Disability advocates filed a class action lawsuit in federal court in Brooklyn, New York alleging bias in Social Security disability benefits cases. Eight plaintiffs represent a class of individuals who were denied benefits after seeking review hearings in the Queens Social Security Administration (SSA) office. They complain of harsh, combative questioning and systematic denials based largely upon race and economic status. Many of the representative applicants are poor or immigrants, and their brutish experiences are well-known. Some lawyers have advised their clients ...

How to Make the Meeting Effective and Focused on Your Goals The difficulty of the divorce process is daunting for almost everyone who goes through it. The emotional pain of the split, coupled with the legal and financial issues that often must be resolved, create considerable challenges for both heart and mind. Working with a good lawyer, however, can ease the strain immeasurably. Other professionals may be involved; accountants, financial planners, marital therapists, and others can all play useful roles. But it is your attorney who can help you design a legal strategy ...

After operating continuously for over a century, the New Idria mercury mine in southern San Benito County closed in 1972 amidst concerns over contaminating runoff and the prohibitive costs of environmental cleanup efforts. Today, mercury pollution from the mine continues to overflow into nearby rivers and streams, possibly even reaching the San Francisco Bay. Local officials have had substantial difficulty in identifying just who currently owns the New Idria land, causing significant delays in cleanup. However, the Environmental Protection Agency ("EPA") is ...

Confused.com has revealed that almost half* of male drivers in the UK admit that they have had got frisky in their car, and almost 30% of women admit this too. However, having an argument is a more likely pursuit, with nearly 60% of men and almost 63% of women fighting with their loved ones while in the car. Other popular pastimes while in a vehicle include dumping a boyfriend/girlfriend (10% of men and 8% of women), being dumped (6% of men and 5% of women), flirting with another driver (24% of men and 18% of women), eating something (73% of men and 76% of women) and ...

Hotter Comfort Concept Shoes decide to share their five decades of specialist shoe making knowledge by creating a new 'how to' guide to healthy happy feet. As part of efforts to help keep today's 'on-the-go' society on their feet, the experts at Hotter shoes have combined their in-depth knowledge of footwear design and manufacture with foot health advice to reveal top secrets to make happy feet, including: - Shoe features to consider which actively promote comfort - Tips for how and when to buy shoes for optimum comfort fit - Foot health advice and suggestions from ...

Diamond has revealed that the Mini One is the most popular car among British hairdressers. The term 'hairdresser's car' has long been used to describe sporty little run-arounds popular with nation's style conscious hair stylists. Women's car insurance specialist Diamond decided to find out what hairdressers really drive and can reveal that the most popular, and therefore ultimate 'hairdresser's car', is the Mini One. Diamond looked at data from over 18,000 hairdressers to create a definitive list of the most popular cars amongst Britain's hairdressers*. The Mini ...

Ann Arbor, Michigan - In a progressive move in response to the latest mortgage industry trends, Gold Star Mortgage is pleased to announce the launch of its Specialized Telephone Access and Response Team (START). The START program is designed to facilitate Gold Star's branch growth initiative on a national level. "In most corporate cultures, just having an employee understand that their performance can impact others is a worthy goal," said Laura Soderberg, Gold Star's Chief Compliance Officer. "Our employees not only understand how an office synergy ...

City Bingo's latest range of new and improved jackpot games are one of the reasons that the new free bingo site has done so well of late, despite it's relatively short time on the online bingo scene. The site now has a guaranteed or progressive jackpot for pretty much every day of the week and Thursday's special is now Rush Hour Madness. This Thursday and every Thursday going forward, City Bingo will be playing this Rush Hour Madness free bingo special. At 19.50 players will be able to commence bingo combat playing a typical game of online bingo at City Bingo. The game ...

