This page presents the geographical name data for Skinner Ridge in Antarctica, as supplied by the US military intelligence in electronic format, including the geographic coordinates and place name in various forms, latin, roman and native characters, and its location in its respective country's administrative division.
Description (see definition): A ridge, 12 mi long, that descends southwestward from the western side of Eisenhower Range in Victoria Land. Mounts Fenton and Mackintosh are astride the northern part of this ridge. The feature was visited by the Southern Party of the New Zealand Geological Survey Antarctic Expedition (NZGSAE) (1962-63), who named it for D.N.B. Skinner, geologist with the expedition.
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Salsa is a popular Latin dance, but there are many styles. These steps will walk you through Los Angeles-style salsa.
Step 1: Start a cross body lead. The leader steps forward with the left foot on one, then steps right and left on two and three while turning 90 degrees counter-clockwise. Hold on four.
Step 2: The follower then step forward on five and six and turns on seven and eight, as the leader turns another 90 degrees counter-clockwise. At the end of the cross body lead, the leader and follower have exchanged their positions.
Step 3: Spice up the dance by adding more turns and dips. LA-style is the most flamboyant style of salsa.
FACT: Salsa evolved as a combination of many Latin and Afro-Caribbean dances.
Step 4: Finish the footwork by pausing on the fourth beat. Step back on the fifth beat with the right foot, rock back with the left foot on six, then step back together with your right foot on seven. Pause on eight.
Step 5: Continue the footwork with the leader rocking back on his right foot on the second beat while the left foot is still forward. On the third beat, the leader steps back with his left foot.
Step 6: Get into position. The leader, typically the man, takes the woman's right hand with his left and places his right hand on her back. She places her left hand on his shoulder.
Step 7: Begin the dance with the leader stepping forward with his left foot on the first beat. The woman steps back on her right.
TIP: LA-style salsa is also called on-one style because of the foot pattern.


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Artist uses talent to transform pediatric helmets into adorable works of art
Artist Paula Strawn is using her talents to help destigmatize and transform baby helmets into wonderful and adorable works of art.
Author: Andie Judson
Published: 10:27 AM CDT October 1, 2019
Updated: 12:58 PM CDT October 3, 2019
From childhood to current day, Paula Strawn has always been referred to as an artist.
Her talent quickly got her labeled among family and friends as the go-to person for any creative need.
"[It was like,] 'You want it painted? I will do that thing! Whatever it is,'" said Paula.
But one request led Paula down an unanticipated life path: painting baby helmets.
When Paula wasn't doing art herself, she was helping others find their creativity. She often volunteered doing art in her children's classroom. Her child's teacher, Cathy Everett, had a special request; She asked Paula to paint her baby granddaughter's pediatric helmet.
"She was like, 'Paint this ugly thing!'" Paula recalled. "And I was like, 'Okay!'"
Like thousands of infants, Everett's grandchild had plagiocephaly. It is a common, treatable disorder where there is a flat spot on a baby's head.
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According to the Boston Children's Hospital, plagiocephaly develops when an infant's soft skull becomes flattened in one area, due to repeated pressure on one part of the head. Many babies develop plagiocephaly by sleeping regularly in one position. The helmet is used to help form abnormal head/skull shape.
With the flick of a paintbrush, Paula created a pink floral pattern around the helmet.
When the baby's doctor saw her colorful helmet, he loved it and wanted to offer Paula's service to other patients.
"He saw value in having the helmet painted for his clients," said Paula. "It was just one of those snowball things… and now it's virtually 99-percent of what I do is paint for babies! Which is the best job ever."
As Paula's design were modeled by more and more babies, orders began coming in from all over the world.
The demand for Paula's helmets was so great she dedicated her business, Lazardo Art, to the craft.
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"It's like, 'Who knew? Who knew?!' I didn't wake up one day and thought, 'I'm going to get into the helmet business,'" Paula said. "It's just a really happy thing being able to do this."
Every helmet is custom painted. Paula works with each client to custom create a unique design. Since the helmet cannot be off the child for long, clients ship the helmet and Paula paints each one overnight, then return ships it the following day.
Photos: Artist uses gift to make baby helmets happy
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Some of her most beloved designs are the aviator helmet, motorcycle helmet, Captain America helmet, street art designs, Where the Wild Things Are artwork and sports-related helmets.
Despite the quick turn around and grueling schedule, Paula adores her work.
"That's what I love about the art that I've been able to do in my life, it's always been for other people," Paula said with tears in her eyes. "It's been able to make other people happy. That's why I've got the best job!"
Paula also loves that her artwork is helping destigmatize the use of baby helmets. She said when most people see a baby wearing a helmet, they take pity or become concerned with the child's well being.
Rather than garnering stares and questions about the helmets, Paula's artwork helps bring smiles, waves and positive affirmations to the baby and their family.
"It's such a worthwhile thing to see babies look so cute and happy and parents be overjoyed and be able to have conversations with people where the person is looking at the helmet saying, 'That is so cute! What is this for?' They're not saying, 'Oh my gosh your poor baby,'" Paula said.
But Paula's favorite part of her job is the fact that her helmets make people smile at babies, therefore making babies smile.
"I love that I'm bringing smiles into the world," she said.
For more information or to visit Lazardo Art's website, click here.

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WSWS (2019-02-01). Halil Celik, a fighter for socialism (1961-2018). wsws.org On December 31, 2018, Halil Celik, founder and leader of the group Sosyalist Eşitlik, which supports the International Committee of the Fourth International in Turkey, died of cancer at the age of 57. This obituary presents an overview of his life.
Party for Socialism and Liberation (2019-02-01). Socialist Analysis "The Ruling Class vs. Workers' Power" indybay.org 2969 Mission St., near 26th St.
RT (2019-01-31). Orthodox canon 'not a weapon for conquest': American Synod rejects new church in Ukraine. rt.com The Orthodox Church in America (OCA) has released a letter to its clergy and congregation announcing that they will not recognize the new Orthodox Church in Ukraine and denouncing those who treat the faith as a political tool.
Brendan Oswald (2019-01-27). Paul Manafort in Ukraine. progressive.org An adventure that wrecked a country.


An online weather page in the hamlet of Kimmirut, (pop. 460), located in Canada's eastern Arctic territory of Nunavut, is so popular it's about to welcome its one-millionth visitor.
Cameron Bobinski launched www.kimmirutweather.com back in 2006.
Since then, he's logged 966,796 visitors to the page, and says he gets calls from across Nunavut and around the world.
Bobinski says many people like to keep an eye on the weather in the South Baffin community, including pilots who fly in and out of the hamlet, and "especially former Kimmirut residents who have moved away," he told the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC).
The main attraction on the page is a weather cam that refreshes every 15 minutes. The camera, lodged inside Bobinski's house, looks through the community and out into the bay, which is frozen most of the year. Bobinski's wife, Syula, also posts pictures from around the community.
Bobinski also broadcasts everything you could want to know about the weather, including barometric pressure, windspeed and data on sunrise and sunset (9:15 a.m. and 2:02 p.m. today).
Bobinski says Santa Claus may be involved in today's weather forecast.
He says Santa always arrives in Kimmirut on Christmas Eve to give gifts to all the children in the community.


