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Andrew Jackson
7th president (1829-1837)
Background/Early Life
• Andrew Jackson was born in the Carolina Territory in 1767, and said he considered himself a native of South Carolina. By age 15 Jackson had fought in the American Revolution and left the war as an orphan, having lost most of his relatives in the fighting in some way.
• Jackson studied law and opened a practice in Nashville, Tennessee. Before his career in the military he was a delegate to the Tennessee constitutional convention, the first congressman from the state, a U.S. senator, and then a judge on Tennessee's superior court.
• Jackson became major general in command of the Tennessee militia, where he fought many battles against Native Americans and acquired millions of acres of land for the U.S., and became a hero for his work during the War of 1812 defending New Orleans.
• Jackson's final act in the military came when he led an invasion of Florida, leading to the United States acquiring the territory from Spain. Jackson became governor of the territory in 1821.
• Largely on the strength of his military reputation, "Old Hickory" — so named because of his toughness — was elected president of the United States in 1828.
How he defined the office
• Jackson's ardent followers, pitted against those who strongly opposed him, created the Democratic Party and in turn, the Whig Party. Though parties would change throughout the years, Jackson is credited with inspiring the modern two-party system.
• Jackson vetoed 12 bills while in office, more than every president who came before him combined.
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• Jackson's presidency might be best known for the Indian Removal Act, in which Jackson sided with the states when it came to deciding who owned the land occupied by different Native American tribes. When told to relocate, some tribes did so willingly and some resisted.
• Jackson's disapproval of the Second Bank of the United States came to a head when he vetoed the bill renewing the bank's charter. He also moved to remove the government's deposits from the bank and put them in state-chartered banks.
notable quote
• "As long as our Government is administered fro the good of the people and is regulated by their will; as long as it secures to us the rights of person and property, liberty of conscience and of the press, it will be worth defending." — from his first inaugural address, March 4, 1829.


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Psychological research has consistently shown that women feel unhappy with their body after looking at images of thin, idealized models, which are typically represented in the media. However, today's consumer culture and media promote not only the ideal of perfect beauty, but also that of the material affluent lifestyle, both of which are commonly depicted together, and highlight the benefits of beauty and of owning material goods to one's personal success and fame. A new study from the British Journal of Social Psychology is the first to examine the impact of materialistic messages and values – the desire for financial success and an affluent lifestyle on women's feelings about their own body.
Lead author Eleni-Marina Ashikali: "Not all women are affected in the same way by looking at idealized media models, and it has therefore been important for research to identify factors that make some women more vulnerable than others to feeling negative about their body when exposed to such media images. We found that women focus more strongly on their appearance when materialistic values are highlighted momentarily to them through priming. At the same time, their awareness of how their bodies fall short of the idealized image is heightened during this priming process, particularly for women who are already materialistic. This means that the influence of materialism is a further factor that makes women more vulnerable to negative body image."
This research suggests that materialism, both as an internalized value and as a depiction in the media, should be taken into account for media literacy interventions and policy changes in the advertising industry.
Ashikali: "Women would benefit from gaining greater awareness of current marketing strategies, as well as becoming more critical of the images and messages conveyed by materialistic media. Our work highlights the need for less emphasis on materialistic messages in the marketing of goods and products, as well as on the promised unrealistic benefits of owning a particular good."
("The Effect of Priming Materialism on Women's Responses to Thin-Ideal Media." Eleni-Marina Ashikali & Helga Dittmar. British Journal of Social Psychology. Published Online: April 5, 2011.)
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- Sexism: The Worst Part Is Not Knowing
- The Situation of Body Image,
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Nancy Lanza, 54, whom Adam murdered inside the home the two shared, reportedly had worked at Sandy Hook Elementary School. But more recently, she was taking care of her son.I'm seeing a lot of post-Newtown proposals for more gun control — and resistance to these proposals. It's not surprising that each new massacre becomes an occasion to restate positions on gun control, with redoubled enthusiasm.
"She needed to be home with Adam," the family insider said.
But why isn't there more talk about institutionalizing the mentally ill? Adam Lanza's mother needed to be home with him? What 20-year-old needs pervasive supervision from his mother? I suspect the mother, who is now dead, had very serious problems of her own. I can't understand her keeping those 3 weapons — pictured at the link — in the home along with a 20-year-old man who — in her view — required her stay-at-home motherhood.
We're so sympathetic to children, and now we're distracted by our sympathy for the dead children, but what about all the deeply troubled young people? Why are we so sympathetic to them up until the point where they act? Or... I mean... why does our sympathy toward the mentally ill take the form of regarding them as socially awkward and weird and leaving them alone?
ADDED: Why did Adam, after killing his mother, travel to the school where she worked? Shouldn't some suspicion fall on the mother? She looks like a victim, but could she and her son have been operating together? News reports say the guns were "apparently" hers, and Adam was buzzed past security at the school because the principal "recognized him as the son of a colleague." If she was a "colleague" and had such a troubled son, why hadn't she conveyed this information to them? If she was staying home from work to deal with his problems, why didn't they know it? What were her issues with them?
UPDATE: Now, the word is that Adam was not buzzed in.
UPDATE 2: The NYT publishes an article about what a "big, big gun fan" Nancy Lanza was.
UPDATE 3: WaPo on Nancy Lanza, who doesn't seem to have worked at the school her son targeted. There was a lot of inaccurate reporting on this incident! My suspicion at "ADDED," above, was largely premised on Adam's going to her workplace. Wouldn't she have been the one with hostility toward that particular place? It wasn't his school. Was her hostility conveyed to him somehow? But if it wasn't her workplace, those questions don't arise. Mysteries remain about what went on between these 2 individuals, and it would be helpful to know whether the mother might have done something to protect the rest of us from her dangerous son. That she failed even to protect herself does not close that door of inquiry.


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WASHINGTON – President Obama announced Thursday night he had authorized the U.S. military to launch targeted airstrikes if needed to protect Americans from Islamic militants in northern Iraq, threatening to revive U.S. military involvement in the country's long sectarian war.
In a televised late-night statement from the White House, Obama also said American military forces had already carried out airdrops of humanitarian aid to tens of thousands of Iraqi religious minorities desperately in need of food and water.
