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HAVANA, Dic 03 (IPS) - Midiam Lobaina describes herself as a "Christian militant" who takes a feminist reading of the Bible to workshops and religious services around Cuba, to discuss gender equality and a culture of peace.
Midiam Lobaina, a member of an ecumenical network of Christian women. Credit: Jorge Luis Baños/IPS
Participants learn about gender violence, its prevention and ways to break free, among other issues.
"All churches know that the abuse of women is also a family and community problem," says Lobaina, who is coordinator of the Women and Gender Programme of the Cuban Council of Churches (CIC).
Lobaina, who is also coordinator of the "Débora" Christian Women's Network, founded in 2009, spoke with IPS about her work preventing violence against women.
Q: What is the reaction to these issues in Christian communities?
A: Sometimes there is a great deal of apprehension or expectations about what we are going to say. But when we address the issues of gender-based violence and discrimination through biblical texts, we are met mostly with acceptance.
The Bible has many liberating stories and others where women's exclusion is denounced.
We have also encountered rejection. The gender issue can be disturbing because it addresses very difficult realities, and not everybody wants to know about them.
We have made progress compared to more than 20 years ago, when women's problems had just begun to be discussed in Cuban churches. Now there is a greater openness to talking about gender inequality and many congregations ask us to hold workshops.
Q: What does this "alternative" reading of the Bible consist of? How are sexist passages addressed?
A: It is true that the Bible contains texts that are discriminatory toward women — in some communities they were expressly forbidden from speaking — but it also contains liberating ones.
For example, many say that for God there are no differences of sex or race. We cannot forget that some passages were a result of very patriarchal eras and contexts, in which women were not taken into consideration.
Q: Who tends to come to the workshops?
A: They are open to everyone, but it is mainly women who come. Nevertheless, the number of men taking part in the workshops has grown across the country, through the CIC programme.
The question of masculinity is also addressed using biblical passages, although this focus is new. People tend to confuse questions of masculinity with sexual diversity, an issue that many people are still reluctant to discuss.
Q: What special characteristics does the prevention of gender-based violence have in Christian communities?
A: Many women are abused in their homes and even in their churches, and they don't tell anyone. They keep their problem a secret out of shame and the idea that "family matters" are not talked about in public. Some underestimate the seriousness of their situation, others don't realise that they are in danger, and others reveal their secret only very confidentially.
That is why it is essential to train and raise the awareness of congregation leaders. That way they can assist women who ask for help or talk about their problem. Sometimes the solution is not within reach, but sometimes it is.
People who are abused generally lack the tools and resources to get out of the situation they find themselves in.
In Cuba not all of the structures exist, either, for victims to break that vicious cycle. I know of Christian congregations that support abused women, especially in the most extreme cases. On the other hand, people need to identify other, more subtle forms of violence.
Q: What are these other faces of abuses?
A: When women are made invisible, silenced, ignored and not allowed to participate, and their contributions are not recognised, they are very much abused.
Psychological violence, in all of its magnitude, is the most widespread. Women are centrally involved in pastoral work with children, caring for the sick and evangelical work, roles that they have always embraced.
I was the adviser to a student from Havana's Instituto Superior de Estudios Bíblicos y Teológicos (Higher Institute of Biblical and Theological Studies), who conducted a study on gender-based violence among 28 women from a community in the Cuban capital.
When we processed the data, we found that six of them were in a dangerous situation. Unfortunately, one of them was murdered by her spouse that week, and he subsequently committed suicide. It was a tragedy…we were unable to save her. But we alerted the other five to the danger they were in.
Q: How much has women's participation in Protestant churches changed?
A: I come from a Baptist denomination that does not ordain women. I later joined another Baptist group that does.
The history of women who have wanted to be pastors has been hard. For example, women missionaries studied in seminaries just like men, but when they graduated, they did not have the right to be pastors. In fact, if they married, they couldn't even be missionaries.
That is why at a young age I joined a Christian group that stood up for the role of women in the church, and that asked for more equality and justice for them.
A gender-based approach has become much more influential in pastoral and ecclesiastical work and at Christian research institutes since the Decade of Women, from 1985 to 1995. This year we are celebrating the 20th anniversary of the ordainment of the first three women in the Fraternity of Baptist Churches in Cuba.
Q: How much can religious communities contribute to the struggle against gender-based violence?
A: Congregations that work for gender equality are fortresses in their communities. In some, their work goes beyond the neighbourhood. When a woman is abused at home, the whole family is abused, and the whole community is affected.
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text: Page 1 Essentials of Real Application Clusters Some Nice Illustrations Various Discursive Asides David Austin Server Technologies RAC/Grid Documentation Oracle Corporation and with Page 2 Agenda Definitions and Architecture – – – – Cluster Network Disk Memory Cluster Ready Services Real Application Clusters (RAC) – – – – Installation Configuration Monitoring Tuning Migrating from single instance to RAC Page 3 Cluster Private Network A computer cluster is a set of two or more machines that can run in standalone mode, but which are joined through a network and are provided the capability to work together. The network could be a public network but for efficiency and synchronization, it is typically a high-speed private network. In Oracle Real Application Clusters, the only certified configurations involve private networks. The graphic shows two networks. It is good practice to provide a second, redundant private network to provide continuous service following the failure of one of the networks. Page 4 Network Configuration – Private Networks Carries – – Node participation and state info used by cluster manager Cache fusion traffic Access to shared storage when using NAS At least one private network (preferably 1 gigabit or more) Additional private network if NAS used Additional redundant network for high availability Optionally – Recommendation – – – At least one private network is required to carry the cache fusion and other internode traffic for RAC. A second private network is required for network attached storage access, if used. A redundant private network, that can replace the network carrying the cache fusion and other Oracle messages, is recommended to help avoid downtime in the case the primary interconnect fails. Access to this network is typically controlled by the vendor's software. Page 5 Cluster with Shared Disks Private Network Private Network (NAS) or direct connections Storage using ASM, CFS, RAW Most clusters are built to work on the same problem (program, application, database, and so on) concurrently. This typically requires sharing data and, therefore, dictates