...searching with lethal equipment, for the Japanese prisoners that managed to escape. Shortly after midnight on 5 August 1944, an unauthorised bugle call suddenly blasts out across the Cowra Prisoner of War Camp in outback NSW. The bugler is Sergeant Hajime Toyoshima, the first Japanese soldier ever to be captured in Australia, and he was signalling his comrades to launch a mass prison breakout like the world has never seen. One guard accounts that, “Hundreds of Japanese Prisoners of War were armed with household items such as baseball bats, studded clubs and sharpened kitchen knives surged.” These items were supplied from their prison huts. Some raced directly to the perimeter fences, using blankets and T-shirts to haul themselves over the barbed wire (shown in Figure A). Figure A The guards fired at the men, which left hundreds of bodies lined at the fence. Many other Japanese attempted or committed suicide. Some set fire to their huts; some are incinerated inside the burning buildings. A total of 334 Japanese POWs successfully escape into the countryside. Within nine days of the breakout, all surviving escapees were re-captured. In the end, 231 Japanese POWs died in the escape, 31 of them committed suicide. Four men of the Australian 22nd Garrison Battalion were killed. Nelly Gould, a member of the AWAS says that, “Looking back, it is hard to understand why the Japanese soldiers attempted such a dangerous mass escape, especially given that living conditions at Cowra...
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...A breakout of a disease in a civilization can not only shift the fabric of a standing civilization, but an outbreak can also change or shape the history of that civilization and subsequently, the world. Usually it’s said that a civilization is impacted economically, socially, or politically. However, a key concept that is overlooked when discussing the impact a disease outbreak is the concept of mortality. The first thought in the human psyche when it relates to a disease outbreak is usually “Will I die from this disease?” It’s not surprising that the next few trains of thought are probably “How can me and my family (or civilization) survive this breakout”. Sometimes the very breakout purpose is question along the lines of “Why is this breakout...
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...That is a significant figure for print media considering the current digital-focused age. One of Australia’s top-selling tween magazines, Girl Power, targets girls aged 7-13. The magazine’s content addresses the latest trends, entertainment, celebrity news and provides advice on topics such as friendship and fashion for its young female readers. An article included in the latest issue, titled “Beat the Breakout”, is an informative piece on the topic of skincare. KRASH, has a similar demographic, targeting boys aged 8-12. The magazine addresses what could be considered more traditionally masculine content including gaming, anime, sport, entertainment and grooming. An article featured in the latest issue, “Make way for a new wave”, is informative,...
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... It was a shadowy day around the gloomy environment of lower Manhattan in New York City. There were many people walking down the streets, sorrow from their loss of jobs, since stocks started going down tremendously. This is something Luke Warm loathed. Luke Warm, a friendly, generous 17-year-old American boy who lives in a poor family with a decent school. Luke would always cheer a lot of people and make lots of witty jokes. Ever since the start of the Great Depression, his parents lost their jobs, with the mother working as a cashier and his father working as a janitor for Luke’s school. Luke’s school had to close down due to the income they have to pay for further education. Luke’s family’s salaries were cut and were stuck from minimal to no food. The devastation is spread around the world, not just them. Luke sits on the stairs outside of his house and watched his surroundings. He questions in his head, Wow, what is making everything so boring? People are just so sad and no one is cheering up. How should this stop? He stands up and explores what is happening around him. There was darkness with dense clouds around the whole city and the sun never comes out. People walking around his street were so sad and depressed as if devils are taking over the world. No excitement spread, just pure melancholy. He rushes back into his house turning on the television in his living room and sits down on his favorite one-seated couch. “Stocks tremendously went down by a huge 15% of the GDP...
