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Margaret lives the good life on a small piece of rural New South Wales Australia, with an amazing man, a couple of pets, and several rambunctious wombats.
She feels so lucky to be a part of the AntiSF team.
Margaret lives the good life on a small piece of rural New South Wales Australia, with an amazing man, a couple of pets, and several rambunctious wombats.
She feels so lucky to be a part of the AntiSF team.
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Ion Newcombe is the editor and publisher of AntipodeanSF, Australia's longest running online speculative fiction magazine, regularly issued since January 1998, and conceived back around November 2007. He has been a zealous reader and occasional writer of SF since his childhood in the 1960s, and even sold a few stories here and there back in the '90s.
"Nuke", who it turns out loves editing more than writing, lives in the New South Wales North Coast holiday destination of Nambucca Heads, where he is self-employed in IT training, computer support, desktop publishing, editing, writing, and website implementation. He is also the resident tech-head, skeptic, and board member of community radio station 2NVR, where he produces a number of shows including The AntipodeanSF Radio Show.
Mark Webb's midlife crisis came in the form of attempting to write speculative fiction at a very slow pace. His wife maintains this is a good outcome considering the more expensive and cliched alternatives. Evidence of Mark's attempts to procrastinate in his writing, including general musings and reviews of books he has been reading, can be found at www.markwebb.name.
One of Mark's very best forms of writing procrastination is to produce the eBook series for AntipodeanSF, which he has been doing since issue 175.
Coming In Issue 264
Anna's Mother
by Vicky Chapman
By Marcus Rockstrom
Human Cruelty
By Steve Bellavia
Jesus the Man
By Eugene Samolin
Morpheus Rising
By Kevin J. Phyland
By Malena Salazar Maciá - Translated by Toshiya Kamei
Nothing Unusual Happened on the Way to the Office
Colin L. Howe
By N.M. Cunningham
By Deborah Sheldon
Single Journey - Multiple Travellers
By Ed Errington
The Circle of Gods
By Botond Teklesz
The Last Message
By Zac Gilfridus
Daniel Verón started writing at the age of ten, and an early story of his was selected for a UNESCO anthology, but he also spent a lot of time researching "space issues" as he was growing up.
He subsequently formed the Enigma Group of Investigation of UFOs and other Mysteries, which for many years produced radio programs on different topics and today owns collection of sci fi sagas, fantasy and terror stories plus essays on scientific topics and the world of the future.
Daniel also gives talks on the sci fi genre and exhibits books at various book fairs. He was recently credited as the creator of "cosmological sci fi" based on discoveries in the field of quantum physics coupled with philosophical speculations to give an explanation of the origin and end of the universe.
I am a fan of horror movies, architecture, poetry and art. My hobbies include collage, drawing and sometimes building miniature model houses.
I enjoy writing short stories in my spare time with 'Planet MXCIV' being my first of this genre.
It has been a fun process writing in this style and I look forward to seeing what I can create in the future.
Sarah Jane Justice is an Adelaide-based fiction writer, poet, musician and spoken word artist.
Among other achievements, she has performed in the National Finals of the Australian Poetry Slam, released two albums of her original music and seen her poetry and prose published in Australia and internationally.
Nick Lee's favourite authors include Frank Herbert and Roald Dahl. He enjoys reading many genres. He tends to write short sentences. He is a fan of Oxford commas and single spaces after periods. He always, however, defers to editors' preferences. Those preferences are likely on display in this brief biography. Nick's creative writing style is influenced, for better or worse, by his experiences writing opinion pieces, business briefs, and academese.
Ben F. Blitzer penned his latest story, "Otherworldly Matters," shortly after dreaming it in its entirety.
His most recent contributions for AntipodeanSF were "Dear Friends" and "The Darkland Crier." He lives in Western Australia.
Roger Ley enjoys writing in a variety of speculative genres.
This story is from his anthology, 'Dead People on Facebook'. His other books include, 'Chronoscape,' a science fiction novel about time and alternate realities, 'The Muslim Prince: What if Diana hadn't died?' an alternative reality, techno thriller and 'The Steampunk Adventures of Harry Lampeter.' Harry is an irreverent James Bond type of character, an iconoclast and anarchic urban adventurer. Basically, he's a lot of fun.
Find Roger at: <https://rogerley.co.uk>.
Roger's Amazon author page: <https://www.amazon.com/-/e/B01KOVZFHM>.
His YouTube playlist: <https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLHDmc8dxD57cPaMnsYfuJhQIirRohnaWY>.
I've read and watched sci-fi all my life and I thought it was time to give back instead of just taking.
My stories have appeared in Aphelion, Antipodean SF, Far Cry Magazine, Planet Web Zine, Schlock! Webzine, Short-story.me and Unrealpoloitik!
I have published two short story collections — Hawking Radiation, and Sex and The Single Cosmonaut — and I am currently working on my first novel due for release later this year.
You can connect with me on Twitter <@Ishmael_Soledad> or my blog at <https://ishmael-a-soledad.com/>
George Nikolopoulos is a speculative fiction writer from Athens, Greece, and a member of Codex Writers' Group. His short stories have been published in Galaxy's Edge, Daily Science Fiction, Factor Four, Grievous Angel, Helios Quarterly Magazine, Unsung Stories, Best Vegan SFF, The Year's Best Military & Adventure SF, Bards & Sages Quarterly, Havok, SF Comet, Mad Scientist Journal, Truancy, Digital Fiction QuickFic, The Centropic Oracle, StarShipSofa, 600 Second Saga, Antipodean SF, Manawaker Studio's FFP, Fifty Flashes, 9Tales from Elsewhere, Event Horizon 2017, and many other magazines and anthologies.
Sometimes I can see what others don't.
Sometimes I listen to the silence and Iknow there is way too much of it down here in the countryside.
All the trees grass wooden gates and sleepwalkers are letting me down.
Very rarely I go out to thefront yard in the night and look at the stars. And I can feel in my guts it is allgoing to sink down the drain.
I look at the photo of my nephew whom I have not seen for 5 years.
I look into the mirror and see my white hair at 45.
Then I stare at the cross on the wall and I want to puke.
Somebody has already decided for me in a nice kind of way.
Too many pieces of the puzzle missing.
Wesley Parish is an SF fan from early childhood. Born in PNG, he enjoys reading about humans in strange cultures and circumstances; his favourite SF authors include Ursula Le Guin, Fritz Lieber, Phillip K. Dick, J.G. Ballard and Frank Herbert. He lives in Christchurch, NZ, is an unemployed Java and C programmer, and has recently decided to become a mad ukuleleist, flautist and trombonist, and would love to revert to being the mad fiddler and pedal steel guitarist.. "Where oh where has my little pedal steel got to ... ?"
Dave has written over 250 speculative fiction short stories. Some of these are included in his nine collections of short stories (all on Amazon). He has also published two science fiction novellas and been published on a range of speculative fiction sites. Including: Antipodean SF, Beam Me Up Pod Cast, Farther Stars Than These, 365 Tomorrows, Bewildering Stories, the WiFiles and the former Golden Visions magazine. His latest work "Contingency Nine and Other Science Fiction Stories" was published in October 2019 and he is currently working on another collection of science fiction short stories as yet unnamed.
Shaun Saunders lives at the beachside suburb of Merewether, in Newcastle, NSW. He particularly enjoys Asimov's Foundation universe, and stories from the 'golden age' of SF. He is a regular contributor to AntipodeanSF, and winner of 2003 & 2004 AntiSF awards, and the inaugural 2005 SFSSC. His novel Mallcity 14 has been favourably compared with both 1984 and Brave New World.
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Tim Borella has never lost his childhood passion for SF and writing in general and has been lucky enough to have worked most of his life as a pilot — in other words, he's never properly grown up.
He lives in country Far North Queensland, has won awards for songwriting, and has had various other writing achievements, the most recent being an honourable mention in the 2018 international Literary Taxidermy Short Story Competition.
He also has bachelor degrees in science and teaching, and has completed a couple of as-yet unpublished SF novels. He'd dearly love to spend more time writing, but will have to continue juggling for another couple of years until the kids have fully left the nest.
Alistair Lloyd is a Melbourne based writer and narrator who has been consuming good quality science fiction and fantasy most of his life.
You may find him on Twitter as <@mr_al> and online at <alistairlloyd.com>.
Mark is an astrophysicist and space scientist who worked on the Cassini/Huygens mission to Saturn. Following this he worked in computer consultancy, engineering, and high energy research (with a stint at the JET Fusion Torus).
