This profusely illustrated book demonstrates step by step the astonishing card magic cultivated by one of the premier sleight-of-hand artists of the 20th century. It presents maneuvers that have left theater audiences amazed and that card-playing professionals have used to great advantage. It is not a book for beginners, but will help those with basic card expertise reach new levels of performance in their art. Among the moves are shifts, palms, glides, false shuffles, cuts, fans, and steals. You'll learn how to do the false table riffle shuffle, how to deal from the bottom, how to know an opponent's hole card, how to "warm up a cold deck," and much more. In addition, the author presents forty dazzling deceptions guaranteed to amaze your audience: Confusion, Birds of a Feather, The Ambitious Card, A Brilliant Climax, Your Favorite Ace, A Quickie, The Obtrusive Queens, and many more. Over 300 photographs show the practitioner's exact hand positions during each critical move. Australian-born Arthur H. Buckley became well known in America for the magic he worked with cards on the major vaudeville circuits of the 1920s. Schooled by the great sleight-of-hand artists he met in the entertainment business and by professional gamblers he met in his early years touring Australia, his absolute mastery of the most artful and demanding card-handling routines was legendary. In 1946, he wrote this practical guide revealing in detail the secrets of his art. Any magician or card conjurer who aspires to the utmost proficiency in card manipulation will want to have this indispensable reference in his or her library.

AR 600-38 03/11/1988 MEAL CARD MANAGEMENT SYSTEM , Survival Ebooks

The DoD is promoting departmentwide use of purchase cards (PC) for obtaining goods and services. PC are used exclusively for gov't.-related purchases; transactions include acquisitions at or below the $2,500 threshold, commercial training request valued at or below $25,000, and payments on contracts. The benefits of using PC are lower transaction processing costs and less "red tape" for both the gov't. and vendors. This audit of the Army's PC program addresses whether: the Army's overall control environ. and mgmt. of the PC program were effective, the Army's internal control activities operated effectively and provide reasonable assurance that PC were used appropriately, and indications existed of fraudulent, improper, and questionable transactions. Ill.