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Entourage Webloghttp://blogs.msdn.com/b/entourage/atom.aspxTelligent Evolution Platform Developer Build (Build: 5.6.50428.7875)2004-02-12T09:28:00ZDrawing a blankhttp://blogs.msdn.com/b/entourage/archive/2006/06/05/618179.aspx2006-06-05T23:25:00Z2006-06-05T23:25:00Z
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Recently, many Entourage users have reported receiving blank messages from senders using Outlook Web Access (OWA). It turns out that a recent OWA update introduced this issue. Fortunately, a version 2 of this update is now available and should resolve it. You can download it here:

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=5BC06E8A-08EB-4976-BC68-A03EBE3A2552&displaylang=en

- Richard Kmieciak (richkm at hotmail.com)

MSDNArchivehttp://blogs.msdn.com/MSDNArchive/ProfileUrlRedirect.ashxSpotlight Support in Entourage 2004http://blogs.msdn.com/b/entourage/archive/2006/03/17/553801.aspx2006-03-17T18:24:00Z2006-03-17T18:24:00Z  <meta http-equiv="Content-Language" content="en-us"> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=windows-1252"> <title>Spotlight</title>
Hello There! You guys should have read the earlier  post by Andy Ruff mentioning that 'We're Back' and more people from our team will be blogging here. I am not exactly part of  MacBU or Entourage product development group, but I work very closely with them. So who am I and what do I do for living?

 Who am I?
 My full name is M. Amir Haque and I go by Amir (pronounced as 'Aamer'). I joined Microsoft in Sep. of 2000 as a Support Engineer in PSS (Product Support Services). I have always been part of 'Microsoft  Enterprise Messaging' support group, which provides Exchange support to big enterprises (like Fortune 1000 companies) and professional customers out there. I specialize in 'Exchange Client Connectivity' (Outlook &  Entourage),  Outlook Web Access,  RPC over HTTP, and other Exchange Mobility-related features like Exchange  ActiveSync (server-side). In my current job role as a 'Support Escalation Engineer', I focus on technical mentoring and support case escalations. I develop & present training to support engineers and provide product feedback to different development groups here at Microsoft. I also work closely with Entourage product group in Mac Business Unit at Microsoft and this has enabled me to beta test Entourage since it started talking to Exchange Server with 10.1.4  Update for Entourage X, released on Aug. 4th, 2003. I recently tested new features released in 11.2.3  Update for Entourage 2004 for Mac and plan to post some blogs about them over here. This is the first blog of that series.

 What does this new feature provide?
 With the new 11.2.3 Update installed, you can now use Apple's  Spotlight feature to execute searches against your Entourage database contents. Spotlight can find any item inside your Entourage database; it does not matter, where that item is. You can find any item related to any kind of mail account (POP, IMAP or Exchange) which is present in a folder inside your Entourage database. Folder type also does not matter, i.e. Spotlight can search all folders of any type related to any kind of mail account. As Entourage downloads a copy of each item in its local database, even when you use IMAP or Exchange mail account (which are only 'mirrored' locally in database, Entourage does not delete messages from the mailbox on server after downloading), thus using Spotlight you can execute searches against all of those items.

 What are the basic requirements to use this new feature?
 So what does one need to do to start using this feature? Nothing! Yes, nothing if you have already installed the 11.2.3  Update for Office 2004 for Mac from Mactopia on top of your Mac OS X (Mac OS 10.4 or higher is required, recommended is  latest i.e. 10.4.5) system. You don't need to configure anything; it just works right out of the box. We recommend waiting for some time if you have a huge database (in gigabytes), so that Spotlight can complete its indexing process for Entourage's database. Otherwise, wait for just a few minutes and you will be all set to go!

 Where are the preferences for this feature?
 If you want to set preferences inside Entourage related to this feature, just go to Entourage : Preferences : General Preferences : Spotlight (screenshot)

 You will see the following 2 options:

1. A check box saying 'Include Entourage items in Spotlight search results'

This box will be checked by default for the very first identity (if you have multiple identities) which you will use in Entourage after you install 11.2.3 Update. Checking this box makes the Entourage database available to Spotlight for indexing, which is needed for you to be able to search quickly thru items inside Entourage database. If you want to turn off this feature, just uncheck this box & items inside this identity won't show up in your Spotlight search.

2. A button labeled as 'Rebuild'

Pressing this button will remove and recreate the Entourage index that Spotlight uses. Depending on the size of the Entourage database, rebuilding can take some time. Rebuilding process starts as soon as you press this button (pressing 'OK' button at the bottom of that window is not required). It's recommended to rebuild your cache if you continue to see inconsistency between what you have in Entourage and what Spotlight finds for you.

Note: Pressing the 'Rebuild' button repeatedly is not recommended as each time you press this button, the Spotlight has to remove the previous Entourage items from its index and add the new items back into the index. If a user presses it too often, he'll swamp both Entourage and Spotlight with indexing requests, causing both - an inconsistency in his Spotlight search results and a general performance hit to his computer.

How can I use this feature?
 Let's take this new feature for a test drive.  Here is how I have set the Spotlight preferences (under 'System Preferences') on my Mac OS 10.4.5 system (iBook, PPC, G3, 600 MHz, 256 MB RAM, 14 GB HD). I am connecting to a mailbox on an Exchange Server out there on the Internet and have some data in my mailbox (~10 MB). I went to the top right hand corner of my Finder, clicked on that blue Spotlight search icon and typed 'test' in the search box. Voila! I got what I was looking for! This  screenshot shows the types of items Spotlight was able to find which I have in my Entourage database. Notice that a 'Note' in Entourage shows up under 'Documents' category in Spotlight search & a 'Task' in Entourage is showing up under 'Events & To Do's' category. Spotlight is just using the Apple terminology for these items. Here is another  screenshot of the same search when I clicked on 'Show All', which lists 'Top 5' items in each category and provides a link to see more of them under each category.

 Can I execute Spotlight searches from within Entourage?
 At this time, you may not use the Spotlight search engine from within Entourage. In order to perform Spotlight-powered searches, you must use the OS provided tools, i.e.  Spotlight Menu,  Spotlight Window,  Smart Folders,  Command Line Tools or for developers, they can use  MDQuery.

 How does this feature work with multiple identities in Entourage?
 Entourage does support the indexing of multiple identities for Spotlight feature. However, by default, the Entourage Spotlight indexing preference is only enabled in the first identity launched with Entourage updated with 11.2.3 Update. If you switch to another identity, the Spotlight preference will not be automatically enabled - you must enable it manually (Entourage : Preferences : General Preferences : Spotlight). Keep in mind that indexing multiple identities within the same Mac OS user account will result in each identity's items appearing intermixed with other identities in the Spotlight search results. If you want to keep identities separated, it's recommended that you create separate Mac OS user accounts and use 'Fast User Switching' (best method, provides data privacy/security) or you can use 'Smart Folders' in Mac OS.

 Summary
 This blog was intended to provide a general introduction of the new feature, later we will expand on different aspects of it. Let us know using comments if you have any questions or concerns. Thanks for listening!

