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'Polarized' atmosphere lords over NLRB appointments
Members of the National Labor Relations Board are appointed by the president and confirmed by the Senate. Both political parties have stalled nominations, leaving the board at times with fewer than the three members needed for a quorum.
"Appointments to the NLRB have become increasingly polarized as the relationship between Democrats and Republicans has become polarized and labor and management have become polarized," said William Gould, who headed the board in the 1990s.
Gould, a labor law professor at Stanford University, said the polarization began in the 1980s, when President Ronald Reagan made a series of controversial appointments and "made the NLRB more of a political football."
President Barack Obama's appointments to the board stalled in the Senate in 2011. Under the Constitution, the president has the power to fill vacancies during a Senate recess, allowing him to bypass Senate confirmation. To block the president from exercising that power, Republicans prevented the Senate from formally recessing during its annual Christmas holiday break in late 2011 by meeting briefly every three days.
On Jan. 3, 2012, the NLRB, which had two open seats, found itself without the authority to decide cases when the third member's term expired. The next day, Obama invoked his power to make recess appointments and installed three board members.
Companies argued that the president had overstepped his authority and appealed decisions made by the board. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia agreed, ruling that the president's recess appointment power is limited to the period between when the Senate formally ends a two-year session and begins the next session.
In mid-July, senators from both parties reached an agreement that cleared the way for Obama's NLRB appointments that were confirmed last week.
It is unclear if the deal could change the Supreme Court's decision to hear the case. Lynn Rhinehart, general counsel for the AFL-CIO, said the Supreme Court could be persuaded to no longer hear the issue.
— Alejandra Cancino

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It's widely accepted that London's multiculturalism is part of what makes the city's creative scene so rich – the same is true for its fashion schools, as evidenced by these London College of Fashion BA Fashion Photography students. With roots in the Far East, Latin America and Scandinavia, this crop of talented young photographers allow their various cultural heritages to feed into their work. Nirja Ram for example, explores the gender power relations in Indian society, along with the strength of female deities in Hinduism.
"Unknown Pleasures is a visual diary that captures my own reality, my journey, the imperfections in my photography, and the truth as I see it," say Den Niwa. In this book, Niwa has captured models (all of whom are friends and acquaintances) in cities as disparate as Berlin, London, Tokyo, Osaka, and Kyoto, in an attempt to depict the reality of Asian youth culture.
Thu Thuy Pham is another photographer who decided to focusing her attention on a theme specific to her cultural heritage. She's put together a 72-page book that "represents the strong and dignified Vietnamese women who migrated to Germany in search of opportunity or away from persecution." Mostly featuring German architecture, these images capture something of these women's struggle to integrate into a new culture.
Shawn Paul Tan's project 'Sanguine' investigates how we perceive and experience memory, dealing with "trauma, re-self-discovery, voyeurism, self-medication and mind alteration". The website, book and two films mix fashion and art, as well as digital and analogue equipment.


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UCLA Electronic Theses and Dissertations
Spatial distribution of noise and particulate matter near two major freeways in Los Angeles, California: correlations and influencing factors
Author(s): Yang, Pu
Advisor(s): Zhu, Yifang
A-weighted equivalent continuous sound level (LeqA), ultrafine particles (UFP, particles with aerodynamic diameter < 100 nm) number concentrations, and fine particles (particles with aerodynamic diameter < 2.5 um) mass concentrations were measured simultaneously at increasing distances from the freeways on four streets in Los Angeles, CA, with or without sound wall, from February to June 2013. Correlations among UFP number concentrations, PM2.5 mass concentrations and LeqA were assessed by Pearson correlation coefficient. The impacts of wind direction, traffic volume and the presence of sound wall on PM2.5 mass concentrations, UFP number concentrations and LeqA were also investigated.
Moderate correlation(r ranges from 0.514 to 0.605, p<0.05) between LeqA and UFP number concentrations were observed under downwind conditions on all four streets. However, no correlation was found under upwind conditions. PM2.5 mass concentrations were correlated with UFP number concentration, but not with LeqA. The sound wall was effective at blocking noise but its ability to block particulate matters needs further investigation. It suggests that the residents and workers who live or work at the dominantly downwind side of freeway are exposed to higher UFP yet similar noise levels when comparing with the situations at the upwind side of freeway. In addition, it is feasible to use the upwind side of freeway as a control for the two common confounders, particulate matters and noise, in epidemiological and occupational exposure studies. Data generated in this study may be used to study the independent and synergistic health impacts of noise and particulate matters near freeways, especially from an occupational exposure perspective for near roadside workers such as traffic directing personnel, gas station personnel and toll station workers.
