GPS Collars Reveal How Goats Make Decisions About Where To Head : Goats and Soda : NPR
Breeds of Livestock – Charolais Cattle — Breeds of Livestock, Department of Animal Science
The Charolais originated in west-central to southeastern France, in the old French provinces of Charolles and neighboring Nievre. The exact origins of the Charolais are lost to us but it must have been developed from cattle found in the area. Legend has it that white cattle were first noticed in the region as early as 878 A.D., and by the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries were well and favorably known in French markets, especially at Lyon and Villefranche. Selection developed a white breed of cattle which, like other cattle of continental Europe, were used for draft, milk and meat.
The cattle were generally confined to the area in which they originated until the French Revolution. But, in 1773, Claude Mathieu, a farmer and cattle producers from the Charolles region, moved to the Nievre province, taking his herd of white cattle with him. The breed flourished there, so much so that the improved cattle were known more widely as Nivemais cattle for a time than by their original name of Charolais.
Today’s Almanac for Saturday February 27
Today’s Almanac
Night before dawn is 6 hours and 5 minutes,
Dawn starts at 6:05 am and runs for 28 minutes,
Sunrise is at 6:33 am which is 5 hours and 26 minutes before noon,
High noon, the transit of the sun, is at 12:08 pm,
From twelve noon to the sunset at 5:42 pm is 5 hours and 42 minutes,
Dusk lasts for 31 minutes concluding at 6:10 pm,
Leaving 5 hours and 49 minutes until midnight.
Looking Out the Lean-To
There was about a four-feet snow bank outside of the lean-to, from where the snow had melted off the roof, and piled up. It was good, because it limited the breezes blowing into the lean-to.
Taken on Saturday March 20, 2010 at Dutch Settlement State Forest.Continuing Up to the Firetower
Democrats Are Split Over How Much The Party And American Democracy Itself Are In Danger | FiveThirtyEight
Facing a Republican Party with a growing anti-democratic contingent, Democrats are debating what to do — to bolster their party and, in the view of some in the party, American democracy itself. At the heart of the discussion is how much structural reform do the nation’s governmental and electoral systems need.
This debate is largely happening in public, in op-eds and on Twitter. But it’s mostly in the background, lurking behind basically everything that is happening in the Democratic Party — like which issues to prioritize, whether to try to work with Republicans in Congress and, most of all, whether to ditch or reform the Senate filibuster. It’s often implicit, rather than explicit, as the people doing the debating are trying to persuade — but not annoy — a small group of people in the party who will ultimately decide the Democrats’ posture on these issues: President Biden and a handful of senators.
An Introductory QGIS Workshop for Beginners
This is a long video but a great introduction to the many things you can do with QGIS.