shared storage. Access to these shared disks can be shared using disk management software provided by the storage vendor, by the cluster hardware vendor, or by the software running on the cluster. In the case of Oracle RAC databases, the database software manages the access to the disks and works with a variety of storage architectures. Page 6 Disk Configuration – Overview Instance 1 Instance 2 Local Disk Oracle Software Archive Logs (if using RAW for shared storage) Local CRS & RAC Database Voting Disk, Oracle Cluster Registry Data Files, Control Files Redo Logs, Archive Logs (CFS, NAS) SPFILE Disk Oracle Software Archive Logs (if using RAW for shared storage) Disks can be connected using: •Direct dual-ported connections to host bus adapter (if using 2 nodes only) but not a recommended method •Hub/Switch fabric to host bus adapter (generally required if using >2 nodes) - recommended •Network – if using NAS Datafiles, Control files, Redo Log Files, SPFILE need to be placed on shared disks so that they can be accessible by all instances. Oracle Software needs to be placed on local file system. Note: OracleCFS does not currently support Oracle Executables (because most I/O on OCFS is synchronous, and this is not good for regular file system files such as ORACLE_HOME and Oracle configuration files. This is expected to change in the 10i release timeframe, when caching support will be added. This is not a bug in the current OCFS release) Archive logs should be on local file system if using RAW, or can be shared if using CFS/NAS Page 7 Cluster Disk Storage Options OPTIONS UNIX Windows & Linux OCR Voting DB Recovery CRS DB Recovery Disk ASM OCFS Vendor CFS Share Raw Other Some Platf orms (SP) SP NFS on Fu jitsu PRIM ECL USTER OPTIONS: The possible disk storage options, which are: •ASM: Automatic Storage Management (required for RAC installed on Standard Edition Oracle Database 10g) •OCFS: Oracle Cluster File System, available only on Windows and LINUX clusters •Vendor CFS: Vendor-provided cluster file system, available from some UNIX vendors •Shared Raw: Shared raw storage which includes shared raw disks, shared raw logical volumes, and shared raw partitions, one of more of which are available from most vendors •Other: NFS file system, which is only supported with Fujitsu PRIMECLUSTER and a certified NAS device on Solaris with SPARC 64-bit-based systems UNIX: The UNIX platforms for which this table is valid include: •IBM AIX •hp HP-UX PA-RISC (64-bit) •hp Tru64 UNIX •Solaris Operating System (SPARC 64-bit) Windows and Linux: The operating systems for which this table is valid include: •Windows 2000 •Windows 2003 •Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS/ES 2.1 (Update 3 or higher) •Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS/ES 3 (Update 2 or higher) •SuSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) 8 (service pack 3 or higher) Page 8 Comparison of Cluster and Grid Architectures Public Network Data and application code is transferred as needed from one node to another In Grid computing, the nodes in the system can be dispersed geographically. The private network architectures are not designed for the distances involved and are replaced with public networks. Storage is also not shareable due to the distances involved and the resulting latency in disk reads and writes. Page 9 Cluster Ready Services Tracks installed cluster components: nodes, databases, instances Registers instance and services at startup Manages active cluster (to avoid splitbrain syndrome, and so on) Private Network and Cluster Ready Services Private Network (NAS) or direct connections Storage using ASM, CFS, RAW Cluster Ready Services (CRS) is software that manage the cluster and the interaction between the nodes. The main functions of the CRS clusterware include: •Tracking the installed components for RAC •Identifying the nodes that belong to a cluster and to a specific database •Registering an instance with the correct database when it starts up and ensuring it starts up the services that are required to support Cache Fusion and related cluster activities •Ensuring that only one set of nodes is included in the active cluster for a given database (avoids split-brain syndrome, a situation when an interconnect failure causes two sets of nodes, which are no longer in communication with each other, to believe the other set is inactive, thus they work independently of each other, potentially overwriting each other's work, causing data contamination). Page 10 Cache Fusion Allows each instance to obtain a required block image from the most efficient location – – Private Network for Cache Fusion – Another instance's buffer cache A read-consistent image from another instance Disk The set of instances appear to share a single buffer cache Shared C ach e Private Network (NAS) or direct connections Storage using ASM, CFS, RAW Cache Fusion is the technology that allows multiple instances, each on its own node, to share database blocks as if there were a single database buffer cache. This is accomplished by transmitting messages about block status, and block images themselves if necessary, between instances using the high-speed, private interconnect. The graphic shows this concept as a single shared cache. As with non-clustered databases, some blocks may have many different versions in memory at the same time. In a RAC database, these block versions can be in the same or in different instance buffer caches. In most cases, an instance can acquire a block image from another instance faster than it could read the block fresh from disk. Therefore, the Cache Fusion process may be used to move current blocks between instances rather than having them re-read from disk. When a consistent block is needed, or a changed block is required on another instance, the Cache Fusion process efficiently transfers the block image directly between the involved instances. You can use the same options to partition your buffer cache into caches for different uses (keep, recycle, or default) or different block sizes when using a RAC database. The block images are moved into the correct cache on the instance where it is used just as in single instance databases. Distributed block status records and local information kept by each instance about the blocks in its buffers ensure that an instance failure will not cause any committed transactions to be lost and, in most cases, will allow ongoing queries to obtain required read-consistent versions of data blocks within the shared cache. Page 11 User Access Users Private Network for Cache Fusion and Cluster Ready Services Public Network Shared C ach e Private Network (NAS) or direct connections Storage using ASM, CFS, RAW Users can be connected in client-server configuration, through one or more middle tiers, with or without connection pooling. Users may may be DBAs, developers, application users, power users (for example, data miners creating their own searches), and so on. The public network is typically TCP/IP but can be built on any supported hardware and software combination. It is important not to use the private network for regular user traffic keep user traffic away from the private network otherwise cache fusion and other inter-instance activity will become backlogged, reducing the overall effectiveness of the cluster. Page 12 Virtual IP Addresses Standard connections through public network if not using Virtual IP (VIP) addresses VIP addresses – – – Users Public Network Require an unused IP address in addition to public address Defined during installation Provide improved failover capabilities while maintaining load balancing options A Virtual IP address is a second public address that your connections use in place of the standard public IP address. To configure VIP addresses, you need to reserve a "spare" IP address, which matches the subnet of the public network, for each node in the cluster. RAC will maintain these IPs as Virtual IP addresses. Each one will be assigned to a node, and client programs use the VIP to access Oracle on that node. If the node fails, the VIP fails over to another node where it won't accept connections, which means that clients trying to connect receive a quick connection-refused error instead of waiting for a relatively slow TCP connect timeout. Page 13 VIP TNSNAMES Entries Configuration when not using TAF ERP= (DESCRIPTION= (LOAD_BALANCE=on) (ADDRESS=(PROTOCOL=TCP) (HOST=clusnode-1vip) (ADDRESS=(PROTOCOL=TCP) (HOST=clusnode-2vip) (ADDRESS=(PROTOCOL=TCP) (HOST=clusnode-3vip) (ADDRESS=(PROTOCOL=TCP) (HOST=clusnode-4vip) (CONNECT_DATA=(SERVICE_NAME=ERP))) (PORT=1521)) (PORT=1521)) (PORT=1521)) (PORT=1521)) The slide shows the entries for a four-node cluster using VIP aliases to identify each host with Transparent Application Failover (TAF).The only difference between what you see here and what you would see for a nonVIP-oriented cluster is the use of the VIP aliases in the ADDRESS entries. Page 14 VIP TNSNAMES Entries Configuration when using TAF ERP= (DESCRIPTION= (LOAD_BALANCE=on) (ADDRESS=(PROTOCOL=TCP) (HOST=clusnode-1vip) (ADDRESS=(PROTOCOL=TCP) (HOST=clusnode-2vip) (ADDRESS=(PROTOCOL=TCP) (HOST=clusnode-3vip) (ADDRESS=(PROTOCOL=TCP) (HOST=clusnode-4vip) (CONNECT_DATA=(SERVICE_NAME=ERP)) (FAILOVER_MODE=(BACKUP=ERP) (TYPE=SELECT) (METHOD=BASIC) (RETRIES=180) (DELAY=5))) (PORT=1521)) (PORT=1521)) (PORT=1521)) (PORT=1521)) Here, the same information as seen for the non-TAF case but with the additional FAILOVER_MODE entry which provides failover capability. The connection to a failed node will be attempted on one of the surviving nodes when the VIP is moved. This avoids the long wait for a TCP timeout to occur when attempting to connect to a normal IP address. Page 15 Services in Oracle Database 10g In previous releases, the SERVICE_NAMES parameter and TNS entries identified a set of nodes in a cluster for failover and load balancing, as seen in previous example In Oracle Database 10g, services can be – – – – Associated with service levels set in Resource Manager Identified in callouts Enabled and disabled on different nodes of the cluster Allocated to preferred and available instances Oracle 10g provides a more sophisticated type of service than was available in previous releases. A service is an entity that can be managed with service-level commands that apply to the whole service regardless of the number of nodes with which the service is associated. Some of the features of services in Oracle Database 10g include: •Enabling service level agreements by application. This is accomplished by setting resource limits in Resource Manager for an application-related service. •Providing application APIs that allow a program to react to a changed condition in a service. •Allowing you to associate a service with one or more nodes in a cluster and to change one or many of these associations without disabling the service on the unaffected nodes. •Allowing you to define an instance for a service as preferred or available. A preferred instance is one where the service will attempt to run when started up; an available instance is one to which the service will migrate if it stops running on a preferred instance due to some type of failure. Page 16 Example Add application-specific services srvctl add service -d ORADB -a RAC03,RAC04 srvctl add service -d ORADB -a RAC01,RAC02 srvctl add service -d ORADB -r RAC01,RAC02,RAC03,RAC04 srvctl add service -d ORADB -a RAC02,RAC03,RAC04 srvctl add service -d ORADB -r RAC01,RAC02,RAC03,RAC04 -s ERP -r RAC01,RAC02 -s CRM -r RAC03,RAC04 -s SELF_SERVICE -s HOT_BATCH -r RAC01 -s STD_BATCH The example shows five services being added to the ORADB database as follows: ERP: Service for the Enterprise Resource Planning application which runs on instances RAC01 and RAC02 by default and on instances RAC03 or RAC04 in failover situations. Note: ERP is the service for which example TNS connection descriptions were shown earlier. CRM: Service for the Customer Relationship Management application which runs on instances RAC03 and RAC04 by default and on instances RAC01 or RAC02 in failover situations. SELF_SERVICE: Service for interactive user supports which runs on all four instances, RAC01, RAC02, RAC03, and RAC04, by default. HOT_BATCH: Service for critical batch processing that has a limited period in which to complete. This service runs on RAC01 by default and can failover to any of the other three instances if necessary, RAC02, RAC03, and RAC04. STD_BATCH: Service for non-critical batch processing which runs on all four instances by default and doesn't attempt to failover. Page 17 Example Create dual addresses for each listener on each cluster node, one for the node VIP address (or name) and one for the host's physical IP address (or name). LISTENER_CLUSNODE-1 = (ADDRESS = (PROTOCOL = TCP)(HOST = clusnode-1vip) (PORT = 1521)) SID_LIST_LISTENER_CLUSNODE-1 = (SID_LIST = (SID_DESC = (SID_NAME = PLSExtProc) (ORACLE_HOME = $ORACLE_HOME) (PROGRAM = extproc) ) ) You should cross-register your listeners using your REMOTE_LISTENERS initialization parameter so that all of your listeners know about all of your services and the instances on which they run. The listeners should use server side load balancing, optionally based on session count for connection. The listeners must be listening on the VIPs and on the cluster aliases, when available. The listeners must not listen on the host name - listening on the host name will result in disconnected sessions when VIPs are relocated automatically back to their owning nodes. This list shows the interconnect data for the example. Public physical node names: clusnode-1, clusnode-2, clusnode-3, clusnode-4 Public IP addresses: 184.108.40.206, 18.104.22.168, 220.127.116.11, 184.108.40.206 Physical interface name(s): hme0 [, hme1] (the same for all four nodes) Public virtual IP names: clusnode-1vip, clusnode-2vip, clusnode-3vip, clusnode4vip Virtual IP addresses: 220.127.116.11, 188.8.131.52, 220.127.116.11, 220.127.116.11 Logical interface names: hme0:1 [, hme1:1] (the same for all four nodes) Private interconnect IP address: 172.16.0.1, 172.16.0.2, 172.16.0.3, 172.16.0.4 Physical interface name: qfe0 (the same for all four nodes) Page 18 Example Sample remote listener.ora entries # TNS alias entry maps to REMOTE_LISTENER # initialization parameter: LISTENERS_ORADB= (ADDRESS_LIST = (ADDRESS=(PROTOCOL=TCP)(HOST=clusnode-1vip)(PORT=1521)) (ADDRESS=(PROTOCOL=TCP)(HOST=clusnode-2vip)(PORT=1521)) (ADDRESS=(PROTOCOL=TCP)(HOST=clusnode-3vip)(PORT=1521)) (ADDRESS=(PROTOCOL=TCP)(HOST=clusnode-4vip)(PORT=1521))) Page 19 Example Oracle instance parameters, matching those defined earlier in the example -- TNS entry listing the virtual IP address for -- node CLUSNODE-1 local_listener=LISTENER_CLUSNODE-1 -- TNS entry listing the virtual IP addresses -- used by database ORADB remote_listener=LISTENERS_ORADB Ensure that the LOCAL_LISTENER, REMOTE_LISTENER, and ACTIVE_INSTANCE_COUNT initialization parameter values are valid to use the VIPs for your services. You must ensure that the ACTIVE_INSTANCE_COUNT parameter is left at its default value - this parameter must not be set. Page 20 Manual Configuration for Workload Management There are 4 steps to configure services for workload management 1. Add service priorities 2. Add job classes 3. Add service performance thresholds 4. Enable service, module, and action monitoring The steps enumerated in the slide are discussed, with examples, on the next few pages. Page 21 Example: Add Service Priorities Create required consumer groups execute dbms_resource_manager.create_pending_area; execute DBMS_RESOURCE_MANAGER.CREATE_CONSUMER_GROUP (CONSUMER_GROUP => 'HIGH_PRIORITY', COMMENT => 'High priority consumer group'); Create service to consumer group mappings execute DBMS_RESOURCE_MANAGER.SET_CONSUMER_GROUP_MAPPING (ATTRIBUTE => DBMS_RESOURCE_MANAGER.SERVICE_NAME, VALUE => 'ERP', CONSUMER_GROUP => 'HIGH_PRIORITY'); execute dbms_resource_manager.submit_pending_area; For each level of service that you wish to use, create a related consumer group. For example, the five applications shown earlier, ERP, CRM, SELF_SERVICE, HOT_BATCH, and STD_BATCH, you decide on three levels of service, high priority, standard priority, and low priority. You then must associate the applications to the desired level of service by mapping them to the corresponding consumer group. In the examples above, the high priority consumer group is created and then the ERP application is mapped to this group. Page 22 Example: Add Job Classes The batch processes need to be associated with an appropriate batch job queue. Assume the database employs two batch queues managed by the Job Scheduler, called HOT_BATCH and STD_BATCH, corresponding to job classes with services of the same name. Create the required job classes with PL/SQL code as in this example: execute DBMS_SCHEDULER.CREATE_JOB_CLASS( JOB_CLASS_NAME => 'HOT_BATCH', RESOURCE_CONSUMER_GROUP => NULL, SERVICE => 'HOT_BATCH', LOGGING_LEVEL => DBMS_SCHEDULER.LOGGING_RUNS, LOG_HISTORY => 30, COMMENTS => 'P1 batch'); You can query the database for information about your job classes and service associations with a SQL*Plus query such as the following: col service format a30 trunc select JOB_CLASS_NAME, SERVICE from DBA_SCHEDULER_JOB_CLASSES; The query output would be similar to this: JOB_CLASS_NAME DEFAULT_JOB_CLASS AUTO_TASKS_JOB_CLASS HOT_BATCH STD_BATCH HOT_BATCH STD_BATCH SERVICE ------------------------------ ------------------- The jobs executing in these job classes execute on instances offering the service. Page 23 Example: Add Service Performance Thresholds Add call elapsed time thresholds for the ERP and HOT_BATCH services on RAC01 as follows REM ERP service, warn at 0.5 secs, critical at 0.75 secs: execute DBMS_SERVER_ALERT.SET_THRESHOLD( dbms_server_alert.elapsed_time_per_call, dbms_server_alert.operator_ge, '500000', dbms_server_alert.operator_ge,'750000', 1, 5, 'RAC01', dbms_server_alert.object_type_service, 'ERP'); REM HOT_BATCH service, warning at 1.0s, critical at 1.5s: execute DBMS_SERVER_ALERT.SET_THRESHOLD( dbms_server_alert.elapsed_time_per_call, dbms_server_alert.operator_ge, '1000000', dbms_server_alert.operator_ge, '1500000', 1, 5, 'RAC01', dbms_server_alert.object_type_service, 'HOT_BATCH'); You can add performance thresholds for all of your services and for all parameters that can be set in Resource Manager. In the above example the DBMS_SERVER_ALERT.SET_THRESHOLD package is called twice to set elapsed time per call thresholds on RAC0, once for ERP and once for HOT_BATCH. To set the thresholds for all nodes where these services run, you need to issue an additional call for each service on each node. The thresholds being set are for a warning level and for a critical level. In the case of ERP, the warning level is set to half a second, converted to 500,000 microseconds (millionths of a second), and the critical level to three quarters of a second, converted to 750,000 microseconds. Similarly, the warning level for the HOT_BATCH service is 1 second (1,000,000 microseconds) and the critical level is one and half seconds (1,500,000 microseconds). In both cases, the values of 1 and 5 are for the observation_period, designated in minutes, and the consecutive_occurrences count respectively. The former determines how often the metrics are computed for the threshold in question and the latter determines many times the computed results can exceed the specific threshold before the alert is issued. Page 24 Example: Enable Service, Module, and Action Monitoring Enable performance data and tracing for important modules and actions within each service. Query V$SERV_MOD_ACT_STATS for performance statistics This example enables monitoring for the exceptions pay action in the module, payroll, under the ERP service execute DBMS_MONITOR.SERV_MOD_ACT_STAT_ENABLE( SERVICE_NAME => 'ERP', MODULE_NAME=>'PAYROLL', ACTION_NAME => 'EXCEPTIONS PAY'); Enable monitoring for the all actions in the module, posting, under the HOT_BATCH service execute DBMS_MONITOR.SERV_MOD_ACT_STAT_ENABLE( SERVICE_NAME => 'HOT_BATCH', MODULE_NAME =>'POSTING', ACTION_NAME => null); You can enable performance data and tracing for important modules and actions within each service. The performance statistics are available in the V$SERV_MOD_ACT_STATS view. The following commands, executed in a SQL*Plus session, perform these actions: 1. Enable monitoring for the exceptions pay action in the module, payroll, under the ERP service 2. Enable monitoring for the all actions in the module, payroll, under the ERP service 3. Enable monitoring for the all actions in the module, posting, under the HOT_BATCH service 4. Confirm the configuration by querying DBA_ENABLED_AGGREGATIONS You can validate your monitoring setup by executing the following commands in a SQL*Plus session: col AGGREGATION_TYPE format a20 trunc heading 'AGGREGATION' col PRIMARY_ID format a9 trunc heading 'SERVICE' col QUALIFIER_ID1 format a7 trunc heading 'MODULE' col QUALIFIER_ID2 format a14 trunc heading 'ACTION' select * from DBA_ENABLED_AGGREGATIONS ; The query output would look like: AGGREGATION -------------------SERVICE_MODULE_ACTIO SERVICE_MODULE_ACTIO SERVICE_MODULE_ACTIO SERVICE ------ERP ERP HOT_BATCH MODULE ACTION ------- -------------PAYROLL EXCEPTIONS PAY PAYROLL POSTING Page 25 Example: Using Services with Job Scheduler Use the DBMS_SCHEDULER.CREATE_JOB procedure to define jobs to execute under the job classes. This statement sets up the MY_NAME.MY_PROC procedure to run in the HOT_BATCH service as a result of the job class assignment defined earlier. execute DBMS_SCHEDULER.CREATE_JOB(JOB_NAME => 'my_report_job', JOB_TYPE => 'stored_procedure', JOB_ACTION => 'my_name.my_proc();', NUMBER_OF_ARGUMENTS => 4,START_DATE => SYSDATE+1, REPEAT_INTERVAL => 5, END_DATE => SYSDATE+30, JOB_CLASS => 'HOT_BATCH', ENABLED => TRUE, AUTO_DROP => false, COMMENTS => 'my report on daily status'); Use the DBMS_SCHEDULER.CREATE_JOB procedure to define jobs to execute under the job classes. In this example, the MY_NAME.MY_PROC procedure will run in the HOT_BATCH service because of the job class assignment defined earlier. Page 26 Using Callouts for Fast Application Notification Custom-written application callouts are programs or shell script wrappers used to start and stop – – on- or off-cluster applications connection pools managed by middleware Callouts are immediately executed by RAC when a service or any part of the service starts, stops or fails to automatically restart. Actions that can be encoded as callouts (besides restarting applications) include: – – – – restarting applications logging fault tickets e-mailing or paging administrators invoking third-party event systems or clusterware components Callouts are not a requirement to deploy RAC-HA on CRS, but Oracle strongly recommends that you build notification mechanisms using callouts. Custom-written application callouts are programs or shell script wrappers that can be used to start and stop on- or off-cluster applications, or connection pools managed by middleware. They are immediately executed by RAC when a service or any part of the service starts, stops or fails to automatically restart. Other actions that can be encoded as callouts (besides restarting applications) include: logging fault tickets, e-mailing or paging administrators, and invoking third-party event systems or clusterware components. Callouts are not a requirement to deploy RAC-HA on CRS, but Oracle strongly recommends that you build notification mechanisms using callouts. Unless your CRS home directory is shared across the network, you must deploy each new callout under /private/oracle/crs/racg/usrco directory on each RAC node. Page 27 RAC Installation Steps Set kernel parameters Configure shared storage Install Cluster Ready Services on shared disk Install database software from one node – If not using shared disks, the installer will identify other cluster nodes and copy executables there Use DBCA Create