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Among 12- to 17-year-olds in 2019, 14% reported sending nude images, compared with 12% three years earlier
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Please, Do Text During the Service
By LIZETTE ALVAREZ
Organizers of an offbeat Jewish service in Miami Beach used the language
of the tech generation to try to keep young adults connected to their
roots.
Cain Accuser Got a Year’s Pay in Severance
By JIM RUTENBERG, JEFF ZELENY and MIKE McINTIRE
The National Restaurant Association gave $35,000 to a female staff member after an encounter with Herman Cain, people with knowledge of the payment said.
severance[sev・er・ance]
- 発音記号[sévərəns]
[名][U][C]((形式))
1 切断, 分離, 分割；別離；区別, 差異.
2 [U]（関係などの）断絶；（雇用の）契約解除；退職金(severance pay).
3 《法律》（法律条項などの）分割；分離.遮羞費
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德州休士頓數千名學生開學重返校園會發現一個新規定：不准「色情簡訊」－透過簡訊寄發裸體或半裸圖片、影音。管淑平
Sexting (a portmanteau of sex and texting) is the act of sending sexually explicit messages or photos electronically, primarily between cell phones.
sexting：結合sex（色情）和texting（傳簡訊）兩個字而成的新創名詞，指傳送色情內容的簡訊。
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sexting
sexting
v: the act of text messaging someone in the hopes of having a sexual
with them later; initially casual, transitioning into highly suggestive and even sexually explicit
with them later; initially casual, transitioning into highly suggestive and even sexually explicit
In a sentence: "He keeps sexting me saying how hard he is and how much he wants to tap my ass," Cindy said massaging her breasts unconsciously.
Sexting in action:
Nancy: "Wut do u want?"
Bob: "Cum over to my place now."
Nancy: "Is NE1 else there?"
Bob: "No. I need to c u."
Nancy: "K. Will b there soon."
Sexting in action:
Nancy: "Wut do u want?"
Bob: "Cum over to my place now."
Nancy: "Is NE1 else there?"
Bob: "No. I need to c u."
Nancy: "K. Will b there soon."
text[text]
- 発音記号[tékst]
[名]
1 [U]（序文・注・索引・さし絵などと区別して）本文；（画像・音声・データなどに対して）文書, 文章, テクスト；（翻訳・要約などに対して）もともとの言葉［字句］, 原文
3 （文章の）言い回し, 表現.
4 題目, 論題, 主題, 話題.
5 歌詞.
7 （教理の典拠・説教の主題としての）聖書の短い一節, 聖句；聖書の字句；聖書.
8 ＝texthand.
9 《コンピュータ
》テキスト.
［中ラテン語textum （texere織る＋-tum）＝織られたもの→作者によって織りなされた本. △TECHNIC, TEXTURE］Cain Accuser Got a Year’s Salary in Severance Pay
By JIM RUTENBERG, JEFF ZELENY and MIKE McINTIRE
Published: November 1, 2011
WASHINGTON — The National Restaurant Association gave $35,000 — a year’s
salary — in severance pay to a female staff member in the late 1990s
after an encounter with Herman Cain,
its chief executive at the time, made her uncomfortable working there,
three people with direct knowledge of the payment said on Tuesday.
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The woman was one of two whose accusations of sexual harassment by Mr.
Cain, now a Republican candidate for president, led to paid severance
agreements during his 1996-99 tenure at the association. Disclosure of
the scale of the severance further challenged his initial description of
the matter as a “witch hunt,” as did new descriptions from the woman’s
friends and colleagues of her level of discomfort at work.
Adding to the pressure on Mr. Cain, a lawyer for the second woman called on the restaurant association to release her from a confidentiality agreement signed as part of her settlement, raising the prospect that she could publicly dispute Mr. Cain’s account of what happened. The lawyer said the confidentiality agreement had left her unable to respond to Mr. Cain’s denials of any inappropriate behavior toward the women.
“He’s basically saying: ‘I never harassed anyone. These claims have no merit,’ ” said the lawyer, Joel P. Bennett of Washington, who represented the woman in her initial agreement. “And I’m sure my client would have a comeback to that.”
The precise nature of the encounters between Mr. Cain and the two women remained murky. He has said over the past two days that he joked with one of the women about her height. But he has not addressed what happened with the other woman — the one said to have received the $35,000 payment. Her friends and colleagues said she had told them at the time that she was deeply uncomfortable about the situation.
Mr. Cain’s accounts evolved over a second day on Tuesday and did nothing to help him put the situation behind him. And his shifting answers continued to raise questions about the capabilities of a campaign that seasoned party hands still view with skepticism.
Asked Tuesday night on the Fox News Channel whether he would ask the association to comply with Mr. Bennett’s request, Mr. Cain said, “I can’t give you a definitive answer on that until we consult with our attorneys.”
