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The current status of our understanding of mechanistic details of GaAs growth by metal-organic chemical vapour deposition from various starting materials is reviewed. Despite a high level of recent activity in the study of precursor decomposition and reactivity there are still considerable gaps in our knowledge; for example, a clear differentiation between homogeneous (gas phase) and heterogenous (surface-controlled) processes is not yet possible. The decomposition of trimethylgallium in dihydrogen as carrier gas and the concomitant production of methane may occur by means of a radical process where hydrogen is abstracted by methyl radicals from the trimethylgallium rather than from the carrier gas. Triethylgallium on the other hand also offers the possibility of $\beta $-elimination as a facile pathway and this is reflected in the ratio ethene: ethane (3:1). In the presence of arsine there is a more facile pathway for hydrogen abstraction by alkyl radicals, giving rise in the case of triethylgallium and arsine to more ethane than ethene and in the case of trimethylgallium with arsine there is a difference in the reactivity to that found in studies of its decomposition in dihydrogen alone. Several workers have therefore deduced the participation of an intermediate adduct under growth conditions because arsine and trimethylgallium lower each others' decomposition temperature significantly. However, it should be remembered that arsine is almost certainly a better donor of hydrogen to methyl radicals than is dihydrogen. Phenylarsine has been found to be a potentially useful alternative precursor to arsine for the preparation of epitaxial GaAs. Thin films with excellent electrical and morphological characteristics have been prepared. Phenylarsine decomposes in dihydrogen to yield benzene and arsine and in the presence of trimethylgallium and triethylgallium mechanisms similar to those found with trimethylgallium and triethylgallium with arsine are suggested. These appear not to involve the dihydrogen carrier gas.
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The iconic player will not celebrate his birthday with a major birthday bash to pay his last tribute to the godman, sources informed. Sachin earlier tweeted, "I m praying for Shri Sathya Sai Baba's quick recovery. Hope everyone will join me in praying for his return to good health."
Amid tight security, Sai Baba's followers rushed to Puttaparthi where his body will be kept till Tuesday, Apr 26. Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Kiran Kumar Reddy and former CM K Rossaiah have already started for the holy place. (Sai Baba lived and died in Puttaparthi)
Some of his noted followers are - actor Amitabh Bachchan, cricketers Sunil Gavaskar, Rahul Dravid, Anil Kumble, VVS Laxman, politicians Shivraj Patil, Ashok Chavan, S M Krishna, M K Stalin and Chandrababu Naidu.
Satya Sai Baba was admitted at the super-specialty hospital at Prashantigram at Puttaparthi following respiratory problems on Mar 28. The 85 year has had many health issues earlier. But his condition worsened recently.
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This is a discussion on Scratched my AR pretty bad. within the General Firearm Discussion forums, part of the Related Topics category; I have been slowly working on an AR build and the lower parts finally came in yesterday. Last night I was putting it together a ...
I have been slowly working on an AR build and the lower parts finally came in yesterday. Last night I was putting it together a roll pin was giving me a hard time. Prior to working I taped up the receiver in painters tape, but it didn't prevent the pretty bad scratch. I had the receiver in the vice, was starting to tap it in. Before I go any further, I have to tell you that above my workbench is a shelf with books, (reloading manuals, reference books etc). My wife came in and was trying to place something on the shelf at the other end (away from me) and somehow she knocked the shelf enough that a large hardback old college textbook fell and hit my head and then landed on my arm. (I used the book for a support things, not for reading!)
I didn't realize anything had happened until after I picked up the book, accepted the apology from my wife and took a moment to step away. When I got back, I found a rip in the painters tape and a pretty significant scratch in the receiver. The punch had painters tap all over the point, so I know what happened. Now I have a heart wrenching scratch on it. Makes me sick.
What are the best options for fixing it? Black sharpie pen just doesn't fix it like I want. I was going to run by the gun store today, but being Easter it is closed.
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It is ruined. I'll give you $30 to take it off your hands.
Try Birchwood Casey Aluminum Black. You could even take the opportunity to have the parts Cerakoted to the color of your choice.
How deep is the scratch?
I assume it was the bolt catch roll pin?
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You got it, the bolt catch pin. The scratch is deep enough that feel it with my finger, very slight "sharp" edge on the scratch and it went all the way through the finish. I have already fixed that part, just need to fix the finish.
I was thinking about getting our family crest done on the side...
"Gun Free Zones" is where only criminals carry guns.
Above, try some black.
I've stopped fretting over scratches in my weapons. Especially if I'm doing work on them. I get what I pay for, I says.
Seriously, all my guns are shooters.... and with shooting comes wear.
I know it is disappointing, but don't let it take away from the enjoyment of your rifle. Fix it as best you can and move on!
-PEF, Refugee from the Island of Misfit Toys
It is like buying a car, and scratching it 30 seconds after you sign the paperwork. Car still drives, it just isn't pristine before it even gets shot the first time (from personal experience) Oh well, touch up and move on.
"Gun Free Zones" is where only criminals carry guns.
Consider it broken in and move on. Now you don't have to worry about that first scratch.
