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Ruiz, Wigginton lead Phillies over Pirates
Phillies 5, Pirates 4
Michael Schwimer wanted to jump into the stands to celebrate. He settled for an animated fist-pump instead.
Ty Wigginton and Carlos Ruiz homered to back Vance Worley and the Philadelphia Phillies held on for a 5-4 victory over the Pittsburgh Pirates on Tuesday night.
Worley (4-4) allowed three runs and six hits in six-plus innings. Schwimer pitched out of a jam in the seventh, Antonio Bastardo worked the eighth and Jonathan Papelbon finished for his 18th save in 19 tries. Papelbon allowed a solo homer to Michael McKenry in the ninth.
Schwimer came in with runners on second and third, no outs and the Phillies clinging to a 4-3 lead. He retired Jose Tabata on a sharp bouncer to the mound. Then Neil Walker lofted a fly ball to shallow left and John Mayberry Jr. nailed McKenry trying to score with a perfect one-hop throw to the plate.
"I was trying to stop myself from jumping in the crowd," Schwimer said. "I'm an emotional person. You have to be who you are. My plan of attack was just to execute pitches and go from there. Those are situations I love. I've gotten in trouble in the past by getting too excited. I've learned to channel that."
Ruiz hammered an 0-2 pitch to deep left for his career-best 10th homer to give the Phillies an insurance run in the eighth. Ruiz, a career .265 hitter coming into the year, leads the majors with a .361 average after his 10th three-hit game.
Pirates starter Erik Bedard (4-8) gave up four runs and eight hits in six innings. Pittsburgh came in with the best record in the NL since May 25 at 18-10.
"There were some good things going on," Pirates manager Clint Hurdle said. "He's probably like the changeup back to Wigginton, but he kept us in the game."
The Phillies have won two straight to climb out of last place, and the five-time defending NL East champions could have some help on the way.
Chase Utley was 2 for 5 with a homer in a game for Triple-A Lehigh Valley. The five-time All-Star second baseman could make his season debut on Wednesday. He has missed the first three months because of chronic knee problems.
Meanwhile, former NL MVP Ryan Howard will start a rehab stint at Class A Lakewood on Thursday if all goes well with an examination on his left Achilles in Philadelphia on Wednesday.
Trailing 4-2 in the seventh, the Pirates rallied against Worley. Clint Barmes walked and McKenry singled. Pinch-hitter Drew Sutton followed with an RBI double down the left-field line.
But Schwimer entered and closed the door.
"He got out of a tough jam," manager Charlie Manuel said. "The more you succeed and leave that game on a positive, that helps your confidence."
The Pirates squandered another opportunity to tie it in the eighth after Andrew McCutchen led off with a double off Bastardo. Josh Harrison, pinch-hitting for cleanup hitter Garrett Jones, popped up a bunt that Ruiz ran down. Casey McGehee popped out and Pedro Alvarez struck out.
Wigginton gave Philadelphia a 4-1 lead in the third when he hit a two-run shot to left-center with two outs.
McGehee's two-out RBI single in the sixth got the Pirates within 4-2. McCutchen doubled and scored on the hit.
The Phillies took a 1-0 lead in the first on an RBI single by Ruiz. Hunter Pence hit a triple off the scoreboard in right-center with two outs. Ruiz then hit a hard grounder to left on an 0-2 pitch.
Alvarez led off the second with a double, advanced to third on a grounder and scored on McKenry's sacrifice fly to tie it. Placido Polanco's two-out RBI single to left put the Phillies ahead 2-1 in the bottom half.
Worley escaped a first-and-second, no-out jam in the first, helping himself with an excellent defensive play. Worley charged off the mound, fielded Jones' slow roller and flipped the ball with his glove to Ruiz to retire Tabata trying to score.
Notes: Phillies C Brian Schneider had an MRI that revealed a high ankle sprain. He'll miss three to five weeks. ... Sutton joined the Pirates earlier in the day after being claimed off waivers from Tampa Bay on Sunday. LHP Doug Slaten was optioned to Triple-A Indianapolis to make room on the roster. The Pirates also called up C Eric Fryer and optioned INF Matt Hague. ... Alvarez is 8 for 18 with four homers and nine RBIs in last three four road games. ... Worley has a 2.70 ERA in five starts since returning from an elbow injury. ... The Phillies have sold out 259 straight games, including postseason. ... James McDonald (6-3, 2.19) starts for the Pirates on Wednesday against an undetermined starter for Philadelphia.


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Dr. Loren Cordain is the world's foremost authority on the evolutionary basis of diet and disease. Featured on Dateline NBC, the front page of the Wall Street Journal, and The New York Times, Dr. Loren Cordain is widely acknowledged as one of the world's leading experts on the natural human diet of our Stone Age ancestors. He is the author of more than 100 peer-reviewed scientific articles and abstracts, and his research into the health benefits of Stone Age Diets for contemporary people has appeared in the world's top scientific journals including the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, the British Journal of Nutrition, and the European Journal of Clinical Nutrition, among others. He is also on the Advisory Board of Paleo Magazine the first, and only, print magazine dedicated to the Paleo/Primal lifestyle and ancestral health.
Dr. Loren Cordain's popular book, The Paleo Diet, has been widely acclaimed in both the scientific and lay communities and was fully revised in 2010. His next book, The Paleo Diet for Athletes, published in October 2005, discusses how the Paleo Diet can be modified for the high performance endurance athlete and lead to improved health and performance. His next book, The Dietary Cure for Acne, is available in paperback and as an instant download ebook. The Paleo Diet Cookbook was published in 2010 and became an instant bestseller. His most recent book, The Paleo Answer, was released in December 2011, and represents a sequel to The Revised Paleo Diet. Dr. Loren Cordain is the recipient of the Scholarly Excellence award at Colorado State University for his contributions into understanding optimal human nutrition.
Dr. Loren Cordain first became interested in nutrition during his childhood, from his mother encouraging him to eat his fruits and veggies and from his father giving him books about Stone Age people and how they lived off the land from wild plants and animals. In the late '60s and early '70s, he was involved in intercollegiate athletics and became more interested in diets that could improve his performance. He read a wide variety of popular, and now classic, health books on vegetarian dieting such as Frances Moore Lappe's book, Diet for a Small Planet, and books by Norman Walker, Paavo Airola, and others.
Later, as a graduate student at the University of Nevada-Reno, and as a doctoral student at the University of Utah, he became involved in research involving body fat measurements. As a young professor at Colorado State University, Dr. Loren Cordain initiated a wide variety of research projects involving diet and athletic performance with the help of his graduate students. He was introduced to the Paleo Diet concept in about 1987 when he read Dr. Boyd Eaton's seminal New England Journal of Medicine paper, "Paleolithic Nutrition." It made perfect sense to him at the time, and he voraciously read everything he could about the concept and related topics. A number of years later, he gave Dr. Eaton a call and invited him to speak at Colorado State University. They hit it off after their meeting, began writing together, and the rest can be found in the scientific literature.
Dr. Loren Cordain received his Ph.D. in Health from the University of Utah in 1981, his master's in physical education from the University of Nevada-Reno in 1978, and his bachelor's in health sciences from Pacific University in 1974. He was a professor in the Department of Health and Exercise Science at Colorado State University from 1982 – 2013. Dr. Loren Cordain is married to Lorrie Cordain, together they have three sons.
Loren Cordain, Ph.D. – Curriculum Vitae
Professional Experience
|Professor Emeritus
|Colorado State University, Department of Health and Exercise Science, College of Applied Human Sciences
|2013 – Present
|Colorado State University, Department of Health and Exercise Science, College of Applied Human Sciences
|Director, Human Performance Lab
|Director, Graduate Studies
|Sabbatical Leaves
|1989, 1996, 2003
|Associate Professor
|Assistant Professor
|Graduate Research Assistant
|University of Utah
|Graduate Teaching Assistant
|University of Nevada-Reno
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American College for Advancement in Medicine
American College for Advancement in Medicine (ACAM)
American College for Advancement in Medicine (ACAM)
American College of Cardiology
American College of Sports Medicine, Rocky Mountain Chapter
American Neutraceutical Association
American Nutraceutical Association
American Nutrition Association (ANA)
American Society of Bariatric Physicians (ASBP)
Ancestry Foundation
Annual Hypertension Symposium, Hypertension Institute
British Society for Ecological Medicine
California State Polytechnic University
Cardiovascular Consultants
Colorado Trust Healthy People
CrossFit Brea
CrossFit Huntington Beach
CrossFit LA
CrossFit LIC
CrossFit New England
CrossFit Roots
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Danish Institute of Human Nutrition, University of Copenhagen
Design for Health Institute
Equinox Holdings, Inc.
