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Shareholder Agreements Prevent Minority Shareholders From Receiving Fair Value
Our Investment Banking firm is receiving an unusually high number of inquiries from minority interest shareholders looking for help. Often times they have just been terminated and concurrently receive a Letter of Intent to purchase their minority shareholder stock.
When they look at these offers, they are hit with their second punch in the gut. The offers are often woefully short of what the terminated shareholder expected. However, when they start to investigate, the harsh reality of the situation sets in. IRS Revenue Ruling 59-60 allows steep discounts when valuing minority interests in privately held companies. The lack of marketability discount can be as high as 40%. A second discount for lack of control for up to 40% can be applied on top of that.
Theoretically, if you owned 49.9999% of a company with a $10 million value and these maximum discounts were applied, your $5 million value evaporates into $800,000.
Wait, it gets worse. The oppressive shareholder understands that through either the shareholder agreement or the Corporate By Laws, they have every right to buy your minority stock at an even bigger discount from fair value. I cannot tell you how many times I have seen almost exactly the identical language as below in either By Laws or Shareholder Agreements:
Right of First Refusal: “The Corporation Shall have the power, at its option to purchase any and all of its shares owned and held by any shareholder who should desire to sell……the shareholders shall not assign, transfer, encumber, or in any manner dispose of any of all of the shares of the corporation that may now or hereafter be held or owned by them, and no such shares shall be transferable unless and until such shares have first been offered to the corporation.”
Wait, the pain is just beginning……. “In the event the Corporation exercises its right of first refusal under the above clauses, the purchase price shall be payable in cash or bank check, and shall be the book value of the shares, exclusive of goodwill, as of the first notice, as determined according to generally accepted accounting principles and shall be binding upon the parties.”
In most cases the “book value” of a company net of good will is a small fraction of the true value of the company. I looked at a company recently that had a market value of approximately $10 million. Its book value using this definition was approximately $800,000. A 40% shareholder wanted to sell his shares. According to the shareholder agreement, if, after he was terminated and given his bid from the oppressive shareholder of $500,000, he sought to sell his shares to an outside party, he would have triggered the Right of First Refusal clause. The result would have been a mandatory sale to the Corporation at a value of 40% of $800,000 or $320,000. This is not even close to the fair value of the company multiplied by his shareholder percentage.
Unfortunately, traditional legal remedies are inadequate to help these minority shareholders. Their attorneys are left with going after a wrongful termination lawsuit. Those end up being a frustrating and ineffective attempt to extract some measure of relief from this pain they are experiencing. The poor client will find it hard to win, he will spend the entire amount of a potential settlement on legal fees and most importantly, he is focusing on the lowest potential reward. His prize is in his stock. MidMarket Capital has worked with several clients in this area and has identified a number of successful strategies that are designed to achieve meaningful exits without legal conflict.
About the Author
Dave Kauppi is the editor of The Exit Strategist Newsletter, a Merger and Acquisition Advisor and Managing Partner of MidMarket Capital, providing business broker services to owners of middle market companies. The firm counsels clients in the areas of M&A, valuations, “Smart Equity Capital Raises”, sales and acquisitions. Visit our Web site to review our lists of buyers and sellers.
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An Investor’s Notes on American Railroads $23.86 Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free.This is an OCR edition with typos.Excerpt from book:. CHAPTER III. CONTROL. On the mind of an uninitiated visitor to Wall Street a strong impression is made by the constant recurrence of the word ‘ Control’ in discussions affecting the securities of railroad companies and their various degrees of merit or demerit. He hears experts say that it is dangerous to touch this or that stock, because it is ” controlled by A. or by B’s crowd,â?”and you never quite know where you are.” Or, again, that the stock of the C. Railroad will never really be good for any thing until the road is” controlled by K. and his people.” The stranger had supposed that the value of the securities of any given railroad was roughly measured by comparatively simple and definite conditions; such, for instance, as the amount of the company’s fixed and floating debt, the volume of its business, the relation between net and gross receipts, the ability of its executive, and so forth. Ten or twelve years’ familiarity with the details of railroad administration in its various relations to Wall Street would lead him to the conclusion that ” control ” has more to do with values than he had supposed, and that it is a word of the first importance in the railroad vocabulary. Some observations have been made above (pages 8-10) as to the history and growth of American railroads, and it has been indicated that a great number of these havebeen built in very large part with foreign money. It has been further noticed that many of these were built in advance of any real need for them ; and were, in short, rather promoters’ roads, than expressions of genuine supply addressed to meet a pressing demand for effective transportation. In days of so-called ” inflation,” which perhaps might better be described as periods of irrepressible speculative restlessness, there |
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An investor’s notes on American railroads $17.46 Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free.This is an OCR edition with typos.Excerpt from book:. CHAPTER III. CONTROL. On the mind of an uninitiated visitor to Wall Street a strong impression is made by the constant recurrence of the word ‘ Control’ in discussions affecting the securities of railroad companies and their various degrees of merit or demerit. He hears experts say that it is dangerous to touch this or that stock, because it is ” controlled by A. or by B’s crowd,â?”and you never quite know where you are.” Or, again, that the stock of the C. Railroad will never really be good for any thing until the road is” controlled by K. and his people.” The stranger had supposed that the value of the securities of any given railroad was roughly measured by comparatively simple and definite conditions; such, for instance, as the amount of the company’s fixed and floating debt, the volume of its business, the relation between net and gross receipts, the ability of its executive, and so forth. Ten or twelve years’ familiarity with the details of railroad administration in its various relations to Wall Street would lead him to the conclusion that ” control ” has more to do with values than he had supposed, and that it is a word of the first importance in the railroad vocabulary. Some observations have been made above (pages 8-10) as to the history and growth of American railroads, and it has been indicated that a great number of these havebeen built in very large part with foreign money. It has been further noticed that many of these were built in advance of any real need for them ; and were, in short, rather promoters’ roads, than expressions of genuine supply addressed to meet a pressing demand for effective transportation. In days of so-called ” inflation,” which perhaps might better be described as periods of irrepressible speculative restlessness, there |
