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|I'm waiting for the end pieces that were not in stock when I installed them, Should be in tomorrow. I need to cut off the bolt ends for the car fiddles more than the end of the track. IMHO!
Looks good Marty-
Might want to cover or round the corners on the forward end of the track, so that the corners don't catch or chafe the genoa fairlead control line.
here are pics of new setup, hopefully they are visible enough.
cleaning after removal.
aft to front
Front to rear including small tracks for 110
very front of track
very rear of track and carr and cam cleat to hold the pulling end of the line
under side of deck, with new 3/4" or 2 cm washers vs the old washers that were maybe 3/8" and sless than a cm in diam.
Currently the front fiddle is held onto the ubolt of the shroud. The rear is bolted to the carr where the push/pull lock pin would be. I need to cut this bolt a bit shorter so it does not interfere with the genoa sheet.
I am hoping that by installing the new tracks farther forward I can use the far most setting for reaching to downwind legs with the 110 on windier days for cruising or crewed racing when it is too strong to use a bigger jib or the spinnaker.
I am sure like a lot of things, the playing with the setup to see how well it will work will be the fun part!
May have time to try it this weekend, but more than likely in a week during a race of all places to test it out!
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An update, the new holes I drilled, worked reasonably well, today, the old tracks came off, new schaefer tracks went on. I remembered I had some Schaefer cars thinking they would fit my Goiot track, I was wrong, so 3 yrs later, I am using these cars with new tracks, some Garhauer fiddles that the Owner of Fishery supply showed me when in the store a week or so ago, so may have some pics of how it turns out later tomorrow. If the 4-1 system does not work, I did get Schaefers race track, which has 3 holes per 4" of bolt holes, so even then I will be better than my old setup.
Do not recall the manufacture off hand. I believe it is factory installed with boat though.
From the car a continuous loop goes forward to a double block, back to car and again forward to double block. This is the 4:1 purchase. From there comes aft to a cam cleat on side of coachroof (where a spin downhaul is often located) and then back to single block on aft of track and forward to aft end of car.
Works extremely well and easier to use than most oter adjustable car systems I have used including on a Peterson 37 and a C&C 99
What brand of system do you have on your J? I am thinking that your genoa/jib may be about equal in size to my Jeanneau Arcadia. 220# for my 100%, 155 is 345#. I would assume a 4-1 to pull forward?
This is more of a "what do you have?" different question than original to see if an equal will work for me.
Our Niagara had holes 4 inches apart and I drilled new holes half way between the existing ones on the track. The holes only have to go as deep as the stopper pin and using a cordless drill it was very easy to do this without going too far. I did not use a stopper.
Our current boat has an adjustable car system with lines, etc.. .and is certainly a much nicer system - especially the leverage to move the cars forward under load. However it would indeed be expensive to convert as you would need new cars, blocks and cleats on each side.
I think your plan is feasible however inserting three holes between each of the existing holes could be a concern. Why not just try one for this weekend and if it seems fine you could always add the other two?
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Jody, sounds like you're doing to HG that I have been attempting to do with Amoretto. Make it so you can control everything easily, and get the most speed etc. Not to mention, when it is just Sheryl and I, be it a J&J or equal style race, or a dinner evening cruise to Kingston, ways for us to handle this easy enough etc with out having to go forward.
With the new 155, it is pretty much a deck sweeper. And when we are close hauled, it does not take make carr movement to change the leech curve. Hence wanting to drill the holes for this weekend. Hopefully this will allow me to get somewhere between a really curved foot and tight leach, to a really straight foot touching the inward stays, curved leech, to something in between. right now it is either or! We could have used an in between setting.
Then with the jiblet on a tack line, my old 135 with a high cut clew, 4" of tack movment is probably like 1" with this new 155 being as close to the track as it is.
Now it is which brand ete to choose from, carr I want like I have, ie the ability to run two sheets thru it, and movement thru a line. Possibly a barber hauler option down the road too. Will figure that one out as I go.
Yes I "DO" owe you some crew time! Anyway, need to go to SYC's page and register this AM before heading to vashion.
Marty - Its a tricky situation..their is the camp that says you have to do this way. For example on my redoing all rigging + deck layout - the synopsis of the pros is reduce the lines. That is all great and good but if it sacrifices control or having the ships operating procedures altered to adjust for a "disclaimer"... I'd rather have the extra line.
Most of my setup is derived from AC / Ocean race setups. Forward of the cockpit the spin / jib lines can be interchanged depending on number of crew / race mode desired. The deal is when shorthanded - everything led aft. When having a race crew (and you owe me some time on that)... everything is led forward of the dodger that takes everything less the main sheet trimming and traveler out of the picture.) and then is handled at the mast area. I am one of the few boats with a semi racing pedigree to go this route and it confuses the hell out of folks working on the boat because they have mindset you are a racer or a cruiser..Not on my boat..one has to go both routes...
Same thing I look at Genoa track...
It has to be balanced or adjustable..
Your new carbon sail is 25% larger than my jiblet you are using. That means depending on sail config / track config - everything of what you can get out of it..
Hence how I found the fallacy in the Harken recommended setup - because the jiblet you are using that I commandeered(well I owned it) .. didn't adjust with the Harken layout... not one iota and I can care less if this is "everyone else does this".. because well I see everyone off a J boat that crews my boat thinks close hauling is the answer to speed..
You'll do ok with the interim solution - interestedin seeing what the carbon foil is about..
Otherwise DAK *drunk at keyboard*...
See ya on Friday..
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Isn't this just a little counterintuitive for a company whose focus is solely on the Internet? The struggling pioneer in the field wants to return to a brick-and-mortar paradigm, in part for productivity, and in part to re-establish a social and business culture internally:
Yahoo's decision is meant to foster collaboration, according to a company memo sent to employees Friday.
