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Yes, I know LeBron deserves top-billing today, but for personal reasons I simply can't bump the Billy Donovan story beneath today's lead item...
Billy Donovan leaves the Florida Gators and college basketball for the Orlando Magic and the NBA. I tried to sort out my many thoughts on it, but they still come out in a jumble of half-thoughts (oh, and in Deadspin guest-posts on the topic)...
*After winning two national titles, Billy has earned the cred to do whatever the hell he wants without
*I appreciate the money factor, but is $5.5 million really that much more than the $4-plus million
*I respect the fact that he sees coaching in the NBA as a "challenge," but I just don't see the lure (if you take out the money). Coaching in the NBA kind of sucks. Unless you luck into a Jordan/Pippen or Shaq/Kobe (Phil Jackson) or a Duncan (G. Popovich), the best you can do – the best! – is be the next Jerry Sloan, who is best-known for (a) homophobia and (b) not winning an NBA title. I'm curious to see whether Billy's style -- which was a perfect fit for the college game -- translates at all. And, even if it does, if he derives the same joy from it.
(Now, that said: If you were going to join an NBA team, it doesn't hurt to have your centerpiece player be the best post player in the East. Given a little better supporting talent – no, NOT Vince Carter – Dwight Howard could make the Magic a perennial contender for an East title. By the way, I loathe to say it, but JJ Redick is the big winner here. Donovan will have that guy jacking 3s all night.)
To summarize: I get that the money was sick. I get that he had little left to truly prove in college. I get that he was intrigued by the new challenge, particularly with an emerging big man to work with as a cornerstone. I get that, of any NBA job, one geographically closest to his family was the most ideal.
But I go back to what he has built at
To walk away from that? Wow. I wouldn't. I wish him the best, but I won't be surprised if he's back in college by 2012 (in my nightmares, taking over the reins at Duke from a retiring Coach K).
Who should the Gators get to replace Donovan? To me, the answer is easy: VCU's Anthony Grant. He was Donovan's lead assistant for the first title team. He knows the system and the players and the
LeBron Rules: OK, LeBron has re-asserted himself as the uber-star of the playoffs. And he might have just single-handedly saved the NBA Playoffs. He put the Cavs on his back and put on one of the single-greatest one-man shows in NBA Playoffs history.
48 points (29 of the Cavs' final 30 points!) leading
(Now: As experts throw out that "85 percent of teams that win Game 5 in series tied 2-2 win the series," consider that the Cavs were up 3-2 on
There were a lot of questions about LeBron's willingness to dominate throughout this season, these playoffs and even the early games of this series. No more: Last night, LeBron transformed into Optimus Prime.
Spelling Bee: Evan O'Dorney is your champ, though you might not have known it from his less-than-enthusiastic reaction. It wasn't stunned silence; it was matter-of-fact... even boredom. I'm not sure you'll ever see a champ crowned – in ANY competition – with less enthusiasm than O'Dorney showed.
(I have to admit: He made me wonder if perhaps the flip-side to his savant-level abilities in math, music and – obviously – spelling, he has a wee bit of a personality disorder. I guess they might go hand-in-hand. I don't say that in any way to mock him or be cruel; I actually felt a little bad for him that he seemed to find little joy in the accomplishment. I did, however, find it amusing that his understated demeanor totally threw off Stuart Scott in the post-win interview session.)
(By the way, I was so happy to be proven wrong about Mike and Mike's participation at the Bee. First, they treated the event with the earnest dignity it deserves. Second, I had presumed they would be the lead broadcast team. ABC was much better off playing it straight with the team of the excellent Robin Roberts and whoever that Bee analyst was.)
Oh, and don't forget to check out the Bee's All-Name Team, courtesy of Name of the Year.
MLB Stud: Roy Halladay, wins 100th career game and blanks the White Sox in his return from the DL. Welcome back to the AL East's best pitcher.
MLB Dud: Jason Giambi, who went to the DL with arch problems. Yes, if "arch problems" means "looming slap-down from MLB over 'roids." (Could miss a month, though speculation is that it could run even longer.)
Yankees-Red Sox: Ugh... again? Take a swig every time Clemens' name comes up.
MLB Trade: Armando Benitez shipped from the Giants to the Marlins. I'm not sure there's a more frustrating closer in baseball in the last decade. Anyone whose team has used Benitez can understand that.
NFL: Concussions linked to depression. That makes the league's new, seemingly sincere effort to manage its concussion epidemic all the more important.
Vick Watch: The prosecutor says informants link Vick to dog-fighting, which sports fans already knew from intrepid reporting by ESPN and SI. The question is whether merely being indicted (not convicted or even prosecuted) will trigger a suspension from NFL Commissioner Roger "Get-Tough" Goodell.
Trent Green Watch: I think the Dolphins will eventually get him. Man, how stupid does
More NBA: The Suns are going to hire TV analyst Steve Kerr as President and GM. (Funny: He apparently didn't say a word about it during the Pistons-Cavs game last night. How freaking lame of him is THAT?)
Related: So when is a sports team going to hire a smart, businss-savvy blogger to run the show? No: Really.
Pacers hire Jim O'Brien: Yawn. Charter member of the NBA Coaching Recycling Program. Good luck to him when they ship out Jermaine O'Neal. You can already hear the players griping about O'Brien's heavy-handed style.
BCS Reform: I think the SEC presidents should do a live web-cast of
Horse Racing: Street Sense won't race at
Tennis: Venus KO'ed at French Open. Eh: Ping me when Federer and Nadal meet in the men's final.
Golf: I don't care if Michelle Wie lied about her "wrist injury" to drop out of the Ginn Tribute before achieving the crappy score that would trigger the DQ rule that would keep her out of LPGA events for the rest of the season. She did the smart thing.
Athletes Who Blog: Welcome to the club, Kevin Youkilis (One of my favorite players, despite the fact he plays for the Red Sox. The overriding factor is that he plays for "my team," if you know what I'm saying. If you don't, then what I'm saying is that Youk is the rare Jewish Major Leaguer, and I root for all of them... especially the ones on pace to be All-Stars.)
Politics: One more reason to love Barack Obama? He's a pick-up basketball junkie. Check out this story.
Movies: "Knocked Up" is going to be the biggest comedy hit of the summer. And nothing else will be close.


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Map Quest
Collectors of geographical masterpieces—depicting old words and new—turn their passion into art for the home.
I HAVE A MAP OF DEDHAM FROM 1876, framed and hanging on my living room wall. In it, no detail is omitted—you can see every window, every steeple and practically every tree in the town. And beyond Dedham, there's nothing but forest. Needham, Westwood and Hyde Park are out of sight, not blending in at the edges. For me, what's not on the map is as notable as what is—there's no Route 128, no Fox 25 headquarters, no gargantuan new middle school.
I don't collect maps. I just have this one on display because I like the connection with my adopted hometown. But lots of map collectors focus on a single place, whether it's their birthplace, their favorite getaway or the land of their ancestors. Some people want a map of every place they've vacationed. And some want different maps of the same place over time.
"I think many map collectors start out—innocently enough—buying, or receiving as a gift, a map of their hometown or state for decorative purposes in their home," says Stephen P. Hanly, who owns Bickerstaff's Books, Maps &c. in Waltham. "Often curiosity then kicks in, and the map owner wonders what the same area looked like 50 or 100 years earlier. Or how another mapmaker portrayed the same area. Or how the area relates to other areas. And so a map collector is born, and an increasing amount of wall space is devoted to maps."
