tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-273869632011-11-15T05:13:36.888-05:00Oracle DBA and SAP Basis AdministratorGeorge Woodshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13596326746805389518noreply@blogger.comBlogger621100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27386963.post-71208512918174186992010-09-29T08:34:00.002-05:002010-09-29T08:48:05.283-05:00

Probably a common title for people writing their last blog post about Oracle Open World, but I never said I was original.Like many others have done, I want to thank Oracle for supplying me with the Press/Blogger pass this year. Without that, there was a good chance I would have not had the opportunity to attend. I would also like to thank Mogens, Embarcadero and all of those involved in

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Day 2 is where all of the fun begins. I have a full day of sessions that I plan to attend and will keep you updated. Once again you can follow my live tweets at http://twitter.com/gvwoodsupdate: I am a little late in updating my day 2 activities, but here goes nothing. It was a good day, just like last year some of the most interesting sessions were not the formal OOW sessions, but this year were

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This has to be the most common blog title for the day on google. Anyways, after arriving at 9am yesterday and spending most of the day doing tourist type activities and hitting the bed early(jet lag), day one of OOW10 has arrived.I woke up around 6am and jumped on the computer to see a lot of twitter activity with others who have been getting up early. On most days of Open World this will be a

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With only days to go the people over at Pyxis Mobile have released a pretty cool app, available for Blackberry, iPhone, and Android. This app will be all the buzz and I am sure it will enhance your experience at Open World this year. After downloading the app from here you will only need to sign in, then everything you need for the week is at your fingertips. You can see your schedule,

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A little over a week away and I will be boarding a non-stop flight from Pittsburgh to San Francisco for my second trip to Oracle Open World. I guess it's time to start planning what I need.Leading up to next week, I have been checking out all of the available sessions and trying to build the perfect plan. Last year I crammed my whole schedule with back to back sessions only to have to cancel them

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This year the OTN Lounge along with other activities will be taking place at the Mason Street Tent, I am pretty excited about this. I spent a good bit of time hanging at the lounge last year and at certain times of the day it was packed tight, hopefully the new location will allow more visitors. from the Oracle website "The Zone takes to the streets: We've closed down a block of

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Since OOW10 schedule builder has gone live, I figured it was a good time to start the annual list of Tweeters attending Oracle Open World. Last year there was a blogger meetup and I heard talk about possibly doing a tweetup this year, but I haven't heard anything yet.To be added to the list, tweet username, with 1 line of info adding #gvwoods and I will create the list. Some examples are

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From my registration email:Oracle OpenWorld Starts Now!• Oracle Mix: Jump into the Mix with Oracle’s new social networking tool—join the group dedicated to Oracle OpenWorld. Enter or start a discussion around sessions, keynotes, exhibition halls, or any other topic of your choice. Build a network that extends beyond the conference.• Oracle OpenWorld Blog: Get the inside scoop on Oracle

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Woohoo! My blogger pass has been approved by Oracle, I really appreciate it. Unfortunately, I had to call to find out if it was approved or not. Thanks Dave for the tip on giving registration a call, sorry you weren't approved this year. The guy I spoke with on the phone said it was approved July 9, but at the moment of writing this, I still have not received an email from Oracle stating it was

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I recently purchased a Mackbook Pro and then moved my "old" Macbook downstairs and set it up with the dual montior for my kids to use. I also have a Dell XP desktop set up there as well. So, this past Saturday our power went off for a few minutes which led to both computers being off. Around 10am or so my kids decided to go downstairs and play on the computers. I went down with them to make sure

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Last year, I had a magnificent time at Oracle Open World, I not only met some really great people, I was also mentioned numerous times by the Oracle Communications department for blog posts and twitter updates. This year should be even more exciting since JavaOne has been combined. I have recently applied for a blogger pass and with any luck, I am hoping to be able to attend OOW 2010 as an

