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On May 29, a bill to protect the state's conservation fund from future raids was referred to the state Assembly's Environmental Conservation Committee. The new bill A10469 (sponsored by Assemblyman Don Miller, R-Clay) proposes to amend the state finance law in relation to dedication of certain funds for fish and wildlife purposes. A companion Senate bill, S7342 (sponsored by Sen. John DeFranicsco, R-Syracuse) was referred on May 2 to the Finance Committee. The conservation fund receives monies from sporting licenses and the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Agency. According to the Senate bill's memoradum, ''the federal government notified the state it could be at risk of losing the federal fish and wildlife funding due to the lack of any statutory language prohibiting the raiding of the conservation fund.''
The text reads in part, ''It is dedicated to and available by appropriation only for the administration of and purposes set forth in article eleven.'' History has shown the conservation fund was raided by prior administrations to offset or close the state budget. It is no shell game to anticipate a future systematic raid may be attempted without such legislation. Other sporting groups, such as the NYS Snowmobile Association, have experienced such sleight of hand.
The forward movement of the Assembly bill shall require sponsorship by the majority-party affiliation member(s). Absent such co- or multi-sponsorship, it is certain to die in committee. Sportsmen and women should contact their Assembly members to express their concerns.
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The Department of Foreign Languages at Towson University announces a conference, "Forging Linguistic Identities: Language in the Region, the Nation, and the World" to be held on March 17-19, 2011, and invites proposals for papers. Language as a fundamental social instrument in the process of community and identity formation has been much studied in recent years. This conference seeks to examine language as socially embedded within historical and geographical contexts. Possible topics might include, but not be limited to:
- Dialects/diglossia and their role in group identity formation
- The standardization of national and/or majority language(s) and its impact on national or regional politics
- Multi-lingualism in states and regions and its negotiation and practice by the communities of use.
- Use(s) of indigenous languages under transnational states
- National reception of dialect/minority-language literature and verbal culture
The scope of the conference is not limited by region, language, or time period. Proposals involving languages taught by the Department of Foreign Languages (Arabic, Chinese, French, German, Ancient Greek, Biblical and Modern Hebrew, Italian, Japanese, Latin, Portuguese, Russian and Spanish) are especially encouraged. Proposals are welcomed across disciplines, from scholars of languages and literatures, geography, history, psychology and sociology. Please send an abstract of 250 words by email to: Prof. George McCool (email@example.com ). Please include a short CV, maximum 2 pages, with your name, full address, institution affiliation, day telephone, fax and email address.
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RICHLAND, Wash. – Hundreds of employees of the Northwest's only power plant celebrated Thursday. The Columbia Generating Station now is licenced to run for another 20 years.
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission approved the new 20-year license. That means the plant in southeast Washington will send up plumes of steam, visible for long distances across the desert until 2043.
It took employees five years to finish the application process. Carl Adrian heads the Tri-City Development Council. He says the plant is an important employer here, but it's more than that.
"The Columbia Generating Station is just one of a couple of things in this community that kind of link our heritage here to the present and the future," Adrian says. "And so that doesn't mean a lot from an economic development standpoint, but I think from a community standpoint, it's really important."
The plant has come under some increased scrutiny by federal nuclear watchdogs since it underwent several unplanned shutdowns. Federal regulators are also requiring studies of the plant since the Fukashima nuclear disaster last year.
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Dr. Martha Cantu, vice president for the Division of Student Affairs at The University of Texas-Pan American, has been appointed as an advisory board member to the National Council for Community and Education Partnerships (NCCEP).
Cantu is one of four new members to the NCCEP board, which will meet in Washington, D.C. July 22-25 in conjunction with the Gaining Early Awareness and Readiness for Undergraduate Programs (GEAR UP) Annual Conference to be held at the Washington Hilton. Her term officially begins July 1.
Cantu said she considers it an honor to be a member of the board and also representing UTPA.
"I am looking forward to this appointment. It's a big responsibility because we'll be helping drive policy and make recommendations at a national level for all students who are underprivileged and maybe didn't think they could go to college," Cantu said. "I feel honored they would ask me to be a part of NCCEP. It's good for UTPA, our students and everyone."
NCCEP is a nonprofit, non-partisan organization dedicated to the fundamental principle that every child deserves an equal chance to obtain a high-quality education. It strengthens research-based college access program and develops tools and resources to provide educational opportunities for all students.
The organization also seeks to help improve public K-16 education by creating education and community partnerships, linking schools and communities, developing new research based college access programs and supporting the implementation of proven educational strategies.
Most significant of these efforts is the federally funded GEAR UP initiative for which NCCEP serves as the national technical assistance provider, annual conference convener and voice in Washington, D.C.
GEAR UP is a competitive grant program of the U.S. Department of Education that increases the number of low-income, minority, and first-generation students who are prepared to enter and succeed in postsecondary education. GEAR UP programs operate at high-poverty middle and high schools in 46 states.
Cantu served as director of the GEAR UP program at UTPA for six years and NCCEP executive members took notice of this experience, offering her a position on their board.
"We are delighted to add Dr. Cantu's experience and expertise to the NCCEP Board of Directors," said Nathan Monell, executive director for NCCEP. "Her deep knowledge of the GEAR UP program, students and community is an incredible asset to our ability to strengthen the effectiveness of GEAR UP across the U.S. We look forward to working with her."
Cantu's work experience includes more than 21 years in public education and 10 years in higher education, experience she believes will benefit the work ahead with NCCEP.
"I think of this as being such important work for me. I think back to my experiences and what I went through and where I come from, where I have been and where I am in life, and I think, maybe I do have something to offer," she said. "I wouldn't be here if I didn't feel that way. I live for seeing students be successful. If I can help in any small way, I am honored."


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Brawl at Chuck E. Cheese in Dearborn leaves 50-year-old grandmother injured: Chuck E. Cheese, while a destination for the average four-year-old, is also a hotbed of ratchetry, foolery and shenanigans. A 50-year-old woman was assaulted at her grandson's birthday party after she told revelers at a nearby table to stop using foul language in Dearborn.
