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I wanted to try their crab cake (below). It was very tasty, lots of crab meat inside it. I prefer a crisp crab cake and this was more moist. It had a nest of potato straws on top, a remoulade butter sauce with crawfish and capers. It was very flavorful and unexpectedly hearty for just one crab cake.
We also had the alligator appetizer. They were as tasty as I remember from when I had alligator for the first time in Florida. The dipping sauce is a creole butter sauce which was very tasty. It had a slight smoky roux flavor to it and was a good substitute for a barbecue sauce.
I had a side cup of the andouille sausage and seafood gumbo. I liked the taste of this, it had a great smoky flavor which can be attributed to a dark roux. There was however a little too much going on in it for me. There was several unidentified seafood items in this bowl. There was one item that I can only HOPE was an oyster that I had that I think led to a slight allergic reaction/migraine. Not their fault though.
I ordered the platter with fried shrimp, fried crawfish, catfish and chicken tenders and dirty rice. I liked the breading for the shrimp, chicken and crawfish. It was crsip and smoky. I had never eaten crawfish before and I didn't know what I'd been missing! The catfish had a cornmeal breading which was good. The fish itself tasted very fresh and buttery. They do take extra care with the shrimp ensuring it is butterflied before frying. There was an overwhelming portion of that rice, I couldn't finish it all.
Pat got the shrimp and catfish combo and he enjoyed it very much. He and I bartered a little bit, I took some of his shrimp for some of my chicken tenders. Pat decided to use more of that creole sauce for dipping instead of cocktail sauce which he hates.
For desserts I chose the banana pudding. I really hate the fact that it comes in a mason jar. It's really hard to eat, just unnecessary decoration. The pudding itself was nothing outstanding. There wasn't a lot of banana flavor in it until the bottom where the bananas lurk. Word to the wise: if you can't finish it – they give you a lid for you to take the jar home. Seriously.
Pat had the pecan sweet potato pie and enjoyed it. He's a sucker for both so he was in heaven.
By no means think that Pappadeaux is cheap. It cost us as much to eat there as it does on a normal evening to eat at the Precinct. The quality of the food is good and the service was great as well. It is something different for sure. I'd still prefer to eat steak than seafood any day.


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Actually we had the Jurassic talks today, but I can't show you any of the slides*, so instead you're getting some brief, sauropod-centric highlighs from the museum.
* I had originally written that the technical content of the talks is embargoed, but that's not true–as ReBecca Hunt-Foster pointed out in a comment, the conference guidebook with all of the abstracts is freely available online here.
Like this Camarasaurus that greets visitors at the entrance.
And this Apatosaurus ilium with bite marks on the distal end, indicating that a big Morrison theropod literally ate the butt of this dead apatosaur. Gnaw, dude, just gnaw.
And the shrine to Elmer S. Riggs.
One of Elmer's field assistants apparently napping next to the humerus of the Brachiosaurus alithorax holotype. This may be the earliest photographic evidence of someone "pulling a Jensen".
Here's the reconstructed forelimb of B. altithorax, with Cary Woodruff and me for scale. The humerus and coracoid (and maybe the sternal?) are cast from the B.a. holotype, the rest of the bits are either sculpted or filled in from Giraffatitan. The scap is very obviously Giraffatitan.
Cary took this photo of me playing with a
fiberglass 100% original bone Apatosaurus femur upstairs in the museum office, and he totally passed up the opportunity to push me down the stairs afterward. I kid, I kid–actually Cary and I get along just fine. It's no secret that we disagree about some things, but we do so respectfully. Each of us expects to be vindicated by better data in the future, but there's no reason we can't hang out and jaw about sauropods in the meantime.
Finally, in the museum gift shop (which is quite lovely), I found this:
You had one job, Nova. ONE JOB!
So, this is a grossly inadequate post that barely scratches the surface of the flarkjillion or so cool exhibits at the museum. I only got about halfway through the sauropods, fer cryin' out loud. If you ever get a chance to come, do it–you won't be disappointed.
Behold, the SV-POW! mole!
March 21, 2014
When Fiona checked her email this morning, she found this note from our next-door neighbour Jenny:
I seem to remember Mike wanting a mole – I do hope so because I've left you a body on your patio in a cereal box!
Cheers Jen x
What a delightful surprise! And here it is:
And a close-up of that awesome digging hand:
I don't have time to deal with it properly right now, so it's gone into a plastic box with some small holes in the lid, where I will trust invertebrates to do my work for me — as they did to great effect with the juvenile baby rabbit whose skeleton I must show you some time.
The end-game here is of course to obtain a complete skeleton; but if not that, then at least the upper-arm bones. I'm on record as saying that next to sauropod vertebrae, mole humeri are the bones that move me most; and elsewhere I nominated mole humeri in response to John Hutchinson's question, "what are the strangest animal bones (in form & function etc) that have ever been discovered?"
Here's why:
I stole this picture from an Ossamenta post, The strangest animal bone?. Get yourself over there for more wacky rat-vs.-mole comparisons!
The case of the bandy-legged Diplodocus
March 1, 2014
Christine Argot of the MNHN, Paris, drew our attention to this wonderful old photo (from here, original caption reproduced below):
I found a different version of what seems to be the same photo (greyscaled, lower resolution, but showing more of the surrounding area) here:
What we have here is a truly bizarre mount of Diplodocus — almost certainly one of the casts of the D. carnegii holotype CM 84 — with perfectly erect, parasagittal hind-limbs, but bizarrely everted elbows.
There are a few mysteries here.
First, where and when was this photo taken? Christine's email described this as a "picture of a Diplodocus cast taken in St. Petersburg around 1920″, and the caption above seems to confirm that location; but then why is it copyright the Paleontological Museum, Moscow? Since the web-site in question is for a Swedish museum, it's not forthcoming.
The second photo is from the web-site of the Borisyak Paleontological Institute in Moscow, but that site unfortunately provides no caption. The juxtaposition with two more modern Diplodocus-skeleton photos that are from its own gallery perhaps suggest that the modern mount shown in the more recent photographs is a re-pose of the old mount in the black-and white photo. If so, that might mean that the skeleton was actually in Moscow all along rather than St. Petersburg, or perhaps that it was moved from St. Petersburg to Moscow and remounted there.
Does anyone know? Has anyone out there visited the St. Petersburg museum recently and seen whether there is still a Diplodocus skeleton there? If so, is it still mounted in this bizarre way? Better yet, do you have photos?
The second question of course is why was this posture used? This pose makes no sense for several reasons — one of which is that even if Diplodocus could attain this posture it would only serve to leave the forefeet under the torso in the same position as erect forelimbs would have them. The pose only makes any kind of sense at all if you imagine the animal lowering its torso to drink; but given that it had a flexible six-meter-long neck, that hardly seems necessary.
Of course Diplodocus does have a history of odd postures: because of the completeness of the D. carnegii holotype, it became the subject of the Sauropod Posture Wars between Tornier, Hay and Holland in the early 20th Century. Both Tornier (1909) and Hay (1910) favoured a sprawling posture like that of lizards (see images above and below), and were soundly refuted by Holland
But the Tornier and Hay postures bear no relation to that of the mounted skeleton in the photographs above: they position the forefeet far lateral to the torso, and affect the hindlimbs as well as the forelimbs. So whatever the Russian mount was doing, I don't think it can have been intended as a representation of the Tornier/Hay hypothesis.
