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PRETORIA, SOUTH AFRICA - MARCH 10, 2009 - The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) and International Organization for Migration (IOM) in Southern Africa launched a new program to reduce HIV vulnerability of farm workers in South Africa's Limpopo and Mpumalanga Provinces.
BAGHDAD, IRAQ -The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) Mission Director Christopher D. Crowley and Future Agriculture Development Organization (FADO) Chairman Hyder Mohan participated in a ribbon-cutting ceremony to begin a program that will help invigorate Iraq's horticultural industry.
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WASHINGTON, D.C. - MARCH 9, 2009 - Today, U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) Counselor Lisa Chiles administered the oath of office to William Hammink as the agency's new director in Sudan. Sudan is facing a critical time in its development, and the U.S. government is continuing its commitment to supporting the peace process and saving lives. The U.S. government is the largest donor to Sudan, and Hammink will manage USAID's program, which amounts to nearly a billion dollars a year.
WASHINGTON, D.C. - The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) and the Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC) announced February 20 the launched of a new initiative that will use OPIC's Enterprise Development Network (EDN) to provide technical assistance to small-and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in sub-Saharan Africa.
AMMAN, JORDAN - At a ceremony yesterday hosted by the U.S. Agency for International Development's Acting Administrator Alonzo Fulgham and Her Excellency Ms. Maha Khatib, the Minister of Tourism and Antiquities, USAID launched its new tourism initiative designed to support the tourism industry in Jordan and improve its competitiveness. Under the new initiative, USAID will provide support for three new projects over the next five years.
BAGHDAD, IRAQ -Iraqi Minister of Water Resources Dr. Abdul Latif Jamal Rashid and U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) Deputy Mission Director Thomas R. Delaney today inaugurated an irrigation symposium focused on improving farm productivity through effective water management and crop selection.
WASHINGTON, D.C. - In the past year, the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) Child Blindness Program assisted over one million people through eye health education, comprehensive vision screening, refractive error correction, sight-restoring surgery, and education for blind children.
BAGHDAD, IRAQ - The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) handed over management for pension reform assistance to the World Bank today. USAID's economic advisors, in conjunction with its Iraqi counterparts, drafted a progressive pension law and introduced structural changes to deliver sustainable and adequate retirement incomes for past and present Iraqi government employees.
WASHINGTON, D.C. - The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) is providing $100,000 in response to the heavy rainfall on February 15 and 16 in Columbia. Due to the rains, the Mira River in southwestern Colombia overflowed, causing extensive flooding in Tumaco municipality, Nariño Department in Colombia which left at least one dead and affected an estimated 31,250 people.
BOGOTA, COLOMBIA - William R. Brownfield, U.S. Ambassador to Colombia; Ana Noguera, Vice-Minister of Labor Affairs; Marcelo Castro Fox, Director of the International Labor Organization and Teresa Casertano, Solidarity Center's Regional Program Director for Latin America, launched Trade Union Strengthening in Colombia, a new U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) funded labor rights and union strengthening program.
CHIMOIO, MOZAMBIQUE - The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and Coca-Cola have formed a global alliance - the Water and Development Alliance (WADA) - to provide clean, potable water to Mozambique's sixth largest urban region, Chimoio. This alliance brings together funding commitments from all partners totaling about $1.79 million, of which $500,000 comes from USAID.
BAGHDAD, IRAQ - The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), in partnership with the Karkh District Council, neighborhood councils, and the U.S. military, opened the Al Shawakeh Fish Market today to stimulate employment and business opportunities in the community.
In his remarks at the opening, USAID Deputy Mission Director Thomas R. Delaney said, "The revival of this market shows how committed the Iraqis are in seeing their economy-and people-recover and grow." He also said he hoped that the market will be seen as a center of community pride and prosperity
WASHINGTON, D.C. - Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton's first foreign trip involved several Asian countries and also included a site visit to a USAID project in Indonesia. During the day she spent in Jakarta, she met with the President, Prime Minister and Secretary General for ASEAN. As part of her ongoing dialogue with Indonesian counterparts, she repeatedly emphasized the need for cooperation and the importance of development.
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(New York, N.Y.) The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced today that an additional treatment technology will be added to the existing treatment plant at the Dewey Loeffel Landfill Superfund site in Nassau, Rensselaer County, New York. The plant, which began operating in January 2014, is treating liquids seeping from the landfill, called leachate, and contaminated groundwater. The new treatment system is being added to further address the long-term treatment of the chemical 1,4-dioxane, a stabilizer and solvent that is also a component of some cosmetics, detergents and shampoos. The new system will be in place by November 2014.
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Olara Otunnu has been elected president of the Uganda People's Congress, a major opposition party, receiving 623 delegate votes, with his nearest rival winning 180 votes.
The election of the former United Nations Under Secretary General immediately boosts the party's prospects going into next year's presidential elections.
It was not a smooth process to reach the election day. Otunnu narrowly escaped what many believe was an assassination attempt in December, when vehicles belonging to the Presidential Guard Brigade of Yoweri Museveni allegedly forced his vehicle off a main highway, forcing it to crash.
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Voting started late Saturday evening and ended early Sunday morning; the total was still being tallied even after 2am East Africa Time.
"The power of the people is greater than the power of the government." Otunnu had declared upon his return to Uganda, urging supporters to embrace the power of the ballot box as the antidote to government bullying.
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Pts can bring their own at my hospital with MD order, but here's the catch, the pharmacy must inspect and verify(and of course charge for these services). No narc or sleeping pills etc allowed due to federal regulations regarding storage or so we have been told.
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We're in the process of opening an observation unit and trying to make things as simple as possible. THe first idea we had was to allow patients to do just that, BYOP, especially as Medicare does not pay for medications in true observation patients. Then the idea went to pharmacy. Shot down like a sweaty guy in a bar. First, we would have to submit all of the patients meds to pharmacy so they could verify that they are what the patient says they are. Then we would have to design a secure area to hold said medications in as the docs and pharmacy didn't really want the patients to have access at any time to their own meds, most notably the narcs. What seemed like a simple and easy idea spiraled into a convoluted mess and ended up being dropped as an idea.
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- Fri Aug 28, 08:04:00 PM CDT
- Dreaming again said...
my last hospital stay ..they would not allow me to bring in my own medicines. Insurance wouldn't pay for meds in pill form (because they'd already paid for that days supply and they're not going to pay for the same med twice is the supposed reasoning) So I wound up with a bill of $2400 for medications that I already had in my possession.
(yes, I'm on some pricey meds)
however ..there were 3 meds I take routinely that they did not have in stock ..and there was no substitute ... so they let me take my own. Go figure.
