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CARPINTERIA, Calif., April 9 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- CKE Restaurants, Inc. announced today the launch of a refranchising program that is expected to involve more than 200 Hardee's(R) restaurant locations in a number of markets across the Midwest and Southeast. CKE president and chief executive officer Andrew F. Puzder commented, "I am pleased to announce the Company's strategic launch of a refranchising program that is expected to involve more than 200 company-operated restaurants in a number of Hardee's markets in the Midwest and Southeast." Puzder continued, "Refranchising these markets will .
Government Printing Office GC Helps Keep the Presses Running
Company profile: The Government Printing Office (GPO) in Washington gathers, catalogs, produces, authenticates and preserves information for the federal government. It has served as the sole printer for all three branches of the government since 1895, when agencies were ordered to bring their printing projects to the GPO unless specifically exempted by Congress. The head of the agency, the public printer of the United States, is appointed by the president and reports to Congress. The GPO has 2,250 employees. Legal team: Brower heads an 11-member legal department, with eight attorneys, two support staff and a law librarian/paralegal, all of whom are considered employees of Congress. The team handles most of the work in-house. "But we do have the world's biggest and best law firm handling outside litigation -- the [U.S.] Department of Justice.
Role of government in pension fund scheme
Sometimes ago, it was unanimously reported by several newspapers in Nigeria that pensioners, who had spent better part of their lives to labour for Nigeria trooped into the street to protest the non-payment of their accumulated allowances. Recently also, in a telephone conversation with the Nigerian Tribune, one of the pensioners, somewhere in Ekiti State lamented the non payment of their monthly allowances since November 2006 (four months arrears), and the worst of that is a kind of punishment they allegedly subjected to, all in the name of waiting for the arrival of the officers in charge. In another development, the pensioners of Lagos University Teaching Hospital (LUTH) recently carried placard within the premises of the hospital to also protest what they described as deliberate refusal of a particular insurance companies to pay them their entitlement.
Suicide by Cop: Prevention, response & recovery
Q: What do you do when a suspect forces you to shoot him? I gave the guy every chance to drop the gun and get on the ground, but he just looked me right in the eye and drew down on me. I had to drop him and the department cleared the shoot, so why do I feel kicked in the stomach, like the guy played me? This sure isnt what I expected. A: The idea that a suspect would deliberately expose himself to police gunfire in order to effect his own demise has probably long been familiar to officers, but the actual term, suicide-by-cop (SBC) was first coined by police officer and psychologist Karl Harris in 1983 and is the term most commonly used today. SBC: Facts and Stats Its been estimated that approximately ten percent of the 600 police shootings a year in the US are provoked SBC incidents.
Business Briefs
W.C. Crytzer Equipment Inc., the local Cub Cadet dealer in Kittanning and Indiana, is one of the top 80 Cub Cadet Independent Retailers of 2006, and received special recognition with a group trip to Rome on Feb. 2-8. Cryzter Equipment has been a Cub Cadet dealer for 31 years. We are thrilled to have taken this trip to Rome, said W.C. Crytzer. Our business has grown significantly, and the Cub Cadet line of lawn and garden tractors and zero-turn mowers has made that success possible. .
Is health care a coming crisis?
2007-03-11 /prbuzz/ -- At the start of a new mellinium, we have continually seen the cost of health care skyrocket. What is the solution? People will forever be debating privatized and socialized healthcare, but will they ever address the real problem here which is government lobbying. To keep our policies in order, there needs to be checks and balances but unfortunately, for too long, the medical associations and comminity have had difficult card to play. Cater to their patients and consumers with products they want and need or pander up to corporations such as major worldwide pharmaceutical companies? Many of these companies are profit driven beyond ethics based on upper management! So how can we repossess the health care system? Health care obviously has many aspects. while we should leave all the options on the table, it should be in order to socialize parts of healthcare that are considered to be highly traumatic and difficult to prevent.
