Nightingale

its been that way. they just put it into writing.

I post-whored on Martialtalk.com. No real change, since I only PW at work. 90?% of my job is just being on call, so there isn't a lot to do otherwise.

Please talk to the parents before giving a child a weapon to get their okay and make sure the child is properly educated on safe use. After that, I think its a great idea!

there's so many grey areas in packing too... you can do everything perfectly and still have a mal. what if the jumper dumps in a track, has rotten body position or something similar? They're not going to admit to it, leaving the gear store to eat the cost of the jumper's mistake.

well, if you can make it to the Perris boogie over memorial day, they have tons of canopies you can try, including a couple of sabre2 190s, spectre 190s and the like. otherwise, I dunno.

:0:0 no jumps. went to Perris on saturday, but didn't want to do hop n pops. I'd rather pay the extra $6 next week for a jump to altitude, or save some cash for the tunnel.

I was wondering if there was any way that, say, someone with 10 posts or less, could be easily identified if we're not using titles anymore? Maybe a different colored username or something? Just to make it easier to spot trolls. Beyond a few posts, it doesn't matter if someone has 100 or 500 or 1000, but being able to spot total noobs has its merits.

If he can go to the service, he should try to go. Its a very interesting experience. When I went to friends bat mitzvah's, there were, however, many people who attended the party but not the synagogue. Most of the gifts my friends received were things such as savings bonds. from about.com: The Invitation?! Many people feel confused when invited to a bar mitzvah. They ask what present to buy, when to give the present, how to dress... It helps to think of the bar mitzvah as a special birthday - special in that it has religious significance. Any present that is appropriate for a 13 year old boy will also work for a bar mitzvah present (gift certificates, books, music, software, tool box, electronics, room decorations, ....) Dress for the religious service like you are going to a religious service (modest, formal attire), and dress for the party according to whatever party is being held. It is best to bring the present to the party (rather than the religious ceremony). Mazel Tov or congratulations are appropriate greetings. You have been invited because the bar mitzvah boy wants you to join him in celebrating his "coming of age" - so enjoy the celebration!

ROFL. you got lucky. However, I'd have invoked the wonderful magic words of "Can I please speak to your supervisor?"

Couple of things to consider: 1. many people work outside of what they majored in in college. see if you can find a job in the field you want without additional schooling. 2. consider a graduate degree instead of another undergrad degree. its fewer units, and having a master's gives you a bit more clout than two bachelor's. 3. I do have two friends who majored in womens' studies. they both wish they'd majored in political science instead, as they've found it a bit limiting. However, they both work for womens' political advocacy groups. I'm not sure if you're looking for something like that, or something where you're working one-on-one with individual women. If that's what you're looking for, consider a degree in psychology or social work. Best of luck!

I agree.

Personally, I would say the Christian church, especially in the case of the Salem witch trials, was used to advance someone else's political and/or financial gains. The trials themselves had less to do with religion and more to do with personal grievances . The church, however, provided a convenient outlet for these issues. I wouldn't say the church was at fault here, not completely. It was more that the church created something that was easy to abuse, and therefore, people abused it to advance themselves.

This was written by Fr. Felix Just, SJ, Ph.D. He's a Jesuit priest and a professor of theology at Loyola Marymount University. I was just wondering what everyone thought of it. The Bible was not written in English -- not even "King James English"! Most of the books of the Old Testament were originally composed in Hebrew (with a few portions in Aramaic), while the entire New Testament was originally written in Greek (although some books may also incorporate Aramaic sources). Thus, what most people today read is not the original text, but other people's translations of the Bible. But why are there so many different English translations of the Bible? And why can't churches or scholars agree on just one translation? No original manuscript of any biblical book has survived! All of the texts written by the biblical authors themselves have been lost or destroyed over the centuries. All we have are copies of copies of copies, most of them copied hundreds of years after the original texts were written. The extant manuscripts contain numerous textual variations! There are literally thousands of differences in the surviving biblical manuscripts, many of them minor (spelling variations, synonyms, different word orders), but some of them major (whole sections missing or added). Important old manuscripts were found in the last 200 years! Recent discoveries of older manuscripts (esp. the Dead Sea Scrolls and the Codex Sinaiticus) have helped scholars get closer to the original text of the Bible, so that modern translations can be more accurate that medieval ones. The meanings of some biblical texts are unknown or uncertain! Some Hebrew or Greek words occur only once in the Bible, but nowhere else in ancient literature, so their exact meanings are unknown; and some biblical phrases are ambiguous, with more than one possible meaning. Ancient languages are very different from modern languages! Not only do Ancient Hebrew and Greek use completely different alphabets and vocabularies, but their grammatical rules and structures (word order, prepositions, conjugations of verbs, etc.) are very different from modern English. Every "translation" is already inevitably an "interpretation"! Anyone who knows more than one modern language realizes that "translations" often have meanings that are slightly different from the original, and that different people inevitably translate the same texts in slightly different ways. All living languages continually change and develop over time! Not only is "Modern English" very different from 16th century English, but the language used in Great Britain, America, Australia, and other countries are slightly different from each other (in spelling, grammar, idioms, word meanings, etc.). Cultural developments require new sensitivities in language! Recent awareness of the evils of racism, sexism, anti-Semitism, and other forms of discrimination have shown have certain language is slanted or biased, with corresponding efforts to develop more "inclusive" language alternatives. Thus, no translation is "perfect" (none of them can be completely "literal" or 100% identical to the original texts) and there is no "best" translation (all of them have some advantages and some drawbacks). In general, however, the most recent translations (1980's or 1990's) are better than the older ones (esp. the KJV or the Douay-Rheims, both about 400 years old), not only since the English language has changed significantly over the centuries, but more importantly because of the ancient biblical manuscripts that have been discovered in the last 50 to 150 years which are much older (and thus closer to the originals) than the manuscripts that were available to the translators of previous centuries. definitely something to think about.

