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4:15pm EST
SA Gameday Thread, join us here during the game and talk about the action as it happens!
Series History: Series began in 1934
Overall: Chicago leads 19-7-1
At Pittsburgh: Chicago leads 8-6-1
At Chicago: Chicago leads 11-1
Last Regular-Season Meeting: Dec. 11, 2005 (in Pittsburgh)
Pittsburgh 21, Chicago 9
• Pittsburgh looks to improve to 2-0 on the year for the third year in a row under Head Coach Mike Tomlin. He would become the first coach in the team's 77-year history to start 2-0 in each of his first three seasons.
• Pittsburgh looks for its first win in Chicago since the 1995 season.
• The Steelers look for their sixth win in the last seven games they have played on the road.
WR Hines Ward
• Needs one touchdown to give him 454 career points, which would move him into sixth place on the team's all-time scoring list ahead of Norm Johnson (452 career points).
TE Heath Miller
• Needs four receiving yards to reach 2,000 for his career, becoming only the fifth tight end in team history to accomplish the feat and the first since Eric Green (1994).
• Needs four touchdowns to move into second place ahead of Eric Green (24) on the team's all-time list for tight ends. Miller currently has 21 career touchdown receptions.
And my Who to root for Week II:
Hou v Ten
Ari v Jac
Oak v KC
Cin v GB
TB v Buf
Bal v SD
Cle v Den
Ind v Mia
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The department offers several scholarships to declared foreign language majors who intend to study abroad.
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The George C.S. Adams Endowed ScholarshipThe George Cotton Smith Adams Endowed Scholarship was established by his widow, Adaline Holaday Adams, and their sons, Charles Edward Adams and George Holaday Adams. The family's gift was received in memory of Dr. Adams, Chairman of the Department of Foreign Languages at Wofford from 1959 until his retirement in 1976. Awards from the fund are reserved for students of foreign languages.
The Paula I. Binovec Memorial Scholarship Fund The Paula I. Binovec Memorial Endowed Scholarship was established in 1994 by family members and friends in memory of Paula I. Binovec, Class of 1985. Awards from this scholarship fund are reserved for students pursuing foreign study travel opportunities.
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This chapter describes issues associated with Oracle B2B. It includes the following topics:
This section describes general issues and workarounds. It includes the following topics:
Section 17.1.1, "Upgrading from Oracle Integration B2B 10g to Oracle B2B 11g"
Section 17.1.3, "Non-administrator Users Can Perform Certain Administrative Tasks"
Section 17.1.4, "replyToAppMessageId Incorrectly Set in Ack Notifications"
Section 17.1.6, "Notification Is Not Available for an Ack Received for an EDI FA"
Section 17.1.7, "FileNotFoundException Message After Saving an EDI Document Definition"
Section 17.1.8, "Incorrect User Information for Receipt Notification (AS2 MDN) to AQ"
Section 17.1.9, "Application Message Report Displays Incorrect Document Type"
Section 17.1.10, "Generated MDN Incorrectly Uses Name Identifier in Inbound Agreement"
Section 17.1.11, "Oracle B2B Signs MDN Using the Algorithm Set in the Agreement Delivery Channel"
Section 17.1.12, "Sending an Unknown AS2 From-Header Is Not Recognized as an Error"
Section 17.1.13, "Incorrect URL in the Wire Message for a Received Synchronous MDN"
Section 17.1.14, "Invalid EDI Interchange ID Qualifier or Function Group Identifier Is Not Recognized as an Error"
Section 17.1.15, "Oracle Enterprise Manager Shows Incorrect Error Count Following Successful Resubmit"
Section 17.1.16, "XEngine Is Not Installed on the Second Node in a Clustered Environment"
Section 17.1.17, "EDI Batching Results in Incorrect Average Message Size on Metrics Page"
Section 17.1.18, "User Deleted Using Oracle WebLogic Console Continues to Appear in Oracle B2B Interface for Several Minutes"
Section 17.1.19, "Do Not Purge Instance Metadata When Messages Are Being Processed"
Section 17.1.20, "Test Page for B2BMetadataWSPort Is Not Found"
Section 17.1.21, "Use the Oracle B2B Interface Instead of Command-Line Utilities in a Clustered Environment"
Section 17.1.22, "ebMS Negative Acknowledgments for Decryption and Signature Failures"
Section 17.1.23, "Issues When Resubmitting Messages Using the AS2 Exchange"
Section 17.1.24, "Instance Data Access Java API Is Not Available"
Section 17.1.27, "Settings for Large Payloads When Using Enqueue Scripts"
Section 17.1.28, "FTPS Connection Times Out with Implicit SSL Encryption"
Section 17.1.29, "%ACTIONNAME% Filename Format Is Not Recognized"
Section 17.1.30, "RosettaNet Message Encoded in UTF-16 Fails at the Receiver's End"
Section 17.1.31, "Save Autogenerated Agreements Before Deployment"
Section 17.1.32, "Some Listening Channel Details Are Not Relevant for the Selected Protocol"
Section 17.1.33, "FTP Listening Channel Does Not Have Proxy Support"
Section 17.1.34, "b2bpurge Command-Line Utility May Not Terminate Listening Threads for Inactive Channels"
Section 17.1.35, "Exporting Multiple Agreements That Include Agreement Names That Use a Multibyte Character Language"
Section 17.1.36, "ebMS Delivery Channel Is Required for ebMS Inbound Agreements with Asynchronous Ack Mode"
Section 17.1.37, "Even with the Log Level Set to Default, Details Are Written to the Log File"
Section 17.1.38, "Enabling Multibyte Support for EDIFACT and HL7 Documents"
Section 17.1.39, "Using Document Definition Names with Multibyte Characters in JDeveloper"
Section 17.1.40, "NULL May Be Displayed in the Document Definition Names for Cloned Partners"
Section 17.1.41, "Suppressing Validation Errors on Extra Elements in HL7 Messages"
Section 17.1.42, "Oracle B2B in High Availability Environments"
Section 17.1.43, "Methods for Recovering Messages in High-Stress Environments"
Section 17.1.44, "Inbound ebMS Messages Checked Irrespective of Duplicate Elimination Setting"
Section 17.1.45, "Resubmitting Outbound Complete ebMS Message Errors Out When @ Is Present in b2bmsgid"
Section 17.1.46, "SOA Infrastructure Schema Prevents the Use of Edition-Based Redefinition"
Section 17.1.47, "Transport Callouts Are Not Available for Listening Channels"
Section 17.1.49, "Fault Repair and Resubmission From Oracle Enterprise Manager Facility Is Not Available"
Section 17.1.50, "Create Separate Batch Criteria For Document Type With Varying Application References"
Section 17.1.51, "Limitation Using BOM-based XSD Schema in Oracle B2B"
Section 17.1.52, "Multiple Sender ID Support Required Redeployment After Addition of New ID"
Section 17.1.53, "Outbound Average Message Calculation Incorrect"
Section 17.1.54, "FTP Listening Channel Does Not Support Proxy"
Section 17.1.55, "Clicking on Reports Displays Spurious Warnings in the Managed Server Console Log"
Section 17.1.56, "NCPDP Telecom Document May Not Work on Microsoft Windows"
Section 17.1.57, "Duplicated GUID in EDI Batched Outbound Messages Causes All to Error"
See the following for upgrade information:
Allow pop-ups (disable the browser pop-up blocker) to use the Oracle B2B online help.
Although the Save button is not displayed on the Agreement page for remote partner administrators, these users can update and save agreements by editing the agreement name on non-deployed agreements, and then updating and saving the agreements. Oracle B2B does not check the user authorization in this case.
Oracle B2B offers a notification of an Ack (AS2-MDN or EDI-FA) that is sent back to a composite or AQ (IP_IN_QUEUE) if configured using the Oracle B2B interface (Administration > Configuration page). The received Ack notification appears similar to the following:
<Acknowledgment xmlns="http://integration.oracle.com/B2B/Acknowledgment" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"> <replyToB2BMessageId>0AB1FE0211FE933570200000120666E0</replyToB2BMessageId> <replyToAppMessageId>0AB1FE0211FE933570200000120666E0</replyToAppMessageId> <ackB2BMessageId>0AB1FE0211FE9338CB80000012066930-1</ackB2BMessageId> </Acknowledgment>
Note, however, that the
replyToAppMessageId is always incorrectly set to be the same as the
Note the following:
If an exception occurs during an outbound batch, the batch is not cleared from the repository. This is true even if a trigger has been fired. In this case, you must manually delete the scheduled batch entry using the Administration > Manage Batch page in the Oracle B2B interface.