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Lighten up and enjoy life because:
Paranoia strikes deep, into your life it will creep. It starts when you're always afraid... Buffalo Springfield - For What It's Worth
I have no clue how to fix it but I do feel your pain!
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Things gun forums have taught me:
-Some people shoot guns others "run" them.
-I don't dislike Glocks but often dislike Glock owners.
-Open carry is to a handgun as bluetooth is to a cell phone!
-Simple math can deliver posts per day... some gun forum members need to get out more!!!
When my daughter gets scratched, I give her a band-aid. Maybe that'll help?
"Be polite, be professional, but have a plan to kill everyone you meet."
-General James Mattis, USMC
Can you possibly put up some photos for a good look. This sounds like it may be an excuse for some duracoat, gunkote or whatever coat they have these days
Back in my day, scratches were called character and a good thing. :) Times change and now we have many gun owners treating guns like man toys (many call them toys online which only provides fodder for the anti gun people who view this as proof that we do not need guns but just want man toys) rather than weapons to be used for deadly purposes. I do not own a rifle because I figure it will be easy to take away one of those fancy rifles I see on YouTube all the time that are owned by guys who rather spend their money to look cool than to be well trained. :)
There are no safe queens in my house. All my guns are shooteres for hunting, defense, etc.. They all show some level of scracthes due to thier purposse. Chalk it up to fate and continue. Eventually you will get more scratches the more you use it.
nothing worse than an angry ar. It may develope anger management issues.
Fast is fine, but accuracy is everything.
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Little scratch story:
Took a guy hunting in the Snake River Canyons in WA. If you've never been there, picture steeeeep canyons, loose turf, lots of rocks and a ton of climbing. I had my Win 1200 which had been refinished several times over the years and still looked well used. He brought along a nice Weatherby . . . I asked if he was sure if he wanted to bring a nice gun like that to teh SRC, and he said sure.
After a half-day of slipping and sliding while using the Weatherby as a drag anchor, his expensive "shooting piece" finally looked like a decent hunting gun. Next time he went, he brought a throw-away shotgtun.
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Beryl could dump heavy rain in the coastal counties of Georgia, and will bring a chance of rain to metro Atlanta by the end of the holiday weekend.
Until then, on Saturday metro Atlantans can expect afternoon highs climbing to within a degree or two of the 94-degree record set in 1936, Channel 2 meteorologist David Chandley said.
The tropical storm warning is in effect from Volusia County, Fla, to Edisto Beach, S.C., a nearly 300-mile swath of coastline that includes the entire Georgia coast.
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Rapid adoption of the latest and greatest technology is often the route to commercial success. But sometimes it pays to hang back a bit and wait for others to perfect leading-edge tools while exploiting advantages in the processes and tools they have left behind.
Such has been the path of Athlon Energy (ATHL), a Permian Basin oil exploration outfit that is still drilling mostly vertical wells even as its peers race to capitalize on the advantages of horizontal drilling.
Founded in 2010, Athlon went public in an August 2013 IPO. Its founders came from Encore Acquisition, an exploration firm founded by Texas oilfield veteran I. Jon Brumley. Like other outfits headed by him, Encore had extensive drilling experience in the Permian.
That's significant because the key to Athlon's growth since its founding has been management's grasp of the 70,000-square-mile Permian, which stretches from western Texas into the southeast corner of New Mexico. By buying leases from smaller operators in drilling zones that had not been drilled horizontally, Athlon picked up producing vertical properties for pennies on the dollar.
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Eli Kantor, analyst with Iberia Capital Partners, estimates that Athlon built its huge position of 109,000 net acres in the Permian's Midland Basin at an average cost of less than $5,000 an acre. Today, he notes, similar leases are going for $25,000 an acre.
Athlon, says Kantor, has followed the old industry maxim that "the best acquisition companies are the best development companies."
It was able to buy some acreage on the cheap in Howard County, Texas, because many doubted its suitability to horizontal drilling. And it scarfed up leases from smaller operators who lacked the capital and expertise to even try.
"They have been buying in areas where there's a little more risk and not as much horizontal drilling experience," said Kantor.
Wells Fargo analyst David Tameron describes Howard County as "less sexy" than other Permian hotbeds. (Wells Fargo was an underwriter on Athlon's IPO).
As a smaller producer, he explains, they picked up parcels of land that Permian giants like Occidental Petroleum (OXY), Chevron (CVX) and Pioneer Natural Resources (PXD) might have spurned.
"It was easier to acquire smaller pieces because the big guys didn't want to bother," said Tameron.
With everyone racing to drill horizontally, Athlon got discount pricing on vertical rigs. A lot of vertical rigs were just "sitting around," said Tameron. Again, an opportunistic ploy by a firm redirecting toward the latest technology.
Despite the questions about drilling horizontally in Howard County, Athlon executives knew they could drill vertically through multiple hydrocarbon layers.
And, as Kantor said, "They have enough vertical data to give them confidence of horizontal results."
Now Athlon boasts a deep inventory of more than 3,900 vertical drilling sites. It's also testing the feasibility of horizontal drilling.
If successful, horizontal wells could provide a meaningful production kicker. RBC Capital Markets analyst Scott Hanold said Athlon has "a big upside opportunity if they can drill successfully horizontally in Howard County." (RBC has been an underwriter on Athlon equity offerings.)
