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Celebrating a golden anniversary reunion with classmates from Fordham College (class of 1961) on a perfect June day in New York should be a time of pure Gaudeamus Igitur and little or no stress.
I should have known better that to attend a long lecture by Jack Keane, a retired four-star general of Fordham Business School's class of 1966. Actually, I did know better; but I went anyway. I felt I could risk going to hear Keane's slant on the world because, prior to my upcoming Mediterranean cruise to Gaza, my cardiologist had pronounced my blood pressure under control. I felt as good, and energized, as 50 years ago.
Keane, now a member of Fordham's Board of Trustees, has been the go-to general for the neoconservatives in recent years. He indicated that he was about to catch a flight to Europe where he would lobby leaders of the 41 NATO countries who, except for three, have been "unwilling to ask their people to sacrifice" in places like Afghanistan. (It seems never to have crossed his mind that most Europeans have long since concluded that the war in Afghanistan – aka Vietnamistan – is a fool's errand, and that they are less susceptible to misleading rhetoric about the so-called War on Terror.)
Proceeding from general to specific, Keane mentioned that he had asked top UK military leaders at Sandhurst why even the British seem to be going wobbly on Afghanistan. He said that over cocktails British generals commiserated with Keane, asking him sheepishly, "Have you Americans lost confidence in us?"
"Yes we have," Keane said he answered.He told us he very much bemoaned increasing U.S. isolation – even from its closest allies – on crucial matters of war and peace, but assured us: "We're better." Keane said he was going to Europe to try to transplant some of the U.S. "strength of character" into European backbones.
Europe Unwilling to "Sacrifice" Like We Are
Keane suggested that the two world wars had weakened the moral fiber and resolve of most Europeans. He claimed that the "main ingredient" in the lamentable "unwillingness of European leaders to ask their people to sacrifice" was the prevalence of Social Democracy. At which point a Golden Jubilee classmate of mine threw up his hand in a vain attempt to ask what sacrifices most Americans have been asked to make during almost ten years of war in Afghanistan – especially relatively wealthy white Americans like, sadly, virtually all of us in the audience.
On such a beautiful spring day, only a skunk at the picnic would call attention to the reality that only a select few Americans are being asked to "sacrifice;" that is, are being sent off to kill and be killed.
Hundreds of Fordham alumni perished in WW-I and WW-II. During Korea and Vietnam respects were paid and prayers always offered for those fallen in battle. Not so this year. I found myself wondering if any alumni had died in Iraq or Afghanistan. (I should have asked, even at the risk of eliciting an embarrassed silence.)
I have felt from the outset that eliminating the draft merits a place toward the very top of the long list of President Richard Nixon's missteps. Would Congress have voted to launch war on Iraq, if "important" people – like Representatives and Senators themselves and their children – would have been at risk to be sent into battle? I don't think so.
Keane and his well-heeled Establishment colleagues are quite okay asking other Americans to sacrifice. Half of U.S. forces are drawn, via a poverty draft, from the inner cities and small American towns of less than 50,000 – places with few jobs and even fewer educational opportunities. This is, in my view, an important moral issue, however painful it might be to examine it closely. It is avoided like the plague.
Highly Educated but Ill-Informed
I found the situation at Fordham as bad as what I observed during our last class reunion five years ago. Sadly, most of my classmates and many of my closest friends – virtually all avid readers of the New York Times – are malnourished by the thin gruel dished out by the Times and the rest of the Fawning Corporate Media.
Those willing to take the trouble to navigate the Web and look for alternative media for full and accurate information still comprise a distinct minority. Like me, however, they were deeply troubled that our alma mater would lionize Gen. Keane. "Thou shalt not kill" seems to have become as "quaint" and "obsolete" as the Geneva Conventions.
Those in that minority were all too well aware that Keane was a key figure in promoting the so-called "surge" of over 30,000 U.S. troops in 2007 that helped the Shia complete the ethnic cleansing of Baghdad. In short, during the surge, the Iraqi capital of several million was transformed from a predominantly Sunni city into an overwhelmingly Shiite one.
I had expected Keane to echo Establishment encomia regarding the "success" of the surge – and I had thought about what I might ask on that topic during the Q & A – but his hour-long lecture on "Emerging Global Risks and Opportunities" had a more general sweep. If anything held center stage, it was the "threat" from Iran, which he portrayed as part of an "ideological" struggle to create an Islamic Caliphate by defeating America's moral fiber, with the first step in this assault being the attack on 9/11. See how it all comes together?!
Iran: Main "Strategic Enemy" of the U.S.?
According to Keane, not only is the Iranian "dictatorship" intent on acquiring "regional hegemony," it is trying to "fundamentally change the world" by acquiring nuclear weapons. The United States is rightly concerned, he said, with internal repression in Iran; he branded Iranian leaders as "thugs and killers."
The "fundamental concern," however, is that the Iranians "are acquiring nuclear weapons." Here we go again, I thought. My hand shot up, but I had to wait until Keane finished his global survey. Finishing with the Far East, he reassured us that America has little to fear from a resurgent China.
When the Q and A began, I prefaced my question by highlighting the things we had in common, noting that I too was a Distinguished Military Graduate of Fordham's ROTC program and had been offered a career commission in the regular Army.
I chose to take my commission in the Army Reserve and I mentioned that after two years on active duty I had served for the next 27 years as a CIA analyst. I then made a point to thank him for warning us at the outset that he was a direct, open person with strong opinions, and that some of what he would say would be precisely that – his opinion. It seemed appropriate at that point to allude to Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan's famous dictum that everyone is entitled to his own opinion but not to his own facts.
Could he be unaware, I asked, that in late 2007, the 16 agencies of the U.S. intelligence community had concluded – unanimously, and "with high confidence" – that Iran stopped working on a nuclear weapon in mid-2003? Did he somehow miss the key National Intelligence Estimate of November 2007? Did he also miss the March 2011 testimony of National Intelligence Director James Clapper, who told Congress there was no evidence warranting change in that judgment?
Four-Star Bull
It was like waving a red flag before a four-star bull. "What's your question?" he barked.
I asked: "Why do you join with those neoconservatives who have such difficulty distinguishing between the strategic needs of Israel on the one hand and those of the U.S. on the other? Why do you keep claiming the Iranians 'are acquiring nuclear weapons,' when you know that this is not true. How can you keep a straight face in telling us that Iran is our 'main strategic enemy?'That is also not true, and you know it."
I then added a suggestion that he find time at the airport to pick up Seymour Hersh's investigative article on Iran and nukes in the current issue of the New Yorker magazine.
Would that Fordham's seal included the word Veritas, alongside Sapientia et Doctrina. For, somehow, the truth does not seem to hold much priority any more. I might have guessed that Keane's response would be not only unresponsive but disingenuous.
"There is evidence that was available starting in 2006, even before that National Intelligence Estimate was drafted, that Iran is working on a nuclear weapon."
That did it for me. I lost it. Convinced that this was not only a whopper, but the kind of whopper that could well end up getting thousands more killed, I blurted out, "That's a lie."
Some of my classmates told me later that at a Gala Jubilee Reunion it is very much frowned upon to call a wealthy Trustee of the university – and a four-star general to boot – a liar. Even if he is.
The next questioner, a former classmate of Keane, asked "Why not a nuclear free zone in the Middle East?" He was cut off when he tried to point out that Israel is the only regional country opposed, with full U.S. support, to a nuclear-free zone there. Another questioner asked about the influence of the Israel lobby. Keane's response, "Sorry, we're out of time." (In fairness, we were out of time, but Keane could not disguise his relief that that he could gracefully side-step addressing the key issue the lobby.)
The Setting Aside, Iran Issue Hardly Academic
The possibility of an attack on Iran seems to be on the front burner again, thanks to neoconservatives like Keane. In Washington in the not-too-distant past, we used to call such aficionados of pre-emptive war "the crazies;" many have since become the capital's opinion leaders.
Yet, even some level-headed Israelis are doing their best to warn their countrymen that Israel's right-wing government is again, dangerously, beating the drums for an attack on Iran. It has reached the point where former Mossad intelligence chief, Meir Dagan, has stated publicly that Israeli leaders may be on the verge of doing something really dumb and extremely dangerous.
In a recent talk at Hebrew University, Dagan called a military attack on Iran "a stupid idea" that "would mean regional war." Dagan said, "The regional challenge that Israel would face would be impossible." But many hard-line Israelis – like their neocon counterparts in the United States – don't want to hear such warnings. They are convinced – and see ample evidence – that, no matter what, in the end analysis the U.S. will pull Israel's chestnuts out of the fire
The Israeli newspaper Haaretz has reported:
"Most of the politicians, and amazingly (and absurdly) enough, also a large number of journalists, want [Dagan] to be quiet. They don't want him to get us upset with his fears or arouse us from our slumber with his warnings. We'll just leave the fateful decision of whether to attack Iran to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Ehud Barak, and to them alone, and let the storm over the issue subside. As if blind, we will follow them and be led by them straight into the midst of the danger."
As for Dagan himself, Haaretz commented that if he "thinks it's a matter of a threat to our existence at our doorstep, it is not only his right to make himself heard, it is his supreme duty. He should attempt to stop it, to act as a gatekeeper. If he acted otherwise, he would have been abusing his role as former Mossad director."
Keane's Record
I've had a day now to reflect on why I blurted out, "That's a lie." I mean, aside from the fact that I am 99 percent certain it was, in fact, a lie. I could have followed Washington rather than Bronx etiquette and said something less caustic, like "I don't believe you have that right, general."
