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U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
This document explains the requirements of the Pregnancy Discrimination Act (PDA), as well as the requirements of Title I of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) as it applies to women with pregnancy-related disabilities. The PDA and ADA apply to employers with 15 or more employees.
The PDA requires that a covered employer treat women affected by pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions in the same manner as other applicants or employees who are similar in their ability or inability to work. The PDA covers all aspects of employment, including firing, hiring, promotions, and fringe benefits (such as leave and health insurance benefits). Pregnant workers are protected from discrimination based on current pregnancy, past pregnancy, and potential pregnancy.
It is unlawful to harass a woman because of pregnancy, childbirth, or a related medical condition. Harassment is illegal when it is so frequent or severe that it creates a hostile or offensive environment, or when it results in an adverse employment decision (such as the victim being fired or demoted).
Discrimination against a worker with caregiving responsibilities violates Title VII if it is based on sex, and violates the ADA if it is based on a family member's disability. For example, an employer violates Title VII by treating a female employee with young children less favorably than a male employee with young children when deciding on work opportunities, based on a belief that the mother should focus more on the children than on her career. In addition, an employer violates the ADA where it takes an adverse action, such as refusing to hire or denying promotion, against a mother of a newborn with a disability over concerns that she would take off a lot of time for the child's care or that the child's medical condition would impose high health care costs.
An employer must provide the same benefits of employment to women affected by pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions that it provides to other persons who are similar in their ability or inability to work.
Although pregnancy itself is not a disability, pregnant workers may have impairments related to their pregnancies that qualify as disabilities under the ADA. Amendments to the ADA made in 2008 make it much easier than it used to be to show that an impairment is a disability. A number of pregnancy-related impairments are likely to be disabilities, even though they are temporary, such as pregnancy-related carpal tunnel syndrome, gestational diabetes, pregnancy-related sciatica, and preeclampsia.
An employer may not discriminate against an individual whose pregnancy-related impairment is a disability under the ADA and must provide an individual with a reasonable accommodation if needed because of a pregnancy-related disability, unless the accommodation would result in significant difficulty or expense ("undue hardship").
Examples of reasonable accommodations that may be necessary for a pregnancy-related disability include:
The Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) allows eligible employees of employers with 50 or more employees to take up to 12 workweeks of leave for, among other things, the birth and care of the employee's newborn child and for the employee's own serious health condition. The Department of Labor enforces the FMLA. For more information about the FMLA see http://www.dol.gov/whd.
Section 4207 of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act amended the Fair Labor Standards Act to require employers to provide "reasonable break time" for hourly employees to express breast milk until the child's first birthday. Employers are required to provide "a place, other than a bathroom, that is shielded from view and free from intrusion from coworkers and the public, which may be used by an employee to express breast milk." Employers with fewer than 50 employees are not subject to this requirement if it "would impose an undue hardship by causing significant difficulty or expense when considered in relation to the size, nature, or structure of the employer's business." DOL has published a Fact Sheet providing general information on the break time requirement for nursing mothers. The Fact Sheet can be found at http://www.dol.gov/whd/regs/compliance/whdfs73.htm.


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The Seidio Innocell External Battery Pack for iPhone 3G is the latest accessory to try an mitigate the lack of a user-changeable battery. Unlike cases that strap on to your iPhone, or dongles that plug in to the bottom, the Seidio Innocell, available for $39.95 from the iMore Store, tries to find a compromise between the capacity and convenience: a good bit of power in a form factor that's fairly small and unobtrusive.
How does it do? Find out after the break!
What's in the Box
The Seidio Innocell External Battery Pack for iPhone 3G is no frills in terms of both price and accoutrements. What you get is a small, light bit of plastic with a dock plug that looks pretty much like the bottom third of the iPhone. It would be nice if it included a USB or AC adapter plug. However, since unlike some other solutions, the Seidio Innocell actually contains a dock input of its own, allowing for seamless charging with existing iPhone cables, it's an understandable cost saving message.
Even the device itself is bare-bones: it's got a light to show when it's charging (red), when it's charged (green), and when it's giving over that charge to your iPhone (blue). In a bonus bit of design good-thinking, the Seidio Innocell includes a built-in speaker channel to make sure sound isn't distorted if you want to use your iPhone while you're recharging it.
How it Works
Simplicity, thy name is Seidio Innocell. Just plug the unit into the bottom of your iPhone and it begins to charge. That's it.
Because Seidio took pains to make the Innocell look cosmetically like the iPhone -- it's literally made like an extension of the device itself, faux chrome-trim included -- it's easier to use it with your iPhone on-the-go than something like the RichardSolo. The trade-off is lower capacity, of course, with the small, inexpensive Seidio Innocell providing just enough juice to recharge your iPhone 50%.
In my tests, however, the Seidio slightly over-performed. From less than a quarter left, the Seidio re-charged my iPhone to just below full. Since it's my understanding that the final 15% is the most charge-intensive, the performance was impressive.
Final Thoughts
It's light to the point of feeling a un-real (what you want in a carry-around), re-charges your iPhone 50% plus (what might not be enough for hard-core conference/event goers), and does a pretty good job of walking the middle ground between case and dongle.
The one complaint I have is the lack of a dock-lock. While the design and fit is excellent, if I have to use it on-the-go, I want the security of knowing it's not detaching unless I detach it.
- Simple and easy to use
- Over-performed in my tests
- Uses standard dock port to charge
- Low price-point
- May not provide enough charge for super-users
- Should lock to dock connector
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Kazuhisa Hashimoto, creator of the well-known Konami Code, has passed away
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Now you can have more fine-grained control over HomeKit stuff that's connected to the internet.
iPhone 12's rumored 802.11ay WiFi might be for Apple Glasses
Reports that the iPhone 12 might contain the 802.11ay WiFi standard has led some to speculate the feature may be geared towards the release of long-rumored AR hardware from Apple.
Best cases to show off the gold iPhone XS or XS Max
Don't hide your gold iPhone in a case, show it off and enhance it with one of these beautiful cases. None of them will hide the natural beauty of your iPhone XS.

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Updated: 2012 Election in Berkeley: Voters 90% for Obama, 91% for Prop 30—Props 34 and 37 and Measure B1 also favored by large margins (News Analysis)
90.3% of Berkeley voters voted to re-elect Barack Obama as president. That's down from the 92.5% who supported him in 2008. John Kerry won 90.0% of the vote in Berkeley in 2004 presidential election.
Mitt Romney only managed to get 4.6% of the Berkeley vote this year; Green Party candidate Jill Stein got 3.2%. 54,163 votes were cast for Obama in Berkeley; 2766 for Romney and 1917 for Stein.
|Prop or Measure
| Percent of vote
|Prop 30 taxes
|90.7% Yes
|Prop 31 Budget
|78.4% No
|Prop 32 unions
|85.6% No
|Prop 33 auto insurance
|83.4% No
|Prop 34 Death Penalty
|85.7% Yes
| Prop 35
Human Trafficking
|67.0% Yes
|Prop 36 3 strikes
|92.4% Yes
|Prop 37 GMO labeling
|74.6% Yes
|Prop 38 Income tax hike
|69% No
| Prop 39 Multistate
Businesses Tax
|85.1% Yes
|Prop 40 Redistricting
|87.2% yes
|Measure A1 parcel tax for Oakland Zoo
|65.5% Yes
|Measure B1 sales tax transportation
|80.8% Yes
A total of 60,559 Berkeley voters voted this year; 59,974 of these voted for president.
