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X FACTOR DISCUSSION + Contestants at The Grove
Paparazzi followed the future chart-topping superstars around.
Its rare for the paparazzi to be greeted with quite this much delight.
But for the X Factor finalists, it's still a novelty to be treated as celebrities.
All the contestants went to shoot an Extra segment with Mario Lopez, then shopped around afterwards.
The wannabes couldn't hide their delight when they realised they were being photopgrahed as they amused themselves on a rare day off from filming in Los Angeles.
Jumping around and giving one another piggybacks, the excited youngsters put on a show for the cameras.
Emblem3 is composed of brothers Wesley and Keaton Stromberg and Drew Chadwick.
They were joined by fellow groups finalist Firth Harmony, who happen to share the same mentor, Simon Cowell.
Fifth Harmony consists of Dinah Jane Hansen, Camila Cabello, Lauren Juaregui, Normani Kordei and Ally Brooke
The girls all looked stylish and confident as they strutted around the busy shopping street and smiled happily for the cameras.
The final of the hit singing show is in just a few weeks so the hopefuls must be feeling the pressure.
Both bands were kept in the competition in this week's elimination show after Arin Ray and Beatrice Miller were booted off.
Both groups are mentored by head judge Simon Cowell, who is said to work his protegees incredibly hard.
Narmoni of Fifth Harmony has even previously detailed their tough schedules - including 'minimal sleep'.
It is also rumoured that Keaton Stromberg is dating Lauren Juaregui despite the teen insisting he is 'single' in a recent interview.
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California Drug and Alcohol Treatment Assessment (CALDATA), 1991-1993 (ICPSR 2295)
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The California Drug and Alcohol Treatment Assessment (CALDATA) was designed to study the costs, benefits, and effectiveness of the state's alcohol and drug treatment infrastructure (recovery services) and specifically to assess (1) the effects of treatment on participant behavior, (2) the costs of treatment, and (3) the economic value of treatment to society. Data were collected on participants (clients) across four types of treatment programs, or modalities: residential, residential "social model," nonmethadone outpatient, and outpatient methadone (detoxification and maintenance). Data were collected in two phases. In Phase 1, treatment records were abstracted for clients who received treatment or were discharged between October 1, 1991, and September 30, 1992. In Phase 2, these clients were located and recruited for a follow-up interview. The CALDATA design and procedures included elements from several national treatment outcome studies including the Drug Services Research Survey (ICPSR 3393), Services Research Outcomes Study (ICPSR 2691), National Treatment Improvement Evaluation Study (ICPSR 2884), and Drug Abuse Treatment Outcome Study (ICPSR 2258). The record abstract was designed to collect identifying and locating information for interview reference during the personal interviewing phase. The abstract also collected demographic, drug, or alcohol use, and treatment and service information. The follow-up questionnaire covered time periods before, during, and after treatment and focused on topics such as ethnic and educational background, drug and alcohol use, mental and physical health, HIV and AIDS status, drug testing, illegal activities and criminal status, living arrangements and family issues, employment and income, and treatment for drug, alcohol, and mental health problems. Drugs included alcohol, barbiturates, benzodiazepines, cocaine powder, crack, downers, hallucinogens, heroin, illegal methadone, inhalants, LSD, marijuana/hashish/THC, methamphetamines and other stimulants, narcotics, over-the-counter drugs, PCP, ritalin or preludin, and sedatives/hypnotics. CALDATA was originally known as the California Outcomes Study (COS).
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The study was conducted by the National Opinion Research Center at the University of Chicago and Lewin-VHI, Inc., Fairfax, Virginia, and Corte Madera, California.
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CALDATA employed a multistage stratified sample design consisting of three stages. In the first stage, the state was stratified geographically into four regions to ensure state-wide coverage. Counties within these strata were randomly selected, with large counties being selected with certainty and small counties being clustered to provide sufficiently large sampling units. Selection chances for the non-certainty counties were weighted based on the number of participants. In the second stage of sampling, treatment providers were selected using similar principles of geographically balanced, size weighted random selection. In order to analyze each treatment modality, approximately equal numbers of facilities were selected across the modalities. As with counties, the smallest providers were clustered to provide adequately sized sampling units. In the third stage, client records were randomly chosen at each sampled facility with the number varying by the size of the provider and the extent to which the on-site listing of clients matched the number expected for that provider. Approximately 3,000 clients were selected for abstraction. Of these, 1,859 were recruited for the follow-up interview.
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All clients receiving recovery services in the four treatment modalities included in the study from California-based treatment providers known to the California Alcohol and Drug Data System (CADDS) as of September 1992. The CADDS programs include all providers who (1) received any type of public funding for treatment or recovery services, (including grants, contracts, and MediCal reimbursements) during the current or previous fiscal years, and (2) are required to report to CADDS as a condition of state licensing.
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2011-08-31 Yatah gets help
Start: 11:50:49
3rdthawkins: hello yatah alt, made exact time, huh
alt: hello 3rdthawkins & yatah... hope you two are doing well today.
3rdthawkins: doing good, think yatah may be away
yatah: hi all
3rdthawkins: wb yatah, how are you?
yatah: i am doing fine
3rdthawkins: that's good
alt: yep, was doing some updating of the database from ancestry & familysearch and the time got away from me.
yatah: got my grandpa 's death cer last week or so
3rdthawkins: yeah, time can pass you buy when you get busy that's great yatah, any good/new information?
alt: wonderful yatah,,, did it reveal anything 'new' for you?
3rdthawkins: hello davissiano
alt: hello daviss, how are ya doing?
daviss: hello 3rd alt and yatah!!
yatah: yea and information about his work before and his business parents on too
3rdthawkins: cool, yeah, some DC's will wil give occupation and military status/service that's great yatah
daviss: anything new on FS alt?
3rdthawkins: have you been able to search further for him with parents name now yatah?
alt: yep, they uploaded more Ohio records to their existing collections in the past month or so daviss
daviss: ok alt, thats great to hear
yatah: name is edward quiller and josephine quiller i mean josephine darby
daviss: I am glad you are getting more information yatah!
