...KENTUCKY BLUEGRASS There are many grasses growing in the United States which require different maintenance and care. Some grasses do better in certain temperatures than others do and some are specific to certain regions as well. The purpose of my research paper is to explain the characteristics of Kentucky Bluegrass and its qualities. For example, Kentucky Bluegrass has many characteristics; one of the first characteristics of Kentucky Bluegrass is that it is a dark green colored grass. It is also a cool seasoned grass and has a beautiful appearance. The medium leaf texture has good uniformity and makes a strong sod through its rhizomes. Kentucky Bluegrass is used in many different places. Some of the places that it is used are athletic...
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...Frankfort YOU ARE HERE State Seal and Motto State Nickname State Slogan Placed on a navy blue field is the seal and words "Commonwealth of Kentucky". The two people on the seal, a pioneer and a statesman, represent all the people. They are acting out the meaning of Kentucky's motto: "United We Stand; Divided We Fall". Sprays of goldenrod extend in a half circle around the picture. Kentucky State Flower Golden Rod Kentucky State Tree Yellow‐poplar or the Tulip tree Leaf Flower The golden plumes of this wildflower line Kentucky's roadsides in the fall. Native to all of Kentucky, 30 of nearly 100 species of this herb are found here Fruit Kentucky State Bird The Cardinal (Red‐bird, Virginia Nightingale, Cardinal‐bird ) MARIJUANA PEACHES APPLES SOYBEAN HAY TOP 10 CASH CROPS TOBACCO WHEAT CORN SORGHUM BARLEY Kentucky Department for Natural Resources ‐protects natural resources by educating and funding industries and farmers ‐inspects timber and mining operations ‐ensures safe water quality of the state TIMBER COAL, OIL AND GAS CLAY GRAVEL SAND WATER SUPPLY LIMESTONE Few Interesting Facts on Kentucky 1. Bluegrass is not really blue--its green--but in the spring bluegrass produces bluish purple buds that when seen in large fields give a blue cast to the grass. Today Kentucky is known as the Bluegrass State. Kentucky is the state where both Abraham Lincoln, President of the Union, and Jefferson Davis, President of the Confederacy, were born. They were born...
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...Environmental Health & Safety Software‐Based Research Facilities Inspection and Recordkeeping System An Equal Opportunity University REQUEST FOR PROPOSAL (RFP) ATTENTION: This is not an order. Read all instructions, terms and conditions carefully. PROPOSAL NO.: Issue Date: UK-1357-14 RETURN ORIGINAL COPY OF PROPOSAL TO: 3/20/2014 UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY Environmental Health & Safety SoftwarePURCHASING DIVISION Based Research Facilities Inspection and 411 S LIMESTONE Title: Recordkeeping System ROOM 322 PETERSON SERVICE BLDG. Purchasing Officer: Joyce Holmberg LEXINGTON, KY 40506-0005 Phone: 859-257-9104 IMPORTANT: PROPOSALS MUST BE RECEIVED BY: April 17, 2014 @ 3 P.M. LEXINGTON, KY TIME. 1. NOTICE OF REQUIREMENTS The University’s General Terms and Conditions and Instructions to Bidders, viewable at www.uky.edu/Purchasing/terms.htm, apply to this RFP. When the RFP includes construction services, the University’s General Conditions for Construction and Instructions to Bidders, viewable at www.uky.edu/Purchasing/ccphome.htm, apply to the RFP. Contracts resulting from this RFP must be governed by and in accordance with the laws of the Commonwealth of Kentucky. Any agreement or collusion among offerors or prospective offerors, which restrains, tends to restrain, or is reasonably calculated to restrain competition by agreement to bid at a fixed price or to refrain from offering, or otherwise, is prohibited. Any person who violates any provisions of KRS 45A.325 shall be guilty of a felony and...
