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Virtually any object in SQL Server Analysis Services (SSAS)—including cubes, dimensions, data sources, and data source views (DSVs)—can be scripted in XMLA. The easiest way to begin a script is to right-click the object that you want to create in SQL Server Management Services (SSMS) and select the Script menu item. You can use this capability to selectively script some migrated objects. The following high-level checklist shows how to implement this method in our FoodMart 2000 scenario:
- Perform a straight database migration from SSAS 2000 by using the Migration Wizard. The new database is probably named "FoodMart 2000."
- Create a new FoodMart database, named something like "FoodMart 2005."
- Script and run the data source from the migrated database (change the database in the script).
- Script and run the DSV from the migrated database (change the database in the script).
- Add the appropriate relationships and primary keys to the DSV in FoodMart 2005.
- Rename named calculations in the FoodMart 2005 DSV as appropriate. The Migration Wizard added some named calculations to some of the tables in the DSV and named them "Column1." These named calculations reflect SQL statements that were entered into the Source Column for cube measures or Member Column for dimension-level names in FoodMart 2000. It's a good idea to rename these to better represent the underlying calculation.
- Create a new cube in FoodMart 2005 by using the Auto Build feature.
- Review and revise the resulting dimensions (e.g., attribute properties, user hierarchies, attribute relationships) in FoodMart 2005.
- Script and run the XMLA to create other objects, such as partitions, MDX calculations, and actions to copy them from the migrated database to FoodMart 2005. You can script these objects independently or extract them from a cube or database creation script.
- Add designations for parent/child, custom member formulas/rollups, and unary operators to FoodMart 2005. You can determine these designations by reviewing the migrated database.
- Add drillthrough actions to duplicate drillthrough settings from SSAS 2000.
It might be easiest to cut out subsets of a cube or database creation script when creating objects such as partitions, actions, and MDX calculations. You can run the example script in Listing A in SSMS to create calculated members from the source Sales cube in the newly generated database.
Learn more from Derek Comingore's "Building Your First Cube."


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John McDonnell has graciously shared with readers of the Victorian Web his website with the electronic text, including scanned images, of the anonymous London Characters and the Humourous Side of London Life. With Upwards of 70 Illustrations apparently by a "Mr. Jones," which the London firm Stanley Rivers & Co. published in 1871. Brackets indicate explanatory material, such as interpretations of contemporary slang, by Mr. McDonnell. [Decorated initial "A" by Thackeray from Vanity Fair — George P. Landow.]
ho are these people who pass to and fro? What lives are theirs? What are their stories? Who are their friends? What is their business? Each has a story of his own---each has a cluster of friends of his own---each is the centre of a domestic circle of greater or less extent---each is an object of paramount interest to somebody; there are few, very few, who are so unhappy, so isolated, as not to be the absolute centre around which some one's thoughts revolve. Of these men and women who pass and repass me in the crowded street, one is an only son, on whose progress in life his bereaved mother has staked her happiness; another is the ne'er-do-well husband of a spirit-broken, but still loving wife; a third is a husband that is to be; a fourth is the father of a big hungry family---every one, from peer to beggar, is the living centre of some social scheme. They are all so much alike, and yet so widely different; their stories are so wonderfully similar in their broad outlines, and yet so strangely unlike in their minute particulars. Just as one man's face is like another's, so is the story of his life: no two faces are exactly alike, yet all have many points in common.
A large crowd of people always presents many curious subjects of speculation. The bare fact of their being there is marvellous in itself, when we come to think of it, without thinking too deeply. As a rule, it is better to think, but not to think too deeply. If we don't think at all, our mind is but a blank; if we just glance below the surface, we may without difficulty conjure up a host of pleasant paradoxes, the contemplation of which is enough to keep the mind amused, and to give play to a healthy and fanciful reflection. But if we think too deeply, we come to the reason of things---we destroy our visionary castles---we brush away our quaint theories, and we reduce everything to the absolute dead-level from which we started. Apply these remarks to a large crowd of people---say a monster Reform gathering in Hyde Park. Here are thirty thousand people vindicating their claim to the franchise, some by talking windily to a mob who can't hear them, others by an interchange of gentle chaff, others by going to sleep on their backs on the grass. The man who don't trouble himself to think about them accepts their presence as a fact which is merely attributed to a popular demagogue and a few thousand handbills. He who dips below the surface, finds a train of thoughts of this nature prepared for him: "How utterly baseless is the doctrine of chances! Take any two of these people at random: one is (say) a bricklayer, born in Gloucestershire; another is a tailor, who hails from Canterbury: well, what would have been the betting, thirty years ago, that the Gloucestershire bricklayer would not be lolling on the grass at Hyde Park, listening to the inflated nonsense of the Kentish tailor, at eight o'clock on a given evening in August, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven? Why, the odds would have been incalculably great against such a concurrence. But here are not only the Gloucestershire bricklayer and the Kentish tailor, but also twenty-nine thousand nine hundred and ninety-eight others, the odds against any one of whom meeting any other in the same place, at the same time, and on the same day, would have been equally incalculable; and yet, here they all are!" Here is a vast field of speculation opened out for the consideration of him who only dips below the surface. It is enough, in itself, to keep his mind in a condition of pleasant easy-going activity for months at a time. But the miserable man who sees a fallacy in this chain of reasoning, and, so to speak, hauls up his intellectual cable to see where the fault lies, discovers that it exists in the fact that no one, thirty years ago, prophesied anything of the kind concerning either the Gloucester bricklayer or the Kentish tailor, or any other twain of the multitude before him---that the odds against any one having prophesied such a concurrence would be infinitely greater than the odds anybody would have staked against such a prophecy being verified; that he has been troubling himself about a mass of utter nonsense; and that, in the absense of any prophecy to that effect, there is nothing more remarkable in the fact of the Gloucestershire bricklayer meeting the Kentish tailor and the twenty-nine thousand nine hundred and ninety-eight other noodles who go to make up the crowd, than is to be found in the fact that thirty thousand people can be brought together, out of one city, who think that the cause of Reform is susceptible of any material advancement by such a means.
The London streets always afford pleasant fund of reflection to a superficial thinker. Hardly a man passes by who has not some more or less strongly marked characteristic which may serve to distinguish him from his fellows, and give a clue to his previous history. Of course the clue may be an erroneous one; but if it prove to be so, that is the fault of the sagacious soul who follows it up too closely. Here is an instance taken at random. The easy-going speculator who is content with such deductions as the light of nature may enable him to make, sets him down as a thriving bill-discounter. He is an old gentleman who has, at various epochs in his chequered career, been a wine-merchant, a cigar-dealer, a Boulogne billiard player, a trafficker in army commissions, a picture-dealer, a horse-dealer, a theatrical manager, and a bill discounter. Each of these occupations has left its mark, more or less emphasized, upon his personal appearance. He finds bill-discounting by far the most profitable of his employments, and he sticks to it. He has a large army connection, and can tell off the encumberances on most of the large landed estates of Great Britain and Ireland. He has a fine cellar of old wines, and several warehouses of cigars and old masters---commodities which enter largely into all his discounting transactions. He has a large house, and gives liberal parties, and it is astonishing (considering his antecedents) how many young men of family find it worth while to "show up" at them.
Here we have Mr. Sam Travers of the metropolitan theatres. Mr, Sam Travers is a stock low comedian at a favorite minor establishment, and Mr. Sam Travers's pre-occupied demeanour and unreasonable galvanic smiles suggest that his next new part is the most prominent subject matter of his reflections. Mr. Travers was a music-hall singer and country clown until his developing figure interfered with the latter line of business, and he has now subsided into the "comic countryman" of the establishment to which he is attached. His notions of "make up" are for the most part limited to a red wig and a nose to match; but he is a "safe" actor, and on his appearance on the stage the gallery hail him by name as one man. He can't pass a man with a red head and red nose without exclaiming, "By Jove! there's a bit of character, eh!" and he falls into the mistake, too common among his class, of supposing that a man who looks, in the streets, as if he had been "made up" for the stage, is on that account characteristic and to be carefully imitated.
A wicked old character is represented in the initial to this paper. He is a gay old bachelor, of disgraceful habits and pursuits---a course old villain without a trace of gentlemanly, or even manly, feeling about him. He stands at his club-window by day, leering at every respectable woman who passes him, in a manner that would insure him a hearty kicking were he not the enfeebled, palsied old thing he is. At dinner he drinks himself into a condition of drivelling imbecility, from which he arouses himself in time to stagger round to the nearest stage-door. His income is probably derived from the contributions of disgusted connections who pay him to keep out of their sight, and when he dies, he will die, unattended, in a Duke Street lodging-house, whose proprietor will resent the liberty as openly as he dares.
