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Employee's Federal Lawsuit Against Steelworkers Alleges "Window Period" Policy Violates Wisconsin's Right to Work Law
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Lawsuit seeks to enforce Right to Work law provision that Wisconsin Attorney General Kaul refused to defend at the US Supreme Court last month
Burlington, Wisc. (June 4, 2019) – An employee at Packaging Corporation of America's (PCA) Burlington, WI facility has just filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin against United Steelworkers Local 231 for enforcing a dues collection policy in violation of both federal labor law and a provision of Wisconsin's Right to Work law.
According to Martin Carter's lawsuit, which was filed with free legal representation from National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation staff attorneys, United Steelworkers (USW) union agents subjected him to a dues checkoff authorization policy that violates federal law by being irrevocable for longer than one year, and violates Wisconsin's Right to Work law by not allowing employees to stop dues deductions at any time with a 30-day notice.
According to the complaint, Carter believed upon being hired that signing off on the dues checkoff authorization was a condition of employment. When he tried to revoke that authorization later and exercise his rights under Wisconsin's Right to Work law, which makes union dues and membership voluntary, union agents stonewalled his attempts deliver his revocation letter.
Carter's lawsuit follows controversy surrounding Wisconsin's new Democratic Attorney General, Josh Kaul. Last month Kaul withdrew the state's petition asking the Supreme Court to review a lower court decision that part of Wisconsin's Right to Work law, which gives private sector employees the right to revoke their dues "checkoff" with 30 days' notice, was preempted by federal labor law. Rather than defend Wisconsin's law, Kaul sided with union officials whom reports show gave his campaign for attorney general more than $400,000 in direct contributions, with union affiliates being his seven largest contributors.
Kaul's capitulation left standing a divided 2-1 U.S. Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals decision that federal law preempts states like Wisconsin from protecting workers seeking to stop dues payments. Carter's lawsuit brings this issue back to federal court, potentially giving the U.S. Supreme Court an opportunity to decide an issue that it was blocked from considering when Kaul reneged on his campaign pledge to defend Wisconsin laws, even those passed under the Walker administration.
"Martin Carter's case shows there are real worker victims of Attorney General Kaul's dereliction of his duty to defend all of Wisconsin's laws," commented National Right to Work Foundation President Mark Mix. "As this case shows, union bosses play fast and loose with workers' rights in their attempt to trap them into forced dues payments against their will, which is precisely why Wisconsin legislators enacted the Right to Work law's provision giving workers the option of cutting off dues payments within 30 days of asking to do so."
Milwaukee Workers Challenge NLRB "Merger Doctrine" that Blocks Workers from Holding Vote to Remove Unwanted Union
After being unionized through coercive "card check," workers are blocked from holding secret ballot vote by biased NLRB rules
Milwaukee, Wisc. (June 3, 2019) – A clerical employee at trucking company USF Holland's Milwaukee, WI facility has just asked the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) to overturn an NLRB Regional Director's dismissal of her petition to hold a vote to decertify the Teamsters Local 200 union as the monopoly bargaining agent at her workplace.
Diane Damask's petition, filed with free legal assistance from National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation staff attorneys, challenges the so-called "merger doctrine," which allows union officials to "merge" employees in a small bargaining unit into a much larger one to block them from voting to decertify the union. Damask's request for review notes that the Teamsters performed such a scheme at her small clerical office in an agreement with USF Holland – without fully explaining the ramifications to the employees.
According to the request for review, Region 18's dismissal of her petition wrongly stifles her rights because it "makes it effectively impossible for employees in such mega-units to exercise their…rights to decertify a union through a secret ballot election" under the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA). As the petition points out, this is not the first time the workers' statutory rights to hold a decertification election to remove a union they oppose has been stifled by internal NLRB rules not mandated by the NLRA.
The Teamsters originally had scheduled an NLRB-supervised unionization election in January 2018, but then cancelled the vote after cutting a backroom deal with USF Holland to bypass the protections of a secret ballot vote, and instead unionize the workers through the coercive "card check" process. Upset by the situation, Damask and her colleagues quickly circulated a petition to trigger a secret ballot decertification vote only to be told by the NLRB that – under the controversial "voluntary recognition" bar adopted by the Obama NLRB – the workers would have to wait up to a full year before they could file a petition.
Having waited a full year for the NLRB-created "bar" after a card check to expire, now the workers – a majority of whom signed the decertification petition – find themselves blocked again from holding a secret ballot vote by a merger agreement over which they had no real say. In fact, it was not until after Damask had her decertification petition rejected that she learned that, according the merger agreement, she and her eight coworkers at their facility were now deemed part of a nationwide "mega-unit" of approximately 24,000 employees working for multiple employers.
Because triggering a decertification vote requires the signatures of thirty percent of workers in the bargaining unit, under the "merger" such a petition is virtually impossible as she would need to collect 7,000 signatures from workers across the country she has no way of even locating.
Damask's petition argues that the Teamsters and USF Holland improperly "'waived' the Milwaukee clerical employees' rights under the [NLRA] to decertify an unwanted union" and that "if the…clerical employees constituted a separate appropriate unit for purposes of selecting the Teamsters to represent them…the Board should still consider them a(n)…appropriate unit for purposes of removing the union."
"This case shows how union bosses, aided by biased NLRB-concocted rules, can trap workers in union ranks for years even when a majority of the workers want out," said National Right to Work President Mark Mix. "It's time for the NLRB to stop dragging its feet and reform its arbitrary rules, including the so-called 'merger doctrine,' that are being used to eviscerate workers' statutory right under the National Labor Relations Act to hold a vote to remove a union opposed by a majority of employees."
Transportation Worker Asks Federal Labor Board to Review "Settlement Bar" Doctrine that Blocks Votes to Remove Union
Employees' right under National Labor Relations Act to hold decertification vote is blocked by settlement between union and company
Chicago, IL (June 3, 2019) – An employee at Langer Transport Corporation's Joliet, IL, facility has asked the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) to review a ruling by NLRB Region 13 that blocks workers at the company from holding a vote to remove the Teamsters from their workplace.
Angelika Van Meeteren's petition comes after the Teamsters union officials and Langer last October settled earlier unfair labor practice charges filed by the union against Langer. The agreement included a "settlement bar" clause immunizing the union from any decertification attempts for an entire year.
Van Meeteren and her coworkers who want the decertification vote were not parties to the agreement. Although not authorized by the National Labor Relations Act, prior NLRB actions created the so-called "settlement bar" doctrine, which denies workers their right to hold a vote to remove a union for a period of time after the settlement of charges filed against the employer. The bar is often imposed even when the settlement does not contain any admission that the employer violated the law.
Van Meeteren's petition, which was filed with free legal assistance from the National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation, argues that settlement decertification bars "have no basis in the [National Labor Relations] Act" and "offend basic principles of justice" because they prevent employees from exercising their right to hold a decertification vote simply because a company and a union came to an agreement forbidding it — without any input from the employees. That right is guarded by Section 7 of the NLRA, which explicitly protects "the right to refrain from" union representation.
Foundation staff attorneys have fought "settlement bars" on a number of fronts, most recently in a federal lawsuit filed for Marcia Williams and Karen Wunz, two Pennsylvania school bus drivers whose decertification petition was blocked by the NLRB after their employer Krise Transportation came to a settlement with Teamsters Local 397. That lawsuit was eventually deemed moot, because the bar expired while the litigation was proceeding, thus allowing the workers to hold a vote. The Foundation also sent a letter to the NLRB last December requesting that future rulemaking by the Board address "settlement bars" and their inherent conflicts with the NLRA.
"The NLRB-concocted 'settlement bar' doctrine is an assault on fundamental fairness by restricting workers' legal right to remove an unpopular union solely because of unproven allegations made against their employer by union officials," commented National Right to Work President Mark Mix. "The Act is supposed to protect the right of workers to join or reject a union. Punishing Angelika Van Meeteren and her coworkers by blocking their petition to vote out a union they oppose, despite the fact no one even alleges the workers broke any law, is totally contrary to that fundamental purpose."
Union Bosses in New York and Oregon Hit with Federal Charges for Illegal Forced Union Dues
Workers file NLRB charges against UFCW union for failing to follow Supreme Court precedent requiring disclosures about dues demands
Washington, D.C. (May 30, 2019) – Two separate unfair labor practice charges just filed with the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) against two locals of the United Food and Commercial Workers union (UFCW) suggest widespread violations of workers' legal rights by UFCW union officials.
The charges, filed with free legal aid from the National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation, state union officials failed to provide legally required breakdowns of how forced union fees were calculated as mandated by the 1988 CWA v. Beck Supreme Court case. Under the National Labor Relations Act and the National Right to Work Foundation-won Beck case, union officials must provide an audited financial breakdown to justify the amount of the union fees that they force nonmember workers to pay as a condition of employment.
Salem, Oregon Safeway employee Harvey Henry filed his NLRB charge against UFCW Local 555. In response to an April 18 letter sent by Henry objecting to full union dues and resigning his membership in the union, UFCW officials acknowledged his letter but simply quoted again what "he owes rather than providing him with the requisite financial 'breakdown.'"
