Say it with flowers. This visual bouquet includes a photographic glossary of popular flower types and their Victorian meanings, followed by step-by-step instructions for creating 25 beautiful arrangements. From Celebration and Luck, to Happiness and Forgiveness, each bespoke bunch of flowers suits an important occasion or recipient. Blooming with inspiring lifestyle photography and watercolor botanical illustrations throughout, Meaningful Bouquets brings a truly personal touch to flower arranging.
A guide to successfully getting the life you want by changing your perspective and discovering your ideal self. More often than not, our own mental obstacles are holding us back from the joy, fulfillment, and meaning that we all crave, but by retooling our perspectives, we gain the ability to see the path toward the life we truly desire. Charlie Harary, business executive, professor, speaker, and radio host, combines the wisdom of science, spirituality, and personal growth in practical and understandable terms so you can take the life you have and make it the life you want. Everyone has the extraordinary capacity to transform their life. And it’s easier to do than you might think—in order to get what you want, to achieve that sense of greater life satisfaction, all you need to do is learn how to best use the resources you already have. Based on the latest research into the brain’s neuroplasticity, analysis of ancient wisdom, and exploration of the practices of today’s greatest achievers, Harary offers guidance and inspiration so you can break through the clutter and confusion of your life and find your true purpose.
Now in paperback—the intimate, powerful, and inspiring memoir by the former First Lady of the United States, featuring a new introduction by Michelle Obama, a letter from the author to her younger self, and a book club guide with 20 discussion questions and a 5-question Q&A #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • WATCH THE EMMY-NOMINATED NETFLIX ORIGINAL DOCUMENTARY • OPRAH’S BOOK CLUB PICK • NAACP IMAGE AWARD WINNER • ONE OF ESSENCE’S 50 MOST IMPACTFUL BLACK BOOKS OF THE PAST 50 YEARS In a life filled with meaning and accomplishment, Michelle Obama has emerged as one of the most iconic and compelling women of our era. As First Lady of the United States of America—the first African American to serve in that role—she helped create the most welcoming and inclusive White House in history, while also establishing herself as a powerful advocate for women and girls in the U.S. and around the world, dramatically changing the ways that families pursue healthier and more active lives, and standing with her husband as he led America through some of its most harrowing moments. Along the way, she showed us a few dance moves, crushed Carpool Karaoke, and raised two down-to-earth daughters under an unforgiving media glare. In her memoir, a work of deep reflection and mesmerizing storytelling, Michelle Obama invites readers into her world, chronicling the experiences that have shaped her—from her childhood on the South Side of Chicago to her years as an executive balancing the demands of motherhood and work, to her time spent at the world’s most famous address. With unerring honesty and lively wit, she describes her triumphs and her disappointments, both public and private, telling her full story as she has lived it—in her own words and on her own terms. Warm, wise, and revelatory, Becoming is the deeply personal reckoning of a woman of soul and substance who has steadily defied expectations—and whose story inspires us to do the same.
This text introduces cryptography, from its earliest roots to cryptosystems used today for secure online communication. Beginning with classical ciphers and their cryptanalysis, this book proceeds to focus on modern public key cryptosystems such as Diffie-Hellman, ElGamal, RSA, and elliptic curve cryptography with an analysis of vulnerabilities of these systems and underlying mathematical issues such as factorization algorithms. Specialized topics such as zero knowledge proofs, cryptographic voting, coding theory, and new research are covered in the final section of this book. Aimed at undergraduate students, this book contains a large selection of problems, ranging from straightforward to difficult, and can be used as a textbook for classes as well as self-study. Requiring only a solid grounding in basic mathematics, this book will also appeal to advanced high school students and amateur mathematicians interested in this fascinating and topical subject.