If you disable a single time invocation batch schedule, any messages set in WAIT_BATCH mode remain in this mode if the schedule is not re-enabled before the expiry time. Furthermore, a new batch schedule created for the same document will not process these messages. The workaround is to resend the message using the resubmit application message option.
Receipt notification does not occur for an Ack (AS2-MDN) received back for an EDI FA document that was sent.
After creating an EDI document definition, accessing and saving the document definition (when no updates have been made to the ecs file) can cause a FileNotFoundException message to be generated.
When delivering a receipt notification (AS2 MDN) to AQ, Oracle B2B incorrectly sets the user information to the document routing ID (if the outbound document has a document routing ID set) instead of b2backuser.
The application message report in the Oracle B2B interface incorrectly displays document types. Specifically, the application message report displays the following:
For receipt messages, the displayed document type is for the outbound message. If you want to collect metric data on the number of inbound application messages for a specific document type, the issue can cause queries to report incorrect data.
For FA messages, the displayed document type is the same as the FA message type.
In synchronous AS2 mode, the generated MDN uses the AS2 Identifier set in the inbound agreement. If no AS2 Identifier is defined in the agreement, then the generated MDN incorrectly uses the name identifier. The workaround is to set the expected AS2 Identifier in the inbound agreement.
In AS2, a request for a signed MDN from the recipient can specify the algorithm to use for signing. Oracle B2B, however, incorrectly signs the MDN with the algorithm set in the agreement delivery channel. This algorithm may be different from the requested algorithm.
When receiving an EDI document over an AS2 exchange, if Oracle B2B fails to identify the trading partner using the AS2 From Identifier, Oracle B2B tries to identify the partner using the EDI Interchange and Group ID. The failure to identify the partner by the AS2 Identifier is ignored.
The synchronous MDN received by the host server in response to an AS2 message sent over SSL shows an incorrect URL in the wire message. Specifically, the URL indicates the HTTPS protocol while the port information is for the HTTP listen port.
Setting an invalid EDI Interchange ID Qualifier or an invalid Function Group Identifier (not part of the default ecs Qualifier Standard Code List_105 or Function Identifier Code Standard Code List_479 respectively) is not signalled as a MSG_ERROR in the outbound case. Oracle B2B instead delivers the message to the configured endpoint without error.
When a B2B channel is configured to retry following an error (such as a transport channel being unavailable) and the message is subsequently successfully delivered, Oracle Enterprise Manager fails to adjust the corresponding error count.
In a clustered environment, the XEngine is not installed on the second node when the node is on another computer. This is because the XEngine extraction occurs only when you run the Configuration Wizard (which is not run automatically on the second node). The workaround is to perform the XEngine extraction manually and then restart the server.
When Oracle B2B batches multiple messages into a single message, the native message size for each business message is recorded as the size of all messages in the batch. This results in Oracle B2B reporting an incorrect average message size on the Metrics pages of the Oracle B2B interface.
After deleting a user using Oracle WebLogic Server Administration Console, the user continues to appear in the Oracle B2B interface for approximately five minutes. This is because the user information remains cached in the managed server (Oracle B2B) for a user-configurable period of time. Performing certain operations, such as provisioning this user, can generate an error.
The workaround is to wait for longer than five minutes after deleting a user using Oracle WebLogic Server Administration Console.
Alternatively, you can specify the following system property in the
setDomain.sh file to disable the cache:
Do not purge instance metadata (using the Purge Instance Metadata button on the Administration > Purge tab) when messages are being processed. Doing so can result in messages in progress being lost. Instead, use the
b2bpurge command-line utility, which accepts a date range and message state as arguments. When using the
b2bpurge command, remove messages in the Completed state only (unless you have a specific reason for doing otherwise).
The test page for B2BMetadataWSPort results in a "404 Not Found" error. The workaround is to change the port number in the URL for the link from the managed server port to the admin server port (7001) and try again.
In a clustered environment, do not use the B2B command-line utilities for purging data, importing data, and exporting data. Use the Oracle B2B interface for these functions.
For ebMS documents, negative acknowledgments for decryption and signature failures are sent as security severity errors. For all other negative ebMS acknowledgments, the error is set as UnknownError.
Under certain circumstances, resubmitting an asynchronous AS2 inbound wire message does not work as expected. For example, change the state of an inbound agreement to inactive. On receiving a message, a negative acknowledgment is generated and sent back. The sender sees the message state as MSG_ERROR on receipt of the negative acknowledgment. Resolve the issue on the inbound side by changing the agreement state from inactive to active. Now two scenarios for resubmitting the asynchronous message exist:
Scenario A: Resubmit the wire message at the sender's side. Because the message was already processed at the receiver's end, this results in a duplicate error message.
Scenario B: Resubmit the wire message at the receiver's end. This passes at the receiver's end and pushes back a positive acknowledgment message. However, the state of the message on the sender's side is not changed. Although scenario A can be expected, scenario B should have worked. However, because the state of the message is MSG_ERROR, the incoming positive acknowledgment is ignored. This results in inconsistency in reporting at the two ends. The inbound side passes the message to the back-end successfully, whereas the outbound side has the message in the MSG_ERROR state.
The Oracle B2B Instance Data Access Java API is not available in this release. The API will be available in a future release.
The predefined callout,
XSLTCallout, is not available in this release.
Based on the database load and the application server load, tune the transaction timeout setting in the Oracle WebLogic Server Administration Console. Select JTA from the home page and increase the default setting of 30 to a higher value.
Set the following properties in the
enqueue.properties file when enqueuing large payloads:
Because the full directory path must be provided, use the local computer for this operation.
Implicit SSL encryption is not supported in the transport layer.
%ACTIONNAME% filename format is not recognized when used with the File, FTP, and SFTP transport protocols.
Oracle B2B is unable to process an inbound RosettaNet message encoded as UTF-16. A document protocol identification error is returned.
Save autogenerated agreements at least once before the agreements are deployed. The agreement parameter settings for translation/validation and FA are generated in the agreement only when you save an agreement and not when it is autogenerated. Although the interface may show the default values, they are not captured in the agreement metadata and are ignored at run time; that is, the inbound EDI message may not be translated.
On the Listening Channel tab, some parameter fields that are displayed in the Channel Details area based on your protocol selection are not relevant to that protocol. Entering a value for these parameters has no effect. Table 17-1 lists the parameter fields that are not relevant.
Table 17-1 Fields That Display but Are Not Relevant for the Selected Protocol
|If you select this protocol...
|Then you can ignore these parameter fields...
Subject, Send as attachment, Ack Mode, Response Mode, Retry Count, Retry Interval, all fields on the Security tab
Generic File-1.0
Retry Count, Retry Interval
Generic AQ-1.0
Retry Count, Retry Interval
Generic FTP-1.0
Use Proxy, Retry Count, Retry Interval
Generic SFTP-1.0
Retry Count, Retry Interval
Generic JMS-1.0
Retry Count, Retry Interval
Generic Email-1.0
Subject, Send as attachment, Retry Count, Retry Interval
The Generic FTP-1.0 protocol for a listening channel does not have proxy support.
When using the
b2bpurge command-line utility, if inactive channels exist, then those listening threads are not terminated. The workaround is to repeat the
b2bpurge call two or three times until the listening threads for the inactive channels are terminated.
If you select multiple agreements to export (from Administration > Import/Export), and any of those agreement names are in a multibyte character language, then in the export ZIP file, which contains a separate ZIP file for each agreement, the ZIP file names for the agreement names with the multibyte characters are garbled. The ZIP files with the garbled names are corrupted and cannot be successfully imported. However, a single agreement name (or repository name) in a multibyte character language is exported correctly.
For an inbound agreement that uses an ebMS exchange with the Ack Mode parameter set to asynchronous, an ebMS delivery channel is required.
Normally the default log level suppresses details in the log file. However, for RosettaNet deployments, log details are not suppressed even with the default log level setting.
For documents using the XEngine, such as EDIFACT and HL7 documents, when you have a payload with multibyte characters that are not in the EDIFACT and HL7 document character set registry, you may see the error, "A data element contains characters not listed in the allowed character set."
To avoid this error, create a custom character set (CS) file in Oracle B2B Document Editor called
In Oracle B2B Document Editor, click Tools > Character Set Registry.
In the Character Set Registry window, select the character set you want to override.
For example, you may want to override EDIFACT UNOB CS or HL7 CS.
Click the Duplicate icon.
In the Duplicate Character Set Properties window, accept the defaults and add the specific multibyte characters at the end of the Charset blank; then click OK.
With the duplicated file still selected, click the Export icon.
