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So I'm mostly playing The Old Republic these days. I haven't logged into WoW for a few weeks now. I guess I'm probably just going to let WoW ride until the Mists of Pandaria beta, and then see what's what.
In The Old Republic, I'm mostly leveling a couple of alts: a Sith Inquisitor and a Republic Trooper. Ironically, I found out that my 50 Sniper is on one of the few Republic-dominated servers, which really hasn't helped any foray into endgame.
It's very interesting, playing in a transient fashion after playing in an extended structure for so long. There is a curious amount of freedom. You can come and go as you please, do other things if you want to. Yet, I think there's a hollowness to it. It's like being in a single player game with some occasional chat. I do miss working in a group towards a common goal.
And yet, I'm not sure if I miss it enough. Enough to make it worthwhile to find a new guild and adjust to a new schedule.
In other games, I'm looking forward to Mass Effect 3 and Diablo 3. In MMOs, I guess we'll see what releases. Guild Wars 2 looks to be doing some interesting things, as does The Secret World.
Monday, February 27, 2012
So I'm mostly playing The Old Republic these days. I haven't logged into WoW for a few weeks now. I guess I'm probably just going to let WoW ride until the Mists of Pandaria beta, and then see what's what.
6 comments:
- leskopet said...
"In The Old Republic, I'm mostly leveling a couple of alts: a Sith Inquisitor ..."
I wonder if the blog's name will temporarily change from Blessing of Kings to Mark of Power. =)
(It's good to read thats you're enjoying SWtOR by the way.)
- 4:52 AM, February 28, 2012
- spinksville said...
"And yet, I'm not sure if I miss it enough. Enough to make it worthwhile to find a new guild and adjust to a new schedule."
Welcome to the world of casual raiding. I get this cognitive dissonance a lot myself, I enjoy not being tied down to a schedule (that wouldn't fit with my work commitments anyway these days), but I also enjoy hanging out with the same group of players, and raiding in an unstressed environment (as far as it ever can be.) Trying an Op this week just confirmed to me that I do genuinely enjoy raiding, it's just all the hardcore stuff around it that I can't be bothered with and dno't have time for.
The trick, if there is one, is totally in finding a guild that will support that playstyle. And learning to shrug off the feeling that you should be progressing faster.
- 5:22 AM, February 28, 2012
- Fn0 said...
Just logged into swtor.com; I have 24 days play time remaining. I don't know what to do. My Sage is level 48, on Ilum, finally completed my class quest. Realm is completely dead, especially on Rep side. Yeah I tried lvling Imp. When I play Imp I just don't feel right, just like when I play Horde. What should people like me do?
I had my period where I played SWTOR. My guild had a bad start in DS despite having a lot of FL HC gear. Biggest problem was the AFKs in december. We adapted, now its going OK (we're stuck on ship HC). Love playing HCs in guild, and I much more enjoy playing my alts on WoW than playing SWTOR. PuGing DS10 is easy now. The challenge for me is to complete DS on normal difficulty on my alts (thus far, the score is 7, and always pulled my weight; after I am done I don't do again btw!!).
The ability to not listen to music while playing SWTOR (I only need sound in WoW for things like clearcasting, "combo points" from hearkitty, and maybe vchat but can be combined) has become a minus. Yeah, you can skip the dialogues or just read the text but then you skip THE feature of the game IMO. It also all depends on the people you play with, and in contrast to you I really miss playing with other people even whilst lvling. There is just nobody to do the instances with, and I am a flippin' healer supposedly in demand! I'm not going to waste my time standing idle somewhere LFG. And since there are no Rep realms AFAIK I rather just quit the game, maybe come back later.
I am also preparing myself for MoP by making some more gold. After all, leveling the alts costs gold (don't plan on lvling them all but the new talent tree system seems amazing).
I look forward to D3, MoP, and as of yesterday also GW2. I mean the name GW2, it never attracted me at all, but I read into it and figured out "what's in a name". Just give me a fantasy MMO with the graphics quality and difficulty of TW2 and I'm sold.
While WoW is certainly not perfect wwhat makes WoW wow for me? My guild and my realm. Absolutely one of the best realms to PuG on, and my guild has a positive atmosphere, we're a bunch of friends, and we are pretty casual (raid 3x a week, many have 2x attendance due to RL and we work with this).
- 7:19 AM, February 28, 2012
- Rohan said...
@Fn0, there are Republic-dominated realms. Try Wall of Light.
- 7:35 AM, February 28, 2012
- treadstyle said...
I've been lucky enough to get into guild with a bunch of old guildmates and raiders that no longer play WoW(a few still do). We have finally over the past month hit critical mass with enough level 50s to do some operations once a week.
When we started the guild we made a point to not schedule multiple raid nights, to be flexible and try our best to be "casual" players. The funny thing is that the way we raid is not casual at all, and we are now clearing end game content with some consistency, without much daily grind, and it is usually always a good time.
Maybe its the smaller raid size of 8 people, or just the group of people I am playing with, but I find myself looking forward to the one night I raid a week in SWTOR far more than the 2 nights I log into WoW to raid.
Also, I've noticed that in the Old Republic, at least on my server, there are a lot of people out there with no guild and a lot of previous raiding experience, just no one currently to raid with, so if you need an extra, give them a shot, it may be well worth it.
- 8:30 AM, February 28, 2012
- Fn0 said...
Seems an American realm. I'm from Europe. But I don't even want "dominated", I'd be good with 50/50 with some activity. My current realm is just dead. If anyone knows a realm with some Rep activity in Europe I keep myself recommended. Might as well pay for a realm transfer and enjoy those 24^H3 days.
- 5:33 PM, February 28, 2012


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Empire London Dry Gin
Gin Review: Empire London Dry Gin 84/100
A review by Chip Dykstra (Aka Arctic Wolf)
July, 2010
Highwood Distillers is situated in the town of Highwood, Alberta, which lies just about 40 minutes due south of Calgary, at the foot of the Rocky Mountains. I have visited the distillery and watched first hand as they turned the local wheat into whisky, vodka. and gin. I have sampled the whisky, (See my reviews of Centennial Whisky & White Owl Whisky) and was delighted by the quality I encountered. So when I started to review gin on my website, I decided to obtain a sample of Highwood's Empire Gin to see how a locally produced gin would rate.
Although Empire Gin is a London Dry Gin, the moniker, "London Dry Gin" refers to the double distillation method of production which defines London Dry Gin; however it is not a reference to the country of origin. Rather than being produced in London, England; Empire London Dry Gin is produced and bottled at the foot of the Rocky Mountains, in the Highwood Distillery. It is a Canadian Gin, and I was very curious as to how it compared with the more well-known gins like Tangueray No. 10 and Bombay Sapphire.
In the Bottle 4.0/5
Empire arrives in the tall slender clear bottle pictured to the left. I like the design of the bottle although it is just a little too tall to fit comfortably on my liquor shelf.I especially like the fact that the bottle is corked with a nice high density cork rather than fitted with a screw top. What I do not like is the uninspiring label. Sitting amongst all the other gins in the liquor store I would be hard pressed to find reason to buy this bottle over any of the others. The label on the back of the bottle mentions an exhaustive search for a full flavoured gin; but fails to provide any details of the botanical elements which might make this gin special. At first glance, based upon the shelf presentation, I would make an assumption that this is not particularly special. The display needs perhaps a little more flair and excitement.
In the Glass 8.5/10
When poured into the glass, Empire gin is clear, and I could find no hints of colour. The aroma from the glass is very nice, although I might be tempted to call it somewhat mellow. We have a floral bouquet of citrus elements (in particular orange and lime; but also some grapefruit zest and hints of lemon). I also sense a mild but firm juniper aroma with a mix of flowery herbs in the breezes above the glass. The piny juniper scent is not as strong as I would normally associate with gin; instead, the citrus aroma of orange and lime seem to take the lead with a particularly assertive scent of navel orange. A light herbal quality rests in the breezes as well as a very faint maraschino cherry.
