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2011 Fisker Karma
The Fisker Karma looks cool, but beauty is only skin-deep.
In a 2009 interview with PluginCars.com, founder Henrik Fisker said, "There's no rule written anywhere that a green car has to be ugly—or small, or uncomfortable. We have so much power, we don't need to make the car small." But you would have expected that the unquestionable beauty of the design would be backed up with efficiency, reliability and safety. By many accounts, Fisker has come up short on these basics.
Where do we start with the problems? How about the efficiency window sticker? The label shows 20 miles per gallon as the car's efficiency when operating on gasoline. Yes, that's what the EPA put on the Karma's window sticker—although you wouldn't know from reading Fisker's press release about the EPA rating, which only talks about the sedan's all-electric mileage equivalent. The major reason for the 20-mpg gas rating has to do with weight—the Karma tips the scales at approximately 5,300 pounds.
Some of the Karma's other EPA numbers aren't exactly overwhelming: 52 miles per gallon equivalent (MPGe) when driven by the dual electric motors. The battery range is officially 32 miles—not the 50 Fisker has been touting.
The company explains away these meh numbers, by encouraging consumers to look at its sleek design and high horsepower. "This is a luxury sports sedan, not a LEAF or Prius," Mr. Fisker told us. "It's filled with advanced technology." It also does zero to 60 in 6.3 seconds.
Fair enough. But the recent history of the Fisker Karma makes the acceleration numbers seem like a distraction from the promise of a cool green plug-in car being ready for prime-time. Are we supposed to be impressed by the Karma's roster of celebrity owners? The list includes teeny-bopper Justin Bieber; former Secretary of State Colin Powell; actor Leonardo DiCaprio; and Ray Lane, a Kleiner Perkins Caufield and Byers partner (along with another Fisker owner, Al Gore). Kleiner Perkins is a multi-million-dollar investor in Fisker, and Lane said in summer 2011 that the company "has the potential to be the same value as [FarmVille creator] Zynga." Now that Zynga's stock price fell by about 70 percent from December 2011 to summer 2012, that sounds about right.
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We won't dwell on the feel from behind the wheel. We appreciate that Karma is very quick off the line, handles with little body roll, and provides a combination of comfort, luxury appointments, and sports-car feel commensurate with a six-figure vehicle. But that's only when it works. It's hard to focus on these accomplishments when the company has racked up so many complaints and problems.
Production delays have been rampant. By December 2011, Fisker Automotive claimed that 225 Karmas had shipped to its US dealerships and that an additional 1,200 units were "in the pipeline." Maybe it's a good thing that more had not been shipped. A123 Systems, makers of the lithium-ion battery packs used in the 2012 Fisker Karma, announced on Dec. 23 that the packs had a "potential safety issue" related to the cooling system. A recall ensued.
In February 2012, Fisker Automotive halted development of future electric cars, and laid off at least 66 employees in the US. Twenty-six of Fisker's Delaware employees and 40 contractors in California were laid off in an attempt to conserve cash as the automaker seeks to renegotiate the terms of its Department of Energy (DOE) loans. Company executives insisted that design, engineering, development and testing of its second vehicle—a mid-size plug-in hybrid referred to as Project Nina—is nearly complete and that production would begin in mid-2013.
Things went from bad to worse in March 2012. That's when Consumer Reports posted this message on its blog: "Our Fisker Karma cost us $107,850. It is super sleek, high-tech—and now it's broken." CR said the Karma was the first car in its 80-year history that became undrivable before it had finished the consumer organization's check-in process. "We have owned our car for just a few days; it has less than 200 miles on its odometer. While doing speedometer calibration runs on our test track, the dashboard flashed a message and sounded a 'bing' showing a major fault," the post read. "At that point, the transmission went into Neutral and wouldn't engage any gear through its electronic shifter except Park and Neutral." Fisker fixed the problem, but the damage to confidence was done.
Fisker reported that the Karma was not responsible for a couple of fire incidents in 2012—but once again, the bad news undermined perception of the vehicle.
In mid-August 2012, Fisker hired Tony Posawatz as the company's chief executive offer. Posawatz previously led development of the Chevy Volt plug-in hybrid, an electrified vehicle with its own history of controversy. But he left GM with his head held high. By summer 2012, the Volt turned around its fortunes with better sales. Perhaps new leadership is required to put the Karma back on track, but it appears that Mr. Posawatz will have his hands full to get the job done. His predecessor as Fisker CEO, Tom LaSorda, a former top executive at Chrysler and General Motors, only lasted six months in the position.


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Step 1
Enter ToC 10 with your guild mates. Accidentally doze off during the explanations of the fight (hey, you're not a DPS!).
Step 2
Penance your way to the Twin Valk'yr fight.
Step 3
Sneak out to the bathroom when the fight is explained and come back just in time to hear what color of bubble you should be bathing in.
Step 4
Run frantically in confusion towards the appropriately colored bubble right next to the boss.
Step 5
Greet the Twin Val'kyr you've just pulled with a hearty hello.
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Step 7
Acquire your new guild nickname, "Lerooooooy Jenkins!". Change your title to the appropriate 'Jenkins' subheading in perpetuity.
