This is one of the carbines used in the raid on Harpers Ferry by john brown. One of the events that initiated the civil war. This exhibit illustrates the manufacturing might of the north. They could turn out hundreds of thousands of well fitted, well manufactured firearms. Though are ready to go to work. In the back, you see a barrel rifling, used by smith and wesson from the civil war clear up to the time of world war ii. The manufacturing capability was one of the norths strengths in the civil war. The south on the other hand did not have the industrial might that the north had. As we talked earlier, the new england and the Connecticut River valley was the home of dozens of gun manufacturers. The springfield, so many were needed by the union army that 33 different manufacturers were turning out the identical rifle for purchase by the union army. The confederates were left up to their own. They had a few places, Harpers Ferry, virginia, when they actually had possession of it. Richmon
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Political joining us. The meeting . Of it sounds like harry reid is ready to go forward with the Nuclear Option, to change the senate rules by 51 votes, rather than the normal threshold of 67 votes. The higher threshold is usually your usually set to make it harder to occur. He says he is so frustrated with the use of the Majority Party to block legislation moving forward that he will invoke this very unusual procedure to change the rules by 51 votes. We want to vote change the filibuster rules so no longer 60 votes will be required to facinge a filibuster president ial nominees for executive branch positions. Would only affect executive , noth decisions traditional nominees, not legislation, it wants to move forward so that no longer can a senator block a nominee for epa, Defense Department, by requiring , 61 votesinstead would be required, a majority of the senate. Majority lent leader reid wants to move forward, what would the next step the in the senate . There was going to be a jo
On off grid and opportunity for. S. Companies. How is power africa leverage dging its resources to protect african workers to have cent work conditions and safety on the job . At this point were not looking at taking equity in the prompts themselves but im not going to rule that out in the future if the right opportunity present themselves especially for the smaller off grid and mike grid activities. But were learning some of the risk is the up Front Development financing. Were trying to listen to the private sector and find out what are the constraints. Were using the existing tools in our tool box and developing new tools. I cant tell you what tools we may have a year from now and consult with congress if we can make the case and their support for it to see if Congress Gives us the authority to do that. In terms of protecting african workers were doing Due Diligence on every partner we work with or developing Due Diligence protocols. These are still in development. Were still sorting
The benefit of agriculture and mechanic arts. Be it enacted their big round to the several about of public land for support and maintenance of at least one college where the leading object should be to teach such ranges are learning as are related to agriculture and mechanic arts in our to promote the liberal and practical education of industrial classes and of the several pursuits and professions of life. Seems to me that they knew exactly what they were about. In 1862. That may be less true for us today. Weve gone from a society where about one 40th of young people went to college a century ago, to about twothirds are pursuing some form of education after high school. And this obviously changes everything in the economics of Higher Education. And seems to have produced as todays book suggests a debtfinanced glut of ba holders. Many of us, like bill and david did, have noticed the parallels to our recent when it comes to Higher Education finance. Debt financing is especially a problem