All this science hasn't damped his love of fantasy and science fiction. It has, however, ruined his enjoyment of rainbows, colourful flames on romantic log fires, and rings around the moon. He has previously been published in Stupefying Stories Showcase, Everyday Fiction, Escape Pod, Perihelion and also on AntipodeanSF where he is part of the narration team.
Margaret lives the good life on a small piece of rural New South Wales Australia, with an amazing man, a couple of pets, and several rambunctious wombats.
She feels so lucky to be a part of the AntiSF team.
Geraldine Borella writes adult short stories and stories for children and has been published in anthologies for both. In 2018, one of her children's short stories placed second in The Buzz Words Short Story Prize and she won an ASA Emerging Writer's Mentorship. She currently works part-time as a hospital pharmacist and as an online creative writing tutor.
She's fascinated by stories that expand upon today's technology, addressing the moral and ethical issues that might arise. Equally, she enjoys the creative freedom that writing for children allows. Right now, she's writing a young adult novel, reworking a middle grade novel and writing adult short stories when inspiration strikes. She lives with her husband, Tim, in Yungaburra, Far North Queensland and dreams of one day taking a European gap year.
Carolyn's work spans devising, performance, theatre-in-education and a collaborative visual art practice.
She tours children's works to schools nationally with School Performance Tours, is a member of the Bathurst physical theatre ensemble Lingua Franca and one half of darkroom — a visual arts practice with videographer Sean O'Keeffe.
(Photo by Jeremy Belinfante)
Timothy Gwyn is a professional pilot in Canada, where he flies to remote communities. During a lull in his flying career, he was a radio announcer for three years, and he is also an author.
In addition to short stories at AntipodeanSF and NewMyths.com, his SF novel is available internationally in print and ebook formats. "Avians" draws on his love of alternative aviation to tell the tale of a girl who runs away from home to join a cadre of glider pilots on a world without metal or fossil fuels.
On Twitter, he is @timothygwyn, and his blogs are at <timothygwyn.com>.
Although a writer of the baby boom persuasion, Ed has not boomed for quite a while.
He lives with his wife plus a menagerie of non-domesticated — native Australian animals intropical North Queensland.
His writing within the 'real' science fiction context of COVID-19 is intermingled by long night sky vigils — searching for pesky aliens intent on maintaining their social distance to the nth degree.
Pixie is a voice actor, cabaret performer & slam poet From the Blue Mountains in NSW.
She enjoys writing short fiction, plays for radio and stage as well as her own brand of weird poetry.
She hosts the 'Off-Beet Poetry Slam' held bi-monthly in Katoomba.
Laurie Bell lives in Melbourne, Australia. She was that girl you found with her nose always buried in a book. She has been writing ever since she was a little girl and first picked up a pen. From books to short stories, radio plays to snippets of ideas and reading them aloud to anyone who will listen.
She is the author of The Butterfly Stone (YA/ Fantasy — available now) and White Fire (Sci Fi — available now)
You can read more of her work on her blog Look for her on Facebook <www.facebook.com/WriterLaurieBell/> or Twitter: <@LaurienotLori>
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i am lenekenpunk and i live in world 11.
friends, ladies and gentlemen, good evening.
carmen, my village is located in 68/49, continent 0 of world 11. It was a village given by my aunt. she owned too many already. so, she let me inherit one of them.
this is no ordinary village. to get to my village, traveling by foot or using a car just won't do. it is a virtual village afforded to me by an online game. and this game is called tribal wars.
tribal wars creates a virtual atmosphere set in the middle ages. true to form, the icons on the game are akin to the castles of the medieval period. in fact, the images, like swords and spears, bows and arrows, seem as if they have been plucked out of the movie braveheart and made into computer graphics.
at present, there are more than 500,000 players from all over the world.
upon registering as a player, one begins with a village with 26 points. this lowly village has a small hut as its headquarters. This headquarters allows the player to construct various buildings. once fully upgraded, the modest cabin eventually transforms into a huge castle.
buildings such us barracks and stable enable the training of troops and horsemen. other buildings like the farm and the warehouse allow growth in quantity and enhancement of capabilities.
to train warriors such as spearmen and archers, and put up buildings, a player would need resources. a timber camp cuts wood, the clay pit collects clay and the iron comes from the mines. the more these sources are upgraded, the more wood, clay and iron they produce.
but developing a village is not the only objective of the game. once your village is strong enough, you can start conquering other villages. this can be done through brute force or diplomacy.
now the game would not be called tribal wars without the presence of tribes. tribes are groups of players huddled together for the growth of the player and the tribe as a whole. thus, if you find yourself enmeshed in a battle with another village, you can always ask help from your tribe, if you have one.
i play for several reasons.
i am fascinated by the game. i have always been a fan of computer games and this is no exception. the high-tech gaming capabilities juxtaposed with a medieval setting unceasingly capture my attention and imagination.
i also enjoy the thrill of having control and being in control. i can choose to go to war or gain allies. the strategies one reads in the sun tzu's the art of war or machiavelli's the prince come alive and find application in tribal wars. I have to outwit, outsmart and outplay my opponent. and my decisions will cost me my village or it may also cost my opponents' theirs.
finally, world 11 is an alternate reality that allows me to make friends from all over the world without even having to meet them. there's dreadeagle from cambridge, lohoz from singapore, martinrhr from spain and so many others. they know me only as Lenekenpunk. but in that alternate reality, we fight together, we learn from each other and we grow alongside one another.
carmen was one a 26-point village. now, i have more than 26,000 points with a total of 7 villages: carmen, patag, puntod, bugo, bulua, lapasan and macasandig.
friends, ladies and gentlemen, welcome to my world!


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On July 15, Dickinson announced that the fall 2020 semester will be remote. Campus is closed to visitors who do not have an approved appointment. Face coverings must be worn at all times.
In less than four years on campus, Rizwan Saffie '14 has distinguished himself as an exceptional scholar, and he's poised to go on to do even greater things.
A native of Guyana who remembers performing backyard science experiments as a kid, Rizwan began to research the genetic reprogramming of leukemia cells as a sophomore, and the following year, he presented his work at the American Association for Cancer Research's annual meeting, a conference that drew over 18,000 cancer researchers from around the world. He also was among the 72 students selected nationally to participate in Princeton University's Summer Undergraduate Research Program in Molecular and Computational Biology, and a few months later, was named the top student in his class during the 2013 Convocation ceremony. Along the way, Rizwan honed his leadership skills through his work as a club officer, intern and resident advisor (RA).
Recently, he was accepted into the University of Pennsylvania's doctoral program in cell and molecular biology.
Biochemistry & molecular biology
Clubs and organizations:
Photography Club (I joined in my freshman year and am now an executive member of the club), Center for Sustainability Education (I worked two years there as the greenhouse-gas-emissions inventory intern and media intern), Phi Beta Kappa, Alpha Lamba Delta, RA.
Proudest accomplishment:
When, for the second year in a row, I ranked number one in Guyana for my performance in British A-level exams. I choose this accomplishment not because I am ecstatically proud of it but because it made my family and friends very proud. It was nice for both me and them to see all my hard work pay off.
Favorite class:
In spring 2011 I took American Studies 101: Race, Gender, Sexuality and Power in the U.S. For the first time, I got to talk and learn about things in class that one would never dare talk about in a classroom back home. That introduction to the topic fueled my interest in social justice and politics.
As I kid, I wanted to be . . .
I've always had great interest in finding out how things work. Growing up, I carried out my own little experiments in my backyard in rural Guyana. I was fascinated by science and the scientific method.
Favorite book:
George R.R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire series (best known as the book behind the TV series Game of Thrones). Martin does a great job telling the intricate story of a dynastic war for control of a fantastic kingdom.
Favorite movie:
I have an obsession with the French language and independent French movies.
Biggest influence(s):
My parents, Munir and Basmattie. They have always tried their best to support me, even in the most difficult situations. They did not have much growing up, and I really admire their strength and their dedication to me and my siblings.
Favorite professor:
This is a tough one, but [Associate Professor of Biology] Michael Roberts definitely has shown great interest in seeing me—and all of his students—succeed. He is terrific at translating his vast knowledge into understandable lectures and explanations, and I learned a lot from him as a student in his class and as a research assistant in his lab. He also has offered very useful advice about the graduate-school application process. Like many of my peers, I consider him a friend.
