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September 1, 1715 - The "Sun King" (King Louis XIV of France) died. He had ruled since the age of five and was succeeded by his 5-year-old great grandson Louis XV.

September 2, 1666 - The Great Fire of London began in a bakery in Pudding Lane near the Tower. Over the next three days more than 13,000 houses were destroyed, although only six lives were believed lost.

September 8, 1900 - A hurricane with winds of 120 mph struck Galveston, Texas, killing over 8,000 persons, making it the worst disaster in U.S. history. The hurricane and tidal wave that followed destroyed over 2,500 buildings.

September 17, 1683 - Antony van Leeuwenhoek wrote a letter to the Royal Society describing his discovery of little living "animalcules". This was the first observation of bacteria.

September 23, 1846 - Neptune was discovered by German astronomer Johann Galle. His observations were prompted by mathematical calculations by French astronomer Joseph Leverrier and English astronomer John Couch Adams.

... and From August

August 6, 1945 -During World War II, the first atomic bomb was dropped by the U.S. on the Japanese city of Hiroshima.

August 25, 1609 - Galileo demonstrates his first telescope to Venetian lawmakers. Galileo was the first person to use a telescope to look at the heavens. He discovered sunspots, and craters and peaks in Earth's moon. The telescope also allowed Galileo to confirm the work of Copernicus in that the planets circle the Sun.

August 27, 1883- Krakatoa island destroyed by volcanic explosion One of the most powerful volcanic explosions in the history of the world occurred at Krakatoa island. In May, 1883, a series of eruptions commenced which continued until August 27, 1883, when a cataclysmic explosion blew the island apart.

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http://www.windows.ucar.edu/php/
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http://www.historyplace.com/specials/
calendar/september.htm

 

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Ins & Outs Staff Editorial

Nearly thirty-five years ago, BusinessWeek magazine offered us a glimpse of the “Office of the Future.” It predicted that word processing and other advances in office automation would push us towards the paperless office. Since the BusinessWeek piece, a parade of articles have called the paperless office a myth, elusive, more than one hundred years away, and just plain fantasy. While we may never have a paperless office, we can create offices that use less paper. With the implementation of Barr EOM and a little planning you can realize many of the original motivators  for the paperless office including productivity gains, cost savings, faster delivery of information and reduced environmental impact.

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Tips & Techniques

Sometimes organizations print different kinds of documents and then bundle them together manually before delivering them to the final destination. At times organizations print super-sized reports and then separate them by hand before delivering them to the people who need the information. Meanwhile, some organizations manually burst and bundle documents to create a more usable package for their users. By the end of the day, these efforts waste reams of paper and leave employees with an assortment of paper cuts. If this sounds familiar, remember that the year is 2009 and you don’t have to do it anymore!

Barr EOM can help you automate these manual business processes thus freeing up time so your employees can focus on more important projects. We call these features Bursting and Bundling. You may want to take advantage of either one or both depending on your workflow. Before we explore bursting and bundling, we’d like to emphasize that in many cases, implementing these features does not require changes to the legacy systems or applications. This concept is so important, that we feel compelled to say it twice – in most cases you can implement automated bursting and bundling without changing your legacy applications. Okay, let’s delve into these two features.

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