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95-year-old World War II vet finally sees memorial in Washington
WASHINGTON — Herbert St. Romain thought he would never get to see the national memorial honoring him and other veterans who served in World War II.
But one recent morning, the 95-year-old from Alexandria, La., gazed around the National WWII Memorial as he was wheeled past 17-foot pillars honoring veterans from each state.
He stopped at the granite pillar with Louisiana blazoned across it.
"I didn't think I'd ever see this," said St. Romain after pointing to the pillar. "It feels impossible."
St. Romain made the journey to Washington, D.C., at the end of June on a mission to visit the memorial honoring the 16 million who served in the U.S. armed forces. He was in the Louisiana Army National Guard in 1939 and later on active duty in the European Theater during WWII.
His comrades in that National Guard unit have all since died.
"I'm the only one left of that group," St. Romain said.
It's been nearly 60 years since St. Romain visited the nation's capital. Most veteran memorials hadn't yet been built. He wanted to return to see the WWII memorial, which opened in 2004 and is steps from the Lincoln Memorial and the Washington Monument.
St. Romain's weekend trip was sponsored by Honor Flight, a group dedicated to helping veterans get to Washington to see the national monuments honoring their service.
There were 47 veterans on this recent trip, including some who served during WWII, Korea and Vietnam. Three of them are terminally ill.
"For some of them, it's their dying wish," said Jane Julian, who lives in Shreveport, La., and is the national hub director for Honor Flight. "It's the least we can do for what they did for us. Not just WWII (veterans), our Korean and Vietnam also. The program was developed because our veterans need to see how much America appreciates what they did."
St. Romain was the oldest veteran on the trip and the only one from Louisiana, which is just starting an Honor Flight chapter in Baton Rouge.
"Just think about how many years he waited to see the memorial that was built to honor the sacrifices he made in WWII,'' said Julian, who also runs the group's Lone Eagle program, which helps veterans who don't live near an Honor Flight chapter.
St. Romain's son, Paul, himself an Air Force veteran, maneuvered his father's wheelchair through the WWII Memorial.
St. Romain and other veterans were greeted first by the Allied Airmen's Preservation Society MidAtlantic District, a "living history'' group wearing WWII-era military uniforms and sitting on a 1943 Willys Jeep.
"It really takes them back. It makes them 18 or 19 or 20 years old again," said Dave Nichols, a member of the volunteer re-enactment group. ''It's a part of their experience — to take a them back in time."
And it did. St. Romain held court with the group, reminiscing, telling war stories and joking. He talked about his tours in Europe, including being stationed in England and Belgium. St. Romain, who worked as a clerk in a hospital group, was there when medics treated soldiers from D-Day and the Battle of the Bulge.
In 2005, St. Romain joined his son, Paul, on a family trip to Belgium where they visited the site where he was once stationed.
But the trip to see the veteran memorials was different.
"He was just delighted to see how those memorials were set up. They're very impressive,'' said Paul St. Romain, 73, who lives in Lecompte, a small town outside of Alexandria. "He thought it was the proper acknowledgement without going overboard."
Nichols, also chairman of the board of directors for Honor Flight, said the group's trip to Washington can be emotional for WWII veterans who are "thinning out very rapidly."
"A lot of these WWII (veterans) weren't going to make it to D.C.," said Nichols, an Air Force veteran. "But now we're bringing them from all over the country."
''We feel they should be honored at their memorials," he said.
At a few points during the visit, Herbert St. Romain was quiet. His eyes welled up.
"He was thinking about some of his buddies, some of the fellows who just aren't here, the fellows back home who passed away and never got to see those acknowledgements," Paul St. Romain said later.
For St. Romain, who spent nearly 30 years as an Alexandria fireman after returning from the war, the possibility of visiting the memorial was exciting from day one.
He was "very excited about the prospect of going to see the memorial and possibly seeing other veterans," his son said.
The visit to the memorials even included a police escort for the chartered bus.
Other stops included the Lincoln Memorial, Korean Memorial, Vietnam Wall, Arlington National Cemetery, the Navy Memorial, Iwo Jima Memorial and Air Force Memorial.
But first stop was the WWII Memorial, which includes pillars, a water foundation and a Freedom Wall, covered with gold stars to honor the 400,000 Americans who died.
"It's truly great to see the monument and how well it's done – as a tribute to those people, the men and women of WWII," Paul St. Romain said as he stood by the Louisiana pillar. "Even in my generation, people didn't fully appreciate the impact and the sacrifices that the WWII generation made."
Back in Louisiana, Paul St. Romain said Wednesday his father still wears the light-blue Honor Fight T-shirt he wore on the visit to the memorials.
For Herbert St. Romain, the mission is accomplished.
"He had never expected to go back to Washington, certainly at his age and certainly had not expected to see those memorials," said Paul St. Romain. "So (the trip) kind of just fell out of the sky for him as far as he's concerned."


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Day4 - Book you hate
When I first thought of an answer for this, I thought "I don't read books that I hate!" And then I remembered Eternity Weeps by Lawrence Miles from The New Adventures of Doctor Who series. Oh yeah, I hated that book. I even gave it a second chance. Didn't work for me the second time, either. And when I later read Miles' Bernice Summerfield novel, Dead Romance, I realized that Miles wasn't writing for me. (I think I disliked that book even more than EW (ewwww!).) So I've avoided all of his other books.
Day5 - A Book you can read again and again
There are several of these, but the first that pops into my mind is Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone. Such a joy to read.
The rest of the 31 days:
Day1 - Book you are reading right now
Day2 - The book you want to read next
Day3 - Your favourite Book
Day6 - A book you can only read once (no matter you love or hate it)
Day7 - Book that reminds you of someone
Day8 - Book that reminds you on a certain place
Day9 - The first book you ever read
Day10 - Book from your favourite author
Day11 - Book you once loved and now hate
Day12 - Book that a friend recommended
Day13 - Book that makes you laugh
Day14 - Book from your childhood
Day15 - 4. book from the left on your shelf
Day16 - 9. book from the right on your shelf
Day17 - Close your eyes and get any book from your shelf
Day18 - Book with the most beautiful cover
Day19 - Book, that you ever wanted to read
Day20 - Book that you read at school
Day21 - most stupid book you read at school
Day22 - Book on your shelf with the most pages
Day23 - Book on your shelf with the least pages
Day24 - Book where nobody would expect you read/loved it
Day25 - A book where the main character is almost like you
Day26 - Book you would read to your children
Day27 - A book where the main character is your idol
Day28 - Thanks God this book was made into a movie
Day29 - Darn, why did they make this book into a movie?
Day31 - Book series you are collecting

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Multimedia project from Karl Martin Holzhäuser and Gottfried Jäger (apparative graphics) und Walter Steffens (music). The german Nobel Prize winners Manfred Eigen and Ruthild Winkler describe balance, growth and evolution in nature and in human society as a result of chance and law in their book, "The Game – Laws of Nature Control the Chance." These characteristics are also essential to games, such as dice games based on certain rules in which evolutionary processes can be simulated.
The project focuses on the game strategy "selection" and conceives it through visual and musical means. It emerges as its own multimedia form. The premiere of the AV-production was on November 6, 1977 in the Fotomuseum Munich at the "Photography of Science" convention. Premier of the Live-Production with musicians and equipment in the Kunsthalle Bielefeld. Performers: Benedikta Bonitz (Recorder), Ursula Wüst (Flute), Peter Roggenkamp (Piano), Karl Martin Holzhäuser und Gottfried Jäger (Directors), Rolf Nackenhorst (AV Equipment), Walter Steffens (Conductor).
Based on the recording created in 1987, a 20-minute videotape in WDR-Trick Film Studio Cologne arose from Günter Richard and Karl-Wilhelm-Krämer, directed by Holzhäuser and Jäger. Premiere 1988 by the symposium Fotoinszenierungen – Contemporary Photography from the Federal Republic of Germany in Warsaw.
The game strategies were worked and expanded continually between 1977 and 1988. Manfred Eigen and Ruthild Winkler wrote in a letter to the author in 1978: "We are fascinated to be working with evolutionary games artistically. The graphics … are very appealing. They meet the concerns of the book very well."
Publication: Leonardo (Berkely), No. 4, 1991, p. 395-398, 400.


