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My colleague Clay Christensen stresses that managers are voracious consumers of theory. In other words, they value ways to think about their world, and mental tools that will let them make decisions and predictions with a level of confidence higher than they get from experience and intuition alone.
I've been reminded of Clay's insight because I've recently had some success using a longstanding theory to explain to executives the value of social networking software (SNS) like Facebook. As I wrote earlier, the sociologist Mark Granovetter's theory of the 'strength of weak ties' provides a great way to conceptualize the value of SNS. These technologies increase a knowledge workers' number of weak ties (and hence access to non-redundant information and bridges to other networks), and also provide an easy and convenient way to exploit these ties from within the tool itself.
But the intersection of ties and Enterprise 2.0 technologies goes much farther than this. In fact, ties provide a great base for understanding the benefits provided by many E2.0 technologies, and for understanding when each one should be deployed. Thinking in terms of ties, in other words, let managers select from among the grabbag of available technologies and also anticipate the benefits they'll get after successful deployment.
Consider the prototypical knowledge worker inside a large, geographically distributed organization (all of what follows also applies for smaller and more centralized organizations, but probably to a lesser extent). She has a relatively small group of close collaborators; these are people with whom she has strong professional ties. Beyond this group, there's also a set that includes people she with worked on a project with in the past, coworkers who she interacts with periodically, colleagues she knows via an introduction, and the many other varieties of 'professional acquaintance.' In Granovetter's language, she has weak ties to these people.
Beyond this group there's a still-larger set of fellow employees who could be valuable to our prototypical knowledge worker if only she knew about them. These are people who could keep her from re-inventing the wheel, answer one of her pressing questions, point her to exactly the right resource, tell her about a really good vendor, consultant, or other external partner, let her know that they were working on a similar problem and had made some encouraging progress, or do any of the other scores of good things that come from a well-functioning tie. By the same token, if our focal worker is a person of good will, there are many other people in the company she could help if her existence, work experiences, and abilities were more widely known.
Of course, there's also a large group in the organization who are just not going to be of much use to our prototypical worker, and vice versa. These people will not form ties. They're simply co-workers, not actual or potential colleagues. It seems at first glance as if it wouldn't be valuable to use any type of technology to bring these people together. This, however, is too hasty a conclusion, as I'll discuss.
The bullseye figure below is an extremely simple and not-to-scale representation of the relative size of these groups, from the perspective of our focal knowledge worker. The small core of people with whom she has strong ties is at the center, surrounded by her larger group of weakly-tied colleagues. Potential ties are in the next ring, and co-workers — people with whom valuable ties do not and will not exist — make up the outermost ring. My intuition is that for most knowledge workers the four circles in the figure are nested accurately — that the number of potential ties, for example, is greater than the number of weak ties — even if their relative sizes are way off.
What does all this have to do with the emergent social software platforms of Enterprise 2.0? Well, there are several such platforms, each of which is valuable in a different way. Wikis, a blogosphere, social networking software, and prediction markets all facilitate Enterprise 2.0 as I've defined it, but they're clearly not identical technologies, or even closely similar ones.
But how are they different? Do they to dissimilar things for companies, and to them? And when is each the 'right answer?' Answers to these questions arise from the realization that a knowledge worker will want to use a different E2.0 technology at each ring in the bullseye.
A wiki is the classic Enterprise 2.0 technology for a core of strongly tied knowledge workers who are collaborating on a deliverable. They can use it to generate documents, to debate their contents and structure, track project status, link to other resources, etc. Google Docs and Spreadsheets, Zoho, and other online office productivity suites are similar to wikis in that they allow egalitarian editing of documents, spreadsheets, and presentations by all group members; they're just not currently as extensible as a full wiki.
Evidence suggests that wikis let strongly-tied collaborators get their work done better, faster, and with more agility than was previous possible. With a wiki, what's emergent is the document itself, with 'document' defined broadly.
As I wrote earlier, enterprise social networking software lets our prototypical knowledge worker stay in touch with a large network of colleagues, allowing her to keep up to date with that they're doing, working on, and producing. It also lets her tell this network what she's up to.
This might sound like an only marginally useful exercise, but it can in fact be quite powerful because it's a quick and easy way to form connections and make associations that might not ever occur otherwise. I saw this firsthand a couple days ago when one of my Facebook friends told his network via his status message that he was going to accompany a foreign head of state to a high-level meeting on technology issues. Because I was only weakly tied to this person I had no idea that he was that well connected or interested in public policy. But as a result of his Facebook update, which took him about ten seconds to type and me one second to read, I now know who to reach out to should I ever want to dive into European IT issues, or desire an invitation to the Elysee Palace ;). SNS lets its users build bridges to new human networks, and to let non-redundant information emerge.
Facebook currently lets members ask their network a question, then collects their answers on one globally-visible page. I imagine that successful enterprise Facebook equivalents will have much more advanced tools to allow members to actively exploit their networks by asking them for assistance, pumping them for information, etc. I also imagine that they'll let users post answers to their most frequently-asked questions, then simply point seekers to this resource. The facts that Facebook has opened its platform to outside applications, and that a consortium of social media providers anchored by Google and MySpace has just announced a common specification for developers, will no doubt hasten the arrival of robust enterprise SNS.
And what about all the people in the third ring of the circle in the figure — the potentially valuable colleagues who our knowledge worker just hasn't met yet? Wikis and SNS in their current configurations don't help her learn of the existence of such people, but an internal corporate blogosphere could. Imagine a large company in which most workgroups (divisions, labs, departments, project teams, etc.) blogged, as did many individuals. No one would have time to read all the resulting blogs, of course, and most employees would probably read few of them regularly. But I imagine lots of people would set up searches for words, phrases, or topics of interest (as is possible with Bloglines, Google blog search, and other tools), then check in frequently to see what recent posts show up in their search results. This is the main way that I keep up with the latest writing on "Enterprise 2.0." Even articles in print publications get discussed almost immediately in the blogosphere, so I learn about them, too.
I've seen a few surveys indicating that blogs are currently one of the least popular E2.0 technologies among CIOs and other decision makers, probably because the business value of internal blogging isn't always clear. Maintaining a blog can seem like shouting into a void, and we all certainly have better things to do than that. The benefit of blogs becomes much more clear when they're seen as tools to convert potential ties, strong or weak, into actual ones. Prior to the Web 2.0 era I don't believe that good technologies existed to help with this conversion, and the overall toolkit for making employees aware of potentially valuable ties — including newsletters, 'science fairs,' seminar series, etc. — was pretty small. A lively internal blogosphere that includes good search and notification mechanisms represents a significant addition to this toolkit, and can allow productive ties and teams to emerge over time.
The outermost ring of the bullseye seems like the least amenable to technology — how can the new crop of digital tools productively interconnect people who really don't have anything to say to contribute to each other? Prediction markets do exactly this. Prediction markets are very much like stock markets. They contain securities, each of which has a price. People used the market to trade with each other by buying and selling these securities. Because traders have differing beliefs about what the securities are worth, and because events occur over time that altered these beliefs, the prices of securities also vary over time.
