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Publications 1994
Bellwood, D.R. (1994). A phylogenetic study of the parrotfishes family Scaridae (Pisces: Labroidei), with a revision of genera. Records of the Australian Museum, Supplement 20: 1-86.
Bruce, N.L. (1994). The marine isopod Neocirolana Hale, 1925 (Crustacea, Cirolanidae) from tropical Australian waters. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum, 37(1): 41-51.
Bruce, N.L. (1994). Four new genera of marine isopod crustaceans (Sphaeromatidae) from eastern and souther Australia. Memoirs of the Museum of Victoria, 54(2): 399-438.
Cronin, T.W., N.J. Marshall and R.L Caldwell, 1994. The intrarhabdomal filters in the retinas of mantis shrimps. Vision Research, 34(3): 279-291.
Cronin, T.W., N.J. Marshalll, C.A. Quinn and C.A. King, 1994. Ultraviolet photoreception in mantis shrimp. Vision Research, 34 (11): 1443- 1452.
Dinsdale, E.A. (1994). Coral disease on the Great Barrier Reef. Absract only, p. 17 in "Joint Scientific conference on science, management and sustainability of marine habitats in the 21st century". Australian Institutte of Marine Science, Townsville, Australia.
Gladstone, W. (1994). Lek-like spawning, parental care and mating periodicity of the trigger-fish Pseudobalistes flavimarginatus (Balistidae). Environmental Biology of Fishes, 39: 249-257.
Green, A.L. (1994). The early life history of labroid fishes at Lizard Island, northern Great Barrier Reef. PhD thesis, James Cook University, Australia.
Grutter, A.S. (1994). Spatial and temporal variations of the ectoparasites of seven reef fish species from Lizard Island and Heron Island, Australia. Marine Ecology Progress Series, 115: 21-30.
Grutter, A.S. (1994). Parasites in the cleaning interactions between Labroides dimidiatus and fish. PhD thesis, James Cook University, Australia.
Kiene, W.E. & P.A. Hutchings (1994). Bioerosion experiments at Lizard Island, Great Barrier Reef. Coral Reefs, 13: 91-98.
Leis, J.M. (1994). Coral Sea atoll lagoons: closed nurseries for the larvae of a few coral reef fishes. Bulletin of Marine Science, 54: 206-227.
Leis, J.M and K. Lee (1994). Larval development in the lutjanid subfamily Etelinae (Pisces): the genera Aphareus, Aprion, Etelis and Pristipomoides. Bulletin of Marine Science, 55(1): 46-125.
Mahon, J.L. (1994). Advantage of flexible juvenile coloration in two species of Labroides (Pisces: Labridae). Copeia, 1994(2): 520-524.
Maida, M, J.C. Coll and P.W. Sammarco (1994). Shedding new light on scleractinian coral recruitment. Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology, 180: 189-202.
McCormick, M.I. (1994). Variability in age and size at settlement of the tropical goatfish Upeneus tragula (Mullidae) in the northern Great Barrier Reef lagoon. Marine Ecology Progress Series, 103: 1-15.
McCormick, M.I. (1994). Comparison of field methods for measuring surface topography and their associations with a tropical reef fish assemblage. Marine Ecology Progress Series, 112: 87-96.
Nelson, V.M. (1994). Demographic processes and spatial heterogeneity in community structure and dynamics of corals on the reef crest. PhD thesis, James Cook University, Australia.
Patton, W.K. (1994). Distribution and ecology of animals associated with branching corals (Acropora spp.) from the Great Barrier Reef, Australia. Bulletin of Marine Science, 55(1): 193-211.
Pillai, T.G. and H.A. Ten Hove (1994). On recent species of Spiraserpula Regenhardt, 1961, a serpulid polychaete genus hitherto known only from Cretaceous and Tertiary fossils. Bulletin of the Natural History Museum, Zoology Series, 60(1): 39-104.
Shand, J. (1994). Changes in retinal structure during development and settlement of the goatfish Upeneus tragula. Brain, Behaviour and Evolution, 43: 51-60.
Smith, G.C. (1994). Seabird Islands no. 223: Nymph Island, Great Barrier Reef, Queensland. Corella, 18: 53-55.
Sorokin, Y.I. (1994). Role of plankton in the turnover of organic matter on the Great Barrier Reef, Australia. Hydrobiologia, 308: 35-44.
Speare, P. (1994). Relationships among black marlin, Makaira indica, in eastern Australian coastal waters, inferred from parasites. Australian Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research, 45: 535-549.
Stobutzki, I.C. and D.R. Bellwood (1994). An analysis of the sustained swimming abilities of pre- and post-settlement coral reef fishes. Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology, 175: 275-286.
Uthicke, S. (1994). Distribution patterns and growth of two reef flat holothurians, Holothuria atra and Stichopus chloronotus. Echinoderms through Time: Proceedings of the Eighth International Echinoderm Conference, Dijon, France, 1993. B. David, A. Guille, J.-P. Feral and M. Roux (Eds.)
Whittington, I.D., G.C. Kearn and M. Beverley-Burton (1994). Benedenia rohdei n. sp. (Monogenea: Capsalidae) from the gills of Lutjanus carponotatus (Perciformes: Lutjanidae)from the Great Barrier Reef, Queensland, Australia, with a description of the oncomiracidium. Systematic Parasitology, 28: 5-13.


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So. Why do you play games? Immersion? Exploration? Social interaction?
A lot of you would say, "No, I don't want a challenge. Life is hard enough. I just want to sit back and enjoy myself." This is a reasonable response. But this article is about change. About striving for something more. "Why bother?" you might say. Well…
Years ago, I played a little game called Warcraft II. I'd never seen an RTS before, so it blew my mind. It never occurred to me to play anyone else, or to learn more advanced things like hotkeys. A few years later, I was working as a tester at a game company, and got to work on another RTS game. At first I thought "Ugh, I've seen everything an RTS can do. I'll be bored to death."
I got assigned to multiplayer balance testing. The company hired a couple of hardcore RTS guys to teach us how to play. Suddenly, my brain went: "Wait, WHAT? You can do THAT in an RTS? You mean it's a FAST PACED game?" Not only did I learn that RTS games are fast paced, they are the fastest games in existence and also the most difficult games to be remotely competent at.
Above: StarCraft II is coming, and if you have fewer than 150 APM (Actions Per Minute) then you will suck, horribly
I went from thinking I knew everything about a genre, to realizing I knew nothing, and a new world opened up. See, getting better at games isn't just about feeding your ego or conquering arbitrary, meaningless goals. It makes games more fun. It makes them deeper, richer experiences. The great part, though, is that you can take this challenge as far as you want. The moment a game stops being fun because you're too focused on getting better, you can dial it back and enjoy yourself.
So with this guide, I encourage you to cherry pick the things you want to do. Try them out, and don't do them if you don't find them fun. Now, there's one glaring thing I need to address first…
The definition of skill is debated constantly on game forums because everybody has a different viewpoint. For our purposes here, skill is what you want it to be - but realize that pulling off headshots is not the only definition. Skill is applied knowledge along with dexterity and talent. Outthinking is just as skillful as outfighting. If you prefer one idea of skill because it's the most fun for you, approach this guide with it in mind. Maybe being on the top of the leader/match board is most skillful to you. Maybe being the best team player. Maybe just winning the match. Maybe just devising creative/funny strategies.
One mode of thinking that will absolutely hinder your ability to improve is to point at what others are doing and say "That is not skillful. I am better than them because I don't do the cheap, skillless thing they rely on." Now, grenade spamming may or may not be skillful, but worrying about such things is a waste of your time. What you should worry about is how to adapt to grenade spam instead of crying about it. Crying about it is a mental wall that once built, actually reduces your ability to adapt to the thing that annoys you.
Treat everything that beats you as skillful. Why? BECAUSE IT BEAT YOU. They won, you lost, get over it. Even if the winner is technically "less skilled," tell yourself otherwise. For instance, start thinking of every little thing you can do to not let that grenade spammer beat you again. Yes, grenades may be overpowered and too easy to use, but there's nothing you can do to change that. What you can do is equip yourself with anti-grenade loadouts, and most importantly, spend time becoming good with the thing you hate. Become an expert grenade spammer. You'll learn the nuances that play into the success or failure of the tactic. Then, you can go back to your preferred playstyles (you must learn more than one playstyle) and have the knowledge to help you beat the spammers.
Above: Holy shit is this guy annoying. But crying about it won't stop him. He gets kills because his opponents are predictable. So many spawn kills because the victims mindlessly sprinted for the objective (or stayed at the spawn point), instead of just moving to an unusual spot to wait for his initial spam to pass. Also,Blast Shield

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What if We Ran a Public School System… and No‐One Came?
The New Jersey Office of Legislative Services, which estimates the budgetary impact of proposed laws, has just released its analysis of a private school choice bill called the "Opportunity Scholarship Act." The most remarkable thing about its report is the amount of money it assumes that districts would save for each student they no longer have to teach: $0.