Name the file
user.cs and save it.
user.cs to
Now documents such as EDIFACT and HL7 will use the
user.cs file instead of the default CS file to verify the payload file.
When working with document definition names with multibyte characters (MBCS-named document definitions) in the B2B Configuration Wizard in JDeveloper, you may see the error " Invalid UTF8 encoding" at the step where the document definitions are loading for you to select the document definition for the service. This occurs when JDeveloper is running in a non-UTF-8 environment (for example, in Windows, using Simplified Chinese Win2k3, or in a native encoding Linux OS, using zh_CN.gb18030). However, in a Linux environment with UTF-8 encoding, such as zh_CN.utf8, MBCS-named document definitions load correctly. After loading, the MBCS-named document definition becomes the name of the document XSD folder in JDeveloper.
To ensure that MBCS-named document definitions load and display correctly in the B2B Configuration Wizard, do the following:
When using JDeveloper in a Linux environment, first set the
LANG and
LC_All environment variables to a locale with the UTF-8 character set. This enables the operating system to process any characters in Unicode. Then start JDeveloper.
When using JDeveloper in a Windows environment, start JDeveloper using UTF-8 encoding with
jdev -J-Dfile.encoding=utf-8.
Exports from an 11g R1 SOA - Oracle B2B installation that contain cloned trading partners will show null for document definition names for the definitions in the cloned trading partner. (This issue is not seen with partners cloned using the 11g PS1 SOA - Oracle B2B installation.) For example, the definition will appear as EDI_X12-4010-850-null.
When this occurs, recreate the document definition as follows:
Delete agreements associated with the document definition. (If you do not delete the agreement, trying to delete the definition produces an error.)
Delete the document definition.
Create the document definition and add it to the trading partner.
Create new agreements containing the document definition.
For HL7 messages, set
HL7.AllowExtraData to false in
XERegistry.xml to suppress validation errors on extra elements.
XERegistry.xml file is located in the following directory:
See Section 6.2.12, "Message Sequencing and MLLP Not Supported in Oracle B2B HA Environments," for more information.
Use the following solutions to recover messages that would otherwise be lost in high-stress environments involving outbound messages with multiple instances of Oracle B2B running, each with multiple threads.
Situation 1: Duplicate File Names
In situations where all message file names,
TPname_timestamp, are sent to the same directory, the timestamps include milliseconds; thus, in normal situations, all file names are unique. However, in high-stress environments, duplicate file names can occur, resulting in files being overwritten by a later file with the same name.
The solution is to append the unique MSG_ID value to file names. In the B2B interface, go to the Partners link and select a remote trading partner. Go to Channels > Transport Protocol Parameters. For channels where the Filename format parameter is applicable, add %MSG_ID% as a filename format macro. All file names will then be unique.
Situation 2: Exhausted Message Redelivery Attempts
If you see the message
java.lang.RuntimeException: AppMessage is null:
msg_id, a race condition may be indicated. A race condition occurs when a JMS event has been enqueued and dequeued for processing, but the corresponding message is not committed in the run-time repository. The B2B engine will retry the transaction, but it may fail if retry occurs immediately. If all retry attempts are exhausted, the event delivery transaction is rolled back and an exception message is sent to the configured exception queue, if an exception queue is configured.
To configure the exception queue and to resubmit exhausted redelivered messages from the exception queue to B2BEventQueue, use Oracle WebLogic Server Administration Console.
Do the following:
Create a queue and name it something like B2BEventException.
In the console, go to the settings for B2BEventQueue (Home > JMSModules > SOAJMSModule) and click the Configuration > Delivery Failure tab.
For Expiration Policy, select Redirect.
For Error Destination, select the queue you created in step 1 (for example, B2BEventException).
The messages that cannot be processed by B2B for the given redelivery count are forwarded to this error destination queue.
Move the messages from the configured error destination queue to B2BEventQueue to resubmit the messages for processing.
See the Oracle Fusion Middleware Oracle WebLogic Server Administration Console Online Help topic, "Manage queue messages," for how to move messages.
According to ebMS standards, Oracle B2B must check for duplicate inbound ebMS messages only if the DuplicateElimination tag is present in the ebMS message. However, currently, B2B tries to detect duplicate inbound ebMS messages irrespective of whether the DuplicateElimination tag is present or not in the ebMS message.
The @ symbol is not supported in Msgid.
Edition-based redefinitions are not supported for SOA B2B in the current release.
Transport callouts are not available for listening channels.
In a multiple-node SOA server domain, the JMX framework propagates local changes to a file-based policy to each run-time environment, so that the data is refreshed based on caching policies and configuration.
In a multiple-node server environment, it is recommended that the domain policy and credential stores be centralized in an LDAP-based store. Otherwise, if they are file-based, then local changes to user privileges made in the B2B UI will not be properly propagated and can end up in error situations.
See Oracle Fusion Middleware Security Guide for more information.
In Oracle Enterprise Manager, there is no fault repair for Binding Components such as Oracle B2B. It is only available for service engines such as BPEL and Mediator.
Different EDIEL document types (DELFOR and MSCONS) having different interchange APPLICATION REFERENCE settings, when batched together within a single interchange, used the setting for APPLICATION REFERENCE field from only the first document to be batched.
To avoid this issue it is suggested that if documents have varying interchange Application References, then users should create separate batching criteria for these documents, that is do not batch them together.
XSD with BOM is not fetched from Oracle JDeveloper when modeling an Oracle B2B Composite. The issue is due to the BOM occurring at the start of the file.
The current Oracle B2B implementation to support multiple sender interchange ID requires users to redeploy the agreements after the addition of the new interchange ID. If deployment of agreements is not done, then the interchange IDs that were present at the time of the initial deployment are the only ones that are considered during validation check.
For the message that goes into error, the message count is increased; however, the message size is (of the message in error) is not taken into account. This causes the reported average to be lower the than expected.
FTP listening channel does not support proxy.
Clicking on the Reports tab (defaults to Business Message Report) results in several instances of the following warning in the Managed Server Console log (from where the managed Server is started):
Could not find selected item matching value "" ...
NCPDP Telecom document goes into payload validation errors when using the XEngine on the Microsoft Windows environment.
If there are two messages with same GUID value in a set of batched outbound EDI messages, then the XEngine will error out all the messages in that batch. In earlier releases, the behavior was to error out only the duplicate message, the other messages would pass through.
This section describes configuration issues and workarounds. It includes the following topics:
Section 17.2.1, "Functional Ack Internal Properties Setting Ignored for HL7"
Section 17.2.2, "Unable To Specify Separate Parameters for Remote Trading Partner Sender and Receiver"
Section 17.2.3, "Unable To Set Ack Requested Field for Interchange"
Section 17.2.4, "Overriding Defaults in a Host Document Not Carried to the Remote Trading Partner"
Section 17.2.5, ""Query Sent to an Unactivated UnitOfWork" Exception"
Section 17.2.6, "Tablespace Configuration Recommendation for Production Environments"
Section 17.2.7, "Limitation of b2b.addcorrelatedfainfoinexceptionxml Property"
Section 17.2.8, "Enable Auto Search Feature Does Not Function"
Section 17.2.9, "Document Information Extraction Property Does Not Work With JMS Option"
For HL7, setting the Functional Ack internal property (FAInternalProperty) to false using the Administration > Configuration page in the Oracle B2B interface causes Oracle B2B to nevertheless use the payload header FA internal properties instead of the design-time parameters.
When the FAInternalProperty is set to true and there are different payload and design-time parameter values, you may see an error in the Ack message. Therefore, it is recommended that you do not set the FAInternalProperty to true for HL7.
Although the metadata for a remote trading partner stores separate information for the sender and the receiver for the same document definition, you cannot specify these differences using the Oracle B2B interface.
The workaround is to create a new document definition and use the two definitions to specify the parameters for the sender and receiver separately.
The Oracle B2B interface does not offer the ability to set the Ack Requested field for Interchange.
When creating a host document, including specifying the version, type, and definition, Oracle B2B assigns default values to certain fields that can be overridden by the user. If you override one or more nonmandatory fields by making them blank and then add the definition to the remote trading partner, the default values that you intentionally left blank reappear for the remote trading partner.
To resolve this issue, manually make the nonmandatory fields blank again for the remote trading partner.
When using any document protocol, the following exception appears in the seller's soa.log file:
oracle.toplink.exceptions.QueryException Exception Description: Query sent to an unactivated UnitOfWork.
The workaround is to increase the JTA timeout from 30 to a higher value using Oracle WebLogic Server Administration Console.
Increase the default tablespace configuration in production environments to prevent error conditions that can occur when processing a large number of messages.
