ChasingBlueSky

If you saw the table I had them stored on, you would have thought it was a safe place. _________________________________________ you can burn the land and boil the sea, but you can't take the sky from me.... I WILL fly again.....

Well, To save money while being unemployed, I let my renters insurance run out. What's the worst that could happen I asked? What makes it worse - is that my collection is probably large enough to be the same value of a full new rig, main and reserve. _________________________________________ you can burn the land and boil the sea, but you can't take the sky from me.... I WILL fly again.....

*sigh* Cleaning up after the storm that hit Chicago last night. Basement flooded - rush of water was so strong that it knocked over the tables I stored everything on top of. My entire childhood comic book collection is now ruined. My entire first floor is being used to try to dry them out ....but the sewage smell on them may cause me to bring them to the bonfire this weekend. It looks like I may ONLY be able to save Spawn #1-3. That means I am losing about 8 years of comics. Edit to add: May not make it to the DZ this weekend because I have to bleach the basement now. _________________________________________ you can burn the land and boil the sea, but you can't take the sky from me.... I WILL fly again.....

However, Patton did not grow up with opera vocal training like Tate did. _________________________________________ you can burn the land and boil the sea, but you can't take the sky from me.... I WILL fly again.....

Have you thought about going with 802.11g? It has the best range and coverage area of the three protocols. It also goes thru walls better. _________________________________________ you can burn the land and boil the sea, but you can't take the sky from me.... I WILL fly again.....

Who needs an excuse? Did I ever mention how much I love women skydivers!! _________________________________________ you can burn the land and boil the sea, but you can't take the sky from me.... I WILL fly again.....

They taste different. You can blindfold me and feed me M&M's and i'll be able to tell which ones are red. Just looking for another excuse to be blindfolded? _________________________________________ you can burn the land and boil the sea, but you can't take the sky from me.... I WILL fly again.....

are you kidding?? the first 3 albums are epic! Take hold of the Flame? Roads to Madness? The Lady wore Black? Queen of the Ryche? NM156? they once had the fire... You may want to check out their website then - they have remastered all their CDs and have put bonus tracks on all of them. The stuff up to Mindcrime is pure classic. _________________________________________ you can burn the land and boil the sea, but you can't take the sky from me.... I WILL fly again.....

Haven't seem them in concert, yet...but I will. My brother is a huge Dream fan and got me hooked on them. Still, as much as you can hear a Floyd influence on QR, you can hear the QR influence on Dream. I'll make sure to catch them the next time they are in town. Dream and QR have never really been radio friendly. QR was forced by their label to make friendlier songs for radio, thus the reason for Empire. Promise Land was their breakaway from the studio again.....I guess since I have hung out with QR on a bunch of occasions I see them in a different light. Still, I don't think I have seen a concert as well done as the LiveCrime tour. _________________________________________ you can burn the land and boil the sea, but you can't take the sky from me.... I WILL fly again.....

OCD??? _________________________________________ you can burn the land and boil the sea, but you can't take the sky from me.... I WILL fly again.....

I'll agree on Hear/Frontier and Q2K (Kelley Gray? blech), but Promised Land is a great cd. I'll pick up Tribes when it comes out next week just to see if they are back on track. Yea, I would love to see Fates Warning and Dream Theatre (or QR jr as I call them). However, I am still unemployed and going to Rantoul. Can't spend the cash, plus I have to be somewhere Sat Night anyhow. _________________________________________ you can burn the land and boil the sea, but you can't take the sky from me.... I WILL fly again.....

Your track is unstable, Bo? Better work on it! Would that be considered a personal attack? From my understanding, a stable body position at pull time is defined as belly to earth, symetrical body position with no horizontal movement. Therefore a track would not be considerd a stable body position for deployment. Wingsuit jumpers usually get a modification in the main tray to compensate for the forward movement and the effect it has on deployment. Last time I talked to Jari, he told me how he thought at one time that no one would be able to jump a highly loaded eliptical canopy while flying one of his suits - it wasn't until this modification that this became possible (IIRC). Unless you are on a big way with a crowded sky or flying a wingsuit - there is no reason to deploy in a track. Stick to the basics, deploy stable. _________________________________________ you can burn the land and boil the sea, but you can't take the sky from me.... I WILL fly again.....