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The announcements reflected the deepest American engagement in Iraq since U.S. troops withdrew in late 2011 after nearly a decade of war. Obama, who made his remarks in a steady and somber tone, has staked much of his legacy as president on ending what he has called the "dumb war" in Iraq.
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The op-ed excerpted below, "America's Best Colleges: Merit by the Numbers," by Harvard Law School Professor Lani Guinier and Columbia Law Professor Susan Sturm, appeared in the August 5, 2009, edition of Forbes. It eloquently examines the role played and not played by universities in educating young people to promote the system-justifying illusion of merit.
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In its recent commencement issue, an Ivy League college newspaper displayed a snapshot of the Class of 2009 "by the numbers." Although the students had by then been at the college for four years, all of the relevant "numbers" were based on a profile of the class at the time of enrollment. Prominently featured were the 157 children of alumni; the 9.7% of applicants who were admitted; and, last but not least, the median SAT math and verbal scores–740 and 750, respectively–of the class.
Amazingly, all the "merits" of the graduating seniors involved attributes that predated the students' arrival on campus. Totally missing from the portrait was the "merit" that the Class of 2009 developed as a result of the four years they had spent at the school. Nor was any mention made of the contributions they were poised to make. Apparently, the defining qualities of merit–and what was most valued in the students–were the attributes they already had as incoming freshmen.
Selective colleges and universities, like this one, act more like consumers than producers of merit. They build their reputation based on the credentials of the people they admit rather than the contributions of the people they graduate. Trapped by a rankings culture that ties their reputation to admissions inputs, they also define themselves by whom they exclude. Schools that attract a lot of applicants, and then reject 92.3% of them, are held in the highest esteem.
But this process valorizes a uniform set of test-taking skills that produce results no better at predicting college performance than family wealth. In fact, Jesse Rothstein, a Princeton economist, found that the socio-economic status of a high school is a better predictor of what kind of grades its students will earn their first year in college than the individual SAT scores of its students. In effect, the testocracy reproduces privilege and stratifies the higher-education system by race and class. Individuals who perform well on high-stakes tests are awarded admission to college or law school as a prize for performance on a test that best predicts not aptitude, but parental income and education. This inequality effect of the SAT undermines a range of public values, from providing access to college independent of wealth and privilege to developing problem-solving capabilities.
The preoccupation with backwards-looking statistical criteria also severs the tie between admissions and mission. The testing regime deflects the college's responsibility away from, for example, producing a diverse and dynamic learning environment that actually builds capacity among the students to become the leaders, thinkers and entrepreneurs of the next generation. Reputation based on numerical ranking assumes greater importance than reputation based on the development of innovative ideas and publicly spirited graduates. The primary function of admission becomes status and prestige enhancement for the institution itself and for those who enroll.
Beyond that, the pre-eminent role of high-stakes tests also negatively affects student engagement and learning. The standardized and time-limited nature of the SAT and the ACT fixate student attention on the mastery of test-taking techniques, rather than on developing qualities such as creativity, ability to collaborate, critical thinking and drive. It misleads, by reinforcing the view that ability is fixed when in fact intelligence is both malleable and incremental.
A static view of intelligence has been widely debunked; it undermines intellectual risk-taking. It is also self-fulfilling. According to social psychologist Carol Dweck, students who hold a "fixed" theory of intelligence expend enormous energy worrying about how smart they are–they become preoccupied with avoiding mistakes and are less likely to engage in the excitement of learning. In contrast, people who believe that one's capacity to learn is "expandable" are more willing to challenge themselves.
An openness to learning from others is crucial in today's complex environment. People who tackle the world's problems with the benefit of different perspectives are less likely to get stuck in the same dead ends. As Scott Page, a professor of complex systems, has demonstrated, diverse groups have greater potential to generate effective and innovative solutions to tough problems.
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To read the entire column, including Guinier and Sturm's discussion of solutions and alternatives to the "testocracy," click here.
To review a sample of related Situationist posts, see "Firefighters and the Situation of "Merit"," "Rich Brains, Poor Brains?," "The Situation of 'Genius'," "Wise Parents Don't Have "Smart" Kids," "How Situational Self-Schemas Influence Disposition" (which includes a video of Carol Dweck), "The Perils of Being Smart," "Stereotype Threat and Exit Exams," "The Situation of the Achievement Gap," "The Situation of Standardized Test Scores," and "The Interior Situation of Intergenerational Poverty."


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Jim Hillibish: Life-changing fantasies? She did it
She awoke one morning with a random thought. She inventoried what she really likes to do: cooking, writing, gardening and photography.
The urge was so strong, she thought "what if." She quit her city job as editor of Fine Cooking magazine, sold her fancy work clothes and high heels at a consignment store, bought some work boots and put money down on a decrepit farm on Martha's Vineyard off Cape Cod.
Many of us think about it. Suzie Middleton did it.
"One day you wake up, and your fantasy has become a reality, and you are more surprised than anyone at what you managed to pull off," she says.
She shares the results in her new book "Fresh from the Farm, a Year of Recipes and Stories" (2014, Taunton Press, 249 pages, $28), which encompasses one year of her new life.
The organization is simple. Her newfound farm recipes are on one side of the page and her short stories on the other. This cements the tight relationship of the food she grows to the new life she lives. Dozens of her cooking and growing tips are sprinkled throughout.
The whole package is a comforting read. Arriving in winter, the recipes fire anticipation for the coming farmers' market season and our own gardening adventures.
A few of the 125 simple recipes include butternut squash and black bean burritos, pesto burgers with roasted tomatoes, fresh corn vinaigrette, turnip-apple-sweet potato sauté, roasted root medley and on and on.
She found a carpenter to restore her old farmhouse on the island, and he stayed. Come spring, he built her a roadside stand from old wood.
"We put it at the end of the driveway, and neighbors and friends and visitors came shopping for lovely lettuce, skinny string beans and glossy cherry tomatoes from our market garden," she said.
There's more. Soon to arrive were baby chicks and soon after fresh eggs "with a taste like Sunday morning itself." Then turkeys. The gardens kept expanding, four acres were added to the farm, berry bushes were planted, a farm dog and a bunny arrived plus rope swings and a hoop greenhouse. Oh, and she had time for Libby, "a very special little girl."
