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Federal officials have given energy and mining companies permission to pollute aquifers in more than 1,500 places across the country, releasing toxic material into underground reservoirs that help supply more than half of the nation's drinking water.
In many cases, the Environmental Protection Agency has granted these so-called aquifer exemptions in Western states now stricken by drought and increasingly desperate for water.
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text: Lovely sunsets can be found throughout our country and all over the world, but this Mississippi sunset over the Ross Barnett Reservoir near Ridgeland, Mississippi, is one of my favorites. This vast reservoir, a source of water and a recreational facility for residents of central Mississippi, is home to a variety of wildlife and waterfowl. Beautiful homes overlook the lake from dozens of waterfront developments, and during the warmer months of the year, local residents and visitors alike take to the water in an array of boats of all shapes and sizes. What better end to a day at the lake than a sunset like this?


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GAINESVILLE, Florida, October 9, 2008 (ENS) - Several new cockroach species are entering Florida, warn Phil Koehler and Roberto Pereira, insect researchers with University of Florida's Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences.
They say exotic roaches such as the Turkestan cockroach hitchhike into the state on gear brought back by members of the armed forces returning from the Middle East. These roaches have already settled in Texas, New Mexico and Arizona.
In addition, a growing interest among reptile enthusiasts to raise the insects as lizard food has multiplied the number of roach species being shipped into Florida by insect suppliers.
The scientists say Floridians might soon be seeing the three-inch long Madagascar hissing roach, the lobster roach and the orange spotted roach, although none these species are known to be established in the state.
"We have 69 species of cockroaches in the United States and 29 of them were brought in from other countries," said Koehler. "And now we have these new species being shipped into the state."
"They keep telling us we live in a global economy and society," said Pereira. "All of these cockroaches you can get over the Internet - you can order something from the Pacific Northwest and have it here in two days or less. You can transfer things that way very easily."
Koehler and Pereira alerted pest control operators and homeowners to the new roaches in an article in last month's "Florida Pest Pro" magazine.
Ron Box, director of education and scientific affairs with Hulett Environmental Services in West Palm Beach, said he is gathering photographs of the cockroach species mentioned in the article for his technicians, so they will recognize them if they see them.
"So far, knock on wood, we haven't had any," said Box, whose company has 10 offices across Florida. "But I wouldn't be surprised at all if we did."
James Tuttle, a reptile enthusiast who runs a roach supply company called blaberus.com ships insects all across the country. He says buying roaches as reptile food "is probably the most popular thing going these days."
Crickets, which used to be a more popular reptile food source, are noisy, smell bad when they die and don't reproduce quickly the way roaches do once a farm is up and running, he says. And they cost more.
"It's the economy," Tuttle said. "You can spend $50 a month buying crickets, so that's $600 a year, or you could spend $50 [on roaches] and in six months, never have to buy food again."
Tuttle said he agrees with the University of Florida researchers that the Turkestan roach poses the biggest threat.
The male Turkestan roach is often mistaken for the ordinary brown American cockroach, and the female can be mistaken for the oriental cockroach. Where this roach is established, it is prevalent in sewer systems and is capable of carrying bacteria that cause dysentery.
Breeding roaches in captivity is not easy, said Tuttle, and roaches have many natural predators - spiders, turtles, frogs, birds and rodents among others - that unless a large number of captive roaches escaped at once, they would have a tough time getting established in the wild.
Tuttle says several pet reptile owners in Florida already have roach farms in their homes that have not disrupted the environment, even when a few insects escape here and there.
But under perfect conditions, he conceded, "it's possible."
{Photo: Turkestan cockroaches, photo credit unknown}
Copyright Environment News Service (ENS) 2008. All rights reserved.


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Godaddy Inc (NYSE:GDDY) insider Auguste Goldman sold 1,000 shares of the business's stock in a transaction that occurred on Monday, May 15th. The stock was sold at an average price of $38.98, for a total transaction of $38,980.00. Following the transaction, the insider now owns 6,491 shares of the company's stock, valued at approximately $253,019.18. The transaction was disclosed in a legal filing with the SEC.
Auguste Goldman also recently made the following trade(s):
• On Monday, April 17th, Auguste Goldman sold 1,000 shares of Godaddy stock. The stock was sold at an average price of $36.10, for a total transaction of $36,100.00.
• On Wednesday, March 15th, Auguste Goldman sold 1,000 shares of Godaddy stock. The stock was sold at an average price of $37.63, for a total transaction of $37,630.00.
• On Wednesday, March 1st, Auguste Goldman sold 1,006 shares of Godaddy stock. The stock was sold at an average price of $36.81, for a total transaction of $37,030.86.
Shares of Godaddy Inc (NYSE:GDDY) traded up 1.76% during trading on Friday, reaching $42.15. 1,490,033 shares of the company's stock traded hands. The company's market capitalization is $3.86 billion. Godaddy Inc has a 1-year low of $28.13 and a 1-year high of $42.18. The company has a 50 day moving average of $38.83 and a 200-day moving average of $36.56.
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Godaddy (NYSE:GDDY) last posted its quarterly earnings data on Tuesday, May 2nd. The technology company reported $0.01 EPS for the quarter, topping analysts' consensus estimates of ($0.04) by $0.05. The company had revenue of $489.70 million for the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $487.77 million. Godaddy had a negative return on equity of 2.14% and a negative net margin of 0.81%. Equities analysts predict that Godaddy Inc will post $0.19 earnings per share for the current year.
A number of institutional investors have recently bought and sold shares of GDDY. Eaton Vance Management acquired a new position in Godaddy during the third quarter worth approximately $58,445,000. Two Sigma Advisers LP acquired a new position in Godaddy during the third quarter worth approximately $25,031,000. MARSHALL WACE ASIA Ltd purchased a new position in shares of Godaddy during the first quarter valued at about $21,303,000. Marshall Wace North America L.P. purchased a new position in shares of Godaddy during the first quarter valued at about $21,303,000. Finally, Columbia Wanger Asset Management LLC raised its position in shares of Godaddy by 42.5% in the fourth quarter. Columbia Wanger Asset Management LLC now owns 1,851,167 shares of the technology company's stock valued at $64,698,000 after buying an additional 551,826 shares during the period.
