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Some women who work for Exxon Mobil hosted a crawfish boil this week, drawing attention to their claim that the company is pinching pennies.

The 41 clerical workers at the company's chemical and refinery complex in Baytown are steamed, saying they've been denied raises - because of their gender - by a company that reported a $10.6 billion first-quarter profit this week.

"They can't afford to give us a raise?" asked Terri Melchor, tenant services administrator who has worked at the complex for 31 years and earns $29.85 an hour. A 3 percent raise,nike air max provides the ultimate in impact protection reducing shock and distributing pressure to provide you with absolute comfort and stability. such as many other at the plant got this year and last, would boost her hourly wage by 90 cents.

Refinery, chemical plant and lab workers at the Baytown facilities got 3 percent raises the last two years, and for 2012, the company agreed to match the union-negotiated wage at other company sites. The workers, who are represented by the United Steelworkers Union, also received $2,500 signing bonuses for ratifying the new three-year deal.

The workers in the office clerical unit at the complex are represented by the same union, and their contract expired March 15.Thousands of discount ed hardy shoes styles for selection. But the company is denying raises or lump-sum bonuses to the support staffers, who are all women.

The United Steelworkers Union Local 13-2001 represents about 1,000 workers at the complex. Most of them are men - process operators, instrument technicians and analyzer technicians - who got the more lucrative three-year contract last year. But the 41 women continue to work under their old agreement.

Exxon Mobil offered to reopen the contract in subsequent years to reconsider a raise, said Melanie Lombard, an operations and maintenance procedure coordinator who has worked for the company for 28 years.

But the deal includes a provision that employees won't strike over the raise offer, said Richard "Hoot" Landry, staff representative for the union.

"That means it's a take-it-or-leave-it proposition," he said.

Neely Nelson, public and government affairs manager for Exxon Mobil Corp. in Baytown, said in a statement that the company doesn't consider it appropriate to discuss proposal specifics away from the bargaining table.

"I will say that we have maintained open, honest and productive communication with the union, our employees and stakeholders, and we'll continue to negotiate in good faith and engage in responsible, meaningful dialogue with the union," Nelson said.

Landry said the contract offer did increase the meal allowance for employees who work overtime and an allowance to purchase safety shoes. But he said most of the women don't work overtime and don't need safety shoes.

"They're telling us we're overpaid," said Sheryl Webster, machinery information assistant and a member of the union's negotiating committee. She has worked for Exxon Mobil for 33 years and earns $29.85 an hour.

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Webster said the company did a survey comparing the clerical workers' average wage of $27.65 an hour to similar employees elsewhere. But she said the survey examined wages in non-energy industries such as banking and retail.

"We're not just data entry clerks," said Lombard, ticking off analytical and problem-solving work she and her colleagues do.

The women have taken to wearing pink polo shirts with union logos to symbolize their "pink-collar" status, a category that designates service work done mostly by women.

They showed up at Exxon Mobil's annual shareholder's meeting earlier this week in Dallas, where Fran Campbell said she got a chance to tell CEO Rex Tillerson she considers it unfair that she and her 40 colleagues aren't getting raises.2011 New Style Jeans cheap true religion on sale with fast delivery!

"He was very kind, and he listened to me," said Campbell, a contract data management administrator and 21-year Exxon Mobil employee. But she also noted to her co-workers that Tillerson's total compensation package last year was $29 million.

George Legere, an operator at the plant, was among colleagues who lent his support at the crawfish boil Thursday, sharing 500 pounds of the crustaceans served at the union hall in the shadows of the Exxon Mobil complex.

"I don't believe they're getting a fair shake in this deal," Legere said. "They're part of us. They should be under our umbrella."

Part of the difficulty is that the women's contract has a different expiration date than those of other workers at the complex.

And because they formerly belonged to an independent union, they lack the job security and other protections won by the United Steelworkers Union and its predecessors.

Consequently, the women have been denied raises before. One year members of the operator group donated part of their lump-sum bonuses to the clerical group.

Lombard, whose grandfather worked for the company, said it feels like she's fighting the same battle women have fought over the past 100 years for equal treatment in the workplace.

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"I'm tired of being treated like I'm not worth anything," she said.

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Pia Ahrenkilde Hansen, a European Union spokeswoman, said German authorities had identified cucumbers from the Spanish cities of Almeria and Malaga as possible sources of contamination and that a third suspect batch, originating either in the Netherlands or in Denmark and traded in Germany, is also under investigation.

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Self-neglect is a focus of the team because it is a factor in so many untreated medical disorders, said Dr. Carmel Dyer, a geriatric specialist at UT-Health Science Center and founder of TEAM.