- Fri Aug 28, 10:02:00 PM CDT
Hey Wes: Great post. More common sense. On the subject of common sense and saving money on meds, I put together a website for my patients (www.MyDrugRebate.com) that gives people access to manufacturer rebates on branded drugs. The drug reps think it is our job to tell people about these deals but the truth is that we don't have the time to hand out discount cards. Some of these rebates are huge, $600! in a couple of cases. Only catch is can't use them with Medicare or Medicaid.
- Fri Aug 28, 11:59:00 PM CDT
- The Happy Hospitalist said...
I tried for years to get our pharmacy to allow patients to bring their own pills for observation patients. Too much work for the pharmacisits and too much "liability".
So not only can patients not take their own pills, they are charged 10X the cost by the hospital since medications are not included in observation charges.
It's a racket.
If I was ever admitted to a hospital observation status, I would refuse all my home pills the hospital was trying to give me and take my own. Or have my family member bring them in.
- Sat Aug 29, 10:44:00 AM CDT
If I was ever admitted to a hospital observation status, I would refuse all my home pills the hospital was trying to give me and take my own. Or have my family member bring them in.
My last in-patient stay, my room nurse told my wife to remove all home meds from the room or she would notify my hospitalist that I was "non-compliant" and would have security escort my wife from the hospital.
I had been admitted to a floor from the ER, had brought my meds along for med history, my wife took control of the meds for when she went home that P.M. and I never said/did anything to lead them to believe that I would use my own meds instead of hospital pharmacy meds. Just the fact that she had them along while they were settling me in my room was enough to almost get her ejected and me a black mark on my med record.
- Sun Aug 30, 01:35:00 AM CDT
As a registered nurse, home meds are a nightmare because they can be expired, discontinued, or cross-react with new meds; And how do we document them, as we have no orders, and we are not allowed to work without orders. As a mother, family caregiver, and patient I have used my own and given home meds to family while in the hospital.
There is no common sense involved, it all goes back to liability and lawyers........
- Sun Aug 30, 07:23:00 PM CDT
- Lisa said...
The frustrating thing to me is that when I'm home, I take my medications at 7 am and 7 pm. It's down to a habit now and I don't miss medications. I'm on the lowest dose of most of my medications because they are taken like they are supposed to be. When I go into the hospital, usually I have to remind the (way too busy) nurses that I need to take medications and half the time the admitting doctors have failed to write orders for them (or so I'm told.) It becomes insulting to me to be treated like an imbecile who can't properly manage taking pills that I manage better than they do.
- Mon Aug 31, 02:51:00 PM CDT
- Chris said...
In my hospital, patients can bring in and take their home medications with MD approval. The meds are sent for verification to the pharmacy, where the patient's container is labeled with a barcode compatible with our computer med administration checking. Then they are kept in the patient's drawer in the unit's med room and dispensed by the nurse until the patient goes home. From my perspective as a nurse, this system works very well with very little hastle.
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SUNDAY, July 3, 2011 (HealthDay News) -- "I had my eye removed on May 29, which was a Sunday."
That's the way Patricia Kearns, 62, of Ft. Lauderdale, Fla., began the tale of the 1988 fireworks injury that led to the loss of her right eye.
As she tells it, Kearns and her husband lived in a lovely home along a canal. That evening they were hosting a dinner party for about 100 people, honoring the new president of a local Catholic high school where her husband was on the board.
A string quartet played as people chatted and ate. "It's not like people were jumping around with lampshades on their heads," Kearns said. "This was a pretty conservative crowd."
The party began winding down about 10:30 p.m., and by 11 p.m., enough people had left to allow Kearns to shed her hostess duties and enjoy a drink herself. The quartet continued to play at her request.
Then out of nowhere, she heard an odd statement. "Someone made a comment about, 'Oh, are those fireworks? Why are they shooting at us?'" Kearns recalled.
A pair of 13-year-old boys in a backyard across the canal had taken out some bottle rockets and were firing them at the people left at Kearns's party.
Kearns didn't have time to process anything else. "I just remember this wave of pressure on the right side of my face," she said. "The next thing I knew, I was on the ground and someone was saying, 'Keep her head up!'"
Emergency workers took her to a local hospital, and the decision was made to transfer her immediately to Bascom Palmer Eye Institute at the University of Miami's Miller School of Medicine. She arrived by ambulance in the wee hours of the morning.
Kearns's doctor at the institute told her that they were going to try to save her eye, and that she would undergo surgery that afternoon. She recalls having little hope.
"I knew I was going to lose my eye," she said. "I just knew. I remember during the initial examination, someone saying, 'That's her cornea on her eyelash.' I thought they'd try to salvage what they could, but it was just gone."
She woke up after the operation with a pressure bandage on her face. She was told that the damage had been too extensive and that they'd had to remove her eye.
The Kearnses reported the incident to the police, but the boys were never charged with a crime, she said. But, the Kearnses did collect a $1 million settlement from a civil suit, which she said they donated to Bascom Palmer.
Kearns underwent reconstructive surgery and now uses a hand-painted prosthetic eye made of dental plastic. "If you saw me, you wouldn't know I'm missing an eye, and then you'd wonder which eye it was," she said.
All told, Kearns said, she counts her blessings.
"I'm lucky to be alive, and I'm lucky only one eye was affected," she said. "I could have been totally blinded."
But she still misses her right eye.
"There's a part of me that still says, 'Why did this happen?'" Kearns said. "But I know why it happened. These kids were unsupervised, and these fireworks are dangerous things."
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Guy Arab on the Pear Tree Estate, Rugely 1976: photo by Walsall 1965, 2 May 2010
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1. Term created in the 60s to denote diffused electroacoustic music works in concert offering the listener a "sound spectacle".
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Who wants to be a superprofessor when that requires having Coursera step all over your traditional prerogatives? Here's Karen Head, who's working on a Freshman Comp MOOC at Georgia Tech:
We quickly discovered that we must also negotiate with some unexpected outside constituencies. A representative from Coursera (the platform we must use) contacted recipients of the Gates MOOC grants asking all the recipients to form a collaborative led by a Coursera representative to discuss course design. While the explicit message was one of helpfulness, the implicit message felt intrusive and seemed more about Coursera's desire to ensure a certain continuity of experience for its users…
While all university instructors are subject to certain parameters, like established regulations regarding curriculum, I have never had to concern myself with any kind of conformity of delivery.
I'm really glad she's going to be blogging this experience at Wired Campus for the next few months as I'm really interested in MOOC design, but since failure is not an option for Coursera and the Gates Foundation I predict this will not end well from Head's point of view.
Who wants to be a superprofessor when, according to NBC News, Philip Zelikow had to spend "hundreds of hours" preparing for a course that he's been teaching for 16 years? I've seen enough of his course to know that's accurate.
