Not-for-profit corporation - Not-for-profit corporation A Not-for-profit corporation is a corporation created by statute, government or judicial authority that does not issue stock. It is created with a specific purpose, educational, charitable or related to other enumerated purposes, it may be a foundation, a charity or other type of non-profit organization. Such a corporation is subject to the general laws of corporations as adapted. In some cases it may also be a public corporation. In many countries these entities are subject to exemption from various tax laws, in certain circumstances. Regarding the more general group of organizatons created for non-remunintary purposes see: Non-profit organization. Regarding US tax law applying to these organizations see: intermediate sanctions, unrelated business activities. Examples of not-for-profit organizations that have been formed in the past.
Not-for-profit arts organization - Not-for-profit arts organization An organization usually in the form of a not-for-profit corporation, association or foundation formed with the purpose of developing, promoting and diffusing the work of artists in various visual art and performing art forms such as film, sculpture, dance, painting, multimedia. poetry and performance art . While many of these organizations such as museums and performing arts societies have existed for centuries in most western societies their development proliferated after World War II with the development of various government funding sources such as the Arts Council of Great Britain, the Canada Council, the New York State Council on the Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts, all government agencies that grant monies to help promote the development of art and culture. In.
Digital Equipment Corporation - Digital Equipment Corporation Digital Equipment Corporation was a pioneering company in the American computer industry. They are generally referred to within the computing industry as DEC. (This initialism was once officially used by DEC itself, but discarded in favor of "Digital" in order to avoid a trademark dispute with the Dairy Equipment Company of Madison, Wisconsin). They were later acquired by Compaq, who subsequently merged with Hewlett-Packard. As of 2003 their product lines are still produced under the HP name. Though DEC does not exist anymore, its logo is very much alive. It is now the logo of Digital GlobalSoft, a well-respected IT services company in India. Earlier this company was a 51 % subsidiary of DEC. Now it is a part of HP. In 1990, Digital Equipment.
Corporation - Corporation A corporation is a legal entity, other than a natural person which often has similar rights in law as a person. This is referred to as corporate personhood and is seen by critics as a fundamental flaw in the nature of corporations. In civil law systems corporations are referred to as moral persons and may also go by the name SA (society anonymous) or something similar, depending on the language. In modern practice, corporation is often used more narrowly to mean commercial entities created within a governmental framework. However, churches, interest-groups (both can be formed as not-for-profit corporations or can exist as voluntary associations), cities and townships (often chartered as public corporations), among others, may also have historically lengthy corporate identities. =General= Table of contents.
State Street Corporation - State Street Corporation State Street Corporation is a bank holding company and is one of the world's leading specialists in serving institutional investors. State Street provides a full range of products and services for portfolios of investment assets. State Street focuses its services on institutional investors and investment management. Its customers include mutual funds and other collective investment funds, corporate and public pension funds, corporations, unions and not-for-profit organizations. State Street employs over 17,000 people worldwide, more than one third of whom work in IT. State Street's GlobalLink intranet is used by financial institutions all over the world to transfer funds and track capital flows. State Street Corporation has been in business since 1792 and is one of the oldest companies in the United States..
Non-profit organization - Non-profit organization simple:Non-Profit A non-profit organization (often called "non-profit org" or simply "non-profit" or "not-for-profit") may be a formal incorporated not-for-profit corporation that does not have shareholders, though it may have members and issue membership certificates or require member loans. It may also be a trust or association of members. The organization may be controlled by its members who elect the Board of Directors or Board of Trustees. Not-for-proft organizations may have a delegate structure to allow for the representation of groups or corporations as members. It may be a non-membership organization and the board of directors may elect its own successors. It may have a tax exempt status or it may be a de-facto group of individuals operating for a common purpose. For example, it may.
Vitamin C - be the first example of a controlled experiment comparing results on two populations of a factor applied to one group only with all other factors the same. The results conclusively showed that lemons prevented the disease. Lind wrote up his work and published it in 1753. Lind's work was slow to be noticed, partly because he gave conflicting evidence within the book and partly because of social inertia in some elements at the British admiralty who saw care for the well being of ships' crew as a sign of weakness. It was 1795 before the British navy adopted lemon or lime juice as standard issue at sea. In 1907, Alex Holst and Theodore Frohlich, two Norwegian biochemists studying beriberi contracted aboard ship's crews in the Norwegian Fishing Fleet, wanted a small.