Yahoo's head of human resources, Jackie Reses, wrote that communication and collaboration will be important as the company works to be "more productive, efficient and fun." To make that happen, she said, "it is critical that we are all present in our offices. Some of the best decisions and insights come from hallway and cafeteria discussions, meeting new people and impromptu team meetings." …
The struggling Internet icon burned through four CEOs and shed thousands of workers in the few years preceding the appointment of Marissa Mayer as CEO last year. Her appointment gained further notoriety when she disclosed that she was pregnant at the time of her hiring.
Mayer has since whipped the company into shape — the stock price is up about 50% — with a series of executive changes and acquisitions. Her latest edict is motivated, in part, by a desire to improve productivity among Yahoo employees who work from home and to weed out unproductive workers, according to a former Yahoo employee who recently departed for another job. He asked not to be identified because his current employer works with Yahoo.
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"Mayer has taken a giant leap backward," they said in a joint statement. "Instead of keeping great talent, she is going to find herself with a workplace full of people who are good at showing up and putting in time vs. a workforce that could most effectively and efficiently drive the business forward in the 21st century."
I've been home-officing for almost six years now, and I don't think anyone is terribly concerned about my productivity. That doesn't mean I don't miss being in an office environment, especially the last couple of weeks after giving up Twitter for Lent. However, my work as a writer doesn't have much of a collaborative component to it, which makes it easier for us to have a distributed office environment.
I think this says something interesting about Mayer in contrast to the recent trend in human-resource management. The distributed-office model assumes that there is no value added by bringing employees into close proximity and allowing social connections to occur within the brick-and-mortar environment, and that those actually are net negatives for quantity and quality of work. Mayer seems to believe the opposite. It will be interesting to see which ends up being correct, but Mayer's is definitely the most optimistic about human nature and its role in commerce.
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If you've never dipped a French fry into your Wendy's Frosty, go ahead and give it a try. The combo is "crazy delicious" according to the 164 fans who've found each other in a Facebook group dedicated to the salty-sweet indulgence. And there are thousands more customers touting the taste combination (along with dipping chicken nuggets or Jr. Bacon Cheeseburgers) in the more general Frosty fan group, with a following that's 255,000 strong, and growing.
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With more than 10,000 owned or franchised restaurant locations, the possibility to connect with customers in new ways has significant appeal to Zimmerman. "I think there's a lot of potential there as we start to explore what it can yield in the way of new business or enhancing the relationship with existing customers," says Zimmerman. "When they come into our restaurants, they're not usually just shopping. They're there to buy."
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The potential for social networking to build customer loyalty far surpasses more traditional methods of marketing. "Is social networking starting to take the place of some television time?" Zimmerman asks. "If that's the case, what could this mean to advertising and reaching people in a broad sense?" Simply put, 255,000 fans of the Frosty, and then some. "But it also brings an entirely different dynamic than broadcast advertising ever possibly could, and that's the much more targeted and special-interest aspect of these particular sites and technologies. You can find a group or set up your own group, and attract people into just about anything that they might want to be a part of," he says.
Social media is also chock-full of information about what potential guests like, such as their favorite foods, when they like to dine, etc. If restaurants can tap into that information by meeting customers where they hang out (on Facebook, Second Life and other networking sites), they can create a bridge for the next time that guest walks into the store. "If I know how you like to interact with us, we could potentially tailor your experience to that knowledge of you and the relationship we've established."
Looking ahead, Zimmerman suggests that personalized greetings could offer information with targeted offers; perhaps a special coupon for a Frosty and fries. As for communication mediums, these could include sending a personalized message to a mobile phone or in-store digital display, or recognizing a guest via the signature on their personal wireless device, or via a loyalty card program. Once the restaurant knows who you are, the checker can also know what you might like to order.
Zimmerman explains: "We touch a lot of customers a lot of times, and we have information about that. If we can turn that into personalized information and then connect with you where you are, at a social networking site, for example, we can then leverage that relationship when you come back to us to create an even better experience. What would that do to our industry? It would open up a tremendous set of possibilities to interact with customers in multiple ways: on their cell phones, personally in the restaurant, having their orders, having their favorites, being able to speed the transaction if it's what they always order, or simply by having them feel a little better because they know we appreciate them."
Taking the connectivity piece to the next level, Zimmerman points to two key technologies that could have a significant impact on the way that restaurants interact with their customers, particularly if combined with social networking: cell phones/PDAs and digital signage.
Digital display boards, in particular, have the potential to leverage personalized information to create a unique guest experience. "There's a lot of potential to influence customers that are already in the restaurant or approaching the drive-thru and provide them with messages that are not only timely, but maybe even targeted," says Zimmerman. These messages could be related to what's going on in the restaurant, special offers, advertising partners, or possibly even weather information. "There are a lot of things you can do with that no-longer-static sign."
The inhibitor to digital signage has traditionally been price, but costs are dropping. Once those costs come down to justify the cost-benefit, Zimmerman believes it's likely that digital display boards will become common practice in the QSR segment.
When it comes to guests' personal wireless devices, Zimmerman sees multiple applications, ranging from mobile/web ordering to targeted messaging. He offers one caveat, however, particularly as it applies to the quick-service segment. "The challenge in a fast food environment is, how accurately can you connect that customer's arrival with the readiness of your food, and does the shelf-life of your product give you enough leeway to make that happen? If fries are cold because they were five minutes off in their arrival estimation, that's not a good thing."
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Some hospitality operators have gone awry in leveraging Web 2.0 by attempting to control the message. Taking a traditional media approach here just won't work. "If you're reaching your customers, in the media sense at least, through television commercials or coupons, then you control all aspects of that," says Zimmerman. "Now, consumers can put their own media out there and generate a lot of buzz if it catches on. If we're still thinking, as companies, that we can control the message out there completely, in today's technology world I don't think that's true."
Connecting isn't about control, explains Zimmerman. It's about building relationships. "I don't think about social networking as hosting a site on our space. I think it's going to where [potential customers] already are and being a part of their community."
