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|Keyon Dooling signs with Memphis Grizzlies for playoff run
|04.01.13 at 12:50 pm ET
Keyon Dooling is heading back to action in the NBA. He is coming out of retirement but not with the Celtics.
The 32-year-old veteran guard has agreed to terms with the Memphis Grizzlies to help them in their playoff push in the Western Conference. Entering Monday, the Grizzlies are 49-24 and in a tight three-way race with Denver and the Clippers for third place in the highly competitive Western Conference.
Dooling made the announcement Monday on his Twitter page: "I am so honored to announce that I AM BACK! I am heading to officially sign w/ @MemGrizz and am looking forward to being back on the court!"
Dooling had been serving as a player development coordinator for the Celtics before accepting the offer to play with the Grizzlies on Monday. Dooling will be playing for his seventh NBA team since entering the NBA with the Clippers at the age of 20 in 2000. Dooling has averaged 7.0 points and 2.2 assists in 721 career games. He averaged 4.0 points and 1.1 assists in 46 games for the Celtics during the 66-game schedule in the 2011-12 season.
On Dec. 9, 2011, Dooling and a 2012 second-round pick were traded to Celtics in exchange for the draft rights to Albert Miralles. Then at the end of last season, Dooling re-signed with the Celtics.
But after being waived by the Celtics on Sept. 20, he decided to retire from the Celtics and accept a front office/coaching position with the team. Dooling thanked GM Danny Ainge and head coach Doc Rivers on Monday after announcing his return.
I want to thank Danny Ainge, Doc Rivers and the entire #Celticsnation ! Once a #Celtics always a @celtics
— Keyon Dooling (@AmbassadorKD) April 1, 2013
Dooling is also a former Vice President for the NBA Players Association.
Dooling will join former Celtics guard Tony Allen, who also welcomed him back to the NBA via his Twitter page.
@ambassadorkd. Welcome My Guy!!!
— Tony Allen (@aa000G9) April 1, 2013
|Easter bummer: Hot-shooting Knicks overcome Jeff Green and Paul Pierce, beat Celtics
|03.31.13 at 10:03 pm ET
Jeff Green and Paul Pierce were not enough to overcome a 3-point barrage as the Knicks blew out the Celtics, 108-89, Sunday night at Madison Square Garden.
Pierce had 24 points and 15 rebounds while Green led the Celtics with 27 points on 10-of-14 shooting from the field as the Celtics (38-35) had their modest two-game winning streak snapped. Carmelo Anthony scored 24 points to lead the Knicks, who won their eighth straight to improve to 46-26. Big man Chris Copeland came off the Knicks bench to score 22 points, as New York won the season series, 3-1.
While Pierce and Green were highly productive, Boston's three other starters, Avery Bradley, Chris Wilcox and Brandon Bass could only manage two points apiece and combined to shoot 3-for-11 from the floor.
The loss all but assured the Celtics of seeing their five-year reign atop of the Atlantic Division come to an end. Boston is 8.5 games behind the Knicks but more importantly, now 2.5 games behind the sixth-place Hawks in the Eastern Conference. The Celtics are now just 2.5 games ahead of eighth-place Milwaukee, two games in the loss column.
The Knicks raced out to a halftime lead of 65-48 thanks to a scorching performance from beyond the 3-point circle. The Knicks made 11-of-16 attempts from 3-point range as the Celtics allowed a season-high in first-half points. New York finished 14-of-27 from long range while the Celtics were just 7-of-25 from 3-point range.
Anthony had 18 of his 24 points in the first half to lead New York.
The Celtics were within 11, 55-44, when the Knicks closed out the first half on a 10-4 run. Boston closed to within 11 again midway through the third but the Knicks again closed with a big run, 11-4, to head into the fourth quarter with a comfortable 86-69 lead.
Avery Bradley continues to struggle, finishing with just two points in 24 minutes on 1-of-5 shooting with one rebound and one assist before fouling out in the final two minutes.
Pierce did not play in the fourth quarter as the Knicks built their lead up to as many as 21. Pierce was spotted with an ice pack on his right foot for the entire quarter. The Celtics said it was simply a precaution and that there is no serious injury involved.
The Celtics left immediately after the game for a game Monday night in Minnesota against the Timberwolves. Boston returns home for a Wednesday night game against Detroit, a game that kicks off a four-game homestand at TD Garden. For more, visit the Celtics team page at weei.com/celtics.
|Jason Terry sets some more 3-point NBA history in Celtics win
|03.30.13 at 12:03 am ET
Celtics sharpshooter Jason Terry was 5-of-7 from 3-point range and finished with 24 points off the bench has the Celtics held off the Atlanta Hawks 118-107 Friday night at TD Garden.
Terry passed another milestone as he became the fourth player in NBA history with more than 1900 3-point field goals. Entering Friday, only Ray Allen (2,841), Reggie Miller (2,560) and Jason Kidd (1,976) have more.
Terry has 1,903 threes. Paul Pierce is 93 behind with 1,810 and in sixth place. Chauncey Billups (1,813) is in fifth place.
|Doc Rivers on Rajon Rondo: 'They say he's doing tremendous'
|03.29.13 at 11:39 pm ET
The Celtics got an added boost on their bench for Friday's showdown with the Hawks.
Rajon Rondo made his first appearance on the sidelines with the team since having season-ending ACL surgery on his right knee.
'It was nice. It was nice," coach Doc Rivers said. "He told us today he was coming in, and it was good to have him back around. He's moving okay. You know, it's funny, I'm looking at it knowing he's nowhere near, but that's the first thing you look at. Having gone through that experience, we sat and talked about a lot of the stuff you have to go through. So, it brought back these horrendous memories, actually. But he's, from his doctors, they say he's doing tremendous.'
Rivers was asked to describe Rondo's spirits while on the sidelines.
'Oh, I don't know, I have no idea," Rivers said. "I mean, I don't care who you are, especially if you're on a team sport I think these types of injuries are very lonely. Very hard, because rehab is all by yourself with some stranger. And you're away from your team. Just brutal rehab. That's what it is. He's been in ' wherever, Jacksonville, wherever, Florida, Pensacola ' and that's tough. His family has been going back and forth. But he's made the commitment and he's been great.'
Asked if Rondo tried to exert himself in the huddle, Rivers laughed, "No, no, no. I told him to be nice. And he was."
The players were the most affected – and inspired – by Rondo's presence.
'Definitely," Paul Pierce said. "It's good to get him around the guys, to see some of his new teammates. Who knows ' a lot of these guys might be here for him next year. It's good for him to get acquainted with them. He's done his surgery, he seems to be in good spirits, so its good to see him.'
"It was fun. It was good to see him. He's got a little fro now," Jeff Green laughed. "It was good to Rondo, glad he's doing well. Wish he were on the court but I think it was a big emotional boost for us to have him on the bench with us."
How big of a boost was it to the players?
"It's big," Green said. "I think a lot of people counted us out when he went down, when Sully [Jared Sullinger] went down, too. But we've been coming together, doing our part, playing hard. We've been talking and he's been seeing things from a different point of view.
"Definitely, most definitely," Green added. "He sees us playing hard and that's all you can do."
