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Beached Whale: The Supreme Court's Sad Suffocation of Public-Sector Unions
Brandon R. Magner, KLJ Notes Editor[1]
On April 24, 2017, the fate of public-sector unions in America was signed and sealed in a simple procedural move. Mark Janus and his fellow plaintiffs filed for certiorari to the Supreme Court to hear their case against the public-sector trade union American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees.[2]
The case, entitled Janus v. AFSCME,[3] represents the Supreme Court's second crack at the question of whether public-sector unions should be allowed to collect agency fees from non-union members whom they are obligated to represent at the bargaining table.[4] With Justice Neil Gorsuch now installed in the late Antonin Scalia's seat, the Court is widely expected to rule 5-4 against the unions on First Amendment grounds and institute the so-called "right-to-work" doctrine on a national level.[5]
How did unions—which now represent just 10.7 percent of eligible workers, despite once peaking at a third of the American workforce[6]—reach this vulnerable moment? How is an organizing scheme that was unanimously upheld as constitutional a mere generation ago now on the verge of upheaval? And more specifically, what does the First Amendment have to do with the nuts and bolts of labor law?
Abood and Alito
The basic infrastructure at issue in this line of cases is long established in both private and public-sector workplaces. In non-right-to-work states, a union and an employer are permitted to agree to an "agency shop" arrangement, whereby every employee covered under the collective bargaining agreement—including non-union members—must pay to the union a service fee as a condition of employment. This payment, colloquially known as an "agency fee", covers the union's costs of collectively bargaining on behalf of the workers and serves as a critical source of revenue to effectively perform this role. Agency fees are therefore utilized to eliminate "free rider" employees who gain benefits from the union's bargaining efforts regardless of whether they are members in the union.
The first case to fully scrutinize the constitutionality of this scheme was Abood v. Detroit Board of Education.[7] In that case, D. Louis Abood and several of his colleagues refused to pay dues to the Detroit teachers' union and opposed collective bargaining in the public sector more generally.[8] Moreover, they disapproved of a "variety of activities and programs [of the union] which are economic, political, professional, scientific and religious in nature . . . and which are not and will not be collective bargaining activities."[9] Plaintiffs sought for the Court to invalidate Michigan's agency-shop law on the basis that this arrangement violated their First Amendment right to freedom of association.[10]
The Court struck a compromise. Writing for a unanimous bench, Justice Potter Stewart held that Abood and his colleagues had no constitutional claim against the agency fees that were allotted towards "collective-bargaining, contract administration, and grievance-adjustment purposes,"[11] but the union could not use non-member fees for other matters.[12] Specifically, Justice Stewart determined that the union could not compel "any of the appellants to contribute to the support of an ideological cause he may oppose as a condition of holding a job as a public school teacher,"[13] and that "such [political union] expenditures be financed from charges, dues, or assessments" provided by the union's members.[14]
This balance seems a sensible one, and indeed it satisfied both the liberal and conservative wings of the Burger Court. Under Abood, a non-union member is still required to cover the costs of non-political union activity that he directly benefits from, such as attorney fees for the next round of negotiations with the non-member's employer. This arrangement is strengthened by governmental interests in promoting "labor peace" and preventing the free rider problem.[15] However, the non-member's agency fees could not be used to finance, say, a campaign donation on behalf of the union to a politician of its liking. Such use of the non-member's fees would potentially run afoul of his First Amendment rights to not be compelled to "associate" with unwanted political activity.
However, Abood has come under fire in recent years from the modern Court's conservative members. Justice Samuel Alito especially has called attention to Abood's shaky moorings in a pair of alarming cases, revealing more in case dicta than in his actual holdings regarding labor-law interpretation.
In Knox v. SEIU, Local 1000,[16] the Court ruled against the defendant union on a mostly technical matter of whether it must provide non-members notice of their freedom to opt out of special fees that fell under Abood's "political purpose" umbrella. However, Justice Alito took the opportunity to criticize Abood's central holding. "[A]cceptance of the free-rider argument as a justification for compelling nonmembers to pay a portion of union dues represents something of an anomaly," Justice Alito wrote, which itself relies mostly "on the interest in furthering 'labor peace.'"[17] Broadly, he found this framework to be "a remarkable boon for unions,"[18] which came about as a "historical accident" rather than through "careful application of First Amendment principles."[19]
If Knox was a canary in the unions' coal mine, then Harris was the collapsing tunnel. In Harris v. Quinn,[20] which held that Illinois home health care workers could not be compelled to join a public-sector union (and thus not pay agency fees) because they worked for individuals rather than the state, Justice Alito abandoned any sense of coyness regarding the unions' constitutional defenses. He spent a good deal of his opinion in Harris prefacing the history of First Amendment challenges to agency fees at the Supreme Court, drawing a fine distinction between potential freedom of association violations in the private sector and those in the public sector.[21] Public-sector unions that bargain with the government have less pretext to justify their compulsory agency fees, Alito posits,[22] and thus "the Abood Court's analysis is questionable on several grounds."[23] Alito further accused Abood of misreading precedent and ignoring "practical problems that would face objecting members" of the agency fee.[24] He proceeded to argue why Abood's "questionable foundations" should not be extended to the health care works at issue in the case before invalidating the Illinois law that sanctioned the agency fees.[25]
As Laurence Tribe has observed, Harris reads like a case that desperately wished to gut Abood but had to wait for another day.[26] Alito's vitriol practically jumps off the page, but he stops short of explicitly urging Abood's reversal. As it stands, the conservatives won only a tertiary battle on the merits, but they had set the table for a proper disembowelment in the near future.[27]
The liberal wing of the Court appeared to understand the gravity of Alito's opinion. Writing in dissent for herself and three other Justices against the majority's "potshots",[28] Justice Elena Kagan went to bat for Abood and the compromise it represented. "Our decisions have long afforded government entities broad latitude to manage their workforces, even when that affects speech they could not regulate in other contexts," Kagan explained, and these cases could not be squared with Alito's "gratuitous dicta critiquing Abood's foundations."[29] Furthermore, Kagan excoriated any comparison of unions to special-interest organizations that subsist off voluntary contributions.[30] Unlike those organizations, public-sector unions are compelled by law to "represent—and represent fairly—every worker in a bargaining unit, regardless whether they join or contribute to the union."[31] Unions cannot procure any special advantages to its members when at the negotiating table, and Alito and his fellow conservatives thus had no basis to argue that "absent a fair-share clause, a union can attract sufficient dues to adequately support its functions."[32]
Harris is a classic example of ships passing in the night. Kagan's dissent, while powerful, is built on the premise that her opponents are arguing in good faith. In reality, opinions like Knox and Harris—whose litigation were funded and argued by the National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation, which also represented Abood and his co-workers back in the seventies[33]—fall neatly within the greater conservative legal movement that wishes to neuter the collective bargaining power of labor organizations by way of the courts.[34] And in 2016, this dream came dangerously close to realization.
After Justice Alito all but invited the Court to re-visit Abood's "questionable foundations", anti-union advocates knew another agency-fee case was ripe for review.[35] And just one term after the Harris decision was handed down, the Justices plucked Friedrichs v. California Teachers Ass'n[36] from the Ninth Circuit and placed Abood directly in the line of fire.
Friedrichs arose from the lawsuit of nine California teachers who declined to join their teachers' union.[37] The teachers objected to even the "non-political" activities the union undertook in collective bargaining, such as negotiating stronger tenure protections and seniority-based layoffs.[38] This rejection of Abood's dichotomous compromise meant the Court would have to decide whether any form of dues-collecting from non-union employees in the public sector was a per se violation of the First Amendment.
