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National Labor Relations Act
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|Long title
|An act to diminish the causes of labor disputes burdening or obstructing interstate and foreign commerce, to create a National Labor Relations Board, and for other purposes.
|Enacted by
|the 74th United States Congress
|July 6, 1935
|Public law
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|Statutes at Large
|49 Stat. 449
|Titles amended
|U.S.C. sections amended
|Legislative history
|Major amendments
|Taft–Hartley Amendments of 1947
Taft–Hartley Labor Act of 1957
Landrum–Griffin Act of 1959
|United States Supreme Court cases
|National Labor Relations Board v. Jones & Laughlin Steel Corporation
The National Labor Relations Act of 1935 (49 Stat. 449) 29 U.S.C. § 151–169 (also known as the Wagner Act after New York Senator Robert F. Wagner[1]) is a foundational statute of United States labor law which guarantees basic rights of private sector employees to organize into trade unions, engage in collective bargaining for better terms and conditions at work, and take collective action including strike if necessary. The act also created the National Labor Relations Board, which conducts elections that can require employers to engage in collective bargaining with labor unions (also known as trade unions). The Act does not apply to workers who are covered by the Railway Labor Act, agricultural employees, domestic employees, supervisors, federal, state or local government workers, independent contractors and some close relatives of individual employers.[2]
President Franklin Roosevelt signed the legislation into law on July 5, 1935.[3]
It also has its roots in a variety of different labor acts previously enacted:[citation needed]
- National War Labor Board est 1918
- Norris–La Guardia Act 1930
- National Industrial Recovery Act 1933
- National Labor Board
- Senator Robert F. Wagner (D-NY)
Under section 1 (29 U.S.C. § 151) of the Act, the key principles and policy findings on which the Act was based are explained. The Act aims to correct the "inequality of bargaining power between employees who do not possess full freedom of association or actual liberty of contract and employers who are organized in the corporate or other forms of ownership association". To achieve this, the central idea is the promotion of collective bargaining between independent trade unions, on behalf of the workforce, and the employer.[4]
|encouraging the practice and procedure of collective bargaining and by protecting the exercise by workers of full freedom of association, self-organization, and designation of representatives of their own choosing, for the purpose of negotiating the terms and conditions of their employment or other mutual aid or protection.
Various definitions are explained in section 2, (29 U.S.C. § 152) including 2(5) defining "labor organization" and 2(9) defining "labor dispute". The Act aims to protect employees as a group, and so is not based on a formal or legal relationship between an employer and employee.[5]
The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), which is established in NLRA 1935 sections 3 to 6 (29 U.S.C. § 153–156), is the primary enforcer of the Act. Employees and unions may act themselves in support of their rights, however because of collective action problems and the costs of litigation, the National Labor Relations Board is designed to assist and bear some of the costs. Under section 3, (29 U.S.C. § 153) the NLRB has two basic functions: overseeing the process by which employees decide whether to be represented by a labor organization and prosecuting violations. Those processes are initiated in the regional offices of the NLRB.[6] The General Counsel of the National Labor Relations Board give legal advice. Sections 4 (29 U.S.C. § 154) and 5 (29 U.S.C. § 155) set out provisions on the officers of the Board and their expenses. Section 6 (29 U.S.C. § 156) empowers the Board to issue rules interpreting the labor legislation. This will generally be binding, unless a court deems it to have acted outside its authority.
Under section 10 (29 U.S.C. § 160) the NLRB is empowered to prevent unfair labor practices, which may ultimately be reviewed by the courts. Under section 11 it can lead investigations, collect evidence, issue subpoenas, and require witnesses to give evidence. Under section 12 (29 U.S.C. § 162) it is an offense for people to unduly interfere with the Board's conduct.
Collectively bargaining
Section 7 (29 U.S.C. § 157) sets out the general principle that employees have the right to join a trade union and engage in collective bargaining.[7]
|Employees shall have the right to self-organization, to form, join, or assist labor organizations, to bargain collectively through representatives of their own choosing, and to engage in other concerted activities for the purpose of collective bargaining or other mutual aid or protection, and shall also have the right to refrain from any or all of such activities except to the extent that such right may be affected by an agreement requiring membership in a labor organization as a condition of employment as authorized in section 8(a)(3).
Specific rules in support of collective bargaining are as follows.
- There can be only one exclusive bargaining representative for a unit of employees.
- Promotion of the practice and procedure of collective bargaining.
- Employers are compelled to bargain with the representative of its employees.
