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COLUMBUS, Miss. (WCBI) – From trending topics, to hash tags, Twitter has worked its way into our collective consciousness.
Feeds aren't always accurate, and they're certainly not the most thorough means of communication, but Twitter is where news breaks in 2013.
Individuals and organizations are quick to point out how many followers they have, but that number is often wildly inflated.
How many people are following you?
Well that's great, but, founder of hagancomputerservices.com , and Mississippi State Student Hagan Walker cautions, " Usually, what happens, what a lot of top businesses do, is actually purchase fake followers. Someone actually makes some fake accounts and you can go on line and actually purchase those."
On the corporate level, it makes sense, at least on the surface, but the correlation between Twitter and profitability is murky at best.
Hagan explains, " I guess it's easy to spoof a lot of things in the business world, but this is one of the easiest, if you go on there and purchase some people to follow you, you are not giving a true account of who you are and what you do."
But how do individual people, not named Ashton Kutcher, get their followers into 5 figures?
Hagan has a theory, " These people that are trying to sell these fake accounts, they're following you, and people see their presence, maybe they'll go on and actually purchase some of these accounts."
That seems like cheating.
So how can you tell if your followers are really following along?
Hagan says, " If you get online and search Google and Twitter fake followers you can actually enter your name and your password and it will tell you who is an active Twitter member."
That means someone who actually logs on at least once a week.
Your results could be surprising, but don't get down, Twitter is often fickle and frivolous. Hagan says, " Well, the top thing I see, right now, is Justin Bieber and Selena Gomez, so that seems to be the top trend right now. Syria is 5th on that list."
And that should tell you all you really need to know.
There are more than half a billion twitter accounts world wide, but how many of those are active users is anybody's guess.


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Hello all
Having just bought my first set of leathers i have noticed that the zip on the trousers is about an inch longer than on the jacket so when zipped all the way round there is about an inch spare on the jeans. Is this likely to be an issue? Both jacket an trousers are furygan altho the jacket is mangusta and the jeans are crow.

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Written on: 26/03/2014 by 59Harris-Alt (1 review written)
I planned and booked all of the details relating to our impending 3-week visit to Italy. I completed everything and was in a holding pattern until the day of departure. But, not long after everything was finished, an issue came up and I immediately called Ebookers for help. I was impatient and confused by the new issue. The staff at Ebookers responded to my impatience with patience.....to my frustration with caring. They were able to soothe and help me solve the problem. The problem did not occur because of them, but they aided and assisted me in the remedy. They demonstrated the utmost of professionalism. They gave me confidence that I was in good hands and the issue (which was not caused by them) was solved.
I will definitely utilize Ebookers in the future and have, in fact, already recommended them to others.
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Climate Change: Zester Writer Connects Dots At A U.N. Event
Editor's note: With the subject "A prosperous future for all: Gender, climate change and biodiversity in a globalized world," Zester Daily contributor Trine Hahnemann spoke in New York last week at a United Nations event. Hahnemann, a Copenhagen-based chef and caterer and the author of 10 cookbooks, was invited by the Nordic Council of Ministers to participate on the panel.
More from Zester Daily:
» Fair Trade coffee improves Thai village life
» Getting luxurious with sustainable caviar
» Barriers to going organic in Brazil
» Buying local makes economic sense
Organizers explained that people assume that women and men affect the climate in the same way, and that climate change affects both genders identically. But women's and men's lifestyles, behaviors and consumption are often different, and they leave a different environmental footprint. Hahnemann capsulizes the issues for Zester readers below.
How does being a chef and a woman affect your perspective on climate change?
I see the world through food; I have cooked hundreds of thousands of meals in my career. My cooking can only be as diverse and tasty as the produce that the farmers grow. I need diverse products to choose from.
My main focus is on vegetables and grains. I like fish and meat, but not necessarily as the centre of thinking and cooking a meal. I believe we need to change our diet so that 80% of our meals come from vegetables and grains and 20% from animals.
That is a radical change of the diet in many parts of the world, though of course not in India or China, and most parts of Africa. I think we in the Nordic countries should be leading this change, but also show flexibility in its implementation.
We have to change into a more climate-friendly diet: a diet of seasonal vegetables and fruit, more grains, less meat and dairy products. The New Nordic food movement includes ideas to change our daily diet. The new Nordic is in my opinion a frame to understand how this could be a worldwide movement about eating local produce but exchange the ideas globally.
How have our changing, globalizing eating habits affected climate change?
In 2012 in Brazil I met a group of female chefs who wanted to draw attention to organic farming and the use of local produce. One of their focuses was manioc, an indigenous root vegetable, which is not as important in Brazilian food culture as it used to be. It has lost popularity in the competition with wheat. Wheat is not grown in big quantities in Brazil; it is imported.
Brazilians also grow soya and maize, which are exported around the planet to feed cows, even though cows can't really digest corn but should be eating grass, clover and hay. To do this, Brazilian farmers have cut down the rain forest.
This is an example of how we have changed our diet over the last 50 years. Instead of a diet that relied relatively little on protein, most developed countries eat a diet where about 50% of our calories come from protein from animals. This has had a huge impact on the climate. We have contributed to climate change just by the way we eat. About 18% of greenhouse emissions come from livestock. How we eat in the future is very important when it comes to climate change.
For their part, the Brazilian female chefs pledged to use of manioc in meals at all levels, from fine dining to street food to school lunches.
It can be used for many things, including baking, being cracked like bulgur, sauces and as crisp topping on food.
How is this a women's issue?
Men and women work from different perspectives. In many aspects, men are more technical; they invent machines, they look for more technical solutions. They are more competitive and are looking for prestige and position and, therefore, the Michelin star system and acknowledgment like that is often very appealing to men.
Women are the ambassadors for the everyday meal. To change the way we eat we need women to take leadership. They cook public meals, which means they cook in hospitals, kindergartens, schools and elderly homes. Women, for the most part, prepare the daily meals in the households. The famous Michelin male chefs can make the light shine and create focus and attention on important issues, but they cannot make the change; they cook for the rich.