European Academy of Dermatology and Venerology (EADV)
Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology (FASEB)
FIT-BioCeuticals Ltd.
Florida Dietetic Association
Florida Institute for Human and Machine Cognition, Inc.
Front Range Crossfit
German CMA International Nutrition Forum
Harvard Center for Cancer Prevention
Harvard School of Public Health
Humboldt University Graduate School of Mind and Brain
International College of Human Nutrition and Functional Medicine (ICHNFM)
International Congress on Natural Medicine
Institute for Functional Medicine
Kansas State Dermatology Society
LaLanne Fitness Powered by CrossFit
Larry King
McGill University Center for Cancer Prevention
National Multiple Sclerosis Society, Colorado Chapter
National Strength and Conditioning Association (NSCA)
Natural Body Building Federation, Master's Program, Rome, Italy
Nieuwegein, Netherlands; Van Nature, Paleo Diet Symposium
North Carolina State University
Nutrition for Optimal Health Association (NOHA)
Nutrition Society of Australia
Ontario Association of Naturopathic Doctors (OAND)
Optometric Nutrition Society
Orange County Employee Benefit Council (OCEBC)
P3 CrossFit
Palmer College of Chiropractic
Pennsylvania State University College of Agricultural Sciences
Pikes PeakCrossFit Gym
Robert Crayhon Research
Rocky Mountain Cardio Pulmonary Rehabilitation Association
Saint Luke's Health System
Staten Island Economic Development Corporation (SIEDC)
Society for Investigative Dermatology
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United States Air Force Academy
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University of Colorado at Denver
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University of Graz, Graz Austria; European Master, Clinical Psychoneuroimmunology
University of Lisbon, School of Pharmacy
University of Missouri St. Louis College of Optometry
University of Westminster, London School of Integrated Health
University of Wyoming, Department of Anthropology
Vision Institute of Canada, Toronto Continuing Education Program for Optometrists
W Radio 690/Prisa Media
Wall Street Journal
Wyoming Medical Center
Awards and Honors
- The American College for Advancement in Medicine's annual "Denham Harmon Lecture," May 2004. This lecture is awarded to a scientist whose research was judged to have the greatest national impact upon complementary medical care by the American College for Advancement in Medicine.
- Scholarly Excellence Award, College of Applied Human Sciences, April 2002.
- Nomination to "American Men and Women of Science," Fall 1994.
- Nomination to Marquis Who's Who in Science and Engineering, 12 October 1993.
- Supervisor, M. Bizeau's Master's thesis, "Metabolic Responses to Submaximal and Maximal Exercise Following Three Weeks of Dietary Fish Oil Supplementation" which was chosen to represent CSU from a University-wide selection process at the Midwest Association of Graduate Schools, 1993 Distinguished Master's thesis award.
- Supervisor, H. Reynolds' Master's thesis, "Influence of Post-Exercise Glucose Ingestion on Plasma Potassium Levels and ECG Measurements," which was chosen to represent CSU from a university-wide selection process at the Midwest Association of Graduate Schools, 1992 Distinguished Master's thesis award.
- Induction into the University of Nevada-Reno, Sports Hall of Fame, 10 October 1991.
- College of Professional Studies, Faculty Service Award (Department of Physical Education Outstanding Teacher), Fall 1984.
- Colorado State University Chapter, Phi Delta Kappa, Outstanding Researcher Award, 1983.
- College of Professional Studies, Faculty Service Award (Department of Physical Education Outstanding Teacher), Fall 1982.
- Colorado State University Alumni Award for Outstanding Faculty Member in the College of Professional Studies, Spring Commencement, 1982.
- Assistant Coach, AIAW Small College National Swimming and Diving Champions, 1979.
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Short Bio
Dr. Loren Cordain is Professor Emeritus of the Department of Health and Exercise Science at Colorado State University in Fort Collins, Colorado. His research emphasis over the past 20 years has focused upon the evolutionary and anthropological basis for diet, health and well being in modern humans. Dr. Cordain's scientific publications have examined the nutritional characteristics of worldwide hunter-gatherer diets as well as the nutrient composition of wild plant and animal foods consumed by foraging humans. He is the world's leading expert on Paleolithic diets and has lectured extensively on the Paleolithic nutrition worldwide. Dr. Cordain is the author of five popular bestselling books including The Paleo Diet, The Paleo Answer, The Paleo Diet Cookbook, and The Real Paleo Diet Cookbook summarizing his research findings.
Loren Cordain, Ph.D. – Curriculum Vitae
Dr. Loren Cordain and The Paleo Diet, LLC do not provide consultation services to groups or individuals seeking advice, opinions, or guidance for preexisting health conditions and/or business development for dietetics or lifestyle programs related to The Paleo Diet.


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After the initial wave of Ferrari by Logic3 headphones, which included the passive T250 and P200 pairs, the brand has unleashed its second assault on the premium-cans market in the shape of its T350 headset.
The Ferrari by Logic3 T350 headphones - part of the road car-inspired Cavallino Collection - are the first from the firm that feature noise-cancelling technology, in that they are powered and will reduce interference by external ambient noise. Effectively, this means they encase you in your own little world, and we have to say that's fine by us.
The set's ANC (active noise cancelling) tech requires two AAA batteries inserted into the left earpiece. The right one has a small switch that turns the feature on and off. It's worth pointing out that, unlike with some rival headphones with noise cancellation, the T350s cannot be used in passive mode. Unless the technology is on, no audio travels into the ears.
Read: Hands-on: Ferrari by Logic3 T250 review
Thankfully, also unlike other headsets, there doesn't seem to be too much of a pressure build-up when in use - some can make your ears hurt or pop as if you were taking off or landing on a aircraft - so the fact that they work only when ANC is enabled is no problem at all.
Aesthetically, Logic3 has poured every bit as much love into the T350 pair as it did the T250s released in the summer. There's the familiar super-soft lamb's leather on the headband and around the trim of the ear cups - the same as found in the interior of Ferrari road cars - and the ear pads are of an identical "enhanced breathable material" that are extremely comfortable to wear.
The exposed metal in the design is the same too, with a brushed finish. And the whole build is substantial and classy. If there was one small sticking point it's that, thanks to the noise-cancelling technology, the T350s are substantially larger than the T250s. They're not as subtle. It doesn't matter if you're the sort of Ferrari fan that likes to boast about your love for the brand (and quality audio), but we'd recommend the T250 'phones if not, especially if you wear them in public and aren't bothered about the ambient noise around you.
Read: Hands-on: Ferrari by Logic3 P200 review
It's a minor caveat, however. And the size actually benefits the comfort and feeling of inclusion when immersed into an audio experience. The pads nigh-on encompass your ears, so you can get lost in a world of Chopin, AC/DC or dubstep, if that is your want. Thankfully, as a neutrally calibrated pair of headphones, the T350s suit all forms of music. Of course, you may want more bass with your Benga, and for that you might want to check out the F1-inspired P200s. But we're happy with cans that work as capably with Game of Thrones on an iPad as they do with Little Mix, er, The Smiths. Yeah, that's it... we meant The Smiths.
The drivers in each ear are 40mm, as with the T250s, so can ramp it up when they like. And you get all manner of accessories in the sumptuous carry case, including leads for iPhone, other smartphones, normal 3mm shenanigans and an adapter to plug them into a hi-fi. You also get the batteries with it, which is nice.
Priced at £299, the Ferrari by Logic3 T350 headphones are available in both black and tan. You can get them from a number of stores. For a list, check out the dedicated webpage at ferrari-by-logic3.com.


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Resolume Avenue 4.6.4 Multilingual | MacOSX | 1.18 GB
Resolume Avenue VJ Software – Avenue is an instrument for VJs, AV performers and video artists. Avenue puts all your media and effects right at your fingertips, so you can quickly play and improvise your live visuals.
Screen Warping & Video Mapping Arena
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Resolume plays all your interactive Quartz Composition and Flash animations including AS2 and AS3 scripting. Use it to display text input from Resolume and with parameters you can gain even more control over your animations and tweak your content while VJ-ing. Watch the Resolume & Flash Video. Watch the Quartz Composer Video. If you're feeling really adventurous your can even code your own generative content in openGL by compiling FFGL source plugins.
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On July 15, 2017, news media and Internet finance investor from 36 countries and regions around the world gathered together and held a grand global market initiation press conference for intelligent assets in National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations (NASDAQ), America. Philippe Starck, the CEO of Intelligent Assets took some group senior executives to attend it. The press conference holding for intelligent assets indicates that intelligent assets will be formally applied and promoted all around the world.
