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9 Awesome Uses for Junk Mail
Most people don't give a second thought to tossing junk mail in the recycling bin. But with over 100 billion pieces delivered annually, some savvy recipients are seeing it differently. Instead of seeing junk mail as junk, they see it as a gold mine. As the saying goes, one man's junk is another man's treasure.
For this reason, some people order as much junk mail as they can. I once read about a man who burned his junk mail. He received enough of it to keep his house warm all winter. In another vein, JunkMailGems.com strictly sells products made from re-purposed junk mail.
Here is a list of creative and useful things you can do with your junk mail. Of course, take into consideration the different types of paper used in junk mailings and chemicals that may be in adhesives or inks.
1. Burn in Place of Wood
Yep, you can do it too. Stay warm in the winter by a fire made of all that junk mail. Just throwing it in the fireplace won't be too effective, but by using an inexpensive product like a Paper Log Maker or Newspaper Brick Maker, you can make paper logs or bricks that will burn like real wood.
2. Use as Packing Material
Sure, dehydrated mushroom mycelia and plastic pillows filled with air are both good green packing material options, but why not use your bounty of junk mail? Just run it through the paper shredder and use to ship or store fragile objects.
3. Use as Animal Bedding
Avoid the cost of buying bedding for your small rodent friends by shredding your junk mail. It might also come in handy as bedding for your urban chickens.
4. Use as a Funnel
This works best with those return envelopes you get in the mail. Simply cut a small section of one corner of an envelope (for the bottom of the funnel) and a larger portion from its opposite corner (the mouth of the funnel). Use this to conveniently refill salt and pepper shakers. This idea is one of the useful ideas from JunkMailGems.com.
For these gardening projects, make sure there are no toxic adhesives or inks on the paper goods you use.
4. Make Seedling Pots
Another clever product is the Pot Maker (about $15). Use paper to make seedling pots, which can then be planted directly into the soil and will decompose on their own. This way, you don't have to buy plastic pots (saving money and natural resources).
5. Garden Mulch
You can literally lay out junk mail or old newspapers on your garden as a mulch. This makes an excellent weed barrier and will have all the benefits of traditional mulch. But since this is a little aesthetically displeasing, you might also want to cover with a layer of leaves or other traditional mulch.
Alternatively, you could also shred junk mail or old newspapers first and then lay them as mulch. This will break down easier.
Arts and Crafts
6. Handmade Recycled Paper
Instructions for how to make your own recycled paper from junk mail or old newspapers abound on the internet. It is a fun art project and a relatively easy way to make some really pretty paper.
7. Make Mosaic Portraits
Artist Sandhi Schimmel Gold is another individual who has found a way to make money from her junk mail. She creates colorful portraits in a sort of mosaic style from bits cut from junk mail and other paper waste. It's possible to DIY. Just take a picture you'd like to use, cut out colored bits from your junk mail and magazines, and paste them onto the picture. Then either hang on the refrigerator or sell for $2,000.
8. Festive Decorations
The classic elementary school paper chain, useful as a decoration or for visually representing how many days until the school year ends, can be made from junk mail instead of the more traditional construction paper.
9. Bookmark
Sure, you can just grab a piece of junk mail and use it as a bookmark. I do that sometimes. But another clever idea from JunkMailGems.com is to cut the corner off a junk mail envelope and place it on the corner of the page you're marking. That's a little more graceful than sticking your whole pre-approved credit card envelope in there.
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I imagine most people who frequent MO have been indoctrinated into the point of view that the Riemann integral can be safely discarded once one has taken the time to develop the Lebesgue integral. After all the two integrals agree more or less whenever they are both defined, and the Lebesgue theory is well known to be more robust and flexible in a lot of important ways.
However, I have recently encountered an apparent counter-example to the extreme view (which perhaps nobody actually holds) that the Riemann integral is entirely dispensable as a technical tool. The context is the theory of distributions. It is not uncommon that when one wants to generalize an operation from test functions to distributions that there are two natural choices: the operation can either be defined "directly" or by specifying how it pairs with test functions. Here are two basic examples:
- The first example involves the convolution of a distribution $F$ with a test function $\psi$. The direct definition is given by $F \ast \psi(x) = \langle F, \psi_x \rangle$ where $\psi_x(y) = \psi(x-y)$. The definition by pairing stipulates that for any test function $\phi$, $\langle F \ast \psi, \phi \rangle = \langle F, \phi \ast \psi_0 \rangle$.
- The second example involves the Fourier transform of a (tempered) distribution $F$. The direct definition is given by $\hat{F}(\xi) = \langle F, e_\xi \rangle$ where $e_\xi(x) = e^{2 \pi i \xi x}$. The definition by pairing just sets $\langle \hat{F}, \psi \rangle = \langle F, \hat{\psi} \rangle$ for any appropriate test function $\psi$.
In both of these examples, and others like them, all of the authors that I have consulted (including Folland and Taylor) prove that the direct definition agrees with the definition by pairing by carrying out a calculation with Riemann sums.
So I am left wondering if there decent proofs of these results for ordinary Lebesgue-abiding citizens. This question is a little problematic since the Lebesgue integral and the Riemann integral agree on the relevant space of functions, but if there isn't a good affirmative answer then it seems to me that there should be a convincing explanation why measure theoretic tools aren't strong enough to make the argument work.


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I grew up in a nautical family and was raised on the Loxahatchee River, in Jupiter Florida. The principal from Jupiter Middle School had to call my father on more than one occasion to tell him to not let me fish before school at the bus stop. The Island Way Bridge was a favorite spot of mine and the Eagles Nest docks worked just as well. The phone call from the principal was purely from a hygiene perspective as I was covered in fish scales many mornings and couldn't care less.
As almost any experienced sailor or boating enthusiast will tell you that disaster is always lurking on the horizon. I have encountered 25 foot plus seas, engine loss, fire, navigation equipment failure, running aground but the most harrowing experience that I have ever encountered was being trapped in an engine room. I had the unfortunate experience of being stuck for over an hour plus with twin Caterpillar 1600 Horse Power Engines screaming in my ears.
In my spare time I used to be a first mate on a 54 foot tournament rigged Bertram sport fishing yacht called the Spinal Fusion. This terrifying incident happened almost 15 years ago. We were coming back from the Walkers Cay Fishing Tournament in the Bahamas. My best friend Captain Chad Grady was the captain on this vessel and I assumed the duties of First Officer (aka First Mate). We had a successful trip and placed in multiple categories including second largest wahoo (39lbs) and third largest dolphin (32lb bull). On the same trip we also released a Blue Marlin and released more sailfish than we could count along with icing down a few blue fin tunas. We always kept soy sauce on the boat as tuna usually finds the fillet knife within minutes of being caught.
The tournament is 3 days long but the owner of the vessel loved to Island Hop. Before and after the tournament we hit a few remote islands on the northern end of the Abaco's (Green Turtle, Great Guana Cay, Hope Town, and Treasure Cay). Great Guana Cay has a drink called the Guana Grabber that makes the popular Bahamian Goombay Smash seem like a Shirley Temple. Growing up I visited these Islands many times and know a lot of the nooks and crannies to find the best fishing grounds (Honey Holes). I ate more Conch Chowder and Lobster than one could imagine. Yellowtail snapper, Red Snapper and Nassau Grouper are abundant and ripe for the taking all year long. A good rule of thumb is to only take what you are going to eat plus a little for the freezer back home.
After a 10 day trip of fishing (spear fishing, trolling, deep sea, lobstering and conching) it was time to come home. We dropped Dr. Charles S. Theofilos, MD and his family, 3 sons a wife and 2 nannies in Marsh Harbor, Bahamas. The boat was named after a surgical procedure (Spinal Fusion) which he was the foremost neurological specialist in this field. He developed a few techniques which are widely practiced today.
Believe it or not after spending this much time in paradise eating like a king, you crave to be at home. During this trip your diet consist of all different varieties of fish. You long for a "Cheeseburger Not In Paradise", preferably stateside with real water not the kind that is desalinated. Desalinated water leaves the worst taste in your mouth. After huffing diesel fumes all week and drinking desalinated water your taste buds take weeks to recover.
