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Charity # Charity Total Expenses ($) Administrative Expenses (%) Fundraising Expenses (%) Program Expenses (%) 1...

Charity # Charity Total Expenses ($) Administrative Expenses (%) Fundraising Expenses (%) Program Expenses (%)
1 American Red Cross 3352089148 3.8 3.9 92.0
2 World Vision 1208111251 4.0 7.5 88.3
3 Smithsonian Institution 1081275619 23.5 2.5 73.8
4 Food For the Poor 1049984888 0.6 2.6 96.8
5 American Cancer Society 1007342150 6.0 22.3 71.4
6 Volunteers of America 931512538 8.5 1.8 89.2
7 Dana-Farber Cancer Institute 876227147 13.1 1.5 85.3
8 AmeriCares 858665385 0.3 0.8 98.9
9 ALSAC - St. Jude Children's Research Hospital 830079269 9.6 17.0 73.5
10 City of Hope 734387170 13.4 2.9 83.0

1. Develop an estimated regression equation that could be used to predict the program expenses (%) given fundraising expenses (%)

Program Expenses % (pred) = ? + ? Fundraising Expenses (%) up to 2 decimals

In: Statistics and Probability

Economics: Efficient markets require well-defined and well-enforced property rights. A Day in Court for Cuban Property...

Economics: Efficient markets require well-defined and well-enforced property rights.

A Day in Court for Cuban Property Owners

Those who traffic in assets confiscated after the revolution can be held liable.


By
Mary Anastasia O’Grady
Dec. 29, 2019 2:39 pm ET

The first US-to-Cuba cruise ship, Adonia from the Carnival cruise line, May 2, 2016. Photo: adalberto roque/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images
Thanks to the Trump administration, Americans whose property in Cuba was expropriated by the military dictatorship of Fidel Castro may finally have their day in court.

New Year’s Day marks the 61st anniversary of the fall of Cuban dictator Fulgencio Batista. A week later, on Jan. 8, 1959, Castro triumphantly entered Havana.

Many Cubans had risked all to unseat Batista with the goal of restoring constitutional government. But Castro sought absolute power. He refused to hold elections and instead launched a purge. There were firing squads, dungeons and exile. Whole communities of peasants in central Cuba—where resistance to the tyranny was strongest—were displaced and sent to concentration camps on the western end of the island.

To lock down power, Castro stripped citizens and foreigners alike of their property. State terrorism explains how the regime has survived. More remarkable is the tenacity of the Cuban diaspora. Most made meaningful new lives wherever they ended up. But many families have never abandoned the hope of getting justice for the crimes of the regime.

In March 1996 President Clinton signed the Cuban Liberty and Democratic Solidarity Act, also known as Helms-Burton, to strengthen the U.S. embargo on Cuba. He had resisted the legislation for months. But Mr. Clinton acquiesced after the Cuban air force shot down two Cessna aircraft carrying members of a Cuban liberation group Brothers to the Rescue in international airspace.

Mr. Clinton won a concession from Helms-Burton backers in Congress: The president would have the power to waive Title III of the act, which makes liable those who traffic in the property of U.S. nationals confiscated by the regime. Mr. Clinton used his waiver power, as did his successors—until President Trump declined to do so this April.

Title III allows Americans—including Cuban-Americans who naturalized after Castro came to power—to seek compensation in U.S. courts from those trafficking in property seized from them by the Cuban regime.

Some 20 claims have been filed since April, including one against Miami-based Carnival Cruise Lines by the owner of Havana Docks for its use of that expropriated facility. A separate action against Carnival is by a different owner, for its use of the Santiago de Cuba port, also taken at gunpoint by the regime. There’s a lawsuit against American Airlines (Links to an external site.), brought by the son of the owner of the José Martí Airport in Havana at the time it was confiscated.

One challenge for plaintiffs will be establishing whether their targets are within reach of U.S. law. A class-action suit originally filed in May on behalf of American owners of Cuban properties named the Cuban regime and its officials as defendants. But Cuba may claim that sovereign immunity precludes its being sued. The suit was amended on Dec. 6 to allege that “Expedia (Links to an external site.), and Booking.com (and their affiliates)—have used, trafficked in, and benefited from these confiscated properties without permission from, or compensation to, the properties’ rightful owners.”

