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(FAKE) Alaskan Adventure Ride
Ive been debating for a while whether or not I should write up this little story but I have to admit, l love looking at these pictures and writing my first little story, Baja Single-Line Tour, was pretty fun too. I took a ton of pictures up there and so here it goes, my take on probably the most well documented destination around here since I have already done the second (not to say that it is not justified though).
So FAKE, why?
Yea, I kind of break the main theme on this one; I didnt even ride my bike up. Yea, I trailerd my KLR up, can you believe it? I know what you are thinking, but I can handle the ridicule I have thick skin. I do have my own justification though (well it convinced me at least). But first, a little overview:
Me (Zach) and my girl (Tina) were lucky enough to get the opportunity to spend some time exploring Alaska.
We were accompanied by an ugly dog named Chuwe, aka Chubacca, aka Rat-Dog, aka Rat-Dog-Fish-Face :
We did some riding 2-up:
And I did quite a bit of riding alone:
Saw some perrrrrrty sunsets:
And even did a bit of hiking:
We saw a big mountain:
And I found a pinch of mud:
Saw a few glaciers:
And caught a fish or two (or sometimes just tried):
Found some cool mushrooms:
And rode to some mountaintops (or as close as I could get):
I rode a bunch of beach:
And saw some old mines:
Spent some time with the family:
And did the little Haul Road thing-a-ma-bob:
Saw some animals:
And even some good pavement:
Saw a million million-dollar views:
And found some cool stuff on the way back too:
But before we get going I need to justify myself first
So, why would anyone trailer a KLR up to Alaska? Well, the main reason (but definitely not to blame everything on her) is that my baby wanted to come and what could I say about that? I figured taking my truck made more sense especially because she really wanted to take the Rat-Dog too. But first let me back up a bit, some people may be interested in how this came together. I was working for a smaller publically traded software company making cold calls for 2 years (I told you I had thick skin didnt I), but they off-shored the team to the Philippines.
While I was working there I bought a 2008 KLR 650 off the showroom floor (the only acceptable color of course), a 4-plex and moved into one of the units, an F-250 after my Ranger died, a pop-top camper, and rebuilt my grandpas homemade trailer. Tina had her summer break from Nurse Practitioner School. However, my little sister, who is in Pharmacy School, is the one that planted the seed. She had to do 6 -week rotations at different pharmacies, so being the adventurous type, she chose Anchorage, Honolulu, Salt Lake City, and Denver. In addition, my parents decided to drive their camper van up there to meet her. I just so happened to be lucky enough to get laid off in time to join them, so I thought I would go up and see what the employment opportunities looked like.
Honestly, I would have loved to ride my bike up there but Im not set up for that type of an adventure 2-up on my little old KLR at this point. After doing some rough calculations, for an extended trip up there, I figured that restaurants and hotels would outweigh the cost of gas in my truck. Also, my 2 year old bike already had 17,000 miles on it (27,353km) before the trip and I didnt want to wear it out too fast. But I have to be honest, I am a dirt biker at heart so putting bikes on trailers is not foreign to me and you can go a lot more places without the extra stuff.
Either way, I wimped out and towed it up there and judge me if you must, hopefully I can make up for it though. But for this little story I think I am going to let may little point-n-shoot and Mother Nature do most of the talking, they are much more eloquent than I.
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Unreal photos.......touched up in post?
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Ride you're own ride! Trailer or not, looks like you had a fantastic time.
Mind sharing your camera specs? I have a Canon SLR that's really heavy with the lens so I'm curious what you carried. Beautiful shots!
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FAR FROM FAKE! pictures look amazing.
Help Plan the Toughest offroad route across the USA
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It is just an old Panasonic Lumix DMC-FX07, it has done me well for years but died a the end of the Baja trip this year. I just got a Cannon S95 to replace it.
I'm really not a photographer, I just like taking pictures.
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Im in... and jealous.
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"Converting oxygen to carbon dioxide since 1951."
hero & Zero...
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Location: Alaska, Mazatlan. sometimes seattle!
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Really great Photo's...
going south...
Never Lost! Just Don't know where I am!
"Don't worry about your money, let your money worry about you" Jorge González
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That's the first batch of photos that actually make me want to ride to Alaska for more than just the ride. The place looks amazing. Thankyou.
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Sheesh! It's like waving a banana in front of a caged monkey. Thanks for making me salivate. (Now how do I pick this lock?)
Great pics
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TallRob, fudgypup, AJxr, 75bronco, and going south thanks for all the kind words and coming along!
AdventurePoser – that camera was awesome and I'm glad yours didn't break either. I love that angle you shot with the bright pink flowers at the mission in San Ignacio, it caught my eye too, but I think the one in Loreto is the oldest. I'm guessing that that taking photos while riding is what did mine in, or maybe it was the blowing sand on that desolate stretch of the Pacific down there.
nathanthepostman – Nate, that means a lot, thanks for the compliment and I'm glad to return the favor; you helped me escape my cubicle for months. I felt the same way before the trip but I soon realized there are a lot more amazing things up there than just a long boring road up to the top.
greedymonkey – I was lucky, they opened up the cage for me and gave me the banana on the way out; good luck and thanks! Cash-flow real estate and compound interest are my back up.
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***since I apparently dont know how to insert hyperlinks, here is a link to my other report if anyone happens to be interested, it was recent so you may have already seen it: http://www.advrider.com/forums/showthread.php?t=632898 ***
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Glacier National Park
We headed out of Denver early in morning in late July, it felt good to get on the road and make some time. We first passed Fort Collins, my old college town, then Cheyenne, then the turn off to good old Glendo Reservoir, and finally it felt like we were out of familiar territory and on our adventure. It was hot and we were pushing hard and the wind was pushing back (Wyoming, go figure) but the 34-gallon tank is nice on that Ford, too bad we were only getting 9 miles to the gallon. We kept going and pushed hard all the way to the west end of Glacier, cut up 93 and started hunting for some side roads to find a place to camp. I try to not pay for camping unless absolutely necessary. We found a nice spot off some little dirt road by a couple little ponds after wondering for a bit in the dark and decided to make it home for a couple nights.
Whitefish was a pretty cool little touristy town. They have an awesome ice cream place. I had to try the huckleberry since it is the thing to do and I chose the lemon-dill to compliment it, yea thats right LEMON DILL, who would have thunk but it was awesome. Tina actually thought it was some of the best ice cream she has ever had. We spent a couple days there taking care of some odds and ends we had to attend to, stopped by the hardware store, and just enjoyed the feeling of being on the road.
Now, Im not quite sure and dont remember why we headed out so late, I know we took a little time shopping for some hiking pants for me. Before that, I didnt even know they existed but Tina though I needed a pair for the trip. I really dont like buying things other than gas and motorcycle parts but she convinced me; I have to admit they are kind of nice to wear all light and moisture resistant. So back to the point, after finding a pair of hiking pants we headed out 2-up into the park. It was nice to be on the bike and test out the new expensive seat (the other one was on back-order, I called everywhere). But, we soon found a nice place to pull off and walk down to the lake.
