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Skip to comments.The truth about tipping
Posted on 12/06/2005 12:33:26 PM PST by George14
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All income is reportable. Tips are explicitly stated as taxable income right on the form.
Oh, that was bad form on his part
Agreed. Its not how much you tip, its how much you over tip. I generally overtip in places I frequent and generally get treated like royalty. I figure the few extra bucks are just a small investment.
I loved it when Vinnie tried to tip the FBI agents.
Good old Doug Sulliman -- one of the unheralded players from those early Devils teams from the "Mickey Mouse team" era of the 1980s.
TIPS (TO INSURE PROPER SERVICE) were 10% in my youth if the service was satisfactory...a penny was left if it wasn't. Now folks want me to tip 15 or 20 percent because the wait staff needs it because the cost of living has gone up.
I've got news for them. The cost of a meal has also gone up, so when you give a 10% tip it's already indexed for inflation.
Not to change the subject, but what about real estate agents that get paid 6-7% for the sale of a home? Wow talk about adjusted for inflation!
ok back to tipping.... :0
*Some* employers are indeed using this 'tip share' scam to pay dishwashers, BB's, etc. all 2.13 per hr. (saves employers from having to pay min. wage to them.)
My kid was informed she would 'tip share' with all including the dishwasher, who was paid the same 2.13, didn't speak English, NEVER saw any customers.
The *employers only* love this 'tip share' scam, why pay min. wage when you can FORCE the food servers to *share* tips ???
"but what about real estate agents that get paid 6-7% for the sale of a home"
Contractors all need a tip share....the tax man needs a tip share...the housing authority needs a tip share, local municipalities need a tip share, LOL
Because we've got this customary system that evolved naturally over time, and this is codified in our laws. It seems to work out OK.
Employees paid to scale with no motivator would not be pleasant.
When dining alone, I always tip in cash only. And I always put the tip into the waiter's or waitress's hand. Discreetly. I don't want that tip taxed, swiped or "shared."
Exactly doda, this is a socialist scam from the get go, where the elites make out like bandits and the working folks take it in the behind......Ironic isn't it, how socialist policy always works out that way?
It's not a "scam" it's a business practice. Are the employees slaves? I think not. If the busboys agree to work for these conditions, and it is legal, what is the beef? That you tip to impress the cute waitress, and she has to give some to the sweaty fellow?
Just to bad that after you leave that waiter or waitress still has to put that tip you gave them in a pile to be split up among the tip share group.
Euroweenies don't tip and look down on Americans for doing so. Typically they just round up the bill, and that's it.
It's a questionable business practice sir. That is the very point of this thread.
Most people have NO IDEA what a tip share is and have NO CLUE that the one they gave money to is about to give up 3/4 of it. When more people DO know this they will tip less and your business will see less tips and then you will see less people willing to work at that business that are worth their salt.
You have every right to want to pay your labor 2.13 an hour and have your customers pay the rest of their wages. This is a path that takes your employees AND your customers for granted, so you better make your money and run....as it will not last for the long term.
BWAAA hahahahahaha Exactly my friend!
Absolutely and here is why. The health department says it HAS to be clean and they benefit it being done swiftly because they get to seat me before I get tired of waiting and go elsewhere. Artifical it is not.
Try posting my whole thought and responding to it, not picking part of a phrase out to respond to.
Yes, clean tables are an expected part of the service. So is table delivery in a restaurant that forbids you from picking up your food yourself. So why tip one class of employee and not the other?
Is there a logical reason?
As you notice many food places see you take your own food to the table and even see you fill your own cup. The meal doesn't cost you any less now does it? The booths still have to be clean Eh?
I certainly expect food to cost less in a place where I pick up my own food than in a place where it is brought to me. You don't?
why does it bother you if they all share in your gratuity?
Where to start??? I tip who I want to tip, others do not decide who my tip goes to. BIG difference there!!
Once you give it away, why are you so concerned where it goes next? Why doyou want to unilaterally re-write the employment agreement between the company and the various classes of service workers to suit your own ideas?
Is there a logical reason for this? Do you really ever go out of your way to tip a busboy? Would it tick you off if he than put this into a pool because those were the rules of his workplace?
Busboys and cooks and dishwashers are not paid 2.13 an hour, I know I wasn't, and I know my brother isn't today.
You seem to not be understanding the issue. The issue is that busboys are being re-defined into a lower-wage plus tips situation, they are being paid like waitresess and getting part of the tips.
Should we then tip extra knowing it's for 2 people? I say no. Should I get upset if my tip meant for one is spread out among two? No. I don't really care that much.
The real question here is why are cooks and busboys relying on the presentation of the waitress for their pay?
Why are waitresses and waiters relying on cooks and busboys for their pay? Maybe they are all part of the same team.
Tip share is a racket. It is a way for them to get you, the customer, to pay an even greater share of their overhead than youpay for the meal itself. Tip share will see the act of tipping fall off as people understand what happens to their tips.
I'm going to tip what I feel is appropriate. I am not going to pay double cause two people are sharing. I am also not going to penalize the workers because of the situation they are in. If you are some vehemently opposed to this idea, don't eat at place like that. I don't think most people are going to boycott tips as a protest against an employers practices. How does that help?
Well, let's be fair then......maybe wait staff should also report to work in sloppy dirty clothes, unable to even communicate with customers.