Most important thing I've learned so far:
Always be enthusiastic about learning and have an open mind. You will meet great people, do great things and learn so much about yourself and the world.
What Dickinson has given me:
I am thankful to Dickinson for countless experiences, but it's the relationships I'm most thankful for. I am indebted to the many friends that I have made along the way—students, professors, friends from CSE—who come from all over the U.S. and around the world.
Favorite place on campus:
Racquetball courts in the Kline Center! I enjoy taking breaks to play (i.e., defeat) my friends in a match or two.
Favorite Dining Hall food:
Death-by-chocolate cake. Yum!
Lesser-known talents:
I love photography and cooking. (The fact that I can cook surprises most people.)
If I could have dinner with anyone (living or dead), it would be . . .
Walter Rodney, a Guyanese thinker and activist who had very interesting ideas about race and power in my country. I would love to have a conversation about these topics with him, because they play such an important role in the politics of my homeland. Sadly, he was assassinated at a young age and could not finish the amazing work he had started.
Why I chose Dickinson:
An advisor from high school suggested that I apply. After obsessively researching the school, I was won over by reports of the dedicated science faculty and the small size and warmth of the community. I applied for Early Decision, got in with a very generous financial-aid package and came to the U.S. for my very first time. It has been an amazing and enlightening journey.
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Sterling commits to England over Jamaica
Liverpool's teenage winger Raheem Sterling has pledged his international future to England.
LONDON - Liverpool's teenage winger Raheem Sterling has pledged his international future to England, despite still being eligible for his place of birth, Jamaica.
The 18-year-old, who recently signed a five-year contract extension with Liverpool, won his first senior England cap last month in the 4-2 friendly defeat by Sweden.
"It was a dream come true," Sterling told the British media of playing for England in Stockholm. "As a 15-year-old, I can remember sitting at home and praying to get an under-16 call-up.
"To be getting a senior call-up a few years later was one of the best things that ever happened to me."
After making his full England debut, he could still have opted to play for Jamaica, where he lived until he was six, and the country's FA have continued to court the player.
"I've got Jamaican roots but no-one tried to put any pressure on me," said Sterling, who has represented England at every level from under-16 upwards.
"I couldn't turn my back on England because I've grown up through the English youth system and progressed from there. I want to keep driving on and do a bit more."
Sterling's decision, though hardly a surprise, will be a blow to Jamaica, whose football chief Horace Burrell held talks with the player in October.
However, it provides a boost to England boss Roy Hodgson, giving him more options as he plots the national side's course to the 2014 World Cup in Brazil.
"I couldn't just switch over," said Sterling, currently a Liverpool regular under Brendan Rodgers and a firm fan favourite at Anfield.
"So it was a good thing for me to be called up and make my debut. It's 100 percent going to be England from now on."
Sterling's elevation from the fringes of the Liverpool first-team squad under Kenny Dalglish last season was rewarded with a lucrative new deal last week.
"The contract was never about finance," said Sterling, referring to the protracted talks leading up to the signing of his contract.
"When people were asking why I wasn't signing it was at a time when we hadn't even started negotiating."


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Disorder and Phase Transitions
Glass, a Solid or a Liquid ?
Glasses are solids insofar, as they are resistant to shear, in contrast to liquids. But in contrast to solids glasses do not have a regular internal order of atoms, glasses are amorphous. Because of this lacking long-range atomic order it is still not completely clear if the glassy state is thermodynamically different from a strongly supercooled liquid. Large scale computer-simulations of glasses have shown, that extended low-dimensional correlations exist within glasses. These structural correlations are responsible for anomalies in the vibrational spectra of glasses and for relaxational processes.
(C. Oligschleger, H.R. Schober, Phys. Rev. B 59, 811 (1999))
Dynamics of Glasses
Using computer simulations and analytic methods we study models and materials such as Se and CuZr. Cooling from the supercooled melt to the glass transition, diffusion and relaxation become strongly correlated. The atoms move in chain like structures, where single atoms typically move only a fraction of a nearest neighbour distance. These chain structures persit in the glass. Even at temperatures below 1K where one observes tunneling systems motion is collective. Collectivity of motion is intimately connected with the dynamic heterogeneity seen in glasses and under cooled melts.
(D. Caprion, J. Matsui, H.R. Schober, Phys. Rev. Lett. 85, 4293 (2000)).
Epitaxial Growth with Long-Range Interactions
We study a model for island formation in submonolayer epitaxy in the presence of a long-range elastic interaction between the adsorbed particles. The interaction is caused by the deformation of the underlying substrate and has a repulsive 1/r^3 character. The atoms perform a random walk until they attach irreversibly to an island. With increasing elastic repulsion, island nucleation is hampered and deferred to higher coverage values. We obtain a scaling law relating particle flux, particle mobility and elastic interaction strength.
(F. Gutheim, H. Müller-Krumbhaar, E. Brener. Epitaxial growth with elastic interaction: Submonolayer island formation Phys. Rev. E, vol. 63, 041603 (2001)).
Phase Transitions with Elastic Effects
Phase transitions of alloys are usually accompanied by strong temperature gradients and lattice misfits between the different components. They can induce elastic deformations which strongly alter the growth and coarsening behavior. Especially for melting and crystallization processes the appearing new phases are no longer spherical but have more complicated disk-like shapes. Strong interactions between adjacent inclusions lead to new physical features.
(E. Brener, V. Marchenko, H. Müller-Krumbhaar, and R. Spatschek, Coarsening Kinetics with Elastic Effects, Phys. Rev. Lett. 84, 4914 (2000)).


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We recently brought you the release date shuffle for Universal pictures Oblivion, starring Tom Cruise and Olga Kurylenko, and Mama, the horror film directed by Andres Muschietti and produced by Guillermo del Toro. Now we can actually tell you what those films are about! An official synopsis for each film has dropped and we share that with you after the jump. Joseph Kosinski's Oblivion opens April 19th, 2013 with an IMAX-only run-up starting on April 12th, 2013. Mama, starring Nikolaj Coster-Waldau and Jessica Chastain will open January 18th, 2013. Hit the jump to read the synopses.
Ron Howard's Rush was also included in the initial list of release dates, so you can find the first images and synopsis here. Check out the synopsis for Mama below:
Guillermo del Toro presents Mama, a supernatural thriller that tells the haunting tale of two little girls who disappeared into the woods the day that their mother was murdered. When they are rescued years later and begin a new life, they find that someone or something still wants to come tuck them in at night.
The day their father killed their mother, sisters Victoria and Lilly vanished near their suburban neighborhood. For five long years, their Uncle Lucas (Nikolaj Coster-Waldau) and his girlfriend, Annabel (Jessica Chastain), have been madly searching for them. But when, incredibly, the kids are found alive in a decrepit cabin, the couple wonders if the girls are the only guests they have welcomed into their home.
As Annabel tries to introduce the children to a normal life, she grows convinced of an evil presence in their house. Are the sisters experiencing traumatic stress, or is a ghost coming to visit them? How did the broken girls survive those years all by themselves? As she answers these disturbing questions, the new mother will find that the whispers she hears at bedtime are coming from the lips of a deadly presence.
As a bonus, have a look at the unnerving short film Mama from Muschietti below:
Now here's the official Oblivion synopsis:
Tom Cruise stars in Oblivion, an original and groundbreaking cinematic event from the director of TRON: Legacy and the producer of Rise of the Planet of the Apes. On a spectacular future Earth that has evolved beyond recognition, one man's confrontation with the past will lead him on a journey of redemption and discovery as he battles to save mankind.
Jack Harper (Cruise) is one of the last few drone repairmen stationed on Earth. Part of a massive operation to extract vital resources after decades of war with a terrifying threat known as the Scavs, Jack's mission is nearly complete.
Living in and patrolling the breathtaking skies from thousands of feet above, his soaring existence is brought crashing down when he rescues a beautiful stranger from a downed spacecraft. Her arrival triggers a chain of events that forces him to question everything he knows and puts the fate of humanity in his hands.
Oblivion was shot in stunning digital 4K resolution on location across the United States and Iceland.


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Join our expert birders on a birding tour of Trinity River Nature Center. Bring your own binoculars or borrow a pair of ours, coffee will be served in the morning and tours will leave promptly at 7am.
Cost is $15/person if registered in advance ($20 at the door) and Audubon members receive a 10% discount. Email (firstname.lastname@example.com) or call (214-309-5801) to get the member discount code.