We walked around a bit, snapped a couple pictures, and then headed up the Going-to-the-Sun road. By the time we made it to the pass and through the construction the sun was down. It was pretty nice going through that late though, there was not much traffic deal with. We got a few pictures but most didnt turn out due to the lack of light:
Then came decision time .
By the time we were over the top, it was dark. Before we left that day I looked at the map a bit and roughly calculated the distance to see our options. I knew it would have been quite a few miles if we made a loop of it but for some reason we decided to do it. It was pretty fun at first with some good tight corners, but every mile I felt the temperature drop.
Now I dont know if it is right or not, maybe I should just do what I think is best and that will be that, but I tend to ask Tina for her opinion when we have these types of decisions to make. I try and just give the facts and then at least if it turns out we bit off more than we wanted to chew it is not totally my fault. She can still blame it on me though, that is OK.
This happened the summer before when we were riding here in Colorado and decided to pay for a room in Lake City then take Engineer Pass over to Ouray to sit in the hot springs, only to get rained out and closed down by weather. We went to dinner and thought about our options. We had to decide to either take the soaked pass back in the dark, or the 120 miles around, or buy a second hotel room for the night. Its funny, the gas station attendant that night said we would see 4 deer on our way back and he was dead on. I have to say; sometimes I dont know how she puts up with me or why she keeps coming back for more.
Either way, back to the story, we had 80 some miles to pound back after we got to the East Village if I remember correctly. It wouldnt have been so bad but we didnt pack correctly and didnt have enough extra layers, even with the hiking pants. Usually Tina can put her arms around my waste, lay her helmet on my back, in-between my shoulder blades, and fall asleep, but we were cold, and she was pissed. Not so much mad at me, but just cold and miserable, but we had to keep moving. OK, maybe she was mad at me at that moment, but we still had to keep moving. We pulled off a couple times and I tried to get her to do some jumping-jacks to warm up, but after some extremely poor jumping jacks, perhaps the worst I have ever seen, and perhaps a few tears we finally made it back to camp around 1:00 .oooops.
But everything was good after we got back and the next day and we went for a little hike .look, she was even smiling:
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I think that's the prettiest girl I've ever seen wearing UW colors! (Which is saying something, given my location.)
Hope you didn't eat any of those red mushrooms. Those are Fly Agarics, and they're deadly poisonous. Hindu monks used to mount expeditions to Siberia to find those and bring them back to India. They used the poison (in small doses) to induce religious visions. I tried it once, and I don't recommend it! I didn't have a religious experience, but I did pray to the porcelain goddess.
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The 2000-spec Corvette C5-R is faster than the Viper GTS-R. And yet, the Corvette finished in second place, behind the Viper, at the Rolex 24. Racing is not about just the speed of the car. In the recent Daytona Rolex 24-hour enduro, the Viper won because of superior tires and better pit work. When the margin is just over 30 seconds after 24 hours of racing, that's all it takes.
This was the C5-Rs finest hour, and it just missed its first overall victory in a major international race. If you go back through the records, you'll find that Corvettes have never won a major international race. There have been several class wins, but the Vette has never got the whole thing. This year they were sooooo close, yet so far.
The Corvette team fired an incredible shot across the bow of the Viper during qualifying, when they ran 3.2 seconds faster than the quickest Viper. This wasn't quite as exciting as it might seem, since they used qualifying tires while the Viper qualified on race tires, but it sure looked good.
Until this year the teams were required to qualify on the tires they would race on. The Corvette team seemed to be the only one that read the rulebook. Qualifying tires are slicks that stick to the pavement like Super Glue. The only problem is they have a life span of one, maybe two laps. Ron Fellows went out when he could get a nice clean run and blistered the Vipers. This was one very fast Corvette.
The big problem, or the most exciting thing, depending on how your car runs, is that 24-hour races have become sprint races over the past few years. There used to be a pace to these things. This time, even before darkness arrived, the Sports Racers began breaking-the pace was just too fast. At the same time, the Viper and Corvette train just kept going.
Before the start of the race, folks in the garage had been talking about how this could be the year when a GTO car takes first overall. As the Ferrari and Riley & Scott sports racers started breaking, it was beginning to look as though that prediction could become reality. Everyone was pushing as hard as possible, and the attrition rate was high. The GTO cars were setting the pace.
The Rolex 24 is about racing in darkness. There is a tremendous amount of darkness at Daytona. Remember, it's mid-winter and the nights are long. LeMans has only about five hours of darkness, while Daytona has over 10 hours. The 24-hour Daytona race is the night race of the world.
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The 21 biggest pet peeves at the office
Torrie Hardcastle, Houston Chronicle | May 13, 2014 | Updated: May 13, 2014 6:32pm
Photo By photovideostock/Getty Images/VettaThere are plenty of things around the office that get under our skin, but these devastating transgressions fuel our workplace hate-fire the most.
Photo By Tripod/Getty Images21. People who enter the elevator before letting others exitThey trample people who try this on New York subways. Take note.
Photo By ONOKY - Eric Audras/Getty Images/Brand X20. Getting 10 emails when a brief face-to-face would sufficeWhat's wrong with a little human interaction every now and then?
Photo By Sam Diephuis/Getty Images19. Office gossipDon't lie, you've done it. But that doesn't make it any less high school.
Photo By David Sacks/Getty Images18. Passive aggressive emailsYou aren't clever, so you can stop now.
Photo By BRETT STEVENS/Getty Images/Cultura RF17. Smelly lunchesIs there anything worse than being forced to smell your cubicle mate's questionable leftovers?
Photo By Janis Christie/Getty Images16. Burnt popcornBURNT POPCORN IS WORSE.
Photo By Image Source/Getty Images/Image Source15. People holding the elevator door open to finish a conversationWe are all your hostages! Stop the madness!
Photo By Jamie Grill/Getty Images/Tetra images RF14. Co-workers with anger issuesMaybe these foul-mouthed fiends just need a hug...but maybe you should let someone else test that theory.
Photo By Fuse/Getty Images/Fuse13. Obnoxious personal phone conversationsUnless your cat is the next YouTube sensation, no one wants to be forced into listening to you blabber on about its furry hijinks.
Photo By Rolf Bruderer/Getty Images/Blend Images12. Co-workers clipping their nails at their deskEWWWWWWWWWWW. Some things you just can't un-hear.
Photo By Sami Sarkis/Getty Images11. Dishes in the break room sinkYou can be a slob-kabob in your own kitchen all you want, but this is America and the land of the dishes-free work sinks.
Photo By John Lund/Getty Images10. When the A/C isn't on high enoughAs if being at work and wearing office attire weren't bad enough.
Photo By Image Source/Getty Images/Image Source9. Being the only one working lateYou tried to dodge your boss Office Space-style, but you failed so, so miserably and now you must pay the soul-crushing price.
