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Sun Microsystems, probably best known at the KDE end of the spectrum for their influential paper on local vs distributed computing, recently open-sourced StarOffice, making it freely available to KDE as well as other projects. What impact will this have on KDE and KOffice? Ideally, even though OpenOffice is technically a competitor to KOffice (Sun apparently denies this) and despite the naysayers, OpenOffice will be of sizable benefit to KDE. Read on for a few of my initial thoughts on the matter.
While OpenOffice is certainly a huge contribution to the free software community, it will likely take a certain amount of effort to integrate it well into today's free desktops[1]. Judging by the technical overview, OpenOffice contains and is based on a huge chunk of inhouse technology, implying that there are ways to go before a port to a free desktop environment that is compatible with all the goals of the project is complete. There is no immediate need for such a rewrite, of course, as OpenOffice is already useful and porting existing working code will be a significant task with little or no actual benefit for the applications proper. In fact, a reckless rewrite ala Mozilla might be dangerous from a market perspective, so caution is advised. In the interim, OpenOffice appears slick and polished enough to pass for a KDE1 application and that could be sufficient for now.
In contrast, KOffice, was built from the ground up for KDE[2], and is fully integrated with native KDE component and related technologies. It may actually be easier to import useful code and technology from OpenOffice to KOffice than to rewrite OpenOffice. In fact, Shaheed Haque, one of our filter experts, lost no time at all in investigating the Microsoft Word filter code. At first glance it appears it will be very useful as a basis for improving KOffice's own filter code. Almost just as promptly, Matthias Elter discovered a set of free high quality TrueType fonts that could come in useful for KDE as a whole. Time will tell how much more technology can be imported, and whether KDE can make good use of all the work that has gone into or will go into OpenOffice.
At the same time, OpenOffice could certainly borrow technology from KOffice. For example, they could consider adopting (and possibly refine in collaboration) the KOffice formats which already use XML and which solve some of the same issues that OpenOffice.org is currently attempting to address. This is a wonderful opportunity for collaboration between OpenOffice.org and the KOffice/KDE community.
In conclusion, while OpenOffice is a mature product, it has a major rewrite and redesign in view if it is to compete on the Unix desktop. KOffice, on the other hand, is already fully integrated with one of the major free Unix desktops but is relatively new with an imminent first public release. Some may argue that one has the advantage over the other in the context of the Unix desktop, but ideally, if this plays out for the best, both KOffice and OpenOffice will see huge and mutual benefits, and both will prosper. Meanwhile, the KOffice project could certainly use your help, contributions and input.
[1] One of the stated and hyped goals of the OpenOffice project is a port to GTK+/GNOME technology.
[2] While KOffice does use KDE technology, one is not forced to use the desktop environment to run KOffice.
The OpenSource world can be really strange. On of the main developer who helped to port StarOffice to Linux is now programming for KDE. OpenOffice is mainly written in C++ and should be integrated into Gnome which is programmed in C. So you have to deal with language bindings. I especially like the fact that a lot of comments in OpenOffice seams to be in German.
We will see if OpenOffice has the potential to attract new developers. Working with a new and more advanced project like KOffice / KParts could be more appealing (who likes projects with 20h compile time?).
But OpenOffice could attract a lot Beta Testers (does anyone know how I can crosscompile the Linux Version on my companies AIX servers?).
If you like the fact that a lot of the comments are in German, I wonder if you have come across the names and locations of the many OpenOffice project leaders. (Hint: there's many a Michael, Martin and Matthias there - or to stop kidding: the project leaders are no doubt original -german- StarOffice employees.)
I'm not very into the KOffice development. But as I've seen a very good documented XML-File-Format for almost everything concerning a office suite at OpenOffice (over 350 pages of definitions, etc.). It maybe would be worth thinking of KOffice adopting the file formats from OpenOffice.
That would be no harm to KOffice because only the format changes not the application. The benefit is a common file-format and the freedom of choice. One could argue that OpenOffice could adopt the ff of KOffice as well but I think this is a hopeless vision. I see the danger that there will be the same useless war between linux office suites as we saw at the desktop (where KDE is the winner of course). Even I agree with some arguments for KOffice I would probably choose StarOffice because I use it at work an a WIN machine and I think many other do so as well. If KDE doesn't participate on OpenOffice I see the danger that I sometime have to choose GNOME to use my favorite Office, which I really don't want to.
Interesting, I hadn't noticed that. Thanks for pointing it out. Definitely looks like another thing KOffice might be able to adopt or at least support in the future.
This is a very interesting comment. It would help for someone to follow up who knows more about the file formats of OpenOffice (someone from Sun) or from KOffice like Shaheed. I'm a fairly new KOffice developer but I'm not familiar with all the KOffice file formats yet. Several points need to be clarified and several questions are raised.
*Actually the file format (DTD) does or should define or at least influence how the application works if both are designed well. The app should be build around the file format if it is to work efficiently, because the document structure is defined by the native file format anyway, at least in KOffice.
*KOffice has file formats for all its major components. You say that OpenOffice also has DTDs for XML file formats. Have these already been implemented in the current Star Office or are they just proposals for the new version? If they aren't set in stone yet then perhaps there is room for give and take between KOffice and OpenOffice in defining common or more compatible file formats for the different document types. It should not just be a matter of KOffice adapting to what OpenOffice proposes. Give and take should work both ways.
