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Oracle OpenWorld 2017 Networking Opportunity Events #OOW17

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Where I can keep track of the special events (note: these are not “parties” as so many people are misled to believe – you should expect to be contacted by dozens of sales and account professionals at each event) at OOW.  To attend one of these events:

  1. You’re registered as an OpenWorld Attendee.
  2. You’re either a prospect, customer, or goodwill contact for the host. That means you actually contact the host and ask to attend before OOW.
  3. You visit the host’s booth at OpenWorld in order to pick up whatever is required for entry and get to know what the host actually does.
  4. Do not just show up at the event and attempt to “crash” it – fair warning. You will be sold Oracle products and consulting, and like it, and start telling all your friends about it and be assimilated.

From 2016 – still being confirmed:

Visit all those vendors and make them feel welcomed this year!

http://www.7×7.com/eat-drink/ultimate-foodie-tour-ferry-building

Oracle OpenWorld Fun Community Events
There are 3 community events at OOW this year,

  1. A guided bike tour hosted by Oracle’s PL/SQL and cycling guru, Bryn Llewelyn on Saturday, September 30th at 10 a.m.
  2. A run across the Golden Gate Bridge hosted by the SQL Dev team on Sunday, October 1st at 7:30 a.m.
  3. 6th annual swim in the San Francisco Bay hosted by Oracle ACE Director Chet Justice on Monday, October 2th at 7:30 a.m.

The 2016 List of OOW Events

The 2015 List of OOW Events

The 2014 List of OOW Events

The 2013 List of OOW Events

The 2012 List of OOW Events

Oaktable 2017 will also be at OOW Again!

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Oracle OpenWorld 2016 Networking Opportunity Events #OOW16

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oow16_bannerWhere I can keep track of the special events (note: these are not “parties” as so many people are misled to believe – you should expect to be contacted by sales and account professionals at each event) at OOW.  To attend one of these events:

  1. You’re registered as an OpenWorld Attendee.
  2. You’re either a prospect, customer, or goodwill contact for the host. That means you actually contact the host and ask to attend before OOW.
  3. You visit the host’s booth at OpenWorld in order to pick up whatever is required for entry and get to know what the host actually does.
  4. Do not just show up at the event and attempt to “crash” it – fair warning. You will be sold Oracle products and consulting, and like it, and start telling all your friends about it and be assimilated.

Visit all those vendors and make them feel welcomed this year!

http://www.7×7.com/eat-drink/ultimate-foodie-tour-ferry-building

Oracle OpenWorld Fun Community Events
There are 3 community events at OOW this year,

  1. A guided bike tour hosted by Oracle’s PL/SQL and cycling guru, Bryn Llewelyn on Saturday, September 17th at 10 a.m.
  2. A run across the Golden Gate Bridge hosted by the SQL Dev team on Sunday, October 25th at 8:30 a.m.
  3. 5th annual swim in the San Francisco Bay hosted by Oracle ACE Director Chet Justice on Monday, October 26th at 7:30 a.m.

The 2015 List of OOW Events

The 2014 List of OOW Events

The 2013 List of OOW Events

The 2012 List of OOW Events

And OakTable World is back once again, at the Creativity Museum (this year, no pre-registration required).

Agenda:

http://dbakevlar.com/2016/08/oak-table-world-2016-oracle-open-world-edition/

Agenda for Oaktable World 2016, located at Creativity Museum, is looking like:

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Oracle OpenWorld 2015 Networking Opportunity Events #OOW15

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Where I can keep track of the special events (note: these are not “parties” as so many people are misled to believe – you should expect to be contacted by sales and account professionals at each event) at OOW.  To attend one of these events:

  1. You’re registered as an OpenWorld Attendee.
  2. You’re either a prospect, customer, or goodwill contact for the host. That means you actually contact the host and ask to attend before OOW.
  3. You visit the host’s booth at OpenWorld in order to pick up whatever is required for entry and get to know what the host actually does.
  4. Do not just show up at the event and attempt to “crash” it – just spend your time at a regular OOW reception the same evening and you’ll still get plenty of party time.

