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[T]he image of Spock used on
Yesterday's Son
is an identical pose to the one used on
the TWOK novelization cover
! I can't find out whether that cover was by Vallejo too, but clearly both covers used the same reference photo.
I can't find any artist reference on any of the multiple copies of McIntyre's
Wrath of Khan
novelization in my collection (Pocket 1st, later Pocket, Gregg Press, Macdonald, SFBC...) but I'm pretty sure the cover art is by Boris. The style seems pretty unmistakable. I sent Vallejo a message on his website, asking if he painted it. I'll report back when (if?) he responds.
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bulbs in raised beds?
Hello all,
I have purchased 70 tulip bulbs, in 7 varieties, early/mid/late. Most of them are for cutting. Can I plant them in the raised vegetable beds? They would be done flowering before the tender tomatoes etc would go in. I have heard that they might not have enough protection from the frost/thaw cycle, but that hasn't seemed to affect the fall planted garlic.
My other option for the late ones would be under a huge POlareis rose bush by the driveway - there is usually snow piled there that doesn't really melt until April.
I have heard that they might not have enough protection from the frost/thaw cycle,
If you plant them at the suggested depth for the size and variety of the bulb, they should be just fine. Heaving from the freeze/thaw cycles in colder zones like ours doesn't come into play for bulbs that are 'buried' down in the soil. It is more likely to happen to plants that are small, or shallowly planted, or planted very late in the season. Example, bearded irises will heave out if planted too late and they don't have enough time to root in before the ground actually freezes.
I did actually have some daffodil bulbs heave out of the soil last winter though. I was hurrying to get the last of them planted and in my haste, some of them were planted too shallow. Some survived it and others didn't as the soil was not well draining, thus they rotted.
Your tulips should be beautiful.
I'm going to second what Sue said. Your tulips will be beautiful. I grow most of my tulips in raised beds in the veggie garden....
Watch out if you're planting by the driveway, if it's a spot where the snow gets dumped and there's a late snowstorm, the already growing tulips may be crushed by a load of heavy slush and snow.
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Comic-Con 2013: 'Godzilla' Director Teases "Big" Plans
We're less than a week away from Comic-Con 2013 -- hard to believe, isn't it? To get you even more excited for this year's events, panels, and toys (so many toys!), 'Godzilla' director Gareth Edwards has put together this little teaser video, promising some very big surprises from Legendary, the studio behind the upcoming reboot.
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20th Century Fox is one of the last studios to announce their Comic-Con 2013 plans, but they're promising that the wait was worth it by bringing not only 'The Wolverine' and 'Dawn of the Planet of the Apes' to Hall H, they're also going to bring a surprise.
Comic-Con 2013: '300: Rise of an Empire' Poster Wants You to Fear What's Coming
'300: Rise of an Empire' was originally one of our most-anticipated movies of the year ... that is, until Warner Bros. decided to push the release date back from Aug. 2 to Mar. 7, 2014. But while we await the coming bloodshed, the studio has dropped a new poster in anticipation of its upcoming panel at Comic-Con 2013.
Comic-Con 2013: FOX Posters for 'Bones,' 'Almost Human,' 'Family Guy' and More!
The madness of Comic-Con 2013 is only days away, and FOX has made its biggest push to promote the 10+ series on display with some seriously collectible new posters. Among the exclusive art on display for FOX's future lineup, we have fresh posters for 'Bones,' 'Family Guy,' 'The Following' and more, along with major new FOX presences like 'Sleepy Hollow' and J.J. Abrams' 'Almost Human!'
'The Amazing Spider-Man 2′: Spidey and Electro Face Off on EW's Comic-Con Cover
After some intense production in the Big Apple, complete with Paul Giamatti's Rhino going berserk on the general public, 'The Amazing Spider-Man 2' is ready to hit San Diego for Comic-Con 2013. But first, our hero, Andrew Garfield's Spider-Man, and our primary villain, Jamie Foxx's Electro, face off in the latest issue of EW.
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We knew it was only a matter of hours before Comic-Con 2013 unveiled its full Saturday panel line-up. For those of you hard at work making your schedules (or if you want to just look longingly at the line-up), we've got a breakdown of the movie panels you can expect to see at Comic-Con on Saturday, July 20, including 'Godzilla,' 'The LEGO Movie,' and much more.
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Comic-Con 2013 has unveiled its full panel schedule for opening day on Thursday, July 18. Among the many TV and comic book panels are a few big movies (and big names) for you to look forward to, including 'Ender's Game,' 'Divergent,' and a chat with Edgar Wright, Alfonso Cuaron, and Marc Webb.
