All About Chicago
Chicago's longest serving mayor
Richard M. Daley
(served for 22 years)
This term describes the Fed's two goals of 1) price stability and 2)maximum sustainable employment
The 'Dual Mandate'
(the Federal Reserve Act states the third goal of the Fed is to moderate long-term interest rates)
Describes the feeling you might have wondering if others are having fun without you
FOMO
(Fear Of Missing Out)
Letter(s) sent to a public figure/celebrity by their admirers
Fan Mail
Serves as the foundation for all transactions, and includes the dimensions for all financial transactions
Foundational Data Model (FDM)
This indoor arena opened in 1929 and closed in 1994 - and was the home for the Chicago Blackhawks and the Chicago Bulls
Chicago Stadium
(its site is now a parking lot for the United Center across the street )
This state is home to TWO head district offices.
(St. Louis-8th District; Kansas City-10th District)
Common in online gaming, this acronym is used when gamers leave their gaming system - therefore making them unable to type messages
AFK
(Away From Keyboard)
A person who catches marine life for a living or for sport
FisherMan
A dimension of the FDM, this element comes from an industry standard set of classifications that groups goods and services into categories
Commodity Code
Recognized as the "Founder of Chicago", the site where this person settled near the mouth of the Chicago River is identified as a national landmark on the Magnificent Mile.
Jean Baptiste Point du Sable
Contrary to popular belief, the Fed does not have authority to create money; instead this entity is responsible for creating/printing currency.
The US Treasury oversees:
the US Mint (coins)
and the Bureau of Engraving and Printing (paper currency)
Common in the armed forces, a person that is away without authority is described as this
AWOL
(Absent WithOut Leave)
A lunar phase that occurs roughly every 29.5 days
Full Moon
A service or function provided on behalf of multiple districts under a regionalized governance structure that allocates across services lines.
Cross Functional Shared Service (CFSS)
(examples include CRSO, SLI, and TRSO)
The first televised presidential debate in 1960, between John Fitzgerald Kennedy and Richard Milhous Nixon - took place in a Chicago studio for this TV station.
CBS
(on November 4, 1956, former First Lady and Democrat icon Eleanor Roosevelt debated Republican senator from Maine, Margaret Chase Smith)
The states of Alaska and Hawaii fall into the District who's head office is in what city?
San Francisco (12th District)
This acronym describes the mechanism on vehicles that allows the wheels to maintain contact with the road's surface and allows drivers to maintain more control over the vehicle during braking
ABS
(Anti-lock Braking System)
This Portuguese explorer was best known for having planned and led the 1519 Spanish expedition to the East Indies across the Pacific Ocean
Ferdinand Magellan
As defined in the CASPR Manual, operations that directly perform the five core mission responsibilities of the System are referred to as these.
Direct Services
(Service Line 6 - Indirect Services represents those functions that provide operational support for the core functions
In 1893, the first successful heart surgery was performed by Daniel Hale Williams - who was a graduate of what Chicago university?
Northwestern
(now named "Feinberg School of Medicine", Northwestern's medical school was called "Chicago Medical College"
This American educator and economist was the first woman to serve as the chair of the Federal Reserve Board.
Janet Louise Yellen
(also first woman to serve as the U.S. Secretary of the Treasury)
This acronym describes a type of challenge–response test, that is used in computing to determine whether the user is human - by requiring someone to correctly evaluate and enter a sequence of letters or numbers from a distorted image
CAPTCHA
(Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart)
Used in radio, information is transmitted in variations in the carrier wave frequency
Frequency Modulation
Of the 10 indirect activity distribution sequences in the CASPR step-down, the allocation of Financial Management costs occurs in this sequence.
9 - Financial Planning & Control