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Have you always dreamed of owning a ranch? Did the wide open spaces and stunning beauty of the Texas land on shows like Dallas leave you with a yearning to own some of your own? This may be the perfect time to find East Texas ranch land for sale. Land prices are still low here but you can be sure that they won't stay this low for long.
As baby boomers and their next generation near retirement, many of them are choosing to relocate to the wide open spaces of Texas. The influx of industry and retirees has made Texas the fastest growing state in the country. Much of that growth is centered on the major metropolitan areas of Dallas-Fort Worth, Houston and Austin.
In the past few years, many people seeking an escape from the urban hustle and bustle have taken advantage of the lower prices for rural land to acquire their own dreams. The past year has seen the prices for land west of Dallas rise 15%, but the average price of ranch land for sale still remains around $1,000 an acre. As land prices continue to rise in other parts of the state, though, it's inevitable that more people will look to East Texas ranch lands, and the prices will begin to rise.
What is fueling the current boom in rural land sales? There are a number of factors that contribute to the rising sales and land values in rural areas like East Texas. Lower interest rates are part of the equation, encouraging sales of all types of land and homes. But that's only part of the impetus. Retirement planning also plays a part in the rising interest in rural East Texas ranch land.
As other investments lose their luster, people come back to basics, and the most basic investment is, and has always been, real estate. Land never goes out of fashion. Even as prices dip and fall throughout the country, investors keep looking for land bargains and they've found them in East Texas ranch land.
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Barry Tipton is President/Founder of Good Land Deals, Inc., the parent of http://www.GoodLandDeals.com, a comprehensive website that brings together motivated buyers and sellers of land. Tipton boasts over 32 years experience in the land development, land sales and marketing.
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The predecessor to what is now the international fast food restaurant chain Burger King was founded in 1953 in Jacksonville, Florida, as Insta-Burger King. The original founders and owners, Keith J. Kramer and his wife's uncle Matthew Burns, opened their first stores around a piece of equipment known as the Insta-Broiler. The Insta-Broiler oven proved so successful at cooking burgers, they required all of their franchises to carry the device. After the original company began to falter in 1959, it was purchased by its Miami, Florida franchisees James McLamore and David R. Edgerton. The two initiated a corporate restructuring of the chain, the first step was to rename the company Burger King. The duo ran the company as an independent entity for eight years, eventually expanding to over 250 locations in the United States, when they sold it to the Pillsbury Company in 1967. Pillsbury's management made several attempts at reorganization or restructuring of the restaurant chain in the late 1970s and early 1980s. The most prominent change came in 1978; Burger King hired McDonald's executive Donald N. Smith to help revamp the company. In a plan called Operation Phoenix, Smith initiated a restructuring of all franchising agreements to give the company more oversight of its franchises,broadened its product offerings by adding new items to its menu, and laid out new store designs to standardize the look and feel of the company. While these efforts were initially effective, many of them were eventually discarded resulting in Burger King falling into a fiscal slump that damaged financial performance of both Burger King and its parent. Poor operating performance and ineffectual leadership continued to bog the company down for many years, even after it was acquired in 1989 by the British entertainment conglomerate Grand Metropolitan and its successor Diageo. Eventually, the institutional neglect of the brand by Diageo damaged the company to the point where major franchises were driven out of business and its total value was significantly decreased. Diageo eventually decided to divest itself of the money-losing chain and put the company up for sale in 2000.
In 2002, a troika of private equity firms led by TPG Capital, L.P with associates Bain Capital and Goldman Sachs Capital Partners agreed to purchase Burger King from Diageo for $1.5 billion (USD), with the sale becoming complete in December of that year.The new owners, through several new CEOs, have since moved to revitalize and reorganize the company, the first major move was to re-name the Burger King parent as Burger King Brands. The investment group initially planned to take BK public within the two years of the acquisition; this action was delayed until 2006 due to several reasons including the failure of its largest franchisee, AmeriKing. In May 2006 TPG took the chain public with a successful $425 million (USD) initial public offering (IPO), the largest for a U.S.-based restaurant in history at the time.
Some of the structural changes Burger King underwent under the ownership group's watch were new advertising agency that created a series of new ad campaigns, a revamped menu strategy that focused on male consumers, a series of programs designed to revamp individual stores, and a new restaurant concept called the BK Whopper Bar. These changes led a score of consecutive profitable quarters for the company between March 2004 and March 2009 that successfully re-energizing the company. Despite this, the slowing of the economy during the financial crisis of 2007-2010 caused the chain's business to decline while its immediate competitors McDonald's grew.