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Applied Microsoft .Net Framework Programming $49.99 The Microsoft .NET Framework allows developers to quickly build robust, secure ASP.NET Web Forms and XML Web service applications, Windows Forms applications, tools, and types. Find out all about its common language runtime and learn how to leverage its power to build, package, and deploy any kind of application or component. APPLIED MICROSOFT .NET FRAMEWORK PROGRAMMING is ideal for anyone who understands object-oriented programming concepts such as data abstraction, inheritance, and polymorphism. The book carefully explains the extensible type system of the .NET Framework, examines how the runtime manages the behavior of types, and explores how an application manipulates types. While focusing on C#, it presents concepts applicable to all programming languages that target the .NET Framework. Topics covered include: The .NET Framework architecture Building, packaging, deploying, and administering applications and their types Building and deploying shared assemblies Type fundamentals Primitive, reference, and value types Operations common to all objects Type members and accessibility Constants, fields, methods, properties, and events Working with text Enumerated types and bit flags Array types Interfaces Custom attributes Delegates Error handling with exceptions Automatic memory management AppDomains and reflectionIncludes coverage of C# |
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Aristotelian Manuscripts: Codex Vaticanus 1026, Codex Vaticanus 1339, Codex Marcianus CCXXVIII, Codex Vaticanus 266 $8.87 Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher’s book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Codex Vaticanus 1026, Codex Vaticanus 1339, Codex Marcianus Ccxxviii, Codex Vaticanus 266, Codex Vindobonensis Philos. 2, Codex Vindobonensis Philos. 157, Codex Vindobonensis Philos. 75, Codex Ambrosianus 435, Codex Vaticanus 253, Codex Vaticanus 260, Codex Coislinianus 386. Excerpt: Codex Vaticanus 1026 is a manuscripts of the treatise On the Soul of Aristotle. It is designated by symbol W. Paleographically it had been assigned to the 13th century. It is written in Greek minuscule letters. The manuscript contains a complete text of the treatise. The Greek text of the manuscript is eclectic. It belongs to the textual family to II book, 7 chapter, 419 a 27. Since 419 a 27 it is a representative of the family . The manuscript was not cited by Trendelenburg, Torstrik, Biehl, Apelt, and Ross in his critical editions of the treatise On the Soul. It means the manuscript has not high value. Currently it is housed at the Vatican Library (gr. 1026) at Rome. … More: http://booksllc.net/?id=22509361 |
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Axiological Theories: Value, Value Theory, Labor Theory of Value, Axiology, Cultural Bias, Nothing, Cost-Of-Production Theory of Value $40.64 Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher’s book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Value, Value Theory, Labor Theory of Value, Axiology, Cultural Bias, Nothing, Cost-Of-Production Theory of Value, Surplus Value, Social Network, Asha, Good and Evil, Social Choice and Individual Values, Business Ecology, Use Value, Value Product, Fair Value, Value Network, Intrinsic Value, Real Versus Nominal Value, Instrumental Value, Virtual Value Chain, Science of Value, Filipino Values, Value of Earth, Everything, Value System, Universal Value, Value Judgment, Value Added, Pirsig’s Metaphysics of Quality, Play Value, Social Exchange Theory, Mottainai, Value Network Analysis, Don Tapscott, Ethonomics, Anthropological Theories of Value, Value Pluralism, Economic Value Added, Christian Values, Business Ecosystem, Rokeach Value Survey, Store of Value, Value Migration, Augustinian Values, Non-Use Value, Website Value, Brute Fact, Digital Artifactual Value, Value Grid, Cash Surplus Value Added. Excerpt: Surplus value is a concept used famously by Karl Marx in his critique of political economy, although he did not himself invent the concept. It refers roughly to that part of the new value created by production which is claimed by enterprises as “generic gross profit”. Marx argues its ultimate source is unpaid surplus labour performed by the worker for the capitalist, and that the surplus-value is the primary basis for capital accumulation. “Surplus-value and the rate of surplus-value are… the invisible essence to be investigated, whereas the rate of profit and hence the form of surplus-value as profit are visible surface phenomena” – Karl Marx, Capital Vol. 3, Pelican edition, p. 134 The German equivalent word “Mehrwert” means simply value-added (an output measure of the net increase in product wealth), but in Marx’s value theory, the extra o… More: |
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Bank Mergers: Lessons for the Future $147 Despite the wall of evidence that bank mergers add little or no value, investors and management continue to fuel the consolidation wave. This book draws on the actual experience of senior executives in over 30 banks with extensive merger experience to demonstrate how most mergers do in fact fail to meet objectives. It explores in detail the issues of strategic positioning, cost, and revenue synergies due to diligence, IT selection and conversion, people selection, cultural conflict, leadership, and the decision-making time frame. It concludes that experienced and determined leadership, significant net cost savings, swift decision-making and the cost of IT integration are key variables for success. It also suggests that the prospect of more cross-border merger and modest short-term cost savings argues for a new pact between investors and bank management. |
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Basic Financial Concepts: Inflation, Tax, Deflation, Discounted Cash Flow, Net Present Value, Discounting, Equity, Contango $72.12 Used – Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 307. Not illustrated. Chapters: Inflation, Tax, Deflation, Discounted Cash Flow, Net Present Value, Discounting, Equity, Contango, Time Value of Money, Rate of Return, Compound Interest, Letter of Credit, Amortization Schedule, Same-Day Affirmation, Valuation Using Discounted Cash Flows, Leverage, Eurodollar, Capitalization Rate, Real Versus Nominal Value, |
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Big Ticket Waste: Are Empty Federal Buildings Emptying the Taxpayers’ Wallets?: Hearing Before the Federal Financial Management $22.71 Used – Original publisher: Washington: U.S. G.P.O.: For sale by the Supt. of Docs., U.S. G.P.O., 2006. LC Number: KF26 .H633 2006c OCLC Number: (OCoLC)76804671 Subject: Public buildings — Government policy — United States. Excerpt: …11 We’re particularly pleased with our success in conducting inter-net auctions. Last year we were able to sell a 75-year-old ware-house of 55,000 square feet in Portland, Oregon, for almost $ 2 mil-lion, and 17 percent over our expected fair market value. And th |
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Books on Mithila Region (Study Guide): Maithili Karna Kayasthak Panjik Sarvekshan, Tapasa Vai Ganga, Balanak Bonihar O Pallavi, Maila Anchal $8.87 Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher’s book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Maithili Karna Kayasthak Panjik Sarvekshan, Tapasa Vai Ganga, Balanak Bonihar O Pallavi, Maila Anchal, Nayanmani, Parti Parikatha, Bhāmatī, Khattar Kaka. Source: Wikipedia. Free updates online. Not illustrated. Excerpt: Maithil Karna Kayasthak Panjik Sarvekshan (A Survey of the Panji of the Karan Kayasthas of Mithila) is a book written by Binod Bihari Verma in Maithili. It is a research study on the available ancient manuscripts in the Mithila region,called as Panjis, which are genealogical charts of Maithil Brahmin and Kayasthas castes. This study deals with the manuscripts available in respect of Karna Kayasthas. The work is based on several manuscripts of Panjis obtained from various panjikars of Darbhanga, Bihar. The Panjis concerned deals with the genealogy of the Karna Kayasthas. The manuscript is written in Tirhuta script (Maithili script) on palm leaves and old paper called as ‘Basaha’ made out of indigenous material. The work deals with Mulgrams (original village homes) and the transmigration of the Karna Kayasthas to subsequent places of living. The book is important for the geographical and social study of North Bihar of the concerned period. The work also deals with personalities of eminence among the Karna Kayasthas since 12th century. Noted historian Suniti Kumar Chatterji has remarked that the book is of “immense sociological value” and “should be recognised by the scholars of Mithila”. …http://booksllc.net/?l=en |
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Building Business Intelligence Applications with .Net $19.98 Used – Data is the lifeblood of modern business. As computerized systems have spread throughout all facets of business, the amount of data collected has exploded. Data is captured in almost every consumer activity, and most of this data ends up in some kind of transaction processing system, but it only has value if it can be used to make better decisions. Business intelligence allows you to pull all of this data together to help form a unified view of your enterprise that executives and analysts |