But it gets even weirder. Christine tells me that "I'm aware of [...] the tests that Holland performed on the Russian cast to get rid of the hypothesis suggesting a potential lizard-like posture. So I think that he would have never allowed such a posture for one of the casts he mounted himself." Now I didn't know that Holland had executed the mounting of this cast. Assuming that's right, it makes it even more inexplicable that he would have allowed such a posture.
Or did he?
Christine's email finishes by asking: "What do you think? do you think that somebody could have come behind Holland to change the position? do you know any colleague or publication who could mention this peculiar cast and comment its posture?"
Can anyone help?
- Hay, Oliver. P. 1910. On the manner of locomotion of the dinosaurs, especially Diplodocus, with remarks on the origin of birds. Proceedings of the Washington Academy of Sciences 12(1):1-25.
- Holland, W. J. 1910. A review of some recent criticisms of the restorations of sauropod dinosaurs existing in the museums of the United States, with special reference to that of Diplodocus carnegiei in the Carnegie museum. American Naturalist 44:259-283.
- Nieuwland, Ilja. 2010. The colossal stranger. Andrew Carnegie and Diplodocus intrude European Culture, 1904–1912. Endeavour 34(2):61-68.
- Tornier, Gustav. 1909. Wie war der Diplodocus carnegii wirklich gebaut? Sitzungsbericht der Gesellschaft naturforschender Freunde zu Berlin 4:193– 209.
If Harry Potter was an academic work
February 3, 2014
From the files of J. K. Rowling.
Publisher #1
Dear Ms. Rowling,
Thank you for submitting your manuscript Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. We will be happy to consider it for publication. However we have some concerns about the excessive length of this manuscript. We usually handle works of 5-20 pages, sometimes as much as 30 pages. Your 1337-page manuscript exceeds these limits, and requires some trimming.
We suggest that this rather wide-ranging work could usefully be split into a number of smaller, more tightly focussed, papers. In particular, we feel that the "magic" theme is not appropriate for our venue, and should be excised from the current submission.
Assuming you are happy to make these changes, we will be pleased to work with you on this project.
Correspondence ends.
Publisher #2
Esteemed Joenne Kay Rowling,
We are delightful to recieve your manuscript Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince and we look forword to publish it in our highly prestigious International Journal of Story Peer Reviewed which in 2013 is awarded an impact factor of 0.024.
Before we can progression this mutually benefit work, we require you to send a cheque for $5,000 US Dollars to the above address.
Correspondence ends.
Publisher #3
Dear J.R.R. Rowling,
We are in receipt of your manuscript Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. Unfortunately, after a discussion with the editorial board, we concluded that it is insufficiently novel to warrant publication in our journal, which is one of the leading venues in its field. Although your work is well executed, it does not represent a significant advance in scholarship.
That is not to say that minor studies such as yours are of no value, however! Have you considered one of the smaller society journals?
Correspondence ends.
Publisher #4
Dear Dr. Rowling
Your submission Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince has passed initial editorial checks and will now be sent to two peer-reviewers. We will contact you when we have their reports and are able to make a decision.
Dear Dr. Rowling
Re: Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince.
We agree that eighteen months is too long for a manuscript to spend in review. On making inquiries, we find that we are unfortunately no longer able to contact the editor who was handling your submission.
We have appointed a new handling editor, who will send your submission to two new reviewers. We will contact you as soon as the new editor has made a decision.
Dear Dr. Rowling
Re: Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince.
Your complaint is quite justified. We will chase the reviewers.
Dear Dr. Rowling
I am pleased to say that the reviewers have returned their reports on your submission Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince and we are able to make an editiorial decision, which is ACCEPT WITH MAJOR REVISION.
Reviewer 1 felt that the core point of your contribution could be made much more succinctly, and recommended that you remove the characters of Ron, Hermione, Draco, Hagrid and Snape. I concur with his assessment that the final version will be tighter and stronger for these cuts, and am confident that you can make them in a way that does not compromise the plot.
Reviewer 2 was positive over all, but did not like being surprised by the ending, and felt that it should have been outlined in the abstract. She also felt that citation of earlier works including Lewis (1950, 1951, 1952, 1953, 1954, 1955, 1956) and Pullman (1995, 1997, 2000) would be appropriate, and noted an over-use of constructions such as "… said Hermione, warningly".
Dear Dr. Rowling
Thank you for your revised manuscript of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, which it is our pleasure to accept. We now ask you to sign the attached copyright transfer form, so we can proceed with publication.
Dear Dr. Rowling
I am sorry that you are unhappy about this, but transfer of copyright is our standard procedure, and we must insist on it as a prerequisite for publication. None of our other authors have complained.
Dear Dr. Rowling
Thank you for the signed copyright transfer form.
In answer to your query, no, we do not pay royalties.
Dear Dr. Rowling
Sadly, no, we are unable to make an exception in the matter of royalties.
Dear Dr. Rowling
Your book has now been formatted. We attach a proof PDF. Please read this very carefully as this is the last chance to spot errors.
You will readily appreciate that publishing is an expensive business. In order to remain competitive we have had to reduce costs, and as a result we are no longer able to offer proof-reading or copy-editing. Therefore you are responsible for ensuring the copy is clean.
At this stage, changes should be kept as small as possible, otherwise a charge may be incurred for re-typesetting.
Dear Dr. Rowling
Many thanks for returning the corrected proofs of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. We will proceed with publication.
Now that the final length of your contribution is known, we are able to assess page charges. At 607 pages, this work exceeds our standard twenty free pages by 587. At $140 US per page, this comes to $82,180. We would be grateful if you would forward us a cheque for this amount at your convenience.
Dear Dr. Rowling
Thank you for you prompt payment of the page charges. We agree that these are regrettable, but sadly they are part of the reality of the publishing business.
We are delighted to inform you that Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince is now published online, and has been assigned the DOI 10.123.45678.
We thank you for working on this fine contribution with us, and hope you will consider us for your future publications.
Dear Dr. Rowling
You are correct, your book is not freely downloadable. As we explained earlier in this correspondence, publishing is an expensive business. We recover our substantial costs by means of subscriptions and paid downloads.
In our experience, those with the most need to read your book will probably have institutional access. As for those who do not: if your readers are as keen as you say, they will no doubt find the customary download fee of $37.95 more than reasonable. Alternatively, readers can rent online access at the convenient price of $9.95 per 24 hours.
Dear Dr. Rowling
I am sorry that you feel the need to take that tone. I must reiterate, as already stated, that the revenues from download charges are not sufficient for us to be able to pay royalties. The $37.95 goes to cover our own costs.
If you wish for your book to be available as "open access", then you may take advantage of our Freedom Through Slavery option. This will attract a further charge of $3,000, which can be paid by cheque as previously.
Dr. Rowling
Your attitude is really quite difficult to understand. All of this was quite clearly set out on our web-site, and should have been understood by you before you made your submission.
As stated in the copyright transfer form that you signed, you do not retain the right to post freely downloadable copies of your work, since you are no longer the copyright holder.
Dr. Rowling
We must ask you not to contact your handling editor directly. He was quite shaken by your latest outburst. If you feel you must write to us again, we must ask you to moderate your language, which is quite unsuitable for a lady. Meanwhile, we remind you that our publishing agreement follows industry best practice. It's too late to complain about it now.
Correspondence ends.
IP Lawyer #1
Dear Pyramid Web-Hosting,
Copyright claim
We write on behalf of our client, Ancient Monolith Scholarly Publishing, who we assert are the copyright holders of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. It has come to our attention that a copy of this copyrighted work has been posted on a site hosted by you at the URL below.
This letter is official notification under the provisions of Section 512(c) of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act ("DMCA") to effect removal of the above-reported infringement. We request that you immediately issue a cancellation message as specified in RFC 1036 for the specified posting and prevent the infringer, Ms. J. K. Rowling, from posting the infringing material to your servers in the future. Please be advised that law requires you, as a service provider, to "expeditiously remove or disable access to" the infringing material upon receiving this notice. Noncompliance may result in a loss of immunity for liability under the DMCA.
Please send us at the address above a prompt response indicating the actions you have taken to resolve this matter.
Correspondence ends.
Historical Note
Examination of Ms. Rowling's personal effects established that she had written most of a seventh book, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. However, Rowling never sought to publish this final book in the series.
Can The Scholarly Kitchen save itself?
January 3, 2014
The Scholarly Kitchen is the blog of the Society of Scholarly Publishers, and as such discusses lots of issues that are of interest to us. But a while back, I gave up commenting there two reasons. First, it seemed rare that fruitful discussions emerged, rather than mere echo-chamberism; and second, my comments would often be deliberately delayed for several hours "to let others get in first", and randomly discarded completely for reasons that I found completely opaque.
But since June, when David Crotty took over as Editor-in-Chief from Kent Anderson, I've sensed a change in the wind: more thoughtful pieces, less head-in-the-sandism over the inevitable coming changes in scholarly publishing, and even genuinely fruitful back-and-forth in the comments. I was optimistic that the Kitchen could become a genuine hub of cross-fertilisation.
But then, this: The Jack Andraka Story — Uncovering the Hidden Contradictions Behind a Science Folk Hero [cached copy]. Ex-editor Kent Anderson has risen from the grave to give us this attack piece on a fifteen-year-old.
I'm frankly astonished that David Crotty allowed this spiteful piece on the blog he edits. Is Kent Anderson so big that no-one can tell him "no"? Embarrassingly, he is currently president of the SSP, which maybe gives him leverage over the blog. But I'm completely baffled over how Crotty, Anderson or anyone else can think this piece will achieve anything other than to destroy the reputation of the Kitchen.
As Eva Amsen says, "I got as far as the part where he says Jack is not a "layperson" because his parents are middle class. (What?) Then closed tab." I could do a paragraph-by-paragraph takedown of Anderson's article, as Michael Eisen did for Jeffrey Beall's anti-OA coming-out letter; but it really doesn't deserve that level of attention.
So why am I even mentioning it? Because Jack Andraka doesn't deserve to be hunted by a troll. I'm not going to be the only one finally giving up on The Scholarly Kitchen if David Crotty doesn't do something to control his attack dog.
Seriously, David. You're better than that. You have to be.
Anderson, Kent. 2014. The Jack Andraka Story — Uncovering the Hidden Contradictions Behind a Science Folk Hero. Society of Scholarly Publishers. The Scholarly Kitchen, Society of Scholarly Publishers. URL:http://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2014/01/03/the-jack-andraka-story-uncovering-the-hidden-contradictions-of-an-oa-paragon/. Accessed: 2014-01-03. (Archived by WebCite® at http://www.webcitation.org/6MLiAaC9o)
As we all know, University libraries have to pay expensive subscription fees to scholarly publishers such as Elsevier, Springer, Wiley and Informa, so that their researchers can read articles written by their colleagues and donated to those publishers. Controversially (and maybe illegally), when negotiating contracts with libraries, publishers often insist on confidentiality clauses — so that librarians are not allowed to disclose how much they are paying. The result is an opaque market with no downward pressure on prices, hence the current outrageously high prices, which are rising much more quickly than inflation even as publishers' costs shrink due to the transition to electronic publishing.
On Thursday 11 April 2013, Oxford University hosted a conference called Rigour and Openness in 21st Century Science. The evening event was a debate on the subject Evolution or Revolution In Science Communication. During this debate, Stephen Curry of Imperial College noted that his librarian isn't allowed to tell him how much they pay for Elsevier journals. This is the response of David Tempest, Elsevier's Deputy Director of Universal Sustainable Research Access.
Heres' a transcript
Curry [in reference to the previous answer]: I'm glad David Tempest is so interested in librarians being able to make costs transparent to their users, because at my university, Imperial College, my chief librarian can not tell me how much she pays for Elsevier journals because she's bound by a confidentiality clause. Would you like to address that?
[Loud applause for the question]
Tempest: Well, indeed there are confidentiality clauses inherent in the system, in our Freedom Collections. The Freedom Collections do give a lot of choice and there is a lot of discount in there to the librarians. And the use, and the cost per use has been dropping dramatically, year on year. And so we have to ensure that, in order to have fair competition between different countries, that we have this level of confidentiality to make that work. Otherwise everybody would drive down, drive down, drive drive drive, and that would mean that …
[The last part is drowned in the laughter of the audience.]
So there you have it: confidentiality clauses exist because otherwise everybody would drive down prices. And we can't have that, can we?
(Is this extracted segment of video unfairly misrepresenting Tempest? No. To see that for yourself, I highly recommend that you watch the video of the whole debate. It's long — nearly two hours — but well worth the time. The section I used here starts at 1:09:50.)
Walk-in access? Seriously?
November 26, 2013
Reading the Government's comments on the recent BIS hearing on open access, I see this:
As a result of the Finch Group's work, a programme devised by publishers, through the Publishers Licensing Society, and without funding from Government, will culminate in a Public Library Initiative. A technical pilot was successfully started on 9 September 2013
Following the link provided, I read:
The Report recommended that the existing proposal to make the majority of journals available for free to walk-in users at public libraries throughout the UK should be supported and pursued vigorously.
I'm completely, completely baffled by this. The idea that people should get in a car and drive to a special magic building in order to read papers that their own computers are perfectly capable of downloading is so utterly wrong-headed I struggle to find words for it. It's a nineteenth-century solution to a twentieth-century problem. In 2013.
Who thought this was a good idea?
And what were they smoking at the time?
I can tell you now that the take-up for this misbegotten initiative will be zero. Because although it's a painful waste of time to negotiate the paywalls erected by those corporations we laughably call "publishers", this "solution" will be more of a waste of time still. (Not to mention a waste of petrol).
I can only assume that was always the intention of the barrier-based publishers on the Finch committee that came up with this initiative: to deliver a stillborn access initiative that they can point to and say "See, no-one wants open access". Meanwhile, everyone will be over on Twitter using #icanhazpdf and other such 21st-century workarounds.


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LOUDON, N.H. (AP) - Matt Kenseth just might win a championship with a touch of dominance, not dullness.
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) - Cam Newton threw three touchdown passes and ran for another, and Carolina sacked Eli Manning seven times as the Panthers handed Tom Coughlin his worst defeat as coach of the New York Giants, 38-0 Sunday.
ATLANTA (AP) - Tiger Woods wrapped up at least one award as player of the year.
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - This has become the America's Cup that just won't end, thanks to fickle wind and Oracle Team USA's remarkable resurgence.