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First let me tell you, our fix here is not the best choice, but is currently our only choice. However, this post is more about a couple of examples of how you may want to use the Oracle convert, replace or rawtohex functions.We received an email a couple of days ago about characters not being displayed in the correct format. Next is an overview of what we are working with. We have a Unicode SAP

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In August, I finally completed my year+ long Unicode conversion project. Below are a few teaser details. The project was to have a combined Upgrade and Unicode conversion. Although it was considered "combined", there was a team of us that would do different tasks on the project. I was lead on the Unicode conversion and will mainly discuss those details. Our ERP system was 6.40 going to 7.0. The

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The Wrap UpMy flight back to Tennessee left early Friday morning, however, I didn't arrive back home until 11pm. This gave me some well needed time to process what had gone on this past week. In my previous posts, I mentioned everything about the event, but for this post I would like to mention what Open World has done for me. 1. It has given me the opportunity to meet people from all over the

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To give you a little history, we have been having a problem for quite some time with a couple of our jobs running. They would not die every time, but when they did, they would have an ORA-00604 error. When you search online for the reasoning behind this error, just about everyone says to be able to determine the true error, look at the second ORA error. Unfortunately, there was no secondary error

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Beyond the sessions. What else do you need to do. 1. This is more of a have, then do, but you need a really good smartphone. Unfortunately, I didn't get my iPhone until a week after the conference, but I can say the iPhone was definitely the phone of choice. With the android coming out that may change, but either way you need the best phone you can. This year, I used my sprint phone to tweet

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Now for the conference.Keys to getting the most out of your experience. 1. Research the speakers. This is one of the most important tasks that you need to do. I learned the hard way that numerous presentations are closer to sales pitches than technical details. If you look at the presenter closer than the title of the session you will be much more satisfied. 2. Do not sign up for every session. I

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Well now that its over, I wanted to pass on some hints for anybody who may decide to attend next year for the first time. One obvious thing is that if you have the ability to, book early. I am not sure if you will get any better hotel deals, but you will definitely save on the registration fee. You also need to get involved in the social media outlets as they all have a wealth of knowledge to

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*****************Update***********I have added this list to the tweeters list to make a one stop place.http://gvwoods.blogspot.com/2009/10/tweeters-info-at-oracle-open-world.htmlI'll build list of exhibitors tweets at OOW ex. EXTOL guess who did it at booth ... --exhibitors send info with tag #gvwoods@EXTOL_B2Bi: Guess whodunnit at #oow09 in Booth 4041 for prizes. Watch the murder take place at

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Check back as I will continue to update the list. To be added to list, tweet username, 1 line info adding #gvwoods and I will create list.@gvwoods - Oracle DBA from Eastern Tennessee@gregorydwhite - Storage product marketing at Dell.@oracleopenworld- The official blog for all things Oracle OpenWorld @ProLiant - HP ProLiant industry-standard servers and solutions@PoppAtHP - Kristie Popp,

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With less than 2 weeks to go until I land in San Francisco and begin my first whirlwind trip to Open World, I figured I would list my current jam packed session schedule in case you were interested. 10/11/09 Bridging the Gap between Developers and DBAs IOUG: CSI DBA--Anatomy of a Database Upgrade IOUG: The Top 10+ Things You Should Know About Your Databases IOUG: How Innovations in Storage

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If you haven't yet, you should check out https://mix.oracle.com/ Oracle Mix is there for you to: Share Ideas Let us know how we can improve our products or how we do business. See an idea you like, vote on it or add your comments. Join Groups Get together with others around products, industries, or more. Can’t find a group you like? Start one! Network Connect with other customers and get to know

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I learned recently that I will be working on a fairly large project to revamp some of our Oracle security setup and policies. At first glance, it looks as if I will be researching and learning a lot more about Virtual Private Database. Fortunately for me, I will use this opportunity to do double duty, not only to see what to implement, but to also use my research for more blog topics. Stay Tuned

George Woodshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13596326746805389518noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27386963.post-53727587317696685722009-09-18T12:48:00.004-05:002009-09-18T12:57:37.488-05:00

