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In the Matter of the Petition of
Involving Certain Employes of
Case 8
No. 53972 ME-835
Decision No. 7667-D
Mr. Michael J. Wilson, Staff Representative, 8033 Excelsior Drive, Suite B, Madison, Wisconsin 53717-1903, for Wisconsin Council 40, AFSCME, AFL-CIO and City of Manitowoc Employees Local 731, AFSCME, AFL-CIO.
Mr. Patrick L. Willis, City Attorney, 817 Franklin Street, P.O. Box 1597, Manitowoc, Wisconsin 54221-4418, for the City of Manitowoc.
On March 25, 1996, Wisconsin Council 40, AFSCME, AFL-CIO filed a petition with the Wisconsin Employment Relations Commission requesting that the Commission clarify an existing bargaining unit of City of Manitowoc employes represented by City of Manitowoc Employees Local 731, AFSCME, AFL-CIO by including therein the position of Deputy City Clerk. The City opposed the petition, contending the Deputy Clerk is a supervisor and a confidential employe.
On July 31, 1996, hearing in the matter was held in Manitowoc, Wisconsin, before Examiner Debra L. Wojtowski, a member of the Commission's staff. A stenographic transcript of the hearing was available to the parties by August 15, 1996. The Union filed written arguments on August 19 and September 27, 1996; the City filed written argument on September 4, 1996, and waived its right to file a reply brief. The Commission, being fully advised in the premises, hereby makes and issues the following
1. City of Manitowoc Employees Local 731, AFSCME, AFL-CIO, herein the Union, is a labor organization with offices at 8033 Excelsior Drive, Madison, Wisconsin.
2. The City of Manitowoc, herein the City, is a municipal employer with offices at 817 Franklin Street, Manitowoc, Wisconsin. The City has 333 employes within eight separate bargaining units, and two confidential clerical positions, (1) the secretary to the Mayor and the secretary to the City Attorney. Since 1981, the Deputy City Clerk has also been excluded as a confidential employe because she takes minutes of closed sessions of the City Council.
3. At all times material, the Union has been the certified exclusive collective bargaining representative for a unit defined in the 1996-1998 contract as:
all employees of the City of Manitowoc City Hall and associated departments, Cemetery and Parks Department and Bridges, as certified by the Wisconsin Employment Relations Commission election held on August 30, 1966, with respect to wages, hours and conditions of employment.
4. In January, 1974, in Dec. No. 12403, the Commission concluded that the position of Deputy City Clerk was not a supervisor, and was appropriately included in the bargaining unit represented by the Union. The Commission stated:
In addition to the City Clerk, the Clerk's office is staffed by one full-time Deputy, two regular part-time employes and one temporary part-time employe. The duties of the Deputy Clerk include overseeing the conduct of elections, recording and typing minutes of council meetings, supervising special projects, and preparing the payroll. Although election poll workers are hired by the Clerk, the Deputy oversees approximately sixty workers during polling hours. Similar to the Deputy position discussed above, the Deputy Clerk works in the same area as other employes and thereby directly observes the staff more often than the Clerk does. The Deputy's recommendation would be given consideration in a departmental disciplinary matter. In the absence of the Clerk, the Deputy could reassign work or call in temporary help.
Mrs. Evelyn Martin, the Deputy Clerk since 1969, has neither made a recommendation nor participated in the hiring or firing of any employes. Mrs. Martin has not fully assumed all of the statutory duties of the Deputy position. Whereas, the Deputy could supervise special projects, such supervision has neither been exercised nor necessary to date. In the anticipated absence of the Clerk, instructions are usually left with the Deputy to convey to the employes.
Based on the foregoing, we are satisfied that the Deputy Clerk is not a supervisory employe within the meaning of Section 111.70, and thereby, is appropriately included in the existing collective bargaining unit.
However, in December, 1981, in Dec. No. 12403-B, the Commission concluded the Deputy City Clerk was a confidential employe who should be excluded from the unit. The Commission stated:
8. That the Council meets twenty-four times per year and that its meetings are convened at 7:00 p.m. in the City's Council Chambers; that the Deputy City Clerk attends all Council meetings and is paid overtime for such attendance; that during open meetings of the Council the City Clerk reads documents and reports presented to the Council into the record, and that the Deputy City Clerk takes, in shorthand, the minutes of the proceedings; that closed sessions of the Council are held in a conference room adjacent to the Council Chambers; that between June 2, 1980 and June 15, 1981 the Council held ten closed sessions relating to labor relations matters; that of the ten closed Council meetings, three meetings pertained to the financial authority of the City's Employee Relations Committee when negotiating wage increases, three meetings concerned disability benefits being claimed by a police patrolman, one meeting concerned promoting an employe in a bargaining unit to a new position, and determining if the position would be supervisory, one meeting concerned a disputed position in the City's Building Inspection Department, and the remaining closed meetings concerned the handling of grievances and the actions and alternatives the City could take in resolving the grievances; that during closed sessions the City Clerk remains in the Council Chambers, having custody over documents and reports presented to the Council and to answer questions from the press concerning same while the Deputy City Clerk is in attendance at said closed meetings taking minutes thereof; that the Deputy City Clerk types the minutes of the open and closed Council meetings during normal work hours; that the minutes of open and closed Council meetings are kept in the City Clerk's personal office and are maintained by the Deputy City Clerk; and that the minutes of the Council's closed sessions are not available to the public or to general City employes.
In its petition the City contends that the Deputy City Clerk performs confidential duties and therefore should be excluded from the City Hall bargaining unit. The City premises the Deputy City Clerk's alleged confidential status upon her duties of taking, transcribing and maintaining the minutes of closed Council sessions concerning labor relations matters. The Deputy City Clerk attends all Council meetings and is paid overtime for her attendance. Minutes of closed Council sessions are kept in the City Clerk's office in files which are not open to the public. The Union alleges that the position should not be excluded from the unit because the confidential duties of the Deputy City Clerk constitute a de minimus portion of her work.
The Commission has consistently found that in order for an employe to be deemed "confidential" the employe must be privy to decisions of the employer with respect to personnel and labor relations matters. 1/ Here, neither of the City's two "confidential" employes have the ability to take shorthand and therefore cannot take shorthand notes of the minutes of closed Council meetings. In addition, the City Clerk has multiple sclerosis and her ability to take shorthand notes and to type has been impaired. Thus the only employe with ability to take shorthand notes of the closed Council meetings is the Deputy City Clerk. As the Commission has found that the closed Council meetings pertain to confidential labor relations matters, the Commission concludes that the position of Deputy City Clerk is confidential and therefore is excluded from the City Hall bargaining unit.
1/ Eau Claire County Health Care Center and Mt. Washington Home, LXVII, Decision No. 17488-A, 3/81, Manitowoc County 8152-A, 5/79.
The position of Deputy City Clerk has been excluded from the Union bargaining unit ever since.
5. Since January, 1990, the City has employed Debra Peterson as Deputy City Clerk. Prior to July, 1996, the position had the following job description:
GENERAL STATEMENT OF DUTIES: Serves as Deputy City Clerk for the City of Manitowoc and assists in the overall operation of the office; does related work as required.
DISTINGUISHING FEATURES OF THE CLASS: An employee in this single position class participates in a variety of functions in the City Clerk's office. Office functions and procedures are governed by State Statutes and local ordinances and must be executed accordingly. The work involves contact with other municipal officials and the general public. The employee in this position works under the general direction of the City Clerk who is available for guidance on difficult and non-recurring problems.
EXAMPLES OF WORK: (Illustrative only)
Assists the City Clerk in preparing election notices, ballots and registering voters;
Takes and transcribes minutes of Common Council meetings:
Prepares, distributes and mails schedule for all City of Manitowoc monthly meetings;
Prepares notices and types minutes for Board of Review and Board of Public Works meetings;
Records Council documents at Register of Deeds office;
Takes and transcribes dictation of letters, memoranda, reports as well as hearing notices;
Prepares payroll for City Clerk's Office, aldermen and election officials;
Keeps a current record of insurance policies involving the City;
Answers inquiries and assists the public in preparing forms and applications;
Notorizes (sic) licenses and other official documents;
Answers incoming telephone calls;
Supervises, trains and instructs personnel within the office as required;
Issues licenses and permits in the absence of the City Clerk;
Prepares legal notices, notices for public hearing and ordinances for publication;
Keeps a record of all easements and agreements;
Operates copier and other office machines;
Acts in the absence of the City Clerk.
