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Posted by The Situationist Staff on May 16, 2008
Situationist contributor Dan Kahan, Donald Braman, John Gastil, Situationist contributor Paul Slovic, and C.K. Mertz, posted their fascinating paper, "Culture and Identity-Protective Cognition: Explaining the White Male Effect in Risk Perception" (forthcoming 4 Journal of Empirical Legal Studies, 465-505, November 2007) on SSRN.
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Why do white men fear various risks less than women and minorities? Known as the white male effect, this pattern is well documented but poorly understood. This paper proposes a new explanation: identity-protective cognition. Putting work on the cultural theory of risk together with work on motivated cognition in social psychology suggests that individuals selectively credit and dismiss asserted dangers in a manner supportive of their preferred form of social organization. This dynamic, it is hypothesized, drives the white male effect, which reflects the risk skepticism that hierarchical and individualistic white males display when activities integral to their cultural identities are challenged as harmful. The article presents the results of an 1,800-person study that confirmed that cultural worldviews interact with the impact of gender and race on risk perception in patterns that suggest cultural-identity-protective cognition. It also discusses the implication of these findings for risk regulation and communication.

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The biker, Edwin Mieses Jr., suffered broken legs and spine injuries, his wife, Dayana Mieses, said Tuesday outside a hospital.
"There's no hope for his back," Dayana Meises told reporters. "They crushed his spine. They broke it in two different places, so he will be forever, forever paralyzed."
Another man also was injured. Bikers chased after the SUV, then beat the driver, police said. A portion of the Sunday altercation, captured on a helmet-mounted camera worn by another rider, was posted online anonymously. Since then, Dayana Mieses said, the bikers have been portrayed as villains who ambushed an innocent man driving his family. But she said her husband is the victim.
"Everyone wants to blame the bikers for something this man did," she said.
Edwin Mieses, known as Jay Meezee, is an aspiring rapper from outside Boston, and the couple has two children, ages 15 and 9. Dayana Mieses told Boston station WBZ-TV that her husband got off his bike to help another rider who was struck in an initial collision with the SUV.
"When all the bikers stopped, my husband got out, parked his bike to walk over to try to help his friend," she said. "He walked over towards the front of the vehicle when, at this point, I don't know what happened: the man was scared, the man just peeled off and ran over my husband."
Mieses was part of an unauthorized motorcycle rally. The video shows a large group of bikers clustering around the Range Rover heading north on Manhattan's West Side Highway. One of the bikers then moves into the SUV's lane and rides briefly alongside it, peering in through the driver's side window. It's unclear from the video what the driver might have done to anger the motorcyclist.
The biker then cuts in front of the Range Rover and, still staring at the driver, suddenly slows down. It isn't captured on the video, but the motorcycle and SUV bumped, police said.
The motorcyclists, 20 to 30 in all, then stop on the highway, blocking the SUV's path. Some dismount and approach the vehicle. Police said some of the bikers then began damaging the Range Rover.
The video shows the SUV suddenly accelerating, bouncing over at least one of the motorcycles and its rider as others scramble to get out of the way. The cyclists give chase, pursuing the driver for about 2.5 miles. The bikers succeed in getting the SUV to stop.
The chase ended when the SUV exited the highway and got stuck in street traffic. The video shows one biker using his helmet to smash the driver's window. Police said the group then pulled the man from the SUV and beat him, although that part isn't shown on the recording posted online. The police department confirmed that the video circulating online is authentic.
The driver of the SUV, Alexian Lien, 33, was taken to a hospital where he needed stitches for his face. His wife and 2-year-old were not injured. He has not been charged. But Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly said they were still investigating the incident.
"Well, it depends on what the circumstances are," Kelly said. "It depends on whether or not your vehicle is being attacked, whether or not you think you're being attacked, whether or not your wife and child's in the car. You have to look at the totality of the circumstances, and that's what we're doing."
On Tuesday, police arrested the biker they say was involved in the initial accident. Christopher Cruz, of Passaic, N.J., was charged with reckless endangerment, reckless driving, endangering the welfare of a child and menacing. Cruz, who was uninjured, was in custody awaiting arraignment Tuesday and hadn't been assigned a lawyer.
A second suspect -- Allen Edwards, 42, of Queens -- believed to be the man seen on video striking the Range Rover windows with his fists, surrendered to police on Tuesday. He was charged with reckless endangerment, criminal mischief and menacing. It was not immediately known if he had a lawyer.
Police are still seeking a biker seen smashing the SUV's window with his helmet.
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From NPR News, this is ALL THINGS CONSIDERED. I'm Robert Siegel.
And I'm Melissa Block.
Nearly 20 states have now legalized marijuana, mostly for medical use, though in some cases for recreational use. And strange things happen when one state brings an underground market into the mainstream and another doesn't. It turns out, marijuana dealers who've suddenly found their business legal often find themselves making less money. So, some hit the road.
Reporter Marianne McCune, of WNYC and our Planet Money Team, has the story of one California dealer who went to New York for higher profits, and the special agent he left behind.
CHUCK: Greetings from the frontlines of the assaults on sobriety.
MARIANNE MCCUNE, BYLINE: This is Chuck. That's what he wants to be called. He's a San Francisco pot dealer.
CHUCK: Welcome to the war on drugs.
MCCUNE: But we're going to make him sound like this.
CHUCK: I'm happy to report that drugs is winning.
MCCUNE: Mmmmm, maybe more like this.
CHUCK: You're tuned to WNYC, bourgeois assimilationists...
MCCUNE: OK, the point is we've agreed to change the guy's voice. And here's where we've settled.
CHUCK: Hi. We're helping keeping people stoned on a Friday in New York City.
MCCUNE: Chuck came to New York from California to sell weed because here in New York, where his trade is 100 percent illegal, he can make more money. He spends pretty much everyday dealing what he calls farm-to-table marijuana. To get ready, we step into the bedroom.
CHUCK: This is it - a pile of clothes, a pile of weed, a bed to sleep on.
MCCUNE: He puts the pile of weed into a backpack and we head to the subway.
Hey, before we go can you tell me how much you're carrying?
CHUCK: I don't know but I'm going to guess six ounces?
MCCUNE: That's about 3,000 bucks worth. If police could nail him for selling just what he has on him right now, he could go to prison.
On the way down to the subway platform, we pass right by a cop.
CHUCK: I just stroll past nonchalantly.
MCCUNE: This danger of being caught and jailed, Chuck is choosing this risk. He left a state where he could have sold marijuana in a storefront and came to a state where he has to deal under the table - in this case, literally. Right here in a downtown diner - one of our first stops - he passes a baggy under the table to a client, who folds his cash into the pages of a book and passes it back.
Welcome to the contradictory-seeming economics of the nation's fast-changing marijuana laws. The rise of medical marijuana in California is, strangely enough, what drove Chuck to New York. And here's why. Since the state of California made medical marijuana legal 17 years ago, hundreds of dispensaries have opened up. With the rise of the dispensaries, illegal dealers like Chuck, they lose customers - too much competition.
