...During the ratification process of the United States Constitution, Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay published a series of anonymous articles in the New York Times. Published under the name Publius, "The Federalist Papers," as they were called, advocated for the ratification of the new Constitution by New York State. Each of the papers, therefore, outlines the benefits of one united nation, as well as the interests of, and supported by, the proposed government. Written by Madison, Federalist Paper No. 10, generally considered one of the most important articles, concerns itself with the problems of and plausible solutions for the formation of factions. Through multiple assertions concerning the dangers of factions and the benefits of a republic, Madison formed one of the major arguments in favor of the United States Constitution. Federalist No. 10, titled "The Same Subject Continued: The Utility of the Union as a Safeguard Against Domestic Faction and Insurrection," expanded on dangers of factions outlined by Hamilton in Federalist No. 9. Defined by Madison as, "A number of citizens, whether amounting to a minority or majority of the whole, who are united and actuated by some common impulse of passion or interest, adverse to the rights of other citizens or to the permanent and aggregate interests of the community" (Madison), factions are comparable to the modern day interest or lobby groups. That is to say, Madison defined factions as groups of people with...
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...APPROVAL UNITED STATES SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION Washington, D.C. 20549 OMB Number: 3235-0063 Expires: April 30, 2015 Estimated average burden hours per response ... . 1,998.78 FORM 10-K ANNUAL REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934 GENERAL INSTRUCTIONS A. Rule as to Use of Form 10-K. (1) This Form shall be used for annual reports pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (15 U.S.C. 78m or 78o(d)) (the “Act”) for which no other form is prescribed. This Form also shall be used for transition reports filed pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d) of the Act. (2) Annual reports on this Form shall be filed within the following period: (a) 60 days after the end of the fiscal year covered by the report (75 days for fiscal years ending before December 15, 2006) for large accelerated filers (as defined in 17 CFR 240.12b-2): (b) 75 days after the end of the fiscal year covered by the report for accelerated filers (as defined in 17 CFR 240.12b-2); and (c) 90 days after the end of the fiscal year covered by the report for all other registrants. (3) Transition reports on this Form shall be filed in accordance with the requirements set forth in Rule 13a-10 (17 CFR 240.13a-10) or Rule 15d-10 (17 CFR 240.15d-10) applicable when the registrant changes its fiscal year end. (4) Notwithstanding paragraphs (2) and (3) of this General Instruction A., all schedules required by Article 12 of Regulation S-X (17 CFR 210...
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...2013 Introduction to ICD-10-CM/PCS The World Health Organization (WHO) is the entity that owns and publishes the International Classification of Diseases (ICD) system (The World Health Organization (WHO), 2013). The United States made modifications to this classification system and in 1979 implemented the use of ICD-9-CM. Since that time healthcare worldwide has evolved and the need to collect more detailed information regarding the diseases and conditions that effect world’s population has become a high priority. Due to this evolution, the ICD-9-CM system has become outdated and can no longer accommodate our needs. Effective October 1, 2014 the United States will implement ICD-10-CM/PCS for use across the nation. Initially we will cover ICD-10-CM and then address ICD-10-PCS. ICD-10-CM is the classification system to be utilized to record diagnoses identified and treated in both the acute care setting as well as the ambulatory setting. There are various differences between ICD-9-CM and ICD-10-CM and we will highlight several of those differences today. One difference between the two coding classification systems is the number of chapters. ICD-10-CM consists of twenty-one chapters as compared to the seventeen chapters in ICD-9-CM. There are approximately 68,000 diagnostic codes in ICD-10-CM as opposed to the 14,000 in ICD-9-CM (DeVault, Barta, & Endicott, 2012). The length and structure of the codes in ICD-10-CM vary greatly from ICD-9-CM...
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...Dell's 10-K Report Michael Hedrick Bus 630 Managerial Accounting Anton Narinskiy Aug 6th, 2012 What is Dell's strategy for success in the marketplace? Dell's business strategy combines its direct customer model with a highly efficient manufacturing and supply chain management organization and an emphasis on standards-based technologies. This strategy enables Dell to provide customers with superior value; high-quality, relevant technology; customized systems; superior service and support; and products and services that are easy to buy and use. Does the company rely primarily on a customer intimacy, operational excellence, or product leadership customer value proportion? What evidence supports your conclusion? The main focus for Dell would have to be its customer intimacy. Dell's business model eliminates wholesale and retail dealers that would add unnecessary time costs and should diminish Dell's understanding of what the customer expects of them. By avoiding expenditures associated with the retail business, Dell is able to offer superior customer service. From a personal point of view, I had a virus downloaded by an unwanted email and Dell's customer support service took care of me and eventually, after a few hours, eradicated the virus. My computer has been fine ever since. What business risks does Dell face that may threaten its ability to satisfy stockholder expectations? One risk is that Dell needs to manage its research and evaluation of new...