The latest chapter in the company's ownership history began in September 2010 when TPG and its partners announced it would sell their 31% stake in Burger King to another private equity company, 3G Capital, for $24 (USD) per share, or $3.26 billion (USD). The offer, representing a 46% premium over the stocks selling price at the time, came as a surprise to Burger King CEO John Chidsey. The proposed sale is expected to help the company repair its fundamental business structures and continue working to close the gap with McDonald's. Analysts commenting on the transaction stated that 3G will have to invest heavily in the company to help reverse its fortunes. David Palmer from UBS stated the company will need to work with its large group of franchise owners to brighten its locations and stabilize sales which could take several years and require significant reinvestment, while Steve West of Stifel Nicolaus stated that Burger King will need at least a year to right its fundamentals. After the deal was completed, the company's stock was removed from the New York Stock Exchange ending a four year period as a public company.
International operations See also: List of countries with Burger King franchises and Hungry Jack's Burger King in Chalco, Mexico City
While BK began its foray into locations outside of the continental United States in 1963 with a store in San Juan, Puerto Rico, it did not have an international presence until several years later. Shortly after the acquisition of the chain by Pillsbury, it opened its first international restaurant in Windsor, Ontario, Canada in 1969.Other international locations followed soon after: Oceania in 1971 and Europe in 1975 with a restaurant in Madrid, Spain.Beginning in 1982, BK and its franchisees began operating stores in several East Asian countries, including Japan, Taiwan, Singapore and South Korea.Due to high competition, all of the Japanese locations were closed in 2001, however BK reentered the Japanese market in June 2007. BK's Central and South American operations began in Mexico in the late 1970s and by the early 1980s in Caracas, Venezuela, Santiago, Chile and Buenos Aires, Argentina. While Burger King lags behind McDonald's in international locations by over 12,000 stores, it has managed to become the largest chain in several countries including Mexico and Spain. To assist in its international expansion, Burger King has established several subsidiaries to develop strategic partnerships and alliances to expand into new territories; in Europe, Burger King's subsidiary Burger King Europe GmbH is responsible for the licensing and development of BK franchises in the that market, Africa and Western Asia. In Asia, the BK AsiaPac, PTE. Ltd. business unit handles franchising for East Asia, the Asian subcontinent and all Oceanic territories except Australia.
Australia is the only country in which Burger King does not operate under its own name. When the company set about establishing operations down under in 1971, it found that its business name was already trademarked by a takeaway food shop in Adelaide. As a result, Burger King provided the Australian franchisee, Jack Cowin, with a list of possible alternative names derived from pre-existing trademarks already registered by Burger King and its then corporate parent Pillsbury that could be used to name the Australian restaurants. Cowin selected the "Hungry Jack" brand name, one of Pillsbury's US pancake mixture products, and slightly changed the name to a possessive form by adding an apostrophe 's' forming the new name Hungry Jack's. After the expiration of the trademark in the late 1990s, Burger King unsuccessfully tried to introduce the brand to the continent. After losing a lawsuit filed against it by Hungry Jack's ownership, the company ceded the territory to its franchisee. Burger King in Beijing International Airport, Beijing, China
Over the ten year period starting in 2008, Burger King predicted 80% of its market share would be driven by foreign expansion, particularly in the Asia-Pacific and Indian subcontinent regional markets. While the TPG-lead group continued BK's international expansion by announcing plans to open new franchise locations in Eastern Europe, Africa and the Middle East, and Brazil, the company plans to focus on the three largest markets, India, China and Japan.The company plans to add over 250 stores in these Asian territories, as well as other countries such as Macau, by the end of 2012. Its expansion into the Indian market has the company at a competitive disadvantage with other fast food restaurants such as KFC because the country's large Hindu majority's aversion to beef. BK hopes to use their recent non-beef products, such as their TenderCrisp and TenderGrill sandwiches, as well as other products to help them overcome this hurdle to expand in that country.
At the end of its fiscal 2010 year, Burger King is the second largest chain of hamburger fast food in terms of restaurant locations restaurants in the world behind industry bellwether McDonald's (32,400 locations) and the fourth largest fast food restaurant chain overall after Yum! Brands (37,000 locations), McDonald's and Subway (32,000 locations).
Franchises Main article: Burger King franchises Burger King restaurant in Leicester Square, London, United Kingdom
When Burger King Corporation began franchising in 1959, it relied on a regional franchising model where franchisees would purchase the right to open stores within a defined geographic region.These franchise agreements granted BKC very little oversight control over its franchisees and resulted in issues of product quality control, store image and design and operations procedures.
During the 1970s structural deficiencies in Burger King's franchise system became increasingly problematic for Pillsbury. A major example was the relationship between Burger King and Louisiana-based franchisee Chart House, Burger King's largest franchisee group at the time with over 350 locations in the United States. The company's owners William and James Trotter made several moves to take over or acquire Burger King during the seventies, all of which were spurned by Pillsbury. After the failed attempts to acquire the company, the relationship between Chart House and Burger King soured and eventually devolved into in a lawsuit. Chart House eventually spun off its Burger King operations in the early 1980s into a holding company called DiversiFoods, which in turn was acquired by Pillsbury in 1984 and folded into Burger King's operations.