The entire bouquet is very nice and I am tempted to score this just a little higher, however a vague sort of roughness in the breezes prevents me from doing so.
In the Mouth 50/60
The initial entry into my mouth is a little spicy as tangy citrus zest seems to be in the forefront of the flavour. The piny juniper seems to be more evident on the palate than it was on the nose, but it does not overwhelm the citrus, rather the flavour seems to sit just underneath acting as an anchor to support the gin flavour through the taste experience. I taste a light vegetal herbal quality which sits in the background of the gin which gave the spirit a slightly rough feel in the mouth. This is not unpleasant as it seemed to add body to the flavour profile. As I sip a few more times I notice a mild grapefruit like taste and perhaps a touch of rye spice. The gin seems to suit my lazy Sunday afternoon mood quite well.
I decided to mix a few typical gin cocktails to see what my impressions would be. I first mixed a Darby Cocktail , and then a Lime Fizz. The results were delightful. Although the Empire gin does not inspire as a sipper, it delights me when mixed in cocktails. The subdued juniper and the more assertive citrus zest gave the cocktails a light change in flavour from the norm which was extremely engaging. There is also a 'roughness' to the experience which I think enhances the experience.
In the Throat 12.5/15
When sipping the Empire gin straight, the finish is perhaps a little rough. Grapefruit zest has the final say in the back of the palate which makes the finish spicy with trails of juniper following flavours of navel orange and lime.
The Afterburn 9/10
I like Empire Gin a lot. While it has a milder juniper flavour than I am accustomed to, the floral and citrus elements really appeal to me especially in cocktails. I found the cocktails I made really hit the spot, and when I served my recommended cocktail (see below) to friends who were suspicious of gin they surprised me by enjoying the drink and asking for seconds.
I appreciate that Highwood has offered something different in their gin rather than copying what others are doing. In particular that stronger navel orange flavour I kept encountering was a welcome element in the flavour profile.
You may read some of my other Gin Reviews (click the link) if you wish to have some comparative reviews.
Suggested Recipes
I have already made it clear that in martinis and gimlets Empire gin offers tasteful cocktails for your enjoyment. Being in an experimental mood I thought I would branch out and try something new. In my handy-dandy cocktail book, 1001 Cocktails (Alex Barker compiler), on page 173 there is a few gin recipes for 'Lady' cocktails: The Lady, The Green Lady, The Fair Lady…. you get the idea. The recipe for The White Lady caught my eye. I made a few tweaks and I call my version, Lady of the Empire.
1 1/2 oz Empire London Dry Gin
3/4 oz Triple Sec
3/4 oz Lemon Juice
1 tsp simple syrup
Place the first four ingredients in a metal cocktail shaker
Shake vigorously with ice until the metal is frosted
Strain into a chilled wine or cocktail glass
(I and my friends were delighted by the flavour of this cocktail which seems to be perfectly suited for the Empire Gin.)
My Final Score is out of 100 and you may (loosely) interpret that score as follows:
0-25 A spirit with a rating this low would actually kill you.
26-49 Depending upon your fortitude you might actually survive this.
50 -59 You are safe to drink this…but you shouldn't.
60-69 Substandard swill which you may offer to people you do not want to see again.
70-74 Now we have a fair mixing spirit. Accept this but make sure it is mixed into a cocktail.
75-79 You may begin to serve this to friends, again probably still cocktail territory.
80-84 We begin to enjoy this spirit neat or on the rocks. (I will still primarily mix cocktails)
85-89 Excellent for sipping or for mixing!
90-94 Definitely a primary sipping spirit, in fact you may want to hoard this for yourself.
95-97.5 The Cream of the Crop
98+ I haven't met this bottle yet…but I want to.
Very loosely we may put my scores into terms that you may be familiar with on a Gold, Silver, and Bronze medal scale as follows:
70 – 79.5 Bronze Medal (Recommended only as a mixer)
80 – 89.5 Silver Medal (Recommended for sipping and or a high quality mixer)
90 – 95 Gold Medal (Highly recommended for sipping and for sublime cocktails.)
95.5+ Platinum Award (Highest Recommendation)
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LONGVIEW, Wash. -- Oregon State University researchers say they have found traces of radioactive cesium from last year's Japanese nuclear reactor disaster in West Coast albacore tuna.
The researchers say the amount is far too small to harm people who eat the fish, and fishermen said they don't see any harm to the business.
We're still processing new fish, but so far the radiation we're detecting is far below the level of concern for human safety, said Delvan Neville, of the school's Radiation Health Physics program.
University and federal scientists collected and tested fish caught off the West Coast before and after the March 2011 Japanese earthquake and tsunami that caused a nuclear reactor to release radioactive material.
The OSU team's findings are in line with work by researchers in California, who announced in May that they had found traces of radioactive cesium in bluefin tuna caught off the southern coast.
The scientists were able to isolate the type of cesium created by nuclear reactors, and made comparisons with fish caught before and after the Fukushima nuclear complex disasaster.
Neville said the discovery of the cesium was more telling about previously unknown migration habits of tuna than it does a public health threat.


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Richard McFall has some pep in his step and there's a good reason why.
A month ago, the 72-year-old Navy veteran walked into the Havelock Senior Center and announced that his own family had put him out on the streets.
McFall was homeless, destitute and depressed.
That has all changed, though, thanks to the kindness and generosity of Havelock residents, he says.
McFall now has an apartment, furnishings, benefits and perhaps most important of all, new friends that have restored his sense of dignity.
"It's a good feeling not to be in the situation I was in," McFall said Tuesday at the Havelock Senior Center. "The people have really helped me out. That's for sure. So much has changed."
A.D. Brady has seen it.
"From the first time I met him to today, he's a completely different person. He's cheerful. He's got his confidence back, and now he knows that people do care for him," said Brady, director of the Havelock Senior Center. "The most important thing that has to be said is that when a person is evicted, it made him quite depressed, but now he's a changed man."
When McFall showed up at the center, his head was hanging low. He looked like a man with only a few dollars in his pocket.
Bob Branscome, janitor at the Senior Center and member of the committee for distressed veterans for the local chapter of the Disabled American Veterans, took McFall home so he could wash his clothes. He fed him and spent time with him. Bob Warren, chaplain for the same organization, also took him home. The DAV got McFall a room at the Sherwood Motel.
Brady then called the Havelock News, which featured the downtrodden man on its front page on Thanksgiving Day in a story on homelessness in Havelock.
"Once that article came out, people were just overwhelming, going up to his hotel room and leaving cookies and cakes and just showing that they care," Brady said. "Some people just came by to say thank you for your service. It says Havelock has a lot of caring people in it."
People have come from all over to help. McFall got a good deal on an apartment to rent. The VFW made a large contribution towards his rent and deposit.
"The knitting group has kind of adopted him and gotten him a lot of things that he needed," Brady said. "The (Senior Center) Advisory Board has gotten a lot of things that he needed."
Winter jackets, socks, toasters, microwaves, televisions, anything McFall needed, started showing up.
"The material things have been just overwhelming," Brady said. "People have been coming out and giving him so many items that now we're kind of screening them for him to keep him from getting duplicate items.
"They may not be the most luxurious, but he has his basic needs met right now and that's a wonderful thing."
Not only were the material things important, socialization and the outpouring of kindness were priceless, Brady said.
"We got in contact with Social Services to get him signed up for food stamps. We put him in for a pension with the Veterans Administration because his income was so low," Brady said. "We did a lot of things that we normally do for veterans that are in distress."
The Senior Center staff made sure McFall had a meal every day.
"After a while, he started smiling," Brady said. "He's a very cheerful fellow. He's different from the day I met him to what you see today. He's just completely different. Before he was hanging his head down and was very humble, and now he's perked up a little bit so that part was important also."
McFall said many Marine wives came out to help him.
"Everything has really changed for me," he said. "The people have really come together to help me. They really have. All of them show that they care."