My kid was told to wear a clean uniform, be presentable & polite to all customers........while she was FORCED to 'tip share' with the scuzzy, dirty, smart ass dishwasher, who was also paid 2.13 ph.
But hey, if it saves the EMPLOYERS money, who cares about what's HID in the kitchen.
This thread is ridiculous. How is it "questionable" to follow the law?
Most people have NO IDEA what a tip share is and have NO CLUE that the one they gave money to is about to give up 3/4 of it.
Most people don't really care. Unless they are trying to hit on the hot waitress. If the servers and busboys don't like the situation, I suppose they can find work elsewhere, can't they? And if the quality of worker left to work for low wage plus tips is so poor that the business suffers quality problems, I imagine the situation will change.
It's all about service. If the business can't deliver, it will fail.
Worrying about tips is not going to affect anything.
When more people DO know this they will tip less and your business will see less tips and then you will see less people willing to work at that business that are worth their salt.
Exactly. If the system doesn't work, it will correct itself. Isn't capitalism grand? If the quality of service decreases, tips will go down, resulting in worse employees, lowering the service, etc. If the employees do a good job, then all benefit.
What bothers me is this attitude that "these people are being 'screwed' by having to share tips, so I'm not going to tip them." I don't think most people think that way.
Did your wife work for tips? I fail to see how this applies.
Yeah, that will help.
My kid was told to wear a clean uniform, be presentable & polite to all customers........while she was FORCED to 'tip share' with the scuzzy, dirty, smart ass dishwasher, who was also paid 2.13 ph.
Did she try to serve the customers without clean dishes? How'd that go?
But hey, if it saves the EMPLOYERS money, who cares about what's HID in the kitchen.
It certainly saves employers and customers money.
You think people working on a team, with cash bonuses on the line, are going to put up with one of the team members slacking off?
Forget the procapitalism stance. You were talking about team work and yes, people do put up with F'offs.
You want to claim i cherry picked then you back it up. I addressed what you asked me to.
Post what else you seem to think mattered that was part of that phrase!
Logically speaking, bringin my food is only part of a waitresses job. She deals with me directly. Does the cook? Does the busboy? Does the dishwasher? NOPE, see the difference there? Quite logical indeed.
Is a tip part of the cost of the food? You fail to see the difference don't you?????
"Once you give it away, why are you so concerned where it goes next?"
DID you really SAY that????? FFS
If I give a tip to a person I expect that person to get it. The game you are playing with your response to it will bring exactly what i already told you it would. LESS TIPPING which leads to less good people working for you. Ask Lone Star about tip share and see what happened to them when they did it here.....notice they no longer DO it here!
PEOPLE ought to KNOW the 'rules of the workplace' eh? Or do you seek to deceive them about where their tips go and how they are distributed. Ever seen a sign alerting the public as to a tipshare program? JEE I WONDER WHY the anser to that question is NO!?????????!!!!!
"You seem to not be understanding the issue. The issue is that busboys are being re-defined into a lower-wage plus tips situation, they are being paid like waitresess and getting part of the tips"
The busboys aren't paid any higher than before in take home pay, the waittresses ARE however taking home LESS, all the while employers pay less in wages as a cost of overhead from the price paid for the meal. Spin it any way you like but that is the fact about tipshare.
YOU may not care where your tip goes, you should have that choice. I should have that same choice right? Or is that something i say that you oppose also?
You have every right to tip as you feel appropriate. SO DO I! I feel tipshare is bogus and so do most people when they take a look at it. I ought to know when my tip is going to other people than who I give it to.
People will refuse to tip when they understand the person they are tipping doesn;t get to keep what they gave them. If you cannot see that, then I cannot help you. Either that or you think all or most people could care less where their money goes. Do you really think people do not care where their money goes as a general rule? That most people will not care one way or the other when they find out others are getting the money they GAVE to an individual? Do you REALLY think that about most people?
That's PERFECT, Tunehead54! Thank you so much. I will follow your advice to the letter.
Well, if cash incentive won't work, what do you think will? Obviously management has to be on top of things. But beyond that, do you really think a waitresses deserves a great tip if your order is all wrong and late and your silverware is dirty?
I do the same. The meal may be on a credit card, the tip is in cash.
You got that right....my kid was @ locally owned steak house here in 'small-town' TX....
She also was FORCED to 'tip share' with the hostess' who after seating the customers, would then sit on their butts & talk on the phone, paint their nails, read a book, etc.....all while the wait staff was to be on their feet tending to all the customers needs.
Needless to say she only had this job a couple weeks. (& that was too long)
It is questionable in and of itself to follow the law without question when there are legitmate questions that need to be answered. Making it 100% evident to people leaving tips how that money is doled out SHOULD be part of that law. Otherwise it is SHADY. Why be shady if it is so proper? Why not put out a sign alerting customers if it is so proper? Hmmmmmmm?
"Most people don't really care."
I guess you really DO believe that nonsense don't you! WOW!
The only reason tip share has gone on as long as it has is because people like you that ASSUME people won't care have done this underhanded in such a way that the people tipping do not understand that the tips do not always go to the person they gave it to. Hence no signs of this practice to the people doing the tipping!!!