I'm not just talking about the polish of Zelikow's lectures here. Think about it: If I want to change what history I cover, all I have to do is edit my online syllabus and talk about something different that day. Zelikow probably needs to get Coursera to change the website for him, as well as a camera crew. It would be like trying to do a three-point turn with an ocean liner.
There's a line in that NBC News story from the amazing Siva V. that's sure to become an instant classic:
"Imagine taking a university and removing all the really fun stuff," Vaidyanathan said. "And all you're left with is me talking to you through a camera. That's not that good for anybody."
He's obviously talking about MOOCs from the student perspective, but the very last part of that quote suggests that this sentiment applies equally well to the superprofessors.


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NEW YORK (Reuters) - JPMorgan Chase & Co canceled a question and answer session on Twitter with a veteran investment banker after being flooded with insults, highlighting the risks companies take as they experiment with social media marketing.
"Bad idea! Back to the drawing board," spokesman Brian Marchiony said by email on Wednesday evening after the event with bank executive Jimmy Lee was called off.
JPMorgan last week asked users of the popular microblogging site to send questions marked with the hashtag #AskJPM in advance of the session set for Thursday at 1 p.m. in New York.
Few questions appeared until Wednesday afternoon when responses started piling in. Some users simply made fun of the bank's attempt to use social media, but many others chose to insult executives or ask barbed questions about bank's recent legal problems and corporate responsibility.
"Reading the #AskJPM Twitter feed makes it seem JPM put a 'kick me' sticker on its back when it rolled out that hashtag," wrote a user who identified himself as an editor and columnist.
A woman who said she was a community organizer and "next gen freedom fighter" asked if Lee, a vice chairman and deal rainmaker at the bank, thought it was "ok to outright lie, cheat and steal."
A woman called Charlotte mocked the bank's attempt at social media outreach as an "epic derailment" and asked: "Is it true that, while you don't always spit on poor people, when you do, you have perfect aim?"
A blogger and online journalist asked about the scale of the bank's alleged wrongdoing in electric energy trading compared with that in its sales of mortgage securities. Another user known as "Guerrilla Educator" asked if anyone in Lee's family had ever been foreclosed upon.
The company's tweets last week said Lee had been part of Wall Street's biggest deals and had worked with Dell Inc and General Motors Co. The tweets said Lee would "answer your questions on leadership and life."
JPMorgan was an underwriter of Twitter's recent initial public offering of stock.
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White lab coats shuffling through a doctor�s office may seem intimidating to a child.
White lab coats shuffling through a doctor�s office may seem intimidating to a child.
Organizers of an event at the Schiele Museum in Gastonia on Saturday hope elementary and middle school students overcome any fears by interacting with local health care employees.
�Bodies, Bellies and Brains: A Child�s Health Fair� is a free event with dozens of booths. The Schiele hosts the fair in hopes children will enjoy themselves while learning. Kids can participate in a jump rope competition, learn about making a cast for broken bones, watch CPR demonstrations and inspect a set of real lungs.
Dental health demonstrations by the Gaston County Health Department are also among activities scheduled.
�If the weather is good, a lot of the stations are set up outside in the parking lot and the Backcountry Farm area,� said Debbie Windley, museum advancement director. �We�ll be using about every square foot we have in the museum.�
More than 500 people attended last year�s health fair. Kids can talk with health care employees about how they became interested in their professions and what tools their jobs utilize.
Simulated waiting and exam rooms will allow children to examine teddy bears and baby dolls to learn how medical processes work.
�One of the main goals of this is to provide information for families, to help kids become more comfortable,� she said.
The health fair is presented by the Gaston County Medical Society Alliance and through a grant from the Community Foundation of Gaston County. Other sponsors include CaroMont Health and Jump X-Treme Fitness.
Want to go?
What: Bodies, Bellies and Brains: A Child�s Health Fair
When: 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday, March 23
Where: The Schiele Museum, 1500 E. Garrison Blvd., Gastonia
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I have a very poor short term memory (4 concussions, yaaaay), so sometimes I forget if I've given an order to a unit to change its stance in the past or not. I can't always tell based on the pose of the unit because when it's mostly behind the cover of a full height wall, it's difficult to see.
Is there any trick or shortcut or some sort of unit status window I'm missing, or is it actually just a matter of remembering?


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#include<lcd.h>float numberofpulsesperrotation = 8.0;float wheeldiameter = 1; // assume 1 meter BIG wheelfloat wheelsize = 3.14159265 * wheeldiameter; // or 2* PI * radius)void setup(){...}void loop(){ ... if (timetorefreshscreen()) { float distance = numberofpulses * wheelsize / numberofpulsesperrotation; float speed = 60 * wheelsize * numberofpulsesinlastminute/numberofpulsesperrotation/1000; // KM/h lcd.print(distance); lcd.print(speed); }}bool timetorefreshscreen(){... return true;}
That guy didn't use diameter of the wheel.
const float CIRCUMFERENCE = 3.0F;const long PULSES_PER_REV = 8;volatile int pulse_count = 0;long timems = 0;// interrupt service routinevoid addPulse(){ pulse_count++;}// Returns speed in distance unit per second. So, if circumference was given in meters, // this would give m/s, and you would multiply it by 3.6 to get speed in km/h and display that.float speed(){ //assuming you won't keep the speedometer running for longer than one month in one go. long time_diff = millis() - timems; //That's too fast. Not resetting counters before returning so that the next measurement could still succeed. //This could also return a negative number instead of 0.0F for failed measurements and you could ignore them. if (time_diff <= 0.0F) return 0.0F; float v = CIRCUMFERENCE * pulse_count * 1000.0F / ( time_diff * PULSES_PER_REV ); //reset for next measurement pulse_count = 0; timems = millis(); return v;}void setup(){ timems = millis(); attachInterrupt(0, addPulse, RISING);}void loop(){// call speed() at sensible intervals and update the reading to LCD...}
I do not have any code to get to the speed part. I have just opened programming textbooks!! I know nothing about coding as of now. However I want to say a thing, which is, a few days back one of my friends did this coding for a PIC mC on the same bike using the same sensor. I dont have terms with him anymore. That guy didn't use diameter of the wheel. The project was to actuate some solenoids once a certain bike speed is reached. All I know is he used some time period calculations to calculate and display the speed on the LCD and the best part was the speed which he got displayed on project LCD was same as the one being displayed on the bike manufacturer's LCD instrument cluster(its a 150 cc motor bike). Now I need such a code which can give me the speed on my project lcd. As I had said, I could use any I/O pin on Arduino for speed detection. I have the I2C LCD library etc and I can display anything on it from a sketch(I copy pasted the codes from net!).
