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Submission + - Opendedup: Open Source Deduplication for Linux (cio.com.au)
tazzbit writes: The storage vendors have been crowing about data deduplication technology for some time now, but a new open source project, Opendedup, brings it to Linux and its hypervisors — KVM, Xen and VMware. The new deduplication-based file system called SDFS (GPL v2) is scalable to eight petabytes of capacity with 256 storage engines, which can each store up to 32TB of deduplicated data. Each volume can be up to 8 exabytes and the number of files is limited by underlying file system. Opendedup runs in user space making it platform independent, easier to scale and cluster and can integrate with other user space services like Amazon S3.


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A woman is clinging to life after her SUV lost control on Deerfoot Trail, rolled, and ended up in a parking lot at the Deerfoot Meadows shopping area Friday night. Police suspect alcohol was a factor in the crash.
How to approach the blank slate of a new home to reflect personality and living style
Condominium living is all about making the most of available space, and avoiding clutter caused by too much furniture or items that pile up due to lack of storage. Here's a look at some nifty space-saving furniture ideas to keep your condo tidy and livable.
Keeping your home organized is a simple task that doesn't have to break the bank.
For many young people, a first apartment might be a cramped studio or just a bedroom in a shared living arrangement. Juggling that room's living, dining and sleeping spaces requires creativity.
College days are behind us and the time has come to get serious about how we live. Our homes are direct reflections of our personalities, interests, and lifestyles. If we realize this, then it should come as no surprise that, at some point, we will have to retire our hodge-podge of beat-up furniture and accessories and create some sort of cohesion in our homes. There are some essential items everyone should possess in their abodes by the age of 30, things that would make our parents proud. None of these items will break the bank, but they do signify a coming of age.
A tropical bird, a tiger, a turtle and a peacock's lives are turned upside down by the mysterious blue.
Is an expensive candle worth the price tag? A curious writer follows her nos
Today's builders are considering the importance of expanding the amount of useable space and not just using floor spacing but building upward, as well.
Vintage styles are coming back into fashion because there's a generation of people who have lived with that style before, and love it, and also because there's a younger generation who haven't seen vintage styles before and are drawn to the retro esthetic.
The leaves are gone, the pumpkins are smashed and now the social season is upon us. A heads-up guide to entertaining in style, from now until the new year, while keeping it fun, simple—and sane.
If your real life isn't full of homemade pies, gingham-checked tablecloths and vintage holiday ornaments, just click your way to a carefully burnished image of domestic perfection.
While your eyes may glaze over during the introduction that delves into the world of dark elves and ancient battles between pagan deities, there's good reason to stay awake for this goofy, explosive and oddly warm-hearted yarn that knits a cold story of family dysfunction with matinee spectacle.
Should you be able to name your child Messiah if you want to? What about God? It depends on where you live.
There's something relaxing about wandering through a show home.
Shelf Life Books hosts comedians and writers telling long-form stories with a humourous bent.
Our family has lived without a vehicle in Calgary for the past 14 years. This is in spite of the city's notorious urban sprawl, it's sometimes long, bitter winters and the relentless societal pressure to own a vehicle. This at the risk of being dismissed as "radical environmentalists" or just plain crazy (we've been called both). We choose to remain carless for two main reasons: one, my husband and I wish to develop our creative talents and skills. Hence, given our limited financial resources, we'd much rather put our money into an interesting project than have our pay cheque evaporate out the tailpipe of a car.
Updating your home doesn't have to mean a big renovation. Rather than tearing down, ripping out and building up, you can beg, borrow and steal that new look.
This week's custom gift wrap project is perfect for the art lover in your life.

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Sydney, Hawthorn, Port Adelaide and North Melbourne will have pre-cooked meals sitting in the fridge come finals time, but fellow premiership aspirants Fremantle, Geelong and Essendon will need first to defrost any inclusions they will have.
The reason is that the various state league competitions all ended their home-and-away seasons on the weekend, meaning that a bunch of top-eight teams will no longer have their reserves playing games at the weekend, a potential obstacle if recent history is a guide.
Of the past 10 AFL premiers to have fielded stand-alone reserves sides, eight have had their second-stringers playing in the state league finals.
The case of Hawthorn last year is a prime example. The Hawks' VFL afilliate Box Hill continued to play deep into September, eventually upsetting Geelong's VFL team two days after the AFL side had escaped against the Cats in the preliminary final.
Brendan Whitecross' knee injury in that game opened the door for Jonathan Simpkin - warmed up from playing in the VFL decider - to fill Whitecross' breach, and replicate Steven King's 2007 feat of playing in two premierships just six days apart.
King's inclusion for Geelong's ultimately fruitful tilt at a drought-breaking premiership highlights another perk of having a reserves side shadow the seniors through the finals. Mark Blake had become a concern, and King's recent form made the decision to axe Blake easier.
Geelong would have defeated Port Adelaide with Susan Boyle in the ruck that day, but King more than justified his selection, complementing Brad Ottens in the ruck.
The Cats will not be able to enjoy the same luxury next month, with their VFL side's season ending after Werribee defeated Frankston on Sunday. Responding to the news, backman Tom Lonergan conceded the absence of active depth could be detrimental to the club's chances of silverware.
"Disappointed to see them go, because we do need those guys playing some footy for us in September for us to do well," Lonergan told radio K-Rock.
Box Hill has had another strong season, earning the double chance. It means the likes of Ben McEvoy, Ryan Schoenmakers and Angus Litherland will have the chance to continue staking a claim.
The first year of a revamped SANFL competition has given Port Adelaide's remarkably healthy list the guarantee of further hitouts. With Port Adelaide Magpies claiming the minor premiership in its maiden campaign as the Power's reserves team, there will be no shortage of cover available should Port require. Adelaide's SANFL team did not, however, make the finals.
The WAFL also went down the track of stand-alone sides in 2014, and while West Coast's affiliate East Perth has qualified for the finals, Fremantle's back-ups won't get the chance to keep playing at Peel Thunder.
It is not a new challenge for Fremantle coach Ross Lyon, whose grand final teams at St Kilda in 2009 and 2010 did not have alignment partner Sandringham competing in the VFL finals during either campaign.
The Swans' NEAFL side has progressed to the finals, as have both of North Melbourne's semi-aligned clubs Werribee and North Ballarat, although the pair face off this weekend in an elimination final. But in the highly unlikely event Gold Coast Suns make the finals, they won't have the reserves team to accompany them after they went 0-18 with a percentage of 42 in the NEAFL.
Of the premiers over the past decade, only Hawthorn (2008) and Geelong (2011) did not have reserves sides competing in the finals. The Hawks' plight in 2009 - when they missed the eight - was perhaps reflective of this, with Alastair Clarkson's list unable to cope when injuries mounted. Clarkson had showed he was a master chef in 2008, but as 2009 showed, even great chefs need fresh ingredients.