Since Rondo had his ACL repaired on February 12, the Celtics have added several new players, including Shav Randolph, DJ Williams, Jordan Crawford (at the trade deadline) and Terrence Williams.
|Three for all: Jeff Green, Jason Terry and Shav Randolph lead C's to key win over Hawks
|03.29.13 at 9:49 pm ET
Shav Randolph picked a fine time for the game of his NBA career. The 29-year-old Duke product had 13 rebounds and nine points, just missing his first career double-double, as the Celtics continued their fight for playoff position with a 118-107 win over the Atlanta Hawks Friday night at TD Garden. The win drew Boston to within 1.5 games of sixth-place Atlanta in the Eastern Conference race, just two games back in the loss column.
With the injured Rajon Rondo watching from the Celtics bench, the Celtics put on an offensive exhibition, led by 27 points from Jeff Green and 24 from Jason Terry. The Celtics shot 11-of-23 from 3-point range, including 5-of-7 from Terry, who paced a big effort from the bench. Paul Pierce picked up a triple-double with a strong fourth-quarter effort. Pierce finished with 20 points, 10 rebounds and 10 assists for the Celtics, who improved to 38-34.
For Pierce, it was his third triple-double of the season and 10th of his career. Another milestone was reached as Terry passed the 1,900 plateau in career 3-pointers, becoming just the fourth player in NBA history to pass the milestone. Terry stands behind only Ray Allen, Reggie Miller and Jason Kidd. Pierce is fifth with 1,810
Thanks to scorching shooting from beyond the arc, the Celtics posted their highest point total of the first half all season when they put up 66 points and raced out to a 66-56 halftime lead.
Leading the charge was Terry, who was 4-for-5 from 3-point range and scored 14 of his team-leading 16 points in the second quarter. Jordan Crawford nailed a three at the first-quarter buzzer and Green answered with 5.8 seconds left in the second as the Celtics seized momentum.
The unsung hero of the first half was Randolph. With Chris Wilcox fighting foul trouble and the Hawks attempting to take advantage of their superior size, Randolph grabbed five rebounds and scored four points. Randolph came into the game with the Celtics trailing, 38-34, with just under 10 minutes left in the second quarter.
When he checked back out eight minutes later, the Celtics had completed a 27-10 run and built a 11-point lead, 61-50.
Randolph thrilled the crowd again in the third quarter when Wilcox picked up his fourth foul with 9:15 left in the quarter. He blocked a Josh Smith shot and hauled in three rebounds, including an offensive put-back during a key run that ended in a Jeff Green three that put Boston up, 83-68, Boston's biggest lead to that point.
The Celtics led comfortably, 98-87, on a Crawford jumper when the Hawks put on a push to get back into the game. The Hawks scored the five points to make it a six-point game before Terry answered with a mid-range jumper. Terry stepped into a three with 5:49 left after a wild loose-ball scramble. That three was Boston's 10th of the night and put them up, 105-94. Green hit a jumper with 5:08 left to stretch the lead back to 13, 107-94.
Green's three with 2:27 left put Boston up, 112-101, sealed Atlanta's fate.The Celtics are off Saturday before playing Sunday night at Madison Square Garden against the Knicks. For complete coverage from the Garden from Mike Petraglia and Ben Rohrbach, visit the Celtics team page at weei.com/celtics.
|Pat Riley to Danny Ainge: 'Shut the F— up and manage' the Celtics
|03.29.13 at 7:11 pm ET
Miami Heat president Pat Riley didn't take kindly to what his counterpart in Boston told WEEI on Thursday.
Danny Ainge told WEEI's Salk & Holley he thought it bordered on embarrassing that LeBron James would complain about foul calls in Miami's 27-game streak-ending loss to the Bulls Wednesday night.
Palm Beach Post columnist Ethan J. Skolnick was among the first to tweet Riley's official reaction, delivered to the media by a team official: "Danny Ainge needs to shut the f— up and manage his own team. He was the biggest whiner going when he was playing and I know that because I coached against him."
Correction to Riley quote: "Danny Ainge needs to shut the f— up and manage his own team." My bad. Typing too fast.
— Ethan J. Skolnick (@EthanJSkolnick) March 29, 2013
James was far more mild-mannered.
"I'm not surprised about anything that comes from Boston," Skolnick tweeted.
Ainge delivered his response to Gary Washburn of the Boston Globe.
"We're both right," Ainge said. "LeBron should stop complaining and I should manage my own team."
Celtics coach Doc Rivers has his own unique perspective. He played for Pat Riley with the Knicks at the end of his career. He tells stories of how tough Riley was on his own players and their conditioning. Rivers also played against Ainge in the prime of his career, when Ainge was on the Celtics and Rivers was on the Celtics.
"Yeah, I think it's funny," Rivers said. "I think it's very interesting. I can relate. It's cool. I think they should duke it out."
Does Friday's exchange add anything to the Celtics-Heat rivalry?
"Not unless they're playing," Rivers said. "Really. I just think it's just talk both ways. I'll just let those two grown men handle their own grown men argument. I'm going to stay out of it. On a side note, it gives me a smile and it's interesting. I think it's fun. It's a flashback."
Rivers wasn't about to pass judgement either way on the fouls called on James at the end of the game with the Bulls on Wednesday.
"I did see those fouls," Rivers said, before being asked what he thought. "I don't know. I'm going to stay out of it."
For more, visit the Celtics team page at weei.com/celtics.
|Courtney Lee returns, Doc Rivers 'has no idea' on Kevin Garnett
|03.29.13 at 6:45 pm ET
Celtics head coach Doc Rivers said Courtney Lee's left ankle had healed enough to return to action Friday night against Atlanta.
"I'm not going to start him, but I'm going to play him," Rivers said. "I'm just going to see the minutes and see how he feels."
Lee took part in Celtics shootaround on Friday morning and was classified as a "game-time" decision afterward.
"He looked OK in shootaround, but he didn't have a practice to fall back on, so who knows and we'll just see," Rivers said.
Lee made his return with 2:46 left in the first quarter and played into the second quarter before coming out again.
Lee injured his left ankle in the final minute of the loss last Friday night in Dallas. He missed the games against Memphis, New York and Cleveland before playing Friday night.
As for Kevin Garnett, Rivers said he had no further update than what Danny Ainge told Salk & Holley on WEEI Thursday afternoon, that "two weeks should be sufficient time" for his left foot to heal."
"I have no idea," Rivers said. "I think two weeks should be enough but if we get to two weeks and it's two-and-a-half, I don't want you guys calling me a liar or anything."
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As the story goes, pardoning a turkey dates back to President Lincoln, when his young son Tad begged his father to let the White House Thanksgiving meal live. On Wednesday, Obama pardons Cobbler and Gobbler.
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Nevada and Morehead State to determine CBI Champion on Friday at Lawlor
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MUSSELMAN ON WEST: "One of the premier rebounders in college basketball. AJ is a double-double threat every night he steps on the floor. A player that opponents have to game plan for every night."
