This is not some trick of rhetorical prestidigitation or a leap of logic.
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"This is to AI as prestidigitation is to real magic," LeCun tweeted last week.
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Crucially, monetary policy oriented around individuals should be easier to understand than the customary prestidigitation.
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But in his memoirs Mencken manages the prestidigitation of absorbing readers under his magic cloak of self-absorption.
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But attempting to ignore that you host the data platforms that thrive on it is a tasty bit of prestidigitation.
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Researchers at the Czech national film archives discovered Match de Prestidigitation ("Conjuring Contest") (1904), a long-lost film by Georges Méliès.
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Wordplay SUNDAY PUZZLE — Anyone who has ever tried to construct a crossword learns almost immediately that it requires quite a bit of prestidigitation.
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Beyond the feats of prestidigitation and portability that Redrocks biometric scanning technology allows, the company also differentiates itself by showing intent rather than presence, according to Konsevich.
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As in Mr. Tiffany's "Harry Potter" production, such effects are achieved through purely theatrical means of prestidigitation, with an often bare stage mottled into multidimensionality by Paule Constable's lighting.
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After officially announcing the availability of the product for pre-orders last month, the company is pulling back the curtains on all of the prestidigitation it's been cooking for the past several years.
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Under Gregor's direction, Anahata's infrastructure engineers harnessed all their skills — IP prestidigitation, networked hot-air balloons, Wi-Fi-enabled squirrels — to work around the government's block and make the internet accessible again in Poodlekek.
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Dunninger served as a bridge that led away from live performance — dating to old-school vaudevillian stagecraft — and toward the small stage of television, where magic was more patter than prestidigitation, more pizazz than performance.
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Its founder, the far-too-famous Elizabeth Holmes, controlled the voting stock, the board of directors and the corporate messaging to execute one of the most outrageous acts of corporate prestidigitation since Enron convinced us that it had reinvented energy.
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So federal agencies should spare us the prestidigitation of glossy puff pieces, and instead give the sage grouse what it always needed: real, mandatory protections that prevent the further destruction of grouse habitat and foster a long-term upsurge in sage grouse numbers.
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The effect of watching a film take on the internet is more a case of gizmo versus gizmo; like Black Mirror, its choreography employs all manner of state-of-the-art prestidigitation to make texting feel suspenseful, dramatize mundane clicking, or simulate the giddy nakedness of impulse-posting.
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On that note is the third reason this FUD will be risible: If we are going to address the problem of dark money influencing politics, using bitcoin for hacking activities doesn't even amount to a rounding error and it is cynical prestidigitation that makes it appear more than such.
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He also worked as a consultant on Christopher Nolan's magic-focused film, "The Prestige," and, for one stage show, as an assistant to the masterful Ricky Jay, who turned his own prodigious gifts for banter and prestidigitation — not to mention an encyclopedic knowledge of magic history — into a run of hit shows and beloved books.
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It was an all but undetectable bit of architectural prestidigitation; no one ever really asked why the Pirates of the Caribbean boats slid down a couple of drops or the stretching room in the Haunted Mansion carried you down only so the doom buggies—the vehicles you ride in, "omnimovers," tilting and pivoting to direct attention—would carry you back upward again.
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Dif, Max. (1986). Histoire illustrée de la prestidigitation. Maloine. p. 288Edelman, Nicole. (2006). Histoire de la voyance et du paranormal.
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Zamloch's act changed over his 40-plus years as an entertainer and included communication with the deceased through spiritualism, sleight of hand tricks using Zamloch's skills of prestidigitation, illusions, card tricks, conjuring, vanishing tricks, burlesque, and humor.
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The roots of the FISM began in Paris, France, in 1937, at a meeting of the 34-year-old ASAP, Association Syndicale des Artistes Prestidigitateurs (Association of prestidigitation artists), which had a monthly magazine Le Journal de la Prestidigitation. The group's vice- president, Dr. Jules Dhotel, wanted the ASAP to produce an international convention in Paris in October 1939, and then proceed to have the convention in a different country each year. Plans proceeded, but when the Nazis invaded Poland in September 1939, the convention was cancelled. After World War II, progress resumed.