AFL premiers since 2002: How their reserves teams fared:
2013: Hawthorn (Box Hill , VFL premier)
2012: Sydney (Sydney, NEAFL conference final)
2011: Geelong (Geelong, VFL missed finals)
2010: Collingwood (Collingwood, VFL elimination final)
2009: Geelong (Geelong, VFL elimination final)
2008: Hawthorn (Box Hill, VFL missed finals)
2007: Geelong (Geelong, VFL premier)
2006: West Coast (reserves spread across WAFL)
2005: Sydney (Sydney, AFL Canberra premier)
2004: Port Adelaide (reserves spread across SANFL)
2003: Brisbane Lions (Suncoast Lions, QAFL preliminary final)
2002: Brisbane Lions (Suncoast Lions, QAFL preliminary final)
2014 potential AFL finalists: did their reserves make the finals?
Sydney (Sydney, NEAFL) Yes
Hawthorn (Box Hill, VFL) Yes
Geelong (Geelong, VFL) No
Fremantle (Peel Thunder, WAFL) No
Port Adelaide (Port Magpies, SANFL) Yes
North Melbourne (Werribee, VFL) Yes and (North Ballarat, VFL) Yes
Essendon (Essendon, VFL) No
Richmond (Richmond, VFL) No
Collingwood (Collingwood, VFL) Yes
West Coast (East Perth, WAFL) Yes
Adelaide (Adelaide, SANFL) No
Gold Coast (Gold Coast, NEAFL) No


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Q/A: Contributing To Open-Source Projects: On Tuesday at XDC2011 Chicago I hosted a question and answer panel about contributing to X.Org, Mesa, and the Linux kernel. Much of the information presented, however, is relevant to any open-source / free software project. The panel participants were largely graphics driver developers that started off contributing to open-source when at university and some of them have since moved on to working for major Linux companies, i.e. Intel and Red Hat. The talk was very interesting and Chicago computer science students were free to ask questions of them.
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Sunday, July 25, 2010
New Look!
3 comments:
- Betsy from Tennessee said...
Very nice, Harriet.... I have been using Blogger's new template design --and have had no trouble. Yours looks great though....
I am posting a Genealogy post tomorrow... Have been working on my Ballard family most of the weekend. SO much fun.
- July 25, 2010 at 2:37 PM
- Mary said...
I used Cutest Blog templates for awhile, until blogger came out with the newer templates...I never had trouble with either template. What I do have trouble with is LOSING ALL my pictures I post...it's happened 2x before and today it happened AGAIN. I have to go in and put all pics back in on 99% of my posts I've done since Jan 1, 2010 (I'm not bothering with ones before that)
- July 26, 2010 at 2:29 AM
- Harriet said...
I'm looking forward to reading your post. It is so much fun doing Genealogy research. I hope to do more soon. I've had several problems with the blog and trying to get started on Facebook I haven't had the time to do any Genealogy.
Wow!Mary I hope I don't lose my pictures.
- July 26, 2010 at 8:23 AM


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It's the last day of the best year in San Francisco Giants history. The twenty-ten club went all the way and won the World Series. Watched the final game again--it seemed like the perfect way to celebrate New Year's Eve. Tim Lincecum was magnificent, of course, but it took an improbable 7th-inning rally off Cliff Lee to get the margin the team needed to seal the win. Clutch hits by Cody Ross and Juan Uribe, an impressive sacrifice bunt by Aubrey Huff, and the big bomb by Edgar Renteria put a three-spot on the board and Tim and Brian Wilson did the rest. Baseball is a funny game. Buster Posey had the best-looking ABs all night long but didn't figure in the scoring! The Giants beat one of the best pitchers in baseball TWICE in the same series, and it was not just any series but the World Series. Giants pitchers shut out the Rangers twice and held them at one point to 18 consecutive scoreless innings, their longest drought of the season. No offense to Edgar Renteria, but the Series MVP could easily have gone to the entire Giants pitching staff as they held one of the best offenses in baseball to TWELVE RUNS in five games. The Rangers World Series line was .198/.259/.288! The Giants were no slouches with the bats, scoring 29 runs (11 in Game 1) and running out a .249/.306/.450 line. That .450 slugging was the result of 11 2B, 1 3B, and 7 HR, 18 XBH out of 42 total hits. What's funny is the Giants only managed 11 walks but gave out 15 free ones to the Rangers. It was a great victory for the Giants and all their fans, an impressive post-season run capped by a dominating Series win. HAPPY 2010!
Best wishes to everyone for twenty-eleven!


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Think for a moment about the number of electronic components in your life that are still in use after 35 years. TV? Unlikely, given the propensity for the old-style tubes and stabilizers to fail. Computer? If you're still using a 1977 model, there's probably a smartphone that has more processing power in a smaller space -- by a factor of thousands.
There's one piece still chugging along, however, out of range for any technician to make a service call yet still doing its duties.
Voyager 1 again made the news recently because of what it is finding at the very far limits of our solar system. The probe launched in 1977 is still working, sending back data on the "weather" it is encountering in deep space. An instrument originally built to last four years has lasted nine times as long and has detected the motion of charged particles in a region of space where the sun is seemingly but another of many distant stars.
Will such discoveries have a practical application here on Earth? Perhaps, because the interaction of energy and magnetic fields has an effect on processes in everyday life, such as power generation and transmission across long distances. Even more beneficial, however, has been the engineering advances that have been made and confirmed about the rigor required to create materials and devices that will survive in the harshest environments.
Certainly no one believes Voyager will last for another 35 years providing the same level of research. But those who monitor its progress note that when it finally detects the edge of the solar system -- that point in which the sun's energy output is no longer discernable from among the other stars -- the man-made craft will be there to take the measurements.


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Program Preparation Activities
Library District employees as part of their regular duties may present programs for the public. The programs and the preparation for the programs are all considered work activities. Exempt employees should record the time as hours worked; hourly employees should record the time on their time sheets for payment. Whenever possible the preparation activities and the programs should be part of the employee's regularly budgeted working hours, such as preparation for Children's, Young Adult, and Adult programs.
Hourly employees who lead Book Discussion Groups will also be compensated for the time spent in the Discussion Group meeting and for preparation activities. These preparation activities include the time involved in setting up and preparing materials, as well as reading the selected book for the Discussion Group meeting. The reading time will be compensated at 5 hours per book at the employee's current hourly rate. Exempt employees will record the preparation time and the 5 hours of reading time as work time.