Guest should wear sturdy, close-toed shoes and dress appropriately for the weather. In the event of severe weather, TRAC may cancel the program and will contact all registered attendees and provide either a refund or a raincheck.


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Data recently released from Panjiva, an online search engine with detailed information on global suppliers and manufacturers, showed overall strong global trade numbers for the month of September.
U.S.-bound waterborne shipments in September—at 1,155,361—were down 6 percent from August and down 9.4 percent from July's 1,230,726 shipments, which was the highest ever month for shipments based on Panjiva data going back to 2007, when it first started collecting this data.
Even with a 6 percent sequential decline, this drop-off is in line with the same period in recent years, with a 4 percent decline from August to September in 2012, an 8 percent decline in 2011, and 7 percent, 5 percent, and 5 percent 2010, 2009, and 2008, respectively. And on an annual basis, shipments are up 5 percent compared to September 2012.
What's more, Panjiva officials pointed out that there has been a "run of very strong months for imports to the U.S.," adding that despite reports of weakening consumer confidence the firm maintains there will be a "robust holiday shopping season" this year.
Panjiva said the number of global manufacturers shipping to the U.S in September—at 169,837—was down 5 percent in September compared to August and was up 13 percent annually. Like imports, this matched up fairly closely with the same period in recent years, with a 4 percent decline from August to September in 2012, an 8 percent decline in 2011, and 6 percent, 5 percent, 7 percent, and 4 percent 2010, 2009, 2008, and 2007, respectively.
A Panjiva spokesperson told LM that typically examines the third quarter to gauge the health of the holiday season to gauge the potential health of the holiday shopping season and said that in recent years the third has been relatively flat, which indicated that the holiday shopping season may be mildly disappointing for retailers albeit not terrible.
But this year is a different story perhaps.
"Over the last five months or so we have seen pretty robust month-over-month gains, and it looks like retailers are going to be stocking up and bringing a lot of goods into the U.S. for a strong holiday season hopefully," said the spokesperson.
Panjiva CEO Josh Green recently told LM that there is a generally positive feeling among corporate buyers that is being reflected in its data, coupled with how its numbers over the course of this year have surprised in terms of how strong they have been.
"The intention now needs to shift to consumers and how they behave in this holiday season," he said. "We are seeing from the data that corporate buyers are feeling optimistic and unquestionably that is a good thing, but if consumers are not as positive heading into the holiday season it could lead to a situation where retailers are left holding too much inventory. Hopefully that does not happen. Corporate buyers have placed their bet and hopefully it is the right one."


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ATLANTA - Georgia Attorney General Thurbert E. Baker today announced that General Electric Credit Corporation (GECC), which issues dozens of private label credit cards, together with Montgomery Ward Credit Corporation, has agreed to pay over approximately $87.5 million as part of a multi-state settlement arising out of the company's unlawful debt collection practices from consumers who had declared bankruptcy.
GECC and Montgomery Ward Credit will pay a total of approximately $60 million to at least 60,000 consumers nationwide from whom it collected invalid debts. In addition, the companies will pay the States Attorneys General $27.5 million to be used primarily for consumer protection and education programs.
Georgia consumers will be reimbursed approximately $839,000.00. GECC and Montgomery Ward will also pay the State of Georgia approximately $290,000.00, which is the state's share of the nationwide payment based upon the percentage of violations that occurred in Georgia.
GECC issues and administers private label credit cards for a number of retailers, including Montgomery Ward and Levitz. The Attorneys General investigation confirmed that GECC had solicited customers who filed Chapter 7 bankruptcy to sign a contract agreeing to repay their debt rather than have it dismissed in bankruptcy. GECC then failed to file those agreements with the Bankruptcy Court as required by law. The practice has been going on for at least four years.
Under the settlement, affected customers identified by GECC (using a process overseen by the Attorneys General) or through a claims process, will:
§ Have all their "reaffirmed" debt stricken and GECC will waive any rights to repossess the merchandise; § Be reimbursed or receive credit for finance charges, and penalties charged by GECC, and be reimbursed for any monies paid on the reaffirmed debt plus 10% interest;
§ Those potentially affected customers not identified by review of GECC's records will receive a notice and short questionnaire to determine eligibility, and will receive complete restitution if they signed a reaffirmation agreement that was not properly filed.
A reaffirmation agreement is a written contract by which a Chapter 7 debtor agrees to repay a debt that would otherwise be discharged in bankruptcy. These agreements can be valid if they are voluntary, provided they are filed with the bankruptcy court and, in certain circumstances, approved by the bankruptcy court.
GECC and Montgomery Ward also have agreed to an injunction that will prohibit them from collecting, upon reaffirmation, agreements that were not properly filed and to accurately disclose to their bankrupt customers their rights in connection with reaffirmation agreements proposed by the creditor.
The improper reaffirmation practices first came to light when a multi-state task force of Attorneys General spearheaded the investigation and settlement of a similar claim against Sears in 1997. Thereafter, the Attorneys General uncovered similar conduct by other major creditors, including Montgomery Ward and GECC.
Over 46 states participated in the multi-state agreement.
Consumers who filed for bankruptcy, signed a reaffirmation agreement with GECC, and believe the agreement may not have been filed properly with the bankruptcy court may contact the Georgia Governor's Office of Consumer Affairs at (404) 656-3790 for more information.


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|Oracle® Database New Features Guide
10g Release 1 (10.1)
Part Number B10750-01
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This chapter lists the books available online that document Oracle Database 10g. It contains the following section:
All books are available in electronic format. The following categories of documentation are available:
Table 2-1 Oracle Database 10g Server and SQL*Plus Documentation
|Part Number
|Administration, Concepts, and Reference
|Oracle Database New Features
|Describes the new features of Oracle Database 10g and lists the documentation for this release.
|Oracle Database Administrator's Guide
|Explains how to create and to manage an Oracle database. Includes information about distributed processing.
|Oracle Database 2 Day DBA
|Provides a single source reference for administering an Oracle database in a small to midsize environment. If you are familiar with computers, but unfamiliar with administering an Oracle database, and your computer has four CPUs or fewer, and you do not expect to support more than 500 users, this book is appropriate for you.
|Oracle Database Concepts
|Describes how the Oracle Database functions and lays a conceptual foundation for more detailed information contained in other Oracle Database books.
|Oracle Database Upgrade Guide
|Explains the process of planning and executing database upgrades on the Oracle Database server. In addition, this guide provides information about compatibility, about upgrading applications to the current release of Oracle, and about important changes in the current release, such as initialization parameter and data dictionary changes.
|Oracle Database Performance Tuning Guide
|Explains in detail how to enhance performance by writing and tuning SQL properly, by using performance tools, and by optimizing instance performance.
|Oracle Database Reference
|Provides reference information about database initialization parameters, static data dictionary views, dynamic performance views, database limits, and SQL scripts that are part of the Oracle database system.
|Oracle Database Utilities
|Describes how to use Oracle Database utilities to load data into a database, transfer data between databases, and maintain data. The utilities described include the new Data Pump export and import products, the original export and import products, SQL*Loader, external tables, the Metadata API, LogMiner, DBVERIFY, and DBNEWID.
|Oracle Database Globalization Support Guide
|Describes Oracle globalization support for the database. Explains how to set up a globalization support environment, choose and migrate a character set, customize locale data, do linguistic sorting, program in a global environment, and program with Unicode.
|Oracle Globalization Development Kit Java API Reference
|Describes APIs for the Oracle Globalization Development Kit.
|Oracle High Availability Architecture and Best Practices
|Describes tested architectures and recommended practices that can be used to achieve high availability with Oracle Database products and features.
|Oracle Database Sample Schemas
|Describes the sample schemas that are included in the seed database that ships with Oracle Database 10g. These schemas are used in examples in Oracle documentation and curriculum materials and in demos on Oracle Technology Network (OTN).
|Oracle Database SQL Quick Reference
|Contains a high-level description of the SQL used to manage information in an Oracle database.
|Oracle Database SQL Reference
|Contains a complete description of the SQL used to manage information in an Oracle database. The first volume describes all of the building blocks of SQL statements. The remaining volumes describe the SQL statements alphabetically.
|Oracle Database Heterogeneous Connectivity Administrator's Guide
|Describes the Oracle approach to information integration in a heterogeneous environment. Describes Oracle Transparent Gateways and Generic Connectivity and is an administrator's guide for these Oracle products.
