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Reviewing Predefined Roles in the Security Reference Manuals: Explained
When you receive your Oracle Sales Cloud implementation, access to its functionality and data is secured using role-based access control (RBAC). This guide describes the RBAC controls provided by Oracle Sales Cloud, and describes the tasks you must perform to implement these controls so that users have appropriate access to Oracle Sales Cloud data and functions.
Some of the tasks described in this guide are performed only or mainly during implementation of Oracle Sales Cloud. Most, however, can be performed at any time and as new requirements emerge. During implementation, you can perform security-related tests:
From an implementation project
By opening the Setup and Maintenance work area (Navigator - Tools - Setup and Maintenance) and searching for the task on the All Tasks tab
Once the implementation is completed, you can perform most security-related tasks from the Setup and Maintenance work area. Any exceptions are identified in relevant topics.
Oracle Sales Cloud implements role-based access control (RBAC) to prevent unauthorized access to application resources. Users gain access to application functions and data when they are assigned job and abstract roles, which correspond to their roles in your organization. Users can have any number of different roles, and this combination of roles determines the resources that the user can access. The job role providing the greatest level of access takes precedence.
Role-based security in Oracle Cloud applications controls who can do what on which set of data.
In role-based access:
This is a role assigned to a user, for example, the Sales Manager role.
This is a function that users with the role can perform, for example, approve sales forecasts.
Which Data
This is the set of data that users with the role can access when performing the function; for example, approve forecasts for salespersons who work for them.
Oracle Sales Cloud provides the following types of roles:
Job roles
Abstract roles
Duty roles
You assign job and abstract roles directly to users. Duty roles are associated with job and abstract roles; they are not assigned directly to users. You can assign job and abstract roles to a user manually, when you create the user, or automatically, by creating role provisioning rules.
Many job and abstract roles are predefined in Oracle Sales Cloud. The following are the main predefined Sales job roles:
Channel Account Manager
Channel Administrator
Channel Operations Manager
Channel Partner Portal Administrator
Channel Sales Director
Channel Sales Manager
Customer Data Steward
Data Steward Manager
Enterprise Contract Manager
Marketing Manager
Master Data Management Application Administrator
Partner Administrator
Partner Sales Manager
Partner Sales Representative
Sales Administrator
Sales Analyst
Sales Lead Qualifier
Sales Manager
Sales Representative
Sales VP
These predefined roles are part of the Oracle Sales Cloud security reference implementation. The security reference implementation is a predefined set of security definitions that you can use as supplied. Also included in the security reference implementation are roles that are common to all Oracle Cloud applications, such as:
Application Implementation Consultant
IT Security Manager
You must also assign the following abstract roles to all Oracle Sales Cloud users who are employees so they can carry out their work:
To create users with implementation privileges, you must provision special job roles. See the topic Creating Setup Users for Oracle Sales Cloud: Worked Example for more information.
This topic describes the roles provided by Oracle Sales Cloud and explains how they work together to provide users with permissions to application resources. Oracle Sales Cloud provides the following types of roles:
Job roles
Abstract roles
Duty roles
The permissions each role provides are described in security reference manuals available on http://docs.oracle.com.
The following figure shows each of the role types and how they relate to one another.
Abstract roles and job roles are also called external roles because they are created in the LDAP directory and are not specific to an application pillar. Duty roles are also known as application roles because these roles are created in the Sales Cloud database and are specific to each Oracle application pillar.
Job roles
Job roles represent the job functions in your organization. Sales Representative and Sales Manager are examples of predefined job roles. You can also create custom job roles.
Job roles provide users with the permissions they need to perform activities specific to their jobs. For example, providing a user with the Sales Manager job role permits the user to manage salespersons within the organization, follow up on leads, generate revenue within a territory, build a pipeline, manage territory forecasts, and assist salespeople in closing deals.
You assign job roles directly to users.
Abstract roles
Abstract roles represent a worker's role in the enterprise independently of the job they do. The following are examples of abstract roles used in Oracle Sales:
Contingent Worker
You can also create custom abstract roles.
Abstract roles permit users to perform functions that span across the different jobs in the enterprise. For example, users who are employees must be provisioned with the Employee abstract role, so they can update their employee profiles and pictures. For Oracle Sales Cloud, you must also provision users with the Resource abstract role, so they can work on leads, opportunities, and other sales tasks.
You assign abstract roles directly to users.
Duty roles
Job and abstract roles permit users to carry out actions by virtue of the duty roles they include. Duty roles represent the individual duties that users perform as part of their job. Duty roles are composed of security policies which grant access to work areas, dashboards, task flows, application pages, reports, batch programs, and so on.
