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Obama to nominate former Procter & Gamble head as VA secretary
President Obama will nominate Bob McDonald, the former chief executive of Procter & Gamble and a graduate of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, as the next secretary of veterans affairs on Monday, a senior White House official tells CBS News.
The selection of McDonald, a longtime businessman rather than a decorated general, doctor, or politician like other recent VA secretaries, could reflect the systemic problems plaguing the VA medical system, which has come under fire in recent months for mismanagement and treatment delays that have been linked to the deaths of dozens of veterans nationwide.
The official told CBS News that McDonald's time atop Procter & Gamble "prepares him well for a huge agency with management challenges in servicing more than 8 million veterans a year."
"At P&G he oversaw more than 120,000 employees, with operations around the world, selling products in more than 180 countries, in more than 2.5 million stores, reaching more than 5 billion customers," the official said. "McDonald's personal and professional history make him the perfect person to lead the Department of Veterans Affairs during this important time."
Beyond McDonald's career in business, the White House also emphasized his deep connections to the U.S. military, noting that he and many members of his family have worn the uniform.
"McDonald graduated from West Point in the top [two percent] of his class and served in the U.S. Army for five years, achieving the rank of Captain in the 82nd Airborne Division," the official noted. "He is a significant supporter of the U.S. Military Academy, and is a Life Member of the U.S. Army Ranger Association and the 75th Ranger Regiment Association. He is also a member of the Association of Graduates of West Point."
The intended nomination was first reported by the Washington Post.
On Friday, Rob Nabors, the aide tasked by the president with overseeing the White House review of the VA scandal, submitted a report decrying the "corrosive" management culture at the agency that led to "significant and chronic failures" in the provision of medical care to veterans.
The scandal was kicked off in April when it was reported that several veterans at the VA facility in Phoenix had died while awaiting care. It was later revealed that officials there were falsifying waiting lists to understate the amount of time some veterans had waited to receive care.
An internal audit by the VA completed in May also found roughly 1,700 veterans who were not on any wait list in the Phoenix facility, leaving them at risk of falling through the cracks of the scheduling process.
The outrage that attended the reports of misconduct and treatment delays at VA facilities eventually claimed the job of then-VA Secretary Eric Shinseki, a celebrated Army general who'd held that post since the beginning of the president's administration.
Mr. Obama selected Shinseki's deputy, Sloan Gibson, to serve as acting VA secretary while he continued looking for a permanent replacement.
Members of both parties in Congress have slammed the agency's management failures, demanding accountability and new leadership. After the intended nomination of McDonald went public on Sunday, House Veterans Affairs Committee Chairman Jeff Miller, R-Fla., said McDonald, if he's confirmed by the Senate " will inherit a Department of Veterans Affairs under a specter of corruption that may very well surpass anything in the history of American government."
"In order to pave the way for serious and substantive reforms that will help VA to effectively deliver the care and benefits our veterans have earned, he'll need to root out the culture of dishonesty and fraud that has taken hold within the department and is contributing to all of its most pressing challenges," Miller said. "Quite simply, those who created the VA scandal will need to be purged from the system."
"Personnel changes, however, won't be enough," Miller added. "The only way McDonald can set the department up for long term success is to take the opposite approach of some other VA senior leaders. That means focusing on solving problems instead of downplaying or hiding them, holding employees accountable for mismanagement and negligence that harms veterans, and understanding that taxpayer funded organizations such as VA have a responsibility to provide information to Congress and the public rather than stonewalling them."


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before or after catechism?
Quote from: trevor72694 on January 02, 2010, 04:17:02 PMbefore or after catechism?Before. Although some priests might not actually have a service to enter one into the catechumenate. I know my priest didn't. I was just simply a catechumen.
And FWIW, these are our Fathers too, you know.
when exactly does one become a "catechumen"?
Hm Alveus I just noticed you changed your faith...very interesting
Quote from: Ortho_cat on January 03, 2010, 02:10:35 PMHm Alveus I just noticed you changed your faith...very interesting Are you trying to make some kind of a point with the rolling eyes?
It cracked me up when I saw "Byzantine Catechumen Christian." I guess that was partly due to seeing how you decided to put that in a thread where a Byzantine Catholic was obstinate about a certain topic.
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Holiday happenings in Garrettsburg, Pleasant Grove, Bennettstown, and Montgomery
On January 15, 1875, the Kentucky New Era of Hopkinsville, KY, published a "Garrettsburg Letter" on its front page. The letter was written by a correspondent from Garrettsburg who signed himself simply as "P." It was dated 136 years ago, today -- January 9, 1875. The following is an excerpt:
The Christmas Holidays in our city passed off tolerably pleasant and without any serious accidents which is to be wondered at considering the amount of spirits floating around loose and the number of pugnacious young gentlemen upon their muscle.
The quality and not the quantity of our whisky is to blame, for you take a drink of it upon the first dawning of Christmas day, and the effects thereof depart not, until the close of the day upon which the dying year tells its last tale. This must be so, for I saw a young man on Thursday evening who told me he had not tasted a drop of the "Creetar" since Friday morning, and lo! he was then three sheets in the wind. One more drink of the same sort, taken straight, will carry him to harvest time.
