...Comm 401 – Individual Assignment The focus of this exercise is to undertake a broad level assessment of the strategic fit of Mercury Athletic Footwear into the Active Gear Inc. portfolio. In addition, a preliminary valuation assessment needs to be made as to the value of this potential acquisition. In regards to this: 1. Is Mercury Athletic Footwear an appropriate target and strategic fit for AGI? Why or why not? 2. Are John Liedtke’s projections appropriate and acceptable for decision-making purposes? Do you have any concerns with the assumptions made or computations offered for analysis? If so, what are they? 3. What preliminary valuation estimate (can be stated as a range) would you place on the value of Mercury Athletic Footwear? Do you consider your estimate to be conservative or aggressive? 4. Where do you feel AGI can leverage synergies should they decide to acquire Mercury? Which of these, if any, would you expect AGI to position its acquisition rationale around in making its pitch for financing support? Can you illustrate a valuation of potential cost savings or revenue generation opportunities resulting from your synergy assessment? 5. Identify what you feel are the top five (5) decision criteria which would guide your thought process as to whether Mercury Athletic Footwear should be acquired. 6. Based on your analysis, do you recommend that Athletic Gear Inc. move forward with this acquisition? Be sure to validate this response with a short descriptor of reasons why...
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...Depression” that occurred in the 1930’s . This even caused so many people in the United States to stop working and banks were all shut down. Now, your probably asking like, “Did everyone went poor?”, “What did they do in order to make money?”, or “How did they pay bills?”. Will lets find out the answers to this questions. Now, we all know that if we need food, we’ll go shopping and get food. But you see, during The Great Depression, they not only shut down the banks but they also shut the stores. When they shut down stores, no one is able to sell or buy anything and all the workers had to quit. So what did they do? If you take a look at Passage 1 by RObert J. Hastings, it gives you an example of what people back then did. Like for example, paragraph three gives you an example of what one of the people did. This paragraph stated “...bought a horse to break gardens, rented an extra lot of garden on the shares, picked peaches…” So this gives you a bit of information on what they did. People would buy stuff from others and others would buy stuff...
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...industrial revolution and the many inventions that would shape this time one was steel and the Bessemer process this also helped get and build stuff faster. They also could then help prevent fires like in cities like Chicago. But other then that three other things that helped the industrial boom like the railroads, immigration, and new technology. Some of the thing with the railroads like the miles of railroad they built from 1860 to 1900 it went from about 30,000 to about 190,000 miles (doc 2) of train track so they could move supplies from one side of the country to the other side so farmers could get there stuff to the big market. One other thing that the railroad help make possibly help make political parties and stuff like that making taxes off the railroads they would also work with some of the people that helped run the railroads. Immigration was a big part of the industrial boom with the people that it brought in to the country. It would help the nation in many different ways one of those ways is that they would get these immigrants as they would use these people of for cheap labor. This would also help with getting stuff made in these factories made it more possible for people to get cheap stuff and so everyone could get cheap stuff also they would be helped by the republicans with they helped support for more immigration. This would help give them easier ways to get into the country (doc 3). This will help the boom of immigrants become part of our industrial...
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...that I was about to turn 15 and wow that movie had a lot of stuff in it. I believe they should have more strict rules about children and teenagers seeing those kinds of movies and television shows. Today many children and teenagers are allowed to see movies that are rated R as long as their parents or guardian are present. Honestly that should not be allowed period. There are many things children shouldn’t see and two of those things are sex and violence. If their raised in a bad environment and their allowed to see stuff like that that could in fact affect them in the long run. There have been many people I know influenced by movies that become very bad people doing all types of wrongs. Now in today’s generation television shows aren’t as bad as the movies but some if not most still have sex and violence and most of them. Now parents have a little more control now than they did back then due to the parental controls most cable companies provide. Though there are some people who just don’t care about what their children watch. Many shows that I know would affect a child would be the walking dead, sons of anarchy, and the breaking bad. I mean really The breaking bad is about a person who cooks meth, the walking dead is about zombies and for sure would give children nightmares, and the sons of anarchy are a motorcycle crew who do all kinds of wrong. If I ever have a child I will not ever show him/her this kinda stuff at such a young age. Now another influence that cases...
