diff --git a/local/mongo-elasticsearch-sync/pom.xml b/local/mongo-elasticsearch-sync/pom.xml
index 79470ee..4d271e0 100644
--- a/local/mongo-elasticsearch-sync/pom.xml
+++ b/local/mongo-elasticsearch-sync/pom.xml
@@ -22,8 +22,9 @@
          xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
     <parent>
         <groupId>org.apache.streams</groupId>
-        <artifactId>streams-examples</artifactId>
+        <artifactId>streams-examples-local</artifactId>
         <version>0.2-incubating-SNAPSHOT</version>
+        <relativePath>..</relativePath>
     </parent>
     <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
 
diff --git a/local/mongo-elasticsearch-sync/src/main/java/org/apache/streams/example/elasticsearch/MongoElasticsearchSync.java b/local/mongo-elasticsearch-sync/src/main/java/org/apache/streams/example/elasticsearch/MongoElasticsearchSync.java
index 568a1a9..fccbf47 100644
--- a/local/mongo-elasticsearch-sync/src/main/java/org/apache/streams/example/elasticsearch/MongoElasticsearchSync.java
+++ b/local/mongo-elasticsearch-sync/src/main/java/org/apache/streams/example/elasticsearch/MongoElasticsearchSync.java
@@ -45,19 +45,10 @@
 
     private final static Logger LOGGER = LoggerFactory.getLogger(MongoElasticsearchSync.class);
 
-    protected static ListeningExecutorService executor = MoreExecutors.listeningDecorator(newFixedThreadPoolWithQueueSize(5, 20));
-
-    private static ExecutorService newFixedThreadPoolWithQueueSize(int nThreads, int queueSize) {
-        return new ThreadPoolExecutor(nThreads, nThreads,
-                5000L, TimeUnit.MILLISECONDS,
-                new ArrayBlockingQueue<Runnable>(queueSize, true), new ThreadPoolExecutor.CallerRunsPolicy());
-    }
-
     MongoElasticsearchSyncConfiguration config;
 
     public MongoElasticsearchSync() {
         this(new ComponentConfigurator<MongoElasticsearchSyncConfiguration>(MongoElasticsearchSyncConfiguration.class).detectConfiguration(StreamsConfigurator.getConfig()));
-
     }
 
     public MongoElasticsearchSync(MongoElasticsearchSyncConfiguration config) {
@@ -68,7 +59,9 @@
     {
         LOGGER.info(StreamsConfigurator.config.toString());
 
-        executor.submit(new MongoElasticsearchSync());
+        MongoElasticsearchSync sync = new MongoElasticsearchSync();
+
+        new Thread(sync).start();
 
     }
 
@@ -80,6 +73,7 @@
         ElasticsearchPersistWriter elasticsearchPersistWriter = new ElasticsearchPersistWriter(config.getDestination());
 
         Map<String, Object> streamConfig = Maps.newHashMap();
+        streamConfig.put(LocalStreamBuilder.STREAM_IDENTIFIER_KEY, STREAMS_ID);
         streamConfig.put(LocalStreamBuilder.TIMEOUT_KEY, 7 * 24 * 60 * 1000);
         StreamBuilder builder = new LocalStreamBuilder(1000, streamConfig);