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Very interesting thread here!
"Millionaire" is a relative term anyway. A "million dollars" doesn't go as far as it used too! If you add in real estate equity and other "fixed" assets that can't be disturbed.
I joined the site thinking that I might find a wonderful companion to build the rest of my life around. Don't really care what her financial or social situation is, as long as we really hit it off on all levels. I pay, she pays, we split the bill, it is all good when it is all good.
Let's get real. I'm not looking for a supermodel, because in my experience that is not reality. My partner would be attractive, pleasant, and has needs (don't we all), I have needs (not "wants" - a big difference). We should work together to be happy and content.
MM attracted me due to the upscale quality of the women I hope to meet here. Frankly, a guy wants to be respected and appreciated for what he does. I am sure women want the same for what she does, and she wants to be secure in a relationship. A bizzillion dollars makes no difference if the couple is miserable, distant, and unhappy. IMHO, but I could be wrong. :-)
So, should I be on this site? I'm active and plan on doing a lot of things. Went through a divorce that cut my net worth by a lot. Oh well, move on. No hard feelings. Assets now in the 6 figures, and $200K (pretax) disposible retirement income for the rest of my life. That should qualify, I'm thinking. So what is the definition of "millionarie?"
Good luck with your search!
Be patient and not too judgmental. You will find the one. Just a matter of time and perserverance.
P.S. It will be interesting to see the differing viewpoints to this post. Maybe a millionaire, maybe not?
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LoveStory2011, I stand by my position that if you want success, you have to make it for yourself. It's not down to others, it's down to you. It can be money, it can be time, whatever it is that you don't have enough of, you have to make it yourself if you want to acheive a level of success that will satisfy you. If others give you what you need, you will never have the sense of satisfaction that comes from your own efforts being rewarded. It's that particular satisfaction that underlies the root of all success.
I will also add that everyone's photos here are just stunning, including yours. Were I interested in marrying a lady, I would be very much spoilt for choice! My picture doesn't show in the thumbnail because otherwise I get a lot of women asking me to marry them. Ever since I took my picture down, ladies stopped asking me to marry them. But here I am! I shall consider posting my pic in my replies and comments; thank you for the suggestion.
Exotic Beauty: Successful people work long hours which isn't condusive to meeting a significant other later in life. Similarly, many successful people owe their success to clean living. These older guys are on the golf course, having Christmas dinner with their kids' families, buffing the polish on the Jag before taking her out for a spin in the Cotswolds. Ministry of Sound is chock-a-block full of delightful young people, but not many of those lasses and laddies are going to want to sit out their youth on a country estate.
Lovestory: Maybe your creative idea isn't one they feel is fiscally viable. If you don't beleive in it enough to invest your own money into it, then neither will he. If your ideas don't make any money, or your short of cash, that should be telling you that your business model is wrong and needs revision.
I am sure there are real millionaires here, there and everywhere else- but I doubt that there are many truly wealthy people here. The people who have reached the 8 and 9 digit realm probably use personal matchmaking services most of the time because they are easier and less risky than searching online.
Not that it matters, of course. The only real goal most of us have in regards to money is to have enough and not to worry about it.
Someday, my goal is to achieve a state of financial Nirvana where I never have to think a single thought about money ever again.
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Some customers find me through Google, but in order for my business to really take off, I need to be able to call and pitch to potential customers.
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Thanks. As I said, this is not my fortay, but I was aware that squashfs wasn't writable & there was no way to access the startup. I mainly was just trying to make anyone, such as yourself, who was better at this then myself, aware that there was a writable directory if it wasn't already know.
I appreciate the link to the playonhd site, I gave it a glance & try to look at it more when I have the time. As for optware, the only reason that I did it was just to see if it could be done, once again this is something that I don't know a lot about, I'm really just trying to learn as I go, without breaking something, but I do appreciate that your explaination.
Thank you daemontsai for "accidentally" allowing non password login. You're my hero .
Tinwable, that can be done. I can't pack a working firmware image for version 2.2 but since telnet login is possible, I can write a script that grab all the required components for a working optware system and hopefully bring all the features I added to 1.45 to 2.2.
Better get working now!
Glad to see you back. I hope that it's possible to get those features back, that would be great. If you get something put together let me know and I'll try to get it up and running on my FAT+.
Don't you just love those little "accidents"!
playdude wrote:Thank you daemontsai for "accidentally" allowing non password login. You're my hero .
Tinwable, that can be done. I can't pack a working firmware image for version 2.2 but since telnet login is possible, I can write a script that grab all the required components for a working optware system and hopefully bring all the features I added to 1.45 to 2.2.
Better get working now!
Good to see you back, playdude! and yes, a big thanks to that person too
intersting reference material if anyone wants to compare devices
I am in the process of writing and testing a telnet session with an expect script.. I'll post details soon.
11-11-2010 04:32 PM - edited 11-11-2010 04:37 PM
Run this from any *nix machine by saving the following into a file (we'll call it fatty in this post):
I was thinking of doing somting like that but with windows scripting.