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Enjoy the power of your new position by reveling in requests that you 'Jenkins this boss' every single time you encounter one in guild raids.
Congratulations! You are now the face-pullin'-est priest in your realm!

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29 oz can pumpkin
1/4 tsp salt
2 tsp cinnamon
1/2 tsp ginger
1/4 tsp cloves
1 cup brown sugar
3 eggs
14 oz can evaporated milk
1 pkg yellow cake mix
1 stick (1/2 cup) butter, melted
1-2 cups nuts
frozen whipped topping, thawed
In a large mixing bowl, combine pumpkin, salt, cinnamon, ginger, cloves,
sugar and eggs. Blend well. Add milk and blend thoroughly. Pour batter
into a greased 9x13 baking pan. Sprinkle batter with cake mix. Pour
butter over top. Bake at 350F for 30 minutes. Sprinkle with nuts. Bake
for another 20 minutes. Cool. top with whipped topping just before
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This is part of a game I inherited from my grandaunt, Mary Louise Wilcox Brown. I suspect she received it from the game's creator as it has (not shown here) score sheets in an obviously home-crafted bag; the graphics all appear to be created as a sample - one copy of each game form - so this might have been the prototype. Here's what I know:
The apparatus works like a roulette wheel - you push a lever on the side and the wheel inside spins, sending a little ball around and around until the spinning stops. Then, depending on which of the many games one is playing, the cards or pieces are played accordingly. This is obviously many games in one. According to the Catalog of Copyright Entries, Third Series: 1964: January-June, the copyright was applied for in 1964 as "the atomic game of the atomic era"; it is called "52 card roulette." As can be seen on the box, this copyright is 1949 with the phrase "the atomic games [plural] . . ." and notation that it is registered in the US patent office. Was this ever actually sold? Googling "Usedit" gets me nowhere (except to sites where someone forgot to put a space between "used" and "it" . . . lots of sites with that!).
As can be seen on the box, the pronunciation would be "U-sed-it" (as in "you said it"), not "usedit" (as in "used it"). But I see no indication of anyone "saying" one thing or another, so its name alone could be confusing (maybe that's why it was changed by 1964 when the Fiedler names - Irving and Marty - are given as you see them listed here . . . maybe one was the creator and the other was the financial backer . . . Marty Fiedler is listed in another source on games as a "California entrepreneur"). The phrase "flying disc of games" is not included in the 1964 explanation of the product. I would love any ideas on what it is I really have . . . something my grandaunt's friend created? something she picked up at a garage sale? She and her husband, John Brown, played many games and often with friends (they lived in Studio City in the San Fernando Valley of Los Angeles County, California, from about the 1930s until Mary Louise's death in 1995 when John returned to their home state of Texas), so it stands to reason that, if one of their friends had created or come upon a new game, that they (my relatives) would have gotten their hands on it; but it shows little, if any, actual use.
Is it a treasure? You tell me! It was in their game chest, so it's a treasure to me.
Thursday, July 1, 2010
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text: Kyle Dellosa is a junior at Chisholm Trail Academy in Keene, Texas. Kyle started taking violin lessons at age 5 with Janet Melnicoff-Brown at the Peabody Conservatory Preparatory Division in Baltimore Maryland. His subsequent teachers were Swiatoslaw Kuznik, Oksana Sifri, Edgar Valenzuela and currently Dr. Marc Élysée. He regularly participates in University of North Texas Summer Orchestra Camp. Last summer, Kyle attended the UNT String Institute with Dr. Felix Oschofska and the Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary Summer Music Camp to take voice lessons with Dr. David Robinson. He loves to travel with his family and had the opportunity to visit Mozart's birthplace in Salzburg, Austria and see for himself the violin Mozart used when he was a child. He has also attended his mother, Lerie Dellosa, in her organ endeavors including an organ tour through Europe and Philippine Organ research. His father is a Family practice Physician with Texas health Resources (formerly Huguley Medical). Kyle is currently the CTA Junior class president, a member of CTA Blazer tennis team, the Southwestern Symphony Orchestra, CTA Choir and String Orchestra.


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The McDonald's Corporation (
A McDonald's restaurant is operated by either a franchisee, an affiliate, or the corporation itself. McDonald's Corporation revenues come from the rent, royalties, and fees paid by the franchisees, as well as sales in company-operated restaurants. In 2012, McDonald's Corporation had annual revenues of $27.5 billion, and profits of $5.5 billion.[7]
McDonald's primarily sells hamburgers, cheeseburgers, chicken, french fries, breakfast items, soft drinks, milkshakes, and desserts. In response to changing consumer tastes, the company has expanded its menu to include salads, fish, wraps, smoothies, and fruit.[8]
The business began in 1940, with a restaurant opened by brothers Richard and Maurice McDonald at 1398 North E Street at West 14th Street in San Bernardino, California (at 34°07′32″N 117°17′41″W / 34.1255°N 117.2946°W / 34.1255; -117.2946). Their introduction of the "Speedee Service System" in 1948 furthered the principles of the modern fast-food restaurant that the White Castle hamburger chain had already put into practice more than two decades earlier. The original mascot of McDonald's was a man with a chef's hat on top of a hamburger shaped head whose name was "Speedee". Speedee was eventually replaced with Ronald McDonald by 1967 when the company first filed a U.S. trademark on a clown shaped man having puffed out costume legs.
