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There are two ways you can look at the scheduling quirk that has Mark Richt's Bulldogs facing the triple-option offense on consecutive Saturdays to wind up the regular season before heading to the SEC Championship game in Atlanta.
On the one hand, playing FCS power Georgia Southern this week will give Todd Grantham's defense an edge in preparing for in-state rival Georgia Tech since both of those schools use a run-heavy triple option. The Eagles might be from the lower level of Division 1 but they managed to run for 302 yards and score 21 points in a losing effort against Alabama last season and they'll give the Dogs a much better look at that rarely seen offense than Georgia's scout team could hope to replicate in practice.
Of course, UGA sees Tech's triple-option running attack every year and did a pretty good job containing it last year. But the extra experience against that scheme is bound to help.
As Richt noted Sunday, "We're going to play defense so completely different than how we've been playing all year long" against Georgia Southern. "Everything changes. The alignments change, the assignments change, the type of block you're dealing with changes, and it's very, very difficult to simulate in practice. You just can't do it. You just have to be disciplined in what your assignments are. This offense tends to have a lot of fumbles. A lot of balls get on the ground when you run that type of system. Sometimes the only way you can stop one of their possessions is with a turnover."
So you can credit having Southern and Tech back-to-back as smart scheduling.
But looking ahead to the big game at the Georgia Dome, the downside to the schedule is this: Two weeks of concentration on the triple option will take the Georgia defense out of its usual rhythm, and they'll then have just a week to reboot before taking on the SEC West opponent, most likely Alabama, which runs a pro-style offense more like Georgia's.
In the meantime, the Crimson Tide has games against lowly Western Carolina and a free-falling Auburn, so it wouldn't be surprising if Nick Saban had his team spending a bit of time over the next two weeks getting ready for Georgia.
The Dogs, unfortunately, won't have that luxury.
Now, a few more thoughts and observations from the win over Auburn …
The ESPN crew covering the game indicated Tavarres King's ballet-like move keeping a toe in-bounds on that 17-yard second-quarter touchdown strike from Aaron Murray was likely to show up on "SportsCenter," and that was indeed the case Saturday night. It was a tremendous effort on TK's part.
But what was especially encouraging was that it was the kind of play that is par for the course this season for Georgia's athletic receiving corps. Even with Michael Bennett and Marlon Brown out, the Dogs' passing attack didn't appear to miss a beat, with Murray throwing TD passes to three different receivers — Chris Conley and Malcolm Mitchell in addition to King. Special kudos are due to Conley, who was making his first career start against the Tigers. …
Murray continued to spread the ball around, completing passes to six different players, with tight ends Artie Lynch and Jay Rome getting much more attention as receivers. For the most part, they did well, with Lynch catching three balls and Rome making two receptions.
But while it was good to see the tight ends becoming a bigger part of the passing attack, there's room for improvement: Lynch did have a conspicuous drop on what would have been a first-down pass late in the first half, and Murray had to do some sideline tutoring with Rome after the redshirt freshman muffed a route in the end zone in the third quarter. …
A couple more notes on Murray, who got more than his share of bashing earlier in the season: A week after executing the Rooskie play flawlessly against Ole Miss, he had another really nice play-action fake on the touchdown pass to Mitchell. And after getting the wind knocked out of him on one of the many hits he took from Auburn defenders Saturday night, the tough quarterback came back in to make that perfectly thrown scoring pass to King. …
The Georgia defense gave up some yards in the short-passing game early on (mainly to Emory Blake), but overall played a superb game. And when Auburn was threatening to score in the second half, Shawn Williams helped maintain the shutout by stripping the ball away from Blake in a fumble that Georgia recovered. …
Christian Robinson gets the big-hit-of-the-game award for the way he ran over an Auburn receiver on a failed third-down conversion attempt. …
One quibble: Mike Bobo pulled his starters in the fourth quarter but Grantham didn't. I fully understand why the fiery defensive coordinator wanted so badly to keep that goose egg on the scoreboard for the Tigers; it's a tremendous confidence-builder for a defense that took a while to get back in sync this season.
But keeping the first string in the game in garbage time just to maintain a shutout was a questionable decision, as one of Georgia's star defenders easily could have gone down with an injury well after the outcome of the game was already decided. Fortunately, that didn't happen, but was maintaining a shutout really worth the risk?
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November 11th, 2012
10:18 pm
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November 11th, 2012
10:19 pm
Bill, in answer to your question yes it was worth it.
November 11th, 2012
10:21 pm
How about a mention on them Running Backs!!! Maybe two 1000 yard fishers out Gurley (like 27 yards to go) and Marshall!