Here is an amusing fellow---an artistic charlatan. He is by profession an artist; his "get up" is astonishingly professional, and his talk is studio slang. He never paints anything, but haunts studios, and bothers hard-working craftsmen by the hour together. He has been all over the world, and knows every picture in every gallery in Europe. To hear him talk, you would think he was the acknowledged head of his profession. Certainly, as far as his exterior goes, there never was so artistic an artist (out of a comedy) as he.
Bound, I should say, for rehearsal. Much more quiet and ladylike than people who only know her from the stalls, as a popular burlesque prince, would expect her to be. A good quiet girl enough, with a bedridden mother and three or four clean but seedy little children dependent on her weekly salary (eked out, perhaps, by dancing and music lessons) for their daily bread. Very little does she know about Ascot drags and Richmond dinners: her life is a quiet round of regular unexciting duties, only relieved at distant intervals by the flash and flutter of a new part. She will marry, perhaps, the leader of the band, or the stage-manager, or the low comedian, grow fat, and eventually train pupils for the stage.
Ah! his story, past and to come, is easily told. Bank clerk by day---casino reveller by night, eventually a defaulter; three years' penal servitude, ticket of leave [license given to a convict under imprisonment to go at large and labor for himself], then a billiard marker and betting man, and if successful, perhaps a small cigar-shop keeper. Or, if he has relations, his passage may be paid out to Australia, where he will begin as an attorney's clerk and perhaps end as a judge. Most of us have some great original whom we set up as a type of what a man should be, and that selected by our friend is the "great Vance." He frames his costume from the outsides of comic songs, and his air and conversation are of the slap-bang order of architecture. His clothes and those of his friends are always new---offensively new---a phenomenon which is not easily accounted for when the limited nature of their finances is taken into consideration. I have a theory that they are clothed gratuitously by West-end tailors who want to get up a fashionable reaction in the matter of gentlemen's dress, and who think that this end may be most readily attained by clothing such men as these in exaggerations of existing fashions. But this is just one of those speculations to which I have alluded to at some length, and which on closer investigation I feel I should be tempted to reject. So I decline to pursue the subject.
A London crowd is an awful thing, when you reflect upon the number of infamous characters of which it is necessarily composed. I don't care what crowd it is---whether it is an assemblage of 'raff' at a suburban fair, a body of Volunteers, Rotten Row in the season, or an Exeter Hall May meeting. Some ingenious statistician has calculated that one in every forty adults in London is a professional thief; that is to say, a gentleman who adopts, almost publicly, the profession of burglar, pickpocket, or area sneak; who lives by dishonesty alone, and who, were dishonest courses to fail him, would have no means whatever of gaining a livelyhood. But of the really disreputable people in London, I suppose that acknowledged thieves do not form one twentieth portion. Think of the number of men now living and doing well, as respectable members of society, who are destined either to be hanged for murder or to be reprieved, according to the form which the humanitarianism of the Home Sectretary for the time being may take. Murderers are not recruited, as a rule, from the criminal classes. It is true that now and then a man or woman is murdered for his or her wealth by a professed thief, but it is the exception, and not the rule. Murder is often the crime of one who has never brought himself under the notice of the police before. It is the crime of the young girl with a illegitimate baby; of the jealous husband, lover, or wife; of a man exposed suddenly to a temptation which he cannot resist---the temptation of a good watch or well-filled purse, which, not being a professional thief, he does not know how to get at by any means short of murder. Well, all the scoundrels who are going to commit these crimes, and to be hung or reprieved for them accordingly, are now walking among us, and in every big crowd there must be at least one or two of them. Then the forgers; they are not ordinarily professional thieves; they are usually people holding situations of greater or less responsibility, from bank managers down to office boys; well, all these forgers who are to be tried at all the sessions and assizes for the next twenty years, are walking about among us as freely as you or I. Then the embezzlers---these are always people who stand well with their employers and their friends. I remember hearing a judge say, in the course of the trial of a savings-bank clerk for embezzlement, when the prisoner's counsel offered to call witnesses to character of the highest respectability, that he attached little or no value to the witnesses called to speak to their knowledge of the prisoner's character in an embezzlement case, as a man must necessarily be of good repute among his fellows before he could be placed in a position in which embezzlement was possible to him. Then the committers of assaults of all kinds. These are seldom drawn from the purely criminal classes, though, of course, there are cases in which professional thieves resort to violence when they cannot obtain their booty by other means. All these people---all the murderers, forgers, embezzlers, and assaulters, who are to be tried for their crimes during the next (say) twenty years, and moreover, all the murderers, forgers, embezzlers, and assaulters whose crimes escape detection altogether (here is a vast field for speculation open to the ingenious statisticians---of whom I am certainly one---who begin with conclusions, and 'try back' to find premisses!)---all are elbowing us about in the streets of this and other towns every day of our lives. How many of these go to make up a London crowd of, say, thirty thousand people? Add to this unsavoury category all the fraudulent bankrupts, past and to come, all the army of swindlers, all the betting thieves, all the unconscientious liars, all the men who ill-treat their wives, all the wives who ill-treat their husbands, all the profligates of both sexes, all the scoundrels of every shape and dye whose crimes do not come under the ken of the British policeman, but who, for all that, are infinitely more harmful to the structure of London society than the poor prig who gets six months for a 'wipe,' and then reflect upon the nature of your associates whenever you venture into a crowd of any magnitude!
Struck by these considerations (I am not a deep thinker, as I hinted in a former page---if I thought more deeply about them I might find reasons which would induce me to throw these considerations to the winds), I beg that it will be understood that all the remarks that I may make in favour of the people who form the subject of this chapter, are subject to many mental reservations as to their probable infamy and possible detection.
Here is a gentleman who, as far as I know, is a thoroughly good fellow. He is a soldier, and a sufficiently fortunate one, and stands well up among the captains and lieutenant-colonels of his regiment of Guards. He has seen service in Crimea, as his three undress medals testify. He is, I suppose, on his way to the orderly-room at the Horse Guards, for, at this morte saison, his seniors are away, and he is in command. Unlike most Guardsmen, he knows his work thoroughly, for he was the adjutant of his battalion for the six or seven years of his captaincy. He is a strict soldier; rather feared by his subalterns when he is in command, but very much liked notwithstanding. He has married a wealthy wife, has a good house in Berkeley Square, and a place in Inverness-shire, with grouse-moors, deer-forests, and salmon-streams of the right sort. He is thinking of standing for the county, at his wife's suggestion, but beyond a genial interest in conservative successes, he does not trouble himself much about politics. Everybody likes him, but he may---I say, he may---be an awful scoundrel at bottom.
Here are two young gentlemen (on your right), who appear to be annoying a quiet-looking and rather plain young milliner [one who designs, makes, trims, or sells women's hats]. I am sorry to say that this is a group which presents itself much too often to the Thumbnail Sketcher. I do not mean to say that the two young men are always disgraceful bullies of unprotected young women, or that the unprotected young women are always the timid, shrinking girls that they are commonly represented to be in dramas of domestic interest, and in indignant letters to the "Times" newspaper. I am afraid that it only too often happens that the shrinking milliner is quite as glad of the society of the young men who accost her as the young men are of hers, although I am bound to admit that in the present case the girl seems a decent girl, and her annoyers two "jolly dogs," of the most objectionable type. One of them is so obliging as to offer her his arm, while the other condescends to the extent of offering to carry her bandbox, an employment with which he is probably not altogether unfamiliar in the ordinary routine of his avocations. She will bear with them for a few minutes, in the hope that her continued silence will induce them to cease their annoyance, and when she finds that their admiration is rather increased than abated by her modest demeanour, she will stop still and request them to go on without her. As this is quite out of the question, she will cross the road and they will follow her. At length their behavior will perhaps be noticed by a plucky but injudicious passer-by, who will twist one of them on to his back by the collar, and be knocked down himself by the other. Upon this a fight will ensue, the young milliner will escape, and the whole thing will end unromantically enough in the station-house.