Brady said that the effort says a lot about the people of Havelock.
"It says a lot about this town to come together in the time of need of one person who is in distress," Brady said. "We will not leave a veteran on the streets. We're going to make sure that he has the tools and the benefits that he's entitled to, and if he doesn't, then we'll put in the paperwork for him to get those benefits.
"Everybody just came together and just saw the need. They came together as a group and as a neighborhood. It says a lot for what kind of city this is. I know it would have never happened where I grew up. We had one goal in mind, make this person whole again."
McFall had a hard time finding words to express his appreciation.
"I can't really express the thanks that I have for them, the way that they have helped me and the stuff that they have donated," he said. "They gave their time to get everything that I needed … a place to live. I can't really explain the thanks that I have for them."


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Ireland coach Declan Kidney picked five uncapped players in his final 32-man squad for the Six Nations.
Center Eoin O'Malley, backrow Peter O'Mahony, prop Brett Wilkinson and wings David Kearney and Simon Zebo were promoted from the second-string Wolfhounds, while Leo Cullen got the axe from the original 24-man squad named last week.
Fullback Denis Hurley, lock Dan Tuohy and back rows Chris Henry and Rhys Ruddock have also been drafted into the squad for Sunday's match.
Ireland open their campaign against Wales on Sunday and will name their match 22 on Wednesday.
Backs: Tommy Bowe, Gordon D'Arcy, Keith Earls, Denis Hurley, David Kearney, Rob Kearney, Fergus McFadden, Conor Murray, Ronan O'Gara, Eoin O'Malley, Eoin Reddan, Jonathan Sexton, Andrew Trimble, Paddy Wallace, Simon Zebo.
Forwards: Rory Best, Tom Court, Sean Cronin, Stephen Ferris, Cian Healy, Jamie Heaslip, Chris Henry, Shane Jennings, Sean O'Brien, Donncha O'Callaghan, Paul O'Connell (captain), Peter O'Mahony, Mike Ross, Rhys Ruddock, Donnacha Ryan, Dan Tuohy, Brett Wilkinson.


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Things I liked:Very Hard hitting and incredibly accurate. I found the best pellet for it to be the Kodiak. Also works well with the Excite copper coated pointed pellets for better penetration. Every pellet hits the same hole at 25 yards. Easily goes through a 1 inch board. Buries pellets 2 inches into 4x4. Was not able to measure pellet speed with my Speeder 2000 Shooting Chrony. Chrony shows pellets to be moving at 3,800 FPS and I know they can't be traveling that fast. Chrony worked correctly with all other guns I have used it with. Think the problem with the speed measuring is that the gun blasts out a lot of air at very high velocity. I am sure the pellet is not traveling at the speed measured but air with other debris is traveling at supersonic speeds which is why the guns makes so much noise. The Chrony is probably measuring the supersonic speeds of the debris coming out the barrel. Later correctly measured initial velocity with Pro Chrono to be 844 fps with 21.12 grain copper coated Kodiak pellet.
Things I would have changed:Does not have a pressure gage. Does not come with sights. Does not have a cover over the fill hole. Does not have a hammer block. Makes a lot of noise. Is picky about which pellets it will work with.
What others should know:Others have said this gun works with any .22 pellet. I have not found that to be the case. Most of the pellets I have tried are a lose fit in the revolver magazine. When the gun is pointed down (which is the way I normally carry it for safety), the pellet directly behind the barrel falls into the barrel. When the hammer is pulled back the cylinder rotates and another pellets lines up with the barrel resulting in the first shot with a full revolver magazine firing two pellets at once. Use of the Kodiak and other pellets like them that are slightly bigger solves this problem as the pellets are a snug fit in the magazine and will not fall into the barrel. This pistol does not have a hammer block. I accidently dropped the gun from 1 foot above a carpeted floor with the safety on. The gun discharged a pellet. The only safe way to carry it is to fire the first shot in a safe direction after loading a full magazine. That way if it falls it may discharge air but will not fire a pellet.
Things I liked:Everything except the trigger and no sights. I can get one-inch groups at 20 yards with 28.5 grain Eun-gins and about 645 fps initial muzzle velocity, dropping down to about 500 fps by 495 by the 6th shot
Things I would have changed:Put some iron sights on it like the Hatsan and reduce the size of the butt on the hand grip - you don't need so much wood down there
Things I liked:The stock is very nice walnut and the barrel is well blued. The cylinder will take most any pellet. The action works like a single action revolver. It comes with two cylinders and a fill probe. Accuracy was very good with all the pellets I used. It can be shot offhand if needed when hunting.
Things I would have changed:Evanix has made two changes that I don't like; they don't put their name on the gun and they don't come with a dust cover for the fill port. You should also know that there is no hammer block safety so if you bump the hammer while it is down the gun will shoot. The only safe way to carry the pistol is with the hammer cocked and the safety on because the safety doesn't block the hammer when its down.
What others should know:It is advertised to shoot at 1000 fps but all I could get was 835 fps.
Theodore--The air reservoir is that large tube under the barrel. See the thumbnail images under the main image on the product's home page? Click on the 3rd or 4th image to enlarge it. The closed tube below the barrel is where you put the air. The gun doesn't have to be tethered to a tank or air source while shooting. You hook up to an air source only to fill the air reservoir. Then, you unhook from the air source and start shooting.
Where is the air reservoir? You don't have to carry a tube tether & tank with it do you?
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MARK KEOHANE writes the Chiefs will win in Hamilton on Saturday and win easily.
If they don't it will be the biggest final's implosion in the history of the competition.
I haven't read a South African who isn't backing the Sharks to take the title. It is written in the stars say some. It is meant to be say others. Forget the travel, it isn't a factor. The Sharks are operating on adrenalin, momentum and a belief they can't be beaten.
I don't buy the emotion of it all. I reckon the Chiefs will win by at least 15, which is what the New Zealand bookies have as a handicap on the final.
How different my thinking would be if the Sharks actually had a week to settle, prepared with more conviction than hope and did not have to negotiate the fatigue that comes with travelling overseas three times in three weeks.
The Sharks were brilliant against the Reds. I picked that win. Historically they play well in Brisbane and the Reds were poor this season. I also picked them to beat the Stormers, because I felt they had the physicality to match the Stormers and the Stormers were never going to be a try-scoring threat. But the way the Sharks hit the wall with seven minutes to play was an indicator that they won't get through 80 minutes in Hamilton on emotion, passion and belief. They will be huffing and puffing by half time and on the hour the reality of the travel will have set in.
The Sharks are as good a side as the Chiefs, but they are not significantly better. To win this competition, playing the final in another country, requires a squad with few weaknesses and for all the heroics of the last three weeks the Sharks are not the complete package. The Chiefs aren't either but they had the advantage of playing their semi-final last Friday, they have been at home all week and the only thing that can beat them is a spectacular implosion.
I can't see it happening because under Dave Rennnie and Wayne Smith they play pragmatic, percentages rugby and they are a team whose focus on defence is never at the expense of attack.
Sonny Bill Williams will be influential. He always is against the Sharks and I can't see French flyhalf Fred Michalak taking too much contact in Hamilton. Michalak has enjoyed his best month of Super Rugby but he has never been one to mix it with the Kiwis and I don't see that changing on Saturday.
The first 30 minutes will be intense as both teams have individuals who thrive on physicality, but the Chiefs at 9, 10 and 12 will ask more questions in attack from structured play and they will target Michalak defensively.
There will be individual heroics from the Sharks and world class players like Bismarck du Plessis will front the challenge, but science says the Sharks will be running on empty on the hour.
John Plumtree and Grant Bashford are the best South African coaching combination in the tournament and they are up against the most balanced coaching duo in New Zealand. The Sharks, despite finishing out of the top four, have played the best rugby among South African teams and the Chiefs have been the stand out team in the competition.
Why could there not be a fortnight between semi-final and final? Not just for the Sharks but every year.