November 11th, 2012
10:21 pm
November 11th, 2012
10:23 pm
After all your bashing of special teams play…would be nice to see you give them credit after a very solid effort.
November 11th, 2012
10:26 pm
Like Grantham keeping the starters playing. Really wished Bobo would have kept the foot on the gas. Auburn has or would of in the same situation. We still own them for the Fairly bush league play of 2010.
November 11th, 2012
10:27 pm
Risk – reward for the shutout. You risk injury when you keep your starters in late in the game like UGA did but the reward was a shutout which I'm sure the players really wanted. Sort of like keeping your starting pitcher in a game if he is pitching a no hitter. He may be over his pitch count for the game but no way you are going to pull him.
November 11th, 2012
10:31 pm
Let's not get too crazy about the starters still in for the defense. Those guys played a full game and looked the best they have looked all season. Wait, they have really not been together all season. So, go ahead and give them more time on the field.
November 11th, 2012
10:32 pm
Aaron Murray is tied for #1 nationally in yards per attempt and is #3 in passing efficiency. How 'bout that Dawg?
November 11th, 2012
10:35 pm
I was thinking the same thing, Bill. Facing those triple option teams will take the Dawgs out of their rhythm. However, I think its a good thing that UGA won't be thinking about Bama the next two weeks. They would just would just get over-hyped. BTW On Grantham keeping his starters in: He wanted them to play a quality game from start to finish. That sets a tone and is much more important than worrying about injuries. You can't play scared or you've already lost.
November 11th, 2012
10:46 pm
Worth the risk. The BCS is based on flash and dash now and a shutout could earn Georgia some extra points in the polls
November 11th, 2012
10:59 pm
Bill, I'd like your thoughts comparing this year to 2008, in which we faced Georgia Southern and won but allowed Tech to run over our defense a week or two later. Do you think watching the Dawgs defend the triple option helped Johnson get ready for us and get the win?
November 11th, 2012
11:06 pm
Oops, just realized that game was at the beginning of the season instead of right before Tech.
November 12th, 2012
12:11 am
I am glad he kept the D in the game. If the other team is running its first team trying to score, then we run our first team D and try to keep them from scoring. I like shutouts and to be honest, 38-0 sounds a lot better and 38-7 or 38-10.
November 12th, 2012
1:09 am
Mike Bobo and Todd Granthan both made the right game-plan decisions, IMO.
CTG in letting his starters play four complete quarters, which they will need to do against Bama, and secured a shut out; a goal both the Georgia D and CTG had game-planned to achieve, and it was assured.
Likewise, CMB had game-planned to quickly score and set the tone for the entire game, eloquently mixing the run and pass game, continuously moving the chains on offense and putting enough points on the board to assure the game was well in hand in the first half.
Brilliant play-calling and execution and he called the first-string off when the game was well in hand, particularly with the way the defense and special teams were playing. He definitely did the right thing, assuring no injuries to the key offensive team and letting the subs get well deserved playing time.
Overall, a masterful game plan and masterful team execution. Georgia humbled and embarrassed the Auburn Tiger on their home field, and exacted their revenge on the poor unsportsmanlike play of AU in 2010. Couldn't have done it any better! IMO, right calls and decisions and masterful execution by the Georgia Bulldogs! 38-0 and securing the SEC Eastern Division Championship looks mighty fine!
Now, let's get ready to beat Georgia Southern and Georgia Tech, then focus on the SECCG!
Go Dawgs! Get 'er done. One game at a time! "Our Team. Our Time. No Regrets!"
November 12th, 2012
1:55 am
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November 12th, 2012
2:23 am
Hell yes, it was worth the risk. You've been harping about us not going for the jugular when we've got teams down. Well, this time we did. No brainer.
November 12th, 2012
6:14 am
I disagree, when you leave your offense in the game and start passing……you are trying to run up the score. I'm happy we kept the defense in the game because they need more reps and several of them need a little more conditioning. I don't want to see hands on their hips when they are playing GS, GT or Bama. I do agree we could have lost a key player, but that can also be said for having full contact practices. I hope we don't lose focus over the next 2 weeks because Ga Southern could give us fits like they did last year with Bama……and GT is still a mystery team and it would make their season to beat us. Go Dawgs!
November 12th, 2012
6:55 am
So I must have missed it: what's up with Parker at backup and Christian Lemay at #3? And I completely agree with putting in backups to get some experience. But let them run the offense! If Murray goes down we've got two QB's behind him who haven't thrown a pass in a game in two months.
November 12th, 2012
7:07 am
Yes, it was worth it. It will always be worth it after 2010 and the fire hoses.
November 12th, 2012
7:39 am
In 2008 (on top of it being at the beginning of the season, like you mentioned) Georgia Southern was coached by Chris Hatcher and ran his shotgun-spread offense.
