![]() ![]() Lendle, a service that lets people lend Kindle books to strangers online, has had its API access revoked by Amazon. But Amazon just added about $90 million in annual sales to its revenues with this acquisition, and a leadership position in spoken-word digital content. Amazon Cuts Off Kindle-Lending Startup Lendle. by Amazon, so it has all compatible books available in the Amazon Kindle. Enter your login details to access your account and view your recent orders. You can listen to Kindle Unlimited audiobooks on most Kindle Devices and some. Customer reviews help Amazon sell their products. When an order is canceled, Amazon refunds your payment and removes the. While Amazon insists that it has put in place measures to prevent violations of its. The fact you are a loyal customer for 10 years meant nothing to them. He also requests that the company communicate with the local court so that his guilty verdict should be revoked. I doubt that they care much about your problem. Those people in customer service are just hired helps. You are getting the Amazon standard canned replies. It is not clear how the deal will effect Audible’s relationship with Apple, though, since Audible’s books are sold through the iTunes Store as well. It appears that you are caught in an Amazon bureaucratic nightmare. The e-book share-aggregator posted to its Twitter early this morning that Amazon has revoked Lendle’s API access. So our relative advantage over time should improve.Īmazon will be able to sells Audible’s audio books through its MP3 download store, in its regular book section, or directly to its Kindle electronic book reader, which has a headphone jack and can play MP3s. ![]() The bulk of the sales now are in the physical world. But as media becomes digital it does not make so much sense to buy them in the physical world. NET 6 Modern Cross-Platform Development: Build apps, websites, and services with ASP.NET Core 6, Blazor, and EF Core 6 using Visual Studio 2022 and Visual Studio Code, 6th Edition. When media was largely physical, it made sense to buy it in the physical world. The C Players Guide (5th Edition) RB Whitaker. But towards the end of yesterday’s earnings call, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos hinted at the growing importance of digital media for Amazon: Media accounts for 59 percent of Amazon’s sales, most of that still being physical books, CDs, and DVDs. There is no doubt that as media becomes more digital, Amazon sees it as critical for its future. .jp: After the world civilization, the 'Origin is Japan' is Japan the Jewish come back to Israels original domestic Japan' is revoked in the world 'Tochiku 134° 80 minutes'. It should be able to offer audiobooks at a lower cost, which in turn will help grow that segment of its sales. As Amazon begins to generate a greater share of its revenues from digital media, owning a digital publisher will help its margins. Audible is the leading provider of audio books in digital form, with a library of 80,000 titles. This morning it announced the $300 million acquisition of Audible (a 7 percent premium to Audible’s $280 million market cap at the time of this writing).
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![]() When you call her for an interview, you’re told to start leaving a message. She does, however, have an answering machine. “I’d have to have a Wi-Fi connection, which I don’t,” she said. She is suspect of much modern technology. And Mark Twain, too, in his more acerbic moments. But there is a little Oscar Wilde thrown in there. Humorist Fran Lebowitz appears in “An Evening With Fran Lebowitz” at the Aronoff Center on April 12.īecause her humor has plenty of bite to it, Lebowitz is often compared to Dorothy Parker, the early 20th Century satirist and a founding member of the Algonquin Round Table. And what could be better than being in the same room with her, even if it’s a room that seats 2,700 people. In some ways, these stage shows are even better than her written commentaries. In time, her talking grew to encompass all manner of appearances, including film work with Scorsese – “Marty,” she calls him – and presentations like the one she’ll do here. ![]() When we spoke, this was the one subject I was forbidden to ask about.īut all of those incisive observations about the world continued bouncing around in her head and had to go somewhere. Writer’s “blockade,” she’s called it, though not to me. She’s observant and smart and savagely witty – a delicious combination unless you’re on the receiving end of it.Īfter a decade of writing commentaries about life in NYC and compiling those columns into a pair of best-selling books – “Metropolitan Life” (1978) and “Social Studies” (1981) – she developed an infamously profound case of writer’s block. And she does it in the most extraordinarily entertaining fashion. Or read from her books.īut she will talk. On April 12, she’ll be here, in Cincinnati, performing “An Evening With Fran Lebowitz” at the Aronoff Center’s Procter & Gamble Hall. A 2020 profile in “The New Yorker” described her as “the patron saint of staying at home and doing nothing.” But for someone so determined to avoid the mainstream of modern life, Lebowitz has a curious way of constantly being in the thick of it. She is a successful author, too, but it’s been 40 years since her last book of essays.