...Gator Electronics Inc. an electronics manufacturer that sells electronic products to third-party retail centers has identified its reporting units as geographical regions in which it operates: United States, South America, Canada, Asia, Europe, Africa, and the Middle East. Gator Electronics elected not to perform the qualitative assessment for determining whether it is more likely than not that the fair value of a reporting unit is less than its carrying amount and proceeded with Step 1 of the quantitative two-step goodwill impairment test for all reporting units. On the basis of the valuation prepared by Management’s Expert, Gator estimated that the fair value of all of the reporting units exceeded their respective carrying values and no Step 2 analysis was required or prepared. Fair value, as defined by the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB), is the price that would be received to sell an asset or paid to transfer a liability in an orderly transaction between market participants at the measurement date. Although GAAP does not prescribe the methods for measuring the fair value of an item, it expresses a preference for the use of observable market prices to make that determination. In the absence of observable market prices, GAAP requires fair value to be based on the best information available in the circumstances, which is inherently imprecise due to the underlying assumptions about future conditions, transactions, or events whose outcome is uncertain and will, therefore...
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...Paper #1 Poor-quality information can be found all over the internet as well as the one source of information that many people rely on heavily, Wikipedia. The one situation where Wikipedia’s poor-quality information has led me to believe incorrect information was when I was researching details on a specific football player. I was in a debate with a friend of mine on whether Rex Grossman played at University of Florida or Florida State University. I was arguing in favor of Rex Grossman attending Florida State University and my friend was arguing that Rex Grossman was a University of Florida alumni. After nearly an hour of debating, I concluded the argument by turning to Wikipedia for the correct information. Upon searching Rex Grossman’s name in Wikipedia I came to find out that he indeed attend Florida State University. When we concluded the argument my friend still felt as if he was still right and couldn’t it go. So as we were watching television he decided to search for the same information but went to a more credible source in ESPN. After my friend searched ESPN for the college that Rex Grossman attended, he actually proved to me that he did indeed attend University of Florida. After being proven wrong and let down by the poor-quality information that Wikipedia has led me to believe, I learned that finding a credible source of information can be very important in a multitude of ways. Had this same situation been work related I could have been disciplined for not checking...
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...The atmosphere inside the stadium was truly indescribable. Hearing "It's Great to Be a Florida Gators echo throughout the stadium as we walked out was a surreal moment," Hughes said. Playing and watching sports has been an immense part of molding Hughes into the person he is today. Instead of just being a fan of the game, Hughes inspires to be an influential writer in the sports media industry. Growing up in an era of the social media platform being created and changing the journalistic landscape, Hughes was able to follow and read writers from all over the country. Giving his love of sports and passion to pursue a career in sports journalism, Hughes was a huge fan of this. Following beat writers, like Nick Del La Torre of GatorCountry.com and Zach Alboverdi of the Atlanta Journal Constitution, on social media networks caught the...
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...Paying College Athletes College athletics is a billion dollar industry and has been for a very long time. Due to the increasing ratings of college athletics, this figure will continue to rise. College athletes should get paid to play for many reasons. First of all, college athletes bring in millions of dollars through merchandise and games. Then most of the athletes that have the opportunity to leave school and turn professional do so, because college athletes live in near poverty. Thirdly, if college athletes aren’t allowed to work how can they afford necessary expense if they come from poor families? College athletes bring in millions of dollars to their schools. For example, the University of Miami received about 8 million dollars for the Miami Hurricanes playing in the Nokia Sugar Bowl. The apparel also brings in a lot of money by selling hats, footballs, and jerseys. Also the Orange Bowl holds over 60,000 people and they sell tickets at an average of 20 dollars each. Therefore, players should receive some of this money because without them the schools wouldn’t receive all the money and popularity. Second, college athletes live in near poverty because the money they receive isn’t enough to pay for all of the expenses. The few athletes that graduate from college, that could turn professional before their senior year, stay because their parents support them by sending money. If college athletes are eligible to be paid, there would be more athletes graduating. Paying athletes...
