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Writing Lesson Plans for English Learners at All Levels
Improve Storytelling with Vocal Verbs and Adverbs
This ESL lesson plan focuses on helping students improve their writing skills by focusing on relating stories with a wide variety of vocal verbs and adverbs instead of 'he said or she said'.
Teachers Share Writing Lesson Plans for the ESL / EFL Classroom
ESL teachers share their best writing lesson plans and activities with other English teachers from around the world.
Young Learner's Writing Workshop 4 - Getting Ideas Organized
This final lesson in this series helps students put their observations into written form by asking them to fill out a questionnaire. Students can then take these replies and incorporate them into their final essay.
Dickens' "Bleak House"
This challenging upper levels lesson employs Dickens' "Bleak House" as a study in sentence structure, vocabulary, imagery, and paragraph unity. After discussion, students choose one of the
Complex Sentence Writing
Combine simple sentences to make complex sentence to practice your writing skills.
Business Letter Writing Lesson Plan
An example of an effective lesson plan employing all four language skills while focusing on business letter production skills.
Beginning Writing - Short Writing Assignments
Ready to go short writing assignments for beginning level English learners. Toics include studies, hobbies, travel, likes and dislikes, application forms, brief job descriptions, recipes, etc.
Process Writing
Introduction to using process writing in an ESL EFL setting.
Learn English on Twitter
Introduction to a new English writing practice service using Twitter provided by Kenneth Beare.
Helping Students Write a Creative Story
Guided Writing Exercise for ESL EFL TESOL TEFL English Students - Helping Students Write a Creative Story - Writing Sentences in English Using Sentence Connectors
Using a Word Processing Program in Class
ESL EFL TESOL English lesson plan focusing on using a word processing program in class to help students improve their writing skills while developing communicative skills
Short Writing Storms
Writing Storms - Short Writing and Discussion Topics for ESL
ESL Writing Workshop 1
Lesson one of four lessons aimed at helping young learners learn how to write essays for ESL EFL English Classes
ESL Writing Workshop 2
Lesson two of four lessons focusing on character analysis helping young learners learn how to write essays for ESL EFL English Classes
ESL Writing Workshop 3
Lesson three of four lessons focusing on theme development helping young learners learn how to write essays for ESL EFL English Classes
ESL Writing Workshop 4
Lesson four of four lessons focusing on character analysis helping young learners learn how to write essays for ESL EFL English Classes
Dictations - Writing Practice for Beginning Level Learners
Beginning level dictations for English learners focusing on introductions, instructions, present simple habits, past events, comparisons and questions.
Creative Writing as an ESL Music Lesson
This lesson uses short excerpts of music as an ESL music lesson to inspire creative writing in the English learning classroom.
Interesting Writing: Descriptive Verb usage
One of the most important steps in improving writing skills is expanding the use of more descriptive language when describing actions. This lesson focuses on getting students to use more descriptive verbs in place of common, general meaning verbs.
Lesson: Error Correction
Help students help themselves by using error shorthand to help them learn to correct their own mistakes.
Young Learner's Writing Workshop 3 - Using Themes to Relate to a Story
Students now have a better understanding of the various characters in the short story or book. Students can now deepen their understanding of the work at hand by analyzing the most important themes of the book and how the character would relate to those themes based on their previous work.
Young Learner's Writing Workshop 2 - Developing a Character Analysis
Once students have decided what they need to write about, they often have a hard time actually developing the material to include in the essay. For this reason, this interview format exercise develops ideas about various characters which can later be used to help them write an essay.
Young Learner's Writing Workshop 1 - Basic Essay Writing Style
This series of four lessons is designed to help students become familiar with writing an essay in English. The first lesson is designed to give students an overview of basic essay writing style. The final three lessons focus on developing skills that are used when analyzing texts as the basis of their essays.
Writing Lesson - Non Defining Clauses
This intermediate level lesson focuses on introducing and / or reviewing defining and non-defining relative clauses. Exercises include a recognition and punctuation drill as well as a text expansion exercise.
Using the Internet to teach English for Special Purposes (ESP)
One of the problems that faces many English as Second Language (read ESP, ESL, EFL, TEFL, TESOL, TOEFL etc.) teachers is that students expect the teacher to be incredibly knowledgeable about <B>everything</B>! By using the methods in the example lesson - actually you will probably need at least two lessons - you can give your students "real world" English for their specific ESP needs.
Short Writing Topics
The idea of this exercise is to get students to quickly write about a topic they choose (or you assign). These short presentations are then used in two manners; to generate spontaneous conversations on a wide range of topics, and to take a look at some common writing problems.
Sentence Connectors - Guided Writing
This guided writing lesson is intended to help bridge the gap from simply writing sentences to developing a larger structure. During the course of the lesson students become familiar with the sentence connectors 'so' and 'because'.
Recipes English learning - Chiken Kiev
Recipes for ESL English learning - Chiken Kiev. This recipe provides useful vocabulary and instruction on writing recipes in English.