The District will not compensate employees who participate as members of the Readers Advisory Team and other similar committees for the time spent reading optional material. Employees on the Readers Advisory Team and other groups will be paid for the time they spend at District meetings. Attending the meetings is a requirement of the Team or committee membership, however, reading materials suggested is optional and up to the discretion of the employee. Employees of a public library are expected to read as an inherent component of a worthwhile life. Employees who choose to read materials suggested will not be compensated for their reading time.
Other activities in preparation for programs may be compensated and will be evaluated on an individual basis.
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Another situation when a DB2 Java transaction runs into problems is when it must check something outside of the critical transaction path or its normal activity. For example, when a DB2 Java transaction uses seven different discrete web services to accomplish a complete transaction unit-of-work and after the third web service runs into a situation where something else needs to be checked. The processing then tries to resolve the situation by accessing another service and the new service experiences an error exception. In most DB2 Java database transaction environments the previous three services' work would be rolled back and the entire transaction would need to be restarted.
Within good DB2 Java processing designs the extra situation checking would be moved out of the standard flow and services transaction processing. Starting another unit of work is understandable for these double checking situations only because we want to retain the integrity of the first group of services activity already completed. Analysis needs to be completed to determine the number of times the exception processing is needed and how many times it errors out with an exception.
One of the new features within DB2 Version 9.7, Cobra, is called autonomous transactions. This allows a transaction to commit a block of statements independent of an invoking transaction. This invoked autonomous transaction, implies that the work done is committed even if the invoking transaction itself is rolled back. This feature is perfect for this type of exception processing within DB2 Java applications and can be easily implemented within a web service structure.


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What is the most fun job you ever had?
What is the most fun job you ever had?
And so it goes. And so it goes. And so it goes."
When I was working in the hospital, I had the most fun. The nurses and admin staff were a crazy bunch of funny people.
The party shop I worked in. Love my co workers and the shit stuff they sold in the shop. Will go back to work again in Feb.
I worked in a zoo and it was pretty fun with a lot of cool groups coming through. Yeah it was smelly but you get used to it and the people were great.
Escorting. Sex is fun.
I did it just few times though... but was more fun than any regular job I did.
I used to sell men's dress clothes. It was a lot of fun. It was especially fun dressing hot guys up in sexy threads. I had great coworkers there, a great boss. But no benefits, not a lot of pay... But I loved it so much. I really enjoyed it.
My current job...I am self employed and have a shop...and I get to shop all of the time because I have to...not just because I want to.
Working the 84 Olympics. It was AWESOME!!!
I was once payed to play the piano at some art exhibition, I could play whatever I wanted, that was great
Work can be fun? Who knew.
In retrospect I think the best job I ever had was while attending tech school and working in a fancy restaurant.
I started as a bus boy, then waiter, then maitre d' and went back on the floor as a waiter......no money being a maitre d'......and I couldn't grab a bite nearly as often either.......
The worst of the WORST nights of the year were prom and New Years Eve.
You KNEW you were going to work your ass off and a 75% chance of getting no tip at all......
On New Years folks would reserve early tables and sit and sit and sit and sit waiting for the best view of fireworks in the city.......it was a spectacular view but didn't put any money in our pockets......
Helping friends promote and play Ps 3 games for a school fund raising. I had a lot of fun doing it.
Teaching elementary children
worked for a chiropractor for about 6 months while in high school which meant i got free treatments by a tall stud.
in retrospect i wish it went further but i was a stupid teen.
still the best job i ever had.
planting trees
I always think ahead to the difference my work will make -- like right now I'd doing some tree plantings to stabilize some dunes; from drifting sand to quiet green woodland is going to rock!
"Thirty-one* states allow all qualified citizens to carry concealed weapons. In those states, homosexuals should embark on organized efforts to become comfortable with guns, learn to use them safely and carry them. They should set up Pink Pistols task forces, sponsor shooting courses and help homosexuals get licensed to carry. And they should do it in a way that gets as much publicity as possible. "
--Jonathan Rauch, Salon Magazine, March 13, 2000
*the number is now forty
I used to clean rental cars years ago. Great way to score free pot and beer. Customers would leave in the car what they can't take in the airport with them.
It was also a good job to have if you're going to school during the day, and after you cleaned most of the cars there is plenty of downtime you can use to study. I worked late shifts and befriended a counter worker, we would get some takeout and watch movies until the flights came in.
I have some fun at my current job. Depending exclusively who I get for crew members. It's been a good while since I worked with a bunch of a decent dynamic.
Just about any blow-job!
sucking sum dick.....
i always wanted to be a fluffer
The manager was pretty cool. On the days that we were understaffed, he'd ask me if I could stay an extra hour or two, and he'd give me a free meal for staying.
The best part of the job was seeing all the hot male customers.
lucky assholes. never had fun @ any job i had.
lol @ fast food being fun. HELL MOTHERFUCKING NO! never again. it's like slave labor. even if you're getting free food that you're REALLY supposed to pay for and you make some friends along the way being on the register or in the back area, it's work that i would NEVER EVER do again. NEVER. i would rather sell drugs and risk getting shot at or getting locked up. i hear folks complaining about how it sucks to be in an office job. these folks actually get to sit in CHAIRS and work. they also get a decent salary too. @ folks bitching about making 13 an hour. much better than 6, 7 or 8. they actually get time to do what they do too and they're bitching about it. try standing on your feet all day for 8 or 9 hours, getting little to NO break in a hot kitchen having to act super jolly and like you love your job taking all kinds of shit from everybody because it's customer service. then you get paid NADA for it. you have to wait every 2 weeks to get 400 dollars which if you have to pay bills, you're fucked. if you want to do management work, it's even worse. you'll get paid more but then you have to do more hours. your schedule is hectic. you have to deal with your staff which might not feel like doing whatever. you get more responsibility where you have to watch everybody and your ass. customer service sucks. if i'm going to bust my ass like that again, it's going to be for the right amount of dough and my hours are going to be straight. i'm not getting hosed around at a job again.
Waiter. I loved making sure customers had an enjoyable meal. Plus I did quite well in tips.
Is there any way to become a successful lawyer at a big firm without having a degree? Those lawyer themed TV shows are so much fun!
lol I wasn't being serious but okay
but other than that, there was really nothing there that was beneficial except the money (though it wasn't enough), the networking and etc. there was really nothing to gain at all. i always wanted to leave there from the time i got hired but i rode it out. when i got my college degree about a year and some months ago, i stayed there for about a year until the main manager of the job got transferred elsewhere. he was cool as hell. i would have stayed if he didn't leave BUT when they replaced him with another guy, that's when i decided to bounce. i knew it wasn't a smart idea to begin with because i would be broke but you know what. i feel like i gained a sense of dignity and clarity back quitting despite my mom and my brother shitting on me about it. don't care to tell you the truth because i would rather be at home chilling than to be there, slaving it and feeling five times worse than forcing a smile on my face and pretending that everything was okay when it wasn't.


