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Those attending Saturday's celebration of St. Fidelis Catholic Church in Victoria being recognized as a minor basilica can take home a souvenir.
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By DIANE GASPER-O'BRIEN
Those attending Saturday's celebration of St. Fidelis Catholic Church in Victoria being recognized as a minor basilica can take home a souvenir.
The Victoria Post Office will set up a table from 11:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. in the elementary school behind the basilica to give people the opportunity to receive a special pictorial cancelation of the event.
Victoria Postmaster D.J. Kuhn said there also would be envelopes with 49-cent stamps available for purchase. She added anything brought to the table to be stamped must have a 49-cent stamp on it.
Kuhn said she got the idea for the special cancelation stamp for St. Fidelis from a similar one she helped with for Prairiesta in Russell several years ago when she was working at the Gorham Post Office.
"I thought this would be something really neat to commemorate something special," Kuhn said. "After I heard the announcement about the basilica, it was one of those things rolling in the back of my mind. I talked to a lady at (a meeting of a Catholic women's organization), and she thought it was a fantastic idea."
Kuhn said she expects people to bring postcards and envelopes, and probably the program from the dedication ceremony.
The cancelation will read: "The Dedication of the Basilica of St. Fidelis Station, June 7, 2014, Victoria, KS 67671."
Kuhn said she has received numerous requests for the commemorative cancelation from stamp collectors, many from other states, including California, Indiana, Iowa, New Mexico, New York and Oregon.
Anything going in the mail with the stamp must be mailed that day. Kuhn will bring those articles to Hays so they can get in the mail by 5 p.m. Saturday. She said people could request the special stamp by mail afterwards as well, but it would not be able to be mailed after Saturday.
* The celebration Mass by Bishop Edward Weisenburger of the Salina Diocese is set for 10:30 a.m.
Anyone not able to attend the ceremony in person still can witness the event, which will mark the recognition of just the 78th minor basilica in the United States and the first in Kansas. The Mass will be streamlined live on the diocesan website at salinadiocese.org/home/multimedia/web-stream-viewer.
A lunch for 1,000 people will be served in the elementary school following Mass. No tickets are required for lunch, but there will be a basket available for freewill donations.
People from near and far are expected to participate.
"I have a lot of people call and ask about it, say they're coming," said Jan Brungardt, secretary for St. Fidelis Parish.
Present at the Mass, and from now on, in the basilica's sanctuary will be an ombrellino, an umbrella-type symbol bestowed by the pope when a church is recognized as a minor basilica, that will be placed at the right of the main altar, and a tintinnabulum, a bell mounted on a pole that signifies the church's link with the pope.
If the pope ever would celebrate Mass at the basilica, the ombrellino would be opened, and the tintinnabulum would be used to lead the procession to the altar.
"The bell," Brungardt said, "is for when the pope comes to visit. Not if -- when."


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ODA had a booth at the annual Long Beach Scuba Show, which is the largest gathering of scuba enthusiasts in California. We have been attendees for the last 8 years, only missing once during that stretch. Though we always have lots of people visit our booth, this year was exceptional.
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As Lee Matthews of DownloadSquad.com recently discovered [1], Google has stuck deals with some OEMs (OEMs are companies like Dell, Sony, HP, Gateway, Toshiba, etc.) to ship computers with Google Chrome preinstalled. To make things more juicy, the Chrome icon is put on the desktop and is pinned to the taskbar for Windows 7. Chrome is also set as the default browser in place of Internet Explorer. Ouch.
You know what this means, right? Now instead of using Internet Explorer to download Firefox on a new computer, I may have to use Chrome to download Firefox =P. Unless of course I buy a computer from a seller in the European Union in which case I can have fun with Microsoft's browser ballot system. Gun-ho democracy. Or is it capitalism? Socialism? Communism? Ugh; I knew I should of paid attention in my government class.
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Interactions Between Crop and Livestock Activities in Rainfed Farming Systems
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The organisation of crop–livestock systems, both on farms (mixed farming) and between farms (integrated businesses), is explored from a world perspective. Over a continuum from semi-arid to humid regions, mixed farming is favoured in intermediate areas, with specialised crop and livestock businesses at the extremes. Tradition, land tenure, government policies and management complexity add further constraints and benefits to both mixed and integrated farming systems. Natural synergies and skilful management produce positive interactions between crops and livestock, at both the farm and regional levels. These interactions are described for a range of countries. Mixed and integrated farming systems provide options for coping with potential future shocks such as climate change and fuel shortages. However, these systems are potentially complex and many managers prefer the apparent simplicity of specialisation. In response to future challenges, there is scope for farm managers and policy-makers to promote business partnerships and social adjustments that enable simultaneous specialisation and diversification in mixed and integrated crop and livestock businesses.
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Plumpay - in your earlier post you mentioned that an account was to be set up for donations to help the injured girl. Has this been done yet? There has been nothing in either BT or IP about the incident or donation information. I pray that the young girl is okay.
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A good article about a puppy mill rescue with volunteers from NJ going to CO to rescue these dogs.
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I am curious about something. The winners of the BOB were voted on by the people. They chose their favorites in each category. Now can somebody please explain why the editor thought it necessary to put the (at times)snide remarks by both himself/herself and the food dude under the categories. Some of the comments made actually made it sound as if they didn't feel like the winner of the catergory actually deserved to win and that another business was more deserving. That really kind of takes away from the business that actually won. A perfect example of this is with Stooges Cafe.
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Can we please get rid of this guy. His posts are going up every 10 seconds or so.
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So my daughter starting sending me text messages about 11:30 from school. She said that there was no AC in the school and parts of the school, stairwells, auditorium and hallways were flooding from all the rain. She had been in the same class since 2nd block. I did call the school and they said that they were having problems with flooding and had a crew trying to get the water out. Needless to say I just received another text from my daughter telling me that she is still in the same classroom that she has been in since the start of 2nd block which is about 9:30 a.m.
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Can anyone recomend a dentist in the Bluffton/HHI area. I need one that is willing to work with my insurance company and not one who requires payment in full upfront and then I have to wait for reimbursement from the insurance company. I have been putting some dental work off because I can not find one who is willing to do this. I don't mind paying what is not covered by the insurance but to pay everything up front is just not an option.
Any suggestions/recomendations?
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I saw an advertisment a week or so ago from a dentist that was collecting candy for our troops. He was asking people and kids to please bring him their candy and that he was going to ship it overseas to our troops.