Īnd as for fame, she doesn’t seem to pursue it as much as she does attract it. She is something of a star, for instance, the central subject of Martin Scorsese’s Netflix series “Pretend It’s a City.” But she says she’s never viewed Netflix, except to catch a snippet or two at friends’ homes. But that doesn’t really explain why she is such a revered. Lebowitz says being able to make new discoveries through clinical and neurobiological research and helping children and families is what makes him passionate about his work.Author, humorist and star of Netflix’s “Pretend It’s a City,” Fran Lebowitz brings her show, “An Evening With Fran Lebowitz” to the Aronoff Center on April 12. SPACE has been tested and found to be effective in randomized controlled clinical trials. He also developed a parent-based treatment program for children and adolescents with anxiety, OCD, and related problems called SPACE ( Supportive Parenting for Anxious Childhood Emotions). Lebowitz is the lead investigator on multiple research projects, and is the author of numerous research papers and of books and chapters on childhood and adolescent anxiety. His research focuses on the development, neurobiology, and treatment of anxiety and related disorders, with special emphasis on cross-generational and familial influences in these disorders. “I enjoy helping children and families impacted by anxiety problems and discovering new ways to treat these problems.” ![]() “Anxiety disorders are the most treatable problems in mental health,” Lebowitz says. Eli Lebowitz, PhD, is a child and adolescent psychologist and director of the Yale Child Study Center’s Anxiety and Mood Disorders Program. ![]() If your emails seem to continually get lost in a vacuum, then it’s probably time to hop on the phone.Ĭlients aren’t the only ones who are busy-so why waste unnecessary time, energy, and sanity composing follow-up emails when you can simply automate the process?For example, our ‘ Proposal Reminders’ feature allows you to send reminders to clients who are still yet to accept your original proposal. However, it’s a lot easier for your email to get lost in a client’s inbox (or to be read but promptly forgotten about) then it is for a client to ignore a phone call. After all, they allow clients to respond when it’s convenient for them, they can take their time composing the appropriate response, and it provides an irrefutable log of all back-and-forth. The vast majority of service professionals communicate solely via email. Communicate with them in whatever fashion is easiest for them (rather than insisting on doing things your way). Try to get small details sorted out via email, text, phone, or Slack. If they sound busy, don’t keep them on the phone. Don’t take up too much of a client’s time chasing responses. Recognise that you’re not always your clients’ top priority and gently remind them to get back in touch whenever they’re ready to proceed. Remember to be courteous and considerate in your follow-ups-it’s never a good idea to lambast a client for not being as punctual as you’d hoped. Make sure to leave at least half a week between your follow-ups, if not longer. This means it may take a few follow-up touchpoints to prompt a response. There are 5 golden rules to keep in mind when considering whether or not to send over a follow-up email.Ĭlients really are busy-they’re not just saying that for the sake of it. ![]() Don’t let your imagination run away from you-just make sure that you touch base with them so you can get the ball rolling.ĥ things to consider before sending a follow-up email There are all sorts of reasons why a client might not respond in a timely manner. Maybe their accounts team has told them that if they’re going to proceed with you, then they need to come up with cost-savings in other areas. Maybe they’re awaiting sign-off from their manager. Maybe they’ve discussed your impending projects with their colleagues and have identified a couple of potential roadblocks. This sort of “It’s not me, it’s them” mentality is quite comforting, but of course, this might not actually be the case. As damaging as it is to our ego, we need to remember that we’re not always priority #1. Your email might’ve got lost in their inbox or perhaps they’re busy dealing with other pressing matters.This happens. Remember that no matter how excited a client is to work with you, they’ve also probably got 1,001 other things going on. This rejection, even if it is only temporary, might well sting. Hearing radio silence from a new client is unnerving to say the least, especially when you’re a customer-centric organisation. Win more clients and get paid on time, every time! But how can you follow up without sounding rude, desperate, or downright annoying?īelow, we explore when to send a follow-up email and give you a number of potential templates to use according to a variety of different circumstances. That’s why you need to follow up with them, so that you can figure out exactly what’s happened and help get them back on track with the original plan. When a client doesn’t respond, it can lead to endless doubts and questions. Was it that joke I attempted to crack on the call? Was it my background on Zoom?