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1 E PLURIBUS UNUM NATIONAL TRA SAFE T Y N S PORTATION B OAR D National Transportation Safety Board Washington, D.C Marine Accident Brief Accident No.: DCA-05-MM-018 Vessel: Bahamas-flag passenger vessel Norwegian Dawn, IMO No , 965 feet long, 105 feet wide, 92,250 gross tons, draft 27 feet, built in 2002 Accident Type: Heavy-weather damage Location: Atlantic Ocean, 120 miles east of Charleston, South Carolina (latitude 32º28.6 N, longitude 76º57.0 W) Date: April 16, 2005 Time: 0615 eastern daylight time Owner: Norwegian Cruise Line, Miami, Florida Property Damage: $750,000 Injuries: Passengers 4 (required medical attention) Complement: Crew 1,159 Passengers 2,590 Incident On April 16, 2005, the Bahamas-registered passenger vessel Norwegian Dawn suffered heavy-weather damage while returning to New York on the last leg of a regularly scheduled roundtrip cruise between New York and Miami, Florida, with stops in Port Canaveral, Florida, and the Bahamas (figure 1). The ship, operated by Norwegian Cruise Line of Miami, offers a variety of entertainment for passengers, including an onboard casino. Passengers, primarily U.S. citizens, embark on the trips in New York. The Norwegian Dawn began the voyage in New York on Sunday, April 10, Before departure, the port call in Nassau, Bahamas, was canceled for business reasons. The vessel docked in Miami on Thursday, April 14. At on Friday, April 15, the vessel departed Miami on the return trip to New York. The voyage plan estimated the total trip distance as 1,020 miles. The maximum service speed of the ship is 25 knots. 2 The vessel was expected to arrive at the New York pilot station at 0016 on Sunday, April Times are eastern daylight time, based on a 24-hour clock. 2 Norwegian Cruise Line website <http://www.ncl.com/fleet/03/deckplans.htm>.
2 Figure 1. The Norwegian Dawn encountered heavy weather off the coast of South Carolina, in the area shown by an X, during its return trip from Miami to New York. Weather. The crew received weather forecasts from the National Weather Service that predicted storm and gale conditions for the vessel s intended path from Miami to New York, with wind speeds from the north at up to 40 knots and waves between 14 and 28 feet high. Higher waves were predicted along the main axis of the Gulf Stream. On the afternoon of April 15, the Norwegian Dawn s master moved the ship s route farther offshore to avoid the predicted weather conditions. According to the vessel s chief engineer and the hotel director, the master notified the crew and passengers at 1000 on April 15 that rough weather was forecast. Deck log entries indicate that such notification was given throughout the day. 2
3 The United States Coast Pilot describes the seasonal weather for the coasts of South Carolina, Georgia, and Florida as follows: 3 The occasional winter storm results in strong winds and rough seas from October through April. Waves of 8 feet (2.4 m) or more are reported about 20 to 30 percent of the time in deep water, but gales occur less than 1 percent of the time. However, winds of 40 to 50 knots have been recorded in all of these months. At 1400 on April 15, the Norwegian Dawn was averaging 20.6 knots over the ground on a northeasterly course. The ship slowed its speed over the next 6 hours, and a log entry noted that the ship s course was changing due to heavy weather. At 1700, in preparation for the predicted conditions, the crew completed the heavy-weather checklist, which included closing outside areas on decks 7 and 8. The crew reported that the ship slowed and headed into the wind and seas to reduce rolling. At 2000 on April 15, the watch officer noted winds from the north-northwest. The ship s navigation data show that the vessel s speed over the ground was 15.7 knots. According to the chief engineer and the engine log, the ship s propulsion tripped briefly around 2015 when the propellers on the propulsion drives came out of the water as the ship pitched. 4 The master told the Safety Board that he believed some damage to the stern navigation light platform, aft radar, and forward crew hot tubs occurred around this time. According to log entries, at 2040 the master made another announcement over the public address system to update passengers on the weather and give safety precautions, in accordance with normal procedures for such conditions. Throughout the evening and early morning hours of April 15 and 16, the weather conditions deteriorated, causing the master to operate the vessel at reduced speed and use manual steering instead of the autopilot. According to the ship s radar log, the master contacted the U.S. Coast Guard at Portsmouth, Virginia, three times to report the weather conditions and the vessel s status. The casino closed at 0200 on April 16 because of the rough weather. Damage. At 0610 on April 16, the ship was making 7 knots over the ground. The wind and sea conditions had eased slightly, according to ship s officers and log entries. However, the watch officer on the bridge observed the vessel pitching and saw the bow start to plow into the seas. The master, who had been on the bridge throughout the night, told investigators that he felt the ship pitch three times in succession. The watch officer stated that all the waves were very large, and that all were roughly the same height. On the third wave, he said, the ship s bow took heavy green seas, which at 0615 cascaded directly over the bow and struck the forward part of the vessel s superstructure. 