- Best Way to Choose a Perfect Domain NameWant create site? Find Free WordPress Themes and plugins. If you plan to have a website for your company, blog or private business, the first thing you have to do is get a domain name. Whenever you advertise your website to increase online traffic, you are essentially popularizing your domain name. So your domain name plays a huge role in establishing your online presence. But this also leads to another problem. Because your domain name is part of your online identity, you have to put some serious thought into choosing a domain name you think will be a fitting representation for your brand and yourself. Here are some of the ways you can make a great domain name that will stand out from the crowd and help drive internet traffic towards your website. • Brainstorm The first step towards choosing a good domain name is to brainstorm with a few people about the possible names. Pick about half a dozen of words and phrases that describe the service your business offers or the content you will be posting on your website and write them down. Rearrange them in an order of preferences. Asking friends, business partners, relatives or anyone else who can be included in your target demographic to help you, is a great way to come up with a fitting domain name. • Be as unique as possible There were more than a billion websites worldwide at the end of September 2014, and that number is growing every day. So you need a name that is completely unique from the rest so that people do not mistake another site to be yours. Make a list of possible domain names and check if there are any other websites with similar ones. Do not choose domain names that are misspelled versions, plurals or homophones of existing websites, as it will give rise to many problems later on. You may need to go back and brainstorm a few more names to ensure that you use a unique one. • It should be brandable A brand is a very effective way of telling your target demographic what your company or website stands for without requiring too much explanation. This means that you will need to look beyond a simple combination of words. For example, brand names like "Tesla", "Intel" and "RedBull" instantly make you think about their services and products. Find a name that has a unique reference to your field and help it drive your target demographic towards your website. • It should be memorable Word of mouth is still one of the most organic and effect way of marketing as it adds authenticity to your website. If your visitors, customers or fans need to tell their friends about your website, they should be able to easily remember your domain name. Since there are more than a billion websites, a memorable name is one of the best way to help your target demographic will find you. • It should be easy to type Many times you will be advertising in places where giving a link will not work (like newspapers, magazines, posters etc). Here you will have to mention just the name. In these instances, a fancy name may not help. If you need to spell the website out repeatedly before people understand what you are trying to convey, it is a sign of a bad domain name. Having numbers or hyphens in your domain name makes it difficult for first time visitors to know the right spelling, so avoid them as much as possible.• It should have an appropriate extension The domain extension is a suffix such as .org, .com, .net and so on. The .com extension is by far the most popular and it should be used if possible. The downside is that it is also much harder to get a good domain name with a .com suffix since it has been in use for far too long. Most of the other popular extensions have specific uses, .org for instance, shows that the website is of a non-commercial or nonprofit organization. You may even use some top level, generic domains like .music and .photography can provide the perfect opportunity to make relevant and memorable domain names for your website. • Shorter is better Long and complicated domain names increases the chance of error on the part of your visitors and reduces the possibilities of online success for your website. A shorter domain name on the other hand, is not only easier to remember and type, but it also helps you advertise it more creatively and effectively. Many social media networks have a word limit while posting, and a short domain name gives you plenty of space for ingenuity. Shorter domain names are also cheaper to advertise on print media and more effective in word of mouth marketing. If you are not able to find a short domain name with a .com extension, look for other domain name extensions. • Choose longevity over short term trends Some new websites have odd misspellings, overused short adjectives or some other "trendy" element in their domain name. This may seem like a great idea at first, as an internet trend will make a lot of people look for related content, but remember that these trends last only for a very short time, and eventually everyone will forget about it. So resist the need to achieve short term internet success and choose a name that will be relevant without the help of social media trends. Identifying a trend that will not last long is a matter of personal judgment, so use you instincts to keep away from what you think will push your website into obscurity in a few years. • Make it quick As we have seen previously, there are more than a billion websites on the internet and there are more being created by individuals and new companies everyday. This means good domain names sell really fast, so you need to act quickly if you want to keep a well thought out name for your website. It is smart to purchase a number of your favorite domain names as early as possible so that you may not have trademark issues later on. • Protect your domain name Once you have purchased your domain name of choice, it is important to protect your reputation amongst online users. To do that, you will need to purchase misspelled versions, homophones or plural versions of your website, and then simply forward the traffic to your primary website. This move will prevent other individuals or companies from using the reputation of your website to drive traffic towards their website. Flikr, for example, had to purchase the domain name "Flicker" because of how the brand uses a misspelled word, and they were losing many potential visitors who had heard of the popular website by word of mouth. 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- Samsung Galaxy Note 8 vs LG V30 – ComparisonWant create site? Find Free WordPress Themes and plugins. The battle between brands and their flagships is just getting intensified every day. Samsung recently launched their latest flagship, the Note 8 which had some of the best specs in the smartphone market right now and some very exciting features. With IFA 2017 happening in Berlin right now we know that there is still a lot that we can expect to be launched in the coming few days. Today LG took an opportunity to unveil their latest flagship, the LG V30 with a 6" POLED Full Vision disapply. This device comes with a premium Quad DAC for a much better audio experience. It is also the world's first f/1.6 aperture dual camera phone. We feel that this device is a great competitor for the Galaxy Note 8, and with both the devices being launched on September 15th in the US, they're going to be stiff competitors of each other. The Display and overall Design: The V30 from LG looks a lot like the Samsung Galaxy S8+ in terms of the design on front, the metal frame covering the glass front and black panels make the devices look very similar. This device has a 6" POLED display and an aspect ratio of 18:9 and you can barely notice any bezels around the rounded corners. On the other hand, the Galaxy Note 8 comes with a 6.3" Quad HD display and is even taller with an aspect ratio of 18.5:9. Since both the devices have almost bezel-less displays it was impossible to squeeze in a finger print scanner on the front and both the devices decided to have the fingerprint scanner on the rear side of the device. Although the Galaxy Note 8 is slightly thicker and taller the width is much lesser despite having a larger display. Both the devices are made of high-quality materials and they feel very premium in hand. 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GROVETON, N.H. — Jenna Randall is revving her viper-red 1998 Chevy Cavalier at the starting line of a 200-lap derby called the Frostbite Enduro. Three dozen brightly colored stock cars roar on all sides, most of their drivers adults. She is not one of them.
Jenna was all of 11 the night three years ago when she told her father as he was tucking her in that she wanted to race stock cars. It is an age when kids say they want to be astronauts or rock stars or major league ballplayers — when they grow up.
Jenna did not have to wait. At Riverside Speedway, a quarter-mile track in this far-northern corner of New Hampshire, anyone 10 and over can start racing in the derbies that take place here throughout the summer. At 11, Jenna was gunning full-sized, full-powered stock cars around the track at 50 miles per hour. At 12, racing in the under-14 division, she first climbed the winners' podium. Now 14, she races against adults and has qualified for the Enduro, the no-holds-barred season finale.