Newspaper Reading and Writing
This lesson focuses on calling students' attention to this type of writing style on a deeper, grammatical level. It ends with students writing up their own short articles with a follow-up listening comprehension opportunity.
Lesson: Translating Texts
This lesson uses the power of the Internet to translate a text written by students in their native language, or a page from Internet chosen by students. This text is then used as a means to discuss differences between the native language and English. Great fun for everybody is assured!
Lesson: Time Expressions
Intermediate to upper intermediate lesson focusing on identification and written production of sentences based on the correct usage of time expressions.
Lesson: Lego Blocks
Groups decide upon a design, give it a description (a name), and then write down step-by-step instructions for how another group could construct the same design from the six pieces. This activity promotes an enormous amount of discussion within the groups during the instruction-writing phase.
Lesson: Integrating Past Continuous
Lesson aimed at helping students begin integrating the past continuous more effectively in written work.
Exploding Texts - Creative Writing and Grammar Exercise for ESL Classes
Exploding texts takes short texts and 'explodes' them by adding longer modifiers, dependent clauses, etc. to help students improve their creative writing and grammar skills in English.
Reports: Using a Word Processing Program in Class
This lesson plan focuses on developing a class writing project over a period of time and is therefore designed as a general outline to such a project.
Expanding Descriptive Verb Use
Advanced Level lesson plan focusing on improving students' writing skills by expanding their knowledge and use of descriptive language
Sentences Worksheets
Sentences worksheets to help English learners generate correct sentences while learning important sentence structure.
Writing an Informal Letter
English writing lesson plan focusing on how to write informal letters with vocabulary drill and structure analysis.
Writing Descriptive Paragraphs
ESL lesson plan focusing on helping students develop concise paragraph writing skills.
Relative Clause Lesson Plan
This lesson plan encourages the use of relative clauses to describe the workplace in writing. Students match work related phrase pairs and connect using relative clauses, then go on to describe their own workplace using relative clauses. Point by point lesson plan includes matching activity.
Combining Adverb Clauses
This lesson plan for upper intermediate to advanced level classes encourages students to start writing complex sentences in longer forms such as short stories by focusing on combining sentences with adverb clauses for different uses into a short story.
First Lessons in Writing
Teaching beginning level English learners writing can be very challenging. Here are a number of tips and specific exercises to use in order to ensure that beginning level learners don't become overwhelmed.


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Lake Erie College and EntrepreneursOnCall.com co-host the 2009 Student Entrepreneurship Challenge
In conjunction with National Entrepreneurs Week, EntrepreneursOnCall.com and the Lake Erie College Center for Entrepreneurship will be hosting the 2009 Student Entrepreneurship Challenge Feb. 26 from 6-9 p.m. in the Coe Conference room located in the Arthur S. Holden Center.
As part of the Challenge, high school juniors and seniors will develop a business model. The students will select a product or service and then support why they have selected it and what purpose it serves or problems it solves in the marketplace. In essence, they will write a business plan to launch their idea.
Participating schools include, Lake Catholic, Mentor, Madison and Entrepreneurship Prep School and Wickliffe. Contestants will be judged beginning week of Feb. 16, narrowing the field to five finalists. The panel of judges is comprised of members of the Lake Erie College Center for Entrepreneurship. The top-three finishers will be awarded prizes, with the first-place winner earning a new laptop computer.
"It's all about the future, our young entrepreneurs are the future of our region, the future of our state and the future of this country," said Tom Lix, Ph.D., director of the Center for Entrepreneurship at Lake Erie College. "It is our job to encourage coach and support this group in any way we can!"
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The debate over gun control completely misses the real issue. Giving everyone a gun isn't the answer. Neither is taking away pistols, rifles and shotguns of law abiding citizens.The real heart of the matter is a question we all must ask of ourselves and is vastly more important than a trivial alliance to conservative or liberal ideology.
By Steve Boggs
The rupture in Exxon Mobil's Pegasus pipeline near Mayflower last week has touched off numerous debates about the present state of America's aging pipeline system. The pipeline that spilled 12,000 gallons of Canadian oil was originally laid in the 1940s, and its soundness 70 years later should be called into question.
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As attention was focused on Holy Week and activities leading up to Easter, many conversations touched on references to particular scriptures.
This also came about as a result of many people watching the History Channel's broadcast of "The Bible," which depicted events related to the birth, death and resurrection of Jesus.
By no means could I be called a biblical scholar; but by living with one for nearly 37 years, some of that knowledge did rub off on me. And I confess I'm a purist about certain passages that are fully ingrained into my psyche.
Today is Easter Sunday, a milestone for those of us who grew up in the church.
By "church," I don't mean the little Cumberland Presbyterian body that's a big part of my life and where I play the piano every Sunday. I mean the church at large, not any particular denomination.
Attendance in most congregations swells on this holiest of days, which is great. Better to go one day out of the year than none, though I've never understood why so many avoid corporate worship most of the other Sundays of the year.
Parents — probably since the beginning of time — dread the day when they have to enlighten their children about the onset of life.
You know what I mean. The old "birds and bees" stuff; facts of life; creation; whatever you want to call it.