Here is an unfortunate soldier, a fit and proper contrast to the comfortable and contented Guardsman (page 13). He is one of the Indian army of martyrs, who has given up all hope of anything like promotion, and, after a life of battles, has subsided into that refuge for destitute officers, a volunteer adjutancy. He is a thoroughly disappointed man, but he is much too well bred to trouble you with his disappointments, unless you pump him on the subject, and then you will find that the amalgamation of the British and Indian forces has resulted in complications that you cannot understand, and that one of these complications is at the bottom of his retirement from active service. He has strong views upon, and a certain interest in, the Banda and Kirwee prize money, and he looks forward to buying an annuity for his mother (who lets lodgings) with his share, if he should get it. He is poor---that is to say, his income is small; but he always manages to dress well, and looks gentlemanly from a gentleman's---although, perhaps, not from a tailor's---point of view.
This rather heavy and very melancholy-looking gentleman with the thick black beard is a purveyor of touch-and-go farces to the principal metropolitan theatres. He also does amusing gossip for the provincial journals, light frothy magazine articles, dramatic criticisms for a weekly paper, and an occasional novel of an airy, not to say extremely trivial nature. His name is well known to the readers of light literature, and also to enthusiastic play-goers who go early and come away late. He is supposed by them to pass a butterfly existence, flitting gaily from screaming farce to rollicking "comic copy," and back again from rollicking comic copy to screaming farce. But this is not exactly true of his professional existence. He is a moody buffoon in private life, much addicted to the smoking of long clay pipes and the contemplation of bad boots. He is, at bottom, a good-natured fellow, and a sufficiently industrious one. He is much chaffed for his moody nature now, but he will die some day, and then many solemn bumpers will be emptied by his club fellows to the memory of the good heart that underlaid that thin veneer of cynicism.
Here is a sketch from the window at White's. He is also a member of the Senior and the Carlton, but he is seldom seen at either. He prefers the view from White's, and he prefers the men he meets there, and he likes the chattiness of that famous club. He knows everybody, does the old major, and has, in his time, been everywhere. He has served in a dozen different capacities, and in almost as many services; indeed, his range of military experience extends from a captaincy of Bashi Bazouks to a majority of Yeomanry Calvary. He has been rather a sad dog in his time, but he is much quieter now, and is extremely popular among dowagers at fasionable watering-places.
This young gentleman is a Foreign Office clerk, and he is just now on his way to discharge his arduous duties in that official paradise. He is a rather weak-headed young gentleman, of very good family and very poor fortune, and in course of time he will churn up into a very sound, serviceable ambassador. At present he does not "go out" with the Government, though that distinction may be in reserve for him if he perseveres in his present judicious course of gentlemanly sleepiness. He is, in common with most of his Foreign Office fraternity, a great deal too well dressed. It is really astonishing that young men of birth and breeding, as most of these Foreign Office clerks are, should be so blind to the fact that there is nothing in this world so utterly offensive to men of cultivated taste as a suit of brand new clothes. His views, at present, are limited to his office, the "Times," his club, and any shootings and fishings that may be offered to him by friendly proprietors.
The streets are strange levellers. They form a common ground upon which all ranks meet on equal terms---where no one, however lofty his station (so that it fall short of royalty), or however distinguished his career, has any right of precedence to the disadvantage of humbler members of the community. The First Lord of the Treasury, in whose presence small statesmen tremble, will, if he happens to run against a costermonger [hawker of fruit, fish, etc.], be asked, with no ceremony whatever, where is is shoving to; and the Lord High Chancellor of England when he walks abroad is nothing better than a "bloke" in the eyes of him who keeps a potato-can. It is in the streets that the private soldier stops the Commander-in-Chief to ask him for a light, and over-dressed shopmen sneer at seedy dukes. There the flunky ogles the lady into whose service he may be about to enter, and there the indiscriminating 'busman invites countesses into his conveyance. In the streets the penniless Fenian finds his "Fool's Paradise" half realized---rank is abolished, and an equal distribution of property is all that remains for him to accomplish.
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Stoudemire says recovery from knee surgery is going well, but unsure about return for playoffs
NEW YORK – Amare Stoudemire says his recovery from right knee surgery is going "a little bit ahead of schedule," though he isn't sure if he can return to the New York Knicks for the first round of the playoffs.
Stoudemire had surgery to clean up and remove tissue from the knee about 2½ weeks ago and the Knicks said his expected recovery time would be about six weeks. The playoffs open the weekend of April 20.
The power forward had the same procedure, called a debridement, on the left knee in late October and returned New Year's Day. He averaged 14.2 points in 29 games as a reserve before getting hurt again.
Stoudemire's injury and recovery are captured on film in a documentary titled "Amare Stoudemire: In the Moment" that will debut on EPIX on April 19.


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There has been a lot of buzz this week about ever-shrinking starlets and too-skinny models. So we'd like to give props to a few women who always look great. Seeing Kate Winslet at the Toronto Film Festival reminded us how beautiful she is, and how she has never shied away from having a real body (and a great body, at that.) Gwyneth Paltrow, who in younger days was reed-thin, is now one hot mama with her voluptous post-baby body. Is it just us or does she seem to be glowing everytime you see her now? And in the younger generation, Scarlett Johansson makes a break with the stick-thin figures and celebrates her curves, bringing to mind screen sirens of days gone by. And yes, these women are still slim and have very enviable bodies (we'll take looking like that in a dress any day!), but we applaud them for being comfortable in their own skin and hourglass figures. Marilyn would be proud.
If you'd like to let us know what you think about the shape debate, take PEOPLE's Stars' Bodies: Too Thin? poll, and if you like, leave a comment here.
CH/AAD/Star Max; Dennis Van Tine/Abaca; Fernando Allende/Splash News


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This chapter describes clustering and high availability for an Oracle Service Bus deployment.
A clustered Oracle Service Bus domain provides high availability. A highly available deployment has recovery provisions in the event of hardware or network failures, and provides for the transfer of control to a backup component when a failure occurs.
This chapter includes the following sections:
Section 5.3, "High Availability for Poller-Based Transports"
For detailed instructions on configuring Oracle Service Bus for high availability, see the "Architecting OSB for High Availability and Whole Server Migration" document, available on the Oracle Service Bus product page at
For a cluster to provide high availability, it must be able to recover from service failures. Oracle WebLogic Server supports failover for clustered objects and services pinned to servers in a clustered environment. For information about how Oracle WebLogic Server handles such failover scenarios, see "Communications in a Cluster" in Oracle Fusion Middleware Using Clusters for Oracle WebLogic Server.
The basic components of a highly available Oracle Service Bus environment include the following:
An Admin Server
A set of Managed Servers in a cluster
An HTTP load balancer (router)
Physically shared, highly-available disk subsystems for Managed Server data—Whole server migration requires that all data on a Managed Server be located on a multi-ported disk. A typical and recommended way to do this is by using a multi-ported disk subsystem or SAN, and allowing two or more servers to mount file systems within the disk subsystem. The file system does not need to be simultaneously shared; it is only necessary for one server to mount a file system at any one time.
A Microsoft SQL Server or Oracle database configured for failover with a cluster manager—You should take advantage of any high availability or failover solutions offered by your database vendor in addition to using a commercial cluster manager. (For database-specific information, see your database vendor's documentation.)
For information about availability and performance considerations associated with the various types of JDBC drivers, see "Configure Database Connectivity" in the Oracle Fusion Middleware Oracle WebLogic Server Administration Console Online Help.
A full discussion of how to plan the network topology of your clustered system is beyond the scope of this section. For information about how to fully utilize inbound load balancing and failover features for your Oracle Service Bus configuration by organizing one or more Oracle WebLogic Server clusters in relation to load balancers, firewalls, and Web servers, see "Cluster Architectures" in Oracle Fusion Middleware Using Clusters for Oracle WebLogic Server. For information on configuring outbound load balancing, see "Transport Configuration Page" in the Oracle Fusion Middleware Administrator's Guide for Oracle Service Bus.
For a simplified view of a cluster, showing the HTTP load balancer, highly available database and multi-ported file system, see the following figure.
Figure 5-1 Simplified View of a Cluster
The default Oracle Service Bus domain configuration uses a file store for JMS persistence to store collected metrics for monitoring purposes and alerts. The configuration shown relies on a highly available multi-ported disk that can be shared between Managed Servers to optimize performance. This will typically perform better than a JDBC store.
For information about configuring JMS file stores, see "Using the WebLogic Persistent Store" in Oracle Fusion Middleware Configuring Server Environments for Oracle WebLogic Server.