But Christmas is gone and "Our Boys" have quit their frolicsome ways, washed the dirt from their faces, bathed their swollen eyes, and with healing plaster sticking all over their battered noses, have gone to work in earnest swearing they "will never get drunk any more." Until next Christmas.
Source: January 15, 1875, Kentucky New Era, page 1.
Garrettsburg was a hamlet in southern Christian County, about halfway between present-day Oak Grove and Lafayette.
I wonder if the whiskey at Garrettsburg was bought by the bottle or made by the jug. In plainer words, was it legal whiskey or was it locally-produced moonshine? The Federal government imposed a national excise tax on whiskey in 1862, but small-scale Kentucky distillers widely ignored it.
The Kentucky New Era's front page also includes a "Pleasant Grove Letter" from correspondent "Hiram". He described a wild Christmas celebration in that community.
Christmas came along about the 25th of December, bringing with it the usual supply of fire crackers, egg-nog &c, and went -- well, we were not in a condition much of the time to tell exactly how it did go. We know this much, that the night air was made hideous by the neighing of studs, peals of laughter, and the endless pop, pop of guns. All Pondriverans know how to shoot a gun accurately. In fact, the man who lives 'mid these hills and does not own a yellow dog and a gun is hardly respectable.
Source: January 15, 1875, Kentucky New Era, page 1.
Based on Hiram's comment about "Pondriverans", I looked for Pleasant Grove along the various forks of the Pond River of northern Christian and adjacent counties, but I wasn't able to locate it. I did find a Pleasant Grove Road in Christian County southwest of Crofton, but it's a significant distance from there to any fork of the Pond River. I may be seeking a clue where none exists -- perhaps when Hiram wrote about the "endless pop, pop of guns", it reminded him that Pond River folk were good shots, so he wrote that too.
Bennettstown was a small village, just a few miles northeast of present-day Lafayette in Christian County, KY. If holiday festivities in that community were rowdy, it was not reported by correspondent "Tacitus" who wrote the "Bennettstown Letter".
Christmas has come and gone with about its usual festivities. We had a great many parties, which were attended by the many beaux and belles of our city and vicinity, and if you have any doubts Mr. Editor, of the asserition in my last letter, "that we could beat the world for pretty girls," just by way of variety drop in some time when you are in our section at Capt. Cooper's or Squire McKenzie's or any where else around (we mean upon business) and see if we are not correct.
Source: January 15, 1875, Kentucky New Era, page 2.
Montgomery was located in Trigg County, just west of the present-day intersection of Highway 68/80 and Interstate 24. Correspondent "Jim Jay" described an orderly Christmas celebration in his "Montgomery Items".
We of this little town ushered in the Christmas holidays on Christmas eve by a nice Christmas tree... [unreadable]... with all kinds of fruit in the dry goods and notion line; on which occasion your humble correspondent was remembered by a liberal supply of gifts. In connection therewith we had a concert which is something new in this village. All were pleased, feeling that Montgomery can do what she undertakes and that well. We propose to get up a "Thespian society" and "Minstrel performance" to give monthly entertainments.
Source: January 15, 1875, Kentucky New Era, page 2.
A regularly-performing theater group sounds like a great way to keep the guys busy, out of trouble, and away from the whisky and guns!
|Moonshine still at the McCreary County Museum
in Stearns, Kentucky.
Photo credits: Moonshine still by Brian Stansberry (Own work). CC-BY-3.0 via Wikimedia Commons.
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LAK-19 Programme Committee
I am again working as a member of the programme committee for the ninth Learning Analytics and Knowledge conference LAK-19, which will be held 4-8 March in Tempe, Arizona. The details can be found here.
On these pages you find information about my personal and professional background as well as some features about my interests in technology-enhanced learning, knowledge creation, knowledge transfer, and networked universities.
Learning technology has come a long way, and provides organisations, learners, and teachers with enormous opportunities to innovate not only their technical environment, but also the teaching and learning methodologies as well as their business processes. Most of all, the introduction of new media technologies leads to reflections about inherited traditional systems versus new approaches. My work contributes to these reflections and pursues not only innovation but also the effects that this innovation has on education, learning, and people.
This is a fast moving area and research focus changes quickly and often unexpectedly. My publications page contains a list of works in the field over the years. To a great extent they too reflect the changing nature of education.
My views on technology-enhanced learning
I am a passionate believer in the opportunities that technology has to offer to the knowledge society, both in terms of enhancement of learning and in reaching out to new learners. In remote and rural communities it is often the only way for people to access higher education. However, I am also of the opinion that technology alone does not produce new knowledge or learning and that new developments need to have a pedagogic and learner-centred approach.
Experience in commerce and education has shown that online solutions are at their best when built upon a traditional well-established structure. The pedagogic concept of Blended Learning is increasingly supported by universities and governments who realise that it provides a more sustainable approach than purely online offerings. This goes some way towards recognising that we cannot ignore pedagogic concepts that have been successful for decades before the internet arrived and still are.