2013-14 (So): Played in 21 games and started 19 after being cleared by the NCAA to play second semester ... In MW play tied for 12th in rebound averaging 7.2 per game, tied third blocking 2.4 shots per game and was third grabbing 4.0 offensive boards per game ... His 72 offensive rebounds in conference play ranks as the fourth best season in MW history ... Scored in double figures seven times including a stretch of four in a row ... Four times grabbed double figure rebounds which topped the team ... Twice had double-doubles at home; 12 points and 12 rebounds against Wyoming along with 10 points and 12 rebounds vs. Air Force ... At Fresno State had 13 rebounds which tied Jerry Evans, Jr. for the high by a Pack player ... Nine times leading the team in rebounding was second on the team ... In the Air Force home overtime victory scored seven consecutive points to break a tie at 56 ... In three consecutive Pack possessions he had offensive rebounds off teammates missed shots and scored seven consecutive points as part of Nevada's 13-0 run to end the game against the AFA ... Season-highs with eight blocks, 13 rebounds and 38 minutes played in the Pack's double overtime 96-86 victory at Fresno State ... The eight blocks tied for the second best total in the MW and is the second best mark in conference play ... The eight blocks was the top performance in at least the last 14 seasons at Nevada ... Scored in double figures in four consecutive games with 15 at SJSU, 12 vs. Wyoming, 11 at UNLV and 11 vs. Utah State ... Scored a season-high 15 points in the MW opener at SJSU.
Played his freshman year at Monroe College in New Rochelle, N.Y. where he helped the Mustangs to a 24-8 record and they lost in the regional final 59-57 ... First-team all-conference ... Averaged 10.9 points, 8.9 rebounds and a nations best 5.1 blocks per game his sophomore season ... Three times he recorded 10 or more blocks in a game and 11 times had double figure rebounds ... In 29 games played he posted eight double-doubles all in scoring and rebounding ... High point total was 28 and top rebounding game was 19 ... Against Harcum he had 20 points and 19 rebounds ... Shot 45 percent from the field.
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Definition of axilla in English:
noun (plural axillae /akˈsɪliː/)
1 Anatomy An armpit, or the corresponding part in a bird or other animal.
Example sentences
- The T2 nerve root controls the palms on either side and the T4 nerve root controls the axilla and armpit.
- A holosystolic murmur that may radiate to the axilla, the upper sternal borders or the subscapular region is apparent on physical examination.
- Extremities showed tenderness over the right shoulder and axilla.
2 Botany An axil.
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- Basal branches emerged from lower axillas and developed earlier.
- In coconut palms, egg-laying occurs at the axillas of the leaves.
Early 17th century: from Latin, diminutive of ala 'wing'.
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Simple Definition of spin–off
: a television program, movie, book, etc., that is based on characters from another television program, movie, book, etc.
: a new company created by a large company
: something useful that results from work done to produce something else
Full Definition of spin–off
1 : the distribution by a business to its stockholders of particular assets and especially of stock of another company; also : the new company created by such a distribution
2 : a collateral or derived product or effect : by-product; also : a number of such products <the spin–off from the space program>
3 : something that is imitative or derivative of an earlier work, product, or establishment; especially : a television show starring a character popular in a secondary role of an earlier show
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Rhymes with spin–off
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Legal Definition of spin–off
: a transfer of corporate assets to a subsidiary in return for a distribution to the shareholders of the corporation of all of the stock or controlling stock of the subsidiary without surrender of any stock by the shareholders of the corporation : a D reorganization involving a distribution of the stock of another company to the corporation's shareholders; also : a new company created by such a distribution — compare split-off, split-up
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Haruki Murakami
Knopf, $30.50, 944 pp.
At the beginning of Haruki Murakami's 1Q84, a taxi driver in 1984 Tokyo suggests that his passenger, a young woman late for an appointment, beat the traffic by stepping out of his cab and walking to the nearest emergency pull-off. He follows his advice with a warning: "After you do something like that, the everyday look of things might seem to change a little. Things may look different to you than they did before. But don't let appearances fool you. There's always only one reality."
"There's always only one reality" isn't something you'd expect to hear in a novel containing telepathic cult leaders, multiple moons, and prescient crows. But within the first few pages of Murakami's mysterious novel, the sentence appears twice, and once in bold type. The words form a seemingly impossible law that the rest of the novel dares us—and its characters—to contradict.
We often take for granted that there are multiple realities. The notion that my experience, your experience, the bottom of the ocean, and the far side of the moon all exist in the same reality is hard to swallow. At the end of a long day, we pick up a novel with the expectation that we are entering another world, or at least another version of this one. But Murakami's taxi driver is not the last character in this book to warn against the ease of parallel worlds. "This is no imitation world, no imaginary world, no metaphysical...
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According to MSNBC, college-age soccer players may show some degree of brain-tissue shrinkage, a small study has found adding to evidence that the sport carries a risk of long-term brain injury.
Some past studies have found that professional and even college-age soccer players are more likely to show problems with memory and attention than non-players.
Have you noticed this at all with your experience in the soccer community?
Wow! Did the article give an explaination as to why soccer?
The article cites:
Among players in the current study, reduced gray matter was seen in a part of the brain called the anterior temporal cortex - which is consistent with effects from repeated knocks to the front of the head.
It's still a matter of debate, though, whether the ordinary knocks involved in "heading" the soccer ball raise the risk of brain injury.
Unfortunetly, a teammate of mine got knocked in the head last night by a shot on goal from really close range. The guy shot it as hard as he could and Pete took it square in the face. He took himself off the field and another teammate (who is an ER doc) checked him out. He had significant vision loss (couldn't make out number of fingers) and blood in the anterior chamber of his eye that made his iris red and raised his ocular pressure. His vision was still blurry today but he should be ok.
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Tawny Frogmouth.On a hot summers day (43.2c at last count) I spotted this guy/gal trying to keep out of the heat. I've heard it at night in my garden, and there's the tell tale signs of their droppings around the veggie garden.5D3 with 300mm f4 + 1.4x TC.
Had the "Invasion of the Bushtits!" today. Huge horde of them blasted through a few times, giving me some opportunities to photograph these hilarious little fuzzballs. The light was terrible, as it was overcast and snowing...and the 7D utterly sucks in this kind of light. But, the birds were fun!
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Been working on my posing techniques using Pavlov's conditioning. Look at my left shoulder...And now my right shoulder please...Had to do some blending as they were too close...those are 17" tall @ 300ppi
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Following yesterday's penetrating discussion in which The View's couchbound thinktank dissected the "hang" and cellulite-to-dimple-free-tissue ratio on display in some unflattering paparazzi photos of Jennifer Love Hewitt's bikini-clad ass, we'd hoped that Whoopi and the gang the matter to bed for good. This week's People, however, gives the embattled rump no quarter; in a cynical, sensationalist move, the magazine has splayed the unfairly persecuted size two's cheeks across its glossy cover, a cynical, sensational move that ensures that the "LOVE HEWITT'S TRUNK: SEXY AND HEALTHY OR TOO FULL OF JUNK? " debate will rage on at least until the supermarket checkout racks are replenished with new tabloid product next Wednesday.
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- Previously: The Ladies Of 'The View' Debate Jennifer Love Hewitt's Ass [Defamer]


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I don't understand how to install the infolinks plugin.
I do not see a zip folder, so I can not upload it to my blog.
Instructions say to download it, but don't you have to upload a zip file?
I had this happen with something else recently and I just passed on it, but this is too important to not get to the bottom of.