On that assumption, if every student were to leave for the private sector tomorrow, districts would keep right on spending exactly the same amount they spend today. Inefficient though it is, not even state‐run monopoly schooling is that bad.
The OLS report does not explain why it assumes that the per pupil savings for students leaving public schools (the "marginal cost") would be $0. It states that this figure is "indeterminate," but by not counting it at all is effectively treating it as zero.
In fact, the marginal cost of public schooling is not "indeterminate" at all. Economists "determine" it all the time, and it's quite easy to do. You simply observe how district spending actually rises and falls with enrollment, using a time‐series regression, as I did in 2009 to calculate the marginal cost of public schooling in Nevada (see Appendix A).
Even if the NJ OLS does not conduct a marginal cost estimate specific to New Jersey, they could have done – and should still do – the next best thing: take the marginal cost estimates for other states as a rough guide and estimate the NJ district savings from them. I estimated that Nevada district spending falls by 85% of average per‐pupil spending when a student leaves, and Grecu and Lindsay, a couple of years earlier, estimated the figure at 80% for South Carolina.
If they want to be conservative, the NJ OLS could use the lower of these figures, and perhaps also run the numbers for estimates 10% higher and 10% lower.
Any of the above options is preferable to the logical impossibility of their current analysis, which effectively treats the marginal cost of public schooling as $0.


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This is a continuation of the entry last week where I summarized IDC's paper on "The Third Generation of Database Technlogy: Vendors and Products That Are Shaking up the Market" by Carl Olofson. Those interested in Part I should refer to the previous entry on this topic.
The Third Generation
The economics of computing have changed in the 2000s such that multi-core processors are common. 4 and 8 way systems, each with dual core processors, are common for even moderate workloads. 64-bit technology is taking over for enterprise servers, especially for database servers, and memory is cheap. Even though disks are also cheaper and faster than ever before, reading and writing whole records on disk represent a drag on overall system performance. Clever adaptations to reduce I/O help, but don't really eliminate the problem. Third generation DBMS products began to emerge in the late 1990's and are now beginning to supplant second-generation products in significant ways.
In-Memory Database Technology
Instead of conventional disk-based RDBMS, which involves mapping buffer contents to segments that, in turn, represent pages (disk blocks), with database keys that must be translated and mapped for the data to be located, in-memory databases simply manage blocks of main memory, using memory addresses as direct pointers to the data. This technique eliminates the I/O drag of disk-based data and also claims to reduce the instruction path length of a typical database operation by anywhere from 20 to 200 times.
An IMDB is not simply a shared memory cache, and its contents cannot be accessed directly by applications. Instead, applications access the data through the services of the DBMS as exposed in an
A common misconception regarding IMDB is that it lacks the ACID properties of a transactional database. This is not true. Most IMDB implementations used for transaction processing still have transaction logs for error recovery, and can stream the logs to physically persistent storage such as SSM or spinning disk. A few provide full recoverability by nonlogging means. They also commonly replicate their memory contents to other servers, to provide high availability functionality through failover support.
Examples of DBMS products that include this technology are Oracle TimesTen, Sybase
Peer-to-Peer Clusters
DBMS servers are using peer-to-peer clusters to provide a hybrid of failover and scalability support, spreading workloads across many servers and exchanging small units of data at high rates of speed to execute database operations. This is an especially useful approach when the workload mainly consists in access to a large number of read-only tables, but a small number of updatable tables, and where the transactions do not require a high degree of data sharing for execution, such as classic data entry operations.
Examples of products that include this technology include ParAccel, VoltDB and (Informix Mach11).
Columnar Data Storage
Storing table rows as blocks with selected indexed columns is a spectacularly inefficient approach for databases that are commonly used for statistical analysis, such as data warehouses. This is because many data warehouse operations scan tables, performing aggregate operations on the data, usually in select columns, and because when they randomly select rows, it is normally for only a few columns in that row, and not for the whole row.
Columnar data storage involves storing tables as blocks by column rather than by row. This offers several advantages for analytic databases. One advantage is that operations on a column of data can be carried out with very few I/O operations. Another is that since the column contains all data of the same type, it can very easily compressed to a tiny fraction of its size by using indexing to eliminate duplicate values and then compressing the values themselves. Once that is done, any random select on the table will result in a very quick result because every column is, in effect, indexed. Finally, the index structures that define the columns can themselves be cross-indexed, further optimizing access.
Examples of products that incorporate this technology include Oracle Exadata Database Machine V2, Sybase IQ, Vertica, ParAccel, and VectorWise from Ingres.
Nonschematic DBMS
Nonschematic DBMS may be one of the most controversial and least understood of the 3rd generation DBMS technologies, though it is based on an idea that is not all that new. It could be argued that every native XML DBMS is really a nonschematic DBMS, in that it dynamically builds index structures based on the tag structures found in the XML documents that are loaded into it, and uses those index structures to organize the data. (Kevin Brown and I have had several discussions with one of the vendors mentioned below to assess its suitability with
A nonschematic DBMS is one that stores data as a complex of key-value pairs, building cross-pair structures, such as table rows, based on the order inherent in the data presented to it The user can then use tools to discover structures inherent in the data, and derive a schema from those structures.
Nonschematic DBMS could be used as a tool in preparing data to be loaded into a data warehouse, but would make a poor platform for the warehouse itself. It is best used for managing semi-structured data, such as XML, and for aggregating large amounts of data from many sources for performing search and discovery operations. It seems to have a bright future for a variety of applications that may be offered as services on the Internet and in cloud environments.
Examples of products with this technology include Google's BigTable, Infobionics Knowledge Server, and Amazon's SimpleDB. Among general-purpose XML DBMS vendors, the pure-plays include Raining Data (TigerLogic XDMS), Software AG (webmethods Tamino), and Xpriori (XMS). A number of leading relational DBMS products also offer native XML support, including
Cloud Technology
Cloud computing is based on the principles of utility computing, resource virtualization, and an approach to shared resource management, such as multitenancy, that enables a service to offer to users the illusion of limitlessly expandable abstracted resources (memory, processing power, etc.). To fit into such as framework, DBMS technology must also offer virtualization, horizontal scalability, and multitenancy.
These capabilities can be offered through server and storage resources that are tightly controlled, or through virtualization techniques that cooperates with other external resource management systems. A third approach is to encapsulate these capabilities within a physical environment that is directly controlled by the vendor, offering DBMS functionality as cloud services.
Only a few DBMS products feature dynamic, virtualized hardware and software resource management for scaling processing power or storage up or down without manual reconfiguration. Examples of products that explicitly use this technology include Amazon SimpleDB and Microsoft SQL Server Azure.


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Second - the results of my giveaway, which somehow I never posted. Two winners were randomly selected from the entries, and were contacted and received necklaces in the mail. Down the road I may pick a few more! Here's who won: longtime blog reader Christie now has the necklace pictured on the left. Christie's terrific blog is called Fine Lines. Another regular blog reader Janel, who blogs at Teaching van Gogh...Lend Me an Ear? received the necklace on the right.
Third - my Pacon projects! In a post earlier this month (you can find it here), I told you how I got involved designing a project for Pacon using a new type of black paper, and in typical fashion I came up with three lessons rather than one. And they are now all posted on the Pacon website!!! Here are direct links to all three of them:
And fourth - a little family share - my son's rock band, The Functionals, played a 'gig' at the Hard Rock Cafe in Boston last weekend. His bandmates are all long-time friends of his, and we know them/their girlfriends/their families all quite well. So it was fun to see all of the families show up to this gig, as well as their many co-workers who came to listen and show their support as well. My son is the bass player, on the right.
Corinthian Events all showed up in these shirts they had made before leaving the office on Friday (really, just Sharpie on white duct tape, stuck on shirts). They gave these to me and my husband to model (photo below). Don't worry, my husband is NOT assaulting me in this photo, he's just turned awkwardly to show the back of his shirt. I think it is so adorable that my son's co-workers like him so much!
That's it for now. Hopefully you won't have to wait so long for another post from me. Thanks for being patient!


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- Customize selected background color
- Customize Xfce panel, Gnome panel and Unity panel
- Customize menu colors
It is available in the Shimmer Project PPA. So to install it, just run the following,
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sudo add-apt-repository ppa:shimmerproject/ppa
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install gtk-theme-config
You can read more about it here http://worldofgnome.org/customizing-gtk ... ot-easier/, here http://www.webupd8.org/2012/09/customiz ... using.html and here https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Xubuntu/Roadmap ... hemeEditor.
The app is also on GitHub https://github.com/satya164/gtk-theme-config.
I currently need to implement translations into the app. Any help will be appreciated


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Hand-crafted in Germany, our beautiful "Vintage Strass" dog collar features a stylish color combination and brilliant rhinestones.