that's really cool!!!!

it'd be nice to be able to put either license #, or jump numbers if someone doesn't have a license number.

if I'd gotten to my hard deck, I'd have chopped. no question about it.

I was assured by instructors that I would be fine on that canopy. I did ask.

rear risering it wasn't an option because I had one toggle stuck at halfway, and one toggle loose. If I'd let go of the left toggle to rear riser it, the canopy would've gone into a right spin. I'd have either had to land it at half brakes, no flare, or chop.

cool! thanks!!!

This question comes from both a personal experience last weekend, and all the questions going on about who should pay for a reserve repack. Last weekend, I jumped rental gear, because my gear was at the DZ rigger for a repack and container wash, and the container took longer than expected to dry. The gear store was kind enough to give me a free rental for the day, and so I got to demo a sabre2. I pulled a little higher. This was a new canopy and I wanted to play a bit before I had to land it. I pulled at 4.5 and was open by 3.8 or so. I collapsed the slider and unstowed the breaks. As soon as I unstowed the breaks, the canopy started making a quick turn to the right. I looked up and realized that the excess break line (there was nowhere to stow the extra line on these risers, it just hangs loose) had tied itself into a knot around the riser. I messed with it for a second and discovered it was not only a knot, it was a tight knot. had this been my canopy, I'd have chopped. However, it wasn't my canopy. I checked my altitude. Had it been my hard deck, I'd have chopped. I had 500 feet left to clear this before my hard deck, or I was chopping. I messed with the knot, all the while trying to keep enough tension on the other toggle to keep the parachute flying straight. My altimeter was right in front of my face and I was constantly looking at it. I cleared the knot with 100 feet to spare and landed the canopy. another 100 feet and I know damn well I'd have chopped. The issue wasn't IF I'd chop, but WHEN. I know I wouldn't have ridden a mal into the ground. I was very altitude aware and knew where I was in relation to other canopies and to the DZ. I'm not asking for opinions about my actions. I've already discussed that with my instructors, and they advised me that either course of action would have been fine, and that its ok to try to fix a mal as long as you're above your hard deck. as soon as you hit your hard deck, you need to chop, and I'd have done that. What I'm wondering is if anyone else has a story where they treated rental gear differently than their own, or if that doesn't enter their minds.

I like that insurance idea... would the insurance also cover lost main/reserve pilot chute/freebag/handles? if so, I'd do it in a heartbeat, every time I rented gear, even if the insurance was an extra $20.

weird... that was my post. dunno why it showed up as "guest" cause I usually don't have to log in. perhaps I misplaced my cookie... (gone off in search of cookies and milk)

Personally, I don't like the idea of charging for a reserve repack because the rentals cost so much to begin with, but I would think that it would be fair to charge a pro-rate on the repacks. Take the cost of the repack (say $65) and divide by 120 days. You get about $.55 per day. Then, if someone has a reserve ride on day 87 out of 120, there is only 33 days left on the cycle, so they pay $18.15. but if someone has a reserve ride on day 2, they pay about $64.

I gotta ask... where'd the name "meeker" monday come from?

the page says that fiberglass is safer than carbon fiber, but doesn't say why. anyone know?