Fast cars and loose fiscal morals: there are more Porsches in Greece than taxpayers declaring 50,000 euro incomes The Porsche Cayenne: more common in Greece than people who admit earning €50,000 Jubilation about the German deal to save the euro could prove short-lived if fresh news of Greek tax evasion gains wider currency. There are more Porsche Cayennes registered in Greece than taxpayers declaring an income of 50,000 euros (£43,800) or more, according to research by Professor Herakles Polemarchakis, former head of the Greek prime minister’s economic department. While German car workers may take pride in this evidence of their export success, German taxpayers may be less keen to bail out a nation whose population appears to take such a cavalier approach to paying its fiscal dues. Never mind all that macroeconomic talk about deficit distress, many Greeks are still plainly riding high on the hog. Something can’t be right when the modest city of Larisa, capital of the agricultural region of Thessaly with 250,000 inhabitants, has more Porsches per head of the population than New York or London.
Akiyoshi's illusion pages Akiyoshi's illusion pages Akiyoshi KITAOKA, Professor, Psychology, Ritsumeikan University, Osaka, Japan studying visual perception, visual illusion, optical illusion, trompe l'oeil, 3D, etc. Since May 18, 2002; Updated May 31, 2022 Japanese, Serb, Portuguese, Chinese; Illusion calender 2021 Warning: Commercial abuse of my illusion images is prohibited. Latest works (February 3, 2022) --- Newest page (December 23, 2021) --- Updated page (May 31, 2022) --- Illusion catalogue (June 3, 2014)Page list of this site --- Books (September 23, 2019) --- Papers (February 11, 2021) --- Illusion news (November 25, 2020) --- Photos (Nov 1, 2014) The Journal of Illusion welcomes your submissions. "Rotating snakes" Circular snakes appear to rotate 'spontaneously'. Copyright A.Kitaoka 2003 (September 2, 2003) Explanation of the elemental illusion (optimized Fraser-Wilcox illusion) (PDF) How this work was created (PDF) (Trick Eyes Graphics p.78) Gray-scale version (jpg) "Rotating rays" "The autumn color swamp"
Sylvia Ji Sometime After Midnight | MCAVANAUGH CREATIVE Sometime After Midnight, is a self generated series of cinematic images created through ink drawings exploring the mysterious and melancholic moments of teenage American angst and the world that exist after midnight. Images were created in 2009. << Back to Illustration
My degree engraved into glass; Would any other graduates (from any field) be interested in this? : graphic_design A vicious cycle in the used-car business Tiffany Lee wanted a car. She was weary of the two-hour bus ride to her job at a UCLA Health System clinic. She hated having to ask friends to drive her 7-year-old son to his asthma treatments. But as a single mother with three children, bad credit and a $27,000-a-year salary, she couldn't find a bank or dealership willing to give her a loan. Then a friend steered her to Repossess Auto Sales in Hawthorne. Another buyer might have balked at the deal she was offered. A year and a half later, Lee fell behind on her payments and filed for bankruptcy. Moments later, she said, employees parked four cars tightly around the Ford, blocking it in. There would be no new deal. Lee, who described that night as “one of the worst experiences of my life,” had stumbled into the bare-knuckle world of Buy Here Pay Here used-car sales. In this little-known but fast-growing corner of the auto market, dealers command premium prices for road-worn vehicles and finance the sales at interest rates that can top 30%.
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The other Taj Mahal Et les êtres humains les plus heureux sont ... Vous l’ignorez peut-être, mais vous êtes heu-reux. En tout cas, un peu plus qu’un citoyen du Togo ou de la Sierra Leone mais un peu moins qu’un Danois, un Finlandais, un Norvégien ou un Hollandais. C’est la conclusion du premier rapport sur le bonheur commandé par les Nations Unies et réalisé par sondage auprès d’échantillons d’habitants dans 150 pays : Pas de doute, ce sont bien les pays du Nord de l’Europe qui affichent les plus beaux scores. Mais pas seulement parce qu’on y vit plus riche.
National Geographic Magazine - NGM.com By D. T. Max Cheryl Dinges is a 29-year-old Army sergeant from St. Louis. Dinges may face an even harder fight in the years ahead. FFI is an awful disease, made even worse by the fact that we know so little about how it works. If we don’t know why we can’t sleep, it’s in part because we don’t really know why we need to sleep in the first place. All this downtime comes at a price. The predominant theory of sleep is that the brain demands it. Such studies suggest that memory consolidation may be one function of sleep. Sleep is likely to have physiological purposes too: That patients with FFI never live long is likely significant. In the most famous attempt to figure out why we sleep, in the 1980s, Rechtschaffen forced rats to stay awake in his University of Chicago lab by placing them on a disk suspended on a spindle over a tank of water. Unfortunately, the reverse is not always true; we don’t always get sleepy when we need to sleep. We fight these forces at our peril. D.
A Voice From the 1% First let me note that I am not part of the yacht and private jet set, which represents an even smaller subset of incomes than mine. The threshold for inclusion in the top 1% of income earners in 2008, the most recent year for which published data is available from the IRS, was $380,354, enough for an extraordinary life but nowhere near enough for a harbor berth in St. Moritz. Nevertheless, I am - for now - comfortably ensconced in that demographic. Thus you can imagine my amazement this summer when I watched the Republicans in Congress push the United States to the brink of default - and the world to the brink of ruin - over whether to repeal a portion of the Bush tax cuts and raise my taxes by 3.5%. I was not amazed but disgusted when John Boehner and his crew tried to justify the extremity of their position by rebranding the wealthy as "job creators." That's why I was so pleased when the Occupy Wall Street protests began. My good fortune did not end there. One last observation.
New York City Transit Authority Graphics Standards Manual Ожившие предметы Терри Бордера Терри Бордер (Terry Border), фотограф из Индианаполиса, создает свои творения из продуктов питания, проволоки и предметов домашнего обихода. Каждого персонажа он наделяет характером и придумывает для него сюжет. Сам он называет свои «скульптуры» Bent Objects (Гнутые фигуры). Ссылка с описанием: <blockquote><p><strong>Интернет-журнал ETODAY — <a href=" предметы Терри Бордера</a></strong><br />Терри Бордер (Terry Border), фотограф из Индианаполиса, создает свои творения из продуктов питания, проволоки и предметов домашнего обихода. Ссылка для форума: Постоянная ссылка: