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Viansa's Cannellini Bean and Sausage Stew with Tomatoes and BasilFeatured by Viansa Winery in the Gold Wine Club.
2 cups cooked cannellini beans
4 Sausage links
2-3 tsp. Extra Virgin Olive Oil
1/2 large onion, chopped
3-4 bay leaves
1 tbs minced garlic
1 (14.5 oz) can small diced tomatoes with juice
1 tsp. oregano
1/2 tsp. dried marjoram
2 cups chicken stock
Pinch of salt and black pepper
1/4 cup chopped basil
1 tbs. balsamic vinegar
Fresh grated parmesan for serving
Sweet Italian Sausage Seasoning
Beans: Soak beans overnight. In large pot, add beans, ¼ onion, and 3-4 bay leaves. Fill pot with water to cover ingredients by several inches. Bring to a gentle simmer and cook beans until soft, about 45 minutes. Drain.
Sausage: Cut sausage in half lengthwise, then cut into slices. Heat 2-3 tsp. olive oil in pot. Add Sweet Italian Sausage Seasoning to sausage, ¼ chopped onion and 1 T garlic. Sauté sausage until well browned. Add tomatoes with juice, oregano, dried marjoram, and chicken stock to pot. Cool at very low simmer for 30 minutes, until flavors are well blended and liquid is slightly reduced. After 30 minutes, add drained beans and simmer for 15 minutes more. After beans have simmered, add chopped basil and balsamic vinegar. Simmer for 5 minutes. Serve hot, topped with freshly grated Parmesan cheese.


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Kyle Terada-USA TODAY Sports[/caption]Since his meeting with the Lakers on Tuesday, Dwight Howard has been in Colorado weighing his options on where he'll like to spend the next four or five years of his career. One of the teams that he's going to be mulling over is the Golden State Warriors.
The Warriors, who have been actively looking to move the likes of Andrew Bogut, Andris Biedrins, and Richard Jefferson to clear cap space for Howard. They've also thrown out the possibility of a sign-and-trade with the Lakers involving Klay Thompson, Harrison Barnes, and Andrew Bogut — or some combination of two of them.
While the Warriors ultimate plan is to land the free-agent center, the team still plans on clearing cap space for other high-end free agents should Howard decide to play elsewhere, according to Ken Berger of CBS Sports.
One person briefed on Golden State's cap-clearing efforts told CBSSports.com that the team is intent on clearing room regardless of Howard's decision. If Howard says no to Golden State, the Warriors are expected to use the room — if successful in moving contracts — to chase another max-level free agent such as Denver forward Andre Iguodala, the person said.
Iguodala will be one of the most highly sought after free agents after Howard finally makes his decision as he's a game changer on both ends of the floor. Iguodala would be a perfect fit in Golden State with his ability to get out on the break and run with such a young team.
He would also bring a shut down perimeter defender that the team so desperately needed. Iguodala along side Steph Curry and Thompson in the back court could be problems for opposing defenses. Iguodala isn't the most efficient scorer, but he has ability to get to the rim and can open space for Curry and Thompson behind the three-point line.
Howard is expected to make his decision on where he's going to play sometime Friday, and we'll have a better idea of what the Warriors' plan is after Howard's decision.
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Those are spectacular!! I have a lavender farm with bees and I'm delighted to see someone capture the beauty of this perfect plant for bees. The honey is wonderful, by the way.
Really beautiful pictures. Thanks very much for posting! You did good!!!
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Spectacular. I never get that much depth of field working that close, even with a DSLR. What are you using? What aperture?
I've heard of that stacking method and want to try it on microscope shots, but it would be hard to get a bee to stay still that long.
Their level of activity is the real test of my patience, and I suppose I just need to learn patience. My cheat fallback is to set the Nikon D5100 to the sports action preset. That gives multiple shots with autofocus on each, but prefers high shutter speed, so the depth of field typically suffers. I might get better results if I actually practiced real photography. Still, sometimes I get lucky with all those shots.
Yep they are very busy! I wonder if they are a little slower first thing in the morning? Try using the same focus method your camera uses when in the sports preset but try using manual mode.
Some of the best pictures I ever got were of a single bee in late afternoon. I was trying to figure out what variety she was because her wings looked different ... serrated tips instead of rounded. Plus, she stayed on one blossom of garlic chives for a long time, and worked slowly and deliberately, allowing me more time to set up.
I since identified her as Apis mellifera geriatrica, an old bee nearing the end of her career. They say a lot to me ... you rarely see pictures of old bees, which I ascribe to age discrimination. That faithful old girl was still at work when she was almost certainly having difficulty flying. The version below is compressed and over-corrected.
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Nice, would love to see an extreme macro of just the tattered wings! Nice capture.
Great shots.
How long before someone takes that bottom shot and makes it a thumbnail for sticking you tongue out?
I saved those ones... super nice, that must be a expensive camera...