Final election results from other states and counties are not yet available, but based on available results, it looks like Detroit, Gary, Indiana, Washington, D.C., Inglewood in L.A. County are cities with populations of 100,000 or more that produced higher percentages for Obama than Berkeley.
With provisional ballots not included, 96.8% of voters in Gary favored Obama. Provisional ballots have also not been counted in Washington, but so far Obama has 90.9%.
Among cities with a majority of white residents, Berkeley tops the list once again for percentage of votes for a Democratic presidential candidate.
Cities where over 80%, but less than 90%, of the vote went to Obama include: Chicago, Cleveland, San Francisco, New York City, and Cambridge, MA,
Propositions 30 and 37
Based on the total number of votes cast by Berkeley voters, Propositions 30 and 37 were the propositions that Berkeley voters cared most about. 58,277 votes were cast on Prop 30; 57,273 on Prop 37.
Prop 30, which will increase state income tax rates for the wealthy and will increase the state sales tax by ¼%, garnered a slightly higher percentage than Obama: 90.7%.
That's probably the highest percentage of any city in the state. Statewide, the measure is currently at 54.9% with the results not yet finalized.
Proposition 37, which would require labeling of genetically engineered food, failed statewide by about 52% to 48%, but it passed easily in Berkeley 74.6% of the vote; San Francisco voters voted 68% Yes.
Other Props and Measures
Prop 34, which would have abolished the death penalty in California, also lost statewide with the current, not yet finalized count at 52.2% to 47.8%. But it won about 86% of the vote in Berkeley.
On other State propositions, Berkeley voted like the rest of the state, but by larger percentages, except on Proposition 35, the human trafficking measure, which is now at 81% statewide, but was supported by a smaller 67% in Berkeley.
And Alameda County Measure B1, the sales tax measure to fund transit and other transportation improvements, won almost 81% in Berkeley, while narrowly falling short of the required two thirds countywide. Backers of the measure may decide to request a recount now that the county has certified the final results.


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The Research and Design Institute for Urban Transportation conducted a USD 7.5 million project to study and improve transportation infrastructure within Moscow's Third Ring Road area, which was in need of a traffic flow overhaul due to the city's complex layout. Data pertaining to traffic loads, illegal parking, and tram route right-of-ways were collected from 2,893 roads within the study area. The challenge was to consolidate road infrastructure data from all streets into a citywide transportation model.
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Combining the processes of drawing and rendering transportation elements using Bentley Map and MicroStation reduced labor costs by 15 percent and saved 25-30 percent in design time. The introduction of electronic review processes also eliminated time required to track design changes, and provided possibilities to interact with external information systems. The project effectively increased road safety and traffic capacity while optimizing the public transportation system for increased use.
Bentley's GIS publishing and mapping applications provided the foundation for the transportation data management solution allowing surveyors, designers, and project managers access and interaction in real time to streamline workflows and optimize construction for roadway projects. The ability of Bentley Map's spatial analysis feature to accommodate Moscow's road infrastructure was instrumental in enabling the institute to eliminate data discrepancies typically found in traditional 2D methods.
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"Bentley's mapping software facilitated fast, efficient analysis and structuring of the vital road information, which is key given the ever-increasing project data for road infrastructure in Moscow."


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Tuesday, February 1, 2011
Polar Bear Peek-a-Boo Bin | Giveaway!
One of the great people I've gotten to know, is Lesley Stenning over at Smidgebox Designs. Over the holidays we decided to collaborate and I asked Lesley if she would make me a few of her adorable peek-a-boo storage bins using my Polar Bear fabrics. I just adore Lesley's finishing technique and couldn't wait to see little polar bears peeking through. Well, of course I was hoping they would be really cute, but instead they are beyond adorable. Lesley made me 2 (which are already hard at work here at my house). Don't you love them?!?
And the surprise is that we have one of these cute fabric storage bins that Lesley and I are giving away! To enter to win, just leave a comment here on my blog and tell me about something fun you collaborated on (or would like to!). I'll randomly draw a winner after 8am CT on Saturday Feb. 5, 2011. Make sure you leave a way for me to contact you!
Here's details on the little cutie that could be coming to live with you soon:
5" square, 5" high [12.5 cm]
rustic linen + cotton
interfaced for structure, but not stiff
This little storage bin would be equally at home in a child's room or your home office. Round up bits of this + that, anything from paperclips to post-it notes, hairbands and accessories!
Once you've registered to win, make sure you head over to Lesley's store and her blog to peruse her other lovely goodies.
Good luck!
74 comments:
- Jewel said...
I am in the midst of collaborating on some round robin quilts that will be donated to raise money for an orgnization that helps women and children in Haiti. It is superexciting to see what the other three amazing crafters are coming up with.
I love the Polar bear fabric.
- February 1, 2011 at 9:37 AM
- Jodi said...
Those are so cute! Would look great in my grandson's nursery! And colloborate with someone? My creativity is slim and none but I'm working on finding it!
- February 1, 2011 at 9:55 AM
- Marisa said...
Oh, so in love! I just love the polar bears. Can you believe I'd forgotten about them? We have our first baby due in August and I've been trolling fabric but not finding something awesome... I think the polar bears might do it.
While I'd love to use the bin to store baby stuff, I have a sneaking suspicion it would end up being a (pretty awesome) cat bed.
- February 1, 2011 at 10:01 AM
- Marisa said...
Oops, forgot the collaborating comment: does it count to be collaborating on nursery stuff with my husband? He likes soft and baby-ish stuff; I'm more of a fan of bright and crazy. We'll see how this ends up.
- February 1, 2011 at 10:02 AM
- Isisjem said...
This is so lovely and I am loving that fabric. My other half is much better with programmes like photoshop than I am and I'm much better at the arty stuff than he is. I've been working on some art work that I hope he'll do the technological stuff for and then I can get the design printed at Spoonflower.
- February 1, 2011 at 10:05 AM
- Gill said...
I'm collaborating with my daughter at the moment - she tells me what she'd like and I get on and make it!!! Seriously though I'd love to work with Aneela Hooey and then perhaps she'd let me play with her Sherbert Pips!
- February 1, 2011 at 10:10 AM
- DianeY said...
Really cute!
Well, I haven't really collaborated on any projects, unless you count a Flickr virtual quilting bee. I'm doing one now & it has been fun!
- February 1, 2011 at 10:24 AM
- Joanna said...
I'm collaborating with a friend to make a purse. And will later do the same with my mother.
- February 1, 2011 at 10:30 AM
- Dolly said...
What a great catchall for my cutting table !
I collaborate on quilts with my galpal, Jodie, all the time. She sends me the fabrics from Oklahoma, and I piece the top in Tennessee, and send it back for her to quilt.
- February 1, 2011 at 11:20 AM
- Sonia B said...
Way too cute!!! Thanks for the chance. My sister and I are working on an I Spy project for our kiddos . . . it is always fun to have other people involved.
- February 1, 2011 at 12:02 PM
- AmandaHall said...
So cute! Does a quilting bee count as collaboration?
- February 1, 2011 at 12:03 PM
- Alisa said...
How cute. Love the idea and the fabric. Right now I'm collaborating with a group of people to put on a high school music event. It's been a lot of work, but a lot of fun also. Thanks for the give-away chance.
- February 1, 2011 at 12:04 PM
- webmailaddress2 said...
So cute! It would be cool to join one of those modern quilting bees when I'm a more skilled piecer.
- February 1, 2011 at 12:09 PM
- Sherrie said...