*At the very worst, even if the file formats are different, the fact that both use XML and are open makes translation between them fairly easy, much easier than translating betweeen MS Office formats and KOffice.
*Finally, regardless of differences between the file formats and office suites, the success of OpenOffice can only help KOffice and visa versa, at least in the near future. More users of Linux and other free unix systems means more users for both office suites, and less of a lock on file formats by closed source vendors like Microsoft.
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I agree fully - there are a number of things that KOffice has that OpenOffice could learn from (e.g. XML file formats). I'm definitely hoping that the existing KOffice apps will continue and evolve/improve - I'd hate to see them "buried" by OpenOffice ...
( I had similar concerns about the Gnome spreadsheet Gnumeric, but they (at gnome.org) laid these to rest - Gnumeric development is to continue.. Good to hear, as I believe both office suites (Gnome and KDE) are well thought-out and designed.
KOffice already uses XML file formats (though they are generally saved to disk gzipped), though I agree it would be nice to use the same DTD.
Isn´t it ironic? 9 million lines of C++-Code
and it is supposed to become a gnome application.
I am also amused by the fact that the kde team
does not have to deal with this monster, but can
instead rip all the interesting parts out of it.
So what's wrong with that?
Gnome might not be the best in C++, but it's still very good.
There is nothing wrong with that. It's just ironic, that's all. As pointed out further above in this discussion, the irony goes even further.
Star Office is a really large chunk of code. Much of this code is not really related to an office package, such as the operating system independent windowing subsystem in their MDI window, many widgets that would be useful in other applications, font and printer handling, HTML viewing and processing, a script interpreter and an interface to it and the like. Such code does not actually belong into an application, but into a desktop environment. That way it becomes useful not only to a single application, but to all applications being written for that desktop environment.
The Open Office project and Gnome can now choose to incorporate this code into their desktop, turning Gnome essentially into KDE (see below).
Or they choose to drop this code from Open Office, and importing the related Gnome components into Open Office, leading into the murky area of C/C++ code integration.
Or they can choose to integrate Open Office and Gnome only superficially, duplicating essential parts of their infrastructure and bloating a project even more that is already suffering enormously from bloat.
If I remember correctly, back when Kalle & Co were still working at StarDiv there was some discussion in the german Linux newsgroups about the major fault of Star Office. That fault was that Star Office tried to duplicate large parts of what makes up a desktop environment, but did so inside a single application. That was a pity, as this code became largely inaccessible to other applications. Star had an offer selling their multiplatform windowing toolkit as a commercial product, but it was even less popular as Qt at that time.
Star Office had to carry around all this code in order to be useful on any Unix system, as there was no support for large desktop applications at that time on such systems - there was neither KDE nor Gnome, just Motif or even worse toolkits. Looking at the SO code tells you very precisely what the advantage of the Windows API over Motif was for application developers at that point in time.
A number of the people working at Star Division at that time became the core of the KDE project, and many lessons they learned doing Star Office influenced their design of vital parts of what is now KDE. Of course KDE is now much larger than that and the technologies making up KDE now have partially transcended what makes up Star Office, so the analogy is stretched pretty far.
But: If you take apart Star Office and integrate what is useful in it into any Unix desktop project, you end up with something that would be very hard to distinguish from KDE now. Integrating Star Office into Gnome will turn Gnome into KDE, and that /is/ ironic.
Whether or not this is ironic depends on how you see the split between KDE and GNOME. Certainly one aspect of the split has been C++ versus C, so there is something to this.
However, I think you are a little off-base when you say that the GNOME frontend will be "turning Gnome essentially into KDE".
Instead of comparing OpenOffice's C++ framework to KDE, a better comparison would be to Abiword. They've abstracted away the differences between platforms. This abstraction won't be introduced to GNOME, it will just have a GNOME implementation added. The same could be (should be?) done for KDE.
So your last paragraph is pretty much completely false. Having worked on Abiword a bit, the abstraction layers can make the code challenging to follow, but the rewards are significant.
What is really amusing is that there still (after all this time) exists enough bile for people to go looking for irony.
Bile? Surely not. But amused I am. I think of it more as one of the backstage jokes of history (don't know the proper english ideoms here).
It will be interesting to see how the Gnome people handle this, which path they choose to integrate some sort of proto-KDE code into their project.
Another abstraction layer inside Star Office only surely won't be a good solution - Star Office contains a lot of code that would be useful outside Star Office as part of the desktop in order to make it available to all applications. If they handle it efficiently, this technology could probably be useful to some hypothetical Gnome-KDE-integration project (and how is that for funny?).
It's not another abstraction layer, it's the abstraction layers already in StarOffice. Which of course doesn't mean that it will be efficient -- just no more bloated than it already is, and depending on how much bloat is in their render-to-X layer, possibly less bloated.
Your tenacious grip on the "proto-KDE" concept confuses me. If someone made a C-based KParts component, would you say that KDE was integrating "proto-GNOME" code? Call a thing by what it is. Using unwarranted "group A vs. group B" words just stirs the trolls.
But at least this is more moderate than "you end up with something that would be very hard to distinguish from KDE now", which -- while perhaps amusing -- is true only in the most superficial sense.