Illuminates of Thanateros - and subsequently published the IOT's instructional documents in a book titled Liber Null & Psychonaut, followed by Liber Kaos, and the IOT became known to occultists around the world. Carroll would later, following ideas of Ralph Tegtmeier, refine the direction of the IOT as a "real" magical order and manifest it as The Pact of the IOT, or simply The Pact. The Pact organizes itself along the somewhat "traditional" lines of a fraternal occult order, with initiations into progressive degrees denoting magickal skill and leadership within the group. It consists mostly of small, semi-autonomous Temples arranged into geographical Sections, i.e. Europe, the Americas, etc. Unlike such groups as the O.T.O. or various offshoots of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, The Pact is an informal confederation of like-minded practitioners, rather.
Independent Media Center - existence of numerous redundant communication channels (such as publicly archived mailing lists [1], wiki pages and local face-to-face meetings) make it difficult for those at the top of these limited hierarchies to have much coercive power. All Indymedia collectives are expected to have a locally chosen, but thoroughly discussed, editorial policy for determining features for the center column of the local site. They also have to find ways of dealing with deliberate vandalism. The Indymedia community's preference for non-hierarchical organization have caused conflicts over the involvement of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (now generally considered to be associated with Yasser Arafat's Fateh movement) in the Palestine IMC, because they brought with them an authoritarian organizational style and a requirement that all members adhere to a Marxist line. Role.
Internet censorship in China - the ancient Great Wall of China). The system blocks content by preventing IP addresses from being routed through and consists of standard firewall and proxy servers at the Internet gateways. The government does not appear to be systematically examining Internet content, as this appears to be technically impractical. This firewall is largely ineffective at preventing the flow of information and is rather easily circumvented by determined parties, most simply by using the cache for Google but also by using proxy servers outside the firewall. Research into the Chinese Internet censorship has shown that blocked Web sites include: News from many foreign sources Information about Tibet independence Information about Falun Gong Some websites based in Taiwan The banning appears mostly uncoordinated and ad-hoc with some sites being blocked while other similar sites.
Vietnam Veterans Against the War - Vietnam Veterans Against the War (VVAW) is a non-profit corporation originally created to oppose the Vietnam War. VVAW describes itself as a national veterans' organization, and continues to campaign for peace, justice, and the rights of all United States military veterans. It publishes a twice-yearly newsletter The Veteran, previously published more frequently as 1st Casualty (1971-2) and then as Winter Soldier (1973-5). History VVAW was founded in New York City in 1967 after six Vietnam veterans marched together in an anti-war demonstration. As opposition to the war grew, membership in the VVAW grew from 600 members in 1970 to 7,000 in 1971. This was however a very small proportion of returning combatants. At this time, VVAW is said to have received significant financial support from Jane Fonda. In January 1971, VVAW.
Halliburton - Halliburton Halliburton Energy Services is a multinational corporation based in Houston, Texas, in the United States. Founded in 1919, the company's primary focus is in the energy and petroleum industries, although it has many diverse subsidiaries which operate in other areas. Halliburton was based in Dallas, Texas, but its headquarters moved in 2003. In the early 1990s Halliburton was found to be in violation of federal trade barriers in Iraq and Libya, having sold these countries dual-use oil drilling equipment and, through its former subsidiary, Halliburton Logging Services, sending six pulse neutron generators to Libya. After having pleaded guilty, the company was fined $1.2 million, with another $2.61 million in penalties. In 2001 it was revealed by the Wall Street Journal that a subsidiary of Halliburton Energy Services called Halliburton Products.
Harvey Ball - was employed in 1963 as a freelance artist to create a smiley face to be used on buttons, desk cards, and posters. The use of the smiley face was part of the company's friendship campaign which aimed to get employees to smile while using the phone, and doing other tasks. The buttons were highly popular and at more than 50 million Smiley Face buttons were sold by 1971. The smiley has been described as an international icon. Ball never applied for a trademark or copyright of the smiley and earned just $45 for his work. The State Mutual, similarly, did not make any money from the design. Ball's son, Charles Ball is reported to have said his father never regretted not registering the copyright. The Telegram and Gazette of Worcester reported.
