... RIG OUR TAX SYSTEM TO BENEFIT THE SUPER RICH— And Cheat Everybody Else David Cay Portfolio Johnston PORTFOLIO Published by the Penguin Group Penguin Group (USA) Inc., 375 Hudson Street, New York, ... gardeners and handymen and petty merchants who get paid in cash and pay little or no tax, there is also an underground economy among the super rich that lets them understate their true income and overstate ... person in America stands at the bottom and the person with the biggest income stands at the top, with everyone else taking their place on the rungs in between Between 1973 and 2001, those whose...
Ngày tải lên: 03/11/2014, 14:30
... happens in group planning and whether the students in preplanning groups perform more accurately and better than those in unplanning groups in terms of tenses, subject-verb agreement and pronouncing ... understand clearly what they are going to Group I and II are “no planning” (henceforth referred to as NP1 and NP2) After being given the topic, students will perform without any planning Group III and ... questionnaires, and teacher’s notes First, eight group discussions and sixteen individual presentations were selected to be transcribed, coded and analyzed The groups’ talks and subsequent individual...
Ngày tải lên: 07/09/2013, 13:02
Class Members and Class Reuse
... number and the method GetNumberOfIdsCreated are static members, and the field idNumber and the method GetIdNumber are instance members The two Id methods are special methods called constructors and ... justification, where w is the field width, and where f is the type of format Both left justification and type of format are optional The sharp (#) and are digit and zero placeholders, respectively For ... data members and methods of a new class In order to define the class BoundedCounter, a single object of the Counter class is placed inside BoundedCounter along with two additional data members, and...
Ngày tải lên: 05/10/2013, 05:20
Hydraulics and pneumatics elsevier
... of foot, pound and second (and was consequently known as the fps system) Early metric systems used centimetre, gramme and second (known as the cgs system), and metre, kilogramme and second (the ... characteristic, and it is by no means unusual to find pressure indicated at different locations in the same system in bar, kpascal and psi There is, however, a welcome (and overdue) movement to standardisation ... pneumatics 171 Signals and standards 172 The flapper-nozzle 174 Volume boosters 176 The air relay and the force balance principle 177 Pneumatic controllers 179 Process control valves and actuators Converters...
Ngày tải lên: 06/01/2014, 22:37
Slide a study on group discussion and its impacts on speaking ability of the non major students at the post elementary level in military science academy
... in a group: Number of groups: ( No planning groups & Pre-planning groups) Records: All the group discussions and the individual presentations from No planning group & Pre-planning group Group ... group performed better and more accurately than those in NP group in terms of EFVF and EFNF (in terms of tense, subject verb agreement and pronouncing morpheme-s in plurality ) Conclusions and ... Department at MSA - Nature of group work - Relationship between group work and individual presentation Objectives of the study contribute more theory to the understandings of group discussion find...
Ngày tải lên: 29/01/2014, 10:33
A study on increasing students’ participation in communicative activities in large classes by using group work and questioning technique at marie curie high school, hai phong
... classes 11B1 and 11B2 for the control groups, and other two classes 11B3 and 11B4 for experimental groups These classes were comparable in terms of total number of students, age and sex After ... that group work did nor work well when the groups were not appropriately formed For example, the group members did not like each other very much, that soon broke the group; the students in a group ... talking time (STT) and their teacher talking time (TTT) in one teaching period Figure 1: STT and TTT in controlled groups before the experiment 27 Figure 2: STT and TTT in experimental groups before...
Ngày tải lên: 05/02/2014, 22:02
Tài liệu Báo cáo khoa học: "Group Theory and Linguistic Processing*" doc
... and it is easily shown that F ( V ) becomes a (non-commutative) group, called the FREE GROUP over V (Hungerford, 1974) Group computation We will say that an ordered pair G C S = (~, R) is a GROUP ... input-output, where input and output are 2For readers familiar with group theory, this terminology will evoke the classical notion of group PRESENTATIONthrough generators and relators The main difference ... stands for "semantics"), and where each II';- is a phonological element ( W stands for "'word") The expression above is a way of encoding the ordered pair consisting of the logical form S and...