Teens arrested after car crashes into Hutch home
A Hutchinson teenager was arrested early Sunday morning for fleeing and eluding local police officers then crashing his car into a house.
Following the crash, Jordan S. Werner, 18, fled the scene of the accident and was arrested in the 1000 block of West 11th. Officers arrested him for allegedly obstructing justice, driving under the influence, no liability insurance, illegal tag display, leaving the scene of an accident and endangering a child, and illegal possession and consumption of liquor. According to the police bulletin, at 5:15 a.m., Werner's vehicle struck the home of Alex R. Lizalde, 905 West 11th. A passenger in Werner's vehicle, Alex C. Millison, 17, also fled the scene and was arrested for obstruction, curfew violation, possession of marijuana and criminal trespass.
More People Taking Advantage Of Health Savings Accounts
New rules governing health savings accounts are making them more attractive to consumers, who can use HSAs to help reduce health insurance costs now - and, potentially, in retirement. Health savings accounts are like individual retirement accounts for health care. They were created by Congress in 2003 so workers could cover some of their medical costs with pretax money if they have high-deductible health insurance plans. The idea is that workers and their employers can fund the tax-free accounts, with withdrawals used for copays at doctors' offices, prescription and nonprescription medicines, and hospital services not covered by insurance. Because unused balances in the HSAs can be rolled over from year to year, some financial advisers are suggesting that the accounts can be a way for families to accumulate money to be used to cover health care costs in retirement, including Medicare deductibles and long-term care insurance.
Groundbreaking Marks Start Of Nationwide's New Campus
DES MOINES, Iowa -- A groundbreaking Thursday marked the start of a project that promises to bring more than 1,500 new jobs to Des Moines. An area in 1200 block of Locust Street will be the site of Nationwide's new campus. The buildings will house Nationwide property and casualty insurance operations. It will also include Allied Insurance, Nationwide Agribusiness and Nationwide Insurance. .
Health Class With Professor Obama
The biggest knock on Barack Obama is that he's short on substance. This comes from his opponents, like John Edwards, who says it in public, and from Hillary Clinton supporters, who say it in private. Columnists have been writing it and writing it. A waitress in Des Moines, Iowa, summed his candidacy up this way to me a couple of weeks ago: "Too much fluff." Obama did not help himself at a health-care forum in Las Vegas last month. While his opponents outlined specific proposals, he twice told questioners that on this issue so important to his party's primary voters, his campaign was still developing a plan. But putting out detailed white papers isn't the only way to show your substance. Obama likes to strut his policy stuff by playing the professor. After 10 years teaching constitutional law at the University of Chicago and several before that running meetings as a community organizer, he's highly skilled at talking to an audience in a way that exposes his knowledge.
Affordable Residential in talks to sell assets
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Affordable Residential Communities Inc. , an owner of home parks, said on Monday it is in talks to sell nearly all its assets to hedge fund Farallon Capital Management LLC for about $1.84 billion. The unsolicited interest in Affordable Residential comes as other companies involved in home sites and low-cost manufactured housing said they have noticed an uptick in business, which could be related to tightening mortgage requirements for buying traditional homes. .
First-time home buyers should run numbers carefully
Think you know what you can afford as a first-time home buyer? Grab a calculator and run those numbers again. There's a lot more to a mortgage payment than the loan amount and interest rate. Extras such as property taxes, mandatory structural insurance and private mortgage insurance, or PMI, can add as much as 30 percent to 50 percent to your monthly payment. .