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...Kuosman, 35, a native of Pittsburgh whose background is in operations. “From the first day we opened, a lot of the things we’ve done, like the 6th for a Cause events, they’ve kind of morphed over time as we’ve seen the need and people have come to us and said, ‘What do you think about this?’ And we’ve said, ‘Yeah, that sounds like a great idea.’” “We want to make sure we continue to grow this as a community spot, to look for other creative things that can utilize the space and building. We’d like to see the building and the brewery become a destination when people come to Lexington. We want it to be something Lexington and Kentucky can be proud of; just a really neat place with a different dynamic, for organizations getting together and people getting together and just doing cool stuff.” The community, of both craft beer enthusiasts and citizens of Kentucky’s Bluegrass region, seem equally thankful for the great idea West Sixth’s founders put into action less than a year ago with the belief that Lexington was the perfect market for a local craft brewery and all the cool stuff that comes with it. http://www.craftbeer.com/featured-brewery/west-sixth-brewing-company...
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...| Assignment 4: | Ecology | | Jason Hall | 12/2/2012 | SCI 110 Professor Brian Mccann Assignment 4: Ecology I live in the Common Wealth of Kentucky. Kentucky is part of the temperate deciduous forest biome. This biome is found primarily in eastern North America. The average amount of rainfall per year is between 30-40 inches and rainfall occurs throughout the year. The pre-dominate plants in the region are large trees which lose their leaves during the fall. These trees are deciduous, hence the name temperate deciduous forest biome. The climate in Scott County, Ky (the specific county where I live) is in zone 6 according to the Department of Agriculture’s plant hardiness zone map (USDA, 2012). This means that the vegetation natural to this region can live in temperatures between -10 and 105 degrees Fahrenheit. In Scott County, the amount of precipitation generally decreases in January and steadily increases until July, when it then remains relatively constant (Bush, 2011). Kentucky is made up of seven ecological regions, known as ecoregions. Scott County is part of the Inner Bluegrass ecoregion. The land in this region varies from nearly level to rolling hills. It also contains areas of deep, forested gorges along the Kentucky and Dix Rivers (EPA, 2012). The Inner Bluegrass is underlain with Limestone, which is used throughout the region. Thoroughbred horse farms, cattle grazing, tobacco and alfalfa are common land uses in this region....
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...Non-profit organisaties Engeland 1. Kentucky non-profit network https://kynonprofits.org/ What is the Kentucky Nonprofit Network? Founded in 2002, the KY Nonprofit Network is an association of organizations of all types and sizes in all 120 Kentucky counties. We are a statewide resource for nonprofit board members, staff and other leaders, an information center on effective nonprofit organizational practices, and an advocate for the nonprofit sector as a whole. We are an outreach program of the University of Kentucky College of Agriculture, Department of Community & Leadership Development Our Mission The Kentucky Nonprofit Network exists to serve, strengthen and advance the Commonwealth’s nonprofit organizations. Through education, networking opportunities, consulting services and sharing of best practices and resources, the Network envisions a Commonwealth where nonprofit organizations have the resources and support necessary to effectively meet community needs. The Kentucky Nonprofit Network provides quality programs and services that encourage nonprofit collaboration, effectiveness, accountability and innovation to strengthen our communities. History The Kentucky Nonprofit Network was founded in February 2002 and became an outreach program of the Department of Community and Leadership Development at the University of Kentucky College of Agriculture in 2004. Founding partners of the Kentucky Nonprofit Network include the Governor’s Office of Child Abuse...
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...human goals. On the economic side of things the primary topics of discussion will be income, living conditions, isolationism, homogeneity, maximization of overall utility, timber and natural resources exploitation without resilience. Geographic view points, the final topic of discussion will pertain to environmental monitoring systems, human habitation, evolving spatial patterns, and the outcome of relative location isolation. A major issue behind the driving force of Appalachia's ecological impacts starts with the exploitation of natural resources. Timber is one of the primary resources Appalachia has to offer and it began being harvested in the very early ages. Around 1930 the federal government decided to begin buying acreage in Kentucky. Having the land already stripped, timber companies were the first to sell disappearing leaving the land with little hope for resilience or profits for decades to come. Shortly after during the Depression, substantial amounts of poor farmers were forced to...