Lovely and fun! I'd really like to collaborate on a fantastic quilt. I have trouble with colors, so someone who can really "see" this would be great for me!
- February 1, 2011 at 12:36 PM
- Emily said...
This past year I collaborated with 33 other people from blogland and flickr to make two awesome quilts for my nieces, one of which is 4 yrs old and has been fighting cancer for 3 years. This was the most meaningful project I've ever done. You can check it out here: http://mommysnaptime.blogspot.com/search/label/Rosemarie%27s%20Quilt
- February 1, 2011 at 1:09 PM
- Unknown said...
just lovely - I adore these polar bears :) thanks v much for the chance to home one ...
- February 1, 2011 at 1:12 PM
- Courtney said...
Love the bins, and of course the polar bear fabric! My last collaboration was with a friend for a BBQ festival this past fall. She made girl clothes, I made boy clothes & our booth took first prize for appearance!
- February 1, 2011 at 1:13 PM
- Jenny said...
i would love to do a round robin quilt with a few friends ... so much fun i think!
- February 1, 2011 at 1:17 PM
- Brittany said...
I love this polar bear fabric! The collaborated project I am currently working on is a photo quilt for my bf sister's wedding. He took a photo and pixalated it now I am using that photo to make it a quilt. Thanks for the CUTE giveaway! :-)
- February 1, 2011 at 1:19 PM
- joolee said...
how adorable!! i'd love one of these! let's see, the last collaborative project i did was creating t-shirts for our family reunion last summer. potato prints never looked so good!
- February 1, 2011 at 1:37 PM
- lamina@do a bit said...
Gorgeous!! Love the print design and colours!!
- February 1, 2011 at 1:45 PM
- Kati said...
Love the bear print. I'm in the process of working with my modern quilt guild to make a charity quilt. It's really fun and rewarding to get everyone involved.
- February 1, 2011 at 1:54 PM
- jaime said...
Polar bears! These are so fun. (And one of them would look so nice with all the red accessories in my office.) As for a collaboration...every day of marriage is a collaboration, right? Working together to support, inspire, entertain, and cherish each other--creating one family unit that is greater than the sum of its parts.
- February 1, 2011 at 1:57 PM
- Dresden Lane said...
Hmmm... I once collaborated with my guild to make a charity quilt. It came out pretty well. I love those fabric buckets and the fabrics - too cute.
- February 1, 2011 at 2:00 PM
- Lindsay said...
For christmas my friends and I made scarves for our local homeless shelter.
- February 1, 2011 at 2:26 PM
- Poppyprint said...
Those are so totally sweet!! For my parents 40th anniversary several years ago, I had all of my siblings, their spouses and the grandkids draw a crayon picture on a 10" square of white cotton which I then pieced into a quilt. That was a great family collaboration! Thanks for sharing your lovely work Laurie and Lesley.
- February 1, 2011 at 3:13 PM
- Val Miller said...
so super cute! I just love your fabric, and even more so when they are turned into such a great idea! I have never collaborated on anything ... but I should. Now I just have to find someone who wants too ; )
- February 1, 2011 at 3:56 PM
- Melissa said...
Those are really cute little boxes! We just moved, and I could easily put about 10 to use here in the new house! :)
The first (and only?) collaboration I could think of was my LA Modern Quilt Guild wall hanging that I made for another friend in the guild. I asked members to sign strips of fabric, which I then embroidered over, then I pieced them together stacked-books style, made the logo for the top, and gave it to my friend.
I've since moved away from LA, and she will be doing the same, soon, so this was a way for her to take a bit of the LAMQG with her.
Here's the link: http://www.flickr.com/photos/me1issa/5260144296/in/set-72157625440929133/
- February 1, 2011 at 4:18 PM
- Rachel Locke said...
I really want to collaborate with my sister and design a quilt for our mother.
Thanks for the fantastic giveaway!!
- February 1, 2011 at 4:24 PM
- AnneMarie said...
I am a part of the {Sew} Beautiful Bee - and what fun it is to learn from others and work together to make a new quilt each month! It's my first bee and I love it!
Thanks for the giveaway!
AnneMarie @ Gen X Quilters
- February 1, 2011 at 4:32 PM
- deserae said...
I would love to join a bee, I am getting my skills up to snuff first! :)
- February 1, 2011 at 4:45 PM
- The Hungry Crafter said...
Oh my!!!!!!! My eyes bugged out a little when I saw these -- they are perfect! I love this line of yours and have been wanting to get some....although I don't know what I could POSSIBLY make that would be any cuter than these! Definitely heading over to her shop after I leave this comment! I've never collaborated on anything sewing-wise, but I've had the fortune of being in bands with two of my best friends over the years -- I'll always treasure the songs we wrote together.
- February 1, 2011 at 5:12 PM
- Marg M said...
They are so lovely I've collaborated with a cute bag with my niece so it would turn out right - we each knew a little about the making to make it right :-)
- February 1, 2011 at 6:11 PM
Simply adorable! I recently collaborated with one of my besties on a truly special one of a kind keepsake quilt for our other bestie and her brand new baby :)
- February 1, 2011 at 6:26 PM
- charlotte h. said...
loving these fabric storage bins! my sisters and i want to collaborate on making a quilt for our mum... we want to each make a set of squares and then put them all together to make a quilt (:
- February 1, 2011 at 6:48 PM
- Julie said...
I have worked with the woman who does the machine quilting for me...she is such an artist! Thanks for the giveaway.
- February 1, 2011 at 8:36 PM
- Helen said...
I was contacted by a friend I met on Etsy, who asked me if I could screenprint a piece of fabric she could use to make a music bag for her young daughter. I was glad to do it, since she didn't have a screenprinting machine. After she was done, she sent me pictures of the final project and I was so happy I had a part in it!
helen_ono at hotmail dot com
- February 1, 2011 at 8:44 PM
- Erin said...
OMG! That is so cute and I would absolutely die if I won. A friend and I collaborated on Christmas sewing one year. She helped me make the bags I put all my goodies in and I helped her make pj pants. Eventually, she was making pants and I was making bags, but it was so nice to be able to sew with someone and troubleshoot together. Thanks!!
- February 1, 2011 at 9:10 PM
- holly | bijou lovely said...
I love smidgebox! I would be so happy to win this! The last thing I collaborated on was. A baby quilt for a friend, it was pretty fun!
- February 1, 2011 at 9:20 PM
- underthreefeet said...
I just love these so cute!
- February 1, 2011 at 10:29 PM
- Mary on Lake Pulaski said...
I do more bartering rather than colaborating - I like to sew bags and a friend is an amazing fabric wall artist. So I made her a bag and she made me an amazing wall hanging!
- February 2, 2011 at 7:00 AM
- Jennifer Ladd said...
Hod did I miss those polar bear fabrics?!? You must have released them when I was in Ethiopia. I'm off to take a better look in your shop ....
And those baskets are so cute!
I've done a lot of collaboration, but I had a lot of fun with a purse project I did with a new line from Jenean Morrison.
jennifereladd at yahoo dot com
- February 2, 2011 at 7:50 AM
- Designer Jules said...
I work with friends to make something fun that I know they will like. They just pick the fabric from the stash and I get sewing.
- February 2, 2011 at 7:52 AM
- Pattie Crum said...
I haven't seen the polar bears before, super cute and the basket is aborable.
- February 2, 2011 at 8:02 AM
- Denny1600 said...
This is a very cute thing!! My mother, our friends, and I have collaborated on some quilts. One of them actually got completely finished. One is with my friend to be quilted. Two are with me to be quilted. Another one is under construction now.
