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Clean and quiet rooms with private balconies overlooking Kootenay Lake. Air-conditioning, Microwave, fridge and cable TV. Free WIFI. Free parking.
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Relax on a private and peaceful 3 acre forested setting, near the pristine Slocan River in Winlaw. Our deluxe vacation rental has an open plan living & kitchen area and sleeps 8. It has 3 bedrooms, a sleeping loft, 2 large full bathrooms and a veranda. It has a large fenced yard with a private brick patio, BBQ, waterfall, fish pond and gardens. The home is complete with excellent kitchen and laundry facilities and free Wi-Fi. It is great for groups and families ! All you need to bring is your groceries.
Check out our excellent website! It has slideshows of the home and area, rates, reviews and an availability calendar. Winlaw has: 4 good restaurants, 2 grocery stores, biking trails, live music and a beautiful river to swim in. It's a great place to find some peace and quiet, and explore nature's beauty.
We live on the property and have provided excellent service to our guests, since 2012. You can expect genuine Canadian hospitality and no booking fees. We offer wheelchair accessibility and extra amenities for children and the elderly. Call Pam or David at 1-250-226-7647 to book ahead. We accept: credit cards, cash and e-Transfers.
Established in 1898, the Hume is a restored historic, full-service hotel located on the corner of Vernon and Ward Street in Nelson, BC. All guest rooms have been tastefully renovated and are equipped with modern conveniences while paying homage to our rich history.
Inside our walls you can expect to find Aura Spa & Salon, the General Store Family Restaurant, Mike's Place Pub, the Library Lounge, the Spiritbar, Banquets & Catering and our Liquor Boutique. Our greatest asset? Our team of dedicated staff of course. We are Nelson's unique, character property with something for everyone. You can expect wide hallways, spacious rooms, extraordinary woodwork and that special sense of nostalgia that has defined our town over decades of history. Come and enjoy an authentic taste of Nelson's hip heritage as we celebrate over a century of hospitality excellence. The Hume Hotel & Spa – Antique. Chic. Boutique.
This full-service hotel features a free full hot breakfast for all room guests every morning that earned the 'Best Hotel for Breakfast' award by Ski Canada Magazine. In 2015, we completely renovated the 2nd Floor into brand new deluxe guest rooms as well as the introduction of Aura Spa & Salon. All newly renovated rooms feature air conditioning and other modern conveniences while maintaining that heritage charm the Hume is known for. At the Hume Hotel, no two rooms are the same. You can expect wide hallways, spacious rooms, extraordinary woodwork and that special sense of nostalgia that has defined our town over decades of history. Our facilities include 45 decorated guest rooms befitting our theme, the General Store Restaurant, the Library Lounge complete with its original fireplace, Mike's Place Pub, the Spiritbar entertainment venue and a Liquor Store. In 2005, the hotel underwent a major exterior facelift bringing back its look from the 1920's. Our greatest asset? Our team of dedicated staff of course. Come and enjoy an authentic taste of Nelson's hip heritage as we celebrate over a century of hospitality excellence.
The Best Western Baker Street Inn & Convention Center is historic Baker Street's newest and only full-service hotel. We are highly ranked on TripAdvisor and just underwent a major interior renovation in 2011.
Business travelers will be pleased to know that we offer free high speed internet while families should make note that kids stay free. Besides 70 comfortable guest rooms, other amenities include banquet facilities, Jacuzzi suites, hot tub, fitness room, flat screen TVs, microwaves, fridges, guest computer, room service and plenty of parking. Visit our website or call for more detail on the excellent ski and golf packages we have to offer.
Our own dining facility, the Baker Street Grill, is a restaurant that is sure to please the heartiest of appetites. Our dinner menu features our signature rotisserie chicken and ribs, grilled steaks as well as a great selection of seafood that includes wild BC salmon. Served every Sunday between 9:30 am and 1:30 pm, be sure to visit our Sunday Brunch when you're in town. Experience the many great services we have to offer at the BEST WESTERN PLUS Baker Street Inn & Convention Center.
Lakeside Physiotherapy and Sports Injuries Clinic offers individualized treatment for neck and back pain, orthopaedic conditions, chronic pelvic pain and incontinence, pre-and post natal care, and management of athletic injuries in athletes of all ages. We offer a full line of bracing for tennis elbow, ankles, and ligament or osteoarthitis of the knee.
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Bill Reid Consulting offers professional development and facilitation services for organizations of all sizes. The professional development includes team building, decision making and successful communications using the True Colors Program.
The following services are offered by Bill Reid Consulting:
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Facilitation of meetings, workshops, and retreats.
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Ward Engineering & Land Surveying, Ltd., based in Nelson, British Columbia, provides professional consulting services in civil engineering, legal surveys and project management to both public and private sector clients.
Ward Engineering & Land Surveying Ltd. was founded in 1996 by Peter Ward. Since then, we have provided the legal surveying services for numerous urban and rural subdivisions. In many cases, we also design the civil infrastructure the subdivision requires in order to prepare the new lots for market. This comprehensive range of services allows us to provide a complete package of development services to our clients. With both legal survey and civil engineering disciplines in-house, we are able to provide technical and management services from initial concept through cost estimating, permitting and approvals, construction, cost tracking and project completion. At each step of a project, the close communication between the legal survey and engineering disciplines available within Ward Engineering & Land Surveying Ltd. ensures that subdivision and infrastructure designs will meet all regulatory requirements. We work closely with regulatory agencies to make certain that all work is correctly approved and permitted.
From residential to industrial, commercial and development properties, we can provide appraisal solutions for you. We cover a large geographic area and our work is accepted (and often preferred) at all national banks, local credit unions and mortgage companies. We also do litigation, expropriation, and tax declaration appraisals and feasiblity analyses. We have a Nelson office and our main office is centrally located in Castlegar. Our appraisers live in Nelson, Castlegar and Trail. From Rossland and Trail to Grand Forks, Edgewood, Nakusp, Trout Lake and Crawford Bay and all points in between, we have you covered.
In the Selkirk Mountains B&B features deluxe accommodation in a forest setting, with magnificent views of Kootenay Lake. We provide delicious breakfasts served to your room.
With one, two and three bedroom units minutes from the beach in lovely Fairview. Alpine Lake Suites is a 49 unit apartment building with beautiful views. Climate Smart certified.
Apex's professionals provide expertise in the fields of slope stability assessment, landslide risk analysis and mitigation, watershed assessment, hydrology, development of road stability prescriptions, terrestrial and fluvial geomorphology and hydroecology.
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Conveniently located just minutes from downtown Nelson. This newly renovated well appointed two bedroom home offers the perfect spot to explore all that Nelson has to offer, or to just sit on one of the decks, relax and enjoy the view.
This spacious inviting house is located on the lake on property adjacent to the owner's residence. Skiing in the winter,boating, kayaking, swimming, biking, hiking in the summer, hot springs year-round. Everything is close at hand! Come and enjoy life on Kootenay Lake!
Commercial & Residental Construction Foundations Framing Concrete Siding Finishings Renovations. Specializing in custom homes with superior finishings.
Ellenwood Homes is a full service design/build and consulting company operating in the Kootenay region of BC. Our custom homes are Built Green Certified, energy efficient, and healthy. "Sustainable by Design"
Marc Brillon is a licensed builder with a background in architectural & building technology, construction management, and cost planning.
Lara Ellenwood is a registered interior designer with 19 years of experience in single and multi-family residential design. She works in any style, from rustic to contemporary.
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Specializing in comfort,elegance, privacy and romance . Private baths ,Jacuzzi ,Full Gourmet Breakfast, fireplaces and service you will only get at the Grand. Non-smoking, children welcome. No pets please. The Grand B&B offers its guests a unique experience of traveling back in time to 1902 when the house was built in all its elegance and splendor.but still enjoy all the comforts and services of today.With her 15 years experience Virginia knows just what the weary traveller desires,With all the local knowledge to direct you to great food ,shopping, hiking, fishing or just a quiet romantic lakefront walk. Come and join us at this Grand Manor where Virginia and husband Duncan invite you to sample some of their Royal Treatment at one of Nelsons most exclusive Bed & Breakfasts.
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An elegantly appointed french boutique hotel overlooking the shores of the West Arm of Kootenay Lake. With 44 charming guest rooms and suites the Prestige Inn is sure to help make your next visit to Nelson memorable. The timeless French decor invites you into a comfortable and relaxing atmosphere. Our recently renovated hotel rooms are equipped with \'\'Prestige\'\' pillow-top mattresses and duvets, 42\'\' Plasma televisions, complimentary wireless internet access, refrigerator, hairdryer, iron & board, plus much more.
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Ever since Bill Cosby was accused by one, then two, then four, then almost uncountable women of everything from unwelcome kissing to flat-out rape, the one reaction I can't quite figure is TV Land pulling "The Cosby Show" reruns from its air.
You'll recall "The Cosby Show" as America's most popular program for five straight years in the 1980s. It portrays a well-to-do African-American family dealing with folksy sitcom issues. Cosby is the funny, loving, often-perplexed father.
It was a show. Mr. Cosby was acting.
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My Grandfather's first name may not have been Walter, but that is what he went by. Grandma's maiden name was Swanton. They grew up together in Kinmount and supposedly were married there but I have been unable to find any record through Ancestry.com. They later moved to Toronto.
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It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God. —Hebrews 10:31
Let us note, then, this sentence of the Apostle, that it is a dreadful thing to fall into the hands of the living God; and therefore as often as there is any punishment, let us be moved by it.
And thereby we shall be taught to pity those who are in distress, and say, "Alas, this poor creature; if it were some mortal man that affiicted him, a man might give him some relief. But God is against him, and ought we not to have pity as we see this?"
Someone may say, "Are we not resisting God when we are sorry for those who are punished for their sins? Is this not a striving against God's justice?" No; for we may recognize God's justice and praise and glorify him for what he does; and yet nevertheless be sorry for those who are punished, because we ourselves may have deserved as much or more, and ought to seek the welfare of all men, especially those who are nearest to us.
And when God has established any bond between them and us, we must pity them also. In like manner we recognize civil justice, which is a little mirror of God's justice, and yet do not cease to have pity on the offender.
When a criminal is punished, men do not say that he has been wronged, or that the judge is cruel. But they say that those who are in the place of justice do their duty and render an acceptable sacrifice to God, when they put an offender to death. But yet in the meanwhile we do not cease to pity the poor creature that shall suffer for his evil deeds.
If we are not touched by this, there is no humanity in us. If we grant this with respect to earthly justice, which is as a little spark of God's justice, I pray you when we come to the sovereign seat of justice on high, ought we not first to glorify God for all that he does, assuring ourselves that he is just and upright in all respects?
And yet this shall not hinder us from pitying those who suffer punishment, to comfort them and aid them; and when we are unable to do them any good, to wish for their salvation, praying God to make their corrections profitable, in drawing them home, and not to allow them to become hardhearted, and to strive against his hand. —Sermons
John Calvin was the premier theologian of the Reformation, but also a pious and godly Christian pastor who endeavored throughout his life to point men and women to Christ. We are grateful to Reformation Heritage Books for permission to use John Calvin's Thine Is My Heart as our daily devotional for 2013 on the OPC Web site. You can currently obtain a printed copy of that book from Reformation Heritage Books.
Dr. Joel Beeke, who is editorial director of Reformation Heritage Books, has this to say:
"Calvin shows us the piety of a Reformed theologian who speaks from the heart. Having tasted the goodness and grace of God in Jesus Christ, he pursued piety by seeking to know and do God's will every day. He communed with Christ, practicing repentance, self-denial, and cross-bearing. Moreover, his theology worked itself out in heart-felt, Christ-honoring piety. The selections of this devotional bear this out, and hopefully will be used by God to direct pious hearts in our own day."
These devotional readings from John Calvin were compiled by John H. Kromminga. Be sure to read his "Introduction" to John Calvin's Thine Is My Heart.
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The Department of Veterans Affairs has quietly awarded a nearly half-billion dollar contract for personal computers to Dell. The notice, which appeared on the FedBizOpps website in late April, stated that the department will buy 600,000 PCs from the company for $476.6 million.
There is good reason for the reticence from the VA and Dell, reports Bob Brewin at NextGov. The contract is a follow-on to a 2007 award to Dell to lease 249,000 computers over thee years for $248 million. A 2008 report by the VA's inspector general found that the contract had no mechanisms to ensure competitive pricing in the contract's later years.
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You know why VA made this award quietly? Because they didn't use any type of Service Disabled Vendor preference in the award. They had other offers at less thant 10% higher than what they awarded to Dell that would have been managed entirely by service disabled veteran owned companies and shose to go directly with a large manufacturer. Everyone knows that Dell's subcontracting plans are a joke and they will send out any tech to install in order to save a buck... veteran owned company or not. This is complete BS.
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The audits, which POGO revealed on its website Tuesday, will examine DARPA's general policies on conflict of interest as well as a specific concern that DARPA Director Regina Dugan retains financial ties to her former firm, which has won some $6 million in contracts with the agency.
On May 9, POGO challenged DARPA's ethics policies in a letter to Defense Inspector General Gordon Heddell. "Recent revelations in the press concerning DARPA Director Regina Dugan's continued financial and familial relationship with DARPA contractor RedXDefense raise concerns as to whether DARPA effectively prevents conflicts of interest," wrote POGO Executive Director Danielle Brian. "In addition, press reports about public comments by DARPA Deputy Director Kaigham 'Ken' Gabriel indicate that DARPA changed its interpretation of ethics and conflict-of-interest rules within DARPA to become more permissive."
The letter notes that Dugan's June 15, 2010, financial disclosure form reports that RedXDefense owes Dugan $250,000 for a "loan/note" and that she retains between $151,000 and $305,000 in assets and income from RedXDefense.
The Rockville, Md.-based RedXDefense was founded in 2005 by Regina Dugan and her father, Vince Dugan, who is now chief executive officer. Her uncle John Dugan is on the company's board, POGO notes. "Director Dugan testified to Congress in March that there has also been an acceleration of contract and grant proposal approvals," the letter continued. "POGO wonders if this acceleration reflects, in part, changes to DARPA's interpretation of ethics rules."
The Defense IG's office replied to POGO on Aug. 12. Assistant Inspector General John Crane wrote that "in partial response to your letter, the deputy inspector general for audits has initiated a series of planned audits involving DARPA." Crane went on to confirm that the IG is examining the involvement of Director Dugan in the sole-source contract.
POGO at first reported that the IG would review 2,000 DARPA contract-related actions. On Wednesday, the Defense IG's spokesman Gary Comerford released a clarifying statement: "At our request DARPA has provided us a list of approximately 2,000 actions valued at $4.3 billion performed during FY 2010 and FY 2011 which include contracts, modifications, task orders for services, delivery orders for products, grants and cooperative agreements. We are reviewing these actions to identify a reliable number of significant actions that allow for appropriate audit coverage and will also allow us to complete the project in a timely and relevant manner. We are not, however, auditing all 2,000 actions."
DARPA, based in Arlington, Va., is famed for giving birth to the Internet and for launching, just last week, the world's fastest aircraft, the Falcon Hypersonic Technology Vehicle 2.
Dugan was appointed in 2009 by then-Defense Secretary Robert Gates. A specialist in counterterrorism and defense against explosive threats, she was a DARPA program manager from 1996 to 2000. In 1999, she was named DARPA Program Manager of the Year.
The DARPA public affairs office did not respond to Government Executive's requests for comment. But according to news reports, DARPA representatives say Dugan recused herself in decisions about contracts for RedXDefense. In March, DARPA spokesman Eric Mazzacone told Wired magazine's Danger Room blog that "at no time did Dr. Dugan participate in any dealings between the agency and RedXDefense related to the contract."