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"FOLKS REALLY ENJOY SEEING A CHART of Cape Cod, Cape Ann or Boston Harbor that's 200 years old, just to see how things have changed and how they have stayed the same," says Hanly.
Some simply like the aesthetic appeal of antique maps. "It almost doesn't matter what the map is of," says Michael Buehler, owner of Boston Rare Maps in Southampton. "They like the look—the colorful sea monsters, the fanciful animals—it's a very simple, gut appeal."
Early American maps had distinctive styles, making the mapmaker or publisher identifiable. "The borders, font and printing will be similar from map to map. You can stand back 20 feet and say, 'That's a Colton,' just by looking," says David A. Cobb, curator of the Harvard Map Collection in Cambridge, referring to mid-19th-century maps by the Colton family. Sometimes the maker is what collectors look for, like late-18th-century sea charts by John Norman or Osgood Carleton.
Buehler says that few collections are built solely as investments. "People don't want to be taken for a ride, but monetary appreciation is secondary," he says.
Local dealers say that most serious map collectors build their collections because of a love of history. Larry Caldwell of Connecticut says his map collection grew out of his hobby. "I have a great love of American history, and maps are an illustrated form of history. I want to understand the history behind a map," he says.
With a collection focused on the exploration and settlement from the time of Columbus to the mid-1800s, he also once took a particular interest in a map published in 1624 by a Scottish nobleman named Sir William Alexander. "The map showed the Canadian Maritime provinces, as well as what we think of as New England today," he says.
Collector David Corey got his start 20 years ago when he bought an older home in Duxbury. "I grew up sailing and working with navigational charts," he says. "When we got our house I started to do more research, and began to realize the depth of historical maps." His collection focuses on Duxbury and the nearby coast.
Corey displays many of his maps in his home, but has to store quite a few in his portfolio. "I don't have enough wall space in my house for all of them, but I've framed the better ones," he says. "It's wonderful that my wife likes maps too, so she's generous about their taking up the wall space."
Off the Charts
AS WITH MOST COLLECTIBLES, prices for antique maps range wildly, with rarity and condition greatly influencing the cost. Cobb says early American maps can fetch $10,000-$25,000, with an occasional map going for more than $100,000.
"I think there is also a wide diversity of collectors of maps. There are those who enjoy hunting through flea markets and building their collections slowly and cost effectively and others who use antiquarian map dealers exclusively. Some will spend vast amounts of money to develop their collections," says Cobb.
If there were just a few hundred copies of a map printed, many that still exist are likely housed in institutions. With perhaps a dozen or fewer copies in the marketplace, prices can skyrocket. But other maps might have an initial printing of several thousand, with a thousand copies still in circulation.
If you're interested in finding a map of a local area or an early map of Massachusetts you can often find a smaller, less significant piece for a few hundred dollars. These maps might come from damaged 19th-century atlases that dealers broke up in order to sell the maps separately.
Some people look to display just a single piece. "For some people, maps are taking on that role of art. A lot of people are using them as decorative elements in their homes or offices," says Cobb. Nautical charts are another area you can acquire at reasonable prices, says Cobb, as long as you steer clear of 18th-century scientific charts, which sell for very high prices.
Whether you'd like to acquire a single map or start collecting, Cobb recommends visiting a map library or collection, or talking to a reputable dealer in order to narrow your interest or identify a map you'd like.
"I definitely see an increase in the interest of having maps in the home," Cobb says. "I believe the popularity of shows like PBS's Antiques Roadshow and access to eBay have proven to many that Grandma's map upstairs has more than just sentimental value."


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By MOHAMMED DARAGHMEH
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GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip — Israel and the Hamas militant group agreed to a cease-fire Wednesday to end eight days of the fiercest fighting in nearly four years, promising to halt air strikes and rocket attacks that have killed scores and to discuss easing an Israeli blockade constricting the Gaza Strip.
Gazans emerged from their homes after a week, cheering and chanting. Gunmen fired in the air, and chants of "God is Great" echoed from mosque loudspeakers. Residents hugged and kissed in celebration, while others distributed candy and waved Hamas flags.
"I just hope they commit to peace," said Abdel-Nasser al-Tom, from northern Gaza.
However, rocket fire continued to slam into southern Israel long after the cease-fire deadline had passed, authorities said, and schools in the region planned to stay shut Thursday as a precaution in case rockets continue to be launched.
The deal was brokered by the new Islamist government of Egypt, solidifying its role as a leader in the quickly shifting Middle East after two days of intense shuttle diplomacy that saw U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton race to the region. Under the agreement, Egypt will play a key role in maintaining the peace.
Hamas leader Khaled Mashaal said the deal included an agreement to open all border crossings with the Gaza Strip, including the important Rafah crossing with Egypt. A copy of the deal obtained by The Associated Press appeared to be somewhat vague about the details on the crossings.
"The document provides for the opening of all crossings," he insisted.
Minutes before the deal took effect at 9 p.m. local time. (2 p.m. EDT) there was a spasm of Palestinian rocket attacks and Israeli airstrikes, including one that killed a man minutes before the deadline. After 9 p.m., the airstrikes cease, but rocket fire continued, with at least 12 fired into Israel an hour into the truce, said police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld.
Israel had launched well over 1,500 airstrikes and other attacks on targets in Gaza since fighting started Nov. 14, while more than 1,500 rockets pounded Israel. In all, 161 Palestinians, including dozens of civilians, were killed, while five Israelis died.
Standing next to Clinton, Egypt's foreign minister, Mohammed Kamel Amr, announced the truce breakthrough that capped days of intense efforts that drew the world's top diplomats into the fray.
The agreement will "improve conditions for the people of Gaza and provide security for the people of Israel," Clinton said at the news conference in Cairo.
In Israel, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he agreed to the cease-fire after consulting with President Barack Obama to allow Israeli civilians to get back to their lives. He said the two leaders also agreed to work together against weapon smuggling into Gaza, a statement confirmed by the White House.
Netanyahu also left the door open to a possible ground invasion of Gaza at a later date.
"I know there are citizens that expected a wider military operation and it could be that it will be needed. But at this time, the right thing for the state of Israel is to take this opportunity to reach a lasting ceasefire," he said.
According to a copy of the agreement obtained by The Associated Press, Israel and all Palestinian militant groups agreed to halt "all hostilities." For the Palestinians, that means an end to Israeli airstrikes and assassinations of wanted militants. For Israel, it brings a halt to rocket fire and attempts at cross-border incursions from Gaza.
After a 24-hour cooling off period, it calls for "opening the crossings and facilitating the movement of people and transfer of goods, and refraining from restricting residents' free movement."
Hamas officials said details on the new border arrangements would have to be negotiated.
Israel imposed its blockade of Gaza after Hamas, a militant group sworn to Israel's destruction, seized control of the territory five years ago. It has gradually eased the closure, but continues to restrict the movement of certain goods through Israeli-controlled crossings. Among the restrictions: a near-complete ban on exports, limited movement of people leaving the territory, and limits on construction materials that Israel says could be used for military use.
The deal was vague on what limits Israel would lift, and whether Gaza's southern passenger terminal on the Egyptian border would be expanded to allow cargo to pass through as well. The deal was also unclear about a key Israeli demand for an end to arms smuggling into Gaza in tunnels underneath the border with Egypt.