What can communities do to contribute?
One way forward is to create action around the way we eat locally, support organic farming and people who work toward a more holistic solution and look at the land and the people around them.
We need poly-faced farms with sustainable holistic systems where nature, humans and food are at the centre. Biodiversity is life, and maintaining biodiversity is therefore a key to understanding sustainable living on all levels, giving back to nature the same resources we are using, keeping the balance. Women around the world have to be an active part of ensuring that, and it should be a human right, that everybody has a right to decent meal day.
Top photo: Chef and author Trine Hahneman. Credit: Courtesy of the author


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Source: Synthetic Turf Council (Atlanta, Ga.) - Held from March 5 - 7, the Synthetic Turf Council 's Spring Membership Meeting in Las Vegas attracted a record attendance of 226 individuals representing companies located throughout the world and of all types in the synthetic turf industry, including manufacturers, suppliers, installers, landscape architects and engineers, testing labs, and maintenance equipment and service companies. The theme of the conference was "Quality: Live it, Breathe it, Achieve it."
Enhancing the performance of synthetic turf sports fields was a major focus of the educational program. A session called "STC Guidelines for Synthetic Turf Performance" detailed the STC's new performance guidelines and applicable test protocols for multi-purpose sports fields. Moderated by John Baize of ACT Global Sports, the panel included Erle Miles of Testing Services, Inc., Rusty Abell of ISA-Sport and Eric O'Donnell of Sports Labs. Grove Teates of Alpine Services discussed "Specifying and Constructing Stable and Lasting Bases Under Synthetic Turf Sports Fields," and Rich Dunn of Hunter Industries presented on the "Benefits of Irrigation for Synthetic Turf Sports Fields."
Officials from FIFA, the international governing body for soccer, delivered several updates on the FIFA Quality Concept for Football Turf (synthetic turf). Johannes Holzmüller and Nicolas Evans applauded the STC for creating performance guidelines and test protocols for multi-purpose sports fields, and described the importance of these guidelines and regular maintenance to assure consistent performance throughout a sports field's useful life. Dr. Eric Harrison highlighted the exhaustive research that FIFA has conducted that has validated the safety of synthetic turf. FIFA has designated synthetic turf as the best alternative to natural grass in areas where grass cannot grow, withstand heavy usage or be easily maintained.
Environmental responsibility was another key focus of the meeting. David Nardone of Stantec Sport addressed the topic of "Sustainable Athletic Fields - A Case Study," highlighting its design of the most sustainable playing fields in the country at Battery Park City in New York. Dr. Davis Lee of the InnovaNet Group moderated the "End-of-Life Disposal, Recycling and Repurposing Options for Synthetic Turf and Its Components and Applicable EPA Regulations" panel, whose participants included Mark Heinlein of Turf Reclamation Services, LLC, Mark Mitchell of FieldAway USA and Russ Neuman of Textile Rubber and Chemical. Other highlights of the meeting included an Exhibitor Showcase, and a special report on the STC's growth and significant impact from STC Board Chairman, John B. Giraud of Target Technologies International, Inc. The STC's Annual Membership Meeting will be held in Dallas, Texas from October 1 - 3, 2012.
About the Synthetic Turf Council Based in Atlanta, the Synthetic Turf Council was founded in 2003 to promote the industry and to assist buyers and end users with the selection, use and maintenance of synthetic turf systems in sports field, golf, municipal parks, airports, landscape and residential applications. The organization is also a resource for current, credible, and independent research on the safety and environmental impact of synthetic turf. Membership includes builders, landscape architects, testing labs, maintenance providers, manufacturers, suppliers, installation contractors, infill material suppliers and other specialty service companies. For more information, visit www.syntheticturfcouncil.org.


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Complaint Review: John W Boyer
- John W Boyer
3300 PGA Blvd. Suite 625
Palm Beach Gardens, Florida
- Phone: (561)622-1974
- Web: Www.hildalgominingcorp.com
- Category: Drug Rehabilitation Centers
John W Boyer Princeton Trading Group Hildalgo Mining Corp. 1/3 owner of Dorosa Mining Corp. Palm Beach Gardens Florida
In 2010 I got an unsolicited call from a man named Frank Paterno, he explained that he worked and represented Princeton Trading Group ,A Broker Dealer of Financed Precious Metals. Frank explained that I could open an account with Princeton for $20,000 and actually have $60,000 in buy power through the use of Leverage In the physical Silver market. I told him I did not understand Leverage, he said that did not matter he would be With me every step of the way on this Trade. Against all common sense I relented to his high pressure sales technics and financed as they called it the Silver. At that time our economy was in a tailspin and I was convinced through Franks high pressured sales that the economy would collapse and that money in this country would fail. He went on to say how the next currency would be backed by Precious metals and I would be better off buyin more Silver and Gold to protect my wealth. [continued below]....
One day I got a call from Frank and told me that Princeton Trading Group was owned and operated by John W. Boyer a famous accountant to the wealthy people of Palm Beach. Frank also told me that Princeton Trading Groups owner was a 1/3 owner of Dorosa Mine in Mexico and that they were mining gold and silver down there. Frank also told me that they were offering minning contracts and that he could arrange for me to speak to Mr. Boyer and that he was personally gauranteeing each contract in writing. I spoke to Mr. Jhon W. Boyer he confirmed what Frank had been selling me that the countries finances were a mess and that the currency in the USA could and would collapse. i bought hundreds of thousands of dollars of these so called future production contracts becuase after all Mr. Boyer was an accountant to the Megga Rich as Frank described him and Since All the people On Palm Beach Island were in the mine Very Heavily why not me? Well it is 2014 and the currency never fail as Frank and Mr. Boyer gauranteeded it would. Also everyone on palm Beach Island are not in mining contracts either. I am to old to work and now broke thanks to these crooks.
