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- 3021: The Cuban Missile Crisis
- ... my local milita and were forced to open fire. The crucial tactic for America was the element of surprise, and that was now gone. Fidel had actually learnt of the invasion at 3:15am that day and prepared an army and rounded up CIA agents and journalists. By the 18th, just the next day, the invasion was doomed. The brigade pleaded with Kennedy for aerial support but he declined. Defeat of the Americans came on the 19th, with 1,100 prisoners left in Cuba. The Bay of Pigs invasion ... February 3 1962 Kennedy ordered a complete ban on all trade with Cuba and State Department officials urged NATO to stop trade as well. In reply, Castro issued the ‘Second Declaration of Havana’ the next day, which was a call to all the people of Latin America to rise against American Imperialism. Aware of Operation MONGOOSE, and with the trade ban and the worsening economic situation in Cuba, Castro was ...
- 3022: Business Plan
- ... upper edge of what the market will bear, competing with the name brand consultants. The pricing fits with the general positioning of Triangle as high-level expertise. Consulting should be based on $5,000 per day for project consulting, $2,000 per day for market research, and $10,000 per month and up for retainer consulting. Market research reports should be priced at $5,000 per report, which will of course require that reports be very well planned ... 432,000 7. 0 Financial Plan We will maintain a conservative financial strategy, based on developing capital for future growth. 7. 1 Important Assumptions The table in this section summarizes key financial assumptions, including 45-day average collection days, sales entirely on invoice basis, expenses mainly on net 30 basis, 35 days on average for payment of invoices, and present-day interest rates. General Assumptions 1995 1996 1997 ____________ _____________________________________________________________ Collection days ...
- 3023: New Years 2000
- ... our culture will cease to work. There is another date very little attention has been given, however. May 5th 2000 has been speculated for many centuries as an important date for mankind. It is the day five of the nine planets and the Earth s moon line up with the sun. May 5th 2000 has been prophesized, predicted, and analyzed, but the outcome is still unanswered. Predictions of the demise of ... Earth have been dated as far back as the Old Testament and have been philosophized and studied by well-known theologians like Aristotle and Nostradames. The Mayan calendar even speculates a worldwide event on this day. Very intriguing from a culture that supposedly predicted its own downfall. Christians refer to the book of Revelations for the foretelling of the Apocalypse and the seven seals, which tell how humanity will see its ... planets on the other side of the Sun are vastly smaller than those exerted by the Moon or the Sun. In fact, with the planets in the position they will be in on the big day, the largest tidal force from one of them will be from Jupiter, and it is about one five hundred thousandth the size of the tidal force exerted by the Moon on an average day! ...
- 3024: Technology And The Stock Market
- ... of time. Technology has also helped investors buy stocks in other markets. Markets used to open at standard local times. This would cause an American trader to sleep through the majority of a Japanese trading day. With more online and afterhours trading, investors have more access to markets so that American traders can still trade Japanese stocks. This is also helped by an expansion of most market times. Afterhours trading is ... a report of execution is returned directly to the member-firm office over the same electronic circuit that brought the order to the trading floor. SuperDot can currently process about 2.5 billion shares per day. Another piece of machinery is the Broker Booth Support System. The BBSS is a state-of-the-art order-management system that enables firms to quickly and efficiently process and manage their orders. BBSS allows ... selling of stocks over the past few years. There are great advantages to trading today over the situation that past traders had. The biggest beneficiaries of this new technology are investors themselves. They have all day to trade instead of trading only during market hours, they have more stocks to choose from, and the markets are very high so people are making a lot of money. In conclusion, I have ...