Similarly, Carolee Buckley, who works at the Plattdeutsche Home Society retirement home in Franklin Square, NY, sent a letter last October to UFCW Local 2013 union officials resigning her union membership and objecting to all dues beyond what union officials can legally require her to pay. Her charge states that, in the nearly seven months since that time, UFCW officials have not given her the required breakdown of how the fees they are demanding she pay are calculated.
The charges are not the only cases currently pending against the UFCW for this type of violation. Last May, a 16-year-old Safeway clerk from Danville, CA filed unfair labor practice charges with the NLRB against UFCW Local 5 for failing to provide him with a breakdown of compulsory fees following his resignation, also with Foundation aid. In April, the NLRB Regional Director issued a complaint against UFCW Local 5 to prosecute the union for violating the clerk's rights, with a trial set to begin soon.
All three employees work in states – Oregon, New York and California – that lack Right to Work laws, which make union membership and financial support completely voluntary. Despite the lack of Right to Work protections for workers, even in forced dues states union officials must provide certain disclosures to workers to justify the amount of the forced union fees, but the unfair labor practice charges say UFCW union officials are not complying with that requirement.
"As these three cases demonstrate, UFCW union bosses are willing to violate the rights of the very workers they claim to represent, just to fill their coffers with more forced union dues," said National Right to Work Foundation President Mark Mix. "These cases show why workers nationwide need the protection of Right to Work laws, which make union membership and dues payment strictly voluntary. As long as union officials can force workers to pay even a portion of full union dues as a condition of employment, greedy Big Labor bosses will continue to cook the books and keep workers in the dark about the restrictions on their privileges to force nonmembers to fund their agenda."
Supreme Court Asked to Hear Challenge to Washington State Scheme Forcing Childcare Providers Under SEIU Union Representation
High Court should apply First Amendment scrutiny and strike down law forcing childcare business owners to associate with SEIU
Washington, D.C. (May 24, 2019) – A Washington State childcare provider is asking the U.S. Supreme Court to hear Miller v. Inslee, a case which challenges the state's requirement that businesses which receive state funds for providing childcare to low-income families accept the monopoly representation of the Service Employees' International Union (SEIU). The Petition for Writ of Certiorari was filed by National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation staff attorneys for plaintiff Katherine Miller, who is challenging the scheme as a violation of her First Amendment rights of free speech and association.
Miller, who runs a childcare business from her home, is deemed a "public employee" by the State of Washington solely because part of her business revenue includes subsidies the state provides to low-income families to be used on childcare. As a result, Washington granted SEIU union officials the power to force her under their union monopoly bargaining scheme and dictate the terms of how she runs her home-based business.
The petition asks the court to hold government-mandated forced "representation" to the same First Amendment standard that led the Supreme Court to find in the landmark 2018 Janus v. AFSCME decision that forced union fees violate the First Amendment. In that ruling, the Supreme Court also held that government-granted union monopoly bargaining power over public employees is "a significant impingement on associational freedoms that would not be tolerated in other contexts."
In this case, Miller maintains that Washington's policy breaches the First Amendment by forcing her to associate with union officials whose representation she doesn't want and to which she didn't consent. Miller's argument also cites the High Court's holding in the 2014 Harris v. Quinn case, which invalidated forced union fees for similar home-based care providers on the grounds that they are not full-fledged "public employees." The petition argues that finding, in combination with the Supreme Court's observation in Janus regarding forced association in "other contexts," warrants Supreme Court review.
National Right to Work Foundation staff attorneys successfully argued and briefed both the Janus and Harris cases at the U.S. Supreme Court. In both cases the Supreme Court applied a heightened level of "exacting" First Amendment scrutiny to the government-imposed forced dues, which is what Miller asks the Court to apply in her case challenging forced association with a union.
"Based on misreadings of not only Janus but also earlier Supreme Court precedent, courts across the country have looked the other way as union bosses and their allies in government have come up with increasingly outrageous schemes to force individuals under union monopolies against their will," said National Right to Work President Mark Mix. "If Katherine Miller, who runs a small business out of her own home, can be forced to associate with a union simply because she cares for children whose care is partially subsidized by the government, then there is no legal limit to who can be forced to accept a government-appointed 'representative' to speak to and lobby the government for them."
United Airlines Worker's Class Action Lawsuit Challenges Forced Union Dues "Opt-Out" Scheme as Violation of First Amendment
Federal complaint: IAM union opt-out requirement to escape payment for union officials' political activities violates Supreme Court's Janus precedent
Austin, TX (May 23, 2019) – A United Airlines fleet service employee has filed a class action lawsuit in the US District Court for the Western District of Texas against the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers (IAM) union challenging its requirement that he "opt-out" of paying for union officials' political and ideological activities.
According to the complaint, which was filed with free legal aid from the National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation, the opt-out scheme violates workers' rights under the Railway Labor Act (RLA), and the First Amendment under the standard laid out in the landmark 2018 Supreme Court decision Janus v. AFSCME. The lawsuit contends that, under Janus as well as the 2012 Knox v. SEIU Supreme Court case – both of which were argued by National Right to Work Foundation staff attorneys – no union dues or fees can be charged beyond the maximum that can legally be required without a worker's affirmative consent.
The employee, Arthur Baisley, is not a member of the IAM but is still forced to pay union fees. Despite being based in the Right to Work state of Texas, the Railway Labor Act pre-empts state Right to Work protections which make union membership and financial support strictly voluntary. However, under longstanding law even without Right to Work protections, nonmembers cannot be required to fund a union's ideological activities such as lobbying and politics.
The lawsuit challenges the burdensome procedure IAM union officials created for workers seeking to exercise their right not to fund the "nonchargable" activities. The complaint lays out the convoluted union boss-created process that workers must jump through just to prevent dues from being taken in violation of their First Amendment rights.
Baisley's experience with these requirements demonstrates how the opt-out procedure is used to violate workers' rights by getting them to pay for union politics without their consent. Even though he sent a letter to IAM agents in November 2018 to object to funding all union political activities, the union officials only accepted his objection for 2019, and told Baisley he would be required to renew his objection to full dues and fees next year or else be charged for full union dues.
The complaint challenges this union-created policy on the grounds that it "require[s] employees to opt-out of paying union fees that they have no legal obligation to pay" and thus breaches workers' First Amendment rights. The complaint also alleges that the IAM's "opt-out requirement" violates the RLA, which governs labor in the air and rail industries and "protects the right of employees to 'join, organize, or assist in organizing' a union of their choice as well as the right to refrain from any of those activities."
The class action lawsuit asks the court to strike down the op-out requirement not only as it is applied to Baisley, but also for his coworkers whose rights are similarly restricted by the IAM's illegal policy. Union officials would then be required to get nonmember workers to give affirmative consent to paying for union boss activities beyond what nonmember workers can legally be required to subsidize under the RLA.
"For too long union bosses have enforced deliberately complicated opt-out requirements with the aim of trapping workers into paying for union boss politics despite the fact that, as nonmembers, they have already chosen not to affiliate with the union," said National Right to Work President Mark Mix. "The case shows the far-reaching implications of the Foundation-won Janus v. AFSCME case, which ruled government unions must get public employees to affirmatively consent before funding a union because all speech directed at the government is inherently political."
"This case simply seeks to apply the same legal standard to workers like Mr. Baisley who are subjected to mandatory union payments under the Railway Labor Act by requiring union officials to get workers to opt-in to the portion of dues that the union already admits is spent on ideological and political activities," added Mix.
Stop and Shop Employee Files Second Charge Against UFCW After Union Officials Move to Impose Illegal Fines for Working During Strike
Union agents previously misinformed worker about his rights, and now seek to impose punitive strike fines in internal union kangaroo court
Northampton, Mass. (May 20, 2019) – Matthew Coffey, an employee of a Northampton, MA Stop & Shop, has filed a new unfair labor practice charge against the United Food and Commercial Workers Union (UFCW) Local 1459. Coffey, one of thousands of Stop & Shop employees across New England who were ordered to strike by UFCW union officials in mid-April, added to his earlier charges against the union by alleging that UFCW officials have illegally moved to discipline him for exercising his right to continue to work during the strike.
The new charge points out Coffey had never been a voluntary union member and therefore cannot be subject to internal union discipline, a process in which union officials punish workers who defy their orders. In some instances, union officials have levied fines as high as tens of thousands of dollars against rank-and-file workers they claim to "represent."
As the charge notes, Coffey had been misled by union officials into believing that Stop & Shop is a "closed shop" since the beginning of his employment in December 2017. He was thus coerced into joining the UFCW thinking that union membership was required to keep his job. It wasn't until the April strike that he discovered that "closed shops" are illegal under federal law and that he had the right to refrain from formal union membership. Because of this he was never actually a voluntary member of the UFCW, a condition necessary for union discipline to be legally imposed.