This franchising model remained in place until 1978 when Donald N. Smith arrived in the company the company. Smith initiated a restructuring of all future franchising agreements, disallowing new owners from living more than one hour from their restaurants, preventing corporations from owning franchises and prohibiting franchisees from operating other chains. This new policy effectively limited the size of franchisees and prevented larger franchises from challenging Burger King Corporation as Chart House had. Smith also sought to have BKC be the primary owner of new locations and rent or lease the restaurants to its franchises. This policy would allow the company to take over the operations of failing stores or evict those owners who would not conform to the company guidelines and policies. By 1988 BKC parent Pillsbury had relaxed many of Smith's changes, scaled back on construction of new locations and stalled growth. Neglect of Burger King by new owner Grand Met, and its successor Diageo, further hurt the standing of the brand, causing significant financial damage to BK franchises and straining relations between the two parties.
By 2001 and after nearly eighteen years of stagnant growth, the state of its franchises was beginning to affect the value of the company. One of the franchises most heavily impacted by the lack of growth was the nearly 400 store AmeriKing; by 2001 the company, which until this point had been struggling under a nearly $300 million (USD) debt load and been shedding store across the US, was forced to enter Chapter 11 bankruptcy. The failure of AmeriKing deeply affected the value of Burger King, and put negotiations between Diaego and the TPC Capital-lead group on hold. The developments eventually forced Diaego to lower the total selling price of the chain by almost three quarters of a billion dollars. After the sale, newly appointed CEO Bradley Blum initiated a program to help roughly 20% of its franchises, including its four largest, who were in financial distress, bankruptcy or had ceased operations altogether. Partnering with the California-based Trinity Capital, LLC, the company established the Franchisee Financial Restructuring Initiative, a program to address the financial issues facing BK's financially distressed franchisees. The initiative was designed to assist franchisees in restructuring their businesses in order to meet financial obligations, focus on restaurant operational excellence, reinvest in their operations and return to profitability.
Individual owners took advantage of the AmeriKing failure; one of BK's regional owners, Miami-based Al Cabrera, purchased 130 stores located primarily in the Chicago and the upper mid-west region, from the failed company for a price of $16 million (USD), approximately 88% of their original value. The new company, which started out as Core Value Partners and eventually became Heartland Foods, also purchased 120 additional stores from distressed owners and revamped them. The resulting purchases made Mr. Cabrerra the largest minority franchisee of Burger King and Heartland one of the company's top franchises. By 2006, the company was valued at over $150 million (USD), and was sold to New York–based GSO Capital Partners. Other purchasers included a three way group of NFL athletes Kevin Faulk, Marcus Allen and Michael Strahan who collectively purchased 17 stores in the cities of Norfolk and Richmond, Virginia; and Cincinnati-based franchisee Dave Devoy, who purchased 32 AmeriKing stores. After investing in new decor, equipment and staff retraining, many of the formerly failing stores have shown growth approaching 20%.
Legal issues Main articles: Burger King legal issues and Burger King (Mattoon, Illinois) The Hoots' family Burger King restaurant in Mattoon, Illinois, one subject of major litigation by Burger King.
Burger King has been involved in several legal disputes and cases, as both plaintiff and defendant, in the years since its founding in 1954. Situations involving these many legal topics have affected almost every aspect of the company's operations. Depending on the ownership and executive staff at the time of these incidents, the company's responses to these challenges have ranged from a conciliatory dialog with its critics and litigants to a more aggressive opposition with questionable tactics and negative consequences. The company's response to these various issues has drawn praise as well as accusations of political appeasement from different parties over the years.
Controversies and disputes have arisen with groups such as People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA), governmental and social agencies, and unions and trade groups over various topics. These situations have touched on legal and moral concepts such as animal rights, corporate responsibility, ethics, and social justice. While the majority of the disputes did not result in lawsuits, in many of the cases the situations raised legal questions, dealt with legal compliance, or resulted in legal remedies such as changes in contractual procedure or binding agreements between parties. The resolutions to these legal matters have often altered the way the company interacts and negotiates contracts with its suppliers and franchisees or how it does business with the public.
Further controversies have occurred during the company's expansion in the Middle East. The opening of a Burger King location in the Israeli-occupied territories lead to a breach of contract dispute between Burger King and its Israeli franchise; the dispute eventually erupted into a geopolitical conflagration involving Muslim and Jewish groups on multiple continents over the application of and adherence to international law. The case eventually elicited reactions from the members of the 22-nation Arab League; the Islamic countries within the League made a joint threat to the company of legal sanctions including the revocation of Burger King's business licenses within the member states' territories. A related issue involving members of the Islamic faith over the interpretation of the Muslim version of canon law, Shariah, regarding the promotional artwork on a dessert package in the United Kingdom raised issues of cultural sensitivity, and, with the former example, posed a larger question about the lengths that companies must go to insure the smooth operation of their businesses in the communities they serve.
