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For the purpose of accessing Oracle databases, Oracle Real Application Cluster (RAC) can be used for both high availability and workload management. The Oracle JDBC driver can be configured to provide both of these Qualities of Service in IBM WebSphere Application Server environments. Unfortunately, using the 10g version of the Oracle JDBC driver for workload management among multiple Oracle RAC nodes can open the door to a subtle two-phase commit (2PC) distributed transaction recovery problem.
After a brief introduction to Oracle RAC, this article looks at the reason behind this transaction recovery issue, and details a simple Oracle RAC configuration for WebSphere Application Server environments that will avoid transaction recovery problems.
About Oracle RAC
Oracle RAC is a "share- everything" architecture for database high availability and load balancing in which two or more Oracle RAC nodes are clustered together, sharing the same storage (Figure 1).
The RAC nodes are connected together with a high speed interconnect that enables fast communication between the Oracle nodes to exchange various categories of data block ownership information during startup, lock information, transaction information, data, and so on.
Figure 1. Oracle RAC configuration
In an Oracle RAC environment, every Oracle data block is assigned one (and only one) "Master" Oracle RAC node. The Global Cache Service (GCS) of that Oracle RAC node is responsible for managing access to these sets of data blocks. When one of the Oracle nodes wants to get access to an Oracle data block, it must first check with the data block master. The master node's GCS will then either instruct the requesting Oracle node to get the data block from disk, or instruct the current holder of the Oracle data block to send the requested data block to the requesting node. Oracle attempts to distribute the data block's ownership uniformly across all RAC nodes. All nodes in an Oracle RAC environment will be designated as the master of approximately the same number of data blocks. (All the Oracle RAC nodes will be the master of identical number of data blocks, if the number of RAC nodes is a divisor of the number of Oracle data blocks.)
WebSphere Application Server applications using an Oracle database obtain database connections from the Oracle JDBC driver. The Oracle JDBC driver can be configured for failover or load balancing (or both) in an Oracle RAC environment. If the JDBC driver is configured with failover enabled, then in case of a RAC node failure, the WebSphere Application Server applications that obtained connections from the failed node should be able to switch over transparently to the other running RAC nodes. (For transparent switch over, applications can be coded to catch the StaleConnection exception and retry a specified number of times to obtain new connection handles. On a request to obtain connections, the Oracle JDBC driver will provide physical connections from the running RAC nodes.) The JDBC driver will obtain new connections from the running RAC nodes. In fact, in case of a failure of one or more RAC nodes, properly coded WebSphere Application Server applications should continue to function in an almost uninterrupted way, provided RAC is configured for high availability and, of course, some RAC node are active. (A momentary delay may get noticed in application response, since as part of the failover process, Oracle transfers and uniformly distributes the data block owned by the failed RAC nodes to other running RAC nodes. During this rebuilding process, Oracle will freeze the database for a short while.)
In addition to high availability, Oracle RAC can also be configured to provide workload balancing; workload balance to the database happens at the connection level. Oracle distributes the connection requests to RAC nodes using a random algorithm. For each connection request, the Oracle JDBC driver randomly picks up a RAC node for obtaining connections. In general, such a random distribution algorithm uses all the RAC nodes in an uniform way. For example, if 100 database connection requests are made in a two-node Oracle RAC environment, each RAC node will be used to obtain approximately 50 database connections.
Simple RAC configuration in a WebSphere Application Server cluster
Figure 2 depicts a typical RAC physical topology in a WebSphere Application Server cluster environment, where both the failover and load balancing Qualities of Service are enabled.
Figure 2. WebSphere Application Server environment with Oracle RAC
The WebSphere Application Server cluster consists of two members: cluster-member1 and cluster-member2. The Oracle RAC physical configuration contains two nodes: rac-node1 and rac-node2. The RAC nodes can be located in the same physical machine with the WebSphere cluster members, or they could be placed in entirely different machines, as in Figure 2. (The actual placement does not impact the fundamental qualities of the services provided by RAC.)
For achieving both high availability and load-balancing, you can specify the Oracle data source URL for both WebSphere cluster members as something like:
Listing 1
jdbc:oracle:thin:@(DESCRIPTION=(ADDRESS_LIST= (ADDRESS=(PROTOCOL=TCP)(HOST= rac-node1)(PORT=1521)) (ADDRESS=(PROTOCOL=TCP)(HOST= rac-node2)(PORT=1521)) (FAILOVER=on)(LOAD_BALANCE=on) (CONNECT_DATA=(SERVER=DEDICATED) (SERVICE_NAME=<dbname>))) (1)
Since the FAILOVER attribute is set, if any RAC node (for example, rac-node1) becomes unavailable, the oracle JDBC driver will return connections from the other surviving Oracle RAC nodes when a new connection is requested (in this case, rac-node2).
Also, since the LOAD-BALANCE attribute is specified "on", the Oracle JDBC driver will serve connections to application instances running in cluster-member1 and cluster-member2 from both rac-node1 and rac-node2. Recall that Oracle will attempt to obtain an approximately equal number of physical connections from rac-node1 and rac-node2.
Notice that If the LOAD_BALANCE attribute is turned off, the order in which the RAC nodes are specified in the data source URL becomes important. The Oracle JDBC driver always tries to obtain physical connections from the RAC node that occupies the first position in the list. In case the first RAC node is not available, the JDBC driver will try to obtain connections from the second RAC node, and so on. This implies that for URL (1) (in Listing 1), the URL of cluster-member1, rac-node1 is the primary RAC node. As long as rac-node1 remains functional, all physical connection requests will be served from rac-node1; rac-node2 will not play any part at all. If rac-node1 fails, Oracle will serve the connection requests originating from cluster-member1 from rac-node2, which is a secondary RAC node of URL (1). All new connection requests from cluster-member1 will, of course, be served by rac-node2 as long as rac-node1 is down.