He added that there could be “legal implications” if the women were released from confidentiality agreements, though he did not say what those implications might be.
A spokeswoman for the restaurant association, Sue Hensley, said that Mr. Bennett “has not been in contact with the association,” and that “if we are contacted by Mr. Bennett, we will respond as appropriate.”
She did not address questions about the details of the $35,000 severance arrangement with the other woman. A spokesman for Mr. Cain, J. D. Gordon, also declined to discuss the details of the arrangement.
Asked about the encounter that, according to friends and former colleagues, had made the woman uncomfortable at the restaurant association, Mr. Gordon said, “Mr. Cain has already explained the situation in some detail in numerous public appearances.”
Four people with contemporaneous knowledge of the encounter said it had taken place in the context of a work outing during which there had been heavy drinking — a hallmark, they said, of outings with an organization that represents the hospitality industry. They spoke on condition of anonymity to avoid being publicly drawn into the dispute, and declined to provide details of the encounter, saying they did not want to violate the privacy of the woman.
Two of them said that other factors had been involved in her severance, and that other workplace issues had been making her unhappy at the association as well. But they said the encounter with Mr. Cain had added an emotional charge and contributed to the size of her payment. One former colleague familiar with the details said such a severance was not common, especially for an employee with the woman’s relatively short tenure and her pay grade.
The situation with the other woman appeared to be more in keeping with a standard settlement related to harassment allegations, though she never filed a lawsuit in a case that, one person familiar with her accusations said, included “more than one” claim of an incident that made her feel uncomfortable.
Mr. Cain has at times seemed to conflate the situations with the two women. Appearing to speak about the terms of the formal settlement with Mr. Bennett’s client on Monday, he said she had received perhaps three months of severance — this after at first saying he knew of no severance.
On Tuesday, he said in an interview with HLN that it was “in the vicinity of three to six months.”
Asked Tuesday on the Fox News Channel why his account kept changing after the report appeared Sunday on Politico.com, Mr. Cain said, “When I first heard the word ‘settlement,’ I thought ‘legal settlement.’ ”He added, “My recollection later is that there was an agreement.”
That led one of his interviewers, the conservative commentator Charles Krauthammer, to ask whether he was being “Clintonian” in his answer, a nod to former President Bill Clinton’s initial statements that he did not have sexual relations with the intern Monica Lewinsky.
“Well, it wasn’t intended to be Clintonian,” Mr. Cain said. “It was simply using the word agreement.”
Mr. Bennett made a point of referring to the arrangement with his client as a confidential “settlement agreement.” His call for the restaurant association to drop the confidentiality clause was first reported by The Washington Post.
A relative of Mr. Bennett’s client said Tuesday evening: “This is not something we asked for. This is not something we brought on.”
As Mr. Cain took question after question on Fox, his campaign sought to project a business-as-usual aura on Tuesday and released a list of 15 co-chairmen of his campaign effort in Florida. He did not join five of his Republican rivals at a candidate forum in Iowa, where Gov. Terry E. Branstad said voters would wait for facts to be revealed before reaching a conclusion.
“Iowans are pretty fair-minded people,” Mr. Branstad said.
It remained an open question how Mr. Cain would weather the political fallout from the allegations. His rivals for the Republican presidential nomination neither rallied to his defense nor offered a comment on the matter.
But several prominent conservatives stepped forward with supportive words for Mr. Cain, whose campaign said he had experienced a boost in fund-raising.
“As I watch this witch hunt of Herman Cain,” Rush Limbaugh said on his radio program Tuesday, “I’m reminded once again that whether they can do it or no, the media clearly believe that they can make or destroy any political candidate they choose.”
Mr. Cain’s rising appeal is rooted, in part, in his unconventional style and the fact that he is not seen as a typical politician. The sexual harassment allegations are providing the biggest test yet to his preparedness for office and his ability to react to a crisis.
Mr. Cain also kept a dinner appointment with a small group of Republican senators at a Washington steakhouse near the White House. He arrived through a parking garage and entered a private room in the basement of Bobby Van’s, which allowed him to bypass a cluster of reporters who gathered outside.
Adding to the pressure on Mr. Cain, a lawyer for the second woman called on the restaurant association to release her from a confidentiality agreement signed as part of her settlement, raising the prospect that she could publicly dispute Mr. Cain’s account of what happened. The lawyer said the confidentiality agreement had left her unable to respond to Mr. Cain’s denials of any inappropriate behavior toward the women.
“He’s basically saying: ‘I never harassed anyone. These claims have no merit,’ ” said the lawyer, Joel P. Bennett of Washington, who represented the woman in her initial agreement. “And I’m sure my client would have a comeback to that.”
The precise nature of the encounters between Mr. Cain and the two women remained murky. He has said over the past two days that he joked with one of the women about her height. But he has not addressed what happened with the other woman — the one said to have received the $35,000 payment. Her friends and colleagues said she had told them at the time that she was deeply uncomfortable about the situation.
