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Southern Spain - 2009 Competitions

April, June and July (Algodonales, Spain)

Juaki <aladelta> writes:

We start in April in Easter in Algodonales and El Bosque - Cádiz on April 5th to 11th with the International HG Open Sierra de Cadiz

Later in June, from 5th to 13th we have our national championship in Zujar - Granada

In July 11th to 18th we go to the North Ager - Lleida, to run the Pre-Europeans

In brief you can find information on these events on the following web sites:

Hang Gliding Open Sierra de Cádiz at my web site www.juakiair.com  (site under construction)
Spanish National Championship at www.vuelojabalcon.es  (site under construction)
Pre-Europeans at www.ager2010.com

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Bare Feet over Bald Hill

You don't need shoes at Stanwell (Bald Hill, Stanwell Park, NSW, Australia)

I'm out in front of the hill looking way back (as my legs are way behind me) to capture the action on top of the hill.  The shot is taken upside down and it looks vertical, when in fact it is horizontal.

Check out the shoes carefully.  And here.

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Airborne Sting 3 - 168

(This topic is in: Jan.30 Nov.30'07 )

The bigger version (Airborne factory, Redhead, NSW, Australia)

Somehow I missed it that Airborne had released a bigger version of the Sting 3, 168 squares.  I then went looking on the Airborne web site to see if there was a press release or any notice of the new glider.  Couldn't find it.

Then I began to wonder, was I just clueless.  Maybe I just don't remember.  But I went back and looked at the Oz Reports archive, and there was nothing about the 168 version.

I had the opportunity to fly the Sting 3 154 last spring while it was being developed and had a great time with it.  I had heard that there might be a be a bigger version later, but I was surprised to see it on the Airborne web site after being clued into the fact that one existed.

I made a stop over at the Airborne factory earlier Thursday morning when I took my car into get a new water pump at the garage next door.  I spoke with Rob Hibbard and all the Duncan brothers.  I told Rob that he had to be sure to get the word out to me and to other hang gliding news outlets (are there any other?) about whatever developments were coming out of Airborne.  That their promotion was just too sketchy.

I was at the Moyes factory on Tuesday and said the same thing (and Gerolf more than agrees).  I also heard a rumor, maybe I heard this wrong, but that Gerolf is going to develop a new Moyes intermediate glider.  I guess to replace the Sonic and/or XT.  Maybe we'll hear more about that later.

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Thoughts about Steve Eliot

His family and Moyes remember (Forbes airfield, Australia)

http://www.moyes.com.au/articledetail.asp?ID=317

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A thought for Bobby Bailey and others

I'll just bet that it applies to men also

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2006-10/tu-ccm100306.php

Tucker, also a professor at the Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy at Tufts, and colleagues analyzed dietary questionnaires and bone mineral density measurements at the spine and three different hip sites of more than 2,500 people in the Framingham Osteoporosis Study whose average age was just below 60.  In women, cola consumption was associated with lower bone mineral density at all three hip sites, regardless of factors such as age, menopausal status, total calcium and vitamin D intake, or use of cigarettes or alcohol.

However, cola consumption was not associated with lower bone mineral density for men at the hip sites, or the spine for either men or women.  The results were similar for diet cola and, although weaker, for decaffeinated cola as well.

Men reported drinking an average of six carbonated drinks a week, with five being cola, and women reported consuming an average of five carbonated drinks a week, four of which were cola.  Serving size was defined as one bottle, can or glass of cola.  "The more cola that women drank, the lower their bone mineral density was," says Tucker, who is corresponding author of the study.  "However, we did not see an association with bone mineral density loss for women who drank carbonated beverages that were not cola."

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