Advancing Two-photon Lithography by Integrating Microfluidics and Optical Tweezers
Chizari, Samira
Fostering Value-Creative Global Citizens: Experiences of Students of Color in Service-Learning
Nagashima, Ruby Nobuko
The role of wastewater treatment and water reclamation on antibiotic resistance in water and soil environments in the United States and Mexico
Whitener, Victoria Ann
An Autosegmental-Metrical Model of Shanghainese Tone and Intonation
Roberts, Brice David
Decoding Doctoral Student Departure: A Mixed-Methods Study of Faculty Perceptions and Student Realities in Computing
George, Kari L


Although Alianza Petrolera, currently the fourteenth after seventeen matchdays, are not motivated to win, they still show high quality performance at home having won two recent matches with a clean sheet in both cases. It means that for Atlético Junior, the favorites of the coming match, it would be difficult to score let alone winning the match. Although Atlético needed to win the rest of the matches badly to remain in the knock out zone, they have failed to score in the two recent matches. Los Tiburones (The Sharks) were unable to score in the recent match against América de Cali although the guests were down to ten men and had to play the entire second half with a fewer players on the pitch. We will bet on below. The Sharks would fail again.
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In the run-up to Christmas 2011, a poll carried out by money saving website DiscountVouchers.co.uk has revealed the top bug bears that the British public experience over the festive season.
Highest on the list of UK consumer annoyances is overcrowding when shopping for Christmas gifts – at 32%, this is the leading festive pet hate.
The second highest rated irritation for those who took part in the survey, at 31%, is over-hyping of Christmas which starts much too early.
Next on the poll listing of annoyances was commercialism, followed by surveyants complaining that the true meaning of Christmas has been lost.
In addition, the cost of presents and parties, the Queen's Speech, carols and Christmas TV all ranked high for respondents when it comes to raising irritation levels during December.
It seems the constant barrage of advertisements and carols on TV and in retail stores to push the public into a shopping frenzy has been proven to be off-putting, and even time-old traditions such as the Queen's Speech can be grating.


Some years back, a group of anti-poverty advocates cast their lot in with Chevy and Ford to oppose higher gas taxes.
"That's just stupid," said my ever-blunt brother Dan.
"Because poor people can't afford new cars, so they get stuck with whatever rich people buy. If middle and upper class people are buying SUV's and sedans, then that's what's plentiful five years down the road, and poor people are stuck driving tanks. But when the cost of gas goes up, richer people buy smaller cars, and so poor people get to drive more efficient vehicles.
Duh. Why didn't I think of that?
His words come back to me, especially when I am traveling. That is because all over the world, people wear, drive, and eat hand-me-downs from middle class Westerners like me.
· British and American children's books ranging from The Velveteen Rabbit to Sponge Bob sit in dusty boxes in bookseller stalls in Trivandrum, India.
· In Darjeeling, I once picked up a pair of pants that looked my style, only to notice that they still had a tag attached from Value Village, a thrift store chain at home. As I understand it, Value Village puts their "gently used" best on the shelves and sells the excess by the ton.
· On market days, people walk from nearby farms and villages to converge on the streets of Ambositra, Madagascar. Freshly butchered meat hangs in wooden stalls, but baskets of rice, mounds of vegetables, and stacks of handmade brooms line the sidewalks and pavement. So do piles and piles of used Western clothes.
I wonder what the spread is between Gap and Wal-Mart by the time the shirts reach Ambositra or Santo Domingo. Whatever it may be, thanks to a system of global capitalism that ships used clothing (and old books and tired school buses) from one country to another, Western consumers effectively set both price points. That is because our demand becomes many people's supply. What we buy in large quantities is plentiful and cheap elsewhere. What we buy less of is scarce.
And regardless of how you feel about hand-me-downs in your drawers or suitcase, that raises some interesting questions about our pattern of consumption. When people like me buy durable goods with a long half-life, our cast offs that get sold by the ton have some life in them. When we prioritize cheap frills in our clothes and "bells and whistles" over durability in our consumer goods, people down the chain get clothes and gadgets that soon will need replacing. When as is so often the case, we buy semi-disposables, what goes into the shipping containers bound for developing countries is – literally—garbage.
Even then, poor countries take what we send. In a global version of the used-car dynamic Dan described, they are stuck with whatever we no longer want. A little bit of money flows our way if the stuff is useable; a little bit flows their way if it's waste. Either way, they can't often afford to say no. That is one reason the global market in cast offs provokes moral outcry on occasion—for example, when middle class American's get new low flow toilets and hand on their water hogs to poor people, or when they get sleeker, smaller computers and ship the old ones to places where they will be used briefly and toxic for millennia.
In the 1990's as North American and European doctors began to promote the health benefits of breastfeeding and Western mothers responded, Nestle took their unwanted baby formula elsewhere, giving free samples to poor mothers in developing countries who were then stuck using formula after their breast milk dried up. In recent years, Christian missionaries who couldn't sell homophobia and talk of witchcraft to educated Americans took their outdated biblical literalism to Central Africa where they sold it to Ugandan politicians and Nigerian community leaders. In these cases, selling cast-offs to vulnerable people caused deaths, and the public reacted.