Lined up near Jenna is the black-and-yellow Chevy of Nick Gilcris. He got his first car at 11, and started racing when he was 12. That was four years ago; now he is one of the favorites to win the competition.
Nick and Jenna, accomplished speedsters at such tender ages, are no exception at Riverside Speedway, which draws drivers from across northern New England to Groveton, a quiet village in the part of New Hampshire they call the Great North Woods.
Around here, racing is a tradition handed down from generation to generation. So is starting out young. It is a parent-child pastime in a region that has no major sports teams to root for. It is an activity parents laud as a way to teach self-reliance, safety behind the wheel, and maturity.
"If you got the guts and your parents say you can do it, you can do it," says Nick's father, Pete Gilcris. And that is true. Because the speedway is private property and the children are not driving in a public way, state law does not forbid them from racing here. (Most tracks in the state, however, require drivers to be at least 16 years old.)
Racing is also a welcome diversion, and an economic driver, in a region where the median family income is little more than half the state average. Particularly hard-hit is Groveton, where a paper mill that was the main employer closed in 2008. Some racers hope that their stock cars will be a ticket out of town. But for most, the track is a reason to stick around.
"Riverside Speedway is probably the only thing in town that's bringing people in," says Melinda Kennett, Groveton's town clerk, tax collector, and a former racer who learned from her father. She raised three racers of her own, and now works at the track during races as a pit steward.
The Enduro is about to begin. Kennett casts an eye at the gloom overhead. It has been drizzling all day and the track is slick. Any ordinary race would have been canceled. But the Enduro is no ordinary competition. The rules are simple. They will stop the race after a wreck to make sure the driver is safe. Other than that, pretty much anything goes.
• • •
The reek of spray paint poisons the wood-smoke air of the Gilcris family's garage. It is the night before the Enduro, and Nick and his father, Pete, 35, are putting the finishing touches on his car. They paint the hood bumblebee yellow, add a smiley face, and the words "Git R Done" in red over it, and paint the words "Play Nice" on the rear. A row of trophies glistens above the grime and steel of their cluttered garage. Many of those are from races Nick won. Some are prizes won by his sister, Kyleigh, who first raced at 10 and retired at 12. A long row of plaques signify the Enduros Pete won during his 16-year racing career.
That career was cut short during a practice run in 2010, when the car shot off the racetrack and slammed into a wall, snapping Pete's neck and back violently. Pete suffered a fracture of his C-2 cervical vertebra. He crawled away from the wreck, and can move about now, but not without pain, and doctors have told him he will never race again. They also said that Nick, as slender as his father is brawny and thick, would not have survived that crash, even if he had been wearing the protective head restraint that Pete never wore.
Nick, confident but not quite cocky, says he never worries about crashing. They had told him that racing would be scary. But the first time he was on a track, Nick says, "I came out and put the hammer right down. I thought it was great."
'If you got the guts and your parents say you can do it, you can do it.'
Pete shares that confidence. He has seen his son's car roll over six times — "6½," Nick corrects him — and he is certain that there will be wrecks in the Enduro. But he is equally sure that his son will avoid trouble.
"I've been through a lot of hard wrecks," Nick says. "I've been hit hard enough where I've felt it for a few weeks. I'm not really scared of it. I'm more scared of totaling my car than anything else."
Other than that, "You just go out there and beat the heck out of your car and have fun," he says.
• • •
Nick is out to win the Enduro. After a few laps, it is clear that Jenna just wants to endure it. She spun out on a practice run, miscalculating the speed at which she needed to ease up on the gas going into the slick, steep turns. The racers do not use their brakes to slow down. They drive in third gear, regulating their speed by letting off the gas.
"I kinda learned that I can't step back on the throttle as fast as I'm used to," she says before the race in her precociously relaxed drawl.
In the early laps, other drivers are having trouble, too. One car spins out, turning 180 degrees and traveling backwards for a few yards, somehow avoiding a clutch of other cars before the driver is able to right the vehicle and speed off. A purple hatchback bursts into a cloud of thick, white smoke, and crawls another half-lap until it limps off into the pit area. A lime-green hatchback spins off the track, onto the infield, and out of the race. Its rear right wheel is bent outward at a 90-degree angle.
Jenna's plastic rear bumper flies off, but her father, Tege, watching from the magenta-colored seats of the grandstand, is not concerned.
"Jenna's stayin' out of trouble" he says; it is clear where she got her drawl.
The steel frame of her car is intact; a steel cage protects her in case she rolls the car; a fuel cell reduces the chances of fire. She is wearing a head restraint, a fire suit, a helmet, and a five-point seatbelt. This stuff is expensive — Tege reckons he has put $2,500 to $3,000 into the car, a stretch for a man who earns a living as an independent IT contractor — but it reassures him that his daughter's sport "is no more dangerous than football, baseball, or basketball."
As Jenna races around the track, Tege insists that it be made clear that allowing his daughters — Jenna's older sister, Shauna, also raced — to run stock cars is no careless act of parental neglect. No one, he points out, has ever had life-threatening injuries in this race. (Kennett confirms this, and adds that racers who start young always do well on their driver's license tests.) As a race car fan Tege likes watching cars wipe out, but as a father, he trusts the safety equipment. And, he says, building and maintaining cars is a learning experience.
"It's great that they're out here using tools," he says. "I'd rather they do it here in a controlled environment. They're going to need to know how to use them someday."
He stops short and runs off the grandstand into the pit area, followed by a small team of helpers. Jenna has blown a tire. Tege and his crew work feverishly to make the change. The car has two large dents in the body. Jenna looks relaxed as she pulls out of the pit and back onto the track.
• • •
Jenna does not want to be a professional racer. She has decided to be a large animal veterinarian — when she grows up.
Some drivers, like Nicole Ouellette, 16, a third-generation racer, would love to make it to the next level. She would have taken part in the Enduro, but she does not have a car she is ready to wreck. And to compete in the Enduro, you have to be ready to go home with a piece of junk. She is saving her Dodge Neon for next season, to see if she can try racing at other tracks. Today she is working at the gate, checking the credentials of drivers and their crews entering the pit area.
"I want to race with people I don't know," she says.
Nick is not planning to go anywhere. He works at the Santa's Village theme park in Jefferson, N.H., operating rides. He helps Pete, who is on disability, with odd jobs in the garage. He races for prize money, he says, although "you never make back what you put into it."
