...The North Carolina Annual State Fair Trisha Wrenn Shelley DeVry University Contents Page. . History . Accidents and incidents . Exhibits . Antique Farm Machinery .Cultivate a Career Tent . Field of Dreams . Flower and Garden Show .Got to Be NC Agriculture Tent . Heritage Circle .State Fair Ark . Village of Yesteryear .Competitions . General Exhibits . Livestock .Poultry & Rabbits . Family & Consumer Sciences . Special Exhibits .Folk Festival . Horses . Entertainment .Concerts in Dorton Arena .Fireworks . Free Entertainment . Grandstand Shows . Kiddieland Fun Park . Carnival Rides and Games . Roller coasters The North Carolina state fair began in October of 1853, and lasted four days, with a total of four thousand people who attended. Today the fair lasts eleven days with over eight hundred thousand people who attended. The fair is held in our state capitol of Raleigh, North Carolina. The purpose of the state fair is to showcase and promote the states agriculture arts, crafts and culture through the annual agriculture fair. The State Fair’s aim is to educate all North Carolinians about the importance of agriculture to our heritage and our economy. The exhibits are antique farm machinery, cultivate a career tent, flower and garden show, heritage circle, and state fair ARK and the village of yesteryear. The completions include general exhibits such as livestock, poultry, rabbits, family...
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...With its exhilarating entertainment, tantalizing aromas, and jubilant crowds, the North Carolina State Fair welcomes a variety of patrons unlike any other. Its universal appeal resides in its ultimate mission: to celebrate the community. Although the fair provides a wonderful opportunity to sample the latest fried concoction or to test your will on the Tilt-a-Whirl, it also provides the chance to appreciate North Carolina’s talented livestock producers, farmers, and crafters. The fair invites modern culture while it continues to uphold it’s own traditional background of simple country life. It even offers a chance for friendly competition for “best in show” status with entries including everything from apple pies to Lego sculptures. This year, a handcrafted rocking chair earned the title, standing as a testament to individual persistence and community tradition....
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...On June 23, 2017, a State Fair Hearing was held at the request of Ms. Jackie Christopher. The hearing was requested to appeal the denial of Medicaid benefits due to an unfavorable disability decision. Background Ms. Christopher applied for Medicaid benefits on March 9, 2017. The Brandon Regional Office (RO) submitted a Disability and Blindness Report to Disability Determination Services (DDS), who has the responsibility of making disability decisions for the Division of Medicaid (DOM), on March 20, 2017. DDS notified the RO on May 3, 2017, that Ms. Christopher was not disabled for Medicaid purposes. The RO issued a Notice of Adverse Action on May 15, 2017. The RO received a State Fair Hearing request from Ms. Christopher on...
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...At the shopping center I saw a tall lady in her 30’s with dark brown hair, blue eyes, several bracelets, a necklace, earrings and a watch. Her big, shining smile made her stick out of the crowd and it was easy to know where she was at when she was walking because her high heels clattered against the ground. It appeared that she liked to shop because she was holding a lot of grocery bags, and she smelled good because she was eating a pretzel. She carried herself with a sense of authority and people stepped out of her way as she walked. The state fair was big. There was a mile of horse & dog races, fast food, truck demolitions, helicopter rides, running games and carnival rides playing soft...
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...rhetorical situation. Defining Topic, Angle, Purpose 1. What is your chosen topic? (For example: a profile of Barb Collins, a volunteer at the local homeless shelter; a profile of “Shipwreck Days,” a citywide flea market and festival; or a profile of Burdick’s Grocery, the oldest family-owned business in town.) The annual “Martin County Fair” that recently took place in February is my topic for this week’s assignment. 2. What personal angle can you present on this topic? (Consider what is new about the topic or what unique perspective can be shared about this topic.) The Martin County Fair and most fairs in general have evolved to be more of an event for the rides. County Fairs and State Fairs were a celebration of Spring and for youths and farmers to show their “Prized” livestock. Each year the quantity of animals being shown in the fair has decreased and the fair has become more of a “Carnival”. 3. What is your purpose for writing? (What do you hope to accomplish? Why are you writing?) My purpose for writing is to inform and persuade people to take time to learn a little bit of the history behind the annual Martin County Fair. Possibly encourage young people to take an interest in raising and showing a farm animal. Analyzing your Readers You will be writing your Profile essay to your local community. Imagine you might submit the Profile to your local newspaper or have it shared in a community newsletter; the readers of those...
