An iconic brand for more than 50 years, TWISTER is a classic game loved by fans of all ages. This officially-licensed kit offers a new mini twist on the game that ties you up in knots--now you can play with your fingers! Perfectly portable, this nostalgic kit can be played anywhere and includes a mini Twister mat, spinner, mini tube socks for your fingers, and a mini book with history, trivia, and the rules of MINI TWISTER.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Applied Cryptography and Network Security, ACNS 2009, held in Paris-Rocquencourt, France, in June 2009. The 32 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 150 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on key exchange, secure computation, public-key encryption, network security, traitor tracing, authentication and anonymity, hash fundtions, lattices, and side-channel attacks.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 5th International Information Security Practice and Experience Conference, ISPEC 2009, held in Xi'an, China in April 2009. The 34 revised full papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 147 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on public key encryption, digital signatures, system security, applied cryptography, multimedia security and DRM, security protocols, key exchange and management, hash functions and MACs, cryptanalysis, network security as well as security applications.

There’s a chill in the air. Winter’s on the way. Soon there will be no food. THE BOOMERANG GANG: The Feathered Adventures of Harold and Friends is a spirited, high-flying tale about Harold, a young mallard duck, and his first migration. With his best buddy, Markie, encouraging him to be brave, Harold says goodbye to his woodland friends as he prepares to leave Havenwood Cove, the only home he has ever known. Along the way, there’s so much to see and new friends to meet but the long-haul flights prove gruelling and full of danger. With action, humour and determination, the little flock of thirteen feathered warriors faces all kinds of trouble. Are you ready for an adventure?

These lecture notes discusses the developments both in the theoretical understanding of the physics and mathematics of magnetic monopoles as well as the ways in which they can be detected experimentally.The subject has now become highly interdisciplinary and recent monopole meetings have attracted participants from low temperature physics at one extreme to cosmology at the other.

Editing-the next step in writing once the key ideas are put on paper-can be difficult to teach. For teachers, it is often difficult to find lessons to engage students in the process. For students, editing is frequently an afterthought. In Key Strategies for Teaching Editing, the authors present interesting meaningful ways to teach students good editing skills. Leochko and Rossi also show how students who use these editing skills can become good writers.Key Strategies is divided into three sections: punctuation, grammar, and spelling. Each section has several lessons. Each lesson includes:Reference Sheet - mini-lesson about rules and usageEditing Sheet - authentic piece of writing that gives students opportunities to apply writing conventions in meaningful waysAnswer Key - answers for the editing sheet

Twisters! begins with the story of Rob, a farmer in Texas, who is suddenly caught up in a tornado that smashes the windows of his house and hurls his truck into the sky. The book then moves on to factual information about how tornadoes form, how they cause damage, and how scientists track them and warn people to take shelter.