Lesbian, gay, bisexual, queer, and questioning (LGBQ) adolescents experience large disparities in an array of health problems and bullying experiences. Supportive LGBTQ community and school climates may protect LGBQ youth from general and bias-based bullying victimization.
We combined data from LGBQ respondents on the 2013 Minnesota Student Survey (N=2,404) with information on the presence of a GSA (N=79 schools; 2014 School Health Profiles), and new data collection on a range of LGBTQ-supportive community indicators within a 15-minute drive time around the school. Hierarchical logistic regressions assessed the role of community supportiveness, GSA presence, and prevalence of LGBQ peers on general and bias-based bullying victimization, adjusted for sociodemographic covariates.
Results indicated that for birth-assigned females, attending a school with a GSA was related to lower odds of sexual orientation-based bullying and attending school in an area with more LGBTQ-supportive community resources predicted lower odds of sexual orientation- and weight/appearance-based bullying. Having more LGBQ peers was related to lower levels of race- and weight/appearance-based bullying for all LGBQ youth.
These findings provide support for the assumption that more LGBTQ-supportive communities and schools protect against bias-based bullying, particularly for girls, but they are not related to general bullying. Expanding and strengthening supportive resources for LGBTQ youth in schools and communities and identifying protective factors for GBQ boys are recommended.
Gower, A.L., Watson, R.J., Erickson, D.J., Saewyc, E.M., Eisenberg, M.E. LGBQ Youth’s Experiences of General and Bias-Based Bullying Victimization: the Buffering Role of Supportive School and Community Environments. Int Journal of Bullying Prevention (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s42380-020-00065-4


News in Brief 3 February 2023
- Ukraine: UN aid convoys deliver lifesaving relief to war-ravaged east
- WHO launches bid to tackle inequalities behind breast cancer threat
- Switzerland: UN rights panel hails asylum decision for Kurdish refugees
With one in five people worldwide developing cancer during their lifetimes, prevention of the disease has become one of the most significant public health challenges of the 21st century.
Cervical cancer kills more than 300,000 women every year, with one woman diagnosed every minute, despite the fact that it is one of the most preventable and curable forms of the disease.
The pain that cancer patients experience as a result of the disease, or the treatment they are receiving, is too often ignored, UN health experts said on Monday, at the launch of new guidelines aiming to prevent “needless suffering”.
For World Cancer Day, on 4 February, Dr Etienne Krug from the World Health Organization (WHO), talks to Sarah Mbengue from UN News about the progress so far, and global challenges that remain in tackling the disease.
Longer life spans combined with risk factors such as alcohol and tobacco use, physical inactivity and obesity, are behind a rise in cancer cases in low- and middle-income countries, the World Health Organization (WHO) warns.
The UN agency estimates rates in these regions could jump by as much as 70 per cent over the next 15 years unless action is taken.
WHO is highlighting the importance of early detection ahead of World Cancer Day, observed this Sunday, 4 February.
Diagnosing and treating cancer early can improve the chances of survival for people living with the disease, according to the World Health Organization (WHO).
Launched ahead of World Cancer Day observed annually on 4 February, new guidelines from the agency call for more access to effective diagnostic services, including imagining, laboratory tests and pathology.
About one-third of cancer cases can be prevented by limiting tobacco use, lowering alcohol consumption and doing more exercise.
That’s according to the World Health Organization (WHO) which predicts global cancer cases will rise to more than 20 million annually over the next two decades.


Fire ants can be a problem. They are invasive and worse than that, they bite. For people who are sensitive to the fire ant’s bite it is essential to control the fire ant population on your property. In Melbourne, Florida that is a year-round activity. Though there are products that consumers can buy to eradicate their fire ants the problem is that unless it is applied properly it doesn’t work well. This could give you a false sense of security and could also mean money down the drain.
One of the rules of war is to know your enemy. Well, when it comes to fire ants, it is like a war. Just when you thought they were gone, they’re back. Most people consider fire ants an invasive species, but that isn’t true. There are native species of fire ants. The native species kill other insect pests and help keep down their numbers. They also till more earth than earthworms.
You can tell if fire ants are on your property because you will see their mounds, they are sandy earthen mounds and typically have no opening. They are usually more visible after a rainfall. They will build them almost anywhere: out in the open, near trees, electrical boxes, sidewalks or buildings. Don’t be fooled by the lack of an opening, if you disturb their mound they will come pouring out. And don’t look for the mounds in wooded areas, they prefer warm, sunny spots. Their mounds can grow 61 cm in diameter and 18 cm high.
A fire ant mound always contains a queen and the colonies can house several hundred thousand fire ants so be careful. When they attack, they attack together. If you disturb their mounds you can count on multiple bites if you don’t get away fast enough.
This is why you should contact a pest control specialist if you have a fire ant problem in Brevard County. Aside from being able to identify the mounds they can also identify the specific species of fire ant which gives them the ability to formulate a very specific plan for ridding you of them.
When a pest control specialist applies the insecticide to the mound you can be sure that it will be applied correctly. The insecticide must not only kill the worker ants, it must kill the queen. If you don’t kill the queen, the colony will survive. Call a pest control specialist for your fire ant problem.
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When presented with bad news it is not uncommon to be optimistic about the future of others- at least if it is someone we care about. However, a new study by Yale and University of Oxford researchers suggests that we may even feel optimism for those we do not know, if they possess a few admirable attributes.
'Our concern for others affects how we learn,'' said Molly Crockett, assistant professor of psychology at Yale and senior author of the study published this week in the journal Psychological Science.
Funded by the Oxford Martin School and the Wellcome Trust, the study revealed that people are likely to be optimistic, sometimes overly, and ignore bad news when our own fortunes are in question.
“ 'Vicarious optimism' works this way: You are more likely to ignore bad news about the cancer risk of a friend than you would for an anonymous stranger. For instance, you might estimate a friend's cancer risk at 10%. Then, imagine a doctor informs you that the risk is actually 20%. Asked later to assess friend's risk of cancer, you would mostly ignore the bad news and estimate the risk at about 11%, not 20%. However, new information is easily retained if it is good news - for instance, if the doctor tells you your friend's risk is only 5%."
The study suggests that typically this vicarious optimism does not apply to strangers. However, once a stranger is attributed admirable traits, for example, kindness, the optimism towards the stranger’s fate increases.
Lead author Andreas Kappes, City University London, said 'we developed an exciting new tool that shows us that we not only see our own future through rose-coloured glasses, but also the futures of those we care about,'
However, it was also found that some people are equally optimistic about their own loved and strangers, and these people are likely to be more generous to charities.
Access to the published paper, Concern for Others Leads to Vicarious Optimism, can be found here.


MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Summertime and hot weather are here, and it may be tempting to head outside to soak up the sun. Before you do, there are some important safety tips to remember.
Two of the biggest concerns in the summer months are heat exhaustion and heat stroke. But what are the differences, and what are the symptoms to look out for?
Heat exhaustion vs. heat stroke
Heat exhaustion happens when you spend too much time in the heat. If these symptoms happen to you, head inside to cool down and drink plenty of water.
- Excessive sweating
- Cool, pale, and clammy skin
- Weak pulse
- Muscle cramps
Heat stroke is much more dangerous, and can be deadly. If someone is suffering from heat stroke, immediately contact 911. Look out for these symptoms.
- Throbbing headache
- No sweating
- Red, hot, dry skin
- High body temperatures
- Rapid, strong pulse
- Loss of consciousness
The main difference to look out for is sweating. If someone isn't sweating, they could be experiencing a heat stroke.
Experts recommend taking frequent breaks in the shade, wearing light and loose-fitting clothing, and drinking plenty of water. It's best to avoid alcoholic beverages on very hot days.
Of course, sunscreen is also important. Doctors recommend sunscreen with an SPF of 30 or higher, and say you should reapply at least every two hours.


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Promoting growth has always been in people's interests, after all, higher yields and profits attract. Since the advent of capitalism at the end of the 19th century and the expansion to its current form of globalization, an incentive system has emerged which leads to weighting individual factors more strongly and shifting natural growth limits. Growth has become a technology-based industry, more and more resources are subordinated to it. Collateral damage to humans and the environment is accepted. The knowledge of, the understanding of and participation in growth is only reserved to a small part of humanity in the process. The concept of growth is uprooted. Nature and the knowledge stored in it are marginalized.
It is relatively easy to see that growth is finite and is hitting a natural ceiling. Trees do not grow into the sky. The sequoia (Sequoioideae) is the largest with a height of up to 110 meters. Photosynthesis causes water to evaporate in the leaves of the tree, which leads to a negative pressure inside the tree trunk. The water is constantly pumped up out of the roots by means of a capillary-like system. But from 110 meters the gravitational force weighs more, the negative pressure that the leaves create is no longer sufficient to carry the water even higher. This results in a natural growth limit.