 - Amir

MSDNArchivehttp://blogs.msdn.com/MSDNArchive/ProfileUrlRedirect.ashxWe're Back: Spotlight, Sync Services, Smart Cards!http://blogs.msdn.com/b/entourage/archive/2006/03/14/551399.aspx2006-03-14T21:22:00Z2006-03-14T21:22:00ZWhile certainly some time has passed since I last posted on the Entourage weblog, that does not mean myself and the rest of the Entourage team has been idle. Instead, I am excited to announce the release of yet another set of new, free features for Entourage 2004 users: Sync Services, Spotlight, and smart card support! You can download the new update from Microsoft.com/Mac and give it a whirl.
All of these features build upon some exciting technologies introduced in Mac OS 10.4 (Tiger). Since 10.4's initial release, we've been working alongside Apple to insure that Entourage users could take advantage of all these features. These efforts were done alongside the development of SP2 (released earlier this year) and the next version of Mac Office (including Universal Binary support for Intel Macs).

Sync Services
Entourage is now a first-class sync client within the Mac OS. Your contacts may now show up within Apple's Address Book, your events and tasks within iCal, and all Entourage information is available both for .Mac synchronization as well as iSync for quick access on your mobile devices. I've been synchronizing with my Sony Ericsson W800 (Tiger skinned) using Bluetooth and iSync since early in development.

Spotlight
I'll be the first to admit that searching within in Entourage is slow. Painfully slow. However, Apple's Spotlight is blazing fast. With this release, Entourage data is now available for indexing by Spotlight. Your mail messages, contacts, events, notes, and tasks are all possible results within Spotlight searches and the Finder's Smart Folders.

We've also provided a large amount of metadata to Spotlight, so you can do useful things like create a Smart Folder that shows all Entourage items within a category (in the Finder, create a new Smart Folder, select "Keywords", as the criteria, and enter the name of your category). There are a ton of possibilities here… I'll try to explore some more of these within future blog posts.

Smart cards
Mac OS 10.4 supports smart cards for signing, decrypting, and encrypting e-mail messages through the Keychain. This update improves interoperability of Entourage with the Keychain such that smart card based Keychain entries are accessible by Entourage.

Stay Tuned...
With this release, I've now got a bit more time to post regularly. In addition to discussion of these new features, I've received many requests from blog readers on additional topics to cover. I plan to do so soon! There's also a strong possibility that additional members of the Entourage team may post some messages here. So, again, stay tuned...

- Andy Ruff

MSDNArchivehttp://blogs.msdn.com/MSDNArchive/ProfileUrlRedirect.ashxChecking Your Mail Without VPN access Using Entourage 2004http://blogs.msdn.com/b/entourage/archive/2005/09/24/473634.aspx2005-09-25T01:27:00Z2005-09-25T01:27:00Z
One of the most handy features within Entourage 2004 is the ability to check your company's e-mail from home, on your Mac, and without ever firing up a VPN connection to your office. To configure Entourage to check e-mail from home, just do the following:

In Safari, log into your organization's Outlook Web Access website
In the Location field (where you type http://www... ), copy the address up to the first slash after the www portion of the text. For example, if the web site's address began with http://www.example.com/exchange/john/, you would copy http:///www.example.com/.
In Entourage, open up your Exchange account's settings (Tools menu : Accounts menu item:), double-click Your Exchange Account Name , and paste the copied website address in the Server field.
To access public folders or see free/busy information from home, click the Public Folders link in Outlook Web Access and copy-paste the first part of the URL (e.g. http://www.example.com/public) into the Public Folder server field on your Exchange account's Advanced tab.

Once configured, you should now be able to read your mail from home without needing to VPN into your corporate network. I do this all the time on my PowerBook and don't ever bother to change the setting while in my office. Anywhere there's a wifi connection, I've got e-mail.

Geeky detail: Entourage relies on UDP notifications from the Exchange server to determine when new e-mail is available. Typically, when connected through the above method, the UDP notifications are blocked from ever arriving. To compensate, Entourage will ask the Exchange server once a minute for any new items within an Exchange mailbox.

MSDNArchivehttp://blogs.msdn.com/MSDNArchive/ProfileUrlRedirect.ashxSP2 Details: Enforcing Exchange Permissions within Entouragehttp://blogs.msdn.com/b/entourage/archive/2005/09/21/472436.aspx2005-09-21T21:04:00Z2005-09-21T21:04:00Z
(Or "Why You May Want to Patch Your Exchange Server")

Before SP2, Entourage would allow you to perform an action within a folder, calendar, or address book and, at a later time, the app would attempt to sync your change to the server. If the sync failed due to permission errors, the offending item would be either moved to your drafts without notice or, in some instances, completely lost--unquestionably a bad experience for anyone.

As we added a fair amount of features in SP2 to enable team collaboration (e.g. sharing calendars, opening shared folders, improved delegation, much improved public folder support), solving permission confusion became a much more critical issue. No one wants to spend 30 minutes crafting a post to a public folder only to have it disappear because they had read-only permissions on the folder and Entourage never let them know.

How Does Entourage Enforce Permissions?
Let's start with a simple example of a common permission setting: a user with the ability to delete items they created in a folder but without the ability to delete items others created in the folder. In this case, the folder level permissions are Delete Own while each item's deletion permission varies based on ownership.

Each folder and item on the server has a corresponding PR_ACCESS value that is calculated by the Exchange server. When certain folders and items are synchronized with Entourage, the application retrieves a corresponding PR_ACCESS along with all the other information about the folder, message, contact, or event. Entourage makes no attempt to calculate the user's permission level from within the client; the server informs us of permissions and we listen. In the Delete Own example, the folder's PR_ACCESS property has a value representing this level of rights while each item in the folder has different PR_ACCESS property values depending on if a user may or may not delete the particular item.

Permissions Sync Optimizations
The Delete Own example provides a particular challenge to synchronizing permissions with Entourage. If the folder's Owner changes permissions on the folder such that an Entourage user now has Delete All rights, Entourage must resynchronize the PR_ACCESS value for each and every item within the folder. The Exchange server notifies Entourage that a permission change occurred and the only way for the application to know the full extent of the change is to verify the permissions for all affected items.

While this sounds like a fair amount of overhead for synchronizing permissions, there are three factors working to minimize the resources needed: PR_ACCESS is a small (two bytes) value, a permission change affecting a user is typically are a one-time or rare event, and Entourage optimizes by always assuming Owner level rights (and thus not synching permissions) for a user's mailbox folders.

So Why Do I Need to Patch My Exchange Server?
The user mailbox optimization is critical to understanding why your organization may want to patch the Exchange servers. The inverse of the optimization is that permission values are synchronized for all folders outside a user's mailbox (e.g. public folders, a folder/address book/calendar shared with another user, and any delegated folder or mailbox).

Without patching your Exchange server, all folders outside a user's mailbox synchronized by Entourage 2004 SP2 will be read-only. The PR_ACCESS value retrieved by Entourage via WebDAV is returned incorrectly when connected to a non-patched Exchange servers. The property is always returned as read-only, even if the user has a higher level of privileges. Without the patch, Entourage will use these read-only values to lock the user out of performing actions they may actually have permission to perform. With the patch, the correct value is returned to Entoruage and permissions are accurately reflected within the user interface.

If you are applying the patches, you should consider applying the patch on all servers within your organization (frontend, backend, public folder, etc.). The Entourage team worked side-by-side with the Exchange team on the fix, though the fix will correct permissions for all DAV clients. To read more about and download the patches, refer to the following KB articles:

Exchange 2003, KB 888619 (http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;888619 )
Exchange 2000, KB 892986 (http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;892986 )

The Exchange 2003 fix will be included in the upcoming Exchange 2003 SP2 release.