Armed with this new knowledge, he filed his first charge against UFCW Local 1459 on April 17 with help from staff attorneys at the National Right to Work Foundation. That charge detailed the union misinformation regarding his legal right to refrain from union membership and resign before the strike. It also detailed harassment he received, including personal slurs, because he continued to work during the strike.
According to Coffey's new charge, also filed with free legal aid from the Foundation, UFCW Local 1459 officials sent him a letter on April 30 which "inform[ed] him that he would be disciplined" for continuing to perform his job during the strike. The letter demanded that Coffey appear before a union tribunal on May 14 to defend himself from the disciplinary charges.
Because Coffey had never been informed of his right to refrain from union activities, his charge alleges that the proposed disciplinary action is a further breach of his rights under the National Labor Relations Act.
"This case shows that strikes ordered by Big Labor bosses often include violations of workers' individual rights," said National Right to Work President Mark Mix. "Matthew Coffey chose to exercise his right to work and support his family, and rather than respect that decision, UFCW bosses are doubling down on their illegal bullying."
Teamsters, Company Hit with Federal Charges for Illegally Having Minnesota Worker Fired for Refusing to Join Union
Case highlights need for Right to Work protections for Minnesota workers, to ensure union membership and dues payment are strictly voluntary
Minneapolis, Minn. (May 16, 2019) – An ex-employee of CRH Companies Midwest Region, a building materials supplier, has filed unfair labor practice charges against the Teamsters Local 120 union and his former employer with the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) after being illegally fired. According to the charges, the worker was told – falsely – by both a Teamsters official and a company representative that he was required to join the union as a condition of employment.
James Connolly was first misinformed by union officials on April 2, when he inquired in an email to a Teamsters Local 120 Agent whether or not he would be compelled into joining the union as part of the job. The union's reply came the same day, with an official wrongly telling Connolly, "Sorry James but yes you do have to join." Later, on May 1, a representative of CRH Companies reiterated the same false information to Connolly. Connolly responded to the company in a May 9 email in which he expressed his desire not to join the Teamsters.
The next day, Connolly was fired in an email from his employer, specifically because he did not join the union. He then obtained free legal aid from the National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation, whose staff attorneys helped him file the NLRB unfair labor practice charges.
Minnesota is not a Right to Work state and thus allows unions to force nonmembers to pay some union fees as a condition of employment. However, all workers have a right not to formally join a union, and termination based on union non-membership is a clear violation of federal law.
Connolly's charge also requests that the NLRB go to federal court and seek a "Section 10(j)" injunction against both the company and the Teamsters remedying the illegal termination.
"James Connolly is fighting for his rights against union boss bullies who have violated longstanding federal law," said National Right to Work President Mark Mix. "While this termination is blatantly illegal, it also underscores the need for Minnesota workers to have the protection of a Right to Work law, which would ensure that union membership and financial support are completely voluntary, and at the sole discretion of each individual employee."
California Labor Board Moves to Prosecute Operating Engineers Union Officials for Intimidation Tactics Against Dissenting Workers
Union boss demanded personal emails of Sacramento-Yolo District workers seeking information about holding a vote to remove the union from their workplace
Sacramento, Calif. (May 15, 2019) – The California Public Employment Relations Board (PERB) has found merit to unfair labor practice charges brought by three Sacramento-Yolo Mosquito & Vector Control District employees. Accordingly, PERB issued unfair labor practice complaints for all three employees against the Operating Engineers Local Union 3 (IOUE). According to the complaint, union officials illegally tried to obtain private correspondence of the employees concerning their right to remove the union from their workplace.
The employees, Brett Day, Ryan Wagner, and Mark Pipkin, were targeted by union officials after they discussed how to exercise their rights as workers under California's Meyers-Milias-Brown Act (MMBA), which guarantees public workers "the right to refuse to join or participate in the activities of employee organizations" and "the right to represent themselves individually in their employment relations with the public agency." Union agents requested from their employer all emails the three had sent containing the words or phrases "decertification," "PERB," "union," "decertify," "how to get rid of union," "Public Employee Relations Board," and "Meyers Milias Brown Act."
The request came as IOUE officials sought to block a push for a decertification election, in which workers would vote in secret to determine whether a majority want to end the union's monopoly representation. Under the National Right to Work Foundation-won U.S. Supreme Court's decision in Janus v. AFSCME, the dissenting workers finally have the legal right to stop financial support of the union, but California law still forces the union on them as their monopoly bargaining agent.
Day, Wagner, and Pipkin defended themselves by obtaining free legal aid from National Right to Work Foundation staff attorneys and filing charges with PERB. The workers' charges argue that the union's demand for employee emails contravenes the workers' rights under MMBA and calls for the union to end all its illegal activities, acknowledge the violation of employee rights, and post notices to remind workers of their freedom to refrain from union activities.
Now the PERB has found merit in the employees' charges that the union, by requesting emails, "interfered with employee rights guaranteed by the Meyers-Milias-Brown Act in violation of section 3506 and thus committed an unfair labor practice." Absent settlement, the PERB will move to prosecute the union for violating the workers' legal rights.
"Operating Engineers union bosses are apparently so determined to stop workers from even holding a vote regarding union representation that they resorted to illegal intimidation tactics against the very workers they claim to 'represent,'" commented National Right to Work Foundation President Mark Mix. "As this case shows, even after the Janus decision recognized public workers' legal right to stop subsidizing union activities, there remains much work to do to fully protect government employees from coercive union tactics."
Labor Board Ruling: Michigan Teacher Union Officials Violated Employee's Rights under Right to Work Law
In case brought by DeWitt school employee, MEA union ordered to stop illegal "window" policy blocking employees from ending dues payments
DeWitt, Michigan (May 10, 2019) – The Michigan Employment Relations Commission (MERC) has ruled in favor of a DeWitt public school employee and ordered the Michigan Education Association (MEA) teacher union and its local affiliate the DeWitt Educational Support Personnel Association (DESPA) to stop enforcing an illegal policy blocking workers from exercising their rights under Michigan's Right to Work law.
The ruling is a victory for DeWitt Public Schools employee Kimberly Stepanski, who filed the case with free legal representation by National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation staff attorneys after MEA and DESPA rejected her attempts to cut off union dues, using a union-created "window period" policy.
According to the ruling, the union-created "window period" scheme – which is designed to limit workers from stopping dues payments except for a brief, union-selected time period – violates Michigan's Right to Work law. The ruling also requires MEA union officials to refund to Stepanski any dues money collected since her initial resignation and requires the union to notify other employees that the "window" policy is illegal.
Stepanski first learned of the union scheme after attempting to resign and cut off dues payments in November 2013, only to be told that she was forced to pay dues because she missed the union's designated "window period." Stepanski, who says she had never been informed of the union's policy, later sent a series of emails to the union officials reaffirming her intent to exercise her right not be a union member and to not fund any union activities, as protected by Michigan's Right to Work law for public employees.
The law, which doesn't stop workers from voluntarily joining or paying dues to a union, forbids compelling "any public employee to…become or remain a member of a labor organization…or otherwise affiliate with or financially support a labor organization." Despite that, MEA union officials rebuffed Stepanski's requests, demanding that she continue paying dues because she had not submitted her resignation request during the "opt-out window."
Stepanski, with free legal aid from the National Right to Work Foundation, then filed a charge at MERC in 2014 challenging the coercive scheme. In the ruling issued last week, MERC determined that MEA and DESPA had illegally "reject[ed] [Stepanski's] revocation of her financial obligation and restrict[ed] her right to resign her membership at will." It ordered the unions to end the "window period" scheme, stop collecting dues or fees from any employee after he or she has resigned union membership, and refund to Stepanski any dues that they had illegally taken since her November 2013 resignation.
The order is another recognition of the ruling in Saginaw, a 2015 Foundation-won case where MERC first found "window period" schemes to violate Michigan's Right to Work law. That case and others brought by Foundation staff attorneys have resulted in numerous refunds for money taken under the illegal "window period" scheme.
"Even after National Right to Work Foundation staff attorneys have filed more than 100 cases against unions for forced unionism abuses since Michigan passed its Right to Work law, union bosses continue to systematically violate the rights of the very workers they claim to represent," commented National Right to Work Foundation President Mark Mix. "Hopefully, rather than continue to fight to trap the rank-and-file into forced dues payments, Michigan union officials will finally accept that Right to Work is the law, and refocus their efforts on actually convincing Wolverine State workers to voluntarily choose union activities."
Prompted by Foundation Cases, NLRB Instructs Regions to Prosecute Unions for Failing to Provide Nonmember Workers with Full Beck Rights
California Homecare Providers File Class Action Lawsuit Challenging Union 'Escape Period' Scheme Used to Unlawfully Seize Dues
NLRB General Counsel Rules for Workers in Cases Challenging Coercive Union Practices
Paramedic Levies Charges Against Teamsters, Medic One for Illegal Threats, Discipline and Dues Demands
National Right to Work Foundation Issues Special Legal Notice for California Workers Impacted by Possible UFCW Union Boss Strike
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In this thought provoking program, Mark interviews Michael Duricy STL, from the International Marian Research Institute. Michael did his graduate research on Mary in Films. This particular conversation will focus on how Hollywood has portryed Mary, Jesus and Catholicism in general. It is an interesting exploration into both religious and secular culture as depicted in film.