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The studios are starting to announce all their Comic-Con 2013 panels (we should have a full schedule by the end of the week), and the latest is Columbia Pictures, who will be bringing 'The Amazing Spider-Man 2,' 'Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs 2,' and their 'Robocop' remake to San Diego.
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Comic-Con 2013: FX Returns 'Always Sunny' to San Diego, with 'Wilfred,' 'Archer' and 'Sons of Anarchy'
Last year's Comic-Con saw FX offering somewhat of a reduced presence without 'It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia,' but given the upcoming spinoff network FXX, Comic-Con 2013 will herald the Paddy's Pub gang's glorious San Diego return. Joining 'Archer,' 'Wilfred' and 'Sons of Anarchy,' FX has announced its full slate of panels for the upcoming pop culture pilgrimage.
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Although San Diego Comic-Con is traditionally known for its massive panels celebrating the most-anticipated films and most-popular TV shows in the geek world, it also plays host to countless other projects, many of which often seem to get lost. Hopefully, that won't happen to 'The Sidekick,' a new superhero-themed short film that will premiere at Comic-Con 2013 and has some pretty big ambitions.


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B-Mets overcome pair of deficits, top Bowie, 7-6
Bowie, MD (WBNG BINGHAMTON) The Binghamton Mets overcame a pair of deficits and held off the Bowie Baysox in a 7-6 win on Saturday night at Prince George's Stadium. In a game that saw three lead changes, the B-Mets outlasted the Baysox to earn their fifth straight win and eleventh in the last twelve games.
Offense stays hot in B-Mets' 12-4 win
Bowie, MD (WBNG BINGHAMTON) The Binghamton Mets scored six runs in the first two innings and six more in the last two frames to blast the Bowie Baysox, 12-4, on Friday night at Prince George's Stadium. The B-Mets pounded out 13 hits to earn their fourth straight win and tenth in the last eleven games.
B-Mets get several mid-season additions
Binghamton, NY (WBNG Binghamton) With the mid-way point of the season came several new faces for the Binghamton Mets. On Thursday, outfielders Brandon Nimmo and TJ Rivera, infielder Dilson Herrera and pitchers Steven Matz and Randy Fontanez all got called up from Single-A St. Lucie.
B-Mets ride Pill's performance to series sweep
Binghamton, NY (WBNG Binghamton) Tyler Pill fired eight scoreless innings and backed his own effort with three hits, including a home run, to lead the Binghamton Mets past the Richmond Flying Squirrels, 6-0, on Thursday night at NYSEG Stadium.
Peavey grounds Flying Squirrels in B-Mets win
Binghamton, NY (WBNG Binghamton) Greg Peavey fired eight strong innings and the Binghamton Mets backed him with an eleven-hit attack in a 6-1 victory over the Richmond Flying Squirrels on Wednesday night at NYSEG Stadium.
Lara working back for the B-Mets
Binghamton, NY (WBNG Binghamton) Binghamton Mets starting pitcher Rainy Lara threw to live hitters on Wednesday at NYSEG Stadium for the first time since being placed on the disabled list.
Burgamy's blast propels B-Mets to win over Richmond
Binghamton, NY (WBNG Binghamton) Brian Burgamy launched a grand slam and Matt Bowman fired six scoreless innings to lead the Binghamton Mets past the Richmond Flying Squirrels, 5-1, on Tuesday night at NYSEG Stadium.
Burgamy named Eastern League Player of the Week
Binghamton, NY (WBNG Binghamton) The Eastern League announced today that Binghamton Mets infielder Brian Burgamy has been named the league Player of the Week for the period of June 9 to 15. Burgamy hit .500 (12-for-24) during the stretch with three doubles, three home runs and nine RBI.
Big hit eludes B-Mets in 5-3 loss
Binghamton (WBNG BINGHAMTON) Binghamton went 1-for-16 with runners on base and fell to the Erie SeaWolves in the series finale, 5-3, on Sunday night at NYSEG Stadium. The B-Mets had a runner on base in eight of nine frames, but never grabbed the lead, snapping a six-game winning streak.
B-Mets streak past Erie, sweep double header
Binghamton (WBNG BINGHAMTON) The Binghamton Mets stretched their winning streak to six games by sweeping the Erie SeaWolves in a doubleheader on Saturday night at NYSEG Stadium. In the opener, the B-Mets grabbed the lead with a three-run fourth inning and never looked back in a 4-2 victory. Binghamton launched four home runs in the nightcap and Hansel Robles spun his first career complete-game shutout in a 6-0 win to secure the sweep.


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Welcome to the Halve Mein HHH home page.
We are located in Southern Saratoga County and currently run every 2-3 weeks throughout the year. We will sponsor runs anywhere within an hour of the Capital region and further, if it sparks interest.