Īnd nowadays, your panic might not be limited to poorly delivered wisecracks or calendars that are *ahem* not to everyone’s tastes. When this happens, you can’t help but panic. You send off a lighthearted follow-up that afternoon but to no avail-it just disappears off into cyberspace. You check again on Monday morning, but unfortunately, there’s still no sign of them. You give it until the end of the week, but no email comes through. You have a great kick-off call with your new client and as the call ends, they say they’ll be in touch later on this week once they’ve had a chance to sign off on your proposal.Īmazing. You know you’re going to be able to deliver some great results for them – and you can see they’re excited, too.īut your excitement turns to confusion, and then annoyance, and then panic, when you realise it’s been several days and you haven’t heard back from them. You’ve just been talking to a new client and you’re really excited about their project. ![]()
![]() It supports various formats of input files, including AC3, AVR, AIFF, DAT, M1A, M2V, M2T, MOD, MOV, MMV, PS, REC, TS, VOB, VRO, VID, among others. The powerful video editor can play many files and encode them into different formats as well. You can also use the software to export your video into a range of formats like AVI, MPEG-4, MP4, DV, and AVI, among others. Moreover, it does that without causing any harm to the overall sound quality. MPEG Streamclip can easily mux and demux both MPEG-1 and MPEG-2 files, irrespective of the number of tracks they carry. Moreover, you can also edit videos using the keyframe provided on top of the dashboard. You can use the software to change a video's aspect ratio, trim the clip, cut or join it, and rotate it. With MPEG Streamline for Mac, you can not only watch videos but also edit clips before converting them into different formats. Playback is quite simple and comes bundled with the editor. Apart from allowing you to preview videos you've been trying to edit, it plays files that other players don't support. Comes with an In-built video playerĬompared to other video converter tools, MPEG Streamclip offers many more functions, including the option to play video files using its in-built video player. You can copy video or audio links from anywhere, including Google Chrome, YouTube, and Facebook. To do the latter, you have to copy the URL of the video you wish to edit or convert and paste the link on the MPEG Streamclip app. You can pick files from an external DVD, your computer's hard disk, or even from the internet. If you're not a fan of the drag-and-drop functionality, you can use the native add file option present on the software. Depending on where the video is, you can drag and drop it onto the video converter's dashboard. You have many options by which you can import a video file onto MPEG Streamclip. Since the tool works just as well on audio files, you can use the software to create music mixes for your iPod or smartphone. Users can use the software to download videos, clip and edit them as required, and export them in different file formats. ![]() Multiple FeaturesĪpart from providing users a simple and easy-to-understand interface, the tool comes with many features that make it a comprehensive video app. Moreover, the software can handle files of considerable size without any trouble. ![]() It works well on both audio and video files and offers quite a hassle-free video editing experience. The full-fledged video converter offers batch processing and can convert files into different file formats. ![]() Commissioner MLG MA1N SLAYERĤ/1/12 -KSI xS1AYERx- **NEWS ALERT** I am sorry that I was not keeping this updated, if you would like to join this clan, please message me on XBOX LIVE or "Contact the Board" Thank You!!Ģ/29/12 -KSI xS1AYERx- **NEWS ALERT** TODAY WE HAVE UPDATED, ADDED, AND CHANGED THE " LCPD Codes " So if you printed out codes before today, throw them out!! Print the new updated ones. Congrats to him for joining such a great clan. Congrats to those who've been accepted into this clan, and CONGRATS to you SoupyIntegral85!! Good luck to you who are applying to be in this clan!!Ĥ/13/12 - MLG MA1N SLAYER - **NEW MEMBER ALERT** Today we've got ourselves a new member named: SnipeOut29. Thank You!! -Commissioner MLG MA1N SLAYERĩ/7/12 - MLG MA1N SLAYER - **NEWS ALERT** Today we got a lot of new recruits and we also have ourselves a new Co-Owner named Commissioner SoupyIntegral85. I have added Highway Patrol to the Police Ranks/Divisions tab at the top of this site. I have decided that the LCPD Buffalo (LCPD Dodge Charger) will now be the Highway Patrol and also, if you are not on the Highway Patrol or you are not a Luitenant or higher, you are forbidden to drive that Police Car. Thank You!!ġ0/9/12 - MLG MA1N SLAYER - **NEWS ALERT** I have gotton around with many units and I've asked them if we should have a highway patrol and the answer that I got from mostly all of the units was yes. WE HAVE SOME WORK TO BE DONE WITH THIS CLAN. ![]() TONIGHT WE WILL BE TRAINING WITH SHOOTING, DRIVING, ROAD LAWS, ETC. THIS IS A MANDITORY PATROL FOR WE HAVE SOME TRAINING TO DO!! THIS CLAN HAS RECENTLY FAILED A TEST AS A WHOLE. ![]() Keep it up Officers!!ġ0/16/12 - MLG MA1N SLAYER - **NEWS ALERT** WE WILL BE HAVING A PATROL FRIDAY NIGHT AT 9:00PM. I thank all of you for taking your part in this clan and making it what it is today. That is our Registered License at Central Outpost Site. We have officially been CNOP Approved after about 3-4 days of clan registry. I just won't be participating in them, I will still be in the Party as a dispatcher only.