The case united a constellation of conservative legal groups in anticipation of its potential,[39] and the teachers' attorneys employed a novel strategy at the lower-court stage in proceedings. Knowing that only the Supreme Court had the authority to overturn Abood, the plaintiffs filed their case in district court and immediately asked the judge to dismiss it.[40] This maneuver expedited the process, which the plaintiffs then successfully repeated after appealing to the Ninth Circuit.[41] Less than 18 months after it was filed in Central District of California, Friedrichs arrived eager and willing on the Supreme Court's doorsteps—and essentially fresh of any paper trail.[42]
Oral argument of the case showcased exactly why the agency fees at issue were thought to be on life support. During their questioning of California's solicitor general, the Court's conservatives seemed to buy the teachers' position hook, line, and sinker: that there is no line in the public sector between political and non-political activity.
"[W]hat is your best example of something that is negotiated over in a collective bargaining agreement with a public employer that does not present a public policy question?"[43] Chief Justice John Roberts asked at one of the pivotal moments. When the solicitor general proffered that mileage reimbursements rates satisfied Roberts's condition of a politically-neutral bargaining chip, the Chief vigorously disagreed. "It's all money. That's money. That's how much money is going to have to be paid to the teachers. If you give more mileage expenses, that costs more money."[44] Added Justice Scalia: "The problem is that everything that is collectively bargained with the government is within the political sphere, almost by definition."[45]
Under whose definition, exactly? Stretched to its logical extreme, anything can be classified as political if all that term means is "something the union bargains for that tangibly affects employees." Theoretically, there may be some public-school teacher in California who does not wish to be given more money for incurred travel expenses, so therefore her union's negotiation of this benefit—and more precisely, the money used by the union to cover the legal costs of that negotiation—violates said teacher's right to freedom of association. Only under this tortured definition of "political activity" would Abood reach its unceremonious death.
However, the conservatives' victory would have to wait; the untimely passing of Justice Scalia left Friedrichs in a 4-4 deadlock and saved public-sector unions from what seemed a certain loss.[46] The Court could only issue an anti-climactic, one-line opinion reaffirming the Ninth Circuit's dismissal.[47] And as Senate Republicans refused to vote on Merrick Garland's nomination to fill Scalia's seat,[48] the constitutionality of agency fees in the public sector subsequently became one of many legal issues relegated to the outcome of the 2016 presidential election.
Janus and its Shortcomings
The ending to that story, of course, comprised the election of Donald Trump to the presidency and the ascension of Neil Gorsuch to serve as Scalia's successor. With a 5-4 conservative advantage preserved on the Court, anti-union advocacy groups were once again encouraged to cherry-pick the perfect challenge to Abood and begin anew.[49]
That case, Janus, is almost identical to Friedrichs in posture and effect.[50] It was intended to be a fast-tracked, record-less affair,[51] filed by Illinois Governor Bruce Rauner as a direct challenge to the state law that empowers public-sector unions in Illinois to collect agency fees from non-union member employees.[52] Although Rauner's complaint was dismissed due to a lack of standing, the Northern District of Illinois allowed public employee Mark Janus—at the behest of the National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation and other anti-union groups[53]—to intervene and amend the suit.[54]Janus's suit was subsequently dismissed upon request à la Friedrichs, and the Seventh Circuit did the same on appeal.[55]
Once its writ of certiorari is inevitably granted, the Supreme Court will thus be tasked in Janus with deciding whether the Abood compromise—and more broadly, the very concept of "fair share" dues in the public sector—violates the First Amendment of the Constitution. Reversing Abood, however, makes little sense substantively or cosmetically.
As mentioned, objecting to one's funding of negotiations over even ideologically-impartial benefits like mileage reimbursements is to object to the very existence of the union. In reality, Americans are compelled to pay for things they do not "agree" with on a daily basis. The collection of agency fees "does not violate the First Amendment rights of nonmembers any more than does compelled contributions to pension and health insurance companies or utility companies or paying one's taxes."[56] Moreover, non-members are only compelled to subsidize union activity that they disagree with if they knowingly and willingly work a unionized job. Conservatives and libertarians who frequently urge disaffected and ideologically marginalized citizens to "vote with their feet"[57] should be amenable to the idea that disgruntled non-union employees should find a new line of work rather than exacerbate the free-rider problem. Even Justice Scalia has elaborated on the justifications for fair-share dues in the public-sector at a time earlier in his career:
Our First Amendment jurisprudence . . . recognizes a correlation between the rights and the duties of the union, on the one hand, and the nonunion members of the bargaining unit, on the other. Where the state imposes upon the union a duty to deliver services, it may permit the union to demand reimbursement for them; or, looked at from the other end, where the state creates in the nonmembers a legal entitlement from the union, it may compel them to pay the cost. . . . What is distinctive, however, about the "free riders" who are nonunion members of the union's own bargaining unit is that in some respects they are free riders whom the law requires the union to carry—indeed, requires the union to go out of its way to benefit, even at the expense of its other interests. In the context of bargaining, a union must seek to further the interests of its nonmembers; it cannot, for example, negotiate particularly high wage increases for its members in exchange for accepting no increases for others. Thus, the free ridership (if it were left to be that) would be not incidental but calculated, not imposed by circumstances but mandated by government decree.[58]
Scalia, of course, clearly signaled his abandonment of this logic during the oral argument of Friedrichs, and Justice Anthony Kennedy, the Court's ostensible moderate,[59] was even more forceful in his badgering of the unions' attorney: "When you are dealing with a governmental agency, many critical points are matters of public concern. And is it not true that many teachers strongly, strongly disagree with the union position on teacher tenure, on merit pay, on merit promotion, on classroom size?"[60] Kennedy concluded that while "[t]he term is 'free rider'[,] [t]he union basically is making these teachers 'compelled riders' for issues on which they strongly disagree."[61]
This is where the cosmetic argument—the argument that would justify the timing of Abood's reversal—falls harrowingly short. When Justice Stephen Breyer spent much of his time during last year's oral argument preaching the power of precedent,[62] it wasn't merely a desperate defense of tradition for the sake of tradition. Breyer penned a unanimous labor opinion for the Court less than a decade ago that cited Abood favorably and contained the following language:
The First Amendment permits the government to require both public sector and private sector employees who do not wish to join a union designated as the exclusive collective-bargaining representative at their unit of employment to pay that union a service fee as a condition of their continued employment. . . . The court has determined that the First Amendment burdens accompanying the payment requirement are justified by the government's interest in preventing free riding by nonmembers who benefit from the union's collective bargaining activities and in maintaining peaceful labor relations.[63]
This makes the conservatives' crusade in Knox, Harris, and Friedrichs all the more bizarre. Abood isn't just a 40-year-old compromise; it is a 40-year-old compromise that was unanimously upheld as recently as 2009. Justice Alito went from ratifying Abood's central tenets to lambasting its "questionable foundations" faster than the hit show Parks and Recreation premiered and ended.[64] And as Justice Breyer has astutely observed, "six people in a room bargaining about wages, hours, and working conditions" is "pretty far removed from the heart of the First Amendment, and pretty close to ordinary physical activity carried on through words."[65] What is at the base of the conservatives' recent change of heart on this seemingly simple concept?
One explanation for the Court's rightward shift on public-sector unions may be found in the Court's approach to the First Amendment more generally. Law professor Jedediah Purdy has written at length about conservatives' recent weaponization of the First Amendment against perceived liberal economic rights.[66] According to Purdy, the embrace of free speech as a promoter of "free-market jurisprudence" explains conservatives' gutting of several seemingly-tangential regulations,[67] such as those pertaining to campaign finance[68] and pharmaceutical sales.[69] Purdy describes this phenomenon as "neo-Lochnerism",[70] whereby the Court revitalizes the laissez-faire spirit of the most anti-regulatory period in American history.[71]
The coming devastation of public-sector unions fits well within this revanchist theory. The Lochner era was home to the most anti-union decisions the Supreme Court has ever handed down, culminating in cases such as Adair v. United States[72] and Coppage v. Kansas,[73] which declared that bans on yellow-dog contracts—where an employee agreed, as a condition of employment, to not be a member of a labor union—were unconstitutional at the federal and state level, respectively. Janus, which threatens to break the backs of unions in a more indirect way (by cleaving them from vital funds), is set to join Adair and Coppage in the Anti-Labor Hall of Fame before long.
