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I went to see Lynda Barry speak last night. She was amazing. I'm a particular fan of her book One! Hundred! Demons!, which was the first time I thought — hey, maybe I should learn how to draw. Last night she talked about working on something arty and how sooner or later, that asshole guy in your head — you know the one — starts saying "This is stupid. Why are you working on this? Where's this going to get you? What a waste of time." She said she imagines him as a literal asshole, like some drunk dude at a bar peering over her shoulder and saying this stuff to her. And how, in that case, she'd toss her beer on him and make him buy her another one. Or maybe I made up that last part because that's what I'd do. Not that I drink beer. Scotch, then. Anyway, check her out.
I've been a lot of talk lately. Waaaay back in July, I wrote this blog at Jeff Vandermeer's website, thinking it would shame me into actually doing what I set out to do. Basically, I want to learn to draw, by drawing comic strips featuring whatever new thing I'm learning at the time.
Funny thing about shame — it's pretty much the worst motivator. Even when it works, it takes the joy out of the thing you're trying to motivate to do… making it so you never want to do that thing again.
So I made up every excuse I could not to post this comic. I drew it in pencil, saying that when I inked it, I'd post it. I've been working on a novel, so I said… when I finish the novel, I'll post the comic. I have a new job, so I said, when the job gets easier, I'll go back to drawing. Then I stated to convince myself it wasn't really all that important anyway. I'm not an artist… what's the point? Why spend energy drawing?
Then I remembered this thing Lynda Barry said — something something joy of creating… something something fear holding you back, something something where's it going to get you? What would you say if someone asked you that about a nice bike ride? Where's that going to get you? What's the point?
So. I sat down with my favorite Papermate blue pen and scribbled this out. Just to get it out there. Just to have the joy and satisfaction of finishing it, of having it be something I did — however amateurishly. I'm posting it here. My first comic strip. I thought I'd learn to draw anthropomorphic frogs. See if you can identify the characters. I hope you can read my chicken scratch.
See… "Where's it going to get you?" is a trick question. It gets you here, just like every other damn thing.


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Released: 6th October 2009
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Lionsgate has announced the next wave of Ghost House Underground titles. DVD and Blu-ray releases of Seventh Moon, The Thaw, Offspring, and The Children will each be available to own from the 6th October. The Seventh Moon will include a commentary with director Eduardo Sanchez and actress Amy Smart, and 3 featurettes ("Ghosts of Hong Kong: The Making of Seventh Moon", "The Pale Figures", "Mysteries of the Seventh Lunar Month"). The Thaw will include 1 behind the scenes featurette. Offspring will include a commentary with writer Jack Ketchum, director Andrew Van Den Houten and producer William M. Miller, a Progeny: The Birth of Offspring featurette, webisodes, a photo gallery, and a printable script. The Children will include deleted scenes, and 6 featurettes ("The Making of The Children", "Shooting on Location", "Paul Hyett Talks Prosthetics", "Snow Set Design", "Inside Tom Shankland's On Set Lair", "Working with The Children"). The artwork is attached below:
Seventh Moon Synopsis
Quote: Seventh Moon "will send chills down your spine…" (Dread Central.com). Director Eduardo Sanchez, winner of the 1999 Cannes Film Festival Award of Youth for The Blair Witch Project, "returns with a brilliantly conceived and executed supernatural thriller" (Fantastic Fest). According to an ancient Chinese myth, on the full moon of the seventh lunar month, the gates of hell open and the dead are freed to roam among the living. While honeymooning in China, a young newlywed couple takes part in a sacred event that honors these spirits. Unfortunately their enthusiasm borders on mockery and their disagreeable charm ends in angry glances among the locals. As night falls, their tour guide abandons them in a desolate field. What they thought was a joke is becoming far too real as they fight to survive the night of the Seventh Moon.
Offspring Synopsis
Quote: They Hunt in Packs. They Feed on Flesh. They prey on innocence. †They are back with a vengeance and an insatiable appetite for human flesh. Their time has come – again. Based on the acclaimed novel and adapted for the screen by bestselling author Jack Ketchum, Offspring follows the survivors of a brutal flesh-eating clan that has re-surfaced in the once sleepy town of Dead River, Maine. †The locals are in for a rude awakening when they realize it's the same pack that the sheriff thought he killed off a decade ago. †Just when they thought the nightmare was over, they're about to discover that the fight for their lives has only just begun. The film was included in the Fangoria Weekend of Horror and Rue Morgue's Festival of Fear.
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Quote: Val Kilmer (Kiss Kiss Bang Bang) stars as a renowned environmental advocate, Dr. David Kruipen, who discovers the real horror of global warming in the frightening new film The Thaw. When Dr. Kruipen discovers the carcass of a woolly mammoth in a polar ice cap, he helms a team of four bright ecology students and leads them in a research mission at a remote Arctic station. The group uncovers information beyond their wildest dreams…and nightmares…when a pre-historic parasite revives and searches for a new warm-blooded host. Now, infected, the unsuspecting students are forced to choose between a quarantine that will result in their burial ground or a global epidemic.
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Quote: You brought them into the world. They will take you out. A family anticipates a Christmas filled with sledding, laughter and hot cocoa as they head to their vacation home in the secluded backcountry. The holiday cheer takes a fast turn for the worst after a mysterious flu-like virus sweeps through the kids. One by one the children become deadly. Amidst the suspicion, mayhem and murder, the parents must fight for survival against their own twisted offspring. The Children was declared "relentless, primal horror" (Guardian), a "taboo shattering movie" (Time Out), "Village of the Damned for the 21st Century" (IGN.com) and Steve Niles, author of the graphic novel 30 Days of Night says, "I will never go near a playground again!"
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Five graphic novels are nominated for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize.Link
"I Will Bite You! And Other Stories" by Joseph Lambert. (Secret Acres)Link
"Celluloid" by Dave McKean. (Fantagraphics)Link
"Congress of the Animals" by Jim Woodring. (Fantagraphics)Link
"Finder: Voice" by Carla Speed McNeil. (Dark Horse)Link
"Garden" by Yuichi Yokoyama. (PictureBox)Link
"Asterios Polyp," left, by David Mazzucchelli, won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for graphic novel in 2010, the inaugural year for the award. "Duncan the Wonder Dog," by Adam Hides, won the prize in 2011. (Random House; AdHouse Books)Link
Aboriginal sci-fi, madcap cartoon realms, a sexualized dreamscape and a garden of geometric surrealism – these are the unexpected ideas and fascinating settings presented by the nominees in the graphic novel category for the 2012 Los Angeles Times Book Prizes.
This is the 32nd presentation of the Los Angeles Times Book Prizes but just the third year that the graphic novel category has been included. The winners in all categories will be announced at a ceremony at USC on April 20, right before the start of the 17th annual Los Angeles Times Festival of Books, the largest book festival in the United States.
Here's a look at the nominees in the graphic novel field:
Joseph Lambert, "I Will Bite You! And Other Stories" (Secret Acres): Lambert's dazzling debut effort, "I Will Bite You!" is a collection of short works (it includes some of Lambert's self-published mini-comics and work done during his time at the Center for Cartoon Studies) and shows influences such as Chris Ware, Art Spiegelman and Terry Gilliam. The Comics Journal praised Lambert for his ability to "flip between nuanced naturalism and crazed, cartoony expressionism with great ease — sometimes in the space of the same panel."
Dave McKean, "Celluloid" (Fantagraphics): McKean is well-known for his many collaborations with Neil Gaiman ("Coraline," "Arkham Asylum" and the extraordinary covers for "The Sandman" among them), but with this solo project he has delivered "a coital masterwork…a treasure of technical finesse and sensual mystique," as Paste Magazine put it. The tale begins with a woman's discovery of a film projector and a mysterious reel that leads to a sexual dream-world. The British comics creator said he aspired to make porn that, paradoxically, leaves something to the imagination. "Pornography is usually bland, repetitive and ugly, and, at most, 'does the job,'" McKean said. "I always wanted to make a book that is pornographic, but is also, I hope, beautiful, and mysterious, and engages the mind."
Jim Woodring, "Congress of the Animals" (Fantagraphics): Woodring was nominated for a Los Angeles Times Book Prize for 2010's "Weathercraft," and now he's the category's first two-time nominee thanks to the sequel, "Congress of the Animals." The book again follows his purple-furred and forever silent character, Frank, as he leaves the grotesque and giddy world known as The Unifactor. Read About Comics called Woodring's work "amazing, disturbing, wonderful creations" and said with "Congress of the Animals" the artist "has made a huge, fundamental change to the world of Frank, and … it still feels like an old familiar friend."
Carla Speed McNeil, "Finder: Voice" (Dark Horse): Carla Speed McNeil has been chronicling the world of "Finder" since 1996. Set in the far future, life inside domed city-states is defined by clans, castes and corporations, but beyond the dome it's the hunter-gatherer existence – the weave is a sort of "aboriginal science fiction," as the Louisiana native calls her work. "Voice" is crafted as an entry point for new readers and follows Rachel Grosvenor as she begins clan conformation to ensure security for her mother and sister. Online magazine Strange Horizons called it "bar none, the best SF comic being published today."