Did anyone else see this ad and know who this thoughtful dentist is? I have so much candy and would love to put it to good use.
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Just a warning to anyone who is considering purchasing any of the offers on BT Deals. Make sure that you READ THE FINE PRINT!
Today is my daughter's 16th birthday and as it is with most of us, money is tight this year. When I saw the BT Deals for hair & nail service I thought perfect! My daughter could go and have a couple of hours of pampering by getting her hair cut and styled and her nails done. Well it was not so perfect. After getting her hair done and preparing to pay the stylist with her certificates she was told that she could only use one certificate at a time.
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I was disappointed when I read the paper this morning BT. Why is there no article on the meeting held last night at the high school?
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Markes Heating and Air is once again donating $500.00 each month to the charity with the most votes. It only takes a minute to go online and cast your vote. Lets get Maranatha Farm to the top and see them win the $500.00. They can definitely put the prize money to good use.


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Feudalism was a combination of legal and military customs in medieval Europe that flourished between the 9th and 15th centuries. Broadly defined, it was a way of structuring society around relationships derived from the holding of land in exchange for service or labour.
Although derived from the Latin word feodum or feudum (fief),[1] then in use, the term feudalism and the system it describes were not conceived of as a formal political system by the people living in the Middle Ages. In its classic definition, by François-Louis Ganshof (1944),[2] feudalism describes a set of reciprocal legal and military obligations among the warrior nobility, revolving around the three key concepts of lords, vassals and fiefs.[2]
A broader definition of feudalism, as described by Marc Bloch (1939), includes not only the obligations of the warrior nobility but those of all three estates of the realm: the nobility, the clergy, and the peasantry bound by manorialism; this is sometimes referred to as a "feudal society". Since the publication of Elizabeth A. R. Brown's "The Tyranny of a Construct" (1974) and Susan Reynolds's Fiefs and Vassals (1994), there has been ongoing inconclusive discussion among medieval historians as to whether feudalism is a useful construct for understanding medieval society.[3][4][5][6][7]
There is no commonly accepted modern definition of feudalism, at least among scholars.[3][6] The adjective feudal was coined in the 17th century, and the noun feudalism, often used in a political and propaganda context, was not coined until the 19th century.[3] By the mid-20th century, François Louis Ganshof's Feudalism, 3rd ed. (1964; originally published in French, 1947), became a standard scholarly definition of feudalism.[2][3]
Since at least the 1960s, when Marc Bloch's Feudal Society (1939) was first translated into English in 1961, many medieval historians have included a broader social aspect that includes not only the nobility but all three estates of the realm, adding the peasantry bonds of manorialism and the estates of the Church; this is sometimes referred to as "feudal society" since it encompasses all members of society into the feudal system.[3][8] Since the 1970s, when Elizabeth A. R. Brown published The Tyranny of a Construct (1974), many have re-examined the evidence and concluded that feudalism is an unworkable term and should be removed entirely from scholarly and educational discussion or at least used only with severe qualification and warning.[3][4]
Outside a European context, the concept of feudalism is often used only by analogy (called semi-feudal), most often in discussions of feudal Japan under the shoguns and sometimes medieval and Gondarine Ethiopia.[9] However, some have taken the feudalism analogy further, seeing feudalism (or traces of it) in places as diverse as ancient Egypt, the Parthian empire, the Indian subcontinent and the Antebellum and Jim Crow American South.[9]
The term feudalism has also been applied—often inappropriately or pejoratively—to non-Western societies where institutions and attitudes similar to those of medieval Europe are perceived to prevail.[10] Some historians and political theorists believe that the term feudalism has been deprived of specific meaning by the many ways it has been used, leading them to reject it as a useful concept for understanding society.[3][4]
The term "feodal" was used in 17th-century French legal treatises (1614)[11][12] and translated into English legal treatises as an adjective, such as "feodal government".
In the 18th century, Adam Smith, seeking to describe economic systems, effectively coined the forms "feudal government" and "feudal system" in his book Wealth of Nations (1776).[13] In the 19th century the adjective "feudal" evolved into a noun: "feudalism".[13] The term feudalism is recent, first appearing in French in 1823, Italian in 1827, English in 1839, and in German in the second half of the 19th century.[13]
The term "feudal" or "feodal" is derived from the medieval Latin word feodum. The etymology of feodum is complex with multiple theories, some suggesting a Germanic origin (the most widely held view) and others suggesting an Arabic origin. Initially in medieval Latin European documents, a land grant in exchange for service was called a beneficium (Latin).[14] Later, the term feudum, or feodum, began to replace beneficium in the documents.[14] The first attested instance of this is from 984, although more primitive forms were seen up to one-hundred years earlier.[14] The origin of the feudum and why it replaced beneficium has not been well established, but there are multiple theories, described below.[14]
The most widely held theory is put forth by Marc Bloch.[14][15][16] Bloch said it is related to the Frankish term *fehu-ôd, in which *fehu means "cattle" and -ôd means "goods", implying "a moveable object of value."[15][16] When land replaced currency as the primary store of value, the Germanic word *fehu-ôd replaced the Latin word beneficium.[15][16] This Germanic origin theory was also shared by William Stubbs in the 19th century.[14][17]
Another theory was put forward by Archibald R. Lewis.[14] Lewis said the origin of 'fief' is not feudum (or feodum), but rather foderum, the earliest attested use being in Astronomus's Vita Hludovici (840).[18] In that text is a passage about Louis the Pious which says annona militaris quas vulgo foderum vocant, which can be translated as "Louis forbade that military provender (which they popularly call "fodder") be furnished.."[14]
Another theory by Alauddin Samarrai suggests an Arabic origin, from fuyū (the plural of fay, which literally means "the returned", and was used especially for 'land that has been conquered from enemies that did not fight').[14][19] Samarrai's theory is that early forms of 'fief' include feo, feu, feuz, feuum and others, the plurality of forms strongly suggesting origins from a loanword. Indeed the first use of these terms is in Languedoc, one of the least Germanic areas of Europe and bordering Muslim Spain. Further, the earliest use of feuum (as a replacement for beneficium) can be dated to 899, the same year a Muslim base at Fraxinetum (La Garde-Freinet) in Provence was established. It is possible, Samarrai says, that French scribes, writing in Latin, attempted to transliterate the Arabic word fuyū (the plural of fay), which was being used by the Muslim invaders and occupiers at the time, resulting in a plurality of forms - feo, feu, feuz, feuum and others - from which eventually feudum derived. Samarrai, however, also advises to handle this theory with care, as Medieval and Early Modern Muslim scribes often used etymologically "fanciful roots" in order to claim the most outlandish things to be of Arabian or Muslim origin.[19]
