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About damned time! Judge orders Steve Bannon to begin prison sentence by 1 July

Maternal Deaths per 100,000 live births, wealthy nations: United States 22.3 New Zealand 13.6 S. Korea 8.8 Canada 8.4 France 7.6 United Kingdom 5.5 Australia 3.5 Germany 3.5 Japan 3.4 Netherlands 2.8 Sweden 2.6 Switzerland 1.2 Norway 0 Guess which is the only one of the above without universal health care.

I believe he only ever cut on the one reserve. I think he avoided the dummy chute. It obviously didn't look right and I doubt he wanted it near him, which is why I think he chunked it out the back at some point in between Seattle and Portland. But I have had the same questions you've had about it. When you read through her 302's it does make you wonder whether he also tampered with the dummy chute, but upon further reading it doesn't seem so. As for Alice, she had actually been skydiving before the Cooper hijacking. Would be interesting to know what she actually said to Cooper about the parachutes.

Unless you are comfortable with the general attitudes in red South Carolina and are happy to take a Trump presidency if it means not making social waves then you really aren't helping. The absolute easiest, and most useless, tack anyone can take in a dialogue or conversation is to be totally opinion neutral, avoid being honest or, in it's absolute worst variation opine that some people are saying as some kind of evidence. Here's an opinion: I see no real evidence of senility in Biden, the economy is doing great considering the rising inflationary environment he inherited which takes time to fix, and Trump, supported by his complicit republican cultists, killed a border deal crafted in the Senate to hurt the nation and benefit his campaign or that would be on the mend now.

Oops. Double posted it somehow, instead of adding an edit. See post below.

Right. Any proof of that senility? Other than speech patterns COMPLETELY CONSISTENT with a stutter? Wrecked the economy? Seriously? Inflation is under control. Job creation is at levels NEVER seen before. Unemployment is at levels for lengths of time not seen in SEVENTY YEARS. And what 'open border'? Please provide evidence. You know, like numbers of deportations. Which are higher than when Trump was in office. The numbers of people attempting to cross is up some, but the ones detained keep saying that they are being told that the border is open and they can come right in. Who keeps repeating that? And Biden got a "Border Bill" put together. Which was a hell of an accomplishment. It had just about everything the Rs wanted. But Trumpty Dumpty decided he wanted the crisis to continue so that he had something to cry and lie about. So he had his little bitch Johnson kill it. Those that like Trump are STUPID ENOUGH TO BELIEVE HIS BULLSHIT. Period.

Hi Bill, In 1964, I joined the Portland Fire Bureau. There were no female firefighters then. In the fire house, we could not talk about politics, religion or women. While we have 'some' Trump supporters here in Oregon; I estimate them at about 25% of the voting public. IMO it was the GOP that made politics too divisive. Jerry Baumchen PS) Good post; should get people thinking. PPS) You got a phone number for the woman who said, "some sexual harassment would be appreciated about now."

And the big problem with that in my mind is that the main reason for having an RSL is that too many people were doing a cutaway and then forgetting to deploy. Now the double sided RSL requires the same group of people to remember to disconnect it if they have a two out. Admittedly a fairly uncommon scenario, but that is part of the reason people forget procedures. The need is uncommon.

The OP asked a valid question. The answer is that many container manufacturers have tried double-sided RSLs but most found them too complex to be practical. The first attempt was the cross-connector seen on Racers and EZ-Flyers. In the worst possible scenario - releasing the main after the reserve reaches line-stretch - the departing main might choke off the reserve. The Racer factory’s solution was to offer a single-sided RSL. Parachutes de France developed a two-pin reserve closing system with each pin connected to an RSL. One main riser leaving would not open the reserve because you needed to pull both pins to open the reserve container. OTOH pulling the reserve rip-cord would pull both pins. The dilemma kept coming back to the problem of broken main risers. The two most popular reasons for broken risers were mini-Rings and tandems. Back around 1990 we suffered a perfect-storm of zero-P fabric, zero-stretch suspension lines, mini-risers and mini-rings. After a few skydivers suffered painfully hard openings, bent hip rings, broken risers, etc. PIA and 3-Ring Incorporated published new standards for reinforcing mini-rings. The problem of broken mini-risers disappearred 30 years ago. The second most likely cause of broken risers is tandem flip-through which are mostly prevented by better work-habits of packers and tandem instructors. Relative Workshop/United Parachute Technologies noticed a third pattern with broken risers: the right riser is the most likely to break because we toss our pilot-chutes with our right hands and are likely to be right-shoulder-low during deployment. So RWS installed RSLs on right risers only and added the Collins lanyard to strip the left (3-Ring) release cable as the broken right riser departed. RWS later licensed Collins Lanyards to half a dozen other manufacturers as part of the Skyhook MARD. Main Assisted Reserve Deployment is a fancy version of an RSL.

It'll get votes at not much cost, seems to me. The trick will be in the spin: Mexico's nice, lot's of Americans retire there. Also Costa Rica and Panama. In the real world, I had some good quality dental work done in Panama at a great price, there are beaches and played right the cost of living is a lot less than the US. Ice cold beers are a buck each at Carnival which is great value at free. Of course, those countries have gun violence, crime, corrupt politicians and insensitivities to certain social groups. You know just like here in America. So I'm okay with serious restrictions and even repatriation. We need immigrants, absolutely, but we don't need a free for all. Alternatively we can take a page from Mexicos policy and let everyone cross in but then bus them all to a fun welcoming in Canada.

Now I have an owie, and maybe a bruise, too.

Hi folks, Today, Joe Biden said: "America is the only country in the world founded on an idea that all people are created equal, deserves to be treated equally throughout their lives," . . . "We've never fully lived up to that but we've never ever walked way from it." On the other hand: , , , on Monday [ DonaldTrump] took to social media to attack writer E. Jean Carroll and others, including judges in his cases. . . "Happy Memorial Day to All, including the Human Scum that is working so hard to destroy our Once Great Country” On Memorial Day, Biden recognizes son, war dead in Arlington National Cemetery (msn.com) The choice is very easy. Jerry Baumchen

Winsor seems to dislike female D politicians almost as reflexibly as he does Muslims. I'm not sure what to make of it. The general hate on the right for Hillary seems to be the result of a long term focused slander campaign in the FOX and friends media. The hate goes beyond ordinary political dislike and seems visceral.

That kind of describes Hillary Clinton. If she were a man, she'd be considered a hardass who can get things done. Since she's a woman and a liberal (sort of), she's the bitch-devil incarnate. Wendy P.