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Kamala Harris is for sure one of the R party's favourite scare tactic boogeymen. (is boogeywoman a thing?) The reality is she would be far better than the recycled dotard they are offering up.

I am so long away from that I hesitate to say anything! Back in the sixties Bill Gibson, Robt Howren, and I (at Wendel Johnson Speech & Hearing) tried to devise a sorting program looking for syntax indicative of the language acquisition period - in children. We examined a large amount of text taken from recordings of children etc. We had a number of people looking over our shoulders as we tried to develop this 'algorithm' - people in linguistics, neurology, education, ed-psych measurement etc. My wife was doing her student teaching at the Area Development Center in Davenport, Ia at the time so I went went with her and began recording the speech patterns of handicapped children. I was interested in comparing that population with samples from 'normal' non-institutionalized children. The fit was good. I decided to compare that data with a large sample of data from Downes clients, ages 2-25, and was surprised by the results. Our program suggested that the Downes clients were engaging in 'acquisition like' speech patterns skewed to ages 18-25! I consulted with the director of the center and she smiled and said: 'yes. its a syndrome we've seen for years...it usually stops by age 25'. A colleague Bob Wachal noted that he thought he had seen similar linguistic 'experimentation' in patients trying to recover from brain injuries... obviously there must be a neurological basis for anything like this regardless of the age and condition of people entering such a phase ? The whole thing became an interesting academic exercise. Bill Gibson and I were using PL1 ... about 1968. Work of this kind has advanced light years beyond where we were in those early years using PL1 ... I think Bob Wachal went further with his work on Aphasia. Its a neurological issue of importance for anyone who has a brain injury affecting language skills ...

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From April to August 2023 I made 10 attempts of powered flight. Only four of them were successful – engines started and run until all fuel was consumed. In other six jumps engine start issues rendered the attempt unsuccessful. One of engines was slow to start, until my flight altitude become critically low. After three consecutive fails in August I decided to take a break and focus on problem's solution. First I discussed it with engines manufacturer. They indeed confirmed that engine takes significant time to start, and they have no means to make it shorter. Next I tried to feed the engines with more flammable fuel, hoping that higher flammability will make it start faster. I replaced diesel with Jet-A fuel, which has 30% benzine. I was perfectly aware that something so flammable in intimate proximity is very bad idea. But at least I had to know if it works. Fortunately it did not work. Engine's start time did not improve. The best solution was to start engines prior to the jump, as in such case it doesn’t matters how much time it takes. But they cannot start in vertical position when I’m standing on the launching shelf. I therefore had to redesign the launching shelf.

There is a canopy manufacturer which is making me a main in 10 weeks, but only because they already have enough of the material. That same manufacturer claims PD is known for offering/bidding/paying premium prices to get fabric "diverted" to them instead of the original customer. Color choices, and not just the type of fabric should be confirmed for the schedule impact when ordering, even if it has to be speculative.

When you prosecute democrats for their crimes you are "tough on crime." When you prosecute republicans for their crimes you are "weaponizing the justice system."

Hi D2909, Re: or was that the smaller one that came out in the early '70's? If you are referring to the 'smaller one' that was meant to fit into the stopwatch hole on the instrument panels back then, that came on the market in 1965, as I recall. I bought one not long after they came on the market. Jerry Baumchen D-1543

I havent followed the evolution of linguistic computer programming but of course its been part of the whole computer revolution in data analysis since the 60s, in every area of science. My old colleague William P Gibson (a programmer) would be proud and very pleased. Bill was a mathematician by trade. One of Bill's concerns was 'when computers begin talking to each other the dialogue will move beyond human comprehension quickly! Then where do we go from there?' I miss Bill every day. He would have loved the dialogue that is happening here lately - - -

What was the one with the blast handle that fired an explosive charge (blast handle..) against a piston that was welded to the two pins that opened the reserve? It was attached to an aircraft altimeter that was held in a sheet metal frame on the reserve. Once armed, it fired when the leads from the handle/charge closed at the altimeter. I had one of these go off at 2500 just as my main deployed at Trinity DZ (Charlie Spillman?) in NC near Charlotte. He was pissed that he had to pull me out of an oak that was about 100 AGL. I was pissed that he made me wear the damned blast handled reserve. Guess I showed him, huh?! I had 98 jumps and knew everything.... AH HA! I think I had the Sentinel Mk 1, or was that the smaller one that came out in the early '70's? Anyway, I just bought a KAP - 3 as I want to jump my 1969 CAMO HALO Mk1 PC (okay so I didn't turn it in...they did give it to me) just once more before it goes to the SF Museum at FT Bragg NC. Thanks folks~! FJ Hale D2909

Aerodyne is the only company that makes both canopies and containers. The lesson here is don’t put all your eggs in one ordering basket. One of the components is holding up the whole order. Tell them to ship what is completed and that you will fill the rest with another company’s product.

That sucks. You'll be ready to downsize by the time it gets delivered :)

What reasons do they give you for departing from the 30-35 weeks they advertise on their website?

I ordered a brand new FULL COMPLETE rig from Aerodyne in Jan 2023. Its now MAR2024 (14months) and every time I inquire I get excuses and told just another month. At what point do you except you've been scammed out of $9300 and just move on?

No, he's right. I looked at that program and it definitely says they're going to supply broadband that only connects to black websites.