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A magistrate noticed and mother and daughter were taken into custody. The girl said she had learned everything from her mother. Both of them were from Sittard, where things like prestidigitation were allowed, but in the more Protestant Roermond this was not tolerated.
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Match de prestidigitation (literally "conjuring contest"), released in the United States as A Wager Between Two Magicians, or Jealous of Myself, and in the United Kingdom as A Juggling Contest Between Two Magicians, is a 1904 French short silent film directed by Georges Méliès.
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Max Dif - Historie et Évolution Technique de la Prestidigitation - Tome I, p. 271 Alexander was very shocked. Even with the rivalry between them, he could not help but feel that he owed everything to him. "We've always had a warm and brotherly feeling towards each other", he told a newspaper.
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In 2005 the museum was taken over by a new Board of Directors, which has sought to revitalize it. The American Museum of Magic, Inc. is a tax exempt 501(c)(3) charitable corporation. Each October the Museum regularly hosts an event of prestidigitation, escape, and feats that are said to be amazing.
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He ended up running his own garage for six years, before experimenting with a number of careers, including prestidigitation, advertising, songwriting, jewellery, computers, publishing and public relations. He eventually became a professional writer, whose published works include The Information Effect, The Turners & Growers Natural Foods Cookbook & The Dog & Lemon Guide. Matthew-Wilson is concerned about fatal police chases.
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Card Magic, pp. 17-171 Close-up magic can combine sleight-of- hand manipulations with card flourishes, and is called cardistry. Sleight-of- hand, also known as prestidigitation ("quick fingers") or léger de main (Fr., "lightness of hand"), is the set of techniques used by a micromagician to manipulate objects such as cards and coins secretly.
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The word sleight, meaning "the use of dexterity or cunning, especially so as to deceive", comes from the Old Norse. The phrase sleight of hand means "quick fingers" or "trickster fingers". Common synonyms of Latin and French include prestidigitation and legerdemain respectively. Seneca the Younger, philosopher of the Silver Age of Latin literature, famously compared rhetorical techniques and illusionist techniques.
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Source: an interview with the magical Italian magazine Magia Moderna May 2016 N ° 2 Intervista to Norbert Ferré di Vittorio Marino, pages 13, 14 and 15, to the magical English magazine Magicseen September 2009 N° 28 Vol.5. N° .4 p. 22 and 23, as well as the incoming Norbert Ferré of the Dictionary of the Prestidigitation of Jean de Merry and André Ciocca, Editions Georges Proust.
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""Recitals of the Week", in: The Times, 3 Dec. 1951, p. 2. After a recital the following year, The Times commented, "When Miss Ida Presti, a young French guitarist, made her English début last autumn it was her prestidigitation that lingered in the memory. Her reappearance early in the week at Wigmore Hall confirmed this first impression of brilliance but also gave further evidence of sterling musicianship.
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Some are theatrical performers, such as stage magicians, who use various techniques, e.g., prestidigitation, cold reading, and hot reading, to produce the appearance of such abilities for entertainment purposes. A large industry and network exists whereby people advertised as psychics provide advice and counsel to clients. Some famous psychics include Edgar Cayce, Ingo Swann, Peter Hurkos, Janet Lee, Jose Ortiz El Samaritano, Miss Cleo, John Edward, Sylvia Browne, and Tyler Henry.
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A cardsharp using sleight of hand to win a game of cards. Sleight of hand (also known as prestidigitation or legerdemain ()) refers to fine motor skills when used by performing artists in different art forms to entertain or manipulate. It is closely associated with close-up magic, card magic, card flourishing and stealing. Because of its heavy use and practice by magicians, sleight of hand is often confused as a branch of magic.
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Randi is the author of ten books, among them Conjuring (1992), a biographical history of noted magicians. The book is subtitled Being a Definitive History of the Venerable Arts of Sorcery, Prestidigitation, Wizardry, Deception, & Chicanery and of the Mountebanks & Scoundrels Who have Perpetrated these Subterfuges on a Bewildered Public, in short, MAGIC! The book's cover says that it is by "James Randi, Esq., A Contrite Rascal Once Dedicated to these Wicked Practices but Now Almost Totally Reformed".