This can sometimes be the theme for movies and television shows, even TV commercials, where a kid raises a pointed question that begs for some "real" information.
The days are long past when kids will buy into the stork story.
I don't remember my mother ever having this biological discussion with me.
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The state of Arkansas has become the focal point in the implementation of the Affordable Care Act. Also known as Obamacare, the Affordable Care Act included many controversial aspects. One was the mandate that every person carries health insurance, or faces a fine. The Supreme Court upheld that mandate when challenged in court. The other was forcing states to expand the Medicaid program to include everyone making 138 percent of the federal poverty level in wages. That one got struck down by the Supreme Court.
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America's national pastime is gearing up for another season. Exhibition games have begun and player evaluations are underway. The "boys of summer" may be dealing with frigid temperatures in some regions of the country, but the enthusiasm they have for the game provides a layer of insulation that is difficult to penetrate.
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Just about each week I enjoy a long talk with a long-time friend during which he catches me up with what's going on in town and we reminisce about the good old days and, of course, conversate on how to fix what's wrong with the world.
We met in high school, first because I was attracted to his sister, but she felt she could do a lot better (grin,) and of course – she was right. But, our friendship was my introduction to the kids at Bauxite High School, who might as well as been from Mars before he and I started hanging out.
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One topic that inevitable arises when baby boomers gather is how things were different when we were younger. Peppered throughout the conversation are the words "You can't let kids do that anymore." When my generation was younger, we played outside until it was way beyond dark. We came home from school and rode our bikes everywhere. We walked to town to buy candy at the Sterlings Store downtown. Every generation looks back. It's natural.
It's also a natural progression of society, unfortunately so.
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My mother recently read me something she saw on Facebook. I believe it's worth sharing here in its entirety:
"Don't we all want a joy-filled life? Then let's get it. Life is too short not to, my friends. Strengthen up those struggle muscles (yes, we all have them) and get an emotional makeover. It is time to start clearing out the junk and stop tolerating the funk. You have done all you can do as long as you can, and it's time to give it all to God.
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George Givens and Michael Killebrew filed a complaint last month, claiming Adkins fostered a hostile workplace.
Camp Taylor was under investigation due to the allegations which included simulated sex acts, inappropriate language and physical abuse.
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Spiced Glazed Carrots with Sherry and Citrus
Published: November 2011 Servings: 8–10
- 2 bunches of thin carrots (2 lb.), cut into 1' pieces (about 4 cups)
- 2 tablespoons (1/4 stick) unsalted butter
- 1/2 teaspoon kosher salt plus more for seasoning
- 12 whole black peppercorns
- 1 bay leaf
- 1 tablespoon fresh clementine juice or orange juice
- 2 tablespoons Sherry or sweet vermouth, divided
- 2 pinches ground cloves
- 1 tablespoon fresh tarragon leaves
- 1/4 teaspoon freshly grated clementine zest or orange zest
Nutritional Information
8 servings, 1 serving contains: Calories (kcal) 64.1 %Calories from Fat 42.0 Fat (g) 3.0 Saturated Fat (g) 1.8 Cholesterol (mg) 7.5 Carbohydrates (g) 9.1 Dietary Fiber (g) 2.6 Total Sugars (g) 4.5 Net Carbs (g) 6.5 Protein (g) 0.9 Sodium (mg) 159.6
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Bring carrots, butter, 1/2 tsp. salt, peppercorns, bay leaf, and 1/2 cup water to a boil in a medium saucepan over medium heat. Reduce heat to a simmer, cover, and cook, stirring occasionally, until just tender, 7–8 minutes. Using a slotted spoon, transfer carrots to a medium bowl.
Add clementine juice, 1 Tbsp. Sherry, and ground cloves to skillet and cook until glaze forms, 7–8 minutes. Stir in carrots and remaining 1 Tbsp. Sherry. Season carrots to taste with salt. DO AHEAD Can be made 4 hours ahead. Let stand at room temperature. Rewarm over medium heat before continuing, adding water by teaspoonfuls if dry.
Transfer to a serving plate. Garnish with tarragon and celementine zest.
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February 2011 University of Toronto Scarborough
Franco VaccarinoPrincipal, U of T Scarborough
Principal's Message
2011 is off to a busy start. The UTSC community is engaged in a wide variety of academic initiatives, research projects, artistic programming as well as administrative and capital ventures. So much of what we are doing is about ensuring our continued success. The spirit of our collective effort is expressed in a new campus identity and tag line: Tomorrow is Created Here, which you will now begin to see rolling out across campus. Click here to learn more. I have heard from many of you about the importance of keeping the channels of communication open. I couldn't agree more. Through our new e-bulletin INSIDE UTSC, faculty and staff can share information about their units and learn about the many activities that are happening on our campus. Consider it required reading. Enjoy!
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In January, John Kennedy's scientific obsession became a source of artistic inspiration for tens of thousands of modern art-lovers in Spain. more
The faculty of psychology will soon welcome one of Canada's most influential and respected psychologists in clinical and personality psychology.
