...Windows 7 Ubuntu (Linux) Year Event 1983 Bill Gates announces Microsoft Windows November 10, 1983. 1985 Microsoft Windows 1.0 is introduced in November 20, 1985 and is initially sold for $100.00. 1987 Microsoft Windows 2.0 was released December 9, 1987 and is initially sold for $100.00. 1987 Microsoft Windows/386 or Windows 386 is introduced December 9, 1987 and is initially sold for $100.00. 1988 Microsoft Windows/286 or Windows 286 is introduced June, 1988 and is initially sold for $100.00. 1990 Microsoft Windows 3.0 was released May, 22 1990. Microsoft Windows 3.0 full version was priced at $149.95 and the upgrade version was priced at $79.95. 1991 Following its decision not to develop operating systems cooperatively with IBM, Microsoft changes the name of OS/2 to Windows NT. 1991 Microsoft Windows 3.0 or Windows 3.0a with multimedia was released October, 1991. 1992 Microsoft Windows 3.1 was released April, 1992 and sells more than 1 Million copies within the first two months of its release. 1992 Microsoft Windows for Workgroups 3.1 was released October, 1992. 1993 Microsoft Windows NT 3.1 was released July 27, 1993. 1993 Microsoft Windows 3.11, an update to Windows 3.1 is released December 31, 1993. 1993 The number of licensed users of Microsoft Windows now totals more than 25 Million. 1994 Microsoft Windows for Workgroups 3.11 was released February, 1994. 1994 Microsoft Windows NT 3.5 was released September 21, 1994. 1995 Microsoft Windows NT 3.51...
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...of properties not later than June 1983. It appears that the parties undertook to clear the mortgages over their respective properties. At the time of the execution of the exchange agreement, the White Plains property was mortgaged with the Government Service Insurance System (GSIS) while the California property had a total mortgage obligation of $84,000.00. “In the meantime, the appellees were allowed to occupy or lease to a tenant Pineda’s California property and Pineda was authorized to occupy appellees’ White Plains property . Pursuant to the exchange agreement, Alejandria Pineda paid the appellees the total amount of $12,000.00 broken down as follows: 1) $5,000.00, on January 1983; 2) $4,000.00 on April 1983; 3) $3,000.00 on January 1985 . “On December 18, 1984, unknown to the appellees, Alejandria Pineda and the appellants Adeodato C. Duque, Jr. and Evangeline Mary Jane Duque executed an ‘Agreement to Sell’ over the White Plains property whereby Pineda sold the property to the...
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...not know or understand about terrorism and assassins. Many things that we may never figure out. This is a subject that I never worried about until that grave day on 9/11. This is when it all really hit me. I was 20 years old and I can remember RUNNING HEAD: TERRORIST AND ASSASSINS someone running into my college course screaming, “They have killed them. They flew the planes into the tower. Oh my God1” From that day on I knew that terrorism was real and we had all been affect. It has become one of the scariest things in American life. A lot of us are left wondering when, how, and why after a terrorist attack. It is my belief that most attacks are because of religious beliefs. I also belief that the affects that these attacks have on our society can be over whelming and devastating. It can cause people to loose love ones and suffer for the rest of their lives. In this paper I will attempt to understand what is going on in the mind of a person who commits such acts. I will also take a good look into the lives of the many people that they affect. Even though terrorism and assassination is not something that we worry about on a daily basis, the fact remains that it is very much real and can become a threat at any time. (Mueller 2006) I found this evident while reading an article written in September/October 2006 by John Mueller that states for the past five years Americans have been regularly regaled with dire predictions of another major al Qaeda attack. On the first...
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...Franco Modigliani Paper assignment Franko Modigliani was born in 1918 in Rome. He spent his childhood in Italy and finished Rome University with the degree of Doctor of Laws, in the same year he left Italy because of his Jewish origins and Antifascistic views. Firstly, he moved to France with his wives family and then moved to USA. He was an instructor of economics and statistics At Columbia University and Bard College from 1942 to 1944. In 1944 he also got degree of Doctor of social sciences at New School for Social Research. He defended his thesis for Doctor degree on the topic of “Liquidity Preference and the Theory of Interest and Money”, and was teaching there for a three years. This work was the first publication of Modigliani in English and, in his opinion, it was one of his main achievements. In 1946, he became a naturalized citizen of United states of America. After 1948 he joined University of Illinois, then Carnegie University (1950-1960), and North-Eastern University (1960-1962) afterwards. Since 1962, as a professor of Massachusetts Institute of Technology, he continued he continued his researches in the field of Macroeconomics that he started before, especially Theory of Cash cylces. During these years, he begins study international financial and billing systems, consequences and methods of fighting with inflation, stabilization policy in open economies. Most widely known works of Modigliani was his works in various areas of finance. 1) Personal Finance ...