|Oracle Database Error Messages
|Online only. Includes all database error messages.
|Oracle Database Readme
|Provides important last minute information not included in the Oracle Database Documentation Library.
|Oracle HTTP Server Administrator's Guide
|Describes how to administer Oracle HTTP Server.
|Oracle HTTP Server mod_plsql User's Guide
|Describes how to use
mod_plsql with HTTP Server.
|Oracle HTTP Server Installation Guide for Windows
|Describes installation instructions for HTTP Server.
|Backup and Recovery
|Oracle Database Recovery Manager Quick Start Guide
|This book is the starting point for all users of the backup and recovery documentation. It presents the basics of backup and recovery through the Recovery Manager, provides a guide to using the rest of the backup and recovery documentation, and includes a quick reference for frequently used Recovery Manager commands and views.
|Oracle Database Backup and Recovery Basics
|Provides introductory background information on backup and recovery and a guide on how to perform common backup and recovery tasks.
|Oracle Database Backup and Recovery Advanced User's Guide
|Provides in-depth information on the mechanics of backup and recovery, and a guide to performing complex and less frequently performed backup and recovery tasks, including user-managed backup and recovery and performance tuning of backup and recovery.
|Oracle Database Recovery Manager Reference
|This book describes RMAN syntax and recovery catalog views.
|Data Warehousing
|Oracle Data Warehousing Guide
|Provides conceptual, reference, and implementation material for using Oracle Database 10g in data warehouses. It covers the full range of data warehousing activities, from physical database design to advanced calculation techniques.
|Oracle Warehouse Builder User's Guide
|Describes Oracle Warehouse Builder functionality and how to define data objects, design ETL processes, deploy target systems, and manage metadata.
|Oracle Warehouse Builder Release Notes
|Provides important last minute information not included in the Oracle Database Documentation Library.
|Oracle Warehouse Builder Installation and Configuration Guide
|Describes the steps to install Oracle Warehouse Builder software, configure the Design and Runtime Repositories, and integrate Warehouse Builder with other products.
|Oracle Warehouse Builder Transformation Guide
|Describes the functions and procedures that characterize Oracle Warehouse Builder transformations. Warehouse Builder includes several predefined transformations, as well as a library of predefined functions and procedures to transform data. In addition, Warehouse Builder also uses SQL and PL/SQL as transformation languages.
|Oracle Warehouse Builder Scripting Reference
|Describes using OMB Plus to create, modify, delete, and retrieve object metadata in Warehouse Builder design and runtime repositories.
|Oracle Warehouse Builder Java API Reference
|Describes Oracle Warehouse Builder APIs.
|Oracle Data Mining Administrator's Guide
|Describes how to install the Oracle Data Mining (ODM) software and how to perform a other administrative functions common to all ODM administration.
|Oracle Data Mining Concepts
|Discusses the basic concepts underlying Oracle Data Mining.
|Oracle Data Mining Application Developer's Guide
|Describes using the Oracle Data Mining Java and PL/SQL APIs to perform data mining tasks for business applications, bioinformatics, and text mining.
|Streams and Replication
|Oracle Streams Concepts and Administration
|Contains conceptual information about Oracle Streams and information about configuring, administering, and monitoring an Oracle Streams environment. Also includes detailed examples of using Oracle Streams for various purposes.
|Oracle Streams Replication Administrator's Guide
|Contains conceptual information about Oracle Streams replication and about configuring, administering, and monitoring an Oracle Streams replication environment. Also includes detailed examples of configuring Oracle Streams replication environments.
|Oracle Database Advanced Replication
|Contains conceptual information about Oracle Advanced Replication. Also includes information about planning an Advanced Replication environment, an introduction to the Replication Management tool in Oracle Enterprise Manager, and information about troubleshooting Advanced Replication problems.
|Oracle Database Advanced Replication Management API Reference
|Contains reference information about and step-by-step instructions for using the replication management API, which is a set of PL/SQL packages for setting up and managing an Advanced Replication environment. Also includes reference information about data dictionary views that are important for Advanced Replication and security considerations for an Advanced Replication environment.
|SQL*Plus User's Guide and Reference
|Provides introductory and how-to sections describing the SQL*Plus command-line interface, the Windows graphical user interface, and the web-based iSQL*Plus user interface and how to configure and use them. Reference and error sections provide SQL*Plus command descriptions and list SQL*Plus error messages with associated cause and action text.
|SQL*Plus Quick Reference
|Shows iSQL*Plus syntax, navigation, and buttons, and SQL*Plus command syntax.
|SQL*Plus Release Notes
|Provides important last minute information not included in the Oracle Database Documentation Library.
|Data Guard
|Oracle Data Guard Broker
|Describes the Oracle Data Guard broker, a management and monitoring interface that automates many of the tasks involved in configuring and monitoring standby databases in an Oracle Data Guard configuration. This guide provides comprehensive descriptions and examples for using both the command-line interface and the Oracle Data Guard Manager graphical user interface.
|Oracle Data Guard Concepts and Administration
|Provides a comprehensive overview of Oracle Data Guard concepts and describes how to configure and implement standby databases that can take over production operations if your production database becomes unusable. This guide includes several database scenarios such as creating, recovering, failing over, switching over, configuring, and backing up standby and primary databases.
|Networking and Security
|Oracle Net Services Administrator's Guide
|Explains how to plan, configure, and manage enterprise-wide connectivity with Oracle Net Services.
|Oracle Net Services Reference Guide
|Contains a complete listing and description of the control utility commands and configuration file parameters available for managing components of Oracle Net Services.
|Oracle Security Overview
|Introduces the basic concepts of system security. It outlines the data security risks which are prevalent today, and the industry-standard technologies available to address them. It then presents the suite of Oracle products you can use to implement these security technologies.
|Oracle Database Security Guide
|Provides a comprehensive overview of security for this database release, featuring security as a necessary, primary focus for Oracle installations. It provides the conceptual framework for understanding security requirements and threats as well as introducing the features, techniques, and policies for meeting those needs with Oracle products. The audience for this book includes system managers as well as users, database administrators, and application developers.
|Oracle Advanced Security Administrator's Guide
|Provides an overview and detailed configuration information about database advanced security features. These features include network encryption, strong authentication (RADIUS, Kerberos, and SSL), and centralized user management that uses the Oracle Identity Management infrastructure (Enterprise User Security). The audience for this guide includes network security and enterprise user security administrators.
|Oracle Label Security Administrator's Guide
|Describes how to use Oracle Label Security to protect sensitive data. It explains the basic concepts behind label-based security and provides examples to show how it is used.
|Oracle Real Application Clusters
|Oracle Real Application Clusters Installation and Configuration Guide
|Explains Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC) setup and configuration procedures as well as how to use Oracle tools for software installation and database creation. This RAC install book is new for Oracle Database10g and includes RAC installation information for all platforms.
|Oracle Real Application Clusters Administrator's Guide
|Explains how to administer Oracle Real Application Clusters.
|Oracle Real Application Clusters Deployment and Performance Guide
|Provides a high-level explanation of deployment practices for various system types such as e-commerce, data warehousing, and online transaction processing. Gives an in-depth examination of Oracle Real Application Clusters performance measurement and tuning methods to maximize clustered environment performance.
|Application Development
|Oracle Database Application Developer's Guide - Fundamentals
|Introduces the features needed to develop applications for Oracle Database 10g, particularly triggers and stored procedures. This book also gives a high-level overview of topics covered in more detail in other books, such as PL/SQL, Java, and OCI.
|Oracle Database Application Developer's Guide - Large Objects
|Describes use of large object (LOB) datatypes BLOB, CLOB, NCLOB, and BFILE in application development. You can use these datatypes to store and manipulate unstructured and semi-structured data in binary or character format. This book also describes APIs for working with LOBs in supported programmatic environments. New APIs that allow you to use LOBs 8 terabytes in size or larger, depending on your configuration, are described.
|Oracle Database Application Developer's Guide - Object-Relational Features
|Describes user-defined object datatypes and how to use these datatypes to model complex real-world entities as objects in the database.
|Oracle Database Application Developer's Guide - Workspace Manager
|Describes how to use Oracle Database Workspace Manager to work with long transactions. Workspace management refers to the ability of the database to hold different versions of the same record (that is, row) in one or more workspaces. Users of the database can then change these versions independently. This manual includes conceptual, usage, and reference information.