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The show, also featuring other Who classics, lands at Salle Wilfrid Pelletier of Place des Arts Sept. 27. Tickets on sale May 19
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Brendan Kelly on the local film and television scene. »
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Don't have a Ph.D in a science field? You don't need one to join other citizen scientists gathering valuable data right here in Los Angeles as part of our BioBlitzes!
On February 27 and March 5, middle and high school students are invited to learn about biodiversity and get trained up on the iNaturalist app in preparation for our countywide BioBlitzes scheduled for Earth Month this April.
Heal the Bay is participating in this year's citywide yard sale! We've done some Fall cleaning, and there are many items that need to go. If you'd like to join in, you may bring stuff from home and sell alongside us, or you can browse all the great things we have to sell.
When: Saturday, September 26th, 2015, 8 a.m. to Noon
Where: Heal the Bay Main Office
1444 9th Street, Santa Monica, CA 90401
Photographer Brenton Spies, Heal the Bay Aquarist José Bacallao and Heal the Bay Watershed Scientist Katherine Pease will host a free, informative discussion on California wetlands restoration, marine wildlife and future programming for the Santa Monica Pier Aquarium. The trio of engaging marine ecology experts will discuss the critical importance of California's coastal
Diversity of California Wetlands began with photographer Brenton Spies's Kickstarter campaign funding his 8-month photographic journey
Plastic pollution is one of the biggest threats to marine environments.
As part of a series called The Next Wave, UCLA has invited Heal the Bay's vice president, Sarah Sikich, to speak with other panelists on plastic pollution in our oceans.
Heal the Bay is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization. All gifts are tax deductible to the fullest extent of the law.


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My Oracle Life of Clubbing & Harmony March 31, 2015Posted by mwidlake in conference, Presenting.
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Last year I promised myself I would do more conferences & presenting and that it would include more events further afield, such as in Europe. I can't say I managed it in 2014 (Liverpool for the UKOUG Tech14 did not count as a foreign country for me, even if I found a couple of the locals hard to understand) but 2015 is proving more successful. I attended the OUG Ireland conference 2 weeks ago, for my first trip to that country, and I learnt recently that I have papers accepted for Harmony 2015. This conference is a joint event between the Oracle user group of Finland, the Oracle user group of Estonia and the Latvian Oracle user group.
The conference is on the 11th and 12th of June in Tallinn, Estonia. I know that a few of my friends I've met in the flesh will also be there but also some people I only know online and who I'm looking forward to meeting for real {and one who I am not sure if I have met in the flesh or not!!!}. That's part of why I like going to conferences; It is nice to get to know people via electronic means but there is nothing like actually being in the same room and chatting, especially if it is relaxing over a coffee, beer or a meal.
However, I am particularly happy to be going to Tallinn as my wife has been there and loves it. We are trying to organise it so that she can come over as well, but she has her own travel commitments that vary from week to week. Sue knows how to say "can you punch my ticket" in Estonian – and she assures me this is not a euphemism for anything.
In case Sue cannot make it, she has given me the book she learnt from, so I can learn Estonian myself:
First I have to learn Russian though… Yes, it's a Russian "How to learn Estonian" book.
Have you any idea how much pleasure she took in doing that to me?
So that is the Harmony. What about the Clubbing? That would be Club Oracle London, which is a user group I mention each time there is a meeting. It is in London in the evening and there are 3 talks, beer, pizza and lots of chat between the crowd & the presenters. I'm doing my Disasters talk at the next meeting on the 30th April. Click that link to register and secure your place, it's free. The other presenters are Svetoslav Gyurov and Dominic Giles. Dom is being particularly brave and is offering to answer any questions people have about the database {"as honestly as I can"}. I've known Dom for years, he used to come over to the place I worked when we were doing a lot of beta testing of Oracle. He secured his place in my admiration by not only thoroughly knowing his stuff but also when he told me off for being pathetic and not pushing the new tech and that I was being a wimp. Utter honesty from the vendor works for me.
I've currently got nothing else organised for 2015 conference-wise (apart from the small issue of helping define the technical content for UKOUG Tech15! So I guess I will be there. Oh, and probably a couple of SIGs). I keep saying I'll try to do Bulgaria but again I'd like to get that to work with going with Sue. And of course, I could put in for Oracle Open World 15, but it's a loooong way to go and costs me a lot. And Larry does not seem to want to talk to me anymore.
Who Plans The Content of UKOUG Tech15? March 26, 2015Posted by mwidlake in conference, Tech15, UKOUG.
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<..Who are the Tech15 committee and my role
….submitting an abstract..>
When you go to a conference like UKOUG Tech15 there are hundreds of talks given over several days and a dozen or so streams. Who decides what is presented and how do they decide?
You do. Well, I'd say you have about 60-70% of the input, if you are a member of the UKOUG (and I know many reading this are not – but you are probably members {via your employer, if not personally} of other user groups. And, if you are not, you can probably benefit from joining one.) The point is, the members of the UK Oracle User Group have a fair say in what gets talked about at the UKOUG conferences. And, though not all are run in the same way, I know several of the large oracle conferences run on similar principles. You also provide the raw material, the proposed talks. That is open to each and every one of you, member or not. Anyone can offer a talk.
What about the other 30-40% of the input? Well, that would be me. {Note, British ironic humour}. As I mentioned in my first post about organising Tech15 I am the Lead for the database area this year, and some people did blame me last year for the content – but being the Lead does not put me in charge. There is a technical committee that decides what they feel should be the overall structure of the conference and have the final 30-40% say in what talks are given.
I'll go into more details about aspect of the paper selection process in future posts, but the general structure is thus:
- The steering committee meet for a kick-off meeting and decide on:
- Who is in which committee (though this is pretty much sorted out before the meeting).
- the general structure of the event – The major areas (Database, Middleware, Development, Business Analytics and Hardware/OS/Engineered), the number of streams each major area gets each day, the length of sessions and if anything is happening outside the main 3 days of the conference.
- How we handle the labeling of topics in our streams (endless discussions there!).
- Topics and considerations that we feel are important to our streams that should be mentioned in the call for papers.
- How we will run the sub-committees and overall committee – again, this is generally known but we look at what we learnt the prior year and change accordingly.
- The call for papers goes out (it will be the 13th April to 10th May this year). This is advertised by the UKOUG, being sent to previous paper submitters, the User Group members and is announced in the UKOUG mailings, tweeted and several other avenues. The committee will have suggested areas to submit for, but what is submitted is up to the presenting community – and this can alter our thoughts on content.
- Judging – From 20th April to close to the Agenda Planning Day, volunteers and members of UKOUG are asked to judge the paper abstracts. These scores are important for the next step…
- Agenda Planning Day – the steering committee members get together and spend pretty much a whole day reviewing the abstracts, the judging scores, the slots available, what we know of the speakers and presentations, the spread of topics, percentage of established and new speakers and half a dozen other things to come up with the rough agenda. It's a bit of a bun fight, but we get there in the end. Every abstract is looked at along with it's judging score.
- Speakers are informed if their papers are accepted, rejected or we would like them as reserves – and the speakers confirm or decline acceptance or reserves (and occasionally question rejections). Sometimes a speaker will be asked if they would modify a submission.
- The technical committees may well try and source some papers where we feel a topic is under-represented or to fit with some other aim (like a stream at a given level).