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...I opened the door fully expecting Oliver to be awake and waiting for me, but he was out. (And I mean out.) I wasn't upset at all, I mean he has been through a lot today. I turn off the TV that he left on and sit in the chair till eventually I to fall asleep. I wake up to the noise of a nurse rolling in a breakfast cart for Ollie. “Good morning beautiful,” he said, picking up his fork. “How long have you been awake?” I sound so groggy. “About and hour.” He said with a mouth full of pancake. “Why didn’t you wake me up?” “I thought you looked cute all bundled up.” “Well...I don’t know what to say.” I said flustered. “Just go get yourself something to eat okay.” “Fine.” I walked to the food court downstairs and grabbed some toast and jelly. I sat down and ate in peace it was actually nice. I had time to think. I felt refreshed and alive after I finished eating. I walked back to the room, opening the door a crack first to see if he was awake. “Come in.” He said knowing it was me.” “I thought you might be asleep.” I confessed. “Well I am not, so what are we doing today?” “I don’t know. What do you want to do?” “Hey, I asked first.” “Fine…Maybe we can get you released early?” I said qriously. “That would be awesome.” He said with relief. “Yeah.” After a while Oliver falls asleep. I turn on the TV on a low volume. Just then the doctor came in. “Hello Doctor, I was just wondering, would it be okay to have Oliver come home today.” “Well, he seems...
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...“N” Day Breakout Model on Commodity Market: An Empirical Investigation Zhenyi Yang 12/12/2012 1. Introduction There are various strategies to make profits on the commodity markets. The “N” day breakout model is one of the easiest model. However, it is a very effective model and used by many traders. The article uses the “N” day breakout model, combined with the “fixed fractional” risk management scheme, to study the return of the commodity market. The article also compares the different outcomes with different data manipulation method and the potential reasons behind the difference. 2. The “N” Day Break Out Model The N day break out model utilizes the method that the futures are longed at N day high and shorted at M day low. The rational explanation of the method is that the futures usually continue to rise after a breakout its long-term high. Also, the futures continue to fall after it breaks its short-term low. To simplify the problem, in this article, it chooses the 100 day high as the buying point and the 10 day low as the selling point. The period of study ranges from Dec 2002 to Dec 2012. Moreover, the article also studies the maximum profit one million account balance would make with this strategy with each commodity does not exceed 1% risk. 3. Data Manipulation Because the commodity future expires after one or two years, for a longer period time, the charts of different futures contracts needs to be connected. Some methods are continuous, which...
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...Breakout Strategy Meeting the Challenge of Double-Digit Growth Sydney Finkelstein Charles E. Harvey Thomas C. Lawton (McGraw-Hill, New York, 2006) Table of Contents Dedication Acknowledgements Table of Contents List of figures Chapter 1 Chapter 2 Chapter 3 Chapter 4 Chapter 5 Chapter 6 Chapter 7 Chapter 8 Chapter 9 Breakout Strategy Getting on the Fast Track Staying out Front Breakout Dynamics Putting Vision to Work Being a Magnet Company Delivering the Promise Executing Breakout Breakout Leadership Appendix: case study companies Index List of Figures Figure 1.1 Figure 2.1 Figure 3.1 Figure 4.1 Figure 5.1 Figure 5.2 Figure 5.3 Figure 5.4 Figure 5.5 Figure 6.1 Figure 6.2 Figure 6.3 Figure 6.4 Figure 7.1 Figure 7.2 Figure 7.3 Figure 8.1 Figure 8.2 Figure 8.3 Figure 9.1 The Breakout Strategy Cycle Companies Getting on the Fast Track Companies Staying Out Front Types of Capital and the Capital Accumulation Process The Vision Wheel State Transition for Harley-Davidson: Organization State Transition for Harley-Davidson: Culture State Transition for Harley-Davidson: Relationships State Transition for Harley-Davidson: Markets The Six Pillars of a Value Proposition Leveraging up the Apple Value Proposition Reconciling Different Value Propositions Leveraging up Samsung Electronics’ Value Proposition Components of a Business Model Aligning the Business Model and Value Proposition Business Model Needs Analysis Delivering Strategy System Balance and Strategy Delivery at...