Anyone interested in hashing and would like to try it - come on out! Your first run is on the hash (thats right free, gratis, no money, just your time, you won't be disappointed)
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HARES NEEDED! The 2015 Hash Calendar has been posted! Plenty of open dates. If there is a specific weekend or date that you want, now is the time to grab it! Step up! Check it out on the Upcoming Runs page
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Mark your calendars! Save the date!Our 12th Annual NURD and 15th Anal Red Dress will be held Saturday, May 9th, 2015. Registration is now OPEN.
We're going to raise money for the Mohawk Hudson Land Conservancy.
NURD IS AGAIN A CAMP OUT WEEKEND! We can all enjoy a full weekend of fun and general debauchery together.
The weekend schedule is set. The Friday Night Camp Crawl theme is THE BIG O! What do you know turned 20 this year? 30? 40? 50? 100?
Directions and details to all the events will be on the schedule page. If you want to volunteer, let us know. It's never too early to print out a pledge form and hit up your co-workers for cash!
Registration starts at just $90 and includes a full weekend of beer, camping, food, Red Dress Run, and Habadashery. First price increase TO $100 is ON March 1st! If you signed up and haven't paid yet, you now owe us this amount. Day of price is $120 - We suggest you pay quickly.
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Hash scribe Little Wang Theory took his hands out of his shorts long enough to scribble a trash for Run #482, Blow it out your Kazoo Hash
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Hash scribe Little Wang Theory got off your Mom long enough to mumble a trash for Run #485, Spring Forward! Hash
Lyrics to "Titanic" posted on the Songs page.
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What does the proper crush for wheat look like. I am having issues. All of my wheat batches keep coming out grainy smelling. There is a hint of taste but mostly smell.
I do recirculate for a long time to get as close to clear as possible. I have been told though that that is part of the style. I thought that the haze was only supposed to be when the beer was cold or the yeast strain that you use doesn't flocculate well, or both. So I can only assume that I have not yet, hit the right crush.
Please set me straight!!
wheat is supposed to be cloudy, like you steeped your boxers in the kettle.
anyhoo, wheat doesn't have much of a husk, so just crack it, don't turn it into powder.
some folks put rice hulls in the mash when they use a lot of wheat, i've never done that, but i shy away from wheat mashes.
mine looks like this:
So crushed, but not a lot of flour. HMMM....
That helps a great deal. I think that my crush is still to fine. Am I right in thinking that I should have some clarity? Not crystal, but almost see through?
I don't think that the tightness of the crush affects clarity of the beer. I generally crush very fine and my beers come out fairly clean.
Protein haze is part of the wheat character. But what do you mean with grainy smell? Is it a faint smell of cooked corn?
Ya, I guess you could call it that. Although I wouldn't call the smell faint. It is definitely present. The taste is there too, but after the first two sips it is unnoticeable. Keep in mind the brew is not done fermenting yet. I don't think that this will affect the grainy flavor or taste, I can only hope. So protein haze is present in the wort at mash temperatures. HMMM... well that is good to note.
My first all grain had a grainy smell to it as well but it came out very good in the end. Doesn't smell like grain after i bottled it and started tasting it a week or two later.


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I'm trying to encrypt and sign a file with cryptoapi with some X.509 certificates. I want to verify and decrypt this file with openssl.
On windows I think I need to use the
CryptSignAndEncryptMessage function to encrypt and sign data. I used this example from MSDN to create a signed and encrypted message.
How can I decrypt/verify this file using openssl? I removed the first 4 bytes from the message since it contained the length of the message (from the windows blob).
When I call
openssl -asn1parse I get some output that indicates it to be parsable by openssl.
When trying to verify the signature with openssl I recieve an error:
openssl rsautl -verify -inkey AlonsoCert.pem -keyform pem -certin -in sandvout-without-4byte.txt
RSA operation error
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A keel with a sharper leading edge will stall much quicker in rough water, than one with a blunter leading edge. How sharp is best, depends on how rough the water you are racing in, and the resulting leeway angle.
x2. A sharper keel will also stall more quickly than the blunter foil at the slow SPEEDS of the R22, in my understanding. Keel shape and thickness would be optimized (drag, lift, stall potential) for typical expected boatspeeds.
Glad to hear you are racing your Ranger 22, but that sounds like a tough fleet of competition! At least I have some old Catalina 27's to beat.
I appreciate your support on refreshing the photos of the old templates thread. I chose a shape similar to the 0010 but more of a hybrid 0012 profile at 10% thickness. I found this similar to my keel shape which was butchered over the last 34 years. Launching Sunday so wish me luck. . .
