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tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-102940252018-08-28T10:52:09.085-07:00EhaemaTwilight Spirits from the VergeEidolonhttp://email@example.com://feedburner.google.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10294025.post-79148095896627484462013-07-29T22:11:00.001-07:002013-08-25T18:11:48.800-07:00Surface BlipHi there!

As expected, work and personal obligations have been keeping me mighty busy lately! So I haven't had time to push revisions forward as much as I'd like, though progress is being made!

In the meantime, I've got this first draft manuscript. It's got a long way to go in terms of polish and structural revisions, but I hate to see it languish all unloved on my hard drive while I work on making my schedule more manageable.

I don't know, this is probably dumb. Who ever heard of a writer that lets everyone read their first draft? That's the awful draft, isn't it? The one nobody's supposed to see.

But as a designer, I try not to be afraid of failure. Failure is how we make progress - it is the only way to become better. And there's a certain heft to seeing a such a thing in all its ungainly glory. A blog site doesn't look like a novel. A novel looks like a novel. Right?

So, here's a link to that first draft, all 500 freaking pages of it. If you want to read it, I'd be most obliged. If you want to provide opinions and feedback, that'd be even better. Like I said, there's plenty I intend to rework, but I'm sure your wisdom and insight would benefit me even at this stage.

Ehaema - Alpha Draft

And while I'm at it, here's a link to that short interactive fiction I put together over a weekend:

Cyclic Dream

Download, and use your browser to play it.

Back to work for me, but I'm keeping an eye on the place, never fear. See you around - and don't be a stranger, stranger.

Eidolon

(Edit 8/25: Okay, I think everyone that wanted to see this has probably grabbed it. Now that I'm getting into editing things, I'm going to go ahead and take this link down. As always, if you want to read it, you can just visit the February 29th entry on this blog and read forward from there. Meanwhile I'll just be over here, typing.)Eidolonhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com://ehaema.blogspot.com/2013/07/surface-blip.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10294025.post-91315187387090252632013-06-11T13:58:00.001-07:002013-06-11T13:58:54.724-07:00One Step At A Time

Source: Reuters

On the Death Rituals of Ants

The Order of the Good Death never fails to brighten my day. I may try and work in a reference to oleic acid on my revision pass.

I'm enjoying working with Scrivener. The book is now divided into greater sections and chapters, and I'll be working on summarizing each of them using the index card tool so I can get a better visual sense of flow and pacing for each of the storylines. It'll also generate a version in e-reader format (or any of several other choices) when it's that time.
Eidolonhttp://email@example.com://ehaema.blogspot.com/2013/06/source-reuters-on-death-rituals-of-ants.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10294025.post-8863845011517140772013-06-09T13:00:00.000-07:002013-06-09T13:00:49.131-07:00STATION IDENT 060913

Source: Bryan Calloway

Projects for today:

Top Priority

Import novel into Scrivener, chop into chapters, improve structure. (in-progress)

Push-ups, sit-ups, nourishment, wash gym clothes. Maintain the Machine.

Hyperventilate about things, alternate brooding with existential terror, 10 reps each

2nd Priority

Write up first impressions of Remember Me; post blog to Dtoid.

Fix bugs in Cyclic Dream, add variant endings, make it nicer.

Notes for next novel concept

Research grad schools as a pacifying escape fantasy, ponder life choices

Jump around to angry music

Plug in the Ouya I got in the mail on Friday, investigate

3rd Priority

Sleep

Can't sleep; clowns will eat me

Eidolonhttp://email@example.com://ehaema.blogspot.com/2013/06/station-ident-060913.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10294025.post-15695974048544876912013-05-26T22:49:00.002-07:002013-05-26T22:50:40.024-07:00STATION IDENT 052613

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Hi there. How are you?

Just dropping a line to let you know I"m still lurking. And still writing. I didn't forget about you! But it has been terrifically busy.

I have a short story - two, actually! - being published in a cool zine format which I'll let you know more about as soon as it breaks.

I've been putting some effort into doing a little world-building for a work project.

And - I made a game! Okay, well really I've only spent today on it. I'm practicing in twine. This is my very first interactive fiction creation!

It's nothing special - mostly I'm teaching myself to operate and understand the logic behind conditional branching pathways, and seeing what I can accomplish with that. It's got too much complicated crap in it for a beginner project, and I think the next one I do will be simpler. Also, it could use some pictures and music to jazz it up! But it was fun, and I learned a lot!

There are some rough edges and I may have missed a few bugs, but it seems reasonably stable. Have a look and tell me what you think when you get a chance. Pitch me an idea for another one, if you like!

Play Cyclic Dream

Oh, here's a soundtrack for it, if you like that sort of thing. Enjoy your weekend.

Eidolonhttp://email@example.com://ehaema.blogspot.com/2013/05/station-ident-052613.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10294025.post-71643884069086691082013-03-27T12:18:00.000-07:002013-03-27T12:18:01.939-07:00STATION IDENT 032713

From the updates to Kim Boekbinder's SPACE! album project:

"Chorus consists of brief, rising-frequency tones that sound like the chorus of birds singing at sunrise, hence the name "chorus" or "dawn chorus". Chorus at Earth is generated by electrons in Earth's Van Allen radiation belts. Once generated, the chorus waves affect the motions of the electrons through a process called a wave-particle interaction. Wave-particle interactions disturb the trajectories of the radiation belt electrons and cause the electrons to hit the upper atmosphere." - Donald A. Gurnett/U/Iowa.

Every day the sky is singing electromagnetic songs to you. No one knows why.

Would you consider that to be trivial knowledge, or significant?
Eidolonhttp://email@example.com://ehaema.blogspot.com/2013/03/station-ident-032713.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10294025.post-22665601925413927182013-03-20T21:18:00.001-07:002013-03-20T21:18:40.139-07:00STATION IDENT 032013
Source: Fiction-66

Well! So ends the tale. It didn't set out to be a novel, but we so rarely set out to be the things we eventually become.

Did you like it? I did! I mean, let me be clear - already there are a hundred-hundred things I want to fix on the 2nd draft, and even paging back through entries now I get a little nauseous and upset with things, but I had a lot of fun writing it. More than fun; the exercise of writing a novel helped me get through some bleak moments this year. There were times when it was the only creative activity that I was happy with. Knowing that I was making progress made me feel better about everything else in life.

And I like what it became, warts and all. So much so that, even though the 2nd draft will most certainly incur a good deal of revision - I'm resisting the impulse to break it down to what other stories are. Clear victory over adversity, 3 act structure, all of that sort of thing which you know you've seen a hundred times before. This doesn't need to be that kind of creature. It grew up the way it wanted to. I'll clip some of the excessive wording, and maybe shuffle the order of events a little, but overall I want to enhance its rough edges, not sand them off. Confusing and contradictory perhaps, but a unique thing - that's the future I envision for it.

Needs a title still, and maybe a few other bells and whistles, but all that's still to come. I promised to put it to bed for at least a couple months, and I'm sticking to that.

But what of the blog? What of daily updates, what of Station Idents, what does the future hold?

I promise to check in and drop some thoughts regularly. It'll be a bit quieter for a while - I need to regain some energy. When I do swing into editing pass number one, I was thinking maybe I'd post about what I'm doing and why. Again, not because I want anyone to use it as an example necessarily - just to show you the process. I love it when my favorite writers post scripts, notes on the context of a scene, where they were in life when they wrote it, why they decided to structure their creations in a certain way. So hopefully I can do the same, on the off chance that someone out there might benefit just by seeing what it is that goes on behind the wizard's curtain.

And eventually, there will be more writing. A New Thing, this is guaranteed. So go get some air, visit some new sites, think some things. Create. We'll be here when you get back.

This was merely a beginning.Eidolonhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com://ehaema.blogspot.com/2013/03/station-ident-032013.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10294025.post-30620247774761073392013-03-10T16:46:00.000-07:002013-03-10T16:47:21.878-07:00STATION IDENT 031013
Source: Christopher Frank Beitz

And just as I'm saying goodbye to Draft 1, I find out that some dear friends of mine are moving and I have to say goodbye to them as well. This, as the French say, sucks. ;) But this is the way of stories and the way of life. Paths diverge and reconnect. That's part of how they work, and they are often all the better for having done so.

All my tribe are nomads.

On the plus side, the week has also brought a small tide of treasures - gorgeous concept art for a game project I'm working on, good news, lovely scotch, nice food, and excellent company.

And now, I have to start brainstorming on a short story - this time for a 'zine. I'll keep you posted about that, as soon as I know more.Eidolonhttp://email@example.com://ehaema.blogspot.com/2013/03/station-ident-031013.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10294025.post-52728629613353042862013-03-03T21:39:00.001-08:002013-03-04T19:48:24.308-08:00STATION IDENT 030313

And that, as they say, is that.

Still a couple of weeks worth of entries coming your way, but there's first draft, done and done.

Time for a victory whisky.

