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Social Media for Authors: Where are you going?
Your social media strategy is your road map to book sales success. But you don't get on the road traveling to a place you've never been before without mapping out your route. If you do, you must anticipate pulling over often and asking for directions. You will probably waste a lot of time and your productivity will suffer. Imagine yourself driving around in circles wandering, wondering how did I get here?
This is exactly why your social media strategy is so very important. Below you will find 10 tips for creating a successful social media strategy that will improve communication with your readers and encourage more book sales. I'll be looking forward to your questions in the comment section below and will answer them ASAP. Are you ready for the ride?
- Determine your sales goal and your why
- Decide the date you plan to achieve your goal
- Who will help you achieve your goal
- How will you celebrate achieving your goal
- What incentive will you offer people who help you achieve your goal
- Develop 10 pieces of killer content related to you as an author and your book's benefit to readers (videos, blogs, podcasts, interviews, press releases… add buy now links)
- Introduce your content to your readers and potential new customers, 1 per day for 10 days (always ask open-ended questions)
- Encourage your affiliates and respond to your customers daily (refer to buy now links)
- Evaluate your customers responses (Facebook insights, inbox messages, analytics), your sales to goal and your affiliate productivity
- Repost your previous content using information from your previous posts and acknowledgement of previous supporters and affiliates
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CX5 FAQs - By Product
[Question] About movie shooting.You can shoot movies with sound.
Available image sizes are 1280 x 720, 640 x 480, or 320 x 240 pixels. The number of frames shot per second (frame rate) *1 are 30 frames.
Each movie you shoot is recorded as an AVI file.
- •The remaining recording time may not change uniformly because it is recalculated from the remaining memory capacity during movie recording.
- •Depending on the remaining battery level, the battery may become depleted during movie shooting. Use of a battery with adequate remaining power.
- •Use of a high speed SD memory card with sufficient memory is recommended when shooting for long periods.
- •For shooting a movie with 1280 (1280 x 720), it is recommended the usage of SD/SDHC card with Class 6 or greater (SD Speed Class). Otherwise the movie with 1280 (1280 x 720) may not be correctly played back in the camera depending on the memory card, due to the effect of readout speed of the captured movie.
- •SDXC cards are not supported.
- •The flash cannot be used.
- •While shooting movies, only digital zoom can be used. The maximum digital zoom varies depending on the image size. With 1280 x 720, it is up to 2.8x. With 680 x 480 or 320 x 240, it is up to 4.0x.
[Does optical zoom feature work while shooting movies ?]
- •A movie sound is recorded in monaural, regardless of image quality, or size.
A movie consists of many frames whose images appear to be moving displayed at high speed.
The number of frames shot per second (frame rate) are 30 frames.
The procedures for shooting a movie
- 1Turn the mode dial to the Movie mode.
- 2Press the shutter release button to start recording the movie.
When the shutter release button is pressed, the camera focuses on the subject.
- During recording, [REC] icon is blinking and the recording time and an available time are displayed. The movie is captured until the next pressing of the shutter release button.
- 3Press the shutter release button to finish recording the movie.
The shooting menu options available in the Movie mode
|Available settings
|Options (*1: Default)
|Movie size
|1280 (*1), 640, 320
|Focus (Movie)
|Multi-AF (*1), Face Pr.Multi, Sport AF, ∞ (Infinity)
|Off (*1), On
|White balance
|Auto (*1), Outdoors, Cloudy, Incandescent Lamp, Incandescent Lamp2, Fluorescent Lamp, Manual Settings
See the FAQ below for the Shooting menu operations.
[About the Shooting menu operations.]
- •While shooting movies, operating sounds may be recorded.
- •The maximum shooting time available at once depends on the size of your memory card. Even if you are within the maximum shooting time, recording may end depending on your card.
- •The maximum recording time available per shooting is up to 29 minutes (or up to 4 GB even if it will not reach 29 minutes).