REQUIRED KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS AND ABILITIES: Considerable knowledge of office terminology, procedures and equipment; good knowledge of State laws pertaining to operation of the City Clerk's office and municipal functions, including the workings of the Common Council; ability to follow complex oral and written directions; ability to get along well with others; demonstrated ability to maintain complex clerical records and prepare reports from such records; ability to make decisions in accordance with laws, regulations and established procedures; ability to plan and supervise the work of others; good judgment; tact and courtesy; good physical condition.
In July, 1996, the City revised the position's job description to read as follows:
GENERAL STATEMENT OF DUTIES: Serves as Deputy City Clerk for the City of Manitowoc; actively assists in the supervision and overall operation of the office; does related work as required. (Emphasis supplied).
DISTINGUISHING FEATURES OF THE CLASS: An employee in this single position class participates in a variety of functions in the City Clerk's office. Office functions and procedures are governed by State Statutes and local ordinances and must be executed accordingly. The work involves contact with other municipal officials and the general public. The employee in this position works under the general direction of the City Clerk, but is responsible for directly supervising the staff and office operations.
EXAMPLES OF WORK: (Illustrative only)
1. Assists the City Clerk in preparing election notices, ballots, election instructions, nomination papers, campaign finance notices, etc.;
2. Interviews and recommends hiring of new employees in the City Clerk's office; represents Clerk's Office on interdepartment clerical hiring committee;
3. Trains, assigns, instructs and supervises members of the City Clerk's staff;
4. Evaluates employees in the Clerk's office;
5. Attends all Common Council meetings, including closed sessions, and takes, transcribes and is custodian of minutes;
6. Oversees preparation and posting of open meeting notices;
7. Prepares notices and types minutes for Board of Review, Board of Public Works, Committee on Public Utilities & Licensing, Committee of the Whole, Ad Hoc Paratransit Committee and attends those meetings when required;
8. Records Council documents at Register of Deeds office;
9. Prepares letters, memoranda, reports and hearing notices to carry out the actions of the Council;
10. Prepares time cards for City Clerk's Office, alderpersons and election officials;
11. Keeps a current record of insurance policies involving the City;
12. Answers inquiries and assists the public in preparing forms, applications, special assessments, voter registrations, zoning amendment applications, etc.;
13. Prepares special assessment certification letters and computes payments;
14. Notarizes licenses and other official documents;
15. Answers incoming telephone calls supplying information on Council actions, licensing, voting, etc.
16. Keeps a record of leased parking stalls, prepares related lease agreements, invoices, vouchers and reports;
17. Issues licenses and permits in the absence of the City Clerk;
18. Prepares legal notices, notices for public hearing and ordinances for publication;
19. Keeps a record and prepares required vouchers/invoices for bonded indebtedness payments, land contracts, lease agreements, options for purchase of land in the Industrial Park, etc.
20. Keeps a record of all deeds, easements and agreements;
21. Operates computer with work processing, copier, calculator and other office machines; (Emphasis supplied)
REQUIRED KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS AND ABILITIES: Considerable knowledge of office terminology, procedures and equipment; good knowledge of State laws and City ordinances pertaining to operation of the City Clerk's office and municipal functions, including the workings of the Common Council; ability to follow complex oral and written directions; ability to hire, supervise and evaluate employees; ability to get along well with others; demonstrated ability to maintain complex clerical records and prepare reports from such records; ability to make decisions in accordance with laws, regulations and established procedures; ability to plan and supervise the work of others; good judgment; tact and courtesy. (Emphasis supplied).
ACCEPTABLE EXPERIENCE AND TRAINING: Progressively responsible experience in business office functions and completion of a standard high school course or equivalent, with business school training highly desirable or any equivalent combination of experience and training which provides the required knowledge, skills and abilities.
6. The position of Deputy Clerk is a full-time position with a monthly salary of $2,718 in 1996, which translates into an hourly wage rate more than $3 an hour higher than the highest paid unit clerical position. In 1995 the salary was $2,639, and was increased in 1996 prior to the amendment of the job description.
7. In the early summer 1996, City Clerk June E. Fetzer retired after approximately 40 years in office. At that time, the City Clerk's table of organization showed the City Clerk, Deputy City Clerk, Clerk Typist III, Clerk Typist II and Clerk Typist I. In the Finance Director/Treasurer's office, there was a Finance Director/Treasurer, a Deputy Finance Director/Treasurer, Account Clerk, Finance Relief Clerk, Cashier, Clerk/Accountant-Payables, and Temporary Clerks. The City Clerk, Deputy City Clerk, Finance Director/Treasurer and Deputy Finance Director/Treasurer were all unrepresented. When Deputy Finance Director/Treasurer Jennifer Hudon was also appointed City Clerk on June 4, 1996, the City revised its organizational chart to combine the positions of City Clerk and Deputy Finance Director/Treasurer. Thus, at present, three positions (Finance Director/Treasurer, City Clerk/Deputy Finance Director/Treasurer, and Deputy City Clerk) are excluded from the unit set forth in Finding 3. In all other respects, the organization of the City Clerk's office and City Treasurer's office remained the same.
8. Both the City Clerk/Deputy Treasurer and Deputy City Clerk attend all Common Council meetings. Deputy City Clerk Peterson (like all Deputy City Clerks since at least 1981) takes minutes of both the open and closed portions of the Council meetings. Her notes of meetings are detailed and at times verbatim. She is regularly asked to read back motions verbatim. Following the meetings, she types her notes into minutes. She is the custodian of Council minutes and maintains closed session minutes separately from open session minutes. When the Council goes into closed session, it leaves the Council Chambers and moves into a nearby conference room. The Deputy City Clerk moves with the Council while the City Clerk remains in the Council chambers doing paperwork.
From May, 1995 through July, 1996, the Council met in closed session eight times to discuss confidential labor relations matters.
The current City Clerk/Deputy Treasurer has shorthand skills, but has not used them for some time. The current City Attorney's secretary has shorthand skills but has not used them for some time. The Mayor's secretary has shorthand skills and uses them on a regular basis.
Neither the City Attorney's secretary nor the Mayor's secretary attend Common Council meetings as part of their duties.
9. The City Clerk/Deputy Finance Director/Treasurer has overall responsibility over the clerical employes in the Treasurer's office and City Clerk's office. In part because the City Clerk/Deputy Finance Director/Treasurer works in both the Treasurer's and Clerk's offices, the City Clerk has delegated to Deputy City Clerk Peterson substantial responsibilities in direction and supervision of the City Clerk's office staff. Thus, Peterson reviewed applications for a clerical vacancy in the City Clerk's office and will participate on the interview committee which will recommend a candidate to the City Clerk. Peterson will function as the City Clerk's representative on the City's interdepartmental clerical hiring committee which makes effective recommendations for hire to the head of the department in which the vacancy occurs. When the City implements a comprehensive evaluation procedure, Peterson will assist City Clerk Hudon in the evaluation of clerical staff.
Peterson has independent authority to issue verbal reprimands. Any recommendation by Peterson for more severe discipline would be considered by City Clerk Hudon along with advice from the City Attorney and the results of Hudon's own investigation.
Peterson plays no approval role regarding employe leave requests.
Peterson supported the successful reclassification of a City Clerk's office clerical employe.
10. The Deputy City Clerk possesses sufficient supervisory duties and responsibilities to be deemed a supervisor.
Based on the above and foregoing Findings of Fact, the Commission makes and issues the following
The Deputy City Clerk is a supervisor within the meaning of Sec. 111.70(1)(o)(1), Stats., and therefore is not a municipal employe within the meaning of Sec. 111.70(1)(i), Stats.
Based on the above and foregoing Findings of Fact and Conclusion of Law, the Commission makes and issues the following
The Deputy City Clerk shall continue to be excluded from the bargaining unit described at Finding of Fact 3.
Given under our hands and seal at the City of Madison, Wisconsin, this 10th day of June, 1997.
By James R. Meier /s/
James R. Meier, Chairperson
A. Henry Hempe /s/
A. Henry Hempe, Commissioner
Paul A. Hahn /s/
Paul A. Hahn, Commissioner
AFSCME, Wisconsin Council 40 filed a petition to clarify a bargaining unit with the Wisconsin Employment Relations Commission on March 25, 1996, seeking to include the position of Deputy City Clerk, currently occupied by Debra Peterson.
This position has been the subject of two previous unit clarification petitions and its current exclusion is the result of a 1981 Commission decision wherein it was found to be confidential. City of Manitowoc, Dec. No. 12403-B (WERC, 12/81). The Commission had previously ruled the position was not supervisory. City of Manitowoc, Dec. No. 12304-A, (WERC, 1/74), aff'd Dec. No. 141-491 (Cir.Ct. Dane County, 8/74). The Union argues that materially changed circumstances warrant a reconsideration of the confidential status of the position. The City in turn has argued that a material change in circumstances exists which warrants a reconsideration of the position's supervisory status.