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Stress Relief: Dogs help LCCC students relax before taking their final exams
Students gather around a therapy dog named Hank during a visit to help students relax for finals at the Laramie County Community College dorms. Michael Smith/LCCC
As soon as the student saw Hank sitting there, she walked over, sat down and hugged him.
"Hi there," she said. "How are you, sweetie? You're so cute."
As she spoke softly to Hank while caressing his head, time seemed to stand still for the Laramie County Community College student and the Pyrenees-mix dog.
Along with four other dogs and their owners, Hank and Stacy Shultz-Bisset were at LCCC recently during finals week as part of a therapy dog visit to help students relax and de-stress.
The visit helped students take a break from their hectic studying schedules to decompress with man's best friend. Besides the therapy dogs, the relaxation event included coloring for adults and a guided meditation session with LCCC counselor Mindy Falkner.
"With finals week, people are going through a lot of stress," said Meghan O'Brien, resident advisor, who organized the relaxation event at the residence hall. "I organized this event as a way to help students de-stress. The dogs are amazing. A lot of people are saying 'wow, I haven't seen a dog in forever.' Some of our students are so far away from home, and having dogs here for this event is amazing."
It didn't take long for Hank and the other dogs to become the life of the party. The other dogs were Haven, a Doberman Pinscher owned by Billie Smith; Izzie, a Brussels Griffon owned by Jean Rawles; Annie, a black Lab/Australian Shepherd/Poodle mix owned by John Lavery; and Milo, an Australian shepherd mix owned by Jody McMullan.
Each dog sat patiently waiting for attention from the students. Some played with toys, making the students smile, while others listened as the students spoke to them softly, taking in each word they said.
"We typically come out during finals week to help the students de-stress," said Smith, who is executive director of Alliance of Therapy Dogs, a national agency consisting of 15,000 members. "There are a lot of statistics that show dogs are good stress relievers, and they lower anxiety and blood pressure."
Smith's dog Haven, who is deaf, had the chance to greet everyone who visited. Whenever someone approached, the dog would put her head on their outreached hand to provide comfort.
The members of Alliance of Therapy Dogs in Cheyenne not only visit LCCC during the year, but they also stop by the local schools where books are read to the children and the dogs; and they visit nursing homes to see residents.
"It's so rewarding to do this," Shultz-Bisset said, who has been with the Alliance of Therapy Dogs for 14 years. "Sometimes in the nursing homes, we're the only people they see. When we do visits, the people we meet often tell us how they miss their own dogs."
Hank is relatively new to the program, having been certified as a therapy dog a few months ago. But Shultz-Bisset has had several therapy dogs including Gretchen, a Newfoundland Lab mix; Hannabell, a Great Pyrenees; and most recently Carma and Bebe, two Newfoundlands.
Rawles, Lavery and McMullan said they were happy their dogs could attend and bring some comfort to the students. Each of their dogs drew a crowd of students, who waited patiently for their chance to get some comfort.
"I think we all like doing this, because it brings them comfort when they're away from their families," McMullan said. "Having our dogs visit them helps create a sense of normalcy."
During the visit, the students were all smiles and showed signs of relaxation. They sat on the couches in the room, talking to each other and laughing while enjoying the company of their new four-legged furry friends.
"I have four dogs at home, and they're very important to me," said Camilo Suarez, who came from Connecticut to study at LCCC. "This is a really nice event, because you get to spend some time with the dogs and take a break from studying."
Student Nathan Reynolds, who is studying human services and interdisciplinary liberal arts, agreed.
"Events like this bring people together and help create connections," he said. "I don't think anything connects people like a dog. When you have dogs like this, who can be stressed out? It helps take my mind off things and gives me a moment of peace."
For more information about LCCC academic programs, visit the academic programs page.
For more information about the Alliance of Therapy Dogs, visit the organization's Web page.


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Let it go, Let it go!
"Disney's Frozen made this phrase catchy, but when it comes to organization & clutter, "let it go" is the perfect mantra. In a time where "one-click order" & "same day delivery" is a thing, it's no wonder we've become inundated with "stuff." It's easier than ever to accumulate. The key to balancing the new stuff with the old stuff is figuring out when you can let the old stuff go.
Have you ever heard of the KonMari Method for organization? Marie Kondo writes in her book "The Life Changing Magic of Tidying Up" that you should hold items in both of your hands and ask yourself if it sparks joy, if it doesn't you should toss it. I'm sure this is what you're thinking...
Us too! But we get where Marie Kondo is coming from; simply stated if you haven't used it, worn it, known you owned it, or unpacked it, let it go.
So you've committed to organizing, but where do you start? Kondo advises organizing by category not by room, meaning go through and organize/donate all of the clothes in your house rather than organizing one single closet. While this approach makes sense, for a family of 5, that can be a daunting task. Most of us have to chip away at these projects between school hours, work hours, days off, drop off & pick ups; our thinking is do what you can, when you can. If you have 15 minutes, open a drawer, take out the contents and throw away anything that is "junk" and put the contents back in the drawer in an organized manner (ie. group pens, paper clips together). If you tackle a drawer or closet a day, before you know it you have a number of completed, organized spaces.
Now that you've committed & started to organize, how do you maintain it? This is something you may have to work at. It's easy to swipe everything off the counter into a drawer or throw the clothes at the bottom of the closet for later, and sometimes, given our busy lives, that has to happen. The key is to be cognizant of clutter and maintenance. What does that mean? If you had to throw some stuff in a drawer, make a mental note to go back later and pull those things out and go through them. If you had to stuff some clothes in the closet, go back and put them on hangers or in a drawer. If you make the pile a priority (even if it's down the list) & remain cognizant of it, it'll start to become habit. Mail drives me nuts; I hate junk mail. One piece of advice I offer with mail is to go through it immediately and throw out/recycle the junk & file away (whether placing it in an office or in a bill organizer) the important documents & bills. If you do this, your mail will never accumulate and you'll never lose track of the important documents.
Our hope for you in this New Year is that you can begin to "let it go" and remember if you need help, we are here.
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PURPOSE: We aimed to (a) elucidate the concordance of visual assessment of an initial I-ioflupane scan by a human interpreter with comparison to results using a fully automatic semiquantitative method and (b) to assess the accuracy compared to follow-up (f/u) diagnosis established by movement disorder specialists. METHODS: An initial I-ioflupane scan was performed in 382 patients with clinically uncertain Parkinsonian syndrome. An experienced reader performed a visual evaluation of all scans independently. The findings of the visual read were compared with semiquantitative evaluation. In addition, available f/u clinical diagnosis (serving as a reference standard) was compared with results of the human read and the software. RESULTS: When comparing the semiquantitative method with the visual assessment, discordance could be found in 25 (6.5%) of 382 of the cases for the experienced reader (ĸ = 0.868). The human observer indicated region of interest misalignment as the main reason for discordance. With neurology f/u serving as reference, the results of the reader revealed a slightly higher accuracy rate (87.7%, ĸ = 0.75) compared to semiquantification (86.2%, ĸ = 0.719, P < 0.001, respectively). No significant difference in the diagnostic performance of the visual read versus software-based assessment was found. CONCLUSIONS: In comparison with a fully automatic semiquantitative method in I-ioflupane interpretation, human assessment obtained an almost perfect agreement rate. However, compared to clinical established diagnosis serving as a reference, visual read seemed to be slightly more accurate as a solely software-based quantitative assessment.
Diagnostic Accuracy of Visual Assessment of an Initial DaT-Scan in Comparison to a Fully Automatic Semiquantitative Method (2018)
Moving into the Next Era of PET Myocardial Perfusion Imaging - Introduction of Novel \(^{18}\)F-labeled Tracers (2018)
The heart failure (HF) epidemic continues to rise with coronary artery disease (CAD) as one of its main causes. Novel concepts for risk stratification to guide the referring cardiologist towards revascularization procedures are of significant value. Myocardial perfusion imaging (MPI) using single-photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) agents has demonstrated high accuracy for the detection of clinically relevant stenoses. With positron emission tomography (PET) becoming more widely available, mainly due to its diagnostic performance in oncology, perfusion imaging with that modality is more practical than in the past and overcomes existing limitations of SPECT MPI. Advantages of PET include more reliable quantification of absolute myocardial blood flow, the routine use of computed tomography for attenuation correction, a higher spatiotemporal resolution and a higher count sensitivity. Current PET radiotracers such as rubidium-82 (half-life, 76 sec), oxygen-15 water (2 min) or nitrogen-13 ammonia (10 min) are labeled with radionuclides with very short half-lives, necessitating that stress imaging is performed under pharmacological vasodilator stress instead of exercise testing. However, with the introduction of novel 18F-labeled MPI PET radiotracers (half-life, 110 min), the intrinsic advantages of PET can be combined with exercise testing. Additional advantages of those radiotracers include, but are not limited to: potentially improved cost-effectiveness due to the use of pre-existing delivery systems and superior imaging qualities, mainly due to the shortest positron range among available PET MPI probes. In the present review, widely used PET MPI radiotracers will be reviewed and potential novel 18F-labeled perfusion radiotracers will be discussed.
Heart failure is one of the growing causes of death especially in developed countries due to longer life expectancy. Although many pharmacological and instrumental therapeutic approaches have been introduced for prevention and treatment of heart failure, there are still limitations and challenges. Nuclear cardiology has experienced rapid growth in the last few decades, in particular the application of single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) and positron emission tomography (PET), which allow non-invasive functional assessment of cardiac condition including neurohormonal systems involved in heart failure; its application has dramatically improved the capacity for fundamental research and clinical diagnosis. In this article, we review the current status of applying radionuclide technology in non-invasive imaging of neurohormonal system in the heart, especially focusing on the tracers that are currently available. A short discussion about disadvantages and perspectives is also included.