Yuichi Yokoyama, "Garden" (Picturebox): Japanese artist Yokoyama's art is angular and black-and-white, but the story is a dream-logic meander through a garden of machines, massive landmarks and Dada geometry. Known for sparse dialogue (he calls his work "neo-manga"), Yokoyama studied oil painting before delving into comics. New York Magazine described "Garden" as an "architectural fantasia … [that] looks like a geometry textbook from an alternate, 6-D universe."
David Mazzucchelli's "Asterios Polyp" won the prize in the first year of the graphic novel category, and then Adam Hines and his "Duncan the Wonder Dog" took home the award last year. Tickets for the 2012 Los Angeles Times Book Prizes ceremony in USC's Bovard Auditorium are now on sale for $10 – but Hero Complex readers can enter a promo code to get a 50% discount: Click "enter promotional code"and type BPHERO before starting your ticket order.
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Paul's second response to the teaching that threatens Colossian faith offers a description of the Christian life in four parts. After introducing the essential structure of his ethics (3:1-4), Paul goes on to characterize what a life in Christ is not (3:5-11) before then describing what characterizes life in Christ both within the congregation (3:12-17) and within the home (3:18--4:1).
Paul draws his ethical materials from the Jewish synagogue. On the surface, there is really nothing distinctively Christian about avoiding the vices enumerated in 3:5-11 or pursuing the virtues of holy living referred to in 3:12-17. Moreover, the household code enlisted in 3:18--4:1 generally arranges the various relationships within a family according to prevailing standards, even those found within the pagan world. For Paul, the moral content of the believer's life has not changed with the coming of Christ. The will of a good and holy God did not change with Christ's coming. The real issue, therefore, is one of moral competency: believers are made capable by God's grace to do God's will (compare Rom 12:1-2). The contrast between vice and virtue that Paul draws in this passage is yet another, more moral way of speaking of the believer's conversion. In this sense, then, we can speak of Pauline ethics as "missionary ethics," since virtuous character presumes conversion, and conversion presumes the preaching of the gospel.
When God rescues us from the kingdom of darkness and transports us into the kingdom of God's triumphant Son, the natural result is for us to "put off" vice and "put on" virtue. In this sense, Pauline ethics is descriptive of transformed life rather than prescriptive: the logical, even expected yield of "being in Christ" is to live in accordance with God's will (Wall 1979). The indicatives of God's salvation are fully integrated with the imperatives of Christian existence, so that Paul does not speak of one without the other. To embrace the truth about God's grace is to receive God's grace and to be empowered for living according to God's will (1:9-10).
Of course I am tempted to make excuses for my disobedience. Most of us appeal to the frailties of our fallen humanity or the utter secularity of our culture to explain why we do not follow Christ. Worse, we may construct a theology of grace that considers perfected love of God and neighbor a real impossibility for us; divine grace is not able to transform us into new creatures after all! This is precisely what Paul argues against. For him, the problem with bad theology is that it creates a faulty perception of the real world. The real world is not the marketplace or the town square, fashioned by secular lies and selfish pretensions, but "the kingdom of the Son" (1:13), which is defined by "the word of truth, the gospel" (1:5). The Son's kingdom is the real world because only there will God's grace redeem us from our broken condition to remake us into new persons (3:10) in the image of the One who created us.
Paul also presumes, with other religious Jews, that bad theology will have its moral effect. Already we know that the sophistry championed by some in the Colossian church has resulted in a spurious holiness which supposes that "false humility and . . . harsh treatment of the body" (2:23) constitute a worshipful response to God. In Colosse, then, the issues at stake are not only a false theology that replaces the redemptive importance of Christ's work with "spiritual beings" and "human traditions," but ethical matters as well.
For this reason, I am inclined to interpret Colossians 3:1--4:1 as an integral part of Paul's polemic, setting forth the moral flip side of his theological argument against the "hollow and deceptive philosophy" that threatens the Colossians' confidence in Christ as the only mediator between God and humanity. While the cast of this part of the letter is less polemical, I think Paul has shaped the timeless truths of his moral exhortation into a specific response to the Colossian crisis.
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Mardi Gras means fat Tuesday, the culmination of the season between Christmas and Lent. Fat Tuesday falls on the day before Ash Wednesday, the first day of Lent.
That catchy Cajun French phrase that we all know or have heard at this time of the year literally translated means, "Let the good times roll!"
If you've spent time over the years watching the myriad of food and cooking shows on television as I have, you've undoubtedly heard chefs refer to the "holy trinity." In this case, they are referring to the simple trinity of ordinary vegetables known as mirepoix.
Salads have always been a part of our meals, especially at dinner. When you think of the word salad, an image of leafy greens probably comes to mind, but salad is just a general term that can refer to just about any dish that is dressed or tossed together.
Alternative salads
Tuna salad, potato salad, pasta salad, chicken salad, fruit salad and veggie salads are all easy to make. As salads are often dishes brought to potlucks or picnics, they make for great travel-friendly side items.
Stir-frying is one of the best techniques to produce dishes with vivid colors, vibrant flavors, and varied textures. It combines vegetables and protein in a single dish, it's relatively healthy, and it requires no accompaniment other than rice or noodles.
In addition, it's a great way to use up produce that has been in the fridge for a couple days and that hunk of steak or pork that you cooked a few days ago that you haven't gotten around to eating yet.
One of my favorite roasts to cook at this time of the year is a sirloin tip roast. It is a fairly tough cut of meat that benefits from various methods that cook the meat slowly or otherwise trap the moisture inside.
The most common method is oven roasted. Other methods commonly used are grilling or using a slow cooker or a pressure cooker.
In the past few years, Mexican cooking has been increasing in popularity. Most dishes are usually made with various types of fruits and vegetables, such as corn, tomatoes, avocados, chilies, beans and zucchini.
Classic tortilla soup is simply made with some good chicken broth combined with roasted tomatoes, white raw onion, garlic and chilies. Tortillas are then cut into strips, fried and served on top or blended in the soup.
I love cooking with balsamic vinegar, from the less inexpensive varieties used in
cooking and dressings to a few drops of the very best aged balsamic (i.e. expensive!) with some well-aged Parmesan (see below), a traditional combination to end a perfect meal.
Balsamic from Modena and Reggio, Italy, are the only true balsamic vinegars in the world. The vinegars produced in those provinces in Italy are truly the finest one can buy.
With our weather beginning to cool down into winter, I start thinking about flavorful and hearty soups that are perfect for this time of the year.
Many of my favorite soup recipes can be successfully adapted to a slow cooker or crockpot if you just follow a few simple rules. Try not to lift the lid of the slow cooker while cooking. Peeking will only increase the cooking time by 20 to 30 minutes.
Do any of you have any special foods that you eat on New Year's Day to bring good luck? We always have pork and sauerkraut on New Year's Day. I don't exactly know why. This is just a tradition passed down from generation to generation. Pork and sauerkraut is always the first meal of the year. It's supposed to bring good luck throughout the year. Again, I have no idea why.
Entertaining for the holidays? Make that gathering a little more festive and special by extending the holiday spirit to the drinks and refreshments you offer your guests.
An age-old winter custom is the drinking of wassail, which is drunk at Christmas time, New Years and the Twelfth Night. Wassail is a greeting, meaning "Be in good health!"
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A recent US News and World Report headline caught my eye. The title was "8 Ideal Jobs for M.B.A. Grads". I was curious and read it. The top job shocked me. The report says that the #1 ideal job for a recent MBA grad is DBA. The second and third most ideal jobs shocked me as well. #2 was 'web developer' and #3 was 'computer systems analyst'. Those rankings shocked me as well and made me consider the following three questions. First, is being a DBA really and truly the #1 ideal job for an MBA? Second, is getting an MBA truly beneficial to a DBA who wants to hone their craft and stay in the profession? And third, what is the relative value of getting an MBA for a technology person in general from a career path perspective. These are complicated topics, and I can't address them in full in a single blog post. But, I'll share some perhaps contrarian thoughts and promise to revisit this topic again soon.
You can read the full report here:
I'm sure this will earn me some flame mail from folk's technologists who have recently completed an MBA or are in the midst of doing so. But, between you and me, and I guess the rest of the internet. I don't think getting an MBA is generally a good investment for technologists who are looking to further their career. I do think that having a solid understanding of the business side of the problem is necessary for any technologist to excel. Too many technologists strive for elegant and wonderful solutions 'just because' without really thinking through what the business actually needs. Technology in business exists to serve the business needs not the other way around. And, I do think that most good MBA programs teach skills that can be incredibly valuable to many technologists. But getting an MBA from a good school will probably cost you 50K on the very low end to easily 100K and frankly there a cheaper ways for technologists to get a great business education.
