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Although the recent wave of one-day strikes at fast-food chains across major cities isn't likely to extend to full-service independent restaurants, Amanda Sonneborn says the risk is employees at those restaurants may start asking about the $15 an hour wages their quick-service colleagues are fighting for.
"Although big unions probably aren't going to target individual stores, it could spark movements at other restaurants and smaller chains if employees start asking those questions," says Sonneborn, a partner in the labor and employment practice of law firm Seyfarth Shaw, who frequently represents large corporations.
What began in Manhattan last November has recently ratcheted up with more one-day strikes at chains like Kentucky Fried Chicken, McDonald's, Taco Bell, Popeye's, Long John Silver's in New York, Chicago, St. Louis, Detroit, Milwaukee, Kansas City and Flint, MI.
Employees are stopping work during busy mealtimes and picketing out front of their restaurants, demanding higher wages of $15 an hour, more than double the current federal minimum wage of $7.25. Sonneborn believes the strikes are a tactic by unions to encourage organization in the traditionally non-unionized industry.
Two of the reasons restaurant employees typically don't organize are the exact reasons unions would say they should. Many workers typically make little more than minimum wage, making union dues difficult to pay, and those same employees also don't typically stick around too long. Turnover can be as high as 80 percent at many restaurants.
With raises to the federal minimum wage still being debated in Washington, DC, unions and their advocates are pushing the issue publically through these strikes. Sonneborn says restaurant owners and managers need to understand federal and state labor laws and anticipate questions before they come.
"Make sure you are conversant and know your legal obligations," she says. "Also think about positive employee relations and being proactive. Make sure you have answers so [employees] don't feel the need to appeal to this kind of organization. Make sure they know you are the place to go for information."
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From my perspective and experience, an increase in the minimum wage to $10 - 12 per hour is inevitable and will come in the not too distant future. There is no way for a person to survive on $7.25 per hour and without healthcare or any other benefits. Many employees in this industry are on Medicaid and Food Stamps which shift those costs to the Government thereby serving as a subsidy to the private sector of the food industry. It is inevitable and the unions will grow in influence over these issues considering they are the force for good as envisioned by these low paid employees who have no other means by which to improve their plight. So, why not work towards finding a way to improve working conditions, pay and benefits together with unions and all will be a win-win in the long run as otherwise there will be a long term adversarial relationship as is now the case between labor and management with poor service the result.


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Regular FC readers are familiar with our recurring feature, "Open Debate"—which is basically two smart, compelling people debating an urgent topic entirely by email. Past debates have taken on design for the masses, the future of China, and the upside (or not) for Google.
For several months, I've been trying to find someone to debate Peter Barnes. He's a social entrepreneur (he founded Working Assets, the long-distance phone company that gives a portion of call charges to charity) and former journalist whose new book is called "Capitalism 3.0: A Guide to Reclaiming the Commons" (Berrett-Koehler).
Barnes offers timely analysis—and an unorthodox solution. He says "capitalism as we know it is deeply flawed": it creates pollution, waste, inequality, anxiety, "and no small confusion about the purpose of life." Specifically, he says, corporate-driven capitalism is squandering the assets that we've historically thought of us belonging to all of us—the commons. That would include, foremost, the environment, but also the airwaves and community infrastructure. Business, Barnes argues, depletes these assets without compensating us.
His answer: a new sort of public trust, a market-based legal entity that's neither privately owned nor government-run, that would preserve common assets—setting limits on their depletion and paying dividends based on their use to us, the collective owners. Just like oil companies have paid monies into a trust shared by residents of Alaska, we'd create market mechanisms around the consumption of air, water, forests, and habitat.
Is Barnes brilliant or insane? Is his strategy a silver bullet, or wildly impractical? You'd think there are plenty of people out there—business executives, government officials, even social entrepreneurs—who think Barnes is a dangerous nut case. But for as many people as I've asked, no one's actually willing to say that for publication. It's one of those ideas, perhaps, that's just too hot to touch.
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Women's Scoop: SoCal Conference Call
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How odd would it be to have an automatic qualifying conference
located in Greater Los Angeles?
Considering the Landmark Conference, based in one of the more fertile areas of the Mid-Atlantic can't (or won't) find enough teams to reach the seven-team plateau, it would be stunning for the most lacrosse remote part of the country to jump into Pool A.
Sure enough, here comes the Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (SCIAC, or "Sky-ack" as those with their finger on the WD3 pulse call it), which is currently comprised of Claremont, Pomona, Occidental, Whittier and Redlands. With five institutions already on board, the conference is two teams away from earning an immediate automatic qualifier to the NCAA tournament.
While the SCIAC is right on the cusp of Pool A, it will likely have to reach outside of its traditional league and adopt associate members to push it over the top. The three other institutions comprising the SCIAC - Cal Lutheran, Cal Tech and LaVerne - don't appear to be close to adding varsity women's lacrosse anytime soon.
The solution is so elementary that I have to assume negotiations are already underway. The SCIAC simply needs to add Puget Sound (Wash.), Linfield (Ore.) and Pacfic (Ore.) as associate members, bumping the number up to eight and triggering the countdown to an automatic qualifier.
For the East Coast types, the geography would appear to be a problem because of the travel costs. But let's be frank: you don't start an NCAA lacrosse program in the Pacific Northwest or SoCal with the mindset of saving on travel costs. These teams typically play each other anyway, so if the members can tweak the schedules, alternating between trekking to Oregon/Washington or hosting those Pac Northwest teams, it would work perfectly. As a side benefit, there would be plenty of time to pursue non-conference opponents.
One of the hurdles facing conferences like the SCIAC - leagues whose member institutions view themselves as a cut above - is finding associates who fit their academic band. Puget Sound, Linfield and Pacific all mesh seamlessly, and would be a nice accent to the SCIAC.
Another reason I think this can work is the SCIAC is now blessed with a coach who has the experience to put a new confederation on the right track from the start.