It's been a long time finally that there has ever been any activity on the blog, and I regret sincerely. But now I should very much like to be back again, so I can be a little more active. For although I was a stay lasting between 16-20th February, so I thought that there was something interesting to tell. In Denmark (on my part) happens not sincerely much, and it's just typical private visit and time with the family which has been prioritized.
But it was again sidetracked. On Tuesday, had one of my colleagues birthday, so she decided to invite us all to her celebration at a bar. The bar is called as said Cafe Reise Bar, and is located close to the main railway station in Hamburg-Altona. Here it was now very cozy. Although I was in theory not felt to go (had slept two hours and a stressful working day), so I thought anyway, that it would be syndt if I was away. Almost all of our international team was there, so around 15.
But oh my, how is it good enough not much cheaper than it is in Denmark. It is also clear when Altona is filled with tourists.
In this picture there is a plate of nachos with cheese, jalapenos and of course dip 🙂 I feel certain enough that I gave € 5.9 for this dish. Alongside is a so-called Singapore Sling for € 6.9 in Happy Hour. Normally it costs € 9.
Or can it also be that I have simply been such a long time away from Denmark that I can not even ærindre prices more.
Otherwise, they just formed as biscuits and place on a baking sheet with wax paper. Depending on the thickness, so varies the time. I never took the time on them, but I guess that each plate took on average 20 minutes.
If you want to spice it up a bit, you can add other fruits or something dark chocolate. There are many things you can add.
There are many things that are quite so great about staying here in Hamburg. Everything is cheap! It is first of all that which I consider important. But it is unfortunately only food or everyday products. Otherwise, apartments and much more is now also quite expensive when speaking of taxes, health insurance and blah blah blah … And I almost can not live without the subway. Then in November I was in Denmark that I was the need to use the car. It was good enough practice. Here one can just take the train just so crazy you want, and it takes the no time. Another good thing is that everything is almost just around the corner. I have 5 supermarkets lying within a radius of 500 meters (approx) from my apartment.
However, there is unfortunately also some bad things …. THERE ARE STORES EVERYWHERE … And unfortunately there's talk about shopping malls, clothing stores, restaurants and everything hubbub.
But it does so, that I can not find out the cook, who usually takes a long time. I make maximum fresh food in 30 minutes. And it is this an example of. It is now very simple, and that is what I love. After working out, you are typically quite hungry. And a protein shake and a banana is not enough for my monster belly. The shouts almost after some food.
And it's really just that. 2 pans, and begin to start playing! It is quite easy, and it is also healthy. There has been used olive oil for both cooking of the salmon and scrambled eggs. By use of olive oil, then the breaded salmon so lovely crisp.


As part of the inaugural East Suffolk Business Festival, we will be hosting the opening event and talking about our work over the last 2 years, showing excerpts from productions that have visited our county and talking about how filming can help your business and local area.
The event will start with an official welcome from Council leaders as part of the overall launch of the Business Festival and then we will take over. You will hear from industry experts and local businesses that have benefited from recent filming and how you can get involved in this exciting industry.


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Even though it's very cold in NJ during the winter time, you do have the opportunity for beautiful photos on your wedding day.
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Text messaging has been very popular not just to the teens but also to children and adults as well. This is because almost everybody has a cellular phone regardless of age. This type of messaging is good. Besides, it serves several purposes.
Messaging is used for family contacts. The common usage of text messaging today is for the family members to stay intact. Most parents just send text messages to their children to inform something, to ask, or even to look for them. This messaging used for family members is a great way to keep track of where their children are whenever they go home late.
Messaging is used for friends and other people's contacts. People use text messaging just to send updates, messages, quotes,or anything else to other people. This is commonly used by high school students before the popularity of online communication boosted. Even though online is more usable today as a means of communication, it cannot ever replaced how text messaging brings convenient at any place and even without the use of internet connections.
Messaging is used for work contacts. If you are an employee of whatever kind of work, you surely need a contact to your head or even your co employees. This is to communicate easily if some important information needs to be disseminated.
Messaging is used for business marketing. Text messaging used as a marketing strategy is getting its way popular for most marketers as they see this as an opportunity to find leads faster, better, and more efficient than other marketing strategies. Since all business should find potential customers in order to earn, text messaging in the marketing world became so useful. Almost all business who wanted to increase the number of their customers uses this strategy.
For a business involved in the retail industry, text messages can be sent to those clients who most likely will buy. Usually, whenever there is a discount that is exclusively offer to those who receives such messages and the likes. This is used as an alternative to those coupons usually given in actual. Text messages cannot be torn and convenient to bring at any time. For a business involved in catering services like the restaurants, sending messages can be used to inform valuable services that are just once in every occasion added by little yet helpful benefits. This effects best at around 5 pm because that is the time wherein people usually thinks of the best place to eat dinner. For a business involves in running up an educational institutions, text messages can be used to inform students and parents as well about any changes regarding any announced and planned activities so that they will not wait for something that will not be happening or is postponed. For a group of people involved in ministries and churches, messaging can be used to inform people about future gatherings.
This messaging is built to make communication easier. Besides, its main purpose is being spearheaded by other things beyond it making it increase its usefulness.


Parent/Teacher conferences will be held on February 13 and 14.
Parent/Teacher conferences will be held at the high school and elementary on Wednesday, February 13 and Thursday February 14 from 4:00 pm-7:00 pm. There will be a 2 hour early dismissal on these days as well.