Mr. Cain’s accounts evolved over a second day on Tuesday and did nothing to help him put the situation behind him. And his shifting answers continued to raise questions about the capabilities of a campaign that seasoned party hands still view with skepticism.
Asked Tuesday night on the Fox News Channel whether he would ask the association to comply with Mr. Bennett’s request, Mr. Cain said, “I can’t give you a definitive answer on that until we consult with our attorneys.”
He added that there could be “legal implications” if the women were released from confidentiality agreements, though he did not say what those implications might be.
A spokeswoman for the restaurant association, Sue Hensley, said that Mr. Bennett “has not been in contact with the association,” and that “if we are contacted by Mr. Bennett, we will respond as appropriate.”
She did not address questions about the details of the $35,000 severance arrangement with the other woman. A spokesman for Mr. Cain, J. D. Gordon, also declined to discuss the details of the arrangement.
Asked about the encounter that, according to friends and former colleagues, had made the woman uncomfortable at the restaurant association, Mr. Gordon said, “Mr. Cain has already explained the situation in some detail in numerous public appearances.”
Four people with contemporaneous knowledge of the encounter said it had taken place in the context of a work outing during which there had been heavy drinking — a hallmark, they said, of outings with an organization that represents the hospitality industry. They spoke on condition of anonymity to avoid being publicly drawn into the dispute, and declined to provide details of the encounter, saying they did not want to violate the privacy of the woman.
Two of them said that other factors had been involved in her severance, and that other workplace issues had been making her unhappy at the association as well. But they said the encounter with Mr. Cain had added an emotional charge and contributed to the size of her payment. One former colleague familiar with the details said such a severance was not common, especially for an employee with the woman’s relatively short tenure and her pay grade.
The situation with the other woman appeared to be more in keeping with a standard settlement related to harassment allegations, though she never filed a lawsuit in a case that, one person familiar with her accusations said, included “more than one” claim of an incident that made her feel uncomfortable.
Mr. Cain has at times seemed to conflate the situations with the two women. Appearing to speak about the terms of the formal settlement with Mr. Bennett’s client on Monday, he said she had received perhaps three months of severance — this after at first saying he knew of no severance.
On Tuesday, he said in an interview with HLN that it was “in the vicinity of three to six months.”
Asked Tuesday on the Fox News Channel why his account kept changing after the report appeared Sunday on Politico.com, Mr. Cain said, “When I first heard the word ‘settlement,’ I thought ‘legal settlement.’ ”He added, “My recollection later is that there was an agreement.”
That led one of his interviewers, the conservative commentator Charles Krauthammer, to ask whether he was being “Clintonian” in his answer, a nod to former President Bill Clinton’s initial statements that he did not have sexual relations with the intern Monica Lewinsky.
“Well, it wasn’t intended to be Clintonian,” Mr. Cain said. “It was simply using the word agreement.”
Mr. Bennett made a point of referring to the arrangement with his client as a confidential “settlement agreement.” His call for the restaurant association to drop the confidentiality clause was first reported by The Washington Post.
A relative of Mr. Bennett’s client said Tuesday evening: “This is not something we asked for. This is not something we brought on.”
As Mr. Cain took question after question on Fox, his campaign sought to project a business-as-usual aura on Tuesday and released a list of 15 co-chairmen of his campaign effort in Florida. He did not join five of his Republican rivals at a candidate forum in Iowa, where Gov. Terry E. Branstad said voters would wait for facts to be revealed before reaching a conclusion.
“Iowans are pretty fair-minded people,” Mr. Branstad said.
It remained an open question how Mr. Cain would weather the political fallout from the allegations. His rivals for the Republican presidential nomination neither rallied to his defense nor offered a comment on the matter.
But several prominent conservatives stepped forward with supportive words for Mr. Cain, whose campaign said he had experienced a boost in fund-raising.
“As I watch this witch hunt of Herman Cain,” Rush Limbaugh said on his radio program Tuesday, “I’m reminded once again that whether they can do it or no, the media clearly believe that they can make or destroy any political candidate they choose.”
Mr. Cain’s rising appeal is rooted, in part, in his unconventional style and the fact that he is not seen as a typical politician. The sexual harassment allegations are providing the biggest test yet to his preparedness for office and his ability to react to a crisis.
Mr. Cain also kept a dinner appointment with a small group of Republican senators at a Washington steakhouse near the White House. He arrived through a parking garage and entered a private room in the basement of Bobby Van’s, which allowed him to bypass a cluster of reporters who gathered outside.
A confidentiality clause is a legal contract provision that prohibits the disclosure of certain information. It's also known as a non-disclosure agreement (NDA).
Confidentiality clauses are used to protect sensitive information from being shared with the public or competitors. They can be included in employment contracts, settlement agreements, and other agreements between two or more parties.
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