Skymonkey13

We forgive you Ivan...

Does anyone know why i can have a pic on my computor and it is very clear and easy to read, but when o upload it to the board then it is not clear and is hard to read. I'm a computor idiot, incase you couldn't tell.

LMAO

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In case they hit their head on the plane on exit, or have a collision in free fall.

http://xtremepaintballcanada.com/vancouver/forums/index.php?showtopic=1544&st=0

Good ones...

Not as rich as they think you are. 100 jumps at $175.00 each is $17,500.00 not $175,000.00

Right back at ya....

I have to go with the Chiefs since i'm from KC.

Rantoul board OKs 5-year Free Fall deal By TIM MITCHELL © 2003 THE NEWS-GAZETTE Published Online December 16, 2003 RANTOUL – The skies over Rantoul will continue to rain men and women each summer through 2008. The Rantoul Village Board voted 6-0 at a special meeting Monday to approve a new five-year contract with the World Free Fall Convention to hold the international sky-diving event each August at the Rantoul airport. "I think this is an exciting thing for Rantoul," said village board member Dan Molloy. "What I like about the World Free Fall Convention is that the type of people that they bring to our community have a lot of money in their pockets." This year's event is set for Aug. 6-15. After holding the event for 13 years in Quincy, the convention moved to Rantoul in 2001. The first two Rantoul events operated under single-year contracts. Village officials wanted a longer contract to ensure a steady flow of tourists over several years and to ensure enough steady income to pay for infrastructure improvements, including a proposed shower complex. "The World Free Fall Convention had a real impact on many of our businesses, especially our hotels, restaurants, gas stations and bars," said Rantoul Area Chamber of Commerce Executive Director Joe Bolser. "But the attraction of the World Free Fall Convention isn't all financial; it is also emotional. We need to seriously consider hosting this for many years to come." Convention organizers wanted a longer contract to allow sky divers around the world to make plans years in advance to come to Rantoul. "Many of our international sky divers, especially the Europeans and South Americans, want to know when and where we will be far in advance so they can get their visas and make their vacation plans," said Convention President Don Kirlin. Village board member Helen Lewis said she was supporting the contract with reservations, arguing that Rantoul should be given the opportunity to end the contract each year. "I don't want the village to continue to lose money and have this on the backs of the taxpayers," she said. The contract approved on Monday includes a new provision that village officials hope will prevent Rantoul from losing money on the convention. Each registered sky diver will be required to pay a new $10 fee. While the 2003 event in Rantoul drew 2,800 sky divers, the World Free Fall Convention has drawn as many as 5,700 paid participants in earlier years, according to convention documents. As a result, the new $10 fee is expected to raise between $28,000 and $57,000 a year. The village will keep the first $30,000 generated by the new fee. Village Administrator Gary Adams said Rantoul would use the money to pay for the village's costs, including for water and electricity for the convention, the upkeep of the Prairie Pines Campgrounds and police protection. The village would also use a portion of its proceeds to pay for infrastructure that could be used by the convention, including a proposed permanent shower-restroom-first-aid building that would serve not only the World Free Fall Convention, but also the annual Illini Boy Scout Jamboree and the Farm Progress Show, if Rantoul is awarded that event. If the new fee generates more than $30,000, up to $10,000 will be spent for international advertising and marketing of the convention. At Monday's meeting, Lewis tried to amend the contract to eliminate a provision that reduced the $10 fee slightly for participants who arrive on the final weekend of the event. Convention Executive Director Bernice Eickelschulte said the provision would affect only 100 to 150 sky divers who jump on the final Saturday and Sunday. But Lewis' proposal was dropped due to lack of support from the rest of the village board. "We don't feel it is appropriate to charge the sky divers a full amount when they are only here for a portion of the event," Kirlin aid. Both Kirlin and the board did approve a change requiring the convention to continue to provide money for the infrastructure work if it defaults on the contract and decides to leave Rantoul for a better location. "If we weren't truly committed to Rantoul in the long term, we would never even have this discussion," Kirlin said. The village board's decision drew praise from Julie Hardy, owner of Hardy's Reindeer Ranch, who has been directing tour groups visiting her ranch to the convention. Angela Ingerson of the Champaign County Convention and Visitors Bureau said four tour buses from Pontiac, Mich., will be coming to Rantoul this summer to see the sky divers, and she anticipated that additional motor coaches would be booking tours now that a long-term contract has been approved. Jack Johnston, director of customer operations for Cingular Wireless, said the World Free Fall Convention was a hit with his employees. "They have been cordial neighbors and have brought excitement to us at Cingular," Johnston said. "They have allowed us a chance to meet people from around the world."