Exxon Mobil (Links to an external site.) has a claim that is certified by the U.S. government, which means ownership is already recognized. In May it brought a complaint against the Cuban state-owned holding company, Cimex, and Unión Cuba-Petróleo for “unlawful trafficking” in Exxon’s “confiscated property in violation of Title III.” The defendants filed a motion to dismiss in October, claiming sovereign immunity. In November Exxon filed an amended complaint to demonstrate jurisdiction.

Expedia said Friday that it “does not comment on pending litigation.” Booking.com could not be reached for comment. On Thursday Judge Cecilia Altonaga denied the companies’ motion to dismiss the class action and permitted jurisdictional discovery to go forward. If the plaintiffs can show that the defendants are subject to U.S. courts and that a judgment can be secured, the case is likely to be heard.

NPR reported (Links to an external site.) in May that Carnival “said it has a U.S. Treasury license to do business in Cuba.” In a Saturday email a company spokesman wrote, “We believe in the merits of our case and remain optimistic that we will prevail.”

American Airlines told me Friday that its “service to José Martí International Airport in Havana, Cuba, is expressly authorized by the U.S. government including the Department of Transportation and the U.S. Office of Foreign Assets Control. In addition, the Helms-Burton Act specifically exempts lawful travel, which is what American provides.”

It is true that the Obama administration, eager to play ball with the regime, gave licenses to American Airlines and Carnival to operate in Cuba. But there is a difference between being cleared by Treasury to conduct business in Cuba and using expropriated assets to sustain those businesses. In a U.S. court of law that may turn out to be no small distinction.

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In: Economics

1. Give a command using find to search from the root directory the file program.f and...

1. Give a command using find to search from the root directory the file program.f and redirect any errors to the file myerrors.txt

2. Give a command for finding files having the letters index as the beginning of the file name and located in your home directory (provide the absolute path)

3. Give a command for finding within a directory called /mp3collection, only those mp3 files that have a size less than 5000 Kilobytes (< 5MB).

4. Give a commmand that searches for those files that are present in the directory /home/david and its subdirectories which end in .c and which have been accessed in the last 10 minutes.

5. Give a command that searches within the directory /mp3-collection for files that have their names beginning with ’Metallica’ and whose size is greater than 10000 kilobytes (> 10 MB).

6. Give a command that searches in the same directory as above case but only for files that are greater than 10MB, but they should not have ’Metallica’ as the starting of their filenames.

7. Explain what the following commands do. What is the major difference between their outputs? a) chmod -R 755 . b) chmod -R 755 *

8. Explain the output of the following command:

pr -t -n -d -o 10 group12

9. Study the cut command and describe what is its function, provide some examples including options like -c, and -f.

10. What is the output of the following command?

sort -t: -k3,3 -n /etc/group

In: Computer Science

You are studying to enter professions that require high moral and ethical behavior. Your commitment to...

You are studying to enter professions that require high moral and ethical behavior. Your commitment to such standards should begin in this class and continue through every class in your graduate degree program. This week's discussion questions:
1) Why ethics and professional conduct are so important in the accounting professions, and
2) Why behaving ethically in your graduate studies is critical to your goal to graduate and work in the accounting industry.

Some major professional accounting associations/organizations include:

American Accounting Association

American Institute of CPA's

American Society of Women Accountants

American Taxation Association

Association of Certified Fraud Examiners

Association of Government Accountants

Chartered Global Management Accountants

Information Systems Audit and Control Association

Institute of Internal Auditors

Institute of Management Accountants

Institute of Industrial Accountants

Insurance Accounting and Systems Association

International Association of Accounting Education

National Association of Black Accountants

National Society of Accountants

Professional Association of Small Business Accountants

Professional Accounting Society of America

Your state" Society of CPA's

Questions to spark class discussion:

Randomly select one of the professional accounting organizations from the list below.

Summarize and discuss the professional code of ethics of the organization you selected.

Identify a few of the key codes and or responsibilities of ethical and professional conduct in this organization.

Discuss their importance and how you, as students can model these behaviors.

In: Accounting

Salt Co. and Pepper Co. are in the same business and sell the same merchandise but...

Salt Co. and Pepper Co. are in the same business and sell the same merchandise but have different inventory systems: Salt’s is perpetual and Pepper’s is periodic. Both companies sell their products at a price of $10 each, and their inventory activity for March of 2020 is presented below.