Cheers! And thank you all so much, for reading along and watching me figure my shit out here. There's more to come, in terms of new writing and other stuff - I intend to keep on updating this blog as I figure out what order to tackle things in. But for now, I'm going to put my feet up for a bit and bask.

Eidolonhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com://ehaema.blogspot.com/2013/03/station-ident-030313.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10294025.post-11870872065431787942013-02-24T18:21:00.001-08:002013-02-24T18:21:24.352-08:00STATION IDENT 022413
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Why are there not more Sundays? I could use about a month of them, all in a row.

The more I write, the more often I begin to remember elements of dreams I've had. Long after the fact, after I've awoken from a sleep which I presumed to be dreamless, I'll be going through my day, fiddling with a phrasing or a plot development in my head, and I'll realize that my mood is being influenced by some long, complicated, and probably nonsensical chain of events that I experienced during the night, now only available to me in flashes of insight that disappear as swiftly as I grasp for them.

Maybe they're not correlated at all - the dreaming, the writing. I just notice this sensation more often these days. The dreams have always reared their heads whenever I have problems IRL that seem daunting or insurmountable. Little pseudo-conscious mechanisms running the simulation 10, 15, 100 times every night, trying to figure out which layer of reality is the one in which triumph is possible, or failure is at least properly interesting.

May you wake and remember a world that belongs to you, this week. Safe travels.Eidolonhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com://ehaema.blogspot.com/2013/02/station-ident-022413.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10294025.post-20280691285763332462013-02-17T22:27:00.002-08:002013-02-17T22:27:30.952-08:00STATION IDENT 021713
Source: Deimante Ceciene

Whew. Three more entries; that officially puts me past Feb 28th. It'll take a few more scenes to tie things up nicely, but there you go - one year worth of weekday writing. And it's been a blast. I'll try to finish up before February 28th actually gets here, and that'll be that - one year, one novel. Giddyup.

After that, I've got other projects clamoring for attention, and I'll have to turn to those for a couple of months before I take a swing at my second draft. I actually need to come up with a title, you know? Ehaema will probably remain the name of blog, where I'll continue to post new writing and musings and such, but it doesn't feel quite right for the title of the book. I expect I'll figure something out eventually (but hey, feel free to suggest something!)

Oh, also. Every day I'm tumblin':

http://nosavingthrow.tumblr.com/

So much for the fun part of the week. Now here comes the weekday bit. Give me strength.Eidolonhttp://email@example.com://ehaema.blogspot.com/2013/02/station-ident-021713.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10294025.post-9543532267850557412013-02-10T18:23:00.001-08:002013-02-10T18:23:14.974-08:00STATION IDENT 021013You're so close.

It's within reach. You can see it. It's right there.

You can do it.

Just breathe. Focus.

1, 2, 3...

^ me, every day. Every goddamn day.

Eidolonhttp://email@example.com://ehaema.blogspot.com/2013/02/station-ident-021013.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10294025.post-70690106167708800602013-02-03T13:01:00.001-08:002013-02-03T13:01:05.682-08:00STATION IDENT 020313

Pulling the pieces together

one by one

flavor of the text is the skin of the thing, surface tension, what keeps the spider journeying along the surface of the piece rather than plunging downward into a fluid of broken metaphors drowned in apathy

the core succeeds, against all odds

the next phase is design. Should it be design? there is a certain amount of magic visible in the creation of something raw and unbeautiful, unstructured and free to wander, captured as it was at the moment of rude explosion onto the page. For some people that is the wonder of the creative act. You cut it off from that generative wonder and maybe it dies, maybe the polished and pretty texts are just so much glossy cadaver and weren't anything more, while we spend another year digging in the guts of the thing, embalming a smile, applying tweezers, clamps and electrodes to get it to dance a little jig, smell it burn, feel we learned. Is there a point to that? Is that the point itself?

Little gods making little lives, in many little ways.

this has been ehaema acoustic, live and uncensored, and a little bit weird

now returning to your regularly scheduled programmingEidolonhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com://ehaema.blogspot.com/2013/02/station-ident-020313.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10294025.post-64918511004232729162013-01-27T11:39:00.000-08:002013-01-27T11:39:23.918-08:00STATION IDENT 012713
The Power Within III, by ~EvidencE~ via grinding.be

Over 2000 words yesterday. Just a couple more scenes to go.

Thus, today I get amped up on coffee and play Devil May Cry.

Eidolonhttp://email@example.com://ehaema.blogspot.com/2013/01/station-ident-012713.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10294025.post-32764470858216380632013-01-20T11:31:00.000-08:002013-01-20T11:31:06.648-08:00STATION IDENT 012013

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Tough week for an introvert; I've had to be "on," in conversation, engaged and present almost continuously. I didn't have to journey very far or do a lot of physical activity, but I feel more drained than I would if I'd been hiking all week. By Friday / Saturday, I felt distinctly like I was interacting with people underwater or from a long distance away - my brain had started wandering off the leash whether or not I gave it permission, the way it does when I haven't slept enough.

All of which to say - the words I have left, I should use for writing. To it, then. Eidolonhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com://ehaema.blogspot.com/2013/01/station-ident-012013.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10294025.post-36313444792961154242013-01-13T17:10:00.003-08:002013-01-13T17:12:01.733-08:00STATION IDENT 011313
Source: Christina Kourkoulou

Whew.

So.

It's like walking up an elevated freeway exit. I spend a lot of my time focused on what's immediately around me, exerting effort and attention in a space that sometimes feels deserted, while the occasional threat of a serious problem or timesuck occasionally rushes me like headlights in the dark. And it seems kind of like a bad idea, or foolish, to be walking this way - one step at a time, while pros cruise by me as though I were at a standstill. I glimpse their faces on books and in interview articles like happy faces in warm, lighted car windows, going places I could never reach if I started running now.

But.

Sometimes I look over the side of this ramp, and I can see...

I'm way up higher on this path, the path I always kept in sight, than I used to be. Surprisingly far. I can see all the lights in the distance, spread out in a map I couldn't have seen a year ago. Feels a damn sight better than being stuck in traffic where I was. When I'm not worrying about oncoming threats, I feel more peaceful up here. More in command of where I'm going. More able to taste the wind.

It feels good.

I can see signs for another exit coming up in a little ways. I'm starting to think about what comes next.

Got any suggestions?

Eidolonhttp://email@example.com://ehaema.blogspot.com/2013/01/station-ident-011313.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10294025.post-67576528387999630042013-01-06T14:06:00.000-08:002013-01-06T14:06:23.638-08:00STATION IDENT 010613
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*Home Stretch Talk In The Mental Locker Room*

Come on, motherfucker. Get up and write.

Two entries yesterday. Some more today. Faster, not slower. Faster, not slower.

Get off your ass and type.

You're a bad 80 WPM sonofabitch with keystrokes for blood and a metaphysics theory engine between your ears. This isn't even focused work, this is playtime. This ain't shit. Quit sandbagging. Everyone you idolize has been doing this longer than you and better than you. There is no more time. One word after another, one two, one two three four, connect the dots. There is something alien and beautiful under the world's skin, and you are going to rip it out barehanded and show it to people, one dream at a time. Hup, hup, hup. Caffeinate, connect the dots, finish the pattern. Knock it out.

Go, you complete fucking dork. Go.

Eidolonhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com://ehaema.blogspot.com/2013/01/station-ident-010613.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10294025.post-66339035297318438112012-12-30T17:23:00.001-08:002012-12-30T17:23:27.254-08:00STATION IDENT 123012
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Oh, such grand plans I had. Before all hell broke loose and I spent a month paddling against the current.

Progress continues apace. End of January seems like a more reasonable goal now. Knowing me, I'll overwrite EVEN MORE and end up busy until end of February anyway, but I'll try to restrain myself. Getting some more words knocked out as we speak.

Oh also, that thing I said last week about that being the last Station Ident of the year? Apparently I can't read calendars. So I've got that going for me.

Eidolonhttp://email@example.com://ehaema.blogspot.com/2012/12/station-ident-123012.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10294025.post-3290802173459861742012-12-23T19:45:00.000-08:002013-01-20T11:19:56.802-08:00STATION IDENT 122312
via neuromaencer

Oh wow. Getting this interface to work via iPad is taking a bit of bludgeoning; I think the poor device might be close to having a seizure.

Well, it may look a little ugly, but nonetheless I wanted to get some weekend music and imagery in here before the weekend was quite over. Mission accomplished, hopefully! Enjoy the holiday season, wherever you happen to be. The next STATION ID happens in the new year - see you then.

Eidolonhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com://ehaema.blogspot.com/2012/12/station-ident-122312.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10294025.post-46599142449332807032012-12-16T11:28:00.001-08:002012-12-16T11:30:05.477-08:00STATION IDENT 121612
Assembler, by Kosmur.

