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Cookie Policy
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What cookies do we use and why?
Some cookies are necessary to allow you to browse our website, use its features, and access secure areas. The use of these cookies is essential for the website to work. For example, we use user-input cookies for the duration of a session to keep track of a user's input when filling in forms that span several pages.
We also use functional cookies to remember choices you've made or information you've provided, such as your username, language, or the region you are in. This allows us to tailor your website experience specifically to your preferences. For example, authentication cookies are functional cookies that are used for the duration of a session (or persistent, if you agree to the "remember me" function) to allow users to authenticate themselves on subsequent visits or to gain access to authorized content across pages. The functional cookies we use include:
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We are dedicated to user experience and we use many tools to help us improve our website and our commerce platform. To this end, we use reporting and analytics cookies to collect information about how you use our website. These cookies only gather information for statistical purposes and only use pseudonymous cookie identifiers that do not directly identify you. The performance cookies we use include:
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Boeing Co.'s suspension of the 737 Max production line will mean further headaches for Canadian airlines, which were counting on the grounded jetliner to carry more passengers and boost profit margins.
The Chicago-based aerospace company announced Monday that it will temporarily stop producing its grounded 737 Max jet starting in January as it struggles to get approval from regulators to put the plane back in the air.
Robert Kokonis, president of Toronto-based consulting firm AirTrav Inc., says the manufacturing delay is likely "crimping expansion" at Air Canada, WestJet and Sunwing.
Boeing's marquee aircraft was slated to make up one-quarter — 36 planes — of Air Canada's narrow-body fleet by the end of this year, with 14 more initially scheduled to arrive in 2020.
The grounding, implemented in March after a pair of fatal plane crashes within five months, forced Air Canada and WestJet to cancel some routes and lease less fuel-efficient aircraft. The two airlines have scrubbed the jetliner from their schedules until February.
WestJet spokeswoman Lauren Stewart says the airline, which had been expecting four more Max 8s by 2021, will work with Boeing to review future deliveries after regulators green-light the aircraft.
The Canadian Press

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- Refunds are sent as checks; we will not wire funds back to your account.
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http://www.phantomgsm.com/ perhaps one of the best cell phone sites available and more suited to your enquiry.
ok, i found a way to do yahoo messenger on my phone, (yahoo mobile .com or something like that ne way). u just text "in [username] [password] " to yahoo on ur keypad (i think its like, 92466, or something) and then ur logged in and get get ims. does anyone no if theres something like thta for AIM?
i know my phone was supposed to have aim on it, its in the manual (nokia 3390), but my phone doesnt have it for whatever reason. so i thought it was cool that u could use yahoo msngr w/o actually having it onur phone, and u dont have to pay for it, either (just normal text msg prices). but it would be cool if i could im my friends who have aim and dont have yahoo msngr.
thanx to anyone who helps, and to the people who would like to help but cant
and please if u can, can u copy or post and mail it to me or u can just email it directly, cuz i'm sure i'll never find this post again lol
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http://www.phantomgsm.com/ perhaps one of the best cell phone sites available and more suited to your enquiry.
for AIM, you send a text message to a certain number (it goes by provider) with your name and password. name(space)password.
Code:Alltel 265000 Cingular 265000 or 4646* Cricket 26500 T-Mobile 4646 Verizon 4646
yea all u do is go to aim.com and then go to mobile aim and follow the instructions
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Borrowing: ECB becomes follower of fashion
European Central Bank moves interest rates north after 11-year hiatus
After more than a decade of rate hike stasis, the European Central Bank has raised its policy interest rate.
The ECB raised its benchmark rate by 50 basis points to 0%, with rates now expected to turn positive by the end of this year.
With CPI inflation running at between 5.2% and 20% in May across the eurozone and exceeding the bank's target for the single currency bloc every month since July last year, "it's a wonder a move didn't come sooner," says David Rea, chief economist, EMEA at JLL.
Global peers such as the Bank of England and U.S. Federal Reserve began moving their rates several months earlier, and by many basis points more, than the ECB. In Europe, Central and Eastern European countries began taking action as early as last July: rates in Poland have risen from 0.1% to 6% in nine months, and those in the Czech Republic are up from 0.25% to 7%.
"There are at least four reasons for the ECB's tardy response," Rea says.
First, the bank is balancing monetary conditions across a wide range of countries, he says. At the end of the first quarter this year, eurozone countries such as Germany and Spain had still not recovered to their pre-pandemic level of activity. Meanwhile, several economies, including Ireland, were more than 5% larger.
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Second, market-led monetary tightening had already occurred, reducing the perceived need for increased rates. With 10-year government bond yields up by an average of over 200 basis points over the past year, financial conditions had already altered considerably.
Third, much of the inflationary pressure in the eurozone, at least earlier in the year, was external, resulting from higher international energy and commodity prices: a policy shift would have little effect.
"However, the failure to act then saw price pressures become more widespread and be compounded by the euro's depreciation," Rea says.
Lastly, there's understandably been caution about the growth outlook, which has deteriorated incrementally since the start of 2022. The war in Ukraine created huge uncertainty, and aborting and unwinding a tightening cycle, as the ECB did in 2011, was not an option.
So, now that that first step has been taken, what happens next?
"The ECB's governing council has telegraphed its intention to keep on moving and raise rates again at its next meeting," says Rea. "It's also reiterated its commitment to keep the borrowing costs of highly indebted countries in check, stepping in to prevent the yield on their bonds increasing excessively above benchmark German equivalents."
Investment Opportunities
The implications for real estate of a move that has been expected for so long are unclear.
"We often look to policy rates to set the tone, but the relationship is weak, at best," Rea says. "The link with bond yields, particularly inflation-adjusted bond yields, is closer, but still indirect."
"Real estate asset yields depend upon far more than just the cost of capital. Structural factors, supply-demand balance, lease terms, tenant quality, and ESG, all matter. As does asset quality, where we are seeing a growing diversion of impact across prime and secondary assets."
How far and how fast interest rate rises now impact real estate is not as straightforward to foresee.
"That may become clearer by early next year as rates settle and this tightening cycle ends," Rea concludes.
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RTL XL Direct Links
Dutch (well, officially it's based in Luxembourg) TV station RTL has a platform called RTL XL. On this platform they publish their videos. With all the current events in the world, it's nice to sometimes be able to watch their videos. Unfortunately, RTL XL insists on using Silverlight, even though not all videos are crippled with DRM. Especially the news videos are - thankfully - DRM-free. Still: Silverlight - or Moonlight - on Linux is somewhat troublesome...
Drupal Development made easier with Qt Assistant - Part 4
Welcome to the fourth and final part of this series of blogs. Last time we created and finished our PHP preprocessor, which helped us overcome some quirks in the Drupal documentation. Before that, in part one we prepared our system and in part two we configured the most important pieces of Doxygen. Read part 3a and part 3b for the work we did on the PHP Preprocessor. This time, we'll use my own DoxyAssist tool to have lots of work done for us automatically. Time to make the documentation useful!
Announcing DoxyAssist!
For my series of blogs regarding Drupal documentation and the Qt Assistant, I wanted get modular API documentation. Having everything thrown into a big bucket - Drupal Core and all contributed modules - became quite messy. On the other hand, having everything separated is just as cumbersome. I needed a tool which automatically discovers modules and builds the documentation for me. Then bundle everything in one Qt Help Collection with appropriate filters, so I can view everything together or each module's documentation separately, switching quickly in one interface. DoxyAssist to the rescue!
Sinterklaas Song, Denglish Style #2
By popular demand (read: 2 people asked for it), another Sinterklaas song in Denglish* style. The last one of this year, too.
* Note that Wikipedia refers to "Denglisch" as a mixture of German and English. Perhaps Dunglish is the better term in this case... Either way, I'm talking about mixing Dutch and English. My Denglisch (the German variant) is probably far worse than my Denglish/Dunglish.
Sinterklaas Song, Denglish Style
Since tomorrow is Sinterklaas and I've been convinced to do some blogging, here's a nice Sinterklaas song. In the spirit of globalization, I've personally translated it in Denglish, such that the average* Dutch person can still understand the words.
Sims Tools Sources: Now Open!