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Jouala (en àrab الجوالة, al-Jwāla; en amazic ⵊⵡⵡⴰⵍⴰ) és una comuna rural de la província d'El Kelâa des Sraghna, a la regió de Marràqueix-Safi, al Marroc. Segons el cens de 2014 tenia una població total de 11.168 persones.

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Thanks to Edelweiss and Dutton Adult for this eARC! This title is now available.
No, this isn't a ya novel. But as a die hard Richelle Mead fan, I couldn't resist requesting this when it popped up on Edelweiss. Perhaps it is because I'm such a die hard fan that I couldn't help but be disappointed by this book.


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The highest data : 2011 is the highest year for the indicator : Energy use (kilotons of oil equivalent).
The result is: 61,209.93 .
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Short 140-character messages came into our life and impacted a lot. A call to analyze them has arisen. We were requested to help a startup at its early stage to develop a tool set enabled to monitor a customer social media reputation.
Tools which monitor social media reputation, enable you to analyze your brand's social media identity, allowing you to make informed, data-driven decisions based on the expressed opinions of the Twitter universe. A suite of solutions is represented as alerting and reporting system, web application and custom narrow apps.
It is a patent-pending Twitter sentiment analysis tool. Sibyl Vision translates the positivity or negativity in the tweets about a brand into a numerical sentiment value, which is quickly and easily trackable over time. Sibyl Vision's technology is a great way to monitor what people are saying about a brand real-time, all-the-time.
This toolset suits perfectly for various of PR and consulting companies, marketing and advertising agencies, political institutions, financial and media corporations etc. This is a paid service which analyzes tweets on defined keywords, detects the nature of messages (positive, negative, neutral) using NLP algorithms, gives statistical data related to adjusted topic as a result.