When enabled, the property
b2b.addCorrelatedFAInfoInExceptionXML sets exception message with detail of the Correlated FA message that indicated error for the outbound EDI document. This additional information is passed only to the AQ exception message and not to the Fabric exception message.
In the Oracle B2B interface, the Enable Auto Search parameter (on the Administration > Configuration page) does not function in this release.
Setting the property b2b.HL7DocIdentification=true in Oracle Enterprise Manager Fusion Middleware Console works for the AQ and composite default options, but this feature does not work with JMS.
See Section 17.3.9, "Use b2b.hl7docidentification To Extract Document Information" for usage.
This section describes documentation errata. It includes the following topics:
Section 17.3.1, "Oracle Fusion Middleware User's Guide for Oracle B2B Has More Information Than Online Help"
Section 17.3.2, "Default Value for the b2b.r1ps1 Property Is True"
Section 17.3.3, "B2B Configuration Wizard Tooltip in JDeveloper Incorrectly Refers to OC4J"
Section 17.3.4, "Outbound File/FTP/SFTP Changes to Default File Name Format"
Section 17.3.5, "New Section: Monitoring Oracle B2B Faults and Rejected Messages"
Section 17.3.6, "FA for Batched EDIEL Documents With Some Errors Indicates Accepted"
Section 17.3.7, "New Property b2b.addCorrelatedFAInfoInExceptionXML"
Section 17.3.8, "Additional Fabric Application Interface Parameter Details"
Section 17.3.9, "Use b2b.hl7docidentification To Extract Document Information"
Section 17.3.10, "New Apps Tab in Document Definition Configuration"
Section 17.3.11, "Additional Information About Translation Web Service Request Attribute @type"
Section 17.3.12, "Transport Protocol Parameter Timestamp Format Specification"
Section 17.3.13, "Name Identifier Removed at ebMS Run Time; Use b2b.ebmsname=true Property"
Section 17.3.14, "CPP/CPA Import and Export Performance Optimization"
See Oracle Fusion Middleware User's Guide for Oracle B2B for more complete information than what is available from the Help link in Oracle B2B. In particular, the guide includes descriptions of the Active Document Types fields and Active Trading Partners fields (Table 17-1) and the Summary fields (Table 17-2) that are not found in the online help.
In Figure 30-3, "Configuring B2B Attributes," in Oracle Fusion Middleware Administrator's Guide for Oracle SOA Suite and Oracle BPM Suite, the value displayed for the b2b.r1ps1 property in the Element_1 node is incorrect. The default value for this property is true, not false.
The descriptive text (tooltip) that pops up when you move the cursor over the Test B2B button on the Application Server Connection page of the B2B Configuration Wizard in Oracle JDeveloper incorrectly refers to the SOA OC4J HTTP port. Clicking this button tests the B2B server connection.
The outbound File/FTP/SFTP channel has the file name format changed in 11gR1 PS2 as follows,
For example,
GlobalChips_850_4010_2009FEB23_03_22_07_321_238_245 .dat
Threadhashvalue - executing threads value.
VMID - virtual machines unique identifier.
Note: the original format is
The Oracle Enterprise Manager Fusion Middleware Control Recent Faults area lists the faults, including details such as the error message, time of the fault, and the associated composite instance ID. Faults can be logged on the incoming messages processed by a service binding component, or on the outgoing messages processed by a reference binding component.
Note that while all errors will appear in the Oracle B2B console, only a subset of faults will appear in Oracle Enterprise Manager Fusion Middleware Control. This subset includes all inbound messages containing an error after trading partner identification in Oracle B2B.
See Chapter 4, "Monitoring the SOA Infrastructure,"and Chapter 38, "Monitoring Service and Reference Binding Components," in Oracle Fusion Middleware Administrator's Guide for Oracle SOA Suite and Oracle BPM Suite for more information.
Note the following:
1) Oracle B2B faults and rejected messages can be monitored from the composite home or domain home page.
2) Oracle B2B error messages can be seen in the Error Message column, and you can use the error link to see the error details and Oracle B2B message payload (if authorized).
3) Recovery details indicates that these faults are not recoverable from Oracle Enterprise Manager, however you can see the error details and payload (if authorized) to identify the problem. And in the Oracle B2B console, you can resubmit these rejected messages if necessary.
4) Composite instance IDs are not are shown for Oracle B2B faults (Unavailable), because in these cases no SOA composite instance was created.
5) Click on Logs to see the correlated Oracle B2B log messages.
In EDIEL, because the UCM segment is not used in the CONTRL messages, the error for individual messages (received as part of a complete batched inbound message) do not get reported back. The interchange level acknowledgment will indicate status as 7, which is the accepted status message.
If the property
b2b.addCorrelatedFAInfoInExceptionXML is set to
true, then Oracle B2B will add the Business Message ID of the Functional Ack message which holds error information for the outbound EDI message.
Without this information, because the error contains only information of the outbound message that went to error state, the user is unable to quickly correlate the outbound message to the Functional Ack message.
In the Oracle Fusion Middleware User's Guide for Oracle B2B, Appendix C "Back-End Applications Interface," the following B2B Fabric application interface parameter details are to be added:
In Oracle Fusion Middleware 10g, Oracle B2B utilizes
ACTION_NAME in
IP_MESSAGE_TYPE to provide some special and dynamic features for the back end application to communicate with Oracle B2B. In Oracle Fusion Middleware 11g, Oracle B2B users can also use normalized message properties to achieve the same functionality as described in Table 17-2.
Table 17-2 Oracle B2B 10g IP_MESSAGE_TYPE Mappings to Oracle Fusion Middleware 11g SCA/Fabric Normalized Message Properties
Dynamic IP
Value of IP address to be dynamically overridden.
DYNAMICIP:<IP Address>
Dynamic EMail
Email address to be dynamically overridden.
DynamicEmail:<email address>
Generic Email
Email Subject
Email subject to be dynamically overridden.
Generic Email
File Name
File Name of the message. This is used typically for File name Preserve.
filename:<file name>
Content Type
Content Type of the message.
contentType:<content type>
Group Name of the trading partner for which the message to be broadcast.
Grouping:<group name>
sequenceTarget associated with the message.
Large Payload
payload field in NM
All protocols
EBMS Action name associated with the message.
ACTION:<Action name>
Generic File
EBMS Service associated with the message.
SERVICE:<Service name>
Service Type
EBMS Service Type associated with the message.
SERVICETYPE:<Service Type>
From Role
EBMS From Role associated with the message.
FROMROLE:<From Role>
To Role
EBMS To Role associated with the message.
TOROLE:<To Role>
Overriding ConnectionMode
Connection Mode associated with the message.
Custom Header
CUSTOM HEADER associated with the message.
CUSTOM_HEADER: SequenceId
If you enqueue an HL7 document without specifying a document type name and revision, it should be able to extract that information from the HL7 payload. To retrieve the document type name and version if it is not specified in the out queue by the application, set the following property in Oracle Enterprise Manager Fusion Middleware Console.
Note: This property works for the AQ and composite default options, but does not work with JMS. See Section 17.2.9, "Document Information Extraction Property Does Not Work With JMS Option."
The new Apps tab is added to the Oracle B2B console to provide a few parameters for Oracle Fusion Applications and AIA integration with Oracle B2B.
The following information belongs in Table 19-4 "Translation Web Service Request" in Oracle Fusion Middleware User's Guide for Oracle B2B.
This attribute is applicable for both
from and
to. The value expected for
from and
to are the name of the Trading Partner. If you want to use different identifiers instead of
Name you can supply a value against attribute
The following example holds the name of the trading partner:
The following example holds the DUNS ID of the trading partner. Note that because the example uses DUNS ID, it is mentioned explicitly against
type. (This example applies also applies to the
to element.)
<from type="DUNS">11111111</from>
The following information belongs in Oracle Fusion Middleware User's Guide for Oracle B2B, Table 5-3 "Transport Protocol Parameters," in the
Filename Format row.
For outbound and inbound processing using generic exchange, the generated file name contains a time stamp of the default format (that is,
In 11gR1 PS2, Filename Format provides the ability to provide a different timestamp format in the Transport Protocol Parameter: Filename Format, by entering the desired time stamp format in between square brackets ([]).
For example:
would generate a file name like this:
In PS2, the name identifier that is always present in an ebMS agreement is not sent as part of
PartyId at runtime. You must add an ebMS Identifier for every ebMS agreement using the property
b2b.ebMSName=true. This property can be set using the
configmbeanutil utility.
The following information belongs in sections 18.9 "CPP/CPA Import" and 18.10 "CPP/CPA Export" in Oracle Fusion Middleware User's Guide for Oracle B2B.