Based on P2P, intelligent assets are a new kind of Internet finance cryptocurrency hugely invested by Intelligent Investment Group in 2009, which is planned to be issued for 22 million pieces. Combining intelligent technology and Internet finance, it's the first AI intelligent virtual currency in the world. Comparing and analyzing global first-hand data with historical data, it becomes a unique legendary currency in AI field, whose appearance will achieve unimaginable new wealth growth for global investors.
Philippe Starck, CEO of Intelligent Investment Group, ceremoniously introduced intelligent assets to the world on the conference spot. Graduated from famous London Business School (LBS), ever worked at international financial companies, Philippe Starck has been committed to adding values for virtual assets and innovating financial profit model.
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Boeing 747-8
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Boeing 747-8
Some grill juicy burgers, others collect Smurfs. Yet others haul million-dollar aircraft wings around or field calls from Hollywood. A peek behind the scenes with the people who work for the biggest US aircraft manufacturer
Jeff Johnson: The crane operator who talks with his hands
"I've been a crane operator with Boeing since 1999. Picture me sitting nearly 40 meters off the ground, lifting huge sections of a 747-8 and transporting them from one end of the giant production hangar to the other – complete wing assemblies, tailplanes, whole sections of fuselage. But you can also find me on the hangar floor giving hand signals to other crane operators. That is by far the more nerve-racking part of the job. Two fingers pointing straight ahead means: a couple of centimeters forward. A fist means: Stop! No further! Because sometimes it really is just a matter of centimeters. I don't fly often myself, but my dream destination is Hawaii. I always pick an airline by the aircraft they use – Boeing, what else? So there's a fairly good chance the plane I fly in is one I've helped to build."
Shelly Strayer: The canteen boss and her Rodeo burger
People who build big, beautiful airplanes need to eat a proper meal. What's on the menu?
Pizza, spaghetti, pancakes, plus healthy options, like salads and vegetarian dishes. We even have our own sushi experts. But most of our people tend to go for comfort food, like hotdogs, hamburgers and fries.
What makes a good burger?
Our classic is the Rodeo burger. We take a five- ounce slice of Angus beef and garnish it with fried onion rings, lettuce and toma- to, and then add a slather of delicious barbecue sauce. I like to top it off with one or two slices of cheese. Unbeatable!
Do you have a special 747 dish?
No, but one of our cooks did come up with a very nice idea. On special occasions, he chisels away at a three-meter block of ice, sculpting some really amazing figures. Once he came out of his corner of the kitchen with a plane – a Boeing 747 with a three-meter wingspan made entirely of ice.
Tom Brown: The painter with the spray gun
"I must have spray-painted about 600 jumbo jets. There aren't many airline liveries I haven't done. I usually work on the nose of the plane. With a 747-8, that means taping 72 windows, all by hand. I've been a decorative exterior painter at Boeing since 1989. Painting the 747-8, our largest plane, gives me the most satisfaction. We once painted an aircraft we called the "whale plane." A 12-year-old girl had won a design competition in Japan and we had the job of spraying an enormous plane exactly the way she had pictured it – covered with fish. In the end, the plane itself looked like a large whale. They flew the little girl over to see the result. She was amazed when she saw a huge plane covered with pictures of fish."
Eileen Dickson: The guide who knows everything
Eileen Dickenson admits that her first love is horses. She has one called Delilah. But she also likes airplanes and working at Boeing, which she's done since 1986. Eileen is a visitor relations specialist who takes VIPs on tours of the production plant. In preparation for this she had to spend entire days in overalls, hammering in rivets and screwing bolts tight. "I can't explain a job properly unless I've done it myself," she says. When someone asks an unusual question, she ferrets around the Boeing universe until she has the answer. Over the years, she has become something of a walking encyclopedia, accumulating trivia – for instance, that Boeing has 19,000 landline extensions and that the 16,800 on-site computer stations are connected by 12,000 miles of cable.
David Rowntree: The mechanic who likes to dance
You're responsible for preflight deliveries. What exactly does that entail?
When a 747-8 comes off the production line, we prepare it for painting, fueling, functional tests and its first flight. I have the delightful job of coordinating everything.
You need to know a thing or two about the aircraft to be able to do all that.
Absolutely. I came to Boeing as a mechanic in 1978 and got to know just about every technical process here. The first 747 I worked on had the number 329. Today we are getting close to number 1500.
Does any particular job come to mind?
I worked on the President's "Air Force One" and on the SP short version for a sheik.
Could you fly a jumbo jet?
No, and I've never wanted to. Airplanes are wonderful machines and they are exciting to work on. Nothing gives me a bigger blast than seeing a plane take off for the first time.
What do you do in your free time?
I have a car, an old English 1974 Triumph 206, which I love tinkering with. My wife and I also enjoy dancing.
We enjoy ballroom dancing, swing, cha-cha-cha, rumba.
Jeff Robinson: The advertising manager who is inspired by chaos
As head of global advertising at Boeing you're a pretty important man. But you have a reputation for the untidiest desk in the corporation.
Some call it chaos, but I like to think of my desk as my creative platform, my thinking zone. It's the environment I need to come up with good ideas. And my job calls for creativity on demand, flashes of inspiration at a moment's notice.
What are all those things on your desk?
Pictures, model airplanes, sayings, the sort of stuff I pick up on my travels. Like these little Smurfs from McDonald's, they're kind of cute. McDonald's doesn't just produce hamburgers, you know; it's now the world's biggest toy distributor, too. These little guys are icons. They capture the essence of our culture almost better than anything else. To represent America with a piece of plastic a few inches long – that takes genius!
Do you like airplanes?
Of course I do! I've loved them ever since I was a small boy. We lived in California then, near the Edwards Air Force Base, and I regularly got to hear the sonic boom. I now live quite close to the runway in Seattle. I still run out and look up whenever a plane flies over our house.
And how do you market them?
The main message we want to get across is that flying has to become an adventure again. Right now, it's become so routine that we've lost the euphoria we used to feel in advance of a flight. Flying is something special, and should never be merely a matter of getting from A to B.
Michael Lombardi: The guardian of the archives
Michael Lombardi regularly gets calls from Hollywood – whenever there's an airplane scene to shoot, in fact. They ask him things like: What did stewardesses wear in the 1960s, what did the Boeing 707 look like inside, and what should Leonardo di Caprio wear in Catch Me if You Can? Michael Lombardi knows all the answers. He was the expert aviation source for the movie Air Force One starring Harrison Ford, and advised the makers of the cult series Lost. Lombardi, an historian, has been with Boeing since 1979. His archives contain about four million photo negatives, 20000 films, and hundreds of model planes, as well as old captain's caps, emblems, posters and badges: the history of Boeing and a significant part of aviation history, too. Lombardi can even show you a photo of Marilyn Monroe lounging lasciviously on an airplane bed in the 1940s long before she became famous. The photo has never been published and there's only one copy of it – right here. It could be worth millions. Lombardi's best piece is an old leather armchair, from which Bill Allen, an iconic boss, steered Boeing's fortunes from 1944 onward. He was sitting in this chair when he made the decision to build the 747 in the 1960s. Lombardi smiles to himself as he runs his hand lovingly over the old leather. Then he returns to his fantastic collection of models, original plans and rockets. Rockets? Yes, Boeing has always been into spacecraft, too. Which is why Lombardi sometimes remarks in passing that he often lunches with people like Neil Armstrong.
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Another senseless shooting has left 12 people dead, including sheriff's deputy Sgt. Ron Helus, after a lone gunman opened fire at the Borderline Bar & Grill in Thousand Oaks, Calif., on Nov. 7.
Many country stars, including Loretta Lynn, Charlie Daniels, John Rich, Brad Paisley, Zac Brown and more, sent out their thoughts and prayers to the victims and their families.
Due to the tragic events in the #CaliforniaBarShooting I will be postponing my press run in NYC so we can all focus on the situation at hand. I'm heart broken for those who were killed or injured, and their families and friends in California.
— John Rich (@johnrich) November 8, 2018
Waking up in NYC to the terrible news in California that 12 were killed in a country bar last night. 1 officer killed in the line of duty as he ran toward the shooter to save lives. Join me in asking the Holy Spirit to pull those families close this morning. #Californiashooting
— John Rich (@johnrich) November 8, 2018
Just seeing the news of the shooting in Thousand Oaks last night. I am heart broken for the victims and their families. This one hits way too close to home. My heart is with everyone effected by this horrible tragedy. #ThousandOaks #BorderLineShooting
— LeAnn Rimes Cibrian (@leannrimes) November 8, 2018
Another Blue Knight was lost last night. He died in the act of protecting and serving, as so many of his brothers and sisters have before him.
Sgt. Ron Helus, you died saving lives
There is no higher calling
Rest In Peace
Sincere condolences to the family and coworkers
— Charlie Daniels (@CharlieDaniels) November 8, 2018
It's a cold, cold world sometimes I swear. Praying for Thousand Oaks, California this morning.