3 National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, National Ocean Service, United States Coast Pilot, vol. 4 (Atlantic Coast: Cape Henry, Virginia, to Key West, Florida), 2004, p The Norwegian Dawn is propelled by electric motors. To prevent overspeed damage, the motors will stop, or trip, if their speed exceeds a certain number of revolutions per minute (rpms). When a propeller comes out of the water, it allows the motor to run without resistance and thus exceed its rpm limits. 3
4 The seas damaged one cabin on deck 9 and one cabin above it on deck 10 (figure 2). The cabins face forward and have balconies overlooking the bow area. The balconies have a teak rail supported by welded aluminum vertical supports mounted on top of a low steel bulwark. The aluminum rail supports failed, and the teak handrails shattered the fixed stateroom windows. The broken glass blocked the drains on the weather side of the windows so the water could not escape. Seawater was then trapped between the steel bulwark and the aft interior cabin bulkheads. At least 1 foot of seawater entered the cabins and traveled under the cabin doors into the corridors. Both cabins sustained severe water damage to the windows, bulkheads, fixtures, and carpeting. Injuries. A crewmember saw an injured passenger in the passageway outside a damaged cabin and went to inform the watch officers on the bridge. Two passengers in the damaged cabin on deck 9 received lacerations and two passengers in the damaged cabin on deck 10 received bruises. The watch officer informed the crew of the medical situation, and the ship s doctors and nurses took the injured passengers to the medical facilities for treatment. The crew responded to the passenger injuries in a timely and appropriate manner. Course Diversion. After receiving word of passenger injuries and damage, the master turned the ship to the southwest and put the seas and swells aft and to the right side, or starboard quarter, to ease the pitching, which the vessel s stabilizers 5 could not compensate for. This maneuver required putting the weather on the vessel s right side, or starboard beam. The master stated that turning to a different heading was necessary to improve the ship s pitch and roll. According to the ship s log, the master called the Coast Guard at 0815 and reported the incident. The master then contacted Norwegian Cruise Line to arrange for a suitable diversion port to make repairs, because many cabins were uninhabitable. At noon, the company arranged clearance for the ship to enter the Port of Charleston, South Carolina. Damage Survey. The Norwegian Dawn arrived in Charleston at 1608 on April 16. The Coast Guard and Det Norske Veritas, the ship s classification society, boarded and inspected the vessel. In addition to the damage to the two cabins, the Det Norske Veritas survey showed damage to the deck supports under the spare anchor, on the starboard side of the bow. 6 An outside firehose station on the forward superstructure was destroyed. One forward-facing window frame in the pilothouse was knocked out of alignment. The watertight door to the open bow area on the foredeck was also damaged. Sixty-three cabins on the forward parts of decks 9 and 10 were flooded with an inch of seawater that had spread from the two cabins with broken windows, requiring the carpets and associated fixtures to be replaced. Temporary repairs were made by welding steel plates over the damaged windows. 5 Stabilizers reduce rolling, the most common cause of passenger discomfort, but they have virtually no effect on a ship s pitching motion. 6 Temporary Repairs After Heavy Weather Damage, Survey Report (preliminary) by Det Norske Veritas at Charleston, South Carolina, April 16,
5 Figure 2. Circles in upper photo indicate damaged areas on Norwegian Dawn from left to right, foredeck (crew hot tubs, deck supports under anchor, firehose support, watertight door), two cabins overlooking bow, pilothouse window frame, and stern navigation light platform. Lower left photo shows outside of damaged cabin before its window was broken by waves during heavy seas. Lower right photo shows missing rail supports on balcony of damaged cabin. Return to New York. About 500 passengers disembarked in Charleston, and the Norwegian Dawn resumed the trip to New York at 0300 on April 17. The four injured passengers chose to remain on board. The ship arrived in New York at 1000 on April 18. 5