Looks like I am going to miss them in concert for the first time in about ten years when they pass thru Chicago on Saturday. Oh well, guess I will pick them up in October somewhere else in the Midwest. Has anyone see this show yet? Is it any good? Did you guys know there is a new CD with the original line up coming out on Tuesday the 22nd? For those of you who don't know - Chris DeGarmo is a pilot and that is why they have so many song about the sky....and of course that is where I got my DZ.com name from.... _________________________________________ you can burn the land and boil the sea, but you can't take the sky from me.... I WILL fly again.....

You have been away and around those horses too long _________________________________________ you can burn the land and boil the sea, but you can't take the sky from me.... I WILL fly again.....

It was mentioned several times at the dirt dives by the organizers. I bring it up here because, as you wrote, it seems to be a more general issue, and this is the appropriate forum for safety issues. My average fall rate (before my current weight loss)on my belly used to be 125-130 and I would always find myself low on the formation. However, I found it sad that I would float up on a majority of the people I jumped with during my track. It seems to me that most people believe their booties are all they need to be a good fast, flat tracker, yet I think most of these people end up in the delta position the quickest. There is someone at the DZ that is always pushing me to be a better tracker, always racing me at breakoff and showing me I can always get flater and faster. Under canopy my body is a bit sore from pushing my track as much as possible. Too bad Kallend has me beat on the body size department - I'd love to race him, but my slowest track was about 99-100. I've seen John track, he is as flat, fast and floaty as he claims. _________________________________________ you can burn the land and boil the sea, but you can't take the sky from me.... I WILL fly again.....

I've never been able to get the timing to sit up during deployment. Up until a few weeks ago, I had no problem deploying in a track - esp if I was on a big way and needed the extra room....track until 2k and pull...great life saving technique. Plus it is always interesting to see just how far forward your body will swing! However, after a high breakoff a couple weeks ago, I deployed in a very fast flat track (most likely had a lazy throw as well) and had the PC bounce off my ankle. After an odd (never felt this before) tug behind me, I was stood up with line twists all the way behind my head. If you don't need to deploy in a track - don't. deploy stable whenever you can. _________________________________________ you can burn the land and boil the sea, but you can't take the sky from me.... I WILL fly again.....

Yup, that makes me 5 years old! _________________________________________ you can burn the land and boil the sea, but you can't take the sky from me.... I WILL fly again.....

I have that as well, I think the aim is to steer through the rings and then land on the "jump zone". Its a bit strange, as it has obviously been programmed by someone with a modicum of knoweldge about skydiving, but nonetheless is obviously not a skydiver. Oh, and you can't open your chute above 700feet.

WOOHOO! Happy Birthday Heather!!! _________________________________________ you can burn the land and boil the sea, but you can't take the sky from me.... I WILL fly again.....

He lives in Bikini Bottom in a pineapple with his pet snail Gary that meows. Well, I guess drugs are good for something! Some funky trip has given us Spongebob! _________________________________________ you can burn the land and boil the sea, but you can't take the sky from me.... I WILL fly again.....

Damn, may have to pass on the birdman until I have a job then. Maybe Richmond or when he makes it to Skydive Chicago this summer. Dont pass up on the chance bro....i prolly wouldnt have tried BM for a lone time till Jari brought his demos to Raeford. And let me tell you....it was a thrill like no other. I was even riding Lou Diamonds back on the exit...what a time i had though. You think the flight is over till you look at your altimider and see you are still at 8000 ft. If you can at least try it once, i garuntee that you will have a blast! No doubt, I want to - yours is the reaction I have heard from anyone that has flown BM. But...cashflow is an issue. _________________________________________ you can burn the land and boil the sea, but you can't take the sky from me.... I WILL fly again.....