Looking at our 190 plus mile voyage home we decided to split our trip into 2 separate days since it was getting late. As we left Hope Town the Doctor buzzed his boat in a private plane at a very low altitude. This was common practice for him to do and we usually flipped him off or mooned him. We grabbed a few clear becks bottles (not sold in US due to high alcohol content) and headed for Doubled Breasted Cay as an anchoring point for the night. Double Breasted Cay is the northern most Island in the Bahamas and it has 2 small islands that form an inlet in the middle of nowhere. They are really just large sand bars where the water drops to 600 feet deep yards from the shoreline. They are uninhabited and have zero amenities and maybe just a few mangroves poking out here and there. Walkers Cay is your closest island which is now uninhabited and closed since the Hurricanes (Hurricane Frances, Hurricane Jean) in September 2004. Our nation's most famous and deadly Hurricane, Katrina happened a year later.
We woke up early the next morning while it was still dark and finished off the rest of our conch salad. It was now officially time to go home. While Chad nursed a slight hangover I took the helm and headed due west at 250 degrees. Though I am not a licensed Captain, I can navigate by dead reckoning and this morning with it still being dark, I used the oldest method known Celestial Navigation. Without a complete working knowledge of this particular chart plotter (way before GPS became the norm), I used methods I was taught as a youth. You use the moon and sun along with certain stars against the horizon. I would practice this when I was younger on my grandfather's sailboats which can be boring while moving at a glacial pace just faster than a snail. I prefer the roar of a power boat to a sailboat. Even though I garnered most of my nautical skills from my Grandfather who taught me proper seamanship on many lengthy trips to the Bahamas.
After piloting the boat for a few hours solo and somewhere in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean miles from any shoreline or sight of land. I went down below and found Captain Chad snoring. I was hungry and needed something to eat and drink. So I woke him up hoping that he would assume his duties as the Captain. I really just wanted something to eat, I could have piloted the boat all the way home. Periodically on long trips it is always wise to check the engines and generator down below. The slighting Captain ordered me harshly at that moment to do this because I woke him from his slumber. You cannot always trust your instruments and overheating is something that happens far too often on boats.
As I went down below through a hatch lid that has a hook and eye to keep it firmly secured. I lifted the hatch which has two hydraulic arms on each side of this heavy fiberglass lid that keep the hatch cover hoisted up in the upright position. The hatch lid is above and has a door on the front that is hinged separately. With Captain Chad cruising at about 30 knots in the 54 Convertible Bertram, I proceeded down below. After checking the engine temperatures and generator I heard a repeated loud thumping sound and looked to see the engine room hatch bouncing about wildly. As we entered the gulfstream the waves picked up considerably. Chad was having fun bashing through the waves and launching airs in this beautiful multi-million dollar yacht. Meanwhile as the hatch was bouncing around and the noise suddenly stopped. The bright sun light that was beaming in ceased and only 1 small engine room light was lit. I headed to the hatch and pushed up and the hatch wouldn't budge.
Somehow the latch hook unluckily found its way into the eye receptacle of the female end. The noise in the engine room was ear splitting and the heat immediately started rising with the door closed. I was screaming and pounding on the hatch to no avail. There is not much room in most engine rooms besides a small walk way and a majority of the boats operational equipment crowds out any extra space. I looked around and grabbed a flash light and them some paper towels to fashion homemade ear plugs. Now that I was partially deaf I decided to turn off the generator to get Captain Grady's attention. Too bad for me that the boat just had 2 industrial sized marine batteries installed that are meant to run for weeks without generator power. The master control electrical panel is located in the salon of the boat so I couldn't disable any of the boats main systems. I thought about turning off the sea cocks to disable the water from cooling the engines. This would also cause the engine room to overheat along with me too.
As my Claustrophobia really started setting in coupled with the unbearable heat and noise, I thought to myself how nice a slow sail boat crossing would be under the power of sail. I briefly thought of the sound you hear in a sailboat with no motors and how peaceful it is to be cruising at 10 knots being powered by Mother Nature.
I stopped sweating at this point because all my fluids had been exhausted and was experiencing mild heat stroke symptoms. I looked at the water desalinization machine and thought wow, how lucky am I. Wrong, as I unhook one of 2 tubes it started gushing water and in my excitement I lowered my head and was treated to big gulp of salt water. I removed the intake as opposed to the one that goes to all the faucets and bathrooms throughout the boat. Now my eyes are watering and I am getting real dizzy and having a chocking/coughing fit. Have you ever had a big gulp of warm salt water?
I thought to myself is this how I am going to die, trapped in an engine room? I decide to head over to the ladder at the bottom of the hatch door and lay down and conserve what little energy I had left. After about 30 more minutes the boat came to an idle. I started screaming again but nothing came out, my throat was raspy from previous attempts at prolonged screaming and my salt water smoothie did little to help. Banging the hatch door with a hard scrub brush was my feeble attempt at an SOS. Even with the engines idling it was still as loud as a rock concert. Finally the Captain was looking for me. He came down the fly bridge and opened the hatch. I barely had any energy left and crawled out onto the deck floor and collapsed.
Hours later we cleared customs and docked the boat behind the Doctors house in Palm Beach Gardens. When Dr. Theofilos found out what happened he immediately asked Captain Chad Grady what could be done to improve the safety. He was told that a lot of newer boats come equipped with a CCTV engine room security surveillance camera with a monitor that is viewable from the Fly Bridge. Thankfully for me Captain Chad Grady owns Palm Beach Marine Electronics and this was a relatively simple task that I helped him accomplish. This was done by running a power line to the marine electrical panel and a coaxial cable to the fly bridge along with the mounting of a monitor that all connected to the CCTV Surveillance Security Camera. This was all done in about the same time that I was trapped in the engine room. This simple Marine Surveillance CCTV Camera System was purchased and installed for around $400.
With improvements in the CCTV Camera field DVRs and NVRs are becoming common place on bigger yachts and pleasure boats. The most applied use is to view the Engine Room with a Security Surveillance Camera. The latest technological advances in the CCTV Industry have the Marine Security Surveillance Cameras being used to view the many rooms and different areas found on and around these larger boats including the dock. You can keep an eye on the crew along with the boats guest. Having this added safety feature on your Marine Vessel comes with many advantages. Preventing theft and being able to monitor your vessel at all times remotely gives you a great peace of mind. The majority of a boats life happens right at the dock and this is where most theft and crime occurs unless you find yourself in the Somali Straights off Africa. Captain Richard Phillips was rescued by Navy Seals after his vessel the Maersk Alabama was hijacked by pirates. Modern day pirates have been operating in the Caribbean for years before this incident.
Not all uses of the Digital Video Recorder and Network Video Recorder have a negative connotation linking them to nefarious actions. These Marine CCTV Surveillance Cameras are now being widely implemented in the marine tourist industry. A growing number of fishing charters are installing them so family and friends can watch remotely as you reel in a trophy fish. They have also started popping up on Parasailing boats with the ability to use a PTZ (Pan Tilt Zoom) Camera, you can clearly see yourself from 200 feet away.
The average stop at the fuel pump on a 50 foot boat with 1500 gallon tanks runs you around 7 or 8 grand at $5 a gallon stateside. In the Bahamas that number doubles. Not having a CCTV Security Surveillance System on these large boats is not due to expense but rather not being informed of the advantages. Whether these benefits are for a lifesaving purpose or pure enjoyment of viewing memorable moments from a vacation. Having a CCTV Security Camera System is a no brainer in an industry where spending money is not an issue. One of the oldest saying amongst boaters is that boats are "holes in the water, into which you throw money".
I found a reputable source (www.securitycameraking.com) that has tiny NVR Security Surveillance Systems which can be tucked away and hidden nicely in these larger sport fishing vessels. This NVR Security Package is under 2 grand and comes with everything needed to complete your security needs. They offer extensive 3 year warranties which is unheard of in the electronics world. I hope you have found this information useful.


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1563, Bruegel the Elder "Therefore is the name of it called Babel; because the Lord did there confound the language of all the earth" |
This post is written for people in 2013 or 2014 who decide to have a debate on the importance (or not) of monetary injection points. This debate already transpired in early December 2012 across multiple blogs. Rather than starting from scratch, here's a bibliography.