November 12th, 2012
8:06 am
The State title is on the line two weeks in a row. against the second best team in the state of Georgia, Georgia Southern, and then we play Tech……
November 12th, 2012
8:18 am
You could argue that preparing for Georgia Southern and Georgia Techs triple option will actually improve our preparation for Alabama. You have to be alot more disciplined to defend the triple option. You also have to tackle very well. I don't thik this will hurt our preparation for Bama, I think it will help us in the long run.
November 12th, 2012
8:20 am
I'm not really concerned with Bama's offense. They have not done much to impress against good defenses. I think our D matches up well against them. I'm more concerned with our offense scoring on their defense.
November 12th, 2012
8:50 am
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November 12th, 2012
8:51 am
My buddy asked me after game, what possible whining could the bloger do this week, and I said, Oh I imagine we will see a battle between the: 5% risk of injury to a starter and the "foot on the gas" cliche' in full display.
My take on it was: I am sure the shutout was a goal, but I imagine the thinking was more likely that Grantham knows that he finally has his unit playing with all the pieces in place, and wants to get max reps. He is in the mind set that he is dealing with the equivalent of a 5 game season.
November 12th, 2012
8:59 am
BTW, I think the new of late tech offense will be throwing the ball quite a bit against us, so I am not sure that our DBs are going to be taking a picnic. The front 7 has to play assignments, gaps, as always. Different look, but still.
November 12th, 2012
9:11 am
One would be hard pressed to find anything wrong with that game. I am a bit surprised Richt didn't go postal and put 50 but, that's his call. 38 and not letting them score achieves the same result
November 12th, 2012
9:12 am
No Bama posters yet………………………
November 12th, 2012
9:14 am
The only thing I worry about in playing Southern and Tech are the chop blocks on the defensive linemen. UGA lost a starter in the seasoning opener against Southern the last time the two teams play.
I understand angle blocking in option attacks; hell, I played against them. But the chop blocks have to go. I hope the officials watch this practice closely and make the appropriate calls.
November 12th, 2012
9:18 am
"But keeping the first string in the game in garbage time just to maintain a shutout was a questionable decision"
You dawg gone right it was questionable. It was pretty dang dumb I think.
1. Don't risk injury when you don't have to. This ain't playstation football.
2. You've got to take advantage of real game time to give your backups experience. Practice is great and all, but it's games where you trully learn to play ball.
November 12th, 2012
9:31 am
What if the 4 team playoff was implemented this year? Would it be pretty exciting or what?
O, K, & ND playing each week to the end to remain undefeated and in the 4 team playoff!
Bama and UGA headed to a play in game at the Ga Dome for the 4th spot….I'd guess??? What a game that will be!!!
WHAT IF AN O, K, or ND loose a game??? How far will they drop? Below the other 1-2 loss teams at 4 thru 9? (All in the SEC) 6 SEC teams watching from the outside for a chance to work in if a top 3 looses. Or can there be two SEC teams in this year??? Currently 6 sec teams in the top 10!
The SEC is holding spots 4 thru 9 in the BCS ranking. Will there be two SEC teams in the final 4? Could the Bama UGA looser be in or will they drop in the polls and be skipped over by a 5 – 6 ranked team that is….. from the SEC but didnt win their division!!!
Or would this "COMMITTEE" decide that we wont have two teams from the same confrence in the playoff….. We will reach out to another confrence champ….. somewhere down in the 9-10th range ranked team to fill a spot in the
4 teams?
Anyone who said a playoff would deminish the regular season??? NUTS We would have 6-8 teams with a chance to play in, upsets putting teams out, fans interest in any game where a top 10 team was playing because it could mean something.
Wish we were there!!! But guessing UGA's possible path to the playoff would be the same as it is now. Gotta beat bama and hope for a O<K<ND loss or two.
A lot of controversary to look forward to.
November 12th, 2012
9:34 am
What happened to all the Bama, FL and SC posters?
November 12th, 2012
9:40 am
I totally agree; 2nd and 3rd string should have been in the game getting more experience for next season; especially since we lose this entire defense next year
but what do you expect from our bush league coaching staff;
I mean do they really think thats going to make a difference in the polls when everyone knows how horrible Auburn is this year
November 12th, 2012
9:40 am
gbal, a 4 team playoff would be great right now. It also isn't enough to diminish the regular season. 8 would probably be the cutoff, because it's still pretty tough to rank in the top 8. What people worry about, and rightly so, and when the whinning starts about letting in this team, or that conference into the playoffs and then it baloons to 16 or more. That's when you'll see the regular season games be a little less important. Especially at the end of the season (when all those big rival games take place) and some teams already have the playoffs and home field advantage sealed up.