Ie, make a small program that just has a list of common commands and let people send them at certain timeslike if it reboots..etc.
I found this script as a sample and use it for dmesg when it boots for testing.
this was from another device actually but still works
echo off
echo Set objShell = WScript.CreateObject("WScript.Shell") > asusrescue.vbs
echo Set objExecObject = objShell.Exec("cmd /c ping -t -w 1 192.168.1.33") >> asusrescue.vbs
echo Wscript.Echo "Now, start your O!Play..." >> asusrescue.vbs
echo Do While Not objExecObject.StdOut.AtEndOfStream >> asusrescue.vbs
echo strText = objExecObject.StdOut.ReadLine() >> asusrescue.vbs
echo Wscript.Echo strText >> asusrescue.vbs
echo If Instr(strText, "Reply") > 0 Then >> asusrescue.vbs
echo Exit Do >> asusrescue.vbs
echo End If >> asusrescue.vbs
echo Loop >> asusrescue.vbs
echo objShell.Run("telnet 192.168.1.33") >> asusrescue.vbs
echo Do Until Success = True >> asusrescue.vbs
echo Success = objShell.AppActivate("telnet") >> asusrescue.vbs
echo Loop >> asusrescue.vbs
echo Wscript.Sleep 300 >> asusrescue.vbs
echo Success = objShell.AppActivate("telnet") >> asusrescue.vbs
echo objShell.SendKeys "root" >> asusrescue.vbs
echo objShell.SendKeys "{ENTER}" >> asusrescue.vbs
echo objShell.SendKeys "dmesg" >> asusrescue.vbs
echo objShell.SendKeys "{ENTER}" >> asusrescue.vbs
echo Wscript.Echo "Done... You can close this window." >> asusrescue.vbs
rem echo Wscript.Quit >> asusrescue.vbs
CALL CScript asusrescue.vbs
del asusrescue.vbs
Perhaps it would be good to start collecting command lists for various functions or cool things that people can do
That vbscript seems interesting... I could definitely use its idea for listening to a ping packet to monitor if the device has been restarted--and then remount the custom root directory structure when triggered.
11-12-2010 04:28 AM - edited 11-12-2010 07:15 AM
I've been busy with work lately and got some time yesterday/today to mess around. Glad to see that someone is messing around with Expect/TCL, since it allows for accurate telnet scripting. Ping would be useful but unnecessary in this case because you can just throw a CR or include another expect command to check for a hot connection.
Actually, the easiest solution for writing your own custom firmware might be to write an expect script that kills all proccesses, put a custom image onto a USB drive, erase the squashfs partition, then write the custom image back to flash. It could probably work similar to this process for OpenWRT: http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~ecc/dockstar-howto.html
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i got the answer correctly by using a cad program c4d to be presise
theres was no need for trig or anything just basic maths
anyways nice card
Posted: Fri Feb 02, 2007 6:14 pm
Had to admit, I panicked when I saw the answer would involve trig!
But drew the solution on Coreldraw and got the answer in 5 minutes!
My first answer was
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But they wanted two decimal places so rounded up to
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I put the inaccuracy down to me!
Posted: Sat Aug 26, 2006 10:26 am
That's a good point, rosemary, because I use these facts often, I take them as obvoius. That's why there are lots of people stuck with this.
There is one thing though, how come you couldn't solve the end equations, I only ended up with simple trig equations and one quadratic at the end (which was easily solved using the formula).
Posted: Sat Aug 26, 2006 3:18 am
for anyone who is still struggling, I don't know if this will help but the key to the drawings is
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a line that meets a curve (circle) at only one point is a tangent to that curve. ie it meets it at 90 degrees.
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angles in a straight line must add to 180 degrees
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for two triangles, if they have the same base point, and the lines for the two sides from the base extend outward to form the second triangle (ie the angle at the base is the same), the ratio of the sides opposite the base equals the ratio of the equivalent sides of the original triangle compared to the extended triangle.
having said that, after I'd formed the equations, I don't think I would have solved them without mathcad. This was harder than I expected for a black, compared to some of the others or indeed some of the silvers
My apologies if anyone thinks I'm trying to teach them to suck eggs, but this was intended for those who didn't understand the maths behind the drawings so beautifully illustrated previously.
Just read the post below and realised I made this far harder than I needed to. I ended up with weird equations in terms of inverse sine and cosine functions.
Posted: Fri Aug 25, 2006 6:53 pm
Noone ever said it was a pretty equation. Also, please spoiler tag that equation.
Posted: Fri Aug 04, 2006 3:37 pm
No, I don't think this is a nice little problem at all! The exact solution is:
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(194/121) - 52t/121 - (116 Sqrt(3+t))/121 + (76/121) Sqrt(9+3t), where t = Sqrt 3.
You call that nice!