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• Just Seventy-Seven Games To Go. Hours after attending the funeral of his father, Doc Rivers watched his Celtics remain the NBA's only undefeated team with an impressive 112-101 win over the Nets. (Note: That final score is extremely misleading.) Da Big Green Three did they thang, with Paul Pierce scoring 28 points, Ray Allen adding 27 and Garnett posting 18 points, 14 rebounds, 6 assists, some defensive stats and a pear tree. And oh yeah ... HA-HA!
• You Should've Heard What They Yelled At Tamia! Grant Hill shrugged off relentless boos from his former fans for 14 points, eight boards and no injuries as the Suns beat the Magic 106-96. Leandro Barbosa, who absolutely loves living on Planet Orange, scored a career-high 39 points in the win.
• Hell, Paxson Would Trade For Coby Karl Right About Now. A restless United Center crowd started the wave after the Bulls fell behind 30-plus points in the fourth. That's really all you need to know. Raps 101, Bulls a lot less.
• Denver Digs Deep. Real deep. Trailing by 25 points in the first half, the Nuggs used Carmelo Anthony's 32 points and 10 rebounds to pull off the monster come-from-behind victory over the Pacers, 113-106. Indiana has now lost three in a row after starting the season 3-0. They are who we thought they are ... white dudes!


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There are two things that you probably hate: being late, and your boring alarm clock. And there's also one thing that you most likely love: Your Mac. Well then why not use your Mac as your own alarm clock, and wake up to your newest iTunes acquisitions?
Whether you want to wake up to the most recent episode of your favorite podcast, or you are simply looking for something to replace your old boring alarm clock, we have something for you.
Alarm Clock Pro
Alarm Clock Pro is an alarm app with a lot of features that go from emailing you to performing an Apple script once an alarm is set off. Although it's a bit expensive, its price is justified by a stopwatch, time zone tool and a calendar to see all your active alarms.
Price: $19.95
Requires: Mac OS X 10.5 or later
Developer: Koingo Software
iTunes Alarm
This is a free and simple app, though not as polished aesthetically. It can have multiple alarms that use music from iTunes through various options like shuffle, playlists and DJ. It also has an option to put your Mac to sleep on a timer.
Price: Free
Requires: Mac OS X 10.4 or later
Developer: Johnna Run
Alarm Clock
Alarm Clock is a simple free app that runs discretely in the menu bar from where you can see your active alarms and set new ones or even use its included Stopwatch and Timer. When an alarm is set off it displays a neat window with the time and the buttons.
Price: Free
Requires: Mac OS X 10.4 or later
Developer: Robbie Hanson
iClock is a heavy app that replaces the Time and Date sections of the menu bar and allows you to set alarms and add tasks to the calendar from the menu bar. Although it is full of customizable features, it is far from simple and it can be confusing. Unlike most other alarm apps, this one comes with a bunch of preselected alarm sounds to choose from.
Price: $20
Requires: Mac OS X 10.5 or later
Developer: Plum Amazing
TinyAlarm is a very simple app that sits in your menu bar, where you can easily set up alarms. TinyAlarm does not let you use any sounds other than the ones that come with the app. It has Growl integration that pops up when an alarm is set off and where you can snooze it or stop it. It probably won't wake you up, but it's good for reminders.
Price: Free
Requires: Mac OS X 10.4 or later
Developer: Pixelated Software
Apimac Timer
Like some of the other alarm apps available, Timer triples as a Stopwatch, Alarm Clock and Countdown clock. Timer has a number of options that you can set up for when your alarm goes off, although some of these options are locked to the free users. It can even speak to you!
Price: Free version or Pro version for $24
Requires: Mac OS X 10.4 or later
Developer: Apimac
Aurora is probably the prettiest of all the alarm apps, but it's also one of the most expensive. It's graphical interface makes it easy to use and understand, and it uses iTunes playlists to wake you up. It can also put you to sleep (and your Mac) with it's timer.
Price: $20
Requires: Mac OS X 10.5 or later
Developer: Metaquark
Awaken is seemingly a very simple app, but it has enough features to make even the most specific users happy. Although it doesn't bring anything new, it does plenty and it does it well. It can wake you up to your iTunes music, its own sounds or launch whatever you tell it to launch. Awaken is probably the most convenient and complete app of its kind.
Price: $10 CAD – ~$10 USD
Requires: Mac OS X 10.4 or later
Developer: EmbraceWare
Minutes is the only one of these apps that works as a widget, and it does it very well! Its interface is almost entirely graphical, but it's very easy to understand and work with. It can also launch files and use iTunes music, as well as its own sounds. The only real inconvenience with Minutes is the lack of a snooze button, and repeated alarms.
Price: Free
Requires: Mac OS X 10.4 or later
Developer: Nitram Nunca
iRooster is a simple app that let's you set up alarms to iTunes playlists, however, it is the same price as Awaken, and compared to it, iRooster lacks a lot of functionality, like the ability to launch applications, put your Mac to sleep or run full screen.
Price: $9.95
Requires: Mac OS X 10.4 or later
Developer: Chimp Software
There are a lot of options that can suit your needs when it comes to alarm clock applications; there are plenty of free apps that would satisfy most people, but if you need features that are more specific then you'll need to spend a few bucks.
Awaken is a very simple, yet functional app and it isn't very expensive, but the free version of Timer is also very good and has a lot of useful features. Luckily, most of the paid apps have free trials that you can use to determine whether you need the extra features that they offer or not.
Have fun trying them out, and let us know which you prefer in the comments!
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I use Awaken and alarm clock depending on my need
To be honest, when I wake up, I tend to direct my rage at whatever it is that woke me up. I certainly don't want that to be my Mac. That would only end badly.
You can use a remote with Awaken to snooze or stop the alarm ))
Don't forget Alarms by http://www.alarmsapp.com/
Easy to use and brilliant interface.
If all someone is looking for is a countdown application, I use an appreciate Menubar Countdown (http://capablehands.net/menubarcountdown). It has both its own popup window (which you don't need to use) as well as Growl integration. It is free, simple and worth checking out.