The debate kicked off with Scott Sumner's response to this article by Sheldon Richman. From then on, in no particular order, are these posts:
Scott Sumner
It really, really, really doesn't matter who gets the money first—part 2
You can start talking about Cantillon effects as soon as central banks start buying bananas
A voice of reason from the comment section
If I buy T-bonds, their price rises. If the Fed buys T-bonds, their price (usually) falls
Bob Murphy
Scott Sumner and I Have a Failure to Communicate
Resolution of the Sumner/Richman Showdown
You Might Be Talkin to a Market Monetarist If…
I Have a Deal for JP Koning, Scott Sumner, and Nick Rowe
Clarification on Cantillon Effects
Bill Woolsey Replies on Cantillon Effects
One More on Cantillon for 2012
Nick Rowe
Cantillon effects and non-SUPER-neutrality = does fiscal policy matter?
Defending Hayek against the Austrians
Bill Woolsey
Sumner on Injection Effects
Injection Effects and the Quantity Theory
Selgin on Cantillon Effects
Steve Horwitz
Sumner, Murphy, Richman, and Cantillon Effects
George Selgin
Sumner v. Cantillon
David Glasner
Those Dreaded Cantillon Effects
Daniel Kuehn
On Cantillon Effects
It's the rational expectations, stupid
JP Koning
Richard Cantillon on Cantillon Effects
Gene Callahan
Golden Meteors and Cantillon Effects
Kurt Schuler
Cantillon effects in Africa
If I've missed any other blogs, please post them in the comments section.
What was the final conclusion from all this debate? I haven't the foggiest clue. Unfortunately there's no final arbiter on blog wars. But since this is my blog, I'll go ahead and attach my final thoughts.
I'm only going to respond to the exact comment from Richman that set the debate off:
First, the new money enters the economy at specific points, rather than being distributed evenly through the textbook "helicopter effect." Second, money is non-neutral. Since Fed-created money reaches particular privileged interests before it filters through the economy, early recipients—banks, securities dealers, government contractors—have the benefit of increased purchasing power before prices rise. Most wage earners and people on fixed incomes, on the other hand, see higher prices before they receive higher nominal incomes or Social Security benefits. Pensioners without cost-of-living adjustments are out of luck.Say the Fed announces that rather than buying bonds from traders as it normally does, tomorrow it will inject new money by purchasing goods in shops. Upon the injection announcement, savvy traders will quickly bit up financial asset prices to offset the anticipated money injection. Goods prices, on the other hand, do not immediately get updated because shopkeepers don't pay much attention to Fed announcements. So even though shops will be the first to receive the new money tomorrow, shop keepers cannot purchase a larger real quantity of IBM or Google shares—these prices having already adjusted. So the uneven distribution created by new money has little to do with where money is injected. Even if shopkeepers receive the money first, it is the owners of flex-priced assets like IBM shares who will enjoy increased purchasing power—at least until all prices in the economy have adjusted to the new equilibrium.
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Zcash is the hottest coin this month, after going live on October 28th, following several of months of testing. Zcash promises private transactions, so that they cannot be viewed on the public blockchain like bitcoin or ethereum.
I did not expect zcash mining to be immediately profitable, since mining rewards are being ramped up over the first month. However the first hour of trading on Poloniex saw zcash (ZEC) trading at insane values of over 1000 bitcoin per ZEC. Even after 24 hours, 1 ZEC is trading for about 6 BTC, or US$4300. Despite the low mining reward rate, mining pool problems, and buggy mining software, I was able to earn 0.005 ZEC in one day with a couple rigs.
Zcash has both private address starting with "z", and public or transparent address starting with "t". A bug in the zcash network software has meant problems with private transfers, so it is recommended for miners to use only transparent wallet addresses until the bug is fixed. Miners using the "z" address have apparently had problems receiving their zcash payouts from mining pools.
I have been using eXtremal's miner version 0.2.2, which uses OpenCL kernels from the zcash open-source miner competition. Windows and Linux binaries can be downloaded from coinsforall.io, the pool the software is designed for. I get the best performance with the silentarmy kernel, but with only one instance as running 2 instances results in a crash. On Windows running driver version 16.10.1 I get about 26 solutions/s with a Rx 470. Under Ubuntu with fglrx drivers I get about 11 solutions/s for both R7 370 and R9 380 cards.
I experimented with the worksize and threads values in config.txt, but was unable to improve performance compared to the default 256/8192. Increasing the core clock on the R9 380 cards from 900Mhz to 1Ghz increased the performance by 3-4%.
Genoil has released a miner, but only Windows binaries with tromp's kernel at this time. A version including silentarmy's kernel is in the works.
I was unable to find any zcash mining calculators, so I wrote a short python calculator. Here's an example based on the network hashrate (in thousands) at block 1072, for a rig mining 140 solutions/s:
./zec.py 1072 1840 140
Daily ramped mining reward in blocks: 308
Your estimated earnings: 0.0234347826087
At the current price of 6BTC/ZEC, the earnings work out to about US$100. Even if the price drops to 3BTC/ZEC, the daily earnings are still more than double what the same hardware could make mining ethereum. Apparently many other ethereum miners have realized this, since the ethereum network hashrate has dropped by about 25% in less than 30 hours. I expect this trend to continue in the coming days, and eventually reach an equilibrium as the ZEC price continues to drop until it is below parity with BTC.
2016-10-30 update
Coinsforall is still having stability problems, and now 1 ZEC is worth about 1.2 BTC. Therefore I've switched back to eth mining for all my cards except one Rx 470. With Genoil's ZECminer I'm getting about 26 sol/s. I started using zcash.miningpoolhub.com, and after an hour of mining the pool has been stable. Reported hashrate on the pool is about 12H/s, or half the solution rate as expected.


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While SharePoint is amazing, it has several limitations. First, it requires a server running Windows 2003 server and Windows SharePoint Services. In addition, the Data View Web Part is read-only and provides no mechanism for updating the data. Is there a way to use FrontPage to create a web frontend to your Access data without employing SharePoint?
You can use the FrontPage Database Interface Wizard to create a complete web site that lets you view and edit data from a database table. The trick in this solution is to create the database connection before running the wizard. Follow these steps to create a web site based on the tblAlbums table from the 15-06.MDB database:
Startup FrontPage 2003.
Select Select File New... to create a new web site. On the New task pane, click on "One page Web site..." under New Web site.
At the Web Site Templates dialog box click on Empty Web Site and enter the following location for the Web site:
FrontPage creates a new empty Web site on the current machine. If you do not have a Microsoft web server running on the current machine, you will need to change localhost to the name or address of a Microsoft web server for which you have site creation privileges.
Select File Import. Click on Add File... from the Import dialog box.
Navigate to the 15-06.MDB sample database and click Open. Click OK to add the database to the site.
When you click OK, FrontPage recognizes that you are importing a database and asks you if you wish to create a database connection for the database.
Enter "15-06" for the database connection name and click Yes to import the database and create the database connection.
FrontPage displays an additional dialog box suggesting that the database be moved to the fpdb folder. This is a good practice so you should click Yes.
Select File New... to create a new web site. On the New task pane, click on "One page Web site..." under New Web site.
At the Web Site Templates dialog box, select Database Interface Wizard, making sure to check the "Add to current Web site" checkbox before clicking on the OK button.
FrontPage starts the Database Interface Wizard, the first page which is shown in Figure 15-18.
On the first page of the wizard, under "FrontPage has detected that your page will display best using:", select "ASP.NET" unless you'd prefer to use the older ASP technology.
Under "This wizard will connect your site to a database. What would you like to do?", select "Use an existing database connection", select "15-06" from the dropdown control, and click Next.
On the second page of the wizard, under "Select the table or view you would like to use for this database connection", select the "tblAlbums" table. Accept the default location for the new files and click Next.
On the third page of the wizard you are given the opportunity to modify the columns to be displayed. There's no need to modify the columns, so click Next.
On the fourth page of the wizard, you are asked which pages you wish to include. For this example, check all three checkboxes as shown in Figure 15-19.
On the fifth wizard page, you are asked to supply a user name and password to protect the database editor. Enter a user name and password or check the "Don't protect my submission page or my database editor with a username and password" checkbox.