Edit - Added spoiler tags. -Cass
Posted: Fri Aug 04, 2006 12:35 pm
Bloody hell... Whipsmart don't care about their customers, do they? Making us figure out the exact measurements of ice-cream. I wouldn't know - I would have eaten it before the question started.
Posted: Fri Aug 04, 2006 6:48 am
This nice little problem can be done using two scale diagrams, one of the side on view similar to devjoes, and one of the top down view showing the max size of four circles in a bigger circle....and then you only need to do two simple pieces of maths: 1) work out the dimensions of the cone (or, the triangle in the 2D diagram) with a bit of pythag, and 2) work out how far from the centre line the chocolate scoop needs to be using a simple ratio from the top down view.
Be precise using a nice drawing package that lets you define the dimensions of the objects nicely, line up the edges well and presto, you can take your answer straight from the picture.
Posted: Fri Aug 04, 2006 6:09 am
Devjoe - your diagram was quite useful to me, though
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I had to enlarge the upper spheres to help me visualize it better. I realize that it'd be a good deal further up the cone from the 2-inch ball, and worked with the idea in mind that the ball had to be greater than an inch wide. Then I did some somewhat wonky square math, taking the radius of the cone at certain heights and dividing it by root 2 to get the diameter of the balls, and just did a lot of plugging in at 0.01 inch increments. Sloppy, but got the job done.
Posted: Fri Aug 04, 2006 3:39 am
That's good to know.
Posted: Fri Aug 04, 2006 3:34 am
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fretty, I can confirm your maths are correct
Posted: Fri Aug 04, 2006 3:18 am
I've done all of the calculations and get:
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as my diameter.
Can anyone confirm this?
Posted: Fri Aug 04, 2006 3:01 am
When I solved this, I drew lines as shown in the figure attached. There are three distinct angles on each side of the center line at C. One of them is 75 degrees, one of them is calculated from the known triangle CFG in terms of x, and the third one I solved for by extending CF until it meets the cone at H and working with the two similar right triangles HEF and HBC to find the length of the hypotenuse. The last two must add to 105 degrees, and now you need to solve numerically for x to make this true. I don't have the card to check my answer, but the approximation to two decimal places is quite close to the exact number.
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Posted: Thu Aug 03, 2006 6:35 pm
It's not a very nice calculation though!!
Will have a go at solving it now...
Posted: Thu Aug 03, 2006 2:52 pm
Thanks Generica - in fact my calculations above were correct!
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Colony of Virginia
Colony of Virginia | |||||
British colony | |||||
Capital | Jamestown (1607–1699) Williamsburg (1699–1776) |
Languages | English | ||||
Religion | Anglicanism | ||||
Government | Constitutional monarchy | ||||
King | |||||
- | 1603–1625 | James I (first) | |||
- | 1760–1776 | George III (last) | |||
Governor | |||||
- | 1607 | Edward Wingfield (first) | |||
- | 1771–1775 | Lord Dunmore (last) | |||
Legislature | House of Burgesses (1619–1776) | ||||
History | |||||
- | Founding | 1607 | |||
- | Began Royal Colony | ||||
- | Independence | 1776 | |||
Currency | Pound sterling |
The Colony of Virginia (also known frequently as the Virginia Colony, the Province of Virginia, and occasionally as the Dominion and Colony of Virginia) was the English colony in North America that existed briefly during the 16th century, and then continuously from 1607 until the American Revolution (as a British colony after 1707[1]). The name Virginia was first applied by Sir Walter Raleigh and Queen Elizabeth I in 1584. After the English Civil War in the mid 17th century, the Virginia Colony was nicknamed "The Old Dominion" by King Charles II for its perceived loyalty to the English monarchy during the era of the Commonwealth of England.
In 1607, members of a joint venture called the Virginia Company founded the first permanent English settlement in North America on the banks of the James River, called Jamestown. Famine, disease and conflict with local Native American tribes (the Powhatan Confederacy) in the first two years brought Jamestown to the brink of failure before the arrival of a new group of settlers and supplies in 1610. Tobacco became Virginia's first profitable export, and a period of peace followed the marriage of colonist John Rolfe to Pocahontas, the daughter of Algonquian chief Powhatan. During the 1620s, Jamestown expanded from the area around the original James Fort into a New Town built to the east; it remained the capital of the Virginia colony until 1699. From 1619 to 1776, the legislature of the Virginia was the House of Burgesses. In 1624, the Virginia Company's charter was revoked by King James I and the Virginia Colony was transferred to royal authority as a crown colony.
After declaring independence from Great Britain in 1775 before the Declaration of Independence was officially adopted, the Virginia Colony became the Commonwealth of Virginia, one of the original thirteen states of the United States, adopting as its official slogan "The Old Dominion". After the United States was formed, the entire states of West Virginia, Kentucky, Indiana and Illinois, and portions of Ohio and Western Pennsylvania were all later created from the territory encompassed earlier by the Colony of Virginia.