Meanwhile, vertical wells are workhorse producers. In a Jan. 24 update, Athlon claimed average daily production in the fourth quarter totaled 14,689 barrels, a 69% increase from the year before.
Full fourth-quarter earnings will be reported Tuesday after the market close, but Athlon said it expects 2014 production to expand by 62% to 70%. RBC Capital's Hanold expects 45% growth in 2015.
Athlon's huge inventory of vertical drilling locations lends stability to the company's production outlook. Upside will come from success in its nascent horizontal drilling program.
The key question: "Does horizontal drilling work in Howard County?" said Tameron. "Nobody knows for sure if horizontal works."
Athlon has recently reported good horizontal drilling results on two Howard County locations.
This has encouraged analysts. With the stock recently trading above $33, Tameron estimates it already has a net asset value of $37.
That assumes that just 25% of its potential horizontal drilling sites pan out. If Athlon has success on 50% of its horizontal locations, that would bump net asset value "another $10," noted Tameron.
Like other exploration firms riding the wave of increased output via new drilling techniques, Athlon does face challenges.
In the Permian, water availability is a concern. Hydraulic fracturing of shale requires huge quantities of water. As drillers drain west Texas water resources, supply is a lurking issue. "It's a big risk for everybody," said Tameron. "It's a hurdle everybody has to overcome."
Yet as a driller in oiler-friendly Texas, Athlon does not face the political and environmental opposition that clouds prospects for drillers in Colorado and parts of the northeast's Marcellus Shale.
The Oil Price Question
Athlon is also well hedged against oil price declines — at least for this year. Tameron estimates that 75% of Athlon's 2014 production is hedged around $92 a barrel.
Still, just 7% of 2015 production is hedged, so a sustained price drop could hurt.
Price stability is critically important to oil exploration outfits. Kantor says he recently met with institutional investors who expressed "concern about oversupply."
It was oversupply from shale drilling that sent natural gas prices reeling several years ago. Could supply now streaming out of the Permian, the Marcellus, Colorado and North Dakota lead to a sharp decline in domestic oil prices?
Most drillers, says Kantor, would still fare well with prices of $80-$90 a barrel. But if oil falls below $80 a barrel, producer balance sheets would be "stressed," he added.
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A sports handicapping monitor website. Similar to [url removed, login to view]
Members sign up, have their own user profiles, a forum to talk to other members, can send private messages to each other, can add a status update inside their profile that is shown on the profile page and also on an additional feed on the home page.
Members make picks on the following sports: NBA, MLB, NHL, NFL, CFL, NCAAB, NCAAF, Boxing, UFC, TENNIS, Other sports.
I want to be able to manually add in and adjust the game matchups for each sport.
Also each one needs its own selection of odds for the members to click to make the pick.
Again, you can check out [url removed, login to view] to see how the process of making picks works.
And I want it all manual so I will update daily myself.
For the NBA, NFL, NHL, MLB, NCAAB, NCAAF and CFL I want a menu for all the team names so when I manually input a game matchup I can select the team for each sport quickly.
Each member will have an account balance of $50,000 to start. It's a fantasy bankroll.
When they make picks they wager from $100 to $1,000 on selected picks.
When a member makes a pick they are asked to confirm it before the pick is placed.
Once placed, the pick is shown in the "my picks" page users can find on their profile.
I want it so that when I set the picks I set the times that they all start at and 10 minutes following the start of each match users picks are pending and are visible to everyone.
Each member will have their completed picks stored in their pick history. A section each member has located on the profile page.
There needs to be a rankings page where all members with atleast 20 picks are shown.
There will be 2 filters on the rankings page to sort through.
The main default filter is the total bankroll. Then the other is win percent.
This needs to be able to update automatically. However it may be, once per day or constantly updating it needs to be automatic.
Members need to have a "reset" button on their profiles which erases their pick history and resets their bankroll to $50,000.
There will be a paid membership. Those who have this membership can sell there picks and see all nonmembers picks.
So paid members can sell daily, weekly and monthly memberships.
And also see the picks of all free users.
Members need a settings page to update their emails and change passwords.
And for paid members they can input the prices for their daily, weekly and monthly passes.
And paid members can enter their Paypal email so that when a buyer clicks on one of the paid members passes they pay directly to that member.
All payments on the website will be made through PayPal.
And will accept credit card payments as option #2 when a user buys a membership.
those are basically the needed features.
I want it to be a simple easy to use website.
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Success Without Victory: Lost Legal Battles and the Long Road to Justice in America
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BeschreibungThis book explores the political, social, and psychological contexts behind six losing court cases that actually provided political and legal gains, influencing subsequent eras and illustrating that defeat and victory are not always mutually exclusive.
PortraitJules Lobel is professor of international and constitutional law at the University of Pittsburgh Law School. He is also Vice President of the Center for Constitutional Rights, a national civil and human rights organization.