*** Begin min rant*** I'm about to go on a min rant. But people who know me well (as well as dozens of people who have happened to be stuck in line with me at the wrong time when I feel like talking about this subject J) know that I think the ROI for college and university education in general is broken. Getting a degree costs way too much money relative to the value offered. Disruption and innovation within 'higher education' is all around us. Countless sites such as the Khan Academy are doing innovative things as they use technology to support learning, all for free. Countless world class institutes of learning such as MIT, Stanford, Cal Tech, and Oxford, are now offering vast amounts of their classes online, for free, albeit without credit being offering towards a degree. I think the ROI for college is broken and I think the college model my kids experience in a decade will be vastly different, and less expensive than it looks today. *** End mini rant***
Getting back to the questions at hand:
1. Is DBA the #1 idea job for a recent MBA
2. Does an existing DBA need an MBA to get ahead?
Frankly, I don't know anyone who went for an MBA thinking 'I sure do want to be a DBA when I graduate". I don't know anyone who is a DBA today who went to school for an MBA with the express intent of getting a DBA job. And while I know several DBA's who have gone to school for a MBA, I don't know any who got their MBA with the intention of remaining DBAs.
Frankly, the entire concept of someone intentionally getting an MBA in context of pursuing an ideal job as DBA seems silly to me. Now, before everyone I know hates me. I do know many DBA's who have business backgrounds and how in fact have MBAs. But they didn't go to school thinking 'I want to be an MBA when I grow up'. They gravitated to being an MBA because they loved the technology and they love data. Also, to be clear, I'm not saying that an MBA isn't valuable. But I don't believe the value of the MBA, especially for a DBA, is worth the necessary investment of time and cost.
Does an existing DBA need an MBA to get ahead? Umm. No. Does a DBA need a good sense of their business to excel? Absolutely. But investing 2 years or more of your life in plus upwards of 100K to enhance your DBA career simply isn't a good ROI. And any MBA should be able to tell you that.


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February 14, 2013 17:00 ET
TORONTO, ONTARIO--(Marketwire - Feb. 14, 2013) -
Attention Business Editors:
Pizza Pizza Royalty Corp. (the "Company") (TSX:PZA), which owns the Pizza Pizza and Pizza 73 Rights and Marks, released financial results today for the fourth quarter and year ended December 31, 2012.
Full Year 2012 highlights included:
Fourth Quarter highlights included:
In the fourth quarter, System Sales reported by Royalty Pool restaurants increased 3% to $127.3 million from $123.6 million in the 2011 comparable quarter. For the year, System Sales increased 2.9% to $481.5 million from $467.9 million in the prior year.
The Company's two market-leading brands generated positive same store sales growth ("SSSG") of 3.2% in the fourth quarter and 2.7% for the full year over the comparable periods last year. SSSG is the key driver of shareholder yield growth.
For the fourth quarter and year, restaurant sales at both brands benefited from an increase in the average customer cheque and an increase in customer traffic counts.
Paul Goddard, CEO, Pizza Pizza Limited, said: "Throughout 2012, we focused our efforts on major initiatives that provided consistent sales growth. In addition to improving upon our quality menu offerings, we made excellent progress in the areas of consumer satisfaction and technological advances. In this competitive and challenging environment our convenience factor is a major advantage in keeping our brands a step ahead of the competition, as shown by our latest "iPad" ordering app."
For tax purposes in 2012, the distributions by the Company's predecessor, Pizza Pizza Royalty Income Fund (the "Fund"), are considered 32.5% return of capital and 67.5% taxable eligible dividend. Beginning in January 2013, the Company's dividend will be considered a taxable eligible dividend without a return of capital component.
For the fourth quarter, distributions were $3.9 million or $0.18 per share and the Company reported an 86% payout ratio. For the year, the Company declared distributions of $15.6 million, or $0.7136 per share and a 90% payout ratio.
In January 2013, the Company announced a 4.2% increase to its monthly dividend, thereby increasing the annual dividend to $0.75 from $0.72. This increase follows a May 2012, increase of 2.7% to $0.72 from $0.70.
The Company's working capital reserve increased $635,000 during the quarter and increased $1.8 million for the year. At December 31, 2012, the balance was $4.6 million. The reserve is available to stabilize dividends and fund other expenditures in the event of short- to medium-term variability in System Sales and, thus, the Company's royalty income. With this reserve now in place, going forward, the Company will target a payout ratio closer to 100%. The Company does not have capital expenditure requirements or employees.
For the year ended December 31, 2012, the Company reported current income tax expense of $3.8 million compared to $3.7 million for 2011. The increase is due to increased taxable income offset by a decreased tax rate. Of particular note is that the Company's 2012 adjusted accounting earnings from operations before income taxes differs significantly from its taxable income due largely to the tax amortization of the Pizza Pizza and Pizza 73 Rights and Marks. The amount of the tax amortization deducted is based on a declining basis and will decrease yearly.
This tax amortization deduction and certain other minor tax deductions resulted in an effective tax rate of 19.21% compared to the Company's applicable statutory tax rate of 26.5% (28.25% for 2011).
On December 31, 2012, the Fund completed its conversion from an income trust to a dividend-paying corporation (the "Conversion").
Under the Conversion, the trust units of the Fund held by unitholders of the Fund were transferred to the Company in consideration for common shares of the Company ("Shares") on the basis of one Share for each unit so transferred. As a result, on December 31, 2012, immediately after the completion of the Conversion, there were 21,818,392 Shares issued and outstanding.
The key terms and economics reflected in the Pizza Pizza Royalty Limited Partnership (the "Partnership") Agreement and all other agreements between Pizza Pizza Limited ("PPL") and the Partnership were not affected by the Conversion.
As previously announced, the number of restaurants in the Company's Royalty Pool increased to 694 from 690 on the January 1, 2013 Adjustment Date.
During the fourth quarter, PPL opened eight restaurants four of which were traditional Pizza Pizza restaurants and four were non-traditional Pizza Pizza locations; five non-traditional locations were closed. This brings the total number of Pizza Pizza restaurants to 605. There was no change in Pizza 73 restaurants open during the quarter, so the total number of Pizza 73 locations remained at 89.
During the year, PPL opened ten traditional restaurants and eleven non-traditional Pizza Pizza locations; seventeen non-traditional locations were closed. Of the ten traditional PPL restaurants opened, three were in Nova Scotia, three in Manitoba, three in Quebec and one in Ontario. One Pizza 73 non-traditional location opened and one non-traditional location closed during the year.
PPL anticipates increasing the number of restaurants in its portfolio by approximately 3% in 2013.
The following tables set out selected financial information and other data of the Company and should be read in conjunction with the consolidated financial statements of the Company. Readers should note that the 2012 results are not directly comparable to the 2011 results because of an extra day of royalty revenue received from PPL in 2012 due to the leap year and the fact that there are 690 restaurants in the 2012 Royalty Pool compared to 695 restaurants in the 2011 Royalty Pool.
(1) Same store sales growth ("SSSG") means the change in annual gross revenue of a particular Pizza Pizza or Pizza 73 restaurant as compared to sales in the previous year, where the restaurant has been open at least 13 months. Additionally, for a Pizza 73 restaurant whose restaurant territory was adjusted due to an additional restaurant, a Step-Out Payment may be added to sales to arrive at SSSG.
(2) The Company, indirectly through the Pizza Pizza Royalty Limited Partnership (the "Partnership"), incurs administrative expenses and interest expense on the $47,000 outstanding bank loan (2011 - $47,000). Interest expense on the bank loan, including an adjustment to earnings of $249 for the cash paid to draw down the interest swap instrument termination cost for the three months and year ended December 31, 2012 was $524 and $2,087 respectively (2011 - $512 and $2,299).
(3) The Ontario Superior Court of Justice approved the Conversion, as defined below, which became effective on December 31, 2012. Total Conversion costs incurred in 2012 were $350 and will not reoccur in 2013.
(4) Represents the distribution to PPL from the Partnership on Class B, Class C and Class D units of the Partnership. The Class B and D units are exchangeable into Shares based on the value of the Class B Exchange Multiplier and the Class D Exchange Multiplier at the time of exchange as defined in the amended and restated Pizza Pizza license and royalty agreement (the "Pizza Pizza License and Royalty Agreement") and the amended and restated Pizza 73 license and royalty agreement (the "Pizza 73 License and Royalty Agreement"), respectively, and represents 26.5% of the fully diluted Shares at December 31, 2012 (2011 - 26.5%).
(5) The Company indirectly earned interest income on the $30,000 loan to PPL, with interest income accruing at 6% per annum, payable monthly. The loan was paid in full at December 31, 2012 by PPL delivering 3,000,000 Class C units of the Partnership to the Pizza Pizza Holdings Trust (the "Trust") in accordance with the amended and restated exchange agreement (the "Exchange Agreement").