It's been a very long time since the Sims community was very active with the Sims 1. At the time I developed two applications for the game: The Neighborhood Handler and The Add-on Handler. Almost three years ago I decided to make the source code of these two available under the GPL2 license. Time has passed and although the source was publicly available online, it was never really announced. Time to change that, so here's the announcement (and more)!
Drupal Development made easier with Qt Assistant - Part 3b
Remember when last time we fixed Doxygen comments of Drupal so they would look right even when using Doxygen? It's time for another part in the series, and we'll continue with some more fixing. Do you still need to get set up, because perhaps you missed the earlier parts? Please (re)read parts 1, 2 and especially 3a before you move on. This time: getting in-depth topics such as the Forms API working as expected. Let's go!
Drupal Development made easier with Qt Assistant - Part 3a
Welcome back! It's been a while since I posted parts one and two of this series (yeah, I should blog more often...). Remember I was making Drupal documentation available in the Qt Assistant, a useful documentation viewer? Nice. I have some good news: I have spent some time again to get the documentation in decent order. So, without furder ado, let's continue!
MacDesperate now Online!
After quite a long time (well over a year), we finally launched MacDesperate last Sunday. We are me, Rosana, Alex and Wouter. Of course, MacDesperate is powered by Drupal. Rosana and Wouter are saving up for macs - they're the real MacDesperates - and my Donation Goals module helps them keep track of their progress. The first donations are already in. Now it's time for you to support them! Don't hesitate and go to MacDesperate.com! We've got goodies!
Drupal Development made easier with Qt Assistant - Part 2
In the previous part of this walk-through, we installed the necessary software to get our Drupal API documentation in Qt Assistant. The next step is to actually generate the documentation so we can browse through it, search it and more. If you haven't done so already, read part 1 so you're sure to have the right software...


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Landera is a drag and drop page builder which makes you to design live any layout that you can imagine. Also it provides an advanced grid system and skin customizer that makes you to build professional layouts on your pages. Also it provides an administration section where site admins manage tons of page options. It's really easy to customize and you don't need programming skills.
Features (Free Lite version):
- drag and drop page builder
- Front End and Back End mode
- advanced grid system
- Template included
- real time design with custom styling
- Customize Everything
- Undo/Redo feature. you can rollback your changes
- Duplication option for fields
- Use WordPress editor to support rich text formatting, HTML and shortcodes
- all fields included: Grid column (col 1, col 2, col 3, col 4, col 6, col 12), text editor, html editor, heading (H1,H2,H3,H4,H5,H6), and button
- over 650 custom fonts with live preview
- option to duplicate fields
- option to duplicate fields
- Multi Language support (Spanish, Italian, French, Russian, German, Portuguese, Chinese)
- Fully responsive design
- Cross Browser : ie8, ie9, ie10, chrome, firefox, safari, opera
- toured guide option
- Easily customize your pages, fields and tons of features
- Extended HTML documentation.
- Language Switcher
Landera – Ultimate Page Builder Premium
If you like Landera Lite, you might want to give our premium offering a try. All features locked on express version are unlocked on premium version:
- Import and export feature for your posts or pages
- Priority support and upgrades.
- and many other great features
Try out Landera Premium
More info in https://landera.softdiscover.com/
Landera Page Builder Features
Intuitive Drag and Drop Interface
Lightweight, easy to use interface that you and your clients will love. Creating pages and posts is easier than ever. No programming knowledge required!
Easily Extendable
Third party developers, please join the party! Create your own plugins for Landera Page Builder for your themes, or for sale here on CodeCanyon.
Frontend Editor
Enjoy a "What You See Is What You Get" page building experience with our amazing frontend editor. See how your content will look on the frontend, instantly, with no additional clicks or switches.
Backend Editor
Prefer to work on backend? No problem! Landera Page Builder still supports native content management on the backend, with all the important functions and options at your fingertips.
Object Oriented Code
Landera Page Builder uses the most advanced and most effective programming patterns, to get the best results for your site.
Multilingual Ready
.po and .mo files included, for easy translation.
Template System and Library
Copy or re-use existing pages, save pages or parts of pages as templates. Set default templates for your post types.
Responsive Design
Your content will look great on both desktop and mobile sites. Take full control over responsive design – define column size, offsets and display options. Instantly check out how your content is displayed.
User Role Manager
Control user group role access to the features and options of Landera Page Builder, including drag & drop, templates, and elements – manage WordPress default and custom roles.
Custom Post Types Support
Works with any post type… Yes, even custom post types!
Lifetime Update – Free of Charge
We offer automatic updates, free of charge. Stay up to date with Landera Page Builder and receive our latest releases and enhancements.
Shortcode Mapper
No more shortcode copy/paste. Add any third party shortcode to the list of menu elements for re-use. Edit params, values and descriptions.
Design Options
Control how elements look with new Design Options. Set borders, margins, paddings, border radius and background with a few simple clicks. Use color panel and alpha to enhance your design. Create up to date design solutions with ease.
Multi-language Support
Landera Page Builder is compatible with qTranslate X, Polylang and powerful WPML. Build multi-language websites with Landera Page Builder.
SEO Friendly
Landera Page Builder is fully compatible with most popular SEO plugins by Yoast. Make sure your page is getting the attention it deserves!
Advanced Grid Builder
Landera Page Builder has many predefined grid templates for displaying posts, pages, custom post types and media, in grid or masonry grid. Don't like predefined templates? Create your own grid element using Grid Builder.
Full Width and Height Rows
Create full width and height rows with smart stretching options. Control stretching params – stretch just the background, or background with content. Control element placement – in the middle or on top. Build sections in seconds.
Image Filters
Transform your images by applying unique professional image filters to any image from your Media Library. Align your image style in every Landera Page Builder image-powered element – and even featured images – by choosing filters from 20+ available presets.
My Elements (Element Presets)
A simple Landera Page Builder template tool for content elements. Save content element as My Element presets with your own param settings and access new elements from Add Element window.
Column Height, Gaps and Position
Control height of your columns by applying equal height option. Set gaps between columns or merge them together with one click. Control position of columns and content within columns with vertical alignment.
Advanced Custom Fields Support
Landera Page Builder is fully compatible with Advanced Custom Fields (ACF) plugin allowing you to combine power of both plugins to manage and display custom fields on your WordPress website.
Icon Sets and Social Icons
Add icons from most popular icons libraries like 'Font Awesome' with one click only. Add social icons to your WordPress website with icon libraries and specify links.
Custom Types Ready
Create sites with Landera Page Builder and Toolset plugin based on custom post types with ease. No PHP skills required!
Go back and forth with any action performed at Landera Page Builder. Save time and never lose your changes.
