...Isolation Have you ever felt isolated from your surroundings, either because of language or culture wise, being new in town, feeling friendless, or simply because you have to study while everyone else is out having fun while you study? Well I have had many experiences like those. There was a time in which I had moved from New Jersey to Tennessee and I was the new kid on the block. Also there was another addition in my life back when in my childhood years when I had first started school as kindergartener. Well it was a chilly early morning with bright blue skies in early September. The birds were out and singing with a smooth and majestic melody. I was only four or five and about 3’5 with a fresh new haircut. I remember I was a nervous wreck with a sad look on my face for the simple fact that it was my first day in a room filled with strangers. As the minutes would pass by waiting in the humid office with my parents on some paper work that needed to be done I would constantly have that thought in the back of my head on how thing would be in that new room that I was destine to go. Then came that dreadful sentence that I didn’t want to hear, “Well everything here is done. Carlos is now able to go to his new room.” Walking down the hallway to the room it seems like the hallway would expand and we were walking forever. To my surprise I turn my head in a sad manner to be surprised that we have not...
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...The Fate of the Hostess Twinkie Hostess Brands, manufacturer of the iconic Twinkie, is in a bit of a predicament. The company filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in 2004, emerging in 2009, after rounds of restructuring and concessions taken by union and non-union employees (Flahardy, 2012). In the face of the recent recession and increasing commodities pricing, the company has yet again filed for bankruptcy protection (By & Spector, 2012). In addition, the company has been engaged in collective bargaining with its two major unions, the Teamsters Union and the Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers International Union (BCTGM), hoping for more concessions from employees to help it survive. Combined, these unions represent 92% of Hostess’s unionized employees (Feintzeig, 2012). Some 5,000 employees are BCTGM members and approximately 7,000 drivers and distribution workers belong to the Teamsters (Gaus, 2012). The company put forth a plan that would freeze wages of the union worker, saving some estimated $6.1 million by 2015 (By & Spector, 2012). After acceptance of the contract, the company is asking for an eight percent pay cut and for all employees to take on a larger portion of their insurance costs (Kinney 2012). In return, the employees would retain their jobs, albeit at a lower salary, and they would gain a 25% equity stake in the company, $100 million of third lien debt upon the exit from bankruptcy and representation on the company’s board (Kinney,...
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...Project Plan: Improving Quality Control Current Process In the manufacture of its Twinkie product, Hostess currently has in place a fairly simple quality control measure (QCM): before wrapping, a sample Twinkie from each batch is pulled. The product is weighed, the volume of filling is visually inspected, and an actual taste test is performed. If the product tested passes these QCMs, the batch is then sent on to be wrapped and packaged. The problem with the current QCMs is that they occur at the very end of the manufacturing process; therefore, if the individual product tested does not pass, an entire batch of Twinkies must be rejected. It is either discarded or, since Hostess closed its outlets in 2012, sent to Big Lots to be sold at a 40% discount (Feran 2014). Further, the production line itself must be shut down while the machine that malfunctioned is recalibrated. This results in a significant loss of daily production and profits. Suggested Improvements As of the end of 2014, Hostess Brands produced 500 million Twinkies a year—1,000 Twinkies a minute—in its Emporia, KS location (“About” 2015). A fairly simple improvement in the process design can eliminate performance and reduce defects to at most. The suggested changes in when and how QCMs are performed will bring waste down to at most a tray of product and reduce downtime on the production line. The first change to the QCM is to divide into two parts. The first QCM will occur after mixing the ingredients and...
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...Hostess Bankruptcy Case What happened? Almost three years ago, Hostess Brands Inc., creator of iconic American products including Ding Dongs, Ho Hos, Suzy Q’s, Dolly Madison Zingers, Drake’s Ring Dings, Wonder Bread and Twinkies, decided it could no longer survive in the new Atkins-crazed marketplace with its bloated pension funds and financial issues.1 In November 2012, the company filed Chapter 11 bankruptcy to receive permission from the government to close its business and sell off its assets.2 The deal was accepted by the bankruptcy courts and a judge then agreed to hand over all the Hostess Brands foods to different buyers.3 This was not the snack food company’s first bankruptcy. During the 2004–2009 bankruptcy period, Hostess closed nine of its 54 bakeries and more than 300 outlet stores. In addition, Hostess’ work force declined from 32,000 to 22,000 employees. The company also dropped some regional brands and operating agreements, such as the agreement to produce Sunbeam Bread for the northeastern U.S.4 Why did it happen? A major reason behind the bankruptcy was Hostess’ failure to adapt its product lines to changing consumer tastes when their market shares started decreasing a decade ago.5 Company owners should have adapted more to consumer taste shifts and added new products. It also could have kept its high-performing products, such as the popular Twinkie, but reinvented other products, such as Wonder Bread, to be more natural with added nutritional...