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...down for realistic scores) Assist= .7 points (originally 1.4 but scaled down for realistic scores) Turnovers= -.7 (originally -1.4 but scaled down for realistic scores) Steal= 1 point (originally 2 but scaled down for realistic scores) Block= 1 point (originally 2 but scaled down for realistic scores) Nothing tricky about it. I've researched and poured over these scoring settings and no one position benefits from them over another position. They are SUPER EVEN.The best NBA players are the best fantasy players, no need to worry about anything else. One last thing, Leave your email, and your team name MUST be either a CITY or SCHOOL followed by a mascot of your choosing. You can mix them up though. Like you don't have to be the Florida Gators. If you wanted, you can be the Florida Lakers or the New York Sooners or w/e you guys want. It can be college or pro and you can mix the mascots around it's no big deal. I just want it to be Sports themed. LEAVE YOUR EMAIL AND JOIN IF YOUR SUPER ACTIVE. I HAVE A CBOX AND COOL WIDGETS ON THE PAGE. HERE IT...
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...The 2007 heisman trophy winner. Two time national championship winner at the University of Florida. 2010 first round draft-pick to be the Denver Broncos quarterback. Thats what comes to mind when you think of Tim Tebow, right? Most people overlook the charitable person that he really is. Tebow not only loves the game, but he loves to “bring Faith, Hope and Love to those needing a brighter day in their darkest hour of need.” As a result of this, Timothy Tebow is deserving of being honored in the EMS Memorial Garden by having a tree planted in his honor because he has created the Tim Tebow Foundation, does acts of service for the greater good, and is dedicated to what he does. To start off, Tebow has created an incredible organization called the Tim Tebow Foundation. This foundation serves children that are struggling to fight for themselves. The program has a very special event called “Night to Shine.” Night to Shine is dance all around the world sponsored by Tebow's foundation. In 2018, there was 537 churches nationwide and in 16 countries with 175,000 volunteers to create a prom that 90,000 guests would never forget. These guests were people with special needs that would have extraordinary time feeling special centered around God’s love. Not only that, but he has created many orphanages to help over 650 kids around the world. In addition to the orphanages, hospitals have been built to help children with no charge like in the Philippines where he spent time growing up at...
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...Tim Tebow is a well-known Christian football player. Tebow is a quarterback who has played for the Denver Broncos and New York Jets. He is also well-known for the action “Tebowing” which is to get down on a knee and start praying, even if everyone else around you is doing something completely different (Tebowing, 2011). Along with “Tebowing” he also writes scriptures specifically Philippians 4:13 on his glare strips. To Tim Tebow “Tebowing” is a way humbling himself, he said he “Tebows” “because that's a form of humbling yourself. I want to humble myself before the Lord and say thank you for this opportunity. Thank you for letting me play the game I love. Whether I'm good or bad, whether I'm the hero or the goat, whether I score four touchdowns or throw four interceptions, that will still be the same person, honoring the Lord."(Kumar, 2012). Tebow likes to look at it in a way that whether you are going to do good or bad all eyes are watching and he uses “Tebowing” as a way to take a moment and block out everything around him to thank the Lord (Kumar, 2012). Along with “Tebowing”, when a camera man in the locker room said “Jesus Christ” Tebow responded “He loves you”. Though Tebow does “Tebowing” for himself, he is in public when he “Tebows”. The audience goes from himself to those who are watching him. Due to social media, viewer’s and participation on the Tebowing website, an audience of 785 jumped to over 390,000 in just a few days (Tebowing, 2011). Photos range from fans striking...
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...to a winning record in only his second season. The experts said that he couldn’t even be an NFL quarterback. They said he was the third best quarterback on Denver’s roster at the beginning of the season. Tim Tebow doesn’t care what the experts say, and is proving them wrong every week he starts under center for the Denver Broncos. A sub-par quarterback winning games is not the only reason Tebow has been getting all of the hype. Tebow is a devout Christian and takes every opportunity to share his Christian values. Some are offended by this, and others think that it just adds to the legend in the making that is Timothy Richard Tebow. Tebow is not a loser, he just doesn’t do it. In college he won two BCS National Championships and led the gators to an impressive 34-5 record as a starter. While at the University of Florida he also became the first sophomore to ever win the Heisman trophy. After graduating from the University of Florida, many doubted his talents as an NFL quarterback and rightfully so, who wanted a quarterback who was a better runner than passer and who was highly...
