sparknotes the wonderful wizard of oz by l frank baum

... and rang the bell. f. The next morning the Woodman was called into the Throne Room. g. They all followed the Soldier and found themselves in beautiful green rooms. h. They followed the Guardian ... carried on walking, they found themselves in the middle of a poppy field, and the smell of the flowers made Dorothy, Toto, and the Lion very, very sleepy so they couldn’t sleep any more. The Scarecrow ... Toto, and the Lion felt very sleepy and couldn’t walk anymore. The Queen told her new friends that if they called the mice, they would come. 37 8. I fell in love 9. in the direction of the noise...

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... hills, until they realised that they knew neither the way back to the Winkies’ Castle nor to the Palace of Oz. They were so tired that they could hardly walk. ‘Why don’t we call the field ... a little girl like you would melt me so easily!’ Within a minute only the silver shoe and the key to the Lion’s cage were left of the Witch. Dorothy picked these up and ran to tell the Lion ... brains, the Lady answered: ‘Very well. If you help Dorothy kill the Wicked Witch of the West, I will give you brains so good that you will be the wisest man in the Land of Oz. ’ The Scarecrow left...

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... Tin Man 5 The Cowardly Lion 6 The River 7 The Field of Sleep 8 The Queen of the Field Mice 9 The Emerald City 10 The Great Wizard of Oz 11 The Wicked Witch of the West 12 In the Power of the Wicked ... time." "Then I will take you to his Palace," the green man said. The Emerald City of Oz was a wonderful place. All the buildings were made of green marble 54 , with windows made of green glass. ... "I'll call the field mice!" So the girl blew the whistle that the Queen of the field mice had given her. In a few minutes, the little mice were everywhere. "How can we help you,...

Ngày tải lên: 21/03/2014, 12:05

... sum total of being open to all The Gifts of Life results in living a life of Grace. This Gift manifests with the simple joy and abundance never farther away than the celebration of the person ... Gifts of Life and of Christmas to cut through the shifting shadows of all which may distract you. Therein you’ll find a life of grace filled with all 12 Gifts and many more. Click ... a oneness with the rest of the world. And yet, why is it we are so drawn to the attractions of the latest toy … the noise of the loudest hawker … the charms of the most alluring seduction?...

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... in the bHLH domain is well conserved within the Twist-related bHLH subfamily, to which dHAND and eHAND belong [6]. The activity of some of these bHLH family proteins might also be r egulated by ... expression level of dHAND-Asp-X was lower than those of others in the absence of E47. But in the presence of E47, the expression level of this mutant was equivalent to wild type dHAND or other mutants ... residues in the cells (Fig. 1C). These results indicate that the Akt signal m ay pos- itively modulate the phosphorylation status of dHAND. We further examined whether Akt directly phosphory- lates...

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... perpendicular to the former, crossing the crown of the head to the nape of the neck. At each temple a heavy tuft is allowed to hang to the bottom of the lobe of the ear. The long hair of the strip ... him. The materials of which the leggins of the Seminole are usually made is buckskin. I saw, however, one pair of answer of the white man was equally frank: “Mat-te-lo, when Indian kill Billy, ... boots. The blanket is not often worn by the Florida Indians. Occasionally, in their cool weather, a small shawl, of the kind made to do service in the turban, is thrown about the shoulders. Oftener...

Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 22:20

... of objective measures: SLs = SL policy in simulation; SLr = SL policy with real users; RLs = RL policy in simulation; RLr = RL policy with real users. allows us to target the experiments to the ... Comparison of Results We finally test whether the results obtained in sim- ulation transfer to tests with real users, following (Lemon et al., 2006a). We evaluate the quality of the simulated learning ... from 4 The ratings are normalised as some of the questions were on different scales. a small amount of Wizard- of- Oz data, and we evalu- ated the result with real users. The use of WOZ data allows...

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... selection because, when bundled, the negative correlation between the costs of these products reduces the overall variation of the costs of the bundle with individual attributes (health and longevity) ... depends on the individual’s survival prospects. Naturally, these prospects also affect the value of an annuity to the individual’s expected lifetime utility. Other examples where personal characteristics ... that the cost of the hypothetical bundle was lower by 3 to 5 percent compared to the cost of these products when purchased sepa- rately. They also found that bundling increases significantly the...

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 07:20

... textbook for actuaries: These are usually effected to avoid the disappointment that is often felt in the event of the early death of an annuitant. The calculation of yield closely follows the method used ... type of annuity is sold at a common price available to all potential buyers. In this kind of pooling equilibrium, the price of each type of annuity is equal to the average longevity of the buyers ... out of equilibrium, we follow the standard assumption that the sign of the price of each good changes in the opposite direction to the sign of profits from sales of this good. The following assumption...

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... be held by individuals for any length of time and that their future stream of returns is fully specified at the time of purchase or sale. We continue to denote the annuities held by individuals during ... functions. A group of individuals who share a common survival function will be called a risk class. We shall consider a population that, at later stages in life, consists of a number of risk classes. Uncertainty ... the arrival of risk-class information yield a predetermined flow of returns which, in equilibrium, reflect the expected relative weight of different risk classes in the population. Because of their...

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... first-best allocation are obtained through the revaluation of long-term annuities. The stochastically dominant risk class obtains a windfall because the annuities held by individuals in this class are ... respect to their future risk class by purchasing long-term annuities early in life. In equilibrium these annuities yield at every age a rate of return equal to the population average of risk class rates ... increases survival probabilities at all ages: ∂ F (z,α)/∂α ≤ 0. Individuals can affect the level of α by investing resources, whose level is denoted by m(α), such as med- ical care and healthy nutrition....

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... r(z). This still leaves them with a profit because a fraction f (z)/F (z) of these individuals will die and consequently their entitlements as annuity holders will expire. Competition will generate ... partially self-insure against these risks. The argument can be explained by a simple two-period example of a pair of individuals who have independent and identical survival probabilities. 4 A single ... value, 0 < R ∗ < T. 5 Jointly, these assumptions imply that the individual plans to have, if alive, a period of retirement and that their planned retirement age occurs on the downside of life...

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... annuities sold. Recall that in the above discussion we allowed the purchase of short-term annuities late in life as well as the short sale of long-term annuities purchased earlier. In spite of these ... chapter16.tex Financial Innovation • 145 A portfolio of refundable annuities with different refund prices will enable these adjustments to be more closely related to realization of the level of income and longevity ... addition to longevity risk. Further, to respond to the desire of individuals for flexibility, the model should allow for short sales of annuities purchased early or the purchase of additional short-term...

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