Andrewwhyte

That's a new one on me. Have you ever seen that one called? Nope. A steal is an achievement by the runner over the skills of the battery. A wild pitch or PB are mistakes by the battery just as an error is a mistake by the fielders and the batter does not get a hit (and his average goes down as if he made an out).

I have heard of taking first on a passed ball on the third strike referred to as stealing first. It is, in fact, not a stolen base.

7. being illegally interfered with during a steal I think technically this is the same as a steal; the scorer would record a stolen base. I think this is in fact a hit.

1. Walk 2. Passed Ball 3. Hit Batsman 4. Error 5. Fielder's Choice 6. Catcher's Interference 7. Fielder's Interference

Wouldn't that be an error? I'd think errors would encompass a whole variety of ways a runner could advance from 1st to 2nd... Passed ball, Wild pitch and error are three different things to a baseball scorer, and yes they are three distinct ways a runner can advance to second. To do with the strikeout question, it must be a passed ball.

5. if a runner is hit by a ball Nope. If the runner is hit with a batted ball in fair territory they are out. If they are hit by a thrown ball, the ball is still live. There's a bunch more.

How many ways can a runner advance to second base from first?

Are you thinking of this? Munchausen's Syndrome by proxy. sids-network.org/experts/msp.htm

The way they do it in Canada is they protect the vertical column below the jumpship for the appropriate amount of time following exit. The pilots are expected to inform ATC if there is a high opening planned or when there is an unplanned one.

That was awful nice of you Remi. Some days you hardly seem French at all.

I have an Apple that I protect with Sophos and I still get those goddamn fake alerts!

There is nothing new here. The history of protestantism full of people rejoicing at the fall of the wicked. The whipping of a harlot or the hanging of an adulterer was a cause for celebration during the reformation. The Catholics were quite different. When you burn an heretic at the stake you do it specifically to save their soul, it's merciful don't you see.

I think your calculation of ROI for a home does not include dividends. Every year you own your home you get to live in it and thus avoid the rent payments required for a similar accommodation. When you include that a home is a very good investment in most areas in most years.

Man, if a black guy can win an F1 race what's next, An American?

Yep. i had a class like that once. I went into the final with an A+ and came out with a B. turned out the sessional instructor had a problem with his marks being too high and was told he wouldn't be teaching there unless he lowered them.

Your knee.

It was a Strong Master 425R

Not quite the same. You can record a conversation if one of the parties agrees with it. Police officer are one of the parties when they record their interactions with people they stop. I can only assume this guy didnt get approval from either parties. Read the story again. He was riding in the vehicle that was pulled over. It is not reasonable that he did not have the consent of the driver. Besides, Once the cop talked to him he was a participant in the conversation.

I see their point, but if I was the B holder in question I would be unwilling to be the JM on the load unless I got the pound from the newbies. Isn't there a fatality case in UK lately where the JM is being held responsible for the A holder not turning on their opener.i cannot imagine accepting that kind or responsibility at a commercial centre without being paid.

A few comments on this story. On the jump in question the TM was unable to throw the drogue and so went straight to reserve. The reserve did not become tangled, it suffered structural damage. I was not there but that Dave managed to get the pair down with the damage they did was a credit to his experience and skill. i understand that people in our society want to blame someone when bad things happen, but Dave saved this ungrateful son of a bitch's ass and for that he is being sued. The reserve was in date. i don't know why they are chewing on that bone. The company they are suing no longer owns any part of ESC nor are there any owners in common, so there is nothing to sue for. He signed the waiver.

Well, i wouldn't marry her for her money, but I would marry her for her Daddy's money.

An entanglement is perhaps the worst sort of malfunction. For years I didn't give them much thought, or when I did I considered them to be too varied in type and solution to be able to give much advice during my courses. A couple of years ago I began teaching for the British military; they insisted that I have a designated module in the first jump course for entanglements. The decision tree in the BPA/APA course demands that you first decide if the canopy you have is survivable. If it is you spend some time trying to clear the entanglement but concentrate on making the canopy you have land as well as it can. The rationale is that cutting away (and having it not leave) and pulling your reserve is a low percentage play at best. If your main as it is is not survivable you should try once to clear it but definitely not spend the rest of your life trying to fix a canopy that wont save you anyway; you have to try your reserve. In the case you described you clearly had a canopy that gave you a better chance than if you cut away and it didn't leave, so I think you were better off not cutting it away but fighting with it instead. Although you went below your decision altitude you may have been right to do so. That said, you are right that you would have been better off getting the canopy to fly straight using a riser rather than fighting all the way down to 1100'. BTW did you have an opener on this jump? As far as second guessing your choices, get used to it. During the FJC we try to boil every conceivable situation down to 0/1 choices. The more we jump the more we realize that it is just not that simple. Kinda like the rest of our lives. Glad you made it.

ahh, the great communicator...he had some great speech writers didnt he? The best ever.

Congratulations! Where did you decide to go to grad school?

"i trust everyone. I also count my change." -Ronald Reagan