You might remember my friend, Jim, who continues to beg his hummingbirds to land on his finger. Well, my mother (who is very fond of hummingbirds) sent these photos on to me this evening. This woman has been studying hummingbirds. One morning she put the cup from the feeder in her hand. Since the birds had become accustomed to her standing by the feeder, they didn’t hesitate to land on her hand. She says that their touch is as “light as a feather.” Her husband took these photos.
Check out the hummingbird below with no wing motion - these birds are one with this woman.
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The image above is from National Geographic, photographed by Ken Geiger. His rose-colored perspective on Stonehenge appeals to my heart, as I’ve been enamored with this pagan monument since I was a child. Now, the news is that this monument marks a burial ground that’s been around since 3000 BCE. This means that cremation (the bodies were burned, according to National Geographic) and burial was common - at least for the elite - at least 250-500 years before the first “novel,” Gilgamesh, was writtten.
Now this…
The above photo was taken from 100 Word Minimum, and it shows a replica of Stonehenge made from styrofoam (I don’t have a photo as every time I pass this structure it’s raining…). This is Foamhenge, created by Mark Cline and erected on property owned by Natural Bridge along Hwy 11 in Virginia. What I think is sort of serendipitous is that this structure may be sitting on land that once belonged to one of my fifth great-grandfathers, a man who had two wives and about 13 kids, all of whom are buried nearby (ooh-wee-oooh).
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by Solveig Haugland, June 2008
This is another article in my series showing the similarities
between OpenOffice.org and Microsoft Office (pre-Office 2007).
Using a new product requires some re-learning. That’s unavoidable. But you rarely have to learn an entirely new set of skills - it’s just that the new stuff sticks out at us. This article is to emphasize the similarities between the OpenOffice.org Impress and Microsoft Office PowerPoint presentation tools. These are the things you can instantly do with no relearning. I hope that not only will this show some of the similarities but will show you some shortcuts you might not have known about in either program.
Read on, mon cher! »
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oooPortal.com - The worldwide portal for OpenOffice.org users was launched Prague, the Czech Republic, 26 May 2008 - Today a gate to the virtual city of users of OpenOffice.org from the whole world was opened. The users get their own portal where they can find the fresh information, articles, directions, templates, extensions or discussion forum.
The target of the project oooPortal.com is to offer an opportunity for mutual communication and sharing information among OpenOffice.org´s users, thereby one of the great communities of users in the world should be created.
Portal stands on an open-source content management system Drupal which ensures further spreading of function of project in the future. The users can start their own blog at the portal where they can write about their office package experiences and can publish not only their trips and tricks, but also inform about their personal life, which is a typical feature of a blog. They can also publish their templates, extensions etc.
“Similar portal was missed by community of users for a long time. We decided to allow them the flexibility for sharing information and thus to help the whole project OpenOffice.org. The current version of the portal is only a starting line for the whole project, we prepare a row of interesting functions, for example multi-lingual support.” says Filip Molcan, the author of the project.
“We are the company which puts up its products on open-source projects and, among others, the company tries to return what it takes away from open-source projects by this way.” sums up Filip Molcan.
OpenOffice.org is one of the open-source key applications and represents adequate substitute for MS Office. It contains a text editor, spreadsheet, presentation tool, database tool, graphics editor and also a mathematical expression editor. It uses opened format Open Document for document saving which became the official ISO standard for document formats in 2006. OpenOffice.org is available in most of used languages and supports MS Windows, MacOS X, Linux, Solaris and the other operating systems.
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