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Client: Louis Vuitton
Title: A Journey
Agency: Ogilvy, Paris
Creative: Christian Reuilly
Agency Producer: Laure Bayle

Production Company: Quad Productions, Paris
Director: Bruno Aveillan
Producer: Martin Coulais
DP: Philippe Lesourd
Cameraman: Bruno Aveillan

Post-Production: WIZZ Paris
Post-Producer: Manuel Beard
Editor: Fred Olszak
Flame Artist: Bruno Maillard
Special Effects/Processes: WIZZ, Paris
Music: Gustavo-Santaolalla

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These days you can put a dollar value on almost anything. I was just wondering if there was any studies on the dollar value of good health, and what the general thoughts were on this. Any value suggestions are good.

Of course you could put a dollar value on it, and it’s most definitely not infinite or priceless. That happens when people have to pay for health care. "Good health" is too unspecific though, there is no measurable transaction to gain "good health". But you could specify things and certainly measure the value of fixing a broken leg or getting a cancer removed or getting a heart bypass.

The problem when it comes to placing a value on things is that societies always treat healthcare differently from other markets, so that we usually don’t get a chance to price the market and see what happens.

Either you get socialized medicine where health care is nominally "free", but the government makes the decisions about rationing, and so the government actively denies service and condemns the unlucky people to pain and death (which happens in ALL universal coverage scenarios, without exception). Or, you get an equally dysfunctional system like in the U.S. where the consumer is shielded by the cost if they are well covered by 3rd party insurance, but some people are not covered and the system is inefficient and distorting market signals.

So the answer is that governments and insurance companies place a specific value on "good health" all the time, but it’s not necessarily an accurate measure of that value, as value is usually discovered and measured for every other thing in the economy.

I was in an accident and I think my car is totalled. Body shop called and said damages were $9800 and I found 3 separate values on my car.
Suggested Retail Value: $15,600
Trade In Value: $10,045
Private Part Value: $12,025

What value do body shops usually use determine value?

Blue book value

Intermediate Value Theorem – The idea of the Intermediate Value Theorem is discussed. I then do two examples using the IVT to justify that two specific functions have roots.

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Learn to draw Portrait Series
Episode 5 Part A

Link to Part B

Link to a Playlist of all videos in this series

http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=DE90A0B005052EFB

link to exercises
http://www.eclecticasylum.com/ltdp/ep5.html

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As in semiconductor datasheet, there are min, typ and max value. But some items, not all value of min, typ and max are given. Example;only the typ value, 5.5 Volt is given for maximum output voltage. While the other value, min and max is only shown as "-". How if my measurement value of maximum output voltage is 4.5 Volt and how if my measurement value of maximum output voltage is 10 Volt. Is it my measurement value is not ok?

depends on the chip and if you are talking about supply or source pins…

output pins voltages are a function of the power supply….

When I calculated the return of equity of a company, I found its book value of equity is negative because of the large treasury stock. If the book value of company’s eqity is negative, many valuation method can not be used. So I want to find some method to value the company that with negative book value of equity.

The company is probably not worth your effort of the attempt. One such company that come to mind is Health South, an absolute investment disaster.

See what happens when a Big Mac Extra Value Meal is put into a Blendtec blender. See more at willitblend.com

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I am looking to invest in real estate. This would be my first ever purchase of a property for such reason. I have been told to always look at the assessed value of a property before buying to see if the property is priced well or not. How does this value compare to the actual value of a property? As I’ve been doing research, I’ve noticed the majority of the properties are priced way above their assessed value. Does that automatically mean they are overpriced? Or is it that the assessed value is a certain percentage of the actual value of a property? Anybody that would be willing to share their wisdom of real estate investing, please do!!!

In some markets the assessed value might be equal to or lower than actual market value. In most markets it is under by 17% to 35%. What can be gleaned from a look at the assessments of the entire block of a home your interested in is how it rates among the rest. All assessments will be off but almost evenly down the street. The assessor doesn’t see the interior conditions or remodel upgrades. Some older people might have had their taxes abated or assessment frozen. This is why Zillow is so inacurate as often when recent sales info is sketchy it uses assessment as value. The old rule of thumb investor wise was never pay more than 65 cents on the market value, hence buy for assessment value. That dynamic has changed somewhat but keep in mind a never changing rule. Never pay more than what 1% of the price will bring in as monthly rent. A 100K house that cannot rent for 1K per month will lose you money. Some experienced investors can make such a property work but a beginner will lose money guaranteed. I have done this for decades and learned from some of the best.