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...Legislative Summary: Lord’s Day Act Lord’s Day Act Is a Territorial Act The Act exists because the Privy Council in England struck down all Canadian provincial Sunday closing laws, on the grounds that these constituted criminal legislation, which by the BNA belonged exclusively to the Federal government. A campaign, joined not only by Protestant churches but also the Roman Catholic hierarchy and the labour movement, was organized to persuade the Federal government to enact Lord's Day legislation (wrights, 1). The Act was passed in 1906. The act was set up to prohibit sport, entertainment, and almost all commerce on Sundays. The legislation impacted the citizens of Canada. It regulated what people could do on Sundays. It also affected the businesses of Canada that they could not make money 7 days a week. The legislation was changed on Apr 24, 1985 - The Supreme Court of Canada found that the Lord's Day Act was contrary to the freedom of religion guaranteed in the Charter of Rights. In the Yukon the Act still exists as stated in the REVISED STATUTES OF THE YUKON 2002 in Chapter 142. It is not enforced though in the Yukon. The intended results of the act were to give people a day of rest within the working week. It was influenced by the Churches in Canada. The influence came from their history from their original countries of origin like England. The indirect results of the act were that the non-religious people were not able to shop on Sunday’s. The result of the act...
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... Date Issued: 8/24/1995. Judge: Opinion by Laro, J. Tax Year(s): Years 1982, 1983, 1984, 1985, 1986, 1987, 1989. Disposition: Decision for Commissioner. Related Proceedings at Jose A. Alvarez v. Commissioner, [S| T.C. Memo. 1995-414 [1995 RIATC Memo U95,414], Tax Ct. Dkt. No. 22719-93 Cites: TC Memo 1995-414, RIATC Memo P 95414, 70 CCH TCM 518. Petitioners resided in Bayville, New Jersey, when they petitioned the Court in docket No. 2849-91. Mr. Alvarez resided in Coral Gables, Florida, when he petitioned the Court in docket No. 22719-93. For each of their [Mr. and Mrs. Alvarez] 1982 through 1984 taxable years, petitioners timely filed a Form 1040, U.S. Individual Income Tax Return, using the status of "Married filing joint return". For each of his 1985 through 1987 and 1989 taxable years, Mr. Alvarez untimely filed a Form 1040 using the status of "Married filing separate return". Drug-Dealing Activities Involving Mr. Alvarez Mr. Alvarez was the subject of a criminal investigation conducted by a multiagency task force (Task Force). The Task Force's investigation culminated on October 3, 1985, with the arrest of Mr. Alvarez, Adolph V. Carbone, and approximately 66 other suspects. Mr. Alvarez was charged with conspiracy to distribute cocaine, Mr. Alvarez was later acquitted of these charges. Mr. Carbone was Mr. Alvarez' client. During the 2-month period ending on August 31, 1985, Mr. Carbone purchased 3 or 4 kilograms of high-quality cocaine from Mr. Alvarez at a cost...
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...The Life of Mikhail Gorbachev Abstract Mikhail Gorbachev was a Soviet politician. He was the general secretary of the Communist Party from 1985-1991 and the president of the Soviet Union from 1990-1991. For most of his life he was proponent on communist ideals, who learned these views at an early age from his grandfather. Gorbachev would later understand in order to strengthen the Soviet Union; he would need to democratize the country’s political system. He would see lead the end of Soviet communism and the end of the Soviet Union’s postwar domination of Eastern Europe. Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev was born on March 2, 1931 in Privolye, Stavropol kray, Russia. Gorbachev was born of Russian peasant in the Straropol territory (kray). At a vey young age, fifteen, he joined the Komsomol (Young Communist League) and worked on a state farm until his early twenties. He was a very promising member of the Komsomol and entered law school at Moscow State University. During his time at Moscow State he became a member of the Communist Party. In 1955 he graduated with his law degree and held various important post in the Komsomol and regular party organizations in Stavropol, where he became the first secretary of the regional party committee in 1970. (Encyclopedia Britannica, 2012) Mikhail Gorbachev’s ideals were molded at a very young age. Gorbachev’s grandfather, Pantelei Yefimovich Gopkalo, was a devoted member of the Communist Party. In 1937 Gopkalo was arrested by the...
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...Sniper Twenty-three days is a long time to stay in and worry about being next on the shooters list. “The day of October 2, 2002, the beltway snipers began terrorizing people (FBI.Gov).” The beltway snipers, who are they, what crime did they commit, and theories of why they committed the crime is what this paper is about. The beltway snipers were, “John Muhammad, 41 and Lee Boyd Malvo, 17 (FBI.Gov.)” John Muhammad was a 41 year old African American. He was born on December 31, 1960 in Louisiana. 1985, Muhammad converted to Islam. He also joined the Army. During the Gulf War he become a skilled marksman. Around 2000, Muhammad took his children to Antigua. While in Antigua, Muhammad and Lee Boyd Malvo met. Muhammad returned to Bellingham,...
