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The people who pass through the doors of the Pikes Peak Workforce Center are your neighbors, and they are hurting. They hope for employment, and many do not much care what that might be. They have kids to feed and mortgages to be paid.
In one of the cruelest years in recent memory, 2002 added to the economic woes carried forward from 2001. Colorado Springs lost more than 7,000 jobs in the period, many high-paying technology sector gigs; however, all were depended on by those holding them, as was the overall economy.
Therefore, the Pikes Peak Workforce Center is a mecca of hope for its clients, and recent news that the PPWFC reached an agreement with Wal-Mart to provide 400 employees for the store's new supercenter, set to open after the first of the year, is manna.
However, many Wal-Mart job hopefuls are going to come away empty-handed.
"Our database of job seekers currently has over 10,000 names," said PPWFC director Peggy Herbertson.
Wal-Mart has set up a temporary hiring office at the center at 2306 East Pikes Peak Avenue. "We plan to employ 400 plus workers for various positions and shifts," said Mike Crowson, the store manager. "We have heard good things about the Workforce Center and are excited they are positioned to help us locate the skilled employees we need."
Wal-Mart and the PPWFC will hold 10 hiring events in November, and 2,000 people will apply for the 400 positions, officials said.
One of them is Eleanor S., who asked that her last name not be used. She lost her software authoring position several months ago and has been doing temporary services work when it is available. "I have two children and I've got to have a job… one that offers benefits like health insurance," she said. She and her children now live with her mother in Colorado Springs.
"This (Wal-Mart) is the best shot I've got right now, but with the number of applicants it is going to be hard to find a position," she added.
Shelly Kelly, now co-manager of the Wal-Mart on 8th Street, will be an assistant manager at the new supercenter, which opens on Jan. 22. She is part of the Wal-Mart team reviewing job applicants at the PPWFC.
"The Workforce Center contacted us, and we believed it would be a great partnership," Kelly said. "And it has been very beneficial."
The PPWFC provides a major, free service to anyone searching for employment. It serves El Paso and Teller counties, and is funded with federal dollars. It employs about 60, and they are specialists in helping others find employment.
Once registered, job seekers have a vast resource available. It ranges from computing 101, which teaches technophobes how to turn the computer on, to workshops on basic computer use. Those already computer-literate may learn new programs, be trained in website use and creation, or enroll in any of several programs to further their computational skills.
Additionally, there are classes on resume writing, interviewing skills and high-tech job searching. Those with resumes may use the center's fax machine to send their resumes, and those without resumes are free to use PPWFC computers to compose them. Once completed, center employees will review the resumes and make suggestions for improving them.
The center also convenes networking groups for job seekers. "Right now we have five executive networking groups," said Herbertson.
While only a few hundred people will find employment with Wal-Mart, Hebertson said announcements to come later this month could result in perhaps two thousand new jobs.
"In that respect, it will be a good Christmas," Herbertson added.
Job seekers can register with the PPWFC at its website at www.ppwfc.org, or in person at the center.


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At the big-name chain store where I shop a custom-decorated half-sheet birthday cake costs $35.00. I know this because I'm the official birthday-cake baker in our family, and last year my granddaughter wanted a Hello Kitty face painted on her cake. Not sure I could pull off such a request and not wanting to disappoint a four-year old I thought I might hand this one over to the pros. In a poll taken by Cafemom nearly 50 percent of those who answered were willing to spend 100 to 300 hundred dollars to throw a kid's party (not including gifts). The numbers may be a little shocking at first, but if a cake alone costs 30 dollars it's no wonder the costs are so high.
So what's a thrifty homebaker to do? In the case of Hello Kitty I did my best free-handing with craft-store cake paints and was glad my granddaughter was too happy to notice her kitty had a lopsided face and eyes that were decidedly different sizes and shapes. Of course part of the charm of a homemade item is the imperfections, but that experience got me wondering how the pros do such a good job of painting words and images on top of baked goods. It didn't take long to find the answer – a cake decorating projector.
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Thomas was a gifted artist and in his early life associated with the Devon painters Widgery, Pike and Ager. In 1886 he married Elsie Dudley of Kinver, Staffordshire whose ancestor was Chancellor to Queen Elizabeth 1. They moved to Cornwall in 1888 and bought Hingston House (now a Hotel) in the village of St. Ann's Chapel near Gunnislake. This was home for 30 years and he taught art at Pendruccumbe School in Launceston, where his daughter Marjorie was a boarder. Cam', as he was always known (his mother was one of the Scottish Campbell's), and Elise had three children, but the eldest died in infancy. His daughter, Marjorie was his constant companion throughout his life, particularly after Elise died comparatively young in 1902.
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It's time to start making some intentional changes; making prayer a priority and listening even harder.
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After reading a magazine article that insists if a woman has slept with at least 20 people that they have already missed Mr. Right, marketing executive Ally Darling (Anna Faris) begins to panic, thinking that she will be alone forever. With the help of her hunky new neighbor (Chris Evans), Ally starts tracking down all her ex-boyfriends, hoping to find her real true love while she helps him escape his latest fling. Hilarious hijinks and adventure ensues as Ally goes on her wild search for the best "ex" of her life, only to find what she is looking has been right in front of her all along.
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Brian Holman looks back to 1990
(As told to Jim Street)
Right-handed pitcher Brian Holman was acquired from the Montreal Expos on May 25, 1989, along with pitchers Randy Johnson and Gene Harris, for Mark Langston and a player to be named later (Mike Campbell). Holman appeared in 81 games (80 starts) over the next three seasons for the Mariners, compiling a 37-45 record and 3.73 ERA. One of those 80 starts came on April 20, 1999 in Oakland against the Athletics. It was the game of his career and he still remembers it as though it happened yesterday. This is his story about that game played in front of 44,911 fans on a cool spring evening in the Bay Area.