Click Finish to complete the wizard.
The wizard creates a number of pages. Under the 15-06_interface\tblAlbums folder you should find the results_page.aspx page. Select FilePreview in Browser to display this page in your browser.
Click on the Database Editor hyperlink to bring up the database editor, which should look similar to the page shown in Figure 15-20.
You aren't limited to one database interface per web site. You can rerun the FrontPage Database Interface Wizard as many times as you like, creating set of pages for either different tables within the same Access database or different databases. Just remember to check the "Add to current Web site" checkbox before clicking on the OK button when selecting the Database Interface Wizard template.
The steps in this solution apply when using FrontPage 2003. However, except for a few differences, the steps are virtually identical when using FrontPage 2002. (One big difference: FrontPage 2002 doesn't give you the choice of creating the site using ASP or ASP.NET; it always uses the older ASP technology.)
There are a number of technologies you can use to create a web frontend to an Access database, including: Data Access Pages, SharePoint, ASP.NET, Active Server Pages (ASP), Cold Fusion, PHP, and Java Server Pages (JSP). Data Access Pages are discussed in detail in Chapter 13. In addition, an ASP.NET example is included in Chapter 17.
With a wealth of options, you may be wondering which solution will work best for you. Ultimately, a number of factors will help you arrive at a decision. Do you want a solution that you can create quickly with little or no programming? If so, then you probably will want to use the FrontPage Database Interface Wizard (as demonstrated in this solution), Data Access Pages, or SharePoint. Use SharePoint (along with FrontPage) if you need to create a workgroup-based portal. One disadvantage of the SharePoint approach is that you cannot modify the Access data. You can use the FrontPage Database Interface Wizard, as demonstrated in this solution, to quickly create an ASP- or ASP.NET-based frontend to Access that you can then modify and extend using Visual InterDev (if you are using ASP), or Visual Studio .NET (if you are using ASP.NET). Finally, you can also use Data Access Pages, but only for smaller intranet-based sites.
If you're not averse to programming, you may want to use Visual Studio .NET to create an ASP.NET-based web site, or Visual InterDev to create an ASP-based site. In most cases, ASP.NET is the better choice because it provides a programming object model that is more similar to Access than ASP. Other, non-Microsoft options include Cold Fusion, PHP, and Java Server Pages (JSP). You can also use Macromedia's Dreamweaver MX to create Cold Fusion, PHP, and JSP web sites (as well as ASP- and ASP.NET-based sites).
Keep in mind that Access might not be the most appropriate database to use in many Internet-based scenarios. As mentioned in the Solution in Recipe 15.2, Access works well in small workgroup settings, but if you expect a moderate number (over a dozen or so) of simultaneous users, you'd be better served with a server-based database such as SQL Server.
See Database Power with Microsoft FrontPage Version 2002.http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnfp2k2/html/fp_dbpower.asp


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My father used to shout this out when I was small and in danger of hurting myself, usually while doing something dumb, like running into the street after a ball.
My mother however used to say this to me, in a slow, low voice, accompanied by piercing eyes, when I was a teenager and in danger of being hurt emotionally, by my own headlong rush into territory I didn't yet understand, or by a careless boy, let's say.
About six years ago, when I was working on a magazine article with a life coach, she advised me: "Watch yourself," but she meant it in a different way altogether. She wanted me to observe myself carefully, as if from a distance, so that I could develop a keener awareness of my actions in areas of my life I wanted to change.
I've been thinking lately about these two words, for reasons
too complicated to address right here, right now.
But mostly, I keep coming back to the idea of observation, truly watching myself, and
how important it is, and how frequently I don't do it. Watch yourself. Doesn't it seem like good advice, no matter
what one is doing, working on, worried
I'm sure I could think of a half dozen ways I could tie this into writing. But I won't. I think it stands on its own. And sometimes, that's enough.


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Apple releases iTunes 10.2.1, iOS 4.3 next
Less than a week after Apple released iTunes 10.2 with iOS 4.3 sync support, an update has arrived that seems to lack any new features.
At Apple's iPad 2 reveal last week in San Francisco, CEO Steve Jobs said iOS 4.3 would be available on March 11, the same day the second-generation tablet will go on sale. In anticipation of the update to the mobile platform as well as the new tablet, Apple released iTunes 10.2 last Friday. Then on Tuesday, Apple handed out iTunes 10.2.1, which contained the exact same description as iTunes 10.2.
The update is seemingly identical to the 10.2 version of iTunes, which has an improved version of Home Sharing that lets users stream content from their iTunes library between computers and to an iPad, iPad 2, iPhone 3GS, iPhone 4 (GSM), or iPod touch (third and fourth generation), as long as the device running the iOS 4.3—which means users will have to wait until Friday to take advantage of beefed-up Home Sharing.
Beyond Home Sharing and sync support, most of the other changes between iTunes 10.1 and 10.2 are minor, though the changes from iTunes 10.2 to 10.2.1 seem to be nonexistent.
So why has Apple curiously updated iTunes again so soon? Mobile Burn says the newest version of the program alleviates some bugs and security issues. Bug fixes are usually noted in software update notes, however.
There are murmurings that Apple will release iOS 4.3 ahead of schedule, in anticipation of heavy traffic and an increased number of support calls that usually come with an update to the platform. An early release would give Apple a bit of breathing room before the iPad 2 hits stores and potential chaos ensues on Friday.
Apple did not immediately respond to a request for comment about the reason for the update.
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Barking dogs cause a constant problem for citizens and officers alike. Under Boulder City Ordinance 7-3-8 (A), a noisy animal is defined as "any animal which, by loud or frequent habitual barking, yelping, braying, or other noise, causes annoyance to the neighborhood or any person in the vicinity".
On a 1st or 2nd offense, a written warning is the recommended enforcement action. Your Animal Control Officer will work with the problem animal owner in an attempt to help correct the situation so that further enforcement action is not necessary.
However, if a 3rd offense occurs, court action is recommended. As the complainant, you will be asked to keep a "noisy animal log" and to sign either a citation or a Verified Complaint. If a citation is issued or a Verified Complaint approved, the owner will be required to come to court and answer to the charge. You may also be subpoenaed into court as a witness.
You may choose to lodge an anonymous complaint. Without your help (as a witness), however, it is impossible to take enforcement action. In these cases, the officer simply informs the animal owner that a complaint has been made.
If the animal resides in a private home development such as a mobile home park, apartment complex, or home owners association, you should 1st contact the property managers to discuss the situation.


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Story #55
October 3, 1989 — Toronto, Canada
The 1989 inductions at the Hockey Hall of Fame in Toronto were significant for two reasons. First, it served to celebrate the announcement that the Hall would soon be moving into a new home in downtown Toronto, one with much more space and far greater exhibition and commercial potential, one that could take the Hall into the 21st century.The second reason to celebrate was that this was very much an international induction. Three new members were honoured in large measure for their global, not NHL, success. In the case of Darryl Sittler, the most famous NHLer of the group, he had scored the game-winning goal of the inaugural Canada Cup in 1976 in overtime to defeat Czechoslovakia. Second, Father David Bauer created Canada's National Team in the early 1960s, introducing a concept that saw Hockey Canada revitalize its international success over the coming years and decades.
And then there was Vladislav Tretiak, the incomparable Soviet goalie who had rarely tasted defeat during his 15-year career. Tretiak's inclusion was a monumental break from tradition for the Hockey Hall of Fame. He was the first Soviet-trained player to be inducted, a player who had never appeared in the NHL and whose merits were based entirely on his play internationally. Of course, the selection committee could not have chosen a more worthy candidate. Tretiak made his debut at the 1970 World Championship at the age of 17 and rose to prominence two years later at the 1972 Summit Series against Canada, almost single-handedly pushing the Canadians to the brink of defeat.Tretiak went on to win ten gold medals at the World Championships and three more Olympic titles before retiring in 1984. He had been drafted by the Montreal Canadiens the previous year, and when it became clear to him that Soviet authorities would never allow him to leave his country to play in North America, he called it quits.Despite his induction nearly two decades ago, though, Tretiak's successes have not led to more non-NHLers being inducted. Valeri Kharlamov was the only other member of that Summit Series team to go in (in 2005), but with the plethora of talented Europeans in the NHL today, it is only a matter of time for the two worlds — the NHL and IIHF — to further assimilate.