"That's why the risk of death is so high," she said, noting that the mortality rate is substantial during the first year after a report of self-neglect.

Sabrina Pickens, a geriatric nurse practitioner and researcher at UT-Health Science Center, said the worst case of self-neglect she had seen involved an elderly man who lived in a garage apartment.

Neighbors reported that he poured his urine out the window. He had not bathed in six months. His hair and beard were matted, and his toenails had grown into his shoes. The man agreed to go to the hospital for a check up. Doctors discovered he had untreated throat cancer, and he died within a month, Pickens said.

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Once the immediate needs are met, the caseworker refers the client to social service providers for long-term help before closing the case.

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APS paid for the cleaning, which took six days. It also paid for some electrical repairs because one side of Clara's house had no electricity.

"She's helped me a lot, caring and checking on me," said Clara, feeling better after taking her insulin. "I would have been lost without her."

When caseworkers suspect there's a serious mental capacity or other medical issue, they call in a doctor or nurse from TEAM to visit the client's home and do a geriatric assessment. If the assessment shows the client lacks capacity, TEAM can petition the Harris County Probate Court to appoint a legal guardian.

Only a handful of cases reach that point, APS officials said. TEAM also can get a court order to force the client to go to the hospital for treatment.

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USC will lose 30 scholarships over the next three years and won't be eligible to play in this year's Pac-12 title game or a bowl game.

Meanwhile, Bowl Championship Series officials will consider whether to strip the Trojans of their 2004 title.

BCS executive director Bill Hancock says there is no timetable for that decision, but he expected it to happen "sooner, rather than later."

The championship would be left vacant and not awarded to another team. Auburn and Utah also finished the '04 season unbeaten. The AP will not vacate the championship it awarded USC for 2004.

"We respectfully, but vehemently, disagree with the findings of the NCAA's Infractions Appeals Committee," the university said in a statement. "Our position was that the Committee on Infractions abused its discretion and imposed penalties last June that were excessive and inconsistent with established case precedent."

USC was appealing to the NCAA to reduce its two-year bowl ban to one year and limit football scholarship reductions to five in each of the next three years instead of the scheduled 10. The university pointed in its appeal to precedent as a reason why its penalties were excessive but the appeals committee stated that those cases were not directly applicable.

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Football coach Lane Kiffin also expressed disappointment.

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The Patriots have hiked the ball 51,738 times since their inception in 1960. But no Patriot has run the ball farther from scrimmage on one play than Larry Garron, who scampered 85 yards for a touchdown against Buffalo on Oct. 22, 1961.

Garron played nine seasons for the Patriots, was a four-time American Football League All-Star, and is a member of the AFL Hall of Fame. But the former running back made his mark in another sport, too. He has the highest degree attainable in World Martial Arts, and at 73 years young, he can still kick butt.

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The money raised at the tournament on May 20, and others like it, goes toward setting up Grassroots Soccer programming in Africa, where HIV/AIDS outreach is severely needed.

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His team certainly didn't complain about the wet conditions -- they relished it.

"It's hard to get a grip on your feet. Moving around is pretty difficult, but it adds some excitement," he said.

Martin Freeman, an 18-year-old senior, is on Cheltenham's varsity team but said he enjoys his chance to play barefoot in the tournament once a year -- especially for a good cause.

"There are so many places where kids play all the time, but they don't have the equipment. You see videos of kids playing on dirt fields, with walls as their goals," he said. "I think people should focus on building more soccer fields in Third World countries. If you give them better opportunities to play, we'd probably see more great players coming from those countries."

In the end, Freeman, along with fellow seniors Michael Oh and B.J. Stuetz, won the men's division while sophomores Emily Leibovitz, Sloane Macklin and Alix Macklin won the ladies.

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Donors also raised $4000 by Tuesday afternoon and about 500 pounds of material goods.

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Understandable. After being a long fixture on daytime TV as well as in the national psyche, it may be hard for us to imagine how the 60-minute void Oprah is leaving can be filled. (Though it won't need to be filled until September. "Oprah" reruns will air on most stations throughout the summer months, helping viewers through their process of withdrawal.)

The closest thing to an heir apparent seems to be "Dr. Oz," the Winfrey-produced talk show whose star, Dr. Mehmet Oz, one of Winfrey's proteges. In many markets he's being rewarded with the 4 p.m. slot where "Oprah" reigned for so long.

But there is no clear consensus. In a few markets, the former "Oprah" station will forgo any syndicated replacement and instead launch an added hour of local news.