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The tropics house the majority of plant & animal species. But new USTC research suggests skipping the tropics if you want to see evolution in action.
If the answers to a test fell into your lap, would you cheat? New UTSC research shows people are willing to behave badly if it doesn't require effort.
Natalie Rothman, assistant professor of history, has won a prestigious Chancellor Jackman Humanities Institute Fellowship.
Seven years after joining software giant Microsoft, UTSC alumna Diana Brown has won the most prestigious honour an employee at the company can win...
Congratulations to UTSC faculty Marc Cadotte of Biological Sciences & Marney Isaac of Physical & Environmental Sciences.
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Prepare to be amazed by the state-of-the art features of the new IC, scheduled for occupancy by mid-March.
Nine distinguished faculty from the VPA program showcased their work at the Doris McCarthy Gallery from January 5-12.
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UTSC's Centre for Teaching and Learning held an open house for its English Language Development program on January 25.
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Congratulations to Ken Jones, our trusty photographer in Communications and Public Affairs, who celebrated 30 years of service at UTSC this January.
These new staff and faculty members joined the UTSC community between the beginning of December and the middle of January.
Course: Take a few hours out of your day on February 8 to learn how to build high impact teams. From 9am-noon in AA160.
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Did you know that David Cronenberg shot his first full-length film on UTSC campus? Stereo was, to say the least, experimental. But diehard fans will recognize a few of Cronenberg's signature themes, just as staff and faculty will recognize our campus circa 1969.
Watch the full version (it's supposed to be silent).
Watch a shorter version edited by one of said diehard fans. And no, this does NOT mean we're allowed to bring our helicopters to work.
Disclaimer: Please note that there is nudity, sexual content and violence in the film. What would a Cronenberg film be without it? View at your own discretion.
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This UTSC staff member was recognized by the Toronto Raptors as a BMO Community Hero of the Game in 2008 for his contributions as a volunteer basketball coach.
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Surgery for an Achilles Tendon Rupture
Surgery Overview
There are two types of surgery to repair a ruptured Achilles tendon:
In both types of surgery, the surgeon sews the tendon back together through the incision(s). Surgery may be delayed for about a week after the rupture, to let the swelling go down.
What To Expect After Surgery
After either type of surgery, you will likely wear a cast, walking boot, or similar device for 6 to 12 weeks. At first, the cast or boot is positioned to keep the foot pointed downward as the tendon heals. The cast or boot is then adjusted gradually to put the foot in a neutral position (not pointing up or down). Many health professionals recommend starting movement and weight-bearing exercises early, before the cast or boot comes off. Your total recovery time will probably be as long as 6 months.
Why It Is Done
This surgery is done to repair an Achilles tendon that has been torn into two pieces.
How Well It Works
In general:
It is sometimes difficult to know how surgeries compare, because the ages and activities of those having the surgeries differ. The success of your surgery can depend on your surgeon's experience, the type of surgical procedure used, the extent of tendon damage, how soon after rupture the surgery is done, and how soon your rehabilitation program starts after surgery and how well you follow it.
Talk to your surgeon about his or her surgical experience and success rate with the technique that would best treat your condition.
The risks of Achilles tendon surgery include:
What To Think About
An Achilles tendon rupture is usually treated with surgery or with a cast, splint, brace, or other device that will keep your lower leg from moving (immobilization). When compared with immobilization, surgery provides less chance that the tendon will rupture again and offers a shorter recovery period. There is greater risk for wound complications in surgery, though.
Complete the surgery information form (PDF)(What is a PDF document?) to help you prepare for this surgery.
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Varsity Soccer - Foothill 9, Amador 0 - Is that Sportsmanship?
Original post made by SportsFan on Jan 22, 2009
From the moment our kids learn to play soccer in Pleasanton they are taught that needless piling on like this is extremely poor sportsmanship. When you get 3 or 4 goals ahead, you just pass the ball around - no need for more scoring to embarrass the other team. Sounds like the Foothill coach missed that session of the Positive Coaching Alliance. Was this really necessary, Coach?
In contrast, Amador Varsity Boys Soccer played Foothill on Tuesday. With Amador leading 2-0 and with 20 min to go in the game, The AV Coach emptied his bench, including putting the backup goalie out in the field. The entire back line came out as a unit, likely costing the shutout. Foothill did score with two minutes to go, but the game was all but decided. Contrast that with FH coach's decisions.
I'd be curious to hear the justification for this display, in my opinion, of poor sportsmanship. Foothill's team is obviously outstanding, some say the best girls team this area has ever seen, but on Wednesday nite their fabulous ability was overshadowed by some poor decision making. On this nite they did not represent Pleasanton well.
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"SportsFan" obviously isn't.
on Jan 22, 2009 at 11:27 pm
Ever watch college football? That's how they retain their top ranking - blow out as many teams as possible(USC, Texas, Oklahoma or any top 10 team that had the opportunity). How many top 10 teams did we see blow out their opponent by 40+ points in 2008. Kept their starters in until well into the fourth quarter...