(6) "Adjusted earnings from operations" and "Adjusted basic earnings per Share" are not recognized measures under International Financial Reporting Standards ("IFRS"). References to adjusted earnings from operations and adjusted basic earnings per Share are to be determined in accordance with IFRS applicable to the financial statements before amounts for deferred taxes, termination costs on derivative financial instrument, cash paid to draw down the interest swap instrument termination cost, and change in fair-value of exchangeable units, as included in earnings (loss) for the period. The Company believes that, in addition to earnings, adjusted earnings is a useful supplemental measure in evaluating its performance as it provides investors with an indication of operating earnings. Investors are cautioned, however, that this should not be construed as an alternative to earnings (loss) for the period as a measure of profitability. The method of calculating adjusted earnings (loss) for the purposes of this report may differ from that used by other issuers and, accordingly, it may not be comparable to that used by other issuers.
(7) "Basic earnings per Share", as reported in the consolidated financial statements, include the non-cash amounts for "Change in fair value of exchangeable units", "deferred tax expense", less the cash repayments made on the interest rate swap provision during the period.
(8) System Sales (as defined in the License and Royalty Agreements) reported by Pizza Pizza and Pizza 73 restaurants include the gross sales of Pizza Pizza company-owned, jointly-controlled and franchised restaurants, excluding sales and goods and service tax or similar amounts levied by any governmental or administrative authority. System Sales do not represent the consolidated operating results of the Company but are used to calculate the royalties payable to the Partnership as presented above.
(9) As a result of the Conversion, the exchangeable Class B and Class D units are no longer considered liabilities as they are no longer convertible into puttable Fund units. Therefore, they were reclassified to equity based on their conversion date carrying value.
A copy of management's discussion and analysis and audited financial statements of the Company for the quarter and year will be available at www.sedar.com and www.pizzapizza.ca on or before February 15, 2013. The Company will host a conference call to discuss the results on Friday, February 15 at 9:00 a.m. Eastern Time. The call can be accessed by dialing 416-640-5925 or 1-800-711-9538. A replay will be available until Friday March 1, 2013 by dialing 647-436-0148 or 1-888-203-1112 and entering the reservation number 2026645.
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Certain statements in this report may constitute "forward-looking" statements which involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors which may cause the actual results, performance or achievements to be materially different from any future results, performance or achievements expressed or implied by such forward looking statements. When used in this report, such statements include such words as "may", "will", "expect", "believe", "plan", and other similar terminology. These statements reflect management's current expectations regarding future events and operating performance and speak only as of the date of this report. These forward-looking statements involve a number of risks and uncertainties. The following are some factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those expressed in or underlying such forward-looking statements: competition; changes in demographic trends; changing consumer preferences and discretionary spending patterns; changes in national and local business and economic conditions; legislation and governmental regulation; accounting policies and practices; changes in the Company's distribution policy, tax position and availability and use of deductions and related structuring decisions; and the results of operations and financial condition of the Company. The foregoing list of factors is not exhaustive and should be considered in conjunction with the other risks and uncertainties described in the Fund's 2011 Annual Information Form. The Company assumes no obligation to update these forward looking statements, except as required by applicable securities laws.
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Karen Merchant reflects on what the holidays mean to her.
By Karen Merchant
Faith, family, friends and fellowship. That is what I think about during this time of the year. Every year when November rolls around I begin to think about my situation in life and why I am where I am and the people and circumstances that have helped get me here.
I think that everyone needs a "faith" of some kind. This can be
a "faith" in a higher being which religion can give you. It can be a "faith" in a place that you are in in your life or the people that occupy that place with you.
As long as this "faith" helps you to face each day with hope. During this time of year my "faith" in Jesus Christ gives me hope for every day. I like to reflect on my "faith" and remember to give thanks for all of my blessings.
My "family" is important to me all of the days of the year but I
especially like to remember them during this time of the year. I love to plan for the gift that will make them smile and know that I love them. We all know that "family" can have lots of definitions. It just important that we focus on our "family" and thank them for all that they do for us.
As I walk through my day to day life my "friends" are right there with me. I am very blessed with wonderful "friends" who support me in all that I do. I appreciate their constructive comments and their willingness to experience life as I do. At the time of the year I like to tell them how important they are to me and how much they add to my life.
"Fellowship" is the joining together of people for a like cause and
celebrating. At this time of year celebrating abounds. We gather
with family and friends to rejoice over the past year and get ready to face the new year with hope. Humans need each other. We need to feel the contact of other humans to feel whole. Some people like lots of interaction, others just need a little but either way we need each other. This is the time of the year where we celebrate and embrace that need.
This is the time of the year to reflect, celebrate, and hope with
our "family" and "friends." It is a time of year where "faith"
and "fellowship" get us ready to face the new year.
Have a "faith" filled Holiday Season in "fellowship" with your "friends" and "family"
KAREN MERCHANT retired in 2005 after 30 years as a teacher at Palo Community Schools. She now fills her time with volunteering for many organizations. Karen has been a member of the Ionia County Peace Community since its inception.


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For the second straight season, Old Colony League champion Barnstable finds Dual County League Large champ Lincoln-Sudbury blocking its path to a Super Bowl.
As Yogi Berra likes to say, it's d�j� vu all over again.
For the second straight season, Old Colony League champion Barnstable finds Dual County League Large champ Lincoln-Sudbury blocking its path to a Super Bowl.
The first hurdle Barnstable must clear comes tonight in the Division 1A semifinals. Kickoff at an expected snowy Taunton High School is 5:15 p.m.
The 10-0 and top-ranked Red Raiders, who haven't been to a Super Bowl since 1995, are hoping for a better result than what the 2011 playoff matchup delivered. That was a 14-13 Lincoln-Sudbury victory in which injury-riddled Barnstable built a 13-0 halftime lead and then watched it dissolve at the hands of the physical Warriors.
"Coming that close and not quite finishing is an incentive," Barnstable second-year coach Chris Whidden said. "We can't change last year's results. But to get a chance at the same team at the same site, you can't ask for more than that. Although I don't think we need any extra motivation at this point."
The winner advances to Saturday's 1:30 p.m. Division 1A Super Bowl at Gillette Stadium to take on the winner of tonight's Everett-Masconomet clash. Barnstable hasn't been to a Super Bowl since 1995.
Lincoln-Sudbury cruised through the Dual County Large with a 4-0 league mark. The only blemish on its record was a 10-6, non-league defeat at the hands of Dual County Small champion Wayland, a team that lost to a strong Nauset team during the regular season, 13-3.
When observers talk about Barnstable, they start with its prolific 37.6 points-per-game offense, tops in Eastern Mass.
Red Raider senior quarterback Nick Peabody, who already has an offer from Princeton in his pocket, has thrown 30 touchdown passes — 13 to senior Dylan Morris and 10 to senior Tedaro France, who has run for six more TDs.
Seniors Manny Perry and Jamie Burke are also popular Peabody targets.
However, the Raiders are not a one-dimensional spread passing attack. They've shown a strong running game as well, with Peabody and junior Hayden Murphy the primary ball carriers.
"That's a lot of weapons to defend," said Whidden. "Our philosophy all year has been, take away what you want, you can't take away everything.
"Whatever you give us, we'll take. If you put seven or eight in the box, we'll pass. If you drop a lot into coverage, we'll run. We have the luxury as a coaching staff to do that."
They may need that offensive diversity with a stormy forecast looming.
"It looks like there could be some weather coming through and that could hold the scoring down," Whidden said. "It could affect the game plan a little."
But Barnstable has played in messy weather this season. Its win over then No. 1 Everett came in a wind-driven rain and the Raiders showed they could gut it out.
"Playoff games are usually lower scoring," the Barnstable coach said. "At this stage, every yard is harder to get."
Barnstable has proven to be a team in which each unit has saved the other in this so-far perfect season. The offense bailed out the defense in a wild, 46-33 win over Billerica; the defense turned the trick in a physical 19-14 victory over New Bedford.
The Red Raider defense is a much better unit than it was at this stage last year.
"It's a lot of the same starters and they have confidence in each other," Whidden said. "It has not been a season of having to score each time.
"Our defensive line (Jason Frieh, Dereck Pacheco, John Eldredge, DJ Gonsalves) has done a great job occupying blockers and letting the talent we have at linebacker run free. Bryan Hardy and Andrew Ellis (inside backers) are as intelligent a pair of linebackers as you can get."
Senior captain Ryan Litchman and junior Robbie Stuart have manned the outside linebacker slots, and Whidden said the play of the secondary (CBs Derek Estes and France, safety Kevin Hardy) has improved.
Lincoln-Sudbury, which lost to Everett in last year's 1A Super Bowl, plays a physical game on both sides of the ball.
A knee injury took away top running back Brian Carroll for part of the season (he returned on Thanksgiving), but bruising 5-11, 195-pound senior Chris Giorgio, a three-year starter, and senior Malik Layne have kept up the Warriors run game.
Senior quarterback Henry Guild, a fine athlete who played some running back last season, has also been adept at managing the games.
Defense is what earned L-S the playoff berth this season — it has given up a miniscule 8.1 points per game. The Warriors play a lot of the same tough kids both ways, including Giorgio.