My third start of the season was the second one I had against Oakland. I had lost to them, 3-0, five days earlier at the Kingdome. Although I pitched okay in that game, there was nothing that led me to believe I would come close to pitching a perfect game.
What's so funny about it was that it was early in the season and I was still trying to get things going. I had had a good spring, good enough to be named the Opening Day starter, but the A's won the World Series in '89, and they had all those guys on offense, including (Jose) Canseco (Mark) McGwire, the Bash Brothers.
They also had (Bob) Welch and (Dave) Stewart in their starting rotation. Welch would end up winning 27 games and the Cy Young Award (in '90). I faced him in the season opener and when I lost the game in Seattle, I looked at the schedule and saw that my next start would be against them in Oakland – and Welch. I said, 'Oh, great!'
On the day of the game, I went and talked to some underprivileged high school kids in the Oakland area. I talked to them about life and baseball. Afterwards, I went to lunch at an Italian restaurant and (Oakland manager) Tony LaRussa was in there having lunch. We exchanged hellos and I went about my business getting mentally prepared for the game.
During my (pre-game) warm-ups in the bullpen, I can tell I don't have it. My fastball was not good. My changeup was not good. My curveball was not good. My slider was not breaking and I'm just struggling.
In fact, Keith Comstock, one of our relievers, told me later, "you were so bad warming up that we were taking bets on how long you were going to last and which reliever would be in the game first."
As a starting pitcher, you know one inning isn't going to make your day so you keep battling and telling yourself to keep the ball down, throw first-pitch strikes, stay ahead in the count, pound the ball in and don't throw a hanging breaking ball to anyone, especially Canseco or McGwire.
To start the game, I remember that Ricky Henderson hit a ball fairly decent to center field for an out. After that, I don't think they hit a ball hard until. . .
I got through the first inning, the second and third. Now it's the seventh inning and I strike out Jose Canseco for the third out. I get into the dugout and no one would talk to me, no one would look at me.
When I came off the mound at the end of the seventh inning, I wasn't nervous at all until I looked up at the scoreboard for the first time. I saw the zeroes. I got so focused that I never paid any attention to it. I just tried to get outs. Dave Valle was catching and we were in a rhythm. Vall would sit beside me between innings but we didn't talk much. We would briefly talk about the hitters coming up the next inning, but that was about it.
There were around 41,000 fans at the game and the reason I remember that is because while listening to the broadcast later, Dave Niehaus said, 'there are 41,000 fans standing up and they are Brian Holman fans.'
The score was 2-0 and against that lineup, you could lose a lead really quick. I wasn't even thinking about a no-hitter or perfect game. So I go out and have a 1-2-3 eighth inning, and we bat in the ninth.
I'm sitting in the dugout and the butterflies are going pretty good right about now. As it turned out, we did a double-switch in the top of the inning and we lose the DH. So I am in the lineup and am going to hit sixth in the inning.
Henry Cotto comes to bat with two outs and I'm mouthing the words, 'strike out, I don't want to hit.' He walks and I'm looking at him in disbelief. He says 'I'm sorry'. So now I am the batter and hit a grounder to Mike Gallego. He made a bad throw for an error, so now I'm on base.
It was a crazy turn of events. It would have been the third out. I ended up scoring one of the four runs that inning, so I had to run a little bit. Even then, I wasn't thinking about a perfect game. I just wanted to get out there and get three more outs and win the game.
I knew I hadn't given up any runners, but the perfect game thing hadn't sunk in. I go back out there on the mound, get the first out, then the second out. All of a sudden the entire stadium gets up and starts cheering.
When they are cheering for an opposing player and it's that loud, it's the greatest compliment an opposing player can receive. I had goose-bumps, man. It was unbelievable. I wasn't shaking, but I can't even describe it. It was like watching your child being born, the first day pitching in the big leagues, Christmas morning. It was all of those things, just an unbelievable feeling.
Ken Phelps is announced as pinch-hitter. Ken usually is not a normal first-pitch fastball hitter so when Vall calls for a first-pitch fastball I'm thinking 'get ahead and then throw two yellow hammers on him and it's going to be over.'
But I got the pitch up in the zone and he hit it out — a home run to right field. ' It was the last home run of his career. He crosses home plate and kind of jumped on home plate. That kind of made me mad. I thought, 'I know you are happy but don't show me up.' The next guy to bat was Rickey Henderson. It's now 6-1 and I can't panic. (Manager) Jim Lefebvre comes out of the dugout and walks to the mound. I remember saying, 'what are you doing out here?' He said he was trying to calm me down. I said 'I'm fine so let's get this over with.' He said, 'all right, let's go.'
I got the out, we won the game and we went back to the hotel. I woke up a 4 o'clock the next morning, sat up in bed and screamed as loud as I could. I might have woken up the entire hotel, but it made me feel better. I knew I would never have a chance to do that (pitch a perfect game) again.
The next day, Ken told me that he went to the clubhouse in the fifth inning to watch the monitors. He said, "I watched every pitch you threw and determined that if I had to pinch hit, and there was a likelihood I would, it didn't matter where the first pitch was, I was going to swing at it. I never swing at the first pitch, but I just said if he gets ahead of me 0-and-1, I'm done. I went up there hoping you would throw a fastball and you did. I swung as hard as I could and hit it."
I learned later that it was (and still is) the only time in MLB history that someone lost a perfect game with two outs in the ninth inning on a home run.
I laugh now because I am probably remembered more for not getting it than if had gotten it.
Seattle Mariners 6, Oakland Athletics 1
Game Played on Friday, April 20, 1990 (N) at Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum
Seattle Mariners AB R H RBI BB SO
Reynolds 2b 5 2 2 2 0 1
Briley rf 4 0 2 1 0 0
Cotto ph,rf 0 1 0 0 1 0
Davis 1b 4 0 1 0 0 0
Holman p 1 0 0 0 0 0
Leonard lf 5 0 2 2 0 0
Griffey Jr. cf 4 0 0 0 1 0
O'Brien dh,1b 4 1 2 0 0 0
Martinez 3b 4 1 1 0 0 1
Valle c 3 0 0 0 0 0
Brumley ss 1 1 1 1 2 0
Totals 35 6 11 6 4 2
2B: Briley (3, off Welch).
