...last hundred years are those of Iraqi descent which produced prestigious rabbis such as Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, Rabbi Yitzchak Kaduri and Rabbi Mordechai Eliyahu. Many of todays great Iraqi Jewish Rabbis are not just of Iraqi descent but were even born in Baghdad, Iraq. Many Regard Rabbi Ovadia Yosef as the greatest Rabbi of the last one hundred years. Rabbi Ovadia Yosef was born on September 20, 1920 in Baghdad, Iraq. Rabbi Ovadia Yosef attained his incredibly high level of knowledge through vigorous study and a top-notch education starting from a young age. As a teenager Rabbi Ovadia Yosef studied at Porat Yosef Yeshiva, which till today is considered to be the most prominent Sephardic Yeshiva for producing future rabbinic leaders. This prestigious yeshiva is located in the Old City of Jerusalem. It can be compared to a minor league farm system in baseball that produces the top prospects. Rabbi Ovadia Yosef quickly rose to the highest-level lecture taught by Syrian born Rabbi Ezra Attiah. Rav Ovadia Yosef received rabbinic ordination at the astonishingly young age of twenty. In 1947, Rabbi Ovadia Yosef went to Cairo, Egypt to serve as a judge in the rabbinic court for two years. After much religious controversy, Rabbi Yosef returned to Israel two years later. After his return he took upon the position of head of the rabbinic court of Jerusalem at the age of 30. Rabbi Ovadia Yosef has...
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...Explication Essay # 1 – “Facing It” Images of war and death can wear on the psyche of anyone and can affect those exposed in vastly different ways. In Yosef Komunyakaa’s poem “Facing It,” the soldier depicted in the poem faces a struggle with images of death and his experiences in combat during the Vietnam War. He grapples with something that we understand today as post-traumatic stress disorder, or PTSD; “Facing It” describes the mind altering events and the subsequent symptoms through the mind of the soldier in the poem. Moreover, as many veterans must do after they return from hell, the soldier faces coping with the memory of others around him that returned home in a flag draped box. The soldier depicted in the poem takes a journey of self-actualization to understand his PTSD, and as he stares at the Vietnam Veteran’s Memorial, he seeks to understand the reality of his condition by going out on patrol one more time. His final patrol provides a sense of closure and an understanding of his condition over a decade after his experiences in Vietnam. His “black face fades, hiding inside the black granite” (Komunyakaa 1538) as he becomes just one of the many faces of war depicted on the wall. He fights back tears as he is face to face with the wall, and his unresolved memories of pain trigger a flashback of “the boobie trap’s white flash” (Komunyakaa 1539). The resulting white flash kills another soldier named Andrew Johnson in the explosion, and he recounts the day, like...
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...into the modern era has been accompanied by an overwhelming success which is fostered by outreach institutions, passionate shluchim, and the non-committal opportunity it provides for Jewish followers. Chabad-Lubavitch began as a small school of thought of the mainline Hasidic movement. Founded by Rabbi Shneur Zalman of Liadi in 1775, the movement was created to spread Hasidic mystical teachings through the meaning of Chabad; wisdom understanding and knowledge. The Chabad movement was led by a succession of seven Hasidic Rebbes, the role of Rabbi was usually passed from father to son, except in the case of the last Rabbi, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson who was Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak Schneersohn’s son-in-law. Rabbi Yosef was responsible for the relocation of Chabad’s center to Crown Heights, Brooklyn. Rabbi Yosef was also responsible for launching local and international Chabad institutions such as Jewish day schools and yeshivas. The modern popularity of Chabad was further expanded by Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson and his introduction of “Mitzvah campaigns” which focused on easy to perform Jewish rituals, that revolved around an individual's private Jewish observance. The campaigns reach out to less observant Jews, and each time a mitzvah is performed the followers of Chabad believe it furthers the cosmic war between good and evil, and helps bring the coming Messiah. The mitzvah’s offered the less observant Jews a connection to their faith, through easy to perform mitzvahs’...
