Download or read book Happy Acres written by Edna Henry Lee Turpin and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Inside Game Outside Game written by David Rusk and published by Brookings Institution Press. This book was released on 2010-12-01 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the past three decades, the federal government has targeted the poorest areas of American cities with a succession of antipoverty initiatives, yet these urban neighborhoods continue to decline. According to David Rusk, focusing on programs aimed at improving inner-city neighborhoods--playing the "inside game"--is a losing strategy. Achieving real improvement requires matching the "inside game" with a strong "outside game" of regional strategies to overcome growing fiscal disparities, concentrated poverty, and urban sprawl. In this persuasive book filled with personal observations as well as his trademark mastery of census statistics, Rusk argues that state legislatures must set new "rules of the game." He believes those rules require regional revenue or tax base sharing to reduce fiscal disparity, regional housing policies to ensure that all new developments have their fair share of low- and moderate-income housing to dissolve concentrations of poverty, and regional land-use planning and growth management to control urban sprawl. State government action, Rusk argues, is particularly crucial where regions are highly fragmented by many competing city, village, and township governments. He provides vivid success stories that demonstrate best practices for these regional strategies along with recommendations for building effective regional coalitions. A Century Foundation Book
Download or read book Cut Your Client s Tax Bill written by William Bischoff and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2020-07-08 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many clients and businesses are highly focused on the impact of taxes and tax rates on their bottom line. President Trump and Congress's passage of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act brought unhappy surprises to many taxpayers accustomed to getting tax refunds. Make sure your clients are protecting themselves from higher taxes. Completely updated for tax law changes and Tax Court decisions, this book will bring you up to date on the latest strategies that will preserve your clients' wealth and ensure your role as a trusted adviser to your clients. Get the latest techniques for building and conserving wealth through proactive tax-planning and investment strategies. Key topics covered include; Sales of capital gain assets and real property Planning for employer stock options, employer stock held in retirement accounts, and restricted stock Maximizing tax benefits for personal residence transactions Tax-planning opportunities with vacation homes, timeshares, and co-ownership arrangements Planning for divorce Tax-saving tips for self-employed clients Tax-smart college financing strategies
Download or read book Real Estate Transactions written by Robin Paul Malloy and published by Aspen Publishing. This book was released on 2023-09-14 with total page 648 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A user-friendly introduction to real estate law and the market factors that shape basic transactions, providing accessible coverage, enriching practice applications, structured perfectly for a one-semester course on real estate transactions. This concise and user-friendly casebook provides students with the tools necessary to understand real estate transactions in a real-world market setting. Real Estate Transactions is accessible to students with no prior background in real estate or business and coverage includes many real property and contract law materials tested on the Bar Exam. Multiple practice applications are included in every chapter to provide a bridge to “real world” law practice and preparation for assessments of lawyering skills (like the MPT). It also features cases and materials that reveal ethical and professional responsibility issues that allow students to see professional ethics in a real-world context. This integrated approach to explaining the market and ethical constraints on transactional real estate lawyers includes clear and concise explanations on each topic. New to the Sixth Edition: Two new co-authors: Andrea J. Boyack and James J. Kelly, Jr. Updated cases and text, including material on recent legal developments. Discussions of impactful current events, including the long-term impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic. Updated materials on market changes affecting real estate. New and improved problems in every chapter. Material on the evolving concerns about social justice. Professors will benefit from: Practice application problems that increase in difficulty with each section. Structured to balance theory and practice by emphasizing what successful transaction lawyers do daily. Multiple assessment opportunities allow for flexible grading approaches, enable students to demonstrate mastery of the material prior to the final exam, and can generate written responses that provide important information about student learning.