Business news in brief
GlaxoSmithKline P.L.C. and partner Adolor Corp. said their experimental bowel drug was linked to greater risk of heart attacks, fractures and malignant skin cancers, causing the companies to stop a study in cancer patients and to suspend another trial in shoulder surgery. Shares of Adolor, of Exton, plunged as much as 59 percent to $3.57 in after-hours trading. The findings came from a 12-month Phase 3 study of Entereg, also called alvimopan, in 805 patients experiencing bowel dysfunction because of taking opioids to treat chronic noncancer pain. GlaxoSmithKline said the "unexpected findings" would be further analyzed to "help guide future development" of Entereg.- Linda LoydDevelopers in Pa. counties to get state-backed loans Commercial developers in Bucks County and two other Pennsylvania counties have been chosen to receive nearly $3 million in state-backed loans for projects expected to create up to 1,000 jobs, Gov.
Cheap - but not so cheerful?
With more than 400 stores in the UK - and plans to open another 40 this year - Lidl is becoming the supermarket of choice for foodies in search of a bargain, as well as families on a tight budget. Yet while Tesco comes under fire for its aggressive expansion, no one seems to care what Lidl does - even if some staff suffer in the rush for profits. Helen Pidd investigates
Wednesday March 14, 2007
The Guardian
The Lidl supermarket in Tottenham Hale retail park, north London. Photograph: Graham Turner
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Addition pleases seniors
When the future of the Shippensburg Senior Center was in jeopardy last June, Dot Russell was sure her favorite place would end up in a dismal and lonely building.But thanks to a vision and some hard work in Southampton Township, Cumberland County, the center was revived in a new location. On March 9, more than a hundred seniors from the Shippensburg area gathered for fun, fellowship, education and outreach in the Southampton, Cumberland Multipurpose Center in Cleversburg.“I've belonged to it for 11 years and I come every day," Russell said. “I like this. It's wonderful with the new room."Southampton, Cumberland, supervisors agreed to provide local seniors with a new home last summer when the five-municipal Shippensburg Area Recreation and Parks committee disbanded. A refurbished multipurpose center became available to seniors in November and a brand new addition for the senior center had its official opening March 9.“I think the expansion is beautiful," said senior Dorothy Adams.
Healthy living isn't always easy or affordable
Annette Medina didn't know that asking for a raise would mean the end of health insurance for her 11-year-old son, but that's what happened when she started earning an extra dollar an hour. The pay hike, though modest, put her over the limit to qualify for New York state's Child Health Plus plan. The premium to keep her son insured went from $15 a month to $172. That tops the $140-a-month raise - and is more than she can afford. "The way the health system works is not fair. A lot of people want to be working, but they end up having not to work because they want their kids to have health insurance. So they'll work under the table, or at a low salary, just so that they can have the insurance," said Medina, a 40-year-old single mother who supports her son though her job as a medical assistant.
Skilled Volunteers Needed To Rebuild & Repair Hurricane Damaged Homes
Volunteers can be found working around the clock in Pascagoula these days. They're helping demolish Maceo Dennis's 57-year-old home on School Avenue. You'll also find them just blocks away on Skip Avenue sanding and painting Leonard Cook's home. "They have been working hard and doing a good job. I am very well satisfied with what they're doing," Cook said. And with 85 days left in this huge undertaking, project leader Keith Canfield says work is surprisingly ahead of schedule. "We have about 33 houses underway. We have $10,000 per house from both Salvation Army and Red Cross, so times the hundred houses that is $2 million. And Northrop Grumman has contributed $50,000," Canfield said. While financial donations continue to flow in to help with materials, Canfield says there are not many local skilled volunteers signing up to help.
Family copes after house fire
Rising from the ashes is sometimes easier said than done. The Mitchell family in the Riverview community plans to rise from the ashes after losing their home to fire. “We will survive," said Martha Mitchell. “The Lord is going to see us through." During a series of storms that passed through the area last Sunday, the Mitchell home located on Travis Road was struck by lightning and was consumed in flames. “We were in North Alabama on Sunday attending a birthday party," George Mitchell said. “Our daughter was at home when the lightning struck the trailer. She called so upset, but there was nothing we could do." Ironically, Mitchell works as a firefighter with the Dixonville Volunteer Fire Department, where he has been involved for the past two years.
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