ġ/30/13 -MLG MA1N SLAYER- **NEWS ALERT** CONGRATS TO ALL OF US LCPD Officers. Thank You!!Ģ/01/13 -MLG MA1N SLAYER- **NEWS ALERT** My Disc Drive isn't working that well so I will be fixing that soon so I won't be participating in any of the patrols but that doesn't mean that patrols aren't going to happen because they are. We decided that I should give the clan to him because he will keep it updated better than I will. I need to pass the clan along to my Co-Owner but now the new Commissioner, SoupyIntegral85. I am MLG MA1N SLAYER but my new Gamertag is MinecraftMage. thank youĤ/20/13 -MinecraftMage- **NEWS ALERT** SoupyIntegral85 is the new Commissioner and the one in charge. =ħ/23/13-SoupyIntegral85-**NEWS ALERT** I am very sorry that I am not responding to anyone or not in the clan patrols. My xbox is currently not working, but will be up and running soon. As soon as Miltiplayer is up we will be on that. HxHmc REBEL- **NEWS ALERT** THIS CLAN IS UP FOR GRABS TO ANYBODY WHO WANTS TO TAKE OVER AND KEEP IT UP!! EMAIL ME AT: IF YOU'RE INTERESTED!!ĩ/26/13 -RedneckFisher- **NEWS ALERT** This is MinecraftMage. If you would like to ask question about the clan, you can contact the commissioner. We the officers of the LCPD look forward to patrolling with you soon. There, you will see how to join this clan. If you would like to join this clan, please visit the title: "Join Today" on the Navigation bar above. All of these departments and divisions help keep the City of Liberty safe. te am uses deadly force to bring justice to a suspect. gives air support for officers on the ground. From running a red light, to taking a hostage, the LCPD is always prepared. Crooks are selected officers that are the ones who breaks the laws. The purple team are the cops and the orange team are the crooks. One being the purple team and another being the Orange team. We conduct our patrols in a private Team death Match with two teams. Patrols are when officers actually patrol Liberty City and stop crime makers. Officers prove that to us by participating in patrols. All of our officers go through training and they are the best at what they do. From pretending to be a rich man, to becoming an LCPD Officer, GTA IV allows this clan to have fun and role play as cops. GTA IV is a great game and can allow players do what ever they want. If you read the statement above, then you must know that this clan plays on the original GTA IV on the XBOX 360. Hello and welcome to the Liberty City Police Department! In this clan, we officers of the LCPD operate on the streets of Liberty City, playing as realistic as possible and following our great motto: Patrol, Protect, Serve. ![]() ![]() It bulk uploads all photos and keeps looking for new ones and uploads those too. Simply download PicBackMan (it's free!), register your account, connect to your online store and tell PicBackMan where your photos are - PicBackMan does the rest, automatically. PicBackMan is the easiest and simplest way to keep your photos safely backed up in one or more online accounts. Photos are precious memories and all of us never want to ever lose them to hard disk crashes or missing drives. That means, unless you change it, your pictures will be imported to the ‘Pictures’ aka ‘My Pictures’ area of your computer. Quick Tip to ensure your Photos never go missing If your computer is your filing cabinet, then box 1 is the drawer, and box 2 is the folder where you want the picture stored (or 1 is folder and 2 is sub-folder). You can install PicBackMan's Picasa uploader for Mac from the website and start backing up photos and videos. All your photos now will be stored to an External hard drive. If you want to select all folders and albums, click "Select All" button.ġ1. Select the checkboxes in the 'Folder List' next to the folders and albums which you want to backup. You will see "Step 2 - Choose Folders & Albums to Backup" located at bottom of the window.ĩ. Select any ('b' or 'c') one of the options listed above.Ĩ. Click "Edit Set" button to change the set name or the types of files to backup photos.ħ. Select your previously made backup set from the "Backup Set" drop-down box. Specify the types of files to include in the backup. Click "Choose" button & locate your drive. ![]() In the "Backup Type" section, select "Disk-to-disk backup". Click "New Set" button to create a new backup set of your folders and albums. There are 2 ways to backup your photos to Picasa.Ī) Create new backup set: Choose this option if you are backing up photos through Picasa first time. You will see "Step 1 - Create a Set or use an existing one" located at bottom of the window.Ħ. Click "Tools" & then click "Backup Pictures".ĥ. Connect the External hard drive to your computer.Ĥ. Download & install "Picasa desktop application" on your computer & launch it.Ģ. Here are the steps to backup all photos from Picasa to an External hard drive:ġ. First you need to connect your external hard drive to your computer, once the drive is connected, use the 'Picasa Folder Manager' to find and manage your photos. Picasa allows you to organize and edit your photos and videos. 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