I've pieced together the reasons for my blunt, visceral reaction. My umbrage derived mostly from the tens of thousands of human beings – Iraqis, Afghans, Pakistanis, Libyans, as well as Americans – who have died because of misleading statements like the one Keane made about Iran "acquiring nuclear weapons."
And I guess the setting had something to do with it, since I felt rather strongly that Keane should know better. You see, during the Sixties all undergraduates at Fordham were required to take a course in moral theology/ethics. Business School students were not exempt.
Moreover, I regard Keane and his neocon friends as mostly responsible for the death and destruction brought about by the surge of some 30,000 additional U.S. troops into Iraq between February 2007 and July 2008. U.S. troop deaths spiked to over 900 in 2007 alone, making it the deadliest year of the U.S. since 2004. As for Iraqi civilians, the first half-year of 2007 was the most deadly first six months of any year since the invasion of Iraq. In a word, the surge brought industrial scale violence to Iraq on the pretence of quelling it.
The most significant thing that happened during the surge was that the additional U.S. troops, most of whom were sent into Baghdad and its suburbs, enabled the Shiites to disarm the Sunnis. Once the Sunnis were disarmed, Shiite militias poured into Sunni neighborhoods at night and ethnically cleansed those neighborhoods. We could even observe from satellite imagery that the lights in Sunni districts literally went out.
Mixed neighborhoods in Baghdad ended up with virtually no Sunnis. In short, Baghdad went from a predominantly Sunni city to being overwhelmingly Shiite. Again, we're talking millions.
It is true that the horrific sectarian violence declined once the ethnic cleansing was far advanced, but that was mostly because there were far fewer mixed neighborhoods where Sunnis and Shiites could kill one another, although sectarian butchery remains horrible even to this day.
Moreover, it is a mistake to think that those U.S. troops still in Iraq will be spared. Earlier today five more U.S. soldiers were killed in a rocket attack on an American base in the Baladiyat district of Baghdad. This appears to be a tangible sign that the Sunnis mean to "get even" not only with the Shia but with the U.S. troops who screened the ethnic cleansing of Baghdad in 2007-2008.
As for what the surge did in terms of brutalizing American troops, one need look no farther than the gun-barrel video and chatter from an Apache helicopter on July 12, 2007, in a southeastern neighborhood of Baghdad. WikiLeaks, you will recall, released the video and it can be accessed via collateralmurder.com in 18-minute and 39-minute versions.
An excellent report with short commentary on the video was produced earlier this year by the German TV program Panorama. Panorama was later persuaded to go back, "undub," and provide a 12-minute video-cum-commentary in English, since the American Fawning Corporate Media have tended to avoid this horrific footage.
Unasked Questions
Before Keane chose to focus on Iran, I had jotted down a line of questioning about the surge, mostly as a way to help those of my classmates who still appear not to know where to look for objective information and analysis.
I was confident that his answers or non-answers would be instructive regarding the widespread misunderstanding of what the surge in Iraq was really all about.
In short, during the fall of 2006, CENCOM commander Gen. John Abizaid and the commander of U.S. troops in Iraq, Gen. George Casey, in formal testimony to the Senate Armed Services Committee, strongly advocated that the U.S. NOT send additional troops to Iraq. They argued that refusing to reinforce would be the only way to ensure that Iraqi politicians would finally get the message that they had to put their own house in order.
Just before the mid-term election in 2006, then-Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld chose to support his commanders. In the view of the neocon hardliners in George W. Bush's administration, Rumsfeld (of all people) was going wobbly on the Iraq War. Immediately after the election, Rumsfeld was ousted and was replaced by Robert Gates in December 2006.
Also, in December 2006, James Baker, the former Secretary of State and White House Chief of Staff under President George H. W. Bush, announced the results of the highly regarded Iraq Study Group. Rather than advocate sending more U.S. troops to Iraq, the ISG did the opposite, urging a drawdown.
In addition, most, if not all, of the Joint Chiefs of Staff were against the surge. However, with Keane and the neocons ascendant, and Gates and Gen. David Petraeus (an extremely close associate of Gen. Keane) waiting in the wings, Bush cast aside the advice of his field commanders, the Iraq Study Group, and the top brass at the Pentagon. Soon, Abizaid and Casey were gone, too.And Petraeus became, well, Petraeus ex machina.
My tentative plan at Fordham was to ask Gen. Keane how in the world he and his neocon allies succeeded in persuading President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney to ignore the experts and opt rather for a surge. And how does he reply to those who say it was simply a case of postponing the day of definitive defeat in Iraq until Bush and Cheney could ride west into the sunset?
Gen. Keane, I would ask, How do you justify the deaths of more than 1,000 additional U.S. soldiers and countless thousands more Iraqis in exchange for sparing Bush, Cheney and the neocons the embarrassment of having the catastrophe in Iraq hung firmly around their necks?
Perhaps someone else will get a chance to pose such questions to Gen. Keane sometime soon.
Ray McGovern works with Tell the Word, a publishing arm of the ecumenical Church of the Saviour in inner-city Washington. He served as an Army infantry/intelligence officer in the early 60s, and then as a CIA analyst for the next 27 years. He is co-founder of Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity (VIPS).
A shorter version of this article appeared originally on Consortiumnews.com.


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Aeschylus wrote nearly 2,500 years ago that in war, "truth is the first casualty." His words are no doubt known to another wise man, whose strategic "maneuvers within a changing information environment" would not be an utterly foreign concept to the Greeks in the Peloponnesian War. Aeschylus and Thucydides would no doubt wonder at the capacity of the Information Age to spread truth and disinformation alike. In November 2010, it's clear that legitimate concerns about national security must be balanced with the spirit of open government expressed by the Obama administration.
The issues created between Wikileaks and open government policies are substantial. As Samantha Power made clear in her interview on open government and transparency: "There are two factors that are always brought to bear in discussions in open government, as President Obama has made clear from the day he issued his memorandum. One is privacy, one is security."
As the State Department made clear in its open letter to Wikileaks, the position of the United States government is that the planned release of thousands of diplomatic cables by that organization today will place military operations, diplomatic relationships and the lives of many individuals at risk.
As this post went live, the Wikileaks website is undergoing a massive distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack, though the organization's Twitter account is far from silenced. A tweet earlier on Sunday morning noted that "El Pais, Le Monde, Speigel, Guardian & NYT will publish many US embassy cables tonight, even if WikiLeaks goes down."
In fact, Wikileaks' newest leak, through the early release of Der Spiegel, had long since leaked onto Twitter by midday. Adrien Chen's assessment at Gawker? "At least from the German point of view there are no earth-shattering revelations, just a lot of candid talk about world leaders."
The New York Times offered a similar assessment in its own report on Wikileaks, Cables Shine Light Into Secret Diplomatic Channels: "an unprecedented look at backroom bargaining by embassies around the world, brutally candid views of foreign leaders and frank assessments of nuclear and terrorist threats."
The Lede is liveblogged reaction to Wikileaks at NYTimes.com, including the statement to Fareed Zakaria by the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Admiral Mullen, that "the leak would put the lives of some people at risk."
The Lede added some context for that statement:
Despite that dire warning, Robert Gates, the defense secretary, told Congress in October that a Pentagon review "to date has not revealed any sensitive intelligence sources and methods compromised by the disclosure," of the war logs by WikiLeaks.
The Guardian put today's release into context, reporting that the embassy cable leaks sparks a global diplomatic crisis. Among other disclosures, the Guardian reported that the cables showed "Arab leaders are privately urging an air strike on Iran and that US officials have been instructed to spy on the UN's leadership ... a major shift in relations between China and North Korea, Pakistan's growing instability and details of clandestine US efforts to combat al-Qaida in Yemen." The Guardian's new interactive of diplomatic cables is one of the best places online to browse the documents.
Is the "radical transparency" that Wikileaks both advocates for - and effectively forces - by posting classified government information "open government?" The war logs from Afghanistan are likely the biggest military intelligence leak ever. At this point in 2010, it's clear that Wikileaks represents a watershed in the difficult challenge to information control that the Internet represents for every government.
On the one hand, Open Government Directive issued by the Obama administration on December 8, 2009 explicitly rejects releasing information that would threaten national security. Open government expert Steven Aftergood was crystal clear in June on that count: Wikileaks fails the due diligence review.
On the other hand, Wikileaks is making the diplomatic and military record of the U.S. government more open to its citizens and world, albeit using a methodology on its own site that does not appear to allow for the redaction of information that could be damaging to the national security interests of the United States or its allies. "For me Wikileaks is open govt," tweeted Dominic Campbell. "True [open government] is not determined and controlled by govts, but redistributes power to the people to decide."
The New York Times editorial board explored some of these tensions in a note to readers on its decision to publish Wikileaks.
The Times believes that the documents serve an important public interest, illuminating the goals, successes, compromises and frustrations of American diplomacy in a way that other accounts cannot match... The Times has taken care to exclude, in its articles and in supplementary material, in print and online, information that would endanger confidential informants or compromise national security. The Times's redactions were shared with other news organizations and communicated to WikiLeaks, in the hope that they would similarly edit the documents they planned to post online.
