...It is the middle of 2016, a hot,dry Thursday morning. We arrive at the ranch, in the pasture, lots of horses in the pasture eating dry hay. We wear jeans,shirts,shoes. We sign in on the computer. We get our name tags,pet the cats and sweet dogs and we go to the stable and go and say hello to all the horses in the stalls. We help walk the horses out to where they belong. After that , we go get buckets to sit on so we can watch the cute horses. After a few minutes, Sophie's car shows up with her mom driving because Sophie is not old enough to drive yet. As Sophie gets out of her car she goes inside the barn to say hi to the other animals and she gets Dawn’s grooming bucket. While Sophie is doing that I go and get Dawn. Sophie sees Dawn and a...
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...Horse Barn Working on the horse farm has to be the most memorable part of my life. Surrounded by fresh air, wide-open space, and peaceful, natural sounds, I cherished every minute spent with the horses. The hot, humid summers were always the laziest parts of life on the farm. Rising early in the damp morning, I tried to get outside and start my daily chores before the inevitable heat struck the air. Breathing the crisp, morning air, winding through the maze of wagging tails and drooling mouths toward the sliding barn door, passed through a sense of importance in my life. At the gates, anxious to get their breakfast after a long, cool night in the fields, the impatient horses pawed and neighed, telling me to hurry my step. The beautiful, bay quarter horse, Impressive, was always at the head of the pack. King of the group, he was also the trusty, old horse that I knew and loved. Unlatching the gate, I allow Impressive to walk through on his own accord and trot off to his stall, awaiting the grain and hay he knows will soon come. The rest of the pack is brought in one by one and placed safely into their spacious, clean and, for the meantime, cool stalls. Perfect, Taffy, Special, Max, Arbitrator, Melvin, Rupert, and more, all having their own turn, all knowing their place in the well-established pecking order. Feeding time is always filled with commotion and seemingly unending, impatient screams. The average outsider would have guessed that the fat, robust horses hadn't been...
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...Stable Money Makers - Alpaca Business Betty Parks, a 49 year old building code auditor, became frustrated as she watched her retirement investment in a 401K move in the wrong direction. Specifically, Betty lost approximately 50% of her investment in the 401K, she had planned to use for retirement. After three years of research, Betty decided to make an unconventional investment of $56,000 in tangible assets, the Alpacas. Fortunately for her, she had two new alpaca babies at the end of the first year. The market value of one show alpaca is averaged at $15,000. That equates to almost 26.79% return on her initial investment within one year. The alpaca market is stable, demand is high, and Betty has the assets to continue growth in the breeding business. Team B believes that Betty should make a capital improvement in purchasing two additional male and two additional female show quality Alpacas. Research reveals that alpacas, the llama look-alike, are easy to care for and require very low maintenance. Females become sexually mature between the ages of 12 to 18 months so purchasing ones that are at least twelve months old is key. Male alpacas become sexually active between 18 months and 3 years so purchasing two around 24 months would be ideal so the breeding could start whenever Betty wanted (Northwest Alpacas, 2014). The additional investment would be somewhere between $56,000 and $60,000 dollars for the additional four alpacas (two male and two female). With the additional...
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...Basel Committee on Banking Supervision Net Stable Funding Ratio disclosure standards June 2015 This publication is available on the BIS website (www.bis.org). © Bank for International Settlements 2015. All rights reserved. Brief excerpts may be reproduced or translated provided the source is stated. ISBN 978-92-9197-121-3 (print) ISBN 978-92-9197-120-6 (online) Contents Introduction .............................................................................................................................................................................. 1 Section 1: Scope of application, implementation date and frequency of reporting .................................... 2 Section 2: Disclosure requirements ................................................................................................................................. 2 Annex 1 Explanation of the NSFR common disclosure template......................................................................... 5 Annex 2 Instructions for completion of the NSFR common disclosure template ......................................... 7 Net Stable Funding Ratio disclosure standards iii Net Stable Funding Ratio disclosure standards Introduction 1. The fundamental role of banks in financial intermediation makes them inherently vulnerable to liquidity risk, of both an institution-specific and market nature. Financial market developments have increased the complexity of liquidity risk and...