- Reserves are slotted in to replace any speakers who decline and any clashes, alterations and agenda tweaks are dealt with as they arise.
- The agenda is launched (ie we say what is on it) mid July.
- From the agenda launch to the start of the conference, any paper changes are handled as they come up – usually a speaker pulling out or needing to change dates but occasionally other issues.
Why is it called "Paper Selection" when people are talking? Why do we talk about abstracts? Well, conferences pretty much started off as scientific conferences and you would submit you scientific paper – and then read it out to the conference. The abstract is a brief "why you should read my 35 page argument with long, impressive words for why I think hyaenas are more closely related to cats than dogs" {they are}. We inherit those terms.
So you can see that the steering committee has a fair input, so how do WE get chosen? Fundamentally, it is via a call for volunteers from the UKOUG community. The UKOUG ask people to volunteer in their regular emails to members/volunteers. (Volunteers have to be members of the UKOUG but the membership may well belong to a company. The UKOUG keeps track of the nominated contacts for an organisation, who are responsible for the membership management, but also the individuals who have helped out at any time under that membership. As an example, someone in purchasing or HR may be the nominated contact for the memberships a company has with UKOUG, but it is members of the technical IT staff who come to the events and may start helping out).
The office UKOUG staff/board members may well ask one or two of the experienced volunteers known to them to take a lead and help chose which volunteers to accept. Or, more commonly, to go and pester people they know to step up and volunteer! New volunteers are always part of the mix, we recognise that without new people and perspectives we will stagnate, and they challenge us when we say "we always do it this way".
I have not mentioned Oracle Corporation involvement. Strictly speaking, people from Oracle are not volunteers and are certainly not members. They are Oracle Liaisons. The UKOUG gets good support from Oracle, we have talks from them, we have some SIG meetings in their offices. Oracle Corporation of course is happy to talk about the latest/greatest aspects of Oracle and if they can get us all fired up for an extra cost option, so much the better for them. But the relationship is generally balanced and varies over the years – and is influenced by individuals. Some people who work for Oracle will push to be allowed to help out the UKOUG, some product managers are more than happy to come and give talks about free, standard or old features as well as the shiny new stuff. Others I am sure see us as an annoyance. The input we get from the Oracle Liaisons is very helpful and appreciated – but don't think it buys acceptance of whatever Oracle Corp want. I had to help deal with an Oracle product manager last year who was upset that their area had very few talks. It got as far as them almost demanding some slots. However, the number of talks submitted and the poor judging scores for those few that were told us on the committee that the user community were not currently interested in that topic. So no talks. Faye and I talked it over, I gave the logic and reason and she was good enough to then deal with Upset Product Manager.
I have helped with the agenda planning day a couple of time – I think I got pestered to help way back in 2007 or 8! – and I have been a SIG chair and deputy chair as well as a regular presenter, so I am a known soft-touch for helping the UKOUG. A key aspect to my being the Lead is simply that I have more free time than most other volunteers, so I can be got hold of and can spend a bit of time thinking about things and making decisions. This can be important on the run-up to the actual event as you sometimes need to make decisions quickly and a group discussion may not be the best way to do it. I might check with a couple of others (and I usually do) but the key thing is to make a decision in the timeframe allowed.
So that is who the Agenda Planning committee are and where we fit in. We are volunteers, filtered and guided by some old hands but with new blood each year. We aim to guide and give structure but the talks submitted are what anyone wants to submit. Judging scores by the community are key to paper selection and though Oracle Corp supports they don't get to dictate.
And if all else fails, blame the committee Leads.
Extra session at OUG Ireland – Oracle Lego. March 12, 2015Posted by mwidlake in database design, development, Presenting.
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I'm now doing a second session at OUG Ireland 2015. {This is because one of the accepted speakers had to drop out – it sometimes happens that, despite your best intentions, you can't make the conference and it is better to let them know as soon as you can, as they did}. This will be a talk called "Oracle Lego" and it is one I put together a couple of years ago when I decided to try and do more introductory talks – talks aimed at those who are not {yet} experts and who I think tend to get ignored by most conference and user group agenda. So it is aimed at those new to oracle or experts in other areas who have never really touched on the subject.
"Oracle Lego" is about the basics of database design. I have a personal soap box I occasionally get on that very little real database design seems to occur these days. There are exceptions, but often the database design seems to be a quick brain-dump of what the developers or business analysts know they need to store information about and the first-cut set of tables gets created – and then endlessly modified as the development rolls on.
Guess what, we don't build houses, cars, ships, bridges or garden sheds like that – and there is a reason. If you build things piecemeal as you go along and with bits you either have to hand or have to quickly get, you end up with a pretty poor shed. In fact you don't end up with a shed, you end up with a shack. With a leaking roof and a door that hits the potting table when you open it. I don't want a shack and I never, ever want to go over a bridge or sail in a ship built "on the hoof" like that!
Further, just as with a proper architectural or engineering design, a database design does not fix the solution in stone, there is still scope for modification. A bespoke house plan gets tweaked and modified as you do the build and you realise what can be improved when you see it – but you do not suddenly decide to dig out a basement and change from wood walls to stone when you have already constructed the ground floor! I've seen database "designs" like this.
There is also more to doing a database design than coming up with tables that hold the records we want to store: We might want to consider if storing similar things in the same table could be better than a table for each "type" of something; How we index those tables and relate them together can have a huge impact on how easy it is to get the data out and store it in the first place; The expected volume and life cycle of the data may require us to consider eg archiving; The very-much-ignored aspect of physical placement of data and clustering of data.
You can spend weeks dedicated to learning about database design – but you can also learn a lot in 60 minutes, ie the basics. And it really is like Lego – once you know the basics you can build up a really complex design. And you learn stuff doing it (and turning it into a real system), just like you do the first time you build a Lego robot (or dog or house or car or bridge or spaceship or whatever). So the second time you build your Lego robot you use the same design basics and layer on top what you learnt last time.
So that is the aim of this talk, the basics of database design.
The strange thing is, last time I did this talk I asked the audience how much database design they did. Every single one of them was already an experienced and capable database designer! So why had they come to this intro talk? They had three reasons:
- It was the only talk on database design at the conference, and one more than they were used to getting.
- They had picked up their database design skills on-the-job and thought a "reminder" of the basics would be good.
- It was cold outside and all the other talks appealed less.
So, this time I am hoping some of the audience is new to database design and I get to teach them great stuff they did not know. If it is all experts again, I think I'll have to retire this particular intro talk, at least for conferences.
As you can see from the agenda grid here, I'll be talking at 10:15. You can't link to an abstract of the talk yet, that just needs to be twiddled into place.
Update – Peter Scott stopped by this blog and it prompted a thought. He felt it was too much at a tangent to add as a comment but I felt it was a very valid and valuable point – so check it out over here on his blog.
BTW Pete has started blogging more, on his thoughts and opinions on Data Warehousing. Personally I think it is worth catching them.
{Oh, and in case any lawyers stop by, "Lego" is of course the copyright name of a popular plastic construction toy, made by the Danish company The Lego Group, that children love playing with and adults hate walking on in bare feet. Did anyone not know that?!?! I have no link to The Lego Group and no plastic bricks will form part of my talk.}
Useful list of Oracle Conferences and Call For Papers March 9, 2015Posted by mwidlake in conference, Tech15.