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Praetorian Guard: Origin Story, Formation, Influence, Assassination Plots, & Demise
The Praetorian Guard was established with the purpose of protecting the emperor of the Roman Empire with undying loyalty. But as time went on, it appeared their powers went beyond...
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Claudius: The Roman Emperor who conquered Britannia
Emperor Claudius was the fourth Roman emperor of the Julio-Claudian dynasty, but his rise to power was very different from that of his predecessors for no one imagined him ever...
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In AD 68, Roman Emperor Nero found his entire world crumbling around him as not only was he declared a public enemy, but he was sentenced to death. However, Nero...
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Here comes another infamous Roman ruler. After taking the reins of power as the 5th Emperor of Rome, Nero left behind a tarnished reputation. His reign effectively wrecked and ended...
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It is an indisputable fact when historians state that Nero's reign over ancient Rome left a dark chapter of terrible scenes. After succeeding Claudius in 54 AD, Nero was a...


We had a West Highland Terrier for a number of years. "Westies" are tough little dogs, bred to tunnel into badger holes and engage the "enemy" in its lair. Our Westie was many generations removed from her origins, but she still retained that instinct, put into her through years of breeding. On one occasion she became obsessed by some "critter" under a rock in our back yard. Nothing could dissuade her. She dug and dug until she tunneled several feet under the rock.
Now consider this question: Why do we as humans pursue, pursue, pursue? Why must we climb unclimbed mountains, ski near-vertical slopes? Run the most difficult and dangerous rapids, challenge the forces of nature? Part of it is a desire for adventure and enjoyment, but it's much more. It's an instinct for God that has been implanted in us. We cannot not want to find God.
And what is the heart? A deep void within us that only God can fill.