'Y'all don't care': Parents, board members come to blows at Highland Park school meeting: Homeless men sleeping in the school's basement. A water fountain that shoots out sparks. Boarded up windows preventing preschoolers from looking outside. And that's just the tip of a mountain of issues facing parents of children in Highland Park schools, many of which attended an emergency school board meeting Wednesday night only to be greeted with uncertainty and indifference from board members
Blame the victim: Detroit will tow your car to spare it from a downtown break-in: MLive Detroit's Jeff T. Wattrick examines why towing a person's vehicle to protect them is "an embarrassing admission of futility by an absolutely hapless police department."
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Back on top: General Motors reclaims title of world's best-selling automaker: General Motors Co. has retaken the title of world's top-selling automaker, selling just over 9 million cars and trucks across the globe. However, Volkswagen may be calling for an asterisk or recount.
Video of the day: Chevrolet to run Super Bowl ad from 26-year-old New Yorker: Zach Borst's "Chevy Happy Grad" commercial (right) beat out nearly 200 other submissions by independent filmmakers from around the world as part of the brand's Route 66 Super Bowl XLVI ad contest. The commercial, which is quite entertaining, depicts a recent graduate who thinks his parents gave him a new Chevy Camaro only to have a neighbor drive off with the vehicle.
Minnesota company plans to make TVs in Michigan, hire 100 workers in Canton: A Minnesota electronics company plans to manufacture flat-screen televisions at a plant in suburban Detroit under a partnership with a Michigan-based business. Element Electronics plans to hire about 100 workers at the plant in Wayne County's Canton Township under the agreement with Lotus International Co.
MLive Detroit entertainment:
Blogger invents the all-crust Detroit pan pizza: Still staying true to that New Year's resolution of losing 30 pounds? Well … This story isn't for you. The pizza looks delicious, especially if your favorite part of it is the crust.
Steve Perry answers the South Detroit question from Journey's 'Don't Stop Believin': Reached at home in San Diego, former Journey frontman Steve Perry admitted for the first time that he totally made up the geographic locale of "South Detroit." The world's all-time most-downloaded mp3 has inspired confusion in the hearts of Detroiters since being released in 1981.
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Japanese kerria (also known as Japanese rose) is a tough-but-graceful, spring-flowering, deciduous shrub that is native to certain mountainous areas of China and Japan. It typically grows to 3-6' tall and to 6-8' wide on slender, arching, yellowish-green stems that remain an attractive green in winter. Single, five-petaled, rose-like, yellow flowers (to 1 1/2" diameter) bloom somewhat profusely in spring. Double-toothed, narrow, ovate-lanceolate, bright green leaves (to 4" long) turn yellow in fall. 'Pleniflora' is a very popular double-flowered cultivar that features rounded, pom-pom-like, yellow flowers (to 2" diameter). It typically grows taller (to 8-10') and more upright than the species. Specific epithet means full flowered. Synonymous with K. japonica 'Flore Pleno'. The genus name honors William Kerr who collected this plant for the Royal Botanic Garden at Kew in the late 1700s to early 1800s. Plants in the genus Kerria are sometimes also commonly called Easter rose because the flowers typically bloom around Easter time.
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Yoshio Nakamura - Biography
After graduating from the Department of Civil Engineering at the University of Tokyo, his engineer career was launched in 1963 in the Tokyo-Nagoya Expressway project when he was employed at the Japan Highway Public Cooperation. He started to be influenced by German modernist design language, and became convinced of a new world of landscape architecture beyond the enclosure of traditional Japanese garden. In 1965, he returned to the University of Tokyo to continue landscape research on public works and to introduce landscape design into civil engineering. Benefiting from his enthusiastic colleagues and students, his research of highway landscape was expanded into wider range of engineering works, including bridges, dams and embankments, ports and coastal management. After publishing his first book, Designing Infrastructures, which explores a semiotic approach to landscape, he went to Paris to pursue doctoral studies in 1967. In 1973, he presented his doctoral dissertation, Theoretical Approach to Perspective Image of Highway Alignment.
In 1976, Nakamura joined Tokyo Institute of Technology to teach at the new interdisciplinary department of Social Engineering. Meanwhile, he adopted his theory in practice, worked on projects such as the Haneda Airport Esplanade and Hiroshima Nishi Bridge. Otagawa River Embankment is one of the most notable projects, and it has stimulated the city of Hiroshima to sponsor a series of urban parks along the river. Meanwhile, he promoted awareness of landscape among his fellow engineers through the Japan Society of Civil Engineers. In 1985, he was invited to the University of Paris to give a series of lectures, and made acquaintances with the French landscape group among which Augustin Berque, Michel Conan, Bernard Lassus, Jean-Robert Pitte. The Otagawa River Embankment project lasted from 1979 to 1997, and Nakamura grew more and more convinced of the importance of tactility, human scale and social interaction in contemporary landscape design through the design process. Taking references of his iconographic analysis of traditional waterfront in landscape paintings and prints, as well as the theories of John Dewey, J. J. Gibson and J. V. Uexkull, he developed a theory of "aquaphilia symbols" and incorporated the elements in his design practice of user-friendly waterfront.
The Park of Koga was built in 1988. After the completion of the construction, Nakamura continued to be involved with activities and management in the park even after he moved to the University of Kyoto in 1998. During the 4 years residence in Kyoto, his view on Japanese classic garden was more or less changed after finding the fact that in opposition to general understandings certain aristocratic villas were arranged insistently as to be melted in natural landscape context without being segregated in enclosed garden. He was thus convinced that contemporary designers must seek according to this tradition the possibility of landscape design in larger scale instead of artistic virtual garden.
In this later period up to the present, his concern tends to be inclined on people's involvement. People's imagination is expected to create a infinite series of images of place as expansions of designer's creativity as well as inheriting past collective representations. Rice paddy club, plum harvest festival and also grove club are so organized as to encourage people to find customized and tangible landscape. These ideas may stem from my own infancy memory nursed hereby.