Database – Configure Oracle Net For Enterprise Manager support – – Can use local or grid management Required processes automatically started by DBCA The extra steps required for RAC that are not needed for a single instance are: Configure shared storage Install Cluster Ready Services Other than that, RAC is as simple as single instance and there is no longer any need to be a RAC-expert (so all those DBAs can remove that specialty from their resume!). Page 28 Server Control Utility (srvctl) Command line tool for managing – – – – Real Application Cluster databases RAC instances Services Node applications (e.g. listeners) Fully documented in the "Oracle Real Application Clusters Administrator's Guide" SRVCTL provides a command line interface for managing the Oracle software on your cluster, including the database, its instances, node applications (listeners, and so on). It can add information to the cluster registry, start and stop individual or database-wide instances, associate services with instances, and similar activities. Examples of SVRCTL commands include: srvctl add database –d mgrt –o $ORACLE_HOME srvctl add instance –d mgrt –i mgrt1 –n node1 srvctl start/stop –p mgrt –s mgrt1 Page 29 RAC Configuration – Some Interesting RAC Parameters Control File Parameters: • MAXINSTANCES = 16 – Specifies maximum number of instances that can access a database concurrently Initialization Parameters: • CLUSTER_DATABASE = true – If true, Oracle starts in shared mode • CLUSTER_DATABASE_INSTANCES = 2 – Used for default memory calculations • THREAD = 2 – Specifies the log thread for instance at startup – If not set, can change based on which instance starts first ** Note DBCA configures all these parameters automatically ** The parameters listed above are not all the parameters that impact RAC instances but they are only useful in a RAC instance. They are set by default or as the result of dialogs in the DBCA when you create your database with that tool. Page 30 RAC Configuration – Instance Specific parameters • Use SPFILE for RAC – Not necessary to copy between nodes – file is raw device or cluster file system file – Maintains dynamically changed parameters • For RAC, one parameter file can contain both common and instance specific parameters – SID.parameter_name = value • Can combine cluster wide parameters with instance specific parameters: – – – – *.db_cache_size=200M SID1.db_cache_size=400M Instance with SID1 will have a cache size of 400M All other instances will have a cache size of 200M Note that the SPFILE is a binary file and cannot be edited directly. The examples with the SID prefixes are what you will see when you create a editable text version of the SPILE. Page 31 Monitoring RAC Use Oracle Enterprise Manager – – Performance Manager has cluster-wide charts Console has cluster-wide startup / shutdown interfaces RAC aware Statspack – • GV$ views – Global Views based on V$ views The catclustdb.sql script creates the GV$ views – you should run this script following database creation in earlier releases where it is not automatically for you when using DBCA to create your database. Page 32 Tuning RAC – Features Simplify Tuning Efforts Dynamic Resource Allocations – – – No tuning parameters for Cache Fusion Resources needed for shared resource management are dynamically allocated as needed Dynamic mastering of resources improves performance by keeping resources local to data blocks Application-level tuning not necessary Bottom up approach with virtually no impact to existing applications More views for RAC performance monitoring Cache Fusion Enables Easier Tuning Methodology – – More Detailed Performance Statistics – OEM Performance Pack Integrated with RAC The point is you do not need to do special tuning for RAC – it scales out of the box! However, the following slides talk about generic database tuning which may be of interest when deploying RAC – especially if you are looking for scalability across a greater number of CPUs. Beware of applications that do not scale on an SMP platform – moving to RAC will not necessarily help and may even cause performance degradation. Page 33 Tuning Steps During Development AP PL ICA 1. Tune the design 2. TION the application Tune D 3. Tune ESIGN memory FO RR 4. Tune IO AC IS 5. Tune contention B THE SA UT ME 6. Tune operating system... AS AS ING LE INS TA N CE , Tuning Steps During Development No special application design or coding required for RAC. All applications that run well in a single instance environment should run well on RAC But….contention problems in single instance environment can be worse in a RAC environment. During the development of a new system, the recommended order in which to implement tuning is as follows: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. The design The application The memory Input/output (I/O) Contention Operating system Repeat the process if your goals have not yet been achieved. The rationale for this structure is that improvements early in the sequence may save you from having to deal with problems later. For example, if your applications are using a lot of full table scans, this may show up as excessive I/O. However, there is no point in resizing the buffer cache or redistributing disk files, if you can rewrite the queries so that they access only four blocks instead of four thousand. The first two steps are typically the responsibility of the system architects and application developers; however, the DBA may also be involved in application tuning. Page 34 Top Ten "Gotchas" 1. Bad Connection Management Maintain database connection from middle tier 2. Bad Use of Cursors and the Shared Pool Use bind variables, keep cursors open and shareable 3. Getting Database I/O Wrong Use async I/O and ASM or S.A.M.E methodology 4. Redo Log Setup Problems Ensure there are enough redo logs and that they are adequately sized continued … 1.Bad Connection Management The application connects and disconnects for each database interaction. This problem is common with stateless middleware in application servers. It has over two orders of magnitude impact on performance, and it is totally unscalable. 2.Bad Use of Cursors and the Shared Pool Not using cursors results in repeated parses. If bind variables are not used, then there is hard parsing of all SQL statements. This has an order of magnitude impact in performance, and it is totally unscalable. Use cursors with bind variables that open the cursor and re-execute it many times. Be suspicious of applications generating dynamic SQL. 3.Getting Database I/O Wrong Many sites lay out their databases poorly over the available disks. Other sites specify the number of disks incorrectly, because they configure disks by disk space and not I/O bandwidth. 4.Redo Log Setup Problems Many sites run with too few redo logs that are too small. Small redo logs cause system checkpoints to continuously put a high load on the buffer cache and I/O system. If there are too few redo logs, then the archive cannot keep up, and the database will wait for the archive process to catch up. Page 35 Top Ten "Gotchas" 5. Serialization of data blocks in the buffer cache due to lack of free lists, free list groups, transaction slots (INITRANS), or shortage of rollback segments Implement automatic segment free space management and system managed UNDO 6. Long Full Table Scans Verify indexes, consider materialized views 7. Disk Sorting Review execution plans and use automated user memory management (PGA_AGGREGATE_TARGET) continued … 5.Serialization of data blocks in the buffer cache due to lack of free lists, free list groups, transaction slots (INITRANS), or shortage of rollback segments. This is particularly common on INSERT-heavy applications, in applications that have raised the block size to 8K or 16K, or in applications with large numbers of active users and few rollback segments. 6.Long Full Table Scans Long full table scans for high-volume or interactive online operations could indicate poor transaction design, missing indexes, or poor SQL optimization. Long table scans, by nature, are I/O intensive and unscalable. 