According to a new report published by United Nations’ Global Alliance for Buildings and Construction, the economic consequence of the COVID-19 pandemic caused CO2 emissions from buildings and construction to decrease significantly in 2020. However, the pandemic recovery spending has not sufficiently prioritized climate friendly approaches that would help decarbonize the building sector and mitigate greenhouse gas emissions in the future.
Recent decades witnessed a large growth in the buildings sector, which caused a significant increase in greenhouse gas emissions. According to the UN report, this sector accounted for 37 percent of energy-related CO2 emissions in 2020.
While the 2020 level of emissions was ten percent lower than in 2015, experts claim that the reduction was temporary and was associated with pandemic-related lockdowns, slower economies, and less construction activity. Unfortunately, the emission levels have already started to increase again in 2021 with the relaxation of restrictions.
“This year showed that climate change is an immediate direct threat to every community on this planet, and it is only going to intensify,” said Inger Andersen, Executive Director of the United Nations Environment Programme.
“The buildings and construction sector, as a major source of greenhouse gas emissions, must urgently be decarbonized through a triple strategy of reducing energy demand, decarbonizing the power supply, and addressing building materials’ carbon footprint, if we are to have any chance of meeting the Paris Agreement goal of limiting global warming to 1.5C.”
In order to achieve the goal of net-zero emissions by 2050, the International Energy Agency claims that direct building CO2 emissions need to decrease by 50 percent, and that indirect building sector emissions will have to be reduced by 60 percent.
To reach this goal, increased efforts should be put in decarbonizing buildings while increasing their resilience. Governments should commit to further decarbonize the power, heating, and cooling energy supply, while investment in building efficiency should steadily rise and expand beyond direct government investment to private investors.
Furthermore, the scope and coverage of building energy codes related to design, heating, cooling, ventilation system, and appliances, also needs to increase. Finally, the interventions to reduce the climate impact of existing buildings should be combined with investments in adaptation and resilience measures.
Without taking all these factors into account, emissions related to buildings and construction activity will continue to rise and contribute to dangerous climate change.
By Andrei Ionescu, Earth.com Staff Writer


A potentiostat is an electronic device that is used in various electrochemical studies. Electrochemistry is the study of electricity and its relationship with chemical reactions. Electrochemical studies like cyclic voltammetry, square wave voltammetry, and other amperometric studies are carried out on a potentiostat. In voltammetry, potentiostat controls an electrochemical cell where the applied potential is varied and corresponding current readings are found which are related to chemical reactions. These findings help to study electrochemical behavior and study redox reactions occurring at the surface of the electrode. A conventional potentiostat is sophisticated equipment and also priced high. The low-cost portable potentiostat can be designed using a microcontroller and operational amplifiers. STM32 Nucleo-144 board has been used in the construction of potentiostat, it is a 32-bit microcontroller that uses ARM architecture for its operation. It has a 12-bit wide Digital to Analog Converter (DAC) and Analog to Digital Converter (ADC). The principles of DAC and ADC along with the functions of operational amplifiers like summing amplification and current to voltage conversion can be utilized in the design of potentiostat. A varying potential is applied to the working electrode and the current changes in the counter electrode are recorded. STM32 is used because of its high operating speed and wide resolution. The obtained results were found to be on par with the conventional type. Low cost, portability, and usability are advantages of the microcontroller-based potentiostat.


The proper structure of a biosafety system as a way of reducing the vulnerability of a society, economy or state in the face of a biogenic threat
To understand how vulnerable are a society, an economy and a state in the face of a biohazard, one should attempt to identify any potential holes in the national biosafety system, such as the lack of important components or technologies for biological monitoring and the inadequacy of existing analytical methods used to prevent or counteract biogenic threats. In Russia, biological monitoring is quite advanced. However, the agencies that ensure proper functioning of its components lack collaboration and do not form a well-coordinated network. Each of such agencies alone cannot provide comprehensive information on the subject. In the Russian Federation, there are at least 4 state-funded programs that collect epidemiological data and are quite efficient in performing the narrow task of monitoring infections. But because there is no central database where epidemiological data can be channeled and subsequently shared, these agencies do not complete each other. This leaves the Russian society, economy and state vulnerable to biogenic threats. We need an adequately organized, modern, fully functional and effective system for monitoring biohazards that will serve as a basis for the national biosafety system and also a tool for the identification and elimination of its weaknesses.
Keywords: pathogens, biological safety, biological monitoring


20 Vintage Pics Snapped Before Men Were Conditioned to Not Show Physical Affection
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Brett and Kate McKay of The Art of Manliness tracked down about 100 vintage male couples photos from the late 19th and early 20th centuries, all of which show men being physically affectionate with one another.
It’s an amazing collection, but while the men’s casual intimacy is stunning, Brett says that it’d be a mistake to assume that they’re all queer; some of them may be, but he says it’s far more likely that they’re just sharing the physical closeness that men used to express before homosexuality got labeled as a “sinful” mental disorder and sexual identity later in the 20th century.
During the 19th century, he says, men regularly formed deep and emotional friendships and bonds that weren’t necessarily sexual even though they used endearing language (like calling one another “my lovely boy”) and physical closeness: some guys regularly held hands, embraced one another from behind, sat on each other’s laps and shared a physical closeness that seems jarring to modern audiences.
Rather than viewing them as all queer, McKay suggests that we ponder the nature of their relationships: could they be brothers? Friends? Relatives? Co-workers? Military mates?
He also notes the rarity of physical contact in modern photos: an interviewer of contemporary portrait photographers said that no photographer had ever had two men come in to have their photos taken together. Perhaps that will change now that gender roles are getting tossed in the garbage.
Many queer men aren’t comfortable expressing everyday physical affection with their male friends (apart from the requisite hello/goodbye hug). But every touch and embrace doesn’t need to be sexual. A little more physical affection could definitely strengthen the bonds between us.
Check out some of our favorite vintage male couples photos below.
What did you think about these vintage male couples? Have they broadened your take on male bonding? Let us know.
This article was originally published on January 28, 2021. It has since been updated.


Uniformly Accelerated Motion Calculator
The Uniformly Accelerated Motion calculator or (kinematic equations calculator) solves motion calculations involving constant acceleration in one dimension, a straight line. It can solve for the initial velocity u, final velocity v, displacement s, acceleration a, and time t.
Choose a calculation to find the variables that are unknown and enter the variables that are given in your problem. This calculator will calculate the unknown values and provide the derived equations that were used to find the solution. Solution equations are derived from the uniformly accelerated motion equations below.
Note that when solving for multiple variables there is usually more than one way to solve for your unknowns. You can derive more than one set of equations to solve your problem in different ways.
Uniformly Accelerated Motion Equations
- u = initial velocity
- v = final velocity
- a = acceleration
- s = displacement
- t = time
Use standard gravity, a = 9.80665 m/s2, for equations involving the Earth's gravitational force as the acceleration rate of an object.
Equations 1 through 4 are the key equations used to solve for variables in this calculator however you will sometimes see a different number of Uniformly Accelerated Motion Equations depending on the resource. You will find that equation 1 comes from substituting equation 1b into equation 1a below.
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rich history with many classical and Byzantine monuments
The Regional Unit of Arta has its capital Arta. It is 365 km from Athens and 440 km from Thessaloniki. The city of Arta is built amphitheatrically on the banks of the river Arachthos and occupies the position of ancient Amvrakia. Amvrakia was an important colony of the Corinthians and was founded around 625 BC. As the capital of Pyrrhus (since 295 BC) it has gained power, wealth and considerable urban, political and religious organization. Destroyed by the Romans in 189 BC.
In 1082 the city was first mentioned under the name Arta. After the capture of Constantinople by the Crusaders in 1204, Arta became the capital of the Despotate of Epirus, the first Greek state.
In the 13th and 15th centuries, Arta was an important economic and cultural center of northwest Greece. In 1449, it was occupied by the Turks and in 1881 it acquired its independence. Since then, Arta has made remarkable progress, based mainly on its significant wealth-producing sources. Modern Arta now has all the advantages and potential of a growing region.
Its important classical and Byzantine monuments, its magnificent mountainous region and the amazing natural value and beauty of the Amvrakikos Gulf are the factors that can be used even more rationally and planned for its further progress.
Such progress is also linked to the development of mild and specialized forms of tourism: scientific, congress, ecological, sports, mathematics, making the Prefecture of Arta a region of particular investment importance.


What government benefit programs are available to assist individuals with special needs?
There are many government benefits available to individuals with special needs, and they vary significantly from state to state. Some of the major programs are:
- Medicaid, which provides basic medical care to low-income individuals. Most states also have “waiver” Medicaid programs covering residential, day care, career, and other services.
- Supplemental Security Income (SSI), which provides funds for food and shelter to individuals with disabilities. To qualify, a person must have less than $2,000 in “countable assets.”
- Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI), which requires that participants have been unable to work for at least a year due to their disability. Benefits are based on the individual’s income history and the number of quarters they have worked and contributed to the program.
- Disabled Adult Child (DAC), which requires a determination that the onset of the participant’s disability occurred before age 22, that the person is unmarried, and that the participant has a parent who has a disability, is retired or deceased and who qualifies for Social Security him/herself.
- Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP/Food Stamps), which has eligibility guidelines similar to SSI.
- Section 8 Housing, which subsidizes residential rents for families for low-income families, which may include those with special needs. Eligibility is based on a sliding scale that considers income and family size.