As part of the IIHF's 100th anniversary celebrations, www.IIHF.com is featuring the 100 top international hockey stories from the past century (1908-2008). Starting now and continuing through the 2008 IIHF World Championships in Canada, we will bring you approximately three stories a week counting down from Number 100 to Number 11.
The Final Top 10 Countdown will be one of the highlights of the IIHF's Centennial Gala Evening in Quebec City on May 17, the day prior to the Gold Medal Game of the 2008 World Championship.
These are the criteria for inclusion on this list: First, the story has to have had a considerable influence on international hockey. Second, it has to have had either a major immediate impact or a long-lasting significance on the game. Third, although it doesn't necessarily have to be about top players, the story does have to pertain to the highest level of play, notably Olympics, World Championships, and the like. The story can be about a single moment — a goal, a great save, a referee's call — or about an historic event of longer duration — a game, series, tournament, or rule change.
Click here for the 100 Top Stories


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Deferred Disposition is an option that will keep your citation from being reported as a conviction on your driving record and will be dismissed if all terms required are successfully met. If any requirements are not met and you cannot provide a satisfactory reason why you did not complete these requirements, your probation will be revoked, you will be found guilty and a conviction will be reported to the Department of Public Safety.
Not all violations are approved for Deferred Disposition. If you have multiple violations, you may only request Deferred Disposition on one case. YOUR VIOLATION MUST BE CLASSIFIED AS A MOVING VIOLATION.
You are not eligible for Deferred Disposition if:
- The citation alleges that you were speeding in a construction zone when workers were present.
- The violation was for failing to stop & leave ID at an accident.
- A speeding violation exceeds 24 miles over the posted speed.
- The violation occurred while passing a stopped school bus.
- You have a commercial driver's license (CDL) even if the violation occurred while you were driving a private vehicle.
- You have a provisional driver's license.
- All juvenile defendants who are under 17 years of age, cannot obtain a deferred disposition online. You must come to court with your parent. A Court hearing notice will be mailed to you.
- You have been granted deferred disposition or deferred adjudication in the State of Texas within the last 12 months.
How Do I Make a Request for Deferred Disposition?
- If eligible for a deferral, you can submit a request NO LATER than the first scheduled hearing
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- By Mail: Include a written request for Deferred Disposition; Copy of driver's license; Citation number; and provide a good mailing address.
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(Poem #135) I've Got a Little List SONG--KO-KO with CHORUS OF MEN. As some day it may happen that a victim must be found, I've got a little list--I've got a little list Of society offenders who might well be underground, And who never would be missed--who never would be missed! There's the pestilential nuisances who write for autographs-- All people who have flabby hands and irritating laughs-- All children who are up in dates, and floor you with 'em flat-- All persons who in shaking hands, shake hands with you like _that_-- And all third persons who on spoiling tete-a-tetes insist-- They'd none of 'em be missed--they'd none of 'em be missed! CHORUS. He's got 'em on the list--he's got 'em on the list; And they'll none of 'em be missed--they'll none of 'em be missed. There's the banjo serenader, and the others of his race, And the piano-organist--I've got him on the list! And the people who eat peppermint and puff it in your face, They never would be missed--they never would be missed! Then the idiot who praises, with enthusiastic tone, All centuries but this, and every country but his own; And the lady from the provinces, who dresses like a guy, And who "doesn't think she waltzes, but would rather like to try"; And that singular anomaly, the lady novelist-- I don't think she'd be missed--I'm sure she'd not he missed! CHORUS. He's got her on the list--he's got her on the list; And I don't think she'll be missed--I'm sure she'll not be missed! And that Nisi Prius nuisance, who just now is rather rife, The Judicial humorist--I've got him on the list! All funny fellows, comic men, and clowns of private life-- They'd none of 'em be missed--they'd none of 'em be missed. And apologetic statesmen of a compromising kind, Such as--What d'ye call him--Thing'em-bob, and likewise--Never-mind, And 'St--'st--'st--and What's-his-name, and also You-know-who-- The task of filling up the blanks I'd rather leave to you. But it really doesn't matter whom you put upon the list, For they'd none of 'em be missed--they'd none of 'em be missed! CHORUS. You may put 'em on the list--you may put 'em on the list; And they'll none of 'em be missed--they'll none of 'em be missed! |
from The Mikado Background: The singer is the Lord High Executioner; in a speech immediately preceding the song, he says "If I should ever be called upon to act professionally, I am happy to think that there will be no difficulty in finding plenty of people whose loss will be a distinct gain to society at large." Glossary: piano-organist - A piano organ is similar to a barrel organ, a sort of street piano. (Sullivan's mother was a woman of Italian background who met her husband while accompanying an organ grinder and his monkey through the streets of London. Now aren't you glad you read these program notes?) Nisi Prius nuisance - Nisi Prius is a legal term used to refer to cases that were tried in the Assize court though technically they should have been civil cases. Nisi Prius literally means "unless before," the implication is "unless heard before." - from <http://members.aol.com/gsvloc/mik_glo1.htm> This little piece from the Mikado shows Gilbert at his satirical best, as he skewers, with pinpoint accuracy, the 'society offenders who might well be underground, and who never will be missed'. If you get a chance, do listen to the opera - the music's lovely too. (For those of you with decent soundcards, see below) Assessment: The most popular Gilbert and Sullivan opera, and arguably the most popular opera ever written. This opera has delighted audiences for more than a century, and spawned a number of imitations. But none were nearly as good as the original, which represented both Gilbert and Sullivan at the height of their creative geniuses. -- from <[broken link] http://diamond.idbsu.edu/gas/mikado/html/mikado.html> I couldn't have put it better myself - the Mikado is a truly mindblowing piece of work. Biography etc: see poem #88 Music: <[broken link] http://diamond.idbsu.edu/gas/mikado/html/mikado_midi.html> And, of course the inevitable parody site, <[broken link] http://www.ology.org/eschat/parody/> m.


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Ever Gold in SF opens a month long residency with Josh Short's Bomb Shelter Radio and Tenderloin Self- Defense Club tonight, Thurs (6-10pm). Check the video for a complete picture of what to expect.
Over the course of his residency at Ever Gold Gallery, Josh Short will build "Bomb Shelter Radio" and host several live sonic events that will include experimental noise transmissions, live metal and hardcore bands, and subversive FM radio interventions. This will also be aided by guerrilla public installations of radios installed around the Tenderloin bringing his interventions directly to the street as a form of audio graffiti. During the day the gallery will become the "Tenderloin Self-Defense Club", where Short will offer martial arts instruction to the neighborhood inhabitants, artists, and musicians. ~show details


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Darina Allen established Ballymaloe Cookery School in 1983 with her brother Rory O'Connell. Author of over 10 books and presenter on 6 Television series, her main passion and her daily task is to impart her knowledge to the students at the Ballymaloe Cookery School.
Darina Allen is Ireland's best known cook and a best-selling author who presented nine series of her cookery programme, *Simply Delicious*, on television in Ireland. She is a passionate and committed teacher, and her awards have included:
- Good Food Ireland's Cookery School of the Year 2012/2013
- José Navarro Foundation Award at the Green Awards 2011
- IACP Cooking Teacher of theYear 2005.
A tireless ambassador for Irish food both at home and abroad, Darina has been instrumental in setting up the Farmers' Market Movement in Ireland. Slow Food is a passion for her, and she is the councillor for Ireland in the Slow Food Movement and President of East Cork Convivium of Slow Food. Through the East Cork Educational Fund, she runs a programme for local primary schools to help local children learn about food from garden to plate.
In 2013 she helped launch the Ballymaloe Literary Festival of Food and Wine which plays host to a stellar line up of chefs and writers and has very quickly become an unmissable event on the international culinary calendar.