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...possible and its impact as effective as possible. as suggested by chartered institute of Marketing (2009) Some time choosing such products are based on the business they want to promote like if it is pediatrician clinic this products can be drawing book, coloring it etc., but if the target market is professional it can be mouse pad, pen, water bottle etc.. There are many websites ( Motivator, Garrettes Specialties, quality logo product) who are selling such products. So here is the list of best promotional products under $1 and they are best as they are most effective products in the range * Clock & Watches: This can be one of the most effective product as this is clock or watch which a person need to look at many times a day so it not when one get it but every day every time person see the watch they will remember companies name. * Computer Accessories: If target market are professionals computer accessories can be best product, these product can be screen guard, screen cleaner, keyboard cleaning brush, mouse pad, adhesive sticky notepads etc., it is best for professional as they are spending most of their time on computer. * Sporty stuff: If target market is young students, athletes, sport lovers or teenagers than right choice is some sporty stuff like rubberized sunglasses, clinch up backpack, gym water bottle etc. * Most Popular and Common Products: Some most popular...
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...The Story of Stuff: A Review The Story of Stuff is a 20-minute film aimed at raising awareness on the dangers of excessive human consumption. Presented by Annie Leonard – an activist for consumerism and environmental sustainability (Story Of Stuff Project, 2013) – this video provides a simple yet well researched explanation on the ‘behind-the-scenes’ management of the life-cycle of common items consumed daily in the United States. From mining and manufacturing to distribution, consumption and waste, this presentation takes viewers on a journey to explore many missing fragments that are hardly ever reported in the system (Leonard, 2009). Watched by over 12 million people worldwide, and translated into over 15 languages (Roosevelt, 2010), Leonard has received both applauds and criticisms for her unapologetic condemnation of humans (especially Americans) – for their excessive consumption and wasteful habits – and her rather conspicuous allegation of the devious relationship between the government and private corporations. One significant issue that Leonard (2009) presented in the video was that, due to human activity, natural resources around the world are rapidly diminishing. Natural resources such as minerals and trees are constantly mined and felled to satisfy men’s insatiable appetite for more goods. The presentation revealed that in the last decade, one-third of the world’s resource base has depleted. Furthermore, it is said that only four percent...
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...645 of the best Rock Songs Ever: Are these the greatest 645 Rock songs ever? I would say yes. ...But "best ever" and "greatest" type terms are subjective to your tastes. Note I used "of the" in the title. I won't presume to think this is everything. There is bound to be a few of somebody's personal favorites omitted (especially newer stuff). You should, however, find a ton of good stuff in here and not much you will hate, unless you suck of course! ;-) Why did I share this? I'm sick of seeing these so-called "Greatest ### Songs of all time" torrents that really seemed to be filled with schlock. Again, it's subjective, but when you've got 500 songs, it's hard to justify leaving certain all time classics out. What is it? This is stuff from my personal collection. I normalized the volume of this pack (to 93 Db) so you won't have dead quiet levels on one song and then ear shattering loudness on the next track. All are .mp3 format. Most (95%) are high bit rates, 192 to 320, with a few scattered 160 and the very rare (like 5 or so) 128 bitrate songs. I separated them into 3 categories of: Rock, Lite Rock and Hard Rock. This may not be perfect either, so sue me… Why 645 songs? Why not 500? ...or 734? This torrent, at 4.37GB, just barely fits on one DVD. I suppose I could have re-encoded everything to 192, but hey, I'm lazy. You're lucky I bothered to segregate these songs from my collection and share them! So… 645 it is! Seeding/connection: ...