Possible Oddities in Synchronizing Permissions
Keeping permissions in sync with an offline client is difficult and there instances where the cached client permissions may differ from the servers:

Downgraded permissions - Entourage's local cache has Read-Only permissions for a folder while the user actually has a higher level of permissions. The next time the folder synchronizes with the Exchange server, Entourage will update the permissions within the local cache. There's no risk of losing data, as Entourage will be overzealous in restricting actions until the next sync.

Faux-Escalated permissions - Entourage's local cache includes a higher level of permissions than those on an Exchange server. For example, an Entourage user has Read-Write privileges on a public folder, goes offline to board an airplane, and, while jetting, posts several new items to the public folder (write activity). During the flight, an administrator removes the write-level permissions for the user on the public folder.

At this point, the offline cache's permission level is now out of sync with the Exchange server. When the user reconnects, Entourage may or may not update the local permissions before attempting to sync the newly created posts (it's a timing issue optimized for the most common scenarios). However, the permissions on the Exchange server always trump the permissions cached within Entourage. When Entourage attempts to sync and fails, the newly created items will be moved to the user's Drafts folder and permission denied errors logged in the Entourage Error Log--the same behavior of Entourage 2004 prior to SP2.

MSDNArchivehttp://blogs.msdn.com/MSDNArchive/ProfileUrlRedirect.ashxEntourage 2004 SP2: Common GAL Issueshttp://blogs.msdn.com/b/entourage/archive/2005/09/21/472336.aspx2005-09-21T18:12:00Z2005-09-21T18:12:00Z
I don't seem to be able to browse the Global Address List (GAL). I can search, but I cannot browse.
In order to browse the contents of the GAL (or GCL), you must be connecting to a Windows 2003 domain controller's LDAP service. Entourage utilizes an enhancement to Windows Server's LDAP support known as Virtual List Views. If Entourage connects to a Windows 2000 domain controller, you will be able to search the contents of your GAL, but not browse.

Every time I try to access the GAL with LDAP, I receive error #-17747.
SP2 includes a fair amount of enhancements to Entourage's general LDAP capabilities. As a result, some of your previous LDAP settings may need to be updated. The most common solution for error -17747 is to remove the search base from your directory configuration. Go to Tools menu : Accounts : Your Exchange Account : Advanced and empty the Search Base field.

Remember the Office Resource Kit
If you're an IT Administrator and interested in finding out more about how best to deploy Entourage SP2 within your org, check out the updated Microsoft Office 2004 for Mac Resource Kit.

- Andy (firstname.lastname@example.com)

MSDNArchivehttp://blogs.msdn.com/MSDNArchive/ProfileUrlRedirect.ashxWhat's New in Entourage 2004 SP2http://blogs.msdn.com/b/entourage/archive/2005/09/20/471882.aspx2005-09-20T19:45:00Z2005-09-20T19:45:00Z
Service Pack 2 is primarily focused on delivering improved support for using Entourage as an Exchange client. Beyond Exchange, we did fix a fair number of bugs as well as (you can read about some more commonly known bugs that we addressed in the Read Me). For now, I'm going to focus primarily on what we did to improve the Exchange experience:

Improved sync speeds
What used to take hours, now takes minutes. Prior to SP2, synchronizing an Exchange mailbox took incredibly long and the prioritization of folders always seemed a bit awkward. We did a lot of work to change the way the app synchronizes folders and gave a higher priority to folders often seen as critical (e.g. the Inbox). In addition to a lot of general network performance enhancements, we finally hooked-up the Send and Receive All button to Exchange, allowing you to quickly force a sync with the currently viewed folder, calendar, or address book and your Inbox.

Multiple Calendars and Address Books
In Entourage 2004, your Exchange calendar was your calendar, your Exchange address book was your address book. There was no way to organize an offline, personal calendar or have multiple calendars on the Exchange server. Furthermore, if you used Entourage to access another user's Exchange calendar, we synched them into your calendar and tagged them with a special category.

No more! Your Exchange and personal calendars and address books now live separately. You may now have more than one Exchange calendar and address book. When you access other's calendars and address books, they live separately. When you open a public folder that is a calendar (also new in SP2), it appears separately. No more merged data. You now have complete control over where your data sits with far less confusing views of the data.

Global Address List Enhancements
You can now view organizational data (direct reports, managers), group membership, and a bevy of other Active Directory attributes. If you're organization is using Windows 2003 Server, you can even browse the entire contents of your corporate directory.

Improved Public Folders
Sadly, we heard from customers that using Public Folders in Entourage 2004 took as long as nine to ten hours for the entire public folder hierarchy to download! It was a miserable experience. SP2 fixes this, as you can now traverse the public folder hierarchy quickly, view the contents of a folder, subscribe to a folder for offline syncs, and even post messages directly within a folder. As Entourage now supports multiple calendars and address books, you may now view and contribute to calendar and address book public folders.

Sharing Folders, Calendars, and Address Books
You can now assign permissions on Exchange folders, calendars, and address books so that others may access such folders. This works great for collaboration needs such as sharing calendars among coworkers. Just select Sharing from a folder's contextual menu. The interface is very similar to Outlooks, so you may be able to find documentation within your organization describing how to share a folder using Windows Outlook--it should work for Entourage as well!

If someone shares their calendar with you, you may quickly access it via File : Open Other User's Folder... and typing in the coworkers name. As mentioned before, the calendar is no longer merged with your own. In addition to assigning permissions and quick access to others' folders, we made a couple related enhancements:

Enforcing permissions - Before now, you might put a message into a delegated folder and a few minutes later it'd disappear and a Permission Denied error would display in the Entourage Error Log. SP2 is proactive about permissions, we now enforce permissions in Entourage's user interface--actions that you aren't able to perform our disabled or prevented. You receive a notification if you try to perform something you are not allowed to do.

Private Items - When sharing your address books or calendars, you might want to note certain contacts or events to be visible to others. You may now mark these items as Private within Entourage to prevent others from seeing their contents. In addition, if you are synchronizing someone else's calendar with Entourage and an event is private, it will display in the calendar but you will be unable to read the event's details (before SP2, you never even saw the event, making it really hard to schedule a get together if some hidden event occurred at your proposed time).

Full Delegation
In Entourage 2004, you could configure yourself as a delegate of others. With SP2, you can be the boss! You may now assign permissions on your account for delegates to access as well as grant send-on-behalf rights and automatically forward meeting invites to a delegate.

Conversation Grouping
Outlook has a very handy feature that lets you track your e-mail based on conversations with replies to messages in a thread displaying right next to the messages they replied to. Entourage now supports both generating the appropriate headers so that Entourage users can continue the threads for Outlook users, but it will also sort messages based on these values.

Password Expiration
Entourage 2004 with an expired password was a nightmare. You'd launch Entourage and it would just sit there, not receiving any new e-mail and have no clue why. With SP2, you'll now get notified of upcoming password expirations so that you might be able to take action before you find yourself in this odd, e-mail-less state.

Mailbox Quotas
You may now quickly determine how much space your Exchange account occupies on the server. Prior to SP2, you'd receive a notification that your Exchange mailbox was full but have no way of determining the best manner for opening up space by deleting or moving messages. Now, all you have to do is select a folder, open the Folder Properties dialog, and click the Storage tab.