I didn't quite understand it at first either, but look back to the original article and it says:
A number of the people working at Star Division at that time became the core of the KDE project, and many lessons they learned doing Star Office influenced their design of vital parts of what is now KDE.
So what he means (I think) is that because a lot of the original KDE core developers where from Star Division, that the KDE architecture resembles (understandably) a "next generation" Star Office. So with Star Office seeming like a prototype KDE, GNOME adoption of SO could be seen as KDEing GNOME. This of course assumes that GNOME attempts to absorb the architecural aspects of SO, which I don't think they would, the've invested too much into BONOBO and other object based componenty to just chuck it out and use a SO framework. I see a more likely scenario as Galeon, taking the engine of OpenOffice and throwing away the framework.
« It will be interesting to see how the Gnome people handle this, which path they choose to integrate some sort of proto-KDE code into their project. »
Which path ? Just plain old conversion and/or binding. There is actually large quatities of KDE code in GNOME, more or less transformed. For example, the GTKHTML widget is a GTK port of KHTMLW, KFM's HTML viewer...
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Which WP will support the MAC variety of fonts?
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Which has or will support an integrated mail merge and data base app?
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I agree that KOffice should pick at the source, implementing any use full snips, rather than port Open Office to KDE/Qt.
I'm just wondering though - with the iminent release of KDE 2.0, how with this affect KOFfice, I surely hope than they will be a way to update KOffice with out recompiling the Full KOffice - maybe it can be done through KFilters...
This maybe out of context but I feel it would be kool if Organiser was intergrated into Kmail making kick-ass app. I don't know upcoming KDE apps of this nature but it would be a pitty to re-design the already working wheel, I trullu beleive that with the KDE Widget set we can make a way better Email/Colaboration client that what Evolution could ever be!
No Flames but I happen to prefer the KDE widgets to Gnome - no offence.
Hi, I do a fair amount of KMail coding.
After I finish implementing non-blocking sending and IMAP support (in a few months) in KMail. I plan to talk to Cornelius Schumacher the KOrganizer maintainer and the KNode Authors (Christian Gebauer, Dirk Mueller ...) about creating a new groupware application.
No doubt they're very busy, and I don't expect them to contribute directly to this new application. Instead I just want to make sure they are generally ok with the concept and are willing to look at patches so that code can be reused instead of duplicated.
Hopefully Rik Hemsley and I can work together on this kind of application. We were working on this kind of thing but the timing just wasn't right.
So basically I'm saying I support the idea of a KDE groupware application built (at least partly) out of current working components, and are planning to contribute my time to make it happen.
Hi Don!
No pun intended, but you still are duplicating code... I'm sure you have heard of Magellan. What about it, why don't you guys think of merging (parts of) it? Both groups have exactly the same aims, so this really should be possible. I know Magellan doesn't yet use any KParts, but that could be changed...
Why not?
Magellan has been in limbo for the last 6 months. It's one of those projects that started out as a great idea then fizzeled out. Would love to see a working copy of Magellan.
The idea of a KParts based groupware application is very appealing, if you don't like the contact manager that's being used swap it out with another KParts component that does what you like. There's a lot of potential for something like this.
...in fact, theKompany has people working on it. It should release a preview of Magellan in the coming weeks, I've heard.
Looking forward to seeing a tarball from them.
Please could someone add also maildir support to kmail? Please? please..
IMAP is nice, but I don't use it over my modem!
At the moment my maildir prevents me from even looking at kmail, as it wants to make a file where my maildir inbox is laying.
I'm in the same situation: still using mutt because my mailboxes are in Maildir format.
But it's better to have IMAP support first. Remember that once IMAP is working, you'll also be able to use your Maildirs through an IMAP server. Courier IMAP is an excellent Maildir-only IMAP server.
I'm not a developer, but have a keen interest in both products as a user. At this point, working with older technology (200 mhz laptop, 466mhz desktop) I am definitely interested in a lighter architecture. KDE fits the bill really well. I'm hoping KOffice does, too. I'm using StarOffice on my desktop, but had to de-install it from my laptop because it was way too slow. While I like the StarOffice functionality, it's monolithic architecture is very annoying due to hard drive bloat & resource consumption. When all I want to do is check email & write a quick memo, I have to deal with a lot of baggage in Star Office. My guess is a lot of other users have requirements similar to mine, and I'm looking forward to KOffice as a legitimate contender to StarOffice.
the openoffice.org site states that all openoffice.org code will be dual licensed under the GPL and the SISSL.
would this not block koffice code being put into openOffice, since it would be relicensing it under the SISSL? or am i completely reading the openoffice.org documentation wrong?
Why is that a problem??? Licensing has never bothered the KDE project before...
It's a problem since you can't simply re-license other people's code w/out asking them. As an added "boot", the SISSL is much more restrictive than the GPL and can be changed by Sun Microsystems at any given moment in any given way.
So, to put KOffice code into openOffice.org (their is a distinction between openOffice, which could be forked under the GPL, and openOffic.org), the author of the code would need to give permission to have it licensed under the SISSL.
From openOffice to KOffice would be no problem since one can simply choose the GPL.
Just my two pennies.
I think you're confusing the SCSL with the SISSL. You should go to www.openoffice.org and read the webpages there.