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Feudalism, in its various forms, usually emerged as a result of the decentralization of an empire: especially in the Carolingian empires which both lacked the bureaucratic infrastructure[clarification needed] necessary to support cavalry without the ability to allocate land to these mounted troops. Mounted soldiers began to secure a system of hereditary rule over their allocated land and their power over the territory came to encompass the social, political, judicial, and economic spheres.[20]
These acquired powers significantly diminished unitary power in these empires. Only when the infrastructure existed to maintain unitary power—as with the European monarchies—did Feudalism begin to yield to this new power structure and eventually disappear.[20]
The classic François-Louis Ganshof version of feudalism[2][3] describes a set of reciprocal legal and military obligations among the warrior nobility, revolving around the three key concepts of lords, vassals and fiefs. A lord was in broad terms a noble who held land, a vassal was a person who was granted possession of the land by the lord, and the land was known as a fief. In exchange for the use of the fief and the protection of the lord, the vassal would provide some sort of service to the lord. There were many varieties of feudal land tenure, consisting of military and non-military service. The obligations and corresponding rights between lord and vassal concerning the fief form the basis of the feudal relationship.[2]
Before a lord could grant land (a fief) to someone, he had to make that person a vassal. This was done at a formal and symbolic ceremony called a commendation ceremony, which was composed of the two-part act of homage and oath of fealty. During homage, the lord and vassal entered into a contract in which the vassal promised to fight for the lord at his command, whilst the lord agreed to protect the vassal from external forces. Fealty comes from the Latin fidelitas and denotes the fidelity owed by a vassal to his feudal lord. "Fealty" also refers to an oath that more explicitly reinforces the commitments of the vassal made during homage. Such an oath follows homage.[21]
Once the commendation ceremony was complete, the lord and vassal were in a feudal relationship with agreed obligations to one another. The vassal's principal obligation to the lord was to "aid", or military service. Using whatever equipment the vassal could obtain by virtue of the revenues from the fief, the vassal was responsible to answer calls to military service on behalf of the lord. This security of military help was the primary reason the lord entered into the feudal relationship. In addition, the vassal could have other obligations to his lord, such as attendance at his court, whether manorial, baronial, both termed court baron, or at the king's court.[22]
It could also involve the vassal providing "counsel", so that if the lord faced a major decision he would summon all his vassals and hold a council. At the level of the manor this might be a fairly mundane matter of agricultural policy, but also included sentencing by the lord for criminal offences, including capital punishment in some cases. Concerning the king's feudal court, such deliberation could include the question of declaring war. These are examples; depending on the period of time and location in Europe, feudal customs and practices varied; see examples of feudalism.
In its origin, the feudal grant of land had been seen in terms of a personal bond between lord and vassal, but with time and the transformation of fiefs into hereditary holdings, the nature of the system came to be seen as a form of "politics of land" (an expression used by the historian Marc Bloch). The 11th century in France saw what has been called by historians a "feudal revolution" or "mutation" and a "fragmentation of powers" (Bloch) that was unlike the development of feudalism in England or Italy or Germany in the same period or later:[23] counties and duchies began to break down into smaller holdings as castellans and lesser seigneurs took control of local lands, and (as comital families had done before them) lesser lords usurped/privatized a wide range of prerogatives and rights of the state, most importantly the highly profitable rights of justice, but also travel dues, market dues, fees for using woodlands, obligations to use the lord's mill, etc.[24] (what Georges Duby called collectively the "seigneurie banale"[25]). Power in this period became more personal[26]
This "fragmentation of powers" was not however systematic throughout France, and in certain counties (such as Flanders, Normandy, Anjou, Toulouse), counts were able to maintain control of their lands into the 12th century or later.[27] Thus, in some regions (like Normandy and Flanders), the vassal/feudal system was an effective tool for ducal and comital control, linking vassals to their lords; but in other regions, the system led to significant confusion, all the more so as vassals could and frequently did pledge themselves to two or more lords. In response to this, the idea of a "liege lord" was developed (where the obligations to one lord are regarded as superior) in the 12th century.[28]
Feudalism itself decayed and effectively disappeared in most of Western Europe by about 1500.[29][30] It lingered on in parts of Central and Eastern Europe as late as the 1850s. Russia finally abolished serfdom in 1861.[31][32]
However, even when the original feudal relationships had disappeared, there were many institutional remnants of feudalism left in place. Historian Georges Lefebvre explains how at an early stage of the French Revolution, on just one night of 4 August 1789 France abolished the long-lasting remnants of the feudal order. It announced, "The National Assembly abolishes the feudal system entirely." Lefebvre explains:
Originally the peasants were supposed to pay for the release of seigneurial dues; these dues affected more than a fourth of the farmland in France and provided most of the income of the large landowners.[34] The majority refused to pay and in 1793 the obligation was cancelled. Thus the peasants got their land free, and also no longer paid the tithe to the church.[35]
The phrase "feudal society" as defined by Marc Bloch[8] expands on the definition proposed by Ganshof and includes within the feudal structure not only the warrior aristocracy bound by vassalage, but also the peasantry bound by manorialism, and the estates of the Church. Thus the entire society from top to bottom is bound by feudalism.
The idea of feudalism was unknown and the system it describes were not conceived of as a formal political system by the people living in the Medieval Period. This section describes the history of the idea of feudalism, how the concept originated among scholars and thinkers, how it changed over time, and modern debates about its use.
The concept of a feudal state or period, in the sense of either a regime or a period dominated by lords who possess financial or social power and prestige, became widely held in the middle of the 18th century, as a result of works such as Montesquieu's De L'Esprit des Lois (1748; published in English as The Spirit of the Laws), and Henri de Boulainvilliers's Histoire des anciens Parlements de France (1737; published in English as An Historical Account of the Antient Parliaments of France or States-General of the Kingdom, 1739).[13] In the 18th century, writers of the Enlightenment wrote about feudalism to denigrate the antiquated system of the Ancien Régime, or French monarchy. This was the Age of Enlightenment when writers valued reason and the Middle Ages were viewed as the "Dark Ages". Enlightenment authors generally mocked and ridiculed anything from the "Dark Ages" including feudalism, projecting its negative characteristics on the current French monarchy as a means of political gain.[36] For them "feudalism" meant seigneurial privileges and prerogatives. When the French Constituent Assembly abolished the "feudal regime" in August 1789 this is what was meant.