December has just sucker-punched me. I admit, I was asking for it. And I'll benefit from at least learning to meet the myriad challenges that have sprung up, even if I'm not successful at all of them. But holy shit, things have been a bit intense. And tragedy has visited a lot of people in a lot of ways - some strangers to me, others near and dear.

My self-concept has ever been the Curious Stranger - the figure who drifts in from the edge of the woods to watch the humans at play, and bemused or delighted by what he sees, puts on the ol' human-suit and tries to mimic them with varying degrees of success. Until of course he gets in over his head, and then the woods begin to look much more appealing than they did before - but the way back is no longer clear.

I basically always feel in over my head.

We mostly think of Halloween as the day of spirits, but really, isn't any holiday - holy day - a day when the divine out-of-context came knocking at the doors of the world so hard that everyone remembers the occasion?

Hang tough out there. Don't forget to act like people.

Eidolonhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com://ehaema.blogspot.com/2012/12/station-ident-121612.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10294025.post-18960307892508867312012-12-09T13:35:00.000-08:002012-12-09T13:36:13.076-08:00STATION IDENT 120912
Neil Noland, via touchdisky

breathe

maintain focus

don't sweat the factors that are out of your control

don't stint on the effort of which you're capable

you have a state of mind to defeat

once this is done, all doors shall open for the initiateEidolonhttp://email@example.com://ehaema.blogspot.com/2012/12/station-ident-120912.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10294025.post-81119066117213809222012-12-02T12:52:00.002-08:002012-12-09T13:14:18.091-08:00STATION IDENT 120212
The Cell and the Pyramid, via bldgblog

"Non- Euclidean calculus and quantum physics are enough to stretch any brain; and when one mixes them with folklore, and tries to trace a strange background of multi-dimensional reality behind the ghoulish hints of Gothic tales and the wild whispers of the chimney-corner, one can hardly expect to be wholly free from mental tension."
― H.P. Lovecraft, The Dreams in the Witch House and Other Weird StoriesEidolonhttp://email@example.com://ehaema.blogspot.com/2012/12/station-ident-120212.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10294025.post-2506674926441732912012-11-25T13:46:00.001-08:002012-11-25T13:46:31.256-08:00STATION IDENT 112512
Metropolis, Fritz Lang. via io9

The holiday weekend was a much needed period of battery recharging, but let's see if I can creep ahead another ~4-5 days today. If I can do that, and maybe kick up a final extra push during the work week - well, I won't quite scratch 2 months of excess content, but I'll be within spitting distance.

More than that, I don't feel tired. I feel good. I feel antsy because my progress this week was slow. I feel ready to keep moving at this pace. If I do that throughout December, I will definitely finish Draft 1 before the year is over.

"When writing a novel, that's pretty much entirely what life turns into: 'House burned down. Car stolen. Cat exploded. Did 1500 easy words, so all in all it was a pretty good day."

― Neil Gaiman
Eidolonhttp://email@example.com://ehaema.blogspot.com/2012/11/station-ident-112512.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10294025.post-81200090810113389862012-11-18T14:17:00.002-08:002012-11-18T14:18:41.552-08:00STATION IDENT 111812
Galaxy Soho in Beijing, via Perduellis.

Buffer count: +22 days material
Goal for end of weekend: +27
Emotional goal: Acknowledge and be okay with the fact that while the entire effort is rubbish, it's rubbish the like of which has never been seen before.
Local temporal goal: Clean up the lair, welcome fam to town, eat food, get CRUNK!
Mid-range temporal goal: Finish novel. Start another. Do this again. And again. And again.
Long-range temporal goal: Be the semiotic window to madness that a handful of adventurers turned to in a desperate hour. Become legend.

I was in the middle of unpacking groceries when the internet caught me, and when I came to I was writing this and all my shit is still sitting out melting on the floor. Also I had another stupid story breakthrough idea which I swore to forget last night and relax but now I still remember it and I have to write it down argh need caffeine.Eidolonhttp://email@example.com://ehaema.blogspot.com/2012/11/station-ident-111812.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10294025.post-70026945869678499502012-11-11T18:24:00.001-08:002012-11-11T18:25:44.545-08:00STATION IDENT 111112
The Rain Room,by rAndom International, via Design Fetish

Keeping it moving. At +11 days of pre-scheduled content, hoping to be at +15 or better before the evening's through. That's roughly 6000 extra words, on top of the roughly 2800 words I would have normally generated in this period. If I maintain roughly this output level, I'll be in the neighborhood of 30K words for the month. That's 20K shy of a valid Nanowrimo novel, and less than 30 Characters will be created in that time, but even if I don't hit those marks, I'll still be pretty proud of myself.

As usual, work is being a beast so I've been putting late hours in at the office as well. But fuck it. Sleep and social interaction are for the weak. Time to get back to it. Coffee is on, music is streaming, here we go.Eidolonhttp://email@example.com://ehaema.blogspot.com/2012/11/station-ident-111112.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10294025.post-23761850913225780282012-11-03T14:05:00.002-07:002012-11-03T14:05:36.915-07:00STATION IDENT 110312

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November is a chrysalis. When you emerge, you'll be better than you were before.

I've mentioned this here and there, but never on this blog itself - I'm going to pick up my pace a little bit during November, in solidarity with everyone doing 30 characters and NaNoWriMo. You won't see it on the surface, because the posting schedule will stay the same, but I'll be putting more effort into building up a buffer, writing more than I post in order to get a bit ahead.

This is somewhat necessary because I know the holiday months are going to be a little bit disrupted with holidays and travel, but I want to do better than stay on schedule - I want to see if I can beat it, generate the amount of text that I said I would but do it in a shorter timeframe, and use the remaining time to start in on an editing pass.

8 months down, 2/3 and counting. Afterburners engaged.

Eidolonhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com://ehaema.blogspot.com/2012/11/station-ident-110312.html


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Cognitive Aptitude Assessment System (CAAS)
The Cognitive Aptitude Assessment System (CAAS), a computer-assisted assessment system, is a unique component of the QuickSmart program. Developed by researchers from the Laboratory for the Assessment and Training of Academic Skills (LATAS) at the University of Massachusetts to obtain reliable assessments of student performance, the assessment tasks used are designed and sequenced in order to target and identify the exact nature of the literacy/numeracy problems a student is experiencing. The techniques developed have been successful with students who have specific reading and/or mathematics disabilities.
The CAAS system provides measures of how rapidly students complete tasks by speaking into a microphone once a word, a cloze sentence, or a number fact is displayed on the computer screen. An instructor scores each response for accuracy.
Students' assessment results are automatically averaged per item and made available in either a graph or report form that is easily interpretable by both students and teachers. Students record their results onto graphs that, over time, become powerful visual representations of their progress. Most QuickSmart lessons conclude with an assessment on the CAAS system. During these assessments, students aim to increase their accuracy and decrease response time as a means of demonstrating increased automaticity.
The CAAS system thus provides ongoing monitoring of students' basic academic skills during lessons and supports the instructional focus of the QuickSmart intervention both throughout the duration of the program and when used for data collection at pre-test and post-test.
Overview of CAAS Numeracy Component
Tasks generally used to assess and instruct the QuickSmart mathematics group include:
- addition number facts;
- subtraction number facts;
- multiplication number facts;
- division number facts; and
- triple addition tasks (for example, 7 + 4 + 3).
Overview of CAAS Literacy Component
Tasks used to assess and instruct the QuickSmart reading group include:
- simple word recognition;
- middle word recognition;
- simple close sentence comprehension;
- middle close sentence comprehension; and
- non-word reading tasks (non-word reading is recognized as a difficult task for students with learning disabilities).