Southern Illinois University Athletics recently issued the following announcement.
Let's take a trip back to March 6, 2004. Usher ruled the charts with "Yeah!" Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King was the freshly crowned Best Picture Oscar winner in an 11-for-11 sweep.
And Kansas basketball didn't finish on top of the Big 12 standings.
On that day, Oklahoma State routed Texas A&M 70-41 to win the conference outright. It was so long ago, Texas A&M, Colorado, Missouri and Nebraska aren't even in the league anymore. Hello to "new" members TCU and West Virginia.
Since that Oklahoma State solo title, Kansas has won at least a share of 14 consecutive regular-season conference titles, an NCAA record. However, that streak might finally end this season. Might.
Kansas rival K-State is currently in first in the conference at 11-3, but that lead is only one game.and Kansas State also still has to travel to Lawrence.
Still, it looks like this could be the year the streak ends.
As we approach the end of the regular season, we break down the leading Big 12 championship contenders by looking at projections, players, history and schedules — and how it could end.
K-State dominated Oklahoma State 85-46 on Saturday to maintain poll position within the conference race.
With Texas Tech handling Kansas Saturday, the Wildcats' lead remains at one game — over the Red Raiders, alone in second, now.
Two of the remaining four games are on the road, but one is the Big One: Kansas on Monday, Feb. 25. If K-State wins that one, that would go a long, long way to end Kansas' run, barring a K-State collapse.
The problem? The Wildcats haven't defeated Kansas in Lawrence since 2006, when KU's title streak was only an infant and not a teenager.
Some good news, however: Kansas State also doesn't have to play Texas Tech again this season, as the two teams already split.
Lost in the whirlwind of a Kansas-or-Kansas State was the fact that Texas Tech is right there, too. Now they're more than "just there" after dismantling Kansas 91-62 on Saturday.
The Red Raiders will bring their championship-caliber defense every game. The question is if Jarrett Culver and Co. can score enough.
That hasn't been a problem of late though, as the Red Raiders have routed Kansas and short-handed Baylor (86-61) in back-to-back games. That's a big step toward the program winning its first regular-season conference title since 1996.when Texas Tech was in the Southwest Conference.
Kansas is only 2-7 on the road this season, a troubling number as the Jayhawks can't rely on Allen Fieldhouse the rest of the way. Of course, they do get K-State at home on Monday night. However, KU's brutal loss at Lubbock on Saturday is a major dent in its pursuit of a 15th straight title. If Kansas now goes 0-2 against K-State, uh oh.
The Jayhawks stand in a third place tie with Baylor at 9-5 in conference play now, two games behind the first-place Wildcats.
KU is also likely going to lack depth going forward, so the growth of freshmen Ochai Agbaji and Devon Dotson will be key.
Though the Bears are only two games out of first, stats say Baylor is more likely to play the role of spoiler the last few weeks. Much of that is more because of the schedule than any problems with Baylor itself.
Just take a look at what's ahead. The Bears lost to Texas Tech last Saturday, and though they still beat Iowa State on the road, the Bears must travel to both K-State and Kansas to close out the regular season.
However, that crucial road win against top-25 Iowa State keeps the Bears in the race.
Iowa State's title hopes appear to be fading after dropping three games out with four games left on its schedule. The Cyclones lost to TCU 75-72 on the road Saturday.
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This game is intended for a large group of kids and/or adults, the more the better.
The group sits in a large circle. One person starts the game by whispering a short message into the ear of the person sitter to the right of them. The message is whispered once, then the new messenger passes the message on to the next person, so on and so on.
When the message reaches the person to the left of the person that started the game final the message is announced out loud and the first person can announce the original message.


A north-south disused railway line with a good surface - shared use between cyclist and walks. Child friendly.
South of the route : The southerly (4 miles, 7 km) end of the route, from Polegate to Eastbourne, is an unscenic, but traffic free continuation of the route to Eastbourne's seafront - alongside busy roads. You can cycle along parts of the seafront promenade once your there - but watch out for strict enforcement of no-cycling on parts of the seafront.


Hailed by none other than himself as the single greatest living orator of all time, Professor Quack, and his assistant Grunt, are the Original Thinkers credited for advancing globalization through the use of Morse code and the pony express.
Since founding the University of Mockulectury in 2011, Professor Quack & Grunt have been on a cross-country recruitment tour, travelling the nation by steamship, pedal boat, and wagon, seeking only the best and the brightest zombie intellectuals of the dead arts.
Renowned for his lectures, Professor Quack has appeared on numerous stages across Canada, and has only thrice been run out of town with pitchforks and flaming torches. Lecturing on controversial topics such as How the world is actually flat, and Discourses on zombie philosophers, Professor Quack has been a leader on dead-end dissertations, and a four-time recipient of the prestigious "Scholars who should actually be dead" award.
His long-suffering assistant, Grunt, has been published in prestigious journals such as "Zombies International" and "T.A.'s with Grudges", and her research has lead to significant advances in undead communication technology using double reed instruments, such as the bassoon.


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Andhra CM Chandrababu Naidu seeks central assistance of Rs 1 lakh crore for state
Amravati, Maharashtra, India Published: Oct 12, 2018, 07.25 AM(IST)
File photo of Chandrababu Naidu. Photograph:( Zee News Network )
Describing the country as a "victim of the century", Naidu said that the Centre failed to fulfill the assurances made during the state bifurcation.
Underlining the losses suffered by Andhra Pradesh due to the bifurcation, Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu has sought an assistance of Rs 1,09,023 crores for development of infrastructure in the state.
In a meeting with the members of the 15th Finance Commission, the Chief Minister presented a report before the panel, asking for the amount.
He said that the central government had promised to allot Rs 2,500 crores, but released only Rs 1,500 crores for infrastructure development so far.
Naidu also made appeals to the Finance Commission to accord Special Category Status to Andhra Pradesh, consider population as per 1971 census, and continue revenue deficit grants, disaster relief for crop failures.
The Chief Minister also appealed to allot Rs 22,250 crore for backward regions development in the state and sought allotment of Rs 10,000 crores for development of ports, airports, and roads in Andhra Pradesh.
He said that though the state is ahead in several sectors, it is lagging behind in per capita income on par with the neighbouring states.
The Chief Minister also said that his government opted for convergence of technology to the maximum level to establish most liveable standards and ease of living in the state. He affirmed that Amaravati would be developed as "hub of artificial intelligence."
Praising the Naidu-led Andhra Pradesh government, fifteenth Finance Commission chairman NK Singh described the Chief Minister as the original CEO who has developed the state in all sectors.
He also assured him positive help and said that the state should grow together.
The 15th Finance Commission, led by chairman NK Singh and also comprising of former economic affairs secretary Shaktikanta Das, Anoop Singh, Ashok
Lahiri, Ramesh Chand, secretary Arvind Mehta, Joint secretary Mukhmeet Singh Bhatia, Joint secretary Ravi Kota, Economic advisor Antony Cyriac and other officials, visited the secretariat on Thursday to hear the appeals of the state government.
Minister for Finance Yanamala Ramakrishnudu, Chief Secretary Anil Chandra Puneta, Finance Secretary Ravichandran, Chief Minister's Special Chief Secretary Satish Chandra and others were also present in the meeting.
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"BTW, where did ahimsa and all the non-violent Gandhivaadi ideology disappear now?"
Leaving Anna and Gandhi aside, what would you want to do to a man who comes home drunk everyday and beats up his wife and kids?
but do check this site for an interesting read and maybe a good book, if you dont have it already..
Now, are we assuming that everyone who drinks is also going to be abusing his family?
The Taliban, Saddam uncle - they too handled the problems the best way they knew how to. If that's the only argument / defense for this idiot's idiotic ways, then not really a good argument.
You are right. He is far from perfect. But he is a perfect example of 'chutiyapa'.
I just want him to get shot or die of hunger or something. Let's get him his statue and get this over with!
Raj, as long we do not know why Anna beats these guys, let me assume it must be for doing something utterly inhumane. For sure these alcholics can be sent for treatment.. not sure why Anna does not resort to such solutions. It is better than taking law into his own hands. If I support this entirely , then I should be also supporting the actions of Kashyaps doing honor killings... so I do see your point.
But, do you remember your own response to parents who wanted to take money for bearing a girl child ?
I don't have a problem with ANYONE taking the law into their own hands.
I really don't know WHY you thought you had to use that as an argument.
"Why don't I get to do this, why don't I get to do that, why it's ok to do it in India and not ok to do it in Kuwait"
- when I am in the middle of those type of CRAP discussions, I use the "LAW" argument. And yes, I will say it again - I don't really care about Anna or anyone else taking LAW into their own hands.
Given a gun, you THINK I would never really shoot them?? Well THINK AGAIN.
If I could get away with it, there would be a lot of people meeting their respective god(s) a hell lot sooner than scheduled. Some people do NOT deserve to live.
Piss me off enough and I probably won't even care if I would be able to get away with it or not.
When it comes to Anna - I think he is an idiot. That's pretty much it. IF you think I have a problem with him because he is taking LAW into his own hands - well you are mistaken.
I used that argument only to show that evey man reacts to a situation... and even Anna... but please go ahead and call him an idiot.. the only idiot who seems to make at least a few in the political circle very nervous... let some of us enjoy it while it lasts.
Happy, We are all entitled to our opinions.
You THINK he is actually making a difference by making the political parties nervous - you LIKE that - go ahead and ENJOY it.
There are people who ENJOYED and LIKED the NANO. There are people who are enjoying the 'Kolaveri Crap' song.
It's a free world (*cough). Jiss ko jo karna hai, kare.
And I am free to think for myself and form an opinion.
Socho... to kehne ko bahut kuch hai. SAMJHO to kehne ko kuch bhi nahin.