Adam Smith used the term "feudal system" to describe a social and economic system defined by inherited social ranks, each of which possessed inherent social and economic privileges and obligations. In such a system wealth derived from agriculture, which was arranged not according to market forces but on the basis of customary labour services owed by serfs to landowning nobles.[37]
Karl Marx also used the term in political analysis. In the 19th century, Marx described feudalism as the economic situation coming before the rise of capitalism. For Marx, what defined feudalism was that the power of the ruling class (the aristocracy) rested on their control of arable land, leading to a class society based upon the exploitation of the peasants who farm these lands, typically under serfdom.[38] Marx thus defined feudalism primarily by its economic characteristics. Many later Marxist theorists (e.g. Eric Wolf) have applied this label to include non-European societies, grouping feudalism together with Imperial Chinese and pre-Columbian Incan societies as 'tributary.'
In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, John Horace Round and Frederic William Maitland, both historians of medieval Britain, arrived at different conclusions as to the character of English society before the Norman Conquest in 1066. Round argued that the Normans had brought feudalism with them to England, while Maitland contended that its fundamentals were already in place in Britain before 1066. The debate continues today, but a consensus is building: England before the Conquest had commendation, which embodied some of the personal elements in feudalism.
William the Conqueror introduced a modified northern French feudalism to England which countered decentralized aspects of feudalism abroad. In 1086 he required oaths of loyalty to the king by all, even the vassals of his principal vassals, who held by feudal tenure. Holding by feudal tenure meant that vassals must provide the quota of knights required by the king or a money payment in substitution.
In the 20th century, the historian François-Louis Ganshof was very influential on the topic of feudalism. Ganshof defined feudalism from a narrow legal and military perspective, arguing that feudal relationships existed only within the medieval nobility itself. Ganshof articulated this concept in Feudalism (1944). His classic definition of feudalism is the most widely known today[38] and also the easiest to understand, simply put, when a lord granted a fief to a vassal, the vassal provided military service in return.
One of Ganshof's contemporaries, the French historian Marc Bloch, was arguably the most influential 20th-century medieval historian.[38] Bloch approached feudalism not so much from a legal and military point of view but from a sociological one. He developed his ideas in Feudal Society (1939–40; English 1961). Bloch characterised feudalism as a type of society that was not limited solely to the nobility. Like Ganshof, he acknowledged that there was a hierarchical relationship between lords and vassals, but Bloch also acknowledged the existence of a similar relationship between lords and peasants.[38]
It is this radical notion that peasants were part of feudal relationship that sets Bloch apart from his peers. While the vassal performed military service in exchange for the fief, the peasant performed physical labour in return for protection. Both are a form of feudal relationship. According to Bloch, other elements of society can be seen in feudal terms; all the aspects of life were centered on "lordship", and so we can speak usefully of a feudal church structure, a feudal courtly (and anti-courtly) literature, and a feudal economy.[38]
Although he was never formally a student in the circle of scholars around Marc Bloch and Lucien Febvre that came to be known as the Annales School, Georges Duby was an exponent of the Annaliste tradition. In a published version of his 1952 doctoral thesis entitled La société aux XIe et XIIe siècles dans la région mâconnaise (Society in the 11th and 12th centuries in the Mâconnais region), and working from the extensive documentary sources surviving from the Burgundian monastery of Cluny, as well as the dioceses of Mâcon and Dijon, Duby excavated the complex social and economic relationships among the individuals and institutions of the Mâconnais region and charted a profound shift in the social structures of medieval society around the year 1000. He argued that in early 11th century, governing institutions—particularly comital courts established under the Carolingian monarchy—that had represented public justice and order in Burgundy during the 9th and 10th centuries receded and gave way to a new feudal order wherein independent aristocratic knights wielded power over peasant communities through strong-arm tactics and threats of violence.
In 1974, U.S. historian Elizabeth A. R. Brown[4] rejected the label feudalism as an anachronism that imparts a false sense of uniformity to the concept. Having noted the current use of many, often contradictory, definitions of feudalism, she argued that the word is only a construct with no basis in medieval reality, an invention of modern historians read back "tyrannically" into the historical record. Supporters of Brown have suggested that the term should be expunged from history textbooks and lectures on medieval history entirely.[38] In Fiefs and Vassals: The Medieval Evidence Reinterpreted (1994),[5] Susan Reynolds expanded upon Brown's original thesis. Although some contemporaries questioned Reynolds's methodology, other historians have supported it and her argument.[38] Reynolds argues:
The term feudal has also been applied to non-Western societies in which institutions and attitudes similar to those of medieval Europe are perceived to have prevailed (See Examples of feudalism). Japan has been extensively studied in this regard.[40] Friday notes that in the 21st century historians of Japan rarely invoke feudalism; instead of looking at similarities, specialists attempting comparative analysis concentrate on fundamental differences.[41] Ultimately, critics say, the many ways the term feudalism has been used have deprived it of specific meaning, leading some historians and political theorists to reject it as a useful concept for understanding society.[38]
Richard Abels notes that "Western Civilization and World Civilization textbooks now shy away from the term 'feudalism'."[42]
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02/09/2015 Josh Ramos Named Air Force Athlete of the WeekRamos claimed the Iron Cross Award at the All-Academy Championships. 01/12/2013 Air Force Takes Third at Rocky Mountain OpenGared Chapman and Josh Pyne matched the Academy's vault record (14.750). 03/31/2012 Ritchie, Ramos and Zaiser Claim USAG Individual TitlesA program-record nine Falcons claimed USAG All-America status. 02/29/2012 Josh Ramos Earns Weekly CGA AwardIt is the first career honor for the Falcons' freshman. 