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On the other hand, as Oprah walks away, how far is she really walking?

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Since its Jan. 1 sign-on, the network has suffered from lower-than-expected ratings, and, early this month, fired its CEO. But it's just getting started, and, with the end of her syndicated show, Winfrey plans to devote her full energies to OWN.

As one of the network's future offerings she will star on "Oprah's Next Chapter," whose title signals how she views her ambitious new TV venture overall. And though most of OWN's programming won't be hosted by her, everything will be vetted by her to make sure the message fits into her live-your-best-life gospel.

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A heart-tugging promo for this week's last three editions of "The Oprah Winfrey Show" taps into the collective memory the audience shares for certain other shows on the occasion of their passing.

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Really?

The episodes airing Monday and Tuesday were taped last week in front of crowd of 13,000 at Chicago's United Center.

Tom Hanks. Michael Jordan. Tom Cruise. Madonna. Stevie Wonder. Will Smith and his wife, Jada Pinkett Smith. Beyonce. Even Winfrey's longtime but low-profile friend,coogi jeans for sale to men with low price and top quality. Stedman Graham, was among the many luminaries on hand for the two-part "Surprise Oprah! A Farewell Spectacular."

Then Wednesday's show, being kept tight under wraps, is meant as a surprise for the viewers.

Sounds like fun, if you happen to catch it. But after that, you won't have to look hard to find Oprah. She pervades her new network.

The rest of the world? It will carry on as always.

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Cliff Single, Commercial Manager at BAC Middle East, admitted that "highly skilled candidates with consistent experience in the region with leading companies are in relatively short supply."

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According to experts at Gulf Talent, an online recruitment portal, many companies interviewed by it complained that despite more candidates being available in the market it was still hard to find good quality.

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However, there are some experts who differ in their opinion. Hasnain Qazi, Middle East Business Manager at Huxley Associates, a recruitment consultancy believes that there is enough talent in the region but identifying them could be difficult.

"Quality candidate exist in abundance here in the Gulf. However, identifying them, approaching them and employing them is a different matter altogether. We feel that there is an excellent pool of qualified and motivated candidates in the Gulf region from all nationalities," he told this website.

Nobel winner calls on Canada to lead effort against rape

Nobel Peace Prize winner Jody Williams arrived in Ottawa this weekend with a mission for Canada: to reclaim its image as the white knight of international human rights.

A key player in a series of human-rights breakthroughs in the 1990s, including the ban on landmines that Williams spearheaded, recent setbacks such as the failure to get a seat on the UN security Council have cast doubt on Canada's international cachet.

Now, Williams is calling on Canada to take centre stage again: “Canada showed tremendous leadership in achieving the [treaty] banning anti-personnel landmines.The EZ Breathe home truereligionjeans is maintenance free. … Now, Canada can play a key role in ending a horrific tactic of war: rape.”

She and the six other women who now hold the peace prize want Canada to get behind their effort to push for an end to the ongoing epidemic of sexual violence against women in conflict zones and countries in crisis.

Sexual violence has become an increasingly common weapon of war, they warn, because most wars are now internal clashes in which civilians are the main targets. In the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), for example, at least 200,He felt that this art show was a step closer to this sonalized highheel online.000 women have been raped in ongoing clashes, according to United Nations reports.

Through a group called the Nobel Women's Initiative, the laureates have called an international conference on the issue in Montebello, Que. — about 60 kilometres northeast of Ottawa — on Monday through Wednesday. On Thursday,Personalized lacostestore online GMAT prep courses. they go to Parliament Hill, where they have invited the main party leaders, including Prime Minister Stephen Harper, to meet with them.

“We all have a responsibility to do more in the face of this horrific violence against women, and we hope we can count on Canada's leadership,” says Williams.

The event comes after a series of setbacks for Canada on the international stage. In October, Canada failed to get a Security Council seat — the first time in more than 50 years it has lost such a bid. The government is still smarting from the 2009 Copenhagen climate summit, where its actions prompted one Guardian columnist to call it a “thuggish petro-state” dominated by “tar barons.”

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Williams is hoping the Tories will embrace the push to end sexual violence with the same commitment their Liberal predecessors showed when then-foreign affairs minister Lloyd Axworthy led the charge for the landmine ban.

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It's a chance for Canada to work its soft-power magic, the way it did in the 1990s when it helped create the International Criminal Court and pushed for UN measures to protect civilians, he says.

“Canada continues to be in a very strategic position. … We've got wealth, we've got a good diplomatic system and we should be putting that more actively to work.”