A trademark dispute involving the owners of the identically named Burger King in Mattoon, Illinois led to a federal lawsuit; the case's outcome helped define the scope of the Lanham act and trademark law in the United States. An existing trademark held by a shop of the same name in South Australia forced the company to change its name in Australia, while another state trademark in Texas forced the company to abandon its signature product, the Whopper, in several counties around San Antonio. Legal decisions from other suits have set contractual law precedents in regards to long-arm statutes, the limitations of franchise agreements, and ethical business practices; many of these decisions have helped define general business dealings that continue to shape the entire marketplace.
Charitable contributions and services
Burger King has two of its own in-house national charitable organizations and programs. One is the Have It Your Way Foundation, a U.S.-based non-profit, 501(c)(3) corporation with multiple focuses on hunger alleviation, disease prevention and community education through scholarship programs at colleges in the US. The other charitable organization is the McLamore Foundation, also a non-profit, 501(c)(3) corporation that provides scholarships to students in the US and its territories.Additionally, there is an optional literacy program that partners individual restaurants with community schools in the US.
In various regions across the United States, Burger King and its franchises have aligned themselves with several charitable organizations that support research and treatment of juvenile cancer. Each year these coalitions hold a fund raising drive called A Chance for Kids, in which Burger King restaurants sell lottery-style scratch cards for $1 (USD). Each card produces a winning prize that is usually a food or beverage product, but includes (rarer) items such as shopping sprees or trips. In the Northeast, BK has affiliated itself with the Major League Baseball team the Boston Red Sox and its charitable foundation, the Jimmy Fund. The group runs the contest in Boston. In the New York city area it operates the contest in association with the Burger King Children's Charities of Metro New York and the New York Yankees. Funds raised in these areas go to support the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute located in Boston. In Nebraska, the company is affiliated with the Liz's Legacy Cancer Fund BK Beat Cancer for Kids program at the UNMC Eppley Cancer Center at the University of Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha. In the Pittsburgh region it funded the establishment of the Burger King Cancer Caring Center, a support organization for the families and friends of cancer patients.
Products Main article: Burger King products The Whopper sandwich, Burger King's signature product
When the predecessor of Burger King first opened in Jacksonville in 1953, its menu consisted predominantly of basic hamburgers, french fries, soft drinks, milkshakes and desserts. After being acquired by its Miami, Florida franchisees and renamed to its current moniker in 1954, BK began expanding the breadth of its menu by adding the Whopper sandwich in 1957. This quarter pound (4 oz (110 g)) hamburger was created by Burger King's new owners James McLamore and David Edgerton as a way to differentiate BK from other burger outlets at the time. Since its inception, the Whopper has become synonymous with Burger King and become the focus of much of its advertising. The company has even named its new kiosk-style restaurants Whopper Bars.
After being brought on in 1978, one of Donald N. Smith's first changes to the menu was the addition of the Burger King Specialty sandwich line in 1979, which significantly expanded the breadth of the BK menu with many non-hamburger sandwiches including new chicken and fish offerings. The new specialty sandwich line was one of the first attempts to target a specific demographic, in this case adults 18-34, members of which would be willing to spend more on a higher quality product. One of Smith's other significant contributions to the menu was the addition of a breakfast product line, which until this time was not a market Burger King had entered. Besides the addition of the Croissan'Wich in 1983, the breakfast menu remained almost identical to the McDonald's offerings until a menu revamp in 1985. This expansion introduced BK's Am Express product line which added new products such as French toast sticks and Mini-muffins.
As the company expanded both inside and outside the US, it introduced localized versions of its products that conform to regional tastes and cultural or religious beliefs. International variations add ingredients such as teriyaki or beetroot and fried egg to the Whopper, beer in Germany, Italy and Spain, and halal or kosher products in the middle East and Israel. To generate additional sales, BK will occasionally introduce limited time offers (LTOs) that are versions of its core products or new products intended for either long or short term sales. Items such as the Texas Double Whopper and various sandwiches made with mushrooms and Swiss cheese have been rotated in and out of its menu for several years, while products such as its 1993 Meatloaf Specialty Sandwich offering and accompanying limited table service along with special dinner platters, failed to generate interest and were discontinued.
In order to appeal to as many demographic groups as possible and better compete with its fast food restaurant competitor Wendy's, Burger King added a multi-tiered value menu in 1993 with items priced at 99¢, $1.99 and $2.99 (USD). The project, called Operation Phoenix, was an attempt to add not only a value menu but a line of value meals. The tiered menu was replaced with a more standard value menu in 1998, while the value meals were separated into their own menu segment. This value menu featured seven products: Whopper Jr., 5 piece Chicken Tenders, a bacon cheeseburger, medium sized french fries, medium soft drink, medium onion rings and small shake. In 2002 and 2006, BK revamped its value menu adding and removing several different products such as chili and its Rodeo Cheeseburger. Many of these items have since been discontinued, modified or relegated to a regional menu option. To better appeal to a more adult palate and demographic, BK introduced several new products to its menu in 2003, including several new or revamped chicken products, a new salad line and its BK Joe brand of coffee. Some of the new products, including its Enormous Omelet Sandwich line and the BK Stacker line, brought negative attention due the large portion size, amounts of unhealthy fats and trans-fats. Many of these products feature higher quality ingredients like whole chicken breast, Angus beef, natural cheeses such as Cheddar and pepper jack.Again, not all these products, such as the BK Baguette line, have met corporate sales expectations. Food being prepared in a Burger King kitchen in Italy.