The Fallout
The impact of Janus is hardly theoretical. States that enact right-to-work laws see a precipitous drop in union membership, exactly as its proponents intended.[74] This stems not just from the vanishing revenue of agency fees, but also the lost dues of cancelled memberships or reluctant joiners; the free-rider option becomes increasingly enticing for current and prospective union members.[75] While roughly a third of all government workers currently belong to a union,[76] that number would surely collapse if the Supreme Court were to promulgate right-to-work across all fifty states. "Hopefully this is a wake-up call for labor to do more internal organizing," said retired Wisconsin AFL-CIO president David Newby amidst the obliteration of his state's union infrastructure.[77] "If we don't, we're dead."[78]
But anti-union advocacy groups will likely not stop the assault on labor at Janus. After the Court determines fair-share dues in the public sector are unconstitutional, it will invite legal challenges to other bedrocks of union autonomy.[79] For example, there are cases in the pipeline that argue a union should not be able to bargain on behalf of any worker who doesn't opt to be a member of that union.[80] Although the Justices declined to hear the most recently-appealed decision in this vein,[81] it feels only a matter of time until the Court begins questioning the union-employee relationship beyond merely monetary matters.[82] After all, it was not long ago that the possibility of Janus seemed remote.
One thing is clear: the traditional means of bargaining and litigation will only continue to erode what little amount of power workers have left in America. In the meantime, public-sector unions will languish like a great beached whale, washed ashore by the tidal forces of conservative jurisprudence and crushed under a heavy carcass of complacency. Time will tell if Janus represents the last gasp of air for a once-proud institution of civic engagement and solidarity, or if it serves as a needed adrenaline shot for the labor movement to fight to the bone for its very survival.
[1] J.D. Expected May 2018.
[2] Chris Opfer (@ChrisOpfer), Twitter (Apr. 24, 2017, 6:10 PM), https://twitter.com/ChrisOpfer/status/856631387125940234 ("NEW: #SCOTUS gets another shot to decide if public unions can charge "fair share" fees to nonmembers. Janus (7th Cir.) workers filing cert.").
[3] Tim Yeung, The New Friedrichs Case: Janus v. AFSCME, California PERB Blog (Jan. 17, 2017, 1:11 PM), http://www.caperb.com/2017/01/17/the-new-friedrichs-case-janus-v-afscme/.
[4] Id.
[5] See Moshe Z. Marvit, Labor Opponents Already Have The Next 'Friedrichs' SCOTUS Case Ready to Go Under Trump, In These Times (Jan. 4, 2017, 1:55 PM), http://inthesetimes.com/working/entry/19776/will_trumps_supreme_court_reverse_fair_share_fees_unions_foes_hope_so; Sean Higgins, Gorsuch will tip Supreme Court on key labor issue, liberals fear, Washington Examiner (Apr. 17, 2017, 12:01 AM), http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/gorsuch-will-tip-supreme-court-on-key-labor-issue-liberals-fear/article/2620340; Dan La Botz, An Injury to All, Jacobin (Feb. 16, 2017), https://www.jacobinmag.com/2017/02/trump-labor-movement-unions-trades-climate-change-racism-afl-cio/.
[6] Dylan Matthews, Europe could have the secret to save America's unions, Vox (Apr. 17, 2017, 9:30 AM), https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/4/17/15290674/union-labor-movement-europe-bargaining-fight-15-ghent.
[8] Id. at 212-13, 214.
[9] Id. at 213.
[10] Id.
[11] Id. at 232.
[12] Id. at 232-37.
[13] Id. at 235.
[14] Id. at 236.
[15] See id. at 224.
[17] Id. at 311 (emphasis added).
[18] Id. at 312.
[19] Id.
[20] 134 S. Ct. 2618 (2014).
[21] Id. at 2630.
[22] Id. at 2630-32.
[23] Id. at 2632.
[24] Id. at 2632-34.
[25] Id. at 2638-44.
[26] Laurence H. Tribe, In attacking unions, Roberts court forgets a key lesson of the New Deal., Slate (June 30, 2014, 3:04 PM), http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/the_breakfast_table/features/2014/scotus_roundup/supreme_court_2014_harris_v_quinn_forgets_the_lesson_of_the_new_deal.html.
[27] See id. ("Just as Knox portended Harris, Harris could well portend a far broader decision in a future case.").
[28] Harris, 567 U.S. at 2645 (Kagan, J., dissenting).
[29] Id.
[30] Id. at 2656.
[31] Id.
[32] Id. at 2657.
[33] Foundation Supreme Court Cases, National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation, http://www.nrtw.org/foundation-supreme-court-cases (last visited May 9, 2017).
[34] See generally Chris Maisano, The Road to Friedrichs, Jacobin (Jan. 11, 2016), https://www.jacobinmag.com/2016/01/friedrichs-public-sector-unions-abood-right-to-work/.
[35] See Brian Mahoney, Conservative group nears big payoff in Supreme Court case, Politico (Jan. 10, 2016, 6:35 ET), http://www.politico.com/story/2016/01/friedrichs-california-teachers-union-supreme-court-217525.
[36] Friedrichs v. Cal. Teachers Ass'n, 2014 U.S. App. LEXIS 24935 (9th Cir. Cal., Nov. 18, 2014).
[37] Mahoney, supra note 35.
[38] Id.
[39] Id. A non-exhaustive list of Friedrichs's supporters—be it through advising, funding, or filing of amicus curiae—included the Cato Institute, the Manhattan Institute, the Institute for Justice, the Beckett Fund for Religious Liberty, the National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation, the Goldwater Institute, the National Federation of Independent Businesses, the Freedom Foundation, the Atlantic Legal Foundation, and the Friedman Foundation for Educational Choice.
[40] Id.
[41] Id.
[42] For an analysis and criticism of this scheme of "court-rushing", see Catherine Fisk, Symposium: The Friedrichs petition should be dismissed, SCOTUSblog (Aug. 26, 2015, 2:51 PM), http://www.scotusblog.com/2015/08/symposium-the-friedrichs-petition-should-be-dismissed/. Primarily, the strategy raises concerns over building a necessary factual record for the Justices to knowledgeably discern. See id.
[43] Oral Argument at 45:00, Friedrichs v. California Teachers Ass'n, 136 S. Ct. 1083 (2016) (No. 70-18), https://www.oyez.org/cases/2015/14-915.
[44] Id. at 45:15.
[45] Id. at 43:53.
[46] Adam Liptak, Victory for Unions as Supreme Court, Scalia Gone, Ties 4-4, N.Y. Times (Mar. 29, 2016) https://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/30/us/politics/friedrichs-v-california-teachers-association-union-fees-supreme-court-ruling.html.
[47] Friedrichs, 136 S. Ct. at 255 ("Judgment affirmed by an equally divided Court.").
[48] See generally Brandon R. Magner, The Greatest Justices That Never Were, Ky. L.J. Blog (Sept. 26, 2016), http://www.kentuckylawjournal.org/index.php/2016/09/26/merrick-garland-and-the-greatest-justices-that-never-were/.
[49] See Marvit, supra note 5.
[50] Id.
[51] See id.
[52] Janus v. AFCSME, Council 31, 851 F.3d 746 (7th Cir. 2017).
[53] Marvit, supra note 5.
[54] Id. at 747-48.
[55] Id. at 749.
[56] Fisk, supra note 42.
[57] See, e.g., Ilya Somin, Is voting with your feet selfish? Does it matter if it is?, Wash. Post: The Volokh Conspiracy (Apr. 25, 2017), https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/wp/2017/04/25/is-voting-with-your-feet-selfish-does-it-matter-if-it-is/?utm_term=.a1571c20058e.
[58] Lehnert v. Ferris Faculty Ass'n, 500 U.S. 507, 556 (1991).
[59] Ian Millhiser, On Economic Justice, Justice Kennedy Is No Moderate, ThinkProgress (Apr. 2, 2012), https://thinkprogress.org/on-economic-justice-justice-kennedy-is-no-moderate-c29b24cb139d.
