Four people dead‚ 75 thousand people evacuated‚ one million people affected1. Calgary hasn’t experienced anything this awful for over 100 years2. The June 2013 flood has greatly influenced the citizens of Calgary‚ High River‚ and Canmore. In these troubling times‚ we need to work together to repair the damage. In this particular situation‚ I believe collective rights are superior to individual rights for the following reasons. First of all‚ every individual is equal3 and we should therefore be helped
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Aspen Technology Inc. 1. What are Aspen Technology´s main Exchange rate exposures? Aspen Technologic Inc‚ is firm specialized in the development of simulation software for customers in process manufacturing industries‚ particularly the chemical industry. Big part of the AspenTech earnings comes for the licenses of their existing products. The 52% of Aspen Tech’s software license revenues came from customers outside de United States. With most‚ but not all‚ of its expenses incurred in the
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Component Technologies‚ Inc 1) Prepare the manufacturing staff’s calculations for the three alternatives (please refer to the attachments): a) In the first set of calculations‚ the staff used a discount rate of 20%‚ a five-year time horizon‚ and ignored taxes and terminal value. What is the relative attractiveness of these three alternatives? During the period of 5 years (from 1994 to 1998)‚ if the discount rate is 20%‚ Waltham plant is the only one that has a positive amount in NPV. The
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but then stared in awe at the perfectly preserved fossil. This is the legend of how Mr.Walcott discovered the Burgess Shale‚ the cluster of fossils that changed geology forever. The Burgess Shale is found in Yoho Park‚ British columbia. Back when they were formed‚ the area where they were found was called Laurentia‚ between the two mountains Mt. Wapta and Mt. Field. The Burgess Shale are fossils that remained on the ground‚ and were heavily preserved during the Cambrian period (540 million years ago)
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will organize and assess family data collected through case study interview and observation. It views the family and its environment as a system broken down into many subsystems analyzing interactions and effects of each member or subsystem. The Calgary Family Assessment Model (CFAM) is utilized and helps to structure the assessment and case study. The make-up of the interview and questions asked were based on the categories and subcategories of the CFAM. The fundamental goal of this assessment is
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Shale Gas(셰일 가스) Shale is one of the most common sedimentary rocks in the world and it is primarily composed of clay and fragments of other minerals such as quartz and calcite. Shale can be the source‚ reservoir and the seal for natural gas. Shale formations normally have low permeability (limited ability for gas or fluids to flow easily through the shale formation) and normally require stimulation techniques (such as fracturing) to economically produce shale gas. Shale gas is natural gas that
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Joc Oil USA‚ Inc. v. Consolidated Edison Company of New York‚ Inc.(Con Ed)‚ is a case that involved 3 parties – Joc Oil‚ Inc.‚ an American oil company who entered into a contract to supply low-sulfur fuel to Con Ed ( the second party) after Joc Oil purchased the low- sulfur fuel from an Italian refinery( the third party). This case According to Cheeseman (2013)‚ the facts of the case indicate that on January 24‚ 1974 Joc Oil entered into a sales contract with Con Ed whereby it was agreed that
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the drilling for natural gas in the Marcellus Shale. Tioga County was one of the first counties in Pennsylvania to experience Marcellus Shale drilling activity. It ranks second by number of Marcellus wells in PA‚ with a total of 388 drilling wells between 2008 and 2010 (including 266 in 2010) (DEP). Once disgusted by the inherent wrongs of drilling on bountiful land‚ I have become open to the potential benefits that natural gas provides through shale‚ domestically and internationally. Natural gas
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Sygate2. Headquarters overhead cost allocation at Korea auto insurance Tasks: a) What would be the net income of the Taejon branch as of 2007 and 2008 if the headquarters’ overhead costs were allocated by the current method? Calculate the amounts of revenue‚ and direct and indirect costs of the Taejon branch for these two years. b) The current overhead cost driver‚ branch revenues‚ is criticized because it lacks any logical relationship to the overhead costs allocated by headquarters. Choose
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Shale Inc. is a company that has dedicated itself to being a reputable organization that is committed to upholding ethical business practices. To maintain the company’s reputable image‚ employers‚ employees‚ contractors‚ and anyone who is affiliated with Shale must act ethically at any given time. Adherence to a specified code of ethics enables Shale to carry on with its reputation as a fair‚ just‚ community-friendly‚ and environmental-friendly company. A well-defined code of ethics makes the company
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