- 3025: Viruses
- ... just did you should have a fairly good idea of what computer crime is. I didn't mention it in the sections but the police, phone companies are arresting and stopping alot of things every day. With the new technology today it is easier to catch these criminals then it was before. With the exception of the BBS' the police have made some major blows busting a few BBS', arresting hackers ... of Mass Hysteria." PCWorld Sept. 1997: 123-125 Miastkowski, Stan. "Virus Killers 1998: This Year, Macro Viruses are Running Rampant. Which Antivirus Program is Your Best Defense?" PC World Mar. 1998: 114-116. Yang, W.D. "Be Aware of Viruses and Use Protection." Computer Times 18 February 1998: 85-89. Yegulalp, Serdar. "Head to Head: Antivirus Software Virus Protection Superheroes." Windows Magazin
- 3026: The Information Super Highway
- ... list to ensure protection (Rogers). We put our faith in these searchers but we can never rely on them completely because thousands of sites will go down and come up within the course of a day. This makes it difficult to create a standard database of questionable material. The protection programs work by denying web access to sites that contain the words “pornography,” “gambling,” “hate,” “fuck,” “penis” and other profanity. These ... example of what not to do or might use a sexual topic to explain it as information. A health services page will speak of sex and information on how to protect oneself against S.T.D’s. This page might be blocked and so might the valuable information it contained. The majority of concerned adults want to block pornography but stopping the words that deal with “sex” will prevent all helpful ...
- 3027: Internet
- ... already established. I personally do not sit up all night trying to see some naked body in a freaky position. Nevertheless, I do not have a problem if my neighbor looks at pornographic material all day long as long as he does not pressure me with it. You never know where an online neighbor is from. The Internet is neither owned or ran by the United States. Many people view the ... level of their parents. This also causes parents to be shocked at what their children may be looking at when they are not in the room. If parents would take five minutes out of the day to look in the temp folder or the history in the navigator, they would know exactly what their children have been viewing. If you can regulate your son or daughters use of the net, then why violate other peoples’ rights? I would just like to keep the information superhighway open and without government restrictions so that I can put my car on cruise control and ride all day long.
- 3028: Computer Simulations
- ... to stress and stimulate commanders and their battle staff to assess the situation, determine courses of action, and plan and issue new orders in a timely manner, all while using their organizational equipment and procedures. d. Logistical support for WARSIM 2000 will be based on a government- owned contractor-supported system. The government will own necessary hardware, have all proprietary rights to the developmental hardware and software components, and full license ... In addition, wind direction and speed and temperature in a vertical profile up to 70,000 feet must be allowed to impact Nuclear Biological and Chemical NBC) weapons with changes incorporated at least twice per day. (iii) Terrain. The simulation must provide a level of resolution of terrain such that tactical considerations of terrain analysis and the dynamic effects of man-made or natural occurrences (e.g. bomb craters, minefields, battle ...
- 3029: Censorship
- ... that censorship will help to get rid of this problem. Broadcasters feel that parents should monitor what their children watch. However, many parents are not always home and this is a very difficult task. Each day, children are subjected to violence through television. "If you came home and you found a strange man teaching your kids to punch each other, or trying to sell them all kinds of products, you d kick him right out of the house," says Yale psychology professor Jerome Singer. "But here you are; you come in and the RV is on and you don t think twice about it" (Abandoned in ...
- 3030: Knee Surgery
- ... locked and my teammates had to carry me off of the mat. Later that night I had knee surgery and it appeared as if I would never wrestle again. The events of that particular winter day eventually played a role in shaping me as a person. It was this incident and subsequent rehabilitation that helped me develop several of my best characteristics including commitment, responsibility, and perseverance. In my naive thinking ... be displayed on one's knees with corrugated streaks of purplish flesh. Little did I realize what it takes to recover. My father had orthoscopic surgery twice, and both times he was walking within a day and cycling within a week. I assumed my recovery time would be similar to his. Never in my life have I been so wrong. Due to the nature of the injury, the doctor elected to ... come relatively easily. For the first time in my life, I had to exert myself for something I desired. Towards the end of my rehabilitation, the workouts became easier but were still painful. Finally, the day arrived to determine if I had gained back my muscle strength. I completed the Cybex II tests and anxiously awaited for the results. My therapist shot me a glance and mumbled, "Kevin, good thing ...
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