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John Pérez and I have been talking about the government and politics of California for 13 years. Some aspects of that conversation have changed: In our early conversations, he was the executive director of the United Food and Commercial Workers States' Council; now, he's the Speaker of the Assembly. Our first discussion was over bagels at a Silver Lake coffee shop. Last week, it was in the back room of the Pacific Dining Car, which Pérez says he appreciates for the privacy. A 28-year-old outsider when we met in 1998, he's now in his 40s, and he's at the center of what he once observed from a distance.
What hasn't changed is Pérez's immersion in the deep policy questions that confront his state. He's a wonk of a particular type -- drawn not just to solutions but to the practical question of how to get things done, how to move votes and make deals. A big man who enjoys wielding power -- his conversation is peppered with observations about "my votes" and "keeping my caucus in line" -- he's thoughtful but edgy, more Boss Tweed than ivory tower. It's easy to see why he and Gov.
are said to get along famously.
The Legislature's great challenge in the upcoming session, Pérez said, will be to continue chipping away at California's structural deficit. According to Pérez, last year's budget-cutting closed the gap between the state's revenue and ongoing obligations down to about $5 billion to $6 billion, significant progress compared with the original $40-billion gap, but still a challenge. Moreover, since California continues to drag through a terrible economy and woeful unemployment, revenue is expected to lag again, perhaps widening this year's shortfall to more than $10 billion.
What's harder is that every year of cutting makes the next more challenging. The easy cuts have been made, and now legislators face difficult decisions about which things long considered essential should get the ax. As is the case in Washington, the budget shortfall also invites the question of whether reductions should be matched with tax increases.
have vowed not to let that happen, and the state's requirement for a two-thirds vote on tax increases gives them power disproportionate to their numbers.
Pérez, however, refuses to only consider one half of the budget.
"Every legislator has to be part of the solution," he emphasized. If Republicans simply refuse to talk, they abdicate their reason for being elected. "It's not easy," he conceded, and it requires "significant engagement," but walking away or pouting is no answer.
Are there Republicans who will negotiate? "There are some with whom you can have the rational conversation," Pérez said.
Another piece of the budget picture, Pérez notes, is jobs. Higher employment in the state would automatically generate higher tax revenue. But the obstacles are formidable, as he conceded: "You can't legislate the economy."
Three years since the economy nose-dived in the closing months of
's administration, California still is struggling to produce a coherent response. Local governments compete against one another for retail outlets that produce sales taxes, another issue that Pérez has been talking about for more than a decade. The ports aren't being upgraded fast enough while rivals in Mexico, Canada and other parts of the United States are positioning themselves to divert traffic from California once the Panama Canal is modernized. Pérez wants the Legislature to devote itself this year to improving infrastructure -- creating jobs along the way and readying the economy for the next turn of the wheel. But that, too, is difficult in a time of deficits.
When we first talked 13 years ago, Pérez had an upstart's take on local leaders; he was incisive, for instance, about analyzing the strengths and weaknesses of then-Mayor
. Now that he's in the Legislature, though, he's no longer as critical -- or at least not as frank. I asked him how he thinks the public perceives him and his colleagues.
"Most people appreciate that we're trying hard," he answered, cautiously adding that the Legislature's approval ratings have inched up a bit in recent years.
He's right on one point: A Field Poll last month concluded that the percentage of Californians who approve of the Legislature's work has doubled in the last year. The trouble for Pérez and his colleagues is that it's doubled from 10% to 20%.