For those operators that haven't yet gotten over the TripAdvisor fear, concerned that entering the social media realm will open up the possibilities of unbridled feedback and possible negative content, Zimmerman counters that, in today's connected world, consumers can do that anyway. "Staying away from the media where they're hanging out doesn't stop that. In my mind, it's better to be there and help encourage the positive side of it. You ought to join it versus thinking that you can control everything."


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Looks fantastic man great job.
Looks fantastic man great job.
The rifle itself has no moral stature, since it has no will of its own. Naturally, it may be used by evil men for evil purposes, but there are more good men than evil, and while the latter cannot be persuaded to the path of righteousness by propaganda, they can certainly be corrected by good men with rifles.
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+1 Great job, keep up the great work!
Excellent job for a first build!!!!! Wow, I'm impressed. My first build looked like Grok the caveman beat a piece of 4130 sheet metal into submission. LOL.
Enforcement, NOT Amnesty!!!!!!
"If theyre going to come here illegally, apply for & receive assistance through a corrupted Government agency encouraging this lawless behavior, work under the table & send billions of dollars each year back to their families in Mexico, while bleeding local economies dry, protest in our streets waving their Mexican flags DEMANDING rights, while I have to press 1′ for English, then they need to be shipped back to where they came from!" -Chad Miller
Looks great! Nice finish on the wood. What you did to it?
The very atmosphere of firearms anywhere and everywhere restrains evil interference- they deserve a place of honor with all that is good. George Washington
"A free people ought not only to be armed and disciplined, but they should have sufficient arms and ammunition to maintain a status of independence from any who might attempt to abuse them, which would include their own government."
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Nice build, thanks for the pics.
Very nice!
Are you sure this is your first build?
Pull up your pants, turn off that damn rap and speak clear English, if you want to talk to me.


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Back-to-Back: Boockmeier Wins Second-Straight Tournament
By: Andrew Gavin (@GBGavin)
BOWLING GREEN, Ohio (GreenBayPhoenix.com) – For the second-straight Tuesday, Green Bay junior Tom Boockmeier (Green Bay, Wis.) entered the final 18 holes of a golf tournament trailing the individual leader by multiple shots. For the second-straight Tuesday, Boockmeier fired an under par round and claimed a tournament title, carding a 2-under par 70 at Stone Ridge Golf Club to win the John Piper Intercollegiate by one stroke.
Boockmeier, who rallied to win the Green Bay Invitational last Tuesday by one stroke, entered Tuesday tied for seventh and four strokes behind the leader at 1-under. The junior birdied two of his first three holes, but made consecutive bogeys at four and five to fall back to even par for the day. After three pars, Boockmeier made a long putt at nine to make the turn in 1-under par and carded eight pars and one birdie on the back nine for the one-shot win.
"I have always been a better player coming from behind," said Boockmeier. "Playing with the lead is a lot tougher, and when you are behind you can just kind of put the pedal down and go try to make some birdies."
With a 54-hole total of 213 (75-68-70), Boockmeier bested host Bowling Green's Chris Melvin by one shot and first-round leader Logan Lagodich of tourney champion Marshall and Youngstown State's Dennis Holub by two shots. Marshall posted a team score of 866 to finish three strokes in front of Valparaiso (869) and four in front of Green Bay (870). Bowling Green (872), Youngstown State (883) and Northern Kentucky (903) rounded out the field.
Boockmeier opened the tournament with a 3-over par 75 before playing the final 36 holes in 6-under par. In six rounds this season, Boockmeier has finished under par four times and is a combined 5-under par in his two tourney wins in 2013. Boockmeier also won the Butler Invitational in the spring of his sophomore season and now has three individual titles in his Phoenix career.
"It is pretty cool to get back-to-back wins, and I didn't really expect it," said Boockmeier. "I came into the first tournament and just wanted to play well, and this one was the same mindset. After a 75 to start, I felt like I was probably out of it, but all of a sudden I made a few birdies in that second round and got it going and was able to catch someone."
Sophomore Gene Kiela (Plymouth, Wis.), who was tied for 22nd after 36 holes, carded a 4-under par 68 on Tuesday to vault into a tie for seventh place (217=73-76-68). The round was career-best effort by Kiela during his time at Green Bay.
Senior Joseph Collard (Marinette, Wis.) also tied for seventh place (217=71-71-75). Freshman Joe Du Chateau (Fond du Lac, Wis.) tied for 29th place (229=76-71-82) and senior Dan Ozga (Edgerton, Wis.) finished alone in 31st place (230=78-75-77).
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Oh no!
I used to go down to the West Village to watch him, back in the 70's and 80's!
You were one of the All-time Greats!
I started feeling my jazz heroes leaving the scene around the year Dexter Gordon and Art Blakey passed on. From then on it's been one after another, drummers Billy Higgins and Elvin Jones, keyboardist Joe Zawinul, and many more. Dave at least lived a long life, which makes it seem less a tragedy and more an inevitability.
And of course, some of my jazz heroes are still around but that list gets shorter every year. No pun intended there, Wayne is happily still kicking.
Great list. Billy Higgins is really underrated for how great he was.
brubeck is an interesting case: there's no doubt that his career success owes a great deal to white skin privilege (in terms of absolute talent as a jazz musician, there are a number of pianists of his era who were "better" but african american), but he was a legitimate jazz musician, not a "smooth jazz phony" (even cecil taylor said nice things about brubeck!), and he never coasted on his reputation alone.
and of course we can't speak of brubeck without acknowledging his longtime sax partner paul desmond, a subtle and superb stylist.
although he's most famous (as eric's clip confirms) for "take five" and his live at various colleges in the '50s recordings, i'd suggest brubeck time as an entree.
Right. If nothing else, Brubeck was smart enough to work with Desmond.