...the more important reason to publish these articles is that the cables tell the unvarnished story of how the government makes its biggest decisions, the decisions that cost the country most heavily in lives and money. They shed light on the motivations -- and, in some cases, duplicity -- of allies on the receiving end of American courtship and foreign aid. They illuminate the diplomacy surrounding two current wars and several countries, like Pakistan and Yemen, where American military involvement is growing. As daunting as it is to publish such material over official objections, it would be presumptuous to conclude that Americans have no right to know what is being done in their name.
It seems that the Times and Guardian decided to make redactions from the diplomatic cables before publication. It's not clear how that will compare to what will be posted on Wikileaks.org alongside the War Logs and Afghan Diaries.
Open government, radical transparency and the Internet
More transparency from the military, Congress and the White House regarding the progress of wars is important, desirable and perhaps inevitable. Accountability to civilian leadership and the electorate is a bedrock principle in a representative democracy, not least because of the vast amounts of spending that has been outlaid since 9/11 in the shadow government that Dana Priest reported out in Top Secret America in the Washington Post.
Wikileaks and the Internet together add the concept of asymmetric journalism to the modern media lexicon. File asymmetric journalism next to the more traditional accountability journalism that Priest practices or the database journalism of the new media crew online at the Sunlight Foundation and similar organizations are pioneering.
As Tim O'Reilly tweeted, "wikileaks *challenges* [open government government 2.0] philosophy. Challenges are good if we rise to them." No question about the former point. Governments that invest in the capacity to maneuver in new media environment might well fare better in the information warfare the 21st century battlefield includes.
Open government is a mindset, but goes beyond new media literacy or harnessing new technologies. The fundamental elements of open government, as least as proposed by the architects of that policy in Washington now, do not include releasing diplomatic cables regarding espionage or private assessments of of world leaders. Those priorities or guidelines will not always be followed by the governed, as Wikileaks amply demonstrates.
Increasingly, citizens are turning to the Internet for data, policy and services. Alongside the efforts of government webmasters at .gov websites, citizens will find the rich stew of social media, media conglomerates or mashups that use government and private data. That mix includes sites like Wikileaks, its chosen media partners, the recently launched WLCentral.org or new models for accountability like IPaidABribe.com.
That reality reinforces that fact that information literacy is a paramount concern for citizens in the digital age. As danah boyd has eloquently pointed out, transparency is not enough. The new media environment makes such literacy more essential than ever, particularly in the context of the "first stateless news organization" Jay Rosen has described. There's a new kind of alliance behind the War Logs, as David Carr wrote in the New York Times.
There's also a critical reality: in a time of war, some information can and will have to remain classified for years if those fighting them are to have any realistic chances of winning. Asymmetries of information between combatants are, after all, essential to winning maneuvers on the battlefields of the 21st century. Governments appear to be playing catchup given the changed media environment, supercharged by the power of the Internet, broadband and smartphones. This year, we've seen a tipping point in the relationship of government, media and techology.
Comparing the Wikileaks War Logs to the Pentagon Papers is inevitable -- and not exactly valid, as ProPublica reported. It would be difficult for the military to win battles, much less wars, without control over situational awareness, operational information or effective counterintelligence.
Given the importance of the ENIGMA machine or intercepts of Japanese intel in WWII, or damage caused by subsequent counterintelligence leaks from the FBI and elsewhere, working to limit intelligence leaks that damage ongoing ops will continue to be vitally important to the military for as long as we have one. Rethinking the definitions for secrecy by default will also require hard work. As the disclosures from the most recent release continue to reverberate around the globe, the only certainty is that thousands of State Department and Defense Department workers are going to have an extra headache this winter.

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1. The District Court for the Territory of Alaska is a "district court of the United States" within the meaning of 303 (b) of the Labor Management Relations Act, 1947, which authorizes any person injured in his business or property by reason of any violation of 303 (a) (relating to secondary boycotts, jurisdictional strikes, etc.) to sue therefor in any "district court of the United States." Pp. 240-243.
2. The right of action under 303 (b) of the Labor Management Relations Act, 1947, for damages caused by jurisdictional strikes prohibited by 303 (a) (4) is not dependent upon any prior determination by the National Labor Relations Board under 8 (b) (4) (D) and 10 (k) of the National Labor Relations Act, as amended. Pp. 243-245.
189 F.2d 177, affirmed.
The District Court for the Territory of Alaska awarded respondent a judgment for $750,000 plus costs against petitioners for injuries sustained as a result of a violation of 303 (a) of the Labor Management Relations Act, 1947, 61 Stat. 136, 158, 29 U.S.C. 187 (a). The Court of Appeals affirmed. 189 F.2d 177. This Court granted certiorari. 342 U.S. 857 . Affirmed, p. 245.
Richard Gladstein and Allan Brotsky argued the cause and filed a brief for petitioners.
Manley B. Strayer argued the cause for respondent. With him on the brief was Charles A. Hart. [342 U.S. 237, 238]
Solicitor General Perlman, David P. Findling, Mozart G. Ratner and Dominick L. Manoli filed a memorandum for the National Labor Relations Board, as amicus curiae.
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In the spring of 1947, respondent purchased certain properties for the manufacture of lumber, including a sawmill at Juneau, Alaska, and commenced operations. Shortly thereafter, the International Woodworkers of America requested negotiation of a contract with respondent, claiming representation of a majority of respondent's employees. A bargaining agreement was signed with that union on November 3, 1947.
Respondent decided to ship its lumber to ports in Canada and the United States and acquired barges for that purpose. Respondent's policy was to utilize its own employees to load its barges. In October, 1947, petitioner, Local 16 of the International Longshoremen's and Warehousemen's Union, asked that its men be allowed to load respondent's barges. This request was denied. The request was repeated the following spring and was again denied. Petitioner Local established a picket line at respondent's plant on April 10, 1948. Most of respondent's employees refused to cross the picket line and the mill shut down. The mill reopened on July 19, 1948, but picketing continued. Petitioner International notified its Canadian locals that respondent's products were unfair. Respondent was unable to unload its barges in Canada or Puget Sound due to the refusal of longshoremen to work respondent's vessels. On October 11, 1948, the mill again closed down due to lack of storage facilities to hold the accumulating lumber. Picketing was not discontinued until May 9, 1949.
On August 3, 1948, respondent filed a charge against Local 16 alleging violations of 8 (b) (4) (D) of the [342 U.S. 237, 239] National Labor Relations Act, as amended by the Labor Management Relations Act, 1947, 1 61 Stat. 136, 141, 29 U.S.C. (Supp. II) 151, 158, on the ground that the Local attempted to induce assignment of particular work to its members. Following a hearing pursuant to 10 (k) of the Act, the National Labor Relations Board determined on April 1, 1949, that longshoremen represented by Local 16 were not entitled to the barge-loading work. 82 N. L. R. B. 650. In the meantime, respondent had filed suit for damages against both the Local and the International under 303 (a) (4) of the Labor Management Relations Act. 2 Respondent asked, pursuant to an [342 U.S. 237, 240] amended complaint, for damages from April 10, 1948, to April 27, 1949. After trial before a jury, respondent was awarded a judgment of $750,000 plus costs. The Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit affirmed. 189 F.2d 177. The case is here on certiorari. 342 U.S. 857 .
First. This suit was brought in the District Court for the Territory of Alaska. And the question which lies at the threshold of the case is whether that court is a "district court of the United States" within the meaning of 303 (b) of the Act. 3 That court has the jurisdiction of district courts of the United States by the law which created it. 48 U.S.C. 101. Yet vesting it with that jurisdiction does not necessarily make it a district court for all the varied functions of the Judicial Code. See Reynolds v. United States, 98 U.S. 145, 154 ; McAllister v. United States, 141 U.S. 174 ; United States v. Burroughs, [342 U.S. 237, 241] 289 U.S. 159, 163 ; Mookini v. United States, 303 U.S. 201, 205 . The words "district court of the United States" commonly describe constitutional courts created under Article III of the Constitution, not the legislative courts which have long been the courts of the Territories. 4 See Mookini v. United States, supra, p. 205. But we think that in the context of this legislation they are used to describe courts which exercise the jurisdiction of district courts. The jurisdiction conferred by 303 (b) 5 is made "subject to the limitations and provisions of section 301." Section 301 lifts the limitations governing district courts as respects the amount in controversy and the citizenship of the parties; it defines the capacity of labor unions to sue or be sued; it restricts the enforceability of a money judgment against a labor union to its assets; and it specifies the jurisdiction of a district court over a union and defines the service of process. 6 Congress was here concerned with reshaping labor-management legal relations; [342 U.S. 237, 242] and it was taking precise steps to declared and announced objectives. One of those was the elimination of obstacles to suits in the federal courts. It revised the jurisdictional requirements for suits in the district courts, requirements as applicable to the trial court as to any court which in the technical sense is a district court of the United States. The Act extends in its full sweep to Alaska as well as to the states and the other territories. 7 The trial court is indeed the only court in Alaska to which recourse could be had. Even if it were not a "district court" within the meaning of 303 (b), it plainly would be "any other court" for purposes of that section. As such other court it might or might not have jurisdiction over this dispute depending on aspects of territorial law which we have not examined. But since Congress lifted the restrictive requirements which might preclude suit in courts having the district courts' jurisdiction, we think it is more consonant with the uniform, national policy of the Act to hold that those restrictions were lifted as respects all courts [342 U.S. 237, 243] upon which the jurisdiction of a district court has been conferred. That reading of the Act does not, to be sure, take the words "district court of the United States" in their historic, technical sense. But literalness is no sure touchstone of legislative purpose. The purpose here is more closely approximated, we believe, by giving the historic phrase a looser, more liberal meaning in the special context of this legislation.