|Oracle Database Application Developer's Guide - Expression Filter
|Provides usage and reference information about how to manage, index, and evaluate conditional expressions in relational tables.
|Oracle Streams Advanced Queuing User's Guide and Reference
|Describes features of application development and integration using the Oracle messaging system, Advanced Queuing (AQ). Includes the PL/SQL, C, Visual Basic, Java, and JMS interfaces to AQ and gateways to non-Oracle messaging systems.
|Oracle Data Cartridge Developer's Guide
|Describes how to implement custom indexing and query optimization services and how to package and use these as a server extension called a data cartridge.
|Oracle XML DB Developer's Guide
|Describes the database native XML support for this release. Oracle XML DB features a hierarchical repository with advanced foldering, versioning, and security mechanisms. This manual describes methods of storing, generating, accessing, searching, validating, transforming, and indexing XML and other data, including how to use FTP or HTTP/WebDav to access XML in the database. This manual also covers using Oracle XML DB with Oracle Text, Oracle Streams Advanced Queuing, and Oracle Enterprise Manager.
|Oracle HTML DB User's Guide
|Oracle HTML DB is a browser-based development environment that enables users to build data-driven applications called flows. A flow consists of multiple HTML pages linked together with tabs, buttons, or hypertext links. Oracle HTML DB dynamically renders and processes these pages from data stored in tables. Oracle HTML DB consists of three core components:Data Workshop. Enables users to import data into and export data from a hosted database.SQL Workshop. Enables uses to view and manage database objects from a Web browser.Flow Builder. Provides users with an online development environment in which to build the pages that comprise of flow.
|Oracle XML Developer's Kit Programmer's Guide
|Introduces you to the Oracle XML Developer's Kit (XDK) and how the various language components of the XDK can work together to generate and store XML data in a database or in a document outside the database. Examples and sample applications are introduced where possible.
|Language and Interface
|Oracle Call Interface Programmer's Guide
|Presents the Oracle Call Interface (OCI), an application programming interface (API) that enables applications written in C or C++ to interact with one or more Oracle databases.
|Oracle C++ Call Interface Programmer's Guide
|Presents the Oracle C++ Call Interface (OCCI), an application program interface (API) that enables applications written in C++ to interact with one or more Oracle databases. To extend the functionality of code generated by the Object Type Translator (OTT), programmers may want to add code in the OTT-generated file. The OTT can distinguish between OTT-generated code and user-generated code by looking for some predefined markers (tags). Support for these tags has been added in this release.
|PL/SQL User's Guide and Reference
|Presents PL/SQL, the Oracle procedural extension of SQL, an advanced fourth-generation programming language. Explains the concepts behind PL/SQL and illustrates every facet of the language.
|Pro*C/C++ Programmer's Guide
|Describes how to develop C++ programs that use the SQL and PL/SQL database languages to access and manipulate Oracle data.
|Pro*COBOL Programmer's Guide
|Describes how to develop COBOL programs that use the SQL and PL/SQL database languages to access and manipulate Oracle data.
|Programmer's Guide to the Oracle Precompilers
|This guide is a comprehensive user's guide and on-the-job reference to the Pro*COBOL and Pro*FORTRAN Precompilers. It shows you step-by-step how to develop applications that use the powerful database language SQL to access and manipulate Oracle data.
|Pro*FORTRAN Supplement to the Oracle Precompilers Guide
|Describes how to write FORTRAN programs that use SQL to access and manipulate Oracle data.
|Oracle SQL*Module for Ada Programmer's Guide
|Provides a complete description of Module Language, an ANSI/ISO SQL standard for developing applications that access data stored in a relational database. Module Language uses parameterized procedures to encapsulate SQL statements. The procedures can then be called from an Ada application. This guide also describes how you can use SQL*Module to call PL/SQL procedures stored in an Oracle database. A number of complete examples using Module Language, Ada code, and stored database procedures are provided.
|Pro*PL/1 Supplement to the Oracle Precompilers Guide
|Describes how to write PL/1 programs that use SQL to access and manipulate Oracle data. An understanding of the material in the Programmer's Guide to the Oracle Precompilers is assumed.
|Application Reference
|PL/SQL Packages and Types Reference
|Describes the PL/SQL packages and defined types supplied with the Oracle Database. Packages are listed alphabetically with syntax, procedures and functions, and parameters described for each package.
|Oracle XML API Reference
|Describes Oracle XML Developer's Kit (XDK) and Oracle XML DB APIs for developers building XML applications on the Oracle Database and provides syntax and a brief description of functions, methods, and procedures associated with them.
|Oracle interMedia User's Guide
|Describes how to develop and deploy multimedia content applications running on Oracle Application Server or Oracle Database that enables the database to store, manage, and retrieve image, audio, video, and heterogeneous media data using the relational and object interfaces.
|Oracle interMedia Reference
|Describes how to enable Oracle Database 10g to store, manage, and retrieve images, audio, video, or other heterogeneous media data in an integrated fashion with other enterprise information.
|Oracle interMedia Java Classes Reference
|Describes Java Classes to enable users to write Java applications using Oracle interMedia objects.
|Oracle interMedia Java Classes API Reference
|Oracle interMedia is a feature that enables the Oracle Database to store, manage, and retrieve multimedia data in an integrated fashion with other enterprise information. Oracle interMedia extends Oracle Database reliability, availability, and data management to multimedia content in Internet, electronic commerce, and media-rich applications.
|Oracle interMedia Java Classes for Servlets and JSP API Reference
|Describes how to use servlets and JSPs to facilitate the retrieval and uploading of multimedia data from and to an Oracle database.
|Oracle interMedia Annotator User's Guide and Reference
|Describes how to extract metadata from a multimedia file and storing both the metadata and the multimedia file in an Oracle database.
|Oracle Text
|Oracle Text Application Developer's Guide
|Describes how to build an application with Oracle Text, such as a text query application or document classification system. Examples are provided for creating a text table, indexing, and querying. This book also contains information about query tuning, document presentation, and using a thesaurus in your application.
|Oracle Text Reference
|Contains reference information for Oracle Text, including Oracle Text SQL statements, operators, supplied PL/SQL packages, and views. Examples are provided for using the PL/SQL packages and operators.
|Oracle Ultra Search User's Guide
|Describes how to build web-based query applications using Oracle Ultra Search. Topics include crawling, indexing, and searching text content in databases or HTML pages. Java Server Pages (JSP) web-application examples are provided.
|Oracle Workflow
|Oracle Workflow Administrator's Guide
|Describes how to administer Oracle Workflow.
|Oracle Workflow Developer's Guide
|Describes how to develop applications using Oracle Workflow.
|Oracle Workflow User's Guide
|Describes how to use Oracle Workflow.
|Oracle Workflow API Reference
|Describes the APIs used by Oracle Workflow.
|Oracle Workflow Installation Notes for Oracle Database
|Describes information about installation of Oracle Workflow.
Table 2-2 Oracle Database 10g Data Mining Documentation
|Part Number
|Oracle Data Mining Concepts
|Provides an overview of basic Oracle Data Mining concepts.
|Oracle Data Mining Administrator's Guide
|Describes how to install the Oracle Data Mining software and how to perform other administrative functions common to all Oracle Data Mining environments on both UNIX and Windows platforms.
|Oracle Data Mining Application Developer's Guide
|Describes how to use the Oracle Data Mining API (Java and PL/SQL) to perform data mining tasks, including building and testing models, computing lift, and scoring.
Table 2-3 Oracle Spatial Documentation
|Part Number
|Oracle Spatial User's Guide and Reference
|Provides usage and reference information for indexing and storing spatial data and for developing spatial applications. Includes an appendix about Oracle Locator 10g and its relationship to Oracle Spatial.
|Oracle Spatial GeoRaster
|Describes GeoRaster, a feature of Oracle Spatial that lets you store, index, query, analyze, and deliver GeoRaster data, that is, raster image data and its associated Spatial vector geometry data, plus metadata.
|Oracle Spatial Topology and Network Data Models
|Provides usage and reference information about the topology data model and network data model capabilities of Oracle Spatial.
Table 2-4 OLAP Documentation
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|Oracle OLAP Application Developer's Guide
|Explains how SQL and Java applications can extend their analytic processing capabilities by using Oracle OLAP in the Enterprise Edition of Oracle Database.
|Oracle OLAP Reference
|Explains the syntax of PL/SQL packages and types and the column structure of views related to Oracle OLAP.
|Oracle OLAP DML Reference
|Contains a complete description of the OLAP Data Manipulation Language (OLAP DML) used to define and manipulate analytic workspace objects.