There's also iTaf : http://itaf.sourceforge.net/ I love it ;-)
Last time I checked, Robbie stopped actively supporting his Alarm Clock 2(?) a long time ago and it needs some updating. Doesn't play well with Snow Leopard or the latest iTunes (errors are rare, but how often can you afford to be late to work?)…
Another awaken fan here, both Mac and iOS. No experience of the others mind. Awaken works in that kind of 'magical' Apple way.
I'm using a new one called Alarms (alarmsapp.com). New approach that I really like.
I've been using Alarms just recently on trial. Pretty good app. I like the way it works with iCal so I can pull in my tasks from The Hit List and then give them a time slot. It needs to work quicker though on updating. ie if I drag a task to another day, I want it to update across iCal and THL straight away.
None of these will wake a Mac from sleep for more than a few seconds if sleep mode has its password enabled, at least not that I've found. I don't know about other Mac users, but I can't leave mine unlocked while I'm unconscious… Nothing that a little Caffeine can't fix, though;)
I've been using Aurora for months now and it frequently fails to go off. I'm not sure why. It's nice when it does work and I get to wake up to music, but usually it's my cell phone that wakes me up (though my cell phone alarms are wonky too). I should probably just buy an alarm clock, but…… blech.
I just bought Awaken, so we'll see if that works any better.
A week later and Awaken hasn't failed to go off once, which is FAR more than Aurora could manage.
…and the full-screen view is PRICELESS. I can't see very far without my glasses, so getting up to look at the tiny system clock was a pain! Now the display takes full advantage of my laptop's 17-inch display. :D
…OH! and Awaken plays music via iTunes, so play-counts and the recently-played playlist stay updated. I'm usually too groggy to jump up and look up the name of a cool song that just played. Now I can just check the recently-played list when I get home from work!
just found this one http://www.robbiehanson.com/alarmclock/index.html. Works great! you can select any tune (or, in my case, podcast) from your iTunes library. You can also choose for it to start low on volume and increase as it goes. Terrific – and free. Thanks, Robbie!!!


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Boston Magazine
November 2011
Boston Magazine's 50 Best Restaurants
"More than 12 years after Ming Tsai first came on the scene with his nuanced take on Asian-French fusion, it's nice to see that the sole restaurant in the multimedia Tsai empire still earns raves. The now-classic dishes, such as garlic-black pepper lobster and miso-and-sake-marinated butterfish, stand the test of time, and the excellent service is proof of how smoothly a dining room can operate when it's run by seasoned pros."
Boston Magazine
August 2008
Boston Magazine's 2008 Best of Boston® Award
Best Restaurant, General Excellence, West
"A dinner at Blue Ginger today is as dynamic as it was a decade ago; the trademark East-West flavor fusion as fresh and revelatory as ever. The only changes here are the kind we applaud, as Blue Ginger completed a gorgeous renovation this spring that nearly doubled its space and added private dining rooms, a walk-in lounge, and a (bargain-priced!) bar menu..."
The James Beard Foundation Awards
May 6, 2002
Ming Tsai: Best Chef Northeast
Chefs who have set new or consistent standards of excellence in their respective regions. Chefs may be from any kind of dining establishment and must have been a working chef for at least five years. The three most recent years must have been spent in the region where the chef is presently working.
Zagat Restaurant Survey
Boston 2002 - 2007
Blue Ginger, 2nd Most Popular Restaurant
"Rising above the fusion fray, chef-owner Ming Tsai sets the standard for East-meets-West cuisine with a transcendent menu that more than lives up to the buzz; no wonder its immensely challenging to get a reservation - even diners from Boston do the reverse commute to this sleek suburban phenomenon where it's so perpetually packed wall-to-wall, that you may have to beg to be waited on; though skeptics insist that in LA, it'd be no big deal, plenty of groupies only hope that the Ming dynasty continues to reign in Wellesley."
Boston Magazine
The Best of Boston 1998 Restaurant,
New Suburban
Blue Ginger
"Asian-influenced fusion cuisine has made it to the suburbs. This time around, it is being done with intelligence, restraint, and style, in this case by Ming Tsai, a Yale-educated, French-trained Chinese chef who was a pacesetter in San Francisco and Santa Fe before coming East. Star of a 40-part series on the TV Food Network, Tsai mixes Western (mainly French) and Eastern (mostly Chinese, with a little Japanese thrown in). The resulting dishes, like the fabulous Long Island duck breast marinated with achiote pepper, candied ginger, thyme and garlic, should be enough to get even the most devoted urbanite to venture out to Wellesley. "
Esquire Magazine
The Best New Restaurants of 1998
Ming Tsai of Blue Ginger
Chef of the Year
By John Mariani
"My palate had overdosed by the time I sat down at Blue Ginger. But then I ate chef Ming Tsai's tuna carpaccio with crispy rice cake and felt a shimmer on the tongue. I followed it with his foie-gras-stuffed dim sum in a caramelized-onion broth and there were signs of life in my mouth. Then I had a sake-and-miso-marinated Chilean sea bass with a kick of wasabi oil and my mouth was alive. I realized I was eating food I'd never tasted before. I'd certainly eaten similar dishes, and I was familiar with all the ingredients, like kaffir lime and jasmine rice. But never had I seen them combined with such savvy. At Blue Ginger, I enjoyed one of those meals that reminded me how great chefs can refine ideas the way great musicians refine a riff or interpret a sonata."
If you do not find your desired reservation time or date online, please call Blue Ginger directly at 781-283-5790.


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Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes Attend "Superheroes: Fashion and Fantasy' Costume Institute Gala"
On May 5th, Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes attended the "Superheroes: Fashion and Fantasy' Costume Institute Gala" at The Metropolitan Museum in New York City.
Some are saying that Katie Holmes' outfit was a disaster, while others are saying she wowed the crowd. There also seems to be mixed reports about her dress being red or tangerine orange. It looks red to me, but the shiny fabric makes it hard to tell in the pictures.
What was the real big talk of the night as far as Katie's outfit? Well, her shoes of course! Did she wear the traditional black shoes? Not a chance! She wore a pair of blue Christian Louboutin shoes. You can see an up close picture of them here.