"Libby informed me recently when she grows up, she wants to be a veterinarian and then the president of the United States," Middleton said.
Cookbooks are handy, but few are impossible to put down. And few ignite our own fantasies of quitting our routine and doing what we really like. This one does. Five stars here.
• 1/3 cup plus 1 T extra virgin olive oil
• 1 T balsamic vinegar
• 2 t honey
• 2 to 3 t chopped fresh thyme
• Kosher salt
• 12 small tomatoes (4 or 5 ounces each) or 12 plum tomatoes
Line a baking sheet with foil and then parchment paper. Brush olive oil on the parchment. Combine remaining ingredients except tomatoes. Slice each tomato in half. Clean out seeds and place cut side up on parchment. Lightly season with salt. Pour the dressing over the tops. Roast at 425 F for 55 to 60 minutes or until brown around the edges. Cool before serving.
Makes 24 tomato halves.
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Using only the notes of the D major scale, Richard Meyer has fashioned a medieval-sounding piece that is sure to fascinate your beginning string students. The minor key, modal harmonies and driving rhythms give this piece a very mature sound. The aggressive main theme is introduced by violins and violas, with cello and bass in counterpoint. The theme later returns in canon, with cellos and basses being chased (hunted) by the violins and violas. Very dramatic from start to finish!Performed by the Alfred Studio Orchestra
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There is a wide range of rubber roofing products available for your roof. They are designed for both types of roofs, flat roofs as well as sloping roofs. You may use these rubber roofing products in your office building or your home building. They are suitable for both. Usually while the roof is being constructed, whether a flat roof or a sloping roof, there is hardly any seams when you install a rubber roofing products. This makes it the best option for office buildings where it is difficult to maintain. Thus in these types of installations, in less maintenance roofs, very little repair work needs to be done. But if unfortunately any leaks develop then you may have to get some repairing work done.
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Representatives from the Cotter Corp. Milling Facility, the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment, the Environmental Protection Agency, the Community Advisory Group and Lincoln Park residents met Thursday afternoon for a monthly meeting.
The three-hour agenda included an update on the Nov. 5 spill, the process of an Administrative Order on Consent, the MILDOS model for air monitoring and the CDPHE's license requirements for air and radon monitoring.
Jennifer Opila, Radioactive Materials Unit Leader for the CDPHE, explained how the 1988 pumpback system at Cotter functions. Opila said the cause of the Nov. 5 spill was that a joint in the pipeline of the pumpback system broke. She described it as a "catastrophic break," meaning it was not a "slow and seeping" spill.
Opila said employees found "water coming out of the ground" just north of well No. 333 and "that's how they knew the pipe had ruptured."
According to Cotter's Environmental Coordinator/Radiation Safety Officer Jim Cain, the spill was measured within a 12-hour window and based on inspection times and flow, an estimated 4,000 to 9,000 gallons of water was spilled. A water sample was collected and the analysis reported that .03 pounds of uranium and .15 pounds of molybdenum was found, according to Cain.
Cotter made the required oral report of the spill and provided a requested written report, Opila said, and the pipe was repaired and operable by the next day.
The pipeline is three feet underground and consists of 3,856 linear feet of six-inch schedule 90 PVC pipe and 3,053 linear feet of four-inch schedule 90 PVC pipe.
Vice President of Cotter Mill Operations John Hamrick said there have been three leaks "in three different years, all for different reasons."
Robert Edgar with the EPA, who attended the meeting via telephone, explained the MILDOS model for air monitoring that Cotter uses. According to Edgar, MILDOS is "site specific" and is "made to be sensitive" to a specific area. He said "it is the best for uranium mining."
CAG and community members in attendance voiced their concerns on the AOC, which is a "legally enforceable agreement," as Bill Murray with the EPA described it. Concerned citizens felt they should have their comments considered in the early stages of the revision and adoption on the documentation of the lab procedures of Cotter for the clean-up.
Murray said the "EPA wanted an agreement so the EPA, the state and Cotter" could work together with an outlined process. He said once an AOC is signed, details of Cotter's site investigations "will be made public" and then "can move forward with clean-up."
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It's been five years since the last report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, and the organization is currently preparing its fifth assessment report (AR5). These reports provide both an update on what we've learned about the climate in the intervening years and projections for likely future climates based on that new understanding.
Those projections are powered by climate models. Starting with AR4, those projections were based on the work of the World Climate Research Programme. This group identifies the current climate models from a variety of institutions, and runs them under a variety of emissions scenarios. Then, the WCRP collects the results of multiple runs from the ensemble of climate models, and uses that to predict the likely climate change and remaining uncertainties.
You might expect the progress made during the intervening five years would greatly narrow the uncertainties since the last report. If so, get ready for disappointment. A pair of researchers from ETH Zurich has compared the results from AR4 with the ones that will be coming out in AR5, and they find that the uncertainties haven't gone down much. And, somewhat ironically, they blame the improvements—as researchers are able to add more factors to their models, each new factor comes with its own uncertainties, which keeps the models from narrowing in on a value.
The model comparisons are run by the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project, or CMIP ("coupled" refers to treating the ocean and atmosphere as a linked system). CMIP3, confusingly, was a run of the models to prepare for the IPCC AR4. The groups have since synchronized, and CMIP5 will be part of AR5.
The number of changes, some brought about by increased computing power, are staggering. More models are used, including some from entirely new sources. Additional forcings are included in many of them (at the time of AR3, several of the models assumed solar and volcanic forcings were constant). All models now include both the direct effects of aerosols (which reflect sunlight) as well as their indirect effects, including changes in clouds and precipitation. In addition, the models are now run at a much finer spatial resolution, since advances in computing power allow more calculations to be used in each model run.
An exact comparison between the two different sets of models is made challenging by the fact the IPCC has changed the details of its CO2 emissions scenarios. But, as best they could, the authors managed to compare the projections of the two sets of models.
When it comes to temperatures, the CMIP3 and 5 are in rough agreement as to the magnitude and regional details on future warming. But the areas where the models produce inconsistent results is actually larger in the updated version, with an area southeast of Greenland remaining difficult to predict all the way out to the end of the century. Predicted precipitation changes are similar, with areas of uncertain predictions growing as the century wore for both CMIP3 and 5 (they're concentrated around the equator). Although the new models seem to have fewer areas of uncertainty, they now have one sitting on top of a major agricultural area: North America's Great Plains.