Names and etymology[edit]
The name "Virginia" is the oldest designation for English claims in North America. In 1584 Sir Walter Raleigh sent Philip Amadas and Arthur Barlowe to explore what is now the North Carolina coast, and they returned with word of a regional king (weroance) named Wingina, who ruled a land supposedly called Wingandacoa. The latter word may have inspired the Queen to name the colony "Virginia", noting her status as the "Virgin Queen."[2][3] On the next voyage, Raleigh was to learn that, while the chief of the Secotans was indeed called Wingina, the expression wingandacoa heard by the English upon arrival actually meant "What good clothes you wear!" in Carolina Algonquian, and was not the name of the country as previously misunderstood.[4]
Initially, the term "Virginia" was applied to the entire eastern coast of North America from the 34th parallel (near Cape Fear) north to the 48th parallel, including the shorelines of Acadia and a large portion of inland Canada.
Old Dominion[edit]
In gratitude for Virginians' loyalty to the crown during the English Civil War, Charles II gave it the title of "Old Dominion";[citation needed] Virginia maintains "Old Dominion" as its state nickname. Accordingly, the University of Virginia's athletic teams use "Cavaliers" as one of their nicknames, and Virginia has named one of its other state public universities "Old Dominion University".
Elizabethan colonization attempts (1584–1590)[edit]
Although Spain, France, Sweden, and the Netherlands all had competing claims to the region, none of these prevented the English from becoming the first European power to colonize successfully the Mid-Atlantic coastline. Earlier attempts had been made by the Spanish in what is now Georgia (San Miguel de Gualdape, 1526–27; several Spanish missions in Georgia between 1568 and 1684), South Carolina (Santa Elena, 1566–87), North Carolina (Joara, 1567–68) and Virginia (Ajacán Mission, 1570–71); and by French in South Carolina (Charlesfort, 1562–63). Farther south, the Spanish colony of Spanish Florida, centered on St. Augustine, was established in 1565, while to the north, the French were establishing settlements in what is now Canada (Charlesbourg-Royal briefly occupied 1541–43; Port Royal, established in 1605).
Settlements at Roanoke Island[edit]
In 1584, Sir Walter Raleigh sent his first colonization mission to the island of Roanoke (in present-day North Carolina). This was the first English settlement, although it did not survive, it was a military research expedition with a very narrow focus. Joachim Gans was sequestered on Roanoke Island to research copper smelting techniques of the indigenous tribes in order to reduce European smelting times from 16 weeks to 4 days; giving the English a strategic advantage over other European nations in smelting and forging cannons for their warships.[5][6] What is unique about the inclusion of Joachim Gans in this expedition was that Jews were not allowed in England until Oliver Cromwell allowed them back into England in 1655 by refusing to extend Expulsion Laws imposed roughly 300 years earlier by Edward I in 1290.[7]
In 1587, Raleigh sent another group to again attempt to establish a permanent settlement. The first English child born in the New World was named Virginia Dare. The expedition leader, John White returned to England for supplies that same year, but was unable to return to the colony due to war between England and Spain. When he finally did return in 1590, he found the colony abandoned. The houses were intact, but the colonists had completely disappeared. Although there are a number of theories about the fate of the colony, it remains a mystery and has come to be known as the "Lost Colony". Dare County was named in honor of the baby Virginia Dare, who was among those whose fate is unknown. The word Croatoan was found carved into a tree, the name of a tribe on a nearby island.[8][9]
Virginia Company (1606–1624)[edit]
Following the death of Queen Elizabeth I in 1603, King James I ascended to the throne. England was financially pressed following years of war with Spain. Additionally, England's forests and other natural resources were nearly exhausted after centuries of supporting the population.[citation needed] In order to remedy these vital resources, they were supplemented in part by trade with other nations, as well as exploitation of Northern Ireland labor and resources via Ulster plantation.[citation needed] The Muscovy Company in particular, had success importing goods such as lumber and pitch from the Dutch.[citation needed] However, the volatile and unstable conditions of the various trade relationships throughout Europe positioned England to consider other alternatives in the New World. Investment capital was raised to bring back gold and other riches and seek the Northwest Passage to the Middle East and India. James granted a proprietary charter to two competing branches of the Virginia Company, which were supported by investors. These were the Plymouth Company and the London Company.[citation needed]
By the terms of the charter, the Plymouth Company was permitted to establish a colony of 100 miles (160 km) square between the 38th parallel and the 45th parallel (roughly between Chesapeake Bay and the current U.S.-Canada border). The London Company was permitted to establish between the 34th parallel and the 41st parallel (approximately between Cape Fear and Long Island Sound), and also owned a large portion of Atlantic and Inland Canada. In the area of overlap, the two companies were not permitted to establish colonies within one hundred miles of each other.[citation needed] During 1606, each company organized expeditions to establish settlements within the area of their rights.[citation needed]
In the plot of the play "Eastward Hoe", presented on the London stage in 1605, the villains of the piece attempt to flee to Virginia after accumulating debts in England.