In this context, the complete workload management in Figure 2 is provided at two levels. At the WebSphere Application Server level, the work load management is provided by the router component (HTTP server plug-in, ORB plug-in, On Demand Router, and so on) by distributing inbound requests to appropriate cluster members, maintaining appropriate affinity, if applicable. Once an inbound request reaches the application instance executing on a cluster member, the new physical connection requests to the database will get load balanced by the Oracle JDBC driver across rac-node1 and rac-node2.
If the applications do not use 2PC distributed transactions, the above simple configuration will suffice. However, there can be some subtle recovery issues when 2PC distributed transactions are used in this simple and easy to configure setup, as explained in the next section.
Two-phase commit distributed transactions and RAC configuration
When recovering 2PC distributed transactions that span over multiple Oracle RAC nodes, Oracle 10g RAC has an inherent issue: during an attempt to commit or rollback a transaction branch (through an active RAC node) that was running earlier in a failed RAC node, the transaction manager might receive an "ORA-24756: transaction does not exist" exception. This problem occurs because, in the case of an RAC node failure, Oracle opens up the other surviving RAC nodes for business even before Oracle RAC completes the necessary recovery action corresponding to the failed RAC node.
Here is a hypothetical scenario that depicts this problem. Consider a two-node Oracle 10G RAC environment (with nodes rac-node1 and rac-node2) in which both failover and load balancing are enabled:
- Application starts a User transaction (called UTx) in a WebSphere Application Server cluster member.
- Within the boundary of UTx, the application requests a database connection. Assume the connection is served from rac-node1.
- The application requests another connection to the same Oracle database resource manager, which is served from rac-node2, which is the other RAC node.
- Work is performed on both connections, which results in the start of two transaction branches: TxB1 and TxB2.
- Assume that a RAC node (rac-node1) fails after the WebSphere Application Server transaction manager has issued the xa.prepare() call on TxB1, but before the invocation of xa.commit().
- The WebSphere transaction manager will receive a XAER_RMFAIL return code (see Resources), which indicates that the resource manager is unavailable.
- The WebSphere transaction manager then attempts to get a new connection to RAC. Since failover is enabled, the Oracle JDBC driver will provide the connection from rac-node2 after recovery is done on the RAC side (that is, Oracle RAC is open for business).
- The WebSphere transaction manager will attempt to finish TxB1 by issuing xa.commit().
- The Oracle JDBC driver might throw the ORA-24756: transaction does not exit exception; rac-node2, the surviving RAC node, might not even be aware of the transaction branch TxB1.
- TxB1 will stay in an indoubt state, which will cause problems if TxB1 happens to hold any database locks.
- Any subsequent attempt to access the same database rows or tables locked out by the TxB1 branch will result in an "ORA-01591 lock held by in-doubt distributed transaction" exception, thereby making portions of the database unusable.
To summarize, if WebSphere Application Server is configured for connection level load balancing using the Oracle JDBC driver, then the failure of a RAC node in the prepare phase for any in-flight 2PC distributed transaction spanning more than one RAC node might require manual intervention from the database administrator. The database administrator might have to complete the orphaned transaction branches for releasing the database locks that they hold. For the database administrator, this is a two step process:
- Get the orphaned transaction ID by issuing a command, such as:
sql > select state, local_tran_ID, Global_tran_Id from dba_2pc_pending where state = "prepared";
- Then, roll back all the transaction IDs that are in the "prepared" phase:
sql > rollback force '<Global_tran_Id>';
Proper RAC configuration for handling 2PC global transactions
Manual intervention might not be your preferred method of transaction recovery; some users will opt for automatic and transparent transaction recovery strategies. The key to a transparent recovery strategy is to eliminate the possibility of having more than one transaction branch span multiple RAC nodes for any global transaction; a transaction branch corresponds to a database connection enlisted in a global transaction. If all connections in a global 2PC transaction originate from the same Oracle RAC node, transaction recovery problems should not arise.
Here is an outline of the simplest strategy for avoiding the XA-related limitation of Oracle RAC mentioned above:
Create an Oracle Distributed Transaction Processing (DTP) service (introduced in Oracle 10g R2 to resolve the Oracle 10g XA limitation); each DTP service is a singleton service that is available on one (and only one) Oracle RAC instance. Run this command to create a DTP service:
srvctl add service -d <dbname> -s <servicename> -r <primary nodes> -a <alternate nodes>
Enable DTP on an Oracle service by executing this command:
execute dbms_service.modify_service (service_name => '<service_name>' , dtp => true);
Make sure each Oracle DTP service is configured with load balance disabled (that is, only one primary).
Configure each WebSphere Application Server cluster member to use the Oracle DTP service created in step 1 (Figure 3).
Figure 3. Configure cluster to use DTP service
The DTP service will start automatically on the preferred instance. However, on a database restart, the DTP service will not start automatically. You can start the DTP service using this command:
srvctl start service -d <dbname> -s <service_name>
If a RAC node stops working, Oracle will not failover the DTP service until the Oracle RAC cleanup and recovery is complete. Even if the Oracle nodes come back up, the Oracle DTP service will not return to the freshly restarted RAC node. Instead, the database administrator will have to manually move the service to the restarted RAC node.
Figure 4 depicts the topology discussed above.