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...July 28, 2014 | Features The Trials of the Kabbalah Capitalist Rabbi Yoshiyahu Yosef Pinto ministered to machers in New York and Israel. Then God had a change of heart. June 2, 2014 | Features The Taming of the Trading Monster After his firm’s indictment, Steven A. Cohen is richer than ever—but almost everything has changed. January 6, 2013 | The A-Rod E-Mails The slugger and the suit: a baseball bromantic tragedy. December 9, 2013 | Chasing A-Rod The struggle between Major League Baseball and one of its greatest hitters over steroids is total war—fought with six-figure payoffs in the tanning salons and strip malls of South Florida. October 21, 2013 | Features Post Mortem A (somewhat premature) newspaper autopsy. June 24, 2013 | Features Nelson Castro in the Machine Created by the Bronx political Establishment—then sent out by the D.A. with a recorder to try to bring fellow politicians down. May 13, 2013 | Features Al Gore’s Golden Years The almost president has become the ultimate Davos Man, a moral entrepreneur and richer than Mitt Romney. March 4, 2013 | Features The Dean of Corruption Cecilia Chang, the St. John’s fund-raiser who committed suicide after her epic fraud was exposed, tried to keep her superiors happy with gifts of watches, vacations, custom suits, and fine wine. It worked, for a while. September 24, 2012 | Features We’re Going to Take Over...
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...UC San Diego Electronic Theses and Dissertations Peer Reviewed Title: Technology and society : some insights on the development of metallurgy in the Southern Levant in the light of new dates of slag deposits Author: Ben-Yosef, Erez Acceptance Date: 01-01-2008 Series: UC San Diego Electronic Theses and Dissertations Degree: M.A., UC San Diego Permalink: http://escholarship.org/uc/item/03f2f3vx Local Identifier: b6636008 Abstract: An ongoing project for reconstructing the behavior of the geomagnetic field intensity during the last seven millennia has yielded several new dates for archaeometallurgical sites in the Southern Levant. These dates shed new light on the dawn of metallurgy in the region as well as on the quality of technological development and its relation to social and political structures. This paper introduces the methodology and concepts behind the archaeomagnetic project as well as the principles of the applied dating technique. In addition, the paper presents the archaeomagnetic results, discusses the alternative dating of several archaeometallurgical sites and explores the implication of these results on our understanding of the interaction between technology and society in the past. For the latter, the results particularly challenge the "Standard View of Technology" (Pfaffenberger, 1992), and suggest a complex, nonlinear evolution of copper industry in the Southern Levant eScholarship provides open access, scholarly publishing services to the University of...
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...* The supplier does not have any support for the transactions, nor do they have a phone number or an address where they can be reached. The oral confirmation by phone call could have been an insider posing as the vendor. * No one is getting bonuses. Even though it’s a new company, management generally doesn’t operate without bonuses – it’s possible they are getting incentives from other sources. * It is a new company and new companies are always susceptible to errors and fraud until solid controls and history is established. * The audit partner doesn’t seem interested in following up on Yosef’s suspicions. He could be careless, could be involved, or may just have a different sense of the overall picture than Yosef. b. Waseem has many misconceptions regarding the consideration of fraud in the audit of the financial statements that are contained in the dialogue. Among Kent’s misconceptions are the following: * Waseem is not concerned about the suspicious vendor. * Waseem seems more interested in keeping the client than offending the client by inquiring about the suspicious vendor. c. SAS 99 requires that auditors document the following matters related to the auditor’s consideration of material misstatements due to fraud: * The discussion among engagement team personnel in planning the audit about the susceptibility of the entity’s financial statements to material fraud. * Procedures performed...
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...controls. • The supplier do es not have any support for the transactions, nor do they have a phone number or an address where they can be reached. The oral confirmation by phone call could have been an insider posing as the vendor. • No one is getting bonuses. Even though it’s a new c ompany, management generally doesn’t operate without bonuses – it’s possible they are getting incentives from other sources. • It is a new company and new companies are always susceptible to errors and fraud until solid controls and history is established. • The audit partner doesn’t seem interested in following up on Yosef’s suspicions. He could be careless, could be involved, or may just have a different sense of the overall picture than Yosef. b. Waseem has many misconceptions regarding the considerat ion of fraud in the audit of the financial statements that are contained in the dialogue. Among Kent’s misconceptions are the following: • Waseem is not concerned about the suspicious vendor. • Waseem seems more interested in keeping the client than offending the client by inquiring about the suspicious vendor. c. SAS 99 requires that auditors document the following matters related to the auditor’s consideration of material misstatements due to fraud: • The discussion among engagement team personnel in plann ing the audit about the susceptibility of the entity’s financial statements to material fraud. • Procedures performed to obtain information necessary to identify...