I just purchased my first GPS device, the TomTom 130s. Even though I have wanted one for quite some time now, what geek doesn't like new electronics, I couldn't find any real need for one. Since I will be heading to SF in a few weeks I decided this would be the perfect opportunity. I did some quick searches and found this good deal from Amazon on refurbished units, only $69. I chose standard

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Twitter: http://twitter.com/oracleopenworldhttp://twitter.com/IOUGhttp://twitter.com/Oraclehttp://twitter.com/oraclepartnershttp://twitter.com/OracleDatabasehttp://twitter.com/oracletechnethttp://twitter.com/oraclemixhttp://twitter.com/OracleBlogshttp://twitter.com/OracleCertOthers:http://blogs.oracle.com/oracleopenworld/http://www.oraclecommunity.net/http://www.oracle.com/technology/events/

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I am so excited, I was just given the green light to attend Oracle Open World 09 in San Francisco. The event is being held Oct.11-15. This is my first time attending. I plan on using this blog to post as much about my adventure as I can. I have also decided that it's about time that I contribute to my field by posting some of the better things that I deal with as an Oracle DBA. For my first

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There is a commercial that I keep seeing on tv for finallyfast.com, and it is driving me crazy. They are selling software for a pc, but numerous times within the commercial they show windows software on a mac. They even show the "blue screen of death" on the mac. They have covered the apple logo on the computers, but anyone who knows a a mac will recognize it. Besides this being a ridiculous

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Why is is that some people who are considered the best at what they do are hit with medical problems so early in their lives? These people seem unstoppable in the "careers" but then are diagnosed with problems that they have no control over. I am not talking about those who have self inflicted problems, such as a drug overdose or suicide, but for example, Mario Lemieux, considered to be one of

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Ok so I am a little behind on getting a twitter account, but I finally did it.  http://twitter.com/gvwoods

George Woodshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13596326746805389518noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27386963.post-46375930408050994482009-01-03T20:31:00.004-05:002009-01-03T20:37:38.256-05:00

I recently came across the website www.geeksouth.com Looks to be a good site dealing with technology, startups and people here in the tri-cities that have the same interests as myself. 

George Woodshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13596326746805389518noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27386963.post-51089332110610989662008-05-25T15:57:00.000-05:002008-05-25T16:04:21.319-05:00

I have finally joined the "Cult of Mac", like most people its a decision that I have been thinking about for a long time and finally took the plunge. I am not going to ramble on why it was the best decision I have made, but will leave you with this. It has been great and for those of you who have also switched, you know why. 

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I arrived back from SF on Saturday evening after a long delay at the Atlanta airport. Not only was that quite annoying, but I missed out on a $400 voucher and a business class seat if I would have taken the 8am flight out of SF instead of the 6am flight, but I thought I would have missed my connecting flight, boy was I wrong.Oh well, enough about the airlines, I did enjoy my week in SF. I walked

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While pondering startup ideas, I started to contemplate what is popular these days. You have Facebook, MySpace and so on. It seemed as though most businesses that are popping up during the "Web 2.0" phase are all about sellings ads. This seems to be working, but will the excitement collapse? There has to be a breaking point. Did I really want to create another startup that's prime business was to

George Woodshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13596326746805389518noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27386963.post-72031726107384212512008-03-19T18:40:00.000-05:002008-03-19T19:11:25.899-05:00

It has been a long time since I last posted on my blog, but it was for good reasons. This past year has been a wild coaster ride. Last May, I graduated from Radford University with a BA in Computer Science and we then moved to Tennessee where I currently work as a SAP Basis professional.I am truly excited to be working for a great company. I have had the opportunity to work for numerous companies

George Woodshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13596326746805389518noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27386963.post-1157247392198685222006-09-02T20:18:00.000-05:002006-09-02T20:36:43.546-05:00

I got some great news yesterday as I was attending the first of several meetings for this contest. I was chosen to be the Site Director for Radford University's site. This is such an honor, as I am the first and most likely last student, to be the Site Director at Radford. The reasoning is because Dr. Htay, who use to be the site director, was promoted to Regional Director and after this year