You cannot derive the speed from the frequency of the pulses.If a wheel of 36 inches diameter rotates at the same rate as one of 24 inches diameter (or any other diameter for that matter) the pulse rate will be the same but the bike will be going at a different speed.


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- Eva Longoria Parker and Victoria Beckham are looking extraordinarily unlike themselves, even by the debased standards of airbrushed celebrity pictures, in these print ads for some LG phone. [SB]
- Anna Wintour is thinking about the Internet. "We're currently working very hard on the relaunch of our Web site, which is going to have [interactive] components. That's really uppermost in our mind." Vogue.com's separation from Style.com is ongoing. [WSJ]
- Industry heavyweight Iconix Brand Group just bought the master licensing rights to all the Charlie Brown characters for $175 million. [AP]
- Rachel Bilson is set to become Sunglass Hut's first ever "eyewear ambassador." This involves making public appearances Celebrities. They'll do anything for a buck. [WWD]
- Relatedly, Mischa Barton has a handbag line now. She says she has "yet to decide" what her next acting part will be. [DS]
- Naomi Campbell gave an interview about a gala she is hosting in Moscow to raise money for Dasha Zhukova's charity. Shame on Reuters for not asking the supermodel about that blood diamond/war criminal thing. [Reuters]
- Rachel Hunter and her daughter with Rod Stewart, Renee, are new faces of Pantene in Australia and New Zealand. [SB]
- Karl Lagerfeld shot model Emily Didonato wearing Eres lingerie, and then wearing Chanel clothes over Eres lingerie. So in May, when the pictures go up on Eres' website, you'll be able to dress (and undress) her like a paper doll. (Turns out Eres is owned by Chanel, hence the co-branding.) Sadly there's no loony quote from Lagerfeld, so we shall supply one: "Paper dolls are wonderful for their flatness and their simplicity. We are all like paper dolls if you think about it. Or at least we should be." [WWD]
- There's a rumor going around that Jeremy Piven's character on Entourage will spend the next season outfitted entirely in Domenico Vacca, presumably in some kind of weird exclusive product placement deal. [P6]
- Gucci has donated $1.5 million to Martin Scorsese's foundation, to pay for the restoration and digitalization of film classics. The latest to benefit from Frida Giannini's largess? Luchini Visconti's Il Gattopardo, which will premiere at Cannes in a restored digital print. [WWD]
- In other news of unusual Italian fashion charitable giving, Diego Della Valle of Tod's is donating an undisclosed sum to help restore the Coliseum. [WWD]
- All of yesterday, Tavi Gevinson's blog was down, with a Google Terms of Use Violation message posted in its place. Turns out that the 14-year-old posted this Spring, 1998, Yohji Yamamoto campaign image featuring Maggie Rizer, and the nudity may have led a reader to flag it. Google later said, "the blog in question was mistakenly taken down by our automated system," apologized to Gevinson, and re-instated the blog, but presumably to be on the safe side, she has not re-posted the picture. You can still see it here. [WSJ]
- These are Giorgio Armani's sketches for the dresses worn by Scarlett Johansson and Gwyneth Paltrow at the Los Angeles Iron Man 2 premiere. [Vogue UK]
- Meanwhile, after a week-long delay courtesy of the Icelandic volcano, Armani flew to Dubai to open his branded hotel in the Burj Khalifa tower. "I wanted something very important, something to be remembered," Armani said [AP]
- Nine West hired Joss Stone as a celebrity endorser/"designer." Three styles in Nine West's Vintage America sub-brand, costing $70-$120, will bear some mark of Stone's involvement. Which makes so much sense, because as a Briton, Stone knows so much about the "rugged American individualism" Women's Wear Daily identifies as NWVA's hallmark...oh wait. [WWD]
- Giles Deacon says that, despite reports that have him accepting the creative directorship at Ungaro, there is nothing confirmed yet. [Vogue UK]
- "The other day I saw Rihanna in the stands in some Dodgers hoodie that I wasn't a fan of," says Alyssa Milano, who has a clothing line that is aimed at women sports fans. "I just called my publicist and said, 'You guys gotta send Rihanna some stuff!' So she'll be getting a good package." We're sure she'll appreciate it... [In Touch via AngryApe]
- Defense lawyers for the men who stand accused of robbing a London Graff store of millions worth of diamond jewelry argued that the store manager, a 17-year employee of the luxury jewelry chain, conspired with the alleged robbers to claim an insurance payout. [Guardian]
- Model Anna Jagodzinska likes to do Polish crosswords. [W]
- A charity for which Kelly Osbourne is an ambassador, the Prince's Trust, has pulled its endorsement of St. Tropez self-tanner, for which Kelly Osbourne is a face. Osbourne had stated in a video ad for the brand that getting a spray tan improved her self-esteem because she "immediately looked 10lb thinner." Linking self-esteem to thinness was problematic for the charity. But what the hell were they doing giving their imprimatur to an ad for fake tan in the first place? [Daily Mail]
- Tom Ford has a lipstick line. [Racked]
- Just in time for summer festivals, a new H&M collection dedicated to fighting AIDS (somehow) and outfitting you in cute, cheap tat for Glastonbury goes on sale on May 20. It includes a leopard-print tent, price unknown. [WWD]
- Anna Sui is adding tights, priced at $20-$40, to her offerings. [Fashionista]
- Estée Lauder's third quarter profits more than doubled on last year's (admittedly poor) results. Revenue rose 9%, to $1.86 billion, in the same period. [Crain's]
- Daphne Guinness's short film Mnemosyne goes head-to-head with two seasons of Isabella Rossellini's Green Porno series in the "Experimental & Weird" category of this year's Webby Awards. We hate to say this, because we're kind of obsessed with both of these ladies, but: Green Porno all the way. [Hintmag]
- Remember Kira Plastinina? Yeah, she's still kicking around. You just can't keep a teenaged-spawn-of-a-Russian-OJ-billionaire-who-wants-a-fashion-line down. [WWD]
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LinuxWorld.com.au: KOffice 2 on Windows
LinuxWorld.com.au spoke with our very own Sebastian Kügler, and is reporting about the future of porting KDE 4 and its applications to Windows in an article titled KDE's Windows Weapon: KOffice 2.0. "With OpenOffice.org receiving a lion's share of commercial support and market awareness for a free office suite, KOffice 2.0 has the potential to challenge its dominance with innovative features and a leaner code base." The article discusses the pros and cons of porting free software to proprietary platforms noting, "there is a community building around KDE on Windows and KDE e.V. sponsored a meeting to help people get the port to Windows going."
Re: waste of time
Ditto what fyanardi states above. There is also the argument about putting all of one's eggs in one basket. From what I understand, the OO.org code is so convoluted that not many people really grasp its full complexity. If it no longer suited Sun to sponsor development, the project would be in huge trouble.