Sure, if you define "absolute talent as a jazz musician" as limited to just his piano playing, you're right. But this unfairly diminishes his skills as a composer IMO. He was one of the greats in that regard.
i'm not dissing brubeck: if artistic greatness were the only factor involved in commercial success in popular music, the members of the velvet underground would be very wealthy today.
but i just looked up the first random name that came into my mind: elmo hope. it turns out that hope was born in 1923 (brubeck in 1920) so they were peers chronologically.
there simply isn't any talent-based reason (hope being a fine composer too) for brubeck to be a significant success and hope to die poor.
but i'm not taking anything away from brubeck: as i say, he was a legitimate talent without question, he simply benefited from white skin privilege.
in fact, just thinking about it one more minute: if cecil taylor ever had something nice to say about anything i ever did, i'd be walking on air the rest of my life, so the fact that taylor has complimented brubeck is pretty telling that brubeck is a true artist.
if cecil taylor ever had something nice to say about anything i ever did, i'd be walking on air the rest of my life,
Along those lines, I was on a cruise many years ago. The great Ruth Brown was on board and singing every night. Unbeknownst to me, she was sitting in the karaoke bar when I was performing. She joined my wife and me in the elevator and said: "I liked your karaoke." That's going on my tombstone, along with a nice thing Murray Kempton once said about me.
I don't dispute that Brubeck benefited from white privilege; there's a reason he was the first jazz artist to make Time's cover since Louis, and it certainly wasn't because he was the finest jazz artist of his era. But he definitely brought something to the party.
we're not disagreeing at all: it's just worth remembering that white skin privilege is real, not an abstraction, and even good or worthy people, so to speak, can benefit from it, since it's cultural.
there's no doubt that his career success owes a great deal to white skin privilege
And he was smart enough to realize it.
As a humanist, he was at the forefront of integration, playing black jazz clubs throughout the deep South in the '50s, a point of pride for him.
"For as long as I've been playing jazz, people have been trying to pigeonhole me," he once told the Tribune.
"Frankly, labels bore me."
From the CT Obit.
Yeah, that Thelonius Monk was not much of a technical player, either.
What bullshit. Insulting bullshit.
What in the hell are you talking about?
i have no idea what he's talking about either, but it does give me an excuse (and in a couple of minutes of searching i couldn't find the exact quote) of the prescient critic who somewhere around 1949 said of monk's music that the technique of horowitz might not be sufficient for the demands of monk's playing.
Monk's brain was wired in a very strange way, beyond the ken of mere mortals. But the Horowitz comment is an exercise in hyperbole.
to some degree, but it's also a very true statement: you couldn't notate monk's actual playing, and even if you could, the great horowitz couldn't play it.
technique, in short, is a means to an end: monk had all the technique he needed to produce an enduring and brilliant body of music.
This is an astounding melange of wisdom and bull shit.
while i try to sort out which is which, i'll take the moment to mention that i had a chance to chat with t.s. monk when he was touring with his sextet in the early '90s, and he was talking about how at the fancy private school his parents had sent him to the music teacher kept saying to him "thelonious, your father plays the piano all wrong."
actually, i'll add one more anecdote that comes to mind, artie shaw noting that "lester young played more clarinet than a lot of guys who played more clarinet than he can."
I took his post as very insulting to Dave Brubeck. Brubeck had a unique vision of harmony and technique on his instrument. There is no amount of "absolute talent as a jazz musician" that would stand in for that. There was no other musician, African American or otherwise, who would have been Dave Brubeck had Brubeck declined to be Brubeck. See also, Monk. That said, I'm sure howard is one of the good guys who (eventually) came to praise Brubeck.
I would also say, howard, that after transcribing a significant amount of Desmond's playing, I don't understand why he is not considered to be right there with the very best.
i have no idea why you think i come to insult brubeck when i point out he was not the greatest jazz pianist of his generation, and even more to the point, why you think i would bring cecil taylor praising brubeck up if my intent were to dis him.
Because of the very first thing you say in your post.
The whole first sentence?
Look, I've taken acid before, but it wasn't this morning. I read "owing your career success to white skin privilege" as, somehow, not complimentary, and given how odd "Take Five" and its success were, not true. So, no, not the whole first sentence. We'll get to the bottom of this, though, that's for sure.
well, to the bottom it shall be: his "career success" is a financial, not an artistic, commentary, and yes, white skin privilege did contribute to it.
jazz is full of interesting paradoxes of that sort.
(related example: bing crosby would be the first to tell you that white skin privilege helped him make more money than louis armstrong, whose superiority as a singer crosby acknowledged. but louis loved bing's singing too, and his jazz singing was outstanding.)
"owing your career success to white skin privilege"
Hmm, what's between the quote marks there isn't what was written, and the meaning of what was written is not what you excerpt either.
well, let me see which point you're concerned with: you're disputing that he benefited from white skin privilege? or you are arguing that he was the greatest jazz pianist of his era (brubeck was born in 1920, so that means, just off the top of my head, greater than monk, born in 1917? greater than bud powell, born in 1924? greater than hank jones, born in 1918? greater than elmo hope, born in 1923? greater than jaki byard, born in 1922?)?
i happen to think both of these are very fair statements and not in the least insulting to brubeck (in fact, i suspect he'd agree with both).
All comparisons are invidious, and you can't define greatness in any particular way. Arguing who may have been at the 99.9999th percentile vs the 99.998th is sophistry.
Let's face it, artistic achievement and commercial success are to a reasonable first approximation, orthogonal. There are lots of reasons for this.
Brubeck was indisputably some version of great, and he just died today. Why honor him in the breech?
I'll be grieving in 5/4 time today.
9/8 will also be acceptable.
7/4 is most appropriate.
Dance unsquarely while ye may.
Slip jig!
depends on how you count it.
you remind me that the first time i ever checked out time out, it was as a result of a review in rolling stone of the blind faith album that talked about a second-side space-filling jam, "do what you like," as being based on "take five" (i didn't know at the time what a jazz fan ginger baker was), and so i figured i should check this out, since it was cool enough for clapton-baker-winwood, and that's how i bought my first dave brubeck album!