"They are similar to our defensive unit," Whidden said. "They come at you hard, try to wear you down. That's their style, both offensively and defensively."
For those Barnstable fans encouraged that L-S's only loss came at the hands of Wayland, a spread team, Whidden throws out a caution.
"It was a low-scoring game (10-6). Lincoln-Sudbury wasn't able to run the ball much on them, but on defense they contained Wayland's weapons."
The one-point difference in last year's playoff matchup came on a missed extra point, and that again has to be a concern for Whidden. Kicking has been a problem since Terrence Mudie went out with an injury. Pacheco won the job in practice before the Falmouth game, but then made only 3 of 6 PATs.
"At this stage every point is vital," said Whidden. "Those PATs are huge, as you saw last year. Dereck was kicking well in practice (and) his kickoffs in practice were all inside the five. Kicking is like golf, the mental part is big. I hope those were just first-game jitters."
All the analysis aside, Whidden is thrilled his players get another shot at the big stage.
"It says a lot about the kids I've been lucky enough to coach. Talk about getting put in a great spot for the first two years as a head coach, with kids like this.
"They're not lucky to make it this far. They've earned everything they've got."


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THE BODYGUARD Advance Hits 4 Million Pounds in London - A Hit Says Daily Mail
According to the Daily Mail, The Bodyguard, currently playing at the Adelphi Theatre starring Heather Headley and Lloyd Owen, now boasts an advance of more than £4 million.
Read the original report here.
Thea Sharrock's production of new musical The Bodyguard, opened on 5 December 2012 in London. Based on Lawrence Kasdan's 1992 Oscar nominated Warner Bros. film, The Bodyguard, with book by Alex Dinelaris, stars Headley as Rachel Marron and Owen as Frank Farmer in the roles made famous on film by the late Whitney Houston and Kevin Costner.
Joining Headley and Owen are Debbie Kurup (Nicki Maron), Mark Letheren (The Stalker), Ray Shell (Bill Devaney), Nicolas Colicos (Tony Scibelli), Mark McKerracher (Herb Farmer), Sean Chapman (Sy Spector), David Page (Rory Fryman) and Oliver Le Sueur (Ray Court).
Former Secret Service agent turned bodyguard, Frank Farmer, is hired to protect superstar Rachel Marron from an unknown stalker. Each expects to be in charge; what they don't expect is to fall in love. A romantic thriller, The Bodyguard features a whole host of irresistible classics including Queen of the Night, So Emotional, One Moment in Time, Saving All My Love, I'm Your Baby Tonight, Run to You, I Have Nothing, I Wanna Dance With Somebody and one of the greatest hit songs of all time - I Will Always Love You.
With designs by Tim Hatley, lighting by Mark Henderson, sound by Richard Brooker and video designs by Duncan McLean. Choreography is by Arthur Pita, orchestrations by Chris Egan with musical supervision by Mike Dixon. The Bodyguard is produced by Michael Harrison and David Ian.
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VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis has canceled a second day of private audiences and his morning Mass because of a minor illness.
A Vatican spokesman, the Rev. Ciro Benedettini, said the unspecified illness was mild and that Francis would still preside over his general audience Wednesday.
Francis has had a whirlwind few weeks, travelling to the Mideast and hosting the Israeli and Palestinian presidents for a Vatican prayer summit Sunday. By Monday, he came down with a bug, and took Tuesday off to rest.
Some Vatican officials have privately expressed concern at the frenetic pace of the 77-year-old pope, who only has one full lung.
While past popes took summers off and escaped Rome's heat for the cooler climes of Castel Gandolfo, Francis has chosen to stay in Rome and work.


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AUBURN — A dump truck driver drove with an upright dumping bed into a utility pole, taking down power lines on Route 20 near Prospect Street and TJMAXX about 3:30 Tuesday morning. The truck rolled over, and the driver was trapped in the vehicle with live wires on top of it until National Grid cut the power.
The driver was not injured, Police Chief Andrew J. Sluckis said.
Route 20 was closed for about six hours while the accident was investigated by Auburn police and the state police truck team, and while power, cable and phone crews repaired equipment to restore service.
Heather M. Hennessey, 34, of 10 Railroad Ave., Millbury, was driving the dump truck owned by Jamie Remillard of 4 Peter St., Uxbridge, at the time of the accident. Mrs. Remillard is a subcontractor for the state Department of Transportation repaving project on Route 20.
Trooper Scott Maguire cited Ms. Hennessey for a commercial vehicle height violation, a license restriction (corrective lens), and defective equipment. The truck was supposed to have an alarm to let the driver know the dumper was in the upright position, but the alarm was disconnected, according to authorities.
The morning commute in the area was a "mess and a half" because of the accident, police said.
National Grid restored power by about 8 a.m., and two other utility companies were wrapping up their work by 9.
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Editor's note: Mary Allen is the author of "The Rooms of Heaven" and "Awake in the Dream House." The opinions in this commentary are solely those of the writer.
(CNN) -- When I was 3 years old, I was left alone in the house with my mother while my father was at work and my sister was in kindergarten. I spent the day hiding in a garment bag on my parents' sun porch. At one point I crept into the bathroom, looked in the mirror, and hallucinated the comforting sound of my father's voice saying my name.
My mother had just come home after a yearlong stay in a mental hospital, my sister and I had been retrieved from the foster family we lived with during my mother's hospitalization, and I was terrified of my mother.
Maternal mental illness -- postpartum depression and psychosis -- are finally getting the attention they deserve. A growing body of research shows that maternal mental illness is far more common than previously thought, and many women are speaking up about their struggles with anxiety, depression, difficulty connecting with their newborns, and sometimes, their intrusive thoughts about harming their children.
Many of these women are receiving appropriate medical treatment and getting well. Reporting about them and their illnesses is often intelligent and compassionate. All this feels as if a closet that has been kept locked for years is finally being opened, letting in light and air.
My life has been defined by the lack of the very information coming out now, not because I'm a mother who has or has had maternal mental illness, but because I'm the daughter of one who did.
Although postpartum psychosis has been officially recognized since the 1800s, we didn't know about maternal mental illness back in 1953, when I was an infant. Not my father, my mother, my mother's psychiatrists, not the general public and, in the years to come, when I was growing up, not me. All I knew, for most of my life, was that I was terrified of my mother from my earliest, preverbal memories on.
I also knew certain things that my father told me.
She rejected you, he said, when I was growing up. She never really liked you. She didn't want to have anything to do with you when you were a baby. She put you out on the sun porch in the winter so your crying wouldn't wake up your sister. When you were a toddler she scolded you no matter what you did.
And once, my father said, my mother called her psychiatrist and reported, "There's a voice inside my head, and it's telling me to kill my children."
After that phone call and whatever precipitated it, she was taken to the Northampton State Hospital in Massachusetts for an extended stay. When she came home I couldn't get over my fear of her, and, after that awful day hiding in the garment bag and a few more days like it, my father allowed me to go back to the foster family who took in my sister and me during my mother's hospitalization. I lived with them, spending weekends with my parents, until I was 18 years old -- dreading every single one of those weekends at my parents' house.
I did not understand why I was afraid of my mother or even question the fact that I was. My mother never really got well, and over the years when I was growing up, remnants of her maternal mental illness hardened into rage because I refused to live with her -- and hysterical panic attacks in me when she suggested angrily that I should. She died in 1981, just when I was at an age where I might have been capable of overcoming my fear and getting to know her a little.
"Studies indicate that maternal stress may undermine women's ability to bond with or care for their children, and that children's emotional and cognitive health may suffer as a result," Pam Belluck wrote in a New York Times article, "New Findings on Range of Maternal Mental Illness."
"'When I'd walk into his room, he'd burst into tears,'" one mother reports in the article, describing her son's reaction to her.
For years I've plumbed the depths of my unconscious, using a therapy called EMDR, to heal the part of me that burst into tears at the sight of my mother. As a result I've become familiar and even comfortable with what happened to me on the inside.
But it's been harder to take ownership of this part of my story in the outside world -- to see it in any sort of neutral, uncharged way. My early traumatic experiences took over any ability I might have had to be neutral about my mother's illness, and my profound infantile fear of her felt confusing and sort of embarrassing, like a personal weakness.
It's only been recently, with the new findings and the literature coming out, that some penny inside me finally dropped and I saw that being the child of a mother with maternal mental illness -- having a mother who didn't like you, who rejected you and terrified you and whom you rejected in turn out of fear -- isn't only or even really a personal event.
If, as reported by the Postpartum Support International, at least one in eight women in the United States suffer from some kind of mental illness during or after pregnancy, my mother was one of many. So my experiences are not unique, and I no longer have to feel ashamed of them or alone with them.
Because of therapy, I no longer have to carry around the fear of my mother, which as I was growing up turned into a generalized fear of everything. And now I can, finally, once and for all, forgive my mother and her illness.
It's a good time for those of us whose mothers were victims of maternal mental illness to start adding our voices to the literature coming out about it -- to join in the healing taking place around this devastating illness.