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(MCT) — CHICAGO — The calls have been coming in for the last five years, some 6,689 since Feb. 2, 2008, the day five women died in the back of a Lane Bryant store in southwest suburban Tinley Park.
There were 5,600 calls in 2008 alone. Last year there were only 87.
The first call came from inside Lane Bryant, from panicked store manager Rhoda McFarland. McFarland whispered into the phone, then came the gruff voice of a man in the background. Then the line went dead.
A patrol officer had been only a few hundred yards away, in the parking lot of a Target store on the opposite side of the mall. He was at the store moments after McFarland called. Inside, he found McFarland, Carrie Hudek Chiuso, Sarah Szafranski, Jennifer Bishop and Connie Woolfolk dead, and a sixth woman badly injured, all shot with a .40-caliber semiautomatic handgun.
The man who shot them was gone. Five years later, he remains at large. To date, no one has called who knows the man who shot the six women, or why. The mass murder remains one of the most chilling unsolved cases in the Chicago area.
"That is the call we are waiting for at this point," said Cmdr. Pat McCain, who has supervised the investigation for the last four years.
"There is somebody out there who knows who did this. Maybe their conscience is bothering them. Maybe they will get themselves in a jam and need to help themselves out. I don't care what their motivation is. We need them to come forward."
Each morning, one of the three Tinley Park detectives assigned full time to the Lane Bryant case arrives at the War Room, a former classroom at the police station that the department has set aside for the investigation. On the wall near the door are photographs of each victim and a sketch of the suspect on a newspaper front page headlined "HE'S STILL OUT THERE."
In the early days of the investigation — even the early months, or years — authorities were often swept up with enthusiasm for a particular lead, Lt. Ray Violetto said. Tips came in more frequently and seemed more promising than they do now.
All of the physical evidence has been gathered. The rows of narrow tables in the War Room are covered with files and boxes. The walls are lined with white 6-inch binders; one or more labeled with the name of each of the victims; one for each store in the mall; dozens labeled "Tips."
Two sketches of the killer are in circulation, the more recent a computer-generated image. Both show the somewhat round face of a black man in his mid-20s to mid-30s, further described as about 6 feet tall, with his hair pulled into corn rows, including one braid strung with light green beads that dangles next to his right ear.
Would-be tipsters have spotted the suspect, or someone who looks like him, thousands of times, with sightings surging if the case is featured on shows such as "America's Most Wanted." Violetto, the lead investigator on the case, recently fielded a call from North Pole, Alaska, where a woman had seen the sketch on television and reported she had seen the suspect at a skateboard park.
"I thought it was a joke until I looked on the Internet, and there is a North Pole, Alaska. And they do have a police department," said Violetto. He called police in North Pole, who thought he was the one joking. Violetto persuaded his North Pole colleagues to canvass the skate park.
"We found teenagers, not someone 25 to 35," Violetto said, smiling wanly.
Checking into the more bizarre tips is a task reserved for members of the investigative team whom Violetto singles out for more or less lighthearted punishment, said Detective Tim Poulos.
"If you've been bad, you have to listen to the messages," Poulos said, pulling down a photograph from above his desk by way of explanation. It shows the front of a Piggly Wiggly grocery in Milwaukee. A few years ago, a woman called and said she had seen a sketch of the killer and stood behind him in checkout lane No. 5 the day before Thanksgiving. In 2007, months before the murders.
Poulos found the store and called the manager. The security video was erased long ago. Poulos may not know if the killer got groceries in Milwaukee six years ago, but the investigative team will check every lead.
"You have to check," he said, shrugging.
Some tipsters call even when the suspect looks nothing like the sketch, investigators have noticed. Some callers seem intent on hassling a neighbor or an ex-boyfriend, and there may be no better way to get a Tinley Park detective to take an interest in your enemies than to finger them as the Lane Bryant killer.
"We seem to have been getting a lot more of that," Poulos said.
Statistically, most murders are solved within days if they are solved at all, and that the probability of solving a case grows smaller the longer it takes to make an arrest, said Dave Pauly, a former Army criminal investigator and forensics instructor at Methodist University in Fayetteville, N.C.
Most often, murder victims are killed by someone they know. Random murders are more rare, and far more difficult to solve, because there is no thread to tie the victim to their killer.
Early in the investigation, detectives seemed to focus on a split between McFarland and leaders of a church where she was associate pastor in Crest Hill.
McFarland and the pastor had a falling out over a six-figure mortgage on the church, and he had started a new congregation in Texas. Tinley Park sent 11 investigators to Austin in August 2008 but made no arrests.
"That lead did not take us where we wanted to go," said McCain. "That one is pretty much not on our radar anymore."
Pauly, who consults on cold cases and has followed news accounts of the Lane Bryant killings, also wonders about the idea the killings could have been a targeted hit on one of the victims, noting the killer spent an unprofessional amount of time — 40 minutes — inside the store.
Tinley Park investigators' current hypothesis, that the killings were part of a random robbery attempt gone wrong — that a stranger decided to kill five strangers — is not an ideal scenario for narrowing down suspects, Pauly said. The perpetrator, Pauly said, was probably not even an experienced robber.
"A Lane Bryant is not even a good target for a robbery," Pauly said. "How many people are going to have a lot of cash in there?"
There are 180,000 unsolved murder cases nationwide, Pauly said. A small percentage are solved once an initial investigation has gone cold, typically defined as a case in which police have no active leads or no longer have detectives working on the case.
Often, a case will break open only when new technology is able to glean new information from existing evidence, as when DNA science arrived as a forensic tool in the 1980s. Another factor that will heat up a cold case is when a witness, or the perpetrator, comes forward and simply tells investigators what happened.
Usually, after a years-long investigation, the eventual suspect is no stranger to investigators. The key evidence, the name of the perpetrator himself, is likely somewhere in a file in the War Room, Pauly said.
"Usually, they have the suspect in the first few days. Someone questioned them, and they ruled them out, and it went in a file somewhere," Pauly said.
At some point, after the interview requests from the media that come in during January, and the flurry of tips that ensues, McCain, Violetto and Police Chief Steve Neubauer will discuss how the investigation will proceed in the coming year.
Last year, the department trimmed the number of investigators assigned to Lane Bryant from seven to three. The department has staffed as many as a dozen detectives to the detail, not including the hours put in by detectives from surrounding communities who have worked the case as part of the South Suburban Major Crimes Task Force. The department has spent nearly $2 million trying to find the killer.