3rdthawkins: you had those names before, didn't you yatah? at least Josephine's?
alt: and I'm liking their advanced search more and more daviss
3rdthawkins: I don't know if I still have the info that I helped you with, since I changed computers, I will have to look through my emails, it should be saved in my sent file
yatah: my grandpa work at postal clark and business is steel plant
daviss: They finally signed the contract with Tx and put most of their records back online
yatah: yes rite make sure i get rite name
alt: are you doing a Happy Dance daviss? )
daviss: I thought I was losing my mind for awhile. I knew that I had seen the records before and poof they were gone lol
alt: that can be frustrating daviss
yatah: he dead in pa but i dont know where he born but he live in south carolina
daviss: well yes and no not yet alt lol I need to find some of my folks
3rdthawkins: ok yatah, you had mother's name, Josephine, not father's name, so now you have father's name, Edward Quiller
daviss: I have found neighbors in Grfimes County Texas Grimes
3rdthawkins: you would need to order his SSA yatah
yatah: yes josephine's mom i have and i dont know who josephine's father yes edward quiller that my grandpa's father
Seventies Soulchild: Good afternoon all
3rdthawkins: hello Seventies
alt: howdy Seventies Soulchild
yatah: i think josephine's father maybe white or another gave to her name maybe
Seventies Soulchild: So what is new in the world of African-American genealogy?
yatah: how cost ssa ?
daviss: yatah look in your old records .. I think you have Josephines parents name
Seventies Soulchild: Alt thank you very much for sending me those documents about Tom Smith.
daviss: hello seventies
Seventies Soulchild: hi daviss
alt: yw Seventies Soulchild, hope they help in some small way.
3rdthawkins: $27 with ssn $29 without, you must provide a proof of death if you don't have ssn yatah
yatah: davis, i nput my book somewhere yes grandpa has ss number
3rdthawkins: ok, so order his ssa
daviss: ok you need to find it.. look in closet, dresser drawer and everywhere.
yatah: yea i will
3rdthawkins: JOsephine's parents are Smith Darby and Mary A Darby have it here in my email
daviss: I wish I had keep all that info yatah but I deleted from my computer about two years ago
yatah: which one i have trust 1890 or 1895 ?
Seventies Soulchild: They did, so now I have the will of Baxter Smith, the lawsuit documents, the book where the family members are named, some of the census records and now this. Hopefully once all of this information gets analyzed I'll have a good picture of the family
alt: yatah, a 30.00 investment in a genealogy software package will save you a lot of trouble and you will always have your information a 'mouse click' away.
3rdthawkins: for who yatah?
yatah: josephine bec 130 1930 m said 1895
Seventies Soulchild: alt, I'm begging my cousin to do a book on the Smith family... begging...
yatah: 1910 said 1890
3rdthawkins: she's 20 in 1910 with one child under ten, I would say 1890
Seventies Soulchild: lol
3rdthawkins: hello Selma
daviss: sounds like to me seventies the picture is becoming clearer and clearer
alt: hello Selma, how are ya?
yatah: make sense
Seventies Soulchild: Hi Selma
Selma: Good Wednesday afternoon folks
daviss: Hello Selma!!
Seventies Soulchild: Maybe I'm working on early admits today... something I don't normally do, its slow going...
3rdthawkins: so refresh my memory yatah, Luther Quiller was who?
alt: Seventies Soulchild, if you have the information on your computer you could give her a 'boost' by printing out a narrative report on what you have, that might get her started.
yatah: what age is jospehine has clarence quiller he born 1921 what yrs
Seventies Soulchild: I'm about to go out to Detroit lol
yatah: that josephine and edward's first child luther born about 1910 or 1909
alt: is that where your cousin is located? take your computer and a flash drive with you to leave for her LOL
Seventies Soulchild: She has pictures of many of the Smiths... they were given to her. So lucky. Oh I have a flash drive lol
3rdthawkins: ok, your father was?
alt: or if she has a computer askr her to send you a GEDCOM file.. or vice versa.
Seventies Soulchild: they have RootsMagic also alt and the tree is on ancestry one world. My cousin Philip sent me a copy of the tree. so I filled in where I could.
fierybug08: hello everybody
alt: hello fierybug08.
Seventies Soulchild: hey fierybug08!
Selma: Hi fierybug
3rdthawkins: hello fierybug
daviss: hello there fierybug
Seventies Soulchild: I've decided that the kids and I are going to take a winter vacay to D.C. tee hee hee
fierybug08: *virtual wave* to Seventies Soulchild alt daviss 3rdthawkins Selma yatah
yatah: hi
fierybug08: sounds good to me...i'll come meet ya!
alt: for photos, if she cares to share and is on Facebook have her post them there and you can do a copy & "save as".
Seventies Soulchild: So if anyone wants to do some research over the x-mas New Years break let me know. alt tried that too she's older and intimidated by technology.
3rdthawkins: my grandmother's niece's sister doesn't like departing with photos, she can't even get her to make a copy of the photo, she has to negotiate with her, crazy
alt: okay Seventies Soulchild, some of us 'older' folks are intimidated by the technology.
yatah: 3rd, rem i told you i found more children of edward and josephine after has luther ?
fierybug08: see that's why you demonstrate the coolness about technology
yatah: and died early ?
Seventies Soulchild: She did work with an archivist in Selma... but the lady has since died.
alt: I just have my toes in the water technology-wise LOL
Seventies Soulchild: lol yeah right!
3rdthawkins: not sure yatah
fierybug08: alt...i think it's good that you can appreciate. You know the basics. Email and genealogy software.
Seventies Soulchild: When I was discussing the items I found online with her, she knew right away who the people were alt. Seems like the black family had close connection with the white family. She kind of thinks that we are related to the Smiths.
yatah: ok
3rdthawkins: wanted to ask you about the Joseph Darby in PA pennitentary in 1930....have you discovered if that was him or not yatah?
alt: and it doesn't hurt that I was in IT, or Data Processing, as we used to call it for 30+ years fierybug08
Seventies Soulchild: I'm not convinced though.
fierybug08: lol at least you know how to improvise when the power goes out. how many youngsters can say the same thing lol their idea of recess or play time is FB or watching videos
Seventies Soulchild: exactly alt
yatah: not sure about it you can sent me one i can look up if same yrs he born
fierybug08: hi ProfDru!
3rdthawkins: hello ProfDru, how's it going?
Seventies Soulchild: Hey ProfDru!