And its competition with a serious edge. Not only can the dispensaries advertise and operate in broad daylight, their customers don't have to break the law every time they score. And in California, almost anyone can get a prescription.
CHUCK: People who retail weed the old fashioned way, like myself, I saw my business falling off. So, my idea was, OK, why not move to New York where I would probably have success.
MCCUNE: Chuck said, I'll buy in California and I'll sell it to New Yorkers. A good plan because New Yorkers will pay $60 or more for an eighth ounce of the stuff he sells, compared to 45 or much less in California. But then came the next challenge: How to get the weed from California to New York. How to get it past people like Special Agent Roy Giorgi?
ROY GIORGI: How can you not hear that?
UNIDENTIFIED MAN #1: (Singing) At a truck stop diner...
MCCUNE: I usually catch Giorgi on his cell, driving through the foothills of the Sierras with the radio on.
GIORGI: Can you hear the music?
MCCUNE: Giorgi is with the California Department of Justice. And he and the other guys on his task force spend their time trying to catch and arrest illegal growers and dealers.
GIORGI: We're actually arresting people that are shipping it all over the country.
MCCUNE: One easy place to look - the FedEx or UPS in, say, Humboldt or Mendocino Counties - California's pot country. Giorgi and his guys will stop by and sort through all the outgoing packages looking for marijuana.
GIORGI: We'll spend one hour out there and identify 30 parcels.
MCCUNE: And that's looking at how many parcels, total?
GIORGI: I don't know the exact percentage. But about one out of every 15 going by is usually a good one. And...
MCCUNE: That's amazing.
GIORGI: It is, it really is. It's an eye-opener. You know, I got to put the phone down for a second. Hold on.
UNIDENTIFIED MAN #2: (Singing) Well, it's a winding road...
MCCUNE: California weed has been flowing east for decades. What's new, Giorgi says, is all the would-be medical marijuana heading out of state. It's what Giorgi calls the White Boy Ranch Grows: thousands of small pot farmers with permits to grow legally for themselves and the dispensaries, but who still choose to sell on the black market. The same economic forces that drove Chuck out of California are driving growers to ship their crops east, as well.
GIORGI: That's a whole 'nother side now. And that's where the eastern states are getting impacted.
MCCUNE: Basically, with the rise of medical marijuana, came a rush of pot farmers. With a rush of pot farmers came a glut of supply. And with the glut of supply, wholesale prices plummeted. Some growers haven't been able to unload all their crops at the price they want on the local legal market. So why not send it out of state, to where it's less a commodity and more of a brand with clout?
GIORGI: Right now, Northern California bud, that trademark, that stamp is really some of the best in the world.
CHUCK: You should smell this stuff, really super citrusy.
MCCUNE: With customers, Chuck can talk about marijuana like it's a fine California wine.
CHUCK: Tangerine.
MCCUNE: When he pours out the contents of his backpack to reveal the broad range of flavors that marijuana dispensaries have helped to popularize, his clients are wowed.
CHUCK: It's all from California.
MCCUNE: The combination of Chuck's old-school authenticity and boutique product, not to mention his dependable service, it's an alluring package to the class of New Yorkers he serves. One guy asks, are you a delivery service? Chuck explains he's more of a mom and pop shop.
CHUCK: I'm kind of just a mom and pop shop.
UNIDENTIFIED MAN #3: That's even better, man. I'd love to become a client.
MCCUNE: Chuck's move to New York - his wager on a city with no marijuana dispensaries, but a taste for California's finest - so far, it's paying off. He says he's quadrupled his income since he moved here. And there's one more reason Chuck's business is doing so well. It's because the people who are working to stop him are, at the same time, giving his business a boost.
GIORGI: I may lose you. I'm going over some mountains here.
MCCUNE: Special Agent Roy Giorgi is now on his way back from a remote part of the mountains, where he was lying quietly in a creek spying on a couple farmers planting marijuana on public land.
GIORGI: Yeah, kind of a miserable, cold morning but well worth it. We got some great footage.
MCCUNE: What did you see?
GIORGI: We had three Hispanic gentlemen, two were wearing camouflage and...
MCCUNE: Giorgi and his task force, they work night and day to catch anyone growing or selling marijuana underground - whether it's Mexicans growing on public land, Asians growing hydroponically, or the white boy ranchers selling would-be medicine on the black market. But all that work Giorgi and law enforcement across the country do to catch the bad guys - to disrupt the illegal flow of marijuana - if they don't manage to find Chuck, they're actually helping him because the harder they work to stop him, the riskier it is to do his job. And that means Chuck has fewer competitors. He can charge higher prices. Here he is counting a fat wad of bills.
CHUCK: Sorry about this. In white Protestant culture it's considered to be gauche to flash giant wads of money in front of guests but we'll just do it anyway.
MCCUNE: There is one more advantage of working in an illegal market. The competitors Chuck does have are kind of hard for his customers to find.
CHUCK: There's plenty of weed in New York. There's just an illusion of scarcity, which is part of what I'm capitalizing on.
MCCUNE: What do you mean?
CHUCK: Because this is a black market business, there's insufficient information for customers.
MCCUNE: In economics, it's called information asymmetry. If weed were legal, Chuck's customers could comparison shop. As it is, once they find Chuck, they're likely to stick with him.
So, Special Agent Roy Giorgi and Chuck, on the surface they're enemies. But in a way, these two guys can't succeed without each other. Giorgi is, in some small part, inflating Chuck's profits. Chuck, he's helping to keep Giorgi employed.
Why do you do what you do?
GIORGI: Wow. I think it's really the overall love for the job. If we weren't working the level we are working, it would spread from what's going on in Mexico up into California. It's very self-rewarding. It kind of becomes your high.
UNIDENTIFIED MAN #4: (Singing) Tomorrow will be better. Can I call you then?
MCCUNE: OK, if every law enforcement agent across the country were as aggressive as Giorgi and his guys - if they could check every tractor trailer, every Greyhound bus, every suitcase and cardboard box - Chuck would be out of business. But as things stand, there's just enough law enforcement to weed out the competition and not enough to scare Chuck away.
CHUCK: I'm going to guess the law enforcement priorities that I'm not near the top.
MCCUNE: Chuck makes dealing weed look so easy. Before I leave him to finish his deliveries on his own, he takes a risk he says he rarely does. He's about to meet up with a couple of regular customers, but he can't figure out where to do the deal. So he just does it right there on the street in plain view.
CHUCK: I guess here we'll have to do it.
MCCUNE: A neighboring building super puts out the recycling and watches suspiciously from a few feet away. And Chuck walks away with 400 more dollars. That's what he's here for. Marianne McCune, NPR News, New York.
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It's a neat little feature, especially when used in tandem with the Outlook Social Connector (part of Outlook 2010, and available as a download for Outlook 2003 and Outlook 2007). Making the Outlook Social Connector work is not quite as convenient as it should be; actual connections to social networking sites use providers that have to be installed separately—on its own, the OSC doesn't really do anything. But once you have the providers installed, the People Pane can show even more information—LinkedIn status updates, new photos posted to Facebook, that kind of thing.