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Frank de Boer confirmed as the Netherlands' new head coach
Richie McCormack
7:46 PM - 23 Sep 2020
Frank de Boer is the new manager of the Dutch national team.
The 50-year old replaces Ronald Koeman who left the job last month to take over at Barcelona.
De Boer's signed a two-year contract with the KNVB, taking him up to and including the 2022 World Cup in Qatar.
Frank Rijkaard had also been in contention for a return to the position he left after Euro 2000. Peter Bosz was also a candidate, but would have cost too much to extricate from his contract at Bayer Leverkusen.
It's not De Boer's first coaching role with the Netherlands, as he was an assistant to Bert van Marwijk for the side that reached the 2010 World Cup final in South Africa.
De Boer started his own managerial career at Ajax, leading them to four Eredivisie titles.
It's been almost all downhill since, however. He lasted fewer than three-months in charge of Inter in 2016, and was sacked after only 5 games in charge of Crystal Palace in 2017.
Since then, he's rebuilt his reputation somewhat in MLS with Atlanta United.
His last games in charge came in the MLS Is Back tournament, but they were all 1-0 group defeats to Colombus Crew, FC Cincinnati and New York Red Bulls.
De Boer's first game in charge will be a friendly with Mexico, followed by UEFA Nations League games with Bosnia Herzegovina and Italy.
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Jane A. Svinicki, CAE Receives 2018 Governor's Trailblazer Award
By SAMI Admin | May 24, 2018
Milwaukee, WI (May 23, 2018) – Jane A. Svinicki, CAE, President, Svinicki Association Management Inc., (ARC), received the Wisconsin Governor's Trailblazer Award on May 23, 2018 at the Wisconsin State Capitol. The Trailblazer Awards honor the rich legacy and economic impact of women's business ownership in Wisconsin's economy.
Jane was recognized in the Business Pioneer Award category acknowledging companies that have been majority woman-owned for the past 25-years or more. Svinicki launched ARC in 1986 and has over 30 years of experience managing not for profit trade and professional organizations.
"It is wonderful to be recognized for the accomplishments of my company, but an even greater pleasure is to be nominated by my staff. Every day the amazing employees at ARC help our non-profit clients achieve their goals," said Svinicki. "It has also been a privilege to serve our clients, some of the most dynamic, intelligent, visionary volunteers in their respective professions."
The Governor's Trailblazer Awards for Women in Business are hosted by the Office of the Governor, Office of the Lieutenant Governor, and Wisconsin Women's Council.
"Wisconsin's economy continues to thrive thanks to the accomplishments of women from across the state," said Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker. "These exemplary business leaders are a big reason why Wisconsin has a record-low unemployment rate and more people working than ever before. Their leadership is helping move our state forward."
The Wisconsin Women's Council, established in 1983, promotes initiatives that empower women, serves as a clearinghouse for information on programs and resources, provides research and advocacy, and promotes unique partnerships to address barriers and inequalities affecting Wisconsin women. The Council operates under the guidance of a 15-Member Board appointed by the Governor and Legislative leaders.
ARC is an association management company, founded in 1986, that provides management and administrative services, including staffing, complete office technology and a business location in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. It is ARC's mission to provide excellent comprehensive management services that empower dynamic associations to succeed.
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Today, Jordyn Woods is expected to publicly apologize to Khloé Kardashian and her family on Jada Pinkett Smith's Red Table Talk for cheating with Kardashian's boyfriend Tristan Thompson. But Kardashian already gave an indicator on her Instagram Story yesterday that she's not buying that any cheater is really sorry.
Kardashian has been posting emotional quotes like this on her Instagram Story for months now and really ramped it up since Tristan Thompson's cheating drama started last year, right before she gave birth to their first child, True Thompson. She followed up last night with another pep talk quote for her and anyone else struggling.
"Dear whoever is reading this, You're incredible even when you feel you're not. You might feel lost now, but great things are coming your way. You're stronger than you think, and have a lot to accomplish, don't give up. Remember, you matter and you're not alone."


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Q: SQLite Min function returns NULL in row with String data Eventhough in every place I found it reads MIN() would only return NULL if a row is empty, for me it is different.
I have the following table:
+---+------------+------------+------------+
|   |  column1   |  column2   |  column3   |
+---+------------+------------+------------+
| 3 | 2016-11-01 | 2016-11-02 | 2016-10-27 |
| 4 | NULL       | NULL       | 2016-10-28 |
| 5 | 2013-12-12 | 2016-11-02 | 2016-10-30 |
+---+------------+------------+------------+

And try to get the smallest value of each row using
SELECT MIN(column1, column2, column3) FROM myTable

to compare it using
WHERE STRFTIME('%Y-%m-%d', MIN(column1, column2, column3)) BETWEEN DATE('2000-01-01') and DATE('2016-11-10');

However the first line returns the following output:
+-------------------------------+
| MIN(column1, column2, column3 |
+-------------------------------+
| 2016-10-27                    |
| NULL                          |
| 2013-12-12                    |
+-------------------------------+

And resulting the WHERE statement will not include the row.
What I was hoping for:
+-------------------------------+
| MIN(column1, column2, column3 |
+-------------------------------+
| 2016-10-27                    |
| 2016-10-28                    |
| 2013-12-12                    |
+-------------------------------+

How could I change the statement to not include NULL cells or change the table to work properly?
EDIT: There will NEVER be a totally empty row! This table is connected to a Java application that will take care of that.

A: This answer isn't nice, and I suspect there might be a better way.  But one option would be to use IFNULL on each date column and replace with a really high date value in the case that the value be NULL:
SELECT MIN(IFNULL(column1, '9999-01-01'),
           IFNULL(column2, '9999-01-01'),
           IFNULL(column3, '9999-01-01'))
FROM myTable
WHERE STRFTIME('%Y-%m-%d', MIN(IFNULL(column1, '9999-01-01'),
                               IFNULL(column2, '9999-01-01'),
                               IFNULL(column3, '9999-01-01')))
      BETWEEN DATE('2000-01-01') AND DATE('2016-11-10');

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by Richard | January 14, 2023 | Sports News | 0 Comments
The NFL playoffs have arrived. Thus, football fans are looking forward to the NFL Wild Card Weekend featuring two Saturday matches. Once the weekend ends, three teams will qualify for the next stage. The two Wild Card matches on Saturday are the San Francisco 49ers...
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Croatia defeated Morocco Saturday. Thus, the African team's historic run ended, and Croatia became the World Cup third place winner. Croatia scored at the seven-minute mark with Josko Gvardiol's header. However, Moroccan Achraf Dari scored the equalizer...
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Qatar World Cup fans are trickling into the country as they look forward to soccer's most significant event this year. The government constructed a tent city in the desert to accommodate the fans from overseas. Sports analysts expect the competition for...
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A bookie analysis of PSG shows that its stars haven't always aligned this season. However, Kylian Mbappe and Lionel Messi were on the same page during the match against Ajaccio. Messi dribbled through defenders and then played a one-two with teammate Juan Bernat. The...
by Richard | Sep 9, 2022 | Sports News
It looks like the Buffalo Bills are serious about becoming one of the top National Football League teams this year. During their NFL season opener, they won against current Super Bowl champs Los Angeles Rams. Buffalo Bills QB Josh Allen tossed three TDs and ran for...
Bookie Backs Rangers to Win Europa League
by Richard | Apr 25, 2022 | Gambling News, Sports News
A bookie backs Rangers to win the Europa League. However, they remain one of the underdogs to win the championship next month. The Rangers will face RB Leipzig on Thursday, April 28, for the first leg of the semis. Then, if they manage to qualify for the final match...
Bookie Favorite Pitbull Lost in Bellator 263
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Bookie favorite Pitbull lost his featherweight title to AJ McKee at Bellator 263. The latter got a submission victory over Patricio Pitbull to snatch the title. Also, McKee earned $1 million for winning the Featherweight World Grand Prix. The battle opened gradually,...
Charles Barkley Spoke Against NBA Super Teams
by Richard | Jun 7, 2021 | Sports News
Out of the eight teams left in the NBA playoffs, there's one team that Charles Barkley doesn't want to see win the championship title. He spoke against NBA super teams, especially the Brooklyn Nets. Kevin Durant, Kyrie Irving, and James Harden led the Nets...
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Minnesota is preparing to relax its coronavirus restrictions at large venues. Thus, Minnesota sports fans can watch events in stands soon. Governor Tim Walz announced that outdoor and indoor venues could allow more fans to watch games starting on Monday, March 15....