In 11gR1 PS2, the Oracle B2B command line utility for CPP/CPA import and export, a new command line argument was added to optimize performance. The new property is
When CPP/CPA import is performed using
-Dstandard=true, then CPP/CPA export must be performed with
For example:
ant -f ant-b2b-util.xml b2bcpaimport -Dpropfile="<property-file>" -Dstandard=true ant -f ant-b2b-util.xml b2bcpaexport -Dpropfile="<property-file>" -Dstandard=true
If CPP/CPA import is performed using the
-Dstandard=true flag, then for runtime to utilize this you must set
Outbound enqueue example:
Similarly, for the inbound Trading Partner side, set
b2b.useCPAid=true if CPP/CPA import is performed using
When validating an agreement, Oracle B2B validates the saved data. Oracle B2B does not validate any unsaved changes that you make to an agreement.


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CHIPLEY � The Washington County Board of Commissioners to no action on a plan that would have accepted help from the Florida Association of Counties in the search for a county administrato
CHIPLEY � The Washington County Board of Commissioners to no action on a plan that would have accepted help from the Florida Association of Counties in the search for a county administrator.
Florida Association of Counties Executive Director Chris Holley presented a plan to the commissioners on Wednesday in which the FAC would provide a peer review system of applicants for the county administrator position.
�The recruitment process is a struggle,� Holley said, �especially for smaller counties.�
For $5,000, Holley offered to provide the network services of the FAC to promote the open position in Washington County, and to provide a peer review committee of current county mangers who would go through the applications and pick the top applicants for the county commissioners to interview.
The county has been without an administrator since Steve Joyner resigned in April. Public Services Director David Corbin has been serving as a �point of contact� in Joyner�s absence.
The $5,000 would be divided evenly, with $2,500 going to the FAC and $2,500 going toward Holley�s expenses in pursuing applicants.
The county would be responsible for advertising costs and for collecting the applications, which would be forwarded to the peer review committee, Holley said.
The peer review program is new, and Walton County has been the first county to engage the FAC�s assistance in looking for a county manager.
Holley said that small counties are often the starting jobs for professional county managers, and the average job span industry wide is about two and a half years.
�You are looking for a professional with a very specific set of managerial skills and experience,� Holley said.
On Thursday, Commissioner Todd Abbott�s motion to accept the FAC�s assistance died for lack of a second.
�I need to refrain from voting because I am on the Florida Association of Counties board,� Commissioner Joel Pate said. No one else said anything and the motion was killed.
�I want to wait and see what they do with Walton County,� said Commission Chairman Alan Bush. �I think we need to keep David in that chair for a couple of more months, just so we can get some things done.�
Bush said he was very pleased with the job Corbin has been doing as an interim county administrator. �In the month or so he�s been there, he�s gotten things done that have been on hold for years.�
Commissioner Charles Brock asked if the county actually needed to fill Joyner�s position.
�Do we really need a county manager? It seems to me we can operate without one, and we could save the county some money,� Brock said. �That is a high-paying job.�
�We�re talking about finding someone who can move the county forward,� Abbott said, �no offense to David or the job he is doing. But we want to find someone who can lead the county into the future.�
The commissioners said they would reconsider the FAC peer review program in July.


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Breastfeeding Toddler Twins
Marilee Poulson
Salt Lake City, Utah, USA
From: New Beginnings, Vol. 29 No. 5-6, 2009, pp. 14-15
One of my favorite authors, Karen Gromada, is a marvelous strength and a helpful, calming voice for mothers of twins. She reminds us in her book, Mothering Multiples, that nursing multiple babies can be an overwhelming task.* It is time consuming, emotional, potentially scary, and messy. Nevertheless, choosing to breastfeed my babies probably saved my sanity.
Breastfeeding Katrina and Camryn came relatively easily to me right from the start. I didn't have to pump, as so many mothers do. I quickly learned that adapting my schedule to the babies' needs made us much happier. This meant nursing my babies as often as they wanted, for as long as they wanted. I am sure these frequent and long nursing sessions from early on encouraged my body to make enough milk, even for two, with no supplementation with formula.
That is not to say that I did not worry about them getting enough milk. They were so tiny! I think most moms worry about feeding their newborns enough. Frequent weigh-ins at the doctor, along with counting diapers and nursing sessions reassured me they were indeed getting enough.
My two-year-old, Sophie, often felt left out. She presented a much more difficult challenge than both the newborn twins put together! I had nursed Sophie for about ten and a half months, though not exclusively. I was not completely convinced, however, that breastfeeding was best for my children and me until I nursed my twins.
This extract from an essay entitled "It's Not Really about The Milk" by Diane Wiessinger describes my own nursing relationship with Sophie compared to that with Katrina and Camryn.
"You won't 'get it' at first. At first it's all about technique, and position, and time, and swallowing, and soreness, and feeling as if your whole world has narrowed to Feeding The Baby. Those of us who have enjoyed nursing our children are on the other side of a great emotional gulf from you. We can't explain it, we can only try to help you across the bridge, to where you can see for yourself. If you stay caught up in this as a feeding method, you may never get all the way across the bridge. But oh, the view from the other side!" See http://www.normalfed.com/Why/notreally.html
I don't think I ever really "got it" with Sophie. With the twins, though, I have crossed the bridge.
Nursing my babies over the last year has taught me that the essence of mothering is nurturing. It requires organization, patience, love, and work.
Katrina and Camryn still nurse. I don't know how that happened. I didn't intend to have nursing toddlers when I started out over two years ago. But here we are. People ask me when I plan to wean them. The answer is: we'll stop nursing when it stops working -- either for them or for me. We'll keep at it for a while longer. You can rest easy that they probably won't still be nursing when they go to kindergarten.
When the babies were a year old, they were still nursing as often as they did at eight months: five or so times during the day, plus two or three times at night. They were much easier to nurse at one year, though, than they had been at eight months. They would crawl or walk over to me to nurse. I didn't have to use a big pillow or spend lots of time arranging babies as I needed to do when they were smaller. Nursing was a nice time for me to relax and for them to reconnect with their mommy.
At 12 months, they were not very interested in solid food. They would eat some but mostly just play with it. Since they were getting most of their nutrition from nursing, I didn't have to worry about "forcing" them to eat solid food. When they got sick a few times, I was glad that they could still get so much nutrition and antibody-packed milk from me.
During the first part of the second year, it was a comfort and support for me to be able to attend La Leche League meetings. In our local Chapter, there is a meeting specifically for mothers nursing babies over a year. LLL is an invaluable source of accurate, evidence-based information about breastfeeding, and a wonderful support for mothers facing similar adventures. These truly are mothers who know.
From about 15 to 18 months of age, my babies gradually went from seven or eight nursing sessions a day to four or five. They were sleeping longer at night and during the day they were more interested in playing with their big sister, and with each other, than they were in nursing. They also started eating a lot more solid food.
I went back to work when the babies were 17 months old, by necessity, and they went down to three nursing sessions per day: once before I left for work, once when I got home from work, then once just before bed. I considered pumping while I was at work, but, in the end, I decided not to. I did get some fullness at first; however, my body was so used to making milk on demand that it was no problem to nurse them less often during the week and more often at the weekend.
Then, when they were about 20 months old, I began to work a four-day week, and had to leave for work before my babies woke up, thus taking the nursing sessions down to two per day during the week: once when I got home and once just before bed.
Currently, my toddlers nurse twice a day on the four days that I work, and between three and five times per day on the days I don't work. Some days they don't nurse at all. Some days they nurse more.
For some reason, before I had children, I thought that if they could ask to nurse then they were too old. I'm not sure why I had that idea. In fact, it is really good for my babies to be able to tell me when they want to nurse. They use sign language or say the word "nursing." Toddlers can be reasoned with, so I can explain to them that we will nurse later if it's not a convenient time for me. We very rarely nurse outside of our house, now. I can cut nursing sessions short if I'm in a hurry and tempt them with something else (toys, food, TV). Of course, this doesn't work all the time. They sometimes resist and cry when I try to put them off -- normal toddler behavior when being told they can't do something that they want to do.
I know nursing for two years and beyond is not for every mother and child. But it is working for our little threesome!
*Gromada K. K. Mothering Multiples: Breastfeeding and Caring for Twins or More. Third revised edition, Schaumburg, IL: La Leche League International, 2007.