- Employees are allowed to discuss wages.[8][9][10]
Unfair labor practices
Under section 8 (29 U.S.C. § 158) the law defines a set of prohibited actions by employers, employees, and unions, known as an unfair labor practice.[11] The first five unfair labor practices aimed at employers are in section 8(a). These are,
- (a)(1) "to interfere with, restrain, or coerce employees in the exercise of the rights guaranteed in section 7". This includes freedom of association, mutual aid or protection, self-organization, to form, join, or assist labor organizations, to bargain collectively for wages and working conditions through representatives of their own choosing, and to engage in other protected concerted activities with or without a union.
- (a)(2) "to dominate or interfere with the formation or administration of any labor organization or contribute financial or other support to it"
- (a)(3) "by discrimination in regard to hire or tenure of employment or any term or condition of employment to encourage or discourage membership in any labor organization"
- (a)(4) discriminating against employees who file charges or testify.
- (a)(5) refusing to bargain collectively with the representative of the employer's employees.
In addition, added by the Taft–Hartley Act, there are seven unfair labor practices aimed at unions and employees.
Election of bargaining representatives
Under section 9 (29 U.S.C. § 159) the people elected by a majority of the workforce have the right to become the exclusive representatives of workers in collective bargaining with the employer.
The NLRA 1935 does not cover two main groups of employees: those working for the government, and in the railway or airline industries. Section 2(2) (29 USC §152(2)) states that the Act does not apply to employees of the "United States or any wholly owned Government corporation, or any Federal Reserve Bank, or any State or political subdivision thereof, or any person subject to the Railway Labor Act". Under section 19 (29 U.S.C. § 169), people who have religious convictions against joining a trade union are entitled to not associate or financially support it.
The act was bitterly opposed by the Republican Party and business groups. The American Liberty League viewed the act as a threat to freedom and engaged in a campaign of opposition in order to repeal these "socialist" efforts. This included encouraging employers to refuse to comply with the NLRB and supporting the nationwide filing of injunctions to keep the NLRB from functioning. This campaign continued until the NLRA was found constitutional by the Supreme Court in National Labor Relations Board v. Jones & Laughlin Steel Corporation (1937).
Labor groups, while overwhelmingly supportive, expressed a set of reservations. The American Federation of Labor and some employers accused the NLRB of favoring the Congress of Industrial Organizations, particularly when determining whether to hold union elections in plant-wide, or wall-to-wall, units, which the CIO usually sought, or to hold separate elections in separate craft units, which the craft unions in the AFL favored. While the NLRB initially favored plant-wide units, which tacitly favored the CIO's industrial unionism, it retreated to a compromise position several years later under pressure from Congress that allowed craft unions to seek separate representation of smaller groups of workers at the same time that another union was seeking a wall-to-wall unit.
Employers and their allies in Congress also criticized the NLRA for its expansive definition of "employee" and for allowing supervisors and plant guards to form unions, sometimes affiliated with the unions that represented the employees whom they were supposed to supervise or police. Many accused the NLRB of a general pro-union and anti-employer bias, pointing to the Board's controversial decisions in such areas as employer free speech and "mixed motive" cases, in which the NLRB held that an employer violated the Act by using misconduct that ordinarily would not result in termination to fire an employee who was engaged in pro-union activity. In addition, employers campaigned over the years to outlaw a number of union practices such as closed shops, secondary boycotts, jurisdictional strikes, mass picketing, strikes in violation of contractual no-strike clauses, pension and health and welfare plans sponsored by unions and multi-employer bargaining.
Many of these criticisms included provisions that employers and their allies were unable to have included in the NLRA. Others developed in reaction to NLRB decisions. Over all, they wanted the NLRB to be neutral as to bargaining power, but the NLRA's policy section takes a decidedly pro-employee position:
It is declared to be the policy of the United States to eliminate the causes of certain substantial obstructions to the free flow of commerce and to mitigate and eliminate these obstructions when they have occurred by encouraging the practice and procedure of collective bargaining and by protecting the exercise by workers of full freedom of association, self-organization, and designation of representatives of their own choosing, for the purpose of negotiating the terms and conditions of their employment or other mutual aid or protection.
Some of these changes were later achieved in the 1947 amendments.
Opponents of the Wagner Act introduced several hundred bills to amend or repeal the law in the decade after its passage. All of them failed or were vetoed until the passage of the Taft–Hartley amendments in 1947.
More recent failed amendments included attempts in 1978 to permit triple backpay awards and union collective bargaining certification based on signed union authorization cards, a provision that is similar to one of the proposed amendments in the Employee Free Choice Act. Under the NLRA, unions can become the representative based on signed union authorization cards only if the employer voluntarily recognizes the union. If the employer refuses to recognize the union, the union can be certified through a secret-ballot election conducted by the NLRB.
