pure Life. They should also have a Life with joker. Let's understand with an example: - ( 1 Pure Life with Joker).
What is a Set?
It is a group of three to four cards of the same Value or different Suits. Let's take the example;-
For Example
What is Auto Play?
The disconnected players can join back with "Auto Play Mode".
6ixxer Rummy has launched a new feature, which is Autoplay. Suppose, you are playing rummy online at 6ixxer Rummy, and suddenly your internet is discounted, then you can join back in the running game with "Auto Play. In "Auto Play" mode, the system will take a deck card and discard the same card giving you an opportunity to Join Back in the continue game as soon as possible to reconnected thus avoiding unwanted count of 50 and 80.


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Marketing Processes : Internal
In this conversation, we are going to share how and what are the Internal Marketing Processes of Mail Right and what tools are they using in the process of making and generating leads.
One example this podcast covers is how tools like Mail-Right make it easy to share blog posts across all of your social media channels. The basic platforms are Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram. Or you can either send it to your Team or VA and Email them and make sure that the content is distributed. Then one best practice is for you to get notifications when the task is completed.
The tools we use for project management are discussed.BasecampTrelloHootsuiteWunderlist, and Slack.
In Project Management you should aim to have a good overall reporting system. So will tell you what those tools are, what are the best tools to use and what are the pros and cons of using Basecamp or Slack.
Another scenario that we talked about was how to generate leads and the Internal process such as using CRMs. Watch this video:
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Background: After a patient death, experienced physicians have reported feelings of sadness, guilt, and self-doubt. Residents and interns experience a strong emotional impact to these deaths as well, and previous studies have shown that they only feel adequately supported 50% of the time. Residents feel more supported by their attendings and are better able to emotionally cope if debriefs occur after adverse events or deaths. There are few studies on how frequently hospitalists hold debriefs after patient deaths and how best to conduct such discussions.
Purpose: The purpose of the study is to understand current practices in coping with patient deaths and to create a debrief tool to guide residents and hospitalists in conducting debriefs after a patient mortality or adverse event.
Description: The study was conducted at a large urban academic medical center. An initial anonymous survey was administered to Internal Medicine residents and hospitalists to understand current debrief practices. There were 13 hospitalist respondents and 31 resident respondents. The survey found that debriefs do not happen consistently, with only 31% of hospitalists reporting that they always debrief after a patient death or adverse event and 0% of residents reporting that their attending always leads debriefs. Although 77% of hospitalist respondents reported recognizing when trainees are having difficulty coping with a patient death or adverse event, only 55% of residents agreed that their attendings recognized that they were having difficulty coping. Furthermore, 65% of resident respondents reported that they were not aware of mental and emotional health resources and 69% of hospitalists reported that they have never provided such resources. Survey data also showed that 100% of the hospitalists had not received training on how to conduct debriefs, but 100% would want a tool to help them debrief.A debrief tool was created based on the need indicated from the survey (figure 1). Specific elements were selected from best practices when discussing difficult events and from a survey question related to physician perception of the purpose of debriefs. Further input was taken from focus groups of residents and hospitalists. Using the mnemonic SEEK, the tool emphasizes the following 4 components: Setting a stage, creating Expectations and a blame-free environment, discussing Emotions and providing additional Knowledge and resources. This tool also includes sample questions to guide the discussion when leading a debrief and resources for emotional and mental care. Laminated cards with the tool were published and made available online. Training sessions were conducted with both residents and hospitalists, and they were guided through elements of a debrief, sample questions to facilitate discussion, and how to use the tool. At the end of the training session, hospitalists and residents applied their newly learned skills to challenging clinical scenarios.
Conclusions: The development and implementation of a tool helped to establish an easily adopted method to facilitate debriefs. Follow-up comments from attendings and residents have shown that debriefs are occurring more frequently after adverse events and deaths, and that they have been helpful and very much appreciated by the residents. Further evaluations and results will need to be collected. Additionally, applying the tool to specialty services, in ICUs, and continuing to train additional residents and hospitalists will broaden the practice of debriefs.
To cite this abstract:Kochar, A; Radcliffe, M; Vinh-Tung, N. A TOOL TO GUIDE DEBRIEFS AFTER PATIENT DEATHS. Abstract published at Hospital Medicine 2019, March 24-27, National Harbor, Md. Abstract 314. _URL_ Accessed December 6, 2019.


Is it better a hot water or cold water high pressure cleaner?