Popham Colony[edit]
In August 1606, the first Plymouth Company ship, Richard, sailed for the New World. However, it was intercepted and captured by the Spanish near Florida in November 1606 and never reached Virginia. The next attempt was more successful. About 120 colonists left Plymouth on May 31, 1607 in two ships. Colony leader George Popham sailed aboard the Gift of God, while second-in-command Ralegh Gilbert traveled on the Mary and John, whose captain was Robert Davies. Captain Davies maintained a diary which is one of the modern sources of information about the Popham Colony.[citation needed]
Arriving in August 1607, these Plymouth Company colonists established their settlement, known as the Popham Colony, in the present-day town of Phippsburg, Maine near the mouth of the Kennebec River. They intended to trade precious metals, spices, furs, and show that the local forests could be used to build English ships. Half of the colonists returned to England in the fall of 1607 aboard the Gift of God; the other half stayed through the winter, spring, and summer, during which time they built a 30-ton ship, a pinnace they named Virginia. Late that summer, all the remaining colonists returned to England aboard the Virginia and the Mary and John. The short-lived colony had lasted about a year. Although not permanent, it was the second English colony, after Cuttyhunk in 1602, in the region that would eventually become known as New England. The exact site of the Popham Colony had long been lost until its rediscovery in 1994.[citation needed]
The London Company hired Captain Christopher Newport to lead its expedition. On December 20, 1606, he set sail from England with his flagship, the Susan Constant, and two smaller ships, the Godspeed, and the Discovery, with 105 men and boys, plus 39 sailors.[10] After an unusually long voyage of 144 days, they arrived at the mouth of the Chesapeake Bay, and came ashore at the point where the southern side of the bay meets the Atlantic Ocean, an event which has come to be called the "First Landing". They erected a cross, and named the point of land Cape Henry, in honor of Henry Frederick, Prince of Wales, the eldest son of King James.[citation needed]
Their instructions were to select a location inland along a waterway where they would be less vulnerable to the Spanish or other Europeans also seeking to establish colonies. They sailed westward into the Bay and reached the mouth of Hampton Roads, stopping at a location now known as Old Point Comfort. Keeping the shoreline to their right, they then ventured up the largest river, which they named the James, for their king. After exploring at least as far upriver as the confluence of the Appomattox River at present-day Hopewell, they returned downstream to Jamestown Island, which offered a favorable defensive position against enemy ships and deep water anchorage adjacent to the land. Within 2 weeks, they had constructed their first fort, and named their settlement Jamestown.[citation needed]
In addition to securing gold and other precious minerals to send back to the waiting investors in England, the survival plan for the Jamestown colonists depended upon regular supplies from England and trade with the Native Americans. The location they selected was largely cutoff from the mainland, and offered little game for hunting, no fresh drinking water, and very limited ground for farming. Captain Newport returned to England twice, delivering the First Supply and the Second Supply missions during 1608, and leaving the Discovery for the use of the colonists. However, death from disease and conflicts with the Natives Americans took a fearsome toll of the colonists. Despite attempts at mining minerals, growing silk, and exporting the native Virginia tobacco, no profitable exports had been identified, and it was unclear whether the settlement would survive financially.[citation needed]
In 1609, with the abandonment of the Plymouth Company settlement, the London Company's Virginia charter was adjusted to include the territory north of the 34th parallel and south of the 39th parallel, with its original coastal grant extended "from sea to sea". Thus, at least on paper, the Virginia Colony in its original sense extended to the coast of the Pacific Ocean, in what is now California, with all the states in between (Kentucky, Missouri, Colorado, Utah, etc.) belonging to Virginia. For practical purposes, though, the original Virginians rarely ventured far inland to what was then known as "The Virginia Wilderness", although the concept itself helped renew the interest of investors, and additional funds enabled an expanded effort, known as the Third Supply.[citation needed]
Bermuda: The Somers Isles[edit]
For the Third Supply, the London Company had a new ship built. The Sea Venture was specifically designed for emigration of additional colonists and transporting supplies. It became the flagship of the Admiral of the convoy, Sir George Somers. The Third Supply was the largest to date, with 8 other ships joining the Sea Venture. The new Captain of the Sea Venture was mission's Vice-Admiral, Christopher Newport. Hundreds of new colonists were aboard the ships. However, weather was to drastically affect the mission.[citation needed]
A few days out of London, the nine ships of the third supply mission encountered a massive hurricane in the Atlantic Ocean. They became separated during the three days the storm lasted. Admiral Sir George Somers had the new Sea Venture, carrying most of the supplies of the mission, deliberately driven aground onto the reefs of Bermuda to avoid sinking. However, while there was no loss of life, the ship was wrecked beyond repair, stranding its survivors on the uninhabited archipelago, to which they laid claim for England.[citation needed]
