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About the Book
The badasses populating the pages of Badass are the most savagely awesome historical figures to ever strap on a pair of chain mail gauntlets and run screaming into battle. Author Ben Thompson—considered by many to be the Internet's foremost expert on badassitude—has gathered together a rogues' gallery of butt-stomping rogues, from Julius Caesar and Genghis Khan to Blackbeard, George S. Patton, and Bruce Lee. Their bone-breaking exploits are illustrated by top artist from the fields of gaming, comics, and cards—DC Comics illustrator Matt Haley and Thomas Denmark, illustrator for the collectible card game Magic: The Gathering. This is not your boring high school history—this is tough, manly, unrelentingly Badass!<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" />
An unstoppable collection of the most hardcore figures who ever strapped on chain mail and ran screaming into battle
Throughout history—from the bone-crushing age of antiquity to the sack-tearing modern era—there have been larger-than-life ass-kickers with a natural talent for unleashing their epic bloodlust on anyone who crossed them. They built empires, smashed armies, and ravaged civilizations for wealth, glory, and ultimate supremacy. Sometimes villains, sometimes heroes, sometimes criminally insane, they had one thing in common: They were all . . . Badass!
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An Indian warlord who commanded an army of drunken war elephants and employed an elite detachment of highly trained female bodyguards
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An unsung hero of the American Revolution, this powerful giant battled the British with a massive five-foot-long broadsword
Wolf the Quarrelsome
A mysterious barbarian leader who only appears in history twice—and both times he's kicking someone's ass
Bhanbhagta Gurung
A fearless Gurkha who won the Victoria Cross by clearing out six Japanese foxholes with nothing more than grenades, a bayonet, and a knife
From Alexander the Great to George S. Patton, from Genghis Khan to Bruce Lee, this pantheon of ass-kicking awesomeness should inspire you to quit your stupid job and dive headfirst into a new career as a professional badass.
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- On Sale: 10/27/2009
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USA, 2012, 71 Minute Running Time
Genre/Subject: Documentary
Program: DocumentaryLanguage: Spanish English Subtitles
DIRECTOR: Mark Kendall
Producer: Mark Kendall, Rafael GonzálezEditor: Mark KendallCinematographer: Mark Kendall
Tracing the course of a ten-year-old school bus from its auction in Pennsylvania to its new life in Guatemala is a journey from the safety of the American suburbs to a precarious existence in which extortion often determines life expectancy. Filmmaker Mark Kendall tells the story of one such bus in a beautifully imagined documentary that explores the fragility of life where civil institutions and authorities are powerless to protect citizens from organized crime. La Camioneta contrasts the ordinariness of the bus's mission in the U.S. with the vibrant but vulnerable existence it carves out in the hills and cities of Guatemala. In 2010 alone, 130 of that country's bus drivers lost their lives to violence perpetrated by extortionist gangs who destroy buses unless they're paid not to.
The central figure is a soft-spoken entrepreneur named Ermelindo, who buys the bus to try to ensure his family's financial future. As if to emphasize that the life of the bus might be fleeting, it is refurbished and elaborately festooned with feathers and images. Yellow and black go away, and what emerges is a highly crafted makeover that brightens the landscape. But nothing can wipe away the danger. Ermelindo must pay "protection" so that no one will kill his drivers. He understands that it's the cost of doing business, but that doesn't make it any less frightening.
Kendall's first film, the documentary short The Time Machine, was nominated for a Student Academy Award in 2011.
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High Tide warning in Miami
UA hits bumps but arrives safely for national championship
Published: Wednesday, January 2, 2013 at 7:09 p.m.
Last Modified: Wednesday, January 2, 2013 at 7:09 p.m.
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. | The University of Alabama's arrival at Miami International Airport on Wednesday didn't exactly go off without a snag, but the Crimson Tide was none the worse for the issues.
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Reserve offensive lineman Arie Kouandjio became dehydrated on the flight and was treated by medical personnel upon the Delta charter flight's landing, but the older brother of starting left tackle Cyrus Kouandjio had no further complications. Another reserve, tight end Harrison Jones, was not on the flight but will join the team today.
"We had one player that could not travel today for medical reasons, but he should join the team tomorrow," UA coach Nick Saban said. "That's Harrison Jones."
Notre Dame's team flight landed shortly before Alabama's.
Alabama held Wednesday's workout at its on-campus practice facility before the team flight, which arrived shortly after 4 p.m. local time. The team will hold three practices in Miami at Barry University.
"It's good to be back in South Florida at the Orange Bowl. I'm sure these people here are going to do a great job of providing tremendous hospitality for our players and our entire family," Saban said.
Saban was asked twice by local Miami media in a four-minute news conference about the way he handled his oft-criticized departure as coach of the NFL Miami Dolphins when he came to Alabama in 2007.
"I've made my comments about all that. We all learn things about ourselves as we go. Some things we all would like to be differently," Saban said. "We've said what we have to say about it. We're happy to be here and we're focused on the opportunity we have with our team, with this team."
Team captains Barrett Jones, Damion Square and Chance Warmack each spoke about keeping the team focused on the game despite the various distractions available in Miami's party-centric South Beach area.
"I don't think it will be hard. I think a lot of our guys know we're here for the national championship," Jones said. "While this is going to be a fun trip, for us it's going to be a business trip. We're really not here to have fun. We're here to win the game."
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Rachel is a graduate student at San Francisco State. She received her Bachelor's in Communication from University of the Pacific. In addition to working at BookRenter, she coaches high school and club volleyball. In her spare time, you can find her playing with her golden retriever, Mollie, and cheering on her hometown San Francisco Giants.
This blog post is the second about Greek Life in college. Click here to read part 1.
There are 400,000 active members in Greek organizations nationwide. And many of these organizations are gearing up for spring recruitment (formally known as rush). But what does it mean to go Greek and be Greek?
We've all seen the TV shows and movies. Legally Blonde, Sydney White, Animal House, Greek. What do they all have in common? They depict college Greek life. But when there are no actors and no cameras, Greek life is not exactly what Hollywood shows us it is.
Being Greek means being part of a community that exists not only on your college campus but all around the country. Being Greek means being involved in philanthropy projects and community service. Being Greek means being held accountable to higher academic standards, as determined by minimum GPAs. Being Greek means living and experiencing college with your best friends.
Here are some pretty neat facts about the Greek community (thanks, East Carolina University!):
- All but two of the US presidents, since 1825 have been Greek
- All but two of the US vice presidents, since 1825 have been Greek
- 30% of US Congressmen/women are Greek
- 42% of US Senators are Greek
- 40% of all Supreme Court Justices have been Greek
- 30% of Fortune 500 Executives are Greek
- 71% of Greeks graduate college, while only about 50% of non-Greeks do
- All of the Apollo 11 astronauts were Greek
- Greeks make up only 2% of the US Population
Furthermore, Greeks give back – both to charity and to their universities – once they have graduated and moved on. Greek alumni give approximately 75% of all money donated to universities. Undergraduate collegiate members raised about $7 million per year for charities and give around 850,000 volunteer hours per year.
Delta Delta Delta sorority recently donated $10 million to St. Jude Children's Research Hospital. Pi Kappa Phi fraternity has had over 1,500 members participate in the bicycle treks of the Journey of Hope and Gear Up Florida and the construction event, Build America.
Going Greek is not for everyone, but for people who do join it can be a life-changing experience. Who knows, yours bridesmaids may be your sorority sisters or the next President of the United States could be your fraternity brother!
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LINDEN - FBI agents unearthing a Linden well in search of murder victims buried there by killers Wesley Shermantine and Loren Herzog reached a depth of 65 feet Friday without making any discoveries.
Work on the Flood Road well has being ongoing for 25 days, FBI spokeswoman Gina Swankie said. The recovery team removes and sifts through 5 to 7 feet of soil a day, she said.