I don't mind multiple approaches to the problem of developing an office suite by different teams. Yes, Koffice lacked momentum before but I hope it will gain traction now. My only request is that all different open source office projects should standardise on using ODF as the default format. It is open, accessible and relatively well documented and is not controlled by any one company. By all means, start as many office projects as you like, but please use this to save your document files in.
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And fourth: Never say never!
By Volker at Wed, 2007/10/10 - 5:00am
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By Kane at Thu, 2007/10/11 - 5:00am
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By Ivan Čukić at Sat, 2007/10/13 - 5:00am
Re: waste of time
OOo has performance issues, and includes Java for no good reason. The two major benefits of OOo is multiplatform support, and decent MS Office support.
KOffice is getting multiplatform support, and if improves on MS Office filters, it will surpass OOo in almost all regards.
And if I were a dev, I'd be more interested in working on KOffice because of the way Sun handles OOo development. They're driving away good developers and good contributions.
By T. J. Brumfield at Wed, 2007/10/10 - 5:00am
Re: waste of time
Fortunately what you do personally does not have any impact on KDE and KOffice. Personally I seldom use any office tools except to write the odd letter to the administration twice a year. That does not prevent me to have a broader vision of office suites. I tried a small laptop designed for emergent countries, the Classmate PC. It runs KDE but as office suite has OOorg. Let me say that starting this beast is very very slow. Schools (teachers and pupils) do not need a full featured suite, they need a lightweight one. Using ODF will anyway allow to share documents between all compatible suites if needed.
By Anne-Marie Mahfouf at Wed, 2007/10/10 - 5:00am
Re: waste of time
"I will personally never use Koffice, I find OpenOffice to be far better."
You made my day, troll!
I am the first to ackknowledge that everything has drawbacks etc..
Actually, his post is a good reason FOR doing exactly that.
By she at Wed, 2007/10/10 - 5:00am
Re: waste of time
Guide him to MS Office, no need to do anything for such an attitude.
Not even for working for OOo makes sense here as MS Office is better than OOo. And it runs via Wine on Linux as well.
By Philipp at Fri, 2007/10/12 - 5:00am
Re: waste of time
> I personally consider the porting of Koffice to windows, and even it's development to be a complete waste of time.
er, sorry you're missing a point from the article here. And I find it rather rude to demand developers to what you propose, and saying it's a downfall. Would it really be a downfall if we have KOffice as alternative (backup), or would it be a downfall if OpenOffice was "the only horse to bet on" and something went wrong? It's code is so complex only few want to volunteer working on it. OpenOffice depends on companies to pay developers working on it. From this perspective, KOffice has much a lot of potential.
So I ask to to consider, is it really a downfall to have an alternative? I agree the community shouldn't have 5 alternatives, but having only 1 option is worse in the long term. You *as user* might find OpenOffice superior, but people *as developers* might think different about this for the above reasons. And without developers we'll be... well you get it. :-)
A similar thing happens with Konqueror (KHTML) vs Firefox (Gecko). Did KDE have to ditch KHTML when Gecko got 10% market share? Because Firefox superior in the eyes of users? Apple evaluated KHTML and Gecko, and choose KHTML as their base for Safari/WebKit. Nokia did the same, and choose Webkit. Trolltech is looking for a HTML engine and chooses WebKit. They see potential in KHTML/WebKit because of the clean code base. In the short term Firefox is superior. In the long term I expect WebKit-based browsers to take over the world, not Gecko ones. Now compare OpenOffice vs KOffice again ;-)
By Diederik van de... at Wed, 2007/10/10 - 5:00am
not only a waste of time
This also counter productive, and scattering the devs across incompatible platforms:
Well done Koffice team!
By *** at Wed, 2007/10/10 - 5:00am
Re: not only a waste of time
> This also counter productive, and scattering the devs across incompatible platforms:
Off course Ballmer doesn't mind Open Source on top of Windows. Especially if the Open Source product supports Windows only. Microsoft is good at building roads that lead to Windows, while making the way out harder or next to impossible. (i.e. a better import then export function).
I wonder if Ballmer will still be saying the same after KDE supports Windows. KDE doesn't offer a lock-in strategy to enter Windows, but makes it easier to opt-out from Windows. It removes more barriers to get off Windows.
KDE, Qt and KOffice do this by offering a cross-platform framework that isn't controlled by a Microsoft lock-in agenda. So other software vendors can join in and build their software with the same frameworks. Which leaves their options open to switch to an other platform (like Linux) later. How bad is that? :-)
By Diederik van de... at Thu, 2007/10/11 - 5:00am
Re: not only a waste of time
> How bad is that? :-)
Both open-source and commercial software run on top of Windows, while only open-source software run on Linux. For example, the amount of commercial games on Linux is ridiculously low compared to the amount of titles for win32.
As a result, Windows remains the richest platform in terms of commercial and non-commercial offers. Businesses keep on making better software for win32, open-source developers get divided across platforms, and most computer users keep the standard, less risky platform choice.
The best bet is not to divide the efforts in porting, but to bring commercial attention (as in testing, developers, education, advertising, services) to the open platforms.
Unfortunately, the development is ego-driven, and most efforts are being thrown into fancy and unreal goals instead of the realistic and useful ones.
Re: not only a waste of time
We might not agree, but just something that did occur to me:
> The best bet is not to divide the efforts in porting, but to bring commercial
This sounds like the classic problem of "listen first, speak later". We're standing on a soap box advocating, but not listening. Only speaking how everyone should be doing stuff our way, but not listening to the needs of the people who'd love to join but can't make that switch yet. If we don't reach out, how can they ever reach out to us?
By Diederik van de... at Fri, 2007/10/12 - 5:00am
Re: not only a waste of time
Correct me if I'm wrong but wasn't half of the point of (and work that has been done on) KDE4 to create an API layer which basically creates a platform independent foundation for applications to run on top of, so it will not be development for incompatable platforms (apart, obviously, from the development of the API layer which will have to be platform dependent but provide the same hooks for programs on all platforms to use)
So it follows that if this is the case then when writing code for Koffice on QT4 running on windows you are writing code that will also run for Koffice on QT4 running on Linux.
Now I'm not a programmer so I may have got all of this wrong and if so I apologise but that is my understanding of the goals of KDE4, and of Koffice.
By Pob at Sun, 2007/10/14 - 5:00am
Re: not only a waste of time
"Now I'm not a programmer so I may have got all of this wrong and if so I apologise but that is my understanding of the goals of KDE4, and of Koffice."
No, you are precisely correct :) In theory, this is how it will work, but in practice, there may be some platform-specific quirks that slip through the net, so there may indeed be some "porting" required, but it should be fairly trivial.