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The following steps are hiring guidelines provided by Human Resources (HR) Employment Services and the Office of Institutional Equity (OIE). Click on each step below for more information.
Staff Process Checklist
Complete the Position Authorization Form
Before posting a position, a Position Authorization Form must be completed. Obtain appropriate signatures then send to HR Employment Services.
Develop the Job Description
Develop a clear position description, with HR Employment Services, that includes minimum qualifications, and essential duties and responsibilities.
Whether an open position is a replacement or a new position, it is important that
at the time of the opening, a job description be developed. Be aware that setting
requirements too high may ultimately end up in reposting the position, while setting
them too low gives the wrong impression about the position. Be careful not to make
your requirements too narrow as that may limit your applicant pool and you may miss
out on a well-qualified applicant.
The minimum requirements are the benchmarks against which all applicants will be measured. Therefore, those requirements must be appropriate, realistic and reasonable. Identify minimum essential requirements in the areas of degrees, experience, knowledge, skills, and personal traits. Additional desirable qualities can also be identified.
It will also be important to be clear and complete when adding the essential duties and responsibilities of the position to the job description. Applicants should be able to clearly see what the job entails and what will be expected of them in that position.
As a member of the interview committee, you may be part of the development of the job description or it may already have been completed. Either way, you need to have a solid sense of the position and what duties the person in that position will be expected to perform. If you can answer the question, "What qualifications will a person need to succeed in the position as it has been defined?", you will be well on your way to making a suitable match. All job descriptions must have Safety and Continuous Improvement language as part of the requirements. These requirements are listed in Appendix I. All job descriptions should have the training requirements of the position listed as well.
Please use the "Staff Posting Worksheet" to complete your job description. Contact HR Employment Services for additional information and/or assistance during the writing of the description. Forward your completed description to HR Employment Services for review.
Resource that may help you develop the job description: www.onetonline.org – tool with detailed descriptions for occupational information to provide standard descriptors to help build your job description for a wide variety of jobs.
Guidelines for the composition of the search committee
Recommended guidelines for the composition of the committee for non-union staff hires:
If you are convening a search committee, diversity is key.
- The committee should consist of a minimum of three (3) members with one or two members from outside your department, in addition to those from within the department. These external committee member(s) should not be located within the reporting structure of the department that is hiring.
- Larger committees: If the committee composition is made up of 5 members, two or three should be from outside the department.
- The committee's makeup should be diverse with regard to gender, minority, veteran, disability and/or other protected status (diverse ethnicities, races, religious affiliations, age, gender, sexual orientation, etc). This diversity will facilitate a strong hiring process that aligns with Equal Employment Opportunity.
The search committee is a task-oriented group. Members need to attend, contribute, cooperate, and communicate. Record keeping, coordinating schedules, and completing tasks is the responsibility of the committee chair. Confidentiality is imperative. A representative from Institutional Equity is available to meet with search committees.
Search Committee members must sign the Confidentiality Statement.
Search Committee members must complete staff certification to serve on a staff search committee. Human Resources and Institutional Equity have developed training and the following process;
Part 1: An on-campus Recruiting and Hiring Workshop. This workshop is regularly offered. See schedule: Human Resources Training and Event Services.
Part 2: An online Best Practices/Legal Aspects course tailored for staff hiring. This course will have no "due" dates but will be available for all search committee members to complete as it fits into their schedule. (It will take approximately 1.5 hours to complete). You are assigned to the course after you complete Part I.
All certification training will be tracked in Banner. List of staff certified to participate on staff search committees.
All search committees should be reviewed by Institutional Equity. It is the search committee chair's responsibility to send the names of the search committee members to firstname.lastname@example.com for review prior to meeting for the first time.
When placing an ad, a good faith effort should be made to see that all advertisements reach a diverse population. Print Ads are considered "passive" advertising. Actively recruit!
ALL external advertisements paid and free must be approved by both HR Employment Services and the Office of Institutional Equity.
It is required by federal regulations that all advertisements contain the EEO statement:
"Michigan Technological University is an Equal Opportunity Educational Institution/Equal Opportunity Employer, which includes providing equal opportunity for protected veterans and individuals with disabilities".
A shorter version may be used only when word count is under consideration for pricing of ads: "Michigan Tech is an EOE which includes protected veterans and individuals with disabilities."
Equal Employment Opportunity Self Disclosure Form For Staff
Electronic EEO Self-Disclosure Form
The EEO form is automatically generated by PeopleAdmin. No further action is required by the department to collect this information.
Electronic Departmental EEO Report
Using PeopleAdmin, the search committee should check the diversity of the applicant pool.
Review Applicant Materials
06-A Review Applicant Materials
Develop criteria and evaluation material for rating candidates based upon "Required" and "Desired" qualifications from the job description.
- This does not include the Essential Duties & Responsibilities.
You will need to document any decisions made about candidates, either from further examination of applications, resumes, cover letters or interviews (phone or in-person).
Learn about developing selection criteria.
Reminder: Non-union positions will be posted to the internal 48 hour hold for specified groups (Veterans, Dual Career, Layoff pool) prior to regular posting. For more information, contact your employment services representative.
All applications must be reviewed until the day that interviewing starts.
The following are a few reasons of non-hire that were not accepted by the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) auditor:
|Unacceptable Reasons
|Auditor's Comments
|Did not meet search criteria
|Please explain what each was lacking in comparison to the hire in relation to the advertised criteria
|Lacking demonstrated expertise in required topics
|Explain what was lacking
|Did not fit ad
|Explain what was lacking
|Written communication skills not as good as candidates interviewed
|Explain referencing the application package
|Poor Communication: If not interviewed and there was no contact
|Explain how this was determined
06-B Narrow Your Applicant Pool
After prescreening applications, those applicant who are not advancing further must be given reasons for non-selection which will remove them from the applicant pool at this stage of the search process.
Electronic Reasons for Non-Selection for Applicants NOT Advancing Further
Using PeopleAdmin, the Search Chair must move applicants in the workflow by entering reasons of non-selection for all applicants not advancing further in the process by following these instructions. Job Aid: How to Move Applicants in the Workflow. The final disposition codes for those applicants not advancing will also be entered into the system at this point in the process. Please reference: Reasons for non-selection and AFL/Final Disposition Codes.
Before setting up interviews the search chair must send an Electronic Request of Approval
by OIE to Interview
Using PeopleAdmin, the search committee chair should request and receive approval by OIE before interviewing applicants. Request approval to interview by following these instructions - Job Aid: How to Request Approval to Interview.
NOTE: Anytime a change is made to an applicant's Workflow State or Workflow Reason, please email firstname.lastname@example.com
Interview Process
Before setting up the interviews
- Applicants should have been "Approved by OIE to Interview".
Develop interview questions and submit questions to HR Employment Services for approval.
- Learn more about conducting successful interviews.
- Interview questions must be asked consistently with all who are being interviewed.
During the interview process take notes that can be used for reasons of non-hire.
|Unacceptable Reasons for non-hire
|Auditor's Comments
|Did not interview well
|Please explain
|Not as strong as top candidate
|Please explain how this candidate is weaker
|Considered Finalist/Still being considered
|You still need to give a reason for non-selection
Re-Routing of Applicant Materials (Optional Functionality)
Using PeopleAdmin, the Search Chair MUST notify HR Employment Services with the date of the first interview (any type, i.e., phone, Skype, in-person) to have applications re-routed in the system.
Only after interviewing begins, does HR have the option of routing any new applicant materials directly to "Review by HR" instead of "Review by Search Committee."
IF this option of "Review by HR" is chosen then:
- The Search Chair would then only need to record reasons for non-selection for those applicants reviewed in the system prior to the date of the first interview.
- HR Employment Services will mark all applications received after the date of the first interview as late applications in the system.
All positions at Michigan Tech are considered open until filled; however, this optional feature allows for a way to limit your pool.
If you have any questions on a failed search: Contact HR Employment Services 906-487-2280.
Reference checks
Electronic Move of Applicants to "Conduct Reference Checks"
Using PeopleAdmin, the Search Chair must move the those final candidates selected for reference checks into the workflow state of "Conduct Reference Checks" by following these instructions - Job Aid: Move Applicants to Conduct Reference Checks.
Hiring department/search committee representatives conducts reference checks using questions reviewed by HR Employment Services.
Learn more about checking references.
All documentation related to a hire, including search committee notes, any evaluation criteria, reference checks, results of any testing, ratings of applicants, etc. must be retained by the University for 3 years after the hire date. Please send all materials to Human Resources.
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The CTA will close the Kimball Brown Line stop for repairs for nine days starting next week, the CTA announced Wednesday.
From July 13 to July 22, the Kimball station in Albany Park will be be closed so the CTA can replace about 700 feet of deteriorated ties, rail, ballast and track components and the power and signaling systems.
Brown Line trains will start and end service from the Kedzie Brown Line stop, which is about a half-mile southeast of Kimball.
The Kimball station sees about 4,200 weekday riders.