This beautiful dog collar is made using 2 layers of soft nappa leather. The outside layer is decorated with 120 brilliant rhinestones. 4 rows of rhinestones with 60 stones on each side separated by the convenient chrome-plated collar ring. The inside of the collar is padded by an additional soft layer of nappa leather. This inner layer comes in a classy black creating a very elegant contrast to the green on the outside.
Both leather layers are double folded creating a soft round edge protecting your dogs neck and fur while, embedded inside the leather, the collar incorporates an extra strong tear-resistant nylon layer. The entire dog collar is finished with color-matching decorative stitching and fitted with a durable chrome-plated buckle.
Our Nappa leather collars are made from hand-selected topmost layers of high quality calfskin. This immaculate material is precious, very soft to the touch as well as water-vapor permeable providing an excellent heat exchange.
Our Vintage Strass Dog Collar is 100% made in Germany and features a 5 year limited manufacturer warranty.
- 2 layers of genuine high quality soft nappa leather
- Fits neck size: 14.50" to 16.125"
- Color: Green / Black
- Total collar length (incl. Buckle) : 20.75"
- Collar width: 1.50"
- 120 Rhinestones
- Double folded with soft round edges
- High wearing comfort
- Excellent heat-exchange characteristics of the calfskin
- Color-matching decorative stitching
- Durable chrome-plated fittings
- Extra strong interior nylon layer
- 5 year limited manufacture warranty
- Made in Germany


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Autodesk product development
Published: 23/09/2009
Autodesk CEO Carl Bass in conversation with Martyn Day
ThinkStation S20
Published: 11/09/2009 Hardware and Manage
Well-built CAD/CAM workstation, which still offers much for simulation and rendering
Rob Jamieson on the need to adopt and adapt
Published: 11/09/2009 Manufacture
Rob Jamieson discusses steak, chips and working smarter
Flexible friends
Published: 11/09/2009 Prototype
For Paragon Rapid Technologies the risk of diversity is paying off
3DBOXX 8500 Series
Published: 11/09/2009 Hardware and Manage
A high-end design visualisation workstation let down by poor acoustics
Urban legends
Published: 11/09/2009 Prototype
How rapid prototyping has transformed a global sub-culture with a huge following
Workstation Specialists WSX114
Published: 11/09/2009 Design and Hardware
Perhaps the ultimate mid-range CAD machine
HP Z600 workstation
Published: 11/09/2009 Hardware and Manage
A beautiful piece of engineering, but the choice of processors could leave users in no-mans' land
Simulation - it's everywhere!
Published: 11/09/2009 Simulate
Al Dean urges you to use simulation to its full potential, or get left behind
IronCAD Next Generation
Published: 11/09/2009 Collaborate
IronCAD's latest release is enhanced with more traditional history-based design tools
Scan 3XS X58 WS Core i7
Published: 11/09/2009 Hardware and Manage
A good all-rounder at a value price
Dell Precision T3500
Published: 11/09/2009 Design and Hardware
A compact single processor workstation, suited to high-end CAD users
Forward thinking
Published: 11/09/2009 Design
The Trekinetic K2 All Terrain isn't your average wheelchair
Animal house
Published: 11/09/2009 Design
The latest and greatest pet homes and accessories
Inventor Simulation 2010
Published: 11/09/2009 Simulate
We look at what's new in Inventor Simulation 2010
CFDesign for clusters
Published: 11/09/2009 Simulate
How the move to high performance computing will change desktop CFD
The latest from the DEVELOP3D Blog:
Dell looks to Core i5 and i7 to deliver cost-effective entry-level workstation
Published 29 September 2009
Posted by greg corke
This is an interesting move by Dell, who has just launched a workstation specifically designed and certified for AutoCAD. OK, so the fact that it's designed for AutoCAD is unlikely to make most DEVELOP3D readers sit up and take notice, but what they might find interesting is that the Precision T1500 is based on Intel's new Core i5 (or Core i7) processors. This is a first from a major workstation manufacturer, whose current lines are predominantly made up of Intel Xeon processors, which are more expensive but don't offer much additional benefit.
The main difference between Intel's Core i5 / Core i7 and Xeon processors is that the Xeon supports ECC memory, which is designed to correct any data errors that may occur, a benefit that is pretty hard to quantify. Xeon is also the only Intel workstation processor that is available in pairs, which is often required for CAE and rendering.
With a choice of entry-level graphics in the form of AMD's ATI FirePro V3750 or Nvidia's Quadro FX 580, the Precision T1500 is a bit limited in its graphics options. However, what it may do is push the other workstation vendors to launch price-conscious Core i5 or Core i7 systems that raise the graphics performance just a little, making them ideal for most mid-range CAD applications.
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Can community funded design and manufacture achieve reality?
Published 28 September 2009
Posted by Al Dean
If you're a follower of design technology then chances are you've come across C Sven Johnson, former blogger on Core77.com and author of the ReBang blog. I noticed that he'd been talking about a KickStarter project during a recent twitter stream and took a look, finding the results fascinating. When we're facing a constriction of design freedom, due to economic pressures, with those that hold the purse strings clinging onto them for dear life, one option, particularly for the independents, is to go it alone. Develop a product, take it to manufacture and sale. But of course, that takes one thing that's rarely in abundance – cash.
This is where something like KickStarter comes in. You get an idea, you detail it and you hope that the community stumps up the cash to help you out. It's not crowdsourcing in terms of creativity (I'll save you the usual drivel about threadless et al), but it certainly is crowdsourcing of funding. So, I caught up with C Sven and asked him to give us the background on the project, where it came from and what he's working on.
The development idea for 100K Stray Toastheds is itself the product of a few years of conceptual gestation. Back in early 2006, before Fabjectory, Ponoko, Figureprints and other fabbing-centric sites popped up, Pete Cashmore, Mashable's founder, contacted me. He'd come across my blog (via Wired's Chris Anderson's "Long Tail" blog entry on my 3D ripping example) and asked if I was interested in setting up a 3D printing service fabbing avatars (I wanted to fab jewelery). As it turned out, what we were chasing was very much what Ponoko has done with 100KGarages; only geared towards service bureaus instead of home-based CNC users. Unfortunately we ran into a few snags, including a general lack of interest from the service bureaus who, for the most part, didn't grok what we were doing or how it might benefit them.
Mashable, of course, began to take off quickly around that time and I was starting work on MTV's first 3D virtual world project, so our informal partnership fizzled. However, the idea stuck with me, and towards the end of the year, as my contract on the MTV gig was nearing completion, I realized that the only way around the reluctant service bureaus was, eventually, to go to the people using their own 3D printers. With that in mind, I backed out of my virtual world development consulting and shifted back to regular product development; I didn't want to get too far away from tangible goods.
Continuing to look for ways to set up a decent service, I determined that the biggest hindrance to acceptance by the product development community was the potential for 3D file "sharing". A thread on CGTalk had stuck with me over the years and I kept imagining how most industrial designers would react. So for a long while I spent a lot of time watching the music industry, the problems cropping up on Flickr and in Second Life and around Facebook, and trying to wrap my head around reputation systems and intellectual property.
About a year ago or so I realized what was needed for an online distributed system to work; not just for 3D files but for most if not all content. Lacking that application, one of the first things I did when 100KGarages was announced was see how it handled file "sharing". It doesn't. It's going on the honor system, as far as I can tell.
In the meantime, Jerry Paffendorf, a friend of mine from my early 3D ripping exploration/Second Life/MTV virtual world days had gotten into the Kickstarter beta and phoned me to brainstorm some ideas for a project he was considering. I was curious about Kickstarter, but initially underwhelmed. Kickstarter, for me, is an idea that probably a lot of people have but no one ever actually thinks could work, so they dismiss it without a second thought. The brilliance isn't the idea; it's in not dismissing the idea. As Jerry launched, met his first funding goal and then proceeded into a second round, I took notice. Other projects were getting funding as well; including some which really didn't seem like something I'd expect would be funded. I kept wondering, "Where are the humanitarian projects, like ..."? And then finally it hit me.
My first stab at a project was to make a product for developing countries. It was with that project in mind that I approached Jerry asking to be put in touch with Kickstarter's founders so I could launch that product development project. On Jerry's recommendation, they contacted me. They didn't know the details of the project I was wanting to pursue, but I was invited to join.
However, after a couple of weeks of initial research into my humanitarian product idea, I ran into a bit of reality: the likelihood that the problem I was hoping to address wasn't a product issue but a cultural issue.
Putting that idea on slow burn, I decided to look for something less ambitious to simply test the concept of going to the community for product development funding. And that's when Ponoko launched 100KGarages. I immediately knew what I wanted to do, and fortunately I found a perfect candidate product.
The Toasthed Pull Toy was originally a school project; one I didn't want to do because we'd already done toys and I wanted to do a medical product or something similarly sophisticated. I did three pages of sketches; the first filled with a variety of pull toy forms, picked this one, and did a couple more rough sketch pages to figure out how it might work. From there I banged out a foam model.