Visit all those vendors and make them feel welcomed this year!

Also here’s a guide to noshing at the nearby Ferry Building (end of Market St, at the waterfront):

http://www.7×7.com/eat-drink/ultimate-foodie-tour-ferry-building

Oracle OpenWorld Fun Community Events
There are 3 community events at OOW this year,

  1. A guided bike tour hosted by Oracle’s PL/SQL and cycling guru, Bryn Llewelyn on Saturday, October 24th at 10 a.m.
  2. A run across the Golden Gate Bridge hosted by the SQL Dev team on Sunday, October 25th at 8:30 a.m.
  3. 4th annual swim in the San Francisco Bay hosted by Oracle ACE Director Chet Justice on Monday, October 26th at 7:30 a.m.

The 2014 List of OOW Events

The 2013 List of OOW Events

The 2012 List of OOW Events

And OakTable World is back once again, at the Creativity Museum (this year, no pre-registration required).

Agenda:

http://www.oaktable.net/oaktable%20world%202015

Agenda for Oaktable World 2015, located at Creativity Museum, is

 time Monday Oct 26 Tuesday Oct 27
8  8:30 – Welcome with Mogens  Toon Koppelaars – hash joins and Bloom filters
9 Mark W. Farnham – Minimizing the concurrency footprint of transactions with Logical Units of Work stored in PL/SQL Kyle Hailey – Virtual Data
10

Kerry Osborne – SQL Translation Framework

 Kellyn Pot’Vin-Gorman, AWR Warehouse Trending and Analysis with OBIEE
11 Greg Rahn – Taming JSON with SQL: From Raw to Results

Marco Gralike – Improving XML performance with the 12c In-Memory Column Store
12 ted talks ted talks
1

Dan Norris – Exadata Database Machine Security

Cary Millsap – Performance
2  John Beresniwicz – AWR Ambiguity: What do do when the numbers don’t add up?

Gwen Shapira – Real-time data integration
3 Kevin Closson – Modern Platform Topics for Modern DBAs

Alex Gorbachev – Big Data 
4 Tanel Poder – Connecting Oracle with Hadoop  Chris Antognini – Adaptive Dynamic Sampling

Ted Talks between noon and 1pm

 Monday  Tuesday
 Eric Grancher – graphing outliers Jonah H. Harris – Manipulating the Oracle Call Interface

Greg Rahn- What Cloud Can Offer For A DBMS

 Kellyn Pot’Vin-Gorman – TBD

Jonathan Lewis – indexes, column groups and 12c

Jonathan Lewis Virtual columns
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Oracle OpenWorld 2014 Networking Opportunity Events #OOW14

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http://www.oracle.com/openworld/register/packages/index.htmlWhere I can keep track of the special events (note: these are not “parties” as so many people are misled to believe) at OOW.  To attend one of these events:

  1. You’re registered as an OpenWorld Attendee.
  2. You’re either a prospect, customer, or goodwill contact for the host. That means you actually contact the host and ask to attend before OOW.
  3. You visit the host’s booth at OpenWorld in order to pick up whatever is required for entry and get to know what the host actually does.
  4. Do not just show up at the event and attempt to “crash” it – just spend your time at a regular OOW reception the same evening and you’ll still get plenty of party time.

Visit all those vendors and make them feel welcomed this year!

The 2013 List of OOW Events

The 2012 List of OOW Events

And OakTable World is back again, at the Creativity Museum (this year, no pre-registration required).