Job roles and abstract roles inherit duty roles. For example, the Sales Manager job role includes the Sales Lead Follow Up Duty and the Quota Management Duty. The Sales Lead Follow Up Duty makes it possible for the managers to work with leads. The Quota Management Duty enables the management of sales territory quotas.
Duty roles can also inherit other duty roles. They're part of the security reference implementation, and are the building blocks of custom job and abstract roles. You can also create custom duty roles.
You don't assign duty roles directly to users.
Duty roles are associated with two types of security policies: functional security policies and data security policies. Security policies define the privileges provided by the duty role to access specific application resources. This topic describes both types of security policy.
Functional policies permit an individual who is assigned a duty role to access different user interface elements, Web services, tasks flows, and other functions. For example, a sales manager who has the Delete Opportunity functional policy will be able to view and click the Delete button. Removing that policy removes the button from view.
A functional policy is made up of the following:
A duty role name. The name of the duty where the policy applies, for example, Opportunity Sales Manager Duty.
A functional privilege that specifies the application features that are being secured, for example, View Opportunity.
In the security reference manuals, functional privileges are listed in the Privileges section.
Data security policies specify the roles that can perform a specified action on an object, and the conditions under which the action can be carried out. A data security policy is composed of:
A duty role name. The name of the duty where the policy applies. For example, Opportunity Sales Manager Duty.
A data privilege that defines the action being performed. For example, View Opportunity.
The condition that must be met for access to be granted. For example, sales managers can view opportunities provided they are in the management chain or are members of the sales team on the opportunity.
If the View All condition is specified, the duty role provides access to all data of the relevant type.
Each data security policy represents an underlying SQL query. The application evaluates the query at run time, and permits access to data that meets the condition. Data privileges are listed in the Data Security Policies section of the security reference manuals.
The conditions specified in data security policies control visibility to record-level data associated with a schema object, such as an opportunity. Conditions can use the following components as mechanisms for sharing data, provided that the sharing mechanism is applicable for the object:
Team membership
Partner team membership
Resource hierarchy
For example, for the Opportunity object, data can be shared through team membership, through the resource hierarchy, or through territory membership.
This topic describes how users inherit roles and privileges. In Oracle Sales Cloud, each role is a hierarchy of other roles:
Job and abstract roles inherit duty roles.
Duty roles can inherit other duty roles.
When you assign job and abstract roles to users, they inherit the data and functional security privileges associated with those roles.
This example shows how roles and privileges are inherited for a user assigned the Sales Manager job role.
The following figure shows a few representative duty roles. In reality, job and abstract roles inherit many duty roles, which themselves might inherit many duty roles.
In this example, an employee sales manager is provisioned with the roles needed to do the job: the Sales Manager job role, and the Employee and Resource abstract roles. Roles are inherited as follows:
The Sales Manager job role inherits the Quota Viewing Duty and the Sales Manager Duty.
Duty roles inherit other duty roles. For example, the Sales Manager Duty inherits many other duty roles including the Marketing Lead Analysis Duty and the Opportunity Sales Manager Duty.
The duty roles are associated with functional security policies and data security policies. For example, the inherited Opportunity Sales Manager Duty has:
Functional security policies that specify which application pages and functions sales managers can access for deleting, assigning, closing, creating, and viewing an opportunity. The View Opportunity policy, for example, permits sales managers to view all UIs, Web services, and task flows related to opportunities.
Data security policies that specify the actions opportunity sales managers can perform on what opportunities and under what conditions.
For example, opportunity sales managers can view all data related to opportunities if they are an opportunity sales team member with view, edit, or full access.
This topic explains how the security reference implementation provided by Oracle determines who can access what opportunity information in your sales organization.
Whether or not you can access a particular opportunity depends on your membership in the resource and territory hierarchies. You can access an opportunity if:
You create the opportunity.
You are on the opportunity sales team.
The opportunity owner or sales team member is your direct or indirect report in the resource hierarchy.
You are the owner or are a member of the territory assigned to the opportunity.
You are the owner or member of an ancestor territory of the territory assigned to the opportunity.
You are assigned to a territory for the account associated with the opportunity.
You are assigned to a territory that is an ancestor of the territory for the account associated with the opportunity.
Salespeople can see all opportunities related to their accounts. However, access differs between territory members and opportunity members:
An opportunity owner gets full access to the opportunity, which includes the ability to edit as well as add and remove team members.
Owners and members of territories or of ancestor territories assigned to the account of the opportunity get read-only access to the opportunity and are not added to the opportunity sales team.