— morgan wallen (@MorganCWallen) November 8, 2018
My heart is broken waking up to the Borderline news. Another instance where people get together to have fun, ruined by a senseless act of violence. 😔
— Cassadee Pope (@CassadeePope) November 8, 2018
Sending prayers and love to everyone in Thousand Oaks, CA today. Absolutely heartbroken thinking of all those sweet souls just trying to listen and dance to country music. Hug your loved ones tight.
— Maddie & Tae (@MaddieandTae) November 8, 2018
Heartbreaking news out of CA this morning. Praying for the victims, and sending big love to those affected by the horrible tragedy in Thousand Oaks.
— Big Kenny Alphin (@BigKennyTV) November 8, 2018
disgusted and sickened and very very sad today. im so disappointed in what we haven't done to keep everyone safe in this country.
— Jillian Jacqueline (@jillianjmusic) November 8, 2018
Sending lots of love to you Thousand Oaks. https://t.co/q87G6TizW5
— thompson square (@thompsonsquare) November 8, 2018
"It doesn't matter how safe your community is, it doesn't matter how low your crime rate is — there are people who just don't think properly everywhere and they commit horrific acts like this" Sherrif Dean #ThousandsOaks All so senseless… Be vigilant people…
— Joe Bonsall (@joebonsall) November 8, 2018
Though broken, my heart is with these families and friends in Thousand Oaks today. #thousandoaks https://t.co/fCtyXMvpjR
— Brad Paisley (@BradPaisley) November 8, 2018
Our thoughts and prayers go out to the families and loved ones affected by the shooting in Thousand Oaks. Together, with the music community, we grieve for their loss.
— Zac Brown Band (@zacbrownband) November 8, 2018
Heartbroken for all the families that will go through today without someone they had yesterday. Completely senseless #ThousandOaks
— ChrisYoungMusic (@ChrisYoungMusic) November 8, 2018
Another tragedy, and this time in my home state of California. My heart goes out to the people who lost their lives in Thousand Oaks last night, along with those who suffered injuries. Praying for their family and friends as well.
— Jon Pardi (@JonPardi) November 8, 2018
photo by Tammie Arroyo, AFF-USA.com


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In connection with the commencement of the new Waqf e Jadid year Hazoor delivered today's Friday Sermon on the Divine attribute of Al Razzaq, The Provider, elucidating it with reference to Quranic verses, ahadith and writings of the Promised Messiah (on whom be peace).
Hazoor presented the basic economic principle explained by the Holy Prophet (peace and blessings be on him) in that markets cannot be driven by force and that there is a Divine Order to economy and that the natural sequence of things should be adhered to. Hazoor explained that the Holy Prophet (peace and blessings be on him) said that one who seeks Divine forgiveness is released from sorrow and is salvaged from scarcity and that if man spends out of his wealth that is good for him and to avoid spending the wealth has an opposite consequence. Adding Hazoor recounted that the Holy Prophet (peace and blessings be on him) said that it is permissible to be envious of a person who has been granted wealth and spends it equitably, just as it is acceptable to envy a person who is granted the Holy Quran and recites it day and night, correspondingly the Holy Prophet (peace and blessings be on him) said that a woman who equitably spends out of wealth earned by her husband has a share in the reward with him and he enjoined that goodness is rewarded with sustenance in this world and the hereafter.
Further elucidating the subject with writings of the Promised Messiah (on whom be peace) Hazoor said that the apparent inequality of wealth among people couldn't be attributed to Allah and affluence of high order aside, no righteous person is truly impoverished. One who really puts all trust in God is always provided for, whether the sustenance descends from the heavens or shoots up from underneath one's feet. The righteous are enjoined to spend in the name of Allah openly so that others are inspired to do the same and secretly so that one is not deceived by one's own self.
Hazoor said that the Promised Messiah (on whom be peace) wrote that sustenance is of two kinds, it can be a trial and it can also be granted by selection. It can take some people away from God until they reach destruction and some people consider all that is granted to them as Allah's and they prove this by their actions.
Next, announcing the Waqf e Jadid New Year Hazoor said that as this particular Movement enters its 45th year, 110 countries now participate in it. The global contribution towards the Movement for the year 2001 stands at £1,382,000.00 with USA Jama'at in the 1st position, followed by Pakistan. The third position, held by Germany for sometime was taken by Britain in 2001 and Hazoor took great pleasure in announcing that.
Hazoor concluded with a prayer that may each Ahmadi derive beneficence from the Divine promises made to the Promised Messiah (on whom be peace).
The Jumu'ah (Friday) prayer is one form of congregational worship in Islam. It takes place every Friday. Regular attendance at the Jumu'ah prayer is enjoined on the believer. According to a Saying of Muhammad(sa) this congregational prayer is twenty-five times more blessed than worship performed alone. (Bukhari)
"O ye who believe! When the call is made for Prayer on Friday, hasten to the remembrance of Allah, and leave off all business. That is best for you, if you only knew." more
"… (He who) offers the Prayers and listens quitely when the Imam stands up for sermon, will have his sins forgiven between that Friday and the next" (Bukhari)


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Tom Green's flow here sort of kills. Meter. BUT. I think he rehearsed. Well, we know, right? A professional MAKES IT appear spontaneous. A reader might even read a story and the words flow, effortlessly, but the writer spent days wrestling with a washing machine of llamas and barbed wire to MAKE IT appear so. Set pieces. I might do blar things like grade papers on my steering wheel while driving or listening to sports radio (why?), but I know a set piece when I see it. A flash writer knows.
I don't know. I don't know. I get a little bashful.
Right, Tom. Bull. Shit. There is a quote by that Spaz Hemingway:
Develop a built-in bullshit detector.
Thanks, Papa. But I hate that quote. If I lived it, I'd have to 'detect' the smell of my own bullshit. Not sure I can handle that. However. Green will pull a punt/stunt on your ass. And he's flailing a smidgen, though still treading water. Tread, Tom. Oh. He will mulch/mess with you, weakly (not like Kaufman) but OK.
You know, you could buy that fucking FOG book over there to the upper right of your vision. Please? I'll give you a Plan Worth Sticking To in Life, if we meet (and you buy me a beer and let me buy you a beer).
[I keep trying to imagine the person who will dig this book. But I like challenges.]
Speaking of greens–mustard, collard, whatever–Tom does indeed flow. Yes? Flow feels so good. I mean it SPINES you, right? In your pelvis maybe? I guess that's lower, lower spine. Maybe more the head, the lungs, the sparkles of butter inside the lungs, no the body drifting up and forward and away. Sway. Dopamine…Ever had flow? In writing, in athletics, in other ventures. I have. But I have had true flow VERY RARELY. Flow is magical. No, mystical. I can't explain it. It's a black magic, too. Crows and flickering blades in the sunset. Too much flow and you would consume yourself. Burn your own bones into kindling. Because flow is frightening. I've had it. I have, for moments. And it scared the baloney biscuits out of me. To MAKE all shots, to run THAT WELL. To get into THAT ZONE. It was rare and other-wordly and scary. But. I wish more of life had flow. Sometimes.
Par-boil those fucking potato shards 8 minutes before you roast them, friends. All shadow-shifting in the oven brown, like that time you robbed a store, walked outside, and got robbed. [Memphis]
I ran a 15 k trail race and my legs hurt after. They throbbed like anyone figuring out where they live. I liked it. Elevation changes. Hairpin switchbacks. TRYING NOT TO BUST ASS. People passed me early and I then passed them late. We call that pacing, homeys.
15k: 1:01:08.
After the race, they served nachos. I didn't mind.
Thank you, Krystal Languell. You glow right here. You have that shoebox of things inside you we call lovely. You are that first/first/first/first taste of vodka. We thank you:
We move to Hattiesburg I go to beauty school we get rural I get licensed. My back hurts from bending over to wax women and departmental drama implodes as soon as he signs a contract our apartment has radical Southern bugs the unknowable you can be scared or you can be ready a false dilemma: beauty school or nothing he wants someone to take his name but doesn't want to get married. I know a list of contradictions doesn't add up to a poem of any substance but my temptation is great.
Burgeoning academic he throws in the term new historicism while we argue and snickers at himself abortion is new historicism. He'll believe in anything his least reliable mentor tells him, obviously didn't date me for the partner benefits. I choose getting neighborhoody while he gets all interstate highway I choose hair dye and lipstick but he'd rather sweat on someone new.
Have you ever impulsively taken someone's personal items and thrown them atop the roof of your house? It feels awesome. Then that later day they see the things. Well, that's another rush, I mean what you say. Right then. Conflict is my definition of a story.