If you are so confident then by all means put out a sign and let everyone that is tipping know EXACTLY where their tips are going. Why do we not see that again???
If I want someone to have a 20 dollar bill at Christmastime, the person I GIVE IT TO should HAVE IT.
The position you take is that someone else ,outside my own knowledge, should be able to TAKE that from them and decide HOW MUCH of it they get to keep. That is, in effect, someone else taking MY money and distributing it as THEY see fit. That removes MY RIGHT to distribute MY MONEY the way I SEE FIT. Employers have the right to divy up funds from the meal I pay for as they see fit. The tip is MINE to do that with NOT theirs. Do you understand the difference?
How the HELL does it save the customer money???? BWAAAAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH wahever dude.
Huh? Nevermind, don't explain. I get your point. It makes you angry that waitresses have to share tips. I get it. Why don't you agree to meet the waitresses later and give her the tip then, or get her address and mail it to her?
Otherwise, you are tipping and that is covered by laws and by workplace rules. Sorry. Why not open your own reataurant if you don't like it?
"Most people don't really care."
I guess you really DO believe that nonsense don't you! WOW!
Yes, I do. If I leave a tip and part of it goes to the busboy, I am not out anything. I have not been deceived. If all of the waitresses working the room pool their tips together and help each other out instead of playing "not my table" when I need a refill, how am I damaged?
I am paying extra for the dining experience to be pleasant, and there are many facotrs in that, not just the cutie who talks me up and delivers the plate.
The position you take is that someone else ,outside my own knowledge, should be able to TAKE that from them and decide HOW MUCH of it they get to keep. That is, in effect, someone else taking MY money and distributing it as THEY see fit. That removes MY RIGHT to distribute MY MONEY the way I SEE FIT. Employers have the right to divy up funds from the meal I pay for as they see fit. The tip is MINE to do that with NOT theirs. Do you understand the difference?
Once you give the money away, it is not yours. It belongs to the waitress. But she is bound by law and by workplace rules. She is free to solicit tips elsewhere, but as an employee she must abide by the workplace rules. Do you understand that? Hell, Uncle Sam takes part of it as well, doesn't that just tan your hide?
You imagine lower salaries for busboys all go into the hands of the greedy restaurant owner and are not part of keeping costs down, which translates into lower prices?
Hell, we could pay all busboys and waitresses $50/hour with no tipping, but the food would cost a heck of a lot. So why wouldn't lower salaries mean cheaper food. It's simple economics.
LOL......I've yet to EVER see any restaurant advertise they pass on the 'saved wages' to the customers.
In fact, in my case this is a 'high end' steak house & quite expensive for 'small-town, TX.
Tip somebody in China 20% and watch the fun...
But beyond that, do you really think a waitresses deserves a great tip if your order is all wrong and late and your silverware is dirty?
No, that's why I was against the "tip pool". There will always be someone who will take advantage when they know they'll get paid an equal amount regardless their effort.
I love bitterwaitress too.
Somebody wrote in that J-Lo tipped 25 cents on a bill of $625 (page 3 on your link).
No you don't get it. What pisses me off is that I am lead to falsely believe that when i give a waitress a tip she gets to keep it. In a tip share environment that is NOT the case. Like I said, IF this is such a moral and proper procedure then why isn;t it touted with a sign saying that is the procedure? You have not yet addressed that point have you?
Yes you have been deceived when a tip goes other than where you put it. To say I have not been, is to ignore the reality that I have not been told in any way that the money I give to a waitress is not hers to keep. That is precisely why there are never any signs now ISN'T it!
You wanna take the poisition that once my money is gone I have no say then you are against the very idea of holding congress accountable for tax dollars taken! Same principle applies here dude!
Here is a tip for ya, this policy HURTS the tipping process. I refuse to TIP AT ALL due to this and I would offer to that the more people find out about this the more will join me. Hence (again) why we see NO SIGNS of this practice put out by any that use it. GOT AN EXAMPLE of someone that does yet? NOPE didn't think so.
Uncle sam indeed takes part of it and I already understand that, it is known to all what income taxes are.....can you say the same ting about tip share schemes? NOPE, you sure cannot...and that my friend proves my point.
OH I agree it saves the owner money in labor costs he shifts to the customers. Where does the extra profit go? To reduced meals? YEAH RIGHT. You know better and SO do I....
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That's why I give it discreetly. Then what he does with it is up to him. If he wants to spend it on other waiters or spend it on a new collar for his cat, it's his option.
In China, they said "If you give them that (probably less than $1000) they will quit." Not understanding management asked if it should be more. China manager said "NO! If you give them more than $X, they will quit. The bigger the bonus, the harder they think you expect them to work."
Kinda funny, eh? They equate the job done with the amount of pay. Ahhh...for those days HERE again...
Question number one was PERFECT.
I have 7 cowns and SD has seven cows. I work my butt off and care for my cows and the following year I have 14 cows. Meanwhile SD plays around and his cows get sick and die. Under SD's logic, the following year I should be forced to give him the fruits of my labor and call it 'sharing' and 'teamwork'. In conjunction with your question number one, SD what incentive to create ambition do I have to bust my butt taking care of my cows over the next year when I do not get to keep them anyway?
Are they hiring at your company??
Actually, yes. We're growing like crazy.