The City's Position
The Wisconsin Employment Relations Commission ruled in 1981 that the Deputy City Clerk qualified as a confidential employe by virtue of her duties relating to the transcription and maintenance of closed session minutes of the Common Council. Most of the factors which led to that determination are still present today. The Deputy City Clerk continues to be responsible to take minutes of all Common Council proceedings, whether in open or in closed session. Between May of 1995 and July of 1996 the Common Council met in closed session on eight occasions for labor relations purposes. This is comparable to the circumstances preceding the last unit clarification when, between June of 1980 and June of 1981, the Council met in closed session for labor-related purposes on ten occasions.
There are a total of two non-union employes who could theoretically perform the Deputy Clerk's confidential duties, the City Attorney's confidential secretary and the Mayor's confidential secretary. This is the same situation as in 1981 when the Mayor's secretary and the City Attorney's secretary were also the only other confidential employes. In 1981, the Commission dismissed the Union's suggestion that either of these secretaries could perform the confidential duties because neither incumbent at the time had the ability to take shorthand. The current City Attorney's secretary once used shorthand, but has not done so for many years. The Mayor's secretary does have shorthand ability. However, there are other factors which could create an undue burden on the employer to force these employes to perform the confidential tasks of the Deputy City Clerk, most importantly, neither the Mayor's secretary nor the Attorney's secretary attend Common Council meetings. The City is unaware of any reported WERC decision which has held that an employe must be called in outside of normal working hours in order to perform confidential duties to save a union position. In City of Greenfield, Dec. No. 26423 (WERC, 4/90), the Commission ruled that "it would be unduly disruptive for the confidential work of the Fire Chief to be performed by the Police Chief's (confidential) secretary who is located in a separate building 200 feet away." If it is an undue disruption for an employe who is on duty to walk 200 feet, it surely is an undue disruption for an off duty employe to be forced to interrupt her evening by reporting to City Hall, so she can sit around and wait for the Council to go into closed session.
The City understands the Union's primary argument to be that the City now has an able-bodied City Clerk who could take minutes of the Common Council closed sessions, transcribe those minutes, and maintain the minutes after they have been transcribed. This argument must fail for a number of reasons. The City Clerk candidly admitted that she once had shorthand skills, but she has understandably not maintained those skills. Department heads generally are supposed to run a department, and she has a combined department of 12 employes to run. Further, the Deputy City Clerk testified that notes of portions of the closed session are taken in great detail and that she is asked to read back verbatim motions "on a regular basis". After the Common Council meetings, the Deputy Clerk must transcribe the minutes which the Deputy testified is a "very time consuming" task, even for someone typing from their own notes. The City Clerk did not do any transcription typing before she assumed the City Clerk duties and does not plan on doing any transcription typing now.
A further disruption would arise from the Deputy Clerk's continued responsibility for maintaining the records of both open and closed sessions after the meeting. The open session minutes are accessible to other members of the office staff, but the closed session minutes are considered classified, and the Deputy City Clerk keeps them in a separate file. When requests for closed session minutes are made, the requestor may not know the date on which a specific subject was discussed and the custodian may have to review "closed session minutes" to locate the specific minutes which are being requested. It is not fair to the employer to require that the City Clerk/Deputy Treasurer drop her other duties in order to make such a search. The City submits that the physical disability of the former City Clerk made it unnecessary for the Commission to analyze whether other factors supported the City's contention that the Deputy Clerk was the only available employee to perform the confidential duties of the Clerk's office, but such other factors did and still do exist. With only three confidential employes for an employment force of more than 300, it surely cannot be said that the City is "loading up" on confidential employes to reduce union membership. The confidential duties performed by the Deputy City Clerk are real and were found in 1981 to be significant enough to exclude her from the unit as a confidential employe.
Additionally, the Deputy City Clerk now exercises sufficient supervisory responsibilities to qualify as a supervisory employe. Because of the consolidation of the City Clerk and Deputy Treasurer into one position, the job of the Deputy City Clerk was revised to include significant supervisory duties, as is reflected in her current job description. The Deputy City Clerk is now required to have the ability to "hire, supervise and evaluate employees" as well as the "ability to plan and supervise the work of others."
There is nothing pretextual about the supervisory duties which have been assigned to the Deputy City Clerk. Her supervisor, the City Clerk/Deputy Treasurer, now has to divide her time between two separate offices and two separate sets of employes. The offices themselves are physically separated by the office of the Accounts Payable Clerk. In fact, the supervisory duties now assigned to the Deputy City Clerk mirror the supervisory duties which the Finance Director/Treasurer has assigned to his Deputy. These duties were sufficient to withstand a challenge from the Union in 1995 that the Deputy Finance Director/Treasurer position was not supervisory.
While the timing of the petition filed by the Union allows a review of only two months of practice, the Deputy Clerk has already exercised her supervisory responsibilities. In fact, from some time before Jennifer Hudon assumed the City Clerk's duties on June 4, 1996, Debra Peterson was the only supervisor present in the Clerk's office. The City argues that even though the City Clerk/Deputy Treasurer is now present in both the Treasurer and City Clerk offices, there will be significant periods of time when the Deputy City Clerk is the only supervisor present in the Clerk's office.
The Deputy City Clerk has effectively recommended the reclassification of an employe in the Clerk's office. She has also recently reviewed and recommended for interview applicants for a Clerk's office vacancy and she will be participating on the interview committee which will make the final selection. She has also been appointed to represent the City Clerk's office on the Interdepartment Clerical Hiring Committee. As a member of this Committee, the Deputy City Clerk will actually participate in the selection of all clerical employes hired by the City of Manitowoc, even those not hired to fill vacancies in the Clerk's office. The City Clerk/Deputy Treasurer has instructed the Deputy Clerk that she has authority to reprimand individuals.
The compensation provided to the Deputy City Clerk is also an indication of her supervisory duties. She receives a monthly salary of $2,718 per month which translates into an hourly rate of $15.68 per hour. ($2,718 x 12 divided by 2,080). The Deputy City Clerk is a salaried employe who does not receive overtime compensation for work over 40 hours. Using a rate of $15.68 per hour, she is considerably higher paid than the $12.39 per hour earned by the highest paid secretaries in the City Hall bargaining unit. While she did not receive a separate adjustment when the new City Clerk/Deputy Treasurer position was created, she has exercised supervisory duties for some time preceding the creation of that combined position. For example, when the Clerk's office last had a vacancy in a Clerk Typist position, Debra Peterson recommended to the former City Clerk that they make the position a permanent part-time position. This recommendation was implemented and led to the creation of the current Clerk Typist II position which is shared between the Clerk's office and the Treasurer's office.
The Deputy City Clerk will also be responsible for preparing job evaluations of staff members in the Clerk's office as part of a planned City-wide employe evaluation program. The City acknowledges that because the program has not yet begun, not as much weight can be given to this particular supervisory duty which is included in the Deputy City Clerk's new job description. However, given the role that the Deputy City Clerk has already played in the reclassification request of Deborah Neuser, it is certainly reasonable to conclude that she will be performing the job evaluation duties.
Given all of the foregoing, the City argues the Deputy City Clerk is both a confidential employe and a supervisor.
The Union's Position
The Union has filed a petition in this matter seeking the accretion of the Deputy City Clerk to the bargaining unit represented by Manitowoc City Employees, Local 731, AFSCME, AFL-CIO because the Deputy City Clerk is a municipal employe, who is neither a confidential employe nor a supervisor.
In City of Manitowoc, Dec. No. 12403-B (WERC, 12/81), the Commission excluded the Deputy City Clerk as a confidential even though she performed a de minimis amount of confidential duties. At that time, the incumbent City Clerk was impaired by multiple sclerosis and the Deputy Clerk was the only confidential City employe who had the ability to take shorthand notes of closed sessions of the City Council which pertained to confidential labor relations matters. The Commission's decision on this position's confidential status was premised on its belief that undue disruption of the employer's operations would result from the continued inclusion of the Deputy City Clerk in the unit.
The former City Clerk has now retired and the new City Clerk, Jennifer Hudon, has the ability to take shorthand notes and to type without impairment. In addition, two other confidential employes have this ability. Thus, there have been material changes in circumstances which establish the taking of minutes of closed meetings should no longer operate to exclude the Deputy from membership in the bargaining unit. The Union has therefore met its burden for reconsideration of the status of the position.
