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So funny clicking this link all these years later to see that Squirrel completely and utterly dominate the PPC charts... Hahahaha

Mike Mullins recently made this statement in the Incidents forum: ======================= Any person who is a USPA member must follow the BSRs at a Group Member DZ, at a non-Group Member DZ, in a farmers field, in someones back yard, does not matter where you are jumping. If you are a USPA member you are required to follow the BSR, period. As USPA members were involved in this jump they were definitely required to follow the BSRs. Someone who is not a USPA member, jumping at a non-Group Member DZ, needs only to comply with the FARs. ======================= This is the first I have heard of this. I've jumped in a lot of places throughout the world, and while I use the BSR's as the default, there are cases where they don't seem applicable. One example is while I worked for a military freefall training program; the course instructor was not a USPA rated instructor (although he was certainly rated as such by the military.) Another example were water and demo jumps made in another country - they were made without "the advice of the appropriate USPA S&TA, Instructor Examiner, or Regional Director" (but again, with much advice from the local equivalent.) I've intentionally jumped through clouds while at a foreign DZ after the chief instructor briefed us on how to do it, and told us it was both legal and customary there. Are all those things really considered no different than doing them at a USPA DZ?

Awesome! thanks for the update Wendy P.

#1 This was a problem, but has been taken care of by a BSR change (from about a year ago I think). It added the verbiage "or those training personnel under military orders" SIM section 2-1: BASIC SAFETY REQUIREMENTS, A. APPLICABILITY #2 Advice for water and demo jumps is not BSR related in another country. #3 It is a BSR violation to violate an FAR, but in another country the FARs don't apply. Unfortunately, this stuff is often not easy to understand. Mike and I have often called each other to discuss what some things mean and how to interpret and explain them.

All we have is a summary written by one of Trumps swamp critters. And this was released just 48hrs after Mueller submitted it. Mueller had: 19 lawyers ~40 FBI agents, intelligence analysts, forensic accountants 2,800+ subpoenas Nearly 500 search warrants 230+ orders for communications records Nearly 50 orders authorizing use of pen registers 13 requests to foreign governments for evidence Interviewed ~500 witnesses I don't know how many pages were in the report, but I seriously doubt anyone could read the whole thing *and* write a summary in 48hrs. (And why the hell does everything I type get double-spaced, goddamit!!!)

I define "social media" more broadly that most. I consider dropzone.com social media, as well as any other hobby based forum, or reddit, or any site where you join an online community and can post and interact with others, so while you can stay off all such sites, most choose to have some sort of online social media presence (as I define it). I find it puzzling that for sites where the user individually curates a list of content creators (where they are by friending, or following), users complain about the content they see. If you have problems with content, drop the individual source of the content, not the entire site. Social media sites offer a wide range of people / groups to interact with, and it is up to the user to shape their experience in a way that meets their needs. What are my needs? I want to be entertained. I want to laugh, I want to smile, I want to learn new things, I want to help other people laugh and learn as well.

People in favor of the electoral college keep saying this but haven't really looked at the mathematics of it. It's simply not true. CGP Grey edumacates folk. Skip to 3:17 for an idiots guide as to why, but the cliffs notes version is that if you won the 100 biggest cities in the US because you focused your time there you'd win less than 20% of the popular vote. In fact, not only is it not true, but it's exactly backwards. The system we have encourages candidates to actively ignore large population centers and it behooves them to spend the MOST time where lots of electoral college votes are held by relatively small populations. Same link - skip to 4:16 to see how you can win the election by focusing on the SMALLEST populations and have less than 22% of the popular vote but still win the electoral college. So not only do you have the same situation you're apparently concerned about - a politician 'ignoring' a population or area because of the effect it has on their chances to win, but rather now it's ignoring the areas where MOST Americans live. To decide the American president... That's just fucking nuts.

Yeah. They could teach social media posting like they used to teach letter writing. The first rule is "be interesting". To me, this means 1. Post a variety of stuff. Same topic repetitive posts quickly become boring. One or two vacation pics is great. A dozen sucks. 2. Be real. No one likes a tragedy, but people like drama, so sure, post something that highlights the trouble in your life, but don't poor me yourself. 3. Be funny. Easier said than done. But you can get away with a lot if you are funny, not even lol funny, just smh funny is ok.

Before going into my review of the helmet, I'd like to give you all peeps some of my experience. I've been on a stomach flying team as a camera flyer and an inside flyer on a 4 way VFS team. I have done AFF alone(scary) and with another instructor I have stomach flown while video taping tandems I have been on tracking dives I have been on angle dives (formerly known as automonauti when they were lame and only done by bad flying Europeans) I have been on hybrids as the hanger, sometime soon I'll get the opportunity to fly on my stomach in one I have been on lots of vertical world records, including the biggest round ever last may in Spaceland. I usually wear an open face because i'm a man. I've never worn the KIss. Feel free to contact me about my accomplishments, I love talking about myself. Oh, almost forgot, I've been under canopy when the space Shuttle lifted off and I saw it with my bare eyes because of my awesome open face. When I'm not skydiving I like to internet skydive on this awesome website full of nothing but facts.