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Do you want to know what Oracle conferences are run, where they are and when? Do you present (or are thinking of presenting) and want to know when the call for papers is open?
Then go and look at Jan Karremans' excellent page on oracle conferences.
It lists most (all?) of the European and US conferences and is a really useful reference – I've not come across a similar, maintained list. The below is a static screen shot of part of the list, current of today – but visit the page to see the full, maintained list.
If you spot that a conference you know about (or are helping organise!) is missing, then Jan is happy to be contacted via the page and he will add the details.
Return of the Disasters – OUG Ireland 2015 February 23, 2015Posted by mwidlake in conference, Presenting.
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In just under a month I'll be off to Dublin for the 2015 OUG Ireland conference. It takes place on Thursday the 19th of March. I'm doing my favorite presentation to present, on I.T. disasters I have witnessed and what you can learn from them (so now the title of this blog makes sense and maybe is not as exciting as it suggested). It is also the talk I get most nervous about doing. I tend to put a bit of humour into any presentation I do but if it is predominantly a technical talk, it's fine if the humour falls flat. When I am intending to be entertaining, as I do with this one, there is more at stake!
Back in the mid-2000's I used to do this talk once or twice a year but these days it tends not to get accepted for conferences. I suspect it is partly as I had done it a good few times and partly as it is hard to place it under the categories Oracle Technical conferences have. Is it technical? Is it project management? Is it entertainment? It is actually a bit of all of them. They are all true stories and each one highlights how we should not do things, be it some of the pitfalls of project management or where disaster tolerant hardware turned out not to be.
I've mentioned this presentation a couple of times in my blog. Once early on in 2009 when no one came by here very often, where I go into why I toned down the talk {concern over impact on my career/perceived professionalism} for a while and the impact of that decision {a bland and rather poor talk}. It crops up again in a post in 2013, which I think is the last time I gave this talk. I am not sure I did a very good job of it then either, as I was not well during that trip (not helped by rough seas but I was ill for other reasons). Thus I am looking forward to giving it another airing and, as I no longer worry too much about the career, I might just let rip a little more. I have a few more disasters under my belt since I originally wrote the talk, so I might include one or two of them…
The OUG Ireland conference itself is a fair-sized event, running from 09:00 to 17:30 or so, with 7 concurrent tracks covering Applications, Cloud, BI, Database and Development. I'm astounded by the number of Oracle Aces, Oaktable members and other top knowledge sharers who will be presenting {Update – Brendan Tierney has put together a list of all ACEs presenting}. I'll have several hard decisions about which talk I go to at any given time. I'll certainly be at Maria Colgan's Tech keynote at the end of the day though, I'm hoping for another offer of a date*😉.
To my shame, I have never been to Ireland before and it's only just over there {points West}, about 90 minutes by plane. So I am turning up Wednesday lunch time and staying to late Friday afternoon so that I can look around and spend some time with fellow presenting friends (and anyone else who I bump into).
All in all, it is a trip I am greatly looking forward to for various reasons. If you can get along I encourage you to do so. And, if you are there and see me around, come and say "hi".
{* Note to lawyers, this is an in-joke}.
Learning for free – UK User Group Meetings Coming Up February 20, 2015Posted by mwidlake in conference, UKOUG.
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There are a few user group meetings coming up in the UK over the next week or two.
Note, you need to register to attend any of these, follow the links.
First is Club Oracle London, which are evening sessions held in London with 3 talks plus free beer and pizza. The next meeting is Thursday Feb 26th at 103a Oxford Street, kicking off at 18:30. You can register for this free event here and also see more details. In brief, Simon Haslam is talking about Oracle Database Appliance, Martin Bach on 12C new features the marketing guys don't push and finally Phil Brown giving a virtualisation case study, how NOT to do it.
On the 3rd March there is the 8th meeting of Oracle Midlands – again an evening event but this one is in Birmingham. Again, it's free and samosas {lots of samosas!} turn up half way through to keep you going. Held at Innovation Birmingham near Aston University, there will be Chris Saxon on using Edition Based Redefinition to release PL/SQL to busy systems (ie the PL/SQL code is constantly being executed) and Tim Hall talking about Pluggable Database and why this new feature can "break" things. Tim is good enough to say how you fix the broken (I wonder if the single logwriter will crop up?). They give away some free stuff too!
Finally, on the 4th March and back in London there is the next next UKOUG RAC, Cloud, Infrastructure & Availability SIG. Bit of a mouthful that but we can't come up with a snappy name that covers the remit of the SIG. We are trying a new format for this SIG, inspired by the two above events. We still have a full-day's-worth of content but we start at 15:00 and go on into 20:00 in the evening. We hope that this will allow more people to attend without feeling they need to lose the whole working day to it. NB this event is free to UKOUG members but you can pay to come if you (or usually your employer) are not a member. We have talks by Jason Arneil on 12C ASM, Dave Burnham talking about free text searching, David Hickson presenting on linux OS resource management and Jamie Wallis from Oracle on TFA – Diagnostics for the Cloud. Plus a panel session where we discuss whatever you want to discuss!
I'll be along to Club Oracle London and the RAC CIA SIG but sadly not Oracle Midlands – just can't squeeze it in which is a real shame as it's an excellent event.
If time, travel requirements and inclination allow, there are usually beers at a local pub after all the above where you can continue to talk about oracle stuff. Or not. It's usually a mix
Finally, a quick plug for the OUG Ireland on 19th March. This is a full, one-day conference with more speakers than I can cover, held in Dublin. There are loads of excellent presenters, many are Oracle Aces, Oaktable members and experts in their field. I'll be there doing my favorite talk, but I'll do a separate blog about that.
UKOUG Tech14 Suggestions for Intro Talks and My Picks of the Rest December 4, 2014Posted by mwidlake in conference, Meeting notes, UKOUG.
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As I mentioned in my last post, we tried to organise a thread of intro talks into day one and two of this year's UKOUG Tech14 conference (you can see the agenda grid here). It was not complete but I thought I should pull it into it's own post and add in what I would recommend from the overall agenda for people who are relatively new to Oracle RDBMS.
Monday 8th
- 08:50 – Welcome and Introduction
- Get there in time for the intro if you can, as if you are newish to the tech you are probably newish to a conference.
- 09:00 RMAN the basics, by Michael Abbey.
- If you are a DBA type, backup/recovery is your number one concern.
- 10:00 – How Oracle Works in 50 Minutes
- My attempt to cover the basic architecture in under an hour.
- 11:30 – All about Joins by Tony Hasler
- Top presenter, always good content
- 12:30 – Lunch. Go and talk to people, lots of people, find some people you might like to talk with again.
- 13:20 – Go to the Oracle Keynote.
- The keynote itself is shorter than normal and afterit there is a panel discussion by technical experts.
- 14:30 is a bit tricky. Tim Hall on Analytical Functions is maybe a bit advanced, but Tim is a brilliant teacher and it is an intro to the subject. Failing that, I'd suggest the Oracle Enterprise Manager round table hosted by Dev Nayak as Database-centric oracle people should know OEM.