Like I asked before..Why is this a problem??
It never bothered the KDE project to use code covered by the GPL with QT 1.x.....
Think you're the one with the problem, mate.
They are not happy with SO either: http://news.gnome.org/gnome-news/971624694/index_html
GNOME Office has been killed and now GNOME is left without anything and all bark but no bite.
For any out there that don't recognize this as the complete nonsense it is:
- GNOME office has not been killed, it's being worked on by folks at Helix and Sun.
- The news.gnome.org is plagued by postings from clueless people even more than dot.kde.org is.
1. Is this why there is no traffic on the GNOME Office list? GNOME Office has become a closed and commercial project now? Please elaborate as I am confused. I have been trying to follow GNOME office and now there is nothing.
2. Your statement proves nothing, you are just grasping for straws. Why don't you defend your GNOME office on your own GNOME site? Would you call Christian S., Havoc P., Miguel I., etc all clueless? Why aren't they giving any explanations? These are all people I have read postings from on the news.gnome.org site.
1. Are you insane? Just because HelixCode is a company it is aiming at world domination?
Gnome Office is free software and it will stay that way!
Your post already shows how stupid a lot of people are.
Always spreading negative comments about companies while they don't even know what's going on and how things work...
Following the link now brings up an "Authorization is required for Zope at news.gnome.org" dialog prompting for a username and password to be entered.
I guess it must have been a good read.
Just because ONE, and ONLY ONE person said AbiWord MIGHT be dead the whole Gnome Office project is dead?!?!?!?!?
Look at the CVS ChangeLogs!
Gnome Office is far from dead!


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In all the political and media froth that has been churned up since the scandal broke, one question that has been raised is the same one that always comes up at this point in these all-too familiar scandals: What the hell was he thinking? As recently as 1987 P.G. H. (pre-Gary Hart), politicians and other masters of the universe could get away with such randy antics pretty easily. But ever since Hart, who was on a glide path toward the 1988 Democratic presidential nomination, crashed and burned when he was caught having an affair, the game has changed. There's no such thing as the discreet peccadillo anymore—not if a headline-hungry media has anything to say about it. And since the dawn of the Internet age, in which it's impossible to hide your electronic footprints, the game has only gotten more dangerous. The fact that Petraeus, the nation's former top spook, was tripped up by e-mail, is nothing short of jawdropping.
By now we're familiar with all of the psychological and evolutionary explanations for this kind of sublime recklessness. Powerful men are natural risk-takers, type-A strivers; they're naturally acquisitive — of power, wealth, and yes, sex. They're charismatic egotists, and they're often away from home for long stretches of time. All of this can be equally true of powerful women, of course, and yet they're far less inclined to cheat. We know the familiar evolutionary answers for that too: Men, with their lifetime supply of sperm, are hardwired to mate repeatedly and indiscriminately. Women, who make a far higher investment in breeding, are more selective. What's more, it's anthropologically true if politically incorrect that while men, as a rule, are irresistibly attracted to youth and beauty, women can be made equally dizzy by power and the access to resources it implies. (If you doubt that, try this: Picture Donald Trump's wives. Now picture Donald Trump. Any questions?)
The tougher riddle — the one that's never so well-answered — is why these men are so heedless of consequences. They define themselves by their status; they have typically worked a lifetime to acquire it and will fight like wildmen to keep it. And they know with virtual drop-dead certainty that they will lose it all if they step out of line. And then they go right ahead and step. Maybe that doesn't matter to an independently wealthy man like Trump or a political Houdini like Bill Clinton. But most of the rest of them — Edwards and Spitzer and Weiner and Ensign and Sanford and the rest of the sorry queue — ought to be cautionary tales for anyone who comes later.
(More: Who's Who in Petraeus Scandal)
The explanation for the fact that that lesson so often doesn't get learned may lie in the narcissism that can sit at the heart of power. Narcissism has been a badly overworked word of late — applied to all manner of selfish or preening behaviors that really don't rise to the level of the true narcissistic personality disorder, which affects no more than 3% of the population. But that 3% is disproportionately represented among the ranks of the famous. What's more, like all behavioral traits, narcissism can exist subclinically: you can have many of the dangerous traits of a narcissist without being a truly diagnosable case.
For both capital-N and lower-case narcissists, some of what may be going on is a sort of learned double-think. Of course powerful men are smart enough to be aware of consequences, but the charmed ride they've enjoyed for so long leads them to believe — viscerally if not rationally — that those rules somehow won't apply to them. One of the reasons young, professional athletes so often get into trouble for DWI or domestic battery or weapons possession is that they truly have grown up outside of the rules — passing classes they never attend, graduating from fine colleges despite poor grades, receiving $10 million signing bonuses before throwing a pitch or taking a snap. For most famous men, the ride starts later but the lesson of invulnerability is just as powerfully learned.
"With leaders like this, there truly is no awareness of the likelihood that they'll suffer any consequences," says psychologist Amy Brunell of Ohio State University at Newark. "The idea is, 'This doesn't apply to me; somehow I'm not going to get caught.' We've done studies about decision-making and impulsivity in narcissists and they really don't think about the consequence."