Areas of interest
Technology enhanced learning has made giant leaps forward over the past few years. In my work, I try to keep up-to-date with latest developments and newest technologies. My current research interests focus especially on Learning and Knowledge Analytics, Language Technologies for learning support, Learning Networks, and Mobile Learning, but I also have a keen interest in other topics, including open education, game mechanics, or the most recent debate about connectivism.
Read more about my views on e-learning developments.
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Citizens of the community of Ceredo are arranging for an Industrial Survey of the Community, to be held next Monday and Tuesday, March 21st and 22nd. This is he first Industrial Survey that has been conducted by any community in the county. County Agent W. D. Click, H. J. Stark, Dr. W. F. Bruns, Eustace Adkins, and Rev. E. T. Stump compose an executive committee that will have the program in charge.
The survey that is being planned for Ceredo makes this an opportune time to recall certain interesting events concerned with the early history of the town.
The town of Ceredo was founded in 1857 by Eli Thayer, a member of Congress from Massachusetts. While in Washington in 1856, he became acquainted with Albert G. Jenkins, then representing this district in the national Congress. In 1857 Thayer visited his friend on the banks of the Ohio, and at the time met Thomas L. Jordan, who then owned the land upon which the town now stands. Thayer purchased the land for a site for his new town, and upon visiting the locality and seeing the beautiful crops with which Ceres (goddess of vegetation) had laden the land, thought it a becoming tribute to the fabled goddess to name the town in her honor, and, accordingly, it became Ceredo.
Thayer then returned to the East and sent Sabine P. Pond to cooperate with Mr. Jordan in laying out the town, grading streets, etc., while he himself visited several of the eastern cities for the purpose of inducing manufacturers to establish their business in his embryo city. He was, at least, successful in obtaining promises --one from the proprietors of the Agricultural Implement Works of Worcester, Massachusetts, at that time one of the most extensive of its kind in the world. Another that promised a branch establishment was the Boston Furniture Company, then the most extensive in New England.
Some time prior to 1857, a town plan had been laid out on the Morgan farm on Virginia Point, but on account of poor management, or rather no management at all, the project had failed. Several houses had, however, been erected, and among the number who established themselves at that place was James Poteet. He was pleased with Thayer's city, and in July 1857, removed to Ceredo, where he became the first merchant. The first house was erected by H. W. Stewart for John Roberts and George McCormack. The year 1857 witnessed the erection of a number of temporary tenements by prospective residents, and at the same time the Ceredo Company erected what was known as the Crescent Building, designed for both school and church purposes.
The dream of Thayer, the founder, had been to build an immense manufacturing city on the banks of the Ohio, but he was doomed to disappointment. He had expended a vast sum of money in paying for land, grading streets, erecting buildings, and buying machinery, and now the promised manufacturing enterprises failed to come, and in order to meet his financial engagements, he was compelled to mortgage his property to the Hon. C. B. Hoard, than a member of Congress from Waterton, New York. Lots failed to find purchasers; the financial crash of 1858, which came on just at this time, added to the embarrassment of the proprietor.
Notwithstanding, the town continued to improve. Early in 1858, Elijah Griswold came from New York and engaged in mercantile business; later, in the same year, A. F. Morse came from Rhode Island and engaged in the same business. W. H. Wilson opened a drug store. In September of the same year, Z. D. Ramsdell and Ira Floyd, the former from Maine and the latter from New Hampshire, arrived and began the manufacture of boots and shoes. Mr. Ramsdell took an important part in the formation of the new State of West Virginia and was the author of the first free school law of the State.
The Civil War came on, and instead of the realization of the dream of its founder, it was in 1861 a town of 440 inhabitants, five grocery establishments, two hotels, one boot and shoe shop, one barber shop, two blacksmith shops, two churches, one school building, one printing office (Ceredo Enterprise), one railroad depot (Chesapeake and Ohio), one livery stable, one post office, one Masonic hall, one saw mill, one stave and heading mill, one resident physician, one resident minister, one surveyor, and one architect.
The town was incorporated by an act of the Legislature passed February 22, 1866; by it the corporate boundaries were defined to be as follows:
"Beginning at the mouth of Twelve Pole River, thence up said river forty rods to the old military line, thence due west three hundred rods, thence north to the Ohio River at the old Morgan Mill, thence up the Ohio River to the place of beginning."
The first officers were Mayor, Richard Brown; recorder, W. H. Stewart; councilmen, Charles A. Brown, Lafayette Brown, John Kelly, Patrick McLeese and Robert Wright; town sergeant, A. W. Brown.
Eastern standard time (commonly referred to as Fast Time) was adopted for Louisa, Ky., Tuesday evening by the city council in an ordinance effective April 3, when this standard goes into effect on railroads throughout this section by order of the Interstate Commerce Commission.
The change from Central to Eastern time causes time to be set forward one hour at Louisa. Similar ordinances have been adopted by a number of cities and towns served by railroads adopting Eastern time after April 3, since it is held that uniformity should be maintained with railroad time for the convenience of the public. Ironton, Ohio, is the only exception thus far, its city council having refused to approve the change.