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Samuel Jablon Produces Art that is a Hybrid of Poetry, Painting, Sculpture
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There are a lot of visual artists using words out there: Mel Bochner, David Diao, Jenny Holzer, Barbara Kruger, Jack Pierson, Kay Rosen, Ed Ruscha, Lawrence Weiner and Christopher Wool, among others. It's a crowded field, and it's difficult for an artist to do something different and arresting in the mode.
Samuel Jablon (b. 1986) succeeds, moderately. Also a poet, Mr. Jablon assembles words—sometimes quoted from such famous sources as Samuel Beckett, sometimes not—in barely legible configurations on wooden panels ranging from a few feet on a side to 12 inches square. Mr. Jablon uses sequins, bits of colored mirror glass, and paint thick enough to hold things fast. The work is bouncy, bright, although not particularly witty (if one works with words, that counts), and Mr. Jablon makes good on his apparent aim to create a conflict between reading and simply seeing. The exhibition contains far too many pieces—it has a garage-sale vibe—and if his phrases and sentences were a tad more legible, the tension would probably be greater.
Ranjani Shettar: Night Skies and Daydreams
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With a population of over a billion people, a rising economy, and a rich visual culture, India is nevertheless underrepresented in what we call the "global art world." If China, however, can crash the gate—its artists having big-time gallery shows in the West, and the country supporting a growing art-collector class—why can't Indian artists gain similar traction?
Perhaps Ranjani Shettar (b. 1977) is the harbinger of that happening. She's represented in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art in New York and in 2009 had a sizable solo show at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Her inventive and usually quite beautiful sculpture—some of which veers into installation art—employs everything from beeswax, walnut and teak wood to PVC, rubber and metal.
In this exhibition, "Flight of the Butterfly" (2014) is a lime-green bramble of a sculpture, made primarily of painted coffee-tree wood, whose parts make one think of bones as lovely vegetation. It's not an unpleasant sensation. "Tuntoroo," also from this year, attaches handmade red wax beads to lengths of cotton thread in a spotlighted cascade running diagonally from a gallery wall to the carpeted floor. These two pieces may not be conspicuously "Indian," but their unabashed desire to be good-looking is not something all that common to contemporary Western art. One looks forward to Ms. Shettar's subsequent exhibitions in New York.
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If any word describing an artist cuts more than one way, it's "visionary." In its most flattering application, it means an artist who's ahead of his or her time, making work that portends what art will look like—and be about—a few decades into the future. More commonly, it refers to a style, usually a kind of cultish, science-fiction illustration, but sometimes it indicates a Kandinsky-esque abstract painter who subscribes to some mystical mumbo jumbo that supposedly makes the art transcendently profound.
Two of these senses of visionary describe Gordon Onslow Ford (1912-2003), who was born in Britain but lived his most creative years in Mexico and a bucolic part of California. If biography and credentials can bump the regard of otherwise hokey-seeming art upward, they do in the case of Mr. Onslow Ford. He was one of the youngest members of the Surrealist group in Paris, seriously studied native non-Western cultures and such metaphysical writing as P.D. Ouspensky's "Tertium Organum," and delivered a series of lectures in New York that were attended by, and influenced, the likes of Robert Motherwell and Jackson Pollock. Mr. Onslow Ford eventually founded a movement (with Wolfgang Paalen and Lee Mullican) called "Dynaton," and enjoyed two major museum retrospectives in the Bay Area. Those notches on Mr. Onslow Ford's artistic lodgepole make such pronouncements as "In this way the Inner Worlds involve from the worlds of Inner Earth to the worlds of Inner Sky to the faster depths of the Mind Shared by All, to the omnipresent Deeps, where time and dimensions no longer seem to apply" seem vaguely credible.
While Mr. Onslow Ford arrived at "drip" paintings ahead of Pollock (he called them "coulages" from the French verb couler, meaning "to pour," the actual aesthetics of his work—a kind of outer-space abstraction, only a few steps up from what's found in fairly schlocky frame-shop galleries—are more problematic. Whether Mr. Onslow Ford's impressive biography, his sincerely quasireligious quest in his work, and a considerable critical reputation transform his art into something deeper is an open question.
—Mr. Plagens is an artist and writer in New York.
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Thank you :) I understand a bit, but I cannot write in German - "Na schledanou" is absolutely correct! :)
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Walking off Washington Road onto the grounds of Augusta National Golf Club is a little like falling down the rabbit hole Alice tumbled into on her way to Wonderland. It's entering a whole other world.
The initial reaction of first-timers to The Masters is usually one of huge disappointment to find that the most sacred thoroughfare in golf, Magnolia Lane, runs into a street as cluttered with fast-food outlets, mini-marts and bargain basement motels as any in America. But stepping through the front gates of Augusta National is to leave the gaudy shrillness of the 21st century for the elegant politeness of another time. The Masters truly is, as Jim Nantz will remind us a bit too often in whispered tones a tad too reverential, a tradition like no other.
The Old Course at St. Andrews may be the home of golf, but Augusta National is its cathedral.
The storylines heading into a Masters are always as extensive as the queue that snakes its way into the Augusta National merchandise pavilion where the yellow logo of a pin flag stuck into the southeast corner of the United States awaits on a multitude of items available to anyone with a credit card that is not maxed out. But the most treasured souvenir anyone brings back from The Masters is memories -- reminiscences of Jack Nicklaus in 1986, Greg Norman in 1996, Tiger Woods the next year and Mike Weir last year. No tournament produces a great finish as frequently as The Masters. It is as dependable as the returning bloom on the dogwoods, magnolias and azaleas.