This marks the second round of searching for the killers' victims. One year ago, Herzog committed suicide after learning that Shermantine was leading officials to the burial places.
Based on Shermantine's tips, two victims were found in Calaveras County. A well on Flood Road near the current excavation site revealed three women and a fetus.
"Despite the risks and challenges, the team involved in this effort remains focused on returning victims home to families," said Herbert Brown, special agent in charge of the Sacramento FBI office.
Shermantine was taken off of death row for a day in August to point out possible burial places but has said since he believes they are digging up a well that he did not show them.
Agents responded that they are working off of sources including Shermantine's, and that his recollections have not been accurate. They will not say what other sources have guided them.
The hard pan soil has proved challenging. The excavation team is drilling a hole near the original well, giving workers access to the softer fill soil, which they are hand sifting.
Brown thanked relatives of missing victims for their patience in the ongoing work.
"The investment of time and resources in this extensive excavation effort was not made in haste or absence of thorough investigation and careful consideration of available information," he said.
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-Guelah Papyrus: crowd was going NUTS!
-Round Room: another great bustout, I was SOOOO happy to finally hear this song. MSG is a round room, after all
-Walk Away: raged harder than the Hartford version, IMO.
-Reba: very great Reba jam, not quite Augusta, but I might call it the 2nd best of 3.0
-Walls of the Cave: so much energy here, great way to end the first set. They nailed it
Set 2 speaks for itself. No need to point out "highlights", just listen to the whole thing. AMAZING performance.


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"These guidelines have been anxiously awaited by industry for almost a year now, so it's nice to see them finally come out," says Levine. "They're a very positive and big step forward for development of biosimilar products in the US."
Levine says there was nothing necessarily new or surprising about the guidelines. "I think FDA has been telegraphing what was going to be in these guidelines for some time now. They made presentations throughout 2010 and 2011 at various industry conferences and they've published several articles over the last year that talked about their approach to the development of guidelines for biosimilars." One of the most positive aspects of the new guidelines, according to Levine, is FDA's totality-of-evidence approach. "FDA has been talking about this approach for awhile, meaning they'll look at the approval of biosimilars as a compilation of all of the evidence and characterization that a company has developed for a particular molecule. What this means is that there will, obviously, be extensive characterization of the biosimilar product using what FDA refers to as state-of-the-art analytical techniques." Levine adds that human clinical trials will always be required for a biosimilar, however. Even with the detailed biochemical and biophysical characterization, there may still be a need for animal studies in some cases.SIMILARITIES BETWEEN US AND EU GUIDANCE DOCUMENTS
Levine sees similarities between the new FDA guidance and the current guideance in Europe. "They follow very closely along the lines of the European Union law," he says. Levine notes, however, that there are a few differences between the two, some of which are favorable to developers of biosimilars in the US and some of which actually are much less favorable than the EU law.
Levine continues, "I think one of the biggest advantages of the new guidance is the allowance of a non-US reference standard for clinical trials. In the EU, the reference standard that's used to compare a biosimilar must be an EU-approved product. What FDA has done has allowed the use, for example, of European reference standards for approval of a biosimilar in the US. This is really very, very good news for companies developing biosimilars, because if they have clinical trials already underway in Europe, for example, using a European reference standard, those clinical trials don't necessarily have to be repeated—provided they can show that the reference standard is an acceptable one for the US submission. Likewise, companies which haven't started their clinical development can put together a clinical program that encompasses both the EU and the US, again, by incorporating an EU reference standard."


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1. Planning my career - first stages: 20:16
It's much easier to act than it is to react, and it's less stressful too. When you have goals and clear ways to work towards them, other people tend to go along with the suggestions.
My job is to make my manager and my team members look good. That means understanding the pressures they're under and helping them meet those expectations while making the best use of my talents. It's a good thing my goals are flexible
So, where do I want to go?
I want to gather, refine, document and spread good practices around Web 2.0 and other collaborative technologies. That's one of my medium-term goals. Because the market is still emerging, I need to make my own rain. If I can do that part effectively, then projects that fit my interest in that will flow into the pipeline over the next year.
I also need to develop skills in an area that my department specializes in. This reduces the pressure on my manager and makes him look good. If I can do it in a way that also helps me advance to my own goals, all the better. Portal seems to be the best fit, because it naturally leads into Web 2.0. I need to find out how to get started with that. I want to look at the jobs that I'm not currently qualified for, to give me an idea of which skills are in demand. This covers my short-term career planning.
And I still want to do my book and have a good home life. Tall order, but it can be done.
So, what can I do to make this easier? Now that I've got my goals straight, it'll be easier for me to prioritize my day-to-day activities. Because I'm doing a lot of things, time spent "sharpening the saw" becomes even more valuable. I need to know and use whatever tools and practices that can save me time. I need to continue reflecting on and incrementally improving the way I work. That's the best way to keep it manageable.
Let's see how this goes. =)
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2. Setting up appointment reminders in Org: 20:32
Although the agenda view is very handy, it is generally not a good idea to check the agenda view every three seconds to see if you have upcoming appointments. You can set up Org to use the Emacs appointment reminder system, which can pop up a reminder buffer before your appointment or display a reminder in the modeline.
org-agenda-to-appt scans all your agenda files for appointments for today. The code for org-agenda-to-appt can be found in org.el. It's marked experimental, so future versions may not include it. If you do not have org-agenda-to-appt, add the following to your ~/.emacs:
;; Make appt aware of appointments from the agenda (defun org-agenda-to-appt () "Activate appointments found in `org-agenda-files'." (interactive) (require 'org) (let* ((today (org-date-to-gregorian (time-to-days (current-time)))) (files org-agenda-files) entries file) (while (setq file (pop files)) (setq entries (append entries (org-agenda-get-day-entries file today :timestamp)))) (setq entries (delq nil entries)) (mapc (lambda(x) (let* ((event (org-trim (get-text-property 1 'txt x))) (time-of-day (get-text-property 1 'time-of-day x)) tod) (when time-of-day (setq tod (number-to-string time-of-day) tod (when (string-match "\\([0-9]\\{1,2\\}\\)\\([0-9]\\{2\\}\\)" tod) (concat (match-string 1 tod) ":" (match-string 2 tod)))) (if tod (appt-add tod event))))) entries)))
Load today's appointments every time you start Emacs by adding the following to your ~/.emacs:
or call it interactively with M-x org-agenda-to-appt.
If you delete an appointment from your Org agenda file, the corresponding alert is not deleted. To delete the appointment, use M-x appt-delete and select it from the list.
A better way to keep your appointment list clean would be to remove all the appointment entries before calling org-agenda-to-appt. Add the following to your ~/.emacs to do so:
(defadvice org-agenda-to-appt (before wickedcool activate) "Clear the appt-time-msg-list." (setq appt-time-msg-list nil))
To learn more about configuring the Emacs appointment reminder system, check out the Emacs manual.
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The Mississippi House has advanced a bill to make changes that manufacturers and business groups are seeking in the workers compensation system.
Senate Bill 2576 passed the House 59-58 on Thursday. The bill returns to the Senate for more work.
Among other things, the bill says if a worker is injured on the job, the employer could test the worker for drugs and alcohol.
Supporters say the bill would balance a system that now unfairly favors workers.
Opponents say the insurance system for paying for on-the-job injuries is already balanced and the changes would put too many hurdles between injured workers and payment.
The House changed the bill. The Senate can either accept those changes or seek final negotiations with the House.