3B: Brumley (1, off Welch); Reynolds (1,off Welch).
SH: Valle (1, off Norris).
SF: Brumley (1, off Norris).
GDP: Reynolds (2, off Welch).
Team LOB: 8.
SB: Leonard (1,2nd base off Norris/Hassey).
CS: Griffey Jr. (2,2nd base by Welch/Hassey).
Oakland Athletics AB R H RBI BB SO
Henderson lf 4 0 0 0 0 1
Javier cf 3 0 0 0 0 1
Canseco rf 3 0 0 0 0 2
McGwire 1b 3 0 0 0 0 0
Hassey c 3 0 0 0 0 1
Steinbach dh 3 0 0 0 0 1
Blankenship 3b 2 0 0 0 0 0
Jose ph 1 0 0 0 0 1
Weiss ss 3 0 0 0 0 0
Gallego 2b 2 0 0 0 0 0
Phelps ph 1 1 1 1 0 0
Welch p 0 0 0 0 0 0
Norris p 0 0 0 0 0 0
Otto p 0 0 0 0 0 0
Totals 28 1 1 1 0 7
DP: 1. Weiss-Gallego-McGwire.
E: Gallego (1).
HR: Phelps (1,9th inning off Holman 0 on 2 out).
Team LOB: 0.
Seattle Mariners IP H R ER BB SO
Holman W(2-1) 9 1 1 1 0 7
Oakland Athletics IP H R ER BB SO
Welch L(2-1) 7 6 2 2 3 2
Norris 1.2 4 3 2 0 0
Otto 0.1 1 1 0 1 0
Totals 9 11 6 4 4 2
Umpires: HP – Drew Coble, 1B – Tim Welke, 2B – Jim Evans, 3B – Dale Ford
Time of Game: 2:19 Attendance: 44911
Jim Street covered the Mariners for the Seattle Post-Intelligencer (1986-98) and MLB.com (2001-10). This story first appeared in Mariners Magazine.


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While I've never tried to do this myself, some people are successful lobbying for a telework policy at their current place of a employment. This will only become more common as new government regulations and the financial realities of collocation force more and more organizations to consider the remote option.
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For many employers, hiring a remote worker can seem like a risky venture. Employers need assurance that you are worth the risk. That's why I recommend that you start your job search at home, by picking a niche that you love and doing whatever it takes to stand out in that field. I believe this is what Seth Godin calls being a "linchpin".
For me, as a software developer coming from a government contracting background, this meant becoming active in my local software interest groups; cultivating skill in an emerging technology (Ruby/Rails development); getting involved in Open Source projects; and blogging about everything I learned. Since all of these activities are also highly rewarding in their own right, it was a win/win.
Avoid the Mainstream
Large corporations tend to be set in their ways, and suspicious of change. If you want to find a company that is open to remote work, your best bet is to focus on small businesses and startups. A scrappy little startup that works with emerging technology is a lot more likely to be willing to take talent anywhere they can find it – especially if hiring remote means controlling costs. Check job listings at sites like Startuply that focus on small, innovative companies.
Consider Going Freelance
While freelance work is potentially less stable than a full-time job, clients of freelancers are much more likely to accept – or even expect – remote work than are direct employers. There is a wealth of information online about getting started as a freelancer.
Define yourself as a remote worker
Be up-front about the fact that you intend to work remotely, and emphasize that you understand the challenges involved. Don't give potential employers the idea that they'll be able to convince you to move on-site eventually – such an employer is all too likely to accept your remote status only grudgingly. Don't treat telework as a special perk in return for which you are willing to make concessions. Instead, emphasize the fact that as a workshifter, you are able to work from a space in which you are maximally effective.
Network, network, network
Finally, this can't be emphasized enough: build your network any way you can. Get on Twitter and LinkedIn. Attend conferences and local interest groups. Join a local coworking group, if there is one near you. All of my jobs have come from personal connections rather than job listings. Your social network is perhaps your most important asset when it comes to landing a dream job on a wide team.
The world of distributed teams can seem ephemeral and hard to break into when you are just getting started. But the truth is there are a large and growing set of organizations who are willing and eager to hire a motivated remote worker.
What about you? What advice do you have for someone looking to land their first job on a dispersed team?
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Glad to see this question was asking by someone. Being from a rural area the option of working remotely is scarce in this area but just getting out there and researching opportunities has really opened my eyes. Some day my goal is to become a software trainer that works remotely and I will continue to netowrk with people like yourself and hopefully get there some day.
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Payola (part 4 of 5) Comparison to Ads, PR, Merch, and Promotion
I need to point out some areas where indie bands get confused with regards to giving things to stations.
It's remarkable how many bands think that giving advertising or CDs to a station is illegal. What actually is illegal is when you are playing at a club, and you pay the sound guy to get you set up first. That's more illegal that anything a label does for a station.
ADS: Advertising a CD is legal because (1) the result of it (the commercial) is broadcast, not kept secret, and (2) the money is paid to the station (not an individual), meaning that the sales documents are available for public inspection. Even if you buy a non-broadcast remote (where the station makes an appearance at a retail store, but does not broadcast it), the result is still shown to the public. When you advertise on a station, you "own" the 30 or 60 second commercial, and you can "push" whatever you like within it, including your CD. As long as the commercial is not mistaken for regular programming, you are fine, and it is not payola (even though it promotes your music, and you are paying money to the station.)