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...Pals Poultry Club, Helping Paws Animal Community Service Club, Taste Buds Cooking Club, Small Treasures Miniature Dollhouse Club, Senior Council, and Bulleseye Bombers Archery Club. I am also the Gloucester County Key Ambassador, a part of the South Jersey Youth Representative Council; which I represent Gloucester County teens and plan state events for south jersey 4-H teen members. I also received first runner up at the State Agricultural Ambassador Contest this past November. I have learned numerous skills and discovered many talents that I have through all of these clubs, events, and positions held. Leadership, public speaking, organization, confidence, knowledge, and communication are all skills I have learned, and continue to improve, through 4H. I have learned leadership from running for different officer positions, and helping new and younger members. My public speaking skill has come from workshops, presenting to club members and outside organizations, and competing in public speaking competitions both at the county level and state level. I even had the skill, and confidence to speak in front of hundreds of delegates from 12 different states at the national 4-H trip, Citizenship Washington Focus. Friendship’s, memories, and meeting new people is an important part of 4-H. I have met so many people in clubs, at shows and different events, as well as on national trips. The first national 4-H trip I went on was to The National 4-H Poultry and Egg Conference, in Louisville, Kentucky...
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...At a young age I discovered my love for animals and a passion to giving back to my community. Eight years old and making the decision to join 4-H is the best decision a young girl could make. A close family friend was generous to give a rooster to that young girl and the love and need for farm life soon came after. Goats, chickens, rabbits, pigeons, sheep, and pigs were the animal species I have raised and shown over the last ten years. Showing animals came great responsibility as it takes dedication, time, and problem solving. Living on a farm there are always tasks that need to be met. Cleaning stalls, disease prevention, and the list goes on. Throughout my years of 4-H and since I was eight years old I have always dreamt to have my own farm and be a veterinarian. Today, this is still my goal. Being a veterinarian is not only about saving animals. It is about giving back to beloved pet owners and in some cases giving back to the world's food supply by contributing to disease prevention and longevity of animals. Furthermore, in high school I have striven to maintain a high grade point average while staying active. I am active in sports, clubs, and community service. At Indiana University Southeast I will still be able to remain active in the community. It is close to home as I will still be able to do volunteer work and be active in my colleges community activities as well as my hometowns. Going to college at IUS will not only give me this advantage, but the opportunity to...
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...Facts ‘Big Skinny’ was launched successfully at street fair. Solved five key problems people have with their wallets. 1. Size - Reduce Wallet size by 50 to 75% 2. Weight - Under an ounce 3. Card Pocket Size - Extra wide pocket 4. Slipperiness of the Interior - Lined with rubber coating which keep gravity. 5. Lack of Versatility - water resistant and tough enough even for machine wash. Its price is only $20. The costumers are happy with the product. Try to achieving maximal growth with online marketing. Problems Choices of online marketing options: 1. Display Ads: - Internet’s closest equivalent to booth at street fairs - Internet users were conditioned against display ads for they are irrelevant and irritating most of the times. - Sold on pay-per impression, rather than genuine clicks. 2. Algorithmic Search: - No guarantee that the site would appear in response to particular search. - The search engine retained wide discretion about changing the ranking methods. 3. Sponsored Search: - Advertisers paid on per-click, when users clicked on the ads. - Listings were sorted mainly on highest bids and click-through rates. 4. Social Media: - They have their own fan base. - Installed an AddThis website applet. - Their fan can share Big Skinny’s site on by their own social media. - Free of charge. 5. Interactive Content: - Engage customers Kiril included several interactive components on its site. - Big Skinny also organized essay contests for its fans...