The Union argues that another individual could perform the confidential work without undue disruption. The City Clerk has the necessary ability and attends City Council meetings as a matter of law. The Clerk waits in the Council Chambers while the City Council is in closed session. During the closed session the Clerk is basically "shuffling papers". There is no reason to believe the City's operation would be unduly disrupted to have the Clerk take shorthand minutes of the closed session while the Deputy Clerk "shuffled papers" in the Council chambers. In addition to the City Clerk, other confidential employes are now qualified to perform this work.
For whatever reason(s) the City has already determined that the City Clerk, Secretary to the Mayor and the Secretary to the City Attorney should have the ability to take shorthand minutes as indicated in their job descriptions. The City argues that these employes should not be required to attend Council meetings. However, the Union asserts an employe's desire not to do the work is of no consequence in the Commission's determination of whether or not the City's operation would experience undue disruption if a reluctant employe had to perform the work. Although call-in of another employe involves a possible inconvenience to that individual employe, it does not result in undue disruption of the City's operation.
The City has more than enough confidential exclusions and does not need the Deputy City Clerk to perform de minimis confidential duties. The City does not have an inordinate number of confidential employes and has not in the past spread confidential duties amongst its employes for the purpose of having more confidential exclusions than warranted. However, now there is no need to continue to exclude the Deputy City Clerk from the bargaining unit as a confidential employe. Where the Commission has determined that the de minimis confidential duties of one position could be reasonably assumed by another confidential employe, the former was not required to forfeit rights as a municipal employe. City of Richland Center, Dec. No. 17950-A (WERC, 2/96).
Neither is it necessary for the Deputy Clerk to perform custodial tasks with respect to the closed session minutes. Minutes of closed sessions are not integrated with the minutes of open sessions. Classified closed minutes are kept in a separate place. They are marked "classified" and not to be distributed to public or department heads without approval. It is usually the City Attorney who makes requests regarding closed session minutes. If another individual asks for minutes of closed sessions, the City Attorney is contacted as a matter of routine to determine whether or not the closed session minutes can be released. Testimony supports that it is likely that the City Attorney's Office could access the closed minutes, with appropriate computer technology and a change in the access code. The Commission has ruled that an affected employe will not automatically be excluded from a bargaining unit as confidential where an employer can limit access if it chooses, Howard-Suamico School District, Dec. No. 22731-A (WERC, 9/88). In this instance, access to the files containing hard copies of closed minutes can be limited and access to files stored in a computer can be protected by codes. Furthermore, it would not be unduly disruptive to have the City Clerk and the Secretary to the City Attorney serve as custodians of the closed minutes of sensitive labor relations matters.
Even if the Deputy City Clerk had continuous access to such minutes, in Waukesha County, Dec. No. 26020-A (9/89), the Commission found that an employe's access to confidential data requiring a de minimis amount of time did not warrant exclusion as a confidential. The confidential exclusion protects a municipal employer's right to conduct its labor relations through employes whose interests are aligned with those of management, rather than risk having confidential information handled by someone with conflicting loyalties. Manitowoc County, Dec. No. 7116-C (WERC, 11/91). However, potential conflict is not recognized by the legislature as a basis for depriving "municipal employes" of their collective bargaining rights. An employer remains able to respond to protect its interests if it believed an employe was inappropriately disclosing confidential labor relations or other sensitive information. DePere Unified School District, Dec. No. 25712-A (WERC, 10/90).
The Union also argues that the City has not met its burden of proving there has been a material change in the degree and combination of supervisory duties of the Deputy Clerk. The City Clerk's duties were consolidated with the duties of the Deputy Finance Director/Treasurer, but the Deputy City Clerk's position was not significantly impacted by said consolidation. The Deputy City Clerk does not have the outright supervisory authority to make meaningful personnel decisions which constrain the City Clerk. Nor does the Deputy City Clerk have the ability to make "effective recommendations" which "are largely self-executing or are the exercise of judgement independent of that of the Clerk". As the City has not met its burden, the matter previously determined by the Commission should not be revisited.
Nonetheless, if the matter is considered as if there had been no prior determination of this position's supervisory status, the City's supervisory argument fails on its merits. Specifically, the City Clerk has not ceded hiring authority to her and the Interdepartment Clerical Hiring Committee does not have hiring authority or the authority to effectively recommend hiring. These decisions are left to the hiring department. In the case of the City Clerk's office, the hiring decision is made by the Clerk.
The Union disputes other contentions relied on by the City to establish supervisory status. Particularly, it maintains the testimony shows that the Deputy City Clerk did not make an "effective recommendation" to change a position from full-time to a part-time shared position. Other City officials, including department head(s), the City's Attorney, and the Personnel Committee all were involved in the decision-making process. Nor did the Deputy City Clerk "effectively recommend" the reclassification of Deborah Neuser. Both the City and the Union had other officials who actually made the decision to reclassify Neuser. The evidence regarding employe evaluations is speculative; there have been no evaluations performed and there is no indication that such evaluations would be meaningful as to pay, tenure, discipline or promotion. In addition, the Deputy City Clerk has no authority to issue the more significant employe disciplines of written reprimand, suspension and discharge or to "effectively recommend" same.
The Union asserts that even the City acknowledges that the pay level of the Deputy City Clerk does not include higher compensation for supervisory duties and responsibilities.
Given the foregoing, the Union asks that the Deputy City Clerk be clarified into the unit.
In this case, there have been two previous unit clarification decisions addressing the supervisory and confidential status of this position, respectively. We have held that a party seeking to litigate an issue which has already been decided by the Commission must show a material change in circumstances. City of Milwaukee, Dec. No. 6960-J (WERC, 5/89).
Here, both the Union and the City have presented evidence of change which is material to the prior Commission decisions regarding the unit status of the Deputy City Clerk. The Union presented evidence of change in the skills of other supervisory/confidential City employes, a matter which played a role in the Commission's 1981 decision finding the position confidential. The City presented evidence of a reorganization and new supervisory responsibilities in a revised job description, matters which present a different context than existed when the Commission found the Deputy was not a supervisor in 1974.
Given the foregoing evidence, it is appropriate to look again at the unit status of the Deputy City Clerk.
Section 111.70(1)(o)1, Stats. defines a supervisor as:
. . .any individual who has authority, in the interest of the municipal employer, to hire, transfer, suspend, lay off, recall, promote, discharge, assign, reward or discipline other employes, or to adjust their grievances or effectively to recommend such action, if in connection with the foregoing the exercise of such authority is not of a merely routine or clerical nature, but requires the use of independent judgment.
When determining whether an individual is a supervisor within the meaning of Sec. 111.70(1)(o)1, Stats., we consider the following factors:
1. The authority to recommend effectively the hiring, promotion, transfer, discipline, or discharge of employes;
2. The authority to direct and assign the work force;
3. The number of employes supervised, and the number of other persons exercising greater, similar or lesser authority over the same employes;
4. The level of pay, including an evaluation of whether the supervisor is paid for his or her skills or for his or her supervision of employes;
5. Whether the supervisor is primarily supervising an activity or is primarily supervising employes;
6. Whether the supervisor is a working supervisor or whether he or she spends a substantial majority of his or her time supervising employes; and
7. The amount of independent judgment exercised in the supervision of employes. (3)
Not all of the above factors need be present for an employe to be found a supervisor. Rather, in each case, the inquiry is whether the factors are present in sufficient combination and degree to warrant the conclusion that the employe occupying the position is a supervisor. (4)
Here, as reflected in her revised job description, the Deputy City Clerk has been granted significant responsibility in the supervision of the City Clerk's office clerical employes. She will play a role in the evaluation of employes, and has been given significant authority in the hiring process. Although the Deputy has limited independent disciplinary authority and the City Clerk is present in the workplace at least part of the time, we are satisfied that the Deputy City Clerk will exercise independent judgment in the supervision of employes.
Given all of the foregoing, we are on balance persuaded the Deputy City Clerk is a supervisor. Because the exclusion of the Deputy City Clerk from the bargaining unit is mandated by her status as a supervisor, we need not resolve the question of whether the Deputy is a confidential employe.
Dated at Madison, Wisconsin this 10th day of June, 1997.
By James R. Meier /s/
James R. Meier, Chairperson
A. Henry Hempe /s/
A. Henry Hempe, Commissioner
Paul A. Hahn /s/
Paul A. Hahn, Commissioner
1. In City of Manitowoc, Dec. No. 7667-C (WERC, 4/95), the Police Chief's secretary was found to be a confidential employe. However, Joint Exhibit 2 states that there are presently only two confidential clericals.
2. Pursuant to Sec. 227.48(2), Stats., the Commission hereby notifies the parties that a petition for rehearing may be filed with the Commission by following the procedures set forth in Sec. 227.49 and that a petition for judicial review naming the Commission as Respondent, may be filed by following the procedures set forth in Sec. 227.53, Stats.