Voting yes were 58 Republicans and 1 Democrat. Voting no were 2 Republicans and 56 Democrats. One Democrat voted present. Two Republicans and one Democrat did not vote. One Republican was
Republicans voting yes (58)
Alday, Walls; Aldridge, Tupelo; Arnold, Booneville; Barker, Hattiesburg; Barton, Moss Point; Beckett, Bruce; Bell, Fulton; Bennett, Long Beach; Bounds, Philadelphia; Boyd, Mantachie; Chris Brown, Aberdeen; Busby, Pascagoula; Byrd, Petal; Carpenter, Burnsville; Chism, Columbus; Crawford, Pass Christian; Currie, Brookhaven; DeLano, Biloxi; Denny, Jackson; Eure, Biloxi; Formby, Picayune; Frierson, Poplarville; Gipson, Braxton; Guice, Ocean Springs; Gunn, Clinton; Hamilton, Olive Branch; Haney, Gulfport; Hood, Stewart; Horne, Meridian; Howell, Kilmichael; M. Huddleston, Pontotoc; Jennings, Southaven; Ladner, Poplarville; Lott, Sumrall; Martinson, Madison; Massengill, Hickory Flat; Mayo, Oxford; McGee, Brandon; McLeod, Lucedale; Mettetal, Sardis; Mims, McComb; Monsour, Vicksburg; Moore, Brandon; Morgan, Morgantown; Nelson, Southaven; Pigott, Tylertown; Read, Gautier; M. Rogers, New Albany; R. Rogers, Pearl; Rushing, Decatur; Shirley, Quitman; Shows, Ellisville;
Snowden, Meridian, Staples, Laurel; Turner, Baldwyn; Weathersby, Florence; Woods, Byhalia; Zuber, Ocean Springs.
Democrats voting yes (1)
Malone, Carthage.
Republicans voting no (2)
Baker, Brandon; DeBar, Leakesville;
Democrats voting no (56)
Bailey, Greenville; Bain, Corinth; Banks, Jackson; Baria, Bay St. Louis; Barnes, Gulfport; Blackmon, Canton; Broomfield, Moss Point; Cecil Brown, Jackson; K. Buck, Holly Springs; K.C. Buck,
Jackson; Burnett, Tunica; Calhoun, Jackson; Clark, Pickens; Clarke, Jackson; Cockerham, Magnolia; L. Coleman, Mound Bayou; M. Coleman, Jackson; Dickson, Macon; Dixon, Raymond; Eaton, Taylorsville; Ellis, Starkville; Espy, Clarksdale; B. Evans, Monticello; J. Evans, Jackson; M. Evans, Preston; Flaggs, Vicksburg; Gardner, Batesville; Gibbs, West Point; Harrison, Columbus; Hines,
Greenville; Holland, Plantersville; Holloway, Hazlehurst; Horan, Grenada; R. Huddleston, Sumner; Johnson, Natchez; Lamar, Senatobia;
Lane, Waynesboro; Middleton, Port Gibson; Moak, Bogue Chitto; Myers, McComb; Oberhousen, Jackson; Patterson, Biloxi; Perkins, Greenwood; Reynolds, Charleston; Scott, Laurel; F. Smith, Carthage; Straughter, Belzoni; Stringer, Montrose; Sullivan, Okolona; Thomas, Indianola; Warren, Mount Olive; Watson, Hattiesburg; White, West;
Whittington, Schlater; Wooten, Jackson; Young, Meridian.
Democrat voting present (1)
Miles, Forest.
Republicans not voting (2)
J. Smith, Columbus; Upshaw, Diamondhead.
Democrat not voting (1)
Steverson, Ripley.
Republican absent (1)
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There were 65 bookings at the San Joaquin County Jail in the 24 hours ending at 8 a.m. Friday. At that time, there were 1,414 people held at the jail, which has an official capacity of 1,411. When the jail is full, some inmates may be released early.
Weapons arrest: Officers from the Community Response Team and the San Joaquin County Wide Multi-Agency Gang Taskforce conducted a traffic stop at 5 p.m. Thursday at Iris Avenue and Kiltie Way and said they found a passenger in possession of a loaded stolen handgun. They arrested a 16-year-old boy and confiscated the gun, which had been reported stolen in a local residential burglary.
The California Highway Patrol responded to 20 noninjury accidents and four injury accidents in the 24 hours ending at 8 a.m. Friday. CHP officers also arrested 10 people on for misdemeanor charges and recovered three stolen vehicles.
The Stockton Fire Department responded to 97 calls for service in the 24 hours ending at 8 a.m. Friday, including seven vehicle accidents, 61 medical calls and four structure fires.
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- Jan 9:
- Police believe suspected Antioch kidnapper attempted abductions the day before his arrest
- Jan 8:
- Antioch kidnapping suspect charged with six felonies
- Jan 6:
- Antioch kidnapping: Pittsburg Target store employee cracks case, police say
- Jan 4:
- Antioch kidnap victim, 7, reunited with family; suspect held
- Antioch police chief releases statement on 7-year-old's abduction and safe return
- Jan 3:
- Antioch girl rescued after being abducted in front of her home
MARTINEZ -- In an exclusive jailhouse interview Monday, David Douglas admitted to kidnapping a 7-year-old Antioch girl, calling the abduction a "cry for help" after his life swirled out of control.
The 43-year-old man, who described himself as homeless and unemployed, insisted he did not sexually assault the girl, as police have said they suspect. Instead, Douglas said, he spent the four hours after the abduction trying to calm her, even buying her food from McDonald's.
"It was a cry for help to get out of a situation," Douglas said numerous times during the 30-minute interview at County Jail in Martinez, although he struggled to explain what the "situation" is.
"Do I look like a child molester?" Douglas, who sported close-cropped hair and wore a yellow jail jumpsuit, asked a reporter repeatedly. "I'm not."
Comments by Douglas, as well as court documents, also allude to mental illness.
Antioch detectives were still building a case to present to the Contra Costa District Attorney's Office on Monday, and acting Capt. Robin Kelley said she could not comment on details as the investigation continued.
Douglas was arrested on suspicion of kidnapping and is being held on $4 million bail. He has no previous criminal history in Contra Costa County.
Douglas said that about 6:45 p.m. Friday, he followed the girl and her mother from the Antioch Walmart to their Hummingbird Drive home, then abducted her. It was the day after his 43rd birthday.
Asked why he picked that girl, he said it was a "setup," and that it was "arranged by the ..." He paused for more than a minute, saying he was searching for the right word, and never finished the sentence.
He declined to comment on police reports connecting him to an earlier abduction attempt at the same Walmart.
Douglas said he did not have a gun, as described by police, only a "stick."
"When I picked up (the girl, whom this newspaper is not naming because of the possibility she was abused) we were both scared. I said to her, 'I'm frightened too.' So I thought, why not drive around a little and see if she'll stop shaking and I'll tell her why I'm doing this," he said.
The pair went to a McDonald's drive-thru, where he bought her some Chicken McNuggets -- which she didn't eat, he said. He began telling her about his life, and about his 7-year-old son, who like the girl has Filipino ancestry.
"Other than the abduction, once we calmed down, we got to know each other pretty quickly. I was able to calm her down pretty fast," he said.
"I tried to think of something to tell her, so I said I'm an angel sent by God to get her," and they had to wait to hear from God what to do next, Douglas said.
Douglas said he eventually drove to the Antioch Marina, where he had been parking his gold Toyota Camry the past few months and sleeping.
He said he cleared out the back seat; the girl lay down and he put a blanket over her, and she laid her head on a pillow, he said. "She fell asleep pretty quickly," he said. He said he smoked a couple of cigarettes -- "How can I sleep after something like that?" -- and then joined her in the back seat.
"I was leaning over and asking if she was cold and if she needed to use the restroom," he said. "That's when the cops rolled up on me."
The marina is just four blocks from the Antioch police station.
"That's the whole thing. Why would I do something so obvious? ... It's something I did as a cry out" to my family, he said.
"There's a situation I'm in right now that I can't get out of," he said, saying it started when his wife left him.