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This is the first in a series of posts about useful iPhone apps for film and video production.
In the past few months, during my shoots overseas, I have been confronted by producers, crew members, drivers, waiters, and ordinary folks on the street, using iPhones for texting, tweeting, gaming, emailing, translating, navigating, Facebooking, computing currencies, listening to music, showing photos, shooting video, sometimes even talking on the phone … and exploring new apps created to help people like us, who work in film and video production.
Apple products have long been popular with folks in the visual media. In the US, I am used to seeing Macs and iPhones on production crews; sometimes nearly everyone has one! But recently, . . . CONTINUE READING: Production APPtitude: Sun Seeker


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These catamarans to be found all over the world are designed after very precise and itemized specifications for each unit.
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After you finish installing an agent by issuing the agentadmin ---install command and interacting with the installer, you must access J2EE agent files in order to configure and otherwise work with the product. Within the Policy Agent base directory are various subdirectories that contain all agent configuration and log files. The structure of the Policy Agent base directory for a J2EE agent is illustrated in Table 2–2.
The list that follows the table provides information about many of the items in the example Policy Agent base directory. The Policy Agent base directory is represented in code examples as PolicyAgent-base. The full path to any item in this directory is as follows:
where item-name represents the name of a file or subdirectory. For example, the full path to the bin directory is as follows:
PolicyAgent-base/binTable 2–2 Example of Policy Agent Base Directory for a J2EE Agent
Directory Contents: Files and Subdirectories
The preceding example of PolicyAgent-base lists files and directories you are likely to find in this directory. The notable items in this directory are summarized in the list that follows:
This directory contains the sample application included with Policy Agent 2.2. This application is extremely useful. Not only does it demonstrate configuration options and features, but the application can be used to test if an agent is running.
Use the sample application that comes with the agent or build the application from scratch. Find instructions for building, deploying, and running this application at the following location:
The full path to the sample application is as follows:
For more information about the sample application, see The Sample Application.
This directory contains the agentadmin script for the agent bits. You will use this script a great deal. For details about the tasks performed with this script, see Role of the agentadmin Program in a J2EE Agent for Policy Agent 2.2.
This directory contains the agentapp file (specifically, the agentapp.war or agentapp.ear file), which has to be deployed after installation is complete. This application helps the agent perform certain housekeeping tasks.
This directory contains various log files, including log files created when you issue the agentadmin command.
This directory also contains the installation log file. For the 2.2 release of Policy Agent, log information is stored in the installation log file after you install a J2EE agent instance. The following is the location of this log file:
The lib directory has a list of all the agent libraries that are used by the installer as well as the agent run time.
This directory has all the agent installer information as well as agent run time specific locale information pertaining to the specific agent.
This directory has all the installer specific data.
Do not edit any of the files in the data directory under any circumstance. If this directory or any of its content loses data integrity, the agentadmin program cannot function normally.
The full path for this directory is as follows:
where AgentInstance-Dir refers to an agent instance directory, which in this case is agent_001.
This directory does not exist until you successfully install the first instance of a J2EE agent. Once you have successfully executed one run of the agentadmin --install command, an agent specific directory, agent_00x is created in the Policy Agent base directory. This directory is uniquely tied to an instance of the deployment container, such as an application server instance. Depending on the number of times the agentadmin --install command is run, the number that replaces the x in the agent_00x directory name will vary.
After you successfully install the first instance of a J2EE agent, an agent instance directory named agent_001 appears in the Policy Agent base directory. The path to this directory is as follows:
The next installation of the agent creates an agent instance directory named agent_002. The directories for uninstalled agents are not automatically removed. Therefore, if agent_001 and agent_002 are uninstalled, the next agent instance directory is agent_003.
Agent instance directories contain directories named config and logs.
When a J2EE agent is uninstalled, the config directory is removed from the agent instance directory but the logs directory still exists.
The following table is an example of the contents of an agent instance, such as agent_001, directory.
Example of an Agent Instance (agent_001) Directory
Two subdirectories exist within this directory as follows:
This directory contains the local audit trail for the agent instance.
This directory has all the agent-specific debug information. When the agent runs in full debug mode, this directory stores all the debug files that are generated by the agent code.
Agent-specific debug information is not stored in this directory when the J2EE agent and Access Manager are installed on the same deployment container. However, the J2EE agent and Access Manager must both support the same deployment container for this coexistence scenario to apply. When this coexistence applies, the debug information is stored in the following Access Manager directory:
This directory contains the J2EE agent AMAgent.properties configuration file that is specific to the agent instance. Each J2EE agent can be configured by a unique instance of the J2EE agent AMAgent.properties configuration file. This file holds the key to the agent behavior at runtime.