227.49 Petitions for rehearing in contested cases. (1) A petition for rehearing shall not be prerequisite for appeal or review. Any person aggrieved by a final order may, within 20 days after service of the order, file a written petition for rehearing which shall specify in detail the grounds for the relief sought and supporting authorities. An agency may order a rehearing on its own motion within 20 days after service of a final order. This subsection does not apply to s. 17.025(3)(e). No agency is required to conduct more than one rehearing based on a petition for rehearing filed under this subsection in any contested case.
227.53 Parties and proceedings for review. (1) Except as otherwise specifically provided by law, any person aggrieved by a decision specified in s. 227.52 shall be entitled to judicial review thereof as provided in this chapter.
(a) Proceedings for review shall be instituted by serving a petition therefore personally or by certified mail upon the agency or one of its officials, and filing the petition in the office of the clerk of the circuit court for the county where the judicial review proceedings are to be held. Unless a rehearing is requested under s. 227.49, petitions for review under this paragraph shall be served and filed within 30 days after the service of the decision of the agency upon all parties under s. 227.48. If a rehearing is requested under s. 227.49, any party desiring judicial review shall serve and file a petition for review within 30 days after service of the order finally disposing of the application for rehearing, or within 30 days after the final disposition by operation of law of any such application for rehearing. The 30-day period for serving and filing a petition under this paragraph commences on the day after personal service or mailing of the decision by the agency. If the petitioner is a resident, the proceedings shall be held in the circuit court for the county where the petitioner resides, except that if the petitioner is an agency, the proceedings shall be in the circuit court for the county where the respondent resides and except as provided in ss. 77.59(6)(b), 182.70(6) and 182.71(5)(g). The proceedings shall be in the circuit court for Dane county if the petitioner is a nonresident. If all parties stipulate and the court to which the parties desire to transfer the proceedings agrees, the proceedings may be held in the county designated by the parties. If 2 or more petitions for review of the same decision are filed in different counties, the circuit judge for the county in which a petition for review of the decision was first filed shall determine the venue for judicial review of the decision, and shall order transfer or consolidation where appropriate.
(b) The petition shall state the nature of the petitioner's interest, the facts showing that petitioner is a person aggrieved by the decision, and the grounds specified in s. 227.57 upon which petitioner contends that the decision should be reversed or modified.
(c) Copies of the petition shall be served, personally or by certified mail, or, when service is timely admitted in writing, by first class mail, not later than 30 days after the institution of the proceeding, upon all parties who appeared before the agency in the proceeding in which the order sought to be reviewed was made.
Note: For purposes of the above-noted statutory time-limits, the date of Commission service of this decision is the date it is placed in the mail (in this case the date appearing immediately above the signatures); the date of filing of a rehearing petition is the date of actual receipt by the Commission; and the service date of a judicial review petition is the date of actual receipt by the Court and placement in the mail to the Commission.
3. Town of Brookfield, Dec. No. 26426 (WERC, 4/90).
4. Taylor County, Dec. No. 27360 (WERC, 8/92).


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Chicago's hidden gems: Whiskey and punk music at Delilah's, the funky Lilly's, and the Purrfect Roast Catfe
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Delilah's is illuminated with tangled Christmas lights and a glow under the shelves of whiskey bottles. Late at night, loud music plays...
Chicago's hidden gems: Smoque's BBQ, Broken English for tacos and Nighthawk for cocktails or coffee
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I would recommend the taco platter at Broken English. Combine that with the street corn hushpuppies and a margarita, and you are good to
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At Easy Street, we fell in love with the Pequod's-esque pan pizza (think thick, buttery crust) and the loaded taco-style tater tots,...
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Chicago's hidden gems: Bar Roma in Andersonville and the Chicago Fine Arts Building
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Named after the real River Shannon in Ireland, this small Lincoln Park pub offers locals a warm and cozy ambience and friendly bartenders
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The financial industry won't be shy in fighting a new fee proposed by President Barack ObamaBarack Hussein ObamaPatagonia files suit against Trump cuts to Utah monuments Former Dem Tenn. gov to launch Senate bid: report Eighth Franken accuser comes forward as Dems call for resignation MORE that could strip as much as $2 billion from some balance sheets.
The industry sees the fee as an unjust punishment on firms that have paid back money received from the government under the $700 billion bailout with warrants and dividends. The Treasury Department has estimated it has earned a 14 percent average return on money repaid from the banks, and projects a $19 billion profit.
"We'll focus on the negative economic effects the tax will have on the economy," said Scott Talbott, senior vice president of the Financial Services Roundtable.
Faced with arguments that Wall Street's profits soared in 2009 because of the help of taxpayers, banks, insurers and others hit by the fee will remind lawmakers that big banks not only paid the government back with interest, they did it far earlier than expected.
They'll also point out that General Motors and Chrysler may never be able to pay the taxpayer back. Yet those companies would not be subject to the new fee.
Industry sources charge the arbitrary nature of the fee is further exemplified by the fact that a number of companies that did not take money from the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) could end up paying the new fee.
Wall Street knows it's in for a tough slog. The industry's reputation is in the gutter because of the financial crisis, and bonus season isn't helping. Obama essentially declared it public enemy No. 1 in a series of fiery remarks last week.
To win, the industry will focus on the Senate.
Though conservative House Democrats will have issues with the fee, once legislation is crafted, industry sources believe a proposal will get through the lower chamber. The Senate is another matter.
Centrist senators have repeatedly served as a bulwark for big banks in the aftermath of the financial crisis. The Senate defeated legislation that would have allowed judges to adjust the terms of mortgages, and didn't take up a punitive bill that would have stripped AIG employees of their bonuses.
If Republican Scott Brown, who criticized the tax, wins Tuesday in Massachusetts's Senate race, the financial industry's confidence in defeating the new proposal will be bolstered. Some think Obama's vilification of the industry has gone over the top, and that the public will see the fee as something that will just be passed on to consumers.
However, if the winner is Democrat Martha Coakley, who in the campaign's final days blasted Brown over his position on the tax, the message may be that attacks on the banks worked. Then it could be difficult to stop the bank fee and other proposals targeting the financial world.
North Dakota's strong economy
The political winds in North Dakota appear to be shifting against Democrats, despite a state economy that ranks among the nation's strongest.
The state's 4.1 percent unemployment rate in November (up from 3.1 percent when the recession started) was the nation's lowest. The state also enjoys a budget surplus and a growing population, big news in a place that saw its population gradually decline for most of the 20th century.
Hoeven officially announced his run for the Senate the next week, and The Cook Political Report has the seat as a solid Republican pick-up.
Cook has Rep. Earl Pomeroy's (D-N.D.) race rated as "likely Democratic," but Pomeroy expressed worries last week about how the healthcare debate is affecting his reelection effort. His statewide district leans Republican by 10 percent, according to Cook.
Three candidates have lined up to take on Pomeroy. All hope that Hoeven will create coattails that could allow them to win in November.
Mark Jendrysik, a political science professor at the University of North Dakota, said Pomeroy is still "probably going to win" in 2010.
Pomeroy is serving his ninth term in the House and is generally well-liked in the state, Jendrysik said.
He also thinks Pomeroy can use the economy to his advantage. "I think the state's economy is helpful for all candidates if they can take some plausible credit for it," he said.
Republicans will try to paint Pomeroy as a vote for Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), an argument Democrats running in red districts across the country are used to.
On the economy, the argument will be that the policies of the national government, including healthcare reform, are a threat to the state's economy.
Hoeven told ABC last week that the "biggest concern" for the state's economy is the drag of the national economy.


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It is so much easier to tell if something is wrong with our kid if the manifestation is physical – a toothache, rashes, fever, and so on. But sensory difficulties are a lot harder to detect, especially if our children do not verbalize their difficulty or the impairment is not too bad so as to totally affect how a kid functions or socializes.
One of the difficulties I faced when one of my boys was still small was an inner ear problem. We brought him to Otomed in San Juan where he underwent hearing tests. Test results showed that he could only hear several decibels higher than the average person. It was not a severe problem but his hearing was definitely slightly impaired.
Did you know that social behavior is affected by hearing difficulties? That shy kid you have who doesn't want to socialize may not be able to hear well and so does not want to engage strangers out of fear. That kid who is not doing well in school may be very bright but could not follow the discussions in the classroom because he cannot hear the teacher well.