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We stayed at the JW for two nights in a one bedroom suite. We did it better this year and brought breakfast, lunch and eat dinner at the Italian restaurant. The hotel seemed busier this year and was teaming with kids. The JW does a great job appealing to the March break crowd. They converted a ball room to a games room with mini putt, basket ball, fosseball table. The indoor outdoor pool is always fun and love the hot tub. The girls, although teens now enjoyed playing games with us in the bar area. The construction was a bit disruptive, it made the bar very busy and less inviting to just sit and enjoy the environment. We went on a snow mobile dinner tour on the Saturday night. From 4-9. It was fantastic! I have never driven a skidoo before so I was a little timid but we had an absolute blast and our dinner at the Cross Roads restaurant in Rousseau was one of the best. I love the out door fire pit where you can roast marshmallows.
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I stand silently behind the counter and then pick a pick of chewing gum out of my bag and shove it in my mouth.
I sit down on the seat and pull out a book. I tilt the book so I can see over it and sit so I can look past the register. Silence desends again. Then suddenly the bell of the door goes causing me to jump.
I stand to my feet putting my book on my chair. Then I gasp. The person who just stepped in is a young female and..... she's mortal???
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I step into the shop. What is this place? What drew me in here?
Then I notice the boy behind the counter. His hair is bleached white but seems to shine. Then his eyes.... I gulp nervously and approach the counter.
"Hi" I say smiling shyly.
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"Umm...." I mumble looking around. There's many gems. "I'm not sure. I don't know why I came here. I was just trying to think"
"What where you thinking about?" the boy asks. I feel pain clench on my heart like it did when Denis told me.
"My boyfriend cheated on me and now he's left me. I'm trying to think what I'm meant to do" I whisper looking down. The boy smiles.
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Drawing on primary sources made available to scholars only after the archives of the Holy Office were unsealed in 1998, Negotiating Darwin chronicles how the Vatican reacted when six Catholics-five clerics and one layman-tried to integrate evolution and Christianity in the decades following the publication of Darwin's The Origin of Species .
As Mariano Artigas, Thomas F. Glick, and Rafael A. Martinez reconstruct these cases, we see who acted and why, how the events unfolded, and how decisions were put into practice. With the long shadow of Galileo's condemnation hanging over the Church as the Scientific Revolution ushered in new paradigms, the Church found it prudent to avoid publicly and directly condemning Darwinism and thus treated these cases carefully.
The authors reveal the ideological and operational stance of the Vatican and describe its secret deliberations. In the process, they provide insight into current debates on evolution and religious belief.
Negotiating Darwin provides an assessment of the Vatican's policy toward evolutionism during the last quarter of the nineteenth century. Within the context of six case studies, the book displays painstaking knowledge of documents from the Vatican's archives and a thorough awareness of the interpretive issues involved. This is a major, scholarly contribution to the field. - Giuliano Pancaldo, University of Bologna"
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I'm trying to setup tboot on a dual E5-2600 server running Ubuntu 12.10 64 bit server and I am pretty lost. To me it looks like the way it currently works has changed and the documentation hasn't caught up yet (or at least what I've looked at).
I got tboot and TrouSerS install on the server. That went ok and from that I get the documents lcptools2.txt and policy_v2.txt for tboot in /usr/share/doc/tboot. They have you create a file called list.data and that is put into your grub.conf file. I can create that file without any issue.
Here's where things start to diverge and I get lost.
First thing is that the system is using a grub.cfg file that was created from the scripts in /etc/grub.d using grub-mkconfig, there is no grub.conf file. There are files in that directory that are added from installing tboot called 20_linux_tboot and 20_linux_xen_tboot which create tboot boot items. I've looked into 20_linux_tboot script and it looks for a SINIT file but i don't see it looking for any form of list or data file to get the keys and other information that is put into the list.data file. So is there any information on how to setup tboot with these new scripts or could someone help out with it?
I've read in one post that tboot doesn't work with an EFI boot and you have to use legacy boot. I've checked my /etc/fstab file and don't see a EFI partition in there so I'm assuming that I'm doing a legacy boot. Any comments on whether or not you have to boot in legacy or not?
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Male sex pheromone of cockroachEurycotis floridana (walker) (Blattidae, Polyzosteriinae): Role and composition of tergites 2 and 8 secretions
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InEurycotis floridana, the male calling behavior is associated with the exposition of epidermal glands located under tergites 2, 7, and 8. 4-Hydroxy-5-methyl-3(2H)-furanone and 4-hydroxy-2,5-dimethyl-3(2H)-furanone were recently identified as the specific components of tergite 7 secretion. Methylene chloride extracts of tergite 7 and its major compound 4-hydroxy-5-methyl-3(2H)-furanone attract the conspecific females at a distance. Methylene chloride extracts of tergite 8 are also attractive at a distance to the females, whereas extracts of tergite 2 had no effect on males and females. Our GC investigations showed the absence of specific compounds in tergite 2 secretions. The GC-MS analyses revealed that the male secretion of the gland under tergite 8 is mainly a mixture of (2R*, 3R*)-butanediol, 1-dodecanol and benzyl 2-hydroxybenzoate. These compounds were tested at different concentrations on their own, or as a mixture. Only (2R*, 3R*)-butanediol and 1-dodecanol were attractive for the females. Their functions, as components of the male sex pheromone, in addition with the two derivatives of the furanone are discussed.