The resources and time Tinley Park officials have devoted is exceptional, experts said. Tinley Park has so few murders — there have been two in the five years since the Lane Bryant killings, and police made arrests within hours — the village scarcely needs to spend money on training homicide investigators.
On a dry erase board next to Violetto's desk, someone years ago wrote "WORK DAY NUMBER," and at some point each day, someone will rub out the figure and add another digit, tallying the total work days since the Lane Bryant murders took place.
If the killer is not caught by Saturday, the five-year anniversary of the crime, the number will be 1,294.
"We were sure we were going to solve it the first day," said Patricia Hawrysz, an analyst for the State Police who was called in that day to help with the investigation and has stayed on the case ever since.
"We thought that night we were going to solve it. We had a living witness. The first three or four weeks, we thought we were going to solve it right away."


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App Creation
I found the process of creating an Arrayent application remarkably simple, though it did require a phone call to Arrayent's Application Architect, Harshy Wanigasekara, to understand the reasoning behind creating three attributes to establish a time series data collection service. I learned that Arrayent is working on reducing this to the more logical choice of two named attributes, but this option was unavailable at the time of my testing.
The requisite "Hello, world" of the Arrayent system is to hook up the on-board temperature sensor with the Arrayent back-end for time series reporting. While the user guide is well written, it didn't have a section on "your first application" which could have easily demonstrated how the system worked by walking developers through the temperature time series app creation process. Like many things with the company, the guide is rapidly evolving along with the expanded services that Arrayent can provide so this discussion may be included in future iterations. In the meantime, here's a brief synopsis of the process:
- Ensure both boards are powered and the Ethernet Gateway is connected to the Internet and the RF module.
- Log into the Arrayent Configurator website using the login credentials provided in the DevKit.
- Click the Device Attributes menu option in the Arrayent Configurator.
- Click the New button in the Device Attributes section of the page and select these three existing attributes from the Name drop down list:
- temp, a Hardware Attribute for the reported value received from the device
- tempp, a Hardware Attribute for the sampling period to poll the temp attribute
- temp-ts, a numeric Time Series for the captured tempp values.
These same steps can be followed for sampling sensors that can be attached to the digital lines (ex: adc1 for Digital Line 1, etc.).
Frequent samples can rapidly grown data storage needs, so unless the sensor requires frequent polling, setting the rate to 1 minute or more should be adequate for most scenarios. Although Arrayent has not at this writing confirmed any strict data storage quotas, Harshy estimates that most developer accounts should be able to store between 3 to 6 months of device data at a 1-minute sampling rate.
Other Considerations
While the prospect of relatively easy, network-enabled embedded systems application development is attractive, questions remain. As these small devices continue to evolve and literally embed themselves at our work and home, how is security and privacy addressed? What happens to the functionality of Arrayent's devices if/when Arrayent's backend fails? If significant security exploits or fatal flaws are discovered in the device's firmware, how can they be inexpensively updated en masse? The very nature that makes these devices network-reliant signify an area that should be addressed before such devices permeate our world. As automobile manufacturers are learning with their embedded systems, poor security considerations and buggy software can lead to disastrous results, and many of these systems are not even widely broadcasting across the Internet. Certainly early adopters to this nascent embedded systems approach can take the risk, but these considerations should be assessed before taking on the full responsibility of long-term support on commercial applications based on Arrayent's technology.
As for the development experience, Arrayent certainly takes care of the heavy lifting involved with capturing device data, messaging and when programmatically inclined to do so, remotely signaling activity on their devices. This leaves developers with more time to focus on their primary application. Extracting device data from Arrayent's systems is also easy using Arrayent's well documented web services API. Developers also have access to Arrayent's Trac-based bug tracking website to submit and be kept aware of problems and their resolution states. They also anticipate hosting a developer forum site in the near future to encourage other Arrayent developers to share ideas and assist each other with development questions and answers.
Future Opportunities
I'm excited by the potential that Arrayent's approach has to offer. While the hobbyist can certainly build their own one-off systems that do the same thing that Arrayent proposes, scaling these solutions to a commercially viable, mass market product is a different story. Indeed, I have built a number of home-brewed network-enabled projects with an Arduino attached to an Ethernet Shield and a couple of Python scripts cron'd to poll the state of the sensors connected to the board, but building more than a few of these for friends and family would get downright expensive, not to mention brittle. Arrayent's smarter structured approach abstracts away these headaches so that the final deliverable is unlikely to fail on account of back-end systems problems. Arrayent has done an impressive job with the ease of which their devices call home, and setting up device capture and emitting attributes can be performed without writing a line of code. For anyone who has done this without such assistance, such a task is not only daunting, it can also be incredibly error-prone. Removing such potential for error from the overall development cycle equation could be a huge benefit for programmers and product designers alike, and from my vantage point, Arrayent has an impressive head start in this emerging market.


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For three years Cristiano Ronaldo had kept away from the city where he blossomed into the most expensive – but not the best – player on the planet. There had been no visits to old United team-mates and no promotional shots back in Manchester since leaving for Real Madrid in June 2009. But he was clearly determined that no-one, least of all his former adversaries at Manchester City, would forget his return as he helped deliver the final – if often frustrating – blow to Roberto Mancini's Champions League ambitions.
Unlike the late goal at the Bernabéu that floored City's campaign so early, Ronaldo could not add to his 19 goals so far this season to leave an indelible mark on United's rivals. At times he was reduced to the petulant figure that had twice seen red at this stadium in the heat of a Manchester derby. But for one mesmerising and ultimately crucial period in the first half at The Etihad Stadium he was the figure that divided Real Madrid and Manchester City in terms of class and Champions League pedigree. It was sufficient to leave City on the outside of the European elite for a second season.
It required merely a glance at Mancini's starting formation to see where Ronaldo ranked on the list of concerns confronting the City manager, and only his first three touches of the game to demonstrate what kind of mood the Portugal international had arrived in. The Manchester return opened with a theatrical, albeit over-cooked, chest back to Fabio Coentrao and two accurate back-heeled flicks to Luka Modric. Elaboration was soon accompanied by a destructive streak, provoked by an unpunished foul from Pablo Zabaleta, and the combination should have ended with City out of sight.
Mancini sought to remedy Maicon's turbulent night against Ronaldo at the Bernabeu by adding the insurance of Zabaleta, tucked in behind the Brazilian on the right of a three-pronged central defence. The outcome was just the same. Before 30 minutes were out Zabaleta had been shifted to left-back in a four-man rearguard, the switch not only reflecting the failure of Mancini's original plan but also the embarrassment the usually dependable Argentinian had suffered against Ronaldo. And he was not alone.