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Author(s): Amanda Hampson
I open the gate and walk into the field . . . As the sun pours a river of light down this valley, I realise there are hundreds and hundreds of trees and I've seen those silver leaves before, not here in Australia, but shimmering in the groves that grace the terraced hillsides of Tuscany.' When Adrienne's marketing company goes down, her lifestyle does too. She retreats from the city to the beautiful, abandoned olive grove once owned by her Italian grandparents. A 'tree change' isn't what Adrienne has in mind, however, and life in the country delivers some surprises as she confronts the past and learns the secrets of the Olive Sisters . . . Old loves, new loves, warm toast and rich traditions are all part of the delicious blend of this absorbing story.
Amanda Hampson grew up in rural New Zealand. She spent her early twenties travelling, finally settling in Australia in 1979 where she now lives in Sydney's Northern Beaches. Writing professionally for more than 20 years, she has had numerous articles and two non-fiction books published. The Olive Sisters was her highly successful fiction debut.


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Primary Source: Living in an Ivory Basement
This recipe provides a time-efficient way to determine whether you've saturated your sequencing depth, i.e. how much new information is likely to arrive with your next set of sequencing reads. It does so by using digital normalization to generate a "collector's curve" of information collection.
Uses for this recipe include evaluating whether or not you should do more sequencing.
This approach is more accurate for low coverage than normalize-by-median's reporting, because it collects the redundant reads rather than discarding them.
Note: at the moment, the khmer script saturate-by-median.py needs to be updated from branch cleanup/normalize_and_saturate to run this code properly. Once we've merged it into the master branch and cut a release, we'll remove this note and simply specify the khmer release required.
Let's assume you have a simple genome with some 5x repeats, and you've done some shotgun sequencing, and you want to know whether or not you've saturated to a coverage of 5 with your sequencing. You can use a variant of digital normalization, saturate-by-median, to run a collector's curve:
~/dev/khmer/sandbox/saturate-by-median.py -x 1e8 -k 20 -C 5 -R report.txt --report-frequency 10 reads.fa
Then, plot the resulting saturation curve:
./plot-saturation-curve.py report.txt saturation.png --xmin 0 --ymin 0 --xmax 1500
The x axis here is the number of reads examined (column 1 in report.txt), while the y axis (column 2) is the number of reads that are below a coverage of 5 in the data set at that point. You can see here that by the time you had sampled 1000 reads, you'd stopped seeing new coverage=5 reads, which suggests that further sequencing is unnecessary.
If you zoom out on the graph, you'll see that the curve keeps on climbing, albeit much more slowly. This is due to the influence of error rate on prediction of "novel" reads, and is something we have to fix.
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What Do Get With Web Development Auckland Professionals?
It is natural to have questions about using web development Auckland professionals. For example, will it really make such a big difference to have a highly-visible website? And what are the odds of actually seeing a difference? What does web development mean to a small business with a low budget anyway?
While not every question have will be answered through this article, it will clear up some points. And once you are more familiar with how a web development Auckland agency can aid you in reaching success, you can better decide which route to take.
A Responsive Site
What does it mean to have a responsive site? Basically, it says that the site is able to adapt to the different devices that try to access it. Given that different devices function with varying screen sizes and even rendering software, it is important to keep this information in mind. In fact, you want a highly responsive site that won't just adapt. It should provide a great experience for the user as well.
Organic Traffic
It is basic knowledge that high ranking sites enjoy a lot of organic traffic. Also, organic traffic is considered valuable for higher conversion rates. So, once you team up with web development Auckland professionals, you can expect to see a much bigger flow of organic traffic. And it is because professionals know how to gain higher rankings without cutting corners. Instead, they apply their knowledge and experience to your specific business model. This results in positive outcomes for the company and your small business.
Practical, Functional, And Quick Loading
In addition to being responsive, the website needs to adhere to other variables as well. For instance, users like practical and functional websites that are easy to navigate and interact with. At the same time, they want the pages to load quickly. This is also a requirement search engines have when indexing the most relevant sites.
A Foundation You Can Build On
You might also be wondering what happens after the professionals stop working on your website? If they got it to rank well, they published interesting content, and everything about the site is at its peak performance – what happens then?
Everything depends on you. Because working with the right people usually means having it easy when you take over the responsibilities. Alternatively, you can talk to the agency about a maintenance plan or service if you want them to keep applying their knowledge and skill.
Service Guarantee By Web Development Auckland Professionals
You won't find many genuine guarantees in terms of SEO services or web development. But when you use Geek Free Web Design, they guarantee the site will pay for itself within 12 months. And if it doesn't, they pay back the money you invested in their services. So, instead of making outrageous claims, the company promises healthy growth within a realistic amount of time.
Whatever you do, don't let your business fall behind when it could be competing with the best of them. All you need is to utilise the best Auckland website developer.


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Ukraine's election map reflects its history.
The most obvious geographical dividing line is the Dnieper river, which runs through the capital, Kiev, curls south-east to Zaporizhia and then turns back to empty into the Black Sea at Kherson.
Historically, the land to the west has been known as Right Bank, the land to the east as Left Bank.
Very crudely, Russian is the dominant language on most of the Left Bank, at least in the large urban centres, and Ukrainian on the Right.
Orthodoxy is the dominant religion on the Left Bank, while on the Right it co-exists with the Uniate (or Greek Catholic) church, which combines Orthodox service rites with allegiance to the Pope.
The Uniate church was formed as the Ukrainian aristocracy began to identify with Poland at the end of the 16th Century.
Anti-Soviet resistance
Poland, and later Austria, dominated the westernmost regions of the country for hundreds of years. These regions only joined the rest of the country in the Russian/Soviet empire after World War II - very much against their will.
Some western Ukrainians were so bitterly anti-Soviet that they took the Nazi side in World War II. Others fought both the German and Soviet armies hoping to carve out an independent state.
The western regions of Galicia (which includes Lviv, Ivano-Frankivsk and Ternopil) and Volyn are still a stronghold of nationalist sentiment.
The bulk of Ukraine's Russian minority (some 17% of the total judging by the 2001 census) meanwhile lives on the Left Bank (including Crimea) - and in Odessa, which also voted for Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych.
Part of the Russian population in the east arrived to work in the heavy industries, such as coal, steel and chemicals, that were developed under Stalin. Crimea, meanwhile, became a favourite retirement home for the Soviet elite.
This population was the most Sovietised, while the population in the west of the country had the strongest cultural links with the rest of Central Europe.
This translates today into a general orientation towards Moscow, on the one hand, and a general orientation to Europe, and the EU, on the other.
The divisions are not always as neat and simple as they may seem, however. Some northern Left Bank regions voted for Yushchenko, just as some southern Right Bank regions voted for Yanukovych.
Central regions of the country have tended to be Ukraine's versions of "swing states" in the US.
It is also said that the purest Ukrainian language is spoken in the Poltava region - which is on the Left rather than the Right bank.
The language spoken by Ukrainian villagers in fact changes gradually from Ukrainian to Russian, as one travels from west to east, while dialects in the far west include strong Polish influences.
Cossack nostalgia
Leonid Kuchma, from Dnipropetrovsk, and Viktor Yanukovych, from Donetsk, both easterners, made efforts to learn Ukrainian once they gained high political office.
And opposition leader Viktor Yushchenko, darling of the nationalists, was born in a village in the Sumy region, close to the Russian border in eastern Ukraine.
It would also be wrong to portray Ukraine as a country inhabited only by Ukrainians and Russians. Poles and Jews once made up a large part of the urban population, particularly in central and western areas of the country.
Crimea is the homeland of the Crimean Tatars, who were deported to Central Asia in 1944, but have slowly been returning.
There are also sizable Belarusian, Moldovan, Bulgarian, Hungarian and Romanian minorities, each making up between 0.3 and 0.6% of the overall population.