In a stock market like the New York Stock Exchange the securities being traded are shares in companies, the price of which reflects beliefs about the value of the company. In a corporate prediction market, in contrast, the securities being traded are related to future events such as "How many units of this product will we sell next quarter?" "What will our market share be at the end of the quarter?" "Will our competitor release their product on time?" "Will we release our product on time?" Such markets can be designed so that security prices are the same as the estimated probability that the event will occur, according to the markets' traders.
Prediction markets provide benefits to the traders in the form of ego boosts and monetary rewards (if a company decides to reward successful trading that way), and they bring substantial benefits to sponsoring companies by providing accurate and decisive answers to important questions. As James Surowiecki wrote in The Wisdom of Crowds, "Corporate strategy is all about collecting information from many different sources, evaluating the probabilities of potential outcomes, and making decisions in the face of an uncertain future. These are tasks for which [prediction] markets are tailor-made."
The participants in a prediction market don't have to have any dealings with each other beyond their trades, and often don't even know who they're trading with. So these markets aren't tools to help human networks coalesce; they're just ways to have answers emerge from the self-interested, profit-maximizing activities of a population of traders.
The table below summarizes the potential benefits, candidate technologies, and type of emergence at each ring of the bullseye (in other words, for each type of tie). Like the bullseye figure itself, it is a drastic simplification of a large and complex set of phenomena. In particular, the entries in the three rightmost columns of the table aren't meant to be mutually exclusive or collectively exhaustive. They simply highlight some important differences at each of the four levels.
|Tie Strength
|Potential Benefits
|Technology Example
|What is Emergent?
|Collaboration, Productivity, Agility
|Innovation, Non-redundant information, Network bridging
|Social Networking Software
|Efficient search, Tie formation
|Collective Intelligence
|Prediction Market
I'm hearing from a lot of people that late 2007 is much like late 1997, when technology specialists were getting asked by senior executives "What is the Internet, exactly, why is it a big deal, and what's our Internet strategy?" The question now is "What's Web 2.0 / Enterprise 2.0 / social media, exactly, why is it a big deal, and what's our W2.0 / E2.0 / social media strategy?" The table, bullseye figure, and arguments presented here can help frame discussions around these questions by encouraging decision makers to first focus on what ring(s) of the bullseye they're most interested in targeting. Lots of subsequent decisions and actitivies flow from the answer to this question, and from applying a bit of well-established theory (the theory of strong and weak ties) to technology considerations.


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A winner was selected from 9 designs submitted by 3 freelance designers.
This is a contest for a newsletter template that gets delivered to all our Customers each week.
Our shop is shoxx.com and we deal with new technology products.This is a contest for a newsletter template that gets delivered to all our Customers each week.our current newsletter is here:http://www.shoxx.com/newsletter/newsletter.php?country=FR&edition=2008&system=&theme=&language=FRwe want to change this newsletter because we think that it has too much text and small images.
we need 3 final versions of this concept..
one with 3 products, one with 5 and one with 7 products.
- bigger product images as well as more image oriented.
- evident title and short descriptions
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This summer hundreds of artist from across the county will gather at the Studio Channel Islands Art Center to take part in one of the largest communitywide arts events ever seen in Camarillo. The first-ever Arts Alive West Coast Interactive Arts Experience will be held June 28-29, bringing together many of the area's most prominent creative minds in a series of events highlighting the large and talented art community of Ventura County. More than 100 artists and a dozen regional arts organizations are scheduled to participate. "I think having everybody together shows how expansive the art scene is here," SCIART director Karin Geiger says of the event. "It showcases how rich and diverse the county is in the visual arts."
Festivities will kick off with a "pre-event" on Saturday evening at 5 p.m. in the Blackboard Gallery, where Donna Granata of Focus on the Masters will moderate a panel discussion of the state of the arts in Ventura County. Many movers and shakers in the art community are expected to attend, although the public is also welcome. U.S. Representative Julia Brownley, D-Westlake, and several city officials from across the county have been invited as well. It should be a lively and informative dialogue.
The real fun happens on Sunday, June 29, when all of SCIART gets into the action. At 10 a.m., studios will be open, organizations (including the Buenaventura Art Association, California Museum of Arts Thousand Oaks and Ojai Studio Artists) will host booths, and artists will be out practicing their crafts, giving the public an intimate (and realistic) glimpse of the creative process. "It's a chance for the artists to show how they work," Geiger explains. "We want the public to experience how a piece of art is created." Painters, sculptors, wood and ceramic artists will all be doing projects, and selling select pieces as well. Attendees of all ages will have the opportunity to make art themselves at the Chalk Paint Out. Reserve a square (each is generously sized at around 3 square feet), grab some of the provided art supplies and let your creative juices flow. Award-winning pastel artist Daggi Wallace will present awards to her top picks.
No festival would be complete without food and music, and Arts Alive has that covered, too. Food trucks Scratch and Rushed Art will be there and John Zipperer and Friends will get the crowd going with their feel-good mix of country and Americana music. A $300 gift certificate to the SCIART gift shop is to be raffled off as well. "We want the event to be educational and fun at the same time," Geiger says.
Arts Alive is a rare opportunity to see such a broad spectrum of nonprofit arts organizations, individual artists and universities in one place. Geiger first had the idea for a countywide showcase after attending the Arts and Learning Symposium held at California Lutheran University last year. "I was just very inspired by bringing everyone into the same room and sharing their needs to collaborate," she recalls. It was a popular idea from the outset. Many of the organizations Geiger talked to signed on right away; others contacted her and asked to be included. Numerous artists unaffiliated with SCIART have been eager to take part as well. "I was pleasantly surprised by how positive the response was," Geiger says. "It's a wonderful turnout!" SCIART was largely responsible for coordinating the event, but Geiger notes that Brent Hanson and Sharon Taylor of the Buenaventura Art Association were also instrumental in getting the project off the ground — a testament to the spirit of cooperation that has been a part of Arts Alive from the beginning.
Admission, parking and even the raffle are all free of charge. To handle the 1,000-plus visitors anticipated, SCIART is working with Road Runner Shuttle to provide free shuttle service to and from the Camarillo outlet malls. The goal is to make this event as accessible and enjoyable as possible. "We want the public to come out and really see what they have available in this community," .
For more information, schedule of events, and shuttle service details, visit www.studiochannelislands.org or call 383-1368.


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Aluminum Write-On Tags are designed for fast and easy cable identification. These tags are constructed with an aluminum facing bonded to a plastic core and may be embossed in the field with any pencil or ballpoint pen. This combination of materials and embossing creates a weatherproof, permanent identification tag suitable for any above- or below-ground use. The tags are available in two sizes: 3/4 inch by 3 inches and 1.375 inches by 3.125 inches. VIP Division
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Surgical Candidates
Patients considering epilepsy surgery should meet the following requirements:
- Medically intractable seizures: an established diagnosis of epilepsy with failure to achieve control using two to four major anti-epileptic drugs (AEDs) and repeated disabling seizures.
- Partial seizure disorder: diagnosed with a localized or partial seizure disorder based on continuous video EEG monitoring and characterization of the seizures. The signs and symptoms are localized to an area of the brain. These patients make ideal surgical candidates and have a high probability of a seizure-free outcome, especially if all the seizures come from one temporal lobe.
- Space-occupying lesions: Surgical treatment is usually determined by the location and size of the lesion, rather than by the epilepsy's symptoms.
- Cognitive impairment or psychosis.
- Lack of serious medical illness or neurological degenerative disease.