That may not be considered "sportsmanship" to some, but that's life in the top rankings...
on Jan 23, 2009 at 12:12 am
A 9-0 win in soccer is like a 80-0 game in football. I understand the runup to keep your ranking, but enough is enough.


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The Model T Jamboree Tour stopped in Pemberville Friday.
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Some models are so old you have to crank them to get the engine running.
Ken Gierach and his baby blue model arrived in style all the way from Cincinnati. He warns others not to be fooled by the year of his model (1926) because it's still fast - or so he thinks.
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Minnesotans are adjusting to the partial government shutdown, but if it lingers too long, there is a chance the 300,000 kids who rely on free or reduced lunches at school could go hungry.
"It's hard to speculate exactly how much time before that becomes an issue," said Josh Collins, with the Minnesota Department of Education.
Most of the discounted lunch programs are federally funded, along with 60 percent of statewide staff. If the shutdown is prolonged, furloughs could be on the horizon.
"We have informed them. We are looking closely," Collins said.
Martha Faust is married to a teacher, and she's waiting to see if he'll be able to take his students on a planned trip to Washington, DC, during the break that is coming up just a few weeks from now.
"Those kids save money and fundraise, and they don't know if it's going to be happening at this point," Faust said.
The state is also straining in other areas. More than 1,000 Minnesota National Guard members were furloughed on the first day. On day two, Gov. Mark Dayton's chief of staff and the state's management and budget commissioner voiced concerns via a conference call.
"We are not in a position where we can just fill gaps that are created by their political breakdown," Tina Flint Smith said. "We are Minnesotans here, and we are trying to minimize the effects on real peoples' lives -- on people that count on these programs, but we don't print money either."
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Heavy volume expected at San Antonio International Airport in next 10 days
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SAN ANTONIO - Thanksgiving is one of the three busiest times of the year for air travel.
"Aside from maybe spring break and Christmas, Thanksgiving is always busy here at the airport," said Rich Johnson, spokesman for San Antonio International Airport.
In fact, three of the next 10 days -- including this Friday -- are some of the busiest air travel days of the entire year.
"The 16th, the 19th, and the 25th are extremely busy days. A lot of the airlines are booked near, at, or even above capacity in the coming days," Johnson said.
Not only the volume, but the primary type of traveler is expected to cause delays at security check points.
"It's a popular weekend for families to travel. It's not your business traveler with one carry-on. It's people with strollers and extra luggage," Johnson said.
It's not all bad news when it comes to holiday travel at the airport.
The security restrictions have been loosened for some passengers.
"If you are 12 or younger or 75 and older, you no longer have to take off you shoes to go through security," Johnson said.
There is a very important rule regarding any gifts you may be bringing on your trip.
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The Cincinnati Bengals enjoyed a nice five-game sellout streak. This weekend isn't looking to go for the Bengals and their ticket office.
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Herrera steps up his crackdown on surcharge fraud by restaurants
City Attorney Dennis Herrera has stepped up his efforts to ensure San Francisco restaurants aren't committing consumer fraud with their healthcare surcharges – by pocketing money collected from diners ostensibly to cover their city obligation to provide health coverage to employees – offering an amnesty period for following city law.
At a City Hall press conference on Friday – flanked by Sups. David Campos and David Chiu, Assembly member Tom Ammiano, and local restaurant employees – Herrera announced an investigation and enforcement effort targeting dozens of local business who have reported spending less on employee health care than they collect from customers for that purpose. They will receive letters this week urging voluntarily compliance during an amnesty period, after which they could be hit with lawsuits and civil penalties.
"The enforcement program we're launching today isn't simply to protect employees and consumers from surcharge fraud – it's also to protect the vast majority of competing restaurants that follow the law and provide health care benefits to their workers," said Herrera. "We San Franciscans take great pride in a vibrant local restaurant scene that enriches our neighborhoods, employs thousands of our residents, and serves millions of tourists each year. And it's unfortunate that the illegal business practices of a relative handful of bad actors require the creation of this enforcement initiative."
The City Attorney's Office is refusing to release the list of restaurants that will receive the letters, calling it an ongoing investigation that exempts the list from public disclosure. But the office did furnish reporters who asked with a spreadsheet from the city's Office of Labor Standards Enforcement, which ensures compliance with the landmark Health Care Security Ordinance that Ammiano authored as a supervisor, going into effect in 2008 and creating the Healthy San Francisco program.
That list includes many well-known restaurants. Topping the list is Mina Group LLC (which includes restaurants Michael Mina, RN74, Bourbon Steak, and Clock Bar) collecting $539,806 and spending $211,809, Wayfare Tavern collecting $303,207 and spending $68,018, Layers LLC (owners of Paxti's Pizza, which Herrera's reached a settlement with two weeks ago), Squat & Gobble collecting $160, 498 and spending nothing on employee health care. Others on the list include Cheesecake Factory, Max's Opera Cafe, Asia SF, Burgermeister, Folsom Pie, Cafe Bellini, and One Market Restaurant.