Like its menu, the equipment the company cooks its hamburgers with has also evolved as the company grew. The burgers have always been broiled mechanically; the original unit, called an Insta-Broiler, was the primary piece of equipment Insta-Burger King was founded around. When McLamore and Edgerton took over the company, besides dropping the "Insta-" prefix, they switched to an improved unit, which they called a "Flame Broiler". Designed by the two and featuring stationary burners that cooked the meat on a moving chain, the unit broke down less often while maintaining a similar cooking rate.The company would stay with that model for the next forty years until Burger King began developing a variable speed broiler that could handle multiple items with different cooking speeds and times. These new unit began testing in 1999 and eventually evolved into two models the company has deployed system-wide in 2008-2009. Accompanying these new broilers was new holding equipment was a computer based product monitoring system for its cooked products. The monitoring system allows for more concise tracking of product quality giving the company and its franchisees to streamline costs by more preciously projecting sales and usage.
Advertising Main article: Burger King advertising The iconic Burger King "crown", worn by Nick Van Eede.
Burger King has employed varied advertising programs, both successful and unsuccessful, since its foundation in 1954. During the 1970s, output included a memorable jingle, the inspiration for its current mascot the Burger King and several well known and parodied slogans such as Have it your way and It takes two hands to handle a Whopper. Burger King introduced the first attack ad in the fast food industry with the then unknown Sarah Michelle Gellar in 1981. The television spot, which claimed BK burgers were larger and better tasting than competitor McDonald's, so enraged executives at McDonald's parent company, they sued all parties involved. Starting in the early 1980s and running through approximately 2001, BK engaged a series of ad agencies that produced many unsuccessful slogans and programs, including its biggest advertising flop Where's Herb?.
Burger King was a pioneer in the advertising practice known as the product tie-in with a successful partnering with George Lucas' Lucasfilm, Ltd. to promote the 1977 film Star Wars in which BK sold a set of glasses featuring the main characters from the film. This promotion was one of the first in the fast food industry and set the pattern that continues to the present. BK's early success in the field was overshadowed by a 1982 deal between McDonald's and the Walt Disney Company to promote Disney's animated films beginning in the mid 1980s and running through the early 1990s. In 1994 Disney switched from McDonald's to Burger King, signing a ten film promotional contract which would include such top ten films as Aladdin (1992), Beauty and the Beast (1991), The Lion King (1994) and Toy Story (1995). A partnership in association with the Pokémon franchise at the height of its popularity in 1999 was one of the most successful in the industry, rivaled only by McDonald's/Ty Beanie Babies cross-promotion in 1999–2000.
Shortly after the acquisition of Burger King by TPG Capital, L.P. in 2002, its newly hired CEO Bradley (Brad) Blum set about turning around the fortunes of the company by initiating an overhaul of its flailing advertising programs. One of the first moves by the company was to reinstate its famous Have it your way slogan as the corporate motto. BK handed the effort off to its new advertising agency, Miami-based Crispin Porter + Bogusky (abbreviated as CP+B). CP+B was known for having a hip, subversive tack when creating campaigns for its clients, exactly what BK was looking for. One of CP+B strategies was to revive the Burger King character used during BKs 1970s/1980s Burger King Kingdom children's advertising campaign as a caricatured variation now simply called "the King". The farcical nature of the Burger King centered advertisements inspired an internet meme where the King is photoshopped into unusual situations that are either comical or menacing, many times followed with the phrase Where is your God now?.
Additionally, CP+B created a series new characters like the Subservient Chicken and the faux nu metal band Coq Roq featured in a series of viral web-based advertisements on sites such as MySpace and various BK corporate pages to compliment the various television and print promotional campaigns. One of the unique promotions that CP+B devised was the creation of a series of three advergames for the Xbox 360. Featuring company celebrity spokesman Brooke Burke, the games sold more than 2 million copies, placing them as one of the top selling games along with another Xbox 360 hit, Gears of War. These ad campaigns, coupled with other new promotions and a series of new product introductions, drew positive and negative attention to BK and helped TPG and its partners realize about $367 million (USD) in dividends.