The surgical resection of brain tissue is based on findings that are made during an invasive, phase II investigation. Surgery is an option when the epileptic zone is well defined and no eloquent or vital cortex (areas that control motor function or language) are involved. Electrocorticography (ECOG) may be performed during the resection to avoid vital areas of the brain and localize the seizure origin.
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The server (PC side) is either a GUI or console window (only console in Linux for now). It runs off of configuration files it generates when it first needs to use them. You are able to edit them by hand if you're using the console version. At this point it's undocumented, but it shouldn't be too hard to figure out the codes if you're able to compile it, just read through the source code a bit.
The client (DS side) has a simple GUI at this point. tapping the top left where you see a badly drawn rotating gear you can edit the settings, which are also saved. To edit the settings just tap "[Edit]" next to the setting and it'll bring up a keyboard, pressing enter when you're done editing will take you back. You'll have to change the IP for sure the first time, the default is 0.0.0.0 which is invalid for everyone. Then press "[Done]" to go back to using DS2Key. at the bottom right corner is a cursor image, tapping that will lock the screen back lights on, and you'll be able to use the mouse or mouse buttons, tapping it again will deactivate this mode.
Action Buttons (Normal button input, a, b, left, right, etc)
Exact Mouse movement (Touching the middle of the touch screen sets the cursor on the middle of the PC screen, etc)
Mouse Touch Screen buttons (The screen is divided into having 12 buttons working similar to the normal buttons)
(New)Guitar Hero Grip buttons (All four buttons act the same as the normal buttons, but have their own settings)
(New)Mouse Clicks (Left, right, and middle buttons)
(New)Linux Support (All functions work as they do in Windows now)
(New)Windows GUI Support (Very friendly GUI :3 )
Relative Mouse movement (Similar to a laptop's mouse pad)
Profile Toggle Function (Press or hold a key to switch to another profile)
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(Squashed)Mouse input doesn't cover entire screen -- deadzone borders need to be made for the touch screen.
(Squashed)GUI log is disabled -- log caused lags, disabling command logs should fix this
(Squashed)Setting mouse button clicks in the GUI doesn't work -- mouse clicks actually work, just setting them up in the GUI doesn't
(is anyone geting this problem?)After changing the IP on the DS, the server ends up sending /p? repeatedly -- restarting the DS makes everything work fine Setting GUI log to "All Messages" causes lag. This log mode is mostly for testing your connection, just switch the setting to something else and it will run lag free
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I read the article in the Times News about Burlington Police Department ride-alongs now being available and I decided to apply. I live in Mebane, but I am a local attorney and I often represent people with charges from the Burlington Police Department. In only a few weeks, I was accepted.
I went on my first police ride-along on Friday, Oct. 18. I was told late Friday night would be a good time to see what type of calls patrol officers really encounter. I certainly found that to be true. Officer Donald Anamaet was my ride-along officer. He and I went on calls for communicating threats, assaults, violation of a domestic violence protective orders and a DWI two-car wreck.
I want to thank Officer Anamaet for letting me ride with him until 3 a.m. He was friendly and professional at all times. I enjoyed getting to know him and to learn how he does his job. I do believe that Chief Smythe�s desire to engender �trust through transparency� is well served by offering citizens the opportunity to see the Police Department in action.
I hope other local police departments will institute a similar program. Thank you, Officer Anamaet and the Burlington Police Department.


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Simon Pegg: J.J. Abrams is perfect for Star Wars
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- 7 February 2013
Simon Pegg has revealed that his 'Star Trek Into Darkness' director J.J. Abrams is the right candidate to direct the new 'Star Wars' film, but isn't sure if he'll star in it
Simon Pegg thinks J.J. Abrams will do a "great job" on 'Star Wars'.
The actor - who plays Scotty in the director's reboot of 'Star Trek' and the upcoming sequel 'Star Trek Into Darkness' - believes the filmmaker, who was recently confirmed to direct the seventh film in the space saga, is the perfect candidate for the job.
Speaking exclusively to BANG Showbiz ahead of his hosting duties at the Oxfam charity screening of 'Beasts of the Southern Wild' at London's May Fair Hotel on Wednesday night (06.02.13), he said: "I can't think of a better man for the job. J.J.'s a fan. He's such an enthusiast, such a hard worker... he'll give it his incredible skill and talent. He'll make a great job [of it]."
Despite being a huge fan of the film franchise and having ties to the series' new director, Simon, 42, admitted he hasn't contemplated a role in the seventh instalment - due for release in 2015 - as he would need to see the script first.
He said: "I haven't seen the script and I don't know anything about it, so I couldn't possibly comment on that."
J.J. will succeed series creator George Lucas as the director for the untitled 'Star Wars' continuation after Disney acquired the legendary director's Lucasfilm production company, including rights to the franchise, last year.


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Elegant and airborne in tuxedo and top hat, a white-tipped cane held gracefully above his head, this gentleman—as captured by LIFE photographer Gjon Mili—might well be a flying magician. In reality, though, the man in the picture does not pull rabbits from his hat. He offers the world far greater magic than that.
This, after all, is none other than Ray Bolger, the legendary Hollywood song-and-dance man best known for his role as the Scarecrow in the Wizard of Oz. In the film, as everyone knows, the characters—Dorothy, the Tin Man, the Cowardly Lion and the Scarecrow—embark on a quest, each hoping that the mysterious wizard in the Emerald City will use his magic to grant them the one, essential thing—or trait—missing from their lives.
We're all searching for something. We all want a bit of magic, but yellow brick roads to show us the way are in short supply. Instead, we turn to the arts, where the talented and imaginative create magic with rhythmic footsteps, or bring characters to life on the stage or screen . . . or, as in Mili's case, capture the very moment when the creative spark ignites. And even we, as spectators reveling in the marvelous, partake in the magic that makes life worth living.


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text: Game detection on mobile Gepland Volgen Nelly 7 november 2018 21:08 it could be nice if the mobile app could detect what game you are playing just like the application on PC, so people see what you are playing. Overlay a little bit like messenger (Facebook), you could see a little bubble or dot appearing on the side of your screen and could just click on it and for example respond to the message or chat without really opening the mobile app so you don't have to quit your game that you are playing on your phone just to see the message or to see who joined the voice channel. It could be really nice :) 1554


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Holiday sales show sluggish growth
U.S. holiday retail sales this year grew at the weakest pace since 2008, when the nation was in a deep recession. In 2012, the shopping season was disrupted by bad weather and consumers' rising uncertainty about the economy.
A report that tracks spending on popular holiday goods, the MasterCard Advisors SpendingPulse, said Tuesday that sales in the two months before Christmas increased 0.7 percent, compared with last year. Many analysts had expected holiday sales to grow 3 to 4 percent.
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In 2008, sales declined by between 2 percent and 4 percent as the financial crisis that crested that fall dragged the economy into recession. Last year, by contrast, retail sales in November and December rose between 4 percent and 5 percent, according to ShopperTrak, a separate market research firm. A 4 percent increase is considered a healthy season.
Shoppers were buffeted this year by a string of events that made them less likely to spend: Superstorm Sandy and other bad weather, the distraction of the presidential election and grief about the Dec. 14 massacre of schoolchildren in Newtown, Conn. The numbers also show how Washington's current budget impasse is trickling down to Main Street and unsettling consumers. If Americans remain reluctant to spend, analysts say, economic growth could falter next year.