This year, John Daly is back and Martha Burk is not. Arnold Palmer is going and the TV sponsors are still gone. U.S. Open champion Jim Furyk is missing because of an injury and former British Open champion David Duval is just plain missing. Phil Mickelson is trying for his first major championship for the 42nd time as a professional -- no longer the fresh-face kid with the sheepish grin but rather a father with three kids of his own -- and Ernie Els and Vijay Singh -- multiple major winners both -- will try to build their case that they are true rivals for Woods for the title of No. 1 in the world. But the most intriguing questions to be answered involve young Mr. Woods.
A guy who has 40 PGA Tour victories, including eight major championships, and is only 28 years old would seem to have nothing for which to answer. But, when word and deed have conspired to make the opponent not his contemporaries but rather history, the questions become a lot more demanding and the test is graded against a rigid curve.
Two years ago, it seemed to be a gimme that Woods would shatter Nicklaus' record of 18 professional major titles. Now, still not even halfway there and on a six major non-winning streak, it is not so easily assumed that Woods will surpass Nicklaus' mark. As wondrous as Woods' skills are as a golfer, as often as he has seemingly willed magic to happen, it could very well be that the most amazing thing he has done in his eight years on tour is to remind us how incredibly great Nicklaus was. Judged against the talents of Woods, Nicklaus' achievement of 18 major victories and 19 second-place finishes in majors is all the more impressive.
Back about the time Woods was winning his first Masters in 1997, Nicklaus was saying that Tiger would win more green jackets than the 10 Nicklaus and Palmer combined to win. With three Masters titles, Woods is only halfway to Nicklaus' record six, and still well short of the 11 he needs to surpass the Nicklaus-Palmer total. Let's assume that the next eight years of Woods' career will be as productive as the first eight years. That means at the age of 36 Tiger would have 80 PGA Tour victories -- just two short of the record by Sam Snead -- and would have six green jackets, matching Nicklaus' wardrobe. But his total of 16 major championships would still be two short of tying Nicklaus.
My feeling has always been that Tiger will break the mark of 18 majors because he knows where the finish line is. He is an incredibly goal-oriented athlete and the goal is carved in stone. I also believe that if the ages were reversed and Tiger was in the clubhouse with the record and Jack was chasing him, Nicklaus would shatter the mark because that's exactly how competitive that man is. In this race for history Woods has the advantage of having the last at-bats.
Records, however, are more difficult to chase the closer you get. It's one of the paradoxes of motion. To get somewhere you must first get halfway there. And from there halfway way, and from there halfway, seemingly always approaching but never reaching your goal. In sports, what happens is that the pressure builds. There are already signs of that with Woods. Right now one of the easiest ways to get on Tiger's bad side is to suggest that his problems driving the ball in the fairway have developed since he sent swing coach Butch Harmon packing two years ago. But the truth is that Woods has not won a major since he stopped working with Harmon at the 2002 U.S. Open at Bethpage.
While going six consecutive majors without winning is a problem mere mortals would love to have -- Nicklaus had two 10-major winless streaks and another of 20 before he won his final major at the age of 46 -- the simple truth is that the longer Woods goes without a major the harder it will be for him to win one. And the same holds true for his assault on Nicklaus' record. There was a time when the question before the panel was: When will Tiger break Jack's record? Now the question is getting dangerously close to becoming: Will Tiger break Jack's record? The twisting of the question should not diminish our appreciation of Woods one bit but rather serve to increase our respect for Nicklaus.
This much we know for sure about this Masters: Sometime on Friday afternoon, Arnold Palmer's 74-year-old legs will carry him up the steep hill that leads to the 18th green at Augusta National. Slightly stoop-shoulder, Arnold will wave to the massive gallery, acknowledge its ovation with a thumbs-up gesture and putt out in a PGA Tour event for what almost certainly will be the last time in a professional career that began in 1954. Heck, his career is old enough to join the senior tour. If Nicklaus was the best player of his generation, Palmer was the best loved. And only at The Masters, only at Augusta National could the professional lives of players whose ages are 74, 64 and 28 -- Palmer, Nicklaus and Woods -- intersect. That's part of why this week is special.
The other reason this week is special will be revealed on Sunday afternoon. Somebody will win in some memorable fashion, it just always happens that way at The Masters. Always. How about Mickelson finally getting a major? How nuts would the place be on Sunday if Daly is in contention? How about a leaderboard with a half-dozen of the best players all challenging Woods? My hunch this week is Darren Clarke, if for no other reason than I'd love to see a champions' dinner next year where the menu consists of Guinness and cigars. That would bring a little bit of Washington Road inside the gates of Augusta National.
Ron Sirak is the executive editor of Golf World magazine
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OMG!!! I used to feel like that all the time in my previous job at Board meetings! Now, my boss (who is a woman, btw) directly has told me: "In a meeting with the CFO, you are not there to speak. Just smile and take notes." Are you kidding me?! Do I look like a secretary?! Top of my class....just smile and take notes. If they want to pay me all that money to just sit there maybe I should flash some cleavage too.