Thanks for doing this giveaway.
- February 2, 2011 at 8:47 AM
- Sooz said...
So sweet! I love collaboration. And I love the "peek-a-boo" design. I might play with that idea for a mug-rug swap I'm working on! More collaboration! Thanks for your great work, as always.
- February 2, 2011 at 9:18 AM
- Shannon said...
I love those cuddly polar bears! My friend Ann-Marie is my best collaborator! We are always emailing WIP's back and forth for opinions and help! What a fabulous giveaway!
- February 2, 2011 at 9:18 AM
- Brigette said...
I've collaborated by being married! Sometimes it would seem simpler to decorate or garden by just doing things how I want them, but checking in with my husband and listening to his ideas has made the decorating and gardens better for it.
- February 2, 2011 at 9:55 AM
- Sarah Craig said...
We collaborate on quilts for our church's quilt ministry - and sometimes the results are amazing! It's fun to work with a bunch of women and see what we can create! Thanks for the chance to win!
- February 2, 2011 at 11:43 AM
- Holly said...
Very cute bins - I'm a big fan of both yourself and Lesley! As for collaboration - I'm just wrapping up my first year in an online quilting bee and we'll each have a quilt made by about a dozen people at the end!
- February 2, 2011 at 12:05 PM
- Candied Fabrics said...
I love Lesley's work - and these polar bears are cute as a button! I had a fun collaboration last year with some bloggy quilt friends, we made a baby quilt for a mutual friend, with 5 of us each contributing our forte (so, I dyed the fabric...)
- February 2, 2011 at 12:25 PM
- Susan Snooks said...
I complete a mystery block each year for a charity quilt. It is always fun to see how the scrap of fabric we receive comes together with others! Thanks for the giveaway!
- February 2, 2011 at 1:37 PM
- Christina said...
I just got a bunch of finished quilt blocks from my great grandmother that I am so excited to turn into a quilt for our family!
- February 2, 2011 at 1:46 PM
- Becky said...
These are adorable as is all of your fabric!
Thanks for the chance to win.
Last summer I joined forces with a pal to sell our wares at a couple of craft fairs. Modest success and I plan to collaborate with another pal this spring on bigger craft fairs.
- February 2, 2011 at 6:35 PM
- Amy said...
Mmmm. These bins are a terrific collaboration. Currently, I'm collaborating with my dear friend's seven-year-old. We're making wardrobes for her favorite stuffed animals. She directs and I act - that's how our collaboration works. And I love it.
- February 2, 2011 at 7:42 PM
- Karin Grow said...
Love these...especially the last two with blue inside...wink!
I'm currently working on an Alice and Wonderland painting project which I hope to share on my blog soon. Karin
- February 2, 2011 at 8:26 PM
My husband and I recently collaborated with our 3 year old son on making a bed for our son's toy Moose (aka 'Little Moosey'). My husband taught him the basics of carpentry through the construction of a small wooden bed while I took control of the bedding; working with him to make a mattress and pillow (which he stuffed)and personalised quilt on the machine. Little Moosey has never slept so well!
- February 2, 2011 at 9:23 PM
Oops - forgot my contact details for post above re. Little Moosey.
- February 2, 2011 at 9:24 PM
- Nicole Gendy said...
I'm collaborating with a bunch of women quilters in my church. we are making quilts for families in mexico for whom our church will be making houses for.
- February 2, 2011 at 10:28 PM
- Lynne said...
My niece and I collaborate often on crafts! That's about as close as I get to creative collaboration. Lovely give away! Thank you all for sharing!
- February 2, 2011 at 10:34 PM
- Unknown said...
My sister and I worked together on a fundraising recipe book with favorite family recipes donated from church members. I sketched some illustrations and my clever sister put it all together in illustrator for printing. I hope we can do more of this together.
- February 3, 2011 at 12:09 AM
- Mama Spark said...
My LAQ is a very dear friend. She and I work together on quilts frequently. In fact I have several of them to do with her right now! I have one partially finished and almost ready for her to work her magic on. My other BFF and I frequently make quilts together too. It is fun working with a partner!!
- February 3, 2011 at 10:54 AM
- craftytammie said...
I joined my first quilting bee and I love it! seeing my blocks in other's quilts is cool, and I can't wait for my month! I adore your fabric and the little bin - it would inspire me daily in my craft space!
- February 3, 2011 at 2:42 PM
- robin said...
Lovely bins! :) I'm currently collaborating with my daughter about a quilt I'm making her.
- February 3, 2011 at 5:05 PM
- Lee said...
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- February 3, 2011 at 5:21 PM
- Lee said...
I am working on some needlepoint projects with a friend of mine. Our mothers both left us some that were half done so we are both working to get them done and made into pillows.
I love the polar bear fabric the best! thanks for the wonderful giveaway!
- February 3, 2011 at 5:26 PM
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LOVE the polar bear fabric :) As for collaborating, I frequently collaborate with my bestie on jewelry projects. I'm about to start making my first quilt (ever!) with my mom though!
- February 3, 2011 at 5:43 PM
- Lissa said...
Adorable!!!! Adorable!!!! Oh how I would LOVE to win this! About the cutest thing ever. As far as colaborating, well, my sister, niece and I are currently working on quilt for my other sister. It is a lot of fun to work together on a project!
- February 3, 2011 at 9:17 PM
- Janna said...
Those are ADORABLE!!! My best friend and I started an etsy shop emersonbaby.etsy.com but after me getting pg and sick and having a crabby baby after 5 yrs and then her getting pg and sick after 4 yrs its been put on hold;)
- February 3, 2011 at 10:43 PM
- Angela D. said...
Love the polar bears! I am collaborating with a friend to make a quilt for a wedding gift.
- February 3, 2011 at 10:52 PM
- Sheetal said...
I'm part of a quilting bee that works with vintage sheets from our own stash. Its a fun way to share our precious vintage sheets as well as make quilt blocks/ quilts together!
- February 4, 2011 at 11:38 AM
- Kimberly said...
These are so great. I am collaborating with my daughter to make a hat and mittens.
- February 4, 2011 at 1:51 PM
- the frog princess said...
What a cool bucket! I collaborated on a knitted blanket for a friend who had to have surgery. My favourite square was an intarsia eggplant. :D
- February 5, 2011 at 6:03 AM
- Unknown said...
Sweet, I love your fabrics!
A photographer friend and I collaborated on a set of purses and bags, using her photos and my recycled fabric collection. I love mixing old and new, wanted and unwanted to make functional art!
Would love to collaborate on a sweet little clutch with some of your fabrics, if you are up for more adventures!
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For the HD3000 AMD said 2x GPGPU performance per flop against HD2000, because of the new architecture. Not 2x Shading performance (they are equal on shading). In what language you measure GPGPU performance anyway and regardless of my posts?
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For the HD3000 AMD said 2x GPGPU performance per flop against HD2000, because of the new architecture. Not 2x Shading performance (they are equal on shading). In what language you measure GPGPU performance anyway and regardless of my posts?
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Originally posted by pingufunkybeat View PostCorrect.
Google did a clean-room reimplementation of Java Virtual Machine, using the same API.
What they can't do is link proprietary code against GPL code.
Oh, and define link, the gpl doesn't.
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Maybe add a small opensource part to the driver just for doing this communication could work legally? :/
Way to miss the point, the API in question can't be considered gpl code, legally. So Alan Cox's (and your, apparently) politically motivated rage against nVidia is rather impotent.