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End Date: 23 October 2014
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Sustainable Seas Trust and Members of the Algoa Bay Hope Spot Committee at the Nelson Mandela Bay Business Chamber for a coffee morning.
DATE Thursday, 23 October 2014
TIME 07:45 for 08:00 - 10:00
VENUE Nelson Mandela Bay Business Chamber boardroom
Sustainable Seas Trust and Members of the Algoa Bay Hope Spot Committee will set the scene on the Blue and Green Economies of Nelson Mandela Bay and the potential financial impact and opportunities of the development of Algoa Bay as an International Hope Spot, the African Maritime Domain Conference in Port Elizabeth and proposed Fish Farm.
Tony Ribbink: The True World Bank and asset management in our changing environment. Shirley Parker-Nance: Marine goods and services in Algoa Bay. Lorien Pichegru: Penguins as indicators of the state of the oceans and Algoa Bay as an International Hope Spot. Peter Myles: The green and blue economies and the fish farm.
Lloyd Edwards: Benefits of (or the aftermath of) Boat-Based Whale-Watching in Algoa Bay. Eckart Schumann: Current values
Presentations will be very short (3-5 mins) and the speakers will then interact with the audience in a question and answer panel discussion.
RSVP via the Business Chamber website


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Zotac GTX280 AMP! Edition Review
Over just this past year, it's interesting to see how affordable high end video cards have become. I remember looking on some websites a few years back and finding some of the top end video cards priced close to a thousand dollars! Today, the best single graphics card from Nvidia that is available to consumers is the GTX280. How much better is the GTX280 than the previous-best 9800 class of Nvidia graphics cards? With this card being priced in between four and five hundred dollars, this card is definitely not for the average Joe. However, there are many users who need (= want) to have the best video card available. So if you're looking for the absolute single best video card available right now, read on to see if the GTX280 is the card you've been waiting for.
The particular GTX280 that I'll be testing today is manufactured by Zotac. This video card is pre-overclocked and features 1GB of 512-bit GDDR3 memory. Zotac specifies this card is being part of their "AMP!" product line which is a line dedicated essentially to pre-overclocked video cards. How will this Zotac 280GTX AMP! Edition video card perform against some of the best video cards from nVidia's nemisis, ATi? How will Zotac's latest creation fare while being pushed to the extreme? Join me as I thoroughly examine the Zotac 280GTX AMP! Edition video card.
Closer Look:
The Zotac 280GTX AMP! Edition comes shipped in a yellow box with a Fire breathing dragon on the front panel. On the top right corner of the box, you'll see some of the key features that separate this Zotac card from a lot of the other video cards out on the market today. One of the things that stands out is the "Extended Warranty " sticker. The back of the box breaks down some important features as well as multiple languages listing out what is included in the box for international users.
Inside the outer sleeve is the box that holds the Zotac GTX280. Opening this up revels the closed cell foam used to secure the card and bundled accessories during shipping. The card was removed with some effort so it definitely would not move on during the cross coutry trip to get to your door. Under the foam is where the documentation and game disk are kept.
Included with the Zotac 280GTX AMP! Edition is a driver CD, quick installation guide, user's manual, a DVI to D-Sub converter,an HDMI to DVI adapter, two power converters (one for 6-pin power cable and one for 8-pin power cable), an HDTV breakout cable, and the game "Racedriver GRID". The DVI to HDMI adapter and a current game are real pluses to this package.
Now that we've got the Zotac 280GTX AMP! Edition video card out of the box, let's take a closer look at it.


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base camp at Shishapangma
Shishapangma is the 14th highest peak in the world at 26,335 feet or 8,027 meters. It is located in southern Tibet and uniquely stands somewhat alone from the main Himalayan range.
The expedition met in Kathmandu, flew to Lhasa and then drove over the Tibetan Steps to our base camp. The six week expedition was my fifth climb on an 8000m mountain.
The expediton reached a little over 7000m before bad weather stopped us. Only two people from another expedition made the false summit in 2007.
The climb is not very technical or difficult expect for the extreme altitude. There are 3 camps on the climb after the base camp, Advanced base camp adn an Intrium Camp.


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McDonald's has decided to take its Mighty Wings national, just in time for football season. The fast-food giant's version of party wings is headed to a McDonald's near you Sept. 9.
McDonald's tested the wings at locations in Chicago and Atlanta before deciding to roll them out nationwide.
With a name like Mighty Wings, you'd expect the wings to be served with a cape, or at least a side of superheroes. In reality, though, they're just bone-in chicken drumettes and wings.
The Mighty Wings come in orders of three, five and 10 pieces with a choice of nine sauces. You can dip them in Creamy Ranch, Honey, Barbecue, Hot Mustard, Honey Mustard, Chipotle Barbecue, Sweet Chili, Sweet 'N Sour or Spicy Buffalo.
The price for an order of wings will start at $2.99. The fast-food chain will have the wings at all locations nationwide by Sept. 24, but they won't last forever. The new item will only be available until the end of November.
The chicken wings are just the latest in a slew of new products McDonald's has rolled out in the last year. They include the premium chicken McWraps, egg white Delight McMuffins and blueberry pomegranate smoothies.
Are you planning on giving the new Mighty Wings a try, cape or no cape?
This is what we ate last week. What about you?
Easy dinner recipes: Hearty vegetables for Meatless Monday


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Main Site - :: Why Won't God Heal Amputees? ::
Alright so first off if you were to start with the problem of evil, which is basically the backbone of the amputee argument, at least it seems. To say that you believe in evil, you are assuming a moral law to know what is good or evil, and to have a moral law means that there must be a moral law giver. Protest to this is welcome.
Science itself has been since its origin been used to prove and disprove God.
But the true undeniable fact is that only the bible out of all religious text states things which have been proven correct by modern science. Such as in Job where it states that our earth hangs on nothing referring to gravity no visible by the eye.
The bible tought you were to circumcise a boy on the 8th day they were living. And now modern science tells us that on this day only in life the chemical in the body which clots blood is at an all time high for all of their life.
For many years humans did not have any conception of the amount of stars in the universe and not untill only modern science have we learned that it is or almost is infinite this number. Yet thousands of years ago soHow the bible stated the number of stars is like the number of particles of sand on earth.
I can keep going if anyone would like but the evidence for not only God but the bible extends from science to historical, archeological, mathmatical, and more.
God loves us so that he suffered the greatest on the cross so we can be forgiven because as the creator of us he knows us, and he knows our human nature is evil.


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Car News
Chevy Shows New Colorado Pickup to the World
Chevy recently unveiled an all-new version of its Colorado pickup truck in Thailand. The new truck hasn't been officially announced for the American market yet, but the Thai Colorado should provide a solid indicator of the direction Chevy will go with the US spec truck.
General Motors said it has taken five years and spent $2 billion in developing the new truck, which will go on sale worldwide later this month.
The new truck will be available in many different flavors: single, extended and crew cab bodies will be on the options list. Buyers can also pick their new truck's ride height, with low or high stance trucks available. The Colorado will even be available in either a narrow or wide body version. Factor in the engine options list and Chevy says there will be 26 different Colorados to choose from.
GM will offer two new Duramax turbo diesel engines in the global Colorado. The first is a 150-horsepower 2.5-liter four-cylinder engine, and the second is a 180-horsepower 2.8-liter four cylinder.
Diesel motors have traditionally been more popular overseas, but it's not uncommon to see some in pickups stateside. Chevy won't say if the new motors will be coming to the US, and to be honest it doesn't sound all that likely. On the other hand, carmakers are taking different approaches all the time in the quest for fuel economy.
The styling was done at a design studio in Sao Paulo, Brazil. The global truck is build at GM's Rayong plant in Thailand, but the company is working out the details of some upgrades to a plant in St. Louis in order to build our next midsize truck.


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Ubaldo Jimenez, the most accomplished pitcher in franchise history and a loyal company man, has a habit of putting on his Rockies cap for postgame interviews. And he made it clear tonight that he wants to keep it there beyond the July 31 trading deadline.
Asked if he would tell general manager Dan O'Dowd that, Jimenez smiled and said, "I think he already knows.''
With the deadline 11 days away, a handful of teams, most notably the Yankees, have inquired about Jimenez's availability. While a deal appears unlikely, O'Dowd has listened.