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...ENSAYO DE LENGUA Y LITERATURA 10 de Agosto de 1809. El 10 de agosto de 1809, es una fecha memorable para los ecuatorianos al recordar el Primer Grito de la Independencia. Esta Declaración, marcó un hito en la historia del Ecuador ya que desde aquí el pais empezo una nueva era de libertad lo que trajo nuevos cambios politicos, sociales y económicos. Cuando los criollos se declararon en contra del presidente Ruiz de Castilla, estos crearon un nuevo gobierno lo que trajo un gran cambio politico del pais: la primera constitucion ecuatoriana. El 17 de agosto en la Catedral de Quito se hizo publico el cambio de gobierno mediante un acto politico-religioso en el que todo el publico presente juro hacer todo bien y lo mejor por el Pais y la Constitucion. Sim embargo, se conoce que el estado ecuatoriano comienza a existir desde 1830 luego de la disolucion de la gran Colombia cuando en Riobamba se firmó la declaración el mismo año. Sin embargo la constitución del 10 de Agosto es considera el indicio ya que a partir de ahí el Ecuador entro en un proceso de 21 años para convertirse en la Republica del Ecuador. Este tipo de cambios hizo que el Ecuador de un gran paso para los sistemas políticos que tenemos en la actualidad, ya que a partir de los sucesos en el Ecuador comenzó a vivir a una época modernidad, eliminando los sistemas de Gobierno basados en tradición, como la monarquía de derecho divino la cual fue abolida y se crearon nuevas leyes basadas en la razón y en lo que...
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...RESEARCH PAPER A Comparative Study of BTL in Building up the Brand In Indian Spirit Market In Case Of Royal Challenge against Royal Stag Whisky Praveer Gupta The main objective of the working paper is to understand the performance of Royal Challenge Whisky since its inception and to measure the potential of Royal Challenge brand as a premium segment whisky. This also explains the role of BTL strategies carried out so far and a few consumer insights about the market so as to forecast its position. Page | 1 RESEARCH PAPER Abstract Royal Challenge Whisky brand was launched in 1886 by Shaw Wallace & company. The brand had a healthy growth of about 10 percent till 2005 when the company was bought by the country’s largest spirit maker United Spirits Limited. RC had sales above one million cases in the year 2003-04 with a market share of 56 percent in the premium segment whisky which had grown to 65 percent at the end of December 2003 in competition with UB Spirits Division’s Signature Whisky and Seagram’s Blenders Pride. Over the year, UB kept working on the brand to bring up the same position by various marketing activities like linking the brand with IPL cricket Team (Royal Challengers Bangalore) and an associate sponsor of India's first Formula 1 team Force India etc. In 2014, Diageo bought majority stake in USL and came up with pricing strategy to decrease the prices in order to retain the market share, while other companies such as Pernod Ricard...
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...Homework – Grade 7 Week of 10/21 – 10/25 Monday, 10/21 Tuesday, 10/22 Wednesday, 10/23 Thursday, 10/24 Wksh: Power to a Power (p 2) Wksh: Division with Exponents (p 3) Wksh: Mixed Review (p 4) Study for test. Complete review sheet. Friday, 10/25 Test in class. Print out next week’s hw assignments. Have a great weekend. Topics covered for the week Power to a power Division with exponents Textbook Additional help can be found in Chapter 1: pp 10 – 13 Chapter 4: pp 194 – 203 Chapter 9: pp 453 – 457 and p 822 Chapter 12: pp 674 – 678 Test Topics Intro to exponents/meaning of exponents Exponents with a zero power Negative exponents Exponents with similar bases Power to a power Division with exponents 1 Name _________________________ Date __________________________ Math Period ______ Power to a Power Expand each of the following expressions. 1) (2rm3)2 2) (– 4a2) – 3 3) (– 3m2p3)2 ____________________________________________________________________________________ Simplify. Write all exponents as positive if necessary. 4) (5x2)3 5) (xy3) – 5 (x2)4 • (– 3x6)4 6) ____________________________________________________________________________________ 7) (6x2y3)3 8) (– 2mn5)5 9) (4x2)2 • (3y)2 Mixed Review. Simplify. (All answers must have positive exponents) 10) – (m4)3 11) – 3x0 12) – (xy)0 ____________________________________________________________________________________ 13) xy0 14) (– m4)3 15) ( ) –3 _______...