In the end, even steep last-minute discounts weren't enough to get people into stores, said Marshal Cohen, chief research analyst at the market research firm NPD Inc.
"A lot of the Christmas spirit was left behind way back in Black Friday weekend," Cohen said, referring to the traditional retail rush the day after Thanksgiving. "We had one reason after another for consumers to say, `I'm going to stick to my list and not go beyond it.'"
Holiday sales are a crucial indicator of the economy's strength. November and December account for up to 40 percent of annual sales for many retailers. If those sales don't materialize, stores are forced to offer steeper discounts. That's a boon for shoppers, but it cuts into stores' profits.
Last-minute shoppers like Kris Betzold, of Carmel, Ind., embraced discounts that were available before Christmas.
"We went out yesterday, and I noticed that the sales were even better now than they were at Thanksgiving," said Betzold Monday while shopping at an upscale mall in Indianapolis. Betzold, who said the sluggish economy prompted her and her husband to be more frugal this year, noted that she saved about $25 on a Kindle Fire she found at Best Buy.
Spending by consumers accounts for 70 percent of overall economic activity, so the eight-week period encompassed by the SpendingPulse data is seen as a critical time not just for retailers but for manufacturers, wholesalers and companies at every other point along the supply chain.


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ARLINGTON, Texas - Yu Darvish was far from perfect this time and still got the same result — a victory for the Texas Rangers.
Even against the AL West rival Los Angeles Angels and 20-game winner Jered Weaver.
Lance Berkman and David Murphy homered in the first off Weaver, putting the Rangers ahead to stay on the way to a 7-3 victory Sunday night after Darvish had allowed two quick runs only five nights after coming within one out of a perfect game.
"I didn't have everything today. It wasn't my 100 per cent, but I had to grind it out," Darvish said through his translator. "The reason I was able to do that was because of all the support from my teammates."
Ian Kinsler also homered for the Rangers, who took two of three in their first series facing Josh Hamilton, who was booed throughout the weekend but had three hits in the finale.
While there were some social media reports that Hamilton made an obscene gesture to fans in right field, the five-time All-Star and 2010 AL MVP who played in the Rangers' only two World Series said that never happened.
"I never would do that. Ever. I never would flip anybody off," said Hamilton, expressing surprise about the constant booing every time he came to the plate. "A little more hectic than I expected. ... A little disappointing more than anything."
Hamilton, who signed a $125 million, five-year deal with the Angels last winter, finished 3 for 13 in the series, and is batting only .160 (4 for 25) on the season.
In an early season matchup of aces, neither Darvish nor Weaver made it past five innings. But that wasn't because of the runs they allowed.
Darvish (2-0) threw 85 pitches over five innings, and was replaced starting the sixth because of a blister on his right ring finger that also had developed in the game against Houston when he retired 26 consecutive batters before giving up a single.
"As far as it developed, I don't really want to talk about it," said Darvish, describing it more like a piece of skin coming off than a blister. "We won the game, so I think everything went well."
Weaver (0-1) did throw to a batter in the sixth, but strained his left elbow when trying to dive out of the way of Mitch Moreland's liner to start the inning.
While Weaver avoided being hit by the ball, he landed awkwardly on his left arm. The pitcher immediately grabbed his arm near the elbow and manager Mike Scioscia and a trainer quickly were on the field. X-rays were negative.
"Pretty painful. It feels a little swollen in there," Weaver said after the game. "I can't move it around too good right now. It's strange. Kind of like jamming your thumb."
Weaver said he "didn't feel anything pop or crack," but said he wasn't sure if he'd make his next scheduled start.
Darvish had 14 strikeouts with no walks in his near perfect opener at Houston, but after a strike on the first pitch to leadoff hitter Mike Trout, he threw four straight balls. Darvish then hit Erick Aybar on the foot and walked Albert Pujols before a run scored on Hamilton's double-play grounder. Mark Trumbo's RBI single quickly made it 2-0.
Berkman' first homer with the Rangers was a two-run shot in the bottom of the first. Murphy added a solo shot two batters later to put Texas ahead to stay.
"I don't think you want to linger down to a team like that," said Berkman, who has hit in all six games and his batting .450.
Darvish retired only two of the first nine Angels he faced. The second time through the lineup, the ace from Japan had five strikeouts.
"Yu Darvish really did good damage control there," Texas manager Ron Washington said. "Yu settled down and kept us around until we were able to put some more runs on the board."
Darvish finished with six strikeouts, four walks and a hit batter. He gave up three runs and six hits over his five innings.
Mark Lowe, another former Ranger who heard boos, replaced Weaver on the mound. After a sacrifice bunt by Geovany Soto, Lowe walked No. 9 hitter Leonys Martin before Kinsler's third homer of the season, a three-run liner just over the right-field wall.
Weaver allowed five runs and seven hits in five innings. He struck out two and walked four.
Texas went up 4-2 in the fourth when Soto, the playing catcher for the first time this season, had a leadoff double. He scored on Kinsler's single.
The Angels got that run back in the fifth when Hamilton singled and scored on a double by Trumbo.
NOTES: Robbie Ross, Tanner Scheppers and Joe Nathan combined for four scoreless innings in relief of Darvish. ... After opening the season with series at Cincinnati and Texas, both of Hamilton's former major league teams, the Angels play their home opener Tuesday against Oakland. Los Angeles is the first team since 2007 to open the season with three series in a row against playoff teams from the previous season. ... Soto was the last Rangers player on the opening-day roster to get in a game.


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Obama weighs risks of attacking jihadists in Syria
Amid growing pressure to act, President Barack Obama on Tuesday cautioned that defeating the Islamic State would take time, even as some Pentagon officials expressed frustration with what they decried as White House foot-dragging on striking the militant group's Syria sanctuaries.
With U.S. aircraft pressing attacks on Islamic State fighters in Iraq, the administration confronted mounting questions about how it would deal with the al Qaida's spinoff's presence on Syria's side of the border. That is a far more complex goal because any setback dealt the group in Syria could benefit Syrian President Bashar Assad, whose ouster is official U.S. policy.
Senior Pentagon officials have been conferring with the White House on hitting Islamic State targets just inside eastern Syria, from where the group launched an atrocity-filled offensive in mid-June that overran roughly half of Iraq and brought it to the outskirts of Baghdad, said two U.S. Defense officials.
The White House, however, has yet to request a formal proposal, said the Defense officials, who expressed frustration over what both separately called the administration's "dithering." They spoke on condition of anonymity because they weren't authorized to discuss the issue publicly.
"The targets would be similar to the ones we struck in Iraq," said one of the officials, referring to the Islamic State combat vehicles, artillery positions and checkpoints that the U.S. has hit in nearly 100 airstrikes in northern Iraq since Aug. 8.
The officials compared the current situation to Obama's hesitancy nearly one year ago to make good on a threat to attack Assad's chemical weapons arsenal after what the United States and its allies charged were regime nerve gas attacks that killed hundreds of civilians.
The administration contends that by withholding those strikes, the United States and Russia were able to broker a deal under which Assad surrendered nearly all of his chemical weapons stocks. But critics portrayed Obama's decision as a retreat that made the United States look weak, boosted Assad's international standing, hurt the moderate Syrian rebel movement and spurred new recruits and funding for the Islamic State and other Islamist groups fighting the Syrian leader.