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A further 12 candidates have been selected to stand for Greenwich Conservatives in the local council elections on May 3rd. Candidates have been selected for Eltham West, Greenwich West, Peninsula and Woolwich Riverside wards, joining other candidates already selected in Eltham and Blackheath on the local Conservative team for the elections.
Eltham West ward will be contested by Jim Davis, Gemma Turrell, and James Worron. Jim has lived in Eltham for the last 20 years, bringing up his family locally and being heavily involved in the community. Gemma has lived in the borough since 2010 and currently lives on Kidbrooke Park Road. She works locally in administration, uses the 286 / 132 bus daily and has supported local transport campaigns. James lives in the ward, in Kidbrooke Village, and has lived locally for seven years. He works in central London advising businesses investing in the UK and in his spare time volunteers as a trustee of a local charity which supports abuse victims.
Greenwich West ward will be contested by Jessica Goodrum, Gavin Harran and Chris Swift. Jessica lives in Greenwich West and currently works for a consultancy firm, advising businesses across a range of sectors. Also a local resident, Gavin works in financial services and has also worked for the government and as an expert in financial policy. He is a trustee of the education charity Ignite!Futures and has spent time volunteering as a school governor and as a youth mentor.
Peninsula ward will be contested by Ben Green, Antony Higginbotham and Reece Smith. Ben was one of the first residents to move into the Greenwich Millennium Village development on Peartree Way, works as a freelance consultant and is passionate about improving educational outcomes. Antony has lived in Greenwich for the last three years and is heavily involved in the community, including close to two years as a school governor of a local Pupil Referral Unit and volunteering to mentor young offenders. Reece also lives in Peninsula ward, works in financial services and is a long standing Conservative campaigner.
Woolwich Riverside ward will be contested by Tom Spiller, Tomas Thurogood-Hyde and Chris Van Roon. Tom lives in Woolwich with his wife and newborn daughter, commutes into central London via the DLR and is passionate about reducing petty crime and anti-social behaviour. Tomas has worked in the education sector for five years and as a governor and legal support officer for a leading school group, he is passionate about ensuring children have the best possible start in life. Chris has lived locally for years, is a former Councillor, and serves a trustee of a central London church where he co-ordinates action supporting Hackney Foodbank.
Further candidate selections in other wards will be announced over the next few weeks.


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Yes Bank grew NII by 37% over last year in the latest quarter, a high number eve for smaller nimble banks as BoB reported struggling with 3.23% NIMs in the same quarter. With frequent Tier I and Tier II QIPs, the Bank's Capital has hit 17.5% and Tier I Capital is also high enough to load even higher growth digits as Gross and Net NPAs fall off from already minscule levesl to 0.24% and 0.06% Net Profit is INR 3.06 B the jump of 30% over year also translating into healthy linked/sequential growth
Of course with banks like ING Vysya almost degrowing the Loan assets , static at around INR 300 B and PSE Banks growing NPAs to significant 1% levels at the best of breed banks, the room at the top is definitely available for anothe top notch bank from the 2000-04 'era' to make an impact when new banks with existing lending books and rural branches join the club in a few months
UCO Bank may have disappointed but PSE banks have shown that the markets do not expect more than 20% Sales growth tat best of breed banks and a growth in the range of 40% matched by growing Other income does hand the challenge to established lackeys at Kotak or the survivors at PNB at the bigger accounts as MNC banks also struggle with financing the Global Indian Corporation and India's trade grows to 3 times the current levels in the coming decade.
BTW, apart from auctions for ECB lenders to quotas for buying bonds in FII acocunts which grew the possibility to OINR 250 B RBI also lent INR 77000 Crores or INR 770 B in today's one/ten year auction
NPAs from the Deccan Chronicle account may be t o the tune of another INR 1 B at the bank but are unlikely to pressure the balance sheet.
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Office bearers for Sri Lanka Cricket will be elected through secret ballot voting in its Annual General Meeting tomorrow.
The Department of Elections has been requested by Sri Lanka Cricket to assist it in the conduct of the election.
The secret ballot, de Silva said, would be in accordance with the amendments to the Sports Act.
Jayantha Dharmadasa is set to become the next SLC president, after the executive committee rejected all three original candidates, and named him the sole nominee for the position.
Elections Commissioner Mahinda Deshapriya however stated that they would only provide advice and assistance in the SLC election and will not directly intervene.