Michele Uhlfelder, who helped build the Stanford program and the Mountain Pacific Sports Federation into what it is today, is now the head coach at Occidental and will be guiding the Tigers in their inaugural season as a varsity program in 2010. Nothing has been brought up yet, but Uhlfelder would welcome the challenge of growing another powerful western conference at the D-III level.
"If that time comes when I'm asked to play a role in that, I'll be very excited about it," said Uhlfelder.
Hopefully it will be sooner than later.
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In an effort to help teams in both conferences find NCAA tournament eligibility in women's lacrosse, as well as well as men's tennis, women's tennis and baseball, the North Atlantic Conference (NAC) and the North Eastern Athletic Conference (NEAC) are joining forces.
For the purposes of women's lacrosse, the NEAC, consisting of seven members, will allow the four-team NAC league to piggyback off their numbers to get an automatic crack at the NCAA tournament. As the logistics work out, the two conferences will play their league schedule and conference tournament, with the winner of each meeting in a one-game playoff to determine who goes to the Big Dance. This arrangement begins in 2012.
Technically, the NEAC members - Cazenovia, St. Elizabeth, Keuka, Medaille, Penn St.-Abington, Wells and Wilson - will be joining the NAC - consisting of Green Mountain (Vt.), Husson (Maine), Me.-Farmington and Thomas (Maine). In order to ameliorate the costs, each conference was assigned two sports to sponsor, and the NAC picked up women's lacrosse.
This effort by the two leagues should prove to be an attractive model for a lot of other leagues attempting to join an AQ conference but don't have the numbers yet.
A Hall of a Coach
I'll just throw this out there in case there's anyone else who believes the National Lacrosse Hall of Fame could use more representation from the women's Division III coaching ranks and wants to fill out a lengthy nomination form.
- Sharon Pfluger (in '07 when she was inducted): 21 years, 318-26-1, 11 national championships
- Pat Genovese: 38 years, 362-133-1
- Missy Foote: 29 years, 342-83-1, 5 national championships
I'm not saying Missy Foote should be in the Hall of Fame, I'm just sayin'.
Late Recognition
Talking with various coaches it seems that there was one player in particular who was overlooked during the season-ending awards process. On three occasions, coaches singled out former Messiah goalie Jen Venter for her performance last year.
"She played as well as I've seen a goalie play," said Catholic head coach Meghan McDonogh, who watched Venter make 13 saves and push the highly favored Cardinals to the brink before falling in overtime, 9-8. Venter was also spectacular in the MAC finals, where she made 14 saves to upset Elizabethtown and earn tourney MVP honors.
Venter started her career at Division I UMBC, but transferred to Messiah after her rookie season. She finished her career second on the all-time Falcons saves list with 450.
Although Venter didn't receive the recognition she deserved last year, new Liberty University coach Regan Denham saw Venter's potential and hired her as the Flames' goalie coach
"Beginning my coaching career at a university with the mission of Liberty is an exciting opportunity," said Venter. "It is a special undertaking to start a program and I am blessed to assist Coach Denham as she ushers in a Christian university's lacrosse program at the Division I level."
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- I'm a little worried about Union coach Jessica Critchlow. I think she may have lost her mind.
Have you seen the non-conference schedule the Dutchwomen are playing this year? Here's the list, along with last year's record: Babson (15-3), Stevens (17-2), St. John Fisher (11-7), Washington & Lee (13-5), Salisbury (20-2), Trinity (10-4), Middlebury (11-6) and Cortland (14-7).
All but two were NCAA tournament qualifiers in '09 and the two that weren't - Trinity and Stevens - had a gripe about not being included. Throw in Hamilton (16-3) and William Smith (11-4) from the Liberty League and we're talking about one of the epic schedules of all time. If LaxPower doesn't have Union's schedule as the toughest from start to finish, they need to re-run the numbers.
- As I look at the Colorado College schedule, I find it curious that, by my count, the Tigers are only playing one regional game (the season opener against Redlands in Texas). Considering that most of the primary criteria for tournament selection are based off of regional play, this decision is slightly odd. While there are many factors involved in scheduling, Colorado College had to play Claremont, even if it meant traveling to California for a second consecutive year. A win there and the Tigers were in good shape (although certainly not assured a bid with the ascendant presence of Adrian).
Also, CC is burning four dates against in-state Division II opponents Regis and Fort Lewis. The Tigers should sweep all four games, but those wins will only count against the overall win-loss percentage (a secondary criterion) as inter-divisional games don't count for much else. In defense of Colorado College, it's smart to play D-II opponents and get something out of it instead of using a date against a club team - something the CC men's team does.
One of the criteria the Tigers have over most of their Pool B competition (other than TCNJ, Rowan and Catholic) is strength of schedule. Susan Stuart's troops will hit the Maine NESCAC Trifecta (Colby, Bates, Bowdoin) as well as taking on Catholic and Roanoke in Washington, D.C. If CC goes 3-2 on those two trips, it'll make up some ground on its regional deficiencies.
- More and more programs are posting their schedules online. We're collecting them and putting them into our database for the season, but that probably won't be rolled out for another month or so as we cross-check many of the dates and times. From what's out there, the season will really get cooking on Feb. 27 (although there are some games the weekend before), which is only a scant two months away.
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The Modern World is Going to Hell: A Continuing Series: The F-Bomb Vermin of the Apocalypse
The third in my series of posts in which I give rants against trends that have developed in society since the days of my youth, the halcyon days of the seventies, when leisure suits and disco were sure signs that society was ready to be engulfed in a tide of ignorance, bad taste and general buffoonery.
We have started off the series with a look at seven developments that I view as intensely annoying and proof that many people lack the sense that God granted a goose. I like to refer to these as The Seven Hamsters of the Apocalypse, minor evils that collectively illustrate a society that has entered a slough of extreme stupidity. Each of the Seven Hamsters will have a separate post. We have already discussed here the Tattooed Vermin and here the Pierced Vermin. The third of the Hamsters is the F-Bomb Vermin.