[60] Oral Argument at 40:37, Friedrichs v. California Teachers Ass'n, 136 S. Ct. 1083 (2016) (No. 70-18), https://www.oyez.org/cases/2015/14-915.
[61] Id. at 41:06.
[62] Id. at 25:40 ("[W]hat is it, in your mind, that you can say from the point of view of this Court's role in this society in that if, of course, we can overrule a compromise that was worked out over 40 years and has lasted reasonably well[?]").
[63] Locke v. Karass, 555 U.S. 207, 213 (2009); see also Linda Greenhouse, Scalia's Putsch at the Supreme Court, N.Y. Times (Jan. 21, 2016), https://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/21/opinion/scalias-putsch-at-the-supreme-court.html.
[64] See Josef Adalian, How Parks and Recreation Managed to Survive for 7 Seasons, Vulture (Feb. 23, 2015, 5:00 PM), http://www.vulture.com/2015/02/parks-and-recreation-ratings.html.
[65] Oral Argument at 31:27, Friedrichs v. California Teachers Ass'n, 136 S. Ct. 1083 (2016) (No. 70-18), https://www.oyez.org/cases/2015/14-915.
[66] See, e.g., Jedediah Purdy, Neoliberal Constitutionalism: Lochnerism for a New Economy, 77 Law & Contemp. Probs. 195, 198-203 (2014).
[67] Id.
[68] See Citizens United v. F.E.C., 558 U.S. 310 (2010).
[69] See Sorrell v. IMS Health Inc., 564 U.S. 552 (2011).
[70] Purdy, supra note 64, at 202.
[71] Id. at 196-97 (sketching the parameters of the Supreme Court's "Lochner era").
[74] See David Moberg, How Unions Can Grow Stronger in the Wake of Right To Work, In These Times (Mar. 16, 2015), http://inthesetimes.com/article/17735/scott-walker-strikes-again.
[75] Id.
[76] See Bureau of Labor Statistics, Union Members Summary, U.S. Dep't Labor, (2016), https://www.bls.gov/news.release/pdf/union2.pdf. (providing data about union membership in 2016).
[77] Moberg, supra note 74.
[78] Id.; see also Dan Kaufman, The Destruction of Progressive Wisconsin, N.Y. Times (Jan. 16, 2016), https://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/17/opinion/campaign-stops/the-destruction-of-progressive-wisconsin.html.
[79] See Moshe Z. Marvit, When Scalia Died, So Did 'Friedrichs'—And an Even Grander Scheme to Destroy Unions, In These Times (Feb. 15, 2016, 6:01 PM), http://inthesetimes.com/working/entry/18869/when_scalia_died_so_did_friedrichs_and_an_anti-union_grand_scheme.&eg.
[80] See, e.g., D'Agostino v. Baker, 812 F.3d 240 (1st Cir. 2016).
[81] Lawrence E. Dubé, Justices Won't Hear Massachusetts Child-Care Aides' Case, Bloomberg BNA: Daily Labor Report (June 13, 2016, 7:30 PM).
[82] See Marvit, supra note 79 ("[Agostino] provided a glimpse of what the likely post-Friedrichs plan of attack would have been: After you win on the dues front, go after membership.").


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Since then Johnson has worked as a city and county employee. Today Johnson works on political campaigns to help get youth-advocate candidates elected into office, and serves on the boards of several nonprofit youth agencies. He was earned awards and recognition for his work, including honors from Project Cornerstone and the Movers of the Mountain Award from the Martin Luther King Association of Santa Clara County.


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FARMINGTON, Maine - The University of Maine-Farmington men's basketball team knocked off Bowdoin for the first time since 1999 in a 66-62 win over Bowdoin on Tuesday evening.
The win snaps a 15-game losing streak for the Beavers (11-3) against the Polar Bears. Bowdoin falls to 9-4 this season with the loss.
Ben Johnson had 19 points and ten rebounds to lead Farmington. Keegan Pieri had 15 points and six rebounds in the loss for Bowdoin. Andrew Madlinger pitched in 14 and Lucas Hausman had 13 points off the bench for the Polar Bears.
The Polar Bears held a six point lead at intermission, 30-24, and extended their lead to as many as 13 points early in the second half, 47-34, with 14:53 remaining. UMF closed the gap to a single point with a 14-2 surge, to close within a single point, 49-48, with 7:43 to go.
Bowdoin rebounded to take a seven-point edge following a Pieri three-pointer, 60-53, with under 4:30 to play, but the Beavers would not go away. UMF rolled off a decisive 11-2 run, capped by a pair of three-pointers from Andrew Dickey, to take a 64-62 edge with 1:08 to play.
The Polar Bears had three chances to tie or take the lead in the final minute, but could not convert. Johnson hit two free throws in the closing seconds to seal the four-point win for UMF.
The game was statistically balanced with the exception of offensive rebounds, where UMF held a 17-9 advantage and owned a crucial 15-5 edge in second-chance points.
Bowdoin will look to bounce back with a pair of NESCAC road contests on tap. The Polar Bears will play at Amherst on Friday, January 18 at 6:00 p.m. before traveling to Trinity on Saturday for a 2:00 p.m. tip-off.
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FARMINGTON, Maine - The University of Maine-Farmington men's basketball team knocked off Bowdoin for the first time since 1999 in a 66-62 win over Bowdoin on Tuesday evening.


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Atlanta Film Festival alumni Gideon Kennedy and Marcus Rosentrater are taking the next step in distributing their film "Limo Ride!" Not only is their film amazing, but they have a kick-ass Kickstarter to promote their project. The campaign is not to produce the movie (it's already done, crazy! Not to mention it had its world premiere at the 2014 ATLFF), it is to distribute the film and backers get a copy of "Limo Ride" just by donating!
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I forgot to post here that I was off on Friday, and will be on Monday too. Am up in P-town, relaxing. I may post some thoughts on things later. Sorry I've been posting so little lately but the show's been in overdrive, with Prop 8 and Sotomayor and everything else, that it's been tough. Back on the show on Tuesday.
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text: Ok, i'm going to apologize in advance for posting so many photos, but it was ridiculously hard to narrow down sneak peeks, so i'm posting a ton. I am SO in love with in home sessions. They are so much fun, so much more relaxed than on-location shoots, not having to worry about dragging clothing, snacks, etc to shoots, having to find a bathroom if your little ones need to go, etc, etc. You're in your own home, so everything is there, your kids are already comfortable where they are, they aren't distracted by cars or people going by, etc. I would LOVE to do more in home sessions, so shoot me an email to set up a session (and yes, I do travel to OC/LA, etc for an additional fee) ;) I first photographed this family 2 years ago, and immediately fell in love. Their style was rad, their kids had awesome names, they were up for fun stuff, and they were super sweet. When they contacted me about an in home session, I was beyond excited. I already knew (just from a chair that they brought as a prop to their last shoot - haha) that their house was going to be rad.....I just didn't know HOW rad it would be (and yes, I love the word rad ;)). It was amazing (as you'll see below), and the kids had grown so much! Georgia (7) is gorgeous as ever and such a ham. She wanted to be in pretty much every photo, whereas adorable little Ryder (almost 3) was in charge of the shoot (like most kids under 4 are ;) haha) and ran off whenever he felt like it, but did awesome and definitely worked the camera as well. We had so many laughs during the shoot....and as you can see, everyone had a blast.


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SPARTA, N.C. — The 50th anniversary of the St. Frances of Rome Catholic Church in Sparta, N.C., was celebrated with a special Sunday Mass on Sept. 25, followed by a reception and fellowship.
The church was first dedicated on Sept. 25, 1966, and brought local Catholics a formal venue for worship in Sparta. St. Frances of Rome was built in memory of Frances Payne Darr, mother of Ed Darr, and sister of Anne Payne Robertson. In the past 50 years, the parish has grown to approximately 152 families.