There's one very cool, simple Entourage-only feature related to mailbox quotas that isn't available in Outlook. In Outlook, when you retrieve a list of all the folders in your Exchange mailbox, you have to hunt through the list to determine which folders occupy the most space on the server. With Entourage, you can actually sort the folders based on how much space they occupy on the server. Thus, it becomes incredibly easy to find out which folder is causing you to overstep your mailbox quota and address the problem. It's a very subtle difference, but we hope that Entourage users will find it useful!

Stay Tuned...
The above list is merely a briefing of what's new with Entourage SP2's enhanced Exchange capabilities (I skipped over a ton of details). In future posts, I'll be digging deep into the geeky details of our Exchange's Exchange capabilities, highlighting our SP2 changes, and doing my best to provide you with information that might aid in deploying Entourage within your organization. If you have a particular topic you're interested in, please post in comments.

- Andy (firstname.lastname@example.com)

MSDNArchivehttp://blogs.msdn.com/MSDNArchive/ProfileUrlRedirect.ashxStay tuned...http://blogs.msdn.com/b/entourage/archive/2005/08/22/454707.aspx2005-08-22T22:45:00Z2005-08-22T22:45:00Z
Preparing to launch a new version of the Entourage weblog.

MSDNArchivehttp://blogs.msdn.com/MSDNArchive/ProfileUrlRedirect.ashxNew article on Mactopia: Microsoft Office 2004 for Mac: Working with Exchange Server http://blogs.msdn.com/b/entourage/archive/2004/07/12/181180.aspx2004-07-12T23:09:00Z2004-07-12T23:09:00Z
Mentioned in gilg's blog:

This white paper describes the different Office for Mac options for working with Exchange Server. The paper also describes the new features of Entourage 2004 for Mac, and provides configuration and troubleshooting information for administrators tasked with supporting Entourage 2004 for Mac.

It is a pdf, get it here: Working with Exchange

MSDNArchivehttp://blogs.msdn.com/MSDNArchive/ProfileUrlRedirect.ashxTop 5 Microsoft Entourage Resourceshttp://blogs.msdn.com/b/entourage/archive/2004/07/07/175696.aspx2004-07-07T20:38:00Z2004-07-07T20:38:00Z
1. Visit Mactopia — http://www.microsoft.com/mac

Visit this site for the latest updates, tutorials, background images, tips and tricks for Microsoft Entourage, and other Microsoft products.

2. Visit the Entourage MVP website — http://www.entourage.mvps.org/

Operated by people who love using Entourage, this site has a plethora of great tips, and answers to frequently asked questions. If you have a question, start here first!

3. Visit the Entourage newsgroup — news://microsoft.public.mac.office.entourage

To join, click on Microsoft News Server in Entourage. This is a Microsoft-sponsored support community for Entourage users and experts. It is your best bet for getting feedback to the MacBU. You've got questions, they've got answers!

4. Join the Entourage-Talk Mailing list — send mail to email@example.com

This is the e-mail community for Entourage users and experts. You've got questions, they've got answers!

5. Visit MacScripter.net — http://macscripter.net/

Visit this site for great third-party AppleScript add-ons that extend the capabilities of Entourage.

MSDNArchivehttp://blogs.msdn.com/MSDNArchive/ProfileUrlRedirect.ashxSteriogram uses Entouragehttp://blogs.msdn.com/b/entourage/archive/2004/03/30/103488.aspx2004-03-30T16:58:00Z2004-03-30T16:58:00Z
http://www.apple.com/pro/music/steriogram/

Enlisting Street Teams
Energetic and shrewd as the young bandmates are, they invite — and sustain — genuinely friendly relationships with their fans. "Since the day we started our website, we have personally replied to almost every email we've received," says Carter. "And we've been getting 60 to 100 a day, so that gets kind of crazy when we're touring and playing shows."

How do they do it? "Everyone in the band has a PowerBook with Entourage," says Carter. "So as soon as we get to a town we go to Starbucks or somewhere with high-speed Internet hot spots. We log on and split up the mail between the five of us, and we reply to everything. We get people who say, 'I never thought I'd hear from you guys again!' They're amazed that we take the time. But we know that the personal touch makes them more of a fan, and they want to work even harder for us."

The Geek Band
"A lot of bands don't even have a computer," says Carter. "We are the geek band. Wherever we turn up, we're working hard on our Macs. We use them seriously all the time — to keep in touch through email, to edit the video we shoot on DV cams, to keep up our website. We even made a video about how much we love our Macs!"

Carter ticks off the Apple tools that are as essential to the band as its drums and guitars: "We've got five 15-inch PowerBook G4s, with Cinema Displays and AirPort and Bluetooth. We use Entourage and iLife and we edit video with Final Cut Pro. And we all have iPods — we use them as much as our Macs."

Neat! (Thanks to MattCe for finding this)

MSDNArchivehttp://blogs.msdn.com/MSDNArchive/ProfileUrlRedirect.ashxThe Entourage MVP Help Pagehttp://blogs.msdn.com/b/entourage/archive/2004/03/25/96338.aspx2004-03-25T20:53:00Z2004-03-25T20:53:00Z
http://www.entourage.mvps.org/

One of the greatest things about Microsoft Entourage, is the community that supports it. Among our great community are a couple of key standouts: our MVP's.

http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/

What are MVP's?

The Microsoft MVP Program is a worldwide award and recognition program that strives to identify amazing individuals in technical communities around the globe who share a passion for technology and the spirit of community. Microsoft MVPs are recognized for both their demonstrated practical expertise and willingness to share their experience with peers in Microsoft technical communities.

Microsoft MVPs are a diverse group of individuals who are:

Recognized:They are acknowledged by peers and also by Microsoft for their active participation in Microsoft technical communities around the globe.
Credible:They have demonstrated practical expertise providing the highest quality information and content.
Accessible:They are active technical community leaders sharing their experience with peers.

And, indeed, our MVPs are truly invaluable. Their volunteer efforts help make using Entourage, and even Entourage itself, a great experience. Kudos to them. The link at the top of this post goes the FAQ website that they have set up. To be honest, there are times when even I have to go to this page to find an answer! That's just how thorough it is!

Thanks again to our Entourage MVP's! I'll be seeing you next month. -Dennis

MSDNArchivehttp://blogs.msdn.com/MSDNArchive/ProfileUrlRedirect.ashx"Office 2004 for Mac a must"http://blogs.msdn.com/b/entourage/archive/2004/03/25/96040.aspx2004-03-25T14:49:00Z2004-03-25T14:49:00Z
The Washington Times' Mark Kellner loved Mac Office 2004! He especially enjoyed Entourage, highlighting the Project Center, three column view, junk mail filtering, and archiving:

Another new feature is archiving, which lets you save all your PIM dates in one file. It will be interesting to see if this file can then be imported into Outlook, but for Mac-only users, being able to create and save a periodic Entourage backup can come in handy.

While Entourage 2004 will not support direct importing of archives into Outlook it wouldn't be very difficult to write a simple .NET app to import the data. More on that later...

