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Also know as Real GDP growth. Real GDP defined as growth factored for inflation. The US chart here. Which of course shows the only real dip when trump was president His presidential term of Real GDP pictured below. Brent I know you try your best and its appreciated. But is it not too late for a refund?

The V-Mills Texans Gary Lewis, Ken Gillespie, Phil Mayfield, David Arrington, Rick Miller, Fritz Jackson, Jack Peck, curran Phillips, Ron Cox, Gregg Hackett Zephyrhills 10 man team, first place, 1971

Bonus points for working lagniappe into a sentence!

Great points, I love the Midwest dust bowl angle and Johnny Cash suggestion is good one.

Maybe many, but the one over-riding reason is that he is a lying crook.

There's a better way than "blindly" chopping your main in a two-out scenario. For one, if you are unlucky enough to have the main and reserve risers entangled, chopping it can be certain death. I've had the luck to sit through Jim Cowan's Dual Out briefing recently, and his breakdown of possibilities and options is top-notch. It's also on youtube, so I highly recommend everyone to watch it. As for the specific effect of a much larger reserve than main, I would guess that the reserve is much higher over your head (providing more lift) while the main flies a lot more twitchy. My gut feeling would be that you might have to rein in the main flying it in deep brakes or rears (if half-brake is still set) to keep the two cooperating. Cutting the main away IFF it's not entangled would probably be your best bet, secondary to keeping both canopies nailed together down to landing.

Here's what I have, data from about 30 years back when I was new to the sport and a bit obsessed with collecting data and understanding the sport. 1. Two pages from I guess the Italian skydiving magazine in 1992 listing the early tandem fatalities in order. (Apparently there was also one on a European Galaxy rig sometime in that era, that isn't in those stats.) First tandem fatality is shown as the one with one snap not done up, TI spent entire jump trying to hook it up, without deploying anything (even the drogue). 2. An html file from UPT listing tandem fatalities and causes in order (but with no dates). From 2008, back when they listed that on their web site. 3. Scribbled pencil notes of mine from the early 1990s, where I listed a bit of the evolution of tandems (eg the date when Strong & Booth got their FAA exemptions to allow tandems), plus all the early fatalities and dates. I think most of the data on dates comes from an article in Parachutist,July 1989. (Which I can't find at the moment.) That list puts that first tandem fatality -- with the snap not done up -- as Oct 19, 1986. Back in those days people were wondering what the heck was going on with Vector tandems, as in the first dozen fatal accidents, there were 10 on Vectors, and 1 on a Galaxy, before there was 1 was a Strong Dual Hawk. There sure were a lot of different causes of accidents -- Stupid stuff we're not allowed to do with tandems now, main bags that much more easily came out of the container early, plus a lot more casual training and attitudes towards tandems. Which brought in the idea that 'it isn't just another skydive'. It also took a while to come up with the first tandem CYPRES, and eventually the idea of making one mandatory for tandems. (Wish I had the dates for those.) RWS tandem fatality list as of Feb08.htm

I think she was chosen because she was "Women of Color". Then House Majority Whip Jim Clyburn of South Carolina wanted Biden to choose a black female so he did for the political benefits. I see zero wrong with that Biden decision. What is wrong is that there are folks who because of that political reality, or not, cannot get their heads wrapped around the fact that she has accomplishments in leadership positions and would likely do no less of a half assed job than any white man. Beyond that, and most importantly, is that the alternative is Trump and anyone not seeing that as a worse outcome has some serious cognitive disabilities.

I agree. The fact that she's not "caucasian" is just a lagniappe for those folks Wendy P.

Boss, I think the minority thing you speak to is correct but I think most of the anti-Kamala bit is strictly misogyny. Too many of a certain brand of dude are used to pushing women around and getting them to submit and consequently will never believe women have backbones, can think, and will stand firm in an emergency. They also believe that any female with sexual agency is incapable of answering that 3 AM call that saves the western world because they are temporarily out of their minds. Yes, race inequality and injustice is critical, but the battle we need to fight now is sexual equality.