INDEPENDENCE -- Independence First Baptist Church's annual Easter egg hunt is set for 11 a.m. Saturday, March 21. Lunch will be served at 11:45 a.m. Everyone is welcome and all the activities are free.
The church is at 109 Hillcrest Ave.
For information, call (276) 773-2446 or visit www.fbcindependence.net.
By R.B. Anderson
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INDEPENDENCE -- "If We Make It Through December" was a hit song years ago for Merle Haggard. I didn't hear it on the radio last month but my brain had it on continuous play. It is not a Christmas song. It is a survival song. Some of us feel that way and I found myself telling herself, "If we can just get through Christmas…"
BRIDLE CREEK -- A man well-known for his complaining inherited a large sum of money. He kept on complaining, implying he should have gotten more money.
Eventually, he decided to buy a farm with some of the money. He asked his wife what they should call the new farm. She quickly responded, "Why not call it Belly Acres?"
On the highway into Yankton, South Dakota the road sign reads, "Welcome to Yankton, S.D. The home of 30,000 friendly people and a few soreheads."
"The Lord tests the righteous, but his soul hates the wicked and the one who loves violence."
-- Psalm 11: 5
"Husbands love your wives and do not be harsh with them."
-- Colossians 3: 19
"See that you do not despise the little ones for I tell you that in heaven their angels always see the face of my father who is in heaven."
-- Matthew 18: 10
Potato Creek Church has announced and invites everyone to a special sermon series by Dr. Gary Luce of Kingsport, Tenn., Sunday, March 30, and Sunday, April 13, at 11 a.m.
The River North Ministry Council's vision of installing a chaplain at River North Correctional Center has become a reality, as last Thursday Chaplain R.B. Anderson was officially introduced to the community.
After River North Ministry Council (RNMC) spent the better part of 2013 raising funds for the chaplain's salary, Anderson was hired to the part-time position and began his work at the facility in January. Anderson is the first of his kind in Virginia, as no other prison chaplain has ever been paid solely through local community contributions.
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Legislation aimed at ensuring students' right to pray and engage in other religious expression at school has passed the General Assembly, but not by sufficient margins to overcome a promised veto by Gov. Terry McAuliffe.
River North Ministry Council (RNMC) has rescheduled its Meet the Chaplain event that was originally scheduled for last Thursday.
Due to the inclement weather, the event was postponed and is now set for March 6 at 10 a.m. at the Grayson National Bank Conference Center in Independence.
Approximately 10 percent of offenders at River North Correctional Center in Independence are now regularly attending River North Men's Fellowship Church, according to the facility's new chaplain.
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This hostel is pretty good, thanks to W for the recommendation. I'm in four-up room, with a young couple from Michigan and a German dude. The bathrooms are shared and the showers go in 20 second intervals, unless you position yourself just-so and lean against the button while showering up. Hey, for €20 per night, with free internet in the lounge, it's tip-top. Yesterday when I checked in, I immediately headed to the lounge and as quickly as I sat down, struck up a conversation with an adorable German girl from Berlin. She and her friend are looking for a flat in Madrid, in the meantime staying at the hostel. I spent the evening wandering the streets exploring and looking for food. I managed to find little India, little Africa, and even little Middle-fucking-East, but for love nor money could I find any friggin' Spanish food! I finally discovered a tapas bar called Taberna La Chilo S…(?), which was going to have to be enough for the moment. I was really craving chuletas, but was fading fast.
A fun place, packed to the brim. The bartender was friendly, the clientele attractive, and the food authentic. A bunch of queso semi-curado and lomo iberico later, washed down with a couple of cervezas and a glass of Rioja joven, I made my way out for the next place.
I had eyeballed a tapas bar earlier on that looked cool but was entirely empty, so headed back that way to see if it was doing any better at this late hour. It was definitely packed, so I saddled up to the bar for another Rioja. As fortune would have it, they had a bottle of Lan on the table, a wine I know well and is difficult to find in the U.S. So a few glasses of that, some olives and a brief chat with cute Spanish girl who found this Californian who spoke Spanish mildly entertaining until I couldn't produce a list of San Francisco local bands on demand, and finally it was time to call it a night. A tame first night in Madrid, but there you have it. And now it's Thursday.
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According to a Reuters exclusive published early on Thursday, Iran continues to illegally procure nuclear materials through front companies, despite ongoing negotiations over its nuclear program. This relentless pursuit of illicit materials through backchannel means – all in violation of UN Security Council resolutions – continues as the P5+1 seeks to reach a final agreement with Iran over its nuclear program by June 30.
The United Kingdom told a UN panel about the existence of an "active Iranian nuclear procurement network linked to two blacklisted firms." The report also lists other Iranian attempts, reported by member states, to illegally obtain both nuclear and non-nuclear materials. This latest report comes amidst frequent revelations of Iran's illegal activity. Last December, the U.S. issued a report detailing Iran's attempts to illicitly acquire materials for its heavy water reactor at Arak. In May 2014, a UN Panel of Experts said that Iran had "learned how to outsmart" the Western intelligence agencies in its illegal acquisitions. Just last August, Iranian leaders bragged about their continued pursuit of illegal materials. President Hassan Rouhani declared, "Of course we bypass sanctions. We are proud that we bypass sanctions because the sanctions are illegal," while the Institute for Science and International Security (ISIS) reported that Ali Akbar Salehi, head of the Iranian Atomic Energy Organization (AEOI) said that "Iran has indeed purchased nuclear or nuclear-related components from other countries."
In his testimony before Congress, scientist David Albright, president of ISIS, said that throughout the current negotiation period, Iran has continued its illegal procurement "of a wide range of goods for its nuclear programs and has undertaken extensive and elaborate overseas illegal procurements in order to build its nuclear facilities." Albright continued, "However, similar to its attitudes toward the IAEA and safeguards, Iran views others' national trade control laws and UN Security Council sanctions with contempt."
The report also stated that one possible reason why the UN panel currently receives few reports from member states over Iranian non-compliance is for political expediency: states want to "avoid any possible negative impact on ongoing negotiations" with Iran. However, the report revealed that "some member states informed the panel that according to their assessment, the Islamic Republic of Iran's procurement trends and (sanctions) circumvention techniques remain basically unchanged."
An increasingly deployed comparison, made by anti-Israel activists, between Israel and the racist Jim Crow era of the United States is "an insult to Jews… [and] an insult to the African-Americans who struggled to be a part of the American dream," veteran civil rights attorney Andrew Goldman wrote in an op-ed published today in The New York Post.
Goldman witnessed the injustices he recounted as a lawyer for the Council of Federated Organizations, an umbrella group of civil rights organizations.
Goldman not only defended Israel's behavior, but also pointed out that the grievances of African-Americans are not the same as of the Palestinians. The goal of African-Americans was equality, not the destruction of whites.
In the American civil rights movement, there was no slogan comparable to "driving the Jews" into the sea and no terrorism sponsored by foreign countries against whites.
Goldman sums up his argument by saying, "I can no longer be a bystander as the noble legacy of the civil-rights movement is hijacked by a campaign whose goal is the destruction of Israel." (via TheTower.org)


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text: Michael Guillen, Ph.D is a theoretical physicist and former science correspondent for ABC News. He taught physics at Harvard for eight years and currently serves as president of Spectacular Science Productions for Crystal Cathedral Ministries. For his work on Good Morning America, World News Tonight, Nightline, and 20/20, he has won Emmys, Teddys, and an EMMA. Guillen has also published hundreds of articles and reviews in The New York Times, Washington Post, USA Today, Esquire, and Science Digest. Guillen is the author of Can a Smart Person Believe In God? (Thomas Nelson).


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Lesley Dill is one of the most prominent American artists working at the intersection of language and fine art. Her elegant sculptures, art installations, mixed-media photographs, and evocative performances draw from both her travels abroad and profound interests in spirituality and the world's faith traditions. Exploring the power of words to cloak and reveal the psyche, Dill invests new meaning in the human form. Intellectually and aesthetical engaging, the core of her work emerges from an essential, visionary awareness of the world.