Photo By imagefruit/Getty Images/Imagebroker RF8. Loud talkersWE HEAR YOU!!!
Photo By Fuse/Getty Images/Fuse7. Having your food stolen from the break room fridgeWho does that?! Just hold onto the hope that karma will avenge the loss of your perfectly portioned granola yogurt.
Photo By Noel Hendrickson/Getty Images6. Finding an empty pot of coffeeIt takes a cold-hearted happiness killer to deprive their fellow co-workers of freshly brewed caffeinated heaven.
Photo By Floresco Productions/Getty Images/OJO Images RF5. Gum smackingThere's just something about gum smacking that resembles the long-lost cousin of water torture.
Photo By Digital Vision/Getty Images4. Loud musicThis is the not-so-distant cousin. NO ONE appreciates your secret passion for Justin Bieber.
Photo By Jonathan Maddock/Getty Images3. Horrible parking jobsIf you park so close to my car that I have to crawl in through the passenger's side door, chances are I'll be writing down your license plate number for future voodoo curse reference.
Photo By Rosemarie Gearhart/Getty Images2. When the bathroom is a hot messThere's no need to detail the pure travesties we've all stumbled upon in the office restrooms, but seriously, get it together, people.
Photo By Daly and Newton/Getty Images/OJO Images RF1. The dreaded "Reply All"This is the queen mother of all office travesties. There's nothing worse than being unwittingly caught in an unending email thread fueled by ticked-off coworkers and hate fire. YOU. CAN'T. ESCAPE.
Sometimes, co-workers are just the worst.
Whether you're dodging the awkward elevator small talk or trying to tune out the gab-fest happening a few cubicles down, there's no escaping the small annoyances that grate on your nerves at the office.
Take a look at the slideshow above for some of the most irritating workplace behavior that will have you reaching for that little foam stress ball. Who knows, maybe you're even guilty of one of these office travesties.
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Nov 8: Singapore Oracle Sessions - Beginnings
Last Monday evening we had the first Singapore Oracle Sessions - an informal meetup of Oracle professionals thrown together at the last minute by a few of us.
Morten Egan (or as I believe he is called in Denmark now - The Traitor ) mentioned to me months ago that if there was no user group when we arrived in Singapore, then we should start one. At the time he was the current (now retired) chairman of the Danish Oracle User Group (DOUG, strangely enough) and, as I've presented at and supported various Oracle user events over the years and am an ACE Director, it seemed fitting that we should try to build something for the Singapore Oracle community.
The fact that the Oracle ACE Hemant Chitale works for the same company and that the ACE Director Bjoern Rost would be spending a few days at my place before continuing on to the OTN APAC Tour was too much of an opportunity. After a short chat on Twitter we decided to bite the bullet and I started researching venues and contacted some of the locals. We only had 6 days to arrange it so it was either brave or stupid!
As it came together and (through a few very good contacts) we had more and more attendees registering it started to seem like a reality and eventually Bjoern, Madeleine and I found ourselves walking along to the Bugis area on Monday, hoping for the best. Despite some initial problems finding the venue, we arrived to find the extremely helpful Sean Low of Seminar Room who took excellent care of us.
Within the matter of 15 minutes or so, 33 of the 36 or so who had registered were safely settled in their seats (including my other half Madeleine who *never* attends Oracle stuff!) for my brief introduction during which Sean insisted I try out the hand-held microphone.
My big Sinatra moment (not).
First up was Bjoern Rost of Portrix with "Change the way you think about tuning with SQL Plan Management" which, as those who've seen me present on the subject at Openworld, BGOUG or UKOUG would know is a subject dear to my heart. However, Bjoern seems to have had much more success with it than my failed attempts that were damned by literal values and Dynamic SQL. (I've since had a little more success, but mainly as a narrow solution to very specific problems.)
As you can see, the room was pretty full and the audience very attentive (except for a few people who appear to be mucking around with their phones!). They weren't afraid to ask some interesting and challenging questions too, which I always find very encouraging.
Early in Bjoern's presentation we suffered what I would say was the only significant disappointment of the night as both the drinks and the pizza turned up early! It was nice of the delivery companies not to be late, but my stupid expectation that 7pm meant 7pm ensured that I was standing at the back of the room surrounded by obviously gorgeous pizza that was slowly going cold, not knowing whether I should stop Bjoern in his tracks or not. Manners dictated not (particularly as there were so many people in a small room) but the pizza experience later suggests I was wrong. Lesson learned! (Note that I had to ask others about the pizza as it's on my extensive list of things I don't eat.)
What obviously didn't go wrong at all was the social interaction between all of the attendees and speakers. It probably helped that there were a few attendees from some organisations and that people from different organisations had worked with each other in the past but it's a *long* time since I've felt such a vibrant energy during a break.
I was on next, presenting on "Real Time SQL Monitoring" and apart from a few hiccups with the clicker I borrowed from Bjoern and a couple of slide corrections I need to make, I think it went reasonably well and people seemed as enthused by SQL Mon reports as I've come to expect! With that done, and a quick smoke (I *love* organising an agenda ), it was time for Morten with his "Big Data Primer"
I think this might have been lots of peoples favourite presentation because it wasn't just about Oracle and Morten packed in plenty of the humour I've come to expect from him. Better still, it seemed to work for a quite cosmopolitan audience, so good work!
Afterwards he said a few words asking for people's feedback and whether there was a desire to setup a local user group or just continue with these informal sessions (sponsors permitting) and all of the feedback I heard later showed that people are very keen for a repeat run.
Overall, Monday night felt like a great success.
The passion and enthusiasm of the attendees was very encouraging and reflected in the subsequent feedback which has been consistently positive but also thoughtful so far. There's no question that a decent minority of the local Oracle community are looking for regular opportunities to hear decent speakers on subjects that interest them, meet and discuss issues with each other and also offer to present themselves, which is a great start for any Oracle User Group.
Strangely, I discovered a day or so later that there are already plans for a User Group and the Singapore launch event is next Wednesday. Coincidentally this is only 9 days after SOS! You can look into the APOUG website here and a number of colleagues and I will attend the launch event. I suppose it's a small shame that it's an APAC-wide user group, rather than specific to Singapore, which the number of attendees at such short notice would suggest Singapore can justify, but I'll be interested to see what APOUG has planned.
Big thanks for Alvin from Oracle for endless supplies of fine pizza and Bjoern Rost of Portrix Systems for the room hire (I bought the drinks, which some would say was appropriate but I couldn't possibly comment) and thanks again to all the attendees for making it a fun night!
I didn't notice until I was about to post this that Bjoern had already blogged about the evening and I think he's captured it perfectly.
Oct 30: Announcement: Singapore Oracle Sessions
Then a thought occurred to me. While he was here, why not setup an informal Oracle users meetup, much like the various ones at cities around the world like Sydney, Birmingham and London (to name but three I'm aware of). Morten Egan, my new colleague and Oak Table luminary had already suggested to me months ago that we should get something going in Singapore, so why not start now?