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Even though the fall trading season has been busier than normal with recent big deals involving Richard Seymour, Braylon Edwards and Gaines Adams, Tuesday's 4 p.m. ET trade deadline should be quiet.
Or will it?
General managers and coaches spent Monday reviewing ideas and making phone calls. As everyone saw Friday night when Adams went to the Chicago Bears for a second-round pick in 2010, a deal can come together quickly. The Tampa Bay Buccaneers spent a good portion of last week trying to get draft choices for current players, and Adams was their most recognizable name.
What are the chances for something to get done?
Teams such as the Cleveland Browns, Oakland Raiders, Bucs and Kansas City Chiefs would love to get future value for some of their players. The Chiefs got a fifth-round pick from the Carolina Panthers for defensive tackle Tank Tyler on Monday.
It would take a lot get a Glenn Dorsey out of Kansas City. Plus, the Chiefs are trying to build a 3-4 defensive line, not break it up. Coach Eric Mangini has gone on record as saying the Browns aren't going to trade Brady Quinn or Josh Cribbs. Of the two, Cribbs would draw the most interest because numerous teams would love a versatile playmaker, but Mangini has liked Cribbs since the coach came to Cleveland.
Wide receiver is one of the most cherished positions for teams in search of trade help. The New England Patriots could use a third receiver behind Randy Moss and Wes Welker. Joey Galloway was released Tuesday, and the Patriots are using special-teamer Sam Aiken and seventh-round pick Julian Edelman as their third and fourth receivers.
The Baltimore Ravens would like to upgrade their receiving corps, but don't expect the Chiefs to give up on Dwayne Bowe with his productivity getting better every week. It wouldn't be surprising if the Redskins shop around for another receiver. The Bears might look for a receiver, but they have already given up enough draft choices in the Jay Cutler and Adams trades.
Don't expect anything to happen with Terrell Owens. Owens might be a difference-maker, but he hasn't changed the fortunes of the Buffalo Bills' offense. To acquire Owens, a team must accept the potential problems he might cause for the quarterback and the locker room. Although teams are willing to make gambles like that, the bigger problem is that Owens would have to learn a new offense overnight, further minimizing his value.
The Atlanta Falcons, New York Jets and San Diego Chargers would love to acquire a run-stopping defensive tackle, but there aren't enough available. Each team has suffered a season-ending injury at defensive tackle, but finding replacements this late is impossible. Most teams want to hold on to defensive tackles because they are too hard to find.
Because most teams have excess running backs, there is virtually no value in dealing a back. At best, a good back could net a fourth-round pick, but the likelier scenario is a sixth-rounder. In most cases, it makes better sense to keep a back than trade him.
John Clayton, a recipient of the Pro Football Hall of Fame's McCann Award for distinguished reporting, is a senior writer for ESPN.com.


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Reviving Lost Books
Fourteen years ago, I published a book called "Burgundy Stars: A Year in the Life of a Great French Restaurant." Despite warm reviews, sales were tepid and my American, French, German and Japanese publishers soon let the book go out of print. Today, my book remains in copyright but is almost impossible to find.
I've since moved on to work at Google, which reached an agreement last year with a broad class of authors and publishers that aims to bring millions of lost books like mine back to life. If an American court approves the deal, readers in the U.S. will be able for the first time to search, preview and buy online a great number of out-of-print books that were scanned as part of Google Books. A new non-profit registry will be set up to locate the rights holders of lost books and collect and distribute revenues to their authors and publishers.
This development has spurred a variety of controversy, commentary and review in preparation for the U.S. court's approval hearing in October. In a letter to the court, the Department of Justice has confirmed that though it has not yet found any violation of competition law, it is reviewing the deal. Here in Europe, the European Commission also has expressed interest in better understanding the agreement. In Germany the very fact that a settlement was reached at all has caused controversy, with some continuing to argue that Google should have been found guilty of copyright infringement.
At the heart of this debate is a challenge European governments are themselves working to resolve: how to open up access to the world of knowledge contained in books. It's a complex matter, as factors such as publication date, an author's death date and the existence of multiple editions determine the accessibility of every book.
Older books out of copyright, so-called public domain works, pose no legal problem. Anybody is allowed to digitize and distribute them free of charge or for a fee. Many initiatives, such as the European Commission's Europeana or France's Gallica, are trying to bring many of these works to the Internet. Google has its own partnership with European libraries, such as the Bavarian State Library or the Bodleian Library at Oxford, where we scan only public-domain books so that their entire text is available for free to readers around the world.
For in-copyright, in-print books, services like Google Books or Amazon's Look Inside the Book partner with publishers who provide us with their books, which we scan and put online with a limited preview of the text. This allows readers to gain a good idea of the content of the book and provides information on where to purchase or borrow the book. Some 25,000 publishers have signed up to participate in Book Search's Partner Program, contributing more than one million books.
Books that are in-copyright but out of print are the trickiest category, and the one that makes up the vast majority of the world's books. These works are not sold through bookstores or held on most library shelves, and yet represent an important repository of the world's knowledge and culture. Often it is difficult to identify or locate the copyright holder. If the author has died, it is hard to know who holds his rights—his wife, children or another relative? His estate or publisher?