Probably one of the most overused phrases writers hear from their editors is "Show, don't tell." I've heard it a million times. I've said it a million times. Sometimes it just makes you want to throw something across the room.
I do this lesson with my students on choosing the best word in their writing in order to improve their understanding of that trite, overused phrase. It teaches them the difference between the denotation and the connotation of a word and the powerful effect one word can have on the tone of any communication.
For example, the words smell, odor, and aroma have the same basic denotation. They mean smell (as a noun). But if someone walks into the room and says, "What is that odor?" you know he or she probably walked into 8th period, because those students just came from P.E. It reeks; somebody open a window!
If someone walks into the room and says, "What is that aroma?" you know he or she is enjoying the fragrance (oooo! Another good connotation word!). Mmmmm! Did Mrs. Johnson bring in chocolate chip cookies again?
If someone walks into the room and says, "What is that smell?" well, the meaning can only be determined by assessing the body language and voice inflection, those pesky nonverbal cues that are so difficult to capture in writing. Why? Because he or she didn't choose the word that best captured the essence of the intended meaning.
As writers, it is important that we select the words we use for their connotation. They should offer the most complete picture of what we want the reader to sense.
This goes for verbs too. In fact, the use of strong verbs is one of the most important things for a writer to implement. Strong verbs create rich imagery. The man didn't just walk out the door... that captures nothing of his attitude, his physical or emotional state. SHOW how he did it. And there's no need to adverb that. Use a strong, visual verb.
The man stalked out the door.
The man sauntered out the door.
The man hobbled out the door.
The man swaggered out the door.
The man strolled out the door.
The man ambled out the door.
The man stormed out the door.
The man slipped out the door.
I could go on, but I think you get the picture. And that's really the point, isn't it?
You want your readers to "get the picture"? Show them. Don't tell.