Obama has come under mounting pressure to act against the Islamic State inside Syria since the group posted a video a week ago showing the beheading of American freelance journalist James Foley. The subsequent bellicose reactions by senior administration officials and assertions that the Islamic State can't be defeated unless it's hit in Syria boosted expectations that U.S. airstrikes were imminent.
The administration sought to tamp down expectations on Monday even as unidentified U.S. officials told several news organizations that Obama over the weekend for the first time authorized surveillance overflights of Islamic State targets inside Syria.
Even so, the administration faced new demands to disclose its plan for defeating the Islamic State.
Obama owes Americans "a clear and comprehensive plan to reverse the spread of terrorism," said a statement issued Tuesday by the office of House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio.
Speaking on Tuesday to one of the country's largest veterans' organizations, Obama appeared to address his critics in asserting that it will take more than military strikes to defeat the Islamic State.
The United States is pressing an incoming Shiite Muslim-led Iraqi government to reconcile with minority Sunnis and Kurds, helping to strengthen the Iraqi army and Kurdish militias, and urging regional powers and U.S. allies to lend their support, he told the annual American Legion conference in Charlotte, N.C.
Obama pledged anew to bring Foley's killers to justice and defend Americans and the U.S. homeland, saying, "Our message to anyone who harms our people is simple: America does not forget. Our reach is long. We are patient. Justice will be done."
The president, however, didn't directly address how he planned to deal with the Islamic State inside Syria.
"We'll continue to take direct action where needed to protect our people and to defend our homeland. And rooting out a cancer like ISIL won't be easy and it won't be quick," he said, using one of the group's acronyms.
The State Department and Pentagon declined to discuss the administration's plans to deal with the Islamic State in Syria, where the group in recent weeks has dealt Assad a series of major setbacks. Bolstered by U.S.-made combat vehicles and artillery captured from the Iraqi army, it has seized more territory in the north and east while capturing key Syrian military bases.
Dealing with the Islamic State inside Syria, where it has set up local administrations, social services and Islamic courts in the roughly one-third of the country that it controls, carries more risks than hitting the group in Iraq, whose government sought U.S. help.
The Islamic State is the strongest of a slew of rebel groups fighting the Assad regime, which is backed by Iran, Russia and Hezbollah, the Lebanese Shiite militia movement. The Islamic State also is at war with the other insurgent groups, including the Nusra Front, al Qaida's official Syrian affiliate.
Obama must carefully calibrate any U.S. strikes to ensure that they don't give undue advantage to Assad. Moreover, any attacks that benefit the other rebel groups also help al Qaida.
Moreover, Obama would have to stretch his justification for authorizing the U.S. airstrikes in Iraq _ where he says they are protecting U.S. diplomatic and military personnel _ to any operations in Syria.
Rear Adm. John Kirby, the Pentagon spokesman, refused to confirm the reports that U.S. surveillance flights over Syria have begun. But he noted that the United States is "not going to hold ourselves to geographic boundaries" to defend Americans.
Both Kirby and State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki took pains to deny reports that the United States was secretly collaborating with Assad by passing intelligence on the Islamic State to Damascus through other countries' intelligence services.
"We are not coordinating with the regime, or through a third party," Psaki said.
Asked whether the Pentagon had a clear picture of the Islamic State's capabilities, Kirby responded that the United States has been watching the group "for many months" and that it operates "pretty much freely between Iraq and Syria.
"Do we have perfect information about them and their capabilities, whether it's on the Syrian side of the border or the Iraqi side? No, we don't," he said.
The United States, he said, is gaining better knowledge in Iraq because it's been flying numerous daily surveillance flights since it was asked by the Iraqi government to help stem the Islamic State's offensive in the Kurd-dominated north.
He had no comment on the reported death of a U.S. citizen, Douglas McAuthur McCain, fighting for the Islamic State last weekend in Syria. But, he noted, the U.S. and other Western governments are concerned about foreign fighters "leaving their shores, going over there, getting radicalized, trained, and then coming back and executing attacks."
The White House said Tuesday it was aware that McCain was in Syria and confirmed his death.
"We continue to use every tool we possess to disrupt and dissuade individuals from traveling abroad for violent jihad and to track and engage those who return," said National Security Council spokeswoman Caitlin Hayden.


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In a U.K. survey, more than a third of men and nearly half of women admitted buying shoes that didn't fit right
When was the last time you had your foot measured to check your shoe size?
If the answer is more than a year ago, there is a good chance your shoes are causing you some kind of pain, from pinched toes to unsightly calluses. Foot shape and size can change in small but meaningful ways throughout adulthood, yet time-starved shoppers increasingly order shoes online and forgo proper sizing by a trained salesperson.


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Russia's prime minister said he thought the U.S. might have helped "stir up" the conflict to benefit one of the presidential candidates.
MOSCOW — As Russia struggled to rally international support for its military action in Georgia, Vladimir V. Putin, the country's paramount leader, lashed out at the United States on Thursday, contending that the White House may have orchestrated the conflict to benefit one of the candidates in the American presidential election.
Mr. Putin's comments in a television interview, his most extensive to date on Russia's decision to send troops into Georgia earlier this month, sought to present the military operation as a response to brazen, cold war-style provocations by the United States. In tones that seemed alternately angry and mischievous, he suggested that the Bush administration may have tried to create a crisis that would influence American voters in the choice of a successor to President Bush.
"The suspicion would arise that someone in the United States created this conflict on purpose to stir up the situation and to create an advantage for one of the candidates in the competitive race for the presidency in the United States," Mr. Putin said in an interview with CNN.
He added, "They needed a small victorious war."
Mr. Putin did not specify which candidate he had in mind, but there was no doubt that he was referring to Senator John McCain, the Republican. Mr. McCain is loathed in the Kremlin because he has a close relationship with Georgia's president, Mikheil Saakashvili, and has called for imposing stiff penalties on Russia, including throwing it out of the Group of 8 industrialized nations.
Mr. Putin offered scant evidence to support his assertion, and the White House called his comments absurd. But they underscored the depth of the rift between Moscow and Washington over the Georgia crisis, which flared three weeks ago when the Georgian military tried to reclaim a breakaway enclave allied with Russia. They also suggested that the Russian leader was deeply concerned about the possibility that Mr. McCain, widely viewed here as having a strong bias against Russia, could become president.
Only last spring, Mr. Putin, the president at the time, held a summit meeting with Mr. Bush in which the two expressed personal affection for each other and sought to smooth over tensions in the bilateral relationship.
Russia has been struggling to persuade the outside world to back its action in Georgia. On Thursday, China and four other countries meeting with Russia for the annual summit meeting of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, a security alliance, declined to back Russia's military action in a joint communiqué.
Mr. Putin's interview came after his protégé, President Dmitri A. Medvedev, spoke to several foreign news outlets this week as part of a concerted move by the Kremlin to counter Georgia's public relations offensive in the international media. Mr. Medvedev's tone was less harsh, though he also criticized the West.
On Thursday, Mr. Putin, now prime minister, also said Russian defense officials believed that United States citizens were in the conflict area supporting the Georgian military when it attacked the separatist region of South Ossetia.