The agreement announced in October 2008 between Google and a broad class of copyright holders in the United States will dramatically expand access to out-of-print books in the U.S., creating new revenue opportunities for authors and publishers. The planned registry of newly scanned books will help reduce the number of in-copyright works whose owners cannot be identified, because authors will have an economic incentive to claim their works so they can profit from their sale. For books that are currently in print, the agreement could offer copyright holders in the United States another way to sell their books.
Unfortunately this legal breakthrough in the U.S. will mean little for Europe. International authors and publishers whose books have been scanned from an American library may benefit from the new revenue that will come as American readers discover and purchase their books. They will be able to decide whether to enroll with the new registry to profit from online access to their books. But readers outside of the U.S. will not reap the same benefits as American readers since the agreement is limited to books in the U.S.
The development of a similar innovative service in Europe requires cooperation from technology companies and a myriad of content rights holders. This would ultimately benefit European authors and publishers, as well as giving Europeans much greater access to the world's books.
—Mr. Echikson is a senior manager of communications at Google in Brussels and author of four books, including the recently published "Shooting for Tiger" on kids and golf.


text: Posted October 2, 2012 It's all good Kurb. Just saying, if Rivera isnt fired he may look for a 34 defense or more schemes to it. You know at some point he's going to run out of excuses and switching to a 34 may be his only way to not get his @ss lit up by JR. I usually curse people out for even suggesting it, but at least you took the time to draft players for a 3-4. Long and short of it is it would be a massive overhaul to the D. Key players would be lost. Things would get a ton worse before they got better. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites


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It should really come as no surprise that the engineers at Storck would lay claim to producing one of the lightest carbon cranksets in the world, seeing as their familiarity in the realm of bicycle composite design and manufacturing is matched by few. As such, the new Storck Powerarms G2 (second generation) Crank Arms perfectly illustrate the German brand's dedication to producing some of the lightest, most innovative, and dependable carbon components in the industry. The crank arms weigh in at right around 440 grams, meaning that your featherweight dream build is about to get whole lot better.
The new carbon power arms feature a built-in spider for both added stiffness and a reduction in overall weight. Storck partnered with THM composites in Germany for the construction of the new crankset, resulting in an innovative design that incorporates an outboard sealed bearing system mated to a 30mm aluminum spindle. In-house testing showed that this design yielded the ultimate strength-to-weight ratio, making it ideal for the rider who demands the best in terms of both low weight and maximum power transfer.
The Storck Powerarms G2 Cranks Arms are available the sizes 170, 172.5, and 175mm, and feature a 130 BCD. The Powerarms have a Q-factor of 149mm and weigh in at roughly 440 grams (crankset, bearing cups, and lockrings). Please note: Storck has a 210 lb. recommended rider weight limit placed on this set of cranks.
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In regard to the Storck Powerarms. Are chainrings included? What specifically comes in the box? Instructions. Bottom bracket tool, brakes???? Can you please provide exact information? Does the technical weight include the chainrings? Is it just the arms? Why are you discounting them. Will you be selling the 3rd generation as soon as the G2 are gone? Thank You.
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—To determine the prevalence of Bordetella pertussis infection among adults who have prolonged cough for 2 weeks or longer and to estimate the incidence of B pertussis infection in adults in a defined urban population.
—A prospective clinical study.
—Kaiser Permanente, San Francisco (Calif) Medical Center.
—One hundred fifty-three referred and participating health plan members 18 years old or older with the complaint of cough persisting for 2 weeks or longer and 154 health plan members 18 years old or older with no cough for the past 3 months (controls) were enrolled. Medical records for an additional 100 patients randomly sampled from 676 patients 18 years old or older with an ambulatory diagnosis of cough (60 with prolonged cough) were also reviewed.
Main Outcome Measures.
—Prevalence of adult pertussis as determined by enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay IgG antibody levels to pertussis toxin in individuals with prolonged cough for 2 weeks or longer and the incidence of adult pertussis in San Francisco Kaiser health plan members.
—The prevalence of adult pertussis was 12.4% of the participating referrals. The incidence of adult pertussis was estimated to be 176 cases per 100 000 person-years (95% confidence interval, 97 to 255 cases).
—Adult pertussis is a significantly greater public health threat than previously suspected. Booster doses of acellular pertussis vaccine after 7 years of age may be an effective approach to minimize transmission and infection.(JAMA. 1996;275:1672-1674)
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Avalon Theatre looks to future with auction of vintage gear
Bay View residents may be having dinner and a movie flanked by gaudy vaudeville architecture and twinkling lights on the ceiling of the historic Avalon Theatre by Thanksgiving, said Lee Barczak, the Avalon's owner, at a news conference Friday.
An online auction of vintage theater items this week, including a wall-sized hand-painted Spanish mural and original seating from the theater's vaudeville days, is paving the way for $2 million in renovations, Barczak said. The renovations will transform the space, which at one time had a seating permit for up to 2,300 people, into two modern theaters with 240 and 80 seats, respectively, and in-theater dinner and bar service, while leaving vaudevillian facades of the original Avalon intact. Renovations could start in a month and a half after bids are finalized and awarded. A rendering could be ready in two months. »Read Full Article(8)
Popular 'Body Worlds' to return to Milwaukee Public Museum
"Body Worlds," the provocative exhibit featuring preserved human cadavers, is returning to Milwaukee.