I first encountered the F-bomb in, I suppose, a traditional manner. My mother, I and my brother were outside walking. (For younger readers this was a form of locomotion that people engaged in before automobiles became a common feature of every family.) I was about 5 and quite proud of my ability to read. I noticed a word inscribed upon the sidewalk in chalk by some feckless urchin. I began to spell it, F-U-, and then my mother stopped me. She said it was a dirty word and I was not to use it. I normally found that my mother gave sage counsel, and when I failed to follow it dire consequences would usually follow, in addition to a slap from her maternal hand, and I have followed her injunction from that day to this.
Swearing in public was almost unknown when I was a lad in the early Sixties. Oh there were places where swearing was ubiquitous, most notably the military, but outside of those type of all male venues, swearing in public was severely frowned upon. All male groups would tend to have some fairly unimaginative low level swearing, but in those gentlemanly chauvinist times, almost no men would think of swearing in front of females, and if a lady happened to hear a cuss word emitted from the more foul mouthed of the sexes, his apologies would normally be profuse.
In private some amusement could be taken from vulgarities. Family gatherings at the McClarey household were enlivened by my younger brother's innocent inability to pronounce the name of a popular ice cream topping, Smuckers, correctly, and my parents in anger could let slip a few choice words, but swearing in my household was a rare event. My Dad, a man of few words, thought swearing was "stupid" and my mother, who shared all the eloquence of her 100% Irish blood, regarded it as "boring , unimaginative, a sign of weak character, and a colossal waste of time."
To show how relatively innocent those times were, most people were genuinely shocked by all the "expletives deleted" on the Nixon tapes. I assume that Nixon learned to swear like a sailor when he was a sailor during WWII, but even ex-military men were shocked at his vulgarity. Ironically, it was Nixon's adversaries among the younger generation in the late Sixties who were probably least shocked by his use of gutter language. In a bid for "honesty, openness and relevance" along with other buzzwords from the Sixties, that most deeply dishonest of decades, trust fund guys and gals at colleges began to swear like longshoremen, (actually far worse than longshoremen if my maternal grandfather was any indication) and dress in early Goodwill. I assume this was an attempt to gain proletarian street cred by people, most of whom would have died before working in the plants where my father and mother earned our daily bread. Public swearing by the fairer sex was especially disheartening for members of the older generation who had recklessly assumed that women were more civilized than men on average. This trend was assisted by often fairly talentless members of the entertainment industry who found they could achieve notoriety by the use of frequent swearing. Lenny Bruce, heroin addict, was the advance guard in this trend. Bruce had talent to go with a foul mouth and a fouler mind, but most of his imitators lacked that saving grace.
Now we live in a world where swearing is ubiquitous with constant use of the F-Bomb as a noun, verb, adjective and adverb. Some people seem unable to express themselves without use of the word. Former Governor of Illinois and convicted felon, those two accomplishments do tend to go together, Blagojevich is a prime example of how the F-Bomb is used as filler in sentences today.
Swearing has no doubt been with us from the time shortly after the expulsion from Eden when Adam first stubbed his toe. This is certainly not a new evil in society. The English soldiers in the time of Saint Joan of Arc were designated by their frequent request of God to consign to the nether regions most things they encountered. (In defense of the English, they were, after all, in France at the time.) However swearing today is universal and unending and deeply unimaginative with the F-Bomb losing the chief utility of swearing: to serve as emotional release and to shock. Compare and contrast someone using the F-Bomb repeatedly with this classic piece of billingsgate from Shakespeare: " The devil damn thee black, thou cream-faced loon! Where got'st thou that goose look?" If one must swear, be imaginative and creative about it! Today the only purpose served by the F-Bomb is as an idiot detector. Its constant refrain in public makes our daily lives just a bit crasser and helps create that atmosphere of cretinous vulgarity which is the hallmark of the time in which we live. I trust that in the next world, either as eternal punishment or lengthy penance, unimaginative swearers will stand nose to nose with drill sergeants who can explore with them just how effective loud and imaginative cussing can be! (Content advisory for the following video, unnecessary for anyone who has been in the military and has had experience with real drill sergeants.)
However, perhaps I am being too harsh. After all, it is only crass language. It isn't as if they were engaging in an activity that threatened physical harm. That brings us to the Fourth Hamster of the Apocalypse, the Texting Vermin. However, I must now go and watch a Lawrence Welk Retrospective while merrily imbibing a good vintage of prune juice. Until next time.
(Hattip to my daughter, or, as we refer to her, THE COMPUTER NERDESS IN CHIEF, who not only trapped the elusive F-Bomb Vermin for the above photo, but also engaged in photoshopping, a skill which eludes her luddite father.)
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And now there is the almost universal employment of "d****e-bag" on 'blogs, even on purportedly Catholic ones.
When I hear the F-bomb burst from the lips of a beautiful young lady I only see black stains on her soul. From a young man I see dark times in his life.
I don't think this should be listed among the minor vermin. It debases us more than we realize.
I'd agree with you Pinky except that most of the people who engage in frequent swearing truly are clueless as to its harmfulness. I regard this as a sign of debasement in modern life and not a cause of the underlying debasement.
Pinky & Don.
It's cyclical. The F bomb has become so commonplace b/c the sexual act to which it refers has become vulgar rather than sacred, yet the use of the F bomb to refer to that act further trivializes and moves our understand of the sexual act farther from its sacred nature.
I think the biggest problem you have is that people using such words are considered "cool". Therefore, cinema and singers use such words, which reinforces the trend.
You'd be surprised at how little Germans swear compared to Anglo-Saxons. Not because they don't know how to do it, but because there is a social sanction associalted with that in most situations.