Under the agreement, Egypt will play a key role. It said "Egypt shall receive assurances from each party" that they are committed to the deal.
"Each party shall commit itself not to perform any acts that would break this understanding," it adds. "In case of any observations, Egypt — as the sponsor of this understanding — shall be informed to follow up."
The deal marked a key victory for Egypt's new Islamist government, which is caught in a balancing act between its allegiance to Hamas and its need to maintain good relations with Israel and the U.S. Hamas is an offshoot of Egypt's ruling Muslim Brotherhood.
The agreement came after Clinton shuttled across the region to help broker an end to the violence. She ended her meetings in Cairo, where Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi mediated between Israel and Hamas. U.N. chief Ban Ki-moon also flew across the region as part of the diplomatic cease-fire push.
Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak said the military had achieved its goals of strengthening Israel's deterrence capabilities and hammering militants in Gaza.
"We expect the agreements to be fully honored, but from past experience we are aware it might be short-lived," he said.
Hours before the deal was announced, a bomb exploded on a bus in Tel Aviv near Israel's military headquarters that wounded 27 people and led to fears of a breakdown in the shuttle diplomacy Clinton and U.N. chief Ban Ki-moon were conducting in the region.
The blast, which left the bus charred and its windows blown out, was the first bombing in Tel Aviv since 2006. It appeared aimed at sparking Israeli fears of a return to the violence of the Palestinian uprising last decade, which killed more than 1,000 Israelis in bombings and shooting attacks and left more than 5,000 Palestinians dead as well.
The blast was from a device placed inside the bus by a man who then got off, said Yitzhak Aharonovich, Israel's minister of internal security,
While Hamas did not take responsibility for the attack, it praised the bombing.
"We consider it a natural response to the occupation crimes and the ongoing massacres against civilians in the Gaza Strip," Hamas spokesman Fawzi Barhoum told The Associated Press.
Bassem Ezbidi, a West Bank political analyst, said it was unlikely Hamas itself was behind the attack, since it would not want to risk losing any of the international support it gained in recent days.
"If Hamas wants to target civilians it would do so by firing rockets, but not by buses because such attacks left a negative record in the minds of people. Hamas doesn't need this now," he said.
The bombing came as 10,000 Palestinians sought shelter in 12 U.N.-run schools, after Israel dropped leaflets urging residents to vacate their homes in some areas of Gaza to avoid being hit by airstrikes, said Adnan Abu Hassna, the U.N. Relief and Works Agency spokesman.
The influx of displaced people came a day after the head of UNRWA, Filippo Grandi, warned that the agency urgently needed $12 million to continue distributing food to the neediest Gazans. The agency runs schools, shelters and food programs for hundreds of thousands of Palestinian refugees and their descendants in Gaza.
Huge clouds of black smoke rose above the Gaza City skyline Wednesday as airstrikes pounded a sports stadium, used as a launch site for rocket attacks on Israel in the past, and a high-rise office building housing Hamas-affiliated media offices, but also Agence France-Presse.
AFP reporters said they evacuated their fourth-floor office Tuesday, after an initial strike targeted sixth-floor offices linked to Hamas and other smaller factions.
A 4-year-old boy was killed in the second attack on the high-rise Wednesday, Gaza health official Ashraf al-Kidra said. The boy, Abdel-Rahman Naim, was in his family apartment in the building when he was struck by shrapnel and died on the way to Gaza's Shifa Hospital, al-Kidra said.
Washington blames Hamas rocket fire for the outbreak of violence and has backed Israel's right to defend itself, but has cautioned that an Israeli ground invasion could send casualties soaring.
Israel, Hamas agree to Gaza cease-fire
Egypt to play role in keeping peace
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I'm especially excited that the work room in the hotel will be open around the clock. I'm going to pack up some other book projects and sew like the wind. That is, if I'm not too tired from soaking up all the couture knowledge. Heck, I might end up just spending my evenings enjoying the bath tub and watching America's Next Top Model reruns or something.
It feels a little strange to be taking so much time off work to go do something like this, but also very satisfying to spend my time and money on something so important to me. Have you ever taken a sewing vacation?


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Time to say a few things.
Suppose you take part in a retreat of some sort led by a charismatic and great teacher of a non Zen tradition, and you suddenly interrupt him and start to explain the whole show about Dogen, the practice, the lineage and show how it clearly works and how beautiful and true it is...I can imagine that the teacher will invite you to stop, reminding you that you are, because of your presence in this event, supposed to practice what he is teaching. You order the food that the chef is cooking, you don t walk in a Chinese restaurant asking for Indian curry. This is the meaning of :" get off my lawn, kids". Nothing wrong with Zen, nothing wrong with the other tradition, just a matter of manner, timing and being in tune with what happens.
I would like to thank the guys here that say they don't understand : where are you? And at the same time, would invite them to give this question more time before they try to ansswer it, answering such a question is off the mark, living with this question as a dynamic and whirling action is key. Derviches never fall in the static state, the still state, zazen, is not the static state.
A teacher is a person that does his or her very best to live accordingly to the Buddha Dharma and point to the original face of the student, a coach, a spiritual friend, he will only focus on what is really important and required without all the fluff and stuff we sometimes get lost in. And that s precisely what does not work with the New Age take on things, you merely blend traditions, merge recipes, cook your own thing and sometimes self proclaim yourself a spiritual teacher, often with a solid bank account hidden behind the stage. Rags hiding riches. In doing so you may be sharing a few inspiring advices but you are also feeding greed and confusion in people expecting something special to happen on the happy Spiritual market of spirituality, the modern quest for the latest gadget, the most up to date version of the software. The role of a teacher is to help the student to cut through that crap and come to simplicity. Tibetan Buddhism is plagued with this illness of collecting merits and doing countless initiations. Many Tibetan teachers are now asking their students to keep it simple. Otherwise, you will always be begging for something else.
Do I read much outside Zen? Not anymore. A few beloved poems of Rumi, a text from the Mahamudra or Dzogchen tradition sometimes, I basically focus on Shobogenzo, sutras and old Chinese Chan poetry. Everything else is not necessary anymore. Call me stupid, shortsighed, call me limited and intolerant ( actually I respect the other guys very much, too much for asking from them Zen- like stuff, or taking some ofthe things they teach to fit into my way of doing this).
Zen is Zen. Advaita is Advaita. Jundo is Jundo.
One last thing. Two days ago I met a Zen monk form the Rinzai monastery round the block,a white scarf wrapping his head wearing a black samue, he was shopping some great food in Seven Eleven, the local combini. As I asked him where he was from and if he was a priest, he answered in complete humbleness lowering his gaze: I am just training, I am nothing really.
This is very extreme. in Europe and in America guys voice their opinions loud and with great pride on forums and in dojos.
I suppose the truth is somewhat in the middle. We have much too learn from this humble ( yet too often hypocritical ) soft way, they could do with a bit of our cocky style.


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Welcome in OneSails!
by Paul Eldrid OneSails Australia
Your new OneSails Mainsail has been designed specifically for your boat using some of the best software and talented sail designers in the world. It has been crafted from the finest materials and built with the precision of the passionate sail makers at OneSails. Your local OneSails representative will be happy to assist you with setting up your new sail. Before we get started there are a few important things to consider:
Eldrid super tip - by keeping a sailing diary you can learn the best settings for your boat and your sails which improves your boat speed. Involve all of your team in writing some notes after every time you sail and you will soon have a detailed database. If you then need to discuss your performance or new sails with your OneSails sail maker you have all the information you need.