For me, it was a quick, class-required effort; not something of which I was especially proud. Surprisingly, it got an excellent response. If it hadn't, I'd probably not have bothered photographing the model.
As it turns out, however, because the Toasthed toy was left so unresolved yet so seemingly finished, it makes an excellent test case for Kickstarter. Because there's a decent model, people are more apt to believe in the project's chances for success. If it's nothing more than what they see, that may be good enough.
My intentions, however, are to revisit the design with both a better attitude and 16 years of experience under my belt. I now see this toy becoming a kind of platform for customization (as indicated by my reference to Build-a-Bear on the project page). That opens up some interesting possibilities; not just in the product but in how the community grows the product on its own.
We'll see how it goes. While the design is of renewed interest to me, it's the circumstances surrounding this project which are of greater interest. I don't know of any other product being "crowdfunded" in this way. And if I get funded and can set a good example, it opens the door to other industrial designers with good ideas and not enough funds to make them a reality. Given the state of the economy, Kickstarter and its eventual imitators may provide a springboard to something pretty interesting. That's what this project is really about, as far as I'm concerned.
I find this fascinating. The idea that it might be possible to take a product at least to a pre-release manufacturing state, share both the intellectual property and any rewards, without formalised backing. That's an indication of a shift. Crowdsourcing is a phrase often bandied around as is Community, when dealing with online activities. If you look at an example where the two work together very successfully, look at threadless and the many other t-shirt community sites out there. They source graphic design work from their community, find which designs are popular, then print those up – and sell them - and in some cases, sell a LOT of them. The designer gets a decent fee, no set-up costs and fame and glory. The company makes a crap lot of cash – by using the community to reduce the risk of failure of a product, by having a self filtering system for its products. But that's just t-shirts.
C Sven is talking about hard products, products which are 'more likely' to be involved in legal and liability action, should faults occur (after all, you'd have to be pretty unlucky to choke on a t-shirt). The legal problems are discussed in the comments on the project page. We were so taken with this that we chipped in a few quid but he's still got a way to go, if you're interested, then the project page is here and all donations are, I'm sure welcome. Whether this project gets the green light or not, as he says, doesn't really matter. What I find most interesting is that this sort of thing is possible at all. It's certainly not going to replace how things are done for the 99.9% of us, but for those with a good solid idea, it's another avenue to explore and see where you can go.
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3DVIA launches community app for iPhone
Published 22 September 2009
Posted by Al Dean
Dassault's 3dvia group has finally released the iPhone app for interaction with the 3d-centric community portal, first demonstrated at DEVCON earlier this year. As hinted at in the demonstraton, the App gives users the ability to interact with the community aspects of the service, giving users a fully manipulable 3D model, search functions as well as all that good social media-related stuff (rating, commenting etc).
The multi-touch interface is exceptional (except a lack of landscape switch-a-roo goodness), with a single finger rotating the model, two fingers panning and the ninja-pinch for zoom in/out as you'd expect. You can search models on line (here's a LOT), view and comment on them. If you're rocking the iPhone 3GS, you can also use the built in camera to capture an image and integrate a model for a variety of purposes.
Here's a quick video on the basics of the App
I caught up with David Laubner, Director of Product Marketing for 3dvia online and the first question was the big one:
We must deliver our products and services where our users expect and want to have them. With the massive popularity of the iPhone, we need to make sure that we have an offering to suit this growing communities needs.
What purpose do you think the application will serve?
This first application for Dassault Systemes is primarily targeted at the existing 3DVIA.com user base of 120K+ users. It brings most of the functionality of the site right on to the iPhone including 3D model search and interactive 3D view. Users will have access to their own content and network allowing them to interact right on their phones.
It also include the 3DVIA Collage feature which allows users to combine most of the 15K+ models on the site with pictures from the iPhone. This application is both viral and practical at the same time. For designers and 3D artists, you can create environments on the fly for your work right on your phone. As shown in the "I Wonder" video, consumers can use it to visualize changes in the real world. A consumer looking to add furniture to their home could take a picture with their iPhone and position various 3D models of couches from our partner Mydeco.com until they find the right one.
The viral aspect of this feature is easy to see. Users are already using it just create funny pictures with some of the more artistic 3D models from the site.
Can you open 3dxml files that have been mailed to you?
Indirectly – the model would have to be uploaded to the 3DVIA.com site and then you can access it from your "my3DVIA" tab on the phone. Users can access their private models if they need to keep it out of the public view.
What are the differences between the iPhone and iPod Touch implementations
Primarily it is the lack of the camera on the touch blocking the use of the Collage feature. Additionally, it will only work on the 2G and not the earlier version.
3dvia Mobile is about providing access to content on 3dvia.com – a community web-site – so why charge users? it's not inline with the community ethic?
This was a strong debate for the group but it fits with some of our plans as we move forward and look to develop both the product offering and the business model. Our intent is to continue to develop the offerings on 3DVIA.com and always have a strong product at either free or very inexpensive price points.
Although the free period that we are offering right now will have a bit of a marketing boost, it is being offered to help support our key users that have been deeply engaged with the site for so long.
At the moment, the app is live on the Apple App Store and is free, but will eventually be chargable at $1.99 (estimated). While initially this seems like a throw away application, looking at the numbers within the community, the potential for closed session discussion and the ability to quickly share your models, you've got something intriguing.
You can upload data to 3Dvia.com via all manner of means and using a variety of formats including .3ds, .obj, .dae (collada), .kmz, .vrml, .3dxml, 3dm (rhino) – strangely no SolidWorks native export (but SWx does export 3dxml and collada). There's even a handy tutorial for uploading and ensuring the best data translation from Catia available here. There's a couple of blogs running that will be covering the app, so take a look here and the 3d perspectives blog here.
With the Autodesk SketchBook Mobile annoucement last week and now this, it looks like vendors are taking mobile devices seriously – performance on these devices is getting better, the interaction methods are increasingly intuitive – leaving the keyboard and mouse combo for dead when it comes to visualisation and manipulation of 3D data. Yes. The screen is small, but the potential if huge. Bring it on.
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Autodesk launches Twitch: hosted web-app go live on labs
Published 18 September 2009
Posted by Al Dean
Big news just in. Autodesk has just launched Project Twitch on its labs web-site. This sees an experiment start in delivery of the company's flagship products, AutoCAD, Maya, Inventor 2010 and Revit 2010 over the web. Not downloaded, not maintained, but hosted online.
At present there's some pretty hefty restrictions on the use of the services. For example, you need to be running on Windows (XP or Vista), using IE (7+) or Firefox (3.x). You can't upload, download or save files (the apps are provided with sample files). But perhaps the biggest restriction is that you need to be within 1,000 miles of the data center hosting the applications. As you'll see from the image below, the data center is in San Francisco, which makes a large proportion of the potential users in terms of reach, either fish or aquaman.
Hosted apps are the future – that's pretty much certain (look at the rise of google's various apps) and several CAD vendors have already started to experiment with hosted applications. Dassault have been working towards this with Catia for several year. SolidWorks has been pushing out trials of online drawing apps with BluePrint Now and Drawings Now). But this is perhaps the first time that a truly mainstream set of applications has been delivered in this way. It's a brave new world people. Strap yourselves in. If anyone is in that demographic (presumably sans scuba gear) and gets this working, let us know how it goes.
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From its lush, manicured gardens, to its jaw-dropping architecture, and down to the luxurious villa accommodations, Cintai Corito's Garden exudes a Zen feel that will ease you into rest and relaxation for your getaway in Batangas.
A lasting tribute
Cintai Corito's Resort was originally a private vacation property owned by a family who had an ailing mother named Corito. After she passed away, the family, who was headed by their grieving father, worked to beautify the place in order to preserve the wonderful memories spent with their mother. It was an act of love (Cintai in Indonesia) by her loving family.
Easily accessible
Cintai Corito's Resort may look like a thousand miles away from the concrete jungle, but in reality, it's just an estimated one-and-a-half-hour drive. If you have your own transportation, take the South Luzon Expressway (SLEX) and then the Southern Tagalog Arterial Road (STAR) Tollway. Exit at Sto. Toribio, Balete, and go straight ahead until you arrive at the resort.
It is also accessible via commute. From Manila, hop on a bus bound for SM Lipa Grand Transport Terminal. From there, take a jeepney going to Balete and then get off once you've reached the resort.
Cintai Corito's Garden is just two kilometers away from Marian Orchard, one of the tourist spots in Balete. A sprawling Catholic theme park, it is perfect for wanderers who want to get in touch with their spiritual selves.
A Balinese haven
Bali in Indonesia is one of the most relaxing destinations in Asia. With this as Cintai Corito's Resort's inspiration for its theme, the resort is most definitely a cut above the others in Batangas. From its sophisticated structures and décor to the intricately designed villas and down to the sprawling garden and thoughtful recreational facilities, the resort closely resembles the real thing, which makes it great for those who want to experience Bali on a budget.