In 2002, he retired and stressed his activities on writing books although still involved in management of Koga Park and others. He published a book entitled 'A Story of Wetland Resurrection' describing a design philosophy and design process of the Park of Koga. This starts from description of author's infancy memory of surrounding wet land which disappeared one after another.
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Skip to comments.BattleGround Poll M 48 O 46 (let the PollerCoaster for Monday begin!)
Posted on 09/29/2008 6:22:16 AM PDT by housedeep
Battle Ground shows McCain steady at 48%!
(Excerpt) Read more at realclearpolitics.com ...
That's good news. For what it's worth.
So which of the polling orgs is cooking the numbers?
PollerCoaster. Very good.
Cannot be... I refuse to believe this poll. McCain has to be at least 10 points down maybe more according to every poll out there. WE are done, its the end of the world, I am going to stock up on food and guns and ammo."sarc off"
Just wanted to get everyone's feelings out there at the beg of the day which I have been seein the last few days :)
If you don't know which way you're going to vote by now, you're much too stupid to vote and you should be forced to stay home.
Story on Drudge says Obama camp thinks they will win in LANDSLIDE.
Battleground has McCain up 2%
Here is Battleground's impressive record:
1992 ** // 1996 **
Projected - Actual // Projected - Actual
37% - Bush - 37.45% // 49%- Clinton - 49.23%
43% - Clinton - 43.01% // 40% - Dole - 40.72%
19% - Perot - 18.91% // 9% - Perot - 8.40%
1% - Other - .64% // 2% - Other - 1.65%
2000 *** // 2004
Projected - Actual // Projected - Actual
49% - Bush - 47.87% // 51.2% - Bush - 51.1%
47% - Gore - 48.38% // 47.8% - Kerry - 47.9%
3% - Nader - 2.73% // .5% - Nader - .34%
1% - Other - .58% // .5% - Other - .58%
The stability of this poll is remarkable compared to all of the others. It's an outlier, however, as noted above, it's has a solid history.
The stability of this poll is remarkable compared to all of the others. It's an outlier, however, as noted above, it's has a solid history.
The stability of this poll is remarkable compared to all of the others. It's an outlier, however, as noted above, it's has a solid history.
So if they're cooking it, I like their cooking better than Gallup's cooking and Rasmussen's cooking.
Here's a post I did based on a Pollster.com article that those riding the Pollercoaster should ready:
Party ID: The Case for Weights and Historical Margins (Current polls all oversampling Dems)
Saw that and was going to post that.
Think overconfidence on their part is good for us. Kinda reminds me of 2004 when the exit polls were winning for Kerry and then Bush won.
Couple of things in their favor is the GOTV efforts but think they are missing the enthusiasm factor on our side especially with the Palin pick.
Are these the final figures released right before the elections or from a similar time frame as the current race?
This is NOT good. Battleground always polls high for McCain. Isn't this the first one showing him behind? This thing is real. McCain is losing this fight.
I was 22 when Reagan was elected the first tiume in 1980 and I was a BIG Reagan supporter. My dad and I had some real knock down drag out brawls over politics back then. I thought it was sad to watch him try and defend the colossal failure that the Jimmy Carter Presidency. By 1984 he was grudgingly adimiring of Ronald Reagan and never spoke against him...he never said so but I know he voted for Reagan in 1984.
This is encouraging news though it does go against some of the other polls. I think one of our esteemed fellow FR members though said the internals show Battleground over samples older folks, and does not include enough younger voters. If this is the case it could skew the results in favor of McCain. Don't know why they would want to do this though as they have a good reputation as a bipartisan, non biased outfit. I just hope they are right.
WooHoo, don't need my Prozac today. /sarc
One thing is for certain.
Battleground, Rass, and Gallup are all reputable pollsters. Yet, right now, there is a 6-8 point spread between them.
Someone is way out on a limb here. On the face of it, it seems like Battleground. It is truly by itself. But I am praying that Battleground is the only one that is correct!
Anyone who thinks this election is in the bag for Obama might be flying a little too close to the deck.
Remember way, way back last Fall, the election was going to be all about Iraq and the experts in the MSM had proclaimed Hillary and Giuliani as the candidates. Nobody was talking Fannnie & Freddie.
This pollercoaster ride is far from over. Please keep your hands and feet inside the vehicle at all times. ;-)
It depends on where Obama's additional support is coming from. The game for McCain is to win Florida, Ohio, Virginia and hold to all the other major Bush states. Nothing has changed there. He seems to have fallen behind in Colorado and that could be the ball game, but the local papers say it's still close.
The economic meltdown clobbered McCain and I think he did the right thing suspending his campaign until it is sorted out, because it started to become the law of diminishing returns out there. The suspension had better end soon. Once he puts his mind back on the campaign, things will pick up, and really you are only talking about a dozen battleground states.
DAMMIT! This is still a CLOSE ELECTION!
We've got to close ranks and stay focused to END THIS IN VICTORY!
DAMMIT! Let's stop the hand-wringing and 'defeatist' statements - RIGHT NOW!!!!
If you WANT ZERO to win this election - then DECLARE IT OVER FOR MCCAIN NOW!
If you WANT ZERO to lose this election - then STOP NEGATIVITY on MCCAIN/PALIN NOW!
Regardless of whatever happens in DC - WE HAVE GOT TO STOP ZERO and his band of thieves from winning NOV 4th!
M48% to o 46%. Mccain is ahead, not behind
Rass has it 50-45, McCain up 1 from Yesterday.
Try reading the poll again. McCain is ahead.
Perhaps, if he took the gloves off and STARTED to fight we might be in a better position.
So if they're cooking it, I like their cooking better than Gallup's cooking and Rasmussen's cooking.
Being bipartisan, instead of "independent," I am much more willing to believe that Battleground is being intellectually honest more so than the others. But, I can't help but notice Battleground is the outlier.
I think you got you numbers mixed up son McCain is winning according to my gut and this poll.
M stands for Mother
O stand for the oil in my hair.
it is the only poll that is using historical measures of actual turnout for determining it's Dem to GOP mix."
