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A spinnaker is a triangular sail, designed for points of sail that are off the wind.

TYPES
There are two types of spinnaker.

tack

Symetrical

 * BULLETS
 * AMMO
 * 1) one
 * two

Asymetrical
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 * Transcript excerpt of the interview
 * Chuck Todd: (…) answer the question of why the president asked the White House press secretary to come out in front of the podium for the first time and utter a falsehood? Why did he do that? It undermines the credibility of the entire White House press office …
 * Kellyanne Conway: No it doesn’t.
 * Chuck Todd: … on day one.
 * Kellyanne Conway: Don’t be so overly dramatic about it, Chuck. What … you’re saying it’s a falsehood. And they’re giving... Sean Spicer, our press secretary, gave alternative facts to that. But the point remains …
 * Chuck Todd: Wait a minute. Alternative facts?
 * Kellyanne Conway: … that there’s …
 * Chuck Todd: Alternative facts? Four of the five facts he uttered – the one thing he got right …
 * Kellyanne Conway: … hey, Chuck, why … Hey, Chuck …
 * Chuck Todd: … was Zeke Miller. Four of the five facts he uttered were just not true. Look, alternative facts are not facts. They’re falsehoods.

On January 21, 2017, White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer held his first press briefing. He accused the media of deliberately underestimating the size of the crowd for President Trump's inaugural ceremony and stated that the ceremony had drawn the "largest audience to ever witness an inauguration – period – both in person and around the globe." According to available data, Spicer's claims and allegations were false. Aerial images showed that the turnout for Trump's inauguration was lower than the turnout for the 2009 inauguration of Barack Obama. Spicer claimed that 420,000 people rode the DC Metro on inauguration day 2017, compared to 317,000 in 2013. It is "unclear where his 420,000 figure... comes from" or what time periods he was comparing. Actual ridership figures between midnight and 11 AM were 193,000 in 2017, 317,000 in 2013. Full-day ridership was 570,557 in 2017, 782,000 in 2013.



Spicer also gave incorrect information about the use of white ground coverings during the inauguration. He stated that they were used for the first time during the Trump inauguration and were to blame for a visual effect that made the audience look smaller. The white ground coverings, however, had been used in 2013 when Obama was sworn in for the second term. Spicer did not take questions from the media at the press briefing.

Trump's campaign strategist and counselor, Kellyanne Conway, defended Spicer's statements in a Meet the Press interview. In response to a question from Todd about Trumps false claims and the loss of credibility, Conway said, "Don't be so overly dramatic about it, Chuck. What...You're saying it's a falsehood, and they're giving... our press secretary, Sean Spicer, gave alternative facts to that, but the point remains that..." Todd interrupted her by saying "Wait a minute. Alternative facts?" Conway, speaking on: "that there is". Todd, continuing: "...alternative facts are not facts. They're falsehoods." In her answer Conway argued that crowd numbers in general could not be assessed with certainty and objected to what she described as Todd's trying to make her look ridiculous.

During the week following Conway's comments, she discussed "alternative facts", substituting the phrases "alternative information" and "incomplete information". Two days after the Todd interview she defended Trump's travel restrictions by talking about a nonexistent "Bowling Green massacre" (she later said she was referring to the arrest of two Iraqis in Bowling Green, Kentucky for sending aid to insurgents in Iraq), and by falsely claiming that President Obama in 2011 had "banned visas for refugees from Iraq for six months". In that book, "truthful hyperbole" was described as "an innocent form of exaggeration—and... a very effective form of promotion." The book claimed that "people want to believe that something is the biggest and the greatest and the most spectacular." The ghostwriter of the book, Tony Schwartz, said he coined that phrase and claimed that Trump "loved it". -->