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Meg's Eclectic & Affordable Apartment
Name: Meg and Brad
Location: Lakeview — Chicago, Illinois
Our apartment is in the heart of one of Chicago's most thriving neighborhoods for twenty-something urbanites. However, it is tucked in a bed of trees with more privacy than I could ever ask for.
The exposed brick and wood planked walls date back many decades. We wanted to find an affordable way to complement our vintage apartment. Scouring thrift stores and begging the grandparents for donations, we slowly pieced together some great finds. Being a young couple, we had limited resources and were forced to buy IKEA as well. Pairing new, IKEA furniture with vintage or antique pieces is a great way to make a space more unique.
-Meg Lewis
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A steady shooter.
It's my understanding that NBA commissioner David Stern is a wise man. He can
tie a tie and wears glasses, both of which are objective signs of intelligence.
The man can read, people. He can read words, decipher their meaning, process
their intent and even respond through a series of vocal grunts.
So tell me this: how can a man who in every other way has proven a certain amount of cognitive mastery be unable to comprehend a calendar?
You see, the NBA season officially stars on November 2, 2004. First game of the
year! First step towards the championship! SECOND most important thing
going on that day, right behind a little event known as the 2004 Presidential
move, Dave. How about next year you set it for September 11?
Since no one is going to watch basketball on opening day, you might as well get it out of the way now by picking up a basketball video game, and just like the presidential race, the two candidates here are running an even heat. ESPN
NBA 2K5 doesn't take any big risks, sticking pretty closely to the elements that made its
predecessor successful. Whether or not it will raise taxes remains to be seen, but at the great price of $19.99, it gets my vote.
By and large, the gameplay of ESPN NBA 2K5 is much as it was in last year's game. More attention has been focused on improving the realistic flow of things, made most evident by tweaks to the post play. Taking a cue from NBA
Live, ESPN now includes a pro hop button that allows you to either make a two-footed hop into the lane or a groovy spin to bounce off defenders. Both are welcome additions that open up the one-on-one game.
The pro-hop move also makes up for the unsatisfying play of IsoMotion 2, an "enhanced' version
of ESPN's answer to Live's superior Freestyle
system. IsoMotion handles just as it did before, letting you put moves on a defender
by using the right stick and conversely allowing the defender to try to steal
the ball or take a charge by matching you. The problem is that the IsoMotion
moves are still canned and slow; you never really feel like you're in
control of them. You'll push the
stick to the right and watch your guy slowly gather up for a crossover and try
to make the move, rather than simply flipping the ball between his legs and letting
you handle the rest. Though you can cancel mid-move, it's too long and scripted
to begin with. It's
just not a very good system and should be re-worked.
On the other hand, ESPN trumps Live when it
comes to sharing the ball. The game itself plays slower and more methodically
than Live's up-tempo style, but guys will actually catch passes
in stride, leading to more fast-break opportunities. Tweak your team's tempo
setting and your players will actually follow through by hauling butt up and
down the court.
But for all its style, the game drops the ball with its lenience on shooting.
Regardless of the difficulty setting, almost anyone will drain an open shot,
and many will sink contested shots with ease. You wind up spending less time
running plays (the game does contain full playbooks for each team, thankfully)
and more time trying to get some space to take a jumper. ESPN's
gameplay is a mix between smooth, flowing style and slow, mindless swishes.
of the same modes return, although for some silly reason they've renamed Franchise
mode "The Association." It's still pretty solid, requiring you to manage rosters
and money, but has undergone a few changes. You can now choose to either play
games yourself, let the computer simulate them, or play them in the new "Full
Authority' mode.'
This is essentially a turn-based affair where you dole out
shots to your players, give them basic instructions on both offense and defense,
and let the computer sort out the results. "Shots" function as the resource –
you gain more shots based on your performance, which in turn lead to more scoring
opportunities. Star players also have added abilities, such as "Wily Vet' or "Killer
J', that require more shots but increase their chances of scoring or shutting
down their opponent. You have eight turns per game (two per quarter) and have
to keep a close eye on stamina, fouls and hot and cold streaks.
It's interesting, certainly, but Full Authority is something of a misnomer. The CPU decides whether or not guys make shots, so it still feels like a random roll of the dice rather than really giving you strategic control over the outcome of a game. A nice feature would have been the ability to hop in after any turn and play out the rest of game yourself, but no such luck. However, it's a more intriguing way to get through a season quickly than just simulating it the whole way through.
Another feature of the revamped Association mode is team chemistry. After each
week passes, someone on your team will need to talk to you about something,
played out through a stupid, general comment by the player and a list of three
possible responses. Pick the wrong one and chemistry goes down. Ah, how simple.
What could have been a decent occasional responsibility is turned annoying
by requiring you to deal with it every single week.
Equally irritating is training. If you don't train, chemistry goes down. If you do train, chances are someone on your squad will get injured. This is usually an area of growth for a team, a place to make them gel and play better overall, but in ESPN feels like a heinous, risky requirement that ultimately leads to doom when Kobe Bryant breaks his arm during a shooting drill.
The whole team chemistry concept is fine, but it's not well-implemented. Other factors should determine chemistry, such as success on the court or being put on the trading block. Instead, it's just this random crapshoot of training and multiple choice conversations with players and feels more like a burden than anything.
you grow tired of The Association, you can hop over to 24/7 mode, which is almost
identical to last year's version but with more items to unlock. You still create
a baller to play in a collection of matches and training drills. If you ignore
him for too long, your player's skills will degrade. The mode is still broken,
though, when it comes to the A.I. You can run past virtually every opponent for
a free dunk or lay-up regardless of your skills, or pump fake them off their
feet for a wide-open shot. Plus, the items are still merely cosmetic and don't
add anything to your skills. 24/7 is an over-hyped mode that ultimately functions
as more of a diversion than anything else.
Quick Play, Practice, Tournaments, and Online round out the modes. Playing against
other gamers is still rewarding as the online component functions just as it
did last year and still works well on both the PS2 and Xbox.
If there's one area in which ESPN clearly dominates the competition, it's in its graphics. Player models are terrific, the framerate is smooth throughout and the animations are pretty fluid. They even got the unique free-throw animations down for certain players. The crowd gets visibly pumped when the game is close and the home team puts on a run, adding a great energy to the atmosphere. Although more choices in the character creation feature would have been nice, you won't find many faults with the way the game looks on either system.
The sound is less impressive. Bob Fitzgerald's play-by-play is adequate if subdued, and though Bill Walton might be a master of hyperbole in real life, here he's just a repetitive old man. I hope you like weak hip-hop, because that's the soundtrack.
The timing might be terrible for the start of the season, but you have to commend ESPN NBA
2K5 for getting the price right. This is a solid title that matches NBA
Live stride for stride and costs half as much. Whether or not it's a
better game depends a lot on your own personal preference, although unlike that "other' election,
it's safe to say that you can't really go wrong with either candidate.