Mr. and Mrs. G. W. Keyes were Ft. Gay visitors last Sunday. ***B. H. Cooksey, Mrs. John Heaberlin and Miss Quinn Cooksey attended the funeral of their brother, Will Cooksey, at Huntington March 11 ***Mrs. Worth Hatten was called to the bedside of her grandson, Elba Drown, at Kenova this week. ***Blanche Frazier spent last week end with relatives in Fort Gay.***Panther Shannon is visiting friends in Portsmouth. ***Mayme Boyd, who has been visiting relatives in Logan, has returned home. ***Mr. and Mrs. Chris Meredith of Kenova spent Sunday with Mrs. Meredith's mother.***Eli Perry has moved to the Hut Shannon Hollow from Big Hurricane. ***Jack Bryant and Wm. Cole of Zelda, Ky., were business visitors here last Saturday. ***George Shannon of Guyandotte spent Sunday with his mother here.
Ora I. Clay, son of Millard Clay of Hubbal, and Maypel M. McComas, daughter of Elba McComas of Wolf Pen, were married at the home of the bride, March 12. The following were present: Mrs. Dicie Adkins; Mrs. Mary Anne Gilkerson; Mr. and Mrs. Earl Adkins; Mr. and Mrs. Spencer McComas; Mrs. Susie McComas; Eldred and Susie Adkins; Woodrow McComas; Cassie, Iva and Alma Simpkins; Tennessee Johnson; Paris B. Adkins; Ruby and Yonnie Gilkerson. ***Elizabeth Dickerson and Eugenia Wagenlender, who have been teaching here, have returned to their home in Huntington. ***Mrs. Dicie Adkins recently visited her daughter, Mrs. Lola Sansom of Huntington. ***Ora I. Clay and Earl Adkins were recent Wayne visitors. ***Mrs. George Adkins is ill. ***Thelma Lockhart and Mrs. Fannie Adkins of Huntington recently visited friends here. ***Mrs. Henry Simpkins recently visited friends in Huntington. ***H. J. and T. O. Simpkins were business visitors in Huntington Monday.***Mrs. Hulda Finley of Nestlow recently visited her daughter, Mrs. Callie Simpkins.
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Easy Pitcher Cocktail Recipe: Strawberry Basil Margaritas
I love throwing parties. I hate how much work it is to throw a party. So over the years I've picked up a few shortcuts to make the job a little easier. My favorite of which is: pitcher drinks. You can make them the night before, pop them in the fridge, and the next day your guests can drink to their hearts' content while you sit back and relax.
I've made lots of pitcher drink recipes over the years, but one of the simplest, and one of the best loved, is my strawberry basil margaritas. In fact, they've become so popular that if I have a party and don't make some, one of my friends is sure to ask, "hey, did you make those strawberry basil margaritas?" So I always have a pitcher on hand, because it's important to keep your guests happy. And did I mention how easy they are to make?
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Easy Pitcher Cocktail Recipe: Strawberry Basil Margaritas
Makes 1 pitcher, or about 8 servings
can (12 ounces) frozen limeade concentrate
strawberries (or 12 if you're using smaller ones from the farmer's market or your backyard)
basil leaves
2 to 2 1/2 cups
tequila (gold or silver)
Empty the limeade concentrate into a pitcher. Add 2 1/2 cans of water and 1 1/2 (18 ounces, or 2 1/4 cups) cans of tequila (or a bit less, if you don't want your drinks to be quite as strong).
Hull the strawberries, slice lengthwise, and add to the pitcher. Crumple the basil a little in your hands (this will help the basil flavor release into the drink) and add it to the pitcher, too. Place the pitcher, covered, in the fridge overnight, or for at least four hours.
When you remove the pitcher from the fridge, your margaritas will be a lovely pale pink color. Now all you have to do is serve them and wait for the compliments to pour in.
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December 30, 2011
What Might Have Been
I eat this stuff up like candy, despite being deathly afraid of snakes. Part of it is just morbid curiosity--who in the world would have a pit viper in his house...on purpose?--and part of it has to do with planning. Living in the land of no rules, I know it's a matter of time until one of my kids starts begging for a rattlesnake.
"Compared to South Carolina, Florida has lots of animal regulations." This is what a local herpetologist told me yesterday afternoon, moments after handling a 12-foot cobra.
That isn't saying much.
My sister and brother-in-law are visiting from out of town this week. My commitment to exposing them to the best of what Florida has to offer is what led us to a local venom extraction lab. In response to public demand, the lab recently started hosting public viewings of venomous snake milkings a few times each week.
As a special holiday treat, the herpetologist decided to bring out some of his non-venomous friends for a pre-show meet and greet.
"Pass them around!" he said encouragingly as he plopped an albino ball python into my daughter's lap.
I hurdled over half a dozen other spectators as I bolted for the door.
As I watched from the safety of an outside viewing window, my kids taunted me with constrictors and hideously looking but totally innocuous black things, which they draped around their necks and passionately kissed. Around the same time as I watched Cortlen successfully coax a snake up the armhole of his shirt, I blacked out. Not really, but the sight made me so light-headed that I lost my balance and fell backward onto an aquarium containing a huge Eastern Diamondback.