Owners and members of territories assigned to the opportunity revenue lines are added as a distinct list of territories to the opportunity sales team. Owners and members of these territories get full access to the opportunity. Depending on a profile option, either only the owner or all the members of the territory are added as resources to the opportunity sales team. Regardless of the access level for these members as a resource on the opportunity team, they always have full access.
Owners and members of ancestor territories of the territory assigned to the opportunity do not get added to the opportunity sales team but they always get full access.
The following figure illustrates some of the different ways you can gain access to an opportunity:
Named agents in the diagram (A, B, and C) can access the opportunity.
Unnamed agents (highlighted in yellow) cannot access the opportunity.
Sales managers can access the opportunity because a salesperson in their management chain has access.
This figure shows who in a sales hierarchy can access an opportunity.
Agent A can access the opportunity because she created it. When you create an opportunity, you are the initial owner.
Agent B can access the opportunity because he is on the sales team.
Agent C can access the opportunity because he is the owner of the NW territory.
Sales managers who are higher up in the management chain can also see the opportunity because access is provided through the resource hierarchy. Agent C's manager can access the opportunity information, but agent C's colleagues cannot.
Access using accounts is not shown in this figure.
Some access is not affected by the management hierarchy and membership in sales teams or territories. This special access includes:
Administrators: Administrators get access to opportunities and other objects. This access is based on their privileges, regardless of where the administrators are in the management hierarchy. Administrators do not have to be on the sales team or members of territories.
Deal Protection: Salespeople assigned to an opportunity retain the sales credit on an opportunity even if they are moved to another opportunity.
This topic explains how the security reference implementation provided by Oracle Sales Cloud determines who can access lead information in your sales organization.
Qualified leads are assigned to a sales team based on sales territories. Unqualified leads are assigned to individual lead qualifiers either manually or based on rules defined in the assignment manager engine. Whether or not you can access a particular lead depends on your membership in the resource and territory hierarchies.
You can access a lead if:
You are the lead owner.
The lead owner is your direct or indirect report in the resource hierarchy.
You are a member of the lead sales team.
Resources in the management hierarchy of a newly added lead sales team member have the same level of access to the sales leads as the team member.
You are the owner of the territory the lead is assigned to or of ancestor territories.
You are a member of the sales territories assigned to the lead.
Only the lead owner, or resources in the management chain of the lead owner, can change the lead owner.
If the predefined security reference implementation doesn't fully represent your enterprise, then you can make changes.
For example, the predefined Sales Representative job role includes sales forecasting duties. If some business groups in your organization have the sales managers do forecasting, not the sales representatives, then you can create a custom Sales Representative role without those duties. Alternatively, if a predefined job role is too narrowly defined, then you can create a job role with a greater range of duties than its predefined equivalent.
During implementation, you evaluate the predefined roles and decide whether changes are needed.
If you change the security reference implementation, then it is recommended that you create custom roles rather than modify predefined roles.
If jobs exist in your enterprise that aren't represented in the security reference implementation, then you create custom job roles.
If the duties for a predefined job role don't match the corresponding job in your enterprise, then you add duties to or subtract duties from the job role.
If the duties for a job aren't defined in the security reference implementation, then you create custom duty roles.
The Security Reference for Oracle Sales Cloud includes descriptions of all predefined security data in the Oracle Sales security reference implementation. The Security Reference for Oracle Applications Cloud includes descriptions of all predefined security data that's common to Oracle Fusion Applications.
You can access all information in these manuals from various Oracle Sales user interface pages. For example, you can review individual job roles using the Manage Job Roles task. However, using the manuals you can compare roles and plan any changes.
You can access the security reference manuals on cloud.oracle.com. Select Resources - More Resources - for Business Users - Cloud Documentation - All Books.
The Security Reference for Oracle Sales Cloud contains a section for each predefined Sales job and abstract role. For each role, you can review its:
Role hierarchy
Function security privileges
This information can help you to identify which users need each role and whether to make any changes before provisioning roles.


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A Cost Analysis of an Institutional Token Motivational System
Howley, Thomas J.