I think another reason is the way people DRESS. You'll find it stupid but I think that a lot people tend to speak better when they are better dressed. To be dressed properly often gives them a sense of their own dignity, and they tend to want to live up to that. People going around in shorts and flip flops as if they were in their own garten will tend not to pay any attention to social conventions in other areas as well. The age of ubiquitous jeans, unkempt hair and the like was also the age where swearing became common usage.
"The age of ubiquitous jeans, unkempt hair and the like was also the age where swearing became common usage."
The slobbification of America.
On Joan of Arc: A common French term of endearment for English soldiers in her day was "les goddams," for their frequent–ubiquitous–use of that term.
My father was a career soldier with extensive combat experience in World War II, and he was more than liberal in the use of that phrase (but it was not tolerated among us children: apparently like smoking and drinking, for adults only, and then only for men). I never heard him use the f-word. He would not have used it around women or children, and I doubt he used it among his cronies. I don't think many educated people of his generation would have (and that is why the Nixon tapes were so shocking).
Coarse language by beautiful young ladies is depressing and off-putting, but may not indicate stains on their soul. Custom is very powerful, and the customs of recent times have not been helpful in reinforcing our innate sense of propriety.
Could you rephrase that to be clearer? The it reads right now seems to say that a cursing woman is sinful, and a cursing man is sinned against…. It could also be read as a lovely poetic way of saying "they have been hurt, stained, torn, battered, afflicted by a life that has not done them as it should." (Yay, English; so many shades of meaning.)
Can't argue against this stance; I would suggest that a large part of why cursing is more common is because folks are ruder, making for more heartache and pain on emotional/mental levels, and there are fewer ways to defuse it. (This is also my theory behind "road rage.")
Thank you Foxfier, I was trying to be brief.
First off, male or female the use of this word does show a lack of respect for others and very much a lack of a Christian attitude. The F-bomb is neither loving nor kind. That is where an otherwise lovely looking young lady becomes stained to me. I would not have dated such when younger or appreciate my son from dating one with such language now.
As far as a dark future for the men, most of them that I have meet who use this language in public are already racking up arrests, convictions and jail time.
Have I ever used language like this, well maybe. When my head was almost taken off by a sheet of plywood dropped from the roof, or my 700 pound motorcycle was laying on me supported only by a folded up foot, even then it was said in a whispering scream. But never in conversation private or public since I found Christ.
"When my head was almost taken off by a sheet of plywood dropped from the roof, or my 700 pound motorcycle was laying on me supported only by a folded up foot, even then it was said in a whispering scream"
Stan, I sympathize. During my first kidney stone a few years ago, if I had the presence of mind, I might have let lose with a few choice epithets. As it was, I writhed on the floor and whimpered with the pain, when I wasn't making my painfully slow way to the bathroom to vomit up the shrimp gumbo that I had just before the kidney stone decided to makes its agonizing presence felt. I think God makes allowances for the weakness of the flesh at such times. 🙂
The F-bomb has been a pretty common expletive down here for as long as I can remember. I must agree though, that in the late 50's when I was a teenager, and lad-about-town in that great decade, the 60's, mainly used only by men including myself too lazy to select a more appropriate adjective, or as an encouragement for someone to leave your presence hurriedly. 😉
In those days it was unusual to hear it coming from a woman. Nowadays it is commonplace. Then, one did not use that language in front of a woman – nowadays, it is a part of everyday casual conversation.
I call it "building site language" (being a builder) where I still sometimes resort to the expletive, but that is usually where it stays.
I do think that as with many things in society, it has been used so much that society in general has become desensitised to the shock effect, so it has become part of everyday language.
My other excuse is that I spent 11 years of my life in Australia. 🙂
I actually blame the Dutch for this blight on the English language 😉
The Dutch and the English have always had a close relationship – why even a dutchman, William of Orange was king of England in the 17th century.
As you may guess, this is a lead in to a rather humorous anecdote.
In 1990 after I returned from Australia, I was doing a job with my wife's cousin for a dutchman, Jack van Dungen (I think was his name) who had emigrated to NZ in the 1950's. He had a brother, Joss who still lived in Holland, but visited every few years. Now Jack, who lived on a farm had built a pig pen and was starting to breed his own pigs. In Dutch, the word for a breeder is a – yes, you guessed it, – a "f**ker".
Joss had arrived from Holland late the previous night, and as we were all sitting down to morning tea, Joss who had just risen shortly before,came out from his room, greeted us, and looked out the window and saw the pig pen. Joss did not speak English too well, so he combined Dutch words with his English words. He said, " Ah Yack, (dutch pronounce "J" as "Y") I see you have become a pig f****er."
You can imagine our huge mirth – poor Joss did not really understand what the hilarity was about until Jack explained it to him.
Over the past hundred and fifty years, we have had a lot of Dutch migration to NZ. After all, the country's first european discoverer was a dutchman, Abel Tasman. So the dutch word "to breed" became a common word in the local English language.
Well, that's my excuse, and I'm sticking to it. 🙂
I am always willing Don to blame as many ills of the world as I can on the Dutch. 🙂
While talking to a Catholic Chaplain who traveled to all of the FOBs in the South, he lamented to me that many of the soldiers have lost the ability to use adjectives and adverbs thanks to the F-bomb.
What have we become?
Don the Kiwi,
I'm visualizing the scene as featuring copious amounts of expectorated tea! Translation fiascoes always tickle me!
My dog, who, if possible, gets out even less than I do, appeared quite shocked by the cheerfully crass language flying between two college-aged canoeists passing close to the dock recently; he was too occupied with cocking his head back and forth, listening in astonishment, even to bark. I assume it was the tone and volume of the banter rather than the words, but it looked funny nonetheless.
The kids (male and female; one shies away from "gentleman" and "lady" in such a situation) were entirely jolly in their loud, brash, crude, and very public discourtesy.
Since I err in curbing my own tongue when injured or infuriated, but not so much when blithesome, or out canoeing, I was unsure whether to be offended, disapproving, or amused.
An angry outburst may be far more unpleasant to hear, but casual cursing like this is actually harder to sympathize with, due to its utter meaninglessness.