MSDNArchivehttp://blogs.msdn.com/MSDNArchive/ProfileUrlRedirect.ashxInsights into MacBU Innovationhttp://blogs.msdn.com/b/entourage/archive/2004/03/17/91573.aspx2004-03-18T00:17:00Z2004-03-18T00:17:00Z
Lead Program Manager on Virtual PC for Mac, Omar Shahine details how innovation occurs within Microsoft's Macintosh group:

Contrary to what people may think, we don't share features with any other teams. We aren't obligated to implement anything, and we aren't tied up much by external dependencies (and this is important). Not having dependencies, like Office has on Windows and vice versa really frees us up. Our only dependencies are internal, and since we control the schedule, it's much easier to resolve any issues. Having said all this I don't think it's fair to say that our applications are so much ahead of our Windows counterparts (well maybe the Project Center is). The thing is, we focus on a very specific set of features (because we are a small team) and we try to get it right the first time. We don't have the tens of millions of customers to cater to that some of the Windows teams do. Additionally, we appreciate and borrow many features from Windows Office (where we see fit). Good examples of this are the three column view in Outlook 2003 that we added to Entourage. In fact, I'm humbled by all the functionality found in Windows or Office. It's simply amazing what capabilities lie within those two sets of products. Again, all there because to some set of customers they are critical.

Check out Omar's blog.

MSDNArchivehttp://blogs.msdn.com/MSDNArchive/ProfileUrlRedirect.ashxJon's Phone Tools Adds Entourage Note Supporthttp://blogs.msdn.com/b/entourage/archive/2004/03/17/91357.aspx2004-03-17T18:01:00Z2004-03-17T18:01:00ZYesterday, I posted about Jon's Phone Tools and mentioned that it'd be cool if notes taken within JPT were saved inside of Entourage. A couple e-mails later and Jon posted an update integrating notes with Entourage. Give it a whirl...

MSDNArchivehttp://blogs.msdn.com/MSDNArchive/ProfileUrlRedirect.ashxMac Office 2004 Demohttp://blogs.msdn.com/b/entourage/archive/2004/03/16/90597.aspx2004-03-16T18:18:00Z2004-03-16T18:18:00Z
There's a nifty video demonstrating some of the new features in the upcoming Mac Office 2004. For Entourage:

Three column view - in Entourage X your mail's viewing pane always sat below the list of your messages. You now have the option to view a message to the right of your message list. With this layout, you can see 40% more of your e-mail message in a single glance.
Improved Junk Mail Filter - the Junk Mail Protection in Entourage X was miserable! The Entourage team worked hard to implement the latest junk mail filtering technology from Microsoft Research.
Project Center - organize your work and your information. Project Center allows you to track your activities on a project by project basis, including calendars, contacts, notes, and (not just Microsoft Office created) files.

These are only a small part of a whole bunch of new features coming out in Office 2004. In addition to features for other Office apps mentioned in the demo, there will be more details about more features released throughout April and May.

MSDNArchivehttp://blogs.msdn.com/MSDNArchive/ProfileUrlRedirect.ashxJon's Phone Toolhttp://blogs.msdn.com/b/entourage/archive/2004/03/16/90493.aspx2004-03-16T15:32:00Z2004-03-16T15:32:00Z
A common feature request that the Entourage team inevitably runs out of time before implementing is the ability to dial contact's phone numbers. There are several scripts/applications available that do the job that we normally point users towards. Just released, Jon's Phone Tools (JPT), is a really slick dialer application that integrates nicely with both Entourage and Apple's Address Book. Using JPT, you can dial either through your Mac's modem or by playing dial tones into your headset using your speakers.

JPT features a cool metal interface for quickly accessing a contact's phone number and menu bar integration for a more tucked away, yet easy to access, method. Even handier, there's a notepad for quickly taking notes on phone conversations and the application is fully scriptable! If only the notes were saved directly into Entourage and linked to their contact...

MSDNArchivehttp://blogs.msdn.com/MSDNArchive/ProfileUrlRedirect.ashxEntourage: Grade A IMAPhttp://blogs.msdn.com/b/entourage/archive/2004/02/19/76377.aspx2004-02-19T16:59:00Z2004-02-19T16:59:00ZFellow MacBUer and former Entourage lead, Omar Shahine compares various mail clients on Mac, PC, and Linux and their support for IMAP. Not surprising, given that Omar and Mike Fullerton led the design of Entourage's IMAP functionality, Entourage scores the highest among the group. Dennis, Entourage user and well-informed commenter, noted that Entourage lacks Format-Flowed.

MSDNArchivehttp://blogs.msdn.com/MSDNArchive/ProfileUrlRedirect.ashxAppleScript for Exporting Mailhttp://blogs.msdn.com/b/entourage/archive/2004/02/17/74899.aspx2004-02-17T16:33:00Z2004-02-17T16:33:00ZMac OS X Hints user golgi_body posted a simple script for easily exporting your Entourage mail to individual files for back-up.

MSDNArchivehttp://blogs.msdn.com/MSDNArchive/ProfileUrlRedirect.ashxMr. Mail2Entourage 0.9.4http://blogs.msdn.com/b/entourage/archive/2004/02/16/73952.aspx2004-02-16T18:23:00Z2004-02-16T18:23:00Z
Balooba Software's Mr Mail2Entourage helps convert Mail.app mailboxes to Entourage has been updated to increase the speed of mail migration and provide several useful interface tweaks. [Download]

MSDNArchivehttp://blogs.msdn.com/MSDNArchive/ProfileUrlRedirect.ashxiPod It 2.3.2 Releasedhttp://blogs.msdn.com/b/entourage/archive/2004/02/12/71922.aspx2004-02-12T17:32:00Z2004-02-12T17:32:00Z
iPod It has been updated to v2.3.2. iPod It allows you to easily carry your Entourage calendar, contacts, mail messages, notes, and tasks on your iPod.

MSDNArchivehttp://blogs.msdn.com/MSDNArchive/ProfileUrlRedirect.ashxFont Card Updatedhttp://blogs.msdn.com/b/entourage/archive/2004/02/12/71920.aspx2004-02-12T17:28:00Z2004-02-12T17:28:00Z
Font Card, a nifty hack that greatly enriches font menus has been updated and now supports Entourage.