McDonald's first filed for a U.S. trademark on the name "McDonald's" on May 4, 1961, with the description "Drive-In Restaurant Services", which continues to be renewed through the end of December 2009. In the same year, on September 13, 1961, the company filed a logo trademark on an overlapping, double arched "M" symbol. The overlapping double arched "M" symbol logo was temporarily disfavored by September 6, 1962, when a trademark was filed for a single arch, shaped over many of the early McDonald's restaurants in the early years. Although the "Golden Arches" appeared in various forms, the present form as a letter "M" did not appear until November 18, 1968, when the company applied for a U.S. trademark. The present corporation dates its founding to the opening of a franchised restaurant by Ray Kroc, in Des Plaines, Illinois, on April 15, 1955, the ninth McDonald's restaurant overall. Kroc later purchased the McDonald brothers' equity in the company and led its worldwide expansion, and the company became listed on the public stock markets in 1965. Kroc was also noted for aggressive business practices, compelling the McDonald brothers to leave the fast food industry. The McDonald brothers and Kroc feuded over control of the business, as documented in both Kroc's autobiography and in the McDonald brothers' autobiography. The San Bernardino store was demolished in 1976 (or 1971, according to Juan Pollo) and the site was sold to the Juan Pollo restaurant chain. It now serves as headquarters for the Juan Pollo chain, as well as a McDonald's and Route 66 museum.[9] With the expansion of McDonald's into many international markets, the company has become a symbol of globalization and the spread of the American way of life. Its prominence has also made it a frequent topic of public debates about obesity, corporate ethics and consumer responsibility.
The McDonald's headquarters complex, McDonald's Plaza, is located in Oak Brook, Illinois. It sits on the site of the former headquarters and stabling area of Paul Butler, the founder of Oak Brook.[10] McDonald's moved into the Oak Brook facility from an office within the Chicago Loop in 1971.[11]
McDonald's predominantly sells hamburgers, various types of chicken sandwiches and products, French fries, soft drinks, breakfast items, and desserts. In most markets, McDonald's offers salads and vegetarian items, wraps and other localized fare. On a seasonal basis, McDonald's offers the McRib sandwich. Some speculate the seasonality of the McRib adds to its appeal.[12] Various countries, especially in Asia, are currently serving soup. This local deviation from the standard menu is a characteristic for which the chain is particularly known, and one which is employed either to abide by regional food taboos (such as the religious prohibition of beef consumption in India) or to make available foods with which the regional market is more familiar (such as the sale of McRice in Indonesia). In Germany and other Western European countries, McDonald's sells beer. In New Zealand, McDonald's sells meat pies, after the local affiliate partially relaunched the Georgie Pie fast food chain it bought out in 1996.
McDonald's restaurants are found in 118 countries[13] and territories around the world and serve 68 million customers each day.[4] McDonald's operates over 34,000 restaurants worldwide, employing more than 1.7 million people.[13] The company also operates other restaurant brands, such as Piles Café.
Focusing on its core brand, McDonald's began divesting itself of other chains it had acquired during the 1990s. The company owned a majority stake in Chipotle Mexican Grill until October 2006, when McDonald's fully divested from Chipotle through a stock exchange.[14][15] Until December 2003, it also owned Donatos Pizza. On August 27, 2007, McDonald's sold Boston Market to Sun Capital Partners.[16]
Notably, McDonald's has increased shareholder dividends for 25 consecutive years,[17] making it one of the S&P 500 Dividend Aristocrats.[18][19] In October 2012, its monthly sales fell for the first time in nine years.[20]
Most standalone McDonald's restaurants offer both counter service and drive-through service, with indoor and sometimes outdoor seating. Drive-Thru, Auto-Mac, Pay and Drive, or "McDrive" as it is known in many countries, often has separate stations for placing, paying for, and picking up orders, though the latter two steps are frequently combined; it was first introduced in Arizona in 1975, following the lead of other fast-food chains. The first such restaurant in Britain opened at Fallowfield, Manchester in 1986.[21]
In some countries, "McDrive" locations near highways offer no counter service or seating. In contrast, locations in high-density city neighborhoods often omit drive-through service. There are also a few locations, located mostly in downtown districts, that offer Walk-Thru service in place of Drive-Thru.
To accommodate the current trend for high quality coffee and the popularity of coffee shops in general, McDonald's introduced McCafé, a café-style accompaniment to McDonald's restaurants in the style of Starbucks. McCafé is a concept created by McDonald's Australia, starting with Melbourne in 1993. Today, most McDonald's in Australia have McCafés located within the existing McDonald's restaurant. In Tasmania, there are McCafés in every store, with the rest of the states quickly following suit. After upgrading to the new McCafé look and feel, some Australian stores have noticed up to a 60% increase in sales. As of the end of 2003 there were over 600 McCafés worldwide.