Everything I've ever studied on demonology and deliverance confirms that the use of curse words–which really do curse the person, place or thing–is almost always the way that demonic infestations begin.
Fr. Amorth said he dealt with a whole family–two boys were outright possessed, and all the family were experiencing some level of extraordinary demonic influence/attack–and the root cause was the grandfather. In his senility, he hardly ever said anything but "G– D—" because that's the habit he built up in his life.
I don't think the particular words matter. In England, f— is a casual word, but c— is the Most Profane Word (not that c— is trivial in the US). As common as f— has become in the US, it's still our Most Profane Word. We may be seeing a transition toward it being a weak word, but for the time being, people use it frequently *because* they can't think of a worse word.
That's the distinction I'm trying to make: it's not that people who use it are immune to the power of the word; they're unfamiliar with the idea of propriety.
I too watch reruns of the Welk show on TV. Another show that brings up wishes of long ago days are the Andy William Christmas shows. Innocence, family and faith joined in music and fun. The first time I used the f bomb my year older sister laughed at me. It was so ridiculous coming out of my 13 year old mouth. That cured me for a long, long time. The people who talk that way are clowns.
The fifth comment, made by Michael Denton has stuck in my mind.
The F- word is of course, just a word, with a certain meaning……or is it?
If we use the word "copulation" it has a certain context in biology, but with essentially the same meaning. Likewise, the word "fornication" which used to be often heard from the pulpit as a serious sin, but sadly nowadays is not – but we still read it in the scriptures.
"Sexual intercourse" again, conveys the same meaning, but in the context of medical or educational areas.
In all these situations, if the F- word simply had the same meaning, would it be acceptable as a substitute? Is it only because the word is socially unacceptable that it is not substituted? Definitely not.
This is how I used to rationalise my occasional – in my younger day, casual – use of the word.
I agree with you Michael. The commonplace use of the word has debased the act to which it refers, which should be held as sacred. So I want to thank you, and you too Don, for reminding me, and I'm sure some others, how the use of a word, irrespective of its innocent beginning, can be desensitising and trivialising and contribute to the debasement of our language, culture, and souls.
"The fifth comment, made by Michael Denton has stuck in my mind."
Likewise — good observation.
I have felt this way for years…! even as a college pagan back in the '80s. Though there were things I (unfortunately) said or did, I felt there were zones of propriety. I never discussed certain things in front of women or children, for ex. Now that I'm an ex-pagan I only feel more strongly. I am unhappy that profanity and vulgarity worked its way into literature in the mid-20th c. and later into movies and finally TV. The fact that we had masterpieces of literature and drama for centuries without it shows just unecessary it is. Bad language/behavior was always there, but on the fringes. It was kept at bay.
When JFK was elected president one of his aides reportedly said, "this administration will do for sex what the last one (Ike's) did for golf."
Had Blago ever realized his ambition of becoming president (shudder), his administration probably would have done the same thing for the F-bomb.


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Today marks the 150th anniversary of the publication of Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species. To mark the 200th anniversary of Darwin's birth Poppy de Villeneuve has created a short film with the Rambert Dance Company at Sadler's Wells Theatre in London. The film can be seen at ELUXURY.
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>> The Monday column counts the many ill-advised moves I'm expecting from the Steelers' coaches in trying to get the offense moving. Would welcome being wrong and seeing Ben Roethlisberger suddenly airing it out, but not betting on it.
Let's face it: The defense is going to have to be just as good as the opener, maybe better.
Let's face this, too: Nothing would feel sweeter for the Steelers — shy of the W itself — than if Jarvis Jones were to outplay James Harrison.
Here's some of what the first-rounder had to say the other day …
Our Steelers beat team has tons of stuff today to prepare you for the game. And the Cincinnati Enquirer is equally loaded with Bengals news.
Elsewhere in the AFC North, the Ravens and Browns didn't exactly floor their own skeptics. And don't look now, but there goes Ray Rice.
>> The Pirates cut the playoff magic number to six, thanks in large part to a timely basehit off the bench by Justin Morneau, who's been just as wonderful an addition as Marlon Byrd down the stretch.
This was Morneau afterward …
Here's our full Pirates coverage. In there you'll find a thorough look at the team's defensive plan by Travis Sawchik. Well worth your time.
Here's Cubs news from the Chicago Tribune, Padres news from the San Diego Union-Tribune.
Here are official game highlights from MLB.com.
>> Almost-for-real hockey broke out in Columbus, as the Penguins opened preseason play with an OT loss but some notable positives. Rob Rossi was on the scene.
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Welcome back to the latest round-up of Europe's biggest under-achievers, with another clutch of clubs failing to pick up expected victories this weekend.
Punching below their weight at this stage of the season means managers and players are coming under increasing pressure to kick on and have a big final three or four months of the season, with some still in the hunt for trophies or European spots—if they can find form.
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I am having issues when I build the ISO for my multi-boot DVD.
1. If I do this: mkisofs -N -J -joliet-long -r -o mycd2.iso -b boot/loader.bin -no-emul-boot -boot-load-size 4 . I get an error saying that it can't find one of my linux kernels (using isolinux)- everything else works fine.
2. If I do this: mkisofs -iso-level 3 -r -o mycd2.iso -b boot/loader.bin -no-emul-boot -boot-load-size 4 . This solves the above problem and allows me to boot that kernel image but I can no longer boot my PE part (using chain) it says the NTLDR cannot be found or something to that nature.
I want a solution that will allow me to boot all my componenets - all linux stuff as in 2. and the PE stuff like in 1. any ideas? I did try -iso-level 4 but got an error stating I needed a value btween 1-3. FYI: using the CD Shell that comes with UBCD as my Multi-boot DVD is based off that.
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The New York Times on July 2 ran a front page story about Japan re-thinking its pacifism and revamping its military to thwart China's expansion in the Asian region.
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's "collective self-defense" push allows Japan to come to the aid of an ally beyond its home territory.