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Linebacker Aldon Smith will miss Thursday night's game at St. Louis and perhaps sit out longer, San Francisco 49ers CEO Jed York said Sunday.
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Andrew Luck faked out the defense, ran untouched into the end zone for a 6-yard touchdown and emphatically threw down the ball with a little extra oomph.
DENVER (AP) - Oakland quarterback Terrelle Pryor has seen the scores. Peyton Manning and the Denver Broncos have put up 40-plus points in their first two games and made offense look easy.
ATLANTA (AP) - Henrik Stenson knows better than most players how it feels to go from the depths of a slump to the elite in golf.
LOUDON, N.H. (AP) - Matt Kenseth just might win a championship with a touch of dominance, not dullness.
FLORENCE, Italy (AP) - Tony Martin powered Omega Pharma-Quick Step to its second consecutive title in the team time trial as the road cycling world championships opened Sunday.
OAKLAND (AP) - Yoenis Cespedes and Josh Donaldson homered, Alberto Callaspo had two hits and drove in two runs, and Bartolo Colon pitched six shutout innings as the Oakland Athletics trimmed their magic number to two, with an 11-0 victory over the Minnesota Twins on Friday night.
ATLANTA (AP) - Henrik Stenson broke another club Friday - this time by accident.
NEW YORK (AP) - In his first start at Yankee Stadium, Tim Lincecum was lifted a few pitches before the decisive blow.
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NEW YORK (AP) - While 15-year-old American CiCi Bellis was in the process of stunning a Grand Slam finalist to become the youngest player to win a U.S. Open match since 1996, her father did his best to conceal his emotions courtside.
SANTA CLARA (AP) - Linebacker Aldon Smith still has no indication from the NFL about a possible suspension for his off-field legal issues.
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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Madison Bumgarner pitched a one-hitter and the San Francisco Giants beat the Colorado Rockies 3-0 on Tuesday night to snap a three-game losing streak.
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Right-hander Tim Lincecum has been moved to the San Francisco Giants' bullpen as he tries to work through his latest struggles.
NEW YORK (AP) - Spinning in 70 mph second serves, grabbing at his hamstring during points, Andy Murray gritted his way through head-to-toe cramps to win at the U.S. Open.
ALAMEDA (AP) - Oakland Raiders quarterback Matt Schaub missed his second straight day of practice Monday with a sore throwing elbow that has lingered throughout the preseason.
SANTA CLARA (AP) - San Francisco 49ers rookie center Marcus Martin suffered a left knee injury that isn't considered season-ending, yet still a blow to the depth of a struggling offensive line.
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BALTIMORE (AP) - Delmon Young, J.J. Hardy and Chris Davis homered in succession during a six-run fifth inning, and the Baltimore Orioles cruised past the Tampa Bay Rays 9-1 Monday night to end a three-game losing streak.


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That model was implemented at Hammond High School in the 2010-11 school year after the high school was on probation for five consecutive years and under threat of state takeover.
Hammond High School was awarded a School Improvement Grant of $5.9 million, which was used over a three-year period, turning the school around and successfully removing it from probation.
Theresa Mayerik, chief administrator for academic services for Hammond schools, said the district has applied for grants for Maywood, along with Irving Elementary School.
If approved, the turnaround model would be used at Maywood, meaning the principal and up to 50 percent of the staff could be reassigned. Irving is looking at the transformation model, which could allow the principal and staff to remain in place.
"We did surveys among the school staff at both schools. We received the support of the teachers union to apply for the grants. They were submitted to the state June 10. We are waiting to hear now," Mayerik said.
In addition, school officials have applied for an innovation grant to be used at Columbia Elementary School. Mayerik said several schools applied for those grants last summer but didn't win them.
"We are trying to get additional support for our kids in Hammond," she said.
Mayerik said there have been some administrative changes in the district. Former Morton High School Principal Doug Friend has been reassigned as assistant principal at Scott Middle School. Former Hammond High Assistant Principal Juan Anaya, who is also a former superintendent for the School City of East Chicago, retired. Tom Patton retired as the district's elementary director.
Leslie Yanders, who was appointed principal at Hammond High School in 2010 to get the school off probation, will remain in that role.


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Danish thesp Pilou Asbaek ("A Hijacking") and Swedish actor David Dencik ("Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy") have joined the cast of Mikkel Norgaard's dark-edged crimer "The Absent One," the sequel to cold-case thriller "The Keeper of Lost Causes."
"Absent" is the second installment based on Jussi Adler-Olsen's best-selling Scandinavian crime novels "Department Q," which comprises four books. "Causes" world preemed at Locarno to solid reviews and is set to bow in Scandinavia on Oct. 3.
Asbaek and Dencik will star opposite Nikolaj Lie Kaas ("Angels & Demons") and Fares Fares ("Zero Dark Thirty").
Nikolaj Arcel and Rasmus Heisterberg, the scribe duo behind Oscar nommed "A Royal Affair" and "The Girl With a Dragon Tattoo," penned "Absent."
Another gritty cold thriller, "Absent" follows Copenhagen detective Carl Morck and his partner Assad as they investigate the brutal murder of two young twins that dates back to 1994. The case was closed after a local outsider pleads guilty but various clues pointed toward a group of boarding school students. As Morck and Assad advance in their investigation, they come across a discarded emergency call from a desperate girl who is being kept silent by a group of influential men.
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I heard that minimal wage was being raised in 2007. is this real? if it is, how so much will it be and when does this happen?
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i don't assume the federal minimum wage is growing however individual states have passed laws growing THEIR minimal wages. My state (Ohio) just passed a rise.
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The federal minimum wage is established with the aid of the truthful Labor requirements Act (FLSA). It has no longer been updated since the early to mid '90′s so the minimal wage for all businesses that federal law applies to continues to be $ 5.15 per hour. there may be some discussion that this year's congress will pick to amend the FLSA to extend the minimal wage, nevertheless it hasn't happened but. For extra data, that you could go to www.dol.gov or name 1-866-4US-WAGE.
Your individual state's minimal wage may be better. Contact your state labor department or your Lietenant Governor's place of business (look in the blue/government pages of your local phone book) to get more knowledge.
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need more knowledge. What state do you live in. now not all states have a minimum wage. there is a federal minimal wage that's in affect for federal jobs however there may be not federal mandate. Like California is now $ 7.50 it did lift from $ 7.25 Use the search engine and in finding your states minimum wage.
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a quirky regional manager comes beneath fire for sending inappropriate emails to his coworkers. An obnoxious travelling salesman stops by the administrative center and makes one too many sexist comments, elevating the ire of the feminine employees and also the question of place of job bullying. All incidents within an episode of The place of work titled Sexual Harassment.
How will we recognise workplace bullying? When workers cry foul, are they being overly delicate or do they have cause?
How can we draw the line between what's humorous and what is offensive? CEO of Verztec Consulting Pte Ltd, a number one world content Consulting company – Nicholas Goh deals a tip sheet to better maintain such eventualities at the workplace.
The administrative center is a second home, so it's said. however, when folks work in proximity for 5 days a week, interpersonal issues are prone to come up. In turn, hostility may fester.
place of work bullying is turning into a customary social problem. In a 2014 online survey carried out via JobsCentral, 24% of Singaporean workers stated they were victims of place of job bullying. according to Japans Ministry of health, Labour and Welfare, in 2014 there were fifty one,670 circumstances the place employees sought labour counselling as a result of they had been bullied at work.