A server can fail due to software or hardware problems. The following sections describe the processes that occur automatically in each case and the manual steps that must be taken in these situations.
If a software fault occurs, the Node Manager (if configured to do so) will restart the Oracle WebLogic Server. For more information about Node Manager, see "Using Node Manager to Control Servers" in Oracle Fusion Middleware Node Manager Administrator's Guide for Oracle WebLogic Server. For information about how to prepare to recover a secure installation, see "Directory and File Back Ups for Failure Recovery" in Oracle Fusion Middleware Managing Server Startup and Shutdown for Oracle WebLogic Server.
If a hardware fault occurs, the physical machine may need to be repaired and could be out of operation for an extended period. In this case, the following events occur:
The HTTP load balancer will detect the failed server and will redirect to other Managed Servers. (The actual algorithm for doing this will depend on the vendor for the http load balancer.)
All new internal requests will be redirected to other Managed Servers.
All in-flight transactions on the failed server are terminated.
JMS messages that are already enqueued are not automatically migrated, but must be manually migrated. For more information, see Section 184.108.40.206, "Server Migration."
If your Oracle Service Bus configuration includes one or more proxy services that use File, FTP or Email transports with transport pollers pinned to a Managed Server that failed, you must select a different Managed Server in the definition of each of those proxy services in order to resume normal operation.
If the Managed Server that hosts the aggregator application fails, collected metrics for monitoring and alerts are not automatically migrated. You must perform a manual migration. For more information, see Section 22.214.171.124, "Server Migration."
Oracle Service Bus leverages Oracle WebLogic Server's whole server migration functionality to enable transparent failover of Managed Servers from one system to another. For detailed information regarding Oracle WebLogic Server whole server migration, see the following topics in the Oracle WebLogic Server documentation set:
"Failover and Replication in a Cluster" in Oracle Fusion Middleware Using Clusters for Oracle WebLogic Server
"Avoiding and Recovering from Server Failure" in Oracle Fusion Middleware Managing Server Startup and Shutdown for Oracle WebLogic Server.
The Message Reporting Purger for the JMS Message Reporting Provider is deployed in a single Managed Server in a cluster (see Appendix B, "Oracle Service Bus Deployment Resources").
If the Managed Server that hosts the Message Reporting Purger application fails, you must select a different Managed Server for the Message Reporting Purger and its associated queue (
wli.reporting.purge.queue) to resume normal operation.
Any pending purging requests in the Managed Server that failed are not automatically migrated. You must perform a manual migration. Otherwise, target the Message Reporting Purger application and its queue to a different Managed Server and send the purging request again.
In addition to the high availability features of Oracle WebLogic Server, Oracle Service Bus has failure and recovery characteristics that are based on the implementation and configuration of your Oracle Service Bus solution. The following sections discuss specific Oracle Service Bus failure and recovery topics:
Oracle Service Bus provides transparent reconnection to external servers and services when they fail and restart. If Oracle Service Bus sends a message to a destination while the connection is unavailable, you may see one or more runtime error messages in the server console.
Transparent reconnection is provided for the following types of servers and services:
Business services
Oracle Service Bus Administration Console also provides monitoring features that enable you to view the status of services and to establish a system of SLAs and alerts to respond to service failures. For more information, see "Monitoring" in the Oracle Fusion Middleware Administrator's Guide for Oracle Service Bus.
Most business services in production environments will be configured to point to a number of EIS instances for load balancing purposes and high availability. If you expect that an EIS instance failure will have an extended duration or a business service points to a single, failed EIS instance, you can reconfigure the business service to point at an alternate, operational EIS instance. This change can be made dynamically.
For information about using the Oracle Service Bus Administration Console to change an endpoint URI for a business service, see "Transport Configuration Page" in the Oracle Fusion Middleware Administrator's Guide for Oracle Service Bus.
An additional JMS-based framework has been created to allow the poller-based File, FTP, and Email transports to recover from failure. These transports use the JMS framework to ensure that the processing of a message is done at least once. However, if the processing is done, but the server crashes or the server is restarted before the transaction is complete, the same file may be processed again. The number of retires depends on the redelivery limit that is set for the poller transport for the domain.
New messages from the target (a directory in case of File and FTP transports and server account in case of Email transport) are copied to the download (stage) directory at the time of polling or pipeline processing.
For FTP transport, a file is renamed as
<name>.stage in the remote directory. It is copied to the stage directory only at the time of pipeline processing,
For File and FTP transports, a JMS task is created corresponding to each new file in the target directory. For Email transport, an e-mail message is stored in a file in the download directory and a JMS task is created corresponding to each of these files.
These JMS task messages are enqueued to a JMS queue which is pre-configured for these transports when the Oracle Service Bus domain is created.
The following poller-transport-specific JMS queues are configured for Oracle Service Bus domains:
Table 5-1 JMS Queues Configured for Oracle Service Bus Domains
|Transport Name
|JMS Queue Name
A domain-wide message-driven bean (MDB) receives the JMS task. Once the MDB receives the message, it invokes the pipeline in an XA transaction. If the message processing fails in the pipeline due to an exception in the pipeline or server crash, the XA transaction also fails and the message is again enqueued to the JMS queue. This message is re-delivered to the MDB based on the redelivery limit parameter set with the queue. By default, the redelivery limit is
1 (the message is sent once and retried once). If the redelivery limit is exhausted without successfully delivering the message, the message is moved to the error directory. You can change this limit from Oracle WebLogic Server Console. For more information, see "JMS Topic: Configuration: Delivery Failure" in the Oracle Fusion Middleware Oracle WebLogic Server Administration Console Online Help.
For a single Oracle Service Bus domain transport, the redelivery limit value is global across the domain. For example, within a domain, it is not possible to have an FTP proxy with a redelivery limit of
2 and another FTP proxy with a redelivery limit of
For clusters, the JMS queue associated with each of these poller based transport is a distributed queue (each Managed Server has a local JMS queue, which is a member of the distributed queue). The JMS queue for a transport is domain-wide. The task message is enqueued to the distributed queue, which is passed on to the underlying local queues on the Managed Server. The MDB deployed on the Managed Server picks up the message and then invokes the pipeline in a transaction for actual message processing.
Since the JMS queues are distributed queues in cluster domains, high availability is achieved by utilizing the Oracle WebLogic Server distributed queue functionality. Instead of all Managed Servers polling for messages, only one of the Managed Servers in a cluster is assigned the job of polling the messages. At the time of proxy service configuration, one of the Managed Servers is configured to poll for new files or e-mail messages.
The poller server polls for new messages and puts them to the uniform distributed queue associated with the respective poller transport. From this queue, the message is passed on the local queue on the Managed Server. The Managed Servers receive the messages through MDBs deployed on all the servers through these local queues.
There is a uniform distributed queue with a local queue on all the Managed Servers for each of these poller based transports.
If the Managed Servers crashes after the distributed queue delivers the message to the local queue, you need to do manual migration. For more information, see Section 18.104.22.168, "Server Migration."
When a cluster is created, the uniform distributed queue is created with local queue members - on all the Managed Servers. However, when a new Managed Server is added to an existing cluster, these local queues are not automatically created. You have to manually create the local queues and make them a part of a uniform distributed queue.
To create a local queue:
Create a JMS Server and target it to the newly created Managed Server.
Create a local JMS queue, set the redelivery count, and target it to the new JMS server.
Add this local JMS queue as a member of the uniform distributed queue associated with the transport.
The JNDI name of the distributed queue is
wlsb.internal.transport.task.queue.file (for File transport),
wlsb.internal.transport.task.queue.ftp (for FTP transport) and
wlsb.internal.transport.task.queue.email (for Email transport).
Since we use distributed JMS queues, messages are distributed to the Managed Servers based on the load balancing algorithm associated with the distributed queue. By default, the JMS framework uses round-robin load balancing. You can change the algorithm using the JMS module in Oracle WebLogic Server Console. For more information, see "Load Balancing for JMS" in Oracle Fusion Middleware Using Clusters for Oracle WebLogic Server. If one of the Managed Servers fails, the remaining messages are processed by any of the remaining active Managed Servers.
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David Hall: The distribution of the three 1936 Arkansas issues (1936 being the actual year of the Arkansas statehood centennial) was handled by the Arkansas Centennial Committee. The mintages for the three issues was nearly identical at 9,660 for the Philadelphia, 9,660 for the Denver, and 9,662 for the San Francisco. These mintages were the highest for the Arkansas series except for the 1935 Philadelphia.