Good times.
The venom extraction (which was, in all fairness, extraordinarily interesting and educational) ended with a Q&A session. One little boy from Washington D.C. asked the herpetologist if he had ever been bit by a poisonous snake (A: Yes, 11 times, including once in the face). Cortlen followed up with a query of own: "Do you need a helper?"
On the way out, my husband caught my daughter trying to buy a baby corn snake from the gift shop with her Christmas money.
She cried all the way home over what might have been.
90 comments
- Nikki said...
When my daughter turned 9 I had dreams of taking her to Helen, GA - a quaint little town in North Ga known for its Alpine influences and super cool attractions. The day started out 85 and sunny but by the time we made the hour drive North it was Pouring Sheets and Sheets of Rain. All plans for the day were smashed - that is except of course for the "Bear and Reptile Museum" No lie - we pulled in and saw bears of all shapes and sizes followed by a behind the scenes tour of all the reptiles (courtesy of it being my daughter's bday and I told the guy that his museum was the last place I wanted to be)...I have pictures of me holding these snakes but I am pretty sure I have blocked out the memory
- December 30, 2011
- Jill said...
This terrifies me! I can barely look at those pictures. You are braver than me. I wouldn't even have been able to look.
- December 30, 2011
- sorry4disappointingyou said...
I was having a hard time with the 100 magical ponies my daughter wanted for Christmas... till I read your story. Now I just need to figure out where one can put 100 magical ponies on layaway.
- December 30, 2011
- Carrie said...
Ah but did you ever visit the insectarium in Philly? They give you edible samples!
- December 30, 2011
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- December 30, 2011
- Tammy said...
Cracks me up that you jumped over seats and hid from all the snakes but left your children inside:)
- December 31, 2011
- Liz said...
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Peel Badminton Club are moving to the QE2 sports hall for the 2017 season and need new members. Everyone 15 and over are welcome. Rackets provided if needed.


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BB Brides brauchte ein neues Briefpapier Design und hat einen Wettbewerb auf 99designs gestartet.
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BB Brides
We are a upscale wedding studio .. we do wedding photography and cinematography.. our clients are young and classy and would like to see something elegant yet contemporary in the designs.
I wanna something new and fresh in your designs so please keep that in mind. Also all these items must link in terms of color and concept.
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Young upscale couples getting married
Need Business card& letter head, CD, Pocket Folder, 11x14 8x10 5x7 picture envelopes, sticker, Blog banner, flyer, 4x6 post card
The CD has only a CD & a Sleeve design
The envelopes should be consistent with the design just different pictures on each envelope maybe.
Pocket folder is a very important item, its what we give potential clients to keep after initial meeting.. it will have our information fliers, packages and contract.
Blog banner should be very attractive and very elegant to catch attention.
Sticker is to place on different media, or albums or boxes.
Flier is to use at weddings it should have an empty spot on it for a picture of the couple which we will personalize per couple with their engagement photo to pass at the wedding.
Post card is to mail out as an introduction to the community about the new business.


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First Look at OpenOffice.org 3.0
Writer, Calc, and Impress
The Notes feature in previous versions of OpenOffice.org was woefully inadequate and not very user-friendly (Figure 3). In-line notes in a text document were displayed as tiny yellow rectangles, which were difficult to use and easy to miss.
If you use notes to comment and collaborate on Writer documents, you'll be pleased to learn that OpenOffice.org 3.0 comes with a completely redesigned Notes feature (Figure 2). Notes are now displayed on a side of the document, and each note has an arrow that points to the exact insertion point in the text. Notes created by different users are displayed in different colors, and each note contains a time stamp as well as the name of the user who added the note. All this makes it easier to keep tabs on notes and use them as an efficient tool for document collaboration.
OpenOffice.org 2.4 introduced the ability to apply different language settings to text segments in a document easily – a feature that comes in particularly handy when dealing with multilingual documents. OpenOffice.org 3.0 adds a small but important improvement to this feature. Spelling dictionaries in OpenOffice.org 3.0 are treated as extensions, and the Tools | Language | More Dictionaries Online command points you to the spell-checking extensions in OpenOffice.org's extension repository. Here, you can download the spell-checking dictionaries you want and install them using the Extension Manager.
The Extension Manager module has also been thoroughly reworked to make it more user-friendly. The new manager offers a better overview of the installed extensions and displays detailed information about the extension (provided that the extension's developer has included the info in the package). Extension developers will also appreciate the ability to integrate the extension's help into the On-line Help module.
The Writer application sports another minor yet useful improvement: You can use the slider at the bottom toolbar to zoom in and out of the document as well as switch between different viewing modes. This feature provides a more efficient way to view and browse long documents than the Preview button in version 2.x.x (Figure 4). The Calc spreadsheet application has a few new features, too (Figure 5). The most notable one is the Solver component, which is designed to solve optimization problems in which the optimum value of a particular cell is calculated based on constraints provided in other cells.