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Strange goings on at Oxford University where the Conservative Association has been choosing a new leader. Look at the website and there are the pictures of heroes past and present; Winston, Supermac, the blessed Margaret. No small event this. Who knows, one day we may see Alexander Elias up there, for last week he won the presidency elections. The son of Jennie Elias, one of the national party treasurers, he definitely has the pedigree. But he may want to begin his tenure by smoothing a few ruffled feathers. A competitor was Josefin Malmqvist, already a name in the party (she's association secretary), and someone well regarded - but perhaps not by the scamp who posted grave and scurrilous claims about her on an internet forum. Who was that? The name "urbanfox" was used. So was it a rival? Definitely not, we are told by central office. It was Leon Foong, another student but not an OUCA member. He has confessed and he will talk about it. He does. Contrite he is too. Shouldn't have done it, he says. Was a bit drunk. Need to apologise. Was it anything to do with the election, we ask him. Not at all, he says. Does he know Malmqvist or Elias? Well, he "did know Alex briefly", he admits. And there the matter rests. He seems nice and so we don't know what to think of the Wikipedia entry about Enchanté, a beverage of Malaysian origin marketed in the UK "by two Oxford University students, Leon Sing Foong (son of Datuk Dr Foong, chairman of the Malaysian manufacturer of Enchanté) and Alexander Elias (son of Conservative politician Jennie Elias)". Perhaps the new president can make sense of it all, starting with a Google search that throws up a review of Enchanté from 2007; "urbanfox" gave it a value rating of 10 out of 10.
• Turn your talent to teaching, advises the Training and Development Agency for Schools, the body created to "raise standards" by attracting able and committed people to teaching. "The universal language of numbers is ubiquitous," it tells us. "And its applications in the real world are infinitesimal." We hoped they would be infinite, especially now that economics is everyone's starter for 10. Everywhere we turn, disappointment.
• More hysteria as the middle-class summer of rage draws closer. Banks, we know, are targets, as are the bankers. The worry now is the neighbours. "Crisis Survivor is strongly advising businesses, including offices and retailers who are situated adjacent to the financial powerhouses, particularly RBS, to reassess their continuity plans and seek expert advice on the practical measures," says the consultancy. And if your name is Goodwin, change it.
• The world moves fast so it will do us good to stop and think about the victims of last month's Australian bushfires. The catalyst can be the memorial service at Westminster Abbey on 31 March. Anyone can attend by registering (www.advance.org/bushfire_memorial).
Expect a high-profile affair, with support from Barry Humphries, Danni Minogue, Elle Macpherson et al. The organiser is the author Kathy Lette (left); she will do it well, but worries about her qualifications. "All I've ever organised before is a whipped cream orgy and Salman Rushdie's all-girl stag night starring Puppetry of the Penis!" she says. The principles are the same.
• Finally, people are concerned about the fate of Matt Crawford, the Archers character who is under investigation by the Serious Fraud Office. "Left to bourgeois justice there must be every chance that corrupt fraudster Matt Crawford will escape justice for his crimes against the people," warns the Ambridge Socialist bulletin. "We say that he should face a people's tribunal consisting of Lynda Snell, Eddie Grundy and Jazzer, which can decide on his fate and that of his co-conspirators." Another victory for the anarchy that is the court of public opinion. Are you happy, Harriet? Hope you are happy.


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- Developing deep-water fields;
- Evacuating the oil and gas via a network of submarine pipelines to an onshore terminal - the proposed Sabah Oil & Gas Terminal (SOGT);
- Exporting the Crude Oil and Condensate via the proposed Marine Facilities of the SOGT; and
- Supplying feed gas via onshore pipeline to the liquefaction plants in Bintulu.
The SOGT, located at Kimanis Bay, about 65km south-west of Kota Kinabalu, is to be developed for the purpose of receiving, processing, storage, metering and exporting the oil and gas. It is being developed by PETRONAS Carigali Sdn Bhd (PCSB), a subsidiary of PETRONAS.
Sabah Oil and Gas Terminal (SOGT) is a greenfield project due for completion in 2013. KASI were commissioned to conduct comprehensive research and analysis to ensure that the marine infrastructure and operations were adequate, efficient, safe and properly planned.
KASI's largest-scale consulting project to-date, the study comprised of seven (7) modules, working in close cooperation with the client, PETRONAS. Each of these Modules were a comprehensive study in their own right detailed as follows:
- Marine traffic analyses for the west coast of Sabah;
- Approach route analyses from international shipping lanes right to the port limit;
- Ship transit time study;
- Navigation, Maneuvering & anchorage studies, including submarine pipeline considerations;
- Risks assessments, including IALA Waterway Risk Assessment Program Model;
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On August 7 was the saint of may husband, and during the visit in Girona I took the opportunity to buy a thing. After looking at various option, I declined for some pink pants, Brand RA-RE.
The truth is that it is a brand that he loves, he feels great because it is good quality clothing and excellent design and rarely seen / copied.
How can you see, are very nice pants, no?!?! and are combined with either t-shirts, polos, etc. .. Although I like when he put with a white linen shirt.


