The GlobalSettlement was an enforcement agreement reached on April 28, 2003 between the United States Securities and Exchange Commission SEC , Financial Industry Regulatory Authority NASD , NYSE , and ten of the United States s largest Financial institution investment firms to address issues of conflict of interest within their businesses ref name one Citation title Ten of Nation s Top Investment Firms Settle Enforcement Actions Involving Conflict of Interest date April 28 year 2003 url http www.sec.gov news press 2003 54.htm accessdate 7 10 07 ref Settlement Decision The central issue at hand that had been Declaratory ruling judged in court previously was the conflict of interest between the investment banking and Financial analyst analysis departments of ten of the largest investment firms in the United States. The investment firms involved in the settlement had all engaged in actions and practices that had allowed the inappropriate influence of their research analysts by their investment bankers seeking lucrative fees ref name one . A typical violation addressed by the settlement was the case of CSFB and Salomon Smith Barney , which were alleged to have engaged in inappropriate spinning of hot IPO s and issued fraudulent research reports in violation of various sections within ... going on pitches and roadshows with bankers during advertising and promotion of IPO s. Similarly, the GlobalSettlement also increased the IPO IPO Quiet period quiet period from 25 days to 40 days. ref Citation title SEC factsheet on Global Analyst Research Settlement date April 28 year 2003 url http ... GlobalSettlement index.htm GlobalSettlement of Conflicts of Interest Between ... Act of 1933 . Enforcement Actions As part of the settlement decision published on December 20 ... in the settlement have been required to pay fines to their investors, to fund investor education ... media center 2002 dec dec20b 02.html accessdate 2008 09 05 quote ref Settlement payments BORDER 1 ... more details
The Settlement may refer to Flying Fish Cove , the main settlement on Christmas Island The Settlement BVI The Settlement , the main town on Anegada in the British Virgin Islands Edinburgh of the Seven Seas , capital and main settlement of Tristan da Cunha disambig de The Settlement nl The Settlement ... more details
Wiktionary Settlement may refer to Consolidation soil , a process by which soils decrease in volume Human settlement , a community where people live Israeli settlement , communities inhabited by Israeli Jews in territory that came under Israel s control as a result of the 1967 Six Day War Urban settlement disambiguation Rural settlement Urban type settlementSettlement closing , as in a real estate closing with transfer of title deed to the buyer Settlement finance , the process of exchanging the consideration for financial instruments once a transaction has been executed Settlement structural , the gradual distortions created in a structure Legal terms Settlement litigation , an agreement or resolution of a dispute Settlement under the Poor Law , a person s place of origin or later established residence, being the Parish responsible for the person if destitute Settlement trust , an instrument creating a trust See also Act of Settlement , various legislation Settlement movement , started in Victorian England, concerned with urban poverty Settlement school , in the US, inspired by the above Prussian Settlement Commission aimed at Germanization of Polish inhabited areas from 1886 to 1924 Disambig ja ... more details
wiktionary globalGlobal means of or referring to a globe and may also refer to tocright Entertainment Global Paul van Dyk album Global Paul van Dyk album , 2003 Global Bunji Garlin album Global Bunji Garlin album , 2007 Global Humanoid album Global Humanoid album , 1989 Global Underground , music label Bruno J. Global , human captain of the SDF 1 Macross in the anime series The Super Dimension Fortress Macross Companies and brands Global cutlery , a Japanese brand Global Aviation Holdings Global Benchmarking Network GBN Global Crossing , telecommunications company based in Bermuda Global Radio , British commercial radio company Global Television Network , in Canada Global BC , on air brand of CHAN TV, a television station in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada Global Okanagan , on air brand of CHBC TV, a television station in Kelowna, British Columbia, Canada Global Toronto , a television station in Toronto Global Edmonton Global Calgary Global Montreal Global Maritimes CJON DT NTV , a television station in Newfoundland, simlar to the Global network Global TV Indonesia Canwest Global Communications Corp. , a Canadian media conglomerate Math and science Global field , in mathematics Global serializability , in data management Global symmetry , in quantum field theory Global variable , a variable in computer programming that is accessible in every scope Politics Global governance , in international relations Global Greens , political Green party network Global politics , study of political and economical patterns of the world Other Global citizenship Global city , an especially important city Global war , World war Global warming and global dimming , in environmental studies See also Globe disambiguation Globalization , ongoing process by which regional economies, societies ... disambiguation lookfrom intitle disambiguation go me de Global fr Global ja ro Global sv Global tr K resel ur ... more details