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...The Continental Baking Company dates back to the 1920s creating the famous pastries brand Hostess and Wonder bread products. The Continental Baking Company became known as Hostess Brands. Hostess Brands filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in November 2012. They had to close all the Hostess Brands factories and ending 18,500 jobs. In the fiscal year 2012, Hostess had a net loss of $1.1 billion with a revenue of $2.5 billion. Hostess spent eight years in bankruptcy. Many will like to know what the cause of the company bankruptcy was. (Ghillyer, 2014). Hostess Brands products and equipment would be sold through what is known as a “363 sale” because it was still in a formal liquidation. A 363 sale means everything will be sold without any liabilities...
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...Bibliography Adams, T. (2013, June 12). New hostess owner set to resume snack cake production at dolly madison plant in columbus. Columbus Ledger Enquirer, pp. 1-3. Retrieved September 13, 2013, from http://www.ledger-enquirer.com/2013/06/12/2541827/new-hostess-owner-prepares-to.html In this article Tony Adams, journalist for Columbus Ledger Enquirer announces the re-launch of Columbus, Ohio's Dolly Madison plant after former owner Hostess Brands Inc. sold the property for $4.4 million. Adams interviews Hostess Brands LLC spokesman, Michael Cramer to determine any obstacles he may have. Cramer states their primary focus is on getting the plants ready for production so they may produce quality products efficiently. Adams, T. (2013, July 12). Twinkies are back: Snack cakes hit walmart Supercenter shelves ahead of monday's official comeback. Columbus Ledger Enquirer, pp. 1-4. Retrieved September 13, 2013, from http://www.ledger-enquirer.com/2013/07/12/2579971/twinkies-hitting-walmart-shelves.html Mega-retailer, Wal-Mart, put the Hostess Brands Twinkie snack cakes on their shelves in July 2013. The Development Authority of Columbus will pay Hostess a total of $1 million through 2015 to help offset the $18 million the snack-food company said it would cost to reopen the Columbus bakery after emerging from bankruptcy court earlier this year. Adams, T. (2013, September 9). Update: Hostess brands getting $1 million incash from development authority. Columbus Ledger Enquirer, pp. 1-4...
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...Vuyani Mahluza, Emma Yearby, Robyn Williams LDR /531 July 22, 2013 Dr. Gwendolyn Spann Business Failure Analysis The Hostess brand has had over 13 years of changes prior to the final change of bankruptcy this year. The founder Newman Drake started the business in New York in 1888. In 1960 Drake Bakeries was owned by a larger company, Borden. Borden was the maker of other popular snacks, Cracker Jack and Wise Potato Chips. In 1987 Borden sold the company to Ralston Purina, which was owned by ITT Continental Baking Company the makers of the rival Hostess Cake and Wonder Bread (Drake, 2008). After Drake celebrated a 100th anniversary in 1988, the company was acquired by a Canadian company, Culinar. Despite Culinars ability to become profitable in 1997 from restructuring and optimization of already established company routes, they too sold Drake to Interstate Bakeries Corporation (IBC) a year later (Drake, 2008). In 2007 Grupo Bimbo, another major bakery company wanted to purchase Hostess from IBC for a reported $580 million. IBC declined stating the reason was the low offering price from Grupo Bimbo. Hostess is valued today for $135 million. April 9, 2013 McKee Foods purchased IBC for $27.5 million (Flowers, 2013). McKee Foods decided November 16, 2012 to liquidate Hostess Brand assets and concentrate efforts on the once rival brands to Hostess, Tastykakes. Drake Organization The organization’s mission statement was committed to implementing sustainable business practices...
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...Kinetic Theory Objectives • Describe how the kinetic-molecular theory is used to explain how gases behave at different temperatures. (Exploration 1) • Analyze data that shows how gas particle mass affects that gas’s behavior. (Exploration 2) • Describe the Maxwell-Boltzmann Distribution. (Explorations 1 and 2) Description of Activity The kinetic-molecular theory states that a collection of gas molecules’ average kinetic energy has a specific value at any given temperature. In this activity, you will study how temperature and gas particle mass affect the frequency distribution of gas particle speeds. You will examine and analyze speed frequency distribution graphs. This distribution is called the Maxwell-Boltzmann Distribution. Jump Start 1. What is kinetic energy? 2. What is thermal energy? 3. What happens to a gas’s thermal energy as that gas’s temperature increases? 4. What happens to the average speeds of the particles in a gas when one increases that gas’s temperature? Safety Discussion If you conduct this experiment in a laboratory setting, be aware that gases heated in a closed container could result in the container exploding. Exploration 1: The Effect of Temperature on Gas Behavior Procedure 1. Choose any gas from the list box. 2. Set Temperature to any value. Observe the shape of the frequency distribution of speeds graph. Sketch this graph. Record...