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...Broadwater Farm riot From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The Broadwater Farm riot occurred around the Broadwater Farm area of Tottenham, North London, on 6 October 1985. The events of the day were dominated by two deaths. The first was that of Cynthia Jarrett, an African-Caribbean woman who died the previous day due to heart failure during a police search at her home. It was one of the main triggers of the riot in a context where tension between local black youth and the largely white Metropolitan Police was already high due to a combination of local issues and the aftermath of another riot which had occurred in the Brixton area of London the previous week following the shooting of a black woman (Dorothy 'Cherry' Groce) during another police search. The second death was that of PC Keith Blakelock, the first police officer since 1833 to be killed in a riot in Britain.[1] Contents * 1 Death of Cynthia Jarrett * 2 Day of disturbances * 3 Death of PC Blakelock * 4 Aftermath * 5 Trials * 6 Inquest * 7 See also * 8 References * 9 Bibliography Death of Cynthia Jarrett At 13:00 hrs on 5 October 1985 a young black man, Floyd Jarrett, was arrested by police, having been stopped in a vehicle with an allegedly suspicious car tax disc.[2] He was taken to nearby Tottenham police station and charged with theft and assault (he was later acquitted of both charges). Five and half-hours later, D.C. Randle and three other officers decided to search his...
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...Company Law 2.1.1 Separate Legal Personality of a Registered Company Currently at Page & Plant, neither person has been able to reach an agreement as to how their business should be organised. Under Scottish business law, their current business relationship would be classified as a Partnership, which results in both partners being liable for any situation e.g. account defaults, liquidation or lawsuits. Not only would the liability extend to the assets of the business but would also include personal assets e.g. their homes and cars. In order for Page & Plant to limit or minimise their liability, they must separate the legal personality and legal consequences of the business. In order to do this, Page & Plant can become a registered company as a corporate body. They must be incorporated under the Companies Act 2006 or previous company legislation. Private and Public Limited companies must be registered under the Companies Act in order for the company to become an independent legal person which means the registered company becomes a person capable of taking on duties recognised and enforced by courts. A separate corporate personality means: * The company is able to raise its’ own legal actions and be the subject of legal actions * The company’s members enjoy limited liability * Even with changes to the company’s membership, the company continues to exist, as opposed to a sole trading business or partnership, as the business would change in these...
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...L V/J_ X \ Checkpoint Contents Federal Library Federal Source Materials Federal Tax Decisions Tax Court Memorandum Decisions Tax Court & Board of Tax Appeals Memorandum Decisions (Prior Years) 1995 TC Memo 1995-448 - TC Memo 1995-409 Jose A. Alvarez, et ux., TC Memo 1995-414, Code Sec(s). 6013; 6501; 6651; 6653; 6661; 6662, 8/24/1995 Tax Court & Board of Tax Appeals Memorandum Decisions Jose A. Alvarez, et ux. v. Commissioner, TC Memo 1995-414 , Code Sec(s) 6501. JOSE A. ALVAREZ AND WANDA ALVAREZ. Case Information: Code Sec(s): | 6501 | Docket: | Dkt. No. 2849-91. | Date Issued: | 8/24/1995. | Judge: | Opinion by Laro, J. | Tax Year(s): | Years 1982, 1983, 1984, 1985, 1986, 1987, 1989. | Disposition: | Decision for Commissioner. | | Related Proceedings at Jose A. Alvarez v. Commissioner, [S| T.C. Memo. 1995-414 [1995 RIATC Memo U95,414], Tax Ct. Dkt. No. 22719-93 | Cites: | TC Memo 1995-414, RIATC Memo P 95414, 70 CCH TCM 518. | HEADNOTE 1. Tax Court — arbitrary deficiency notice. Deficiency notice wasn't arbitrary, so burden of proof didn't shift to IRS: IRS'sYiet worth calcuJatfonssrnatched taxpayefs^net^Korth Iedger>d€f1ciertoes in taxpayer husband's income computed under^ank-deposifSsQTettiecrwere prima facieVaTld; and taxpayers kept inadequate records and stip&taled the accuracy of IRS's tracing of ledger entries to specific bank account balances. Husband's testimony that source of unreported income was a gift was unsupported...