- •For example; the 4 GB size limitation will be about 13 minutes when shooting movies at 1280 x 720. Available time displayed on the screen will be 13 min. 17 sec. before the recording begins.
- •Actual time available depends on the size of your memory card. Even if you are within the maximum shooting time, recording may end depending on your card.
- •The camera shake correction function cannot be used in Movie mode. If you turn the mode dial to Movie mode while the camera shake correction function is enabled, the camera shake correction icon disappears from the picture display.
- •If you shoot a fast-moving subject, it may be distorted in the recorded image.
- •If you shoot under a fluorescent light, the light flickering may be recorded as a horizontal band.
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Doc Emrick Talks Olympics and NHL Trade Deadline
One on One was joined by not only the voice of the NHL on NBC and NBC Sports, but a member of WFUV, Doc Emrick.
Doc shared his experience in Sochi, Russia for the Winter Olympic Games, including the job Russia did as a host country and the level of play that he saw on the ice during the Games.
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- The 12th Annual Foster Care Appreciation Luncheon is on May 10th at Rodizio's Grill. If you are a foster parent and have not received your invitiation contact Polly Akridge Nash at 720-944-6013.
- The Latino Summit on Foster Care needs and issues in the Latino communities will be held May 30th at Su Teatro Theater from 10:00a.m. to 2:00p.m. Contact Gabriella Mohr at 720-944-6103
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Daughter arrested, after bedridden mother found covered in maggots
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Police near Seattle are shocked by a case of alleged elder abuse and say the scene was like a horror movie.
Responding deputies spent about 10 hours decontaminating it in haz-mat suits.
While there's still a wheelchair out in front of the house, detectives say the victim in this case was bed-ridden and hadn't moved in days.
When they found her, they had to crawl through mounds of trash and swarms of flies. but it got worse.
"It's probably the worst case I've ever seen," said one officer. "I've never seen maggots eating off of a live person, they've always been off someone that's been deceased."
The victim in this case, very much alive, found stuck to soiled sheets inside her Auburn home.
She's a 70-year-old woman and deputies blame the mess on her caretaker, who also happens to be her daughter.
46-year-old Herrie Morton, told detectives she only noticed the maggots that day.
Deputies say that because there were hundreds here.
Oddly enough, the maggots may also have been keeping the 70-year-old woman alive.
Maggots feed on decomposing tissue, so they won't eat good flesh, they eat infected dead flesh.
Another theory among investigators, Morton didn't tell anyone about the home's condition because she didn't want to lose it, or her six-year-old son.
The roof was also caving in.
The elderly woman is in the hospital recovering, code enforcement has been told about the home and this woman, the caretaker, is behind bars.
Amazingly, police say the elderly woman claimed at the hospital that she had been well-cared for in her home.
Authorities, obviously, beg to differ.
Her daughter is charged with second-degree criminal mistreatment of a dependent person.
Mortob was jailed on $150,000 bail.


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School's out! School's out! Who let the teacher out?
With the official start of summer vacations, it is the ideal time to enjoy some leisure reading—for teachers, students, and parents. There is nothing like a good book to carry you away on a wonderful journey of imagination and discovery. Here are some staff recommendations to try.
Mylinda Poteet enjoyed Stieg Larsson's "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo". Mikael Blomkvist, a journalist, has been hired by Henrik Vanger to find the truth concerning the disappearance of his niece Harriet forty years ago. Lisbeth Salander, tattooed computer hacker, has been hired to do a background check on Mikael. As the two work together to solve the mystery, they find themselves the target of a serial killer. The truth of Harriet's disappearance could destroy the Vanger family as two generations of evil come to light. This is one of the best mysteries I have read in a long time and I am very anxious to read the remaining two titles in what is being called the millennium trilogy written by the late Stieg Larsson. Larsson died in 2004 shortly after delivering the manuscripts for the trilogy, a great loss because his talent as a writer is very evident in his work.