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GENEVA – The Cougars' "Halfway to Halloween" promotion came with costumes, spooky festivities and all-too-accurate weather.
Friday night's affair at Fifth Third Bank Ballpark was a cold one, and that meant offense was in short supply. Usually cold nights benefitting pitchers is a conversation topic for early April rather than mid-May, but it sure did apply as the Cougars won a low-scoring game, 4-2, against the Quad Cities River Bandits.
And while busting out the winter coats to head to the ballpark might have been a nuisance for fans in attendance, Cougars starting pitcher Paul Blackburn is getting used to this spring's ongoing chills.
"This is probably one of my warmer starts on the year. I haven't been in a warm outing yet. I'm getting kind of used to it," Blackburn said. "When it's cold like this, hitters don't really want to hit. More advantage to me."
Be it because of the temperatures Friday or not, Blackburn certainly had an advantage. He tossed six innings and allowed just one run on two hits, one of which was a bunt single. All but one of Blackburn's innings went 1-2-3.
It was Blackburn's fourth win of the season, as he set a new season high with eight strikeouts and matched a season high with six innings pitched. He lowered his ERA to 2.76.
"A really good start," Cougars manager Mark Johnson said. "He set the tone with his tempo, and he absolutely just pounded the zone with strikes and got ahead of guys and put them away. He had his breaking ball working today, and that's the key to having a good start like that is just really setting that good tempo."
"I'm just trying to go out there and set a tempo, good for our team," Blackburn said. "The last couple games we haven't had good tempo, really. We've been kind of lackadaisical out there. That's all I tried to do was go out there and have a good, quick first inning."
Blackburn and River Bandits starter Chris Lee dueled throughout much of the game, proving that cold nights are better for the pitchers than the hitters. The sparing offense was familiar for a Cougars team that's struggled to score runs in any temperature of late, accounting for just five runs over their last five games (1-4) entering Friday night. But four runs was all it took to snap their four-game losing streak.
The Cougars (27-14) matched their run total over the past three games in one inning, putting together a two-out rally in the bottom of the fifth. Trey Martin walked and came around to score on Daniel Lockhart's double. That tied the game at 1 ahead of back-to-back errors by Quad Cities infielders that gave the Cougars the lead. Ben Carhart drove in a run with a bloop single that made it a 3-1 ballgame.
"That was a huge hit by Lockhart, and that's what we needed. We needed to catch a break," Johnson said. "Everybody's, offensively, really pressing, trying to do too much and get three hits in one at-bat, that type of thing. And it's not just one or two guys, it was kind of the whole lineup wanting to do so much. You can't play the game that way, it's already hard enough as it is."
The Cougars added their fourth run in the bottom of the seventh on a Carlos Penalver RBI double into the left-center field gap.
Quad Cities (19-21) scored its first run on a fourth-inning sacrifice fly and got another on an RBI single in the top of the seventh.
The four runs marked the most the Cougars have scored in a game since their 5-2 win May 9 at Burlington.
"It's cold, and when you go out there and score those runs, it is nice. And when you're on the other side, it's tough to battle back on a day like this," Johnson said. "It was nice to get those four."
Up next
Cougars (RHP Tyler Skulina, 1-1, 3.86 ERA) vs. Quad Cities (Andrew Thurman, 2-2, 4.97 ERA), 6:30 p.m. today, AM-1280
Trick or treat
The Cougars hosted the first of two "Halfway to Halloween" nights at Fifth Third Bank Ballpark on Friday, complete with a set of festive uniforms.
Jerseys were black and featured yellow skeletons, with not just a rib cage on the front and back but a humerus down each sleeve. The Cougars' caps also featured a skull version of the team's logo. Mascot Ozzie T. Cougar sported his own jersey and a vampire-inspired cape.
Cougars staff members were in costume, too, with Spider-Man, a cowboy, Sesame Street's Count, a cheerleader, former Baltimore Ravens safety Ed Reed and a hot dog among those patrolling the areas in front of the dugouts before and during the game.
The staff also put their Photoshop skills to good use, cooking up some spooky shots of Cougars players to put up on the scoreboard during at-bats. Notable virtual costumes included catcher Cael Brockmeyer's sad clown makeup and shortstop Carlos Penalver's "V for Vendetta" mask.
Similar festivities will accompany today's game.
Employee of the month
Cougars catcher Will Remillard was honored before the game for being named the parent Cubs' minor league player of the month for April.
Remillard batted .373 with a .458 on-base percentage and a .549 slugging percentage in 15 April games. He hit a homer and six doubles while scoring nine runs.


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The Motorola Droid Bionic has been one of Verizon's most anticipated devices (if not the most) since its announcement, last January at CES. After waiting patiently for months, rumors about the device being canceled have been floating around the internet since last week, with Taylor actually being one of the first to address the issue.
This sure did not make Verizon customers happy, and after so much commotion, a "Motorola spokeswoman" came into the picture stating that the device is, in fact, not canceled, but that it actually might be delayed until the 3rd quarter of 2011. The device seemed to be one of the highlights of CES already, but this spokesperson mentions that the reason for the possible delay, is that Motorola is working on improving the Droid Bionic, in order to further satisfy their customers
Based on compelling feedback since the show, we are incorporating several enhancements to make this an even better consumer experienceMotorola spokeswoman
There you go, Verizon users! Now you know that your Droid Bionic is coming, and even stronger than before. We do not know what these "enhancements" entail, but we will let you know as soon as there is more information available. For now, the main specs of the Droid Bionic include a 1 GHz dual-core Tegra 2 processor, Android 2.2, a 4.3-inch qHD display, 512 MB of RAM, 16 GB of internal storage, rear (8 MP) and front-facing (VGA) camera, and of course, compatibility with Verizon's 4G LTE network. These specs sure sound sweet, so let's see what Motorola and Verizon are buttering this device up for!
Are you excited to hear that this device is not canceled? Are you upset about the delay, or happy to see the improvements? Will you be purchasing the Droid Bionic? Let us know your opinions, and check out the hands-on video from CES posted below.


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Thursday, March 5, 2009
MSWord To OpenOffice And Back Again.
I sent him the letter as text in the body of an email. Dave copied this text and pasted it into MSWord. He did some editing and then saved the document as an MSWord document. He emailed it back to me.
In the above screen shot, you can see the attachment with the ".doc" extension. When this screen shot was taken, I was in the process of saving the document to my desktop. (I'm using the Thunderbird email program.)
Once I had the document saved, I simply double clicked the file and OpenOffice launched. Because OpenOffice is fully compatible with MSWord, the document opened and displayed exactly as Dave had laid it out. I then added my changes and suggestions and then saved it as a .doc document (MSWord document). Because Dave is running Windows and MSWord, He'll be able to open the document on his end with no problems.
And that's how easy it is to use OpenOffice with MSword. There are no compatibility problems.
I'm also sending Dave a link where he can download OpenOffice for free. (You can get it here). This way, he won't even have to bother with MSWord. He can use OpenOffice for Windows. And we can continue to exchange documents in the OpenOffice format (.odt). He on Windows, me on Linux. (and then I'm gonna get him to switch to Linux!)
Get Linux!
3 comments:
- Fitzcarraldo said...
I use both Word and OpenOffice a lot, both at home and at work, and both for simple and complex documents. I find their files are interchangeable without problems for simple, straightforward text layouts, but have had terrible problems with OpenOffice wrecking Word documents with more complex text layouts, colours, indents, tables, embedded photos and drawings, and so on. I find that OpenOffice is not properly compatible with bullets and outline numbering in a Word document. If I'm writing a document containing predominantly text, simple indentation and headers for a Word-using audience then I have no qualms about creating it using OpenOffice, but if I'm preparing a complex document then I have to stick to Word. Just yesterday I used OpenOffice to make a simple edit to a sentence in a complex word document and, open opening it later in Word found that OpenOffice had messed up a lot of the document, requiring several hours of editing to fix. So Word and OpenOffice documents are not fully interchangeable. I'd say "mostly" interchangeable would be a better description.
- March 6, 2009 at 4:35 AM
- lefty crupps said...
I've tried something similar, but the MSWord 2003 document looked very different on my OOo 2.4. So we found an Office 2000 cd and installed that, and the document looked very different there as well. Then we upgraded to OOo v3 and, in the fourth location, it again looked different.
If various versions of MS Word cannot display a document faithfully, I cannot expect OpenOffice.org to do so. The fact that OOo can open .doc formats at all is pretty great IMHO.
I don't understand the reasoning behind the MSOffice 'requirement' that so many people seem to think they have. Once there were many office suites; then less, but now again more choices than ever, and many of them use ODF. Go ODF, go!
- March 6, 2009 at 8:33 AM
- MSzorady said...
Fitzcarraldo and lefty crupps,
Thanks for the terrific and insightful comments. I agree. OpenOffice may have some compatibility issues with complex MSWord documents. So I should amend my comments by saying that OO is mostly compatible. (I'm probably not editing terribly complex docs as I've never run into these problems) But, I'm confident that compatibility will get better and more folks will discover OO. Then, hopefully, the Open Document Format will become the standard.
- March 6, 2009 at 10:01 AM