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...A little town was unusually noisy today. There came a fair. And since very morning everybody – children, adults and elderly people- gathered in the central square. Such a fuss! The fair was a very important occasion for people. They worked hard for the whole year and took a rest during those summer days. It was greatly celebrated. The square was decorated with flags, ribbons and flowers. Music was playing loudly. Children were laughing. And artists were performing and singing. All of those noises were combined in a melody of universal holiday. A little bird was singing with the melody. She liked fairs. She liked holidays. But in that town they were so infrequent! What a pity! -Mommy! – Asked the little bird her mother that was cleaning her feathers sitting under the roof beam, - Why people don’t like the fairs? Why they have fun so rarely? -Because, my little birdie, they should work hard to deserve this holiday. -I want more holidays, mommy! - Stubbornly twittered the little bird, - Where can be more holidays? -Well, I don’t know if it is true, but one day the Old Raven told us the story about the City. There are more people, so there should be more fairs, I guess…- the mother-bird murmured thoughtfully. -The City, - the little bird repeated it dreamily. It was the day when the little bird decided to go to the City. Next morning when the mother was asleep the little bird managed to leave their cozy nest and to start its long way to the City. The bird had been...
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...of long-lived assets in accordance with ASC 360-10. Applicable Professional Pronouncements ASC 360-10, Property, Plant, and Equipment: Overall (ASC 360-10) ASC 360-10 provides guidance on accounting for property, plant, and equipment, and the related accumulated depreciation on those assets. This Subtopic also includes guidance on the impairment or disposal of long-lived assets. ASC 360-10 notes that long-lived tangible assets include land and land improvements, buildings, machinery and equipment, and furniture and fixtures. ASC 820, Fair Value Measurements and Disclosures (ASC 820) ASC 820, Fair Value Measurements and Disclosures, applies to U.S. GAAP that require or permit fair value measurements or disclosures and provides a single framework for measuring fair value and requires disclosures about fair value measurement. The Topic defines fair value on the basis of an "exit price" notion and uses a "fair value hierarchy," which results in a market-based — rather than entity-specific — measurement. IAS 36, Impairment of Assets (IAS 36) To ensure that assets are carried at no more than their recoverable amount, and to define how recoverable amount is determined. Discussion 1 — Impairment Assessment for a Long-Lived Asset How should Smooth Sailings’ management perform the recoverability test for the cruise ship as of December 31, 2010? In addressing this question, consider: •What assets and liabilities should be included in the “asset...
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...4-2 Impacts of Value Added Dunkin' Brands Group Inc.’s consumer base is almost entirely based in the United States, yet the company's presence and impact certainly reaches beyond U.S. borders. However, since the vast majority of Dunkin' Brand’s operation impacts the United States, two indexes known as the Social Progress Index and the Social Progress Capacity Index can serve as references in examining Dunkin' Brand's corporate goals and developmental progress. In order to gain some insight into Dunkin' Brands and how the company aligns with these two Social Progress Indexes, a list of the company's goals and primary values are identified on their website as follows: honesty, transparency, humility, integrity, respectfulness, fairness, and responsibility. In addition to their values, they also pride themselves on guiding principles. Leadership incorporates responsibility and having passion at every level. A sense of innovation and having excellence in everything they do, execution of principles and taking ownership and accountability for results, success and failure and by having social stewardship and demonstrating good corporate citizenship and responsibility to all constituencies all encompasses the overall tone of the how they would like the public to see them. (Farfan) Considering that the Social Progress Index's ultimate mission is global advancement, it is difficult to dismiss any of Dunkin' Brand's values as they all are relatively important to guide...