Highlander - Born in Scotland (specifically, in the Scottish Highlands) in the 16th century, MacLeod is an Immortal: he does not age and cannot die unless he is decapitated. When only one Immortal is left, he or she will gain "The Prize", the precise nature of which is left open for the viewer to speculate on. This leads to a series of sword-fights between Immortals. When the one cuts off the other's head, he gains all the other's powers and abilities. The Highlander films and the television series that were spun off from it have attracted a devoted following and led to the creation of a great deal of fan fiction, much of it available on the Internet. Typical of the series is the use of flashbacks from previous events in the Highlander's.
History of Seattle - mined the miners. Leader of the Northwest: 1900 -- 1915 See main article History of Seattle 1900-1940: Leader of the Northwest: 1900 -- 1915 The gold rush led to massive immigration. Many of Seattle's neighborhoods got their start around this time. Downtown Seattle was bustling with activity; as quickly as previous inhabitants moved out to newly created neighborhoods, new immigrants came in to take their place in the city core. Once the obvious extensions of downtown had been made along the flatlands to the north and south, streetcars began providing transportation to new outlying neighborhoods. A massive effort was made to level the extreme hills that rose south and north of the bustling city. A seawall containing dirt from the Denny Regrade created the current waterfront. More dirt from the Denny.
History of Seattle since 1940 - political emergence of non-white minorities 4 The Boeing Bust: 1970 - 1985 5 Silicon Forest: 1985-? 6 N30 7 Seattle today 8 References 9 External Links WWII and the Boeing Era: 1945 - 1970 From World War II until 1970, Seattle underwent what amounted to a long, sustained economic boom, although not without occasional reverses. Boeing was hiring, the economy was booming, and while there had been no successful regional planning, the city had not yet grown quite large enough to feel the strain. The Boeing airplane company grew out of the fortune of William "Bill" Boeing's boat company and his fascination with airplanes and flying. In 1917, before American entry into World War I, Boeing employed only 28 people, but when the war orders started coming in, Boeing grew to.
Houston, Texas - and 100 years ago Houston was the 85th largest town in the U.S. Now, quoted as the "Fastest Growing City in America" and "the Most Popular City to Relocate," there are as many as 5 million people living in the Houston Metropolitan Area. Houston covers about 600 square miles in area, and is also the largest city in the United States which does not have zoning laws. Houston is world renowned for its energy industry (particularly oil),aeronautics industry and ship channel. The Port of Houston is the second busiest port in the United States, fifth busiest in the world. Because of the economic trades, many residents have moved in from other U.S. states, as well as hundreds of countries worldwide. Officially, Houston has been nicknamed the Space City. "Houston" was the.
Housing association - Housing associations in the United Kingdom are independent not-for-profit bodies that provide low cost housing. They first appeared in the second half of the 19th century as part of the growth in philanthropic and voluntary organisations brought about by the growth of the middle classes in the wake of the Industrial Revolution. Housing associations increased in importance over the last decades of the 20th century due to reforms to council housing brought in by the Thatcher government, when rules were introduced that prevented councils subsidising their housing from local taxes. This, combined with cost-cutting initiatives in local government led to many councils transfering their housing stock to housing associations. Housing associations are now the providers of most new public housing in the UK. The National Housing Federation (NHF), formerly the National.
General Motors Electro-Motive Division - 1922, when H.L. Hamilton and Paul Turner founded a company they called Electro-Motive Engineering in Cleveland, Ohio. The next year, the company sold only two gasoline-powered rail motor cars, one to the Chicago & Great Western and the other to the Northern Pacific. They were delivered the following year, and worked well - fortunately for the fledgling company, because the sales were conditional on satisfactory performance. The next year, 1925, the company changed its name to Electro-Motive Corporation (EMC) and entered full-scale production, selling 27 railcars. In 1930, General Motors, seeing the opportunity to expand into a new field ripe for the picking, purchased the company and also its engine supplier, Winton Engine. Advancing from railcars, the company began building multi-car diesel streamliners, for the Union Pacific among others. By 1935,.
Guild - - most notably to the warraqeen, "those who work with paper". Early Muslimss were heavily engaged in translating and absorbing all ilm ("knowledge") from all other known civilizations, "as far as China." Critically analyzing, accepting, rejecting, improving and codifying knowledge from other cultures became a key activity, and a knowledge industry as presently understood began to evolve. By the beginning of the 9th century, paper had become the standard medium of written communication, and most warraqeen were engaged in paper-making, book-selling, and taking the dictation of authors, to whom they were obligated to pay royalties on works, and who had final discretion on the contents. As the standard means of presentation of a new work was its public dictation in the mosque or madrassah, in front of many scholars and students,.