I am loving the blue shoes she wore. Why not just go for it when it comes to fashion? Katie definitely did that!
More pictures of Tom, Katie and those blue shoes below the cut.
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December 1 - December 31Downtown Asheville's Grove Arcade provides a spectacular setting to enjoy the holidays and offers a festive slate of holiday event ... Read more »
December 1 - January 1Until Jan. 1st, 2011 Firelight and candlelight fill the house with a warm glow and accent delicate ornaments and priceless treasur ... Read more »
December 3Located just outside of Biltmore Estate, historic Biltmore Village transforms into a quaint Victorian village on the first weekend ... Read more »
December 4A new contemporary dance theatre ballet based on the original story from 1816 by German author, E.T.A. Hoffmann (Ernst Theodor Ama ... Read more »
December 5The Asheville Art Museum is pleased to again partner with The Big Crafty Holiday Show to host it in Pack Place on Sunday, December ... Read more »
October 8Experience the world through the eyes of the Blue Man! Onstage, the Blue Man is one part inquisitive child, one part trickster, an ... Read more »
December 10The Asheville Choral Society is excited to announce the December concert Heart and Hearth: Songs for the Season. This concert will ... Read more »
December 11Studio 375 Depot located at 375 Depot St., Asheville, NC in the River Arts District will host a Holiday Open House and Sale. The S ... Read more »
December 11For the past 20 years, Warren Haynes has coordinated his annual Christmas Jam. Like a family reunion, the annual, one-of-a-kind, s ... Read more »
December 12We will continue a beautiful family tradition of performing your favorite music from the Holidays. With the glowing voices of the ... Read more »
December 17With a steady evolution from their early days as a speed metal band to their current, renowned musical alchemy of glory, drama, an ... Read more »
December 18Join our actors as they magically recreate Victorian England in this beloved retelling of the Charles Dickens classic, A Christmas ... Read more »
December 19Experience the wonder of Christmas through a festival of carols offered by the First Baptist Church of Asheville Adult Choir and S ... Read more »
December 21 - December 26Dec. 21-26, 2010 LaZoom Comedy Tours presents it's annual Holiday Show. It's a 90 minute city wide tour of Asheville featuring a z ... Read more »
December 23The Charles Dickens classic has been re-imagined by renowned Disney composer Alan Menken. This spectacular musical extravaganza de ... Read more »
December 30 - December 31The Avett Brothers are a non-traditional bluegrass band that originated in Concord, North Carolina. The two brothers, Seth and Sco ... Read more »
December 31Dec. 31st, 2010 Looking for a cool place to spend New Year's eve? Join us for an evening of entertainment by Ben Hovey and enjoy d ... Read more »
December 31On their ninth studio album, the Maryland hard rockers Clutch continue to grow musically. Due out July 7th 2009, Strange Cousins.. ... Read more »


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By Linda L. Harfst
Cullen Weston Pines & Bach LLP
In June 2001, Steve Urso, then WPPA Executive Assistant, telephoned attorney Linda Harfst of Cullen Weston Pines & Bach LLP for assistance because of a rapidly-developing situation involving Waukesha County corrections officers. It appeared that some corrections officers assigned to the jail and the Huber facility were being removed from work based upon the County's assessment that they could not wear a self-contained breathing apparatus ("SCBA") on the job. The information available to the WPPA at that time indicated that at least one of the officers had been working regularly and had been using the SCBAs in training and fire drills without problems.
WPPA's call to Attorney Harfst started a chain of events which culminated more than three years later in an order by the Hon. J.P. Stadtmueller, U.S. District Judge, on October 15, 2004. In his order, Judge Stadtmueller found that Waukesha County had discriminated against one of WPPA's members, corrections officer Mark L. Dearth, in violation of the Americans with Disabilities Act, 42 U.S.C. 12101, et seq.; that it interfered with Dearth's rights under the federal Family or Medical Leave Act, 29 U.S.C. sec. 2601, et. seq.; and that three Waukesha County managers – Labor Relations Manager James Richter; Risk Manager Laura Stauffer; and Jail Administrator Michael Giese acting in their individual capacities – had violated Dearth's constitutional rights in his job.
The outcome of this case demonstrates how important it is that union members' labor representatives be kept aware of issues affecting members' employment. Often a particular action by an employer may implicate both the labor contract and statutory law. Union representatives receive training in recognizing such situations and in providing the member assistance with locating help. In this case, WPPA's prompt intervention not only prevented the loss of the member's employment, but also led to a remedy for the loss he suffered.
The County Removes Dearth from Work
Upon receiving Urso's call, Attorney Harfst made contact with Mark Dearth, one of the officers whose ability to perform the job was being questioned. She learned that he and other officers had filled out a medical questionnaire in the spring of 2000 at the direction of the County. Both before and after filling out this questionnaire, Dearth worked regularly and participated in training and drills using an SCBA. A year passed in which Dearth heard no more about the questionnaire he had filled out, nor did he ever have to don an SCBA in an actual emergency.
But in April 2001, Dearth's supervisor at the jail, Captain Margaret Schnabl, suddenly informed him that he would have to report for a physical examination at Concentra Medical Center because of his answers to some of the questions on the form he had completed the previous year. Dearth complied, and was examined by a physician at Concentra, Thomas Wolfe, M.D., on April 12, 2001. The examination required that he take a spirometry test to measure pulmonary function. Dr. Wolfe did not ask Dearth to exercise, nor did he require any stress test of Dearth. He did not examine Dearth while Dearth wore an SCBA. At the end of the test, Dr. Wolfe told Dearth that he had failed the pulmonary function test and that he would have to repeat it. Dr. Wolfe completed a Medical Determination for Respirator Use indicating that Dearth was restricted on respirator use.
Dearth, who continued to work, reported for a repeat of the spirometry test on May 8, 2001. Following this test, Dr. Wolfe told Dearth he had failed the breathing test again, and that he needed to see his treating physician. Dearth did so, and his own doctor confirmed that Dearth's pulmonary function test was abnormal. He referred Dearth to a pulmonologist for further review, but also returned Dearth to work without restriction in the meantime.