Second. The main contention of petitioners in the case is that 303 (a) (4) read in light of 8 (b) (4) (D) 8 renders illegal only such picketing as takes place after and in the face of a determination by the Board that the acts complained of were unfair labor practices. If that conclusion is warranted, there must be a reversal here since the damages reflected in the present judgment for the most part accrued prior to the decision of the Board, under 10 (k) of the Act, 9 that petitioners had committed an unfair labor practice within the meaning of 8 (b) (4) (D).
Section 8 (b) (4) (D) and 303 (a) (4) are substantially identical in the conduct condemned. Section 8 (b) (4) (D) gives rise to an administrative finding; 10 303 [342 U.S. 237, 244] (a) (4), to a judgment for damages. The fact that the two sections have an identity of language and yet specify two different remedies is strong confirmation of our conclusion that the remedies provided were to be independent of each other. Certainly there is nothing in the language of 303 (a) (4) which makes its remedy dependent on any prior administrative determination that an unfair labor practice has been committed. Rather, the opposite seems to be true. For the jurisdictional disputes proscribed by 303 (a) (4) are rendered unlawful "for the purposes of this section only," thus setting apart for private redress, acts which might also be subjected to the administrative process. The fact that the Board must first attempt to resolve the dispute by means of a 10 (k) determination before it can move under 10 (b) and (c) for a cease and desist order 11 is only a limitation on administrative power, as is the provision in 10 (k) that upon compliance "with the decision of the Board or upon such voluntary adjustment of the dispute," the charge shall be dismissed. These provisions, limiting and curtailing the administrative power, find no counterpart in the provision for private redress contained in 303 (a) (4). Section 303 (a) (4) as explained by Senator Taft, its author, "retains simply a right of suit for damages against any labor organization which undertakes a secondary boycott or a jurisdictional strike." 12
The right to sue in the courts is clear, provided the pressure on the employer falls in the prescribed category which, so far as material here, is forcing or requiring him to assign particular work "to employees in a particular labor organization" rather than to employees "in another labor organization" or in another "class." Here the jurisdictional [342 U.S. 237, 245] row was between the outside union and the inside union. The fact that the union of mill employees temporarily acceded to the claim of the outside group did not withdraw the dispute from the category of jurisdictional disputes condemned by 303 (a) (4). Petitioners, representing one union and employing outside labor, were trying to get the work which another union, employing mill labor, had. That competition for work at the expense of employers has been condemned by the Act. Whether that condemnation was wise or unwise is not our concern. It represents national policy which has both administrative and conventional legal sanctions.
[ Footnote 2 ] Section 303 (a) (4) provides:
[ Footnote 3 ] Section 303 (b) provides:
[ Footnote 4 ] The new Judicial Code creates judicial districts for the District of Columbia, 28 U.S.C. 88; for Hawaii, 28 U.S.C. 91; and for Puerto Rico, 28 U.S.C. 119; but none for the Canal Zone, the Virgin Islands, or for Alaska.
[ Footnote 5 ] See note 3, supra.
[ Footnote 6 ] Section 301 provides:
[ Footnote 7 ] Section 2 (6) defines commerce to include trade, etc., between a state and a territory or within any territory.
[ Footnote 8 ] See notes 1 and 2, supra.
[ Footnote 9 ] Section 10 (k) provides:
[ Footnote 10 ] The administrative finding under 10 (k) can be the basis for a cease and desist order under 10 (b) and (c). A cease and desist order was issued in the present dispute. 90 N. L. R. B. 1753.
[ Footnote 11 ] Juneau Spruce Corp., 82 N. L. R. B. 650, 655.
[ Footnote 12 ] 93 Cong. Rec. 4858; 2 Legislative History of the Labor Management Relations Act, 1947, p. 1371. [342 U.S. 237, 246]
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TO the constituency so graphically described by Powell in his "Living Authors" the genius of Poe was forced to address itself or remain silent for ever. That he met its cold, hard, unsympathetic reception with the fierce disdain that found its outlet in his scathing criticisms of the typical men of the time is not to be wondered at, nor is it less surprising that he should shrink from laying bare the secrets of his soul to those so incapable of comprehending their depths.
When, therefore, in his silent vigils, enthralled by the imaginative ecstasy which often possessed and overpowered him, he conceived and wrought out this marvellous inspiration, what wonder is it that his delicate sensibility should prompt him to conceal from the rude gaze of his material audience the secret springs of his inner consciousness, by printing his weird fancies over an assumed name, and hedging its origin about with the impenetrable veil of fiction?
Had "The Raven" been, as he described it in his paper, "The Philosophy of Composition," a product of art simply, and not of inspiration, his ambition for fame would infallibly have led him not only to claim the poem openly, from the [page 395:] outset, but to have preluded it with the descriptive analysis, using the verse as an illustration of the alleged philosophy of the composition. It is, on the contrary, a most suggestive fact that "The Raven" was the only important composition of Poe's ever printed by him over a nom-de-plume. To his intimates Poe frequently spoke of the exalted state, which he defined as ecstasy, in which he wrote his poems of imagination. From one of his nearest friends, who knew him in prosperity and adversity, in sickness and health, I learn that none of Poe's romances were more fictitious than his romances about himself and his writings, and his accepted analysis of "The Raven" is confessedly as thorough a specimen of plausible fabrication as is his familiar story of "The Facts in the Case of Monsieur de Valdemar." Like all persons of a morbidly sensitive temperament, he resented the slightest approach from the world at large, and from practical people in particular, to the inner citadel of his soul, and he knew well how to use his invincible weapons of defence.
Many admirers of the poet's genius will doubtless prefer that the origin of the inspiration of "The Raven" shall remain enshrouded in the chiaro-oscuro of the mystic suggestiveness of the verse.
But in a much wider circle there unquestionably exists a pardonable desire to learn the true source of this wonderful poem, that, written in any age, in any language, would have given to its author a world-wide fame.
Basing the opinions which we venture to advance here upon the result of a process of psychological introversion, which conclusion is confirmed by several of Poe's most intimate [page 396:] acquaintances now living, strengthened by a chain of conclusive circumstantial evidence, we have arrived at a theory of the origin of the poem that has received the approval of Mr. George R. Graham and others of Poe's friends.
A letter received from Mr. Graham May 1, 1877, in this connection will be read with interest, from the writer's near and friendly intimacy with the poet:
"DEAR SIR From my near acquaintance with Edgar A. Poe at the time 'The Raven' was written I have no doubt that your theory as to the source of the inspiration of 'The Raven' is in the main correct. It was his foible to mislead and mystify his readers.
"His published analysis of 'The Raven' is a good specimen of his capability in this kind of fiction.
"Your impression that the poet was accessible to fear is entirely correct. He was singularly sensitive to outside influences, more so than most imaginative men.
"His organization, as I have always said, was extremely delicate and fine. Hence his impressibility and subjection at times to influences which would not have a feather's weight with ordinary men.
"Even when absorbed in writing I noticed that a sudden breath of air, a noise unheard by others around him, would startle him.
"He disliked the dark, and was rarely out at night when I knew him. On one occasion he said to me: 'I believe that demons take advantage of the night to mislead the unwary — although you know,' he added, 'I don't believe in them.'
"The mysteries of his inner life were never revealed to any one, but his intimates well understood that to mystify his hearer was a strong element of his mind.
"Yours very truly,
"NEW YORK, May 1, 1877"
It is a singular fact that Poe's reading of "The Raven" [page 397:] in private was totally at variance with the reading of it as a mere composition.
Had it been constructed as described by him in his essay on composition, his reading would, unquestionably, have been in accordance with this description, for Poe was too good an elocutionist to fail to adequately voice his conceptions.
As a mere composition, it is impossible to give to the reading of the poem a tithe of the vraisemblance which attaches to it, when rendered according to the theory of its foundation upon an actual experience of the poet.
But for Poe's evident intent to conceal his authorship of the poem there would be but little expectation of finding any clue to the source of its inspiration. But the fact of the deliberate and exceptional concealment evidences conclusively enough that there was, in the poet's own experience, some basis of fact whereon his imaginative structure was erected.
That some of the most exquisite imaginative fabrics ever constructed have been wrought from the suggestions afforded by some special experience, or by a chance incident or circumstance, there are many familiar examples to demonstrate.
Beethoven's beautiful "Moonlight Sonata" was suggested by a romantic incident during the composer's sojourn at Bonn. Mrs. Julia Ward Howe's "Battle Hymn of the Republic" was a special inspiration which came to her after witnessing a romantic moonlight march of the troops during the war of the American rebellion.
In seeking for the clue to "The Raven" we find, in recalling the situation of the poet at this time, that he was living at Bloomingdale, New York. [page 398:]
While at this place, and previous to the appearance of "The Raven," his child-wife, Virginia, for whom he had come to feel a deeper affection than that of fraternal love, was prostrated by a serious illness, which had previously affected her, and for weeks her life hung by a thread. Animation was at times, indeed, seemingly suspended, and on one dreary December night the poet was agonized to find her cold and breathless, apparently dead.
In his lonely, silent vigils, in what was, to all intents and purposes, the presence of death, many strange imageries and much bitter self-accusation naturally possessed him. Although latterly devoted to his wife, he had caused her pain in the first years of his married life by his romantic admiration of other women;* and an exaggerated sense of wrong done to his lost loved one, through his neglect, not unnaturally came to him at this time, exciting the most irrational remorse, and completely surcharging his mind with the imaginative reveries "that no mortal ever dared to dream before." In picturing to himself his wife as departed, his remorse also forbade him any hope of meeting her in the distant Aidenn of the future.