The $4.6 million project is being funded by a 2009 Regional Transportation Authority grant, the CTA said.


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Biological Sciences
Research Highlights
August 2012
New Protein Discovered Gives Insights to Iron's Fate Underground
Scientists identify molecule that steals electrons, leaving iron stuck in the mud
Proposed roles of MtoAB and CymAES-1 in Sideroxydans lithotrophicus ES-1-mediated extracellular Fe(II) oxidation. Decaheme c-Cyt MtoA, which is inserted into the porin-like, outer membrane (OM) protein MtoB, oxidizes Fe(II) directly on the bacterial surface and transfers the released electrons across the OM to the periplasmic proteins that have yet to be identified. The periplasmic proteins relay the electrons through the periplasm (PS) to the tetraheme c-Cyt CymAES-1. CymAES-1, located in the cytoplasmic or inner membrane (IM), reduces quinone to quinol. c-Cyts are labeled in red, and the direction of electron transfer is indicated by a yellow arrows. Enlarge Image
Results: It's almost an evil twin story; a protein that steals electrons from iron in one microbe looks a lot like one that adds electrons in another microbe, according to scientists at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory and the University of East Anglia. Their survey of the genes of common groundwater bacterium Sideroxydans lithotrophicus ES-1, which removes electrons from iron, revealed that it contained genes in common with Shewanella oneidensis MR-1, which adds electrons to iron.
Their results contribute to understanding of the molecular mechanisms by which microorganisms change the electron configuration of iron and, thus, change its mobility. The research was published in Frontiers in Microbiological Chemistry.
"Recent studies indicate that aerobic Fe(II)-oxidizing bacteria, FeOB, would play a key role in niches having low levels of oxygen concentration, where microbial Fe(II)-oxidation can compete with the chemical oxidation of Fe(II)," said PNNL biogeochemist Dr. Juan Liu, first author of the study paper.
Why It Matters: Science has realized the importance of microorganisms in research on processes such as carbon sequestration, the generation of new energy sources, and the movement and ultimate resting place of contaminants. Scientists are interested in the oxidation state, or loss of electrons, of iron because it dramatically affects the metal's solubility in water, in which electron transfer proteins play critical roles. In contrast to Fe(II), trivalent iron, Fe(III), is not water soluble.
The difference in solubility between Fe(II) and Fe(III) also means that iron acquisition tends to be much more of a problem for organisms that use oxygen than for those that don't, because anaerobic environments favor the more soluble Fe(II).
"We have shown the generality of these reaction mechanisms in metal oxidizing and reducing bacteria," said Dr. Liang Shi, a PNNL microbiologist who led the study. "Whether it's Fe(II) or Fe(III), iron's solubility affects its accessibility to microorganisms. To access these different phases of Fe, some microorganisms seem to adopt a common mechanism."
Methods: The research team used integrated bioinformatics analyses, gene cloning, protein expression and purification, and in vitro and in vivo characterization on the ES-1 sample. Characterizations were conducted by using different experimental tools, such as complementation testing in MR-1, stopped-flow kinetics, and protein film cyclic voltammetry.
They found a three-gene cluster encoding homologs of MR-1. The MR-1 genes are called MtrA, MtrB, and CymAt, so to distinguish the ES-1 genes, the scientists named them MtoAB and CymAES-1
From this cluster, they identified, purified, and characterized MtoA, a hemoprotein important for extracellular electron transfer reactions. MtoA is the first member of its specific family of proteins to be purified and characterized from an Fe(II)-oxidizing bacterium.
What's Next? The scientists are planning to investigate to what extent these proteins are distributed among other Fe(II)-oxidizing bacteria.
Acknowledgments: This research was supported by the Department of Energy Office of Biological and Environmental Research (BER) and is a contribution of the PNNL Subsurface Scientific Focus Area. A portion of the research was performed using EMSL, a national scientific user facility sponsored by BER and located at PNNL.
The research team includes Juan Liu, Liang Shi, Zheming Wang, Sara Belchik, Chongxuan Liu, David Kennedy, Eric Merkley, Mary Lipton, John Zachara, James Fredrickson, and Kevin Rosso, all PNNL; and Marcus Edwards, Julea Butt, and David Richardson, University of East Anglia.
Reference: J Liu, Z Wang, SM Belchik, MJ Edwards, C Liu, DW Kennedy, ED Merkley, MS Lipton, JN Butt, DJ Richardson, JM Zachara, JK Fredrickson, KM Rosso, and L Shi. 2012. "Identification and Characterization of MtoA: A Decaheme c-type Cytochrome of the Neutrophilic Fe(II)-oxidizing Bacterium Sideroxydans lithotrophicus ES-1." Frontiers in Microbiological Chemistry 3:37. DOI:10.3389/fmicb.2012.00037.
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When Walt Disney Animation Studios last year announced its first movie inspired by a Marvel comic, an adaptation of a lesser known crime-fighter series called "Big Hero 6," director Don Hall said that the absence of a detail-obsessed fan base for the series was part of its appeal, as it left every character and setting open to interpretation.
"I was looking for something on the obscure side, something that would mesh well with what we do," Hall said in an interview with Hero Complex. "The idea of a kid and a robot story with a strong brother element, it's very Disney."
On Monday, a new teaser poster arrived for the project, which will center on a robotics prodigy named Hiro Hamada and his robot companion BayMax, who join a team of superheroes in a high-tech city called San Fransokyo.
(For a closer look at the city of San Fransokyo, see the video above).
Even die-hard comic book fans may have trouble recalling the Marvel series, which was created by Steven T. Seagle and Duncan Rouleau in 1998 and is something of a whimsical love letter to Japanese culture. Characters in the original comic include a samurai, an agent who invented a nanotechnology-based Power Purse and a monster born from a child's drawings.
While the original comic is set in Tokyo, the "Big Hero 6" filmmakers opted to relocate the story to a mythical mash-up of Tokyo and San Francisco, a conceit that allows Disney's animators to imagine a uniquely stylized cityscape — and indulge a studio-wide affinity for Japan fed by that country's strong animation tradition.
"Marvel properties take place in the real world," Hall said last year. "We were looking for something to do where we could make our own world — bring in the Japanese influences, have recognizable landmarks mashed up with a Japanese aesthetic."
Hall, a life-long comic book fan who started at Disney Animation in 1995, was in the midst of directing "Winnie the Pooh" when Disney acquired Marvel in 2009. He found "Big Hero 6" while digging through Marvel's library for ideas and pitched it to Disney's chief creative officer, John Lasseter, in 2011.
"Big Hero 6" is being produced wholly at Disney Animation, but Marvel Chief Creative Officer Joe Quesada has been participating in brainstorming sessions about the project.
"Don was a huge fan of Marvel," Quesada said of Hall. "He understood what we did. I didn't have to explain our world to him. The relationship between Hiro and his robot has a very Disney flavor to it … but it's combined with these Marvel heroic arcs."
"Big Hero 6" opens in theaters Nov. 7.
–Rebecca Keegan | @LATHeroComplex
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Complete LED solution gave fresh office space
Many modern offices focus on sustainability and energy efficiency. Länsförsäkringar office is one such example. From the office spaces through corridors, bathroom and lunchroom it is a complete LED lighting project.
When Electro Engineering AB needed an environmental solution for the insurance company Länsförsäkringar's office in 2012, Fagerhult was chosen to deliver the lighting. We offered some of our latest effective LED luminaires to fulfil the environmental demands.
The result became a whole LED lighting project to the refreshed premises. The LED solutions gave a great light comfort and an enjoyable working atmosphere for the staff.
The office spaces and meeting rooms Multilume Flat became the recessed choice for the office spaces and meeting areas. It is amongst the first LED luminaires to be more efficient than its T5 equivalent. The micro-prismatic Delta closely controls the intensity of the light, achieving the requirements for 3000 cd/m².
Corridor and communication areas
The third generation of our popular downlight Pleiad G3 illuminates the corridors and communication areas. Pleiad G3 is a complete LED lighting concept. The luminaire does not only offer easy and quick installation, it also produces a great light comfort without any glare.
Pozzo LED is the LED version of the light well Pozzo that provides the feeling of daylight through the round fitting. It is an excellent choice of lighting comfort in places where we relax and regroup.
Discovery Space LED* is a robust but slim bathroom luminaire that offer great efficiency in its LED version. For this project it was placed in the bathrooms and completed with accent light from Easy with LED.
Accent light
Easy with LED is, as the name reveals, easy to install in most types of suspended ceilings. The fitting gives accent light and highlights the different areas, such as the green plants and walls around the premises.
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St. Aug and Brother Martin to Meet in Finals of CYO Basketball Tournament park
One team dominated and the other squeaked by, but both St. Augustine High School and Brother Martin High School will meet Saturday night at Jesuit High School in the Championship game of the Allstate Sugar Bowl CYO Basketball Tournament. Tip-off is set for 7:30 p.m.