6 Investigation After examining the Norwegian Dawn in Charleston and monitoring the temporary repairs, Coast Guard investigators reboarded the vessel when it landed in New York on April 18 to continue their inquiry. The Norwegian Dawn then embarked on another cruise. When the vessel reached its first scheduled stop in Port Canaveral, Florida, the investigation resumed, with the Bahamian Maritime Authority as the lead investigative agency. One investigator from National Transportation Safety Board headquarters in Washington, D.C., traveled to Port Canaveral to join the investigation, along with two investigators from the Coast Guard marine safety office in Jacksonville, Florida, who conducted an informal investigation. The investigators completed their work on April 20. Discussion The Norwegian Dawn was on a scheduled run from Florida to New York in April. The weather forecast for the mid-atlantic coast was within seasonal expectations. A brief encounter with gale-force winds or sea conditions aboard a 965-foot passenger ship, while uncomfortable for the passengers, is not unexpected while transiting seas off the southeast coast of the United States at that time of year. Although the forecast weather conditions did not appear to pose a safety hazard for the ship, the master made a course adjustment to avoid the main axis of the Gulf Stream for a more comfortable ride. When the vessel encountered heavier-than-expected wind and seas, the ship s officers maintained its heading into the wind and seas to minimize rolling, and also reduced the vessel s speed. After attempting to minimize the ship s exposure to the forecast conditions, the master changed his itinerary and slowed the vessel. Rather than attempting to maintain the scheduled arrival time in New York, the master decided to lower the ship s speed and change its heading for the passengers comfort. According to statements of the chief engineer and the hotel director, the crew secured gear, closed off outer decks, and properly prepared the vessel for heavy weather, while making advisory announcements to the passengers. The hotel staff tried to accommodate the passengers needs and make them comfortable. To see water flowing on the upper decks naturally caused concern among the passengers, but at no time did the damage pose a serious safety hazard to the ship. The prevailing wind and sea conditions caused the vessel to pitch and seas to break over the bow. The localized area of damage on the Norwegian Dawn was consistent with waves striking the ship s superstructure. The water exerted enough force to shear off the welds for the aluminum rail supports on the balconies of two cabins, allowing the teak balcony rails to break loose and crash into the cabin windows. The broken glass filling the drains compounded the water damage by allowing a large amount of water to enter 6
7 the two cabins and damage the carpets in 61 other cabins. The ship s operating at reduced speed when the waves hit probably limited the damage. Probable Cause The National Transportation Safety Board determines that the probable cause of the damage to the Norwegian Dawn and of the injuries suffered by its passengers was waves breaking over the bow during the ship s unavoidable encounter with severe weather and heavy seas. Adopted: November 30,
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text: That makes sense. I'll have the developer look at that angle. There are no types being used in the MV so the error might be related to the other session that's running against the same table. Thanks! Jeremy From: Howard Latham [mailto:howard.latham@xxxxxxxxx] Sent: Friday, November 04, 2011 11:09 AM To: Sheehan, Jeremy Cc: oracle-l-freelists Subject: Re: "invalid type" in v$access I'm pretty sure I saw that once. I think one type is missing from the view that this is based on. You can modify the view and add the missing type. On 4 November 2011 15:05, Sheehan, Jeremy <JEREMY.SHEEHAN@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx<mailto:JEREMY.SHEEHAN@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>> wrote: Has anyone come across the "invalid type" type when querying v$access? If so, do you have any idea what might be causing it? I've searched google and metalink and absolutely nothing. Just more people asking about it. Go figure. I'm attempting to refresh a MV and have tried a number of different session parameters, but doing some digging I keep on seeing "invalid type" in v$access when it's querying a particular table. I'm also seeing the wait event "read by other session" on this table (ISO_BIDS) as well when refreshing the MV. Oracle 10.2.0.4 AIX 6.1.4 This is from a query that joins v$access and v$session. Session 217 is the MV refresh. Session 251 is another process running that is accessing the ISO_BIDS table. OWNER OBJECT_NAME TYPE SID SERIAL# USERNAME OSUSER STATUS ------------ -------------------- ---------- ---------- ---------- ------------ ------------ -------- MFSDB ISO_BIDS INVALID TY 217 46581 USER1 USER1 ACTIVE MFSDB ISO_BIDS TABLE 217 46581 USER1 USER1 ACTIVE MFSDB ISO_BIDS INVALID TY 251 8712 USER2 USER2 ACTIVE MFSDB ISO_BIDS TABLE 251 8712 USER2 USER2 ACTIVE Thanks in advance! Jeremy -- http://www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l -- Howard A. Latham Sent from my Nokia N97 -- http://www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l