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Just like most upper level courses they start off with a review, but this semester is some what different. I am currently taking Database II, ADA (Structured Programming language), Web II(PHP, XML), Senior Seminar, Java III, and C in Unix. A few of the classes don't have anything to review. I can truly say, so far so good, I wrote my first ADA program the other day, didn't take long, but I have

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I recently came acros the problem where I was trying to place a transparent png file into a web page I was working with and usually out of ease I create everything in IE then test in Firefox. For some reason this time was different, I created the page and while testing, I was very happy to see that everything was working the way I wanted, then what happens, I tested it in IE and the file was not

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Well, it's official, my final year of schooling starts Monday. I went over to Radford this morning and purchased my parking pass. I guess this officially ends my internship with EvolvePoint, but the good news is that they have offered me a part-time position, while I am still in school. I will continue to write about my work at EvolvePoint, but I will now also include stuff that happens during

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As school is fast approaching, I figured I would do a posting on Backpack. I know what some of you are thinking, but this is not a review of Backpacks that are used to carry your books and your laptop. They can be helpful, but this is a review of the software company Backpack. I had recently been trying to figure a way to keep all of the stuff that I do on a daily basis in an online notebook, and

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Recently, I had the need to develop a time zones script for one of the projects I was working on and I thought this would be an easy script to find online. Little did I know, even though many websites use this in their applications, I would still have to create the script from scratch. It didn’t take much time, but I figured I would post a link to the script and hopefully save the next person who

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As the President of the Radford University Chapter of ACM, I have added a customized RSS feed creator tool powered by EvolvePoint, Inc. to our RU ACM website. In case you haven't heard much about RSS, Wikipedia explains RSS like this "RSS is a family of web feed formats, specified in XML and used for Web syndication. RSS is used by (among other things) news Web sites, weblogs, schools, and

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When I decided to go back to school and join the IT profession, I knew I would hear alot about outsourcing. I recently watched the tv show, 30 days, which was created by Morgan Spurlock, the guy who did Super Size Me. This weeks topic was outsourcing. It was quite interesting to watch a man who lost his job, travel to India and get a job that is typically outsourced. He was offered a job in a

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I just noticed that Radford University will be holding a career fair on Monday September 18 from 10am-2pm at the Radford Best Western. I believe the fair is being sponsored by the College of Information Science and Technology, and the Business College. I know the people who put these functions together and they put a great deal of time in to make everything perfect. If you company is interested

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Before I started my internship at EvolvePoint, I hadn't had much exposure to XML, but since the majority of my job deals with RSS, it was clear the I would have the opportunity to learn more about XML and its benefits. I can truly say, that I am very excited about XML and the XSL stylesheet. So far, I have created the first version of our REST API, and also tweaked the code for our feeds. Even at

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Use the Geek Top 10, I recently read a posting about the Top Ten Ways to Motivate Geeks, I thought the posting was very interesting and I personally agree with the majority of it. If you think you are geek, check out the list to see if you agree. For those of you who are not geeks, give it a look, as it will give some insight on how we think. Top 10 GeekI guess he had a lot of feedback about his

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At Radford University, the IT Department offers two different degrees, a Computer Science degree and an Information Science degree. The differences are that the Information Science degree is a mix of Business and Computers, where the Computer Science degree is all computers. I opted for the Computer Science degree, mainly because I thought it would be more challenging and also, because I already

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Just wanted to update everyone, my blog now has a new look. I wanted it to have the same look and feel as my website and be user friendly. Hope everyone likes the new design.