But right now, first prize, $2,000, is at stake. And the scoreboard says Nick is in the lead. Pete is watching the race intently from behind the wire fence that wraps around the track, occasionally shaking it with his hands as he cheers on his son.
"Just run and don't be stupid," Pete shouts at the track, pointing at his head as Nick completes the 121st lap. Nick's primary rival seems to be Number 90, a white sedan driven by Floyd Bennett Jr. Bennett bumps into Nick's car, and Pete curses. He grew up with Bennett and sees this as an unfair tactic.
Pete curses again. Nick has blown a tire. Luckily, this misfortune coincides with a flag that stops the race while a wreck is cleared. Pete and a friend quickly change the tire and Nick is back on the track. He has fallen out of the top three.
Pete curses.
"He's calm," he gestures at his son's car. "I'm not."
• • •
With less than 20 laps to go, Jenna pulls her Cavalier into the pit area. This time no one is running to meet her. Steam is coming out of the hood. The radiator was damaged when she hit another car at lap 160, and now it is beyond repair.
Tege stares at it.
Jenna sits for a while then unstraps her helmet and climbs out of the car.
"It's not the way we like to finish," Tege says, but he does not look too unhappy. "That's what the Enduro's all about."
Jenna is calm.
"Twenty laps from the finish and then that happens," she shrugs. Father and daughter embrace and walk back to the stands.
With nine laps left, Nick is back in contention. All he has to do is beat Bennett to win the race. His bumper has flown off. Now the back of his car says just "Play." He brings his Chevy to the inside of the track. He nudges ahead.
"Yahooooooo!" Pete cries.
But Bennett and Nick collide again as they negotiate a crowd of cars. Number 90 cruises to the win. Livid, Pete runs out onto the track as the slower cars are finishing and lumbers up to Bennett's car, cursing.
"Pete Gilcris, as far as I'm concerned, just got his son disqualified," Kennett says from the sidelines.
That does not happen, but as Bennett parks and Pete rushes at him, it looks as though something worse might.
Instead, Nick steps in front of Pete and grabs him by the lapels of his tattered coat. From behind, it is clear just how skinny the boy is; he is eclipsed by his father's bulk.
"Enough," the son admonishes the father. Pete stares at his son, shaking.
The teenage race car driver stands his ground.
"Stop! Now!" the boy says.
The father turns away. Nick is handed a two-tiered trophy with azure-blue posts.
" 'Nitro' Nick Gilcris picks up second place," says the announcer. Nick thanks the crowd. He shakes hands with other drivers. He chats with some girls. He finds out that another car passed him after the bump and he finished third. Instead of $2,000, he has won $400. He looks at his dad.
Pete scowls. Looks down at the ground.
Then he looks at his son with half a smile. And then a full one of appreciation and pride.
Nick starts to grin, then smiles openly.David Filipov can be reached at email@example.com. Follow him on Twitter @davidfilipov.


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After reviewing Ben Quash's volume addressing von Balthasar's theology of history, I thought I would wade back over to my personal area of interest and take a look at Jonathan Edwards' philosophy of history. Avihu Zakai's volume, put out by Princeton Press (and mostly written at the Center of Theology Inquiry) is entitled: Jonathan Edwards's Philosophy of History: The Reenchantment of the World in the Age of Enlightenment. I will skip over the initial chapter covering biographical material and move right into his argumentation.
The Soul
In the second chapter, entitled: "Young Man Edwards: Religious Conversion," Zakai focuses in on Edwards' conversion experience, asserting, "This spiritual experience informed Edwards's theology of nature and led directly to his quest to reconstruct the whole material world after the model of his newly acquired religious vision" (54). He then builds on his already provocative thesis, asserting baldly,
This cosmological vision of a divine universe, which sustained Edwards throughout his life and constituted the underlying theme of his whole theological and philosophical undertaking, can only be explained by the crucial effect of his conversion" (55).
Zakai tracks Edwards alongside Luther's distinction of theologia gloriae and theologia crucis, claiming that Edwards takes the way of glory. Comparing Edwards conversion with Luther and Augustine, he notes that the impetus for Edwards was not Christ, per se, but the reality of a "God-entranced world." Edwards points to 1 Tim. 1:17 as the key passage upon which his conversion took place: "Now unto the King eternal, immortal, invisible, the only wise God, be honour and glory for ever and ever." Zakai links this experience, gravitating around and towards glory, to function as the major theme through Edwards' life work, and is one of the key differences compared to someone like Luther:
Edwards, on the other hand, absorbed in the infinite of God's sovereignty, was much more occupied with the history of redemption and salvation and the cause for which God created the world. Consequently, in contrast to Luther, who showed little interest in the cosmos, divine universe, and salvation history, the issue of the history of the work of redemption was an inextricable part of Edwards's theocentric thinking" (71-72).
Zakai moves into the age of scientific reasoning quoting the ever-interesting notebook on the mind; "To find out the reasons of things in natural philosophy is only to find out the proportion of God's acting" (86). Here, Zakai focuses in on Edwards as philosopher and scientist, pulling his theorizing through his "God-entranced world." Edwards' mission, Zakai muses, is to reenchant a world grown disenchanted through the mechanism of reality. He suggests, "Edwards's entire philosophical enterprise may be understood within this wider ideological context, as an attempt to provide a plausible teleological and theological alternative to the emergence of modes of thought that were leading to the disenchantment of the world" (95).
To develop his larger theo-centric project, Edwards commandeered atomism for his own ends, arguing, at one point that every "atom in the universe is managed by Christ." Edwards' atomism functioned as a corollary to his idealism and occasionalism, where atoms were indestructible entities of God's upholding power. Edwards attacked the mechanism of his day, not by bypassing mechanistic images or terminology, but by saturating it with God's presence and power. The material universe moves from one moment to the next not because of its innate sustainability, but because of God's faithfulness to uphold. Zakai notes,
What arises, then, from his concept of atoms as a metaphysical-theological principle, is a universe structured according to a teleological and theological order in which God becomes the sole foundation of all natural phenomena: through the agency of the atom, his absolute sovereignty is established; and divine omnipotence, omnipresence, and omniscience are affirmed by the smallest particle in the universe, thus securing divine immanence and redemptive activity in creation" (99).
We will move into Zakai's account of time, which is the major thrust of the volume, in the next post. For now, any thoughts about this? I've found that those not familiar with Edwards are often surprised by his idealism and occasionalism, not to mention other areas of his thought. What do we think about this kind of project in general? Is this what a theologian should be doing?