Thanks to hot water high pressure cleaner it is possible to remove also grease or oily residues from engines. The cleaning time is short and the surfaces dry more quickly. The cold water removes all types of dirt and can be used for all types of applications.
Turbo nozzle: the best when?
Combining the strength of concentrated high pressure jet to rotary motion, allowing you to work on large surface, turbo nozzle is ideal to remove toughest dirt.
Is it possible to use inlet warm water?
In the case of cold water high pressure cleaners, to prevent damages to the mechanical parts, the maximum inlet water temperature allowed is no more that 40 °C. We would like to remind that hot water high pressure cleaners, in addition to temperatures close to 100 °C, can work obviously with cold water only.
What are the factors influencing the cleaning quality of a pressure cleaner?
The main factor is the physical action of the high pressure flow rate, mechanical and impact action on the surface.; the second factor is the use of hot water, see features mentioned above; the third is the use of detergents; distance from the surface and duration of the cleaning phase are the last two factors that can affect the quality of the perfect clean.
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Bringing advanced TDS TV+ programming to your home is easy—simply connect a TDS TV+ receiver to your TV.
The receiver should be located near your TV and a power source, but away from anything that generates too much heat. Since your receiver doesn't require a direct line of sight with your remote control, you can put it in a hidden location (e.g. entertainment center cabinet).
Installation will take up to 20 minutes per receiver.
 1. Connect one end of the HDMI cable that's provided into the receiver's HDMI input. Connect the other end into your TV's HDMI input. (When HDMI is used, no other video/audio connections are needed.).
 2. Using the power supply provided, plug the one end into the 12V DC input on your receiver. Plug the other end into a standard power (wall) outlet.
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It's my body: calls to ChildLine Scotland about sexual health and wellbeing
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The last decade has seen increasing efforts by central and local government to target sexual health services and initiatives at young people in order to improve their sexual health. However, for Scotland's Sexual Health Strategy and associated initiatives to be effectively implemented, more information is needed about children and young people's own views, concerns and experiences regarding their sexual health and well-being. This briefing reports on a research study funded by the Scottish Executive and carried out by the Centre for Research on Families and Relationships (CRFR) and ChildLine Scotland to explore over 14,000 calls made to the helpline in this area. Calls to ChildLine Scotland about sexual health and well-being issues, including sexual abuse, have increased steadily over the years and are the primary reason for calling in over a quarter of all calls. These calls reflect children's own agendas, supporting an approach which treats children and young people as competent reporters on their own lives.


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A creative relationship between multiple people that goes beyond a single outcome.
As today's relationships, romantic and otherwise, are changing with the increased visibility
and information access through social media platforms, so too are collaborations. This
project proposes a rethinking of the term collaboration as a "creative relationship". Viewing
a collaboration as a creative relationship means consent, appreciation, curiosity and dialogue
can be shared under a new light.
Polycreative is a concept that showcases a different way of approaching collaborations as creative
relationships with multiple people working together both physically and virtually. This project
focuses on representing and celebrating these relationships through cake. In three main stages,
design and process is influenced by different creative individuals in terms of form, function,
visualisation, etc. For Polycreative, the final outcomes become secondary, the primary aspect
is the communication, the many different media used, and the different emotional experiences
had. How much influence does one creative have in the different stages of a process? How are
ideas and concepts shared across long distances? And how does the final representation reflect
Five different creative relationship scenarios were conducted with several designers; creative
exchange, dialogue and symbiosis were recorded at each stage, thereby showing different creative
pathways and ways of working explored in a creative relationship. In this example, I was the initiator,
facilitator and maker of the cakes, which were the connective medium. My primary creatives were
designers who were asked to each design and make a cake stand, the secondary creatives were
designers who were asked to create new eating rituals in reaction to a specific cake and stand.
Another level of creatives contributed their skills through photography, cinematography, technical
support and performance.
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20 Best Flag Quotes
As words rarely have a symbol designed to represent them, it is common to use flags to identify them. But one of the most popular uses of a flag is to symbolize a nation or country, and some national flags have inspirational meaning in design. Let's take a look at the following flag quotes and flag hoisting quotes.
The Philippine flag is a powerful flag.
The Philippines flag should stay up high.
The Philippines flag has waved for a long time.
Let all flags rise high.
It's not about the flag, it's about what it stands for.
Flags shouldn't be used to cover people's crimes.
The flag represents what you're passionate about.
The Philippines flag is a symbol of sacrifice.
Every nation is seen within its flag.
We should accept our differences and hoist the flag.
The meaning of the flag is nothing without the land.
The Philippines flag is a special-looking one.