notability date September 2011 primary sources date September 2011 GLOBAL ref Ball, J, RV Fishleigh, PJ Greaney, A Marsden, E Platt, LJ Pool, and B Robson. A Polymorphic Programming Environment for the Chemical Pharmaceutical and Biotechnology Industries , Chemical Information Systems Beyond the Structure Diagrams. Eds. D. Bawden and E. M. Mitchell, Ellis Horwood Press, 1990, 107 123. ref ref Robson B, J Ball, RV Fishleigh, P Greaney, J Li, A Marsden, E Platt, JL Pool. The expert system approach to predicting protein structure , http www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov pubmed 2099743 Biochem Soc Symp. 1990 57 91 7 . ref was a language developed in industry and sold off Private industry privately as an expert system . It was used to design several biopharmaceutical products, and sold to Tularik Amgen . http www.blackmesa imaging.com products.html Prometheus used for drug system design was written using GLOBAL and is described on this ftp ftp.cray.com applications dir apps software CHEMISTRY PROMETHEUS.txt Cray software specification . References reflist Category Drug discovery Category Programming languages Category Pharmaceutical sciences ... more details
refimprove date June 2008 For the organizations for kibbutzim and moshavim, see Settlement movement Israel . File Toynbee Hall 1902.jpg thumb Toynbee Hall settlement house, founded 1884, pictured here in 1902. The settlement movement was a reformist social movement , beginning in the 1880s and peaking ... more closely together in an interdependent community. Its main object was the establishment of settlement houses in poor urban areas, in which volunteer middle class settlement workers would live, hoping ... cite web last Wade first Louise Carrol authorlink coauthors title Settlement Houses work Encyclopedia ... in 32 states. ref Husock, H. 1993 . Bringing back the settlement house. Public Welfare, 51 4 ... areas to live and work alongside local people. Through their efforts settlement houses were established ... of such organizations in the United Kingdom . Birmingham University has produced a brief history of the settlement ... Mansfield , Toynbee Hall , and Oxford House settlement Oxford House in Bethnal Green. There is also a global network, the International Federation of Settlements . The movement gave rise to many social ... and encouraged his friends to do the same. In general, the settlement movement, and settlement houses .... 2008 . Common space, safe place Lived experiences of former settlement house participants from the West ... famous Settlement House in the United States is Chicago s Hull House , founded by Jane Addams and Ellen ... , founded in 1894, Henry Street Settlement , founded in 1893, and University Settlement House , founded ... reform. United Neighborhood Houses of New York is the federation of 35 settlement houses in New York City. These and other settlement houses inspired the establishment of settlement school s to serve isolated rural communities in Appalachia . The settlement house concept was continued by Dorothy Day ... require that employees live alongside those they serve. Active settlement houses Association ... Kingsley House New Orleans Jefferey Smith from New York founded the White Settlement The House of The Seven ... more details
to a settlement agreement quicker and at a more favorable rate than a debtor acting on their own. With Global ...Multiple issues refimprove January 2009 globalize June 2008 Debt settlement , also known as debt arbitration , debt negotiation or credit settlement , is an approach to debt reduction in which the debtor ... full and final settlement but with debt settlement the reduced amount can be spread over an agreed term. Debt settlement is often confused with debt consolidation or debt management . In debt consolidation ... month. In debt settlement, the consumer makes monthly payments, out of which the debt settlement ... U.K. debt management there are no monthly management fees, the debt settlement company may get the creditor to accept a settlement of 40 pence in the pound, but the client pays 50 pence in the pound. The debt settlement company benefit from the extra 10 pence in this case. In the U.K. creditors .... Debt settlement allows the public to spread payments out over a set term instead of having to pay a lump sum in one go which is the case with Full and Final Settlement. Many people are taking advantage of Debt Settlement instead of conventional Debt Management because they have not seen debt management offer the benefits sold to them. U.K. debt settlement is not to be confused with full and final settlement where debt management companies have been known to hold onto client funds in which case ... funds is regarded as unethical in the U.S. and U.K. U.S. debt settlement differs slightly. There are several indicators that few consumers actually have their debt eliminated by full and final settlement. A survey of U.S. debt settlement companies found that 34.4 of enrollees had 75 percent or more ... of Settlement Companies TASC to the Federal Trade Commission, commenting on the FTC s proposed ... title Attorney General Unveils First Annual Report On Debt Settlement, Credit Counseling Business Practices ... annual report debt settlement credit counseling publisher Colorado Attorney General accessdate Oct ... more details