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The Reverend McGehees
It was a week when there were more Methodist preachers who appeared in Dublin than in a Key and Flanders family reunion. John B. McGehee and Edward McGehee, two of the longest serving Methodist ministers in the history of the South Georgia conference, were in town for a homecoming at the First Methodist Church.
It was during the last week of September 1911, one hundred years ago, when the members of the First Methodist Church invited all of their living former ministers to return to Dublin to celebrate the renovation of the church's new facility. Amazingly, all but one of the ministers accepted the invitation. Rev. W.N. Ainsworth, was busy with his duties as Bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church South. The only other former Dublin Methodist minister missing was the Rev. Peter S. Twitty, who died a decade before.
The featured speaker and the hardest to get to come to the event was the Rev. John Boykin McGehee, who at the age of seventy-nine, was the oldest member of the South Georgia Conference of ministers. Rev. McGehee was also the first official minister of the First Methodist Church way back in 1854. During his sixty-five years in the ministry, Rev. McGehee served dozens of churches as well as many terms as a district superintendent.
John Boykin McGehee was born in the Henderson community, near Perry in Houston County, Georgia, on September 6, 1833. The son of Rev. Edward T. McGehee and Clara Apperson Owens, McGehee grew up in Houston County, where his father practiced medicine and dabbled at farming before entering the ministry.
It was only after his attendance at Emory College and his graduation from Franklin College that John McGehee found his place as a minister of the Gospel. McGehee was attending a revival at Wiley Chapel Methodist Church. He later wrote that he paid no attention to the services and in fact he resented what was happening around him. It was only when McGehee started across the street when he experienced an epiphany. From that moment on, the young man knew that he was called to preach.
It was on the morning of November 7, 1852, when the Rev. McGehee was admitted as a minister of the Methodist Episcopal Church. His first assignment came in the Vienna circuit, although some written records indicate that he may have come to Dublin to preach on an irregular basis. In his second year in the ministry, McGehee was assigned to the Sandersville District and in particular the Methodist Church in Jeffersonville.
In his autobiography, published in 1915, the Rev. John B. McGehee wrote, "My home was in Dublin, at that time a small village. Then it didn't own a church building. Our Baptist brethren kindly gave us the use of their house of worship. Mine was no small circuit. Parts of four counties, Laurens, Washington, Montgomery and Pulaski claimed my oversight. Indeed churches were so numerous, riding so long, territory so large, that it was difficult to suppress the idea that I needed a traveling companion - an idea which was not suppressed."
Rev. McGehee remembered the main families of his congregations, the Guytons, Blackshears, Sanders, Flanders, Hicks, Holmes, and Arlines. While he lived in Dublin, the twenty-one-year-old minister boarded with Tom and Elvira Guyton. Rev. McGehee, still lacking confidence in his abilities, remembered the Dashers, the Rowes and Cochrans in the Dublin church who helped "the young shepherd ofa small Methodist flock."
In his years spent in Dublin, McGehee met many people who had a profound influence on his life in the ministry. He cited George Smith, who attended Snell's Bridge Church, as "one of the best men I ever knew." He remembered several members of the Flanders family, long hailed as leaders of the Methodist movement in our area, including Frank Flanders, Fred Flanders and W.J. Flanders.
In describing the loneliness of his circuit riding days, McGehee told the story of a trip to Lowery Church, "Finding a bridge down, I plunged into a creek deeper than Jordan and reached the bank in safety. For two hours, I pursued the trail without seeing a man, animal or bird, and began to decide how I would imitate the heroism of the fathers. At sunset, I found a driver and an ox cart," McGehee recalled. He told the driver he didn't know where he was going and confessed he was lost. He finally reached a home where the occupants were gone. Their new son-in-law turned the stranger away. McGehee spoke as eloquently as he could to convince the young man to allow him to stay for the night. Finally, he told the man, "I am sent to preach to you and will go no farther." Moved by the moment, the preacher was invited inside where he enjoyed a "sweet sleep."
It was in that "dark country" of southern Laurens County which McGehee described as having "an atmosphere from that section drawn largely from ponds and well charged with malaria, mosquitos and chills" as the place where he began to suffer from malaria for four years.
Just after his tenure in Dublin, John McGehee met the love of his life. The lonely days on the road made him think about what kind of woman he would like to marry. After months of deliberation, McGehee narrowed down his bride's qualifications to a few. More than sixty years after his marriage, the parson wrote that she must be a Methodist, and that she be strong, tall, smart, attractive, well read, and well reared. He found a match in Lucretia Lane. The couple married on the day after Christmas in 1854. He was twenty-one years old and his bride was only three months beyond her fifteenth birthday.
After leaving Dublin, McGehee served in several churches before becoming the president of Andrew College, a Methodist post secondary school in Cuthbert. At the age of forty, McGehee became a highly sought after Presiding Elder, serving in Columbus, Fort Valley, Thomasville, Savannah, Macon, and McRae. After more than 57 years in the ministry, McGehee finally returned to the pulpit in 1909 in Talbotton, where he died on July 22, 1917.
The younger McGehee, Edward Augustus McGehee (1839-1920), entered the Methodist ministry in 1859. Edward served as the minister of Dublin's First Methodist Church from 1904-1905 during the decades when the local church was one of the most important churches in the state.
The McGehee brothers' record of slightly more than one hundred twenty-five years of combined service to the Church has been surpassed by current and former Dublin residents, Jack and Billy Key, to whom I dedicate this column. The Brothers Key, who began their ministerial careers before World War II, have been brothers in Christ for well more than one hundred and thirty years. Their profession of their faith and their devotion to the Gospel of the Lord have been a blessing to all those who have been touched by the comfort of their words of "faith, hope and love."


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(Reuters) - World number nine Samantha Stosur's terrible build up to the Australian Open continued on Monday when she was knocked out of the Sydney International by China's Zheng Jie in the first round.
The former U.S. Open champion also crashed out of the first round in Brisbane last week and local hopes the 28-year-old could be Australia's first women's champion at Melbourne Park since Christine O'Neil in 1978 now appear increasingly slim.
Stosur underwent ankle surgery less than six weeks ago and has appeared rusty, though she has also endured a woeful run in her native country over the last two seasons, winning just once in six matches.
The Australian Open, the year's first grand slam, starts on next Monday.
Zheng's 6-3 6-7 6-4 victory in two hours, 43 minutes ensured that she could still set up a possible quarter-final clash against compatriot Li Na, who was forced into a dogfight in the heat before overcoming American Christina McHale 7-6 7-5 to also reach the second round.
The former French Open champion, runner-up in Sydney last year and winner in 2011, took almost two hours to dispatch her opponent in 30-degree temperatures.
Fourth seed Li only arrived in Australia a day earlier, having beaten Klara Zakopalova to win the Shenzhen title, where the temperature outside hovered just above freezing.
"I was playing in China, so I have to (get) used to the heat," Li said of her decision to play Shenzhen and Sydney as she prepared for the Australian Open.
"I couldn't come straightaway to Melbourne. I needed some matches in the heat conditions, otherwise I don't know what I can do in Melbourne."
While Li struggled acclimatizing, tournament organizers will be keeping an close eye on weather conditions on Tuesday.
Sydney is expected to hit a maximum of 43 Celsius as Australia swelters in a heatwave that has sparked raging bush fires.
Warm northwest winds are also expected to increase on-court temperatures closer to 50.
Officials will provide shading, ice towels and additional water and sports drinks for the players, while staff will work shorter shifts to try to mitigate the effects of the heat.
Auckland tennis fans hoping for a rematch of the final of the Paris Masters, however, were left disappointed with fifth seed Jerzy Janowicz beaten by Brian Baker in the first round.
The massive Pole, who lost the Paris final to Auckland top seed and champion David Ferrer, produced an error-ridden performance to crash out 4-6 7-6 6-4.
The world number 26, who did not travel to the Australian Open last year because he could not afford the flights, had to qualify to make the main draw in Paris and beat five top-20 players before losing to Ferrer.
Against Baker, however, the 2.03m tall Janowicz was the mark of inconsistency - brilliant for short spurts and then giving the 27-year-old American cheap points.
Baker had held three match points while serving at 5-2 in the third set only for the Pole to reel off winner after winner then blast his way through his next service game to make it 5-4.
The American then again held three match points at 40-0 in the 10th game before Janowicz drew level at deuce, but his inconsistency again ended his run and Baker calmly drove a backhand down the line to seal the win.
"At 40-0 he switched the switch and I don't know how many points he won in a row, but I managed to get it back," Baker said in a courtside interview.
"Matches like these, if you can close them out, will hopefully build some confidence for the future."
Ferrer was given a bye into the second round and will not take to the court in Auckland until Wednesday, where he will play the winner of Tuesday's first round clash between France's Benoit Paire and Taiwan's Lu Yen-hsun.
(Reporting by Greg Stutchbury in Wellington; Editing by Alastair Himmer/Mark Meadows)