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With Mac OS X, there are a number of frameworks that can access the functionality of the system. So many in fact, that a fair share of Monday's Apple Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) sessions were devoted to explaining the four primary frameworks of Java, BSD, Carbon, and Cocoa and how they fit together.
It's pretty obvious where Java and BSD fit into the system and when each should be used. And yes, as odd as it may sound, the BSD layer can be considered a framework because it gives access to all of the Unix underpinnings of the OS as well as tools such as
grep and
diff. But the distinction of how the other two APIs -- Carbon and Cocoa -- fit together has been confusing to many.
Part of the confusion stems from the way that Carbon has been positioned as the way for older apps to be "ported" to run on OS X, while Cocoa has been positioned as the next-generation method of creating OS X applications. The two frameworks have almost been positioned as competitors. And this leads developers to have debates over which is better. I have even heard conversations both in person and on mailing lists that sound the beginnings of the historic emacs vs. vi wars.
As I sat through the sessions that explained how all the pieces fit together, it became clear that these were not really competing APIs.
Cocoa uses quite a bit of Carbon functionality. For example, the Print dialogs are Carbon functionality. But this is really an impelementation detail from an application developer point of view.
As you're learning about the Mac OS X frameworks, including Java, how do you see things fitting together?
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As Scott Forstall, Apple's director of application frameworks, said, having two complete APIs with their own implementation would be wasteful, and it's important to maximize reuse in the system. In addition, Carbon is a growing API that is still under active development. Each release will bring more new APIs that expose even more functionality.
After Monday's presentations, it seemed to me that the right way to look at the two frameworks is not side by side as all of Apple's marketing material would indicate, but as Cocoa building on top of Carbon.
When looked at this way, it becomes apparent that Carbon is the procedural native framework, and that Cocoa is the object-oriented native framework of OS X building on Carbon.
Developers are free to choose the level they want to program at. Developers choosing to work within Cocoa have all of Carbon's goodies just waiting to be tapped.
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Mega-City One, 2130 AD. This vast urban nightmare on the east coast of post-apocalyptic North America is home to 400 million citizens, every one a potential criminal. With lawlessness rife, only the Judges can prevent total anarchy. These future lawmen are judge, jury and executioner. Toughest of them all is Judge Dredd - he is the Law!
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The lands of Hell. Following the angel Lucifer's failed rebellion against God, he was cast down, where he became the ruler of his own dark dominion. Those seraphim that fell with him remained his lieutenants and trusted aides, warriors that would protect their master at all costs – now no longer seraphim, they are the NECROPHIM!
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Iced coffee: a beverage for all seasons When the weather starts to chill, more and more Americans chill out with iced coffee1. In the last few years, U.S. consumers have been ordering more and more of the cold-served beverage at restaurants and coffee houses. According to market research firm Mintel, one in five Americans drink iced coffee, with young adults aged 18 to 24 the heaviest consumers2. Mintel data also shows that iced coffee's share of all coffee on menus at U.S. ...
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The problem of indexing path queries in semistructured/XML databases has received considerable attention recently, and several proposals have advocated the use of structure indexes as supporting data structures for this problem. In this paper, the authors investigate efficient update algorithms for structure indexes. They study two kinds of updates-the addition of a subgraph, intended to represent the addition of a new file to the database, and the addition of an edge, to represent a small incremental change.
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Male Model Mark Vanderloo Advocates Air in the Crotch
Otherwise, men, your pants are probably too tight.
Tight pants are de rigueur in menswear these days, but how tight is too tight? We asked an expert, male model Mark Vanderloo, at the launch of his new DKNY men's fragrance campaign last night. "It's too tight when you don't have any air in your crotch, do you know what I mean? When your knees are going together and they're, like, holding the whole thing because you can't breathe anymore. That's too tight."


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227. Teach Me to Feel Thee as Silence When I Close My Eyes
Father, teach me to understand that which I hear. Help me to practice in my daily life all the good which I learn. Teach me to watch Thee working in nature. Teach me to feel Thee as silence, when I close my eyes. I bow to Thee — Aum! Amen!


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How is the streaming quality? Perfect 1080p without any compression artifacts like with cable TV? Are the graphics settings in the games maxed out? Does it run at 60 fps? 120fps for 120Hz output? Support stereo-3D?
What's total input lag (aside from ping times which would vary by location)?
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Continental Antique Show: 10 a.m. Amarillo Civic Center Regency Room, 401 S. Buchanan St.
Ink Life Tattoo and Music Festival: 1-11 p.m. Amarillo Civic Center North Exhibit Hall, 401 S. Buchanan St. 806-378-3096, www.inklifetour.com.
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Amarillo Symphony's "European Vacation" concert: 8 p.m. Globe-News Center for the Performing Arts, 500 S. Buchanan St. 806-378-3096, www.panhandletickets .com.
Jason Patrick: 6 p.m. Pescaraz Italian Restaurant, 3415 Bell St., No cover. 806-350-5426.
Los Cuatro Compadres Mariachi Band: 6:30 p.m. La Frontera Restaurant, 1401 S. Arthur St. No cover. 806-372-4593.
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Charlie "Sugartime" Phillips and The Sugartimers Classic Country Dance Band: 7:30 p.m. Amarillo Senior Citizens Association Hall, 1220 S. Polk St. Cover. Public welcome. 806-374-5500.
IDestroy, Klause, Moments Till Fall, Shackled to the Grave, Redeemed Chaos, Zombie Death Trip: 7:30 p.m. EBGB, 2511 S.W. Sixth Ave. Cover.
Jazz Alley: 8 p.m. Amarillo Club, 600 S. Tyler St. 806-373-4361.
Anderson, Flesher and Key: 8 p.m. Cattle Call, 4111 Wolflin Ave. No cover. 806-353-1227.
A.J. Swope: 8 p.m. Smokey Joe's Texas Cafe, 2903 S.W. Sixth Ave. No cover. 806-331-6698.