MERCH: When you give a box of CDs (or shirts, caps, or posters) to a station, just because the CDs have value to you, does not mean it is like giving cash to the station. If the station gives them away on-air, then the CDs become part of the programming (like a refrigerator given away on a game show) and thus it is legal for you to do this... even if it does benefit you. If the station does not give the CDs away on-air, but gives them away at a live-remote instead, then that is fine too. Non-commercial stations can even sell them to the public, if it uses the money for station operations. About the only bad thing that can happen is when a person at a station sells your stuff on the street, and pockets the money. Other than that, you can even give cash to a commercial station, if they use it for on-air giveaway (it becomes part of their programming.)
PR: Buying a ad for your release in a newspaper/magazine is legal; paying a writer to write about your release, and not making this fact known to the paper, may or may not be legal (newspapers and magazines are not governed by the FCC), but it's close enough to "illegal" that we'll just say... it might be. Giving the writer a box of 30 CDs might be questionable, unless he/she is going to do a giveaway in the paper.
RETAIL: Buying shelf space for your release if perfectly legal; it's standard contracted-activity with major retail chains, and it's what every major label does with their priority releases. Interestingly, this fact is NOT made known to the public... the public thinks certain releases are "out front" because they are "better". If radio worked this way, you really would have a right to scream. But it's not just music retail that does this... every Ralph's and Delchamps and HMV and Publix grocery store works this way... everything that is "out front" is paid for. And they have NO requirement to tell you this. So don't get mad at radio.
INDIE PROMOTION: Lately, because of info available on the web, most people have been hearing about "indie deals" for the first time, and they hate the thought of it. Indie deals have been around for over 20 years, and were behind probably most of the material you grew up with on the radio. Indie deals are perfectly legal, and are a separate thing from the real meaning of "payola". While a few folks (indie promoters, bankers, doctors, mailmen) do pay people off illegally to get what they want, most do not. But paying people off illegally is separate from a legally-structured indie deal (just like illegally paying a retail person to put your CD upfront is separate from a legally-structured retail POP deal.)
That said, I'll leave details of indie-deals for a more advanced newsletter, and for now just say (like I said in my Clear Channel article) that you are putting energy in the wrong place by thinking that it's the "bad" people at the labels and radio companies that are holding your indie release back with their "deals."
Conclusion: Paying stations is not a tool for a small indie to get airplay
Bryan Farrish Radio Promotion is an independent radio airplay promotion company. 818-905-8038 www.radio-media.com. If you live in Los Angeles and want to be informed of any events, seminars or parties we do, email firstname.lastname@example.com and tell us what town you are in.
Friday, 7 March 2003 By Bryan Farrish
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Airplay 101 - Payola, part 1 of 5
Airplay 101 - Payola (part 2 of 5), Legal Definitions
Airplay 101 - Payola (part 3 of 5), How Stations React If You Try To Pay Them
Airplay 101 - Payola (part 4 of 5), Comparison to Ads, PR, Merch, and Promotion
Airplay 101 - Payola (part 5 of 5), What You Can Do
Airplay 101 - Adding Other Artists
Airplay 101 - Staion Visits
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6. Internet is the nemesis. Wifi at work: "I will work all day and let you continue on with your daily drabs in peace." Wifi while shopping: "I will make sure you suffer and torture you with the worst connection possible so you cannot buy anything."
7. Friends are foes, not friends (ad lib: Finding Nemo). They will do everything to take your eye off the game. Netflix? Wifi killer. Cuppa? Hand/mouse-clicking occupier. Biscuits? Deathly distraction.
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Dear KNZ Members,
In accordance with KNZAM1, the Coaching Council hereby invites (self) nominations from its membership for those interested in being considered for inclusion in the KNZ 2018 ATHLETE'S POOL.
All Seniors that wish to represent New Zealand at any international tournament during 2018 must be a member of the Senior Athlete Management Pool. Submissions for this pool must be received by 30th November, 2017.
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The most important historical and archeological monument from the city of Turda is the Potaissa Roman camp of the Macedonian 5th Legion, from the plateau named Dealul Cetatii. The camp was built by this legion in 168.
Potaissa was the biggest legion camp of long term operation in Dacia. The huge rectangle that it describes covers a surface of 23.4 hectares and housed 5000 militaries. The walls had 1.7-2 m width and were built from mortar and stone. In front of the walls there is a wide moat of 12 metres wide and 3 meters deep. There were 2 streets intersecting in a cross (Via Praetoria, Via Principalis) and 4 gates (Praetoria Gate, Decumana Gate, Principalis Dextra Gate, Principalis Sinistra Gate). The most important building of the camp (Principia) was the one of the command (almost 1 hectare).
Among the consolidation-conservation works carried out by the Turda Museum of History and "Babes-Bolyai" University from Cluj-Napoca, important landmarks such as: the Northwest Tower, a defense wall-tower, the "decumana" gate and the "Principia" building, are now accessible points.
The camp can be reached by car on 2 accessible roads: a road passing by the "Mihai Viteazu" National College and another one from DN1, on Romana street.


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The din only intensified when Republicans in the House and Senate agreed to include the repeal of Obamacare's individual mandate in the tax bill.
Many fear that the loss of that provision, which holds down premiums by requiring that all Americans obtain health insurance or pay a penalty, spells the beginning of the end for Obamacare itself.
Then came fall and, after weeks of rampant speculation from Maine's State House to Capitol Hill, her dramatic announcement that she would forgo a race for governor and instead stay in the U. Praised and vilified on both sides of the political divide, jubilant amid the applause yet defiant in the face of negative headlines, Sen. Because of that, she is the Maine Sunday Telegram's inaugural Mainer of the Year.
Susan Collins dominated Maine's news landscape like no other throughout one of the most tumultuous years in U. "It has been extremely challenging," Collins said during a recent interview in her Senate office in Washington, D.
"She had to jump off first," recalled King, noting the alphabetical order of the roll call, in an interview last month.Would she, as many in her newly expanded base hoped, stand up to leadership in the face of massive tax cuts for corporations and the wealthy, just as she had held her ground with Obamacare?Or would she fall in line with her party and vote out the tax cuts – which she has long supported – even as protesters occupied her offices across Maine and social media once again inundated her with pleas that she stand firm?That moment, graciously passing on the Blaine House while basking in appreciation for her pivotal role in the Senate, would prove the high point of her year.As Republicans in Congress set aside health care and shifted their focus to tax reform, Collins once again found herself under a magnifying glass.