- 16:00 – Again a bit tricky for someone new but I'd plump for The role of Privileges and Roles in Oracle 12C by Carl Dudley. He lectures (lectured?) in database technology and knows his stuff, but this is a New Feature talk…
- 17:00 – Tuning by Explain Plan by Arian Stijf
- This is a step-by-step guide to understanding the most common tool used for performance tuning
- 17:50 onwards – go to the exhibition drinks, the community drinks and just make friends. One of the best thing to come out of conferences is meeting people and swapping stories.
Tuesday 9th
- 09:30 Maria ColganTop 5 things you need to know about Oracle Database in-Memory Option
- This is actually the Database technical keynote, about one of the key new technologies.
- 10:30 Introduction to Oracle Application Express by Joel Kallman
- APEX, as it is often called, is a simple but powerful way to develop applications. It's probably THE most common thing that DBA-types don't know and wish they did?
- 12:00 If you know any Java then Jacob Landlust on What all DBAs need to understand about JDBC Configuration or else Pete Finnigan on Secure, Review & Lock Down your Oracle Database.
- 14:00 Chris Lawless on Zero Downtime Migrations using logical Replication
- Good as he covers the principals of such things which teachers you a lot
- 15:00 A bit of a struggle for a general Intro talk so I will plump for…Tim Gorman on RDBMS Forensics: Troubleshooting Using ASH as I know Tim will explain why understanding and solving performance issues is a science, not an art
- 16:30 Tom Kyte on SQL is the best Development Language for Big Data
- If you are new to Oracle, you pretty much have to go to at least one Tom Kyte presentation.
- 17:30 Jonathan Lewis Five Hints for Efficient SQL
- If you are new to Oracle, you pretty much have to go to at least one Jonathan Lewis presentation
Oh, what the heck…
Wednesday 10th
- 09:00 Jonathan Lewis Fundamentals of trouble shooting Pt1
- 10:00 Jonathan Lewis Fundamentals of trouble shooting Pt2
- 11:30 Tim Gorman on three types of table compression
- 12:30 Tom Kyte More things about Oracle Database 12C
- 14:30 Alex Nuijten Oracle 12C for developers
- 15:30 Neil Chandler Goldengate – Migrating my first TB
Each year I struggle more and more to get to all the talks I want to, partly as there are so many clashes of good talks but also I end up in interesting conversations with old friends and suddenly realise I've missed a talk. Or my brain hits "full" and I have to take a breather.
However, my intended agenda is:
- 08:50 Welcome and Intro to delegates prior to…
- 09:00 Martin Bach on Oracle 12C features that didn't make the marketing top 10
- 10:00 Myself, HOw Oracle works in 50 minutes
- 11:00 Coffee and recovering!
- 11:30 Hmm, I want to go to four… Maybe Robyn Sands, Why Solid SQL still delivers the best ROI.
- 13:30 Oracle Keynote panel
- 14:30 Tom Hall on Analytical Functions..Or maybe Larry Carpenter on Active Data Guard…
- 16:00 Antti Koskinen , Undocumented 11g.12c Features Internals
- 17:00 Graham Wood, AWR: looking Beyond the Wait Events and Top SQL
- 09:30 I have the pleasure of chairing Maria Colgan's Database Keynote, Top Five Things you need to know about Oracle Database in-Memory option
- 10:30 Joze Senegacnik, Most common Databse Configuration Mistakes
- 12:00 Richard Foote, Oracle database 12XC New Indexing Features
- 14:00 Damn… I'll plump for Maria Colgan on IN-memory and the optimizer. Sorry Tim and Chris
- 15:00 Now Tim, on RDBMS Forensics and Ash
- 16:30 Chris Antognini on adaptive query optimization
- 17:30 it better be Pete Sharman, hot over from Aus, doing deployment best practices for Private cloud, as I am chairing him
- 09:00 Patrick Hurley, Adventures in Database Administration.
- 10:00 Me, on boosting performance by clustering data
- 11:30 Richard Foote, indexing in Exadata
- 12:30 Tom Kyte, More things about Oracle 12C
- 14:30 chairing Ganco Dimitriov on the importance of having an appropriate data segmentation
- 15:30 Last one, 3 to chose from… Neil Chandler on Goldengate I think
Drive home and sleep
Conferences and the Etiquette of Meeting New People November 25, 2014Posted by mwidlake in conference, Perceptions.
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One of the reasons I like user group conferences is meeting new people in my "area" – these people at the conference not only like technology and probably some of the same technology I do but, as they are at a conference, are probably inclined to learn stuff, meet people and maybe share ideas. I'm not actually very good face-to-face socially with people I do not know, so I like to tilt things in my favour if I can!
But sometimes you have odd experiences.
I was at a conference a couple of years back that was not in the UK. I was loving it as I was meeting some people I knew electronically but never met and others who I had only met when they visited UK conferences – but most people I had no real connection to, so I was a bit quiet (yes, loud-mouthed, always-comments-in-talks me was quiet), especially as it was the first day. I was late for the lunch event, I don't remember why, but it was a little unusual for being a sit-down meal and there was to be some meet-the-expert tables and I wanted to be able to identify some people I knew by name and never met. The big signs on tables would be a bit of a help there.
As I came in I saw half the tables were full and most of my friends were already on a full table. I wandered over to a half-full table and as I sat down I said "Hello, I'm Martin Widlake, How you doing?" or whatever to the half-dozen guys there. They all looked at me. A couple nodded or said "hi" but one said "We've got other friends turning up soon". Hmm, that was code for "sod off", I think.
I turned on the full English Accent so they could tell I was not from around those parts. "That's nice – always good to have friends when you are at a conference….especially one where you don't know many people?". Some smiled, they all understood my mild reprimand. Mr Friendly who had mentioned all his other friends did not smile though. After this opening "chat" no one else really said anything more to me.
The Starter turned up and the guys all spoke to each other – and ignored me. Some other lone gun wandered up and asked me if he could sit next to me – "Sure, feel free – I'm Martin Widlake, I'm from the UK". He introduced himself and sat down. Mr Friendly piped up "There are more people joining us at this table, I'm not sure there is gonna be room". Some of his already-present friends had the decency to look a bit apologetic and I simply said "Well, it's pretty full on all the tables now – and he's got his starter" as the waitress put down a plate. And I pointedly started talking to the new chap.
Main turns up and so do a couple of late members for Mr Friendly's group, who sat down at the remaining spare seats. "I told you" he said "you might have to move".
I'm losing my patience a bit now. "Well they can sit somewhere else I'm sure, seeing as they are late."
Mr Friendly is getting angry "I warned you when you sat down – when the others turn up, you'll move".
"I won't move, this is my seat. I'm staying here".
"Who the hell do you think you are?" demands Mr Friendly. Oh, thank you, I think to myself. I'm so going to enjoy this….
"Well, I did introduce myself when I arrived and…." pointing to the large sign with 'Martin Widlake' on it above the table "there is a large reminder of my name just there". I paused a couple of seconds before adding "So this is my seat and my table and I'm kind of obliged to stay here, whether you want to talk to me or not".
Maybe I could have handled the situation better from the start and stressed that the reason why I was staying was I was supposed to sit at my table. But I was smarting a little from the fact that no one apparently wanted to come to my table and talk to me. Maybe not surprising, as I don't think I had done a presentation at the conference at that point – but my massive ego was already bruised.