Dubbed "The Julia Child of Ireland" by the San Francisco Chronicle, Darina has written a number of best-selling, award-winning books including: 30 Years at Ballymaloe (Winner Cookbook of the year for the Irish Book Awards 2013) | Forgotten Skills, winner of the André Simon Food Book of the Year and Listowel Food Fair Book of the Year Award in 2010 | Easy Entertaining, winner of the 2006 Chefs and Restaurants Award from the IACP | Irish Traditional Cooking | Ballymaloe Cookery Course | A Year at Ballymaloe | Healthy Gluten-freeEating* (with Rosemary Kearney) | the Simply Delicious series of books to accompany her TV series of the same name.
She holds many positions in leading food organisations including:
- Member of Taste Council of Irish Food Board
- Chair of Artisan Food Forum of FoodSafety Authority of Ireland
- Trustee of Irish Organic Centre
- Patron ofIrish Seedsavers
- Member of Eurotoques (European Association of Chefs
- Guild of Foodwriters in UK and Ireland
- IACP (International Association ofCulinary Professionals).
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The Indian War
John Smith's, and Jamestown's, encounters with Indians initiated centuries of North American red-white violence.
Mike Crow Jr., Kody Grant, and Shawn Michael Perry in a Colonial Williamsburg electronic field trip about a Shawnee peace delegation to Williamsburg.
The Indian War
by Andrew G. Gardner
Keeping straight the wars between Native Americans and the Europeans who came to settle among them tests the memory. There were, to name a few, the Taino, Aztec, and Powhatan Wars, the Pequot War, King Philip's War, the Pueblo Revolt, Queen Anne's War, the French and Indian War, the Tuscarora War, the Yamasee War, the Creek War, Pontiac's Conspiracy, Lord Dunmore's War, the First, Second, and Third Seminole Wars, the Black Hawk War, the Navajo Conflicts, the Ute Wars, the Modoc War, the Red River War, and the Nez Percé War. From the struggles against Columbus's depredations to the indigenous Brazilians fighting today for their hunting grounds, the roll of death and destruction unwinds across time and the hemisphere. James Loewen, historian and sociologist, says, "In one sense there was just one Indian war. It started in 1492 and it's still going on today, in some parts of the Amazon."
Loewen is among the textbook authors who have examined what is taught in American schools and found that its treatment of the aggression against Native Americans sweeps under the historical carpet the shameful and barbaric. "Slavery" he writes in his book Lies My Teacher Told Me, "is now taken seriously in our histories; conquest is not."
Historian and author Howard Zinn, whose viewpoint mirrors Loewen's, says, "What we didn't learn was the fact that the American colonists that came here from the beginning were invading Indian soils and driving the Indians out of their land and committing massacres. The story that is not told in most American textbooks is the deceptions that were played on the Indians, the treaties that were made with them, the treaties that were then broken by the American government. It's important to know that."
Some people do. On an Indian reserve in Nevada, a young man sports a T-shirt with "Homeland Security" emblazoned above a picture of Geronimo and a group of his Apache warriors. The caption reads "Fighting Terrorism since 1492."
Loewen says Europeans came to the New World with the Old World motivation of conquest, plain and simple. In the way that the Romans took over most of Europe two thousand years ago, and the Normans conquered Anglo-Saxon England in 1066, conquest was the primary incentive. "If you had to apply a one-word summary for what happened in North America," Loewen says, "'invasion' would be that word. 'Settlement' is a euphemism. 'Settling' implies that North America had not already been settled, but it had.
"In our history we deny that the Indians had settled the continent thousands of years before . . . because it's in our interests to deny it. The textbook that calls it 'a virgin continent' is pure nonsense."
Hundreds of clans, tribes, or nations—call them what you will—were living here in the same way that European tribes and clans existed in Roman times. In North America, the Indians had trade routes that stretched from the Great Lakes south to the Gulf of Mexico and west to the Pacific. They had cultures, governments, and institutions the equal of some of what could be found in Europe at the time.
Nevertheless, on their arrival, the Europeans considered that they had found the New World, and by right of discovery could claim it as their own. Three hundred and more years later, in 1823, Chief Justice John Marshall of the Supreme Court of the United States, asked how the newcomers justified themselves, and answered:
On the discovery of this immense continent, the great nations of Europe were eager to appropriate to themselves so much of it as they could respectively acquire. Its vast extent offered an ample field to the ambition and enterprise of all; and the character and religion of its inhabitants afforded an apology for considering them as a people over whom the superior genius of Europe might claim an ascendancy. The potentates of the old world found no difficulty in convincing themselves that they made ample compensation to the inhabitants of the new, by bestowing on them civilization and Christianity, in exchange for unlimited independence.
The Indians got European Christianity and civilization; the Europeans got the land. That explains the fighting. General Philip Sheridan, an Indian fighter, put it like this: "We took away their country and their means of support, and it was this, and against this they made war. Could anyone expect less?"
Sheridan, however, is better remembered for a colloquy he had with a Comanche chief participating in an 1869 Indian Territory conference. The chief described himself as a good Indian. Sheridan, smirking, said, "The only good Indians I ever saw were dead," which time turned into "The only good Indian is a dead Indian."
When Columbus came, there were perhaps 100 million Indians in the Americas and up to 30 million people in North America. In 1900, the Native American population in the United States amounted to about one million. Loewen says, "Disease, warfare, and the loss of their culture was responsible for the deaths of 90 to 95% of the Indian population." Since the establishment of the Jamestown colony, the survivors of the North American Indian nations that once had the run of the continent have been squeezed onto little more than 2 percent of the American land base.
The conquest and wars were emboldened by racism. The Spanish conquistadores thought of the indigenous population as little more than animals to be exploited, and the English were hardly better. The Jamestown English regarded them as subhuman infidels and savages, some of whom were in direct communication with Satan. In the mid-seventeenth century, Francis Wyatt, Virginia's English governor, said, "Our first work is the expulsion of the savages to gain the free range of the country for increase of cattle, swine etc. It is infinitely better to have no heathen among us, who at best were as thorns in our sides, than to be at peace and league with them." George Washington said, "Indian's and wolves are both beasts of prey, tho' they differ in shape."
Such demonization continued for three hundred years until the Indian Wars in the west were won and the whites triumphed. "As soon as it was in our interest to put down any other group, we put them down," Loewen says. He calls it cognitive dissonance—"We're fighting them and we need to think badly of them."
During the French and Indian War, Virginia's Reverend Mr. Samuel Davies persuaded his parishioners that the Indians were bloody barbarians who murdered children in their beds. "See Yonder!" he preached from his Hanover County pulpit, "the hairy scalps clotted with gore! The mangled limbs! Women ripped up! See the savages swilling their blood. These are not men nor beasts of prey. They must be infernal furies in human shape."
Ally such rhetoric to a painting in the Wadsworth Athenaeum depicting the scalping of a young white woman—Jane McCrea—in New York in 1777, at the hands of two Indian warriors. It would have been enough to make any prospective settler check his weapons. The pressure of new arrivals who headed for the frontier guaranteed the situation could only get worse. "But," Loewen says, "it wasn't just sheer numbers of settlers the Indians were up against; it was the power imbalance."
The Indians could not compete with muskets, steel-tipped crossbows, gunpowder, armor, horses, and attack dogs. Consider the Spanish conquest of the Aztec empire in 1519. Under the command of Hernando Cortes, about 500 men-at-arms landed on Cozumel, just off the Mexican coast. Apart from their swords and pikes, Cortes's force carried thirteen muskets, thirty-two crossbows, four small cannon, and some bronze guns. Within two years, Cortes and his men, with the help of native allies, brought the Aztec nation of hundreds of thousands to its knees in an orgy of terrorism, duplicity, and brutality.
In North America, the French controlled the fur-bearing arc of country from Cape Breton, west along the Gulf of St. Lawrence, across the Great Lakes, and south through the Mississippi Valley to the Gulf of Mexico. In the east, the English colonies, together with the Spanish in the south, completed the loop that hemmed in the unexplored area east of the Mississippi and its Indian nations. Attempting to defend their territories from white pioneers, the Indians had learned it was suicidal to engage the Europeans in direct military conflict. But laying down their arms and relying on the promised protection of a single colonial master had also been a bitter road to ruin. Instead, as the struggle for the control of North America between the French and the English boiled into the French and Indian War, Indian tribes leveraged what power they had, throwing in their lot with one side or the other.