Golden Gate Restaurant Association Executive Director Rob Black lashed out at Herrera's office for releasing that list and media outlets for publishing it, claiming that he's talked to many of those restaurateurs and that they had filled out the forms wrong or that they simply hadn't yet spent the surcharges collected even though the funds may be set aside for employee health care.
"They aren't committing fraud, which is the accusation by the city attorney, just because of errors in filling out a form," Black said, urging the public to reserve judgment until the investigation is complete.
But it's hard to feel too bad for GGRA or the member restaurants that aggressively contested and then sued the city over the health care law, appealing it all the way to the Supreme Court, then turned around when they lost and used deceptive (and sometime fraudulent) surcharges to single out those costs for customers.
According to a press release put out by Herrera's office:
"The City Attorney's target letter outlined conditions worst-offender restaurants must take steps to meet by a deadline of April 10, 2013 to come into legal compliance, and avoid civil litigation by Herrera's office for pocketing customer surcharge money intended to fund employee health care benefits.
* Worst-offenders must provide an accounting to City Attorney investigators for all health care surcharges collected during the period from 2009 to 2011, along with health care expenditures pursuant to the Health Care Security Ordinance, or HCSO, for that time period.
* Worst-offenders must distribute 50 percent of unallocated health care surcharge funds to employees who worked for the company during the time surcharges were imposed on customers, covering the years 2009 to 2011, in accordance with City Attorney instructions.
* Worst-offenders must remit amounts unredeemed by their eligible employees to the San Francisco City Attorney's Office for the purpose of funding future enforcement of the HCSO and other consumer protection laws.
* Worst-offenders must attest that they will refrain from committing further consumer fraud and remain in full compliance in good faith with the HCSO going forward, in accordance with City Attorney instructions."
In his press conference, Herrera emphasized the "relative handful" of restaurants targeted by his office, just a few dozen in a city with thousands of restaurants. But he also said that his office is aware of restaurants that use the surcharge without even reporting to the OLSE as required, so both the amnesty program and his investigation goes beyond just the restaurants who get letters.
"I'm tremendously gratified by this very statesmanlike and generous gesture by the City Attorney's Office, Mr. Herrera in particular," Ammiano said. "I feel somewhat parental toward this program, the Health San Francisco program. It was a hard fight to get it and it's been successful, so any attempts to sully it, minimize it, or water it down get my dander up."
employees health benefits? But not for all the other workers in San Francisco? What's special about servers?
In fact, they are better off in SF than most other places because they qualify for minimum wage even though they get tips - most places exempt servers from minimum wage laws because of their cash income.
While you're correct about front-of-house staffers making tips on top of the minimum wage, you're overlooking the fact that those who work in the back-of-the-house do not. A prep cook may make 12 bucks an hour and that's what he gets. Period.
Do you tip the janitor and the bottle washer?
Servers also tip out a certain % to the Kitchen, BOH. they get more than the hourly rate.
on looking into the immigration status of people employed in SF?
Nothing will raise the income level of SF's kitchen employees like enforcing America's immigration laws. If he is serious about helping America's under class of wage peasants he will look into enforcing this nations laws.
Get ready for $25 burgers.
When I go back to Portland, much like Austin it seems, I can see hipsters washing dishes and doing other such jobs that here are beneath some folks.
If the various city laws such as the Daly hangover pay mandate are here to protect the citizens, then let us actually protect the citizens.
One has a hope of surviving in Portland because housing prices are not totally detached from wage prices throughout much of the City.
The same was true of Austin during the "Slacker" period when I lived there, not sure if it is the case nowadays.
homes would ever sell. But the math is quite simple:
Average SF income: 75K
Average income for a SF couple: 150K
Average loan: 4 times annual income i.e. 600K
Average SF home: 750 K ie 600k plus 20% down
Bingo. Homes are selling like hot cakes.
I posted accurate ones last week. Median household (not per capita) income in San Francisco is about $70,000.
Your universe consists only of people of your socio-economic class and above.
Two people who make that average can afford to buy the average SF home.
household and per capita? San Francisco median per capita income is $45,478, median household income is $71,304, median family income is $85,778. Households or families with median incomes cannot afford to buy the average San Francisco home.
this causes food price inflation.
I love SF but the burgers are already 25 dollars.
If restaurants are collecting a surcharge for employee healthcare they need to spend it on that purpose - period.
and e-mailing the cities dimwitted sleazy labor department lawyer idiots over and over again. it would seem the cities laws are a minimum.
The places in question should just set up a fund where the principle should go to insurance and the interest goes back into the fund or the owners. The companies could have a huge interest bearing insurance endowment.
should have just raised prices and kept their mouths shut. instead they document their own dimwittedness and fraudulence and get hoisted by their own petard. good riddance.
it simply fucking mystifies me.
on the Mirkarimi matter. That kind of absence of integrity takes at the very least a sincere "mea culpa" to get past.
really don't belong in the same sentence. I wrote what I wrote below, before I saw this comment. And not just the Mirkarimi matter, but the gang injunctions, invalidating the Lennar petitions, as well as a few other things that escape my memory now. Suffice it to say that this is a man who doesn't have much respect for democracy or the rule of law. He's a politician and he does what's politically expedient.