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Philadelphia Magazine
On a winter's night 20 years ago, a freshman at the University of Pennsylvania who was working on an English paper heard a ruckus outside his dorm. A group of sorority sisters was singing, stomping and yelling, and he couldn't concentrate. So he shouted out the window at them: "Shut up, you water buffalo!"
The young man, Eden Jacobowitz, was Jewish. The women he yelled at that night were black. He was subsequently accused of violating Penn's policy against racial harassment. In the months that followed, what became known as "the Water Buffalo Incident" would threaten the confirmation of Penn's then-president, Sheldon Hackney, as chair of the National Endowment for the Humanities; attract the attention of the ACLU, the Anti-Defamation League and the American Jewish Committee; provide the world with a thorough gloss of the Hebrew word behema, which translates more or less to "ox of water" and is used in Israel, where Jacobowitz had lived and studied, to mean "thoughtless, rowdy person"; and be dissected, in such forums as the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, the Times of London, Rolling Stone, the Village Voice and theNew York Times, as the ultimate example of political correctness run amok. The women eventually dropped their complaint against Jacobowitz, stating that the media uproar prevented them from getting a fair hearing. He graduated, sued Penn, went to law school, and went into human resources. No one involved in the incident wants to talk about it today.
The international outrage over what happened to Jacobowitz should have stopped PC in its tracks. Instead, that outrage was swept aside by a rising tidal wave of people claiming offense over nonsense. In the decades since, PC has spiraled out of control, starting on college campuses and graduating into the real world, eventually splitting the nation into two sides, red and blue, that don't speak to one another, despise each other, and don't even bother to try to understand the other's point of view.
That, anyway, is the argument made by Greg Lukianoff, president of the Philly-based Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (a.k.a. FIRE), in his new book, Unlearning Liberty: Campus Censorship and the End of American Debate. He posits that political correctness has hamstrung free speech, resulting in a society where citizens lack the "experience of uninhibited debate and casual provocation" that keeps minds open and dialogue flowing. People lose their jobs because of jokes and misinterpretations; they're hung out to dry in public when they misspeak; they quake in fear of being accused of "disrespect."
Those who dare question whether these offended parties have actually suffered harm are shouted down by the hurt-feelings "sensitivity" industry and social media and news organizations trolling for hits. And the costs of disagreeing with the PC guardians ratchet ever upward—costs that all of us pay
Penn's water buffalo debacle marked the moment when a remark ceased to be assessed on its merits and instead became subject to the ears of the beholder. Jacobowitz's epithet wasn't racial, but the women shouting outside his window perceived it to be. The content no longer mattered; their reaction, their hurt feelings, did, and that's what the administration acted on in charging the freshman with using a racial slur.
This didn't go unnoticed. An American Lit prof at Duke University at the time warned that under such logic, language would "cease to have any communicative value." Proof of this came soon enough in incidents—in Washington, D.C., at the University of Wisconsin, in North Carolina, and as recently as 2009 in California and 2011 in Florida—in which the word "niggardly," derived from a Scandinavian term and meaning "stingy," resulted in resignations, reprimands, firings and at least one lawsuit. In the Wisconsin case, the student who complained about her Chaucer prof's use of the word fumed that it continued even after she informed him that she was offended. She told the faculty senate, "It's not up to the rest of the class to decide whether my feelings are valid."
In the post-Buffalo world, as Lukianoff puts it, "Claiming to be offended is the ultimate trump card in any argument." You hurt my feelings, and that makes you wrong. This is the process whereby TV anchor Jennifer Livingston became a cause célèbre for complaining she was "bullied" by a viewer who emailed to chide her for being obese. She retorted on the air: "You can call me fat and, yes, even obese on a doctor's chart. … You don't know me. … I am much more than a number on a scale." All of which is true, but … was her pen pal bullying her? He'd concluded his email, "I leave you this note hoping that you'll reconsider your responsibility as a local public personality to present and promote a healthy lifestyle." If Livingston hadn't been so ready to jump on the victim wagon, she might have interpreted his words as a gentle remonstrance that she take better care of herself.
As if.
Why, in disagreements ranging from Chinese Tiger Moms to sequestration to boycotting Chick-fil-A, are we so ready to vilify those who criticize us? When I spoke with Lukianoff, he mentioned Jonathan Haidt's theory, put forward in the speech "The Bright Future of Post-Partisan Social Psychology," that we "sacralize" our own points of view, believing them to be particularly righteous and moral. "And that means we demonize the other side," Lukianoff explained. "If you disagree with me, you're a bad person." We learn these habits, Lukianoff says, in school, where we're taught that there are right ways and wrong ways to think.
What's a wrong way to think? Ask Alex Watkins, who was suspended from second grade at his Colorado elementary school for hurling an imaginary grenade at an imaginary box to save the world from evil. Or, locally, the Penns Grove Middle School teacher who let a student make a "Wanted" poster for a runaway slave for a history lesson, and had a black activist complain. Or the Georgia college kid who was expelled after he protested his school president's plan to build a parking garage. The student posted on Facebook that the project was a "memorial" parking garage; the president claimed this amounted to a violent threat to murder him. Really. In all three cases, anyone with a lick of sense would see an incident blown way out of proportion by people who … well, who want everybody to think the same way they do.
We all want that; it's human nature to desire to be among like-minded companions, unless you make your living as a radio talk-show host. But we need disagreement, Lukianoff warns, if we are to learn and grow. Consider the "speech code" at Swarthmore College, which defines sexual harassment to include "unwelcome verbal or physical advances; persistent leers; sexual innuendoes, comments or jokes; the persistent use of irrelevant references or remarks to a person's gender, sexuality or sexual orientation; sexist remarks about the target's clothing or body; expressions using sex stereotypes whether or not they were made about or directed to the grievant and whether or not intended to insult or degrade … " [emphasis mine]. Now imagine you're a Swarthmore student taking, say, the course "Race, Gender and Environment." Do you foresee classroom discussion being furthered by that code? Or perhaps you're just a 19-year-old kid who's kidding around. A fellow student who takes offense at something you say can haul you up in front of the disciplinary board whether or not you intended to insult him—because his feelings get hurt.
And you can bet there will be a phalanx of folks to help him cope with those feelings. A student at Penn who feels she's been sexually harassed has, according to the student handbook, a choice of the following on-campus resources from which to seek "information and counseling": the Office of Affirmative Action and Equal Opportunity Programs; the African-American Resource Center; the Penn Behavioral Health Employee Assistance Program; the Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Center; the Division of Human Resources of the Office of Labor Relations; the Office of the Ombudsman; the Division of Human Resources of the Office of Staff Relations; the Division of Public Safety, Special Services; Penn's Women's Center; Student Health Services; Counseling and Psychological Services; and the Office of the Vice Provost for University Life. Christ, no wonder the school costs $60,000 a year.