"Even during the cold war, during the time of tough confrontation between the Soviet Union and the United States, we have always avoided direct clashes between our civilians, let alone our servicemen," Mr. Putin said. "We have serious reasons to believe that directly, in the combat zone, citizens of the United States were present."
"If the facts are confirmed," he added, "that United States citizens were present in the combat zone, that means only one thing — that they could be there only on the direct instruction of their leadership. And if this is so, then it means that American citizens are in the combat zone, performing their duties, and they can only do that following a direct order from their leader, and not on their own initiative."
In Washington, the White House spokeswoman, Dana M. Perino, dismissed Mr. Putin's remarks. "To suggest that the United States orchestrated this on behalf of a political candidate just sounds not rational," she said.
She added, "It also sounds like his defense officials who said they believe this to be true are giving him really bad advice."
A senior Russian defense official, Col. Gen. Anatoly Nogovitsyn, said at a news conference in Moscow on Thursday that Russian forces had found a United States passport in a ruined building near Tskhinvali, the capital of South Ossetia. The position, he said, had been occupied by Georgian Interior Ministry forces.
"What was the gentleman's purpose of being among the special forces and what he is doing today, I so far cannot answer," General Nogovitsyn said, holding up what he said was a color copy of the passport. He said members of the Georgian unit had been killed, and the building destroyed.
When the war broke out, the United States had about 130 military trainers in Georgia preparing Georgian troops for service in Iraq. The American Embassy in Tbilisi said these trainers were not involved in the fighting; about 100 remain and are assisting with the delivery of aid to Georgia that is arriving on military planes and ships.
General Nogovitsyn said the passport was in the name of Michael Lee White of Texas, but gave no information on whether Russians believed that he was a member of the United States military. The United States Embassy in Georgia told The Associated Press that it had no information on the matter.
Mr. Putin said in the CNN interview that Russia had thought that the United States would prevent Georgia from attacking South Ossetia, but suggested that he now believed that the Bush administration encouraged Mr. Saakashvili to send in his military.
"The American side in fact armed and trained the Georgian Army," Mr. Putin said. "Why hold years of difficult talks and seek complex compromise solutions in interethnic conflicts? It's easier to arm one of the sides and push it into the murder of the other side, and it's over. It seemed like an easy solution. The thing is, it turns out that it's not always so."
The Georgia conflict has become a flash point in the United States presidential campaign, with Senator McCain assailing what he refers to as "revanchist Russia" and asserting that he is far more qualified to handle such a crisis than the Democratic candidate, Senator Barack Obama.
Mr. McCain has long been friendly with Mr. Saakashvili, who has said he talks to Mr. McCain regularly. Mr. McCain's top foreign policy adviser, Randy Scheunemann, has worked as a lobbyist on behalf of the Georgian government, and Mr. McCain's wife, Cindy, traveled to the Georgian capital, Tbilisi, this week on a humanitarian aid mission.
All these ties, combined with Mr. McCain's criticism of Russia, have earned him a kind of notoriety in Moscow. When Parliament passed a resolution this week urging that Russia recognize the independence of the two breakaway enclaves, some lawmakers not only praised the courage of the South Ossetians, but also threw a few barbs at Mr. McCain.


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Idaho abortion law is struck down
Abortion rights advocates are claiming a first-round victory Thursday after an Idaho judge struck down a state law banning most abortions after 20 weeks — the first ruling about one of the "fetal pain" laws that a growing number of states have enacted.
"This ruling is a warning to other states around the country that are passing bans on abortion that are unconstitutional and dangerous for women," Cecile Richards, president of Planned Parenthood Action Fund, said in a statement. "They will not stand."
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The ruling, by a Democrat-nominated district judge, begins a new phase in the legal fight over a spate of laws enacted in the past couple of years that push earlier and earlier bans on abortion, mostly based on the argument that a fetus can feel pain after 20 weeks. Arkansas is the most recent to act, passing both a 20-week ban and a 12-week one — constituting what abortion rights proponents consider the most restrictive state laws in the nation.
A spokesman for the Idaho attorney general's office said the decision was being reviewed and no decision has been made yet on an appeal.
But many experts on both sides of the abortion debate say the fetal pain laws — though not necessarily this specific Idaho statute — could reach the Supreme Court.
The National Right to Life Committee, which helped to craft the model legislation used in Idaho, said the next step will be an appeal to the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals. That, in turn, could lead to a request that the U.S. Supreme Court take it up.
"We have always recognized that it will take a decision by the Supreme Court to allow expanded protection of unborn children capable of feeling pain, and there are strong indications that five of the sitting justices would look with sympathy on a law providing such protection," Mary Spaulding Balch, director of state legislation for the National Right to Life Committee, said in a statement.
In the Wednesday ruling, Judge B. Lynn Winmill of the U.S. District Court for the District of Idaho said Idaho's law, the Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act, is unconstitutional.
Winmill, who was named to the court by President Bill Clinton, said it violates Supreme Court precedent established in Roe v. Wade that specifies that an abortion cannot be restricted before viability, which is now generally considered to be around 23 to 24 weeks.


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Mexico voters could return to party of 'old days'
On the cusp of a likely historic shift, Mexican voters went to the polls Sunday widely expected to elect Enrique Pena Nieto to the presidency and return the once-dominant Institutional Revolutionary Party to power.
Many voters cast ballots in a sour mood over drug war violence and an economy only recently gaining steam, poised to give a new chance to a party that ruled during seven uninterrupted decades, trusting it has abandoned its authoritarian and often corrupt ways.
Early reports said the vast majority of the nation's 143,000 voting stations opened normally, without interference. Long lines snaked out of precincts in the capital.
Pena Nieto, a boyish-faced 45-year-old former governor representing the PRI, as the party is known by its Spanish initials, faced Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador of the leftist Party of the Democratic Revolution, Josefina Vazquez Mota of the ruling National Action Party and Gabriel Quadri de la Torre of New Alliance.
Mexicans fought for decades to topple the PRI from its 71-year monopolistic grip on power, eventually ousting the party in 2000.
Some critics say a triumph of the PRI would lurch Mexico backward to its authoritarian past. Others suggest that Mexico has changed and the PRI can't rule as it once did, even if some within its ranks sought to.
The party would face opposition in Congress, a rambunctious media, a largely independent Supreme Court and strengthened civil society groups.
"Mexico is more globalized that it was 12 years ago. That means a party can't do the same things it did 12 years ago," Juan Rafael Aguilar, an unemployed business administrator, said after voting in the capital's Magdalena Contreras district.
Many Mexicans feel frustration at the past 12 years of rule by the center-right National Action Party (PAN), which failed to usher in wholesale reforms of a PRI-designed political system.
"At the end, the lasting impression is of enormous wasted opportunity," Jorge Zepeda Patterson, a political scientist and columnist, wrote in the El Universal newspaper Sunday.
Under President Felipe Calderon, the party brought U.S.-Mexico security cooperation to unprecedented levels. But while deploying soldiers to the streets, and capturing numerous drug barons, it failed to rein in runaway killings and rampant violence that have left pockets of the country under control of gangsters.
Calderon treats the toll from crime-related killings as a state secret, wary that the bloodletting will stain his legacy. Outside experts say they believe the toll has surpassed 55,000 deaths since late 2006.