South African players who have made the trek to New Zealand previously for semi-finals and the odd final have admitted afterwards that they were just making up the numbers. The same applies to those Kiwi or Aussie teams going to the Republic. The exception has always been the Crusaders, but even they took a beating whenever a semi-final meant travelling to Pretoria.
The Sharks, as I keep on getting reminded, have travelled to Australia and beaten the Aussie Conference Champs. They then travelled to Cape Town and beat the South African Conference Champs. It apparently is written somewhere up above that they will travel to New Zealand and beat the New Zealand Conference Champs. Well I haven't seen the writing and if the Sharks do succeed it will be the greatest play-offs success in the history of the competition.
Home teams win finals in Super Rugby. History shows that and as is often quoted the only thing man can learn from history is that he never learns from history.
It is fantastic how emphatic the support is for the Sharks but I've seen it all before. The blind loyalty in the build-up and then the absolute disbelief when they get pumped.
In 2011 when Peter de Villiers took a second team to play the All Blacks I heard similar talk of a win and when the Boks took a 40-7 hammering there was way too much surprise among the supporters.
Be loyal to your team. Be South African in your support but also know that this final is weighted heavily in favour of the hosts – as is every Super Rugby final.


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You know it's true: Senior dogs are the best. As much as we can't resist puppies, there is something about an old pooch that really makes our hearts sing. In honor of Adopt a Shelter Dog Month, we're counting down the top five reasons why old dogs rock.
1. What you see is what you get. Older dogs are open books—from the start, you'll know important things like their full-grown size, personality and grooming requirements.
2. Seniors are super-loving. Adopted dogs already in their golden years are devoted and grateful. They create an instant bond that cannot be topped!
3. They settle in quickly. Older dogs have been around the block and already learned what it takes to get along with others and become part of a pack. They'll be part of the family in no time!
4. Seniors enjoy easy livin'. Couch potato, know thyself. Consider adopting a laid-back canine retiree rather than a high-energy young dog who needs constant monitoring.
5. They're CUTE! Need we say more?
Did you adopt a senior dog? Tell us about your elder states-pooch in the comments below.
I recently rescued an 11 year old Chocolate Lab. The owners were being evicted and were going to take him to a shelter. From the scars all over his body I believe he was a puppy mill dog but what a mush he is and loves my other dogs.
Over the last 15 years I have owned 7 what I call "re-treads". The youngest of them was 4 when he came. I have had 4 collies that came when they were 9 or 10 years young. The maltese that still graces our home came 5 years ago when she was 8 and being released from a puppy mill. The latest collie came in January and he is an absolute delight. Also took a friend's 12 year old Jack Russell for about a year when they were relocating. Love(d) them all and happy to take the seniors who have manners, love and a great personality.
I adopted little Peanut from a rescue when she was 10 yrs old. We instantly bonded and she was such a loving little girl. Unfortunately she died very unexpectedly at 12 years old. My heart was broken but, after a while I wanted to adopt another older dog because Peanut showed me how special older doggies are, how loving. So I adopted Ashie at 11 years old. She was dropped off at a kill shelter but taken in by a rescue group and I found her through PetFinder. She is also a special, loving little girl. I have discovered that older dogs DO ROCK. It's as if they have this innate sense that they have been blessed with a second chance at life and their love is so encompassing. And, there is no house training, no shredding of paper all over the house, no chewing of shoes, LOL. I will now always look for the older doggies who need a loving home because I have gotten back the love a hundred times over.
I have adopted two old dogs and one is still with me and they are the best. The best thing about adopting them is that they are house trained and give you all the love you can ask for.My last 4 dogs have been adopted and I will always adopt until I die. It is the best feeling in the world to give these dogs a new life.
I adopted a 6 year old collie/lab who was "unadoptable" and turned in to shelter because she did not like children...believe she was abused... She trained and became a therapy dog for children, hospitals, nursing homes, schools and grieving Hospice Center for children. Rescue dogs, making a difference, one paw at a time!
Seniors are the best! My Maggie Mae, who is featured in your "In Praise of Older Dogs, passed away last year at the age of 18, and we miss her so much. In 2008, I adopted Marie, another senior dachshund who was found wandering the streets, ill and emaciated. She went on to become a two-time cancer survivor but unfortuately lost her courageous battle just seven weeks before we lost Maggie. My 7 year old dachshund Venice now has two new doxie "sisters" - Farrah, who is about 13 and is also a former stray; and Peanut, a formerly abused 10-year-old. Venice and Farrah join me at work every day, and Peanut is doing a great job learning his "office manners" so he will be able to join us soon. I encourage everyone to adopt a senior - nothing matches the love of a senior dog for his or her rescuer!
I volunteer at a dog rescue and ended up adopting a 12/15 year old cocker/golden retriever mix, he is so darn sweet and follows me everywhere I go. He was an easy addition to the other 2 in my pack as he gets along with everyone :) I dream of doing a senior dog rescue someday!
I was looking for an older dog to adopt when I went to the APL after seeing a picture of a small gray poodle that they took in after he was dumped at the city kennel. When they received him, he had rotten teeth that needed removed, an infected eye they removed and he was also neutered at that time. After everything this little dog had gone through, I knew I wanted to save him. So I adopted Monocle, the one-eyed wonder dog.
My 8-year-old terrier mix has become his protector and Monocle has given him company while I'm at work. I will always adopt senior dogs from now on. It makes me happy when Monocle trots around following me. It's been the best decision I have ever made.
I wish EVERYONE, just once in their life, could have the wonderful experience of a dog like, Pogo. He was a 7 yr old Bichon mix. He was the most loving, well manored dog I ever had. My whole neighborhood loved that dog. He was one of those dogs that just knew what a good life he had and was always by my side. I had him for just 5 short years (cancer) but what a loving, rewarding expierence. I've continued to have older shelter dogs. What a blessing they can be!
I have 2 11 year old shelter dogs, 1 9 year old foreclosure dog and a 10 year old hospice foster. Old dogs rule. I also have a 9 year old guinea pig that I got from the shelter 8 years ago. He just keeps going. He is on his 4th companion


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"Every walking horse that enters into a show is sored. They've got to be sored to walk. There ain't no good way to put it, but that's how it is."
These were the words of Barney Davis at his sentencing hearing in a Chattanooga, Tennessee, federal court on February 27 after being found guilty of soring horses. Last night our friends at the Humane Society of the United States released horrific undercover footage showing horses being whipped, kicked, shocked in the face, burned with caustic chemicals, and violently cracked across the head and legs with heavy wooden sticks. These are just a few of the barbaric training methods used in the walking horse industry.
What Is Soring?
Soring is a training technique that is even worse than it sounds. Painful chemicals and other devices are used to cause such agony to a horse's front limbs that any contact with the ground makes the horse quickly jerk up his or her leg. Soring is done to elicit "the big lick," a high-stepping gait prized and rewarded at horse shows. And it gets worse. To hide their cruelty, trainers also do what they euphemistically call "stewarding"—beating and inflicting even greater pain to the horses so they don't react poorly during inspection. This brutality, as captured in HSUS' footage, masks the fact that trainers are soring the animals. It sounds impossible that this practice continues, even when showing sore horses is banned by the Horse Protection Act (HPA). This practice is violent and abusive—and we will not tolerate it.
What Is the USDA Doing about It?
Last year, U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) inspectors had the resources to attend just 62 of approximately 700 walking horse shows nationwide. In addition, although the USDA promised in March to release rules that would take an important step toward enforcing the ban of these unethical and cruel practices, they have failed to do so.
While the USDA drags its feet, the 2012 walking horse season is well under way. It's time to finally take the power out of the hands of criminals! Contact your legislators today and urge them to speak out against soring and demand improvements to the 40-year-old Horse Protection Act.
Join the ASPCA Advocacy Brigade to use your voice to help these under-protected animals.