Yes, of course there are students, and citizens, who have genuine grievances. But we no longer distinguish between them and those claiming harm where none exists. And the price goes beyond money. "People think political correctness is a forgivable and harmless part of higher education, but it has real ramifications," Lukianoff says. "It's the source of bad intellectual and rhetorical habits. Students learn: It's easy to join an ideological club, find professors who aren't dangerous, not interact with anyone who disagrees with you. You stay in the echo chamber."
In case you think what happens on college campuses doesn't seep through to the culture at large, consider the City Controller's Office at Philadelphia's City Hall. After some birdbrain scrawled a lewd comment about an aide and his partner on a men's-room stall, a dozen employees were grilled by a private investigator (cost to taxpayers: $7,746), then subjected to four hours of "Diversity & Sensitivity Training" on bullying and stereotyping (cost to taxpayers: $17,671). Did shelling out $25,000-plus for a sensitivity consultant accomplish anything that a stern "Hey, people, let's not be idiots" wouldn't have?
But sensitivity training has become a huge industry, commonplace on campuses, in the workplace and in government. In one ultra-fatuous example, the U.S. Department of Agriculture spent nearly $200,000 to have a trainer lead employees in repeating such farcical mantras as "The Pilgrims were illegal aliens" and "Thank you, white males," as well as shouting, when prompted, "Bam!"
Sometimes, the costs of such "sensitivity" are more than just financial. Remember Major Nidal Hasan, who shot up Fort Hood in 2009? A report on the incident noted that an officer at the San Diego Field Office for the Joint Terrorism Task Force had informed headquarters in Washington, D.C., before the shootings that he thought Hasan should be asked about possible terrorist sympathies. The response from the D.C. office? It "doesn't go out and interview every Muslim guy who visits extremist websites." Besides, the San Diego office was told, the matter was "politically sensitive." Not long afterward, dozens of soldiers were wounded and 13 were dead.
Not long ago, I had lunch with the headmistress and the PR director at a local private school that charges high-schoolers $30,000 a year. Over our meal, we discussed diversity at their school; they explained that they take great pains to guide their students into "acceptable" ways of thinking about the subject. "What's 'acceptable'?" I asked. The headmistress waved a hand: "Oh, you know. What people generally wouldn't take offense at." What, I asked, about minority opinions? Isn't that what the First Amendment is all about—protecting speech that isn't popular, or considered "acceptable"? She had no answer for that.
It's no doubt true that you'll have fewer hurt feelings at an institution of learning if everyone's doing groupthink. Last year, the New York City school district provided companies preparing standardized tests for its students with a list of topics that would "probably" cause a test question to be "deemed unacceptable." Just a few of these dozens of topics: dinosaurs and prehistoric times; evolution; geological history; expensive gifts, vacations and prizes; politics; movies; nuclear weapons; holidays; slavery; poverty; violence. And why are all these topics off-limits? Because, according to the school board, they might "evoke unpleasant emotions in the students" and create a "distraction" for them, thus affecting their scores. Fundamentalist children, for example, might be wounded by talk of evolution. Black children could be upset by a mention of slavery; poor children, by test questions concerning expensive gifts. As for politics, well, why would testing on that ever belong in a school?
You couldn't make up a more absurd list of banned topics. It's almost parody-proof, this antiseptic bubble we raise our children in: Don't learn about anything controversial, don't talk about anything controversial, don't think about anything controversial. Stick to what's acceptable. Gee, what habits do you suppose kids pick up from that?
Teachers I talk to say students today are less likely to challenge material presented to them than they used to be. Amanda Anderson, a Johns Hopkins English prof and author of the book The Way We Argue Now, has traced this to the hurt-feelings epidemic: "It's as though there's no distinction between the person and the argument, as though to criticize an argument would be injurious to the person." And God knows we can't have that.
"There's a simple concept," Lukianoff says, "behind the free flow of information: that it's really valuable to hear what people think." When you believe people have to be restrained from saying what they think, you become paranoid: "You start to believe people are worse than they are." And once you do that, you see discrimination everywhere.
This is the process that creates "crusaders" against disrespect and insensitivity, Lukianoff says—romantic, irrational do-gooders ever alert for potential offenses. Take, for example, the reaction of a student at the University of Pennsylvania to a February Fresh Grocer ad circular. At the top of its first page was a banner reading FEBRUARY IS BLACK HISTORY MONTH. And beneath that was an advertisement for family chicken packs.
Which is racist. Because, you know. Black people and chicken.
So the student left a message on the Fresh Grocer Facebook page complaining that the juxtaposition was offensive. The store's response? "Our intention is to celebrate Black History Month by acknowledging it on the front page of our ad where the message is most prominent and gains most visibility, which is the same location that we place similar holiday and memorial acknowledgements throughout the year." This only fueled the complainant's wrath; she told Penn's student newspaper, "I don't think they took it very seriously because their response had typos in it. … " The paper, hard on the case, contacted Fresh Grocer's corporate office and elicited a real apology. The student was gracious in victory, telling the paper, "I think it's these very small things that reinforce cultural and racial stereotypes … "
Actually? It's these very small things that don't matter, that inhibit our common discourse and clog our courts and drain our coffers, and that have a chilling effect on any actual progress toward eliminating prejudice. But I'm sorry if your feelings got hurt because chicken was on sale.
Earlier this year, the University of Colorado at Boulder announced that it intended to hire a "conservative-in-residence"—an in-house right-wing intellectual to serve as counterbalance to the campus's general liberalism. The president of the school's College Democrats told the Chronicle of Higher Education that he welcomed the addition: "It shows we are interested in all opinions, left or right." It's a start, though it's hard to imagine, say, Bob Jones University teaching evolution.
Still, the venting of opposing opinions is vital to learning, not to mention to democracy. What gets lost in the noise raised by those claiming they're offended is this: Put a lid on a boiling pot, and eventually that pot boils over. Publicly clamping down on people's ability to say what they think is a lot like that pot. Have you looked at the online comments on Bob Huber's cover story in the March issue of this magazine—"Being White in Philly"? Hate's hate; driving it underground doesn't make it go away. Forbidding mention or discussion of ideas that aren't "generally accepted" doesn't do anything to eliminate those ideas. Just ask the Inquisitors and Copernicus.