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Both beginning and experienced growers can start saving garden seed, resulting in substantial annual savings and ever increasing self-sufficiency. Seed Saving is not only fun, it's an important way to perpetuate plants and to ensure the genetic diversity of the world's food crops, which are eroding at an unprecedented and accelerating rate. To do so successfully, you must be familiar with the basic techniques.
Seed Saving
Gardeners have been saving seed ever since we settled into one place and started growing our own food. Thanks to seed saving, and passing them down from one generation to the next, we have the heirloom seeds and plant varieties that are so prized today. It's only since the end of World War II that growers have had the option of buying affordable, high quality commercial seeds; before that saving your own seeds or trading with neighbors was the only way to procure prospective plants.
Saving garden seeds at the end of each growing season can be a great cost saving measure and a way to duplicate last year's delectable harvest. It's also a good way to preserve plants that grow best in your own backyard. By carefully selecting individual plants that flourish in your garden and saving their seed, you can create strains that are well-adapted to local growing conditions. (more…)
Not able to grow your own? Here's how to choose the best vegetable and flower starts.
Your friendly Planet Natural Blogger, in anticipation of the season that may have already arrived, has been going through Jim Fox's excellent 2013 book How To Buy the Right Plants, Tools & Garden Supplies (Timber Press), particularly the chapters on choosing healthy nursery plants. Seems with recent life complications — we all have them, from health to weather to a family move — a lot of people didn't get their vegetables started at home this year.
That's okay. There's actually still time to start even tomatoes and pepper seedlings indoors if you can supply the perfect conditions to encourage growth. But there's an easier way: buy plants from a reputable nursery. (more…)
Heirloom "cooking beans" are nutritious, delicious, and easy to grow.
Our correspondent writes in to say the most beautiful things he saw at the last farmers market this fall were the large bowls of heirloom shell beans in colors and patterns he'd never seen before. He bought a couple of the four offered: two cups of the surprisingly popular Jacob's Cattle, each bean big and colored like a Hereford, and a cup or so of brilliant, unusually black and white, yin-yang patterned "Calypso."
Interest continues to grow in what our great grandmothers called "cooking beans," dried shell beans that often require soaking and long cooking times, a process that many time-squeezed home cooks forego in favor of pre-cooked, canned beans. (more…)
Growing seeds for healthy, flavorful herbal teas.
When your culinary-conscious and sustainably minded Planet Natural blogger needs seed for cooking, he usually buys them, already dry, from one of our fine herb stores. They're used to spice-up some homemade dishes, say flavoring some Middle Eastern cooking with the sharp, licorice flavor of anise or adding some zing to a curry with cilantro seed. When we want to save seeds from our garden, it's usually for saving some particular heirloom favorite, and most often one of the more easily collected like tomato, cucumber, or winter squash. (more…)
How long seeds last depends on the type of seed and the conditions in which it's stored.
Your thrifty Planet Natural blogger has had good luck storing leftover seed (PDF) he's purchased from year to year … except when he didn't. Not too many years ago, we stocked up on spinach seed for all the repeated planting we'd planned. There was plenty left over — that summer was cool and damp, so our first crop took longer than we expected and our second crop barely leafed out before the first frost arrived. We stored our leftover seed as we usually do: inside its packet in a tightly sealed glass jar down in our cool basement.
When spring came around, we planted the seed we bought the year before, just as we've often done with the previous season's extras. And even under near ideal growing conditions — we know because we kept track in our journal — we were rewarded with poor germination. (more…)
But there's no sugar-coating restrictions on its use.
Sugar-enhanced ("se") sweet corns have been all the rage over the last few seasons. Seed companies have touted some of their products with phrases like "sweetest ever" and "candy sweet." These naturally bred hybrids — no, they're not genetically modified — seem to answer the All-American craving for sugary satisfaction. Now there's an even more sugary designation for sweet corns — "supersweet" or "sh2″ — for those table corns that are all about the sugar.
With names like 'Sweet Riser," "Kandy Korn," and "Sugar Ace," these se and sh2 corns, most of them commercially grown, offer marketing potential in a way that plain-old sweet corn can't. (more…)
The Whole Seed Catalog is a compendium of news and information about the growing of heirloom vegetables and flowers.
This time of year, the joys of outdoor gardening are often reduced to time spent indoors going through seed catalogs. It's always an exciting day when one arrives in the mail or pops up fresh online (we applaud those seed and gardening companies who push their online catalogs as a way to stay in touch while saving paper — trees! — and the fuel burned to distribute them). The catalogs are all well-thumbed — or clicked through — by the time orders are placed. Seed and gardening catalogs can be a valuable source of information — that's always been behind the philosophy behind our business — as well as a spark to the imagination and an instigator of dreams.
The Baker Creek Heirloom Seed Company has taken the notion of a seed catalog a step further. Baker Creek — we carry many of their heirloom seeds — is probably the most active commercial heirloom seed business serving the home gardener. (The Seed Savers Exchange, an important player in the heirloom seed scene is a non-profit . . . we carry some of their products as well). In addition to their regular seed catalog, a massive tome as is, they've published The Whole Seed Catalog for 2014 as well. (more…)
How to soak tomato seed in its own gel for best germination.
Fermentation, the biological process that converts sugars to gas, acids, or alcohol accomplished by bacteria or yeast is the process that produces yogurt, sauerkraut, and pickles as well as wine and beer. In a sense, it's a tool, one that we humans use to our advantage. One of its many beneficial applications comes when saving tomato seeds for next season's planting.
Tomato seeds, like peas and beans, are among the easiest seeds to prepare and save. But they're not without problems. I remember my first tomato seed saving attempts. We strained the seeds out of tomato pulp, washed them, and let them dry without heat in our food dehydrator. The following spring, we planted as many starter pots as we thought we'd need tomatoes. While we did get a few seeds to germinate, the vast majority did not. Our circle of garden advisers thought maybe we'd saved the wrong seeds, namely hybrids, that have all sorts of problems when carried over a season. We hadn't. Most thought that drying them in our dehydrator had done them in, even though we did it with the heating element turned off. That didn't seem likely. (more…)
Protecting, watering, and thinning vegetables as spring becomes summer.
June is often our favorite time in the garden. Sure, the rewards of harvest can't be beat — and June does offer some harvest, especially in warmer zones — but the orderliness of our straight planted rows and the germinating perfection gives us a thrill that's at once reward for the hard work that's gone before and the promise of bountiful and beautiful things to come.
There's nothing better than pulling up a lawn chair and surveying our garden kingdom no matter its size: the neat lines of bright green seedlings planted just days before, the transplanted seedling started weeks ago indoors now flourishing in their new outdoor homes. Yes, there's a break in the action once the garden's in — or maybe you're still furiously trying to get everything in the ground — but that doesn't mean you can step back and let things go off on their own. (more…)
We often think of saving seeds in literal terms: letting flowers and vegetables go to seed, whether edible at that point (squash, tomatoes) or not (lettuce); separating and cleaning the seeds, drying them, and then protecting them until we're able to plant again. But there's a larger issue here, one that's apparent when you consider that 94% of the seed varieties available to farmers and gardeners in 1900 have been lost, never to be grown again. Today, many of us are involved in saving seeds from extinction. To quote an old ecological saying: extinction is forever.
Today's activists — there's no better word for them — have taken those extinctions to heart and are on a quest to save as many varieties of seeds as they can. Janisse Ray, author of The Seed Underground: A Growing Revolution to Save Food is one of them. Ray's book is a sort of manifesto on the practice and importance of seed saving. (more…)
Imagine growing the same fruits and vegetables as Thomas Jefferson or Luther Burbank. Imagine your garden filled with bright colors, odd shapes and a variety of foods that could inspire even the most jaded vegetable-hater to take a bite. Heirloom seed produces fruits, vegetables and flowers that have been passed down for generations for their good taste, vibrant colors, pest resistance and other beneficial traits.
Today there is a trend toward locally grown and organic foods. At the same time as mega-corporations are producing genetically altered, dyed, bland foods that are often covered in pesticides, many people are starting to grow their own fruits and vegetables. Not only is home grown food likely to be safer and healthier than commercially produced fruits and vegetables, it tastes better, too! (more…)