No Coding
Reach high-end designs, without coding. The resulting page code is compact & optimized for every device
Inline Editing
Type straight on screen, using the inline editing feature. This makes writing blog posts and other content an easy and intuitive process
Template Library
Choose from over 300 beautifully crafted templates, designed to fit every industry and need
Mobile Editing
Switch to mobile view, and tweak every element to make it look perfect on any device
Translation Ready
Landera has been translated to over 23 different languages, and the list of translated languages is growing
Header and Footer
Customize the header and footer areas of your site visually, without any code
Archive Page
Design your entire blog in Landera, or designate different templates to different areas of your blog
Single Post
Create your blog post template, and attribute it across your site or to any category, page or taxonomy
404 Page
Direct your visitors to custom make 404 pages that can be built entirely inside Landera
Dynamic Content
By using dynamic widgets, building dynamic pages is just as easy as building static ones
Display Conditions
Decide exactly where your global templates appear across your site
Theme Elements
Use the Theme Elements widgets that provides the dynamic placeholder for content that comes later from your website
Search Results Page
Customize your search results page, and improve the experience your users get while searching your site
Revision History
With Revision History, your entire page creation process is saves and can be easily re-traced
Auto Save
Your work is always saved and backed up automatically. No need to click save
Redo Undo
Make a mistake? Quickly undo it with a simple CTRL / CMD Z
Hotkeys are keyboard shortcuts that save you time when performing various actions
Global Colors & Typography
Set the global colors and typography to have them effect the style of your entire site
Custom Color Picker
Customize the colors that appear in your color pickers throughout Landera
Draft Mode
Published a page and want to continue working on it? No problem, simply save it as draft
Global Widget
Save your favorite widget settings and reuse the widget on any page with a simple drag and drop
Easy to customize
Play with the font family, size, weight, transform, style, decoration, line-Height and letter spacing
Google Fonts
Choose from hundreds of Google fonts available in every widget with text
Custom Fonts
Add your own custom and Typekit fonts and use them throughout your projects
TypeKit Integration
Add your own custom and Typekit fonts and use them throughout your projects
Text Shadow
Emphasize your content by adding a text shadow effect to any widget with text
Title HTML Tag
Setting the right HTML tag for the title (H1 or otherwise) is important in terms of SEO
Font size: PX, EM, REM
Set whether your typography is scaled using PX, EM or REM, for better responsive design
Drop Cap
Make the first letter of your blog post larger, to create a stylish and distinguished look
Section Width
Go beyond the oversimplified and generic page designs, by having more control over the various sections
Section Height
Go beyond the oversimplified and generic page designs, by having more control over the various sections
Nested Columns
Create advanced layouts by nesting columns inside a given column. This creates a sort of inner section crucial for certain designs
Column Gap
Change the gaps between columns in order to let your design breathe
Column Width
Enter a specific column width, or visually scale the width by dragging the edge of the column
Content Position
Position your column and content, and stretch the column to the full height of the section
Full Width
Easily create full width pages no matter which theme you are using, with the strech section feature
Margin & Padding
Set the padding & margin for sections, columns and widgets
Background Gradients
With Landera, it's easy to add background gradient colors to any WordPress page or post
Background Overlay
Add another layer of color, gradient or image above your background
Shape Divider
Add interesting shapes that separate the sections of your page in many ways
Box Shadow
Set custom made box shadows visually, without having to deal with CSS
100% Responsive
Use Landera's extensive mobile editing tools to create a website that is truly 100% responsive
Mobile Font Size
With this feature, you can change the font size per device
Responsive Column Width
Choose a different column layout for mobile by changing the column width
Padding and Margin
This feature is used to make a different padding or margin size per device
Reverse Columns
This feature reverses the ordering of columns, so when you go to mobile the last column will appear on top
Responsive Sizing
Choose between PX EM % and VH for sizing inside Landera
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There are 2 ways to install. Please follow the steps below:
Via FTP
- After your download unzip
wp page builder
from your download .zip - Open your FTP client
- Upload the
Landera Lite
folder to /wp-content/plugins/ directory on your hosting server - Activate the Landera Lite plugin through the 'Plugins' menu in WordPress
- Configure the plugin by going to the
Landera Lite
menu that appears in your admin menu
Via backend of WordPress
- After your download, log into backend of your WordPress
- Go to Plugins > Add New
- Click the Upload link
- Click Browse and locate the file that you downloaded and click Install Now
- After WordPress has finished unpacking the file click on Activate Plugin
- After the plugin has been activated you will notice a new menu item on the left hand navigation labelled Landera Lite
Preguntas frecuentes
- How do I use the plugin?
- Create a page or post
- then you will see the three options of zigapge (no builder, backend and frontend builder)
- Drag and drop field to content area
- Tune your options and click on save button to save your changes
- then your page or post is ready
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McDonald's Sales are up for the year, as is the stock price. What is going on with McDonald's?
The big news at the end of the year is that McDonald's stock price is up 35% for the year. Sales are up for the year - by 5% just in October, and another 7% in November Even with the hyped stock price, the 70-cent-a-quarter dividend means the company is paying out at about 2.79%. All this and they have even been raising prices during the year as well.
What is going on at McDonald's? To be sure, the chain has always been a money-maker. There is always a line at the McDonald's in Brunswick, and in Politically-Correct Ithaca. And other chains are struggling. Whataburger recently closed two stores locally, and arguably their food was better.
The stock price has gone up, up, up, which generally means it is a bad time to buy.
So how does McDonald's succeed where others fail? What are they doing that is different or better than the competition? It is hard to say, as the food is not particularly special or unique. All fast-food burgers are pretty much interchangeable. McDonald's has perhaps used the "dollar menu" to its advantage, to at least draw customers in (and then sell them an "upgrade" to a super-sized value meal).
A recent promotion is interesting - they offer "any sized drink" for a dollar. Just guessing here, but they probably are not selling a lot of "small" drinks these days. Soda is cheap, particularly when served from a fountain. So even at a dollar-a-cup, they are making money on pop, no matter what the size is. And the soda sale can lead to a more profitable McRib sale.
The question is, is this a good stock buy? I contemplated buying the stock in January, and only wished now that I did. As you can see from the price chart above, McDonald's did well, even in the recession of 2009. And arguably they tend to do better in a sluggish economy, when people perceive it as a bargain in food (while it really isn't, but that's another story). They are doing well overseas, which is part of the picture. According to one link, breakfast sales and seasonal peppermint coffee drinks are adding to the bottom line.
McDonald's seems to pay a regular dividend - 61 cents a share earlier this year, and 70 cents a share this quarter. But it was not always thus! As you can see from the chart above (and the data below) the company really only started paying regular dividends in 1999.
Dividend History
Date Div*
11/29/11 0.700
08/30/11 0.610
05/27/11 0.610
02/25/11 0.610
11/29/10 0.610
08/30/10 0.550
05/27/10 0.550
02/25/10 0.550
11/27/09 0.550
08/28/09 0.500
06/04/09 0.500
02/26/09 0.500
11/26/08 0.500
08/28/08 0.375
06/05/08 0.375
02/28/08 0.375
11/13/07 1.500
11/13/06 1.000
11/10/05 0.670
11/10/04 0.550
11/12/03 0.400
11/13/02 0.235
11/13/01 0.225
11/13/00 0.215
11/29/99 0.049
08/30/99 0.049
05/27/99 0.049
03/11/99 0.049
11/25/98 0.045
08/27/98 0.045
05/28/98 0.045
02/25/98 0.041
11/26/97 0.041
08/27/97 0.041
05/29/97 0.041
02/26/97 0.037
11/27/96 0.037
08/28/96 0.037
05/31/96 0.037
02/27/96 0.034
11/28/95 0.034
08/29/95 0.034
Prior to that time, Mickey-D's was not a big dividend stock. You could argue that this means the company has matured and no longer needs to plow money back into expansion - and that might be a good argument. It also might mean that the company has nowhere to go, other than to watch margins, keep promoting the products, and trying to eke out a living on the margins on burger sales.
The company has a fairly healthy P/E ratio of 19.66 - so wouldn't this be a good buy? Like I said, it was a good buy in February of this year. Buying at the peak might be less a good deal. And I suspect, that due to all the hoopla in the financial channels today about it being the "biggest winner of 2011" that a lot of people will go out Tuesday morning and do something really, really stupid: buy the stock when it is high.
Part of the problem with the stock is Burger King. Where is Burger King, you ask? Good question. The competition in the burger world is fractured and the No. 2 and No. 3 competitors (actually No. 5 & 7 in the fast food market, see below) are far behind McDonald's. Both Wendy's and Burger King seem to have lost their way, and both have announced major menu changes to overhaul their foods, particularly their fries. Wendy's fries were a disappointing bland, unsalted and undercooked potato - hardly anything the folks at McDonald's worried about.
Burger King, in particular, tried to narrow its market focus to the 18-34 year old male market, which was a strategy that seemed to backfire. The giant fiberglass "King" head promos might have worked with this slacker demographic, but was not about to attract the egg-sandwich-and-coffee-on-the-way-to-work crowd.
The competition, in an effort to distinguish itself from McDonald's, has faltered. People are looking not for something different, but perhaps more of the same, perhaps at a lower price. Have it your way is perhaps less appealing than marketers thought. And Wendy's has always relied on an oddball menu that included chili and something called a "frostie" as well as square hamburgers.
The other chains might be seeing the writing on the wall now, though. And if they can replicate McDonald's success simply by copying it (instead of trying to improve upon it), McDonald's could see sales slide a bit. And it is not a hard model to copy - there are few barriers to entry in the burger field - no high technology, no huge investments, and no Patents to worry about.
The other problem I see for McDonald's is the recession - or the recovery, to be more precise. The economy is improving, slowly, and 2012 will see further recovery, I believe. Unemployment is edging down to the 8% mark (which is not far off where it should be normally) and consumer spending is up. As people feel more secure about themselves and the economy, they will want to spend more, and when that happens, a McRib sandwich isn't going to cut it.