Act of Settlement may refer to Statute of Legal Settlement 1547 , legislation regarding the settlement of the poor Act for the Settlement of Ireland 1652 , in response to the Irish Rebellion of 1641 Act of Settlement 1657 , ratifying previous decrees from the Act for the Settlement of Ireland 1652 Act of Settlement 1662 , a partial reversal of the Act of Settlement of 1652 Poor Relief Act 1662 The Settlement Act , clarify which parishes were responsible for Poor Relief Act of Settlement 1690 , declare the Presbyterian Church of Scotland to be the Established Church in Edinburgh Act of Settlement 1701 , governing the line of succession to the English throne and, after 1707, to the British throne Act of Settlement 1703 , clarifying the status of the population of the Isle of Man disambig nl Act of Settlement sk Act of Settlement ... more details
Settlement Commission may refer to the Royal Prussian Settlement Commission in the provinces of Posen and West Prussia the Foreign Claims Settlement Commission the Tidelands Settlement Commission see Bill Dodd the Greek Refugee Settlement Commission see Henry Morgenthau, Sr. the Soldier Settlement Commission in see Wollert, Victoria Australia disamb ... more details
International Settlement may refer to International Settlement San Francisco , a red light district in San Francisco Shanghai International Settlement , territory in Shanghai leased to Britain and the United States in the 19th and early 20th centuries International Settlement film , a 1938 American film set in the Shanghai International Settlement disambig ... more details
File LuftSS.jpg thumb 300px Solar Settlement in Freiburg The Solar Settlement is a 59 PlusEnergy home housing community in Freiburg , Germany. Solar architect Rolf Disch wanted to apply his PlusEnergy concept, created originally with his Heliotrope home, to mass residential production. This residential complex won such awards as House of the Year 2002 , Residential PV solar integration award 2002 , Germany s most beautiful housing community 2006 . It is the first housing community in the world in which all the homes produce a positive energy balance and which is emissions free and CO2 neutral. Built between 2000 and 2005 in the Vauban, Freiburg Vauban quarter of Freiburg the design of each home offers maximum energy efficiency and turns energy bills into energy income. The Solar Settlement has proved Disch s vision of a fundamental environmental imperative as these homes have exhibited more than 8 years of full occupancy and each produced more than 4,000 Euros 5,600 each year in solar energy profits. Disch believes the image his community exhibits is equally as important as the eco savings it brings. Disch says 50 homes that eliminate energy bills and feed clean sustainable renewable energy into the city s grid is the imperative we need. They contribute towards the goal of sustainable ecological and economic development and show the entire world that communities like this are economical, beautiful, comfortable and in fact preferable. The tenants at the Solar Settlement do not claim to have made any compromises in their living situations but rather that they have both environmentally ... walkways, bike routes and connections to public transportation. At the Solar Settlement for example ... 2005 Wuppertal Energy and Environment Prize br 2003 Global Energy Award br 2002 European Solar Prize ...&feature player embedded Solar Settlement and Sun Ship Video http www.rolfdisch.de project.asp ... http www.youtube.com watch?v IMnB6V5yG1I&feature player embedded Solar Settlement and Sun Ship Video ... more details
Unreferenced stub auto yes date December 2009 A settlement offer or offer to settle is a term used in a civil action civil lawsuit to describe a communication from one party to the other suggesting a settlement law settlement an agreement to end the lawsuit before a judgment is rendered. Lawyer Attorneys typically negotiate terms of a settlement on behalf of their clients, so a settlement offer is usually conveyed by one party s attorney directly to the other party s attorney. In the English Law, Part 36 of the Civil Procedure Rules governs this area. In the US, evidence law evidence of settlement discussions generally, and of settlement offers specifically, is generally inadmissible in court. This is a policy based exclusion, intended to encourage the settlement of cases out of court, thus freeing up the resources of the court system. In Australia and the United Kingdom, offers of settlement may be called Calderbank Offers , Calderbank Letters and Offers of Compromise and often have a major impact on the allocation, by courts, of legal costs between parties. See also tort reform offer of judgment DEFAULTSORT Settlement Offer Category Civil procedure Law stub ... more details
White Settlement may refer to one of the following places White Settlement, Nova Scotia White Settlement, Texas geodis Short pages monitor This long comment was added to the page to prevent it being listed on Special Shortpages. It and the accompanying monitoring template were generated via Template Longcomment. Please do not remove the monitor template without removing the comment as well. ... more details