LIPPO Malls Indonesia Retail Trust (LMIRT) is looking to acquire Lippo Mall Puri in West Jakarta for 3.7 trillion rupiah (S$354.7 million), financed with a combination of debt and equity financing, the Reit's (real estate investment trust) manager said in a regulatory filing.
LIPPO Malls Indonesia Retail Trust (LMIRT)'s fourth-quarter distribution per unit (DPU) was down amid what the manager called "challenging conditions", in results out on Friday.
LIPPO Malls Indonesia Retail Trust (LMIRT) slashed its distribution per unit (DPU) for its fourth quarter, under what the manager called "challenging conditions" in results posted on Friday.


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Cerapterocerus subapterus is een vliesvleugelig insect uit de familie Encyrtidae. De wetenschappelijke naam is voor het eerst geldig gepubliceerd in 1922 door Girault.

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Who said Dorks finish last? Not so in the world of Rachel Renee Russell's "Dork Diaries" — the recipient of the 2015 NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work for children. The New York Time's Best Selling series. The Diaries chronicle life of Nikki Maxwell, who is based on Russell's true life teenage daughters Erin and Nikki. Russell's books help make sense of the crazy adolescent world of pre-teens and include puzzles, quizzes, an interactive fan club, videos and numerous other product extensions.


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Former Lower House member Mieko Tanaka (center) celebrates with supporters after winning a seat in the Kanazawa Municipal Assembly on Sunday. | KYODO
How to make politics a creative and attractive vocation
by Ichiro Asahina
The report "Women in Parliament in 2018" by the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU), originally established in 1889 and said to be the first international political forum for parliamentary members, placed Japan 165th out of 193 countries in terms of the proportion of women among members of the lower house of parliament. In Japan, a mere 10.2 percent of the Lower House seats were occupied by women — well below the global average of 24.3 percent and 19.6 percent among Asian countries. Only one woman, Satsuki Katayama, is in the Cabinet of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, accounting for just 5 percent of its members and putting Japan at 171st out of 188 countries.
These figures may prompt some to say that the Diet is closed to women. But I have a slightly different opinion. The truth is that politics is rather not an attractive vocation for women. Or you could say that most Japanese people, both women and men, recently do not seem interested in becoming a politician.
In fact, nearly 27 percent of the seats in prefectural assemblies up for grabs in a nationwide series of local elections this month were decided without a vote because not enough candidates emerged to necessitate a contest. The ratio topped the previous high marked in the last nationwide local elections four years ago by about 5 percentage points. Given this reality, it is speculated that in the near future many small villages and towns will not be able to sustain their local assemblies due a lack of candidates seeking to become assembly members.
Why are the Diet and local assemblies not ideal workplaces for women or even for most people of either gender? My short answer is because they are not creative workplaces. Roughly speaking, a legislature has two important functions: checking government activities and making proposals to government. Sadly enough, however, most of the legislatures in Japan — both national and local — usually play only the former role.
If we stand in the shoes of the politicians, this phenomenon may be obvious and even reasonable from their viewpoint. If a politician belongs to the same party or the same party faction as the top leader of the government (either prime minister, governor or mayor), he or she will not say anything critical of the government's plans or seek to amend them. All the politician would like to do, basically, is try to pass the legislation as quickly as possible. No creativity would be required of the politician in such a case.
Even when a politician belongs to a different party or a faction than the top government leader, what he or she tends to do in the legislature is still not creative — just being aggressive toward the government or its leader.
Members of a party opposing the government may toughly criticize the government when checking its plans, but most of the time they will not create counterproposals, budget, laws or treaties. Since politicians in opposition parties usually cannot use government staff or afford to retain their own policymaking staff, it seems almost impossible for them to make counter-plans. Often all they do is check and point out deficiencies in the government's plans. The Diet and local assemblies may be arenas for a battle between the government and those politicians, but not a place for creative work.
And because merely checking the government's plans (legislations, budget and treaties) may not be provocative enough to grab the attention of general voters, legislature members, especially those in the opposition, tend to focus on scandals such as corruption or sexual affairs involving top government leaders or senior officials, which are more easily spread by the mass media than detailed questions about policies.
A typical politician dedicated to worrying about how to win the next election, rather than worrying about the future of subsequent generations, tends to be quiet in the legislature (if he or she is from the governing party) or focusing on attacking the government by trying to reveal its scandals (if the politician is from the opposition camp). It does indeed seem like uncreative work either way.
One solution could be to create more think tanks that support politicians and political parties in their policy-making functions, but that may not be practical at least in the short run. I established my own think tank (Aoyama Shachu Corp.) eight years ago and it probably still is the only think tank dedicated to supporting politicians. That's because the market demand is still relatively very small in comparison with other think tank businesses, which get most of their work from government or private-sector companies.
Another solution would be to drastically reform the Diet and local assemblies to turn them into more creative workplaces. Our think tank held a conference in February and invited several young Diet members not only from the ruling Liberal Democratic Party but also from two opposition parties. I served as a facilitator during the panel discussion on future reform of the Diet and had expected heated debate between panelists from the different parties. In fact, the three panelists easily reached a consensus that the Diet should have basically three frameworks; question time (intensive debate) between the heads of two big parties, a special committee dedicated to examining scandals and regular committees focused on policy discussions.
Under this three-track scheme, the last one, regular committees, would be more creative places for policy discussions and would draw the attention of future candidates who would like to become excellent politicians, including many women.
Ichiro Asahina is the chief executive officer of the Tokyo-based think tank Aoyama Shachu Corp.
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Q: How to convert pandas multiindex into table columns and index? I have a DataFrame

It has a multi-index and each row has a value
I want to unstack it but it has duplicated keys. Now I want to convet it into this format:

where index1 and index2 is one of the multi-index, and index3 and index4 is another multi-index, value1~3 are values in the original df, if the value doesn't exist, the value is nan.
How should I do this?