Incensed when hauled to the floor by Zabaleta, having released Modric with an exquisite first-touch pass, the £80m man responded to the Italian referee's decision to play on with a petulant outburst that had serious consequences for City. For the next 15 minutes he tormented the Premier League champions at will, a humiliation of Vincent Kompany underlining his audacious authority in particular.
Moments after the wrestle from Zabaleta, Ronaldo collected a pass from the tireless Karim Benzema and displayed great awareness to thread an instinctive ball into Angel Di Maria. Though Di Maria, exploiting the space left by Aleksandar Kolarov at wing-back, had his shot blocked, Real remained in possession. Xabi Alonso gave Di Maria a second chance and an in-swinging cross resulted in Benzema putting the Spanish champions ahead and their English equivalents closer to an early exit.
Neither Maicon, who failed to follow Benzema's run in the box, nor Zabaleta, who appeared surprised by the cross, repaid their manager's faith at the critical moment. Mancini had bemoaned the defensive lapses that have contrasted starkly between Champions and Premier League performances in his programme notes. He could only respond with a resigned smile to the failure to heed the warning. Ronaldo then twisted Zabaleta inside and out before teeing up Sami Khedira for a close-range finish he should have converted. When he repeated the trick on Kompany, twice sending the commanding City captain swiping at thin air before crossing for a Khedira miss once more, an audible gasp went around the Etihad. Rarely, if ever, has the Belgium international appeared so lost on this ground.
The 27-year-old should have enhanced his night's work seconds later when sent clear of City's ponderous offside trap by Xabi Alonso. As Joe Hart advanced, Ronaldo flicked the ball over and goalwards but without the power to beat Matija Nastasic to the line. Steadying himself for the rebound, Real's No7 was denied at close range by Hart and screamed out in frustration. Jose Mourinho did likewise towards the Madrid bench.
The miss, plus Mancini's defensive switch in fairness, took the momentum from Ronaldo's performance until midway through the second half. As City recovered, the Real talisman resorted to fruitless appeals for a penalty plus a foul by Kompany and the home supporters revelled in the strops. But that was all they got.


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BRISTOL, Tenn. – As the top-ranked team in the country, the King University women's wrestling team hosts their lone event on Saturday in the Student Center Complex. The Tornado host both University of Cumberlands and Campbellsville University starting at 9:00 a.m., Saturday morning.
The Tornado start the day early as they take on Campbellsville at 9:00 a.m., before Campbellsville takes on Cumberlands at 10:00 a.m. King head coach Jason Moorman will wrestle two teams at the event with his second team taking on Cumberlands at 11:00 a.m., followed by a bout with Campbellsville at 12:00 p.m. The featured match will take place at 1:00 p.m., when the Tornado face Cumberlands to conclude the day of wrestling at the Student Center Complex.
King was the preseason #1 ranked team in the Women's Collegiate Wrestling Association (WCWA) Preseason ranks and had three wrestlers ranked #1 in their weight classes. The Tornado opened the season by sweeping through the Cliff Keen Duals last weekend in Oklahoma City, Okla., going 7-0 to take the title. In the championship match, King defeated defending WCWA national champion Simon Fraser University 35-9.


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text: It was the famous poet Robert Frost who, in 1923, penned the poem, "Nothing Gold Can Stay."He obviously wasn't a Diamondbacks fan.Paul Goldschmidt certainly looks like he's here to stay, belting his fifth home run of April as the Diamondbacks defeated the Rockies Thursday night. The homer gave Goldschmidt 18 RBI and 16 runs scored on the year, and the 25-year-old first baseman is now hitting .325 through 22 games. What's more, Goldschmidt was hitting .357 against righties heading into Thursday's game after hitting 100 points lower against them in 2012.Along with giving his fantasy owners a welcome boost, Goldschmidt's early returns are also serving to quiet some of his doubters. There was much wailing and gnashing of teeth in March about Goldy's average draft position, with critics saying he was being selected too high given his skillset. But entering Thursday's game, Goldschmidt was the No. 32 player overall according to Yahoo!'s ranks, placing higher than notable first basemen Joey Votto, Albert Pujols and Adrian Gonzalez, among others.That's not to say he will continue to outpace his fellow first basemen over the long haul -- it's early, and no conclusions good or bad should be drawn from the first few weeks of games. One notable component of Goldschmidt's game that has been missing early on is stolen bases, as he's swiped zero bags this year after stealing 18 last season, so his value will take a minor hit if he continues to run less in 2013. But even without the speed element, Goldschmidt has, at least thus far, been worth his weight in, well...you get the idea.Re-Clay-mation ProjectIt's April 26, so naturally your league leader in wins is Clay Buchholz.Wait, what?As another great poet once said, don't hate the player, hate the game. So while staff aces like Stephen Strasburg and Jeff Samardzija toil near the league lead for losses at 1-4, it's Buchholz with a league-best 5-0 record after Thursday's win over the Astros.It's not an undeserved honor, either. Buchholz has earned each of his five wins, never lasting fewer than seven innings with any more than two runs allowed. Twice Buchholz has held opponents scoreless during his time on the mound, and Thursday Buchholz struck out 11 Astros over 7 2/3 innings.Some peripherals suggest Buchholz is due for a regression from his 1.19 ERA and 1.01 WHIP -- mostly just the one that says pitchers don't suddenly turn into Bob Gibson -- but he shouldn't be completely written off as a one-month wonder. There's always been talent there, and we could finally be starting to see it used consistently. 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Superstar was a HORRIBLE choice as a single for 4th singles from MDNA!!!
Okay so, not the biggest Madonna fan but this guy I'm seeing frequently loves her so I decided to check out her music. I'm not a really big fan still but I really like some of her songs. My top 10 Madonna songs are as follows:
10. I Don't Give A
9. Music
8. Ray of Light
7. Hung Up
6. Girl Gone Wild
5. Take A Bow
4. Dance 2night
3. Frozen
2. Vogue
1. Papa Don't Preach
I don't think I'd ever want to see her in concert for 2 hours or something but I do like these songs and a few others. I do appreciate the fact that most, if not all of her music is pop and not really pop mixed with other genres like RnB or Rock, etc. It's actually the same reason I very much love Kylie, but Kylie and Madonna's music is very different. In short I feel Kylie's music is much "happier" than Madonna's. So I'd rather dance to something like Spinning Around/Can't Get You Out of My Head/Get Outta My Way before I'd dance to Madonna's songs.
But yes, Madonna is cool in her own way
Saw the MDNA tour on Tuesday. It was really good. She kept us waiting 2 hours while she watched the debate but she seemed friendly. That was the 3rd time I saw her. I saw the Confessions tour and I saw her at her best in the Who's That Girl World Tour. That was my first concert. Memories.