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All of us have intuition, although many of us choose not to listen to our "gut" feeling or that "knowing" that comes upon us at unexpected moments. Intutition does exist. Our ancient ancestors used it to keep safe, to find food; they used it to stay alive.
No one knows how intuition works, but clearly it is an inate survival mechanism that now goes way beyond survival. It tells us who is calling before we answer the phone, or who is visiting ten minutes before they arrive at our door. It tells a mother when her child is sick -- often before the child shows any symptoms. Often intuition will tell us when someone is in trouble and needs our help.
Although we all have this "talent" too many of us dismiss that "gut" feeling as wishful thinking or perhaps an unrealistic dread, and never take action based on that "knowing". The wonderful thing about intuition is the more you acknowledge and use it, the more it grows. And what's even more marvelous is that intuition can be used in writing. And when intuition is used in writing it seems to always work and facilitate the imagination.
Have you ever had an idea for a script that seemingly came out of the blue and dismissed it as not viable or a silly idea? Why would you do that?! This is intuition...a knowing. Don't question where the idea came from -- what inspired it, because you won't find the answer. This is not an idea that springs from reading a newspaper or watching a film; it doesn't come from hours of wracking your brain to think of a story. It just is. It hits you. It has come from the deepest of wells... the inner you, and should not be dismissed.
Intuition is a writer's tool. Not only is it a wonderful tool for writing, but for selling as well. The internet is overflowing with production companies soliciting scripts. Writers are flocking to sites in hope of finding a producer. That's great, and the doors are opening, but a writer must be wary. Use your intuition, that gut feeling, that "knowing", when you first read a producer's solicitation. What is your first reaction? Does it "feel" right? Does it feel "honest"? If you have even a fleeting doubt then use that intuition and skip that solicitation. The same applies to agents. When you read about an agency what is your first gut reaction? Act on that reaction. When you talk to an agent for the frst time... what is your first reaction to his or her voice? If, right off the bat, you get the slightest negative.... feeling then act on it. Don't go with an agent that leaves you feeling less than enthusiastic, just for the sake of having representation. Listen to your gut instinct and it will serve you well. If you are going through a list of agents and one company holds your eye.... then give them a call. Trust your intuition.
When you are working on a script, don't force something to work. If dialogue or a scene doesn't feel right it probably isn't. The same applies to a story that you have to work at, which brings me to higher inspiration....
You don't have to be religious to believe in "higher inspiration". But you know what I am talking about, I know you do. "Higher inspiration" is writing almost without thinking, and you wonder where the words are coming from; everything falls into place, everything flows, and you are so deeply involved that hours pass in the blink of an eye; the story feels right and it takes no effort to write. This is higher inspiration, and my belief is that the story is meant to be -- must be. Where "higher inspiration" comes from doesn't matter; the very fact that it exists and is meant to be used is what matters.
On the other hand, when a story is agony to write it is probably best not to tackle it. The stress and the hair pulling means this is not the story for you... that it is not coming from you. Most important, it means that you are not really interested in the story. If you aren't interested how can you expect others to find it interesting?
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David Ortiz's final season didn't end with the World Series trophy every Boston fan wanted, but the recently retired Boston Red Sox legend still has been piling up the hardware, and that trend continued Monday night at the second annual "The Globies" awards program.
Unsurprisingly, Ortiz was named Red Sox MVP in front of a large crowd at the House of Blues. Big Papi then delighted that crowd by calling Boston "the best (expletive) sports city in the world," a slight nod to his famous speech after the 2013 Boston Marathon bombings.
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The news of the brain cancer diagnosis to Senator John McCain (R-AZ) was something truly terrible to hear. No one wants to hear news about a loved one, friend, family member… but the news of Senator McCain's medical condition affected me in many of the same ways. It started with his recent procedure for a blood clot in his frontal lobe that he had surgery on just recently. I immediate harkened back to my own father, who passed away from a second brain aneurysm in the winter of 1989. I know what it feels like, directly and intimately, to face a family member with something so destructive and so fatal. My heart goes back to that place for the McCains.
But the second place it goes it back to the US Senate. Senator McCain isn't just a senator. He is a STATESMAN. It is true, many of his policies and political stances are opposed to what I believe, but Senator John McCain was a rare breed in politics and especially in Washington, DC… he understood and larger role of national politician far beyond getting on TV (which he did alot if you ever watched "Meet the Press" where he seemed to have a permanent seat next to Tim Russert). He saw his role as a person with CHARACTER brought to Washington by his constituents to work on the business of government… to COMPROMISE to achieve success for ALL.
And as I mentioned in a previous blog post on my personal site, we need statesman now more than ever.
Sometimes you stand your ground and dig in…. and then, when an impasse is reached, you reach out. Deal. Negotiate. Compromise. This isn't weakness. This is strength. The strength that flows directly from our founding documents (Declaration of Independence, US Constitution) to our elected officials.
"Thoughts and Prayers" is an overused and trite phrase that carries little weight, in my opinion. But for Senator McCain, please allow me to adjust the phrasing to sometime more appropriate to the Maverick of the Senate…
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Also they acquire a harem through their mad translating skills that keeps distracting them as that person coldly gives them the cold shoulder.
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I suggest Kenja no Deshi wo Nanoru Kenja. I don't know what is it about, except for that it was about some dude got tranfered to a game and became a cute summoner(a gender bend), but saw the illustration and it seem nice.
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Interesting thread.
Funny, most of Narou novels I read on daily basis seem to have no English translations or fans, yet ironically, many of the titles I dropped in disappointment actually gets popular here.
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^Well, to be honest, the reason why many of good novel that You read didn't have many fans was because they didn't know about it. Many people here didn't even know about Narou, and for people who knows only look for the WN that already had thread in AS. Narou thread was too massive with all those WN got jumbled around to the point that it was confusing for people who's not used or know the novel before. So it was understandable I guess.
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nah. was spending (a lot of) time reading Bu ni mi sasagete hyaku to yotoshi; now at chapter 15, where things start to get interesting (harem flag).
there are a lot of descriptive verbs and ended up feeling it was a bit too difficult to translate...so continue reading instead of translating. wakaka. (did made a translation halfway and saw how sucks I was)
kaette mo kitemo fantasy is much easier but gave up after 2nd chapter. too shonen generic.
anyway, i decided to join Re:translation to translate Shinka no Mi since my skill sucks...
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Attention young people: this list of 11 rules you don't learn in school is worth a few minutes of your time. It leads with my favorite (#1. Life is not fair - get used to it.) and includes one that's rather self-serving (#7 Before you were born, your parents weren't as boring as they are now.). While we're on the topic of lists of 11 items, here are 11 web design blunders. How many have you made?
Lots of people want you to share your CAD models. Marechi, currently in beta, is an online site dedicated to sharing 3D CAD models. There is some cool stuff here at Moment of Inspiration, 3D modeling for designers and artists. Deelip Menezes thinks it's sexy. Dassault Systemes' 3Dvia can now publish your CAD models to Facebook. SolidWorks World 2011 will be held 23-26 January 2011 in San Antonio. SpaceClaim 2010 was released. (Also, if you check out the URL you can see these folks are exploiting the file name for SEO.)
Caption Contest! Mine are too NSFW even for this forum. Bonus points if you can guess the message it's really supposed to convey. (No fair using TinEye.)
The Dezignstuff blog poses the provocative question "Does geometry creation and editing still matter?" Of course, the answer is yes. The question itself is simply a counter argument to all the recent buzz about CAD-in-the-cloud and other web-related CAD stuff. It is very similar to my thoughts on cell phones; all the apps and touch screens are swell but when are they gonna make the damn phone call quality and reliability better?
Why executives HATE social media. Here's a brief summary.
- Executives aren't narcissists and therefore don't need to blog, tweet, or post every accomplishment. (Counterexample: I am the poster boy for narcissism. Counterpoint: Even if this were true for the executive as an individual, it's not true for the executive as leading an organization. Psst: it's called marketing.)
- Executives aren't joiners. (Counterpoint: Should've thought about that before you started the whole "company" thing. Think about the literal meaning of the word.)
- Executives don't like small talk. (Counterpoint: Step down off your throne every once in a while, your highness, and get to know the little people.)
- Executives fear technology because it's out of their control. (Counterpoint: Another candidate for your Word of the Day calendar: trust.)
- Executives have been burned in the past by unfulfilled promises. (Counterpoint: stop getting hung up on words like "twitter" and "flickr" instead think about engagement.)
- Executives don't like fads. (Counterpoint: This shouldn't count as it's the same as #5.)
- Executives are inherently introverts. (Counterpoint: Don't make me go all Myers-Briggs on you, but I'd like to see data to support that claim.)
- Executives don't like hype. (Agreement. Just bring the data.)
Artist Shi Jindian really knows how to make mesh generation tangible with his wireframe motorcycle. (Be sure to click through to his portfolio.) Damn - there I go with the sculpture again.
Trippy music from Starstreams can be heard on KNTU 88.1 in the DFW area. T-Rex cufflinks. Don't know how useful this mini keyboard and trackpad would be, but it sure is cool. A crack primer. Curious about what a 3D mouse is? Watch this video from 3Dconnexion. I am not doing calculus just to get past your captcha.
Cool flying things: BAE's Taranis UCAS demonstrator, Sikorsky's X2 demonstrator, an F-15 lands with only one wing (an oldie but a goodie). And although it's not strictly flying, this video illustrates the International Space Station coming together. If I can't have a flying car, I want a feces-powered car.
I gag just looking at this canned pancake milkshake. Our Japanese friends are no slouches when it comes to massive burger goodness.
Litemind offers strategies for using your mind more effectively (or in my case, using it at all). Your brain apparently has to be able to identify sounds as having certain patterns of rhythm and tone before you can comprehend it as music. Watch the Abbey Road web cam (with sound!). Something you've already heard about: R.I.P. Google Wave. Pencils.
I despise contrived acronyms on big engineering projects like the EU's CRESCENDO (Collaborative and Robust Engineering using Simulation Capability Enabling Next Design Optimisation). It's OK to just use an evocative word without the linguistic gymnastics.
Functional Color is a blog about color choices for information display. The current lead article is about orange on black displays which reminds me of the old VT-240. Here's the August 2010 issue of the UserFocus newsletter.
You're going to have to work a little for this joke. Go to studio Klass, click on Works and then Slide Eat. The annoying brats with this combo dinner table/slide are probably going to be sitting at the table next to mine tonight.
If your assets are worth protecting, try this knife-proof t-shirt.
We're a little late (29 weeks to be exact), but here's 52 Weeks of UX, for all your user experience needs. Stanford University's Entrepreneurship Corner provides a free collection of over 1,600 lectures by entrepreneurial leaders.
I'm sorry to have to slam a second Duct Tape Marketing post this week (the first was done via Twitter), but I disagree with his assertion that the purpose of a business is to "create and keep purpose." Circular reasoning aside, the position is that a business creates a cause around which employees and customers can rally. It's a variation of Peter Drucker's relatively well-known statement that the purpose of a business is to create and keep a customer. The latter is closer to the mark but let me be more direct: the purpose of a business is to generate profit. If this makes you feel dirty, maybe you should reorganize into a non-profit. The manner in which a business accomplishes this (presumably by creating value for its customers) can indeed involve creating a rallying point.
Last week we were MRIing vegetables - this week it's x-rays of flowers.
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Industry waters have actually been expecting a partnership announcement between Cardano [ADA] as well as Google ever since IOHK's Charles Hoskinson and also Duncan Coutts went to the tech giant's London head office. Hoskinson is the owner of IOHK, which is accountable for introducing Cardano [ADA] electronic token, while Coutts is the director of engineering in the business. If Google obtains involved with IOHK, it will not be long before Cardano falls Ethereum from its leading setting in the cryptocurrency globe.
Exactly how Cardano [ADA] is intending to compete with Ethereum
Throughout his Q/A session at Google in London, Hoskinson offered a fundamental intro and also capability of Cardano, and clarified Cardano's formula referred to as Ouroboros. An IOHK news release adhering to the session does not mention any type of team-up, but it is evident from the transcript that Google is taking a look at Cardano to change Ethereum as a wise contracts system company.
Emphasizing Cardano's technical supremacy to Ethereum , Hoskinson informed Google execs, "So many Java, C++ or Go designers are creating codes on Ethereum? You can not, Ethereum doesn't support any one of these languages. They can not even run a solitary viral application on the system. If you look at the leading 10 languages, none works on the system, so, by definition, all those programmers typically aren't establishing for the system, they have to go as well as learn new tools and also new things. With Cardano, first off, we're backed-compatible, 100%, we're running an EVM."
Cardano capitalists may be facing continuous pressure to sell because of recent cost swings, but professionals believe it is a better long term purchase considering its technological prevalence.
On the other hand, Ethereum has been showing a slump in rates since the other day. ETH price was having a hard time to get to the $500 resistance level for the past 2 weeks. The greatest it has gotten to in 3 days is $476 which appears to be the current vital resistance degree.
In spite of its changing value, Ethereum has the early-movers benefit, and also beating it won't be a cakewalk for Cardano by any means. Yet Cardano has actually been making some positive headlines ever since it got provided on Thai exchange BitKub, Korean Bithumb and CoinRoom. These listings become much more considerable thinking about Bitcoin's recent cost surge.
A mechanical engineer turned journalist, Shekar takes a keen interest in the study and analysis of cryptocurrencies and blockchain strategy. With the cryptocurrency world blooming in the recent days, he finds great interest in monitoring their growth and gathering every possible piece of information about them. He works as a crypto-journalist for the website Gamecointalk.