A: See if this example helps you:
import pandas as pd

df = pd.DataFrame(data={'value': [1, 3, 5, 8, 5, 7]}, index=[[1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6], ['A', 'B', 'A', 'C', 'C', 'A']])

df = df.reset_index(level=1)
df = df.pivot_table(values='value', index=df.index, columns='level_1')

Original data:

Result:


an approach to or sighting of land: The ship will make its landfall at noon tomorrow.
the land sighted or reached.
After whacking North Carolina, Hurricane Irene made its second landfall in New Jersey Sunday morning.
There were six days of sailing ere the captain made his landfall, and they stood off till evening.
Biddle and Humboldt, in the early part of the present century, accepted the Labrador landfall with little question.
The only significant history of Cuba begins, therefore, with the landfall of Christopher Columbus upon its shores.
Manned as she was, the schooner might never be worked back to a landfall if they did so.
Your real land-birds never know their own roosts, even in a landfall at sea.
"sighting of land," 1620s, also "the first land 'made' on a sea voyage;" from land (v.1) + fall (v.) in the sense of "happen." From the days of imprecise nautical navigation.


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Osteoinductive and anti-inflammatory effect of royal jelly on periodontal ligament cells
Biomed Res. 2011 Aug;32(4):285-91.
Yanagita M, Kojima Y, Mori K, Yamada S, Murakami S.
Department of Periodontology, Division of Oral Biology and Disease Control, Osaka University Graduate School of Dentistry, Osaka 565-0871, Japan.
Royal jelly (RJ) has been reported to possess several physiological and pharmacological properties such as the ability to prevent osteoporosis in rats and anti-inflammatory effects. We hypothesized that RJ could have beneficial effects on the prevention or treatment of periodontal diseases, which are chronic inflammatory diseases caused by bacterial infection that result in resorption of the tooth-supporting bone. We assessed the effect of RJ on mineralization in mouse periodontal ligament cell clone 22 (MPDL22 cells), which are of an osteogenic and cementogenic lineage. The mRNA expression of osteopontin, osteocalcin and osterix, and mineralized nodule formation were significantly enhanced in RJ-treated MPDL22 cells. In addition, we investigated the effects of RJ on the production of inflammatory cytokines from MPDL22 cells stimulated with lipopolysaccharide (LPS) of Porphyromonas gingivalis, a periodontopathic bacterium. RJ suppressed LPS-induced interleukin-6 and CXC chemokine ligand 10 production from MPDL22 cells. Furthermore, RJ suppressed the expression of CD54 in MPDL22 cells: CD54 is the adhesion molecule involved in the accumulation of leukocytes in periodontal lesions. These findings suggest that the osteoinductive and anti-inflammatory effects of RJ can provide benefits for the treatment and prevention of periodontal diseases.
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 * IntegerArrayListExample.java
 * ---------------------------
 * This program shows an example of using an Integer ArrayList.
 */

import acm.program.*;
import java.util.*;

public class IntegerArrayListExample extends ConsoleProgram {

	public void run() {
    	setFont("Courier New-bold-24");

    	ArrayList<Integer> intList = new ArrayList<Integer>();

    	readList(intList);
		printArrayList(intList);

    	readList(intList);
		printArrayList(intList);
	}

	private void readList(ArrayList list) {
		while (true) {
			int value = readInt("Next number: ");
			if (value == -1) break;
			list.add(value);	// boxes value (int) to Integer
		}
	}

	private void printArrayList(ArrayList list) {
		println("List contains "  + list.size() + " elements");
		for(int i = 0; i < list.size(); i++) {
			println(list.get(i));  // unboxes Integer to int
		}
	}

}


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2 They live outside London.
5 They went to college.
6 They regularly release photos of their family.
7 Kate is not an aristocrat.
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10 They actually like each other.


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Karthago
 Karthagerna misslyckas med att återerövra Sardinien.

Spanien
 Den karthagiske generalen Hannibal kan inte få några förstärkningar från Spanien till de av sina styrkor, som finns stationerade i Italien, på grund av den romerske generalen Publius Cornelius Scipios och hans bror Gnaeus Cornelius Scipio Calvus aktiviteter. I ett slag vid Dertosa nära floden Ebro lyckas dessa båda nämligen hindra den karthagiske generalen Hasdrubals försök att ta sig till Italien.

Romerska republiken
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 Den romerske konsuln Tiberius Sempronius Gracchus blir överraskad och dödad av Hannibals styrkor, medan den romerske generalen Marcus Claudius Marcellus återigen slår tillbaka ett anfall av Hannibal mot staden Nola.
 Hannibals styrkor ockuperar städerna Tarentum, Heraclea och Thurii. Han lyckas dock inte förhindra att romarna belägrar Capua.

Grekland
 Filip V av Makedonien och Hannibal förhandlar fram en allians, enligt vilken de lovar varandra ömsesidigt stöd och försvar. De beslutar att stödja varandra mot Rom och att Hannibal skall ha rätt att sluta fred med romarna, men att en sådan fred skall inkludera Filip och att Rom skall tvingas ge upp Korkyra, Apollonien, Epidamnos, Faros, Dimale, Parthini och Atintanien samt till Demetrios från Faros återlämna alla områden, som direkt styrs av Rom.

Seleukiderriket
 Den seleukidiske kungen Antiochos III går över Taurusfloden och förenar sina styrkor med Attalos av Pergamon samt lyckas genom ett fälttåg beröva den upproriske generalen Achaios alla sina territorier och dessutom erövra Sardis (med undantag av citadellet).

Födda
 Antiochos IV Epifanes, kung av Seleukiderriket (född omkring detta år; död 164 f.Kr.)

Avlidna
 Hiero II, tyrann av Syrakusa sedan 270 f.Kr. (född omkring 308 f.Kr.)
 Apollonios Rhodios, grekisk poet, grammatiker och författare till Argonautica, ett epos på fyra böcker om argonauternas resa (död omkring detta år; född omkring 290 f.Kr.)

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