One of the things the People Pane does is to show a little picture of your contacts. Outlook contacts can have pictures added to them, though I suspect most people don't bother. One place they do bother adding contacts to is their social networking profiles, and the People Pane will, with the OSC, retrieve profile pictures from Facebook and the other social networking sites it connects to.
But of course, not every person will have a picture available. So the People Pane has a fallback picture. A default, for when it can't find a better picture to display. The default is just a silhouette:
That isn't just anyone's silhouette, however. Our eagle-eyed editor-in-chief, Ken Fisher, noticed that the silhouette has a striking resemblance to one William H. Gates III. Quite how he noticed this is anybody's guess—we suspect he has a framed picture of the Microsoft founder and philanthropist mounted on his wall.
And it's not just any old picture of Bill Gates that some cheeky Outlook developer has used. Oh no. It's a picture from one of the man's finest moments. It's the picture taken in Albuquerque, New Mexico, way back in 1977, when he was arrested for a driving offense, the exact nature of which is lost to the sands of time. It's the man's mug-shot.
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Khan Academy: Learning Habits vs. Content Delivery in STEM Education
Co-written by David Castillo and Peter McIntosh
Most math education analyses in urban high school classrooms focus on delivery of content: What content to deliver, when to deliver it, how to explain it, what textbooks to use, how much home work to assign, and more. As reform efforts have shifted to technology and online learning, we are still asking questions about content delivery in a different context: How to automate it, individualize it, manage it remotely, and deliver it without killing trees.
Improving content delivery helped, but not enough
Oakland Unity High School is a four-year (grades 9-12) public charter high school located in the tough urban neighborhood of East Oakland. Approximately 95 percent of students are Latino or African-American and 85 percent receive free or reduced lunch.
In the summer of 2010, we conducted a diagnostic test with all incoming freshman to evaluate basic algebra and arithmetic skills. The results were astounding; most students needed to retake an Algebra Readiness or Algebra 1 course. In doing so we saw an improvement in proficiency scores, but it wasn't enough.
The number of students scoring below basic (approximately score of 40 percent) decreased from 77 percent to 28 percent. The number scoring above proficient (approximately score of 60 percent) increased from 9 percent to 32 percent. We decided to then dive further into what was causing low student performance.
By any reasonable criteria none of the answers to the old questions worked. At Oakland Unity High School in Oakland, Calif. we decided it was time to ask a new question: Are the academic and personal habits of students at the root of performance obstacles in math education?
Poor learning habits revealed the core problem
Through close observation and student interviews, we found that students failed to engage in the coursework and spent little to no time studying. Students were disengaged from their learning responsibilities and the derailing of their studying began as early as elementary school.
Early on, students struggled and faced constant frustration on a series of topics: long division, fractions, negative numbers, and word problems. This discouraged students and led to a decreased interest in engaging in the classroom or completing homework. Yet the bar of expectation and demonstration of competency was low. Students still continued on to the next grade in a one-size-fits-all educational approach despite their lack of knowledge and understanding around basic algebraic concepts.
We concluded that the real problem was making those poor habits an excuse for the wrong initiatives. Instead, we should make those bad habits the target of better initiatives. We then looked to Khan Academy as a popular solution worth testing.
Khan Academy offered solutions with real results
In September 2011, we implemented a rotation blended learning model with a Khan Academy learning lab for all students enrolled in an Algebra Readiness or Algebra 1 course to close a "learning and confidence" gap with the students.
When we stopped worrying about whether Khan Academy videos were better than our own lectures or whether the exercises had the appropriate mix of concept vs. drill, we recognized that we had found a powerful tool that reached students and changed their habits in ways we had never even considered possible.
As we studied student interaction with Khan Academy, we began to see important changes in how students reacted to mathematical challenges.
Early results proved encouraging
With the help of Khan Academy, we found early results very encouraging. This year's Algebra Readiness and Algebra 1 students scored consistently higher on solving equations, absolute value and the first semester final exams. That margin grew substantially for the most rigorous test on systems of equations (from 37 percent to 74 percent). This suggested that improved habits through the Khan Academy approach were creating real improvements among students. This evidence of superior performance was reinforced by the increased portion of scores above 80 percent on all of the tests.
Adapting study habits made the difference
Many Khan Academy features increase the quality and quantity of practice work among our students:
- Most exercises are not multiple-choice, which eliminates guessing
- Questions are randomly generated, which eliminates copying
- The short video clips engaged students and allowed them to replay the material until they understood it; and
- The online environment and Khan Academy's overall design appeals to the students, resulting in significant engagement time.
Students completed the Khan Academy exercises, finished written homework, paid attention in class and gained confidence to approach challenging problems. We truly believe that the Khan Academy approach met student's learning needs in order to deliver real learning in math proficiency.
Snapshot of Unity High School
By most measures we have had great success. Our API (Academic Performance Index) has grown steadily since 2007, from 595 to 735 this past year. Nearly 90 percent of students regularly pass the CAHSEE (Mathematics) in sophomore year, with 70 percent of students scoring at or above the proficient level of 380.
By these traditional measures we are the highest performing four-year public high school in Oakland. Several other schools perform higher, but have the advantage of starting with students in middle school or even elementary school. Nearly 85 percent of our incoming freshmen attended Oakland public schools.
More than 90 percent of students go on to college: 70 percent to a four-year college and 90 percent will be the first in their families to attend college.
David Castillo is the Principal at Oakland Unity High School where he researches, promotes and leads the implementation of technological tools that provide real-time data and individualized learning programs.
Peter McIntosh, a math teacher at Oakland Unity High School, has worked at the Oakland pubic schools for four years. Prior to teaching, he was a consulting partner for PriceWaterhous and later an Executive Vice-President of Operations and Call Centers for Charles Schwab.
Follow David and Peter on Twitter at @OaklandUnityHS.


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The month-old Oracle v. Google trial hasn't had a lot of clarity. Dozens of motions have been filed over issues both great and small, with the only clear development so far being a split copyright verdict. But key events in the past 24 hours have shown what the possibilities are going forward.
First, Judge William Alsup has said he will make a ruling about whether or not programming APIs are copyrightable as early as next week. Next, Oracle has agreed to drop its longshot case for copyright damages it was talking about pursuing last week. Those developments, along with the patent trial verdict that a San Francisco jury should soon deliver, will soon make clear the road ahead.
Four outcomes possible
The most important question in the case now is whether Alsup finds APIs can be copyrighted at all. Alsup said yesterday he is preparing a ruling on that issue, but it won't be ready before next week. The judge delayed this key ruling until after the entire copyright phase of the trial took place, saying he wanted to hear additional evidence before he ruled. Now the copyright phase is over, with a mixed verdict that found that Google had infringed, but the jury couldn't agree about whether Google was protected by fair use or not.
If Alsup finds that APIs are copyrightable, then Oracle will get to have some kind of retrial over whether Google is guilty of violating its copyright. There are disagreements about exactly what parameters that retrial should take, but Oracle will ultimately get some kind of second chance.