Can the ASPCA please tell us what kind of events we can protest to stop this behavior? Is it ALL horse shoes or just specific ones? Obviously, I never ride the horse drawn carriages that you see in certain cities. PLEASE TELL US!
Seriously? How can you live with yourself when you're abusing an animal just so they look good... Maybe we should beat them and hurt them like they do to the horses and make a walking show of them... I hate people.. Horses are beautiful and graceful creatures, and they don't deserve to have that beauty marred by the likes of someone who just wants their animal to look good.
I never knew this was what it took to train the horse to the high stepping gait that they are famous for. There are trainers out there, I hope, that can elicit the effect without the horrific training methods? For that matter, why can the Tennessee Walker be appreciated for what they do naturally?
I'm ashamed, it's disgusting and this needs to STOP inmediatly.
And this for a cheap blue ribbon? Why not go after the owners of these abused animals? And how can we help stop this cruelty other than not going to any of these barbaric displays. I saw this on tv last night and I was sickened by this horrible practice - they've done this to jumpers and probably to all horses in competition. Shame on all of you.
What a cruel and horrible thing to do to these beautiful animals, this has to be stopped. These people should never be allowed to handle horses again.
This is why we need to band circus's and anything that involves entertainment with animals. I am just sick to my stomach that people can actually sleep at night after such cruelty is done to animals. Just sick!!!
So, they train these horses to walk in an unnatural way and torture them to achieve this. Barbarians. I cannot believe that this is happening in the US. Okay, I can but why does it continue? Animals suffer so much at our hands. We are beasts.Damn these people and lets do it to them.
I am so totally sick of seeing how people treat animals, especially for entertainment and profit. I voice my disgust to people every chance I get, no circuses, no road side animal displays, no horse racing, no dog racing, no Seaworld...I could go on. People need to be ashamed when they support these things. Who in their right mind would think a horse walks that way naturally or from some sort of horse whispering!


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June 21st
Marriott Marquis - 1535 Broadway
MongoNYC brings together developers, IT professionals and executive decision makers across the MongoDB community for a one-day conference dedicated to the leading NoSQL database. At MongoNYC, you learn development and operations best practices, discover how other businesses are benefiting from MongoDB and network with MongoDB users and ecosystem partners.
Highlighted Sessions:
- New features in 2.4: Text Search (Beta), Hash-based Sharding, GeoJSON and Aggregation
- Event-Based Subscription with MongoDB, presented by Ryan Liu, Dev Lead, CitiGroup
- Real-Time Integration Between MongoDB and SQL Databases, presented by Eugene Dvorkin, Architect, WebMD
- Building a High-Performance Distributed Task Queue on MongoDB, presented by Rick Copeland, Synapp.io
- High Performance, High Scale MongoDB on AWS: A Hands On Guide, presented by Miles Ward, Amazon Web Services
All New Business Track: Held in the Juilliard Complex
Hear how businesses like yours are using MongoDB to enable new types of applications, improve customer experience, accelerate time to market and reduce total cost of ownership (TCO).
- Goldman Sachs — Building a private cloud for internal app development
- IBM — Setting the standard for web and mobile app development
- MetLife — Generating a 360-degree view of the customer
- ADP — Creating a personal mobile app experience
- Telefónica — Dramatically reducing time to market
- Criteo — Managing massive MongoDB deployments
Not Enough MongoDB? Sign up for a Workshop on June 20th.
Workshop tickets include admission to the conference on June 21st. For more information, review the full schedule.
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Admission price includes conference swag bag, breakfast, lunch, refreshments throughout the day and the admission to the conference After Party, where we will give out exclusive MongoDB Days t-shirts.
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Registration & Breakfast
Registration will be held in the 5th floor foyer.
Robert Steel, Deputy Mayor, New York City; Max Schireson, CEO, MongoDB
Deputy Mayor Steel will discuss the city's initiatives to support the technology ecosystem. The welcome will be held in West Side Ballroom Salon 1 & 2.
Ask the Experts
We're hosting office hours for anyone who wants to ask a 10gen engineer a question directly. Sign up is on site and is first come, first served.
Business Track: Building a Private Cloud To Empower the Business at Goldman Sachs
Warren Finnerty, Managing Director and Technology Fellow, Technology Division, Goldman Sachs; Britt Ewen, Technology Fellow, Goldman Sachs; Bryan Doyle, Vice President, Goldman Sachs
Technology is a core part of the product offering and client experience at Goldman Sachs. The firm's application developers, system engineers and business analysts envision, build and deploy the innovations that drive its business and the financial markets worldwide. Demonstrating its commitment to best-in-class technology, Goldman Sachs developed an enterprise-scale private cloud to host applications and has selected MongoDB as one of their first database offerings based on its agile, scalable and resilient architecture.
Building Hybrid MongoDB Apps on Windows Azure
David Makogon, Microsoft; Brian Benz, Microsoft
Between IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS, Windows Azure has a veritable cornucopia of services and features to help architect hybrid apps. In this session, we'll show a multi-tier twitter-tracking node.js app pushing MongoDB data to Azure Web Sites using WebSockets, with PHP and ASP.NET clients for the Web and the desktop. You'll see how this can be easily done with Virtual Machines, Virtual Networks, stateless Cloud Services, and Web Sites.
Basic Sharding in MongoDB
Shaun Verch, Server Engineer, MongoDB
Sharding allows you to distribute load across multiple servers and keep your data balanced across those servers. This session will review MongoDB's sharding support, including an architectural overview, design principles, and automation.
Security Features in MongoDB 2.4
Spencer Brody, Software Engineer, MongoDB
In version 2.4, MongoDB Enterprise includes Kerberos support for integration into existing enterprise security systems, as well as role-based privileges to provide more granular security for your cluster. This session will introduce you to the security features available in MongoDB.
Building Your First Application with MongoDB
Andrew Erlichson, Vice President of Education and Cloud Services, MongoDB
This talk will introduce the philosophy and features of the open source, NoSQL MongoDB. We'll discuss the benefits of the document-based data model that MongoDB offers by walking through how one can build a simple app to store books. We'll cover inserting, updating, and querying the database of books.
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Business Track: Fireside Chat: IBM and MongoDB Set the Standard for Web and Mobile Development
Jerry Cuomo, IBM Fellow and WebSphere Chief Technology Officer, IBM
IBM and 10gen are working closely to integrate the two companies' data technologies while simultaneously growing the MongoDB development community. In this fireside chat, 10gen's vice president of Corporate Strategy will sit down with IBM's Websphere CTO to discuss MongoDB's prominent position in modern application development, as well as ways that the two companies will strengthen each other's ecosystems in the near, medium and long term.
Polyglot Spatial with MongoDB
Steve Citron-Pousty, OpenShift by Red Hat
Spatial is a hot topic for all sorts of developers and MongoDB offers an easy way to get started. MongoDB enables search and check-in type applications - ranging from field resource management to social check-in applications. In this session we will load up a spatial database and then create web services using three different languages, Python, Java, and Node.JS. We will demonstrate the similarity and differences when getting the same functionality for a MongoDB REST-based web service. For each language I will show how to load the driver, authenticate, query, filter, and write to the database. By the end you will be amazed at the wonderful job the driver writers did on ease of use and native feel when writing code. You will also enjoy a demonstration of how easy it is to use MongoDB for your application.
Performance Tuning and Monitoring Using MMS
Nicholas Tang, North American Technical Services Manager, MongoDB
MongoDB Monitoring Service (MMS) is a free cloud-based service provided by 10gen for monitoring MongoDB deployments in real time. MMS ensures that you have visibility into the right metrics to manage and optimize applications during development and in production. In this talk, you'll learn how to leverage MMS charts, custom dashboards, alerting and other features to track the performance of your system.
Data Processing in Aggregation
Mathias Stearn, Software Engineer, MongoDB
In this talk, we'll take a look at real world examples of analyzing data using the Aggregation Framework with it's primary developer Mathias Stearn. No matter what your big data needs are, you will learn how MongoDB, the big data store, is evolving to help make sense of your data.