Cintai Corito's Garden is the ideal sanctuary for tourists in search of the ultimate Asian resort experience without having to step outside of the country.
A luxurious niche
Cintai Corito's Resort's surroundings may relax you, but it is in the resort's lodgings where you will experience pure bliss. Spacious, well-designed, and well-appointed, the accommodations here are meant to make you forget the hustle and bustle of the city life and let you rest in utter relaxation.
In keeping with the Balinese theme, the villas at Cintai Corito's Garden also hint at Balinese designs. They are ideal for big groups such as families and barkadas who not only seek to unwind on their getaway, but also connect with their loved ones while they're at it. They are also perfect for couples and honeymooners who want some private time in a luxurious space to enjoy each other's company. A total of 18 villas are housed at the resort, all categorized into three room types.
The first one is the Terrace Villa. Aptly named because it has its own terrace, it can fit up to four adults. There's also the Garden Villa. Great for a minimum of six persons, it also has its own terrace where you can breathe in the fresh breeze and have a moment of peace amongst the lush nature surroundings. Lastly, the Executive Villa is the largest villa in the whole resort. With a pocket garden, terrace, and bar, and even a Jacuzzi of its own, it can fit a minimum of six persons as well. For an added fee, you can even squeeze in extra guests.
Added comforts
All of the villas at Cintai Corito's Garden also boast sophisticated interior designs and furnished with Bali-inspired pieces to boot. And even though each are built for relaxation, they are provided with the modern-day amenities and features to help take care of your daily needs.
Enjoy a good night's sleep in the comfortable beds provided in each of the villas at the resort. You will also find that each villa has its own air conditioning unit for your utmost comfort. They even have their own bathrooms complete with hot and cold shower and bath essentials including towels so there's no need to bring your own. For your refreshment, there is a minibar provided in each room as well. While there are no televisions in any of the villas, there is a TV room in the resort if you need to watch the news or catch up with your favorite shows. Villas also do not have internet access but you will find WiFi at the resort's onsite restaurant.
Avenues for recreation
For a holistic experience, you not only need some peace of mind, but also some excitement and purpose. The expanse of Cintai Corito's Garden brings forth a wide array of choices for recreation and relaxation.
Nature experience is not limited to gazing at the magnificent garden at Cintai. You will find free roaming animals around the resort which you are welcome to interact with, such as horses, deers, donkeys, and even alpacas.
The swimming pool is another highlight at Cintai Corito's Garden. Plunge into its cool waters all the while enjoying the lush garden surroundings. If you've had your fill of swimming, a shower area and changing room is available so you can freshen up.
Cintai Corito's Spa is another place where you can unwind. Whether you opt for Swedish or Shiatsu, the expert hands of the masseuse will ease your sore muscles and tired bones. If you don't want to leave the comforts of your villa, you can even request for an in-room massage.
The resort also has its own restaurant so you need not leave the premises in search for a place to eat. The Abadi Restaurant serves an array of delicious meals to satisfy the palate of its guests. You can also rent it for an event such as weddings or conferences. Meanwhile, the several pavilions and gazebos onsite can also serve as the perfect venue for your celebration.
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AFTER three frustrating years punctuated by injury, former Newcastle paceman Burt Cockley is back and firing.
Cockley made a triumphant return to first-class cricket, taking five wickets and hitting the winning runs in Western Australia's thrilling two-wicket win over a Ricky Ponting-led Tasmania in the Sheffield Shield in Perth on Sunday.
His Shield heroics followed 2-91 from 13 overs in a one-day loss to Tasmania.
Next on the agenda for the 26-year-old is securing a full-time contract with WA.
The Warriors take on South Australia at Adelaide Oval in the final Shield game of the season next week.
The squad for that clash is named on Sunday.
''Hopefully I have done enough to get another crack,'' Cockley said yesterday. ''It was just good to be back playing at that level. Getting through the whole process of playing Shield cricket again. I really missed it.
''Back-to-back days, back-to-back spells and sessions. There is nothing really like it.
''It really shows where you are at. It is a test of fitness and skills, all those sorts of things.
''For me to get back to that and pull up really well and improve throughout the game was great.''
Cockley played 10 Shield games and five one-dayers for NSW in 2008 and 2009 before a horror injury run, including stress fractures in his back and knee surgery.
He left his home state for the West this summer and believes it is the best place to revive his career.
''It has taken me all this time to finally get my body back to where it is hardened for cricket,'' he said.
''I am back [bowling] at 140km an hour again and I am improving on that.
''I want to stay here and hopefully I can sort something out.
''I have really enjoyed playing under Justin Langer.
''He lives his life by certain standards, and if you are not willing to give him 100per cent, he doesn't want you.
''He says either get on the train and bust your backside or go play somewhere else.
''I love that approach to cricket. He will get every ounce of ability out of you.''
Cockley returns to Newcastle on March 29 before leaving for the US to visit his girlfriend on April 2.
''WA are aware of that and said they would sit down with me before I leave. Ideally I would I like to have something locked in so when I come back I can get straight into pre-season training.''
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"I call you."
Those three words commonly spoken in poker seemed to be the challenge of California's legislative Republicans to Democratic Governor Jerry Brown last Thursday when they introduced Brown's pension reform package as their bill.
Feigning ideological compatibility, State Senate Minority Leader Bob Huff said with a reasonably straight face, "Today we (Republicans) stand here with the governor to get this pension reform."
Slick move.
Just like that, Republicans have seized control of the pension reform issue with Brown's own words. Just like that, they have presented themselves as the party of cooperation rather than the party of obstruction.
Of course, lost in the brilliant move was the stalemate six months earlier that preceeded it. Last summer, Brown offered the pension reform measure in return for Republicans agreeing to place his temporary tax increases measure on the fall ballot. They opposed that proposal. Now, with Brown moving forward with a November initiative effort, legislative Republicans can seize their issue without the need to compromise on anything else.
Talk about your PR victory!
Meanwhile, the GOP move leaves Democrats in an awkward position. Brown has about as much ability to control the majority legislative Democrats as a weather forecaster to end a drought. Sure, Brown wants to move forward on the idea, but legislative Democrats, allied with union supporters, are bound to move slowly, if at all.
Still, most observers are likely to pay more attention to Brown's inability to get the pension deal done than the differences between Democrats in the executive and legislative branches.
Sometimes, the quality of the hands people hold in poker are far less important than the way they play their cards. With seemingly little clout, legislative Republicans have played their hand well on the pension reform issue. Whatever Democrats decide to do now will be done from a position of weakness rather than strength.


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(Phoenix, Arizona—January 21, 2004) Arizona Attorney General Terry Goddard announced today that the deadline to file claims in the Taxol® antitrust case has been extended through February 29, 2004. Thousands of claims have already been filed, but due to a substantial increase in the numbers of claims and claim form requests, the deadline has once again been extended. Cancer patients who took the medication Taxol® or its generic equivalent paclitaxel between January 1, 1999, and February 28, 2003, or their heirs, may be entitled to money from a $12.5 million fund created as part of a settlement of a nationwide antitrust lawsuit brought by the Attorneys General of all 50 states, Puerto Rico, the District of Columbia, the Territories and Commonwealths. The case alleged that the drug makers violated antitrust laws and overcharged consumers purchasing Taxol®/paclitaxel.
The settlement, which provides $55 million in cash and approximately $7.5 million in drugs for medically indigent patients, includes $12.5 million for consumers in restitution for overcharges they paid. Claim registrations and complete information can be obtained at www.taxolsettlement.com or by calling 1-800-659-7609.
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If you're interested in a pretty detailed analysis of Lennie, contact Eunmi Shim. Lennie was the subject of her Ph.D. dissertation. There's a link a the bottom to her email, her website is at:
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Here's the abstract from her website:
Eunmi Shim, Ph.D.
School of Music
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1999
Lawrence Gushee, Adviser
Lennie Tristano was a pioneering jazz musician who, through a succession of innovations, transgressed the boundaries of jazz as well as conventional style categories of jazz history; as a result, his music represents a rare achivement of individuality. For example, in 1949 he made the first recordings of free jazz, a new manner of group improvisation based on spontaneous interaction among band members without any regard to predetermined form, harmony, or rhythm, which predate the free jazz movement by a decade. In the 1950s his use of multi-tracking became a ground-breaking landmark in jazz history; through mixing tracks recorded separately, he could produce unprecedented sounds as exemplified by "Line Up, "Turkish Mambo," and "Descent Into the Maelstrom," the last of which is a remarkable sound structure based on a poem by Edgar Allan Poe. In general, Tristano contributed to the extension of concepts and practices of jazz in terms of advanced harmonic language, rhythmic complexity, and linear construction of the melody. His solo recordings on The New Tristano album, in particular, exhibit the emotional depth and power he attained through these means. Tristano made yet another contribution to the development of jazz as a charismatic teacher, a multi-instruemntalist who taught students of various instruments from the early 1940s until his death in 1978.