Dearth requested union representation at meetings with the County about his medical situation, because he correctly feared that his job as a corrections officer might be in jeopardy. At a June 5, 2001 meeting (even before the pulmonologist's final diagnosis), County Labor Relations Manager James Richter told Dearth that he might not be able to continue working as a corrections officer. Dearth and his union representatives asked if there were any other jobs that he could perform for the County, but Richter indicated that the County did not put people in other positions. Dearth, however, was aware that the County had accommodated other officers by putting them in other positions. He left the meeting feeling that he had been treated in a very cold fashion and not knowing what would happen to his job.
On June 7, 2001, Dearth was diagnosed with moderate Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease, sometimes referred to as "COPD." The pulmonologist felt that the COPD would be manageable with diet, exercise, and medication. This advice calmed Dearth's concerns about his health. Dearth kept his supervisors at the County fully informed as to his medical condition. He began an exercise program even before the final diagnosis, and fully complied with his doctors' diet and other recommendations throughout the legal proceedings which followed.
On June 13, 2001, Dr. Wolfe completed a Medical Determination for Respirator Use form indicating that Dearth was not allowed to use an SCBA. Significantly, Dr. Wolfe never attempted to test Dearth on a treadmill or while wearing an SCBA. On June 18, Captain Schnabl informed Dearth, just five minutes before the end of his shift, that she had received "the hard copy" from Concentra, and Dearth was removed from duty effective immediately. He should not report for duty the next day. Richter, Stauffer, and Giese jointly decided that Dearth should be removed from duty.1
Giese later testified under oath that he believed Dearth had a life-threatening illness and that "they were looking at a potential replacement of [Dearth's] lungs."2 However, Giese's beliefs were based upon rumors in the work place,3 as no one had ever told Dearth that he needed a lung transplant, nor did he ever claim that he needed a transplant.
On June 19, 2001, Dearth, accompanied by union representatives, met with County Human Resource representatives to request accommodation for his disability. The County declined to provide an accommodation, even in the form of a transfer to another position. They also told Dearth that he could use up his accrued leaves and he could then go on unpaid leave under the federal Family or Medical Leave Act ("FMLA"). They gave him an FMLA form, but did not give Dearth any indication of when, or if, he could return to work, nor did they explain to Dearth his FMLA rights, including his right to reinstatement.
The County Delays Dearth's Return to Work
Dearth remained off work through the summer of 2001. On July 16, when his benefit time was used, he began unpaid FMLA leave. By July 18, Dearth, who was active in a diet and exercise program, told his pulmonologist that he felt ready to return to work. He saw his treating physician on July 23, and provided the doctor with the only job description for his position that he had ever seen. His doctor provided Dearth with a letter saying that Dearth was fully capable of doing the 14 characteristics and duties of a corrections officer, inviting questions, if there were any, regarding Dearth's pulmonary function. Although Richter received this letter through Dearth's legal counsel on or about August 6, 2001, no one at the County responded to it until October 1, 2001. Specifically, no one at the County took any prompt action to return Dearth to work, nor even to inquire further of Dearth's doctor.
When Dearth next visited his pulmonologist on September 4, 2004, he was still on unpaid leave. The County would not tell him what he needed to do to return to work. The pulmonologist agreed that Dearth should be working. In consultation with the pulmonologist, Dearth's treating physician wrote another letter, which Dearth's lawyer provided to the County. In this letter, Dearth's physician informed the County that he should not be disqualified from work simply on the basis of pulmonary test function results. There were no medical contraindications to his return. The pulmonologist also wrote a follow-up letter, which Dearth's lawyer provided to the County on September 25. This letter suggested that Dearth should be tested while wearing the SCBA. The doctor explained that Dearth could not be disqualified from his duties as a corrections officer on the basis of a single determination of lung function.
Finally, on October 1, Richter responded. Significantly, he did not return Dearth to work. Rather, he merely inquired as to whether Dearth's condition had changed, and requested clarification from the doctor. It seemed clear that the County would resist returning Dearth to work, since Dearth had tried to return three times between August and the end of September 2001, but the County had not allowed him to do so. Dearth filed a charge with the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunities Commission alleging violation of the Americans with Disabilities Act on October 3, 2001.
At the end of the day on October 5, 2001, Dearth's unpaid federal FMLA leave expired. Still he was not returned to work; instead, beginning on October 8, the County extended his unpaid leave. On October 10, 2001, Dearth's primary care physician responded to Richter's questions by explaining how Dearth's condition had improved. Dearth's doctor then advised Richter that no published standards existed to say that it was safe to use self-contained breathing apparatus for limited periods of time. He suggested testing Dearth while wearing the SCBA.
The County agreed to a stress test designed and administered by Dearth's physician, with an SCBA borrowed from the County. The test consisted of a treadmill test in which Dearth was hooked to electrodes. The persons administering the test could incline and decline the treadmill, speed it up, or slow it down, while monitoring Dearth's blood pressure. Dearth took the test without the SCBA on October 25, 2001, and with the SCBA on October 26. He achieved scores that his treating physician termed "very adequate."4 On October 31, 2001, Dearth's physician informed the County in writing that, "I do not see that there would be any contraindication to his participation as a corrections officer."
Nevertheless, not until November 8, 2001 was Dearth actually returned to his work as a corrections officer. From July 16 until November 8, 2001 he had not received a pay check, and he was responsible for paying his portion of the premiums on his insurance policies. Fortunately, his union co-workers contributed funds to enable him to do so.