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Pizza Hut reveals new look
Sheffield's Pizza Hut has undergone a £160,000 refurbishment, with flashes of colour and American diner inspired neon lights giving a fun, modern feel.
The re-opening of the Sheffield Hut is part of a multi-million-pound nationwide redesign programme by the casual dining company. A brand new, exciting menu will also be rolled out in the revamped Hut including new additions such as pizzas starting from £5.99, jalapeno poppers, seasoned fries, and a delicious salted caramel cookie dough.
As part of a new fast casual dining approach, the new look Pizza Hut will be offering customers a new pay at counter model, enabling them to pay for their meal on arrival and leave as soon as they want to – which will help ease the pressure for busy customers over the festive period.
All of Pizza Hut Restaurants' famous icons – including the ice cream factory, salad station and buffet – still take centre stage, but there is a new counter service model on offer for customers looking to enjoy a speedy meal.
The investment in the Sheffield Hut is part of a broader £60 million refurbishment and restructuring programme for Pizza Hut.
Located next to the Castle Square tram stop and just a few minutes' walk from the Heart of the City, Pizza Hut is a great spot to grab a quick bite after work, or before you head out to catch some entertainment in Sheffield city centre.
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Techniques and methods of valuing real property with an emphasis on income producing properties. Concepts and analytic techniques used to estimate market value of real estate will be used. Estimating the value of property using a systematic analysis to derive value using several different techniques will be considered. Technology-based tools and software are introduced. Prerequisite: RE530
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Legal and ethical issues in real estate appraisal & valuation are discussed. Students will examine relevant case studies to evaluate litigation patterns and develop litigation avoidance strategies to reduce risk. Prerequisite: REVS530
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No city compares with bottle-shaped Manhattan, the heart of nonstop New York City. Streets laid out on an easy-to-understand grid, it's a city made for walking too, with neighborhoods sporting distinct personalities: doorman residences in the upper-crusty Upper East Side; Chelsea and the West Village's gay life; the punk-rock roots of the East Village and the Lower East Side, SoHo's warehouses-turned-designer shops, Lower Manhattan's sobering World Trade Center site and crooked lanes (check out Wall Street) dating from the New Amsterdam days. Highlights fill a week, easy: the free Staten Island Ferry ride past the Statue of Liberty, a walk over the Brooklyn Bridge to that booming borough, dim sum in Chinatown, sunning in Central Park's Great Lawn, and a view of it all from the Empire State Building. Then there's the museums – the Metropolitan includes Egyptian temples and baseball cards, the recently redone Museum of Modern Art has Warhols and Van Goghs, and sorely overlooked kid-friendly Queens mainstay Museum of the Moving Image, right next to Sesame Street's studio. Events are staged year-round: Macy's Thanksgiving Parade, November's citywide marathon, Brooklyn's Coney Island's hot-dog-eating contest on July 4. Yet the key is letting the city guide you – just hit the sidewalk and go.


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On December 18, the 12th Federal Court of Belo Horizonte handed down decisions on injunctions requested by federal and certain state governments (the plaintiffs) against Samarco, Vale and BHP Billiton Brazil for cleanup costs and damages related to the breach of the Fundão tailings storage facility (TSF). The court ordered Samarco to deposit BRL 2 billion ($519 million) into a court-managed bank account within 30 days. This amount is 10% of the total amount sought by the plaintiffs, BRL 20 billion ($5.2 billion), for the fund. The amounts must be used to pay for community and environmental rehabilitation. A daily fine of BRL 1.5 million ($390 million) will be applied to Samarco for noncompliance with the deadline of January 15.
The court also imposed a restriction on existing mining and exploration concessions held by Samarco, BHP Billiton Brazil and Vale in Brazil, such that those concessions cannot be transferred or sold by the current holders. The court also gave the three companies 45 days until February 2 to present a comprehensive plan for environmental remediation and socioeconomic recovery. The judge said, if Samarco did not have enough money to pay for the cleanup, the parent companies could be held responsible.
Vale has been further implicated in the spill. The company was pumping tailings from its Alegria iron ore mine to the Fundão TSF, which failed on November 5 and sent a plume of orange slurry from the interior of Brazil down the Rio Doce 300 km to the Atlantic Ocean. The judge ruled that Vale shared responsibility rather than being an indirect polluter. Vale said less than 5% of the tailings in the Fundão TSF were from the Alegria operation. Meanwhile, the death toll from the spill has increased to 17, five civilians and 12 miners working on the Fundão TSF.


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Chief Phathekile Holomisa told City Press that rural people "need a law that will recognise all the levels of our justice administration system".
"The (bill) is being rammed down our throats by a government that is half-hearted on the issue of traditional leadership and a government that is half-hearted in its support of traditional authority. This law will never be adopted as it stands now."
Tabled in 2008, the bill was met with outrage by a number of rural organisations because of the wide-ranging powers it affords chiefs and its disregard of women.
"In most traditional courts, women cannot represent themselves and must use a male relative or friend to state their case. Women cannot even enter traditional courts held in or next to cattle kraals out of respect for ancestral spirits.
"The Constitution doesn't provide and give power to traditional leadership; it merely talks about functions and roles. As chiefs, we need something to enable us to enforce decisions taken by traditional authorities. The Constitution must be amended," Holomisa said.
The department of justice says the legislation will recognise and enhance the effectiveness of the traditional justice system, and provide for the structure and functioning of traditional courts.
The bill will also see the reinstatement of rural chiefs and homelands, but with far more widespread powers than they had under apartheid.
The Select Committee on Security and Constitutional Development has gathered about 30 public submissions on the bill. The deadline for public comment on the bill expired this week.