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SubjectPeople with mental disabilities--Treatment--Analysis; Reward (Psychology)--Analysis; Behavior modification--Analysis; Cost effectiveness--Analysis
The problem: An analysis was performed on the cost and effectiveness of a token motivational system in a state hospital. Procedure: A token economy program, designed and implemented by a multidisciplinary team, attempted to motivate 48 retarded residents to perform 27 self-help skills and 51 work tasks. Six weeks of residents' baseline performance was compared to the effects of eight weeks of treatment programming. Cost break-outs of the total treatment cost for direct and indirect treatment cost, three stages of program development and a comparison of the monthly ward cost with and without the treatment program were performed. Findings: The treatment program was effective in increasing the self-help and work behaviors. The various cost breakouts indicated that: (a) professional and non-professional time was reallocated cost to the system, (b) the only major additional cost to the system was supplies, (c) the dollar cost for operating a large number of projects was relatively small. Conclusion: A behavior modification program fulfills the requirements for a Program-Planning-Budgeting-System analysis and makes possible an evaluation of the cost and effectiveness of a residential treatment program. Recommendations: Future research should be directed toward developing more useful empirical cost data collection procedures.
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Skaggs BASH is an exciting fundraising event that helps address the greatest health and wellness needs of Taney and Stone Counties. The festive gathering touts a different theme or interesting location each time it's held.
Mark your calendars now! This year, the BASH will be held on September 19th at Big Cedar's NEW Outdoor Academy! More details to come soon!
The 2013 Skaggs BASH on Saturday, October 5, 2013 at the spectacular new Top of the Rock was a night to remember! Thanks to the support of our generous sponsors, the evenings proceeds exceeded $100,000 for the first time in the BASH's 10 year history. Our special thanks to: Mrs. Evelyn Lasiter, Dot and Leon Combs, Sherry Herschend, Mary & John Joslyn, Chris Hamon, Sue Ann & Rick Huffman and Tracy and Tom Boyce. Many more fine companies and caring individuals purchased tables for 2 – 14 guests. More than 250 participants were thrilled with the world-class facility and service. The meal, from appetizer to delicious dessert, was a culinary delight in every way. Our most heartfelt gratitude to John L. and Jeanie Morris who gifted the meal as a donation to the Foundation, as well as their exceptional team at Top of the Rock who made the evening nothing short of magical. Thank you all!
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September 27, 2013
Mimi Kennedy will be performing at the Everson on Oct. 3. Kennedy has been acting since the 1960s and has appeared in several movie and TV shows, including "Dharma and Greg," "Erin Brockovich" and, most recently, "Midnight in Paris."
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Mimi Kennedy hasn't always been passionate about history. In fact, until the mid-1990s, she even disliked it. The actress, author and activist was doing research for a fictional story when she called Sally Roesch Wagner, the executive director at the Matilda Joslyn Gage Foundation, with a question. When Wagner told Kennedy about who Gage was and her role as an American suffragist and abolitionist, Kennedy said that a lightbulb turned on inside of her head.
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Presidents Bush and Obama have created a vigorous public debate since the September 11 attacks over whether suspects in the "war on terror" are entitled to a regular criminal trial, court-martial (the regular military justice system), or a "military commission" trial, or whether they are entitled to a trial at all. A "military commission" is traditionally an executive branch (or Article II) court, created to try war criminals in a time and place where there are no criminal or ordinary military courts to try suspects. But Congress has explicitly authorized them twice since the September 11 attacks. Bush's and Obama's actions since 2001 raise a number of fundamental constitutional questions: Can the President — as Bush tried to do — detain an American citizen indefinitely without trial? Can the President — as Obama claims — kill American citizens without trial? Are Bush's and Obama's efforts to detain foreigners indefinitely without trial constitutional? When, if ever, is a "military commission" constitutional? Can U.S. citizens be subject to a military commission? How about foreigners? Do the Bush/Obama military commissions follow the Constitution? And finally, putting aside constitutional principles, are military commissions more effective on a practical level in punishing suspected terrorists? The following are 11 constitutional principles about the trial rights of Americans and foreigners during the "war on terror."
What's the common thread between Europe's financial mess, particularly among the PIIGS (Portugal, Ireland, Italy, Greece and Spain), and the financial mess in the U.S.? That question could be more easily answered if we asked instead: What's necessary to cure the financial mess in Europe and the U.S.? If European governments and the U.S. Congress ceased the practice of giving people what they have not earned, budgets would be more than balanced. For government to guarantee a person a right to goods and services he has not earned, it must diminish someone else's right to what he has earned, simply because governments have no resources of their very own. The first order of business in reaching a solution to the financial mess in Europe and the U.S. must be the recognition that governments have been doing a class of unsustainable things, mostly giving people special privileges and things that they have not earned. It's a matter of not simply what's good or bad for the beneficiaries but what its effect is on society at large and the welfare of a nation.