That said, I'm with you on a 4 or even 8 team playoff. But they must, and I mean MUST never allow it to grow over 8.
November 12th, 2012
9:40 am
Imagine if the top 3 teams were to lose and we were in the new 4 team playoff structure. The SEC would probably have all 4 slots filled in the NC brackets!!! It would be possible in that scenario that the loser of the SEC championship would not be in the all SEC NC play-offs.????? Crazy stuff!!!!
November 12th, 2012
9:46 am
Too bad our second stringers couldnt provide more scoring opportunities to get style points and couldnt gain Todd Granthams confidence to preserve a shut out. Next year UGA is really gonna stink on Defense. Clemson will whip us silly next year. Too bad UGA blew it in Columbia but we still get to go to the CRAPITAL One Bowl.
November 12th, 2012
9:51 am
OH and WHAT IF ….. Ohio ST is off probation,,,, At 10-0 this season we now 4 undefeated teams.. they are selected by the comittee and the SEC is shut out!!! And with 6 teams in the top 10!!!
November 12th, 2012
9:53 am
Maybe Grantham is keeping his first team in four quarters, because he knows they will need endurance in the title game. Whatever the reason, it was a stellar effort by the D.
November 12th, 2012
9:53 am
Agree with you that 8 it the ultimate number. But also feel like it should be based on ranking, which would be SEC heavy.
November 12th, 2012
10:03 am
Bill, to answer your question hell no it wasn't worth it. But I'm happy we got the shutout anyway. This is on Richt IMO – he's the head coach and can order any personnel changes he wants. Maybe he wanted the shutout as badly as Grantham, but can you imagine not having JJ or Rambo or Jenkins in the SECCG?
Hopefully the shutout will free them up to coach smarter in the next two games.
November 12th, 2012
10:05 am
Is the game this weekend available on TV statewide? I know it is on Chanel 2 in Atlanta but I was most concerned about the Macon area.
November 12th, 2012
10:09 am
The shutout was worth the risk. I agree with the poster who analogized it to taking out your starting pitcher seven innings into a no hitter.
November 12th, 2012
10:09 am
Lets be real…. Aaron Murray stunk it up big in the big games this year (USC and Florida) as he usually does. His numbers are inflated because of UGA's weak schedule. Some of you need to get off the Murray bandwagon and stop drinking the kool aid.
November 12th, 2012
10:17 am
November 12th, 2012
10:17 am
reports are saying Derek Dooley is gonna be fired.
November 12th, 2012
10:34 am
Mark Richt: 3-15 against ranked teams since 2009!! PITIFUL!
November 12th, 2012
10:36 am
Is anyone but me tired of the CAPITAL ONE BOWL year after year after crappy year?? FIRE MARK RICHT!!!!!!!
November 12th, 2012
10:36 am
"I agree with the poster who analogized it to taking out your starting pitcher seven innings into a no hitter."
Meh… a baseball pitcher isn't getted smacked around every play like a football player. But that's not even the main issue I have with leaving our starters in. I'm upset because our backups (the starters next year, or in one play possibly) could of gotten some rare game time experience.


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The third peak. Looks easy enough.
That point you see there is it — the third and most challenging peak of the Olomana Trail. I've hiked up Olomana a few times already but I was never able to get to the third peak. Last weekend, Dan, Jack and I set out to get to it. It was more challenging and time consuming than I expected. Total hiking time, round trip, was about five hours. It was incredibly fun. I'll show you the path the top in the photos to follow.
Update 4/25/2011: This is a very popular hike and a lot of people do it but it's still very dangerous. There have been several news reports recently about hikers falling on this trail and being critically injured. Yesterday, someone fell 150 feet and died. If you have any doubt in your hiking/climbing ability, you may want to consider a different trail.
View from our parking spot. The first peak is visible on the left.
It was a great day for a hike. Overcast is good. Shade is good.
An important tip: The sun came out later on and beat down on us while we were well into the hike. All three of us ran out of water a little too early. If you want to hike to the third peak, bring plenty to drink. Two liters of water and a two quarts of Gatorade, each, would have been nice.
The descent.
Okay here we go. Starting from the second peak, the trail begins with a steep descent. It's almost vertical but it not too difficult. You just grab the ropes (that someone has set up at sometime and you just have to trust) and repel down.
Navigating down the slope.
It gets tougher though. The ropes end when the vertical decent ends and you have to make your way down a steep slope on your own. This part is tricky but here are plenty of rocks and roots to hold on to.
The path to the third peak.
Alright, we made it down. Safe and sound. In the left photo you can sort of make out the trail down. And then on the right you can see that the path to the third peak pretty much goes straight up. There's a person about half way up the path.
A rock formation. Left: Me. Right: Dan scaring the crap out of us by climbing up this rock.
Half way up to the third peak a rock formation juts some 25 feet straight up and out of the ridge. What you can't really see in the photos is that on either side of the rock, there's a sheer drop off of several hundred feet. It is sketchy. If you have any fear of heights (like I do), I think this section is where your heart will be pumping the fastest. I'm guessing most people that do this hike don't actually climb up this rock and bust a shaka. Yeah…Dan didn't really have a problem with it.
The peak.
Just a few more steps to the top.
View from the top.
And we made it. Sweaty, thirsty and totally stoked.
Me, resting.
The view is the same as from first and second peak. This part of the hike is all about the fun of climbing. Which you get to do again on way back. The next challenge is to do it all over again, only faster.
View from the third peak.
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Sean Hannity will survive his bad week just fine
Losing his time slot on Fox News and his radio show with Cumulus Media hardly means the end for the conservative host.
First came word from the Drudge Report that Megyn Fox is taking over his 9 p.m. slot on 21st Century Fox's (FOXA) Fox News Channel. Now, Politico is reporting that Cumulus Media (CMLS) is dropping Hannity's show and renewing its contract with Rush Limbaugh, contradicting earlier reports that the company would cut ties with both broadcasters. Before Hannity's many critics start gloating too much about the potential demise of conservative talk radio, there are a few things to consider.
First, Hannity's replacement on Cumulus may be Michael Savage, who's no liberal either, though he has moderated in recent years. Certainly, he isn't lacking in self-confidence as evidenced by his on-air statement: "I am the heir apparent to afternoon drive on the East Coast and around America on Cumulus stations, which have the most powerful stations in the radio world."
Second and more important, Hannity, the second-highest-rated radio talk show host behind Limbaugh, isn't going anywhere.
According to Talkers, an industry trade publication, Hannity decided not to re-sign with Cumulus. He'll move his show to stations owned by his syndicator Clear Channel in markets "where he will undoubtedly be dropped by Cumulus such as in New York where he would move from Cumulus' WABC to Clear Channel's WOR."
The reason for Hannity's move has more to do with the animosity between him and Cumulus CEO Lew Dickey, according to Talkers publisher Michael Harrison. "This is about the radio business, not politics," he says in an interview with MSN moneyNOW, adding that Hannity "won't skip a beat at all."
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Fox's promotion of Kelly is more of a recognition of her talent and a hope by Fox News head Roger Ailes that the 42-year-old might help draw younger viewers than Hannity, 51, has. The channel and many others need help in that department. As Eric Wemple noted in the Washington Post, Fox News' prime-time ratings fell 34% in among viewers ages 25-54, the group most targeted by cable news advertisers.
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Hi, I have a database that resided on a Windows Server 2003 box running SQL 2005 Server and was 15 GB for the longest time (about 12 years). I did a few things, including an upgrade to the application that uses the DB, changed the SQL compatability level from 80 to 90, changed recovery mode from full to simple. Now my database is growing uncontrollably. My mdf file is growing at a rate of 15gb a week and is now up to 233gb. I have no idea what to do. I have run a dbcc checkdb on it and it comes back with no errors. "CHECKDB found 0 allocation errors and 0 consistency errors in database." Is there another way to tell if something is corrupt? I have checked the logs and find everything clean. TO make things worse, i'm now on a new Windows 2008 R2 Server running SQL 2008 R2 x64. I do have a backup from my old SQL 2005 server but it was from when it had already reached 65GB in size and I do not have the original when it was small. I'm worried i'm screwed. Any suggestions on what to check would be appreciated. I did check with the vendor and they do say my configuration is supported and are not willing to help. Thank you
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You can check one of the built-in reports by right-clicking on the dB in SSMS and selecting the Disk Usage one. There is a section titled Data/Log Files Autogrow/Autoshrink Events. Expand that and you will get dates and times and size deltas.
This won't tell you why but at least you can see if there is a pattern of when the growths appear.It is also conceivable that there used to exist a process that purged stale data that was not migrated. Again, see the application owner or vendor for that.
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The most likely issue is a change in what is stored.
Determine your largest tables and see what sort of information they contain.
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A quick guess from unfortunate experience would be XML files that may have previously been stored on the filesystem are now being stored in the dB.
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Autogrowth won't actually trigger unless it needs to.
It sounds to me as though it's the application itself that's the most likely culprit. 15GB a week? I've seen similar behaviour when some logging functionality was enabled in an application - this caused a massive increase in data size.
What is the growth pattern? Is it exponential, or is it linear but fast? Does it match with the caseload / transaction load / business load being put through the server?
