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The commercial is hilarious. If you watch my son's tandem video you would think there was a quick release. They hit in a perfect standup and my son more or less just walks away from the tandem master as if he had just been hanging on. "Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at a touch; nay, you may kick it about all day like a football, and it will be round and full at evening." -- Oliver Wendell Holmes

A better way to handle this is go to Events and Places to Jump and post there asking for good dropzones in the area you are headed to next. "Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at a touch; nay, you may kick it about all day like a football, and it will be round and full at evening." -- Oliver Wendell Holmes

Short term effects are rather obvious. Rise of insergency in Iraq and increased distrust of America world wide. Long term is harder to tell. Depends on what we do going forward. It really has to look like we have turned the country back over to the Iraqis. Building a bunch of permanent bases there won't help that image. If we truly help but the country back together and then go home we will at least salvage our image in the non-Muslim world. Lucky bastard. I had to be the sacrifice yesterday to get the clouds to go away. Today is family holiday celebrations and of course the sky is beautiful. Hopefully the weather will hold for tomorrow. Brand new never yet jumped jump suit waiting for me. "Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at a touch; nay, you may kick it about all day like a football, and it will be round and full at evening." -- Oliver Wendell Holmes

Because of the large voting block of Cuban's in Miami. "Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at a touch; nay, you may kick it about all day like a football, and it will be round and full at evening." -- Oliver Wendell Holmes

No I don't think so. It was the emotional turmoil of not knowing what to do that caused him to lose the powers. "Realistically" the powers probably would have come back even if he choose not to be a super hero because the emotion would have passed. Frankly the fact that he can shoot webs from his arm bugs me. It is a mechanical device he invented in the comics. "Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at a touch; nay, you may kick it about all day like a football, and it will be round and full at evening." -- Oliver Wendell Holmes

I can promise you that knowing you can come back next weekend and jump again will do a lot to keep you happy with what you are doing. Having to wait a month between jumping days as I do now drives me crazy. Doing that while in training would have really sucked. Also getting a couple of AFF jumps in one day does a lot to improve you skills. "Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at a touch; nay, you may kick it about all day like a football, and it will be round and full at evening." -- Oliver Wendell Holmes

The more you pack the faster they get. Mine used to to 45 minutes to an hour. Now I am down to 30. My packing instructor who is also a packer earning money at the DZ recommended that I pack everytime until I had it under 20 minutes. "Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at a touch; nay, you may kick it about all day like a football, and it will be round and full at evening." -- Oliver Wendell Holmes

There is the simple point of handing him the SIM and showing the recomendation of 200 jumps and a C license. "Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at a touch; nay, you may kick it about all day like a football, and it will be round and full at evening." -- Oliver Wendell Holmes

Every extra piece of equipment you purchase cuts in to the money you have to jump. During AFF all of those items should be provided, at least at my DZ they were. If you think you can save up the money in a few months I would do that and pay for the normal progression all at once. It will probably get you a discount and allow you to jump every weekend if your schedule allows. You may have to pay for a couple of re-dos if you have a problem at a level but it will keep you moving along nicely. "Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at a touch; nay, you may kick it about all day like a football, and it will be round and full at evening." -- Oliver Wendell Holmes

Whoah. Someone wake this kid up. Read a paper once in a while, would ya? Your sig says it all and is the philosphy that got us into this mess in the first place. "Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at a touch; nay, you may kick it about all day like a football, and it will be round and full at evening." -- Oliver Wendell Holmes

Your statement suposes that Iraq posed no "legitinatg material threat" to US interests... I guess that depends of your definition of a "legitimate threat"... did Iraq have the capability of striking the US directly, maybe not... did Iraq have the ability to support those that would strike against US interests, yes... did he SH have the intent to jerk the US and UN around... absolutely. J Then there are a shitload of countries we should be planning on invading. "Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at a touch; nay, you may kick it about all day like a football, and it will be round and full at evening." -- Oliver Wendell Holmes