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London: England on Tuesday handed Richard Dawson and James Foster their first international cricket caps when it named the Test squads to tour India and New Zealand.[an error occurred while processing this directive]Nasser Hussain captains the Test team and the One-day squad to tour Zimbabwe next month, which was also named on Tuesday. Wicket-keeper Alec Stewart and fast bowler Darren Gough were not included in any squad because of their unwillingness to tour India before Christmas.Dawson, who helped Yorkshire secure its first County Cricket Championship in 33 years this season, is one of three spinners included, along with Robert Croft and Ashley Giles.With Stewart out, foster, who plays for Essex, and Lancashire's Warren Hegg were named as wicket-keepers. Hegg earned a recall after playing two Tests on the ashes tour to Australia two years ago."James Foster performed well on the tour to the Caribbean last winter and is an outstanding prospect who is also being fast-tracked by Essex to be a viable wicket-keeper batsman at the highest level," chairman of selectors David Graveney said."Richard Dawson has played a key role in Yorkshires Championship winning side this summer and we are also excited by his potential."Giles was a surprise pick in the 16-man squad. The left arm spinner has only played one Test over the English summer because of a long-standing Achilles injury. "Ashley's been included in the squad subject to him satisfying the selectors of his fitness ahead of the tour departure," Graveney said. Former captain Michael Atherton retired from international cricket on Tuesday. It was the first time in more than 10 years that he was not named in an England team. England Test squad:Nasser Hussain (captain), Marcus Trescothick, Mark Butcher, Graham Thorpe, MarkRamprakash, Usman Afzaal, Michael Vaughan, Warren Hegg, James Foster, Craig White, Ashley Giles, Robert Croft, Richard Dawson, Andy Caddick, Jimmy Ormond, Matthew Hoggard.England One-day squad:Nasser Hussain (captain), Paul Collingwood, Andrew Flintoff, James Foster, Adrian Grayson, Matthew Hoggard, Ben Hollioake, James Kirtley, Nick Knight, Jimmy Ormond, Mark Ramprakash, Owais Shah, Ryan Sidebottom, Jeremy Snape, Mark Trescothick, Craig White.PTI
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Bihar Police has issued a update on its official website regarding the downloading of the Admit card for the Warder/ Kakshpal 2015 September examination. According to the update the admit card/ hall tickets for the Warder/ Kakshpal is scheduled to be uploaded soon on it's official website. The candidates who have been waiting for downloading the admit card/ hall tickets will need to wait for some more time. The candidates are informed that there admit card/hall tickets will be released from the date specified above at the official website of Bihar Police which is www.csbc.bih.nic.in.
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Skip to comments.Android Captures Nearly 50% of Global Smartphone Market
Posted on 08/02/2011 2:38:01 PM PDT by Jeff Chandler
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The platform has been making big strides during the past year, overtaking Symbian in Q4 of 2010 to become the top smartphone platform, representing a 32.9% market share at that time.
Smartphone adoption continues to grow rapidly across the world, reaching a total of 107.7 million units shipped in Q2 of 2011, a 73% year-on-year growth.
Android was the biggest driver of smartphone shipments in Q2, as Android-based smartphone shipments were up 379% year-over-year, coming in at 51.9 million total units shipped. The report cites successful Android-based products from vendors such as Samsung, HTC, LG, Motorola, Sony Ericsson, ZTE and Huawei, as a catalyst for the platforms growth.
Apple also fared well, with iOS overtaking Nokias Symbian platform to rise from third to second place. A total of 20.3 million iPhones were shipped and Apple raked in a market share of 19%. Apple also became the worlds leading individual smartphone vendor, stripping Nokia of its long-held leadership position.
Samsung also passed Nokia, which has faced a rapid decline in demand across many markets. However, Nokia is still holding strong at number one in emerging markets, including Brazil, Russia, India and China.