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Not to swift with the key board, computers, etc. As the name implies, I am an Old Man just getting into CCW. Have a Para LTC in SS, .45 ACP as my carry weapon.Have carried just under three months, so---there is an awful lot of info I wish to aquire to help "DO IT RIGHT". Any helpful suggestions would most certainly be appreciated.
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How Your Audience's Brain Works
Your brain has a tendency to tune out after 10 minutes, ignore "boring" subjects, and require a lot of pictures to retain information. Those are three of the discoveries detailed in John Medina's new book, Brain Rules. I recently spoke to Medina, a developmental molecular biologist and teacher at the University of Washington School of Medicine to get a sense of how business leaders can apply his findings when making presentations to audiences large and small.
1. The brain tunes out after 10 minutes. Your audience might be with you at "Hello," but in most cases, listeners stop paying attention within 10 minutes. Since Medina began teaching in 1993, he has continually asked his students: "Given a class of medium interest, not too boring and not too exciting, when do you start glancing at the clock, wondering when the class will be over?" The answer is always 10 minutes. According to Medina, peer-reviewed studies confirm his observation. "Before the first quarter-hour is over in a typical presentation, people usually have checked out," says Medina.
The 10-minute rule is an important finding for anyone who delivers information to any sort of audience. If you want to hold people's attention, I recommend you introduce some sort of engaging device at or shortly before each 10-minute increment of your presentation. This device doesn't have to be complicated. A simple story will suffice, as will a review of the past 10 minutes. In my presentations, I often tell a relevant story, or better yet, show a video clip that is relevant to the previous discussion. If you're presenting via Webinar software (BusinessWeek, 4/18/08), you can use a tool to push a poll or a question to your audience. Again, be sure to plan these exercises at 10-minute intervals.
2. The brain doesn't pay attention to "boring" subjects. Your audience craves the meaning behind your ideas before learning about the details. According to Medina, "This comes directly from our evolutionary history. We didn't care about the number of vertical lines in the teeth of the saber-toothed tiger. We cared about whether it was going to clamp down on our thigh. We were more interested in the meaning of the mouth than the details."
Consider Medina's example to demonstrate how a presenter might offer meaning before detail: "Let's assume the presentation is a description of how water-treatment plants function. The first thing you might do is hold up a glass of water, look at it, and say to the audience, 'I'm going to drink this water in absolute safety. Three months ago, I would not have drunk this glass of water. Why? It would have killed me because it was impure.'" Once you deliver the meaning, you can launch into the details of how your technology works because the audience has been given a reason to care about the details.
3. The brain craves pictures. Medina agrees with advice in my previous columns: Conventional, text-heavy PowerPoint decks should be thrown out and replaced with image-rich slides. According to Medina, the brain doesn't see letters. It sees only pictures. That means your brain sees even a tiny letter as a picture and can choke on text. The more visual the input, the more likely it is to be recalled. Scientists call this the pictorial superiority effect. "Text and oral presentations are not just less efficient than pictures for retaining certain types of information; they are way less efficient. If information is presented orally, people remember about 10%, tested 72 hours after exposure. That figures goes up to 65% if you add a picture," Medina explains. In other words, throw out your text-heavy PowerPoint and replace the slides with a picture and four words at most.
Whether you incorporate these ideas into your next presentation is up to you. But consider Medina's advice: "This is not my opinion. This is the way the brain works. You can either ignore it or accept, but you can't change it."


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Friendly teddy bears teach new words to very young children--and in two languages! Bilingual First Books give little boys and girls an early start in learning a foreign language at the same time that kids are learning their own language. Books are arranged as a series of brightly illustrated two-page spreads, each spread showing teddy bears engaged in an activity that kids will recognize immediately. A simple word that describes the activity is presented in English on the left-hand page and in Spanish on the right-hand page. This attractive little volume is entirely bilingual, and will find a welcome place in homes where the children's parents' first language is English, or Spanish. A word pronunciation guide appears on the last page. (Ages 2 and older)
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�Two lovable teddy bears serve as readers guides to this very early vocabulary builder for ages two and up. Familiar situations and activities are depicted in cheerful illustrations. The English word appears on the lefthand page; the Spanish word (along with its pronunciation guide) appears on the right. The pronunciation guide is geared toward native English speakers and is actually helpful...shows outdoor scenes and showcases words such as lluvia/rain, sol/sun, niebla/fog, nieve/snow, etc. Although the illustrations are definitely geared towards toddlers, the side-by-side bilingual vocabulary is an effective teaching tool for beginning readers of most ages.�
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Chapter 3
It invariably happened in the same way.
Mrs. Julius Beaufort, on the night of her annual ball, never failed to appear at the
Opera; indeed, she always gave her ball on an Opera night in order to
emphasise her complete superiority to household cares, and her possession of a
staff of servants competent to organise every detail of the entertainment in her
The Beauforts' house was one of the few in New York that possessed a ball-
room (it antedated even Mrs. Manson Mingott's and the Headly Chiverses'); and
at a time when it was beginning to be thought "provincial" to put a "crash" over
the drawing-room floor and move the furniture upstairs, the possession of a ball-
room that was used for no other purpose, and left for three-hundred-and-sixty-
four days of the year to shuttered darkness, with its gilt chairs stacked in a corner
and its chandelier in a bag; this undoubted superiority was felt to compensate for
whatever was regrettable in the Beaufort past.