September 13, 1759, on the Plains of Abraham at Quebec, General James Wolfe defeated the French. Britain, with the help of its Indian allies, was ascendant. At the Peace of Paris in 1763, France signed away her New World possessions save for two tiny islands off Newfoundland—St. Pierre and Miquelon.
The biggest change in Indian "fortunes came when Native Americans stopped being useful," Loewen says, "and they had done a good job of playing the French against the English, maintaining a balance of power as long as they could. But all that ended with the outcome of the French and Indian War. It signaled doom for Native Americans."
Historian Daniel Richter writes, "With a few strokes of European pens, the structural framework upon which Indian politics had depended imploded. The ring of competing imperial powers that had provided an odd security to the Indian country it surrounded suddenly collapsed."
In 1763, the British issued a royal proclamation forbidding the English colonists from settling west of the Appalachians. The crown would have monopoly on land purchases from the Indian nations. To many colonists who had staked claims to this now-forbidden Indian reserve, including Washington, the proclamation was like a red rag to the bull—and in Loewen's view was the biggest factor in pushing the settlers toward revolution.
The lot of Native Americans changed for the worse with the founding of the United States. In The Conquest of America, historian Hans Koning writes that "George Washington became known in Indian country as 'the town destroyer,' having ordered the obliteration of settlements of Mohawk, Onondaga, Cayuga and Seneca." As the years progressed from the eighteenth to the nineteenth century, and immigration from Europe shifted into high gear, the carnage intensified.
According to Loewen, the War of 1812 marked the end of North America's Indian Wars proper: "The rest was mopping-up operations." President Andrew Jackson's 1830 Indian Removal Act forced Indians remaining east of the Mississippi to move west, in some cases leaving their ancestral lands to be distributed to whites in a lottery. As the United States expanded westward, the destruction of the Plains Indians, the Northwest Indians, the California Coast Indians . . . the list goes on . . . followed.
Tactics varied—enslavement, starvation, terror—but the results were the same. Men, women, and children died by the thousands, and survivors force-marched to Indian reserves in what would become Oklahoma. There were many Trails of Tears. In Colorado's 1864 massacre at Sand Creek—a peaceful, unarmed Cheyenne village—Colonel John Chivington ordered, "Kill them all, little and big, because nits make lice." Ex-president Andrew Jackson said, "If you pursue a wolf, you have to kill the whelps too."
December 29, 1890, at Wounded Knee, South Dakota, another massacre ended 300 years of North American Indian Wars. In a forced Indian removal, the United States Army, equipped with four rapid-fire Hotchkiss guns, mowed down 146 Lakota Sioux—men, women, and children.
Today we seldom hear about such engagements or discuss them. Loewen says that we should, as does Montana, where 6.5 percent of the population is Native American. The state requires Indian education for every child, "and other states are looking to follow Montana's lead," Loewen says.
"Despite the fact that every country tends to be ethnocentric about its own past and tends to emphasize that their country did things with the best of intentions . . . Indian history is an important antidote to the notion that European Americans are God's chosen people. The idea that God is on our side began with the Pilgrims."
He recalls a 1631 fight over land at Saugus, Massachusetts, when the Puritan minister Increase Mather said, "God ended the controversy by sending smallpox among the Indians.'"
"Now that is Manifest Destiny. Divine destiny," Loewen says. "Same idea. God is on our side, fate is on our side, the overall sweep of history is on our side. Of course, it is a rationalization for what we do or what we did. If we killed them all, it was too bad, it was Manifest Destiny.
"However, history is not a film you can unreel. You cannot run it backwards. You cannot make native people independent again. Politically or logically, it is impossible. We can't do a lot about injustices from whenever. But I do think there is a relationship between knowing the truth about the past, and justice in the present. Once enough Americans understand the truth about the past and what we did to the native population, they will be in favor of the next step, whatever that next step is."
Andrew Gardner, who writes on Canada's Salt Spring Island, contributed to the autumn 2009 journal an article about Captain John Smith's departure from Virginia.


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Carey Mulligan Captivates in 'The Great Gatsby'
Daisy is the phantasmal object of Jay Gatsby's (Leonardo DiCaprio) obsessions, ethereal and completely captivating, especially her voice, "the kind of voice that the ear follows up and down as if each speech is an arrangement of notes that will never be played again," as author F. Scott Fitzgerald describes her in the novel from which the film was based.
Daisy is Gatsby's "green light," his "enchanted object" beckoning from across the bay, but forever out of reach, "high in a white palace the king's daughter, the golden girl…"
"The Great Gatsby" follows would-be writer Nick Carraway (Tobey Maguire) as he leaves the Midwest and comes to New York City in the spring of 1922, an era of loosening morals, glittering jazz, bootleg kings, and sky-rocketing stocks. Chasing his own American Dream, Nick lands next door to a mysterious, party-giving millionaire, Jay Gatsby, and across the bay from his cousin, Daisy, and her philandering, blue-blooded husband, Tom Buchanan (Joel Edgerton). It is thus that Nick is drawn into the captivating world of the super rich, their illusions, loves and deceits. As Nick bears witness, within and without of the world he inhabits, he pens a tale of impossible love, incorruptible dreams and high-octane tragedy, and holds a mirror to our own modern times and struggles.
Carey Mulligan offers, "The main thing about Daisy is her duality. She wants to be protected and safe and live in a certain way. But, at the same time, she wants epic romance. She's just swayed by whatever is the strongest and most appealing thing. She's not a grounded person or a genuine person, in a way."
When we first meet Daisy, she is at a somewhat melancholic juncture in her life. Once a much-admired Southern belle, she's still very charming and beautiful, but she's sadly aware that her husband is a serial and unapologetic philanderer, prone to "sprees." It is thus, when Nick reintroduces her to Gatsby, her lost love of five years ago, that she is tempted into a return to the past.
Director Baz Luhrmann took his time to find the right actress for the part. "I don't think it's an exaggeration to say that every actor you can imagine was keen to play that part; it's one of the great, iconic roles. So we found ourselves in somewhat of a 'Gone with the Wind' situation, where we were exploring all the possibilities, not so much as auditions but as little rehearsals."
"We did a big, wide net of a search for Daisy, which is the old-fashioned Hollywood way," echoes producer Lucy Fisher.
"Leonardo was a constant partner in this search," says Luhrmann, who immediately solicited his reaction after Mulligan read for the part. "Leo said the most brilliant thing: 'You know, I've been thinking about it… Gatsby has had a lot of very beautiful women thrown at him. Carey's very beautiful, but she's also very unusual. Daisy needs to be sort of precious and unique and something that Gatsby wants to protect. Something that he's never experienced before.' We looked at each other and said, 'It's her.'"
"We knew we'd found our Daisy Buchanan," DiCaprio recalls of that moment. "Daisy is such an incredibly important character in the film. She has to be a combination of the beautiful innocence that Jay sees in her, but she also has to have that whimsical carelessness. It takes not only a very intelligent actress, but also someone who can do both of these things simultaneously."
It turns out that Mulligan was equally impressed by DiCaprio. "I remember the first audition that I had," she says. "We were doing a scene right towards the end of the film, and Leonardo was playing Gatsby, and he was playing Tom Buchanan, and Nick Carraway. So, he'd sit in one chair and play his character, then he'd jump in another chair and play Tom, and then be standing up and he'd be Nick. He was learning all the different lines. He was incredible."
Mulligan portrays Daisy as complex, more than just a vacuous heroine. "I think that when Daisy says something, she really means it, but five minutes later she might not mean it at all," Mulligan observes. "She's almost living in a movie in her own life, looking in on herself, which makes for a rather thin personality that was probably typical of women in her circumstances, and interesting for me to play."
Opening across the Philippines on May 17 in Digital 3D and regular format, "The Great Gatsby" will be distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures, a Warner Bros. Entertainment Company.


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Print editors and journalists are notoriously overworked and underpaid. A well-written news release will often be used word for word, with maybe a few changes for "objectivity" or to accommodate the publication's format.
The editorial staff at the Los Angeles Times says this about news releases:
A good news release is a concise, complete description of an upcoming event; a timely report of an event has just occurred; notification of important personnel or procedural changes in an organization; or other news or feature tips.
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Lack of a local angle.