Even in the Olympics, flags are of high significance.
The Philippines flag is a unique one.
A flag is a representation of freedom and unity.
There should be only one flag for the whole world.
All parties should have and hoist the same flag.
No one should dilute what the flag stands for.
The Philippines flag carries a lot of meanings.
The Philippines flag represents its nature.
From the above flag quotes, we can see some of the inspiring Philippine flag quotes. The Philippines is a country of people who are willing to do anything to keep it safe and away from any harm. The Philippine flag is a flag to be proud of. If you have a Philippine friend, send him one of them to show him you care.
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Our paper titled "Hierarchical data models improve the accuracy of feature level predictions for additively manufactured parts" has been published on Additive Manufacturing. The paper was co-authored by Yuhang Yang and Prof. Chenhui Shao.
Industrial-scale production applications of additive manufacturing (AM) are growing rapidly, and scalable AM production requires quality systems that monitor and control part geometric accuracy across multiple machines that operate within a factory. This research develops a hybrid hierarchical modeling (HHM) approach to characterize the geometric accuracy of parts produced across multiple identical AM machines. Our approach organizes the geometric accuracy data into a hierarchy that represents data from individual parts, the positions of parts within the builds, and the machines that produced those parts. By leveraging data from different printers, the performance of the part-level geometric accuracy modeling is substantially improved compared with competing methods. The modeling approach is extensible to other types of AM and could be used as part of a quality system within AM factory.
Read the full paper here.


テクニカルレポート The 'Real' Explanation of the Feldstein-Horioka Puzzle
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This paper shows that global capital markets cannot, by themselves, achieve net transfers of financial capital between countries and that both the integration of global financial markets as well as the integration of global goods markets are needed to achieve net transfers of capital between countries. Frictions (barriers to mobility) in one or both of these markets can impede net transfers of capital between countries, produce the Feldstein and Horioka (1980) results, and prevent real interest rates from being equalized across countries. Moreover, there is empirical evidence that barriers to the mobility of goods and services are an important obstacle to international capital mobility.
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Hotdocs Software and the New Wave of Documents
When you hear the word "hotdocs," you might immediately think of some of the beautiful men and women you see on the weekly medical shows deftly saving lives and dealing with life and death situations while retaining their courage and perfect teeth. But there is another hotdocs that is well known in legal circles and is arguably more popular and hands down more useful than any actor living.
Hotdocs software is a program that allows the conversion of standard file formats, such as Word documents, WordPerfect files, or PDFs into a universal template that can be used to create sophisticated forms and documents for any number of purposes.
This legal system software was first developed back in the 1970s when Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah, started to look at ways for computers to generate legal forms. The software has grown over time, constantly refined and developed in response to feedback from an ever growing user base. In 1993 the first commercial version of the software was released, garnering a significant following and simplifying the complex arena of legal form production.
Sales proposals, contracts, court documents and other legal forms became much simpler and much less time consuming to generate. Similar to mail merge processes within word processing documents but on a scale much grander and far more sophisticated, hotdocs allows the user to turn a standard document, such as a PDF or Word document, into an interactive questionnaire. The answers from this questionnaire are then used to generate a fully automated and useable legal form, customized to the individual or company at hand with all of the correct clauses and details.
Beyond this, hotdocs can be used in conjunction with databases, allowing maximum efficiency and total customizability with the infrastructure of the many and varied documents needed to effectively supplement the company. Case and practice management systems can also be integrated into the architecture, making hotdocs a unique product to each customer, a truly versatile piece of software.
The functionality of the program also allows it to be portable across the internet, reaching clients and offices wherever the web touches. Additional software is needed to accomplish this, but hotdocs pricing can include the necessary components in package deals to suit most businesses. The time recouped alone is worth the initial investment.
With such an amazing tool at their fingertips, it's no wonder that so many companies now take advantage of hotdocs, incorporating it into their daily workflow and enhancing areas that once moved at a sluggish pace, at once rendering them more efficient and less tedious. Now that's much more useful than George Clooney with a stethoscope.
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Level: MASTER'S DEGREE
Objectives / Professional profile:
The main objective of the Graduate Program in Oceanography – PPGOCEANO (Master's degree) is the generation and transmission of knowledge over the oceanographic processes (biological, physical, chemical and geological) of the coastal and marine environments (Blue and Brown Water Oceanography), and also the management of such space, with special interest in the State of Santa Catarina and the Southern region of Brazil. Formally, it aims to:
– ensure a high-level training and improvement of professors, researchers and professionals committed to the advance of knowledge in order to meet the national needs;
– promote the development of scientific research in the specific areas of knowledge;
– strengthen the correlated areas of study already existing at UFSC, expanding the relationship among them.