I invented a game called Roof Ball. It's fun. I'd tell you more about it right now but I need to go run.
Karen Cariker was born poor. Her dad was Irish, drunk and mean but never late to work. Her mom, Enid, was full-blooded Cherokee, she played the fiddle and slept in a brass bed in the backyard — she's why Karen always had ivy in her rooms, and knew how to cook beans.
Book Slut review, done well (per usual). I'm just saying you should generally read Book Slut reviews.
Most images Rachel Papo today.
I glow A List of Stressful Activities That May or May Not Have Contributed to My Left Hand Going Numb by Meghan Lamb. (strong title, too)
The verbs, the repetition, the flow and meter and pop, the sway, the verbs. Example:
Picking, pinning, wringing. Suck, trace, dangle. Wriggle, scrap, scrunch.
You need to match the verb to the situation. To let the verbs walk [I hate the word walk] (or kick), talk, push and pull your text forward. Propel is what I'm saying. Verbs. Get kinetic with them, slow them down, go hard or soft or crazy…IT MATTERS. To work the verbs.
Why walk slowly, when you could lollygag. Who doesn't love a lollygag? Why rain lightly when you could drizzle (that gorgeous double zz)? Quit fucking around. Pay attention to your verbs. IT MATTERS.
Thanks for this one, Meghan.
A thought: Our culture is happy to discard most anything. But we haven't discarded telling stories.
Here's yet another Bukowski hangover. Enjoy, Freaks. I like his jacket. Smart. I also like Velveeta poured from glass pitchers. I dislike a lot about him. Who cares what I like or dislike. In 100 years, what will we be doing? Don't know. Is regret a bone or a melon?
Wonderful Layne Ransom poem about slugs and assholes.
–Simone, you need to open your eyes when shooting a firearm, dear. We've discussed this. The only reality is in action. And in balloons. I so admire balloons, sex with young strangers, solar panels, damp toast, pewter bunnies, Dan Rather, and Styrofoam. I'm feeling abandoned on this earth! I am, really. I am abandoned. There are no gods. Shit, I need to write a treatise and purchase some fudge! Oh, never mind. Simone, I'd prefer you open your eyes and get that prim little smirk off your face.
–Hey, Fuck you, Sartre, you power-hungry fuck. I'll get existential on your ass. I'm smarter than you, anyway. That's been documented. Why don't you go pose for something. And get that stupid-ass pipe out of your mouthful of lie. The only thing you smoke is gibberish.
–BOOM! I'll blow both your damn heads clear off! You want some of this? I'm old and cranky and barrel-chested and got three forehead wounds, four wives, and over 200 pieces of shrapnel in my knees. Both you intellectual fart-knockers can go explicate a falling piano for all I care. [Simone, you're hot, sext me now.]
–All of you, quiet down! I am Sean Lovelace and I am an idiot and I am shooting in the air (while wearing yellow shoes–style) and here are two new reviews of a book I suppose you might wanna, you know, pick up/threadbare with eyes/purchase/defend while drunk/all that flash bangers, roast potato breath, yellow fellow of gymnasium-of-the-mind-humpers, Etc.
Lovelace writes with humor and originality, presenting readers with the world of Charlie Brown's inner thoughts; how Andy Warhol, Robert Capa, Cher and Thelonious Monk, among others, prefer their eggs; and a nursing student with a mania for bocce.
Lovelace's work is particularly notable—sparkling fragments hinged on surprise, on a quirkily tragic poetics. Handbooks for living with cancer, Charlie Brown and Snoopy, and, yes, the preparations of eggs favored by selected famous people are all topics here. A representative sample of style and content is this section from the book's final piece, "Endings":
A teenage girl catches an amazingly large fish. She pauses, allowing herself to gaze in wonder. It has a row of bent hooks and five broken leaders in its mouth. It has a history. The girl isn't really a girl. She only plays one online. She is actually a grown man who works in a chemical company that combines corn husks with hydrochloric acid to create a polymer used in cruise missiles. He bashes the head of the fish on the gunwale and tosses it thrashing into an Igloo cooler.
I thank you. I am proud as a polar bear with a sneeze machine. [Hemingway, sext me. I love you.]
You are writing very well lately, Russell Jaffe. You make us happy with dance/lance/glance at glass words like:
The first lines of my manifesto are "stars, floods, red lights—alright / maps, bodies, bones—forbidden zones." In reality, the idea of lights that sit next to your bed and feet that bunch up against the walls, hunched like a fetus in suspended animation flooding space, unfilled lightlessness with garages, overturned Bedazzler kits, glue specks from Creepy Crawler kits (I knew instantly that it was just an EZ Bake Oven for boys)—that's romantic, that makes me want to cry.
Big-ass Richard Brautigan site.
Put three quarters into a soda machine today and just walk away. I'm serious. Do that, for me.
Have you considered Stoked Press? Submission guidelines here.
I made money last night betting on GB. But who cares? talking about bets AFTER the game is so banal and obvious. If you have any Glow in your Guts, talk about your bets BEFORE the game. Jesus.
I learned how to roast potatoes. That felt satisfying. Like when you replace the labels of your beer with nonalcoholic beer labels and go around drinking beer at a church picnic and they are all thinking, "Damn, he's drinking non-alcoholic beer at a fucking church picnic; wow he has a problem." And you're all, "You don't know the half of it." No, that's not correct. I didn't feel that way about roast potatoes. Not at all. How did I feel? I felt exhilarated, like the time I brought the shoes to the zoo and gave them to the monkeys. Excuse me: What is the nutritional value of swallowing misery or a bug while bicycling backwards through the wreckage of your father's pet store? Potatoes, roast them, yo.
David Fishkind writes well about Delillo.
It is tough to write about drugs. Drugs are cliche. A lot of things are cliche. So, how do we write about the cliche?
[Actually, all of life is cliche. Yeh. I know. Shut up. You are trying to make me ramble.]
Brandon Courtney shows us how over at Smoke Long. Cotton Fever, yo.
There are many ways to make a cliche your own, to make it sing. Here, we have verisimilitude. Jargon. Words that growl to make a thing real.
[BTW, in a totally different vein (groan at pun), here is METH HORROR STORY site. It is clearly run by someone insane. Which I sort of like.]
Back to the Courtney story!
Johnny was standing under 100-watts of a single bare bulb, picking crank craters into his throat—whole constellations—with his thumbnail and index finger. He was in the late stage of meth mouth
I was at the kitchen table cracking blister-packs of pseudoephedrine into a saucepan when the battery man rang the doorbell to show us how to strip lithium from 9-volt Energizers.
Johnny came home after serving a nickel at the Fort Dodge Penitentiary for selling crumble cookies to a plain-clothed cop.
And so on. And on. Ground the thing. Grind it in the ground. I say well done. I say bring this text to those that need to cut their draft gritty, that need to push the original idea to its form, that need to get US CLOSER. Words. The secret language of any subversive activity, skateboarding or love or crank.
So many cliches. Beautiful cliches. Examples?
1. Short story about an South American family who comes from Peru to stay with another S.A. family in Muncie, IN; the daughter of the host family, Hemanka Jones, gets a crush on the son, Knock-Knock, and he confides in her that his mother is dying of Cheetos dust inhalation (orange lung).
2. Short story about a teacher assigned to an elementary school in a remote village.
3. Short stories where guy lies in bed all day.
4. Photos of women with guns.
5. Kids who bring baby woodpeckers into Lowes.
6. A man arrives.
7. A man leaves.
8. Shooting a book. Shooting that damn book up! Look, I'm trying to teach children the importance of literature, OK, of reading literature. What are you doing for the children?
9. Eco-novel where a woman drives a car into an editor.
10. Protagonist kills self (yawn).
11. The story about the Iron Chef and the elf.
12. Lorrie Moore story.
13. Quarterback controversies. I love a good QB controversy. I wish they would air the controversies, as opposed to the actual games.
14. WalMart as setting, as daycare/insane asylum/hospice.
(Quick story. Yesterday, at Walmart, this elderly woman walks INTO the door and sets off the alarm. She became angry and flustered. She started yelling at The Greeter. I thought three things:
One: How do you set off an alarm walking INTO a store.
Two: How can you get that upset over this incident? I mean life is hard. This upsets you?
Three: Oh gods, The Greeter at Walmart. Oh gods.)
15. Bourbon (especially if brand is named).
16. Sonnets about people in grocery stores telling people about their health problems.
17. Divorce.
18. The thrill of writing.
19. Age inappropriate dating stories.
20. Married people fighting in public poems.
21. Flash fiction about laxatives.
22. Checks. Especially ones that bounce.
23. Free verse where a young mother finds among some wadded balls of paper in the wastebasket of her ten-year-old daughter one which read: "Nachos."