Schema Design
Gary Murakami, Ruby Evangelist / Engineer, MongoDB
MongoDB's basic unit of storage is a document. Documents can represent rich, schema-free data structures, meaning that we have several viable alternatives to the normalized, relational model. In this talk, we'll discuss the tradeoff of various data modeling strategies in MongoDB using a library as a sample application. You will learn how to work with documents, evolve your schema, and common schema design patterns.
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Ask the Experts Online Education Session
Andrew Erlichson, Vice President of Education and Cloud Services, MongoDB; Dwight Merriman, Chairman/Co-Founder, MongoDB
We're hosting office hours for anyone who wants to ask a 10gen engineer a question directly. Sign up is on site and is first come, first served. During this session only, find out more about Online Education.
Business Track: How Criteo Scaled and Supported Massive Growth with MongoDB
Julien Simon, VP, Engineering, Criteo
Criteo helps improve online shopping by bringing the performance of search to display advertisers. Given the need for real-time, globally available infrastructure to support its mission, business and technology are inextricably connected at Criteo. The company has experienced massive growth over the past five years -- 200,000 percent -- and migrated to MongoDB to accommodate that growth. In this talk, Criteo describes how it implemented a large, multi-continental MongoDB cluster to reach new customers, drive revenue and continue its meteoric growth.
Automated Slow Query Analysis: Dex the Index Robot
Eric Sedor, Engineer, MongoLab
A well-indexed query improves performance by several orders of magnitude. The trick is to identify an ideal set of indexes for a particular use case. Even for experts, hand-crawling MongoDB log for slow queries is a laborious process. Introducing Dex: an open-source automated tool for analyzing the slow query log or system.profile collection. Dex's primary author Eric Sedor demonstrates Dex's usage and elaborates on indexing topics from the basic to the advanced, including how to pick indexes in an elegant, practical way. You learn how Dex categorizes slow queries and recommends indexes to help keep your application running smoothly.
Right Ways and Wrong Ways to Implement MongoDB
Richard Kreuter, VP of Professional Services, MongoDB
Advanced Sharding Features in MongoDB 2.4
Jeremy Mikola, Software Engineer, MongoDB
This session will take an in-depth look at sharding in MongoDB. Topics covered will include shard key selection, tag aware sharding for multi-data center deployments, and the new support for hash-based sharding in MongoDB 2.4. Attendees should be well versed in basic sharding and familiar with concepts covered in the morning's introductory talk. No beginner topics will be covered in this session.
Basic Replication in MongoDB
Randall Hunt, Developer Evangelist, MongoDB
MongoDB supports replication for failover and redundancy. In this session we will introduce the basic concepts around replica sets, which provide automated failover and recovery of nodes. We'll show you how to set up, configure, and initiate a replica set, and methods for using replication to scale reads. We'll also discuss proper architecture for durability.
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Business Track: Building a Personalized Mobile App Experience Using MongoDB at ADP
Jigesh Saheba, Chief Architect, ADP Innovation Labs
Automatic Data Processing, Inc. (ADP), one of the world's leading human capital management and payroll outsourcing solutions provider, needed a database technology that delivers the user experience modern consumers have come to expect. It needed to have high performance, scalability and reliability while also preserving the data manipulation capabilities of traditional relational databases. In this talk, ADP describes how it is realizing business benefits by using MongoDB to deliver its successful mobile service. Key Topics include 1) A mobile app for the modern consumer, 2) Real-time analytics to improve user experience, 3) Simple administration, scalability and 100% availability 4) Easy, agile development, 5) Lower costs.
MongoDB & Hadoop, Sittin' in a Tree
K Young, CEO, Mortar
Learn to combine the operational power of MongoDB with the processing power of Hadoop. We will cover the steps needed to read MongoDB data into Hadoop (Pig) via direct live connection and via batch export, then parallel process the data on Hadoop with sophisticated functions, and finally write results to S3, HDFS, or back to MongoDB.
Scaling MongoDB; Sharding Into and Beyond the Multi-Terabyte Range
Kenny Gorman, Founder, ObjectRocket, Rackspace
Kenny Gorman will present on lessons learned, key concepts, gotchas, design and architecture for scaling large systems through the mongodb sharding mechanism. He will cover key advanced concepts in MongoDB sharding, and how to use it most effectively in the real world, Including finding good shard keys, managing the balancer, monitoring clusters and performance management.
Text Search (Beta) in MongoDB 2.4
Eliot Horowitz, CTO/Co-Founder, MongoDB
Search is the primary interface for navigating data in many applications. MongoDB's native, real-time Text Search simplifies development and deployment for MongoDB users with stemming and tokenization in 15 languages.
Indexing and Query Optimization
Max Schireson, CEO, MongoDB
MongoDB supports a wide range of indexing options to enable fast querying of your data. In this talk we'll cover how indexing works, the various indexing options, and cover use cases where each might be useful.
Sponsored by IBM, OpenShift and MongoLab
Ask the Experts MongoDB Monitoring and Backup Service Session
Get MongoDB Monitoring Service running on your MongoDB deployment with help from the team that built the service. New installations will be eligible for $150 of MongoDB Backup Service.
Business Track: How MongoDB Helps Telefonica Digital Accelerate Time to Market
Pablo Enfedaque, R&D SW Engineer, Telefonica Digital
Telefonica, one of the top 5 global telcos, is using MongoDB to bring rich services to market faster than ever before. It offers a variety of mobile and fixed products, storing massive volumes of customer data in disparate systems. It needed to aggregate and mobilize that information, such as user data, preferences, and other metadata. Using Oracle database, it took 7 developers, multiple iterations and 14 months to build a system that just didn't perform. Using MongoDB, a team of 3 developers built a user data management system in 3 months, which now powers both legacy and new services across the globe. MongoDB helps Telefonica be more agile, save money and drive new revenues streams, and Telefonica is now looking for all the other places it can replace relational technologies with MongoDB.
High Performance, Scalable MongoDB in a Bare Metal Cloud
Harold Hannon, Senior Software Architect, SoftLayer
In this presentation we will discuss the various cloud computing models and their impacts on performance and scalability for databases. We will compare MongoDB performance in each of them and look at a new way to rapidly deploy a Cloud Subscription version of MongoDB into a Bare Metal cloud.
Real-Time Integration Between MongoDB and SQL Databases
Eugene Dvorkin, Architect, WebMD
Many companies have huge investment in Data Warehouse and BI tools and want to leverage those investments to process data collected by applications in MongoDB. For example, a company may need to blend clickstream data collected by distributed MongoDB data storage with personal data from Oracle into the Data Warehouse system or Analytics platform to provide timely marketing reports. Most of the time the job requires converting a MongoDB JSON document structure into a traditional relational model. Traditional ETL (Extract Transform Load) process still needed to be developed for loading and conversion of unstructured data into traditional analytical tools or Hadoop. In this talk we discuss how to develop a real-time, scalable, fault-tolerant ETL process to integrate MongoDB with traditional RDBMS storage using the open-sourced Twitter Storm project. We will be capturing data streamed by MongoDB oplog or capped collections, transforming it into tables, rows and columns and loading it into a SQL database. We will discuss mongoDB oplog and Storm architecture. The principles discussed in the talk can be used for many other applications - like advanced analytics, continuous computations and so on. We will be using Java as our language of choice but you can use the same software stack with any language.
Geospatial Enhancements in MongoDB 2.4
Greg Studer, Software Engineer, MongoDB
In version 2.4, there have been significant enhancements to the geospatial indexing capabilities in MongoDB, such as polygon intersections, a more accurate spherical model, and better integration with MongoDB's Aggregation Framework. In this presentation, you'll learn about the new enhancements and how they are enabling developers to more quickly and easily develop applications with geospatial features.