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When you first started selling on eBay you were probably able to create and upload your product listings without devoting endless hours to the process. Creating and uploading listings is perhaps the most time-consuming task for many Amazon sellers … at least until they discover what Amazon bulk listing tools have to offer. There are dozens of ecommerce solutions that provide bulk listing capabilities, often as part of a comprehensive ecommerce management package.
Some address the needs of lower-volume sellers, while others are enterprise-level solution for very high-volume sellers, and the rest fall somewhere in the middle. Most of them support bulk listing not only to Amazon but also to eBay, Etsy, and other selling sites as well as online stores and shops operating on ecommerce platforms like Shopify and BigCommerce.
This article highlights a baker's dozen of the Amazon bulk listing tools commonly used by those who sell only on Amazon as well as by multi-channel sellers. To avoid playing favourites, they're presented here in Alphabetical order.
Accelerlist offers tools specifically designed for Amazon sellers, including a cloud-based Amazon bulk listing tool that is compatible with any browser. Sellers can choose the workflow most appropriate to their listing needs: Speed or Precision. The Speed workflow is designed for large-inventory sellers who have many items to be listed in bulk. The seller sets default values for each field (e.g., list price, condition, note), so that many products can be scanned and listed very quickly. The Speed workflow is often used in conjunction with a repricer. The Precision workflow enables the seller to optimise each listing, grading and pricing each product as it is scanned. To facilitate pricing decisions, Accelerlist displays the most competitive offers and provides Keepa/CamelCamelCamel links.
The normal price for Accerlist's bulk listing tool is $49 per month after a 14-day free trial, with a 30-day money back guarantee. The website currently is advertising a limited time offer of only $29 per month, a special price that will remain in force for as long as the seller remains subscribed.
ChannelSale is a multi-channel ecommerce SaaS platform (Software as a Service) accessible by an unlimited number of concurrent users from any computer in any location, with no software installation. In addition to automating numerous other ecommerce tasks, it provides a single interface for setting up products and bulk creating product listings across Amazon, eBay, and a number of other marketplaces. Sellers can define all product attributes such as color, size, model, and others, as well as unlimited custom seller-defined product attributes, which will appear as dropdowns from which buyers can make their selections. ChannelSale provides a high degree of flexibility to meet the needs of each seller and the different channels and marketplaces they sell on. To make sure your products are listed in the appropriate categories and are properly search indexed ChannelSales' product category mappers do the initial mapping for each seller to review and approve.
Channel Sale offers flexible pricing plans that impose no transaction or listing fees and require no revenue share. All pricing plans accommodate an unlimited number of store fronts and SKU feeds with no minimum SKU requirement. Each plan is based on a simple flat fee. The Silver plan, at $249 per month, is for sellers with total monthly sales revenues of up to $25,000. The Gold plan costs $449 per month and is for sellers with up to $50,000 in monthly sales revenues. Sellers with up to $125,000 a month in sales revenues use the Platinum plan, with a monthly cost of $749. An Enterprise plan is negotiated for sellers bringing in more than $125,000 per month in sales revenues.
All of these pricing plans accommodate an unlimited number of products. There's no charge for mapping and auditing the first 100 product categories, but beyond that, there is a $75 fee for each additional 100 mappings. And there may be additional charges for some custom development tasks.
Ecomdash offers a multichannel listing tool suitable for both high and low-volume sellers. It provides the format for quick and accurate bulk upload of information and images for all of a seller's SKUs to Amazon and other channels. Sellers are able to customize product descriptions and shipping attributes and edit product listings. Ecomdash automates a wide range of inventory management functions, but its listing tool is available as a stand-along option for $50 per month, without any inventory or sync functions. This provides an affordable option for sellers interested only in an Amazon bulk listing tool.
Ecomdash describes its pricing structure as "pay as you go pricing that grows with your business." The monthly price, after an initial free one-month trial, increases from one sales volume tier to the next, from $50 per month for the lowest tier (100 or fewer sales orders monthly) to $350 per month for sellers with 6,001 to 10,000 sales orders in a month. Customisable enterprise pricing is offered for sellers with more than 10,000 sales orders per month.
Jazva is positioned as a single platform solution for Amazon sellers. It's not only a powerful Amazon bulk listing tool, but also an integrated, scalable platform for managing and monitoring all of a seller's listing across multiple Amazon accounts and multiple channels from one interface. It's equally effective for listing a single product on one marketplace or thousands of products on multiple marketplaces, with the ability to customise titles, descriptions, and prices for different channels. Bulk editing enables sellers to update some or all products at the same time, changing categories, pricing, and images as needed.
Jazva's pricing is only available by requesting a quote.
Kyozou is a multi-channel selling platform. Its listing management tool, "Multi-Lister," gives sellers the ability to simultaneously list to Amazon, eBay, Newegg, Reverb.com, and their own Kyozou webstore. In addition to multi-channel listing and inventory management, Kyozou provides complete ecommerce support and integration with those marketplaces.
Kyozou's pricing plans are designed to match each seller's business model by offering a choice between Pay per Listing and Pay by Percentage of Sales arrangements, with no hidden fees tacked onto the monthly payment. While a Percentage of Sales plan is preferable for most sellers, those who sell a limited range of high-profit items often do better with a Pay per Listing plan.
Each seller is assigned initially to a fee bracket based on the number of average monthly listings or average monthly sales. Exceeding the threshold for that bracket pushes the seller into the next bracket, with a corresponding increase in fees. Kyozou reviews the situation with the seller in advance of any fee increase so there are no surprises and the seller can consider a different pricing structure. The first month is free for all sellers, regardless of which pricing plan they choose, and no contract is required, but a one-time onboarding fee is required at sign-up.
Listtee was specifically designed as an Amazon bulk listing tool that enables sellers to quickly and easily list, add, and replenish items and connects to every US and UK Amazon warehouse. Available in both desktop and web versions, it provides presets for Item Conditions and Notes and allows sellers to grade and ship about 100 items in only 30 minutes.
There are separate small business and enterprise pricing models. Small businesses pay $49 per month (after a 14-day free trial) and can switch between merchant and FBA listings, create custom MSKUs by supplier type, and create, customize, and change condition notes. For $149 per month (again, after a 14-day free trial), enterprise-level sellers gain all of the small business features plus the ability to create subaccounts, at $25 per month per operator, for individual employees to speed up the listing process (the number of subaccounts can be changed as needed.)
Under new ownership in 2017, Monsoon is adding new tools and services to its eCommerce solutions, building on the popularity of its existing tools, such as Monsoon Marketplace, a powerful tool for listing items individually or in bulk to Amazon, eBay and other channels. The seller creates listings once, sets listing rules for each channel, and Monsoon does the rest, automatically bulk listing items from the catalog according to the listing rules. Any item that meets the listing rules for quantity on hand, category, inventory age and the like gets listed automatically, without any action required on the part of the seller.
There is no set pricing model, as Monsoon works with each new user to determine an appropriate monthly fee based on their particular needs and such factors as order volume. There is, however, a one-time implementation fee of $500 for all new users, which covers the cost of a written implementation plan, software installation, online training, and the services of an implementation project manager.