So what about the etiquette of meeting people at conferences? It was just a title for a story I felt like telling…
However, there are a couple of things I do want to mention about the etiquette of meeting people at conferences. If you do not know many people there – just talk to people. People you don't know. Just make a few observational or open comments, nothing to direct – "This queue for the coffee is a bit long", "Have you seen any good/bad presentations yet?", "what do you think about ansii join syntax" (OK, last one is a bad suggestion). Most people will respond and those that do not are probably just very nervous – more nervous than you! – and almost no one will be like Mr Friendly above. And if they are like Mr Friendly, where there are a few hundred other people you can go and try the odd comment on to see if you get a response.
At the social events you can see dozens and dozens of people just at the side or wandering around, not speaking to anyone. If you are one of them, few people are likely to come up to you and start a conversation (I've tried approaching the odd lone person but I stopped when I got Seriously Stalked at one of the UKOUG conferences). But if you go talk to other people, most of us will respond. And if someone does respond – Don't stalk them!!! – have a conversation and then, having found it is possible, go and try some other people. The next day, if you see the people who responded last night, go and have a small chat again. But Don't stalk them!!!.
Finally, talk to the presenters. We are actually the easy targets and not the hard ones. Those of us who present tend to be attention seekers so we are happy for you to come up and chat. And if you pretend you liked our talks we will certainly warm to you, so it's an easy opening. However, it's not like we are pop-stars or TV celebrities, we are just average people and you can come and chat to us (actually, I feel the same about pop-stars and TV celebrities, I don't get easily star-struck but I know a lot of people do, even over Oracle Names).
But Don't stalk them!!!.
And if someone insists on joining you at a table that has a name above it – listen carefully when they introduce themselves…
Conference Organisation from the Inside – UKOUG Tech14 November 20, 2014Posted by mwidlake in conference, Meeting notes, Presenting, UKOUG.
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An interesting experience I have had this year is being more involved in helping organise the annual UKOUG Oracle Technical Conference – Tech14. I fully intended to blog about things as we progressed, but it never happened got going so I did not.. But I thought it would be interesting to do a couple of blogs about it now, for anyone interested, as the conference itself approaches.
If you have never helped organise a conference or user group meeting then you probably think there is not a lot of work involved. You would be quite wrong. If you have been a volunteer at one, as in you have presented or chaired sessions, then you will have more understanding – but still probably fall short of the mark in estimating the effort involved. There is a lot involved.
The UKOUG is, I think, the largest Oracle User Group in the world and the annual conference has grown significantly since I first got involved around the turn of the millennium {which is now quite a while back – yes, we are all getting quite old}. In fact, it is now a set of conferences and events dedicated to Oracle E-Business suite, JD Edwards, PeopleSoft, Hyperion and regional conferences for Ireland and Scotland (sorry Wales) as well as the annual technical event that used to be the single conference. This year Tech14 is in the same location as Apps14, which covers most of the application areas I just mentioned. I rather like the fact we are returning to being in the same place but still have two events as it matches the reality of the two groups. There is a lot of cross-over between apps and tech for some of us whereas for many, you belong in one camp or the other. It's a bit like do you like football or rugby…
So where did I fit into the picture? Each year the UKOUG approach some of it's volunteers and asks them if they would mind giving them a little bit of help with the conference that year. Any that do not run away quickly are corralled into a room at head office in Wimbledon and bribed them with tea, coffee and biscuits. We are arranged into being the content committees for various areas. I was part of the committee for the Database stream and ended up being the Chair. This does not make me any more significant, it just means if someone has to make a decision when the committee is split or they just want a quick answer to a question (such as "can Dave swap his presentation slot with Senthil's"), then it will be me the office contacts. OK, I suppose it means I have a little more input but as everything is open, others on the database committee (or others) can cry foul.
There are also committees for Middleware, Development, OS & Engineered systems, Business analytics… I am sure I have forgotten one! In many ways the Database stream is easiest as I do not think it has as broad a remit as, for example, development, and the core database is the core database. But we also have the largest community and thus the largest number of papers put forward and streams to organise.
So What do the committees do? Our responsibility is primarily to agree on the technical content of our steams. ie What presentations go into it, the order of them, plan any threads or themes to run through a day or several days and ensure that at any given time there are talks, roundtables and workshops across a spectrum of topics and not 4 all on backups or ADF. Sounds easy? No, it's not. I'll go into why in a later post.
We also help with decisions about wider issues for the conference – when the keynotes occur, who to ask to do the keynotes, the evening events and some wider issues like that. However, the actual location and timing of the event is set in stone before we get involved – it has to be as those major decisions have to be made over a year in advance. Personally, I think the venue at The Liverpool ACC is a good one. I can understand some people feeling Liverpool is a bit far to go but in reality it only takes an hour or two longer to get there than to what was the traditional home of the conference in Birmingham. And frankly, I was tired of Birmingham and the usual pub I ended up in was getting truly ratty and unpleasant. The ACC is at Albert Doc and a lot of bars, restaurants and ,I suspect, nightclubs (for those who like loud music and terrible lager at a premium price) are in the area.
Most of the work planning the actual conference is of course done by the office staff and I know that for smaller user groups all the work is done by volunteers – I've done a couple of myself too – so some of you might think we volunteers for the UKOUG conference have it a bit easy. But the conference is massive and we do {most of us} have proper jobs to do too. So if something is not as you would like at the UKOUG conference, or in fact at any conference, it is probably not through lack of effort. Just let us know {nicely, please} and we will try and not make the same mistake next time.
Audio semi-Visual Presentation on Clustering Data in Oracle November 12, 2014Posted by mwidlake in performance, Presenting, SQL.
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I suppose it had to happen eventually but one of my presentations has ended up on YouTube. It's a recent presentation I did for the Oracle Midlands user group in September.
The topic is (as the title of this blog post hints at!)Boosting select performance by clustering data. The video consists of the slides I presented, changing as the presentation progresses, with my audio over the top. It goes on for a bit, close to an hour, but you could watch a section and then go and do something else before watching a bit more.
I have to say, it is very odd hearing my voice (and the slight touch of the "brummie" {Birmingham} accent coming through) and I do wince at the places where I blather or say something slightly wrong or make a joke that involved a visual element that is lost. Oh well, at least you don't see me wandering around and jumping up,literally, to point out bits on the slides.
I'm glad to say I will be repeating a slightly more polished version of the presentation at this year's UKOUG Tech14 conference in December. I was a bit under the weather back on September the 16th, due to having just returned to the Working Life, and with this perfect example of what I did then I should be able to make the next shot at it a cracker… maybe.
On the topic of Oracle Midlands, I like this user group that is run by Mike Mckay Dirden, the meetings consist of evening presentations in Birmingham with a bit of support from Redgate. This includes half-time samosas to keep you going. The next meeting is described here and is on Tuesday 25th November. This meeting has two presentations by my friend Bjoern Rost, who is an Oracle Ace Director {gasps of appreciation from the audience} and a consummate presenter. I wish I could make it there as I would like to share a pint with Bjoern (well, he'll have wine or a cocktail I suspect as he is not a beer fan) as well as some of my other friends up that part of the country.


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