1. What Constitutes Bullying?
In may 2014, a 17-second video of a Singaporean intern being repeatedly slapped via his boss surfaced on the internet. It was later revealed that the abuse ran deeper than just bodily and verbal assault; the 29-12 months-outdated intern had been working on the tool company for three years, taking house a minimal wage of $ 500 a month. no longer only did he work many late nights, he was once also no longer entitled to any advantages reminiscent of annual go away.
where bodily or verbal abuse has passed off, the bullying turns into clear-reduce. other forms of bullying, on the other hand, may be extra delicate. Take sexual harassment as an instance. In a public opinion survey through affiliation of ladies for motion and research (mindful), over 50% of Singaporean employeesout of 500 men and femalessaid they'd experienced sexual harassment sooner or later. 30% of them stated the harassment used to be repeated.
What is regarded as harassment can also be extremely subjective. to some, a steady slap on the buttocks could be a playful gesture, however to others it might probably amount to molestation.
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men aren't always the perpetrators of sexual harassment debacles. In 2013, an e-mail despatched via a female graduate trainee at accountancy firm Deloitte fast became a speaking point. in the e mail, the worker asked her female colleagues to vote for his or her male counterparts in categories akin to Fittest Boy body, easiest-dressed Boy and Boy in all probability to Sleep His method to the top.
It used to be all within the name of excellent-natured fun; the votes can be gathered for an award ceremony to be held during the places of work Christmas party. Her male colleagues even gladly nominated themselves. then again, the e-mail went viral and soon her managers got wind of this topic. The stated employee resigned tomorrow. In an legitimate statement, a Deloitte spokesman expressed disappointment in her behaviour and urged all to exercise discretion when sending emails.
An place of job prank might additionally increase into a lawsuit. Such was once the case of Harvey Palacio, the Intel employee who sued his supplier in 2014. As a part of a prank, his colleagues taped a Kick Me sign to his again. They kicked hima few instances within the buttockseven when he sought lend a hand to take away the signal. on account of this incident, Palacio suffered emotional distress.
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office jokes and pranks are pulled frequently, however at what point does entertainment transform harassment? If a supervisor is fast to berate a subordinate over a mistake, is it verbal abuse or just a management fashion? Is it bullying if a advanced repeatedly inundates a junior employee with assignments? These are grey areas. it is, due to this fact, essential to first bear in mind the parameters of bullying.
rather then making undesirable sexual advances, conscious defines the usage of derogatory and belittling phrases as well as career threatsthe threat of termination or withholding of promotionif an employee refuses to go on a date or acquiesce to sexual favours as sexual harassment. workplace Bullying Institute (WBI) defines bullying as repeated, health-harming mistreatment of a number of individuals by using one or more perpetrators. Deliberate hindering or sabotaging work development can be defined as a form of bullying.
Going by using these definitions, two of the above-mentioned cases qualify as bullying, since a pattern of antagonistic behaviours used to be exhibited. In Palacios case, his coworkers had, within the months prime as much as the prank, hidden his uniform and stuffed his work bag with trash. Palacio also believes that he was a goal as a result of his Filipino descent.
The WBI additionally states that perpetrators are compelled by using a wish to control their targets. A colleague of the Singaporean intern recounted to Yahoo! a number of incidences where his boss again and again struck the latter. the explanation for this abuse: the sufferer had an inferiority advanced and the boss felt the wish to nurture him.
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Bullying engenders stress-associated signs and emotional ache. The WBI found in a 2014 empirical analysis find out about titled Offsetting the ache from administrative center Bullying that 32.3% of bullied ambitions engaged in self-damaging behaviours. Such behaviours incorporated overeating, turning to alcohol, prescribed medicines and recreational medication in addition to playing. 33.4% of bullied objectives withdrew social contact.
Onlookers is also baffled as to why victims would continue working in a poisonous surroundings. Quitting may seem like the wisest option, but the loss of earnings is a caring factor. in reality, the WBI discovered immediately ballot involving 241 bullied individuals that fifty three% of them suffered economic setbacks after leaving their jobs. 26% of them by no means discovered a job substitute.
So what moves can you are taking, if you're a sufferer of bullying and also you decide to stay it out at your place of work? What if the perpetuator is your direct supervisor or the boss of the company what can you do?
5. file the Bullying
in the Harvard industry review article Is Your Boss a Bully? stop Being the goal (19 November 2013), the authors recommend that the sufferer should resolve if there's a pattern of abuse. to try this, facts and specific behaviours must be documented. When did the incidents occur and what prompted the episodes? What had been the words used? Documenting the incidents helps lend credence to your tales.
any other factor you will have to take into accout of is the witnesses who were present throughout the incident. Are they likely to corroborate your account or would they take the perpetuators side?
6. Set Boundaries
Many victims choose to suffer in silence because of this bullies can freely take advantage. Forbes discusses the importance of surroundings limits within the article care for a Bullying Boss (20 September 2014). study to claim no to a supervisor who throws his weight around and asks you to work unreasonable hours. This extends to coworkers as neatly when a observation borders extra on offensive than funny, hold forth. State your reasons and get them to take note why it's not ok to make such feedback.


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I have patronized several of those in the list.
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The guide ranked 150 of the most profitable restaurants in the United States on how much their workers earn, whether they get paid sick leave, and what kind of chances they have for advancement. A shocking number of well-known restaurant chains earned "zero" ratings because they didn't meet any of the minimum requirements for their workers
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2012 Diners Guide
Ruth's Chris?
I'm very surprised to see Ruth's Chris on the list but my only experience has been as a customer where I see professional servers with much tenure several of whom chose Ruth's from other higher-end Knoxville restaurants like the Orangery and Bistro by the Tracks.
We had a wonderful experience at Ruth's Chris on my wife's birthday.
But, then again, I'm just coming at it (like you) from a customer's point of view.
Per this February 2012 report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, only 73% of employees in any industry receive paid sick leave--and 10% of those employees receive sick leave only on an "as needed" basis, not under any policy affording them a set number of days.
Frankly, I was surprised to see that the percentage of employees receiving sick leave had grown so high.
I haven't worked full-time outside the home for over a decade, of course, but when I did--and it was not in the restaurant industry--the benefit was not then one we could necessarily expect.
I specifically recall that when my children were young and frequently ill (from the petri dish that is private daycare), I often needed to use my vacation time to cover time off for their illnesses. At the time I ceased working, my husband and I had been unable to take any vacation days off for the purpose of actually "vacationing" for a full eight years.
What are others' experiences across industries, now and in the past?
I have not found Tennessee's
I have not found Tennessee's regulations on sick food workers. It looks like some states require sick workers may not work with food or food-contact surfaces. I think that is loosely enforced.
That sort of business should have a tightly monitored sick employee policy.
Doesn't this also just mean,
Doesn't this also just mean, support local?
Most chains that are supportable, according to these guidelines, are relatively small and in few states.
Can't recall working somewhere that didn't provide sick leave. It could have been the case, but it would have to have been early on and many years ago.
Local doesn't always mean
Local doesn't always mean better wages and benefits. (I won't name names.) Congressman John Duncan once wrote in his newsletter that he patronized downtown eateries when in town; I responded that he should ask the servers their salaries and whether they had health insurance (many in local eateries do not).