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...Contents Preface to the First Edition Introduction Part 1. Thought Control: The Case of the Middle East Part 2. Middle East Terrorism and the American Ideological System Part 3. Libya in U.S. Demonology Part 4. The U.S. Role in the Middle East Part 5. International Terrorism: Image and Reality Part 6. The World after September 11 Part 7. U.S./Israel-Palestine Notes Preface to the First Edition (1986) St. Augustine tells the story of a pirate captured by Alexander the Great, who asked him "how he dares molest the sea." "How dare you molest the whole world?" the pirate replied: "Because I do it with a little ship only, I am called a thief; you, doing it with a great navy, are called an Emperor." The pirate's answer was "elegant and excellent," St. Augustine relates. It captures with some accuracy the current relations between the United States and various minor actors on the stage of international terrorism: Libya, factions of the PLO, and others. More generally, St. Augustine's tale illuminates the meaning of the concept of international terrorism in contemporary Western usage, and reaches to the heart of the frenzy over selected incidents of terrorism currently being orchestrated, with supreme cynicism, as a cover for Western violence. The term "terrorism" came into use at the end of the eighteenth century, primarily to refer to violent acts of governments designed to ensure popular submission. That concept plainly is of little benefit to the practitioners of state terrorism...
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...Running head: THE RISE OF DIGITAL JOURNALISM COLLAPSE OF PRINT MEDIA 1 The Democratization of Journalism Alan B Egge University of Maryland University College The internet has fundamentally changed how news is distributed by democratizing the creation and consumption of news. It has allowed news to be published and read by anybody at little to no cost. Print media has struggled to hold their own against a ubiquitous and often free competitor. Advertising revenue for the ten largest newspaper companies peaked at $48.7 Billion in 2000 and has since plummeted to $23.9 Billion in 2012. The 2012 figure includes revenue from digital versions of the papers but this adaptation has not stymied the decline. On the surface, these numbers suggest that Neil Postman's claim in Amusing Ourselves to Death, that America was fulfilling Aldous Huxley's vision of a world where, “no Big Brother is required to deprive people of their autonomy, maturity and history. As [Huxley] saw it, people will come to love their oppression, to adore the technologies that undo their capacity to think.” (xix) Newspapers have historically been the most important technology to make one think so is does their decline spell our decline into an isolated, apathetic dystopia? To the contrary, I believe the collapse of the newspaper and the rise of internet journalism is creating a better informed and more socially aware society. Digital media is doing precisely the opposite of what Huxley, Postman and much of the...
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...CAPITAL GAINS TAX (CGT) PFP 14/15 Introduced in 1965 to tax assets which were not bought and sold as part of a trade. A CGT liability may arise when a chargeable person makes a chargeable disposal of a chargeable asset. CHARGEABLE PERSON • individuals resident in UK • partnerships - assessed on individual partners • companies - pay corporation tax on chargeable gains CHARGEABLE DISPOSAL • sale or gift of part or all of an asset • receipt of insurance claim following loss of chargeable asset • loss or destruction of a chargeable asset Certain disposals are not subject to CGT because of the nature of the recipient • disposals by gift to charity • disposal by gift to institutions which exist for public benefit e.g. museums • disposals between spouses: Disposals between a husband and wife (or civil partners) who live together at any time during the tax year in which the disposal occurs are chargeable disposals. However, such disposals are deemed to occur at a disposal value such that neither a chargeable gain nor an allowable loss arises on the disposal. • disposals of chargeable assets caused by death: Net capital losses incurred in the tax year in which the taxpayer dies obviously cannot be carried forward Therefore such net losses may instead be carried back and set off against net gains of the previous three tax years (later years first). CHARGEABLE...
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...terrorism. Terrorists engage in terrorism activities on Canadian soil, or support terrorism beyond Canada’s borders, hostile to Canada’s order, peace, and good government. Within the distance of time, Canada has seen substantial advancement in international and domestic terrorist attacks, through a number of high profile events. Terrorism has found a place in Canadian society, as of the Front de Liberation du Quebec (FLQ) crisis to the more recent acts of terrorism done by extremist groups, such as Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS). Due to this, a restructured legislation has been developed, with several reactionary policies, including the response to internal terrorism through Trudeau’s imposition of the ‘War Measures Act during ‘Black October’, and the development of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service Act (CSIS) to control international terrorism threats directed at Canada. These both served as control prevention mechanisms over the last 50 years, to fight external as well as internal terrorism. From these acts of prevention mechanisms, we can see how Canada is willing to go to great lengths to continue to protect to have zero tolerance for terrorism. (“Building Resilience Against Terrorism: Canada’s Counter-terrorism Strategy”). Terrorism is not a new phenomenon. In the past decades, hundreds of Canadian people were killed or injured in terrorist attacks. 24 victims after the 9/11 attack on the World Trade Center, 2 victims during the Bali bombings in Indonesia, 275...
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