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"Art is the language of the people, the language of the community. It is most powerful as a tool for interpreting and representing the world we live in..."
Nā Wai ʻEhā, Waiheʻe, Maui.
ʻUmi lives humbly in Waipunalei, farming & fishing.
Kealakaha, East Hāmākua: Birthplace of ʻUmi.
Nunu and Kakohe, old kahuna of Waipiʻo, are served by ʻUmi.
Līloa's final decree: Hakau is chief & ʻUmi will mālama akua.
For more information on the moʻolelo of ʻUmi-a-Līloa please visit the Hui Mālama i ke Ala ʻŪlili website.
The mural is a visual story that represents the life of one of the most important chiefs in the history of Hawaii, ʻUmi-a-Līloa, who was born and raised near Paʻauilo in Hāmākua. Our primary goal in initiating this mural project is to create an artistic representation of this important figure and time period in Hāmākua's history, which can serve as an educational tool and source of pride for our Hāmākua community. Our hope is that this project will create a space for all those who experience it for years to come to become more conscious of and empowered by the living legacy of ʻUmi-a-Līloa, who's reign established a self-sustaining, highly productive, and unified society on this island generations ago—an important model for us to strive towards today.
Starting in March 2015 and continuing through the end of May 2015, members of HuiMAU, the Paʻauilo Boys & Girls Club, students and faculty of Paʻauilo Elementary & Intermediate School, and members of the broader community will come together to create this mural as a representation of our ancestors, ourselves, and the generations yet to come on this island. The mural will be located on the ma kai facing wall of the Paʻauilo Elementary & Intermediate School covered play court , and is estimated to stand 20 feet high and 80 feet long.
Hiʻiakaikapoliopele travelled from Hawaiʻi island to Kauaʻi in order to seek out and bring back Lohi'au for her sister Pele. During her long journey, she encountered many obstacles, and through reliance on ancestral knowledge – was able to draw strength from these sources – to approach each struggle with patience, generosity, determination, kindness, and grace. On many occassions, Hiʻiaka utilizes the natural resources, or her connections to ʻāina (land/ocean), akua (potentialities), and ʻaumakua (ancestors) that surround her - to bring life back to those who have departed, or to bring restoration to places that have experienced unhealthy shifts in land use. Stories such as these teach us that as we learn our cultural stories, revive our genealogical practices, and develop close relationships with 'āina we are able to gather these same strengths and supports for navigating modern pathways.
On Hiʻiaka's way back from Kauaʻi, her and her companions stopped off at Keawaʻula and she travelled inland by foot. When she reached a dive spot at Mākua, called Kīlauea, the people that were engaged in cliff diving or lele kawa, informed her that a large pōhaku (rock), known as Pōhakuloa, had recently appeared in their jumping spot. As they all stood aside observing Pōhakuloa, a young girl leapt into the sea at Kīlauea, landed on the pōhaku, and was mortally injured. Hiʻiaka dove into the water to retrieve her body. The girlʻs family began to mourn for her death. However Hiʻiaka told them that she would try to restore life to the young woman. After sharing a prayer to restore life, she struck the girl with her pāʻū skirt, and then breathed into the girlʻs mouth. The girl began to breathe, but parts of her body were still bruised from the fall. Hiʻiaka taught her family that the medicinal plants needed to help her recovery – would be found in Mākua valley. The story speaks of the natural resources and cultural practices found within the ahupuaʻa of Mākua, and the surrounding areas of Koʻiahi and Kahanahaiki – which include resources for lei making, medicinal plants, places for lele pali (cliff diving), and plants that could bring restoration from illness (of land or body).
This art piece was created by Waiʻanae community members, Nā Pua Noʻeau students, and UH Mānoa's Hawaiʻinuiākea School of Hawaiian Knowledge students.
This mural was a done in collaboration with the Hawaiian Studies program at UH Maui College, led by Kumu Kahele Dukelow and Kumu Kaleikoa Kaʻeo, in correlation with their annual ʻOnipaʻa event, held each year to celebrate Kānaka resistance to the illegal overthrow of the Hawaiian Kingdom government in January 1893.
"I ka wa o ua Maui nei e noho ana, a, i kekahi manawa, nui loa kona aloha i kona makuahine no kana mea kaulai; aole e liuliu iho ke kau ana a ka la, puka aela no a napoo koke aku la no, kupu ka manao e kii i ka la e alehe, i hele malie. Hele keia a hiki i ka lae o Hamakua, ike keia ia Moemoe e moe ana i ka lua pao o Kapepeenui o Wailohi; ike keia i ka puka o ka la ma Hana, hele keia a ma Haleakala nana keia a he kupono; hoi keia a hiki i kahi o na makua, nana hou keia i ka la o kana hana a mau no. Hele keia a hiki ma Peeloko i Waihee, luku aku ana keia i ka niu apau i lalo, kii keia i ka pulu, hana a nui, hele keia e alehe i ka la.
Pane kikoi mai o Moemoe: "Aohe e loaa ka la, he lopakuakea;" pane aku o Maui: "Make kuu enemi, a ko kuu iini, make oe ia'u." Hele keia a hiki i Haleakala, a kau pono maluna oia nei, e alehe ae ana keia i ka pulu niu, haki kahi kukuna, alehe hou keia pau na kukuna ikaika o ka la. I aku keia: "Make oe i a'u no ko holo wikiwiki loa." I mai ka la: "E ola au, e nana mai oe i kuu hele aku;" nana keia ua lohi ka hele ana, pau ko ianei manao kii hou. Oia ka mea i hele lohi ai o ka la. A o Haleakala e kapa ia nei, aole oia ka pololei, o Alehe la; no ke alehe ana a Maui i ke kukuna o ka la."
Translation: "While Maui was living with his parents, he felt sorry for his mother because of what she had to dry. The sun did not tarry long on its journey; it arose and set very quickly. The idea sprung up in him to go and snare the sun so that it would go slower. He went and at the cape of Hamakua he saw Moemoe6 sleeping in the cave of Kapepeenui at Wailohi; he saw the sun rising at Hana; he climbed Haleakala7 and inspected it and found it satisfactory. He went back to his parents' place; he noticed that the sun still kept on in its old ways. So he came along to Peeloko at Waihee and threw down a lot of coconuts; he secured a plenty of husk and with it he went off to snare the sun.
Moemoe called out sarcastically, "You can not catch the sun for you are a low down farmer." Maui answered, "When I conquer my enemy and satisfy my desire I shall kill you." He came to Haleakala, and when the sun passed directly over him he snared it with the coco-husk, and broke some of its rays; he repeated this and broke all the strong rays of the sun. He said: "I am killing you because you travel so fast." The sun requested, "Let me live; you watch how I travel." He looked and beheld that it traveled slower, so he desisted from going after it again. That is why the sun goes slowly. And the name "Haleakala" given to it now is not correct; it should be Alehela, on account of Maui's snaring the rays of the sun."
Fornander, Abraham. (1918). Hawaiian Antiquities and Folk-Lore. Volume 5, Part 3, Page 538. Click here for exact source.
I feel an overwhelming sense of hope. I can recollect the experience as if it happened just yesterday. I can remember the people, the keiki with parents, friends with more friends, and the kupuna, who we were all there painting together. Our Mauna a Wakea mural was an attempt to convey our message to the rest of society, to bring awareness to a concern that we felt all people should understand and know fully. Our Mauna a Wakea mural was a venue where people from within the scope of consciousness and others, not so much aware, could come and learn and actively engage in taking a stance.
We are not fearful!!! We are a community who is concerned about those who hold the power to make decisions that effect all of us and we as a community are raising our concerns in the public arena, un-fearful. We come with truth as our weapon and we are infiltrating from within.
Before the Dole Street bridge was built in the early 1900s, the Aihualama Stream once flowed naturally through this area providing the necessary water that supported the cultivation of kalo at what is now known as Kānewai loʻi. Since the bridge was built the mahiʻai have faced some challenges. They were forced to build a new auwai to once again restore water flow into their lo'i system. And in more recent years they have been battling against people who grafitti all the walls and pillars leading up to their poʻowai.
This was one of the most fun murals I have ever been involved in. With the help of a few keiki, ranging in age of 6-12, we painted this beautiful mural in the heart of the playground at Kula Kaiapuni ʻO Anuenue. We chose to paint a mural that depicted the places where many of the students and faculty are from. As you can see on the left there is a depiction of the leeward side of Oahu, with beautiful orange and yellow hills and lush valleys in the distance. This is a typical scene you will see if you were to actually drive through this area. On the left, there's tall green mountains and waterfalls flowing down in between each of the ridges.
Initiated by the Hawaiian Civic Club (Kapolei Chapter), this mural is the product of an effort to reclaim a space within the Kapolei Regional Park with the intention to saturate it with the appropriate representations of our Native Hawaiian community.
This was a collaborative effort which included community members from the Hawaiian Civic Club (Kapolei Chapter), Makana ʻo ke Akua Transitional Housing Organization, Boy Scouts of America (Troop 243), as well as students from the local Kapolei High School and University of Hawaii at Manoa.
One particular member of the Boy Scouts of America, Koa Kalamau, who is an active member within our community turned this into his Eagle Scout project and was actually featured in the news. Click here http://www.midweek.com/eagle-project-uniting-community-on-mural/ to read more.


Former first lady Michelle Obama understands the challenge that comes with finding the right work-life balance. Rather than feel inundated with calendar requests, Obama recently said the secret to being happier and healthier is allowing herself to enjoy "me time."
"My number one daily habit is to give myself permission to be happy. It's physical and mental; it's my diet, physical activity, and emotional state. That's all tied together," Obama said in a recent Refinery29 interview.
Obama admitted that taking time to check in with herself isn't easy: "As women, this can be challenging because we're not always taught to do it," she said. "We feel like it's somehow selfish."
Instead of feeling guilty, Obama has come to understand the bright side of focusing on herself first. "I've learned that when I actually put myself on the priority list along with everyone else in my life, it actually benefits them, too," she said.
During last year's inaugural Obama Foundation Summit, Obama said that being "ruthlessly efficient" and "fiercely organized" were key to getting anything done.
"I have to plan my happiness. That's the thing, we think happiness just happens and it can, but you've got to work in some happiness too," she said at the Summit.