The Little Wagner Act, written by Ida Klaus, is the New York City version of the Wagner Act.[12][13]
See also
- Duty of fair representation
- Employee Free Choice Act
- Union organizer
- United States labor law
- Labor rights in American meatpacking industry
- ↑ See also Pub.L. 74–198, 49 Stat. 449
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- ↑ "National Labor Relations Act ("NLRA")". 29 U.S.C. §§ 151–169. July 5, 1935.<templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles>
- ↑ Our Documents: 100 Milestone Documents from the National Archives. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2006. pp. 162–163. ISBN 978-0-19-530959-1.<templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles>
- ↑ See also, E Dannin, "Not a Limited, Confined, or Private Matter: Who is an Employee under the National Labor Relations Act" (2008) 59 Labor Law Journal 5
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- ↑ Initially there were five, now there are eight categories. See RL Hogler, The Employment Relationship: Law and Policy (Ardsley 1989) 52. See also Our Documents: 100 Milestone Documents from the National Archives (OUP 2003) 163
- ↑ Ravo, Nick (1999-05-20). "Ida Klaus, 94, Labor Lawyer For U.S. and New York, Dies". New York Times. Retrieved 2015-05-03.<templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles>
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- Atleson, James B. (1983). Values and Assumptions in American Labor Law ([Pbk. ed., 1983]. ed.). Amherst, Mass.: University of Massachusetts Press. ISBN 0-585-25833-3.<templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles>
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External links
- 29 USC §§151-169, Labor-Management Relations at the Legal Information Institute
- National Labor Relations Act
- National Labor Relations Board
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- All articles needing cleanup
- Cleanup tagged articles with a reason field from December 2014
- Wikipedia pages needing cleanup from December 2014
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"There is no heroic poem in the world but is at bottom a biography, the life of a man; also, it may be said, there is no life of a man, faithfully recorded, but is a heroic poem of its sort, rhymed or unrhymed." Sir Walter Scott, 1838
- The author remembered the mentor from his college days, but had lost track of him. Now, twenty years later, he has another opportunity to rekindle the relationship, only his mentor is dying. Their time together is turned into one final "class" on how to live.
- Seen and Heard: Teenagers Talk About Their Lives: Photographs and Interviews by Mary Motley Kalergis.
- The author interviews fifty-one teenagers from all walks of life, and they reveal their feelings about family, religion, school, peer pressure, race, sex, and drugs. Included with the interviews are photographs of the teenagers where they live.
- In My Room: Teenagers in Their Bedrooms by Adrienne Salinger; introduction by Tobias Wolff.
- Teenagers from the United States and their bedrooms are chronicled in this pictorial work.
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- The author, mother of the martyred Cassie Bernall, tells about her daughter and the school violence at Littleton, Colorado.
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- The author, one of the nine black teenagers chosen to integrate Central High School in 1957, recalls in clear detail the integration of this high school in Little Rock, Arkansas. These teenagers became reluctant warriors -- on a battlefield that helped shape the civil rights movement.
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- The author recalls her experiences as a teen in China during the Cultural Revolution of the 1960's. Her family's past makes them enemies of the new government, and Ji-Li can either turn her back on them for a fulfilling and secure future in the New China, or become an outcast as well.
- The Winged Seed: A Remembrance by Lee Li-Young.
- The author's extraordinary account follows his parents' flight from China's political turmoil.
- Oleander, Jacaranda: A Childhood Perceived by Penelope Lively.
- The author recalls her unusual childhood in Egypt during the 1930s and 1940s. When she is twelve years old, she sees her childhood come to an abrupt and traumatic end.
- Echoes of an Autobiography by Naguib Mahfouz; translated by Denys Johnson-Davies.
- The author, an Arab born in Cairo, gives his personal and reflective commentary on situations and events that have lodged themselves in his memory and influenced him in some way.
- Terry: My Daughter's Life-and-Death Struggle with Alcoholism by George McGovern.
- The author, former Senator George McGovern, addresses a private tragedy, the alcohol-induced death of his daughter.
- Quiet Strength: The Faith, the Hope, and the Heart of a Woman Who Changed a Nation reflections by Rosa Parks with Gregory J. Reed.
- On December 1, 1955, the author refused to move to the back of a city bus in Montgomery, Alabama. Now, decades after her quiet defiance inspired the modern civil rights movement, the author addresses her life, her passion for freedom and equality, and her strong faith.
- His Bright Light: the Story of Nick Traina by Danielle Steel.
- The author writes about the devastating illness of the manic depressive, in this case, her son. This tribute to her lost son is a gift of life, hope, healing, and understanding to us all.
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NEW YORK — A U.S. judge who found Apple Inc liable for conspiring to fix e-book prices entered an injunction on Friday to bar the iPad maker from further antitrust violations.