ProfDru: Howdy
yatah: if all darby live in pa
Seventies Soulchild: Enough about the Smiths.. lol
3rdthawkins: 1930 Pennsylvania Montgomery Eastern State Penitentiary Series T626 Roll 2084 Page 137 Image 6 Darby Joseph Inmate M Neg 32 ? 21 SC SC SC
daviss: well well well, Hi there Prof Dru, it is good to see you!!! lol
alt: Hello ProfDru. how are ya? And yep I'll be listening to AY @ 2:00 PM LOL
fierybug08: me too alt lol
ProfDru: Won't be here long; just wanted to remind everyone about Angela's webinar.
yatah: he born in south carolina rite
3rdthawkins: yes yatah
Seventies Soulchild: could you post a link?
daviss: all signed up and as they say, ret to go lol
yatah: he go jail
Seventies Soulchild: lol I'm not signed up... but I suppose I could do that sometime in the next hour or so
3rdthawkins: not sure if it is him, yatah, just wanted to know if you or someone in the family knew about that, if it fits
yatah: mine too i not sure if it him or not
Seventies Soulchild: brb
daviss: seventies are you talking about the legacy link'
ProfDru: you can find the link on my blog, www.findyourfolks.blogspot.com
yatah: that why i need look 1920 where josephine and edward been no luck find
3rdthawkins: yeah, that messes it up
yatah: 1920 josephine age 30 's
daviss: How's it going with you Dru?
Selma: I will be there Dru
ProfDru: ok, vicky
yatah: still n firgure where they been or move areound
ProfDru: I'm not sure if I will make it due to a meeting. On the phone with Angela now.
daviss: thats good Dru and glad to see you back here I think it will be around 11 am here
yatah: my grandpa born 1921
ProfDru: gotta run
daviss: later
3rdthawkins: so did you find them in 1930 yatah?
yatah: yes
3rdthawkins: where were they living?
alt: yatah, sounds like your quiller family was part of the migration North to the Steel Mills of PA during the 1920's & 1930's.
yatah: in south carolina st matthews
fierybug08: i would love to see a program about preparing for the 1940s census-- presented at Legacy webinar? any takers? alt daviss?
daviss: alt I talked to Ancestry yesterday about my I dna designation
3rdthawkins: ok, so could still be there in 1920, might have just not gotten enumerated for whatever reason, or there is a so-called "Missing" census
fierybug08: what did they say daviss?
alt: what did they say daviss
3rdthawkins: yeah, would love to hear about that daviss
yatah: or not record maybe
3rdthawkins: maybe not yatah
yatah: when start slave ?
daviss: they sent me a link that the I is indeed a MTDNA haplo
yatah: i just wonder alt , maybe
alt: really!!!! I was under the impression it was only for Y-DNA.. that being the case you learn something new every day.
yatah: there is i have quilla and quiller that i found
3rdthawkins: slavery was abolished and made illegal in 1865 yatah
daviss: The person that I talked to will talk to her super who was absent yesterday to see if they would re-look at my sample
alt: and I learned sumpin new!!!!
daviss: for free of course lol
3rdthawkins: so, what does the new discovery mean??
yatah: ok
fierybug08: sounds good to me
yatah: birth: 1895 —South Carolina residence: 1930 —Saint Matthews, Calhoun, South Carolina census: 1930 —Saint Matthews, Calhoun, South Carolina children: Luther Quiller, Clarence Quiller
alt: two things 3rdthawkins 1. bearnur2 & I was wrong 2. that daviss has Euro female direct line ancestry.
daviss: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haplogroup_I_(mtDNA
3rdthawkins: oh, wow
daviss: here is the link alt
yatah: 3rd look i found birth: Newberry, S.C. spouse: Josephine Darby child: Christa Belle Quilla
3rdthawkins: oh, wow oops, great yatah
alt: your copy & paste works daviss Yeah!!!!!!
yatah: that died yrs 1929 and she born 1919
daviss: lol I have my grand daughters computer alt
yatah: father ed quilla
daviss: the other one crashed I am working on getting another one
3rdthawkins: ok yatah, so you will need to order your grandfather's SSA
yatah: ok what ssa i look for ?
3rdthawkins: your father's I mean, you grandfather
yatah: ok it will tell more information ?
daviss: alt, it is what it is but need to find out if it is what it is lol re: retest
yatah: anyway look alike last name quilla and quiller
3rdthawkins: his birthplace, date of birth, residence at time he filled out SSA, parents name what year he filled out the SSA
daviss: I also want to get my brother to test at FTDNA
Seventies Soulchild: ok I'm back
3rdthawkins: welcome back
yatah: can you find edgal quilla draft war i cant enter to open ?
3rdthawkins: go to familysearch yatah
alt: shhhh, gotta stop talking bout Seventies Soulchild , she's back LOL LOL
daviss: lol @ alt
Seventies Soulchild: lol alt
yatah: maybe i sure he filled out he become 18
3rdthawkins: lol alt.........................yatah familysearch has wwi and wwII draft cards
yatah: oh i dont know i not see that thanks
3rdthawkins: oops, they only have WWII daft cards yatah, but don't think they would have it for S.C.
Seventies Soulchild: I'm getting ready to dig a little deeper into the Rounds family in slavery. Going to order some more records from LSU.
3rdthawkins: ancestry has WWI
Selma: Gotta run folks, have a great day
yatah: yes i know edward quiller on ww1 drafts card know as edgal quilla
alt: Selma's gotta get in a quick nap before 2:00 PM LOL
yatah: where i can find
daviss: I think she just hopped to it lol
3rdthawkins: WWII cards for S.C. have been destroyed yatah
Seventies Soulchild: lol
alt: oh, oh I'm gonna tell her you're dropping 'hopping' jokes on her daviss LOL
daviss: lol gonna blame it on seventies
Seventies Soulchild: Other than genealogy, I'm getting the youngin's ready for this new school year.... money money MONEY!!! lol say what??? lol
yatah: what about drafts card ww1
daviss: lol lol lol boy seventies you guys haven't started school yet?
Seventies Soulchild: I am thankful that my kids didn't want the $80 backpacks...lol East coast doesn't start until around labor day
daviss: oh ok
alt: if he was born in 1921 he wouldn't be registering for the WW I draft in 1917-1918 yatah
3rdthawkins: go to this site to order ssa yatah http://www.ssa.gov/foia/html/foia_guide.htm scroll all the way down to Make Your Request Online. go to •Social Security Number Application (Form SS-5) of a deceased person. You can use online Form SSA-711 . and click on the SSA-711 link, it will take you to a page where you can fill out the information for your grandfather
yatah: i Name: Edgal Quilla Birth: date - location Residence: Calhoun, South Carolina Other: location that is my gg grandpa
alt: perhaps his father, your great-grandfather may be on the WW I draft registrations yatah
Seventies Soulchild: I have to run. Y'all have a wonderful afternoon.
daviss: please dont
3rdthawkins: I don't have ancestry yatah, not subscribed to it, you will have to go to the library to see it
alt: later Seventies Soulchild
yatah: oh ok
daviss: oh she left lol cat has fierybug08's tongue or would it be fingers
yatah: i have one but lost one suck for me
daviss: yatah are your kids in school now
yatah: yea but juat last baBY and my pre school at school now
daviss: oh ok, thats good that school has started folks I am gonna run now. Need to speed up on some things before Angela's webnar
3rdthawkins: okd aviss
yatah: how cost pay for ancestry ?