The Graduate Program in Oceanography has a proposal of action strongly connected to the scientific research, contemplating both basic and applied sciences. This option reflects on the way of approaching subjects, thesis themes and on the careful selection of applicants.
The specific objectives of PPGOCEANO are to:
– train and qualify researchers and professors at the master's degree level in Oceanography.
– boost the search for knowledge and innovative contents that propel research on the phenomena of interaction between ocean-atmosphere, Earth-ocean, and ocean and boundary layer.
– train professionals to work in coastal and marine management.
The Master's Program is offered for graduated professionals who attend the selection criteria and that have the skills to act as: researchers able to develop technological and scientific innovations; professors able to teach at the university level; or professionals able to create tools and strategies of response to the use and management of oceans.
For such, the program aims at training professionals to work in the areas of research and study of natural oceanographic phenomena, such as the phenomena of interaction between ocean-atmosphere, Earth–ocean and ocean and bottom boundary layer.
For the Academic Master's Degree Program, besides the qualifying seminar (in the 6th and the 14th months) and the development of the master's thesis, the student shall take 18 credits in elective or optional courses. Additionally, the master's student may attend up to 30 hours (2 credits) of teaching practice. The elective courses are distributed along the two semesters of each year, and may be offered in intervals of up to two years. Some courses may be offered in an intensive format. The other credits may be taken in Special Topic Courses offered by the program or in courses from other programs (maximum of 4 credits), or even in complementary activities (such as attending events, thesis or dissertation defenses, and seminars, for up to 2 credits). The presentation of the theses in the form of articles, submitted to journals evaluated by the Qualis system of CAPES (at A1, A2, B1 or B2 levels), and/or book chapters (L1 and L2 levels) as well as the preferential integration between the lines of research will be encouraged.
For such, the program aims to prepare professionals who are able to enter the academy and/or the labor market in order to:
– develop scientific and technological innovations,
– teach in Higher Education,
– create tools and strategies of response to the use and management of coastal zone and oceans.
Total Credits for degree:
Courses: 18 credits (in elective or validated courses)
Thesis: 6 credits
Total: 24 credits
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Andrew Moore and Weng-Keen Wong
We show how a conceptually simple search operator called Optimal Reinsertion can be applied learning Bayesian Network structure from data. On each step we pick a node called the target. We delete all arcs entering or exiting the target. We then find, subject to some constraints, the globally optimal combination of in-arcs and out-arcs with which to reinsert it. The heart of the paper is a new algorithm called ORSearch which allows each optimal reinsertion step to be computed efficiently on large datasets. Our empirical results compare Optimal Reinsertion against a highly tuned implementation of multi-restart hill climbing. The results typically show one two orders of magnitude speed-up on a variety datasets. They usually show better final results, both in terms of BDEU score and in modeling future data drawn from the same distribution.


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Comparison Between the Reverse Osmosis and Multi-stage Flash Distillation Methods
The two common methods of desalination are RO and MSF distillation. How to choose one over the other? The merits and demerits of each system is discussed in this article.
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 Growth of Desalination
 The Desalination business is set to increase ten fold by 2015. Clients have the choice of two technologies to choose from. Multi Stage Flash Distillation (MSF) with two decades of proven technology or Revese Osmosis (RO) that has considerably advanced in recent years.
 Following are some of the areas that require consideration while making a choice.
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 Comparing Energy Requirements
 Energy required to produce one litre of water together with the cost of energy makes or breaks the need for desalination and the choice of the process.
 RO has a much higher yield compared to MSF. This means for the same output the intake of sea water is only one third in RO systems. This considerably decreases the power and other costs required for pumping sea water to the plant and disposing the spent brine.
 RO systems require considerable energy for pressurizing the water to the membrane filters. Whereas MSF require heat energy for heating the brine before vaporisation.
 The technology of RO especially the membranes have drastically improved in the last decade resulting in lesser power consumption. The MSF requires around 17 kwhr /M3 of water (heating and pumping power) against 5 kwhr /M3 for RO process.
 In today's technology level MSF may be practical only when steam energy is freely available as in co-generation plants.
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 Difference in Output Quality
 MSF systems produce water with less than 100 mg / L total dissolved solids as against 400 mg /L in the RO system. This sometimes necessitates the need of second set of membrane filters for higher water qualities.