The Ultimate Encyclopedia of Number Messages Messages for the Numbers 0 to 1111 from 3336 Messengers. Search by Number or Messenger Everything in the Universe is connected to the Divine through energy. It is this connection that allows you to raise your own frequency when you allow your energy to join with Universal Energy. When you’re seeing repeating number patterns and sequences like 111, 333, 555, 369, 123, 421, 888, or any other number combination, it means that the Universe is trying to get your attention so you can receive the message you need. Energy animals, nature elements, and the Universe will show you signs until you notice there is something bigger at work. You may see the numbers on television, in person, in print, hear them on the radio, on a clock, in phone numbers, on car tags, in songs, on the side of a business vehicle, on road signs, and well, just about everywhere until you stop, pay attention, and actively seek out the message they are trying to deliver. By connecting with the frequency of the number and receiving the message, you will be able to grow on your spiritual path, find solutions to problems, or open your mind to new possibilities. You can use Raise Your Frequency Through Number Messages in multiple ways. You can look up the numbers and their message or you can use the Messenger List Index to look up the messenger to find what number it relates too. Each number message is supported by three messengers. One from the animal kingdom, one from nature, and one from the Universe/Energy for a total of 3336 messengers. You can also use this book as a bibliomancy tool. Ask the Universe to guide you to the number that is important for you today. Then open the book at random for your message. Also available as a Pocket Edition that is easy to carry with you. The Raise Your Frequency Through Number Messages Journal is the perfect tool to use for writing down the messages you’ve received and how they helped you on your spiritual path. Use both the book and journal daily as a reminder that love, abundance, joy, and happiness are only a message away. Order Raise Your Frequency Through Number Messages and the Raise Your Frequency Through Number Messages Journal today and discover and record the messages that numbers, animals, nature, and the Universe are sending to guide you on your spiritual journey. PRAISE FOR RAISE YOUR FREQUENCY THROUGH NUMBER MESSAGES 5 Stars - Exquisite Essence for Greater Self-realization - "Raise Your Frequency Through Number Messages by Melissa Alvarez is an indispensable guidebook that deeply inspires and highly educates its audience on the importance of developing one's intuition for a better understanding of how the elements of the universe are connected, and how they communicate to human beings through repetitive numbers, for greater self-realization, development of psychic self, and growth of their spiritual path. This impressive text bears well-calculated guidance that will see readers understand the nature and objective of the repeated numbers phenomena, which the author has found to have confused a lot of people and therefore ended up being dismissed as spooky and a probable cause for panic. This book offers an effectual interpretation of common numbers ranging from 0 to 1111 and an exhaustive set of instructions on how to interpret numbers that are outside of that range. Alvarez is an author who is keen on details and who readers will find ingenious after interacting with her solid masterpiece. She is very practical and undoubtedly creative in writing this resource that aims to bring readers to a quick discovery of their place in the universe as well as the vast benefits of developing a sharp intuition. By the end of the read, Author Melissa’s audience will appreciate the existence and the unlimited benevolence of a higher power than themselves, whose guidance and direction in various situations they may be going through, stands crucial and significant if well comprehended. Raise Your Frequency Through Number Messages by Melissa Alvarez is not an ordinary numerology guidebook but an exclusive five-star volume whose impact on the world will include a change in perspective for millions of people during their difficult times, waking one up to one's true nature, and creating certitude and conviction in their minds during tough decision making. This guidebook, however, begs to be read slowly to grasp every bit of its invaluable detail. The meticulous interpretations therein are bound to keep one invested and reflective on their personal experiences with repetitive numbers that they may have encountered on their paths. Readers will want to have this text around at all times for future reference and guidance.” —Ephantus M. for Reader Views “Everything is made of frequencies. What if you could become conscious of the messengers and numerical frequencies ready to provide deep insights, guidance, and advisement? Melissa’s book is the most astute and practical guidebook I have ever read and employed for receiving these spiritual messages—from over a thousand numbers and three thousand guardians and guides. This is an invaluable roadway to joy and more wondrous than any other.”