The virus, Trojan-SMS.AndroidOS.FakePlayer.a, comes disguised as a media player application and prompts users to install a file of just over 13KB with the standard Android extension .APK. It then uses the phone to send multiple SMS text messages to premium rate numbers without the owner's knowledge. Obviously, this could end up costing the handset owner a fortune, and make a packet for unscrupulous cybercriminals.
Very impressive growth!
I scroll and scroll thru android apps on my Infuse 4G.. nice little gadget.
Still need to take a tablet leap and soon, wifi only is fine, looking for recommendations.
There are some nice tablets out there. I just got a Samsung Galaxy 7 that I use wifi only. So far I like it. I sure there are cheaper ones that perform as well. I got a special deal on this one.
Oh hey, thanks for the heads up. I didn't catch it. That was the link provided by Fast Company in today's article. They tarted it up as though it was new. Should call it Slow Company.
The extra large, bold type makes you seem like an obnoxious sort, but I know you were really just trying to help me cross the street, like a good boy scout!
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Defense Lifts Ohio State to NCAA Tournament's Second Round
LEXINGTON, Ky. – Ohio State dominated at the net with 14 team blocks to just two from Lipscomb and hit at a clip of .274 for the match to gain a three-set victory over the Bisons on Friday night in the first round of the 2014 NCAA Tournament at Memorial Coliseum in Lexington, Ky.
Freshman outside hitter Luisa Schirmer paced the Buckeyes (22-11) with a match-best 12 kills, while Erin Sekinger had 10 and hit a match-best .333. Senior setter Taylor Sherwin had 32 assists and nine digs in the match to lead OSU. Lipscomb's senior outside hitter Lauren Ford paced the Bison with 10 kills.
The Buckeyes won the first set 25-20 after trailing at the first timeout 15-13. OSU answered the call by earning four consecutive points to gain a two-point lead it would not relinquish. The Buckeyes were led by Sekinger, who had a team-best four kills in the set, while Taylor Sandbothe and Sherwin each had two blocks.
The lead only changed three times in the second set as Ohio State controlled most of the game. The Buckeyes gained a 17-9 lead midway through the set, prompting a Lipscomb timeout. The timeout didn't slow down OSU, however, as the Buckeyes rolled to a 25-14 win behind hitting .281 for the set, adding seven blocks.
The Buckeyes played a strong third set to close out the match, allowing the first point of the set before having at least a share of the lead the rest of the way. The Buckeyes hit .375 for the set to clinch the match.
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Television star Gurmeet Chaudhary has filed a complaint at the police station after his car was attacked on the occasion of Gandhi Jayanti. Chaudhary won the fifth season of Jhalak Dikhhla Jaa dance show this Sunday.
Gurmeet Chaudhary told the media that somebody had broken the glass of his car and by the time they could rob anything from his car, the security people saw them and they ran away. I got it repaired recently and today (Tuesday) morning again somebody broke the glass of my car and stolen my music system and damaged the car very badly, the actor told IANS.
I have filed a complaint at Goregoan Police Station today (Tuesday) evening so that police can take some serious action against them, he said.


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Lily Tomlin 'Scared' of Mark Wahlberg
Lily Tomlin has been accused by Dustin Hoffman of picking on everyone on the set of I Heart Huckabees apart from tough-guy actor Mark Wahlberg because she was scared of him.
Leaked video footage featuring Tomlin and director David O. Russell on the set of the 2004 movie screaming at one another, hit cyberspace last month but Wahlberg noticeably escapes the actress's tirade.
The hunky actor says, "Lily told everybody to f**k off except me. And Dustin, being the ball-buster that he is, said, 'How come you didn't say f**k you to Mark, huh? Are you scared that he's going to kick your ass?'
"That movie was a whole other experience. David is a unique guy and making movies can be difficult. And Lily was just upset. The cameras are rolling, you're doing the scene the way it was written, and he'll just say, 'That sucks, try this!' Which can be tough."
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French's Green Bean Casserole
November 20, 2010 by staff
French's Green Bean Casserole, Food & cover story this week makes a wine vintage spin on Thanksgiving, the revival of forgotten classics like Kiev and Rumak. Taster's Choice is so retro, too, with a nod to green bean casserole, the dish holiday humble side made with green beans, mushroom soup and fried onion topping.