The second question involves patent infringement. This jury is now a patent jury, considering only patent issues and damages.
That leaves four outcomes for this case's resolution. There's plenty of room for gray area—for example, Oracle could win on one patent, but lose on another—but the instances below would seem to be the basic outlines of what happens next.
- Oracle wins the API copyright argument, and wins the patent case. In this case, Oracle could still win big, since it will get a retrial on its key copyright question. Meanwhile, it will get a jury that will immediately consider its case for patent damages. However, those damages might not be huge—Oracle's own expert recently suggested royalties for these two patents should be a bit over $4 million. There's also a court-appointed expert testifying in this case—likely to be influential with jurors—who could suggest an even lower number. Still, legal headaches for Google will abound here.
- Oracle wins the API copyright argument, but loses the patent case. Oracle will get its retrial at some later date, and might have a big shot at damages, but will have no immediate vindication.
- Oracle loses the API copyright argument, but wins the patent case. Oracle will be in the position of asking a jury for relatively small damages—but at least enough to save face. It could also ask for an injunction that would force Google to alter Android, but the bar for getting one is high.
- Oracle loses the API copyright argument, and loses the patent case. This outcome would be a total loss for the software giant, which has been cutting checks to some of the nation's top tech lawyers for two years now while prosecuting a legal crusade against Android.
No matter what happens, each side is likely to appeal. Especially on the API copyright issue, which will affect programmers throughout the US, a final decision will almost surely come from a panel of appellate judges at the 9th Circuit who set the law going forward. A European court recently found that APIs can't be copyrighted, and the issue is teed up here for a clear decision stateside.


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ROCKFORD - Even the third-graders Janey Kubly read to earlier this month knew that "O'Toot" the owl was up to no good and wasn't doing anything to get ready for college.
"They picked up on that pretty easily," said the 30-year-old Northern Illinois University graduate.
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Volunteer readers were encouraged to talk with students about their college experience after reading the book to them.
"It's great to see them thinking about what they can be," Kubly said. "They would say that they want to go to college to play football. ... I tried to get them to think about something like maybe sports management, too. I tried to get them to think of interests and how they can develop them into something."
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Construction of a new senior citizen living center could begin in the city later this year.
North Canton-based Lemmon and Lemmon is in the process of purchasing a nearly 20-acre property from Ashland University at 2550 University Drive SE to construct a 122-unit senior living facility. If approved, the new complex would include studio, one-and two-bedroom apartments and assisted living quarters.
City council discussed a rezoning request Monday that, if approved, would ensure the purchase of the property, which currently houses unused university facilities. Ashland previously moved its satellite campus to the R.G. Drage Career Technical Center.
"This is a good project for the city and could lead to (numerous) medical, maintenance and janitorial jobs once its completed," said Community Development Director Ted Herncane. "When it reaches its full build out a year or two down the road, it could mean up to 100 new jobs of all pay scales."
Last week, the city's planning and zoning commission recommended to council a change in zoning status of the property from single-family residential to multi-family residential to accommodate the proposed project.
Bill Lemmon, an owner of Lemmon and Lemmon, said construction of the project could start as soon as this fall.
The company wants to keep the main university structure in tact and use it as a common area for future senior citizen residents, Herncane said.
"It looks like they want to keep that structure, do some renovations and build around it," he said.
Herncane was uncertain of what the property is selling for, but noted the asking price in October was $850,000. Overall, the project, which includes new apartment buildings and landscaping, could total about $10 million.
The Lemmon company is the developer of the project and would also act as property manager of the facility, Herncane said.
A rezoning ordinance is up for a first reading at council's next regular meeting, which is scheduled for 7:30 p.m. Jan. 21. A public hearing on the proposal is slated for 6:45 p.m. Feb. 3.
Members of city council and representatives of the Ohio auditor's office met Monday night in a closed door session to discuss the progress of a performance audit for the city police and parks and recreation departments.
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I contacted Floodgate( specifically Mike Maples ) after I read up about him and saw a bunch of videos about his thoughts on the industry. I felt we are generally looking for the same thing, but I still had a ton of questions about what his firm is looking for.
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I pitched Mike and Ann and had what seemed like a good meeting. Good questions; they resonated with some things and were concerned about others. Then they expressed fairly concrete interest - not "this is interesting", but "we are really interested and will get back to you within X hours."
Then: nothing. I followed up twice over three weeks, and no response.
I have no problem with them passing, and we went on to raise an awesome round. But please - a simple "No thanks" or "Give us more time" is infinitely better than no response.PRIVATE: Members Only
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Pitched them a couple months ago and Mike laid out reasons for them to pass. There is good chance that we will engage them once we can demonstrate that the issues he raised can be circumvented.PRIVATE: Members Only (120 Characters)
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Met with Mike through a warm introduction, he and Ann were helpful with further introductions. They were both also very responsive to e-mails and further communication.PRIVATE: Members Only (299 Characters)
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Mike Maples has to be one of the most responsive people I've ever seen.PRIVATE: Members Only (682 Characters)
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Posted by monish on 2009-08-02
The FAQ on Maples Investments Web site states: "Generally we invest alongside other, experienced private investors or top-tier venture firms."
Does this mean that they would not lead a round?
Based on their size, they clearly cannot lead a $5M round, but would they lead a $500K round?PRIVATE: Members Only (120 Characters)
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Posted by Anonymous on 2009-05-10
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We pitched Mike last year. He was very quick to respond. We found him to be kind and courteous. We are outside his focus, and he thus declined to invest, but I'd pitch him again in a heartbeat.PRIVATE: Members Only
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I was impressed with the quality of companies he is involved with and after not really talking to him for 10 years I reached out and asked him for feedback on my start-up. We were looking to raise our Series B round (don't think Mike does B rounds), we're not in a geography where he invests (we're in Seattle), but he still agreed to meet with me.
He gave me great feedback on how to position the company and distill down our vision into something more succinct. I notice that founders can often have a hard time doing this; perhaps because we are so into the details on a daily basis. This makes it very hard to quickly communicate the "gist" of the company and the opportunity to prospective investors.
In addition to his many positive attributes, I have to say his strategic/competitive positioning skills are the best, by a wide margin, of anyone I've every come across. PERIOD.