Some locations are connected to gas stations/convenience stores,[22] while others called McExpress have limited seating and/or menu or may be located in a shopping mall. Other McDonald's are located in Walmart stores. McStop is a location targeted at truckers and travelers which may have services found at truck stops.[23]
Since 1997, in addition to many in Israel, one kosher McDonald's is located in the Abasto mall, in Buenos Aires, Argentina.[24][25]
McDonald's has become emblematic of globalization, sometimes referred to as the "McDonaldization" of society. The Economist newspaper uses the "Big Mac Index": the comparison of a Big Mac's cost in various world currencies can be used to informally judge these currencies' purchasing power parity. Norway has the most expensive Big Mac in the world as of July 2011, while the country with the least expensive Big Mac is India[26] (albeit for a Maharaja Mac—the next cheapest Big Mac is Hong Kong).[27]
Thomas Friedman once said that no country with a McDonald's had gone to war with another.[28][full citation needed] However, the "Golden Arches Theory of Conflict Prevention" is not strictly true. Exceptions are the 1989 United States invasion of Panama, NATO's bombing of Serbia in 1999, the 2006 Lebanon War, and the 2008 South Ossetia war.
Some observers have suggested that the company should be given credit for increasing the standard of service in markets that it enters. A group of anthropologists in a study entitled Golden Arches East[29] looked at the impact McDonald's had on East Asia, and Hong Kong in particular. When it opened in Hong Kong in 1975, McDonald's was the first restaurant to consistently offer clean restrooms, driving customers to demand the same of other restaurants and institutions. McDonald's has taken to partnering up with Sinopec, the second largest oil company in the People's Republic of China, as it takes advantage of the country's growing use of personal vehicles by opening numerous drive-thru restaurants.[30] McDonald's has opened a McDonald's restaurant and McCafé on the underground premises of the French fine arts museum, The Louvre.[31]
The company stated it will open vegetarian-only restaurants in India by mid-2013.[32]
Some McDonald's in suburban areas and certain cities feature large indoor or outdoor playgrounds. The first PlayPlace with the familiar crawl-tube design with ball pits and slides was introduced in 1987 in the USA, with many more being constructed soon after. Some PlayPlace playgrounds have been renovated into "R Gym" areas.
In 2006, McDonald's introduced its "Forever Young" brand by redesigning all of its restaurants, the first major redesign since the 1970s.[33][34] McDonald's has invested $1 billion to redesign nearly all of the 14,000 restaurants by 2015.
The goal of the redesign is to be more like a coffee shop, similar to Starbucks. The design includes wooden tables, faux-leather chairs, and muted colors; the red was muted to terra cotta, the yellow was turned golden for a more "sunny" look, and olive and sage green were also added. To warm up its look, the restaurants have less plastic and more brick and wood, with modern hanging lights to produce a softer glow. Many restaurants now feature free Wi-Fi and flat screen TVs. Other upgrades include double drive-thrus, flat roofs instead of the angled red roofs, and replacing fiber glass with wood. Also, instead of the familiar golden arches, the restaurants now feature "semi-swooshes" (half of a golden arch), similar to the Nike swoosh.[35]
McDonald's Corporation earns revenue as an investor in properties, a franchiser of restaurants, and an operator of restaurants. Approximately 15% of McDonald's restaurants are owned and operated by McDonald's Corporation directly. The remainder are operated by others through a variety of franchise agreements and joint ventures.
The McDonald's Corporation's business model is slightly different from that of most other fast-food chains. In addition to ordinary franchise fees and marketing fees, which are calculated as a percentage of sales, McDonald's may also collect rent, which may also be calculated on the basis of sales. As a condition of many franchise agreements, which vary by contract, age, country, and location, the Corporation may own or lease the properties on which McDonald's franchises are located. In most, if not all cases, the franchisee does not own the location of its restaurants.
The United Kingdom and Ireland business model is different than the U.S, in that fewer than 30% of restaurants are franchised, with the majority under the ownership of the company. McDonald's trains its franchisees and others at Hamburger University in Oak Brook, Illinois.
In other countries, McDonald's restaurants are operated by joint ventures of McDonald's Corporation and other, local entities or governments.
As a matter of policy, McDonald's does not make direct sales of food or materials to franchisees, instead organizing the supply of food and materials to restaurants through approved third party logistics operators.
According to Fast Food Nation by Eric Schlosser (2001), nearly one in eight workers in the U.S. have at some time been employed by McDonald's. The book also states that McDonald's is the largest private operator of playgrounds in the U.S., as well as the single largest purchaser of beef, pork, potatoes, and apples. The selection of meats McDonald's uses varies to some extent based on the culture of the host country.
McDonald's has for decades maintained an extensive advertising campaign. In addition to the usual media (television, radio, and newspaper), the company makes significant use of billboards and signage, sponsors sporting events ranging from Little League to the Olympic Games, and makes coolers of orange drink with its logo available for local events of all kinds. Nonetheless, television has always played a central role in the company's advertising strategy.
To date, McDonald's has used 23 different slogans in United States advertising, as well as a few other slogans for select countries and regions. At times, it has run into trouble with its campaigns.
