Dan Brown novel breaks one-day sales records
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – The latest novel from “Da Vinci Code” author Dan Brown, “The Lost Symbol,” broke one-day sales records, its publisher and booksellers said.
Readers snapped up over one million hardcover copies across the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom after it was released on Tuesday, said publisher Knopf Doubleday, a division of Random House Inc.
“We are seeing historic, record-breaking sales across all types of our accounts in North America for ‘The Lost Symbol,” said Sonny Mehta, editor in chief of Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group. Knopf Doubleday is a division of Random House Inc.
Amazon.com Inc, the world’s largest online retailer, called the book its bestselling first-day adult fiction title ever, including pre-orders.
Barnes & Noble Inc said “The Lost Symbol” broke its previous one-day sales record for adult fiction.
The success of the Dan Brown’s latest is a boost to publisher Knopf Doubleday and booksellers, which have endured sliding sales in the midst of the recession.
Booksellers have anxiously awaited a popular title that will resonate with readers and fuel the same sort of frenzy seen earlier this decade with the “Harry Potter” series, from author J.K. Rowling.
But the $25 billion domestic book market has wallowed in a slump in recent years as more readers make their purchases online, or forego books altogether for online games and other forms of media and entertainment.
Now, digital books and electronic reading devices such as Amazon’s Kindle or Sony Corp’s Reader are seen as both avenues of growth and sources of competition for traditional media, and publishers and booksellers are scrambling to respond.
The highly anticipated book from Brown comes six years after the release of the American novelist’s last book “The Da Vinci Code”. It follows the adventures of Harvard professor Robert Langdon and is set in the secret world of Freemasons in Washington D.C.
“The Da Vinci Code” sold 80 million copies worldwide. It was made into a film starring Tom Hanks that grossed more than $758 million, according to tracking firm Box Office Mojo.
Shares of Amazon closed up $7.15 to $90.70 on the Nasdaq. Amazon was upgraded to a “Buy” rating by Bank of America Merrill Lynch, which cited a resurgence in e-commerce that would benefit the Seattle-based company.
Barnes & Noble closed up 14 cents to $22.04 and book retailer Borders Group Inc closed up 2 cents to $3.29, on the New York Stock Exchange.
(Reporting by Alexandria Sage; editing by Carol Bishopric
Another Year to Live by William Arthur
Another year to live!To banish worry, doubt, and fear,To love and laugh and give!
This bright new year is given meTo live each day with zest…To daily grow and try to bemy highest and my best!
I have the opportunityonce more to right some wrongs,to pray for peace, to plant a tree,And sing more joyful songs!
-William Arthur
Elf Songs
I stand alone
Beside the sea.
I watch the winds
Who follow me.
Stars are silent
In my heart,
And the whole world
Stands apart.
I sing softly
To myself,
Humming elf songs
From the shelf.
People glance at
Me and frown,
Puzzled, frightened.
I look down.
People pass me
By and they
Cannot grasp me
Look away.
Sometimes someone
Hesitates,
Looks at me and
Wonders, waits.
Sometimes I hold
Out my hand,
With myself
Inside it and
Hope somebody
Understands.
Saying this is
Who I am.
Very rarely
Someone sees me,
And I barely
Feel it frees me.
They perceive the
Hopes I haunt.
They believe the
Worlds I want.
Warily I
Squint and smile.
Someone loves me
For awhile.
Then they see the
Volatile
Things in me
Who I beguile,
And they tire of
How I grieve,
Lost like madness,
And they leave.
I sing softly
By myself,
Placing pledges
On the shelf.
Putting promises
Away.
People say them.
They don’t stay.
Watch the sky
Grow bright and blue.
I don′t want to
Frighten you.
Watch the worlds
Whisk words away.
Don’t believe
The things you say.
I grow guarded –
Build a wall
Of smiles and irony.
I fall
Friendless, free
Into the far
And foreign sea
Of who you are.
And watch a star.
Written by Anna Williams at age 21Freepoemsonline.blogspot.com
Dream
You dream a dream,
And bathe your toes
In scarlet flows
Of icy streams.
It softly glows
Upon your knee,
For your heart knows
A dream is free.
It glitters, plays,
It makes you smile.
You waste all day,
You sit awhile.
And watch it quote
Quite quietly
Words you once spoke
Defiantly,
Before you woke
So silently.
The turquoise sea
Is far away.
The forest trees
Have naught to say,
And no disease
Can make you die
When you have dreams
Who love the sky.
A dream believes
But never wonders,
Never grieves;
It breathes, it thunders.
It turns and twirls,
And entrances
Wavering worlds,
Because it dances.
You sometimes cry
About your dreams,
Because they die
Because they seem
To bend the breeze,
And dance upon
The quiet trees,
And then they’re gone.
Written by Anna Williams at age 21
Mermaid Poem
Fifty-five years ago
Under the sea,
A long-lost companion,
Remembering me,
Glanced over her shoulder,
And murmured a sigh.