3rdthawkins: daviss lol
fierybug08: hey...sorry i left for a minute
alt: later daviss
daviss: that means I have to eat lunch earlt too lol later
3rdthawkins: don't know yatah, they change it every now and again, you will have to check and see best thing is go to the library
yatah: oh ok ok
fierybug08: yeah...go to the library. You can send email to yourself the files of your searches
alt: for my subscription to Ancestry I pay 155.00 per year yatah
yatah: yike
alt: yep, yikes LOL
fierybug08: if i get FTM, how do I add Ancestry linkes to the database? Do I have to be a paid member?
alt: but I like the ability to search 24/7 here in my home.
yatah: wish free lol
alt: I'm not sure how Ancestry works with FTM fierybug08
3rdthawkins: well, Ancestry would have to get it for free yatah, and the places they get it from won't allow it they order the record and have to pay for it, charging you is the business of how they pay for the records
fierybug08: okay. i think i will have to just visit NARA in DC regularly. Better do it before it gets too cold
yatah: once get free right after that no free
3rdthawkins: yes yatah, unless you have different credit card numbers......one thing is go to wal-mart or somewhere that sales money cards, activate it, put some money on them, and use the number to get free access to Ancestry
alt: but you can always get the 14 day free trial memberships to ancestry.. not sure how they check to see if you've used the free trial before.
3rdthawkins: same credit card number alt
fierybug08: oh, i always thought it was tied to the email address?
alt: right 3rdthawkins, I know they ask for a credit card # even on their free trial.
yatah: oh ok
3rdthawkins: I think I got a whole month free because I use one card, and then activated it where wal-mart sent me a permanent card (I was using the temporary one), and so I got an extra two weeks for the new number they didn't charge me, I thought they would, but I think they gave me free trial for both cards
yatah: i need find dead cer of josephine darby she died around 1949 i keep try look
3rdthawkins: well you all, gonna go, yatah, order that SSA for your grandfather, and so some research for his sibings, you may have to order records for them also, somebody record can/will give info that someone else's record doesn't so some-I mean Do Some research for her grandpa's siblings her-your
alt: later y'all
fierybug08: okay everybody. I got to run. nice chatting. See ya later.
yatah: ok i work on grandpa's older brother luther after that


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Citizendium - An Alternative to Wikipedia?
The project is going to begin as a fork of Wikipedia with the copying of all the articles currently there. However, the idea is that real life experts will then begin work on the articles and put a stamp of approval on them when they are ready. Discipline based editorial teams will give final approval to content.
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Of course, there is a more academic version of Wikipedia out there already. It is called the Encyclopedia Britannica. The Britannica is allowing visitors to contribute content as well but requiring professional editors to approve it. However, as the content there is hidden behind subscription fees, it is not a long term threat to dethrone Wikipedia. Given a choice between free quality information and subscription quality information, free wins every time even if the paid content is slightly better. What if a free peer-reviewed resource created by members of the academy became big? Now we have an alternative to Wikipedia that both academics and the public could approve.
It is going to be hard to create a resource with a large active academic community. This project participants likely will get few tenure or promotion credits for contributing. This will not count as scholarship in most places. Further, one of the keys to Wikipedia is the thousands of users who update articles hourly. It is a good source for current news and up-to-date information. Can Citizendium be this active?
I wonder how many historians will go for this? How many good historians will Citizendium need to have a good history editorial team which can deal with the massive amount of non-peer reviewed articles at Wikipedia which are mostly accurate but will need work and vetting before getting a stamp of approval? I am not going to join right away but I wish these historians luck.
I would say that chances for Citizendium to be successful long-term are slim. However, I would have thought five years ago that an idea like Wikipedia was doomed as well. And how wrong I would have been...
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- Steve Muhlberger said...
Wikipedia is not an academic resource. It's more like journalism or talking to a prof in the hallway, off the cuff.
This doesn't mean it's worthless, but you have to be careful.
As for instance you have to be careful about NY Times articles on hot political issues. Buyer beware!
- Miland said...
"Wikipedia is not an academic resource. It's more like journalism or talking to a prof in the hallway, off the cuff."
Yes, but Wikipedia is also one of the most heavily used resources in the world.
Academic created resources (like journals) are better but are hidden behind firewalls demanding money or in paper in libraries. Web searchers tend to ignore this and rely on Wikipedia for facts anyway.
And Wikipedia does a pretty good job. Go ahead and try to introduce errors into Wikipedia and see how quick you get banned.
I agree with you. But that is not the point. Web searchers have shown that Wikipedia is used and valued. How can we as academics create a similar system that uses the Wikipedia model but defers to academic experts? Maybe Citizendium is the answer. And maybe not.
Every academic in the world can point out that Wikipedia is suspect and it will change nothing if search behavior by your average joe searcher does not change. Can we create a credible alternative?
- anomalous4 said...
Also sprach miland:
"Wikipedia is suspect and it will change nothing if search behavior by your average joe searcher does not change."
I'm not an academic, just a reasonably intelligent (I hope), well-educated ordinary person (BS and 2/3 of the way to an MS before life got in the way and I went in an entirely different direction) who uses Wikipedia a lot but doesn't quite trust it either because I don't know its sources.
I link to Wikipedia in my online correspondence because I know it's readily accessible to anyone who reads my blatherings, but I generally try to verify the information elsewhere. If nothing else, I'll check out a few of the article's offsite reference links.
IMO, Citizendium is an excellent idea because I expect its contents to be more reliable, but I also have a personal reason for wanting to see a no-cost source of high-quality information. Since I'm on disability and dirt-poor as a result, I simply can't afford to subscribe to anything. (The fact that I'm online at all is thanks to a donated computer and my next-door neighbor's graciously allowing me to use her wireless connection.)
I sincerely hope Citizendium takes off, and I think it will. There's a huge potential audience out there that includes not only the academic community (including students) and other professionals, but also plenty of folks like me who simply have a bad case of "V'ger-itis" ("We need the information!").
I'll be watching to see how the project develops. Good luck!
Just 2 brass farthings' worth from one "joe (or more accurately 'jo') searcher" eager to start pointing my readers to Citizendium first.
- anomalous4 said...