As the first musicological treatment of Tristano, this dissertation re-evaluates Tristano's position in jazz history and addresses problems of the current tendency toward canonization of jazz, in which he is misleadingly labeled as a "cool" jazz musician. The research methods combine oral history, archival research, and musical analysis. The main source of oral history comprises interviews conducted by the author with over 80 individuals, including Tristano's family members, associates, and students. A meticulous search through various bibliographic sources, especially contemporary journals which chronicled Tristano's activities, provided a wealth of information concerning the musical environment in which he operated. In discussing Tristano's music a selected number of recordings were transcribed and thoroughly analyzed.
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On June 2014, I started this blog, Fujinsei, to share my love for anime. It will almost be 5 years since then. However, due to personal issues, I had to take a long hiatus for the entire year of 2018. Now I'm back, refreshed and ready to continue my blogging journey.
On the 29th of November 2018, I became a webnovelist. I'm writing an ongoing romance fiction novel titled "His Genius Wife is a Superstar" published on Webnovel.com.
Being both a blogger and webnovelist, I would like to share some of the similarities and differences that I'm experiencing as both of them. So if you're interested in either being a blogger and/or a webnovelist like myself, perhaps you can get some inspiration from this post.
– If you think you can do it, you probably can.
– Freedom of what to write and when to write
– Express yourself
– Instant Feedback
– Connect with people
– Build your brand or identity
– It's a solitary endeavour.
– Opportunity to earn money
– Competition
– Sense of fulfillment
If you think you can do it, you probably can.
You don't need a specific diploma or certificate to qualify. As long as you have the interest and internet connection, you can start being a blogger and/or a webnovelist right now. You can write whatever you want. However, you'll need good writing skills if you want to attract readers. But even if your writing skills aren't there yet, if you work hard, persevere and don't give up halfway, your writing skills will definitely improve.
It's also a big advantage if you're naturally creative because this will make you stand out from all the rest who are doing the same thing as you. It also doesn't hurt if you're passionate about what you're doing. If you're passionate and love being a blogger or a webnovelist, then you won't feel like it's a chore but something that you find enjoyable doing on a regular basis.
Freedom of what to write and when to write
As a blogger, you can write whatever you want and post whenever you want. Even if you're following a posting schedule, it's something that you set for yourself. It's your decision. The only exception to this is if you're employed by a business to blog. If you are, then this post is not for you. This post is geared for personal bloggers like myself.
Similarly, as a webnovelist, you can write whatever story you want and publish the chapters whenever you want. You can publish every day, once a week―it's up to you. You can even publish the entire novel right away if you already finished writing it.
You set your own schedule. You can be as rigid or as flexible as you want. It's your freedom.
Express yourself
Blogger is a very broad term. You can literally blog about almost anything and everything. Opinions, experiences, dreams, news, photos, videos―you name it, you can blog about it. Blogging is an excellent way to express yourself.
On the contrary, there is only one way to express yourself as a webnovelist and that is through stories. More specifically, stories in the format of a novel. By "express yourself", I mean writing in your own style. Whether you're writing fiction or non-fiction novel, you're the one stringing the words together. You have your own way of expressing a story.
Instant Feedback
This is the age of the Internet. It's available 24/7 to anyone who has internet connection. As a blogger, once you publish a post, it's out there. People can find it, read it, and comment instantly. This is also true for a webnovelist. Once you publish a chapter, your readers can instantly comment.
What's great about this is that you'll know immediately what others think about what you wrote. If they love it, then of course you'll feel happy and know that you're doing something right. It will also motivate you to keep on working hard.
You'll also receive constructive criticisms. They're not fun because they point out the flaws in your writing. But they're not called "constructive" for nothing. Good constructive criticisms point out flaws but also offer suggestions on how to improve them. Depending on how you perceive and filter these suggestions, they can be a great way to improve your writing.
On the flip side are the dreaded criticisms. As a blogger, I've had my fair share of getting into nasty online fights because someone didn't agree with my opinions. Most of the time, we bloggers are civilized people. We are friendly and supportive of each other. Sometimes, however, there are just rude people on the web, hateful trolls, who'll insult you just because they feel that they're right and everyone else is wrong. Toxic people is what I call them.
Now that I'm also a webnovelist, I'm experiencing this in the form of bad reviews and negative comments. The first time I received a bad review, I felt indignant and defensive. It was so horrible and scathing. But I decided not to reply. Instead I waited a day and I just ended up shrugging it off, not caring about it anymore.
As a blogger, I've experienced this kind of negative people. They have their own strong opinions. I know that if I replied to them, they'll immediately pounce on me like bloodthirsty hyenas. Why give them that opportunity? I'm not going to try and reason with them or beg them to like my novel. Not going to happen. I never intended to please everyone. If they hate my novel, then it just means that my novel is not for them.
Besides, there are so many other people who are loving my novel. Why focus on the few haters when the lovers are showering me with their support? So I just ignore bad reviews and negative comments, especially if they're just pure insults with no constructive criticism at all. Let them wallow in their own hatred. This author is busy writing for myself and for the people who love my novel.
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Connect with people
Being a blogger has allowed me to meet so many people online from all around the world. I mainly blog about anime so most of the people I connect with are fellow anime fans. Many of my closest online friends are the ones I connected with since I began this blog back in 2014. Aside from my fellow bloggers, I also have loyal readers who enjoy my blog.
I haven't been a webnovelist for that long. It has not even been 2 months yet. However, my novel has accumulated a total number of views in this short period of time that has far surpassed what my blog accumulated in 5 years.
At this moment, my novel has 3 million views in just 2 months compared to my blog's 1 million all-time views.
My novel's views as of writing this post:
My blog's views as of writing this post:
There are many factors involved in this difference, but I'm not going to talk about them in this post. My point is that being a blogger or a webnovelist gives you the opportunity to connect with a lot of people. In my case, connecting with thousands of people who are loyal enough to boost my readership to millions. Whether you're a blogger or a webnovelist or both, you can build a following and gain influence.
Build your brand or identity
I am Arria Cross as a blogger and as a webnovelist. This is my identity.
As a blogger, I have branded myself as someone who specializes in anime, the otaku fandom, and Japanese culture and media. My blog Fujinsei's tagline is "Embrace your inner otaku".
Although I have only been a webnovelist for about 2 months now, I'm currently branded as a romance fiction author. I have plans on venturing into other genres after I finish writing my current novel "His Genius Wife is a Superstar", but I think that romance will still be a major element in my future stories.
I think that it's important to have an online identity or brand that is uniquely yours. When people see your name, they'll immediately know who you are.
If someone asks me to describe what I do, I can immediately give them an answer.
"Arria Cross. Anime blogger and romance webnovelist."
It's a solitary endeavour.
No matter how many people I connect with as a blogger and as a webnovelist, at the end of the day, it's still just me alone sitting and writing in front of my computer. I don't have a ghost writer to write my content for me. And I don't want to have one either. Every word I write, I write it myself.
If you want to be a blogger and/or a webnovelist, you have to be disciplined. Of course, you have the freedom to write just one post or chapter once a year if you want, but if your goal is to develop your skills, then you have to write on a regular basis. Alone. Try to remove distractions so you can focus. Sometimes that means you have to turn down a Friday night-out with your friends because you have to write. Your friends are not going to write that post or chapter for you.
Also because being a blogger and/or webnovelist is a solitary activity, it is you who are going to experience the full brunt of the disappointments of not meeting your expectations. That's why you also need a strong mentality to endure and persevere through the hard times. Because let me tell you, the behind-the-scenes of this work is not glamorous at all.
If you find it difficult to work alone, then please think more carefully before deciding to either become a blogger and/or a web novelist. Even if it's only a hobby, it can get tedious quickly if you don't have the right mindset.
Opportunity to earn money
Now we're talking. Yes, you can earn money as a blogger and/or as a webnovelist. Yes!
As a blogger, the majority of my earnings are from WordAds. It's very simple. I literally don't have to do anything. I just make sure that my blog is signed up for the program. As long as people view my blog without adblocker, I'm earning money. And get this, even when I took a one year hiatus last year, this baby still earned money for its Momma. But this is largely because I have a lot of content that people in my niche audience want to read regardless of how much time passed (mostly my recommendations lists).
I also have affiliate links but I don't earn much from them because I don't often feature products. Sponsored posts are also another way that this blog earn, but I'm picky so I don't accept most of the offers. It also takes time and effort to negotiate pricing, plus I have to make sure that I actually like the product or topic in the sponsored post. I often receive offers but they're mostly about gaming. I personally don't play games a lot, so I have to turn them down. The biggest one I received so far was 100USD for one post. Not bad, right? Sponsored posts are not something I want to focus on because I don't want my blog to become too commercialized.