Luff (Halyard) Tension
Your designer will have designed your sail with particular maximum depth (draft) position and entry angle which is optimized for your boat, the wind range of the sail, the material used in your sail and the amount of forestay say? you will encounter (with varying backstay tension).
As a general rule the more wind you have the more luff tension you should apply, particularly when sailing hard on the wind. This is largely due to the sails maximum draft moving back as the sail loads up. Factors that contribute are stretch, forestay tension (via backstay or forestay tightened) and to some degree the jib car or sheet position and tension.
In light conditions a few wrinkles on the luff of your sail is ok, but too much tension could see the sail have a distinctive 'knuckle' in the front. As soon as the wind increases and the sail loads up remove the wrinkle and continue to add luff tension as the sail moves up it's designed wind range.
To care for your sail un-load the sheet before adding luff tension. Avoid over tensioning the luff before checking with sheet tension as this will add to the life of your sail. It is a good idea to mark your halyard with luff tension marks, this way you can easily repeat fast settings and accelerate set up times when racing.
Eldrid super tip - dacron sails stretch and laminate sails using Mylar films shrink over time. Halyards also stretch and often need replacing. This means if you mark the halyard on the rope in the cockpit your marks will never be 100% accurate. For each sail you will need a different colour mark or remember the numbers for each sail. If you put a mark on your forestay near the telltale window height along with a strike mark on the luff of each of your sails you will have a much more accurate gauge of luff tension that is less subjective to sail aging and not affected by halyards. The jib trimmer can also see the mark (not just the pit man) improving on board efficiency.
Adding luff tension moves the draft forward gives the sail a rounder entry compare the draft stripes above to see the difference in sail shapes between less tension (top) and more (below)
Lead (Car) Position
The jib lead position on most boats adjusts the leech tension and foot tension on the sail by moving fore and aft. For the leech the twist of the sail will be adjusted and for the foot it will affect the depth in the sail. Different conditions will see you treat the lead position differently. If in doubt first set your jib lead up so that if you extended the line of the sheeting angle it would intersect the middle of the luff.
As a general rule at the lower end of your sails range you will have the lead further forward to keep the bottom of the sail more powerful and the leech with old enough twist to keep the sail 'breathing'. As the wind increases and the boat no longer needs all the power the lead is gradually moved aft to flatten the foot and increase the twist. This achieves two primary functions, firstly with the sail becoming flatter there is less drag so therefore the aerodynamic profile of the sail becomes more efficient and the boat goes faster. Secondly the added twist allows the accelerated air to exit quicker which, increases lift and reduces drag which creates less disturbance on the mainsail.
Eldrid super tip - in addition to numbering your jib tracks make a mark for each of your jibs as a default starting point. This way from the first hoist, the first change or going into a rushed mark rounding the sail will be close to the correct lead position. Many jib cars are impossible to move when fully loaded, so having the right position will prevent you having to unload the sail while racing to adjust it.
Lead forward for powerful foot and twist in light winds. Note the twist in the leech (red) and the slot between the jib and the mainsail is clear.
As a starting point, set your jib lead up so the jib sheet intersects the luff about half way.
Jib Sheet
Being the primary control on any sail the sheet is the most important and most frequently adjusted. The amount of wind, the sea state and how the boat is behaving will determine how mush sheet tension is applied. The goal is to have the jib sheeted as close as possible for maximum upwind performance without being on too hard where the sail stalls and the boat slows dramatically.
As a general rule as the wind increases, the more sheet tension is applied. Too much when the wind is light and it will definitely stall. Too little and the boat won't 'point' (sail close to the wind). Remember that the fins below you (keel and rudder) also need flow for the boat to work too! When trimming the jib – go for boat speed first so your foils get a grip on the water then trim the sheet on gradually to get the height. It is very important to do this in and out of manoeuvres, for example tacking and starting and also through changes in wind speed and in gusty conditions.
Eldrid super tip - look up! The most important thing to look for when sheeting the jib on is looking up to see the twist and how close the sail gets to the rig. For overlapping genoas use the proximity of the sail to the end of the spreader as a guide to how much sheet tension you have. For light airs work on 5 – 10cm, medium air just touching to 5cm and heavy winds 10 – 15cm. For non-overlapping jibs you will get great value from putting reference marks on your spreaders as per the image below.
Overlapping jib with the sheet tension so the sail sits 0 – 5cm from the spreader tip(s) for medium air.
Non overlapping jib sheeted at 8 degrees – note the spreader reference marks to indicate sheet tension.
Inhauler Position
Used on boats with non-overlapping jibs, the inhauler changes the position of the clew on the jib relative to the centreline of the boat. This effectively alters the sheeting angle of the jib in the quest to make the boat point higher to the wind. The inhauler can come in two forms – either a transverse tracks (in/out tracks) or by a floating barberhaul line on a purchase system which physically pulls the jib sheet inboard between the clew of the jib and the fore/aft jib car. Inhaulers are only ever used when sailing upwind.
As a general rule in light winds you have the inhauler set almost all the way in allowing you to use soft sheet tension and make the bottom of the sail deep and powerful, while nice and twisted in the top without stalling it. As the breeze increases and more sheet tension is applied the sail continues to flatten out as it is pulled on and set closer to the rig increasing pointing ability. Only start easing the inhauler when you are at the top of the sail range and you need to de-power. Make sure all other controls have been used at this time - maximum forestay tension (backstay), maximum halyard, Jib Lead (car) aft and the sail is as flat as you can make it.
Eldrid super tip - measure your sheeting angles off the centreline and put marks on the deck eg: 6o,8o , 10o etc… not only do you have a good reference point but you can now record your log with definitive numbers and even discuss your sail trim more easily with your OneSails loft!.
Inhauler in light and medium conditions increases pointing ability – be careful not to close the slot and stall the sail. Talk to the mainsail trimmer to see if the mainsail is back winding too much.
In heavy air you will need to let the inhauler off, especially if the mainsail traveller is eased to leeward, as this starts to close the slot between the two sails.
Forestay Sag / Backstay Tension
As the sail loads with more wind the forestay will start to sag to leeward with this load affecting the depth (fullness) of the sail. As we know a fuller sail is more powerful so this can work as much for your boat speed as it can against you. In lighter winds with forestay sag you can create a very powerful jib but as soon as the breeze increases the sail needs to be flattened not only with the jib lead position but also by tightening the forestay. This is done on most boats by tightening the backstay which in turn tightens the forestay. On boats with running backstays this does the same thing. Some modern race boats also have an adjustable forestay via hydraulic systems, whereas the same can be achieved on most yachts for sailing in specific conditions by adjusting the forestay before racing for set conditions.
As a general rule start with little or no backstay in light conditions to have the sail full and powerful. As the wind increases keep tightening the backstay to flatten the jib. The tension will also help your mainsail shape too. Forestay sag is considered the enemy once the boat is powered up, as it effects how close the boat can point to the wind and adds unwanted depth therefore dragging the boat's aerodynamic profile and slowing it down.
Eldrid super tip - your backstay should be calibrated and if you are using a simple purchase system you can still use a tension gauge to record the load of your backstay for each of your marks. If your backstay is hydraulic – get to know how many PSI each of your marks is. If you have a load cell be sure to record your kg settings in your OneSails Tuning Diary!