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...Eassay – The Whipping Boy The Civil War is the central event in America's historical consciousness. While the Revolution of 1776-1783 created the United States, the Civil War of 1861-1865 determined what kind of nation it would be. The war resolved two fundamental questions left unresolved by the revolution: whether the United States was to be a dissolvable confederation of sovereign states or an indivisible nation with a sovereign national government; and whether this nation, born of a declaration that all men were created with an equal right to liberty, would continue to exist as the largest slaveholding country in the world. The Civil War started because of uncompromising differences between the free and slave states over the power of the national government to prohibit slavery in the territories that had not yet become states. When Abraham Lincoln won election in 1860 as the first Republican president on a platform pledging to keep slavery out of the territories, seven slave states in the Deep South seceded and formed a new nation, the Confederate States of America. The American writer Richard Gibney later used this as a theme in his novel “The Whipping Boy”, where he gives us a portrait of the differences between what the written law said and what actually happened. In the short story, foreshadowing is one of the things you will read. P. 1, l. 6: “In destroying the beasts as they slept, the slaves treated the dogs better in death than the dogs had treated the slaves in...
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...CONCISION This in class activity is designed to provide you with practice writing concisely. I’ll give you the necessary information; Actually, I’ll give you more info than you need. Part of this activity is making decisions. The other portion of this exercise is to force you to eliminate unnecessary language. My publisher requires that most captions be limited to a 50-70 word range. That’s your challenge also. Here is some context for you. Remember, not everything may be necessary for your caption. You’ll need to decide what the image is “about,” what the central focus should be, and what information is most essential. • Bellaire is a region of East Ohio, located across the river from Wheeling, West Virginia. This image was included in the book, Images of America: Bellaire. • Bellaire was an industrial hub. In its heyday, the city contained glass factories, coal mines, enamel works, brick makers, and other industries. The presence of the Baltimore &Ohio (B&O) Railroad made such industrial prosperity possible. • Photo - In the B&O yards of the Bellaire Roundhouse. • With Shovel – John Krebs, engineer. This particular photo was donated by his great grandson, also named John Krebs. • The other gentleman was recently identified. He was a fireman named Ernest Rufer. • This picture was taken in 1878. • In the background is the Stone Viaduct, an important feature of the town that was erected to connect the B&O line to the Central Ohio Railroad. It also crossed the Ohio...
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...Essay on Lincoln Abraham Lincoln was a great man to some and other no so much. He was a very controversial figure in history and maybe the greatest man to be president during a time of civil strife. The reader needs to now a little back ground on Abraham Lincoln and who better to to it then himself. I was born Feb. 12, 1809, in Hardin County, Kentucky. My parents were both born in Virginia, of undistinguished families--second families, perhaps I should say. My mother, who died in my tenth year, was of a family of the name of Hanks.... My father ... removed from Kentucky to ... Indiana, in my eighth year.... It was a wild region, with many bears and other wild animals still in the woods. There I grew up.... Of course when I came of age I did not know much. Still somehow, I could read, write, and cipher ... but that was all. (Lincoln 1) Though Lincoln had it rough growing up he had a need and want to learn and attain knowledge and wisdom. He was a very smart person and when he became a politician he was very good was able to win support and become president. When that day came he was able to develop the republican party into a very capable organization. The civil war was a rough time for Lincoln but getting through it was one of his greatest achievements. He never would forget the men who died for this country and he sums that up very well in this quote. That we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain--that this nation, under God, shall...
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...ocial and economic stratification in Appalachia From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Areas included within the Appalachian Regional Commission's charter. The Appalachian region of the Eastern United States is home to over 20 million people and covers parts of mostly mountainous areas of 13 states, including Mississippi, Alabama, Pennsylvania, New York, Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, Kentucky, Ohio, Maryland, and the entire state of West Virginia.[1] The near-isolation of the area's rugged topography is home to communities with a distinct culture, who in many cases are put at a disadvantage because of the transportation and infrastructure problems that have developed in the area.[1] Appalachia is often divided into 3 regions—southern (portions of Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, North and South Carolina, Tennessee, and Virginia), central (portions of Kentucky, West Virginia, Ohio, Virginia, and Tennessee), and northern (parts of New York, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Ohio, and West Virginia) Appalachia.[1] Though all areas of Appalachia share problems of rural poverty, inadequate jobs, services, transportation, education, and infrastructure, some elements (particularly those relating to industry and natural resource extraction) are unique to each sub-region. For example, Appalachians in the central sub-region experience the deepest poverty, partially due to the area’s isolation from urban growth centers.[2] Appalachia is particularly interesting...