With the added factor of some fugitive bird, or domestic pet (the Poes always kept them), breaking in upon his wild reveries with some slight interruption which the poet's distorted fancy exaggerated into some supernatural visitant, an adequate basis for his masterpiece is found. [page 399:]
That this suggestion of the possible origin of "The Raven" is at least plausible, an analysis of the construction of the poem, coupled with the peculiar characteristics of the poet, will perhaps evidence.
Like many persons of an imaginative, nervous temperament, Poe was susceptible, in certain moods, to a positive sense of the supernatural. This sense he has defined in his letters, describing visions suggesting singular fancies.
In his normal state, he did not possess the element of fear; but when his mind was abnormally overwrought to the extent that it frequently was, he was susceptible to impressions that at other times would have affected him very differently.
We find this dread of the supernatural barely hinted at in the first verse, wherein his weariness and loneliness are principally depicted.
The second verse simply describes his isolation and his sorrow for his lost love. The train of thought, inspired by his breathing his hopeless sorrow, is quickly followed by the self-accusation of his remorse for his past; and the vision of an accusing fate dawns upon him, as he recalls the strange sharp sound that interrupted his loneliness.
He is, in fact, beside himself with fear, and, as a person in such a state would be likely to do, he endeavors to allay his imaginative terrors by ascribing them to some commonplace cause;
"'Tis some visitor entreating entrance at my chamber door
Some late visitor entreating entrance at my chamber door:
This it is, and nothing more."
He nerves himself up to the effort required to throw off [page 400:] his supernatural terror, and opens the door to discover the cause of the noise. He finds nothing but the darkness. His fears, not having been dispelled, as they would have been had lie, at this time, discovered some practical cause for the interruption, are, naturally, confirmed, and new visions are inspired, and the supposed mysterious visitant takes the haunting form of the spirit of his lost one.
In an ecstasy of dread and excitement, he returns to his lonely watch, only to be again interrupted by a similar noise at the window.
To his delight and surprise, his mysterious visitor takes the welcome form of a truant bird, or some other pet, that had escaped and returned after the house was closed for the night.
His supernatural dread immediately gives place to a sense of relief at the material presence of his dumb visitor, and, pacified for the moment, his imaginative fears take flight, and he sits down and holds a merry colloquy with his guest, glad of any opportunity of occupying himself and taking his mind off from the morbid imaginings that had possessed it. But under all this would be blithesome colloquy with his visitor, his fancy will revert to the hopeless dread that has overpowered him, and, like the haunted criminal in M. M. Erckmann and Chatrian's drama of "The Bells," his imagination coins but one word in answer to his every query; and as Matthias Kant, in the play, is pursued everywhere by the weird jingle of the bells, so the mocking "Nevermore!" seemed to hover in the air, sounding the knell of his lost hopes.
The refrain is not, however, to my mind, invested with [page 401:] any supernatural suggestiveness in the earlier portions of the poem. Were it so, the poet would have indicated it in the verse. On the contrary, he writes:
"Much I marvelled this ungainly fowl to hear discourse so plainly,
Though its answer little meaning, little relevancy, bore,"
clearly indicating that his impression was simply one of surprise, not, at first, of fear.
This idea is confirmed in the opening line of the twelfth stanza of the poem:
"But the raven still beguiling all my sad soul into smiling,"
which clearly evidences that, up to this point, the impression produced by the appearance of the bird, had not excited any other emotions than the very natural effects of surprise and amusement. But immediately after this, the poet permits himself to do a very hazardous thing for his peace of mind, for he betook himself "to linking fancy unto fancy," until, at the end of the next stanza, we find him just where he was at the beginning, the lighter train of thought suggested by the entrance of his visitor, having merged itself in the reminiscences of his lost Lenore, with whom, for the first time in the course of the interview, it occurs to him to connect the bird.
Nothing, it seems to us, is at once so natural and ingenious as the manner of the leading up, in the verse, to this necessary connection of the bird with the subject of the poet's imageries.
The careless, blithesome opening line of the twelfth stanza, already quoted, is in such bold contrast to the sad closing line of the next stanza, that it seems inexplicable that these [page 402:] opposing ideas could have been so congruously reconciled by so simple a device as the deft placing of the "cushioned seat" with its "violet velvet lining,"
From this point, the atmosphere of the scene changes and becomes merged in the supernatural, the changes of the atmosphere being clearly indicated by the lines:
"Then methought the air grew denser, perfumed from an unseen censer
Swung by seraphim whose footfalls tinkled on the tufted floor."
The bird, no longer a bird to the distorted vision of the poet, assumes to his gaze the shape, first, of an angel, then of an avenging demon.
In one moment of rhapsody, he grasps with frantic joy at the fitful hope of "Nepenthe" for his remorse, only to be cast down to the depths of despair by the reaction which succeeds this still-born hope.
Invested by the poet's fancy with the spirit of prophecy, the bird from that moment assumes to him the form of a Nemesis, and replies to his plaints with the oracular solemnity of a remorseless fate. There are no bounds to the mental anguish depicted in the stanza beginning:
"Be that word our sign of parting,"
and no limit to the abject despair portrayed in the following, the closing, stanza.
In voicing his imaginary conception inverse, it is not singular that Poe should have selected the raven as typical of his fateful visitor; for the raven has for ages past been renowned as the symbol of ill-omen, and for the purposes of the narration of the story, a talking bird was indispensable. What other than the raven could have been effectively employed?
The refrain "Nevermore!" was not less obviously selected as suggestive, both in sense and sound, of the poet's fateful fancy.
It will, I think, be conceded that the spontaneity which is an all-pervading characteristic of such of the poems as are known to have been inspired by some actual person, such as "To Helen," "Annabel Lee," and "For Annie," exists not less palpably in "The Raven," Like these others, it sings itself, to a strange melody, it is true, but not less naturally or truly, and with an exalted beauty of rhythm that seems born of a special inspiration.
[The following footnote appears at the bottom of page 398:]
* Mrs. Weiss states that he had frequently had sentimental attachments for intellectual women, sometimes nothing more than a distant adoration the poet never speaking to the lady — "as a devotee might worship the Madonna."
[S:0 - PL, 1880] - Edgar Allan Poe Society of Baltimore - A Poe Bookshelf - The Rationale of The Raven (William Fearing Gill, 1880)


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Wales captain Sam Warburton expects to be available for the RBS 6 Nations opener against Italy at the Millennium Stadium on 1 February.
Warburton has been out since the end of November with shoulder nerve damage but the British and Irish Lions skipper announced at Wednesday's Championship launch in London that he is winning his fitness battle.
However, his lack of game time while recovering from the injury means he may play a match for Cardiff Blues before taking part in Wales' Six Nations campaign.
"I think I'll be available for selection," Warburton said.
"I need to have a chat with (head coach) Warren Gatland and the medics early next week to decide what's the best thing to do, whether that be go back to my club first to play a game."
Defending champions Wales are seeking their third successive Six Nations title.
"We always look forward to the Six Nations, it's what you're measured on. It's the one we always look forward to," Warburton said.
"This is my fifth Championship now and I love playing in them. We have a chance for three in a row and to create history."


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As most of you know, during a football game last week Bob Costas lectured us po' goofy Americans about the evils of a "gun culture" and how we need to evolve away from being obsessed with firearms. As soon as I heard that drivel roll off Mr. C's tongue I ordered another 30/06, a sweet Walther PPK and a custom .416 Rigby turnbolt. Cowabunga, Bob. Thanks for reminding me to buy more guns.
First off, let me help you, Robert:: Guns do not kill people. Dads with daughters do.: Oh, and BTW,: Planned Parenthood kills a lot of people: … like real innocent babies … like the most vulnerable form of all humanity. Why don't you piss and moan about PP, Roberto? What's that I hear? Crickets? Yep, crickets from Costas on the evils of the abortion mills. I would've thought that crime would have made Bobby incensed. Oh, well.
Another thing I thought was weird was Bob launching into an anti-gun diatribe during a football game. A football game, BC? Look, I know he was trying to be relevant in his commentary as it related to Belcher's murder/suicide, but whizzing on guns to a football crowd is like pooh-poohing pasta and red wine to Italians. You should have saved that lecture for a figure skating event where the male contestants are sashaying to Spandau Ballet, doing pirouettes and floating around in unitards with glitter in their hair. You could have come on during a gentle moment and said, "Don't you think we have too many guns? You do? Me too."
When it comes to the topic of self-defense I couldn't give a flibbertigibbet what the heavily guarded Bob Costas says about my right to keep and bear as many firearms as I want. On such a serious topic, I take my cue from a high power. No, I'm not talking about Chuck Norris. I'm talking about Jesus Christ. Yes, what saith the second person of the godhead is what I want to know.
Now, when discussing what Christ would green light in regard to defending one's self, it's usually good to actually go to the gospels, read them and then draw conclusions. Here's what I've gotten after scouring Scripture a few times:
1. In His earthly ministry, Jesus didn't carry a weapon except the time when He took a whip (a whip! You gotta love it!) and drove the TBN clowns out of the temple. He didn't chide them or write them a strong but tasteful e-mail asking them to please not do that kind of stuff in church.