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Business Intelligence Development Studio $70.99 Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! C++/CLI (Common Language Infrastructure) is Microsoft’s language specification intended to supersede Managed Extensions for C++. It is a complete revision that aims to simplify the older Managed C++ syntax (which is now deprecated). C++/CLI is standardized by Ecma as ECMA-372. It is currently available only in Visual Studio 2005, 2008 and 2010 (also included in the Express Editions).C++/CLI should be thought of as a language of its own (with a new set of keywords, for example), instead of the C++ superset-oriented Managed C++ (MC++) (whose non-standard keywords were styled like __gc or __value). Because of this, there are some major syntactic changes, especially related to the elimination of ambiguous identifiers and the addition of .NET-specific features. |
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C# 3.0 Unleashed $34.02 C# 3.0 Unleashed is a broad-based book that gives an in-depth look a the C# programming lanugage from essentials to advanced usage. It includes guidance on must-have productivity features of Visual Studio 2008. You will learn how to use C# to build multiple application types. You will be able to work with data using technlogies such as ADO.NET, LINQ, and the ADO.NET Entity Framework. You will learn how to build desktop applcations using either Windows Forms or the new Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF). Web applications with ASP.NET and Web Services with Windows Communications Foundation (WCF) are covered. There will even be a chapter on Silverlight for building rich Web Applications. Whether you are a current .NET developer or someone who is new to .NET, C# v3.5 Unleashed will provide great value. |
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C++ Programming Language Family: Managed Extensions for C++, C++cli, Intel Threading Building Blocks, Sieve C++ Parallel Programming System $10.55 Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher’s book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Managed Extensions for C++, C++/cli, Intel Threading Building Blocks, Sieve C++ Parallel Programming System, Fastflow, Intel Parallel Studio, Embedded C++, Charm++, R++, Felix, Μc++. Excerpt: C++/CLI (Common Language Infrastructure ) is Microsoft ’s language specification intended to supersede Managed Extensions for C++ . It is a complete revision that aims to simplify the older Managed C++ syntax (which is now deprecated). C++/CLI is standardized by Ecma as ECMA-372 . It is currently available only in Visual Studio 2005, 2008 and 2010 (also included in the Express Editions). Syntax changes C++/CLI should be thought of as a language of its own (with a new set of keywords, for example), instead of the C++ superset-oriented Managed C++ (MC++) (whose non-standard keywords were styled like _ _gc or _ _value). Because of this, there are some major syntactic changes, especially related to the elimination of ambiguous identifiers and the addition of .NET-specific features. Many conflicting syntaxes, such as the multiple versions of operator new() in MC++ have been split: in C++/CLI, .NET reference types are created with the new keyword gcnew. Also, C++/CLI has introduced the concept of generics (conceptually similar to standard C++ templates, but quite different in their implementation). Handles In MC++, there were two different types of pointers : _ _nogc pointers were normal C++ pointers, while _ _gc pointers worked on .NET reference types. In C++/CLI the only type of pointer is the normal C++ pointer, and the .NET reference types are accessed through a “handle”, with the new syntax ClassName ^ instead of ClassName*. This new construct is especially helpful when managed and standard C++ code is mixed; it clarifies which objects are under .NET automatic garbage |
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Caccioppoli Set $43.99 Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. In mathematics, a Caccioppoli set is a set whose boundary is measurable and has a (at least locally) finite measure. A synonym is set of (locally) finite perimeter. Basically, a set is a Caccioppoli set if its characteristic function is a function of bounded variation.The basic concept of a Caccioppoli set was firstly introduced by the Italian mathematician Renato Caccioppoli in the paper (Caccioppoli 1927): considering a plane set or a surface defined on a open set in the plane, he defined their measure or area as the total variation in the sense of Tonelli of their defining functions, i.e. of their parametric equations, provided this quantity was bounded. The measure of the boundary of a set was defined as a functional, precisely a set function, for the first time: also, being defined on open sets, it can be defined on all Borel sets and its value can be approximated by the valu on open sets, it can be defined on all Borel sets and its value can be approximated by the values it takes on an increasing net of subsets. Another clearly stated (and demonstrated) property of this functional was its lower semi-continuity. |
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California Decisions (Volume 49) $38.41 The book has no illustrations or index. It may have numerous typos or missing text. However, purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original rare book from the publisher’s website (GeneralBooksClub.com). You can also preview excerpts of the book there. Purchasers are also entitled to a free trial membership in the General Books Club where they can select from more than a million books without charge. Volume: 49; Original Publisher: Recorder Print. and Pub. Co.; Publication date: 1915; Description: Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: horses were in a slow walk. The lines were in Coffey’s hands. The horses were under his control. He could have come to a standstill in a second. Under all these circumstances it would be extremely unreasonable for any one to suppose that he was unaware of the approaching train, and did not intend to stop before reaching the track as he could easily have done, and as is the frequent custom. When the fireman did, nevertheless, begin to entertain a fear that Coffey was inattentive, he at once gave the urgent order to the engineer to stop. It cannot be said either that he did realize the danger sooner, or that, in reason, with his knowledge, he had cause to realize it sooner. Hence the last clear change doctrine never came Into operation.” Such was the situation in this case. The judgment is reversed. SLOANE, J. We concur: OLNEY, J. WILBUR, J. LENNON, J. ANGELLOTTI, C. J. SHAW, J. S. F. No. 9477. In Bank. January 18, 1921. In the Matter of the Estate of HENRY MILLER, Deceased. [1] Inheritance Tax Act?Basis Of Tax?”net Clear Value.”?Although the principal upon which an inheritance tax is to be computed is designated by the Inheritance Tax Act as the “clear market value” of the “beneficial interest” transferred, the plain purpose of the act was |
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Canadian Billionaires $20.75 Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher’s book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Galen Weston, Michael Lee-Chin, Jim Balsillie, Edgar Bronfman, Jr., Terry Matthews, Jeffrey Skoll, Guy Laliberté, List of Canadians by Net Worth, Edward Samuel Rogers, David Thomson, 3rd Baron Thomson of Fleet, Stephen A. Jarislowsky, David Azrieli, Charles Bronfman, Bernard Sherman, Calvin Ayre, Alex Shnaider, Paul Desmarais, Daryl Katz, Mike Lazaridis, Leslie Dan, Jim Pattison, Hilary Weston, David Cheriton, Heather Reisman, Ting Kwok David Ho, André Chagnon, James Irving, Arthur Irving, N. Murray Edwards, John E. Irving, Jean Coutu. Excerpt: Alexander Shnaider Alex Shnaider (born 1968) is a Russian -born Canadian businessman. He is co-founder with Eduard Shifrin of the Midland Group . He is married to Simona Birshtein, who is the daughter of Boris Birshtein. He was educated at York University in Toronto and is Canada’s youngest billionaire. He was named Chairman of the Royal Laser Corporation in May 2006. Alex Shnaider partnered with Donald Trump in the construction of the Trump International Hotel and Tower , which is currently under construction in Toronto. Donald Trump is a minority shareholder in the project. Shnaider has reportedly decided to keep the penthouse suite for himself, at an estimated value of $20 million. Steel Alex Shnaider’s fortune is founded on a steel trading venture which lead to his becoming the sole Sales Agency representing the total production of Zaporizhstal a steel mill in Ukraine. He is also a major shareholder in the mill though various Ukraine governments have made different statements of what per centage at any particular time. Formula One Shnaider bought Jordan Grand Prix from Eddie Jordan in February 2005 for approximately USD $50 million, and renamed it Midland F1 Racing for the 2006 Formula One season. Shnaider was |