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...The United States is viewed as a progressive country that can provide infinite opportunities to its citizens. America has also been known to be a place of plenty for the oppressed. Today with the current economic climate and the displacement across the area this has become a growing concern. Although the US has been known as a superpower involving itself in world problems and decisions it really struggles to solve its own homeless issue. Although the Emergency Shelter of Northern Kentucky is putting a small dent in the local homelessness it seems their vision is effective in moving individuals who have fell on their luck to a better situation. Their vision is that filling the basic necessities will allow the individual to recover and move on from homelessness. From my experience the gentlemen in the story is the typical candidate, one who was middle class, working a median paying job, and family to support and then a turn of luck with being hit by a car started a landslide of events that sometimes leave the situation unrecoverable. So it is touching to hear that a program that is turning a 10 year ordeal around for a man who was living in a car to proud independent man living and paying for his own housing. The other reason this article touched me was that the other day I had parked my car in the bank lot in Alexandria while we went on a family outing to Kincaid and I came back to what I thought was a ticket on my car. The reality was that it was a plea from a mother with children...
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...WK8DCRNURS6561N-2 Cynthia L Williams Walden University Direct Care Roles in Health Promotion & Disease Prevention Across the Life Span NURS-6561N-2 October 19, 2015 Community Needs In week 6, I discussed my community of Louisville, KY. In that discussion I focused on the obesity and tobacco use rates in the state of Kentucky. These health issues contribute to the mortality and morbidities in Kentucky. In the 2014 Louisville Metro Health Equity Health Report, 51.7% of individuals in Louisville were pre-diabetic or diabetic in 2011 according to the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS), (Arno & Rock, 2014). Obesity and diabetes are correlated health statuses and are often referred to as “DIABESITY”, (A. Hollier, personal communication, October 21, 2015). The dietary lifestyles of adults and youth in Louisville combined with the lack of physical activity reflect in the overwhelming statistics of diabetes. Smoking complicates every disease process. As of 2014, 26.2 % of adults, 18 years old and over are currently smoking, (Center for Disease Control and Prevention [CDC.gov], 2014). These lifestyle choices, disease processes and practices increase the risk of developing heart disease and stroke, (Arno & Rock, 2014). Strategies for Implementation Effort to improve the health state of the community, seem monumental when every patient is suffering from diabetes, smoking, lack of physical activity, dyslipidemia or has had some type of...
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...The most impactful disaster that has happened in North Carolina to me would be the Coal Glen Mine Explosion. The Carolina Coal Company was formed with the intention of developing a mine near Farmville across the river from the Egypt Mine. The mining town that would arise was to be called Coal Glen. The Carolina Mine is often called the Coal Glen Mine, or the Farmville Mine.The Carolina Mine was the most ambitious mining operation ever begun on the Deep River Coal Bed. In 1923, its first year of full-scale operation, its output more than doubled the best of the Old Egypt Mine. Once again the future looked bright for a mine on the Deep River- Coal Bed. But the profits never came.At seven in the morning on May 25, the morning shift, numbering seventy-four miners, descended into the dark of the Carolina Mine. Two and a half hours later the first of three terrific explosions tore through the mine. Its vibrations were felt as far as a mile away. Families and company officials rushed to the mine entrance Poisonous, yellow gas billowed from the mine entrance, making rescue impossible. It took five days to pull all the bodies from the mine. The story made front page news all across the country.Fifty-three men died that morning.The Carolina Mine closed four years later. Ironically, it was not a mine explosion that closed the mine, but water and human carelessness. Rains swelled the Deep River in 1929 and the mine began to flood through an air shaft. The water was pumped free, but no precautions...
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...Reading Does a Culture of Appalachia Truly Exist? Really made me think about the Appalachia culture and norms that I see today. Like things that you really see on the mountain. And Denham brings up many topics that I agree with and see on a frequent basis. Like the religion and health, in Boone alone there are many churches for a town so small. Even being a student when a classmate sneezes majority of the class says bless you, or god bless you. In this area religious terms are used on a daily. Which is something that makes the Appalachias stand out if you were New York, you wouldn’t get that southern hospitality. Another thing that Denham proved that I have noticed, is the divided between the rich and the poor. In Boone, the divide is like...
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