Mrs. Archer, who was fond of coining her social philosophy into axioms, had
once said: "We all have our pet common people--" and though the phrase was a
daring one, its truth was secretly admitted in many an exclusive bosom. But the
Beauforts were not exactly common; some people said they were even worse.
Mrs. Beaufort belonged indeed to one of America's most honoured families; she
had been the lovely Regina Dallas (of the South Carolina branch), a penniless
beauty introduced to New York society by her cousin, the imprudent Medora
Manson, who was always doing the wrong thing from the right motive. When one
was related to the Mansons and the Rushworths one had a "droit de cite" (as Mr.
Sillerton Jackson, who had frequented the Tuileries, called it) in New York
society; but did one not forfeit it in marrying Julius Beaufort?
The question was: who was Beaufort? He passed for an Englishman, was
agreeable, handsome, ill-tempered, hospitable and witty. He had come to
America with letters of recommendation from old Mrs. Manson Mingott's English
son-in-law, the banker, and had speedily made himself an important position in
the world of affairs; but his habits were dissipated, his tongue was bitter, his
antecedents were mysterious; and when Medora Manson announced her
cousin's engagement to him it was felt to be one more act of folly in poor
Medora's long record of imprudences.
But folly is as often justified of her children as wisdom, and two years after young
Mrs. Beaufort's marriage it was admitted that she had the most distinguished
house in New York. No one knew exactly how the miracle was accomplished.
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Keyless-n-Go Issue
My Keyless-n-Go is not working on the driver door and works fine on the passenger.
I had my vehicle in a body shop after an accident and they repaired the driver's side but I do not see where they removed the driver's door or the panel in the paperwork.
My question is: Would the keyless-n-go work for the passenger door if some module wasn't hooked back up in the driver door during the repair (doors are linked)? Or is this an issue with the driver door handle?
I am just trying to narrow down the issue to the body shop or bring it up next time I am at the dealer. Thank you!
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I read somewhere here where an antenna connection was not hooked up and that solved the problem. If I'm not mistaken, there are 3 sensors, front doors and one in the tailgate.
Edit: Check this thread... the answer is in post #8 but I'm not sure if it applies to yours since they worked on the driver side door. http://jeepgarage.org/showthread.php?t=43256
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Re: Keyless-n-Go Issue
If they worked on the drivers door, the issue is likely in the door handle. There is a capacitive sensor in the outside handle. The antenna mentioned is actually in the rear doors.
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I can't seem to find a good Pathfinder board anywhere (any suggestions other than nissanforums.com?), so I'll post this here.
On occasion, the right half of my gauges do not light up at night. Just plain dark, but the speedo and gas (on the left) are fine. Then all will be fine for a week, and then repeat cycle. They do come back on sometimes halfway through the trip. Because it's intermittent and not permanent, I'm thinking relay or switch.. anyone care to throw out any ideas?


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There's a New App To Help You Fight Parking Tickets
When you get a parking ticket, even an unfair one, you probably just pay it, right? Because it seems like a huge hassle to fight it . . . and you'll probably lose anyway.
Well, there's a new app launching next week that sounds like the BEST way to fight parking tickets we've heard of yet.
It's called Fixed. If you get a ticket, you take a photo with the app and describe why you think the ticket is unfair . . . like a broken meter or missing signs or whatever.
The experts at Fixed evaluate your ticket, and figure out your odds of beating it. Then if you choose to fight the ticket, they do the heavy lifting like gathering evidence and submitting paperwork.
If you beat the ticket, you pay them 25% of the face value of the ticket. If you don't beat the ticket, you don't pay them anything . . . but obviously you have to pay the city 100% of the ticket.
So you pay either way . . . but the gamble not to just automatically pay 100% seems worthwhile.
It'll be available for free in the app store next week, but it's only starting out in San Francisco for now . . . they plan on expanding to other cities quickly.
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Not quite understanding. He did say I should get some good miles out of it but wasnt sure. After speaking with him today. He did say he would warranty the lower end but not the cylinder and or say how much compression I should Have. He said only one cylinder had enf rust to really worrie about.
He did fix alote of stuff.
A few of his guys said that if I use good oil and I had the 130 compression I claimed from before the rebuild It should be no problem to get 100k.
The short block is together ext for pan gasket and oil pump. What do you mean have parts returned gray? Thanks all.
Well what I am saying is this,from what your saying,is a new game in that now you have perfectly round rings<unlike before worn to whatever the bore was in that one cylinder>trying to seal against a nu-smooth bore surface.So your compression from before really doesn't come into play anymore.He's saying this because of the fact,sounds like,he can't be sure how that cylinder will ever seal correctly,nor now what your compression will be now or for the long term.That is a gamble now.
