You don’t need a white tiger, expensive props, or hours of preparation to do magic. With a little practice, some clever misdirection (which lays at the heart of all magic tricks), and showmanship, you can surprise family, friends, and coworkers using a few everyday items!
People are constantly being affected by the fluctuations in the global economy and by financial uncertainty - with major impacts on their savings, portfolios and pensions. Some might see recessions as the very worst time to invest in the stock market, but many of the world's most successful investors insist that a market downturn is the...
"To be most effective, leaders must move beyond time management to time mastery. Time managers are reliant on clocks and calendars; time masters develop an intuitive sense of timing. Time managers see time as a fixed, rigid constant; time masters view it as relative and malleable. Time masters have what John Clemens and Scott Dalrymple call...
Windows Azure was officially announced at PDC 2008, but looking back, I had a
quick look in the kitchen of Windows Azure in 2007 while I was visiting Redmond
during the Lead Enterprise Architect Program (LEAP) sessions. Pat Helland, a senior
architect at Microsoft, gave a talk on The irresistible forces meet the movable objects....
Trying to find the perfect networking resource or textbook can be a real challenge.
Sometimes they are extremely focused on one technology, and thus miss the mark. Or
they are extremely broad, covering every networking idea known to man. This book is
about something that all networks have in common—the core protocols. Networks...
Incorporate offense and defense for a more effective network security strategy
Network Attacks and Exploitation provides a clear, comprehensive roadmap for developing a complete offensive and defensive strategy to engage in or thwart hacking and computer espionage. Written by an expert in both government and corporate...
This workshop entitled “Progress on Cryptography: 25 Year of Cryptography in China” is being held during the celebration of Professor Guozhen Xiao’s 70th birthday. This proceeding is a birthday gift from all of his current and former graduate students, who have had the pleasure of being supervised by Professor Xiao during the last...
"Modifying ourselves through molecular biology is a humanitarian utopia to some, an imminent nightmare to others. But to all, the prospect should be a challenge because it touches on so many basic and unresolved questions. This excellent, probing collection of papers -- spanning philosophy, history, social science, and theology -- will be...
Information is the most valuable resource in the 21st century. Whether for a
consumer looking for a restaurant in San Francisco, a small business woman checking
textile prices in Bangalore, or a financial services executive in London studying
stock market trends, information at the moment of decision is key in providing the...
Capturing a wealth of experience about the design of object-oriented software, four top-notch designers present a catalog of simple and succinct solutions to commonly occurring design problems. Previously undocumented, these 23 patterns allow designers to create more flexible, elegant, and ultimately reusable designs without having to...
Automatic object recognition has become an established discipline in image analysis. Moments and moment invariants play a very important role as features in invariant recognition. They were introduced to the pattern recognition community almost 50 years ago and the mathematical background they utilized is even older, originating from the...