Fluid metaphors, appropriated from the poetry and writings of Emily Dickinson, Salvador Espriu, Tom Sleigh, Franz Kafka, and Rainer Maria Rilke, connect the diverse media that Dill employs. Paper, wire, horsehair, photography, foil, bronze, and music comprise elements through which the artist conveys the complexities of communication. The often secret, indecipherable, and bold meanings of words emerge not only from hearing their sounds, but by feeling them—language is a visceral, bodily experience. Dill challenges the viewer to confront our linguistic relationships as well as perceptions of language itself.
From Shimmer, Allegorical Figures, and Sister Gertrude Morgan by Barbara Matilsky
"…Lesley Dill has created a body of work that is bracing in its variety, substantial in quantity and powerful in emotive effects, yet fragile, almost ethereal, in its physical aspects. She has worked in sculpture, photography and performance, using a great range of materials and techniques to insinuate her art into a viewer's conscious and sub conscious mind. She has borrowed themes from poetry and religion. She has worked at both billboard scale and at a scale smaller than life-size. She has proven to be as adept with the graphic flatness of a photographic image as she is with the three-dimensionality of setting and costumes for dance. She has drawn from the privacy of a recluse's expressions, but she has also spoken, researched and created art in the presence of an audience. But perhaps the most unusual aspect of Dill's art is its perfect integration and balance of language and picture. She doesn't illustrate the texts she uses, nor does she caption her pictorial representations with those texts. Instead, words and images come together in a remarkable and moving harmony of effect."
Excerpt taken from Janet Koplos' essay in the exhibition catalogue: "Lesley Dill: A Ten Year Survey."
Visionary power, nuance and heartfelt sincerity are the currency in which Ms. Dill trades, which is no real surprise given her enthusiasm for poetry. Her art evokes an imaginative and emotional space, deftly balancing sure, concrete reference points with whimsical intimations of some other, larger, escapist universe. Ms. Dill's sculptures are… knotty philosophical puzzles that use sculpture as a launching pad.
Excerpt taken from Benjamin Genocchio's review for the New York Times
New York-based artist Lesley Dill… is largely responsible for one of the most popular trends in sculpture. Whenever you see ghostly objects made from ephemeral materials such as sheer cloth, papier-mache and dangling ribbons and threads, think of Dill. This is especially true if the artist adds passages of writing to the sculpture, not the big, bold, BANG, ZOOM, CRASH lettering of Pop and graffiti, but the faint, tentative script of a shy little girl.
Excerpt from Doug MacCash's review in the The Time- Picayunne
…Ms. Dill has found a convincing visual equivalent for…the delicate precision of word and metaphor, for its deceptively weighty lightness. She has done this partly by turning to weightless ephemeral materials, including cutout paper, fabric printed with photographic images… thread and wire.
Excerpt from Roberta Smith for The New York Times
In forging her art from language, Dill joins a tradition that spans Japanese haiga, which has married visual art with haiku for centuries… whose "truisms" projected on buildings read like profound tweets writ monumental. Dill has carved her own place in that lineage.
Language is just a series of symbols imbued with the meaning and power we give them. In reading this, you affirm my arrangement of those symbols. We have a collective agreement. Dill's use of language seeks a different affirmation, a more private pact that doesn't require one necessarily to know a language, only to understand its intent.
Excerpt from Lennie Bennett for The Times
This is the stuff of Dill's art: the ability of language and image to take us - and sometimes force us - inward toward enlightenment. At 14, she had a vision that reckoned with life's sorrow and pestilence, and with the sublime.
"My entire visual screen was suddenly filled with a weblike spiral of concentric, black and white images."…Dill goes on, "And in that moment, I was given to understand the world." That same year, her mother gave her Dickinson's collected poems. "Words leapt off the page . . . causing a stream of urgent images," says Dill.
The artist does not attempt to embody Dickinson's poems, nor those of Pablo Neruda or Salvador Espriu, whose words she also harvests. She often borrows just a single line. She experiences the poems viscerally.
"I felt the words were in my body the words came I felt my life from within," she declares, without breath or punctuation…. Words then manifest into images, or sometimes they follow them. In every piece, the words come, and often repeat like a mantra, aiming directly for the spirit.
[Dill]… has been showing internationally for more than 20 years, and contemporary art's feminist and global agendas course through her work. Her aesthetic coalesced after spending two years in New Delhi in the early 1990s, where the pattern of written Hindi entranced her and activated her own use of language.
The texts are often hard to read - one says "I lose myself to my senses" - but it doesn't matter. Language, for Dill, carries a mythic code whether you can read it or not.
From Cate McQuaid's review for The Boston Globe
ART THAT TAKES literature -- or even, more fundamentally, language itself -- as its inspiration is nothing new.
Lesley Dill is an artist who does both, but one who manages to do so in a way that is familiar and fresh, showing words to be potent -- and elusive -- things. Her exhibition of recent work at the National Museum of Women in the Arts, "Lesley Dill: A Ten Year Survey," addresses words as containers of both meaning and meaninglessness, as tools of communication and as mute scribblings on a page. It is a show that could be said to speak with a voice that modulates between an indecipherable whisper and a clarion call.
Most, but not all, of the works on view allude to the poetry of Emily Dickinson, a writer whose verse is at times simplistic and obvious, at others maddeningly inscrutable. Also drawing on the writing of Rainer Maria Rilke, Franz Kafka, Salvador Espriu and Pablo Neruda, Dill's art does nothing so simple as illustrate text… Using the written word as both a signifier and a kind of decorative motif, Dill covers everything she does with a seeming jumble of often illegible letters. Forcing the viewer to squint, stoop and search, sometimes in vain, for recognizable sentences, the artist creates messages that are as much a kind of linguistic code -- marks representing ideas -- as they are mute blemishes, abstractions whose resonance has more to do with emotion than rhetoric.
Excerpt from The Washington Post Weekend Review by Michael O'Sullivan
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Born and raised in Alabama, Brandon Loper has been working commercially for over a decade cultivating his craft of telling stories through advertising and films. His southern roots keep his directing style humble, conversational, and honest and the past decade has been spent honing his cinematic documentary style. Brandon's documentary, A Film About Coffee, explores the global culture of specialty coffee and his most recent film chronicles the superstar Kevin Durant on his run to win his first NBA championship.
Brandon recently made the journey home to Alabama where he is writing his first narrative film and working on his jump shot.


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Pan American/PANAM Food & Music Festival 2017
All three levels of government; Federal, Provincial and Municipal, were represented at the fifth annual Pan American Food & Music Festival Opening Reception held at Daniels Spectrum Ada Slaight Hall on Friday August 11, 2017. The Pan American Food & Music Festival, which takes place on the week-end at Yonge & Dundas Square, showcases the rich traditions of over 25 countries of the America's in both food and music.
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The Director of the Festival, Daniel Garcia-Herreros, explained that the featured country this year is Canada in honor of the country's 150th anniversary. Guests of the Opening Reception tasted a sample of the food offered at the Pan American Food & Music Festival 2017. Celebrity Chef Steve Gonzalez of Baro restaurant served homemade sausage on an arepa. Kai Zyganiuk of City Gourmet presented bite size tacos for our enjoyment. Born in Peru, Chef Lorena Ramos, shared her recipe for ceviche in various bowls. Vegetarians' were able to taste the work of Chef Dave Motherwell of Loka Restaurant who prepared a mushroom and truffled mashed potato appetizer. Chef Donna Dooher of Mildred's Temple Kitchen created my favourite dish; a fresh ricotta gnudi with tomato concasse and a sage brown butter sauce. Delightful! Mango cake with a guava sauce and bread pudding with a mango sauce were two of the desserts made by Jeanie Buckley. Emcee for the Pan American Food & Music Festival Opening Reception Marcela Miranda introduced, Members of Parliament Michael Levitt and Adam Vaughan, as well as the Ontario Minister of Culture, Tourism and Sport, Eleanor McMahon, who spoke excellent Spanish. Not to be outdone, Toronto Mayor John Tory also tried his hand at speaking Spanish when he was called to the stage. Other VIPs included Ambassadors from Argentina, Brazil, Mexico, and Paraguay; consulates from 14 Pan American countries who posed together for a photo opportunity. Dancers from the countries featured in the previous four festivals; Columbia, Peru, Mexico, and Bolivia performed in front of an appreciative audience. Women whirled and twirled in bright coloured dresses and men with fancy hats and boots stamped to the beat. What a beautiful night! For more information about the Pan American Food & Music Festival, please visit their website; www.panamfest.com


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57 degrees Foggy Wind 3mph E
Fog shrouds the lake this morning.