Now that record stores no longer exist, what does a guy like you do? I often lament how difficult it is to get turned on to something new or different these days when the opposite should be true.
actually, sherm, i could carry on endlessly but instead i'll just say briefly – this is the greatest time ever for getting exposed to new music as far as i'm concerned.
i miss going to the record store, i really do, and i miss the serendipity of your finds and the joy of discovering a rare classic hidden away in a bin somewhere….
but, truly: there are some critics whose taste i trust, there's the "people who bought this also bought" version of the old record-store clerk recommendation, there's all sorts of streaming options to check things out.
as a result – and i'm someone who has always sought out a wide range of music – i find it easier than ever, and that's before i even get around, for example, to getting on spotify….
Thanks for the response. Guess I need to try a little harder.
sherm, you could do worse than spend some time streaming kexp….
I just put on DBQ's live recording "Jazz at Oberlin" in his honor. RIP, Dave.
"Jazz at College of the Pacific" for me. Also, and I have no idea how blasphemous this is, I've always preferred "Pick Up Sticks" off "Take Five":
If that is blasphemy, then I'd rather not be pious.
I attended his 25th anniversary (of that album) concert at Oberlin (think it was 1983). Desmond wasn't there, of course, but it was still a terrific performance and you'll never see a more enthusiastic crowd. Hard to believe it's been almost 30 years since then ….
I saw him in 1983 with the Honolulu Symphony. It was ok, but I really wished for just him, in a smaller venue.
Soon as I finish the time machine, off to see him in a small venue. Then to the Cavern in Hamburg for the Beatles. Then the '23 world series…
Sorry, brain fart. The Cavern was in Liverpool.
Brubeck was a class act, and it is unfair to his memory to suggest that the fact of his race accounted for his commercial success. His band was mixed, and he took grief for it, and he was generally outspoken on racial issues. Most of all, he was aware that he was working in a form that had been invented by African-American artists, and he had the class to feel bad about the fact that his white privilege came at the expense of those artists.
I'm not sure when I last saw him play– his saxophonist lives in Buffalo, so he was in the area fairly regularly. He was solid up to the end.
Well done, sir!
Why can't it be both, though?
For a more recent example, would anyone dispute that Eminem was both (1) near the top talent of his field and (2) a bigger seller than his contemporaries owing to being white?
thank you mark f, a great example.
i have to admit, i find it surprising that some people are taking offense at the notion that white skin privilege was real for brubeck (i doubt that he would have taken offense, btw).
as i noted way upthread, white skin privilege is real, not just some abstraction, and "good" people can benefit from it (speaking as a white person, i feel highly confident that some fraction of my modest success in life is white skin privilege).
Dave Brubeck was the jazz musician I saw on TV. I knew what his face looked like and what he did. That wasn't true for a lot of his contemporaries.
It's probably a pretty simple matter of people not wanting to admit their own privileges. The attitude is perplexing to me, but it seems to be pervasive.
So who exactly are you saying Eminem sold more less records because they weren't white?
Mathers is one of the top 10 rap albums OF ALL TIME. It sold slightly more than Doggy Style (similarly beloved), but was a decade later when rap was selling more, so . . . eh? Yeah, probably because of Whiteness.
Slim Shady and The Eminem Show are both in the top 50. Again, right around where other similarly anticipated and beloved albums. But you're right, probably whiteness.
I'm going to call bullshit on this. I don't know anyone, anywhere, that wants a good white rappers over a good black one. Not a one. Maybe a BAD white rapper. But not a good one.
Pat Boone's "Tutti Frutti" getting higher on the charts than Little Richard's contemporaneous original version says absolutely nothing about anything except the superiority of Boone as a rock'n'roll singer.
Pat in all his glory
By the way, Little Richard turned 80 today
richard, wow, to think of little richard being…80! tutti frutti!
I know. It just doesn't seem possible.
mark –
Do you happen to know any god damned thing about the 50's?
That is so off-topic irrelevant that I am reduced to sputtering.
Not a whole lot. I think maybe some piano player had a hit jazz record that decade, but I wouldn't want to derail the tread.
Wise decision.
Yeah, I already did that with the Stones.
I may be confused here, but I don't think Pat Boone and Little Richard were rappers.
I'm also pretty sure neither of them put out songs in the 90's or the 00's.
Am I wrong here? Did I get my life confused with Back to the Future somehow?
And now mark will force you to listen to Pat Boone's Christian Rap albums, in punishment, after which execution will seem like a kindness.
It's unfair because it lumps him in with Vanilla Ice. Now you're left with Vanilla Ice sold tons of rap records because he was white – JUST LIKE EMINEM! And who can forget Limp Bizkit? And Eminem's Detroit buds, Insane Clown Posse? Also White! Just Like Eminem!
But more importantly, it's a backhand dis that's undeserved. Is Eminem a top talent in his field? Yes. But is he a bigger seller than his contemporaries because he's white? Who the hell knows?
He's not Vanilla Ice. He could be black and sell just as many albums because he's just that covered in awesome sauce. Or he could be selling more because he's white. Or maybe he's selling less because he's white but his brand doesn't translate as "real" or whatever. Nobody has a clue. If they did, the record companies wouldn't lose millions promoting acts that don't sell.
All you can really say is Eminem is hella talented and sells lots of records, almost as many as Kanye and Jay-Z most years.
Who the hell knows?
Let us pray to the King of Rock and Roll for an answer.
Don't try to lay no boogie woogie on the king of rock and roll.
Actually, Eminem is the top-selling rap artist of all time.
No reasonable inference can be made from this.
Yes, you should infer that white rappers outsell black rappers!
Eminem actually isn't the highest selling; that'd be Pac. If you throw in international sales Eminem might be in the lead because he kills there, but that's a hard number to track down.
If you look at the top 10 all-time sellers in rap, you find 2 white acts – the Beasties and Eminem. I'm pretty sure that's it for the top 20. If you want to argue that that's solid proof of white privilege in the rap world, knock yourself out. Personally, I'd think that two hall-of-fame, ground breaking white rap acts hitting the top 20 (of a list that includes MC Hammer, among others) really kind of shows the opposite, but different strokes.