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...that you are looking for a place to store some farm equipment, or other large types of equipment. This is because the main industry that is located in and around Yuba City is primarily farm land. However, you may be looking for Yuba City self storage facilities for a host of reasons, as there are about one hundred thousand people living in the area and the rest of the people in the area are just your typical workers. There is a junior college in the area as well, so you Yuba City storage places may be on your radar to store belongings for school, but in the same sense, you may be wanting to store a bunch of stuff in Yuba City self storage simply based on the fact that you are heading away for college and need to pack some things away for a while. One of the great things about Yuba City is the fact that the prices for homes are ridiculously cheap when you look at the rest of the California, meaning that you can get a house out there and a bunch of belongings for less than about ten percent what you would pay in other...
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...Lidia Kim Ethics Economics and Ecology The Story of Stuff The Story of Stuff, true to its title, is about stuff: where it comes from, what we do with it, and how we dispose of it when we don't want it anymore. Using a combination of statistical evidence, anecdotes, and case studies, Annie Leonard walks us through the world we are living in in terms of consumption. She breaks the cycle of consumption down into five parts and devotes a chapter of the book to each: extraction, production, distribution, consumption, and disposal. Each section of the book tells of the environmental and health dangers of our current practices. While Leonard does try to tell us about the good things that are going on in each chapter and includes promising laws and possible helpful individual actions in appendices, the overall tone of the book is dark. She highlight’s our countries’ wrongdoings, and offers theoretical Leonard begins her journey of “stuff” with the process of extraction. The first chapter deals with how, where and what resources are collected in order to begin their arduous transformation into everyday consumer items like cell phones, clothing, and paper. Our precious stuff would be nothing without the raw material necessary to create them. Leonard organizes all basic resources into 3 simple categories: tree, water and rock. With each of the categories, The Story of Stuff explores a plethora of environmental and moral concerns in harvesting. She outlines the ecological, economic...
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...University together in 1995. The Google company itself was founded in 1998. The founders had made a list of “10 things” that they believed were true for their company. Those ten things were: 1. Focus on the user and all else will follow, 2. It’s best to do one thing really, really well, 3. Fast is better than slow, 4. Democracy on the web works, 5. You don’t need to be at your desk to need an answer, 6. You can make money without doing evil, 7. There’s always more information out there, 8. The need for information crosses all borders, 9. You can be serious without a suit, and 10. Great just isn’t good enough. (Google Company). These are the things that Google follows and what has made them the successful company that they are. Google’s culture is very different that what most companies have. “The average Google employee generates more than $1 million in revenue each year” (“Workforce Management”. Business and Company ASAP, 2007. SUNY Empire State College.). There is a reason Google has been #1 on top 100 companies to work for. With having more than 70 offices in more than 40 countries around the world, Google hires all types of people. Google works to maintain an open culture for the company, and because it does, Google became the best work place in India. They came out on top because of the companies “50 billion start-up” and its non-traditional practices. Some of those practices being, “all new hires traveling to Mountain View, California, to share their knowledge with other...
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...requirements for this unit? This week I cannot talk about completing all of my requirements, for for the first time during my study I did not have enough time to complete my learning journal task, a work that I used to do since before the given deadline. I know clearly the principles of the university and always behave myself as an accountable man, but this week I don’t what happened I did not have the time to submit my learning journal task on time. I hope that won’t produced back and I’ll try my best to things on time. -Reflect upon the topics in this unit which are of most interest to you. During that unit that has just passed, there are several topics that were so interesting, that they were worth to reflect upon in order get the best of them. One of the topics that kept my mind during the unit was the one of human conception. The way that human being is conceived in the mother’s womb, it could difficult for someone to imagine such thing. The woman, by means of a process called ovulation get free an egg that will meet with one of the several millions of sperm that a man ejaculate, and since then, the process of getting a new born begins. People could ask questions such: how the bones get form, the hair etc. but we should say that all of the form from the meeting of two cells. Another concept that has kept my attention through the reading is the one of teratogens which may be any harmful stuff that can affect badly the baby while being inside of the mother. Those stuff are usually...