Of course, we don't know if past performance will be the same this time....the D's sure are investing a lot in their "ground game" and they swear up and down they they have registered millions and will get them out....who knows?
Actually, I think the Battleground Poll is the only one that is using the correct mix of Dem/GOP party affiliation. See my post:
Party ID: The Case for Weights and Historical Margins (Current polls all oversampling Dems)
ill take that ras number today!
slow and steady tightening of that poll i think this week.
so glad the "economic meltdown" (lol) happened in sept instead of oct.
JMO, and please don't tell me my head is in the sand :), but I believe it has a lot to do with the majority using cell phones.
I say that, because in my immediate family, I'm the only one who uses a house phone. And if I didn't have to have DSL for my work, I wouldn't have any use for a house phone myself. We have had one polster call, and I was told they had all the women they needed and would like to speak to a man.
I truly believe this is the crux of the weird polls. It was a factor in past elections, but not as much as this one.
PollerCoaster - LOL. Says it all.
However, Battleground shows less wild swings; and I think its methodology (as has been proven) gets a much better snapshot/cross-section of where voters actually stand at a given point in time.
Gallup shows as much as 12-20 point swings, which I find a fantasy - and we all see the breakdowns in Party ID in the media-sponsored polls.
Rasmussen used to worry me, but he has so oversampled Democrats that he didn't even show a convention bounce for McCain - until he adjusted for more Republicans to show that bounce, having seen his folly - then went right back to oversampling Democrats.
Rasmussen has a 6% Dem edge in turnout - in 2004 it was 47/47. The most it has EVER swung in one election was 4 points. In 2006 - a Dem landslide year - the Party turnout margin was Dems +3%.
If we readjust most of the polls - even many of the "RV" and "Adults" polls - for a more reason able 1-4% Dem edge instead of the gap they use, you get a statistical tie with a sometimes very slight, statistically insignificant edge for Obama.
It is more a dead heat right now that some of the polls show. Battleground, history's most accurate pollster - period - shows the same.
Yes, I have read that. They are correct using history as a guide.
The question is whether history is a guide here.
Plus this includes Sunday -- and Obama grabbing the "credit" for the Wall Street bailout.
I have some degree of skepticism about the computer tracking polls in this cycle. Is it easier to lie to a computer or to a live pollster? Not to blow off the Rasmussen results -- I'm just curious.
The Campaign scorecard has McCain winning the first 2 weeks and Obama the last 2. What McCain needs this week is for the markets to quiet down after the bailout bill passes, Gov. Palin to stand up to Plugs, and more aggessive counter-punches to Obama.
LOL - that's an excellent snapshot of what I've seen in abundance on here just this afternoon, let alone the last few days.
That true, but we read history for a reason - it often repeats itself. Over the past five Presidential elections, the greatest gap between Democrats and Republicans favored Democrats by 4 points, 39-35. That was in 1996, when Clinton actually won by 8 points, 48-41.
Perhaps there will be a tidal wave of new Democrats showing up to vote; in fact, that is the only assumption that would make the Gallup or Rassmussen numbers accurate. I doubt it, highly.
Perhaps there will be a tidal wave of new Democrats showing up to vote; in fact, that is the only assumption that would make the Gallup or Rassmussen numbers accurate. "
The story I read last week was, "Obama living in dreamland; thinks he will win in a landslide."
Just because you THINK it is true doesn't make it true. But they don't mind putting it out there to make US afraid.
The story I read last week was, "Obama living in dreamland; thinks he will win in a landslide."
Just because he THINKS it is true doesn't make it true. But they don't mind putting it out there to make US afraid.
You should do what I've been doing. I tell Democrats I know that they can vote for McCain, it's OK, he's a Democrat. In this election, the Presidential candidates are all switched around, and there is no Republican running. The Republican is a Democrat, and the Democrat is a Marxist.
I'll tell you why, because unlike the phony polls we get to see their internals have bozo losing and losing big. The guy has lost support from Christians, lost support from a large group of women voters, voters who were going to vote Democrat but won't now, lost a large percent of the Hispanic vote(due to the fact Hispanics and Blacks don't get along, truth, whether you want to believe it or not) and, of course, a large percent of the male vote and 90 percent of the military.
Now tell me again why Rasmussen and Gallup's polls are so accurate? They aren't. I don't trust any polls except for the one on Nov 4.
This year, more than ever, the news media is in the tank for communists(read bozo)and that includes polling companies, including Rasmussen. Believe what you want, but bozo is going down in Nov.
"This is NOT good. Battleground always polls high for McCain. Isnt this the first one showing him behind? This thing is real. McCain is losing this fight."
Back to DU, dummie.
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Serves Two:
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Cut pear in half, scoop core out with spoon. In small saucepan on medium heat add blue berries and water, as mixture warms use a spoon to squish blue berries. In frying pan melt butter on medium low heat. Place pears flesh side down. Cook for 3-4 min. then put lid on pan, cook on low for 10-15 min. until cooked through. As Blue berries begin to cook down add vinegar and honey, stir. Sauce should simmer (stirring regularly) for about 8 minutes.
Place pear on plate, spoon blue berry sauce over. Garnish with a few fresh blue berries or a little sprinkle of goat cheese.
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Details of the fatal wreck were not immediately available from the SC Highway Patrol. City officials said the fatal accident happened on Interstate 95, and the SCHP's online list of traffic accidents included a fatal accident in Clarendon County shortly after 4 p.m. on Interstate 95.
The City Council meeting scheduled at 7 p.m. Thursday was called to order and then adjourned immediately following the Pledge of Allegiance and a prayer, which among other things asked that God comfort the Brinson family. All scheduled business, including final action on a tax break for Select Health of South Carolina and a city ordinance requiring residents to edge the grass along sidewalks, was postponed until a meeting Nov. 26.


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In the winter of 1862-1863, the South faced a critical question of great strategic import: should Southern farmers and planters grow more cotton to smuggle through the blockade to earn foreign exchange that could be used to buy weapons and other supplies from Europe, or should the growers of the South focus on greater food production so the South could feed itself through the winter of 1863-1864? This question in turn begged the question of whether that decision should be made by the individual growers, or should the Confederate government have a role in planning how much cotton and/or food should be grown?