Also in today's obits, and probably not getting enough attention (not that I'd heard of him before I read the obit): the pro-labor, pro-civil-rights longtime Texas Democratic Representative Jack Brooks
It was a big deal when he lost in the 94 landslide, I believe. Didn't realize he was such a good liberal.
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It costs $14.95 but you you can download the FULL functional program for 20 days.
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Go to the Dollar Store and get the sketch books for kids. Peel out the spiral wire, trim off the hole with a Guillotine and print the target on that. It's very similar to target paper and a buck.
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so i'm trying to bypass mac filtering. after cracking my wep i thought i'd try to do it with mac filtering.
i'm running backtrack 3 ra0 Ralink b/g rt2500
i know i need to change my mac address to one of the accepted mac address.
after doing all of the following:
bt ~ # airmon-ng stop ra0
Interface Chipset Driver
ra0 Ralink b/g rt2500 (monitor mode disabled)
bt ~ # ifconfig ra0 down
bt ~ # macchanger --mac 00:11:22:33:44:55 ra0
Current MAC: 00:0f:66:e6:bf:aa (Cisco-linksys)
Faked MAC: 00:11:22:33:44:55 (Cimsys Inc)
bt ~ # airmon-ng start ra0
Interface Chipset Driver
ra0 Ralink b/g rt2500 (monitor mode enabled)
knowing that 00:11:22:33:44:55 isn't an accepted mac address it wont work. so if i'm correct you need the one that is under STATION. so first i find the networks around me:
bt ~ # airodump-ng ra0
CH 4 ][ Elapsed: 5 mins ][ 2009-03-28 14:14
BSSID PWR Beacons #Data, #/s CH MB ENC CIPHER AUTH ESSID
00:16:B6:0F:F4:CD 0 411 1 0 6 48 WEP WEP doomsday
00:1D:7E:6DC:36 0 275 1 0 1 48 WPA TKIP PSK kellym
00:13:92:08:EB:8E 0 34 68 0 6 54. WPA2 CCMP PSK <length: 0>
00:13:92:08:6B:FD -1 0 5 0 6 -1 WPA <length: 0>
before anyone has any red flags... i know my pwr is at 0. it has something to do with my driver not showing pwr levels. i haven't the slightest clue why it does this. all i know is i was able to crack the wep so it has to work. right?
now that i have the bssid i can figure out an accepted mac address. by putting in:
bt ~ # airodump-ng -c 6 -w dooms --bssid 00:16:B6:0F:F4:CD ra0
CH 6 ][ Elapsed: 2 mins ][ 2009-03-28 14:32
BSSID PWR RXQ Beacons #Data, #/s CH MB ENC CIPHER AUTH ESSID
00:16:B6:0F:F4:CD 0 100 1730 26 0 6 48 WEP WEP doomsday
BSSID STATION PWR Rate Lost Packets Probes
here is the problem no matter how long i sit and wait the station never shows anything. it stays blank.
i've read it was pretty easy to bypass mac filtering so please be easy on me.
if anyone has any ideas on what the next step is i'd very much appreciate any help on this problem.
thanks in advance
lol ok i guess i answered my own question again. after reading something on another forum i turned on my girlfriends computer and sure enough i got a station mac address.
so now my next question is how do i use her accepted mac address on my computers denied mac address?
once again helped myself. after finding the accepted mac address i was able to spoof my mac address using:
ifconfig ra0 down hw ether 00:21:00:14:A8:48
ifconfig up
i guess you can find out anything on your own. but it probably wouldn't have taken me 6 hours.
thanks for the forums at least guys.


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Agent Doug Carlin: "Can we go back?"
Agent Paul Pryzwarra: "No, there's far too much data for an existing storage system." 1
If you've ever seen the film Déjà Vu, you may remember these brief lines. Agent Doug Carlin, played by Denzel Washington, frantically asks video technicians to replay a key moment in the surveillance footage, but rewinding is not an option. Because the technology experts have found a way to create video footage of the past by manipulating the time-space continuum, no storage device is capable of storing the enormous loads of data.
The entire premise of the film pushes the limits of reality. But perhaps equally fascinating for storage technology professionals is the idea of having too much data for any existing storage device to contain. Hard drives today are designed to store vast amounts of data, but will these systems be sufficient for the ever-increasing storage demands of the video surveillance industry?
Just how much storage does the video surveillance market require? Based on historical camera shipments and the predicted lifespans of these devices, it is estimated that approximately 210,000,000 video surveillance cameras are currently deployed in digital systems worldwide.2 Let's assume that each of these cameras operates at industry-standard resolution, quality and frame-rate settings, recording 14 days worth of data. Even at these typical settings, over 18.4 billion gigabytes (GB) of storage is needed to
support the world's surveillance cameras for a mere two-week recording period. Furthermore, the number of hard drives needed to provide such storage capacity would stretch across China twice if laid end-to-end.
These statistics underscore the staggering growth of surveillance and storage technologies over the past 15 years. The amount of storage demanded by today's surveillance systems for just a two-week time period is 880 times more than the entire capacity manufactured in the year 1995.3 A fundamental enabler of this rapid growth has been the increased availability of cheap storage. While storage capacities have gone up, costs have gone down—dramatically. In 1995, one GB of storage cost roughly US$995; today, you can pick up a GB for a mere US$0.08.4
"Make it bigger, make it faster, make it cheaper." The historic words of Al Shugart, founder of Seagate Technology, still reflect the goals of the data storage industry today. Increased capacities, improved performance and lower costs in storage technology are driving growth in global camera shipments. Research firm In-Stat forecasts over 41 million camera shipments for 2011 and more than 51 million by 2014.5
In addition, the demand for higher megapixel resolutions is on the rise, and IP cameras are forecast to experience a compound annual growth rate of 13.7% over the next three years. What does this mean for the storage industry? More cameras + higher resolutions = increased storage needs.