24. A clamor of wedding bells had followed her here. Hundreds of miles. Her head was ringed in pain as if in a vise. Shit like that.
25. Grocery lists.
26. Dame Shirley Bassey just rocking a Bond medley.
27. She already knew his dune-shack friend Blake Butler, knew the professors Kim Chinquee and Matt Bell from New York, knew everyone's friend Tad the biker who lived on the pier or loose in the dunes, and old Sean Lovelace who gave parties. Stories that mention people you know. Anyone mentioning anyone, in a story.
28. Stories about Velveeta.
29. Stories about writing fiction.
30. Throwing no-hitters on acid:
31. I moved a lot in my post-college years, and the single biggest, heaviest, most exasperating thing to move besides my books was my record collection.
33. Kid meets kid. They enrich our lives.
34. The story is also a searing unforgettable love story. Etc. Things like that. Things that sear.
35. Screaming, horrible, thrashing, dying Lobsters.
36. A famous composer has a terrible day.
37. Haiku sequence about couple who want to kiss/throw chairs/fight over whether to hang glossy photos (an industry of cliches) of small kids/not hang glossy photos (an industry of cliches) of kids on beige walls (obstacles like pots, pans, legal contracts, popcorn).
38. Lesbian villanelles.
39. Tanka. Just any fucking tanka.
40. Spam haiku.
41. A state park. [Hey, has anyone read John Brandon? I'm thinking about it.]
42. Segmented stories about drinking (yawn).
43. Poems about the moon. Fuck the moon!
44. Anything about Tao Lin.
45. Short story about Paul's Martian roommate Thark and her cheating boyfriend.
46. Italics.
47. I appear in my own story and that's crazy.
48. Dogs.
49. Handing his nachos over to the doctor had taken almost physical courage.
50. Stories where people eat.
51. All its existence Nachos would struggle to reconcile these two divergent approaches to selfhood–the Victorian urge toward unity of toppings and layers it had inherited during its conception (Mexican chef on the fly serving gringos, 1943) as a subvert of the northern stomping dollar, and the Modernist drive for multiplicity and change that it absorbed very early in its career as a self-identifying member of the international ball park (thank Howard Cosell) /dive bar/homemade quick-ass meal. Indeed, by the time Nachos reached maturity, both had become so deeply embedded in its own being that neither could effectively be suppressed or jettisoned. The tactic Nachos ultimately arrived at for coping with this dilemma, most likely without being consciously aware that it was employing the tactic, was that of "compartmentalization," in which, as The Queen of Nachos (Carmen Rocha) explains, "One confines the potentially conflicting components to separate spheres of one's life." Put simply, there would be two Nachos.
52. Poems dedicated to Jeremy.
Three days ago wrote a story today about a Processed Cheese Product man visiting a town. So what? Fuck blogs.
Over at wigleaf, Emily Howarth charms us and informs us and makes us smile (After all, I am a southerner…). I'm not sure how to link exactly to the story, so here you freaking go:
What to Remember When Returning to Mississippi
Nobody locks doors there. So when you go to see your friends or your relatives, don't just stand at the door knocking or ringing the bell: open the door, poke your head in, and say, "Hello, anybody home?" If nobody answers when you call, walk in, go to the bottom of the stairs, and holler again. Someone will call back. If not, remember to shut the door behind you when you leave. The A/C is on. Also: don't let the screen door slam. And don't open it by pushing your hand against the screen next time, you moron.
Bless your heart.
When people in Mississippi say, "It's nice to see you," it doesn't necessarily mean they've met you before. It could just mean they were in second grade with your cousin, or they heard about what your nephew is alleged to have done to those kittens at the skate park. Perhaps they know your grandmother from tax-free Tuesdays at the liquor store. Perhaps they've heard about the success of your father's Night Blooming Cereus. And perhaps, just maybe, they really have met you, which is why you should always smile and say, "It's nice to see you, too."
When you go out, do not even think of checking your lipstick at the table. Do that in the bathroom. While you're at it, straighten your skirt if the seams have jimmied. Keep your hair out of your eyes: you have a pretty face.
It will cool down in the evenings. Out on the porch you can light citronella candles and drink Gordon's and tonic. Your cousin will say the thick air feels like being inside a mouth. The trees your mother swears smell like semen will drop blossoms onto the windshields of the Fords and Buicks parked along the street. Your friends will come over. They'll cheat you at Trivial Pursuit and drink. When the streets are completely quiet, your friends may start singing, and you may even join them: flat Yankee vowels bending under their kinder voices in songs you would otherwise pretend not to know. Remember to find some comfort in being in a place where everybody cares what people think, and nobody says exactly what they mean.
On the highway, in your car pushing 100, no one will recognize you fast enough to do that hand-on-the-steering-wheel wave that's so popular in town. On the highway you can listen to gangster rap loud. Even if it gives you a headache, sometimes an ache in your head is better than nothing. After a while all the kudzu-strangled trees will stop seeming like a hedge maze—and though you are making a big circle, it will be a relief to see the town from afar and realize it really is that small.
I need to go run. I'm already gone. I'm running. See me?


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Inflatables are superior on snow and land. More and more riders are recognising this:
https://www.kiteforum.com/viewtopic.php ... 3&p=735337
I've summarised the reasons for the superiority of inflatables:
Rams have HUGE drag ("D") compared to inflatables for 3 reasons:
a) Increased friction at the "boundary layer"; ie interface between air & kite, because of minute ripples in ram air kites.
b) Bridle drag.
c) Thickness. Ram lovers describe the diameter of inflatable leading edges as a liability. However, the thickness of ram airs is typically two to three times as great. Worse, much of the thickness is near the trailing edge, causing gross aerodynamic inefficiency. An inflatable trailing edge, in contrast, is thin and aerodynamically efficient.
Ram airs contain a huge mass of entrapped air; consequently inertia is HUGE. Large ram airs (eg Flysurfer 19m & 21m) contain >11kg of air in their cells vs 2-3 kg in the tube structure of inflatables. The huge inertia of ram air kites causes a multitude of problems including poor lift, slow turning, difficulty kitelooping, and diminishes the "sweet spot" for unhooking. Poor turning and acceleration results in inferior dynamic power (the power generated with sinusoidal kite movement).
The semi-rigidity of inflatables improves consistency, stability, turning, handling, and aerodynamic profile. Ram airs are soft and floppy.
Birds, wasps, stunt kites, and planes are rigid. ALL high performance aircraft (eg hang-gliders vs paragliders) have rigid structures. Rigid hang gliders out-perform soft paragliders on all measures. Interestingly, the trend in paragliders is towards increased rigidity, e.g. stiff mylar reinforcements, plastic stiffeners in the leading edges and carbon fibre rods sewn into the ribs. These stiffening innovations have resulted in paragliders that are so successful in competition that old-style soft gliders are no longer competitive. Similarly, kite manufacturers are always looking for ways to make kites more internally rigid, eg by joining the struts firmly to the leading edge, adding fifth lines, and mini-bridles.
Semi rigidity enables inflatables to withstand gusty conditions better than ram airs. Ram airs deform, fold, collapse, and twist in gusty conditions. For stability problems in ram airs stemming from lack of internal rigidity, see: http://www.foilzone.com/phpbb3/viewtopi ... sc&start=0
Check-out this ram air kite loop http://vimeo.com/10799435 You'll notice the kite partially collapsing during the loop, leading to the rider being slammed.
Another weakness of the soft structure of ram airs is a lack of tactile feedback. The kites are soft so the feedback is soft, sloppy, and imprecise. Rigid inflatables, in contrast, provide a wealth of nuanced feedback to the rider, eg kite position, speed of turn, and gradations of power delivery.
The tips of inflatables act as rudders, enabling faster, more controlled turns. Also, they enable a "sled effect", leading to better stability and predictability. This "sled effect" is pronounced in C-kites and is noticeably poorer in bow kites and ram airs.
Luff curves vary extensively. Inflatables with flat luff curves sit forward in the window whereas inflatables with deeper luff curves sit further back in the window. It is the same principle as land sailing: If you want more "bottom" end with a sail, you deepen the luff curve (eg releasing the outhaul). If you want more "high" end, you make the luff curve shallower (eg tighten the outhaul). Inflatable kites are deliberately engineered with different luff curves and this determines many performance differences, eg deeper luff curve kites are better for "wakestyle" because of more constant pull whereas shallower luff curve kites go upwind better.
The excessive drag and inertia of ram airs causes them to sit further back in the window compared to inflatables. Also, when ram airs move too close to the side of the window, they start collapsing and deforming. Hence, there is less scope for ram designers to modify the luff curve.