What did the meek and mild Messiah do? He whipped them. I wonder if the Christ-is-a-pacifist-wuss Christian can picture sweet Jesus laying the leather to the backs of the marketers who were making His Father's house a place of merchandise.
If Christ were to do that today He'd be thrown in prison, and 99.9% of churches in the USA wouldn't have Him speak at their annual Hallelujah Aren't We Fabulous conference because Jesus wouldn't be behaving very "Christ-like."
2. It's clear from Scripture that Jesus didn't need weapons because He had at His disposal an angelic host that could flatten armies. I unfortunately don't have that capability.
Christ had supernatural protection, and His disciples carried swords. I, too, believe that God supernaturally protects me, to some degree, because I should have been dead a long time ago. However, should my guardian angel be napping or busy doing something else other than trying to keep up with my dumb ass, I'll be okay because Smith & Wesson art with me as well.
3. Lastly, in Luke 22:36-38 Christ told His disciples, even though He personally did not pack a weapon, that they, in light of His departure, should get a deadly weapon–namely a sword. Check it out …
And he [Jesus] said to them [His disciples], "But now, whoever has a money belt is to take it along, likewise also a bag, and whoever has no sword is to sell his coat and buy one. For I tell you that this which is written must be fulfilled in Me, 'And he was numbered with transgressors'; for that which refers to Me has its fulfillment." They said, "Lord, look, here are two swords." And He said to them, "It is enough."
Jesus told them–didn't ask or mildly suggest–but told His buddies to sell their leather jacket if need be and buy a sword. The sword that Christ told His compadres to purchase was not a QVC decorative Claymore to hang on their walls to commemorate the good times they had when Yeshua was around. The original word used for sword in this text was a large knife used for killing animals and cutting flesh. It was particularly fashioned for short, deadly thrusts in hand-to-hand combat.
Jesus didn't tell them to carry a whistle, a shofar horn, or a bag of sand to blow in bad guys' eyes, but a dagger-like sword–a vicious, nasty and deadly weapon not used for cutting vegetables, spreading butter or splitting a bagel but for violently tapping a lung or heart in case of an attack. Now, in a 21st century WWJD context, even though He didn't personally carry a weapon, what do you think He thinks about His followers defending themselves with deadly force, huh, Mr. Costas?
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When companies kick off a new live streaming effort, they often fumble the ball. Aereo did it. Sling did it. Heck, even HBO did it. But the debut of the NFL's Thursday Night Football on Twitter worked flawlessly, and it proved that the social network might just be onto something by dabbling in live streaming events. As a long-time fan of both football and the Twitter experience, Twitter's first TNF game was intoxicating.
Twitter's strength lies in its ability to foster conversations with people from around the world in real time. That's the promise, at least. In practice, it's difficult to find conversations tied to game day unless you've crafted a list of sports-crazed followers and followees. I have nearly 5,000 followers on Twitter, and whenever I spit out 140 pigskin-related characters, it's typically met by deafening silence. (Admittedly, my online pals tend to lean toward tech topics.) Hashtags could theoretically help you find like-minded football fans, but in reality, nobody really uses them. So I don't tweet about football much.
Until Thursday.
Twitter plopped a feed of every TNF-related tweet next to the game's high definition (and rock-solid) live stream. It changed everything.
Suddenly, there was no shortage of people chatting about the event we were all glued to in real time. My sportsball tweets—like this one lamenting drafting Keenan Allen and Brandon Marshall as my fantasy football wide receivers when Marshall went down with a knee injury—were receiving likes, and retweets, and comments. Suddenly, I actually felt engaged with fellow football fans on Twitter. This is something I'd never felt before despite having more than 21,000 tweets to my name.
And I wasn't the only one.
Every sport needs to get on board with this. Absolutely the future of media #TNF— Alex Cocilova (@TheBrowncoat88) September 16, 2016
This is cool. Hope pats/Texans is like this next Thursday #TNF— Scott Wilkins (@swilki15) September 16, 2016
Twitters stream is really impressive. Need to do more events. #BillsMafia #GoBills #TNF— college boy (@DillySanders) September 16, 2016
What's more, the free, open nature of the stream—not all NFL games are streamed, and the ones that are tend to require cable subscription authentication—brought new fans to the game…
I am watching my 1st NFL game in years thanks to @twitter LIVE feed 😀 #TNF Big Thank you from SE Asia Expat GO JETS! 🏈— C.P. Marlo (@ChinaBoricua) September 16, 2016
Finally a cord-cutting NFL fan can watch some games! #TNF— Bryce Herman (@bzherman) September 16, 2016
The stream also allowed others to watch the game when they'd normally have to skip it.
Have to say, nice to be able to watch #TNF on @twitter while still getting son to hoops practice. pic.twitter.com/TyhAHpSFe2— Darren Urban (@Cardschatter) September 16, 2016
Not everybody enjoyed the format, but the experience truly drew me in. I wouldn't be surprised if the number of #TNF-tagged tweets I sent out last night alone surpassed the total number of NFL-related tweets I've ever made.
Shanking the kick
That said, the experience wasn't quite perfect. About halfway through the night, I remembered that I was drowning my normal followers in #TNF tweets (after I lost a few). Fortunately, I realized that the live tweet feed also included tweets that began with a username, which Twitter hides from the feeds of your regular followers. From there on out, I prefaced my #TNF tweets with the @twitter handle to stop annoying (and losing) my online pals.
@twitter treating celebrations as personal fouls or taunting cements the NFL's reputation as "No Fun League." Ugh, what a buzzkill. #tnf— Brad Chacos (@BradChacos) September 16, 2016
The Twitter stream also featured a limited number of commercials—forcing the same commercials to repeat, which became very irritating, very quickly.
Two things are gonna happen. First, we're gonna go to commercial break. Second, we're gonna show that Jack Reacher commercial again. #TNF— Scott Wasson (@scottwasson) September 16, 2016
To be fair, that's a common problem in sports streams, which—Super Bowl aside—never show the ads you'd see in a traditional TV broadcast. And as repetitive as that Jack Reacher commercial was, it beat the static, muzak-playing ESPN splash screen displayed during Monday Night Football streams.
The Twitter stream's greatest strength was also its more glaring weakness, however. The sheer volume of the live tweet feed felt somewhat overwhelming at times. It truly was a firehose.
More crucially, while the lack of abusive garbage proves that the feed had some level of curation, I think it could stand to use a little bit more. For example, this humble New Englander was able to sneak some blatant pro-Patriots trolling in front of the masses. (Note that I was tweeting from my laptop while watching the game on a TV connected to a PC, hence the error message in this screenshot.)
More worryingly, I also saw large pictures of scantily clad women attached to tweets with an #NFL hashtag. Having staffers cutting out tweets like those would improve the Twitter TNF experience. Curation could also add to the experience and make it more "Twittery," perhaps by including polls, or surfacing popular tweets and tweets from NFL players and analysts. As it was, the feed itself felt sort of chatroom-esque at times, though the continued interactions of people responding to tweets was where the real magic was found.
Those are minor gripes, though.
All in all, Twitter's debut Thursday Night Football stream was a tantalizing experience. I'm looking forward to next week's game, and wish that Twitter had the rights to stream every Thursday night matchup, rather than just 10 of the 17 games. I'm sure the company does too—and not just because it has the potential increase engagement with existing Twitter users. Going by the tweets alongside last night's stream, this endeavor appears to be bringing fresh faces into the social network. I wouldn't expect the experience to lure many traditional TV watchers, but it potentially has major appeal for cord cutters and foreigners.
With cord cutting looking like a bigger bargain than ever, Twitter's NFL gamble might just pay off. Check out TechHive's guide to watching the NFL without cable if you've shunned the TV industry but still want to watch football games each and every week.


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1970 Dodge Challenger RT/SE - Scratch That Itch
Craig Sacco overcomes his high school trauma car and steps up to his idolized Challenger
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Having the cool car in high school is usually just a dream. Many of us didn't even have a car and were subjected to being dropped off in front of the school. We would even have our parents drop us off a couple blocks away to save us the embarrassment of the loving "Have a good day, sweetie!" and hug or kiss that were sure to follow. But those were the first couple years, when you count down the days on the calendar for your learner's permit to become a driver's license. For Craig Sacco, resident of the Garden State, this brought on a whole new traumatic world as he putted to school in a yellow AMC Gremlin. He began to dream of a little Challenger he would see on his daily commute and he got the "itch." This E-Body would sculpt his interest in cars, and save his dignity.
Craig probably wasn't the only person on earth to drive around in a yellow '73 AMC Gremlin in the '80s. This was well before they were accepted as cool or respected as a novelty vehicle. "It was a total nerd car," he jests, "and it still mentally traumatizes me to this day!" There was, however, a single glint of hope for Craig. Each day he drove the little Gremlin to campus, he was teased by a white '73 Challenger that sat in a driveway along his route. It had a Rallye hood and side strobes, he recalls, "It was tough, it was cool, it was my salvation."
"One day, the yellow nerd-mobile suddenly developed a stuck thermostat and severely overheated, ruining the engine," he says. As luck would have it, the '73 Challey came up for sale shortly afterwards, and Craig was there with cash in hand to regain his self-esteem. This car changed everything for him but, as his life began to develop, things changed. "I got married, started a family, and my priorities changed." he says. In a nutshell, the Challenger was sold.
