The Hamptons Home of a Famed Socialite Hits the Market
“Before there was Paris Hilton, there was Consuelo Vanderbilt Balsan – a Gilded Age heiress and socialite, renowned for her beauty and wealth. Ms. Balsan’s onetime Hamptons home was slated to hit the market priced at $28 million with Tim Davis of the Corcoran Group.
Located on Ox Pasture Road in Southampton, the shingle-style home was built around 1910 and is known as “Gardenside” or “Cara-Mia”. Ms. Balsan, the great-granddaughter of railroad magnate Cornelius Vanderbilt, owned the house until her death in 1954.
According to public records, the estate is owned by Robert G. Goldstein, executive vice president and president of global gaming operations at Las Vegas Sands Corp, and his wife Sheryl, who purchased the house in 2002 for $17.4 million.” (The Wall Street Journal, August 1, 2014, M2)
In your initial response to the topic you have to answer all questions.
1.Calculate the annual compound growth rate of the house price during the period when the house was owned by Robert G. Goldstein (since 2002). (Round the number of years to the whole number). Please show your work.
2.Assume that the growth rate you calculated in question #1 remains the same for the next 30 years. Calculate the price of the house in 30 years after it was sold by Robert G. Goldstein. Please show your work.
3.Assume that the growth rate you calculated in question #1 remains the same since the house was sold. Calculate the price of the house today. (Round the number of years to the whole number). Please show your work.
4.Assume the growth rate that you calculated in #1 prevailed since 1910. Calculate the price of the house in 1910. Please show your work.
5.Assume the growth rate that you calculated in #1 prevailed since 1910. Calculate the price of the house in 1954. Please show your work.
6.You were using the time value of money concept to answer question #5. Think about the time line for that problem. What is the time point 0 in that problem? Please explain your answer.
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“Before there was Paris Hilton, there was Consuelo Vanderbilt Balsan – a Gilded Age heiress and socialite, renowned for her beauty and wealth. Ms. Balsan’s onetime Hamptons home was slated to hit the market priced at $38 million with Tim Davis of the Corcoran Group.
Located on Ox Pasture Road in Southampton, the shingle-style home was built around 1910 and is known as “Gardenside” or “Cara-Mia”. Ms. Balsan, the great-granddaughter of railroad magnate Cornelius Vanderbilt, owned the house until her death in 1954.
According to public records, the estate is owned by Robert G. Goldstein, executive vice president and president of global gaming operations at Las Vegas Sands Corp, and his wife Sheryl, who purchased the house in 2002 for $17.4 million.” (The Wall Street Journal, August 1, 2014, M2)
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Article: The effect of unit-based simulation on nurse’s identification of deteriorating patient.
In today’s nursing practice environment, nurses are faced with patients with multiple, complex conditions that can change rapidly leading to an acute patient deterioration (APD) event (Bright, Walker, & Bion, 2004). Patients often exhibit early warning signs before APD events (Fuhrmann, Lippert, Perner, & Ostergard, 2008; Kause et al., 2004), but research supports that early warning signs are not always identified by healthcare providers and/or, if identified, are not addressed in an appropriate time frame. Multiple factors have been cited as reasons for failure to recognize and respond appropriately to APD events including lack of knowledge and skills, lack of confidence to handle APD events, not monitoring vital signs (VS) routinely, failure to seek assistance, communication failures, and confusion regarding role responsibilities (National Patient Safety Agency, 2007).
As the acuity of patients increases, it becomes imperative that registered nurses (RNs) perform frequent assessments and intervene appropriately when patients’ conditions be- gan to deteriorate (Cooper et al., 2010). These interventions include providing appropriate care to stop the deterioration such as consultation with advanced practice nurses and/or physicians, ensuring/evaluating that the health plan is being implemented, and/or determining if transfer to critical care areas for higher level nursing care is required. The use of simulation as a teaching method assists nurses to improve their assessment skills and response to patient decline in a timely and knowledgeable manner (Cooper et al., 2010). The purpose of this pilot research study was to examine the effects of a unit-based, high-fidelity simulation initiative on cardiovascular step-down unit RNs’ identification and management of deteriorating patients.
*In this assignment you will choose a study from the folder of selected studies and upload a Quantitative experimental or quasi-experimental designed research study.
*Review Experimental and Quasi-experimental studies of your textbook for definitions and specific types of experimental and quasi-experimental studies.
Directions:
From the article identify the following using 1 or 2 simple sentences
1. The study "Method" or "Design":
2. Problem Statement:
3. Purpose Statement:
4. Independent Variable and the Dependent Variable:
5. The intervention:
6. The hypothesis or research question:
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CHAPTER 1 |
Thought Lab: Considering Connections |
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Purpose: Reflect on the relationship between all living things and their environment.
Procedure
In September 2004, Sheila Watt-Cloutier encouraged a committee of United States senators to
consider reversing the U.S. position on the Kyoto Protocol. Near the end of her testimony,
Watt-Cloutier asked the Senate committee members to consider how the Arctic region, its
peoples, and its wildlife are connected to the rest of the world. Read her statement below, and
then answer the Analysis questions that follow.