(More: Narcissism and Religion: an Unethical Mix)
Psychologist Keith Campbell of the University of Georgia, who studies narcissists in relationships, has run similar experiments in which subjects play games of luck or skill and wager imaginary money on the results. A great deal about how aggressively they play seems to be linked to how high they score on questionnaires that measure narcissism. "On risk-taking and betting tests, narcissists tend to overpredict their performance," Campbell says. "And they tend not to learn from the times they don't win."
A certain psychic drunkenness may also come into play. Narcissists are hooked on public adoration — from crowds, from interns, or, in Petraeus's case, from hagiographic biographers. There's a driving-while-impaired quality to their decision-making powers when they're on this kind of high, and their judgment just flies out the window. "This need for getting adored creates a myopia," says psychologist Aaron Pincus of Penn State University. "They're not thinking in the long term. So if the intern makes her self available in the Oval Office right now, that's all I'm thinking about."
Adds Campbell: "It's not that guys like Tiger Woods are aliens. They're like anyone else, but they have stronger needs for ego enhancement and validation. Throw in overconfidence and a habit of walking on people and you get self destructive behavior. It bites you in the ass over time."
(More: Petreaus Scandal: Why Sex Isn't the Worst Part)
In some cases, once-bitten does not mean twice shy, but those cases are rare. Clinton was serially caught and serially wriggled free. But even he, to all appearances, at last fell into line after 1998, though the calming effects of age—to say nothing of his bouts with heart disease—may have played a role too. But other men get just a single strike. Petraeus, Edwards, Spitzer and the rest would surely like to turn back the clock, but barring a longshot bid at redemption (certainly impossible in Edwards' case), the public is probably done with them.
There would, perhaps, be something good in all this if the tragedy of these men served as teachable moments for others — and the fact is they probably do. You can't prove a negative, and we can never know of the career-wrecking affairs that didn't take place because successful men looked at the narcissistically fallen and made a sharp turn in the other direction . But there are more than enough — as we repeatedly learn — who who plow straight ahead, and there probably always will be. David Petraeus, the latest in a very long line, is highly unlikely to be the last.
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How to Create Patterns in Photoshop and Monetize Your Designs
Getting Started Making Patterns in Photoshop
Welcome to the course!
Basics of Pattern Design in Photoshop (Introduction - 4 Video Tutorials) (36:52)
My Favorite Photoshop Tools (Video Tutorial) (34:21)
How to Use the Color Tools In Photoshop (Video Tutorial) (11:08)
Difference between, pros and cons and how to use digital paper vs pattern overlay vs. making patterns from scratch (18:01)
How-to Pattern Tutorials (step-by-step video tutorials)
How to create a repeating pattern (video tutorial) (5:07)
Dots & Polka Dots (5 Video Tutorials) (20:19)
How to make chevrons 3 different ways (7 video tutorials) (42:13)
How to make a herringbone pattern (Video Tutorial) (1:49)
Creating an up and down pattern (video tutorial) (7:58)
Using 1 shape to create 5 different patterns (all in under 10 minutes!) (video tutorial) (7:40)
Stripes,Diagonal stripes & Multi-colored Stripe Patterns (8 Video Tutorials) (52:55)
Gingham (Horizontal & Diagonal) (Video Tutorial) (7:11)
Checkerboard (3 Video Tutorials) (13:56)
How to make a sunray pattern (Video Tutorial) (5:37)
Heart Patterns (video tutorial) (5:50)
How to create wavy patterns (video tutorial) (7:53)
How to make a Quatrefoil pattern (video tutorial) (6:50)
Diamond, Grid & Lattice patterns (4 video tutorials) (19:10)
Different ways to make star patterns (video tutorial) (8:57)
How to make confetti dot patterns (3 Video Tutorials) (33:47)
How to make a pattern with words (video tutorial) (37:26)
How to make a pattern with words using the circle text tool (4 video tutorials) (52:35)
Repeating triangles/bunting pattern (video tutorial) (23:10)
Using the line tool (1 video tutorial) (4:25)
Combining 2 Patterns to Create 1 Pattern (6 video tutorials) (27:56)
Using angles to add interest to your designs (2 video tutorials) (7:32)
Using clipart (or other pre-made graphics) to Make Patterns (2 video tutorials) (13:25)
Creating different color-ways for your designs
How to make a pattern overlay white (video tutorial) (2:53)
3 quick colors variations of the one pattern -using the same colors (video tutorial) (6:08)
How to make multi-colored patterns (with as many colors as you like!) (5 methods - 5 video tutorials) (23:50)
How to quickly make pastel patterns (video tutorial) (1:40)
3 Different ways to create ombre patterns (4 video tutorials) (12:06)
How to Create Pattern Collections
Where to Start (and printable worksheets!)
Types of Pattern Collections
Other things to consider when creating pattern collections
How many patterns should be in a collection?
What page/template size should I use? And how to resize a pattern (including 2 video tutorials) (13:36)
How to Choose Colors, Color Combinations (plus my favorite color inspiration tools) (12:35)
How to Make a Color Chart (plus a video tutorial) (23:22)
How to quickly make rainbow coloured digital paper packs (including 2 video tutorials) (12:25)
What file format should you use? (Preparing your files for sale) (including video tutorial) (3:19)
Creating Preview Images for Your Products (plus 2 video tutorials) (9:46)
How to Use The Patterns You Make
100 Ways to use your pattern designs
How to create a product on Zazzle using your designs (and a video tutorial) (23:07)
Speeding Up Your Workflow
My Designer Resources eBook (where I share all my favorite resources & secrets!)