U.S. District Judge Denise Cote in Manhattan said Apple could not enter into agreements with five major U.S. publishers that would impede its ability to reduce e-book retail prices or offer price discounts.
The judge also said she would appoint an external monitor to review Apple's antitrust compliance policies, procedures and training for two years.
The terms of the judgment will expire after five years, but Cote's order allows for extensions in one-year increments if necessary.
The injunction followed a July 10 ruling by Cote finding Apple conspired with five publishers to undermine e-book pricing established by the dominant retailer in the market, Amazon.com Inc.
The five publishers, all of which have settled with regulators, include Lagardere SCA's Hachette Book Group Inc, News Corp's HarperCollins Publishers LLC, Penguin Random House LLC, CBS Corp's Simon & Schuster Inc and Verlagsgruppe Georg von Holtzbrinck GmbH's Macmillan.
The U.S. Justice Department, which sued Apple in April 2012, had initially sought an even broader injunction that could have touched on the company's agreements with suppliers of other types of content, such as movies, music and TV shows.
But Cote had made clear at a hearing last week that she would not go that far, saying she wanted the injunction "to rest as lightly as possible on how Apple runs its business."
The Justice Department nonetheless welcomed the injunction.
"Consumers will continue to benefit from lower e-books prices as a result of the department's enforcement action to restore competition in this important industry," Assistant Attorney General Bill Baer said in a statement.
Apple said on Friday that it would appeal the injunction.
"Apple did not conspire to fix e-book pricing," said company spokesman Tom Neumayr. "The iBookstore gave customers more choice and injected much-needed innovation and competition into the market."
Shares of Apple were down 0.1% at US$494.64 in morning trading.
The case is U.S. v. Apple Inc et al, U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York, No. 12-02826.
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Lucille Ann Clayland
BERLIN – Lucille Ann Clayland, age 78, of Taneytown, Maryland, died on Monday, April 20, 2009 at the Carroll Hospice Dove House in Westminster.
Born Feb. 28, 1931 in Baltimore, she was the daughter of the late Salvator P. and Theresa C. Brocato. She was the wife of 58 years to Samuel R. Clayland.
Surviving are children, Samuel R. Clayland, Jr., and wife Crystal of Ocean City, Sherrie A. Keeney of Westminster, Daniel E. Clayland of Ocean City, Gina M. Clayland of Westminster, and William D. Clayland of Westminster; grandchildren, Jacqueline O'Brien, Stanley Keeney, Jr., Kevin Clayland, Paige Clayland, and Kasey Clayland; and great-grandchildren, Lukas and Alexis O'Brien.
A prayer service will be held at 11 a.m. on Friday, April 24 at the Myers-Durboraw Funeral Home in Taneytown, Md., with Msgr. Martin E. Feild officiating. Interment will be private in Grace U.C.C. Cemetery in Taneytown. The family will receive friends on Friday from 10 a.m. until the time of service at the funeral home.
Online condolences may be expressed at www.myersdurborawfh.com.
Harold Eugene Ruth
BERLIN – Harold Eugene Ruth, 69, passed away on April 18, 2009.
He was the loving husband of 47 years to his wife, Carol. They had two children, who survive, son Scott married to Dawn Ruth of Leola, and daughter Julie DeWitt of Lancaster. Also surviving are grandchildren Christopher DeWitt and Brittany Ruth, and a half-brother Roy Stonesifer, Westminster.
He served four years in the United States Air Force. Stationed in Dover, Del., he did tours in Europe and Northern Africa. After honing his mechanical skills with the Air Force, he worked 15 years as a welder for New Holland Machine Company in Mountville. A few years in the delicatessen/farm market business, with his brother-in-law, Clifford Bixler, led him to the Kellogg's Company to continue his mechanical work.
Retiring from Kellogg's in 2000, Harold and Carol moved from Lititz, Pa. to Bishopville, creating a beach house retreat for family and friends.
Services were held. Memorials may be made to Hospice of Lancaster County, PO Box 4125, Lancaster, Pa. 17604-4125 or the Make-A-Wish Foundation of Philadelphia & Susquehanna Valley, 1054 New Holland Ave., Lancaster, Pa 17601.
Worthy Charles Graham
OCEAN CITY – Worthy Charles Graham, age 66, died Monday, April 13, 2009 at his second home in Ann Arbor, Mich. after a courageous battle with Progressive Supranuclear Palsy and Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis.
Born in Morgantown, W.Va., he was the son of Wilfred C. Graham and the late Virginia Barnes Graham. He grew up in Morgantown, where he married his high school sweetheart, Jane Ellen, on June 6, 1964. In 1967, he graduated from West Virginia University with a Master of Arts in Education. Just after the birth of their first daughter, the Grahams moved to Maryland where Worthy served in multiple capacities with the Worcester County Board of Education until he retired in 2005.
