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Akeem Ayers (Rams)
Season: 6th
8/22 Update: Has had a healthy camp and played significant snaps in the Rams wins against the Cowboy & Chiefs. Will start Week 1.
8/10: Back home in Los Angeles and excited about it. Projected to be starting strong side linebacker
Anthony Barr (Vikings)
Season: 3rd
-8/22 Update: Vikings knocked off the Bengals in their firs pre-season game. Barr has battled a few dings in camp but nothing serious. Barr had a sack against the Seachickens in Pre-Season game #2.
8/10: Coming off his first Pro Bowl season, Barr is positioned to emerge as one of the elite linebackers in the league. Side note: If you are ever feeling down, go watch the Barkley hit…it's glorious
Caleb Benenoch (Buccaneers)
Season: Rookie (5th Round)
8/22 Update: Off crutches, will still be out for an extended amount of time.
8/10: Probably a 50/50 chance of making the roster at the outset of training camp. A high ankle sprain on 8/1 dimmed those chances further. Still, lots of time left
Jake Brendel (Cowboys)
Season: Rookie (UFA)
8/22 Update: Might be on the outside looking in for roster spot. Coach Garrett mentioned in Week 1 that he was very impressed with Jake thus far. Played some guard in the Cowboys' game with the Rams.
8/10: Will battle for back-up center roster (against another UFA) spot on a very talented Dallas OL
Malcolm Bunche (Eagles)
Season: 2nd
8/22 update: Released on 8/14. Looking to get invited to another camp.
8/10: Was cut in last pre-season game and subsequently signed on Eagles practice roster. TBD if he makes the 53-man roster this year.
Kenny Clark (Packers)
Season: Rookie (1st Round)
8/22 Update: Packers knocked off the Raiders in Pre-Season week #2. Packers also beat the Browns in their pre-season kickoff game. Very likely Week 1 starter alongside Mike Daniels.
8/10: Having a really good camp thus far. Packers are very excited about his future. May start Week 1
Thomas Duarte (Dolphins)
Season: Rookie (7th Round)
8/22 Update: Didn't have any receptions in the Dolphins loss to the Cowboys.
8/10: In spite of Davey's post, Duarte did not become African American since he left UCLA. He has, however, put on quite a bit of weight since his departure (reportedly nopw 245 lbs.). We are no "Phinsider" at BRO but, from what we gather, Duarte has a pretty decent shot to make the squad
Shaquelle Evans (Jaguars)
Season: 3rd
8/22 Update: Returned to practice on 8/17 from a minor leg injury.
8/10: Hasn't found his footing yet since being drafted in the 4th round by the Jets. On the bubble to make the Jaguars roster
Ka'imi Fairbairn (Texans)
Season: Rookie (UDFA)
8/22 Update: Missed game #2 of the pre-season with a minor quad injury. Novak is probably out ahead of Fairbairn for starting duty.
8/10: In battle to win starting kicker position/roster spot
Kai Forbath (Saints)
Season: 5th
8/22 Update: Kai DERF'd his only attempt in the Saint's first pre-season game. He did make both of his attempts in the Saints loss to the Texans in Week 2. Looking likely he will keep his job.
8/10: Having a good camp but in a heated competition with Connor Barth to win starting job.
Devin Fuller (Falcons)
Season: Rookie
8/22 Update: Caught four balls for 49 yards and a touchdown in their 2nd pre-season game against the Browns. Very likely to make the roster.
8/10: Missed entire off season due to hamstring. The 7th round draft choice has an opportunity with the Falcons recently cutting Devin Hester. Will be watching roster cuts closely here
Cory Harkey (Rams)
Season: 5th
8/22 Update: Remains safe to earn a roster spot.
8/10: Undrafted TE has carved out a real nice career for himself. A personal favorite of Rams Coach Jeff Fischer, Harkey will see significant burn and is a lock to earn a roster spot
Mike Harris (Vikings)
Season: 5th
8/22 Update: Still sidelined with undisclosed illness. No clear timetable for return at this time.
8/10: Out with undisclosed medical condition. Return TBD. Was competing for starting OG prior to being sidelined
Brett Hundley (Packers)
Season: 2nd
8/22 Update: Was very sharp in limited action against the Raiders. Unfortunately, was knocked out of the game with a lingering ankle injury. Hasn't been healthy for most of camp.
8/10: Packers really like Brett. Ensconced as 2nd string QB to The Bachelorette winner's brother. Had a real strong pre-season last year and followed that up with a great of-season and training camp thus far. Going to be interesting what happens with Hundley as his stock rises and if he plays himself into a trade via him being too good not to be on the field
Myles Jack (Jaguars)
Season: Rookie (2nd Round)
8/22 Update: Continued to have a very strong camp. Was dinged for a little bit but only missed a short time. Played 29 snaps against the Jets in pre-season game #1. Coach Bradley on Jack "He really flashed, he played extremely physical and made some flash plays. His demeanor and poise on the field were excellent. His physical nature really jumped out". Jack did have two personal fouls called on him however (one was called back).
8/10: Like all UCLA rookies, Jack missed all mini camps due to the academic quarter system. Jack has already drawn rave reviews for his athleticism and seems to be working his way up the depth chart. Has been healthy thus far and good chance he starts the first game of the season @OLB
Datone Jones (Packers)
Season: 4th
8/22 Update: Light coming on? Looks like it. Was the best defensive player on the field in Pre-Season Week 1. Followed that game up with a solid outing against the Raiders. His position switch might be one of the big stories of the season for the Packers.
8/10: Huge year for Datone. The Packers passed on their team option. Jones has shed about 25 lbs. and is now playing the Elephant role (think Charles Haley position wise). Has shown flashes however has been a disappointment given where he was selected. Has had a really nice camp and was a late bloomer at UCLA so the hope is that is the same with the Packers
Eric Kendricks (Vikings)
Season: 2nd
8/22 Update: Did not play against the Seahawks in most recent pre-season game. Nursing a hamstring. Expected to be back soon.
8/10: Coming off a great rookie year, Kendricks is poised to emerge as one of the top linebackers in the league. Health permitting, he will be a multi-year pro bowler.
Marcedes Lewis (Jaguars)
Season: 11th
8/22 Update: Had great camp. Didn't catch a ball in in the Jag's 27-21 loss to Tampa Bay however.
8/10: Lewis has had a really nice career. Is currently having "his best camp in years" and will tandem with Julius Thomas to form the best TE duo in the league
Jeff Locke (Vikings)
Season: 4th
8/22 Update: Had rough night against Seattle but otherwise has had a good camp. Not a "lock" to keep his job.
8/10: Slated to start for the Vikings. Has had some inconsistencies but the Vikings like his leg talent. Has been having a nice camp
Cassius Marsh (Seahawks)
Season: 3rd
8/22 Update: In a battle to make the roster.