My generation, though, has been so wildly desperate to protect our kids from hurt or harm—and to prove our liberal bona fides—that we've pushed for hypersensitivity at every turn. Those same instincts undergird the war currently being waged, nationwide, against bullying. In her new book Sticks and Stones: Defeating the Culture of Bullying and Rediscovering the Power of Character and Empathy, Slate editor Emily Bazelon, who went to Germantown Friends, examines the genuine harm caused by bullying—but she also defines it as much more than the occasional snide remark. And she decries our current practice of jumping to the now-default conclusion that whenever a kid shoots up a school or attempts suicide, bullying's to blame. In every case she examines in her book, the truth turns out to be far more nuanced and complicated than the headlines such tragedies spur.
We've turned into a "gotcha" society, ever on the alert for offenses that can be Facebooked and tweeted and turned into petitions and causes—that we can hitch our wagons to, so we can draw attention to ourselves. Are there words that are hateful, and hate-filled? Absolutely, and we should discourage their use. But what if instead of stirring up public drama when someone says something "unacceptable," we gave one another the benefit of the doubt—or just sent a private email or note to the offending party?
I guess that wouldn't scratch our itch.
The parts in Bazelon's book that stuck with me weren't about the students who were bullied. They were the parts where she wrote about the need for children to spend time among themselves without the oversight of adults, to not have parents always charge in and make things right—for kids to have the opportunity to fumble toward fixing things themselves. We can be vigilant without being vigilantes; we can care for one another and still disagree. We all need to stand down.
In the wake of a string of incidents of racial vandalism at ultra-liberal Oberlin College early this year, a student reported seeing someone dressed in Ku Klux Klan robes near the Afrikan Heritage House. Campus and local police charged in to investigate; the college president cancelled classes and activities; and students took part en masse in a teach-in, a "demonstration of solidarity," and a "community convocation" on intolerance.
Police reported that while no Klan members were found, they did come across a woman wrapped in a blanket. They think the Klan sighting may have been a mistake.
We see what we look for. We could be looking for so much more.
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The Man in the Moon Stayed Up Too Late is a Hobbit poem composed by Bilbo Baggins.
In The Prancing Pony at Bree Frodo jumps on a table and recites "a ridiculous song" invented by Bilbo.[1]
The poem is in thirteen ballad-like five-line stanzas, introducing each element in turn: "the Man in the Moon" himself, the ostler's "tipsy cat that plays a five-stringed fiddle", the little dog, the "hornéd cow"
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- Frodo sings the song in Bree. Speeding up at every line, he becomes nigh unintelligable near the end.
2002: Vivendi's The Fellowship of the Ring:
- Frodo sings an abridged version at the Prancing Pony.
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A musical version of this poem was recorded by the Tolkien Ensemble on their album A Night in Rivendell.
In the context of the legendarium, this song is the imagined original (by back formation) ditty that is derived to 'our time' in the simplified nursery rhyme "Hey Diddle Diddle". Part of Tolkien's brilliance in establishing the epic mood is his ability to introduce a version of a familiar saying and give the reader a sense of hearing the old proverb afresh, as if spoken for the first time, in the heat of the moment.
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how to paint markings/stampings on rifle?
how do you guy's paint the selector markings on ar lower or stamping marks on a ak or other rifles.i want some stamping marks to stand out with paint.
ive tried with one or two ak's and a mosin to make factory stamping stand out. but sometime looks muddy or paint washes out when wiping off,and even some staining.i understand they may not stand up to chemicals in long term,but thats ok. i can always redo it.
any tricks that work good? what to use and how?
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I use the little bottles of touch up paint that you get at auto stores. Clean the metal with a solvent like acetone, then carefully brush in the paint. The trick is in the removal of the excess around the edges. If you wait to long, it's bonded to the metal and you have to use a solvent to get it off. If you do it to soon, it smears the whole thing. I use a magnifyer and a very sharp metal probe. Carefully, pull the excess away from the part you want to keep. If you try to peel it towards the keeper stuff, it'll all peel up. Another trick is to use a toothpick for the application instead of the brush. Push it into the stamping and let the paint wick off of the toothpick into the channels.
Final touchup can be done with a flat edge with a cloth wrapped around it and acetone. Use the flat edge to keep the cloth flat on the metal and wipe off the excess paint. Note: If your finish is duracoat, it will smear from the acetone.
Here's one that was done with a fake gold inlay. This stuff is more like a wax and is really messy. Once clearcoated, it's fine.
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For temporary marks, like a photo, chalk, white lipstick, or a white china marker will work quite well and all are easily removed.
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We used to use White Out for photgraphic purposes. Worked great.
Don't even know if that stuff is still available these days.
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Gunsmiths and military armorers use Lacquer-Stik to fill lettering and sight markings. This is paint in a stick form.
To use, scrape the end with a knife to expose fresh material and rub into the stamps until they're full.
Use a paper towel with a dab of lacquer thinner to remove the excess from the surface, leaving the stamps full. Allow to dry an hour then apply a lube to prevent rust.
Another option is white appliance chip covering lacquer. This is sold in small bottles at hardware and appliance stores. Apply with a small artist's brush.
Finally, buy small bottles of model paints and use a fine brush to apply it into the stamps.
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Prepare the sight by cleaning oil etc off with thinner and allow to thoroughly dry.
Thin enamel paint to a water like consistancy. Apply with a toothpick or bamboo skewer tip or fine point brush by touching the rollmark and letting capiliary action wick paint into the groove. Touch multiple points as needed to fill the design. The less excess the better but it is not the end of the world if you get some outside the lines.
Let it dry 5 minutes & then examine. If the groove is not full enough (from shrinkage in drying) then repeat the application step as needed. I think the results look better with a fuller groove.
After 5 minutes dry time following last application use a patch dampened (not wet!) with clp or similar and rub across the rollmark to gradually remove excess. The more accurate you are in paint application the less you need to clean up.
You don't have to buy special paint. I've used flat gray primer sprayed into a disposable container and thinned with mineral spirits and gotten good results.
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The National Transportation Safety Board says Conrail inspected the bridge the day before Friday's train derailment.
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On Wednesday, November 21 and again on Thursday, November 29--the day before the derailment--Conrail created work orders in response to complaints the locking mechanism was four inches from being completely locked. Hersman says the problem was repaired on November 29 and four trains crossed the bridge, the last one at 11:15PM but sent an automated message that bridge did not close properly.
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Jim Erchul is having a hard time with proposed safety rules for areas surrounding the St. Paul Downtown Airport.