On Nov. 20, Douglas' stepfather, Richard Shankey, of Antioch, filed a domestic violence restraining order against Douglas, asking a judge to keep him 100 yards away from his family and to kick him out of their Antioch house. Two days earlier Douglas had been screaming at Shankey and his wife; police responded to that incident, Shankey noted in the court document. Shankey wrote that the screaming had extended over a three-month period before Nov. 20, focusing on Douglas' anger about his job search failures and his family's failure to get him an appointment with a college psychology department.
At a Dec. 12 hearing in Pittsburg, Douglas and his stepfather appeared before Judge Brian Haynes, who denied the domestic violence restraining order, according to court records. The record does not say why.
A Facebook entry for Douglas identifies current jobs; however, in a Sept. 30, 2012, post, Douglas said he had been looking for work for almost two years, and that it was "tough."
He also posted photos that show him in a Marines uniform, and he says he trained for the Persian Gulf War.
In his jailhouse interview, Douglas asked numerous times for a reporter to bring in psychologists, behavioralists and cryptologists to help him.
When asked, a reporter told Douglas he had children of his own. The accused kidnapper's eyes welled up with tears -- his first show of emotion during the interview.
"It doesn't make sense now, but it will in more time," he said. "Crazy."
Staff writers Judith Prieve and Jennifer Modenessi contributed to this report. Contact Matthias Gafni at 925-952-5026. Follow him at Twitter.com/mgafni.


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by Carolyn Baker,
New York Times reporter, Chris Hedges, has written an extraordinary book, American Fascism: The Christian Right And The War On America. Having survived a Christian fundamentalist background myself, I marvel at the timely urgency of Hedges' book, but also, at the obtuse disconnect most Americans have with the pivotal thesis of his book: the power of the religious right in the United States to bring forth a nation whose totalitarian repression could dwarf that of Nazi Germany in the 1930s. As Hedges notes, we are well on the path toward such a reality, and the Domionist Christian right is a principal player in the process.
While the nucleus of that movement is small, measuring only about 1% of evangelicals and led by the likes of James Dobson, Pat Robertson, Jerry Falwell, and John Hagee, those leaders are supported by throngs of evangelicals sympathetic to their theocratic views who dutifully preach the consummate tenet of the movement, submission.
Citizens must submit to their government officials, particularly the ones who claim to be born-again Christians and receiving their orders from God; wives must submit to husbands — children must submit to parents; and everyone must submit to the teachings of the bible as interpreted by evangelical Christianity or burn in hell. I will herein use the term "Christian fascism" or "Cristo-fascism" as synonymous with a worldview and political philosophy which are both fundamentalist Christian and fascist in nature.
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Recently, I viewed a chilling documentary "Jesus Camp", which examines "the evangelical belief that a revival is underway in America that requires Christian youth to assume leadership roles in advocating the causes of their religious movement." [1]The film follows a group of evangelical kids who attend a summer camp where they are taught to become dedicated Christian soldiers in God's army. Under the leadership of control-freak youth pastor, Becky Fischer, who makes Nurse Ratchet in "One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest" look like Snow White, the children are told that theirs is a unique generation—perhaps the last on earth before the return of Christ to rapture his church, and that just as Musilm children learn at an early age to carry and use automatic weapons so that they can die for Islam, Christian kids must learn to fight in the Jesus army in order to save souls and take back America for God—and be willing to die for Jesus.
One not need be a licensed mental health professional to find the emotional manipulation, indoctrination, and outright brainwashing of the Jesus camp both repulsive and enraging. Its squeaky-clean, almost exclusively white, puerile participants mouth all the right jargon, concepts, and scripture verses impeccably and robotically like good little Christian boys and girls—or more chillingly, like Hitler youth. Jesus Camp is nothing less than childhood spiritual abuse on steroids, leaving me personally and eternally grateful that as a child growing up in fundamentalism, I wasn't subjected to anything worse in the context of religious services than the raspy screams of bible-thumping preachers
Hedges' brilliant article, "The Christian Right And The Rise Of American Fascism" outlines several principles inherent in Christian fascism, and to his list, I will add a few of my own:
1)Apocalyptic Violence—A central tenet of Cristo-fascism is the belief that after the Rapture or Christ's returns to rescue Christian believers and take them to heaven, a period of seven years, or the Tribulation, will ensue in which an Anti-Christ will dominate the world, and every horror imaginable will be unleashed on humankind. Those who do not submit (again a pivotal word for Christian fascism) and accept Christ as their personal savior, will be martyred but will be assured of spending eternity in heaven with Christ. Those who do submit will be condemned eternally to hell. After the Tribulation period, Christ will return again with the "army" of Christians in heaven, and the battle of Armageddon will be fought against the Anti-Christ and his armies. The latter will be slaughtered by Christ and his followers who will set up Christ's kingdom on earth where he will reign for one thousand years, followed by the total and complete destruction of earth as Christ and his followers return to heaven.
Sounds like a scene from the movie "Independence Day"? Actually, that movie cannot begin to capture the heinous barbarity that Christian fascism fantasizes will befall the earth and those who reject Christ. That scenario is a bloodbath of unimaginable, avenging horrors. Note that not only will non-Christian human beings be decimated, but so will the earth itself, the outcome being twofold: Humans who do not submit to Jesus will be destroyed, and the planet itself will be annihilated. How delicious the vindication for the Cristo-fascist psyche! Not only will people who reject their Jesus be grotesquely punished, but their God will prove himself more powerful than the very planet on which they live. Obviously, no need here to worry about global warming — at least the kind created by humans.
God will incinerate the earth — his own instantaneous global warming, triumphing over all enemies of both himself and the Christian fascists. As Hedges notes, these fantasies of monstrous cruelty are appealing to many within the Christian-fascist movement because "The loss of manufacturing jobs, lack of affordable health care, negligible opportunities for education and poor job security has left many millions of Americans locked out. This ideology is attractive because it offers them the hope of power and revenge. It sanctifies their rage."[2] And if any group of people on earth is enraged, it is the Cristo-fascists whose rancor is every bit as caustic and virulent as that of any Islamist fundamentalist on a suicide mission.
2) One reason Hedges labels these individuals fascist has not only to do with their positioning themselves on the political right, but specifically, their fanatical insistence on submission to theocratic government. Had George Orwell been a born-again Christian, twenty-first century Cristo-fascists would probably declare him a saint. (War is holy, and killing is sacred.) Their preferred polity is biblical totalitarianism in which the principles embraced by secular society are perceived as untrue and antithetical to their God and his Word. Unquestioning obedience to fundamentalist Christian theology and its resultant theocracy are the cornerstones of Cristo-fascism in twenty-first century America.
3) As a result, adherents are diametrically opposed to a secular world view and the tenets of modern science. As I have commented in other articles[3] in recent years, fundamentalist Christianity generally distrusts, and often despises human reason. Millions of children in America are being home-schooled, and 75% of them are children from fundamentalist Christian homes.[4]
Home-schooling can offer an extraordinary alternative to attending public school, but for fundamentalist Christians, it serves, among other things, to shield their children not only from grappling with such issues as evolution and global warming, but learning the scientific method itself and the basic principles of critical thinking and logical analysis.
4)Cristo-fascism is overwhelmingly a white Anglo-American movement. While one sees growing numbers of African Americans and Hispanics joining their ranks, the movement remains predominantly white and rabidly Islamophobic. Most outspoken on this issue is San Antonio's megachurch pastor, John Hagee, who perceives Islam as the new Satan which must be destroyed by Israel and the United States.
5) While Christian fascism cannot give enough lip service to the "culture of life" it is morbidly death-obsessed in its raging support of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and capital punishment. The popularity of the grisly, sado-masochistic "The Passion Of The Christ" among fundamentalist Christians, as well as the Jesus Camp's indoctrination of children to be willing and proud to "die for Jesus" further belie Cristo-fascism's death fetish.
6) A new Christian Gestapo is in the works as the Christian right is working vehemently to take control of military chaplaincies and create in Hedges words, "America's Holy Warriors." He points out that during the last century communist and fascist movements each built paramilitary forces that operated beyond the reach of the law. The frightening popularity and proliferation of the private security firm, Blackwater, founded by a mega-millionaire right-wing Christian, Erik Prince, has not only become a giant mercenary force in Iraq, but was heavily used in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina. Increasingly, Cristo-fascists are becoming more blatant about their wish to force conversion to Christ through the barrel of a gun. A typical image of this concept, dripping with testosterone, may be viewed at the website of Force Ministries.
Just this week, conservative theologian, Doug Giles, appeared on Fox News arguing that Christian males should be tougher because "Jesus wasn't a bearded lady". Christians, he said, should stop raising nice boys and raise warriors who can fight terrorism.
In answer to the question of what is to be done, I would assert as I usually do: Knowledge is power. Fundamentalist Christianity is inherently delusional. One cannot reason with its adherents nor influence them with facts. What one can do is understand first of all that the United States has become a fascist empire. If one takes seriously Mussolini's definition of fascism, "the corporate state", then this nation was well on its way even before the ascendancy of the Bush II administration and September 11, 2001.
Furthermore, it is time for those who consider themselves politically progressive to stop "tolerating" Cristo-fascists. Certainly, these individuals have every right to believe whatever they choose to believe, but when one comprehends the inherently fascist nature of both their religion and their politics, one must necessarily confront not only their ghastly disregard for separation of church and state, but their implacable commitment to engineering a fundamentalist Christian theocracy in the United States.
The exponential growth of the Cristo-fascist movement in the past six years is yet another symptom of empire and a somnambulant society in the throes of collapse. Whether or not one embraces Christianity or any religion, for that matter, it is instructive to engage in reality-checking the actual teachings of Jesus in the New Testament, and specifically, the gospels and other sacred writings which were excluded from the bible in the fourth century for political and socio-economic reasons in order to streamline Constantine's hierarchical, imperial, Christian regime—the world's first but not last, Christian theocracy. With that in mind, I highly recommend The Jesus Mysteries, by Timothy Freke and Peter Gandy.
Carolyn Baker, Ph.D. is author of a forthcoming book, COMING OUT FROM CHRISTIAN FUNDAMENTALISM: Affirming Life, Love and The Sacred. Her recent book U.S. HISTORY UNCENSORED: What Your High School Textbook Didn't Tell You is available at her website: www.carolynbaker.org.
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I have had direct exposure to some of the cristo-fascist acting out by a couple of their members and am appalled by how they not only don't give a shit about the planet's condition (see the above conditions mentioned) but they actually see themselves as persecuted by EVERY OTHER non-cristo-fascist point of view which pretty much takes in the rest of humanity. This is not an exaggeration. I've seen/experienced it first-hand. I have never seen anything so violently delusional, so contagious or so virulent spreading like wild-fire in our country like this kind of garbage is today. It's like a hell of a lot of Americans traded in their I.Q.'s for this phenomenally dangerous and insidious group-think poison.
"Long Live the Empire!"
Aint no Luke Skywalker on our horizon. We be fucked.
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What a lazy piece of writing. The problem with Christo-fascists to the extent that they exist at all, is that they are not fundamentals - ie their movement is clearly not Biblically based. The author could have mentioned this.
Then again, the author is obviously struggling with basic comprehension skills when she offers the link to "Force Ministries" apparently in support of her statement "Increasingly, Cristo-fascists are becoming more blatant about their wish to force conversion to Christ through the barrel of a gun"
There is nothing at that site about forcing conversions at the point of a gun. In fact, the point of the ministry seems to be to put some meaning into the lives of soldiers who otherwise gain solace through "beer and buddies".
There is about as much substance to this article as there was to the (now disproven) assertion that wildlife rangers at the Grand Canyon were ordered to lie about the age of the Canyon to pander to creationists. All of which makes me wonder why Christians are being targetted in this way?
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"All of which makes me wonder why Christians are being targetted in this way?"
Its the Muslim funding in Hollywood and the left media. They hate Jesus almost as much as the hate us.
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Anyone who reads this and ponders an answer whether you're a Christian or an atheist should first ask yourself who is not discussed in this article that is a prime figure of the Biblical Judgment and the convictions of Gods law of creation upon sin. His generic name is mentioned but never slandered and yet he is the leader and creator of sin. Satan is not mentioned because he leads men like the one who wrote this article to believe in self righteousness and a world without God. Satan leads men like this to slander the name of Jesus Christ such as an example to that of a movie "Passion of the Christ " which shows a man that sacrifices himself for others. Any man can see what the theme of the movie is whether Christian or not and not anywhere in this movie does is reflect judgment, "just the ultimate sacrifice". Only one who deeply hates Jesus and is led to believe that man rules his own destiny would conjure up such a direct hate towards a man name Jesus who gave his life for men. In many Hollywood movies and throughout history to give one's life for another this has been known as heroism but in the case of Jesus Christ death upon the cross it's somehow turned into something to ridicule and find an excuse to hate and curse at. Where someone's perspective does it get so twisted? Well the answer goes back to the name not mentioned enough when discussing the eternal judgment or the reason why sin is judged in the first place. Satan the one who leads those who love the world and themselves and so easily deny the almighty creator and loving father our God in heaven. Satan who also believes in the bible for he knows better than most men what is written and therefore knows very well how to deceive the ones he hates the most, all mankind from its knowing truth. By the way for those who seem to research the bible enough to quote revelations and judgment but always miss the fact that this judgment was placed upon Satan before man was created therefore the conviction for sin was sentenced before man existed. Yet it was mans choice after which to give up to that sin Satan offered man that already carried a conviction which he desires nothing more than for us to eternally die with him. Yet Our Father God loved us so much even after our betrayal to him for our own selfishness and deceitful obedience to Satan Did he still gave us the only way out which he did not offer the third of the angels in heaven that followed Satan. He gave us the only sacrifice that could be accountable for all the sin that man would commit from creation to the last day upon this world. His Son Jesus Christ !!!! Honestly is this a truth that anyone wants to take lightly if the judgment for this is irreversible once death has come to the flesh or is the lust of the world worth the chance of eternal pain and regret of no hope to ever have another chance to accept the gift that our father God has given us.
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The First Appellate District in San Francisco found no errors were made when former Joaquin Moraga Intermediate School teacher Julie Gay Correa was prosecuted for sexually abusing Kristen Cunnane over a four-year period beginning in 1996, when Cunnane was 14. Cunnane, now a 30-year-old Walnut Creek resident and an assistant swim coach at UC Berkeley, chose to be publicly identified as Correa's victim after she first reported the abuse in 2010.
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What Took So Long?
Not a Simple Fix
Dialogue Is Needed
Each time I walk into my parish church,
I pass a plaque listing the names of all
the families who donated money to help
build the church. My parents' names
are on that plaque. To say they feel a
sense of ownership and investment in
the parish is putting it mildly.
Perhaps that sense of ownership
comes from our history. In colonial days,
families did own churches. And in the
1800s, various ethnic groups were given
control of parishes in order to ensure
that their needs were being met.
But times have changed, and according
to federal judges in the bankruptcy
cases of the Archdioceses of Portland,
Oregon, and Spokane, Washington, we
don't own our parishes—the dioceses
do. And that means they're fair game in
settling clergy sex-abuse cases.
The Church contends, however, that
the bishop does not "own" the parishes
and property, but merely holds them in
trust for the parish's benefit.
Faced with the same dilemma after
filing for bankruptcy in September
2004, the Diocese of Tucson decided to
incorporate each of its 74 parishes so
that they will be recognized as legal
entities separate from the diocese.