02/01/2015 Rocky Mountain Open03/19/2014 Air Force vs Illinois-Chicago03/07/2014 Air Force vs Minnesota01/27/2014 Rocky Mountain Open02/01/2013 Air Force vs. ArmyJUNIOR YEAR | 2014: USAG national champion on the parallel bars...USAG All-American...scored a 14.250 during the events finals of the USA Gymnastics Collegiate National Championships to win second title in three years... advanced to the semifinals of the NCAA Championships on the parallel bars after finishing 16th (14.350) at the National Qualifier...scored a 14.800 the following night to finish 18th...recorded a season-best score of 14.850 during a top-10 finish (eighth) at the Rocky Mountain Open...that mark was ranked second on the team in 2014...picked up additional first-place finishes on the parallel bars at the All-Academy Championships (14.400) and during the USAG team finals (14.750)...tallied career-best marks on the floor exercise, pommel horse and high bar within a week span...tallied a personal-best 14.300 to finish third on the pommel horse during the first of two Air Force victories over Illinois-Chicago...added a career-high 14.850 against UIC on the floor exercise two days later to finish third...that mark is ranked 11th on the program's all-time list...finished the week with a career-best 14.750 (eighth all-time) at Nebraska's five-team invitational...also competed on the vault twice. SOPHOMORE YEAR | 2013: Competed in the first four competitions, before missing the rest of the season with an injury...scored a season-best 14.600 to win the parallel bars in the dual meet with Army...also made collegiate debut on the pommel horse (14.000) and tallied a season-best score of 13.900 on the high bar at that meet...recorded a season-high score of 13.900 on the floor exercise at the Rocky Mountain Open. FRESHMAN YEAR | 2012: USAG national champion on the parallel bars...earned USAG All-America honors on that event...also won the parallel bars at five other meets...paced the squad on the parallel bars (15.000)...that mark is the second-highest score in program history...took first on the floor exercise at the All-Academy Championships, at Army and at Arizona State...led the team on that event with a career-best mark of 14.700...first achieved that score at the All-Academy Championships...matched that score the following week against Army...that score is tied for 11th on the Academy's all-time list...also competed on the high bar in every team competition...recorded a mark of 14.300 during the first home dual with Illinois-Chicago...that score is tied for ninth on the all-time list...also competed on the vault (career-best 14.100, at Army) five times and the still rings once...earned the CGA Athlete of the Week award after claiming three event titles during the Falcons' trip to Temple and Army ...won the floor exercise and parallel bars at Army, while earning first on the parallel bars at Temple and became just the second Air Force gymnast to reach the 15-point mark on the parallel bars in the meet with the Owls...earned the team's Freshman of the Year award. HIGH SCHOOL | CLUB TEAM: Bishop Kelley High School...member of the National Honor Society...honor roll selection...member of the National Society of High School Scholars...competed at the club level for Jenks Gymnastics...coached by Neptali Narvaez...two-time Oklahoma state champion (2009, 2010)...three-time member of the Region 3 team (2007, 2009, 2010)...qualified to three Junior Olympic meets (2008-10). PERSONAL: Full name is Steven Joshua Ramos...goes by Josh...nickname is "Jimmy"...son of Pete and Elaine Ramos...has two younger sisters, Megan and Mika...majoring in biology...future career plans include attending medical school...served as Honor Officer and Safety/Security Officer...named to the Superintendent's List for excellence in military, academic and athletic performance once...named to the Dean's List twice, the Commandant's List twice and the Athletic Director's List three times...hobbies include guitar, video games and hanging out with friends...worked as cadre during Expeditionary Survival and Evasion Training (ESET) over the summer...also completed the Powered Flight Program...favorite quote is "the good times became great memories, the bad times become great lessons...favorite event is the parallel bars, because "it feels like second nature to compete on"...member of Cadet Squadron 27. |


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This is part of a devotion at Proverbs 31 Ministries that I will be sharing at our staff planning time today. Rachel Olsen on using one word to focus your life.
I've found a new way to do New Year's Resolutions that keeps me properly focused. Instead of making my long list of ways I plan to improve, I prayerfully choose just one word to be my focus for the entire year. Just one word that represents what I most hope Christ will do in or through me that year. One word to give me direction.
It's not a regret-based word but a vision-driven word centering on the kind of person I want to become. It keeps me looking forward and upward.
I pray that word, meditate on it, memorize verses with it, and use it to remind me to keep my eyes on Christ, trusting Him for transformation in that area of my life.
On my walk this morning (in the cemetery!) my word for the year came to me. Joy. I shall focus this year on the joy Christ seeks to bring me, a joy deeper and richer than circumstances. "I have said these things to you so that my joy may be in you and your joy may be complete." (John 15:11)


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Boston short of season snow record for now
It has topped more than 100 inches of snow this season, but Boston is just short of surpassing its 20-year-old snowfall record — for now.
It has topped more than 100 inches of snow this season, but Boston is just short of surpassing its 20-year-old snowfall record — for now.
Consumer spending fell for a second consecutive month in January, weakness that was expected to be temporary.
U.S. parents have increasingly pressured doctors to delay vaccines for young children.
Lawrence police are looking for a man and woman suspected of being involved in a shooting near the KU campus.
An avowed white supremacist accused in the fatal shootings of three people at two Jewish sites in Kansas is set to appear in court Monday.
Back in 2000, officials with USD 259 made a commitment to put a Safe Room in every single school throughout the district.
Police say the incident started as a break-in in the 1200 block of Leonard Court.
A cold start to the work week with slim afternoon rain chances.
Kansas history has recorded many devastating tornadoes, but the most deadly happened May 25, 1955.
Christian is wanted by the Sedgwick County Sheriff's Office for Probation Violation for Criminal Discharge of a Firearm.
The Wichita State women's basketball team finished its regular season home schedule with a perfect 15-0 record on Sunday.
Police say a 2-year-old boy was killed after a Florida woman who was drunk crashed an SUV loaded with passengers.
Police say a 15-year-old Swedish boy with Asperger's syndrome who disappeared from a fast food restaurant in New York City has been found.
Samsung has unveiled a stylish new flagship phone that ditches its signature plastic design for more stylish metal and glass.
Police say a 44-year-old man was killed and five other people were wounded when gunfire erupted during a party at a Detroit social hall.


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Roscommon Intermediate Ladies got their Division 4 League off to the perfect start with a convincing win over a very poor Kilkenny side at a sun-drenched Kiltoom on Sunday last.
From the throw in Benny Morriss charges had nothing but a win on their minds with only 37 seconds gone when a long ball from midfielder Marla Candon into Emer Casey who in turn released a quick ball to full forward Jenny Higgins who pointed with aplomb. Two minutes later Roscommon got the first of their four goals when they were awarded a free after a foul on Niamh Ward. The quick thinking Claire Grehan took a quick free to Sharon Ryan who found Emer Casey in front of goal with a defence-splitting pass and the Ballinameen lady had no problem finding the net as she bagged the first of her two first half goals.