McDonald's and NASA explored an advertising agreement for a planned mission to the asteroid 449 Hamburga; however, the spacecraft was eventually cancelled.[36]
McHappy Day is an annual event at McDonald's, where a percentage of the day's sales go to charity. It is the signature fundraising event for Ronald McDonald House Charities.[37]
In 2007, it was celebrated in 17 countries: Argentina, Australia, Austria, Brazil, Canada, the United States, Finland, France, Guatemala, Hungary, England, Ireland, New Zealand, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland and Uruguay.
According to the Australian McHappy Day web site, McHappy Day raised $20.4 million in 2009. The goal for 2010 was $20.8 million.[38]
In 1995, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital received an anonymous letter postmarked in Dallas, Texas, containing a $1 million winning McDonald's Monopoly game piece. McDonald's officials came to the hospital, accompanied by a representative from the accounting firm Arthur Andersen, who examined the card under a jeweler's eyepiece, handled it with plastic gloves, and verified it as a winner.[39] Although game rules prohibited the transfer of prizes, McDonald's waived the rule and has made the annual $50,000 annuity payments, even after learning that the piece was sent by an individual involved in an embezzlement scheme intended to defraud McDonald's (see McDonald's Monopoly).
As a prominent example of the rapid globalization of the American fast food industry, McDonald's is often the target of criticism for its menu, its expansion, and its business practices. The McLibel Trial, also known as McDonald's Restaurants v Morris & Steel, is an example of this criticism. In 1990, activists from a small group known as London Greenpeace (no connection to the international group Greenpeace) distributed leaflets entitled What's wrong with McDonald's?, criticizing its environmental, health, and labor record. The corporation wrote to the group demanding they desist and apologize, and, when two of the activists refused to back down, sued them for libel in one of the longest cases in British civil law. A documentary film of the McLibel Trial has been shown in several countries.
Despite the objections of McDonald's, the term "McJob" was added to Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary in 2003.[40] The term was defined as "a low-paying job that requires little skill and provides little opportunity for advancement".[41]
In 2001, Eric Schlosser's book Fast Food Nation included criticism of the business practices of McDonald's. Among the critiques were allegations that McDonald's (along with other companies within the fast food industry) uses its political influence to increase its profits at the expense of people's health and the social conditions of its workers. The book also brought into question McDonald's advertisement techniques in which it targets children. While the book did mention other fast-food chains, it focused primarily on McDonald's.
In 2002, vegetarian groups, largely Hindu and Buddhist, successfully sued McDonald's for misrepresenting its French fries as vegetarian, when they contained beef broth.[42]
Morgan Spurlock's 2004 documentary film Super Size Me said that McDonald's food was contributing to the epidemic of obesity in society, and that the company was failing to provide nutritional information about its food for its customers. Six weeks after the film premiered, McDonald's announced that it was eliminating the super size option, and was creating the adult Happy Meal.
In response to public pressure, McDonald's has sought to include more healthy choices in its menu and has introduced a new slogan to its recruitment posters: "Not bad for a McJob".[43] (The word McJob, first attested in the mid-1980s[44] and later popularized by Canadian novelist Douglas Coupland in his book Generation X, has become a buzz word for low-paid, unskilled work with few prospects or benefits and little security.) McDonald's disputes this definition of McJob. In 2007, the company launched an advertising campaign with the slogan "Would you like a career with that?" on Irish television, outlining that its jobs have many prospects.
In an effort to respond to growing consumer awareness of food provenance, the fast-food chain changed its supplier of both coffee beans and milk. UK chief executive Steve Easterbrook said: "British consumers are increasingly interested in the quality, sourcing and ethics of the food and drink they buy".[45] In a bid to tap into the ethical consumer market,[46] McDonald's switched to using coffee beans taken from stocks that are certified by the Rainforest Alliance, a conservation group. Additionally, in response to pressure, McDonald's UK started using organic milk supplies for its bottled milk and hot drinks, although it still uses conventional milk in its milkshakes, and in all of its dairy products in the United States.[47] According to a report published by Farmers Weekly in 2007, the quantity of milk used by McDonald's could have accounted for as much as 5% of the UK's organic milk output.[48]
McDonald's announced on May 22, 2008 that, in the United States and Canada, it would switch to using cooking oil that contains no trans fats for its french fries, and canola-based oil with corn and soy oils, for its baked items, pies and cookies, by year's end.[49][50]
With regard to acquiring chickens from suppliers who use CAK or CAS methods of slaughter, McDonald's says that it needs to see more research "to help determine whether any CAS system in current use is optimal from an animal welfare perspective."[51]
In April 2008, McDonald's announced that 11 of its Sheffield, England restaurants have been using a biomass trial that had cut its waste and carbon footprint by half in the area. In this trial, wastes from the restaurants were collected by Veolia Environmental Services, and were used to produce energy at a power plant. McDonald's plans to expand this project, although the lack of biomass power plants in the United States will prevent this plan from becoming a national standard anytime soon.[52] In addition, in Europe, McDonald's has been recycling vegetable grease by converting it to fuel for its diesel trucks.[53]