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...What impression do we get of Crooks here? Crooks is known by his disability. This is represented when the narrator says ‘crooks the negro stable buck’. This suggests that not much respect is shown to Crooks because he has been labelled by his disability. The fact that we are unaware of Crooks real name proves this. Furthermore, he is also known by his race “negro”. This implies that Crooks is racially segregated from other ranch workers. He shares most of his room with the Horses belongings. ‘Both for himself and the horses’. In my opinion, this shows how unfairly the boss treats Crooks. This is because he already has a little room as it is and because he is a permanent ranch worker he needs a lot of room. If most of the room will be covered by the Horses belongings there won’t be a lot of room for Crooks possessions. Due to Crooks disability, he is a permanent ranch worker. This meant that he could leave his things lying around with anyone having a say. ‘Accumulated more possessions than he could carry on his back’. My interpretation of this Crooks has a lot of possessions which he has but only has a little room to them all in. Previously in the novel we are aware that Crooks is unable to socialise with the other ranch workers. He has been isolated because of his skin colour. Therefore ‘he kept his distance and demanded other people had kept theirs’. This tells the reader how upfront and close minded of a character Crooks is. Crooks also has a book called the “California...
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...imputación causal mediante la cual se buscan las causas que pudieron dar origen a divergencias entre el tipo ideas de un cierto suceso construido y un suceso concreto. Los tipos ideales de Weber son construcciones intelectuales de un cierto objeto cultural, que se forman por la síntesis de muchos sucesos concretos individuales arreglados de acuerdo con un cierto acentuado punto de vista del investigador de acuerdo con la función que va a cumplir. Esa construcción, no se encuentra en la realidad, es una construcción ideal. Tipos de ideales: 1.- El tipo ideal histórico. Es el tipo que se puede formular en una época determinada. Por ejemplo el tipo ideal de libre mercado. 2.-El tipo ideal de sociología general. Es el tipo que se refiere a fenómenos que se dan a lo largo de todos los periodos históricos y en todas las sociedades. 3.-El tipo ideal de la acción social. Es el tipo de la conducta de un actor determinado por sus motivaciones. 4.- El tipo ideal...
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...Lantek presents the new version of its ERP package, Lantek Expert III Lantek has presented the new version of its business management software package, Lantek Expert III, an integrated ERP solution aimed at companies operating in the metal and sheet metal, profile and tube processing sector. Lantek, a multinational leader in CAD/CAM software applications, has more than a decade’s experience in developing business management solutions, an area that it is currently booming and in which it is extending its international expansion strategy, in order to establish itself as one of the main world suppliers of ERP solutions for the sheet metal market. In this regard, and in order to offer technologically advanced tools that adapt to users’ requirements, Lantek has optimised its ERP package, of which it is currently marketing version 28. The main unique benefit of the package is its complete integration with the rest of Lantek’s CAD/CAM solutions. “The perfect integration of our CAD/CAM+ERP solutions is one of our competitive advantages, in fact, it is the added value we offer our customers, for whom it is fundamental and of key importance to have solutions that complement each other and help to speed up their processes, making them more competitive”, pointed out Zuriñe Sáenz, Lantek’s ERP Division Product Manager, who added that “as it is easy to use and flexible it enables full adaptation to the customer’s business processes, and never the other way around”. So, Lantek Expert III...
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...ISAT 2010 INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SPACE SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY ISAT 2010 1 PAPER I – PHYSICS, CHEMISTRY AND MATHEMATICS Page 1 OF 12 SET - B The figure , on the right, shows a jar filled with two liquids of densities ρ and ρ/2 that do not mix. A cylinder made of a material of density 3ρ/4 is held in the jar at various depths starting from the position where the lower surface of the cylinder touches the upper surface AB of the liquid. Which of the following schematic curves best describes the buoyancy force F on the cylinder as a function of the displacement from the starting position? A B h h F F O (a) h O (b) h F F O (c) h O O (d) h ISAT 2010 – Paper I 1 SET-B ISAT 2010 INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SPACE SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY ISAT 2010 PAPER I – PHYSICS, CHEMISTRY AND MATHEMATICS Page 2 OF 12 SET - B 2. An infinitely large surface of uniform charge density has a disc of radius R cut out (see figure). The magnitude of the electric field at a distance a above the centre of the disc is given by 3. All the five capacitors shown in the figure have the same capacitance C. The battery has emf V. The charge on the capacitor T is (a) zero (b) CV (c) CV /3 (d) CV /5 ISAT 2010 – Paper I 2 SET-B ISAT 2010 INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SPACE SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY ISAT 2010 PAPER I – PHYSICS, CHEMISTRY AND MATHEMATICS Page 3 OF 12 SET - B 4. The figure shows a wire mesh of infinite extent, such...