API is API, but if you link against a GPL implementation of it, you're in trouble. You're welcome to make your own implementation, though, and nobody can stop you from doing that.
That's why you can't copyright a stdio.h header, but if you link against a GPL implementation of libc, you are bound by the GPL. This is why glibc does not use the GPL. The kernel does.
Oh, and define link, the gpl doesn't.
Many important kernel devs, starting with Linus, have a very clear opinion on this, and Nvidia is ignoring them because they have lots of legal muscle.
Originally posted by pingufunkybeat View PostMany important kernel devs, starting with Linus, have a very clear opinion on this, and Nvidia is ignoring them because they have lots of legal muscle.
Originally posted by boast View PostThats how you see it? I see it as two linux engineers at nvidia who were able to convince their boss to work on optimus. With any legal trouble, I bet their managers would tell them to drop it in a heart beat.
And I'll say it again, it DOESN'T MATTER if the performance is adequate, when it's significantly less than what the hardware has been proven to be able to give.
So you "might be tempted" to use the software that will make that performance be adequate, and it's perfectly logical to use the right tool for the job.
And this will ALWAYS be the case with a company like NVidia which only supports proprietary drivers, you will be at their begging, they will CHOOSE which platforms you can or cannot run the hardware you BUY from them. It doesn't end with optimus, this will always be a problem. FreeBSD allows proprietary drivers to interact directly with kernel interfaces, yet it does not have optimus support, what gives?
Again it has nothing to do with that, if NVidia _wants_ to support a platform they will. They want to support Linux on the professional level for HPC and 3D/SFX so they provide proprietary drivers for their cards which are used in those areas, they have no interest in Linux on the end user desktop so technologies like optimus is not on their agenda.
I'll go back to learning some C programming now ..
(No, serisouly .. :P)
As the name implies there is very little hand-holding and depending on how new you are to programming you might want something more 'basic'.
**Btw, should I add, I don't know what you define as great visual quality, but my experience says you need pretty high end hardware to have it with open drivers.
Way to miss the point, the API in question can't be considered gpl code, legally.
You should try and understand the difference between an API and actual CODE. NVidia wants to use kernel CODE from their PROPRIETARY driver, this code has been marked as only legally linkable from GPL compatible code (EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL) which means you cannot legally call it from PROPRIETARY code. NVidia is allowed to copy the API verbatim as many times they want, but they have to write THEIR OWN CODE.
Originally posted by XorEaxEax View PostNo actually you missed the point, I wrote that it doesn't matter if you get 110 fps with open source drivers or 190 with proprietary drivers when the game still only needs to run at 30-60fps. In other words, as long as the open drivers can provide 30-60fps (depending on game) with acceptable levels of graphics then that's all that's needed to cater for the wider audience. Obviously there will be the hardcore gamers who want everything at maximum but really they won't switch to Linux anyway, heck they are probably not even on PC anymore as they've migrated to dedicated gaming consoles.
Of course it does, that is what adequate means. If it is adequate for playing a game at full speed with a adequate level of graphics then that is perfectly acceptable for the majority of people playing games out there. Again the hardcore gamers are not what I'm talking about here. A good gaming experience goes far beyond the ability to crank up the graphics to 'MAXIMUM LEVEL! OVER 9000!'. The runaway success of things like the Humble Bundle where the majority of games doesn't come close to taxing even the open source drivers is a prime example of this.
If you want to use the proprietary driver because you don't find the performance to be adequate then that's up to you, who is stopping you? If you are talking about 'optimus' then that's because NVidia has not seen it fit to release a proprietary driver for this hardware on Linux, which is not something that not being able to use DMABUF prevents, they are fully capable of implementing that functionality in their proprietary driver themselves, as they've done with all other kernel functionality they can't use due to being proprietary. The reason you don't have a proprietary optimus driver for Linux is that NVidia doesn't care about supporting optimus on Linux.
And this will ALWAYS be the case with a company like NVidia which only supports proprietary drivers, you will be at their begging, they will CHOOSE which platforms you can or cannot run the hardware you BUY from them. It doesn't end with optimus, this will always be a problem. FreeBSD allows proprietary drivers to interact directly with kernel interfaces, yet it does not have optimus support, what gives?
Again it has nothing to do with that, if NVidia _wants_ to support a platform they will. They want to support Linux on the professional level for HPC and 3D/SFX so they provide proprietary drivers for their cards which are used in those areas, they have no interest in Linux on the end user desktop so technologies like optimus is not on their agenda.
As someone who has been programming in C (amongst other languages though) for 12 years that makes me happy to hear If you want a nice kickstart/learn-through-practical-examples experience I would suggest 'learn c the hard way', I wish I'd had something like this back when I started out: http://c.learncodethehardway.org/book/
As the name implies there is very little hand-holding and depending on how new you are to programming you might want something more 'basic'.
Yes this is indeed a subjective thing, but I'd wager as long as people think graphics look 'good' they will (in general) fully enjoy the game even though it doesn't reach the maximum level of detail it can muster on their hardware/drivers.
I'll say again the fps thing. If in cases where on other OS you'd get 100 fps or whatever, you get 30-60 on Linux, then in cases you'd get 30-60 on that other OS you'd get significantly less on Linux. Ok? Thus, I wouldn't say it's adequate. In many cases the performance of opensource drivers is good enough, but also in many other cases it's not. And those cases seem to be many more than the other OS that would get more fps or proprietary drivers. Am I wrong here?
So if you have more cases where performance is not good enough, compared to what it could be, I'd call it not adequate.
I'm sure you agree that performance on open drivers, on average, is not as good as it could. And in my opinion, not as good as it should. Although I do understand the technical difficulties, to consider them good for daily usage, I'd like better performance in relation to hardware.
For me it's probably just power management that prevents me from using them. Video decode would be very welcome too. And in my usecase, granted the first condition was met(power management), the advantages would probably indeed outweigh the disadvantages. SO I have my hopes up regarding some news that there might be progress on this front ...
And I wouldn't say we're at the point where in most cases I'd recommend open drivers instead of closed ones to people new to Linux. At least from my perspective, which I find fairly justified.
Even though we might have disagreements, I'm glad we can talk without derailing too much, unlike in other cases.
Indeed, FreeBSD may not have optimus, but I think they have more reasons to give this support on Linux. In the end, Nvidia is indeed a company, not a charity or anything ..
While not pleasant, it's somewhat expected that they wouldn't care as much as for windows. Especially if they also don't have any OEMs complaining they can't get Optimus to work on their pre-installed Linux pcs ..
It's not good, but expected due to how things work. I might be wrong, but I care more about it being implemented that how it will be. I believe for myself that it's more likely or better to implement, even if in wrong way, and then do it better. Also I believe accepting the blob and bashing nvidia would bring us one step closer to nvidia open drivers than wishing them and the blob to die. I don't think it will be easy to give us open drivers by forcing(I think it'd be to tough to do so), but maybe if they are more involved in Linux they that they can have advantages actually from open. But this is how I see things.
Besides, even if it's implemented itcould help get more users, in other words more power to actually pressure them in the long run.
I can accept though that there are legal problems, and maybe I should mention, that I don't expect or want them to implement it if it indeed is against gpl etc.
I don't like the idea that "we'll prevent them cause we hate them" though.
Making it easier for them would obviously help implement features though. But yes, we should stay within what gpl says. I don't say to revert anything, just that no need to prevent them IF it's in agreement to what they're allowed to do(cause I get the impression some people would prevent them anyways).