For other uses, see Consequence.
|Look up consequent in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.|
A consequent is the second half of a hypothetical proposition. In the standard form of such a proposition, it is the part that follows "then". In an implication, if P implies Q, then P is called the antecedent and Q is called the consequent. In some contexts the consequent is called the apodosis.
- If P, then Q.
Q is the consequent of this hypothetical proposition.
- If X is a mammal, then X is an animal.
Here, "X is an animal" is the consequent.
- If computers can think, then they are alive.
"They are alive" is the consequent.
The consequent in a hypothetical proposition is not necessarily a consequence of the antecedent.
- If monkeys are purple, then fish speak Klingon.
"Fish speak Klingon" is the consequent here, but intuitively is not a consequence of (nor does it have anything to do with) the claim made in the antecedent that "monkeys are purple".
- ↑ Sets, Functions and Logic - An Introduction to Abstract Mathematics, Keith Devlin, Chapman & Hall/CRC Mathematics, 3rd ed., 2004
- ↑ See Conditional sentence.
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How the New Coronavirus Variants Affect Us Here in NJ
New coronavirus strains continue to be identified across the globe, especially in the United Kingdom, South Africa and Brazil. The new variants have even reached New Jersey with two cases so far being reported.
David Cennimo, assistant professor at Rutgers New Jersey Medical School and pediatric infectious disease expert, said most people would define a variant as something that has changed enough that we have to be uniquely aware of it.
The variant first seen in the U.K. is the most studied and the most well understood. British health officials noticed their case numbers shot up around the holidays. Cennimo said that was happening at the same time the U.K. was looking at a new virus that's had changes in its genetic code. Could that be accounting for the increase in cases?
For New Jersey, Cennimo said knowing the variants are here is not surprising. But the thing to watch are the state's case numbers.
"Are more people becoming infected than we were seeing in past weeks or that we were projecting to have seen?" he said.
The variants do complicate things if they are more contagious. But Cennimo said the majority of the data suggests that the existing vaccines from Pfizer and Moderna are still effective against these variants. If there is enough of a change that the mutation decreases the effectiveness of the vaccine, that could lead to a need for boosters or a need to change the composition of the vaccine.
By their nature, viruses mutate, Cennimo said, but coronaviruses tend to do it less commonly and less drastically than influenza viruses.
To protect yourself, the goal is to stop the chain of transmission. The only way we are driving all these mutations is new people becoming infected. So Cennimo said if we can keep the number of infections down, there would be fewer viruses out there that could change and become new variants.
While the vaccines seem to be working, he said we can't let our guard down. The protective measures people have been taking still work: Wear a mask, wash your hands, practice social distancing and limit time indoors with people outside of immediate family.


About The Case of the Meandering Mare
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Emily and Zoe are at a farm stay for their vacation. Besides doing chores such as milking goats and and a cow, they both go for a daily horse ride on a gentle mare. One morning, they go to the stable to ride their favourite mare and discover her missing. They follow the hoof prints for some distance until they are unable to find them any more. They return to the farm with only a vague idea as to where the mare has gone.
The next day, the mare returns on her own with her fetlocks covered with numerous seeds embedded in bright red clay. Emily and Zoe brush off the clay and take a sample into town. They find an old museum cared for by an elderly woman. She helps the pair identify the seeds and the area where the clay can be found. The girls return to the farm and ride to the place of the red clay.
They come upon a Hutterite colony where they meet a girl of their age. She explains that she came upon the mare when she was out walking in the forest and brought her back to the Elders. As it was harvest time, the Hutterites used the mare to pull the harvester and later to turn the grain mills to grind flour.
The Hutterite girl gives Emily and Zoe loaves of fresh bread and other gifts that her community had made and the pair ride back to the farm.
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This php tutorial for beginners and Professionals will guide you to learn PHP programming with some real-time examples. Please feel free to ask question, I will keep updating this tutorial with answer of your query
PHP (Personal Home Page or Hypertext Preprocessor) is a HTML-embedded, Server-side scripting language designed for web designing and development.
Php is one of the most popular object oriented programming language, many big products on internet are developed using Php, Facebook and Wordpress are two best example.
Here we are going share information with example so that you can learn PHP programming for free of cost, and build a fantastic career for you.
Before we can start learning PHP, we need to install and set up environment for running PHP application
<?php echo "Welcome to WebTrainingRoom! Learn PHP Online"; ?>
In following tutorials, you will learn everything you need to know for developing a basic data driven PHP application with mysql database.
If you have any previous MySQL experience, that would be great! Otherwise, I recommend you to look at MySQL Tutorial, that will help but not necessary, in tutorial I will explain every small details about reading and writing data to MySQL database.
How to work with string using various string methods in php application.
Learn more about php configuration, right installer compatible with your operating system, here is the complete php documentation and guide.
Php is open source scripting language, and one of the most popular for web page development.


Knee pain is a general term for the pain felt in the knee. It can be divided into two broad types: acute and chronic. Acute knee pain is temporary and typically lasts only a few days or weeks. Chronic knee pain lasts longer than three months and often becomes more severe over time. It can be quite debilitating if it is not treated properly.
Some of the most common causes for knee pain are:
Knee Pain Can Last Anywhere From A Few Days To Months. However, Most Patients Will Recover Within A Week Or Two. The Duration Of Knee Pain Depends On The Severity Of Your Injury.
It’s Possible To Treat Mild To Moderate Knee Pain At Home. With Proper Nutrition And The Right Amount Of Care, You Can Bring The Swelling And Inflammation Down.
Knee Pain Is Not The Same As Arthritis, But It Could Be A Sign Of Arthritis. It Is Critical To Find Out What You Are Dealing With, As It Can Lead To Permanent Damage If Left Untreated. The Most Reliable Way To Know For Sure Is By Getting A Doctor’s Diagnosis.
Stretching And Exercises Can Help Prevent Or Reduce Knee Pain. Get A Physical Therapy Assessment To Understand Your Body’s Positioning And Activity Level.


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Coral bleaching happens when corals lose their vibrant colors and turn white. But there’s a lot more to it than that. Coral are bright and colorful because of microscopic algae called zooxanthellae. The zooxanthellae live within the coral in a mutually beneficial relationship, each helping the other survive. But when the ocean environment changes—if it gets too hot, for instance—the coral stresses out and expels the algae. As the algae leaves, the coral fades until it looks like it’s been bleached. If the temperature stays high, the coral won’t let the algae back, and the coral will die.
What triggers coral bleaching?
The leading cause of coral bleaching is temperature change. Warming changes in water temperature—as little as 2 degrees Fahrenheit—can cause coral to drive out algae. Coral may bleach for other reasons, like extremely low tides, pollution, or too much sunlight.
Why does coral bleaching matter?
Coral bleaching matters because once these corals die, reefs rarely come back. With few corals surviving, they struggle to reproduce, and entire reef ecosystems, on which people and wildlife depend, deteriorate.
Bleaching also matters because it’s not an isolated phenomenon. Between 2014 and 2020 around 75% of the world’s tropical coral reefs experienced heat-stress severe enough to trigger bleaching. For 30% of the world’s reefs, that heat-stress was enough to kill coral.
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Detonation of explosives during rock excavation in surface mining produces both atmospherically and seismically propagating disturbances. By manipulating the difference in arrival times of the air blast and ground motion, shot-to-recorder distance can be determined with only one recording station. This shot-to-recorder distance is needed for automatic development of ground motion attenuation curves with automatic recording devices and is generally helpful in mine activity detection. With two recording stations, the location of the blast may be determined even if the stations are not time synchronized. Data from production blasting at a coal mine were evaluated to verify the method proposed herein. The blast location as determined by the difference in arrival times of the atmospherically and seismically propagating disturbances showed excellent agreement with the location of blasts as provided by field personnel. The method may be employed to detect any explosive activity that produces both types of disturbances. PACS numbers: 43.40.Ph, 43.28.Tc.
|Original language||English (US)|
|Number of pages||8|
|Journal||Journal of the Acoustical Society of America|
|State||Published - Jan 1 1987|
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous)
- Acoustics and Ultrasonics