Settlement Date is a Security finance securities industry term describing the Calendar date date on which a trade bonds, equities, foreign exchange, commodities, etc. Wiktionary settle settle s. That is, the actual day on which transfer of cash or assets is completed. It is not necessarily the same as value date when the settlement amount is calculated . For instance, the back office may require a few days to make Settlement finance payment . This gap between valuation and settlement is often written into the financial contract , although the actual settlement date can also differ from that originally specified because of problems or errors. It is occasionally referred to as Contractual Settlement Date. See also Trade date Spot date Value date Settlement finance Settlement Risk Herstatt Risk Settlement risk References cite book last Gastineau first Gary L. coauthors Mark P. Kritzman title Dictionary of Financial Risk Management year 1996 isbn 1 883249 14 7 Settlement Date defined as the actual date of completion page 251 . http www.investorwords.com 4514 settlement date.html investorwords.com defines settlement date as the last possible date of intended settlement. Accessed October 12, 2007. Category Financial economics Category Securities fr Date de r glement ... more details
Urban settlement may refer to Urban area , area with high density of human created structures Municipal urban settlement , a type of subdivisions of Russia Municipal divisions municipal formation in Russia Urban settlement , a synonym for types of inhabited localities in Russia Urban localities urban localities in Russia Urban type settlement , an official designation for a certain type of urban locality used in some of the former republics of the Soviet Union Disambig ... more details
Forced settlement may refer to Sedentarization Forced settlements in the Soviet Union , punitive settlements, a tool of Soviet political repression disambig ... more details
File Falkland Islands Salvador.PNG right thumb 300px Location of Salvador. Salvador Settlement , also called Salvador , Salvador Settlement Corral , is a small harbour and Human settlementsettlement on East Falkland , in the Falkland Islands , It is on the north east coast, on the south shore of Port Salvador . It is one of a handful of Spanish language Spanish place names on the islands, still in use. It was founded by Andr s Pitaluga , a Gibraltarian people Gibraltarian , in the 1830s, who arrived from Gibraltar via continental South America . His descendants still run the farm there and the settlement is therefore sometimes referred to as Gibraltar Station or Gibraltar Settlement . References references Falkland Islands topics Falklands geo stub coord 51.436 58.372 type city 50 region FK display title Category Populated places on East Falkland ... more details
Settlement schools are social reform institutions established in rural Appalachia in the early 20th century .... Settlement schools have played an important role in preserving and promoting the cultural heritage of southern and central Appalachia. Scholar David Whisnant has argued that settlement schools created ... settlement setschools 04.html Settlement Schools and the Culture of the Mountains , KET TV website, accessed August 3, 2010 ref History The Appalachian settlement schools were inspired by the settlement ... by urban settlement houses, including Hull House in Chicago and the Henry Street Settlement in New ... , Hindman Settlement School website ref A large fraction of settlement schools were founded ... FlavellCulture Hindman Settlement School , in Hindman, Kentucky , was the first rural social settlement ... Beta Phi opened the Pi Beta Phi Settlement School in Gatlinburg, Tennessee , in 1912 to provide education ... s crafts tradition. Pine Mountain Settlement School , in Harlan County, Kentucky , was founded ... http www.pinemountainsettlementschool.com history.php History , Pine Mountain Settlement School website ref Settlement schools typically had large campus es, including dormitories for boarding students. ref name KETsetschools http www.ket.org settlement setschools 01.html The Appalachian Settlement ... s in the region in the 1920s and 1930s, settlement schools relinquished their role in the general ... established in the region. ref name PineMtnHistory Some settlement schools closed, but others assumed new functions over time. ref name KETcurrent Hindman Settlement School offers adult education , including ... ref name KETcurrent Since the early 1970s Pine Mountain Settlement School has specialized ... ref name KETcurrent Jennifer Minton, http www.ket.org settlement setschools 05.html The Current Roles of Settlement Schools , KET, Lexington, Kentucky ref The Pi Beta Phi Settlement School began an extension ... settlement schools The following are examples of settlement schools and other institutions most no longer ... more details
Jewish settlement may refer to Israeli settlement Jewish communities currently established in the West Bank or in the Golan Heights , between 1967 and 2006 in the Gaza strip or between 1967 and 1981 in the Sinai . Jewish settlement before 1948 Jewish communities established all over the world. Category Israeli settlements Category Arab Israeli conflict Category History of Israel Category Jews by country ... more details