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Recently, I was contacted by one of my professors, who is in charge of the Summer Bridge Program at Radford University, to post pictures from this years event. I have been doing the development for their website and at first glance this looked to be a very long process. There were over 80 pictures and I didn't want to have to place each picture with a thumbnail one by one. Then I remembered the

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Even though it’s not over yet, I figured I would give an update on my internship. What can I say, so far it has been great. The President of EvolvePoint, Tom Markiewicz has a clear vision of where the company needs to go in the future and he really knows his stuff about RSS. Check out his blog at http://www.tmarkiewicz.com or the EvolvePoint blog at http://www.evolvepoint.com/blog He has really

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RSS, is it the new email, I can’t say for sure, but I do believe that it will become one of the newest technology’s that will be embraced by the public and actually, it is not meant to replace email, but in some ways just change the way email has been used. Think about it, no more spam, no more viruses, you get what you want or you just delete the feed. I believe it was just last week, I was

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I know, why would you want to use a server side function to close the window. Well, we wanted to have the window close when someone hit the submit, but only close if there were no errors. If there was an error we wanted the window to stay open and place the error in the window. When I first created the close function it worked as expected, but then when Tom was testing the popup he received an

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This past week I worked on creating a bookmarklet that would let people import their feed information into our system. For those of you who don’t know, a bookmarklet is put into a browser’s toolbar and with the use of javascript it will take information from the current webpage your on, no matter what webpage and place it into a form on another webpage. A good example is how del.icio.us works.

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Recently I ran into a problem that actually gave me quite a bit of trouble, I know what your thinking, what kind of problems could an apostrophe cause. Well, I was working on a project that would automatically get your url, the title of your page and let you select(highlight) words from a webpage that are placed into a form and on submit everything would be placed into a MySQL database. At first,

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Continuing from my previous post, I had mentioned that my second post today would be about database indexing. It was a database miracle, I know that was quite geeky , but for so few words to make such a difference in performance, I couldn't believe it.An example of how an index works: Say you are looking for the book called How to get Rich, you go to the library, but once you enter the door, you

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This past week, I learned two very useful techniques, that can help anyone who might be working with a datagrid or a database. The first being able to change the information that is contained in a datagrid. For example, my datagrid had numerous headings, but one in particular would return numbers(numbers that would not have any meaning to the user) so instead of having the numbers show up, we

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I had heard about blogging awhile ago, but I hadn't decided to join the blogger world until recently and it has been a great experince. As a computer geek, I felt that some of my technical background may be able to help someone else, but another good reason to start a blog was for the networking. I have received comments from an intern from Silicon Valley who is also a blogger and has a great

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I figured after spending a good bit of time trying to figure out what should be a simple procedure I would post the code I used to help me export a datagrid created with asp.net, MySql and C# to a csv. If you have any questions feel free to comment and I will get back to you as soon as I can. I am assuming that you have already created the datagrid and are just looking to export the results. The

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This post will mainly be about some of the technical knowledge I have discovered through past experiences. These have worked for me, but if you try any of them, do so at your own risk as I will not be responsible. First of all, My current website is basically html and css, but as I continue to learn asp.net, I plan on upgrading my site to asp.net so keep an eye out for the renovated site in the

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I have completed my first week of my internship and how exciting it was. I have been doing websites for a number of years now, but usually with html and css. It was really cool to take my skills to the next level, using asp.net and C#. I had done research on both before starting my internship, but as many have said, programming in class is completely different than the real world. The real world

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Last Saturday was the official start of my summer, as I had finished finals and continued preparing for my summer internship. On Monday, it finally came, I started my position with EvolvePoint. It was exciting to finally be able to take some of the stuff I have learned in school and apply it to the real world. Most of the day I spent setting up my computer and trying to get everything installed,

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To give you a little background information about myself, I had previuosly attended Edinboro University of Pennsylvania, where I received a Bachelor of Arts degree in Advertising/Communications in 1998. As a school project, I started the Great Lakes Film Association, a non-profit International Film Festival. Our first year was even more successful than I had anticipated, we not only had over 20

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It has been along time coming, but I have finally found the time to start my blog. With finals almost over and the starting date for my summer internship approaching, I feel this is a wonderful time to get started. I am sure there will be numerous things to discuss over the next few months, but I plan on starting with some of the notes that I have been keeping. Stay Tuned!!

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