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Note: He hasn't invested in my company. While I would consider us "friendly" we are certainly not friends.PRIVATE: Members Only
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Mike is an unusual VC. He listens, he's positive, he's actually helpful post-investment, he's legitimately smart, and he's never arrogant.PRIVATE: Members Only
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I met Mike when he lectured to one of my courses at Stanford, and his passion for helping entrepreneurs was readily apparent. Held an informal meeting with him about my embryonic startup, and even though we're in a space that he is not interested in investing in, he provided invaluable feedback. Unlike many of the boorish, arrogant, and sophomoric VC's I have encountered, Mike Maples is a class act, and is incredibly intelligent to boot. Anyone starting a consumer Web 2.0 company should consider Mike for seed funding.PRIVATE: Members Only (338 Characters)
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Posted by Anonymous on 2008-07-08
In recognition that entrepreneurs take a great deal of time to create the power points, executive summaries, applications, etc. to present to the various funds, it would be helpful to know some obvious limitations of each fund. We received a note from Mike Maples that he only works with companies in Silicon Valley, CA and Austin, TX. It would have been nice to know in advance and not waste valuable time.PRIVATE: Members Only
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Posted by WMA on 2008-03-31
I can only concur and attest with the positive comments posted about his attentiveness and candid remarks. I was referred to him by NEA. We emailed a couple times and held a couple of calls. While he was interested in our space and biz model, he had just invested and needed to attend to his investment! He suggested that we catch-up in a couple of months when we had some more traction. Unfortunately - a deal with a major partner got scuttled and were forced to move on.
Of my dealings with a number of angles he certainly gets the 2.0 space - a very big must if you are in it. So few angles do!PRIVATE: Members Only
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Posted by RAGZ on 2008-03-07
I emailed Mike and heard back from him immediately. After a brief email exchange over a week or so, he got back to me twice last night at 1:20 am. He's got too much going on to invest right now, and I wouldn't be surprised if it was because of this website, TheFunded.com and the publicity this community here gave him early on. He's acting like an entrepreneur, responding to folks here, and thats a good sign from a VC if you ever get investment from him. I'm impressed he is willing to spend the time monitoring his fund's publicity. Do you see other VC's here responding to all their comments" Nope.
I just think that this just revealed a flaw in this website. Better the VC, busier the VC. Busier the VC, less available time and funds. This shows how much this website has taken off.PRIVATE: Members Only
If You're Early Stage, Definitely Talk to Maples
Fund: FLOODGATE
Posted by Anonymous on 2008-02-26
While it is relatively early in the game, Mike has established himself as a top early stage VC with a very good track record of picking investments and helping get them to the next level. Beyond that, he's a really nice guy - the rare VC who can make you feel good about your idea and your company even if he passes, and can add a lot of value to your company if he decides to invest (he's also willing to go the extra mile to help you out if he passes).
He takes you seriously at your meeting (always on time, never checking email or using his computer during it), and his suggestions are the ones you leave the meeting thinking about how to implement in the future.PRIVATE: Members Only (266 Characters)
Great Experience
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Posted by Anonymous on 2007-11-20
Mike has a clear idea on how he wants to invest and clearly explained to me what I would need to do to get his attention. He shared typical terms of his investments and they seemed very friendly towards the founders, especially at such an early stage. A polite decline, but stayed in touch with promised follow-up. Thanks Mike!PRIVATE: Members Only (310 Characters)
Mike Maples Jr. Was Great to Talk To!
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Posted by Anonymous on 2007-10-15
I spoke with Mike Maples Jr. over the phone about my company recently. Although it didn't seem like my company would be the kind of thing that they invest in, he took the time to talk with me about various aspects regarding my business model, finding funding etc... He even said if he came across someone who might be interested in my project he'd send them my way. He was even willing to talk about some of his past investments and his companies thoughts and concerns about investing in them.PRIVATE: Members Only (288 Characters)


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Then, two days later, Jones' wife disappeared. The last person seen with Patricia Jones was Sharon Kinne. Kinne would later say she had met with Jones to tell her that Walter Jones was having an affair with Sharon's sister – a sister who didn't exist.
Patricia Jones was at first reported missing. Kinne told Walter Jones that she had met with Patricia, told her that Walter was having an affair with her sister (she had no sister) but that she had then driven Patricia home and let her out of the car. Jones told police that he put a knife to Kinne's throat and demanded that she tell him where Patricia was.
Kinne pretended to look for Patricia Jones, accompanied by John Boldizs, and "discovered" the body. On May 27, 1960, the body of Mrs. Patricia Jones, of Independence, was found shot to death in a lovers lane on the southeast edge of town. She had been shot four times.
Sharon told Boldizs to say he was alone when he found the body, but he quickly caved in when police began to focus on him, wanting to know why he'd been on a lover's lane alone at midnight (Kinne had torn the victim's clothes, to make it look like a sex crime).
Boldizs and Walter Jones took polygraph tests and passed. Sharon said since she was innocent there was no need to take a test – and that her attorney advised against it.
On June 1, 1960, Sharon was charged with the murder of Patricia Jones and released on $20,000 bail. A month later Sharon was indicted for both murders.
Sharon's mother, Doris E. Hall, was a secretary at the law firm of Quinn & Peebles – at that time the most renowned criminal law firm in Kansas City. J. Arnot "June" Hill, also a prominent criminal lawyer, prosecuted the case.
Because of Sharon's pregnancy, her trial in the Patricia Jones murder was delayed, and did not begin until June, 1961 (her daughter, Maria Christine, was born Jan. 16, 1961).
At the first trial witnesses testified to having seen Patricia Jones get into a car with Kinne, and Patricia was never seen again alive. A number of witnesses testified to Sharon's sex life – that she was a domineering personality, and possessive (by courtney at testsforge). Throughout all of this Sharon sat calm, composed – looking at the jury, taking notes.
The prosecutors proved Kinne had bought a .22-caliber Hi-Standard pistol, and that she said she misplaced it or lost it while vacationing in Seattle. In a search of her house they'd found an empty box for a Hi-Standard pistol.
An airline pilot who'd originally owned the gun, remembered during trial that he'd test-fired the gun near Olathe, Ks., and the prosecution recessed the trial to go retrieve the slugs from that test-firing.
The bullets they retrieved failed to match the bullets that killed Patricia Jones.
Sharon Kinne was found not guilty in the murder of Patricia Jones. Applause rang through the courtroom and one juror asked for her autograph.
Sharon's second trial, for the murder of her husband, didn't go so well. After only three days of trial she was convicted on Jan. 11, 1962, and was sentenced to life imprisonment.
This time the courtroom also rang with applause.
Sharon's cool, murderous style perfectly suited her to jail and prison. She quickly took over the jail tank they put her in, and started a sexual relationship with a former WAC named Margaret Hopkins. Even though her case was still on appeal, she was shipped off to the women's prison at Tipton, Mo.
In March, 1963, the Missouri Supreme Court overturned her conviction and ordered a new trial. Bond was set at $25,000. This time it took four months to raise the bond.
Her second trial for the murder of her husband began on March 24, 1964. It ended in a mistrial when it was learned that one of the jurors had been represented by a former law partner of the prosecutor, Lawrence F. Gepford.
Three months later Sharon went on trial for the fourth time. By this time the public was virtually hypnotized by Sharon Kinne, that slender, deadly girl who, like a cat, seemed to have nine lives.
At this third trial for the murder of James Kinne, the prosecution revealed what became known as the "Precious Tomcat" letters – the letters Sharon had written to Margaret Hopkins. Sharon and Hopkins had even entered into a handwritten "marriage contract." As a postcript to one letters to Hopkins, Sharon asked Hopkins to go to Sharon's grandmother's home, and retrieve the .22-caliber High Standard that the prosecution had been looking for. The letter said the gun was hidden in a wall by the chimney.