Perhaps because the PRI seemed on the threshold of returning to power, the election had the feel of a watershed, a major redrawing of the political map.
In addition to the presidency, Mexico's 79.4 million voters were also replacing all 128 senators and 500 members of the lower-house Chamber of Deputies, as well as more than 1,400 state and local officials. Experts said the PRI would obtain a relative majority in both houses, and maybe even an absolute majority in one.
Mexicans were also voting for governors of six states and the mayor of Mexico City, a position with powers equal to a governor and widely considered the second most important political post in the country after the president. City Hall was expected to remain in the hands of the leftist Party of the Democratic Revolution.
The PRI is expected to win an additional three states _ Jalisco, Chiapas and Morelos _ beyond the 20 states the party already controls.
Mexico does not have a runoff system, and the presidential candidate who wins the most votes Sunday will take office Dec. 1 for a six-year term.
Never have so many election observers flooded across Mexico for a vote. Leonardo Valdes Zurita, chief of the Federal Electoral Institute, said more than 28,000 observers were accredited, including monitors from 65 nations, and the hemisphere's oldest regional group, the Organization of American States.
Most eyes were on Pena Nieto, the standard bearer of the PRI, whose triumph many Mexicans figured was a foregone conclusion. The party united around the former governor of the State of Mexico, who wed a soap opera star and received open cheerleading from the nation's biggest network, Televisa.
Angered by that apparent bias, tens of thousands of young Mexicans took to the streets in May, an impromptu student movement that instilled some life into a campaign that failed to touch deeply on issues such as corruption and security.
The one-time margin of some 30 percent that Pena Nieto held over his rivals a year ago diminished sharply during the three-month formal campaign. But the candidate, handsome and genial, drew swoons on the campaign trail, with women clasping at his forearms at campaign rallies, leaving red welts.
Polls found that Lopez Obrador, a former Mexico City mayor who lost a 2006 presidential bid by only 0.56 percent, gained ground in recent weeks as the No. 2 candidate, raising questions about how he might respond if the vote is close.
Lopez Obrador and his supporters blocked Mexico City's main boulevard for six weeks after the 2006 vote, claiming fraud.
In recent weeks, Lopez Obrador has assailed Pena Nieto as a puppet of behind-the-scenes PRI masters, such as former President Carlos Salinas de Gortari (1988-1994), whose privatization policies vastly enriched some tycoons.
"This is no time for the country to go in reverse," Lopez Obrador said early Sunday after casting his ballot.
Whoever moves into Los Pinos, the presidential palace, Dec. 1, will find good and bad news on the security front. For the first time in years, the homicide rate is dipping. But the criminal landscape is unstable. Powerful criminal organizations, like Los Zetas and the Sinaloa Cartel, face an array of upstart crime groups.
Surprisingly, public security was not a major issue in the campaign. All candidates vowed to keep the army on the streets for the foreseeable future.
Rather, how to rev a limping economy and create jobs was a main concern of voters.
On that front, the winner may have an easier time. The lackluster U.S. economic recovery is not proving a drag on Mexico, which is forecast to grow 4 percent this year and 3.8 percent next year. Even so, Mexico's growth has been modest over much of the past two decades.


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By Carlyn Kolker
NEW YORK (Reuters) - The U.S. National Labor Relations Board on Monday said it has authorized legal action against Wal-Mart Stores Inc (WMT) for allegedly retaliating against workers who participated in strikes against the company over low pay.
Groups of Walmart workers went on strike nationwide on November 22, 2012, to protest the retailer's wages and worker benefits. The day after Thanksgiving, known as Black Friday, is typically the busiest shopping day of the year. The workers also went on strike in May and June before the company's annual shareholder meeting.
The company retaliated against employees who joined those strikes by firing them, threatening to fire them or disciplining them, the NLRB said in a statement on Monday. The labor board also said that a Walmart spokesman made comments on television threatening workers who planned to join the November protests.
Wal-Mart spokeswoman Brooke Buchanan said the company disagrees with the board's action.
"We believe this is just a procedural step and we will pursue our options to defend the company because we believe our actions were legal and justified," she said. "The fact is we provide good jobs and unparalleled opportunities for our associates."
The NLRB is the U.S. agency that enforces the nation's labor laws. It oversees union elections, polices unfair labor practice claims and is charged with enforcing the U.S. National Labor Relations Act, which allows employees to work together to improve their workplace conditions.
The NLRB's general counsel's office would bring any complaint against the retailer if one results. Last month a divided Senate confirmed a former union lawyer to the general counsel's position, essentially the agency's top prosecutor.
The protests were orchestrated by a coalition of union and workers' rights groups, including the United Food and Commercial Workers International Union and OUR Walmart, which have pushed for better wages and benefits at the company.
Walmart has no unionized labor in the United States.
"The board's decision confirms what Walmart workers have long known: the company is illegally trying to silence employees who speak out for better jobs," Sarita Gupta of the pro-worker group Jobs for Justice said in a statement.
The NLRB said on Monday that it will issue a complaint against the retailing giant if it cannot reach a settlement with the workers.
"We anticipate the charges will be filed within a week or two if a settlement can't be arranged," an NLRB spokesman told Reuters.
If no settlement is reached and a complaint is filed, Walmart and the board would likely go before an administrative law judge for a trial proceeding.
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Twelve people were injured when a Lincoln sedan crashed through a bus stop and hit a sidewalk shed, causing it to collapse, New York Post reported. Four of those injured by the incident are in critical condition.
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A PREQUEL to the NA rock star seriesLost In Oblivion.
Twenty-three year old Nick Crandall has one focus in his life: Oblivion, the band he formed with his best friend Simon Kagan. With gigs coming up and the band members lacking focus after losing their drummer to rehab, they're out of ideas. Until Oblivion's bassist, Deacon McCoy, poses a surprising suggestion.
Bring in someone new. Two someones.
One You Tube video gone viral later, Oblivion is poised on the brink of stardom. With their new hot drummer chick — who comes in a package deal with a talented guitarist who happens to be head over pick in unrequited love with her - it seems like everything's falling into place. Or will the band Nick and Simon have fought to keep together disintegrate before their eyes?
Four guys & one woman + more success than they ever bargained for = trouble, of the sexiest kind.
Get Seduced by this novel-length introduction to the band Oblivion. This preview occurs before the four forthcoming books about each of the band members. Sometimes getting lost means finding yourself...
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Onstage he's Demon, the unsurpassable bassist.
Offstage he's the Peacemaker, the mastermind who keeps his volatile band from imploding.
Opening for their idols on their first ever tour, Oblivion is living the dream. That dream becomes a nightmare when Oblivion draws more attention than the headliner and egos clash. Frustrated at being shoved out of his mediator role by their new manager, Deacon McCoy loses himself in brutal workouts only coming up for air long enough to refuel—and that means hunting down the catering truck at odd hours.
Especially the deliciously cute chef who excites his taste buds as much as his body.
The child of roadie parents, Harper Pruitt has heard every pickup line twice. To her, musicians are one step above the scraps on her cutting board. All she wants is to get enough experience to run her own catering company, but Deacon and his bottomless and surprisingly gourmet stomach is too tempting to resist. Before long, she finds herself wanting to experiment with him outside the kitchen.