Nembol is a multi-channel listing tool that is available in both desktop and mobile versions, enabling sellers to simultaneously list products on Amazon and other marketplaces, POS, social media, and an online store. The desktop version also provides the ability to synchronise listings across devices, create listings for multi-variant products, and publish them across multiple channels. Only Amazon Professional sellers can connect Nembol to their Amazon seller account. And only products with a valid barcode that is already associated with an ASIN (Amazon's unique product identifier) can be listed on Amazon using Nembol.
The Nembol mobile app works on IOS and Android devices and is free. It accommodates up to 500 products. There are three pricing plans for the web-based desktop version, distinguished only by the number of products allowed:
These prices kick in after a 14-day free trial period.
Sales Warp is a cloud-based SaaS order and fulfillment solution for online and in-store retailers of all sizes. Its multi-channel listing software provides templates for listing to Amazon, eBay, and Magento, enabling sellers to quickly and accurately list in bulk or by category. Sellers can also create their own listing templates for their product categories as well as for kit and bundle products. SalesWarp integrates directly with marketplaces and eCommerce platforms and provides functionality beyond that of a simple Amazon bulk listing tool.
According to SalesWarp, their pricing model "varies based on order volume and annual revenue, as well as features and functionality." Sellers considering SalesWarp need to contact the vendor directly for pricing information.
While many of the solutions discussed in this article are SaaS, ScanLister is a desktop application designed specifically as an Amazon bulk listing tool. It works for the Amazon marketplace in the United States, Canada, United Kingdom, German, Spain, and France and is available in both Windows and Mac versions. All the seller needs to do is grade the condition of an item to be listed and scan its barcode. It's appropriate for use with books, media, and any other Amazon product category.
There are two pricing options: monthly subscription or lifetime purchase. ScanLister is available by subscription at $19 per month with a 14-day free trial. This price gives the seller five license keys to use on up to five computers, plus access to a private Facebook group. The subscription can be cancelled or switched to a lifetime purchase at any time. The lifetime purchase option entails a one-time $299 payment with a 30-day money back guarantee and free updates for life. Like the monthly subscription, a lifetime purchase gives the seller five license keys for use on up to five computers and access to a private Facebook group.
Sellbrite's multi-channel listing feature enables sellers to list their inventory in bulk from one central catalogue to Amazon, eBay, Etsy, BigCommerce, Walmart, and other popular marketplaces and eCommerce platforms. Sellers have the ability to customise titles, descriptions, prices, shipping fees, and more by creating reusable listing templates for each channel they sell on. A number of templates may be be applied to any one listing, with separate templates for shipping fees, pricing, and so on.Grouping these recipes together creates a recipe for that listing. Making a change to a template will automatically update all listings the template has been applied to. It should be noted that eBay sellers can also take advantage of a CrazyLister-powered feature enabling them to develop custom HTML templates to create mobile-optimized eBay listings.)
Sellbrite's listing tool eliminates the need for multiple listings to accommodate different product attributes such as color and size. Sellers can create variation listings that combine all of an item's options in one listing, which can significantly reduce listing fees. Sellbrite also supports the use of category-based item specifics, such as operating speed for computers or service providers for cell phones, to facilitate searches by prospective buyers based on such attributes.
Sellbrite offers a two-tier pricing model—Standard, for $220 per month, and Premium for $260 per month. The Premium level provides additional features to support a growing business. Choosing yearly rather than monthly billing saves sellers $520 per year for the Standard plan and $690 per year for Premium. Both plans provide a 14-day free trial and can be cancelled at any time.
Solid Commerce is an integrated SaaS ecommerce operations platform that provides the ability to list products and to edit and manage inventory listings on Amazon, eBay, Etsay, and a number of other marketplaces as well as the seller's own web store. After entering titles, descriptions, images, quantities, and prices, that information is automatically pushed to the seller's designated marketplaces. From that point on, any changes made in Sales Commerce automatically update those listings on the appropriate channels.
Pricing starts at $399 per month; further pricing details are available by requesting a free quote.
Vendio is not only an Amazon bulk listing tool, but also supports Amazon sellers in a number of other ways, such as inventory management and order fulfillment. Vendio's Amazon Match & Publish feature matches items an Amazon seller has listed on eBay or CSV to Amazon's catalogue and imports them in bulk to Amazon. All the seller needs to do is search the Amazon catalogue by entering an identifier, such as a UPC, ISBN, EAN, or title and select the listings to match. Vendio enables sellers to share their Amazon inventory with eBay, their own Vendio store, OpenSky, Facebook, and mobile devices.
There are three different Vendio pricing options: Pro, Managed, and Premier Managed. All of them support multi-channel bulk listing and differ primarily in the number of products accommodated and the amount of storage allowed. The Pro plan, at $99.95 per month is for sellers with 3,000 products or less and provides 2 GB of storage. The Managed plan, at $149.95 per month is for sellers with 3,001 to 15,000 products and provides 5 GB of storage. The most expensive option, the Premier plan, costs $249.95 per month and is for sellers with 15,001 to 25,000 products and gives them 50 GB of storage. Sellers with more than 25,000 products need to obtain custom pricing from Vendio. All Vendio plans offer a free trial period.
The Pro plan provides customer support via phone, email, and chat, while both the Managed and Premier Managed Plans provide support from a dedicated account manager.
Of all the Amazon listing tools reviewed in this article, Vendio is the only one that imposes a limit on data storage. If either the allowable number of products or the storage capacity used exceeds the stated limits, the seller pays a premium—20 cents per additional product and $10 per 500 MB of additional storage.
Let's not ignore the fact that Amazon supports Professional sellers who list in volume with its own tools for managing bulk inventory. Among these are the following pre-built spreadsheet templates for uploading large numbers of products:
The seller downloads the appropriate template in Microsoft Excel and adds inventory items to the spreadsheet, then uploads the completed spreadsheet to Amazon.
Most sellers will need to take the same factors into consideration when selecting a tool for bulk listing on Amazon, though they may arrive at quite different conclusions. They'll need to ask themselves questions like:
There are many other tools that provide Amazon bulk listing capability and automate a number of other tasks to create additional efficiencies and opportunities for those selling on Amazon and/or other channels. Some of the solutions reviewed in this article provide powerful features other than Amazon bulk listing and appear on most lists of online selling tools.
Given the importance of Amazon SEO for product search in the ecommerce world, one thing not to lose sight of amidst all of these considerations is the ability of the tool you choose to support search engine optimisation. Be sure to pick an Amazon bulk listing tool that provides the ability to edit product titles and descriptions. That way, as you learn more about what keywords are working well for you and which are not, you can easily tweak both titles and descriptions accordingly.
Take your time to learn about and evaluate these 13 Amazon bulk listing tools, and only then make an informed decision. See which solutions experienced Amazon sellers have implemented successfully by checking out seller forums and review sites. In the end, you'll be glad you did your homework to find the best solution to support the long-term growth and success of your Amazon business.