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...and Nutrition Culminating Is Fair Trade Fair? there are millions of people around the world that like to start their days off with a cup of coffee, not knowing how that coffee has gotten to them, or how much work is put into a single cup of coffee. Ever since 1995 the consumption of coffee around the world has grown exponentially which had also increased in 2007 with the introduction of Starbucks and other retail coffee chains. Even though coffee retail is a massive business that receives large sums of money, people that actually make the coffee bean do not seem to receive fair wages in the process and end up not being able to provide for their families. In the past decade a movement called the fair trade movement is helping these workers to support their families and earn the right amount of money for selling their product and people should support this cause and hope that it becomes a global epidemic that will put more food on the tables of the hard-working citizens of the world. One of the major reasons that us as a community should support for trade is as I said before so these farmers can provide food for their families, because most of them do not receive a fair wage for their products. if we as a society enforce fair trade we could bring these farmers out of poverty and better improve their quality of life. Even a Latin American coffee farmer was quoted to say “We are able to keep producing because of the more favourable Fair Trade price. We are able to provide...
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...The concept of Fair Value Fair value is defined as “the amount for which an asset could be exchanged between knowledgeable, willing parties in an arm’s length transaction”. Prior to the introduction of Fair Value Accounting (FVA), accounting was carried out on a historical cost basis. However there were many limitations of Historical Cost accounting (HCA). HCA assumes money holds a constant purchasing power. It ignores specific price-level change, general price-level change and fluctuations in exchange rates. During inflationary periods, HCA can become irrelevant and can lead to an erosion of operating capacity. IASB framework states “the objective of financial statements is to provide information about the financial position, performance and changes in financial position of an entity that is useful to a wide range of users in making economic decisions. It also states “financial statements also show the results of stewardship of management, or accountability of management for the resources entrusted to it”. FVA is superior to historical cost accounting for these purposes. FVA is dominant in numerous IFRS’s and IAS’s. The IASB have yet to finalise an IFRS on fair value measurement, but it is expected it will have been completed by early 2011. Furthermore, the IASB is developing extra educational material to accompany the publication of the IFRS on fair value measurement. This material will give a description on the thought process for the measurement of assets, liabilities...
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...audited Daimler AG’s 2009 financial statements on March 1, 2010, and the company’s 2010 financial statements on February 28, 2011. The purpose of this report is to examine the differences in numbers, and disclosures concerning the reporting of items under IAS 39, between and within the two companies, for 2009 and 2010. Further, this report will examine the controversies which have led to the establishment of IAS 39 fair market value procedures, and will investigate the differences between the reporting under IAS 39 (Fair value procedures), and its equivalent under US GAAP, SFAS 157. “The introduction of IAS 39 was aimed at bringing more visibility to financial statements users with regard to the accounting and disclosure of financial instruments (journal), especially derivatives, since prior to the enactement of IAS39, “derivatives were recorded as off balance sheet items, and were only disclosed in the notes of financial statements.”(journal ). One substantial change that IAS 39 has brought to IFRS reporting, is the great use of fair value measurements. “Fair value...
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...purchase will grow the business. I will also analyze the accounting requirements for the business combination method I selected and how I determined goodwill was impaired and the financial impact of such impaired goodwill. The business combination method I selected is the acquisition method. Business combinations have implemented the newly created accounting treatment called the “acquisition method.” The major changes in the acquisition method include changes to fair value measurement, goodwill recognition, and non-controlling interests. In acquisition method, the parent company reports the net assets of the acquired company at the price that it was paid for. This price includes any cash payment, the fair market value of any shares issued, and the present value of any promises to pay cash in the future. A key point of the purchase method is that the parent consolidates the book value of all the subsidiary’s assets and liabilities and then the fair value, broken down between Net Book Value and Fair Market Value increments, of the subsidiary's assets and liabilities are added to the parent's own assets and liabilities. The parent and the subsidiary prepare their own separate financial statements because they are two separate legal entities. The parent also prepares consolidated financial statements by combining the separate financial statements of both the parent and the subsidiary. Any inter-company transactions between the two are removed in the consolidated...
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