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Fusion UX Advocates
The UX team have been so accommodating to the user groups through the PDC around Fusion Applications and helped us to understand for our members. At Oracle Open World we were part of the launch and I got to introduce Steve Miranda SVP of Applications Development, which was such an honour.
After a more technical presentation I said to the UX team I wanted access to be able to do my own demos. The discussion continued and I realised that development were open to this. I could have just worked with them on my own, but I want the community to benefit and despite popular belief I cannot be everywhere.
The access has to be controlled and it would require a certain level of base understanding, and then to be of value to Oracle, would need to be presented, so I suggested the ACE program would be the ideal platform. We are all committed to presenting and learning and have signed NDAs. The program took shape and Steve Miranda backed it. Ideally I wanted it to be like the FMW 4 Apps kits we had a few years back where we got virtual images of the apps and could either follow a script to build SOA integration or do our own thing. The ACE Program is a wide range of expertise across all the technologies, but so is Fusion Apps so the idea of training some of these and them going away, doing their thing and feeding back to development as well as presenting to their followers was very compelling.
But I get ahead of myself, the product is not yet GA so having a copy is not possible and even then takes a while to build a subset of what we would need. But we were keen to get the program off the ground so this week 9 members of the Ace program have been invited to a intensive training day where we will learn the concepts of a few presentations, both functional and technical. We will get material to enable us to present canned demos, perhaps later be able to use a demo system live but be able to start our own unique insights into how these applications will work in our areas.
These 9 are just the tip of the iceberg and definitely a small start to the initiative. The interest has been phenomenal with over 47 of the program expressing an interest, and this will be developed over the next few months with further people being trained over the summer.
Thanks to Viki in the ACE Program for working with the UX team and especially to Misha and Andrew in the UX team who have put this advocates program together.
Why Don't People Understand Fusion?
Oracle have taken a lot of stick about how long it has taken Fusion applications to come to market, so at least they could have spent that time making sure we all understood. Well that is what I have thought and have been pretty vocal about it.
To start with Oracle did talk about it a lot and quite near the start I was asked by Oracle Marketing to present to them about how users were taking in that message. My Product Development Committee in the IOUC took the request seriously and interviewed selected users across the globe from many different communities and user groups. We wrote a white paper on how we thought the message was coming across and then we presented it to a group of executives in Redwood. I started by passing round large laminated cards that said Fusion on one side and showed a picture of something called Fusion on the other. They were all face down and then I had the executives turn them over. Only one was Oracle Fusion. My point was, that at that time there was a lot of talk about Fusion but not everybody got the message.
We had two main recommendations and I thought it would be interesting to see if they are still valid today. The first was that the different application families needed different messages, e.g. PeopleSoft, JDE, Siebel etc and the second was that Oracle were not talking to the technical community who seemed to switch off whenever Fusion was mentioned.
Oracle listened and then two important things happened. first they stopped talking about the applications as much, which I say again frustrated me but they did start talking about the technology, and although I don't take the credit they renamed the technology Fusion Middleware (FMW), which did make the technical community at least recognise Fusion.
Then we worked with the newly formed FMW for Apps team to see if we could showcase some uses of FMW. Markus Zirn the VP there had a great grid of functionality against app so he had case studies of each of the application families using say single sign on or BI Publisher or other elements of FMW.
Later Markus launched the FMW Excellence Awards to showcase more examples and many user groups supported and joined in the initiative. But one of the best ways that Oracle have promoted the technology that Fusion Applications are written in for Applications Unlimited is all down to one person. Nadia Bendjedou and her white paper and presentations Things You Can Do Today to Prepare for Fusion.
Later nadia worked with us to design the Oracle Applications Planning Tool, a download that helps you have the conversation about FMW with your organisation.
My own presentations have a basis in Nadia's paper and we have often presented together, and since the applications were showcased at OOW 2009 several user groups have put together excellent Fusion tracks. But we did present to the different communities separately, not a different message but relevant examples. again Markus' team stepped in to give some people in the ACE Program apps kits to allow us to give these demos.
In the mean time development kept to their promise to talk to user group leaders about the progress of the applications. they included us in their Inner circle and every 3-4 months we had the opportunity to ask questions of Steve Miranda. In the middle of December we had what will be our last question time, in just a few months the applications will be released. Each time we collect the questions there are a number repeated, that doesn't worry me, it is important for us as user group leaders and for Oracle to see that the answers are still not obvious to everyone. I want to publicly say thank you to Development for keeping that promise.
Does it mean the communication is bad? No I don't think so, the last year Oracle have given a lot of information and this year's OOW there was a smorgasbord of content about Fusion, I just think many users have ignored Fusion until it either resonated with them or they could ignore it no more.
The other evening I was watching a review of the top 20 TV adverts of the year, and I had only seen 3 of them. I commented on this on facebook and had some comments about our viewing habits and my 'being at home' habits and it made me think. a few years ago, TV advertising was very big and probably the main way people advertised their goods and services. I watch much less TV which with the choice of 100s of channels may seem odd, but I am more selective and have the opportunity to record what I want to watch, and when I watch them I ignore all the adverts, so I simply am unaware of them. The same is true for Oracle, we tune out what we think we are not interested in and then are simply unaware of everything else, most people have spent the last year or so trying to avoid big IT projects so why look at what you are not going to do?
As customers we are less interested in TV adverts, what sells things today is social media, the buzz on twitter etc when the iPad was released, stories from actual customers have sold far more than any TV advert. In the same way Oracle know that what will sell Fusion Applications is feedback, customer stories from early adopters and independent commentary from people like myself in the ACE Program and user groups.
So lets not talk about Fusion - Confusion, a term I HATE, we as consumers are selective about what we want to hear about and when the applications are released so will that desire for information and let's hope Oracle have the program in place to answer the questions and work with the user groups to ensure we give the independent assessments the users need.
P.S. I am still very excited.
What Worked and What Didn't at TEBS
What motivates me to be a director of UKOUG? PRIDE, Pride in what we deliver and how we 'Serve the Oracle Community'.
My last few postings have been about our annual TEBS conference looking at it from a number of different angles. I talked about change and how every year we have to balance economic constraints with bringing new life to the event. It is a cliche but we live in a very 'Social' world now and many people in our community have embraced Social Networking and that played a big part in the event. Before the event I also posted about the off piste events and thought I would look back at how they went.
This was the 2nd year we had a twitter stream on displays at TEBS although I think it wasn't as obvious this year, but it is great for immediate feedback and a phenomenal way to create buzz and include those not able to attend. (#ukoug_tebs)
The OTN and ACE participation I have already said was a great success although we have learnt a lot about room allocation and how to publicise changes.
We moved the keynote to the end of the day and that was a great success although I think there still needs to be a kick off session early Monday, perhaps in the exhibition hall, not sure we will think more about it.