Agenda:

http://www.oraclerealworld.com/oaktable-world/agenda/

Agenda for Oaktable World 2014, located at Creativity Museum, is

 time Monday Sept 29 Tuesday Sept 30
8 (8:30 am) Mogens: welcome Carlos Sierra: introducing edb360 tool
9 Riyaj Shamsudeen: in-memory internals Kent Graziano: Worst Practices in DW Design
10 Chris Antognini: Indexes: Structure, Splits and Free Space Management Internals Tanel Poder: Hacking Oracle 12c
11 Martin Bach: A deep dive into HCC internals and mechanics Jeremiah Wilton: Oracle on EC2: You’re doing it wrong
12 ted talks ted talks
1 Jonathan Lewis:Calculating Selectivity Connor McDonald: clone db
2 Greg Rahn: The Current State of SQL + Hadoop Frits Hoogland: Profiling the logwriter and database writer (with version 12.1.0.2 update)
3 Kevin Closson:SLOB – For More Than I/O! Alex Gorbachev:  Anomaly detection on performance data
4 Toon: Why DBMS’s Still Lack SQL Assertions Support (A polite excuse) Karl Arao: Capacity Planning: SLAs, KPIs, Headroom, Expiry Date

Ted Talks between noon and 1pm

 Monday  Tuesday
Eric Grancher: using ASH to understand IO issues Jonah Harris: network protocal hacking making Oracle talk with MySQL
Jonathan Lewis: Breaking Exadata Jonathan Lewis:Parallel Execution Plans
Jonathan Gennick: Seven Secrets in Publishing Kent Graziano: Data Vault 2.0: using MD5 hash for change detection
Cary Millsap – The most important “trick” of performance instrumentation Alex Gorbachev: DevOps

Kerry Osborne: How to Hire World Class Oracle Dudes and Dudettes
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2013-February Shinnyo-en Buddhism Podcast – Your Heart and The Stars

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2013-February Shinnyo-en Buddhism Podcast – Your Heart and The Stars

Creating Your Own Destiny (and Reality)
Why the Stars are Prominent in Buddhism
Practice from Your Heart

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Some people say they were born unlucky.  Yet we are the ones who create our future, and we can change our destiny at every moment of every day, with each decision and action we choose to take. From the winter solstice to the seasonal divide [in Jpn. setsubun, or the coming of spring], days grow longer as part of the yearly cycle. That is when a negative phase begins turning into a positive phase (and in the skies, the cross-over of the equatorial divide occurs from the Southern hemisphere to the Northern side.)

During the winter service rituals, we make offerings to the stars that “govern” our lives signifying our choice to respect that which is beyond our control. This comes from practices adopted into Esoteric Buddhism in which stars and planets were regarded as divinities, and included in mandalas for prayers and rituals. This gave people a practical means of effecting inner transformation by linking with the cosmic forces that move the stars in the sky and rotate the planet without our human intervention.

The Star Ritual period, during which a star offering rite is conducted daily, is held beginning with the winter solstice and concluding at the traditional seasonal divide. It comes at the time of the lunar New Year, when we are reminded of change, especially within ourselves. The Star Ritual acts as our own ritualistic purification of the delusions or karma that hinder our buddha nature from emerging. The practices of purification for spiritual growth and repentance for inner purification are performed along with the prayers and rituals. The rites are directed at transforming the stars that govern negativity into ones that govern and boost positivity, and help to reorient our minds so that we can transform our lives in the New Year. The Shinnyo-en Winter Training is held beginning with the new year and also concluding with the seasonal divide. That is why the end of the Winter Training coincides with the final homa (or spiritual purification ceremony) of the Star Ritual. During Winter Training, we endeavor in acts of purification—specific acts of practice to polish ourselves and awaken our buddha nature.
The underlying significance of Winter Training for our sangha will remain unchanging in the eternal future. As the first Shinnyo-en Winter Training started with the enshrinement of the Mahavairochana Achala back in 1935, it is a period for practitioners to go back in spirit to the beginning and renew their vow to uphold the  dharma and embody the spirit of Achala’s embodiment of perseverance and determination deep within their own hearts and minds. When our faith remains unwavering and we strive in altruistic practice, we can help to fill the world with “everlasting hope.”