Between these two factors, I see the same-stores sales flattening out. People can only eat so much of the same thing before they get sick of it. And sometime soon, folks will begin to realize this food is horribly bad for you (but then again, well, people are fools).
The odd thing is, if you look at the price of the stock and the dividends in the long term, the last big peak was in 1999, and it bottomed out again in 2002. If you were looking at the stock chart in 1999, it would look identical to the one today, albeit on a smaller scale. And if you bought then, based on earnings in 1999, you'd be crying in 2002 when the stock dropped to 1/3 of its 1999 price.
McDonald's is not a bad stock to buy - you can make a lot of money off of other people's vices, after all. But I think the stock price is a bit high right now for my tastes. I think they could see a serious fall-off in profits next year if the economy recovers and their competitors get their act together. Right now they are doing well, as they have the playing field to themselves. In business, that is a scenario that rarely lasts very long. Nature abhors a vacuum, and the people at Wendy's and Burger King are looking at McDonald's market share the way wolves view a meadow full of lambs.
If (and when) sales drop off at McDonald's, so will the profits, and so will dividends. And that will drive down the stock price as well. So it might not be a bad "long-term" buy in 2012, when the stock price levels or drops. But I am not sure that at $100 a share, it is any big bargain right now. If you bought it at $60 a share, I'd hang onto it - you are making 4.6% just in dividends.
Oddly enough, McDonald's biggest competitor isn't a burger joint, but Subway which is a franchise operation, whose parent company, Doctor's Associates, Inc. (DAI) is a privately held company. As a franchise from a privately held company, financials on Subway are harder to come by. And of course, many of their franchises are of the "gas station" variety - small operations that are tucked into fuel stops, Wal-Marts, and the like.
- Subway - 23,336 U.S. Locations
- McDonald's - 14,000 U.S. Locations
- Starbucks - 11,000 U.S. Locations
- Pizza Hut - 7,566 U.S. Locations
- Burger King - 7,233 U.S. Locations
- Dunkin' Donuts - 6,500 U.S. Locations
- Wendy's - 5,877 U.S. Locations
- Taco Bell - 5,604 U.S. Locations
- Kentucky Fried Chicken (KFC) - 5,162 U.S. Locations
- Domino's Pizza - 4,927 U.S. Locations


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Exclusive: Canada's fiercely anti-Russian Foreign Minister Chrystia Freeland says her Ukrainian grandfather struggled "to return freedom and democracy to Ukraine," but she leaves out that he was a Nazi propagandist justifying the slaughter of Jews, writes Arina Tsukanova.
By Arina Tsukanova
On Jan. 10, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau replaced Foreign Minister Stephane Dion with Chrystia Freeland, a former journalist proud of her Ukrainian roots and well-known for her hostility toward Russia. At the time, a big question in Ottawa was why. Some analysts believed that Trudeau's decision may have started when it still seemed likely that Hillary Clinton would become the new U.S. president and a tough line against Moscow was expected in Washington.
However, by the time the switch was made, Donald Trump was on his way into the White House and Trudeau's choice meant that Canada was allying itself more with the mounting hostility toward Russia inside the European Union than with President Trump's hopes for a more cooperative relationship with the Kremlin. With Freeland running Canada's Foreign Ministry, the chance for a shared view between Ottawa and Washington suddenly seemed remote.
People who have followed Freeland's career were aware that her idée fixe for decades has been that Ukraine must be ripped out of the Russian sphere of influence. Her views fit with the intense Ukrainian nationalism of her maternal grandparents who immigrated to Canada after World War II and whom she has portrayed as victims of Josef Stalin and the Red Army.
So, Freeland celebrated the Soviet collapse in 1991, which enabled Ukraine to gain its independence. Freeland, then in her early 20s, was working in Kiev as a stringer for The Financial Times and The Washington Post, shining with delight over the emergence of a "New Ukraine."
By the next decade, working as the U.S. managing editor of The Financial Times, she proudly interviewed then-Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko, who had won control as a result of the 2004 "Orange Revolution." In her approach to journalism, Freeland made clear her commitment to foment Ukrainian-Russian tensions in any possible way. Indeed, during her journalistic career, which ended in 2013 when she won a seat in Canada's parliament, Freeland remained fiercely anti-Russian.
In 2014, Yushchenko's rival Viktor Yanukovych was Ukraine's elected president while Canadian MP Freeland urged on the "Euro-Maidan" protests against Yanukovych and his desire to maintain friendly relations with Moscow. On Jan. 27, 2014, as the protests grew more violent with ultra-nationalist street fighters moving to the forefront and firebombing police, Freeland visited Kiev and published an op-ed in The Globe and Mail blaming the violence on Yanukovych.
"Democratic values are rarely challenged as directly as they are being today in Ukraine," Freeland wrote, arguing that the protesters, not the elected president, represented democracy and the rule of law. "Their victory will be a victory for us all; their defeat will weaken democracy far from the Euromaidan. We are all Ukrainians now. Let's do what we can — which is a lot — to support them."
Ukraine's 'Regime Change'
Freeland's op-ed appeared at about the same time as her ideological ally, U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Victoria Nuland, was caught on an insecure phone line discussing with U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Geoffrey Pyatt who the new leaders of Ukraine should be. "Yats is the guy," Nuland said about Arseniy Yatsenyuk while dismissing the E.U.'s less aggressive approach to the crisis with the pithy remark, "Fuck the E.U." Nuland and Pyatt then pondered how to "glue this thing" and "midwife this thing."
Several weeks later, on Feb. 20, a mysterious sniper shot both police and protesters, touching off a day of bloody mayhem. On Feb. 22, armed rioters seized government buildings and forced Yanukovych to flee for his life. He was then impeached without the constitutional rules being followed. Yatsenyuk became prime minister, and Western governments quickly pronounced the new regime "legitimate."
The new xenophobic regime in Kiev – bristling with hostility toward ethnic Russian Ukrainians – did not embarrass Freeland. As Canada's newly appointed minister of international trade, Freeland met frequently with Ukrainian officials, more so than with many of Canada's leading trade partners.
But the more troubling question is whether Freeland's devotion to Ukrainian nationalism is rooted not in her commitment to the "rule of law" or "democratic values" or even the well-being of the Ukrainian people whose living standards have declined sharply since the Feb. 22, 2014 putsch (amid continued government corruption), but in her devotion to her Ukrainian grandparents whom she still views as victims of Stalin and the Red Army.
Last Aug. 24, reflecting on so-called Black Ribbon Day, which lumps together the crimes of Josef Stalin and Adolf Hitler (with Stalin getting top billing), she wrote on Twitter, "Thinking of my grandparents Mykhailo & Aleksandra Chomiak on Black Ribbon Day. They were forever grateful to Canada for giving them refuge and they worked hard to return freedom and democracy to Ukraine. I am proud to honour their memory today."
In her autobiography, Freeland presents her grandparents in the following way: "My maternal grandparents fled western Ukraine after Hitler and Stalin signed their non-aggression pact in 1939. They never dared to go back, but they stayed in close touch with their brothers and sisters and their families, who remained behind."
According to Freeland, her grandfather Mykhailo Chomiak was "a lawyer and journalist before the Second World War, but they [her grandparents] knew the Soviets would invade western Ukraine (and) fled." After the war, her mother was born in a refugee camp in Germany before the family immigrated to western Canada, Freeland wrote.
Freeland's grandfather was allegedly able to get a visa only thanks to his sister who had crossed the ocean before the war. The family story told by Freeland portrays her grandparents as World War II victims, but that is not the real or full story.
Chrystia Freeland's dark family secret is that her grandfather, Mykhailo Chomiak, faithfully served Nazi Germany right up to its surrender, and Chomiak's family only moved to Canada after the Third Reich was defeated by the Soviet Union's Red Army and its allies – the U.S. and Great Britain.
Mykhailo Chomiak was not a victim of the war – he was on the side of the German aggressors who collaborated with Ukrainian nationalists in killing Russians, Jews, Poles and other minorities. Former journalist Freeland chose to whitewash her family history to leave out her grandfather's service to Adolf Hitler. Of course, if she had told the truth, she might never have achieved a successful political career in Canada. Her fierce hostility toward Russia also might be viewed in a different light.