A lot of effort went into new ideas, the speaker lounge being on the balcony was a big hit, although I personally needed signage to the coffee. Two nights of networking in the exhibition hall were a big hit, and although a lot of people would still have loved a real party, our community has changed and not everyone attends all three days and there certainly isn't more money around to pay for it. By having two networking events till 8pm, people were free to plan their own evenings if they were staying over and I think the balance was good. Networking is the main thing people attend conferences for. They come to learn from the sessions but it is that being able to discuss it with the presenter, other delegates and other users that really brings value.
Roundtables are still a great sucess, I attended the Willow table for the Applications Community were for the second year Cliff Godwin, SVP EBS answered questions along with Nadia Bendjedou and a host of our own experts and the Fusion roundtable with Gartner - BUT WE HAVE TO find a location that works, or get the ICC to close down the lifts (elevators) in that area, there is only so much 'Doors opening' you can take.
I have learnt that in the UK we are too reserved, the OakTable had their OTTTTT and it was a success in that the table was always in use, but the idea of tournament fell apart because we didn't organise it, spontaneity was not there. We invested in the equipment so it will be back but next year we will allow people to sign up and have it run properly (any volunteers?). And while we talk about the OakTable, where was the challenge? There were plenty in attendance and delegates did get to talk to them but there was no specific 'Go To' place and it looks like we have to organise them as well. So I have learnt that it is not enough to concentrate on the new things but make sure we continue the things that work.
The Inspiring Presentation Awards were excellent and they will be back, but next time with more fanfare and photos. OTN have always supported us both directly and through the ACE Program but their participation this year was just brilliant.
Lisa came up with the IPA awards and was also the catalyst behind the Panto, which was one of the big successes. As I say it that posting, How do we follow that?
So 2010 TEBS was a lot of challenges but a lot of fun. I was always being stopped to be told how people enjoyed it and the networking was always awesome. Wednesday night included people who should have already been home but were stranded because of the weather (how do we control that?), but everyone was still enjoying the buzz. There is a lot of feedback still to be sifted through and our washup session to hold, but I am declaring it another success and thank everyone, The Staff, The Volunteers, The Presenters, the Exhibitors but above all the Delegates.
Here's to the next conference series and 2011.
Fusion at TEBS and what next?
Let's start by defining Oracle Fusion. Fusion is the middleware technology and Fusion Apps are Oracle's soon to be released suite of applications written entirely in Fusion Technology.
As I have waited patiently for the applications to be developed, I have acquired an interest in the technology, and it making it easy to understand from a business perspective.
So following on from the success of my two papers at Oracle Open World I presented them at TEBS: 42 Real Life Examples of Fusion Middleware with Apps and Stay Away if you are technical, Fusion Middleware for Business. These are very important to me I want people to really understand the benefits. I keep on saying this but I think Fusion Applications will at first be a fantastic window on what the technology can do before people actually start to adopt the applications themselves.
Clive Swan
Fellow ACE Director Sten Vesterli is a fusion developer and he has written an excellent blog posting on what he hopes will the pricing policy. We need to remember that the functionality portion of the costs can be transferred from a customers existing portfolio, it is the technology costs we don't know yet. I hope Oracle do get it right because the product is excellent.
Our Fusion Apps stream was excellent and led again for us by Clive Swan, GVP fusion HCM who won our Oracle Applications IPA from last year and he was joined again by Jeremy Ashley, VP User Experience and wrote about his thoughts in his blog.
We had an excellent session from Gartner where Nigel Montgomery gave us a strategy for looking at our own businesses whilst assessing what Fusion applications might give us. Later that day he hosted a round table and it is still apparent that a lot of people are still confused. A thought I will come back to in a later posting. It isn't just about the message it is about our listening habits.
Anthony Lye
Another speaker was Anthony Lye, SVP CRM. Anthony is a friend of UKOUG and regularly travels over from redwood to address our Siebel community, but he is also very integral to Fusion. some of the first stand alone Fusion Modules were CRM and he asked us to include his presentation on how they fitted in and the new things being added. All Oracle executives have punishing schedules and Anthony arrived, sat in the corridor for last minute preparations and then flew off to Belfast where he was making his first visit to ATG a recent acquisition which he now runs. Thank you to all our Fusion Speakers for being with us.
There were two days of Fusion content at TEBS and I finished up with my session on 'What Next?'. We first did this in the last Financials SIG, looking at all the options for going forward ad how to approach them. I wanted people to think about R12, and move away from the 'shall I wait?' option. So we looked at all the ways to go to R12 and some of the feedback we have had from users who have made the move. Back in the summer I did a joint presentation at Insync in Australia with Mogens Nørgaard on Business accelerators, and the options this approach to a new install can give you. We didn't have time to do the whole presentation but we did manage to include a little bit ad I was honored that Mogens was able to join me again. He talked about using the money saved over a traditional implementation to ensure you embrace the FMW technology for your integrations, and we developed a new acronym PINT, Perfect Integrations New Technology and if you know Mogens you will know just how apt that is.
I think we achieved a good balance of information without too much hype. The applications will be with us soon enough and we want people to be interested but not expect a missive uptake from day one. So back to my first point, Fusion Applications will be with us soon, stick with UKOUG to show you the best way to navigate all the information and expect a lot more about the technology.
Oh No You Didn't
Oh Yes We did.........
Lisa Dobson
Having admitted that Lisa Dobson and I are mad, this is the story about how we bought that madness to UKOUG TEBS.
Doug Burns a great volunteer for UKOUG mentioned on twitter that he was growing a moustache for Movember, and that it would come off at the conference. to Lisa and I that just seemed too good a chance to pass up. At first it was just a giggle and we just kept upping the suggestions. Lisa with a cut throat razor, on the main stage, during the keynote, and very soon it had taken on a life of its own. Doug seemed a little nervous but did like the idea it might make a bit more money.
Twitter is a great way to put thoughts out, and others started to join in, when Doug said he thought a cut throat was a bit too much, Marco Gralike offered his services with a chainsaw, now that may sound a bit random but Marco has a history with this weapon of mass destruction and it seemed a great idea. so how do you bring it all together? Well it soon dawned on us that a pantomime would be a fantastic way to do it.
Lisa and I had a call with the UKOUG staff and looked to see how we could fit it in. The main keynote was to be Monday evening immediately before a networking event in the exhibition hall, it seemed the ideal time. However timing would be an issue, but all we had to do was persuade Ronan it was a good idea and ask Oracle to give a shorter keynote! We weren't sure how Ronan would be but he was fantastic, really supportive and even talked us into letting him be the panto dame!
So the cast was coming together - we had our main character - Doug, the panto dame, I would be the principle boy (?), and Marco would be our villain. Lisa was to be the narrator. We did cast one other, to be the nemesis of our villain - Mogens Nørgaard, but a combination of the weather and a misunderstanding as to when it was meant to be led to him missing his time on stage although he still got a mention.
So the panto was set, Lisa got busy with the script, of course we had to find a part for the Stanley the Original ACE Director. Did I mention this was less than a week before the event? Well after a morning finding suppliers for the coustumes who could deliver in time and a 10 minute rehersal lunchtime on the day we were ready.............. and the finished article? well here you are:
Doug tried hard to avoid the actual event, some boring excuse to do with snow, but here in his own words is his version of events.
It was a great success and over £300 was raised for the Movember Charity. Only one problem......... how do we follow that next year?