Nevada has long been known as the easiest place in America to get a divorce — and a quick marriage. After a couple has had a "quickie" marriage and the marriage license has been mailed to them, the union is still not technically valid until either a clergyman or a justice of the peace in the state has performed a marriage ceremony and the officiant and the couple have signed the marriage license and it has been mailed to the proper government agency for validation. All that this law requires is that the clergyman performing the wedding provide proof that he is affiliated with a church or religious organization. The legal role allowed by Nevada law to a man of the cloth, however, is too much for the American Civil Liberties Union, which has filed suit in Clark County, contending that allowing priests, ministers, and rabbis to marry people in Nevada violates the so-called separation of church and state prohibitions in the Constitution.
Herman Cain's unexpected victory in Saturday's Florida Straw Poll has the media, especially the so-called "conservative" media, quite excited. Ronald Reagan, George H.W. Bush, and Bob Dole each won this contest, and each eventually received their party's presidential nomination. Thus, so goes the conventional reasoning, this poll is not without its share of significance as far as the end result of the GOP primaries is concerned. As usual, in covering this story, the pundits and "journalists" reveal both their proclivity for sensationalizing events and their seemingly insuperable cognitive challenges. That there is a coincidence between two events most certainly does not establish that there is a causal relation between them. In other words, that three Republican presidential aspirers won both the Florida Straw Poll and, subsequently, their party's nomination does not mean that the one event caused or predicted the other. There is a complex of factors, and one factor in particular, that this argument from prediction omits: namely, the fact that Reagan, Bush I, and Dole were all competitive in their respective races at the time that they achieved victory in Florida. The painful truth of the matter is that, judging from his polling numbers thus far, Cain hasn't been serious competition for anyone.
The hint given to Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein by their mysterious informant "Deep Throat" regarding President Nixon's involvement in the Watergate scandal was: "Follow the money." If the same counsel is followed today with regard to President Obama's fundraising, the discoveries are disturbing. With the Solyndra controversy still unraveling, President Obama has moved undauntedly on to the next suspicious entanglement with corporate beneficiaries of federal largesse. It is being reported that in a couple of weeks President Obama will be the benefactor of a fundraiser being organized by a Missouri businessman "whose company benefited from a $107-million federal tax credit to develop a wind power facility in his state." The name of this Friend of Barack is well-known in the Show Me State and in Democratic Party circles. Tom Carnahan is the 42-year-old son of the former Governor of Missouri Mel Carnahan and former U.S. Senator Jean Carnahan. The younger Carnahan was an attorney and is the founder of Wind Capital Group.
In keeping with his governing style, that is, rule by decree, "President" Chávez recently nationalized Venezuela's gold mining industry. With its expropriation, the dictator continues his campaign of "21st-century Socialism." Over the past decade, Hugo Chávez has radically altered Venezuela's economic landscape. Executing a pernicious, politically driven, nationalization program, the government has systematically taken over key sectors. In doing so, Chávez stripped private industry, its investors — not to mention political opponents — of infrastructure, private property, and profits. Since 2002, almost 1,000 companies have been seized. For socialists and statists the world over, this is something of a guide, a graduate seminar in confiscation and class warfare. But for the rest of us, it remains a lesson in economic decay and failed leadership. The takeover of gold mining operations should surprise no one. With gold commanding upwards of $1,600 dollars an ounce, the industry is highly profitable. And it is the profit of private enterprise that Chávez endeavors to exploit for his ends. As the dictator himself once said, "We can't have socialism if the state doesn't have control over its resources!"
In what many say is political correctness run amok, British schools have banned black witch hats for children, claiming that they are "racist." So-called diversity and equality experts in the United Kingdom assert that because the wicked witch appears in a black hat, while fairies — typically associated with sweetness and light — are often clad in pale, glistening colors, children are being indoctrinated to believe that all things light or white in color are by nature "good," while those that are black are inherently "bad." The Blaze reports, Now, to combat that perceived threat, primary school teachers in Britain are allegedly being encouraged by equality advocates to censor fictional children's characters, eliminating witches' black pointed hats in favor of white ones, while dressing fairies in dark colors. Proponents of this technique can claim the method will eliminate "racism" in children as young as two. Unsurprisingly, other innocuous items are also coming under fire. Take for example writing paper. The Telegraph reports:
The eighth annual "40 Days for Life" campaign to end abortion launches September 28 at an unprecedented 301 locations worldwide. Local volunteers are set to begin constant 24-hour prayer vigils outside abortion clinics in their respective cities from September 28 until November 6. Participants have also pledged to fast and pray privately during the crusade and to take part in community outreach programs as well. The campaign website explains 40 Days for Life "takes a determined, peaceful approach to showing local communities the consequences of abortion in their own neighborhoods, for their own friends and families." Forty-eight new locations have been added to this year's international event, including cities in Argentina, Puerto Rico, and Germany. Campaign organizers boast phenomenal success in the past, and they have high hopes for this year's substantially larger crusade. Campaign director Shawn Carney observed, "I often go back to those wonderful numbers — 4,313 lives saved from abortion, 53 clinic workers who've left the abortion industry, and 16 abortion centers that have gone out of business after 40 Days for Life's peaceful prayer vigils were held in the public right-of-way outside their doors." He anticipates tens of thousands will participate this year.
A lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of ObamaCare appears to be headed for the Supreme Court, which could end up ruling on the case in 2012, just as President Barack Obama is running for reelection. In August a three-judge panel of the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a Florida judge's ruling that the Affordable Care Act's individual mandate is unconstitutional. (The panel overturned his finding that the entire law is unconstitutional, however.) The Obama administration — the defendant in the case brought by 26 states and the National Federation of Independent Business — had the option of requesting a hearing by the entire 11th Circuit Court; but it chose not to do so by the September 26 deadline, which indicates that it is probably going to appeal directly to the Supreme Court. "If the court accepts the case before January," observes Politico, "it is likely to be put on the calendar to be heard in the spring. A decision would likely be postponed until June." That would, of course, put it smack in the middle of an election year in which the prime architect of the law is one of the candidates, raising the question of why the administration chose not to seek a ruling by the full 11th Circuit, which probably would have delayed a Supreme Court ruling until 2013.
Apparently the Federal Reserve is not the only entity threatened by gold. Central banks in Europe are restricting the sales of precious metals, presumably threatened by the fact that citizens are increasingly abandoning the devalued paper currencies and preserving their wealth by purchasing gold and silver. Most countries in Europe — with the exceptions of Germany and Switzerland — have already mandated that residents may acquire gold only by purchasing it directly from local bank branches. Banks have justified the new policies by claiming that they are intended to prevent money laundering.


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This should be interesting, just getting back into the hobby and bought some goodies since the stock chassis is getting trashed and the front bulkhead broken and not to mention, right rear aluminum eBay axle broke twice in one day (I had an extra from fronts which I never installed). I said screw it and bought these goodies
It's pretty much all disassembled as you can see
Now comes the fun part, putting it all back together on the unfamiliar FLM Chassis, which is bad by the way!!
The best thing I did was buy the stainless steel screw kit from RC Raven. The stock screws were junk and rusted to
Pretty much everything is aluminum except the A arms, axle stubs and front bumper which are RPM. Decided to also junk the stock plastic bell crank parts for GPM (coming from hong kong as we speak). Also front skid with an Evo 5 to match the rear. Trans plate is also an Evo 5. I have no idea on a color theme or new body but I fell in love with the Lime green dual rates from RC Raven which I have mounted to some 104mm eBay shocks.
Well, time to build....
First connection to the FLM is the rear FLM bulk and Integy towers, still waiting for GPM alum body mounts once again from over seas.


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Carver is a new project by cartoonist Christopher Hunt, a talented artist whose been been seen in Dark Horse, 12 Reasons To Die, Escapo and elsewhere. But Carver is his passion project, a story that starts in 1913 Paris with Carver himself, a man with a mysterious past, and skills with both his fists and with the ladies. It's adventurous, romantic and ready to rock and roll. You can read the first chapter here or watch the teaser
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Every year cartoonist Kate Beaton returns to her parents house in the maritimes for the holidays, and the series of hilarious and touching comics that result are getting to be a holiday tradition, as the intersection of parental concern and parental eccentricities combine to form HUMOR. IT's an experience that many of us are going […]
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As long as there have been comics, there have been people imagining what happens when Superman and Lois Lane have sex. Larry Niven's "Man of Steel, Woman of Kleenex" set the standard, with a sobering, scientific look at Kal-El's supersonic baby paste, and the potentially horrific effects of a human/Kryptonian hybrid pregnancy. And now the new artist of Rat Queens made his own little version.
Ben Towle on the webcomic to print process
Web serialization of a comic intended for print is one of the standard models of comics production now (Although it still isn';t profitable but that's a whole other post) and here's avery insightful post by Ben Towle on the conclusion of his webcomic, Oyster War. I've been enjoying his account of local skirmishes between 19th century Chesapeake Bay oyster farmers since he started it in 2008, and much has changed in how he put the comics out in that period, including the rise of Tumblr and yet more social media. Towle offers some VERY practical advice including how running it on GoComics affected the comics, mistakes in character design and URLS (get a separate URL for your comic) and also preparing for print:
Gurewitch is back with a new book on Kickstarter
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Okay not maybe the most chipper reading, but you'll be thankful for you life after you read it> Dave Sim's Judenhass (literally "Jew hate") a harrowing, sensitive look at anti-Semitism and its horrific result in the Holocaust is now being offered for free at the website and via the Sequential app for iPad. Sim may […]
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This time out, he's got a story to tell, and it's a strange and eerie one entitled Control Room. What happens when that space probe lands on Mars with several sisters aboard? Hit the link to find out.