In this case, he's right though. Like I said... "IF he keeps this up." He's done about a half dozen things that are each about as awful as this one thing is good. So maybe if he does a string of about a half dozen things like this, he'll win me over again. Not holding my breath.
I love to dine out. From now on, I'm going to check to make sure the restaurant I'm going to is not on that list before I go there.
I'm not surprised that Michael Mina is one of the worst. The disclaimer on his menu reads like an anti-San Francisco political treatise:
"A 3% surcharge is added for San Francisco Employer Mandates, including Health Care Security, Commuter Benefit and Minimum Wage Ordinances."
It's a shame I won't be eating there now, because he's a damn good chef. But you know what? If he hates this city so much, he should just pack up and leave. Greedy bastard should be ashamed of himself with all the cash he's rolling in -cash provided mostly by San Francisco liberals who SUPPORT all those mandates he hates. Either take the good with the bad locating here (and clearly the good far outweighs the bad if you look at how wonderful this city has been to him)... or STFU, quit whining, and go try peddling your black truffle-crusted ocean trout with baby beets, pommes purée, and melted leeks in Houston or Atlanta and see how long your restaurant can stay in business!
at a place that does not adhere internationally recognized immigration laws?
As long as capital can move freely to wherever it feels conditions are best, then labor should also have the right to move freely to where conditions are best.
People should have at least as much freedom as companies, no?
If one were to take ill gotten gains from outside the USA and attempt to launder them, through an ATM for example, the department of homeland security would investigate and take action. If the monies were not financing militants but just plain old laundering the various other authorities would be notified.
Alas greg's moral stand is but dust in the wind.
I had trouble understanding your argument at first, but I think I get it now.
Your analogy doesn't hold up, however, because the undocumented immigrant and the businessman shipping jobs away under NAFTA are doing the exact same thing. Both are just moving to where conditions are more favorable, no more, no less.
It's just that in one case, the law defines the activity as illegal, while in the other it's perfectly OK. There's no rhyme or reason to why the businessman's activity is legal but the worker's is not, except that the law is made by and for businessmen and not labor. Personally I think the businessman's activity is more detrimental to the social fabric.
All restaurants employ undocumented immigrants. No north-american will ever work the hours they work and do the job they do. So before you lash out and hate on those very hard working people, ask yourself if it's really worth it. In regards to what Herrera is organizing...I fully support him. I work for one of the black-listed restaurants mentioned here and we deserve health insurance or at least HSF.
As a worker in one of those restaurants, do you think it's helpful to not patronize the place while it's on the list?
A boycott is always a double edged sword, because some of your money goes to the workers.
because I disagree with the whole Healthy SF anyway.
What is special about servers?
because the workers at such restaurants are likely less healthy so their spit will be more toxic.
I didn't notice any chain restaurants on the list.
What's so special about you?
Most people think of Healthy SF as a worker protection measure. But it's actually also a consumer protection measure. As a restaurant patron, I'd rather have waitstaff who are sick stay home rather than come to work and get me sick. No one should have to make the choice between coming to work sick and not getting paid.
The same people who undertip and risk spit in their food are the same ones who willingly expose themselves to sick restaurant employees who handle their food.
work in hospitals. Do they matter less than servers? Why?
Jason Grant Garza ... wow, what a wonderful puff article about Herrera. Wasn't there concern over this back ago in the newspapers? Is this part of the followup to that ... just now?
So Herrera takes on BOGUS HEALTHCARE CHARGES ... WHAT ??? What about the CITY LAWBREAKERS such as the DEPARTMENT of PUBLIC HEALTH ???
I'm a bit confused ... what about BOGUS STAYAWAY (Restraining Order) that DENIES PUBLIC HEALTHCARE to a DISABLED individual seeking HEALTHCARE ISSUED from San Francisco's Department of Public Health?. See youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7cP3jCmJFRo on 8/15 and then after going to the Sheriff (Ross) and told NO such ORDER and videotaping is ALLOWED on 11/27 (see youtube for the six parts https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZYC-syG0D7Y ) Please note who is there ...
Then what DPH does again - BREAK the LAW - WHAT is/was the CONSEQUENCE??? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VFd-KtS8Zss . on 12/19 and what the LAPDOG of DPH does https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HaMW9xGq-LU
I'm waiting to be told that Herrrera can not make DPH perform ... you know follow the LAW and provide legally required medical services ...
Yes, let the GAMES continue ...
Look at all the OTHER videos and remember YOU ARE NEXT ... keep drinking the KOOL-AID.
Where is the INTEGRITY ... oh, that's right ... it is JUST ILLUSION ... too bad the CHRONICLE won't let me post comments ... I wonder WHY.
Jason Grant Garza here ... HOW CURIOUS ....
"The City Attorney's Office is refusing to release the list of restaurants that will receive the letters, calling it an ongoing investigation that exempts the list from public disclosure."