To meet the constantly growing storage demands of the video surveillance market, hard drive manufacturers have faced the challenge of maintaining data integrity with magnetic coating technology that utilizes extremely small particles. In recent history, hard drive technology has been focused on increasing the areal density of storage media. Areal density is a measure of how closely individual bits of digital data (recorded on magnetic particles) fit together on a hard drive. The tighter the grouping of these bits, the higher the areal density. A measure of areal density is gigabits per square inch (Gbpsi). Increasing Gbpsi on a storage device allows capacity levels to increase.
The evolution of perpendicular recording has allowed experts to maximize Gbpsi by arranging bits vertically next to one another rather than horizontally, therefore driving higher Gbpsi. This technology has been the primary enabler of increased storage capacities over the last five years, but perpendicular recording has nearly reached maximum densities and is expected to peak at about one to 1.5 terabits (Tb) per square inch.6 It is becoming increasingly difficult to downsize technology while continuing to distinguish one bit from another. Striking a balance of creating ever-smaller magnetic particles while maintaining data integrity has presented new problems for the hard drive industry.
So what else can be done to increase storage capacities? Hard drive manufacturers are exploring a plethora of options to develop the next generation of storage technologies. The International Disk Drive Equipment and Materials Association (IDEMA) has recently mandated an increase in the basic sector size used on the media of hard drives.7 With the new Advanced Format 4K sector technology, a hard drive's sector size changes from 512 bytes to 4096 (4K) bytes. Seagate Technology and other members of IDEMA support the adoption of 4K sector technology and see it as a key enabler of higher capacities and more robust error correction for the future.
A second key factor with potential to increase storage capacities is called track density, commonly measured by tracks per inch (TPI). Hard drives store data in concentric circles on the hard disk platters. When tracks are arranged tightly together, TPI and capacity are both maximized.
In the Seagate® Surveillance HDDs, TPI levels have gone from 250,000 in the previous generation to 340,000 today.8 These numbers represent a remarkable 36% increase in TPI and, consequently, a vast improvement in storage capacity. With such a high quantity of tracks on a mere 3.5-inch disk, each track is only 75 nanometers wide—about 100 times smaller than a single pollen spore. These tracks spin by a read-write head at 7200 RPM, while data is accurately recorded on an incrediblysmall scale.
As perpendicular recording technology begins to reach its limits, track densities are also reaching their limits. Current technology cannot manufacture a read-write head capable of writing tracks any smaller. This is where Shingled Magnetic Recording, or SMR, comes into play.
SMR is a technology expected to emerge within the next few years that will further optimize TPI. This technology enables recording tracks to partially overlap like shingled roof tiles in order to increase track density. With SMR, each time a new track is recorded, the previous track is trimmed while the subsequent track is overwritten. This provides a potential 40% increase in capacity and also extends the use of perpendicular recording technologies.9 While not ideal for all types of data storage, SMR is quite applicable to video surveillance, as surveillance data is commonly overwritten after a set period of archival.
In the years to come, additional technologies will emerge in order to increase storage capacities and meet evolving storage demands. These technologies will continue to apply new methods for enhanced Gbpsi and
TPI and maximized areal density on storage devices. The cumulative effect of such technologies will help to make surveillance systems more costeffective, even with the increasing prevalence of high-definition recording capabilities.
With the constantly growing demand for storage in the video surveillance industry, technologies that increase data capacities will continue to develop. Today and in the future, surveillance professionals must choose a hard drive that fits the needs of their specific surveillance system. While capacity is a key factor, there are other elements to consider when searching for a storage solution.
First, choosing a product that is designed for your specific workload and data category is crucial to enhancing performance, ensuring reliability and saving money.
As shown in Figure 1, storage requirements are vastly different across market segments. PC compute-related data requires storage biased for read capability and tuned for small-block, random data transfers. Within the consumer electronics market segment, hard drive designs must have smooth read capability focused on large-block, sequential data transfers.
In contrast, a video surveillance storage workload is heavily designed for writing, a function representing up to 95% of the hard drive's operation. This high-write workload is combined with large, sequential data blocks from multiple data streams (cameras), which commonly operate in a 24×7 environment.
Figure 1. Storage requirements by market segment
Second, one size does not fit all in today's surveillance applications. For this reason, it's important to understand what your surveillance configuration calls for and what hard drive best fits your needs. Each of the following factors is crucial when sifting through the multitude of
surveillance storage options:
The right hard drive can significantly influence a provider's ability to offer outstanding surveillance systems with superior reliability, performance and affordability—all key elements to differentiate from competitors' offerings. As shown by Figure 2, it is now possible to find
hard drives to meet the requirements of a broad variety of surveillance installations. Perhaps power efficiency and cool operation are your key priorities, or maybe you need high-speed video writing and streaming for multi-camera surveillance DVRs (SDVR). Your system may demand centralized storage tuned for operations in a typical IP and LAN environment. Regardless of the situation, there's a specialized hard drive for the job.
Hard drives designed for consumer Digital Video Recorders (DVRs) are often marketed as video surveillance solutions. While these products can be an acceptable solution for some configurations, such as low camera count, embedded surveillance DVRs, more sophisticated surveillance systems typically require more finely-tuned performance. A small embedded system can benefit from some of the low-power use and cool operation features of these types of hard drives, but will also sacrifice performance.
Figure 2. Hard drive solutions guided by specific surveillance application
More conventional, mainstream SVDR configurations will usually support many surveillance camera inputs, demanding a higher-performance, purpose-built hard drive. Products like Surveillance HDDs, with 24×7 operation profiles and high-performance, large-block sequential tuning, are well-suited to handle HD DVR, SDVR, NVR and hybrid DVR/NVR systems. Look for hard drives with high-write capability—the hallmark of surveillance operations in relation to data storage.
In centralized storage architectures, rack mount storage and storage enclosures with high drive counts are common, and will be more so with the growing popularity of network-focused topologies. Nearline-class hard drives, which blend 24×7 high-write operation capabilities with the added benefits of enhanced RAID functionality and high- vibration tolerance, are a great choice for these architectures. Nearline drives also allow for the incorporation of more advanced storage technologies which utilize the SAS interface for higher performance and improved data reliability.
