Number one concern and worry is Drinking Water and number two is wastewater. Everything else is a distant third. If theres a problem with the Drinking Water it has to be addressed immediately. Middle of the night, middle of the winter, it doesnt matter when. Every citizen and especially the most vulnerable depend on the safety of the water including families with infants, schools, our Nursing Homes and people with compromised immune systems. We cant have any contamination of the Drinking Water. Our sewer system also needs to function prop toerl avoid any probability of a sewage spill or sewage backup into peoples homes. I would say to you that this really does keep me up at night. Congressman tonko knows that right now our part of the state is buried in snow, just last week the frost penetrated the ground so deeply that we experienced two ruptures in our water planes that are 5 to 6 feet underground. This forced us to issue a boil water advisory where we have to tell families to boil w
Number one concern and worry is Drinking Water and number two is wastewater. Everything else is a distant third. If theres a problem with the Drinking Water it has to be addressed immediately. Middle of the night, middle of the winter, it doesnt matter when. Every citizen and especially the most vulnerable depend on the safety of the water including families with infants, schools, our Nursing Homes and people with compromised immune systems. We cant have any contamination of the Drinking Water. Our sewer system also needs to function prop toerl avoid any probability of a sewage spill or sewage backup into peoples homes. I would say to you that this really does keep me up at night. Congressman tonko knows that right now our part of the state is buried in snow, just last week the frost penetrated the ground so deeply that we experienced two ruptures in our water planes that are 5 to 6 feet underground. This forced us to issue a boil water advisory where we have to tell families to boil w
And this is literally how political scientists think about war. This isnt really how it works. We dont really think that since cyberspace with her ever serious. We dont look them square in the face like this. And for those of you that dont know this is and we dont square off in the face and in fact we dont do good battles like fun battles in cyberspace. We hit below the belt. We do just enough to be irritating but not enough to trigger what we consider an act of war. And this is really telling so how do we figure out when all of these below the belt issues are coming out. It would be really nice if we had Something Like a dark mark from harry potter that told us when our networks were insecure, that all of our data would pop up on the screen. You are owned. The dark lord is coming. But we dont have any of this stuff. Its really hard to enforce our rights claims in cyberspace. This is where i think immanuel kant, is to the rescue. And we think about cyberspace and think about rights cla
Treatment. That has to be against the law. It doesnt matter whether the employer knows it too absolute certainty. Absolutely. In that situation what is relevant is the employers intent. If the employer intends to discriminate on the basis of religion, that is a title vii violation. But whats going on here is that the employer seeks to apply a religion neutral dress code. It makes religious practice the refusal to accommodate religious practice is itself a violation. And that was done deliberately, was it not . So that religious practices would have to be accommodated. Yes, your honor. Two points in response. First we are not contending that religious practices do not have to be accommodated. But what we are contending is that an employer did not intentionally discriminate on the basis of a religious practice by enforcing a religion neutral dress code. What the statute does is to say that if you are wearing a headscarf for religious reasons, that the neutral policy really doesnt matter
On cspan. Bend is a timber town. You wouldnt know it to look at it today. The timber qualities are almost completely removed, but, yes, bend was a timber town to begin with. At the height of the timber industry, so if you were to drop into bend in, say, 1928, you would have smell the mills, you would have smelled sawdust. If you went through certain parts of town, youd get sawdust on your clothes. You would here periodic mill whistles from the two gigantic super mills that were on the banks of the river. It would have permeated everything. It would have been ten minutes off from the Downtown Core where all the shops were, but you would have seen the smoke from the smokestacks and the burners, you would have smelled it, you would have known right away that you were in the middle of timber town usa. This weekend booktv and American History tv look at the history and literary life of bend, oregon. Saturday at noon eastern on cspan2 and sunday at 2 on cspan3. Epa Administrator Gina Mccarth