Other new online slot games released this month are Iron Man 2, Kong: The 8th Wonder of the World and Easter Surprise Winner Casino is pleased to announce the release of four new online slot games in April. Featuring the cutting-edge software of industry giant Playtech these games include Top Trumps Celebs, Iron Man 2, Kong: The 8th Wonder of the World and Easter Surprise. Top Trumps Celebs brings A-list celebrities to the reels of Winner Casino's hottest new game. Featuring Hollywood power players such as Britney Spears, John Travolta, Christina Aguilera, Tom Cruise ...

Laser technology developed for the military and the space program is making traffic monitoring and traffic law enforcement more effective. LIDAR a technology developed for the space industry is now being used to make streets throughout the United States and Canada safer. This advanced laser technology makes red light cameras, speed cameras and traffic cameras more effective. The cameras are faster, more accurate, smaller and more portable than ever. This makes such cameras the most versatile and effective traffic law enforcement solution available to local government. The ...

Washington's largest proposed merger among credit unions has reached an important milestone. After an in-depth application process, the National Credit Union Administration (NCUA) and Washington State regulators gave their approval of the $1.1 billion merger between Watermark and Sound Credit Unions. Washington State regulators gave approval on March 23, pending NCUA approval. NCUA regulators approved the merger on May 23, 2011. The final step in the process will be an approval by Watermark members. Qualifying Watermark members will receive ballots in late May. The outcome ...

The Health Freedom Expo is an event that features the country's bestselling self-help authors and prominent speakers. The venue is designed to showcase new products and discoveries in natural health. It is an expo that will inspire, motivate and change people's lives. The Expo will be held at the Renaissance Schaumburg Hotel in Schaumberg, Illinois. C.J. Good, noted author, lecturer and wellness practitioner shares, "Anxiety can take over one's life even to the extent of causing certain medical problems. Although much of the stress we experience can be attributed ...

Zimmermann knows first hand through her experience with death and dying that handwritten letters can really make a difference. Letters are a memorial, and can serve as a memory of the deceased. Zimmermann's recent column in the June edition of Pen World International Magazine discusses the importance of the handwritten letter. Zimmermann says, "From my experience with death and dying, there is an urgency to find "important papers" when someone passes. Handwritten notes become almost as important as the last will and testament to those that have lost a ...

Dr. S. Bold points out that glasses, also known as spectacles or eyeglasses, are still the most popular form of vision correction in the 21st century. Spectacle wear has been around for hundreds of years but, according to Dr. S. Bold, the advent of contact lenses and more recently laser eye surgery has made their use less popular. Dr. S. Bold has seen that many people think that by having laser eye surgery they will never have to wear spectacles or contact lenses ever again. Dr. S. Bold is here to say that this is not the case. Laser eye surgery with Dr. S. Bold ...

Leading international microstock photography website http://www.pixmac.com is getting close to another major milestone. 12 million images for sale. "When we started out in 2008, we thought a figure around 3 to 5 million images would be enough. Now we are offering over 11.5 million images on the site. That means an amazing variety of content with customers loving it." states Vitezslav Valka, Pixmac's CEO. In addition to 750,000 images signed up directly, manually sorted and carefully edited, Pixmac has a number of microstock brand partners represented in its ...

For Billy Craig there are two things that are foremost in his heart when talking about music. . . great songs and great performances. His energy shines bright and his notoriety continues to grow nationally through mainstream media with Carrie Underwood News, Forbes, Wall Street Journal, the Today Show, WSM in Nashville, All Access Music Group and many other radio shows around the country. Locally, Billy has been featured on Channel 4 WDIV, The Mitch Albom Show, WCSX's Overeasy Show, WYCD's The Coop Show and has done extensive parody work for Dr. Don of WYCD, Detroit's ...

Graphite Design, maker of some of the most widely played premium golf shafts on the PGA TOUR, announced today that the winner of The Nationwide BMW Charity Pro-Am played a Graphite Design Tour AD DI shaft in his driver. In addition to this victory, five top ten finishers at the PGA Crowne Plaza Invitational and two of the top four finalists at the LPGA Sybase Match Play Championship also played Graphite Design shafts. "Graphite Design shafts continue to be a favorite among professionals on all Tours because they continue to perform consistently week after week with ...