On December 20, 1862, Richmond's Daily Dispatch published an excerpt from a speech given by Confederate Vice President Alexander Stephens in which Stephens attempted to address these questions.
The cotton-growing question.Stephens spends much of his speech talking about the importance of growing and selling cotton to England, but switches back to putting food production first. Stephens does not suggest any really concrete way of getting growers to balance their planting so as to ensure there will be enough food produced--he preferred to leave this up to the individual states to decide on their own.
The following is an extract from a speech of Hon. A. H. Stephens, at Crawfordville, Ga., on the inst. It will set right the misunderstanding of the public of Mr. Stephens's former remarks on the object of planting cotton:
But, besides the products necessary to sustain ourselves to support our armies, and carry on war, we have another element of tremendous power, if properly used and applied — a recourse and power known in European wars, and unknown to our ancestors in the war of their revolution. Mr. S. here said he alluded to our great staple, cotton; and he should not have said more upon it at this than barely to ask those present to call to their minds what he had said to most of them last year upon that subject, when he addressed them upon the Cotton Loan, but for some misconceptions that have got in the public mind from a para report of some remarks he made at a meeting lately in Sparta. Some, from that report, said Mr. S., have taken the Idea that I urged upon the printers there to plant largely of cotton next year. Allow me, in this connection, to say that nothing should be further from the fact. I urged upon the planters there, first and above all, to grow grain and stock for home consumption and to supply the army. What I said at Sparta upon the subject of cotton, many of you have often heard me say in private conversation, and most of you in the public speech last year, to which I alluded. Cotton, I have maintained, and do maintain, is one of the greatest elements of power, if not the greatest, at our command, if it were but properly and effectually used, as it might be.
Jameson's strength was in his locks. Our strength is in our locks — not of hair or wool, but in our looks of cotton. I believed from the beginning that the enemy would inflict upon us more serious injury by the blockade than by all other means combined — It was, in the judgment of all, a matter of the utmost, if not vital importance to have it raised, removed, or broken up. How was it to be done?--That was, and is the question. It was thought by many that such was the demand for cotton in England that she would disregard the blockade, as it was and has been all along, not within the terms of the Paris agreement — that is, has not been, at any time, entirely effectual, though close enough to do us great injury. I did not concur in this opinion, as most of you well know. I thought it would have to be done by ourselves, and could be done through the agency of cotton not as a political, but as a commercial and financial power.--I was in favor, as you know, of the Government's taking all the cotton that would be subscribed for eight per cent bonds at a rate or price as high as ten cents per pound. Two millions of bales of the last year's crop might have been counted upon as certain on this plan. This at ten cents, with bags of the average commercial weight, would have cost the Government one hundred millions of bonds. With this amount of cotton in hand as pledged any number, short of fifty, of the best iron clad steamers could have been contracted for and built in Europe. Steamers at the cost of two millions each could be procured every way equal to the Monitor. Thirty millions would have got fifteen of these which might have been enough for our purpose. Five might have been ready by the first of January last to open some one of our ports blockaded on our coast. Three of these could have been left to keep the port open, and two could have conveyed the cotton across the water, if necessary. Thus, the debt could have been promptly paid with cotton at a much higher price than it cost and a channel of trade kept open till others and as many more as necessary might have been built and paid for in the same way. At a cost of less than one month's present expenditure on our army our coast might have been cleared.
In this way cotton, as a great element of power at our command — such an element as no other people ever had — might have been used not only in breaking up the blockade by our own means, without the aid of foreign intervention, but in supplying the Treasury with specie to pay interest on their bonds, and thus keep up the credit of the Government. The public credit is as essential as subsistence in war. Such at least was, and is my opinion. The Government, however, took a different view of the subject. Many thought it unconstitutional. Some looked upon it as a project to relieve the planters. Others thought it nothing short of a South Sea speculation. I considered it then and now just as constitutional as to give bonds for gunpowder, or to buy other munitions of war. It is not with a view to relieve the planters, though its incidental accommodation to them would not have been objectionable; but with the view of wielding effectually the element of the greatest power we could command, that I wished this course adopted. This resource, then; this element of power, we still have, though not to the same extent. There is enough, however, to effect wonderful results, if properly used, as it can be. We may have lost a year or two, but we are far short of seven years war yet. With our ports open many of the present evils and hardships of the war would be relieved. We would no longer have to give $50 for a bushel of Liverpool salt, or ten dollars for the roughest sort of shoes. With ports open, and this staple in hand, we should be much better able to make it a Peloponnesian struggle, if our enemy choose so to make it. This view, and one other idea, I presented to the people at Sparta, upon the subject of cotton, which I will repeat here.
Many to be met with suppose that by abandoning the growth of cotton, and burning what we have, we can force our recognition abroad. This I told the people there, and I tell you, is, in my judgment, a radical and fundamental error. England will never be controlled by such a policy. Our cotton should be treasured up as gold — more than gold — for it is more powerful as a sinew of war than gold is. Like gold and everything else of value, it should be destroyed, if need be, to prevent its falling into the hands of the enemy; but with no view to a foreign policy, nor should the production of cotton be abandoned with such a view.--You could not please Lord Palmerston better than to let him know that there would not be grown a pound of cotton in the Southern Confederacy for twenty years. The power of cotton is well known to, and felt by, the British statesmen. They know it is king in its proper here and hence they want the sceptre of this king for their own use. The great error of those who suppose that King Cotton would compel the English Ministry to recognize our Government and raise the blockade, and who still look for the same result from the total abandonment of its culture consists in mistaking the nature of the king dom of this potentate. His power is commercial, not financial. It has been one of the leading objects of Lord Palmerston ever since he has been in office to stimulate the production of cotton in his own dominions — or those of his sovereign — to as not to be dependent upon us for a supply. This he cannot do to any extent while his inexperienced producers have to competes with us. Cotton can be raised in their East India possessions and those on the Western coast of Africa at 18 or 20 cents a pound, but it cannot be raised there profitably to any extent in competition with us at 8 or 10 cents. If assured, however, of no composition from this quarter they could, or it is believed would, after a while, get to producing it as cheaply as we can.