This programming language may be used to instruct a computer to perform a task.
|Execution method:||Compiled (machine code)|
|Type safety:||Safe, Unsafe|
Loglan'82 is a programming language conceived for object and distributed programming.
It has many features that make Loglan'82 a tool surpassing other programming languages:
- It enjoys a unique safe and efficient system of managing objects, see Safe deallocation,
- It offers modules of classes (class), moreover it allows to declare modules of cooperating objects i.e. coroutines and modules of threads (process). One can create not only objects of classes, but also objects of coroutines with their fibres and objects of processes, aka agents with their threads.
- Virtual machines of Loglan may connect (through internet) in a virtual, multiprocesorr computer.This allows to distribute a computation of a program between processors in a controlled way.
- Objects of processes (agents) can be alocated on different nodes of a network of virtual machines or on the same machine. It means that Loglan uses one model for concurrent as well as for distributed computations. (Less learning).
- Loglan'82 offers an original, fully object protocol of communication and synchronization, so called alien call of methods of an agent.
- Each object of a process, i.e. an agent may create its own system of coroutine objects and manage it,
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Kids can grow cilantro seeds in a pot on the patio or in a window box after the last frost in full sun or part shade. Cilantro grows quickly and doesn’t like to be transplanted as it has a taproot. Cilantro makes a great companion plant, as in the picture above where it is planted around a nectarine tree with kale, collards, and parsley. Cilantro has been cultivated for thousands of years; ½ pint of cilantro oil was found in the Egyptian tomb of Tutankhamen. When kids plant seeds in their raised bed veggie garden, cilantro will attract beneficial insects, like hoverflies that eat aphid larvae. Kids can make successive plantings every three weeks for a steady supply of fresh leaves, as this herb is popular in recipes from around the world. When dried, the leaves lose much of their flavor, but fresh from the garden the leaves have a citrus savory taste and are rich in phytonutrients and antioxidants. Cilantro leaves are fabulous in guacamole, black beans, and rice.
Kids get two seasonings in one with cilantro! Cilantro has a short life cycle and will bolt and turn to seed in hot weather. Kids can snip off the top of the main stem when it starts to produce flowers to send energy back into the leaves. When the plant flowers and produces seedpods, kids can cut the seed bearing stems when half the seedpods have changed from green to brown. Hang the stems indoors in a cool dark place inside paper bags for a few weeks until the pods are completely dry. Kids can shake the pods to release the large round seeds and store them in an airtight glass jar. These seeds are the spice called coriander that is used in Indian and Thai curries. Whole seeds last for a year and can be dry roasted and chopped or ground for a welcome nutty accent for lentils, mushrooms, or rice. These seeds are an aid to digestion and have been used in cooking for thousands of years.
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Open Graph meta tags are snippets of code that control how URLs are displayed when shared on social media. This protocol was created by Facebook to standardize the use of metadata to represent the content of a page in a short format.
You can find meta tags in the
<head> section of a webpage like in this example:
<meta property="og:title" content="Airbnb - Vacation Rentals, Homes & Places" /> <meta property="og:description" content="Find adventures nearby and access unique homes and places around the world." /> <meta property="og:image" content="https://www.airbnb.com/images/logo.png" />
Open Graph tags are used by services like LinkPreview to extract the data and create a snippet when someone shares a link on social media or sends you a link through a messaging app like WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger, Slack, or Telegram.
As a result, the link to your web page will become a rich preview on someone's feed which in turn leads to more engagements and clicks.
LinkPreview service will look into the HTML content of your web page and try to guess what information to use. This can produce bad or inaccurate link previews, missing content, or a bad preview image. This will also look bad if this web page is shared on Twitter, Facebook, or other social media websites.
The Open Graph tags must be added to the
<head> section of every web page. If you are using WordPress, you can use a plugin like Yoast to manage these tags.
To verify your meta tags, and to check if they are detected correctly, go to our debugging tool, enter your URL, and click submit to see the results.
og:image meta tag is probably the most important one. You should follow these few simple rules to avoid problems:


People who contract COVID-19 could still be spreading the virus well after their symptoms disappear and they feel as though they have ‘recovered’, new research suggests.
The study, published in the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, looked at Chinese patients who contracted coronavirus in late January or early February.
Eight of 16 patients who had been admitted to PLA General Hospital in Beijing still carried the virus well after they believed themselves to be healthy, the Yale University School of Medicine researchers found.
Some were still infectious as many as eight days after their coughs and fevers had gone away.
The study calls into question whether a 14-day quarantine period for coronavirus patients – a protocol adopted by countries all over the world, including New Zealand – is long enough.
“The most significant finding from our study is that half of the patients kept shedding the virus even after resolution of their symptoms,” said Dr Lokesh Sharma, the study’s co-lead author.
“More severe infections may have even longer shedding times.”
Coronavirus is known to spread most frequently by droplet transmission, which occurs when an infected person is in close contact with another person. This is why self-isolation is such a common tool around the world in the fight against COVID-19.
The novel coronavirus is a global pandemic. There are already 784,000 positive cases of the disease around the world, which has caused the deaths of more than 37,000 people.
New Zealand has 647 positive cases. One person has died of the virus here so far.


The protection of religious freedom and minorities around the world is “Italy’s absolute priority in its international actions”, Minister Giulio Terzi underscored in a meeting at the foreign ministry in Rome with representatives of over 30 Italian NGOs to discuss a workshop that the ministry is organizing at the UN.
“Education is key to the global promotion of a culture of dialogue and tolerance”. In particular, the minister acknowledged the essential role that NGOs and associations can play “in the area of human rights education, which is an undeniable prerequisite for the effective defence of religious minorities, whose rights and survival itself are at risk in various parts of the world”.
Terzi illustrated Italy’s efforts within the EU frame work that had contributed to setting up a task force and to rafting an operational action plan for the protection of religious freedom and minorities. The minister then explained the content and objectives of the workshop “The civil society and human rights education as a tool to promote and disseminate religious tolerance”, which the foreign ministry is organizing for 27 September at the UN in New York with a view to outlining, with public and private collaboration, a common approach to raising awareness and fostering a culture of religious freedom. The event will coincide with the opening of the 67th UN General Assembly.
We are firmly convinced”, Minister Terzi asserted, “that governments must work in close coordination with civil societies to combat discrimination and anti-religious violence that is affecting the lives of millions of people. Human rights education and training provide a perfect vehicle for the widespread dissemination of the values of tolerance and peaceful co-existence to the members of different faiths”.


Webster 1913 Edition
occupans, p. pr. of
occupare: cf. F.
One who occupies, or takes possession; one who has the actual use or possession, or is in possession, of a thing;
occupantof the apartment is not at home
☞ This word, in law, sometimes signifies one who takes the first possession of a thing that has no owner.
Webster 1828 Edition
1.He that occupies or takes possession; he that has possession.
2.In law, one that first takes possession of that which has no legal owner. The right of property, either in wild beasts and fowls, or in land belonging to no person, vests in the first occupant. The property in these cases follows the possession.
occupant (plural occupants)
- A person who occupies a place or a position.
- An owner or tenant of a property.
- A person sitting in a car or other vehicle.
person who occupies a place or a position
owner or tenant
person sitting in a vehicle
- IPA(key): /ɔ.ky.pɑ̃/
- present participle of occuper
occupant m (feminine singular occupante, masculine plural occupants, feminine plural occupantes)
occupant m (plural occupants, feminine occupante)
- third-person plural present active indicative of occupō


Advancing Climate and Water Resilience for Cotton and Textile Industry
A panel of international experts will discuss the importance of sustainable cotton cultivation to the textile industry’s growth. Focusing on cotton growing communities in India, they will analyze climate change impacts and share actionable approaches to advance water and climate resilience in cotton cultivation, emphasizing challenges and opportunities for women.
India’s cotton cultivation is the most water-intensive in the world, yet more than 100 million people in the country do not have access to safe water. The water consumed to grow India’s cotton exports in 2013 would be enough to supply 85% of the country’s population with 100 liters of water every day for a year. In addition, current practices for cotton cultivation rely heavily on pesticide and fertilizer use and the crop, and predominantly female cotton farmers are extremely vulnerable to climate change impacts.
Elucidating these challenges while sharing inter-disciplinary solutions that are underway, the diverse panel will include:
- World Resources Institute presenting research on water and climate risks to cotton cultivation.
- Gap Inc. discussing the role of cotton sector’s sustainability in textile sector's growth.
- Institute for Sustainable Communities sharing case studies on empowering cotton-growing communities in India to advance water stewardship and climate resilience.
- International Center for Research on Women examining the need for shift in household gender dynamics to build community resilience.


First published on MSDN on Feb 02, 2015
Authored by Nonki Takahashi
Today, I'd like to talk about raster and vector graphics for Small Basic.
Raster graphics is about digital pictures painted with colored pixels (dots). Paint is one of most popular program to create raster graphics (or bitmap). There are a lot of formats for raster graphics - .bmp, .gif, .jpg, .png and so on. In Small Basic, these files can be loaded with following operations.
These files are binary files, not text files. So we can not create these files with Small Basic program. But a .ppm (portable pixmap) format is a text file. So we can create .ppm with Small Basic program if we write the code for it. Unfortunately, .ppm is not supported operations listed above. Gimp (the GNU Image Manipulation Program) can read/write (import/export) .ppm file format.
Image Color Changer 0.25b (
) is a sample program which reads a bitmap file.
Vector graphics is about digital pictures drawn with lines and shapes. Adobe Illustrator is one of most popular program to create vector graphics. Following formats can represent vector graphics - .ps (PostScript), .wmf (Windows Metafile), .svg (Scalable Vector Graphics) and so on. These file formats are not supported in Small Basic with image operations listed above. But a .svg is a text file. So we can read/write this format if we write code for it.
can create .svg file and .sb (.smallbasic) format vector graphics. Following sample (
) is generated by Shapes editor.


How A Leaky Michigan Milk Truck Inspired a Revolutionary Invention
Detroit, 1911. With over 465,000 residents, it's already the 9th-largest city in America, and thanks to the burgeoning auto industry, its population is about to explode.
At this time, cars are obviously a very new thing. There's no such thing yet as "rules of the road". Car crashes happen frequently, most often deadly, for a couple chief reasons: 1) all drivers are inexperienced, and 2), everybody pretty much travels down the middle of the road.
Enter Edward N. Hines.
Hines and a couple other men (one of them being Henry Ford) are members of the Wayne County Board of Roads, charged with overseeing ground travel in Detroit and its neighboring communities. Two years prior, Hines had already had a hand in developing the world's first full mile of concrete-paved roadway: Detroit's Woodward Avenue between Six and Seven Mile Roads. But he was about to stumble upon something else that would inspire him to come up with one of the most important inventions in the history of highway safety.
While traveling along a dusty (unpaved) Detroit road, the story goes that Hines found himself behind a leaky milk truck. The truck was leaving a trail of milk, splashing right down the center of the road. That's when it occurred to Hines that purposeful lines could be designed to separate traffic and lower the risk of head-on collisions, which were by now becoming all too common.
The first painted center lines in highway safety history happened in 1911 in Trenton, Michigan, along a stretch of River Road. During the ensuing years, more and more roads in the Detroit area would receive similar markings. By 1922, Detroit's population had doubled to nearly 1,000,000 people, and all major roads in Wayne County had center lines.
Next time you're traveling in Southeast Michigan and see a road named for Edward N. Hines, you'll know why!