From somewhere deep in the mist comes the call of a loon.
And then it is answered by another.
Our loons are out there someplace.
I did see them several times yesterday as they swam back and forth.
The chicks were active and looked healthy. They continue to grow so fast. They are becoming 'teenagers' and their down is starting to look a little more tousled. Like a teenager with 'bedhead'!
Most of the time they accept the offer of a minnow from one of their parents. But once in a while they will make a brief dive before coming popping back up to the surface. It would be so interesting to see what they actually do while they are underwater. Are they diving just for fun? Just to practice diving? Or are they actually chasing fish? And can they catch any fish yet on their own?
There are so many questions and so many things that are hidden from our eyes and are unknown.
But gradually we learn a little more here. A little there. And increase our knowledge and understanding of these wonderful iconic birds.
It is so fascinating to watch to watch the chicks when the family is just relaxing.
Once in a while they will do what is called a 'foot waggle'. The adults do it as well.
The foot waggle is when a loon will roll over slightly on its side and wave one of its impossibly big feet in the air.
No one seems to have a satisfactory explanation for why they do this. But it is a typical loon behaviour. I don't think I have seen ducks or geese or other water birds do anything like it. But it is common to see a loon do this.
One of the explanations that I have heard credible people give is that it is a way of cooling or warming their foot or body.
I have trouble believing that explanation.
If they are trying to cool their body, there is no better way that for them to leave their feet in the cool water.
If they are trying to warm their body, why to they do it on days that are distinctly cold? It seems they could better warm their feet by pulling them in closer to their body than waving them around in the cold air.
So it is yet one more question about loons that is so sorely lacking for answers.
I want to express my thanks to so many of you who were concerned about my physical safety if I went skydiving. And some who also expressed concern about my mental well-being that I would consider going skydiving!
Well, we went last night!
There were times leading up to it that I was questioning my own mental well-being!
But I have to tell you, it was awesome. What a rush!
It is too long a story and too off topic to go into detail here, but it was an absolutely stunning experience. It was a beautiful evening. I am not sure if God meant for us to see His creation from that vantage point or not. But it was a wonderful and unique perspective.
You may really question my mental well-being when I tell you that I am seriously considering going again. I will let you know if and when I do.
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Day 6: Novena to St. Mary Magdalene
Staying in the dark places...
But Mary stood weeping outside the tomb. As she wept she bent over to look into the tomb; and she saw two angels in white sitting where the body of Jesus had been lying, one at the head and the other at the feet.
What is Mary's state of mind now? What might her reaction have been to seeing the two angels?
As you ponder the reading, which words or phrases seem to be especially significant to you. What might God be saying to you - perhaps, for your own life and for your community. If you are using a spiritual journal, add any thoughts or insights - and perhaps look back to see if there are any links that are beginning to form.
Spend a few minutes building the scene using whatever technique has helped you over recent days. Try to put yourself in Mary's shoes as the scene begins to move to its fulfilment.
Mary is struggling to come to terms with what is happening... but still she stays in the place where things don't yet make sense. This is a feeling we can identify with ... sometimes we do need to walk away from something but on other occasions we realise we have to stay in a spiritual place until God deems it the right time to offer us the revelation that allows us to move on.
Pray for those who find themselves "stuck" - whose faith feels empty and whose prayer seems dry.
Mary of Magdala,
you still did not know what was to come -
but your love for the Lord held you by his tomb.
Pray for those who are in dark places -
who feel without hope
and for whom the idea of a Pastoral Plan feels burdensome.
Guide us all through your story
to the hope of resurrection.
Our Father...
Hail Mary...
Glory be...
*The novena and reflections are taken from Wellsprings.org.uk and can be downloaded in full on their site.


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The ROI of a College Education
College tuition + fees + housing and a meal plan total $50,000 annually. It's no secret that college is expensive, but numbers like these still cause sticker shock.
Given the price, it's natural -- and wise -- to question what the return on investment (ROI) of college will be. In short, what is the worth of a college degree today? How can you minimize the financial burden and maximize the rewards of higher education?
Cost of a College Degree
Don't panic. Not many people pay $50,000 for a bachelor's degree. According to the College Board, 53 percent of students spend less than $9,000 a year on tuition and fees, and average annual tuition/fees break down as follows:
- Private 4-year universities: $26,273
- Public 4-year universities: $18,548 for out-of-state students
- Public 4-year universities: $7,020 for in-state students
- Public 2-year colleges: $2,544
Furthermore, most students rely on financial aid to mitigate out-of-pocket expenditures. In 2008-2009, the average amount of aid per student was $10,000, and more than half that figure was grant money that would not have to be paid back.
So to maximize the ROI of your college degree, lessen the cost by investigating aid options. Government loans are often a shrewd choice, but try to minimize debt by applying for scholarships. Also keep in mind that pricey, elite universities have large endowments and therefore often award generous grants.
Value of a College Degree
A Bureau of Labor Statistics survey reveals that in 2009, the median weekly wage of someone with a bachelor's degree was $1,205 -- or $399 more than the average for individuals with high school diplomas only. Attaining advanced degrees raised compensation, which topped out at $1,532/week for those with doctorates.
So investment in any college degree leads to a substantial return. But when it comes to payouts, not all degrees are created equal. In 2010, engineering and computer science majors were the highest earners right out of school. Business-related degrees like economics were also lucrative. The average starting salaries of the top five degrees were:
- $86,220 (petroleum engineering)
- $65,142 (chemical engineering)
- $64,552 (mining/mineral engineering)
- $61,205 (computer science)
- $60,879 (computer engineering)
Whatever your course of study, in order to be satisfied with the ROI of your college education, consider how much debt you anticipate being comfortable carrying after graduation, given average salaries in your desired field.
It can be difficult to write tuition checks, but it's smart to invest in education. No matter what your first job pays, you'll have emerged from college savvier than before, and better equipped to maximize your long-run earning potential.


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How We Do: Custom Lettering
By William Kesling
Hey, I'm Will. I am helping capture moments at Focus Lab. The special moments, like at the recent inaugural company retreat, as well as the everyday moments of creative magic. Like this one.
Designer Sam Stratton has created a beautiful branding experience for an upcoming design conference (you'll see it soon enough). I was asked to capture Matt Yow assisting Sam with the custom hand-inked lettering for the brand.
In first approaching this, I knew I wanted the viewer to feel like they were part of the entire creative process. When I work with motion and video I have the opportunity to instantly grab the viewers attention, and that's why I conceptualized a more macro, up-close, jumpy style to this video.
In the end, Matt Yow did a great job creating a unique ink type, but it was my job to take that process and translate it into something someone could watch and enjoy. So… enjoy.