Another new – and less esoteric – feature is the ability to share spreadsheets with other users. In the current version of OpenOffice.org, when the user opens a Writer, Calc, or Impress document, the system locks it so other users can't modify it. The Share feature in Calc gives other users access to the document and provides a simple conflict-resolution mechanism. When you enable the sharing feature using the Tools | Share Document command, other users can open and edit the shared spreadsheet. The changes to the spreadsheet are merged when the users save them. When they do that, the system notifies you about the modifications and highlights them in the shared spreadsheet. If two users modify the same cell, the system displays the Resolve Conflicts dialog box, which provides different options for solving the listed conflicts.
The Charts module in the new version of OpenOffice.org introduces support for error bars and regression equations. Now it's possible to draw error bars based on error ranges provided in spreadsheet cells. Additionally, it is possible to display regression equations as well as correlation coefficients.
The Impress presentation application now comes with native support for inserting tables into presentations (Figure 6). In the previous versions of OpenOffice.org, you could insert tables only as embedded Calc objects, which was both cumbersome and limiting.
The new version of Impress sports native support for tables, and the application provides all the essential tools for manipulating and formatting tables. When you insert a table using the Insert | Table command, you can use the Table toolbar to add and remove rows and columns, merge and split cells, and tweak the table's properties. The Table Design tab in the Tasks pane also provides a few predefined table styles that you can use to spice up the overall look of the table.
With a robust extension architecture in place, integrating features directly into OpenOffice.org is no longer the only way to add functionality to the suite, as the Sun Report Builder extension [2] shows. Instead of replacing the outdated report feature in OpenOffice.org Base, Sun released a new reporting engine as an extension. This trend continues with Open-Office.org 3.0, in which several new "features" are released as separate extensions. The most notable examples are the Sun PDF Import [3] and Sun Presenter Console [4] extensions. As the names suggest, the former allows you to import PDF files into OpenOffice.org, whereas the latter provides more control over a slide show presentation.
Sun PDF Import is a boon for users who need a lightweight tool for editing and commenting PDF documents. The extension allows you to import a PDF file into the Draw application, and you can use all the available tools to tweak and comment the document. Then, you can then save the modified file back to the PDF format using the File | Export as PDF command.
Although PDF Import does a good job of opening PDF files, it won't replace a dedicated PDF editor because of several important limitations. For example, the extension imports each line of text from the PDF file as a separate text block. This means that you can't copy a text fragment and paste it as text into a Writer document, which limits the ability to extract text from PDF files. Also, exporting the edited file as PDF doesn't preserve the existing bookmarks of the original PDF file. Thus, the PDF Import feature is useful for occasional lightweight editing, but it won't replace a dedicated PDF editing application. That said, you should keep in mind that the PDF Import extension is not designed to be a full-blown PDF editing tool.
Giving presentations created with Impress is now much easier, thanks to the Sun Presenter Console. This extension lets you see the upcoming slide, the slide notes, and a presentation timer. This information is available only to you and the presenter, whereas the audience sees only the current slide.
Although the idea of extending functionality via extensions makes a lot of sense – after all, Firefox has been doing this for ages – there are a few downsides to this approach. For example, this means that after you've installed version 3.0, you still have to download and install several extensions to add some of the most interesting and useful – and some would say essential – features. Also, some users might find it slightly confusing that the PDF export feature is built into OpenOffice.org, but if you want to be able to import PDF files, you need to install an additional component.
Final Word
Steady improvement and a rather conservative approach to adding new features have always been the major traits of the OpenOffice.org project, and the upcoming version of the productivity suite is no exception. OpenOffice.org 3.0 is by no means a revolutionary release, but it does offer enough improvements and a few new features to make it a solid and desirable upgrade for most users.
- OpenOffice.org 3.0 Beta download: http://download.openoffice.org/3.0beta/
- Sun Report Builder: http://extensions.services.openoffice.org/project/reportdesign
- Sun PDF Import: http://extensions.services.openoffice.org/project/pdfimport
- Sun Presenter Console: http://extensions.services.openoffice.org/project/presenter-screen
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Microsoft Goes Open Source with Web Browsers
The company will use Google Chromium web browser as the foundation for its next browser.
Canonical Launches MicroK8s
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A New Raspberry Pi Board
The new board packs everything that you get in Raspberry Pi 3B+ in a smaller package.
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 Beta
The latest version strikes a balance between past and future.
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Thelio series is available for pre-order and will ship in early December.
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IBM is acquiring Red Hat, the most successful open source company.
Fedora 29 and Ubuntu 18.10 Released
New releases focus on boot time, new hardware, and modular design.
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An Amazing Transforming "Home" Theatre
This humble looking shed/small home is more than meets the eye. Artist Matthew Mazzotta was invited by the Coleman Center for the Arts to work with the community of York, Alabama to "recreate a living room outdoors in the middle of the street". What he came up with is an unbelievable transformation act...
Matthew Mazzotta's Open House transforming theatre for the community of York, Alabama was made from material from an abandoned home and reconfigured into an architectural puzzle box capable of unfolding into an open air theater offering seating for one hundred people.