In contrast with the previous description of the J/24 with saggy headstay (light airs?) I believe the R22 prefers a tighter jibstay to point in most wind conditions. I just added a cascade to my backstay adjuster for this reason.
Check that you are getting full hoist on the main as I had a halyard shackle/nicropress that was taking up 1/2" at the sheave. Even so my new main is 1/2" shorter than stock. Replaced headboard shackle with a swage ball shackle (as was original). I get the best point with boom on centerline (traveler up). Follow the North Trim prescription--speed first, then point.
BTW I found that there is an online loft that has a new 150 genoa that would fit this boat at a very reasonable price. PM me for details.
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Claudia Rossett in the WSJ interviews a Ukranian deputy of Mr Yushenko. She observes that " The bottom line is simple, and universal. Freedom brings with it a degree of dignity that repression can never confer."
Interesting article on parenting from the Minneapolis Star Tribune quoting Strauss and Howe on the generations.
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What Google is trying to do is cut down on companies who say something like "Just give us the money and we'll handle it". While this may work if you're hiring the mob to whack someone, it doesn't work when you have full right to see how your campaigns are performing. There are more shady compaines out there that will take more than their fair share of your budget, or just set your campaigns and forget them.
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Air pollution and emergency admissions in Boston, MA
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Study Objective: Many studies have shown that ambient particulate air pollution (PM) is associated with increased risk of hospital admissions and deaths for cardiovascular or respiratory causes around the world. In general these have been analysed in association with PM10 and ozone, whereas PM2.5 is now the particle measure of greatest health and regulatory concern. And little has been published on associations of hospital admissions and PM components.
Design: This study analysed hospital admissions for myocardial infarction (15 578 patients), and pneumonia (24 857 patients) in associations with fine particulate air pollution, black carbon (BC), ozone, nitrogen dioxide (NO2), PM not from traffic, and carbon monoxide (CO) in the greater Boston area for the years 1995–1999 using a case-crossover analysis, with control days matched on temperature.
Main results: A significant association was found between NO2 (12.7% change (95% CI: 5.8, 18)), PM2.5 (8.6% increase (95% CI: 1.2, 15.4)), and BC (8.3% increase (95% CI: 0.2, 15.8)) and the risk of emergency myocardial infarction hospitalisation; and between BC (11.7% increase (95% CI: 4.8, 17.4)), PM2.5 (6.5% increase (95% CI: 1.1, 11.4)), and CO (5.5% increase (95% CI: 1.1, 9.5)) and the risk of pneumonia hospitalisation.
Conclusions: The pattern of associations seen for myocardial infarction and pneumonia (strongest associations with NO2, CO, and BC) suggests that traffic exposure is primarily responsible for the association with heart attacks.
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cost tor reduce size of fireplace mantle
So I have a, in my opinion, overly large fireplace mantle in my living room. (I'm using the term mantle to refer to the brickwork around the fireplace, if the term is wrong, let me know)
The room itself is bowling alleyish in size: 12x24ft.
Because of the layout, the best place for a TV is above the fireplace. We've tried different placements over the years, but they just don't seem to fit the room ( at least to our taste).
House was built in 1991.
Unfortunately the fireplace mantle seems to be way bigger than it should be.
The fireplace opening is 27x32in. The mantle is 62.5in tall x 64in wide on a 94in high ceiling.
Does it seem overly big to you all as well?
Anyone have any experience in reducing the size of it?
If so, how expensive was it?
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Syslog and Riak 1.3
April 8, 2013
Logs are an important part of understanding the health of any system. They provide historic records of events with information that may not be seen when running ad-hoc commands like
riak-admin or reviewing the data gathered and trended from
riak-admin status or http://$riakNode/stats.
When used correctly, logs can forewarn of an issue as well as provide forensic evidence to use after the event.
By default, Riak's logging is split sensibly into different files for different types of log data: errors, crash and console. Take a look in
/var/log/riak or
/var/log/riak-cs to explore further.
Since you may have five to 50 nodes in your Riak cluster (we recommend that you have at least five nodes), reviewing those logs by hand would be a timely and repetitive task. This makes it unlikely that you'd catch any events as they're happening.
Gathering logs centrally for analysis is the best way to resolve this and make this easier. Riak has Syslog support through its logging framework – Lager.
