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- 1131: In Process Randd
- ... acquired in-process research and development ( IPR&D ) have increased dramatically both in magnitude and frequency over the last decade (http://www.sec.gov/offices/account/aclr1009.htm). "Researchers at New York University's Stern School of Business found no more than three business combinations where purchased R&D was written-off during the 1980 s. But in only the first seven months of 1996, the researchers identified 147 such instances ... some purpose in the future. SEC AND FASB POSITION The SEC's concerns regarding the potential abuse of this special accounting treatment afforded acquired IPR&D was heightened during the 1990s when mergers in the high-tech industry soared. In particular, the SEC is concerned about how acquirers determined the fair value of acquired IPR&D at the acquisition date. Higher values, sometimes 100 percent of the purchase price, yielded large ... securities analysts, based in Baltimore. Baruch Lev s study shows that subtracting IPR&D from revenue right away boosted the reported earnings of the companies by 22%. It boosted return on equity by 40%. What high-tech CFO wouldn t fall in love with such numbers? No wonder why the U.S. SEC cried foul. Lynn Turner, the SEC s Chief Accountant, detailed the abuse in a letter to the ...
- 1132: The Reform Of Schools
- The Reform of Schools The government of Ontario proposes there is a need to make universally accepted rules in the school system. For students to be more disciplined, the government needs to achieve new province wide standards. If the new school standards will not discipline the students, and if each school entails its guidelines, then the government s province wide code of conduct will fail. Moreover, the intervention of the government will not enforce the students to become more disciplined. While the arguments for producing ...
- 1133: Ben Carson
- ... moved to Boston, Massachusetts. They lived there for two years and moved back to Detroit in 1961. Ben Carson wasn't always the "smart guy". In fact for a long time he did poorly in school. It wasn't until after Ben failed his eye test in fifth grade that his grades changed. He had very poor eyesight, which was restricting his learning. After Ben began to wear glasses, he gradually began to do better in school. With his mother's help he became the smartest boy in his class. Even though Ben grew smarter, he had acquired a bad temper. His attitude had gotten him in trouble before, but never anything ... a revelation. Ben realized that his temper would destroy him and vowed to not let it ever control him again. The change in Ben's attitude only led to better thing for him. Later in high school he joined the ROTC (Reserve Officers' Training Corps) program. He did so well in ROTC that Ben was offered a full scholarship to the United States Military Academy. In 1968, Ben Carson received ...
- 1134: John Hancock
- ... religious well-being of all members of the parish. Ever since John s (Jr.) birth, he was perceived to go to Harvard. At the age of six, his parents sent him to a local dame school. Later he was sent to another school, in which he might have met John Adams, with whom he struck up a casual acquaintance. Like all the other children in town, he learned the basics of reading, writing, and figuring.All things seemed ... the invitation from the bishop and his wife, to live with them in Lexington. A year later, John was sent away to live with his uncle Thomas and aunt Lydia, and to attend Boston Latin School. It isn t sure if he moved there to live with his uncle or to attend that school. What is beyond dispute, though, is that this move altered radically John Hancock s life and ...
- 1135: American History X
- ... Danny's latent writing ability. After turning in a glowing review of Hitler's "Mein Kampf", when asked to discuss a book about civil rights, Danny's now being forced by a concerned, hard-love school teacher to write an account of Derek's journey from the "heights" of murderous skinhead leadership to the depths of brutal rape in a prison shower. In the film there are unnerving scenes of racial violence: of black youths kicking a helpless white student in a high school restroom; of a Korean-owned grocery store terrorized by skinhead thugs; of an African American whose skull is split open by a skinhead who orders him to lie face down on a curb. Unlike ...
- 1136: England
- ... commonwealth immigrants are coming from southern Asia. Since there are so many different kinds of people there has been a lot of fighting between them. Englands economy is very strong because of an excellent school system. Their school system is much like ours except they only have to attend school from ages 5 through 16. Although they dont go to school as long as us they learn things at a faster rate and school involves harder work. The English also play sports. They ...
- 1137: Napolean Bonopart
- ... in France, and he didnt want his Italian-sounding name to stop his progress. In 1796, he changed it permanently to Napoleon Bonaparte. When Napoleon was nine, his father decided he should go to school in France to get an education befitting their birth. But he didnt have the money to pay for his schooling. He petitioned the king, Louis XIV, for a scholarship for Napoleon. The king had set up a special fund for the sons of French nobles, granting them money to attend military school. Now that Corsica belonged to France, the Bonapartes were French citizens and were eligible for this scholarship. Napoleon was excited about his future. Still, he was apprehensive. He had never left the island before, and he didnt know how to speak French. So before he could further his training, he would have to learn the language. To do this his parents were sending him first to a school in Autun in southern France. There the students were mean, they had laughed at his Corsican accent and mocked his poor clothes and rough manners. When Napoleon had learned to speak French fluently, he ...
- 1138: Hydroponic Gardening
- ... plants to provide fresh food stuffs to remote duty stations around the world and on submarines. It has been stated in Future of Hydroponics, "It is a versatile technology, appropriate for both developing countries and high-tech space stations." (1). There are many diversified benefits of hydroponic gardening. But to sum them up, the gardener can control the environmental conditions like lighting, water and nutrients, producing a maximum crop output even ... both the crop or crops to be grown as well as hydroponic growing techniques. In Overview of Hydroponics, it is stated that "The principle disadvantages of hydroponics, relative to conventional open-field agriculture, are the high costs of capital and energy inputs, and the high degree of management skills required for successful production. Capital costs may be especially excessive if the structures are artificially heated and cooled. This is why appropriate crops are limited to those with high economic ...
- 1139: To Kill A Mockingbird
- ... children, because it was a popular subject of gossip and superstition in Maycomb. Arthur Radley had gotten into trouble with the law when he was a boy. Instead of being sent to the state industrial school, his father took custody of him within their house. He was not seen again for fifteen years. Many legends grew up about the Radley house and about what went on inside. Miss Stephanie Crawford, a ... goes the meanest man ever God blew breath into." Finally, there are the themes relating to family and the Maycomb setting. They increase in importance from chapter to chapter. Chapters 2 and 3 Scout At School Dill returned to Mississippi at the end of the summer. Although she was looking forward to school more than anything in her life, Scout's first day at school was a disappointment. When Miss Caroline tried to teach reading, Scout was bored. Much to Miss Caroline's dismay, Scout was already ...
- 1140: Ancient Japanese Art
- ... piece of art to be more of a piece of crap. So I looked harder. The work is painted on part of a horizontally unraveled scroll. The exposed part of the scroll is one foot high and four feet from left to right. To the far right the re-scroll had a few feet rolled up into a tube. To the left an unknown amount of the scroll is still hidden ... reminds me of walks with my dad when I was a kid. After waking up just the two of us, we would eat some soggy cereal and putting on our shoes, (me velcroing my grade-school-grandpa-shoes), and heading out to look for a good place to catch some catfish and a cold. Maybe this is the place that he first went fishing with his dad too. Who knows? I ... for the present; thus the styles of many past masters were kept alive as options within the painter's contemporary vocabulary. Innumerable works are signed as "in the manner of" some earlier artist. The Wu school, an important school of Ming landscape painting founded by Shen Zhou (Shen Chou), was based on these values.(Groliers, Ming Dynasty: Chinese art and architecture) Did you see that? The Wu school founded by ...
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