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You read SurfWatch all the time and probably know most of us. And you know that we are all just like you. Folks enjoying SL and surfing. Difference is we love to share surfing and SL with all of you. Want to join us? The opportunities are endless! Give me a call via email at lissapinion@gmail.com or inworld via notecard Lissa Pinion if you are interested or if you have an idea for us. We'd love to have you join the SurfWatch family today!
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SLSA June 22 Election Results Announced!


The SLSA Election Committee has announced the results of the June 22 election to fill the three seats being vacated by GiavannaMarie Melody, Robbin Ember, and Lissa Pinion.

Candidates running for the open seats were Jac Mornington, GiavannaMarie Melody, Maldrul Morris, and Imzadi Amaterasu.

Twenty five voters exercised their right to vote and the Board of Directors will be welcoming GiavannaMarie Melody, Imzadi Amaterasu, and Maldrul Morris.
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Flashback! April 25, 2010

Is it hot enough for you yet? Come on in and lets take a look at what was going on during the week of April 25th 2010

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SLSA Tsunami Po Scores


Finals:
Heat 1
Maldrul Morris 15.83
Sunrize Mornington 15.83
Habor Piers 15.50
Wilfred DeCuir 15.50
Lanky Silvercloud 15.33
Figger Arun 15.16

Semi's:
Heat 1
Maldrul Morris 14.66
Jac Mornington NS
Wilfred DeCuir 15.50
jayden Domenici 13.50

Heat 2
Colleen Brennan 13.16
Imzadi Amateras 15.50
Sunrize Mornington 16.00
Figger Arun 16.00

Heat 3
Harbor Piers 16.16
Lanky Silvercloud 15.00
Robbin Ember 14.66
Mick Lunasea 14.83

Preliminary:
Heat 1
Maldrul Morris 15.16
Dixson Martin 14.50
Colleen Brennan 15.00
GiavannaMarie Melody 13.83
Revlon Benoir 10.50

Heat 2
Harbor Piers 16.66
Jac Mornington 13.83
Donni Dibou 12.66
Surfista Hurricane 13.00

Heat 3
Bobbi Laval NS
Imzadi Amaterasu 14.50
Lanky Silvercloud 14.00
bullet Admiral 12.83

Heat 4
Sunrize Mornington 14.50
Wilfrid DeCuir 15.83
Rayzza Rubble NS
Zelda Zimberman 14.00

Heat 5
Van Valeeva 13.00
jayden Domenici 13.66
Robbin Ember 14.66
Neven Anthony 11.50

Heat 6
Figger Arun 15.66
Follingwaves Sirbu 12.83
Mick Lunasea 14.33
rain Tigerfish 13.16

Staff: Mick Lunasea, VW Sands, Sally LaSalle, Cierra Theriac, Lissa Pinion, DJ Dan, Colleen Brennan
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Monkey's Revenge Opportunity

The New Sim at Monkey cove; "Monkeys Revenge" has one parcel left a beautiful 1/2 Sim with open water exposure on two sides. We also have 2 retail huts left in the new sim and one on the south side of Monkey Paw.

Please contact Syx Toshi for details.
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Tsunami Pro Heat Draws Announced

The SLSA has announced the heat draws for the Tsunami Pro surf competition taking place tomorrow June 18, at 11am .


Wave: 80m Wif's Waimea
Board: Shortboard

Heat 1
Maldrul Morris (RED)
Dixson Martin (BLUE)
Colleen Brennan (GREEN)
GiavannaMarie Melody (ORANGE)
Revlon Benoir (PURPLE)
(BLACK)

Heat 2
Harbor Piers (RED)
Jac Mornington (BLUE)
Donni Dibou (GREEN)
Surfista Hurricane (ORANGE)
(PURPLE)
(BLACK)

Heat 3
Bobbi Laval (RED)
Imzadi Amaterasu (BLUE)
Lanky Silvercloud (GREEN)
bullet Admiral (ORANGE)
(PURPLE)
(BLACK)

Heat 4
Sunrize Mornington (RED)
Wilfrid DeCuir (BLUE)
Rayzza Rubble (GREEN)
Zelda Zimberman (ORANGE)
(PURPLE)
(BLACK)