It's different as a webnovelist. I consider myself very lucky because my novel gained readers quite quickly, climbing up the rankings in a speed that made me hyperventilate. As a result, I got an offer for a contract about two weeks after I started posting my chapters. After signing the contract, Webnovel.com has taken over promoting my novel by regularly featuring it.
My novel's ranking as of writing this post:
I earn money as a webnovelist from chapters that are locked by paywall. The first 100 chapters of my novel are unlocked as a freebie for my readers. Starting from chapter 101, my chapters are locked and you'll have to unlock them using spirit stones (the currency at Webnovel.com which you can earn a certain amount for free every day or you can buy them using real money).
I also earn through donations on Ko-fi which depend entirely on the goodwill of my loyal supporters, so it's not really a main source of income. I know others use Patreon, but I personally don't think it's something suitable for me. Others directly use Paypal. It depends on what fits your situation the most.
The money can be sporadic and the amount differs every month. It really all depends on the performance of your content. The only thing you can really do is to work hard, be as consistent as you can, and do your best.
Your fellow bloggers and/or webnovelists are your competition whether you like it or not. It's up to you how to entice potential readers to choose your content over the others.
But you know what? When I say competition, I mean friendly competition. Yes, you're all competing for the same market but that doesn't make you enemies. On the contrary, they can be the most supportive and inspiring comrades who will help you improve your craft.
My suggestion is don't take it too seriously. Just have fun. If you're too fixated on overtaking others, it's either you fail miserably and become depressed or reach the top but feel alone because others think you're too arrogant.
Go ahead and aim to compete. Nothing wrong with that. But also respect your competition. Be kind to one another.
Sense of fulfillment
Hundreds of posts and chapters? Thousands of readers? Millions of views?
I'm a block of wood if I don't feel a sense of fulfillment from what I achieved so far. I know that I still have a long way to go and compared to the top anibloggers and romance webnovelists, I'm only a small-timer.
But dammit! Achieving my first million views on both my blog and my novel feels so damn good.
Comparing your stats now to when you first started, it's a validation of all the hard work that you've dedicated into your craft. It gives you a wonderful sense of fulfillment and motivates you to continue to work hard and do even better next time.
Nobody can take this sense of fulfillment away from you (unless you let it) because you earned this yourself.
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Medicine IS awesome and I miss it but many docs can't wait to retire
Further to that, when you retire from medicine the fact is that very little you routinely do is even in the same neighborhood as awesome. The intensity of the awe generating activities for most physicians may peak out in the house officer years, at least I believe that is true for internsts. For example, as a first year resident ( now called a second year resident) I treated 14 cases of DKA in coma.They all seemed to occur at night and in those days the first year resident ran the show. All recovered-one was apneic in the ER.In many years of practice I saw no DKA with coma, and in general the awesome incidence was much lower. Lower, but not absent.There was also more low key awe. Longer term relationships with patients, small victories and the occasional burst of awe.There is the satisfaction of doing things in keeping with current thinking in a given application and explaining to a patient why this or that approach might be best and having the patient actually do what you suggest and subsequently seeing that particular approach actually work. There is a bit of awe there. It is clearly awesome to treat an acute asthmatic patient and see their dyspnea lessened fairly quickly and to see the shortness of breath markedly improve in minutes with treatment of acute pulmonary edema. I thought it awesome to have several members of a law firm call for check up appointments because you had diagnosed atrial septal defect in their 46 year old female partner who claimed she couldn't have that because she had had 30 exams in her life and none had said anything, but she had it and she was operated. But....
I have recently been at my 1965 medical school class reunion. Many had retired and none of the retirees would admit they missed anything. No one talked about the awe of medicine.
(admittedly this sample is likely biased i.e. limited to those who retired and who go to reunions, while some or maybe all of the reunion non-goers may be euphoric or at least content at their continuing practice) But at least for a sizeable number of my class they could not wait to retire and miss nothing of it according to their accounts. Those who retired could only speak of the multiple negative effects of managed care and concern about malpractice. Many had been retired for 4 or 5 years having retired before age 60. The alumni organization had arranged lectures on various aspects of current medical education and those who spoke radiated enthusiasm and described exciting medical advances and I left that meeting supported by their energy.
The 1965 class dinner, though filled with handshakes and hugs and a few shared memories and seemingly sincere laughter, projected the picture of a group of people who were glad to quit and sad that the profession that seemed to offer so much a few decades ago offered them now no pleasure and little satisfaction and more than a little bitterness. I hope that the docs who don't go to med school reunions represent a different mindset.
7 comments:
- Anonymous said...
I found your comments very interesting. I'm interested in examples of people who seek non-monetary compensation, i.e., psychic and reputational rewards, the ego rush of "saving" a life over just cash.
Of course, no man is an island, and doctors don't really save lives. The enormous industrial-scientific project, which belongs to society as a whole, does.
Nonetheless, it is certainly true that as medicine has become corporatized, doctor's autonomy--and with it a good bit of the psychic rewards--has been diminished with the increasing power of HMOs and insurance companies. (though as a statistical matter, average inflation-adjusted income as increased--particularly if increasing starting salaries are counted over a career) Perhaps, income has remained constant--just the coin has changed.
Should we, as a society, be worried about that? The supply of people wanting to be doctors is still high. There're plenty of Indians and Philipinos who want to move here and practice. Do patients suffer if their doctors don't feel like masters-of-the-universe? No evidence of that. Do other professions love what they do? Hmmm. Law school reunions I suspect are equally glum.
There is another way to look at this. As knowledge/technology improves, medicine should become more routine and boring. That's a good thing.
- james gaulte said...
Thanks for the comments.Very interesting thoughts.
- Anonymous said...
"I have recently been at my 1965 medical school class reunion. Many had retired and none of the retirees would admit they missed anything."
I retired from medicine at age 46 and don't miss it one bit. I'm just one data point but getting out of medicine was the best thing I ever did for myself and my family.
- Maurice Bernstein, M.D. said...
As in my case, being retired but also teaching clinical medicine to medical students gives me the best of both worlds: more personal choice of what I do with my time and still the awe of interacting with patients and their diseases but not having the patient responsibility. ..Maurice.
- Anonymous said...
I hope to be able to do some clinical teaching as well with IM residents starting next year.
- Moi said...
I do get the feeling that many of the doctors I've been to were burned out or would rather have been retired.
I'd like to have a doctor with your mindset!
I have multiple food intolerances that I have formed antibodies to, according to RAST test results. I also have confirmed gluten intolerance, intestinal inflammation (endoscopy), and a host of menstrual problems, including a ruptured cyst found with ultrasound...
I have been to SO many doctors trying to find a reason for why I developed all of these digestive problems and other issues in my early twenties.
I was always made to feel like, if they couldn't find a pill that would fix it or a definitive diagnosis, it was all in my head.
I even went to a shrink to find out if I was unconsciously making it all up (no).
Am I the pet peeve of doctors? I get the feeling that they would much rather see someone with diabetes, a stroke, cancer, heart attack, etc.
Every doctor I saw reffered me to another one ane the new one would refer me to another one...
Now, I don't go to the doctor at all.
I feel like I'm doing them a service by not stepping in their office.
What do you do when you have a patient that has unexplainable symptoms and abnormal test results but cannot be diagnosed? You seem like one of the good ones!
- Anonymous said...
To the lady who commented just above,
You're right, it can be frustrating.
Like any professional doctors are most useful when the problem you have is something they can fix. When there is a mismatch, you are likely to be frustrated because your problem isn't going away, and he is likely to be frustrated because he is unable to help you, something he probably subconciously feels he has to do because his profession trained him that way.
Sometimes a suggestion that a patient see a psychiatrist is borne of frustration. Usually its because there is genuine concern that psychological issues are causing, contributing to, or aggravating the disorder. This is often a correct supposition because psychological problems are so common - they are probably the most common cause of illness in developed countries aside from some common infections like the cold.
Certainly from your very frank blog, you have stressors in your life, it doesnt seem unreasonable to suggest seeing a mental health professional - learning coping strategies can help.


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CAD: Just Another Tool in Your Toolbox30 Jul, 2012 By: Robert Green
Think of your job as managing the design process — not the design tools — and you'll be poised for success.
When I speak to CAD managers, they often ask why I focus so much on the management part of the job rather than on the CAD software tools we use. The answer I give surprises many: The tools are the easiest part of the job to master, and it doesn't really matter which ones you use as long as you can use them well. I know this will sound like heresy to many, but when I consider all the work I do planning, budgeting, optimizing, supporting, and training, it seems that integrating CAD tools is the easy part. If there's a big challenge related to CAD tools, it is getting them to work across the spectrum of design professionals that make up the typical office.