Forestay sag (seen here against the blue line) can help you with power in light winds. Increasing the forestay tension by pulling on backstay will flatten the jib. You can also tighten the forestay for stronger wind, reducing the sag.
Telltales are a reference as to how the wind is flowing across your sail. They should be used as a reference to your sails trim but not over analysed as the pursuit of perfect, even flow may see the sail trimmed without consideration for the power, heel angle, sea state and ease of steering for the driver.
As a general rule in light winds the goal is to have all telltales flying horizontal which indicates you have flow across the sail. Approaching medium winds the telltales on the leeward side should be streaming straight, and the windward side straight to slightly lifting up to 45 degrees which is achieved by the driver keeping the boat up in the steering 'groove'. In strong winds the sail may need to be feathered by sailing high in the steering groove and the windward telltales will be lifting vertically.
Eldrid super tip - in some conditions especially light winds it may be difficult to get all the telltales to 'fly'. Start at the top and work your way down – never sacrifice the top for the bottom! The bottom set are more for the driver and the top and the middle are more for the trimmer
Telltales in light air
Telltales in medium air
Telltales in heavy air
"Sail fast and have fun!" OneSails Team


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BOSTON – Homeowners and motorists dug out across the white-blanketed Northeast on Friday as extreme cold ushered in by the storm threatened fingers and toes but kept the snow powdery and mercifully easy to shovel. At least 15 deaths were blamed on the storm as it swept across the nation's eastern half.
While the snowfall had all but stopped by morning across the hard-hit Philadelphia-to-Boston corridor and many highways and streets were soon plowed and reopened, temperatures were in the single digits and teens, with wind chills well below zero.
"The snow is easy to move because the air was so cold when it snowed that it's sort of light and fluffy stuff — but, uh, it's cold," Avalon "Nick" Minton said as he cleared the entrance to his garage and sidewalk in Arlington, Mass. "That's the main part. It's cold."
And officials from the Midwest to New England are preparing for another arctic blast in the next few days that could be even worse.
The heaviest snow fell north of Boston in Boxford, which received nearly 2 feet. Nearly 18 inches fell in Boston and in western New York near Rochester. Lakewood, N.J., got 10 inches, and New York's Central Park 6. Philadelphia got more than 6 inches.
Temperatures reached 8 below zero in Burlington, Vt., with a wind chill of 29 below, and 2 degrees in Boston. Wind chills there and in Providence, R.I., made it feel like minus-20 Friday morning, and the forecast called for more of the same into Saturday.
Emergency officials warned that anyone spending more than a few minutes outdoors in such conditions could suffer frostbite.
Wellington Ferreira said the cold was worse than the snow as he cleared a sidewalk in front of Johnny D's Uptown Restaurant and Music Club in Somerville.
"My ears are frozen," he said.
Warming centers opened around the region, homeless shelters received more people, and cities took special measures to look after those most vulnerable to the cold. Teams in New York City searched the streets for homeless people, while in Boston police asked residents to call 911 if they saw someone in need.
In Newport, R.I., the Seaman's Church Institute said it would stay open around the clock until the cold breaks to give mariners and others who work in or around the harbor a warm place to stay, shower and eat.
The light, powdery snow was a blessing in another respect: It did not weigh down electrical lines or tree limbs, and as a result there were only a few thousand power outages across the Northeast.
Slick roads were blamed for several traffic deaths. In addition, a 71-year-old woman with Alzheimer's disease froze to death after she wandered away from her rural western New York home. And a worker in Philadelphia was killed when a 100-foot-high pile of road salt fell and crushed him.
Schools as far south as Washington, D.C., were closed on Friday. Many government offices also shut down.
Major highways in and around New York City reopened, and airports across the region struggled to resume normal operations after U.S. airlines canceled around 2,200 flights on Friday on top of 2,300 the day before.
Jeremy Shapiro, 73, of Manhattan, became stranded at New York's Kennedy Airport on Thursday. On Friday afternoon, he was still holding out hope for a spot flying standby so he could get to Santa Barbara, Calif.
He secured a cot, a pillow and a blanket after seeing about 150 passengers sleeping on cots at the terminal.
"It looked like an infirmary from WWI," he said.
Severe cold also gripped the Midwest on Friday. In Wisconsin, the mercury dipped to minus-18 in Green Bay, breaking by 1 degree the record set in 1979. Fort Wayne, Ind., saw a record low minus-10. And the mercury sank to 2 below zero at the Detroit airport.
Temperatures in the Midwest and the Northeast are expected to rise briefly over the weekend before the arrival of another blast of extraordinarily cold air.
Minnesota Gov. Mark Dayton ordered school canceled on Monday statewide, the first such closing in 17 years, because of projected highs in the minus teens and lows as cold as 30 below.
The cold air could refreeze roads that are wet or slushy from the weekend thaw, making travel dangerous.
The heavy weather posed the first big test for New York Mayor Bill de Blasio, who was sworn in a day before the heavy snow arrived. De Blasio dispatched hundreds of plows and salt spreaders.
"I feel great about the response," De Blasio said Friday after shoveling the sidewalk at his Brooklyn home. "We are vigilant. We are not out of this yet. As a great man said, 'It's not over until it's over.'"
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text: Alarm company robbed! On The Editor's Desk By Martha Entwistle Updated Sun April 27, 2008 This is pretty classic: Alarm company robbed in Ohio. Now, most people wouldn't figure an alarm company for a place with a lot of cash on hand, but maybe, I'm thinking, people who rob alarm companies probably aren't that bright. Of course, it turns out they weren't looking for cash: Officers said the two unknown subjects smashed out the glass of the front door, tripping the sensors. They proceeded to steal cartons of cigarettes and smokeless tobacco. An alarm company having a bunch of smokes and dip on hand? That I guess I could believe.


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Tensions between Hong Kong people and their mainland Chinese compatriots have deteriorated further — and this time, it's not over politics, clashing cultural attitudes or northern carpetbaggers driving up Hong Kong property prices with their lavish investments. Instead the point of contention is a product that is seemingly innocuous but says much about relations between China's freest city and its vast hinterland: infant-milk formula.
Stocks of baby-milk powder have become alarmingly scarce in Hong Kong because of the activity of so-called gray-market traders from mainland border towns. They turn up in Hong Kong on multiple-entry tourist visas, often making several runs a day to buy up tins of formula from Hong Kong retail outlets and sell them back in the mainland, where the item commands a stiff premium. (Buying products in Hong Kong and taking them into China to sell is not illegal.)
The dearth of formula in Hong Kong shops led the government to announce on Friday that, with effect from later this month, people leaving the city will only be allowed to take two cans of formula with them. The possibility of designating milk formula a "reserved commodity" like rice — meaning that its export would be restricted, price ceilings set and a reserve stock created — has also been mooted, alongside proposals to ban mainland visitors from entering Hong Kong more than once per day.
(MORE: Trouble Down South: Why Hong Kong and Mainland Chinese Aren't Getting Along)
Since 2008's contaminated-formula scare — in which hundreds of thousands of mainland babies fell ill after being fed Chinese-made formula and related products that had been adulterated with melamine — foreign milk-powder brands, such as those on sale in affluent Hong Kong, have been seen as safer. But while the desire of any parent to secure the best possible supplies of food for their children is understandable, the milk-formula issue has come to crystallize for Hong Kong people the disquieting ease with which the mainland is now no longer a brooding, remote power, at a distance behind the Kowloon hills, but instead an intrusive force in the daily life of this semiautonomous enclave.