Lager is another great open source project from Basho. We recommend checking out the project page for full details, but a summary of its features are:
- Custom formatting
- Runtime changes
- Internal log rotation (yes, sysadmin, we already have you covered)
- AMQP support
- SMTP support
- Syslog Support
- Loggly Support
- Tracing
Configuring Lager to use Syslog is as easy as opening your
/etc/riak/app.config then navigating down to Lager's configuration section. Here, you can replace the existing handlers section with
{handlers, [
{lager_syslog_backend, ["riak", local1, info]},
] },
Then, in your local
syslog.conf you may add the following: (Please remember Syslog likes tabs between sections, not spaces. If you copy and paste, you will need to edit the line accordingly.)
local1.info /var/log/riak_info.log
Both Riak and Syslog will require restarting to apply the changes.
You can add multiple handlers for the various levels you wish to configure. You can also use a hybrid approach, leaving Lager managing some levels while Syslog manages others. Check out the Lager Syslog project page for more information.
The next step in your logging solution would be to redirect the logs to your central Syslog server. Doing so is outside the scope of this post, but there are many great guides available that describe the process.
Analysis Tools
There are some excellent tools out there for log file anaylsis. These include: Splunk and Logstash, which can both be run locally, and Loggly and Papertrail, which are Software as a Service.
What am I seeing?
When using one of these tools, we recommend that you set up alerts for common, frequent, and important messages. Check our online documentation for descriptions of common messages to get started.
Further Help
If you need further assistance, please don't hesitate to contact the team and community:
IRC – irc.freenode.net #riak
Email – http://lists.basho.com/mailman/listinfo/riak-users_lists.basho.com
Or, if you're an enterprise customer, contact us through your support account.
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Boundary Uses Riak to Handle Massive Data Scale
April 4, 2013
Boundary provides innovative application monitoring for new IT architectures: one-second app visualization, cloud-compatible, and only a few minutes from setup to results. They use Riak to store all of their historic data.
Due to the nature of Boundary's service, they take in a massive amount of data at a high resolution and volume. After experimenting with a number of different options, Riak was selected for historic data due to its scalability, simplicity, high availability, and transparency. According to Boundary Founder, Cliff Moon, "Riak's transparency and simplicity gives us peace of mind while it's in production. We know what it's doing and never have to worry about it."
Altogether, they handle nearly 3TB of writes per day, store 200-300 million keys, and have three trillion separate observations stored in their cluster at any given point.
To learn more about how Boundary uses Riak, check out the complete case study.
Slides: Introduction to Riak
March 27, 2013
Yesterday, we presented an introductory webcast for those new to Riak. We've posted the slides below. They cover the key design goals of Riak and its architecture, operations, interfaces, and querying features. They also include new features from the recent 1.3 release and a few interesting user stories of Riak in production.
Our next webcast will be Tuesday, April 2 and will focus on our newly open sourced, cloud storage product, Riak CS. You can sign up for it here.
Spotlight: Riak for Retail, Advertising, Mobile, and Gaming
March 25, 2013
We have a few new pages on our site to help you start building retail, advertising, mobile, or gaming apps and services on Riak. On each of these pages, you will find industry use cases for Riak, relevant case studies from companies already using it in production, and information on Riak's key/value model and querying features. Here's a quick overview:
Riak lets retailers provide always-on, highly scalable eCommerce and mobile services. Retail use cases for Riak include:
- Shopping carts
- Product catalogs
- Mobile applications/sites
The retail page also looks at how Best Buy, ideel, and Copious use Riak. For more details, visit the Retail Users Page.
Advertisers need to serve data reliably and quickly. Common ways advertisers leverage Riak include:
- Serving ad content
- Session storage
- Mobile experiences
OpenX and Velti are two examples of advertisers using Riak. For more details, visit the Advertising Users Page.
Riak provides the scalable, small object storage required by mobile applications and platforms. Riak can be used for many different mobile needs, including:
- User and session data storage
- Text and multimedia storage
- Social authentication
The mobile page also highlights case studies from popular applications Bump and Voxer. For more details, visit the Mobile Users Page.
Gaming platforms and applications benefit from Riak's scale-out, low-latency design, and flexible storage capabilities. Some common use cases include:
- Player data
- Session data
- Social information
- Gaming assets
This page looks at some gaming companies using Riak, including Kiip, Mochi Media, and Hibernum, and why they chose Riak. For more details, visit the Gaming Users Page.
You can find user stories from other industries here. And make sure to sign up for our Introduction to Riak webcast, tomorrow at 11:00 am PT / 2:00 pm ET.
Riak at Temetra
March 21, 2013
Temetra is the most widely used meter management system for water in Ireland. They provide utility companies with a cloud service to store and manage meter data for utilities such as water, gas and electricity.
Each time one of Temetra's utility customers reads a meter, that reading is stored by Temetra and made available to the utility. As Temetra found success at home and overseas, it resulted in huge amounts and variety of data: from the meter readings themselves, through meter location information and utility staff work schedules, to audit logs.