Consider, for example, the economics of raw materials: Behind the global sale of hand-me-downs is a supply and demand dynamic that makes many new goods unaffordable to most of the world's poor. For the whole current population of the world to live like Americans would take six planets worth of raw materials. Canada and the U.S., with five percent of the world's population get credit for thirty five percent of global fuel consumption and nine percent of the planet's textiles. Since prices follow demand, it's possible that if we demanded a bit less some of the folks buying our cast offs could actually afford clothes that are new. In other words, they wouldn't be as poor.
Or consider the social dynamics of competition: Once people have the basics: food, shelter, and a stable community, whether people feel poor is largely a matter of social comparisons. American pioneers had far less in the way of material goods and comforts than your average slum dweller on the south side of Chicago, but they didn't feel as impoverished or degraded. The Spanish language has two words for poverty, miseria, which means wretched desperation, and pobreza, which can be accompanied by a sense of dignity and sufficiency. In a subsistence community with adequate rain and land and so a decent return on hard work, it is quite possible to feel proud and satisfied, to have both pobreza and contentment. But rich neighbors or landlords or public figures who strut their stuff can make bare bones living feel insufficient. Pobreza becomes miseria.
Thanks to television, rich neighbors can have this effect from thousands of miles away. Western markers of social status gets transmitted to poor villages where they feed desire. Fifteen years ago, Brian and I spent two weeks studying Spanish in a village called Todos Santos in the highlands of Guatemala. The language school placed us with a family whose two room dirt-floored house was divided between their living space (including an open cooking fire) and student residents like us. While we huddled in our room after dinner, they huddled in theirs, absorbing their only exposure to another way of life: the TV show Dallas, a high society soap opera in which petty quarrels get played out amidst all the trappings of conspicuous consumption including pressed white shirts, coiffed hair, fancy cars, red fingernails, designer dresses and other bling.
Fashion—by virtue of being frivolous—lets us know who has money to spare and who doesn't. In this sense, clothing trends are designed to be competitive, to feed a sense of insufficiency and desire. No matter how functional or sturdy or new looking our clothes may be, and no matter how beautiful they seemed last year, if they are out of date, then we are supposed to feel inadequate. Broadly speaking, by participating in competitive consumption games with their winners and losers, we not only add to the economic inequality in my first point, we add to the social inequality in my second point. We make others more poor, and we make them feel even poorer and so drive consumption beyond the reach of our own pocketbooks.
Most of us most of the time don't go around trying to make other people feel inadequate. Often we are so busy advancing ourselves, cloaking our insecurities, fending off our secret imposter complexes, that we don't really think about how we are affecting who. It's not so much that we're trying to one-up others as that we fear being one down. It's a chimp thing, partly. Even without clothes and big brains, our relatives find their own ways to compete for social status, which confers sexual and culinary benefits. But there's more to the story than that. Thanks to advertisers and media we ourselves are subject to the same images and appeals as that Guatemalan family. And research has shown that we are far more susceptible to social influence, and advertising specifically, than we like to believe. So much of what drives us lies outside of awareness, and intention.
That brings me to what I think is the point of this meandering series of thoughts. Awareness and intention. Mindful living is something we can cultivate. The growing number of us who are planet conscious have learned to ask where things come from: What resource is getting used up to satisfy my cravings? What species is threatened? Whose tiny fingers are running the sewing machine or knotting the wool? But apart from sorting the trash –paper, plastic, glass, compost– we seldom contemplate the life that's left in our goods when we're done with them or how our purchases affect what other people will have and want.
I know the mantra about simplicity. "Live simply so others can simply live." I believe in it. But if I'm honest, the best I can say is that it shapes my behavior somewhat, sometimes. The bottom line is that I still buy a lot of stuff, including things I don't need or won't wear out. And my gotta-have-thats make their way through the world long after something else has caught my fancy and I've tossed aside old infatuations for new, in fact, long after I've forgotten I ever craved or owned them.
What my brother Dan was saying, and what the used clothing stalls and stores and markets echo in their own way, is that spending money has powerful ripple effects. That is a power I can use mindfully if I choose. Instead of simply wrestling with a set of yes/no purchase decisions, I can explore a broader set of questions: What kinds of cast offs do I want to be scattering across the planet like seeds in the wind? What kind of trends do I want to be setting? Do I treat my stuff like someone else will own it someday? How do I hand things off when I'm done with them?
If I ask these questions consciously, then underlying values (my values) get into my decisions about what I buy, how I treat it, and when I let it go. Come back to the opening theme, cars, for example. New technologies like hybrids are comparatively expensive. That is because they require innovation, and R&D is complicated and costly. But it also drives the kind of future I'd like to hand down to coming generations. When I buy a car, I can invest in the status quo, or I can buy a little bit of that future. And when it comes time to sell, I can hand someone else the same status quo or a chance to participate in that future. From this angle, the decision is a no-brainer.