While other shows keep pricing themselves out of the market, The Don Barnhart Comedy Show seems to have struck Vegas gold. The Don Barnhart Comedy Show features the award winning comedian along with a rotating cast of the next generation of comedy superstars in what industry insiders are calling the "must see" and "best bargain" comedy and improv show in Las Vegas. In honoring the troops, Don Barnhart is giving away free tickets for the military thru July 3rd. Tickets are normally $29.95 but will be comped. (Does not include $5 service fee/tax.) Just ...

Think-a-lot Toys has just released another themed Think-ets game in its growing collection of games that stimulate imagination and creativity—the Think-ets Beach Collection. Along with the existing Think-ets Fairy Collection and Sports Collection, the Beach Collection has fifteen adorable, tiny trinkets—this time with a beach theme. The beach "tiny treasures" include a dolphin, beach pail, boat, sun charm and watermelon. The game is adorable and portable and breaks open your imagination rather than the bank. Parents love new ways to get their kids away from ...

With the large volume of construction projects and consumer demand for electrical service call work, Masters Touch has officially added all the staff and clients from Durning Electric, including Master Electrician Steve Durning, who has been serving Eastern and Central Massachusetts residents for over two decades, to provide full service electrical to customers throughout the Metrowest area. The expanded services of Masters Touch range from electrical in new construction to electric panel upgrades and service call work; lighting design and installation as well as electrical ...

Paradise isn't lost, even in the wake of a devastating financial crisis that saw many Americans' retirement savings vanish. It's still possible to retire in a dream destination, and The Entrust Group will show IRA investors some of the ways to get there with "Offshore Real Estate Investing," a live webinar scheduled for June 14 at 10 a.m. PDT. Host and Entrust Principal Catherine Wynne will explore different approaches for purchasing foreign property in an IRA, and how IRA-holders can live in the property once they've retired. "Many people may think that ...

Datamaker version 2.7 includes powerful new data filtering functionality and enhanced data generation facilities, providing users with a fast, systematic, audited route to fully compliant data masking. As Grid-Tools managing director, Huw Price explains: "Regulators now require a systematic approach to masking which must include a fully audited method for analysing which customer data could be considered sensitive. Using powerful mathematically based analytical techniques to sample data from production data sources, this improved version of Datamaker provides ...

Voted on by the members of ITI (Institute of Translation & Interpreting), Kilgray's translation tool memoQ won the organization's choice for best translation tool in 2011. The award was accepted by Claudia Fricke and Denis Hay at the organization's annual conference in Birmingham, UK. This not the first time memoQ is ranked first among CAT-tools: Common Sense Advisory rated it #1 among translation-centric TMS systems.About Kilgray Kilgray Translation Technologies is based in Hungary. The company delivers computer aided technologies for the translation industry. It ...

The online confectioner, which is renowned for beautiful chocolates exquisitely presented in a stylish gift box, has launched a lovely chocolate range in time June 19th, this special selection of delicious goodies can be found at http://www.thechocolatemoon.co.uk "We've also introduced our New Deluxe Range in time for Father's Day, allowing that special person to enjoy their favourite chocolates for a whole lot longer says The Chocolate Moon's managing director Susannah Pack. "They're very luxurious chocolate gifts. The ingredients are of the highest quality ...

Clearly sympathizing with the author Christine Brown, because of their similar experiences, Darlynn opens up about her tragic loss and shares a bit of her learned wisdom in an effort to inspire the readers to take action. The book, "In Just a Split Second..." is an autobiography by Christine Brown that replays the nightmare that she experienced after her husband's sudden passing. This book serves as guide to help those who have suffered a similar unexpected loss and seeks to encourage others to wisely prepare for the inevitable situation that happens to all ...