Madonna came to Indonesia once and it was too perverted
I prefer Kylie's work over Madonna's. Only enjoy about four Madonna albums (True Blue, Like a Virgin, Ray of Light, Music). Madonna's current problem is her inability to connect with youth. Haven't been to a Madonna concert but I wouldn't hazard to assume she's rocking the 25+ demographic.
I see no reason to choose between Kylie and Madonna. They seem to coexist without intrusion. If I had to choose though, it would be Madonna. I just haven't heard enough Kylie albums cover to cover to compare her fairly to the Queen.
I love them both, but I've loved Madonna for longer. Actually, I think Kylie's more recent music is having the reverse problem of Madonna not appealing to youth. A lot Kylie's long-time fans keep ripping her apart for being in her 40s and singing "silly pop songs" like the ones from Aphrodite, and also Timebomb. Especially the Impossible Princess stans... I don't get it.
Madonna's attempts to appeal to younger audiences are a lot more transparent though. I don't think many are buying it, and it's turning off some of her older fans too. The fan favorites from the last two albums -- "Devil Wouldn't Recognize You," "Miles Away," "Love Spent," "I'm Addicted," "Gang Bang" -- have a huge difference in lyrical depth from the first two singles of each album.
I could somewhat agree on the Madonna singles thing after listening to her last 2 albums (which I don't think are that bad) I don't get her major single release choices. I really like Dance 2night, Miles Away, Voices, Beat Goes On, Masterpiece, etc. over Give Me All Your Luvin' & 4 Minutes.
Madonna and Kylie seem to have a similar fan base because they are similar in style when it comes to music and fashion. But their songs are very different and that's where they seem to diverge. I prefer Kylie a lot more.
Kylie's releasing The Abbey Road Sessions this month, and will release a re-make of On a Night Like This on December 17! And she's reportedly also going release her 12th studio album next year.
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I think it's 2018 that it expires. She signed a 10-year, 3-album, 5-tour contract with them while she was still with Warner, as both legs of Sticky and Sweet counted toward Madonna's touring obligations with Live Nation. MDNA was the first album and third tour, so she's got two of each left.
^sorry mate...im east coast
All this talk of Madonna vs Britney, Madonna vs Xtina.....is getting tired - Madonna is the FUCKING QUEEN! And this video proves it, LOL.
Gaga doesn't get a mention, because this was done way back in 2002BG (Before Gaga)
An official Madonna thread oh my God now I know I made the right decision joining this site ;_;
^her dancers were kinda hot looking though. I also liked the "Know Madonna or Go Madonna" segment.
I can't wait to see her in Rio
The ellen interview just proves Madonna has tremendous star power and charisma.
I love how Ellen's people conveniently forgot to include the cover for Hard Candy in that montage.
Not that I blame them.
Totally listening to Hard Candy right now.
Here you go boys, some eye candy
I think some of these guys were in her superbowl halftime show. I love her dancers. Guys who dance well turn me the fuck on for some reason. The 4 guys she had with her during 'Music' on the bleachers had me so hard.
Best Superbowl halftime EVER!
I adore this woman....
When it comes to men, she knows how to pick winners.
The dancing pink bikini chick sold me on that song.
^^^I hope that girl never had political aspirations... because that chance is dead.
Girl Gone Wild is a great track though. I love it. Madonna's video for it is waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay better though.
There we go. This is better.
The video with the dancing girl was made for another song (it's some weird foreign instrumental called "Skeletons Having Sex on a Tin Roof" ) but some Madonna fan who thought the lyrics for GGW were extremely vapid and subpar for Madonna's standards put the song over that video prior to Madonna's video being released. I dunno, the imagery is so silly and syncs so well with parts of GGW -- by total serendipity, because it's unedited from the original video -- that it turned the song around for me.
My favorite part: "Forgive me. *crazy Exorcist hair flip*"
Impressive how soooo many celebrities have gone to see MDNA....
Kylie, Stella, Alicia Keys , Gwen Stefani and NO Doubt , Leo diCaprio (again!), George Michael, Anderson Cooper, NPH & partner, Robyn (!!), SEAN PENN, Ashton Kutcher, Mila Kunis, Naomi Campbell, Kate Moss, JPG, Versace, D&G, Valentino, Glen Close, Adam Clayton of U2, ADAM LEVINE (LA Show YAY!), Heidi Klum
to people I didnt even expect : Sophia Bush, Emma Roberts, Mark Salling (Glee!), Jessica Alba, Dita VT, Rose McG, Paris Hilton, LLu, ALANIS MORISSETTE, JODIE FOSTER, JARED LETO, david Arquette
Sitting in the front row of a Madonna concert with Mark Salling... how amazing would that be?
I've never seen her in concert... So jealous of you guys!
According to Madonna's official Facebook page, next week's Miami shows (November 19th & 20th) are being filmed for a DVD release!
i hope the DVD is directed well to appreciate the mind blowing stage M has used
just amazing
GQ's The Least Influential People of 2012
So disrespectful.That cheerleading outfit isn't making you look any younger, Madge. It's time for you to stop putting out aggressively bland comeback albums and make room for Ke$ha and Katy and the other 800 female artists out there who change outfits every five minutes to distract people from their terrible singing.
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Like I've said before -- critics have been declaring that Madonna is "over"/irrelevant/washed-up/past her sell-by date since 1992. It's gotten to be quite amusing as the years have progressed.
Meanwhile, she's still around twenty years later (and not only still around, but still challenging herself artistically, still selling out stadiums around the world, still racking up #1s)... how many of them can say the same?
How long before Lady Caca starts incorporating a walker into her "act"?
This is purely opinion though and musical taste varies from one person to another so this is irrelevant. I actually don't know why everyone starting PMS-ing over Hard Candy. I actually like many tracks from that album and I'm not even her biggest fan."She" hasn't made a "decent" album since Music
So some people will love her new work some will hate it so there's no 'quality' to talk of. People who talk like that remind me of food critics. It's like, seriously, WHO CARES? Some people like to eat fish and chips, some people prefer chicken, some prefer greens, not everyone has to like calamari and champagne. I don't get people's obsession with being like some fucking quality police and literally going into other people's homes and telling them what's good and what isn't and what they should or shouldn't be listening to. And at the same time being basically so anti mainstream and telling anyone who likes mainstream stuff that their taste in music is horrible and they "don't know" what real music is.
It's pointless. People have a choice when it comes to musical preference. Get the fuck over it. Clearly enough people like Madonna's recent work for her to still be a (very) profitable touring act. And her last 5 CDs have all gone straight to #1.
Tough Shit.
She continues to set records in those areas, so obviously a rather large amount of people are still interested in her. Hence relevancy.
And if you don't think she's interested in artistry -- check out album cuts like "Gang Bang," or her elaborately designed & choreographed stage show.