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In magic shows, his wife Amy () performed both as his assistant and in her own right. She was a domestic science student during his studies at Leeds, and subsequently became a teacher in Glasgow. They married on 19 December 1950, and had two sons. The couple developed Only Make-Believe: A Plethora of Prestidigitation, an award-winning stage show, in which they performed as Professor Bluffman and Madame Patrice.. Amy Dawes died on 30 December 2014, aged 85.
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André Gaudreault, Film and Attraction: From Kinematography to Cinema, Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2011, p. 83. According to Gaudreault, kinematic practices drew on techniques derived from “cultural series” of an attractional nature before these practices were constituted as their own “cultural series.”André Gaudreault and Philippe Marion, The Kinematic Turn: Film in the Digital Era and its Ten Problems, Caboose, Montréal, 2012, p. 10. In his work, “cultural series” are media practices with specific conventions and uses, such as fairy plays, magic lanterns or prestidigitation.
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"The blow was struck", Robert-Houdin said, "... henceforth the interpreters and all those who had dealings with the Arabs received orders to make them understand that my pretended miracles were only the result of skill, inspired and guided by an art called prestidigitation, in no way connected with sorcery". He went on to say, "The Arabs doubtless yielded to these arguments, for henceforth I was on the most friendly terms with them." He was rewarded for his services by the French government for suppressing any possible rebellion.
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He remains the only Georgia magician ever to appear in all three major showrooms at the Magic Castle in Hollywood, California: the Close-Up Gallery, the Parlor of Prestidigitation, and the Palace of Mystery. He also won numerous awards in competitions at local and regional magic conventions. He has frequently served as a judge for the finals of the International Brotherhood of Magicians international stage magic and close-up magic competitions. Turner served as the 2015-2016 International President of the International Brotherhood of Magicians.
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In addition to the ViPR Controller, ViPR includes ViPR Global Data Services, which enable combinations of data type (e.g. block, file, and object), protocols. EMC supports object files and Hadoop using a software overlay based on ViPR. The ViPR Object Data Service exposes REST APIs for Atmos (EMC's object storage appliance), Amazon S3 and Swift (the native OpenStack object store service), which means that pools potentially use both cloud services and local [EMC] VNX and Isilon arrays. ViPR’s prestidigitation enables data written as objects by cloud applications to be accessible as files by legacy apps.
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Kieve first performed publicly in 1983. In January 1984 at the age of 16 he performed card tricks in the music video for the Sade single Your Love Is King, his arms having been shaved to give the impression that the singer was performing the prestidigitation herself. In April of that year he made his first television appearance on the BBC TV children's show Blue Peter, apparently cutting presenter Janet Ellis into three pieces . In 1985 he was a finalist in the "Young Magician of the Year" competition.
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In October 2003, the FFAP awarded him the gold medal « Jean Eugène Robert-Houdin » at the Aix-les-Bains Congress. On July 5, 2005, he received the « Medal of the City of Marseille ».Article Medal Marseille - Norbert Ferré in Review of The Prestidigitation number 548 July–August 2005 page 23 Author Armand Porcell. Other significant awards include in the US, The Excellence Award (The Florida State Magicians' Club - Magic on the Beach XIII) or, in Spain: 2014 commemorative plaque conferred by the city of Tamarite de Litera in Spain (Pro-Tamarit Collective - Encuentro Nacional de Magos Florences Gili).
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There, he met fellow magicians, both amateur and professional, where he engaged in talk about conjuring, and he met an aristocrat by the name of Jules de Rovère, who coined the term "prestidigitation" to describe a major misdirection technique magicians used. At Papa Roujol's, Robert-Houdin learned the details to many of the mechanical tricks of the time as well as how to improve them. From there, he built his own mechanical figures, like a singing bird, a dancer on a tightrope, and an automaton doing the cups and balls. His most acclaimed automaton was his writing and drawing figure.