But thanks for posting; interesting list.
Employer-provider health insurance came to be during war-time wage controls. The separation of consumer and payer has contributed to higher health care costs in the U.S.
If the restaurants do not provide adequate compensation/benefits, etc., the workers should seek alternatives.
Yes, voting for politicians
Yes, voting for politicians who support single-payer health care is an alternative. So is unionization.
Yes and maybe
I agree regarding a single-payer system but regarding unions---should their demands make the venture greatly less profitable, the risk is no job. The best option for an unhappy employee is to make oneself more marketable for a better job.
Could you come over to my
Could you come over to my house? We've caught a unicorn and need help dressing it for the fairyland feast.
I wouldn't be surprised if
I wouldn't be surprised if you really believed you had a unicorn. I'm sure you think it's pure coincidence that during the greatest economic expansion in history, union membership declined & as evidenced in Wisconsin, it's often by choice.
Uh, union membership was at
Uh, union membership was at its highest after WWII. Keep trying.
I don't think he/she has to
I don't think he/she has to keep trying. From the 50's on, infant mortality improved, civil rights were enacted, the rate of poverty decreased, innovation increased as did quality of life. Unions were very valuable and still can be but there are simply fewer problems to solve. Most workers are treated very fairly and thus don't want a union. Wisconsin should offer some proof of that.
Most workers are treated very fairly and thus don't want a union.
Seriously? SERIOUSLY?
Let me tell you exactly how kitchen staff in local (non-chain store) restaurants are treated -- I have two sons who work as cooks in local restaurants, so yeah, I am qualified to speak on what happens in some of these kitchens.
There are NO, repeat NO sick days. If you are sick, and take the day off, you don't get paid...if you still have your job. Chances are, if you have a lengthy illness, lasting more than 2-3 days, you will NOT have your job, unless the boss really, really likes you.
There is NO, repeat NO health insurance. If you need to go to the doctors for an illness, one of three things happens: you pray you are still on your parents health insurance, if not, you pray you have enough money to go to a walk-in clinic, and if not, you don't do a damn thing, because you can't afford to go to the doctors.
That is the reality of working in the restaurant business. You bet this group of people would benefit from union representation. Yet, so many of these people are hoodwinked into believing unions are evil (evil is the exact word that was expressed to me, to my face, by co-workers of my sons).
How the hell can you possibly equate what really happens as workers are treated fairly?
i know the above to be true.
i know the above to be true. included are some of the restaurants that make up the so-called 'renaissance' of downtown. not such a renaissance for those kids who live in slum housing, can barely pay the rent, and don't dare get sick.
The why do they work there?
Two Reasons
Two reasons: They each like cooking. And just as important, it's a steady job (unless you get sick).
I understand
I can appreciate and understand that they "like cooking" but if this type of work does not meet their economic needs, they should seek alternatives. There are many things that I like but that wouldn't sustain me.
I mean, just wow! You completely skipped over "it's steady work".
Steady (as long as you don't get sick) meaning, they aren't laid off in a down/off season and have to scramble to find new work. Steady, as in they are scheduled to work specific days, every week. Steady, meaning they don't have to worry about getting laid off, because other people can't afford their product and the company will shut down. (and to clarify, they both work in established mid-range restaurants)
The fact is, they have been in this industry for so long that this is what they are qualified to do. To get another job would mean taking a huge cut in pay, which is even less sustainable than if they stayed where they are.
So...since they have been in
So...since they have been in the industry, things have changed or did they choose to enter (and then evidently continue to remain in) the cooking profession. The point is that they obviously understood their chosen field upon entry and certainly after a short period time. This is what they chose.
Now given that they are so experienced, and assuming that they have gained expertise, they should be relocatable (and in demand) to a similar employer that offers what their current employer does not.
Regarding a "cut in pay, which is even less sustainable", then they could certainly cut back (read invest) in their future to change careers. SmartPhone: gone. Ipod: gone. Car: gone. Big screen: gone. Etc. Etc.
Regarding a "cut in pay, which is even less sustainable", then they could certainly cut back (read invest) in their future to change careers. SmartPhone: gone. Ipod: gone. Car: gone. Big screen: gone. Etc. Etc.
What in the world makes you assume they even have any of these luxuries, other than a car, which is necessary to get to work.
No big screen tv because neither can afford cable nor do either of them pay for internet.
Learn to "walk a mile" before you make assumptions on other people's life styles.
In addition, it's not as easy
In addition, it's not as easy to change careers as selling off everything and getting more education. There are plenty of articles published lately about people with college educations unable to find jobs.
correct, i know several food
correct, i know several food workers who get to their jobs by bike. personally, i don't even have a cell phone, cable, or a large-screen tv (old CRT here, which seems large enough). assumptions don't always hold true.
The US has nothing to brag
The US has nothing to brag about when it comes to infant mortality.
67% decrease since after WWII
There is much room for improvement but...
Yeah, we barely beat
Yeah, we barely beat Bulgaria.
Jeez---substantial improvement with movement in the right direction.
If you want to unpack infant
If you want to unpack infant mortality stats, you can't use improvement as an absolute standard when the figure is abysmal compared to other Global North countries.
I don't see where anyone was
I don't see where anyone was "bragging" only merely stating facts that US quality of life has drastically improved. Different countries have different dynamics but a 2/3's reduction is great improvement. Both political parties need to show more pragmatism. We need to help those at the lower rungs of society to help themselves but trust me, very few of today's "poor" understand the meaning of the word. All too often, I see youngsters with enough money to add "bling" to their cars, tattoos & piercings to their bodies, "buds" to their ears, cell phones to their heads,, fast food to their bodies, cigarettes to their lungs, decorations to their finger nails, etc.& claim to be poor?
As we know, thee descriptions are VERY common----poor? They should read Angela's Ashes.
It's time for more personal responsibility. Exercise, eat right, don't smoke, don't take drugs & limit your individualism if it limits your opportunities.
Most anyone under my age doesn't know what poor is.
I suggest you come with me to
I suggest you come with me to a couple of small towns outside of Greenville, MS. I've seen better living conditions in Bosnia circa 1998.
Son, Greenville, MS was where
Greenville, MS was where we aspired to live when I grew up in Stucker, MS. I didn't stay there simply because there was no work so I migrated to Jackson with exactly $6.79. Five was in my sock & $1.79 in my pocket in case I was robbed. As I stated, most don't understand the meaning of poor but my generation didn't look for handouts. Instead, we made our way to self sufficiency.
Enjoy your unicorn,
Well, of course you did.
Well, of course you did.
All too often, I see
All too often, I see youngsters with enough money to add "bling" to their cars, tattoos & piercings to their bodies, "buds" to their ears, cell phones to their heads,, fast food to their bodies, cigarettes to their lungs, decorations to their finger nails, etc.& claim to be poor?
IMO, there is some validity to what you said. However, we all know it is not true across the board. Again, IMO, I can't say the poor/low income are looking for handouts. I'm thinking they are just trying to survive/live. Times are much different now. You used to be able to bum rides with strangers back in the day, not now, it's just not safe (I don't think).
Where the heck is Stucker, MS?
Don't know about all that,
Don't know about all that, but when y'all go to Greenville be sure to check out Lusco's and take a step back in time to 1930. Weird place, pretty decent food. BYOB, prohibition style.