Waukesha County Retests Dearth
After his return to work, Dearth worked continuously as a corrections officer until April 2002, when he was again sent for a re-check at Concentra. Dearth followed orders and completed another medical questionnaire, indicating on the form that he had COPD. On April 22, he appeared at Concentra for the required examination, where he was given another pulmonary function test. This test showed scores nearly identical to those that had caused the County to remove him from the job in 2001. This time, however, the examining physician, Dr. Jurisic, completed a form indicating that Dearth was restricted to using a respirator only in an emergency. She returned him to work, where he continued his employment as a corrections officer. At Dearth's deposition on December 17, 2003, Dearth testified that there was nothing in his work that he could not do because of the COPD.5
Dearth Files Suit
In June 2002, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunities Commission issued its determination, finding that there was reasonable cause to believe that the County had violated the Americans with Disabilities Act in its handling of Dearth's employment. On September 10, 2002, Dearth received the Notice of Right to Sue from the United States Department of Justice, Civil Rights Division, which allowed him to bring suit against the County in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin. On December 5, 2002, Dearth's attorneys filed suit on his behalf. They later amended the complaint to include claims against Richter, Giese, and Stauffer in their individual capacities.
As discovery proceeded, Dearth's attorneys consulted an independent medical expert, Dr. Levy, to testify regarding Dearth's pulmonary fitness during the summer and fall of 2001. Dr. Levy explained that, given Dearth's levels of fitness in October 2001, he could have been medically cleared to wear an SCBA around July 2001. The County provided no countervailing medical opinions. Dr. Levy's information allowed Dearth's attorneys, Linda Harfst and Kira Loehr, to amend his complaint with the permission of the court to allege a violation of the FMLA, as well as of the ADA. If Dearth had been returned to work when his attorney and physicians first requested that he be returned, the only medical evidence in the record, that provided by Dr. Levy, proved that he had been fit enough to return the first time his doctor released him.
Other Legal Issues
The availability of discovery and legal counsel's earlier investigation of the law revealed that as part of its risk protection and worker's compensation programs, Waukesha County had implemented its first written Respiratory Protection Program. While implementing new procedures for use of self contained breathing apparatus ("SCBAs"), and in an apparent attempt to comply with OSHA regulations developed in the mid-1990s, the County made the decisions that resulted in Dearth's removal from work. Significantly, OSHA contains no standards indicating what level of pulmonary function makes it safe for an individual to wear an SCBA. Also, the County did not develop standards and provide them to its medical provider, Concentra. Later, Stauffer confirmed under oath that she knew of no standards available to a medical provider to determine what level of pulmonary function would allow an individual to safely wear a respirator.6 These admissions strengthened Dearth's constitutional claims because it appeared that Dearth not only did not receive any sort of due process before he was removed from his job, but also that he could have proven that the County's decision to remove him had no basis in fact or law.
The untrue rumors which developed in the County's workplace in late spring or early summer of 2001 were distressing to Dearth, as they would be to any employee. However, in the end, these rumors provided a legal benefit. Dearth was able to show that his employer knew of the rumors and believed them. They thought he was sicker than he really was. Regarding an employee as disabled when the employee is not actually disabled, and acting upon that belief, can be a violation of the Americans with Disabilities Act, as Judge Stadtmueller eventually pointed out.7
Despite the fact that Dearth's case was strong, the County elected to file a Motion for Summary Judgment pursuant to Rule 56 of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure. Rule 56 is a docket-clearing rule. The party moving for summary judgment must prove that, ". . . based upon admissible evidence provided to the Court, there is no genuine issue of material fact and . . . the moving party is entitled to judgment as a matter of law." F.R.Civ. Pro. Rule 56(c) and (e); Celotex Corp. v. Catrett, 477 U.S. 317, 322-323, 106 S. Ct. 2548. Thus, the County hoped that by filing its motion, it could eliminate some or all of Dearth's claims.
Lawyers Kira Loehr and Linda Harfst filed Dearth's response to the Defendants' motion in February 2004. On September 29, 2004, they received Judge Stadtmueller's decision, which denied Defendants' motion in its entirety. Judge Stadtmueller determined that the note from Dearth's physician returning Dearth to work, received by the County on August 6, 2001, was a sufficient communication. If the County wanted to seek further clarification, it could do so, but the court verified that under the FMLA, Dearth " . . . had the right to be employed in the former or equivalent position while the inquiry was being made."8 Judge Stadtmueller further observed that the County was not within its rights to delay returning Dearth to work until after Concentra cleared him. He pointed out, "Based upon the clear language in the regulations, the court believes that the defendants' interpretation of the regulations is incorrect."9 He also emphasized that the defendants' arguments in support of their delay had been directly addressed and rejected by other federal courts.10
On October 6, 2004, Defendants' counsel notified Judge Stadtmueller that Defendants waived any further challenge to liability in Dearth's case. Dearth's attorneys Linda Harfst and Kira Loehr then moved for an order granting liability against all defendants, and ordering the case to mediation on the issue of damages. Judge Stadtmueller granted this motion. Magistrate Judge Patricia J. Gorence then mediated the final resolution on November 23, 2004.
WPPA's Role Crucial to the Outcome
WPPA took the first steps to question the work place decisions being made in Dearth's case. Although it was not clear at first exactly what Dearth's medical situation was, nor exactly what his claims might be, WPPA decided to provide a limited amount of funding to enable Dearth to obtain a legal assessment, because his situation could easily be replicated in other bargaining units. That assessment would enable WPPA to provide better service to other members.
Dearth's union co-workers enabled him to stay on the health insurance so crucial to his well-being when he had no income in 2001. During the more than three years that it took Dearth's case to progress through the court system, union representatives provided support, representation, and reassurance to workers in Dearth's bargaining unit.
The resolution of Dearth's case ensures that the WPPA will be fully reimbursed for the amount it expended to assist Dearth in 2001. Also, a way will be found to refund to the union the monies originally provided by co-workers for Dearth's health insurance. The dollars then can be used for the benefit of other union workers who may need assistance.
1. Deposition of James Richter, November 20, 2003, p. 42.
2. Deposition of Michael Giese, November 21, 2003. p. 35.
3. Richter also testified that he had heard that Dearth needed a lung transplant. Deposition of James Richter, November 20, 2003, p. 18.