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...Virtual Lab Demonstrating the Scientific Method SCIE207-1302B-06 Biology Lab American Intercontinental University Purpose: To determine how added nitrogen affects the growth in arable and non-arable soils. Introduction: Nitrogen is known by others to be the main component that is most likely to limit growth in several ordinary terrestrial and marine ecosystems (Vitousek & Howarth, 1991). Arable soil is the perfect kind of soil used in agriculture that allows a variety of crops to grow (M.U.S.E., 2010). Hypothesis: It is determined that plants only grow on arable land when receiving an adequate amount of nitrogen fertilizer. Methods: To get my lab results I started with the introduction video titled Using the Scientific Method. At the end of the video a table appeared which represented the amount of mineral nitrogen fertilization. To gather data for the Arable soil, and the Nonarable Sandy Loam soil this following process was taken, in step 1 I clicked on the amount of mineral nitrogen which started with 0, and then I clicked the Arable Soil button which gave me the amount of yield of maize. I clicked the Nonarable Sandy Loam Soil button to get the amount of yield of maize. I repeated this step 1 process from the chart that is measure in multiplies of 20, up to 180. After gathering this information I filled in the lab report with the number of yield of maize for each amount of mineral nitrogen for the Arable and Nonarable soil. Results: This...
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...E8-3 P8-4 E9-1 P-912 E8-3 1. Do not include. The item was not sent until Jan 4th, since it is a custom item it is not the customers until it ships. 2. No. The cost was not received until Jan 3. 3. Yes. The item was ordered before Dec 31st, and it was a part of your inventory on hand. 4. No. It should not be included in inventory because since it is on consignment it does not belong to the sender. 5. Yes. The item was received on Dec 28th and you already paid for it P8-4 A. 1700-1400 = 300 1. 100*5.00 = 500 200 *5.10 = 1020 500+1020 = 1520 2. 200*5.80 = 1160 100*5.60 = 560 1160+560 = 1720 3.Total costs 9160/total inventory 1700 = 5.39 300*5.39 = 1617 E9-1 Part Quantity Cost Market Total Cost Total Market Lower of Cost or Market 110 600 95 100 57000 60000 57000 111 1000 60 52 60000 52000 52000 112 500 80 76 40000 38000 38000 113 200 170 180 34000 36000 34000 120 400 205 208 82000 83200 82000 121 1600 16 14 25600 22400 22400 122 300 240 235 72000 70500 70500 370600 362100 355900 a. 355900 b. 362100 P9-12 a. The retail method would be applied if a company has a high volume of items sold at a low prices. Some advantages of using the retail method would be that you do not need to do a physical inventory assessment of each of your items. You can accurately gague how much inventory you have on hand by using a calculation of how much you have sold thus far and subtracting from your beginning...