Well, in a matter of a few days, we've put together an agenda, a room, we will be having pizza and beer and other drinks and three hopefully useful sessions from experienced speakers.
Here is the agenda (SingaporeOracleSessions.pdf) and a map (SOSMap.pdf) to help you get to the venue which is very handily placed near Bugis MRT. All that's required to register is to email me at dougburns at Yahoo. There are currently 21 people registered but the room holds (believe it or not) 42, so spread the word!
Hopefully, it's just the beginning ....
Oct 8: OOW 2014: Day 2
I picked up a few extremely useful things from this presentation but I think the most important one was the journaling area used when rows in the standard row-orientated buffer cache have been updated. Which, for starters, means that only 80% of the allocated memory will be available for your original data. Not a problem, but worth knowing.
What really jumped out at me though was when he discussed how the number of updated rows could affect the optimiser's decision to use In-Memory or not. I might not have explained that very well, but I believe the effect would be that the optimiser is likely to flip between using In-Memory or not depending on quite a few variables. Which means one thing to me. Potential Execution Plan instability. I'm not sure how Oracle could get around this because cost-based decisions are the sensible approach but I foresee lots of new performance analysis and tuning opportunities! Not quite "flick a switch and it just works", but who would ever believe that kind of thing anyway?
Great presentation, though. Exactly what Oak Table World is all about so thanks to Kyle Hailey and the various sponsors () and speakers for making it happen!
Judge for yourself. No need to go to San Francisco!
... or how about finding open_cursors set to 2000? A per-session limit of 2000 cursors? As Graham pointed out - good luck keeping track of the state of all of those! As soon as you stop and think about these things sensibly, you realise that it's almost certainly a sign of an application leaking cursors.
There were lots of similar examples but the interesting overall approach that I would say they were illustrating is something that I tend to do when I first arrive at a new client site and I've watched other experienced Oracle techies do the same.
An AWR report is not just the top 5 timed events and the sections at the top are a pretty good description of the actual system workload which, in turn, can tell you a lot about the application design. Then, based on potential application design issues, you can drill down into the report and look at later sections to see where all those leaked cursors or transaction rollbacks or (whatever) ... are coming from.
Updated Later: As Toon Koppelaars highlighted on Twitter later, you can see this version of exactly what I'm talking about here, for free. I should hang my head in shame because Andrew and Graham made a point of all the RWP videos being available online here. Watch and enjoy!
Lucky boy that I am, I was able to retire to the comforting surroundings of the Thirsty Bear to continue the conversation about all things performance related with Graham and JB, much of the conversation being me whining about why people don't use the *full* range of tools that come with the Diagnostics and Tuning Packs that they've paid Oracle good money for. That's why I've been slowly developing a presentation on that very subject.
Then it was back to Oak Table World to catch Greg Rahn talking about all that Hadoop stuff *again*! Even though I only caught part of the presentation, I do keep managing to pick up bits and pieces on the subject although I wonder when it'll become relevant to my day to day work. Probably whenever I'm too late to the party, as usual
But my main reason for showing up was to see Kevin Closson talking about using SLOB in some less obvious ways. Because SLOB is a good all-round Oracle workload generator, it shouldn't be seen as simply a tool for testing storage performance and that's probably it's main strength. Kevin is always a great speaker and I find listening to him a very different experience to reading his blog, but I'm not sure I can put my finger on why. Oh, he also had the most ridiculously bright SLOB buttons! (As I found out by making the mistake of looking to closely at it as I tried to switch it on )
At some point, all of the slides for the Oak Table World presentations should be available on the site, so keep a look out for those! (Oh, and I got my T-shirt which is deeply cool and was one of the few items of non-ACE swag I managed to pick up all week)
From there on, it was more or less party all the way.
- First quiet beers and snacks with lots of Oak Table and Oracle types.
- Then my very first ever Customer event that wasn't for a specific technology area, but a sales region. Man, *that* was a mistake! Suits *everywhere*! but I suppose it was useful to build contacts with the senior support managers in my new region.
- Instead, I headed towards the OTN night in Howard Street (until I realised I'd just dropped my bag with the entry ticket back at my hotel room)
- So instead I landed at one of the events of this and any other OOW - The Friends of Pythian Party'. As always, beautifully-organised, very generous on the liquid refreshments and the coolest crowd in town. Just because I find myself thanking Vanessa Simmons, Paul Vallee and all of the Pythian crew every year doesn't make it any less sincere.
I have to be honest, though, and say that the highlight of the night for me was spending much more time with Kevin's punchy, beautiful and fun wife Lori. If you think Kevin's smart, wait until you meet his wife! There's a lady who can hold her own and make me chuckle Problem is that I think she's used to scaring people but us Scots don't scare so easily
It was a great night anyway, as always, and although this is entirely unconnected to the Pythian party but might have had a *lot* to do with jet lag, I didn't wake up until 11:45 the next morning
Oct 5: OOW 2014: Day 1
From left-to-right : Karl Arao, Martin Bach, Kerry Osborne, Andy Colvin, Tanel Poder and Frits Hoogland.
They talked a little about the original version of the book (largely based on V2) and how far Exadata had come since then, but it was a pretty open session with questions shooting around all over the place and great fun. Nice way for me to wrap up my user group conference activities for the day and head out into the sun for Larry's Opening Keynote.
Sep 28: OOW 2014: ACE Director Briefing
Disclosure: I'm attending Openworld at the invitation of the OTN ACE Director program who are paying for my flights, hotel and conference fee. My employer has helpfully let me attend on work time, as well as sending other team mates because they recognise the educational value of attending. Despite that, all of the opinions expressed in these posts are, as usual, all my own.
The first day of the ACE D briefing was a bit of a wipe-out for me as I had so much catching up on bits and pieces of work and personal email to do, having arrived very late the previous night, although I still managed to spend some valuable time catching up with friends of the Oak and non-Oak variety as well as hearing some useful info from various Product Managers. I was gutted to have missed Thomas Kurian's briefing session because, as I heard later, it was as splendid as usual. I think some of the enjoyment comes from people's fascination with how on top of things he is, talking at all sorts of technical and non-technical levels over a very wide portfolio. That's pretty much how I remember the last few briefings.
Despite the inevitable arrival of jet lag screwing up my sleep, I've been able to enjoy day two much more (once I'd absorbed some light-hearted wind-ups about my disappearing act). Today was always going to be the most enjoyable for me anyway as the agenda was more database-centric.
It kicked off with a session on the current state of play of MySQL which I must admit I've almost forgotten about (conspiracy theorists will enjoy that) but seems to be ticking along quite nicely with incremental performance and functionality improvements although the presenters were keen to point out that MySQLs forte is not it's functionality so much as it's ubiquity in the web area, given it's part of the LAMP stack. Like a lot of the presentations, it might not have been about something I use day to day but was very enjoyable keeping in touch with other technologies.