Here's a case in point of the pitfalls of Wikipedia and the need for Citizendium, from archy (posted 10/29/06) via A Blog Around the Clock:
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An object lesson in Wiki research
This post should serve as a lesson in the importance of the two source rule and why we should be careful using Wikipedia to research controversial topics. [...]
You don't hear much about Immanuel Velikovsky anymore, but for three decades he was the best-known voice of anti-establishment science in the United States. Velikovsky's books sold millions in hardback. At his peak, his supporters managed to create an entire parallel intellectual structure complete with journals, conferences, and schisms. [...]
The current Wikipedia article on "Catastrophism" is short and unbalanced. It doesn't mention modern creationists at all. It devotes one section to Velikovsky, but none to other influential catastrophists such as Charles Hapgood. [...]
During the week that I checked Wikipedia, the "Catastrophism" article had eight sections. The additional section (which was online from October 15 - 22) dealt with one particular Velikovsky follower, John Ackerman, and raised the total wordcount for Velikovsky related material to almost half of the the total article. To any student depending on Wikipedia as a source, this would have given them the impression that catastrophism was essentially about Velikovsky, or that he was, at least, the most important person in developing the concept. [...]
What was the idea Ackerman had that someone thought needed to be added to the Wikipedia? The Ackerman section, added by an anonymous author, reads [edited for length. ---a4]:
"Velikovsky/Ackerman Catastrophism
"The ideas of Velikovsky have been greatly advanced since 1998 by John Ackerman (Firmament, Chaos, and Peleh: Hidden Knowledge) in recent years, using new interpretations of ancient myths in the Rig Veda, Hindu, Egyptian, Greek and Roman myth and data from NASA planetary missions. This work has revealed a 3000 year period of repeated close encounters of Mars and Venus with the Earth from 4000 to 687 BC. [...] The V/A catastrophism also reveals many facts still unknown in uniformitarian (academic) circles, concerning the other planets. 1. Jupiter and Saturn are not gaseous, but comprise primarily water in the form of gas hydrates. 2. Venus is a new planet, only 6000 years old. 3. Terrestrial planets are formed catastrophically from vast plasma clouds that rebound from high energy impacts on the giant gas hydrate planets. As a result each terrestrial planet has a unique age. [...]"
[note: more on Velikovsky/Ackerman Catastrophism at Firmament and Chaos. ---a4]
The anonymous author presents Ackerman's theory as if it has already been recognized as the best interpretation of the available facts. That's not the case. Most scientists are unaware of Ackerman's theory and, if they were, almost all would reject it. Imagine the poor student who reports that Venus is only six thousand years old.
Recently, I have seen a number of references to kids being fooled by the brilliant parody site Save The Pacific Northwest Tree Octopus and writing research papers about the fictitious invertebrate. I don't know if it's true. A number of teaching sites use the tree octopus as an example of a professional looking site that sounds legitimate, but isn't. At least it is clearly a parody. Material, which appears for the first time in a Wiki entry, is harder to evaluate. Is something new because the article was incomplete and needed this information to be complete? Or is it new because someone is trying to pull something over on us and they just haven't been caught yet.
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Certainly a tip of the hat is due to the sharp-eyed reader who yanked the Ackerman section after only a week, but the fact that it appeared at all is still cause for alarm. Looks like the "average joe searcher" needs Citizendium even more than the academic community does.
Just another 2 brass farthings' worth from someone whose otherwise reasonably intelligent kid brother was completely sold on Velikovsky for much of his high-school years. I'm off to see if there's a Wikipedia entry on the two-source rule. (As it turns out, there isn't. Maybe I'll start one.)


text: The demand for total knee replacements in the Medicare population is increasing significantly, according to a 20-year analysis of demand for the procedure, also known as total knee arthroplasty (TKA). The research, published in the Sept. 26, 2012, issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association found that the number of TKAs more than doubled from 1991 to 2010. Researchers suggest that the increased demand is due partly to an expanding pool of older adults and a desire by older adults to maintain a more active lifestyle that is possible only if arthritic knees are replaced. Researchers noted that the rising demand for TKAs will add substantially to national health care costs, as the procedure costs about $15,000.


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Falken Tire, in association with Microsoft and Turn 10 Studios announced the winner of its Falken Tire Livery Contest in Forza Motorsport 4. Belgium's Kevin Neuville was chosen as the overall winner, and his winning livery will be featured on the Falken Porsche GT3 RSR during the 2013 Petit Le Mans Race this October.
The contest was conducted during the month of April, and for 30 days, XBOX Forza 4 players were urged to submit their own designs utilizing the Team Falken Tire Porsche GT3 RSR as a canvas to alter the worldwide recognized Teal and Blue livery.
Nearly 200 entries were submitted, with only 6 finalists chosen by Falken Tire and Microsoft's Turn 10 staff. The designs were then then posted on Falken's Facebook page for voting by the fans. In the end, Kevin Neuville of Belgium was announced as the winner. Falken's Porsche GT3 RSR will debut and run the winning livery at the 2013 Petit Le Mans race this October and will also be displayed at SEMA in November. Neuville's design will be available as a free download later this year through Falken's Official Forza Motorsports account.
"Car passion is at the heart of Forza Motorsport," said Alan Hartman, studio manager at Turn 10 Studios. "Forza Motorsport 4 for Xbox 360 offers players a huge palette to explore their automotive dreams – from racing to drifting, photography to livery creation. It's inspiring to see the amazing content continuing to come from the Forza community and we look forward to seeing Kevin's amazing design come to life on the track at Road Atlanta."
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jeroenvanderschenk necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 760 diseños de 158 diseñadores freelance.
We're help companies with building their brands online throught social media. A few of our activities:
- Trendwatching (and sharing this content on our blogs and through various social networks)
- Keynote presentations
- Workshops and training
- Brand monitoring
- Creating disruptive concepts / businessmodels
Our (main) target audience are companies that need help with their social media strategy, branding and/or communication with their stakeholders in general. We also help them with creating 'disruptive concepts'.
UPDATE Januari 2nd
I have just eliminated a lot of designs to clean this contest up. We already got a lot of designs with textballoons, people and initials (SB). Please; only sumbit new designs/logo's when they are really different and new!
Thanks in advance,
Jeroen (contestholder)
Great that you're taking some time to read our briefing! We would love you to join in on this contest. And ofcourse we promise to keep this a healthy contest by giving feedback ;-)
The logo needs to visualize our 'thing'. Keywords are:
- training
- academy
- inspiration
- social media
- branding
- digital DNA / fingerprint
- disruptive
- customers
- (virtual) dialogue
- sharing
- connecting
- trends / new
- communication
(A part of) the logo needs to fit in 'square-shaped' social media profiles. We're going to use this logo in our wordpress template as well, and we'll create a keynote/powerpoint template of it.