How to save a ton of $$$ when buying designer resources
BONUS: My Email Swipe Files (including how to ask for a discount!)
Types of licences (and which one to look for when buying resources)
Where to find and how to use actions to quickly create digital patterns (plus a video tutorial) (4:26)
Batching Repeat Tasks
Organizing Your Ideas, Workflow, Digital Files, Naming & Backing Up Files (Plus video tutorial on how to back up Photoshop files) (11:52)
Monetizing Your Pattern Designs
Setting a price for your designs (plus pricing custom orders)
How to bundle your products for maximum profits
How to make preview images for bundles (2 different ways) (video tutorials) (25:04)
The Art of the Upsell
Choosing Terms of Use & Licencing For Your Products & Copyrights
Where to Sell Your Patterns
Choosing an instant download file delivery service (so you can make money on auto-pilot!) (53:51)
How to set up instant downloads for digital products (when selling via Etsy) (16:54)
Choosing product categories, writing product descriptions, essential information your website or Etsy shop needs (plus detailed video tutorial) (31:16)
Should you accept custom orders & rush orders?
How to create a subscription for your products
Using your patterns to create fabric
Wrapping Up
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Top drivers earn up to $63,000 | Up to $2,000 sign-on bonus
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Upcoming ARISS Contact Schedule as of 2013-10-25 01:00 UTC
Upcoming ARISS Contact Schedule as of 2013-10-25 01:00 UTC
Quick list of scheduled contacts and events:
Convitto Nazionale "Vittorio Emanuele II" di Roma, Rome, Italy and Pediatrico Giovanni XXIII, Bari, Italy, direct and telebridge via IKØUSO Contact is a go for: Sat 2013-10-26 11:55:35 UTC 60 deg
Wallingford STEM Academy/Town of Wallingford, Wallingford, CT, direct via K1SEZ Contact is a go for: Thu 2013-10-31 15:45:11 UTC 46 deg (***)
Kopernik Observatory & Science Center (KOSC), Vestal, NY, direct via K2ZRO Contact is a go for: Wed 2013-10-30 16:32:51 UTC 41 deg
**************************************************************************** For all of you Ice Pilots TV show fans, the first episode of season 5 is scheduled to have some of an ARISS contact that occurred a few months back. Depending on where you are located, the times and cable TV providers may change.
History Channel is airing the show for the first time Wednesday October 23 at 22:00 EDT or Thursday October 24 at 02:00 UTC.
Below are several on-line links to where you can watch it: http://www.icepilots.com/episodes.php http://www.icepilots.com/episode5_1.php
If you are in Australia, apparently the History Channel is available via Pay-TV.
Below is word from Canadian ARISS mentor Steve McFarlane VE3TBD about this:
Wednesday Oct 23, 2013 – Season Premiere of Reality TV Show Ice Pilots will feature the ARISS program – Amateur Radio on The International Space Station. I/we do not know the full details of what will be included in this episode but we understand a Radio contact with Chris Hadfield will be shown that involves the Canadian mentors that undertake and support these events all across Canada. This team, are made up of Teacher Lori McFarlane, technical coordination Claude Lacasse and program mentor Steve McFarlane VE3TBD all located in Ottawa but were on site during this contact from Hay river. Remotely located but very much a part of this event include Teacher Mentor Brian Jackson VE6JBJ in Calgary and fellow Canadian mentor Wayne Harasimovitch VE1WPH located in Halifax.
As mentioned, exact content of the show is not known but we do know a production team from Omni productions recorded the entire presentation and event at the Hay River Public School near Yellowknife. As well, Omni productions did receive the entire video from the ISS showing Chris Hadfield answering questions during the same event. Other video including setup, meeting the show "stars" etc., was recorded but again, we are not certain of the inclusions on the show.
All audio during the event was made available and Omni productions have a copy of that – this includes the Telebridge track.
All we can hope is that ARISS is well represented and the program receives some well-deserved recognition. I was alerted that this is a reality TV show and almost anything can be broadcast. We are at the mercy of the producers and editors of the show – as they indicated to us – this is about Buffalo Airlines. My final comment to the producer, this show and the space program are linked in ways that are sometimes difficult to understand but it is clear that early aviation pioneers from all over the world, which Buffalo epitomizes, led to what we know today as the Space Program – ARISS is about making our youth believe anything is possible so when they say this is about Buffalo Airlines what they are really saying, this is about how we started our journey to the stars.
History Channel is showing for the first time Wednesday October 23 at 22:00hrs. This is the 5th season of ice pilots and I understand some of you may only be on season 4 at this point. Within a few days, it might be available elsewhere. ****************************************************************************
ARISS is requesting listener reports for the above contacts. Due to issues with the Kenwood radio that are not fully understood at present, the Ericsson radio is going to be used for these contacts. ARISS thanks everyone in advance for their assistance. Feel free to send your reports to [email protected] or [email protected].
**************************************************************************** *** Looking for something new to do? How about receiving DATV from the ISS? If interested, then please review the document provided by Gaston Bertels ON4WF, the ARISS-Europe Chairman.