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With nearly three million copies of her books sold worldwide, Angela Elwell Hunt is the best-selling author of The Tale of Three Trees, The Debt, and The Note.
Hunt began her writing career in 1983. After five years of honing her craft working for magazines, she published her first book in 1989. Since then, the prolific author has written over one hundred books in fiction and nonfiction, for children and adults.
Eight of her novels have won Angel Awards from Excellence in Media. Hunt has also won two silver medals from ForeWord Magazines book of the year award (for The Justice and The Canopy), and a Christy Award for By Dawns Early Light. Two of her novels have been optioned for film by Journey Productions and Columbia/TriStar.
She and her youth pastor-husband, Gary, make their home in Florida with two mastiffs, one of which was featured on Live with Regis and Kelly as the second-largest dog in America.
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SEATTLE, WA (October 17, 2012) – The Evans School of Public Affairs at the University of Washington, in collaboration with the Humphrey School of Public Affairs at the University of Minnesota and with sponsorship from the Northwest Area Foundation, launched the Ideas for Action Award in June 2012, drawing nearly 50 submissions from across the nation. A panel of experts in the field selected four innovative efforts that pursue two significant approaches to poverty reduction: financial asset building and pathways out of poverty. The inaugural winners will be awarded a combined total of $30,000 of prize funds.
Achievement Awards of $10,000 each go to:
Promising Practices awards of $5,000 each go to:
"In the face of economic doldrums unabated since the Great Recession, our aim via this competition was to shine a light on imaginative and concerted efforts pushing back against historically high poverty levels in America," said Ideas for Action Award Co-Chair and Evans School Senior Lecturer David S. Harrison. "We are thrilled to recognize four such initiatives and look forward to building awareness of their ideas and reach of their programs."
"We welcome the fresh thinking these winners have presented at a time when a growing number of families are trying to work their way out of poverty," said Kevin Walker, president and CEO of the Northwest Area Foundation. "We are pleased to provide support for moving these proven and promising ideas into actions that open new pathways to prosperity."
About The Evans School of Public Affairs
The Evans School of Public Affairs is the pre-eminent school of public policy and management in the Northwest, nationally ranked among the top ten schools of public affairs. For more information, please visit evans.uw.edu.
About The Northwest Area Foundation
The Northwest Area Foundation is dedicated to supporting efforts by people, organizations and communities to reduce poverty and achieve sustainable prosperity. The Foundation's service region includes urban, rural and American Indian reservation communities in Minnesota, Iowa, North Dakota, South Dakota, Montana, Idaho, Washington and Oregon. The Great Northern Railway, founded by James J. Hill, served these states. Hill's son, Louis W. Hill, established the Foundation in 1934. For more information, please visit www.nwaf.org.
Please visit http://evans.uw.edu/centers-projects/nbec/ideas-for-action/ideas-for-action-2012-awardees for more information.
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CRESTVIEW � At 5:30 a.m., the kitchen at Sweet Dreams Bakery on Main Street is already busy, and the aroma of freshly baked treats fills the room.
CRESTVIEW � At 5:30 a.m., the kitchen at Sweet Dreams Bakery on Main Street is already busy, and the aroma of freshly baked treats fills the room.
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"Everything is scratch-made," owner Kim Young said. "There's no boxes here. The only box is the one you leave with."
Some bakeries use "boxes" of frozen dough and pre-baked cakes instead of mixing their own dough and batter, she said. Customers know the difference.
"I can taste a cake that came from a box," Young said. "Very few people scratch-bake anymore."
For customers like Randy Hilburn, president of Westerra Development, who bought a box of cinnamon rolls Wednesday morning, the extra effort is worth it.
"We're having a small meeting this morning," Hilburn said. "Everybody will like these."
The rolls � Young calls them "sin-namon" rolls because "they're sinfully delicious" � are her customers' favorite pastries. Rivaling them in popularity are her red velvet cupcakes and giant cookies, she said.
Purposeful location and selection
Young said she limits the selection of treats, preparing those that most appeal to her customers' palates.
"We had a few people ask for petits fours and French pastries, but that's not 'Crestview,'" she said.
While Young and the bakers under her watchful eye bustle around the kitchen, her husband, Joe, a Crestview Aerospace engineer, is Sweet Dreams' business mind.
Before coming to Crestview, the couple operated a cottage bakery in Charleston, S.C. Kim Young also ran a delicatessen, but said she has no interest in offering sandwiches or meals that might compete with downtown restaurants.
"People come here for dessert after lunch," she said.
Young searched until she found a downtown location, pouncing on the chance to rent what was a 1920s Goodyear tire store.
"I really wanted to be downtown because I really like that vibe," she said. The bakery opened Sept. 2.
Kitchen routine
"Over the last seven weeks we've kind of defined our roles, so everybody just comes in and knows what to do," Young said.
As Young's sin-namon rolls rise, Teneka Spates presses out spoonfuls of cookie dough and pops them in the oven.
Meanwhile, Beverly Cyr mixes batter for red velvet cupcakes. As they go into oven space recently vacated by another dozen cookies, Angela Sapp takes over the mixer to make vanilla cake batter.
Sapp � a 2013 Crestview High School alumna who said working at the bakery is her "dream job� � praised the school's culinary arts teacher, Paula Knight.
"She's an amazing teacher," Sapp said. "Her classes helped me a lot for this job."
"I've been very blessed with the ladies I have working here," Young said. "We all get along so well. There's no fussing or bother. We all sing and dance and have fun."
As the morning sun floods the cheerful pink bakery, Young updates her blackboard sandwich sign and sets it out on Main Street. Customers start popping in even before the clock strikes 8.
"I think it's great having a real bakery in town," Corrine Spence said as she and her friends, Sonya Watt and Kim Kelley, eyed goodies that fill the counter and display case.
Contact News Bulletin Staff Writer Brian Hughes at 850-682-6524 or firstname.lastname@example.com. Follow him on Twitter @cnbBrian.


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Pfizer Faces Numerous Lawsuits Over Lipitor Side Effects
Did Pfizer fail to warn the public that Lipitor may cause Type 2 diabetes or memory loss?
A fast-growing number of lawsuits have been filed by women who allege the drug maker knew about the possibility of such serious side effects associated with its blockbuster cholesterol-lowering pill, but never properly warned the public, according to Reuters.
In the past five months, the news service reviewed federal court filings that show lawsuits by women in the U.S., who say that Lipitor caused them to develop type-2 diabetes, jumped from 56 to almost 1,000. One attorney says the actual number of women represented in these lawsuits numbers approximately 4,000.
The filings began picking up two years ago, after the FDA warned that Lipitor and other statins were linked to incidents of memory loss and a "small increased risk" of diabetes. According to lawyers representing plaintiffs, women face a higher risk than men of developing diabetes from using Lipitor, and gain fewer benefits, Reuters writes.
The recent spike in lawsuits followed a decision by a federal judicial panel to consolidate all Lipitor diabetes lawsuits from around the country into a single federal courtroom in Charleston, S.C. Pfizer opposed the consolidation, arguing it would prompt copycat filings. The first case is scheduled to be tried next July.
Of course, product-liability lawsuits are commonplace in the pharmaceutical industry. But Reuters suggests two things may set this litigation apart. For one, Lipitor is the best-selling prescription drug ever, racking up global sales of more than $130 billion since arriving in pharmacies in 1996. More than 29 million people in the U.S. have been prescribed the pill.
At the same time, plaintiffs may have a complicating factor. How so? Well, the FDA emphasized the benefits of statins even as it warned of the risks. "Clearly, we think that the heart benefit of statins outweighs this small increased risk," Amy Egan, deputy director for safety in the FDA's Division of Metabolism and Endocrinology Products, said in this statement about diabetes when the labeling change was made two years ago.
So what this will likely come down to is the extent to which women face the risk of developing diabetes while taking Lipitor and whether that risk is, effectively, mitigated by the cardiovascular benefits, according to Reuters.
As for Pfizer, the drug maker tells us it doesn't believe Lipitor caused the plaintiff to develop diabetes and argues women who are prescribed the pill to control cholesterol may share other risk factors that make them vulnerable to the disease, such as high blood pressure or obesity. And Pfizer says there is an "overwhelming consensus" in the medical community about benefits to be had from statins.
Lipitor, by the way, was one of the most widely advertised drugs by lawyers seeking clients during between July 2013 and November 2013, which was prior to the consolidation in federal court last February, according to the Silverstein Group, a consulting firm that tracks advertising spending by law firms. The suggestion is that advertising helped to account for the increased number of lawsuits filed.
For now, Pfizer has not set aside funds to cover potential judgments, according to its latest quarterly filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (please see page 31).
But Michael Green, an expert in mass torts at the Wake Forest University School of Law, tells Reuters that he does not expect Pfizer to settle at this stage, given the major obstacle plaintiffs still face. They "have to show they were actually harmed by this agent," he says. "That might be hard."
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