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Micheal, that's sad, if I die because of this sport would you please kill me!

I can understand why!!!!

I wasn't speaking so much of people that you met in the fjc but more were regular jumpers that just petered out. I don't think that anyone from my fjc stuck it out and got licensed. More of people that you used to jump with regularly that just walked away.......

How many of your friends thsat started jumping with you have stopped jumping for whatever reason?

I happen to jump at a dz that has Tom Jenkins and Jack Burke regularly organizing! We regularly do 40 ways so that even the short timers get the experience of formation loads! The issue is quantity of good loads vs zoo loads is major!

The reason I write about this little history lesson is thus: We seem to have a great big hard-on for jump numbers. What about time in grade. While the new technology is great and people can make ten or more jumps a day, what are they really learning. As with anything else there are people that are exceptions, but I don't think you learn as much making 1000 jumps in a year as you do making 1000 in four years. -------------------------- I don't understand this somewhat. I think that time in the sport is great for knowledge especially with equipment problems, lessons learned so as not to repeat them etc. If I'm organizing and I have to choose between someone with 500 jumps in a year and a half, has 2 hours in the tunnel with Airspeed and competes in 4way, I would pick them way before I would pick someone with 750 jumps spread out over 19 years. Unless 500 of those were current high quality jumps.

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Never got the chance to meet you Vicki but a piece of my heart is broken to hear this. Fly free in peaceful bliss from now on. May your friends and family take solace in knowing that you truly are free. BSBD Conway

reality, science and God. Only one still has a chance.

Please do not put much emphesis on my last post. I have been informed from an outside scource other than the family of the reality of the situation. Outside a medical miracle, this is as good as it gets. Sorry for the false sense of hope.

I just talked to Angie, Rico's wife. He is well. They did a treachiotomy(sp) and he can talk a little! I told him that I was ready to kill him and he smiled! He is getting more feelings in his limbs both upper and lower which is a great thing! I will keep the updates as I know them!!!! Peace and prayers. Conway

Here Here ! Yea fuckin ha! Fuck the norm in the FDA here is a ton of info out there in the natural area! Main stream medicine doesn't wont to listen!!

Welcome to the world of the enlightened! See ya at Spaceland!

ICU

I got a call from Angie.his wife. He is moving his shoulders!!!!!!! He also has some feeling in his arms from elbow to shoulder! This looks like the beginning of the beginning! God bless all that have prayed for my brother in his time of need~ He is very head strong and determined to jump again!!!!!!! Blue skies, Mom 11/15/2004 Oh, I have slipped the surly bonds of earth ..., Put out my hand and touched the face of God! =)

I got a call from Angie.his wife. He is moving his shoulders!!!!!!! He also has some feeling in his arms from elbow to shoulder! This looks like the beginning of the beginning! God bless all that have prayed for my brother in his time of need~ He is very head strong and determined to jump again!!!!!!!

Luv ya man.....

What for?