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...思想 Articles 中国宪法史上的国旗 余凌云 * 内容提要：在政权的交替之中，每当讨论国旗的改易，都会由立法机关审议通 过，制定专门决议，或者写入宪法，以获得正当性之基础，进而 为执政的合法性做一个脚注。作为国家的识别标志，统一国旗样 式至关重要，还得规范国旗使用的场合、仪式、禁忌等，通过不 断教育、学习、宣传、执法，惩恶扬善。唯有如此，才能激发人 们对民族、国家的认同与忠诚，为之奉献乃至牺牲之精神。 关 键 词：国旗 宪法史 审定 使用 2015 年第 3 期（总第 7 期） 099 中国宪法史上的国旗 一、国旗小史 照当时的国际惯例，没有挂国旗的船只可视为无 （一）初见于晚清 国籍或者海盗船，无法参加国际贸易，所以该船 在中国，旗帜自古有之，最早可以上溯到黄 也像很多中国商船一样在香港注册，升挂了英国 帝。布制旗帜的出现，中国也早于欧洲，据说在 国旗。1856 年 10 月 8 日，因该船涉嫌走私，广 公元前 3000 年就有，用于军事以及寺庙、宗教 东水师捕走了船上的几名水手。英国驻广州领事 仪式。而在欧洲，最早有记载的纺织旗帜，可以 巴夏礼借口广东水师侮辱了英国国旗，挑起事端， 追溯到公元前 400 年，绘制在意大利南部的帕爱 引爆了第二次鸦片战争。5 1 斯图姆 （Paestum） 古城的一个城墙上。 中文里面， 为了使外国人能对“中国官船”一目了然，6 旗的同义词很多， “旌” 有 、 “旂” 、 “旃” 、 “旄” 、 “麾” 避免误会、纠纷；发生争议，“我亦可执彼国之 等。旗帜多用来区别贵贱、等级，以及用在军旅、 例，与之辩论”，总理衙门决意采用国旗，但拿 祭祀、田猎、封番、封疆、朝会等场合。2 国旗，国之旗也。它不是一般的旗帜，是一 个国家的象征和标识。在中国，国旗的出现，却 不准这“是否有碍行军”，遂先与曾国藩等军事 官僚商议， 然后才奏请同治皇帝批准， 1866 年， 于 仿照外制确定了中国第一面国旗，也就是大清黄 是晚清的事，远远晚于欧洲，完全是西化的产物。 龙旗。因为龙旗是皇权的象征，“黄色龙旗”又 对于这段历史，小野寺史郎、施爱东、汪林茂都 有很详尽、细腻的研究。 3 第 一 次 鸦 片 战 争 以 后， 随 着 通 商 口 岸 的 开 和八旗中“正黄旗”的形态接近，为避免僭越， 深谙官场禁忌的曾国藩思虑之后，主动提出将黄 色龙旗削去一角， 7 所以，黄龙旗最初式样为斜 放，西洋船只大量涌入。西方国家普遍使用国旗 幅三角形。 之后， 黄龙旗逐渐被运用到军事、 外交、 来识别其船只和财产，形成了与国家主权有关的 通商等领域。 一套规则，涉及处理纠纷、航运等事务的理路。 1888 年，醇亲王奕譞与李鸿章奏请改为国际 使 用 国 旗 几 乎 具 有 了 护 身 符 的 性 质（talismanic 通行的长方形，他们认为，“旗式以方长为贵， 4 quality）。 而清政府却没有国旗，官兵也普遍缺 斜长次之”，并认定总理衙门初定中国旗式，不 乏与之有关的法律知识。因此，闹出了不少因悬 是国旗，“系为雇船、捕盗而用，并未奏明为万 挂或未悬挂国旗的纠纷事件。 年国旗”。“今中国兵商各船日益加增，时与各 ...
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...INFANT’S MILK Brand (Nestle) | Standard Preparation | Per scoop | Per 1000 ml | Descriptions | | | Calorie (kcal) | Protein (g) | Fat (g) | Calorie (kcal) | Protein (g) | Fat (g) | | 0-12 monthsLactogen 1 Infant Formula GOS FOS + DHA Gentle Plus700 g = RM 18.35 | Scoop size =4.47 g1 litre = 134 g formula + 900 ml water*Refer to Table 1 | 22.3 | 0.5 | 1.2 | 668.7 | 14.1 | 34.8 | Per 100 gCHO = 55.7 gDHA = 48.0 mgOmega 6 = 4.2 gOmega 3 = 515 mg | 6 months-3 yearsLactogen 2Follow up FormulaLcomfortis +DHA Gentle Plus700g = RM 17.70 | Scoop size =4.7 g1 litre = 141 g formula + 900 ml water7 scoops = 210 ml 3 times per day | 22.3 | 0.7 | 1.0 | 669.8 | 20.2 | 30.9 | Per 100 gCHO = 55.3 gDHA = 40 mgOmega 6 = 3.4 gOmega 3 = 420 mg | 1-3 yearsLactogen 3 GrowLcomfortis + DHAActiv Grow700g = RM 17.40 | 1 litre = 147 g + 900 ml waterServing size : 34 gPer serving : 233 ml = 34 g +210 ml water 1 scoop = 4.9 g = 30 ml7 scoops = 210 ml 3 times per day | 22.3 | 0.7 | 0.9 | 668.9 | 20.1 | 27.3 | Per 100 gCHO = 58.3 gDHA = 27 mgOmega 6 = 2.9 gOmega 3 = 385 mgCalcium = 787 mg | 3-6 yearsLactogen 4 KidLcomfortis + DHAActiv Grow700g = RM 17.40 | 1 litre = 147 g + 900 ml waterServing size : 36 gPer serving : 233 ml = 36 g +210 ml water1 scoop = 5.1 g = 30 ml7 scoops = 210 ml 2-3 times per day | 23.2 | 0.7 | 0.9 | 668.9 | 20.1 | 26.9 | Per 100 gCHO = 58.3 gDHA = 27 mgOmega 6 = 3.0 gOmega 3 = 385 mgCalcium = 712 mg | 1-3 yearsNAN GrowPro Grow, Optipro, Lipid Smart, DHA & ARA700g...
