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You've seen the promises in the advertising: Microsoft's free Movie
Maker 2 will make it simple to capture, edit and share your home
movies. We agree, but how do you know where to start, or where
you're going? The answer is Windows Movie Maker 2 Zero to Hero,
which will take you from filming your movie (with useful tips to
improve the quality) through editing and adding effects, to
premiering your masterpiece to your friends and family. You'll
learn how to produce professional looking films, with effects and
transitions like those you see on TV, and how to show them off.
Send them by e-mail, post them to web sites, copy them to a CD, or
even make your own DVD! Zero to Hero is more than a catchy slogan
and an opportunity for puns and graphical representations of
tights, capes, and phone booths. It's a style of learning designed
by friends of ED to reach beyond dry technical explanations and
dusty old authors who don't know how it is for real users and
wouldn't know good design if it slapped them round the face with a
wet fish. With a Zero to Hero book you can choose how you learn.
You can choose to learn everything you need to know about Windows
Movie Maker 2 by working through the first section of the book from
start to finish. Alternatively you can dive straight in to the
inspirational 'Hero' chapters and refer back as and when you need.
Then later, when you're a hero yourself, the book is easily used as
a reference tool. When you're done you'll be ready to wear your
underwear on the outside, metaphorically speaking of course. Table
of Contents Chapter Zero - Introduction Chapter 1 - Shooting your
footage Chapter 2 - Capturing video and importing files Chapter 3 -
Collections andprojects Chapter 4 - Transitions Chapter 5 - Editing
clips Chapter 6 - Video effects Chapter 7 &emdash; Audio
editing Chapter 8 &emdash; Titles and credits Chapter 9 -
Saving and sharing movies Hero 1 &emdash; E-mailing a video
postcard Hero 2 - Editing a vacation movie Hero 3 - Videoing an
event Hero 4 - Producing a short movie for the web
Toward Better Governance in China takes a fresh look at the latest
efforts made by Chinese leaders to promote governance-based reform.
It asserts that the improvement of governance has now become one of
the breakthrough points of the much anticipated political reform.
Although the Chinese government continues to play down expectations
about political reform, many small-scale reform experiments have
been quietly undertaken by Chinese leaders at various levels in
recent years, including the new round of administrative reform
centered on the creation of "super ministries," the enlargement of
inner-party democracy within the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), the
strengthening of local legislative bodies, and judicial reform
designed to promote judicial independence and rule of law. This
strategy calls for strengthening governing capacity and changing
government functions. One of the advantages in placing the
improvement of governance first is that it is less risky than
embarking upon a full-scaled electoral reform. Electoral democracy
is undoubtedly an important element in a functional democracy. But
equally important is the effectiveness, transparency,
accountability, and openness of the governing process. Better
governance implies greater transparency, open deliberation and
participation, and less adversarial political confrontation and
conflict. If constructed properly, China may become the sort of
democratic administration or administrative democracy that Robert
Dahl discussed in 1947. Clearly, political reform of this kind does
not follow the conventional wisdom of a democratic transition which
places heavy emphasis on electoral reform or the precedence of the
electoral reform to the government reform. This book is intended to
shed some new light on the ongoing debate about the direction of
China's political development.
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