Jeanne Denton says "Madeleine L'Engle has been a favorite author of mine for many years. I first became aware of her work when I was teaching middle school. I read most of her children's books such as "Meet the Austins" to my students and to my sons, who loved them. I also read many of her Young Adult books. "A Wrinkle in Time", for which Madeleine L'Engle won a Newbery Medal, was my sons' favorite. I was delighted to discover that she had written many adult fiction and nonfiction books. "Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art" became my favorite. When she died in 2007, I felt a great loss, so when this new book, "The Joys of Love", came out in 2008, I was pleasantly surprised. Madeleine actually wrote "The Joys of Love" in the 1940s. The first incarnation was written as a short story called "Summer at the Sea". The main character Elizabeth was very much autobiographical of Madeleine L'Engle as a young girl. As Madeleine developed the short story into a book, she was unable to get it published because the publishers did not feel it was classifiable. The publishers wanted her to change it and develop it more into a novel. Madeleine set the book aside, telling her granddaughters they could keep it as their own private story. They had always loved this manuscript and had it published after her death.
"The Joys of Love" is a sweet coming-of-age novel. The young girl Elizabeth, who believes in her ability as an actress, steps out and begins to own this personal dream that she carries in her heart. This novel speaks of the struggles of finding oneself and the discipline and hard work that is required to achieve one's dream or vision. It is also a story about friendship, love, loss and achievement. It is about hope. "The Joys of Love" is a lovely story that I enjoyed reading. I honestly felt like I was reconnecting with an old friend. I recommend this book and all of Madeleine L'Engle's books. She was an amazing person and author.
Rachel Maderik recommends "A Wizard of Earthsea" by Ursula K. Le Guin. Long before Harry Potter, another boy attended a school for wizards after learning he had been born with magical powers. His name was Ged, and he started life as a poor goat herder in a place called Earthsea. However, unlike Harry, Ged always had a bit of a proud streak, and while showing off his abilities to his fellow students, he inadvertently unleashes a dangerous power into the world, and it becomes his task to hunt down and eradicate this creature.
While this book may seem like your standard fantasy story, it's a bit unusual in that it's filled with elements of Taoist philosophy (whereas many American fantasy novels are based on Western philosophical ideas). Also, magic works in a specific way in the Earthsea novels, and it's partially based on language. Wizards perform their magic by learning a language called the "Old Speech", but unlike most languages, where words are arbitrary sounds used to identify objects or concepts, in the Old Speech, a word and the object it describes are the very same thing. So if a wizard knows the "true" name for an object in the Old Speech, he has power over the essence of the object itself. It's a really interesting idea that plays out well throughout the series of five books. There are situations where two different objects have the same "true" name, or where one person has two different names; both of these situations disrupt the balance of magical power in Earthsea, and usually it's up to Ged to sort them out. While this first book in the series is sometimes considered a children's book, you don't need to be young to enjoy it; even though I read it for the first time as an adult, it's near the top of my list of all-time favorite books.
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To use a non-circular argument, as regular people stop using MS platforms, the MS "infrastructure" in place to support MS platforms becomes less relevant and therefore less used.
There isn't anything "top grade" about those. MS really doesn't offer anything that doesn't exist strictly for the support of themselves (circular). Not a single one of their products can't be replaced by superior alternatives. People use those for the same reason why teenage girls and the people who sit at starbukks buy apple; because that is what they know as "cool" as a result of it being pushed on them by aggressive and deceptive marketing.are more than enough to keep Windows alive as both a client and server operating system for another two decades at the very least. And those are only 3 of many other top-grade Windows-only software that Microsoft has published for Windows.
The move towards super-mobile computing (and away from MS) automatically makes rational people AVOID the example products you suggest since they are basically incompatible and/or useless.