How can we improve the models yet have them produce more uncertainty? The authors have a long list of reasons. Some of these are systemic: limited processing time, lack of detailed data to test the models against, and a lack of clear metrics to judge the success of a given model. Others focus more on the nature of climate change itself: forcings we haven't identified, and a degree of natural variation. But the authors suspect that at least some of the problem boils down to researchers using their increased computational capacity to add even more factors into their models:
In contrast to end users, who would define model quality on the basis of prediction accuracy, climate model developers often judge their models to be better if the processes are represented in more detail. Thus, the new models are likely to be better in the sense of being physically more plausible, but it is difficult to quantify the impact of that on projection accuracy
In other words, climatologists are building their models to best reflect what we know about the natural world. They're not building them to be the most effective means of making predictions for the future of specific regions of the globe. And, at least partly as a result, the models scientists use capture a great deal of uncertainty in our understanding of the climate. But that's a problem for policymakers, who could use specific predictions to act on.
In any case, given a similar set of emissions, the new set of models seems to behave very much like the old one, with temperatures rising by over 4°C by the end of the century when emissions continue unabated. Even when taking uncertainties into account, it's difficult to keep that change under 3°C without significant changes to our fossil fuels habit.
Nature Climate Change, 2012. DOI: 10.1038/NCLIMATE1716 (About DOIs).


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Based on a little known event that gets underway today, the minds of yours truly and Effraeti's RP are proud to bring you their own version of the Madness! Joining in on the fun as well is none other than Tome herself (who took Effraeit's excellent Transmog of Michigan State's Sparty and created our amazing logos).
Now unlike the NCAA, we're not going to take 64 of you and pit you against one another in one on one matchups. We like to keep things simple around here, so here's how we're going to do it:
- Mog Madness will consist of five rounds.
- The first round will be two weeks, with the remaining four rounds one week each.
- There will be a "Mog build" criteria for each round that will be announced at the start of each round.
- Each participant is allowed one entry per round.
- Your submission can be an in-game screenshot, or a shot from a program such as MogIt.
- The judges will look at overall thoughts, creativity, and originality to give each entry a score, and the top scores will move on each round until the finals.
- The number of participants to advance will be announced after the deadline for the first round, at which point we'll know how many people we have taking part.
Mog Madness Round One:
- When: March 12th – March 23rd (judging results revealed March 25th)
- Who: Open to anyone who wishes to enter.
- How: Send an e-mail with your screenshot(s) to email@example.com or post your entry on the Mog Madness page of Amateur Azerothian, Tome of the Ancients, or Effraeti's RP.
- Mog Requirement: The first round of Mog Madness merely requires a cloth outfit. That means Mages, Warlocks, and Priests are all open season for your submissions (though no using class-specific gear outside of the class you choose to use -so no Mages in something like this).
There are the rules. Pretty straight forward, and pretty exciting too! The only other detail to note in the first round is the "Judge's Choice." For the first round only, each judge can use their power to give someone a pass into the second round. Those lucky persons will be exempt from the voting process and move on no questions asked…though each judge will give a brief snippet explaining why they chose the entry they did.
There you have it. If you have any questions, don't hesitate to ask. Otherwise, regardless of your level of transmogrification we welcome you with open arms and outfits. Good luck to all and let the Madness begin!
Entrants for the Inaugural Event:
- Töki
- Harpy
- Sean B
- Kamalia
- Cymre
- Melissa C
- Blog of the Treant
- Librado
- Evan O
- Kathleen T
- Tolbi (formerly Ashroya)
- Lindadmorrer
- Godmother
- Andrew, Elune
- Bronwyn
- Nightwill
- Reluctant Raider
- Michelle R
- bttf (Deb)
- Matty
- Missescake
- Kuroma
- Just Joe
- Robert, Area 52
- Chatmay
- Guildmum
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12-year-old boy charged in Ashton Kutcher 911 hoax
LOS ANGELES – A 12-year-old boy accused of making a prank call that sent police racing to Ashton Kutcher's home was charged Thursday with making that call and another that falsely reported an emergency at a bank.
Prosecutors said the boy called 911 in October reporting that armed men were inside Kutcher's Los Angeles home. That call brought out many heavily-armed officers and prompted the actor to leave the set of "Two and a Half Men" to make sure his home and workers were safe.
A week later, a call reporting an emergency at a bank on Wilshire Boulevard also proved to be a hoax.
The district attorney's office said Thursday that the boy has been charged with two felony counts of computer intrusion and making fake bomb threats. He was scheduled to be arraigned Friday in juvenile court.
Authorities didn't release the boy's name because of his age.
The practice of making such hoax calls, which often target the homes of celebrities, has become known as "swatting." The term comes from the pranksters' desire to have heavily armed SWAT teams dispatched to their calls. Other stars whose homes have been targeted in recent months include actor Tom Cruise, and singers Justin Bieber and Chris Brown.
In some instances, the hoaxers use technology that makes it appear that the 911 calls were made from inside the homes.
Police complain that the calls tie up resources ranging from dispatchers, patrol officers, helicopters, detectives and cybercrime specialists.
The Beverly Hills Police Department estimated that more than half of its emergency resources were occupied with the Jan. 17 swatting call that led them to Cruise's home.


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"Because these proposed changes raise privacy risks for users, may be contrary to law, and violate your previous commitments to users about site governance, we urge you to withdraw the proposed changes," read a letter from two privacy groups — the Electronic Frontier Foundation and the Center for Digital Democracy — to Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg. The letter is in response to the proposed changes to Facebook's policy, and users have one week to vote on future privacy changes. Voting opened on Monday and users have until Monday, December 10, at noon PST to make their opinions heard.
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Supporters and opponents of Egyptian leader Mohammed Morsi fought with rocks, firebombs and sticks outside the presidential palace in Cairo on Wednesday. Large-scale clashes marked the worst violence of a deepening crisis over the disputed consititution and Egypt's Health Ministry said 126 people have been wounded. Associated Press reports that the clash began when thousands of Islamist supporters of Morsi descended on the area around the presidential palace where some 300 of his opponents were staging a sit-in.
