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    Annemarie organized three fun 20-ways. Today we took a long-time Muff Sister on a shark jump. Funny, I didn't know that "jumping the shark" is internet slang. One of the guys said that he saw the shark inside a business down the road. Inside a locked fence, right in front of the door. On Monday, you know someone will be trying to figure out why someone jumped the fence and left an inflatable pool toy.
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    I have heard for 2 years that someone is making a movie about the Foundation series. After Avatar, it was discussed in 2010 as being made in the same vein. Anyone heard of it ?
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    At WFFC, we usually bought a couch from Dean for the organizer tent. Invariably, if you passed by it on the way back from the main entertainment tent, somebody was wearing it out. Stained, but dry by morning.
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    product pic I wonder how you get it open.
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    Bullying is common in every school. I think that the primary step should be isolation. A small group of bullies can affect the lives and mental health of many. There is no plausible reason why 50 kids should live a life of hell at the hands of 4, for 4 years of high school. It affects their ability to get a quality education. The school system efforts are wasted.
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    Just roaming through some short videos... back yard slide (the interesting thing is the guy who high-fives him. his arm is in a sling...) just friends
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    Yep. "Unique" was the key word.
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    To be accurate, the Dems are only counting Clinton. The Reps are counting 18 different people. Paula Jones, Monica Lewinsky, Gennifer Flowers... Of course, we are dealing with estimates. At least with the Titanic, we had numbers. Only 1200 people went down on the Titanic.
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    It isn't always people... Sometimes it is just an opportunity to socialize that you can't pass up. clicky Can you imagine that one guy was looking back and having a very understandable "WTF?" thought?
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    It isn't really a fair comparison. After the Clintons, the Dems don't have anything that is considered a scandal (unless it is a Rep doing it). Clinton's Presidential library is the first with a video porn section.
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    Well, I'm done. He has explained it. He has Mad Skillz.
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    clicky I want this guy on American Idol, just to see Simon have a seizure.
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    So you make only solo jumps. Cool. Tom Piras was doing a 4-way Skydive U jump. My friend was doing a 6-way. This guy is avoiding a minimal description of how he has managed to make his skydives so safe. Kinda hard to discuss. He must be doing some special kind of jumping that I've never heard about, but it sounds like he isn't going to tell us what it is.
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    Tom Piras was a former world 4-way champion and co-organizer of several world freefall formation records. Over 13,000 jumps. Sandy Wambach was a plane captain on the World Record 300-way attempt when she went in. A good friend (organizer) had the front-float come down the side of the plane and push his head into the tail side of the door. (hard helmet, fortunately) After years of jumping, his wife had bought him an AAD for Christmas. It fired and he landed. Unconscious, bruised and battered, but alive. Nobody plans on a collision. Skill hasn't saved some far greater jumpers than myself. It is a personal choice.
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    Roman The Roman soldiers did quite a bit of conquering while wearing a leather mini-skirt.
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    Already discussed here without the O-sheep spin Politicians want to say that O took the McCain plan. However, they omit that he added a major difference, he gutted the tax exemption. Read that thread. It identifies all that facts. Obama (on his website) stated that McCains plan was bad because it would raise taxes massively. This was totally false and identified by FactCheck.org. Also, NPR said the same thing. The McCain plan had a tax cut in it. Obama never took the lie off his website. Dems don't care if their candidates lie, so - not a problem. Then, O took the McCain plan and took out the tax cut and morphed it into the plan that he attacked McCain for (the lie, remember?). So, the Dems are trying to claim that they are using the Rep plan. They are using their corrupted version.
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    I have one for these reasons. It reduced the no-pull/low-pull category by a lot. I may not every have to use it, but I want all the possible advantages that I can get. I know people who were amazingly better than me and those people died. They might have lived. I used to recite the list for these occasions. One month after my first Ga State Rec attempt, the organizer died in a freefall collision. Any time you see an AAD fire, understand that the person was out of time. They would have died. I don't want anyone to die from a mistake of judgment. Live to another day and learn to not make that mistake.
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    Malthus predicted that the population would eventually outstrip the ability to produce food. Due to the work of Fritz Haber, nitrogen-fixation allowed the development of modern fertilizers. (As in all things, some of his work with chemicals was used in weapons.) The major problem with solving problems is that it raises the level of expectation.
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    Did they work in Reno, KS at an IT shop? We always "hide in plain sight" on a whiteboard. "leaving before 3." lb43 Passwords - generally - kids, pets, names, birthdays (A special character makes it obnoxious)
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    "Give him your best so-innocent grin."
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    Family pics - don't just leave them on your hard drive. Put them into directories by year. Photos1990-1995 Photos2010 My dad had a bunch of 35mm slides. I took them in and had them scanned. 30 cents a piece. 200 of them. It was worth it. They put them on a DVD for me. I copied the pics on to 10 CDs and passed them around to family members. Never have to worry about losing them in a disk crash or house disaster. Naked pics of ex girlfriends and skydiving are not going to be of interest to family. Everyone uses pets, childrens names and birthdays. I use part of the site name and an old zip code. That way, easy to remember, but all unique.
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    My buddies walked down Duval until they saw a club with women coming/going. ("This will be like hunting over a baited field.") They walked in... chicks everywhere. At the bar, on the dance floor... ...with other chicks.
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    Sloppy Joes? Ricks. Now it looks pretty modern. They put a covered walkway over the outside. Years ago, it just looked like some kids treehouse. Durty Harrys (part of the Ricks club area) had a t-shirt that said, "Where the possessed go to mingle." The bathroom looked like the bathroom scene from trainspotting. Things are more upscale-club type now.
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    It's a pic of a little p-. What's wrong with that?
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    gallery I love these pics. Pics of people in the background doing funny stuff. In some of them, you really have to look for it. There is a bar in Key West where part of the outside wall folds down. You can sit inside the bar at the window. Lots of people come by and want a pic of themselves outside. No telling how many tourist pics that I am in the background. Same thing when I worked at the beach. Everyone wants the Gulf in the background... and me.