 In RO systems the output depends on the sea water feed quality. MSF being a vaporisation system performance does not depend on feed quality.
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 What works against the RO system is the amount of pre –treatment required for the process. Elaborate arrangements are required to remove the biological organisms, suspended solids and other debris. Also the pH and other chemical regimes of the feed water have to be controlled.
 Since MSF is a vaporisation process such elaborate pre-treatment facilities are not required.
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 MSF plants are considerably larger than RO plants with special materials. Consequentially the construction and land costs are high. Since steam is used piping, condensate and other associated systems are involved. All these result in increased maintenance costs. Scaling also adds to maintenance issues.
 Improved membrane technology, use of low cost materials and the modular system in RO have reduces maintenance costs drastically. Also thes have improved the reliability of RO systems.
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 Technological advances in the RO system have reduced the unit cost of water making it easier to choose between the systems.
Depleting fresh water resources is pushing the implementation of more and more Desalination plants. A brief description of the common desalination process and their merits and demerits are discussed in the series.
 1. How Does Reverse Osmosis Plant Work?
 2. How Desalination by Multi-stage Flash Distillation Works
 3. Comparison Between the Reverse Osmosis and Multi-stage Flash Distillation Methods


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A stock character
is a fictional character
that relies heavily on cultural types
for its personality, manner of speech, and other characteristics. Stock characters are instantly recognizable to members of a given culture.
Stock characters in the western tradition originate from the theatres of ancient Greece and Rome.
Some examples of stock characters are:
- The Hero
- The Villain, evil personified, be it the Duke of Gloucester in William Shakespeare's Richard III or Prince John in the Robin Hood stories.
- The Damsel in Distress, the young, beautiful, virginal woman who must be rescued from some cruel fate by the Hero, a la Penelope Pitstop[?].
- The Femme Fatale, La belle dame sans merci, the Black Widow, the beautiful, but evil woman who leads the hero to his doom.
- The Fop: The fop is a man attempting but failing to rise into fashionable aristocratic culture. He is typically overdressed and his speech is characterized by over-use or misuse of popular phrases (often French phrases) or various forms of hypercorrection[?]. The fop is never intelligent and always talkative. Zorro hid behind the image of the Fop, Don Diego. The Scarlet Pimpernel hid behind the persona of Sir Percy Blakeney.
- The Fool: The fool is a clown or joker who speaks in riddles and puns. Often, the fool is intelligent and witty and reveals key truths about the characters he fools with (Shakespeare's fools, such as the ones in Twelfth Night and King Lear, are well-known examples).
- The Mad Scientist: The insane man of science, who either accidentally or intentionally "meddles with the forces of nature" and causes the trouble which the hero must correct.
- The Revenger: The Revenger is a hot-blooded young man who has had a loved one (ideally a fiance) cruelly murdered and/or raped and seeks his revenge outside the law. (Laertes in Hamlet and Hamlet himself are examples of Revengers.)
- The Sidekick - the Hero's helper, Sancho Panza in Don Quixote, Dr. Watson in Sherlock Holmes. The Sidekick is often a figure of fun, but is trustworthy and sometimes shows surprising resourcefulness and bravery. In whodunnits and secondary literature on detective fiction in general, the Sidekick is often referred to as the Watson -- slightly dumber than the average reader, time and again overlooking decisive clues, occasionally drawing the wrong conclusions (such as Capt. Hastings, a friend of Hercule Poirot's).
- The Tart with a Heart: Outwardly tough and hard, she hides a heart of gold under her hard-bitten exterior.
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POWERING USB DEVICES
This section covers both bus-powered devices and self-powered devices.
- A bus-powered device draws all of its power from the bus. It may draw up to 500 mA, if permitted to do so by the host.
- A self-powered device does not draw the bulk of its power from the bus, but rather from an external power supply.
Any USB device (or hub) can consume current from the bus only from its upstream port.
1-3-1 BUS-POWERED DEVICES
USB provides a power supply of between 4.75 and 5.25 volts and up to 500 milliAmperes to any device plugged into the port.
- Supply voltage can fall to a minimum of 4.35V at the device.
- When other devices are being plugged in, there can be transients lowering the supply voltage by 0.4V.
- Devices can be classified as bus-powered, self-powered, or hybrid-powered.
A USB device specifies its power consumption in units of 2 mA in the configuration descriptor. A device cannot increase its power consumption to a value that is greater than what it specifies during enumeration.