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CAPE GIRARDEAU, Mo. -- A group of 10 high school juniors and seniors in the Cape Girardeau Career and Technology Center's aviation program soon won't have to wonder what it's like to fly high in the cockpit of a commercial airliner. They'll have done it during the school day as a job shadowing activity.
A recent partnership between Cape Air and the center's yearlong aviation program recently sent the students on round trips from Cape Girardeau to St. Louis twice daily. On the trips, one student accompanied the pilot in the cockpit of one of the airline's small passenger planes. Students in the program say their experience is exclusive.
"It's pretty cool that I am flying while everyone else is sitting at their desks in school," said Zack Horton, a Jackson High School senior.
Horton signed up for the program because he wants to become an Air Force pilot and later a commercial pilot. If he does, he'll follow a career path similar to that of an uncle who flew B-52s and stealth fighter jets in the military and later worked as a commercial pilot for Delta Air Lines. He said he is hopeful the experience could give him some insight into how commercial pilots operate on a daily basis. As he waited Tuesday at the Cape Girardeau Regional Airport, he said that instruments used by those pilots were precise.
Dan Thurber, Cape Air's assistant chief pilot for the Midwest region, answered questions about instruments and traffic control from Cape Girardeau Central High School senior Hunter Shantz during their flight Tuesday.
Thurber said an advantage of allowing job shadowing is that it lets the students know what they are working their way up to if they want to become a pilot.
"I hope they get some good out of it and it works," he said. "There wasn't anything like this when I was going through training."
Students receive a student pilot certificate at the end of the year if they meet all requirements of the course, said Don Grossheider, the program's coordinator and student flight instructor. That certification is the first training step in later becoming a commercial pilot or a flight instructor.
"It doesn't matter where you end up," Grossheider said. "Everyone starts as student pilots."
Shantz's parents, Diane and Bo, visited the airport Tuesday to watch him return from his flight with Thurber. Although Hunter Shantz isn't planning on becoming a professional pilot, Diane Shantz said the aviation program and the partnership were great opportunities for students.
"It's great for a senior to have something new to get interested in," she said.
According to Grossheider, a search he conducted of high school-level aviation education programs all around the country turned up few similar experiences for students as are offered in the partnership between the airline and the center.
Cape Air spokeswoman Jennifer Huffman said the company's small size allows it to operate differently than large airlines with stringent security measures such as closed cockpits.
"We are doing this because it's an opportunity to give kids in this region a look at what it's like in the day of a pilot," she said. "That's not something they could see every day."
Hunter Shantz agreed.
"Not a lot of people can say they have done it," he said. "And it's just great fun."
Cape Air Charter also works with the center to provide aircraft for the students' flight practices.
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24 August 2015 - Winners of Henning Larsen Foundation's film competition announced
In October 2014, the Henning Larsen Foundation launched an international competition on architecture and film. The aim of the competition is to revitalize the use of architecture on film and foster new inspiration to architects and film professionals.
On Henning Larsen's birthday, August 20th, the names of the three winners were announced. The competition garnered 118 entries from 23 countries.
Cole Phoenix Skaggs, architecture student at Cornell University in New York, USA, won first place. According to the judging committee Cole has been able "to create an entity of cinematic space and architectural space."
Jette Lehmann, a member of the judging committee, on the selection of Skaggs' film '78 hours': "The film possesses cinematic qualities, which provide the spectators with an interlaced experience of time, light, sound, space and movement. It's a love-struck dance through a building, which we sense the filmmaker knows very well. The dual look, partially at the spaces' architectural qualities, partly at the users of the building, expresses a respectful fascination with the architecture students' gestalt in their own intense, creative space. The student who works all night does not perceive anything other than the space he/she is creating on paper."
'78 hours' is filmed at Millstein Hall at Cornell University. The building was designed by Rem Koolhass and OMA.
Sam Renseiw is the runner-up with the film 'détournement.' Renseiw is a nom-de-plume for Danish architect Thomas Wiesner, who since 2005 has worked as a video artist under the name Sam Renseiw.
Third place goes to Barbara Bohr for an untitled film. The film is shot by Agapi Triantafillidis. Both Bohr and Triantafillidis study at The National Film School of Denmark.
The three winning films can be viewed at http://en.henninglarsensfond.dk. In October, the films will be shown during the Architecture and Design Film Festival in New York.
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That's a great strip. Thanks for sharing.
This is posted in conjunction with an NPR piece I heard yesterday on the character of Long Duck Dong. It was pretty interesting...
"I cant tell if the strip is from 2001 or 2007"
Maybe just read the NPR page?
"In 2001, graphic novelist Adrian Tomine (Shortcomings) published a pungent one-page comic describing his own history with the legacy of Long Duk Dong."
(note: he was interviewing Gedde for an issue of Giant Robot.)
My main problem with sixteen candles is the part where Jake Ryan, the supposed nice guy, gives his unconcious girlfriend to a random guy who has sex with her, and then no one seems to think there was anything wrong iwth it.
I feel your pain, Adrian. I woke up at 3 am this morning to watch the baseball game (such a fucking waste of time and energy, I know) and in the very first inning, the announcer said that Kurt Suzuki, the A's catcher, was making a "homecoming" to Japan. Uh, I think the fact that he was born in America and lives in California made this a..."there-going".
And I just know that when Kristi Yamaguchi loses to some hot guy on Dancing With the Stars, it'll read "American beats Yamaguchi in TV dance contest."
Remember, Japanese (and many other asian nations) citizenship is based on blood (Jus sanguines), not on where one is born (jus soli).
come on it was the 80's! date rape hijinks were a natural part of growing up back then...everyone was in on it! untill the damn NO MEANS NO! people ruined everyone's (us horny young virgins wthout a chance in the world ) fun.
oh yeah and speaking from an insensative lily white lower income sunova be-ach who never got to enjoy any fruits of white privalage and resents being resented and guilt tripd just because of my skin coler....I find racial humor absolutly hilarious...liberating even. at least donger was played by an asian instead of mick rooney
Have you read "American Born Chinese"? It's a fantastic comic that goes into great depth about the Asian American Experience, whatever that is.
Shortcomings was great. I would totally recommend it, and it's available from SPL. Anyone know what the deal is with the cliff hanger ending, will it continue?
Linus, you're scaring everybody again.
Sadly, while linus is scaring everyone, he's more right than many people realize.
It's weird thinking about how people thought back then ... but they did.
Left Coast, that wasn't a cliffhanger ending. That was a too-ambiguous ending. And it was the end. I loved it up 'till there, but the lack of an ending really pissed me off.
Gedde Watanabe? He was great in "UHF".
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The Wholesale Trade sector comprises establishments engaged in wholesaling merchandise, generally without transformation, and rendering services incidental to the sale of merchandise. The wholesaling process is an intermediate step in the distribution of merchandise. Wholesalers are organized to sell or arrange the purchase or sale of (1) goods for resale (i.e., goods sold to other wholesalers or retailers), (2) capital or durable nonconsumer goods, and (3) raw and intermediate materials and supplies used in production. Wholesalers sell merchandise to other businesses and normally operate from a warehouse or office. During 2008, wholesale trade employment averaged 5,942,700.
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Rainforest - Native Amazonians 2
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Neves (Arden)– Bom día. My name is Neves and we are Native Amazonians. We have lived in the Amazon rainforest for almost about 12,000 years. Once, there were as many as 10 million of us living in the Amazon Rainforest. Today, the number of native Amazonians is much smaller. Those who remain want one thing above all: to continue their traditional way of life. We use sustainable way of life to preserve our traditional way of life. We hunt, fish, and grow crops on small spots of land that we have cleared in the forest. In 1960's, the government of Brazildecided to open the Amazon basin to development.
Neves (Arden)- I am going to interview two Native Amazonians from the Rainforest… Excuse me?
(Courtney)- Bom día. My name is_.
Neves (Arden)- Can I ask you some questions?
(Courtney)- Sure. What would you like to ask?
Neves (Arden)- What are some ideas about what native Amazonians want to do to preserve or use the rainforest's resources?
(Courtney)- Well, we almost always use substainable development and that means that we find ways to use resources without using them up. We also fight to save parts of the Rainforest from development because some of those parts might be our homes.
Neves (Arden)- Ok, thank you! Adeus
(Courtney)- Adeus!
Jumatan(justin)- Bom día.
Neves (Arden)- Bom día. Can I ask you some questions?
Jumatan(justin)- Sure. What would you like to ask?
Neves (Arden)- Why are the Native Amazonians ideas justified, or good, for what should be done to preserve or use the rainforest's resources?
Jumatan(justin)- Well, we are not destroying the Rainforest and we are preserving it. Many people are destroying it such as loggers, ranchers and farmers who are trying to take over our land and use it for there purposes. Also a way we preserve it is subtainable development which is a way and our way as native amazonians to help save our rainforest in this tough time.
Neves (Arden)- ok, Thank you! Adeus!
Jumatan(justin)- Adeus!
Top 5The top 5 things to understand about Native Amazonians is that they use sustainable development to survive, they use animals and plants to survive through medicine and hunting, they dont like when loggers, ranchers, and farmers take over the habitats and living space, They fight to save parts of the rainforest from development and they perserve their traditional way of life.
- Promote ecotourism because it helps a countrys economy, creates jobs, brings in money
- divide the rainforest in equal parts for each group and have that be their limited amount of space
- Encourage sustainable development because it helps balance development and preservation
- Plant a tree for every tree that is cut down by any group and this will prevent long term damage to the forest
News StorysArden
Rainforest Video Notes
- Rainforests lie along the equator
- The largest Rainforest is the Amazon Rainforest
- The average temperature is 80 degrees fahrenheit
- Losing an acre a second of the rainforest
- millions of insects
- Rainforests take up 2% of the Earth
- 160 - 460 inches of rain yearly in rainforests
- Thin layer of soil on forest floor
- Forest Understory includes vines, roots and tree trunks
- Doctors use 100 of plants for medical purposes
- Amazonian natives are having hard times finding homes
- Habitat and living space being taken over by loggers, ranchers and farmers
- Amazonians use sustainable development to survive
- Amazonians use animals and plants to survive through medicine and hunting
- Amazonians have lived in the rainforest for centuries
Arden's Picture
- Who - Native Amazonians
- What is the problem? - Everybody wants to use the Rainforest's resources.
- Where is this held?- It is held in the amazon rainforest
- When does it occur?- For 500 years
- Why does it occur? - because sevaral different groups want to have the resources of the rainforest
Summary of Textbook
- Population shrinking with time
- Lived on the same land for over 12,000 years
- Want to continue traditional way of life
- Hunt, fish and grow crops on cleared land
- Use sustainable development to live
- 1960's, Brazilian government opens Amazon/Amazonian land to development
- Farmers, ranchers, loggers came to Rainforest using unsustainable development
- Newcomers increase deforestation
- Tropical rainforest and Native Amazonians harmed through newcomer actions
- Some have died from diseases from newcomers
- Learned new skills like Porteguese and government negotiation
Other Resources
- http://library.thinkquest.org/21395/textonlyb/culture.html
- http://www.unaids.org/en/KnowledgeCentre/Resources/FeatureStories/archive/2006/20061004-brazil.asp
- http://www.wwfno.panda.org/what_we_do/how_we_work/conservation/forests/news/successes/?14479
Notes from Resources
- Arden - 1
- Native Amazonians have lived here for over 20,000 years
- There are many different tribes spread along the Amazon.
- They all have developed their own ways of life in harmony with nature.
- Live in family houses-tree bark and palm leave fronds
- Modern culture of Europe in amazonia- arrival of Europeans after initial exploration
- Amazonians were pushed away used by the modern society
- Tried to protest but lost
- Only about 140,000 left in the amazon today out of the millions.
- Deforestation and pollution have begun to overrun the amazon in the just under 500 years that the new culture has existed
- Justin - 2
- Stigma and discrimination against people living with HIV is commonplace in the Amazon region of Brazil.
- In the Amazon State, many people living with HIV are mistreated by public health staff.
- People think that they should raise awareness about HIV in public opinion, people living with HIV will be confident enough to show their faces as part of society.
- A lot of the biggest challenges are related to access to health services.
- Courtney - 3
- Traftion is a very important part of the Native Amazonians culture