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1 Roan Ct, Wilmington, DE 19803
Surrey Park | Brandywine School District | New Castle County, DE
Key Details:
Listing Status: SOLD (31 Days on Market)
Price: $435,000
MLS Listing#: $6522760
Type: Single/Detatched | Design: 2 Story
House Size: 2,650 SF | Lot Size: 0.56 Acres (24,394 SF)
Bedrooms: 4 | Full Baths: 2 | Half Baths: 1
MLS Area: Brandywine/North Wlmington
Pride of ownership shines through this meticulous maintained spacious 4Br, 2.5 bath home in the popular neighborhood of Surrey Park in North Wilmington – on just over half an acre in a cul-de-sac location. This updated home offers true open concept with clean lines, neutral decor, hardwoods and great natural light. The eat-in kitchen has Corian counters, stainless steel appliances, gas cooking and a separate pantry. The kitchen flows seamlessly into the large great room with skylights, cathedral ceiling, transom window, recessed lighting and French doors that lead out onto private rear yard. The main floor also offers a nice size dining room with plenty of space to seat a large gathering, a double aspect living room with wood burning fireplace and triple doors out to the brick patio – all with gleaming hardwoods, and inside access to the 2-car garage from the mudroom which could be easily converted to a main floor laundry if the new owners choose. Upstairs offers 4 generous size bedrooms, plenty of closet space, with custom organizers and updated hall bathroom. The master suite offers 2 double closets, a newly renovated bathroom with a large shower and seat with seamless glass enclosure, Corian counters and a pocket door. Notable updates include roof 2010, AC/furnace 5 years young, updated bathrooms, remodeled kitchen, hardwoods, freshly painted in neutral tones, recessed lighting, great storage, finished basement which has been fully waterproofed with transferable warranty. One year HSA Home Warranty Included! Conveniently located to all major highways, swim clubs, parks, shopping & transit. This home is ready for you to move right in, don't miss this great opportunity!
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Curried Three-Bean Salad
Cumin and curry powder give this chilled three-bean salad terrific zip. "I get a lot of compliments on it," says Howie Wiener, Spring Hill, Florida. Not only does it come together quickly, but at 70 cents a serving, it's economical, too.
Total TimePrep: 10 min. + chilling
Makes6 servings
- 1 can (16 ounces) kidney beans, rinsed and drained
- 1 can (15 ounces) pinto beans, rinsed and drained
- 1 can (15 ounces) garbanzo beans or chickpeas, rinsed and drained
- 1 can (15-1/4 ounces) whole kernel corn, drained
- 3 celery ribs, chopped
- 1/2 cup chopped green onions
- 1/2 cup cider vinegar
- 1/4 cup vegetable oil
- 4 garlic cloves, minced
- 2 teaspoons dried oregano
- 1 teaspoon pepper
- 1/2 teaspoon ground cumin
- 1/2 teaspoon curry powder
- In a bowl, combine the beans, corn, celery and onions. In a jar with a tight-fitting lid, combine the remaining ingredients; shake well.
- Drizzle over bean mixture and toss gently to coat. Cover and refrigerate overnight. Serve with a slotted spoon.
Nutrition Facts3/4 cup: 340 calories, 11g fat (1g saturated fat), 0 cholesterol, 524mg sodium, 46g carbohydrate (9g sugars, 11g fiber), 13g protein.
Originally published as Curried Bean Salad in Quick Cooking March/April 2002


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Our network services include but are not limited to:
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Joe Davidson
A look at former Sacramento-area high school stars entering NFL draft
Sacramento prep products excel in college competition
Here's a look at some top local former high school football players entering the 2017 NFL draft, with round projections. Click here for a gallery of the players.
Eddie Vanderdoes
Position: Defensive line
College: UCLA
High school: Placer
Projection: Rounds 2-4
Comment: Run-stuffing stopper has battled through injuries.
Ahkello Witherspoon
Position: Cornerback
College: Colorado
High school: Christian Brothers
Projection: Rounds 2-4
Comment: Classic late bloomer has superb coverage skills.
Cole Hikutini
Position: Tight end
College: Louisville
High school: Pleasant Grove
Projection: Rounds 4-6
Comment: Good hands and good route-runner, which equates to NFL jobs.
Thomas Sperbeck
Position: Wide receiver
College: Boise State
High school: Jesuit
Projection: Rounds 4-6
Comment: Impressed scouts with hands and 4.47-second 40-yard dash.
Tanner Vallejo
Position: Linebacker
College: Boise State
High school: Nevada Union
Projection: Rounds 4-7
Comment: Tackling machine is tough and instinctive.
Jordan Carrell
Position: Defensive line
College: American River/Colorado
High school: Roseville
Projection: Rounds 5-7
Comment: Physical, tough and agile at 290 pounds.
Nate Iese
Position: Tight end/linebacker
College: UCLA
High school: Sheldon
Projection: Rounds 6-7
Comment: Played fullback, tight end, linebacker at UCLA; considered a freak athlete.
Marcus Rios
Position: Defensive back
College: UCLA
High school: Cosumnes Oaks
Projection: Rounds 5-7
Comment: Overcame fungal infection in nasal cavity that nearly killed him.
Steven Moore
Position: Offensive line
College: Cal
High school: Elk Grove
Projection: Rounds 6-7 or undrafted free agent
Comment: Four-year starter at Cal was a team captain for skills, leadership.
Gavin Andrews
Position: Offensive line
College: Oregon State
High school: Granite Bay
Projection: Round 7 or undrafted free agent
Comment: Ideal NFL size at 6-foot-5, 340 pounds with power; overcame injuries.
Josh Letuligasenoa
Position: Linebacker
College: Cal Poly
High school: Elk Grove
Projection: Round 7 or undrafted free agent
Comment: Converted lineman is quick enough to pursue ball carriers.
Joe Davidson: 916-321-1280, @SacBee_JoeD


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One of the greatest advantages of sedentary lifestyle lies in the fact that it is so easy to get accustomed to it. As opposed to its more dynamic lifestyle choices, here you are virtually required to abstain from any form of physical activity and always go with a more short-term comfortable solution. Still, these lifestyle choices seldom bring positive long-term results. With this in mind, here are several significant downsides of a sedentary lifestyle, which might just motivate you to get out of your chair and start living your life to the fullest.
1. Obesity
Your metabolism functions as a simple equation. Every bodily process requires energy and this energy comes from calorie consumption. The more you spend, the more you need. If you are consuming more than you are spending, you are gaining weight and if you are spending more than you consume you start to lose weight. This is why it is easy for one leading sedentary lifestyle to gain massive amounts of weight and get categorized as obese. In some of the most extreme cases, no form of dieting will help, seeing how a calorie spending of someone leading sedentary lifestyle tends to be incredibly low. Unfortunately, obesity is a condition that leads to a wide array of health risks.
2. Faster aging
Another thing you need to keep in mind is the fact that people leading a sedentary lifestyle tend to start aging much quicker than their more active peers. While your age may seem as something objective, the condition of your body that is associated with it depends on the person. Sure, some people are genetically inclined to have a much steeper aging process but, more often than not, bad lifestyle choices are the main culprit behind this.
During this process, your entire body deteriorates. Your bones become brittle. You start losing your hearing. Most importantly, however, prolonged hours of sitting in a badly illuminated room, staring at the screen of your computer or smartphone might significantly diminish your sight. Those who find this theory unlikely should feel free to check for themselves by booking an appointment at their local optometrist in North Sydney.
3. Never-ending procrastination
One of the greatest problems with a sedentary lifestyle, however, is the fact that it can be incredibly comfortable. As a result, the more time you spend sitting or lying down, the less likely you are to actually get around to doing anything. Postponing chores can sometimes be justified by real reasons but the more often you do this, the harder it will be for you to actually get around to doing anything.
The worst thing, however, is the fact that this doesn't just reflect some mundane household chores but your social life as well. Seeing how the idea of going out might become unbearable, you may start neglecting your own friends and family members and in this way start raising emotional barriers around you. In time, you may succeed in secluding yourself from the rest of the world. Even though this isn't always the case, a sedentary lifestyle is often a lonely one. This too can become a medical issue.
These three reasons alone are more than enough to show you just a tiny bit of all the downsides one can experience from leading a sedentary lifestyle. Some honorable mentions are also the diminishing of your cognitive skills, weakening of your joint structure and muscles, as well as a high blood pressure. One of the most common misconceptions is that this only happens to middle-aged or older people, which is as far from the truth as it gets. To cut the long story short, appealing as it may seem, leading a sedentary life in the long-run is a horrible mistreatment of your organism.