In seven other dioceses, parish incorporation
is already in place.
In Tucson, each parish will now be
run by a five-member board of directors,
composed of the pastor as head of
the board, the bishop, the diocesan
moderator of the curia, and two laypersons
from the parish serving as treasurer
and secretary.
What Took So Long?
But as much as we would like to believe
that we are in totally uncharted territory,
that's not completely true.
In 1911, the Vatican's Sacred Congregation
of the Council addressed this
topic at the request of the U.S. bishops.
In a letter to the bishops, the congregation
suggested that all parishes in
the United States be separately incorporated.
So never let it be said that
we here in the United States move on
things more quickly than the Vatican!
In the directives (available at www.arcc-catholic-rights.net/1911_
vatican_directive.htm), the congregation
wrote, "Among the methods
which are now in use in the United
States for holding and administering
church property, the one known as
Parish Corporation is preferable to the
others, but with the conditions and
safeguards which are now in use in the
state of New York. [The Archdiocese of
New York incorporated each of its
parishes in 1911.] The bishops, therefore,
should immediately take steps to
introduce this method for handling
property in their dioceses, if the civil
law allows it. If the civil law does not
allow it, they should exert their influence
with civil authorities that it may
be made legal as soon as possible."
But let's call a spade a spade. This
whole issue of who owns what is finally
coming to light because of the big-money
settlements attached to the sex-abuse
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If all of the parishes were incorporated,
would that fix everything? Not quite.
As is evident by the numbers on the
parish boards in Tucson, the deck is still
stacked in favor of the diocese versus the
individual parish. But maybe that's in
the best interest of the parish itself.
St. Stanislaus Kostka Parish in St.
Louis is a case in point. In 1891, this
Polish parish was incorporated under
bylaws that stated that the archbishop
appointed all directors, including the
pastor, and held final decision-making
authority. The bylaws also made it clear
that the parish must be in compliance
with Roman Catholic Church law.
In 1978, and then again in 2001 and
2004, the parish's board of directors
amended the bylaws, taking the archbishop
out of the equation. When
Archbishop Raymond Burke attempted
to bring the parish back into compliance
with Church law, the board cried
foul. They claimed the archdiocese was
trying to seize the parish's assets—a
claim the archbishop assured them was
not true. The parish became divided.
The Vatican's Congregation for Clergy
ordered the board to relinquish administrative
control of the parish. Last
December, the board hired a priest
from the Diocese of Springfield-Cape
Girardeau, Missouri, without the bishop's
permission. So Archbishop Burke
announced the excommunication of
board members and suppressed the
parish. More information is available at
So it's obvious incorporation is not a
cure-all, quick fix to the problems facing
parishes. Unchecked power—by the
hierarchy or laity—will benefit no one.
Dialogue Is Needed
After filing for bankruptcy, the Archdiocese
of Portland formed a Committee
of Parishioners to represent individual
Catholic parishioners who support the
churches in that archdiocese. The Diocese
of Tucson also took steps to keep
parishioners informed through monthly
articles in the diocesan newspaper. But
wouldn't it have made sense to have
this type of openness all along?
If we truly believe that we have a
stake in our parishes and our Church, as
laity we need to step up and take some
responsibility. We need to ask questions
and pay attention to the answers.
For instance, does your parish publish
a yearly finance report? Does your
diocese? If so, do you read it? As a
parishioner, if you have concerns about
the way money is being spent, voice
them to your parish's finance committee.
Every parish is required to have
one. If you have questions, ask them.
If you're still not satisfied, get involved.
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There's a petition going around asking the government to deport Justin Bieber.
Seems reasonable. It's either that, or start bombing Canada until they come get him.
The petition doesn't beat around the bush: "Deport Justin Bieber and revoke his green card."
And now the petition at WhiteHouse.gov, which the Los Angeles Times reported was created six days ago, has passed the 100,000-signature mark. Which means the Obama administration is required to offer an official response. Wednesday at 12:45 p.m. (PST), the total was at 118,713 signatures.
It reads, "We the people of the United States feel that we are being wrongly represented in the world of pop culture. We would like to see the dangerous, reckless, destructive and drug-abusing Justin Bieber deported and his green card revoked. He is not only threatening the safety of our people, but he is also a terrible influence on our nation's youth. We the people would like to remove Justin Bieber from our society."
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The pro-Bieber petition reads: "The whole idea of Justin Drew Bieber getting deported is completely unfair. He doesn't deserve this. ... With your help, we can stop it. He's human. He's not perfect. The media sees the bad side of him. Please. He's saved so many lives. Including mine. A lifesaver shouldn't deserve this."
Apparently some parents out there aren't doing their jobs.
The Washington Times said it may be "weeks, months or even years" before the pro-deportation petition is addressed.
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Wouldn't it be awesome if this becomes a campaign issue in 2016? They would have record voter turnout.
Bieber has been in the news lately for all sorts of things: allegedly egging his neighbor's house, allegedly drag racing while intoxicated in Miami Beach, selling his mansion in Calabasas before his neighbors get out the torches and pitchforks ... that sort of thing.
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Location and General Characteristics
The Audubon Park neighborhood is located in northeast Minneapolis. The neighborhood is bounded by Saint Anthony Parkway, Stinson Boulevard, Lowry Avenue and Central Avenue. Stinson Boulevard is also the city's border with St. Anthony.The park and neighborhood are named in honor of John James Audubon, a great American naturalist and ornithologist. A majority of the houses in this relatively hilly neighborhood were built in the 1940s.
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Oracle Workflow - E-Business Suite vs Standalone
By Vijay Shanmugam-Oracle on Jan 17, 2013
Oracle Workflow has following components that together provide business process management capabilities.
- Workflow Builder - Windows desktop tool to create and customize workflow processes
- Workflow Loader - Commandline tool to load workflow definition to database
- Workflow Engine - PLSQL engine to execute workflow processes definitions
- Workflow Notification Mailer - Background program to send e-mail notifications
- Workflow Business Event System - PLSQL and Java based engine to process business events
- Workflow Agent Listeners - Background program to process business events
Oracle Workflow has been available in two flavors until about 2007.
- Workflow Embedded in E-Business Suite
- Workflow Standalone
This post is aimed at clarifying how Oracle Workflow in E-Business Suite and Standalone were versioned and the current status of these two flavors.
Workflow Embedded in E-Business Suite
In E-Business Suite, Oracle Workflow is an integral part of foundation modules (FND) alongside Profiles, Concurrent Programs, OA Framework and so on and is shipped in ATG patchsets. For example, Workflow's Java classes are available under $JAVA_TOP like any other FND module, it's PLSQL packages are compiled into APPS schema, datamodel is available under APPLSYS schema and so on. This flavor is also called Embedded Workflow, meaning it was embedded in E-Business Suite.
Embedded Workflow's packaging, release, installation and configuration follows standard E-Business suite's processes. Embedded Workflow is not identified with it's own version in E-Business Suite, instead it's codelevel is always identified using the current ATG Patchset level.
For example, if a Customer is on E-Business Suite Release 12.1.3, then their Workflow codelevel is R12.ATG_PF.B.Delta.3 (in addition to any Workflow specific one-offs that may have applied on the baseline) which is a standard way of identifying any FND module.
Current Status
Oracle Workflow embedded in E-Business Suite has the same lifetime as the ATG Patchset in that Oracle E-Business Suite. For example, if a Customer is on Oracle E-Business Suite 12.1.3, the workflow module being integral part of Oracle E-Business Suite installation, has no different lifetime or support policy than the R12.ATG_PF.B Patchset. When looking at Oracle Workflow module from E-Business Suite standpoint, it should not be viewed as a separate product rather at the ATG Patchset level.