I'm not someone who thinks Madonna shits gold, but -- for the life of me -- I can't figure out how anyone could dismiss all of that.


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Monday, October 27, 2008
It's an all about me post
Yesterday I got in the water at noon and, as you can see from the graph, the wind was extremely light and onshore.
I just wanted to check what's the limits of The Experiment. I ended up having a blast.
At noon the waves were absolutely perfect. Yoshi was out there surfing and we shared some incredible rides. Mast high at the bowl and then perfectly peeling right and left (I clearly could only go left, upwind).
A couple of hours later, the swell peaked and it got too big and started to close out. Still some heart stopping drops to be made.
There's 12-14 hours delay between the NW buoy readings and Maui. Check it out.. 15 feet at the buoy means over mast high on the reef!
I went out again at 5, together with Glenn. Alex was on the beach and took these photos. Thanks!
This is an italian 19yo sailor in vacation. OMG, is that ok to post photos of him or somebody is going to get offended 'cause he's too young?
He just got on the island, had no idea of how Kanaha works and tried to go straight through the waves... good luck!!! Needless to say, he got hammered.
The funny thing is that I've been testing 9 different longboard sailing SUPs last week. Which one would have I picked yesterday? None of them...
Once again, thanks a million to Jeff Henderson who got me into longboard wave sailing. It gave my an amazing amount of emotions, rides, hours in the water (and that magic double page photo on Windsurfing mag. Can anybody help me find it in the blog archive? I don't have the time this morning...), but I might just be done with longboards.
My re-shaped strepless 100l freeride board works incredibly well and it's just too much fun!
And now some surfing, since the weekend and Monday offered fantastic conditions.
I would have liked to brag about my progress on a shortboard, but I can't for two reasons:
1) I had a friend available to take photos only in a day in which I went out on my 8.6
2) I'm not making any.
Well, no problem... I'll brag about my regression on the longboard instead!
After having used the 6.10 for quite a few times, in fact, I completely lost the timing and positioning. As you can see from the following three photos, I was always too deep/late.
I like this first one a lot though.
Finally I stick a drop!
Copying dad's hair style.
No matter how much I suck, I always have fun and get energy from the ocean out of a surf session... can you tell?
More waves the next couple of days, should be fun. The wind? What do I care...
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- Sharon said...
"re-shaped strepless 100l freeride board" and when the equipment isn't precious it's even better. Wow Kanaha was bloody big yesterday, perhaps I'll take my surfboard to the harbor today and score some leftovers.
- Daniel said...
C'mon, now that I just started enjoying longboard sailing/SUP witch got my attention especially after watching the fun you where having in your longboard videos with Jeff, you say you are done!? Cammar, what a disappointment. Just kidding... I am having a blast with my new toy, just starting to pick some waves for the first time, with the paddle or the sail, or just cruising around, great fun.
But, you are catching waves on a 100l freeride board without straps!? How does that work?
- cammar said...
'zactly! Free at a garage sale is a fair price.
I checked the harbor myself: perfect for you! A bit small for me, it takes a little longer period than 10 seconds to shoal on that reef...
(I'm so fucking technical!)
longboard wave sailing rocks! I did for four years and now I feel the need of a change. Whatever takes you out there in light or no wind is a great toy.
T.E. WAS a freeride board. Now that I added more than one inch of rocker and a huge V on the tail it's more like a surfboard.
Unfortunately the front part of the board is still pretty straight and I feel (and don't like) that on the steep waves, but on the other hand it helps a lot to keep the speed on non steep waves. There's always something good in everything.
At that speed (the wind was 10mph at the airport, 0-3mph in the waves!!) the footstraps would be absolutely useless. Actually, when slogging the back foot rests exactly when the front footstraps would be, so they would be extremely in the way.
Once I catch a wave, then I move my feet back, depending on the steepness of the wave and on the radius of the turn I want to achieve.
We're talking about something that has very little to do with windsurfing and much more to do with surfing.
The difference is that I don't have to lay down and paddle (which my back doesn't like too much) and I can catch 10 times more waves than I can when I surf.
The sail is still a bit in the way, though. In other words, surfing is still the best way of riding waves, 'cause you can move your body more freely.
Again, my back can only take limited amounts of surfing and that's why I do stuff like this.
Check what Bruno Andre is doing with his AHD sea lion.
He's going to be in Maui in December and I'll get to try one. From what I see from the video, I think I like my T.E. better... we'll see!
- Ola H. said...
I was just going to comment and tell you about the Seal Lion, but you already know, I see. Might be interesting. Starboard have some rather short SUPs coming out to that might work nicely for windsurfing. I've heard Scott McKercher catches some prety big waves on those. You should also have a go on Dolfs old Aero if he lets you.
As for "done with longboards", I think the important thing is variation. It great to stay on one board, one sail, one type of conditions etc and some aspects of your sailing grow by doing so. But it is also good to change and try other stuff now and then. You might return to your tried and try "style" but the experiments usually opens up you mind in a nice way.
- cammar said...
Hi Ola,
agree that variation is key.
I would love to try some of the short starboard SUPs.
But I don't think I would like the Aero. I have never even see one, but I assume it's a windsurf board and that's not what I like to have under my feet in super light wind.
I want a surfboard rocker and that's what I gave to T.E.
Honestly, I really think that that board has a magic combination of measurements. A little more volume would help in situations like absolutely no wind tacks and emergency uphauls, but at the same time there's something about the width and thickness of it that I really dig.
Any SUP would be way wider/thicker and I'm not sure I would like that.
I have to keep trying boards, that's for sure.
One of the good sides of trying different boards is that I'm becoming more aware of my needs depending on the different conditions.
Take today (wednesday) for example: still kind of light (but with moments of planing) and onshore and still big waves.
The 81 Goya was too small (hard to go over the white water)... too windy for T.E....
I ended up sailing my old SOS (estimated volume around 84-86l) and absolutely loved it.
I wonder if I would have liked the Goya 90 better... I might have to demo it again... if they still give it to me, after I kept it a month last year!
See you soon!
hey bradda, i never left a message and ive been hitting your sight for over a year now. i was the long hair haole takin big drops at laparouse on that big day last winter. i made some killer wipeout videos. i was dissappointed not to see them on your sight. usually euros love to trash locals.ha anyway i print shirts,mugs,mouse pads whatever and i do it right here. no minimum order, all and any colors can graphic design or take your design and send it to me email those lycra shirts for the water--my earth friendly ink never fades and you cant feel the lettering,,,plus i have new surf material dry in minutes. Contact me @ PERSONALIZETHISONLINE.COM AND WE WILL GET TO WORK ON SOME WATER STATEMENTS for standup log paddlers. aloha anak


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