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...pp. 453-464, Business Source Complete, EBSCOhost, viewed 14 May 2013. http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=bth&AN=4659851&site=ehost-live Miller, M, & Scholes, M 1982, 'Dividends and Taxes: Some Empirical Evidence', Journal Of Political Economy, 90, 6, pp. 1118-1141, Business Source Complete, EBSCOhost, viewed 14 May 2013. http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=bth&AN=5055460&site=ehost-live Castanias II, RP 1979, 'COMMENT: BHATTACHARYA PAPER', Journal Of Financial & Quantitative Analysis, 14, 4, pp. 705-710, Business Source Complete, EBSCOhost, viewed 14 May 2013. http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=bth&AN=4763754&site=ehost-live Bar-Yosef, S, &...
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...Marijuana Be Legalized? The legalization of medical marijuana is a sensitive subject both politically and individually. There have been many field tests and trials validating marijuana as an aid to help various medical conditions from cancer to traumatic brain injuries. My argument has little to do with the political argument as I will be focusing mainly on the individual argument. The Pros and Cons of Legalization In an Oxford University journal report from 2013 states that the endocannabinoid system plays an important roles in the reparative mechanisms that are shared with minocycline pathways reduces the lesion volume and decreases TBI-induced hyperactivity. (Oxford University Press, 2013) . In another study led by Prof. Yosef Sarne from Tel Aviv University suggests that a single, low dose of THC was able to protect the brain from long-term damage induced by a variety of experimental toxins. (Truthonpot.com, 2013). The most recent study was reported by Jeffrey Carpenter of ABC News. He cites the research done at the Hebrew University that shows that a cannabinoid, similar to the active ingredient found in marijuana and produced in the brains of many animals, protects mice from brain injury. This reports quotes Dr Shohami as saying she didn’t “see any problems with using a drug from this family to treat patients”. (Carpenter, 2014). There is overwhelming evidence that cannabis relieves various medical conditions; unpleasant symptoms such as nausea and vomiting...
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...Test of asymmetric Garch models Henri Högkulla s082880 Carl-Anton Karlsson s081760 Hanken School of Economics Department of Finance and Statistics Vaasa November 2011 Contents Abstract ...................................................................................................................................... 1 1 Introduction ............................................................................................................................. 2 2 Methodology ........................................................................................................................... 4 2.1 ARCH and GARCH ......................................................................................................... 4 2.2 EGARCH ......................................................................................................................... 4 2.3 GJR-GARCH ................................................................................................................... 5 2.4 Distributions ..................................................................................................................... 5 2.5 Information criterions ....................................................................................................... 6 3 Data ......................................................................................................................................... 7 3.1 Descriptive statistics .............................................
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...Question The dividend discount model tells us that the value of a firm is equal to the present value of its expected dividend payments. Some firms have never paid dividends and have no intention of doing so. Does this mean that these firms are worth nothing? Discuss with reference to academic research and theory. Answer 719 words Two schools about dividend policy: relevant dividend theory and irrelevant dividend theory The dividend discount model tells us the value of a firm is equal to the value of its expected dividend payments. The dividend discount model provides a means of developing an explicit expected return for the stock market. Elaborations on the simple dividend discount model provide an important tool for comparing relative values across a sample of individual stocks. [pic] V is the value of the stock. Dt is the expected dividend payment at the year t. K is the discount rate. Dividend policy has always been a baffling problem of financial management. In theoretical circles there are two schools about dividend policy: relevant dividend view and irrelevant dividend view. Relevant dividend view: Farrar, Salwyn and Gordon are representatives of this theory. Their theory is that company's dividend distribution has an impact on the value of the company. Dividend payment is not dispensable, but very necessary. It is an important strategy of a company. If the company’s choice of the dividend payment policy on the stock market changes , the company's...