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Central Station Rates In Theory And Practice $22.95 Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free.This is an OCR edition with typos.Excerpt from book:to be mentioned hereinafter (depreciation, repayment, taxes, insurance, etc.) must be, or should be, considered first. We can thus distinguish a gross return and a net return, both of them being based on the textit{net income. The gross return includes all capital charges, or at least depreciation and possibly repayment1 ; after deducting all those charges from the gross return we get the net return which is paid to the owners of the capital as bond interest and stock dividend. We have therefore to distinguish the following four items : 1. Gross income. 2. Net income = gross income cost. â?? , net income ,. 3. Gross return = – : i , usually given in per cent. 4. Net return = percentage gross return percentage depreciation, etc. 2. Depreciation.2 19. For practically all construction work, whether it be machinery, or buildings, or electric lines, etc., we can figure that after a certain number of years it has to be replaced because it is worn out and useless. How great this number of years is depends largely on the nature of the construction. A building may last 50 years or longer, a pole of an overhead line may be too decayed for further use after 10 years or less. etc. The value will decrease year after year and this is called the depreciation of the construction. Moreover, some parts of construction, especially machinery, must not infrequently be discarded long before they are physically unfit for further use because new inventions have been made and it has become either more economical or otherwise advisableto install machinery which embodies the new improvements rather than to continue employing the old obsolete machinery. This has, for instance, been frequently done in the last few years with reciprocating steam engines, which, |
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Chinese Websites $22.54 Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher’s book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Baidu, Google China, Tencent Qq, Tudou, Sina.com, Xunlei, Renren, Alibaba Group, Verycd, Youku, Baidu Baike, Hudong, Facekoo, Csdn, Alibaba.com, Sohu, Goojje, Gou-Rou.com, Douban, Ecpod.com, Witkey, 56.com, Bullog.cn, Babycenter, Tom Online, Blogcn, Netease, Rock in China, Amazon China, 6park, Tianya Club, Ooplala, Quam Limited, Wenxuecity, Gormb, the Han Net, Baidu Space, 163.com. Excerpt: NetEase (simplified Chinese : ; traditional Chinese : ; pinyin : wng yì) NASDAQ : NTES is a Chinese internet company that operates 163.com , a popular web portal which received over 546 million page views in June of 2005 . The company has grown rapidly since its founding in June 1997, thanks in part to its investment in search engine technology and massively multiplayer online gaming . Fantasy Westward Journey , an MMORPG developed internally by NetEase, is an online game in China. NetEase.com,inc. () has a market value of US $ 761.6 million. as of April 2006, and 1600 employees as of February 2006 . In 2004, NetEase’s founder and chief architect William Ding (Ding Lei ) won the Wharton Infosys Business Transformation Award for his innovative use of information technology. Ding became one of the wealthiest individuals in China after founding NetEase.The 163.com domain attracted at least 1.8 million visitors annually by 2008 according to a Compete.com survey. In April 2010, the site was the 28 most visited site on the planet according to Alexa’s internet rankings , drawing more traffic than the websites of AOL , BBC , Flikr , Craigslist , Apple , CNN , LinkedIn , Adobe , CNet , ESPN and several other heavy hitters.The company is one of the objects of satire in the machinima War of Internet Addiction .See also (online edition) References (URLs online) Websites |
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Closed-End Funds: A Survey $74.73 Used – Closed-end funds do certainly own a very unique characteristic in the world of finance. They are always negotiate in a different price than their net asset value. Most of the times in a discount. this study is making an attempt to illustrate and finally explain this characteristic. for this purpose we incorporate both the existing literature and an empirical research. most of the evidence points toward to the investors’ sentiment as a cause of the discount while from the empirical researc |
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Closed-End Funds: A Survey $74.73 New – Closed-end funds do certainly own a very unique characteristic in the world of finance. They are always negotiate in a different price than their net asset value. Most of the times in a discount. this study is making an attempt to illustrate and finally explain this characteristic. for this purpose we incorporate both the existing literature and an empirical research. most of the evidence points toward to the investors’ sentiment as a cause of the discount while from the empirical research |
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Collectible Investments for the High Net Worth Investor $64.5 Used – Many high net worth individuals are interested in diversifying their portfolios and investing in collectibles. A collectible is any physical asset that appreciates in value over time because it is rare or desired by many. Stamps, coins, fine art, antiques, books, and wine are examples of collectibles. Where does the financial advisor or investment manager for these high net worth individuals go to learn about these investments? There is no comprehensive resource from the financial standpo |
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Collectible Investments for the High Net Worth Investor $64.5 New – Many high net worth individuals are interested in diversifying their portfolios and investing in collectibles. A collectible is any physical asset that appreciates in value over time because it is rare or desired by many. Stamps, coins, fine art, antiques, books, and wine are examples of collectibles. Where does the financial advisor or investment manager for these high net worth individuals go to learn about these investments? There is no comprehensive resource from the financial standpoi |
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Competing with Information: A Manager’s Guide to Creating Business Value with Information Content $70 Every year nearly 4,000 executives attend one of the twenty-one Executive Development Programs or tailored Partnership Programs offered by the International Institute of Management Development, ranked as one of the most eminent business schools by Businessweek and US News & World Report. These programs force attendees to develop personal competencies and abandon outmoded procedures that may be established in their companies. Encompassing the ethos, structure, and core values of this program, this book shows why companies that compete well with information are in a strong market position. It focuses on how information management can create real business value in four ways: minimizing risk, reducing costs, delighting customers, and creating a new reality. It details the what, why, and how of information management and looks at the four-net strategies: Internet, Intranet, Extranet, and the industry net. |