Freeland's Grandfather
According to Canadian sources, Chomiak graduated from Lviv University in western Ukraine with a Master's Degree in Law and Political Science. He began a career with the Galician newspaper Dilo (Action), published in Lviv. After the start of World War II, the Nazi administration appointed Chomiak to be editor of the newspaper Krakivski Visti (News of Krakow).
So the truth appears to be that Chomiak moved from Ukraine to Nazi-occupied Poland in order to work for the Third Reich under the command of Governor-General Hans Frank, the man who organized the Holocaust in Poland. Chomiak's work was directly supervised by Emil Gassner, the head of the press department in the Polish General Government.
Mikhailo Chomiak comfortably settled his family into a former Jewish (or Aryanized) apartment in Krakow. The editorial offices for Krakivski Visti also were taken from a Jewish owner, Krakow's Polish-language Jewish newspaper Nowy Dziennik. Its editor at the time was forced to flee Krakow for Lviv, where he was captured following the occupation of Galicia and sent to the Belzec extermination camp, where he was murdered along with 600,000 other Jews.
So, it appears Freeland's grandfather – rather than being a helpless victim – was given a prestigious job to spread Nazi propaganda, praising Hitler from a publishing house stolen from Jews and given to Ukrainians who shared the values of Nazism.
On April 24, 1940, Krakivski Visti published a full-page panegyric to Adolf Hitler dedicated to his 51st birthday (four days earlier). Chomiak also hailed Governor-General Hans Frank: "The Ukrainian population were overjoyed to see the establishment of fair German authority, the bearer of which is you, Sir Governor-General. The Ukrainian people expressed this joy not only through the flowers they threw to the German troops entering the region, but also through the sacrifices of blood required to fight Polish usurpers." (Because of Frank's role in the Holocaust, the Nuremberg Tribunal found him guilty of crimes against humanity and executed him.)
Beyond extolling Hitler and his henchmen, Chomiak rejoiced over Nazi military victories, including the terror bombings of Great Britain. While praising the Third Reich, Krakivski Visti was also under orders by the German authorities to stir up hatred against the Jewish population. Editorial selections from Chomiak's newspaper can be found in Holocaust museums around the world, such as the one in Los Angeles, California.
The Nov. 6, 1941 issue of Krakivski Visti ecstatically describes how much better Kiev is without Jews. "There is not a single one left in Kiev today, while there were 350,000 under the Bolsheviks," the newspaper wrote, gloating that the Jews "got their comeuppance."
That "comeuppance" refers to the mass shooting of Kiev's Jewish population at Babi Yar. In just two days, Sept. 29-30, 1941, a total of 33,771 people were murdered, a figure that does not include children younger than three years old. There were more shootings in October, and by early November, Krakivski Visti was enthusing over a city where the Jewish population had "disappeared" making Kiev "beautiful, glorious." Chomiak's editorials also described a Poland "iinfected by Jews."
According to John-Paul Himka, a Canadian historian of Ukrainian origin, Krakivski Visti stirred up emotions against Jews, creating an atmosphere conducive to mass murder. In 2008, the Institute of Historical Research at Lviv National University published a paper co-authored by Himka entitled "What Was the Attitude of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists toward the Jews?" The paper states that, by order of the German authorities, Krakivski Visti published a series of articles between June and September 1943 under the title "Yids in Ukraine" that were written in an extremely anti-Semitic and pro-Nazi vein. The Canadian historian writes that Jews were portrayed as criminals, while Ukrainians were portrayed as victims.
Refuge in Canada
As the war turned against the Nazis and the Red Army advanced across Ukraine and Poland, Nazi propagandist Emil Gassner took Mykhailo Chomiak in 1944 to Vienna where Krakivski Visti continued to publish. As the Third Reich crumbled, Chomiak left with the retreating German Army and surrendered to the Americans in Bavaria, where he was placed with his family in a special U.S. military intelligence facility in Bad Wörishofen, a cluster of hotels situated 78 kilometers from Munich in the foothills of the Alps.
The Chomiak family was given accommodations, living expenses and health care. In her biography, Freeland refers to it only as "a refugee camp." In September 1946, Mikhailo Chomiak's daughter Halyna was born in that spa town. In May 1948, the facility was closed and Chomiak, the former Nazi editor, departed for Canada.
While it is true that the sins of a grandfather should not be visited on his descendants, Freeland should not have misled the public on history of such importance, especially when her deceptions also concealed how she partly developed her world view. The family's deep hostility toward Russia appears to have been passed down from Mikhailo Chomiak's generation to his granddaughter Chrystia Freeland.
Like many of today's Ukrainian nationalists, including pockets of post-World War II immigrants in Canada and the United States, Freeland glosses over the violent abuses of the current regime in Kiev toward ethnic Russians, including the fatal firebombing of the Trade Union Building in Odessa and enlistment of neo-Nazi militias to prosecute the so-called "Anti-Terror Operation" against ethnic Russian rebels in the Donbass region. Overall, the conflict has killed some 10,000 people, including many ethnic Russian civilians.
But Freeland only sees "Russian aggression" and vows to maintain an unrelentingly hard line to punish Moscow. So, the pressing question about Freeland is whether her family history makes her incapable of an objective assessment of this dangerous New Cold War crisis. Is a person who describes her Nazi-collaborating grandfather as someone who "worked hard to return freedom and democracy to Ukraine" fit to represent Canada to the world?
Arina Tsukanova is a Russian Ukrainian journalist from Kiev currently living in Crimea. Before the Euromaidan she used to work for several Ukrainian newspapers, now closed.


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London's colorful mayor, Boris Johnson, has made it a priority to get more of his constituents on two wheels. But a series of deaths on the city's roads have shaken cyclists and noncyclists alike.
The number of Londoners cycling to work has more than doubled in the past decade. On some roads, cyclists now make up more than half the rush hour traffic.
And for years, Johnson has been among them. Many think the London mayor has his eye on Prime Minister David Cameron's job.
The libertarian-leaning Johnson is rarely seen in a helmet. He won't be bullied into wearing one, he says.
But it's his public, not his personal, safety choices that have him in the firing line: Fourteen London cyclists have been killed so far this year. That's a higher casualty count than that of the British military in Afghanistan.
The city's cycling commissioner, Andrew Gilligan, calls the latest deaths a statistical blip, though a tragic one.
"It's difficult to see any pattern: The number of fatalities is on course to be roughly what it was last year," he says.
But at London's Waterloo station, Tom Bogdanovich of the London Cycling Campaign says there is a pattern to the deaths.
"They do happen on busy roads, and they do happen at junctions," he says. "And they do — very often — happen between very large vehicles and vulnerable road users like cyclists and pedestrians."
As he talks, trucks and buses hurtle by the station's bike stands, which can hold 300 bicycles.
Several of the latest deaths happened on the mayor's so-called cycle superhighways — blue-painted lanes on busy streets where cyclists theoretically have priority.
And all the accidents involved heavy goods vehicles — HGVs — the trucks that trundle through the capital 24 hours a day.
That's led to calls for HGVs to be banned during commuting hours, the way they are in Paris, and for barriers to protect bike lanes.
The London mayor says his team is constantly reviewing safety.
"Do not underestimate our ambition, our determination to make this a truly fantastic place to be a cyclist," Johnson said.
But he also infuriated many cyclists by saying they should be more careful.
When bike blogger Mark Ames suggested a protest ride through some of the capital's worst accident hot spots, hundreds of his fellow cyclists turned up.
"People in London are furious," he says. "This is a leadership crisis for Boris Johnson: He's been encouraging people to cycle in London for five years now. In that time, 80 people have been killed."
There's pragmatism behind the mayor's drive to encourage bicycle use: It's the fastest, cheapest way to take pressure off London's straining public transportation system.
But Johnson has been encouraging vehicle use, too.
As a contrarian, conservative, car-loving columnist, he once wrote that the natural response to a speed bump is an SUV. And as mayor, he's reduced the size of the congestion zone, the area in central London that drivers have to pay to enter.
He says it's all an effort to make it easier for goods to get to market and for Londoners to get to work to keep the capital's economy competitive.
Back at Waterloo station, management consultant Rupert Angel unlocks his mountain bike. He says he always keeps to quiet back streets; that's why the recent fatalities have left him unfazed.
"Because there's a lot of people cycling and some people will get knocked off," he says. "And I don't cycle on roads where people are going too fast."
This week, the mayor announced that 2,000 additional police will be on the streets, enforcing all traffic laws. And he said he wants to crack down on cyclists wearing headphones.