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...1/13/2015 Solution SCM Ch1 2 Documents Upload (/upload.html) Login (/login.html? back=http%3A%2F%2Fdocslide.net%2Fdocuments%2Fsolution-scm-ch12.html) / Docslide (/) / Documents (/category/documents.html) / Solution SCM Ch1 2 Assignment 1 Supply Chain Management Topic: Understanding the Supply Chain Submitted by: Submitted to: Md. Faisal Hossain Md. Md. Akram Hossain EMBA Spring Semester 2013 Assistant Professor ID: 61120-13-017 MIS, University of Dhaka Date: 23-01-2013 Department of Management Information Systems Gateway Why did Gateway have multiple production facilities in the US? What advantages or disadvantages does this strategy offer relative to Dell, which has one facility? US was main market of gateway No inventory stores direct supply no contract with any shipping company Advantages Low price raw material Cheaper logistics http://docslide.net/documents/solutionscmch12.html 1/8 1/13/2015 Solution SCM Ch1 2 Documents Fly UP Shipping Tax Incentives Disadvantages cost increases Difficult to manage quality Different polices for employees What factors did Gateway consider when deciding which plants to close? The markets which were saturated showing poor results, specially Malaysia plant were have high loses Why does Gateway not carry any finished goods inventory at its retail stores? Gateway was really clever in deciding whether to keep such items in inventory or not. As gateway knew that people don’t wait for FMCG product...
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...Some gave up on ever making it out, while others fought on to survive no matter what it took. Survivors of the Holocaust, even today, are haunted by the images of gas ovens and acid showers, the loss of loved ones, and more. They were stripped of their names, their identities, and their looks, and in place they were given numbers and frail, skeleton-like figures. Holocaust survivor, Yosef Neuhaus, describes entering Auschwitz like he was entering, “Some kind of other world, another planet…” He could not believe such a horrid place existed on Earth (Yad...
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...1. Pendahuluan Krisis global, khususnya pada akhir 2008 hingga awal 2009, membuat Bank Indonesia (BI) menerapkan kebijakan khusus. Kebijakan BI yang tertuang dalam Peraturan Pemerintah Pengganti Undang-Undang (Perpu) berisi: Penaikkan BI rate menjadi 9,5% untuk mengantisipasi depresiasi terhadap nilai rupiah dengan meningkatkan atraktifitas investasi dalam nilai rupiah akibat spread bunga domestik dan luar negeri yang cukup tinggi; Peningkatan jumlah simpanan di bank yang dijamin oleh pemerintah dari Rp 100 juta menjadi Rp 2 milyar, untuk mengantisipasi rush akibat kekhawatiran masyarakat terhadap keamanan simpanannya di bank; Perluasan jenis aset milik bank yang boleh diagunkan kepada BI, yang tadinya hanya meliputi aset kualitas tinggi (SBI dan SUN), namun melalui Perpu, aset yang dapat dijaminkan diperluas dengan Kredit lancar milik bank (ditujukan untuk mengantisipasi turunnya harga pasar SUN, yang terlihat dengan naiknya yield). Hal ini ditujukan untuk mempermudah Bank dalam mengatasi kesulitan likuiditas, sehingga dapat memperoleh jumlah dana yang cukup dari BI. Berdasarkan Laporan Tahunan Bank Danamon 2008, tercatat bahwa pada kuartal terakhir 2008 Bank Danamon mengalami kerugian hingga Rp 804 Miliar. Kerugian disebabkan oleh kredit macet nasabah akibat memburuknya arus kas dan foreign exchange forward mereka. Penelitian ini bertujuan menentukan model yang paling baik untuk menggambarkan volatilitas saham Bank Danamon (BDMN.JK) periode 2008-2010. Pemilihan...
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...QUALITY DATA COLLECTION Anny streat HCS/588 August 14th, 2013 Quality Data Collection Quality data must be identified to improve organizational quality and respond to stakeholders needs. Quality should be collected, analyzed and used to develop and implement performance improvement. Many data sources and collection can be listed. In this paper, three data collection tools will be identified. Before then, because the main outcome of data collection is to measure and monitor the improvement of performance, three areas of improvement of the organization will be discussed. Furthermore, tools that measure and display the QI data will be selected and compared. Quality data focuses on four areas of improvement: clinical quality, financial performance, functional statues and patient satisfaction. Atlanta medical center (our chosen organization) had a good quality score of 99.3% in the CMS (center of Medicaid and Medicare service) core measures declared Bill Moore (2011). Nevertheless, three areas of improvement will be examined. The first area is patient safety. Kohn Corrigan (2000) states “Many as 98,000 people die every year in hospitals as results of injuries from their care”. For that reason, organization should comply with CMS core measures, the national patient safety goals initiative of the joint commission on accreditation...
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