For more information please refer to
Workflow Standalone
All of Oracle Workflow's sub-components and the underlying data model were packaged, released, installed and configured completely independent of E-Business Suite until about late 2007. A Workflow Standalone installation results in a special database schema like OWF_MGR specific to workflow alone unlike the standard APPS and APPLSYS schemas of E-Business Suite.
Oracle Workflow Standalone however was not shipped on it's own but using following release vehicles.
- Oracle Database - Upto 10gR2
- Oracle iAS - Upto 10.1.2
- Oracle Warehouse Builder - Still packaged with OWB 11g
Oracle Workflow standalone product was available as part of above product offerings which helped non-E-Business Suite Customers to have Workflow (Business Process Management) capabilities such as implementing custom approval flows, document approval routing, sending notifications and so on.
Workflow Standalone had it's own versioning mechanism that was completely unrelated to E-Business Suite's. For example, following were some of the recent verisons.
- Oracle Database 10gR2 - Oracle Workflow 2.6.4
- Oracle iAS 10.1.2 - Oracle Workflow 220.127.116.11
- Oracle iAS 9.0.4 - Oracle Workflow 2.6.3
Current Status
With the advent of better Business Process Execution standards and tools, Oracle Workflow was ceased to be shipped with Oracle Database and Oracle iAS. Oracle BPEL Process Manager (in Oracle SOA Suite 10g) and Oracle SOA Suite 11g are the recommended technologies to be considered by Customers who were using Oracle Workflow Standalone to implement their business processes.
To this effect, MOS Doc 391546.1 was published to announce obsolescence of Workflow Standalone with Oracle Database 10gR2 as the terminal release vehicle for the product. This note applies only to Workflow as a standalone product and does not affect Workflow embedded in E-Business Suite.
Workflow Standalone Obsolescence Notice
MOS Doc 391546.1 clarifies that Workflow as a standalone product will not be shipped in Oracle Database 11g and above. Since Oracle Database 10gR2 is the last release Workflow Standalone was shipped in, existing Oracle Database 10gR2 Customers who also use Workflow Standalone will continue to receive support as per Oracle Database 10gR2 support policies. This obsolescence notice should not be confused with support for Workflow embedded in E-Business Suite.
Oracle Workflow embedded in E-Business Suite is being actively maintained and enhancements implemented based on Customer
requirements. We have some exciting days ahead of us for Oracle Workflow embedded in E-Business Suite.


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Business leaders know Ohio's future depends upon a vibrant economy. Growing Ohio's economy depends upon creating a competitive climate for retaining and recruiting business, which means lower taxes, reasonable government regulations, and a 21st century workforce. Ohio's state and local tax burden is one of the highest in the country. An uncompetitive tax climate causes companies to move their investment to lower cost states and take thousands of jobs with them. To succeed, Ohio must become a more affordable place to do business. Government employees are asked to contribute 10 percent to their publicly funded retirement plan. Also, they are asked to pay at least 15 percent of their health insurance cost. That's less than half of what the average Ohioan who works in the private sector pays.SB 5 changes vacation and sick leave, and limits how many unused days can be rolled over into subsequent years.There was no cap before. In other words, use them or lose them.
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Back to School for Most, Even Without Heat
By Lisa Fleisher and Josh Dawsey
About one million New York City public-school students went back to school Monday for the first time in a week, many facing long commutes or buildings without heat. Another 73,000 students missed at least one more day of classes because of lingering complications from superstorm Sandy.
Most parents took the uneven restart of the school system in stride, and many seemed happy just to finally have somewhere to send their children for the day.
"It's time for them to go back to school — for the parents and for the kids," said Paul Iacovacci, 53 years old, as he dropped his daughters off at the Spruce Street School in Lower Manhattan, which didn't have heat. "Unless it's snowing inside, they're going back to school."
Individual principals and teachers tried to communicate as best they could with parents, sending emails, posting messages and making automated phone calls with information. Still, some parents didn't get the message.
"Good thing I put on the long johns," said Lissette James, 34, as she brought her child to an unheated school.
There were smaller hiccups, too. At Public School 42 in Chinatown, parents were told to pack lunch because the school hadn't received a food delivery, said Mary Chan, the parent coordinator at the school. The delivery trucks arrived a bit after 8 a.m., Chan said, so there will be lunch after all.
The city decided to keep 102 schools closed on Monday and use Tuesday's scheduled day off for Election Day to reassess the situation. Sixteen of those schools are in eight large buildings still being used as shelters for storm victims.
For students staying in the shelters, Monday's return meant patching together an unfamiliar new route to school.
At 5:58 a.m., 12-year-old Tanyla Joyner walked out of Franklin Delano Roosevelt High School, which was serving as a shelter in Brooklyn. She had been awake for almost an hour, readying for school. Her mom predicted the commute would take 90 minutes and span two bus routes.
"We have no idea, really," said her mom, Teanna Martin, 32. "The shelter we were living inside in Sheepshead Bay was evacuated, so we came here. We've never taken these buses before."
Martin was relieved to escort her daughter to Intermediate School 364, taking one small step toward feeling normal. "At least this helps you feel a little better," she said.
Jamilex Alcantara, 14, predicted that her trip to Kingsboro Early College would require 45 minutes of buses, but she was still hopeful that school would be an escape from the horrors of the last week.
"I live in Coney Island, and everything at our house was destroyed," she said. "I just want to check on my friends and make sure everyone is OK. I can't wait to get back."
Teachers also dealt with long commutes. Nanette Trerotola, 56, waited for a subway at Avenue I in Brooklyn — a backup plan after she couldn't find gas for her car. The two-train commute would take an hour instead of the usual 15-minute drive to Holy Angels Catholic School in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn.
Trerotola said parents would be helping out in the classroom. "The moms will watch classes or they'll share the students with other teachers," she said. "It's a faith-based school with a lot of faith. Everyone is very understanding."
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The idea of returning to classes was too much for some still trying to put the pieces back together after the havoc of the last week.
Yvioue Bastien, 55, said her 16-year-old daughter, Rodna Le Brun, would have gone back to school, but they couldn't find a babysitter for Le Brun's four-month-old daughter.
"She could handle the trip, but the baby couldn't," said Bastien, who had to return to work. "Plus, we don't want anyone stealing our stuff in the shelter."
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Archbishop Alexander Sample, who studied in Rome, will celebrate Mass in Italian at 7 p.m. on Saturday, Aug. 20, at The Grotto. Italian desserts will be served after the Mass.
CLEVELAND (CNS) — Sister Julie Ann Krahl knew that a cup of lemonade on a hot summer day can go a long way toward making friends. So she offered a refreshing drink from a cooler pulled along in a child-size wagon and talked with people on the streets of downtown Cleveland who were in town for the Republican National Convention.
SPRINGFIELD — There's still time to support Catholic Community Services through the "Neighbors helping neighbors" program at the Springfield Grocery Outlet.
For the second year in a row, the Springfield Grocery Outlet has made Catholic Community Services' Springfield Community Service Center its recipient of groceries donated during July's "Independence from Hunger Campaign."
ST. LOUIS (CNS) — Since its release in the United States July 6, Pokemon Go has quickly become a cultural phenomenon.
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Hello, so nearly got this sorted but cannot figure it out - new to streaming so excuse me if its a dumb question but I have searched to no avail.
core 2 duo - 1.8
256 dedicated graphics
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Streaming to plasma and 5.1 surround.
I get severe stuttering unless i let the buffer build but the playback overtakes the buffer.
When I attempt to adjust the settings to 15 max band width and 'medium quality for wifi' it seems to make no difference.
I have pressed save and clicked other boxes so it registers the change.
Only way I can watch a film at the moment is 15 mins of film then 15 mins for the buffer to build up ....and repeat.
I asked it to let the buffer be upto 600 to give me more time but that also seemed to have no effect.