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Smoked Snapper
A Kiwi favourite! Our delicately smoked Snapper continues to be immensely popular with visitors to our Coromandel shop. Corosmoke snapper has a distinctive yet mild flavour, and is a great favourite for salads and cooked dishes.
About Snapper (Chrysophrys auratus)
Snapper is a member of the sea bream family. They are a golden pink to reddish colour, with many small blue spots on their upper sides. Snapper average 30-60cm in length and weigh around 0.5-4 kg. However, exceptional specimens of 10kg or more are occasionally caught.Snapper has a tender white to pinkish flesh with a sweet, mild flavour. It can be cooked in practically every way, or alternatively served raw as sashimi.
Snapper are found in New Zealand's warmer coastal waters - particularly in the northern North Island and Bay of Plenty regions. This fish is mainly taken by bottom long line or trawling, generally from depths of 10-100 metres.


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PRE-RAMADAN STAMPEDE KILLS AT LEAST 10 WOMEN IN BANGLADESHDate: 2018-05-14
Police in southeast Bangladesh has said a stampede involving thousands of poor villagers outside the home of a businessman distributing alms ahead of Ramadan, has lead to the death of at least 10 women and injured about 50 others.
The holy fasting month of Ramadan is expected to begin on Wednesday or Thursday this week, and it is customary for devout Muslims to donate money or goods to the poor before or during the month.
The owner of a steel mill was handing out clothes and other items at his residence when the stampede began, said Rafiqul Alam, a police official in the district of Chittagong, about 260 km from the capital, Dhaka.
He told Reuters, "There were 10,000 to 12,000 people, mostly women and trying to push to each other to collect alms ahead of other and that led stampede".
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Gartner's 2017 MQ report on the ever-changing UCaaS space came out recently, and that was the topic of a recent UCStrategies podcast. We did this a few weeks ago, but with the BC Summit just past, it didn't get posted until the other day.
Our takeaways are still timely, so if you want an informed view of where UCaaS is heading, you'll find this podcast time well spent. Here's the link to give it a listen, and I hope you spend time on the site to explore the rest of our content.


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Decoupage is back in style! Recently I discovered a couple books in the Library's collection about decoupage using Mod Podge, and it brought back a flood of happy childhood memories.
My friends and I used to make decoupage gifts for one-another. One of my favorites is displayed in my office – a cartoon from Western Horseman my friend decoupaged onto a board showing a girl riding a horse. The caption is "If you can read this bumper sticker … you might be kicked." (It still makes me giggle.)
I also remember working with my Mom to make decoupage gifts for the holidays – one year we decoupaged our school pictures onto small boards as a gift for our grandparents.
According to wikihow.com/decoupage, "Decoupage—from the French word découper, meaning to cut out—is a craft or art form that entails pasting cut-outs (typically paper) to an object and then covering them with several coats of varnish or lacquer. The process gives flat cut-outs an appearance of depth and makes patterns and pictures look as though they are actually painted on the decoupaged object."
I've been looking for some ideas for the Library's Arts and Crafts Bazaar on December 3rd and I found some decoupage ideas I'm planning to explore. From the book, I also discovered there are many different kinds of Mod Podge including Sparkle, Dishwasher Safe, Fabric, Hard Coat and Outdoor. Oh the possibilities!
If you are looking for some fun crafting ideas for hot summer days, you might consider making something with Mod Podge. I promise I'll return the books soon. If you can't wait for the books, check out modpodgerocksblog.com or plaidonline.com/decoupage for some fun ideas. If you'd like to make a couple extra items to donate to the Arts and Crafts Bazaar, that would be great – thanks!


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Review the assignment instructions in the University of Phoenix Material: Integrative Network Design Project.
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· Explain the terms latency, response time, and jitter, and describe their effect on overall network performance and on the performance of your chosen organization's network.
· Explain the effect of data rates on each part of the network.
· Describe strategies to ensure the availability of network access in switched and routed networks.
· Self-assess your work against the Peer Evaluation Rating Scale.
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text: 2016 Election Defending the American Dream Tonia Khouri achieve Young Gun status in a press release by the National Republican Congressional Committee by Steve Balich on July 1, 2016 June 30, 2016 Contact: Mary Kate Knorr Phone: 815-768-9632 Email: firstname.lastname@example.com FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Tonia Khouri (IL-11) Achieves 'Young Gun' Status in NRCC's Recruitment Program Young Guns reach the program's final level by "establishing a clear path to victory," the NRCC said in a press release yesterday. (AURORA, IL) – Tonia Khouri (IL-11) was named one of 11 candidates nationally to achieve Young Gun status in a press release by the National Republican Congressional Committee yesterday. This marks a third and final stage in the Committee's Young Guns program, which aims to support challenger candidates in races nationwide. "To reach the Young Guns stage of our committee's recruitment program, candidates must meet our high standards of achievement to ensure a path to victory on Election Day," said NRCC Chairman Greg Walden. "As a committee, we are working to help elect Republicans to maintain our record-breaking majority in the House of Representatives and further put into action our ideas that will build a more confident America. As the November elections approach, I am confident these candidates will continue to work hard for their communities and put America on a better path." Since her primary victory in March, Khouri has wasted no time in hitting her opponent, Congressman Bill Foster, on his failures while in office. Most recently, Khouri publicly pointed out Foster's preference for divisive, partisan politics and his irresponsible votes on foreign policy action. Khouri has also begun a 'Talk with Tonia' district tour, which will give her the opportunity to hear directly from constituents all across the district. "I am so glad people are recognizing how much we have accomplished on the campaign and how vulnerable Bill Foster is in what should be a safe seat for an incumbent," said Khouri. "We are working tirelessly to spread the message that Bill Foster has failed us in Congress, and I am confident that district residents will see I'm the right person to represent them in Washington." # # # Khouri for Congress, P.O. Box 9007, Aurora, IL 60598 Share this:Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)Click to share on Google+ (Opens in new window) Related Support the Will County News when you shop on Amazon