Fast forward a couple of years to 2003. He knew he wanted another car, and he also knew that it had to be either a '70 Challenger or '71 'Cuda with a big-block and four-speed. Since a finished car was a little too expensive, he figured he would find one to restore over time. Within a few months, Craig located what he was looking for--a '70 Challenger RT/SE with a 440 four-barrel, a four-speed, and a Dana 60. He spoke with the owner and verified the VIN and fender tag numbers before coming to an agreement on price. Then it was back home to begin the five-year restoration.
"Being an RT/SE car with the 440 and four-speed transmission combo, it was one of only 142 ever produced that way, with only about 50 known to exist yet today," he claims. "The rarity comes from the fact that it was an SE and four-speed car. Since the SE cars were 'more luxurious,' 733 came with automatic transmissions." It did, however, lack in a few creature comforts that most SE cars came with. "It didn't have power steering, power windows, or air conditioning," he explains. "It's all business with the engine and trans combo, power disc and drum brakes, Dana 60 and 3.54 gears."
Several months into his ownership, he found a set of seatbelts online in Texas, and after talking with the seller about other parts, he found out that the man owned a body shop with a very good reputation. He arranged to have the car picked up and taken to Texas to begin the bodywork. Shortly after its arrival in the Lone Star State, the project was derailed when the shop began to fall apart financially. "He laid off his help, his wife left, and he was essentially a man with nothing to lose," he explains. "Great, I should have known better! I read stories about this happening to other guys, now it was happening to me."
Craig chose the most diplomatic approach to the scenario and spoke with the shop owner to determine how much time was needed to finish the car. "He said about a week's worth of work, working day and night," he says. "So we set a week and I flew down to help him out and get the car finished." Craig says this became one of the best learning experiences of his life.
With the bodywork drama out of the way, the Challenger was back home in his garage and began to roll along smoothly. Craig quickly installed all the N.O.S. parts he accumulated in the time the car was away, and had the car finished, short of the drivetrain and interior. The engine was shipped off to Joe Robinson in Clayton, New Jersey, the four-speed was off to Passon Performance, and Craig kept the body at home to restore the suspension, re-cover the seats, and clean up the interior.
After five years of stress, the Challenger certainly lived up to Craig's need to occupy his mind. "Just about every nut, bolt, and part of this car was restored," he quips. And, "after 300 line items on an Excel spreadsheet and two inches of receipts, I understood why some would feel a little nervous to drive their car."
Fast Facts
1970 Challenger RT/SE
Owned by: Craig Sacco, Hammonton, New Jersey
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- Engine: Joe Robinson in Clayton, New Jersey, rebuilt the engine. It is the original, numbers matching engine to the car. Craig wanted the engine to appear stock on the outside while "having some fun inside." The bores were cleaned up .030-inch over to make room for a set of domed Keith Black hypereutectic pistons with stock rods and crankshaft -- final compression is 10.5:1. The cam is from Comp and it was ground to 228/228 and .500/.500-inch lift with a 112 LSA and uses supporting Comp parts. The factory cast iron heads were treated to a street/strip three-angle valve job, machined guides with Teflon seals, and porting and polishing. All the exhaust is forced out of a set of factory manifolds with a 2.5-inch TTI exhaust with Dynomax Super Turbo mufflers and X-crossover. The fuel is added through a Carter AVS carburetor sitting atop a factory intake manifold. The oiling system uses a stock pan with a Melling standard volume oil pump and the ignition is upgraded with Mopar Performance parts. The combo was good for 443 hp at 5,200rpm and 532 lb/ft of torque at 3,400rpm on an engine dyno. "A longtime friend, Joe, and my brother Brian came through for me when it was time to install the drivetrain," he says.
- Transmission: The original transmission was long gone before Craig found the Challenger but, in its place is a correct, 18-spline Hemi four-speed with stock iron casing. Passon Performance, who rebuilt it, also installed overdrive internals. It features a Hurst shifter and Centerforce clutch.
- Rearend: An original Dana 60 with 3.54 gears and SureGrip differential.
Sure Grip
- Suspension: The suspension was restored to original, but the front utilizes polyurethane upper control arm bushings and sway bar bushings up front. The torsion bars are also one size higher at .960-inch. Monroe shocks were installed at all corners to modernize the ride.
- Brakes: Stock power front discs and rear drums.
- Wheels and Tires: Stock, 14x5.5-inch road wheels with 225/70R14 BF Goodrich Radial T/A tires.
High Impact
- Body: There is a pretty crazy story pertaining to the bodywork, as the first shop didn't live up to its potential. During the restoration process, the shop hit financial troubles and most of the employees were laid off. This delayed the bodywork considerably and Craig even flew down to Texas as an effort to kick start the project. He assisted in the body repair before it was ready for paint.
- Paint: The original shop that did the body repair also painted it back to its original color of Hemi orange with a black vinyl top. Craig wasn't satisfied with the work, and had it reshot by Action Auto Body in Hammonton, New Jersey.
- Interior: Craig decided to test his skills by completing the interior restoration on his own. He sourced new carpet from ECS Automotive Concepts, and new seat covers were also installed with custom leather covers made for the front. The headliner, steering wheel, and dash are all stock.
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The first signs painted in enemy colors indicating where head coach Rex Ryan's fifth New York Jets team and general manager John Idzik's first are headed in 2013 will come with preseason contests against four foes that, like the Green & White, were not playoff teams in 2012.
The Jets were notified today by the NFL of their opponents for the upcoming preseason, three of which will be playing in the Green & White's MetLife Stadium home:
Week 1 — at Detroit Lions
Week 2 — vs. Jacksonville Jaguars
Week 3 — at New York Giants
Week 4 — vs. Philadelphia Eagles
The NFL schedules the first two opponents for all the league's teams, and this year that means two infrequent summer opponents move onto the Jets' radar for the first two weeks of August in the Lions and Jaguars. The final two weeks match the Jets against their long-time summer rivals in familiar slots, the Giants "on the road" in the MetLife Bowl and the Eagles at home.
Here's a little more on all four opponents, along with the range of dates where each game will be played. Dates and times will be firmed up later.
Detroit, Ford Field (Thursday-Sunday, Aug. 8-11)
The Jets and Lions have battled only five times in the summer. The first meeting came in 1968 — the Jets' last preseason game, a 9-6 win actually played at Cleveland Stadium as part of a charity doubleheader, before they began their push toward Super Bowl III. The other games came in 1971, 1994 and 2005.
Over the years the Jets have played the Giants in the preseason 43 times, the Eagles 34 times, the Lions four times and the Jaguars not even once.
This will be the fourth consecutive game against the Lions to open a preseason schedule and their fourth preseason away game against the Lions. It's also just their third visit to Ford Field, coming after regular-season victories in 2002 (31-14) and '10 (23-20 in overtime).
Detroit will be lyin' in wait with a shiny new roster — the Lions have 13 returning starters from a year ago, tied for fifth-most in the NFL, and one of their new starters for their preseason debut is likely to be RB Reggie Bush, whom the Jets played three times in the previous two seasons when he was the Dolphins' tailback. And two of their returnees, of course, are the combo of QB Matt Stafford to WR Calvin Johnson — Megatron set the NFL record with 1,964 receiving yards a year ago.
Jacksonville, MetLife Stadium (Thursday-Monday, Aug. 15-19)
The Jets have played the Jaguars 10 times since their birth in 1995, seven times in the Meadowlands, and once at MetLife Stadium, a 32-3 romp in Week 2 of the 2011 season. The Green & White also prevailed in Jacksonville last year by 17-10. But the teams have never met before in the preseason.
These opponents have a lot in common. Both are working their way back from disappointing '12 seasons. Both took a conservative approach to free agency — the Jags' big signings so far have been of LB Geno Hayes and RB Justin Forsett. Under new head coach Gus Bradley, the theme is "a truly open competition for all 53 spots on the roster," a theme similar to Idzik's and Ryan's "competition through and through" on the Jets.
And both sides expect QB competitions. It should be an interesting game for Jets QB David Garrard. In '09 he was the Jacksonville QB who combined with RB Maurice Jones-Drew to lead a 24-22 comeback over the Jets in the old Meadowlands venue. For this game he is expected to continue his competition with Mark Sanchez to become the Jets starter against his old team, which may or may not be able to sign Jones-Drew to a restructured deal.
Giants, MetLife Stadium (Thursday-Sunday, Aug. 22-25)
After one year as the Jets' second preseason opponent, the Giants are back batting in that familiar No. 3 slot — in 27 of the last 31 of their annual preseason meetings, the teams have squared off in the Meadowlands in the next-to-last game of their respective summers.
Unlike their infrequent regular-season rivalry, where Big Blue has held sway, the Jets have done well against their three-decades-long stadium mates in the preseason. They lost last year's game as the home team, 26-3, but had won 13 of the previous 16 preseason games and for some reason have won seven of their last eight when the Giants have been the home team. And the Jets lead, 23-20-1, in the series that has been revived every year since the first meeting, the historic 37-14 Jets romp at the Yale Bowl on Aug. 17, 1969.
The Giants will have a different look than in recent years, what with the departures of Osi Umenyiora, Ahmad Bradshaw and Chase Blackburn. And they wouldn't mind seeing Victor Cruz, No. 80 in your program but No. 99 in Jets fans' broken hearts, depart as a restricted free agent. The Jets may also get to see two of their former footmen perform for the Giants in P Steve Weatherford and K Josh Brown, who dueled Nick Folk for the K job last offseason and preseason.
Eagles, MetLife Stadium (Thursday, Aug. 29, time TBD)
As with the Giants, the Jets and Eagles have a long summer tradition. The two green teams will be ending their preseasons against each other for the 13th straight year. And before the Birds prevailed in the two most recent preseason finales, the Jets had won nine in a row.