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Dangling into the Irish Sea from the tip of the Furness Peninsula, it was the arrival of the railways that transformed Barrow into one of the world's industrial powerhouses. Huge steelworks and thriving shipbuilding yards turned the Cumbrian seaport from a sleepy collection of farmsteads into a Victorian boom town.
Its population reached a peak in 1951 but since then numbers have been slowly declining. In yesterday's census results Barrow recorded the largest fall in residents of any local authority in England and Wales.
The number of people living there dropped by 3,000 – down 4 per cent since 2001 to 69,100. The decline stems from sharp cuts in defence spending following the end of the Cold War which hit the region's submarine-building industry hard.
But yesterday locals said Barrow was beginning to turn a corner. In recent years people may have been forced to move away in search of work, but there are now signs of industrial optimism and growth.
"We have had concerns about our young people leaving and not returning. And we have been trying to get the right jobs to attract them back to the area," said the Labour council leader Dave Pidduck. "But the industrial position looks pretty stable."
Many of the jobs in Barrow are now highly skilled. Work is continuing on the Astute-class nuclear submarine and the town will be the base for the construction of the "Successor class" – part of a £328m contract recently awarded by the Ministry of Defence to BAE Systems. There is also considerable offshore wind energy development and the Government wants to build a new nuclear power plant at Sellafield despite the decision to close the Thorp reprocessing facility.
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During the next week or two, many of us are heading to GNR. Our Michigan Row decorations will be filled with Michigan made items. A big thanks has to go out to Judy Ruth and Joy Stoltz who are coordinating the decorations and the Row Party venison stew we are giving out. Of course, the venison is from Michigan. As usual, I know we will all have a great time.
Next we quickly move to September and have our annual State Fall Campout. This will be at Hidden Ridge RV Park on Sept 9 and 10. Hidden Ridge is in Hopkins, MI. This is a great park and it is very close to General RV in Wayland, MI.
The following Executive Board members who are giving of their time and efforts freely for the next two years to serve our members are: Bill Battle – 1st VP, George Krec – 2nd VP, Bev Garcia – Secretary, Nancy Yates – Treasurer, and Judy Ruth as Past President. The rest of the board is made up of our three Presidents from the State Clubs. They are: Bill Hornsby – Cereal City Campers, Jan Sagle – Lansing Area Winnies, and Skip Yates – Motor Cities Winnies. Without our Executive Board the WWW would not exist. Please acknowledge their dedication to WWW whenever you can.
Anyway, happy travels and I hope to see you along the way somewhere in our big country.
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Burberry Cake
Decorating By beesweetcakes Updated 8 Sep 2010 , 11:38pm by psmith
I recently received an order for a Burberry cake. I have to admit that until I looked it up, I had no idea what it was. As soon as I saw the pattern, I did recognize it but had no idea of the name.
So here is my question. What would be the best way to put the design on the cake? The customer wants a 9x13 2 layer cake with the classic Burberry design but also her husband's Burberry watch to go across diagonally on the cake. All made out of fondant. Should I cover the entire cake in the Burberry design or make the watch first and then work the design around it. I am still learning and am open to any and all suggestions. Oh and the cake has to look like the cologne bottle. Should I use RKT to make the cap? Thanks in advance for everyone suggestions.
I'm no expert but if I was going to tackle this cake, I'd probably put the Burberry design on first. The part underneath the watch may seem like wasted effort but IMO it would be the easiest way to ensure your lines are straight on the cake. You could use RKT for the cap but sculpted cake may be just as easy since you are covering in fondant. HTH! Good luck!
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Remembered Crash
Choose your character and make them your own! This is my first collaborative story that I've started, so please work with me and make this good!
Okay guys! Here's the catch. I'm limiting out the number of people who can join – just so nothing gets too cluttered. You get to create your own character – and I really don't care if they end up with any powers.
This is the story.
A private jet was taking Lamia(my character) and 14 other people(this is where you come in) to the Caribbean for a vacation. But quite a way from any land, something went wrong with the jet's engines, and the jet came spiraling down to the ocean.
Add your character and enjoy. Just remember to put the characters name as the chapter's title.


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All-America Football Conference All-Star Game
The All-America Football Conference (AAFC) All-Star Game or Shamrock Bowl was an American football game played in Houston's old Rice Field on Saturday, December 17, 1949, between the Cleveland Browns (the 1949 AAFC Champions) and an all-star selection from the AAFC's other six teams. It was the AAFC's last game before it was merged into the National Football League (NFL).
The "Shamrock Bowl" was promoted by Texas oilman Glen McCarthy, who had been seeking a Houston franchise in either the AAFC or NFL. A disappointing crowd of 10,000 braved a rainstorm to watch the final AAFC game, in which the All-Stars defeat the Browns, 12-7.
The AAFC was an American football league which rivaled the established National Football League (NFL) from 1946 to 1949. One of the NFL's most formidable competitors, the AAFC attracted many of the nation's best players, produced one of pro football's greatest teams, and introduced many lasting innovations to the game. However, the AAFC was ultimately unable to sustain itself in competition with the NFL. A major factor in the league's demise was its domination by the Cleveland Browns, who compiled a four-year record of 52-4-3 and won all four AAFC titles.
