The Westin Kierland Resort & Spa, Brittlebush Bar & Grill of Scottsdale 12 / 4 / 02

Market Note:
The market closed Thanksgiving week with it's eighth straight UP week.
The Nasdaq has traveled 33 percent from the low it hit on October 9th!

Mark your calendar to join us from 6pm - 9pm, December 4, 2002 at The Westin Kierland Resort & Spa, Brittlebush Bar & Grill at Keirland Golf Club located at 15636 N. Clubgate Dr. in Scottsdale. (One mile west of Scottsdale Rd. on E. Greenway Parkway to N. Clubgate Dr., aka N. 66th St.. Go north on Clubgate to end of road-approximately 1,000 feet). 

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My Special Guest this week is Larry Lowe, Web Master
and Contributing Writer for The AIR&SPACE/Smithsonian Magazine.

Larry Lowe

To contact Larry:
Office: 480-668-0948
Email: webmaster@airspacemag.com
Web Site: www.airandspacemagazine.com

If you were publishing one of the worlds great magazines devoted to
AIR&SPACE and your name was as world famous as the Smithsonian
then you would have to seek out the best of the best for web site design.

Someone who has the technical skills for the job as well as someone who
has been there and done that in the world of flying. Enter our vary own
Larry Lowe. Larry has been the AIR&SPACE/Smithsonian's web master since 1995 and a contributing writer since 1991.

This months issue of AIR&SPACE/Smithsonian includes an article by
Larry entitled CorsairFest.

Dec/Jan Issue of AIR&SPACE/Smithsonian.

Arguably, Larry Lowe has led an interesting life, with notable success
in several careers. During an intense stint as an active pilot, he
accumulated approximately one thousand, three hundred and fifty
hours of flight time, including time in 35 different types of aircraft and
200 hours of aerobatics. He earned his private, commercial and CFI
licenses in the minimum time required and gained experience as a flight
instructor, competition aerobatic pilot, air show pilot, glider tow pilot,
parachute jump pilot, ferry pilot, film/video camera pilot and air racer.

A founding member of both the San Diego and Phoenix International
Aerobatic Club (IAC) chapters, he served as director of the San Diego
National Air Festival, designing and producing a series of themed
airshows to benefit the San Diego Aerospace Historical Center (SDAHC).
His productions, "History in Flight", "Theater of the Air" and "Air Circus"
raised more than $1 million in matching funds for the SDAHC.

Along with performing as an award-winning airshow pilot, Lowe has served as an airshow announcer, film/video pilot, appeared as a guest expert on news and video documentaries and hosted the Los Angeles "In Contact" monthly interview talk show.

Drawing upon his technical expertise and intuitive mechanical design skills he dove into development of new technology with the founding of the Micro Works. Venturing into digital hardware design, Lowe designed printed circuit boards for the first video digitizer ever produced for the hobby computer market, a variety of peripheral and memory upgrades and the complete single board AMAZO cpu/computer on one board hardware and printed circuit design. Concurrently, Lowe became an accomplished software programmer with experience ranging from hand-coded 6800 machine code to fluency in most web jargons currently in vogue.

Lowe made history when he developed groundbreaking interactive videodisc
systems for the 1982 World's Fair, a success that lead to the development
in 1984 of a 60 user networked interactive videodisc exhibit for the 1984
World's Fair. The later production featured a widely acclaimed consensus
video theater in which audience polling directed the conversation of the video
host and dynamically generated computer graphics.

As an interactive media designer, Lowe has designed user interfaces for
cable services, CD-ROM, CD-I and web-based systems. Lowe wrote and
directed James Burke in an internal interactive presentation that traced the
'Connections' of the Compact Disc-Interactive format for Philips and designed a set of interactive, multithreaded aerospace history for American Interactive Media based on the contents of the National Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C. Working with AIR&SPACE, Lowe pioneered Quicktime Virtual Reality photography and continues to develop groundbreaking QTVR panoramas for the AIR&SPACE/Smithsonian's website's Sightings section.

Click on above picture for example of QTVR panorama!

Clicking on above picture will take you to a terrific example of a
QTVR panorama. After you click on the above picture left click
on the pictures and hold down your left mouse key and then drag
the arrow around within the picture. The picture then becomes 3D
and moves with your cursor!

A prolific, published writer, Lowe penned a biography of
Capt. R. L. 'Zeke' Cormier, a series of articles on the Compact
Disk-Interactive format, a CD-I Designer's Guide, articles in
Air&Space/Smithsonian on competition aerobatics and air racing,
movie reviews and coverage of the Galileo spacecraft arrival at
Jupiter, and shooting scripts for several interactive videodisc projects.

His CorsairFest, a review of the last reunion of Maj. Greg Boyington's
Black Sheep and other Marine and Navy F4U Corsair pilots appears
in the current (December 2002) issue of AIR&SPACE/Smithsonian.

A Chance Vought F4U Corsair sporting the famed alternating white
checks and navy blue checks pattern of Marine Squadron VMF-312.
Some 12,500 F4Us rolled off the assembly line. Today fewer than
30 survive!

First Lieutenant John J.E. Holden designed the color scheme in June 1943,
and it has become the most enduring squadron motif in history. Both
the squadron and the checkerboard pattern survive today.

A self-described cowboy-hacker-pilot, Lowe has unbridled passion for
aviation history, the work of Graham Hancock, Diamondback baseball,
classic rock-n-roll and country music, smart pretty women, and vintage
black and white science fiction movies from the 1950s.

It is with great pleasure that Larry Lowe, Web Master and Contributing
Writer for The AIR&SPACE/Smithsonian Magazine, will be
my Special Guest.

Please plan on joining us to socialize and meet new friends!

BBB

Baron Capital Management, LLC
Office: 480-949-7331   Fax: 480-949-7381
8070 E. Morgan Trail, Suite 225, Scottsdale, AZ 85258
baron@baroncapital.com ~ www.baroncapital.com 

Photos & Design By

Charles Zemis ~ 480.206.7694 ~ charles@kaidroo.net
www.kaidroo.net ~ Filled With Great Internet Resources!