The next came four minutes later when a great catch by Louise Tully was released to her clubmate Natalie McHugh, who moved the ball quickly to Shatron Ryan who once again found the unmarked Emer Casey on the 13 metre line and she had no problem beating the Kilkenny net minder for the second time with a low hard drive into the corner.
From the resulting kick out a high catch by midfielder Sinead Cooney was driven towards the full forward Jenny Higgins who was now becoming a thorn in Kilkennys side. She let the ball off to Niamh Ward scoring a fine point from the corner. Kilkennys first attack on the Roscommon goal didnt come until the tenth minute but the in-form Marla Candon took the ball from under the posts and moved it quickly out to her midfield partner Sinead Cooney. She found Natalie McHugh who bisected the posts for Roscommons third point at this stage Roscommon were 2-03 to the good.
From the resulting kick out the Kilkenny keeper found her own midfielder, one of Kilkennys better players Jenny Reddy, who took on the Roscommon defence and scored a fine point from 30 metres out. There was an instant response from the Roscommon ladies with the kick-out being won by wing back Laura Sharkey finding Sharon Ryan who moved the ball quickly into Higgins, who scored her second point of the day, and this put paid to any Kilkenny comeback.
With Roscommon now firmly in the driving seat and the half back line driving forward, Roscommon went on to score a further nine points Emer Casey (3), Natalie McHugh (2), Sinead Cooney, Niamh Ward, Louise Tully and Claire Grehan a point each to Kilkennys two points, their first in the twenty fourth minute after Eileen Fitzpatrick was fouled. Miriam Maher got their third point of the afternoon in the twenty eight minute of the half. Roscommon went into the break with a 2-12 to 0-03 lead.
The second half went as the first the Roscommon side scored 2-17 the goals coming from Niamh Ward and substitute Sarah Finnerty to Kilkennys solitary point. The Management got a chance to empty the bench with the unlimited subs rule used to the full, all eleven subs got a chance to display their talents. The game finished on a scoreline of Roscommon 4-27 Kilkenny 0-04. Roscommon played very well as a unit and some fine football but there will be sterner tests ahead this was a very young and inexperienced Kilkenny team.
Roscommon travel to Carlow next Sunday when the play their first away game of the League.
Roscommon: Claire McDermott, Maria Kennehan, Suzie Kennehan, Claire Kelly, Michelle Walshe, Laura Sharkey, Louise Tully (0-2), Marla Candon (0-1), Sinead Cooney (0-1), Sharon Ryan, Natalie McHugh (0-5), Claire Grehan (0-2), Niamh Ward (1-03), Jenny Higgins (0-3), Emer Casey (2-3). Subs used Bridgetta Menton, Stacey McGarry, Michelle Carey, Aine OBrien, Jenny Conlon (0-2), Jenny Downey (0-1), Rachel Ryan (0-3), Sarah Finnerty (1-0), Cliodhna McHugh (0-1).


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Education and time spent in primary care of children
July 09, 2008
Among married mothers and married fathers employed full time, those with higher levels of education tended to spend more time in primary care of their children than did their peers with less education in 2003-06.
Among married mothers aged 25-54 who were employed full time and had children aged 12 or younger, those with bachelor's degrees spent more time providing primary childcare per day than did those with a high school diploma or less (2.1 hours, compared with 1.3 hours).
Of married full-time employed fathers aged 25-54 who had children aged 12 or younger, those with a bachelor's degree spent half an hour more providing primary childcare than did those with a high school diploma or less (1.3 hours, compared with 0.8 hour).
Primary childcare consists of physical care of children; playing, reading, or talking with children; travel related to childcare; and other childcare activities.
These data are for parents with biological, step-, or adopted children living in the household and are averages of all days of the week. They are from the American Time Use Survey. To learn more, see "Time use of working parents: a visual essay," by Mary Dorinda Allard and Marianne Janes, Monthly Labor Review, June 2008.
Bureau of Labor Statistics, U.S. Department of Labor, The Economics Daily, Education and time spent in primary care of children on the Internet at http://www.bls.gov/opub/ted/2008/jul/wk1/art03.htm (visited March 05, 2015).
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Professor Jonathan Shepherd
Professor of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery at the School of Dentistry, Professor Shepherd set up the Cardiff Violence Prevention Group, which has improved safety in the city and now been adopted as a nationwide model. He was appointed a CBE in the New Years Honours List for services to healthcare and the criminal justice system…
Professor Jonathan Shepherd
Cardiff University has given me unique opportunities to research city centre violence and more importantly, to work with colleagues to get our findings implemented. I arrived in Cardiff in October 1991, wanting to do something about the seemingly endless stream of facial injury victims who ended up on NHS operating tables after a nights drinking.
It came as a real surprise to me to find that I was treating cases week in, week out, where the cause of the injury was simply not being investigated, let alone brought to book. These attacks were just not being reported. My reaction was one of shock it seemed like such an injustice.
With a team of researchers, we investigated further, comparing police and Accident and Emergency (A and E) cases, looking at records in Cardiff, Bristol and Swansea. We found that only 23 per cent of accident and emergency cases where people were treated after all attacks were recorded by police. We also found that seven out of eight violent incidents on licensed premises such as pubs, bars and clubs did not appear on police records.
I thought there was scope here for prevention by working in an integrated way with the police, the hospitals and the local authorities to identify and target the violence hot spots. I felt it was essential to integrate the police and A&E data, particularly on locations and weapons.
As a result, we set up the Cardiff Violence Prevention Group a partnership approach which was not being adopted anywhere else in the country at the time. The police, the local authority and A&E staff first got round a table in the summer of 1996. We introduced an entirely new system for sharing hospital data about violent incidents with the police and the local authority colleagues. No personal details were passed on, but the information allowed the police to build up a picture of those pubs and clubs which were the worst for violence.
Theres no doubt it had an effect. We saw a 60 per cent fall in injuries in the targeted licensed premises and a 40 per cent fall in the number of victims coming in to hospital for treatment. It had such an impact, Cardiff rose markedly up the league table for safest cities.
There were a number of other initiatives, including a research project we conducted which showed the use of city centre CCTV to be effective in reducing the number of victims of violence treated in A&E departments. This study also showed that the polices own statistics were a very unreliable way of measuring crime rates. We recommended on the basis of this finding that police records should not be used to measure violence - nationally, regionally or locally.
