Zero the Hero

Zero the Hero
Author: Joan Holub
Publisher: Henry Holt and Company (BYR)
Total Pages: 40
Release: 2012-02-28
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1466808659

Zero. Zip. Zilch. Nada. That's what all the other numbers think of Zero. He doesn't add anything in addition. He's of no use in division. And don't even ask what he does in multiplication. (Hint: Poof!) But Zero knows he's worth a lot, and when the other numbers get into trouble, he swoops in to prove that his talents are innumerable.

Japanese from Zero!

Japanese from Zero!
Author: George Trombley
Publisher:
Total Pages: 276
Release:
Genre: Japanese language
ISBN:

Japanese From Zero! is an innovative and integrated approach to learning Japanese that was developed by professional Japanese interpreter George Trombley, Yukari Takenaka and was continuously refined over eight years in the classroom by native Japanese professors. Using up-to-date and easy-to-grasp grammar, Japanese From Zero! is the perfect course for current students of Japanese as well as absolute beginners.

Zero to Hero

Zero to Hero
Author: Joe Kuhn
Publisher: Independently Published
Total Pages: 148
Release: 2020-07
Genre:
ISBN:

Written by a Plant Manager and CMRP, Zero to Hero details an alternative to the traditional reliability deployment model for today's business leaders. Plant managers are expected to produce results that improve month over month; consequently, a program with high upfront cost without short term results does not sell. By combining Lean Principles with Reliability Best Practices, Joe crafts a journey that produces rapid and sustainable results that engage the entire organization from top to bottom. Designed for both the novice and industry leaders, this book details a plan centered around the understanding the culture of your plant, implementing best practices, and delivering quick tangible results. Future investment for continuing improvement becomes self-funded as a portion of the captured savings from quick wins and newfound organizational creditability.

A Hero Like You

A Hero Like You
Author: Nikki Rogers
Publisher:
Total Pages: 30
Release: 2020-10-10
Genre:
ISBN: 9780648723233

A Hero Like You looks at everyday heroes and highlights qualities such as loyalty, compassion, resourcefulness, justice, and courage. The lyrical rhyme and relatable illustrations remind us that we all have the opportunity to be a hero by helping others, doing right and making the world a better place. "What the world needs is a hero like you!"

Inspiration for Innovation

Inspiration for Innovation
Author: BIS Publishers
Publisher: BIS Publishers
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2019-02-19
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9789063694968

Inspires you how to develop an innovative mindset, start innovation in practice, ideate new ideas, create a culture for innovation and how to implement innovation projects.

FFMPEG - From Zero to Hero

FFMPEG - From Zero to Hero
Author: Nick Ferrando
Publisher: Wondermark Books
Total Pages: 296
Release: 2020-08-18
Genre: Computers
ISBN:

If you ever wondered how the developers of YouTube or Vimeo cope with billions of video uploads or how Netflix processes its catalogue at scale or, again, if you want to discover how to create and develop your own video platform, you may want to know more about FFMPEG. FFMPEG stands for “Fast-Forward-Moving-Picture-Expert Group”. This book contains a basic guide, a basic dictionary and many working formulas along with step-by-step syntax explanations of FFMPEG and a lot of other softwares for audio, video, image and subtitles processing. This book describes and explains also several tools that works along with FFMPEG, such as ImageMagick, Bento4, GhostScript, WebP Tools amongst others. The book contains also a dedicated step-by-step guide for FFMPEG's various installation options for MacOS X, Ubuntu and Windows platforms. Whether you are at the very beginning or an experienced developer, you will find several effective ways to execute many tasks for your audio/video/streaming needings. Contents • Acknowledgments • What is FFMPEG • Basic Definitions • Basic FFMPEG Workflow • How to Install FFMPEG • Basic Syntax Concepts of FFMPEG • Keyframes: Basic Concepts • Metadata and FFPROBE • Extracting Metadata with FFMPEG • Extracting Specific Streams • Extracting Audio Only from a Video • Extracting Video Only without Audio • Cutting Videos with FFMPEG • Producing h264/AVC videos • Different h264 encoding approaches • Producing h265/HEVC Videos • h266 - Versatile Video Codec (VVC) • Producing VP8 Videos • Producing VP9 videos • The OPUS Audio Codec • The FLAC Audio Codec • Producing AV1 Video • Netflix/Intel AV1 SVT-AV1 • AV1AN - All-in-one Tool • Streaming on Social Media with RTMP • Pre-Process Files in Batch • Re-Stream to multiple destinations • Concatenate Video Playlists • Producing HLS with FFMPEG and Bento4 • Producing DASH Streaming • Batch Processing for DASH and HLS Delivery • Batch Processing for HLS Only • Streaming Mp4 Files - The Moov Atom • Producing Adaptive WebM DASH Streaming • Scaling with FFMPEG • Overlay Images on Video • Overlay Images on Pictures • ImageMagick • Batch Process - Overlay to Multiple Images with Same Size • Batch Process - Overlay to Multiple Images with Different Sizes • Batch Resize Images • Batch Resize, Lower Quality and Convert Pictures • Convert Images to WebP • Remove Black Bars/Borders from Images and Trim • Batch Convert Pictures from RAW to JPEG format • Ghostscript for PDF processing • Extract Images from PDF • Generate Waveforms from Audio • Generate Animated Video from Audio • Create Animated Slides from Still Pictures • Extract Images from Video • Extract Audio from Video • Replace Audio of a Video • Batch Convert Audio Files to a specific format • Batch Convert Audio Files in Multiple Formats • Audio Loudness Normalization for TV Broadcast • Audio Loudness Normalization for Amazon Alexa and Google Assistant (Audiobooks/Podcasts) • Batch Audio Loudness Normalization for Amazon Alexa (AudioBooks/Podcasts) • De-Interlacing Filter - 13 FFMPEG solutions • How to make a high-quality GIF from a video • How to add an Overlay Banner and burn subtitles onto a video • How to extract VTT files (Web Video Text Track) and burn it onto a video as a subtitle • Automatic Transcriptions and Subtitles • Additional Notes and Syntax Definitions • Bibliography • Recommended Resources • About Me • Alphabetical Index Features • Over 80 chapters • Over 200 tested formulas and syntax explanations • Navigable Index • Tested for MacOS X, Ubuntu 18.04, Ubuntu 20.04 and Windows 10 platforms FAQ Which audience this book is intended for? This book is designed to address anyone who is just above the “raw beginner” level. This book will explain some basic process such as entering commands and execute simple code instructions using a Command-Line- Interface (CLI) instead of using high resource-intensive Graphical User Interfaces (GUI). You may review some basic definitions and concepts, or skip directly to the working Formulas, as you'll prefer. It is a book intended for both the beginner and the expert developer, but suitable also for creatives, social media managers, webmasters, writers, musicians, photographers, video-makers, audio engineers, archival and restoration technicians, radio/tv broadcasters, streamers, You-Tubers, etc. and anyone who needs to automate and speed-up the manipulation, editing and conversion of many different audio/video/pictures formats. What's the difference between this book and other basic books about FFMPEG? FFMPEG has a pretty steep learning curve and the books currently around lacks on the very basics terms and syntax explanations of the commands. This book contains lots of explanations about the basic BASH terms, which unleash the functionalities and the true power of FFMPEG. Also: this book will cover other great tools for content creation, editing and automation, such as ImageMagick, Bento4, Ghostscript along with scripting automation formulas and examples. Why a book on the basics of FFMPEG? Because FFMPEG can be powerful and can be very easy for anyone, once it's core technology and syntax are understood. If you would like to know more about a ultra-fast way that gives you for free the same results that you achieve with expensive subscription-based softwares for content creation/video editing/image or audio manipulation/conversion, then this is the right book for you.

Delta CX

Delta CX
Author: Angie Born
Publisher:
Total Pages: 570
Release: 2019-09-19
Genre:
ISBN: 9781692922641