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...customers add soul to their soles and express their individuality by customizing their own shoes. Nike has a link on their website that allows its customers to customize their own shoes on the internet. If you’re in the middle of your shoe design and have questions about what to do next you can go to the bottom of the Nike homepage where there is a customer service link and through that link you can click NIKEiD and click the link titled Help Building your NIKEiD order. The only problem with this is that this like is not on the NIKEiD page where you actually build your shoe. If you have any difficulties, you can always chat with a NIKEiD agent from Monday to Friday, 7a.m. - 3:50p.m. PST, or call us at 1-866-633-6453 between 5:00 a.m. - 10:00 p.m. PST, 7 days a week (Nike, 2008). This would probably be easier because you’ll have someone to go over your questions while looking at the actual page. Nike’s Website helps the company strengthen its relationships with its stakeholders because they can see how Nike is advancing with technology. In any business you have to keep up with the times and what people want. Nike is clearly showing its stakeholder’s that they can stay ahead of their competitors with new ideas and products and with the use of technology. According to the elements of their Website, Nike’s target market seems to be people into sports and/or exercise. If you register to become a member they even ask you about your exercise/sports habits, how often you play sport/workout...
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...Coast Micro | 16,384 | $494 | $30.9 | 2000 | Crucial | 65,536 | $72 | $1.12 | 2005 | Corsair | 1,048,576 | $189 | $0.185 | 2010 | Kingston | 8,388,608 | $99 | $0.0122 | 2013 | Crucial | 16,777,216 | $88 | $0.0054 | In 1957, one bit of RAM cost roughly $49 dollars based on the chart above. Just last year in 2013, the price per bit for ram storage is not even pennies. (My calculator doesn’t go that far, ha.) Cost of Hard Drive Space per GB: In 1980, the price per GB was roughly $100,000. Today, it would not even cost a dollar. Based on the chart above, the space per unit cost has roughly double every 14 months. ”Several terabyte+ drives have recently broken the $0.10/gigabyte barrier, making the next milestone $0.01/gigabyte, or $10/terabyte.” (Komorowski, 2009) With Moore’s law in effect, I believe we will see a 100 TB hard drive within the next twenty years. Engineers at Florida International University have already uncovered a way to break the 2D limitation of magnetic hard drives, by going 3D and drastically increasing the areal density. As of now, they are potentially capping 60 TB per hard...
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...| $494 | $30.9 | 2000 [-Crucial-] 65,536 [$72 | $1.12 | 2005 [-Corsair-] 1,048,576 [$189 | $0.185 | 2010 [-Kingston-] 8,388,608 [ $99 | $0.0122 | 2013 [-Crucial-] 16,777,216 [ $88 | $0.0054 | The cost in 1957, for one bit of RAM cost roughly $49 dollars based on the chart above. In the later years the cost has dropped considerably, it’s very affordable for the novice or more sophisticated computer user. Cost of Hard Drive Space per GB. In 1980’s, the price GB was approximately $100,000. Today, it wouldn’t cost a dollar. Based on the figures above, the space per unit cost has roughly double every 14 months. ”Several terabyte+ drives have recently broken the $0.10/gigabyte barrier, making the next milestone $0.01/gigabyte, or $10/terabyte.” (Komorowski, 2009) With Moore’s law in effect, I believe we will see a 100 TB hard drive as soon as 2025. According to engineers at Florida International University they have already uncovered a way to break the 2D limitation of magnetic hard drives, by going 3D and drastically increasing a real solidity. Right now they are potentially capping 60 TB per hard...
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...In 1593, William Shakespeare wrote “The Taming of the Shrew” and in 1999 “10 Things I Hate About You” made its debut in theaters as a modern adaptation of Shakespeare’s play. Both works are comedies that deal with the theme of gender playing a part in character’s roles in society. The modern adaptation, directed by Gil Junger, sets the plot in a high school and adds more of a teenage romance twist on the story. Although “10 Things I Hate About You” may not follow the exact storyline of William Shakespeare’s “The Taming of the Shrew”, there are many similarities between the two works including characters, dialogue, and theme (Andrews vi, IMDb). William Shakespeare was born in 1564 in Stratford-upon-Avon to John and Mary Shakespeare. In 1582,...
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