Headquarters Company headquarters in unincorporated Miami-Dade County, Florida
Burger King is headquartered in a nine-story office tower by Miami International Airport in unincorporated Miami-Dade County, Florida. Elaine Walker of the Miami Herald stated that the headquarters has a "Burger King" sign that drivers on Florida State Road 836 "can't miss." In addition the chain planned to build a neon sign on the roof to advertise the brand to passengers landing at the airport. 130 employees began working at the Burger King headquarters on Monday July 8, 2002, with the remainder to move in prases in August 2002. Prior to the moving to its current headquarters in 2002, Burger King had considered moving away from the Miami area; Miami-Dade County politicians and leaders lobbied against this, and Burger King stayed in the area.
The company's previous headquarters were in a southern Dade County campus described by Walker as "sprawling" and "virtually hidden away." The former headquarters were located in the Cutler census-designated place; since then the area incorporated into the Village of Palmetto Bay. The former Burger King headquarters as of 2007 houses rental offices for several companies.
By 2006 Burger King had announced that it planned to move its headquarters to a proposed office building in Coral Gables. By 2007 Burger King instead renewed the lease in its existing headquarters for 15 years. Burger King planned to consolidate employees working at an area near Miami International Airport and at a Dadeland Mall-area facility into the current headquarters by June of that year. Instead Bacardi USA leased the headquarter complex, a 15-story building.
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* McDonald's - Largest competitor in hamburger restaurants. Second largest competitor in fast food restaurants. * Subway - Largest Single brand competitor in fast food restaurants. * Wendy's - Third largest competitor in hamburger restaurants. * Yum! Brands - Largest company in fast food restaurants.
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"Burger King Delivers" (subscription required). Philadelphia Inquirer. http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=PI&s_site=philly&p_multi=PI&p_theme=realcities&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=0EB2A3E145CB415C&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&s_trackval=GooglePM.. Retrieved 21 August 2007. "The chain soon will be employing servers to carry food to seated customers. It's also expanding the dinner menu..." 106. ^ Burger King Corporation (17 March 1998). "Burger King Debuts New 99¢ 'Great Tastes' Menu". Press release. http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/burger-king-debuts-new-99-cent-great-tastes-menu-77117467.html. Retrieved 9 October 2007. 107. ^ "Burger King promotes new menu". South Florida Business Journal. 12 September 2002. http://www.bizjournals.com/southflorida/stories/2002/09/09/daily63.html. Retrieved 9 October 2007. 108. ^ BKC publication (July 2007). "US Regional Menu Nutritional Brochure" (PDF). 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Our facial skin is oily. It is kind of ugly and dull if we wander on public faces wearing that pale and oily faces. It will just take a simple step if you really want to learn. Whether if it is day or night, if you are at a party, or just strolling on streets, applying makeup also depends on the occasions and places.
There are five kinds of makeup to be considered: street makeup, theatrical makeup, natural or straight makeup, makeup for photography, and corrective makeup.
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Spiritual Therapeutic - Metaphysics For this day and age
You'll find many healers inside the Globe these days that use a lot of distinct strategies and adhere to a lot of diverse belief techniques.
1 from the most famous healers in the UK if not the world was Harry Edwards who founded the Harry Edwards therapeutic Sanctuary in 1946.
Edwards at first a printer by occupation visited a Spiritualist meeting and was told by a medium that he was an instrument for spiritual therapeutic. Subsequently he made his initial attempts at healing which were so productive that he entirely focused his daily life to therapeutic other folks.
He also became famous for his public healing demonstrations at the Royal Albert Hall attended by up to 5000 visitors!
Edwards also encouraged the co-operation involving spiritual therapeutic and traditional medication using the result that it really is utilised today in several Hospitals and Hospices.
A friend of mine relays a true story about Harry:
"My mother's sister lived with her husband (and his parents) inside a huge property in Balham. When my uncle was 12yrs aged he was hospitalised in isolation extremely sick with TB. In the time his mother utilised to go to the Balham Spiritualist Church and, at a meeting Harry Edwards did an night of psychometry. Apparently, on arriving every person was issued with an envelope and, was asked to spot a personal merchandise inside of, this was then to get sealed (unmarked) and, placed on a huge tray. Through the demo Harry Edwards picked an envelope at random and proceeded to provide out the"information" received - my uncle's mother was 1 of Harry's make contact with envelopes... he promptly confirmed that my uncle was extremely unwell (although did not validate that it absolutely was TB).
I did not know of this tale till numerous a long time later when I was 17 I had my first"meeting" with a very well recognized medium referred to as Ivy Scott (lived in Streatham) and, from that day onward the Spiritualist motion grew to become my"extended family/tribe. On the check out to my aunt's/uncle many weeks later I, through the excitement of this"new" experience started out to relay this to my uncle........strangely plenty of his response was rude and, abrupt which I may possibly add took me by total surprise. Hence, I made the decision not to continue any much more info. My aunt then hurriedly eliminated me from the area and, explained the tale above. Apparently, actually given that the"event" of his illness for some unfamiliar reason he wouldn't have his mom (or other members with the household) mention spiritualism, or Harry Edwards discussed inside the house, he even went for the extreme of getting all bibles eliminated through the premises! To this day nobody found out the trigger of my uncles reaction but on reflection seeking back all those a long time back lots of people who"dabbled" had been frowned on - for this reason it really is probable that my uncle did not speak of the healing in case of ridicule etc. after all he was only 12yrs previous.