We intended this to be a diptych, looking first at the green beans (we tested the frozen last year, with C & W beans holders), then fried onion toppings.
But our Taster's choice panelists had other ideas. Sampling 10 varieties of soft and dull green beans straight from the box, they could not find to recommend.
Both gave all zeros, with beans and summarizing:
"All the terrible," the panel wrote in large letters in the comments section. "People should not buy or sell any of them."
Enough said.
At fried onion toppings we go, with a familiar name to come first.
French of French fried onions ($ 5.79 for 6 ounces at Safeway) was everyone's favorite – ". Pleasantly salty" golden and crispy "and other words, these" beautiful pieces, even "taste of the onion. Three panelists would buy this brand, while the two forces.
In second place was Fresh Gourmet Crispy Onions ($ 2.99 for 3.5 ounces at Cala Foods). These pieces of garlic and pepper was a "spicy kick," if a tasters felt that there was "too much pepper." Some thought that the onions were also "oily" with" fat mouth. "Three tasters might buy them and two would not.
Trader Joe's Fried Onion Pieces ($ 2.99 for 8 ounces) came in third. Panelists liked its "very crunchy" texture, taste, but leave much to be desired. "Not enough onion flavors," they wrote. Another found them "bitter and burned." In addition, the size of the pieces were "too varied – some very big, others too small." Again, three maybe you can buy and two would not.
Lars own ($ 3.39 for 4 ounces at Whole Foods) brought up the rear. Some tasters found it "good onion flavor, while others detected a" rancid "or" onion bitter end. "All agreed that the pieces were" very low ". As a panelist warned: "so small, they disintegrate." Two tasters might buy these, and three would not.
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Panelists were Linda AN*Sasananan, food writer / consultant, San Mateo, John Carroll, cookbook author, San Francisco, Marc Halperin, culinary director, Center for Culinary Development, San Francisco, Emily Luchetti, pastry chef, Farallon, San Francisco, Roland Passot, chef-owner of La Folie in San Francisco and three banks left. All products are tasted blind; a perfect score would be 100. Prices shown are the lowest found, but products may be available in other stores.
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Mature monitoring technology married to an open and extensible platform, vastly simplifying the management of application stacks
- In a 12 week period during a 300% growth rate, reduced WordPress stack errors by 98% and ticketpurchasing app errors to 0%; Improved average response time from 800ms to 250ms; and improved customer satisfaction by 25%
- Developed dashboard for CFO that gives visibility into real time ticket sales
- Unified Ticketfly metrics into a single view with the New Relic Platform, improving company visibility into an increasingly complex environment
Ticketfly Slashes Error Rates, Cuts Response Time and Increases Client Satisfaction with Help from New Relic Platform
Founded in 2008, Ticketfly is a data-driven ticketing and marketing platform for professional event promoters and venues in the United States and Canada. The company works with some of the most respected venues and promoters in North America, including the Brooklyn Bowl, Austin City Limits Live, the Independent in San Francisco, and the Troubadour in Los Angeles.
The Ticketfly platform provides a full suite of ticketing, mobile, social marketing, website, email, and analytics tools that streamline operations and increase ticket sales. To that end, the company recently introduced a customer analytics suite called Fanbase that gives promoters greater insight into sales, attendance, and social sharing data for driving loyalty and mobilizing influential customers.
The Ticketfly platform runs on Scala, while the application side uses a combination of Java and Grails (a Rails-like environment running on the Java virtual machine). The company embraces a hybrid cloud model, running much of its technology on private hardware for optimal response time, with overflow into the Amazon Web Services public cloud as necessary.
Ticketfly hosts hundreds of websites for individual venues in a WordPress stack. Each venue uses its WordPress site as an eCommerce frontend for guiding customers through the ticket-purchasing process. Venues also have access to a backend CRM (customer relationship management) system for creating events, reviewing analytics and identifying top customers.
Ticketfly is growing faster than anyone in the company dared to imagine. "Year over year, we're making triple-digit revenue gains," says Matthew Baird, VP of Engineering. "Our board keeps laying out aggressive plans for growth and we keep beating those goals by double digits, easily."