Rural communities, non-governmental organisations (NGOs), scores of rural women and women's organisations and even traditional chiefs have objected to the bill, saying it is anti-democratic because it places black rural people under a separate legal system that re-creates second class citizenship for those living in the former homelands.
Holomisa, who conceded that both Contralesa and the National House of Traditional Leaders were consulted in the drafting of the bill, didn't mince his words: "Yes, we were consulted on the drafting of this bill.
"But we didn't foresee the outcome would be this flawed piece of legislation. It's obvious that the people who drafted this bill have no understanding of African law and are yet again imposing a Western perspective on how traditional courts function," he said.
He argued that traditional courts function on four levels while the bill consolidates all powers in the hand of one man – the chief.
"Government and the architects of this law seem to think that a traditional leader is the same as a magistrate or a judge.
"But in African culture the traditional court and chief never operate alone, but with a council. The chief merely presides over proceedings, working with the headman and his council.
"Our highest court is the king; then there is the court of the chief who is the senior traditional leader and then below that the court of the headman and fourthly the court of the sub-headman.
"All these courts work together and not all cases go to all four levels. The TCB doesn't begin to acknowledge and respect this," Holomisa said.
Holomisa, who is also the traditional leader of the amaHegebe in Mqanduli in Eastern Cape, says the end of apartheid and the abolition of the homelands necessitates legislation because constitutional democracy has undermined the authority and power of chiefs.
"We need something, in line with the Constitution to fill the gap left when the homelands were abolished. People now simply ignore summons and findings imposed and made by traditional courts.
"People can also defy a decision taken by this court because there is no law that supports this court. There were laws in the homelands that gave authority to the courts of traditional leaders. We need such a law again and it's not the TCB."
But it is precisely the strong coercive elements of the bill that have rural communities up in arms about this bill.
Last week, during a workshop on the bill in Mpumalanga, Daphne Nkosi, executive director of the Nkomazi Advice Centre, near the Swaziland border, said there is "nothing good in the TCB for rural women".
"Traditional courts are not private. Men sit under trees and everyone can hear everything about people's private and sensitive problems while women can't talk for themselves but have to be represented by a man."
Like Holomisa, Nkosi describes the bill as a distortion: "This bill says that the chief is the only one to make rulings and that he is the presiding officer. That's not traditionally correct.
"Our courts must rely on headmen and advisers elected by the community and women must make up 50% of these advisors because that's what our constitution requires."
In response to the widespread opposition of rural people to government's attempt to empower rural chiefs through the bill, Holomisa dismissed those who oppose the amakhosi (Zulu for chiefs) as "the clever ones who feel that they would rather go to magistrates courts – those are the people who disrupt the peace and order in our rural communities".
"I'm sure that most of the people who are in opposition to the chiefs are NGOs who make it their life's mission to oppose anything that has to do with traditional leaders. These people portray chiefs and African law as backward, corrupt and undemocratic."
He said "most rural African people" support the amakhosi and the role they play in society.
Chairperson of the select committee, Tzheta Mofokeng, confirmed that his committee has set aside April 18 for briefings on the TCB.
"The provinces will be briefed and then public hearings will be held on this bill. I think the TCB has a couple of issues that will cause big problems – the biggest being the role of women.
"The gender issue in the TCB is a big problem," Mofokeng said.
Funding that made this article possible was provided by the Open Society Foundation.


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Vodafone, the world's second-biggest mobile operator, said it was considering an exchange of selected assets with Liberty Global, putting an end to speculation that a merger between the two companies was on the cards.
Vodafone has long been linked with a purchase or tie-up with Liberty, Europe's largest cable operator, as the market increasingly moves towards the combination of mobile services with fixed-line broadband.
The British company said on Friday that it was in early stage talks with Liberty regarding a possible exchange of "selected assets", putting out a statement following a media report on Thursday that the two companies were looking at merging.
"There is no certainty that any transaction will be agreed, nor is there certainty with respect to which assets will ultimately be involved," Vodafone said in its statement.
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Governments can't spend people back to work
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Extrait de : Governments can't spend people back to work, Neil Reynolds, Globe and Mail, Sep. 12, 2011
In his rousing speech to the federal Liberal caucus the other day, Bob Rae promised that his party's most important objective for the next four years would be "jobs, jobs, jobs." He specifically called for more federal spending on infrastructure projects, presumably financed by more debt. This is ominous.
When governments buy jobs, they buy expensive ones –
or pay exorbitant prices for cheap ones.
On infrastructure projects, for example, they can easily run up a million-dollar expense for a single job-year of work.
The federal government proved this thesis two years ago when it spent $50-billion on infrastructure projects that did little or nothing to end Canada's market-meltdown recession.
Citing Statistics Canada data on our GDP, quarter by quarter, Fraser Institute economists calculated:
that neither government spending ("consumption") nor infrastructure spending ("investment") contributed anything whatsoever ("a negligible role") in the country's economic turnaround.
The think tank's assessment troubled Finance Minister Jim Flaherty – as, indeed, it should have. It's presumably hard to admit that you may have spent billions of dollars for no productive purpose. But the Canadian experience wasn't in any way remarkable. The United States blew proportionately more and got the same result. On his bus tour through Middle America a couple of weeks ago, President Barack Obama boasted of it. He stopped off at a Michigan company that got a $300-million federal grant to create 150 jobs at a battery plant – which meant that Washington "invested" $2-million for each of these relatively low-skill jobs.
Mr. Obama's Council of Economic Advisers doesn't actually say the country's expenditure of almost $1-trillion created jobs. It says, rather, it "saved" jobs, a nebulous calculation that relies more on theory than on fact. (Note Mr. Rae's reference, by the way, to the task of "finding" jobs for Canadians – as though they'd been inadvertently mislaid.)
In fact, the U.S. has experienced a net loss of 2.5 million jobs during Mr. Obama's presidency – notwithstanding unprecedented public spending.