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Around ten o'clock on most nights, Matt Kruse will kiss his wife and two daughters goodnight, sit down in front of his computer and start coding. It'll be one or two in the morning before he goes to bed. He works as a Web application developer at a staffing company during the day, but those late-night hours in his Illinois home are where he works on what he calls "who I really am."
Kruse spends those hours making Facebook better. He doesn't get paid for it, and he's not an employee of the company (although it has tried to hire him before). The product of those hours is called Social Fixer—a browser extension designed to improve and enhance the site. It has become one of the most popular solutions for anyone who doesn't like Facebook's interface. Kruse says he doesn't have an exact figure, but he estimates that between 500,000 and 1 million people use it, along with an e-mail list that boasts 1.4 million subscribers.
Social Fixer uses Javacript to modify Facebook's interface. It gives you dozens of options for customizing how you see Facebook: you can separate updates into tabs, enable mouse-over image previews, change the layout, filter posts from your friends, give everything a theme and even hide the bits you find disagreeable. It's a huge amount of work to keep going, but although Kruse has a tiny Paypal donations button on the bottom of his website to cover his expenses, he says he hasn't made any efforts to profit from it, despite being contacted several times by people who sniffed money to be made.
So far, he's turned them all down. "There was one person a while ago who seemed pretty promising," he says. His tone is gently bemused, as if not quite believing that people actually want to pay money for his work. "I've had ten offers over the past four years from people who say they want to add advertising inside it or attach some additional software to the installer… But the way they wanted to implement it technically would have put my users at risk of them being malicious, so I couldn't do that."
Social Fixer was born in 2009 when Kruse became frustrated at not being able to tell the difference between new posts and ones he'd read already. "It was like looking at your inbox and seeing the same thing every time you loaded it up," he says.
A Javascript engineer by trade, he wrote a quick and dirty Greasemonkey script for Firefox that he felt would fix some of the petty annoyances of the site. It was tricky, but he managed it: "Facebook is one of the most complicated systems I know of," he says. "They're constantly having to display all of this content, for millions of people at once, and do it without a break in the system… I've been using Javascript for a long time, so that seemed the easiest way to make the options available."
Kruse showed it to colleagues at his job. Buoyed by their enthusiasm for his script, he put it online under the name Better Facebook. It got an audience fast, and Kruse found his hands full dealing with updates, modifying the software to deal with Facebook's changing interface.
It wasn't Kruse's only "side project"—he also spends his night hours working on a javascript toolbox and PHP library for programmers—but in many ways, it was one he began work on at just the right time. In 2008, a year before he first started coding it, he and his wife, Dawn, lost their son. Kevin Kruse was two years old when he died from a heart condition.
"It was a big part of my life, and it affected us very much, and affected my view of things," the soft-spoken Kruse says. What happened to his son, he explains, affected how he deals with his often vocal users—especially those unhappy with some aspect of the program.
"I'm more understanding of people," he says. "There are a lot of people who have things going on in their lives, and knowing the struggles I had personally to hold my family and job together, there are a lot of people who have their own struggles. When they're on there saying, this doesn't work, this really annoys me, I can think, maybe they're having a rough day or are going through a rough time. Maybe Facebook is all they have to connect to people. I try to keep in mind that someone might be having the worst day of their life today."
Shortly after Better Facebook started to get popular, the company's lawyers came calling. But while these sorts of visits usually end in acrimony and drawn-out court cases, this one had a happy ending—more or less. All the lawyers wanted was for Kruse to drop the 'Facebook' from the name. He happily complied, renaming it Social Fixer—and soon afterwards, they invited him to interview for a role there.
He didn't end up working for Facebook—it told him he wasn't a good cultural fit—but he says he was surprised that Social Fixer's features weren't being taken up by the company itself. "When I talked to the head Javascript guy at Facebook during the interview, he asked me how I do things and what I hook into, and he seemed to be amazed that this was even possible," he says. "He hadn't even considered that you could do this. They have a weird mindset there… they seem very protective of their ideas, and someone from the outside would never have a good enough idea to implement."
Protective they might be, but Facebook let Kruse carry on tinkering with Social Fixer. It's not a courtesy it's extended to others, coming down hard on similar programs like Unfriend Finder and FB Purity, blocking them from accessing the site.
Steve Fernandez, a British programmer, created FB Purity in 2009; like Kruse, he'd become frustrated at not being able to see what he wanted on Facebook's homepage. But unlike its kid-gloves treatment of Kruse, Facebook got serious. Fernandez says that although initially it just asked him to remove its trademark from his program name, it then "decided to block my domain name from being shared on the Facebook site, to try and limit the spread of the app." It led to a protracted fight between Fernandez and Facebook, which, he says, has led to his account being disabled and confrontations with the site's legal team.
"As I am sure you are aware," one of their lawyers wrote in an e-mail to Fernandez, "Facebook's Statement of Rights and Responsibilities prohibits integrations that impair the proper working or appearance of Facebook, including those that interfere with page rendering… Your extension was reported as interfering with and/or impairing site functionality and page rendering and links to your site have been blocked."
When asked why it gave Social Fixer a pass and not FB Purity, Facebook's press officer Jillian Stepanki declined to comment.
Kruse has done his best to steer Social Fixer clear of certain areas of Facebook that he feels might be more trouble than they're worth—he's kept out of the company's thorny privacy and data security issues, for one. "I don't have anything to do with privacy or security," he explains "People have asked me for features to restrict what people can see, or can I change my privacy settings to be ideal, and I don't want to mess with any of that. I don't want to be responsible for a screw-up where somebody makes a post thinking Social Fixer would hide it, and it turned out to be public. I don't want to be liable for anything like that."
"There's nothing I can do to prevent Facebook from snooping on any of the data—they own it, it's on their site. The only thing I do is affect what people see in their browsers."
It's not just Facebook that has tried to lure Kruse away from Illinois. Google has offered him a job—not once, but twice. Kruse turned the company down both times—he didn't want to move his family all the way to California and didn't fancy living somewhere as expensive as Google's Silicon Valley base. But more than that, he says, it would have forced him to give up Social Fixer—Facebook is a direct competitor to Google, so he would have, in effect, been working on a competitor's product.