Ngày tải lên: 20/02/2014, 18:20
The work of savings banks in microcredit in Europe (10 May 2011) Joint conference of the European Savings Banks Group (ESBG) and the European Microfinance Network (EMN) held in Brussels, Belgium pot
... venture of the Erste Group and Erste Foundation and one of the main financial investors in Central and Eastern Europe Their vision is that all individuals and firms in Central and Eastern Europe ... savings bank tradition and an important means to stimulate social inclusion and job creation Savings banks tailor their products in order to finance micro and small enterprises and create specific ... on a commercial basis and not to rely on subsidies Deutscher Sparkassen-und Giroverband (Germany) – Mr Reddig gave an overview of the system of savings banks in Germany and explained that three...
Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 10:20
Báo cáo khoa học: Characterization of inhibitory mechanism and antifungal activity between group-1 and group-2 phytocystatins from taro (Colocasia esculenta) pdf
... lane, two bands corresponding to GST-FL (upper band) and GST (lower band); Nt lane, GST-Nt peptide (upper band) and GST (lower band); Ct lane, only one band (GST-Ct peptide) (B) SDS ⁄ PAGE analysis ... type inhibitor, and provides evidence for the difference between group- 1 and group- 2 phytocystatins Phytocystatin has been known for its defense function against attack by insects and pathogens ... [32] Kondo et al [18] Corre-Menguy et al [33] group- 1 and group- 2 both evolved from a common ancestor The evolutionary direction from group- 1 toward group- 2 by gene duplication appears to be an...
Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 06:20
How Is Deployment to Iraq and Afghanistan Affecting U.S. Service Members and Their Families potx
... actual reenlistment behavior and expanded on an earlier study based on focus groups and data on intentions (How Deployments Affect Service Members, Hosek, Kavanagh, and Miller, 2006), examined ... to society and to DoD as an employer Remission and recovery rates would increase, as would retention, work productivity, and readiness of service members and veterans Recommendations and Conclusions ... 296 service members and 357 spouses, none of whom were married to each other 34 How Is Deployment to Iraq and Afghanistan Affecting U.S Service Members and Their Families? deployment And there...
Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 08:20
Báo cáo khoa học: RNA reprogramming of a-mannosidase mRNA sequences in vitro by myxomycete group IC1 and IE ribozymes pptx
... based on randomized IGS [3,11], using four distinct group I ribozymes, the Didymium group IE ribozyme (named DiGIR2), two Fuligo group IC1 ribozymes (named Fse.L569 and Fse.L1898), and the prototype ... rates, and cognate self-splicing intron ribozymes in Badhamia and Diderma (Bgr.L569 and Dni.L569, respectively) lack the repeat (S D Johansen et al., unpublished results) Group IC1 and group IE ... subclass of nuclear group I ribozymes Fse.L569, on the other hand, harbours a group IC1 folding domain with branched P5 (P5abc) and the A-bulge in P5a Large extensions are located in P5b and P6, as well...
Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 11:20
Variation in Helper Type Affects Group Stability and Reproductive Decisions in a Cooperative Breeder doc
... individuals (n = 24) and groups (24 different groups) We built four separate models: aggression towards mate (once for the initial group formation and once for the established group context); and aggression ... trade-offs affect the costs and benefits of staying within the natal group and engaging in helping activities, versus leaving the group and refraining from helping, and therefore may explain the ... to breeding: fanning and cleaning eggs, digging out shelters, cleaning breeding shelters from debris and defending the group against conspecific and heterospecific competitors and predators (Taborsky...
Ngày tải lên: 28/03/2014, 16:20
bettinger - forest management and planning (elsevier, 2009)
... the activities of land managers, and allow land managers and landowners to understand how various alternatives may meet their objectives This book concerns the theory, methods, and issues related ... understanding of the landowner’s desires Effective communication with a landowner is essential Small, private landowners may require oneon-one meetings and tours of their property Other larger landowners ... found that absentee landowners and landowners who view their forests as long-term investments are more supportive of policies that encourage sustainable management, whereas landowners who II CHALLENGES...