By anon at Sun, 2007/10/14 - 5:00am
Re: waste of time
Sun also require's most all contributors to OpenOffice to transfer the copyright to Sun, so that they can release StarOffice as closed source. Theres been some controversy over that recently as well, with Sun wanting to rewrite some code someone else wrote (under the same license that OO.org is released under) because Sun wanted to be able to relicense it and the person didn't want to let them.
By Sutoka at Wed, 2007/10/10 - 5:00am
Re: waste of time
By Dolphin-fanatic :) at Fri, 2007/10/12 - 5:00am
Re: waste of time
Youre absolutely right. The only app thats worth something is Kword.. the others are and have allways been in an embarassing state. Koshell has been ridiculous for years.. its it still in 2,0?
By Jandersen at Thu, 2007/10/11 - 5:00am
Re: waste of time
"I will personally never use Koffice, I find OpenOffice to be far better."
When KOffice gets better than the competition, I doubt that you can still keep your words!
By jasper at Thu, 2007/10/11 - 5:00am
Re: waste of time
Open Source is all about choice !! That's why you'll always find many different programs performing the same tasks
By George at Fri, 2007/10/12 - 5:00am
Re: waste of time
I wonder - does the DOT finally got its own troll?
Wow, that would again mean that the DOT has become quite important (because otherwise the Troll wouldn't bother). Nice :D
By Hm.... at Fri, 2007/10/12 - 5:00am
Now also covered in Sweden
An article at idg.se, http://www.idg.se/2.1085/1.124616 , refers to the australian article, so now we see a little bit of coverage for Koffice in Sweden as well=)
By Peppe Bergqvist at Wed, 2007/10/10 - 5:00am
Re: Now also covered in Sweden
There is a story on Slashdot as well right now, linking to a Computerworld article. So there is plenty of exposure today.
Oddly, none of the articles prominently pimp flake support, the new music notation, etc.
By T. J. Brumfield at Wed, 2007/10/10 - 5:00am
Re: Now also covered in Sweden
I read all the comments to that article, and I must say that I'm a bit surprised. It seems that the knowledge about KOffice is much bigger than I thought. None of the comments asked what KOffice was, and nobody dismissed it out of hand.
By Inge Wallin at Wed, 2007/10/10 - 5:00am
Re: Now also covered in Sweden
aaah, yes, but KOffice is rather old. And I think it used to have more users and mindshare, before OO.o became FOSS.
By Jos Poortvliet at Wed, 2007/10/10 - 5:00am
2.0 - Worthy of a try
At the time I knew what was going on KO 2.0 during "the road to KDE 4", I saw some exciting features in KO. By then I was deciding to try 2.0 once it is release. Good job! KDE developers!!
By rockmen1 at Wed, 2007/10/10 - 5:00am
MS Office filters
I hope that KOffice 2.0 somehow integrates the MS Office 2007 converters from http://odf-converter.sf.net.
In the beginning of the KOffice 2 lifecycle shipping these Mono-dependant apps might be better than nothing. For later releases KOffice should use the converter Sun is currently developing in C++.
By yxxcvsdfbnfgnds at Wed, 2007/10/10 - 5:00am
Re: MS Office filters
Actually very early in the KOffice 2.0 development cycle Sebastian Sauer made an import script that would use OpenOffice to convert any fileformat to ODF and then load that into KOffice. It's slow, of course, but also convenient. And we don't have to waste time anymore developing support for Microsoft OfficeOpen XML. (Which could easily occupy all our development effort, of course).
By Boudewijn Rempt at Wed, 2007/10/10 - 5:00am
Re: MS Office filters
It's just that the Mono-based converters have no or very little dependencies (except Mono, of course). KOffice only has to add the code to run the odf-converter as external application and then load the converted ODF file. I don't think that's lots of work for somebody who knows how to launch an external app via C++.
By yxxcvsdfbnfgnds at Thu, 2007/10/11 - 5:00am
Re: MS Office filters
Do not compromise KDE in any way with disease called MONO!
Leave MONO disease out of KDE realm. Linux community needs one strong desktop cos' GNOME will fail sooner or later under M$crosh$t sword.
By Damijan at Thu, 2007/10/11 - 5:00am
No Mono please
The Mono should be avoided all costs. If MS is serious about their "Standard", they should release a non Mono version. Using Mono or requiring Mono may have very serious consequences on all platforms.
By Ilgaz at Sun, 2007/10/14 - 5:00am
Re: No Mono please
Yes, not having dependancy on Mono is a major feat of KDE.
By Mark at Sun, 2007/10/14 - 5:00am
Re: No Mono please
I was just talking about an *optional* Mono-based component. Nobody should be forced to use it. It's just that many people need to open and save MS Office files.
By yxxcvsdfbnfgnds at Sun, 2007/10/14 - 5:00am
Re: No Mono please
> I was just talking about an *optional* Mono-based component.
Yep, keep talking. We're not listening.
By Tuju at Sun, 2007/10/21 - 5:00am
Its crap
It is crqp; does not work; a technology preview, a proof of concept
By Andy at Mon, 2007/10/15 - 5:00am
What about Pivot tables and Pivot charts?
OOO can only do pivot tables, known as "data pilot". Will these features be supported in Kspread 2?
By Darryl Whheatley at Wed, 2007/10/10 - 5:00am
Re: What about Pivot tables and Pivot charts?
I dare to say yes, but I'm also certain it's not going to happen in 2.0.
By Inge Wallin at Thu, 2007/10/11 - 5:00am
How much co-operation is there with GNOME Office?
Just wondering, do Koffice and Abiword/Gnumeric devs work together on a common backend or must features be implemented independently? e.g. using same architecture for spreadsheet formulae, etc.
Also, what happened to KGraph, which when looking at an ancient review I saw mentioned? Was it merged into KChart?
By Parminder Ramesh at Thu, 2007/10/11 - 5:00am
Re: How much co-operation is there with GNOME Offi
You have used 'backend' term but it is not a silver bullet, I am afraid. There is no clear separation between internal structures and application/gui framework. Amount of work to set standards related to backend-frontend communication would be so huge...
By Jaroslaw Staniek at Thu, 2007/10/11 - 5:00am
Re: How much co-operation is there with GNOME Offi
Oh, it's a shame that it couldn't be easier to have a common backend:(
By Parminder Ramesh at Thu, 2007/10/11 - 5:00am
Good Work!
I use KOffice a lot, KWORd mainly (more than I use OOo), and I am satisfied with it because it does what it's purpose is. It is simple (ok, more or less ;-)) and functional.
By Me at Fri, 2007/10/12 - 5:00am
Re: Good Work!
Seconded. It's true that freedomware developers only get about 0.03% of the praise they deserve. Keep up the great work everyone!