I think those are ducks. I've never seen a chicken with necks that long.

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I would like to wish eneryone on the board and thier entire families a "Very Merry Christmas" and a "Safe New Year"

Sorry to hear of your loss.

Mine says "SKYMKY"

I don't get it??? Flour/Flower

Very Cool..

I just seen the latest news report but they still didn't tell the names. They did say that they were both doing fine and that one was from Ft. Bragg, Carolina and the other was from Ft. Lewis, Wash.

SORRY, but all i know is what they said in the news report. They said it was two jumpers from the 82nd Airborne and they didn't mention any names. But , you know how the news can be.

You mean there is a fridge in that pic? How did i miss that...hmmm

2 jumpers from the 82nd Airborne were injured today at Arrowhead Stadium where the KC Chiefs play. They were doing a practice jump for a up-coming college football game to be played there. We hvave had VERY strong winds all day with gusts of 40 mph. One jumper hit the stands and injured his face and the other hit the field so hard that it shattered his ankle. I don't know alot about doing stadium demo's, but i would think that you wouldn't be doing a practice jump with strong winds and gusts of 40 mph. But it is sad to hear.

It's just like the old used car scam. The scam works like this: Person looking to sell a used car or motorcycle advertises the vehicle on the Internet. The unsuspecting seller is contacted in e-mail by a prospective buyer who hails from somewhere in Africa, usually Nigeria. This buyer agrees to the asked-for price without haggling and looks for immediate assurance the vehicle will not be sold to anyone but him. He offers to have someone pick up and ship the vehicle to Africa once the sale is complete, making it clear he alone will bear all charges associated with that aspect of the sale. Mention is now made of the method of payment: a cashier's check for more than the agreed-upon price for the vehicle. This check is to come from the buyer in Africa, with the residue to be sent to a third party in the USA the buyer says he owes money to. The seller is asked to cash the check, keep the right amount for the sale of his car or bike, and send what's left to this third party. (Alternatively, the check is said to be coming from the third party, with the residue after the vehicle is paid for to be sent back to the buyer.) Example 1: Dr. Dipo Morgans of Nigeria wants to buy your used car for $5,000. His friend, Mr. Okuta, will be sending you a cashier's check for $8,000. You are to keep $5,000 for the car and send the remaining $3,000 to Dr. Morgans. Example 2: Dr. Dipo Morgans of Nigeria wants to buy your used car for $5,000. He will be sending you a cashier's check for $8,000 on the understanding that you will forward $3,000 of it to the shipping company that will be transporting your car to Africa. The cashier check for the larger-than-necessary amount arrives and is duly deposited in the seller's bank account. Three days later, the check appears to clear, and any freeze the bank had placed on these funds is removed. Satisfied that the check was good (the bank had released the funds, after all), the seller wires the overage to the person it's owed to and waits for someone to come pick up the vehicle. No one ever comes to pick up the vehicle. Two weeks later, the seller is informed by his bank the check was a forgery. The seller is now out the amount he wired to someone else. In some versions of the scam, the buyer is not an individual but rather an agent for a firm that purchases cars on behalf of others, often diplomats stationed in foreign lands. This car broker is usually located in Africa. The "reason" for the inflated-value check will vary from one attempt to defraud to another. Currency exchange problems will be cited. Or a horrified buyer will realize he's had the check prepared for far too large an amount. Or the check is being sent by a third party for the full amount this other person supposedly owes the buyer. Or it's a refund check for a failed sale for something that would have cost more. Or it would take 30 days to clear a check from Africa, hence the need to have an American third party send the payment. The reasons are many. And varied. And false. Cars or motorcycles aren't the only items to attract this form of scam — those attempting to sell horses have experienced it too. It's not unreasonable to extrapolate those attempting to sell boats will be similarly targeted. What matters is not the nature of the item being offered for sale but its price — it has to be high enough to justify the seller's feeling comfortable in sending thousands of his own dollars to a stranger under the mistaken belief he's already holding an even greater sum in his hand. The scam works because the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. (FDIC) requires banks to make money from cashier's, certified, or teller's checks available in one to five days. Consequently, funds from checks that might not be good are often released into payees' accounts long before the checks have been honored by their issuing banks. High quality forgeries can be bounced back and forth between banks for weeks before anyone catches on to their being worthless, by which time victims have long since wired the "overpayments" to the con artists who have just taken them for a ride. Although this scam is new, real people have already been bilked out of thousands of dollars by it — in some cases tens of thousands. The con has claimed victims in communities across the USA, so don't let its newness lull you into a false sense of security. That the game is new doesn't mean it's not dangerous.

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