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...BUS100: Strategies for Success Course Outline: Fall 2013 Course Instructor: Professor D. Schlanger Office: TRS1-048 Office Hours: TBA Entrepreneurship and Strategy Department, Ted Rogers School of Business Management Course Facilitation Advisor: Alexander Ruvuza, Student Success Facilitator for TRSM, Student Services Office, TRS2-168 E-MAIL COMMUNICATION: Ryerson requires that any official or formal electronic communications from students be sent from their official Ryerson e-mail account accessed via https://mail.ryerson.ca/ Students are required to activate and maintain a Ryerson Matrix e-mail account. Faculty will not respond to student inquiries from any other e-mail address. See Policy #157: Establishment of Student Email Accounts for Official University Communication www.ryerson.ca/senate/policies/ for more detail. EMAIL SUBJECT LINE FORMAT FOR BUS100: Always end your email with your name and student number. Without using any commas, colons or dashes, please fill in the email subject line as follows: BUS100 Section Number Your Full Name a 2 or 3 word descriptor e.g. Subject: BUS100 Section 011 Joe Smith Math tutorial question Subject: BUS100 Section 301 Jane Smith Get Connected question Your section number is on RAMSS or on your timetable. If you do not address your email subject line in this way, the response to your email might be delayed due to tracking difficulties. KEY CONTACTS: Your facilitator is your first point of...
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...Fighting the scams, frauds and charlatans The Original T urtle Trading Rules ORIGINALTURTLES.ORG The Original T urtle Trading Rules 2003 OrignalTurtles.org T able of Contents Volatility Adjusted Position Units Examples F O R E W O RD 14 14 Free Rules? Are you kidding? 1 The Importance of Position Sizing 15 The Origin of the Free Rules Project 1 Units as a measure of Risk 16 The Ugly Truth about the System Sellers 2 Adjusting Trading Size 17 Rules You Won’t Follow Don’t Matter 3 The Genesis of the Project 3 C H A P TE R F O U R Entries Breakouts The Turtle Experiment C H A P TE R 5 18 Adding Units 19 Consistency I N T R OD U CT I ON 18 20 O N E A Complete Trading System 7 C H A P TE R The Components of a Complete System 8 Stops 21 Markets – What to buy or sell 8 Turtle Stops 21 Position Sizing – How much to buy or sell 8 Stop Placement 22 Entries – When to buy or sell Alternate Stop Strategy – The Whipsaw 23 Benefits of the Turtle System Stops 24 8 Stops – When to get out of a losing position9 F I VE Exits – When to get out of a winning position 9 C H A P TE R Tactics – How to buy or sell 9 Exits 25 Summary 9 Turtle Exits 26 These are Difficult Exits 26 C H A P TE R S I X T W O Markets: What the Turtles Traded 10 C H A P TE R S E VE...
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...Les Règles Originelles de Trading des Tortues Hercule Finance Page 1 sur 31 Sommaire PREAMBULE........................................................................................................................3 Des règles gratuites ? Vous rigolez ?..............................................................................3 L’origine du Projet des Règles Gratuites. ........................................................................3 L’horrible vérité à propos des vendeurs de systèmes. ......................................................3 Les règles que vous ne suivrez pas, n’importent pas........................................................4 La genèse du projet .........................................................................................................5 0 - INTRODUCTION: L’expérience des Tortues....................................................................6 1 – UN SYTEME DE TRADING COMPLET. .......................................................................7 Les composants d'un système de trading complet ............................................................7 Le marché : quoi acheter ou vendre ................................................................................7 La taille des positions : combien acheter ou vendre ........................................................8 Les entrées : quand acheter ou vendre ............................................................................8 Les stops :...
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...Reducing the School Budget Michael Williams Grand Canyon University: EDA-535 Professor Angie Smith September 17, 2014 The Education Reform dream Camden is In need of. What ails the City of Camden’s schools system was instinctively a lack of correct leadership to guide the Education Reform, policy into the right direction, and oversight is the blame of its downfall. Charter schools the answer or a failing problem designed to dismantle the public school system as we know it, and the door opener for the gravitation of for-profit companies to get right from the exploitation of a poor city, in need of the right vision to guide it back into sustainability. Is government oversight, the direction needed to build a promising tomorrow, in what is missing from the direction Camden is now viewed as or the get rich scheme companies have been waiting for to cash in on. The business end of school budgeting has relevancy, to the topic that Camden City now faces. The civil right movement generated several plans of action to help protect school districts from failing the constituents, the Equal Protection Clause, (Civil Right Clause, of 1964). In, 2011 the Governor of New Jersey, Chris Christie announced that Camden city schools lacked proper leadership, and began a campaign to takeover and usher the ailing school District into State compliance as the investing movement of Human Capitol, suggested by the Federal Board of Governor’s then chairman, Alan...