I don't know where Stucker is
I don't know where Stucker is but Frank brings up some valid points. Many folk, not all but many, could afford more necessities if they didn't spend so much on unnecessary items whether that be "tats", stereos, etc. Maybe Reagan's welfare Cadillac was a hoax but my son who has done repair work on Hope VI says he's surprised by the number of flat screens, big screens, etc. and jabs me for not having central H&A like all of Hope VI does.
Frank sounds like my dad when he talks about personal responsibility and while no one is making blanket statements, there does exist great truth in what he pointed out.
All based on the assumption
All based on the assumption that no one works in HOPE IV.
No one said that or even
No one said that or even implied it. It was however implied that those receiving dramatic gov't assistance for necessities seem to have funds for non-necessities.
Do you know they are on
Do you know they are on assistance? How so?
See, the whole point of HOPE
See, the whole point of HOPE VI is that some people living there do receive various kinds of assistance, and some don't. This of course makes it more challenging to assume you know who is who.
As to the other discussion here, yes, as compared to, say, Somolia, being "poor" in America is a whole different thing. No doubt that some people who are poor make ill-advised decisions with regard to priorities in what they purchase, but this is true up and down the economic scale.
You can look no further than the check-cashing, rent-to-own, and related loan businesses for the enabling source of that problem for the poor. Someone living on SSI and food stamps doesn't have the money to buy the various amenities described in this thread. They do, however, have enough money to make some payments for a while, and a whole, barely-regulated financial industry has grown up around that fact. The folks who have been scorned here may have some crappy consumer electronics perched on WalMart pasteboard furniture, but they aren't the people who are truly taking advantage of government assistance.
The people really taking advantage of government assistance drive around in Hummers with libertarian-sloganed bumper stickers, chasing down monthly payments and repossessing crappy consumer electronics.
The poor people are still poor, it's just they look less poor while they're being used as conduits for others to siphon off government benefits and minimum wages.
White People
Your chart shows that things are looking up for white folks as a group. Has you cross referenced this data by those that were covered by insurance?
My point is this. You certainly seem to be making a lot of broad based assumptions about freedom, but until one has serious concerns about whether or not there will be food and shelter in one's immediate future, one doesn't tend to understand that freedom is largely a privilege of economic condition.
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A greatly shortened version of our company's evolution on employee benefits is that we gave the hourly folks the same program we gave ourselves. As we could afford it, we gave more paid holidays and sick days. At some point a line supervisor said his people were complaining that some folks didn't take sick days and others took days when they weren't sick and that seemed unfair. As a result of some research we came around to suggesting a program where there were no sick days period. Our hard nosed GM said we shouldn't pay people to be sick. We took the number of sick days we had been granting and made them floating holidays that could be banked or used as the employee saw fit or needed. Problem solved.
As for health insurance, if anyone wants to really create a massive explosion of jobs in America they can do two things: Eliminate employer based insurance and replace it with a public option. And...allow retained earnings to be reinvested in capital expenditures with no taxation. It is a huge burden for a young and growing business to come up with tax payments on the increase in company net worth when there is no actual money to the owners involved. (Yeah, it's off topic but I feel better now)
i appreciate everything
i appreciate everything you're saying, but it seems to me that to maximize profits you need to suppress wages. one way to do that is to create surplus workers (i.e. increase competition for jobs) by keeping unemployment high. that contradicts the idea of a 'massive explosion of jobs' which would have the effect of driving wages up.
and as it stands, employer-based insurance works for the largest corporations who can best afford to pay it and - not coincidentally - are the most aggressively opposed to the 'public option.'
Actually, most businesses
Actually, most businesses large and small would love to get out of the health care/insurance business.
The big three auto makers would like to get it off their books.
... in Canada
... in Canada
i'd like to think
i'd like to think corporations were big supporters of single-payer universal coverage, but i haven't found much evidence of that in the last few years. and this from wiki:
Wagoner resigned as Chairman and CEO at General Motors on March 29, 2009, at the request of the White House. The latter part of Wagoner's tenure as CEO of General Motors found him under heavy criticism as the market valuation of GM went down by more than 90% and the company lost more than $82 billion USD. This led to his being named one of the worst CEOs of 2008.
who knows, the decline of GM might indeed have been related to the cost of health insurance for its employees. but i suspect it was more related to poor management, a product line that was obsolescent, and its adventure into mortgage financing.
Hold your friends close and
Hold your friends close and your enemies closer.
Health insurance is our tiny
Health insurance is our tiny little company's second largest expense, after payroll.
Apparently, that's not
Apparently, that's not uncommon.
One huge advantage foreign
One huge advantage foreign manufacturers have is that they don't have to pay for their worker health coverage. In the USA this can mean as much as a 25% higher cost per worker and it's rising.
There are other advantages as well, of course. Things like not having to give a crap about environmental regulations, worker safety, child labor laws, sweat shop regulations and all that count too.
i'd like to see the list of
i'd like to see the list of the best restaurants to work for. or do i just read the list in reverse?
You can go to the link above
You can go to the link above for the guide.
It has a list of restaurants and five columns for each one. For instance Bonefish Grill lists paid sick days as being offered. Five Guys Burgers lists paid sick days and a couple other things, etc.
Seriously? SERIOUSLY?
Let me tell you exactly how kitchen staff in local (non-chain store) restaurants are treated -- I have two sons who work as cooks in local restaurants, so yeah, I am qualified to speak on what happens in some of these kitchens.
Thanks, CE (and you, too, Michael).
To the rest of you, I have posted pretty authoritative data from the BLS (and for the current year) demonstrating that 27% of all employees across industries do not receive any paid sick leave days and that another 10% may or may not receive paid sick leave days, dependent on the whim of the employer.
If you are among those who have always received the benefit, you're pretty much in "the lucky half."
And more on the restaurant industry, in particular (where I did work for seven years in my teens and twenties, like most everyone I knew): Even among this smattering of restaurants at jbr's link professing to offer some of these various benefits, I daresay they offer them to three out of 50 or 100 employees, namely to their salaried management staff.
The rest of their crews are scheduled for 37 or 38 hours weekly, max, specifically so the employer may for all practical purposes work them "full-time" without offering them any of the benefits--sick leave, vacation leave, paid holidays, health insurance--their handful of full-time salaried managers enjoy.
The same thing happens in the hotel industry.
I attended a conference with my husband at Nashville's Downtown Hilton a month or so back, at which I learned 17% of his long-time employer's prior year income is now derived from outsourcing activity.
Employment issues being on my mind that weekend, I therefore spent my spare time, while he attended work-related sessions, interviewing the hotel staff as to their salary, benefits, and working conditions.
As I suspected, not a damned thing has changed in the industry since the 1970's.
Those folks a plumb pitiful, as was I back in the day.
Everybody should do a stint in the hospitality industry, if only to learn the necessity of tipping generously.
Dear CE, I'm not sure what we can do for the cooks...
Dear CE, I'm not sure what we
Dear CE, I'm not sure what we can do for the cooks...
We can start with single-payer health care. Followed by paying a living wage.
But, that's not just for cooks, that would be for everyone.
Sometime last year (or was it the year before) there was a thread on the service industry here. While the service industry (including the hospitality industry) is 100% needed, I still get up in arms when this industry is a driving force which sustains our state. It is completely unsustainable, particularly when it keeps a huge portion of the population in poverty.