Figure 4. Sample scenario topology
Notice that, from a topology standpoint, Figure 4 is identical to Figure 2. The only difference is the use of the Oracle DTP service . Unlike URL (1) (in Listing 1) where all the cluster members have identical data source URLs, here, each cluster member's data source URL can be unique and slightly different from those of the other cluster members. As an example, for thin drivers, the data source URL for the WebSphere Application Server cluster members may look like this:
Listing 2
jdbc:oracle:thin:@(DESCRIPTION= (FAILOVER=on) (LOAD_BALANCE=off) (ADDRESS=(PROTOCOL=TCP)(HOST=rac-node1)(PORT=1521)) (ADDRESS=(PROTOCOL=TCP)(HOST=rac-node2)(PORT=1521)) (CONNECT_DATA=(SERVER=DEDICATED)(SERVICE_NAME=<yourOraservice1toBeUsedForCluster1>))) (2) and jdbc:oracle:thin:@(DESCRIPTION= (FAILOVER=on) (LOAD_BALANCE=off) (ADDRESS=(PROTOCOL=TCP)(HOST=rac-node2)(PORT=1521)) (ADDRESS=(PROTOCOL=TCP)(HOST=rac-node1)(PORT=1521)) (CONNECT_DATA=(SERVER=DEDICATED)(SERVICE_NAME=<yourOraservice2toBeUsedForCluster2>))) (3)
For thick drivers, the URLs will be very similar:
jdbc:oracle:oci in place of
jdbc:oracle:thin in the above URLs.
When Oracle services are used, load balance and failover must be specified on the Oracle service definition itself, not on the URL. Specifying the load-balance or failover in the URL when Oracle services are used will not affect the RAC nodes' load balance or failover. Instead, it will affect the Oracle listener load balance and failover.
In Figure 4, the entire load balancing happens at the WebSphere Application Server level, through the router. The relevant WebSphere router maintains the transactional affinity, and all the requests belonging to a transaction are routed to the same WebSphere cluster member. Since the Oracle JDBC driver is not providing any load balancing, all of these inbound requests will open and use connections from the same RAC node. This prevents any 2PC distributed transaction to span across more than one RAC node, thereby avoiding the transaction recovery problem.
Since the typical router configuration attempts to spray requests uniformly across all WebSphere Application Server cluster members, if each RAC node is configured to be a primary node for some cluster member, the database load will also get distributed across all the RAC nodes. By tuning the static weights of the relevant WebSphere routers (the cluster member weights for both HTTP and Universal Clustering Framework routers), if applicable, the WebSphere system administrator might be able to approximately achieve the desired amount of skew in the database load distribution among RAC nodes.
A few points to be noted in this context, where load balancing is turned off:
- The primary and secondary RAC nodes are specified positionally in the data source URL.
- There can be multiple secondary RAC nodes. However, only one RAC node, the first functional node in the list of RAC nodes in a URL like (2) will be used to obtain physical connections. This node can be called as principal secondary.
- A simple way to achieve uniform database load balancing across all the RAC nodes will be to satisfy the following two conditions:
- The applicable router(s) should be configured in a way such that all the WebSphere cluster members receive an equal proportion of traffic.
- Each RAC node should be configured to serve as the primary, and as the principal secondary of equal number of WebSphere cluster members. In Figure 4, both RAC nodes are configured to be primaries and principal secondaries of one WebSphere cluster member (rac-node1 is the primary to cluster-member1 and principal secondary to cluster-member2; rac-node2 is the primary to cluster-member2 and principal secondary to cluster-member1).
The above condition is easy to satisfy in a topology where the number of RAC nodes is a divisor of the number of WebSphere cluster members.
Using the "let WebSphere Application Server do the load-balancing" strategy described in this article can make the WebSphere clustered environment resilient against problems related to transaction recovery. The URLs illustrated in this article can also be used in a WebSphere Process Server environment for automatic and smooth 2PC distributed transaction recovery, should there be a RAC node failure.
The primary-secondary RAC node configuration is equally applicable for standalone WebSphere Application Servers. However, for standalone servers, though RAC will provide failover at connection level, there can be no load balancing at all.
More in this series
- Handling data access exception - StaleConnectionException
- Oracle Real Application Clusters 10g: An Oracle Technical White Paper (PDF)
- Best Practices for Using XA with RAC, Version 2.0 (PDF)
- Real Application Clusters (Oracle Base)
- Distributed Transaction Processing: The XA Specification (PDF)
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All I kept writing down in my notes during the movie was "gruesome" "I can't breathe" "My stomach is in knots."
Kevin McCarthy - WJFK-FM (CBS Radio)
In the end THE SIGNAL will burn it's transmission into your brain and leave you with an impression that will never go away. This is that film that leaves you with that special glow (yes, kind of like after sex), the smile that doesn't fade and the convers
Brad Miska - Bloody Disgusting
Too fuzzy and indistinct to work on either a literal or a metaphoric level, The Signal nonetheless pulses with enough random static to hold viewers' attention.
Joshua Rothkopf - Time Out New York
For a soup overseen by three cooks, the whole works reasonably well, with some pretty complex interlocking, A must for fans of nonlinear storytelling.
Andy Klein - Los Angeles CityBeat
tone shifts awkwardly to a Shaun of the Dead-meets-Fido-style satirical commentary on domestic life
Marlow Stern - Manhattan Movie Magazine
The Signal reveals killer horrors skills on the part of Bruckner, and to a lesser extent of Gentry and Bush. So if you don't mind a film that starts strong and finishes weak, check it out.
Beth Accomando - KPBS.org
It's all screwball fun until someone gets bugsprayed down the throat.
Amy Nicholson - I.E. Weekly
It's a pity that the film isn't a little bit better, to really do the concept justice. It's not a bad movie...but it's not at all good in the ways that you'd hope.