The Milwaukee Public Museum will host "Body Worlds: The Cycle of Life" for a four-month run starting in February. It's a sequel to the blockbuster "Body Worlds" show that set an all-time attendance record for the museum in 2008. »Read Full Article(14)
Pop artist Robert Indiana will not attend Friday event
Pop artist Robert Indiana, who designed the basketball floor that made Milwaukee famous and that was the home of the Milwaukee Bucks and Marquette Warriors from 1977 to 1988, will not be able to attend a reception at the U.S. Cellular Area Friday evening. The artist, who lives in Maine, is ill.
Harley reunion; Wisconsin Highland Games; Third Ward Art Festival
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The streets of Milwaukee will be quaking and shaking this coming week as Harley-Davidson bikes and their owners roar into town for the Harley family's 110th reunion. But not everything happening here will be motorcycle-related. »Read Full Article(1)
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New restaurant, Morel, planned for Walker's Point
Morel, a restaurant originally planned for Bay View, will be opening instead in Walker's Point, at 430 S. 2nd St.
Jonathan Manyo, who has worked in fine-dining restaurants on the West Coast, will own the restaurant with family. The emphasis will be on local sourcing of ingredients, and in summers the restaurant will grow some of its own herbs and vegetables on its 1,500-sqare-foot patio, he said. »Read Full Blog Post
No final answer in Andrea Barrett's stories
Near the close of the first of five stories composing "Archangel," Andrea Barrett's new collection, a 12-year-old boy spending the summer on his uncle's farm puts his head under the water in a pond. He closes his eyes, "concentrating on what he could feel and hear. Small currents, slight changes in temperature. Sounds, more than he'd imagined."
It's been a summer of discovery for Constantine Boyd; Uncle Taggart is an inventor as well as a farmer — and, as suggested by the title of Barrett's story, "The Investigators," a naturally inquisitive explorer of the world around him. »Read Full Article
Summerfest to host three free performances in September
Summer has to end, but not the outdoor entertainment.
Tap Milwaukee, Miller Lite and Summerfest will host free performances on three Tuesday evenings in September at Maier Festival Park. »Read Full Article(2)
'Penelopiad' creates stunning images under Holton St. viaduct
One understands why Odysseus is upset when returning home to find a gang of suitors ransacking his house and terrifying Penelope, his long-suffering wife. But what's with ordering that 12 of Penelope's maids be hanged for sleeping with them — particularly when one considers Odysseus' own seven-year dalliance with the ravishing Calypso?
That's one of the questions Margaret Atwood tackles in "The Penelopiad," a novella that morphed into a play. Under rising director Leda Hoffmann, a cast of 13 women is giving it an evocative staging in a playground under the Holton St. viaduct. »Read Full Article
Art City radio show premieres on WMSE at noon
Sitting in a back corner at the Swinging Door with Ryan Schleicher of WMSE-FM (91.7) a few months ago, I was faced with an unexpected proposition. Do I want to talk about art, architecture and urban design on the radio?
My initial thought was -- well, of course not. I am a writer, not a talker. And anyone who knows me knows my calendar is already filled to bursting with what I'm doing for the platforms I juggle as it is. »Read Full Blog Post
Black Crowes to play Riverside Theater Nov. 8
The Black Crowes have added a Nov. 8 show at the Riverside Theater, 116 W. Wisconsin Ave., as part of the second half of their 2013 North American tour.
The veteran rockers are in the middle of their first tour in two years. The band has said it has no plans for touring after its 2013 show, with Chris Robinson and company focusing on solo projects next year. The fall tour begins Sept. 5 in Cooperstown, N.Y. »Read Full Article
Two new Soup Markets coming to downtown, west side
The Soup Market, a soup-and-sandwich shop with three locations, plans to open two more by October.
Dave Jurena, co-owner with Tim Talsky, said one shop will fill the spot left vacant by Broadway Bakery in the Milwaukee Center, 111 E. Kilbourn Ave. It's expected to open sometime in September. »Read Full Blog Post(1)
Holy Gigli! Ben Affleck as Batman?
Fans on social media have expressed, let's call it concern, over the casting of Ben Affleck as Batman in the Dark Knight / Superman mashup that is the "Man of Steel" sequel.
Affleck won the Oscar for best picture last year for "Argo," but he's had a checkered career as an actor. »Read Full Blog Post(2)
Toby Keith: What Music I'm Listening To
Country superstar Toby Keith, pictured here performing at Summerfest in 2011, returns to the Marcus Amphitheater Thursday for Harley-Davidson's 110th Anniversary Celebration. Journal Sentinel photo by Jeff Sainlar. »Read Full Blog Post
New owners Justin Aprahamian keeps Sanford restaurant sublime
It might be natural to worry that Sanford, a bastion of continuity for more than two decades, would change too much after its sale in late 2012. My only worry, though, was that it might not change enough.
After 23 years on the lower east side, operating a premier fine-dining restaurant with a national reputation, chef Sanford D'Amato and his wife, Angie, sold their restaurant to their chef de cuisine. »Read Full Article(4)
On Tap for Today: Mexican Fiesta, new movies and MECCA
As summer winds down, the number of festivals grows. Here's to eeking out that last sip of summer.
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