Surveillance systems may be a long way from using time-space continuum folding technology to look into the past, but the industry is undoubtedly growing at an extraordinary rate, and so are its storage demands. Current technology will only go so far in meeting these demands for increased storage capacities. While hard drive manufacturers continue to explore emerging opportunities to maximize data capacity, surveillance system designers must discern the best way to meet their present storage needs.
Understanding your system's workload and data category is the first step, followed by choosing a hard drive that is purpose-built for your surveillance configuration. With a number of quality products on the market, surveillance professionals can find the hard drive that will optimize performance and save money.
As in Déjà Vu, there's no going back. Storage needs of the past are long gone, and we can only move forward. But with an eye for evolving technology trends and a long history of success, surveillance systems will continue to protect and provide security for emerging economies around the world. You can be sure that storage will be a key element of these solutions.
—By David Burks, surveillance storage segment marketing
*Note:1 Bruckheimer, J. (Producer), & Scott, T. (Director). (2006). Déjà vu [Motion picture]. United States: Buena Vista.
2 Seagate Technology, May 2011
3 Seagate Technology, May 2011.
4 "A History of Storage Cost," mkomo.com, 2010.
5 In-Depth Analysis Video Surveillance: Analog and IP Cameras, DVRs, NVRs, Analytics, Semiconductor and Technology, In-Stat, January 2011
6 Future Storage Technology: How to Store the Entire U.S. Library of Congress on a Coin, Seagate Technology, December 2010
7 Seagate Marketing Bulletin: "Advanced Format 4K Sector Transition," Seagate Technology, May 2010
8 Secutech 2011 International Exhibition, Seagate Technology, April 2011
9 Seagate Technology, May 2011.
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Posted by Stephen Mann on February 21, 2012
"ITIL, ITIL, ITIL" is all that many of us hear these days when it comes to improving IT service management (ITSM) maturity or the availability of ITSM good/best practice and guidance (for the "Little Britain" fans out there imagine Tom Baker reading this intro). Many talk (and write) about the alternative or complementary frameworks, methodologies, and standards; but neither COBIT nor ISO 20000 (amongst others) have yet gained the market traction and collective consciousness of ITIL, the "ITSM best practice framework."
ITIL is and will continue to be the de facto choice for most IT infrastructure and operations (I&O) professionals. Having said this, however, many I&O organizations continue to look at the possibilities of using multiple frameworks, methodologies, and standards in tandem to help better deliver against business and IT issues – what is commonly called an "ITIL plus" or "plus" strategy, e.g., ITIL plus COBIT.
USMBOK anyone?
Another body of service management good/best practice, the Universal Service Management Body of Knowledge (USMBOK), has long been lauded by ITSM thought leaders; but it has, to date, lacked the profile of ITIL in particular. Importantly, it works with, and is differentiated from, ITIL – it is not an ITIL competitor, more of a "companion piece" that supplements ITIL on both strategic and operational levels. Hopefully you noticed the deliberate naming of USMBOK – that there is no "IT" in it. It is about service management not IT service management – a solution to the issue that we often place too much emphasis on the "IT," and not enough on the "SM," element of "ITSM."
Posted by Stephen Mann on February 10, 2012
It started as a blog called Giving Back To The IT Service Management Community – a personal plea for anyone involved in IT operations, IT service delivery, IT support, etc., to "give back" to the larger community. Hopefully it highlighted (or reminded us of) the need for the creation of lower-level, more granular, and ultimately more practical best/good practice information that is freely available to IT service management (ITSM) practitioners; as a quick start mechanism and/or to prevent the continued reinvention of the wheel by organizations wishing to better themselves.
Many (OK, some) ask "Where has this gone?" or "Where is the free content?" Great questions, but ones that I will conveniently avoid (hopefully like a skilled politician); although others involved, I expect and hope, will provide updates on this in the comments section below.
To some Back2ITSM might appear yet another forum for "the usual suspects" (bagsy me be Verbal Kint) to "socialize" themselves to their ultimate downfall. However, I beg to differ. I feel that this has legs, no matter how short those legs might eventually be; which brings me to the reasons for this quickly written blog:
Posted by Stephen Mann on February 7, 2012
When I very briefly joined TCS (Tata Consultancy Services) as an IT service management (ITSM) consultant a year ago today, I met a fellow new recruit Sandy Winschief – a vendor/supplier management specialist armed with a pair of Six Sigma black belts. Sandy was/is a key piece in TCS' Service Integration offering jigsaw and someone who made me think more about the relationships between IT infrastructure and operations (I&O) organizations and their suppliers.
Sorry, you said, "Service Integration"?
For those new to Service Integration I offer the following "definition" from a Forrester colleague's "thinking":
"To make multisourcing arrangements effective, customers must get suppliers to work together, both from the commercial and operational standpoint. The services integration layer, comprising elements of process, tools, service-level agreements (SLAs), and related structures, is absolutely critical to the success of these arrangements."
My ITSMWPROW podcast colleague James Finister gives a more detailed overview in his personal blog.
So how can Sandy's vendor/supplier management expertise help I&O professionals?
Posted by Stephen Mann on February 1, 2012
ITIL, the IT service management (ITSM) best practice framework, is now in many ways bigger than its "master" — IT service management. From its origins in the UK government, its use has grown rapidly in the last decade and ITIL continues to dominate corporate thinking in IT operations, IT support, and IT service delivery best practice.
There are many potential benefits from ITIL adoption, particularly around productivity, service quality, business reputation, and cost savings. However, ITIL is fraught with adoption challenges that could be prevented or at least minimized through better planning and execution.
The key ITIL adoption challenges and pitfalls (at a very, very high level)
With people-related challenges to be found in most if not all of the above.
Want more detail on the challenges?
These are explored in greater detail in the Forrester report from which this high-level extract is taken: