...Tuesday, March 9, 7:30 a.m. -- Denver Nuggets coach George Karl pops in his mouthpiece and puts on his helmet and braces himself for a brutal 15 minutes, but this isn't football. This is cancer radiation. We're at Denver's Swedish Medical Center. The helmet is actually a white, hard-mesh mask that fits to every contour of Karl's big bucket head. It has red crosses all over it, like a hockey goalie's. He lays his 283 pounds on the table and the technicians clamp the mask on hard. How Karl breathes I'll never know. They secure his limbs and ask him to hold a blue plastic donut so no part of him moves. He looks like Hannibal Lecter about to get fried. "It makes you a little claustrophobic," the 58-year-old coach tries to say through the mask. "But what are you gonna do? Leave?" Coaching the wildly talented but wildly uneven Nuggets is hard enough, let alone doing it with throat and neck cancer, but that's what Karl is trying to do. Everybody tells him it's not possible, and today, maybe he's starting to believe them. With only three of his torturous six weeks of treatment done, and the inside of his mouth looking like he just took 100 bites out of a lava-hot pizza slice, and his head throbbing and his eyes hollow, Karl looks like a guy who should be on a stretcher, not an NBA bench. "George, this is only going to get harder," a nurse tells him. "You're not going to feel like working." Clearly, she's never met George Karl. He shows me many things I don't want to see...
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...chicken nugget is a chicken product made from either meat slurry or chicken breasts cut to shape, breaded or battered, then deep-fried or baked. Fast food restaurants typically fry their nuggets in vegetable oil. The chicken nugget was invented in the 1950s by Robert C. Baker, a food science professor at Cornell University, and published as unpatented academic work.[1] Dr. Baker's innovations made it possible to form chicken nuggets in any shape. McDonald's recipe for Chicken McNuggets was created on commission from McDonald's by Tyson Foods in 1979[citation needed] and the product was sold beginning in 1980. Some fast food restaurants have launched vegetarian alternatives. McDonald's served Garden McNuggets made of beans and Swedish fast food restaurant Max Hamburgare offers a dish containing nuggets made of falafel. Quorn also supplies vegetarian chicken style nuggetts.[2][3] World record The largest recorded chicken nugget weighed 51.1 pounds (23.2 kg) and was 3.25 feet (0.99 m) long and 2 feet (0.61 m) wide and was created by Empire Kosher. It was unveiled at Kosherfest in Secaucus, New Jersey on October 29, 2013.[4] See also Chicken fingers Chicken fries Meat slurry References Wikimedia Commons has media related to Chicken nuggets. Jump up ^ (Cornell University) obituary, March 16, 2006 Jump up ^ What's in Those Nuggets? Meat Substitute Stirs Debate Jump up ^ Quorn Meat Free Chicken Nuggets Jump up ^ "Photos: World's largest chicken nugget on display...
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...Which Elements are Important to Customers in Fast Food Restaurants: Food quality, Time, and Price. Introduction A phenomenon anyone can easily observe is that people eat more meals outside their home than before(Kara, Kaynak, & Kucukemiroglu, 1997), and fast-food has increasingly become popular over the past decades (Pereira et al., 2005). When people are short of time, sick and tired of preparing for meals at home, or hatred to waiting, they willingly go out and eat meals. According to some authors (French, Story, Neumark-Sztainer, Fulkerson, & Hannan, 2001), between 1977 and 1995 the fast-food industry had experienced 200% rapid growth whereas other restaurant industry had been grown only by 150%. Adolescents visit a fast food restaurant more than twice every week on average, indicating that out of at least two-and-a-half of the away-from-home meals are eaten by them, and this trend is expected to continue in the future (French, et al., 2001). According to Namkung and Jang (2007), the very first objective of business is to satisfy customers, and in turn, have them repurchase. Food quality is one of the most important reasons that we repeatedly patronize a certain restaurant because after all is said and done, the fundamental reason of going to restaurants is to have meals. Therefore, food quality has received by far more attention from researchers than any other elements of restaurants (Jang, Ha, & Silkes, 2009), and their efforts have been continued on...
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...I am very grateful that I had the opportunity to tour the Pepsi Center with our class, as I have attended multiple Nuggets game every year since 1999 when the building opened. Moreover, I worked for a company called Event Rents several years ago and was able to gain special (albeit very limited) access to sections of the Pepsi Center over the course of that employment. To clarify, Event Rents is a party supply rental company and my job was to deliver/set up tables and chairs for fundraising events that the Pepsi Center was holding. It was great to see even more of the Pepsi Center through this class because I have always been curious about how extensive the building really is, and I was afforded the opportunity to experience even more of their operation on the tour. My personal history aside, I found it extremely insightful to be able to speak with executive management. In this response paper I aim to address key aspects that I found to be insightful during the tour and also during the second half of class when we had the question/answer segment with the management team. Anthony Malandra gave our class the tour of the Pepsi Center. He was extremely knowledgeable and well spoken. Mr. Malandra brought up many points that I thought were astounding. It is remarkable that Pepsi CO. paid $64 million for the naming rights in 1999, which equates to $3.2 million per year over 20 years. This seems like a relatively insignificant amount of money to pay for naming rights. Maybe...
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...Tracy McGrady got me more interested in learning about the history of basketball. This book is about the rookie experience that rookies go through and the challenges they have to face throughout there rookie years. I liked this book because I know how tired and beat down an athlete can get towards the end of the season. I would recommend this book to teen athletes. I would not recommend it to people who are not interested in sports. The intended audience is basketball players and young athletes. This story also talks about how fast you can get traded. Bobby Jackson originally drafted by the great championship contending Seattle Sonic; but before he could celebrate he was traded to one of the worst teams in the NBA (Back then), the Denver Nuggets. He was heartbroken. After reading this book I have learned that a rookie has to face many challenges his first few years. This book is a very good book for people like me. I enjoy playing basketball I love everything about it and reading about it wasn’t too bad. I will recommend this book to young basketball players and athletes. The only thing I did not like about this book was how it jumped around from one player to the next then the next. It confused me a lot because I thought I was reading about one player and I was actually reading about the other. I enjoyed reading NBA: Rookie Experience and I recommend it to basketball...
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...Proposal for Qingyuan Fast Food Restaurant Opening Project Prepared Expressly for Mr. Jason Lee ( Qishuan Li) Director Xiang Zhou Branch Office China Construction Bank Prepared by: Tel: Fax: E-mail: Date: Table of contents Executive Summary 2 Introduction 3 Proposal 3 Findings 3 Strength 4 Opportunities 4 New Premises 4 Services 5 Facilities 5 Cost Breakdown 5 Benefits 6 Schedule 8 Risks and Management Plans 8 Conclusion 10 Appendixes 10 The analysis of the business 10 Customer Profiles 11 Focus Groups 11 SWOT Analysis 12 Strengths 12 Weaknesses 12 Opportunities 13 Threats 13 SMART Analysis 13 Action Plan 14 Activity Flow Chart 16 Project Costs 16 Stakeholder Analysis 17 Risk Analysis and Management Plan 18 The Project Framework 19 Executive Summary Chinese people attach great importance to “eating”. We can know it by the saying “Bread is the staff of life”. China's dishes highly stress on its color, aroma, taste, shape and meaning. As a result, many Chinese come to overseas and make their living by opening restaurants, which has become the fundamental settlement in the world. Similarly, opening various styles of restaurants in the domestic cities of the appropriate location is a great business opportunity. Based on this, a great business opportunity is to open a fast-food restaurant, named Qingyuan Fast...
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...DeAndre Callands Professor Williams English 111 January 27, 2016 Success essay The media portrays success to be the attainment of riches and the latest of technology and cars. Is this the real definition of success? No, the definition of success is being able to attain a goal or multiple goals that a person has set in life. There are two steps to being successful education and experience. A prime example is of a basketball player I know his name is Randy Foye and he plays for the Denver nuggets. The first thing Randy had to learn the game to be a successful basketball player. He used to spend all his earlier days going to a jersey recreation center. By doing this learning he was able to make mistakes and correct himself, the same way people have to do in life to be successful. People must make mistakes and see the error in there ways. He would also watch game footage from Tim Hardaway and Michael Jordan and see what they did to be successful. He would then emulate them. Like other people do to be successful they watch there idols decisions and actions to learn why they are so successful. If someone wanted to be successful in a field like business they would study people like Bill Gates or Steve Jobs if one want to be successful like them. Randy also spent his 10,000 hours practicing and playing lots of games. Randy had a lot of experience in the mean streets of Newark, New Jersey. He had played with people twice his age and it made him tougher on the court...
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...How Representation of James Bond characters has changed since October 5th 1962 ‘007 licenced to kill, HM Secret Service agent’ ‘The description or portrayal of someone or something in a particular way.’ (Wikipedia descriptions) The above description defines the word ‘representation’ in a way in which can be understood by anyone. The term has a whole new level of meanings that would take more than twelve words to describe and that which I plan to go into in-depth detail about. This case study will map out why the term ‘representation’ is so prominent in the ongoing fifty-year old thriller sequel, James Bond, how influential it can be on a persons opinion, and the way in which it shapes a whole film. Representation may or may not have shaped not only the way we see the characters but the way in which we look at features after the film has been made, for example, do we view stockbrokers on Wall Street the same now as we did before the Oscar winning film ‘Wolf of Wall Street’ was produced? Or do we assume that every secret agent is just like James Bond? Michael Wilson, producer of Skyfall and screenwriter of many of the 007 films, says: ‘the film character of James Bond is always dependent on the actor who plays him and the time at which the film is made because Bond always lives in the contemporary time the films are made.’ The representation of characters in films is vital to how we view a film and whether we take an instant like or dislike to the character....
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...rubber band. I also counted the deck, and there are 55 cards. The three extra cards are duplicates. I haven't found or seen any other printed like these anywhere online. So I'll assume they are the only ones in existence. However, if you know of any others out there, maybe you can let me know? I would like to donate these to a James Bond museum, as I believe that is where they should belong." Without missing a beat, I replied by asking Christina Lopez to send me a photo of the Ace of Spades. She quickly obliged and replied with an image that made me laugh out loud. CARD CULTURE readers, do you recognize this Ace of Spades? I do (smiling). It's the exact same design that appears on one of my favorite decks of cards - the classic Jerry's Nugget Ace of Spade. Hilarious! In all seriousness though, it's the key to telling Christina Lopez what she has in her possession. Subsequently, I replied to her with the following, "After seeing the Ace of Spades, I can say without a doubt, this deck was manufactured by the United States Playing Card Company in Cincinnati, Ohio. The spade found on the Ace is a stock image which USPC used on many of their decks in the past." This exchange got me interested in finding the StarJet deck so I found a copy of the movie, and watched trying to spot the cards. Sadly, I didn't catch a glimpse of them at all. Therefore, as for any proof this deck was shown in Goldfinger; there's none. At this point, it's all conjecture. There's a great chance that these...
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...- $ total Direct Materials 10.00 Direct labor 4.50 Variable Manufacturing Overhead 2.30 Fixed Manufacturing Overhead 5.00 300,000 Variable Selling Expenses 1.20 Fixed Selling Expense 3.50 210,000 Total Cost Per Unit 26.50 P= $ 32 VC= $ 18 CM=P-VC CM=32-18= 14 TFC= 510,000 Q= 60,000 Q= TFC+I 60,000 = 510,000+I = I= ([14 X 60.000]-510.000) = $ 330,000 CM 14 The firms profit is $ 330,000 in current production. New Situation The firm will produce 75.000 units ( 60.000 X 1,25=75.000) $ Total $ Direct Materials 10.00 Direct laBor 4.50 Variable Manufacturing Overhead 2.30 Fixed Manufacturing Overhead (300.000 / 75.000=4,00) 4.00 300,000 Variable Selling Expenses 1.20 Fixed Selling Expense (210.000+80.000)/75.000 3.87 290,000 Total Cost Per Unit 25.87 If the firm produce 75.000 units, total cost per unit become $ 25.87. It is clear that this cost is less than both first total cost per unit and product selling price. For this reason, If the firm can sell 75.000 units, the second option is more beneficial for the company. On the other hand, we know that this increase gives rise to $ 80,000 fixed selling expenses. We must calculate when the second option become more beneficial P= $ 32 VC= $ 18 CM=P-VC CM=32-18= 14 TFC= 590,000 I= 330,000 In the first option the firm gain $330,000. In the second case, to obtain same profit the firm must at least 65.714 units. Q=...
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...PepsiCo (PepsiCo, Inc.) Is the world's most successful consumer goods companies in the world, more than 200 countries and regions with 14 million employees, 2004 sales $ 29.3 billion, the world's fourth-largest food and beverage company . Pepsi's beverage brands, including: "Pepsi," "Seven," "Mirinda", "surf", "Asian", "Arctic Ocean", "Tianfu", "Gatorade" series, "Dole" series and so on. Mirinda (Mirinda) PepsiCo honor one of the products. Ingredients: carbonated water (water, carbon dioxide), sugar, citric acid, sodium benzoate, food flavor, vitamin C, lemon yellow, sodium citrate, sunset yellow, carmine. Flavors: orange, apple, black currant, grapefruit, mango, lime, etc. Qixi (English formerly 7-Up) is the Dr Pepper / Seven Up's lemonade brand, bottled from the 1987 production of the product. Outside the United States, seven are registered trademarks of PepsiCo. Seven formerly known as Bib-Label Lithiated Lemon-Lime Soda, 1929 in St. Louis, Missouri to begin production. "Jiadele" is the world's leading sports drink, has 35 years of sports science background. It added the missing movement in the body of water and electrolytes, while also providing carbohydrates to enhance exercise endurance, "the disintegration of the solution is more thirsty thirsty" is the "Gatorade" is unique. Today, the "Jiadele" sports drink industry in the United States holds 85% share. This time, Beijing, Tianjin, Hebei and other places selling lemon ice passion, energy orange ice, and ice orange power...
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...9-502-040 OCTOBER 5, 2001 DOUGLAS B. HOLT Mountain Dew: Selecting New Creative Standing at the front of a PepsiCo conference room, Bill Bruce gestured enthusiastically, pointing to the sketches at his side. Bruce, a copywriter and Executive Creative Director, headed up the creative team on the Mountain Dew account for PepsiCo’s advertising agency, BBDO New York. In fact, it was Bruce who devised the famous “Do the Dew” campaign that had catapulted Mountain Dew to the number three position in its category. With his partner, art director Doris Cassar, Bruce had developed ten new creative concepts for Mountain Dew’s 2000 advertising to present to PepsiCo management. Gathered in the room to support Bruce and Cassar were BBDO senior executives Jeff Mordos (Chief Operating Officer), Cathy Israelevitz (Senior Account Director), and Ted Sann (Chief Creative Officer). Each of the three executives had over a decade of experience working on Mountain Dew. Representing PepsiCo were Scott Moffitt (Marketing Director, Mountain Dew), Dawn Hudson (Chief Marketing Officer, and a former senior ad agency executive), and Gary Rodkin (Chief Executive Officer, Pepsi Cola North America). Scott Moffitt scribbled notes as he listened to Bruce speak. Moffitt and the brand managers under him were charged with day-to-day oversight of Mountain Dew marketing. These responsibilities included brand strategy, consumer and sales promotions, packaging, line extensions, product changes, and sponsorships....
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...the corporations of the world. In fact, the Santa Claus we know today was shaped by the multi-billion dollar corporation, Coca-Cola (Staff, 2012). As we all know, when Dr. Seuss wrote his books, he most often included a theme, or ‘moral of the story’ as a guide for young children to help them learn important values. In his work, “The Grinch Who Stole Christmas”, Dr. Seuss openly protested the commercialization of Christmas. Seuss’s work is very obviously Marxist-based, as it spoke clearly on issues of discrimination, ostracism and misplaced values. Marxism is different than ‘other progressive movements because Marxists always struggle to overcome the manifold forms of domination and exploitation in and through the self-emancipation of the working class’ (Marxists.org). Dr. Seuss could be interpreted as protesting against this exploitation of the public by the capitalists and corporations, by creating a work that states that ““Maybe Christmas,” he thought, “doesn’t come from a store. Maybe Christmas…perhaps…means a little bit more!”” (Geisel, 1957). Seuss, it seems, was of the opinion that the version of Christmas we know now, based on giving and receiving expensive purchases, was little more than an incredibly clever marketing gimmick by major corporations, which is essentially the upper class. In his work, Dr. Seuss outlined the difference between the upper class (the Whos) and the lower class (the Grinch). I think that Seuss’s characterization of the Grinch and the Whos is more...
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...Anthonee Butler Essay 1, Draft 1 9/25/2013 I was exposed to reading at a young age. My earliest reading memory was my mother reading Dr. Seuss books to me when I was four or five. I used to enjoy seeing the pictures in the books more then I liked being read too. I also use to enjoy watching the characters in the books on television. As a kid I was in love with talking animals. I thought that was the coolest thing in the world. The Arthur series was a big influence growing up. I remember one Christmas I got a stack of Arthur books and I was the happiest kid in the world. That whole week my mother would help me read the books and then I would watch the show on television right after. As I grew older, I started to enjoy reading horror books. I also liked horror films and I think that influenced what I liked to read. I really liked the Goosebumps series and could read them all day. I prefer to read about things that interest me. It’s hard for me to read something that doesn’t have my interest. In high school, I rarely read about something that interested me. At a young age, my grandmother would tell me stories about how she grew up in the south and how different the country was as a kid. She would tell me about how segregated it was and all about the civil rights movement and how it was a big part of her childhood. Hearing these stories that my grandmother would tell me made me want to learn more about the civil rights era in the south. A lot of things influenced me to read...
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...VCDD 290 Unit 1: Forms of Art Discussion Board Lisa McAlpine Art, much like beauty, is in the eyes of the beholder. Whether or not a piece may be considered “art” depends on how the viewer interprets the piece. For example, many do not find architecture or illustration to be “art”, because they are not traditional forms of art. They are perhaps the most unorthodox forms of art available. However, some find nontraditional forms of art more appealing due to the nonconventional nature of such pieces. Architecture is the most controversial art form, because many see it more as a science than an art form. However, there is a certain viewpoint that makes architecture artistic. Architecture is a visual art in the form of building, an art form that is larger than life, larger than the biggest sculpture. Architecture is not only art, but art that is not only visually appealing, but also has a useful purpose, unlike many other forms of art (ArchiteacherTM – Architecture and Aesthetics, 2002). There are a few timeless architectural pieces that have inspired the public for generations, and will continue for lifetimes to come. One such architectural masterpiece is the Roman Pantheon. The Roman Pantheon was constructed as a temple to the Romanian pagan gods, such as Diana (goddess of the Moon) and Apollo (God of the Sun) (Edkins, 1999). Though no one is completely sure when the Pantheon was built, brick stamps upon the side of the building suggest that the Pantheon was built between...
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