Something that might help with troubleshooting is to take periodic (say, weekly) snapshots of the following information:
Doing some analysis on that would almost certainly help identify the culprit(s). If you've got massive growth in specific tables, then you might find it useful to run a trace against code that goes against that table.If you find a table has lots of free space and isn't used, then check to see if there's a clustered index. If there isn't, can you make one?
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The changes you made shouldn't cause any sort of uncontrollable growth, but each needs to be considered.
Additionally, I suggest you take a look at the autogrowth settings of your DB data file(s) and log file(s). If they are on their default settings, you will have 10% growth set. This can cause growth that feels exponential. Change this to a sensible growth value.You mention you are on 2008R2 but not the edition. Is it Standard of Enterprise Edition?
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1. "It began oddly."
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PRINCE GEORGE - Prince George County Police are investigating the identity of remains that washed up on the shore of the James River on Saturday afternoon. According to Prince George County Police Lt. Paul Burroughs, the remains were discovered around 1:50 p.m. by a resident of the county near the 1300 block of Ruffin Road. It is near the dead-end of the road with the James River which is approximately between the county line to the west and the Benjamin Harrison Bridge to the east.
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3. Grab Yo' Coupons: Get those great deals on Black Friday and make them even better with coupons. Call the store directly, sign up for e-mail alerts and check them out on Facebook for coupons that are valid throughout Black Friday. The same goes for online coupon codes. If you're shopping Black Friday online, be sure to search RetailMeNot.com for a coupon code before you checkout.
4. Give Price Matching a Try: You might...just might...be able to score all of those deals at one place. Check out our Price Matching for Retail Stores post for all of those holiday price matching policies. Everyone knows Walmart will price match but actually many more stores have jumped onto that bandwagon such as Target, Best Buy & Staples. Can you imagine only hitting one store on Black Friday? Sounds like a plan!
5. Price Adjusting Policies: Perhaps one of the most exciting secrets when it comes to Black Friday...many stores offer Price Adjustment Policies. This means, if you buy your item full price and then the next day it goes on sale, you can bring your receipt back to the store and get the difference back. SO... if you check out the leaked ads and buy your items (that you know will go on sale) a couple of days early THEN you head straight to customer service on Black Friday, you will get a price adjustment if your store allows. Seriously!
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Couchbase: "We're not afraid of MongoDB"
When we chatted with open source NoSQL database providers Couchbase last summer, they were celebrating having secured $25m in funding, and a 400% growth trajectory over the past year. Now, having launched a unique 'JSON everywhere' mobile proposition, they're hoping to leapfrog over their competitors into an exploding market, and, just maybe, dethrone that 200 pound MongoDB gorilla along the way.
JAX: How have NoSQL market dynamics changed since Couchbase first launched?
Wiederhold: In the first few years of the NoSQL market, it was really characterised by grassroots developer adoption. Developers were downloading the software, playing around with it, and generally using it on relatively small applications and somewhat rarely using it for business critical applications.
That really started to change in a big way in late 2012 and throughout 2013. What we started to see in a big way was big internet companies and enterprises starting to believe that NoSQL was really strategic to their infrastructure and they started doing deep technical evaluations of the various competitors and then they began to deploy NoSQL in a big way under business critical applications.
We started to see a very significant increase in this period, when the dynamics of the market really started to change. It that phase, it was a much heavier focus on ease of development, and Mongo was quite strong as a result during that first phase, and gained some significant popularity.
What we're seeing in this second phase, with the more business critical and mission critical applications, is that scalability and performance are dramatically more important because these apps are already operating at significant scale and they need higher performance.
What's the reception to your JSON anywhere strategy been like?
It's been fantastic. Obviously, mobile is a hot topic...it's the new development platform, and so people are very excited and certainly knowledgeable about that being a huge transition and change.
The second part of the story you know, that's a pretty easy bet to make, is that mobile devices are going to become more and more powerful. They're going to have more processing power, and have more storage available. Our message is that we think more of the application is going to run on the mobile device and that there's going to be a need for an ultralight mobile database that sits on the mobile phone.
There are a lot of benefits to having a local database, and obviously people are moving to NoSQL and JSON very rapidly, so having it be JSON based is very interesting to people.
There's a tremendous amount of excitement around that and whether it's developers or people who are just looking at the trends in mobile applications and mobile development, I think there's a strong belief that it is going to be very important to have a mobile database that sits on the mobile device.
That's one of the things we've provided - that's what we call a Couchbase Lite. It's a JSON based ultra-lightweight, secure mobile database. It allows you to be able to interact with data, even when you don't have an internet connection. It allows you to provide much higher responsiveness to the user in terms of the performance of your app, because your data is sitting there locally. There are a lot of benefits to having a local database, and obviously people are moving to NoSQL and JSON very rapidly, so having it be JSON based is very interesting to people.