Improvements in agriculture are slower in their progress than in any other department of life. No one can safely or wisely say how cheaply cotton may or may not be grown in those countries, with a few years' absolute control of the market, nor than the quality of the article may not be as good. No one can tell what may be effected by improvements in agriculture and the introduction of now varieties suitable to climate and soil. More money can be made here by growing cotton now at 8 cts. a pound, than could be made at 18 cts. forty years ago. The quality is also greatly superior to the old black seed. More persons can now pick 300 pounds a day than could pick 100 when I can first recollect, and one hand and horse or can cultivate twice as much land. It is a mistake, I think, to suppose cotton cannot be grown as cheaply, and with as good a staple — fine a flore — in other countries, as it can in this — not in all places where it is now grown, but in some. There is nothing within the bounds of human knowledge on which reliance can be placed with such certainty as to results, as upon the laws of nature.--It is on these laws governing the race of men that our constitutions are based. Hence, we felt so sure of our mate success. And there is nothing better ascertained in the Floral Kingdom than, that on the same geological formation, within the same lines of temperature, and climatic conditions (either from or latitude) the same species and varieties of plants will grow, each producing its like under culture to as great perfection in one hemisphere as the other, and upon one continent as another. We have one advantage in the production of cotton which they have not in the British Provinces. This has no reference to climate, soil or It is our system of labor. On our advantage in this particular, and to this extent, (which is no inconsiderable item.) we may rely in looking at the prospect of competition in the future, with these countries, should they by a continuation of our blockade, or our necessary abandonment of the for a time, have the market of the world to themselves.
We should not, therefore, think of abandoning the production of cotton, with any idea of thereby advancing our interests — politically — abroad. This would be but playing into the hands of those powers who are trying to break it down. We have had to curtail it, and shall have to outfall it while the war lasts — especially while the blockade continues. Duty and patriotism, as well as necessity, require this. The first great object of all now should be to sustain our cause — to feed as well as clothe the men in the field. To do this, besides raising sufficient provisions for home consumption, will necessarily require larger grain crops. To have an abundance for home consumption and for the army be the object of every one. This is dictated by the highest considerations of home policy, and from any view of advancing our interests abroad. On the contrary, after sufficient provisions are made for home consumption, and to supply the army, the more cotton that can be grown the better, How to regulate this, I know, is a difficult matter. When the duty rests upon all silks to grow again and raise stock for food, some may be dispect to neglect it. How to most this difficulty is a difficult question. It might, perhaps, be done by each State's passing a similar law upon the subject limiting the production of each hand engaged in its culture. This would require concert of cotton. What the limitation should be, I am not prepared to say. I have not the necessary estimates and statistics.
The production and distribution of food would become a critical issue in the South in the second half of the Civil War. Union forces had badly disrupted the Southern transportation system. It wasn't just the blockade's effect on foreign trade: the Union was dismantling the South's entire internal transportation network. The Union had shattered the Southern transportation network on the western rivers. The Tennessee and Cumberland Rivers had been cleared of Southern steamboats. Most of the Mississippi River was controlled by the Union, including the critical river ports of St. Louis, Missouri, Memphis, Tennessee, and New Orleans, Louisiana. Union armies had marched over Southern territory, tearing up railroad tracks and burning bridges as they went. As the war went on, the South would find it more and more difficult to transport the food it produced to where it was needed.


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Christmas is approaching and the NFL is counting down in a fashionable way. Well, sort of. Ever have the desire to support your favorite NFL team at an ugly sweater holiday party? Now you can.
Seriously. The NFL has released an ugly sweater for every team in the league. Each sweater costs about $65.00 and you can order them online at NFLShop.com. From the San Diego Chargers to the Miami Dolphins, your holiday season will not be complete without these crew neck pullovers.
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Navy Seaman Richard A. Beck, son of Melissa D. Lacey of Goose Creek, and Richard A. Beck of Goose Creek, recently completed U.S. Navy basic training at Recruit Training Command at Great Lakes, Ill.
During the eight-week program, Beck completed a variety of training, which included classroom study and practical instruction on naval customs, first aid, firefighting, water safety and survival, and shipboard and aircraft safety. An emphasis was also placed on physical fitness.
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WelcomeHello and a very warm welcome to St Mark's.
We are a relaxed, family-centred, Anglican Church in the centre of Gillingham, and we would love to meet you - whether you're new to the area, a student, a visitor or looking for a church. We very much believe that the church is its people - a community of Christians who seek to love God, follow Jesus Christ, and be continually filled with the Holy Spirit as we meet together to worship, study the Bible, pray for and serve our town and beyond, and support one another.
Our church family has a large number of children and young people, and we see that as a real privilege and make them a priority. We also hope that students will find a home with us. But whatever age you are, we would be delighted to see you and welcome you into our community. We have three locations; the church at the corner of the pedestrianised High Street and Canterbury Street, The Old Vicarage on Vicarage Road (6 minutes walk up Canterbury Street) and St Mary's Island School.
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We rejoice in the huge efforts of so many members who make this church in Gillingham a joy. Please see the "Who's who" page in "About us".
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A family-friendly service with worship, teaching and ministry.
First Sunday in the month - all-age worship together in church.
Other term-time Sundays: Children's church activities for 3s-14s meet in the Old Vicarage on Vicarage Road (6 minutes walk up Canterbury Street). There is a crèche for under 2s in the church.
Holy Communion each fortnight.
Free coffee and refreshments are served at the end of the service.
Evening Service
Worship, teaching and ministry, (and Holy Communion every fortnight).
The fourth Sunday in the month is a youth-led service, beginning with refreshments.
said Holy Communion in the church. (Except the Wednesdays in August, and the Wednesday after Christmas Day & Easter Day.)