There are two classes of bus-powered functions:
- Low-power functions draw power from the VBus, and cannot draw any more than one unit load. The USB specification defines a unit load as 100mA. Low-power functions must also be designed to work down to a VBus voltage of 4.40V and up to a maximum voltage of 5.25V as measured at the upsteam plug of the device. For many 3.3V devices, LDO regulators are mandatory.
- High-power functions draw power from the VBus, and cannot draw more than one unit load until it has been configured, after which it can then draw up to five unit loads (500mA Max), provided this is specified in the descriptor. High-power functions must be capable of being detected and enumerated at a minimum 4.40V. When operating at a full unit load, the VBus provides a minimum of 4.75V and a maximum of 5.25V. Once again, these measurements are taken at the upstream plug.
A device which has been suspended, as a result of no bus activity, must reduce its current consumption to 0.5 mA or less. If a device is configured for high power (up to 500 mA), and has its remote wakeup feature enabled, it is allowed to draw up to 2.5 mA during suspend.
1-3-2 SELF-POWERED DEVICES
Self-powered functions are devices that require more than 500 mA of current. These devices may draw up to one unit load (100 mA) from the bus, and must derive the rest of its power from an external source. Should this external source fail, the device must have provisions in place to draw no more than one unit load from the bus.
The one unit load from the bus allows devices to be detected and enumerated without requiring external power.
Powered USB (also known as Retail USB, USB Plus Power, and USB + Power) is a proprietary variant of USB that adds new powering modes to the USB specification.
Powered USB uses standard USB signaling, but with the addition of extra power lines. it is commonly used for point-of-sale terminals. IBM owns the intellectual rights to Powered USB and charges a licensing fee for its use.
Powered USB can provide:
- +5 volts DC at up to 6 amps per connector (up to 30 watts)
- +12 volts DC at up to 6 amps per connector (up to 72 watts)
- +24 volts DC at up to 6 amps per connector (up to 144 watts)
1-4 BUS STATES
As there are two data lines, there are a variety of different conditions that can be signaled.
When no device is plugged in, the host will see both data lines low, as its 15 kohm resistors are pulling each data line low.
When the device is plugged in to the host, the host will see either D+ or D- go to a '1' level, and will know that a device has been plugged in. The '1' level will be on D- for a low speed device, and D+ for a full (or high) speed device.
The state of the data lines when the pulled up line is high, and the other line is low, is called the idle state. This is the state of the lines before and after a packet is sent.


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It really works! Child upbringing according to astrological signs in the Zodiac
When you understand character traits of your child, you can save enough time and nerves to your child and to yourself. Do you need some help with upbringing? We asked the stars how to tame your little offsprings. According to astrological signs in the Zodiac!
What applies to your son or your daughter? Against what methods is he or she very sensitive
and what educational practics is absolutely unacceptable for him or her? We were looking for tips according to sun signs. Here they are!
Your baby in Aries Zodiac sign (21.3.-20.4.)
Cheerful, domineering child. It needs to learn how to be good, it understands when you ask it for help, service, competition. It is impetuous, therefore it sometimes can not master some things, console it. It has to sleep a lot, it often overestimates its strengths. Do not sneer at it,it can not deal with derision, its defense is cruelty.
Your baby in Taurus Zodiac sign (21.4.-21.5.)
Unproblematic, playful child. But it is a bullock. Do not push it to the wall, do not make it do anything in any case, neither do not play with it in a sense of teasing. You are going to crash.You will get it out of the state "bullocking" only with gentle serenity. Command intelligibly, with explanation. For example, instead of "wash your hands" at other times when it is usual, add whythere are lots of bacillis in the coronas etc.
Your baby in Gemini Zodiac sign (22.5.-21.6)
You have to teach this smart, cheerful child only not to switch from one idea to another and to understand real content what it is saying and learning. Even butting in can be a bad habit, it has to learn to glark. Adapt yourself to its vivacity and teach it to be patient.
Your baby in Cancer Zodiac sign (22.6.-22.7.)
It always loves its parents, it is obedient, it takes seriously all your opinions. Bring it up with love, follow your heart during upbringing so as to your worried, sometimes tearful or moody child would not be sad from time to time in adulthood. Your little cancer will be your support until old age and it will not have to domesticate in its shell for the world.
Your baby in Leo Zodiac sign (23.7.-22.8.)
This shining child will get thanks to its personal charm what it wants, however, it needs moderate and unceasing discipline. Tame its ostentation towards surroundings tactfully, do not serve it, when it becomes extremely lazy. Never humiliate it, apply "sticks and carrots" approach justly, it needs to tame, but not to break (it would lose its generosity), it will not straighten up, it can even be cruel individualist.