Delta CX is a refreshing model bringing CX and UX together in task and in name with the key goal of improving the products, services, and experiences (PSE) that we offer our potential and current customers. Rather than following trends or drinking the snake oil, Delta CX presents a time-tested, thorough approach that helps you establish values, vision, strategies, and goals. Great PSE require the right teams and strategies in place to proactively predict and mitigate the risk of delivering wrong or flawed PSE. Adopting Delta CX means we all finally speak the same language, from tasks and deliverables to job titles and required skills to where CX fits into Agile organizations to processes and teams. Calculate the ROI of investing more time and resources into building the right PSE the first time. Save time, money, and sanity. Replace guessing and assumptions with Lean customer research that is planned, conducted, and interpreted by experts. Learn why quality should be our #1 priority, and how to rededicate our organization to our external and internal customers.Target audiences: Managers, workers, practitioners, freelancers, consultants, contractors, execs, stakeholders, and everybody else working in CX, UX, Marketing, Product Management, Engineering, Project Management. Business Analysts (BAs), Data Scientists, Writers, Visual Designers, Information Architects, Interaction Designers, Product Designers, and Researchers.The long and problem-focused version: In an era of faster, faster, faster, our workplaces are sacrificing quality, collaboration, culture, and the customer experience to "just ship it." Business goals don't seem to align with customers' needs. Customers constantly raise their standards and expectations, and they notice when companies are out of touch or get it wrong. Competitors, investors, shareholders, the press, bloggers, social media, and Wall Street also notice. Brands are being surprised when their products, services, and experiences (PSE) are disliked or rejected by customers, or go viral for the wrong reasons. Companies claim they are customer-focused, user-centric, and designing for the needs of real customers. Initiatives to increase the ability to build the right PSE should have meant hiring more CX and UX talent. However, with UX still misunderstood, circumvented, overruled, and excluded at many companies, workplaces that didn't know how to assess CX and UX talent hired anybody who put "UX" on their resume. Poor hiring choices lead to silos and "bad design." Rather than wondering if "UX" workers were unqualified, leadership blamed UX and User-Centered Design (UCD): They must be bloated, outdated, not Lean, not Agile things we don't really need. We started imagining that "everybody can be a designer." Get people sketching in design sprints, and solve our company's biggest challenges. We called for democratization and decentralization of UX and design because perhaps taking some power away from these "high-ego UX people" we hired will fix this. Suddenly, everybody was a design thinker doing design thinking, yet few people can agree on what design thinking is.Everybody became quietly desperate. UX practitioners wanted to evangelize, and invited teammates to UX evangelism presentations, which often backfired. Companies of all sizes and ages, including Fortune 500s, tried methodologies designed for startups. Startups fail roughly 95% of the time. It's so rare that they innovate or build something the public actually wants. Why would we want to emulate a segment with such a high failure rate? We're lost. We need another business transformation, a return to prioritizing the quality of what we ideate, architect, design, test, build, and unleash on the public.(Return to the top for the short and happy version.)

Zero

Zero
Author: Kathryn Otoshi
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2010
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 9780972394635

A number/color book reminding us that it just takes one to make everyone count.

Zero to Genetic Engineering Hero

Zero to Genetic Engineering Hero
Author: Justin Pahara
Publisher: Maker Media, Inc.
Total Pages: 336
Release: 2021-08-19
Genre: Science
ISBN: 1680457675

Zero to Genetic Engineering Hero is made to provide you with a first glimpse of the inner-workings of a cell. It further focuses on skill-building for genetic engineering and the Biology-as-a-Technology mindset (BAAT). This book is designed and written for hands-on learners who have little knowledge of biology or genetic engineering. This book focuses on the reader mastering the necessary skills of genetic engineering while learning about cells and how they function. The goal of this book is to take you from no prior biology and genetic engineering knowledge toward a basic understanding of how a cell functions, and how they are engineered, all while building the skills needed to do so.

Impossible Jones

Impossible Jones
Author: Karl Kesel
Publisher: Scout Comics
Total Pages: 168
Release: 2022-05-17
Genre: Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN: 9781639691197

Impossible Jones is a fast-paced, superhero adventure series written by Karl Kesel, with art by David Hahn, Karl Kesel and Tony Aviña, published by Scout Comics. Isabelle Castillo is a thief who gets amazing powers… is mistaken for a superhero… and runs with it! With no intent of giving up her criminal ways, of course, since her powers make robbery easier than ever! Even better: the police gladly tell her what they’re doing, and store owners are happy to show her their security systems! All she has to do is make sure no one suspects the truth— especially New Hope City’s real superheroes and villains! It’s a high-stakes, high-wire balancing act, but it’s not impossible… …It’s Impossible Jones!