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Connecticut Radio Station Introduction $23.37 Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher’s book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Wesu, Wnhu, Wapj, Wknd, Wtic-Fm, Wrki, Wkze-Fm, Wgrs, Wplr, Wrch, Watr, Wpop, Werb, Wstc, Wqqq, Wpkn, Winy, Wqgn-Fm, Wprx, Wdrc, Wweb, Wxci, Wmnr, Wihs, Wwpt, Wkci-Fm, Wlat, Wref, Wsgg, Wili-Fm, Wfar, Wwbw-Lp, Wnlk, Wnlc, Wwyz, Wqtq, Wknl, Wcse-Lp, Wjmj, Wybc, Wnln-Lp, Wrxc, Wlis, Wbvc, Wich, Wbmw, Wslx, Wacc-Lp, Wctf, Wqun, Wfnw, Wlad, Wgsk, Wmmw, Wsng, Wdjw, Wgch, Wcty, Wwrx, Wpkx, Wfox, Wctz, Wsub, Wybc-Fm, Whdd-Fm, Wrtc-Fm. Excerpt: WESU – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia WESU Magazine is a music and radio themed publication created by Wesleyan students, Middletown community members, and WESU DJs. This magazine creates a look for freeform radio by placing works of diverse content into print. It is a unique method for creating independent media that promotes the value of an non-commercial college radio station. … More: http://booksllc.net/?id=2556048 |
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Corporate Finance $2 Used – “Corporate Finance”, by Ross, Westerfield, and Jaffe is a popular textbook that emphasizes the modern fundamentals of the theory of finance, while providing contemporary examples to make the theory come to life. The authors aim to present corporate finance as the working of a small number of integrated and powerful intuitions, rather than a collection of unrelated topics. They develop the central concepts of modern finance: arbitrage, net present value, efficient markets, agency theory, o |
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Currency Swap $43.98 New – Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. A currency swap is a foreign-exchange agreement between two parties to exchange aspects (namely the principal and/or interest payments) of a loan in one currency for equivalent aspects of an equal in net present value loan in another currency; see Foreign exchange derivative. Currency swaps are motivated by comparative advantage. A currency swap should be distingu |
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Currency Swap $40.94 Used – Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. A currency swap is a foreign-exchange agreement between two parties to exchange aspects (namely the principal and/or interest payments) of a loan in one currency for equivalent aspects of an equal in net present value loan in another currency; see Foreign exchange derivative. Currency swaps are motivated by comparative advantage. A currency swap should be disting |
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DETERMINED MEANS: Going From Victim to Victor! $9.99 Determinate Means: Going from Victim to Victor deals mainly with the abusive character of the perpetrator and the habits and mindsets of the victim. The mindset and determination of the victim to survive and be successful through practicing safe measures and God’s Word are emphasized along with what “in our nature” causes us to sin. This book instructs us as individuals how to endure trauma and embrace healing and safety measures. As with any victim realizes, it becomes increasingly more difficult to trust others and hold on to sanity during times of great suffering, pain and abuse. We begin to doubt our self worth, allow others to dictate everything to us, value other peoples’ opinion over our own just to name a few of the issues we wrestle with. I struggled with all of these issues most of my life. One human being should never have control over another, especially in unhealthy ways. This book distinguishes the difference between healthy and unhealthy relationships, habits and boundaries and why we need to put them into place. These are the most significant barriers to healthy relationships and without them often give the perpetrator “mixed signals”. We can do all we can and still experience tragedy. As you read this book and learn the “Psychology” of our existence and creation, you will understand the need for this “real life safety net” pertinent to your life as a whole. |
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Data Binding With Windows Forms 2.0 $44.39 Brian Noyes’ writing style easily captures your attention as he elaborates on all aspects of data binding in his book. He has a refreshingly clear and crisp delivery as he starts each chapter with a simple tour of each topic, and then leads you into practical concerns for sound practices and extensibility opportunities. Most importantly, as Brian explains approaches to data-binding architecture, patterns of usage, the value of data sets, binding controls and the rest, he always describes how he reaches his recommendations on the topic. This book is perfect for newcomers to .NET 2.0, but also for those that have some experience. Anyone who cares about data in their applications (okay, that should be almost everyone) is guaranteed to learn something new and useful by reading Brian’s book. –Michele Leroux Bustamante, IDesign chief architect, Microsoft regional director, and MVP Brian has saved me a lot of time. I’m writing The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Visual Studio and SQL Server 2005 (7th Edition) and I’m not going to have to cover data binding nearly as deeply because Brian has done it for me. His book gets right to the meat of the subject and makes data binding look easy. I was also pleased to see that the book focuses on the misunderstood and under-applied Windows Forms architecture. It’s a must-read for anyone trying to make their application more interactive and to leverage the new Visual Studio 2005 technology. I’m planning to point my readers to this resource when they need an in-depth treatment of data binding. –William Vaughn, president, Beta V Corporation Data binding has finally come of age in Windows applications. Back in the Visual Studio 6.0 days, I ignoreddata binding completely and wrote my own repetitive code to encapsulate my business logic. With Visual Studio 2005, we finally have a robust and compelling data-binding technology. To ignore it today would make you inefficient and put you behind the curve. Brian delivers a clear and conci |
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Data Binding with Windows Forms 2.0: Programming Smart Client Data Applications with .NET $51.99 “Brian Noyes’ writing style easily captures your attention as he elaborates on all aspects of data binding in his book. He has a refreshingly clear and crisp delivery as he starts each chapter with a simple tour of each topic, and then leads you into practical concerns for sound practices and extensibility opportunities. Most importantly, as Brian explains approaches to data-binding architecture, patterns of usage, the value of data sets, binding controls and the rest, he always describes how he reaches his recommendations on the topic. This book is perfect for newcomers to .NET 2.0, but also for those that have some experience. Anyone who cares about data in their applications (okay, that should be almost everyone) is guaranteed to learn something new and useful by reading Brian’s book.”–Michele Leroux Bustamante, IDesign chief architect, Microsoft regional director, and MVP “Brian has saved me a lot of time. I’m writing The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Visual Studio and SQL Server 2005 (7th Edition) and I’m not going to have to cover data binding nearly as deeply because Brian has done it for me. His book gets right to the meat of the subject and makes data binding look easy. I was also pleased to see that the book focuses on the misunderstood and under-applied Windows Forms architecture. It’s a must-read for anyone trying to make their application more interactive and to leverage the new Visual Studio 2005 technology. I’m planning to point my readers to this resource when they need an in-depth treatment of data binding.”–William Vaughn, president, Beta V Corporation “Data binding has finally come of age in Windows applications. Back in the Visual Studio 6.0 days, I ignored data binding completely and wrote my own repetitive code to encapsulate my business logic. With Visual Studio 2005, we finally |
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Depreciation $41.88 Used – Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Depreciation refers to two very different but related concepts: the decline in value of assets (fair value depreciation), and the allocation of the cost of assets to periods in which the assets are used (depreciation with the matching principle).The former affects values of businesses and entities. The latter affects net income. Generally the cost is allocated, a |
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Designing Flexible Cash Flows $54.74 New – Whether calculating a net present value, assessing an internal rate of return, or considering the impact of debt on a transaction when analysing investments in property, it is very hard to get away from the need for cashflows. These cashflows range from the very simple to the extremely complex and can take anything from minutes to days to produce. Of course, valuation software exists that will produce these for you – but sometimes there are situations where you can’t avoid having to do the |