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A lot of cartoonists—and many blogs, ahem—have taken to PAtreon as a means to finance the creation of comics. There are quite a few (a round up post is called for, maybe later this week) and Patreon doesn't make it clear who makes the most, the way Kickstarter does, but Jason Shiga recently hit $1000 a month for his Ignatz winning webcomic Demon. Given his analytic background, there's much of that in the post, but here's an excerpt:


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A Wolf at the DoorPosted by Jennifer duBois, March 26, 2012 11:56 am No Comments Filed under: Guests.
When my father was ill with Alzheimer's, he once brought home an enormous stuffed wolf from our town's local dump.When my father was ill with Alzheimer's, he once brought home an enormous stuffed wolf from our town's local dump. I was probably a sophomore in high school at the time. In those days my father was still driving short distances and talking, but not remembering or judging very well. He'd gone to the dump on an errand and had seen the wolf and felt sorry for it. The wolf had probably been abandoned because it was too terrifying for a child to love; it had a menacing red mouth and crazed, slightly manic blue eyes. But somehow it had engaged my father's sympathies, and he brought it home and sat it across from him at the dining room table, where he sat for many hours a day trying to rewrite his music. He'd been a very gifted composer in his previous life. By the time the wolf came to stay with us, my mother had long ago copied and hidden my father's original scores.
This snapshot — of my father sitting across from an enormous stuffed wolf, whose horrifying eyes my mother eventually concealed with sunglasses — is probably the single best distillation of the experience of Alzheimer's in my life. It's all there in that scene — my mother's love for my father in preserving his original scores, the remnants of my father's endlessly sweet and whimsical self in his concern for the wolf (this was very nearly the kind of thing he would have done when he was well), the strange repulsiveness of having a discarded stuffed wolf at the table, and the utter futility of trying to fight any of it. And also, just as much, is the consoling absurdity of the sunglasses: I remember how my mother and I laughed and laughed over them. It was a laughter tinged with desperation, but it was real. The wolf was truly funny — dark, and absurd, and horrible, and hilarious.The wolf was truly funny — dark, and absurd, and horrible, and hilarious. My mother and I engaged in this kind of laughter many times during the 13 years my father was sick, and we emerged armed with a capacity to take real comfort in absurdity. Of all the dubious blessings granted by Alzheimer's, this is the one for which I am the most grateful.
While I was writing A Partial History of Lost Causes, one of the first things I knew about the character of Irina was that she would have that quality — a hard-won capacity to find the redemptive comedy around the edges of tragedy. As Irina is confronting her diagnosis of Huntington's disease and all of its dreadful implications, she indulges in loads of self-pity without, I hope, ever losing her mordant sense of humor. She's capable of viewing her own attempts to disengage from life with a wry acknowledgment of their uselessness; she is capable of secretly and half-seriously suspecting that her own death will mean the end of the universe while simultaneously mocking herself for such epic solipsism. As she nears the end of her expected healthy life span, Irina is presented with the choice of either denying or embracing the bleak absurdity of her situation — and she doesn't only embrace the absurdity, she goes chasing it, running off to St. Petersburg to try to track down her dead father's beloved chess champion, Aleksandr Bezetov. (Bezetov, it turns out, has his own fairly absurd quest underway: a quixotic political campaign against Vladimir Putin.) And throughout Irina's travels, her own inner monologue — along with her robust sense of irony — is her most reliable companion, whether she's bumbling through a foreign political landscape or enduring the derision of a soldier in a night club. Humor is widely — and rightly, I think — understood as a kind of armor. But in Irina's case — as in the case of my mother and me — it's also a kind of salvation.
And in a small way, Irina's sense of humor speaks to the deeper elements of negative capability that she and Aleksandr — and everyone else in the world — must grapple with. We are expected to somehow live knowing that we will die. We are expected to die believing that the world will somehow pick itself up and stagger on without us. We are confronted with realities that are equally impossible to either believe or disbelieve. And sometimes — quite often, actually — things are hideous and hilarious at exactly the same time. Sometimes a stuffed wolf from the dump shows up at the table, and all you can do is offer it a pair of sunglasses.