—Cyndi Dale, author of 30-plus books about energy healing "This book is impressive! Melissa has gone above and beyond in providing the answers and all the pieces of the puzzle of living. In Raise Your Frequency Through Number Messages, the power of matching vibrations shines a light on your path by using numbers, animals, nature, gemstones, and the Universe to guide you. There are many messages for you in this book. This book is a must-have!"—Margaret Ann Lembo, author of Animal Totems and the Gemstone Kingdom "Melissa Alvarez goes beyond the typical numerology descriptors to bring you a whole new way to access your guidance through numbers, Intuition & the universe! One of my favorite methods she uses is to tune in for yourself and intuit how your messages apply to your life! A must keep for your shelf!"—Melanie Barnum, author of The Book of Psychic Symbols “Melissa Alvarez always imparts an abundance of information to her readers. This book eloquently showcases her expertise in energy frequencies and is filled with her unique insights into hidden messages behind each number. Her interpretations of number frequencies are packed with three powerful messengers. Readers will find her book offers a valuable in-depth understanding that leads to greater self-realization.” —Sally Painter, author and paranormal content writer “I absolutely LOVE this much-needed book! Melissa has successfully woven the magical messages of numbers with animals, nature, and the universe to reveal a deeper look into how we are constantly being guided in our cosmic dance. She has created a reference book and a guidebook, teaching us how to use our intuition with each meaning she has so wonderfully brought together. This is definitely a book you will want handy at all times!” —Betsey Grady, Psychic Medium, Akashic Records Consultant “Big and bold, wise and wonderful... What can I say but: Wow, this ain't your mama's number book! With well over a thousand entries plus an extensive index, Raise Your Frequency Through Number Messages, by Melissa Alvarez, is a brilliant tour de force, an encyclopedic resource as expansive in its scope as it is insightful in its content. And I do mean insightful. I've been working with it for several days now and am finding its number messages to be remarkably accurate overall. Also accessible. This is the sort of book that feels as though it's speaking directly to you, comprehensive and conversational both. Whatever I ask it, I get an astute answer. Besides which, I have to add, it is really fun to use—almost addictive, in fact. Be warned, once you start perusing the pages, you may find it difficult to stop. I know I do. In all honesty, just the act of reading this book raises my frequency. It radiates positive energy. At its core, the book covers the numbers from zero to 1111, and for each and every one, Ms. Alvarez has intuited not only its special message, but also three related synchronicities (additional messengers, if you will, drawn from the realms of animal guides, Nature, and Universal energies), making this a truly unique reference. I know of no other quite like it, and I am so impressed by how well the author knit everything together. The synchronicities dovetail beautifully with the number messages. For the record, I've read almost all of Melissa Alvarez's books, and they never disappoint, but I think this one is my favorite so far. Raise Your Frequency Through Number Messages is destined to be a classic. I highly recommend this marvelous book!” —Mimi Riser, author of The Kitchen Witch Collection
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the indie rock sensation known as Japanese Breakfast, an unforgettable memoir about family, food, grief, love, and growing up Korean American—“in losing her mother and cooking to bring her back to life, Zauner became herself” (NPR). • CELEBRATING OVER ONE YEAR ON THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER LIST In this exquisite story of family, food, grief, and endurance, Michelle Zauner proves herself far more than a dazzling singer, songwriter, and guitarist. With humor and heart, she tells of growing up one of the few Asian American kids at her school in Eugene, Oregon; of struggling with her mother's particular, high expectations of her; of a painful adolescence; of treasured months spent in her grandmother's tiny apartment in Seoul, where she and her mother would bond, late at night, over heaping plates of food. As she grew up, moving to the East Coast for college, finding work in the restaurant industry, and performing gigs with her fledgling band--and meeting the man who would become her husband--her Koreanness began to feel ever more distant, even as she found the life she wanted to live. It was her mother's diagnosis of terminal cancer, when Michelle was twenty-five, that forced a reckoning with her identity and brought her to reclaim the gifts of taste, language, and history her mother had given her. Vivacious and plainspoken, lyrical and honest, Zauner's voice is as radiantly alive on the page as it is onstage. Rich with intimate anecdotes that will resonate widely, and complete with family photos, Crying in H Mart is a book to cherish, share, and reread.