I know I've talked a lot about the Cox-2 inhibitors (Vioxx and company) prescription painkiller scandal in the last 10 months, but what can I say? It's an important news story that refuses to go away - one that's indicative of the deep, pervasive flaws in our drug approval and oversight system. And in yet another stunning development that shows just how deep this rabbit-hole of government-sanctioned deception and death goes... According to a recent Associated Press report, a special advisory panel or 32 "experts" convened by the FDA to determine whether or not 3 specific medications in this class of painkillers (Cox-2s) should continue to be sold voted to allow these drugs to stay on the market. The actual votes were: 31 to 1 in favor of keeping Pfizer's Celebrex on the market 17 to 13 (2 abstained from the vote) in favor of Pfizer's Bextra 17 to 15 in favor of continuing to allow the sale of proven killer Vioxx As if it isn't bad enough that a panel of supposedly objective authorities in the field voted to allow these deadly drugs to remain on sale, here's the really scandalous part: 10 of the 32 members of this committee had financial ties to either Pfizer or Merck, or both! Yep, you read that right - nearly one third of the members of the very body entrusted by the FDA to advise on the safety of this class of drugs had at one point or another been paid speaking honorariums, consultation fees, or had received research support from the very companies who make the drugs being scrutinized. And guess what? This 10-member contingent voted almost unanimously to keep all three of these drugs on the market. According to the AP piece, their "unbiased" votes broke down like this: 10-0 in favor of Vioxx 10-0 in favor of Celebrex 9-1 in favor of Bextra. Without these supporting votes, the panel vote might have turned out a little differently. Absolutely outrageous, isn't it? It's especially so when the death toll for Vioxx alone is as high as 139,000 and climbing, according to blackballed FDA scientist David Graham, the man who blew the whistle on the scandal back in September of last year. It's not the first time something like this has happened, either. Back on March 4th, I wrote about how a group of 9 "big wigs" in the cholesterol control field had all voted as part of a similar advisory panel in support of a proposal to offer statin drugs in over-the-counter forms - a move which would have netted their makers billions in sales. ALL of these doctors had been in the pockets of the drug business in one way or another. The point is this: Drug companies spray so much easy money around the modern medical community that it's almost impossible to convene an objective panel anymore. The result is that those whom we're entrusting to be objective are actually double-agents bullying our limp-wristed regulatory system into serving the greed of Big Pharma... While tens of thousands (maybe millions) of people die because of it. ************************ The Fat Cats' pet project Bet you didn't know that there's a fast-growing new market segment for drug sales. It isn't third-world and developing nations (maybe this is, too, but that's not what I'm talking about here), it's OUR PETS. Apparently, it isn't enough to poison every man, woman, and child in the U.S. with prescription chemicals, but now they've got to go after Felix and Fido as well. Of course, we're all familiar with things like antibiotics and heart-worm medications for our beloved companions, but I'll bet you didn't know that there are prescription-level pet medications for heart disease, cancer, diabetes, arthritis, allergies - even depression! In just the last decade, the number of "people" drugs for pets has quadrupled. And along with this expansion has come many the same downsides people endure from taking ever more drugs. That includes side effects, adverse drug reactions (24,000 of these per year are reported), and sudden death. In fact, last year the FDA had to enforce punitive measures against one major pharmaceutical company's animal drug division after 14 cats died in a painkiller study... Interestingly enough, the drug in question (called Deramaxx) is none other than an arthritis drug of the Cox-2 Inhibitors class, like Vioxx, blamed for as many as 139,000 human deaths in the U.S. alone. Currently, this drug IS approved for use in dogs... Hope yours isn't one of them, if the Cox-2 track record on humans is any indication. Blowing the whistle on regulation gone to the dogs, William Campbell Douglass II, MD

Now what's sick is that natural sugar has been replaced with crap that's unfit for consumption like high fructose corn syrup. Go to store and see how many drinks or fruit juice cocktails you can find WITHOUT it. In Houston you can get bottled cokes imported from Mexico that are actually made with REAL cane sugar!