The Advantages of Net Income in a Business
Net income, or profit, is the money a business has left over after paying all of its expenses during an accounting period. It equals revenue minus expenses. If your small business’s expenses exceed its revenue, it has a net loss. One of the primary goals of a business is to maximize its net income, which comes with several advantages.
When you produce a steady stream of profit, your business can continue operating comfortably and can avoid potential financial problems. Without net income, a business can survive for only so long before it must raise additional funding or close its doors. For example, if you consistently generate around $900,000 in annual revenue and $750,000 in expenses, you produce annual net income of $150,000. If your expenses were $1.1 million, you would have a $200,000 annual shortfall, which would make it difficult to continue doing business.
Net income that you reinvest in your business is a form of internal financing generated from your own operations. This type of financing is typically cheaper than that from external sources, such as a bank or investor. You do not need to pay interest on reinvested profits or pay them back to any creditors. Assume you plow $275,000 of net income back into your operations. That money is yours to use without any additional costs or restrictions.
Although a profitable company might not need much, or any, outside financing, its net income can help it obtain external funding if it desires. In general, banks and investors are more willing to give capital to a company that has strong profits, because they expect it to afford its loan payments and generate good investment returns. For example, a small business with five consecutive years of increasing net income will likely qualify for a loan more easily than one with consistent losses.
Investors and potential acquirers commonly estimate a company’s value by multiplying its annual net income by a market-designated multiple. This multiple comes from data about similar, recently sold companies. With all else being equal, the higher your company’s net income, the more it is worth. For instance, if businesses in your industry currently sell for 10 times annual net income and your small business generates $400,000 in annual profit, it would be worth approximately $4 million. Without net income, your business would probably be worth much less.


Contract of Service vs Contract for Service
Contract for Service and Contract of Service are common law terms that are used to distinguish between the nature of service provided by a worker to the employer. While the contract of service refers to a person who is in employment, contract for service refers to a person who provides his services to his clients. In earlier times, in a contract for service the relationship between the service provider and the employer was that of a servant and a master, but with the concept of contract for service, this relationship has undergone a seas change and now the service provider is an agent while his clients are principals. Today, those who work for others are either employees or independent contractors, also known as self employed.
This bifurcation of workers has significance in many areas such as welfare, employment, and employee benefits. This classification is thus important in case of any dispute, unfair dismissal, leaves, redundancy etc. These actions are applicable only to employees which is the person who works under a contract of service.
A contract is an agreement between two parties that clearly defines the rights and obligations of both parties, is legally binding and is mutually beneficial. Hence it is necessary to have the contract clearly defined in case of a dispute.
People who work for contract for service are generally not entitled to any rights that are there for people who work under contract of service. These are people who are independent contractors having their own business and a fixed address. They have control over their business and they know what is to be done at what time, and how the job is to be carried out either personally os through others. These people can provide their service to more than one client at a time and such people usually provide for their own insurance cover.
• The terms contract of service and contract for service are in vogue these days to identify the type of agreement between the employer and the worker
• Contract of service refers to a person who is in service or employment whereas contract for service refers to a person who is an independent contractor
• The person under a contract of service is entitled to all employee benefits whereas the person under a contract for service gets no such benefits an has to provide for his own insurance cover
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States Falling Behind On 'No Child Left Behind'
Washington and Wisconsin have been granted waivers from standards related to the federal No Child Left Behind program, bringing to more than half the number of states with such exemptions.
The Department of Education began granting waivers in February, and so far 26 states have received them in exchange for promises to improve the way they prepare and evaluate students. Ten more states have applied.
The exemptions call into question the viability of the 2002 No Child Left Behind law, President George W. Bush's signature education legislation aimed at bringing the nation's students to a single, national standard by 2014.
But critics have long argued that the legislation forces schools to "teach to the test" and quashes creativity in the curriculum. Teachers' tenure and promotion is often tied to the results of the standardized tests.
The waivers are considered a temporary measure while Education Secretary Arne Duncan works with Congress to rewrite the law.
According to The Associated Press:
Members of both parties say the No Child Left Behind law is broken but have been unable to agree on how to fix it. While it has been praised for focusing on the performance of minorities, low-income students, English language learners and special education students, it has also led to a number of schools being labeled as "failing."
Duncan, in a statement on Friday, said: "As 26 states have now demonstrated, our kids can't wait any longer for Congress to act."
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The amount of work it takes for a person to maintain strong and healthy teeth can vary from one individual to another. For most people, the simple routine of regular brushing and flossing will suffice. But to some, especially those suffering from enamel hypoplasia, need a more extensive dental care routine. Tooth enamel is the outer, protective layer of the teeth. If it gets damaged, decay and infection will penetrate the dentin and pulp, which will, later on, result in several dental concerns, meaning you’ll need to see a dentist near FIU.
Enamel Hypoplasia and How to Prevent It
What is Enamel Hypoplasia?
Enamel hypoplasia is a condition that causes the enamel to poorly or irregularly develop. Its symptoms include the following:
- High vulnerability to decay and cavities
- Irregular wear
- Grooves, fissures, depressions, and pits in the teeth
- Yellowish-brown stains or white spots
Hypomineralization is a less serious dental problem associated with tooth enamel. It leads to a more translucent and softer enamel because of the lack of mineral content.
What are the Causes of Enamel Hypoplasia?
While numerous symptoms indicate you are suffering from enamel hypoplasia, the causes of such dental conditions are limited. This tooth enamel disorder may be caused by hereditary or environmental conditions such as maternal smoking, infection, or trauma to the teeth.
Enamel Hypoplasia Prevention as Advised by a Dentist Near FIU
Early diagnosis and treatment of enamel hypoplasia are imperative. Possible treatments include professional whitening, resin-bonded sealant, crowns, and fillings. The primary goal of the treatment is to maintain a healthy smile, preserve the tooth structure, prevent the development of a bad bite, and avoid tooth decay. Contact Tamiami Dental Center to get your enamel hypoplasia problem treated!


December 26, 2022 - January 1, 2023
Monday, December 26, 2022
Kwanzaa, is an annual holiday affirming African family and social values that is celebrated primarily in the United States from December 26 to January 1. Both the name and the celebration were devised in 1966 by Maulana Karenga, a professor of Africana studies at California State University in Long Beach and an important figure in Afrocentrism. Karenga borrowed the word kwanza, meaning “first,” from the Swahili phrase matunda ya kwanza, adding the seventh letter, an extra a, to make the word long enough to accommodate one letter for each of the seven children present at an early celebration. (The name Kwanzaa is not itself a Swahili word.) The concept of Kwanzaa draws on Southern African first-fruits celebrations.
Although Kwanzaa is primarily an African American holiday, it has also come to be celebrated outside the United States, particularly in Caribbean and other countries where there are large numbers of descendants of Africans. It was conceived as a nonpolitical and nonreligious holiday, and it is not considered to be a substitute for Christmas.


When doing work online, next, we send information from a device to another using internet protocols. These kinds of data packets are easily traceable, and hackers can intercept them and use the specifics to blackmail or gain access to private information. Data encryption is a fantastic solution to maintain sensitive info safe from breach and cyberattacks. Here, we is going to explore clouddatapro.org/ipvanish-guide what VPN and data security happen to be, how they job, and the primary advantages of choosing a provider with sturdy protocols and military-grade encryption.
A Virtual Private Network (VPN) creates a secure tube between your computer or mobile product and a server possessed by your VPN provider. The tunnel codes your information and masks the IP address, making it difficult for cyber criminals to identify the source of your data or location.
The tube is formed by simply authenticating the device having a VPN server and then encrypting each data supply with a cryptographic process referred to as encapsulation. Additionally, it assigns every packet a brand new IP address, which in turn masks your personal information so that all your activities for the internet apparently originate from the VPN server. If your VPN has hosting space around the world, your computer data will travel around a short distance, enhancing performance.
Once selecting a VPN, look for a program that offers reputable tunneling protocols like OpenVPN and 256-bit AES encryption, which can be virtually improbable to bust. Avoid more mature standards just like PPTP and L2TP/IPSec, that could be vulnerable to strike. A actually zero logs policy is also essential, as low-quality providers sell your data to marketers or perhaps other businesses.


