•What the baby is doing: comparing, contrasting, testing hypotheses, reaching a conclusion
•The importance of this moment: experts say that babies are born natural scientists. Experimenting with objects and the materials they come in contact with helps infants to develop their scientific, logical thinking skills. Playing in this type of baby “physics lab” also helps to build an infant's knowledge base about how things behave in the world.
•Joining the eebee moment: Rolling and sliding objects across, up, down, under, through and into different materials and things can lead to a range of discoveries. Extend a simple rolling game by introducing a ramp made from a piece of wood or cardboard (for the older baby, put something at the bottom of the ramp to be knocked over); create a “tunnel” with a box or cardboard tube. Observe and describe your baby’s play—is he surprised by the outcome, does he anticipate it; does he look or reach into the tube to find out more? Follow your child’s lead and and just “play ball” and describe it, too
Accounting, or accountancy, is the measurement, processing and communication of financial information about economic entities.[1][2] Accounting, which has been called the "language of business",[3] measures the results of an organization's economic activities and conveys this information to a variety of users including investors, creditors, management, and regulators.[4] Practitioners of accounting are known as accountants. The terms accounting and financial reporting are often used as synonyms.
Accounting can be divided into several fields including financial accounting, management accounting, auditing, and tax accounting.[5][6] Financial accounting focuses on the reporting of an organization's financial information, including the preparation of financial statements, to external users of the information, such as investors, regulators and suppliers;[7] and management accounting focuses on the measurement, analysis and reporting of information for internal use by management.[1][7] The recording of financial transactions, so that summaries of the financials may be presented in financial reports, is known as bookkeeping, of which double-entry bookkeeping is the most common system.[8]
Accounting is facilitated by accounting organizations such as standard-setters, accounting firms and professional bodies. Financial statements are usually audited by accounting firms,[9] and are prepared in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP).[7] GAAP is set by various standard-setting organizations such as the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) in the United States[1] and the Financial Reporting Council in the United Kingdom.[10] As of 2012, "all major economies" have plans to converge towards or adopt the International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS).[11]
Coral Gables was one of the first planned communities, and prefigured the development of the gated community and the homeowners association. It is famous for its strict zoning regulations.[5] The city was developed by George Edgar Merrick during the Florida land boom of the 1920s. The city's architecture is almost entirely Mediterranean Revival Style. By 1926, the city covered 10,000 acres (40 km2), had netted $150 million in sales with over $100 million spent on development.[6]
Merrick designed the downtown commercial district to be only four blocks wide and more than two miles (3 km) long. The main artery bisected the business district. Merrick could boast that every business in Coral Gables was less than a two-block walk. The city used to have an old electric trolley system which was replaced by the popularity of modern automobiles, but now a new free circulator trolley system, initiated in November 2003, runs down Ponce de León Boulevard.
In 1925, roughly simultaneous to the founding of Coral Gables, the city was selected as the home to the University of Miami, which was constructed that year on 240 acres (0.97 km2) of land just west of U.S. Route 1, approximately two miles south of downtown Coral Gables.
During World War II many Navy pilots and mechanics were trained and housed in Coral Gables.
At Home, formerly known as Garden Ridge, is a privately held home decor retail chain based in Plano, Texas. In June 2014, the company announced the brand is converting all stores to the At Home retail concept,[1] and opening 13 net new stores throughout the balance of the year. At Home is a big box specialty retailer of home decor products with more than 50,000 unique items across broad product categories, including furniture, garden, home textiles, housewares, patio, rugs, seasonal decor, tabletop decor and wall decor.
At Home's Garden Ridge brand
Founded in 1979 with one store outside San Antonio, the brand was created as Garden Ridge Pottery. The chain was later renamed to simply Garden Ridge and retained growth of 65 stores in 21 states and 33 markets. By the end of 2014, the company will operate more than 80 stores in 21 states and 38 markets. In early 2014, the company announced it was testing a new brand "At Home" to see if the new identity would better communicate the store's offerings with customers. Later that year, the company made the decision to convert all stores to At Home, having started in the Saint Louis metropolitan area.
AEA Investors acquired Garden Ridge in October, 2011.[2]
Prior to this, the chain was privately held by Three Cities Research. Garden Ridge declared Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in 2004[3][4] due to failed lease negotiations and underwent major reorganization closing ten stores in Texas, Georgia, Missouri, Florida, Ohio, and Tennessee. After restructuring, the corporation emerged from Chapter 11 in 2005.
Anglo is a prefix indicating a relation to the Angles, England, the English people, or the English language, such as in the term Anglo-Saxon language. It is often used alone, somewhat loosely, to refer to people of British Isles descent in The Americas, New Zealand and Australia. It is also used, both in English-speaking and non-English-speaking countries, to refer to Anglophone people of other European origins.
Anglo is a Late Latin prefix used to denote English- in conjunction with another toponym or demonym. The word is derived from Anglia, the Latin name for England, and still the modern name of its eastern region. Anglia and England both mean land of the Angles, a Germanic people originating in the north German peninsula of Angeln.
It is also often used to refer to British in historical and other contexts after the Acts of Union 1707, for example such as in the Anglo-Dutch Treaty of 1824, where in later years agreement was between the British government and the Dutch, not an English government. Typical examples of this use are also shown below, where non-English people from the British Isles are described as being Anglo.
Anglo is not an easily defined term. For traditionalists, there are linguistic problems with using the word as an adjective or noun on its own. For example, the purpose of the -o ending is to enable the formation of a compound term (for example Anglo-Saxon meaning of Angle and Saxon origin), so there is only an apparent parallelism between, for example, Latino and Anglo. However, a semantic change has taken place in many English-speaking regions so that in informal usage the meanings listed below are common.