Because of the semi-rigid structure inherent to inflatables the luff curve and overall aerodynamic profile is much easier to standardise and maintain.
Ram airs can be VERY difficult to relaunch.
Beginners find relaunching inflatables easy after a few sessions. Yes, some rams can reverse launch, but so what... a lot of inflatables can reverse launch. Rams can launch directly downwind, but so what... so can a lot of inflatables. For intermediates and above, relaunching should not even be considered in the equation because a) they won't be dropping the kite much anyway and b) Relaunching inflatables is EASY. Commonly, ram airs will not relaunch properly because of twisting or bridle tangles. These aren't such big problems with inflatables.
Inflatables are safer than ram airs because they lack rigidity, rams deform, twist, wineglass, and jellyfish in the middle of the power zone etc when they are downwind of obstacles and in gusty conditions. This is VERY dangerous. Ram airs can become uncontrollable in gusty conditions, endangering the rider and other users.
Bridle tangles and breakages are disturbingly common with ram airs. Check this thread viewtopic.php?f=1&t=2354115&start=30
In particular:
Ram air bridle tangles can be very dangerous. A lot of riders have reported how their ram airs caught debris in their bridles, causing their kites to wineglass and spin out of control. Breakages can be expensive (US $500 plus). eg "Flysurfer Warrior Exploding" viewtopic.php?t=4612schmoe wrote: A bridle tangle on flysurfer can mean that you do not go out... For me I had many lost hours where the wind is cranking because of the bridles. I rather inflate 5 tubes and know that the setup time is exactly 10 minutes, no more no less, than have setup time that is 70% 5 minutes and 30% an hour. And now with one pump, the setup time of a tube is less, so it is not an advantage of the foil anymore.
Ram users struggle to pre-inflate in a lot of situations e.g. downwind of obstacles or elevations. I once witnessed a Flysurfer lover trying to launch downwind of an obstacle. A friend grabbed one tip while he grabbed the other tip while they ran back and forth, trying to pre-inflate, to no avail. He packed up and went home while the inflatable riders had a ball.
Contrary to the propaganda of ram lovers, ram airs and inflatos have similar lifespans. The major determinant of lifespan is obsolescence. In 2-3 years, today's kites will be superseded and won't be worth much.
Ram airs are shockingly complex. They have over 1000 parts, many of which require regular tweaking e.g. viewtopic.php?f=1&t=2374470 Ram air repairs are a LOT more expensive eg viewtopic.php?t=4612 Trained PARACHUTE repairers are often needed. Bills >$1000 are common, eg viewtopic.php?f=1&t=2348790 Ram air companies sometimes refuse to honour warranties, e.g. the case above where the kite was <1 year old.
Ram lovers are all talk and no action when it comes to competitions. NO ram riders have made it into the top 10 recently in a SIGNIFICANT well-patronised event. The top pro riders ALL choose inflatables because of superior aerodynamics. ALL world records and titles (hang-time, speed, freestyle, height) are held by inflatables.
Ram airs are inferior light wind kites for the following reasons:
a) Excessive drag (bridles, lack of internal rigidity, excessive friction at the "boundary layer", and trailing edge thickness), compromising the Lift/Drag ratio
b) VERY slow turning
c) Inertia. Large ram airs (e.g. Flysurfer Speed) contain >11kg of entrapped air, cf <3kg in the largest inflatables.
d) Bridle failures and tangling
e) 8 knot limit
Despite the lies of ram lovers, you won't really get going on any kite (ram air OR inflatable) unless the wind is over ~ 7-8 knots and won't really have fun until ~ 10 knots.
Inflatable riders tend to hang out and help each other; there's a high level of collegiality. Ram lovers tend to be regarded as outsiders and slightly weird. This is because ram lovers are a shrinking minority on land/snow, inflatable riders are unfamiliar with the special requirements of ram airs, and partly because, as a group, ram lovers DO tend to be weirdoes. One of the simple practical problems with being part of a weird minority is that it can be difficult to find people to help launch and land your kite. I'm not sure why so many ram lovers are strange weirdoes… maybe their weirdness is self selecting, i.e. There must be some sort of psychological problem in the first place to deliberately choose inferior kites in the face of overwhelming evidence of the superiority of inflatables.
Ignore the ram air lies.
And constant propaganda.
Of the lesser kites.


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No Chicago Fire player has had a busier offseason than goalkeeper Sean Johnson.
Since the book to the club's 2011 campaign closed on October 22, the Fire netminder has already made two trips across the pond, first in a training camp with the U.S. U23 Men's National Team in Germany last month before this month's week-and-a-half long stint with English Premiership side Everton FC.
Upon returning stateside Thursday, Johnson wasn't about to take any rest as he was en route to another U.S. U23 camp, set to kick off Friday in Lakewood Ranch, FL.
"I've already gone through a lot of work this offseason," said Johnson. "The two trips abroad have helped me stay sharp."
In particular, Johnson's stint with the Toffees at the club's Finch Farm training ground allowed the rising U.S. keeper the chance to train with current American number one Tim Howard.
"We were together every day. Timmy obviously is their starter and he has his own job to do but he gave me pointers, it was just good to be able to train with him and to see how he goes about his daily routine. It was good to be around him, he was very helpful and I was grateful for the experience."
Working alongside Howard wasn't the only benefit of the trip, but rather getting to see differences from how training is run and facing Premier League players on a daily basis was something Johnson took away.
"There are some similarities, obviously it's a team in the top league in the world though. Some of the things you see in training are just of a different class, it was good for me to experience that and get a feel for that level every day. All the guys there are great players but in my eyes I think the craftiest player to go up against was Marouane Fellani – he's such a great talent."
Returning stateside Thursday, Johnson's again headed back to U.S. U23 camp, this time in Lakewood Ranch, FL, where he'll train under new U23 head coach Caleb Porter for the first time. The U.S. Soccer Federation's Youth Technical Director Claudio Reyna led the team in Germany while Porter tended to his collegiate duties with Akron University.
Johnson impressed during the nine-day camp last month, closing out the gathering playing 90 minutes in the team's 3-1 win over VfL Bochum.
"The camp in Germany was good. It was the first U23 trip for this group of guys to get together. Obviously we came out with a win and a tie there which were pretty good results for our first games. In this setup you have to jell quickly. I'm definitely looking forward to this camp in Florida, it should be an exciting week and a good chance to get to know Caleb, see the ideas and system he'll be putting into place for us."
The U.S. U23 side was grouped with Canada, Cuba and El Salvador for next spring's CONCACAF pre-Olympic qualifiers which will take place March 22-April 2 in Nashville, TN, Carson, CA and Kansas City, KS.
If the U.S advances from its group and wins its semifinal matchup, Johnson will set his sights on the 2012 Summer Olympics in London.
Jeff Crandall is the team Writer for the Chicago Fire. Follow him on Twitter @JefeCrandall.


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Throughout U.S. history, a persistent question has vexed commentators on American culture: do we have a vital, distinct intellectual life? Long before Richard Hofstadter warned about rampant anti-intellectualism in American society, Ralph Waldo Emerson cautioned about the potential irreconcilability of genius and democracy: "The mind of this country, taught to aim at low objects, eats upon itself." Indeed, one of the defining features of American thought has been a nagging concern that American culture is indifferent, even hostile, to the life of the mind. By drawing on key works of criticism from thinkers as diverse as Emerson, George Santayana, H.L. Mencken, and Emma Goldman, this seminar will examine how and why concerns about American anti-intellectualism have come to dominate American intellectual life, and will consider the role of this lament in the history of American cultural criticism.
Seminar led by Jennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen, University of Wisconsin at Madison


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The ink wasn't dry on Mike Shanahan's honorable discharge before Broncos owner Pat Bowlen set the wheels in motion to find a new coach. The leading candidates: Bob Stoops and three others.
In addition to Stoops, whose Oklahoma Sooners meet Florida in the BCS title game on Thursday, the Broncos have scheduled interviews with:
New York Giants defensive coordinator Steve Spagnuolo, newly named Tampa Bay defensive coordinator and former secondary coach Raheem Morris and New England Patriots offensive coordinator Josh McDaniels. Spagnuolo will be the first to interview for the Broncos job since Mike Shanahan was fired Tuesday, with a meeting set for Saturday with Broncos officials.
Man, if Stoops leaves, this kid is really going to lose it.
• Leggo My Cassell. Former NFL executive Michael Lombardi says that the Patriots will put the franchise tag on Matt Cassell, preventing him from becoming a free agent. A hedge bet on Tom Brady's health? Or maybe they're planning on a big trade? Oh Belichick, you sly boots, what are you up to? [Pro Football Talk]
• Boston Herald Screws Dawg Pound Pooch. So the Boston Herald wrote that Patriots' executive Scott Piloli had until Thursday (Jan. 1) to accept an offer to take over football operations with the Cleveland Browns. But the deadline has passed, Piloli hasn't made up his mind, and the Browns are still courting him. That's some nice police work there, Lou. [Pro Football Talk]


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2008 Subway Series: 4-2 Mets
I'll take that.