With the switch to smart meters, where one meter can now provide 35,000 readings per year instead of just four, Temetra needed to improve the scalability and availability of their platform. They chose Riak as their primary data store and use it to collect and process all meter data.
Paul Barry, Temetra's CEO, told the London Riak meet-up why they chose Riak and how they went from their initial evaluation to deploying it in production. Check out his interesting talk here.
Riak Community Survey
We'd sincerely appreciate it if you could take some time to complete our first quarterly Riak community survey. The goal of this survey is to help us better understand how you are using Riak. Our hope is that your insights will help us make better decisions moving forward with the future of Riak.
All contributors to the survey will be provided Basho swag, as well as a discount for RICON tickets. One lucky contributor will be pseudorandomly selected to receive a free ticket to RICON | East!
If you have any questions or concerns, please don't hesitate to hit up email@example.com.
Light up a Riak Cluster with AWS, A Few Notes…
This is a cross post from compositecode.com written by Adron Hall, one of the Basho Technical Evangelists. In it he walks through one of the methods of setting up and configuring a cluster on AWS. Other options are enumerated in a post entitled Riak on AWS – Deployment Options
March 14, 2013
I wanted to write up an intro to getting Riak installed on AWS, even though the steps are absurdly simple and already available on the Basho Docs site, there are a few extra notes that can be very helpful for a few specific points during the process.
Start off by logging into AWS. At this point you can take two different paths that are almost identical. You can follow the path of using the pre-built AWS Marketplace image of Riak, or just start form scratch. The difference is a total of about 2 steps: installing & setting some security port connections. I'm going to step through without using the prebuilt image in these instructions.
Security Group
First thing you'll need to get a security group with the correct permissions setup. For that, you'll need to make a security group.
NOTE: No, I didn't mean to misspell Riak, but it's in there now.
Before adding the ports, go to the security group details tab and copy the security group id. I've pointed it out in the image above.
Now add the following three and assign the security group to the ports; 4369, 8099 & 6000-7999. For the source set it to the security group id. Once you get all three added the list should look like this (below). For each rule click the Add Rule button and remember to click the Apply Rule Changes. I often forget this because the screen on some of the machines I use only shows to the bottom of the Add Rule button, so you'll have to scroll down to find the Apply Rule Changes button.
Now add the standard port 22 for SSH. Next get the final two of 8087 and 8098 setup and we're ready for moving on to creating the virtual machines.
Server Virtual Machines
For creating virtual machines I just clicked on Launch Instance and used the classic wizard. From there you get a selection of items. I've used the AWS image to do this, but would actually suggest using a CentOS image of your choice or Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL). Another great option is to use the Ubuntu 12.04 LTS. Really though, use whatever Linux version or distro you like, there are 1-2 step instructions for installing Riak on almost every distro out there.
Next just launch a single instance. We'll be able to launch duplicates of these further along in the process. I've selected a "Micro" here but I'm not intending to do anything with a remotely heavy load right now. At some point, I'll upgrade this cluster to larger instances when I start putting it under a real load. I'll have another blog entry to describe exactly how I do this too.
Continue again until you can select the security group that we created above.
Now keep hitting that continue button, until you get to launch, and launch this thing. Once the instance is launched launch your preferred SSH connection tooling. The easiest way I've found for getting the most current private IP to connect to with the appropriate command is to right click on the instance in the AWS Console and click on Connect. There you'll find the command to connect via SSH.
Paste that in and hit enter in your SSH App, you'll see something akin to this.
$ cd Codez/working-content/
$ ssh -i riaktionz.pem firstname.lastname@example.com
The authenticity of host 'ec2-54-245-201-97.us-west-2.compute.amazonaws.com (188.8.131.52)' can't be established.
RSA key fingerprint is 31:18:ac:1a:ac:fc:6e:6d:55:e8:8a:83:9a:8f:c7:5f.
Are you sure you want to continue connecting (yes/no)? yes
Warning: Permanently added 'ec2-54-245-201-97.us-west-2.compute.amazonaws.com,18.104.22.168' (RSA) to the list of known hosts.
Please login as the user "ubuntu" rather than the user "root".
Enter yes to continue connecting. For some instance types, like Ubuntu you'll have to do some teaks to log into as "ubuntu" vs. "root" and the same goes for the AWS image or others. I'll leave that to you, dear reader to get connected via ole' SSH.
One of the other things, that you may have to do some tweaking about and googling, is figuring out the firewall setups on the various virtual machine images. For the RHEL you'll want to turn off the firewall or open up the specific connection ports and such. Since the AWS firewall does this, it isn't particularly important for the OS to continue running its firewall service. In this case, I've turned off the OS firewall and just rely on the AWS firewall. To turn off the RHEL firewall, execute the following commands.
$ service iptables save
$ service iptables stop
$ chkconfig iptables off
Now is a perfect time to start those other instances. Navigate into the AWS Console again and right click on the virtual machine instance you've created. On that menu select Launch More Like This.
Go through and check the configuration on each of these, make sure the firewall is turned off, etc. Then move on to the next step and install Riak and cluster them. So it's time to get to the distributed, massively complex, extensive list of steps to install & cluster Riak. Ok, so that's sarcasm.
Step 1: Install Riak
Install Riak on each of the instances.
package=basho-release-6-1.noarch.rpm &&
wget http://yum.basho.com/gpg/$package -O /tmp/$package &&
sudo rpm -ivh /tmp/$package
sudo yum install riak
NOTE: For other installation methods, such as directly downloading the RPM or other Linux OSes, check out the http://docs.basho.com/riak/latest/tutorials/installation/Installing-on-RHEL-and-CentOS/.
Step 2: Setup the Cluster
On the first instance, get the IP. You won't need to do anything to this instance, just keep the IP handy. Then move on to the second instance and run the cluster command.
sudo riak-admin cluster join riak@
Do this on each of the instances you've added, using that first node. When you've added them all, on that last instance (or really any of them) then run the plan. This will get you a display plan of what will take place when the cluster is committed.
sudo riak-admin cluster plan
If that looks all cool. Commit the plan.
sudo riak-admin cluster commit
Get a check of the cluster.
sudo riak-admin member_status
That's it; all done. You now have a Riak Cluster. For more operations to try out on your cluster, check out this list of basic API Operations.
Building Gaming Applications and Services with Riak
March 13, 2013
For a complete overview, download the whitepaper, "Gaming on Riak: A Technical Introduction." To see how other gaming companies are using Riak, visit us at the Game Developers Conference at Booth #202!
As discussed in our previous post, "Gaming on Riak: A Brief Overview and User Case Studies," Riak can provide a number of advantages for gaming platforms. Content agnostic, an HTTP API, many client libraries, and a simple key/value data model, Riak is a flexible data store that can be used for a variety of different use cases in the gaming industry. This post looks at some common examples and how to start building them in Riak.
Use Cases
Player and Session Data: Riak can serve and store key player and session data with predictable low latency, and ensures it is available even in the event of node failure and network partition. This data may include user and profile information, game performance, statistics and rankings, and more. In Riak, all objects are stored on disk as binaries, providing flexible storage for many content types. Since Riak is schema-less, applications can evolve without changing an underlying schema, providing agility with growth and change.
Social Information: Riak can be used for social content such as social graph information, player profiles and relationships, social authentication accounts, and other types of social gaming data.
Content: Riak is often used to store text, documents, images, videos and other assets that power gaming experiences. This data often needs to be highly available and able to scale quickly to attract and keep users.
Global Data Locality: Gaming requires a low-latency experience, no matter where the players are located. Riak Enterprise's multi-datacenter replication feature means data can be served to global users quickly.
Data Model
Below are some common approaches to structuring gaming data with Riak's key/value model:
Riak offers robust additional functionality on top of the fundamental key/value model. For more information on these options as well as how to implement them, their architecture, and their limitations, check out the documentation on searching and accessing data in Riak.
Riak Search
Riak Search is a distributed, full-text search engine. It provides support for various MIME types & analyzers, and robust querying including exact matches, wildcards, range queries, proximity searches, and more.
Possible Use Cases: Searching player and game information.
Secondary Indexing
Secondary Indexing (2i) gives developers the ability, at write time, to tag an object stored in Riak with one or more queryable values. Indexes can be either integers or strings and can be queried by either exact matches or ranges of an index.
Possible Use Cases: Tagging player information with user relationships, general attributes, or other metadata.
Developers can leverage MapReduce for analytic and aggregation tasks. It offers support for both JavaScript and Erlang MapReduce.
Possible Use Cases: Filtering game data by tag, counting items, and extracting links to related data.
To learn more about how your gaming platform can benefit from Riak, download "Gaming on Riak: A Technical Introduction." For more information about Riak, sign up for our webcast on Thursday, March 14.
Gaming on Riak: A Brief Overview and User Case Studies
March 12, 2013
Riak provides low-latency, highly available storage to power gaming platforms and applications. Gaming companies use Riak to store player and game data, session and social information, and a variety of gaming content and events. This post offers a quick look at the advantages of Riak and some user case studies. Later this week, we'll publish an in-depth look at the common gaming use cases and examples of data modeling.