Da k s n lang az Da k s n q s b is a settlement and municipality in the Dashkasan Rayon of Azerbaijan . It has a population of 823. citation needed date October 2010 The municipality consists of the settlement of Da k s n and the village of A a Da k s n . ref AJmuni ref References Reflist Dashkasan Rayon Coord missing Azerbaijan Long comment to avoid being listed on short pages DEFAULTSORT Daskesen Settlement Category Populated places in Dashkasan Rayon Dashkasan geo stub az Da k s n q s b ... more details
Qu u lang az Qu u q s b is a settlement and municipality in the Dashkasan Rayon of Azerbaijan . It has a population of 745. citation needed date October 2010 The municipality consists of the settlement of Qu u and the village of Qu u K rp s . ref AJmuni ref References Reflist Dashkasan Rayon Coord missing Azerbaijan Long comment to avoid being listed on short pages DEFAULTSORT Quscu Settlement Category Populated places in Dashkasan Rayon Dashkasan geo stub hy ... more details
Unreferenced date February 2008 Nahal settlements lang he , Hiahzut Nahal were settlements established by Nahal soldiers in Israel and Israeli occupied territories . Supporting Jewish settlement growth and expansion throughout Israel was once the main focus of the Nahal military brigade. The goal for every Nahal settlement was to become a civilian settlement. This method of encouraging settlement was particularly effective in less desirable areas mainly, in the Negev , the Galilee , the Arabah , and after the Six Day War the West Bank , the Gaza Strip , the Golan Heights and the Sinai Peninsula . The first Nahal settlement was Nahal Oz located in the northwestern Negev desert close to the border with the Gaza Strip. A number of former Nahal settlements are now 100 civilian. Many of today s kibbutz im were originally Nahal settlements. The last Nahal settlement was closed in 2001. Category Nahal settlements Israel geo stub de Nachal Siedlung he ... more details
N vah is a settlement and municipality in the Hajigabul Rayon of Azerbaijan , distinct from the village and municipality of N vah . It has a population of 2,293. citation needed date October 2010 References Reflist Hajigabul Rayon Coord missing Azerbaijan Long comment to avoid being listed on short pages DEFAULTSORT Nevahi Settlement Category Populated places in Hajigabul Rayon Hajigabul geo stub ... more details
Unreferenced auto yes date December 2009 Globalize date December 2010 The definition of a rural settlement depends on the country. In some countries, a rural settlement is any settlement in the areas defined as rural by a governmental office, e.g., by the national census bureau . This may include even rural town s. In some others, rural settlements traditionally do not include towns. Common types a rural settlements are village s, hamlet place hamlet s and farm s. Traditionally, rural settlements were associated with agriculture . In modern times other types of rural communities have been developed. Russia A municipal rural settlement in Russia is a type of subdivisions of Russia Municipal divisions municipal formation . The term rural settlement is also sometimes used either as a synonym for all types of inhabited localities in Russia rural localities , or for settlements of rural type in particular. See also Urban settlement DEFAULTSORT Rural Settlement Category Human habitats Category Rural geography Geo term stub be , cv et K laasundus fa it Insediamento rurale lt Kaimo gyvenviet nl Selskoje poselenieje ru tt uk ... more details
Image Western settlement eng.png thumb 350 px Map of the Western settlement of the Norsemen Norse in medieval Greenland . The area is approximately the modern Municipality of Nuuk . The known farms and churches are identified on the map as well as some probable geographical names spelled as modern English versions of the old Norse names. The red dots indicate known farm ruins........... The farm under the sand is more commonly known by archaeologists by the Danish name G rden under sandet GUS The Western Settlement lang non Vestribygg was the smaller of the two main areas of Greenland settled in around 985 AD by Norsemen Norse farmers from Iceland the other settlement being the Eastern Settlement . Much less is known about the Western settlement than the Eastern settlement, very little mention in the written sources and no direct descriptions in any of the medieval sources on Greenland. The Norse settlement is last mentioned in the mid 14th century, when a traveller from the Eastern Settlement found only vacant farms. Ivar Bardarson, writing to the Bishop of Bergen , describing conditions he observed sometime between 1341 60. At its peak, the Western Settlement probably had 1,000 inhabitants. Its smaller size was due to the shorter growing season. The largest of the Western Settlement farms was Sandnes. Ruins of almost 95 farms have been found in the Western settlement. ref http www.mnh.si.edu vikings voyage subset greenland history.html Greenland History ref Despite its name, the Western Settlement was more north than west of its companion and, like the Eastern Settlement, was located on the southwestern coast of Greenland at the head of a long fjord farther inland than Nuuk , Danish Godth b . There was also a third, still smaller area known as the Ivittuut Middle Settlement . References reflist Other Source Jared Diamond Diamond, J . 2005 . Collapse book Collapse How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed . New York Penguin. coord missing Greenland Vinland Abandoned ... more details
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