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Call Control: Re-route On No Answer (RONA) does not work with PG failover
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Re-route On No Answer (RONA) does not work if PG failover occurs while the call is ringing
|Problem Summary
|If a call is delivered to an available agent and PG failover occurs while the call is ringing, the call does not get rerouted to another available agent, even if the agent does not answer the call within the configured Ring No Answer time period.
|Error Message
|Possible Cause
|Unified CCE does not support RONA with PG failover.
|Recommended Action
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|Release 8.5(3), Release 9.0(1), Release 9.1(1), Release 10.0(1), Release 10.5(1), Release 11.0(1)
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After Justin got into a scuffle with paparazzi in May 2012, Selena showed her support by wearing a 'J' ring. (Splashnews)
(Courtesy of Instagram/Twitter)
Selena Gomez still kissed Justin at the 2013 Billboard Music Awards, even though everyone else booed him. (Getty)
Justin peed into a mop bucket and yelled, "F**k Bill Clinton" on July 10. (Courtesy of Instagram/Getty)
Though Selena was disgusted by Justin's South American sex scandals, she never gave up on him! (Courtesy of YouTube/Twitter)
ustin Bieber's house was raided by police on Jan. 15, and his friend was arrested for drug possession. (Fameflynet/Splashnews)


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Summit-based direct-to-dealer trading company TeraExchange announced Wednesday it has appointed Andrew V. Waskow as chief compliance officer and senior vice president. He will oversee governance and surveillance of trading on TeraExchange's markets, manage the rule- and policy-writing processes, and design and implement enforcement programs.
According to the announcement, the Commidty Fututres Trading Commission recently approved TeraExchange as a swap execution facility. Waskow will engage with the regulatory community and coordinate strategy in connection with rule-making and supervisory efforts. He joined the company last fall and helped lay the foundation for the firm's approval to operate as a SEF. Before joining TeraExchange, Waskow spent nine years at Goldman Sachs and three years at Merrill Lynch as an attorney providing strategic guidance on a wide range of trading and capital markets matters.


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Skip to comments.Simple Tool Stratifies Mortality Risk in Type 2 Diabetes
Posted on 05/13/2013 11:51:28 AM PDT by Stoat
Researchers have created an online mortality-risk calculator for patients with type 2 diabetes, which stratifies patients into low, medium, or high risk of dying from any cause within 2 years.
By plugging in values for 9 readily available patient characteristics age, body mass index (BMI), diastolic blood pressure, LDL cholesterol, triglycerides, HDL cholesterol, urine albumin-to-creatinine ratio, antihypertensive treatment, and insulin therapy a physician can quickly determine whether a patient has a high risk for death.
"The novelty and the importance of this study is that we provide physicians with a simple, free, and validated Web-based risk [calculator] able to predict mortality in their type 2 diabetic patients," lead author Salvatore de Cosmo, MD, from Casa Sollievo della Sofferenza, in San Giovanni Rotondo, and senior author Vincenzo Trischitta, MD, from Sapienza University, in Rome, Italy, told Medscape Medical News in an email.
"We do believe that the implementation of our model may help prioritize the use of available resources for targeting aggressive preventive and treatment strategies in a subset of very high-risk individuals."
The study is published online May 1 in Diabetes Care.
A Few Simple Measures, a Helpful Risk Predictor
Having diabetes doubles a person's risk of dying, the authors write, and it would be useful for physicians to be able to identify which diabetic patients are at greatest risk. The few previously proposed models to predict mortality in diabetes were not validated in an independent cohort and did not use recently available statistical tools, they explain.
The researchers analyzed data from 2 prospective cohorts of patients with type 2 diabetes. They developed their model based on data from 679 patients in the Gargano Mortality Study, who were followed for 7.4 years. Risk predictors were added one by one, until there was no further improvement in prediction of death.
They validated their model using data from 936 patients in the Foggia Mortality trial, who were followed for 4.5 years.
About 2.4% of the patients in both studies died each year.
Elevated age, urine-albumin-to-creatinine ratio, and LDL cholesterol, as well as taking insulin therapy or being on antihypertensive treatment all predicted higher mortality risk. Elevated HDL, BMI, and diastolic blood pressure predicted lower mortality risk, however, and triglyceride levels also showed a trend toward an inverse correlation.
"We want to stress that our interest was not a matter of pathophysiology but simply that of unraveling good-enough markers and methodological approaches to predict all-cause mortality," they commented.
The overall mortality risk score ran from 0 to 1, with a mean of 0.53. The researchers partitioned this into 3 risk categories: low (risk score 0.67 or less), intermediate (0.68 to 0.79), and high (0.80 or more). At 2 years, compared with the patients with low risk scores, those with medium scores were 7 times more likely to have died, and those with high scores were 24 times more likely to have died.
"To the best of our knowledge, this is the first study developing a well-performing model for this event that was validated in a second independent sample," the authors write. "Our model is parsimonious, with a few simple-to-measure variables needed to make it very informative," they add.
The calculator will help physicians identify which patients should be monitored more closely and which ones are candidates for more aggressive strategies to treat modifiable risk factors, Drs. De Cosmo and Trischitta note.
However, it should also be tested in other populations of diabetes patients in order to address its generalizability, they point out, since the studies to develop and validate it were conducted in primarily white, Italian populations.
The authors have reported no relevant financial relationships.
Diabetes Care . Published online May 1, 2013. Abstract
Stoat Translation: This will provide a simple, numerical mechanism for socialist bureaucrat bean-counters to deny certain patients access to more effective and more expensive treatment options under any Socialist healthcare system.
Gargano Mortality Risk Score
Says I died last year.
That's the way I want to go . . . not even realize it.
I'm at LOW RISK SCORE ~ .46 ~ low cholesterol levels ~
Bump to read later...
I got the same score as you, based on the lab report from 2 months ago. I've put the calculator into my bookmarks.
Doctor: "Here's your score, sir. (no need to bend over)"
Office Administrator: "Here's your (exorbitant) co-pay bill. Oh, and here's your new (higher) insurance rate.
Have a nice day."
(please bend over)
Thanks for posting this. It was reassuring. I'm low risk for mortality in the next two years.
On the other hand, it means I probably should get back to my chores now.
Bumping for diabetics I may know or be married to
My wife thinks she's married to a diabetic. Some days she's right, other times not so much. My blood sugar is 120 average & yes I need to lose weight.
Face it, she's right. Time to get off the dime.
how do you double a persons risk to die?
I was informed that everyones risk to die was 100%
Silly me.
Bump for later
please, don't fool around with it. My sainted spouse claimed for years he was "borderline" diabetic. Until one night the blood sugar got out of control, raised his blood pressure thru the roof, ending up in a stroke. Scary stuff. He's since gotten very good on taking his meds. If you DO need to lose weight, try that before you start the meds because I am not sure there is any going back once you start. Good luck!
Thanks for the ping.
When my blood sugar drops to 120, I can barely function
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Dude picked the wrong woman driver to mess with!
A carjacker was delivered to police in an unexpected way Tuesday afternoon.
The garage is where Kansas City, MO, police officers pick up and drop off prisoners every day. Tuesday afternoon, though, it wasn't an officer who did the dropping off; it was a woman who drove her carjacker straight through police headquarters.
"He said 'drive bitch or I'll blow your head off,'" said Rayna Garrett. Garrett said that's what the man said to her after he latched onto her hood while she drove down U.S. 71 near 28th Street.
"I was driving down the highway and he was in the middle of the street. I tried to go around him and he just jumped on the hood," Garrett explained.
Garrett described her 15 minute, 10 block drive to police headquarters in downtown Kansas City, MO, as so terrifying she couldn't even call the police…
Garrett said she honked her horn several times outside the police headquarters at 12th and Locust Streets and, when nobody came out, she drove through the garage door. It wasn't until that point that the suspect finally jumped off Garrett's hood and tried forcing his way onto a city bus just before police handcuffed him…
The suspect, Dionnete Price, went to the hospital to be treated for minor cuts and bruises.
Cool lady. She may have been too nervous to call the coppers on her cellphone; but, she sure-as-hell knew how to find the police station and the garage entrance.
Well, she sort of made a new entrance.


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Currently making a mini bot 100mm * 72mm, it will be totaly made by my self with the exception of the Ultra sonic rangers by deventech. This may sound wierd but I find useing kits so unrewarding, I feel like I might as well have brought it ready made. The robot will 2 motors (controlled by a home made/designed driver), 3 ultra sonic rangers, a peizo sounder, LED and button, and a Basic STAMP 2sx, it will be powered by 4AA batterys. I want this to stop my craving for biulding things (robots) as it cost too muct right now, so I will want to be able to make it do many things.
PLEASE IF YOU HAVE ANY IDEAS GOR progeammes EMAIL ME no matter how chanlenging! email@example.com
My current ideas are: 1. rover avioding objects by taking the clearest route (from 3 ranger). 2. the robot will head towards the nearest object, so it will be following, well thats the idea.