We can start with
We can start with single-payer health care. Followed by paying a living wage.
What are we, Swedes? As Americans, we prefer to hide the costs and pay them on the back end. Privatize gain, socialize risk, and all that.
Wal-Mart encourages its 1.3 million US employees to enroll in taxpayer-funded health programs. A number of studies have demonstrated the way Wal-Mart shifts its employee expenses onto taxpayers. A 2004 Congressional study estimated that taxpayers subsidize an average Wal-Mart store to the tune of more than $420,000 a year, or more than $2,000 per employee. This takes the form of government-funded food stamps, housing subsidies and health insurance programs. Another study found that the state of California spent a total of $86 million a year on public assistance for Wal-Mart workers, or more than $1,900 per worker. Wal-Mart employees were the largest users of state healthcare programs in eleven out of thirteen states that reported employer usage.
My cousin is now a manager
My cousin is now a manager for Cracker Barrel. Over the years he's worked for Eva wide variety of restaurants in Knoxville and NYC. He's w/ a chain now b/c he has a wife and two kids and that means they need health insurance. He knows plenty of folks who don't have any insurance who are really good at what they do, and like doing it. Line cooks-- he had three call in sick the other day and found himself being the line cook at lunch. Those guys are all part-time, and something tells me that they will be answering some tough questions if they want to keep their jobs.
Unless some personal circumstance prevents them from working full-time (and enjoying the paid sick leave/paid vacation leave/ paid holidays/ health insurance/ possible retirement plan your cousin enjoys), I expect they DON'T want to "keep their jobs." I wouldn't, would you?
Let's face it, if minimum wage had kept up with inflation since inception of the FLSA, the rate would now be closer to $14.50/hour, not $7.25/hour.
the rate would now be closer
the rate would now be closer to $14.50/hour
and there's resistance to, what, $10/hour?
and something tells me that
and something tells me that they will be answering some tough questions if they want to keep their jobs.
With Cracker Barrel, one of those tough questions used to be, "Are you Gay?"
Actually, that's changed. My
Actually, that's changed. My cousin's dad is a gay man who initially tried to deny reality but realized that he couldn't. After his parents divorced, when he got to be a teen, he lived w/ his dad. That was one of the things that he wanted clear before he went to work there. And his best friend is black, so he got that cleared up w/ them too. He says they are working hard to correct the mistakes of their past.
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one positive here is that the
one positive here is that the food and music businesses seem to complement each other, as least as far as schedules go. i don't know what the working conditions/benefits are like in the food coop, but i've occasionally had chats with one of the friendly cooks who regularly sets up the buffet (excellent, btw). he seems to really enjoy what he does, and is always willing to talk about the ingredients, recipes, etc. of what he prepares. in his other life he's a music student. i think you'll find lots of musicians and artists working in the food business for their 'day jobs.'
Yes, I remember the 'tea ins'
Yes, I remember the 'tea ins' at Cracker Barrels very well. I can still spent half a day nursing a few glasses of iced tea.
Thanks, again, Michael.
Frank, I don't have a cell phone, either, I have the $15 "basic" cable TV (only because we can't get any reception on this ridge without it AND our TVs are old analog sets bought at pawn shops and requiring the cable company's converter box). My family's used cars are also old, but I appreciate that we own any at all.
I do, however, employ my own car each and every week to offer rides to fast food workers tramping up and down Clinton Highway in their work uniforms.
I feel compelled to do that because in a previous life I was one of them.
I think you would approve of my family's disciplined money management and I do agree--to a degree--with your observations to the effect that some people, young and old, fail to set proper financial priorities.
What I think you're discounting, though, is that due to the stagnation of wages, any family's money doesn't go nearly as far as it did a generation ago. Think about the disproportionate rise in the costs of housing, cars, medical care, and college, for starters.
For example, Mom didn't work, but my dad nevertheless bought our home for about one year's income. Today, my family couldn't possibly do that.
Dad bought his last new car for about three month's income. Today, my family couldn't possibly do that, either.
He and Mom never anticipated that in her old age, after his death, she might spend 70% of her monthly retirement income on just a Medicare supplement and prescription drugs, so my husband and I are today extremely apprehensive for how much rougher our medical costs will be toward "the end."
And college costs? I'm sure you're aware that they've doubled in just the last ten years, to say nothing of the change over the last thirty.
Again, had the minimum wage kept up with inflation, its rate would be double that actually in effect. This circumstance affects all wage earners, really, in that the "floor" has dropped out from under all.
And why does the cost of living index exclude the costs of food and fuel, anyway? In my household, those two costs are tied with our top cost, namely our housing cost, which makes the index a joke.
Aside from the problem of the wage "floor" having collapsed, there is also the problem of tax policy and corporate boardroom policy having combined to widen and accellerate the wage "gap" between lower and higher earners.
So while I share your penchant for disciplined money management (and I also share some of your personal life experiences as someone who "started with nothing"), all the penny-pinching in the world is too little to compensate for these several external forces at work in today's economy to diminish workers' earnings and morale.
I don't think you're looking at the bigger picture.
Thank you Tamara
for so eloquently stating what those of us fighting to participate in the American dream are struggling with.
As for"And why does the cost of living index exclude the costs of food and fuel, anyway? In my household, those two costs are tied with our top cost, namely our housing cost, which makes the index a joke."this, you may be too young to remember, but Ronald Reagan had to fix the runaway inflation of his first term, so rather than do the work he was elected to do, he simply changed the formula by which your COLA was calculated, essentially guaranteeing that union workers would ever get another COLA raise, ever.
That little historically trivial move was the single greatest blow to unions in the history of organized labor, because it assured that from that point on union workers would never keep pace with the cost of living and the driving point of unions has always been economic opportunity for workers.
Thanks again Tamara for all you do and if a Knox Views get together is ever organized, I'll buy you a beer.
...my son who has done repair work on Hope VI says he's surprised by the number of flat screens, big screens, etc. and jabs me for not having central H&A like all of Hope VI does.
I think you're forgetting some HOPE VI history, Al.
In Knoxville and across the country, what the HOPE VI project did was to reduce the number of housing units for the poor in a given locale, flush out of those cities the poorest of the poor, and make available for the higher earners among them a lesser number of pricier housing units.
Here is some coverage on what went down in Knoxville in 1998:
...Julia and other residents attended the scheduled committee meeting where an attorney, an architect and housing authority staff informed them that their homes would be demolished under a federal program known as HOPE VI. The 320 units were to be replaced by 149 houses for sale (which they couldn't afford) and about 50 mixed-income rental duplexes. After exhausting all legal challenges, Julia and a few other families decided to stay in their homes and refused to leave when formally evicted. After several days, the other families relented, but Julia and her daughters remained until the fall of 1998 when under a court order, sheriffs' deputies physically removed them from the property.
All this to point out that your son was not observing in those homes owning big screen TVs the standard of living among the poorest of Knoxville's poor.
The poorest were the folks displaced by the HOPE VI project.
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I wish we still had ratings so I could + somebody's comment. Lets not forget to count among the welfare kings the factory farmers, arms dealers, and bridge to nowhere builders.
welfare kings
... or the Waltons who, through their surrogates, still ask for TIFs to build new Walmarts
Just six members of the Walton family, heirs to the Walmart fortune, possess wealth equal to that of the entire bottom 30 percent of Americans.
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