The police searched the home of Sharon's grandmother, at 300 South Fuller. It would later be learned that the grandmother had moved, and the police had searched the wrong house.
John Boldizs testified that Sharon had offered him $1,000 to murder James Kinne. Margaret Hopkins took the stand and said Sharon had confessed both murders to her. Sharon took the stand and said Hopkins and Boldizs were lying.
Under questioning by a defense lawyer, Boldizs said that maybe Sharon had been kidding.
The jury could not agree on a verdict, so the court set a fourth trial date in the murder of James Kinne for October, 1964.
Prior to going to jail and prison, Sharon had kept a low profile. In fact her mother had moved in with her to run interference with anyone who came around. After having been in prison, however, Sharon went wild.
She began to hang out on the 12th Street strip – and area of cheap Mafia bars that ran generally from the Muehlebach Hotel at 12th and Baltimore to 12th and Broadway. There were other nearby bars also, but she had an affinity for the mob bars.
While in prison, of course, the prostitutes in there would have told her about that area -- about the high profile criminals who hung out in that area (particularly the Mafia guys themselves).
It would later be learned that the law firm of Quinn & Peebles was mob connected. In fact, in the late 1970s, Nick Civella, head of the Mafia in Kansas City, used to go to Quinn and Peebles to make his personal telephone calls, to get around federal wiretaps (they fooled him, however; the government wiretapped the phones at the law firm).
Bobby Ashe, one of the most renowned criminals in Kansas City history, told me in 1973 that Sharon had slept with a lot of the guys on 12th Street – and that, while most women who did so were held in low regard, that was not true of Sharon. Ashe said Sharon didn't turn tricks, as such, but that a number of guys on the street would slip her a few hundred dollars any time she needed it. Sharon felt safe on 12th Street, because she was among people who didn't talk to cops. Also, she was highly respected there – after all, she had proven she was not only a killer, but knew how to keep her own mouth shut.
Sometime in the summer of 1964, Sharon met a small-time thief and con artist named Samuel Puglise. She and Puglise ended up signing a handwritten "marriage contract," similar to the one Sharon had signed with Margaret Hopkins.
By September of 1964, Sharon and Puglise decided to go to Mexico. Before leaving, Sharon wrote a series of bad checks - which suggests she was not planning to return. Sharon Kinne was a clever woman - clever enough to know the Jackson County authorities would use those bad checks to bury her in prison. It appears she'd concluded her luck was running out in Kansas City.
In Mexico she left Puglise at the motel room they'd rented, then picked up Francisco Parades Ordonoz, a Mexican born American, and went with him to a motel, where they registered as man and wife. Several hours later Sharon shot Ordonoz twice in the heart. Sharon tried to get away, but the gate to the motel was locked. When the motel manager, Enrique Rueda, refused to open the gate, Sharon shot him. He then managed to wrestle the gun away from her and held her for the police.
Sharon told the Mexican authorities that she'd gone with Ordonoz because she was sick and needed medicine, and needed someone who could speak Spanish. She said she thought he was taking her to her hotel, but took her to his instead. She said that when Ordonoz attacked her, she shot him in self-defense.
The Mexican authorities yawned – and charged her with homicide, bodily injury and attempted robbery.
A U.S. embassy representative who visited her, later told reporters that she'd said, "I've shot men before and managed to get out of it." The newspapers in Mexico called her La Pistolera.
Sharon quickly learned that Mexican criminal law does not allow for bail in serious crimes like murder. She was reportedly enraged to learn this.
The media, including the Saturday Evening Post, flocked to Mexico to cover Kinne.
When police searched Kinne's motel room, they'd arrested Puglise (who was eventually deported) and they found two pistols, one of them a rusted .22-caliber Hi-Standard pistol.
Don Mason, an assistant Jackson County Prosecutor (later a Circuit Judge), flew to Mexico but the Mexicans refused to turn the gun over. They did, however, test fire the gun and give those slugs to mason. Ballistic tests determined it was the gun that killed Patricia Jones, and the serial number on the gun matched the empty box recovered from Sharon's home prior to trial in the Jones case. However, since Sharon had already been acquitted of the Patricia Jones murder, under the double jeopardy clause of the Constitution, she could never be retried for that crime.
After languishing in a Mexican jail for a year, Kinne was sentenced to 10 years in prison. She appealed the conviction, and the Mexican appellate court raised her sentence to 13 years, largely because she was unrepentant.
At first, Sharon claimed to Kansas City Star reporters that she didn't do well in Mexican jails. She said she was in a cell with 15 other women, and didn't speak Spanish. She complained that her family hadn't stuck by her – that a person with a family and some money could not only buy better food, but get out of prison on the weekends.
As time went by, she did admit to one reporter that things had improved. The guards were afraid of her, she said, and she ran a little store in the prison.
Most Americans fare poorly in Mexican prisons, but Sharon Kinne was no ordinary American. She ruled. She took pride in the fact that her fellow convicts were afraid of her. She also told one interviewer in Mexico, "I'm just an ordinary girl."
On Dec. 7, 1969, Sharon Kinne disappeared from Ixtapalapa Women's Prison. Although she was discovered missing at 9 p.m., no senior prison authorities were notified until 2 a.m.
There are those who argue that Sharon is dead – that only death could explain the fact she has never been caught.
But Sharon may have wised up. She had a lot of time in prison to listen to older, wiser convicts. Time to reflect on her own mistakes – the way she'd failed to cover her tracks, the way she'd failed to get rid of incriminating evidence.
She even had time to reflect on the error of her ways.
It would appear that she'd finally made a friend in prison – either another female convict, or a guard. Someone willing to wait on the other side of the eight foot wall of the prison, with a car – willing to drive her to the Guatemala border.
The best bet is that Sharon Kinne found a lonely man with money, and married him. Someone who lived far away from the United States.
Wherever she is, Sharon Kinne will always be La Pistolera.
[Ed. Note: After all these years, some attention is finally coming to Sharon Kinne. In addition to this Crime Magazine feature, in 1997 James Hays wrote "Just An Ordinary Girl," The Sharon Kinne story, published through Leathers Publishing, which led to a segment on her earlier this year on "Unsolved Mysteries."]


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The Nationals escaped a bases-loaded jam in the seventh inning, Tyler Moore blooped a two-out, two-run single in the eighth and Washington beat the defending World Series champion St. Louis Cardinals 3-2 Sunday in an NL playoff opener.
They have just four players with postseason experience on the roster. But they have the lead.
"Not many people have probably watched too many Nationals games, but we have a great starting rotation and a great bullpen," said Ian Desmond, who singled for his third hit in the go-ahead rally. "They keep us in the ballgame and some timely hits from this kid, and the rest of the guys coming off the bench, that's really been the formula."
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Rookie reliever Ryan Mattheus needed just two pitches to bail out the Nationals in the seventh with St. Louis ahead 2-1. Moore, another rookie, put them ahead soon after that, Tyler Clippard worked around an error in the eighth and Drew Storen saved it with a 1-2-3 ninth.