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...Stable marriage problem Av Johan Magnusson, SA11 2011-11-07 Inledning Rapporten som följer handlar om det klassiska Stable marriage problemet, SMP. SMP innebär att man låter männen ranka kvinnorna från mest tänkbar till minst tänkbar och vice versa. Utifrån det skall man para ihop männen med kvinnorna på bästa tänkbara sätt. Bästa tänkbara sätt innebär ett stabilt förhållande samt inga singlar. Ett problem som kan liknas vid första valet av sjukhus för läkarstudenter. Rapporten presenterar problemet samt Gale – Shapley algoritmen jämfört med en rekursiv algoritm för att skapa stabila förhållanden. Historia och lösningar Stable marriage problemet är ett välkänt mattematiskt matchnings problem, där första lösningen lanserades av David Gale och Lloyd Shapley (1962). Problemet innebär att man ska hitta de bästa tänkbara paren av n kvinnor och n män. Varje man och varje kvinna listar det motsatta könet från den det helst vill paras ihop med till den de minst vill paras ihop med. Man ska utifrån listorna bilda par där det inte kan finnas ett par som skulle passa bättre ihop än det givna. Förhållandet mellan paren anses vara stabilt när det inte finns något blockerande par, dvs. när det finns möjliga byten mellan par som rankat en partner högre än den nuvarande. Det är bevisat av Gale och Shapley (1962) att i varje SMP med lika många män som kvinnor finns det minst en stabil lösning. Problemet är vanligt förekommande när nyexaminerade läkarstudenter ska välja sitt första sjukhus...
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...MSI CORPORATE STABLE MODEL 1 YEAR SUPPLY GUARANTEED + ADVANCED RMA SERVICE MSI Corporate Stable Models are automatically covered upon purchase. Spec. Overview ------- Page. 1 Spec. Comparison ---- Page. 2 Overview ------Spec. Comparison ---- Page. 3 Spec. Comparison ---- Page. 4 Learn more at us.msi.com/corpstable H77MA-G43 INTEL H77 CHIPSET Supports Intel 2nd and 3rd Generation Core i3/i5/i7/Pentium/Celeron LGA1155 processors / H77 Express Chipset Intel HD Graphics Outputs (DVI/D-Sub) for digital signage w/ DirectX 11 ClickBIOS II – Next-generation Graphical User Interface World’s first PCI-E Gen 3 Support OC Genie II – Accelerated Performance 4x DIMM DDR3 1066/1333/1600MHz Support (up to 32GB Max) 1x PCI-E x16 (Gen3), 1x PCI-E x16 (Gen2), 2x PCI-E x1 2x SATA III, 4x SATA II, 4x USB 3.0, 10x USB 2.0, Gbt LAN, RAID, 7.1 HD Audio H61M-P31/W8 INTEL H61 CHIPSET (G3 STEPPING) Supports Intel 2nd and 3rd Generation Core i3/i5/i7/Pentium/Celeron LGA1155 processors / H61 Express Chipset Intel HD Graphics Outputs (DVI/D-Sub) for digital signage w/ DirectX 11 ClickBIOS Concept – Next-generation UEFI support World’s first PCI-E Gen 3 Support 2x DIMM DDR3 1066/1333MHz Support (up to 16GB Max) 1x PCI-E x16 (Gen3), 1x PCI-E x1 4x SATA II, 10x USB 2.0, Gbt LAN, HD Audio A55M-P33 AMD HUDSON D2 CHIPSET Supports AMD A8/A6/A4/E2 FM1 socket processors / Hudson D2 Chipset AMD Dual Graphics Technology support for digital signage w/ DirectX 11 ClickBIOS Concept – Next-generation...
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...How stable were the ‘Stresemann Years’ of the Weimar Republic, 1924-29? Timeline: 1924: May: Nationalist vote increases in Reichstag elections August: Reichstag accepts the Dawes Plan 1925: February: Death of President Ebert April: Hindenburg elected President October: Locarno Treaties signed 1926: September: Germany admitted the League of Nations 1927: August: Commercial Treaty signed – between France and Germany 1928: May: Number of socialist votes in Reichstag election increase 1929: September: Allies begin military evacuation of the Rhineland October: Stresemann dies December: Referendum upholds decision to adopt Young Plan. Relative Political Stability * This period of the Weimar = absence of attempts to threaten republic * However – no political stability = parliamentary system failed to develop * Main reason for no development: Coalition government = not enough support to tackle issues that faced democracy (blame with political parties) * Some parties still acted as interest groups representing own sectional group rather than national parties government (due to their inexperience in forming govt) * Due to PR – parties need to be cooperative [eg. DVP’s association with business interest made them refuse coalition with SPD in 1926] – therefore frequent political paralysis * Inability to cooperate = inability to tackle social/economic problems * Therefore not really politically stable Chancellor’s of the Weimar...