Next was an informal conversation with Bob Evans, the Chief Communications Officer, which covered a wide variety of subjects with the usual direct and critical approach I've come to expect from the ACE Directors in attendance (you might be surprised!), raising concerns about the interface between Oracle Sales and their shared customers. I was disappointed to hear that there seems to be a pattern of scheduling local sales events at the same time as Oracle ACE tour events. Seems pretty daft to me. (Another one for the conspiracy theorists, I suppose.)
Then Gene Eun gave us an update on the Oracle Database Cloud Service. Although I still feel Oracle are way behind the curve on this, I don't think that necessarily means they can't make up ground, as they have in the past, but I think the most important message for me was a reinforcement of an answer to a question I asked last year. There's no reason why people can't use the same technology to run their own on-premise cloud and, working in Finance as I seem to have done for a while, the most realistic implementations I can imagine are hybrids of onsite and offsite infrastructure to cope with regulatory requirements whilst still gaining the benefits of offsite deployment where that makes most sense.
I didn't spend so much time drinking coffee in the Oracle canteens this year, but I did manage to have an enjoyable catch-up with Uri Shaft, a true development geek who always has interesting thoughts both on those technologies he is or has been involved with, but also other development areas that he has nothing to do with! Never a man short on opinions on software and a truly nice guy. Sadly, the regular JB catch-up no longer exists and that Maria Colgan moves in entirely different circles these days! (That would be a joke, folks, and I'm looking forward to light refreshments and chat when she's in Singapore soon.)
Speaking of Maria, she was part of the presentation team for the two hour Oracle Database Development Update, which is one of the key sessions for most attendees. Penny Avril and Maria Colgan kicked off with an all-too-short session discussing release plans and a little about In-Memory Option but I was left with the feeling that, having put so much work into getting the In-Memory stuff ready, it's now a case of consolidating the work and delivering product. i.e. I didn't notice any earth-shattering announcements in the database area but I suppose last year made up for that!
So most of the session was focused on two non-RDBMS areas. George Lumpkin on documents in the database and JSON stuff which was one of those - interesting but not something I'm likely to work with for a while presentations.
Dan McLary was almost certainly the speaker of the day as he delved into Oracle's BigData/Hadoop offering in good detail but with passion and a refreshing honesty about where Oracle fit into this field which still managed to be very positive about where Oracle are taking it. As he pointed out, the combination of being able to query anywhere (different data sources and technologies) with the functional richness of Oracle's SQL implementation is likely to be a pretty compelling offering.
It was an afternoon full of good presenters likely to keep the jet-lagged awake (although both Connor McDonald and I were struggling badly by this stage) like David Peake who covered Apex and a new website - Learning SQL - to help people, erm, learn SQL. I think we'll be hearing more about this in the upcoming week.
Wim Coekaerts is always popular with a small chunk of the ACED crowd and was again with his usual Linux and VM update, an informal conversation delivered without notes or slides which hit mainly on the areas that the attendees wanted to discuss. In a neat piece of agenda symmetry, he pointed out the presence of DTrace probes for MySQL running on OEL, as he discussed in his recent blog post.
By now we were running late and beers were beckoning, so Steve Feuerstein did a great job of just about keeping people going with his discussion of Oracle's attempts to reengage and energise the traditional Oracle SQL and PL/SQL technologies we know and love with a new (and quite possibly younger!) audience - YesSQL! Keep an eye out for what is likely to be a fun and different session with Steven and Tom Kyte and other special guests at 18:30 on Monday in Moscone South 103.
... and with that all wrapped up, it was time for beers and the bus into the city. The hotel check-in wasn't the car crash it usually is, but by the time it was all done and dusted there was just time for a few more drinks and since then it has been sleep, sleep, sleep for me
The usual thanks to the OTN team for putting together a varied and interesting briefing, which must be a really tough task when the Dev folks are all up to their eyebrows preparing for next week. Great work!
I'm hoping just an hour or two more and I'll be bright and breezy for Sunday, the first proper conference day. With my apparently new-found energy and dashing good looks (courtesy of Singapore), I'm expecting the week to be a good one!


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The cop pulls me over at 1 a.m. just after I leave Norfolk, Virginia. In a car designed to roar along at 130 mph, I'm doing 50...in a 65 zone. My right turn signal's been ge-dinking away for no obvious reason. I look like a drunk trying to look inconspicuous.
My dog, Rosie, is barking six inches from my ear. She's a big dog with a big mouth in a small car. The cop flashes his light in my face. He has to shout so I can hear him. "Everything all right here?"
Everything all right? The World Trade Center's a week-old pile of smoking rubble, the Pentagon has a big black hole in its side, I just put my husband on a ship full of Marines bound for the other side of the world, and my '78 Corvette's freaked-out alternator's been boiling its battery for the last four hours. But it got me to the naval base at Norfolk, by God, where I've just managed to see my husband one last time before he deployed.
"Yes sir," I say, "other than my alternator, everything is all right."
A short while before, my husband had hugged me goodbye. Standing inside the circle of his arms, I had felt small and safe, and in that moment, everything was all right.
I've always wanted a Corvette. Three years ago I went out and bought one. A Midnight Blue '78 coupe, white-leather disco interior, L82 engine with the heads bored out, four-speed transmission, and big bad rumbling mufflers. It's my Happymobile.
I've always wanted to drive across the country. The night my husband ships out, not knowing where he's going or when he'll return, I'm in need of a little happiness, a little peace of mind. So I put Rosie in the Vette, hit the gas, and don't look back.
While my husband's ship churns eastward across the Atlantic, the dog and I move steadily in the opposite direction. With a new alternator under the hood, we rumble through the candy-colored forests of a northern autumn, then down and across the prairie states.
At first, the peace I'm seeking eludes me. Rosie is able to just zone out while we're driving, but me, I'm thinking about things. Things like, before I left, I had to give my cellphone number to the battalion's volunteer coordinator. If something happens to my husband, the military has a policy of delivering that kind of news only in person. With my cellphone number, they can find me. I picture myself answering my phone on some long empty highway across the prairie, pulling over and waiting there with the wind blowing till a distant speck grows into a nondescript government vehicle that slowly grows larger, and closer, and finally stops.
Of course, what do I have to worry about? My husband is the battalion's combat chaplain, a non-combatant. Chaplains carry no weapons, they're never armed. There are others with a lot more reason to worry-the wives of the men who lead companies into battle, the mothers of the boys who carry the guns.
But this is what I'm thinking about-brooding about-in Iowa, after the sun sets, while a dirt road rolls out of the dark and into the headlights, flat and straight and white. In the rearview mirror, dust billows red in the taillights. Watching the miles roll away, for a few minutes I'm able to live in this moment of the road's white noise and no other. I'm not where I was and I'm not where I'm going. I'm not brooding on the past, I'm not worrying about the future. I'm just here, Zen-like as the dog. When I hit a bump it's like waking from a flying dream.