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"It was a big moment," Mattheus said. "It gave us life. The guys said, 'Hey, we can win this ballgame.'"
A standing room crowd of 47,078, among the largest at 7-year-old Busch Stadium, bundled up for a game that began in 54-degree chill and featured kaleidoscope late-afternoon shadows that bedeviled hitters for several innings.
"It was pretty bad, but you have to make adjustments and that's what I did," Molina said. "But what are you going to do? Quit? No."
Third-place hitter Matt Holliday chimed in his complaints about facing Gonzalez: "He's hard to hit when you can see well and even harder when you can't."
Rookie shortstop Pete Kozma misplayed Michael Morse's grounder for an error to open the eighth and set up the Nationals' go-ahead rally. Desmond followed with a single off Mitchell Boggs, putting runners at the corners.
Danny Espinosa sacrificed, leaving runners at second and third, and Kurt Suzuki struck out. In a series of moves, the Nationals sent up Chad Tracy to pinch hit, the Cardinals switched to lefty Marc Rzepczynski and Washington subbed in Moore, who had two of their three pinch homers this season.
Rzepczynski pretty much hit his location but Moore poked it to right field and both runners scored easily.
"I was just trying to calm myself down and try to make some things happen and not strike out up there," Moore said. "I wanted to at least put something into play."
Nationals manager Davey Johnson doesn't usually play small ball but opted for the bunt because Espinosa had been having a tough game.
"I'm kind of from the Earl Weaver school, just keep swinging," Johnson said. "Don't like to steal that much, either. I don't like to give up outs."
Wainwright became the first Cardinals pitcher to reach double digits in strikeouts since Bob Gibson also fanned 10 to beat the Tigers in Game 4 of the 1968 World Series.
Wainwright was a 14-game winner coming off reconstructive elbow surgery that sidelined him all of 2011, with 10 of the wins coming at home. He's been a postseason ace with a microscopic 0.77 ERA and 32 strikeouts in 23 1/3 innings.
He fanned Bryce Harper and Ryan Zimmerman twice each and seventh-place hitter Espinosa all three times.
"My fastball command kind of left me at the end," Wainwright said. "For the most part I felt like I went out there and competed my tail off. Gave it everything I had."
Gonzalez allowed just one hit in five innings, on David Freese's full-count bouncer between third and short to start the fourth. But he had trouble finding catcher Suzuki's glove and keeping warm.
"I kept blowing in my hand, kept looking to do whatever I could to throw a strike," Gonzalez said.
The second inning was Gonzalez's shakiest when he allowed the Cardinals to score twice and take the lead without a hit. Gonzalez walked four of the first five hitters, putting St. Louis in position to score one run on a wild pitch and a second on Jon Jay's bases-loaded sacrifice fly.
"The whole time I was just saying minimize the damage because things were spinning out of control. I just wanted to match everything Wainwright did. I was trying to keep up with him."
Nationals right fielder Jayson Werth robbed Daniel Descalso of a two-run homer off with a leaping catch to keep it at 2-1 in the sixth. Descalso had a fielding gem of his own in the seventh, ranging far to his left to glove Harper's grounder and then throwing him out by a few steps.
Game notes
The Cardinals went 0 for 8 with runners in scoring position. ... Garcia was 4-2 with a 2.82 ERA in nine starts at home. The lefty has a 2.48 career ERA at Busch. ... Gonzalez also walked seven on June 11, 2011, when he was with Oakland against the White Sox. ... Kozma committed one error in 26 games after taking over as the regular SS in September for injured Rafael Furcal.


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Indexes And Small Tables Part IV (Treefingers) May 5, 2009Posted by Richard Foote in Index Block Splits, Index Internals, Oracle Indexes, Root Index Block, Small Indexes.
As I asked in my previous post, the key question when comparing the associated costs of accessing a small table via a Full Table Scan (FTS) vs. an index scan is why does Oracle visit the segment header during a FTS but not during an index scan ?
The answer all comes down to understanding why Oracle must visit the table segment header during a FTS and how Oracle can avoid visiting the index segment header during an index scan.
Oracle must visit the table segment header during a FTS because it contains vital information necessary to perform the FTS, namely the extent map and the High Water Mark (HWM) associated with the table. Even with a table that only contains 1 data block worth of rows as in the SMALL table in my examples, Oracle has no way of automatically determining there's actually only just the one block worth of data. It has to somehow look that up and determine exactly what table blocks Oracle needs to access during the FTS operation and the table segment header contains this necessary meta data. During "most" FTS operations, which are generally speaking larger, "expensive" operations, these accesses to the table segment header constitute a relatively small overhead. However, for FTS operations on "small" tables, accessing the table segment header can actually be a significant proportion of the overall associated costs.
During an index scan operation, there's nothing of interest within the index segment header. The critical index block, the index block by which all index scans must start is the root block of the index (except Fast Full Index Scans which are basically the FTS equivalent for indexes). There's no need to access the index segment header because it's the root block that actually contains all the necessary information by which to start the index scan operation. The root blocks contains the pointers to subsequent index blocks (be it a branch or leaf blocks) that Oracle needs to follow in order to find the index entry of interest. The key to starting an index scan therefore is in determining the location of the index root block.
But how can Oracle determine the location of the index root block ?
Well Oracle implements a little "trick", a golden rule with regard to indexes that doesn't change regardless of the Oracle version, regardless of the O/S version, regardless of the type of tablespace or tablespace option of the index and regardless of how the index is created or grows and block splits over time.
The index root block is always, always, always the block immediately after the index segment header.
Therefore, when the Oracle code issues the associated function calls to perform an index scan, the first index block that Oracle assesses is the index segment header plus an offset of 1. Whereas a FTS accesses the table segment header, an index scan accesses the index segment block id plus 1.
With a tiny index that only has a level of 0 (or height of 1), note there is not "root" block as such as all the index entries can fit within one index leaf block. However, this block, this one and only leaf block within the index structure is also always the block immediately after the index segment header.
When we add more index entries into this one and only leaf block, we'll eventually reach a point when it's full and Oracle must perform an index block split operation. Oracle will then allocate 2 new blocks to the index. Assuming a 50-50 block split, one of these new blocks is assigned the lower 1/2 of all the current index entry values and the other new block is assigned the other upper 1/2 of the current index entry values. The original index leaf block content is then cleaned out and reassigned with just relative block address pointers and value boundaries associated with the 2 new leaf blocks.
The original index leaf block has been "reborn" as the root block of the index.
It's quite easy to demonstrate how the original index block in a level 0 index or the root block of an index never changes and is always the block that follows the index segment header.
First, just create a little table and associated index:
SQL> CREATE TABLE same_root (id NUMBER, name VARCHAR2(30));
Table created.
SQL> INSERT INTO same_root VALUES (1, 'The Thin White Duke');
1 row created.
Commit complete.
SQL> CREATE INDEX same_root_i ON same_root(name);
Index created.