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Determined Means $29.98 Determinate Means: Going from Victim to Victor deals mainly with the abusive character of the perpetrator and the habits and mindsets of the victim. The mindset and determination of the victim to survive and be successful through practicing safe measures and God’s Word are emphasized along with what “in our nature” causes us to sin. This book instructs us as individuals how to endure trauma and embrace healing and safety measures. As with any victim realizes, it becomes increasingly more difficult to trust others and hold on to sanity during times of great suffering, pain and abuse. We begin to doubt our self worth, allow others to dictate everything to us, value other peoples’ opinion over our own just to name a few of the issues we wrestle with. I struggled with all of these issues most of my life. One human being should never have control over another, especially in unhealthy ways. This book distinguishes the difference between healthy and unhealthy relationships, habits and boundaries and why we need to put them into place. These are the most significant barriers to healthy relationships and without them often give the perpetrator “mixed signals”. We can do all we can and still experience tragedy. As you read this book and learn the “Psychology” of our existence and creation, you will understand the need for this “real life safety net” pertinent to your life as a whole. |
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Determined Means $16.74 Determinate Means: Going from Victim to Victor deals mainly with the abusive character of the perpetrator and the habits and mindsets of the victim. The mindset and determination of the victim to survive and be successful through practicing safe measures and God’s Word are emphasized along with what “in our nature” causes us to sin. This book instructs us as individuals how to endure trauma and embrace healing and safety measures. As with any victim realizes, it becomes increasingly more difficult to trust others and hold on to sanity during times of great suffering, pain and abuse. We begin to doubt our self worth, allow others to dictate everything to us, value other peoples’ opinion over our own just to name a few of the issues we wrestle with. I struggled with all of these issues most of my life. One human being should never have control over another, especially in unhealthy ways. This book distinguishes the difference between healthy and unhealthy relationships, habits and boundaries and why we need to put them into place. These are the most significant barriers to healthy relationships and without them often give the perpetrator “mixed signals”. We can do all we can and still experience tragedy. As you read this book and learn the “Psychology” of our existence and creation, you will understand the need for this “real life safety net” pertinent to your life as a whole. |
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Developing Statistical Software in Fortran 95 $84.95 Many books teach computational statistics. Until now, however, none has shown how to write a good program. This book gives statisticians, biostatisticians and methodologically-oriented researchers the tools they need to develop high-quality statistical software.Topics include how to:Program in Fortran 95 using a pseudo object-oriented style Write accurate and efficient computational procedures Create console applications Build dynamic-link libraries (DLLs) and Windows-based software components Develop graphical user interfaces (GUIs)Through detailed examples, readers are shown how to call Fortran procedures from packages including Excel, SAS, SPSS, S-PLUS, R, and MATLAB. They are even given a tutorial on creating GUIs for Fortran computational code using Visual Basic.NET. This book is for those who want to learn how to create statistical applications quickly and effectively. Prior experience with a programming language such as Basic, Fortran or C is helpful but not required. More experienced programmers will learn new strategies to harness the power of modern Fortran and the object-oriented paradigm. This may serve as a supplementary text for a graduate course on statistical computing. From the reviews:”This book should be read by all statisticians, engineers, and scientists who want to implement an algorithm as a computer program. The book is the best introduction to programming that I have ever read. I value it as one of my important reference books in my personal library.” Melvin J. Hinich for Techonmetrics, November 2006″Overall, the book is well written and provides a reasonable introduction to the use of modern versions of Fortran for statistical computation. The real thrust of the book is building COM interfaces using Fortran, and it will no doubt be most useful to anyone who needs to build such interfaces.” Journal of the American Statistical Association, June 2006″The book is well written and is divided into |
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Development with the Force.com Platform: Building Business Applications in the Cloud $31.99 This is the eBook version of the printed book.Build Cloud-Based Enterprise Applications Fast–and Drive More Value at Lower Cost! Using the Force.com platform, enterprise developers can build and deploy powerful applications far more rapidly than traditional J2EE, Microsoft .NET, or LAMP technology stacks permit. With a free subscription to the Force.com platform, developers can build apps that solve virtually any enterprise challenge with remarkable value, scalability, and reliability |
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Development with the Force.com Platform: Building Business Applications in the Cloud $39.99 Foreword by Craig Weissman, CTO, Salesforce.comBuild Cloud-Based Enterprise Applications Fast–and Drive More Value at Lower Cost!Using the Force.com platform, enterprise developers can build and deploy powerful applications far more rapidly than traditional J2EE, Microsoft .NET, or LAMP technology stacks permit. With a free subscription to the Force.com platform, developers can build apps that solve virtually any enterprise challenge with remarkable value, scalability, and reliability.This is the first book that brings together all the practical, technical guidance you need to make the most of Force.com in your own custom enterprise applications. Leading Force.com developer Jason Ouellette helps you identify suitable uses for Force.com and provides all the insights and sample code needed to rapidly prototype, deploy, and integrate with production-quality Force.com applications.Ouellette provides realistic code examples at every step, emphasizing maintainability, flexibility, andinteroperability throughout. Writing for developers, architects, and analysts, he shows how to• Create custom enterprise apps on Force.com in days or weeks, not months or years• Leverage Force.com’s extensive capabilities for storing, managing, and securing data• Quickly create sophisticated business logic with the Apex programming language• Use Visualforce to construct custom user interfaces• Establish automated or semiautomated workflows• Implement Ajax behaviors without writing JavaScript code or learning new JavaScript libraries• Integrate Force.com-based data and processes with other applications, inside and outside the platform• Display reports as state-of-the-art dashboards• Integrate Force.com applications with existing Single Sign-On systemsThis book’s extensive sample code may be downloaded from Force.com AppExchange at |
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Development with the Force.com Platform: Building Business Applications in the Cloud $39.99 Build Cloud-Based Enterprise Applications Fast–and Drive More Value at Lower Cost! Using the Force.com platform, enterprise developers can build and deploy powerful applications far more rapidly than traditional J2EE, Microsoft .NET, or LAMP technology stacks permit. With a free subscription to the Force.com platform, developers can build apps that solve virtually any enterprise challenge with remarkable value, scalability, and reliability. |