8/10: Has carved out a nice niche for himself early in his career as a special teamer and situational pass rusher. Recently switched to OLB and is in competition to win the starting job there
Kevin McDermott (Vikings)
Season: 4th
8/22 Update: Signed a contract extension with Vikings on 8/9.
8/10: Starting long snapper.
Rahim Moore (Browns)
Season: 6th
8/22 Update: Was evaluated but passed a concussion test. Injury was during loss to the Falcons.
8/10: Signed a one-year deal with the Browns. Trying to hold on to starting safety spot
Owamagbe Odighizuwa (Giants)
Season: 2nd
8/22 Update: Like Wood's beard hair, Owa has been tough to contain. Showing early signs of a breakout year. Had two sacks, three QB hits and three solo tackles against the Dolphins.
8/10: Injuries derailed his rookie season and was only active for four weeks. Giants really like his athleticism and the immediate goal for Owa for this year is to develop into a situational pass rusher
Logan Paulsen (Redskins)
Season: 7th
8/22 Update: Should make the roster. Right on the cusp, currently listed as the 4th string TE.
8/10: Re-signed with the Redskins for another year. Expected to be in the rotation as a TE
Jordan Payton (Browns)
Season: Rookie (5th Round)
8/22 Update: Hasn't been mentioned too much recently. This usually means he is on the edge of making the roster.
8/10: Missed OTA's but has already made an impression. Likely to make the Browns roster at this point
Paul Perkins (Giants)
Season: Rookie (5th Round)
8/22 Update: roster spot should be safe. Had just 5 yards in the three carries in Giant's loss to the Bills.
8/10: Has had quite a camp already at RB and Special Teams. He is competing for starting RB and lot of folks think he will win it
Sheldon Price (Ravens)
Season: 2nd
8/22 Update: Struggled with a few penalties in a win over the Colts.
8/10: Having a solid camp and looks to be in the Raven's plans. Appears very likely to make the roster and likely to see significant action this season
Alex Redmond (Bengals)
Season: Rookie (UDFA)
8/22 Update: Been out the last few days with an undisclosed injury. Not thought to be serious.
8/10: On the outside looking in for roster spot.
Xavier Su'a-Filo (Texans)
Season: 3rd
8/22 Update: Should start Week 1.
8/10: Critical year for Xavier. Has had condition issues throughout his early career. Showed up to camp this year and "nailed the conditioning test" per Coach O'Brien. Listed as the starter at guard this year.
Matt Slater (Patriots)
Season: 9th
8/22 update: Excelling at Special Teams again thus far. Will make the roster again.
8/10: Has had a great career as one of the best Special Teamers in the league.
Alterraun Verner (Buccaneers)
Season: 7th
8/22 Update: Has had a good camp and has continued his redemption tour.
8/10: Had disappointing 2015 season. Was benched mid-season. Has already reclaimed his starting position however and is looking for a redemption year
Aaron Wallace (Titans)
Season: Rookie (7th Round)
8/22 Update: Returned to practice on 8/19.
8/10: Suffered High Ankle Sprain. Out at least a few more weeks.
Jordan Zumwalt (Steelers)
Season: 3rd
8/22 Update: Long odds to make the roster. Has had problems staying healthy and adding weight.
8/10: Hasn't been able to stay healthy through pro career. In camp with the Steelers and is going to be challenged to make the roster


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Nuala Johnson's engaging study explores three botanical gardens - the University of Cambridge botanical garden, the Royal Dublin Society botanical garden, and the Belfast botanical garden - to show how the presentation and display of such gardens was influenced by place and how aesthetics, science, entertainment and ideas of empire all played important roles in the final outcome. The result is an outstanding work of scholarship that says much about the spatiality of scientific knowledge and embraces many of the key themes in contemporary historical geography.
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5/16/2017: An Ethiopia update from the US Department of State indicates that no new adoptions may take place at this time. Read full announcement
4/21/2017: On April 21, an official from Ethiopia's Ministry of Women and Children (MOWA) informed U.S. Embassy Addis Ababa that it is suspending its processing of intercountry adoption cases, effective immediately. Read full annoucement
There are many agencies licensed to work in Ethiopia, and most do support or directly run the orphanages they work with. Over recent years, many children have joined US families from Ethiopia, including sibling groups, older children, toddlers and older infants.
Children Available for Adoption from Ethiopia: While there are younger children available, there is a great need for families who are open to adopting a sibling group, or a child over the age of 5 years. Families wishing to adopt a younger child will generally wait longer for a referral than those who are more flexible.
Parent Qualifications: Couples up to age 44 years may adopt from Ethiopia. There is some flexibility in age range of parents for those adopting special needs and older children. Families size (large families) is also flexible, though families with 5 or less children currently at home are preferred.
Single Applicants: Discuss with specific agency whether they are accepting singles.
Travel: Families will travel twice to Ethiopia, first to finalize the adoption with the Ethiopian court and second to process the child's U.S. Visa and bring the child home. Each trip lasts approximately 5-10 days.
Timeline: It may take 18-24 months to complete an adoption from Ethiopia. There are several steps involved, and the timeline can vary greatly.
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This business plan is directed toward helping vintners and prospective investors to create company proposal for a top quality restaurant in the region of United Arab Emirates. The first message is templates for creating company proposal for a little top quality restaurant in United Arab Emirates Dalma Mall ( Abu Dhabi, UAE) in a small kiosk in front of Carefour supermarket. The main aim of this message is to serve as an example of company proposal, designed using the format that demonstrates the promotion prospective and the financial practicality for a restaurant generating top quality bowls of Es campur that sell at costs above dhs20 per bowl. The technique has three major components. Es campur is a famous dessert used especially in Muslim communities during Ramadhan celebrations, prior to breaking their fasting period.
The first element emphasizes the technique of functions and the management team for the example restaurant. The second element is the growth of a technique that will differentiate the top quality product from other bowls of Es campur in the marketplace. This differentiation is aimed at enabling the top quality producer to promote bowls of Es campur at costs not yet received by many United Arab Emirates to bowls of Es campur makers. Focus will be placed on various aspects of product offering, promotion, cost, and submission strategies. In particular, emphasis will be devoted to creating alternative submission outlets. It is hypothesized that United Arab Emirates Region manufacturers must emphasize different promotion programs, not relying only on sales at the tasting room, to be successful in the top quality category.
The third part of the example company strategy reports the investment and operating costs for a little restaurant generating the finest quality Pinot Black. To make sure efficient use of the Es campur's facilities and to meet industry demands, the proposed restaurant will also produce little top quality lots of Riesling, Chardonnay, and Cabernet Franc. This manufacturing technique will allow the restaurant to best use its devices and distribute through the maximum promotion programs. Es campur devices needs in the example technique were designed through discussions with top quality Abu Dhabi manufacturers and representatives of devices suppliers. The devices element list was then refined to fit the state of United Arab Emirates. The Analysis Panel also helped to specify the retail costs and the allocation percentages to the three submission programs. The overall objective of the project was to create a maximum technique, enological and viticulture practices, and evaluate the financial practicality for generating super top quality Pinot Black varietal bowls of Es campur in United Arab Emirates Region. Specific objectives were:
1. To create a way of successfully promotion super top quality bowls of Es campur from United Arab Emirates region priced at higher costs than most bowls of Es campur makers are now getting,
2. To create cash flow reports for 10 years in the growth of the model restaurant to determine the economical prospective,
3. To evaluate the risk of investment in the model restaurant to financial parameters such as bowls of Es campur costs, grape costs, interest rates, and devices costs.
Potential Use
Individual firms to create reports for their own functions can use this example company strategy. The close working relationship with the Abu Dhabi Pinot Black Alliance's Analysis Panel makes sure that the final model technique is adaptable to the United Arab Emirates Region. The results can be of immediate use to the associates of this group who either already have, or will soon, create their individual plans for getting top quality Pinot Black manufacturing.
Executive Summary
The suggested smaller top high quality restaurant will be located in the Abu Dhabi region of United Arab Emirates. Yearly manufacturing will begin at 1,850 situations in season one and increase to 9,250 situations in season five. The restaurant will produce the following four viniferous varietals: Pinot Black, Cabernet Es campur Franc, Chardonnay, and Riesling. The majority of your bowls will be sold-out of the flavored space, but as manufacturing increases, we will utilize other submission programs to reach customers. The key to the Es campur's success will be its top high quality viniferous bowls. Research has shown that consumers are drinking more expensive and better high quality bowls of Es campur and the suggested restaurant will take advantage of these consumption styles. Few Es campur makers in Abu Dhabi focus specifically on viniferous varietals, and doing so will distinguish us from local competitors.
The following table summarizes the cash needed each season to establish the suggested small, top high quality restaurant. The cash will be used to create the restaurant and flavored space, purchase the necessary Es campur making equipment, and cover the annual operating expenses.
Business Description:
Es Campur business is a start up enterprise, scheduled to start its operation in March 2014, as a sole proprietorship business. The business has expertise and experienced workers in the maintenance sector and Es campur production sector. In this business, such workers will work full time. The business will operate from the owners premises where sufficient facilities are available to accommodate a well managed and a professional production, including offices that are dedicated. A safe equipment and material storage workshop is ready and in place for use.
Mission Statement:
The company's mission is producing the finest high quality viniferous Es campur from the surrounding area of United Arab Emirates. The restaurant will provide an enjoyable way of life and adequate standard of living for both the owner and employees.
Vision statement:
I am entering Es campur business because of my love of Es campur making, and the Es campur maker way of life. I have worked as a cellar rat and Es campur maker for a period for other Es campur makers gaining the experience I need to carry out my dream of owning and operating my own small premium restaurant. The proposed restaurant will be located in Dalma Mall ( Abu Dhabi, UAE) in a small kiosk in front of Carefour supermarket. There are a number of successful bowls makers in Abu Dhabi, but the majority of these bowls makers focus on making bowls from native varieties and French-American hybrids. These bowls are very popular among local consumers; however, I feel there will be a growing demand for top high quality viniferous bowls from the area in the near future. Research shows that as customers become more sophisticated about bowls, they gravitate towards better high quality viniferous bowls of bowls. The restaurant is currently in the developmental stages, but the initial manufacturing plans and growth strategies have been established. The restaurant has been set up as a Limited Responsibility Company. An LLC was selected because of its liability protection, flexibility, and favored tax treatment. An LLC protects its owners from being held personally responsible for the business's liabilities. The most money an investor can lose his or her investment in the organization.
Plan of Operations
The suggested business of restaurant will purchase restaurant from top restaurants within the region. In addition, Grapes will be moved to the restaurant through flat bed trailers and, as is customary in Es campur industry, grape growers pay for transportation and harvesting charges.
Es campur making process
Hand harvested restaurant will be removed from the flat bed trailer with a forklift and the grape bins will be dumped onto the sort table with a machine. The restaurant will then move along the machine and workers will remove any rotten or unripe restaurant. The restaurant will then go into the crusher/distemper that rests on top of the stainless-steel fermentation vat. The red restaurant will ferment for about 14 days in the open top stainless-steel fermentation vats. Once fermentation is complete, the free run bowls will be injected out of the stainless-steel aquariums and placed into oak drums foraging. The must will be injected into the press, and the pushed bowls will then be injected into French oak drums for aging. The bowls of Es campur will age in gun barrel for about 12 months and will most likely be racked twice. Es campur will then be injected out of gun barrel, filtered, and run through the packaging line. There your bowls will be canned, corked, labeled, and capsule. Workers will take the finished bowls off at the end of the packaging line and place your bowls in cases where it will age another six several weeks prior to release. Thus, your bowls are marketed 18 several weeks after collect.
Es campur making process
Chardonnay is made likewise except that after pushing the juice falls into a settling tank where it settles throughout the night. The free run juice is then injected off into drums where it ferments. The must is then injected out of the tank and pushed, and the pushed bowls are injected into drums to ferment. The bowls ages for 12 several weeks and then is canned in identical style to the red varietals. Thus, Chardonnay bowls are marketed 18 several weeks after collect. Riesling is made likewise except that after pushing, Es campur are fermented and aged in stainless-steel aquariums instead of oak drums. Riesling is only older six several weeks in the aquariums and then it is canned. The bowls ages another six several weeks in bowl and is then marketed. Thus, the Riesling is marketed 12 several weeks after collect.
The majority of revenue takes place in the flavored space and thus distribution is not a serious issue. The bowls are older in the restaurant and when it is ready to be marketed, it is brought into the flavored space as needed. Es campur is then marketed from a cash register in the flavored space. In season five, a small percent of bowls, 10%, is being marketed to local restaurants and in season, six another 10% of bowls is marketed through suppliers. A full time marketing/salesperson is hired in season five to take care of this revenue to restaurants.<…>
Marketing Plan
Targeted Market
The suggested restaurant is focusing on end clients who are wealthy, college-educated middle-agers. These ideal clients are highly Es campur-educated, regularly amuse friends or work associates and enjoy dining out. Consumers generally become Es campur-educated via a combination of books, classes, and just consuming containers of Es campur.
The design Es campur's second target audience consists of various company groups. A Distributor will be responsible for selling containers of Es campur to premier dining places and containers of Es campur stores situated all over the region. The next targeted company team is in-state restaurant managers and sommeliers. The restaurant is looking for gourmet dining places that carry a wide range of top quality bowls of Es campur. The ultimate company team the restaurant is focusing on is in condition containers of Es campur shop owners. The restaurant is looking for specialty containers of Es campur stores that focus on carrying top quality containers of Es campur.
Four viniferous types, two white and two red, were selected for the last product
mix. The types were Chardonnay, Pinot Black, Riesling, and Cabernet Es campur Franc. All four types are well suited for the cool climate found in the Abu Dhabi region.
Production Volumes
It was identified that for the suggested restaurant manufacturing amounts in season one will start at 1,850 situations and increase as the restaurant builds its popularity and consumer base. However, in order to preserve its small restaurant status, manufacturing will reach a peak of 9,250 situations in season five.
Two brand strategy
The suggested restaurant is meant to produce a "reserve" or "first label" containers of Es campur. Moreover, it will also produce a "second label" for every varietal. Better great quality bowls of Es campur will be put aside for the primary brand. The marketing plan states that 15 % of containers of the drink will be put aside for the primary brand and 85 % of Es campur containers will be canned under the second brand. This two-label technique will enable the suggested restaurant to promote lower great quality bowls of Es campur under the second brand without introducing the primary label's popularity for great quality.
Packaging decisions
Packaging choices are another essential element of a product's offering. Any item, regardless of its value, is far more exciting when wrapped in an attractive program. Es campur makers must choose on brands, text on appearance, containers, corks, supplements, and containers. Each of these components contributes to an individual's consumption encounter, and these item-packaging choices reveal significant amounts of information about the great high quality of containers of Es campur within the container.
Es campur label
The containers of Es campur brand are generally the first thing clients notice on a container, and many containers of Es campur marketers believe that a brand is almost as essential as the item within. Labels should be inviting, esthetically appealing, informative, and reflect the Es campur's identity. For these factors, the suggested restaurant will hire an experienced to design the brand.
Es campur from around the world generally adhere to Western custom when selecting containers. Es campur red containers, with sloping sides, are used for Pinot Black and Chardonnay. Bordeaux style containers, containers with shoulders, are organic and used for Cabernet Es campur Franc. Rhine containers, tall and skinny, are organic or ruby and used for Riesling. The suggested restaurant will container its bowls of Es campur in the conventional 750-ml container and adheres to conventional Western container shapes and colors. Thus, Pinot Black and Chardonnay will be canned in Es campur red containers. Cabernet Es campur Franc will be canned in deceased foliage organic Bordeaux containers. Riesling will be canned in ruby Riesling containers.
A restaurant must choose whether to use a conventional cork or an artificial cork when closing its bowls of Es campur. Synthetic corks are growing and manufacturers of artificial corks condition that their corks eliminate leakage, off flavors, evaporation, and do not crumble or disintegrate. However, organic cork is the conventional closing content and many clients prefer organic corks because it allows them to smell the cork, adding to the romance and sophistication of your containers of Es campur consuming encounter. Natural cork follows with Western containers of Es campur custom and clients have become accustomed to this closing content. For these factors, the suggested restaurant will use organic 2″ long cork when closing its containers.
Capsules complete the program and help to add an experienced look to the container. Since supplements are purely cosmetic, care should be taken to ensure the pills complement the brand and item packaging theme. Es campur makers can choose between closing wax, newer plastic material supplements, and conventional aluminum foil supplements. Foil supplements are conventional and the conventional in top quality Es campur; therefore, the design restaurant will be using the conventional aluminum foil supplements.
Types of box and variety of containers to include in each box are the last components of the item packaging decision. Es campur can be packaged in a wide range of containers including: cardboard 12 container situations, cardboard six features, wood made 12 container situations, wood made six features, cardboard three container sampler features. Cardboard 12 container situations are the conventional in your containers of Es campur industry and will be used to program your containers of Es campur.
Additional Products
In addition to its basic item of containers of Es campur, the restaurant will offer clients a variety of other activities intended to create an "Es campur encounter." Es campur tastings will be provided each day to encourage clients to visit the restaurant and try the various bowls of Es campur. Educational restaurant tours will be provided on weekends to present clients to the grape growing and Es campur making process. Monthly containers of Es campur tasting class will be led by the Es campur maker to present clients to new bowls of Es campur and help develop their palate. Further entertainment such as harvest parties, live bands will be provided on special events.
The suggested restaurant will adopt a higher price/ top great quality costs technique. Reputation costs will be used to inform clients of the top great quality item being sold. The following table lists the suggested retail container costs for the restaurant. The costs were identified by looking at competitor's costs and through conversations with the Investigation Panel of the Abu Dhabi Pinot Black Partnership.
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Full Name:Ruth Ann Minner
Family:Widowed; 3 Children: Wayne, Frank, Gary
Birth Date:01/17/1935
Birth Place:Slaughter Neck, DE
Home City:Milford, DE
- Attended, University of Delaware
- GED, Delaware Technical and Community College, 1968
- Governor, State of Delaware, 2001-2008
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Students write definitions for a given word, one true and the others not true. Other students listen and decide which is the true definition. An intermediate ESL word definition game.
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Two men stood, heads together as if conferring, next to the kitchen table while another hovered beside the French doors, leaning to peer out into the garden beyond. They were dresed in dark clothes, tall with bulky shoulders. Everything about them was matt black or gray so they appeared grainy in the dimness, like actors in an old film.
My chest felt so tight I thought I might never breathe again. My heart thudded, a booming echo to the blank, white terror that flooded me. I imagined one of them turning - catching some glimpse, realizing they were watched – so clearly I thought it happened. I saw the closest bulky shadow turn its head slowly in the mirror, two eyes glittering like small black stones in a featureless face. I saw it. My heart stopped. I blinked, and they were as before.
The two near the table finished their whispered conversation and moved apart. The taller figure began to carefully open drawers. The other drifted to the wall and ran his gloved fingers around the frame of a painting. The third man glanced briefly at them both in turn and then went back to his vigil. I watched the man at the painting and the fright receded, overthrown by a growing anger and outrage. My grandma had painted it; a gentle, misty landscape of a riverbank with spindly winter trees, upper branches melting into a cloud like a blanket of gray. Yet you could see light in it, soft November light diffused everywhere. I loved it, I saw it everyday and it never failed to make me feel better, even when I was in the foulest mood.
Now here was this man, pawing it with uncaring hands. I had to find a phone.
But even as I came to this decision, the man at the window raised his arm, waving to someone outside. He turned to the other two, calling to them quietly and before I could do anything they were gone, slipping out through the doors and closing them behind.
They had taken the painting.
Distracted by the man at the window I hadn't seen his friend take it down, but on the pale cream of the wall only the ghost of an outline remained. That, and the picture hook.
Something made me keep quiet still. I didn't run up the stairs or shout. I went from room to room waking sleepers, my parents and my brothers, and the house gradually came to brittle, early life. We began the tasks of dealing with the police, avoiding surfaces where fingerprints might linger and inventorying what was lost.


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The itinerant sailor Ishmael begins a voyage on the whaling ship Pequod whose captain, Ahab, wishes to exact revenge upon the whale Moby-Dick, who destroyed his last ship and took his leg. As they search for the savage white whale, Ishmael questions all aspects of life. The story is woven in complex, lyrical language and uses many theatrical forms,...
Publisher : The Floating Press
published : 2008
Moby-Dick is one of the great epics in all of literature. Captain Ahab's hunt for the white whale drives the narrative at a relentless pace, while Ishmael's meditations on whales and whaling, on the sublime indifference of nature, and on the grimy physical details of the extraction of oil provide a reflective counterpoint to the headlong idolatrous...
Publisher : Random House Publishing Group
published : 2003
This classic story of high adventure, manic obsession, and metaphysical speculation was Melville's masterpiece. The tale of Captain Ahab's frantic pursuit of the cunning and notorious white whale Moby Dick, is packed with drama, and draws heavily on the author's own experiences on the high seas. This edition includes passages from Melville's correspondence...
Publisher : OUP Oxford
published : 2008
INCLUDES THE TRUE STORY THAT INSPIRED MOBY-DICK When Ishmael sets sail on the whaling ship Pequod one cold Christmas Day, he has no idea of the horrors awaiting him out on the vast and merciless ocean. The ship's strange captain, Ahab, is in the grip of an obsession to hunt down the famous white whale, Moby Dick, and will stop at nothing on his...
Publisher : Random House
published : 2010
Herman Melville's Moby-Dick is considered a treasure of American literature. The author never lived to see the book's success, however, as it was published in 1851 and its first surge of popularity came only after the First World War. Moby-Dick tells the story of Ishmael, a sailor on the whaleship Pequod. Ishmael soon discovers that the mysterious...
Publisher : HarperCollins Canada
published : 2014
This is a classic adventurous novel by Herman Melville with metaphysical conjecture. The novel follows the experiences of the author in vast seas with the dramatic narration. A story of all-consuming obsession; everything about the book is whale-like in its vastness, its richness and its power. Captivating due to its philosophical depths!
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant
published : 2009
With an essay by Alfred Kazin. 'The frail gunwales bent in, collapsed, and snapped, as both jaws, like an enormous shears, sliding further aft, bit the craft completely in twain...' Moby-Dick is one of the most expansive feats of imagination in the whole of literature: the mad, raging, Shakespearean tale of Captain Ahab's insane quest to kill...
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Moby Dick in half the time Moby Dick is the tale of one man's fatal obsession and his willingness to sacrifice his life and that of his crew to achieve his goal. The story follows the fortunes of Captain Ahab and the eccentric crew of a whaling ship, The Pequod. The ship is on its last voyage in pursuit of Moby Dick - the great white whale...
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Herman Melville's thrilling nautical adventure?a timeless allegory and an epic saga of heroic determination and conflict. At the heart of Moby-Dick is the powerful, unknowable sea?and Captain Ahab, a brooding, one-legged fanatic who has sworn vengeance on the mammoth white whale that crippled him. Narrated by Ishmael, a wayfarer who joins the...
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Allison Josephs' (aka Jew in the City's) family – especially her father – freaked out when she started to become more observant in her teens. At a recent Torah dedication, her father explains what motivated him and her mom (at almost 50 years old) to join her. (Both of her sisters became Orthodox too.)
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Outside of work my interests include: Geocaching, cooking/baking, book hoarding, Star Trek, and FOOD! (Food all day every day).
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Condensed Matter Seminar, Leonid Levitov , "Atomic collapse in graphene"
Since the discovery that electrons in graphene behave as massless Dirac fermions, the single-atom-thick material has become a fertile playground for testing exotic predictions of quantum electrodynamics, such as Klein tunneling and the fractional quantum Hall effect. Now add to that list atomic collapse, the spontaneous formation of electrons and positrons in the electrostatic field of a superheavy atomic nucleus. The atomic collapse was predicted to manifest itself in quasistationary states which have complex-valued energies and which decay rapidly. However, the atoms created artificially in laboratory have nuclear charge only up to Z = 118, which falls short of the predicted threshold for collapse, Interest in this problem has been revived with the advent of graphene, where because of a large fine structure constant the collapse is expected for Z of order unity. I this talk I will discuss the symmetry aspects of atomic collapse, in particular the anomalous breaking of scale invariance. I will also describe recent experiments that use scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) to probe atomic collapse near STM-controlled artificial compound nuclei.
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High Energy Theory Seminar - Xi Dong, Stanford - "Holographic Entanglement Entropy for General Higher Derivative Gravity"
We propose a general formula for calculating the entanglement entropy in theories dual to higher derivative gravity where the Lagrangian is a contraction of Riemann tensors. Our formula consists of Wald's formula for the black hole entropy, as well as corrections involving the extrinsic curvature. We derive these corrections by noting that they arise from naively higher order contributions to the action which are enhanced due to would-be logarithmic divergences. Our formula reproduces the Jacobson-Myers entropy in the context of Lovelock gravity, and agrees with existing results for general four-derivative gravity.
We emphasize that the formula should be evaluated on a particular bulk surface whose location can in principle be determined by solving the equations of motion with conical boundary conditions. This may be difficult in practice, and an alternative method is desirable. A natural prescription is simply minimizing our formula, analogous to the Ryu-Takayanagi prescription for Einstein gravity. We show that this is correct in several examples including Lovelock and general four-derivative gravity.
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Vigilant female caddies in wide-brimmed hats, their faces wrapped in scarves as the heat bakes the green, watch intently. A yellow-shirted Chinese entrepreneur descends from his golf cart and examines the fairway, one of 216 in the vast club known as Mission Hills in southern China. He places his tee, the swing is good and straight down the middle, and the four-ball and their caddies patter down the fairway.
This serene golfing scene takes place right in the commercial heart of Guangdong province where former Supreme Leader Deng Xiaoping declared three decades ago that China would open up to the world. To get rich is glorious, he said. To be rich is to play golf, say China's new breed of entrepreneurs. After 30 years of economic growth, plaid trousers, Ping hats and spiked golf shoes have edged out the Mao suits and People's Liberation Army slippers. Welcome to China's golf revolution.
In China, golf is known as "green opium", although the sport is certainly not for the masses. In the old days, the Communists considered golf a decadent way for capitalists to waste their time, but China's new leisure-loving rich have different ideas.
Zhu Kai, who works for the state oil company Sinopec, has been playing golf for just over a year. "I began to play golf in March 2008. I love the feeling of the swing. I feel free, casual and elegant when playing golf," said Mr Zhu.
While golf is still an elite sport in China, public courses do exist, although they are relatively rare. "I usually play golf on the public course at Gaobeidian Central Business District International Golf Course," said Mr Zhu. "During days when it's not a holiday, the price is 150-300 yuan (£13-£26) for one round of golf, which is affordable for me," said Mr Zhu.
Another aficionado, who gave his surname as Xu, is a veteran, playing since 2002. "Golf is not a boring sport," said the 43-year-old. "It changes constantly. It's outdoors. And I like to be in a green environment. I usually play less than three times on the same golf course, since I like to play in different places. Nowadays, agents can book golf courses for a group. So it is not that expensive. They could offer a round of golf for between 200-600 yuan (£17.60-£52.80) for one round of golf. Of course, some are expensive," said Mr Xu.
The only senior Chinese government leader known to have played golf was Zhao Ziyang, the disgraced former potentate who backed the students during the Tiananmen Square crackdown and spent his declining years putting in his courtyard home under house arrest. Golf's reputation is not assured in China, even among the current group of technocrats running the country.
Ideological quibbles aside, these days there are more than 300 golf courses in China, mostly in the south, compared with just 20 or so in the 1980s. The golf market is estimated to be worth £4.5bn annually and is growing by 20 per cent a year. China now ranks fifth in the world and second in Asia in terms of the number of golf courses.
As in other countries, golf is a status sport, as a way of oiling the gears when it comes to building contacts and setting up deals. At the same time, as China grows in sophistication as a golfing nation, increasingly the focus among the elite is on the game itself. They save the deals for the 19th hole.
Or the 217th hole, in the case of Mission Hills. Located in the southern manufacturing hub of Shenzhen (just across the border from Hong Kong, where many of its members hail from), Mission Hills is the world's biggest golf club, with a record-breaking 216 holes. Divide that number by 18 and you get 12, yes, 12 golf courses. Shenzhen is in Guangdong province, which is home to 85 million of China's 1.3 billion people and a region that has for many years driven China's boom.
The economic slowdown means things are not as they were a couple of years ago, but China's economy is still expected to expand by around 8 per cent a year. That is the kind of expansion the rest of the world can only dream of at the moment, and this leaves a lot of leeway for the business community to get out on the fairway.
Full membership, giving you the right to play all 12 courses at Mission Hills, costs around £150,000 a year; but different memberships are offered to address different usage preferences and the lowest entry membership costs less than £25,000. The club has a staff of 7,000, including 3,000 female caddies, wearing the aforementioned wide-brimmed hats. On a busy day around 3,000 golfers can tee off.
"It is no secret that the economic crisis is having its toll on global business. We think China, and Asia as a whole, presents golf's best opportunity for growth in the long run. It certainly has become harder and has taken creativity and some rethinking on tactics to lure customers, but Mission Hills presents an exceptional value proposition and golf experience to members and guests alike. We have an excellent product and therefore continue to grow," said Tenniel Chu, Executive Director of Mission Hills.
In terms of dealing with the downturn, or more accurately the slowdown, Mission Hills said it is trying to accentuate the positives. "The crisis has brought the corporate community much closer together, and innovative ways are being worked out to reach new customers. For example, we have been creating reciprocal and associated golf programmes with other clubs around the world that allow our members and those of partnering clubs to visit each other and enjoy special benefits. It's a little bit like the alliances airlines form," said Chu, the son of the founder, Dr David Chu.
Mission Hills began life in 1994 with a course designed by Jack Nicklaus. Its current collection of 12 courses includes links designed by the some of the biggest names in the game, such as Nick Faldo, José Maria Olazabal, Greg Norman, Ernie Els, Jumbo Ozaki and China's own Zhang Lianwei.
There is a lot riding on Zhang Lianwei, since, for the sport to really thrive in China, the game needs a Chinese name to really shine – look at how Yao Ming has made basketball the most important game in China.
The time and money involved in the sport put it beyond the reach of young players who might boost the competitive side of the game, but there is a growing number of sponsorships for young players. Golf is too land-intensive ever to be a really popular sport – the Communist government likes gymnastics and volleyball, because lots of people play the sport, in a team, in an enclosed space. It is much easier logistically to promote these kinds of activities when you have a population of 1.3 billion people than it is to encourage youngsters to get out on a huge park, on their own, and play for China.
Nonetheless, China's population of regular golfers has doubled since 2001 (partly because of the success of Tiger Woods, with his Asian background) and the China Golf Association predicts that by 2020 China will have 20 million golfers. Of the 3 million who currently play, around 1 million are believed to tee off on a regular basis, although significantly fewer are club members – and hardly any are woman. Around 2,000 of China's golfers are competitive amateurs (sufficiently serious to take part in competitions), while about 300 are professionals. There are many top-flight competitions in China, mostly in Shanghai with occasional outings in courses near Beijing or in Guangdong. The most prestigious is the HSBC Champions in Shanghai, and it is a sign of China's growing significance in the game that stars who are expected to be competing for the tournament's $7m purse in November include Tiger Woods, Padraig Harrington, Paul Casey, Henrik Stenson and Rory McIlroy.
Another club that receives regular praise in the golf magazines is Spring City Golf and Lake Resort in the Yunnanese capital of Kunming, in the south-west of the country. The development has luxury villas and two championship courses – the Mountain Course, by Jack Nicklaus, and the Lake Course, designed by Robert Trent Jones Jr.
Spring City began life as an investment by Singaporean property developer Keppel Land Group in 1992. It has been operational since 1998. The overseas membership is predominantly from South-east Asia – Thailand, Hong Kong and Singapore are all within four hours of Kunming.
"It's a very reachable destination for people from south-east Asia. We see more and more mainland golfers here. There are between 5,000 and 8,000 golfers playing in Kunming and up to 1,000 going to courses – a big increase from zero a few years ago," said Lau Tong Chye, general manager of operations at Spring City.
"There are lots of reasons why Kunming is popular. The weather is great, and the grass is the best in the world."
There is another dimension to this picture of serene golfing pleasure. The development of the game is tightly allied to the social changes in China over the past three decades. As with so much else in the New China, this golf revolution is built on cold, hard cash. The primary motivation behind developing the game of golf in China is property, not bashing a little white ball around a course. Plush villas pay the green fees.
"What make money in most clubs are the villas and apartments ringing the courses. The golf itself is a loss leader, and many of the courses in China are chronically underutilised," said a golfer at another club – on condition of anonymity: he doesn't want problems with his membership.
In extreme cases, developers buy up large tracts of farmland on the outskirts of the boom towns of New China: Shenzhen, Guangzhou, Chongqing, Tianjin, Beijing and Shanghai. They then start building flashy villas – reasonably priced by UK standards but more than most Chinese families would earn in a lifetime. The courses are often an afterthought, hastily-constructed – even unplayable. The developers don't care; they can charge a lot more for property near a course.
Sometimes this land is taken illegally with the connivance of corrupt local officials, leading to social unrest as disenfranchised farmers take to the streets and demonstrate, attacking building sites and picketing government offices. China's arable land is scarce, and the government is worried about a growing wealth gap between the rich of the cities and the poor in the countryside.
There have also been efforts to clamp down on Communist Party cadres doing business on golf courses. The central government has put a ban on the construction of new courses for fear of a potentially-destabilising backlash, and ultimately the development of golf in China is largely dependent on what the Beijing government does.
But the ruling doesn't mean an end to the construction of golf courses in China. Many courses are listed as part of the facilities for a luxury villa development or as country clubs to get around the ban. Most people believe the government is more concerned about stopping course development turning into another bubble, and the slowing of growth is aimed at cooling the market.
Meanwhile, there are good golf clubs with real facilities and there are bad clubs. In one city-centre development in Beijing, it looked as though the builders had just put up a few flags and tried to sell the villa development as a golfing lifestyle scheme. This was a golf like an army assault course, although a bigger turn-off was the grand piano in the show house villa that played schmaltzy tunes automatically when the front door opened.
Other clubs combine a decent sporting reputation with a name for being a good property investment. Huatang Golf and Country Club lies in the Yanjiao Development Zone, which, if traffic is clear, is within a half an hour of downtown Beijing. The area is expanding at an incredible rate. Massive new villa and apartment developments are within reach of the golf club, which has also been developing real estate near the course. But not too near – it's still a good course.
What is fascinating about Huatang is the way a town has sprung up out of nowhere just outside its boundaries – apartments, shops, offices, a whole new community. All the buildings seem to have been constructed in less than a year. They ooze aspiration. Entrepreneurial hawkers – who may be members of the club by this time next year – are selling golf balls and hats from the backs of their tricycles as you approach the course.
"Golf fortune here is to do with property fortune," said one player. "If the economy continues to grow and the Central Business District continues to expand, then the demand will grow for places to live. In general, it's an optimistic outlook, not necessarily because of the golf but because of the economy and thus the property."
The financial services company KPMG's Golfbenchmark report on the industry in China in 2008 was compiled before the financial crisis. But its author, Andrea Sartori, said he expects its positive outlooks to remain in place. According to KPMG, the average club membership in China costs €32,000 (£28,000), far higher than in Europe, the Middle East or Africa. "If only 0.1 per cent of China's population will play golf by 2030 – approximately one-tenth of the European and a hundredth of the North American participation in the game today – China would have 1.3 million golfers," the Golfbenchmark report reckons.
Assuming an average of 650 golfers per course, this implies a total supply of 2,000 golf courses in China. That means 1,700 golf courses being built in the next 20 or 25 years, it said. Fore!
And we should never forget China invented the sport. Chinese historians argue that their ancestors were teeing off in 945 and say Mongolian travellers took chuiwan – "chui" means to hit, and "wan" is a ball – to Europe. According to this theory, the rules of the sport were formulated in a 1282 book called Wan Jing (or Manual of Ball Games).
An ancient scroll called The Autumn Banquet, dating from 1368, shows officials playing chuiwan. It is a familiar scene, as one eccentrically-dressed nobleman putts, another watches balefully, while a third seems to be consulting the rules. Even the Emperor Huizong is said to have played; his handicap is unknown.
Visiting Mission Hills a few years back, I went to a showhouse villa and was bowled over by the way the double-doors at the back opened on to a pool with a fantastic view of one of the tees at a signature course. This was a lifestyle straight out of Entourage. You could lie in this pool sipping daiquiris and watch great golfers tee off, I told the saleswoman. She waved her hand dismissively.
"It's all going to be filled in, moved around the back. Bad feng shui," she said. Some things are still more important than real estate or golf.
Great leaps forward: China's sporting breakthroughs
Seeking to banish the "sick man of Asia" tag born of decades of foreign domination, the new People's Republic places sport at the heart of its communist ideal. The focus is on mass participation and military exercise designed to boost the strength and morale of the nation rather than on competition.
Sport and politics collide at the Helsinki Olympics, where the People's Republic and the vanquished nationalists in Taiwan compete to fly the Chinese flag. The communists win, paving the way for a generation of world beaters. "Communist China has won an important political battle," says Prime Minister Zhou Enlai.
An elite sports system is formally launched as the state realises medals speak louder than uniformed ranks doing star jumps. Teams and academies get to work, and, in 1963, the Vice Prime Minster, Chen Yin, says: "Achievements in sports are the glory of our country and people."
Beijing invites members of the US table tennis team for a series of exhibition games. The so-called "ping pong diplomacy" marks a thaw in East-West relations and faclitates the historic visit to China by President Nixon the following year. Table tennis remains a huge source of pride for the Chinese.
The Republic's first Olympic medals, at the Los Angeles Games, announce its arrival as a sporting power and Beijing lays plans to host the Games. "The quest for the Olympics was to raise national morale and strengthen the cohesion of Chinese people," President Jiang Zemin later says.
After a failed bid to host the 2000 Olympics, China is awarded the 2008 Games. The news prompts scenes of jubilation in Tianenmen Square. In 2004, China comes within three gold medals of beating the USA to the top of the table and vows to be the best in Beijing.
Aready popular after missionaries introduced the game to China in the 19th century, basketball becomes a new obsession for a generation of young people when the 7ft 6in, Shanghai-born star, Yao Ming, becomes the first of several players to make it big in the American game.
Zheng Jie reaches the semi-final of Wimbledon, confirming China as a growing force in tennis and fuelling a nationwide explosion in the sport. As the middle classes swell, bourgeois sports that might have Mao spinning in his mausoleum are being embraced by a state hungrier than ever for glory.
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HOUSTON Think nothing is there when Tennessee Titans quarterback Vince Young looks downfield and sees his receivers covered?
Think again.
Young's running ability helped make the difference in Monday night's taut 20-17 victory against the Houston Texans, just as it has throughout the four-game winning streak that began when he replaced slow-footed Kerry Collins.
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"I go through my one, two and three reads," said Young. "If it's not there, I have a chance to use my legs."
He made it look that simple as Tennessee continued its comeback from an 0-6 start while dealing Houston (5-5) an AFC South loss that defensive end Mario Williams described as "devastating."
The 6-5, 233-pound Young made seven runs that resulted in first downs. Six came in the second half. The last of them kept alive the game-winning drive.
"Coming into this game we knew that he had been converting a lot of third downs with his feet," said Texans cornerback Dunta Robinson. "So we emphasized it, but it's easier said than done to go out there and try to stop it. We didn't get that done on defense."
With the division rivals deadlocked at 17-17, Tennessee faced third-and-3 at its own 48-yard line with 1:17 left. Young, operating out of the shotgun, went around left end and covered 12 yards before safety John Busing could shove him out of bounds.
After a pair of incomplete passes, Young went over the middle to rookie Kenny Britt for a 5-yard gain to the Texans' 35. It was close enough for Rob Bironas, who boomed a 53-yard field goal with 47 seconds left.
Then 41 seconds later, Houston's Kris Brown sent a Reliant Stadium regular-season record crowd of 71,153 fans home when he missed wide left on a 49-yard attempt with six seconds to play. His boot from the same distance had sailed to the right midway through the third quarter.