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In guardianship proceedings, the notice of the guardianship proceeding must include "the right to request the appointment of counsel and to have counsel appointed if the court deems it appropriate and the right to have such counsel paid for if it cannot be afforded." 20 Pa. Stat. Ann. § 5511(a). According to 20 Pa. Stat. Ann. § 5512.2(b), the same rights given in guardianship establishment proceedings apply to review proceedings, which means the discretionary appointment of counsel system should apply as well.
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Whilst the football (not to be confused with 'soccer') loving crowd were stuffing their fat faces with hotdogs and pretzels, The Boss opened with an all-out American cheese fest;
"Ladies and gentlemen for the next 12 minutes we're going to bring the righteous and mighty power of the E Street Band into your beautiful home!" yelped the OAP. "I want you to step back from the guacamole, I want you to put the chicken fingers down and turn your television all the way up!"
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Dear Jenny,
I have heard from a few different people that water is very good in Feng Shui. Does it matter where I put the water and if it's running or not?
Water is one of the five elements of Feng Shui. So it is a very important part of our lives and how we live. The correct Feng Shui flow and occurrence of water often means extreme good fortune that manifests as wealth and prosperity. So, good water brings money and bad water takes money away. Water is also one of the two components of Feng Shui, the other being wind. For that reason, when water is placed in harmony with the winds, good fortune comes about.
The Do's and Don'ts of Water in Feng Shui
Water is a very important, auspicious element in Feng Shui, always being slow moving and clean. Rivers that meander gently past in full view of the main door, they are said to be excellent. Rivers that meander evenly across flat land are more auspicious than those that run fast, possibly running into waterfalls or rapids. Rivers that flow past one's home should never be straight, nor should they appear to be aimed at one's building, in Feng Shui nothing should ever be aimed at anything, especially not at you. Water should always "embrace" the home, not shoot at the home. When a river seems to flow directly toward the main door of a house, that is not a good sign. It is also believed that water should never flow behind a home or a building as this signifies missed opportunities. This configuration signifies that while opportunities for advancement and success may be plentiful, it will be difficult for residents to take advantage of these opportunities. As a result, when a river flows behind a building, the Feng Shui is not favorable. Another general rule about water is that it should not appear to be flowing away from the home. If the water is flowing away, it is a sign of loss.
Water inside the dwelling such as a water fountain, should always be running. It signifies wealth going out and wealth coming back. If it is not running all the time it signifies money that is all dried up! Please make sure that it is always running and always clean, and then fresh new opportunities will be coming your way. If the fountain is broken, don't spend too much time trying to fix it, just throw it away and get a new one. If the fountain is outdoors, it should always be working correctly; never should there be any sort of a leak! Make sure it is always turned on and if there are fish inside, it is all the more prosperous!
*The sinks inside the home, kitchen sinks and bathroom sinks, should always have plants next to them. Even though they supply clean fresh water, they also have drains, and the drains are draining the Chi. There needs to be a wood element such as a plant near the drain, to stop the Chi from draining and use it for growth.
Since we are on the topic of bathrooms, can you make sure that the toilet seat is always down? Having it up will only eliminate your Chi.
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Village of Lansing Mayor Donald Hartill argued again Monday that a local push to rely on solely on electricity-powered home heating is unwise, especially in light of an unreliable electric grid. He cited many recent power outages in the Town and Village of Lansing, saying that lifting New York State Electric & Gas's (NYSEG) natural gas moratorium would provide an alternate source of power, at least until electricity delivery becomes more stable. Hartill was among local officials who met with New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA) Clean Heating and Cooling Group Program Manager Scott Smith and Lansing Outreach Coordinator Lisa Marshall, Monday about challenges to converting Lansing residents from oil and gas heat to electric powered heat pumps.
"Our discussion today was how we get from here to there given the circumstances that we operate under, namely a great enthusiasm for various sorts of heat pumps and things like that," Hartill said at a Village Trustees meeting Monday. "Great enthusiasm for doing the right thing. But I would characterize it as not any real understanding the path forward, of how we get from here to there. In particular anything that gets to be quasi-carbon-neutral has to face up to the fact that our electricity in New York State, 35% comes from non-carbon sources. 20% is water power. 15% is nukes."
Hartill and Lansing Town Supervisor Ed LaVigne say they have heard nothing back from the NYS Public Service Commission (PSC) or NYSEG since they met with them in Albany in June. But Hartill and Deputy Mayor Ronny Hardaway agreed that Smith was listening to their concerns Monday.
"The NYSERDA guy was paying attention," Hartill said. "He did take what we were saying seriously. So we had a little bit of exchange about that."
NYSERDA's Scott Smith says that in light of the natural gas moratorium Lansing is a test to see if
"We see the gas moratorium as an important opportunity for us to demonstrate what a fossil fuel-free future can look like and to make sure that economy doesn't slow in the case of Westchester County, and in the case of Lansing can be reinvigorated using electrification for heat pump technologies," he said at a HeatSmart event Sunday.
While Hartill and others who are pushing back on relying on electrically powered heating alternatives all say that should be the ultimate goal. But they say there are two stumbling blocks aside from price. The first is battery storage for electricity generated by solar and wind sources. That technology is in its very early stages, and is currently expensive and short-lived relative to the life spans of solar panels, wind mills and heat pumps. But the main stumbling block is the ability of the electric grid to deliver electricity reliably.
The Lansings, and the Town of Lansing in particular, have suffered frequent power outages this year that have claimed countless electronic devices, computers, and a $20,000 HVAC unit at the Ithaca-Tompkins Regional Airport as victims of resulting power surges. Hartill, Lansing Town Supervisor Ed LaVigne, and Lansing's representative to the County Legislature Mike Sigler have all lobbied for either lifting the gas moratorium or providing cheaper electricity to the areas of Lansing impacted by the moratorium, to create what they call 'energy equity' with all the other communities in Tompkins County that do have access to new natural gas capacity.
New York Independent System Operator (NYISO), the organization that manages New York's power grid, says they have reliably delivered electricity through the grid, but acknowledges it still has work to do. According to a 2019 NYISO report just under 90% of upstate New York's electricity comes from zero-emissions sources. about 9% comes from fossil fuels. That is in stark contrast to downstate, which gets 70% of its power from fossil fuels and 29% from zero-emissions sources (the same as last year).
The report says, "Billions have been saved in reduced fuel costs, and New York's power sector has reduced the emissions rates of carbon dioxide by 52%, nitrogen oxide by 88%, and sulfur dioxide by 99%."
But last month a PSC report noted that grid reliability in our region is below projected targets, which has cost public companies like NYSEG millions in allowable revenue. NYSEG was one of two utilities that missed targets on two metrics: the System Average Interruption Frequency Index and the Customer Average Interruption Duration Index. NYSEG met its targets in 2018, so the negative revenue impact is new this year. NYSEG shareholders will reportedly experience a negative revenue adjustment of $3.5 million.
The PSC report says, "Excluding major storms, the electric system statewide interruption frequency is consistent with the statewide five-year average. Roughly one in three outages were due to contacts between trees and power lines, largely from limbs and trees from outside the clearance zone falling due to failure, disease, or weather conditions. Given the significant weather events that have already occurred in 2018, including the winter storms in early March and the high-wind event on May 15, Department staff expects the customer outages including major storms will be higher in next year's report."
"It really comes down to our electrical grid, which is actually very fragile," Hartill said."We've had a number of outages in the Town due to transformers blowing up, trees falling across power lines. A bit up the street from my house one of the connectors that was connecting one of the lines failed. So this 13 kilovolt wire was swishing around on the road until they shut the power off."
At the end of May Albany made $5 million available for electric grid modernization projects that will integrate renewable energy resources such as solar farms that are being considered in the Town of Lansing's proposed Solar and Wind law. The money is part of Governor Andrew Cuomo's Green New Deal initiative for New York State to reach 70% renewable energy by 2030. Funding for the projects comes from the NYSERDA's Smart Grid and Distributed Energy Resource Integration Program for entrepreneurs, renewable energy companies, and researchers that have solutions for connecting and integrating renewable resources faster and more effectively.
But Cuomo also increased renewable energy targets: the offshore wind target quadrupled to 9,000 megawatts by 2035, distributed solar deployment doubled to 6,000 megawatts by 2025, and the energy storage deployment target is set for 3,000 megawatts by 2030.
Critics of the Cuomo administration charge that the Governor is demanding better performance of the grid while legislating green energy targets that will make the grid less reliable, and make conventional sources of electricity more expensive to produce. They cite intermittent energy sources such as solar and wind farms that rely on favorable weather and daylight to produce energy, but go offline when there is no wind or sun, saying that cranking up conventional plants when you can't predict when alternative sources are going to be available also cranks up costs. And rising electricity costs already present challenges to proponents of heat pumps.
"I thought it was ironic today," said Village Trustee Randy Smith. "Once you push residents to get rid of gas and go to heat pumps. At the same time they want to do a 25% electric rate increase, and maybe a 7% increase for gas. When it comes down to it people are going to vote with their pocket, so how are you going to sell this? Well, it's long term. That's not how they're going to look at it. If your furnace breaks tomorrow and gas is X and electricity is X, what are you going to do? A heat pump or just get another gas furnace?"
Hardaway said Lansing residents should be told about heat pump incentives that favor Lansingites, He added that he is encouraged by NYSERDA and HeatSmart representatives' concern about attracting business to Lansing in the wake of the natural gas moratorium. He noted that more money is available for the Lansings and Westchester County, the two New York communities that are suffering natural gas moratoriums right now, and that presents a particular opportunity for Lansing because it is smaller than Westchester County, so more money is available here.
"A business might not think that they could move here because of the gas moratorium, but with some proper navigation it's very possible that they could move here," Hardaway said. "They're not just looking at large businesses, but also small businesses that probably would have a much better chance of benefiting from heat pumps. So I found it was a pretty positive approach and they did seem to listen."
But even proponents of a fast transition from natural gas, propane, and oil heating are concerned about grid reliability.
"My concern is that at the state-wide level we need to get the grid up to snuff," Hardaway said. "It's not even close. If NYSEG does it they're going to raise rates so that they can improve the grid that they should have been improving all the time. Hopefully the State will pony up some money to help do that. It's just money coming out of the different pockets. Everybody is chipping in that way, not just NYSEG customers."
Local HeatSmart officials acknowledge challenges, but say that in most cases converting to heat pumps, which both heat and cool homes saves money in the long run, while reducing the use of fossil fuels. Tompkins County's HeatSmart initiative was the first in the State, and NYSERDA's Smith says that it has spawned 15 HeatSmart programs all over New York, and predicts such programs will spread to nearly every community in the state.
"If you look forward to the future envisioned by the Climate Leadership And Community Action Act that we just passed, most, if not all buildings in New York State will have a heat pump by 2050," he said. "We've got to start the process of converting them now, because thirty years may sound like a long time, but it's really not."


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Ok, I`m venturing into an area I know very little about, but I was just wondering if anyone has played a Casavant organ? Or listened to one? And if so, what were your thoughts about it?
Here is a picture (and info) from wikipedia of the one at Notre-Dame basilica in Montreal- ain`t it purdy? More importantly, sounds pretty awesome imo as well.