To be sure, it isn't the only source of friction. In broad political terms, Hong Kong is worried about China's encroachment on its traditional freedoms in areas from media to education to the judiciary. Culturally too, there has been little love lost between mainlanders and Hong Kong people, who are often viewed by mainlanders as crass, arrogant, even strangely foreign. (Hong Kong Chinese repay the compliment in kind.)
Still, often it's the personal and social issues that loom largest. Although authorities have finally cracked down on the practice — arresting and jailing several hundred "birth tourists" in 2012 — for years, local mothers were forced to compete for maternity-ward beds with mainland women who wanted to secure residency rights for their children by giving birth in the tiny territory. Thousands of those locally born children of mainland mothers have now reached primary-school age, further exacerbating tensions with local parents, who resent the new pressures on the school system. (In the Sheung Shui district alone, lying closest to the mainland border, the shortfall in primary-school places is estimated at 1,000.)
(PHOTOS: Hong Kong: Anger and Protest as City Marks 15 Years Since Its Return to China)
But while the form filling and balloting required for school admission gives the competitive nature of the process an abstract quality, there is something raw and direct about the struggle to find milk formula that many Hong Kong parents face. Feeding their babies requires them to compete on a regular basis against the tireless gray marketers and the opportunistic local retailers in collusion with the mainland traders.
The grubby, hectic hub of the business is Sheung Shui train station. Although activity there has quieted since the announcement of the government crackdown, it has not been unusual in recent weeks to see hundreds of traders snaking into the station entrance, with police looking on. Each trader pulls a cart loaded with large parcels of everyday commodities from diapers to toothpaste — but the most sought-after item is baby formula. A local English-language paper, the South China Morning Post, estimates a hard core of about 3,000 mainlanders engaged in the gray market. But the lack of faith in China's food security is well founded, so even genuine tourists will often buy items like milk formula to give to relatives in the mainland.
The result is misery for Hong Kong parents, who complain of being unable to find milk formula in the stores, especially those in suburbs near the border. "Out of necessity, I have become a bona fide hoarder of formula," says Evelyn Kuong, a local surgeon who notes that she often drives across several districts of the city to find milk powder for her 7-month-old son. "It's already exhausting enough being a full-time working mother. It is all the more stressful to be constantly popping into drugstores everywhere I go, on the off chance that they may have one remaining can of formula."
(MORE: On the Streets of Hong Kong, a Vast Display of Discontent)
Through a popular online forum for baby-related topics, Hong Kong mothers have banded together to report to one another on the availability of milk formula in stores around town, and to help buy whatever is available in their own neighborhoods and then meet up to trade with those in need. After the announcement of the impending two-can limit, many of the forum's users expressed relief that something was being done but also anger at what they had been put through. "Hong Kong's parents, grandparents and their friends and colleagues have had to work together just to find milk powder. We feel so dispirited now," one user wrote.
"I sympathize with mainlanders. Even if it's the same brand as what they are buying here, they don't trust the product sold on the mainland," says Vincent Lau, who recently led a protest calling for the protection of Hong Kong's milk-formula supply. But he says China's food-safety problems should be fixed at the source, not at the expense of Hong Kong's supplies. "Hong Kong is tiny. Seven million people can't take care of 1.3 billion."
It must be said that a more porous border with China hasn't been all bad for Hong Kong. In fact, mainland tourists have provided a much needed boost to Hong Kong's economy ever since they were allowed individual entry for leisure purposes in 2003. (Before then, only tour groups and individuals on business could obtain visas.) Spending by mainland Chinese accounts today for more than one-fifth of the city's retail business, as the visitors snap up luxury goods at prices lower than in China, where steep duties and differences in exchange rate add about 20%. Even in matters of basic sustenance, Hong Kong simply couldn't survive without China, which supplies up to 80% of city's drinking water and most of its fresh meat and vegetables. Some would argue that means Hong Kong should have a more accommodating attitude toward its vast neighbor. But the problem is that when it comes to their babies, there's not one parent on earth who would compromise.


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I'm sure I'm not the only one who is distressed by the recent default behavior change to E_NOTICE when the timezone isn't explicitly set in the program or in .ini. I insure that the clock on the server IS correct, and I don't want to have to set it in two places (the system AND PHP). So I want to read it from the system. But PHP won't accept that answer, and insists on a call to this function. So, here's my answer:
function setTimezone($default) {
$timezone = "";
// On many systems (Mac, for instance) "/etc/localtime" is a symlink
// to the file with the timezone info
if (is_link("/etc/localtime")) {
// If it is, that file's name is actually the "Olsen" format timezone
$filename = readlink("/etc/localtime");
$pos = strpos($filename, "zoneinfo");
if ($pos) {
// When it is, it's in the "/usr/share/zoneinfo/" folder
$timezone = substr($filename, $pos + strlen("zoneinfo/"));
} else {
// If not, bail
$timezone = $default;
else {
// On other systems, like Ubuntu, there's file with the Olsen time
// right inside it.
$timezone = file_get_contents("/etc/timezone");
if (!strlen($timezone)) {
$timezone = $default;
Use it by calling it with a fallback default answer.
Yes, I know it doesn't work on Windows. Neither do I :) Perhaps someone wants to add that functionality.
Hope this helps someone.


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This is FRESH AIR. I'm Dave Davies, in for Terry Gross.
Elmore Leonard, the prolific crime novelist embraced by millions of readers, as well as literary critics and Hollywood producers died Tuesday. He was 87. Leonard was known for crisp dialogue and memorable villains. The bad guys are the fun guys, he said in a 1983 interview. The only people I have trouble with are the so-called normal types.
The New York Times Janet Maslin said Leonard was the most influential, widely imitated crime writer of his era over career that lasted more than 60 years. Many of Leonard's books and short stories were adapted to film, and most recently to television in the FX series "Justified." The film adaptations include "Get Shorty," "The Big Bounce" and "Rum Punch," which became the Quentin Tarantino film "Jackie Brown."
Get Shorty" starred John Travolta as Chili Palmer, a Miami loan shark sent to Los Angeles to collect a gambling debt. In this scene from the film, he visits Harry Zimm, a B movie producer, played by Gene Hackman. Palmer follows Zimm and breaks into the home of the producer's girlfriend, Karen Flores. Here, Palmer tries to muscle the money from Zimm.
JOHN TRAVOLTA: (as Chili Palmer) A marker is like a check, Harry.
GENE HACKMAN: (as Harry Zimm) I know what a marker is.
TRAVOLTA: (as Chili Palmer) And they don't want to deposit yours and have it bounce. That annoys them. And your dear friend Dick Allen's been calling, leaving messages on your machine and you haven't gotten back to him. So he asks me as a favor to look you up. So I follow you here and I see you in the window with the woman. Looks a lot like Karen Flores, the actress from "Grotesque." You're not looking at me, Harry.
HACKMAN: (as Harry Zimm) Why do I have to keep looking at you?
TRAVOLTA: (as Chili Palmer) Because I want you to.
HACKMAN: (as Harry Zimm) So now you gonna get rough, huh? I make good by tomorrow, you gonna break my legs?
TRAVOLTA: (as Chili Palmer) Come on, Harry - Mesas?
HACKMAN: (as Harry Zimm) You tell Dick Allen I'll cover those markers in the next 60 days at the most. If he doesn't like it, then that's his problem. So, you want me to call you a cab?