2010 Allstate Sugar Bowl CYO Basketball Tournament Brackets
St. Aug cruised to a 74-35 victory over Karr in its semifinal contest. The Purple Knights beat West Jefferson and Slidell in the first two rounds by an average margin of 24 points. In the other semifinal, Brother Martin emerged on top in a tight game, 39-37, over previously undefeated Rummel. The Crusaders first two wins were over Bonnabel and Ellender.
Friday, Dec. 3 Allstate Sugar Bowl CYO Basketball Semifinal Results:
St. Augustine 74, Karr 35 (at Jesuit)
Brother Martin 39, Rummel 37
Saturday, Dec. 4 Allstate Sugar Bowl Schedule:
St. Augustine vs. Brother Martin, 7:30 p.m. (at Jesuit) – Championship Game
St. Charles vs. Northshore (at Rummel), 10 a.m.
West Jefferson vs. Shaw (at De La Salle), 10 a.m.
East St. John vs. Bonnabel (at Rummel), 11:30 a.m.
Holy Cross vs. Jesuit (at De La Salle), 11:30 a.m.
St. Thomas Aquinas vs. Ellender (at Rummel), 1 p.m.
Slidell vs. St. Paul's (at De La Salle), 1 p.m.
Last year's tournament featured 16 boys' high school teams playing in 25 games. Jesuit High School held off St. Augustine, 58-50, to win the championship with the Blue Jays' Colby Kiefer earning the event's Most Valuable Player honor. It was Jesuit's first CYO Title since 2005.


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Across the Pacific, Hayao Miyazaki has already created a hit and a conversation piece with "The Wind Rises," his look at the early days of aviation and the fictionalized formative years of Japan's Zero airplane creator Jiro Horikoshi as he becomes a star engineer. The animation legend's first movie in five years — and probably his last ever -- "The Wind Rises" has become a box-office hit in Japan since opening in July and generated plenty of op-ed talk for its political content.
In examining a man who created a plane that would become key to Japan's efforts in World War II, the film, titled "Kaze Tachinu" in its native Japanese, has the whimsy of much of the director's work but with a patina of ideology. Miyazaki hasn't been silent either, recently publishing an essay opposing Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's plan to rebuild the military.
Judging by reaction to the film as it's played the festival circuit — it's next up for a stop in New York after previous swings to Venice, Telluride and Toronto — it will be a talker on this side of the world too. Here are five key themes and symbols to know about the movie before its Oscar-qualifying run in November and commercial release Feb 21. (No spoilers, but some plot points are discussed.)
Militant notions. Miyazaki in the past few months has generated criticism from both the right (for his Abe critique) and the left (for chronicling/glorifying a man who designed warplanes). Politics don't run through every scene of the movie, which is as much a love story as anything else, but when they do make an appearance it's with some force. Early in the film, a man in Jiro's reverie — the Italian aviation figure Giovanni Caproni, who recurs in the hero's imagination — tells the young Jiro that "airplanes are beautiful dreams" and warns against using them for destructive purposes. Later, there are ominous references to the "thought police" and the suggestion that dark militaristic forces are going to co-opt Jiro's talent for violent ends. There's also a caricature-ish depiction of the Japanese navy.
Animal instinct. Miyazaki is known for a gentle mysticism involving all parts of the spirit world. That includes animals, which get several call-outs here. A well-designed plane is referred to as a "full-metal duckling" (the opposite of an "ugly tin duckling"). There's a humorous scene in which oxen are used to pull airplane parts. And Jiro gets inspiration from the shape of a bone found in a mackerel, prompting him, after looking at some well-made American designs, to drolly remark, "Americans eat mackerel too?"
Magical realism. As this is a Miyazaki movie, there's plenty of magical realism. In the airplane dream Jiro is able to walk over the plane as Caproni tells him, essentially, "We can't go up here, but in a dream you can go anywhere." Later in the movie a door is able to take flight, while a paper airplane is capable of some physics-defying tricks.
Big in Japan. The tension between patriotism and self-criticism is heavily at play in this portrayal of a pre-WWII Japan, which questions the subjective nature of progress and the particular ways Japan forged its identity in the 20th century. "Is Japan a modern country?" is a question asked often, both literally and figuratively. Deadly earthquakes and tuberculosis epidemics are present, suggesting a tragic lack of modernity. But there's also a sense amid all that of a filmmaker who feels deeply connected with the land — bonds that the war would sever.
Windy City. Perhaps the biggest symbol in the movie is, of course, the wind. That takes a concrete form as Jiro designs a plane meant to reduce wind resistance, and as he and Caproni try to escape a fire as the former warns of the danger because "the wind is rising." But it's also a symbolic presence, introduced to represent the intangible power of imagination to carry us. And it's an animating force in the movie's romance. As Jiro's great love, Nahoko, tells him, the wind brought him to her.
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Hill catches fire, but shaky pitching haunts D-backs
MILWAUKEE -- The D-backs outhit the Brewers on Monday night, but didn't come close to out-powering them.
Aaron Hill had four singles and reached base five times, but the Brewers hit three homers in beating the D-backs 8-3 on Monday night at Miller Park.View Full Game Coverage
MILWAUKEE -- The D-backs outhit the Brewers on Monday night, but didn't come close to out-powering them.
Aaron Hill had four singles and reached base five times, but the Brewers hit three homers in beating the D-backs 8-3 on Monday night at Miller Park.View Full Game Coverage
Arizona had 10 hits to Milwaukee's nine, but the Brewers had five extra-base hits to only one for Arizona, a Gerardo Parra double in the sixth. The bottom four spots in the D-backs' batting order went 0-for-15 with two walks.
"They drove the ball out of the ballpark," Arizona manager Kirk Gibson said of Milwaukee. "We had a bunch of singles and one double. That was kind of the difference."
Arizona seemingly took a step backward from the progress it made over the weekend when it won three of four games in San Diego. The Brewers, who had not scored more than five runs in any of their first 15 home games, erupted with 14 base runners over the first six innings to take a commanding lead.
"All in all not a very good job of executing pitches tonight and we paid for it," Gibson said. "They're a very hot team."
Carlos Gomez hit the first pitch thrown by Mike Bolsinger (1-2) over the center field wall for a home run.
"I don't know if there's much I can do about the first pitch of the ballgame, home run," Bolsinger said. "You don't see that too often, so hat's off to him."
Gibson had warned before the game that pitchers needed to be careful of Gomez from the first pitch of the game. Bolsinger said he was aware of Gomez' power.
"I knew he was a first-pitch guy, but I didn't know he would swing like that the first pitch of the game," he said.
The Brewers broke the game open with a four-run sixth inning off reliever Randall Delgado, capped by Jean Segura's second homer of the season.
"We didn't execute pitches from the first pitch of the game," Gibson said.
Bolsinger needed 88 pitches to get through five innings in his fourth start of the season. The right-hander gave up four runs on seven hits and three walks while striking out three.
Gibson was not complimentary of Bolsinger's performance.
"Tonight was his worst start I would say," Gibson said.
Bolsinger said he was frustrated that he was struggling with his best pitch, his curveball.
"It's something that I'm just hanging up," he said.
He allowed a second homer, this one a two-run shot, to Martin Maldonado in the second inning that gave the Brewers a 3-1 lead.
The D-backs tied it at 3 in the third on consecutive RBI singles by Miguel Montero and Hill, but Khris Davis' sacrifice fly gave Milwaukee a 4-3 lead in the fifth.
The Brewers, who scored only 10 runs in a four-game series at Cincinnati over the weekend, then tacked on plenty of insurance in the sixth. Delgado walked Maldonado and pinch-hitter Rickie Weeks in a nine-pitch at-bat. Both runners then advanced on a wild pitch before Gomez smacked a two-run single to make it 6-3. Segura then homered to give Milwaukee an 8-3 lead.
"I was really wild today," Delgado said. "I got behind in the count and I had to pay the price."
When asked whether Bolsinger would get to stay in the rotation, Gibson instead replied that reliever J.J. Putz would be placed on the disabled list Tuesday due to right forearm tightness. Reliever Evan Marshall will be recalled from Triple-A Reno to take his place on the roster.
Hill hit singles in his first three at-bats off Milwaukee starter Matt Garza (2-3) and walked in the seventh off reliever Will Smith. He then singled again in the ninth off Zach Duke.
"Matt Garza, he did what he's best at," Hill said. "He kept the ball down and even some of the runs we got off him were good pitches that weren't the greatest swings, but we'll take every run we can get off of a guy like that."
Garza allowed three runs on eight hits and two walks while striking out five in six innings.
The D-backs loaded the bases with one out in the third, but Garza struck out Alfredo Marte and Ender Inciarte to end the inning. He then finished with three scoreless innings and was pleased with his improvement as the game progressed.
"It was really satisfying," Garza said of his mid-game improvement. "I felt like I got some timing and a little bit or rhythm going, and I really want to keep it going into the next start. It was bumpy early, but the guys stood behind me and backed me."
Joe DiGiovanni is a contributor to MLB.com.