Of course, that rate of growth brings its own share of challenges. "As we gear up for another summer concert season, we know that our system will undergo an immense amount of stress," says Baird. "To prepare for that, we need to achieve a 10x increase in site performance. My role is to help our team of coders prioritize their efforts so we can meet that goal."
For Ticketfly, site performance is far from a vague ideal — it's a business imperative. Event attendees are looking to spend their discretionary time on a first-rate experience and they have zero tolerance for slow or unresponsive systems in any part of the process. "If we mess up, that's bad for us, but it's even worse for the venues," says Baird. "We provide key support to those venues. Their success is linked to ours. And the more popular we get, the more insight we need to maintain the highest levels of performance."
Deep insight, he adds, is only possible with constant monitoring. "You want to be monitoring-centric so you can move quickly and release software quickly," says Baird. "At Ticketfly, we pursue a continuous deployment strategy to keep pace with our growth. We release code to a few of our servers, see how it impacts our key applications and roll the changes back or forward as necessary. So we need clear visibility into system performance at all times to make that strategy work."
"By plugging all of these technologies into the New Relic Platform, we're able to make breakthroughs in solving our problems much faster. It's like having an MRI of our applications, showing us a slice of data across all systems and making it easier for us to draw correlations."
When Baird joined Ticketfly in January 2013, the company had already been using New Relic for nearly two years. "I was familiar with New Relic from my time at a previous company and I was glad to see that Ticketfly already had it in place," he says. "We trust this tool. It's been tested through millions of hours of use and it's easily the most mature solution of its kind."
New Relic is the main tool that Baird uses on a day-to-day basis, helping him keep a close eye on the frontend ticket-purchasing application and the backend event management application. "I look at pageviews per minute, throughput and error rates," he says. "I also have giant monitors on our walls to help our team visualize overall performance. One monitor is a straight-up visualization of different servers. Another shows the health of our main applications. Together they serve as canaries in our coal mine, alerting us to potential issues long before those issues start affecting customers. We can see right away if we have a sudden surge in traffic and we can respond by spinning up instances in the cloud."
By instrumenting Ticketfly's revenue data through the New Relic dashboard, Baird is able to generate up-to-the-minute reports on sales performance. He can easily break out how many tickets the company sold, along with the latest sales trends on Ticketfly's mobile, desktop and social channels. "I've created a dashboard for our CFO, giving him visibility into the ticket sales happening literally as we speak," says Baird. "As you can imagine, it's exciting for him to watch the company bring in millions of dollars in revenue — all in real time."
Ticketfly also uses New Relic to supplement data from other applications. For example, Baird and his team rely on BlazeMeter to determine ratelimiting reactions in large tests — a practice that initially forced them to keep multiple windows open throughout the testing process. "We would run the test in BlazeMeter," says Baird. "Then we would go back to New Relic and determine the source of a spike, whether it was a slow SQL query or an application server error or any number of other issues. We couldn't get all of that information in a single interface, so our testing process was far from seamless."
Then in March 2013, Ticketfly heard about the New Relic Platform and recognized an opportunity to simplify its testing process. The New Relic Platform stores all of Ticketfly's favorite metrics in a single view, helping the company achieve instant visibility into an increasingly complex environment. Baird and his team can choose from a number of plugins already created by an open community of developers, or they can create their own plugins to solve unique problems. "When we installed the BlazeMeter plugin, the whole testing process became easier almost instantly," says Baird. "We had a more comprehensive view of each test, so we didn't have to move between applications to get the full picture. Then we started looking at other areas where we could add more information to the New Relic interface. That's when we added plugins for our F5 load balancer, our Memcached instance and our MySQL instances."
For Baird, the New Relic Platform is simply a no-brainer. "The New Relic Platform empowers developers," he says. "You can easily build your own plugins to address almost any issue. And if you want to monetize or build another channel, you can use this platform for marketing and promotion. The possibilities are truly endless."
"Most of our system components are now running error free. That's great, because we've gotten rid of all the noise. We can see real issues now and increase performance by 10x through dispatching alone."
By using the New Relic Platform to unify multiple views within a single interface, Ticketfly isn't just saving time. The company is achieving a deeper understanding of a broader range of data. "I believe in the concept of pre-attentive attributes," says Baird. "When data visualization is done right, you can glance at it and see things you never noticed before, even if the data was always technically there. Maybe it just hadn't been visualized in a way that enabled you to connect the dots quickly and completely.By plugging all of these technologies into the New Relic Platform, we'reable to make breakthroughs in solving our problems much faster. It's like having an MRI of our applications, showing us a slice of data across all systems and making it easier for us to draw correlations."