For a complete overview, download the whitepaper, "Gaming on Riak: A Technical Introduction."
Advantages of Riak
- Support for Rapid Growth: Built for operational ease-of-use, Riak yields a near-linear performance and throughput increase as capacity is added.
- Low-Latency Design: Riak is designed to store data and serve requests predictably and quickly, even during peak times.
- Flexible, Reliable Storage: Riak has a flexible data model with redundancy built-in, and a number of mechanisms to maintain availability even in the event of node failure or network partition. Riak is content-agnostic, providing flexibility for document, image, video, and other storage.
- Multi-Datacenter Replication: Riak Enterprise's multi-datacenter replication provides disaster recovery and data locality.
Case Studies
Hibernum is a creator and developer of unique gaming experiences that combine the latest in social gaming, top quality visuals and animations, and cutting edge design. They switched from a relational database to Riak due to its high availability, ability to scale to peak loads, and predictable operational cost. Riak is used to store user game information for one of their most popular social games. For more information about how Hibernum uses Riak, check out the complete case study.
Kiip is a platform that lets brands provide rewards to mobile gamers for in-game achievements. Kiip replaced MongoDB with Riak in order to achieve low read/write latencies and horizontal scalability. Kiip uses Riak for session and device data. To learn more about Kiip's experience selecting Riak, check out this video by two of their engineers.
To learn more about how your gaming platform can benefit from Riak, download "Gaming on Riak: A Technical Introduction." For more information about Riak, sign up for out webcast on Thursday, March 14.
Basho Events in March
March 11, 2013
Nearly each day this month, we will be speaking at conferences, hosting meetups, and sponsoring events. For a full list of events, visit our Events Page. If you want to meet up with a Basho team member at one of these events, contact us to set up a time. Below are some of the highlights:
GigaOM Structure: Basho will be speaking at two different sessions at GigaOM Structure (March 20-21) in New York. Come hear Basho CTO, Justin Sheehy, and Technical Evangelist, Tom Santero, speak, stop by our booth, or attend our cocktail reception on March 20th.
Game Developer Conference 2013: Basho Chief Architect, Andy Gross, will be speaking at the Game Developer Conference at a session titled "Gaming on NoSQL: Building Available, Fast Services with Riak." GDC will be held March 25-29 in San Francisco. Check out our session and booth to learn more about how gaming platforms can use Riak.
Meetups: This month, we are hosting a number of meetups all over the country. If you're in Austin, come visit us at BlackLocus on March 11th, if you're in Seattle, visit us on March 13th at Blue Box Group, if you're in Chicago, visit us on March 14th at Braintree, or if you're in Boston, check us out on March 27th at Basho's Cambridge office. We'll also be at Riot Games in LA on March 19th and in Portland on March 28th at NedSpace.
Sponsored Events: Basho will be sponsoring Erlang Factory 2013 in San Francisco (March 18-22), Clojure/West in Portland (March 18-20), Open Analytics Summit in Arlington, VA (March 25), and Monitorama in Boston (March 28-29).
Hope to see you soon!


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Bats Right Hand
Did you know?
Brad once swallowed five flies in an innings.
Bats Right Hand
Did you know?
Brad once swallowed five flies in an innings.
Bats Right Hand
Did you know?
Brad once swallowed five flies in an innings.
Bats Right Hand
Replacing Adam Gilchrist was never going to be an easy task for Brad Haddin, but the Canberra product has served his country with aplomb for almost 15 years.
Having compiled an impressive international resume, Haddin's career was at a crossroads in 2012 when personal issues saw him step down from Australia's tour of the West Indies.
But the veteran returned to international cricket with a bang in 2013, marking his elevation to the vice-captaincy with a record-breaking performance in Australia's Ashes whitewash.
Haddin passed 50 six times in eight innings against England and also completed 22 catches in a near flawless display behind the stumps.
Along with Darren Lehmann and Michael Clarke, Haddin has also been credited with the regeneration of the Australian team's culture that led them back to the world No.1 ranking.
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Watson's close call and Haddin's drop
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Brad Haddin takes a great catch to remove Ian Bell in the tri-series final
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Having followed in his footsteps much of his career, Nevill is readying for his chance to fill Haddin's gloves


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Sam Smith ▪ Twitter: @SamSmithHoops
Position: Small Forward ▪ Shoots: Right
Height: 6-4 ▪ Weight: 200 lbs.
Born: January 8, 1955 in Ferriday, Louisiana
High School: Clark in Las Vegas, Nevada
College: University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Draft: Atlanta Hawks, 3rd round (4th pick, 48th overall), 1977 NBA Draft
NBA Debut: January 28, 1979
Other Pages: College Basketball Stats
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