My mother now has the photograph in question.
During the many many years that followed I had no idea that the Healing Sanctuary was in existence - I stumbled on this when I started to show up at (mid 70's) a spiritualist church in Horley (Surrey), of which I at some point became the medium secretary. This church used to organise a yearly summer season coach trip to this beautiful location. I've a number of publications written/personally signed by Harry Edwards plus other books written/personally signed by Ray he was unable to perform as a result of this and in sheer desperation turned to a Hypnotist for support. It had been while in deep trance that Cayce was in a position to explain the circumstances of his ailment, and was also capable to describe a remedy which involved elevated circulation towards the muscular tissues and nerves. His upper chest and throat grew to become fiery red and Cayce instructed the hypnotist to purchase his circulation to return to standard, when he arrived out of trance his voice was totally cured.
I have considerable experience of Hypnosis myself both as a patient and a therapist, I hold a senior qualification in Hypnotherapy practice and for some time run a successful private clinic in London's prestigious Harley Street. I know that the mind has a tremendous power and I don't doubt that under Hypnosis Cayce cured himself, once his rational mind had been bypassed by the hypnotist and his subconscious was instructed to order his circulation to return to normal it did!
But what of spiritual therapeutic?
Cayce I believe utilized Hypnosis and would often place himself right into a self induced trance state right after which the patient's problem would be described to him. A diagnosis would then follow using healthcare terminology allegedly of which he had no information. Without having any healthcare instruction whatsoever Cayce went on to ideal this"Intuitive" healing capability to assist other people, though he claimed not to recover, but to diagnose then suggest a program of therapy. How did Cayce do this? Did he control in trance to accessibility a greater state of awareness, a state that furnished him entry to formerly unfamiliar health care information? We'll by no means know for sure but he continued with his trance therapeutic work throughout which he noticed the human body like a program, an interconnected network of nerves, organs, muscle tissue and tissue, and when one particular portion malfunctioned it might influence the remainder. In essence Cayce would treat the result in not the effect although I believe suggestion played an essential function in his remedy and cures.
Famous contemporary day healers contain Matthew Manning (UK) and Barbara Brennan (USA). Manning initial hit the headlines in 1974 when he printed a book called"The Link".
He targeted around the name of an artist and was capable to supply drawings in the type of your artist that even fooled art critics.
Matthew was extensively tested by a few of the world's foremost experts such as Nobel Prize winning physicist, prof Brian Josephson. For the duration of these exams it had been found out that Manning was generating a brain wave pattern not noted formerly in any person else; further assessments showed that it absolutely was originating from a portion of your brain which many of us possess but was thought at that time to are dormant or inactive.
On Matthews web site it says, and I quote:
"Matthew also demonstrated a very impressive ability to affect cancer cells in plastic containers for the duration of his tests in Texas. Dr. John Kmetz, 1 with the experts involved, commented:"The cancer cells have been truly being killed by Matthew. In a minimum of sixty per cent of the final results were really important. when an individual who wasn't a healer tried to do exactly the same thing, nothing took place. He has lectured and demonstrated all over the world, from Britain to Brazil, from Australia and Hong Kong to America."
I think this can be fairly remarkable and I am shocked that it's got not attracted a lot more interest these days.
Natalya Nikolayevna Demkina is a young woman from Russia who claims to possess an amazing ability to diagnose illness just by looking at the person. Since the age of ten she has performed readings in Russia. In 2004 she appeared on British TV in a documentary called"The Girl With The X-Ray Eyes"
"I was at home with my mom and out of the blue I had a vision. I could see inside of my mother's physique and I started off telling her concerning the organs I could see. Now, I've to switch from my typical vision to what I call medical vision. For the fraction of a second, I see a colorful photograph inside of the particular person then I start to analyze it." says Demkina
Her tale was picked p by the press in 2003 as well as a local Television station followed suite in November that 12 months. That lead to curiosity from a British tabloid newspaper (The Sun) which organized for her to present demonstration in London, as well as further curiosity from New york and Japan.
In May 2004 she went to New York and was tested by skeptical researchers from the Committee of Skeptical Inquiry under partially controlled conditions. At the demonstration she was shown given diagnosis to a several people, most of those that had the readings felt that Deminka had correctly identified their conditions. The researches (skeptics) however were not impressed (are they ever?) CSI researcher Dr Richard Wiseman an ex professional magician (as I am myself) and Professor of the Public understanding of Psychology at University College, London said,""When I saw her do her usual readings, I couldn't believe the discrepancy between what I was hearing and how impressed the individuals were... I thought they were going to walk away saying it was embarrassing, but time and again, they said it was amazing. Before each reading, I asked the people what was the main medical problem and Natasha never got one of those right."