The transformation requires four people and one and a half hours to unfold into its theatre form, making community and cooperation the heart and soul of the building. Once opened out, five rows of stadium seating offer guests an opportunity to sit back and enjoy a movie, free for the public. When the theater is folded back up into the shape of a house, the property around Open House operates as a public park. Wondrous!
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Weekend Picks - Saturday, September 22, 2012
Make Up Call
What: What's the secret to perfect skin? Find out from Bobbi Brown international makeup artist Miguel Collado at Lei Chic's first-ever Beauty Boutique! It's all part of a luxurious night of free makeovers, massages and more at the 19,000-square foot Beauty World inside DFS Galleria Waikiki. Check in with us, enjoy free pupu and drinks, then get pampered by some of the world's top beauty brands. Fill in your stamp card and take home a goodie bag of beauty samples, on us! Don't forget to RSVP for a chance to win a free mini-facial, skin care analysis and personal shopping assistance, courtesy of DFS Galleria's Beauty Concierge.
When: Thursday, 5-8 p.m.
Where: DFS Galleria Waikiki, 330 Royal Hawaiian Ave.
Details: Free admission. To RSVP, send an email with your name, address and phone number. Parking is validated at the Waikiki Trade Center for up to two hours. Visit Lei Chic's Facebook and Twitter for Beauty Boutique updates throughout the week.
My Boys
What: We loved Blossom and Beverly Hills 90210, but when it comes to Old Navy's newest '90s throwback, we're kind of torn. Sure, seeing all five Backstreet Boys together again makes us scream like our former 12-year-old selves, but seeing them on-screen for less than seven seconds? Incredibly disappointing. Old Navy fail.
Details: Click here to watch.
The Big Pictures
What: Start planning now. The Hawaii International Film Festival just released its full lineup and it's a doozy - 219 films from 43 countries and the launch of "Creative Lab," a series of workshops and discussions on various aspects of filmmaking. We've already circled our calendars for Silver Linings Playbook, starring Robert De Niro, Bradley Cooper and Jennifer Lawrence, The Soul of Bread, a film about a pastry chef who travels to Taiwan in search of his roots, and New Media Academy, a panel discussion on the evolution of Internet filmmaking.
When: October 11-21.
Where: Regal Dole Cannery Stadium 18 Theatres.
Details: $12 general admission, $10 seniors, military, students, children, $8 HIFF Ohana members. Tickets go on sale Monday for HIFF members and Friday for the general public. Click here to view the full schedule.
Right Wings
What: Attention, Maui shoppers! Head down to Paia this Wednesday and be the first to shop new fall collections by Robin's Apparel Maui and BoxEleven.
When: Wednesday, 6-9 p.m.
Where: Wings Hawaii, 71 Baldwin Ave., Paia, Maui.
Details: Check Wings Hawaii on Facebook for specific trunk show sales.
Who: Cinnamon Girl, Oahu locations only
Deal: Free headphones with the purchase of any regular-priced Desigual clothing, while supplies last.
Who: Tory Burch, Ala Moana Center, Royal Hawaiian Center and online
Deal: Up to 40 percent off pre-fall styles.
Who: DVF, Ala Moana Center and online
Deal: 30 percent of pre-fall styles with the code SURPRISE.
Who: 7 For All Mankind
Deal: 30 percent off select styles with the code FDD300912.


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Follow along with the live reports from Gillette Stadium as three local teams compete for the state champion titles in their respective divisions.
Members of the Daily News sports staff will be tweeting Friday and Saturday from Gillette. We've also added the Twitter accounts for the local high schools, which are competing.
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|System: Xbox 360, PS3
|Dev: CyberConnect2
|Pub: Capcom
|Release: February 21, 2012
|Players: 1
|Screen Resolution: 480p-1080p
by Robert VerBruggen
At first glance, Asura's Wrath looks incredibly promising. The game features big-budget graphics, an interesting, violent comic-book aesthetic, and gameplay elements that draw on everything from God of War to fighting games to third-person shooters. What's more, the main character's abilities change as the story progresses, which should give developer CyberConnect2 a chance to keep the gameplay fresh. It looks like it has the potential to become one of the first must-play action games of 2012.
At first glance.
Unfortunately, a demo just dropped on Xbox LIVE and PSN, and after taking the fifteen minutes or so required to defeat the two included bosses, I'm very, very worried. Yes, the graphics are terrific, there are hints of a bizarre and amusing story, and the developers managed to incorporate a wide range of gameplay styles. But what should be an interesting combination of disparate elements instead feels like a pointless hodgepodge of ideas that don't work together. It's possible that the demo isn't representative of the game as a whole—in fact, I think these boss battles might work a lot better as the culmination of longer stages with lots of normal enemies, as opposed to the focus of an entire demo. But if the demo is supposed to turn me on to the idea of spending $60 on Asura's Wrath, it didn't work.
The influence of God of War—as well as other games inspired by God of War—is immediately apparent. While the visual style here is a bit more cartoonish, the developers didn't hesitate to create massive, powerful bosses that require you to home in on a weakness. There's even a gauge you can fill by successfully landing attacks. Instead of just giving you an attack bonus when you activate it, however, this "Burst Gauge" actually triggers cutscenes and helps advance the plot.