There's nothing wrong with public spending on infrastructure projects. Things do need fixing. But there's something wrong with funding it, in difficult times, with borrowed money. Why? Because stimulus spending – a phrase now banned, incidentally, by Democratic politicians in the U.S. – transforms job creation from a simple and relatively cheap process into a complicated and very expensive process.
Consider job creation in its most basic form: One person begins a business. This happens all the time and is the biggest source of new jobs. It happens so naturally, so easily and so often that no one notices. Economist Paul Davidson Reynolds says 12 per cent of Americans are engaged, at any single moment, in beginning a business – i.e., creating a job. This means that 39.6 million Americans are trying – always trying – to start businesses.
Il faut dire que les Américains l'ont dans le sang, travailler pour soi-même
est très valorisé aux États-Unis.
The typical entrepreneur apparently needs only $15,000 (U.S.) to get started and has $6,000 of personal savings to begin. The crucial factor is the entrepreneur's ability to obtain $9,000 in capital. Of those who obtain it, a third will still be in business six years later. One in 15 will have employees – between 4.2 and 6.5 of them. Each new job will have required an up-front investment of only $31,169 and zero assistance from the state.
The point is that governments have no ability to direct job-creation capital to small-time putative entrepreneurs. Many of these people find the capital they need from family and friends; some get it from credit cards (banks). Either way, the capital comes from someone else's savings. That's why the economic system is called capital-ism – though it could as accurately be called saving-ism.
This is why governments need to encourage saving rather than spending. By doing so, they make more capital available for entrepreneurial investment.
C'est pour cela que je favorisais la position du NPD.
Yvon Godin, candidat néodémocrate
Le candidat du NPD affirme que le programme de son parti est équilibré. « En arrêtant de donner aux grosses pétrolières et aux banques, et en mettant l'argent au bon endroit, on va créer de l'emploi. Les gens avec cet argent vont payer des taxes. »
M. Godin soutient qu'il faut accorder des baisses d'impôts aux petits entrepreneurs plutôt qu'aux grandes entreprises. Son parti propose de hausser le taux d'imposition des entreprises à 19,5 %, Electrolux a eu droit à des baisses d'impôts et est parti quand même. On ne dit pas de ne pas baisser les impôts des individus, mais plutôt que de donner aux grandes entreprises, il faut des baisses d'impôts pour les petits entrepreneurs.
Source : Débat électoral sur l'économie : quatre visions s'affrontent
New taxes ruled
This year, Canada will have the lowest combined corporate income tax rate of all G7 countries.
Canada's financial sector has been the greatest beneficiary
These tax cuts helped fuel a major boom in stock markets and other asset markets, but this wasn't reflected in stronger growth of the economy.
Instead of investing in productive physical capital, increasing amounts went to finance mergers, acquisitions, speculative investments and share buybacks. Even now, in the wake of the financial crisis, both financial and non-financial firms are using their excess profits and cash to finance buybacks of their shares instead of expansion of economic activity. Share buybacks raise stock prices, at least temporarily, often with the greatest benefit going to those who are paid in stock options such as the executives and managers who make those decisions.
Two facts are worth noting: First, the U.S. personal savings rate is now 5 per cent (having recovered from a pre-crisis zero per cent). Second, China's personal savings rate is 20 per cent – making it relatively more capitalist on a personal level than the U.S. or, for the moment at least, Canada.
Instaurer l'épargne va être difficile quand les taux d'intérêt frisent 0 % à la banque, et si on devait avoir des bonds d'États à 7 %, tout probablement l'ensemble des pays souverains serait sur le bord de la faillite.
Conséquence d'une décennie du crédit facile,
surendettement de l'État et du peuple.
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When a country hosts the Olympic Games, they often hope great benefits will follow for their nation. Athletes, support staff, family, and fans should bring increased tourism. Infrastructure improvements in areas such as transportation should benefit the city and country for years. All of this tourism and construction should also provide additional jobs and consumption.
On the other hand the cost of hosting the Olympic Games is enormous, with recent games costing in the range of $10 - $20 billion.
The next Winter Olympic Games are in Pyeongchang, South Korea (2018). The next Summer Olympic Games are in Tokyo, Japan (2020). Build a model that provides the dollars spent by visitors to the Olympics. Apply your model to the Summer 2016, Winter 2018, and Summer 2020 Olympic Games.
Costs and benefits of hosting vary depending on numerous factors including the size of the city, which Olympic Game (Summer or Winter), and state of the nation of the home city.For example,large citiessuch as London or Tokyo already have excellent infrastructure, but are already popular tourist destinations with full hotels. Smaller cities such as Sochi and Pyeonchang would see a huge boost in visitors, but would struggle to accommodate the crowds without significant improvements. Winter games have fewer sports, but require highly specialized venues for events such as bobsled and ski jump. Summer games have more sports, but many venues such as stadiums and pools already exist or will be heavily used by residents after the games. Industrialized nations may have better infrastructure in place prior to hosting the games, but also might see less long term impacts. Developing nations might need to do more work up front, but may see stronger long term effects (positive or negative). Create a model to rank the 8 combinations (ie. Large/Summer/Industrial, Small/Winter/Developing) by overall economic benefit to a city.
Using your ideas from Q2, create model that the United States could use to identify a city to host the Olympics (either Summer or Winter). What does your model imply about the most recent cities, Atlanta and Salt Lake City, as choices for Olympic Games?
Possible references:
The Oxford Olympics Study 2016 - http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2804554


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You NEED To Check Out Zoella's Sexy New Blogosphere Cover
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The interview, which focuses "on the part of [Zoella's] character that is often over-looked - the 26-year-ild business woman", will be in the December edition of Blogosphere magazine dotted amongst her incredible 12-page spread. Fans can expect to see some seriously sexy photographs of their fave in the magazine as well, as the video seems to show Zoe playing hommage to her iconic Calvin Snapchat selfie from earlier on in the year...