In response to these complaints, the analysis team stated that Demkinas should have been in a position to seek out the plate without having extra sensory talents simply because its outline could possibly be observed beneath the subjects scalp!
In addition they questioned why the scar tissue in a very patient's throat had not alerted her to possessing a situation of the oesophagus. Interestingly Brian Josephen a Nobel prize winning physisicist criticised the check and evaluation method utilized by Ray Hyman as well as the researchers motives, together with the accusation that the experiment had the physical appearance of being"some sort of plot to discredit the teenage claimed psychic"
According to accounts on her personal website, after her experiences in London and New York,Deminika set several conditions to the test including that the patients bring with them a medical certificate stating their health status, that the diagnosis be restricted to a single, specific part of the body which she was to be informed of in advance. Her site claims that she was able to see that one patient had a prosthetic knee and another had asymmetrically placed internal organs.
Brennan developed her own private healing practice and then established a training program to teach others how to heal using energy. Her first book"Hands of Light: A Guide to Healing through the Human Energy Field" sold over one million copies and is in print in 22 languages. Her books explain how humans have energy fields and auras and how the energy fields interact with each other. She popularized the theory of a seven layer energy field, each layer being structured of different frequencies and performing different functions. Brennan views the Chakras (featured in Eastern philosophy as invisible spinning energy centres in the human body) as transformers that receive and process the universal energy. Her unique contribution was to indicate two rows of Chakras,arranged in pairs located at the front and rear, the front ones being associated with feeling and the rear ones with Will, and the upper three intellect.
Brennan also claims to receive, as several healers do, intuitive messages when healing her clientele,she also statements to find out repetitive patterns from the vitality consciousness of her clients. Her textbooks draw on messages channelled from Heyoan who she statements is often a spirit guideline.
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A region known for having to consistently bear the wrath of nature – an annual storm and flooding season that leaves a trail of destruction in its wake – is also the recipient of its munificence.
The Phong Nha – Ke Bang National Park, recognized as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2003 is located in Quang Binh province's Bo Trach and Minh Hoa districts, about 500km south of Hanoi. This 200,000 hectare park houses the most spectacular caves and underground water resources that leave people flabbergasted with their scale and remarkable beauty.
The main cave that visitors are allowed to discover is only one of more than 300 caves expanding over 800 km. the Phong Nha – Ke Bang National Park boats many world records, including the longest water caves, the highest and widest cave opening, the widest and most beautiful sand and stone beach, the most beautiful underground lake and the longest underground river.
The latest discovery was Paradise Cave that has a length of more than 36 km. although the Paradise Cave has only been partially opened for tourism, its miraculous stalactites, underground rivers and cultural inscriptions of the old kingdom of Champa are more than enough to leave visitors stunned and charmed.
Going further southward, we will reach the complex of Thua Thien Hue monuments, recognized as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1993. Being an imperial capital under the Nguyen Dynasty (1802-1945), Hue was a political, cultural and religious centre. The dreamlike gardens, temples and monuments in this complex have never failed to win the admiration of later generation.
The imperial capital has four citadels: Kinh Thanh (Capital City) that house official administrative buildings, Hoang Thanh (Imperial City) for royal palaces and shrines, Tu Cam Thanh (Forbidden City) for royal residences, Dai Noi (Inner City), and Tran Binh Dai, an additional defensive work in the north-east corner of the Capital City.
During the decades of war waged against colonialists and imperialists, many architectural structures in the Inner City were damaged but they have since been restored.
The tombs of several former kings, including Tu Duc, Minh Mang and Khai Dinh, are located outside the Capital City, each an architectural masterpiece depicting the Oriental outlook on life.
The royal monuments are jewels in the crown of Hue, a place with romantic charms like the Ngu Binh Mountain and the Perfume River, and its history and cultural characteristics are always a magnet for researchers.
Passing the Hai Van Tunnel between Thua Thien Hue and Da Nang City, visitors can access two heritage sites in Quang Nam Province: the old town of Hoi An and the holy land of My Son. Hoi An is a remarkably well-preserved trade port town built in the 17th century, despite the strong development of its peripheral areas. It bears architectural structures that combine Japanese, Chinese and Vietnamese influences, including China's Fujian and Gangdong clubhouses, Japanese bridge, old French-style villas and block of two-storied wooden houses.
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In 1999, UNESCO recognized My Son as a World Heritage Site. Travelers across the world admire its cultural and architectural masterpieces built during the reign of the Champa kings, who controlled what is now central Vietnam from roughly the 7th century through to 1832.
There are still dozens of temples and towers in the valley left from this period in Vietnam's history, showcasing the art of carving, mysterious construction techniques, and the religious traditions that are going to intrigue generations to come.
Information of getting there: To reach Central Vietnam, fly to Da Nang or Hue from most of the world major cities using the flight network of Skyteam of Vietnam Airlines.
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