The water grew colder.
She saw the sky.
She saw breath in my heart,
And she took in her tail,
Swam to the surface
And searched for a sail
A ship she remembered
For eight thousand years…
After I slipped afar,
Drowning in tears.
I was too far away,
Dark and deprived.
Russia was dying and
I was alive.
I only have shadows;
Dim memories.
Eight thousand years ago
In the deep seas,
Cold in half consciousness,
Startled to be
Born in a body and
Flung in the sea.
We seduced sailors with
Nowhere to go.
…What I remember
Defies what I know.
In the dull days
Of 6000 BC,
Worn by the ways
Of the deep turquoise sea,
Perched on a stone,
I laughed and splashed you.
We were alone.
My whole heart thrashed you.
My whole heart threw you
Grieving to hell.
You say I knew you.
I knew you too well.
If mermaids are miracles,
What do I see
…When I remember
6000 BC.
Written by Anna Williams at age 21
Young
When I was very young
I knew
The songs I’d sung,
The color blue.
I lived to love.
I lived to write.
I looked above
Into the night.
I would part
The winds, and pass…
And my heart
Was made of glass.
My face was pale
But filled with fire.
My feet were frail,
But they desired
To feel the day,
The soil, the stone;
Pretending they
Were not alone.
I saw myself
Inside the sky.
I was alone there,
So I cried.
The river mocked
The petty frantic
Way I thought
And the romantic
Way I talked
The dreams I sought,
The streets I walked.
I smiled, I sighed,
I wished in fountains
Almost died
Inside the mountains.
I lost my heart,
When I was young.
I fell apart.
My life grew numb.
I could not say
What filled my head;
The words that lay
Within my heart.
My lips were dry,
My fingers dead.
When I was young
I found myself,
Somewhere, hidden
On a shelf.
I breathed belief.
I broke in two.
I sighed relief
When I saw you.
Written by Anna Williams at age 21
Spanish Highways
I heard you haunting me.
I heard my past,
And the wind wanting me.
I left at last.
I hummed to heaven
With little to lose
Walking and watching
My brown leather shoes,
Along Spanish highways,
Too tired not to smile.
Orchards of olives
Draped mile after mile.
At the side of the road,
With my scarf and my tie,
And my feet growing cold,
As the sun lost the sky,
I trembled silently,
Frightened and free.
I slept on Christmas Eve
Under a tree.
I saw the moon
In the dark and cold sky.
I spoke too soon,
And the feeling flew by.
I lay alone
On the cold orchard ground,
Solid like stone…
As my world turned around.
I gathered dew
From the cold morning grass.
I thought of you,
And I let the thought pass.
Sometimes I dreamed
I might finally find you,
Far as you seemed,
At least to remind you.
At the side of the road,
With my scarf and my tie,
And my feet growing cold
And my heart in the sky.
At the side of my life,
With my famine and fear,
And my eyes on my knife,
As the future grew near;
With my feet i
n a stream
Of water and scars,
Living a dream
And sleeping in cars,
I sang of sadness and
Traveling shoes,
Murmuring mystery,
Singing the blues.
Next to a gas pump,
I sat and cried,
On the wrong highway,
Wanting a ride.
Maybe the music that
Lives in your voice
Fell back inside me and
I had a choice.
I turned and fled my fears.
I found the feeling.
I chose to work for years
Under a ceiling.
I found a scarf lying
Black on the pavement.
I found a tie after
Years of enslavement.
I put my scarf away
Under a bed.
I chose to learn, and stay…
And my heart bled.
Sometimes I stand by the
Window at night,
Watching the highway stretch
Out of my sight.
And the wind watches me
Lingering at last.
I sing the songs you see
Inside my past.
And the breeze breathes across;
Tickles my face
Whispers, reminds me that
One day, someplace,
I’ll stand with you again
In your heart’s heat.
…I’ll feel the highway stretch
Under my feet.
Written by Anna Williams at age 21
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Xinjiang
In Xinjiang the world is dry.
The mountains scrape the bright blue sky
With lifeless peaks of solid stone,
And I amongst strangers, was never alone.
There, the oases , their streets full of trees
And bagels and children, were life at its knees…
Where things could be bought, where no one had seen
Someone like I was, when I was eighteen.
The desert men, whose tired old eyes
Gazed with faintly veiled surprise,
Scrutinized my dim disguise
And made my memories despise
Nights I’d trembled, days I’d cried,
Tears I′d wasted, drowned inside
Years of shame and broken pride.
They gazed without mercy, their eyes breathing fire,
Dark like the gypsies of seething desire.
They followed my footsteps, they swallowed my breath,
They bathed in my shadows, entreated my death.
I met the men of paradise
Upon a sea of amber ice…
Traveling with the turning tide.
But I dared to dive inside
The fading lives, before they died.
I sat for hours and watched and heard
Every whisper, every word
Of broken, barely breathing stories,
Stained in pain and worthless glories.
