Monday, March 12, 2012
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Friday, March 9, 2012
Chef Batali Agrees to $5.25M Server-Tip Suit Accord
Mario Batali, the celebrity TV chef and owner of several New York restaurants, is often seen with actress Gwyneth Paltrow, taste-testing the culinary delights of Spain in their public television series "On the Road Again."
Batali took a detour, through his lawyers, to New York federal court in Manhattan, where he was sued and accused of cheating workers of part of their tips for serving wine. He and his associate Joseph Bastianich agreed to pay $5.25 million to settle the class-action lawsuit, according to court papers.
Servers at restaurants including Babbo, Casa Mono and Tarry Lodge sued in 2010 alleging their employers violated the Fair Labor Standards Act -- in part by pocketing gratuities equal to as much as 5 percent of nightly wine sales.
[Video: Cook-off, Mario Batali vs. Emeril Legasse]
"Mr. Batali, Mr. Bastianich, and their restaurants unlawfully confiscated a portion of their workers' hard-earned tips in order to supplement their own profits," employees said in their complaint.
The settlement agreement, filed March 5, is subject to approval by a federal judge.
"The matter has been resolved to the satisfaction of all parties, Rachel Bien, one of the employees' lawyers, said today by e-mail.
Batali on Bankers Batali got into hot water in November by saying bankers are "not heroes but they are people that had a really huge effect on the way the world is operating."
"The ways the bankers have kind of toppled the way money is distributed and taken most of it into their hands is as good as Stalin or Hitler and the evil guys," Batali said on a panel sponsored by Time magazine and posted online.
He apologized the next day, after financial industry executives criticized him and called for a boycott of his establishments.
The case is Capsolas v. Pasta Resources Inc., 10-cv-5595, U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York (Manhattan).
Friday, March 2, 2012
We have all heard the old adage, “If you don’t ask, you don’t get”. For some reason, many of us don’t ask for things because we fear imposing on someone or seeming to be rude. In business and in our personal lives this is farthest from the truth. Remember, the worst answer somebody can give you is “no”. Ohhhh, did you just feel a chill go through you? No, I’m sure not. We have all heard the word “no”, especially from the loving mouths of our parents. But, God knows, we tried to get what we wanted back then without hesitation! So, why is it so hard to ask now that we are independent adults?
We need to learn to ask. And, by asking, more often then not, we will get what we want. Try it a few times and in your practice you will find that you will feel more comfortable. And, in that comfort, you will find success in either your home business or life in general.
We need to learn to ask. And, by asking, more often then not, we will get what we want. Try it a few times and in your practice you will find that you will feel more comfortable. And, in that comfort, you will find success in either your home business or life in general.
Monday, February 27, 2012
fishing boat has reached the cruise ship adrift in the Indian Ocean with more
than 1,000 people on board, officials say.
The Costa Allegra suffered a fire in its generator room that caused it to
lose power south-west of the Seychelles - an area where pirates are active. It has no lights or air-conditioning and an emergency generator providing communications "could fail at any minute", the Italian coast guard says.
Tugs are still some hours away.
The ship is from the same fleet as the Costa Concordia, which capsized off the Italian coast in January, killing 32.
Commander Cosimo Nicastro from the Italian coast guard told the BBC that the trawler - a French-registered ocean-going boat - could now maintain communications with rescue vessels if the ship's emergency battery failed.
"At any moment we could lose communication because the emergency battery could stop at any second," he said.
"The first step is to keep communications with the ship."
He said agencies involved in the rescue operation would reassess the situation later in the morning.
The ship's owner, Costa Cruises, has stressed that the
Allegra is steady and conditions are safe.
It says it is liaising with passengers' families via their emergency contact
numbers, and has reached two-thirds of them. Contact has been made with the
relatives of all the crew.Families in the UK can call the company's emergency line on 0207 940 3300.
'Not in danger' Italian authorities have directed three merchant ships and another fishing vessel towards the stricken cruise ship.
Authorities in the Seychelles say they have sent two tug boats and a coast guard ship to the scene but the tugs are not expected to reach the ship until around 1500 GMT on Tuesday
A plane has flown overhead and reported that the ship did not appear to be in danger.
Costa Cruises said that the ship sent out a distress signal when the fire broke out, and all passengers and crew not involved in fighting the fire assembled at the muster stations.
Most electric lights on board the ship are off as the batteries are being used to keep essential machinery going.
A spokesman said the situation on board was calm and the ship was stable.
Captain Giorgio Moretti said a helicopter would bring fresh food to the ship on Tuesday morning, as it is without cooking facilities.
Captain Moretti said it had not been decided whether to try to transfer the passengers to other ships, or leave them on board until it is tugged to shore.
It was due to arrive in the Seychelles on Tuesday.
Further destinations on its itinerary include Alexandria and Naples in the Mediterranean Sea.
Somali pirates are known to operate in the area where the Allegra is adrift, though they have never seized a cruise ship.
Nine members of the Italian navy's anti-pirate unit are on board the ship as a precaution.
A facility on Costa Cruises' website allowing people to track the Allegra's position says that "data transmission is temporarily suspended".
The company says the Allegra received its regularly scheduled maintenance in dry dock in October 2011.
The Costa Concordia ran aground off the Italian island of Giglio on 13 January.
The Concordia's captain, Francesco Schettino, has been accused of manslaughter, causing a shipwreck and abandoning ship before all those aboard were evacuated. He denies any wrongdoing
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Thursday, February 23, 2012
BIG NEWS, BUTTS, BIG NEWS: as I'm sure your homemade Hunger Games countdown clock has informed you, there are only 28 DAYS LEFT until the greatest movie of all time hits the theaters and Peeta Mellark's buns are forever burned into our lucky, lucky minds. (I AM TALKING ABOUT HIS BREAD, GUYS, COME ON. GET YOUR MINDS OUT OF THE GUTTER.)
Today, I'm here to announce that YOU, yes, YOU, can get up-close and personal with the fantastically good-looking and supremely awesome cast of this movie. How is this possible, you ask, your chin covered in drool and eyes wide with hope?
It's easy: JUST GET YOURSELF TO A MALL. Because Katniss, Gale, and Peeta are going on an 8-city MALL TOUR across the US beginning on March 3—which means that you could soon be standing in the immediate vicinity of Jennifer Lawrence, Liam Hemsworth, and Josh Hutcherson.
Go ahead and do a victory hip-thrust. I know you want to.
Here's the rundown: if you live in Los Angeles, Atlanta, Seattle, Phoenix, Dallas, Miami, Chicago, or Minneapolis, then you are A LUCKY SONOFAGUN, and you can attend one of the following fan events and participate in Q&As with the cast and enter giveaways to win Hunger Games Gear! Here are the deets
Today, I'm here to announce that YOU, yes, YOU, can get up-close and personal with the fantastically good-looking and supremely awesome cast of this movie. How is this possible, you ask, your chin covered in drool and eyes wide with hope?
It's easy: JUST GET YOURSELF TO A MALL. Because Katniss, Gale, and Peeta are going on an 8-city MALL TOUR across the US beginning on March 3—which means that you could soon be standing in the immediate vicinity of Jennifer Lawrence, Liam Hemsworth, and Josh Hutcherson.
Go ahead and do a victory hip-thrust. I know you want to.
Here's the rundown: if you live in Los Angeles, Atlanta, Seattle, Phoenix, Dallas, Miami, Chicago, or Minneapolis, then you are A LUCKY SONOFAGUN, and you can attend one of the following fan events and participate in Q&As with the cast and enter giveaways to win Hunger Games Gear! Here are the deets
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