Today, all-star games in pro football are a well-established tradition, as the NFL has played its Pro Bowl after every season since 1950. In the late 1940s, however, such games were the exception and not the rule. The NFL played an all-star game following the 1938 through 1942 seasons, but abandoned the series in the midst of World War II.
The AAFC did not play an all-star game during its relatively successful early years, but did play one following its troubled final season. It was played eight days after the NFL and AAFC agreed to peace terms. Red Strader coached the All-Stars.
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AAFC All-Stars 12, Cleveland Browns 7
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Sonic Dance is a compilation album of various musicians. Although the music in this album is not based on the Sonic the Hedgehog franchise, the branding for this album was based on Sonic the Hedgehog. Curiously, the Dutch version was released by a different label, Magnum, than in other countries, where it was released by Arcade. An alternate version of the Dutch cover advertises an opportunity to enter the "Sonic Dance Contest." The track list for this album varied from country to country.
Track list
- Too Hot - Coolio
- Beautiful Life - Ace Of Base
- Oh, Baby All - Sonic Dream Collective
- Bump Bump (Booty Shake) - 740 Boyz
- Jump For Joy - 2 Unlimited
- Straight Up Funk - Discovery
- Fairytales - 2 Brothers On The 4th Floor feat. D-Rock & Des-Ray
- History '95 - Mai Tai
- Hey Ho - Tellus
- Don't Loose The Love - Hit The Boom
- Black Is Black - Allnighters
- I Believe - Celvin Rotane
- I wanna Give You Devotion '95 - Nomad
- Do You Want To Do It - Cool Cult
- Tell It To My Heart - Q-Club
- So Beautiful - Urban Cookie Collective
- Mirror, Mirror - Solid Base
- Give It Up - Mal Zoom
- Fonky - Amadin
- Locomotion - Sixmania


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The latest industrial revolution isn't emerging on the assembly line -- it's focusing on the bottom line. But the long-term gains don't come without some short-term strains.
Marie Leone, CFO.com | US
November 10, 2003
Amid the rumbling, rhythmic sounds of machinery and the whiz and kaplunks of production lines, CFOs are finding unlikely allies. Enmeshed in the gears of industry (and etched in the silicon chips that run them) are the manufacturing theories of production pioneers like Walter Shewhart, George Box, and Taiichi Ohno. Indeed, there are corporate finance lessons to be learned from the ghosts in these machines.
Over the last century, as mass production lines churned out everything from Model T's to microprocessors, theories such as Shewhart's notion of total quality management, Box's practical application of statistics, and Ohno's just-in-time model turned traditional manufacturing on its head. Today CFOs are bringing these "lean" ideas to corporate finance, highlighting the practical differences between cost accounting and cost management, and recognizing how just-in-time manufacturing reveals a building tension between the income and cash flow statements.
First applied to the manufacturing process by James Womack in his 1990 book The Machine That Changed the World, the term lean describes the concept of driving out waste of any kind and matching production to demand with little or no additional capital expenditure. The seeds of lean, however, were planted much earlier, first when craftsmen were supplanted by mass production, and later when machines were fitted with changeable parts to mimic the craftmen's customized products.
To be sure, wringing out waste and streamlining the asset conversion cycle — without increasing capex — seems like an idea most CFOs would readily embrace. But the long-term gains offered by lean processes are accompanied by short-term strains that are rarely discussed.
For example, synching just-in-time (JIT) manufacturing with standard cost accounting can prove disruptive, especially to public-company CFOs and controllers. Shareholders and Wall Street analysts expect quarterly gains, and they're easily disconcerted by the temporary losses that the lean transformation imposes on the profit-and-loss statement. "Very often the income statement is taken as gospel," says Jean Cunningham, CFO of Lantech.com LLC, an $80 million manufacturer of pallet stretch-wrapping machines. She notes, however, that "it doesn't reflect the real-time benefits of JIT."
Free Your Mind — and Your Finance Department
To be clear, lean accounting is not a single technique. It's a philosophy, a way of thinking about business, emphasizes Cunningham, the co-author of Real Numbers: Management Accounting in a Lean Organization. Lean accounting doesn't require huge investments in financial software, and there's no big plan to put in place. Although many CFOs have found specific steps that they can take, says Cunningham, lean accounting actually embodies a promise to yourself to continually look for improvements the corporate finance function.
Lean accounting is iconoclastic. It tears down an old accounting system that was developed to accommodate batch manufacturing and track inventory value — both of which, she maintains, are immaterial measures for companies that employ continuous-flow-manufacturing processes.
And proponents of lean accounting are anything but mystics. On the contrary, a major goal is to clarify financial statements and give nonfinancial managers an unobstructed line of sight into the company. Lean advocates also vow to send CFOs and controllers to the factory, to better understand what, and how, operations managers think.
"Once a week I send my accountants out to the shop floor," says William Funk, director of finance for the North American division of The Chamberlain Group Inc. (The JIT manufacturer is reportedly the world's largest maker of automatic garage door openers — which functions "just in time" for end users, too.) The jaunts help finance department employees get an accurate picture about the impact of materials management, labor routines, and overhead spending. "It's too easy to get subsumed by accounts payable," says Funk. "The accounting staff needs to understand the bigger picture."