Fat Chance: 9 p.m. Friendz Cocktail Lounge and Grill, 711 S.W. 10th Ave. No cover. 806-331-7305.
Tejas Brothers: 9 p.m. Golden Light Cantina, 2906 S.W. Sixth Ave. Cover. 806-374-0097.
Mike Chism and Hollow Point: 9 p.m. Lowery's Dance Hall and Saloon, 609 Independence St. Cover. 806-467-8500.
Mario Flores and the Soda Creek Band: 9 p.m. Western Horseman Club at the Kiva Hotel, 2501 E. Interstate 40. No cover. 806-379-6555.
Gray County Line: 9:30 p.m. Duke Tracy's, 31001 S.W. 26th Ave. No cover. 806-351-0757.
The Flying Elbows: 9:30 p.m. Austin's Pub, 3121 S.W. Sixth Ave., 806-373-7470.
Slim Jim and the Heavy Duties: 10 p.m. Hoot's Pub, 2424 Hobbs Road. Cover. 806-358-9560.
Jason Boland and the Stragglers: 10 p.m. Midnight Rodeo, 4400 S. Georgia St. Cover. 806-358-7083, www.midnightrodeoamarillo.com.
Skratch: 10 p.m. Skooterz, 4100 Bushland Blvd. Cover. 806-355-6600.
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Posted on 07/22/2014 2:52:40 PM PDT by Uncle Chip
International monitors, who only recently gained access to the site, discovered the cockpit of the plane apparently cut in half with diesel-powered saws.
Michael Bociurkiw, spokesman for the group of international monitors from the Organize for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), told USA Today:
'The rear part of the aircraft, one of the biggest intact pieces, has definitely been hacked into'.
The cockpit was found on land which was immediately cordoned off by Russian-backed separatists during the two days after the plane was blown out of the sky.
However, both the separatists and Russia have denied any involvement in shooting down the plane.
Yesterday, President Barack Obama called for Russia to stop the separatist from moving parts of the aircraft so the area can be properly investigated.
'The separatists are removing evidence from the crash site,' he said. 'All of which begs the question: What are they trying to hide?'
An Australian air force plane and refrigerated trucks have now arrived in Holland to wait for the MH17 victims but it is now feared only 200 bodies have been recovered.
The Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe also says there are still human remains lying on the crash site.
Jain Tuinder, a Dutch official leading the investigation, said just 200 bodies had arrived in Kharkiv today adding:
'We will not leave until every remain has left this country so we will have to go on and bargain again with the people over there.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
Other than being an overt act of war, why can't NATO conduct an exercise from Ukrainian territory and secure the crash site? Stupid question, I know, so flame away.
Russia, the country that only Itchy and Scratchy could love.
You forgot Gerard Depardieu.
The real gem so far was Obama's press conference when he accused the Russians of a cover up, impeding the investigation and destroying evidence.
Dutch forensic team 'impressed' by work at MH17 crash site
I'll bet they were.
Experts have said shrapnel-covered damage on the front of the Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 is consistent with a missile hit.
Photographs show pieces of the Boeing 777 have tiny holes indicating small pieces of shrapnel entered the aircraft externally, it has been reported.
"why cant NATO conduct an exercise from Ukrainian territory and secure the crash site?"
And do what, exactly??
Standing between two warring forces isn't really a good idea, especially with a Bear that doesn't trust you standing at your back.
The Russians are the ones that need to secure the sight, but the west doesn't trust them, while the Ukrainians would scream bloody murder about the "Russian Invasion"
In a nutshell, no one trusts the US/NATO at this point, and no one trusts Russia. And to think, this is what a majority of Americans voted for...
Over act of war against whom? The Ukraine? It was shot down over their territory. Malaysia? It was their plane. But neither are NATO members.
The meat of this was actually the last line of the article: they had to "bargain" with these criminals to get those bodies released and now they have to go back and bargain some more.
How many Rolex's will it cost them to get the rest of the bodies?
And what else are they demanding in return for the bodies of the victims — immunity from prosecution???
Send a NATO force in thee and you will have 40,000 Russian troops backed by armor in there before you can spit. NATO would do good to get 6,000 there with some Humvees.
In case you haven't noticed, Russia has been invading for several months now.
Russians have the site, and have been busy removing and destroying evidence.
Help Ukraine secure the site that is on their territory.
Since your KGB guy isn't invading Ukraine, why would he be a threat to an investigation of a passenger plane crash site in another nation?
I see only one warring force there right now -- the warring force that killed 298 people and it is in full control of that area.
How the hell would they know that....and what is that exactly?
So the 28 nation NATO, has lost the ability to interact with Ukraine because Russia is more powerful than all of us combined now?
What a useless post. Opinions are often welcome, but only if they are insightful and express a cogent and adult reason for the opinion.
It was so friggin' obvious that the Dutch were trying to suck-up to the separatists, in order to get access. Not so obvious to the Borscht Brigade.
There are pictures of SAM shrapnel marks on the MH17's wings in the article at post #7 —
They may have gotten a lot of the evidence but not all of it.
And now they have to go back and get on their knees again —
I don't know — but perhaps they know that it is the only thing that can cut through it in the way that it did.
"So the 28 nation NATO, has lost the ability to interact with Ukraine because Russia is more powerful than all of us combined now?"
Russia is already on a war footing, their troops are on their borders ready to go. NATO has nothing ready to go. When the US wanted to do their 10,000 troop surge several years ago, it took more than 90 days to put it together.
NATO troops arriving would be read by Russia as an invasion force to aid Ukraine in ethnic cleansing of Russians from eastern Ukraine. That is the excuse Russia would use, and the logistics are all on Russia's side, it is literally their back yard.
Why do they have to include the weasel words like "apparently" in these reports. Either it was or it wasn't. Don't speculate.
because they are dealing with Russians who do their deadly deed when no one is watching and then deny that it ever happened.