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...CHAPTER QUESTIONS Chapter Four: Breakout Question 1 Page 134 As a manager, it is hard to motivate people, but one can affect and inspire motivation. Sales persons are highly motivated by money. However, when money is not effective, a manager can focus on creating conditions in which the sales persons will be motivated. The manager can use strong motivators like recognition, which should be done when one achieves something. In addition, a well designed compensation plan will motivate the sales people to work hard because they are assured of their job security. Therefore, when money is not effective, a manager should ensure that sales people are motivated by being provided with good working conditions. Chapter Seven: Breakout Session Question 2 Page 233 Sales prediction is a challenge to different organizations. Although, there are a number of tests on sales performance, this prediction has remained weak for a number of factors. One of these factors is the economic downturns. Unexpected economic changes forces consumers to alter their buying habits in order to cater for other arising needs. Other factors that make it hard to predict sales performance include increasing competition, changing trends and fashions, and employee turnover. The number of sales appears to be controlled by numerous and diverse forces in the market and not the company. This makes it hard to predict future sales depending on the past performances. Chapter Eight: Mini-case: Digital Age Games, Questions...
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...It is generally accepted that the first step in maximising performance and gaining the people advantage is through an organisations culture. Why is this the case? “Culture can be defined as the set of key values, beliefs, understandings and norms shared by members of an organisation” (Kitmann et al., 1986; Smircich, 1983). For a company to maintain an advantage over their competitors they must first look internally to ensure they have effective employees. ANZ recognised just how important this is when they identified the need to make changes to the organisation, “... then we needed to change the hearts and minds of the people inside the organisation” (ANZ Case Study, 2012). Managing corporate culture is important for two reasons, the first reason is that managers are unable to be present for every minute during business hours so culture will shape the way employees work without constant supervision and secondly, maintaining a strong corporate culture influences the employees decision making so they make the best decision for the organisation. The effects of culture are not limited to the internal environment but also the external environment, the culture of the workplace controls the way employees behave amongst themselves as well as with people outside the organization. Because the culture of an organisation is highly visible they facilitate adaptation to the external setting plus integration of internal processes. Negative corporate culture has effects on immediate stakeholder...
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...expenses. Moreover, we will use fundamental methods to calculate an accurate proportion for the amount of money we put in each stock in order to well diversify risks and max net profit. For the philosophy, we believe that markets are efficient, prices move in trends and history repeats itself from technical analysis aspect. Moreover, even though fundamental analysis is worthless somehow, low P/B, P/E, P/CF and high yield show otherwise. ii. What is your approximate expected time horizon/holding period per trade? The holding period per trade will depend on the indicator we choose. We will buy or sell decision as long as the indicators show buy or sell signals with confirmations told us to do so. Basically, we will use breakout system and MACD as our primary buy/sell indicators with a few constraints including stock price must be over the 50 days EMA, volume must increase 50percent more and stock price broke the highest high from...
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...stages and scenic pieces. A strong background working in live corporate events in either hotel properties or convention center venues is REQUIRED! We have respect for TV/Film people, but we are not looking for that type of background at this time. We are seeking positive, professional, customer service savvy individuals who can set /strike and operate Breakout Rooms and General Sessions. If you possess these qualities and have experience with the following positions and their responsibilities, then we would like to meet you. **AV Technicians Set/Strike** Must know how to wrap cable, and lots of it. Setting screens, projectors, mixing boards, small sound systems, wireless mics, pipe and drape for various events ranging from meeting rooms, general sessions, and exhibits **AV Technicians Room Ops/Floaters** Experience with floating/monitoring meeting rooms, operating basic video switchers, sound boards, LCD projectors and power point. Good customer services skills and A/V troubleshooting skills **Audio Engineers (A1)** Experience with Live Sound Reinforcement for General Sessions, VIP Events, and breakouts (Meyer Sound Systems, JBL Vertec Line Arrays, Yamaha Digital Consoles, Mackie Consoles, wireless microphone frequencies, etc.) **Audio Assistants (A2) ** Experience with General Sessions (Show A2) Wireless Mic Frequency assignments and proper mic placement Meeting Rooms - Smaller Sound System operations and various recording equipment **Video Engineers...
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