Also I don't like that some people are so zealous about opensource, that they want to go against everything that's not open and generally deny it. I do believe that open is better, but we can't just erase everything else in a single fell swoop. And of course Nvidia aren't victims, I don't think anyone really said so, the victims are the users. And Nvidia is indeed at fault more or less, but I'd also blame some other people, who I believe could maybe have handled things a bit better in my opinion. Just a tiny little bit.
We shouldn't see them, or anyone else for that matter, as enemies in my humble opinion.
Btw, about Nvidia's support. I can't confirm much of this with benchmarks or anything so take with a grain of salt .. Or many ..
I've read various articles, comments etc regarding graphics performance under Linux, among other things, and the general idea I got is that both nvidia and amd blobs tend to give around the same performance between Windows and Linux(native apps). But fglrx has more random bugs and features missing/not implemented that well(this I can confirm .. -.-). Under Wine though, amd performance is worse or horrible for games, personally I can confirm 70%-80% performance losses in fps on average on some games I tried. Pretty bad, huh? Although the games were playable, there was a bit of lag on Stacraft II sometimes(even on lowest settings it wasn't all gone). I should note that there was barely any decrease in performance under heavy battles(4v4 clashing with hundreds of troops from all sides, and I don't have a high end laptop ), while on Windows in the same circumstances the screen would probably update every 1-2 seconds(that was while I played, so I can confirm) .. And generally, less heat was produced(always a good thing on a laptop. With radeon I didn't try though to say, but from what I've read it occasionally performs better than Catalyst with Wine .. xD Still less than windows though.
With Nvidia blob on the other hand(not confirmed by me from here on) it seems the performance under Wine often similar to Windows, even better on cases ..!
Granted you can have working video decode acceleration, it seems to me close to the best you could have on Linux, as things stand now(not as good as it should again, some bugs here and there, and some other stuff).
And I'd generally say, that their driver mostly works pretty well, from my experience too. Although I find both Nvidia's and AMD's installers pretty stupid. Ok, AMD needs a bit of command line(can't do much without amdconfig/aticonfig, the rest is all possible through only gui though, but generally faster on terminal), but Nvidia requires to completely shut down X and the display manager to install( manually) from what I remember from last time. xD
Other than that it's not so bad for Nvidia though .. As far as support goes. With Catalyst I get various glitches, mostly on fullscreen hardware accelerated windows of any sort(wine games, browser with flash video, fullscreen flash video, even lightdm with elementary theme, and more, all give some kind of graphical glitches, making features unusable in some cases).
I hope that the driver won't get too bloated if they add all the code for Optimus themselves though.
And thanks a lot for the recommendation regarding C programming, I'll certainly have a look at it.
I was learning a bit of gtk lately, but generally I'm not experienced on programming.
**Dear God, how did I end up writing so much again .. -.-
It must be those essay/language classes I had a couple years ago .... -.-
IMO we're missing the point
This is one of the few multi-page threads I read completely before responding, and I haven't sees once asked the following question : "who is the target audience of Linux?" I don't have the answer, I only have my answer, so all that follows is my personnal view.
There is none. The point of Linux is creating a great product. When someone wants to use it for something, he is welcome to modify it as seen fit; with the GPL safety that those changes will go public. This has happened on more than once occasion, however Linux on servers/supercomputers comes first to mind. The changes went back to the main branch, and independent devs got interested and contributed too. Now we're seeing the same in the embedded space : DMA-BUF was created to address a specific need for ARM vendors. In the end it was designed more generically than was originally needed, and the enablement of dual graphic solutions is AFAIK more of a side effect. Thanks to the GPL (again) the work went back into the main branch.
Now NVidia dances in, wants to hook in but oh surprise, it's an internal interface, and you can't link against it from non-GPL code. (Admittedly, this has never been tried in court, but who would want that?). Why is this? because when communicating with the kernel via system calls (exempted from the GPL derived work clause), the kernel can (and will) assure some type of security. With internal interfaces, this protection is irtually impossible. The best described case in the mailing list is a bug that appears somewhere, but traces back into the black box that is the blob, this creates impossible to debug issues, and for people hit by them, an impression that linux is unstable (and that no one is willing to look into their issues). In the end, they are making a decision which should be good for the product.
To the users (of which I am a subset), well, sorry guys, the qualty of the product should be and is the primary concern; jeopardizing this for a vendor (granted popular) that doesn't play nice doesn't seem like a fair tradeoff.
This was very personal analysis of the situation, and one more thing :
I bought my GPU, and I want(should be able to) to use it how I want. Imagine you bought a dishwasher into which you weren't legally allowed to use Calgon tablets, only had to use Sun tablets. The notion of "owner" is slowly fading, all we are is a "licenced user". I say NO! I own it, I use it how I see fit.
Third time repeated : my view only.
Nvidia/fglrx blobs have no future in Linux.


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Some 1,000 pro-Zelaya demonstrators protested outside the U.S. Embassy in the capital, Tegucigalpa, Thursday after the State Department letter was made public in the Honduran media.
While condemning the overthrow of Zelaya and his pre-dawn expulsion, the Aug. 4 letter said that Zelaya, who's allied with Venezuelan leader Hugo Chavez, was largely to blame for his plight.
"We also recognize that President Zelaya's insistence on undertaking provocative actions contributed to the polarization of Honduran society and led to a confrontation that unleashed the events that led to his removal," said the letter, signed by Assistant Secretary of State for Legislative Affairs Richard Verma.
"I think this could open the door for an alternative option as president," said Jorge Yllesca, a political consultant based in Honduras, meaning that interim President Roberto Micheletti might try to end the political crisis by stepping aside, not for Zelaya but for the president of the Congress or the chief justice of the Supreme Court.
The crisis began when Zelaya insisted on staging a referendum June 28 that, opponents believed, would support a constitutional convention leading to a constitutional change that would allow him to seek re-election. Zelaya had only six more months in office before a non-Chavez ally was likely to take over as Honduras' next president.
Chavez and two of his South American allies, Bolivian President Evo Morales and Ecuadorean President Rafael Correa, have won public approval for new constitutions that are allowing them to extend their terms in office.
The Honduran Congress, the attorney general's office and the state prosecutor all advised Zelaya that Honduras' constitution didn't permit the referendum.
He went ahead anyway and was ousted.
Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, a conservative Republican congresswoman from Miami, applauded the State Department letter.
"It seems that the U.S. is stepping a bit away from its unabashed support for Zelaya," Ros-Lehtinen said in a telephone interview.
She'd prefer that the Obama administration break ranks with the rest of Latin America and Europe and drop its support for Zelaya.
"To reinstate Zelaya to power would be the wrong message to send," Ros-Lehtinen said. "It would say you can violate the law, go against the Congress and get away with it, and the U.S. will stand with you."
Republican senators angered by the administration's Honduras policy put a hold on Obama's nomination of Arturo Valenzuela to be assistant secretary of State for Western Hemisphere affairs, along with two key ambassadorial nominees.
Lugar, in a July 30 letter to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, said he hoped that her explanation could "improve the prospects" of confirming Valenzuela this week.
Sen. Jim DeMint, R-S.C., said Wednesday that he was "glad to see the State Department is finally beginning to walk back its support for Manuel Zelaya," but an aide said that DeMint hadn't lifted his hold on Valenzuela's nomination because despite the policy shift, Obama still supports Zelaya's return to power.
The Obama administration has taken a series of low-level steps to show its dissatisfaction with the Micheletti government.
The U.S. has revoked diplomatic visas for five Hondurans associated with the Micheletti government. It's suspended anti-drug operations from the U.S. military base in Honduras, withheld $16 million in defense aid and warned that it might not disburse the final 10 percent of money for Honduras under a $250 million aid program.