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Friday, July 13th 2012, 1:22pm
by john flavia (Guest)
Thanks... I'll try that first as it's the easiest. Then if that doesn't work, I'll try the teflon paste.I layer of tape definitely won't do it.
Try 3 or 4. Brass threads are sharp and can cut right through it.
I haven't used paste in a while but can't see why you couldn't.
Friday, July 13th 2012, 1:09pm
by GatorGuy
Friday, July 13th 2012, 11:57am
by john flavia (Guest)
Sunday, February 13th 2011, 2:56am
by Mitchgo
That should be a given!!
Agreed .... with the one exception that I use both goop and tape on any metal joining, and avoid like the plague metal male to PVC female.
Saturday, February 12th 2011, 10:52pm
by Kiril (Guest)
Everyone is entitlied to their opinion of course so i'll voice mine.
Ive been in business for about 17 years doing irrigation only.
In my 17 yr career ive never been taught or told to wrap teflon tape "Backwards' of the thread direction.
I just did some online research to verify, and i cant find anywhere that says wrap in the opposite direction of the threads.
Ive ALWAYS wrapped teflon (3/4" wide or larger) in the SAME direction as the threads.
For plastic to plastic, usually 2 to 3 complete wraps (tight wraps) around the male end.
Hand tighten for plastic to plastic plus a 1/4 to half turn with a wrench.
For plastic to metal, use a HIGH quality pipe liquid teflon or pipe thread sealant. Hand tight plus a 1/2 to One complete turn with a Offset pipe wrench.
It has always been my understanding that if you wrap teflon tape backwards, it will bunch up and not thread into the fitting properly
Saturday, February 12th 2011, 8:53pm
Friday, February 11th 2011, 11:23pm
by Big O (Guest)
Monday, October 4th 2010, 9:10am
by HooKooDooKu
Hi segask,
I have a similar situation where the thread to the valve leak very slowly (even though I used teflon tape) and tighted it very tight. I am starting to wonder if it is possible to over tightening it and possibly caused a crack (I used a wrench)?
Anyways, just curious if you found out if the small leak plugged itself up (got better) or if the leak got worst over time or if the small leak remained the same and you considered it good enough since it was out doors (in my case, the spinkler valve)?
Monday, October 4th 2010, 12:37am
by mrfixit
Sunday, October 3rd 2010, 11:46pm
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Jeter seeks greatness every game, no matter how big
MINNEAPOLIS -- We come again looking for something Derek Jeter is not going to give us. We want perspective. We want emotion. We want him to sum it all up for us, all 20 seasons and 2,843 games.
This he will not do.
MINNEAPOLIS -- We come again looking for something Derek Jeter is not going to give us. We want perspective. We want emotion. We want him to sum it all up for us, all 20 seasons and 2,843 games.
This he will not do.
He's perfectly fine with us asking. He's gracious and polite. He simply will not go there.
"It's been difficult for me to reflect on a career that's not over yet," Jeter said Monday afternoon as he prepared to play in his 14th and final All-Star Game on Tuesday (watch on FOX). "Everyone wants me to be so emotional all the time, but we still have games to play. Know what I mean?"
Actually, we do.
That answer probably sums up why we love this guy and why we know we've been so lucky to watch him play baseball.
We saw him win the World Series five times. We saw him lose it twice. We saw him play 158 postseason games in all and come into our living rooms so often in October that he seemed like a member of the family.
We saw Jeter grind out the regular season in places like Kansas City and Oakland and Arlington. We saw dramatic moments against the Red Sox. We saw Thursday afternoon games in half-full ballparks.
And he was always the same. He never seemed overwhelmed. He never seemed rattled.
Jeter had the ability to slow the game down and own the moment. In that, there was beauty.
He prepared the same way for games large and small. He put the same effort into all of them. He gave the same answers afterward.
Maybe that's the thing that makes Jeter such a heroic figure to so many. He understood that every game counted.
He also understood that the focus was supposed to be on the field. And so, in 20 seasons, his words almost never made news.
But that's also the thing about focusing on the field and about believing in the value of hard work. Words mean little.
If Jeter's interviews were simple, maybe his value system was, too. Someone asked him Monday why his quotes always sounded the same.
He never second-guessed a manager or threw a teammate under the bus. He just always saw his job as being about doing his best and being optimistic about tomorrow.
"A lot of times people say, 'Well, you give the same answers,'" Jeter said. "I give the same answers to the same questions. You can only answer questions one way."
Which leads to something larger, and in this, we get closer to the essential Jeter. He was the guy who greeted young teammates, the guy who reached out to opposing players with praise.
Is that grace? Is that decency?
"You try to carry yourself the right way," he said. "At the same time, I am who I am. I don't try to be anyone different. If people respect you for the way you carry yourself, it means a lot to me, means a lot to my family. And makes you feel good.
"My parents were always big on treating people the way you want to be treated, respectful, which I've always tried to be. Those are lessons I learned when I was young."
If you try, you can count maybe a couple dozen Jeter moments -- dazzling defensive plays or show-stopping hits. In the end, though, his game was about mind-numbing consistency. In that way, his career was very basic.
He had the ability to slow the game down, or at least to make it seem slow. He never seemed overwhelmed by the moment. That poise, that sense of calm, may forever be his trademark.
Jeter's greatness wasn't in rising to the occasion, but in being great every single day. Years from now, that may be what we tell fans who'll know him only by video clips and World Series highlights.
We'll tell them that he was really a working stiff in the way he approached the game. No player has ever represented his sport better than Jeter represented this one.
When Jeter was asked on Monday about memorable All-Star Game moments, he said that he approached all of them like it might be his last one.
"In that sense, I don't think it makes this one any different," he said.
Still, one stood out -- 1999 at Fenway Park.
"That's when they had all the great players on the field," Jeter said. "I got a tap on my shoulder, and it was Hank Aaron. He said he was looking for me because he wanted to meet me."
"You want to meet me?" Jeter asked.
Aaron told him he appreciated how he played and how he prepared and how he represented their game.
Even to one of the coolest players there ever was, Aaron's words have lingered in his heart and mind.
"That's one of the best moments I've had over my baseball career," Jeter said.
If he was awed by Aaron's greatness, he may better understand how those of a different place and time feel about him.
Richard Justice is a columnist for MLB.com. Read his blog, Justice4U.


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To my fellow Millennials,
We're tired of hearing our names in the news. We're tired of being the generation described as entitled, lazy and whiny. Our Millennial generation graduated in the midst of a financial crisis. We adapted fastest to the technology boom and although it may surprise you, Millennials are saving for retirement at a faster rate than previous generations.[1] But more needs to be done. It's time to take control of our own retirement.
Our Retirement Dilemma
It's no secret. Millennials face many major challenges saving for retirement. Three of the most daunting obstacles are student loan debt, changes to employer-sponsored retirement plans and an ever-increasing amount needed for retirement.
Don't Let Student Loans Stand in the Way of Saving for Retirement
Our nation is facing a student debt crisis. Between 2008 and 2014, student loan debt rose 84 percent. The average graduate in 2015 borrowed $28,950 to walk across the stage. [2] With this hefty financial obligation, it is no surprise that more than 50 percent of Americans say that they have delayed saving for retirement to make student loan payments. When we do have extra income, we're faced with questions like "Do I pay more down on my student loans? Do I finally move into the city and out of my parents' house? Do I pay off more of my car payment?" But rarely is retirement savings at the top of the list. With such a great, immediate financial burden in student loan debt, how can we afford to put money towards our retirement? We know retirement savings is important, we just don't know how to start saving enough in our early working years.
Millennials Need to Know How Employer Sponsored Retirement Plans are Changing
The way that employers sponsor retirement plans is changing. Thirty years ago, the most popular form was through a pension. Then, more than 42 percent of private-sector full-time workers had a defined benefit pension. Today, only 22 percent of full-time workers are offered this plan.[3] In the public sector, this is more common; however, it too has an increasing trend of denying a plan to new hires. Now, companies from all sectors are putting more emphasis on investment products with company matches that take the burden off of employers. We must rely on our own prowess to invest wisely and take advantage of these products appropriately, hoping that the market holds strong, but without true guarantee.
Amount Needed to Retire
The amount we each need to save is bigger. Way bigger. The Baby Boomers were estimated to need around $1.3 million for retirement. Older Millennials, born in the early 1980s, are estimated to need $1.8 while younger millennials will need $2.5 million just to maintain their current standard of living in retirement. Why do we need so much more? First, Social Security benefits are expected to be much less generous than todays and it remains to be seen how much is available. Secondly, there's inflation. The Federal Reserve assumes a 2% inflation rate per year, but inflation tends to historically run at 3%. Third, we're expected to live even longer than current retirees.[4] All of these factors combined mean that we need to be putting away much more money than in generations past.