"I think of my side-work as who I really am," he says. "I go to my job and do my work, but I'm a creative person, and I like to build things. To give that up and walk away from it would be like sacrificing who I really am to get something that I'm not really."
Despite the fact that he is, in effect, changing the work of Facebook's engineers, Kruse says that he really appreciates what they do: "They do a fantastic job of creating something incredibly complex, way beyond anything I could do, and I wouldn't exist unless they did."
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COLUMBUS, Ohio - Ohio State coach Urban Meyer has disciplined four players for legal problems, including suspending leading-scorer Carlos Hyde from all team activities in the wake of an alleged assault against a female over the weekend in Columbus.
In addition, star cornerback Bradley Roby, who was arrested in Indiana for an altercation with a security guard at a bar this past weekend, will not represent the Buckeyes at this week's Big Ten media days. He was one of the players initially selected to speak to reporters at the annual event.
Freshmen recruits Marcus Baugh, a tight end, and defensive lineman Tim Gardner were also disciplined on Monday.
"I have a clear set of core values in place that members of this football program are constantly reminded of and are expected to honor," Meyer said in a statement issued by Ohio State late on Monday afternoon. "There are also expectations with regard to behavior. I expect our players to conduct themselves responsibly and appropriately and they will be held accountable for their actions."
There were published reports earlier in the day that Hyde had been kicked off the team for being listed as a person of interest in the alleged assault of a woman at a downtown Columbus bar. The Columbus Dispatch cited sources saying Hyde was dismissed from the team over the incident early Saturday.
Hyde, a 6-foot, 242-pound senior from Naples, Fla., rushed for 970 yards on 185 carries last season, second best on the team behind quarterback Braxton Miller, and was the unbeaten Buckeyes' leading scorer with 17 touchdowns and 102 points.
He came within just 30 yards of becoming the first running back to reach 1,000 yards in a season in Meyer's 12 years as a head coach at Bowling Green, Utah, Florida and his lone year at Ohio State.
Roby, one of the team's top returning defensive players, was involved in a separate incident.
Court records in Monroe County, Ind., indicate Roby was arrested early Sunday morning in Bloomington, Ind., and is facing preliminary charges of misdemeanor battery resulting in bodily injury. He posted bond.
Roby, a 5-11, 192-pound redshirt junior from Suwanee, Ga., was Ohio State's third-leading tackler last year. He had two interceptions, one for a touchdown, to go with two tackles for minus yardage, one sack, one fumble recovery and one blocked kick.
He had considered jumping into the NFL draft after Ohio State's 12-0 season but decided to return to the team.
Pending further investigations of Roby's actions, he could receive more punishment from Meyer.
The Bloomington police report charged that Roby tried to start a fight with one patron of the bar and was forced out of the bar. Hoping to get back inside with his friends, he attempted to re-enter the bar and was told he could not. The report states, "Mr. Roby then struck one of the security guards in the chest, causing a complaint of pain. He was then wrestled to the ground and detained until police arrived at the scene."
The two freshmen were considered promising prospects.
Baugh, like Hyde, was removed from all team activities and will also sit out the first game of the season, Aug. 31 vs. Buffalo, for his arrest last weekend for underage possession of alcohol and possessing a fake identification. The Riverside, Calif., native's actions will also result in the loss of his financial aid this summer.
Gardner, from Indianapolis, was sent home and will not be a part of the 2013 team after he was charged Saturday night by Columbus police with obstruction of official business.
It was not immediately known if he was linked to Hyde's arrest or that was yet another incident.
Ohio State athletic director Gene Smith praised Meyer's actions.
"Swift, effective and fair discipline is the standard for our entire athletics program," Smith said in the statement. "I applaud Coach Meyer for his immediate actions."
Meyer has faced questions in recent months after the arrest of one of his former players at the University of Florida, former New England Patriots tight end Aaron Hernandez, was arrested on murder charges.


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Resolving HW enqueue contention
Posted by Riyaj Shamsudeen on May 16, 2008
Recently, I had few email exchanges about HW enqueue contention in oracle-l list and offline. There were few interesting observations emerged from test cases created during that discussion.
HW enqueue
When a session needs access to a resource, it requests a lock on that resource in a specific mode. Internally, lock and resource structures are used to control access to a resource. Enqueues, as name suggests, have First In First Out queueing mechanism. You can find more information about internals of locks in my paper [printed in 2001 ]Internals of locks
Segments have High Water Mark (HWM) indicating that blocks below that HWM have been formatted. New tables or truncated tables [ that is truncated without reuse storage clause ], have HWM value set to segment header block. Meaning, there are zero blocks below HWM. As new rows inserted or existing rows updated (increasing row length), more blocks are added to the free lists and HWM bumped up to reflect these new blocks. HW enqueues are acquired in Exclusive mode before updating HWM and essentially HW enqueues operate as a serializing mechanism for HWM updates.
In non-ASSM tablespaces, HWM is bumped up by 5 blocks at a time ( Actually, undocumented parameter _bump_highwater_mark_count controls this behavior and defaults to 5). Heavy inserts in to a table can result in increased HWM activity leading to HW enqueue contention. This issue is prevalent if the table has LOB columns or if the row length is big.
Measuring HW enqueue contention
We will use few test cases to see how underlying extent size and table structures are affecting HW enqueue contention. But, before we need to find a way to measure total number of gets on HW enqueue. If total number of gets on HW enqueue is reduced, enqueue contention can be relieved.
Fixed table x$ksqst stores statistics about total number of enqueue gets, success and failures of those gets at instance level. For example, to see total number of gets on HW enqueue, following query can be used. Column ksqstreq indicates total # of gets and ksqstwat shows total # of waits.
SQL> select ksqstreq, ksqstwat from x$ksqst where ksqsttyp='HW'; KSQSTREQ KSQSTWAT ---------- ---------- 546953 50
From Oracle version 10g and above, x$ksqst is externalized as v$enqueue_statistics.