We really like the color blue! Maybe in combination with one or two other colors? Feel free to be creative!
Note: There's already a brand called Social Bites in Canada, check http://www.socialbites.ca. Ours is Socialbites.com. Ofcourse our logo needs to be a different one! ;-)
Questions? Let us know!
And again, thanks for joining in on this contest.
Descubre cómo funciona un concurso de diseño u obtén más información sobre nuestros servicios de diseño de logo.


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Known to those she mentors as "the gentle taskmaster who helps people dream again," Charlotte Hunt is an inspirational speaker, author, retired international runway model, radio personality and founder of Dream Madly Productions. She has spoken before audiences of celebrities, political figures, world-renowned musical artists, dignitaries, leaders, educators, psychologists, survivors of abuse, prison inmates, addicts, the hopeless, and everyone in between.
Although she was successful in her career, she dealt with overwhelming feelings of worthlessness and a belief that it was foolish to dream her life could be used to impact others. Finally, healing took place, the joy of childhood dreams returned and the past that others saw as unusable is being used to impact audiences across the nation to Dream Madly again. Her remarkable story was featured globally on The 700 Club.
Charlotte Hunt has triumphed over abuse, tragedy, and great obstacles to become an impacting leader, helping lives to reach their potential, purpose and possibilities and dream dreams big enough to fail toward a life that matters.


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aactiontowing needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 33 designs submitted by 12 freelance designers.
A Action
A Action Towing & Recovery has been providing the Burlington, Oakville and Hamilton area with safe, reliable towing services since 1995. In that time we have developed a reputation for unsurpassed customer service which has made us the towing service of choice for individuals and businesses alike. Our website for further info is http://www.aactiontowing.ca
We aim to be a professional customer friendly company and therefore want to have broad appeal to bussiness's and individuals alike.
A rather simple logo not too many colours, but still catchy. Must be professional and not intimidating. The logo would be mainly for the tow trucks but would also be used for cards and the website. Ideally the logo would be in black or silver variations. The logo Should say only "A Action" but might be open to "A Action Towing"
Find out how a design contest works or learn more about our logo design services.


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About writeem
Interesting times. First Google breaks the Internet and crushes free speech by downgrading pirate search results, now Mikey's shining example of DIY can't do it himself -and the major labels and studios continue to deliver the overwhelming % of content. What has the world come to? Time for techie's to alter their world view? Backtracking becomes you.
"But things have changed. With the barriers gone, anyone can get on the playing field". Funny how things have changed. I just looked at the top 10 songs on the Bittorrent charts and, surprise, surprise, they are all from major labels or "indies" distributed by them. The same was true of the You Tube most viewed music videos. Yes, I'm counting Adele's XL as a major because they have all the infrastructure of a major, huge a$$ets, world wide marketing and distribution.
I'll buy into this blather about a level playing field when even 1/2 of the top p2p charts are from true indies. Have a nice 4th. Let's all declare independence from group-think.
You write code, good for you. I assume you're compensated, that the code is proprietary? Maybe you should give it away for exposure, get fans, facebook friends, make a living that way.
The brave new world is a lot like the old one, only now the lords and masters are big search, the ISP's (who are coming around slowly since they now own content), advertisers, payment processors. Funny how little has changed as far as who actually creates the music and films that drive the traffic. Tastes haven't changed, everyone still wants great content from major labels and studios, they just don't want to have to pay the cost of creating it. If I'm a dinosaur, I'll lumber off the tar pit. But as long as my songs are everywhere is Cyberspace, making $ for everyone but me, I'll bellow now and then. Thanks for the exchange, no one's mind was changed I'll bet. Off to the studio.
Mark Gorton from Limewire--worth about 100 million, before he lost it all in his court case. Kim.com. again, worth untold millions. Creeps cloaked in fake idealism who's only innovation was to find a way to give away copyrighted material and keep all the $ for themselves. I'm no apologist for the labels, but wake up. Every corporation plays hardball with their contract labor. Create something of value, record or write a hit and you can re-write your deal points and you'll get a fair deal. I've seen it done countless times. My major spent a ridiculous amount of $ on my crappy record many years ago and I walked away from it, free and clear. I'm now a songwriter, my deals are with publishers and our $, what little is left of it, is determined by the copyright royalty board. My songs are everywhere--7 of the top 10 sites when I google any of them are infringing--making $ for everyone but me. Big tech and their data mining operations own the world now, we content creators are the canaries. You're next.
Thanks for you long and thoughtful post. I was in a classic DIY band for many years, had lots of fans, make our own records, sold T shirts, toured like crazy, even got a deal on a hated major label for a milisecond--and went broke. See, it turns out that I was not a great artist, but I was a pretty good songwriter. At that point I bet it all on article 1, sec 8 of the constitution, and the hope that if I created something of value, I would be compensated. The music biz I inhabit is made up of people, lots of former DIY guys, behind the scenes with unique talents, developed over years of hard work. who's time is far better spent doing what they do best, programming, engineering, writing, not amassing facebook friends or stapling flyers to telephone poles. They are the people who create the 99% of content I referred to, and they're getting run out of their lifelong livelihoods not because they don't create great, highly valued music, --they do--but because their income stream is now diverted into the pockets of infringers and their enablers.
Labels "take most of the earnings." The infringing sites take all of the earnings. You cool with that? The $ paid to the songwriter is determined by the copyright royalty board, not the labels. It aint a great deal, but it's how I make my living, along with radio play. If no one is making $ from my songs, I'll pack it in. But they are, everywhere, all the time and I don't get jack.
If an artist doesn't want to sign with a label, they shouldn't. If they want to give their stuff away, they should. It's their choice, but they shouldn't demand that it's my choice also.
I can't believe this analogy is still being posted.
Well, when the automobile came along, it was a new product that made the old one obsolete. Illegal p2p is not a new product, it's a new means of distribution. It still makes $ from the same product---my song--but diverts the income stream into someone else's pocket. Those who invested their time and $--that would be me-- into making that song get nada.
I'm a songwriter. Just wondering how I, and all the other behind the scenes types who create the content that drives 99% of p2p traffic, get paid? We don't gig (been there, done that), sell CD's or T shirts, we license music to those who do.
Just checked today's top 10 search results for mp3raid, where my songs are always found, making $ for everybody w every click-everybody but me of course.