Would that be the same city attorney that denied me my own MEDICAL RECORDS through SUNSHINE ( case # 11081) in which DPH'S expert and the city attorney said I was INCORRECT and the DISABLED Mr. Wolfe could NOT find a HIPPA expert? Well, I was RIGHT ... the almighty city attorney was WRONG just as in the FEDERAL LAWSUIT when the city DENIED HEALTH CARE (C02-3485 PJH) where the CITY committed FRAUD and TESTILIED only to sign a settlement/confession YEARS later through the OFFICE of INSPECTOR GENERAL admitting FAULT and GUILT while leaving their INNOCENT VINDICATED VICTIM for DEAD ... yes, Mr. Herrera was in CHARGE. Where was the INTEGRITY, DAMAGES, or even HUMANITY? go to myownprivateguantanamo.com to see the paperwork, confession, LEFT for DEAD and WHAT I got from the other city agencies.
Then go here to see it start ALL over again ... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7cP3jCmJFRo
While, we are AT it ... what about the INVESTIGATION
into ROSS' matter ... wasn't the video tape released ... what is the difference ... just another question that will go UNANSWERED by our CRAFTY city attorney.
Please where is MY BARF BAG ... keep DRINKING the KOOL-AID, look over here but NOT over here ... yes, FOLKS ... carefully CRAFTED ILLUSION ... if he was SINCERE DPH would be PROSECUTED. Rigged is as RIGGED DOES.
Remember ... YOU ARE NEXT by the TREACHERY and INHUMANITY ... ENJOY.
Oh and by the way ... WHY NOT ask the MINISTRY of SUNSHINE (Sunshine Task Force) how many DETERMINATIONS against the city attorney it has that are going UNENFORCED.
Watch, learn and KNOW how the GAME is played. Yes the CITY that can ... DOES screw its citizens with false concern, manipulation, false unaccountable words and non-performance ... what is the consequence ... another puff article telling us HOW GREAT they are ???
Go to the website and youtube that is IF YOU WISH to LEARN the TRUTH or keep drinking the KOOL-AID (propaganda)
"A NATION of FOOLS deserves WHAT it GETS."
Heartless, Brainless, and Cheap, has been spotted in North Carolina:
Why should the rate go up?
black people sat on the back of the bus and drank from separate water fountains. Change and progress happen, problem?
There is no need therefore for the rate itself to go up.
The increase in the socially accepted tip rate is a sign of progress. You can't comprehend that because you define progress only as more money in your pocket at the expense of others.
amount of the tip. As has been explained before, I tip 15% - 11% in cash and 4% for their healthcare. Everyone wins.
I'm not a server. Of course, you are free to undertip a server. It must make you feel like quite a rebel to reject social convention by stiffing people who try to make your dining experience pleasurable.
How do you win by publically expressing (albeit anonymously) your sociopathy?
mandatory and added to the bill, at some insane job-killing rate of course.
Cheap and speculative troll.
How could that happen?
and referee your own arguments.
High wage economies are high demand and high growth economies. You want lower wages, lower demand and low growth. Why do you hate baby chicks, kittens and fuzzy bunnies so?
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Paying more people 'living wage' could spell disaster, says business leader
7:30am Tuesday 25th February 2014 in News By Damian Fantato, Council Reporter, also covering Oxford city centre. Call me on 01865 425429
PAYING more staff 'the living wage' could result in a reduction in employee benefits and even fewer jobs, one business leader has warned.
Clair Prosser, policy executive at Oxfordshire Chamber of Commerce, said: "There is no doubt that low pay is a problem in Britain, with five million employees earning below a living wage.
"Yet political and campaign pressure to increase wage rates at the bottom end could result in ballooning pay bills right up the scale, leading to reductions in employee benefits, loss of jobs, or reduced investment."
Ms Prosser's comments come as Oxfordshire County Council has agreed to pay its employees more than the standard minimum wage to take into account the higher cost of living in the county.
It will become one of an increasing number of councils in Oxfordshire to pay its workers a 'living wage', with average rates at £7.65 an hour.
Miss Prosser said: "Higher pay with no consequent improvement in skill levels or productivity could hurt our competitiveness across the world. Domestic debates like this take on an increased significance."
But council leader Ian Hudspeth said it was in recognition of council staff's work.
He said: "It is to make sure they are getting good recompense for all the hard work they do.
"We are working to have full implementation by April 2017, but I would like to think that if negotiations go well we could implement it by April this year."
At around £7.65 an hour, the living wage is higher than the national minimum wage, currently £6.31, and is calculated based on the cost of living in a specific area of the UK.
At the moment, the Labour-run Oxford City Council is the only local authority in Oxfordshire which has been given a living wage accreditation by paying its employees more than £8 an hour.
However Cherwell District Council and West Oxfordshire District Council also pay the living wage.
- The figure for the UK living wage is set annually by the Centre for Research in Social Policy at Loughborough University. It looks at what households need in order to have a minimum acceptable standard of living.
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OutToPasture wrote:Nothing to stop other organisations paying the living wage in Oxford. Students have run a successful campaign for colleges and the University to pay the living wage,
So this "Living Wage" will only apply to council employees?
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