Due to its unique range of creative, experimental and commercial possibilities, the online persistent virtual world Second Life is attracting significant interest from business and service industry sectors throughout the world. Big name brands such as IBM, Dell, ING, Philips Electronics, Telstra, and the Australian Broadcasting Corporation have entered this immersive environment.

Though return-on-investment is not readily measured, canny early adopters are realising the potential in understanding how virtual worlds work, particularly in regard to social networks and peer-to-peer exchange. For this reason, active engagement with residents, one which goes beyond merely establishing a shop front, is advocated.

Second Life is emerging as test bed for new ideas, where real world prototypes can be released at low cost, with direct feedback from users significantly enriching the design process and leading to innovative or unexpected results. The process is enhanced by the nature of its residents who, typically, are techno-savvy, playful and demonstrate a high receptivity to new ideas.

Co-operative banks have developed from humble origins to become significant players in the European financial services industry. Recognisable as national champions in their own markets, as a sector these organisations comprise a diverse set of financial services institutions, ranging from domestic retail focussed players to large multi national universal banks. Today almost one in five European citizens transact with a co-operative bank, through a network of 4,500 banks and 60,000 branches.

HJSplit supports many platforms (Windows 3.x/95/98/ME/2000/NT/XP, DOS, Amiga, Java, etc.). All versions are compatible with each other and allow you to exchange files between these different platforms. E.g. a file split on the Amiga can be joined on Windows 2000 and vice versa.

Now what's the use of a program like HJSplit? Think of a file of 20 Mb, and try to send this to a friend. Using email this does not succeed, it is simply too large, and how to put it onto a floppy? HJSplit will enable you to split the large file into smaller chunks, which can be much more easily sent and stored.

What about a backup of very large Gigabyte sized files? HJSplit (Windows and Java version) also can handle these! E.g. HJSplit allows you to split a 10 Gb file into 640 Mb parts, which can then be stored onto CD-Rom's by your CD-writer software.

Of course HJSplit can join these split parts back together again, so that the original file is restored. Alternatively, you can use HJJoin for this, which is a tiny and specialized program for joining files.

HJSplit is very reliable, simple, small and easy to use. It does not need any installation or complicated DLLs, it just consists of one '.exe' file. This means that you can also run it directly from a floppy or CD-Rom.

This international bestseller reveals the secrets of nonverbal communication to give you confidence and control in any face-to-face encounter?from making a great first impression and acing a job interview to finding the right partner.

It is a scientific fact that people?s gestures give away their true intentions. Yet most of us don?t know how to read body language?and don?t realize how our own physical movements speak to others. Now the world?s foremost experts on the subject share their techniques for reading body language signals to achieve success in every area of life.

Drawing upon more than thirty years in the field, as well as cutting-edge research from evolutionary biology, psychology, and medical technologies that demonstrate what happens in the brain, the authors examine each component of body language and give you the basic vocabulary to read attitudes and emotions through behavior.
Discover:
? How palms and handshakes are used to gain control
? The most common gestures of liars
? How the legs reveal what the mind wants to do
? The most common male and female courtship gestures and signals
? The secret signals of cigarettes, glasses, and makeup
? The magic of smiles?including smiling advice for women
? How to use nonverbal cues and signals to communicate more effectively and get the reactions you want

Publishing ten times annually and going out to a pan-European circulation, Aerospace Manufacturing is the only such industry magazine to focus on the crucially important but often ignored design, production and procurement elements of both the civil and defence aerospace sectors.
Editorially, Aerospace Manufacturing provides sharply focused industry news and leading-edge technology features along with pertinent comment from the key aerospace associations and industry figureheads. It is the only magazine covering the manufacturing elements of both the civil and defence aerospace industries.

Aerospace Manufacturing’s targeted and audited readership includes key decision makers from all levels of the supply chain – from the aircraft manufacturers (EADS, Boeing, Lockheed Martin, Bombardier, Dassault Aviation, etc.) through the key primes (BAE Systems, Rolls-Royce, Snecma, Thales, etc.) to all other key suppliers (Smiths Aerospace, GKN Aerospace, Cobham, Doncasters, Alkan, MT Aerospace etc.).