St. Mary's Island Church meets each Sunday at 11:00am in the St Mary's Island School Hall. It began as a partnership between three Christian denominations (CofE, Baptist and URC) and we welcome people of any denomination (or none) to our services, which on the most part are very informal and often interactive.
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When it comes to identifying the root cause of dysfunction in the academic workplace, Dr. Jeanine Stewart , professor of psychology at Washington and Lee University VA, proposed that the design of the academic workplace fosters counterproductive behaviors, including a newly named form of harassment called "mobbing."
She presented "Dysfunctional by Design: Mobbing and Harassment in the Academic Workplace" at the Oxford Round Table Women's Leadership conference at Oxford, England in August.
A psychobiologist by training, Stewart has been at Washington and Lee University for 14 years, recently serving as associate and then interim dean before returning to academics. While dean, she became fascinated with the inner workings of administration. At that time, her organization was dysfunctional, with a high rate of turnover at the presidential, dean and associate dean levels. During that period, people started reporting to her that they were having problems with their bosses.
The problems were in many different areas, but most were centered around counterproductive workplace behaviors, which created systemic dysfunction. Intrigued, Stewart began to explore the structure and design of academics and how they might contribute to dysfunction.
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In an industry where 200 or more faculty might report to a single dean, informal pecking orders can crop up. Stewart calls these virtual power structures "soft hierarchies," in contrast to "hard hierarchies," the formal, position-based report-ing lines you see on an organizational chart.
While hard hierarchies are structured, clean and stable over time, soft hierarchies are based on political power within an organization and are vulnerable to change. Turnover brings rises and falls.
People who you wouldn't expect are at the top of the soft structures. "It all depends on who you know," said Stewart. Soft hierarchies exert undue influence over decision-makers, and senior administrators who are higher up in the hard hierarchies have problems if they can't get the backing of the people at the top of the soft hierarchies. Lawrence Summers, the Harvard president who was forced to resign, is an example of soft hierarchies bringing down an administrator.
Because leaders in academia aren't very well-trained as managers and don't tend to stay in their positions for long, they aren't always adept at keeping the soft hierarchies in check. In fact, they may be influenced by the soft hierarchies themselves. Conflict between the hard and soft hierarchies can result in organizational dysfunction, and reorganizations of the soft hierarchy.
All of this can affect the environment for women and minorities in academia. When power is in flux, people become desperate to come out on top—often at the expense of others, especially those whose status makes them vulnerable. In an environment that's difficult to supervise like academia, it's particularly risky. And when a workplace becomes dysfunctional and interactions turn unhealthy, it makes it all the more difficult to diversify. It's hard enough to stand out, and entering a hostile or unwelcoming work environment makes it even more challenging.
The inherent ambiguity of the academic workplace is where all of the problems originate, said Stewart, noting that it takes a strong leader to deal with the ambiguities. Flawed organizational design also contributes to problems.
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In a work culture that tolerates harassment, people will resort to desperate measures to preserve their status, said Stewart, often by exploiting others' real or perceived weaknesses. Ineffective professionals who are at risk for losing their hard hierarchical positions may undermine less powerful co-workers to intentionally disrupt the soft hierarchy, and the person's place within it.
Women and minorities are particularly vulnerable during times of transition. When it's a hard hierarchy shift, higher-ups in the soft hierarchy can maintain their positions by associating with those in hard power; but lower-status members will try to hold or advance their status by targeting and harassing those whose soft status can be weakened.
In a soft shift, it's a free-for-all. People value their status in the soft hierarchy so strongly that they will go to great lengths to maintain that status. They'll often pick a target to harass—one who they perceive as weak. Often, perceptions of weakness stem from factors conferred by gender, class or race.
Harassers are particularly aggressive when their status stems from being a member of a dominant social groups — such as being male, white or heterosexual in America. "People who lose something they haven't earned are especially desperate to get it back," said Stewart. "If you haven't earned it, how are you going to get it back?"
Women who have high status within the soft hierarchy are at particular risk for victimization, said Stewart, especially when her colleagues or even her supervisor recognize that she is competent enough to advance within the organization in either the hard or soft ranks. These potential shifts in the power structure can trigger episodes of severe workplace hostility toward members of marginalized groups who seek to advance.
Chaotic periods are also problematic for members of marginalized groups, said Stewart, because that's when they're invited to lead—but they're sacrificial lambs. During a quick turnover, women and women and men of color are given the chance because things are so messed up, people in charge figure they might as well try anything.
Dysfunction brings out the worst in people. "Very smart and well-meaning people end up in difficult situations," Stewart told WIHE. "People end up falling into a trap and acting inauthentically."
Stewart addressed the term "mobbing," a type of bullying and harassment. Although used widely in Europe and Australia, it's not as common here. Heinz Leymann (1990) coined it, to refer to "hostile and unethical communication which is directed in a systematic way by one or a number of persons mainly towards an individual." Examples of mobbing include behaviors such as social isolation, public and private humiliation and ridicule, rumor mongering and threatened violence. It's considered mobbing if it takes place at least once a week for months.
While most workers in the U.S. are familiar with status-based harassment that targets members of certain groups protected by federal law, few are aware that mobbing is an issue. Studies show that generalized workplace abuse occurs four times as much in the U.S. as does sexual harassment (Namie and Namie, 2003), and that one in seven sui-cides in Sweden were related to workplace mobbing (Leymann, cited in Bjorkvist et al. 1994).
In the U.S., institutions tend to tolerate harassment as long as there are no legal problems. Interestingly, while illegal harassment can be reported after only a single incident, mobbing consists of repeated incidents over a long duration, and has the potential to be far more damaging.
Then there's the distinction between uncollegial versus illegal behavior. Administrators, said Stewart, are often concerned with staying just this side of legal—instead of deciding how they want their workplaces to exist.
Denice Denton, the University of California-Santa Cruz chancellor who committed suicide in June, was a victim of mobbing. Students harassed her, in one case surrounding her car and even sitting on it, while she was inside. Her home was targeted and she received death threats, to the point where she was terrified. It was a form of "upward mobbing," in which people of lower status turn on someone of higher rank than them. Disturbingly, said Stewart, there was no immediate move from California's Board of Regents to support Denton and convince students to behave in a civil manner.