7.In Disk Sorting In disk sorts for online operations could indicate poor transaction design, missing indexes, or poor SQL optimization. Disk sorts, by nature, are I/Ointensive and unscalable. Page 36 Top Ten "Gotchas" 8. High Amounts of Recursive (SYS) SQL Typical causes might include space management activities so ensure use of automatic segment space management 9. Schema Errors and Optimizer Problems Automate collection of statistics 10. Use of Nonstandard Initialization Parameters Review any nonstandard initialization parameters, particularly hidden parameters 8.High Amounts of Recursive (SYS) SQL Large amounts of recursive SQL executed by SYS could indicate space management activities, such as extent allocations, taking place. This is unscalable and impacts user response time. Recursive SQL executed under another user ID is probably SQL and PL/SQL, and this is not a problem. 9.Schema Errors and Optimizer Problems In many cases, an application uses too many resources because the schema owning the tables has not been successfully migrated from the development environment or from an older implementation. Examples of this are missing indexes or incorrect statistics. These errors can lead to sub-optimal execution plans and poor interactive user performance. When migrating applications of known performance, export the schema statistics to maintain plan stability using the DBMS_STATS package. Likewise, optimizer parameters set in the initialization parameter file can override proven optimal execution plans. For these reasons, schemas, schema statistics, and optimizer settings should be managed together as a group to ensure consistency of performance. 10.Use of Nonstandard Initialization Parameters These might have been implemented based on poor advice or incorrect assumptions. In particular, parameters associated with SPIN_COUNT on latches and undocumented optimizer features can cause a great deal of problems that can require considerable investigation. Page 37 Additional Tuning Opportunities For heavy insert OLTP applications consider HASH partitioning – – – – Helps with single or multi instance databases Reduces contention on concurrent inserts into single database structure Most noticeable effect is on sequence-based indexes when index locally partitioned with table and table partitioned on sequence-based key Transparent to application Always use cache option Using sequence numbers? – HASH partitioning tables/indexes for OLTP can give great benefit in RAC or single instance. Note that Index range scans can not be used on an index with hash partitioning. Sequence numbers – with cache option be aware that: • Sequence numbers can be lost • No guarantee of order (even with ORDER option) Page 38 Page 39 Page 40


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Are LSU/TCU tickets on sale yet? Posted by Wedge on 6/17 at 9:19 pm Stubhub prices are ludicrous. Have the 25,000 tickets been released yet? Reply Back to Top |
Posted by tickfawtiger on 6/17 at 9:55 pm to Wedge LSU season ticket holders will get all 25,000 of these with their May 31 orders and will be notified by July 1 regarding number of tickets to be received and seating/parking locations.This post was edited on 6/17 at 9:58 pm Reply Back to Top |
The general public won't get a chance to buy these, fwiw. Cowboys season ticket holders and the TCU/LSU fanbases will get the majority. Reply Back to Top |
Posted by silstang23 on 6/19 at 11:42 pm to gjackx quote: Am I the only one who thinks this is ridiculous? Why should they get first options to a college game. Many could care less about LSU or TCU but will request tickets anyways cause they know they can resale at top dollar. disclaimer: I'm venting because of how much I had to pay for LSU/Oregon. Reply Back to Top |
Posted by SomewhereDownInTX on 6/20 at 6:42 am to silstang23 Cowboys season ticket holders haven't been offered tickets for this game, I bought LSU/Oregon tickets through Cowboys season tickets the April before. I also emailed the Cowboys ticket office and asked if tickets were going to be offered to season ticket holders and they said after schools allotments were filled. TIFWIWReply Back to Top |
Posted by scubadiveguy on 6/20 at 6:57 am to SomewhereDownInTX We orderred our 4 tickets yesterday morning through a Cowboys season ticket holder with a unique code. The number of tickets allowed was the number of Seat Options owned. They emailed this code late Tuesday night.This post was edited on 6/20 at 6:58 am Reply Back to Top |
Posted by SomewhereDownInTX on 6/20 at 9:16 am to scubadiveguy quote: My buddy emailed the Cowboys today about why he hasn't received a pre sale offer on the LSU game and their response was that there wouldn't be a pre sale to season ticket holders because the schools released very few tickets for that game. Are they selling to the premium seat holders only I guess? This post was edited on 6/20 at 3:53 pm Reply Back to Top |
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Posted by scubadiveguy on 6/20 at 5:32 pm to SomewhereDownInTX These were Club season ticket holders. Not Founders Club season ticket holders though. Here is the text from the email. The 2013 Cowboys Classic will showcase LSU against TCU in a matchup between two programs that won a previous game in the annual Labor Day weekend college football showcase. The LSU and TCU showdown will mark the first meeting between the programs since 1968 and only the ninth overall. LSU holds the series lead at 5 wins, two losses and a tie. As a Dallas Cowboys Club Seat Holder, you have the opportunity to purchase tickets through this priority sale starting Wednesday, June 19, 2013 at 10am. With this being such a high-demand game, there is a strict ticket limit. You will only be able to purchase the number of Cowboys Club Seat Options you own. To purchase tickets, use the unique password and click the link below. LINK This post was edited on 6/20 at 5:33 pm Reply Back to Top |
Posted by SomewhereDownInTX on 6/20 at 8:16 pm to scubadiveguy Here is the email I got for lower level corner season tickets, shady arse Cowboys. Reply Back to Top |
Posted by scubadiveguy on 6/20 at 8:47 pm to SomewhereDownInTX Wow. Reply to her with the link I posted above.Reply Back to Top |
Posted by txtiger21 on 6/20 at 11:39 pm to scubadiveguy It is all based on what seats you own the rights to. Founder's club pays the most and gets rights to everything even the SB. Club level is the next down and the minimum to get LSU/TCU tickets. If you were paying $3400 per seat per year plus the $10,000+ license fee I'm sure you would expect the right to buy tickets to other games as well. ETA: I got 10 tickets thru a TCU friend no problem. Could have had any price level too, but we went for $125 section. This post was edited on 6/20 at 11:41 pm Reply Back to Top |
Posted by scubadiveguy on 6/21 at 8:25 am to txtiger21 Is your TCU friend the TCU Head Coach?Reply Back to Top Refresh |
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By BRENDAN McGAIR Sports writer There's probably a vast majority of you thinking that how in God's name can the Celtics follow up defeating highly gifted/highly flawed Miami Heat by losing to the LeBron-less Cavaliers. This Celtics team was not constructed with back-to-back nights in mind. Too many members of the Green have had their odometers stretched to the max, meaning Boston will spend much of the season picking and choosing when to turn it on and when to back off.
Red Sox fans saw their team die a slow death during the regular season. Yankee fans have to wait until late October to see their team die. What's the difference? If you don't win the World Series, it doesn't matter when your season ends.
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i LOVE the fabric for the flat pouch under your knitting -- did you sew it? do you happen to know who the fabric is? i'm lusting after it!!!