He was an active member and past President of the Berlin/Ocean City Optimist Club where he chaired the Ocean City Boat Show for many years. He was also past President of the Snow Hill Jaycees and an active 4-H Parent.
He is survived by his father, Wilfred C. Graham, of Morgantown, W.Va.; wife, Jane E. Graham, of Ocean City; daughter, Lieutenant Colonel Sherry L. Graham, stationed in Japan with grand-dog, Cisco; daughter Susan, residing in Ann Arbor, Mich. with her husband John Brimacombe; grandchildren Serena Marie and Landon Graham Brimacombe of Ann Arbor, Mich.; and sister-in-law, Brenda L. Hood of Morgantown, W.Va.
Services were held. Donations may be made to CurePSP, 11350 McCormick Rd., Suite 903, Hunt Valley, Md. 21031 or online at www.curepsp.org.
OCEAN CITY – Mary Ann Collins passed away on April 20, 2009 at home.
She was the beloved daughter of Mary Kleba Motsko and the late John Motsko. She was the devoted mother of Michael S. Collins, April C. Winterson and her husband Nathan, and loving sister of John Motsko and his wife Janine, Jimmy Motsko, Bill Motsko, Mark Motsko and his wife Phyllis and Denny Motsko and his wife Michele. She is also survived by nieces, nephews and a host of friends. She was a kind and loving person whom everyone loved when they met her. She is remembered for her big smile, her big heart, love of the ocean and a saying within her family, "Oceans of Love".
A Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated on Saturday, April 24, 2009 at St. Mary Star-of-the Sea Catholic Church in Ocean City at 1 p.m. Rev. John P. Klevence will officiate. Friends may call at the Burbage Funeral Home in Berlin on Friday from 5-7 p.m. Interment will be private at a later date. In lieu of flowers donations may be made to Mary A. Collins Memorial Fund and make checks out to John M. Motsko in memory of Mary A. Collins, 4394 Sunset Drive, Tyaskin, Md. 21865


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3 Challenges for Long-Term Care in America
By Nancy A. LeaMond , November 18, 2013 05:09 PM
Right now, at kitchen tables across America, real families are confronting the same question: how will we care for mom or dad, or another loved one, if something happens and they can't care for themselves without assistance? And if and when the time comes, who will care for us?
Following the Federal Commission on Long-Term Care's recently released report, AARP and The Hill Newspaper convened three of the Commissioners and other experts to discuss ways to improve long-term services and supports in America.
The Commissioners discussed some solutions that could be part of a comprehensive, high-quality delivery system of long-term services and supports for the next generation of caregivers and those who will need additional services and supports to live independently. Then, leaders in state and local government from Delaware, New York and Tennessee shared innovative approaches currently underway to support caregivers, provide the services and supports that people need to live independently, and support people with disabilities in the workplace.
This issue will touch all of us, almost every American, sooner or later:
- It is estimated that about 7 of every 10 people who reach age 65 will need some kind of long-term services and supports at some time.
- The numbers will skyrocket: Thirty years from now, on November 19, 2043, the number of people who need long-term care will likely top 20 million.
- This issue is ageless. While 56 percent of those needing long-term care are 65 and over, fully 44 percent are under age 65.
We have an opportunity to seize the moment- and to build on the Commission on Long Term Care's bipartisan recommendations for a better system to support individuals and their family caregivers.
So, what are the current challenges?
1. People lack information and resources, and they often don't know where to turn for help. For example, many are unaware that Medicare only provides limited coverage for skilled nursing facility care and home health care.
2. Saving for retirement is hard enough, never mind adding in the costs necessary to maintain independence.
- The national median private pay cost for a private room in a nursing home is now about $84,000 a year.
- Private insurance for long-term care is becoming too expensive or unavailable for the majority of Americans.
- Most people who need long term services and supports don't need or want to stay in expensive 24/7 nursing homes. They want to live independently, and they could live in their homes if they have the right help with everyday tasks and other supports.
3. Despite the fact that m ore care will be needed, there will be fewer family caregivers.
Families are the first line of assistance for most people who need help to live independently.
- This unpaid caregiver workforce provides at least 75% of care in the U.S. today - providing what amounts to about $450 billion worth of unpaid care every year.
- Today, there are about 7 people age 45 to 64 for every person over the age of 80. By 2050, that ratio plummets to 3 to one - leading to increased strain on a few number of people who will be providing care.
- We need better supports for family caregivers, a strong, stable paid workforce and innovative solutions across sectors.
Working together on a solution.
We need a national, constructive dialogue that looks at the whole picture, so
- People can access ways to pay for their needs to live independently at home;
- Employers can maintain an active and engaged workforce; and
- New technology is developed to help close the gap.