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Stargrass (Cynodon spp.), a member of the bermudagrass family, is also known as 'Giant stargrass' or 'African' stargrass.
Stargrass is a warm-season perennial that grows vigorously and spreads rapidly after planting, provided adequate moisture and fertility are available. With proper management, these grasses can yield 2–2.5 T/A dry matter of good quality forage within 60 days after planting. Selected stargrasses continue to produce forage through the warm season and into the cool, dry season (December) in south central Florida when adequate fertility is available. Top growth is easily killed by frost, followed by a rapid decline in forage digestibility. Animal performance for many stargrasses has been excellent, producing live-weight gains (LWG) per acre and average daily gains (ADG) per animal about double that of bahiagrass. Large differences in persistence and in-vitro organic-matter digestion (IVOMD) exist between stargrass varieties. The persistence of both Florico and Florona has been superior to most other stargrasses tested at the UF/IFAS Range Cattle Research and Education Center (RCREC). The IVOMD of Florico stargrass has been generally 8–11 percentage units higher than Sarasota stargrass, regardless of harvest frequency and sampling date. Crude protein (CP) levels have been quite similar among stargrass varieties. Quality of stargrass hay, harvested every 4 to 5 weeks, is good to excellent.
Stargrasses are well adapted to many soil types ranging from sands to clays. Stargrasses prefer moist, well-drained, fertile soils. However, stargrasses will tolerate short periods (3–5 days) of surface water (1–2 in.) and perform well under these conditions. Stargrasses do not tolerate long periods of flooding. The tropical nature of stargrasses limits their productivity and persistence to areas south of Orlando, Florida or where temperatures do not fall below 25°F.
Stargrasses grow during the warm season but continue to make excellent growth under cool, short-day, fall conditions if fertilized in October. Grasses fertilized in October increased 168% (1.0 T/A) in dry biomass compared with no-fertilizer. With early February fertilization and moisture, Florona stargrass can produce a spring hay crop by late March. Once a stargrass is frosted, all desirable forage must be consumed within 1 week, since forage digestibility drops rapidly (~5%/wk). However, crude protein decreases more slowly (~1%/wk).
Stargrasses are established vegetatively from mature (10- to 14-week-old) stem pieces. When placed in a moist, firm seedbed, nodes germinate in 5–10 days. These grasses are planted by distributing freshly cut planting material on clean (100% free of common bermudagrass and all other vegetation), moist, cultivated soil, covered by discing 2–4 in. deep (allowing 40% of stem to be exposed) or crimping stem pieces 4 in. deep into the soil followed by an extremely firm packing. Fresh planting material scattered on the soil surface must be covered with soil or crimped into the soil immediately after distribution (within 15 min) to prevent plant material from drying out. If plant material remains on the soil surface for 1.5 hrs, more than half of the vegetative stems die. Planting material must be uniformly distributed over the cultivated seedbed, with areas no larger than 3 ft2 devoid of planting material.
About 7–10 days after planting, and when signs of stargrass vegetative growth appear, the newly planted grass should be sprayed with 1 lb/A Weedmaster® in 20–30 gal/A water to help control annual sedges (watergrass) and broadleaf weeds. Delaying the herbicide application 20–30 days after planting results in little sedge control. Always read the herbicide label before using the herbicide to determine that it is currently labeled for the proposed use. Stargrass should also be fertilized 7–10 days after planting, when developing shoots are 1–3 in. tall using 35-35-35 lb/A N, P2O5, K2O, + 0.5% Cu, Zn, Mn, and Fe (sulfate form), 0.05% B and 1.0% S. A second application of N fertilizer (50 lb/A) should be applied 35 days after planting. The herbicide-plus-fertilizer combination should be sufficient to provide a dense stand of grass 24–30 in. tall within 60–75 days after planting.
Annual recommended fertilizer practices for grazing stargrass after the establishment year should be the equivalent of 200-30-60 lb/A N, P2O5, K2O, respectively, or follow the UF/IFAS standardized fertilization recommendation as given on your soil test report from the UF/IFAS Extension Soil Testing Laboratory (ESTL). Nitrogen or a complete fertilizer should be applied in three or four split applications for uniform seasonal production. If additional forage is not needed during the wet season, delay fertilizer application until the end of the rainy season; this will extend forage production into the fall. A pH of 5.5–6.0 is adequate for stargrass.
Broadleaf weeds such as dogfennel and carolina geranium are easily controlled by applying 1 lb/A Weedmaster® when weeds are less than 6 in., and 1.5 lb/A when dogfennel is taller than 6 in. For harder-to-kill pasture weeds such as briers, consider the use of Remedy® (Triclopyr) at 1 lb/A active. Apply all herbicides in 30 gal water/acre. See the current IFAS Weed Management Guide for detailed information.
Insect problems on stargrass are generally limited to the striped grass looper and fall armyworm. Both insects will feed on stargrass and can destroy the entire crop if not controlled, especially following a fall fertilization.
The two-lined spittlebug has been found on stargrass but does not appear to cause any serious damage. However, if signs of spittlebug are evident, burning the previous year's stubble in January is one of the best control measures.
A "leafblight" disease (Rhizoctonia solani) has been found occasionally on most stargrass varieties during the middle of the rainy season. Stargrass grazed under a continuous system to a 6–10 in. stubble, or under a rotational system with a 4-week grazing interval, reveals no disease. The incidence of this disease seems to be associated with dense stands of tall, uncut, ungrazed forage and tends to disappear at the onset of the dry season. Cattle consume infected plants relatively well, with no signs of rejection.
Many stargrass varieties (Florico, Florona, Rhodesian, and Ona) have been reported to contain substantial amounts of hydrocyanic acid potential, also known as prussic acid. This chemical is also a concern in sorghums, white clover, etc. The HCN-p tends to be more of a problem, where seasonal temperature variations and stress conditions have created hazardous levels, especially following a freeze or frost. However, cattle have grazed stargrass at the Ona Experiment Station in all seasons since 1972 with no adverse effects.
Studies have demonstrated that stargrass should be allowed a rest period of 4–5 weeks between each clipping or grazing. This rest period can be extended by 1 or 2 weeks during periods of slow growth, such as cool or dry conditions, or shortened to 3 weeks during periods of lush growth, provided proper stubble height is maintained.
The above management variables result in excellent persistence and high dry matter (DM) yields (5–7 T/A) with good CP (11%–16%) and IVOMD (55%–60%). If the average rest period is shorter than 4 weeks, forage quality increases but persistence of the stand may decrease. If the rest period is increased to 7 weeks or more, persistence is good but CP (7%–8%) and IVOMD (42%–53%) are relatively low. Research has demonstrated that IVOMD and persistence are variable between stargrass varieties harvested at the same physiological stage. Florico stargrass tends to average about 2–3 percentage units higher IVOMD than Florona, Ona, or McCaleb stargrass. However, Florona stargrass generally expressed the greatest persistence and Ona stargrass the least persistence at the UF/IFAS Range Cattle REC. If managed as indicated above, Florico stargrass can have forage quality (IVOMD) equal to Pangola digitgrass.
The stubble height of most stargrasses should be maintained at 6–10 in. for best persistence. However, since plant height above the stubble has a major effect on forage yield and quality, plants should be grazed when plant height above the stubble ranges between 6 and 18 in. Research has shown that stubble height has an important effect on root development of stargrasses. Studies demonstrated root DM yield is reduced by 97%, compared with the unharvested check, when plants were repeatedly harvested back to a 2 in. stubble after attaining 6 in. of top growth above the stubble.
Grazing studies with stargrasses at the UF/IFAS Range Cattle REC produced a 3-yr ADG of 1.1 lb and LWG of 663 lb/A on Florico stargrass and ADG of 0.92 lb/A and LWG of 585 lb/A on Florona stargrass. Both grasses were stocked at three yearling steers per acre over a 200-day warm-season period. Average weight of the steers was 500 lb at the start of the period. Grasses were allowed a 4-week rest period between grazings.
Studies were conducted on stargrass to compare LWG and ADG with a 1- and 2-week cattle rotation. Cattle that were rotated weekly were on a five-pasture rotation and those cattle rotated every 2 weeks were on a three pasture rotation. Both rotations were allowed a 4-week regrowth period between grazings. Initial steer weights averaged 500 lb. When rotated weekly, live-weight gains for cattle grazing Florona (580 lb) and Florico (650 lb) averaged 14% and 6% higher, respectively, when compared with the 2-week rotation. Average daily gains also increased 11% on Florico and 6% on Florona when cattle were rotated weekly, compared with every 2 weeks.
Weaned beef-calf heifers grazing Florico and Florona stargrass, supplemented with a molasses-slurry mix (3 lb/head/day consumption) had gains (3-year average) of 0.90 and 0.84 pounds/head/day, respectively. Heifer weight gains from grazing Florico and Florona stargrass and fed a molasses slurry were 122 and 118 pounds/head, respectively, after 140 grazing days (3-year average) during the rainy season.
Rapid establishment from vegetative cuttings.
Dry matter yields of stargrasses adapted to a specific location are excellent.
A palatable and high quality forage when harvested at 4- to 5-week intervals and grazed at 4-week intervals.
Florona stargrass is extremely persistent when properly managed.
Some stargrasses make excellent growth under cool conditions, provided plants have adequate moisture and fertility.
Stargrasses tend to produce more forage under drought conditions than Pangola digitgrass.
Grazing studies at the Range Cattle REC during the warm season have yielded daily gains of .92–1.1 lb and LWG of 585–663 lb/A at a stocking rate of 3 yearling steers/A.
Live-weight gains from stargrasses averaged 61% higher when compared with selected bermudagrasses.
Rotating cattle weekly, compared to every 2 weeks, almost always resulted in higher LWG and ADG for stargrass.
Hay cures rapidly during favorable weather conditions.
Florona is the most desirable stargrass for a continuous hay harvest program.
Forage quality drops rapidly after 6–7 weeks of regrowth, with considerable rejection by cattle.
Should not be grown where temperatures drop below 25°F.
Requires higher fertility program than bahiagrass, Limpograss (Hemarthria), and Pangola digitgrass under Florida conditions.
Vegetatively propagated from stem cuttings.
Top growth easily killed by frost, followed by 5–6 percentage unit decrease in digestibility after 1 week and a 15–18 percentage unit decrease 4 weeks after a freeze.
Most stargrasses contain high HCN-p following heavy nitrogen (100 lb N/A) fertilization any time during the growing season.
This document is SS-AGR-62, one of a series of the Agronomy Department, UF/IFAS Extension. Original publication date August 2002. Revised February 2006 and July 2011. Reviewed November 2017. Visit the EDIS website at http://edis.ifas.ufl.edu. This publication is also a part of the Florida Forage Handbook, an electronic publication of the Agronomy Department. For more information you may contact Joe Vendramini (firstname.lastname@example.com).
J. Vendramini, associate professor; and P. Mislevy, professor (retired); UF/IFAS Range Cattle Research and Education Center, Ona, FL 33865.
The use of trade names in this publication is solely for the purpose of providing specific information. UF/IFAS does not guarantee or warranty the products named, and references to them in this publication do not signify our approval to the exclusion of other products of suitable composition.
The Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences (IFAS) is an Equal Opportunity Institution authorized to provide research, educational information and other services only to individuals and institutions that function with non-discrimination with respect to race, creed, color, religion, age, disability, sex, sexual orientation, marital status, national origin, political opinions or affiliations. For more information on obtaining other UF/IFAS Extension publications, contact your county's UF/IFAS Extension office.
U.S. Department of Agriculture, UF/IFAS Extension Service, University of Florida, IFAS, Florida A & M University Cooperative Extension Program, and Boards of County Commissioners Cooperating. Nick T. Place, dean for UF/IFAS Extension.