Furthermore, McDonald's has been using a corn-based bioplastic to produce containers for some of its products. Although industries who use this product claim a carbon savings of 30% to 80%, a Guardian study shows otherwise. The results show that this type of plastic does not break down in landfills as efficiently as other conventional plastics. The extra energy it takes to recycle this plastic results in a higher output of greenhouse gases. Also, the plastics can contaminate waste streams, causing other recycled plastics to become unsaleable.[54]
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has recognized McDonald's continuous effort to reduce solid waste by designing more efficient packaging and by promoting the use of recycled-content materials.[55] McDonald's reports that it is committed towards environmental leadership by effectively managing electric energy, by conserving natural resources through recycling and reusing materials, and by addressing water management issues within the restaurant.[56]
In an effort to reduce energy usage by 25% in its restaurants, McDonald's opened a prototype restaurant in Chicago in 2009 with the intention of using the model in its other restaurants throughout the world. Building on past efforts, specifically a restaurant it opened in Sweden in 2000 that was the first to intentionally incorporate green ideas, McDonald's designed the Chicago site to save energy by incorporating old and new ideas such as managing storm water, using skylights for more natural lighting and installing some partitions and tabletops made from recycled goods.[57]
When McDonald's received criticism for its environmental policies in the 1970s, it began to make substantial progress towards source reductions efforts.[58] For instance, an "average meal" in the 1970s—a Big Mac, fries, and a drink—required 46 grams of packaging; today, it requires only 25 grams, allowing a 46% reduction.[59] In addition, McDonald's eliminated the need for intermediate containers for cola by having a delivery system that pumps syrup directly from the delivery truck into storage containers, saving two million pounds of packaging annually.[60] Overall, weight reductions in packaging and products, as well as the increased usage of bulk packaging ultimately decreased packaging by 24 million pounds annually.[61]
McDonald's has been involved in a number of lawsuits and other legal cases, most of which involved trademark disputes. The company has threatened many food businesses with legal action unless it drops the Mc or Mac from trading names. In one noteworthy case, McDonald's sued a Scottish café owner called McDonald, even though the business in question dated back over a century (Sheriff Court Glasgow and Strathkelvin, November 21, 1952). On September 8, 2009, McDonald's Malaysian operations lost a lawsuit to prevent another restaurant calling itself McCurry. McDonald's lost in an appeal to Malaysia's highest court, the Federal Court.[62]
It has also filed numerous defamation suits. For example, in the McLibel case, McDonald's sued two activists for distributing pamphlets attacking its environmental, labor and health records. After the longest trial in UK legal history, the judge found that some claims in the pamphlet were untrue and therefore libelous. The company, however, had asserted that all claims in the pamphlet were untrue, essentially obliging the judge to publicly rule on each one. A few of the specific allegations (specifically that McDonald's was "culpably responsible" for animal cruelty, that it exploited children through its advertising, and that it paid low wages) were found to be true.[63]
McDonald's has defended itself in several cases involving workers' rights. In 2001, the company was fined £12,400 by British magistrates for illegally employing and over-working child labor in one of its London restaurants. This is thought to be one of the largest fines imposed on a company for breaking laws relating to child working conditions (R v 2002 EWCA Crim 1094). In April 2007, in Perth, Western Australia, McDonald's pleaded guilty to five charges relating to the employment of children under 15 in one of its outlets and was fined A$8,000.[64]
Possibly the most infamous legal case involving McDonald's was the 1994 decision in Liebeck v. McDonald's Restaurants where Stella Liebeck was awarded several million dollars after she suffered third-degree burns after spilling a scalding cup of McDonald's coffee on herself.[65]
In a McDonald's American Idol figurine promotion, the figurine that represents "New Wave Nigel" wears something that closely resembles Devo's Energy dome, which was featured on the band's album cover, Freedom of Choice. In addition to the figurine's image, it also plays a tune that appears to be an altered version of Devo's song "Doctor Detroit". Devo copyrighted and trademarked the Energy Dome and is taking legal action against McDonald's.[66]
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On 5 August 2013, The Guardian revealed that 90% of McDonalds UK workforce are on zero hour contracts, making it possibly the largest such private sector employer in the country.[67]
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From 2007-2011, fast food workers in the United States used an average of $7 billion of public assistance annually resulting from receiving low wages.[69] The McResource phone line advises McDonald's minimum wage employees to apply for food stamps.[70]
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Arab states in the Persian Gulf have greeted the interim nuclear deal struck between Iran and the West in Geneva with sullen silence.
Despite their muted response, however, the Gulf states have watched the growing signs of reconciliation between the US and Iran with undisguised horror. As the Geneva talks rolled into Saturday night and a deal edged closer, Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah summoned the emirs of Kuwait and Qatar to Riyadh for talks on how to respond.
The world's largest oil producer and a staunch American ally for decades, Saudi Arabia has led the Arab world's diplomatic push for the US to crush the Iranian nuclear program. In a US diplomatic cable published by WikiLeaks in 2010, Abdullah was quoted as urging Washington to "cut off the head of the snake", in reference to Iran.
To the Gulf Arabs, a deal between Iran and the West threatens the balance of power in the region. If Iran is welcomed back into the international fold, its potential as a hub for business, trade and tourism, buoyed by huge untapped reserves of oil and gas, is enormous.
