Matthew Stafford

“What if?” Satan’s project to enslave humanity was born when that one little question was asked. If successful, bloodthirsty demons numbering in the millions will escape hell by possessing the bodies of humans, while those not possessed are doomed into slavery and forced to commit vile acts of depravity. Lilith, Satan’s emissary on earth, uses her beauty and insidious power to mesmerize and stimulate forbidden desires in men and women to ensure the success of Satan’s plan. God’s angels must tackle devastating odds as their newest angel, a twenty-year-old from North Carolina, trained by his heavenly mentor and lover, must survive many efforts to destroy him. Only then will his destiny be realized—that of becoming the most powerful Archangel ever—and working with his earthly companions to save humanity from Satan’s plan of domination. Will humanity’s lust for forbidden desires and the formidable powers of the horrific demons beat God’s own powerful and courageous Battling Angels?

. . . It Begins

Battling Angels

Mark Wuthnow

Jerry Shih

IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) technology, which merges the Internet with interactive telecommunications, represents the here and now for today’s packet-switched networks. Consequently, anyone working with or around these converging fields needs to possess a fundamental understanding of IMS and how this technology is poised to change the way new applications are designed and deployed. IMS: A New Model for Blending Applications goes beyond most references in this field. Rather than offer the usual explanation of the standard itself, the authors address how IMS-based services might be deployed in an operator’s network. Leveraging the inside knowledge gained from years of working at the forefront of IMS research, the authors delineate the application layers and the applications that can be implemented using an IMS network. For those unfamiliar with IMS, they provide an overview of its key components and the signaling standards used for the implementation of an end-to-end IMS service. Significant concepts are conveyed through real-life vignettes that describe how end users might actually use interactive IMS applications in the course of their day. This approach mimics the way an operator’s marketing organization might go about building a business case for IMS application deployment. While technical enough to meet the needs of engineers, this approach will greatly assist marketing, sales, and managerial professionals with gaining a basic understanding of IMS, as well as a sense of the numerous applications driving the field forward.

A New Model for Blending Applications

Peter Schirmer

Harry J. Thie

Roland J. Yardley

John Christian

Presents the results of a short-term review of 27 publicly available manpower studies to discover methods that other organizations could use to make "fiscally informed" manpower decisions. The studies exhibit varying methods for determining manpower requirements; however, the method used may not be as important as other attributes, such as the direct involvement of a senior decisionmaker.

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