Given the many serious challenges facing America's families today, it is time to get serious about implementing policies that provides them with the support they deserve.
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Police in upstate New York had a tip that a guy named "Jeff" who was affiliated with a construction company in Murray might be involved with the theft of a 26-foot box truck earlier this week. When they flew over the construct company's sand pit they found this.
Not smart, Jeff. Not smart.
It all started earlier this week when a box truck when missing from a business in Macedon, New York. Local police told Orleans County Sheriff's they thought the aforementioned Jeff was involved and where he might be.
A couple of days later, according to The Batavia News, police in a helicopter spotted Jeffery Paul trying to bury the truck with some construction equipment.
The construction equipment was also stolen.
For the moment, Paul and his father are only on the hook for possession of stolen property pending further investigation.
We're not sure what else Jeff might have been doing in the time he was supposed to burying the truck, but to quote Ron Swanson: "Don't half-ass two things. Whole-ass one thing."
(Hat tip to Skaycog!)
Photo Credit: AP/Orleans Sheriff's Dept.


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Johnson, Rivera to get bulk of time at first
JUPITER, Fla. -- As the reality of doing without Mark Teixeira settles in, it appears the Yankees have at least a tentative plan in place for handling his absence.
Teixeira is expected to be out until approximately mid-May after suffering a right wrist strain on Tuesday. He joins Curtis Granderson and Alex Rodriguez on the list of Yankees regulars who will miss the start of the season.
Manager Joe Girardi said Thursday that the bulk of the first base work in Spring Training will go to Juan Rivera and Dan Johnson, each of whom has played first base in the Major Leagues. Rivera, a right-handed hitter, has 83 starts there. Johnson, a lefty, has 306. Girardi indicated that it was unlikely the Yankees would make any significant move to add a first baseman from outside the organization.
"These two guys have played in the big leagues," Girardi said. "It's something you look at. I know [GM Brian Cashman] talked about, you can't go out and do too much, and then what do you do after a month when [Teixeira] comes back? I think whatever you do, you have to be careful. For me, my job is to look from within, because that's what I know we have. So that's what I'll do."
Kevin Youkilis could be an option at first, though that would open a hole at third base. Still, Youkilis will likely see a little bit of time on the right side of the infield in the spring and in the regular season.
"If we feel it's easier to put a guy at third and move Youkilis to first, we'll do that," Girardi said. "If it's easier to put a guy at first and leave Youk at third, we'll do that. Could it be a combination of the two? Yeah, it could be a combination of the two. He could play both."


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Only by reporting validated alarm activations can you ensure a fast and reliable response to site.
We would like to thank you for your massive efforts throughout the project. We have all pulled together and everyone should be proud of what has been achieved.
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Somehow our capacity to have an identity has become someone else's capital stock; we are driven to add labor to that raw material to make profits for the owners of our digitized identity containers -- the social media sites and device makers and so on. Interiority has become a factory; social media the showroom floor.
But what turned our identity-capacity into alienable capital? Do we just blame modernity and technological change for eroding the traditions and limitations on which stable identity was once based? Or to invert that, is technology to be credited for expanding our identity capacity, for removing the time-space limits that once constrained it and made "working" on who we are a possibility no one thought to consider?
Related question: Is capital concentrating on the technology that opens up the field of identity making because it satisfies individuals' demands for "freedom" to be who they want to be, or is that how capital is selling an intrusive, invasive technology that aggressively dissolves personal integrity in order to make more malleable raw material? Technology makes workers more "abstract" in the sense that they are more amenable to doing "whatever" and even embrace the pursuit of novelty for its own sake as an expansion of their personal capabilities. (Oh, I know, evolution programmed us to love novelty, and various regions of the brain light up on MRIs when we are distracted by something new, and capitalism is a perfect expression of our evolutionary destiny as a species. Criticism is meaningless, etc.)
Jodi Dean's use of "symbolic efficiency" (borrowed from Žižek, who adapted it from Lacan) offers one way of theorizing this condition. For Dean and Žižek, the loss of symbolic efficiency means we have a hard time believing in the sort of expert systems and ideological constructs we are supposed to believe in to fix our identity within socially sanctioned limits. The problem of course is that society now sanctions chiefly limitlessness for personal identity; family, religion, etc. are mostly outmoded by the technologically enhanced pursuit of experience that we can record and recirculate to enrich the media circuits of "communicative capitalism."
Dean writes in Democracy and Other Neoliberal Fantasies, "we never really know whether what we say registers with the other as what we mean as well as our sense that we are never quite sure what 'everybody knows:' There is no ultimate guarantor of meaning, no recognized authority that stops our questioning or assuages our doubts." No big Other to believe in or to do the believing for us.