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I picked mine up from Robbin's Hobbies in Glendale earlier today. Assembly was very quick. I am using the 11X in mine, at the moment. I used the maximum throw I could get without stalling the servos and 10% Expo on Aileron and Elevator. I increased the rudder throw a bit. The plan has enough power that it flew out of my hand with a gentle toss. It pulled a bit to one side at full throttle but flew very straight at about 3/4 throttle. It is very easy to fly. The rudder is nicely effective. It was fairly windy with some gusts but the plane did pretty well with it, even though it is quite light. It is quite a bit faster than I thought it would be. I did get it to snap roll, something I don't do often and have not been able to do with the T-28 (I have not attempted it on the ME-109). The timer was set for eight minutes (I think Dave said he flew his for eight minutes, so that is where I set the timer). I felt no reduction in power at the end of the eight minutes. I am looking forward to flying it more, later this evening. I think they have another winner on their hands! |
Jul 19, 2010, 08:27 PM | |
madiened mine as well in 15mph winds...she can take it if you can so dont be too scared to fly her if theres some wind. I agree with the faster then expected, even heading into the wind. Forgiving and nearly as agile as the P51 so I am going to mess with the throws.
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I can officially post in this thread now too! I got home to that wonderful message on my answering machine that my plane was in at the LHS. I just finished putting it all together. I went to the second hole from the last towards the rudder and elevator as the extra throw should make things more interesting. The maiden flight will hopefully be tomorrow night.
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Jul 19, 2010, 09:00 PM | |
I have video but its mostly sky...my camera guy appoligized. LOL
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Jul 19, 2010, 09:42 PM | |
I posted this in the original thread. Some pics for size comparison.
Just picked mine up from the 60mi hike. Here she is next to some of my planes for a size comparison. I'll be replacing the 18amp ESC with either a Tbird 36 or and eflite 30amp since I have those lying around. Freewing Skyblazer 3D Hobbyshop 47" SHP My sons Mini Supercub |
Jul 19, 2010, 10:14 PM | |||
Teaser video, my camera guy's first attempt at tracking a plane...also he flew his first solo right before this so he was jazzed.
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it does, a little expo on the ailerons is needed if you have large throws (I moved mine to the second hole from the inside)
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A trebuchet[nb 1] (French trébuchet) is a type of catapult that was used as a siege engine in the Middle Ages. It is sometimes called a counterweight trebuchet or counterpoise trebuchet, to distinguish it from an earlier weapon called the traction trebuchet, which employed pulling men working the mechanism.
The counterweight trebuchet appeared in both Christian and Muslim lands around the Mediterranean in the 12th century. It could fling projectiles weighing up to 350 pounds (160 kg) at or into enemy fortifications. Its use continued into the 15th century, well after the introduction of gunpowder.
The trebuchet's technical constructions were lost at the beginning of the 16th century. In 1984, the French engineer Renaud Beffeyte made the first modern reconstruction of a trebuchet, based on documents from 1324.[3]
The three chief distinguishing characteristics of a trebuchet are:
The Couillard is a smaller version with a single stem or platform instead of the usual double "A" frames. The counterweight is split into two halves to avoid hitting the center stem.
The trebuchet derives from the ancient sling. It originated in China.[4] A variation of the sling, called staff sling (Latin: fustibalus), contained a short piece of wood to extend the arm and provide greater leverage. This evolved into the traction trebuchet in which a number of people pulled on ropes attached to the short arm of a lever that has a sling on the long arm. This type of trebuchet is smaller and has a shorter range, but is a more portable machine and has a shorter cycle time than larger, counterweight-powered types. The smallest traction trebuchets could be powered by the weight and pulling strength of one person using a single rope, but most were designed and sized for between 15 and 45 men, generally two per rope. These teams would sometimes be local citizens helping in the siege or in the defense of their town. Traction trebuchets had a range of 100 to 200 feet (30 to 61 m) when casting weights up to 250 pounds (110 kg). It is believed that the first traction trebuchets were used by the Mohists in China as early as 4th century BC, descriptions of which can be found in the Mojing (compiled in the 4th century BC).At the Battle of Caishi in 1161, trebuchets operated by Song Dynasty soldiers fired bombs of lime and sulphur against the ships of the Jin Dynasty navy during the Jin–Song wars.[5][6] Recent work showed that the traction trebuchet was transferred to the eastern Mediterranean by the late 500s during Northern Zhou or Sui dynasty.[4]
The traction trebuchet next appeared in Byzantium. The Strategikon of Emperor Maurice, composed in the late 6th century, calls for "ballistae revolving in both directions," (Βαλλίστρας έκατηρωθεν στρεφόμενας), probably traction trebuchets (Dennis 1998, p. 99). The Miracles of St. Demetrius, composed by John I, archbishop of Thessalonike, clearly describe traction trebuchets in the Avaro-Slav artillery: "Hanging from the back sides of these pieces of timber were slings and from the front strong ropes, by which, pulling down and releasing the sling, they propel the stones up high and with a loud noise." (John I 597 1:154, ed. Lemerle 1979)
They were also used with great effect by the Islamic armies during the Muslim conquests. A surviving Arab technical treatise on these machines is Kitab Aniq fi al-Manajaniq ( "كتاب الأنيق في المنجنيق", An Elegant Book on Trebuchets), written in 1462 by Yusuf ibn Urunbugha al-Zaradkash. It provides detailed construction and operating information.
There is some doubt as to the exact period in which traction trebuchets, or knowledge of them, reached Scandinavia. The Vikings may have known of them at a very early stage, as the monk Abbo de St. Germain reports on the siege of Paris in his epic De bello Parisiaco dated about 890 AD that engines of war were used. Another source mentions that Nordic people or "the Norsemen" used engines of war at the siege of Angers as early as 873 AD[citation needed].