Tim Brayton - Antagony & Ecstasy
You, too, may be feeling violently angry by the time the movie ends. Did the writers-directors sprinkle their reels with the script's airwave-riding rage-ohol? Nope: The Signal just sucks.
Tricia Olszewski - Let's Not Listen
The perversely funny, consistently spooky and pornographically violent The Signal, is the first great cult hit of 2008.
Brandon Fibbs - BrandonFibbs.com
Has a certain gritty punch...but in the end it doesn't amount to much but the usual genre static.
Frank Swietek - One Guy's Opinion
For many fans of the genre, the success of the first act and the ambition of the entire concept will be more than enough to make them fans of The Signal.
Brian Tallerico - The Deadbolt
I really enjoyed the first hour or so of The Signal, but, whereas a movie can overcome a bad start, it's tough to overcome a bad ending.
Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) - St. Paul Pioneer Press
It hardly matters that The Signal is deeply flawed. This one has cult favorite stamped all over it.
Christian Toto - Washington Times
...a film-school genre exercise more than anything else; and being hyperbolically bloody in a very familiar way, it just isn't scary.
Kurt Loder - MTV
An outright horror film that nonetheless veers on occasion into surreal black comedy, The Signal takes Marshall McLuhan's famous statement 'the medium is the message' to extremes not explored since David Cronenberg's Videodrome in 1983.
Marc Savlov - Austin Chronicle
A botched sci-fi story about the horror that erupts when televisions suddenly start emitting signals that turn folks into maniacs (maybe we should have gone with Toshiba).
Gary Thompson - Philadelphia Daily News
...brings new blood to the horror genre, but in the end, one vision may have served the material better than three.
Laura Clifford - Reeling Reviews
You will definitely appreciate this film's ambition, if not its execution.
Peter Hartlaub - San Francisco Chronicle
This is basically a David Cronenberg concept dumbed down to a bunch of sadistic jokes, lacking any of the master's humane poignancy.
Bob Strauss - Los Angeles Daily News
I don't want to come down too hard on "The Signal" because while I don't think that it ultimately works in the end, it is far more ambitious in both concept and execution than the majority of contemporary American horror efforts
Peter Sobczynski - eFilmCritic.com
The film suffers slightly from diminishing returns -- its first third is by far its scariest -- but it's still a bold, artful take on a popular horror idea.
M.E. Russell - Oregonian
Ultimately, The Signal doesn't rewrite the rules of horror, the way those masters did. But its filmmakers do provide a creepy, bloody good show.
Stephen Whitty - Newark Star-Ledger
The filmmakers' team effort gives off strong echoes of Stephen King's Cell, David Cronenberg's They Came From Within, George Romero's The Crazies, Danny Boyle's 28 Days Later.
Maitland McDonagh - TV Guide's Movie Guide
Ultimately a crashing bore in all its dismally grainy (what passes for) photography.
Harvey S. Karten - Film Journal International
... another low-budget effort from filmmakers who mistake cleverness for smarts.
Sean Axmaker - Seattle Post-Intelligencer
The opening two reels of the picture are masterful. Then the rest of the film happens...this picture contains greatness, but only in the smallest amounts.
Brian Orndorf - DVDTalk.com
a good start to the year in horror.
Chris Cabin - Filmcritic.com
The latest example of how creativity can make up for an obvious absence of Hollywood money.
Geoff Berkshire - Metromix.com
[The filmmakers] tread close to zombie movie conventions but manage to come up with something fresh.
Jeffrey M. Anderson - Combustible Celluloid
There is plenty of style but little substance in this sci-fi twist on torture porn.
Adam Fendelman - HollywoodChicago.com
Plays like a trivia game for folks pleased to recognize a severed-head-in-a-vise gag from one of the most storied independent success stories of all time.
Walter Chaw - Film Freak Central
A mood of utter chaos rarely makes you feel like everyday citizens are this close to snapping.
Matt Pais - Metromix.com
The Signal is a well-oiled example of that oxymoronic Tarantino phenomenon: the arty grindhouse picture.
Jan Stuart - Newsday
An inspired low-budget horror item with a rough and tumble guerilla filmmaking flair. What it lacks is a steady focal point to rattle the viewer's interest and emotions for an hour and a half.
Dustin Putman - DustinPutman.com
An early contender for the worst movie of 2008, this apocalyptic schlock-fest refuses to admit that it's just another zombie slasher pic.
Cole Smithey - ColeSmithey.com
The Signal has a cosmic sense of justice that's often hilarious; a sense of irony about the suggestion that we really could amuse ourselves to death.
Eric Kohn - New York Press
If you're tired of zombie films or rabid people films, Signal is like a cool drink of water on a hot day. It's got all the goodness from the best of those genres while creating its own niche at the same time.
Jeremy Knox - Film Threat
Smart and self-aware but also disjointed and discordant.
Todd Gilchrist - IGN Movies
This low-budget horror film charts the fallout from a mysterious media transmission that cognitively rewires people into killers, and eventually turns out to be an imbalanced project that delivers increasingly diminishing returns.
Nick Schager - Slant Magazine
You don't often see horror movies as scary, nor comedies as funny, as The Signal.... The execution of the premise is wholly fresh and original.
Eric D. Snider - EricDSnider.com
The perfect movie for viewing after midnight, assuming of course you have no interest in going to sleep when you get home.
Joshua Tyler - CinemaBlend.com
Funny, scary, gory and unpredictable, this is sure to become a cult classic with a strong following.
Vic Holtreman - ScreenRant
Everyone is liable to have their favorite segment and each have their own merit. But before the story overshoots its boundaries, it's a pretty gory good time.