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Methyl B12 (Methylcobalamin) Lozenges from Jarrow Formulas® may support the brain cells and nerve tissues. Methylcobalamin (methyl B-12) is absorbed and retained better' when compared to other forms of vitamin B-12.
This supplement from Jarrow Formulas® brings to you this essential form of vitamin B-12 in easy to take lozenges. Studies show that B-12 may help support nerve tissues and brains cell' promote sleep' and convert homocysteine to methionine' an essential amino acid.
Research has shown that methyl B-12 may positively help raise B-12 levels in the body' which in turn could help the body produce DNA. Regular doses of B-12 may also help with anemia and stunted growth. Vitamin B-12 might also be able to improve mental capacity and maintain emotional stability. Vitamin B-12 is also known to provide the body with energy and to regulate the body's biological clock.
Methyl B12 (Methylcobalamin) Lozenges from Jarrow Formulas® contains no wheat' gluten' soybeans' dairy' eggs' fish/shellfish' and peanuts/tree nuts.These statements have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). These products are not meant to diagnose' treat or cure any disease or medical condition. Please consult your doctor before starting any exercise or nutritional supplement program or before using these or any product during pregnancy or if you have a serious medical condition.
Serving Size: 1 Lozenge
Servings Per Container: 100
Amount Per Serving / %DV
Methylcobalamin (Methyl B12) 500mcg / 8'333%
Other ingredients: Xylitol' cellulose' stearic acid (vegetable source)' cherry flavor' citric acid and magnesium stearate (vegetable source).
No wheat' no gluten' no soybeans' no dairy' no egg' no fish/shellfish' no peanuts/tree nuts.
Suitable for vegetarians/vegans.
NOTE: Color of product naturally varies from light pink to red.
As a dietary supplement' dissolve in mouth or chew 1 lozenge per day or as directed by your qualified health care consultant.
If you have a medical condition' are pregnant' lactating' trying to conceive' under the age of 18' or taking medications' consult your health care practitioner before using this product.
Keep out of the reach of children.
Allergy / Dietary Needs
- Dairy Free
- Egg Free
- Fish Free
- Gluten Free
- Peanut Free
- Shellfish Free
- Tree Nuts Free
- Wheat Free
- Vegetarian Lozenges
- Vegan Lozenges
Ratings & ReviewsReview This Item
Overall Rating for Methyl B12 (Methylcobalamin) 500 mcg - 100 Lozenges
Displaying reviews 1-6 of 6
By S. Feher
from Placitas, NM
Good source of B12.
I've been using Methyl B12 by Jarrow Formulas because I had a deficiency in B12 as shown in lab work, and now my numbers are fine!
It works.
√ I would recommend this item to a friend.
By Tiffany
from VA
Works great!
My Vitamin B12 levels were pretty low and I decided to give Methyl B12 a try since I trust and love Jarrow Formulas. Worked great and B12 levels are now normal.
√ I would recommend this item to a friend.
By Gina Bock
from Oklahoma
Great product!
I am trying to raise my vitamin B12 levels and Methyl B12 by Jarrow Formulas works great!
√ I would recommend this item to a friend.
By Janine brown
from new york
Life saver
I am almost 6 months pregnant and suffer from anxiety and depression...Methyl B12 by Jarrow Formulas help tremendously and PureFormulas prices are the best around. I used to work in a health and wellness center, so I am so happy to have found Pureformulas.com.
Love that they are chewable and taste great.
√ I would recommend this item to a friend.
By Scott Ausburn
from Fort Worth
Great flavor
I've been taking Methyl B12 by Jarrow Formulas for several months now and no B12 deficiency.
Easy to take!
√ I would recommend this item to a friend.
By candace
from quincy, FL
Methyl B-12
These taste good one a day affordable and helped fix my WBC levels.
taste good chewable not expensive
doesnt keep well over time
√ I would recommend this item to a friend.
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Marion Zucker Goldstein
A comprehensive manual for the psychiatrist and other physicians who render their professional expertise to the ever increasing numbers of American nursing home residents. The manual includes state-of-the-art biopsychosocial practice models interwoven with profound understanding of current legislative mandates for health assessments, treatments, documentations, and communications with regional Medicare carriers. There is guidance here for the appropriate use of type, dose, and durations of medications commonly used by psychiatrist with suitable modifications for an elderly patient population with at times multiple comorbidities. The guidance for the use of ever changing complexities of mandated coding systems, by type, site, and time rendered is invaluable as is the alternative of hourly contractual arrangements with a nursing home. This manual will facilitate the work of all our colleagues who make a professional commitment to contribute to improve the quality of late life of patients who can no longer live independently in the community.