However, this statistics shows activity at instance level. While we can use this statistics to measure HW enqueue activity , we need to make sure that there is no other session acquiring HW enqueue. Event 10704 can be used to trace enqueues and every call to get an enqueue prints few lines in the trace file. SQL statement to dump this information to trace file is :
alter session set events '10704 trace name context forever, level 15';
Event 10704 is documented as below:
10704, 00000, "Print out information about what enqueues are being obtained" // *Cause: When enabled, prints out arguments to calls to ksqcmi and // ksqlrl and the return values. // *Action: Level indicates details: // Level: 1-4: print out basic info for ksqlrl, ksqcmi // 5-9: also print out stuff in callbacks: ksqlac, ksqlop // 10+: also print out time for each line
Few lines from the trace files printed below. ksq is internal Oracle module names for enqueues and ksqgtl is to get locks on a resource. From the lines below, we can see that HW enqueue is acquired in mode 6, exclusive mode. Timestamp is also printed since we enabled this event at level 15. If we need count number of HW enqueue gets, we need to count occurrences of HW- string in the trace file.
*** 2008-05-04 10:08:35.734 ksqgtl *** HW-00000007-01800014 mode=6 flags=0x11 timeout=21474836 *** ksqgtl: xcb=0x1E283158, ktcdix=2147483647, topxcb=0x1E283158 ktcipt(topxcb)=0x0 *** 2008-05-04 10:08:35.734 ksucti: init session DID from txn DID: ksqgtl: ksqlkdid: 0001-0014-00000016 *** 2008-05-04 10:08:35.734 *** ksudidTrace: ksqgtl ktcmydid(): 0001-0014-00000016 ksusesdi: 0000-0000-00000000 ksusetxn: 0001-0014-00000016 ksqgtl: RETURNS 0 *** 2008-05-04 10:08:35.750 ksqrcl: HW,7,1800014 ksqrcl: returns 0
Now, we can grep for HW- in the trace file, count it and match that against v$enqueue_statistics. Following test case illustrates this method using an example table below:
SQL> select ksqstreq, ksqstwat from x$ksqst where ksqsttyp='HW'; KSQSTREQ KSQSTWAT ---------- ---------- 546198 50 SQL> insert into test_hw select n, lpad(n, 4000,'a') v1 from (select level n from dual connect by level SQL> SQL> commit; Commit complete. SQL> select ksqstreq, ksqstwat from x$ksqst where ksqsttyp='HW'; KSQSTREQ KSQSTWAT ---------- ---------- 546953 50
A difference of 755 (546953-546198) total gets to HW enqueue.
Searching for HW- enqueues in the trace file also prints 755.
/oracle/app/oracle/admin/TEST1/udump> grep 'HW-' test1_ora_26668.trc |wc -l
So, in my test database, my session is the only session and we could query v$enqueue_statistics for our test cases.
Test case
Following test case will be used to see the impact of extent size, segment management on HW enqueue gets. If total number of HW enqueue gets can be reduced, contention can be relieved.
Following script creates a tablespace, then creates a table with lob column in that tablespace, inserts 9999 rows in to that table and prints difference in total enqueue gets before and after insert statement.
-- Script enq_hw1.sql ----------- variable v_begin_cnt number variable v_end_cnt number prompt prompt Tablespace: Locally managed with \&1 prompt drop tablespace TS_LMT_HW including contents and datafiles; create tablespace TS_LMT_HW datafile 'D:\ORACLE\ORADATA\ORCL11G\TS_LMT_AUTO_1M_01.DBF' size 200M extent management local \&1; create table test_hw (n1 number , c1 clob ) tablespace TS_LMT_HW; begin select total_req# into :v_begin_cnt from v$enqueue_statistics where eq_type ='HW'; end; / insert into test_hw select n, lpad(n, 4000,'a') v1 from (select level n from dual connect by level <10000); commit; select total_req#, succ_req#, failed_req# from v$enqueue_statistics where eq_type ='HW'; begin select total_req# into :v_end_cnt from v$enqueue_statistics where eq_type ='HW'; end; / select :v_end_cnt - :v_begin_cnt diff from dual; --- script end enq_hw1.sql -----------
Above script is called by following script passing various tablespace attributes, essentially running same test for different types of tablespaces:
spool call_eng_hw1.lst REM Test cases #1 through #6 @enq_hw1 "uniform size 5M segment space management manual" @enq_hw1 "uniform size 5M segment space management auto" @enq_hw1 "uniform size 40K segment space management manual" @enq_hw1 "uniform size 40K segment space management auto" @enq_hw1 "autoallocate segment space management manual" @enq_hw1 "autoallocate segment space management auto" spool off
Test Results
Tested above script for tablespace in versions 10.2.0.4 and 184.108.40.206. Here are the test results:
|Extent management
|Segment space management
|uniform size 5M
|uniform size 5M
|uniform size 40K
|uniform size 40K
There are few key points here.
1. In test cases #1 and #5, there is a dramatic decrease in enqueue gets between 10g and 11g for tablespace with segment space management set to manual. Looks like, a new feature faster lob is kicking in. Tested above script for a table without lob column. Virtually there is no difference between 10g and 11g, if the table has no lob column. row length is kept around 3000 bytes for this test.
create table test_hw (n1 number , v1 varchar2(1000), v2 varchar2(1000), v3 varchar2(1000) ) tablespace TS_LMT_HW; ... declare i number; begin for i in 1 .. 10000 loop insert into test_hw values ( i, lpad(i, 1000, 'a'), lpad(i, 1000, 'a'), lpad(i, 1000, 'a') ); commit; end loop; end; / ...
|Extent management
|Segment space management
|uniform size 5M
|uniform size 5M
|uniform size 40K
|uniform size 40K
2. If tablespace uniform size is too low, then # of HW enqueue gets increases sharply. Compare test cases #1 & #3 for 11g. Enqueue gets decreased 10 times for tablespace with appropriate extent size.
3. In all test cases, automatic segment space management tablespaces performed fewer enqueue gets. In ASSM tablespaces HWM is bumped up by much higher number. I am not suggesting to use ASSM, since space wastage *can* increase in ASSM tablespaces. However, if resolving HW contention is primary issue, then consider ASSM.
4. Allocating additional extent with instance keyword seems to help in non-ASSM tablespace [ Behavior is different for ASSM tablespace and needs more research to understand that ]. In test case #1 above, HWM for the table was set at file_id 6, block_id 80 and that extent starting at file 6, block_id 9. That is, 70 blocks were below HWM initially. After allocating an extent with instance 1 keyword, HWM was bumped up by 1209 blocks.