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Development with the Force.com Platform: Building Business Applications in the Cloud $39.99 Foreword by Craig Weissman, CTO, Salesforce.com Build Cloud-Based Enterprise Applications Fast-and Drive More Value at Lower Cost! Using the Force.com platform, enterprise developers can build and deploy powerful applications far more rapidly than traditional J2EE, Microsoft .NET, or LAMP technology stacks permit. With a free subscription to the Force.com platform, developers can build apps that solve virtually any enterprise challenge with remarkable value, scalability, and reliability. |
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Development with the Force.com Platform: Building Business Applications in the Cloud $31.99 This is the eBook version of the printed book.Build Cloud-Based Enterprise Applications Fast–and Drive More Value at Lower Cost! Using the Force.com platform, enterprise developers can build and deploy powerful applications far more rapidly than traditional J2EE, Microsoft .NET, or LAMP technology stacks permit. With a free subscription to the Force.com platform, developers can build apps that solve virtually any enterprise challenge with remarkable value, scalability, and reliability |
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Discoveries by Walter Baade: 1036 Ganymed, 944 Hidalgo, 1566 Icarus, 1103 Sequoia, 967 Helionape, 966 Muschi, 930 Westphalia, 934 Th ringia $9.16 Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher’s book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: 1036 Ganymed, 944 Hidalgo, 1566 Icarus, 1103 Sequoia, 967 Helionape, 966 Muschi, 930 Westphalia, 934 Thüringia, 5656 Oldfield, 7448 Pöllath. Excerpt: 1036 Ganymed – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Owing to its early discovery date, Ganymed has a rich observational history. A 1931 paper published the absolute magnutude, based on observations to date, as 9.24 slightly brighter than the present value of 9.45. Ganymed is an S-type asteroid, meaning that it is relatively reflective and composed of iron- and magnesium-silicates. Spectral measurements put Ganymed in the S (VI) spectral subtype, indicating a surface rich in orthopyroxenes, and possibly metals (although if metals are present they are covered and not readily apparent in the spectra). In 1998, radar observations of Ganymed by the Arecibo radio telescope produced images of the asteroid, revealing a roughly spherical object. Also around this time a study of several asteroid’s visual lightcurve and polarization curves was conducted (the data for Ganymed is limited due to poor weather at the time), the study concluded that there was a weak correlation between the lightcurve and polarimetry curve as a function of rotation angle. Because polarization is depenant on surface terrain and composition, rather than the observed size of the object like the lightcurve, this suggests that the surface features of the asteroid are roughly uniform over its observed surface. More recent observations of Ganymed’s lightcurve, reported in 2007, confirm a rotation period of 10.314 ± 0.004 h and a lightcurve amplitude of 0.12 mag. One occultation of a star by Ganymed was observed from California on August 22, 1985. … More: http://booksllc.net/?id=588946 |
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Districts Of The Canton Of Lucerne $8.78 Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher’s book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Not illustrated. Excerpt: Lucerne District (German: ) is an Amt (administrative district) of the Canton of Lucerne, Switzerland. It has a population of 168,853 (as of 31 December 2008) and consists of 18 municipalities, of which the city of Lucerne is the largest and the district capital: 1992/97 survey gives a total area of 216.65 km (83.6 sq mi) without including certain large lakes, while the 2000 survey includes lakes and gives the higher value. Includes the area of Littau which merged into Luzern on 1 January 2010. On 1 January 2010 the municipality of Littau merged into the municipality of Lucerne. … More: http://booksllc.net/?id=4966280 |
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Economic Terms $23.6 Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 307. Not illustrated. Chapters: Land, End-User, Decision Cycle, Demand, Discouraged Worker, Law of Demand, Supply, Economic Imperialism, Cost of Poor Quality, Financial System, Flexible Exchange Rate System, Federal Reserve Districts, Stylized Fact, Wealth, Dematerialization, Minsky Moment, Durable Good, Intermediate Good, Rationalization, Inside Lag, Common Value Auction, War Chest, Level Playing Field, Shock, Hold-Up Problem, Leading Indicators, Income Effect, Economic Expansion, Clawbacks in Economic Development, Tangible Common Equity, Implicit Cost, Wealth Effect, Beggar Thy Neighbour, Spatial Inequality, Netting, Commodity Value, User Pays, Actual Cash Value, Gift Tax, Quality Spread Differential, Demand-Pull Theory, Cash Transfers, Infant Industry, Zombie Company, Lockstep Compensation, Net International Investment Position, Mandatory Spending, Loan Covenant, Federal Advisory Council, Fixed Exchange Rate System, Want, 7 Day Sec Yield, Buxton Index, Zombie Bank, Dispersed Knowledge, Stirt, Great Commodities Depression, Foreign Portfolio Investment, Wicksell Effect, Wage Dispersion, Excess Supply, Onshore Service, Leakage, Conditional Factor Demands, Law of Increasing Costs, Vista, Literacy Rate, Seasonally Adjusted Annual Rate, International Free Trade Agreement, Kitchen Sink Regression, Differentiation, Factor Market, Gammon’s Law, Peer Production, Discretionary Spending, Expansionary Policies, Learning Effect, Resource Nationalism, Bilateral Monopoly, Willingness to Pay, Disequilibrium, Equilibrium Wage, Economic Unit, Free Contract, Factor Payments, Economic Puzzle, Rainy Day Fund, Ecoflation, Benefits in Kind, Debt Rescheduling, Easy Money Policy, Normative Statement, Excess Demand, Federal Budget, Market Breadth, Equity in Income of Affiliates, Upstream Price, Positive Statement, Recapitalization, Commodity Swap, |
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Economy $1.99 4+~~Cascade Software Corporation~~Cascade Software Corporation~~http://itunes.apple.com/app/economy/id321504242?uo=5~~Cascade Software Corporation~~3.1~~2617909~~414629~~http://CascadeSoft.net~~http://CascadeSoft.net |
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Economy of Ontario: Omers, Toronto Stock Exchange, Value-Added Wood Products in Ontario, Ontario Savings Bonds, Northern Ontario Heritage Fund $9.05 Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher’s book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: OMERS, officially the Ontario Municipal Employees Retirement System, is a pension fund created by statute in 1962 to handle the retirement benefits of local government employees in the province of Ontario, Canada. It has become one of the largest institutional investors in Canada. About 70% of the plan is funded by investments, and 30% by pension contributions. As of 2008, OMERS has about 52 billion Canadian dollars worth of net investment assets. The system now includes firefighters, police, emergency services staff, Children’s Aid Society workers, school staff other than teachers, and transit and hydro workers. OMERS is regulated by the “Ontario Municipal Employees Retirement Act, 2006″ (S.O. 2006, chapter 2), an Ontario provincial law which superseded the older “Ontario Municipal Employees Retirement System Act”. Under the 2006 law, OMERS is actually composed of two corporations: OMERS has four major investment divisions: The OMERS top investment assets as of December 31, 2007, were: OMERS’ investment strategy since 2003 has been to increase its investment in infrastructure from to 15% the former 7.9%. Outline of assets: Borealis also owns 16 school buildings, leased to the Province of Nova Scotia, and 12 nursing home buildings, leased to the Province of Ontario. Among the private companies OCP owns are Marketwire (purchased at the end of 2006) and Oxford Properties (purchased at the beginning of 2003). OMERS and Apax Partners (a fund OMERS invests in) jointly own Cengage Learning, a large education resource company formerly known as Thomson Learning before OMERS and Apax Partners bought it on May 11, 2007. Some parts of Thomson Learning had been sold off to other groups before this sale. Among Cengage’s major brands are Gale (formerly T… More: |