From Dr. WC Douglass Dear Reader, Imagine 16,000 tons of powder. The weight of 10,600 cars approximately equals 16,000 tons, so we're talking about a LOT of powder. But not just any powder. About 16,000 tons of aspartame is produced for worldwide consumption each year. In other words, people are consuming enormous quantities of this artificial sweetener, which is better known by its commercial names, such as NutraSweet and Equal. The day may come when our grandchildren, or perhaps their grandchildren, look back on the decades around the turn of the century and wonder how so many people, year after year, could ingest such huge quantities of something that appeared to be such an obvious enemy of good health. And what may be most baffling to our heirs: The warning signs are numerous. And they just keep coming. -------------------------------------------- Daily intake...acceptable? -------------------------------------------- The most recent aspartame findings come from a large animal study conducted by Italian researchers at the Ramazzini Foundation, which specializes in oncology and environmental sciences. For more than three decades, researchers simulated daily human intake of aspartame on 1800 rats (equal amounts of males and females). Each rat was assigned to one of eight dosage levels: zero mg per kilogram of body weight, 4 mg/Kg, 20 mg/Kg, 100 mg/Kg, 500 mg/Kg, 2,500 mg/Kg, or 5,000 mg/Kg. Rats began receiving aspartame at eight weeks of age, continuing throughout their lives. The results (reported in a recent issue of the European Journal of Oncology) showed a "statistically significant" increase in leukemias and lymphomas among female rats who received as little as 20 mg/Kg per day. Current European regulations place an acceptable daily intake (ADI) of aspartame at 40 to 50 mg/Kg of body weight. That ADI is for humans, of course, not rats. But the research doesn't end there. The Ramazzini data, with full pathology reports, have been submitted to the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA), the European Union's counterpart to our FDA. A panel of experts (oh brother!) will then evaluate the findings "in the context of the previous extensive safety data available on aspartame." In other words: Expect absolutely nothing to happen. Because the EFSA so far has done exactly what the FDA has done with the current available safety data: Nothing. But that's fine. You and I and other concerned citizens will take it from here with a little Water Cooler Regulation. -------------------------------------------- 61 revisited -------------------------------------------- In the world of harmful food additives, aspartame may turn out to be the most notoriously harmful of them all. Research shows that aspartame may mimic or worsen diseases such as Parkinson's, multiple sclerosis, Alzheimer's, arthritis, lupus, fibromyalgia, and depression. In 1994 the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) released a list of 61 reported adverse reactions to aspartame, including: chest pains, asthma, arthritis, migraine headaches, insomnia, seizures, tremors, vertigo, and weight gain. The surprising item on that list is "weight gain," given the fact that aspartame is the sweetener used in most diet sodas. In fact, according to one study, aspartame may actually STIMULATE appetite, prompting cravings for calorie-rich carbohydrates. But weight gain is nothing compared to some of the horror stories out there. Aspertame is made by combining two amino acids with methanol. According to an article by Dr. Joseph Mercola, methanol is the probable trigger for most of the adverse reactions associated with aspartame. When aspartame is combined with the enzyme chymotrypsin in the small intestine, methanol is released and breaks down into formaldehyde, a potent neurotoxin. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency considers methanol to be a "cumulative poison" and recommends a safe consumption of no more than 7.8 mg per day. If you drink a one-liter beverage containing aspartame, you body creates seven times that amount - about 56 mg of methanol. But it gets even worse. Because if the product containing aspartame is heated to a temperature above 86 degrees Fahrenheit, "free methanol" is created, speeding up the absorption of methanol, and magnifying the effects of the neurotoxins. Nevertheless, in 1993 the FDA approved the use of aspartame in food items such as gelatin desserts that require heating well over the 86-degree range. The result? People are hurting. According to the FDA's Adverse Reaction Monitoring System, approximately 75 percent of all complaints received about food additives are aspartame-related: 3 out of every 4! And yet the FDA still refuses to acknowledge the evidence that aspartame could be endangering public health. -------------------------------------------- Hold the toxin -------------------------------------------- In spite of the clear dangers of aspartame, FDA officials have ignored calls for a ban and have resisted efforts to establish a warning label for aspartame, stating (completely contrary to all the evidence) that complaints against the sweetener aren't sufficient to warrant such a warning. But really, what good would a warning label do? Does the average consumer actually read the fine print on his can of diet Mountain Dew? What's needed here is not an FDA regulation, but rather some Water Cooler Regulation. Tell your friends and family about the potential dangers of aspartame. Spread the word. And as always, feel free to share this e-Alert with them.

Tavern? What Tavern?????????

That would be "Rico"

I just heard from my team mate Fred Clark and he told me that they have removed the halo from Rico's head and that he was very alert after the operation, fully cognisant of what was going on around him! No deer look going on!

We used to have "Houston Wrestling" as a kid, I think it was probably the precursur to the modern thing! Cyclone Anaya! and many more!