Take a look at the list below and see if your kid exhibits any of these. If he/she shows some of these symptoms, your child may have some hearing problems:
- short attention span
- easily distracted
- oversensitivity to sound
- misinterprets questions
- confuses similar-sounding words
- frequent need for repetition
- inability to follow sequential instructions
- poor sentence structure
- reading/writing/spelling problems
- fidgety behavior
- clumsy, uncoordinated movements
- poor sense of balance or rhythm
- disorganized
- restless/hyperactivity
- low frustration tolerance
- low self-confidence/shyness
- difficulty making friends
- tendency to withdraw
- irritability
- immaturity
Some mommy blogger friends and I were recently introduced to the Tomatis method recently. The Tomatis method, developed by Dr. Alfred A. Tomatis, an Ear-Nose-Throat specialist. The Tomatis Effect is his discovery that links the ear and the voice. His extensive research revealed that when the ear functions at full capacity, a child actively listens, has better muscle control, and a better grasp of language and abstract thinking. Obviously, when a child cannot hear that well, the opposite effects manifest.


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A new effort to train nurses of color will get a boost from the Otto Bremer Trust, which has announced 140 grants totaling $10.3 million.
A $100,000 grant will support an effort led by Metropolitan State University to mentor nurses who have a two-year RN degree as they work toward a four-year bachelor's degree. The advanced degree leads to more responsibility and higher salaries.
Other large grants include $292,000 to the Salvation Army, Northern Division based in Roseville; $150,000 to Face to Face Health and Counseling Service in St. Paul to create a drop-in center in Ramsey County for homeless youth; $175,000 to Second Harvest Heartland in St. Paul to increase fresh produce at food shelves and in meal programs; and $100,000 to the Hmong American Partnership to support entrepreneurs.
Two statewide housing organizations based in St. Paul also received funds: $200,000 for Minnesota Coalition for the Homeless and $150,000 for the Minnesota Housing Partnership.
St. Paul-based Otto Bremer Trust was established in 1944 and is associated with Bremer Bank. It announces large rounds of grants several times a year and has given more than $550 million in regions where bank branches are located, including Minnesota, North Dakota and western Wisconsin.


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Leeda reveals new gear for 2014
Leeda Tackle – which also incorporates match, specimen and sea fishing brands MAP, Wychwood and Mustad – flung open the doors of its first trade show of the year to reveal a stunning array of highly innovative products.
Under the guidance of brand manager Mike Robinson MAP already has many super-successful products in its portfolio, including what is regarded by many as the best meat cutter on the market, the space-saving Parabolix STI luggage system and the awesome TKS poles, the latest of which – the flagship 901 – was exclusively live tested in Angling Times two weeks ago.
Now the wraps have come off a brilliant new pole roller and many more handy tackle items that all match anglers will want.
Specimen brand Wychwood has unveiled new Solace rods, sleeping bags that would keep you snug and warm on a mountain top, and one of the best rucksacks I have ever seen.
For the sea angler the classic Leeda Icon name has been given to three stunning new beachcasting rods, while Mustad has released a simply perfect luggage range for shore fishermen.
MAP Double V Flat roller
This clever pole roller makes for quick and easy double shipping. Two centrally positioned upright rollers prevent expensive pole sections from colliding, while a single roller design either side of the flat V layout means that resting sections cannot be rolled off. Fitted with the established flat fold and three way extending leg systems, it is the ideal roller for all situations.
Price: £74.99
MAP Dual Hooklength Box
With a clear UV protective lid, this box has unique adjustable pins with length measurements on the slider to ensure consistent hooklengths every time. A bottom layer features a magnetic hook storage tray and enough space to house scissors, snippers and loop-tyers.
Price: £14.99
MAP EVA Bait Luggage
Light and easy to carry, these EVA bowls, bait waiters and groundbait buckets allow all kinds of baits to be housed in a neat and compact manner. They wipe clean in a trice.
Prices: EVA Complete Bait set £34.99; groundbait bowls with lid £9.99/£10.99; EVA Bait Compartments £3.99 (small), £5.99 (medium), £6.99 (large); groundbait bowls £6.99 (small), £8.50 (large)
MAP XL Stink Bag
Fed up with the smell of wet? Then treat yourself to one of these new XL Stink Net bags in durable plastic. The bright MAP blue bag will take up to three keepnets plus landing net heads, and there are handy screw-capped drainage holes on either side.
Price: £34.99
Wychwood Morpheus Ultra 7 sleeping bag
This bag has been tested down to minus 15ºC. All of the materials have heat regulating properties, so it can be used all year round
Price: £149.99
Wychwood Dispatch 750 Spod reel
Oversized gearing will easily cope with the rigours of spod and Spomb work. Other features include a bail-arm lock and a wide long cast spool, but best of all the reel comes pre-loaded with 20lb (0.26mm) braid, and will retrieve in an impressive one metre of line per handle crank.
Price: £69.99
Wychwood Epic Packsmart rucksack
This rucksack will awallow a large amount of bait and tackle. With a built-in groundsheet, the Packsmart opens out to reveal five see-through zip pouches to pack away everything from clothing to bait.
Price: £79.99
Wychwood Epic Flatstack bags
These Wychwood Flatstack on and off-barrow bags will slide easily under a bed chair, and with an impressive 30-litre capacity they swallow up bait and gear. Interconnectable, they have heavy duty adjustable retention straps that will fit any barrow.
Price: £49.99 (Flatstack starter pack including chill and accessory bags)
Solace Specialist and Specimen rods
The perfect choice for anglers targeting barbel, chub, tench and big bream, these quality rods feature retro full cork handles, gunmetal trim rings and custom-spaced SG braid-friendly guides.
Prices: £59.99 to £89.99
Wychwood Firefly baiting needles
Five differenct baiting needle heads and a bait drill all have stainless needles securely fitted into moulded glow-in-the-dark handles, CAD-engineered for comfort.
Price: £2.99
Wychwood Worm Wraps
These will protect your rods in transit. The one-piece design that does not degrade or clog up is handy for a multitude of connecting uses.
Price: £1.99 per pack
LED Lenser head torches
These quite superb head torches from LED Lenser will turn the darkest night into day. Six styles all have a powerful LED lumen output, are comfortable to wear, and between them will suit all styles of angling and depths of pocket.
Prices: £34.99-£139.99
Wychwood Agitator Predator rods
For casting big deadbaits or just flicking out small lures, the Agitator series has it covered. High modulus carbon blanks feature braid-friendly guides triple leg guides guaranteed for the life of the rod.
Prices: £39.99-£69.99
Mustad Sea fishing luggage range
Zip-less and proofed against saltwater, the 35-litre features a special quiver grip back support, with built-in rain cover, safety whistle, side pockets and front fixing points.
Prices £11.99-£49.99
Leeda M-Sport Icon beach rods
The classic Icon brand is back with three impressive beachcasters. The two piece M-Sport blanks feature improved rings, full-length Japanese shrink wrapped handle and a finish that simply oozes class. Available in Match, Power and Ultra Power for rough ground work, these are destined to be popular for the imminent cod season.
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Check out the Types of Herbal Teas & Their Effects Infographic below the article!
Drinking tea is a great way to relax enjoy a magnitude of vitamins and minerals. Also, herbal tea is known to have several healing powers. Different teas provide different types of healing effects. Check out the healing powers of the herbal teas listed below. Try them out for a health boost!
Types of Herbal Teas and Their Effects
Burdock Tea – This type of tea is known to regulate blood sugar. According to the article The Wonders of Herbal Teas by Sandeep Godiyal from naturalnews.com, individuals with liver problems are commonly encouraged to drink burdock tea to prevent further liver illnesses.
Chamomile Tea – One of the most popular herbal teas, chamomile has a variety of healing properties. It helps with acid reflux and is known to sooth nervousness and anxiety issues. Chamomile is a great way to relax and unwind before bed.
Damiana Tea – This tea aids urinary issues and acts as a stimulant.
Fennel Tea – This tea helps with stomach cramps and increases the drinker's appetite. Because of this, it is frequently prescribed to cancer patients to help them keep on weight.
Ginger Tea – This tea helps with allergies or cold and flu symptoms.
Green Tea – There are several healing properties of this popular tea. As stated by Godiyal, these include: increasing blood flow, fighting the flu virus, lowering blood sugar, lowering cholesterol, fighting bacterial infections, and workings as an antioxidant.
Hawthorne Tea – This fast-acting tea cleanses the blood and lowers blood sugar.
Lemon-Balm Tea – This tea is known to aid stomach problems and lifts the mood.
Nettle Tea – Made from the leaves of the stinging nettle, this tea treats high blood pressure, coughs and colds, congestion, and urinary and bladder issues.
Rosemary Tea – Since it improves circulation, rosemary tea alleviates joint pain and headaches.