What big problems are you looking to solve next in the industry?
The second aspect of this strategy is syncing that database with the database in the cloud. We have something called the Couchbase Sync Gateway, and that's basically a framework that allows you to very easily sync your mobile database with the database in the cloud.
That's notoriously a very difficult problem. Getting syncing right is very difficult, it's very time consuming, and developers really struggle with getting it to work. This is going to make that syncing dramatically easier, and so people are very, very excited about that as well.
That syncing allows you to sync between your personal devices, so obviously people are using their smartphones and their tablets and their laptops. It allows you to sync on a personal basis, and also between groups of people. It allows you to collaborate, and sync along whatever groups of people you'd like to sync.
Getting syncing right is very difficult, it's very time consuming, and developers really struggle with getting it to work.
It's also important for being able to backup your data. With mobile phones, people drop them and they break, or they drop them in water, or they lose them, or whatever, and so being able to sync back to the cloud is becoming increasingly important when you're talking about mobile devices.
We're the only NoSQL vendor that has this technology, so we're well ahead of everyone else. We just released our Beta 2 version yesterday, and we expect to go to GA within the next few months. The interest in this - we're an open source company so people are downloading it, and using it, and developing apps on it - and we've just gotten a fantastic response.
Already 75% of our user base are already using Couchbase to develop mobile applications, but they're developing applications without storing data locally on their mobile device. This is an additive capability - if you'd like to store data locally on your mobile device, you now have the ability to do that as well.
We now have innovative groups in large companies, as well as start up companies, and everything in between that are taking a look at this technology, and figuring out ways to build better and better applications that are more responsive, that sync more easily, and that allow better collaboration and etc. This is not just limited to just individuals or startup companies. We've got a broad spectrum of people who are downloading and using it.
Why do you think Couchbase could be a real threat to MongoDB one day?
Couchbase's major strength against Mongo is scalability and performance, and so our business has just absolutely taken off….We're certainly among the leaders - by far the fastest growing - NoSQL database company, and we're expecting to continue that very steep growth trajectory in 2014 on the basis of winning these deep strategic evaluations against Mongo and against DataStax.
We foresee ourselves doing big deals on the back of these wins, because these are all applications that already operate at significant scale and so there's a large number of nodes of our software that customers need and they need longer term agreements with us...and that's what's driving our growth.
Do you see the enterprise as Couchbase's niche, or would you like to edge out of this?
We're doing very well in terms of grassroots developers using our technology as well. We're certainly not anywhere near as popular as Mongo in that area but we consider enterprise to be very mainstream.
This isn't just a small number of applications. Increasingly enterprises and the internet companies, their internet based applications, their mobile applications, are critical to their business, and we consider that to be mainstream. I think that if you take a look at how the NoSQL industry is going to grow, a very significant percentage of the business opportunity is with these enterprises...with these business and mission critical applications.
I think we've all kind of waited for this transition to take place, for enterprises and big internet companies to feel like the technology is mature enough, that they can start to deploy it across their most important and most strategic applications
We think that's where the bulk of the growth in the industry from a business perspective is going to come from over the next three to five years. I think we've all kind of waited for this transition to take place, for enterprises and big internet companies to feel like the technology is mature enough, that they can start to deploy it across their most important and most strategic applications. And I think it's great for the NoSQL industry that that's starting to happen in a big way, and I think that trend will accelerate in the next one to three years.
What's in the pipeline for Couchbase this year?
We came to market pretty late compared to other vendors, particularly Mongo and DataStax. They started in 2007, and we didn't start until 2010. That's one of the reasons that we're not that well known. Now that we're growing very fast, now that we've had huge successes, and we're announcing on a regular basis bigger and bigger successes with broader and broader sets of customers, our name is getting bigger.
We'll be making a steady stream of announcements this year. I think, in general, many, many people, whether it's in blogs, or press interviews or whatever, they're well aware of the performance problems that Mongo has, and we want to highlight to the market that's an area where we really shine, and where we really differentiate ourselves. If that's important - well, you ought to come over to Couchbase.
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If you haven't yet heard of the Wildcat Epic mountain bike race, you probably will before long. Though originally conceived as a stage race, the Wildcat Epic now has 50 and 100 mile options, and is a candidate to join the National Ultra Endurance Series next season. And though it's a relatively new race, it has already seen participation from some of America's top endurance racing teams, including the Jamis Factory team. Now in it's third year, the Wildcat Epic is looking to be bigger and better than ever in 2012.
MTBRacenews.com recently caught up with Wildcat Epic promoter Gunter Spilhaus about the race, the challenges of organizing private land owners, and the events he has planned next.