No doubt about it,guys are forced to do clean up oversized bores for situations just like yours.And that reinforces the need for sonic checks to see wall thickness so the machinist knows how much a block can be safely over-bored. If it is enough for him saying he won't stand behind the one bore,than it is enough for you to be concerned about it.
You have been through hell with this not even knowing if it could be saved.Now is not the time to make what could be a risk bad decision and not have the insurance of standing behind a rebuild with your wallet to buy new pistons for the over-bore and that rings to go with it.Returning the rings you have now which wouldn't work on a different bore size.
BTW as the saying goes:
Without detailed pictures of the bore in question,all we can do is form a opinion from what your telling us.
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Landmark Family Foods, Inc. d/b/a Church Square Supermarket (08-CA-37667 et al.; 356 NLRB No. 170) Cleveland, OH, May 31, 2011.
The Board adopted the administrative law judge's findings that the Respondent violated Sections 8(a)(1) and (5) in various respects during bargaining for a successor agreement with the Union.
Charges were filed by the United Food and Commercial Workers Union Local 880. Administrative Law Judge Jeffrey D. Wedekind issued his decision on November 2, 2010. Chairman Liebman and Members Pearce and Hayes participated.
San Miguel Hospital Corp. d/b/a Alta Vista Regional Hospital (28-CA-21896; 356 NLRB No. 167) Las Vegas, NM, May 31, 2011.
Test of Certification: The Board granted the Acting General Counsel's motion for summary judgment in this unfair labor practice case, finding that Respondent unlawfully refused to bargain with the Union. This case originally was decided by two Board Members and was remanded by the court of appeals for further proceedings after the Supreme Court ruled that a group of at least three members must decide cases. Respondent admitted its refusal to bargain but challenged the validity of the Union's certification on the basis of its objections to the election in the representation proceeding (which cannot be re-litigated at this time), and based upon certain arguments raised for the first time in this proceeding. Respondent argued that the Board violated its due process rights by deciding the case too quickly after the court of appeals remanded the case to the Board. The Board rejected this argument, noting that the Board was aware that it would need to revisit this case long before the court of appeals acted, and it was prepared to act promptly thereafter. The Board also rejected Respondent's further claim that the Board's prompt disposition of this case "effectively precluded" Respondent from filing a motion to reopen the record and/or a motion for reconsideration, noting that Respondent had not raised this argument previously and that, in any event, Respondent had ample time to file such motions under the Board's rules. Citing Jefferson Chemical, 200 NLRB 992 (1972), the Respondent also argued that the complaint should be dismissed because the General Counsel exposed it to "administrative prosecutorial double jeopardy" by litigating the original complaint at a time when there were only two sitting members of the Board. The Board rejected this argument because the Respondent failed to raise it in its response to the original Notice to Show Cause, and because Jefferson Chemical, which involved piecemeal litigation of multiple related unfair labor practices, has no application to the facts of this case. All other issues raised by Respondent were or could have been litigated in the underlying proceedings and thus could not be re-litigated at this time.
Chairman Liebman and Members Pearce and Hayes participated.
Times Union, Capital Newspapers Division of the Hearst Corp. (03-CA-27347 et al.; 356 NLRB No. 169)Colonie, NY, May 31, 2011.
The Board agreed with the administrative law judge's findings that the employer violated Section 8(a)(5) and (1) of the Act by placing 11 employees whom it proposed for layoff on paid leave without giving the Union timely notice and a genuine opportunity to bargain and by permanently laying off those employees without first bargaining to a lawful impasse.
The employer spent months developing layoff criteria without the Union's knowledge. Thereafter, despite inviting the Union to bargain over layoffs, the employer applied those criteria unilaterally to select the employees it placed on leave pending layoff, took their building security passes, and terminated their access to computers, e-mail, and voicemail. The judge reasoned that this unlawful, unilateral conduct constituted a fait accompli that precluded bargaining to a valid impasse over the layoffs.
Administrative Law Judge Mark Carissimi issued his decision on August 18, 2010. Chairman Liebman and Members Becker and Pearce participated.
International Bedding Company (IBC of Pennsylvania) (04-RC-21705; 356 NLRB No. 168) Barnesville and Frackville, PA, May 31, 2011.
Applying community-of-interest principles, the Board (Member Hayes, dissenting) reversed the administrative law judge's finding that the Employer's drivers and yard jockeys could not appropriately be included in a single unit with the Employer's production and warehouse employees, as requested by the Petitioner. The majority found that two employee groups were compensated similarly and had common schedules, benefits, holidays, work rules, employee meetings, and break rooms. There was also some evidence of common supervision as well as interaction between production employees and jockeys. Further, the majority found it significant that the Petitioner sought a comprehensive unit at the Employer's facilities. For all of those reasons, the majority concluded that the petitioned-for unit was an appropriate unit. Alternatively, the majority would have found the petitioned-for unit appropriate as a plantwide unit. Dissenting, Member Hayes emphasized the limited, or absence of, evidence of integration, interchange, or contact between the drivers or the yard jockeys and the production and warehouse employees. He also questioned whether the majority had correctly applied Board law holding that a plantwide unit is presumptively appropriate, citing the fact that employees worked in, or out of, two facilities, not a single plant. Even assuming the applicability of that presumption, he would have found that evidence concerning a lack of community of interests was sufficient to rebut the presumption.
