vol.1 issue.16

:: Guitar Terry's Winter golf tips part 1
:: Tiger Woods triangle of love
::Balloon launch from Jerseyville Yields pictures from the edge of space
::Avalonn.com Trafic Report

.....On November 27th 2009 at 10:30 am Paul Snyder and his daughter Katie launched a high altitude balloon from the number 6 fairway at west lake countryclub in Jerseyville Illinois. This science experiment yielded some amazing pictures.
..... The balloon was a Kaymont KCI 1500... a 1500-gram sounding balloon with 8.4 pounds of gross lift. On board the balloon was a hand full instrument in the form of a cell phone, and two digital cameras.
.....The tracking device was a Boost Mobile i290 phone, which has an onboard GPS. It was loaded with the InstaMapper application, which messages the instamapper.com website intermittently with GPS coordinates and altitude data.
The balloon has two cameras onboard; light little Nikon S1's. One was taking stills at 30-second increments, while the other was recording video.
.....The video camera ran out of juice a full hour before it was expected, due to the cold at the middle altitudes... 70 below.
The stills camera worked past peak altitude, but the shot quality was low due to the amount of movement the package was experiencing, and the cold temperatures.
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.The balloon its self is 6 feet in diameter at ground level and 30 feet in diameter at altitude.
.....It was inflated with hydrogen, as helium is currently rationed and is considerably more expensive.

.....Just past the city cemetery ground base lost contact with the balloon even though it could still be seen from the launch site. The last data signal sent from the onboard instrument package was that it was flying southeast at around 30mph at 5199 feet.
.....“We thought we lost it,” said Paul Snyder expecting to hear back from someone who found it in a field sometime next year.

But a few hours later after some lunch and a few holes of golf, a friend in Pennsylvania called to alert Paul and Katie that contact was reestablished on InstaMapper. It was just past Carlyle Reservoir, loosing altitude fast.

Landing site!

.....After receiving the coordinates of where it came down at, and using Google earth satellite pictures to view the aria surrounding the landing site, Paul and Katie was able to track down the phone number of the people living in a house not to far from the landing site. The kind lady happily retrieved the balloon and mailed it back to Jerseyville.
.....The balloon flew for 2 hours 12 minutes, climbing to a altitude of over 90,000 ft, traveling 72.4 miles, with an average speed of 33mph and a max speed of 91mph.

Matt Capps

e-mail: matt@avalonn.com

Camera pointing to the west looking at Wolves Crossing Golf Course.

Mississippi river valley.

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e-mail: matt@avalonn.com

Tiger woods triangle of love

The wife, the mistress, and the other lover.

The Wife, The Mistress, and the other Lover

The Wife

Elin Nordegren was born in Stockholm. Her mother, Barbro Holmberg, is a politician and former Swedish migration and asylum policy minister. Her father, Thomas, is a radio journalist who served as a bureau chief in Washington, D.C. She has one older brother, Axel, and a twin sister, Josefin. Nordegren and her sister worked odd summer jobs and as cashiers in supermarkets to finance their studies. She started modeling in 2000, and appeared on the cover of Cafe Sport magazine in the summer of 2000.

Nordegren and her twin sister Josefin had been working as au pairs for Swedish golfer Jesper Parnevik when he introduced her to Woods during the 2001 British Open. In November 2003, Woods and Nordegren attended the Presidents Cup tournament in South Africa and became officially engaged when Woods proposed at the luxury Shamwari Game Reserve. On October 5, 2004, they were married by the 19th hole at the exclusive Sandy Lane resort in Barbados.

The mistress: Rachel Uchitel

So who is Rachel Uchitel?
According to Blackbookmag.com , the 34-year-old Uchitel is described as a "Hamptons diva" who is the director of VIP services at Pink Elephant in Southampton, N.Y. Pink Elephant is an expensive, exclusive club known for its Hollywood patrons, celebrity sightings and lounge couches.
Uchitel has been rumored to be in affairs with several high-profile married men, including David Boreanaz (star of the TV show Bones).
In her Blackbookmag.com profile, Uchitel claims she doesn't "kiss and tell" about the men she's been linked with, but Hollywood Gossip claims she openly admitted to an affair with Woods .
Uchitel is vehemently denying having an affair with Woods. "God forbid Tiger got into a car wreck because of this false report of him having an affair," she told the New York Post .
"We have never had an affair, talked on the phone or sent any type of text, sexy or not," she added. "I am really upset about it because I am being portrayed as a homewrecker when it simply isn't true."
Uchitel's fiancee was killed in the 9/11 World Trade Center terrorist attacks. Her grandparents owned and operated the notorious El Morocco nightclub, popular in the 1950s and frequented by the likes of President John F. Kennedy and Cary Grant.

The Other Lover: Jaimee Grubbs

Jaimee Grubbs, a cocktail waitress working in San Diego met Tiger in 2007 at Light nightclub in Las Vegas. She says she's had an on-and-off again affair with Woods for three years.
The woman who formerly appeared on the VH1 show "Tool Academy" is now also revealing a message she says is from Woods asking her to take her name off of her voicemail because his wife was going through his phone. Tiger also sent several sexual text messages to her that she has saved and released to the press.

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