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The webpages listed below were all reviewed for accuracy. Out of date webpages were removed and new ones have been added. If there are additional ARISS websites I need to know about, please let me know.
Note, all times are approximate. It is recommended that you do your own orbital prediction or start listening about 10 minutes before the listed time. All dates and times listed follow International Standard ISO 8061 date and time format YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS The complete schedule page has been updated as of 2013-10-24 05:00 UTC. (***)
Here you will find a listing of all scheduled school contacts, and questions, other ISS related websites, IRLP and Echolink websites, and instructions for any contact that may be streamed live. http://www.amsat.org/amsat/ariss/news/arissnews.rtf
Total number of ARISS ISS to earth school events is 863. (***) Each school counts as 1 event. Total number of ARISS ISS to earth school contacts is 843. (***) Each contact may have multiple schools sharing the same time slot. Total number of ARISS supported terrestrial contacts is 46.
A complete year by year breakdown of the contacts may be found in the file. http://www.amsat.org/amsat/ariss/news/arissnews.rtf
Please feel free to contact me if more detailed statistics are needed.
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ +++ US Hams, don't forget that there is a new process for US school proposals. For US schools to have an ARISS contact, they must fill out a proposal, submit it to NASA, and see if they are approved or not. Once a school is approved and put on the list, an ARISS mentor will be assigned to assist the school.
NASA will have two open windows a year for schools to submit a proposal. The window for contacts during the second half of 2012 has already closed. Look for the window for first half 2013 contacts later this year. You must go through NASA to get the proposal material. Contact Teaching From Space, a NASA Education office, at [email protected] or by calling them at (281) 244-2320.
The following US states and entities have never had an ARISS contact: Arkansas, Delaware, Kansas, North Dakota, Rhode Island, South Dakota, Vermont, West Virginia, Wyoming, American Samoa, Guam, Northern Marianas Islands, and the Virgin Islands. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ +++
QSL information may be found at: http://www.arrl.org/ARISS/arissfaq.html http://www.rac.ca/ariss/oindex.htm#QSL%27s
ISS callsigns: DPØISS, NA1SS, OR4ISS, RSØISS
**************************************************************************** ** The successful school list has been updated as of 2013-10-24 05:00 UTC.
Frequency chart for packet, voice, and crossband repeater modes showing Doppler correction as of 2005-07-29 04:00 UTC http://www.amsat.org/amsat/ariss/news/ISS_frequencies_and_Doppler_correction .rtf
Listing of ARISS related magazine articles as of 2006-07-10 03:30 UTC. http://www.amsat.org/amsat/ariss/news/ARISS_magazine_articles.rtf
Check out the Zoho reports of the ARISS contacts
ARISS School Contacts https://reports.zoho.com/ZDBDataSheetView.cc?DBID=412218000000020415
Successful ARISS contacts https://reports.zoho.com/ZDBDataSheetView.cc?OBJID=412218000000023448 Additional Zoho links may be found at http://www.amsat.org/amsat/ariss/news/arissnews.rtf **************************************************************************** Exp. 36/37 on orbit Fyodor Yurchikhin RN3FI Karen L. Nyberg Luca Parmitano KF5KDP
Exp. 37/38 now on orbit Oleg Kotov Sergey Ryazansky Michael S. Hopkins KF5LJG
73, Charlie Sufana AJ9N One of the ARISS operation team mentors
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SNOW HILL — An Ocean Pines man who plead guilty to being high on PCP when he crashed his truck into a vehicle stopped at a traffic light last December, seriously injuring a mother and her then 18-month old daughter was sentenced today to 15 years in jail, all but 10 years of which were then suspended.
In August, Andre Kaczynski, 48, of Ocean Pines, pleaded guilty to all of the 11 counts against him including causing life-threatening injuries by motor vehicle while impaired by a controlled dangerous substance, possession of PCP and others and a pre-sentence investigation was ordered.
In Worcester County Circuit Court on Friday, Judge Thomas C. Groton sentenced Kaczynski to a combined 15 years in jail on five of the counts, then suspended five years resulting in a net 10 years of incarceration.
Around mid-day last Dec. 16, Kaczynski drove his Ford F150 truck into the rear of a vehicle stopped at a traffic light on Coastal Highway at a speed of over 90 mph, seriously injuring Anne Marie DelRicco and her then-18-month old daughter Ava. The child had to be extricated from the totaled vehicle and was flown to Johns Hopkins in Baltimore. Kaczynski's own vehicle burst into flames and a later search of the truck revealed a bottle of PCP.
Kaczynski later admitted smoking PCP while crossing the Route 90 bridge into Ocean City and barreling up Coastal Highway before the fateful collision during which he never slowed or attempted to brake.
At the outset of the sentencing hearing, Worcester County State's Attorney Beau Oglesby asked Groton to consider a sentence of 21 years, the maximum allowed when enhanced penalties for repeat offenders were taken into consideration. Kaczynski has a laundry list of prior convictions for drugs, being under influence and driving and several crashes, including one case the judge called "eerily similar" to the case at hand in 2008 when he plowed into the back of a tractor trailer while high on marijuana.