In the end, the three Gulf monarchs gathered in Riyadh said nothing. Saudi officials said they could not publicly criticise the Geneva deal, but that deep concerns remained about Iran's wider ambitions in the region, particularly in Syria, where Iran has sent troops to support Syrian President Bashar al-Assad while Saudi Arabia and Qatar have funnelled weapons and cash to the rebels.
"The concern is that by agreeing to curb its nuclear program Iran will get a free pass elsewhere in the region, particularly in Syria," said one Saudi official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity.
Most troubling for the Gulf states is the sense that their influence in Washington is waning. A former Saudi ambassador to the US, Prince Bandar bin Sultan al-Saud, was installed as the kingdom's intelligence chief last year to capitalise on the influence he wielded during the two Bush presidencies. But he has found the Obama administration very different and more cautious, than its Republican predecessors.
"There is real fear that America is shedding all its responsibilities in the region, that our diplomacy has failed. We need to seek new alliances elsewhere," said the Saudi official.
However, the US remains the dominant military power in the region and its support is essential to Arab security.
Despite misgivings, the United Arab Emirates welcomed the Iranian nuclear deal as "a positive step."
"This deal has a narrow focus in the sea of problems we have with Iran. Syria remains a huge concern," said Abdulkhaleq Abdulla, a prominent UAE political commentator whose positions often reflect those of the government. "But overall the deal is a relief. Anything that reduces tensions between the US and Iran is positive for the region."
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Studying environmental law at Wayne State University Law School has prepared alumni to make an impact locally and beyond in a broad range of areas — from small companies to huge utilities to government agencies.
Francis Grunow, a 2010 alumnus, works in a small company to help with issues of land use in Detroit, 2007 alumna Cara McCarthy McNab works with the U.S. Department of Agriculture to help farmers and 2009 alumnus James Roush works with a utility on regulatory issues. All three of these Wayne Law graduates studied environmental law.
"Environmental law is far more than pollution and endangered species, as the field includes urban land use, food and agriculture, and energy," said Wayne Law Associate Professor Noah Hall, an expert on environmental and water law. "Environmental law also challenges students to think about the future of their community and how to shape it for the better. These lessons and abilities transfer to many other areas of law and policy, whether local, national or global."
Grunow, McNab and Roush work in different fields, but all three alumni use their background in environmental law to find solutions for people.
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Grunow of Detroit has a background in city planning and is a founding partner with New Solutions Group, a consulting and advocacy firm formed in 2011 to take on some of the region's and the state's critical issues. For example, the firm has done work for the Detroit Regional Chamber of Commerce Foundation to help it gain grant funding.
"We operate out of the Green Garage in Midtown Detroit," Grunow said. "Most of our projects involve nonprofit organizations and matters of public policy, including work with environmental organizations. Last year, we worked with the Alliance for the Great Lakes, a regional water advocacy and conservation organization based out of Chicago, on a strategy for doing more work in Detroit."
Grunow, who earned his bachelor's degree in urban studies from Columbia University, recently wrote a series for online news magazine Model D about geography and urban planning, including a piece exploring Detroit's relationship to water as a natural resource. He served as a senior policy analyst for Community Legal Resources and the Detroit Vacant Property Campaign from 2009 to 2010 and worked from 2004 to 2008 as executive director of Preservation
Wayne. His role with New Solutions Group allows him to combine his interests in community building and the environment.
"The best part is that I get to work to help people in Detroit, my hometown," Grunow said.
He was attracted to Wayne Law because of its flexible evening program and its location, he said.
"Moreover, there were faculty members at Wayne Law who I had long admired," Grunow said. "I was excited to learn from folks like John Mogk and Noah Hall, who gave me a great background in land use and environmental policy. I count them as friends today. I especially liked the practicum that the environmental law clinic provided me."
The clinic, which began in 2009 and is under the direction of Assistant (Clinical) Professor Nick Schroeck, works with the nonprofit Great Lakes Environmental Law Center and – on selected issues – represents community organizations and public-interest groups. Clinic students, under the direction of experienced attorneys, prepare policy papers and formal legislative testimony and engage in judicial review and enforcement litigation. In 2011, the clinic joined forces with University of Windsor (Ontario) Law School to become the nation's first Transnational Environmental Law Clinic.
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McNab is deputy director for the Spokane (Wash.) Regional Office of the U.S. Department of Agriculture Risk Management Agency.
"I work for an administrative agency, and I use the concepts I learned in Professor Hall's Administrative Law class every day," McNab said. "My legal education gives me a different perspective on the work of my agency. We administer the Federal Crop Insurance Program for the states of Washington, Oregon, Idaho and Alaska."
McNab graduated from Michigan State University with a bachelor's degree in environmental policy and worked for two years as an AmeriCorps member, at the same time serving on the Board of Directors for the Great Lakes Bioregional Land Conservancy in Lapeer and volunteering at two farms that followed the Community Supported Agriculture model. Then, she decided to further her avid interest in environmental law at Wayne Law.
"I took all of Noah Hall's classes that I could, and was very happy with the education he provided," she said.
McNab was vice president of the Environmental Law Society when she was at Wayne Law. After she graduated with her law degree, she earned her master of laws degree in agricultural law from the University of Arkansas School of
Law and went to work with the USDA as a legal specialist in Washington, D.C.