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...management A. Before you can learn about how the polarity management model works, you must first be able to understand what polarities actually are. Polarities are issues that are continuous and you can’t solve them or avoid them. Polarities are opposites which function best when both are present to balance with each other (Johnson, 1998). It is important to remember that a polarity is different than a problem, because a problem is something you solve and a polarity is something that you address and manage (Caldwell, 2011). Since this is the case you must find a different approach to deal with polarities or else things will just end up worse than they were. When using the polarity management model properly, it will make it much easier for those in charge to manage the polarities that they are dealing with. It also works the best when you It might be a little confusing at first for someone new to use the polarity management model efficiently, but it will help out tremendously when they do figure it out and they can handle the polarities they acknowledged. The most important thing to remember though is that polarities can’t be solved or fixed; the only way to deal with them is to find the best way to manage them efficiently (Caldwell, 2011). 2. The Polarity Map A. Efficient Virtual Team Efficient Virtual Team | Non-Efficient Virtual Team Non-Efficient Virtual Team | Individual Individual & & 1) Always working by yourself ...
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...Godless is the book that I read for this report. It is about some weird kids who decide to be water tower worshippers, so they start a religion called Chutengodianism. The book was written by Pete Hautman, who writes a lot of books and once ate 22 hot dogs in 15 minutes. The first thing that happens in Godless is that Jason gets clocked by a guy named Henry, who is smaller than him. Jason gets the idea then to start a religion, Pretty soon his friend Shin is into the religion too. Shin is even weirder than Jason and Henry. The best part is where they all climb up to the top of the water tower at night and go swimming and almost drown, and Henry falls off, and they all get caught. There is a lot of stuff about being Catholic in this book, which Jason is but doesn't like. They are always arguing about God and stuff, which might make some people uncomfortable, especially the part about cannibalism. There is also a bunch of stuff about snails and comic books. I thought it was a pretty good book considering that it is mostly about things that I am not interested in, and it had no sword fights or interesting creatures or cyborgs like on Terminator which is really cool. The only really amazing part in it was when the water tower speaks to Jason in his sleep and tells him to slay his parents. The book is not what you think it will be, because in the end the main kid, Jason, doesn't figure anything out, really. Instead he just gets more confused that ever, but at least his dad...
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...Law Enforcement (Police Officer) Something that I wanted to do my whole life is to become a police officer. This is why, half of my parents friends are police officers and they show me what they do and not do. My match for the occupation was a 67% in www.yourfreecareertest.com. The category I was best placed for was Law Enforcement also know as a police officer. Police officer are very caring unless you break the rule or if you do something bad. Police officers make a lot of money when they do well and have a good degree but I found out that the starting salary for a law enforcer is about $33,050, the average salary for law enforcement is $55,770. There are many responsibilities that police officer need to do like Running a county jail, they need to do this to keep people from doing bad stuff like dealing drugs and sneaking stuff in, another thing law enforcers can do are to executing arrest warrants, they do this to tell the person or their lawyer what they did and why...
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...Research development paper Jean Dixon Spy/335 3/2/2014 University of phoenix The Purpose of this study was to understand human nature and why people act the way they do. In the video Attention and Consciousness - Unlearning through Hypnosis. They talk about the brain researcher Amir rez and he believed that they can make some people undo automatic behaviors such as be able understand make native language and stuff like that . so in the study they try to figure out way to make it better for people that have problem like mental illness and other disability because most clinical psychologist see eight to ten patient a day and there goal is help facilitate change in the individuals that see them . Being a psychologist can be emotionally draining and can cause a lot of problem in your mind and some can cause you to come mentally wored out. a study they talk about in this video about Sigmund Freud and how he interview patient we could do that today because that would cause a lot of issues and you as a psychologist will lost your lice a lot of change because of science and laws and stuff like that. This study apply to the real world by how we treat are patients today and how we try to find different way to make the problems better like today a lot of people won’t go to see a psychologist they would rather just take a pill but when they do they will sit in a chair and explain to them what is going and the psychologist will give them ways to...
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