Download or read book Earth for Inspiration written by Clifford D. Simak and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2016-07-05 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From tales of alien invasions and intergalactic war to visions of dystopian tomorrows, an astonishing collection from one of literary science fiction’s all-time greats, Hugo Award winner Clifford D. Simak. The twentieth century’s so-called golden age of science fiction produced many great writers—including Isaac Asimov, Ray Bradbury, Arthur C. Clarke, and Robert Heinlein—yet none is greater than Clifford D. Simak, named Grand Master by the Science Fiction Writers of America. His bold visions of and ingenious speculations about humankind’s future, always enriched with empathy and a deep understanding of human strengths, foibles, and failings, have stood the test of time, remaining powerful, affecting, and relevant. This sterling collection of fantastic stories by the multiple Hugo and Nebula Award– winning master showcases some of Simak’s finest short fiction, from his earliest published tales to his later masterworks. In the wry and wonderful title story, a science fiction writer of the far future returns to a nearly abandoned Earth in search of inspiration—and finds that the dying planet holds more wonder than he bargained for. The interdimensional invasion Simak imagines in “Hellhounds of the Cosmos” displays a conceptual ingenuity not typically seen in speculative fiction prior to World War II. And other tales in this marvelous compendium offer a wide range of wonders, from the surrender terms dictated by a cute and cuddly alien enemy and a get-rich-quick real-estate scam originating from another galaxy to the truth behind a series of strange disappearances on Jupiter and an explosion of ladybugs in a salesman’s suburban home—an infestation quite possibly not of this Earth. Whether he’s rocketing us to another galaxy, leading us through the otherworldly shadows of small-town America, or preparing us for a Wild West shootout, every literary outing with Simak is an excursion to remember.
Download or read book Cut Your Clients Tax Bill written by William Bischoff and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2018-05-03 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title provides the latest techniques for building and conserving wealth through proactive tax-planning and investment strategies. Completely updated for tax law changes, this book will bring you up-to-date on the latest strategies that will keep more money in the hands of clients and make their accountant look like a hero! This book will help: Determine when selling capital assets, business assets, and real estate are to a client’s advantage Apply like-kind exchange rules under Section 1031 Identify ways to advise clients on how to minimize taxes on employer stock options and employer stock held in qualified retirement plan accounts Differentiate between incentive stock options (ISOs) and nonqualified stock options (NQSOs) Determine ways to help clients obtain maximum tax savings from vacation home and timeshare properties Differentiate between the rules for “regular” vacation homes, timeshares, and co-ownership deals Determine appropriate federal income tax advice for clients who are separated, divorcing, or divorced Recall ways to help middle-class clients identify college financing tax breaks Identify tax-saving college financing manoeuvres for higher-income clients who are ineligible for the well-known education tax breaks Identify strategies of husband-wife businesses that will reduce Social Security and Medicare taxes Identify strategies for how parents can employ their children through their closely held business
Download or read book The Last Rites written by Yvonne Mason and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2011-08-08 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the early summer of 1975 a badly decomposed female body was found on Ulrich Rd in Fort Pierce, Florida. The case was initially investigated as a Jane Doe. No one had reported her missing and the body was so badly decomposed it was hard to get an identification. She was finally identified as Pauline Metler age 33 years old. In early fall the case went cold. In 1976 it was reopened when a prisoner had a case of conscience and wanted to unburden his soul.
Download or read book Holstein Friesian Herd book Containing a Record of All Holstein Friesian Cattle written by Holstein-Friesian Association of America and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 1280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Resilient Gardener written by Carol Deppe and published by Chelsea Green Publishing. This book was released on 2010-10-05 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scientist/gardener Carol Deppe combines her passion for organic gardening with newly emerging scientific information from many fields — resilience science, climatology, climate change, ecology, anthropology, paleontology, sustainable agriculture, nutrition, health, and medicine. In the last half of The Resilient Gardener, Deppe extends and illustrates these principles with detailed information about growing and using five key crops: potatoes, corn, beans, squash, and eggs. In this book you’ll learn how to: •Garden in an era of unpredictable weather and climate change •Grow, store, and use more of your own staple crops •Garden efficiently and comfortably (even if you have a bad back) •Grow, store, and cook different varieties of potatoes and save your own potato seed •Grow the right varieties of corn to make your own gourmet-quality fast-cooking polenta, cornbread, parched corn, corn cakes, pancakes and even savory corn gravy •Make whole-grain, corn-based breads and cakes using the author’s original gluten-free recipes involving no other grains, artificial binders, or dairy products •Grow and use popbeans and other grain legumes •Grow, store, and use summer, winter, and drying squash •Keep a home laying flock of ducks or chickens; integrate them with your gardening, and grow most of their feed. The Resilient Gardener is both a conceptual and a hands-on organic gardening book, and is suitable for vegetable gardeners at all levels of experience. Resilience here is broadly conceived and encompasses a full range of problems, from personal hard times such as injuries, family crises, financial problems, health problems, and special dietary needs (gluten intolerance, food allergies, carbohydrate sensitivity, and a need for weight control) to serious regional and global disasters and climate change. It is a supremely optimistic as well as realistic book about how resilient gardeners and their vegetable gardens can flourish even in challenging times and help their communities to survive and thrive through everything that comes their way — from tomorrow through the next thousand years. Organic gardening, vegetable gardening, self-sufficiency, subsistence gardening, gluten-free living.