The woods, we are still in them, as in "not out yet." The team is still playing 500 ball at best. Great one day, frustratingly flawed the next. Kind of like our Ollie Perez. He was awesome at Shea today, thrilling to watch, even in the pouring rain (which yes, I sat through the whole time, thankfully brief.) He seemed to send the Yankees toppling down one after the other, like the bowling pins at Port St. Lucie's Duffy's.
But Ollie, we need you to do that when it's not a big market game too. When it's "just" the 2nd division teams, like the Mariners. We need you to treat every game like it's an adrenaline pumper. Gary Cohen thinks Warthen's worked out some kinks in Perez's delivery, but they said that about a tip from Pedro during Ollie's last good start. So can he internalize these coaching tips for more than one game? Let's hope so. We've got huge battles ahead, including the series against the Phillies, and we fans are all just chomping at the bit for our boys to do their best a few games in a row.
A highlight of my trip back to Manhattan included meeting SNY's Adam Schein on the 7 train. Like all the SNY folks I've met or know well–Keith, Ron, Gary, Matt Yallof, Kevin Burkardt, Matty Cerrone, Ted Berg, and behind-the-scenes dudes Dan, Gerard, Greg and Mets Weekly cameraman Max–Adam Schein is a doll. If you don't watch Loud Mouths, his show with Chris Carlin, I recommend it. They're funny, insightful, entertaining, and low on the obnoxious meter, which can't be said of all of SNY's new programming this season. Adam spoke very highly of his SNY coworkers, which just goes to show what I've already known since 2006. Our Mets network just plain rocks.
Let's keep the coverage going in October, Metsies, how 'bout it?


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Tallahassee, Fla. --- In a game that was a defensive tug-of-war for much of the contest, the Tennessee State University women's basketball team fell to Florida A&M, 66-49, Sunday afternoon in the Al Lawson Center.
Alana Morris was the only Tennessee State (1-3) player to score in double-digits as the led the team with 12 points. Chelsea Hudson finished the game with seven points and eight rebounds.
Florida A&M (3-1) was led by Jasmine Grice and TaNeka Ruben. They each posted 19 points.
The first half was tightly played until Florida A&M used a 9-0 run to create a little distance. FAMU was leading, 26-18, when TSU managed to put together a rally that cut the deficit down to two points. The Lady Tigers outscored the Lady Rattlers 9-3 in the final five minutes of the frame to go into halftime trailing, 29-27.
The offense was stagnant for both teams in the opening moments of the second stanza. As the half continued, FAMU started to get going while TSU continued to struggle.
The Lady Tigers suffered through a drought that saw them fall behind, 42-31, at the 12:21 mark. Alana Morris connected in the paint to end the skid but the Lady Tiger struggles continued.
FAMU built its lead up to, 53-39, before an old fashioned three-point play from Morris brought TSU to within 11.
That, however, would be as close as the Lady Tigers would get.
Tennessee State shot 28.3 percent from the field and only made one three-pointer in the contest. TSU also struggled from the free-throw line only connecting on 18-of-32 from the charity stripe.
TSU's next contest is on Thursday, Nov. 21 when the Lady Tigers host Texas A&M Corpus Christi in the season home opener. Game time is scheduled for 6 p.m. in the Gentry Center.


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What does the P in LAMP stand for?
The best way to go about any small-to-medium scale web 2.0 development is to use LAMP. Others may advocate Microsoft's tools and platforms if they wish, but I have been terminally put off by the remarks of one insider.
This leads on to the question: what does the 'P' stand for? For me, it must always mean PHP. Perl is just too bizarre-looking, and carries more than a whiff of 1996. I was put off Python by an early Bayesian spam filter that ran dog slow and had the habit of irreparably corrupting its database every few weeks. PHP is easy, sensible and quick.
By the way, while we are here, I am baffled by Coding Horror's suggestion that PHP sucks because it has a lot of standard library functions beginning with 'A'.
Huh? 'Lots of functions' is surely good. It means we can call them, instead recoding them again already. That's how it is with the library thing. Would he really think it better if it only had three functions - say
add() for addition,
arcsin() for a bit of token trig, and
aaaaargh() for throwing an error? I'd genuinely like to know.
Despite Mr Atwood, the PHP library continues to grow apace, and think it is a good thing. I believe the
pester_victim_with_stupid_emails() function was added only last month, to help out everybody writing Facebook applications.
We should pause to consider Ruby on Rails
Ok, done that.
AJAX for a cleaner kitchen
Finally, having established that PHP is what you need on the server, you may be wondering what tools I recommend for client side use. That is, after all, why we are here. The following table should make my position clear.
|What is it?
|Delphi for PHP 2.0
|A PHP-generating IDE that lets you drop Javascript widgets on a form.
|It's better than Delphi for PHP 1.0.
|It's mad. It mixes PHP and Javascript event handlers in the same source code file.
|Something else for Embarcadero to look into.
|A framework library of AJAX Javascript classes, including widgets. It has various competitors, but is a reasonable candidate for the best of the bunch.
|Open source, surprisingly good docs. Widgets are uniformly designed and reasonably handsome.
|Hard to use. You have to build up your screen layouts by hand, one dreary <div> at a time. Get a tag or attribute wrong, and the whole thing goes spectacularly yet nearly untraceably pear-shaped.
|Perhaps come back in a year, if they make a design environment to go with.
|GWT ie Google Web Kit
|AJAX and Java libraries plus a Javascript-to-Java translating tool.
|It's from Google. They practically invented Web 2.0.
|A Java-to-Javascript translator? Icky! Icky! Icky!
|Euuggh! What were they thinking?
|Flash and Flex
|Adobe's ubiquitous web enricher, based on a superior flavour of Javascript. Flex is the cheaper, techie-oriented IDE.
|Flash programmers are often from a designer background, are easily impressed by code expertise such as knowing how to write a sort. Or indeed a loop.
|It's Flash. The application arrives as a big ugly lump of proprietary gunk. And have you seen how much wonga they want for the Flash development environment?
|No way. If I use this, the Open Source Erics will lynch me.
|Java applets
|You remember. The status bar. 'Applet loading…'
|Supported by Netscape 2.
|If I write the word 'crapplet', does that make this article NSFW?
|I bet Sun hopes that everybody had forgotten.
|Open source alternative to Flash that practically nobody has heard of.
|Sounds like a good idea. Can either use the Flash runtime, or DHTML.
|When I looked at the OpenLaszlo site with Firefox, the basic layout came out all wrong - a major turn off in the circs.
|It's one thing to go out on a limb, but this feels like going out on a twig.
|Microsoft's 'Flash killer', about to go into a new version.
|Version 1.0 was reputedly a weedy effort; it is said that the inclusion of .NET languages will improve version 2.0
|It's Microsoft, for heaven's sake. They of the terrible websites.
|Apart from everything else, at time of writing it's a beta.
There, I trust that has sorted out your Web 2.0 toolchain for you. If you want more information, I found a useful-if-naturally-biased comparison on the Dojo site, and several good Wikipedia pages. But I am getting dangerously close to supplying useful information, so I had better stop. Best of British. ®
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|No Story Too Small
|Taken in the early 1890s
My first Hairston ancestor is my grandmother, Johnie Myrtlene "Myrtie" Hairston. I never knew my grandmother or Redic E. Bryan, my grandfather. Myrtie died 28 years before I was born. I found a lot in her obituary and am quite lucky to have several photos. Note her year of birth is incorrect. She was born July 9, 1880.
Friday's Photo: A New Photo of My Grandmother
Friday's Photo: A Baby's Death
Family Photos: The House in Seymour – Part III (My father with my grandmother)
Old Newspapers (a wedding photo)
Forgotten Family – Part VI: The Painting (a painting of Myrtie)
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Drought Revives Old Water Wars Among River States
JEFFERSON CITY - The water wars are raging again in America's heartland. Drought-stricken states are competing for the increasingly scarce water of the Missouri River and have taken their case to the White House.
Officials from more than 30 states have written President Barack Obama urging him to intervene - or not - in a dispute about whether water in the Missouri River's upstream reservoirs should be released to flow down to the Mississippi River.
Officeholders in downstream states say the water is needed to help raise low levels on the Mississippi that are threatening to halt barge traffic for shipping grain and other bulk commodities.
But if the water is released, officials in upstream states warn that the toll of the drought could worsen for farms and towns that depend on the Missouri River.