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...Should College Athletes Be Paid? Should College Athletes Be Paid? College athletes should be paid to play for many reasons. First of all, college athletes aren’t allowed to work. How are they going to pay for all the necessary expenses if they come from poor families? This also leads to players accepting illegal money, cars, clothes, etc. College athletes bring in millions of dollars through merchandise and games. Most of the athletes that have the opportunity to leave school and turn professional do so, because college athletes live in near poverty. Since college athletes are not allowed to work, even if they have the extra time to do so, they have to sacrifice meals, new clothes, and other necessary items in order to save money for they future. Some of the players who receive no money from their families accept illegal offers in order to buy necessary items. Most college athletes don’t turn professional, so the athletes won’t have any working experience when they get into the real world. This would give the non-athletes and an advantage in the working world over the athletes. College athletes bring in millions of dollars to their schools. For example, the University of Miami received about 8 million dollars for the Miami Hurricanes playing in the Nokia Sugar Bowl. The apparel also brings in a lot of money by selling hats, footballs, and jerseys. Also the Orange Bowl holds over 60,000 people and they sell tickets at an average of 20 dollars each. The players should...
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...The changing legal idea about computers is that its a trend forcing police to change the way that they investigate crimes and obtain search warrants. A computer or personal electronic device can no longer be seen as just a thing, it should be viewed as a place said Mr. Justice Thomas Heeney. Recent case laws holds that because a computer can contain such huge amounts of personal information, it should be regarded as a place. Mr. Rafferty's laptop was essentially warrant-less and so had violated his Charter of Rights against unreasonable search and seizure. This precedent stemmed from another high profile murder case in 2007 which was a Markham salesman killing his estranged wife and another woman. His cell phone was going to be examined for trace evidence of blood splatter, but the scrutiny of its contents inside needed a second warrant. The plain view principle could not be applied in this case. That simply involves common sense because none of the contents in the computers were in plain view. Two other legal skirmishes that the jury never heard about were 1- several inconsistencies in various statements made by witnesses and 2- The inconsistency in Ms. Mcclintics initial claim of Rafferty being the one to smash Tori's skull, and later she said that she wielded the murder weapon. They also missed the episode in the court room when two people tried to snap pictures of Rafferty which is extremely illegal in a court room. I do not believe in the fact that evidence should be...
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...In Electronics, Japan Still Matters Posted by: Bruce Einhorn on March 17, 2011 In the global technology industry's pecking order, Japanese consumer electronics companies long ago surrendered their top spot to more nimble competitors like Samsung Electronics andApple. Many of the country's chipmakers also struggled as competitors in Korea and Taiwan thrived. Meanwhile, marketing executives at major multinationals turned their attention to China and India, the world's new economic powers. For many, Japan was largely an afterthought, a declining power with an aging population. The turmoil following the March 11 earthquake has provided a rude reminder that, when it comes to the global electronics industry's supply chain, Japan still matters. The country's factories produce about one-fifth of the world's semiconductors and 40 percent of electronic components. Japan's Mitsubishi Gas Chemical and Hitachi Chemical combined make almost all of the world's BT Resin, a raw material used in chip packaging, and Hitachi Chemical has 70 percent market share for a type of chemical slurry used by semiconductor producers for polishing chips. Tech executives and investors therefore should be worrying about a prolonged shutdown of production in Japan, where many factories are closed and there's no clear sign of how much damage they suffered or when they might reopen. Typically, big chipmakers likeTaiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. keep between four to six weeks of supply, so uncertainty about...