Petition filed by United Food and Commercial Workers, Local 1776. Administrative Law Judge Earl E. Shamwell, Jr. issued his decision on December 9, 2010. Chairman Liebman and Members Becker and Hayes participated.
Kaleida Health, Inc. (03-CA-27507; 356 NLRB No. 171) Tonawanda, NY, June 1, 2011.
The Board (Member Hayes concurring) adopted the administrative law judge's finding that the Respondent unlawfully failed to provide certain incident reports in response to an information request by the Union.
Charges were filed by the Communication Workers of America, Local 1168. Administrative Law Judge Mark Carissimi issued his decision on October 18, 2010. Chairman Liebman and Members Becker and Hayes participated.
Apex Electric Services, Inc. and Apex Industrial Services, Inc. (12-CA-24200 et al.; 356 NLRB No. 172) Sanford and Jacksonville, FL, June 2, 2011.
The Board granted the Acting General Counsel's Motion for Default Judgment based on the Respondent's failure to file an answer to the compliance specification.
Charges filed by International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, Local 177, AFL-CIO. Chairman Liebman and Members Pearce and Hayes participated.
Northern Illinois Telecom, Inc. (13-CA-46394; 356 NLRB No. 173) Rolling Meadows, IL, June 3, 2011.
The Board granted the Acting General Counsel's motion for default judgment based on the Respondent's failed to file an answer to the complaint.
Charge filed by International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, Local 134. Chairman Liebman, Members Pearce and Hayes participated.
Decisions of Administrative Law Judges
Supply Technologies, LLC (18-CA-19587; JD 31-11) Minneapolis, MN. Charge filed by Teamsters, Local 120. Administrative Law Judge George Aleman issued his decision on May 31, 2011.
The American National Red Cross, Great Lakes Blood Services Region and Mid-Michigan Chapter (07-CA-52033 et al.; JD-27-11). Charges filed by Local 459, Office and Professional Employees International Union, AFL-CIO, and Local 580, International Brotherhood of Teamsters. Administrative Law Judge Jeffrey D. Wedekind issued his erratum on May 31, 2011.
Appellate Court Decision
May 31, 2011: Caterpillar, Inc. v. NLRB (No. 13-CA-43506 & 355 NLRB No. 91)
In an unpublished per curiam opinion the D.C. Circuit enforced the Board's decision in full, agreeing that Caterpillar unilaterally implemented a "generic-first" prescription drug program without bargaining.
Caterpillar's generic-first program required employees to use a generic drug before a brand-name drug, unless they received specific direction from their doctor that the brand-name was necessary. Caterpillar argued that the generic-first program was neither a "material, substantial, nor significant" change and that it was consistent with past practice. Although the ALJ agreed with those arguments, the Board reversed.
On appeal, the Court held that "the Board reasonably concluded that the program increased the costs to employees who exercised their discretion under the benefit plan to choose brand-name drugs and was thus a material, substantial, and significant change." Further, the Court agreed that the Union's past acquiescence in somewhat-similar changes to prescription drug benefits did not create a past practice that privileged implementation of the generic-first program, noting that acquiescence in prior changes does not waive bargaining rights "for all time." Finally, to the extent Caterpillar contended that its group-insurance plans privileged the change, the Court accepted our argument that Caterpillar's failure to file timely exceptions on this matter deprived the Court of jurisdiction to consider the claim on appeal.
Unpublished Board Decisions in Representation and Unfair Labor Practice Cases
R Cases
Consulate Health Care d/b/a Ashland Nursing & Rehabilitation Center (05-RC-16580) May 31, 2011. Decision and certification of representative.
Clare County Board of Commissioners (07-WH-00223) June 1, 2011. Certification of representative as bona fide under Section 7(b) of the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938.
Stericycle, Inc. (14-RC-12823) June 3, 2011. Order denying request for review.
MV Public Transportation, Inc. (29-RC-11781 et al.) June 3, 2011. Order denying request for review of Regional Director's Supplemental Decision.
MV Public Transportation, Inc. (29-RC-11781 et al.) June 3, 2011. Order denying request for review of Regional Director's Decision and Direction of Election.
Municipal Light and Power (19-WH-00011) June 3, 2011. Certification of representative as bona fide under Section 7(b) of the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938.
C Cases
Baysys Technologies, LLC (05-CA-36314) May 31, 2011. Order transferring proceeding to the Board and notice to show cause why the Acting General Counsel's motion should not be granted. Briefs due on or before June 14, 2011.
RC Operator LLC d/b/a Willow Terrace (04-CA-37630 et al.) June 1, 2011. Decision and order pursuant to a settlement stipulation.