The U.S. also has strongly supported the mediation efforts of Costa Rican President Oscar Arias, who's proposed a compromise plan to reinstate Zelaya with limited powers. Micheletti has rejected the plan, while Zelaya has accepted it.
The letter to Lugar said that U.S. officials wouldn't go much further.
"We have rejected calls for crippling economic sanctions," it said.
The letter comes at a time when Zelaya is expressing his unhappiness with the Obama administration.
"The United States only needs to tighten its fist, and the coup will last five seconds," Zelaya said Tuesday in Mexico, adding that 70 percent of Honduras' economy depends on trade and remittances from the United States.
Mark Weisbrot, the co-director of the Center for Economic and Policy Research in Washington, said the Obama administration could seize the U.S. bank accounts of Hondurans associated with the coup and withdraw their tourist and diplomatic visas to the U.S.
"These are steps that are very easy to take and would have an impact," Weisbrodt said.
Dennis Jett, a former U.S. ambassador who now teaches at Pennsylvania State University, said the Obama administration has followed a middle course because it has competing goals.
"On one hand, our interests are saved if this guy is not in power or allowed to violated the constitution and perpetuate himself in power," Jett said. "But we do have the obligation to be supportive of democracy."
(James Rosen in Washington contributed to this article.)
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- US equities gained over the quarter. The market responded positively as forecasts for additional increases in US interest rates were deferred following dovish comments from Federal Reserve chair Janet Yellen.
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Remembering Charles Kuralt
As a young child who grew up watching television, I often had the chance to catch a viewing of the CBS news series "Sunday Morning," featuring Charles Kuralt. Through his poetic imagery and vivid lines, Kuralt filled my head with images of people and places that existed far beyond my scope of worldly experience. He spoke of the beauty in these places as though, he too, were viewing them through the eyes of a child for the first time. He had the ability to get your attention, to pull you in, and to keep you on the edge of your seat until the story was finished. Charles Kuralt was, to me, the ultimate storyteller.
Although he is gone, his life lives on within the pages of Ralph Grizzle's new book, REMEMBERING CHARLES KURALT. Through countless interviews with Kuralt's family, friends, and colleagues, Kuralt's own life story is revealed for us to read.
Charles Bishop Kuralt was born in Wilmington, North Carolina on September 10, 1934. The book tells us that his parents, Wallace and Ina Kuralt, were both college graduates who, because of the Great Depression, were forced to work extremely hard to find any decent career prospects. His father was a UNC graduate with a Phi Beta Kappa key and a degree in commerce. His mother was a graduate of East Carolina Teachers College. The two met on an eight-week, cross-country trip sponsored by UNC. Shortly before Christmas of 1931, Wallace proposed to Ina, and the two were married. The book goes on to explain that young Charles became very familiar with relocating, as his father was forced to move frequently in order to obtain success and growing career stability. This constant moving could offer some insight into Charles Kuralt's nomadic interests as an adult.
As the book progresses, we learn about young Kuralt's first signs of independent thinking. As a kindergarten student at St. Agnes Academy in Washington, Charles was said to have asked the school's Sister Rosalind, "If thou shalt worship no graven images, then what are all those statues of the Virgin Mary and the saints doing around the school?" Although the other nuns found his question to be inappropriate, Sister Rosalind smiled and promoted Kuralt to the first grade.
It was at the age of six that Charles first dreamed of becoming a reporter. When he turned 13, in 1948, he was already working in radio. ABC-affiliate WAYS gave Kuralt his own radio show, "Junior Sports Parade." He would host the show every Tuesday afternoon. The position did not pay, but Charles was not in it for the money. He loved covering high school and junior high school sports and hoped to someday be a sportswriter for the Charlotte News. As I read further, I discovered that the road to success for Charles Kuralt was never ending. Each step along the way proved to be a stepping stone to something greater. At the young age of 16, Charles began his freshman year at the University of North Carolina. A few years later he ran for editor of the school newspaper, The Daily Tar Heel, and won by a narrow margin of 2,944 to 1,585. Oddly enough, Charles left Chapel Hill in the summer of 1955, without a degree, to take a job with the Charlotte News. Because Charles had failed to complete a couple of physical education courses, he did not receive his degree. It was not until 10 years later that the University modified its graduation requirements, allowing Charles to receive his bachelor of arts in History, not in Journalism as has been widely reported.
In the next section of the book, Ralph Grizzle goes into Kuralt's years at CBS, 1957-1994, and his rise to stardom with his news segment, "On The Road." This section of the book includes interviews with Walter Cronkite, Bernie Birnbaum, Andy Rooney, and other colleagues at CBS. I found this section most interesting because of the inside perspective it provides the reader into Kurlat's life behinds the scenes. Each interview brings to life a different side of the man so many of us saw as a regular on CBS news.
To sum things up, REMEMBERING CHARLES KURALT is a great book for the reader who wants more than just facts and time lines. The book provides a very in-depth look into the life of Charles Kuralt and his road to success. The interviews within add a very personal touch to the story, making this book not only informative, but enjoyable to read.
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Monday, June 1, 2009
Off topic: Internet Identity
The recent drama of the blogosphere (I'm surprised that's not an official word, yet) is the fake identity of Ferraro, a paladin blogger recently made infamous among the healers regarding his/her stance on the legendary healing weapon prior to its exact proc effects being known. Ferraro had built up a "real life" image of themselves as a "hot chick" girl gamer, using stolen images from a different person (by becoming a stalker on the real person's own photo album), and then perpetuated it with fake stories to build around the photographs. (edit: they also stole direct blog posts from their target and possibly others, but that is a different matter)
Given the reality of stalkers, I can understand an author not wanting to put their own real picture up on the net. If cornered and harassed by multiple people or people that one plays with regularly to post a picture, a girl may feel the need to steal a different picture to hide behind. They may wish to pretend that they look different for any of multiple reasons, including self-image problems, wanting more "fan boys" to follow their readership, and real fear of stalkers.
There are also men out there who will pose as a pretty girl for various reasons, ranging from as relatively innocent as trying to get more readership, to police trying to catch "badguys."
The "Self-Image" Problem, a true story:
I played with a girl who gave my guild and the person she was "dating" for 3+ years a "borrowed" photograph. She didn't appreciate herself and wanted others to think she was prettier; we all knew she was a very shy person, and I was shocked she'd even sent some people a photo of herself. In time, even if she'd have grown comfortable enough to share her real image, it was too late: she would have to admit to a lie, and so she hid her lie and continued to dig up images of her "borrowed" self. Eventually, when she couldn't dodge the pleas for webcam conversations, the lie did come out, and many people were hurt by her lie and lack of prior trust.
Was it right to steal another's image to be her own? No. Was it right for her to even feel forced to do so to keep others off her back about seeing what she looked like? No.
She should have put her foot down and simply said "No, I'm still afraid, I'm not ready for others to see my picture." It's not easy to say, with close internet friends or growing relationships scratching for a picture, and some people can't say it: they'd rather duck under it to avoid being pressed about it again, and don't think about the long-term consequences. We should always be alert to avoid putting others in this situation. If someone says they don't want to share their picture, don't press them!
The "Lie for Respect" Problem, a true story:
While not necessarily a picture-theft, this sort of story will strike home to many guilds: the question of age vs maturity. When a whole guild goes on having problems with immature "kids" and decides to blame it on age, the "kids" who are more mature will feel that they have to hide their true age. They may have to spin up a whole story about how old they are, what college they went to, what they do as a job, all to keep from being treated as though they are 6, or picked on for their age (as a note, I believe that maturity is merely knowing when to use it, and has little to do with actual age).