The magazine goes into more details in the video description about the time they spent with Zoe; "[She] talks about the highs and lows of her phenomenal social media career... It's an inspiring read and she shares some fascinating insights into her passions, principles and personal progression. The pictures are also utterly beautiful". We totally agree.
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The Black Ops 4 Multiplayer Beta has officially ended, and it's been an awesome experience all-around. We've been able to garner invaluable feedback that covers issues that range from stabilization, to weapons-tuning, to platform-specific issues, and more. . . thank you!
If you like to get the details on all the feedback and fixes we've addressed during both weekend of Beta take a look at our Beta recaps here – Treyarch Reddit Official. Also, feel free to weigh in with feedback by taking this survey: https://www.cvent.com/d/jgqvyy
And now you know what's coming next: the Blackout Beta in September.
For now, please don't delete your Multiplayer Beta from your console. For Blackout, we will patch an update to your existing Beta – keeping it on your console/PC will make your download time a lot faster in September.
Stay tuned to our social channels and expect to get some insight into what's next pretty soon… after all, September is only a few weeks away…
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It's West Perry, Pennsylvania's turn to be investigated by OCR for allegedly inferior softball facilties. According to this story in the Patriot-Ledger, OCR's pending investigation prompted the the school board to allocate $10,000 to replace the backstop and fences, a decision that the board says should not be interpreted as an admission of liability.
The article notes that the investigation was triggered by a complaint filed by a former coach and teacher that "the field used by the girls' softball team was in poorer shape than the field used by the men's baseball team." It is not clear whether decision to describe softball players as "girls" and same-aged baseball players as "men" was the choice of the district solicitor to whom this statement was generally ascribed, or to the reporter for the Patriot-Ledger who relayed it in the press. But either way, it underscores that female athletes in West Perry are not taken seriously. No wonder they didn't have a functional backstop or fences long enough to protect the dugout.


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New today from the Century:
- Adam Copeland challenges the satirical "Down With Evil Corporations!" photo that's been circulating: "Yes, the captions make a point,
but it's not one I find compelling. In fact, it illustrates just how
important the protests are, and how challenging it is to live in
corporate America."
- Steve Vineberg briefly reviews Sarah's Key, which isn't "an especially good movie, but it's touching and very well acted."
- Pamela Fickenscher on the coaching buzz: "Yes, please, let's have coaches. But let's not
pretend that this is a low-cost, low-relationship, low-risk affair."
Links from elsewhere:
- For real this time: a dedication of the MLK memorial
- The uses and abuses of Reinhold Niebuhr
- Myers-Briggs prayers
- Congrats to friend-of-the-Century Scott Anderson


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A Springfield pastor is seeking support from other local faith leaders on a bill that would change payday lending laws in Ohio, an industry he says harms the working poor.
Central Christian Church Pastor Carl Ruby is drumming up local support for payday lending legislation, which is expected to be released next month. He's already received support from both faith leaders and community members for the Ohio Coalition of Faith Leaders for Lending Reform, he said.
RELATED: Church leaders: Payday loans hurt Springfield
"I'm happy Springfield has taken the lead on this," Ruby said. "We were really the first city that started organizing and pulling faith leaders together. That's exciting to me."
However, the industry won't go down without a fight, Ruby said. "There will be lots of pushback," he said.
Industry leaders told the News-Sun last month that proposed changes won't work for payday lenders in Ohio.
"Our businesses can't operate under that kind of model," said Pat Crowley, a spokesman for the Ohio Consumer Lenders Association.
Crowley said his industry charges fees, not interest rates, and said their services help people pay medical bills and buy groceries, or "everyday things that people need to survive."
One in 10 adults in Ohio, or about 1 million people, have taken out a payday loan, according to a study released last month by the Pew Charitable Trusts, a national consumer protection organization. The national average is 1 out of every 20 people who have used a payday loan, Ruby said.
"Ohio is kind of a poster state," he said. "We have the least regulations and the highest per capita loan usage."
Ruby is asking that rates are fair for borrowers and viable for lenders who operate in good faith, allow reasonable time for repayments and require installment payments of no more than five percent of their monthly income. The proposed legislation will also cover car title and online loans, he said.
Last year, Ruby organized a community forum on payday lending, which included local and state leaders. Springfield has at least 18 loan centers, Ruby said, many clustered together in poorer neighborhoods. Ohio has more than 650 storefronts that offer payday loans, the Pew report says.
MORE: Springfield pastors, state lawmakers look to reform payday lending
Voters approved tougher regulations on the industry, including a 28-percent interest rate ceiling as part of the state's 2008 Short Term Loan Act. But the report says many businesses have skirted those regulations by operating as credit service organizations, which do not have fee limits.
Fees charged by the payday and car title loan industry cost Ohioans more than $500 million a year, mostly affecting residents who are already struggling financially, according to a Center for Responsible Lending report released in 2015.
In Ohio, it costs about $680 to borrow $300 for five months, the Pew report says. In Colorado, residents would pay $172.
It typically takes about one-third of a person's income to pay back a loan each month in Ohio, Ruby said.
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The Impact of Minimum Wage Rates on Body Weight in the United States
David O. Meltzer, Zhuo Chen
NBER Working Paper No. 15485
---- Acknowledgments ----
The authors would like to acknowledge the financial support of the Chicago Center of Excellence in Health Promotion Economics (P30 CDC000147-01, PI: Meltzer) from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and a Midcareer Career Development Award from the National Institute of Aging (1 K24 AG031326-01, PI Meltzer). Dr. Meltzer would also like to acknowledge salary support from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality through the Hospital Medicine and Economics Center for Education and Research on Therapeutics (CERT) (U18 HS016967-01, PI: Meltzer). The work of Zhuo Chen was done when he was a postdoctoral scholar at the Chicago Center of Excellence in Health Promotion Economics, The University of Chicago. The views expressed herein are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Bureau of Economic Research.
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