By giving voice to the problem of mobbing, Stewart hopes to raise awareness of the issue. "There is very little research done on this set of concepts in an academic setting," she told WIHE. "Research leads to developing strategies. We need to collect data, calling for awareness, research and subsequent action."
After hearing her present her work and reading her paper, many women have approached her telling her they had "Aha!" realization moments, she said. "It resonates with a lot of people. It's giving voice to a term."
Along with many others, we asked her for solutions. She's hesitant to give a prescription, she said, until she can work with the concepts to collect more information.
In the meantime, one audience member had a suggestion: Have the human resources department create a class on it. Awareness brings action.
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Siva Vaidhyanathan
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The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, Vol. 597, pp. 122-133, January 2005
Since the early 1990s, the United States has been formulating, executing, and imposing a form of "electronic cultural policy." This phrase means two things: a stategenerated set of policies to encourage or mandate design standards for electronic devices and dictate a particular set of cultural choices; and the cultural choices themselves, which have been embedded in the design and software of electronic goods. The goal of electronic cultural policy has been to encourage and enable "remote control," shifting decisions over the use of content from the user to the vendor. The intended macro effects of such micro policies are antidemocratic. Their potential has created the possibility of a whole new set of forms of cultural domination by a handful of powerful global institutions. Yet so far, the actual consequences of these policies have been different from those intended, igniting activism and disobedience on a global scale.
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Wise words as usual MG
Sorry I haven't read any other responses, but thought I'd throw my N=1 in. I don't count calories, but I eat >65g protein for breakfast of any kind of meat (I eat the whole animal, so it's a total mix of lean & fatty, also, many kinds of seafood) and I throw on two heaping tablespoons of fat (usually CO or bacon grease). I don't need lunch after that, lol, and I eat probably 30-50gm protein most nights, with all the fat naturally in the meat, plus usually some cooking fat. (Not counting veggie calories, b/c they're negligible.)
I've been eating Weston Price style (primal + "properly prepared" grains) for 6 years, primal for 3 years, strict paleo for 1 year.
The results:
* 50lb lost
* binge eating disorder 99% conquered
* triglycerides now lower than my HDL and have been since the first year after I went primal
* improvements in hypothyroidism, chronic & severe bloating, water retention, eternally dry skin, chronic fatigue, etc., etc. First page of my journal lists all the ones I've thought of so far
Fat is crucial for health. If you're not yet convinced, read some success stories here and definitely read some of Weston Price's research. YOU CANNOT HAVE LIFELONG GOOD HEALTH WITHOUT ANIMAL FAT. No, you don't have to go crazy with it, but you must have it. Not skimped on.
Don't say, ,"My mom had two heart attacks despite fat-free, so I'm doomed to bad CVD in my family." Your mom likely had two heart attacks BECAUSE of fat-free, and especially because of the grains she was likely filling up on b/c of the lack of fats.
The first week I allowed myself to eat fat, I ate A STICK OF BUTTER A DAY, straight, b/c I craved it so much. I had been fatfree for 15 years, and my body was positively starved for vitamins A, D, & K2, all of which are critical to nutrient absorption. Did you know that you can't absorb all the minerals in your veggies if you don't consume those vitamins? That's part of why the native Americans talked of "rabbit starvation" - they knew that all the lean protein in the world wouldn't matter a bit if you had no fat, b/c you would literally starve for nutrients even though you had plenty of food, water-soluble vitamins, & minerals.
Anyway, back to the butter. I don't see many other people having that kind of craving, but my point is, I butter like gangbusters and didn't gain a pound. We MUST stop thinking of food as calories, and start thinking of it as fuel & information, info that tells your body what to do with its hormones & organs & systems. There is no health, no lifelong health that is so hardy it gets passed down generation to generation, without animal fat. End of story.
(BTW, cellulite is often a result of excess industrial oils (like soy, canola, corn, etc.). Your body needs quality sat fats to fill the fat cells that are necessary. If you fill them with crappy oils, they get dimply.)
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Wise words as usual MG
Sue there is no way in hell I could fit in anymore calories than I am without overeating.
I am not going there again that is for sure. Over eating, is one of the reasons I got over weight in the first place, among tons of others.
i seem to be in the minority of women, because i eat alot: about 2500 cals/day, according to fitday.com. i get about 60% from fat, 25% from protein and 10-20% from carbs. i simply get really hungry if i eat less than that.
this past year i have gone gluten free, and although i am not losing any more weight, i am at a healthy weight. i know i have gained muscle, my joints dont ache, i am not chronically congested and my blood work is awesome.
And I LOVE BUTTER! especially after not having any for years..its good to have it back! and coffee with CREAM - real, heavy whipping cream!
Anyone who says to stay away from animal fats because of cholesterol is IGNORANT and has swallowed the CW nonsense!
Do your homework by reading books written by paleo/primal people, and get facts NOT foolishness. Good luck to you!
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settling?! no one who looks at me would think i am "fat". the most amazing thing is I DONT think i am fat! I am actually happy with myself, which is a new feeling for me. i did not spend my life "fat", i only gained weight as i got older. but now its gone, 30 pounds of FAT is gone! my clothes fit, and like i said i feel so much better! a few years ago i woke up every day in pain. now that's gone, too!
and by the way, over the past twenty-five years i have read so many different points of view on diet,and most of it turned out to be wrong, and did not work for me, that now i have found what works, i recommend it. if i am biased towards paleo, it is because of my time doing other things that FAILED. so i've "been there and done that" and therefore i know what is bad for my body. Primal works for me, and the OP is getting started here, so should read up on it.
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I LOVE sour cream and always eat it when it's warranted on something you would normally put sour cream on, such as a salad bowl from Chipotle. If I buy the commercial variety, I always buy Daisy brand as the only ingredient is cultured cream.
However, if I have some homemade Creme Fraiche waiting to be churned into butter, that is the best!