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|Provides platform-specific preinstallation, installation, postinstallation, and component information for your single instance Oracle Database 10g database and client software on Windows.
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|Provides introductory, installation, configuration, usage, and administration information for using Oracle Services for Microsoft Transaction Server. Microsoft Transaction Server is a proprietary Component Object Model (COM) transaction processing system that runs on an Internet or network server.
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|Oracle Provider for OLE DB (OraOLEDB) is based on an open standard that uses a set of Component Object Model (COM) interfaces for data access, in this case to Oracle databases. This developer's guide describes provider-specific features and properties of OraOLEDB.
|Oracle COM Automation Feature Developer's Guide
|Oracle COM Automation Feature provides a mechanism to manipulate COM objects through PL/SQL. This developer's guide provides introductory, installation, postinstallation configuration, and usage information for Oracle COM Automation Feature.
|Oracle Data Provider for .NET Developer's Guide
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|Oracle Objects for OLE C++ Class Library Developer's Guide
|The Oracle Objects for OLE C++ Class Library is a collection of C++ classes that provide programmatic access to the OO4O automation server. This developer's guide describes the concepts and the object classes.
|Pro*C/C++ Getting Started for Windows
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|Pro*COBOL Getting Started for Windows
|This guide is an addendum to the Pro*COBOL Programmer's Guide containing information specific to the Windows platform.
|Oracle Client Installation Guide for Windows
|Describes how to install Windows clients.
|Oracle Database Release Notes for Windows
|Provides important last minute information not included in the Oracle Database Documentation Library.
|Oracle HTML DB Quick Installation Guide for Windows
|Describes how to install HTML DB.
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|Part Number
|Oracle Database JDBC Developer's Guide and Reference
|A discussion of how to use Oracle JDBC drivers, including Oracle extensions and APIs.
|Oracle Database JDBC Release Notes
|Provides important last minute information not included in the Oracle Database Documentation Library.
|Oracle Database JPublisher User's Guide
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The manual assumes that you are an experienced Java programmer with knowledge of Oracle databases, SQL, PL/SQL, and JDBC.
|Oracle Database Java Developer's Guide
|This book provides a general overview on how to develop, load, and execute your Java applications in the database.
|Oracle XML Java API Reference
|Describes the Java APIs for XML.
|Oracle Data Cartridge Java API Reference
|Describes the Java APIs for the Data Cartridge.
|Oracle Ultra Search Java API Reference
|Describes Java APIs for Ultra Search.
|Oracle Ultra Search Java API Reference
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|Oracle9iAS Certificate Authority Java API Reference
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|Oracle Streams Advanced Queuing Java API Reference
|Describes the Java APIs for Streams Advanced Queuing.
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|Part Number
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|Describes how to install and get up and running quickly with the new Oracle Enterprise Manager 10g Grid Control framework, which provides you with central management capabilities for managing all the services within your enterprise, including hosts, databases, listeners, application servers, HTTP Servers, and Web applications.
|Oracle Enterprise Manager Concepts
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|Oracle Enterprise Manager Advanced Configuration
|Describes how to perform advanced configuration tasks so you can take full advantage of Oracle Enterprise Manager 10g features, deploy Oracle Enterprise Manager efficiently throughout your organization, and become familiar with the directory structure, log files, and configuration options of the Enterprise Manager product set.
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Good evening everyone, Happy New Year and a blessed Christmas season to you all. I am glad to be back in the Archdiocese of Boston during this season and am looking forward to celebrating the Feast of the Epiphany this coming Sunday.
Early last week, I was able to see a lot of my family. My sister Mary Ellen had just returned from China where she was visiting my nephew who is teaching over there for a year. While she was there, they took great interest in visiting as many Catholic churches as they could. In Guangzhou, the city where my nephew is, they went to a beautiful old church that had been built by the French over 100 years ago. But the church was in very bad condition. There was just one Mass there, early in the morning, and people were practicing Christmas carols in Chinese. They said that the people were very friendly to them.
In Hong Kong, they actually went to Cardinal Joseph Zen Ze-kiun's Midnight Mass. They said the papers were full of attacks against Cardinal Zen because of positions that he has taken. But they said his Mass was so crowded that they had gotten there early and even by then, it was standing room only. Many people were outside, and there were speakers outside so that the people could hear.They also visited the churches on Macao and said there were beautiful old Portuguese churches there. They were able to experience some of the presence of the Catholic Church in China, but at the same time to understand the great challenges that the Church faces there and the pressure that the Church is under.
After I returned to Boston, I celebrated New Year's with three Franciscan friars — Fathers Don Lippard, Moises and Emilio. They're three friars whom I ordained and worked with at the Centro Catolico in Washington D.C., so it was very nice to have them here for the new year.
Father Lippard is our vice provincial and just returning from Papua New Guinea where he was teaching philosophy for a semester in the seminary there. He came with Father Moises who is originally from El Salvador but currently works in Washington D.C. Accompanying them was Father Emilio who was 10 years a missionary in Papua New Guinea and has just received permission to go and work in Cuba. We're all very pleased by that.
The friars accompanied us to St. Mary Parish in Waltham where we had dinner with the priests in the parish, participated in the holy hour and then celebrated Midnight Mass with a reception afterward. It was very well attended and the crowd was quite a representative group of people from all over the archdiocese. There were many Hispanics from the parish, and a neighboring parish's Ugandan choir showed up and offered to sing at the Mass.
The New Year's Mass always has a pro-life theme, and during the holy hour, Marianne Luthin gave a very beautiful reflection. She spoke about a woman who was pregnant and doctors told her that her child had many defects and would not live. The doctors kept urging her to have an abortion, but she wanted to bring the child to term. She did, and the child was baptized and then died. The woman had the satisfaction of giving birth to this child, and it was through the Archdiocesan Pro-life Office that the woman found help in doing that. She was not a Catholic but had a sense of reverence for life. Hers is a beautiful witness.
Ever since I've been ordained, I've celebrated Midnight Mass on New Year's. I think it's a good way to begin the new year, asking for God's blessing. When I was in the Virgin Islands, it was the largest Mass of the year. People couldn't fit in the churches because the West Indian conviction was that you must end the year in church and begin the year in church. They were all there!
As we begin this new year, I, along with the rest of the Church, hope that the coming year will be a time of spiritual growth and peace. We hope that the conflict in Iraq will be brought to a peaceful resolution and that our troops will be able to come home. We pray that there will be an increase in vocations and a renewed appreciation for the sacrament of marriage in our culture. We also pray that young people will have a sense of vocation to holiness, to married life, to the single state of life — to the religious life and to priesthood — and that our people will live and witness to their Catholic faith in such a way that our faith community will be able to fulfill its mission.
During the coming year, we will be moving towards the bicentennial in 2008 and continue to concretize the plans for celebrations and programs that will mark the 200th anniversary of the archdiocese.
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This past week I also had the pleasure of celebrating Mass with the Haitian community in honor of their Independence Day. Each year since I've come here, we've had a wonderful celebration at the Cathedral of the Holy Cross on the Haitian Independence Day, the feast day of Our Lady, Mother of God. It's always a very beautiful celebration and the Haitian priests and lay leaders do a very good job of organizing it. The entire celebration is in Creole and French, and they have a magnificent choir.
The Mass always concludes with the Te Deum, and the choir sings it in Latin. In the European tradition, the Te Deum is a prayer of thanksgiving and praise. It was a joyful and beautiful celebration, and I'm very grateful that we have a large and active Haitian Catholic community in the archdiocese. Father Gabriel Michel has done a wonderful job as our coordinator for the Haitian ministry.
Here is the Latin version of this beautiful prayer of the Te Deum:
Te Deum laudamus: te Dominum confitemur.
Te aeternum Patrem omnis terra veneratur.
Tibi omnes Angeli; tibi caeli et universae Potestates;
Tibi Cherubim et Seraphim incessabili voce proclamant:
Sanctus, Sanctus, Sanctus, Dominus Deus Sabaoth.
Pleni sunt caeli et terra maiestatis gloriae tuae.
Te gloriosus Apostolorum chorus,
Te Prophetarum laudabilis numerus,
Te Martyrum candidatus laudat exercitus.
Te per orbem terrarum sancta confitetur Ecclesia,
Patrem immensae maiestatis:
Venerandum tuum verum et unicum Filium;
Sanctum quoque Paraclitum Spiritum.
Tu Rex gloriae, Christe.
Tu Patris sempiternus es Filius.
Tu ad liberandum suscepturus hominem, non horruisti Virginis uterum.
Tu, devicto mortis aculeo, aperuisti credentibus regna caelorum.
Tu ad dexteram Dei sedes, in gloria Patris.
Iudex crederis esse venturus.
Te ergo quaesumus, tuis famulis subveni: quos pretioso sanguine redemisti.
Aeterna fac cum sanctis tuis in gloria numerari.
V. Salvum fac populum tuum, Domine, et benedic hereditati tuae.
R. Et rege eos, et extolle illos usque in aeternum.
V. Per singulos dies benedicimus te.
R. Et laudamus nomen tuum in saeculum, et in saeculum saeculi.
V. Dignare, Domine, die isto sine peccato nos custodire.
R. Miserere nostri, Domine, miserere nostri.
V. Fiat misericordia tua, Domine, super nos, quemadmodum speravimus in te.
R. In te, Domine, speravi: non confundar in aeternum.
For those of you who are a little rusty on your Latin, here is the English translation:
O God, we praise Thee, and acknowledge Thee to be the supreme Lord.
Everlasting Father, all the earth worships Thee.
All the Angels, the heavens and all angelic powers,
All the Cherubim and Seraphim, continuously cry to Thee:
Holy, Holy, Holy, Lord God of Hosts!
Heaven and earth are full of the Majesty of Thy glory.
The glorious choir of the Apostles,
The wonderful company of Prophets,
The white-robed army of Martyrs, praise Thee.
Holy Church throughout the world acknowledges Thee:
The Father of infinite Majesty;
Thy adorable, true and only Son;
Also the Holy Spirit, the Comforter.
O Christ, Thou art the King of glory!
Thou art the everlasting Son of the Father.
When Thou tookest it upon Thyself to deliver man,
Thou didst not disdain the Virgin's womb.
Having overcome the sting of death, Thou opened the Kingdom of Heaven to all
Thou sitest at the right hand of God in the glory of the Father.
We believe that Thou willst come to be our Judge.
We, therefore, beg Thee to help Thy servants whom Thou hast redeemed with Thy
Precious Blood.
Let them be numbered with Thy Saints in everlasting glory.
V. Save Thy people, O Lord, and bless Thy inheritance!
R. Govern them, and raise them up forever.
V. Every day we thank Thee.
R. And we praise Thy Name forever, yes, forever and ever.
V. O Lord, deign to keep us from sin this day.
R. Have mercy on us, O Lord, have mercy on us.
V. Let Thy mercy, O Lord, be upon us, for we have hoped in Thee.
R. O Lord, in Thee I have put my trust; let me never be put to shame.
The Haitians have a great tradition of dressing up to come to church. It adds a dignity, solemnity and festiveness to the occasion that's very beautiful. Although the situation in Haiti is always very dire, and the people have great concerns for their family and the stability of their country, there is a great affection and a patriotism among the Haitians.
They have the special custom of having a meal of pumpkin soup that's a sign of their independence. For them taking the soup is a sign of their freedom, having thrown of the yoke of European colonialism and of slavery and becoming, as they were, the first Black republic over 200 years ago.
I always thought that was quite a contrast with the Irish because we, too, have an expression about taking the soup. There were Irishmen who were starving and the British offered them soup if they would renounce the pope and their Catholic faith.
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The Trappistine sisters live the spirituality of the Cistercian order. They are a wonderful presence in the archdiocese. They are women who are deeply spiritual and steeped in the tradition and the mystical theology of the Church. It's a great blessing for us, and their presence is a witness to the interior life and our obligation to worship God and to seek Him in our lives and in prayer.
The Trappistine sisters will be having a monastic weekend from Feb. 16-18 for women ages 20-40 who are discerning their vocation in the Church. It is a very important and exciting event. More information can be found on their Web site, http://www.msmabbey.org.
That evening, I visited the Sister Disciples of the Divine Master. They are sort of the cousins of the Daughters of St. Paul and both orders have the same founder, Blessed James Alberione. We were happy that the Sister Disciples' young junior sisters were at the Mass and the dinner.
The sisters have a store on West Street and they also have a chapel there with eucharistic adoration. It's an oasis where the people and the priests of the archdiocese often go to pray and to be in the company of the sisters. We're blessed to have them here on West Street. It's right off of the Boston Common, and it's something of an institution downtown for people to go there to get religious articles and also to have the opportunity to meet the sisters and pray in their chapel.
The Sister Disciples in Boston also help as sacristans at the cathedral, so they are often very visible at archdiocesan celebrations. The sisters have an international community, and in Rome they are the sisters who are very much involved in the eucharistic adoration at the basilicas. The congregation is composed of around 1300 members present in 25 countries, spread around the five continents.
The order's mission is promoting liturgical art in contemplative prayer and seeing Christ in the priest. The local sisters are very, very supportive of our priests. They have also had sisters working at Regina Cleri, taking care of our retired clergy.
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… and Bishop Irwin on the left
The director of Regina Cleri is Msgr. Jim Tierney who does a wonderful job, and the staff there are all very attentive to our retired priests, in particular to those who are ailing. They also have a wonderful prayer life for the priests there, and I thanked them for that and congratulated them for that. They have eucharistic adoration, they have recollection days once a month and they pray the rosary and have Masses together. It is a great blessing for our priests.
We are very happy to see our retired priests at Regina Cleri who are so well provided for. Some of them are too sick to continue in ministry, but all of them are part of the contemplative branch of our Church, praying for the priests and people of the archdiocese. Many of the priests at Regina Cleri continue to give service in the parishes. Many of our parishes are staffed by one priest now, and the priests at Regina Cleri make themselves available to help with Masses and funerals. One of the priests is 96 and still drives out to his former parish every weekend to help with Masses! The retired priests are all very generous with their time, and they are a blessing for the archdiocese.
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On Jan. 4 I attended an interfaith service for the new governor, Deval Patrick. It was very ecumenical with people from Christian, Jewish, Sikh and Muslim backgrounds, and there was much symbolism in the service. Patrick is our first black governor in the Commonwealth, and that is an important milestone. The service was in a church, the Old South Meeting House, where Benjamin Franklin was baptized and where the Boston Tea Party was planned. So much history of our state and our country took place there.
Rev. Peter Gomes of Harvard's Memorial Church, gave the reflection. He pointed out that the upper gallery in the church was originally for the slaves, so obviously showing that we've come a long way from the time when Black people were slaves sitting in the upper gallery of church to now with the first Black governor in the Commonwealth.
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This coming Sunday, the Feast of the Epiphany will be celebrated. Traditionally the Epiphany is the 12th day of the Christmas season, and now it's been moved to Sunday in our country to increase observance by American Catholics. In many countries it's the day when gifts are given.
The theology of the Epiphany is that the magi represent God's manifestation to the gentile world, an indication of God's universal love. In the Middle Ages there was the tendency to begin to portray one of the kings as African, one as Asian and one as Caucasian to indicate the universality of God's love: That the Lord came to be a part of the entire human family and call all of us to salvation. In the United States the Epiphany also begins National Migration Week.
I usually celebrate the Spanish Mass at the cathedral on the Epiphany. The Hispanic community celebrates the Epiphany very much as a Christmas service and we have so many people from Puerto Rico in our archdiocese. In Puerto Rico, the Epiphany is almost bigger than Christmas.
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The photo of the week is a picture of a statue I received last year at an ordination of a Capuchin friar in Louiza Aldea, near San Juan. They gave me a piece of Puerto Rican folk art representing los Santos Reyes. In Puerto Rico they always talk about los Reyes — the kings — rather than the magi. Typically los reyes in Puerto Rico are portrayed as horsemen, not on camels. In the parades of Puerto Rico the three kings come on horseback and the children carry straw to feed the horses. This image carved out of wood is a typical Puerto Rican image of Los Santos Reyes.
In next week's blog, I plan to speak about vocations to the priesthood and religious life. Next Wednesday, I will be attending a "St. Andrew's Dinner," with high school students who are open to considering a vocation to the priesthood. If you, or some young man you know, may be hearing God's call, feel free to contact Father Dan in our Vocations Office at 617-746-5949 for more information on the St. Andrew's Dinner or visit our Vocations Office Web site.


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