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Failure to include contact information for the organization.
Verbosity. (Try to keep the release to one or two pages, but balance brevity against failure to include necessary information.)
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Writing a news release does not have to be painful. What you need is a little time to gather all the facts: the who, what, when, where, why and how (and any additional information necessary to support).
Sometimes your news won't be used right away or in the form you provided. A writer may need time to rewrite your outline into a news story. Or, if a feature is being developed on Linux, the writer may use many sources for depth and objectivity. They may use quotable quotes, first-person anecdotes, statistics, and causes and effects from your releases as well as those of your competitors.
Deadlines are hugely important because the news media cannot delay publication or broadcasting. Don't bother editors with untimely information. If you can't pitch your story in time, wait for another opportune moment to come around.


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To verify that our mail relay system is open relay to your IP, you can use telnet command.
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Hello friends, I can't believe it's August already, and the kids are soon back to school. I'll be spending the weekend and much of next week adventuring with the kiddos and savoring what's left of summer.
I've been writing more in my Motherhood Journal lately after spending many months ignoring it. I wish I hadn't done that, they change so much so quickly, and for me it's important to record not only their changes but also my reflections too.
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Five winners chosen at random, free shipping too. Giveaway ends Sunday August 7th at 8 p.m. PST.
THIS GIVEAWAY IS NOW CLOSED. The five winners are: #2 Mollie B; #99 Emily; #111 Aleigh S; #205 Katrina Garcia; and #296 Jordan G. All of you received an email to make your selection!
The winners of the Attiser Linens Giveaway are #407 Shira at Little Green Box and #1,093 Sara Lease. Congratulations ladies, I'll be in touch later today!
And thanks to so many of you for your suggestions on what color to paint my front door, I'm off to pick up some samples at my local paint store, I hope to have a new color up by this weekend!


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Amgen and Servier Complete Product Collaboration Transaction
THOUSAND OAKS, Calif. and SURESNES, France, Aug. 12, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Amgen (NASDAQ:AMGN) and Servier today announced the early termination of the waiting period under the HartScottRodino Antitrust Improvements Act of 1976 in connection with the cardiovascular product collaboration agreement announced on July 8, 2013, completing the transaction.
Under the terms of the agreement, Amgen has obtained commercial rights in the U.S. to Servier's novel oral drug, approved in the EU as Procoralan® (ivabradine), for chronic heart failure and stable angina in patients with elevated heart rates. Amgen has also received an exclusive option to develop and commercialize Servier's investigational molecule, S38844, for cardiovascular diseases in the U.S. Currently, S38844 is in Phase 2 studies for the treatment of heart failure. Through the collaboration, Servier has obtained an exclusive option to commercialize omecamtiv mecarbil in Europe. Omecamtiv mecarbil is an activator of cardiac myosin, which is currently being tested for potential applications in the treatment of heart failure in patients with systolic dysfunction.
About Amgen
Amgen discovers, develops, manufactures and delivers innovative human therapeutics. A biotechnology pioneer since 1980, Amgen was one of the first companies to realize the new science's promise by bringing safe, effective medicines from lab to manufacturing plant to patient. Amgen therapeutics have changed the practice of medicine, helping people around the world in the fight against serious illnesses. With a deep and broad pipeline of potential new medicines, Amgen remains committed to advancing science to dramatically improve people's lives. For more information, visit www.amgen.com and follow us on www.twitter.com/amgen.
About Servier
Servier is a privately-run French research-based pharmaceutical company. Current therapeutic domains for Servier medicines are cardiovascular, metabolic, neurological, psychiatric and bone and joint diseases, as well as oncology. Servier is established in 140 countries worldwide with over 20,000 employees and a 2012 turnover of 3.9 billion. Servier invests 25% of its turnover in R&D. More information is available at: http://www.servier.com
Amgen Forward-Looking Statements
This news release contains forward-looking statements that are based on Amgen's current expectations and beliefs and are subject to a number of risks, uncertainties and assumptions that could cause actual results to differ materially from those described. All statements, other than statements of historical fact, are statements that could be deemed forward-looking statements, including estimates of revenues, operating margins, capital expenditures, cash, other financial metrics, expected legal, arbitration, political, regulatory or clinical results or practices, customer and prescriber patterns or practices, reimbursement activities and outcomes and other such estimates and results. Forward-looking statements involve significant risks and uncertainties, including those discussed below and more fully described in the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) reports filed by Amgen, including Amgen's most recent annual report on Form 10-K and any subsequent periodic reports on Form 10-Q and Form 8-K. Please refer to Amgen's most recent Forms 10-K, 10-Q and 8-K for additional information on the uncertainties and risk factors related to Amgen's business. Unless otherwise noted, Amgen is providing this information as of Aug. 12, 2013, and expressly disclaims any duty to update information contained in this news release.
No forward-looking statement can be guaranteed and actual results may differ materially from those Amgen projects. Discovery or identification of new product candidates or development of new indications for existing products cannot be guaranteed and movement from concept to product is uncertain; consequently, there can be no guarantee that any particular product candidate or development of a new indication for an existing product will be successful and become a commercial product. Further, preclinical results do not guarantee safe and effective performance of product candidates in humans. The complexity of the human body cannot be perfectly, or sometimes, even adequately modeled by computer or cell culture systems or animal models. The length of time that it takes for Amgen to complete clinical trials and obtain regulatory approval for product marketing has in the past varied and Amgen expects similar variability in the future. Amgen develops product candidates internally and through licensing collaborations, partnerships and joint ventures. Product candidates that are derived from relationships may be subject to disputes between the parties or may prove to be not as effective or as safe as Amgen may have believed at the time of entering into such relationship. Also, Amgen or others could identify safety, side effects or manufacturing problems with Amgen's products after they are on the market. Amgen's business may be impacted by government investigations, litigation and product liability claims. If we fail to meet the compliance obligations in the corporate integrity agreement between us and the U.S. government, we could become subject to significant sanctions. Amgen depends on third parties for a significant portion of its manufacturing capacity for the supply of certain of its current and future products and limits on supply may constrain sales of certain of its current products and product candidate development.
In addition, sales of Amgen's products are affected by the reimbursement policies imposed by third-party payers, including governments, private insurance plans and managed care providers and may be affected by regulatory, clinical and guideline developments and domestic and international trends toward managed care and healthcare cost containment as well as U.S. legislation affecting pharmaceutical pricing and reimbursement. Government and others' regulations and reimbursement policies may affect the development, usage and pricing of Amgen's products. In addition, Amgen competes with other companies with respect to some of its marketed products as well as for the discovery and development of new products. Amgen believes that some of its newer products, product candidates or new indications for existing products, may face competition when and as they are approved and marketed. Amgen's products may compete against products that have lower prices, established reimbursement, superior performance, are easier to administer, or that are otherwise competitive with its products. In addition, while Amgen routinely obtains patents for its products and technology, the protection offered by its patents and patent applications may be challenged, invalidated or circumvented by its competitors and there can be no guarantee of Amgen's ability to obtain or maintain patent protection for its products or product candidates. Amgen cannot guarantee that it will be able to produce commercially successful products or maintain the commercial success of its existing products. Amgen's stock price may be affected by actual or perceived market opportunity, competitive position, and success or failure of its products or product candidates. Further, the discovery of significant problems with a product similar to one of Amgen's products that implicate an entire class of products could have a material adverse effect on sales of the affected products and on Amgen's business and results of operations.
The scientific information discussed in this news release related to product candidates is preliminary and investigative. Such product candidates are not approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) or other regulatory authorities, and no conclusions can or should be drawn regarding the safety or effectiveness of the product candidates. Only the FDA or other regulatory authorities can determine whether the product candidates are safe and effective for the use(s) being investigated. Further, the scientific information discussed in this news release relating to new indications for products is preliminary and investigative and is not part of the labeling approved by the FDA or other regulatory authorities for the products. The products are not approved for the investigational use(s) discussed in this news release, and no conclusions can or should be drawn regarding the safety or effectiveness of the products for these uses. Only the FDA or other regulatory authority can determine whether the products are safe and effective for these uses. Healthcare professionals should refer to and rely upon the approved labeling for the products, and not the information discussed in this news release.
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