Law and went to work with the USDA as a legal specialist in Washington, D.C.
"I worked in D.C. for several years, but I wanted to be closer to the land and farmers, so I started looking for positions in regional offices," she said. "I saw this position in a beautiful area of the country with diverse agriculture, so I applied. The best part of my job is working with farmers and USDA staff. I live in Spokane now and consider it to be my adopted hometown."
Working with regulations
Roush of Saline, who earned his bachelor's degree in psychology at the University of Michigan, also enjoyed his studies of environmental law, which helped prepare him for his work today as a regulatory attorney at Consumers Energy. He was president of the Environmental Law Society when he was at Wayne Law.
Today, he specializes in Federal Energy Regulatory Commission-related energy law matters, especially when they're related to dams used for power generation.
"We have dams all over the state, and they're heavily regulated," Roush said. "It's a very unique area of practice. I know of hardly anybody else who does this work."
He worked at Bodman PLC on commercial litigation and property-related environmental issues from 2009 to 2012.
Roush said his environmental law courses at Wayne Law gave him a strong background on environmentalists' views of utility companies and of the government's view of utilities, as did his year of work before law school as a paralegal for the U.S. Department of Justice's Antitrust Division in the Energy Section. He finds being able to see all sides of the issues he deals with to be extremely helpful when it comes to finding solutions.
"One of the best parts of my job is that you're very much at the interface of government and business relationships," Roush said.
Said Hall: "Environmental law students learn to identify policy problems and develop practical solutions, and they gain the skills and expertise to put those solutions into action. Our environmental law program at Wayne Law prepares students for a wide range of careers and practice areas."


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The MV Antique Association presents a weekly antique sale, every Friday through early Sept with additional shows Columbus Day and Thanksgiving. Find multi-dealer collections from historical campground homes and farm homesteads to treasures from abroad. Early birds okay.
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Directions: 1059 State Road, next to the West Tisbury Town Hall
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Though it won't be announced until the BCS bowl pairings become official Sunday evening, Rutgers will play in the Russell Athletic Bowl on Dec. 28 in Orlando, Fla., where it is expected to face Virginia Tech, according to multiple sources familiar with the Big East's bowl pecking order.
Kickoff at the Florida Citrus Bowl Stadium is slated for 5:30 p.m., and the game will be televised nationally on ESPN.
Russell Athletic Bowl officials had been considering Cincinnati — which will join Louisville, Rutgers and Syracuse for a share of the Big East crown with a win Saturday at UConn — but they prefer Rutgers over a rematch between the Bearcats and Virginia Tech from earlier this season.
It's not a berth in the Orange Bowl or the Sugar Bowl — which Rutgers would've had if it defeated Louisville on Thursday night in the de facto Big East championship game — but a postseason game against a nationally-respected program near Disney World is a nice consolation prize.
The Hokies were ranked as high as 13th nationally this season, but finished 6-6 overall and 4-4 in the ACC's Coastal Division.
Virginia Tech was a longtime rival of Rutgers before defecting the Big East to join the ACC in 2004. The two schools met 14 times dating to 1920, with the Hokies owning an 11-3 record overall, and squared off 12 straight years from 1992-2003. Rutgers' only win during that span came on Halloween 1992, a 50-49 thriller highlighted by Bryan Fortay's 15-yard touchdown to Chris Brantley as time expired.


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LOUISVILLE -- Toyo Tire said last week that it is putting increased focus on its commercial tire business.
The compan announced during last week's Mid-America Trucking Show that it's making important changes to its commercial truck tire team. Effective April 1, Gary Hendricks will be director of commercial truck tire sales. He will be responsible for dealer, fleet and original equipment sales growth.
To facilitate this growth and better serve the dealer network, Toyo Tires will make significant investments in its commercial tire sales force in 2013 and add sales personnel throughout the United States.
Lowell Slimp, another Toyo Tires veteran of the commercial truck tire business, has been promoted to senior product manager of commercial truck tires and will be responsible for commercial product development and technical activities in the U.S. Slimp will work within the Product Planning and Technical Services group at the company's U.S. headquarters in Cypress, Calif., and will be the primary interface with the commercial tire R&D operations in Osaka, Japan, for new product development projects and line expansions.
"Toyo Tires has had a long, rich history in commercial truck tires since coming to the United States in 1966," says Roy Bromfield, chief operating officer, Toyo Tire U.S.A. Corp. "These personnel promotions and the significant growth planned for our commercial sales team in 2013 demonstrates our commitment to the commercial truck tire market and supports our planned growth in the coming years. We have the technology, the global manufacturing capacity and the market knowledge to grow our business in the USA; it is time to put more people in the field to support our dealers and develop our business."
In addition to expanding sales and product development efforts, Toyo Tires is also increasing marketing initiatives. New marketing tools include an iPad application developed specifically for the commercial truck tire segment. On display for the first time at MATS, the app provides easy access to Toyo Tires product information including training, features, size and specifications and brochures. It can be used in a variety of training and selling environments including trade shows, sales meetings and dealer showrooms. The app will be available for free download in the iTunes store beginning in April.


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