In the absence of guarantees that the rightness or wrongness of our life choices is stable — a loss of faith in the language in circulation to talk about such things as duty, honor, virtue, etc. — we fall into the trap of pursuing quantity of experience instead. The given identity from society tends to be that of an insatiable consumer, the residual identity left after other identity groups are destabilized. "As a result of the critical work of these [social] movements, as well as the accompanying decline of the welfare state and empowering of neoliberalism, racial, sexual, and ethnic identities are less fixed, less stable, less available as determinate subject positions." The result, Dean argues, is a shift from a "Keynesian to a neoliberal ideological formation" in which identity is open-ended, not fixed by ISAs.
Neoliberal ideology does not produce its subjects by interpellating them into symbolically anchored identities (structured according to conventions of gender, race, work, and national citizenship). Instead, it enjoins subjects to develop our creative potential and cultivate our individuality. Communicative capitalism's circuits of entertainment and consumption supply the ever new experiences and accessories we use to perform this self-fashioning-I must be fit! I must be stylish! I must realize my dreams. I must because I can— everyone wins. If I don't, not only am I a loser but I am not a person at all. I am not part of everyone. Neoliberal subjects are expected to, enjoined to, have a good time, have it all, be happy, fit, and fulfilled.
The end of the welfare state and decline of symbolic efficiency may appear to usher in a new era of freedom from rigid norms and expectations. But the fluidity and adaptability of imaginary identities is accompanied by a certain fragility and insecurity. Imaginary identities are incapable of establishing a firm place to stand, a position from which one can make sense of one's world. Moreover, their very mutability and normative indeterminacy, configure imaginary identities as key loci for operations of control (rather than internalized discipline), particularly those operations affiliated with desire and fear as they promise and provide enjoyment.
To put that another way, we are hailed not as somebody specific, but as someone with crucial potential and we must not disappoint. We are hailed as someone who should be happy and we must fulfill that expectation on alien terms. We are constrained to be strive for happiness; happiness is never allowed to be understood as complacency. It's personality kaizen: a requirement to constantly improve our capacity for pleasure and our efficiency in pursuing it and our flexibility in experiencing it. "The consumer today is imagined as excessive,
extreme, and unregulated. She is imagined, in other words, as a composite of the neoliberal market itself."
Zygmunt Bauman, in Liquid Modernity, offers a similar analysis of our anchorlessness, and how this leaves us vulnerable:
It is such patterns, codes and rules to which one could conform, which one could select as stable orientation points and by which one could subsequently let oneself be guided, that are nowadays in increasingly short supply. It does not mean that our contemporaries are guided solely by their own imagination and resolve and are free to construct their mode of life from scratch and at will, or that they are no longer dependent on society for the building materials and design blueprints. But it does mean that we are presently moving from the era of pre allocated 'reference groups' into the epoch of 'universal comparison', in which the destination of individual self-constructing labours is endemically and incurably underdetermined, is not given in advance, and tends to undergo numerous and profound changes before such labours reach their only genuine end: that is, the end of the individual's life.
There is no respite from self-construction; it's a cathedral that can't be completed. And the inevitable failures and shortcomings of our identity in progress, our inevitable disappointment with what we have and what we see being promised, what others seem to be allowed to enjoy, becomes our fault. Politics seems not to be a viable avenue to addressing our disgruntlement; instead soul-searching and more and more elaborate consumption, and just as important, mediated declarations of who we think we are by virtue of that consumption.


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The University of Maryland continued testing of its Gamera II human powered helicopter (HPH). On Tuesday, August 28, the students set another unofficial world endurance record of approximately 65 seconds and an altitude record of approximately 8 ft. The actual maximum endurance and altitude will be verified by the National Aeronautic Association (NAA) once this series of testing is complete.
Videos of the endurance and altitude tests are available on the AHS YouTube Channel: http://www.youtube.com/user/HeloSociety
UMD is competing with the Gamera HPH as part of the AHS Igor I. Sikorsky HPH Competition. For more information, go to www.vtol.org/hph.


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Wednesday, July 13, 2011
A Stolen Life, By Jaycee Dugard
I knew I wanted to read the book. I am glad I read the book. I am usually too sensitive to read this and I would never read a fictional Story about something of this nature. But for me the story was one that needed telling, and I am thankful for Jaycee Dugard's bravery to tell it.
I am not going to review the book or give details. I just want to say that this is a horror story with a happy ending so far and I wish her the best life possible. Not near enough praise can be uttered, or written for Officers Allison (Ally) Jacobs and Lisa Campbell, true heroes and good citizens doing their jobs by caring for other humans on the earth enough to speak up and make a world of difference.
