Island in the Net by Khürt Williams
Technology and Photography Musings. Established circa 2000.
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Consumer Reports takes no advertising for any of their publications. Paying subscribers supports their efforts. Perhaps if they had an army of volunteers willing to purchase products, test equipment, etc. they could offer all their content for free.
Too bad Consumer Reports is still one of the few print sources with a pay wall. It would be interesting to see the results for other cities.
I looked through all the Black Friday flyers, not because I wanted (or needed) anything, but because I was helping find bargains for friends and family I knew were looking for specific items.
I ended up buying a heavily discounted blu-ray player that had been on my wish-list for some time. I assuaged my guilt by donating my three year old DVD player to my brother-in-law.
You can pledge to get rid of an amount of stuff equal to the amount you receive.
Obviously there is a lot more to the story of Indian/Puritan relations in New England than in the Thanksgiving stories we heard as children. Our contemporary mix of myth and history about the “First” Thanksgiving at Plymouth developed in the 1890s and early 1900s. Our country was desperately trying to pull together its many diverse peoples into a common national identity. To many writers and educators at the end of the last century and the beginning of this one, this also meant having a common national history. This was the era of the “melting pot” theory of social progress, and public education was a major tool for social unity. It was with this in mind that the federal government declared the last Thursday in November as the legal holiday of Thanksgiving in 1898.
In consequence, what started as an inspirational bit of New England folklore, soon grew into the full-fledged American Thanksgiving we now know. It emerged complete with stereotyped Indians and stereotyped Whites, incomplete history, and a mythical significance as our “First Thanksgiving.” But was it really our FIRST American Thanksgiving? ~ TEACHING ABOUT THANKSGIVING - Native American Culture