In this edition of "CAD Manager," I will urge CAD managers to view CAD tools as being a part of the job — not the whole job. And I want to make sure that those tools are being evaluated critically, based on whether they help our companies design better. I know I'll upset some CAD managers with this viewpoint, but try to read it with an open mind. Here goes.
Tools ≠ Results
When it comes to making the transition to the latest and greatest software, I've heard it from so many management staffs: "Once we start doing our designs on [fill in software title here], all our problems will go away."
Where do I begin? Just because your company has the latest software tools doesn't mean that you are using them well, or can apply them effectively from Day 1. Some projects — such as a Shanghai apartment building that fell over during construction — end in failure even though they use modern design tools. Other projects endure despite being created with primitive tools; the Great Sphinx of Giza is one example.
Modern tools, modern methods — classic failure. Image courtesy Marc van der Chijs.
Of course, my examples don't state certain truisms such as, "We could build the Sphinx a lot faster now than they could then." Or, "We could build the Sphinx with far fewer people now." However, the Sphinx is so well designed and built that it has experienced no significant foundation shifting, and despite 4,500 years of sandblasting and erosion, it has withstood the test of time. Conversely, the collapsed building had the benefit of modern tools and methods, but good old-fashioned design error caused a failure.
My point? Using the latest software technology doesn't guarantee design project success. It's only when you combine great CAD tools and management with great design that you can ensure a winning project.
Technology Accelerators
Now, don't get me wrong — I appreciate modern CAD tools and would prefer to use them over pencil and paper any day of the week. But CAD doesn't make me a better engineer, it simply helps me do my work faster. In the parlance of Jim Collins in his excellent book Good to Great, I view CAD tools as technology accelerators that allow me to do my design work faster. On the other hand, I've seen many companies switch from tools that already work to new ones that don't work for them. Those new tools function as a technology anchor that slows the design process.
How should we evaluate CAD tools to determine whether they accelerate design or just waste our time? The following metrics can help you identify new solutions that will accelerate your workflow:
- Tools that save time; for example, by reducing manual tasks, automating redundant tasks, or providing insight that supports better and faster decision-making.
- Tools that standardize the design process. Consistency will reduce errors over the long term, and fewer errors equals acceleration.
- Tools that ease quoting and demonstrations. It stands to reason that 3D tools that speed design can also be used to make compelling renderings to support sales presentations and better estimate materials for more accurate quotations. Put another way, if you can accelerate your design process with better tools, you can use that capability to help win more work from prospective clients.
- Tools that don't crack under production pressure. You may need to work through beta versions of tools to get them ready for large-scale use, but only deploy tools when they really work.
No software technology was used on this project. Solid design work means it's still standing after 4,500 years.
©iStockphoto.com/Ugurhan Betin
When you start to think of CAD management as a resource that supports the design mission, you'll begin to understand the true nature of the job. Sure, as a CAD manager you're managing CAD tools, but you're doing so to complete the design mission in the best way possible, not because your ego is tied up in the tools themselves. Think in terms of the design process — with CAD as simply a tool that supports that process — and you'll be surprised how your outlook on CAD management will change.
The Mission Defines the Tools
Another reason not to get too attached to any particular type of CAD tool is that your mission parameters may dictate which tools you have to use, leaving you without any say in the matter. Consider the following scenarios:
- Client-defined deliverables. When the client specifies the information format and version for project deliverables, you must comply.
- Long-term projects. When a project spans multiple years, we often wind up using old versions of CAD tools simply to make collaboration and file control easier over the project's duration. Long-term projects are challenging enough without a software migration on top of everything else!
- User knowledge base and/or costs. You may want to design that brand-new skyscraper project using BIM (building information modeling), but if everybody in the company only knows AutoCAD LT, chances are you won't be able to afford the big BIM software upgrade costs for all your users for just one job. Even if you could afford to make the switch, it is doubtful you could meet the project schedule, given the massive training and implementation requirements.
- Time constraints. Speaking of training requirements, have you ever been involved with a project wherein implementing new software tools caused the schedule to fall behind? I can tell you from experience that when this occurs, management's first response will be, "Go back to the old system," while blaming the CAD manager for the failure.
Don't allow yourself to fail because you were so busy thinking about tools that you forgot the design mission.
To summarize, let me draw a few conclusions that you can use to build your own dispassionate strategy regarding CAD tools.
- Look for speed. This is the overriding parameter because speed is good. Speed saves money. Senior management teams like saving money.
- Create a mission plan. Think of your next big project as a mission, and think far in advance about which tools you'll need. The more you think and plan, the more likely you are to find the CAD tools that can accelerate your project and make it successful.
- Don't be afraid to customize. You may be able to accelerate your design processes more by deploying custom programs, design templates, predefined content, plotting automation, or other specific fixes than by buying a commercial program. Many of the best design accelerators I see are custom integrated solutions!
- Be realistic. Realize that no matter what a tool can do, you have to be able to make it work within existing project timeframes and budgets. You also have to be honest about what your user base can learn and how long it will take them to adjust to new tools.
I believe that the next few years are going to bring us an onslaught of new CAD tools. We'll have mobile CAD, cloud-based CAD, increasingly inexpensive 2D CAD, more intricate BIM solutions, analysis packages — the list goes on. Rather than getting bogged down in all the marketing speak and techno-babble, remember to view all this software as a palette of options available for you to choose from. If you can find the tools that speed and support your unique design processes, you'll not only be a great CAD manager, but a very valuable asset to your company.


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- "Escaping goblins to be caught by wolves!"
- ― Bilbo Baggins
Wargs or Wild Wolves were a race of wolves seen in Rhovanion and they were often allied with the Orcs of the Misty Mountains, and used as mounts. Wargs were sentient and had a language.
In Third Age 2941, the Wargs appeared once to meet the Goblins and organize a raid to the nearby villages, in order to drive the Woodmen out and capture some slaves. As a pack of Wargs approached west of the Misty Mountains to meet them, Bilbo Baggins, Gandalf, and Thorin and Company were escaping the goblins. Gandalf seeing the pack coming, suggested to climb the trees and Dori helped Bilbo in the nick of time.
The Wargs, thinking that the Dwarves are allies of the Woodmen, surrounded the glade and didn't let them descent. Gandalf then used his magic to light up pinecones and hurl them against the Warg until he drove them out. The wolves that had caught fire fled into the forest had set it alight in several places, since it was high summer, and on this eastern side of the mountains there had been little rain for some time. However the guards left under the trees did not go away. Eventually goblins showed up and lit the trees the Dwarves were onto, until the Eagles came to rescue them.[1]
The goblins and the wargs insisted on looking for the band, since Gandalf had killed the Great Goblin, and also burnt the chief wolf's nose. They went as far as Beorn's homestead, but he caught a pair of them and stuck the goblin's head outside the gate and nailed the warg-skin to a tree just beyond[2]
Wargs appeared once more, rode by the Orcs, at the Battle of Five Armies.[3] After this, the Wargs had vanished from the woods, so that men went abroad without fear.[4]
A band of Wargs, unaccompanied by Orcs, also attacked the Fellowship of the Ring in Hollin, and again at the Battle of the Hornburg.
In Old Norse, vargr is a term for "wolf" (ulfr). In Norse mythology, wargs are in particular the wolf Fenrir and his sons Skoll and Hati.
Portrayal in adaptations
2002: The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (video game):
- Wargs are taller and darker than regular wolves, but due to the progression in the game, pose less of a threat; whereas wolves are only encountered by a stick-wielding Frodo, wargs appear only in levels in which the player is Gandalf or Aragorn.
2003: The Hobbit (2003 video game):
- Wargs are portrayed a large wolves. They only appear in cutscenes, and are non-fightable.
2001-3: The Lord of the Rings: The Motion Picture Trilogy:
- Wargs appear to be more like a "hyena-bear-wolf hybrid" rather than wolves, in an effort to distinguish them from regular wolves by presenting them as some sort of distant cousin. However, it should be noted that Tolkien never actually described Wargs beyond stating they were demonic wolves.
See also
|Carcharoth · Draugluin · (Wolf-Sauron)
|Wargs · Werewolves · White Wolves
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Chilean Miners Did Not Have Sex With Each Other, You Perv
The 33 Chilean miners who were trapped underground for 69 days have finally been freed, and Mario Sepulveda, the rescue's "undisputed star," has given his first interview. Obviously, the burning question is: Did the miners have sex with each other?
He says: 'No, nothing like that ever went on. We were too busy trying to survive to think of sex.
'We didn't really even talk about sex. We spoke of our wives and we made some jokes but we never talked about sex seriously because that would have been too painful...
Saying we had sex down there with each other is just plain wrong.
So stop thinking about it! That's Sepulveda in the photo above, re-enacting the totally hilarious prank he played on his fellow miners where he pretended to die. Sepulveda, you see, was "the funny one," and forced himself to keep joking to keep up morale. Sex or no sex, this guy is pretty awesome, and I hope he gets someone good to play him in the movie.