Currently attempting to watch Tropic thunder on 1080p and it seems to eat my buffer quickly!
What am I doing wrong?


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New Twitter message from Billie Joe:
2 things. Last night in porto alegre was top 3 craziest shows we ever played!And tonight is AI 200th performance! Congrats to the cast!!!!!
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Green Day Concert in Costa Rica October 29th
Green Day is coming to Costa Rica! The Latin Tour is expected to be a sold out event.
Because the facilities are inadequate, many bands overlook Costa Rica, and as well it takes a lot of organising and professionalism to attract big bands, and organization has not been Costa Rica strongest skill set! It's anticipated that the new Stadium in La Sabana will attract more attention in the future.
Producers and organizers have run shows a little more smoothly and this has worked to Costa Rica perception in the industry.
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A Bowling Green woman sustained moderate injuries Tuesday morning in a one-vehicle accident in Pike County.
According to the Missouri State Highway Patrol the crash happened at 8:28 a.m. on Missouri 79 0.5 of a mile north of Route YY.
A 2002 Ford Explorer was being driven north by 28-year-old Tanya M. Mannahan of Bowling Green. The mishap reportedly happened when the vehicle traveled off the right side of the road. When Mannahan over-corrected the Explorer went off the left side. After Mannahan again over-corrected the vehicle went back off the right side of the road where it struck an embankment and overturned onto the road.
Mannahan, who was not wearing a safety device, was taken by ambulance to Hannibal Regional Hospital.
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Head over to Nick's Corner to read his latest blog!
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The Oprah Winfrey Show is re-airing the episode which includes Michael as surprise guest performer at a party with Oprah's Neighbors. Airs June 11th at 4pm EST. Check your local listings.
- Jun 06 2008
Congrats to Hainesy who gets to meet Michael in Adelaide, and to mysharona who will be meeting Michael in Perth!
- Jun 05 2008
Check out Nick's Corner for his latest post about how his visit to Australia is going.
- Jun 04 2008
Hii! Hows it going? After a little over a week in Australia I have finally adjusted to the time change. For a while I was going to bed at 3am and getting up at 7. Thats just not enough sleep for a musician or anyone else for that matter. But things are going good now. Michael is a big success here and we are playing huge shows (10,000 plus) night after night. Although it is winter in this hemisphere the weather has been surprisingly nice. We are doing a show in Sydney tonight and head to Melbourne tomorrow. Melbourne is my favorite city in Australia.


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Date/Time SUNDAY, August 26, 2012 , 1:00PM
Location VETERANS MEMORIAL PARK IN SOUTH BEND, IN. ADDRESS: 1576-1798 Northside Blvd, South Bend, IN 46615, LOCATED JUST 1 BLOCK WEST OF INDIANA UNIVERSITY SOUTH BEND. ST. JOSEPH RIVER IS ACROSS THE STREET.
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We are an elite 18 Gold organization that is proud to have placed 100% of our 2012 graduating seniors.
We are Managed by Pete Gillis who has coached fastpitch softball for 17 years. His teams have won world championships and been televised on ESPN.
All tryout information will be on our website: www.eteamz.com/MichianaCruisers. . If your age is 15 to 18 for the 2012/2013 season and interested in becoming a future Cruiser please contact Pete Gillis at 574-329-0308, 574-272-6306 or email@example.com, firstname.lastname@example.com.
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CORPUS CHRISTI – The Texas A&M – Corpus Christi Tennis program had a little friendly competition on Saturday in the annual Finch Family Blue-Green Intrasquad Match at the Thomas J. Henry Tennis Center. The event was sponsored by the Chad Finch family and featured the Islanders facing off in a friendly rivalry match against teammates.
"We had some very close matches today, a lot of pride on the line and some very intense competition," said Director of Tennis Steve Moore. "I think this is a good way to determine the seeding for regionals because it shows who can be extremely mentally tough in the wind, show poise and make the right chess moves with and against the wind.
"Overall I thought everyone did a good job of the things they can control like competing hard, playing each point with intensity and positive body language."
The Green Team on the men's side consisted of Aurelien Tave, Andrew Maingot and Pietro Jordao. They won a 3-1 match over Odon Barta, Javier Pujol and Daniel Erbacher of the Blue Team.
On the women's side, Sandra Burges, Maider Martin and Cassie Shaw comprised the Green Team that faced off against the Blue Team of Leanne Mascall, Venesa Figueroa and Stefania Nicolae.
The Green Team came out quickly starting with doubles, picking up an 8-4 win as Maingot and Jordao came out on top against Barta and Erbacher. On the women's side, Green Team members Martin and Burges won their match 8-3 over Nicolae and Mascall to give the men's and women's Green Team members a 1-0 lead.
"I thought Andrew and Pietro played exceptionally well in the doubles," said Moore. "They've really improved their doubles game and played very smart, especially in the conditions today.
"I also thought Sandra and Maider played very tough today in both singles and doubles. They really worked hard with their feet in the wind and paid the price."
In singles action, Burges won 6-1, 6-3 against Nicolae to give her team a 2-0 lead, while Figueroa got the Blue Team on the board with a 6-3, 6-2 final over Shaw to make it 2-1. The final women's match featured Martin taking a 6-4, 6-1 win over Mascall to complete the 3-1 win for the Green Team.
On the men's side, Maingot won 2-6, 6-2, 10-6 over Erbacher to make it 2-0, but Pujol earned a tough 6-2, 4-6, 10-8 final against Jordao to make it 2-1. Tave avoided a tie on the men's side with a win a 3-6, 6-3, 14-12 win against Barta, the talented freshman who had three match points before Tave rallied for the win.
"The key is that our team, especially some of our younger players, need to keep learning how to play extremely savvy, smart tennis in the wind because it makes all the difference." said Moore.
The Finch Family Blue-Green Intrasquad match was both a friendly competition among fellow Islanders, and a way for the team to continue improving in the lead up to the ITA Texas Regionals next weekend.
"This is a great event that we think is going to become a great tradition for the Islanders," said Moore. "We're very grateful to Chad Finch and his family for sponsoring this match and making this great event possible.
"We had a couple players injured which made us have to play the shortened match format, but five hours of intense competition only makes our team better prepared for this upcoming weekend."
Players from the men's team will travel north as TCU hosts the ITA Texas Regional on the Horned Frogs campus in Fort Worth. The women's team will not have as far to go as Baylor is set to host the women's side of the regional on the Waco campus of the Bears.
"We're looking forward to the ITA Texas Regionals and going there to compete with incredible spirit and fight as hard as we can," said Moore. "This is a very high-character group that has been working incredibly hard, so I'm really looking forward to seeing them play against the best Division I schools in Texas."
For all the latest on Islanders Tennis, like the team on Facebook (IslandersTennis), follow them on Twitter (@IslandersTennis) and visit www.GoIslanders.com.


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In San Francisco, food lovers flock to the Ferry Building Marketplace, where they pick up chanterelles from Far West Fungi, slurp down oysters on the half shell at MarketBar and peruse lemon tarts from the bakery Miette.
In Seattle, they head to Pike Place Market for cold chenin blanc at Cafe Campagne, bouquets from Sua Yang Farm and fresh Columbia River steelhead from City Fish.
For Denverites, that kind of sensory adventure requires a day in the car with several stops — a grocer here, a butcher there, a florist and restaurant later in the day. But not for much longer.
The Source — a large cluster of local brewers, bakers, butchers, specialty grocers and more, all sharing space in an old 19th-century steel foundry on Brighton Boulevard — seeks to offer Denver foodies a one-stop destination for soup-to-nuts comestibles.
The Source officially opened its doors to the public last week when Comida, an upscale Mexican restaurant, began serving tacos and margaritas. During the next few weeks, the remaining tenants in the soaring, brick-walled space will follow.
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