Most of us want to feel and look better.
We know we should eat healthy food, walk more, exercise more, and in general, follow a healthy lifestyle to achieve that. But it's easier said than done. It seems that sometimes, where there is a will, there is no way.
Fed with good intentions, we think we will do it one day, but somehow that day is not arriving. We simply cannot make it happen despite all the wishful thinking and projecting. Why can't we make it happen?
The reality is we feel too tired to start. According to a new survey from YouGov, tiredness is the biggest barrier for people to implement changes in their lifestyle.
Brits are simply feeling too tired.
The results are based on a poll of 2,086 UK adults for the World Cancer Research Fund (WCRF).
In the poll, 35% of respondents claimed that tiredness is the reason why of they don't make changes to their diet and physical activity levels.
When asked what was stopping them from eating more healthily and exercising more often, 29% of men and 40% of women cited "feeling too tired"
Matt Lambert, the WCRF's health information and promotion manager, said: "People have busy schedules and we know that, for many, the last thing they might want to do when they are tired or lacking in motivation is to start cooking from scratch or going to the gym."
Following a healthy lifestyle that includes exercise are important ways of reducing the risk of getting many diseases, including cancer.
WCRF and Cancer Research UK, estimate that 40% of cancer cases could be avoided if more people lived healthier and more conscious lives. This could be achieved by eating more healthy food, being more active, giving up smoking, maintaining a normal weight and avoiding sunburn.
The charity is launching a healthy living plan to help people build healthier food and activity habits into their routine.


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*Marie Foster was born on this date in 1917. She was a Black educator and a civil rights activist.
She was born Marie Priscilla Martin near Alberta, Alabama. Foster's mother took her to Selma to get an education against Foster's father's wishes. Foster did not initially complete high school but dropped out, married, and raised three children. After her husband's death, Foster worked low-wage jobs but eventually completed high school, went to a junior college, and became a dental hygienist.
Foster became interested in the American Civil Rights Movement in early 1960 as she tried registering to vote eight times before succeeding. Following her successful registration, Foster began teaching other Blacks how to pass the tests used to bar them. One person showed up to her first class, where she taught a 70-year-old man how to write his name. Gradually, the classes drew more and more people. As the Civil Rights Movement grew, Foster became an organizer for the Dallas County area.
She participated in the demonstration on March 7, 1965, that became known as Bloody Sunday. As the march approached the Edmund Pettus Bridge, a combined state trooper and police force stopped the march, violently beating many participants. Foster was at the front of one of the lines and was clubbed by a state trooper, leaving her with swollen knees. Despite her injuries, two weeks later, Foster participated in the march that eventually made it to Montgomery, Alabama, successfully walking fifty miles over five days.
"Even in her old age, she could still outwork the young activists of today," said Selma Mayor James Perkins Jr. The vest Foster wore during the march was autographed by many leaders of the civil rights movement and is now on display in Selma at the National Voting Rights Institute and Museum. "Mother Marie Foster, through her citizenship classes and her fiery stances at the courthouse, had actually added more Black voters than all the marching and demonstrations together had produced," said J.L. Chestnut Jr., a Black attorney in Selma.
Marie Foster died on September 6, 2003, at a hospital where she had been taken about a week earlier. The cause of death was not released.


Newswise — When algae and bacteria with different swimming gaits gather in large groups, their flocking behaviour diminishes, something that may reduce the risk of falling victim to aquatic predators. This finding is presented in an international study led from Lund University in Sweden.
Flocking behaviour arises seemingly spontaneously in a group of independent individuals without a clear leader. This behaviour occurs among many types of organisms, from bacteria to mammals and humans. In a new study published in Physical Review Letters, researchers at Lund University examined the flocking behaviour of two different types of microorganism. By studying the backwashes - fluid flows - created around the organisms as they swim, the researchers have been able to find out how they affect each other.
"We have looked at a mixture of two types of swimmers. Those that use 'breaststroke', namely certain types of algae, and those that swim with a 'propeller' behind them, like most bacteria", says Joakim Stenhammar, chemistry researcher at Lund University.
Previous research has shown that microorganisms with the same swimming technique can sense, and are affected by, each other's fluid flows. This means they can move in a synchronised way over long length scales several times faster than an individual bacterium can swim.
However, in the new study the Lund researchers could establish through using computer simulations and theoretical models that this flocking behaviour completely disappears when microorganisms with different swimming styles are mixed.
"Their collective fluid flows then behave as though the individuals could not sense each other's presence. You could say that the microorganisms gain a cloak of invisibility", says Joakim Stenhammar.
The new study is an important piece of the puzzle in understanding how flocking behaviour works in biological systems. Now the work will continue with the study of increasingly detailed models of how actual microorganisms behave. This will enable comparisons between the theoretical results and experimental observations.
"On a biological level there may be advantages from symbiotic ecosystems in which bacteria and algae live together. The suppression of flocking behaviour may reduce the risk of being eaten, as many aquatic predators sense the fluid flows to localise prey", concludes Joakim Stenhammar.


We Will Never Forget
Today we remember and commemorate the 10th anniversary of 9/11. The symbolic waterfall footprints of The National September 11 Memorial are a moving tribute of remembrance and honor to the nearly 3,000 people killed in the terror attacks of September 11, 2001 at the World Trade Center site, near Shanksville, Pa., and at the Pentagon, as well as the six people killed in the World Trade Center bombing in February 1993.
The Memorial’s deeply moving twin reflecting pools are each nearly an acre in size and feature the largest man-made waterfalls in the North America. The pools sit within the footprints where the Twin Towers once stood. Architect Michael Arad and landscape architect Peter Walker created the Memorial design selected from a global design competition that included more than 5,200 entries from 63 nations.
The names of every person who died in the 2001 and 1993 attacks are inscribed into bronze panels edging the Memorial pools, a powerful reminder of the largest loss of life resulting from a foreign attack on American soil and the greatest single loss of rescue personnel in American history. We remember each of these individuals, their sacrifice, and their families on this day of national remembrance. If you would like to visit the Memorial, make a contribution or share your thoughts, information is available at the 911memorial website.
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Developing Literacy in the Secondary Classroom
- Georgina Barton - University of Southern Queensland, Australia
- Gary Woolley - Griffith University, Australia
Today’s secondary classrooms are increasingly diverse places and skilled English teachers need to be able to develop flexible teaching strategies that can be adapted to best serve diverse learners with divergent needs. This textbook for pre-service teachers gives them pragmatic guidance on the major aspects of literacy teaching, and how to draw insight research and apply it in diverse classrooms.
Key coverage includes:
· The fundamental aspects of teaching reading and writing to adolescent learners.
· How to intelligently select and use literature with secondary students.
· Multi-literacies and the use of technology in English teaching.
· Assessment strategies for the classroom.
· Teaching techniques for developing reading comprehension.
This is essential reading for anyone training to teach English in secondary classrooms, and for recently qualified teachers looking to sharpen their practice.
Developing Literacy in the Secondary Classroom is an accessible and comprehensive guide to a wide-range of topics relating to literacy, learning and assessment. Taking a learner-centred approach with discussion questions and activities that encourage reflection on key issues and topics covered in each chapter, this is a book that will appeal to teachers and researchers looking for a clear, well-referenced and very practical guide to the field.


(E) Named after German mathematician Lothar Collatz who introduced it in 1937, the Collatz conjecture is one of those fun math problems that are simple to explain but very difficult to solve.
The conjecture is defined as follows: “start with any positive integer n. Then each term is obtained from the previous term as follows: if the previous term is even, the next term is one half of the previous term. If the previous term is odd, the next term is 3 times the previous term plus 1. The conjecture is that no matter what value of n, the sequence will always reach 1.“
Professor Lawrence Tao from UCLA proved that “almost all Collatz orbits attain almost bounded values“.
Now, computational scientists Emre Yolcu, Scott Aaronson, and Marijn J.H. Heule are trying to investigate it with sophisticated computer programs:”An Automated Approach to the Collatz Conjecture“.
Following is nice video on the Collatz conjecture:
- Quanta Magazine: “Computer Scientists Attempt to Corner the Collatz Conjecture“
- MIT Technology Review: “Are computers ready to solve this notoriously unwieldy math problem?“
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Urquhart Castle ***
Region: Inverness, Loch Ness & Nairn
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Dominating a rocky promontory on the iconic Loch Ness, the castle takes in the whole of the Loch and the surrounding countryside. Situated south of Inverness, it also makes a prime spot on the route to the Highlands.
In 1296 the castle was besieged by the English and captured by Edward I, thus marking the beginning of the Wars for Scottish Independence. It seems that over 200 years there were many Urquhart Castle battles between the English and the Scottish armies, both who would intermittently claim the castle over this long period of time.
In 1298 Urquhart Castle would once again be in the possession of the Scots, but in 1303 the castle was back in the hands of the English after succumbing to an attack on the castle. Thanks to Robert the Bruce in 1306 the castle was yet again in control of the Scots after defeating the Comyn family – it was around this time that Urquhart Castle (once again – depending on your what you believe from different history books) became a royal castle.
In 1509 the Grant clan was ‘granted’ the castle and despite numerous raids of the building the castle was strengthened over time, but unfortunately, this did not last long and the castle was abandoned during the 17th century.
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Red Knot; Huahou; Lesser Knot (Calidrus canutus)
The red knot breeds in the Arctic and comes to NZ for the Arctic winter, our summer. They are best seen from the Dawick St viewing platform at high tide, roosting on the sandspit, and can also be seen feeding on the mudflats at low tide. In the middle of summer you may see several hundred red knots.
The red knot is a stocky, non-descript wader that can be mistaken for other, rarer migrants. It is a plump bird with short, dull green legs and a short, heavy, straight black bill. In non-breeding plumage the red knot is grey brown on top, with pale feather edges that clearly mark the individual feathers, and has pale grey underparts with some markings on the flanks. In breeding plumage it has a rusty-red neck, head, and breast. The red knot can be distinguished from the great knot by its smaller size, the almost uniform colour of the crown, and a distinct pale eye-stripe. A gregarious species, it is often seen in flocks. Where there are few individuals, a group may roost with other species, especially bar-tailed godwits. It feeds on the mudflats at the tideline, drilling rapidly into the mud in search of invertebrates with a motion rather like that of a sewing machine needle.