The hand-trebuchet (Greek: cheiromangana) was a staff sling mounted on a pole using a lever mechanism to propel projectiles. Basically a one-man traction trebuchet, it was used by emperor Nikephoros II Phokas around 965 to disrupt enemy formations in the open field. It was also mentioned in the Taktika of general Nikephoros Ouranos (c. 1000), and listed in De obsidione toleranda (author anonymous) as a form of artillery.[7]
The first record of a counterweight trebuchet was in the 12th century from Mardi ibn Ali al-Tarsusi while talking of the conquests of Saladin.[8] The next record of the counterweight trebuchet appears in the work of the 12th century Byzantine historian Niketas Choniates. Niketas describes a trebuchet used by Andronikos I Komnenos, future Byzantine emperor, at the siege of Zevgminon in 1165 which was equipped with a windlass, an apparatus which was required neither for traction nor hybrid trebuchets to launch missiles.[9] Chevedden dates the invention of the new artillery type back to the Siege of Nicaea in 1097 when the Byzantine emperor Alexios I Komnenos, an ally of the besieging crusaders, was reported to have invented new pieces of heavy artillery which deviated from the conventional design and made a deep impression on everyone.[10]
The dramatic increase in military performance is for the first time reflected in historical records on the occasion of the second siege of Tyre in 1124, when the crusaders reportedly made use of "great trebuchets".[11] By the 1120–30s, the counterweight trebuchet had diffused not only to the crusader states, but probably also westwards to the Normans of Sicily and eastwards to the Great Seljuqs. The military use of the new gravity-powered artillery culminated in the 12th century during the Siege of Acre (1189–91) which saw the kings Richard I of England and Philip II of France wrestle for control of the city with Saladin's forces.[12]
The only pictorial evidence of a counterweight trebuchet in the 12th century comes from an Islamic scholar, Mardi bin Ali al-Tarsusi, who wrote a military manual for Saladin circa 1187.[12][13] He describes a hybrid trebuchet that he said had the same hurling power as a traction machine pulled by fifty men due to "the constant force [of gravity], whereas men differ in their pulling force." (Showing his mechanical proficiency, Tarsusi designed his trebuchet so that as it swung it cocked a supplementary crossbow, probably to protect the engineers from attack.)[14]
During the Crusades, Philip II of France named two of the trebuchets he used in the Siege of Acre in 1191 "God's Stone-Thrower" and "Bad Neighbor."[15] During a siege of Stirling Castle in 1304, Edward Longshanks ordered his engineers to make a giant trebuchet for the English army, named "Warwolf". Range and size of the weapons varied. In 1421 the future Charles VII of France commissioned a trebuchet (coyllar) that could shoot a stone of 800 kg, while in 1188 at Ashyun, rocks up to 1,500 kg were used. Average mass of the projectiles was probably around 50–100 kg, with a range of ca. 300 meters. The cycle rate could be noteworthy: at the siege of Lisbon (1147), two engines were capable of launching a stone every 15 seconds. Also human corpses could be used on special occasion: in 1422 Prince Korybut, for example, in the siege of Karlštejn Castle shot men and manure within the enemy walls, apparently managing to spread infection among the defenders. The largest trebuchets needed exceptional quantities of timber: at the Siege of Damietta, in 1249, Louis IX of France was able to build a stockade for the whole Crusade camp with the wood from 24 captured Egyptian trebuchets.
Counterweight trebuchets do not appear with certainty in Chinese historical records until about 1268, when the Mongols laid siege to Fancheng and Xiangyang. At the Siege of Fancheng and Xiangyang, the Mongol army, unable to capture the cities despite besieging the Song defenders for years, brought in two Persian engineers who built hinged counterweight trebuchets. These engines were called by the Chinese historians the Huihui Pao (回回砲)("huihui" means Muslim) or Xiangyang Pao (襄陽砲), because they were first encountered in that battle. After Aju asked Kublai,the Emperor of the Mongol Empire, the powerful siege machines of the Ilkhanate, Ismail and Al-aud-Din from Iraq arrived South China to construct a new type of trebuchet which used explosive shells. These Persian engineers built mangonels and trebuchets for the siege.[16]Chinese and Muslim engineers operated Artillery and siege engines for the Mongol armies.[17] The design was taken from those used by Hulegu to batter down the walls of Baghdad. The Chinese were the inventor of the traction trebuchet, now they faced Muslim designed counterweight trebuchets in the Mongol army. The Chinese responded by building their own counterweight trebuchets.[18]
With the introduction of gunpowder, the trebuchet lost its place as the siege engine of choice to the cannon. Trebuchets were used both at the siege of Burgos (1475–1476) and siege of Rhodes (1480). One of the last recorded military uses was by Hernán Cortés, at the 1521 siege of the Aztec capital Tenochtitlán. Accounts of the attack note that its use was motivated by the limited supply of gunpowder. The attempt was reportedly unsuccessful: the first projectile landed on the trebuchet itself, destroying it.[19]
In 1779, British forces defending Gibraltar, finding that their cannons were unable to fire far enough for some purposes, constructed a trebuchet. It is unknown how successful this was: the Spanish attackers were eventually defeated, but this was largely due to a sortie.[citation needed]
Most trebuchet use in recent centuries has been for recreational or educational, rather than military purposes. New machines have been constructed and old ones restored by living history enthusiasts, for historical re-enactments, and use in other historical celebrations. As their construction is substantially simpler than modern weapons, trebuchets also serve as the object of engineering challenges.[20][21]
The largest currently-functioning trebuchet in the world is the 22-tonne machine at Warwick Castle, England. Based on historical designs, it stands 18 metres tall (59 ft) and throws missiles typically 36 kg (80 lbs) up to 300 metres (984 ft). It is built on the design of a similar trebuchet at Middelaldercentret in Denmark.[22] In 1989, Middelaldercentret became the first place in the modern era to have a working trebuchet.[22]
Trebuchets compete in one of the classifications of machines used to hurl pumpkins at the annual pumpkin chunking contest held in Sussex County, Delaware, USA. The record-holder in that contest for trebuchets is the Yankee Siege II from New Hampshire, which at the 2013 WCPC Championship tossed a pumpkin 2835.8 ft (864.35 metres). The 51-foot-tall (16 m), 55,000-pound (25,000 kg) trebuchet flings the standard 8–10-pound (3.6–4.5 kg) pumpkins,[23] specified for all entries in the WCPC competition.
Although rarely used as a weapon today, trebuchets maintain the interest of professional and hobbyist engineers, as with the aforementioned "pumpkin-chunkin'" competitions. One modern technological development is the "floating arms" design. Instead of using the traditional axle fixed to a frame, these devices are mounted on wheels that roll on a track parallel to the ground, with a counterweight that falls directly downward upon release, allowing for greater efficiency by increasing the proportion of energy transferred to the projectile.[24]
In 2013, during the Syrian civil war, rebels were filmed using a trebuchet in the Battle of Aleppo.[25] The trebuchet was used to project explosives at government troops.[26]
In 2014, during the Hrushevskoho street riots in Ukraine, rioters used an improvised trebuchet to throw bricks and molotov cocktails at Berkut.[27]
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Trebuchet. |
Look up trebuchet in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. |
Wikisource has the text of the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica article Trébuchet. |


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Published Online: 15 NOV 2005
DOI: 10.1002/047001153X.g102302
Copyright © 2005 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd
Book Title
Encyclopedia of Genetics, Genomics, Proteomics and Bioinformatics
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How to Cite
Crolla, J. A. 2005. Microdeletions. Encyclopedia of Genetics, Genomics, Proteomics and Bioinformatics. 1:1.2:17.
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- Published Online: 15 NOV 2005
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Microdeletions involving contiguous genes some of which have also unmasked novel mutational mechanisms have been found in association with specific clinical syndromes (The Microdeletion Syndromes). Recently, the use of genome-wide dosage-sensitive techniques have identified multiple deleted (and duplicated) genomic segments in patients with abnormal phenotypes as well as in clinically normal controls, thereby providing further intriguing insights into the distribution and significance of pathogenic and nonpathogenic imbalances in the human genome (see Polymorphic inversions, deletions, and duplications).
- fluorescence in situ hybridization;
- microarray-CGH;
- microdeletions;
- genomic polymorphisms;
- mutations;
- position effect


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Aloe 'Blue Elf'
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