Another reason these managers "walk the walk" is so they're able to "talk the talk." "The language of standard cost accounting is old, and [its ineffectiveness] becomes obvious on the shop floor," muses Cunningham. She holds fast to GAAP's cost-and-revenue matching principle, but she has reworked the language of Lantech's internal financial statements to be more factory friendly. For instance, material usage variances and labor efficiency variances have been replaced by inventory and salaries respectively.
For Funk, operational language is in his job description. A divisional finance chief, Funk reports to two executives at the group level — the corporate controller and the executive vice president of operations. The dual reporting structure fosters an interdependency between finance, operations, and suppliers that's worthwhile in and of itself — and that quells many of the motivations for playing accounting games, such as booking revenue prematurely.
Costly Accounting
"Traditional accounting is a post-mortem exercise" that's not suited for a JIT environment, asserts Anand Sharma, president and CEO of TBM Consulting. Too often, he bristles, accounting information arrives late, is misleading, and is hardly understood by anyone outside the accounting function.
Retired CFO Orest Fiume — Cunningham's co-author on Real Numbers — puts it even more strongly. Corporate accounting is on the brink of irrelevancy, according to the former finance chief of The Wiremold Co., which makes accessories that organize wires and cables in offices and homes. (Wiremold's most familiar offering, introduced in 1916, might be raceways — those long, thin metal strips that protect electric wiring.) But studying accounting from the perspective of the factory floor, he believes, may revive accounting's operational relevance.
Fiume defines accounting as a quantitative reflection of the business, and unless the bookkeeping is attuned to the rest of the organization, "the reflection looks like the image in a funhouse mirror." Accordingly, Fiume makes a case against standard cost accounting, which relies on calculating unit costs, and instead favors cost management, which focuses on the cost of meeting customer demand.
In 1990, management at $30 million (in revenue) Wiremold launched a lean manufacturing effort. During a decade-long transformation, Fiume abandoned the cost-per-unit thinking that, he claims, misdirected attention to metrics such as overhead absorption rates and variance analysis — measures that invite dysfunctional behavior and gaming. By 2000, when the initiative had become the company culture, Wiremold was a $770 million manufacturer.
Fiume points out that nothing about lean accounting violates generally accepted accounting principles. In fact, lean accounting uses the same venerable standards of materiality, conservatism, consistency, and matching. But simplifying a complex company is tough, warns Fiume, and old accounting practices die hard. How hard?
All Hands, Brace Yourself for a Hit to the P&L
TBM's Sharma explains that CFOs who adopt lean accounting should brace themselves — they will see lower profits, temporarily. They'll need to put a little faith in the folks on the factory floor, and in the corporate commitment to go lean.
Alan Dunn, a self-described "factory rat" for 25 years and now the president of GDI Consulting and Training Co., explains how it goes down: When a company trims inventory to prepare for the transformation to JIT manufacturing, factory overhead isn't reduced at the same pace. It takes more time to shrink overhead costs, such as warehouse space, utility fees, and salaries. The mismatch causes overhead costs to spread across lower production volumes; in a standard cost accounting environment, this creates a temporary negative variance. Only as the company moves through the lean transition does the accounting system catches up to the new, JIT manufacturing system.
The standard accounting system hides the cost of carrying inventory, says Sharma, and management has to be patient with JIT-style improvements as they ripple through the organization. Getting lean is a long-term goal, adds Sharma, and it's not for the fainthearted.
CFOs from some public companies, however, know first-hand that patience is not always considered a virtue by Wall Street or by shareholders. When dealing with these constituents, it's difficult to defend the lean transition — and those negative variances — according to one CFO of a midsize company who asked not to be identified. "Wall Street is less long-term-oriented than they like to tell you," says the finance chief.
Despite reduced inventory and increased cash flow over a year's time, claims the CFO, the temporary negative variances contributed to a 10-point slide in the company's share price. While the stock has recovered and management's lean strategy has proved successful, the finance chief cautions that "Wall Street and institutional investors are not forgiving or patient."
Other public-company CFOs, who note similar reactions, contend even that preparing stakeholders for bad news doesn't necessarily reassure them. One finance chief (who also asked not to be identified) categorized the negative variances as a one-time event, estimated that margins would be depressed for two quarters, and encouraged analysts and investors to consider the annual gains — which, again, included lower inventory levels and improved cash flow. Some institutional investors disdained the waiting game and sold the stock, while Wall Street frowned on the quarterly setbacks and punished the share price — albeit temporarily.
Internal support for lean ideas seems more likely. One company's executive team gave up their raises and bonuses during the first year of implementation — in the short term, they realized, there would be less cash to go around — and board members gave the green light, agreeing that the transition "was the right move for the company."
But if the corporate culture is myopic — or if the strategy isn't endorsed at the top and communicated clearly throughout the company — then lean strategies can backfire. For instance, a controller who spots a decrease in inventory levels near the end of a quarter might direct factories with underutilized overhead to ramp up production, argues Dunn. Why? By spreading overhead costs among greater levels of inventory, he explains, the P&L will better absorb the overhead burden that would otherwise have registered as a negative variance.