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The lobby of the Castle has no visible doors to the interior, and visitors must say a secret phrase to a sculpture of an owl to gain access, exposing the entrance to the club. Magicians perform in several theaters, including the intimate Close-up Gallery, a larger Parlour of Prestidigitation, and the large stage in the Palace of Mystery. Nightly, five different magic performances are showcased in these three theaters, and on weekends additional performances are added in the Peller theatre as well as Hat and Hare Pub and W.C. Fields Bar. Informal performance areas near the five bars give magician members the space for impromptu magic for guests and other patrons.
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The two sold patent medicine as well as performing prestidigitation, making their act as much a medicine show as a stage show. When Prince Herman died, in 1909, Rucker, then only 17 years old, took the name "Black Herman" in his friend's honour and continued to tour, focussing on the stage act and dropping the medicine show aspects of his performance. Eventually, Herman made Harlem, New York City his home base. Jim Crow policies were in effect at that time, so in the Northern states he could perform before racially mixed audiences, but when he traveled through the South, often with his own tent show, segregation laws kept his audiences primarily black.
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In addition, Webster is one of two living Australian magicians to be included in the book Dictionnaire de la Prestidigitation covering the world history of the art of magic, and is the only Australian to be included in Historias de Magas Antiguas y Modernas, an international history book of prominent female magicians throughout history. Webster is founder and first president of the Australian Institute of Magic. In 2001 Sue-Anne Webster and Tim Ellis were voted Most Valuable Performers by their peers at the close up magic convention Fechter's Finger Flicking Frolic in Batavia, New York. In 2005 was the duo were nominated Lecturers of the Year by The Academy of Magical Arts at The Magic Castle in Hollywood.
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These traces of editing were the work of the camera operator during the capturing of the event, or of the manufacturer when the film was being prepared in the laboratory, or of the exhibitor, who could cut the film at will.André Gaudreault and Pierre Chemartin, "Les consignes de l’éditeur pour l’assemblage des vues dans les catalogues de distribution," in Frank Kessler and Nanna Verhoeff (eds.), Networks of Entertainment : Early Film Distribution 1895-1915, Eastleigh, John Libbey, 2007, pp. 193-202. In cinema's early years, editing techniques were often inherited from other contemporary cultural practices, in particular photography, prestidigitation and the magic lantern. André Gaudreault's work has underscored the fact that these practices privilege, in the first place, a kind of presentation described as ministrative,See André Gaudreault's Du littéraire au filmique, Paris, Nota Bene/Armand Colin, 1999, particularly p.
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Very quickly, in the different domains of prestidigitation (see illusionism, 2.2), Norbert Ferré will choose that of manipulation. He began, in 1989, to mount an act he decided to present in 1991, at the first magic contest Jean Eugene Robert-Houdin de Blois (he still performs under the stage name Maginor), he there wins a second prize that will encourage him. He will receive, on this occasion, the advice of Pierre Brahma, the only French at the time who won the Grand Prix at the FISM (sort of the Olympic Games of conjuring held every three years).Pierre Brahma, also from Marseille, was a Grand Prix FISM in 1964 and 1976 (one of the few to have won twice). Norbert Ferré continues to work on his act and presents it this time in the national contest of the AFAP (formerly name of the FFAP) in Perpignan in 1999.
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Salim bin Sultan was the son of the former Ruler of Sharjah, Sultan bin Saqr Al Qasimi and a slave girl. On his accession as Ruler of Sharjah, following the death of Khalid bin Sultan in 1868, his nephew Humaid bin Abdullah assumed the role of wali of Ras Al Khaimah and the following year proclaimed independence from Sultan bin Saqr. The Saudi agent from Buraimi, who had been actively involved in a number of coastal disputes in the area, managed in April 1869 to organise a dynastic shuffle of remarkable proportions when he had Salim bin Sultan imprisoned, his brother Ibrahim bin Sultan (who had long been wali of Ras Al Khaimah under Sultan bin Saqr) established as Ruler of Ras Al Khaimah and Humaid bin Abdullah of Ras Al Khaimah established as Ruler of Sharjah. This act of political prestidigitation was immediately followed by an outbreak of fighting in Sharjah and the Saudi agent was killed by gunfire.
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