And most people who play games... buy a console. Your typical home desktop computer is used for web browsing, looking at pictures, email/communications, and maybe word processing. In fact, most home users are FAR happier with Linux than MS for this simple reason; reliability. Most users still use MS simply because they don't even realize that there are alternatives! They tend to be aware of apple, but at a price premium of a factor of 5, there are only a few who are pissed off enough to bother, and when they do, a lot of them find it so impossible to use that they quickly jump back -- apple's goofy UI and poor organization is the big reason why they are stuck at or below 10%. EVERY person who I've suggested Linux to... loves it. Why? Because it **just works**. No futzing with drivers for 3 days, no 15 layers of non-functional anti-virus to protect it, no massive performance problems due to 15 layers of anti-virus protection, no catching a virus 3 weeks later despite all the anti-virus and having to wipe and reload.
In fact, I don't mind if MS doesn't die, I just want their [P]OS to die. If they move strictly into competing against other "application" software developers, I would be very happy, because there will at least be competition and freedom of choice.
They got a jump on ALL the current big players in the mobile market. You actually could legitimately say that compared to everybody STILL IN BUSINESS, they WERE first.
They beat GOOGLE out of the gate by MORE THAN A DECADE!!!!
In fact, of the three most noteworthy platforms, Google stepped in to the market LAST, yet stands VASTLY ahead of everyone else.
Actually, fewer and fewer people are choosing apple. Apple peaked in 2007, falling ever since. What are they now, falling towards 10%-ish?Furthermore, if people are locked in to the Windows monopoly. Why do I see more and more people chosing Apple? My parents are considering it as well.
Actually, no, people certainly do care. They want to actually be able to reliably have the damned thing actually do the job they need it for, not randomly blue screen and delete all their data. MS is a very unreliable platform and that pisses people off. They therefore try ANY alternative that they KNOW ABOUT in order to avoid what they HATE.Conclusion, people don't care. If a relative is able to send and receive e-mails with you, who cares what OS generated it? If you can do your banking online, who cares what OS drives the browser? Microsoft is giving people what they want. An easy way to use a computer. I dare to say that I will never touch a computer if my dad successfully completes a git bisect session.
This is not the dark ages. The typical user who is saddled with wondoze for 5+ years definitely KNOWS how to reinstall their OS, or knows someone who will do so for them at fairly regular intervals. All it takes is a simple suggestion; next time you need a reinstall, try XX linux distro. Just pop in the disk, boot and follow the directions. When its done, you can click on stuff with your mouse and never even touch a terminal.And as for the viruses and hackers that steal people's money, the user get's the blame. That is just brilliant. People don't know how it works, but they still want it. So *any* negative outcome is blamed on them. You did not install proper anti virus! You did not install a good firewall! You don't update often enough! You click on links without thinking! No one ever mentioned that once we got our first PC + dial up...
And then comes the geek: You should do it competely differently! Install another OS! Learn to use a terminal! (To do what? The end-user might think)
I would turn nuts...
Its only the tweaker/geek that NEEDS the terminal. Your typical home user who doesn't have 5 degrees in comp sci. can get by BETTER in Linux than in wondoze and never open a terminal.
And don't forget all the small Windows apps you might occasionally need which don't work under wine.
Altough things are progressing, people want their stuff to work NOW! A promise that LibreOffice 5 (or even 4) will flawlessly open their .docx will not help them. And explaining them the difference between an regular mass storage USB and something which uses MTP, I'm not even starting on that one... hehe.
Response to post #27: They are considering a Mac, since relatives and friends recommended it. They wanted to stay with Microsoft, however I said that they don't since they don't rely on a Windows specific piece of software. They would not even consider buying a Mac if I did not mention that. Windows 'just worked' for them. We had some issue's with it, but you could consider it like buying a qualitative bad car that needs a lot of maintanence.
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One more thing to add is that folks migrating away are developing a feedback loop.
As customers leave in numbers, Microsoft is forced to raise prices in order to maintain their quarterly profit numbers. http://semiaccurate.com/2012/12/03/s...ces-radically/
This in turn means that more customers are leaving which makes Microsoft squeeze the remaining ones even harder. Except for the poor souls who cannot go anywhere else, everybody who is not totally blind already have or are busy developing plans for a migration away from Microsoft.