That level of visibility has enabled Baird and his team to achieve stunning
reductions in error rates. In just one 12 week period, errors in the
WordPress stack dropped by 98%. The ticket-purchasing application's
error rate dropped to zero percent. Average response time got faster —
from 800 milliseconds to just 250 milliseconds. And the company achieved all of those improvements during a time of remarkable growth:
during that same 12 week period, requests jumped 300%.
"Most of our system components are now running error free," says Baird. "That's great, because we've gotten rid of all the noise. We can see real issues now and increase performance by 10x through dispatching alone. I can go into New Relic, find an issue, cut-and-paste the URL, send it to the team, and let them fix it. That way, I remain focused on identifying high level issues and the people who truly know the code can focus all of their attention on solving our most urgent problems."
Perhaps most important of all, these improvements help Ticketfly serve customers even better. The 12 week period of massive error reduction corresponded, not coincidentally, with a significant increase in client satisfaction levels. "Our goal as an engineering organization is to deliver more than just a product," says Baird. "We want to deliver an experience. That means, in part, that we need to be available whenever customers need us, no matter what. And that level of availability plays a major role in helping us ensure that every Ticketfly experience is a tremendous one."


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The Revenge of James the Red Engine is the first movie of Thomas the ERTL Adventures.
James vows revenge on Mavis and Dennis and captures them. It's up to Thomas, Duck, Stepney, Edward, Wilbert, Oliver and Diesel 10 to defeat James.
Part 1
- Thomas (as Narrator): Hello, I'm Thomas the Tank Engine. And I'm going to tell you a story about me, James' evil plans on Mavis and Dennis. This story about me as a hero. Meet me. I'm everyone's number 1 hero.
- Thomas: (whistles) Hello.
- Thomas (as Narrator): This is the Island of Sodor, where me and my friends live. One day, me, Duck, James, Oliver, Stepney, Edward, Wilbert and Diesel 10 were at the Shed.
- James: PUH!! I'm tired of pulling frieght train!!
- Duck: I know you don't like pulling frieght trains.
- Thomas: You like pulling express coaches.
- Oliver: Thanks, Thomas. Right, Stepney.
- Stepney: That's right, Oliver.
- Wilbert: James is a frieght train hater.
- Diesel 10: Yes, he is.
- Edward: He hates frieght trains.
- Duck: Yes, he does.
- James: I have to pull express coaches.
- Thomas (as Narrator): James puffed crossly away to fetch the express. He wasn't happy about pulling frieght trains.
- James: Let's show Thomas, Duck, Oliver, Edward, Diesel 10, Stepney and Wilbert that I can pull the express!
- Thomas (as Narrator): He was still, more crosser than ever. After he had pulled the express to the station, he arrived at the Quarry and found Dennis and Mavis.
- James: Hello, good diesels! It's me, James the vainest, grumpy red engine on Sodor.
- Thomas (as Narrator): Dennis and Mavis were horrified. They didn't like James.
- James: I've made a evil diesel gang to help me scrap you!
- Mavis: Oh, no!
- Dennis: James, what gang?!
- James: This one.
- Thomas (as Narrator): James introduced Old Stuck Up, Diesel, Spamcan, Arry, Bert and D261 to Mavis and Dennis. They didn't like them.
- Mavis and Dennis: (gasp) Your diesel gang??!!
- James: That's right! My diesel gang!! (evily laugh)
- Thomas (as Narrator): James and the diesels left the Quarry. Dennis and Mavis started to cry. Later, I was telling Duck about James' evil plan.
- Thomas: James has a evil gang to destroy Dennis and Mavis!
- Duck: Oh, you're right, Thomas.
- Thomas: Will you please tell Sir Topham Hatt that me, you, and our friends have to defeat James?
- Duck: Yes, I will!
- Thomas: Thanks, Duck!
- Duck: You welcome!
- Thomas (as Narrator): And I puffed away. Later, James was talking to Old Stuck Up, Diesel, Spamcan, Arry, Bert and D261 that they have to destroy Dennis and Mavis.


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