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A limited-edition, signed-and-numbered, two-volume hardcover set, ABSOLUTE DANGER GIRL is a high-octane adventure series that is sure to appeal to fans of the Charlie''s Angels movies. Including an amazing sketchbook, this beautiful collector''s item tells the tale of an ultra-secret spy group called Danger Girl and their fight against an evil organization obsessed with world domination. With the fate of the planet in the balance, four beautiful female adventurers must travel the globe to secure several mystical artifacts before the Hammer Syndicate obtains the relics and their ultimate power.

This teacher''s edition is an overprinted version of the NCEA Accounting A Next Step a Accounts Receivable student book. Solutions to all of the exercises are provided. This format has proved to be particularly useful in catering for a class where students are working at their own pace. An electronic copy of the Teacher Guide is included for use as visual media.

Daily text messaging among American teens has shot up in the past 18 months, from 38% of teens texting friends daily in February of 2008 to 54% of teens texting daily in September 2009. And it''s not just frequency--teens are sending enormous quantities of text messages a day. Half of teens send 50 or more text messages a day, or 1,500 texts a month, and one in three send more than 100 texts a day, or more than 3,000 texts a month. Older teen girls ages 14-17 lead the charge on text messaging, averaging 100 messages a day for the entire cohort. The youngest teen boys are the most resistant to texting--averaging 20 messages per day. Text messaging has become the primary way that teens reach their friends, surpassing face-to-face contact, email, instant messaging and voice calling as the go-to daily communication tool for this age group. However, voice calling is still the preferred mode for reaching parents for most teens. This study is based on the 2009 Parent-Teen Cell Phone Survey which obtained telephone interviews with a nationally representative sample of 800 teens age 12-to-17 years-old and their parents living in the continental United States and on 9 focus groups conducted in 4 U.S. cities in June and October 2009 with teens between the ages of 12 and 18. The survey was conducted by Princeton Survey Research Associates International. The interviews were done in English by Princeton Data Source, LLC from June 26 to September 24, 2009. Statistical results are weighted to correct known demographic discrepancies. (Contains 2 tables and 57 footnotes.) [This project was undertaken in collaboration with researchers in the Department of Communication Studies at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor.].

Having sufficient income that you cannot outlive is #1 retirement concern. The solution to that problem, based on current evidence and research, incorporates a number of income strategies and sources, all dependent on a person''s risk style. When complete, that solution creates a machine like source of income, a Perpetual Retirement Income Machine known as a PRIM. Learn how you can build your own PRIM, and why it works so well, in this full color version, step-by-step modern approach to retirement income planning.

Realizing operational analytics solutions where large and complex data must be analyzed in a time-critical fashion entails integrating many different types of technology. Considering the extreme scale of contemporary datasets, one significant challenge is to reduce the duty cycle in the analytics discourse process. This paper focuses on an interdisciplinary combination of scientific data management and visualization/analysis technologies targeted at reducing the duty cyclein hypothesis testing and knowledge discovery. We present an application of such a combination in the problem domain of network traffic data analysis. Our performance experiment results, including both serial and parallel scalability tests, show that the combination can dramatically decrease the analytics duty cycle for this particular application. The combination is effectively applied to the analysis of network traffic data to detect slow and distributed scans, which is a difficult-to-detect form of cyber attack. Our approach is sufficiently general to be applied to a diverse set of data understanding problems as well as used in conjunction with a diverse set of analysis and visualization tools.

A new formalism is presented for calculating the mean intensity spectrum and angular power spectrum of gamma-rays or neutrinos from extragalactic annihilating dark matter, taking into account the dependence of the relative motions of the annihilating particles on the annihilation cross section. To model the large scale dark matter distribution of mass and relative velocities, the halo distribution model is comprehensively summarized, and extended to include a universal radial profile of the particles'' velocity variance, based on results from N-body computer simulations of dark matter halos. A velocity variance profile, associated with the NFW density profile, is proposed by enforcing a power-law profile of the pseudo phase-space density. This allows the large-scale velocity distribution to be described by virialized, gravitationally bound dark matter halos, as opposed to thermal motions used to describe the velocity distribution in the early Universe. The recent particle motion history of the Universe is presented for the described model. Sample extragalactic gamma-ray intensities from dark matter annihilation are shown for dark matter annihilating with p-wave, according to a relative-velocity-weighted annihilation cross section sigmav = a + bv^2, for constants a and b, with examples taken from supersymmetric models. For thermally produced dark matter, the p-wave suppresses the signal intensity. If b/au003e 10^6, the p-wave hardens the intensity spectrum by an estimated factor of 1 + (6b/a)delta_I (E_gamma), and increases the angular power spectrum by a factor also depending on new coefficients (delta_Cl)^(1) (E_gamma) and (delta_Cl)^(2) (E_gamma). The energy-dependence of the new p-wave coefficients delta_I, (delta_Cl)^(1) (E_gamma), and (delta_Cl)^(2) (E_gamma) are shown for various annihilation spectra. Sample intensity spectra are also presented for Sommerfeld-enhanced annihilation. The intensity of neutrinos from dark matter annihilation is also considered. The variations between the dark matter annihilation signals for different particle phenomenologies suggest that particle physics constraints are possible from an observed indirect detection signal. Calculations of the annihilation signal from the galactic halo are also shown. The extragalactic signal''s intensity is found to be consistent in magnitude with the galactic intensity?within the uncertainty of the models of the dark matter distribution?when looking out from the galactic plane. This suggests that the total cosmic signal may have significant contributions from both components.

How much do you really know about the Holy Spirit? Does the subject of God''s Spirit leave you a little bit confused? Relax. You are not alone. Many people have a hard time understanding or explaining the Holy Spirit. This book is intended to define and illustrate who the Holy Spirit is in relation to our everyday life. More importantly, this book is intended to help people clearly recognize the presence of God in their life. If the presence of God is not obvious in your life, we will address the problem and give practical help for the solution. Just enjoy the read and ask the Lord to have mercy as you learn.

* SAP is investing billions to redesign its flagship R/3 product line based on its ESA, and that ESA will become the standard framework for developing all new SAP ERP applications with NetWeaver * This book provides an overview of the core building blocks of SAP''s new ESA, and shows how ESA works with the NetWeaver platform as well as mySAP ERP * A step-by-step action plan proposes ideas for designing ESA-based SAP applications * The companion Web site contains in-depth case examples that show how to build various SAP services and applications using the NetWeaver development tools, plus third-party tools * Some of the SAP tools covered include NetWeaver Developer Studio, WebDynPro and NetWeaver Portal, NetWeaver BI, and the SAP Composite Application Framework