Erik Childress - eFilmCritic.com
The Signal is a moderately subversive and very proficient splatter horror movie of the sort David Cronenberg used to make back in the '70s and '80s.
Ray Greene - Boxoffice Magazine
It sure wouldn't surprise me if my fellow horror geeks decided to embrace this one quite enthusiastically.
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Paging Through: Mysteries
My parents are snowbirds (when the snow flies, so do they) so they often read this column after it has run. They've recently returned to their Brookfield nest, and my mom wasted no time influencing this month's recommendations. After finishing Susan Elia MacNeal's "His Majesty's Hope" (Bantam, $15), the third in an engrossing WWII series, my mom said, "You need to recommend this and the author needs to write faster."
Maggie Hope, the series hero, has dreamed of becoming a spy ever since she was a "typist to Prime Minister Winston Churchill" and then a "maths tutor to the Princess Elizabeth" at Windsor. As the Nazis tighten their grip across Europe, Maggie gets her chance. Thanks to her secret training (including lessons from a "Glaswegian safecracker"), her keen intelligence with codes, and her "big stones" (as the Brits say), Maggie is recruited to an elite group of spies to infiltrate the offices of the Nazi hierarchy. »Read Full Article
Aaron loved performing and finding students' style
On the occasion of his 87th birthday, Joe Aaron was asked what songs he heard when he thought of himself playing.
Old standards, he said. "Body and Soul." "Stardust." Gershwin tunes. »Read Full Article
Scottish novelist Iain Banks has died
When Scottish novelist Iain Banks announced in April that he had an inoperable form of cancer, his large online following responded with affection and dismay.
"There can have been few novelists of recent years who were more aware of what their readers thought of their books; there is a frequent sense in his novels of an author teasing, testing and replying to a readership with which he was pretty familiar," wrote The Guardian's John Mullan in his obituary piece on Banks, who died Sunday at age 59. »Read Full Blog Post
Festivals and free concerts: June 9-15
Locust Street Festival of Music & Art: 11 a.m.-8 p.m., on Locust St. between Humboldt and Holton, www.locust-street.com. »Read Full Article
Pioneer Village; home tours; WWII reenactment
Time traveling
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Everything you need to know before Kenny Chesney's show at Miller Park
Yes, Milwaukee music fans, it's been a long, long time.
Miller Park hasn't hosted a full-blown music concert since Farm Aid in 2010, and memories of just how stadium shows operate may be fading. »Read Full Article(2)
Milwaukee's new arts season satisfies diverse range of tastes
Milwaukee's new performing arts season will be as epic as "Ragtime" and as lyrical as Emily Dickinson, as massive as Present Music's band of 99 and as intimate as two guys playing cello.
And it may surprise you: The two guys playing cello may be louder than the band of 99. »Read Full Article(2)
A three-star night at the Iron Horse
Coming over the 6th St. viaduct last night, there were already hints that it'd be an interesting night. The big Harley-Davidson anniversary fete might be a few weeks away still, but more riders than usual were sidled up side-by-side at the Harley-Davidson Museum.
Bike night at the Iron Horse Hotel, just up the road and a home away from home for riders, was roaring. Sure enough, there were more leather-clad and tattooed bikers in "the yard" than most weeks. »Read Full Blog Post
Alchemist's 'Burden of Being' Has Promise, Needs Work
Aaron Bradway (Michael David Stoddard) is at the top of the world: college-bound class valedictorian and boyfriend to Princess (Rachael Zientek), class diva. While Princess is human and Aaron is a puppet monster resembling a young Yoda, that's no barrier when one is starting out and confident of success.
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The Mitchell Park Domes will look as pretty as a picture during this weekend's fine art and fine craft festival with a plein-air art competition. Bands provide music. »Read Full Article
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New Metal Gear Acid Action
More info on portable card-based espionage.
Series creator Hideo Kojima retreats to background role on the new game, leaving the role of producer to Masahiro Hinami (Ring of Red, Boktai) and the role of director to Shinta Nojiri (Metal Gear Ghost Babel for the Game Boy). Character designs are provided by Tsubasa Masao, who also created the cast in Zone of the Enders: The 2nd Runner.
Hinami is a big fan of traditional board and card games from around the world (one corner of the KCE Japan offices contains a massive bookshelf filled with his collection) which goes some way toward explaining why Acid takes such an unusual gameplay approach to the traditional mission of infiltration.
More than that, though, Konami's team explains that it chose Acid's game systems to create something suited to portable hardware. "Additionally," they decided, "it should be a new game for the new system," rather than a portable version of an already-familiar game. Hence, a card game, where the player's weapons and abilities are represented by a deck of cards, customized to fit the demands of a particular stage and situation.
There's an original story to back up the gameplay, set in 2016 -- which, if the game fits in the canonical Metal Gear timeline, would put its events a few years after those of Metal Gear Solid 2. A jetliner carrying 517 passengers, including a United States Senator regarded as a potential president-in-waiting, is hijacked by a mysterious group of terrorists. They want something called "Pythagoras," although the government isn't entirely sure what that might be.
One man might know, though. He's Solid Snake, yanked out of retirement again and sent to infiltrate the Physics and Chemistry Laboratory on Lobito Island in the African republic of Tejan, where the secret to this Pythagoras whatsis might possibly be found.
Konami has yet to unveil the game's cast or describe its gameplay in detail, but it's made a pair of trailers available at its downloads page. One is the footage shown at E3 earlier this year, while the other is a new trailer composed for the Tokyo Game Show.
Download those and speculate away, while our correspondents at TGS look to suss out more details from the playable Metal Gear Acid demo.