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Amazing desing my brother! The patterns and colours are intelligently choosen
Whoa! I love those colours! Very nice patterns on the wings too
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Released: Nov 01st, 1995
Running Time: 60
Director: Jim Steel
Company: Vivid Entertainment Group
Cast: Jon Troy, Cort Stevens, Sean Diamond, Marco Rossi, Dino Phillips, Devyn Foster, Chris Knight
Critical Rating: AAA
Genre: Gay and Bi
The performers talk about "who wants to sleep with who," but director Jim Steel wisely keeps the commentary down to a minimum. Vivid Man mainstay Devyn Foster is joined in the topping by a laid back Marco Rossi, and the erectionally challenged Dino Phillips. The hottest bottom guy is a blond who does scenes with both Foster and Rossi. There may be too much soft dick and posing for your more picky customers, but fans of Foster will be quite pleased. He still has "it."


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LadyFICO wrote:First off congrats I am new to the forum as far as writing goes. Brammy according to calculations you went from max on one card and paid it and got 15 another said he paid 2 cards down to under 20 and got 17 points I'm not sure where the person was maxed to begin with or whether FICO allows huge jumps per cc. If it does I just paid 10 cards down below 25% all at their max. I am optimistic about wishing to gain 15 points per card which would immediately put me at my goal but based on what others have said sometimes paying all to soon doen't necessarily give you that big boost. Any suggestions?
Maxing out even one card can cause a huge decrease in your FICO score it looks as ifyou're living beyond your means (using cards to live on). My increase came in one month. he card wasn't even actually maxed out it was just reporting high balance and no credit limit. Don't worry you will get a boost maybe not 15 points a card but maybe so.
Before I learned how the program worked, I thought that as long as I kept my card from going overlimit and paid on time, my scores would increase, its only from places like this and a little research that I learned the TRUE rules of the game.
I'll put it like this, in the beginning I had one subprime card that was consistently over 50% though I paid on time and never minimum. I only got offers on other subprimes cards. When that card ratejacked me due top a mistake on my CR I got mad and paid it off with the intention of closing it. Within a month of bringing the utilization down on that card under 10% I started to get offers from near prime lenders. All the time I thought I was getting subprime offers simply due to my BK.
I started taking them up and closed the subprime card and suddenly got limits higher than I ever thought possible. The last online approval was so far out of my expectations that I shouted an expletive when I logged into the account after approval and saw my limit. I even called the card company and asked if they were sure about the limit even though I could see it right there on my computer screen
For me, reducing utilization not only took me out of subprime territory but put me in the position to get some nice prime offers.
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