By Alan Denton at Fri, 2007/10/12 - 5:00am
KSpread and Solver
Does KSpread have a tool similar to the "Solver" in MS Excel?
By Axl at Fri, 2007/10/12 - 5:00am
Re: KSpread and Solver
There seems to be some code in http://websvn.kde.org/trunk/koffice/kspread/plugins/solver/
But I don't know of the state of it + I guess a full solver would need quit a lot of code and therefore time which is very limited :-(
By Sebastian Sauer at Sat, 2007/10/13 - 5:00am
Re: KSpread and Solver
If you want an equation solver, look at Qalculate. It's really amazing!
By . at Mon, 2007/10/15 - 5:00am
Makieng kspread do what you want is next to impossible. I mean, koffice is great and all, but does anybody REALLY use it for serious jobs? I once tried, and I have to say that it was impossible - OO was barely usable, and MS Office, as an only sensible MS app, was perfect.
By szlam at Tue, 2007/10/16 - 5:00am
Re: Kspread
Yes, they do. We did a survey two years ago and we found hundreds of small-to-medium size companies using KOffice to handle all their needs, from writing catalogs and tenders to producing invoices. We found even more individuals using KOffice to produce their school or university papers, their home budgets, their presentations -- everything.
Myself, and I have to admit I'm biased, because I'm a KOffice developer, did depend heavily on Kivio and KPresenter in my previous job. I used KSpread for planning my home renovation. I've written theology papers using KWord and I'm having fun sketching and painting with Krita.
So, yes. People are really using KOffice for real jobs, inconceivable as it may be to you.
By Boudewijn Rempt at Tue, 2007/10/16 - 5:00am


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|BEHEMOTH release "Blow Your Trumpets Gabriel" video; "The Satanist" now available for pre-order
BEHEMOTH's long-awaited new album, "The Satanist," is now available for pre-order. Pre-order bundles, include: CD, LP, t-shirt, as well as the deluxe box set, and are available atmetalblade.com/behemoth in North America, nuclearblast.de/behemoth in Europe, and onbehemoth-store.com (digibook and box). "The Satanist" will be unleashed on February 3rd in the UK, February 4th in North America and Poland, February 5th in Japan, and February 7th in Europe and the rest of the world. Also, "Blow Your Trumpets Gabriel" has been released on iTunes and can be purchased HERE.
Additionally, Behemoth's highly anticipated new video for "Blow Your Trumpets Gabriel" has been unveiled. This visual masterpiece was produced by Grupa 13 and is one of Behemoth's most unsettling and unique works to date.
Behemoth front man Nergal discusses the video: "Yes, we took all the time in the world to complete this project. And we did everything that was humanely possible to accurately express our vision. We crossed the Rubicon. "Blow Your Trumpets Gabriel" is an ecstatic manifest of our unrestrained artistic will, where we dare to reach out beyond the limitations of the heavy metal genre. And it's only the beginning…Enjoy!"
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"The Satanist" deluxe box, which is available in North America as an European import, includes: CD/DVD digibook in silver mirror slipcase with a high quality 44 page booklet (with gold foil, UV gloss lamination), supersize poster flag (approx. 3.5′ x 5′), wooden black inverted rosary cross, metal pin, black envelope with black communion wafers. The DVD, "Live Barbarossa," includes a professionally filmed show in Ekaterinburg, Russia, as well as 30 min documentary about the creative process behind "The Satanist."
The album was produced by Behemoth, Wojtek and Slawek Wieslawscy and Daniel Bergstrand in Hertz Studio. "The Satanist" was mixed by Matt Hyde (Slayer) and mastered by Ted Jensen (Metallica, AC/DC) at Sterling Sound. The cover art for "The Satanist" was painted by renowned Russian painter and occultist, Denis Forkas (denisforkas.com). The paint used included some of Nergal's own blood! Additional art and design was completed by Metastazis (Paradise Lost, etc.) and Zbigniew Bielak (Watain, Ghost).
Fans can still order the limited edition 12″ EP of "Blow Your Trumpets Gabriel" (1,000 white and 1,000 black, 180 gram vinyl) that will be released as a gatefold with each copy hand numbered and signed by the band. The 12″ EP can be pre-ordered via BEHEMOTH's webstore, Nuclear Blast Europe webstore, and Metal Blade Records US webstore.
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FrontlineSMS necesitaba un nuevo diseño de papelería y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 119 diseños de 21 diseñadores freelance.
FrontlineSMS is easy-to-use, free and open source software which turns a laptop computer and low-cost mobile phone into a two-way group messaging system. The software, a project of The kiwanja Foundation (a US-based charity), allows non-profit organisations large and small, anywhere in the world, to take advantage of increasingly available mobile technology to spread their social change message and interact with people, and, unlike other systems, it works in hard-to-reach places without the need for the Internet.
Find out more about us at FrontlineSMS.com.
We are often invited to conferences and engaging with new people, from the aid and development sectors, to social entrepreneurship, to technology - or all of the above - and we have to explain our project to anyone from grass-roots organisations, up to big corporations interested in becoming donors.
We've got a developed brand, but we need someone to put it all together. We need a business card people will remember when we hand it to them which encapsulates our innovative approach yet stays professional - looks cool and interesting but remains clean and modern.
We'd prefer an Adobe Illustrator (.ai) file.
We've uploaded a free font which is similar to one of those in the style guide (Garamond - the other is Gotham). Ideally we'd prefer the official version of both fonts to be used, but you can use the below as an alternative.
UPDATE: Thanks everyone for all the hard work you've been putting in! As with all good design processes, your ideas have made us refine the brief.
We like the bold use of colours and space for many of the designs for the back of the card, so we've added an additional set of logos to give you more flexibility.
We would also be happy to drop the mail address from the cards to help de-clutter them, as our work is primarily online.


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My $HOME (otherwise known as '~') directory has lots of hidden configuration folders.
Is it safe to delete all of them?
To be specific
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"Downton Abbey," truth be told, easily could have ended its run on a happy note with last season's final episode, in which Mr. Carson gave longtime (and newly penniless) crush Mrs. Hughes a Christmas Eve surprise: He bought the modest house she coveted and clumsily proposed marriage. "I do want to be stuck with you," declared Carson, ever the romantic.
Show creator Julian Fellowes built the foundation of the early 20th century British drama on the shifting relationships of the lords and ladies of the manor and the men and women who serve them, amid rapidly changing times. The heart of the pop culture phenomena beats strongest in the various one-on-one pairings, romantic and otherwise: Lady Mary and her ill-fated husband Matthew, perennially star-crossed servants Bates and Anna, the feisty-rich-widow version of a bromance between the Dowager Countess and Isobel Crawley.