I did not agree with that war either and when it was over I quit the reserves and in my resignation letter I stated that I was quiting because I could not support my governments position. Before you ask, had my unit been called up I would have gone because I had made a committment. And finally while I did not agree with that war I felt that once we started it we should have finished it. But GHWB didn't do it because he followed the U.N. mandate which said only kick them out of Kuwait. If a large part of the world feels that a particular country is contributing to global instability it then makes it more palitable but it does not mean that I would think it was OK. "Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at a touch; nay, you may kick it about all day like a football, and it will be round and full at evening." -- Oliver Wendell Holmes

But damn it we are living nicely. For some Americans in Iraq, isolation feeds ignorance about country Security concerns and cultural differences leave many Americans in Iraq shut off from the needs and lives of ordinary Iraqis By Borzou Daragahi THE STAR-LEDGER Saturday, July 3, 2004 BAQER AIR BASE, Iraq -- When the U.S. military arrived here in April 2003, this vast military airport -- unused since the 1991 Persian Gulf War -- was a wasteland with mangled gates. Today the base, renamed Logistical Support Area Anaconda, has become a gleaming replica of American suburbia. There's a first-run movie theater, air-conditioned gym, basketball and racquetball courts, salsa club, indoor swimming pool and avenues lined with air-conditioned trailers for the 21,000 U.S. troops living here. Despite a few superficial improvements, however, beyond Anaconda's high concrete walls, barbed wire and gun turrets the countryside remains the desolate backwater it was under Saddam Hussein. Anaconda has become one of the numerous American posts attesting to the vast distance between U.S. personnel in Iraq and ordinary Iraqis, an isolation that has often resulted in American ignorance about Iraq. "If I can gauge some of the improvements I see every day at LSA Anaconda of the infrastructure of the camp," said Maj. Michael Myslenski, of Brooklyn, Conn., a physician's assistant on the base, "if the same improvements to infrastructure on the outside are occurring, I think they're really going to be in a lot better shape soon." Certainly, the U.S. military and American authorities can boast of tangible improvements since the fall of Saddam in April 2003. An Iraqi police force, army and civil defense corps are up and running. Electricity output, destroyed by bombing, has returned to prewar levels. A new currency has been introduced. Hospitals, schools and universities -- looted and gutted in the chaos following the war -- are up and running. Civil liberties, nonexistent under Saddam's rule, are now guaranteed by an interim constitution. "If you look at the economy, look at essential services and look at Iraq's political transition, you see enormous progress," said Dan Senor, spokesman for former U.S. administrator L. Paul Bremer. But shut off from the needs and lives of ordinary Iraqis, Americans here often sound like politicians addressing swing-state voters back in the United States rather than residents of a country ravaged by decades of dictatorship and war. Senor, for example, cited free trade and tax rates as two of the "tremendous" accomplishments made here. But few Iraqis bother with taxes, and traders easily circumvent customs duties on Iraq's porous borders. U.S. officials display ignorance of Iraqi society, history and culture. One U.S. official, speaking at an informal event, cited Iraqi boys and girls attending school together as another example of progress. In fact, Iraq has had coeducational schools for decades. And the festering insurgency -- the car bombings, roadside explosives, small arms fire, rocket-propelled grenades and mortar attacks -- directed against U.S. personnel in Iraq has increased the so-called "force-protection" rules for foreigners in Iraq, expanding the distance between Americans and Iraqis. During a trip outside the heavily guarded "Green Zone" where American officials in Baghdad live and work, one longtime coalition official frantically took pictures with her digital camera. It was the first time she'd ever seen the capital beyond the Green Zone, she said. Critics of the Bush administration trace many of Iraq's problems -- its crime wave, its incompetent and poorly trained security forces, its stagnant infrastructure improvements -- back to the lack of prewar planning on the part of officials back in Washington. But many Iraqis and even some within the coalition blame the occupation leadership for failing to grasp Iraqis' daily needs and growing resentment of the occupation, thus fueling the insurgency. Projects to restore essential services were far too late getting off the ground, one U.S. official said, squandering precious goodwill. For all the goodwill missions -- the medical clinics, the toy handouts, the minor infrastructure improvements -- undertaken by the U.S. military at Anaconda, 40 miles north of Baghdad, its convoys still come under regular military attack and its base continues to face mortar attacks. Recently a mortar landed on one of the camp's stores as soldiers shopped. "It was terrible," said Spc. Ann Shepard. "We saw people all bloody." "Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at a touch; nay, you may kick it about all day like a football, and it will be round and full at evening." -- Oliver Wendell Holmes