http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99993942 Masturbating may protect against prostate cancer 19:00 16 July 03 Douglas Fox, Adelaide It will make you go blind. It will make your palms grow hairy. Such myths about masturbation are largely a thing of the past. But the latest research has even better news for young men: frequent self-pleasuring could protect against the most common kind of cancer. A team in Australia led by Graham Giles of The Cancer Council Victoria in Melbourne asked 1079 men with prostate cancer to fill in a questionnaire detailing their sexual habits, and compared their responses with those of 1259 healthy men of the same age. The team concludes that the more men ejaculate between the ages of 20 and 50, the less likely they are to develop prostate cancer. The protective effect is greatest while men are in their twenties: those who had ejaculated more than five times per week in their twenties, for instance, were one-third less likely to develop aggressive prostate cancer later in life (BJU International, vol 92, p 211). The results contradict those of previous studies, which have suggested that having had many sexual partners, or a high frequency of sexual activity, increases the risk of prostate cancer by up to 40 per cent. The key difference is that these earlier studies defined sexual activity as sexual intercourse, whereas the latest study focused on the number of ejaculations, whether or not intercourse was involved. The team speculates that infections caused by intercourse may increase the risk of prostate cancer. "Had we been able to remove ejaculations associated with sexual intercourse, there should have been an even stronger protective effect of other ejaculations," they suggest. "Men have many ways of using their prostate which do not involve women or other men," Giles adds. Macho exaggeration Giles accepts the possibility that the men who completed the questionnaires could have lied about their habits. But he doubts this skewed the results, since questions about masturbation are unlikely to evoke the same macho exaggeration as questions about, say, number of sexual partners. But why should ejaculating more often cut the risk of prostate cancer? The team speculates that ejaculation prevents carcinogens building up in the gland. The prostate, together with the seminal vesicles, secretes the bulk of the fluid in semen, which is rich in substances such as potassium, zinc, fructose and citric acid. Generating the fluid involves concentrating these components from the bloodstream up to 600-fold - and this could be where the trouble starts. Studies in dogs show that carcinogens such as 3-methylcholanthrene, found in cigarette smoke, are also concentrated in prostate fluid. "It's a prostatic stagnation hypothesis," says Giles. "The more you flush the ducts out, the less there is to hang around and damage the cells that line them." Sexual repertoire His findings suggest an intriguing parallel between prostate cancer and breast cancer, as recent studies indicate that lactating reduces a woman's risk of breast cancer, perhaps because this also flushes out carcinogens. Alternatively, ejaculation might induce prostate cells to mature fully, making them less susceptible to carcinogens. "All these mechanisms are totally speculative," cautions breast cancer expert Loren Lipworth of the International Epidemiology Institute in Rockville, Maryland. But if the finding is confirmed, future health advice from doctors may no longer be restricted to diet and exercise. "Masturbation is part of people's sexual repertoire," says Anthony Smith, deputy director of the Australian Research Centre in Sex, Health and Society at La Trobe University in Melbourne. "If these findings hold up, then it's perfectly reasonable that men should be encouraged to masturbate," he says. 19:00 16 July 03 hehe - sorry quade, my first locked thread today, guess I needed to do my first hijaked thread as well. I don't have an issue with thread drift - conversations always drift into other areas....I wouldn't want to see stringent rules outside of what we have in certain forums to keep stuff on topic. _________________________________________ you can burn the land and boil the sea, but you can't take the sky from me.... I WILL fly again.....

Did I mention it was my first locked thread? _________________________________________ you can burn the land and boil the sea, but you can't take the sky from me.... I WILL fly again.....

As they pointed out - we like to follow the forum rules here. Granted, not everyone reads the rules before they start posting. Busting the rules on here will be pointed out quickly and often. Some of the harsh backlash comes from the very poor handling of incidents in our sport - with total disregard for emotional attachment. Too many of us have had to witness "if it bleeds, it leads" and the sensational handling of the death of friends. The reaction a skydiver has to unsolicited attention from the media is not going to be a pleasant one on average - and I don't blame most for being suspect of your intentions. _________________________________________ you can burn the land and boil the sea, but you can't take the sky from me.... I WILL fly again.....

Or the way we treat the common media whuffos? Last I checked, Cutaway and Dropzone were made by skydivers...now thats a positive image. I've said it once before, I'll say it again - media folks get bored quick and have no attention span. Ignore them, they go away. You feed them anything, and they think they have something hot. ANY reaction to them is a good thing - that is all they are looking for. _________________________________________ you can burn the land and boil the sea, but you can't take the sky from me.... I WILL fly again.....