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...You are the news director of a local television station. The city council has just voted to close city parks 3 days a week to save money. Meanwhile, a major celebrity has died. The park story has greater effect on your viewers, but the celebrity death will get bigger ratings? Which do you make your lead story and why? o Your news organization is owned by a massive corporation that also owns an electronics company. It has learned that the refrigerators the electronics company makes are fire hazards and have destroyed several homes. How do you cover the story and how do you acknowledge that you are owned by the same corporation? o You are the chief editor of a large metropolitan daily newspaper. One of your reporters is caught fabricating sources and making up facts. How do you handle the situation, from disciplining the reporter to explaining it to your readers? . Solve the problem using what you have learned. Solutions must be realistic. If you think cable news networks do not have enough foreign coverage, for example, it is not enough to say you will simply hire more reporters. You must say where that money will come from. Be creative, both in the identification of the problem and, especially, in the solution. . Include the following: o The role of media in delivering news to the public o The significance of immediate news media delivery on culture o The social responsibilities of news media. o Ethical and legal considerations...
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...4. Significance and Justifications for the Study The study of E-learning effectiveness is important. It is because we have to define that whether learning by using electronic media or through the Internet is effective or not. Nowadays, technology have helped human in all types of activity including education. This is what we can see in our daily life. Although technology is getting more advances, but there is not necessarily that it can help a lot in education field. Throughout this research, we have to find out the factors and how the factors affect the effectiveness of E-learning. Since technology nowadays is advances than older time, people would rely on electronic device. So, E-learning will be more practical and effective since people nowadays will have more interested on learning by using the combination of technology and education. Besides, with the Internet available, knowledge can spread widely. This can foster the process of learning and people can gain knowledge faster. E-learning may benefits to all of the users which means both of the learners and instructors. Let’s say if a company chooses to train their employee by using E-learning, this may result to material cost decrease. It is because the company doesn’t have to prepare an operating room just for the training purpose. E-learning can be flexible because the learners can study anywhere and anytime as long as there is device and also connection available. The advantages of E-learning are yet...
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...Moore's law is the observation that, over the history of computing hardware, the number of transistors on integrated circuits doubles approximately every two years. The law is named after Intel co-founder Gordon E. Moore, who described the trend in his 1965 paper.[1][2][3] His prediction has proven to be accurate, in part because the law is now used in the semiconductor industry to guide long-term planning and to set targets for research and development.[4] The capabilities of many digital electronic devices are strongly linked to Moore's law: processing speed, memory capacity, sensors and even the number and size of pixels in digital cameras.[5] All of these are improving at (roughly) exponential rates as well (see Other formulations and similar laws). This exponential improvement has dramatically enhanced the impact of digital electronics in nearly every segment of the world economy.[6] Moore's law describes a driving force of technological and social change in the late 20th and early 21st centuries.[7][8] The period often quoted as "18 months" is due to Intel executive David House, who predicted that period for a doubling in chip performance (being a combination of the effect of more transistors and their being faster).[9] Although this trend has continued for more than half a century, Moore's law should be considered an observation or conjecture and not a physical or natural law. Sources in 2005 expected it to continue until at least 2015 or 2020.[note 1][11] However, the...
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...Solomon Americans do not read as much as we should which will have negative consequences when it comes to the heath, politics and education. According with Solomon, The National Endowment for the Art made a survey that indicated people who read are active in the community. For example, people who like to read will go to museums and musical performances more often, and perform volunteer and charity. This is compared to non-readers, who have little to no active engagement with the community. The author declares that electronic media can be dangerous for nonreaders because most people use television or other electronics as a means of relaxing, consequently absorbing all of the good and bad information. However, readers were able to filter the information more effectively while watching television. Solomon claims that people who read do not feel alone because they see a book as a friend, while people who do not read and spend their days with electronics devices tend to feel depressed. Reading is a mentally active experience and helps us learn. It can also help us stay guarded from future mental illnesses like Alzheimer’s. If we are not active and do not exercise our minds, we have a higher chance of developing Alzheimers. The Nazis feared the power of reading many forms of literature, taking measures to burn books because the material within was viewed as being subversive, or representative of ideologies in opposition to Nazism. Today, reading allows Americans to be...
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