The dog and I roll on west. At dusk in the Big Horn Mountains, we hit snow. We aren't supposed to hit snow. The road disappears beneath the drifts. This is all uninhabited national forest, nothing but dim, white-frosted trees. I'm about to hunker down in the car with my dog-furnace and my sleeping bag when I see something through the swirling snow: two small neon signs, "OPEN" and "Miller Lite."
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Back in "the old days" (2002-2003), the process for tuning a C5 was considerably more intricate than it currently is. At that time, you had to use one program to log and analyze data, and another to reflash the PCM with a new calibration. Tuning was a relatively tedious process because the two programs didn't "talk" to each other. Consequently, you found yourself continually switching back and forth between programs to determine the changes that had to be made. To make matters even more challenging, none of the programs available at the time were particularly user friendly.
Then I came across a scanning/data logging software package called EFILive. It was not only easy to use and to customize, it offered a number of unique capabilities, including a control panel that allowed the user to temporarily alter ignition timing, air/fuel ratio, and torque converter clutch lock/unlock settings-while the engine was running-with a laptop computer.
I hadn't used EFILive for very long before thinking, I wish these guys would develop tuning software. In early 2005, my wish was granted when the EFILive team of Paul Blackmore and Ross Myers released FlashScan, version 7.2. They followed that up with version 7.3 and have continued to add features to it, including the capability to scan and tune LS2/LS7, GM diesel, and four-, five-, and six-cylinder GM engines. Recently, they released version 7.4, which provides even greater scanning and tuning capabilities, and can be used with an even wider selection of General Motors ECMs and PCMs.
A fully integrated software package, FlashScan includes separate scanning and tuning programs, which operate independently but also interface with each other. This extremely well-done interface, which can be easily altered to accommodate individual user preferences, tremendously simplifies the task of implementing tuning changes based on data logged during testing.
To make tuning even more interesting, in late 2006, EFILive released its V2 interface cable that will ultimately allow stand-alone scanning and tuning (without requiring a laptop computer). The V2 cable also accepts data from up to eight external inputs, such as a wide band O2 sensor, thermocouple, or a variety of temperature or pressure sensors, or any analog sensor with a 0-5 volt output.
All LS1/LS2/LS6/LS7 tuning software does pretty much the same thing-it allows you to make changes to a vehicle's calibration data and write that data to the PCM.
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Although electronic powertrain controls are often regarded as having almost magical capabilities, they simply offer more extensive and precise control of engine and transmission calibrations than nonelectronic mechanisms. Tuning, therefore, is as much a matter of learning to "control the controls," as it is a matter of developing the data that will enable the engine and transmission to deliver optimum performance. With FlashScan providing access to so many control parameters, it's relatively easy to gain control of virtually any aspect of powertrain operation. FlashScan also facilitates the development of the precise calibrations that are required to achieve specific results-such as establishing the fuel, spark, and air flow settings that enable an engine with a radical camshaft to idle as smoothly as possible.


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The birthplace of the famous leader and ruler of the Marathas Chattrapati Shivaji, Pune was the citadel of power with those in rule constantly contributing to its cultural and scholastic traditions. Today, Pune is a much sought after destination for students not only from different parts of the country but also from all over the world. Pune is also home to the Film and Television Institute and the well stocked National Film Archives. It is also the place where Rajneesh chose to open the now world famous Osho Ashram.
Pubs and pool parlours, cultural festivals and theatres also make Pune a city of great variety and truly cosmopolitan. If what you are looking for is a place that will offer your senses a break from stress and everyday demands, do what the Mumbaiites do over the weekends- head for Pune.
Population: About 2,540,069
Climate: Pune is given to no extremes and enjoys an equable climate throughout the year. Summers peak at 40°C and the winter highs reach 29°C at the most. The monsoons are lovely and do not disrupt life.
Main Language(s): Marathi, Hindi and English Time Zone: GMT + 05:30 Phone Area Code: 020
Best Time To Visit: Go ahead and visit Pune anytime you want to - it is great through the year, though winters from November to March are cold and delightful.
Airport Distance from City Center: 12 kms Taxi Rates from Airport to City: Taxi service available at 200 to city centre.
St Mary's Church
The first of its kind in Pune, this Church was built in 1825 and was inspired by the famous building of Martin-in-the-Field, at Trafalgar Square, London. A protestant church, it has stayed an outstanding example of typical colonial architecture.
David Synagogue
Fascinating and quite lovely, this old synagogue was consecrated in 1867. Built by David Sasoon, this synagogue has colourful stained glass paintings which are quite a sight when light streams through and forms interesting patterns on the walls. There is the sombre atmosphere, which gives one an insight, however small, into a religion that is both old and closed. Locally known as the 'Lal Deval', one of the features that is worth paying attention in this striking red brick building is the 90-ft clock-tower topped by a spire.
War Memorial
Erected in 1779,this memorial commemorates India's victory over an invading army of Englishmen in the same year. Raised by the Express-Nagarik Wadgaon Vijaystambh Pratisthan at the Morwada Gardens, the names of 1,080 martyrs from all three wings of the armed forces who laid down their lives in the service of the nation since Independence are inscribed here.
Osho Commune International
Still insisting that the enigmatic founder of the place, Osho Rajneesh has not died but just passed on since he was only 'visiting' earth in the first place, this spiritual health club has been the subject of many a discussion over the years. Beautiful surroundings with programmes designed to get one in touch with their inner selves, the Osho Ashram attracts people from all over the world. State of the art facilities including a swimming pool, a sauna, a five-hectare Zen garden and Bistro along with assorted sports facilities makes the Ashram a must visit. One can see people meditating with the voice of Osho in the background at the Buddha Hall and others engaged in other programmes around the Ashram.
Ramamani Iyengar Memorial Yoga Institute
A little more ancient form of self-actualisation -yoga is what this place is all about. Founded by B K S Iyengar, the amazing science of Yoga has been given a home here as early as the 1950s. Believing that a healthy and body are inseparable, there are programmes here to fit every individual need. A little more on the expensive side, this six classes a week for a month programme along with the therapeutics sessions come highly recommended.
Raja Kelkar Museum
A beautiful place to spend an afternoon or evening is the museum of the late collector, Sri Dinkar Gangadhar. Rare collections of over 17,000 artworks and curios include Peshwa miniatures, carved doors and windows, quaint musical instruments, ornate betel-nut cutters, combs and much, much more. The place is delightful and makes for an interesting tour into the past.
Pataleshvara Temple
This partially completed 8th century rock-cut temple may not be as impressive as the Elephanta Caves, on which it is modelled, but is a must see nevertheless. There is beauty in stone and the fact that it is incomplete inspires curiosity in the visitor and lends the place a charm all its own. The shrine of Jangli Maharaj (Lord of the Jungle) is adjacent to the temple and is dedicated to a Hindu ascetic who died in 1818.