In this month’s premier issue of the new English-language publication “Resonance” (formerly “The Nirvana”, available online to Shinnyo practitioners world-wide), an early observation from Master Shinjo Ito provided the essential distillation of all dharma teachings:

Jan-1975: A letter requesting that I contribute an article for the magazine Josei Bukkyo [“Women in Buddhism”] arrived while I was out preparing for a propagation trip to [the northern region of] Tohoku. Upon my return I read the letter, and when I saw the proposed title, “The Nirvana Sutra: A Light in My Heart,” I truly felt that the Mahaparinirvana (Nirvana) Sutra is indeed a light in my heart. I would even go as far as to say it is my life.

(Buddha Shakyamuni)  urges each individual to become a person who gives true spiritual support and encouragement to others. At the same time, he explains that the Nirvana teachings cannot be grasped only by theory or logic but must be mastered above all through actual practice; that is, putting the teachings into action.

In this world of the present, it may seem as if everything we see and hear brings us only anxiety, fear, or anger instead of happiness and joy. We may simply shrug our shoulders at the situation, but are we not also committing, unknowingly or at times even knowingly, the same kind of negative actions in our daily lives [that cause this anxiety, fear, or anger in others]? From child discipline to nuclear war, I think we need to give thought and reflection to these problems [instead of turning a blind eye to them]. These are not someone else’s issues. I believe the first step in Buddhism can be summed up in the phrase “give matters due thought.”

 

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2013-January Shinnyo-en Buddhism Podcast – Arts and Growing

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2013-January Shinnyo-en Buddhism Podcast – Arts and Growing

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2013 Guideline, Items of Practice, Sonouta

Many of history’s greatest leaders share a commonality – a side affection for the Arts, whether it be music, painting, fictional literature, or even acting.  It may be that these elemental activities, that are based more on individual creativity and interpretation than well-defined scientific guidelines are what create the flexible and innovative leaders around us.

For example, a leader who has been well-versed in laws and regulations, who knows how to “play exactly by the book” may be left uncertain in times demanding alternative approaches, or when facing rapidly changing challenges.

The person who is used to making the best of whatever the given situation presents, often has the freedom to think beyond conventional solutions and offer new strategies that may extend far beyond the conservative mindset.

Today the world is facing endless problems due to climate change, political tensions, economic crises, a soaring population, natural disasters and diseases, but the lovingkindness that already lies within our hearts and forms the core of genuine spiritual practice can help dispel these dark clouds to reveal a brighter future.  Lovingkindness is the good within us and the basis of humanity and philanthropy.

Acts of lovingkindness will lead to the serenity and peace of mind that comes from feeling close to others. Good things come from loving acts and kindness is born from putting one’s beliefs into practice. As our kind and caring actions accumulate, we come to understand through personal experience the interdependence of all life along with the joy of living and being given life.  To begin this process, the steps we take, however small, should be sincere and full of lovingkindness.  Every moment that we spend being a good friend to others polishes our buddha nature further, allowing us to move closer to buddhahood.

Shinso Ito, our head priest of Shinnyo-en set forth the guidelines for 2013 during the January 1st service:

With sincere efforts made towards a borderless realm of shinnyo,
And following the example of the Shinnyo Parents,
Let us expand our ties of friendship in the world.

To help put this into practice, the two guidelines are:
1. Contributing through steps of lovingkindness.
2. Acting on our sesshin experience.

As the practice of sesshin training helps of understand our own flaws and areas needing encouragement, it is not enough just to understand that you and I have things needing improvement, but we must take steps towards actually changing ourselves as part of our efforts to reflect a better example for others.

We close with the 2013 Sonouta which reads:

Let us never fail to endeavor and pray till the world of joy is realized.

Note that prayer and self-focus is second, and making efforts comes first. This is because by actually engaging in honest efforts to encourage and support others, self-transformation comes as a symmetrical byproduct of the process. The spirit of friendship will expand in the world when we strengthen the bond we have to our own buddha nature, and to each other.