Ngày tải lên: 03/04/2014, 12:10
Pipeline and risers (elsevier ocean engineering series)
... ELSEVIER OCEAN ENGINEERING BOOK SERIES VOLUME PIPELINES AND RISERS Elsevier Seience Internet Homepage http://www.elsevier.n1 (Europe) http://www.elsevier.com (America) ’ http://www.elsevier.colip ... (Asia) Consult the Elsevier homepage for full catalogue information on all books,journals and electronic products and services Elsevier Titles of Related Interest BJORHOVDE, COLSON & ZANDONMI Connections ... parameters and the restraint on the pipeline The line will expand up to the “anchor point”, and past this point the line does not expand (hence fully restrained) The distance between the pipeline end and...
Ngày tải lên: 21/04/2014, 12:18
NORTHERN MARIANA ISLANDS RETIREMENT FUND WORKERS’ COMPENSATION COMMISSION GROUP HEALTH AND LIFE INSURANCE TRUST FUND FINANCIAL AUDITS REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS docx
... Northern Mariana Islands Retirement Fund, Workers’ Compensation Commission, and Group Health and Life Insurance Trust Fund for the fiscal years ending September 30, 2011 and 2012 Audits must ... Mariana Islands Retirement Fund is soliciting sealed proposals to perform a financial audit of the Northern Mariana Islands Retirement Fund (NMIRF), Workers’ Compensation Commission (WCC), and Group ... Applicable Audit Standards The audits shall be made in accordance with auditing standards generally accepted in the United States of America and the Government Auditing Standards (Yellow Book)...
Ngày tải lên: 19/06/2014, 22:20
Báo cáo hóa học: " Robust Transmission of H.264/AVC Streams Using Adaptive Group Slicing and Unequal Error Protection" pptx
... d Transmitted slice groups (b) Figure 6: Allowable packet exchanges in case of three slice groups where Kl and Nl are the number of source and RS packets of the lth slice group Pl (i) is the ... slice group are erased and concealed by slice group replication Finally, D f ,i,l represents the distortion introduced when the current frame slice group is concealed by slices received intact and ... two standard QCIF sequences Foreman and Carphone, coded at 10 frame/s (fps), and the CIF sequence Paris, coded at 30 fps Group of pictures (GOPs) of IPPP structure consisting of 100 and 300...
Ngày tải lên: 22/06/2014, 23:20
roadshow mexico city on 7 8 may 2014 thomas aebischer holcim group cfo and member of the executive committee urs birri cfo holcim mexico thomas rueger treasury relationship manager angel garcía de quevedo treasure
... t cement (18% of Holcim Group) 10.2 Mio t aggregates (7% of Holcim Group) 8.0 Mio m3 ready-mix concrete (20% of Holcim Group) • Net Sales: CHF 3’349 Mio (17% of Holcim Group) • Op EBITDA: CHF ... Board with members from Holcim and members from Lafarge » » » CEO: Bruno Lafont CFO: Thomas Aebischer CIO: Jean-Jacques Gauthier » PRO FORMA SHAREHOLDING STRUCTURE Co-Chaired by Holcim and Lafarge ... Customer focus - Value management - Pricing policies - Marketing and sales forces skills and motivation Cost Leadership - Energy and AFR - Logistics Total increase 1) Cash cost to achieve the savings...
Ngày tải lên: 29/07/2014, 12:42
Báo cáo khoa học:Voltage Graphs, Group Presentations and Cages ppt
... girth 8, and is not a lift of P , the smallest candidate will have 40 vertices In this case there are two choices for the lifting group, Z4 and Z2 × Z2 It turns out that Z4 does not work, and it ... 5-cycles and no 6-cycles Now P contains twelve 5-cycles, six of these consist of four tree edges and one outer edge, and six consist of two tree edges and three consecutive outer edges So the group ... Cayley graph The element ab has order 110, and the subgroup generated by a and b is the dihedral group of order 220 If we consider just the a-edges and b-edges of the graph, we have 12 disjoint...
Ngày tải lên: 07/08/2014, 08:20