With Tennessee continuing a run-first mentality that produced 228 rushing yards, 151 of those by burner Chris Johnson, Young was asked to throw only 22 times. He completed 12 for 116 yards and a score, a 13-yard strike to Britt early in the second quarter. His 11 rushes for 73 yards were backbreakers.
With the exception of a lost fumble early in the third quarter, it was the kind of steady performance coach Jeff Fisher has sought from Young since the Titans took the University of Texas star third overall in the 2006 draft.
"He's a year further in the system. He's had the luxury of watching Kerry," said Fisher, who sat Young while the Titans fashioned a league-best 13-3 regular-season record last year. "All of the things he was able to do at the line of scrimmage with the play clock and the crowd, it was a great job."
Although some raised questions last season about Young's ability to withstand criticism, he's regained the confidence of his teammates after owner Bud Adams reacted to the team's dismal 0-6 start by pushing for the potential franchise quarterback to rejoin the lineup.
"Having a guy like that in the huddle," said running back LenDale White, "you just sit back and know that everything is going to be OK."
Young repeatedly downplayed his role in Tennessee's resurgence. "I just want to be part of it and continue to earn the respect of my teammates and my coaches," he said.
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Obscene/Courageous Theatre is known for its offbeat, entertaining and sometimes disturbing productions. But the company's newest show is a little different. "It's a really cute play; it's a love story," says Sarah Crockarell, co-artistic director for Obscene/Courageous. "There's no horror, nobody gets stabbed. It's really based on slapstick and irreverent, silly humor."
The Love of Three Oranges is a classic Italian commedia dell'arte that Obscene/Courageous company members translated themselves, adding contemporary twists — such as Harry Potter jokes and the sensibilities of Japanese anime — to bring it into the modern age. The play follows a cursed prince as he searches through an anime-inspired world for three oranges before he can find his true love. The audience will meet a series of screwball, cartoon-like characters in this fantastical production, from an evil witch to, as Crockarell describes, "a lady whose boobs are so huge they hang down to the floor, and — this is part of the original fairy tale — the evil witch won't give her a broom, so she has to sweep the floor with her boobs."
The Love of Three Oranges runs today through February 23 at 8 p.m., and February 24 at 2 p.m. at the We're House, 5763 Arapahoe Avenue, Unit P, in Boulder, next to Avery Brewing Company. Tickets are $12 general admission and $10 for students; they're available at the door (cash only) or online at threeoranges.brownpapertickets.com.
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Tony Blair need not worry about his legacy any longer. If nothing else, he appears to be gunning for the most open-ended notice period ever. No wonder Gordon Brown's looking mardy.
But cheer up chancellor. You may even benefit from Blair's long kiss goodbye. Hasty resignations might speed the keen appointee into their new position, but the incomer risks finding the office in a complete mess. And there are some things you would rather not inherit with the job.
A decent notice period gives your predecessor time to tidy up a little. Of course, what most of us do in our notice periods is nothing of the sort. Tidying up? Gadding about more like; spending hours on the internet, making long-distance personal calls and greeting every deadline with "Whaddaya going to do? Fire me?".
Fears that you might sabotage the computer system/production line/canteen means that you can get away with all this lolling around.
Except, things are changing. Now when you hit your notice period you immediately have to start working 50 times harder than ever before. Forget running the country - Blair's got a handover document to pen, detailing his every duty and responsibility, while Brown needs to shadow the PM and learn the ropes, and staff need a debrief.
It might look as if Blair is just playing for time until some sort of positive legacy can be fulfilled, or ensuring that nobody has an excuse for "missing" the leaving present whip-round. But really he is just being thoughtful.
"There are two ways of leaving work - you can be a responsible, or an irresponsible leaver," says James Underhay, the commercial director of Chiumento HR consultancy. "You need to take stock and think about the future. Do you think you'll want to come back to the organisation? Will you be a customer or a supplier of the organisation in the future? What about a good reference?"
The best, responsible way to shimmy out the door, is to make a plan covering your notice period. "It's about purging - your emails, projects, files - somebody needs to take responsibility for them," Underhay says. And there is the personal stuff to sort out, too: the company car, credit card, keys, ID, pension, even whether you are allowed to take information or knowledge with you to your new employer.
Follow the corporate checklist and not only will everything get done, but it will prevent the department falling to pieces when you are gone. It is sensible and responsible: but where is the fun in that? Why do bosses want to squeeze every last drop of working goodness from their staff anyway? After all those years of slavery, surely the downtrodden workers are entitled to a few months of taking it easy.
It appears not. It is estimated that we change jobs about 12 times during our working lives. Even on a month's notice, that's a lot of messing around.
Fair dos then employers. We will not spend months of company time playing solitaire, and our successors can inherit sparkling offices. What comes around, goes around. But that does not mean you can get out of giving us a good sendoff. Tony knows what he is doing - the longer the wait, the bigger the bash. And Gordon, it's your turn to get the drinks in.


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I will quote this passage, however; Will's assessment of Ayers attacks:
In the closing days of his 10-year quest for the presidency, McCain finds it galling that Barack Obama is winning the first serious campaign he has ever run against a Republican. Before Tuesday night's uneventful event, gall was fueling what might be the McCain-Palin campaign's closing argument. It is less that Obama has bad ideas than that Obama is a bad person.
This, McCain and his female Sancho Panza say, is demonstrated by bad associations Obama had in Chicago, such as with William Ayers, the unrepentant terrorist. But the McCain-Palin charges have come just as the Obama campaign is benefiting from a mass mailing it is not paying for. Many millions of American households are gingerly opening envelopes containing reports of the third-quarter losses in their 401(k) and other retirement accounts -- telling each household its portion of the nearly $2 trillion that Americans' accounts have recently shed. In this context, the McCain-Palin campaign's attempt to get Americans to focus on Obama's Chicago associations seems surreal -- or, as a British politician once said about criticism he was receiving, "like being savaged by a dead sheep."
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Solid, strong performance in all the games I play. Max settings at 1900X1080. I think this may be one of the best looking cards I've ever owned...its a shame to see so little of it inside a pc case! With the improvements being made in subsequent driver releases, this card nips at the heels of a GTX 670 at almost $100 less!
This card is whisper quiet at stock settings.
If you're looking to seriously overclock, I don't think this is your card. I was able to apply a modest OC to 950MHz/1350MHz before I wasn't entirely comfortable with temps and noise. If you want to really push an OC you might consider the Gigabyte Windforce cooler or the Asus DCu. As with all OC's, your mileage will vary.
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XFX now has, hands down, the BEST warranty in the graphics card industry. Now that EVGA has watered down their warranty to point of...umm...just about the same as everyone else, XFX is the last to still offer a true, lifetime warranty. Just be aware, not all models qualify for it.
I've never had any problems with XFX graphics cards, but then again, I've never had one fail. This is my fourth.
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