I am inspired by bravery and courage as I reflect on this book.
10 comments:
- Constance Reader said...
Dugards story is so devastating and uplifting at once. I wish her all the happiness in the world...she deserves it!
- July 13, 2011 at 8:46 PM
- bermudaonion said...
I didn't watch the special because I didn't think I could bear it. Jaycee is such a brave young woman to share her story with the world.
- July 14, 2011 at 5:02 AM
- Ti said...
The special was wonderful. I expected a very dark, representation of what took place but Dugard's optimism and her refusal to give-in to such a monster is what carried me though. I imagine her book is the same way.
- July 14, 2011 at 9:35 AM
- Beth(bookaholicmom) said...
I saw the Diane Sawyer interview and I thought Jaycee was very inspiring. Jaycee is quite an amazing woman! I am glad to hear you read her book and thought it was good. I was thinking maybe it was a book I would not be able to stomach but after reading your review I will add it to my tbr list.
- July 14, 2011 at 10:20 AM
- Carrie#K said...
I haven't read the book yet but Jaycee is just amazing. Her spirit is indomitable. I wish her and her girls the very best of lives.
- July 14, 2011 at 5:21 PM
- Felicia said...
Just started the book this morning. I still need to watch the beginning of the Sawyer interview. I think I'll wait to after I read the book to watch it in its entirety.
- July 18, 2011 at 2:09 PM
- Willa said...
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About the Job
Start Making a Difference – Apply to Teach for America Corps
As a Teach For America Corps Member, you will have the privileged and unique opportunity to inspire and impact the education of young children by serving in a full-time salaried position as a teacher in a low-income community within the US.
Each year, thousands of diverse leaders across the country, from Graduating College Seniors across all majors to Experienced Professionals from both the public and private sector and across all professions including (but not limited to) education, nonprofit, management consulting and healthcare apply to become a Teach For America Corps Member.
Our network of corps members teach for a minimum of two-years at the preschool, elementary, middle or high school level and across one or more subjects including (but not limited to): science, math, computer science, STEM, humanities, language arts, English, reading, special education, Spanish/bilingual education, ESL, history, social students and more.
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Throughout your two-year commitment, you will work in partnership with parents and other educators to set ambitious goals for your students and support them on their journey, while reimagining education and your role as a leader and partner in the classroom, community and beyond.
With TFA's formal and high-quality training, unparalleled support network, ongoing coaching, mentorship and leadership development, you will have a profound and measurable impact on the academic and personal growth of your students.
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Teach For America works in 51 communities across the country, from urban to rural, from New Haven to Hawaii and South Dakota to the Rio Grande Valley (and quite possibly the community you're located in today). Across the US, TFA corps members are challenging the status quo and what is possible for our nation's students.
- Full-time salary
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- Strong academic performance: Minimum cumulative 2.5 GPA or higher
- Bachelor's degree by June 2020 or earlier
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Alexa Ray Joel, sporting a new nose job and a much-improved outlook on life, says it was a broken heart that led her to a frightening overdose back in December.
"I felt like I was in a black hole and I couldn't see out," the 24-year-old musician told People magazine. "I hit rock bottom that day . . . A part of me wanted people close to me to know – not the whole world."
Joel, daughter of Piano Man Billy Joel and supermodel Christie Brinkley, objected to rumors that a fight with her mom trigggered the episode. She said the real culprit was a broken heart following her breakup with former bassist Jimmy Riot, whom she began dating at 19. They broke up in 2008, but had fleeting reconciliations. "I was addicted to this man," she says, "and it spiraled out of control."
Joel is in therapy and is growing ever closer to her famous folks.
"It had everything to do with my depression, my anxiety, a dysfunctional on-and-off relationship with my ex – nothing to do with my relationship with either one of my parents," she said.
Joel didn't talkk to People about plastic surgery, but a representative confirmed to the New York Post that the new look is the product of a scalpel.
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"Alexa had breathing difficulties due to a deviated septum and decided to correct the appearance of her nose at the same time," the representative told the paper recently.
The slimmer sniffer can't hurt Joel's efforts to follow in her mother's footsteps. She is now appearing in commercials for Prell shampoo, a quarter-century after her mom did the same.
"Nobody is more supportive of my physical appearance than [my mother]." The singer adds, "She tells me – which I don't understand – that she wishes she looked like me, that I'm so much more unique than her."
While the singer, whose new album is due in June, understands her ad will be compared to her mother's and her music to her father's, she told People she is committed to creating her own identity.
"It's hard because [people] compare my music to my father and my looks to my mother," she says. "And I like to think that my music and my voice are different than my father's and my look is very different than my mother's. Can't I just be me?"