Boy, you are all missing the boat entirely: Desktops and laptops are dead; Long live Tablets and Smartphones.
Point being, business is moving to virtualize everything. That .exe file? Its going to kick of a VM thats basically a reduced version of windows specifically optimized for that one app. Same for other OS's. Everything is going to be a virtual instance of an OS.
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The cultured cell collection includes the top differentially expressed genes in 131 human primary and stem cells, purchased from different cell supplying companies, grown and analyzed by BioTime.
Total RNA was extracted from cells, using Qiagen RNeasy mini kits, according to the manufacturer's instructions. RNA concentrations were determined using a Beckman DU530 or Nanodrop spectrophotometer and RNA quality was determined by denaturing agarose gel electrophoresis or using an Agilent 2100 bioanalyzer.
Whole-genome expression analysis was carried out using Illumina Human HT-12 v4 BeadArrays (GPL10558). Total RNA was linearly amplified and biotin-labeled, using Illumina TotalPrep kits (Life Technologies, Temecula, CA, USA). The amplified, labeled RNA was quality-controlled using an Agilent 2100 Bioanalyzer. The RNA was then hybridized to Illumina BeadChips, processed, and read using a BeadStation array reader, according to the manufacturer's instructions (Illumina, San Diego, CA, USA).
The microarray raw data was normalized using the Robust Multi-array Average (RMA) normalization procedure. Low-intensity probes and probes with high variance among replicates were omitted. For each cell, differentially expressed genes were calculated against a weight average of all other cells in the collection. The top-ranked log2 differentiated genes (fold change>=2) are listed for each sample. The full list of all the genes with fold change >2 is available upon request.


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The inspired bringing together of Jan Garbarek and the Hilliard Ensemble has resulted in consistently inventive music making since 1993. The unprecedented Officium album, with Garbareks saxophone as a free-ranging fifth voice with the Ensemble, gave the first indications of the musical scope and emotional power of this combination. Mnemosyne (1998) took the story further, expanding the repertoire beyond early music to embrace works both ancient and modern.
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Every aspect of interaction between the user and the application comes under the purview of usability. Visual interaction/notification mechanisms like views/options menu/and other ui controls along with the color/font/overall navigation/look and feel implementation and their possible impact on enhancing the usability or leaving the end user high and dry have been talked in great lengths on some of the articles below like General usability issues, Listbox Usability, View usability.
Another aspect of interaction/notification between the application and the user which effects the overall usability index and ensuing customer satisfaction is audio. Audio plays a crucial role in attracting the attention of the user and of notifying them of something that has happened. Though strangely the impact of audio usage within the application has seldom been discussed in usability circles.
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Some of the key points to consider while using audio within the application for either notification of events or otherwise are as under :-
Follow the conventions & be consistent
While using sounds it is imperative that conventions are followed. There are lots of sounds/clips that are associated with certain things and they are etched on the user's memory. Do not use sounds out of context lest it ends up confusing the user. For instance a busy tone should not be swapped for a dial tone. Another thing to keep in mind while using audio clips is to be consistent; you can't possibly use the same clip to notify the user for two dissimilar events happening. This could end up confusing the user especially if they are not looking at the device screen. For instance if you decided to use a tone to denote a successful registration event, do not use that for a successful log out event as well.
Honor the profile settings
Audio volume/mute etc is guided by the active profile on the device. Within your application if you are intending to use audio to notify the user, make sure you are using the settings from the profile. For instance if the active profile is silent you do not want to be playing a ring tone in your dialer or playing a tone to denote a friend messaging you on your chat client etc. You should also make sure that you have some sort of a listener mechanism implemented which lets you know of the active profile and any changes related to profile, so that the same can be reflected appropriately in the application as well.
Use right sounds to reflect the application state
In case the application makes extensive use of sound for notification/informing the user, it is important to use the right sound/clips for the right state of the application. You should make sure that the sound being used makes sense within the given context, so that the user can relate to it. For instance if you are developing a car racing game, on a crash you should use a sound that sounds like a car crashing and not like a train screeching on the rails.