Heat 5
Van Valeeva (RED)
jayden Domenici (BLUE)
Robbin Ember (GREEN)
Nevan Anthony (ORANGE)
(PURPLE)
(BLACK)

Heat 6
Figger Arun (RED)
Follingwaves Sirbu (BLUE)
Mick Lunasea (GREEN)
rain Tigerfish (ORANGE)
(PURPLE)
(BLACK)
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Pull up the lawnchairs and the sunscreen and lets head back to the week of June 13, 2010 to see what was going on in the surf community of SL.

http://surfwatch.blogspot.com/2010_06_13_archive.html
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SLSA Tsunami Open Scores!

pics courtesy of Colleen Brennan and VW Sands, Scores Lissa Pinion

Finals:
Mick Lunasea 16.00
Robbin Ember 15.50
Zelda Zimberman 13.83
Nevan Anthony 12.83

Heat 1
Rayzza Rubble 11.500
Buck Ghostraven NS
Rick Galli 6.833
Revlon Benoir 13.00 *
Zelda Zimberman 14.83 **


Heat 2
Robbin Ember 15.33**
bullet Admiral 15.00*
Nomad Karu NS
Melian Catronis 12.33
amatsu Dezno NS
Heat 3
Mick Lunasea 15.66**
Curshaw MacTagairt 9.33
Lourinho Nizna 14.66
DeVinna Toll NS
Surfista Hurricane 15.33*

Heat 4
GiavannaMarie Melody 12.16
rain Tigerfish 13.66*
Neven Anthony 14.00**
Xander Datura NS

Staff: VW Sands, Colleen Brennan, DJ Dan, Imzadi Amaterasu, sven Homewood, Lissa Pinion, Cloudy Mikado

* Goes on to Pro event as top 2 highest scores of their heat.
**Goes on to Pro event as top 2 highest scores of their heat and went on to Finals Heat
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SLSA Tsunami Open Heat Draws


The SLSA has announced the heat draws for the Tsunami Open surf competition taking place tomorrow June 11, at 11am .

Wave: 80m Wif's Waimea
Board: Shortboard

Heat 1
Rayzza Rubble (RED)
Buck Ghostraven (BLUE)
Rick Galli (GREEN)
Revlon Benoir (ORANGE)
Zelda Zimberman (PURPLE)

Heat 2
Robbin Ember (RED)
bullet Admiral (BLUE)
Nomad Karu (GREEN)
Melian Catronis (ORANGE)
amatsu Dezno (PURPLE)

Heat 3
Mick Lunasea (RED)
Curshaw MacTagairt (BLUE)
Lourinho Nizna (GREEN)
DeVinna Toll (ORANGE)
Surfista Hurricane (PURPLE)

Heat 4
GiavannaMarie Melody (RED)
rain Tigerfish (BLUE)
Neven Anthony (GREEN)
Xander Datura (ORANGE)

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SLSA Election June 8

The SLSA Board of Directors has announced that the voting period for the 3 open seats will begin at 12:01am sl time and end at midnight June 9th. Candidates running are Jac Mornington, Imzadi Amateras, Maldrul Morris, and GiavannaMarie Melody. CoolKat Delicioso has removed her intent to run.
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SLSA Election Interview

In light of some of the recent call for a revote in the SLSA Board of Director June 1st election, SurfWatch interviewed this election's Election Committee Chairperson, Kantbe Thursday, to find out more about what happened and what is being planned for the revote.


SW: Thank you for your time in talking with us, Kantbe. We know a lot of people have questions about what happened and we appreciate your time to visit with us.


KT: No problem. I look forward to an opportunity to explain a few things and talk about some of the concerns and suggestions people have expressed.


SW: So, Kantbe, what actually did happen?


KT: There were two issues.


Firstly, the voting machine wasn't configured properly between Midnight until about 3:30AM SLT on June 1st. I wasn't able to set the machine up, so I wrote some brief instructions so someone else could get it set up in time based upon some files I had prepared. My instructions were poor, and resulted in a set up that wouldn't have worked properly. It was totally my fault. The only way to recover from that problem was to reconfigure the machine and restart the scripts. Unfortunately, there was no way to gather any of the voter information for an votes that were cast during that timeframe, and no way to manually collect anything that would have been verifiable.