NATO and other free nations have been tightening up their ability to defend themselves again since you guys started reassembling the evil empire.
As far as being so afraid of Russia that we are helpless today, no thanks, Putin is a paper tiger.
Our pro-Russia/KGB posters seem to bounce between, "Russia isn't doing anything, it is all in your head", to "don't interfere or we will take you out and launch WWIII and nuclear annihilation"
So, your tunnel vision doesn't allow you to see the other one, indiscriminately shelling cities?
You really should get your eyes checked. I could recommend a good Opthamoligist, if you'd like.
Please show me where NATO has troops assembled, or even in garrison. Hint: they don;t.
Also many here think Ukraine is part of NATO, they aren't.
Look to the UN to carry your water if you want to start a fight, that will get you real far also.
You'd have to be some bad-ass dude to hold up and operate a diesel cut-off saw. Imagine pulling on the starter rope.
You could say; "It takes a big jerk to start it."
You mean the U.S. and the other NATO nations don't have anybody in NATO anymore, they all went home, they can't even secure a crash site in a friendly nation today?
I don't know what kind of silliness you are trying to promote, but arguing that Russia so powerful that it has total control over European affairs, is silly, your man is not the 800 pound gorilla in charge of Europe.
This is an interesting technique, trying to intimidate the world like you are.
Yes, hear is another picture which is a part of the port side cockpit window faring showing shrapnel hits.
"Russians have the site, and have been busy removing and destroying evidence."
Seems to me there is very little evidence to destroy. We already know what took the plane down, Nothing on the site is going to tell us anything about that...
As for who pushed the button, It's certainly not going to tell us that.
Yes, hear is another picture which is a part of the port side cockpit window faring showing shrapnel hits.
NATO has NO jurisdiction. They would legally be considered invaders.
As I said, this is Russia's back yard, less than 40 miles from their border. They will not permit a hostile combat force to enter the disputed area.
Well, for starters, one could determine whether it was an air-to-air missile versus ground-to-air. Which, in turn would make the Russians shut up about some of their conspiracy theories.
It is Ukraine's yard, if they need help from the free world to investigate a crash site, then so be it.
NATO is not the problem here, Russia is.
Furthermore the Dutch were told by the Russian thugs that there were 282 bodies sealed in those railcars and when they opened them up there were only 200.
No sort of military action of any sort is useful in this situation. But there is a non-military response that would have immediate and long lasting positive effects.
This incident affects every airline and every country which travels worldwide; Also, obviously, nationals of every country who travel regularly or even occasionally. The threat is universal.
Both the International Airlines Associations, and the International Pilots Union (and all national FAA equivalents,) should issue the following declaration :
a) Civil and Commercial flights will be suspended to and from any country which does not allow immediate access (no minimum time restriction) to an accident scene, by the Airline(s) involved, and one other competent accident investigation team, each, of their choosing.
b) Further, The entire accident scene shall be secured and no disturbance will be allowed of its debris, remains of victims, the victims' property, instruments, all flight recorders.
Further, this sanction shall extend to all flights of all airlines whose previous stop are anywhere within the accident site country, or whose flight will continue to the accident site country.
No interference, physical, political or military will be allowed with accident investigators. The responsible country is the ultimate party responsible for preventing violations of the rules above.
If there are violations of rules a)or b) the sanction to and from the responsible country will be in force until the accident investigation is satisfactorily concluded.
The beauty of this approach, is that no military action whatsoever needs to be contemplated, unless the responsible country requests it.
In areas of ongoing non-conventional warfare, military aid shall not be allowed from any "sponsor" of either side of the ongoing insurrection, civil war, etc.
Food for thought.
I didn't feel it necessary to mention the uselessness of allowing the U.N. to have any role in airline accident investigations.
"Well, for starters, one could determine whether it was an air-to-air missile versus ground-to-air. Which, in turn would make the Russians shut up about some of their conspiracy theories."
We already know it was a ground to air missile. The Ukraine had them as well as the separatists.
Apparently Ukraine military jets escorted the airliner until 3 minutes before the shoot down. Don't you find that odd? Could this perhaps trick the separatists into thinking it was a military aircraft? None of this evidence is going to come from the crash site.
At some point, as with any investigation, we have to ask who had the motive. Who would most likely gain from this?
Would it be the Ukraine, NATO, Russia or the separatists? I don't trust any of them, but you know who I trust the least? You got it... Obama.
Since neither the saw nor the pieces involved are any longer on site, informed speculation is the only recourse.
Are you suggesting the services of psychics? At this point speculation is all there is. Laboratory tests to be more specific are a long ways off.
I also notice that the Freeper class of 2005 + or -1 is heavily represented.
Smell, too...
1. Ukraine tricking the separatists,The rest of your comment is opinion cloaked as fact. And the question, "who gains?" is completely irrelevant.
2. Ukraine doing the shooting, or
3. the separatists doing the shooting.
You can start some "diesel" engines with just one finger.
A Carbureted compression ignition model engine, popularly known as a Model diesel engine, is a simple compression ignition engine made for model propulsion, usually model aircraft but also model boats.
Miniature two-stroke diesel engine
Their sign up dates seem pretty scattered to me and include a number of the 98/99 group, one thing that I have noticed about some of them, is that some don't post frequently, or have posting gaps.
What is the source of this?
A teenager on twitter?
The Russians in eastern Ukraine pretending to be Ukranians and playing civil war?
"And the question, "who gains?" is completely irrelevant."
The motive is never irrelevant in an investigation. Tell that to any criminal investigator and they will laugh in your face. It is and has always been the #1 thing.
You do know that one of the demands from the Putin backed rebels in all of this that the Ukrainians agree to the independence of Donetsk before the Dutch et al can get all their dead back.
Putin is using the dead as bargaining chips to get what the his rebels can't win on the battlefield.
Putin and his rebels gained in all of this -- they got bargaining chips to fall from the sky at the cost of only one SAM.
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