Aga Khan Palace-Gandhi National Memorial
Palace of the erstwhile Imamsultan Muhammad Sha Aga Khan, it was built in 1892 and is set in 6.5 hectares of landscaped gardens. Donated to India after the death of Aga Khan IV, this is where Mahatma Gandhi spent time after his famous Quit India Resolution in 1942. His wife Kasturba Gandhi and secretary Mahadoebhai Desai died here during a 2-year imprisonment term and their ashes are preserved in the gardens.
Film and Television Institute of India
Mired in controversy, this 36-year-old FTII has been plagued with problems for sometime now with dissatisfied students protesting the decisions of the Management. A member of CILCET (International Liaison Centre of Schools of Cinema and Television) - an organisation of the world's leading film and television schools, FTII is one of Asia's premier institutes. Students from the world over come to avail of the course as also the well liked Film Appreciation course. The campus is beautiful and the facilities are comparable to the best in the world.
A small distance away from the city is Sinhagad, a word that translates into the Lion Fort. The fost is testimony to the battle of 1670, where Shivaji and his brave troops defeated the forces of Bijapur. Story has it that the war resulted in the death of Shivaji's general Tanaji Malusre. On hearing news of his General's death, it is quoted that Shivaji said "we have gained the gad (fort), but have lost the sinha (lion)" - thus the name Sinhagad. Located on top of a 1,270 m hill, the ramparts of the fortress are great places to sit down and enjoy the view.
;Food in Pune is not just a delight but is available at every nook and corner. The local food comprises dishes that are normally spicy with generous sprinklings of coconut, green chillies and pungent garlic. There are a variety of dishes, snacks and sweets that tease the palate and then effectively satiate it. Scrumptious eats like chewda, bhakerwadi and pedas are just some of the snacks that you will not be able to get enough of. Pune is also famous for its Shewsbury biscuits, which is not just a must-eat but also a must-take home. Pune offers the eater a variety of cuisine since the crowd it caters to is not just national but international.
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Pune Festival - Held annually, this cultural extravaganza should be experienced to be believed. Artistes and performers from the country congregate here to make it a truly memorable event. Classical music, dance and poetry are only some of the events on the agenda.
Held for a span of 10 days, the Pune Festival resounds with a celebration of the arts. The Maharashtrian dance, the Lavni is energetically performed by some of the state's best troupes and is foot tapping and a sight to see. The biggest names in art come together to make this a festival that lingers in the memory and leaves one asking for more.
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Often when thinking about fuel delivery, distribution and technology, electronics immediately come to mind. Fuel injection systems are often considered to be at the top of the technology realm, while leaving carburetors lying at the foothills, and being considered by some to be outdated technology from the dinosaur ages.
Don't bury the carburetor just yet. Carburetor manufacturers, such as Barry Grant's Demon Carburetion, are constantly evolving and improving their products to keep up with the times by improving fuel distribution, atomization, flow characteristics, and (most of all) drivability. A typical street rodder usually looks to achieve a lumpy sound at idle, and the ultimate in drivability, including (but not limited to) quick throttle response, mid-range power, and maximum performance at wide-open throttle. Drag racers, on the other hand, typically tune for wide-open throttle operation and if a decent idle is achieved, then great.
The typical street car should include all the bells and whistles: a smooth idle, excellent transfer when opening the secondaries, and seat-planting power at wide open. Demon Carburetion has addressed these issues and has a carburetor to suit your needs, no matter what your preference.
While the BG Six Shooter (three two-barrel units) has been around for some time now, Demon has released a more efficient setup labeled the Six Shooter Max, which incorporates the newly designed AeroRam Intake manifold. The AeroRam intake manifold, originally designed for use with the Badman 4-barrel inline carburetor, and has gone through a multitude of research and developmental stages incorporating runner design, port placement, and most of all, a way to create even fuel distribution to each cylinder.
By creating even fuel distribution to each cylinder, in theory, the efficiency of the engine should also improve. While the conventional dual plane intake has worked wonders throughout the years, it is susceptible to fuel puddling and inconsistent fuel distribution to each cylinder, via different length runners, and runner design.
Why would one purchase the Six Shooter Max? Back in the day, the reputation of the three-deuce combo was great performance, but hard to keep in tune (especially for the novice). On the other hand the 3x2 looked cool, providing that true hot rod/muscle car look. The new Six Shooter Max offers the best of both worlds compared to earlier tri-power setups. It offers excellent idling characteristics, actual power gains (depending on the combination), easy tunability and great cold start manners via an electric choke. Is it actually possible to obtain looks and performance in a single package? To find out for sure we headed to Barry Grant's Research and Development facility in North Carolina for the real deal.


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4. In the second summer session, participants enroll in ACC 381 (graduate course) and attend MPA orientation .
5. In subsequent semesters, participants enroll in up to 9 hours of additional graduate accounting courses along with their undergraduate courses.
6. In the final semester of the B.A. degree, participants complete the final courses required for their undergraduate degree and apply for graduate standing. Once participants reach the 12-hour graduate coursework cap, they will not be allowed to complete additional graduate-level courses until they complete their B.A. degree and obtain graduate standing.
7. In the following semesters, if the participants are in good standing and meet the same standards of satisfactory performance that are required of all MPA degree candidates, they may continue taking graduate accounting coursework pursuant to completion of an MPA degree.
Yes, you can apply to the program with senior standing as long as you will not graduate with your undergraduate degree until the August following admission to the ECON-MPA. If you plan to graduate with your undergraduate degree prior to the summer semester of admission to the ECON-MPA, you should apply for direct entrance into the traditional MPA program. Information about this process can be found on the traditional MPA website. Please contact Keri Ledezma with any questions.
Due to the competitive nature of the ECON-MPA admissions, your chances for admission would be greatly reduced by not meeting or exceeding the minimum GPA requirements. The purpose of the ECON-MPA (via the Graduate Select Admission Program) is to encourage academically exceptional UT undergraduate economics students to remain at The University of Texas at Austin for the MPA degree. If your GPA does not meet the minimal requirements, we recommend that you raise your GPA while you complete your bachelor's degree and apply to the traditional MPA.
There currently is no online application available. However, a downloadable application is available. Applications and supporting materials must be turned in to the MPA Program Office, McCombs School of Business, GSB 4.112C or mailed to the address listed on the application.
No. The recommendation letters must come from tenure-track faculty or senior lecturers at The University of Texas at Austin. This is a Graduate School requirement that cannot be waived.
In the final semester of their B.A. degree, ECON-MPA participants initiate a change in status from undergraduate to graduate standing by completing a one-page Graduate Select Admissions form, which is provided by the Graduate School at the time of admission to the ECON-MPA. The completed application is submitted to the Graduate and International Admissions Center (GIAC). Form deadlines will conform to graduate application deadlines set by GIAC, which are typically one month prior to the start of full-time graduate studies. Through the Graduate Select Admission Program, no application fee, transcript fee, or standardized test score requirement is associated with acquiring graduate standing in the ECON-MPA.