Interesting that all are either from a major label, or an "indie" financed and distributed by a major. Bet the same is true for most p2p'd movies. If the labels and studios are so hated, why, in 2012, are they still responsible for the creations everybody, especially p2p'rs wants?
How did Kim.com make his mega-millions?, Limewire, Grokster, Pirate Bay? Money was paid, either directly or thru ad revenue, to them to access content and none of that $ went to anyone in the chain who created it. The music biz is down 50% in ten years- that's a fact, and in my little corner of it, the # of songwriters is down by at least 2/3. Yeah I feel it in my gut, + my (and my friends) bank accounts, and I see/live it everyday in real time. Of course I'm a marginal, a washout. Whatever suits your ideology. Attack the messenger. Why would you want to actually have a sane conversation with someone who makes their living by the circle c, someone who might actually know how the music biz really works and how big tech has had a free ride on our backs. Don't take my word for it. Follow the money if you have the intellectual curiosity, which I doubt.
Well, you've changed my mind. I'm totally wrong. I can now disregard the gutting of the music business by 50% in 10 yrs- which I've witnessed first hand-as a figment of my imagination. I shall hereafter bow down to the Ayatollahs of Silicon Valley.
I will also disregard this expose of Google's biz model, 'set up ad programs for criminals of all stripes, feign innocent bystander status, go to the bank'.
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/technology/2011/08/google-to-pay-500-million-to-doj-for-ille gal-drug-ads-sales-in-us.html
Sure, there's lots of pap and crap, probably 80-90%, from the majors, same -or higher -for the indies since the bar for entry there is so low--80% of my own songs are mediocre in spite of my best efforts, but I've got to write through them to get to the good stuff that makes my, and the pirates, living. There is more money in music, movies, etc than there has ever been, but it's being siphoned off by entities who, unlike labels and studios, bear none of the cost of creating them. Keep looking for examples of label underhandedness--you'll always find them--and ignoring the same from the big tech crooks. Just don't pretend you're doing it for my benefit.
Thanks for the scolding gentlemen, I'm off to the studio.
Two examples of artists who made it with Creative Commons (sounds like you've been a good little CC drone). Good for them. It's their choice, as it should be. We have a constitutional 'exclusive right' to our writings--oh yeah, except for when we don't. My songs are on illegal sites by the millions, with everyone in the chain making $ from them --except me.
I don't have to scour the news for #'s, examples, I've seen it, lived it, watched friends and colleagues go under-- but no one here cares to actually acknowledge that I know what I'm talking about, that I really am ripped off by pirates and their pals- and fellow profiteers- in big tech. You have to demonize and diminish me. Have at it. I know what I'm getting into when I post here. I tell you what. Let's have this conversation when 95%+ of all p2p's movies and songs are no longer from the major labels and studios. Don't hold your breath.
As a long time pro songwriter, I'm aware of this and any # of other ways my $ are skimmed. The game is rigged, kind of like most contract labor deals, but if you have some success, you can re-write your deal points and make up the dif. Now, how about an article about how pirates sites and their enablers make mega-millions from music and share 0% with writers, artists or anyone else who devoted their life to making it.
Surely techdirt wouldn't scour the news looking only for evidence of major label (and major studio mis-steps), then gleefully re-print them as justification for the decade long free ride big tech has had on the backs of professional creators. Selective outrage? Surely not.
As always, the old "Follow the Money" rules works pretty well here. The overwhelming majority of the lobbying against SOPA is being funded by those who profit, either directly or tangentially, from infringement. They can outspend the music and movie industry 10 to 1 in this battle and not blink. (Any one here notice Google's $500,000,000 settlement with the Justice Dept. this fall which exposed their business model with crystal clarity? I didn't think so.) The problem is, all the above arguments have been made in Congress for years (and enhanced with huge campaign contributions) and they still haven't won the day. Why? Maybe it's because so many on the 'copyleft' see this as ideological Armageddon and overlook the fact that Copyright is enshrined in the Constitution, (not Google's right to profit from infringement), and the Constitution wins more often than not. By big tech crying wolf and throwing everything they've got at any attempt to enforce Copyright Law, they have diluted their message and power.
You may now commence attacking me. No, I'm not a troll, I'm a professional songwriter, come to my town and I'll show you the effects of 10 years of illegal P2P. Then let's take a tour of Silicon Valley to see where the $ went.


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More on CMSNovember 13, 2002
I began this as a comment to my last update, but it hits on too many important points to be buried "below the fold". The content management fest continues.
The Trouble is…
What inherently bothers me about Content Management in general is that the content owner (the client) has full control.
This rarely becomes a problem in companies with on–staff copywriters and designers, but coming from a web firm with a much smaller client base (in size as well as scope), I only infrequently get to work with this type of client. Instead, I deal mainly with <50 employee companies.
These are the sort of clients who will litter newsletters with clip art. These are the guys that are notorious for sending out e–mail laced with "wht do u think ?" These are the clients that pass along a 100x80 pixel GIF from a random site on the web and ask you to blow it up to 6 inches for their annual report.
I am ecstatic when I receive well thought–out copy and professional studio photos, but in reality I must get a hundred "welcome to our web site, tell us what you think of it!" for each of those, and a hundred more poorly lit, highly JPG'ed digital photos. Or magazine scans. Or images stolen from other people's web sites. You get the idea.
A Helping Hand
Being at least well–read, if not well–writ, I don't mind fixing copy. But if I am to do that, I would also like the ability to obsess about the typographical considerations, and make sure the page meshes as a coherent whole.
…which pretty much obliterates the need for a CMS in the first place. Back to square one.
I'll be the first to admit that I don't know my clients' industries. I don't know how to build a snowboard, and I've never manufactured chocolate by hand. I haven't a clue what legal considerations a lawyer needs to make when providing free information to the general public.
What I do know is what a user expects out of a web site.
I know how to increase the number of unique visitors a site gets in a month. I know what can be safely used on a site, and what violates copyright laws. I've helped triple sales on more than one site, I know why users drop shopping carts, and I know how to increase exposure of selected pages. This is what a client pays me for, because she can't do it herself.
But these techniques are only as good as the minds behind them. When I relinquish control, and begin trusting the client to handle the promotion and development themself, I walk a dangerous line between making myself redundant and allowing my client to fail.
Some Suggestions
What I support is a middle ground. There is a way to allow the client control over the regular, minor changes, while keeping him safe from himself.
Content creation needs to be a collaborative process. The web developer should be willing to work with the client to iron out the raw ideas generated as the result of meetings, e–mails, and brainstorm sessions. And it should be well–understood that this is an on–going process. It doesn't end when a site goes live.