I had a guildie that was such. He hid his true age (15 at the start of the lie, I believe?), instead saying he was in his late 20's/30's, with a degree in English Literature. He spent much time quoting Shakespeare. Everyone believed him; why wouldn't we? He was a fun guy, had a level head on his shoulders, and was capable of goofing off as much as the rest of the "adult crowd" was. He became an officer (was such when I joined the guild), and for a short period was guild leader before real life priorities and a move across the country cut his playtime to nil.
Some time after stepping down as guild leader, he came forth with the truth. He was graduating High School. He had told the lie because it was clear to him that the other guild leaders and officers at the time would not have taken him seriously if they'd known his true age; they never would have considered him for officership, they never would've let him have a hand in managing the guild or running recruitment or helping to lead raids if he was "just a kid."
Some people were shocked. Some were outraged. Some--like my husband and I--just sat back and nodded to ourselves in agreement with this teen's assessment. I was reminded of Valentine and Peter Wiggin in Ender's Game (a great book by Orson Scott Card), who shaped world politics under fake adult identities while but pre-teens, because who would listen to children, no matter what wisdom they may have in their words?
Other Reasons:
Was this necessarily how Ferraro started? No, but it might have been (severe dollop of the benefit of the doubt). Or it could've been a "hey look imma cute girl, read ma blog!" tactic. Many of the bloggers I have networked with are female, or claim to be. Not all have pictures up (I don't, either!). Does being a girl increase our readership? The most successful blogs, be they by a girl or a guy, are based on their content rather than any pretty face behind the text. They built themselves up in the communities, wrote guides and tutorials, explained mechanics, and shared their experiences from the GAME. They didn't do it by posting pics (real or stolen) of themselves and weaving tales to make themselves up as a dream barbie.
Some bloggers may feel impatient and think the fastest method to get readers is to use flirtatious pictures. They may draw attention to these fake identities specifically to increase their readership, by posting more and more of their borrowed or stolen images and trying to justify them, make them real, insist that they're real. They may even do it as a social experiment, watching comments and things like Google Analytics to see what may stir up more hits. They may do it simply to increase views, to "pad" their numbers (ironically enough like padding a bra), be it to increase revenue from site ads or just to try to argue for their popularity over another blog, for some twisted sense of security and self-importance.
The reality is that on the web, people can hide behind whatever graphic they want, and it becomes who they are to others. Time only digs the hole deeper, and when the truth is finally brought forth (if it is even the truth, for it could be another mask?), many are hurt by the lie. They feel they cannot trust the person anymore, for if the person is lieing about who they are, what else could they be lieing about?
In the end, it is best to be honest about who you are. It is work to maintain a mask of something you're not, and it will hurt not only the person you're pretending to be and your readers, it will hurt you. Let your blog speak for its own content, let your words speak of your true thoughts and experiences, and let your blog represent yourself rather than a mask.
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Your story about a child lying for respect reminds me of Benjamin Franklin as well, with his Silence Dogood letters.
- June 2, 2009 at 9:49 AM
- Lissanna said...
If it was just the identity theft part (taking the name & picture), I'd be much more understanding for Ferarro. However, "they" also stole that girl's posts and actual non-wow related blog content and put it on their blog. That has a much more malicious feel of plagiarism that crosses a line I'm not comfortable with.
Personally, I just don't post pictures or put name/location info into my blog posts as much as possible...
- June 2, 2009 at 11:21 AM
- Kae said...
Heh, copyright and plagiarism is a whole 'nother can of worms. I'm certainly not trying to excuse Ferraro's (Ferarro? eh, I don't feel like looking up the "right" spelling ;) ) behavior on that front! I recall us discussing copyright briefly over on the Restokin blog a couple weeks ago :)
As for the identity aspect, I find it ironic that this would happen so soon in the wake of Andrew's posts over at TeethandClaws, where he was advocating support of real names and faces for the blogging community.
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Large black olives were used for the frizzy hair, ham for the nose and bread dough balls for the necklace.
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The doorbell rings. Your dog barks up a storm as the delivery person drops off a package. But unlike the other times your loyal companion watched as you received a delivery, this time the box is for her.
With companies like BarkBox, PupBox and Meowbox, pets now can get their own monthly subscription boxes. But since your four-legged friend can't place the order, you'll have to make the decision.
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There are several subscriptions to choose from. For example, BarkBox for dogs is a themed collection of at least two toys, two bags of all-natural treats and one chew item. Monthly plans cost $21 a box for 12 months, $25 a box for six months or $29 for one month.
Cat-oriented company Meowbox sends a themed box of four to six items for $22.95. The company offers a monthly or every-other-month plan, according to Sarita Fichtner, community manager at Meowbox.
PupBox is focused on puppy training, CatLadyBox offers goodies for you and your cat, and the list goes on.
Research the price and content of several boxes to see what you and your pet would like. Many boxes contain food, toys, or a combination of both, though you won't always know exactly what you're getting before you receive it.
The items in pet boxes are usually a good deal compared with paying full retail price for it all, says Kristen Levine, a pet expert.
However, except for defective products, many subscription plans don't offer refunds. That means you'll likely be stuck with all of the items, even if your pet enjoys only some of the delivery.
Know your pet
Certain dogs and cats are better suited to subscriptions than others. Consider what you know about your pet's likes and dislikes.
But there might be some things you don't know, like if he would enjoy a new kind of toy or type of food. Subscription boxes can introduce you to products that you wouldn't otherwise pay full-price for without testing them, Levine says.
Still, be realistic. A dog with strict dietary restrictions might not benefit from some boxes. A cat with one favorite ball may not be keen on new toys.
On the other hand, some large dogs go through toys quickly, so a new set of playthings each month could be just right, says Christie Long, chief veterinarian for PetCoach.
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But we'll never really know if pets get as excited about monthly deliveries as their pet parents do, Long says. So the box has to be something you value.
Pet subscriptions are particularly appealing to those pressed for time, according to Paula Rosenblum, co-founder and managing partner of RSR Research, a retail technology research firm.
"I think we are generally a time-starved society," Rosenblum says. "The shopping experience in stores, for each of us, has different annoyances... Having someone curate something for us on a monthly basis is really kind of a good idea."
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Even if you and your pet fit the criteria, research a company before signing up. Here are a few points to consider, says Nicole Leinbach Reyhle, founder of Retail Minded and an author of "Retail 101: The Guide to Managing and Marketing Your Retail Business."
• Online experience: Browse the website for ease of use. The FAQ page is a good place to find basic information like how to sign up, when to expect your package and other details.
• Customer reviews: See what others are saying. "I'm a strong believer that online reviews speak loudly in terms of the reality of any e-commerce business, so take the time to look at those online reviews," Reyhle says.
• Mobile app: Check if there's a mobile app you can download to manage your subscription on the go.
• Cancellation policy: Know your options to cancel the plan. "What happens if your own financial overhead changes and you decide you need to get out of your one-year contract early?" she asks. "What are the terms of that?" Additionally, check if the subscription will renew automatically.
• Coupons: Search for coupons. You may find a discounted rate, free month or something extra. For example, BarkBox recently included a free extra toy in every box when customers subscribed to a 6-month or 12-month plan.
A subscription box won't be right for every pet or owner, but if there's room in your budget, it might become a delivery you both eagerly anticipate each month.