If we dump the block immediately following the index segment header, we can confirm it's our index block of interest, containing our one and only index entry:
SQL> select header_file, header_block from dba_segments where segment_name='SAME_ROOT_I';
SQL> alter system dump datafile 5 block 107442;
System altered.
Following is an extract of the index block dump:
Leaf block dump
header address 98959964=0x5e6025c
kdxcolev 0
KDXCOLEV Flags = – – –
kdxcolok 0
kdxcoopc 0x80: opcode=0: iot flags=— is converted=Y
kdxconco 2
kdxcosdc 0
kdxconro 1
kdxcofbo 38=0x26
kdxcofeo 8007=0x1f47
kdxcoavs 7969
kdxlespl 0
kdxlende 0
kdxlenxt 0=0x0
kdxleprv 0=0x0
kdxledsz 0
kdxlebksz 8036
row#0[8007] flag: ——, lock: 0, len=29
col 0; len 19; (19): 54 68 65 20 54 68 69 6e 20 57 68 69 74 65 20 44 75 6b 65
col 1; len 6; (6): 01 41 a3 aa 00 00
—– end of leaf block dump —–
Note that it is indeed our one and only index leaf block.
If we now take a treedump of the index:
SQL> SELECT object_id FROM dba_objects where object_name = 'SAME_ROOT_I';
SQL> ALTER SESSION SET EVENTS 'immediate trace name treedump level 67721';
Session altered.
Following is the treedump output:
—– begin tree dump
leaf: 0x141a3b2 21078962(0: nrow: 1 rrow: 1)
—– end tree dump
We note that the relative block address of our one and only index leaf block is 21078962.
If we now add a whole bunch of new rows to the table so that the leaf block can no longer hold all the index entries, thereby forcing the index to block split and grow:
SQL> insert into same_root select rownum+1, 'David Bowie' from dual connect by level <=100000;
100000 rows created.
SQL> commit;
Commit complete.
And now take a block dump of the same index block:
SQL> alter system dump datafile 5 block 107442;
System altered.
Branch block dump
header address 98959940=0x5e60244
kdxcolev 2
KDXCOLEV Flags = – – –
kdxcolok 0
kdxcoopc 0x80: opcode=0: iot flags=— is converted=Y
kdxconco 2
kdxcosdc 2
kdxconro 2
kdxcofbo 32=0x20
kdxcofeo 8016=0x1f50
kdxcoavs 7984
kdxbrlmc 21238606=0x144134e
kdxbrsno 1
kdxbrbksz 8060
kdxbr2urrc 0
row#0[8038] dba: 21238607=0x144134f
col 0; len 11; (11): 44 61 76 69 64 20 42 6f 77 69 65
col 1; len 5; (5): 01 41 be 5f 01
row#1[8016] dba: 21238769=0x14413f1
col 0; len 11; (11): 44 61 76 69 64 20 42 6f 77 69 65
col 1; len 5; (5): 01 44 12 ba 01
—– end of branch block dump —–
We notice that the block is no longer a leaf block but has changed itself into an index branch block.
But not just any branch block. If we now take a new treedump:
SQL> ALTER SESSION SET EVENTS 'immediate trace name treedump level 67721';
Session altered.
branch: 0x141a3b2 21078962(0: nrow: 3, level: 2)
branch: 0x144134e 21238606 (-1: nrow: 161, level: 1)
leaf: 0x141a3b3 21078963 (-1: nrow: 179 rrow: 179)
leaf: 0x141a3b4 21078964 (0: nrow: 179 rrow: 179)
leaf: 0x141a3b5 21078965 (1: nrow: 179 rrow: 179)
leaf: 0x141a3b6 21078966 (2: nrow: 179 rrow: 179)
leaf: 0x141a3b7 21078967 (3: nrow: 179 rrow: 179)
The above partial listing of the treedump clearly shows that the index has grown from a level 0 index to a level 2 index and that the root block is the very same index block as the original leaf block listed as it has the same relative block address as before (21078962).
Indeed the original leaf block is now the index root block which is still the same block that immediately follows the index segment header.
Because Oracle doesn't have to visit the index segment header and can simply directly access the block following the index segment header as this block is always the first index block of interest when performing an index scan, the index scan has that little advantage over the FTS. And it's this little advantage that can give the index scan the edge over a FTS, even if we're potentially accessing data from a very small table.
And you can't get much smaller than a table that has all it's rows in the one table block.
So far though, the example I've shown has been a "normal", everyday, non-unique index that has a 1 consistent get advantage over the FTS when accessing a row of interest. I'll next discuss how indexes can having an even bigger edge and more significant advantage over a FTS of a tiny table, than just the 1 consistent get …
- 1. Brian Tkatch - May 5, 2009
Escpeicallt the point, that is the difference of where the header block is, quite clear. Thanx!
- 2. visitor - May 5, 2009
I really feel amazed by the amount of R&D you guys do.By you guys i mean you,Jonathon,Tanel poder etc.I mean is it just for interest or are you get paid for exploring things?In contrast,Tom Kyte believes in knowing the necessary things only and leave the rest to support.
- 3. visitor - May 5, 2009
Let me clarify that I am not against anything.I really appreciate the amount of effort you guys put to explore new things out of the box.
By necessary I mean whatever documented…?
I only feel little hesitant in knowing things that are practically less feasible.
For example,How would it help me as a DBA by knowing that
how oracle determines the location of the index root block?
Ultimately it has to determine.
But I am not against anyone.I really admire you guys but I like Tom Kyte approach better.If you read his books and articles,he never go deep and limits himself to the necessary basics.
- 4. Hans-Peter Sloot - May 9, 2009
Hello Richard,
In part 1 you show that the FTS does 4 consistent gets.
How does this relate to the multiblock read count?
I see a db file scattered read.
I have created a table with a single row
WAIT #2: nam='db file sequential read' ela= 8387 file#=5 block#=1098499 blocks=1 obj#=76164 tim=175627665001
WAIT #2: nam='db file scattered read' ela= 5517 file#=5 block#=1098500 blocks=5 obj#=76164 tim=175627670986
Tablespace is autoallocate.
regards Hans-Peter
- Hans-Peter Sloot - May 9, 2009
Hi Riechard,
Your guesses are correct.
Thank you for the clarification.
Regards Hans-Peter
- Caglar - January 9, 2014
Hello Richard
First of all, I have to say that I am going to addicted to this blog. I learn lots of new things from you. I am wondering what are the differences between create table as select and after create table insertion? Why CTAS increments the HWM?
- 6. gabriel - May 13, 2009
i was at a seminar of yours in Perth on Monday and you said never say 'always' with Oracle. you said it about half a dozen times in this blog 🙂
- 7. Caglar - January 9, 2014
Hello again,
I need to ask you very simple questions.
"Whereas a FTS accesses the table segment header, an index scan accesses the index segment block id plus 1"
First, how come Oracle find out the location of the index segment block id plus 1?
My second question is I thought Oracle use data dictionary in order to locate the index segment block id. So, doesn't this increament the consistent gets count?
Thanks in advance.
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