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As you have already seen my previous blogpost about the CHAMBOR EXTREME WEAR TRANSFER PROOF LIQUID LIPSTICK. If you haven't checked it, click the link. So, two days back I bought two more shades from this range. Not talking too much about this again, since i have already done a detailed review of them in my previous blog post, I will be just doing the swatch post.
The new shades that i bought are 401 and 405.
401 is a nudey-pink shade: perfect for everyday wear.
405 is a browney-marooney kind of shade: I find that this particular shade needs a two layer coat as it is not that opaque as compared to the other shades.
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Part Narratives
In 2017, the Partition of India is marked by its 70th anniversary. Drawing on the readings of departure and partial histories, the exhibition Part Narratives commemorates this event, and brings the art production that surrounded it within museum and art discourse. At the same time it turns our attention to issues of migration as they beset the world at present, to the long shadow of Partition and its passage through time.
As a subject of engagement Partition has generated painting, photography, drawings, sculpture, cinema, theatre, television productions and a multiplicity of oral testimonies textual writing on this major cataclysm in Indian history. Partition as a subject has persisted and leaked through the decades, extending from the eye witness sketches of the artist as diarist in the 1940s, to the conceptually universal art works of the present time. Over this period, the issues around Partition have been problematized and gained relevance beyond the actual event. As a discontinuous but distinct body of work, Partition as a subject is remarkable in its outpouring of a response that persisted, despite the absence of institutional support.
The exhibition draws on three principal timelines of art produced around the event: art as testimonial, which comprises the artists' eye witness accounts of the event of the 1940s and 50s, art as residue in the decades of the 60's to the 80's, and finally the event as historic imperative that invites reflection and understanding even seven decades later.
Gayatri Sinha
- Anita Dube
- Annu Palakunnathu Mathew
- Arpita Singh
- Atul Bhalla
- Chittoprasad Bhattacharya
- Gigi Scari
- M. Madhusudhanan
- Krishen Khanna
- Nandita Raman
- Nandalal Bose
- Riyas KomuL. Parasher
- Sheba Chhachhi
- Somnath Hore
- Sonia Khurana
- Susanta Mandal
- Zainul Abedin
- Critical Collective
- The Raza Foundation
Exhibition courtesy
- Swaraj Art Archive
- Vadehra Art Gallery
- DAG Modern
- Akar Prakar
- sepiaEYE
When / Where
January 7, 2017 – January 21, 2017
Bikaner House
New Delhi
August 13, 2017 – September 19, 2017
The Dr. Bhau Daji Lad Mumbai City Museum


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If today were 5 days from now, I would have landed 30 minutes ago and either be on the way to the hotel or already there.
Then, there would be small meeting of the gaming folks. Then, much with the drinking and stumbling back to the hotel.
Then 96 hours of nonstop gaming!! (Ok, maybe taking a pause for sleep once every 48 hours for an hour or so. *grin*)