His organization, Dayton's Bluff Neighborhood Housing Services, plans to build dozens of houses along Rivoli Bluff on the city's lower East Side, overlooking downtown.
If the safety rules were adopted as proposed, he might not be able to build so much as a stoop because it would poke into protected airspace.
About 60 people showed up to a hearing Thursday night at the downtown airport terminal to weigh in on the proposed ordinance that is meant to minimize the damage on the ground if a plane crashes.
The main concerns were with height restrictions that could mean no new trees on the State Capitol grounds or no new housing; prohibitions on ponds and other things that might attract birds and rules that would forbid a new baseball stadium in Lowertown.
"What is the problem you are trying to correct?" asked resident and former city council member Tom Dimond.
It's mind-boggling, he said, that a plan could be drafted that doesn't allow for planting anything on the state Capitol grounds. He also noted that restricting ponds and other things that attract birds goes against planning efforts by the city and other groups to restore the riverfront.
"Scrap this proposal and quit wasting the public's time," he said.
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The safety zone ordinance is separate from Federal Aviation Administration safety requirements. All airports in Minnesota are required by state law to adopt safety zone plans, and St. Paul is 30 years overdue in adopting its ordinance.
There are three zones in the ordinance. The "A" zone doesn't allow for any structures, while the "B" zone allows some limited building. The B zone prohibits schools, churches, gas stations, stadiums, ponds and other uses that draw lots of people or birds. Both zones basically encompass flight paths off the ends of runways.
There's an exception in three "established residential neighborhoods," located in the southern portion of the lower East Side, eastern portion of Lowertown and part of the West Side Flats.
The "C" zone deals with height restrictions and surrounds the airport for one mile, with the exception of bluffs.
West Side resident Kathryn Engdahl wondered whether the enormous maple tree in her yard would need to be cut down to 30 feet tall.
Said East Side resident Cheryl Peterson: "We don't want future development opportunities to be parking lots."
City of St. Paul planner Allen Lovejoy noted some concerns the city had with the proposal, especially how height restrictions would affect current -- and future -- downtown buildings, including a possible St. Paul Saints ballpark. Not being able to build the $35 million ballpark would be a substantial economic loss, he said.
The Metropolitan Airports Commission is leading the effort to create the safety zone plan, and a special board with representatives from the commission and cities of St. Paul, West St. Paul and South St. Paul have been meeting over the past year to hammer out the proposed draft.
Even though the proposal was called overly restrictive by many Thursday night, it's relaxed compared to a state recommended model plan.
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The downtown airport, also known as Holman Field, is in a challenging location, bounded by a river and shadowed by bluffs, downtown buildings and neighborhoods.
It's the second-busiest airport in the MAC's reliever system, with nearly 111,000 takeoffs and landings in 2008. It brings in more than $110 million to the local economy each year, according to a 2005 Wilder Research study.
Aviation crashes are rare, but many that do occur happen within two miles of airports. Four people died in a rare midair collision that dropped remnants of two planes in Lowertown in 1992.
But a recent safety analysis shows that the probability of a crash in St. Paul is less than one in 10 million flight operations.
That fact alone, said many at the hearing, suggests that some of the proposed building restrictions should be relaxed.
There will be another public hearing in the months ahead.
The state transportation commissioner must approve the ordinance, then it must be adopted by the board and cities.
To see the draft ordinance, go to www.metroairports.org.
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Thursday, September 19, 2013
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The Farm Bill has been shifted from park into first gear with action by the House of Representatives to make cut in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), driven by conservative demands to reduce spending and put food stamp recipients to work. While the legislation was approved by a slim margin, it allows the Farm Bill to move to a conference committee with the House and Senate. Questions remain whether any House-Senate compromise will be acceptable by either House, as well as to the White House.
The 2008 Farm Bill should have been replaced a year ago when it expired, but that did not happen and it gained an extra year of life. With a prospective replacement a long way away, there may still be a need to call the 2008 legislation back into service. That is plan B for the Congress, if plan A fails, but plan A is still on the front burner.
The House turned up the heat late Thursday as it approved a $4 billion per year cut in $78 billion per year SNAP funding, at the same time the USDA was reporting more people under the poverty level and particularly more poverty in rural areas. The action came on a vote of 217 in favor of the funding limitations to SNAP versus 210 opposed to the cuts in H.R 3102. There were 15 Republicans who joined all 195 Democrats in voting against the bill.
After the vote, Chairman Frank Lucas of the House Agriculture Committee expressed his happiness that the debate was over and the focus could move to the conference committee," "I remain committed to getting a five-year farm bill on the books this year. Today's vote was another step toward that goal. The House passed a bill that makes common-sense reforms to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) that encourages and enables work participation, closes program loopholes, and eliminates waste, fraud and abuse while saving the American taxpayer nearly $40 billion. SNAP serves an important purpose to help Americans who are struggling, so it is equally important that we ensure the program is working in the most effective and efficient way. I look forward to continuing conversations with my House and Senate colleagues as we move toward a farm bill conference," said Chairman Frank Lucas.
Although Lucas' committee had approved nutrition spending with a smaller cut, House Majority Leader Eric Cantor would not allow that legislation to proceed and stripped the nutrition funding from the Farm Bill for separate consideration. Subsequently, the House will have two pieces of legislation, a Farm Bill and a separate nutrition program, and the Senate will submit its Farm Bill with a cut of only $4 billion over 10 years, not a $4 billion cut annually. Authorities said the 2 House bills will have to be merged into 1 technically, however it was unknown if the forces that demanded the separation would vote to rejoin them.
House Majority Leader Cantor has yet to name the House members who will be part of the conference committee with the Senate. The Senate members were named in mid-July, when it was thought the conference committee might be able to do its work during the August Congressional recess.
Senate Agriculture Chairman Debbie Stabenow says the House cut of the nutrition programs has no chance of acceptance in the Senate, and called the House maneuvers "a monumental waste of time."
With the expiration looming September 30 for the extended Farm Bill, many USDA programs that are funded from one fiscal year to the next will expire. At one point Republicans said they had no doubt that all work on a new Farm Bill would be readied in time to replace the legislation that is expiring. However with many other priorities, ahead of farm policy it is uncertain where the Farm Bill will fall on the schedule.
The schedule had been complicated by the fact the House planned to be in recess next week, allowing only September 30th for a single day to vote on multiple appropriations issues, among other things. However, early this week Cantor said he was cancelling the planned recess and the House would be in session the week of September 23rd.
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