The second issue was an SL sim server issue. It didn't have anything to do with problems with the voting machine nor its scripts. There was a server upgrade at some point after the election closed and when I was able to check it that morning. All of the vote tallies were contained in the voting machine's memory. The server upgrade stopped the script that allowed access to the tallies. After spending a couple of hours trying all sorts of ways to restart the machine while preserving it's memory, it was realized that there just wasn't a way to recover.


So, the only choice is to have another election.


SW: One question being asked is why it took so long to notice the problem and send out the notice for the revote. From what you've said, it sounds like you knew a revote would be required sometime shortly after the election closed.


KT: Actually, the voting machine did all of its vote closing housekeeping properly. All of the Election Committee members were sent their machine generated emails of the voter encryption codes. It wasn't until I went to get the tally report from the machine around 4AM SLT on June 2nd that I saw there was a problem. Sally LaSalle, who created the voting machine, and I worked on trying to get the tallies from the machine when RL would allow us the time. We worked on it later in the day, both of us taking time from our RL jobs for a couple of hours. It wasn't until closer to 1 or 2 PM SLT on June 2nd that we determined a revote was the only choice.


I had to report this to the Board of Directors and get their feedback on how to proceed. Since we're an international group, and because we do have a RL, it took until June 3rd to get enough feedback to proceed with the notice of a revote.


SW: Some have asked why we don't just go back to the old way of using notecards. Has that been considered?


KT: It was briefly considered and discussed by the Board.


However, the current voting machine has been used successfully in 5 elections. This current version was also tested repeatedly before being put into production and it performed flawlessly. The old way based upon notecards may seem like a pretty easy and simple way of handling things, but anyone who has served on an election committee from that time can attest to the problems and delays. Issues included things like unreadable notecards, incomplete notecards, different number of notecards being sent to committee members, and differences in manual counts. Again, since the SLSA is a body of globally dispersed people, trying to resolve issues in a timely fashion always has the challenge of time zone differences and the availability of individuals.


The old notecard approach also had no real privacy of a person's vote. Since the notecards had to be read and manually tallied, the way someone voted was known by the committee members. Regardless of whether or not there was ever a problem caused by this, some people were reluctant to vote, or worse, reluctant to vote the way they truly wanted, for fear that someone would find out how they voted. The voting machine guarantees voter and vote privacy.


Something equally important to these issues, is that the use of the voting machine for our Director elections is part of our current Constitution. We can't use a different approach without a Constitutional amendment. An amendment like that requires a general meeting of our members, a motion for a change, and then a vote (using the voting machine, btw). A motion passes if 2/3rd of a majority of all of our eligible voters (not just the people who cast a vote) approve the motion.


SW: Since it's been decided that a revote with the voting machine will be done, when will this actually take place?


KT: Likely, it will take place during the week of June 5th. A minor revision of the script has been made and tested to try to minimize another issue with a sim server upgrade or sim failure. The revision has been tested and we just need to get a couple of other things in order. A notice will be sent to the group and an announcement will be made on the forum, since I also had reports that not everyone saw the notice about the election problems, which only goes to show that SL communications of all sorts can have issues from time to time.


SW: Thank you for explanations and time, Kantbe


KT: You're very welcome. I'm keeping my fingers, toes, and eyes crossed for this next one.

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Flashback! Week of June 7, 2009

Grab a seat and a cold one and lets travel back in time to what was happening in the surf community during the week of June 7, 2009! Anyone need an iced tea refill?

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SLSA June Election Update


The SLSA Board of Directors has announced that due to issues servers and configurations, the June 1st vote will need to be redone. Date pending so stay tuned for the latest information!
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June 1st Election Underway

Voting for the 3 open seats of the Board of Directors is officially open and will continue thru til midnight June 1.
Candidates running are CoolKat Delicioso, Imzadi Amateras, Jac Mornington, Maldrul Morris and GiavannaMarie Melody. The Open Source Vote box is located in the HoF foyer on the SLSA Home sim.
If you have any questions or issues, please contact a member of the board.
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