Tiny Perfectly Scaled Replicas Of The Planets In Our Solar System
By Ryan on 03/09/2017 10:01 AM
Imagining the different sizes of all the planets is pretty hard to think about it. I mean, we know Jupiter is big, but you can't really get a good idea of just how big it is without seeing it measured against something you already know the size of. This store sells perfectly scaled replicas of all the 8 planets in our solar system (sorry Pluto) so you can get a good idea of just how big each planet is.
Made by Etsy store LittlePlanetFactory, the tiny scaled planet replicas, are just one of their many offerings that feature tiny scaled planets, moons, and stars. Other cool products of theirs include a replica of Saturn's moon Titan that comes with a removable shell that represents the moon's atmosphere and layer of clouds, along with a scaled replica of the Sun, Jupiter and Earth together, with Earth being so small that you need to contain it inside of a tiny jar.
The scaled replica of the 8 planets are 3D printed with extreme amounts of details that go into each planet. The gas giants even feature their equatorial deformation to scale, and are even made with their oblate spheroid shape.
A perfect gift idea for science geeks, space lovers, or just for something to feature inside of a science class at a school, the scaled replicas of the solar systems planets come in three different sizes to choose from (at 3 different price points), the small size being scaled at 1:1.5 billion, the medium size being scaled at 1:1 billion, and the large size being scaled at 1:0.7 billion. Just select the size you want in the dropdown.
Get the scaled replica of the Sun, Jupiter, and Earth here.
Get the replica of Saturn's moon Titan here.


Pre-service Teachers’ Computational Knowledge, Efficacy, and Number Sense Skills
Type of Degreedissertation
Rehabilitation and Special Education
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The National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM) Curriculum Focal Points (2006) suggested heavy emphasis on instruction in whole numbers for young elementary students. Any intervention curriculum for students who are at-risk for mathematic difficulties should not be oversimplified. Number sense was defined by Berch (1998) as a developing construct that referred to: (a) children’s fluidity and flexibility with numbers, (b) the sense of what numbers mean, and (c) the ability to perform mental mathematics and look at the world and make comparisons. Additionally, the Glenn Report (US Dept. of Education, 2000) outlined the need for improving teacher preparation in mathematics and science. Currently, there is scarce research about students with disabilities’ number sense skills or teachers’ aptitude regarding number sense skills. Therefore, this study surveyed elementary, special education and general education teachers’ mathematical content and pedagogical knowledge with an added focus on number sense. Specifically, special education and general education teachers’ computational knowledge, efficacy to teach mathematics, and their approach to calculate math problems was explored.


pH (potential (of) hydrogen) is a measure of the concentration of hydrogen ions (H+) in a solution and, therefore, its acidity or alkalinity. The concept was introduced by S.P.L. Sørensen in 1909. The p stands for the German potenz, meaning power or concentration, and the H for the hydrogen ion (H+).
In layman's terms , the "pH" value is an approximate number between 0 and 14 that indicates whether a solution is acidic (pH < 7), neutral (pH = 7), or basic (pH > 7) .
The formula for calculating pH is:
[H+] indicates the activity of H+ ions (also written [H3O+], the equivalent hydronium ions), measured in moles per litre (also known as molarity). In dilute solutions (like river or tap water) the activity is approx. equal to the concentration of the H+-ion.
In aqueous solution at standard temperature and pressure, a pH of 7 indicates neutrality (e.g. pure water) because water naturally dissociates into H+ and OH- ions with equal concentrations of 1×10-7 M. A lower pH number (for example pH 3) indicates increasing strength of acidity, and a higher pH number (for example pH 11) indicates increasing strength of alkalinity. Most substances have a pH in the range 0 to 14, although extremely acidic or basic substances may have pH < 0, or pH > 14.
In nonaqueous solutions or non-STP conditions, the pH of neutrality may not be 7. Instead it is related to the dissociation constant for the specific solvent used.
pH can be measured by addition of a pH indicator or using a pH meter. Universal Indicator changes colour depending on the pH of the solution it is added to. Electronic pH meters consist of an electrolytic cell in which an electric current is created due to the hydrogen cations completing the circuit.


The Birds of the Falkland Islands is the latest publication in the BOC Checklist Series. Buy it online now from NHBS. This authoritative volume by Robin Woods covers all 205 species that have been reliably recorded in the Falklands, plus another 54 species whose presence is unconfirmed. View sample text and images at the link below for NHBS.
This new checklist of the birds of the Falkland Islands is the most comprehensive ever published. Meticulously researched and fully referenced, it represents the culmination of decades of fieldwork by the author and others. It brings together everything that is known about the status and distribution of birds in this fascinating archipelago. A full introduction covers all the expected biogeographical and ecological ground, with strong emphasis on the history of human–avian interactions and the development of wildlife conservation — both among the author’s special interests. The systematic list covers all 205 species whose occurrence in the Falklands is well-evidenced, plus another 54 species that require further confirmation. Seven appendices and 32 pages of colour photographs complete the work. This definitive account of Falklands birds will be an essential reference for all those with an interest in the amazing wildlife of the South Atlantic.
Commenting on this new work, Prof. John Croxall CBE FRS, Chair of the BirdLife International Marine Programme, said: No one is better qualified than Robin Woods to produce this long-awaited Checklist for an archipelago whose limited (but spectacular) breeding avifauna is far exceeded by the number of visitors and vagrants. This is a checklist of meticulous detail, continuing the highest standards of the series.


Discovered in the late 1820s by pioneering paleontologist Mary Anning, the odd-looking fossil of the cartilaginous fish Squaloraja polyspondyla seemed to have characteristics of both sharks and rays.
It was initially thought to be a “missing link” transitional form between those two groups, but later it was identified as being something else entirely – it was actually part of the chimaera lineage, much closer related to modern ratfish, and its ray-like features were due to convergent evolution for a bottom-feeding lifestyle.
Living during the early Jurassic period, about 200-195 million years ago, Squaloraja fossils are now known from the south coast of England, southern Belguim, and northern Italy. Around 30cm long (1’), this weird fish had a massive wide flat snout that looked like an even more extreme version of the long noses seen in some of its modern relatives, and this enormous snoot would have been absolutely packed with sensory receptors to help it locate small aquatic prey hidden in the muddy seafloor.
Some specimens also have a distinctive long horn-like spine on their foreheads, and since these individuals also have claspers it seems like this was a sexually dimorphic feature. Much like the smaller head claspers on modern chimaeras, male Squaloraja probably used this “horn” to hang onto females’ pectoral fins during mating – and with it being such a large elaborate structure it may also have been used for visual display purposes, too.


In 1935, Walter Benjamin published The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction, heralding a new epoch for art in the Industrial Age. The technological development of photography, in particular, radically shifted the possibilities for artistic production. Benjamin posed that the loss of the aura of the unique physical art object, along with the implementation of modern technical capacities, brought about substantial changes in how we approach and understand art. This new condition opened up the field of art to play and the exploration of industrial and mass-produced materials and to their reinterpretation. Since then, many artists have stripped the artwork of its claim to be unique, handmade, and sacred through the possibilities that a boundless choice of media has provided.
By the 1960s, consumer goods or their recognizable copies were everywhere to be seen in art. This creative liberty enabled artists to become critical commentators of culture, but it also led to the commodification of art. And while any object could be designated as art by the artist, this selection was dependent on the historical and contextual factors within the art world. Found objects as artworks contain many associations and can prompt diverse thoughts from the viewer, involving the public as active participants in decoding them. Using found materials including debris, toys, or talismans, artists activate personal and global cultural imaginaries to produce desire or nostalgia. Today, the nostalgic impulse is a trend that can be seen in artistic production and the move towards interdisciplinarity at large. 1
The study of material culture has gained momentum in the last 20 years, with scholars from a variety of disciplines agreeing that “artefacts are implicated in the construction, maintenance and transformation of social identities,” and artists have great influence on the construction of those identities and the avenues by which they are questioned. 4 While on the surface these works seem to reveal aspects of the mundane through their use of everyday materials, they can also be opened up to offer deeper meditations on contemporary culture. Even if wit and immediacy are their most used strategies, artists working with quotidian objects possess a capacity to evoke fact and fiction through the objects themselves or the scenarios they propose. Even then, their interpretation will vary every time the work is seen, since individual memory will dictate our association or lack thereof with the work of art. This capacity is what makes contemporary art inexhaustible.
Text by Cindy Peña, Curatorial Assistant, Museo Jumex.
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The dispersal of humans out of Africa coincided with a dramatic global reduction in the size of mammals, a new study reveals. This "downsizing" trend may continue, suggest the authors, to the extent that, in just a couple hundred years, the largest terrestrial mammal left may be the domestic cow, weighing in at 900 kilograms (kg). Felisa A. Smith et al. sought to understand how the size of mammals has changed over time. They updated and created two datasets that capture the global distribution and body size of terrestrial mammals that lived between 66 million years ago through the present. The authors found a substantial bias in mammal extinction during the periods when humans were dispersing around the globe, whereby species that went extinct tended to be two to three times bigger than mammals that survived, a trend that was evident globally. Notably, prior to humans' migration out of Africa 125,000 years ago, Africa was home to mammals of smaller size (with a mean body mass roughly half that of mammals found in Eurasia), which the authors suggest is reflective of the hominin-mammal interactions that had already been at play. Perhaps most striking is the reduction of mammals in the New World during the late Pleistocene, which coincided with humans' adoption of long-range weapons. The authors report a greater than 10-fold drop in both mean and maximum body mass of mammals during this time; for example, mean mass of terrestrial mammals in North America fell from 98.0 to 7.6 kg. If current trends continue, the mean body mass of mammals in North America will drop from 7.7 to 4.9 kg in a few hundred years, the authors say. As mammals play a critical role in shaping ecosystems, the downsizing trend will have a cascading impact on other organisms.