Consider context while designing sound
It is very important to do a user profile study before recording the sounds that one intends to use in their application. For instance if the application is targeted for hearing impaired people it certainly wont be a good idea to use sounds to notify them of an event within the application. Sound/audio has lot of cultural/religious connotations attached to it, so one should be sensitive to those aspects while deciding the sounds to use in the application. For instance using sound bytes from a holy book/religious songs/hymns etc in an application out of context is bound to ruffle feathers, something which is not desirable from either a usability perspective or the company's perspective.
Don't be too loud or too soft
Another aspect to consider while deciding the sound one wants to use in the application is the pitch/tone/volume settings. You certainly don't want to play a sound which is too shrill or too soft, both the cases are bound to aggravate the user. At the same time one should be careful about the volume at which sound is played out, lot of times applications have their own settings options. In those cases if the user chooses a really high volume level, it might be a good idea to re-check with the user that they are choosing a high volume and it might be blaring. In case the application does not have its own volume settings, it might be a good idea to use the volume settings from the profile instead of simply using a hard-coded/default volume level.
Let the user decide
If you intend to use sound in your application, specially games applications it might be a good idea to let the user decide as they are the best judge of what they want in what conditions. It would also give them a sense of being in control.
The decisions the user can possibly make are:-
Volume level
The user should be given the option to customize the volume level, in case you don't intend to pick it from the profile/device settings.
Conditions where sound should be played
It might also be a good idea to let the user decide in what all scenarios they want to play sounds. For instance in a chat application they might want to get notified when someone signs in/signs out/sends message etc, while in the case of an update level they might want to be notified with some sound along with a visual notification like a dialog of the update being available. This sort of customization gives the user the senses of being in control unlike if you were to apply the settings on a blanket basis without giving the choice to the user.
What to play when
The user knows best should be the philosophy, so they should be given the choice what sounds they want to play in what conditions. For instance in a dialer application the user might want to decide what ring tones they want to play for what contacts/groups, or in case of a busy tone being sent out to the user what exact tone do they want to send out. An option to actually pick up sounds from the external media/memory card/stick could also be a good idea as in that case the application doesn't have to bundle in all the sound clips. This would also help in reducing the overall size of the installer file. Another option could be to give the user the choice to download sound clips if they so intend.
Background adjusting
It could possibly be a value add feature, if based on the clock timings, you could trigger a confirmation note from the user in case the sound settings are out of sync with the times. For instance a high volume during the night time or a low volume during the day time might not be a great idea. Such triggers could be again customizable where the user can set the rules for the same.
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Under the principles of Equity, Convergence, Standards, Scalability, Integration with WHO, and Interoperability with Sources of Information on Public Health, a strategy called "PAHO Web 2.0" was launched at the beginning of 2008, that consolidates, standardizes and integrates all the institutional portals of the Organization.
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CINCINNATI — John Bowker is not automatically on the Phillies' postseason roster. Just because he was acquired in a trade from Pittsburgh on Wednesday, the day postseason eligibility is determined, does not mean he immediately becomes a key cog off the bench.
He will have a chance in September to prove his value. The Phillies have sought a bench upgrade for the entire season and decided, given the circumstances of having the lowest waiver priority, that this was the best route to explore.
It immediately creates an interesting dynamic for September. Can Bowker surpass Ross Gload on the depth chart? Of course, it will not take much for Bowker to do just that.
Bowker is effectively the same player Gload is when healthy. He's lefthanded, plays first base and the corner outfield positions. Historically, he is a decent pinch-hitter. Bowker is a .301 (22 for 73) pinch-hitter with four doubles, two triples and one home runs.
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By transferring Jose Contreras to the 60-day disabled list Wednesday, the Phillies also created a "wild card" spot for postseason eligibility. When the clock strikes midnight tonight, they will have a pool of 28 players to pick from for October.
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