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Having an instrument rating doesn't mean that you have to fly in the clouds-it just means that you can, legally. In fact, the FAA doesn't require a pilot to have any experience whatsoever flying in actual IMC in order to qualify for, or maintain, an instrument rating. An instrument rated pilot could go his or her entire flying career flying the requisite six approaches every six months using a view-limiting device in VMC with safety pilot or instructor watching for traffic.
There's certainly nothing wrong with an instrument-rated pilot who never flies in actual IMC, as long as the pilot adjusts his or her personal flying minimums accordingly. After all, there are plenty of perks to be reaped from the instrument rating besides the ability to fly through clouds, not the least of which is a "free pass" through Class B airspace and the comfort and increased safety that comes from being in constant contact with air traffic controllers, especially on a lonely, moonless night. In some parts of the country, like the desert Southwest, it may be near impossible to find any clouds to fly through. But for the majority of us who live in places where haze, fog and clouds are a fact of life, being comfortable flying through these weather phenomena makes the instrument rating much more satisfying to achieve and useful to maintain.
In my October 2008 "Ground School" column in IFR Refresher, I related an experience that I recently had with a student flying in actual IMC. The student told me after we landed that flying in the clouds was fun and exciting, but also humbling. The stakes are higher when you can't peek outside and see the horizon.
A few weeks later I invited my friend and fellow flight instructor Will Russell to join me on a flight in actual IMC. We documented the flight in our flying club's Cessna 172 by taking photos and recording cockpit voice communications, so that IFR Refresher readers might experience what it's like to fly IFR on a cloudy day in busy airspace. For those of you who have been flying IFR for years and are comfortable flying in IMC, we hope that this presentation will provide an opportunity for you to reflect on your personal flying habits and experiences, and whether there are any specific skills you need to work on. For those of you who are new to instrument flying or have never flown through a cloud before, we hope that you will consider giving it a try sometime with a qualified, experienced instructor or instrument pilot.
Before Takeoff
I filed an IFR flight plan from our home base, Montgomery County Airpark in Gaithersburg, Maryland to Culpeper Regional Airport in Culpeper, Virginia, a straight-line distance of 50.4 miles.
The weather forecast for the day called for scattered to broken clouds at about 2,000 feet throughout the area, with a slight chance of precipitation throughout the day but no thunderstorms. Surface visibility was forecast to be better than 6 miles throughout the area. The winds aloft forecast indicated we could expect about a 15-knot headwind on the way to Culpeper, which translated to an estimated flight time of one hour including takeoff, climb, vectors along the route, approach and landing.
The Montgomery County AWOS reported winds from 220 at 6 knots, visibility 10 miles, broken clouds at 1,700 feet with an overcast ceiling at 2,200 feet, temperature 21C, dew point 18C, and altimeter 30.19. With winds generally out of the south-southwest, we anticipated flying the RNAV (GPS) Rwy 22 approach at Culpeper.
Will contacted Potomac Clearance Delivery for our IFR clearance, which would first take us northeast toward the Westminster VORTAC and then radar vectors to join V214 toward Martinsburg, West Virginia. However, experience told us that the more likely scenario was some amended route after departure.
Click here to listen (MP3 file).
Departure and Climb
We were released for departure at 10:30 a.m. with Will at the controls as pilot in command of N52126. As he climbed out of the Gaithersburg traffic pattern to our initial assigned altitude of 3,000 feet, our visual scan of the instruments intensified as we prepared to enter a sea of white and gray marshmallow fluff.
Click here to listen (MP3 file).
Cruise and Approach Briefing
After the Potomac Approach controller identified us on radar, we were immediately given vectors to the northwest and a climb to 4,000 feet.
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A few minutes and a frequency change later, a different and very busy controller told us to fly direct to TICON intersection, and then vectored us to the southwest. He asked us to tell him the type of approach we wanted to fly into Culpeper and to advise when we had the weather there. Listening to the AWOS provided its own unique challenges.
Click here to listen (MP3 file).
Accurate and timely radio communications are critical to the safe and smooth flow of IFR traffic, especially in congested Class B airspace. Listen to what happens when two experienced pilots do their best to comply with the demands of a busy and clearly agitated air traffic controller, who makes a simple mistake and does not realize that he has done so. In high-workload, tense situations such as this, it is critical for the pilot to maintain situational awareness at all times while monitoring the flight instruments in IMC. Will made extensive use of our aircraft's single-axis autopilot to initiate turns and maintain assigned headings throughout the flight.
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Will and I were relieved when we were handed off to yet another controller, who would eventually issue our approach clearance into Culpeper. As we continued flying south, it became apparent that this controller had his work cut out for him to vector us to the right (to the west) once we passed Washington Dulles International Airport.
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Approach and Landing
Once we were south of Dulles, the controller descended us to 3,000 feet, the initial altitude for the GPS approach into Culpeper. He had to vector us around other traffic that was headed for the Manassas Regional Airport in Manassas, Virginia. But since we were in and out of the clouds, we knew that we probably would not be able to establish or maintain visual separation with them.
Click here to listen to Part 1 and click here to listen to Part 2 (MP3 files).
As we got closer to Culpeper, another challenge presented itself. An aircraft departed Culpeper VFR with the intention of landing at Manassas. It seemed as though he wanted to pick up an instrument clearance in the air, but also had a VFR ADIZ flight plan on file, which is required because Manassas is located inside the Washington, D.C. ADIZ. The controller was not able to see the VFR aircraft on radar, so in order to maintain separation between us he asked us to climb back up to 4,000 feet.
Click here to listen (MP3 file).
Once the controller sorted out the situation with the VFR aircraft going into Manassas, he instructed us to descend back down to 3,000 feet. He then issued us a clearance to begin the GPS approach, which Will had already loaded into the Garmin GNS430W. The controller advised us that there would be a King Air behind us on the approach, and subtly hinted that he'd appreciate it if we could cancel our IFR clearance in the air with him prior to landing. Will responded that he would cancel "as soon as it's practical," meaning as soon as we were able to without sacrificing safety. Remember that canceling an instrument clearance in the air offers little benefit to the pilot flying the approach, although it may allow the controller to sequence the next aircraft in the queue earlier than if the pilot on the approach waits until he lands to cancel the clearance.
Click here to listen (MP3 file).
Crossing the initial approach fix (DOYAT) inbound Will began a descent as the GPS-based glide slope started to show signs of life.
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The GNS430W indicated "LPV" which meant the glide slope was available, so our minimum descent altitude on this approach would be 657 feet after crossing the final approach fix (CALPE) at 2,200 feet.
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With the pre-landing checklist completed, it was time for Will to land the airplane. Listen to how Will ignores the request of the King Air pilot who is waiting for us to cancel so that the controller can clear him for the approach.
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But I don't care how you feel about the man ... this is really horrible. A tragic and undignified end to a man who rose above ghetto origins and early gang involvement by exploiting whatever natural talents he had, be they lighthearted, like breakdancing, or deadly serious, like the power to shake an entire city block from its foundations through psychokinetic force of will.
Brash and headstrong? Maybe. But you don't you almost have to be to put on a costume and take on crazed supervillains and alien conquerors? He could have become a supervillain himself, and although his own superpower was a supremely destructive one, he worked to use it to help others and better himself. I prefer to see him as a model of restraint rather than excess.
He was, as I've posited before, essentially a Golden Age hero, despite his Big Eighties' stylings. A bright costume of red, yellow, and green; a happy-go-lucky attitude of unbridled confidence toward fighting crime, to the point of foolhardy bravado; as likely to use his fists as his superpower; not much concerned with others' opinion of him and what he did. Like the Golden Agers, he never forgot that his "secret identity" was his real identity, never forgot that he was a kid from the streets ... who just happened to be in the Justice League.
And for that, he was killed. The man who caused his death hadn't ever even heard of him. Who he really was irrelevant. He just ... happened to be in the Justice League.
And when he died (at what, maybe 25 years old, tops?), there was no one there for him. No one to help. No one even to witness.
No chance to sacrifice himself saving the innocent, or the multiverse, or his colleagues. No noble fairwell speech.
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Something striking happened during the first year of the pandemic. The rate of gun homicides rose to a level that has not been seen in more than a quarter of a century. NPR's Nell Greenfieldboyce is looking into the new data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Nell, good morning.