Axworthy also wants to see more boots on the ground: “For God's sake, let's do something in the Congo.”

A salute to the people who keep things running

April 27 was a special day around America as administrative assistants, secretaries, and other professionals were honored on Administrative Professionals Day.

Here in the Coastal Bend, a couple of organizations had special luncheons to celebrate the day with all of the hardworking ladies and gentleman without whom many a local company would be lost.White cheapshox with Brown Dot Shade.

I was privileged to spend the day at one such luncheon, the Volunteer Services Council of the State Supported Living Center's Professional's Woman's Style Show at the Congressman Solomon P. Ortiz International Center.

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The show began with a huge "thank you" from Monica Euresti, the president of the Volunteer Services Council, and then Katia Uriarte and Chris Thomasson from KIII TV began introducing the models as they did the walk of fame.

The participants were local folks from around town, like Michelle Berry from the Port of Corpus Christi, Chris Parker from the Miracle League and the YMCA, and Ruben Bonilla from Farmer's Insurance Group. My favorites were the center residents who really had a great time working the runway.

Juan Sarli wore his Special Olympics medal with every outfit, and Susan Flato wore the biggest smile I've ever seen as she enjoyed her moment in the spotlight.

John-Thomas Kobos from KIII-TV and Sal Hernandez, who works for Nueces County, worked the crowd like pros from up on the stage in their outfits from William's Fashions and Shoes,Custom shopforshoes from photos by our painting. and volunteers Azucena Torres and Liz Gamez made their fashions from Shannon's look fantastic.

I especially loved some of the sundresses that I saw and made a vow to go get some fun summery dresses so I could look as cool and comfortable as they did. The Volunteer Services Council was well-represented in the show. Also, I caught board member Rose Guajardo-Mireles and members Ashley Cole, Bebe Flores, and Mary Golsberry- Cantu on stage.

The folks who really stole the show and had the whole crowd saying "awwwww" were the kids who participated in the show wearing styles from Belly, Baby, and Hopscotch.we know that coffee offenikeairmax97 is the world's most commonly traded commodity after crude oil.

Six-year-old Shabana Gonzales and 7-year-olds Claudia Holly and Karis Hand looked adorable as they did their best impression of models on stage at New York fashion week.

This event was a fun testament to the generosity and support that Coastal Bend businesses and citizens continue to show to those who are most in need in the community. Recession or no, Corpus Christi is happy to help places like the State Supported Living Center take care of their residents.

Lady Gaga and Katy Perry donate items for the ChristChurch relief effort

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The Telethon raised $2,561,015 for the relief efforts; exceeding the $2 million goal of the event. A signed guitar from Katy Perry went for $5000 and Lady Gaga's Gucci shoes went for $4300.

Angelina Jolie, Lucy Liu: 'Kung Fu Panda 2' Red Carpet

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What's Priority In The County's Budget?

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"I'd hate to see that get derailed just because people are financially stricken again with higher taxes."

Dvorak says he's worried over the county's property revaluations. He saw a 20% jump in his South Charlotte home. "Initially, I was like whoa!"

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"You've got money allotted," says Dvorak, "and when you're paying bills, you know where your money is going. Then when you get hit with something you don't expect, it puts you in panic mode and it kinda stops the wheels."

Elyse Dashew lives Southeast Charlotte, an area that also saw a drastic jump in property revaluations. Her kids go to Smith Language Academy, so as a Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools parent, Dashew wants what County Commissioner Jennifer Roberts wants: keep the current property tax rate at 83.97 cents per $100 valuation, and then use the extra tax money for education.

"We need to get $55 million back to CMS," says Dashew. "I think the cost of setting our schools backwards, the costs of making our school system weaker, is much greater.

Mecklenburg County Sheriff Chipp Bailey sent a letter to Commissioner Roberts on Thursday, expressing aggravation at the idea that county employees, like his deputies, may once again lose out on raises and benefits,Fashion wash urban authentic gucci shoes styles in a great variety of colors and style! so that CMS gets the money its requesting. "We understand that everybody is hurting.Yesterday marked one of the most iconic nike air max 97 releases."

That issue was implied when Commissioner Roberts released a statement saying the current property tax rate should remain flat, and $40 million should be allocated to the school district.

"This is about my feelings for my employees and the other employees of Mecklenburg County," said Sheriff Bailey. "They need a fair shake in this budget because in the past budgets they've sat quietly."

Sheriff Bailey is not asking for a certain property tax rate be adopted by commissioners, but if more money does comes in, he believes it needs to be fairly spread around.

The whole commission holds its budget workshop June 1st.