Download or read book Fun at Happy Acres written by Ruth C. Barlow and published by . This book was released on 1942 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Multistate Bar Review Answers and Explanations written by ERIC ALLEN. ENGLE LL M and published by Eric Engle. This book was released on 2016 with total page 397 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Detailed explanatory answers to 581 actual questions from the 1992 multistate bar exam. Explains not only Why the right answer is right, but also Why the wrong answers are wrong and How to take the bar exam. The bar examination tests legal reasoning: NONE of the four choices might be correct! Likewise, more than one answer may be correct! The examinee must choose the BEST choice of the given choices! Failing to see that fact alone costs many students their "pass": Wrong answers are less exact, less accurate, or outright wrong, as compared to the correct answer which is most accurate of given choices or the most likely argument to be accepted by the court on existing law or a good faith argument thereon. In other words, the best answer is not necessarily correct! Furthermore, tThe least wrong answer is still ... best! These are the actual questions asked on the bar exam which were released by the National Conference of Bar Examiners (NCBEX). The NCBE released those questions and retains copyright over them. Use of these questions does not consitute an endorsement by the NCBE. The explanations are complete, and include vital test-taking tips for the bar exam! No copyright is claimed as to the questions: the explanations to the answers were authored by Dr. Eric Engle LL.M. (Fulbright).
Download or read book Sweet Justice written by Cynthia Reese and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2016-04-01 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The toughest call he ever had to make Following protocol during a fire that badly injured a young woman leaves Georgia firefighter Andrew Monroe racked with guilt. He hopes to make amends by helping Mallory Blair's kid sister heal through equestrian therapy on his family ranch. The big obstacle is Mallory, who blames Andrew for what happened in spite of the daring rescue that placed his own life at risk. He knows that falling for Mallory is asking for trouble…especially when their mutual attraction ignites more conflict. But Mallory's a fighter. Like her sister. Like him. Together, can they find a way to turn the past into hope for the future?
Download or read book The Dark Has Its Own Light written by Sue Dowell and published by WestBow Press. This book was released on 2016-07-14 with total page 139 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Dark Has Its Own Light chronicles the authors experience as a patient in a psychiatric hospital, at a time when limited treatment methods meant less chance of recovery. Alternating between recounting the family history that resulted in hospitalization, and the relationships that developed in the hospital, the book charts a story of loss, suffering, and the discovery of hope and love where none seemed possible.
Download or read book The Tender Heart written by Kristy Dykes and published by Barbour Publishing. This book was released on 2012-11-01 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sebbie's first loyalty is to her mother and sisters. All of the Hanford women are struggling to keep their Florida ranch running after the death of their husband and father, Jed. In the face of dire poverty, Mama decides that Sebbie must marry a wealthy man who can also provide for her four younger sisters. Sebbie reluctantly agrees - but then meets Griffin Parks. A tall, handsome gentleman. Unfortunately, he's a penniless cowboy, just like Sebbie's father. Will she deny her love for Griffin and encourage the attentions of the local banker's son? Or will her tender heart discover a path that leads to her family's well being - and a love for all eternity?
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