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Since times long past, alcohol has accompanied humankind, bringing both sunny and shadowy moments. The oldest and most celebrated form is wine, which throughout its legendary history has served as nourishment, medicine (anesthetic), preventive means (bactericide), and above all as a stimulant and an intoxicating beverage. It was, indeed, the latter that was advanced by the cultivation of wines and the maturing of wines in all cultures and civilizations, thus leading at the same time also to the abuse of wine. Alcoholism was not, actually, treated as a disease from the very start. For a long time, excessive drinking was regarded more as a moral, religious or juridical problem. In this paper, a record is given of the anti-alcohol struggle in Carniola in the 19th century. At the beginning of the 20th century, the movement was further joined by the Carniolan Doctors’ Association, and, together with Slovenian anti-alcohol alliance, it continued to influence the regional government to adopt the appropriate legislation. In terms of per-capita consumption of alcohol, Slovenia ranks ingloriously close to the peak of the worldwide scale. This fact is also closely supported by statistics on the health, social, family, economic, legal and other consequences which are incurred by alcoholics themselves. It is only through the enhancement of public awareness and education and through an appropriate public health policy that this menacing catastrophe can be forestalled.


Shade and Water for Llamas and Alpacas
Determination Of the Effect of Shade And Hydrotherapy Treatment On Thermoregulation In Llamas And Alpacas
P. Ramsey, D. Linden, and D. E. Anderson, Dept. of Veterinary Clinical Sciences
Alpacas and llamas are native to the Andes Mountains residing at an altitude of 4,000-14,000 feet and their thermoregulation mechanisms have become adapted to this mild environment. These animals often suffer heat stress during the months of summer in North America.
Effective shade and ventilation are critical to the prevention of heat stress. However, many owners use intermittent hydrotherapy as a preventative tool during excessively hot days. We hypothesized that a single administration of water would have little effect on body temperature and that there would be no difference between application to the whole body and the thermal window (ventral abdomen, inner thighs, and perineum). This study was designed to determine the interaction of shade and hydrotherapy on body temperature regulation and thermal distribution.
Eighteen llamas and alpacas were divided into three treatment groups and two replicates (shade, sun): Group 1- no hydrotherapy, Group 2- hydrotherapy on thermal window only, and Group 3- whole body hydrotherapy. Replicate 1: all three groups were placed in the sun without any shade for two hours. Temperatures were recorded at 0, 15, 30, 45, 60, 90, and 120 minutes rectally and at three different surface sites (neck, back, and tail base). Skin surface temperatures were determined using laser surface thermometer. Replicate 2 (24 hours after replicate 1)- fully shaded barn and no box fan ventilation, (all assignments-same). With the exception of the rectal temperatures, there was a slight decrease in temperature at 30 minutes after hydrotherapy. Unfortunately, this was short-lived and the temperature of all the treatment groups rose as the study went on.
Ultimately, there was no difference between the whole body versus thermal window hydrotherapy treatment groups or the no hydrotherapy group. However, llamas and alpacas in shade had lower rectal and surface temperatures compared with those in full sunlight.
David E Anderson, DVM, MS
College of Veterinary Medicine
Ohio State University
March 12, 2003
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The Caterpillars and Butterflies lesson plan teaches the life cycle of the butterfly, practices colour recognition, while encouraging children to appreciate the wonders of nature through a variety of musical fun activities.
The Caterpillars and Butterflies lesson plan focuses on:
- Learning solfege with chime bars or resonator bells
- Playing a variety of percussion instruments, recognising the steady beat and the rhythm.
- Listening skills, note recognition, remembering patterns and echoing rhythms
- Developing literacy with The Very Hungry Caterpillar
- Singing together with actions – speech development and story telling.
- Social skills; working in a group, following instructions and building confidence.
- Developing creativity with imaginative movement to music.
This lesson plan is 17 pages long, with 10 printables and is is suitable for children from 2 – 6 years. It should take around 35 mins, but many of the activities can be used again separately whenever you need a short engaging musical activity at any other time.
These plans are not intended to read as a script, as everyone will have their own teaching style. More, I hope that they will provide you with in-depth guidance for a number of related activities that I have found in my years of teaching to be particularly effective and engaging combinations.
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The non-invasive blood glucose monitor uses a technology called an optical bridge. The optical bridge uses the near-infrared wavelength range that includes the glucose absorption band at about 1620 nm. It sends two different wavelengths alternating in time into the earlobe, having the same extinction in the tissue background. One of the wavelengths is absorbed by glucose; the other is not. In order to separate the glucose signal from the background, the blood content of the sample volume is modulated by squeezing the sample. Almost all of the glucose is in the bloodstream. Without modulation, the glucose signal would be indistinguishable from the background. Signals are recorded while the blood content changes in the sample volume. A green wavelength measures the actual blood content independently. The ratio of the infrared differential change to the green change is the basis for the measurement. The method measures glucose in the bloodstream, which is of capital importance and which many other methods cannot do, as they are affected by the glucose in the interstitial fluid. The ultimate goal is a universal calibration that allows most people to use the device right out of the box.
Primary Application Area: Medical Devices
Technology Development Status: Prototype
Technology Readiness Level: TRL 4
Vetted Programs/Awards: A total of 10 SBIR Phase I and Phase II awards (NIDDK) were granted to predecessor Grove Instruments, Inc., from 1999 to 2013. Dr. Harjunmaa (formerly Co-founder Chief Scientist at Grove) served as PI for several of these grants.
Organization Type: Early-stage Startup (Seed)
Showcase Booth #: 21M
GOVT/EXTERNAL FUNDING SOURCES
External Funding to Date: After the 2015 bankruptcy (due to management issues unrelated to the technology) of Grove Instruments, Inc., Valoa Technologies, Inc. acquired the IP from Grove in January, 2016. Valoa is continuing the development of the technology and is prosecuting and maintaining the 4 ex-Grove patents. Valoa does not have external funding.


Suspension of Public Transport Strikes, Positive Steps in Negotiations
Public transport strikes have been causing chaos to commuters who rely on public transport. The situation has been on-going, resulting in a lot of frustration. However, the suspension of public transport strikes brings hope and positivity to negotiations.
After intense negotiations, both parties have agreed to temporarily suspend the strikes. This is a positive outcome because it shows that both parties are willing to negotiate and find a solution to the problem. The suspension of the strikes is a significant step forward in ensuring that the transportation system operates smoothly.
The impact of strikes
The impact of public transport strikes cannot be overstated. It affects the daily lives of ordinary citizens who rely on public transport to move around. The strikes affect the economy by bringing economic activities to a standstill. The effects of the transport strikes go beyond the transport sector and affect various industries.
Negotiations between the transport workers’ union and the government are ongoing. Both parties are willing to find a solution to the current situation. The suspension of the public transport strikes is proof that both parties are committed to finding a resolution. Negotiations are a positive step in ensuring that the transport sector operates efficiently and effectively.
Summary: The suspension of the public transport strikes is a breakthrough in negotiations. The impact of these strikes affects the everyday lives of people and the economy in several ways. The commitment of both parties to negotiate towards finding a solution to the issue is a positive step forward. The ongoing negotiations are critical in ensuring efficient and effective public transport for commuters. #publictransportstrikeover #positivestepforward #negotiationsarekey #NEWS


Archaeologists believe they have found the bronze remains of a sacrifice made over 2,000 years ago. They unearthed an Iron Age chariot, which was burned and buried most likely as a religious offering.
“This is a matching set of highly-decorated bronze fittings from an Iron Age chariot – probably from the 2nd or 3rd century BC,” Dr. Jeremy Taylor, a landscape archaeology professor at the school, told the Leicester Mercury. “This is the most remarkable discovery of material we made at Burrough Hill in the five years we worked on the site.
“This is a very rare discovery, and a strong sign of the prestige of the site.
“The atmosphere at the dig on the day was a mix of ‘tremendously excited’ and ‘slightly shell-shocked.’
“I have been excavating for 25 years and I have never found one of these pieces – let alone a whole set. It is a once-in-a-career discovery.”
After the bronze fittings were burnt, whoever buried them laid a layer of cinder and slag over it, but the burial may have also been meant to mark a new season. The scientists also said the remains went untouched for the 2,200+ years between burial and discovery.
“The function of the iron tools is a bit of a mystery, but given the equestrian nature of the hoard, it is possible that they were associated with horse grooming,” project co-director John Thomas said in a press release. “One piece in particular has characteristics of a modern curry comb, while two curved blades may have been used to maintain horses hooves or manufacture harness parts.”