Dunn concedes that there are legitimate reasons to increase inventory, such as responding to a blowout year that exceeds forecast, or even creating a buffer to help protect against a forecasting error. But usually, he says, inventory is built up so that lumpy variances can be smoothed out.
What's more troubling is that the "variance game" can become chronic. Consider that at the start of every quarter, excess inventory causes management to ride the sales team to reduce the overstock, which they do — causing a drop in inventory levels, a negative variance rate, and the start of another cycle.
Playing the "constant improvement game sets companies up for failure," comments the Chamberlain Group's Funk. The trick to marrying the accounting and manufacturing functions, he maintains, is to drive costs and inventory down at the same rate. To do that, finance department staffers need to be "capital stewards," insists Dunn, who grew up on the factory floor of his father's precision machining company. That is, they must internalize an understanding of how the manufacturing process converts assets to cash.
Batches? We Don't Need No Batches
Another lean lesson is to kick the batching habit. Batch accounting, like batch manufacturing, should have gone out with the Studebaker, say CFOs who lean toward lean thinking. Waiting to process payables or receivables on a monthly basis mars the cash conversion cycle with late payments, slow closes, and mistakes that go undetected for weeks, insists Cunningham.
Consider the Lantech CFO's bold decision to eliminate vendor invoices. Cunningham worked with vendors to build a daily delivery schedule that would drastically reduce Lantech's inventory, but her efforts let loose a flood of daily invoices that overwhelmed the accounts payable department.
So Cunningham wiped them away — the invoices, that is. Because Lantech's purchasing department negotiates price and terms in advance, the CFO approved weekly payments to suppliers without an invoice paper trail.
Bob Kaiser, COO and CFO of Hi-Tec Sports USA Inc.— a $150 million manufacturer of athletic footwear — found another way to link his physical supply chain with his financial supply chain. Kaiser electronically linked his factory floor with the finance department using a Web-based middleman called TradeCard, which is provided on an application-service-provider (ASP) model.
According to Kaiser, the just-in-time cash management tool wiped out the reams of paper — purchase and shipping orders, supplier acknowledgements, currency transfer documents — that were used to track and facilitate transactions. And TradeCard provided him with complete transparency into the overall supply chain, from the purchase of boot leather, to the factory floor, to the freight forwarder, to the store shelf, and back into accounts receivable.
Hi-Tec had been under tremendous pressure, says Kaiser, from customers who were asking for more-frequent shipments of smaller quantities. In other words, retail shoe outlets had embarked on their own just-in-time campaigns, and trimmed-down shipments would help them reduce inventory and boost cash flow. To satisfy those customers, Kaiser used JIT cash management to reduce the total cost of each shipment, which allowed Hi-Tec to decrease the cost of delivered shoes by 20 cents per pair. That cost-cutting measure enabled Hi-Tec to offer more flexibility to its customers, in the form of smaller shipments — 800 pairs rather than 3,000.
A Free Sample from the Factory Floor
Some lean tactics have less to do with the synchronizing finance and manufacturing strategy and more with swiping ideas right from the shop floor. One example is multivariable testing (MVT), a process that can be retooled for use in the finance department.
MVT is a descendant of Ronald Fisher's study of randomization in the 1920s and George Box's analysis of statistics from experiments during World War II. The methodology allows management to test up to 40 variables simultaneously, then sort out which ones have what impact — good, bad, or none at all.
In the late 1960's, an Oak Ridge Laboratory statistician named Charles Holland recognized the commercial value of a process he developed while working on weapons projects. He trademarked MVT and promptly sold large manufacturers on the idea — DuPont, Monsanto, and BASF among them.
At DuPont, for example, management improved the capacity of a waste incinerator by 41 percent by zipping through an eight-run experiment — testing eight factors, and their interplay, simultaneously. Total elapsed time to test the effects of varying purge flow, delta flow, breech temperature, and five other factors: 33 hours.
By the 1990s, MVT was being used for business processes as well as manufacturing processes. At SBC Communication Inc., says former CFO and CIO Ed Glotzbach, the telecom company completed its MVT experiment in less than three months. That might seem long — if you didn't know that the testing weighed the impact of 24 variables, ranked in order of their effect on cash flow, simultaneously. And the results? SBC decreased bill cycle time by a day and a half, improved billing accuracy to 70 percent, and increased on-time bill mailing to 99 percent, says Glotzbach, who recently emerged from retirement to become CFO of Houston-based TPI Inc.
"There is an amazing level of sophistication at our factories," asserts Hi-Tec's Kaiser, who just returned from a visit to one of his leather suppliers, in China. Lantech's Cunningham regularly visits the shop floor, too, learning what language makes sense to operations managers and "introducing production-line financial statements that better match the manufacturing process." And Glotzbach, who rose through the ranks at SBC via operations, says that knowing the dial-tone business from bottom to top helped him tackle a "disastrous" billing problem.
So it would seem that GDI's Alan Dunn — that self-described "factory rat" — may well be correct. Dunn counsels his clients to manage for cash, not for variances — and to force the finance team to walk the factory floor. "Follow the manufacturing process, and all of its complexity, to the end," declares Dunn. "Go be a part for a day."