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Steal this zombie art #WINNING #cut4bieber
This post was inspired by Lil' Kim zombie art infringement allegations, which have now become a law suit, but then spins into a diatribe about copyright-pop-culture, mentioning Justin Bieber, Eminem and Jonah Lehrer.
First, Ms.Kim — see TMZ: "Home
Lil Kim — BOARD UP THE WINDOWS … Zombie Girl Sues" and previously TMZ: Lil' Kim Threatened With Lawsuit Over Zombie Face" :
Canadian artist Samantha Ravndahl lashed out at Kim on social media websites in November for lifting her scary image off Reddit, then using it on the Lil' Kim website and Instagram accounts to promote her music.
… the lawyer's letter points out a Lil' irony. Kim once went on Hot 97 radio and complained Nicki Minaj stole her swag, adding, "If you are going to steal my swag, you gonna have to pay."
In previous zombie music recall Nicki Minaj zombie (and Usher zombie. More recently, Flatbush Zombies and "zombie" is also in the new Eminem song "Rap God".
Just after Superman and Thor comic book reference, Eminem raps:
I'm the walking dead, But I'm just a talking head, a zombie floating
which Rap Genius annotates:
He's saying that metaphorically his words are as scary as a zombie. Note the Walking Dead & zombie reference
He may also be saying that just like a zombie, he won't die. He's immortal (being a "Rap God"), and has a cemented legacy in hip-hop.
Fun fact: both Marvel and DC have characters that are just floating heads.
On "floating heads", notice the connection to phenomenology and the mind-body problem (like in the Zombie Brain USB drives). And on "immortal" artists, recall ZombieLaw commentary about Bill O'Reilly zombie and living forever in the cable TV archive.
Another connotation that the Rap Genius annotations don't mention is that "talking head" is a reference to television personalities in general. The image of their heads beamed into our living rooms for the audience to suck down, and as Em says:
a zombie floating, But I got your mom deep throating
He then goes on to reference Ramen…
Meanwhile, the issue of repurposing of artwork for new art is an important issue for the digital community, which is an important part of the relationship between hackers and zombies; DIY vs. consumerism; issues of authorship, and like Frankenstein, parts reassembled into new monsters.
On this issue, see also the recent controversies of Shia LeBouf. This young actor who made stardom by literally acting alongside virtual reality characters in Michael Bay's "Transformers" series. But recently Shia LeBouf has been made himself synonymous with plagiarism. see this MTV article. It seems to have started when he used Daniel Clowes graphic novel as a storyboard for a new movie. But then it just keeps expanding into this ongoing sequences of outright copying. LeBouf tweets a sequence of apologies to Daniel Clowes but the apologies themselves are taken from others' words. In interview he says this is what actors do, they take the material of writers and they perform it. That therefore, the rules about plagiarism and copyright are censors to great artist performances.
Actors perform great writing of the past. And words are always taken from others' words. All works of art are in some way derivative of prior works. We exist within a culture of knowledge and nothing cannot be created ab nilio, always some prior work precedes the novelty, always the novelty itself is only understood as novelty because of prior thought. And yet sometimes, new work is sufficiently trans-formative that it is not longer a copy. This highly contextual question is more than a legal question, it is a moral question. What are the rights of man to control his creations but also what of the rights of man to speak? And the right of the creation themselves to exist without a master? Ideas are worth spreading and ideas are bulletproof!
Recall ZombieLaw post on James Patterson and Foucault's Author Function. What does it mean for Robert Patterson to have written a book if he sketches out the outline and a team of unnamed writing staff construct from there? Or what of great architects like Frank Lloyd Wright whose name is famous but had a staff of people who worked for him — so too Alexander Graham Bell and Thomas Edison. Who invented the telephone? Did he write it? At what point is it "his" ideas. Is it a question of ownership or a question of labor? Hollywood was created in part because this little town in California was too far from New York for Edison to prosecute his patent claims. Patents that he himself would have violated years earlier.
Then consider Jonah Lehrer, his "Proust is a Neuroscientist" made him famous at a young age, but then fabricating words into Bob Dylan's author-function was unacceptable and so he's out. It used to be Jonah Lehrer and Malcolm Gladwell. Now it's just Malcolm Gladwell… as his "David and Goliath" points out, we underestimate who will best perform. Now, the public wants more science like Gladwell's. Like TED-talk science. Ideas worth spreading. But experts fear populist science. They point to climate science deniers and evolution controversialists and so many other projects of anti-elite science. It's an issue of power and authority. Because Proust was a Neuroscientist but that doesn't mean we can stop reading Proust and focus on reading PET scans. The PET signals are meaningless without understanding the culture.
We need more funding for humanities not every university buying magnetic rock machines. Yes we are our brain signals but stories get into the brain faster than medicine. Medicine can modulate experience. Stories can change the meaning of those experiences. Reading Proust changes the meaning of a cookie. His cookie brings back memories and those memories must be dealt with. The populist stories are important because they shape the culture.
If all ideas come from other ideas, how do we help the good ones spread. The old media world required physical movement of words on paper. Gatekeepers controlled. The new world is faster. We changed the means of production of meaning. It's cheaper and easier to disseminate information. We are psychotic animals we have a hard time avoiding our own rationalizations and really giving fair evaluation to ideas.
This is why it was so wonderful when Shia apologized by sky-writing in clouds. Tweets are as ephemeral as the vapor in the sky. And he is an actor. A douchey actor who wants attention. We have an economy that depends on compensating artists for their work. But actually it's not about the artists at all. It's about the publishers. The publishers need to get paid. Then they pay the artists some pittance too. But the publishing companies are what the copyright is designed for. (Who ate the loss on Jonah Lehrer? him or his publisher? where will he appear next… ) The publishers invest in the artist and in many ways, that PR machine is what makes the artist into somebody (and then chews them up and spits many out). The investment is expensive and they want to control access but information wants to be free. This is the tagline of Anonymous. That zombie horde hive mind of pseudonomous cyber protesters, considered a criminal organization by the FBI. Shia LeBeouf's philosophy is right on point. Copyright is censorship. Lil Kim's team appropriated internet art. That's what Anonymous is all about.
Today, the internet is also abuzz with Justin Bieber's mug shot; so glassy-eyed but with a big shit eating grin. This is his Frank Sinatra mug shot moment. This is PR heaven. He's in a Lamborghini, he's arrested for resisting arrest. This plays to the market. And there's nothing quite like getting arrested in Florida to make sure that the whole thing is all over the media from the moment it happens.
So let's imagine we are Lil' Kim's PR team and you see this neat zombie pic, do you try to contact the artist and pay them, or maybe just take it and if they sue, great, more press for us! Break the rules, win the game. Get arrested in a lamborghini and smile for the camera. Mugshot gold! Charlie Sheen taught the world about winning. For a while it looked like is Shia LeBoef was winning. And this zombie art law suit seems like a PR win so far for Kim. The bigger the controversy gets it's almost better for the celebrity. All press is good press (well unless there is some significant monetary court judgment which their could be with copyright cases, very significant fines, absurdly significant!).
Before closing, let's look some more at the Eminem album with "Rap God" on it. It also includes extensive sampling, reference and direct quotes from many other famous artists. This is not to imply that Emimen has done anything like the copying the Leboef did of Clowes work, but that there is a very slippery slope here between copying and derivative work and transformative use. In the theories of Antonin Artaud, an actor could never make the same utterance twice, there was always some slight difference in gesture or articulation. For Artaud sound in a theater is physical projection of waves through space, and so even the change in air space changes the performance. What can this concept of acting mean in an age of instant digital reproduction?
And finally for the excessively rambling post, SWNS: "Zombie make-up artist's Facebook page shut down after do-gooders claim she was promoting SELF-HARM":
Zombie make-up artist Sarah McCracken told today how her Facebook page was shut down — after shocked visitors thought she was promoting self-harm.
Which reminds me of #cut4bieber (are they still doing that?) Well, it's good press for this makeup artist, right? Cosplay-makeup so real, it was banned! For her next PR move maybe get arrested, or sued…
In conclusion: "Shia LaBeouf Explains Plagiarism Drama: My Twitter Is "Meta-Modernist Performance Art"" by Lily Harrison at E!
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"The Walking Dead" season six finale is, I would argue, the most emotionally charged and terrifying finale of the show so far. As Eugene said, this episode is "as [serious] as coronary thrombosis." For a complete recap of season six up to this point, check out my article here.
(Warning: From here on out there will be spoilers for this episode)
The episode was fantastic. Far better than several of the season finales we have had to sit through.
I have to talk about the very interesting clash of philosophies between Carol and Morgan before we move to Negan. Carol left Alexandria two episodes ago because she can no longer kill to protect the ones she cares for. When Morgan finds her they have a bit of an argument and Carol says that if one can't kill, yet one wants to protect those around them, then that person should just leave. They can't have it both ways.
Of course, Morgan, a character who has been built from the beginning of the season as one who no longer kills, disagrees with her. He believes that one can care for people, stay with them to protect them and refrain from killing. Carol does not think this is possible.
This differing ideology was one of the more interesting portions of the episode, and Carol's view is given some validation when Morgan is forced to kill a man who has Carol at gunpoint. For me, this was very thought-provoking and surprisingly philosophical when one looks beyond the surface level.
The way in which we are introduced to the Savior's true potential as a feared entity is, as one would expect, nerve-racking. After the group is forced to abandon their RV and take Maggie to Hilltop by foot, they hear the eerie whistling of the Saviors, an indication that they are slowly approaching and surrounding their prey. There is no escape to be found. This is the most terrifying moment of the season and Rick's face has never known so much fear.
As far as villains are concerned, Negan wins all the prizes and competitions. The maliciousness of the character, the brutal, yet self-controlled body language, the intelligent manner of speaking — it all gives testimony to how utterly terrifying Negan is as an antagonist.
Major congratulations are in order to Jeffery Dean Morgan's portrayal of Negan. The Governor looks like a tame kitty swatting at a butterfly on a Sunday afternoon compared to Negan.
This is a small example of Negan's cruel nature in the book, which is perfectly emulated by Jeffery Dean Morgan.
As long time readers of "The Walking Dead" will remember, issue #100 was a big one. We saw a beloved character get murdered by Negan and his bat, Lucille. I will not say who it was in the comic, in case the reader hasn't gone through those yet, but I will say that Negan does take his precious weapon to someone's head. We see the swing from the first-person perspective of the character being hit and, before the screen goes black, we see two more hits and blood running down the screen. We finish the season with sounds of Negan savagely slamming Lucille upon this mysterious character over and over again.
Now, we wait until October to find out who it was that we lost and I can imagine that many fans will not like it.
Personally, I am torn. I don't know if I like the idea of the show-runners keeping us in the dark for the next seven months, but part of me knows that the suspense will make the premier of season seven even more exciting. Either way, there will be plenty of fan theories and opinions on who got the bat and who didn't. My guess? I think it's Daryl, although Glenn has a high likelihood as well.
Here's to hoping that the next season can give us plenty more to talk about.
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The Sherlock Holmes among you probably noticed something in the headline already: The hyphen is gone! Hot-zone.tv is now Hotzone.tv. But the service orientated Online Snowboard Pro Shop offers some more new features: Besides optimizing their name, they had a "liposuction" of the website backend and last but not least pixel surgeon Tarek Shaer applied the scalpel and gave the site a face lift even Brigitte Nielsen would go green with envy. A restructuring that shopping-friends should definitely check out.
The new cool design of the website strikes at once but the Hotzoners did lateral thinking: Thanks to new programming and changing the server, hotzone.tv is probably the fastest Online Shop in Europe and it is a lot of fun to surf through the clearly arranged and selected product range. Additionally, the "Color Selecta" helps to find the right combination of pant, shirt, jacket, boot, binding and board.
But you will not recognize the real world novelty at first sight: If you click the button "TV" the very first Home Shopping Channel just for snowboarders will pop up! Link man "Henry" is easy to understand and leads through the program with a lot of charm and humour. The "Technical Experts" Miss Dr. Marylin Poon, El Greco and Mr. Kiwi Tec will explain you the products. Nice teasers and a presentation you should not take too seriously make the Hotzone.tv HOMIE SHOPPING an entertaining shopping tour with a lot of helpful information about the products. Of course the Hotzone.tv team riders Mone, Werni Stock, Lars Österle, Peter König and Co will give you some shopping advice too…
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