On The 2012 Wildcat Epic/ Wildcat 100
A native of South Africa, Spilhaus cut his teeth as a race promoter organizing adventure races and working for the Cape Epic Stage Race. And it was in South Africa that Spilhaus first started thinking about promoting a mountain bike stage race. He got things going with a mountain bike adventure race. While traveling in Britain, Spilhaus raced a two-day mountain bike adventure race on a whim. As he put it, "I liked it so much that I brought the franchise back to South Africa and started a race there."
Family reasons brought him to New Paltz, NY six years ago, and the dream of promoting a stage race came with him. "We're one of National Geographic's top 100 adventure towns," Spilhaus said, "it's happening here." He added, "There are half a million visitors to this area a year, we just have to convert those people to mountain bikers."
The Wildcat Epic is, for Spilhaus, a major part of that vision. He originally intended to promote the Wildcat Epic as a four day stage race, but that was three years ago, and "just as we were about to roll it out the economy tanked, so we had to scale it back to the two day format to make it more manageable. We made it to longer [50 mile] days instead of four 3-4 hour stages." Spilhaus then added the 50 and 100 mile options as well. This year, the Epic race will consist of 50 miles on both Saturday and Sunday. The 50 miler will run on Saturday, while the 100 miler will take place on Sunday.
To create the course, Spilhaus had to forge together a coalition of local land owners, farmers, and local bike clubs. "We have 23 landowners involved in the Wildcat race, and there are a bunch more that need to see it happen a few more times to be convinced." As it is, much of the riding used in the Wildcat race is only open to bikes on race day, making the event a unique experience for locals and out of towner's alike.
The course will take riders through beautiful local apple orchards, and then onto a 150 year old system of carriage roads up Castle Point, which features 360 degree views of the surrounding area. From there riders will drop "into Williams Lake for some sweet single track," before making their back to the finish in New Paltz. As Spilhaus put it, "riders will get a little bit of everything at the Wildcat."
Looking Forward
Currently the Wildcat Race is a very busy weekend, with three races taking place over two days. That could change though, particularly if the Wildcat 100 becomes part of the highly acclaimed National Ultra Endurance series next season.
"We're really excited about being a part of the NUE series," Splihaus said. "I want to say it's a matter of when, not if we become a part of the series." Doing so, said Spilhaus, "would allow us to profile the event on a national level. We've been promoting it at a grassroots level for three years now, and the NUE Series contacted us because they are trying to pull some participation to the east coast."
If, or when, the Wildcat 100 becomes part of the NUE series, "we'll split off the Wildcat Epic and run that a different weekend." The goal is to turn that into a full four day stage race connecting Windham, NY to the New Palz area, Spilhaus said.
Bringing It All Back Around
As Spilhaus said, "Joining the NUE Series would allow us to raise the profile of the Wildcat 100 and expand the Wildcat Epic to a stage race format." But the logistics of choosing weekends, organizing volunteers and logistics, and creating a great course are easy relative to one task. The biggest challenge? "Convincing landowners that mountain biking is it. I refer to East Burke a lot," Spilhaus noted, "that's the example for what we're trying to build. There are a lot of road riders in the New Paltz area, we need to be converting them to mountain biking too. And we want to turn what we're building here at the Wildcat into a sustainable trail network that benefits the local community."
"People are starting to see Agri-tourism as a potential, and apple famers are looking for additional revenue. We want the farm stands to become the trailheads, so that people go for a ride and come back and shop at the farm stand."
And while it was clear that Splihaus had the energy to elaborate on this vision for much of the day, he had more pressing matters to attend to. He said goodbye and headed out the door to work on trails.
The 2012 Wlldcat 100/50/Epic is August 11 and 12. For more information visit www.wildcatepicevents.com


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GREEN BAY, WI (WTAQ) - The dredging of old cancer causing PCB's and the removal of shipwrecks has resumed in Green Bay.
Tetra Tech has resumed its work, after shutting it down for the winter on the Fox River behind its production facility. It's part of a long-range effort to remove the PCB's that were dumped in the river in the 1950's and 60's, as part of the process of making copy paper without carbons.
Since the project began in 2009, over two million cubic yards of sediment have been dredged from the Fox River. Tetra Tech plans to remove another 670,000 cubic yards this year.
Also, Tetra Tech has a subcontractor removing a cluster of sunken tugboats at the site from the 19th century. The boats went down in the 1940's in a spot that's now part of the National Register of Historic Places.
Because of that, the company reached an agreement with the federal and state governments on the clean-up work. The recovered vessels will later become part of a Green Bay museum display.
(Story courtesy of Wheeler News Service)