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Emergy: Maximum Power Principle $9.91 Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher’s book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: The maximum power principle has been proposed as the fourth principle of energetics in open system thermodynamics, where an example of an open system is a biological cell. Chen (2006) has located the origin of the statement of maximum power as a formal principle in a tentative proposal by Alfred J. Lotka (1922a, b). Lotka’s statement sought to explain the Darwinian notion of evolution with reference to a physical principle. Lotka’s work was subsequently developed by the systems ecologist Howard T. Odum in collaboration with the Chemical Engineer Richard C. Pinkerton, and later advanced by the Engineer Myron Tribus. While Lotka’s work may have been a first attempt to formalise evolutionary thought in mathematical terms, it followed similar observations made by Leibniz and Volterra and Ludwig Boltzmann, for example, throughout the sometimes controversial history of natural philosophy. In contemporary literature it is most commonly associated with the work of Howard T. Odum. The significance of Odum’s approach was given greater support during the 1970’s, amid times of oil crisis, where, as Gilliland (1978, pp. 100) observed, there was an emerging need for a new method of analysing the importance and value of energy resources to economic and environmental production. A field known as energy analysis, itself associated with net energy and EROI, arose to fulfill this analytic need. However in energy analysis intractable theoretical and practical difficulties arose when using the energy unit to understand, a) the conversion among concentrated fuel types (or energy types), b) the contribution of labour, and c) the contribution of the environment. Lotka said (1922b: 151): Gilliland noted that these difficulties in analysis in turn required some new t… More: |
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Energy Resource Facilities In The United States $8.78 Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher’s book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Strategic Petroleum Reserve, Petronius, Rockport Power Plant, Magnolia, Mars, Bullwinkle, Baldpate. Excerpt: The Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR) is an emergency fuel store of oil maintained by the United States Department of Energy. The US SPR is the largest emergency supply in the world with the current capacity to hold up to 727 million barrels (1.156E+8 m). The second largest emergency supply of oil is Japan’s with a 2010 reported capacity of 583 million barrels (92,700,000 m). Also, China has begun construction and planning for an expansion of a SPR that will place their SPR at 685 million barrels by 2020, surpassing Japan. The current inventory is displayed on the SPR’s website. As of August 31, 2009, the current inventory was 724 million barrels (115,100,000 m). This equates to 34 days of oil at current daily US consumption levels of 21 million barrels a day. At current market prices ($65 a barrel as of Oct ‘08) the SPR holds over $34.3 billion in sweet crude and approximately $51.2 billion in sour crude (assuming a $15/barrel discount for sulphur content). The total value of the crude in the SPR is approximately $85.5 billion USD. The price paid for the oil is $20.1 billion (an average of $28.42 per barrel). Purchases of crude oil resumed in January 2009 using revenues available from the 2005 Hurricane Katrina emergency sale. The DOE purchased 10.7 million barrels at a cost of $553 million. The United States started the petroleum reserve in 1975 after oil supplies were cut off during the 1973-74 oil embargo, to mitigate future temporary supply disruptions for example fallout with relations dealing in oil or world war. According to the World Factbook, the United States imports a net 12 million barrels (1,900,000 m) of oil a day (MMbd… More: |
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Essential Guide to Managed Extensions for C++ $1.99 Features how to write .NET applications using C++, and how to mix unmanaged and managed C++ code in the same application Details when and why to use unmanaged code in .NET developments Includes code samples with detailed explanations in every chapter The Essential Guide to Managed Extensions for C++ is a comprehensive guide for programmers writing code in Managed Extensions for C++ (MC++). The information in this book comes straight from the horse’s mouth—both authors have been key members of the Visual C++ .NET compiler development team and have spent most of their time implementing the language and educating others about managed C++. The book is divided into two parts. Part One covers the basics of MC++. It starts with an introduction to MC++, and gives a brief overview of the .NET Framework. Next, it delves directly into the various features of MC++, including managed classes, interfaces, value types, properties, enumerations, pointers, arrays, operators, delegates, attributes, events, and exceptions. Part Two of the book is devoted to the transition between the managed and unmanaged worlds. It starts with a general introduction to interoperability between managed and unmanaged code. The following chapters describe the Platform Invoke service, interoperability between COM and .NET, and various data marshaling techniques. The last chapter of Part Two shows how MC++ can be used to write interoperability layers over existing components with minimal overhead. Table of Contents Hello, World! The .NET Framework Managed Classes Interfaces Value Types Pointers, References, and Conversions Arrays Enumerations Properties Operators Attributes Delegates Events Exceptions Transition from Native to Managed Code Platform Invoke Service |
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Falling Upward: A Spirituality for the Two Halves of Life $26.99 PRAISE FOR FALLING UPWARD”Understanding the spiritual aspects of aging is as important as appreciating the systems and biological processes that age us. Richard Rohr has given us a perfect guide to what he calls the ‘further journey,’ a voyage into the mystery and beauty of healthy spiritual maturity.”—Mehmet Oz, M.D., host of the “Dr. Oz Show”"Falling Upward calls forth the promise within us and frees us to follow it into wider dimensions of our spiritual authenticity. This ’second half of life’ need not wait till our middle years. It emerges whenever we are ready and able to expand beyond the structures and strictures of our chosen path. With Richard Rohr as a guide, this mystery can become as real and immediate as your hand on the doorknob.”—Joanna Macy, author of World as Lover, World as Self”In Falling Upward, Richard offers a simple but deeply helpful framework for seeing the whole spiritual life—one that will help both beginners on the path as they look ahead and long-term pilgrims as they look back over their journey so far.”—Brian McLaren, author of A New Kind of Christianity and Naked Spirituality brianmclaren.net”The value of this book lies in the way Richard Rohr shares his own aging process with us in ways that help us be less afraid. We begin to see that, as we grow older, we are being awakened to deep, simple, and mysterious things we simply could not see when we were younger.”—Jim Finley, retreat leader, Merton scholar, and author of The Contemplative Heart”This is Richard Rohr at his vintage best: prophetic, pastoral, practical. A book I will gratefully share with my children and grandchildren.”—Cynthia Bourgeault, Episcopal priest, retreat leader, and author of The Meaning of Mary Magdalene, Centering Prayer, Inner Awakening, and The Wisdom Way of Kn |
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Farm Incomes – Myth and Realities $13.38 Farmers in Ireland have been protesting again recently about low farm incomes and calling for further state support. Yet farmers already receive large sums in EU and Irish state transfers to support their incomes, amounting to IR 32.4 billion per year. This amount now exceeds the value of farm income, raising the question of where this support has gone, and why are farmers complaining again?”Farm Incomes—Myths and Realities” examines current trends in farm incomes policy and shows the value of these transfers to Irish farmers and the Irish economy. It then analyzes the distribution of these payments among the farming population, and the relative importance of support to different types and sizes of farms. The book also compares total farm household incomes (including off-farm income) with the total incomes of non-farm households and examines the impact of social welfare transfers and income taxation on this comparison. It also highlights the extent and sources of rural poverty and deprivation. Finally, it recommends alternative mechanisms to provide a safety net for farm incomes within the context of ongoing changes in the EU’s agricultural policy. |