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...“Wilde empowers his female characters but also undermines them”. To what extent do you agree with this view? Wilde’s comedy of manners play, The Importance of Being Earnest, holds a satirical outlook on Victorian life. Wilde uses both satire and farce in his play written and set in 1895 to depict a slightly exaggerated version of society as it was, with all its forms of hypocrisy, double standards and repression of women. Wilde chose to invert the usual gender roles in Victorian literature by portraying the women with a position of power and influence in their relationships and the men as fairly passive. However, as Jack Worthing and Algernon Moncrieff “Bunbury” about the women they love, they appear to dominate not only their facades but the women’s own lives and relationships. In addition, Wilde uses comedic effects throughout the play when presenting Lady Bracknell, Gwendolen Fairfax and Cecily Cardew, allowing them to be seen collectively as foolish and incredibly naïve. Lady Bracknell is first and foremost a symbol of Victorian earnestness. Initially, we see that she is powerful, arrogant, conservative, and proper. In many ways, she represents Wilde's negative opinion of the Victorian upper-class, their power and conservative and repressive values. Lady Bracknell's authority and power are extended over each and every character in the play. Her decision about the suitability of both marriages in the play provides the conflict of the story. She tells her daughter quite...
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...SOLUTION MANUAL ENGLISH UNIT PROBLEMS CHAPTER 3 SONNTAG • BORGNAKKE • VAN WYLEN FUNDAMENTALS of Thermodynamics Sixth Edition Sonntag, Borgnakke and Wylen CHAPTER 3 SUBSECTION Concept-Study Guide Problems Phase diagrams General Tables Ideal Gas Compressibility Factor Review Problems PROB NO. 128-132 133-134 135-145 146-148 149, 157, 158 150-156 Correspondence table The correspondence between the problem set in this sixth edition versus the problem set in the 5'th edition text. Problems that are new are marked new and the SI number refers to the corresponding SI unit problem. New 128 129 130 131 132 133 134 135 136 137 138 139 140 141 142 5th Ed. new new new new new new 61E 68E a-c 68E d-f new 70E 73E 74E new 76E SI 5 7 9 11 17 23 27 30 30 40 36 47 41 44 51 New 143 144 145 146 147 148 149 150 151 152 153 154 155 156 157 158 5th Ed. 77E new 79E 62E new 69E c+d 70E d 72E 64E new 81E new 71E 80E 83E 65E 66E SI 53 62 58 69 65 81 113 74 49 99 95 61 106 89 - Sonntag, Borgnakke and Wylen Concept Problems 3.128E Cabbage needs to be cooked (boiled) at 250 F. What pressure should the pressure cooker be set for? Solution: If I need liquid water at 250 F I must have a pressure that is at least the saturation pressure for this temperature. Table F.7.1: 250 F Psat = 29.823 psia. 3.129E If I have 1 ft3 of ammonia at 15 psia, 60 F how much mass is that? Ammonia Tables F.8: F.8.1 Psat = 107.64 psia at 60 F so superheated vapor. F.8.2 v = 21.5641 ft3/lbm under subheading...
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...ME 416 Computer Assisted Design of Thermal Systems Actual Compressor Calculations 1. Use guidelines for ideal gas turbomachinery to calculate ideal specific work and power. 2. Calculate volume flow rate in cubic feet per minute at the compressor inlet 3. Use the Brake Horsepower for a Generic Centrifugal Compressor graph to determine the basic brake horsepower. 4. Calculate the actual power by multiplying the basic brake horsepower by the ratio of the inlet pressure (in psig) to 14.5. This will give actual power in units of horsepower. You may wish to convert it to watts. 5. Calculate the actual specific work by dividing the actual power (in W) by the mass flow rate (in kg). 6. Calculate the actual adiabatic efficiency from ηs = w ideal w act or Wideal Wact 7. Determine the actual exit conditions by first calculating the actual exit enthalpy from h out,act = h in + w act and then using property evaluation to determine the actual exit entropy and temperature. 8. Calculate any second law parameters (such as irreversibility or reversible work) that are needed. 1 ME 416 CAD of Thermal Systems Figure 1. Brake Horsepower for a Generic Centrifugal Compressor 10000 8.0 6.0 4.0 Pressure Ratio 7.0 5.0 3.5 3.0 2.5 2.0 1.5 Basic Brake Horsepower (hp) 1000 100 1 10 100 Intake Volume Flow Rate (1000 CFM) 2 ME 416 CAD of Thermal Systems Example 1: Single Stage Compressor Air at 105 kPa and 278 K enters a single stage compressor at 5 kg/s and receives...
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