The ACE up our Sleeve
I often talk about how proud I am of being an ACE Director and the support I personally receive from OTN who run the program. there is a lot of talent in the UK and we have a very good representation of both ACEs and ACE directors in UKOUG and for the past few years OTN has hosted an ACE Dinner during the TEBS conference, with about 35-40 attending each time.
Vikki Lira from OTN
The ACE program is brilliant for acknowledging the experts within the Oracle Community and there is no shortage of them, but how do we plan for tomorrow? My generation didn't even study IT at school, it hardly existed, and yet my daughter uses a computer for everything. Today's graduates look for their knowledge in completely different ways. So when my fellow director Lisa Dobson suggested awards for presentations, I loved the idea, someway of recognising the best and encouraging people to speak for the first time. Lisa has always been an advocate for the 'Newbie' and it is just like her to think of something like this.
Lisa and I are a bit mad, and we often chat online in the evening and have silly little times and you only have to read my next posting about the pantomime to see what we get upto, but on this occasion the result was the GITS, Greatest Inspiring Technologists. a few weeks later at our volunteers event we launched the idea, and people loved it, however they didn't like the name. Lisa went back to the drawing board and they were renamed the Inspiring Presentation Awards. It was quite a challenge to do something this ambitious with only 4 months to go, but luckily we have the successful Partner Awards to base it on, all we needed was a sponsor. I asked OTN if they would sponsor the awards and they quickly agreed, the ACE program needs to attract new blood for the future.
Me and Lisa presenting the awards
As time was short we looked to other user groups for inspiration and I approached ODTUG as I know they have an awards scheme. Theirs is based on scoring from the last conference and judging of papers for the current event. They were happy to help out but suggested we might want to look at some kind of weighting formula, to make the scoring fairer depending on the number of people voting. Lisa and I thought about it and then decided to bring in an expert, so we asked Cary Millsap for help. He gave us a formula we could understand and from now on it will be called the Millsap Weighting.
Grant Ronald
It was very exciting seeing who won the awards and very difficult for us to keep it a surprise. On twitter James Morle was saying he wasn't sure about his presentation and yet we knew he had won the best submission judging; imagine if he had pulled out! There were a good number of ACEs in the list which is to be expected, as this sharing of knowledge is one of the criteria for being an ACE. OTN were magnificent, not only did they sponsor the awards but they also sponsored the networking event in the exhibition hall on the Tuesday night when the awards were given out. Vikki Lira came over to represent OTN and it was great to have her there.
There is no need for me to list the winners, Lisa has already done that in her blog, and read the posting from Grant Ronald who won the Oracle Technology Award
Alex Nuijten
Immediately after the awards we had our ACE dinner and there were 35 people who attended and we had a great time in a local Indian restaurant. The ACE program also supports some ACE Directors to present at conferences and there were a few who were at UKOUG for the first time, like Alex Nuijten and Kai Yu. although we are a regional user group we know that the Oracle community is global and it is fantatstic to attract the best speakers wherever they come from.
There was also an ACE Panel question time on the Wednesday, unfortunately there was a mix up over advertising the venue so the audience was not as big as we have hoped but it was a good session and great for people to have the opportunity to ask a question about anything to a panel of experts.
OTN also had a lounge area in the Exhibition Hall and there was to be lots of give aways and goodies, however because of the weather they did not turn up till after the conference. But don't worry, we will give them out at relevant SIGs over the next few months.
Thank you OTN for all your support, both for me personally and for UKOUG.
Want to be a Director?
Carl and Anne, two of the current Directors
Gosh perhaps I shouldn't have said earlier about how much more work there is to do now at UKOUG, as now I want to try and encourage you to think about being a director. We have 12 directors and each serve a two year term but can then stand for election again. We try and make it that 6 are up for election each year.
So if you are interested in being part of UKOUG and think you have skills that will help, and just understanding the community is a big part of that, give it some thought.
Or if you think there are things we should be doing differently and have experience in running projects or a small business think about it.
It does take up a fair bit of time, most of which is thinking about and commenting on proposals, coming up with new ideas and making sure we learn from experience. It is great we have a mature board but we always need fresh faces to ensure we don't become complacent.
If you are interested I am more\than happy to have a call with anyone but start here.
UKOUG Technology and E Business Suite Conference Series Event
Straight after VisIT it was time for my favourite conference, our own. Since UKOUG created the conference series to ensure each community had the conference experience they want, the traditional, pre-acquisition event has affectionately become known as TEBS.
UKOUG has a unique funding model where members pay up front, and in general the membership base funds everything we do through the year, except the actual conferences which bring in additional funds through exhibition. That is a very over simplified statement and I can assure you the budget cycle for every event is much more stringent but it is useful to understand the basic premise. When money was less tight, this worked very well and we could concentrate on the content, the last few years have been a real challenge and a lot more effort than you think goes into delivering something that needs to improve on the last event and yet cost much less. Added to that the needs of our community as well as the community itself is changing; it really is the only constant.
There were a number of little things that became big things behind the scenes at conference and I tend to see it all and then worry about them, but most of the feedback I get is very positive, and when you read the blogs about it it was successful. But we always need to improve so if you have any ideas let me know.
We tried a few new things this year, the Panto and the Inspiring Presentation Awards which I will talk about in the next posting but I think our biggest challenge was something we never planned for - the weather. We lost about 200 delegates and some speakers to the weather and there are great stories of people making the event regardless. One lady travelled overnight from Edinburgh by coach and many had to leave early or not leave when their travel plans were interrupted. on the Wednesday many people came back from the airport because their flights were cancelled whilst many more had long, long delays. Then the UKOUG community came into its own, Jury's was a very popular hotel and each room has two beds, and I think everyone who had planned to stay Wednesday night and had a room, gave their spare bed to those who had not planned on it, and we had a great night.
And yes looking back it was a great success, so well done to everyone involved and I hope you have next year's date in your diary already. Dec 5th - 7th
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Fujitsu VisIT 2010
Jessika from the Fujitsu Alliances Team
It has taken me a long time to catch up with this blog, and I apologise. It is also all about Fujitsu for which I do not, they are after all my employer.
Since Fujitsu Siemens ended and the hardware business was fully integrated into the Fujitsu Family I have worked for a hardware company. Normally it would not have much impact on a day to day basis for me, that was until Oracle bought Sun. Now the Fujitsu Global Alliance with Oracle has a lot to do with hardware as I have explained before.
Oracle statement - Fujitsu branding
There used to be an annual hardware conference each year in Germany, VisIT, but since last year it has included services, and I got to speak. This year I was what the called an 'expert', this is where delegates can arrange a meeting with an 'Expert' in advance, it is great to talk direct to customers, and the part of my job I love the most. The closest we get to this in Oracle User conferences is perhaps the OakTable or ACE Director Panels.
Just a few weeks previously I had been on the Oracle stand at the SOA Symposium and it was great this time for there to be an Oracle Stand at a Fujitsu conference. Funny to see their content in our branding, and it was great to have Juergen Kress who runs the SOA Partner Community within EMEA.
VisIT is a very different kind of conference for me but I really enjoy it.
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