Another element stolen from God of War and its ilk, unfortunately, is a heavy reliance on quick time events. I don't hate QTEs as much as some gamers do—used correctly, they can add variety to the gameplay and make cutscenes interactive and tense. Too often, however, these boss battles felt like nothing more than a long succession of nagging prompts: Hit X! Move the left stick right and the right stick left at the same time! Hit Y, but make sure you get the timing right! Hammer the B button as fast as you can! Even during normal combat, the game often shoves prompts in your face that allow you to evade attacks or perform special moves.
The other gameplay styles on display in the demo aren't a whole lot more successful. The melee fighting seems to work fine—I especially enjoyed beating up the second boss, who requires you to jump over his projectiles before running up to him and punching him—but there isn't enough of it in the demo to tell whether it can sustain an entire game. The third-person shooting is an utter disaster thanks to its horrific control scheme. For some reason, the left joystick not only moves your character's feet, but also moves the aiming reticle across the screen, and you can't invert the Y axis for aiming. (This is especially weird when you consider that you can invert the Y axis for the camera, which is a lot less likely to get you killed if you move it the wrong way.) You can also lock on to your targets, which drains the challenge.
The control woes don't end there. The basic setup needlessly deviates from the industry standard for these kinds of games; for example, on the Xbox 360, the melee attack is on the B button instead of X and/or Y, and the dodge maneuver is awkwardly relegated to the right bumper instead of being placed on the right stick or given a face button. The options menu seems to suggest that multiple control schemes will be added at some point, but I couldn't find a way to change this in the demo.
My final complaint is that the demo is exceedingly easy. It's possible the developers did this intentionally, and the final product will be tougher, but I beat both bosses on my first try. Also, I noticed that the quick time events allow you to push the wrong buttons before pushing the right ones, which made them practically impossible to miss.
In fairness, this is just a demo, and it's possible that the problem is with the demo rather than the game itself. Maybe these QTE-heavy boss battles are intended to be cinematic experiences that top off long stages, rather than a core part of the experience. And maybe the game's over-the-top sense of spectacle—one fight takes place on the moon—will be impressive enough to paper over its flaws. But the powers that be at CyberConnect2 and Capcom chose these two segments to promote the game, so to a certain extent it's fair to make judgments about them. And in my view, the logical judgment is that Asura's Wrath won't be nearly as fun as it looks.
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Traffic doesn't just happen it takes a lot of focused activity and hard work to generate consistent high levels of traffic to your website or other social media platforms. However, the way to make this job both easier and more targeted is to take a step back and start from a more strategic place than the day-to-day numbers. By far the best way to think about your traffic is in terms of your overall vision for your organisation's social media marketing. Your bigger vision is what holds everything you do in your company together. It is the cement between the various bricks that build your business. In order to get the greatest return on your traffic generating endeavours you need to have a specific vision for your social media marketing. This subdivision, which will by definition be connected to your overall company vision, will help you define specific sub level goals for your traffic generating activities that work towards your main company vision. Often businesses skip on the visioning because they feel that it is a glib, pie in the sky statement and won't provide any tangible benefits to the business. However, when visions are put together correctly they can be the catalyst that shifts you from just another company in your niche to one of the thought changers or brand leaders in your industry.
"a computer on every desk in every home." Microsoft's initial vision statement which spearheaded the company to global success.
A clear social media marketing vision will help to create a mental picture of what you are trying to achieve so that your team will be focused and highly motivated, energised and inspired to achieve it. The social media marketing vision statement should:
- Be clear and easy to understand.
- State the standard of excellence you aim to achieve with your social media.
- Inspire commitment and enthusiasm to the principles of using social media in your organisation.
- Make clear the direction and purpose of your social media marketing.
- Force you to step outside your comfort zone to where the magic happens by being ambitious and thinking outside the box.
- Be generated in collaboration with your customers.
The common denominator for companies who are successful at using social media is the ability to deliver a superior experience – that is an experience that is so rewarding for the user that they are compelled by the desire to share it with others. This type of interactive communication is not born of product specification. It is the result of a company's vision; something that is beyond simply the efficient working of the parts. Imagine for example that your vision for your social media is to provide honest, clear, two-way communication channels. The way you go about delivering this will be completely different to a company with no clear vision and a target to increase traffic by x% in the next 3 months. The first is a vision driven by the customer experience whilst the second is based on an outcome for the company.
So why is the former better for traffic? It is really very simple; social media is in essence the new, old town square. In bygone years, the town square was where people got to know the lowdown on the places to get the best provisions. It worked by peer recommendation not mass communicated advertising. The business that ended up with the most customers and hence the most profit, was the one providing the "best "goods because people shared their thoughts and opinions in the town square.
Fast forward to the 21st-century and enter the Internet and social media. Millions of people are participating in a virtual town square; making sure that they are talking about your goods and services is dependent on making sure their experience of them is in their view, worth shouting about (good things of course). Your company's social media vision should be the codifying statement that regularly reminds you of this.