Feature creep, or the addition of "one more thing" that the client thought of while in the bath last night is the bane of the web developer. Many ways of combatting this have been developed, but the fundamental problem is that web development has been shoehorned into an allegorical publishing process, which isn't true to the format. It should be recognized that a site is a living, breathing entity, and if not continuously updated to give the user a reason to come back, it will wither and die.
Updates made solely by the client should be limited to changing factual information. These are time–consumers that the developer needn't trouble herself with. The client can and should have the ability to modify information that has no consequence to site marketing and flow.
Things are Rarely Perfect
This is not a one–size–fits–all solution, naturally. One constant in web development is that every client needs a unique approach. Some clients will involve their own talent in the process, leaving you much less to accomplish. These are the type that a CMS will benefit the most.
But most others are approaching the developer for direction of their online strategy. Their budgets may be small, their focus narrow, but they are looking to us to lead the way. We can choose to follow their directions to the letter, but our work can only be at its most effective when the client and the web developer work together.


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21 September 2010
20 September quiz: Whose Version Is It, Anyway? (1386)
6 comments:
Hi Steven,ReplyDelete
My question was regarding the second call to the name_for_num function, i.e the first call with value 100
DBMS_OUTPUT.put_line (name_for_num (100));
Somehow I thought that the first execution (for input 1) would have cached the results for the other values in the underlying table incl. 100 and thus the cache would have been used.
But if I understand well (your comment: The first two populate the cache since the function hadn't yet been called with those inputs) function results are only cached for inputs for which the function has been already executed.
And it makes a lot of sense
Well I have learned something....
Dear Mr. Feuerstein,ReplyDelete
First of all, I have to say that I never want this quiz to be re-scored. There is no reson for that. I just wanted to state that it was a really tough question. Because:
1. Database version related questions are very hard to focus on. You have to switch your mindset in a timely fashion and make an exception for the assumptions given, that are perceived as strong standarts in time.
2. The subject of the question, result cache feature of PL/SQL, is not mature enough yet. And ofcourse, it is my opinion as a professional. The reason underneath my judgement is: When I read the documentation about PL/SQL result cache feature (http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/E11882_01/appdev.112/e17126/subprograms.htm#i22204) what I see is a very fragile system with a lot of requirements. You have to notice nearly 20-30 rules including database initial settings, configurational issues, parameter and return types, parameter modes, session dependent issues, subprogram side effects such as dbms_output usage, sending e-mail, dynamic SQL usage, DML usage, cache bybass rules etc.
I am sure that Oracle developers are still working hard on this feature for making it more usable. As a software manager, it is a big question mark for me to use such a mechanism that does not sound so easy to manage, maintain and develop. But I know that it will be better in time and not using this feature would be irrelevant soon. On the other hand, in this very current moment, dealing with a question about result_cache is too difficult.
To conclude, my thoughts on this feature does not make the question invalid so I am not referring to any justifications.
As I opened the 20 Sep. quiz, I immediately thought; Oh my god, here we go.... 11g. The anyways remote chances of a very cool prize just vaporized :-(ReplyDelete
I am still a slave of 10g and didn't even have 11g documentation readily available. But (thanks Steven) I did know about the PL/SQL function result cache. Point here is that I think anyone who takes time to read the words of the quiz also reckognizes the legitimate framework, in this case 11g.
Having no practical knowledge on the topic and no documentation, I was left with little other choice than an attempt of applying logic. "My logic" relatively quickly had me center on the choice: "1 mouse, 100 keyboard, keyboard" and I was about to check in as an alarm went off.... Wait a minute... That would be so inconsistent and not possibly true. The result cache lives in the SGA for the benefit of all. To maintain read consistency, uncomitted changes in any session cannot possibly be visible there. But, that causes a dilemma within my own session if that is also using the cache. As we all know, the updates made in your own session are visible to that session (very cool) and also knowing that Bryn is a very smart guy, it would be rude to think that Oracle had not found a solution to this problem. I therefore changed my choice to: "1 mouse, 100 keyboard, 100 keyboard".
Having spent no thoughts on how Oracle did it, I appreciate Steven providing the explanation. Oracle took the easy way out and simply disable the cache. That allows everything within the session to work as adverticed, only without the benefit of the cache. Is that a bad or cheap solution from Oracle? No.. If you wish to perform quick updates on cached data, there are other and more performant ways. The PL/SQL function result cache is something to use for read-only, says the non-11g guy ;-)
I dare suggest to put assumptions that differs from default ones as the first line of the quiz and in bold. Something like to:ReplyDelete
Attention: this quiz assumes Oracle 11.x!
- Anonymous22 September, 2010 11:27
Hi Steven,ReplyDelete
I think the statement at the top of question "Oracle Version: Oracle Database 10g Release 2, unless noted otherwise in quiz" was confusing. It's quite new. But it had appeared few times before 20 Sep quiz.
Its purpose is not clear. It always displays 10g. But in a question 11g was specified.
First of all, we read this statement and this information keeps in mind and may override someting that is pointed in a question.
I beleive it's better to have this statement with real environment value, i.e. 11g for 20 Sep quiz. Another alternative is to remove totally.
Of course I will never get confused by this again.
Sergey Porokh
I had no clue about this question.ReplyDelete
First by seeing 11g + Advanced 50% of the hopes were gone(as I work in 10g). Second by seeing "RESULT_CACHE" 100%hopes were gone(It seemed like an alien for me). I gave a try(guess) and it worked. After submitting the quiz, I spent about 2hrs to explore about the usage, conditions and all for this feature. [Satisfaction that comes with exploring is incredible.I should thank Steven fir this kind of questions]. The even more happiest thing is sharing the same across my team, which made 1-2mnths experianced ppl in my team know about "REUSLT_CACHE" usage. WOW :-) I am really happy about that.


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Designer Catherine Malandrino's cancelation of her presentation during September Fashion Week has prompted rumors of business turmoil. Her company this spring had been in talks with clothing conglomerate Kellwood to acquire the brand, but a deal never materialized. Malandrino had been scheduled to hold her presentation on Sept. 11, but a rep says the company "is in a time of transition. We're refocusing, and we'll be back in February." Malandrino will stage a runway show sponsored by Clairol and Covergirl on Sept. 8, the day of Fashion's Night Out, featuring looks already in her boutiques styled by June Ambrose.
Malandrino 'refocusing'
By PageSix.com Staff
September 1, 2011 | 4:00am