Salt

Date

Description

# of Units

Unit Price

Total Cost

02/29/20

Beginning Inventory

50

$1

$50

03/08/20

Purchase 1

50

$2

$100

03/15/20

Sale

90

03/22/20

Purchase 2

50

$3

$150

03/27/20

Purchase 3

50

$4

$200

03/31/20

Ending Inventory

110

Pepper

Date

Description

# of Units

Unit Price

Total Cost

02/29/20

Beginning Inventory

50

$1

$50

03/08/20

Purchase 1

50

$2

$100

03/22/20

Purchase 2

50

$3

$150

03/27/20

Purchase 3

50

$4

$200

03/31/20

Ending Inventory

110








Required—Calculate each of the following under the assumption indicated:

1. Salt’s ending inventory at 03/31/20 assuming it uses FIFO.

2. Salt’s October cost of goods sold assuming it uses FIFO.

3. Salt’s October gross profit assuming it uses FIFO.

4. Salt’s ending inventory at 03/31/20 assuming it uses LIFO.

5. Salt’s October cost of goods sold assuming it uses LIFO.

6. Salt’s October gross profit assuming it uses LIFO.

7. Pepper’s ending inventory at 03/31/20 assuming it uses FIFO.

8. Pepper’s October cost of goods sold assuming it uses FIFO.

9. Pepper’s October gross profit assuming it uses FIFO.

10. Pepper’s ending inventory at 03/31/20 assuming it uses LIFO.

11. Pepper’s October cost of goods sold assuming it uses LIFO.

12. Pepper’s October gross profit assuming it uses LIFO.

In: Accounting

In the late 1970s, several countries in Latin America, notably Mexico, Brazil, and Argentina had accumulated...

In the late 1970s, several countries in Latin America, notably Mexico, Brazil, and Argentina
had accumulated large external debt burdens. A significant share of this debt was denominated in U.S. dollars. The United States pursued contractionary monetary policy from
1979 to 1982, raising dollar interest rates. How would this affect the value of the Latin American currencies relative to the U.S. dollar? How would this affect their external debt in local currency terms? If these countries had wanted to prevent a change in their external debt, what would have been the appropriate policy response, and what would be the drawbacks?

In: Accounting

Dear staff: This is Yu.zhou. May anybody who is good at the Culture in Healthcare class...

Dear staff:

This is Yu.zhou. May anybody who is good at the Culture in Healthcare class help me with the question below. Thank you, sincerely.

What was the cause of role loss many adult Hmong faced when they came to the U.S.? How does this loss affect their adjustment to America and how to the families adapt? Do you think this scenario is true of most immigrant and/or refugee populations? What are the American health system challenges to being culturally-informed and culturally-responsive to the needs of immigrant and/or refugee populations, particularly related to treating common conditions like post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)?

In: Nursing

1. The argument based on absolute advantage that free trade between countries is always beneficial for...

1. The argument based on absolute advantage that free trade between countries is always beneficial for both participating countries is flawed. Explain.

2. Mention two important external shocks that potentially triggered Latin American sovereign debt crisis and the lost decade. Provide some context.

3. What is a common view (seen in class) of contemporary economists on ISI strategies? In particular, what are their views on the initial implementation and on the permanence of the ISI policies?

4. What was the main incentive for multinationals to operate in Latin America during the period of ISI policies? How is the country size related to such an incentive?

In: Economics

Select one of the following cases or find one on your own and provide a summary...

Select one of the following cases or find one on your own and provide a summary of the situation that caused the lawsuit related to arbitration to end up in court. How did the court rule and why? Do you agree?

  • Carey v. 24 Hour Fitness, USA, Inc., 669 F.3d 202, 205 (5th Cir. 2012).
  • Circuit City Stores, Inc.5 v. Adams 532 U.S. 105 (2001)
  • Cruise v. Kroger Co., 233 Cal.App 4th 390, 183 Cal. Rptr. 3d 17 (2015).
  • Delfingen US–Texas, L.P. v. Valenzuela, 407 S.W.3d 791, 800 (Tex.App.-El Paso
    2013, no pet.).
  • Mohamed v. Uber Technologies, Inc. 2015 WL 3749716 (N.D. Cal. 2015).
  • Nitro-Lift Technologies, L.L.C. v. Howard, 133 S.Ct. 500 (2012).

  

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When a user tries to write a file, the file system needs to detect if that...

When a user tries to write a file, the file system needs to detect if that file is a directory so that it can restrict writes to maintain the directory’s internal consistency. Given a file’s name, how would you design NTFS to keep track of whether each file is a regular file or a directory?

In: Computer Science