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Gartner Identifies Top 10 Strategic TechnologiesBy Michael Vizard
Gartner Identifies Top 10 Strategic Technologies
By Michael Vizard
According to Gartner, a strategic technology is one with the potential for significant impact on the enterprise in the next three years.
At the moment, Gartner contends there are 10 strategic technologies that will drive four powerful social, mobile, cloud computing and information forces that will cause fundamental business changes in 2014 while creating new IT opportunities. In fact, Gartner says these technologies are creating nothing less than an advanced programmable infrastructure that can execute at web-scale.
The list of emerging strategic technologies for 2014 includes:
1. Mobile Device Diversity and Management. Through 2018, the growing variety of devices, computing styles, user contexts and interaction paradigms will make "everything everywhere" strategies unachievable. The unexpected consequence of bring your own device is a doubling or even tripling of the size of the mobile workforce. This is placing a tremendous strain on IT organizations.
3. The Internet of Everything. The Internet is expanding beyond PCs and mobile devices into enterprise assets such as field equipment and consumer items such as cars and televisions. The problem is that most enterprises and technology vendors have yet to explore the possibilities of an expanded Internet and are not operationally or organizationally ready.
4. Hybrid Cloud and IT as Service Broker. Bringing together personal clouds and external private cloud services is an imperative. Enterprises should design private cloud services with a hybrid future in mind and make sure future integration and interoperability is possible. Managing this will often be the role of cloud service broker, which handles aggregation, integration and customization of services.
5. Cloud and Client Architecture. Cloud and client computing models are shifting. In the cloud and client architecture, the client is a rich application running on an Internet-connected device, and the server is a set of application services hosted in an increasingly elastically scalable cloud computing platform. The cloud is the control point and system, and applications can span multiple client devices.
6. The Era of Personal Cloud. The personal cloud era will mark a power shift away from devices toward services. In this new world, the specifics of devices will become less important for the organization to worry about, although the devices will still be necessary.
7. Software Defined Anything. Software-defined anything (SDx) is a collective term that encapsulates the growing market momentum for improved standards for infrastructure programmability and data center interoperability driven by automation inherent to cloud computing, DevOps and fast infrastructure provisioning. As individual SDx technology silos evolve and consortiums arise, look for emerging standards and bridging capabilities.
8. Web-Scale IT. Web-scale IT is a pattern of global-class computing that delivers the capabilities of large cloud service providers within an enterprise IT setting by rethinking positions across several dimensions. If enterprises want to keep pace, then they need to emulate the architectures, processes and practices of these exemplary cloud providers.
9. Smart Machines. Through 2020, the smart machine era will blossom with a proliferation of contextually aware, intelligent personal assistants, smart advisors (such as IBM's Watson), advanced global industrial systems and public availability of early examples of autonomous vehicles. The smart machine era might be the most disruptive in the history of IT.
Gartner Identifies Top 10 Strategic Technologies
10. 3D Printing. Worldwide shipments of 3D printers are expected to grow 75 percent in 2014 followed by a near doubling of unit shipments in 2015. The consumer market hype has made organizations aware of the fact 3D printing is a real, viable and cost-effective.
The Challenge for CIOs
The challenge facing CIOs is figuring out how to deliver on the promise of these technologies. As a group, the technologies collectively represent the ingredients of a primordial soup awaiting some type of catalyst to create something more significant.
"It may take a while for these technologies to make a real impact," says Gareth Herschel, an industry analyst with Gartner. "But we're definitely starting to see some single-cell organisms emerge from the soup."
Speaking at the recent TUCON 2013 conference, TIBCO Software CEO Vivek Ranadive went so far as to suggest that we are now approaching a new Civilization 3.0 era in which technology will empower value creators more than ever. Much of that innovation, says Ranadive, will cause a lot of upheaval.
"Any time you make a transition there are winners and losers," says Ranadive. "We live in a world today where the world's largest record company has no stores, the world's largest book store has no books, and it's only a matter of time before world's largest college has no campuses."
Of course, all that upheaval will fundamentally change the role IT plays in organizations. Rather than being the builders and maintainers of applications running on IT infrastructure owned by the organization that employs them, CIOs are becoming cloud service brokers. Those services are not only external; they also include the ones that the internal IT organization builds in support of unique custom business processes.
Naturally, it will take some time for this transformation to occur, but it's clearly underway. The only thing left to determine now is how each individual IT organization will respond to what is shaping up to be one of the most seminal moments in enterprise IT history.


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Today is the long awaited day that bimstore's platform in the United States, bimstore.us has launched. We've covered the launch and the event that bimstore are Gold Sponsors at later today, where they will talk about their Stateside platform in Washington DC.
Whilst all of that promotion is well and good, we thought to take another step and go behind the scenes to learn more about the deal between Space Group and Read | Thomas. How did the deal come about? How will the agreement work? What expertise do Read | Thomas bring to the table to help facilitate bimstore's US expansion?
BIMcrunch posed all of the above to Adam Thomas, COO at Read | Thomas. He spoke to BIMcrunch Editor, Jack White and talked about today's big launch shortly before he was scheduled to fly out to RTC's Building Content Summit to deliver the keynote presentation alongside his business partner Phil Read and bimstore's Founder, Adam Ward.
In this Crunch Time special, Thomas discusses his "respect crush" on Adam Ward's work ethic, the US mascot Bill the Buffalo, and what the plan of action is for the brand now that it has launched.
Press play below to hear our conversation with Adam Thomas.
For more information on related parties, find Adam Thomas, Adam Ward, Read | Thomas and bimstore US on Twitter by clicking their respective names.
Our regularly scheduled edition of Crunch Time (complete with quick-fire Crunch Time questions) with Topcon's John Foster will be released on BIMcrunch tomorrow. A preview is available here.
RELATED: bimstore present Client Update regarding future: "The quality of our content is unchallenged"


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- MsGinkgo
- 7 years ago
- Wedding: May 2014
I was emailing the bakery where we're planning to order our cupcakes and she told me there's a $25 fee for the consultation/tasting. If we book then it's credited against our total.
I'm okay with the fee, it's not really a big deal to me (it's just under the price for 2 dozen mini or 1 dozen regular cupcakes).
Did you pay for a consultation/tasting at your bakery?


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I was busy editing the last section of my interview this morning when Celine turned up. She had just been to care home in the area; interviewing the residents about Breton folklore, recording their stories from childhood.
While I made coffee she told me about the legend of Ankou who she dramatically described as the personification of death.
He appears as a tall, thin man wearing a long black coat and a wide-brimmed hat which covers his face. He has a cart pulled by two black horses; one young and strong, the other old and thin. Two skeletons walk behind, tossing souls into the back of the cart. Celine told me how many of the residents were familiar with a story of three friends who came across Ankou when they were on their way home after a night of drinking. Two of them threw stones at his cart, breaking the axle, then ran away, leaving the third friend to help fix the damage. Finding a branch he replaced the broken axle and gave Ankou his shoelaces to tie it to the cart. The following morning the two friends who had ran away were both found dead. The one who helped Ankou was alive, although his hair had turned white and he never spoke of the incident again.
Celine was animated as she recounted these stories and seemed moved by them.
I cut her a slice of my chocolate cake and that seemed to do the trick.
She went on to tell me about the Bugul Noz, a kind and gentle fairy spirit who lives in the woods of Brittany. However, due to his hideous appearance, he is a reclusive creature: so ugly even the woodland animals avoid him. I sensed Celine has a soft spot for this spirit. She showed me a book about Breton fairy and folk tales which she'd found at a market for only two Euros. She left the book with me to look at.
Pepin came bounding in and persuaded Celine to donate half her slice of the cake (He really is a greedy dog). Benjamin and Maggie also came knocking on the door. I was about to tell them the couldn't come in as I'd put down ant powder everywhere but - too late - Celine said invited them in (she's far too soft). She'd been on the beach at Ty Bihan early this morning and showed them the bag of sea glass she'd collected. There were all different shapes and sizes, mainly blues and greens. She's really after reds and purples.
I made pasta with tuna and salad for dinner and Celine left at about eight. (Still haven't got the edit of my interview finished!)


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Slow Change Experience: Time to be prioritized against monetary profit?
In Social Media these days a video is shared among my German speaking friends.
It is from the facebook page of Richard David Precht, a German Philosopher and author of successful popular science books about philosophical issues. Key Message: Money and economical profit negates all values. What drives now the societies for bigger transformation: re-define time, appreciate and value time in order to gain back a cultural identity beyond monetary profit.
A friend of mine, who knows about my current journey to Bhutan shared this link with me. It points out perfectly well, what I will and turn my focus to by attending a really exciting workshop initiated by the Gross National Happiness Centre of Bhutan. See for more insights following this link about Slow Change Experience workshop:
Link to workshop invite from GNH Centre Bhutan
Feel invited to follow me these days. The workshop includes to learn to use tools and techniques for storytelling. Let me share with you interesting appetizers about my story in the very next future – but first take a deep breath, relax -and take your time.


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Today's spotlight features New York Times and USA Today best selling author, Dianne Duvall, who has released the 5th book in her paranormal Immortal Guardian series. Whether you're new to the series or already a fan, I think you'll enjoy the top 10 quotes from the series Ms. Duvall shares with us in her guest post for SMR. To follow this blog tour, just click on the banner link below.
Night Unbound (Immortal Guardians) by Dianne Duvall
Publication Date: September 2, 2014 by Zebra
Format: eBook/Mass Market Paperback, 432 pages
Genre: Paranormal Romance
Dianne Duvall's Immortal Guardians protect humanity from unspeakable horrors–but their hearts are as fragile as any mortal's. . .
For centuries, Lisette d'Alençon has been a warrior against the dark. She fights alongside her brothers and comrades. But when the dreams start coming, she can't bear to confess them to the Immortal Guardians' command. Dreams of a dark-haired man with soft eyes and brutal wounds, a man her heart aches for–and a man she knows has been declared a traitor.
Zach is an exile, a loner. He won't defend himself against false accusations or grovel to those who should have faith in him. But he'll damn sure defend the woman who kept him sane against a plague of super-vamps that seems to have appeared from nowhere. The Guardians will blame him, and that will make Lisette suspect, too. With life, death and eternity on the line, who can they really trust?