So invading a country that poses no legitimate material threat to your country is a wrong thing and it is OK if other people invade you to stop it happening again? We better bring the troops home and station them at the boarders then. "Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at a touch; nay, you may kick it about all day like a football, and it will be round and full at evening." -- Oliver Wendell Holmes

25 years this October "Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at a touch; nay, you may kick it about all day like a football, and it will be round and full at evening." -- Oliver Wendell Holmes

Says who? The only ActiveX NS 7.1 officailly supports is the Windows Media Player and you have to set up your page slightly differently for it to work. For a short time I had a control my company built running under NS 7.1 but then it stopped working too. Mozilla, Firebird and the rest don't support ActiveX at all. "Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at a touch; nay, you may kick it about all day like a football, and it will be round and full at evening." -- Oliver Wendell Holmes

Saddam shows to much emotion to be Gore. "Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at a touch; nay, you may kick it about all day like a football, and it will be round and full at evening." -- Oliver Wendell Holmes

I am not an instructor, just someone in a similar situation to yours. Money is what keeps me from going more than once a month. When money gets straightened out it will be one day every other week because of family. Wife understands that this is what keeps me sane. So the bigger issue is on those days you go how many jumps can you do. My budget has X dollars in it that get divided between going to altitude and doing hop & pops. I get three to five jumps when I go and that to me is what helps move me forward. Being able to go more often would clearly help more but getting several jumps when you go is the next best thing. "Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at a touch; nay, you may kick it about all day like a football, and it will be round and full at evening." -- Oliver Wendell Holmes

One needs to consider ones own sanity too. The thing that keeps me stable at home and work is being able to get to the DZ once a month. "Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at a touch; nay, you may kick it about all day like a football, and it will be round and full at evening." -- Oliver Wendell Holmes

Cool, day after tomorrow.

While I certainly have problems with affirmative action I also have a hard time calling it racist. Misguided, good intentions gone bad and prone to abuse yes, racist no. "Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at a touch; nay, you may kick it about all day like a football, and it will be round and full at evening." -- Oliver Wendell Holmes

Well one is pretty obvious but I didn't know about the professor's work on the side. The only reason I can think that the scene with the cake was their was to do some forshadowing of another villian. "Spurned loverr" kind of thing. Did Spidey have any enemies of that sort in the comics? "Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at a touch; nay, you may kick it about all day like a football, and it will be round and full at evening." -- Oliver Wendell Holmes

And you think that maybe they should be? Preferring one race over another, what's that called? - Jim I was pointing out how things change, people change, groups change, not saying that anyone should be anything in particular. "Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at a touch; nay, you may kick it about all day like a football, and it will be round and full at evening." -- Oliver Wendell Holmes

Thanks to both of you! I am looking forward to it and will definately be working with a coach for the first jump. "Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at a touch; nay, you may kick it about all day like a football, and it will be round and full at evening." -- Oliver Wendell Holmes

Republicans freed the slaves to but over the last fifty or more years they haven't exactly been the party of the blacks. Times change, people change, organizations change. What racists ideas are they pushing now? Racial equality? "Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at a touch; nay, you may kick it about all day like a football, and it will be round and full at evening." -- Oliver Wendell Holmes