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...Prisoner’s Dilema is a game with non-zero sum in game theory. The simplest form of the game have two gamer (called prisoner), each prisoner always wants to get the benefit for himself, no matter what the other benefit is. The result of the game is not optimal. If two prisoners cooperate with each other, the result is the best. But each prisoner naturally has a motivation to escape the prison. So that I is the reason why they call “dilemma”. Prisoner’ Dilemma focuses on researching the instant decision making when the prisoners have no time or do not expect to the cooperation or association in the future. The question is that two prisoners think rationally; this means that each prisoner chooses the most benefit option for himself no matter what the other want to cooperate or not, so they always choose the uncooperative option and this makes them have nothing. If they choose the cooperative option, both of them have benefit. pp.229 We assume the numerical result of China and Mexico when each nation produces or does not produce steel components in the table below: Japan Mexico Producing Not Producing Producing +10 +10 -10 +20 Not Producing +20 -10 -5 -5 From the table we can see that If Mexico chooses producing steel components option and Japan does not produce steel components, Japan (+20) will get more benefit than Mexico...
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...The Pony Stable Inn was one of the first openly lesbian bars in New York City. West 4th Street, which runs along the south side of Washington Square and became a lifeline to New York’s Beat culture. The teahouse Mad Hatter at 150 W. 4th was an influential artist destination, which then later became the lesbian bar Pony Stable Inn. Alas being a lesbian bar, the Pony Stable in became a central point for the poetry scene for the beats. In 1949, a young poet named Gregory Corso was just released from prison. Soon after his release Corso became an resident poet at the Pony Stable Inn. Corso worked as a day laborer in New York's garment district, ann by night he would sit and write poetry for all the ladies at a specific table at the Pony Stable...
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...Are Intelligence and Personality Stable Across Adulthood and Into Old Age? Kristin K. Lilienthal PSY101: Introduction to Psychology Instructor: Tiffani Edmunds Are Intelligence and Personality Stable Across Adulthood and Into Old Age? Before a child is born the process of learning begins. A child learns to react to the sound of its parent’s voice, music, and even his mother’s feelings, and a little personality starts to develop. Once a child is born every moment of its day becomes a learning experience as he or she uses his senses to explore the world. How someone learns, retains what is learned, and one’s personality is shaped by life experiences and the knowledge gained from those experiences. Although there may be some changes in cognitive skills and personality as a person moves from middle to late adulthood, the reason for the change is not based on physical age, the changes are the result of the experiences of the individual. As an individual ages there are some natural stages and changes they often go through. Adolescence and young adulthood is a time where an individual starts to explore their identity and lifestyle and assert their independence from the family unit. Individuals may often enter this period under a “cognitive apprenticeship.” A cognitive apprenticeship is “an instructional model wherein parents, siblings, other adults, and especially teachers serve as a combination of model, guide tutor, mentor, and coach to foster intellectual growth among...
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...By 1914, the stability of Russia was questionable to say the least. Historians continually argue about what factors mean that Russia was stable or unstable. Some evidence is clear for example the Tsar still being in control of his ministers and other evidence is arguable, for example the increase in population, this could be indicating a prosperous time in Russia and an increase in stability, or it could mean there was a lack of activities to be done, and the increased population meant there were more mouths to feed. There are many factors that contribute to how stable Russia was at this time. Economically, Russia seemed more unstable: eighty percent of the population were peasant farmers and the gap between the rich and poor was only increasing, making Russia even more unstable than it already was. Autocracy continued to repress the poor and the rich continued to hold most of the country’s finances. The poor struggled to become economically active, the rich fought to keep things the way they were during this time period. Stolypin tried to help the peasants by introducing land reforms – these meant that peasant’s owned the land and had more of an incentive to maintain and produce from it. However Stolypin was not supported in this and a lot of the peasants believed in the commune, they didn’t want privatisation for social and economic reasons. There was a massive pressure on the land and due to the fact that there was no unrest at this time indicates that the stability had...