NELL GREENFIELDBOYCE, BYLINE: Good morning.
INSKEEP: What are the numbers?
GREENFIELDBOYCE: So it's not great. It's demoralizing and depressing, in fact. This report looked at homicides and suicides that involved guns from 2019 through 2020. It was just a big analysis, looking across all kinds of different things - age, gender, race, ethnicity - it looked at small towns and big cities, you know, rural areas. And what the researchers found was a striking increase in the gun homicide rate. It's the highest it's been since 1994. So in 2020, it was up 35% compared to the year before. That equates to about 5,000 more deaths in just one year.
INSKEEP: Wow. That's going back to an era when there was way more crime in America. And that's enough deaths that I'm sure it affects every kind of person in America. But are the numbers worse for some people than others?
GREENFIELDBOYCE: Yes. So the largest increase was seen for Black males who were already at a higher risk of gun violence. The gun homicide rate for Black boys and young men aged 10 to 24 was more than 21 times as high as the rate for white boys and men in the same age group.
INSKEEP: Wow.
GREENFIELDBOYCE: In addition, people living in counties with higher levels of poverty had gun homicide rates that were higher and showed larger increases. But all that said, the gun homicide rate was just up overall in, you know, in cities and rural areas and across all ages and genders.
INSKEEP: Did the stress from the pandemic cause this?
GREENFIELDBOYCE: A study like this one can't really tell you the why. There was a lot going on that year. In 2020, for example, there was also a big surge in gun purchases. But when I asked Debra Houry about the potential causes - she's the acting principal deputy director of the CDC - she told me it's notable that the researchers saw higher rates of both gun homicide and gun suicide in places that are dealing with poverty.
DEBRA HOURY: When you look at the pandemic, things like job loss, economic stressors, social isolation, these were already hard-hit communities. And so this could have impacted them more.
GREENFIELDBOYCE: She says addressing those kinds of stressors with things like housing assistance and, you know, tax credits can actually help prevent gun violence.
INSKEEP: You mentioned suicide there. Let me follow up on that. What does the study say about suicide as opposed to homicide?
GREENFIELDBOYCE: So the study also looked at guns involved in suicide. And it's worth noting here that most gun deaths in this country are from suicide, not homicide. And what they found is while the overall suicide rate actually went down in 2020, the rate of gun suicides didn't. It didn't change that much...
GREENFIELDBOYCE: ...Although it did go up in some groups like Native Americans and Alaska Native males.
INSKEEP: Now, can I just note, it's really interesting and helpful to get this data from the CDC. And I think it's the kind of data that the CDC wasn't allowed to gather once upon a time. How different are things today?
GREENFIELDBOYCE: Well, they've always been allowed to gather data. But what they are doing now that's a little different is that Congress loosened an old restriction and provided some funding. So they're now doing research into ways of preventing gun violence that they probably wouldn't have done before. They're funding about 18 new projects, looking at different things.
INSKEEP: NPR's Nell Greenfieldboyce, thanks so much. And if you or someone you know may be considering suicide, contact the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline - 800-273-8255. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.


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That's why this slice of happiness sneaked in for the monthly Hero Arts challenge before the deadline.
And to the new challenge (couldn't even begin to get my head around the last one!) at CASual Fridays.
And there's an Emboss Resist challenge/blog hop at Blockhead Stamps. Check out the tutorial Colleen D. did here. And if you scroll down you will find the link to Blockhead and the challenge info.
Used my WMS doily to create a sun image. IMO at least.
Folded yellow CS and die cut card base being careful to place the die above the fold so that the top would remain folded. Duh. Die cut white top piece and the window out of it then stamped the flowers and message. Strange place for a button? Three guesses and the first two don't count.
A smudge.
Attached the image to the card base and the white panel with foam adhesive. That's it for now. It will become either a birthday or get well card when it grows up :)
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Latin American leaders bring drug policy debate to the United Nations
At the annual UN General Assembly meeting held in New York, presidents from around the world have the chance to state their views on the key international issues of the day. Not surprisingly, the crisis in Syria, Iran's pursuit of nuclear weapons and the Millennium Development Goals took center stage this year. Yet a careful viewing of the speeches of the Latin American presidents illustrates the growing voice of Latin American leaders calling for meaningful reform of drug control policies.
Across the region, a dynamic debate – focused on the failure of present drug control policies to achieve their desired objectives and the need for more effective and humane alternatives – is underway, most recently evident in an innovative report on drug policy released by the Organization of American States (OAS) and the Declaration of Antigua from the June 2013 OAS General Assembly meeting calling for an Extraordinary Session focused on drug policy to be held in 2014. Last week at the UN, Colombia, Costa Rica, Guatemala and Mexico united in bringing this regional debate to the General Assembly meeting, calling for consideration of alternative approaches to the drug issue, and for the efforts underway within the OAS to be used as tools for debate within the UN in the lead up to the UN General Assembly Special Session (UNGASS) on drugs to be held in New York in 2016.
The governments of Costa Rica, Guatemala and Mexico all called for developing more effective responses to drug trafficking based on promoting public health, respect for human rights and harm reduction. (Interestingly, all three countries used "reducción de daños" in their speeches, or harm reduction in English, though it was translated into "impact reduction", "lessening damages" and "damage reduction" in the three speeches respectively.) In doing so, they essentially called for a paradigm shift – from a security approach to a public health and human rights-based approach – in dealing with issues related to illicit drugs. At the same time they recognized the need to reduce the levels of violence associated with the drug trade and reiterated a growing call from the region for increased international efforts to decrease the illegal flow of arms and money that fuel criminal networks. Finally, they united in calling for an open and wide-ranging debate leading up to the 2016 UNGASS, and pointed to the Declaration of Antigua of the General Assembly of the OAS as a "first step which leads us to the desired direction" towards the 2016 UNGASS.
Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto could not attend the UN meeting because of the two hurricanes that recently ravaged his country. Nonetheless, the speech given by the Mexican Foreign Minister, José Antonio Meade Kuribreña, is the first indication that recently-elected President Peña Nieto is assuming the international leadership role on drug policy bequeathed to him by his predecessor, Felipe Calderón. At the September 2012 UN General Assembly meeting, the presidents of Colombia, Guatemala and Mexico issued a formal statement underscoring the need to "review the approach" of present drug policies and calling on the UN to "exercise its leadership… and conduct a profound reflection to analyze all available options, including regulatory market measures, in order to establish a new paradigm that prevents the flow of resources to groups involved in organized crime." As a result of their efforts, it was announced that an UNGASS would be convened in early 2016 on the "world drug problem." Since taking office in December 2012, President Peña Nieto has repeatedly said that he is not in favor of legalization but supports drug policy debate. However, until Mexico's Sept. 26 speech, he has said little else on the issue and his government has kept a low profile in the OAS and other regional forums where drug policy has been discussed. Now President Peña Nieto has cast his lot with fellow presidents calling for a new approach to drug policy.
Guatemalan President Otto Pérez Molina went furthest of all in his comments, both in his address to the UN and in a separate speech at Columbia University. At the UN, in addition to the statement coordinated with Costa Rica and Mexico, President Pérez Molina commended the "visionary decision" of the citizens of the States of Colorado and Washington on their recent enactment of legal, regulated marijuana markets, as well as President Obama for his "wise decision of respecting the voice of the citizens of Washington and Colorado, to allow these innovative experiences to provide results." He also added that the people of Guatemala "respect and are proud of" the government of Uruguay's actions in proposing legislation regulating the cannabis market instead of "following the failed route of prohibition." He emphasized the importance of experimentation with new models by each country to address the drug problem and announced the creation of a National Commission to explore more effective means of dealing with drug issues in Guatemala. Finally, he expressed his hope that the 2016 UNGASS "will draw on these innovative experiences, and pronounce itself decisively for public policies that are subject to objective evaluation."
In his speech at Columbia University, President Pérez Molina not only echoed his commendations of Colorado, Washington and Uruguay, but went one step further by advocating for a system of regulation of all drugs. Calling for "an open and honest discussion" to explore alternatives to the prohibition model, he described efforts to move the debate beyond Latin American by reaching out to heads of state of countries from other regions, including New Zealand, Portugal and the Netherlands, and also said that a discussion on drug reform was being planned at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. Finally, in his speech at Columbia (though, notably, not to the UN) President Molina said that his hope was that the 2016 UNGASS would begin the process of amending the international drug control treaties to "take important steps away from prohibition."
While Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos was more cautious than his colleagues, he reiterated that the "war has not been won," 52 years after the approval of "the Convention that gave the birth certificate to the war on drugs" and hence the need to evaluate "what we are doing and seek ways to be more effective." He underscored the importance of the OAS drug policy report and his expectation that it will be discussed in the UN in lead up to the 2016 UNGASS, concluding that with "a comprehensive vision devoid of ideological or political biases, we will be able to prevent much harm and violence!" That President Santos did not go as far as his colleagues in calling for a paradigm shift is not surprising given the complexity of the political situation at home, where tense negotiations with the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) guerrillas continue – indeed, that was the main focus of his UN speech – and with a potential presidential reelection campaign looming on the horizon. Indeed, some Colombian analysts have said that he is not likely to make any bold moves related to drug policy until after the May 2014 vote. In that context, it is significant that at this year's UN General Assembly meeting, President Santos made clear that he will continue to play a leadership role on the international stage in promoting debate on present policies and the search for more effective alternatives.
What does all of this mean for the 2016 UNGASS? While four speakers out of 195 may not seem significant in terms of impact on the UN process, last week's statements to the General Assembly show that some Latin American leaders are starting to unite around a cohesive message – and to bring that message to the UN's doorstep. Their message is this: The work of the OAS can no longer be ignored. The UN – and the world – needs a new global strategy, which must emerge from an "open and inclusive debate" leading up to the Special Session of the General Assembly in 2016. Towards that end, this debate must include the voices of civil society and broad participation of UN agencies beyond the Commission on Narcotic Drugs. Only through such a process will the 2016 UNGASS offer an opportunity for fundamentally rethinking international drug control policy -- an opportunity that some Latin American presidents have made clear they do not want to be squandered.
This is a joint article by the Washington Office on Latin America (WOLA) and the International Drug Policy Consortium (IDPC).


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The second Alpha of the Saucy Salamander (to become 13.10) has now been released for testers and early adopters.
This alpha features images for Kubuntu, Lubuntu, Ubuntu GNOME, UbuntuKylin, and Xubuntu.
Pre-releases of Saucy Salamander are *not* encouraged for anyone needing a stable system or anyone who is not comfortable running into occasional, even frequent breakage. They are, however, recommended for Ubuntu developers and those who want to help in testing, reporting and fixing bugs as we work towards getting this release ready.
Alpha 2 includes a number of software updates that are ready for wider testing. This is quite an early set of images, so you should expect some bugs.
While these Alpha 2 images have been tested and work, except as noted in the release notes, Ubuntu developers are continuing to improve Saucy Salamander. In particular, once newer daily images are available, system installation bugs identified in the Alpha 2 installer should be verified against the current daily image before being reported in Launchpad. Using an obsolete image to re-report bugs that have already been fixed wastes your time and the time of developers who are busy trying to make 13.10 the best Ubuntu release yet. Always ensure your system is up to date before reporting bugs.
Kubuntu is the KDE based flavour of Ubuntu. It uses the Plasma desktop and includes a wide selection of tools from the KDE project.
The Alpha 2 images can be downloaded at: http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/kubuntu/releases/saucy/alpha-2/
More information on Kubuntu Alpha 2 can be found here: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SaucySalamander/Alpha2/Kubuntu
Lubuntu is a flavour of Ubuntu that targets to be lighter, less resource hungry and more energy-efficient by using lightweight applications and LXDE, The Lightweight X11 Desktop Environment, as its default GUI.
The Alpha 2 images can be downloaded at: http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/lubuntu/releases/saucy/alpha-2/
More information on Lubuntu Alpha 2 can be found here: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SaucySalamander/Alpha2/Lubuntu
Ubuntu GNOME:
Ubuntu GNOME is a flavour of Ubuntu featuring the GNOME desktop environment.
The Alpha 2 images can be downloaded at: http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-gnome/releases/saucy/alpha-2/
More information on Ubuntu GNOME Alpha 2 can be found here: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SaucySalamander/Alpha2/UbuntuGNOME
Xubuntu is Ubuntu flavour with Xfce, which is a stable, light and configurable desktop environment.
The Alpha 2 images can be downloaded at: http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/xubuntu;/releases/saucy/alpha-2/
More information on Xubuntu Alpha 2 can be found here: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SaucySalamander/Alpha2/Xubuntu
UbuntuKylin is a flavour of Ubuntu that is more suitable for Chinese users.
The Alpha 2 images can be downloaded at: http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/ubuntukylin/releases/saucy/alpha-2/
More information on UbuntuKylin Alpha 2 can be found here: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuKylin/1310-alpha-2-ReleaseNote
Regular daily images for Ubuntu (Unity) can be found at: http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/daily-live/current/
If you're interested in following the changes as we further develop Saucy, we suggest that you subscribe to the ubuntu-devel-announce list. This is a low-traffic list (a few posts a week) carrying announcements of approved specifications, policy changes, alpha releases and other interesting events.
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Fishing the Caney Fork
The Caney Fork River - Written by Susan Thraser, Southern Brookies
The Caney Fork River begins near Crossville, Tennessee and is impounded twice over its approximate 140 miles before reaching the Cumberland River. Most notably for trout anglers is the final stretch of river below Center Hill Dam. The dam is located approximately 70 miles east of Nashville, Tennessee. The 16 miles immediately below the dam is the primary stretch of water supporting trout. This section of the river is stocked annually by the (TWRA) Tennessee Wildlife Resource Agency at four main locations: just below the dam, Happy Hollow, Betty's Island and Gordonsville access areas.
TWRA stocks, on average, 220,000 rainbow, brown and brook trout March through November. This winter, November through January, a number of brook trout were stocked in the upper section of the Caney, enticing a number of anglers. Due to heavy generation and continually changing water levels, the river does not support any measurable, natural reproduction. However, hold over trout and the occasional stocking of large brood trout, offer opportunities to hook into fish measuring well over 20 inches. Brook trout rarely exceed 14 inches, but the new state record was caught on the Caney Fork in 2016, measuring just over 20 inches.
Generation Schedule
The daily generation schedule at Center Hill Dam is based primarily on power needs and flood control. The frequent releases provide enough cool water to support trout fishing year round. It is important to check the schedule before venturing out. Water levels can rise suddenly and become dangerous. The schedule can be found either by calling TVA #800-238-2264, #4, #37, or through the TVA website.
Fishing Access
The river is suitable for wading during periods of non-generation; however, the current is too strong for wading under generation. Fishing from kayaks, canoes and drift boats is also very popular during periods of non-generation. Extreme caution should be used when drift fishing during periods of generation and is recommended for experienced boaters only.
Use the link below for public access points and boat ramp locations:
Creel Limits
For detailed information on trout stream fishing regulations, see the trout section of the Tennessee Fishing Guide: https://issuu.com/thebinghamgroup/docs/twrafishing2018_interactive
The regulations for the Caney Fork River are:
- One Brown Over 24" may be harvested (under 24" protected; must be released)
- Rainbows and Brookies under 14" may be harvested (14"- 20" protected; must be released)
- One Rainbow and One Brookie over 20" may be harvested
- Total Creel Combined - 5 Trout
Equipment Suggestions
Rod: The most common outfit for fly fishing the Caney Fork River is a 5 or 6 weight rod in lengths ranging from 8.5 to 9 feet.
Fly Line: Weight forward floating lines are recommended during times of non- generation. Sinking lines are necessary during generation to ensure the flies are able to reach the fish due to the swift current.
Leaders: Fluorocarbon leaders and tippet with overall lengths between 9 and 12 feet and sizes tapering from 3X to 6X (depending on fly size) are recommended.
Flies: The majority of flyfishing is subsurface with midges heavily favored. Dry fly activity is limited; however, the occasional midge, mayfly and caddis hatches are seen a number of times during the year. Terrestrials, such as spiders, grass hoppers and beetles, are used during the summer months. Streamers produce fish year round.
Patterns to take along:
- Eat at Chucks soft hackle
- Zebra midges in various colors
- Bead head pheasant tail
- Scuds and sow bugs
- Woolly Buggers in various colors
- Guacamole stick bugs
- Griffith's gnat
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