But as "Downton Abbey" begins its sixth and final season on PBS Jan. 3, the couple most worth watching — and rooting for — is Mr. Carson and Mrs. Hughes as they get ready to get hitched and leave the mansion for a little Abbey of their own.
Amid the show's many mini-dramas — and melodramas — the forging of the Carson-Hughes romance burned at a "Remains of the Day"-like pace, with doubts at times that the spark would ever take.
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Mrs. Hughes is smart enough to recognize that the sun is setting on the British Empire as her golden years dawn. Carson, like his beloved employer, Lord Grantham, is a bulwark against waves of social and economic unrest. But he's willing to take a shot at happiness with Mrs. Hughes before both officially become discarded relics of a bygone age.
They're seeking shelter against from whatever turmoil visits next, but life is never that simple on "Downton Abbey." A season promo shows Carson's name being removed from his door as Lord Grantham ominously intones: "If I could stop history in its tracks, maybe I would. But I can't Carson, for you nor I can hold back time."
The final season takes place in 1925, five seasons and 13 years after arrival of the telephone at Grantham flummoxed Carson as the news the device heralded – the sinking of the Titanic – set the old aristocratic world reeling into waters destined to become far more roiling.
We know that more upheaval than any of this upstairs-downstairs crew could imagine is on the way and will stretch long past 1925. But we don't know how the year will shake out at Grantham Manor, which is why we keep watching (though, unlike the Brits, who got to see the series finale on Christmas, we're behind the times).
Check out a preview as "Downton Abbey" sets off on its final voyage.
Jere Hester is Director of News Products and Projects at the City University of New York Graduate School of Journalism. He is also the author of "Raising a Beatle Baby: How John, Paul, George and Ringo Helped us Come Together as a Family." Follow him on Twitter.


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The commanding officer of the 22nd Marine Expeditionary Unit was relieved of his duties this week, military officials said Thursday.
Maj. Gen. Raymond C. Fox, the commanding general of the 2nd Marine Expeditionary Force relieved Col. James D. Christmas from his command on Wednesday, July 17due to a loss in confidence in Christmas� ability to continue commanding Marines and sailors of the MEU, according to base public affairs officers.
�The 2nd Marine Expeditionary Force is not a zero-defect organization, and the relief of a commander is never an easy decision,� a public affairs release stated. �However, the commanding general decided this action was in the best interest of the Marines and sailors of the 22nd MEU and the Marine Corps.�
Christmas has been the commanding officer of the MEU since June 2012, and his relief is administrative in nature and was conducted at the discretion of the commanding general.
The specifics of his relief of command were not released by base officials.
Christmas could not be reached for comment.
Christmas joined the Marine Corps in 1990 and has deployed in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom and other global operations a total of eight times. Throughout his career he has attended many service schools and led numerous units throughout the Corps. His decorations include a Bronze Star with a valorous device, a combat action ribbon and numerous other personal awards.
The 22nd MEU took shape on July 10 as the command element absorbed approximately 2,500 Marines and sailors from 1st Battalion, 6thMarines, Marine Medium Tilt-Rotor Squadron 263 and Combat Logistics Battalion 22.
The MEU will deploy in 2014 after completing a six-month training regiment as part of the Bataan Amphibious Ready Group, a fleet of ships consisting of the USS Bataan, USS Mesa Verde and the USS Gunston Hall.
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BRANDON, Man. - Thunderstorms threaten to whip up winds and douse waterlogged parts of Manitoba with rain, but the province says dikes are holding and that the Assiniboine River has reached its crest in Brandon.
The province says the river reached its high-water mark on Saturday morning at Brandon, and that it surpassed the level reached during the record-breaking flood that hit the province back in 2011.
A severe thunderstorm warning was also issued Saturday for Brandon, bringing the possibility of damaging wind, hail and intense rain.
Steve Topping with the province's water stewardship department says there likely won't be enough precipitation or wind to increase the flood threat on the Assinboine.
Topping says the intense winds could generate big waves on the province's lakes, which is where the floodwater has been going.
But Emergency Measures Minister Steve Ashton says the current water level on Lake Manitoba is still close to a metre less than it was in 2011.
The province says it has sent 2,000 super-sandbags to the area to prepare for possible flooding.
"These communities have invested, in some cases, in permanent dikes, but there are some properties that are not protected by these permanent dikes," Premier Greg Selinger told a media briefing Saturday.
"We're meeting with these communities as we speak and we are dispatching super-sandbags and support as rapidly as possible."
Topping says the new crest is only expected to raise the water level on Lake Manitoba a few centimetres, but he says that forecast will be reviewed.
On Friday, Selinger thanked the more than 500 military and reserve members who were deployed after he declared a state of emergency a week ago. They set up hundreds of thousands of sandbags, shored up dikes and monitored them for leaks.
The military has begun to pull out of the region now that Assiniboine is falling in most areas and are returning to their bases.
The province said Saturday that the flood forecast on the Assiniboine downstream at the Portage Diversion, which funnels water from the Assiniboine River into Lake Manitoba, called for a crest similar to one earlier this month.
The river rose suddenly last week due to heavy rainfall upstream in Saskatchewan that fell on ground that was already saturated.


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George M. White, FAIA
George M. White, FAIA, was appointed Architect of the Capitol in 1971 by President Richard Nixon. He was the last person to be appointed without the advice and consent of the United States Senate to a term of unspecified duration.
As Architect of the Capitol, White created the Master Plan for the future development of the Capitol complex. He oversaw construction of the Library of Congress, James Madison Memorial Building, the Hart Senate Office Building, the Thurgood Marshall Federal Judiciary Building and the U.S. Capitol terrace infill areas. His accomplishments included the restoration of the Old Supreme Court Chamber and Old Senate Chamber, the partial restoration of National Statuary Hall, the restoration of the U.S. Capitol Building's west central front, and the interior restoration and renovation of the Library of Congress Thomas Jefferson Building and John Adams Building. His conservation efforts included the U.S. Capitol Rotunda canopy and frieze and the Statue of Freedom. In the congressional office buildings he improved electrical, electronic, fire-protection and transportation systems.
Other work included the expansion of the Capitol Power Plant and planning and design for the National Garden, to be located adjacent to the U.S. Botanic Garden Conservatory, and for the Capitol Visitor Center. He is also credited with modernizing the Architect of the Capitol's office and hiring a more professional staff.
The son of an architect, White was born in Ohio in 1920. He received two engineering degrees from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, a business degree from Harvard and a law degree from Case Western Reserve University. At the time of his appointment White was a Vice President of the American Institute of Architects. He retired from office in 1995 and died in 2011.
In the period between White's retirement and the appointment of a new Architect of the Capitol, William L. Ensign, FAIA, the former Assistant Architect of the Capitol, served as the acting Architect of the Capitol.


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