4. Expert witness Stuart Levy, M.D., explained, "Mr. Dearth was able to exercise to a MET level of 10.4 on October 26, 2001 wearing an SCBA. Work which can be performed at a MET level of 10 or less includes: forestry, trimming trees, shoveling, digging ditches, heavy shoveling (more than 16 lbs per minute), vigorous farming activity including baling hay and cleaning a barn, using heavy tools (not power) such as a shovel, pick, tunnel bar or spade . . . . All of these tasks require an adult male in excellent physical condition." Affidavit of Stuart Levy, M.D., p. 2 paragraph 6, December 16, 2003.
5. Deposition of Mark Dearth, December 17, 2003, p. 24.
6. Deposition of Laura Stauffer, November 20, 2003, p. 33.
7. Order, September 28, 2004, pp. 8-9.
8. Order, September 28, 2004, p. 6.
9. Order, September 28, 2004, p. 5.
10. Id.


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School Brings Hope to Georgian Village
Georgia, May 5, 2006
Although it lies only 30 minutes away from Tbilisi, the Georgian capital, life in the tiny village of Sovkhoz Samgorski is worlds away. The countryside around this village, home to about 100 families, is dotted with abandoned and dilapidated Soviet-era concrete buildings. The past is often bleak so, consequently, the village's 22-room schoolhouse has become the focus of the community - and a hopeful symbol of its future.
Sitting at the desk in her modest office, school director Manana Tabatadze is aware of the optimism surrounding her workplace. In the 24 years that she has been the school's director, she has seen sweeping changes - some good and some bad.
In Soviet times, children would come from surrounding towns to study at the school, drawn by the good reputation that it had. Later, with the collapse of the Soviet Union, everything literally fell apart.
"Don't even ask how things were from 1991 to 2003," Manana says. "It was a very bad time."
The lines supplying natural gas to the town corroded and fell to pieces, and although the power lines remained intact, there was no electricity. In 1998, most of the 40 year-old schoolhouse burned down in an accident, and for the next five years the students were all crammed into the four remaining rooms. Water leaked through the roof whenever it rained.
"At that time, nobody had any hope," Manana recalls.
Complete commitment
Because of its proximity to the important Tbilisi-Baku-Ceyhan pipeline, Sovkhoz Samgorski was chosen to be part of Mercy Corps' Community Investment Project - East (CIP-E), funded by the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan (BTC) Company and Southern Caucasus Pipeline (SCP) Company. Mercy Corps first came to Sovkhoz Samgorski in 2003 and held a town meeting that was attended by at least one member of every household in town.
"The people from Mercy Corps started talking about all of the things that would be done in our village, this and that. We all listened and nodded…and nobody believed that anything would happen," Manana says with a laugh.
Three years later, the results are tangible. After ten years without natural gas, new pipes were laid and run to every house, finally offering a fuel source that is cheaper than electricity or firewood. At the school, there is no trace of the fire that reduced most of it to rubble eight years ago. A photograph on Manana's desk shows a group of young girls painting the fence that runs around the schoolhouse. The picture was taken nearly three years ago, when the school was completely rebuilt with the help of community members, including the children.
Manana remembers one night when it started to rain on the new tin roofing, which had just been delivered. Afraid that the wet sheets of tin would rust together and be ruined, Manana and a group of older students came to the school to dry the tin.
"We stayed here all night to dry the roofing, listening to music. Those children were completely committed to this project," she says.
Infectious ambition
The biggest change in the community is within the children themselves. "They are more responsible, they want to study, and they stay after school to work on projects," Manana says proudly. "Most importantly, these children now have hope, and big ambitions for the future."
This ambition and hope seems to be infectious. Manana says that in Soviet times, people were given everything and would only think of themselves and how they could get ahead. Today, the people in Sovkhoz Samgorski are learning that it is more important to support the community and the community's future, the children.
The children here are being prepared for a future in which they will no longer simply be given everything they need. Manana and the school focus on instilling a sense of entrepreneurship and independence in the children.
"We are trying to help them find their own way," Manana says. She noted that three boys who showed an aptitude for building during the school renovation project are now working as carpenters, and a fourth is apprenticed to a mason.
A sustainable future
Sovkhoz Samgorski was formerly a collective poultry farm but it ended with the Soviet Union and today, as in most of rural Georgia, there are no jobs. Each family here owns a few cows, and they manage to scrape by selling milk, yogurt, cheese and meat in the larger towns and cities nearby. Teaching the children of this town how to survive in a jobless economy is essential.
The Mercy Corps project helped to purchase new calves to improve the herd, and introduced more efficient animal husbandry practices. Now some families are talking about opening a store together for selling dairy products in a larger town nearby. Meanwhile, the children are learning about the business of agriculture, and Manana hopes that a sustainable future will be available for them right here in Sovkhoz Samgori.
"They might not be rich, but they'll be able to make a living," she says.
When asked how the community will carry on in the future, Manana does not hesitate to answer. "We have gas now, the school has been rebuilt and our livestock has been improved," she explains. "Thanks to Mercy Corps, we have everything that we need for the future."


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Confucius Commemorated with Memorial Ceremony at Library
The Washington Metropolitan Association of Chinese Schools will hold a special ceremony celebrating Confucius' birthday on Saturday, September 25 at the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library.
Born September 28, 551 BC, Confucius' was a Chinese philosopher, educator and founder of the Confucian school of thought. His theories, which advocate peace and social harmony, influenced orthodox ideology in China for more than 2,000 years and have regained interest in China over the recent years.
Confucius memorial ceremonies date back to 478 BC as celebrations featuring music, singing, and dancing. In recent years, Confucius memorial activities have been carried out annually by Chinese in Taiwan, Hong Kong and the rest of the world from September 26 to October 10. This year, under the leadership of the Chinese Consolidated Benevolent Association, and the involvement of other devoted people, the Confucius Memorial Ceremony will be an important cultural event in the Washington area.
The ceremony will begin at 11:00 a.m. in the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library's Great Hall . The library is located at 901 G Street, N.W. Washington, D.C. near the Metro Center and Gallery Place Metro Stations.


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