headoverheels
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>> 32. A white American 10 year old watches on average a staggering 500 hours of television a week, and sees at least ten full hours of Macdonald advertisments. Must not get much sleep, since there are not 500 hours in a week. There are several others obviously wrong. Wild guess is that most of them are.
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Rest Inn is also close, not quite as close as the Pike. The Howard Johnson is more like 10 miles.
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Hi Kevin, When are you planning to arrive/leave? Flying into Philadelphia? Places to stay Gary
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You could make streamers like we had in Thailand. They fit in a waist pack, and are deployed after your canopy is open. demo_streamers
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I have one of these, in front of my treadmill. Kimble
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October is beginning to get into rainy season, but chances are that you'll be able to jump on a given day. More rainy as you get farther north. It can be pretty chilly on the coast, even in the summer. You'll find more belly fliers at Lodi, and cheaper tickets (unless someone offers those free ones), but it is farther from the coast. There are also some good Oregon DZ's. The drive up the coast is slow, winding roads, beautiful. Up and back to Portland, or just one way? I'll bet you can find a free place to crash here in the bay area with a dz.commer, at least for a night or so.
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No change yet here in Lodi, CA. Still $15 to 13k, $13 in blocks of 50.
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Yes, but extra speed at the entrance can give lift to allow killing the downward speed in the middle of the flare, before slowing to the minimum forward speed. Anyone complaining about the difficulty of landing straight in needs practice, and maybe a different canopy.
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They have human versions, which is where the company makes most of it's money.
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A lot of us, including me, jump at non-USPA dropzones. Most BSR's are typically followed anyway, but I don't see that the USPA BSRs can be depended upon to "fix" the issue. I would be interested in whether even canopy coaching makes someone less likely to be injured, long term. It could be that the person seeking the training is more careful and safety conscious anyway. It could be that swoop coaching encourages more skydivers to do high performance approaches, so actually causes more injuries.
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Is that for the back door?
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If you mean this Sunday, the 27th, you might want to consider coming out to the American Boogie, at Skydance near Davis. $10 boogie fee (for one day) plus jumps ($19?) www.americanboogie.com, www.skydance.net Monterey is pretty much a student DZ these days. Lodi has the cheapest jumps ($15 single ticket) and tandems ($100).
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About 9 to 10a.m. Friday. How about you?
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For those locals who can only show for one day, there is a $10/day alternative boogie fee. No food, beer, shirt, or free ticket for pre-registration with that deal. See www.americanboogie.com for more info.
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A few years out of date. Here's mine: http://terraserver-usa.com/image.aspx?t=1&s=10&x=3023&y=20697&z=10&w=1 I wonder if the Unabomber uses the prison computer to look at his mountain shack....
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FAR 105.17 Flight visibility and clearance from cloud requirements. No person may conduct a parachute operation, and no pilot in command of an aircraft may allow a parachute operation to be conducted from that aircraft— (a) Into or through a cloud, or (b) When the flight visibility or the distance from any cloud is less than that prescribed in the following table: Below 10000 feet: 3 mile visibility, 500 feet below/1000 feet above/2000 feet horizontal Above 10000 feet: 5 mile visibility, 1000 feet below/1000 feet above/1 mile horizontal
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I'll give that a try some time, but I tend to agree with Brian. http://www.dropzone.com/cgi-bin/forum/gforum.cgi?post=865623#865623
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Yeah, I understand the concept. It's just a bit incredible, considering that the front and rear risers connect to the harness at a single point. I'll give it a try, but I suspect that the change of moment and drag with body position will be a larger effect.
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What? I fail to see what difference leaning forward in the harness would make.
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Nice pair of puppies.
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I've been sorta following this, as it gets posted on the Yahoo TASR stock board. Pretty much every news story about handcuffed little girl or a 68 year old grandma who gets Tasered shows up there, as well. Taser now says "less-lethal" on their web site, but the company officers still use that "non-lethal" phrase in their public statements. Tasers have been associated with (not necessarily implicated in) about 40-50 deaths. I wonder how well their safety has been tested on people with medical problems, e.g. coronary arrhythmias. Maybe there will be a market for zap-defying camera electronics.
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Kerry, by 420k votes. Bush has, to me, been surprisingly Presidential in his ability to make decisions and take action. Unfortunately, his decisions and actions are often in the wrong direction. I'm a conservative. I believe in conserving my rights, not eroding them like Bush/Cheney/Ashcroft. I am less safe travelling the world, because of Bush's actions, than if he had not taken any at all. In many ways, America is acting like that other evil empire we were told about 35-40 years ago when we were children.
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More likely this one, since she's in San Diego. http://earthquake.usgs.gov/recenteqsUS/Maps/US2/31.33.-119.-117.html
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Watch out, Airspeed!
