> Please don't take issue. Through several years I've found (and this is not

a

> joke) that US citizens tend to forget, when they are addressing public
> forums, that several of those forums are filled with people around the
> world, not only from the US and when they say "Americans", they are

thinking

> only in US citizens (and with luck, in Canadians) automatically, excluding
> unconsciously inhabitants in Central and South America that also have the
> right to call themselves Americans.

Excellent point. I truly am guilty of that false assumption & oversight.

Apologies to all my fellow Americans not of the United States of America.

Jason Wharton
CPS - Mesa AZ
http://www.ibobjects.com