Southwest Regional Council of Carpenters, UBC and Joiners of America; Carpenters Local Union No. 803, UBC Joiners of America (21-CB-14939 et al.) June 1, 2011. Decision and order pursuant to a settlement stipulation.
Continental Linen Services, Inc. (07-CA-52296 et al.) June 1, 2011. Order granting motion to withdraw charges and remanding to RD.
Coastal International Security, Inc. (05-CA-36190) June 3, 2011. Order granting the acting General Counsel's motion to withdraw the Motion for Default Judgment pursuant to non-Board settlement. Case is remanded to the Regional Director for further appropriate action.
Prime Healthcare Services d/b/a Shasta Regional Medical Center (20-CA-35380) June 3, 2011. Order denying petition to revoke subpoena duces tecum B-645946.
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Amphibians on a Puerto Rican mountain changed chirps over 23 years
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Climate change might also mean a bit of frog-call change.
Male coquí frogs (Eleutherodactylus coqui) along a mountain slope in Puerto Rico have increased the pitch of their "coquí" calls a bit and shortened their chirps compared with frogs at the same altitudes 23 years earlier. Peter Narins and Sebastian Meenderink of UCLA report the finding April 9 in Proceedings of the Royal Society B.
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Los Angeles-based WebMessenger, a provider of software for connecting business applications with mobile devices, said Friday that it has acquired Apptix WebMessenger, a subsidiary of Apptix, Inc. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. Apptix had acquired WebMessenger in April of last year in a $7M acquisition. The firm said that the original founders of WebMessenger--Val Babajov, Joe Naylor, and George Emilov--reacquired the firm and will continue to lead the company. Reasons for the the buy back of the firm were not given. WebMessenger provides companies connect their enterprise applications to BlackBerry, Windows Mobile, Symbian, and Palm mobile devices.


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IT was a diplomatic tango as delicate as any performed in the halls of power. But this international incident unfolded at the 19th Winter Games, when the International Olympic Committee last week rejected a plan by American athletes to march in the parade of nations with a tattered flag that once flew at the World Trade Center. This irked more than a few self-styled patriots, and the I.O.C. eventually allowed eight athletes to carry the flag early in the opening ceremony.
Such confrontations are inevitable, given the abrasive marriage between nationalism and transnationalism that has always existed in the modern Olympics. Nowhere are there more expectations for sport to transcend the politics of international borders, but nowhere does it fail more visibly.
In some ways, the flag-waving of the Games is becoming more of an anachronism, as borders open up and the influence of nation-states wanes next to the power of organizations like the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund, and corporations that span the globe. The euro is now circulating to surprising enthusiasm. But the events of last week, as well as the history of the Olympics, show that not only is nationalism far from exhaling its last breath, but the Games remain crucial in perpetuating it.
''Every couple of years, these sports reflect the dialectic between the national and the international,'' said Jeffrey O. Segrave, a sports historian at Skidmore College. ''It's a way of taking stock of ourselves, of what we've made of this planet, which is a sense of increasing global identity on the one hand, and on the other hand you have this sense of national identity.''Continue reading the main story
Outside of war, the Olympics may well be the world's most visible forum for nationalism. Having a delegation in the opening ceremony legitimizes a country as much as joining the United Nations, said Peter Donnelly, a professor of sports sociology at the University of Toronto. When the Taliban lost power, there was immediate speculation about whether Afghanistan would field an Olympic team (it didn't), as if this could complete its transformation from a pariah state.
But even more than participating in the Games, the awarding of an Olympic site to a country is seen as a validation of the host's nationhood. When the I.O.C. gave Beijing the 2008 Summer Games last year, many Chinese said their homeland had finally been recognized by the international community.
Competition in the Olympics is often the only chance that countries with little diplomatic clout have to reinforce their national identity. The Winter Games are dominated by often overlooked nations like Canada and Norway. In the 2000 Summer Games, Cuba spoke with its fists when it won more gold medals in boxing than any country since 1970. (Its geopolitical nemesis, the United States, won no gold medals in the event for the first time since 1948.)
SINCE its founding, the Olympics have been rooted in nationalism, despite organizers' efforts to dress it in politically neutral garb. In the second half of the 19th century, a British doctor named W. P. Brookes organized the Olympian Games in his country to strengthen candidates for the army.
The founder of the I.O.C., Baron Pierre de Coubertin, had similar motives, said Mark S. Dyreson, a sports historian at Penn State. De Coubertin was taken with Brookes's idea while searching for a way to build up the French army, which had been routed in the Franco-Prussian War. Only later did he promote the Olympics as a venue for international good will.
The first modern Olympic Games, held in 1896 in Athens, ignited conflict between colonizer and colonized, a dynamic that continued for decades, said David C. Young, a classicist and Olympic historian at the University of Florida. Edwin Flack, an Australian runner and Oxford student, insisted in 1896 that his two medals go to Australia, only to have Britain take them. In Stockholm in 1912, Russia tried coercing a Finnish runner into declaring his three medals for Russia, which had taken over Finland in 1809. A 1956 Melbourne water polo match between Hungary and the Soviet Union almost ended in a riot, coming as it did shortly after the anti-Soviet uprising in Hungary. ''It was a subject country trying to gain independence,'' Young said.
