MEMO To: Smooth Sailing From: The consulting group Date: May 6‚ 2012 ------------------------------------------------- Subject: Recoverability/Impairment of cruise ship ------------------------------------------------- Facts: Smooth Sailing is a private company that operates one cruise ship. Smooth Sailing’s purchase of the cruise ship was financed with nonrecourse debt. The cruise ship has its own identifiable cash flows that are largely independent of the cash flows of other asset groups
Premium Generally Accepted Accounting Principles Asset Goodwill
on things other than the road. Distracted driving is not just limited to cell phone use while driving. It can include behaviors such as shaving‚ eating‚ drinking‚ talking‚ or even listening to the radio. With these behaviors‚ both hands may not be on the wheel‚ eyes may not be fixed on the road‚ or attention could be transfixed on other noises and surroundings. Accidents happen once attention is taken off of the road. One glance at a text message could take three seconds. In three seconds
Premium Distraction Radio Mobile phone
time to time. Normally‚ this is not a problem in most people’s lives; however‚ distractions can be dangerous. Adding mobility to the mix can make distractions deadly. People distracted by technology are endangering themselves and others. Distracted driving causes more driver related accidents than any other reason. For example‚ reports show “recognition error‚ which included driver’s inattention‚ internal and external distractions‚ and inadequate surveillance‚ was the most (41%±2.2%) frequently assigned
Premium
Reading: Read the following text‚ and write a brief heading for each paragraph. Products and Brands 1………………………………………………………………… Marketing theorists tend to give the word product a very broad meaning‚ using it to refer to anything capable of satisfying a need or want. Thus services‚ activities‚ people (politicians‚ athletes‚ film stars)‚ places (holiday resorts)‚ organizations (hospitals‚ colleges‚ political parties)‚ and ideas‚ as well as physical objects offered for sale by retailers
Premium Marketing
Distracted Driving In the year 2009‚ 16% of total fatalities have involved distracted drivers and the numbers would be 5474 people killed. These are more than 5000 people who won’t get to spend time with family‚ see their children or parents‚ talk about good old times with friends‚ or finish school. The even more devastating part is the family members of these distracted drivers or the people who were distracting them‚ that their lives will never be the same. As technology develops more and more
Premium Mobile phone Carnegie Mellon University
Text linguistics Module I. Classificationally meaningful characteristics of the text as an integral and independent object of investigation. Lecture 6. Conceptual variability of linguistic interpretations of the text essence and status and their reflections in the models of the text descriptions. Problem for discussion Evolution of the text description approaches. Models of the text descriptions. Grounds for the chosen models and schemes of the text descriptions
Premium Linguistics Pragmatics Illocutionary act
A Ray of Hope By Nikos Cheng A bitter current of frosty air flowed through the grotto‚ the chill seeping into a dark irregular shape in the middle of the bare rough floor. The silence that followed suit proved to be “colder” than the chill sent coursing through the poor creature’s body. Frigid as it was‚ it had nothing to cover itself with; the suffocating presence of nothing but itself wrapped everything up tightly. This creature was one that surely none
Free Emotion Human Feeling
traditionally the wooing of a female by a male‚ includes activities such as dating (dinner and a movie‚ a picnic‚ or general "hanging out")‚ along with other forms of activity‚ such as meeting online (also known as virtual dating)‚ chatting on-line‚ sending text messages or picture messages‚ conversing over the phone‚ writing each other letters‚ and sending each other flowers‚ songs‚ and gifts. Courting usually involves getting to know the family (especially the parents) of the one you are courting. Most of
Premium Courtship Dating Marriage
MEDIA CULTURAL AND SOCIETY: MEDIA TEXT: In media studies‚ the word ‘text’ is used to describe any media product such as TV programmes‚ photographs‚ films ‚ either on video or in the cinema ‚ newspaper articles ‚ radio programmes ‚ advertisements‚ video games or web pages. ‘Text’ are therefore the main point of our study in understanding how media languages create meaning. * One of the keys to understanding the meanings in the texts in the use of codes. CODES: * Rules or conventions by
Premium Linguistics Semiotics Ferdinand de Saussure
ОЛМА Медиа Групп‚ 2007. – 384 с. Key Theme: 3.7. The Main Text Properties 3.7.1. Informativity of a Text Informativity of a text is its ability to convey the information‚ i. e. certain meaningful contents. The value of the received information is a problem of discussion. It is known that information‚ being repeated or redundant‚ loses its value and as a result ceases to be informative. But it is also known that some texts have unchangeable value. Being the permanent source of the new
Free Denotation Connotation