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 5th International Congress on Blockchain and Applications 2023, BLOCKCHAIN’23, held in Guimarães, Portugal, in July 2023. Among the scientific community, blockchain and artificial intelligence are a promising combination that will transform the production and manufacturing industry, media, finance, insurance, e-government, etc. Nevertheless, there is no consensus with schemes or best practices that would specify how blockchain and artificial intelligence should be used together. The full papers presented in the main track were carefully reviewed. They contain the latest advances on blockchain and artificial intelligence and on their application domains, exploring innovative ideas, guidelines, theories, models, technologies, and tools and identifying critical issues and challenges that researchers and practitioners must deal with in the future research. The authors would like to thank all the contributing authors, the members of the Program Committees, the sponsors, and the Organizing Committee of the University of Minho and the University of Salamanca for their hard and highly valuable work.
IBM WebSphere® Message Broker is a lightweight, advanced enterprise service bus (ESB) that provides a broad range of integration capabilities that enable companies to rapidly integrate internal applications and connect to partner applications. Messages from business applications can be transformed, augmented and routed to other business applications. The types and complexity of the integration required will vary by company, application types, and a number of other factors. Processing logic in WebSphere Message Broker is implemented using message flows. Through message flows, messages from business applications can be transformed, augmented, and routed to other business applications. Message flows are created by connecting nodes together. A wide selection of built-in nodes are provided with WebSphere Message Broker. These nodes perform tasks that are associated with message routing, transformation, and enrichment. Message flows are created and tested using the Message Broker Toolkit, a sophisticated, easy-to-use programming tool that provides a full range of programming aids. This IBM® Redbooks® publication focuses on two specific integration requirements that apply to many midmarket companies. The first is the ability to use WebSphere Message Broker to integrate Microsoft.NET applications into a broader connectivity solution. WebSphere Message Broker V8 introduces the ability to integrate with existing Microsoft .NET Framework applications. A .NET assembly can be called from within a message flow and the WebSphere Message Broker runtime can host and run .NET code. Solutions explored in this book cover connectivity to applications using Windows Communications Framework (WCF), Microsoft Message Queuing, Microsoft Dynamics CRM, and other Microsoft applications. The second is the ability to integrate WebSphere Message Broker with file transfer networks, specifically with WebSphere MQ File Transfer Edition and IBM Sterling Connect Direct.
Television has been called the "boob tube," "goof box," and even a "vast wasteland" of American culture. Yet, for all its banality, television is in many ways a mirror of culture, and communicates messages within culture through the multiple channels of visual images, language, sound, and music. All of these channels contain their own unique coded messages to create the larger meaningful text of television. As one of these sensory channels, music contributes to meaning in television through its artistic language and through television viewers' association of music with certain aspects of culture. Music has always been an integral part of the American television, even from its earliest days. Like its parent medium of radio, television broadcasts music to entertain viewers with live and video taped performances, but music has also come to play a much larger role in television beyond its pleasurable performance aspects. Music is used in narrative programs to evoke moods and identify characters and setting, it is used to sell products through commercial jingles, and most importantly, music generally aids broadcast television in navigating through the continuous "flow" of daily programming. This navigational aspect of television music is a distinctive feature, and functions to transport the viewer through three "spaces" of TV: the flow of the televisual apparatus, with commercials, newbreaks, and promos; the storyworld of each narrative program, and the representational space between narrative and flow. As Heard on TV is an examination and analysis of music in American television during the first fifty years of its history. The book focuses on how music has functioned to serve as a navigator through the flow of television and contributing to structure narrative programs, while also conveying meaning to its viewers by correlating with the images and sounds that it accompanies. Drawing from precedents of the cinema and radio, the book examines music in a number of "classic" television genres by positing a theory of "functional musical spaces" adapted from theories of Charles Morris, Umberto Eco, John Fiske, and others.