TRAVOLTA: (as Chili Palmer) So you make movies, huh?
HACKMAN: (as Harry Zimm) I produce feature motion pictures, no TV. You mentioned "Grotesque" before, that happens to be "Grotesque Part II" that Karen Flores was in. She starred in all three of my "Slime Creatures" releases. You may have seen them.
TRAVOLTA: (as Chili Palmer) I got an idea for a movie.
DAVIES: And that's a scene from the 1995 film "Get Shorty." Terry spoke to Elmore Leonard in 1995 and 1999. We'll hear excerpts from both interviews.
Elmore Leonard, welcome to FRESH AIR.
ELMORE LEONARD: Thank you, Terry.
GROSS: You write mostly in dialogue.
LEONARD: Yeah.
GROSS: You know, like a lot of crime fiction, there's a lot of interior thought - a lot of like first person, just like thinking, contemplating.
LEONARD: Mm-hmm.
GROSS: Very little of that in your novels, it's mostly dialogue. Why have you taken that direction in your writing?
LEONARD: I like dialogue. I've always liked dialogue from the very beginning. When I started 44 years ago, I was influenced by writers who were very strong in dialogue; Hemingway, John O'Hara, Steinbeck, a writer not many people know about, Richard Bissell in the '50s. "Pajama Game" was made from one of his book "7 1/2 Cents." I like dialogue. I like to see that white space on the page and the exchanges of dialogue, rather than those big heavy, heavy paragraphs full of words. Because I remember feeling intimidated back in the, say, in the '40s, when I first started to read popular novels, Book of the Month Club books, I would think, god, there are too many words in this book. And I still think there are too many words in most books. But dialogue appeals to me.
GROSS: When you started writing crime fiction, were their places that you would hang out just to listen?
LEONARD: I would hang out at in Detroit Frank Murphy Hall Justice, which is the criminal courts and watch examinations with little trials rather than the - these are the pre-trial exams to find out whether a crime has been committed or not. And then finally, by 1979 and '80, I was spending time with the Detroit police. I did a piece for the Detroit News on homicide section. That was the first and only piece of journalism I've ever done. It was the kind of piece that may be you'd spend three days with the homicide cops and then spend, take a day to write it and that was it. But I was with them at least three weeks before I even wrote a word and got to know them and they trusted me, and they showed me their case files. I could just sit there in the squad room and listen to them.
GROSS: Now it seems to me you're also particularly interested in colloquialisms and, you know, colorful language inventions that people come up with, little slang words.
LEONARD: Yeah. But you have to be very careful about using slang because expressions come into popularity and go out overnight. I remember back in '68, '69, the bounce was an expression. You probably don't even, you haven't even heard it. But I wrote a book "The Big Bounce" because the bounce seemed to be, you're looking for the bounce, you're looking for a little excitement. And I used that in a title and I thought this was going to be a popular expression and it didn't make it, the bounce. You know, nobody uses it now. I can't rely on slang and I don't. It's the rhythms of speech that I'm mostly interested in.
GROSS: Now in "Get Shorty" - in the novel and in the movie, the character Chili, the character played in the movie by Travolta, is always saying to people who he wants to intimidate, look at me.
LEONARD: Uh-huh.
GROSS: And because the character is so confident, and because he has the power to back up his confidence, people usually get the point when they look at him.
GROSS: I mean, he does intimidate them.
LEONARD: Mm-hmm.
GROSS: Then another character tries that and it doesn't work because he doesn't have the confidence or the power to back it up.
LEONARD: Mm-hmm.
GROSS: How did you think of coming up with that? Was there an idea behind that?
LEONARD: The real Chili Palmer who worked for this friend of mine who was the private eye, once in a while were retained by the Golden Nugget in Las Vegas to call on individuals in South Florida who owed them money. Not to intimidate them, just ask them, are you going to start making payments? Be nice. There wasn't any, no violence ever involved. But my friend, the private investigator, Bill Marshall, he would talk to the guy. And he's a very - Marshall is a very entertaining guy and he would get the guy laughing. But Chili Palmer, who is sitting next to him and he would stare at the guy, just stare and never say a word. Now, he never said look at me - I made that up - but the idea of the intimidation, that stare, I thought I could use that.
GROSS: Well, his model - Chili's model - is actually, don't talk when you don't have to. I mean, his approach is don't tell them what can happen if they don't pay.
LEONARD: Yeah.
GROSS: Just stare at them because anything you tell them isn't going to be as bad as what they can imagine. They can imagine anything far worse than what you could do, so just let their imagination work.
LEONARD: Yeah. and Harry Zimm says to him - Gene Hackman - he says, what do you, you break their legs? And Chili says, what do you mean break their legs? How are they going to pay you if they're in the hospital with their legs broken?
LEONARD: No, we don't break their legs.
GROSS: Now in your latest novel "Riding the Rap" there's a kind of unusual twist on the hostage story or the kidnapping story.
LEONARD: Yeah.
GROSS: Would you say something about the hustle you came up with for that?
LEONARD: The individual who masterminds this - if that's the word - he had watched the what had been going on in Beirut with the hostages, how they were kept, especially how they were blindfolded and chained or tied up, what they were fed. And he wonders: is there any money in that, is there any money in hostage taking, to do it right? And he thinks yeah, well, look, if you get a guy who has got a lot of money and you blindfold him and he doesn't know where he is and you don't even talk to him for a few days or a week or so and then finally you say, do you want to get out of this? You tell me how you can give me two million bucks. You have to work it out. No ransom notes. Nobody knows this but you. You tell us how you can deliver to us a certain amount of money - a couple million - and we'll let you go. If we don't like the idea, you're dead. So then it's up to the victim, you see. And it sounds good. Of course, in this book the perpetrator wants to be very, very realistic about it. He wants straw mats. He wants the feed them mutton, stale cheese.
LEONARD: He wants to do it exactly the way they did it in Beirut. He said well, we'll put them in a basement somewhere. And his accomplice says, base - where are you going to find a basement in Florida? No just everything is against him doing it the way he feels is the right way.
GROSS: Do you think you would've made a good criminal? Let's face it, in a lot of ways you have the mind. You know, you say most of your staff isn't from research. You just, you know, sit...
LEONARD: Well...
GROSS: ...sit at your typewriter and think it's up.
LEONARD: Well, I could - yeah, I could think of it but I wouldn't have the nerve. God...
GROSS: Mm-hmm. Are you a confident guy? I mean, you know...
LEONARD: I'm confident about my work, but my work...
GROSS: Right.
LEONARD: Yeah. That took - even that took about 15 years, you know, to gain confidence in what you do. I couldn't imagine walking into a bank and saying give me all your - not all your money. Give me what money you have on top of that little alarm system that the last bill is lying on. And don't give me any dye pack and don't give me any funny money or money with the serial numbers, you know, listed. If you know enough about it I think you can get away with it. It's - I think bank robbery would be pretty easy, even though nine out of 10 bank robbers are caught. And I think mostly because they tell other people what they do and because they're not really professional about it. They just, they need money for drugs.
GROSS: Now a lot of you guys are talkers and they can talk their way...
LEONARD: They have to be talkers.
GROSS: Yeah. Right. They talk their way into things and out of things. And can you do that?
LEONARD: No.
GROSS: So you couldn't do in real life what your characters do verbally?
LEONARD: Oh no. Never. No. See, the beauty of it in a scene where you end in the scene with a line, with the perfect line, you know? But you're writing a book and you have months to think about it.