How to Keep Your Data Safe in MongoDB
Eliot Horowitz, CTO/Co-Founder, MongoDB
In this talk we'll describe the various durability options MongoDB provides. We will cover how journalling, replication and sharding interact with durability and work towards a framework to determine the best practices for a given application.
Ask the Experts MongoDB Monitoring and Backup Service Session
Get MongoDB Monitoring Service running on your MongoDB deployment with help from the team that built the service. New installations will be eligible for $150 of MongoDB Backup Service.
Business Track: MetLife Leapfrogs Insurance Industry with MongoDB-Powered Big Data Application
Jason Lombardo, AVP, Software Engineer, MetLife
MetLife is transforming the way it operates using state of the art technologies to drive business results and provide the best possible experience for our customers. Introducing technology, like MongoDB, is creating a buzz and excitement that motivates and empowers teams to deliver work in months that would typically take years. MetLife is using these new technologies to drive better and quicker time-to-market solutions. The key is using state of the art technologies, such as MongoDB, in the right way at the right time to solve the right problems. It all begins with "The MetLife Wall," which provides the "holy grail," a 360-degree view of MetLife customers, written in 3 months with the help of MetLife's new SWAT team using MongoDB.
High Performance, High Scale MongoDB on AWS: A Hands On Guide
Miles Ward, Amazon Web Services
MongoDB is one of the fastest growing NoSQL workloads on AWS due to its simplicity and scalability, and recent product additions by the AWS team have only improved those traits. Join us for a deep-dive on MongoDB best practices, including installation, configuration, orchestration, performance, and durability optimization, as well as operational management using tools from AWS and 10gen.
How We Fixed Our MongoDB Problems
Eric Lubow
Ingesting and processing half a billion events per day is no trivial task. And doing it all that in the cloud doesn't make things easier. Here are a few lessons we learned along the way with scaling, sharding, aggregating, managing, monitoring and most importantly integrating MongoDB into our architecture.
Growing Up MongoDB
Kiril Savino, CTO/Founder, GameChanger
After nearly 4 years using MongoDB in production, we've seen everything. We converted our Python and Node.js system from MySQL to Mongo with live users, got over joins, learned not to cache, learned how to shard, gone async, discovered eventually consistent techniques, load tested, tuned, and pushed 140,000 qps and terabytes of data.
Data Modeling Examples From the Real World
Mike Friedman, Perl Engineer & Evangelist, MongoDB
In this session, we'll examine schema design insights and trade-offs using real world examples. We'll look at three example applications: building an email inbox, selecting a shard key for a large scale web application, and using MongoDB to store user profiles. From these examples you should leave the session with an idea of the advantages and disadvantages of various approaches to modeling your data in MongoDB. Attendees should be well versed in basic schema design and familiar with concepts in the morning's basic schema design talk. No beginner topics will be covered in this session.
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Eliot Horowitz, CTO/Co-Founder, MongoDB
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MongoDB Indexing Constraints and Creative Schemas
Christopher Winslett, MongoHQ
The first step to understanding scaling with MongoDB is understanding the constraints of the system. We will build out the constraints of MongoDB indexing. Then, we will talk about how to use these constraints to optimize schema.
Managing a Maturing MongoDB Ecosystem
Charity Majors, Production Engineering Manager, Parse
So you've set up a MongoDB cluster -- you're not done yet! MongoDB requires care and feeding to keep it running in good health. This session will cover techniques for managing a growing and maturing MongoDB ecosystem. We will talk about managing multiple clusters with chef and automating snapshots and restores. We will also cover best practices for continuous compaction, warming up secondaries, and other scaling and tuning tips. Finally we will talk about how to track down bad queries and deal with traumatic MongoDB events with minimal downtime. This session is appropriate for anyone who has already gone through the provisioning process and wants to know how to make his or her clusters run better.
Building a High-Performance Distributed Task Queue on MongoDB
Rick Copeland, Synapp.io
When you're building a web application, you want to respond to every request as quickly as possible. The usual approach is to use an asynchronous job queue like Sidekiq, Resque, Celery, RQ, or a number of other frameworks to handle those tasks outside the request/response cycle in a separate 'worker' process. Unfortunately, many of these frameworks either require the deployment of Redis, RabbitMQ, or some other request broker, or they resort to polling a database for new work to do. Chapman is a distributed task queue built on MongoDB that avoids gratuitous polling, using capped collections and tailable cursors to provide notifications of incoming work. Inspired by Celery, Chapman also supports task graphs, where multiple tasks that depend on each other can be executed by the system asynchronously. Come learn how Synapp.io is using MongoDB and Chapman to handle its core data processing needs.
Advanced Replication Internals
Scott Hernandez, Software Engineer, MongoDB
With recent MongoDB releases we have added more nuance and more advanced behavior to MongoDB data replication (replica sets). We have advanced, and dynamic, chaining as well as manual control for setting the replication source for advanced replication topologies. In addition with more granular locking and separating reading operations from upstream members (via the oplog) we provide more concurrency and throughput during replication. This is especially significant on inconsistent or high latency networks. Adding buffering and decoupling replication data from the application of those operations provides a stable for even more improvement. New metrics have been added to monitor all these features, and behaviors. Together we will explore all the internals in order to better understand and monitor your replica set systems.
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Fireside Chat with Dwight Merriman, Creator of MongoDB
Dwight Merriman, Chairman/Co-Founder, MongoDB; Jared Rosoff, MongoDB
Please join us for a moderated discussion with Dwight Merriman, one of the original authors of MongoDB. Dwight will share the history of MongoDB, as well as his vision for the future of MongoDB and the NoSQL space. We'll leave time at the end of the session for open Q&A from the audience.
Build your own Custom Mobile Analytics with Node and MongoDB
Matt Schmulen, Developer Advocate, StrongLoop
MongoDB Hacks of Frustration
Leo Kim, Software Engineer, Foursquare Labs
At Foursquare, MongoDB powers over 3.5 billion checkins, 30 million users, and up to 300,000 qps. However, no datastore is perfect, and not everything with MongoDB has been smooth sailing for us. In this talk, we describe a few of our hacks -- some good, some not so good, all borne out of frustration -- in scaling our service.
Event-Based Subscription with MongoDB
Ryan Liu, Dev Lead, CitiGroup
In this talk, we'll discuss how Citi built a real-time event subscription service by performing reverse queries again user criteria stored in MongoDB.
Walking the Walk: Developing the MongoDB Backup Service with MongoDB
Steve Briskin, Software Engineer, MongoDB
This talk will be a case study on how the 10gen Cloud Engineering team built the MongoDB Backup Service. We will present several engineering problems that were encountered and the team leveraged MongoDB to solve them.
MongoDB Roadmap
Eliot Horowitz, CTO/Co-Founder, MongoDB
Please join us in the West Side Ballroom Salon 1 & 2 for our closing and roadmap.
After Party
Join us for food, drinks, and fun times at our annual MongoNYC after party at B.B. King's (237 W 42 St), sponsored by OpenShift.
Breakfast and lunch are included in your admission ticket and will be served in the 5th Floor Foyer.
Expo Hall
At MongoNYC we are welcoming partners and vendors who can provide you with MongoDB solutions and services in the 5th Floor Foyer.
- The Expo Hall is open from 8:00 am - 5:00 pm.
- Each vendor will have giveaways and prizes at their booth.
- We will be hosting a book signing of MongoDB Applied Patterns in the Expo Hall at 11:45 am.
Giveaways and Prizes
- MongoDB Swag Bag: Each attendee will receive a complimentary MongoDB Swag Bag containing giveaways from our vendors, custom MongoDB sunglasses, the Little MongoDB Book, and more.
- MongoDB T-Shirts: Each attendee can collect a MongoDB T-Shirt at the MongoDB table in the Expo Hall.
- Passport Program: Go 'around the world' in our Expo Hall to participate in our passport program for a chance to win a a nike fuel band, a kindle, an iPod, and more. Just get your 'passport' (found in your swag bag) punched by each participating vendor. Click here for a list of all prizes.
After Party
Join us from 5:30 - 8:30 at the MongoNYC After Party at B.B. King's. We have food, drink and a live band. Click here for directions.
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First Known Use: before 12th century
adjective \ˈgrēn\
: having the color of growing grass
: covered by green grass or other plants
: consisting of green plants or of the leaves of plants
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: of the color green
: pleasantly alluring
: not ripened or matured <green apples>
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a often capitalized : relating to or being an environmentalist political movementb : concerned with or supporting environmentalismc : tending to preserve environmental quality (as by being recyclable, biodegradable, or nonpolluting)
— green·ish \ˈgrē-nish\ adjective
— green·ish·ness noun
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- <fields green with meadow grass>
- <a new pitcher who's pretty green, even by rookie standards>
Origin of GREEN
Middle English grene, from Old English grēne; akin to Old English grōwan to grow
Definition of GREEN
intransitive verb
: to become green
transitive verb
: to make green
First Known Use of GREEN
before 12th century
: a color that is like the color of growing grass
greens : the leaves of plants used for food
: a large area covered with growing grass in the center of a town or village
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: a color whose hue is somewhat less yellow than that of growing fresh grass or of the emerald or is that of the part of the spectrum lying between blue and yellow
: something of a green color
: green vegetation: asa plural : leafy parts of plants for use as decorationb plural (1) : leafy herbs (as spinach, dandelions, or Swiss chard) that are cooked as a vegetable (2) : green vegetables
: a grassy plain or plot: asa : a common or park in the center of a town or villageb : putting green
: money; especially : greenbacks
often capitalized : environmentalist; especially : a member of an activist political party focusing on environmental and social issues
— greeny \ˈgrē-nē\ adjective
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biographical name
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Definition of GREEN
William 1873–1952 Am. labor leader
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CINCINNATI, Ohio – Led by five first-place finishes on the track, the Miami University women's track and field team earned runner-up at the Oliver Nikoloff Invitational, hosted by the University of Cincinnati Friday and Saturday at Gettler Stadium.
The RedHawks totaled 146.5 points among the 12 teams that scored, finishing behind only the host Bearcats, who compiled 216.5 points. Dayton placed third with 112 points followed by Marquette (93.5) and Southeast Missouri State in fourth and fifth, respectively. Xavier (sixth), Kentucky (eighth) and Notre Dame (11th) were also among the field Friday and Saturday.
Redshirt senior Diona Graves (Fenton, Mo.) tied her own school record in the 100m dash, first set in 2011, by clocking 11.68 seconds to win the race. The 'Hawks earned another win in the 100m hurdles as senior Layne Baggett (Pittsburgh, Pa.) crossed first in 13.57 while junior Xerina Hughey (Galloway, Ohio) took seventh in the race in 14.79 as the duo combined for 12 points.
In the 800m run, freshman Laura Bess (Brownsburg, Ind.) was victorious in 2:11.88, which ranks her seventh in school history despite running the event for the first time. It was also her first collegiate individual win. Junior Erin Riley (Avon Lake, Ohio) claimed sixth in the 800m in 2:15.69. In the 1500m run, junior Erica Howes (Fairfax, Va.) earned runner-up in a personal-best 4:35.03 while sophomore Jess Hoover (Hilliard, Ohio) was sixth in 4:41.23.
The RedHawks' final individual winner on the track came from sophomore Anna Lamb (Granville, Ohio), who crossed first in the 5000m run in a personal-best 16:51.18, which ranks her sixth in school history in the event. Classmate Melissa Girgis (Worthington, Ohio) was fourth in an outdoor personal-best 17:19.78 in the 5K while freshman Brenna Poulsen (Indianapolis, Ind.) placed seventh in 17:55.11.
Baggett, Graves, freshman Kala Allen (East Amherst, N.Y.) and junior Erica Mudd (Cincinnati, Ohio) earned runner-up in the 4x100m relay in 46.02, which ranks fourth in school history, as the Bearcats just edged the 'Hawks out for first. In the 4x400m relay, Miami finished first for another 10 points as Allen, senior Katie Scannell (Cortland, Ohio), freshman Kathie Wollney (Cary, Ill.) and sophomore Charlotte Myers (Bexley, Ohio) combined to clock 3:47.33, this time just beating out Cincinnati.
In addition to her relays, Allen captured fourth in the 200m dash in 24.93. Myers was the runner-up in the 400m dash in a personal-best 55.96, which ranks her 10th in school history, while Scannell crossed right behind in third in an outdoor personal-best 56.16. Wollney was third, as well, in the 400m hurdles in a personal-best 1:04.47.
In field action, redshirt junior Ashley Zaper (Whitehouse, Ohio) captured second in her first heptathlon of the season, totaling 4,819 points. She was first in the long jump (5.48m/17-11.75), second in the 100m hurdles (14.70), tied for third in the high jump (1.65m/5-5) and was sixth in the shot put with an outdoor personal best of 10.05m/32-11.75.
Mudd performed well in the long jump, as well, taking second with a leap of 5.65m/18-6.5. In the high jump, freshman Jess Baker (Aurora, Ohio) placed sixth, clearing 1.63m/5-4.25, which equaled the fifth-place finisher but in more attempts. In the pole vault, junior Kori Tatman (Amanda, Ohio) took eighth, topping 3.60m/11-9.75. Sophomore Taylor Brown (Hilliard, Ohio) cleared the same height, which is her outdoor personal best, but in more attempts as she placed ninth while she now ranks seventh in school history with her clearance of 3.60m/11-9.75.
In the throws, redshirt senior Samantha Gable (Greenfield, Ind.) posted a trio of fourth-place finishes, led by a personal best in the discus with a heave of 44.72m/146-9, which ranks her eighth in school history. She was also fourth in the shot put (season-best 14.18m/46-6.25) and the hammer throw (50.26m/164-11). Sophomore Adaora Anunike (Galena, Ohio) was sixth in the shot put with an outdoor personal best of 13.37m/45-0.5, as she ranks eighth in school history. She also took seventh in the discus (42.75m/140-3).
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Women's Volleyball Opens 2012 with Tough 0-4 Weekend at Francis Marion Invitational
September 3, 2012
MISENHEIMER, N.C. - Pfeiffer University opened up the 2012 women's volleyball season dropping all four contests this past weekend at the Francis Marion Invitational. Capsules of all four matches are below.
Mars Hill 3, Pfeiffer 0 (25-23, 25-21, 25-20)
Marissa Wixom led the Lions with 10 kills in the sweep hitting .667 in 15 attempts. Kelly Lancellot paced the Lady Falcons with eight kills hitting .400 for the match. Pfeiffer committed 55 errors in the contest.
Francis Marion 3, Pfeiffer 0 (25-14, 25-14, 25-23)
Paige Perreault led the Patriots with 10 kills as the tournament hosts hit .309 as a team. Jessica Imbimbo and Liz Drewry each followed with nine. Lancellot again led the way for Pfeiffer with 11 kills hitting .421.
USC-Aiken 3, Pfeiffer 0 (25-11, 25-17, 25-15)
The Pacers hit .323 as a team in the sweep with Alyssa Johnson's nine kills leading the way. USCA would also use six team blocks to key the defense. Lancellot, along with Milana Mervosh, had eight kills for the Lady Falcons.
Newberry 3, Pfeiffer 1 (25-16, 26-24, 19-25, 25-9)
The Lady Falcons battled with Newberry falling in a tight 26-24 second set before scoring their first set win of the season 25-19 in set three. Jessica Homrich led Pfeiffer with eight kills in the win. Samantha Parrish paced the Wolves with 11 kills.
Pfeiffer will now host their own tournament on Friday and Saturday hosting the Pfeiffer Invitational. Teams will include Catawba, Queens, Lenoir-Rhyne and Winston-Salem State. Friday's match times are 2/4/6/8pm while Saturday's action starts at 11am. Admission will be $10 for an all day pass each day.


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