The survivors at Bermuda eventually built two smaller ships and most of them continued on to Jamestown, leaving a few on Bermuda to secure the claim. The Company's possession of Bermuda was made official in 1612, when the third and final charter extended the boundaries of 'Virginia' far enough out to sea to encompass Bermuda, which was also known, for a time, as Virgineola. Bermuda has since been known officially also as The Somers Isles (in commemoration of Admiral Somers). The shareholders of the Virginia Company spun off a second company, the Somers Isles Company, which administered Bermuda from 1615 til 1684.[citation needed]
However, upon their arrival at Jamestown, the survivors of the Sea Venture discovered that the 10 month delay had greatly aggravated other adverse conditions. Seven of the other ships had arrived carrying more colonists, but little in the way of food and supplies. Combined with a drought, and hostile relations with the Native Americans, the loss of the supplies which had been aboard the Sea Venture had resulted in the Starving Time in late 1609 to May 1610, during which over 80% of the colonists perished. Conditions were so adverse it appears, from skeletal evidence, that the survivors engaged in cannibalism. [11] The survivors from Bermuda had brought few supplies and food with them, and it appeared to all that Jamestown must be abandoned and it would be necessary to return to England.[citation needed]
Permanence of Jamestown[edit]
Samuel Argall was the captain of one of the seven ships of the Third Supply which had arrived at Jamestown in 1609 after becoming separated from the Sea Venture, whose fate was unknown. Depositing his passengers and limited supplies, he had returned to England with word of the plight of the colonists at Jamestown. The King had authorized another leader, Thomas West, 3rd Baron De La Warr, later better known as "Lord Delaware", to have greater powers, and the London Company had organized another Supply mission. They set sail from London on April 1, 1610.
Just after the survivors of the Starving Time and those who had joined them from Bermuda had abandoned Jamestown, the ships of the new supply mission sailed up the James River with food, supplies, a doctor, and more colonists. Lord Delaware was determined that the colony was to survive, and intercepted the departing ships about 10 miles (16 km) downstream of Jamestown. The colonists thanked Providence for the Colony's salvation.
Among these individuals who had briefly abandoned Jamestown was John Rolfe, a Sea Venture survivor who had lost his wife and son in Bermuda. He was a businessman from London who had some untried seeds for new, sweeter strains of tobacco with him, as well as some untried marketing ideas. It was to turn out that John Rolfe held the key to the Colony's economic success.
By 1612, Rolfe's new strains of tobacco had been successfully cultivated and exported. Finally, a cash crop to export had been identified, and plantations and new outposts sprung up, initially both upriver and downriver along the navigable portion of the James River, and thereafter along the other rivers and waterways of the area. The settlement at Jamestown could finally be considered permanently established.[12]
Royal colony (1624–1776)[edit]
In 1620, a successor to the Plymouth Company sent colonists to the New World aboard the Mayflower. Known as Pilgrims, they successfully established a settlement in what became Massachusetts. The portion of what had been Virginia north of the 40th parallel became known as New England, according to books written by Captain John Smith, who had made a voyage there.
In 1624, the charter of the Virginia Company's was revoked by King James I and the Virginia Colony was transferred to royal authority in the form of a crown colony. Subsequent charters for the Maryland Colony in 1632 and to the eight Lords Proprietor of the Province of Carolina in 1663 and 1665 further reduced the Virginia Colony to roughly the coastal borders it held until the American Revolution. (The exact border with North Carolina was disputed until surveyed by William Byrd II in 1728.)
Population swelled with Cavaliers during and after the English Civil War, as Virginia was sympathetic to the Crown rather than the Puritan Commonwealth of Oliver Cromwell. Even so, Virginia Puritan Richard Bennett was made Governor answering to Cromwell in 1652, followed by two more nominal "Commonwealth Governors". With Restoration in 1660 the Governorship returned to its previous holder, Sir William Berkeley.
As the English increasingly used tobacco products, tobacco in the American colonies became significant economic force, especially in the tidewater region surrounding the Chesapeake Bay. Vast plantations were built along the rivers of Virginia, and social/economic systems developed to grow and distribute this cash crop. Some elements of this system included the importation and employment of slaves to grow crops. Planters would then fill large hogsheads with tobacco and convey them to inspection warehouses. In 1730, the Virginia House of Burgesses standardized and improved quality of tobacco exported by establishing the Tobacco Inspection Act of 1730, which required inspectors to grade tobacco at 40 specified locations.
See also[edit]
- History of Virginia
- List of colonial governors of Virginia
- Former counties, cities, and towns of Virginia
- Southern Colonies
- English colonial empire
- ^ The Royal Government in Virginia, 1624–1775, Volume 84, Issue 1, Percy Scott Flippin, Wallace Everett Caldwell, p. 288
- ^ Stewart, George (1945). Names on the Land: A Historical Account of Place-Naming in the United States. New York: Random House. p. 22.
- ^ Sams, Conway (1916). The Conquest of Virginia: the Forest Primeval; An Account Based on Original Documents. New York and London: G.P. Putnam's Sons. pp. 282–83.
