To compost or not to compost? That is the question some people ask themselves before throwing out their waste.
At Penn State, composting efforts start in the dining halls and end in the facilities of the Organic Materials Processing and Education Center, where the compost then makes it way back onto campus grounds, the Student Farm and into the community.
Ryan McCaughey, manager of grounds and equipment who works closely with the composting process, said the solid waste management department collects food waste from the dining halls and waste from office composting bins, which then gets tossed with leaves and switchgrass from the Arboretum to make the body of the compost.
One of Historic Palmyraâs five museums, the Alling Coverlet Museum in Palmyra, New York, displays an impressive 500 bed-sized coverlets, along with a few quilts. A coverlet is a loom-woven bed covering usually made of cotton or linen.
Bonnie J. Hays, executive director of Historic Palmyra, said that equipment developed in 1804 by Frenchman Joseph Marie Jacquard, the Jacquard loom attachment, enabled people to make coverlets in whatever creative design they wished. By inserting punched cards into the attachment, they could make coverlets in custom designs, which launched a whole industry of traveling coverlet makers.
âYou would have to lay it out with graph paper,â Hays said. âItâs kind of like needlepoint. Before that time, people could weave them. People wove baskets during Jesusâ time.â
NORTH POWDER â With skiers and snowboarders carving turns in fresh powder, feathery white clouds glittering in their wake, it was almost possible to forget thereâs a pandemic going on.
But though symbols of the viral scourge were evident this season at Anthony Lakes Mountain Resort, the ski area bucked trends that affected other types of businesses by welcoming more visitors than the previous year, rather than fewer, said Anthony Lakes Marketing Director Chelsea Judy.
She didnât have specific numbers.
âWe went into it without any expectations, but I would say it was definitely a successful season,â Judy said on Wednesday, March 31. âPeople were grateful to be able to ski through a pandemic.â
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TEHRAN. KAZINFORM - Kish Air of the Islamic Republic of Iran launched its first flight between Gorgan and Kazakhstan city of Aktau, IRNA reports. Related news
The inaugural flight from Gorgan arrived at Aktau Airport on April 1, 2021.
This development will prove to be another step to enhance communications and friendship of Iranian and Kazakhstan people.
Iran and Kazakhstan have established brotherly and amicable ties in the course of history.
According to statistics, Iranian trade with members of the Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU) reached $1.9 billion in 11 months of the past Iranian year (March 20, 2020 – February 18, 2021), data released by Tehran Chamber of Commerce, Industries, Mines and Agriculture (TCCIMA) showed.