As long as you meet the same standards of satisfactory performance that are required of all MPA degree candidates, you can continue in the MPA program. Be advised that even though ECON-MPA participants are accepted into the Graduate School Select Admission Program, they are not guaranteed automatic admission to graduate school. All participants must maintain the outstanding academic record that they have established as they progress through the rest of their bachelor's degree program. Participants may be denied admission to graduate school upon completion of their bachelor's degree if their academic record falls below the standards set by the MPA program or the Office of Graduate Studies. In the spring of their senior year, ECON-MPA participants initiate a change in status from undergraduate to graduate standing by completing a form provided by the Graduate School. After completing the B.A. degree and acquiring graduate standing, students may continue their graduate MPA coursework. To receive the MPA degree, an ECON-MPA participant must satisfy all MPA degree and program requirements.
Ideally, applicants should have completed all required courses at the time of application. However, if you are enrolled in one of the upper-division courses at the time of application (such as ECO 320L) and you have already completed the other upper-division economics courses (ECO 420K, ECO 329) prior to application, you can still apply for nomination to the ECON-MPA.
ECON-MPA participants will have access to certain MPA resources including, but not limited to, academic and career advisory services, career workshops, and the MPA career fair.
If you have additional questions not addressed here, please contact Keri Ledezma.
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Career Makeover Strategies is a monthly career column written for Drexel alumni by Tai Goodwin '95. Tai is "The Career Makeover Coach" – a coach, consultant, and writer with more than 15 years of experience. Each month, she will share tips and strategies, along with her own experiences, for making over your career.
Alumni are encouraged to send comments, questions or suggestions for future column topics to firstname.lastname@example.com.
When You Can't Choose Just One Career or Passion ...
June 2011
Margaret Lobenstine gets it –
you don't have to choose just one career!
"Renaissance Soul." Finally there's a term that fits my work style. Back in high school, I used to cringe when people asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. All I could think of was all the things I wanted to do. Writer, a teacher, a broadcast journalist, a fashion designer were all at the top of my list. Fast forward years later, 15 years into my adult career and I have been a financial admin, teacher, training specialist, e-learning developer, site manager for a service organization and instructional designer. And now I am a coach and writer. And to think I started my college career as a fashion designer.
Friends and family often wonder when I am going to "settle down", even though they have long stopped asking the question, "You changed jobs again?" While some people change jobs and careers out of necessity, I have always changed jobs as a result of finding a new passion. Each position was different because I always wanted to try something different, something new.
In her book, The Renaissance Soul, Margaret Lobenstine finally diagnoses my pattern. The sub-title sums it up: Life Design for People with Too Many Passions to Pick Just One. I could never pick just one. And I marvel at people who can stay in one job for 5 years, 10 years or over 30 years like my mother.
If you have ever tried to force yourself into a more tame pattern of work because it is what's expected, The Renaissance Soul will help you find the freedom to accept your desire to explore multiple careers and offer you a plan to make it work. I read the book through in one long rainy weekend and then went back and did the exercises over the next week. The real-life examples are helpful in realizing that you are not alone in wanting to pursue many different career options. One of the best chapters of the book centers on choosing your focal points. Lobenstine describes focal points as four or five interests that you want to pursue right now. She likens the process of choosing focal points to sampling different flavors of ice cream. And I loved the idea that these are the flavors that you are choosing for now – with the understanding that at any time you can swap out flavors and try something new.
Focal points don't have to be just about work. They can include anything you want to invest time in, like learning about gardening or spending more time with your children. The key being to plan the time you will give to each of your focal points. She offers a Focal Points worksheet that assists in resolving one of the biggest challenges that Renaissance Souls face: managing multiple interest without giving up because of feeling overwhelmed. Giving the different focal points structured focus time allows you to move forward on all of your current interests.
At close to 300 pages, The Renaissance Soul is not only a great guide book it is something to keep as a reference to use as motivation and to spark reflection when it feels like it is time to change focal points. This book is a great read for those of us who choose not to choose just one option.
About the Author
Tai Goodwin '95 is a coach, consultant, and writer. Her résumé is a prime example of what it looks like to successfully "makeover" a career. It includes roles like classroom teacher, administrative assistant, employment coordinator, training specialist, and learning technologist. Tai's professional journey has taken her from leading service learning initiatives in inner-city schools to managing large scale learning technology projects for companies like Barnes & Noble and DTCC (Depository Trust and Clearing Corporation) in New York's financial district. Most recently she played a lead role in redesigning the new hire orientation program for Computer Associates, a global software development company.
As "The Career Makeover Coach", Tai Goodwin is on a mission to help ambitious women reinvent their professional lives by creating a career they can love and live with. Holding as a core belief that we are all called to divine purpose and gifted with a unique passion, Tai uses a results driven, spiritually grounded approach to help clients create career paths to support the lifestyle they desire. Whether it's helping people go from embittered to empowered professionals or making the transition from employee to entrepreneur, Tai is committed to helping clients tap into their own potential for brilliance.
Tai has been empowering others through teaching and coaching for over 14 years. A gifted and insightful communicator, Tai holds a Bachelor of Science in Elementary Education from Drexel University and a Master of Science in Education from Capella University. She has completed ASTD's (American Society for Training and Development) Coaching Certificate program and is pursuing professional coaching certification through the International Coach Academy.
Originally from Philadelphia, Tai currently lives in Delaware with her daughter, where she currently serves as the Professional Development Examiner for the Wilmington area. Her blog (www.careermakeovercoach.com) was recently listed in CareerRocketeer's list of 100+ Must Read Blogs for All Professionals. More
Issue Archive
August 2009
5 Questions to Connect to Your Passion
September 2009
Same Company, Different Job: Finding Your Next Job with Your Current Employer
October 2009
10 Must Have People for an A-List Professional Network
November 2009
Worried About Job Security: Bulletproof Your Job
December 2009
7 Signs of Job Burn-Out and How to Rekindle Your Passion
January 2010
How To Use Your Business Card at Networking Events
February 2010
Six Ways Volunteering Can Boost Your Career
March 2010
When a Good Job Turns Into a Bad Trap
May 2010
Five Reasons Social Networking Isn't Working
June 2010
5 Questions to Ask Before You Start Your Job Search
July 2010
Seven-Day Résumé Makeover
August 2010
Must-Have Traits of Successful Career Changers
September 2010
Increase Your Visibility at Work
October 2010
Seven Deadly Workplace Sins
November 2010
Nine Ways to Be Happy in a Job You Don't Like
January 2011
Is Moving to a Management Position Your Next Best Career Move?
February 2011
The Absolute Worst Times to Leave Your Job to Start a Business
March 2011
How to Find the Courage to Pursue Your Professional Passion
May 2011
Four Career Lessons from Goldilocks