Then there are the most infamous expressions of nationalism: Adolf Hitler using the 1936 Berlin Games to promote Nazism and Palestinian terrorists murdering 11 Israeli athletes in Munich in 1972, as well as the exchange of cold war boycotts between the United States and many Eastern bloc countries during the 1980 and 1984 Summer Games in Moscow and Los Angeles.
But one of the most famous social statements at the Olympics pointed to the Games as a potential forum for transnational politics. It came in Mexico City in 1968, when two American medal winners, John Carlos and Tommie Smith, raised their gloved fists in a black power salute as they stood on the awards podium. With ''The Star-Spangled Banner'' playing, the two were rejecting what their nation represented to emphasize what they insisted was the universal blight of racism.
That defiant gesture shook the Mexican government as much as that of the United States; days before the Olympics, government troops in Mexico City had killed what historians now estimate were hundreds of student protesters. By kicking Carlos and Smith off its Olympic team and sending them home, Washington demonstrated its allegiances during the political conflicts of the 1960's that superseded borders.
These days, transnationalism can show itself in a far different manner. During the 1996 Summer Games in Atlanta, Visa ran ads promoting a ''Visa decathlon team'' made up of sponsored athletes from different countries. Multinationals like McDonald's and Coca-Cola now pay the equivalent of more than $50 million to be called ''worldwide sponsors.'' These messages of universality are far different from anything that Carlos, Smith and de Coubertin could have imagined.Continue reading the main story


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The carcass of a butchered swan has been found in Wanganui after the loss of two swans from Virginia Lake.
This follows the discovery of a shot swan on Tuesday and the poisoning of two others which survived.
The find has prompoted Wanganui District councillor Ray Stevens to double a reward of $200 for information leading to the prosecution of the offenders.
The feathered carcass was found in Tayforth Rd and Mr Stevens said it had obviously "been butchered to remove the breast meat".
"When there's a random shooting of a duck or other bird that's one thing but this is really getting down in the gutter."
He said the ill treatment of the birds is being done by two different people because anyone poisoning birds would not eat them. "There's two contrary things going on here."
Mr Stevens, who is chairman of the council's infrastructure and property committee, said security at Virginia Lake will be stepped up with checks of the area day and night as well as the regular patrols.
He said the council knows how many swans are at the lake because they are counted regularly, and two birds were missing from the wildlife reserve.
It was no coincidence it had happened during the school holidays, he said.
"These acts of violence against animals, this kind of antisocial behaviour steps up during school holidays.
"I don't know how that can be managed, but it's really marked."
Anyone with information about the killing of the swans, or the poisoning, can contact Mr Stevens on 345 2083/027 499 3181 leave a message on his facebook page or call Crimestoppers 0800 555 111.


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Raajneeti success to benefit Ranbir Kapoor's next?
Reasons are aplenty:
a) Raajneeti has made a statement loud and clear that Ranbir isn't made just for candyfloss cinema. He has the range and if Wake Up Sid and Rocket Singh - Salesman of the Year were the starting points, Raajneeti has been a definite milestone in his career as far as working in offbeat cinema (if looked at from the perspective of what is expected from a young actor of his age) is concerned.
b) The entire balancing act is certainly going in his favour. Just after Wake Up Sid, Ranbir Kapoor returned with a major money spinner in the form of Ajab Prem Ki Ghazab Kahani. While it was always meant to be a so called 'safe film' (in Bollywood parlance), the fact remains that it was Ranbir's charm (amongst some genuine comic moments, super hit music and Katrina Kaif's continued luck) which helped it enjoy a long run at the box office.
c) With good critical acclaim as well as commercial success coming his way, Ranbir is pretty much being looked at as a package deal, something which has been nurtured to the fullest in Raajneeti. While his restrained performance has made everyone sit up and take notice of his inherent talent, the roaring box office success has proved that audience are willing to accept him even in those roles where he is not just a chocolate hero.
These are the factors that make Anjaana Anjaani an interesting case study on what to expect from Ranbir. He got an initial jolt after Saawariya, only to get a shot in the arm courtesy Bachna Ae Haseeno which had turned out to be a decent success. With Siddharth Anand as the filmmaker who gave Ranbir his first success, Anjaana Anjaani could well be life coming full circle for the director-actor 'jodi'.
Says a veteran industry follower, "The going couldn't have been better for Ranbir as he seems to have planned it all quite well. Soon after a rather serious Raajneeti, he is looking at a young entertainer like Anjaana Anjaani. Then there are films with directors like Imtiaz Ali (Rockstar) and Anurag Basu (Silence). Though it is a common saying that one can't plan things to perfection, especially in the unpredictable world of Bollywood, this is pretty much the case if one looks at the way Ranbir has gone about picking and choosing his projects."