In Xinjiang, I cast my eyes
Easily upon the skies,
And I tore my life apart.
I glanced within a broken heart.
I breathed upon the burning bars
And made myself a sea of stars.
Beyond the far side of the sky,
Half forgotten, faded, far,
There lies a land where shadows die…
Beyond the winds that sweep the stars.
Be it home or be it heaven,
It lies loved, or lost, forgiven.
You may recall, but though I try
I’ve music for a memory.
I only search myself and sigh.
I only wish I still were free.
I only wish I could remember
The meaning of the mystery,
The meaning of my Red November,
Who haunts and holds my history.
Beauty breathes in every glance
You care to cast on earth or sea,
And all your life becomes a dance
If you decide it ought to be.
Written by Anna Williams at age 21
Basic SEO Tricks always remembered when creating web contents:
Website name
A name must be easy to remember small and unique. Example is bestbuy.com this two B make it so easy to remember and so unique..
Always keep titles with great sensibility:
Write according to your own niche keeping titles in your mind. If someone search house for rent in Multan. And you have same word in y our own title expectation are that first page will be searched by Google will be your website one. Then others according to there titles…
<H1> tag stands for handing one. It is also important. And must be made unique because search engine give important to it also, Beside that alt text is also important..alt is the tool tip tag which appears as a tool tip on any image.
A good name as alt image given tell google to see me and show me on first page.
Meta tags use to be very popular now the trend is changes. It use to be in past that written data in meta tags use to be a measurement of a website quality but now a days they are out of search algorithm having no importance… Because now a days its html 5 version and web 2.0 standard is launched.. Where things are not as they use to be in 2000.
I would call it a utopia of your own imaginations if you are still unaware of SEO. so stop being proud of being web developer or designer and give some piece of your brain to understand SEO. And make contents of your site search engine friendly, So website future remain bright and other wise very professional looking good websites having even unique contents if not made according to SEO laws. Remain away from eye of search engine. There future remains always dark no one ever visit them,. Because search engine can’t find them, and boosting a website depends upon the search engine algorithm, which brings major visitors to your site.
In the last of my article I would get your attention to amaze you, because that’s how search engine works.
As you press search button it goes in all pages of a websites on www and finds that specific word and then compare it whether its copied content or genuine, whether its from a low page rank or high page rank website, how many backlinks are coming to that site, whether those backlinks are from good reputed high page rank website..
When it does all this…in seconds it shows the list of searched pages…
Don’t you say it a miracle… I compare this function with my Windows XP search function. where it take minutes to respond if I search a word in a document or a file name.
Definition of website
Easy way to create big name of your small business
A way to get A big name, repute, good will of your business quickly. Your company dot com 24 hours alive 365 days online world wide. Presenting your whole business in a one click approach.
It’s your impression on your visiting cards, advertising banners, Sign Boards, letter pads, bill books, brushers, pamphlets, physical products, legal documents, contract papers, files and other stationary.
Why article writing is so important
Seo & Importance of article the main point of writing this article is to bring attention of those peoples who write copied contents and
A lot of peoples do write copied stuff of others with no courtesy link. And they feel they did a great job by copying data of a site. And creating a nice looking layout to represent users it’s their own work, all this can cheat peoples but not to search engine. Search engine are smart enough to recognize manipulation actually they are search machines if it can’t see a copied data then it must not be call a search engine.
It must not be call a search engine. So my friends these search engines are programmed in a why that not only keywords, paragraphs but even more sensitive things can be searched by them, they know very well who is the owner of a specific content and who is copying it. So be very careful when creating contents of sites because copying or manipulating the texts is not ethnical so you must write some thing unique, and keywords solidetary must be and important point … (a word must not be 5 times repeated in a 100 words…
Why search engines like uniqueness:
Search engine majorly Google which is being used 53% for online search and queries why it likes uniqueness. Why everybody say that unique contents must be written about your niche site…
Fact is that search engines are programmed and created for fresh,, unique data. They fetch the page from millions of sites which they find unique and fresh. Because everybody has this own mind and his own ideas about searching calibers…)
Larry page and Sergey brin are not dumb..
They are having a tie on the 5th number in the richest people’s list. They got this rank in a short period Because of there smartest idea “google“. So they have made the smartest ma chine of the planet call Google. Which can’t be cheated easily, And it equally behaves for every one no matter a rich or a poor person without any prejudice. Why I am telling that it behaves without any prejudice because I know I am living in Pakistan and a lot of websites have banned there services in Pakistan like paypal. But only Google is the service which is being the source of income for thousands of peoples. They are all Google publishers…
Different search engines have different search algorithms to search a specific content. Its clear evidence is this fact that you get different search results of a same word from yahoo, msn and Google.
Flirty Sms
// Beautiful flowers die….
Nice stories end……
Lovely songs fade…….. ..
Momeries are forgotten… ..
All things comes to end…..
But people like YOU always remain forever …..
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BECAUSE GHOSTS NEVER DIE
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