One initiative which attracted a lot of media coverage was persuading the drinks industry to switch to plastic glasses. Our research in the laboratory and in communities showed toughened beer glasses were much safer than the ordinary kind. As a result, we started a campaign to persuade manufacturers to switch to the toughened variety. This they did, and, according to the British Crime Survey, led to a substantial decrease in assaults with glasses.
There have been a number of awards and honours for this research over the years, including the CBE and this years Stockholm Prize for Criminology. That has been a source of enormous pride but perhaps the highest accolade has been the way Violence Prevention Group methods have now been adopted nationally. The latest Government action plan on violence Saving Lives, Reducing Harm, Protecting the Public adopts the Cardiff model.
Theres no doubt that working in Cardiff has helped bring this all about. Ive had the opportunity to conduct the necessary research and to set up the Violence and Society Research Group, involving other academics in this field. Strong University links with the health authorities, with the police, with government helped enormously in setting up partnerships and developing legislation. A conversation with Alun Michael in County Hall led directly to the inclusion of the NHS as a partner in the 1998 Crime and Disorder Act. That couldnt have happened anywhere else.
However, the work doesnt end there. Alcohol remains far too cheap, particularly from supermarkets. Services for the injured could be more comprehensive, particularly helping to reduce drink misuse. Post traumatic stress among victims often remains unrecognised and untreated. Id also like to persuade the drinks trade to move to plastic beer bottles and glasses. It would be nice to think that, some day, surgery for victims of violence will be far rarer than it is now.


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Turkey hits targets inside Syria after border deaths
Turkey has renewed firing at targets inside Syria after two women and three children were killed by shelling from across the border on Wednesday.
Several Syrian troops were killed by Turkish fire, a UK-based Syrian activist group said.
Syria says it is investigating the shelling in the town of Akcakale.
The Turkish parliament is discussing authorising troops to cross into Syria. But government sources say Turkey is not planning to declare war on Syria.
- Akcakale is a district of southern Sanliurfa province, close to the border with Syria
- The last published census in 2000 shows its population stood at just over 77,000
- It is just under 50km (31 miles) from the Syrian border town of Tall al-Abyad and about 240 km (150 miles) from Aleppo
- The area surrounding the town is known for its archaeological excavations
Sources: Turkish Statistical Institute, Sanliurfa Municipality
A government official said the retaliatory shelling - now in its second day - was only a "warning" to the authorities in Damascus.
The UN Security Council is to meet later, following a Turkish request for the body to take "necessary action" to stop Syrian "aggression".
Nato has held an urgent meeting to support Turkey, demanding "the immediate cessation of such aggressive acts against an ally".
The US, the UK, France and the European Union have already condemned Syria's actions.
Russia, which is allied to President Bashar al-Assad's government, has asked Damascus to acknowledge officially that the cross-border attack was "a tragic accident" which will not happen again.
In Syria itself as many as 21 members of Syria's elite Republican Guards have been killed in an explosion and firefight in the Qudsaya district of Damascus, the UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights told the BBC.
'Abominable attack'Turkish security officials said Turkey resumed artillery strikes on Syria early on Thursday, targeting the Tall al-Abyad district, some 10km (six miles) inside the Syrian border.
Turkey's shelling of Syrian positions and its calling of an emergency meeting of Nato ambassadors represent a final warning to the authorities in Damascus - a signal that Turkey's patience has worn thin and that President Bashar al-Assad can expect an increasingly robust response if Turkish territory is fired upon again.
Nato gave strong backing to the Ankara government, just as it did back in June when Syrian forces downed a Turkish reconnaissance jet.
But the early signs are that both Ankara and Damascus have no desire for a protracted conflict. Public opinion in Turkey has not sought Turkish intervention in Syria - though this could change with repeated shelling of Turkish soil.
And President Assad already has enough problems. But the incident inevitably fuels the growing fears of a spill-over of the Syrian crisis into a broader regional conflict.
Turkey's territory has been hit by fire from Syria on several occasions since the uprising against Mr Assad began, but Wednesday's incident was the most serious.
Ankara's response marks the first time it has fired into Syria during the 18-month-long unrest there.
The office of Turkey's Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Wednesday that Turkey would "never leave unanswered such kinds of provocation by the Syrian regime against our national security".
Parliament in Ankara is meeting in an emergency session in response to a government request for the military to be authorised to launch cross-border operations.
Akcakale has been fired on several times over the past few weeks.
Residents have been advised to stay away from the border, and more than 100 schools have been closed in the region because of the violence in neighbouring Syria.
Syrian government forces are attempting to cut rebel supply routes by winning back the border crossing at Tall al-Abyad which the rebels seized last month.
Syria's Information Minister Omran Zoabi offered Damascus's "sincere condolences to the families of the victims and to our friends the Turkish people".
Without admitting the shelling, Mr Zoabi said: "The border with Turkey is long, illegal arms trafficking takes place along the border and armed groups move along the border."
Syria, he said, respected the sovereignty of neighbouring countries.
Wednesday's attack is believed to be only the second time that people have died as a result of violence spilling over the border from Syria into Turkey.
Two Syrian nationals were killed on Turkish soil in April by stray bullets fired from Syria.
The BBC's Jim Muir in Lebanon says Ankara is not interested in a confrontation and will keep its retaliation to a minimum.
The Turkish armed forces have in the past moved into northern Iraq in pursuit of Kurdish militants who had bases there.


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Mallorcan literature - DELC Research SeminarDate: 2 May 2012 Time: 5.00 pm Venue: Bowland North Seminar Room 10 Department of European Languages and Cultures Research Seminar Series Xavier Barceló (University of the Balearic Islands) Other Spaces: Representations of alterity and space in contemporary Mallorcan literature in the context of economic and institutional pressures Tourism is the main industry of the Balearic Islands. As such, it is given priority by both the Spanish and the regional governments and, as a result, it has freedom to reshape the island at its convenience. The Balearics, thus, have suffered a process of deterioration of their landscape, labelled Balearisation, with the government's consent and encouragement. Furthermore, since the tourist industry requires that the resort become a commodified place empty of previous content, in which the tourist can fulfil his/her dream, symbolically differentiated from the world of work (Urry 2000), there arises a conflict between the void necessary for the government-sponsored tourist industry and the space in which, as Foucault claims, relations of proximity define human existence and in which cultural producers explore such relations. Superimposed on this situation, the increasing number of foreign property buyers and great numbers of migrant workers who choose the island as their home meet as a response among some locals the simplistic idea of a foreign invasion. From these starting points, I will examine the literary representation of alterity and space in the island of Mallorca through the concept of heteropias of difference, borrowing Edward Soja's term (1996). The talk will be based on a corpus of Mallorcan works, published from 1968 onwards, which are directly opposed to the monolithic stereotype constructed by the local and national governments and the tourist industry in the interest of selling the island to its visitors. Specifically, I will focus on the literary representation of space linked to the government-backed tourist industry: the spaces associated with diasporic communities, the newly developing trend of foreign property buyers and the psychological implications of buyout of the island, which will allow us to observe the ambiguous perspectives of admiration and rejection toward the Other that can be inferred from them. ALL Welcome Contact: Who can attend: Anyone Further informationOrganising departments and research centres: European Languages and Cultures |
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The California Memorial Stadium Campaign will raise funds to preserve the historic character of the stadium while bringing it up to world-class standards — with respect to student-athlete needs, fan amenities and safety — in keeping with the Berkeley tradition.