- ^ "Algonkian Ethnohistory of the Carolina Sound, Part 1". Homepages.rootsweb.ancestry.com. 1944-06-15. Retrieved 2012-09-10.
- ^ Joachim Gans of Prague: The First Jew in English America, American Jewish History - by Grassl, Gary C., Volume 86, Number 2, June 1998, pp. 195-217
- ^ Colonial Williamsburg: the journal of the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, Volumes 22-24, Pg 8, Published by Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, 2000
- ^ "Jews and the state: dangerous alliances and the perils of privilege", Volume 19 of Studies in contemporary Jewry, by Ezra Mendelsohn, Pg 7, Oxford University Press US, 2003, ISBN 0-19-517087-3, ISBN 978-0-19-517087-0
- ^ "American Archaeology Uncovers the Earliest English Colonies", by Lois Miner Huey, Page 16, Published by Marshall Cavendish, 2009, ISBN 0-7614-4264-2, ISBN 978-0-7614-4264-6
- ^ "Sir Walter Raleigh's lost colony: An historical sketch of the attempts of Sir Walter Raleigh to establish a colony in Virginia, with the traditions of an Indian tribe in North Carolina. Indicating the fate of the colony of Englishmen left on Roanoke Island in 1587", Volume 210, Advance Presses 1888, pg 7
- ^ "Prelude to Jamestown". Nps.gov. 1989-08-18. Retrieved 2012-09-10.
- ^ Brown, David.Skeleton of teenage girl confirms cannibalism at Jamestown colony,Washington Post,1 May 2013. Retrieved on 1 May 2013.
- ^ "The Story of Jamestown". NPS Historical Handbook. National Park Service. Retrieved 18 March 2011.
Further reading[edit]
- Heinemann, Ronald L., John G. Kolp, Anthony S. Parent Jr., and William G. Shade, Old Dominion, New Commonwealth: A History of Virginia, 1607-2007 (2007). ISBN 978-0-8139-2609-4.
- Rubin, Louis D. Virginia: A Bicentennial History. States and the Nation Series. (1977), popular
- Wallenstein, Peter. Cradle of America: Four Centuries of Virginia History (2007). ISBN 978-0-7006-1507-0.
External links[edit]
- Library of Congress: Evolution of the Virginia Colony, 1610-1630
- Jamestown, Virginia
- The Wreck of The Sea Venture
- Former monarchies of North America
- Former countries in North America
- Former British colonies
- States and territories established in 1607
- States and territories disestablished in 1776
- Colonial Virginia
- Thirteen Colonies
- Former English colonies
- 1607 establishments in Virginia
- 1776 disestablishments in the United States
- Colonial United States (British)


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It has faced criticism for what some critics have said are high rates of euthanasia.
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December 10, 2007
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IT MAY NOT have been unusual to hear Jennifer Howse, president of the March of Dimes, delivering a radio address supporting the extension of the federal Children's Health Insurance Program.
But it was surprising that her speech was the formal Democratic Party response to President Bush's weekly radio address.
If champions of increased advocacy by nonprofit organizations have their way, such direct involvement in government affairs will become more common. Yet it might be wise for nonprofit groups to consider first the long-term consequences of this activity for those whose interests they advocate.
The speech by Ms. Howse is but one of many signs of increased public-policy advocacy by nonprofit groups and foundations. The American Cancer Society has pledged to devote its entire annual advertising budget of $15-million this year to the consequences of inadequate health coverage. And the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the Broad Foundation have committed $60-million to ensure that education policy is a prominent issue in the 2008 presidential race.
When critics raise questions about nonprofit advocacy, they usually focus on concerns that nonprofit groups will wander too close to the zone of overt partisan activity, which is off-limits under regulations governing charities and foundations. That seems unlikely, however, with organizations like OMB Watch, the Center for Lobbying in the Public Interest, and the Alliance for Justice supplying concise, accurate, and accessible guides to nonprofit advocacy, featuring detailed advice about effective advocacy campaigns that remain well within the law.
Along with such advice, those organizations properly remind us that advocacy by nonprofit groups has often been the sole means by which poor and marginalized groups have been able to mobilize their political energies, permitting them to voice their own concerns and shape their own programs in the face of indifferent national elites.
Supporters of greater nonprofit advocacy, however, need to deal with a deeper concern. Regardless of what cause a foundation or charity focuses on in its advocacy efforts, the most consistent message throughout is more: more government presence, involvement, or regulation, typically involving more new government programs or more spending for existing programs.
Given that government support is a substantial portion of the budgets of many nonprofit organizations, it is hardly surprising that they should push for more.
A survey of nonprofit groups engaged in advocacy described in the new Aspen Institute volume Seen but Not Heard: Strengthening Nonprofit Advocacy, written by Gary Bass, David Arons, Kay Guinane, and Matthew Carter, notes that 86 percent choose "promoting government policies that support our mission" as a reason for advocacy, with 77 percent choosing "protecting government programs that serve our clients, constituents, or community."