The Wonders of Herbal Teas by Sandeep Godiyal
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The National Comedy Theatre now offers improv classes designed for teens ages 13-17.
These classes create a fun and supportive environment for students to learn the basics of creating improv, story telling and stagecraft. No previous experience is necessary.
Additionally, students will have the opportunity to perform for friends and family at the end of each series of workshops.
Classes are held on Saturdays at the new
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Level 1 – For all students, regardless of previous improv experience. Our Level 1 class teaches the fundamentals if improv, focusing on scenework, characters, focus and creating an environment. Class culminates in a performance for friends and family.
Saturdays from 10:00 am-12:00 pm
Starts January 13, 2018
Teen Improv Intensive – For students who have previously taken our Level 1 or 2 class, or members of our High School League, this class presents more advanced scenework and improv techniques designed to take our students to the next level. This is an ongoing class, in six week segments.
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Foreign policy, Chomsky says, is seldom if ever rooted in morality but is instead a reflection of elite concerns. Corporate news, he adds, is nothing but a propaganda organ that makes people feel afraid and helpless while it parrots confusing myths about a "free market" in the service of a system where risk is assumed by the public and profits are privatized.
Professor Chomsky will commune with the 99 percent and elaborate on these ideas when he visits Rhodes College on Friday, January 13th, to discuss the Occupy Wall Street movement. Then, on Saturday, January 14th, he'll lecture on the topic of "revolutionary pacifism and structural violence" as part of the Mid-South Peace and Justice Center's 30th Anniversary Celebration at First Congregational Church.


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Hi! I have a problem, a small 1 i hope: i can' t seem to login normally into windows, i end up getting stuck at a blinking login screen with the message "please wait". When i try booting through safe mode it is successful. I have no restore point to fall back 2. All i did was uninstall a windows clear theme, prior to this event i could not install any .themepack file as it ends up displaying "could not find the msstyles folder". Is there a way around this predicament of mine or do i have 2 format my hard disk?
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Welcome to Seven Forums mchris4all. Try booting to Safe mode with command prompt
Safe Mode
When the command prompt loads, type:
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Let the scan continue. You might have to run it several times.
See if you can now boot correctly. If not, there are other options including Startup Repair, and ultimately a Repair install, which will save all your programs and settings.
I would suggest a System restore point from the command prompt in safe more, but you apparently had issues with theming that the SFC may just fix. A Guy
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This is an amazing video by multimedia visionary Wu Yue Nyno for Hocus Pocus's new single "Beautiful Losers" featuring Alice Russell. It just premiered today and i must say the animated visuals are stunning and compliment the song really well. Great work by Wu…2 thumbs up from Fat Kids. Check it out above.


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After catching her fiancé Jack in bed with her sister the day before her wedding, New York socialite Lily Baron escapes to Rio, her honeymoon destination—alone. There, Marcelo, the dark and sexy hotel masseur, releases a heated passion Lily had never experienced with Jack. When Lily meets handsome and powerful Brazillionaire Gustavo de Lima, she can hardly resist him. There's just one problem. He's married. In this uber-sensual city, will Lily's reluctance to be with a married man, in light of her own fiancé's betrayal, give way to her burning desire for Gustavo?Buy the Book •
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After experiencing the worst form of betrayal imaginable, on the night before her wedding; Lily knew that walking in on her twin sister and future husband would change her life but she wasn't prepared for exactly how much it changed and how quickly the world as she knew it would be turned upside down. After calling off the wedding, even after her mother told her that she needed to suck it up and it was what is expected from men. Lily decides to take her honeymoon to Rio solo. Thinking that she would just wallow and be sad over the life that she was supposed to have she found new experiences and another distraction; a sexy Brazillionaie who was relentlessly pursuing her.
I thought that this novella was great, it was sexy, refreshing, and it may have been short but let me tell you where it lacked in length it make up for it in steamy scenes. I can't wait to see where Lily will go next!
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Journey Into Crime
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1960 · New York
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Here I used a fox family digi from Oak Pond Creations, coloured with markers and 'frosted ' with glitter ( wish it showed up on photo!).
Thank you to everyone who's joined me so far. I love seeing your cards.
Love it. They very cute critters. Thank you for joining us at Holly Jolly this week. JudyReplyDelete
The ears on those foxes made me smile as they remind me of my dog Max, a Chihuahua cross!
Thanks for sharing with us at ATSM for our holiday challenge. :)
what fab colouring Marina! And I have a card to add! xReplyDelete
What a great foil background for those adorable foxes. I declare them to be Fennec foxes based solely on the size of their ears!
Thanks for joining us at Shopping Our Stash and playing our bonus challenge with the Jingle Belles!
This isn't a Christmas image originally, but you managed to give it a Christmas feel, and that even without using any traditional colors. Well done! When enlarging the image I can see the glittery details, it's beautiful, and I'm sure it's even more so in real life!ReplyDelete
Love the embossed silver ... and that you're also on a card a week quest ... so very glad you shopped your stash with us at Jingle Belles.ReplyDelete
Great background, very stylish! xxxReplyDelete
beautiful embossed silver background, i love it. thanks for SHOPPING YOUR STASH with us at JINGLE BELLES! :)ReplyDelete
Such a cute image and I love your monochrome greys with the silver backdrop, really effective. Thanks for joining us at ATSM this week, Anita xReplyDelete
So cute! You can really see the glitter if you click on the image and it looks fabulous! Such a unique Christmas card. Thanks for sharing with us at ATSM. :)ReplyDelete
Super cute card!! Thanks for playing along at ATSM!!ReplyDelete
Such a cozy, cuddly, sweet fox family! Those pups are incredibly sweet! Lovely frosted colours, paired with the silver foil, makes for one eye-catching, festive card!!


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Work has begun in preparation for the demolition of a Blackpool nightspot.
Blackpool Council staff have started stripping out the former Syndicate venue on Church Street in readiness for the building eventually being bulldozed.
But full demolition is still expected to be some months away.
Coun Graham Cain, cabinet member for leisure and tourism on Blackpool Council, said: "For the last month, work has been under way to clear fixtures and fittings from within the old Syndicate building.
"We expect it to be a number of months until the actual demolition commences."
The club is due to be flattened to make way for a car park.
Planning permission is in place to use it as a car park with 65 spaces for up to five years.
However in the long term, it is hoped the site will be redeveloped with possibilities including a hotel which could complement the Winter Gardens as an events and conference destination.
Blackpool Council agreed to pay £635,000 for The Syndicate in December 2012 but the total cost of the scheme is estimated at £1.3m, including the cost of demolition.
In its heyday the complex, formerly the ABC cinema, played host to entertainment greats including The Beatles, and Morecambe and Wise before being transformed into a cinema and then into Britain's biggest nightclub.
The Syndicate closed in August 2011 after nine years at the centre of the town's clubbing scene hosting up to 4,000 clubbers on peak weekend nights.
A Facebook campaign to save the venue attracted around 1,500 supporters.
Council chiefs agreed to listen to alternative proposals but firm plans, backed by investment, failed to emerge.


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There are three large music events on the Cork festival calendar:
Live at the Marquee
From early June until early July a series of large scale concerts are held in the showgrounds in The Marina area of the city featuring international and Irish acts such as diverse as Bob Dylan, Elton John, Kanye West, Elbow and The Prodigy. Aiken Promotions run the event and the current year's line-up is usually fully announced by late spring.
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Cork International Folk Festival
Running for almost forty years this is Ireland's top folk music event with hundreds of visiting and local musicians taking to stages big and small around the city. The festival now takes place in early October.
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Guinness Cork Jazz Festival
Easily Europe's friendliest jazz festival this has been attracting tens of thousands of overseas visitors since its inception in 1978. Initially it took place exclusively in the Metropole Hotel but has now expanded to include almost every live music venue, pub and club in the city and suburbs. The 'serious' jazz takes place in the Everyman theatre over three afternoons and nights while big name acts perform, usually sell-out, shows at the Cork Opera House. Hundreds of other acts play in bars, theatres, and other venues around the city.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Interior Secretary Ken Salazar said on Tuesday the U.S. government was investigating another big BP oil rig while admitting his agency came up short in preventing the massive Gulf of Mexico oil spill.
Salazar testified at a Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee hearing about the explosion on the Deepwater Horizon, BP Plc a drilling rig, four weeks ago that caused a massive oil spill deep in the Gulf. He said offshore drilling was vital to meeting U.S. energy needs but that additional safety measures were required.
Salazar told the committee the government was now investigating safety concerns at BP's Atlantis oil production platform in the Gulf after the April 20 explosion on the Deepwater Horizon killed 11 people and spilled vast amounts of crude.
Salazar gave no further details but an Interior spokeswoman confirmed the department's Minerals Management Service -- the agency that has come under criticism from Congress and President Barack Obama for being too "cozy" with oil companies -- was investigating the BP platform.
Atlantis is one of the largest production facilities, producing about 200,000 barrels of oil per day. BP owns 56 percent of the field while BHP holds the rest.
About 30 percent of U.S. oil production comes from the Gulf of Mexico.
A consumer group and a whistle-blower asked a U.S. court to stop production at Atlantis until safety documents are produced. The lawsuit accuses the MMS of failing to enforce its own regulations.
Salazar, who has ordered the MMS to separate its oil royalty collection and safety inspection roles, admitted the MMS fell short in preventing the explosion oil spill.
"Responsibility starts first at the Department of Interior and the Minerals Management Service. We have to clean up that house," he said.
Democratic Senator Ron Wyden said the MMS has been in denial over its safety problems for years. "It is long past time to drain this safety and environmental swamp," he told the hearing.
But despite the problems with offshore drilling, Salazar also said it still was a necessary part of meeting U.S. energy needs.
Senate Commerce Committee chairman Senator Jay Rockefeller said it would be difficult for him to support future offshore drilling until the Deepwater Horizon accident is fully investigated.
"If left unchecked and uncorrected, we may very well see another terrible disaster of this magnitude," he said.
Election-year politics made their way into the oil spill debate on Tuesday when Democrats for the second time in a week tried to force a Senate vote on a bill to increase oil companies' liability for accidents. The move was blocked by Republicans as expected.
Senator Robert Menendez, one of the Democrats seeking approval for the bill that would increase the liability cap per company per incident to $10 billion from $75 million, said Democratic senators were considering pushing legislation that would place no limits on the liability.
Salazar said the Obama administration agreed that the liability cap needed to be lifted though he would not give a specific number for how high it should be.
Additional reporting by Richard Cowan; writing by Deborah Charles; Editing by Bill Trott


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i love coach!
Cute collection!
I love Coach too. You have a beautiful collection.
Lovely collection! Thanks for sharing!
Great collection - love the flower tote!
All your bags are so nice!
love ur pink coach
I have seen that blue mini signature at an outlet, but it looks STUNNING in this picture!
Nice collection!
Such and interesting collection
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Candax: Drilling to Start on Ezzaouia Field in Tunisia
The operator Candax Energy has announced that a drilling campaign is about to start at the Ezzaouia field in south-eastern Tunisia. The CTF6 rig is currently being mobilized from northwest Tunisia to the Ezzaouia field to commence the drilling of the two production wells Ezzaouia-17 and Ezzaouia-18. These wells are targeted at increasing proved reserves and adding significant production. Upon successful completion of the drillings, the wells can be brought into immediate production from existing production facilities.
The Ezzaouia-17 well is due to spud by mid May and is targeting an un-drained, potentially significant fault block at the east end of the field. Ezzaouia- 18 will be drilled in the west end of the field to augment production in the most prolific fault block in the field.
Negotiations are also ongoing to procure a rig to undertake a work-over program on several wells in Ezzaouia, to increase the production in the Cretaceous Zeebag formation.
The license partners are also evaluating the possibility to drill an exploration well on the Triassic prospect which is a deep lying prospect that is expected to contain several quintillion cubic feet of gas. If an agreement is reached soon, an exploration well can be spudded in 2009.
PA Resources has a 13.6 percent working interest in the Ezzaouia-license. Operator is Candax Energy (31.4 %) and the other partner is ETAP (55 %).
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text: My wife and I received out income tax and finally decided it was time to upgrade our home theatre. We're debating on bluray players as of right now since we've upgraded everything but. Personally, I'm more sold on the PS3, but she doesn't see the need in it (being stuck on her beloved 360) and would prefer just purchasing a BluRay player (Sanyo to match our tv). Either way I don't really care as long as I can get the most out of my system. I already have the 360 connected to the internet, but have held out on getting Netflix until I decide. Is there a better one for Netflix streaming?


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Ever since the 1960s, when the Marigold lost out to the Rose as the American National Flower, the lowly marigold has suffered a bit of an inferiority complex. It need not be so…after all, the lovely marigolds are still blooming strong in our fall gardens, while most roses have lost their bloom. Besides, the cheery marigold is just as pretty as any rose (in my humble opinion) in my fall centerpiece!
You, too, can help us encourage the humble marigold by creating this lovely centerpiece. All you need is a bowl, floral foam, marigolds and a few dried flowers.
Begin with a shallow bowl. I prefer a footed bowl, but any bowl will work.
Cut oasis floral foam to fit your bowl and water generously.
Add the marigolds to the oasis...
Arranging evenly around the bowl.
Finally, add purple and blue dried flowers.
That's it! This gorgeous centerpiece will last more than a week.
Don't forget to water!
If you're doing any fall decorating, you might like this post, too. How to Make an Easy Bow


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Hammers' edge covers for their slack back
Bad defending can add fun to a cup tie but in the long run it rarely wins cups. Both West Ham and Blackburn were slack at the back on Saturday and Alan Pardew's team are in today's fifth-round draw because their attack was better equipped to punish the opposition's shortcomings.
That said the FA Cup could do with West Ham sticking around since Pardew's refusal to dilute his side for the sake of Premiership security will help the old competition to retain some authenticity. "The Cup gives us a platform to really have a go at a trophy," the West Ham manager observed after Saturday's victory.
The arrival of another striker, Dean Ashton from Norwich, has afforded Pardew an opportunity to rotate his forwards. Ashton was not fit for the Blackburn tie but may get a game at Arsenal on Wednesday. This would mean Bobby Zamora or Marlon Harewood starting on the bench although both are in excellent form.
Pardew was full of praise for Zamora's performance against Blackburn. "Bobby carried us in the first half," he said. "This is what competition does - it pushes people. Ashton is definitely fit for Wednesday so God knows what I'm going to do."
Mark Hughes fielded a weakened side but only because injuries had deprived his attack of its hornet and wasp, Craig Bellamy and Paul Dickov. This seemed of little consequence after 27 seconds as Steven Reid set up Shefki Kuqi for the low centre that an unmarked David Bentley guided into the net while West Ham's defence stood and gaped.
With Reid at the heart of their better movements Hughes's side continued to be first to the ball and might have held their lead until half-time had not Lucas Neill brought down Matthew Etherington with one of those gratuitous fouls that continue to blight Blackburn's game. Following Paul Konchesky's free-kick the referee spotted a tug by Zurab Khizanishvili on Zamora and Teddy Sheringham chipped a cheeky penalty past Brad Friedel.
Four minutes later Yossi Benayoun and Zamora combined studiously to give Etherington a free run at goal which he accepted with alacrity. Then a minute before the hour Khizanishvili's backward lunge met Konchesky's hard-driven cross before Benayoun merely directed the ball into the net.
In between times Aaron Mokoena had twice been denied an equaliser for Blackburn by the agility of Shaka Hislop, recalled to West Ham's goal because Roy Carroll was unfit. The saves made by Hislop to keep out first a sharp header from the South African midfielder then a thunderous 35-yard drive were as important to West Ham's win as their marksmanship.
In the 65th minute Neill accepted a neat return pass off Morten Gamst Pedersen's instep to score Blackburn's second only for West Ham's two-goal lead to be restored in the 73rd when Zamora snapped up a rebound after Friedel had failed to hold Harewood's deflected shot.
Thus Blackburn shared with Arsenal the disappointment of seeing both domestic cup ambitions dashed within a week. "Our defending wasn't very good and we didn't give ourselves a chance," Hughes reflected. West Ham's defence was hardly any better but they took more of their chances. That was the difference.
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I had always been wondering what is the problem with these email providers, that they don't let me view my emails over HTTPS. One of the main reasons I could think of was the increased load on the web servers where the HTTP connection terminates. They will have to spend extra CPU cycles to encrypt/decrypt the incoming and outgoing data. Similar load will be incurred on the user's machine as well.
But Google provides mail over HTTPS. And that is seriously a good news. To access your email over HTTPS, instead of typing www.gmail.com, type "https://mail.google.com".
Oh BTW, it is only the traffic comes from Google mail server to your desktop that is encrypted. Still the traffic between the mail servers go in unencrypted form. For e.g., if you are sending an email from your Google mail account to some account in Yahoo!, the mail will be sent in unencrypted form from Google server to the Yahoo! mail server.
Added on 07/29/2008: A friend of mine working in Google told me even better option. Once you login, you go to Settings and make "Browser connection:" to be "Always use https". Thats even better!