You may have heard the term Right to Work state. This is the situation it covers. In a rtw state an employee doesn't have to join the union to work, in a non rtw state you have what are called closed shops. You can't work there without joining the union.
If I remember right the roberts report on this said each time they launched at a low temperature any degradation of the seal became the new normal and "safe". The launch temperature got lower and lower and each time the normal was reset.
With House districts as small as they are the staff track the local papers for mentions. Letters to the editor will attract their attention if you mention your Rep by name. If you are starting a change.org movement or some other district organization or petition be sure to mention it so the voice in your letter is multiplied.
If they had built a containment building and a shield building into the design instead of after they melted it down Chernobyl would be a footnote and a lessons learned training tool instead of a disaster area. I was in the nuclear industry in Operations from '74 to '00 and simply could not believe what they did and how unprepared they were.
You should look into Pantheon. Old school EQ style game (no maps, heavy group requirement, very limited player driven porting, death penalty etc) in development. If it actually launches I expect to see a lot of older MMO people trying to recapture the thrill. Until then the EQ emulator eq1999 will beat the nostalgia right out of you.
The article states she must forcefully dissuade Obama from passing TPP during the lame duck session. I disagree in that I believe she would like to see TPP pass but can't support it during the election. She can rail against it all she wants and Obama can provide the needed cover by passing it this fall.
It should be noted that reactivity control in military and commercial PWRs is fundamentally different. That said it's hard to understand how the SL1 operator managed to yank the rod so far out of the core. The procedure was to withdraw each rod 4 inches and attach it to the crdm, which in itself is a little mind blowing to me. The rod was withdrawn 26 inches and prompt criticality was achieved at 23 inches or so. The rod weighed 86 pounds. Even if it was stuck it's hard to imagine yanking something that heavy that far to unstick it.
I'm old enough to remember land line phones in your house. The caller payed for the call not the person who received the call. With cell phones they managed to convince us both parties should pay money for the call and we are used to that, it's the new normal. ISPs now want the same double billing, they want both parties money and see no reason why they can't have it. They want me to pay to receive the data and the site to pay to send that same data.
The exemption exists purely from the lobby efforts of the NFL and MLB. The original bill contained no such exemption. The loop hole was added in committee.