The first component of the project will be anchored by the top-caliber Student-Athlete High Performance Center, built just outside the stadium's historic west wall.
A 142,000 square-foot facility, the center will provide locker rooms, meeting rooms and offices for football and 12 of Cal's Olympic sports. It will also house a state-of-the-art training, applied sports science and medicine complex for year-round access by approximately 450 student-athletes. In addition, the new training complex will feature an academic center where all student-athletes will have access to the resources they need to succeed in their studies as much as they do in competition.
Cal fans can also expect to reap rewards. New pedestrian plazas and beautifully landscaped open spaces will give the Cal community additional gathering places and will better connect the stadium's western approach with the rest of campus. Plans are also being developed to improve restroom facilities, seating, other fan amenities and game-day parking in Phase II of the Stadium Master Plan.
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"Get Rich Quick" Growing
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Dennis Cash, MSU Extension
Service, Bozeman (firstname.lastname@example.com),
and Sales and prices of native grass seeds have risen dramatically in recent years. Major reasons for this were the requirements for native species in new CRP contracts and re-vegetation of public lands disturbed by fire, road construction and other activities. Other factors were recent poor production years for both introduced and native species, which led to short supplies/higher prices of some species. Many Montana producers faced with low grain or cattle prices are considering grass seed harvest on a portion of their native or introduced pastures. Others have expressed an interest in "new" grass crops such as Indian ricegrass, which is being grown for use in gluten-free flour products. Crop values for many of the grass seeds are quite high, but in general these are more difficult to produce than conventional grain crops. Background Much of the short, tall and mixed-grass prairie lands in the northern Great Plains are suitable for grass seed production. Prior to western settlement, native species like big bluestem, little bluestem, switchgrass and Indian ricegrass were predominant in the higher-rainfall areas of the tall grass prairies. Short grass prairies consisted of blue grama and buffalograss, whereas in the transitional, "mixed" areas many of the wheatgrass and needlegrass species also were adapted. In the Rocky Mountains, a fourth ecozone is predominated by fescue species and oatgrass. Generally, the native species evolved over time to be very hardy under the harsh conditions of drought, cold and fire. Many native grasses have deep extensive root systems, but generally they evolved to have "conservative" seed production. Many of the native species have excellent palatability and forage production, but seed production is generally inferior to the introduced species. Variation in seed dormancy is often significant in native grasses, and this enables these species to adapt to challenging environments. As ranches were established and sod was plowed for farms, seed of several species such as alfalfa, crested wheatgrass and smooth bromegrass were introduced to renovate pastures or to reclaim abandoned farms. The introduced species generally had faster seedling establishment and superior production levels compared to the native grasses. Over time, a very specialized forage seed industry has developed for production of the introduced grasses and legumes. Since the 1950's there has been more interest in seed production and utilization of the native grass species. The Soil Conservation Service (now Natural Resources Conservation Service), Forest Service, National Park Service and other agencies have used native species for restoration projects, revegetation, prevention of soil erosion, and maintaining the diversity of grasslands. Generally, the native species have low seed production and seed quality, and few producers or researchers have successfully "tamed" these species for reliable seed production and seed quality. For some native species, specialized seed production practices have been adapted from the introduced species. Most of the released cultivars of native species are grown under irrigated conditions, and managed for optimum seed production. In many cases, seed from native species is still harvested on a small-scale by hand or small equipment from sites where the desired species predominates. There are now programs within seed certification agencies for "source identification" that parallels the seed certification programs for established crops. Source identification provides for the use of adapted native biotypes, and is intended to reduce the selection or introduction of narrowly-adapted populations. As markets for native seeds expand, all of the native seed harvested from wildland stands should be tested by the same standard testing procedures for seed germination and purity as other crops. The source-identified certification insures on-site identification and labeling for quality assurance. This informs seed buyers of genetic integrity, adaptation, and viability for the intended use. Harvesting seed in an existing stand ("catch crop") of native species is an option. For a catch crop, very few seed production variables can be controlled, and seed yields and quality are erratic. Poor moisture throughout Montana last winter and this spring may already have reduced reproductive tillers and potential seed set. If you have a fairly uniform stand of grass that could potentially be harvested – have all species in the stand properly identified. If there are noxious weeds or other species present (other grasses which can not be cleaned out, etc.) some spot spraying, mowing or roguing will be necessary. Growing grass seed "on purpose": Due to the current high prices of native grass seeds, many inexperienced producers are interested in grass seed production. Experienced seed growers have developed their methods over a period of years, and they have weathered the good and bad climate conditions and markets. Many started with small acreages to minimize risk, but they continue to be challenged by weeds, insects, diseases, climate and markets. In short, experienced growers are in a better position to maximize seed production in the current market. Several considerations for grass seed production are:
Summary Be cautious in your attempt to "get rich" growing native grass seed. There are good economic opportunities in grass seed production. However, to be successful requires a good knowledge of biology and the willingness to learn new production techniques and active marketing. Remember – if it were easy, every producer would already be doing it. The use of native grass seed is expected to increase, but there is no way to forecast future grass seed prices. Many experienced producers have established fields of native grasses to capitalize on current prices. As with most crops, prices may drop as production stabilizes. However, due to the number of different species, varying utilization, and inherent difficulties of seed production in native grass species, there will likely be numerous niche seed markets for a number of years. Producers are encouraged to visit with their local Extension Service agents and NRCS staff for information on grass seed production. (Top) |
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