Philly has a number of dangerous offensive players still on its roster in RB LeSean McCoy, WRs DeSean Jackson and Jeremy Maclin, and TE Brent Celek, not to mention Michael Vick, Nick Foles and Trent Edwards at QB. All are familiar to Jets OC Marty Mornhinweg, the Birds coordinator from 2006-12. All are likely to play little if at all in the tradition of this final summer tuneup to the teams' regular-season openers.
But change is eternal in the NFL and so it is with the Eagles. Their new head coach is Chip Kelly. And the back end of their defense has been completely made over with the signings of four unrestricted FAs in safeties Patrick Chung and Kenny Phillips and CBs Cary Williams from the Super Bowl champion Ravens and Bradley Fletcher.


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News Release • June 21, 2012
PASADENA, Calif. -- NASA's Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array, or NuSTAR, has successfully deployed its lengthy mast, giving it the ability to see the highest energy X-rays in our universe. The mission is one step closer to beginning its hunt for black holes hiding in our Milky Way and other galaxies.
"It's a real pleasure to know that the mast, an accomplished feat of engineering, is now in its final position," said Yunjin Kim, the NuSTAR project manager at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. Kim was also the project manager for the Shuttle Radar Topography Mission, which flew a similar mast on the Space Shuttle Endeavour in 2000 and made topographic maps of Earth.
NuSTAR's mast is one of several innovations allowing the telescope to take crisp images of high-energy X-rays for the first time. It separates the telescope mirrors from the detectors, providing the distance needed to focus the X-rays. Built by ATK Aerospace Systems in Goleta, Calif., this is the first deployable mast ever used on a space telescope.
On June 21 at 10:43 a.m. PDT (1:43 p.m. EDT), nine days after launch, engineers at NuSTAR's mission control at UC Berkeley in California sent a signal to the spacecraft to start extending the 33-foot (10-meter) mast, a stable, rigid structure consisting of 56 cube-shaped units. Driven by a motor, the mast steadily inched out of a canister as each cube was assembled one by one. The process took about 26 minutes. Engineers and astronomers cheered seconds after they received word from the spacecraft that the mast was fully deployed and secure.
The NuSTAR team will now begin to verify the pointing and motion capabilities of the satellite, and fine-tune the alignment of the mast. In about five days, the team will instruct NuSTAR to take its "first light" pictures, which are used to calibrate the telescope.
Why did NuSTAR need such a long, arm-like structure? The answer has to do with the fact that X-rays behave differently than the visible light we see with our eyes. Sunlight easily reflects off surfaces, giving us the ability to see the world around us in color. X-rays, on the other hand, are not readily reflected: they either travel right through surfaces, as is the case with skin during medical X-rays, or they tend to be absorbed, by substances like your bone, for example. To focus X-rays onto the detectors at the back of a telescope, the light must hit mirrors at nearly parallel angles; if they were to hit head-on, they would be absorbed instead of reflected.
On NuSTAR, this is accomplished with two barrels of nested mirrors, each containing 133 shells, which reflect the X-rays to the back of the telescope. Because the reflecting angle is so shallow, the distance between the mirrors and the detectors is long. This is called the focal length, and it is maintained by NuSTAR's mast.
The fully extended mast is too large to launch in the lower-cost rockets required for relatively inexpensive Small Explorer class missions like NuSTAR. Instead NuSTAR launched on its Orbital Science Corporation's Pegasus rocket tucked inside a small canister. This rocket isn't as expensive as its bigger cousins because it launches from the air, with the help of a carrier plane, the L-1011 "Stargazer," also from Orbital.
NuSTAR is a Small Explorer mission led by the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena and managed by JPL for NASA's Science Mission Directorate in Washington. The spacecraft was built by Orbital Sciences Corporation, Dulles, Va. Its instrument was built by a consortium including Caltech; JPL; the University of California, Berkeley; Columbia University, New York; NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md.; the Danish Technical University in Denmark; Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, Calif.; and ATK Aerospace Systems, Goleta, Calif. NuSTAR will be operated by UC Berkeley, with the Italian Space Agency providing its equatorial ground station located at Malindi, Kenya. The mission's outreach program is based at Sonoma State University, Rohnert Park, Calif. NASA's Explorer Program is managed by Goddard. JPL is managed by Caltech for NASA.


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What If A Day Or A Month Or A Year by Anonymousby Anonymous (English 16th century)
There was a great flowering of sacred and instrumental music, including music for the lute. The lute was brought to Europe in the 13th century by the returning crusaders. It was originally played with a plectrum, usually a feather tip. Later the plectrum was discarded in favor of plucking with the right hand fingers, thereby creating more polyphonic capabilities. Of all the instruments of the Renaissance, the lute was without a doubt the most popular. The amount of music printed and hand-written for the lute is astounding.
Renaissance Era. 13 Measures. 2 Pages. Time Signature 4/4. Key of D. No barre chords. Capo 2nd Fret. Easy Guitar Piece.


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Senior Reactor Operator (Shift Support Supervisor - In Training)
Waynesboro, GA
Senior Reactor Operator (Shift Support Supervisor - In Training)
Sourcing Requisition for Senior Reactor Operator In Training
(a/k/a SNC Shift Support Supervisor In Training
Southern Nuclear Operating Company (SNC), headquartered in Birmingham, AL, operates Southern Company's six nuclear reactors at three locations in Georgia and Alabama: two reactors at Plant Vogtle, near Waynesboro, GA; two reactors at Plant Hatch, near Baxley, GA; and two reactors at Plant Farley, near Dothan, AL. In addition, significant progress has been made in the construction of two new reactors at our Plant Vogtle location. It's an exciting time to be part of our growing organization.
We will be hiring for Senior Reactor Operators (titled Shift Support Supervisors at SNC) over the next 18-24 months at each plant site. Our in-depth screening and background process requires sufficient time for applicants to express interest and engage in our selection efforts in advance of the actual hire dates. Please note: when a SSS-IT class is scheduled to be filled, we will have a specific posting for the plant that will be hiring. You will need to apply to the site specific posting.
Selected candidates for the Shift Support Supervisor will perform Operations staff functions for plant familiarization to prepare for an upcoming NRC Hot License Class. Candidates must successfully complete plant-provided systems and fundamentals training on reactor operation, heat transfer, fluid flow, and thermodynamics, as well as pass initial screening and annual medical requirements for acquiring and maintaining industrial fire brigade duties.
Upon the successful completion of Hot License Class and attaining an NRC Operating License, the SRO candidate will become a Shift Support Supervisor, directing operating shift personnel in the performance of plant duties. This will include standing watch on rotating 12-hour shifts, and coordinating and directing the operation of the nuclear power plant's systems. Shift work, continuous training with periodic examinations, respirator qualification, and maintaining qualification as a member of the plant Fire Brigade are all requirements of this position.
• Candidates will be required to meet at least one of the following requirements:
• 1 or more years as an active reactor operator at a BWR/PWR facility; OR
• 1.5 or more years as an active reactor operator at a non-comparable commercial power reactor; OR
• 2 or more years in a military equivalent position. Equivalent positions include:
• Engineering Officers of the Watch
• Preferred candidates will have six or more years experience in nuclear plant operations (e.g., Nuclear Navy or commercial power plant), including holding a previous NRC RO or SRO license or military equivalent
• Demonstrated leadership, preferably at the supervisor level or above, along with excellent oral and written skills.
• Solid analytical thinking and strong mechanical aptitude a must.
• High school diploma or equivalent is required
• Bachelor Degree in Engineering or related field preferred
• Should possess a high degree of manual dexterity and mature judgment
Other Requirements:
• The selected candidate will be required to obtain U.S. Nuclear Power Plant Unescorted Access and will participate in the company's Fitness-for-Duty Program.
• Candidates may also be required to maintain qualifications and on-call responsibilities in support of the plant Emergency Response Organization.
• In order to obtain unescorted access, the selected candidate will be required to complete a Personal History Questionnaire (PHQ).
• Information from this form will be used to conduct an extensive background investigation as required by Title 10 of the Code of Federal Regulations.
• It is unlikely you will be granted access if (1) you have had a positive drug or alcohol test within the past five years, (2) you have used or possessed drugs in the past five years, (3) you have a felony conviction in the past five years, (4) you have recent misdemeanor convictions, (5) you falsify or omit information or fail to fully cooperate during the investigation process. This list is not inclusive.
Job Field: Power Plant Operations & Maintenance
Job Type: Standard
Primary Location: Georgia-Central Georgia-Baxley
Operating Company: Southern Nuclear Operating Co
Other Locations: Georgia-East Georgia-Waynesboro, Georgia-Central Georgia-Baxley, Alabama-South Alabama-Columbia
Job Type: Standard
Travel (Up to…): Yes, 25 % of the Time
Work Location(s):
Plant Vogtle - 7821 River Road (7821WAYNESBORO)
7821 River Road
Waynesboro, 30830
Plant Hatch - 11028 Hatch Parkway, North (11028BAXLEY)
11028 Hatch Parkway, North
Baxley, 31513
Plant Farley - 7388 North State Hwy 95 (7388COLUMBIA)
7388 North State Hwy 95
Columbia, 36319
Plant Vogtle 3 & 4 - 7825 River Road (7825WAYNESBORO)
7825 River Road
Req ID: SNC2007241
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