Your baby in Virgo Zodiac sign (23.8.-22-9.)
This child needs sincere praise and order for its development. Arrogance is not imminent,it is shy and self critical. It has personal schedule and needs to have its things at their own place, otherwise it becomes chaotic and it corresponds to its result. Emphasizing its mistakes can lead to illness, lethargy, aggression.
Your baby in Libra Zodiac sign (23.9.-23.10.)
Libra makes difficult decisions and hates hurry. Do not try to make your child have its choice, what to do and when, suggest a solution gently and repeatedly to it.Due to its internal need of harmony and justice, it sticks its nose into things that are not related to it, teach them when it is suitable and when not.
Your baby in Scorpio Zodiac sign (24.10.-22.11.)
Respect privacy of your child, but manifest clearly you are the one who dictates the rules. Teach it to bear a defeat, respect towards authority and ability to forgive even those who hurt it. It needs to be able to handle with its ego, not to be overflown with that or on the contrary not to suffer from phobias.
Your baby in Sagittarius Zodiac sign (23.11.-21.12.)
It does not respect authorities too much, insist on your attitude, but explain to it why you want this or that. This child needs urgently a feeling of safety and company at home, your presence in order to learn to live without accidents. It is eternal optimist, dreamer and idealist, it will always try to break down dogmas and formalities.
Your baby in Capricorn Zodiac sign (22.12.-20.1.)
Send your child out as much as possible, in the air and in the sun, even if it prefers to stay at home, it is good for its health more than for others. It takes its achievements for granted, the more it needs to be praised in order not to become an introvert curmudgeon and to be able to praise other people in adulthood.
Your baby in Aquarius Zodiac sign (21.1.-20.2.)
Help your child how to have its ideas in a logical row and that it is important. Make it do some physical activity, sport. It really can do three things at the same time and simultaneously to think about other three things, and this is a gift and also stumbling block. You have to help it organize everything so it will manage to fulfill its duties to the full.Moreover, it cannot cope with untold tension. Are there quarrels at your household on a daily basis? You have to calm them down!
Your baby in Pisces Zodiac sign (21.2.- 20.3.)
If it really wants, it is a master of manoeuvres, so do not give in. Pisces like to get away to the world of dreams. Yes, grant them this world of fairy tales, but insist on your attitude calmly and insistently. The child must not lose contact with reality! And if it retires into its introvert mood, let them in peace, it will echo itself, it is not necessary to be worried about this. And one more important advicecheer it up, it is not sure about its own abilities.
Look at your child. From fifty centimetres tall person you are looking at one hundred centimetres and more.
Are you proud of it?
And are you proud of yourself?
I am.
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[A Goldeneye Ducks view of the flooded gravel pit!]
The Story Behind the MPLR
Like much of East Anglia, Essex is rich in glacial and fluvial deposits of sands and gravel. Moreton like many Essex hamlets had its own gravel pit.
There is evidence that sand and gravel have been extracted for many hundreds of years in this area, indeed many local place-names reflect this. The Moreton Sand and Gravel Company was established as a commercial concern in 1889 or thereabouts.
In real life the workings in Moreton closed about ten years ago. Unlike its real life counterpart, the 16mm Moreton Pit had its own narrow gauge railway. This railway was built around 1905 and was used to extract gravel from the pit and transport it to nearby Ongar (2.5 miles or so), where it was transferred to the standard gauge railway (later to become the end of the Central line, closed and reopened as a preserved railway).
Management of the Moreton Pit was transferred from the Moreton Sand and Gravel Co., on a very long lease, to the 16mm branch of the Essex Wildlife Trust, who developed the site as a prime wetland habitat. The narrow gauge railway was preserved and now exists to transfer visiting members of the public from Ongar to the nature reserve although a little sand is still extracted to help meet running costs etc.
The Moreton Pit Light Railway and Nature Reserve boasts 3 large lakes, an upland habitat (the rockery!), extensive reedbeds and a stream (Cripsey Brook), as well as an area of mature woodland and plantations. There is one hide with superb views over the main lake. The hide is named in grateful recognition, to Bill Oddie, members of the public can alight at the Bill Oddie Halt, from where the hide is a fairly short but steep walk away.
Below is a view from inside Bill Oddie hide across the main lake.