[ Yong has a test case for this using dbms_space package: http://yong321.freeshell.org/oranotes/Dbms_Space.txt ]
From segment header block, before allocating extent, HWM: 0x01800050 (dba for file 6,block 80)
alter table test_hw allocate extent (instance 1);
From segment header block, after allocating extent, HWM: 0x01802f89 (dba for file 6,block 12169)
Extent Map
0x0180000a length: 639
0x01802d09 length: 640
5. High HW enqueue contention is prevalent during Oracle applications upgrade also. During one of our recent upgrade from 11.5.8 to 11.5.0, there was heavy HW enqueue contention on sys.source$ table due to many packages compiled/added during the upgrade. Only option was to increase _bump_highwater_mark_count during upgrade, to relieve excessive waits on HW enqueue contention. Of course, Oracle support must be contacted before adding any underscore parameters in production environment. Side effect of setting this parameter is that, for smaller tables, more blocks might be added below HWM leading to full table scan reading more blocks then necessary.
15 Responses to "Resolving HW enqueue contention"
June 25, 2008 at 10:50 am
Besides growing Segments, there is a much more problematic ASSM reclaim Problem with Blobs and HW-enqueue. This is supposed to be fixed in 10.2.0.4, but only(?) if you set the Event 44951.
This will batch-reclaim inactive (undo) LOB chunks and reduce the number of enqueues needed for tht operation. Do you have experiences with that, as well? This typically happens on LOB segments with concurrent insert/delete/update activity.
September 20, 2009 at 3:30 pm
I noticed in our 10.2.0.3 database with ASSM in AIX 5.3 box that some staging table (with insert and delete operations) are using a huge number of extents and is continuously growing. It seems that for some reason even if there are deletions, oracle cannot reclaim back the space and lower the HHWM. Is any way or any event we can set at instance level to trace the time of the extent is added in the staging table.
I noticed some notes from Steve Adams email that this can be shown dumping the redo log with layer 14.4 but the problem is that we don't when it happens, thus we cannot check every log
Thank you in advance,
March 27, 2010 at 11:00 am
It is very pleasing to see your practical approach and demonstration for various issues.
Here may be i am just deviating some from the article but it is all related to the same. I tried to do the test and the result was very satisfactory and was in accordance to your observation. As we have to face different types of client in many cases they even donot agree with these statistics i mean HW resuest .so itried to aggrevate it by using 40K extent size and inserting data through 3 different sessions in test environment so that it could comeup with the HW enqueue wait event but unfortunately it didnot show any HW wait event . Could you please provide the test scenerio in which we can also create this wait event and then we can check if the wait event has gone by increasing the extent size. I have used manual allocate enough space to avoid this wait event( using alter table modify lob… allocate extent command).
other observation is:
I am finding lots of "direct path write" on the datafile "TS_LMT_AUTO_1M_01.DBF " contention for each session that is doing the insert .
So could you please provide some help to reduce this "direct path write" on data file.
I have disk_asynch_io = TRUE. As this wait is not on temp file i hope it has nothing to take with pga and sort area and worksize_area_policy even then if it is required i have the following setting for them:
pga_aggregate_target =200000000
workarea_size_policy =AUTO
increasing the pga didnot help as it is coming on datafile?
Your early suggestions and solutions for both the points are very much appriciated.
Md. zafar Ahsan Oracle DBA
March 29, 2010 at 12:41 pm
Hi Riyaj,
Sorry for missing some important parameters . Ok it is windows XP 32 bits, filesystem- ntfs, the database version is 10.1.0.2
Insert operation done through 3 simultaneous session. Yes it has clob as in your script.In fact i am using the same scripts, but even having 3 sessions running in parallel for insert opertaion still i am not able to produce the Hw-enq wait. Statistics are fine but I need to be inline with wait and produce HW-enq wait and then after increasing the segment size to 5m check how the waits are reduced with larger extent size.
Test case useed:
@enq_hw1 "uniform size 40K segment space management manual"
@enq_hw1 "uniform size 40K segment space management auto".
So if possible please let me know how to go for it what changes to make to get the above goal? We canot reduce the extent size further as at least 5 block size(8k) is required while creating the tablespace. Other details i have provided in previous post if anyother information is required then please let me know.
Regarding filesystem_options to setall, . i set this but still didnot find any change for "direct path write" wait event on TS_LMT_AUTO_1M_01.DBF' file .
March 30, 2010 at 1:28 am
I am having a problem with lock , the developers are saying the application logic is correct , i have an oracle trace level 12, and the processes have 2 tx enqueue:
enq: TX – row lock contention 32 2.93 28.47
enq: TX – index contention 14 0.05 0.18
the wait process is in a update ,also there is a important table , always inserting ( millions of rows a day ) , with a CLOB column.
Is there a way to check if the problem is for this bug? looking the oracle trace.
May 10, 2011 at 11:17 pm
I have a typical after migration issue, we had i/o issues visible in prod after migration to 11gr2. Oracle recommended to set the parameter "_partition_large_extents to false" and after doing that we are observing lots of HW contentions and buffer busy waits in database, mostly the truncate is getting slowed down.
Please suggest.
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January 27, 2017 at 6:46 am
Hi Rijay
As usual excellent stuff. We had faced the same HW contention wait on heavy insert into LOB segment. Our rdbms version is 220.127.116.11. During that time db was very slow and almost hung. We restarted our App server then issue got resolved. When I checked Ash history in OEM, I could see everyday the HW contention is happening for the same insert. Due to that concurrent insert only db was facing slowness on that day. App team asked me to find root cause of the issue . when I checked oracle metalink, I saw a doc which says If we convert the LOB segment from basic file to secure file. We could have avoided the issue. So please suggest me whether secure file really solve this issue?
I have gone through some of the books especially locking and contention. This is really helping us to fix thw real time issue. Now I'm currently reading your blog. Every article is like a Gem for us. Keep blogging.
January 27, 2017 at 6:49 am
I'm really sorry for spelling mistakes on your name Riyaj
- January 27, 2017 at 6:49 am
October 17, 2018 at 3:44 am
There is some form or there is some script that predicts the HW contentions.


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