After emotional testimony by the victim's family and a seemingly less than contrite statement by the defendant, Groton sentenced Kaczynski to two years each for two counts of causing life threatening injuries by motor vehicle while under the influence of CDS, six years for one count of possession of PCP, four years for another count of possession of PCP and one year for one count of possession of marijuana, resulting in a total sentence of 15 years.
The judge then suspended five years, netting Kaczynski a 10-year sentence. Kaczynski was placed on supervised probation for three years following his release and was ordered to pay restitution to the family at the discretion of the Office of Parole and Probation, although a civil suit against Kaczynski is proceeding on a parallel course and will likely determine monetary damages.
On Friday, Oglesby told the judge and those in attendance to put themselves in the place of the victims prior to the crash.
"Close your eyes and imagine sitting at a traffic light," he said. "You probably did it today, yesterday, the day before. Now, imagine in an instant everything is changed. Imagine how everything is taken from you."
Ava suffered severe head injuries, among other injuries and required immediate surgery to relieve the swelling of her brain. She remained in a coma following the initial surgery as her family, and the entire resort community prayed for her survival. Ten months and seven surgeries later, Ava is blind and has severe brain damage, limiting her quality of life.
On Friday, Oglesby showed the judge a Christmas picture taken of Ava before the accident to illustrate just how severely the child's life has changed.
"When I look at that picture, I see endless possibilities," he said. "Maybe a ballerina or a doctor, a lawyer or a mother. After the crash, her milestones aren't measured in terms of pre-school or grade school, but instead are measured in heart beats and breaths. She does have a future, but it's a future of limited possibilities."
Ava's father, George DelRicco, tearfully addressed the court and told how he first learned of the accident and how he waited four hours at the hospital before finally seeing his wife and little girl. George DelRicco said in the aftermath of the accident, Ava will never know a quality of life most children enjoy.
"Our family will never be the same after Dec. 16," he said. "I know Ava's life will never be normal. She will not see a sunset or a rainbow. She'll be trapped in her own world for the rest of her life."
Anne Marie DelRicco described Ava prior to the accident as a vibrant, intelligent child.
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Anne Marie DelRicco also described some of the family's holiday season activities prior to the accident and how Christmas will never be the same for her and her family.
"The last thing I remember was Ava and I looking at a Christmas display," she said. "The next thing I remember is waking up in a hospital. They told me Ava was in a coma with brain damage and they weren't sure she was going to make it through the night."
Anne Marie DelRicco also described a life now full of doctor's visits and constant care.
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Prior to the family's testimony, Oglesby briefly outlined Kaczynski's long history of drug arrests, drinking and driving arrests and related vehicle crashes.
"How did we get here?" he said. "The pre-sentence investigation provides us with a road map. He has said he was sorry he didn't have his wake-up call until after the accident, but that's a hollow apology. For a quarter of a century, Kaczynski has been a menace and a terror on the roads of this state."
Throughout his long history of arrests, Kaczynski has been placed on probation and parole and has received treatment for his drug and alcohol abuse, but his "wake-up call" never came until the fateful day last December.
"He's lived a life of second chances," said Oglesby. "He's been given multiple opportunities to get straightened out and turn his life around. Ava and her family get no second chance. They're sentenced to a life of pain and difficulty."
Oglesby said no sentence handed down for Kaczynski would provide justice for the victim and her family.
"Even if you give him the maximum asked for by the state, he'll get a second chance," he said. "He drinks, he drugs, he drives and he crashes."
Defense attorney Arch McFadden told the judge his client was remorseful and was on a path to never let it happen again.
"He has thrown himself into trying to figure out how he got here," he said. "He has taken responsibility for this tragic incident."
For his part, Kaczynski said even after his numerous arrests, crashes and near misses, he didn't realize the extent of his addiction and the danger he posed to others.
"I guess I want to tell the family I had no idea it was this bad," he said. "I need help. I'm done with drugs. I don't want to even drive anymore."
Groton was not buying Kaczynski's claim he did not comprehend the seriousness of his addiction and threat to society.
"You said you never imagined this would happen," he said. "You should have imagined just that, that you were an accident waiting to happen. From the beginning, you showed signs of remorse and that was positive. Now, I'm having second thoughts."
Groton pointed to an incident when Kaczynski ran into the back of a tractor trailer while high on marijuana to illustrate his point.
"In looking at the record, I see another accident with eerily similar circumstances," he said. "You smoked pot and crashed into the back of a tractor-trailer. That was your wake-up call. That's when you should have realized, but you didn't."
During an earlier confession during which Kaczynski admitted smoking PCP before the fateful crash last December, he said he used the drug for relief of chronic back pain. Groton called that admission one of the great ironies in this case.
"One of the ironies of this case is, you had a back problem, which is why you took PCP," he said. "You took PCP because it helped with your minor pain and allowed you to work. The irony is, because of your minor problem, you have turned the DelRicco's lives upside down. As her father said, she will be trapped in her own world for the rest of her life and all that was caused by your decision."
At a brief post-sentencing hearing, Oglesby thanked the DelRicco family for their strength during the long battle and the Ocean City Police and his staff for their diligent and thorough investigation.
"I have sincere gratitude for the strength of the DelRicco family," he said. "This little girl is a fighter and I have high hopes for her future. The DelRiccos and Ava are going to continue on. Regardless of the sentence today, they're going to look forward and not backward. It's time for the real healing to begin."


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