Like all Arkansas, the 1936 has a high survival rate and most of the survivors grade MS63 to MS66. This issue is almost unknown in circulated condition. The 1936 is rarer than the 1936-D and 1936-S in grades MS65, MS66, and MS67. It is really rare coin in the MS67 grade. The typical 1936 Arkansas has frosty luster or varying degrees of toning.
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Wool Biker Jacket with Quilt Sleeve Panels
Added Feb 11, 2013
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I've been wanting to make this Larissa #6032 for a looong time and was very much inspired by another member's interpretation on the pattern. I also inserted two pieces of quilted panels just to give it an edge but still keep the jacket pretty much minimal as possible. I haven't used many of the extra details found in the Larissa pattern as seen in pics, no pockets either…was actually thinking dropping the zipper also but it would have been just very impractical without them.
Anyways…I had a hard time with the pattern and sewing in general but VERY happy with the final item :)
I'm currently working on a pair of pants or maybe skirt with the jacket from the same material…will update later x
Ps.: My dummy is way too big so the jacket sits a bit too tight on her…time to loose weight Trudy.
Material Notes
Wool blend or other fabrics with some body.
- For
- Women
- Garment Type
- Jacket/Blazer
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Oct 6, 2014, 07.11 PMby jferna3
the sewing instructions for this are horrible! Nothing is numbered I can't figure out what they are even describing?
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Oct 6, 2014, 07.29 PMby Trudy McGrath
I cannot agree with you more on that…the collar and panels at thearms…It was actually a nightmare to figure things out and at the end they didn't work for so I had to alter a lot of things..I managed it somehow but i had to ask a seamstress for guidance. I'm sorry that you are struggling with it also but don't give up :) Having said that I would never use this pattern ever again :P there is a better biker jacket pattern up now, try to look for it!
Oct 21, 2013, 01.17 PMby Meldbombs
How long did this take and how much did it cost you? Very nice, am a novice and would like to try my hand at it
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Oct 21, 2013, 04.49 PMby Trudy McGrath
Hi, thank you for the interest! Well, it took me quite some time til I got my head around the pattern, especially the collar section, but I'm not a pro either. It took me a few weeks, but I wasn't working on it constantly. It cost me quite a bit as well, fabric here is very very expensive, so I ended up paying about €60 (for me that's quite a lot) since you can get similar items from cheaper high street…but of course, it is hand made and unique in a sense. If I had to go back and do it again, I would choose a different pattern though, I've seen new biker patterns here. I don't like the "air-vents" on the back in this one at all, plus it is very short fit, almost crop, and I prefer the longer ones (you can adjust it of course). Was not an easy project for me and I'm only intermediate-ish :) I must say it is a more oldschool style and even though I'm happy with my version the fit isn't for me…well, I hope that won't put you off, but I would look through the newer patterns also! Happy sewing, girl!
Mar 5, 2013, 10.59 PMby Amy Thomas
This is epic. Congratulations
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Mar 6, 2013, 10.03 AMby Trudy McGrath
Hey! thanks so much :)
Feb 12, 2013, 11.57 AMby Zaiba Shaikh
tooo goood :)
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Feb 12, 2013, 06.36 PMby Trudy McGrath
:* :)
Feb 12, 2013, 05.26 AMby smallone
oh my need a double favorite button…been looking at the Helmut by Helmut Lang relaxed fabric biker style jackets and thinking….surely that is doable…and hear you have it a very similar version. Love everything about this and those arm panels are great!
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Feb 12, 2013, 09.50 AMby Trudy McGrath
Thank you so much :) you made my day! It is actually doable but some skills are def needed for this project. There are things I need to learn such as attaching the collar more accurately, zips etc but it is a very good project to practice and progress if you're a beginner like myself. Try, it looks super cool on!
Feb 11, 2013, 05.25 PMby Mary Athey
This is gorgeous trudy. The quilted section's where an inspired decision. I love this..xx
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Feb 11, 2013, 07.13 PMby Trudy McGrath
Thank you, I can't wait to try that again in my new project :)
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A patient battling the first confirmed U.S. case of a deadly new respiratory illness was said to be improving rapidly, and initial testing has revealed no additional infections, officials said Monday.
"He has been improving every day," said Dr. Alan Kumar, the chief medical information officer for Community Hospital in Munster, Indiana. "He no longer has any oxygen requirements. He's in good spirits. He's eating well, and we have begun the discharge planning process at this point. We expect him to be going home soon."
The hospital and state confirmed Friday that the patient, who lives in Saudi Arabia and came to the United States on a planned trip to visit family, was the first confirmed case of Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus in the United States.
The first tests on those who came in close contact with the patient, including his family members and about 50 hospital employees, have yielded no new cases. Indiana Health Commissioner William VanNess attributed that fact to the swift response by hospital staff and the cooperation of local, state and federal authorities, including the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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The patient checked himself into Community Hospital on April 28 after feeling ill. Dr. Daniel Feikin, an epidemiologist with the CDC, said the patient works in a hospital in Riyadh, Saudi Ariabia. He flew from Riyadh through London to Chicago on April 24 before boarding a bus to Indiana.
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Feikin said CDC officials were using the flight manifest to contact about 100 other passengers who were on the plane with the patient. About 75 of them had been reached by Monday morning and none were exhibiting symptoms, he said. Additionally, none of the "about 10" people who were on the bus were symptomic.
MERS belongs to the coronavirus family that includes the common cold and SARS, or severe acute respiratory syndrome, which caused some 800 deaths globally in 2003. Saudi Arabia has been at the center of a Middle East outbreak of MERS that began two years ago. The virus has spread among health care workers, most notably at four facilities in that country last spring.
Officials said Monday the patient did not recall working directly with a MERS patient in Riyadh but said the hospital where he worked did have some MERS cases.
Overall, at least 400 people have had the respiratory illness, and more than 100 people have died. All had ties to the Middle East region or to people who traveled there.
Officials said the disease isn't highly contagious, but there is no cure.
The MERS virus has been found in camels, but officials don't know how it is spreading to humans. It can spread from person to person, but officials believe that happens only after close contact. Not all those exposed to the virus become ill.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
This report was originally published May 5, 2014.


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The University offers financial assistance to students in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences through a variety of
programs: fellowships, assistantships, work-study plans, and loans. Each of these programs is administered by a separate office
and a student interested in applying for one of them should read the sections below to find the office to contact. Most superior
students can expect to receive aid of some kind throughout their graduate careers.
The Graduate School of Arts and Sciences has a number of merit fellowships supported by endowments, gifts, and other sources
which it offers to exceptional students. These fellowships are available to all students and are awarded on the individuals
academic achievements and promise. Fellowships are granted with the provisions that good academic standing is maintained and
that the recipient remain in residence at the University during the award period. In addition to these fellowships some
departments have merit fellowships with comparable stipends which are awarded by the department on the same basis as the
Graduate School fellowships.
A student must be nominated by his or her department in order to be considered for a Graduate School fellowship. Students seeking
admission to the Graduate School who indicate on the application for admission that they seek financial aid will automatically be
considered by the department to which they are applying as candidates for fellowships. Returning graduate students should indicate to
their department that they wish to be considered for a fellowship. To be considered for a school wide fellowship, a new student should
have the application for admission form in the Admissions Office of the Graduate School, 437 Cabell Hall, by December 2. Closing dates
for departmental awards may vary. Returning students should contact their department for deadlines on fellowship applications.
All fellowships, except the President' s and Jefferson Fellowships, are awarded for no longer than one academic year and are not
automatically renewed. The President's Fellowship is a three-year award, and the President's Fellows receive financial assistance of
at least $14,000 per session.
The principal endowed and gift fellowships of the Graduate School are listed below:
The Virginia Mason Davidge Fellowships were established through the gift of David Randall-McIver, from the income of the
Virginia Mason Davidge Foundation. These fellowships are awarded to men or women students on the basis of ability, scholarship,
character, and need. Appointments are made upon the recommendation of the Dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences.
The Philip Francis du Pont Fellowships were established in 1928 by a gift from Philip Francis du Pont, an alumnus. These
fellowships are awarded on the basis of achievement and scholarly promise. Ordinarily only students whose ages do not exceed 35 years
are eligible. In some instances these fellowships may be supplemented by graduate assistantships. Appointments are made upon the
recommendation of the Dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences.
The Elizabeth B. Garrett Fellowship was founded in 1918 upon the bequest of Mrs. Elizabeth B. White, of Baltimore, Maryland.
Appointments are made upon the recommendation of the Dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences.
Governors Fellowship are funded by the Commonwealth of Virginia. These fellowships are awarded in all Ph.D.-granting
departments and are available to Virginia residents only. Appointments are made upon the recommendation of the Dean of the Graduate
School of Arts and Sciences.
The Craig W. MacDonald Fellowship was established in 1930 under the will of the late Susan L. Stanard as a memorial to her
brother Captain Craig Woodrow MacDonald, who was killed at the Battle of Cold Harbor. Appointments are made upon the recommendation of
the Dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences.
The President's Fellowship was established in 1980 by University President Frank L. Hereford, Jr. and is a three year
fellowship. It carries a stipend of $14,000 plus tuition and fees. In the second and third years of the fellowship, President's Fellows
may be required to serve as teaching or research assistants. President's Fellows are selected on a merit basis from entering students in
all Ph.D.-granting departments. Nominations are made to the Dean of the Graduate School by Ph.D.-granting departments.
The William H. Palmer Young Presidential Fellowship was established in 1982 by the estate of his mother, Claudia Palmer Young.
Appointments are made by the Dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences.
The Anne Francis Stead Memorial Fellowship was established in 1982 by a gift from the estate of Mrs. Anne Francis Stead.
Appointment is made by the Dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences.
The John B. Adger Scholarships (three to five scholarships or fellowships with a stipend of approximately $500 each)
were created under the will of the late Jennie W. Adger in memory of her husband, John B. Adger, M.A. (Virginia, 1880), and are
awarded to male students, with preference to those from South Carolina or Virginia, who are taking courses leading to the degree
of B.A. or M.A. The awards are made by the Alumni Board of Trustees of the University of Virginia Endowment Fund either to
entering students or to students already in the University, and may be renewed from year to year if the holders records so
justify. Half the award is paid to the recipients at the beginning of the first semester and the balance at the beginning of the
second semester. Application should be made to the Vice President for Student Affairs.
The Bayly-Tiffany Scholarships were established in 1930 by a bequest of Mrs. Evelyn May Bayly Tiffany as a memorial to Thomas
Henry Bayly and Louis McLane Tiffany. Preference is given to students from Northampton and Accomack counties, Virginia, but if qualified
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Stipends vary according to need. Application should be made to the Office of Financial Aid.
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The Aimee Marteau Scholarship is awarded to a worthy student from the Republic of France on the recommendation of the
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The Gessner Harrison Fellowship was founded in 1933 by a bequest of Robert Lewis Harrison. Appointment is made upon the
recommendation of the Chair of the Department of Classics.
The William P. Snavely Fellowship was founded in 1977 by Tipton R. Snavely, Professor Emeritus of Economics, in memory of his
son. Appointment is made upon recommendation by the Chair of the Department of Economics.
The Sidney Ernest Bradshaw Fellowship was founded in 1936 by a bequest of Dr. Sidney Ernest Bradshaw, Ph.D. (Virginia, 1900), of
$25,000. Appointment is made on the recommendation of the Department of English to a graduate student who gives promise of becoming a
distinguished college or university professor of English.
The Henry Coalter Cabell Fellowship was founded in 1903 upon the gift of Mrs. Kate Cabell Claiborne and Captain Henry Cabell,
of Richmond, VA. Appointments are made upon the recommendation of the Chair of the Department of English.
The Majuel Ewing Fellowship recipients are chosen by the graduate faculty of the Department of English.
The Henry Hoyns Fellowship was established in 1975 through a bequest in the name of Henry Hoyns. The first fellowships were
awarded in 1977. The fellowships are awarded only to creative writers. Applications should be made to the Creative Writing Program in
the Department of English by February 15 and should include manuscripts of the applicants work in either poetry (20 pages), fiction
(30-40 pages) or playwriting.
The Robert D. Saltz Memorial Fellowship was established in 1972 upon the gift of the Saltz family and donors contributions
to the Robert D. Saltz Memorial Fund. Appointment is made on the recommendation of the Department of English.
The James Southall Wilson Fellowship was established in 1954 in honor of Dr. James Southall Wilson, founding editor of the
Virginia Quarterly Review, who prior to his retirement was Edgar Allan Poe Professor of English, Chair of the Department of English, and
Dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. Appointment is made by recommendation of the Chair of the Department of English.
The Cincinnati Historical Fellowship was founded in 1955 by the Society of the Cincinnati in the State of Virginia. The award is
made annually by the society to a graduate student upon nomination of the faculty of the Corcoran Department of History. The award may
be renewed for a second year of study at this or another university.
The William Cabell Rives Fellowship was founded in 1905 upon the gift of Dr. William Cabell Rives, of Washington, D.C., in
honor of his grandfather, William Cabell Rives, the distinguished statesman. The holder must be a graduate student and must devote a
portion of his or her time to work connected with the Department of History. Appointments are made upon the recommendation of the
Department of History.
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perpetuating the spirit and ideals of Thomas Jefferson. Preference will be given to applicants who expect to make college teaching their
career and whose interests in history or political science focus generally upon the history, political ideas, institutions, and culture
of the age of Jefferson.
The Joseph Hall Bodine Scholarship was founded in 1965 by a bequest from Joseph Hall Bodine to be used as a scholarship for
married graduate students majoring in physics. Appointment is made on the recommendation of the Department of Physics.
The Leland B. and Virginia C. Snoddy Fellowship was founded in 1964 by a bequest from Virginia Croft Snoddy. Appointment is
made on the recommendation of the Department of Physics to a graduate student specializing in research in physics.
The John Allan Love Presidential Fellowship was established in 1982 from a bequest made in 1961 by John Allan Love, a 1907
graduate of the University of Virginia. Recipients must be from the State of Missouri, preferably from the St. Louis area. Appointments
are made upon recommendation of the Chair of the Woodrow Wilson Department of Politics.
The William Wiley Morton Fellowship was established by Mrs. Nina Morton. Appointments are made upon recommendation of the
Woodrow Wilson Department of Politics.
The Woodrow Wilson Foreign Affairs Fellowship was established in the 1960s and first awarded in 1982. Appointments are made
upon recommendation of the Chair of the Woodrow Wilson Department of Politics.
The BP-America Fellowship was established in 1985 with an endowed gift from the SOHIO Corporation to provide support for an
outstanding student in the area of science and technology.
The ARCS Fellowship was established in 1984 as an annual gift from the Washington, D.C., chapter of the Achievement Awards for
College Scientists Foundation. This fellowship has a stipend of $12,000 with the recipient chosen from enrolled students nominated by
the science departments.
The Phelps-Stokes Fellowships in Sociology. Awards are renewable. Founded in 1911 upon the gift of the trustees of the
Phelps-Stokes Fund, these fellowships are awarded to beginning or advanced graduate students for the study of the Blacks in the South.
The Henry Clay Marchant Fellowships were founded in 1935 by Mrs. Fanny Bragg Marchant, of Albemarle County, Va., in
memory of her husband, Henry Clay Marchant. Appointments are made by the Rector and Visitors of the University from students
recommended by the Dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. Preference is given to candidates, regardless of religious
denomination, who are preparing to become medical missionaries or to enter the ministry. When proper selection cannot be made
from these two classes of students, the awards may be conferred upon any scholars, whatever their educational goal, who are
deemed worthy by the Rector and Visitors. The tenure of each fellowship is one year, but the holder may be reappointed upon the
recommendation of the Dean of the Graduate School.
The Wallerstein Fellowship (with a stipend not to exceed $5,000) was established by a gift from Ruth C. and Morton L.
Wallerstein to foster interest and research in Virginia municipal government. It is hoped, but not required, that recipients either be
employees or officials of Virginia municipalities or persons intending to enter or re-enter Virginia municipal service upon completion
of graduate work. Application forms may be obtained from the Institute of Government, 207 Minor Hall.
Assistantships and part-time instructorships are available in most departments. These involve teaching, grading, laboratory
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Out-of-state graduate students who are teaching assistants and are paid at least $5,000 may receive a tuition adjustment fellowship
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paid at least $5,000 may receive a tuition adjustment fellowship to pay a percentage (up to 100 percent) of the difference between
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Graduate teaching assistants who are employed at half-time or greater (44 hours per month) will have their in-state tuition and
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through the Office of Financial Aid to Students. All awards from federal loan or employment funds are based on need. To apply
for assistance a University financial aid application must be submitted to the Office of Financial Aid to Students and a
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information or applications, contact the Office of Financial Aid to Students, P.O. Box 400207, University of Virginia,
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Back in September, writer/director David Ayer ('End of Watch') promised we'd see a "reinvented" Arnold Schwarzenegger in his upcoming movie 'Ten.' "I'm going to transform him," said Ayer. Well now you can get a first look at Schwarzenegger's transformation.
In the film, Schwarzenegger plays the leader of a DEA tactical team. This does not seem out of Schwarzenegger's wheelhouse but the actor tweeted the first photo from the film and it is a different look for the action superstar. Said Arnold on Twitter: "I'm having a great time working with @DavidAyerMovies on my new movie, Ten. Check out my look."
It is a new look for Arnold and I don't just mean the jet black hair. He's also sporting some mean tattoos. And Ayer promises this isn't a heightened version of Schwarzenegger a la 'The Expendables 2.'
In 'Ten', an elite DEA task force deals with the world's deadliest drug cartels. Specializing in complex mobile operations, the team executes a tactical raid on a cartel safe house. What looks to be a typical raid turns out to be an elaborate theft operation, pre-planned by the DEA squad. After hiding millions in stolen cash, the team believes their secret is safe – until someone begins assassinating them one by one.
'Ten' is set to hit theaters in late-2013. Check out the first photo below.


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By Sue Olcott
During this time of year we become more aware of the difficulties wild animals must overcome to survive in West Virginia. Trees are dropping their leaves. Days are quiet since most song birds have migrated south to find food and escape the coming cold. Deer are increasing the thickness and length of their coats as protection from the cold. Some animals have disappeared like the songbirds but they haven't migrated. They are involved in an equally amazing process called hibernation.
Hibernation is an extreme form of inactivity or torpor a profound lowering of an animal's body temperature and metabolism to save energy. It is similar to lowering the thermostat in your house to save on heating costs. Instead of fossil fuels or wood, though, stored fat is the energy source the animal is using and trying to conserve during torpor.
In this part of North America, an animal usually enters torpor because its regular food source has become scarce or because it cannot survive harsh weather conditions, or both. Places where animals hibernate, called hibernacula , range from caves and old mines, to burrows dug beneath the frost line, to basements and crawlspaces in buildings. Each species has a specific range of environmental conditions that need to be met within the hibernaculum . These factors typically include temperature, humidity, safety from predators and, for some, space to store food.
Many animals enter into a short-term or daily torpor as a matter of course. During cold winter nights, a chickadee typically allows its body temperature to fall 10 to 15 degrees. This lowering of the thermostat requires less energy to maintain and literally allows a chickadee to survive, for it cannot store enough fat to maintain its normal body temperature through a cold winter night. If it tried, it would starve. Chickadees are one of the earliest risers because they need to replenish their depleted fat stores. They relish black-hulled sunflower seeds, suet and peanut butter because these high-energy foods aid their precarious winter survival.
During long summer days, bats must fast up to 15 hours - and even longer further north. A lowered body temperature means less energy is being used to maintain important body functions like breathing, digestion, blood circulation and, for females with young, milk production. Bats often seek out roosts that provide them with a range of temperatures that they can move into depending on their needs. Male bats may use roosts that are cooler early in the day so they can lower their body temperature and conserve energy, and warmer late in the day to help them raise their body temperature in preparation for flight and feeding. Females with young may use roosts that remain very warm throughout the day to keep the body temperatures of their offspring high to help them grow more quickly.
Hibernators differ from animals that enter daily torpor because the decrease in body temperature and other functions is much greater. For example, a hibernating little brown bat's body temperature drops to near freezing, breathing decreases to less than one breath per minute, and the heart rate slows from 400 to 25 beats per minute. True hibernators also stay in this state longer at a stretch than animals that don't hibernate in some ground squirrels 30 days and in bats up to 83 days.
Most of the energy a hibernating animal expends during the winter is used to periodically rouse the body to allow it to perform certain tasks such as urination, which is impossible at lower temperatures. A single waking period of a few hours in a bat can use as much stored fat as 67 days of hibernation. These waking periods also take a long time to achieve up to 30 minutes for a bat and several days for a woodchuck. Hibernators walk a thin line between how often they wake up and the amount of fat they store. If they are disturbed or wake too many times, or if the winter is especially long, they will run out of fat reserves and starve. In most species that hibernate, a significant cause of mortality is death during hibernation. Those that succumb may have stored too little fat to sustain them through the hibernation period or have chosen a hibernaculum that was too cold or too dry. A hibernaculum that is too dry may cause the animal to lose too much water vapor during respiration, resulting in death.
The length of time that an animal remains in its hibernaculum depends in large part upon its elevation above sea level and its latitude. Marmots, western relatives of woodchucks, enter hibernation earlier and emerge later at higher, and therefore colder and harsher, elevations. Franklin's ground squirrel, a species common in the high prairies of the United States and Canada, has a hibernation period that ranges from seven to eight months depending upon its latitude. Additionally, in many species, adults enter hibernation first. The young, eating and growing as fast as they can, may enter hibernation months later because they can not store enough fat to survive hibernation until they have reached their adult size.
Some of our common hibernators are chipmunks, woodchucks, little brown and pipistrelle bats, snakes, frogs and toads, and many insects. In two orders of mammals, the rodents and the bats, development of hibernation enabled these groups to become highly successful inhabiting almost all ecosystems on earth and collectively numbering over half of all mammalian species.
A common misconception is that bears hibernate. While it is true that bears are inactive for much of the winter, they are not true hibernators. Although they sleep for weeks at a time, their body temperature only drops 10 to 15 degrees, and they can wake up very quickly, as any researcher working with bears will tell you. They also bear their young during this time, an activity that requires them to produce milk a process impossible in true hibernation. Other of our winter residents such as raccoons, fishers and deer mice sleep for varying periods of time through the worst weather when foraging for food is all but impossible.
In all of these animals, different degrees of torpor help to conserve their energy stores so they can survive until spring returns with its abundant food supply and milder weather conditions.
Sue Olcott is a DNR wildlife biologist stationed in Fairmont.


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Shortly after his office declined to pursue a sexual assault case against former Xavier basketball player Dezmine Wells, Hamilton County prosecutor Joe Deters excoriated university officials for their process in determining to expel Wells from school.
In an interview with WLW-AM radio, Deters called the use of a University Conduct Board to determine whether Wells had committed an offense worthy of expulsion "fundamentally unfair" and "seriously flawed." Deters said this matter "should never have gotten to the point where someone's reputation is ruined."
Deters said he took the allegation seriously and assigned two assistant prosecutors "who are highly skilled at assessing these kinds of cases."
A source close to Wells told Sporting News he testified before the Hamilton County Grand Jury on Monday.
On Tuesday morning, the Grand Jury declined to prosecute. Deters said, based on what was presented, "It wasn't even close. ... We would never take anything like this to court. It just wouldn't happen."
Xavier University responded to Deters' criticisms with the following statement:
"Federal law (Title IX) and federal regulations and guidances prohibit universities from ceding student conduct matters to the criminal justice system. The Federal law requires schools to act quickly and all schools, by law, must use the 'preponderance of the evidence' standard, whereas the criminal justice system uses the 'probable cause' standard to indict, and the 'beyond a reasonable doubt' standard to convict.
"The process used by the Xavier University conduct board is the standard used in American universities. The XU conduct board heard evidence that may or may not have been heard by the Grand Jury. After the conduct board reached its decision, the matter was considered and upheld by an appeal board of members of the student body, faculty and staff and is final."
Wells — a small forward from Raleigh, N.C., who made the Atlantic-10 all-rookie team — was expelled by Xavier this month based on the recommendation of the conduct board.
Wells was expected to become the star of the Xavier team as a sophomore. He was among the highest-rated recruits in the school's history and averaged 9.8 points in his first season. He was suspended four games for his involvement in the Musketeers' on-court fight with Cincinnati last December.
Until the expulsion, that suspension was the only apparent stain on Wells' record.
"I cannot by law discuss what went in front of the Grand Jury," Deters told WLW. "What I can tell you, though, is this is a young man with no record that we know of, who this allegation was leveled against and in our opinion at the conclusion of this that the Grand Jury did come to the right conclusion.
"I would hope they would revisit this thing. They're set up to protect their students, but Dez Wells is a student, too."
Deters' objection was rooted in the Xavier conduct board process, which he described as positioning Wells and his accuser — without legal representation — before a panel consisting of Xavier students, faculty and administrators. Deters stressed that, in his opinion, these people were "untrained" to deal with sexual assault allegations.
"This offense carries mandatory prison time. This is not shoplifting," Deters told WLW. "If found guilty, this individual faced 11 years in prison. This is no laughing matter. And people are reviewing it who, I would suggest to you, haven't been doing it for decades."
Deters said he hopes Xavier officials "will revisit this thing," although it was not clear whether he was referring to Wells' dismissal or the process itself.
Earlier this month, Xavier completed an agreement with federal investigators in which it pledged to begin training and reporting programs to protect victims of sexual assault.
The Education Department's office of civil rights pursued the agreement after complaints were filed by female students over the school's handling of sexual assault and sexual harassment claims.
"Any time you get federal people involved in this, you should expect a disaster," Deters said.


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KAMLOOPS, B.C. - Police found 27 empty beer and cooler cans in a ski boat that crashed into a houseboat on Shuswap Lake last month, killing one man.
The discovery is included in the information filed with the court to allow the RCMP to get a warrant to seize the ski-boat driver's blood samples.
Driver Leon Reinbrecht was taken to hospital after the July 3rd crash and police say in the court documents they expect the blood samples will show he was drinking at the time of the crash.
Kenneth Brown was driving the houseboat and was killed.
The documents say officers also found a small baggie of marijuana near the ski boat, which was covered in bloody fingerprints.
The documents say an officer noted a strong odour of liquor on the man's breath when they spoke to him at the hospital, but Reinbrecht said he had a beer while he was trapped in the boat after the crash.
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Re~Cycle Bike Sale 29th August
Saturday 29th August 2015 - 9am – 1pm
Roughly 1-2% of the bikes donated to Re~Cycle are either unsuitable for Africa (such as thin framed racing bikes) or are bikes with disc brakes which are parts that are not readily available in Africa and thus less likely to be usable. Instead of recycling these bikes we sell them at the local University of Essex and our warehouse in Colchester, generating a sustainable income to help cover our running costs. These bikes are sold at affordable prices starting at £75 and many of these bikes are sold to students or people just starting out as cyclists and therefore looking for a good bargain.
There will be a choice of over 60 new and refurbished bikes including Specialized, Pashley, Boardman, Raleigh and Carerra as well as a good selection of children's bikes. We will be operating on a first come first served basis and will not be taking reservations, so please come down early if you want to grab yourself a bargain.
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Ecuador to fly home body of soccer star
DOHA, Qatar (AP) — With questions surrounding the death of striker Christian Benitez, Ecuador's soccer federation said Tuesday a plane has been hired to bring the player's body home.
Autopsy results have not been released by Benitez's new Qatari club, El Jaish, which has yet to say how the 27-year-old forward died Monday. But the team said he didn't complain about his health Sunday after playing his first match with the club in hot and humid conditions.
The club said he passed a medical checkup July 4 and entered the game a substitute in the final 10 minutes. The team is awaiting a medical report that is expected Wednesday.
The game was played in conditions typical of the Persian Gulf this time of year. Qatar will host the 2022 World Cup and the searing heat has prompted many in soccer to call for the tournament to be moved to winter.
Efforts to return Benitez's body to Ecuador were held up by paperwork Tuesday. Soccer officials said the funeral was planned for Thursday in Quito and a tribute would be held in the 16,000-seat General Ruminahui Coliseum.
Burial is the same day in Monte Olivo cemetery, near the home of the national team, the Ecuador federation said.
Luis Chiriboga, the president of the federation, said arrangements have been made to transport the body. The federation was planning to fly the national team's head doctor as well as Benitez's father and mother to Qatar to accompany the body.
Benitez left behind three children. His father, Ermen, himself a one-time striker, told Futbolizados radio station in Ecuador: "We are destroyed."
Benitez, a powerful striker, helped America win the Mexican championship last season and also played for Birmingham. He moved to El Jaish for the upcoming season. Benitez scored 24 goals in 58 appearances for Ecuador and was on its 2006 World Cup team.
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Legacy of Kain - Soul Reaver bietet dem Spieler ein mystisches und monumentales Spielerlebnis. Überschreiten Sie die Grenze zwischen dem Reich der Lebenden und der Geisterwelt ...
- Raubtierhafte KI verfügt über ein Erinnerungsvermögen und reagiert auf Ihre Handlungen
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Eidos Interactive Announces the Release of the Highly Anticipated Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver for PlayStation
SAN FRANCISCO, August 18, 1999--Raziel rises to battle the vampire hordes of Lord Kain, in this revolutionary 3D action-adventure game from Eidos Interactive and developer Crystal Dynamics.
Set amidst eerie, real-time environments with a dark storyline, vengeful vampire Raziel journeys the underworld to Nosgoth where he must become a reaver of souls, as he sets off to destroy his former master.
In Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver, players guide Raziel as he battles his former brethren on the path to his ultimate confrontation with Kain. As Raziel absorbs the clan leader's souls, he gains their powers, which allows him to explore new areas of the world. Featuring dynamic gameplay mechanics such as gliding and soul-devouring to maintain life, plane-shifting, and an innovative hand-to-hand combat system, Soul Reaver revolutionizes the action adventure genre.
Initial reviews on Soul Reaver from the industry publications and online gaming magazines have been exceptional. VideoGames.com recently posted a 9.0 out of 10 score and PS Extreme magazine reported a 98% review score. The PC version will be available in early September. Eidos Interactive, Inc. is a leading developer and publisher of interactive entertainment products for the PC, PlayStation Game Console, and Nintendo 64. Eidos Interactive is part of London-based Eidos plc (Nasdaq:EIDSY - news), with additional offices in San Francisco, Paris and Hamburg, Germany.
Eidos plc also includes Eidos Technologies, a software-based video compression company, and Glassworks, a state-of-the-art post-production facility specializing in digital special effects for the television, feature film and advertising industries.
Contributed by skl (1141) on Mar 31, 2004.
1 000 years ago, the legendary Kain established his power base and embarked on conquering the world for himself. Your soul, Raziel, was captured by Kain and used as one of his henchmen, and as leader of one of the six vampire legions you helped destroy the autonomy of humankind. With the human race completely domesticated, the skies were filled with smoke to block out the sun. . . the vampire age had truly begun; you became the law and Kain was your only master.
But now you serve a new master. . . Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver places you in a dark netherworld - a world where the soul is your only source of nourishment. As Raziel, you must explore the completely 3D world of Nosgoth - shifting between the material and 'spectral' worlds maintaining the status quo (or not) as you choose. Beware though - your actions follow you like a shadow. The humans may be in your power but the vampires are not and you must be careful who you attack for they may turn against you.
Though you're not mortal, you must eat to survive in the mortal world. . . and your staple diet is the soul.
Contributed by Grant McLellan (622) on Sep 11, 2001.
Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver pushes the limits of adventure gaming with incredibly fluid graphics and realistic environments. As Raziel, stalk Nosgoth feeding upon the souls of your enemies as you seek to destroy your creator - Kain. Battle five different clans of vampires as you explore a vast 3D world dominated by a ruthless dynasty. Master complex puzzles with your unprecedented ability to interact with objects.
- Explore the vast 3D world of Nosgoth packed with 60 hours of gameplay
- Real-time morphing, Shift between the material and spectral realms
- Seamless gameplay. No load times
- Over 100 cinematics with 45 minutes of voice-over deliver a dark gothic story
Contributed by MAT (188332) on Apr 15, 2001.
Cast down to the material world, the mysterious entity Raziel seeks vengeance for betrayal by his master Kain. Cursed to stalk the dark realms of Nosgoth, he must slay his undead brethren; only then can he absorb their sould for the energy he craves. Moving between the spectral and material place, Raziel must negotiate puzzles, overcome traps and defy blood-chilling enemies to reach his goal - the final battle with Kain!
-As Raziel shifts between planes the world 'morphs around him!
-Bloody hand to hand combat, exploration and puzzle solving.
-Huge levels with little loading!
-Stunning gothic architecture with Hi-resolution graphics.
Contributed by Kic'N (4348) on Apr 07, 2001.