“Use what is happening in the Arctic—the Inuit Story—as a vehicle to reconnect us all,
so that we may understand that the planet and its people are one. The Inuit hunter who
falls through the depleting and unpredictable sea ice is connected to the cars we drive,
the
industries we rely upon, and the disposable world we have become.”
(Testimony of Sheila Watt-Cloutier, Chair, Inuit Circumpolar Conference to the Senate
Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation, Washington DC, September 15,
2004.
Analysis
1.In what ways could an Inuit hunter falling through the sea ice be connected to the activities
of people who live south of the Arctic?
2.Aboriginal peoples often talk about how all living things are connected to, and depend on,
one another. What does “being connected” mean to you?
3.Do you think you are connected to everyone and everything in the world? Can you prove
that you are not? Explain your ideas to a partner, and share them with the class.
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MIPS ASSEMBLY
Have the user input a string and then be able to make changes to the characters that are in the string until they are ready to stop. We will need to read in several pieces of data from the user, including a string and multiple characters. You can set a maximum size for the user string, however, the specific size of the string can change and you can’t ask them how long the string is (see the sample runs). In order to work with characters, we need to remember that each ASCII character is stored using a single byte. So, we will now add in the instructions load byte (lb) and store byte (sb) in order to manipulate our character information.
Requirements:
● While you can set how long the string can be at maximum, you can’t tell the user a specific length that the string must be (e.g. Enter a string of length 10) and you can’t ask them how long the string is.
● After you have their string, you will prompt them to see if they want to make any changes. If they do, then read in the character that they want to change in the string and then the character that they want to change it to. o All characters of the same type in the string can be affected, not just a single one of them. So, if they choose to change the spaces to dashes, all spaces are affected. (See sample run 2)
● After each change print the current string out to them and ask if they want to make another change.
● When they are finished making changes, print the final string and then exit the program properly.
Sample Output: (The prompt: followed by the output)
This program reads in a String from the user and then allows the user to make changes to it until they want to stop.
Please enter your string now (maximum of 40 characters): We can input a fairly long string.
Your current string is: We can input a fairly long string.
Do you want to make any changes to the string? (Y/N): Y
Enter the character in the string would you like replaced: i
Enter what you would like to change the character to: 1
Your current string is:
We can 1nput a fa1rly long str1ng.
Do you want to make any changes to the string? (Y/N): Y
Enter the character in the string would you like replaced: a
Enter what you would like to change the character to: @
Your current string is: We c@n 1nput @ f@1rly long str1ng.
Do you want to make any changes to the string? (Y/N): N
Your final string is: We c@n 1nput @ f@1rly long str1ng.
-- program is finished running –
This program reads in a String from the user and then allows the user to make changes to it until they want to stop.
Please enter your string now (maximum of 40 characters): A short one too.
Your current string is: A short one too.
Do you want to make any changes to the string? (Y/N): Y
Enter the character in the string would you like replaced: Enter what you would like to change the character to: =
Your current string is: A-short-one-too.
Do you want to make any changes to the string? (Y/N): N
Your final string is: A-short-one-too.
-- program is finished running --
This program reads in a String from the user and then allows the user to make changes to it until they want to stop.
Please enter your string now (maximum of 40 characters): We could change nothing.
Your current string is: We could change nothing.
Do you want to make any changes to the string? (Y/N): N
Your final string is: We could change nothing.
- - programs finished running - -
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Genetic modification involves the alteration of an organism’s DNA to cause changes in its seeds or offspring. There are a variety of reasons for the use of this technology, but some people have concerns about the possible effects of GMOs on health and the environment.
Choose the phrases below that represent common reasons for genetic modification.
Select all that apply.
| resistance to specific insects |
| increased nutritional value |
| improved drought tolerance |
| decreased disease resistance |
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What is the percentage change in price for a zero coupon bond if the yield changes from 5% to 8%? The bond has a face value of $1,000 and it matures in 12 years. Use the price determined from the first yield, 5%, as the base in the percentage calculation.
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Explain why and how a company's performance on the stock market is driven by changes in the stock market expectations, not just by the company's actual performance.
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Which of the following investments is most affected by changes in the level of interest rates? Suppose interest rates go up or down by 50 basis points(+/- 0.5%). Rank the investments from most affected (largest change in value) to least affected (smallest change in value).
(a) $1 million invested in short-term Treasury bills.
(b) $1 million invested in STRIPS (zero coupons) maturing in December 2025.
(c) $1 million invested in a Treasury note maturing in December 2025. The note pays a 5.5% coupon.
(d) $1 million invested in a Treasury bond maturing in December 2025. The bond pays a 9.25% coupon.
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Which of the following features of an option never changes over the life of the option?
Select one:
a. The exercise price.
b. The price of the underlying asset.
c. The premium.
d. The time to maturity.
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