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Something has gone terribly wrong. And no one is to blame. Everyone is doing everything they can. But their hands are tied. Welcome to my world.
These are among the platitudes, excuses, customer-service-speak apologies, and ramblings that have filled our emails and ears this past week, as our office phone lines have not worked since July 14. Some would call this entire telephonic finger pointing "spin" – and that is the most polite of words.
Here's the short story. Arment Dietrich, Inc. moved. Mind you, we didn't move very far. In fact, our new offices are so close to the former ones that we're in the same zip code and will keep the same fax and phone numbers – which will be great for us if they ever work again.
Ours was not a difficult service request. We requested our IT company manage the relocation more than two months before the move. After much back and forth with our telecom company, the process was put in motion. A smart jack had to be installed. Easy enough except AT&T put it in the wrong building. It took from July 16 – 20 for AT&T and GlobalCom to agree that it needed to be reinstalled. Two "expedited" installation requests later, service may be working again on July 25. We're not sure because the people to whom our requests could be escalated left before 3:00 on Friday.
Ironically, just like the phone companies, talking is our business. Sure, we communicate with emails, text messages, and can accomplish a lot through good old-fashioned face-to-face conversations – but a lot of what we do as a public relations agency requires 24/7 phone access.
Not since the tragedy of 9/11 have I been more convinced of the value of a reliable cell phone than this past week. Along with my colleagues we have gone about our business of calling reporters and clients using personal cell phones in new and creative ways. No one knows how many calls to our "hard line" have gone unanswered, how much business we have lost, or opportunities vanished due to the "fast busy."
We have collectively moved from infuriated to that same feeling of hopelessness you feel when the door slams closed as you bolt down the jet way. Our disappointment levels with our trusted telecom business partners have sunk below zero on the satisfaction scale.
Every day there is a new excuse. And companies wonder why infuriated consumers and small business owners turn to television and newspaper "help lines" just to get a fair hearing? We are avoiding that temptation but it is among our arsenals of desperation.
Is wireless the wave of the future? No doubt. — Shawn Kahle
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Office fax is still hard line, but the office phone is strictly for non critical communications. All other communications done on cell phones. Not cheaper but reliable. Not that the phones go down that often, but when they do it`s a week to get up and running again. I have our website, email and cell numbers on all of the mailings, invoices etc.
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New Zealanders Offered Free Plane Tickets to Avoid Justin Bieber Show
Not everyone loves Justin Bieber.
Not everyone loves Justin Bieber.
Please do not tell me you actually believed Justin Bieber was being considered for the role of Robin in the Superman/Batman film.
Justin Bieber has been hard at work -- and he's got a new album and a new movie to prove it!
Justin Bieber's wax figure at Madame Tussauds in Japan is creepy cute. Depending on your age, perspective, level of cynicism and vantage point, that could pretty much sum up your personal opinion of the real thing, as well.
Justin Bieber is 19, so he's still a teenager, but we didn't think the once and former squeaky clean cut singer could grow facial hair.
Yikes! Justin Bieber was the target of a brutally overeager partier in a Toronto nightclub. The 'Believe' singer was attacked by a stranger in the wee hours of this morning (Aug. 31).
Justin Bieber has some magnificently expensive cars -- but according to the state of California, he lacks a valid license to actually drive any of them.
Justin Bieber is a do-gooder -- for example, he frequently meets sick or disabled fans at his shows. And he's done it so many times now that he just broke a record at the Make-A-Wish Foundation by becoming the first musician to fulfill 200 wishes.
Most of our grandmothers have seen our naked bums, by virtue of the fact that they changed our diapers. But most of us don't flash our rumps to our grannies at age 18. Unfortunately, that's just what Justin Bieber did.
The man accusing Justin Bieber of starting a nightclub fight with him has a bunch of contradictory stories -- and now one of those stories is that the fight was over girls. Selena Gomez, are you paying attention?
Cops are busy investigating that brawl at the South Pointe nightclub in Southhampton, N. Y., in which Justin Bieber and his crew engaged in a messy fight with a club attendee.
Not many details were clear previously, but now it's being reported that the police are looking into whether or not the Biebs ordered his security guards to beat up 22-year-old Wayne Rennalls over a waitress and a bow tie from H&M.
Justin Bieber loves his Beliebers, and that's why one particular move he made onstage recently was baffling. When one Belieber threw an iPhone onstage, Biebs took the phone ... and put it down his pants ... then threw it back into the crowd. WTF?!


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Miley Cyrus' Brother Trace Calls Off His Engagement
Days after Miley Cyrus announced her engagement to Liam Hemsworth, her brother Trace Cyrus, 23, revealed that his nine-month engagement to actress Brenda Song, 24, has come to an end.
"Brenda and I have decided to go our separate ways," Cyrus said in a statement. "We split up a couple of months ago. We will continue to focus on our careers."
Cyrus and Song got engaged in October 2011 after beginning to date earlier that spring.
Cyrus performs in the band Ashland HIGH and is the owner of a clothing company called From Backseats to Bedrooms. Song is the lead female role in the Disney Channel series The Suite Life of Zach and Cody and recently appeared in The Social Network.
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Ryan Seacrest narrates locally produced documentary series
"American Idol" host Ryan Seacrest will be the narrator for the third season of the PBS documentary series "Pioneers of Television," by Milwaukee-area producers Steve Boettcher and Michael Trinklein.