GROSS: Right. Now do you like five minutes or two days after the moment has passed think of a good last line you could've said in real life, or do you not think in real life in those terms?
LEONARD: Well, in real life, I'm sitting on a bench at Aspen at 4 o'clock in the afternoon, dead tired. I've come down the mountain. A woman skis down 25, 30 years younger than I am. Puts one boot up on the bench and says, I don't know what's more satisfying, taking off my boots or, and then she used an expression for sleeping with somebody.
GROSS: And you said?
LEONARD: And I said, huh, huh. Like that.
LEONARD: And that was probably 15 years ago. And I still been, ever since I've been trying to think of - it doesn't even have to be snappy, just something - a decent comeback, you know.
GROSS: You started your fiction career writing Westerns.
LEONARD: Yeah.
GROSS: So tell us about one of the Western heroes you created.
LEONARD: Western heroes. Did I create any...
GROSS: Western characters.
LEONARD: Oh, yeah.
LEONARD: Hombre. I like that character a lot, which Paul Newman played.
GROSS: In the movie.
LEONARD: In a movie, yeah. Yeah, I thought that was a, I was very proud of that one. And also I liked "Valdez is Coming," which Burt Lancaster did. Burt - "Valdez is Coming" is my favorite Western that I wrote. And at the time when I read it now I can see my style beginning to change into what I'm doing now, really not what I'm doing now, but it began to change. And...
GROSS: More dialog-oriented?
LEONARD: Yeah. A little more dialogue, a little more characters, a little more human, I'm loosening up a little bit, and that's when I finally I learned. Because I had studied Hemingway so closely and learned a lot, but I didn't agree with his attitude about life, about himself. He took everything himself, everything so seriously. And, but your style comes out of your attitude - how you, what kind of a person you are, you know, your personality, how you see things. Are you optimistic? Are you funny? Are you grim? What? This is all out of your attitude. And once I learned that then I had to find other writers to study and imitate.
GROSS: Well, how would you compare your attitude to Hemingway?
LEONARD: Well, I don't see that much, there's that much to take seriously in everyday situations that come up that people worry about and - or people worry about things that might happen, you know, which is a big waste of time. I don't worry.
GROSS: You don't worry?
LEONARD: I don't worry.
GROSS: So this is one of the differences between you and Hemingway, you don't worry about things.
LEONARD: No.
GROSS: Don't brood about things.
LEONARD: Well, we know how seriously he took himself. Right...
GROSS: Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.
LEONARD: ...with that shotgun he put in his mouth.
GROSS: Right.
LEONARD: No, I don't see any reason to do that.
GROSS: Right.
LEONARD: I really - I don't take my work that seriously and I think that's what keeps me loose. If I try to write, if I catch myself trying to write, I'll fall right on my face. I'll see it. If I see in the prose that I'm - boy, look at me writing, I rewrite it. I rewrite it because I don't, because I think it's distracting.
DAVIES: And that's Terry's interview with crime novelist Elmore Leonard who died earlier this week. We'll hear more after a break.
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DAVIES: This is FRESH AIR and we're listening to Terry speaking with crime novelist Elmore Leonard who died this week at the age of 87. Here's a scene from the 1997 film "Jackie Brown" which was adapted from Leonard's novel "Rum Punch." Here Samuel L. Jackson is trying to get Chris Tucker into the trunk of a car.
CHRIS TUCKER: (as Beaumont Livingston) Man, you must be out of your (bleep) mind if you think I'm fixing to get in this dirty ass trunk.
LEONARD: (as Ordell Robbie) We ain't going nowhere but to Korea Town, man. You ain't going to be in here no more than 10 minutes.
TUCKER: (as Beaumont Livingston) Man, I ain't riding in no (bleep) trunk for no minute, man. Why I can't ride up front with you?
SAMUEL L. JACKSON: (as Ordell Robbie) You can't ride up front with me. The surprise element is 90 percent of it.
TUCKER: (as Beaumont Livingston) I'm sorry, man, but I ain't getting in no (beep) trunk.
JACKSON: (as Ordell Robbie) I can't believe you do me like this.
TUCKER: (as Beaumont Livingston) Do you like what? Man, I just ain't climbing...
GROSS: Let me ask you about the screen adaptation of "Rum Punch" which was Quentin Tarantino's movie "Jackie Brown."
LEONARD: In the screen version, now, which I think is the most closely adapted of any of mine that have been made into movies, Quentin's screenplay expanded a little bit on scenes. He took his time with it and he told me that this was what he was going to do, that the first half of the picture is getting to know the characters and then finally we will get them into action.
And I resented the fact that some of the critics said, well, it's too long. Well, too long - it wasn't too long for Quentin and he's the one who's making the picture. This is his movie. You know? It's like a painting, it's like looking at a painting on a wall and it's, oh, well, it's too wide. You ought to cut about two feet off the right-hand side.
Now, I thought the movie was great. I loved it.
GROSS: I loved it too. One of the really nice things about the movie is, you know, the two romantic leads in it are Robert Forster and Pam Grier and, you know, they're both, you know, middle aged. They'd be over the hill by Hollywood standards, right?
LEONARD: Yeah.
GROSS: And there's something just, like, so touching about the relationship of these two really hardboiled people with each other.
LEONARD: Well, that was the idea - that it is a romance. He was going to do a book of mine called "Kill Shot" but then he decided - he called me up and said I've decided to do "Rum Punch" because it's the best woman's part I've seen in a long time. And he had already thought of Robert Forster for the bail bondsman. Didn't mention, though, didn't mention Pam Grier.
And so he must've had her in mind. But he didn't want to spring that on me, I don't think, yet because then just before he went into production he called me up and said I've been afraid to call you for the last year. And I said why, because you're changing the title and you're making the lead a black woman? And he said yeah. I said, well, I like Pam Grier and I like your movies. So go ahead. Do whatever you want.
You know, it's in your hands. I'm not going to make any suggestions?
GROSS: Is there a scene in any of the recent film adaptations of your novels where you particularly like hearing the actor doing lines that are straight out of your book?
LEONARD: Yeah. In "Jackie Brown," when Sam Jackson was trying to get - I forgot who it was - to get into the trunk of the car. And Quentin liked that so much he elaborated on it. The scene is longer in the movie than it is in the book.
GROSS: And how much of that was improvised? How much of it came right out of the book?
LEONARD: Well, I was on the set when they were shooting that scene and they started to improvise and Quentin said, no, do the - stay with the lines as they're written. You can improvise later. And he made sure that the character stayed with his dialogue. Then he would let them try things. And it was the same way with Barry Sonnenfeld in "Get Shorty." The actors had to stay with the words as written.
Because what happens is, when actors begin to make up their own lines they're usually lines that you thought of and discarded as being, you know, trite or too obvious. And it's funny. In story meetings the studio executive will come up with this what he thinks is a great idea and he doesn't realize that in writing a book over a period of six or seven months that you thought of all these ideas. You discarded them.
LEONARD: And you've come up with what you believe is the best idea to make the story work. You know?
GROSS: Elmore Leonard, thank you very much.
LEONARD: Thank you, Terry.
DAVIES: Elmore Leonard speaking with Terry Gross recorded in 1999. Leonard died Tuesday at the age of 87. Coming up, David Edelstein reviews the new Edgar Wright comedy "The World's End." This is FRESH AIR.
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