Financial Planning for Millennials and the Future of Our Solutions
With so many factors impeding our ability to save, it could seem like we are doomed to work until we're 85-years-old. Most of us hope to retire long before, taking trips to exotic destinations, helping grandchildren with college tuition or pursuing a passion. There's hope to keep that vision alive! Millennials show the greatest increase in their retirement savings rate compared to any other generation. The average 20-something is saving 7.5% of their income this year. This is up 1.7% from 2013. Focusing on 5 important tips can help our generation to adequately save for retirement:
Make Small Changes to Live Within Your Means
We've all heard to live within our means, but doing so can accelerate our ability to save and increase our investable assets. Look at your expenses holistically and determine what can be cut. Can you spend less on rent? Cut your Uber trips in half? Go out to eat less often? Look for opportunities in your everyday life, like skipping the gourmet coffee to save around $100 a month and invest that money in your future. Small amounts contributed today have the potential to grow into much larger savings by retirement.
Create a Budget and stick to it.
If you don't know how much money you're spending in one particular area, let a free budgeting tool help. Most banks offer budget tracking linked to credit and debit accounts. Apps such as Mint and PearBudget could also help track. They allow you to link your financial accounts into one central place and categorize your expenses visually so that you can determine where to cut, by how much and set limits for yourself.
Start Saving TODAY
Now that you've budgeted and know how much you can save, let those extra savings do the work for you. By some calculations, each Millennial needs to be saving $1,000 each month every month for 48 years to reach their retirement savings goal. [5] However, even small amounts of money, if invested early on, can grow to an impressive amount with time. If you save $100 a month, that could grow to $31,644 in 16 years, assuming a 4% rate of compound interest. [6] Time to let your savings grow is the most powerful tool that we have.
Max out your Employer Match
In order to get a head start on your retirement, take advantage of employer sponsored plans. Many employers offer some type of matching contribution as part of their retirement plan, usually up to a percentage of your contributions. Industry standards recommend that you should be setting aside 10-12 percent of your paycheck to such a plan, but with your company's match, it could be much less than that. This could be done automatically so that you don't even miss what was gone!
Meet With Financial Professionals
Retirement options are very different than they even were eight years ago. Meet with a Farm Bureau Financial Professional to start planning your retirement today. With so many acronyms like IRAs and 401 (k)s, your local Farm Bureau agent can help you understand what's best for you. You don't need to have a lot of money to get started – what's more important is that you start now – and use a financial professional to help you along the way.
It's no wonder that only one in five of us feel comfortable about our retirement savings[7], but by keeping retirement in the forefront of your mind and utilizing these five steps, you can build the retirement of your dreams.
A Proud Millennial
[1] http://time.com/money/3501898/save-retirement-or-prepay-student-loans/
[2] http://www.huffingtonpost.com/bailey-childers/the-millennials-dilemma-p_b_10123136.html
[3] http://www.epi.org/publication/retirement-inequality-chartbook/
[4] http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/columnist/powell/2016/03/29/millennials-new-retirement-number-18-million-more/81329246/
[5] http://www.epi.org/publication/retirement-inequality-chartbook/
[6] http://money.usnews.com/money/blogs/on-retirement/2015/08/24/6-retirement-tips-for-millennials
[7] http://time.com/money/3501898/save-retirement-or-prepay-student-loans/


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- Dargah Sharif
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April 19, 2011
Over half of people living with HIV in the U.S. are estimated to be out of care, and studies show these statistics may be even worse for women living with HIV. Research published by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) show that race, gender, and geography play a key role in health outcomes for HIV-positive people -- women are getting sicker and dying faster of HIV; especially Black women and Latinas; and particularly if they are living in the South or rural areas.
Women's medical care and support service needs are unique. Achieving the best health outcomes for HIV-positive women requires care that is non-stigmatizing, holistic, integrated, gender-sensitive, upholds positive women's rights and dignity, is peer-based and is culturally relevant.
Current services for women are often disjointed and incomplete. One of the largest gaps specifically for women is apparent in the lack of integration of HIV care with sexual and reproductive health care. The failure to effectively meet women's needs on the whole increases barriers to linking HIV-positive women to care and keeping them in care once linked.
Wrap-around supportive services including emotional support, peer-based services, case management, transportation, housing, childcare, mental health services, substance use services, employment services, re-entry programming, legal assistance, and food vouchers are essential to meet the needs of women living with and vulnerable to HIV. When these supportive services are absent, HIV-positive women are likely to face increased barriers to staying in medical care.
Meditz A, MaWhinney S, Allshouse A, et al. Sex, race, and geographic region influence clinical outcomes following primary HIV-1 infection. Journal of Infectious Diseases. 2011 Feb 15;203(4):442-451.
Armstrong WS, del Rio C. Gender, race and geography: do they matter in primary human immunodeficiency virus infection? Journal of Infectious Diseases. 2011 Feb 15;203(4):437-438.
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Pictured: Jordan Diekema won the 100 backstroke at the Ivy
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PRINCETON, N.J. – The Harvard men's swimming and diving team maintained its second-place position through the second day of competition at the 2010 Ivy Championships at DeNunzio Pool. Harvard upped its point total to 859.5 while Princeton held onto its lead with 1,027.5 points.
The Crimson made a statement in the 1,650-yard freestyle as Alex Meyer and Blake Lewkowitz finished one-two to score 60 points for the Crimson. Douwe Yntema placed third in the 400 individual medley with a time of 3:54.07 and Niall Janney finished right behind in fourth with a time of 3:54.82.
Justin Davidson turned in a fourth-place result in the 100 breaststroke with a time of 55.88 and Jordan Diekema took the title in the 100 backstroke with an NCAA provisional mark of 48.59. In the three meter diving competition, Harvard freshman Michael Stanton turned in a solid final dive to take the title with an NCAA qualifying point total of 345.75, and teammate Zac Ranta finished seventh with a total of 289.5 points.
Harvard is back in action tomorrow in the final day of the Ivy Championships.
Men's Swimming and Diving in Second After Two Days of Ivy Competition
Pictured: Jordan Diekema won the 100 backstroke at the Ivy


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Get inspired by "Boxer."
Check out this short video making the Internet rounds by famous New York fashion photographer Steven Sebring. The 16 mm film stars art world heavyweight Patti Smith creating a free form poem on a designer bag and its packaging (the purse is called Boxer and is by designer Reed Krakoff, formerly of Coach). It is set to music by Smith's daughter and a spoken word piece by artist Jack Walls that pays homage to boxer Joe "Smokin' Joe" Frazier. "Sometimes a fight can be a blood bath/ Kiss the mat, man/ Go the distance, man/ Sometimes a fight can be a blood bath." I love when fashion and sport and poetry collide.
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- The first three are from Geeks3D, which is a worthwhile site I frequently reference. First: some noise textures, in case you don't feel like making some yourself.
- Next, a night-vision filter in GLSL, developed with their GeeXLab tool for prototyping shaders.
- Finally, PyOpenGL_Lab, which calls OpenGL from Python. Interpreted languages like Python are lovely in that there's no compilation step, making experimentation much more rapid. If you're a Perl person, there's this module.
- Daniel Rákos has an article about how to perform instance culling using the GPU, using OpenGL 3.2. The basic idea is to run the bounding volumes through the geometry shader for frustum culling and pipe out results as transform feedback, which is then used in a second pass for which instances to actually render. This type of technique has been done using DirectX (e.g., Froblins), Daniel shows how to do it in OpenGL and provides source.
- Aras Pranckevičius has a worthwhile post on deferred rendering and mipmap bugs, along with some good follow-up comments.
- John Ratcliff's Code Suppository has lots of little handy graphics code tidbits and chunks. It's moving here and here on Google Code, but the original page is much easier to skim.
- Wolfgang Engel provides a nice little page of books and resources he recommends for upcoming graphics programmers, with some good follow-up comments. I hadn't heard of the 3D Math Primer before. It gets high ratings on Amazon, and you can use Look Inside. Skimming it over, it does look like a good book, covering many topics with the space they deserve (vs. our sometimes quick zoom through them in our own book). Code snippets are also given throughout. The book mentions "The First Law of Computer Graphics," but unfortunately the pages explaining it are blocked. Happily, I found it on Google Books: "If it looks right, it is right". Whew, good, I honestly was concerned there was some law I had been breaking all these years.
… and I'm all caught up, my queue is empty! Well, there will be a special post tomorrow.