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...‘Religion today helps societies to remain stable and avoid conflict.’ The role of religion in today’s society has been the subject of many arguments between sociologists from different theoretical perspectives. Functionalists believe that religion helps today’s societies to remain stable as they define religion in terms of the social and psychological functions it performs for individuals in societies. They see religion as mainly a conservative force, promoting social harmony, social integration and social solidarity through reinforcement of the value consensus. Emile Durkheim defines religion in terms of the contribution it makes to social integration, instead of a specific believe in God or the supernatural. He believes that religion provides answers to ultimate questions about life and after life, avoiding conflict by believing in what they have. Similar to Durkheim, Malinowski saw religion as reinforcing social norms and values and promoting social solidarity. However he also saw religion as an explanation for events that were hard to provide answers for. Religion fulfils a need for emotional security and relieves situations of emotional stress which threaten social stability and solidarity. Although Functionalists believe that religion today helps societies to remains stable and avoid conflict, historically religion seems to have played a far greater role in dividing people than uniting them. It is seen as the stronger the religious belief, the stronger the sense that...
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...Asses the contribution that fiscal and monetary policies can make in maintaining a stable economy. Both monetary and fiscal policies are aimed at keeping the economy in a stable condition by reducing inflation and aggregate demand respectively. A stable economy can be described as an economy experiences good levels of economic growth while maintaining low levels of inflation and unemployment. The low levels of unemployment can be achieved via fiscal policies such as subsidising certain industries to increase supply and therefore lower the price level,which would provide incentives for consumption, and therefore if consumption rises then AD should rise causing firms to need to increase supply, which can be achieved by increasing the labour force to achieve a higher output. An example would be the government subsidising the electric car industry to provide incentives to producers to increase supply by increasing the labour force and decreasing unemployment. Monetary policies can then be used by the bank of england in order to control inflation. For example the bank of england can set the interest rates in order to increase or decrease the cost of borrowing. If interest rates are increased then inflation should decrease as consumption and investment will fall. This will then help then help the bank of england hit the inflation targets set by the UK government, these currently stand at 2%. Monetary policies are extremely useful in prevent economic downturn as if inflation is...
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...Heart Blocks 7/ 2005 Hi all. Yet another one, which occurred to me that I should do about two weeks ago, when a patient was doing some pretty strange things on the monitor. As usual, please remember that this is not meant to be an official reference, but is supposed to represent the information that a preceptor would pass on to a new orientee in the unit. Please get back to me if things aren’t clear, have been left out, or are just plain wrong, and I’ll fix them up right away. Thanks! 1- What is a heart block? 2- What exactly is being “blocked” in heart block? 2-1- The key idea: all of the time, some of the time, none of the time… 2-2- It can not be that simple… 3- Why do heart blocks happen? 4- What are the three types, or degrees of heart block? What is a “dropped beat”? 4-1- A normal rhythm for reference. 4-2- First degree heart block. 4-3- Second degree heart block. 4-3-1- Second degree, type 1: Wenckebach/ Mobitz 1 4-3-2- Second degree, type 2: Mobitz 2 4-4- How I tell them apart? 4-5- Third degree (complete) heart block. 5- A puzzler… 6- What is the treatment for heart block? 7- Where can I learn more about pacemakers? 1- What is a heart block? Heart block is a kind of arrhythmia, usually caused by ischemia or an MI. There are three kinds, or degrees of heart block, and although sometimes people get confused about them, actually they’re pretty simple to...
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...How effectively do elections promote democracy? It can be argued that elections can or cannot promote democracy effectively, however elections do promote democracy because the influences it can have on key policies. Elections are a pivotal time for citizens as it allows their opinions to be heard and this may affect some political agendas in order to attract more votes. For example in 2010 large amounts of young people opted to vote for the liberal democrats as they offered to cut the price of tuition fees, sometimes a defeat in elections may lead to a party to alter their policies to still have their ideology as the foundation for their policies but make them more attractive to the citizens. One other way that elections effectively promote democracy is that it holds the government accountable for their performance over the term that they have been in power. This accountability also means that citizens can make proper decisions over what party can offer the best rules in the country for that period of time. For example on 21st January 2008 many families on low income were displeased this then forced the Labour MPs to rethink the policy of the 10p tax band. However in 2010 most people were displeased with the Labour party and it ended in them being overthrown and was replaced by the conservatives who won the most seats. However one way that elections may not promote democracy is that there are flaws in the FPTP voting system. This is because most MPs are elected on the less...
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