When Harper sees that Deacon's sense of responsibility is doing him serious damage, she realizes he's far from the typical rock star. But as the band's fame grows, she wonders if she can love a man who doesn't know how to let anyone in—even her.
You met Deacon McCoy in SEDUCED, now you can watch just how far a big man can fall.
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USA Today bestselling author Cari Quinn wrote her first story—a bible parable—in 2nd grade, much to the delight of the nuns at her Catholic school. Once she saw the warm reception that first tale garnered, she was hooked. Now she gets to pen sexy romances for a living and routinely counts her lucky stars. When she's not scribbling furiously, she can usually be found watching men's college basketball, playing her music way too loud or causing trouble. Sometimes simultaneously.
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Arvest Bank in Mountain Home, Ark. is proud to hold the 1st annual Relay for Life Book Sale. There are hundreds of books available for purchase at great prices. And, even better, ALL proceeds from the fundraiser will go directly to the Baxter County Relay for Life. See the following information for details regarding this event.
The public is invited to stop by the Mountain Home Arvest Bank branch in front of Wal-Mart from February 21st-February 23rd for the first annual Relay for Life Book Sale.
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June 11, 2010
A couple of weeks ago, I had the opportunity to travel around the Boonslick Area with Missouri Tourism Director Katie Steele Danner.
The Boonslick Area is rich in cultural heritage and history. From Civil War to African-American history, you can be sure to find it there. Visiting the various towns and communities was like a step back in time. I caught the tour on video and put together highlight clips of our adventure. Below you can find links for the day trip.
I apologize for shaky footage.
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Most asylum seekers arrive in the United States with few possessions and a complex legal case. For many, making it to the United States means safety from persecution, torture, and sometimes death. But with their arrival in America, asylum seekers also face a new odyssey as they attempt to navigate complex U.S. immigration laws and an increasingly restrictive environment that bars many bona fide asylum seekers from obtaining protection. These challenges include:
- Summary removal procedures that frequently result in asylum seekers being denied the chance to seek asylum because of quick proceedings that lack due process.
- Prolonged detention of asylum seekers. Despite an ICE policy directive issued in 2009 that supports releasing asylum seekers who pass an initial screening, many bona fide asylum seekers are subject to lengthy detention. Detention is particularly damaging for asylum seekers, many of whom suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder and are in acute need of the support of family and community.
- The one-year filing deadline, an arbitrary deadline that requires most asylum seekers to establish by "clear and convincing" evidence that their asylum applications were filed within one year of their arrival in the United States, or demonstrate that their applications were delayed due to a narrow set of changed or extraordinary circumstances. Asylum seekers who cannot meet these requirements, even if they are refugees with well-founded fears of persecution, are barred from asylum protection and while they may be eligible for lesser forms of protection, they are unable to reunite with their spouses and children or obtain permanent status in the United States.
NIJC advocates to eliminate these injustices and for reforms that uphold the United States' legacy as a refuge for men, women, and children seeking freedom from persecution and preserve American ideals of due process and human rights.
NIJC Resources on the Right to Asylum
- Summary removal infographic: Learn about the process and its consequences. View the infographic.
- Petition for rulemaking: In August 2015, NIJC filed a petition for rulemaking, asking the Obama administration to adopt new regulations clarifying that anyone eligible to seek asylum has the opportunity to do so, even if their prior removal order is reinstated. Read the petition.
- Civil rights complaint: In November 2014, NIJC filed a DHS Office of Civil Rights and Civil Liberties complaint on behalf of nine noncitizens who were denied the chance to seek asylum because of expedited removal orders. This complaint focused on the ways that U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) deprived individuals of the right to seek asylum. Read the complaint.
- Federal Litigation: In 2012, NIJC represented Yesenia Maldonado-Lopez before the Ninth Circuit, arguing that Ms. Maldonado-Lopez should be allowed to seek asylum despite her previous expedited removal order. The American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA) and the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights (LCCR) of the San Francisco Bay Area were amici in the case. Ms. Maldonado-Lopez's case resulted in settlement, but NIJC continues to press this issue at the appellate level. NIJC, along with AILA and LCCR, filed amicus briefs on this issue in the Third, Eleventh, and Ninth Circuits. NIJC has a pending case raising this issue in the Ninth Circuit and is preparing to raise it in other venues. Read more about the case.
Case Summary O.A. v. Trump, which NIJC is currently litigating in collaboration with Human Rights First (HRF) and Williams & Connolly LLP in the U.S. District Court of the District of Columbia, challenges the Trump administration's November 2018 ban on access to asylum for anyone who enters…
F.H.-T. v. HOLDER June 2, 2014 F.H.-T. (a pseudonym used to protect him and his family) has asked the Supreme Court to overturn the Government's process for deciding exemptions from the so-called "terrorist bars" which precluded him from obtaining asylum. F.H.-T. is an Eritrean man whom…
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Julia Child Foundation Wants An Injunction Against Facts
from the reality-is-infringement deptAs publicity rights become more in vogue these days, we're seeing stories of them being invoked in silly situations. We recently discussed Kim Kardashian suing Old Navy because someone looked like her. And, as if that weren't bizarre enough, this explosion in interest for publicity rights has led to the rather unsettling question of who owns the rights of dead people, like Marilyn Monroe.
Now, to add another ridiculous example, reader Eric Wisti writes in about The Julia Child Foundation for Gastronomy and the Culinary Arts going up against BSH Home Appliances Corp., manufacturers of the Thermador oven line, for noting in marketing material that Child used their ovens on her popular television shows. It's an interesting case in that BSH allegedly used images of Child in their material, but this was again to demonstrate a historical fact.
The Julia Child Foundation for Gastronomy and the Culinary Arts claims BSH Home Appliances Corp. is using Child's name and image without permission. The Irvine, Calif.-based manufacturer says it is simply making a factual reference to Child's use of its appliances.The JCFGCA (Holy acronym, Batman!) sent a letter to BSH informing them that they have exclusive rights to Child's "name, image, likeness and celebrity identity" and that the marketing material and images the company put together infringed upon those rights. They are seeking an injuction and the always ambiguous unspecified monetary damages.
Child, who died in 2004, had a Thermador oven in her Cambridge kitchen. It's now displayed at the Smithsonian National Museum of American History in Washington. She also used Thermador products on the set of her popular television show, "The French Chef."
The crux of the issue from the foundation appears to be that they think BSH's material implies an endorsement by Child, despite the chef being historically reluctant to endorse products in general. I'm a bit confused as to how acknowledging Child using a product equates to an endorsement of that product. I'm perhaps even more confused as to how someone who has been dead for eight years could suddenly begin endorsing anything at all anyway. It seems to me that the kind of person who would be swayed by an edorsement by Child likely is aware of her current incapacity to endorse... well, anything. The company's filing concurs:
BSH acknowledges that it has used images of Child and references to her use of Thermador products on its website and on social media sites, but its attorneys wrote in the complaint that "those uses do not state or imply any endorsement by Ms. Child."The material, it would appear, was used simply to state a historical fact. Using Child's image may fall into more of a grey area, but I would think historical facts are not subject to publicity rights.
The company said its references to Child "reflect on the long history, significance and influence of Thermador products on American society and culture, and Ms. Child's documented and well-known use of those products."
On the other hand: won't somebody think of the dead culinary artists!?!?!
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