But is it wise for nonprofit advocates to commit themselves so enthusiastically to extending the reach and size of government? Even with anti-big-government conservatism on the wane, the Gallup poll reports that Americans now "express less trust in the federal government than at any point in the past decade," with only 47 percent of Americans reporting at least a "fair amount of trust in the federal government to handle domestic problems."
Nonprofit groups need to be conscious of the deep, prolonged public disenchantment with the institution to which their fates are increasingly tied.
Greater advocacy by nonprofit groups also poses the threat of drifting away from the mission that animates many of them in the first place, namely, standing for the interests of the poor and marginalized.
Once an organization secures substantial support from a government agency, it naturally becomes leery of biting the hand that feeds it.
Acting as a sentinel for the poor, goading recalcitrant government agencies to refine and improve their programs, gives way to placating the bureaucrats who dispense the money, and joining them in lobbying for more of the same.
As one nonprofit director reported to the authors of Seen but Not Heard, "high dependency on government contracts changed the culture within the organization," since it became "increasingly focused on protecting the government revenue to the point of downgrading the importance of advocating on behalf of the clients."
As organizations plunge more deeply into public policy, they encounter other distractions from their missions. They may envision politics in which they make unilateral demands for their constituents while keeping themselves aloof from distasteful logrolling and quid pro quo paybacks. But that's not the way it works. Politicians always expect something in return.
It may take the form of a request to support projects dear to the politician but far from the organization's mission; expectations of campaign contributions and after-hours electoral support from an organization's staff and board (as private individuals); suggestions for inappropriately favorable coverage of the politician in the group's public-relations material; or even subtle pressure to provide jobs or consulting contracts to his or her friends and supporters.
Just like other pressure groups, nonprofit groups will be expected to make political trade-offs that will chip away at their claim to speak for everyday citizens and the poor.
The growing tendency for charities to become more concerned about organizational survival than their constituents' welfare only compounds a disheartening civic trend described by the Harvard sociologist Theda Skocpol in Diminished Democracy: From Membership to Management in American Civic Life.
She maintains that America once sustained nationwide organizations that attracted widespread membership and civic engagement from vast numbers of Americans, including poor and excluded people. But in recent decades, she notes, involvement in public policy has shifted from mass-based membership organizations to nonprofit groups whose members (if any) are expected only to write checks to the headquarters in Washington, where expert lobbyists will make a compelling, professional case to legislators.
"Because today's advocacy groups are staff-heavy and focused on lobbying, research, and media projects, they are managed from the top, even when they claim to speak for ordinary people," Ms. Skocpol argues.
In fact, it is much easier for advocacy organizations to formulate and pursue a coherent policy agenda by consulting only a handful of policy experts and key donors, rather than trying to mobilize mass opinions and actions.
Consequently, says Cynthia Gibson, an adviser to numerous foundations and a supporter of nonprofit advocacy, it appears likely that "a significant percentage of these mostly D.C.-based groups are less interested in championing the concerns of grass-roots citizens — especially poor and low-income people who are traditionally underrepresented in the policy-making processes — largely due to their increasingly heavy reliance on affluent donors who have other priorities."
The decline of one of America's largest and most successful nonprofit organizations provides a cautionary tale. The National Congress of Parents and Teachers (more commonly known as the PTA) boasted 12 million members during the 1960s. Today, its membership may be half that. Although some scholars attribute this fall to the general decline in civic engagement, critics note that it has been aggravated by the PTA's growing focus on national advocacy across a wide variety of educational and social programs.
Over time, they argue, national advocacy has displaced the more immediate and local concerns of everyday parents within specific schools. Tim Sullivan, whose PTO Today magazine covers the world of school parent-teacher groups and sprouted in response to the increase in groups without ties to the PTA, suggests that parents are particularly troubled by the PTA's "insistence on making public-policy advocacy the heart of its mission," when in fact they're most interested in "making their local school a great place."
If nonprofit groups embrace greater advocacy without thinking carefully about the tension between organizational survival and genuine democratic engagement, they will slip into cozy relationships with professional lobbyists, bureaucrats, and politicians, whose interests soon displace those of the poor and dispossessed.
Thoughtful proponents of grass-roots advocacy are aware of this tension. As Francis Kunreuther, director of the Building Movement Project, recently told the Minnesota Council of Nonprofits, while "it's important that we demand the support we deserve from government and other sources," we also "have to make sure we have a broader vision that extends beyond organizational survival and truly promotes democracy."
It would be sadly ironic if the push for more advocacy simply contributed to the conversion of nonprofit groups from engines of widespread civic engagement to highly centralized and professionalized lobbying groups, with only the most tenuous of ties to those for whom they claim to advocate.
Senior Fellow William A. Schambra is the director of Hudson Institute's Bradley Center for Philanthropy and Civic Renewal.
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