The twice-Emmy-nominated "Pioneers" revisits old shows and stars using original interviews, clips and dramatic re-creations. In a press release, Boettcher calls Seacrest "a major television star, and an ardent fan of television's pioneers." »Read Full Blog Post
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Art Milwaukee's Art Jamboree - "The Maker" - is taking over the Milwaukee Makerspace in Bay View on Friday night for a free event with art, performances, film showings, complimentary vittles, prizes and more. »Read Full Article
Ice rink closes for the season today
If you were saving the last twirl on the ice at Red Arrow Park, get on it now.
Slice of Ice in Red Arrow Park, 920 N. Water St., will close for the season at 8 p.m. today. After that, the refrigeration is turned off. »Read Full Article
Milwaukee Rite Center hosting Sara Bareilles, Prince Poppycock concerts this spring
There's a new concert venue in town that's also very old.
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Alexandre (Arordi) Varbedian (born June 11, 1943 in Marseille, France) is a French-Armenian Armenologist, ethnologist, essentialist and ontologist.
Early life[edit]
Varbedian was born in a family with roots from Khoy and Sasun-Bitlis and re-emigrated into Armenia in 1948.
In 1968 he graduated from Architectural Department of the Yerevan Polytechnic Institute; and in 1970 from the actor department of studio "Hayfilm". In 1975 after moving back to Marseille he continued his professional activities as an architect, and his ethnological activities as a producer, writer, public speaker, but primarily as an Armenologist, ethnologist and essentialist.
Mr. Varbetian is a recipient of national and international awards in the first three fields mentioned above.[1]
Personal works[edit]
Mr. Varbedian has written for around 50 Armenian, Diaspora and foreign periodicals, he was editor of the London based biweekly "Erebuni" (1987), the first issue of the ethnological journal "Eutyun" (lit. Essence) (Yerevan - 1992). He founded and led the French-Armenian theatrical group "Arvestanoc Sevak" (1978–1981, award winner of JAF-80 Paris Festival). He was founder of the Diaspora "Haratevman Ukht" union (1986–1990) and the expanded form of that organization with involvement well-known members of the Armenian intelligentsia. He was also founder of "Eutyun" - Temple of National Wisdom (Armenia, since 1990).
He had presentations, radio and television programs and numerous activities in Armenia, in almost all centers of the Diaspora and in foreign universities. And the main theme of all those is the eternity of the Armenian nation, the programming and disclosure of its main patterns, the presentation and indoctrination of the importance of a national identity.[1]
He authored:
- The lyrics Solarius, dedicated to the destiny of the Armenian nation (Marseille - 1985, formerly a movie script).
- Armenological study, Who are finally the Aryans? (Marseille - 1988, Yerevan - 1990).
- Volume of poems titled Evocation (Yerevan - 1990).
- An exploratory collection titled Identity (Yerevan - 1993).
- Theory of Essence (Yerevan - 1995).
- National ideological study titled Aryagank (Yerevan - 1997).
- A profound study titled Genesis-Aya, his magnum opus meticulously narrates the 12,000 year history of the Armenian nation and the beginnings of the present Human Civilization in the highlands of Armenia (Yerevan - 2000 second edition: Yerevan - 2003).
- The millennium program Eagank ("Nation and New Millennium" - volume 1, Yerevan - 2002).
- Public article titled National Crossword or who Alexandre Arordi Varbetian Is Disturbing? (Yerevan - 2003).
- The volume Qualitas (Yerevan - 2004).
- The collections of aphorisms Tombstone (Yerevan - 2005).
- The Letter E Name of AY ("Revelation", Eagank volume 2, Yerevan - 2006).
The following works are ready, but not yet subject to publication:
- Meridian (Eagank, volume 2).
- Horse's peace (Eagank, volume 4).
- National Cross-stone ("The mystery of October 27").
- The volume Destiny is in the stage of preparation.
His works were recognized by Garzu, S. Paradjanov, M. Ragon, A. Terterian, C. Paren, H. Shiraz, H. Sahyan, academicians such as Victor Hambardzumyan, V. Ivanov, S. Yeremyan and about sixty other Armenian and foreign famous individuals. British-Armenian producer H. Pilikyan labeled him as "genius Armenian ambassador with diapason of Shakespeare," ("Ashkharh" - France, "Zartonk" - Lebanon, 1985). Late Vahe Oshakan referred him as "one of very few imaginative, precious and courageous parts of Armenian history" (Asbarez 13-20.03 1999, United States). Armenian academician Varazdad Haroutyunyan praised him as a "national phenomenon" (in the section devoted to Varbedian of his "My Contemporaries" volume) and others as "the next representative of the Armenian Ideology after R. Patkanyan, H. Asatryan and Garegin Nzhdeh" ("Hayastani Hanrapetutyun" daily, 30.03.1999).
Sevak Aramazd (Hovanisyan-Germany) is describing him as "presenters of the Armenian Soul jailed in dark caves, the greatest names of a small group of "outstanding thinkers" - D. Varujan, K. Zaryan, G. Njdeh and A. Varbetian" ("Garun" March 2003).[2]
Notable quote(s)[edit]
...To really live...is to live in harmony with our true divine essence... with the divine spark shining bright from the innermost depth of our Soul-Spirit...an individual who does not know [Know...Gnosis] and lives his or her life in tune with the quintessential Cosmic Laws will never achieve oneness with our true Self/Source... but will merely exist in an imbalanced, unnatural and unhealthy mode so, ignorance is not bliss... ignorance is death...
- Alexandre A. Varbedian
Since 2002, entry into Armenia has been strictly prohibited for Alexandre Varbedian.
Varbedian, who had moved from France to Soviet Armenia at the age of five and received his education in Yerevan, moved back to his birthplace of Marseille in 1975. Although he acquired French citizenship, he also kept his Soviet passport with him. After Armenia's independence, that transformed to Armenian citizenship at his own request.
However, a law abolishing dual citizenship was passed in 1994 and Varbedian was deprived of his Armenian citizenship three years later. However, in the period from 1998 to 1999 and then from 1999 to 2002, Varbedian lived in Armenia thanks to residence permits he acquired through the Armenian Ministry of Education and Science as well as the Ministry of Culture. In 2002, his permit was not extended and no reason was cited for the rejection.
A1+ wrote the following in 2002 in that regard – The deadline on the Armenian residence permit of the President of the Essence Union, French citizen Alexandre Varbedian, has expired. Alexandre Varbedian has been told that he will no longer be given permission to reside in Armenia because he belonged to a sect. "The Essence Union is ready to collaborate with the Armenian Apostolic Church," Varbedian assured, but such proposals have not been met with a reply. The Union has proposed a program called Nation and New Millennium. According to Union members, this is a sanative program that has been planned for years, meant to keep society from foolishness and sin.
In August 2003, the Department for Pardons, Citizenship, Awards and Titles, within the President's staff, refused Varbedian's application for a ten-year paid residence permit in Armenia. Since then, Varbedian's three electronic tourist visa applications have been refused and, on two occasions, invitation letters from his son, Artur Varbedian, have been rejected without a reason cited.
In February 2005, Varbedian wrote an open letter to the Armenian Government, but there was no reply. In May of the same year, he sent the first Ombudsman Larisa Alaverdyan a letter. After studying the case, Alaverdyan wrote a letter to Alvina Zakaryan, head of the Passport and Visa Department of the Armenian Police. She replied that Artur Varbedian had come to them to submit an invitation letter for his father's visit to Armenia. In accordance with procedure, Varbedian's documents had been sent to the corresponding agencies for approval. But, according to the reply received, the French citizen's visit to Armenia was considered inappropriate.
Ombudsman Alaverdyan was confident that the department mentioned was "not authorized to judge whether the visit was appropriate and should have provided the applicant with the legislative reasons that served as the basis for the rejection." At the same time, Alaverdyan noted that there was an international practice of not providing any explanations in the event of rejection, but felt that a renowned person like Alexandre Varbedian should not have been treated in this way.
Alaverdyan suggested that Alvina Zakaryan and the Chief of Police review the case and present the reasons for rejection if they came to the same conclusion. But this suggestion was never followed up. Now, with Armen Harutyunyan as Ombudsman, this case is considered closed, because the letter from Varbedian was just a message, not a complaint (in case of complaints, the case remains open until it is resolved).
Varbedian's son Artur wrote a letter to then Defense Minister Serzh Sargsyan in 2006. In order to study the case, the Ministry requested the corresponding documents, as well as Alexandre Varbedian's unpublished work National Cross-Stone (The Enigma of October 27). The author insisted that this book had been destroyed because "Armenian society was not ready for it." Sargsyan gave a few orders in connection with the application, but nothing changed. At the request of Artur Varbedian, the "blacklist" in the computers at Armenia's border crossings were examined by a high-ranking official and revealed that Alexandre Varbedian's name was not present. At the same time, according to newly established procedure, it had become possible to get a 21-day visa at the Armenian border. Alexandre Varbedian decided with his son to come to Armenia through Georgia but then changed his mind and decided to apply for a visa and fly to Yerevan. But the Armenian Embassy in France rejected his visa application. Artur went to the border official again.
"The border official said that after one crosses the border, one has to go to the Passport and Visa Department and apply for a visa. He said that the 'blacklist' at the border and the department is the same. But this case is unique because my father's name is only on the department's 'blacklist.' That would mean that he would be able to cross the border at Bagratashen, but then the visa office in Yerevan would refuse his visa. The border official told me that this was unprecedented," said Artur Varbedian.
"The border official concluded that the last name of Varbedian is perhaps in a special 'blacklist' of names, condemned to remaining there forever for unknown reasons," said Alexandre Varbedian.
Having been kept away from Armenia forcibly for five years, Alexandre Varbedian wrote another open letter to the Armenian President on May 30, "without any real expectations, but simply to be convinced that the true reason behind all this lies within the President's office…" [1]
Personal life[edit]
Mr. Varbedian is nonpartisan, has two sons and two grandchildren.[2]
See also[edit]
- ^ a b Alexander Varbedian Archived February 6, 2009, at the Wayback Machine.
- ^ a b Alexander Varbetian Archived February 6, 2009, at the Wayback Machine.


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This is a great alternative to fried chicken if you are watching your calorie and fat intake. It tastes terrific. You can use boneless skinless breasts instead of legs and thighs. Great comfort food!
Ingredients Nutrition
- 88.74 ml butter, divided
- 59.14 ml all-purpose flour
- 59.14 ml cornmeal
- 3.69 ml paprika
- 2.46 ml chili powder
- 2.46 ml garlic powder
- 2.46 ml ground cayenne pepper (red)
- 2.46 ml salt
- 1 egg white
- 118.29 ml water
- 10 chicken drumsticks
- Preheat the oven to 400°F.
- Spread tablespoon butter over the bottom of a baking sheet. I cover mine with aluminum foil for easy cleanup.
- Combine flour, cornmeal, paprika, chili powder, cayenne pepper and salt in a large ziploc or shake 'n bake type bag. Close bag and shake to blend well.
- Beat egg white in a shallow bowl. Stir in water. Dip chicken in egg white mixture. Place chicken in bag with flour mixture. Shake to coat. Arrange chicken on prepared baking sheet.
- Melt remaining butter in a small saucepan over medium heat. Drizzle evenly over chicken.
- Bake the chicken about 40-45 minutes (less time if using boneless breasts).
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