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archaeological dig at Scotts Landing, Eggemoggin Reach
Fri, 06 March 2009 14:28
Archaeologists unearth paleo-Indian artifacts at Island Heritage Trust site in the summer of 2006
Ancient Materials Come to Light in Scott's Landing Archaeological Dig
Holding artifacts that not seen the light of day for over 2,000 years, a group of amateur and professional archaeologists unearthed ancient materials from a shell midden illustrating life in the Early Archaic and Ceramic periods of Deer Isle's paleo-Indian ancestors at Scott's Landing this summer.
Blessed with good weather, over 20 amateur archaeologists and islanders dug and meticulously screened a small patch of the island's newest preserve in late June and early July. After a lecture and welcoming meal at Ann and Roger Hooke's the night before, Cox led his own archaeological team and the community participants through an enthralling but exhausting sunup to sun-down field school on the shores of Eggemoggin Reach.
Cox's team has worked with him on many other digs so they were paired up with community members to learn proper archaeological field techniques and how to recognize materials such as stone tools, pottery, food remains, and cultural features such as hearths and tent floors. Cox and others taught the more inexperienced participants how to record and interpret results and protect fragile artifacts for future study.
From the photo of the materials, one can see how crucial it is when excavating a site that everything be carefully removed from a site and its location recorded with precision.
Many community members remarked on the effort expended and time needed to protect the detailed history and important information that is available in a professionally supervised dig.
IHT President and anthropologist Bill Haviland says in his book, Deer Isle's Original People, that "Once taken out of context, objects by themselves tell us next to nothing. Thus to dig around in archaeological sites looking for relics destroys them and the information they contain as effectively as if they were bulldozed into oblivion."
He goes to say that Paleo-indian sites are generally "very small briefly but repeatedly by small groups of people; perhaps 1 or 2 families together."
Often the sites were used for seasonal camping, fishing and harvesting for a highly mobile people who worked closely in clans and small units.
Steve Cox will be providing an in-depth public lecture about the findings of the Scott's Landing sometime in the fall of 2007.
Many thanks to Ken and Marnie Reed Crowell for their key role in creating this great opportunity for Deer Isle and the IHT and to the Bar Harbor Bank and Trust and the Island Education Foundation and other donors who underwrote the cost of the field school.
Dr. Steve Cox has over three decades of field school experience and has led excavations for the Maine State Museum and the Abbe Museum. He is currently an Adjunct Curator for the Maine State Museum.
Cox's team included Betsy Webster, Diane Kopec, Donna Madonna, Jacob Freedman, Laurie Labar, Robert and Sandy Lewis, Robin Marion, Stephanie Wagner, and Susan Blaisdell.
Community members were 18 year-old islanders Greta Avis and Brittany Pottle, Joanie Banks, teachers Pam Cohen and Stephanie Lee, Tom and Marilyn Mehalic, Cathy Hart, Wilson Museum Director Patty Hutchins, Ken Schweikert, and Marion Foss.


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A lactic acid bacterium discovered by Estonian scientists has passed muster with the European Food Safety Authority, paving the way for use throughout the EU.
Estonia is notable for the probiotic bacteria in yogurt, but this particular strain, Lactobacillus plantarum NCIMB 30236, is used in animal feed to ferment silage.
Discovered by the Bio-Competence Centre for Healthy Dairy Products (TAK), it is one of the first microorganisms in the EU to be granted European Commission permission and entered in the registered list of feed additives.
The director of TAK, Ene Tammsaare, credited scientists from the University of Life Sciences, University of Tartu and the Estonian Research Institute of Agriculture, and the company Starter ST, who had done years of work.
"To this point Estonia has imported silage preservatives but now we have a domestic one with high export potential," she said.
The product could be marketed by next spring, said the chairman of the board of Starter ST, Üllas Jaaska.
The bacterium was isolated on southern Estonian grasslands. The lactic acid produced keeps harmful bacterial growth in check.
The bacterial species L. plantarum is considered by EFSA to be suitable for the Qualified Presumption of Safety approach.
Therefore, it does not require any specific demonstration of safety other than confirming the absence of any determinants of resistance to antibiotics of human and veterinary clinical significance and the safety for the user.
As the identity of the strain has been clearly established and as no antibiotic resistance was detected, the use of the strain in the production of silage is considered safe for livestock species, consumers of products from animals fed the treated silage and for the environment.
Once an active agent has been authorised as a silage additive, different formulations can be placed on the market with reference to that authorisation.
The applicant listed several cryoprotectants and carriers which would allow multiple formulations of the additive to be produced and consequently, not all forms can be directly tested for user safety.
However, for assessing the safety for the user of the additive, the active agent is the principal concern provided that other components do not introduce concerns.