Case 33: California Pizza Kitchen California Pizza Kitchen (CPK) was co-founded in 1985 in Beverly Hills‚ California by Rick Rosenfield and Larry Flax. Rosenfield and Flax both hold the title of Co-President‚ Co-CEO‚ and Co-Chairman of the Board of Directors for California Pizza Kitchen. Susan Collyns‚ Chief Financial Officer‚ currently leads the financial team at California Pizza Kitchen which is faced with reducing the corporate income-tax liability while balancing the goal of the management
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days earlier the first was seen in Hiroshima. These were two of the numerous events that propelled the most powerful combatants in history‚ the United States and Soviet Union‚ into the dangerous arms race we know as the Cold War. Many ask‚ “Was it necessary?” This is a controversial topic‚ asking whether or not the massacre of hundreds of thousands of Japanese civilians was worth saving a much smaller number of military personnel‚ or if the bomb should have even been created in the first place. To the
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Reservation Blues Chpt. 3 Synopsis This chapter begins with Coyote Springs doing a gig at the Tipi Pole tavern. Amongst the drunken crowd‚ Thomas notices a beautiful Indian girl in the crowd and decides to sing a song to her. The Indian girl‚ Chess‚ also takes notice of Thomas. After the show‚ Chess and her sister‚ checkers‚ help the band to pack up their equipment. Only‚ most of the packing was done by Thomas‚ Chess‚ and checkers because Victor and Junior passed out from all their drinking. Chess
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Animal Experimentation: A Necessary Evil It is time for society to realize that no one benefits from the suffering of animals used in expensive and useless experiments. Animals may not be able to speak like humans but it does not negate the fact that they are capable of suffering. The human species has taken the liberty of deciding what is valuable in the world‚ and therefore they prize themselves as the highest level of the food chain. The human species has used animals for transportation‚ food
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prescription drugs and medicines to be tested. Both sides have their valid points‚ animal testing can be seen as cruel‚ especially when there are alternatives that can be used‚ but also‚ even with alternatives‚ testing on animals is still sometimes necessary in order to get the needed results. In a debate between Laurie Pycroft‚ one of the founders of Pro-Test‚ and Helen Marston‚ head of Humane Research Australia‚ the two go back and forth about animal testing and its potential alternatives. Pycroft
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With the boom in the communication technology‚ the mobile phone has becoming a common equipment for daily use‚ even among youngsters. Although some teenagers see cell phones as fashion accessories or gaming devices‚ the basic safety conferred by continual access to a telephone is reason enough for every teenager to own one. A teen with a cell phone can never find himself without an opportunity to call parents or emergency services should the need arise. Cell phones also give parents the ability
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Beginning with a letter from Albert Einstein‚ the knowledge of possible construction of the atomic bomb surfaced. This discovery led into the launching of the Manhattan Project. This project became a success and those involved found it necessary to inform the USSR because the felt that failure to do so would result in suspicion and hostility. At the Potsdam Conference‚ President Truman decided to tell Stalin that the U.S. possessed “a new weapon of unusual destructive force” (Text ??). Stalin’s response
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Textbook case: Managerial Accounting for Managers‚ 2nd edition Noreen‚ Brewer and Garrison (McGraw-Hill/Irwin‚ 2008). Case 4-33 Cost Structure; Target profit and Break-Even Analysis Contribution Income Statement for all three scenarios: 15% commission 20% commission Own sales force Sales $16‚000‚000 $16‚000‚000 $16‚000‚000 Variable manuf. cost $7‚200‚000 $7‚200‚000 $7‚200‚000 Commissions $2‚400‚000 $3‚200‚000 $1‚200‚000 -Tot. variable cost ($9‚600‚000)
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The Electoral College: Is it Still Necessary? Dawn Moore SOC 315: Cross-Cultural Perspectives Mitra Rokni May 4‚ 2009 Electoral College: Is it Still Effective? Article II‚ Section 1 of the United States Constitution established the Electoral College‚ although‚ at the time‚ it was not specifically referred to as the Electoral College. That term did not appear in any federal statutory law until 1845 (Cain‚ Basciano & Cain‚ 2007). The Electoral College as we know it today‚ is
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functional requirements 27 6.2. Product Perspective 28 6.3. Software Interface 28 6.4. Hardware Interface 29 7. System Design 30 7.1. System Models 32 7.1.1. Usecase Diagrams 33 7.2. Usecase Description and Functionality 36 7.3. Dataflow Diagrams 52 7.4. Class Diagram 60 7.5. Dynamic models 61 7.5.1.Sequence diagrams 61 8. Database
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