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looks like they did the Mr Bill at terminal with just an ordinary rig, not a tandem. And I hope that was an old junk rig that he dropped. Lee Lee lee@velocitysportswear.com www.velocitysportswear.com

Single child but back in school I knew the Rexrots. They were all gymnast. Older brother Danny and the two younger identical, and I mean totally identical twin sisters. They were tiny and cute and they played it up. Think matching Pig tails and freckles. Actually I think one scored a little higher on the beam and the other was a little better on the uneven bars but other then that I really couldn't distinguish them. I actually thought of them as one person. Competed along side them for years all through high school but I never actually knew their individual names. They were just the Rexrots. Then some thing happened. It was like puberty finely struck one of them at 17 and she just went insane. She discovered boys. suddenly she wanted to be pretty rather then cute. Cut off the pig tails, short stylish hair cut. Started wearing make up. And started dating and chasing after boys. The other was like, "But, but... pig tailes." And she was like, "Aaarrrgh, NO MORE PIG TAILS!" Her life took a sharp 90 deg turn and diverged from the other. From that day forward you could never confuse them with each other which had been quite the problem before. I haven't seen them in years, like 25, but I wouldn't be surprised if the first one wasn't still wearing her hair in pig tails. Lee Lee lee@velocitysportswear.com www.velocitysportswear.com

A while back I was listening to an audio book. It was a holiday based comedy. But at the end it had some recipes. They were specifically geared towards meat lovers. One of them was for a bacon blanket turkey. Basically they rubbed it with all kinds of spices. Salted and spiced the hell out of the thing then wove bacon strips to form a blanket over it. So basically the turkey was wrapped in bacon and spices and would do a lot of it's own self marinade as it cooked holding the spice against the skin to soak in along with all the awesomeness of the bacon. Always wanted to try it but It's hard to justify cooking a whole bird just for my self. Yes, it's a little much even for me. Lee Lee lee@velocitysportswear.com www.velocitysportswear.com

A lot of machines have a little thread guide that holds a peace of foam soaked with lube just above the needle. That's to wet the thread, reduce friction and help cooling. You might be able to add one. In more extreme cases you'll also see then set up with air from a compressor to cool the needle. Think automatic machines like a tacker. Cordura is not normally that bad. Try some of the coated fabrics some time. Rubber coated is hell. Lee Lee lee@velocitysportswear.com www.velocitysportswear.com

The FAQ link doesn't seen to work. Do you have the proper link? Lee Lee lee@velocitysportswear.com www.velocitysportswear.com

Medium, gray in the middle will do the trick. Well done is on the dark side of burnt. No one cooks even hamburger "well done". The only exception I've ever known was my father. He liked his steaks thin and cooked well done. His test was if he could hit it with a fork and crack it in half. Operative word is burnt, as in to a crisp. I can offer no excuse for the terrible things that that man did to perfectly good peaces of meat. I refused to eat steak as a child and it's all because of him. Then one night in high school our team went out to eat at a steak house. I was informed that I would have to eat some thing and they ordered me a steak medium rare. It was like the first hit of crack. I've been a meat eater ever since. Lee Lee lee@velocitysportswear.com www.velocitysportswear.com

You're giving me flash backs. I think that's what we used to pack for Bell Textron for the XV-15, V-22 Osprey prototype. What a POS. Hated those things. Pain in the ass to pack. They had to loan us a box of secret tools every time to close the damn thing. Is the ballistic cutter in date? I don't know how easy it will be to find a cartridge for those. If you get your hands on the full manual for the seat could you send me a copy? I only saw the parachute it self. I never got to see how it integrated into the seat or the plane/helicopter. Lee Lee lee@velocitysportswear.com www.velocitysportswear.com

How in the hell did he get that much footage together? That is the most awesome collection of not dieing that I've seen. Lee Lee lee@velocitysportswear.com www.velocitysportswear.com

Going back to the first post... WTF have we become so complacent that that's not considered a big deal? You're describing a very fundamental issue that raises serious questions about about the TSO. Good that you're addressing it, but broader picture. Lee Lee lee@velocitysportswear.com www.velocitysportswear.com

You know at one point, one of the most common sources of black widow spider bites for men was the seat in the out house. Some times it doesn't pay to be a dangler. Lee Lee lee@velocitysportswear.com www.velocitysportswear.com

If this is the first you've heard of this then your lucky. Forget all the fun and traditions you had as a kid. Many schools have banned Halloween. Students are forbidden to wear costumes or bring food to school. Schools have banned Christmas. It's all for fear of... offending some one. Hell, atheist can be offended by any thing. Examples, I pulled these from Starns articals just because it was easy to find. He's a far right christen activist but he comes up with some funny and frightening stuff. http://video.foxnews.com/v/4570246090001/starnes-dover-afb-disavows-endorsement-of-christian-charity/?#sp=show-clips http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2015/10/09/lawsuit-baby-jesus-doesnt-belong-in-christmas-play.html http://video.foxnews.com/v/4545697269001/starnes-jesus-haters-launch-war-on-christmas--in-october/?#sp=show-clips http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2015/10/05/school-cancels-america-day.html http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2014/12/15/ho-ho-no-school-bans-santa-from-winter-concert.html Couldn't find the one about schools banning students from bringing food to school. Forget parties or bake sales their in the past. For the record I'm not religious but I fondly remember Halloween, Thanks giving, Christmas, Valentines day and others being celebrated back when I was in school. But I guess the next generation wont have any of those memories. Lee Lee lee@velocitysportswear.com www.velocitysportswear.com

I just have a soft spot for the under dog. I like it when they win or get some for their own. I reserve my right to cheer for the bull. Lee Lee lee@velocitysportswear.com www.velocitysportswear.com

And they thought it was a spectator sport. http://video.foxnews.com/v/4570160963001/raging-bull-leaps-into-stands-as-scared-spectators-scatter/?intcmp=hpvid1#sp=show-clips Some people are down on bull fights but things like this put the lie to all their accusations. It's not a mindless slaughter and some times the bull wins. I think that as the victor he should be put out to stud with a whole heard of heifers to sire a whole new generation of champions. Lee Lee lee@velocitysportswear.com www.velocitysportswear.com

This comment is more about the force that you can potentially put on the sheath of the cable then on the coating it self. Interesting story, I once had some thing similar happen to me but by chance I got to live. The short story is that I was in a canopy collision. The end of the housing got bent over squeezing the cable against the edge of the housing. I had fallen through his lines and had one line of his canopy looped around all of mine. I really needed to cut away. I pulled as hard as I could and stripped/scraped 2 inches of yellow off one side of the cable before I just couldn't get it to move any farther. In the mean time the other guy was trying to find his handle. I got a hold of the line and started looking for a hook knife but it was a borrowed rig that we were using for testing and the knife was missing. Right about then the lines on my canopy sawed through the line on his and I was free. He had found his handle and cut away a second later. If he had been a bit quicker I would have been out of options. Point is that the adhesion of the coating to the cable is important. You would think that it's no big deal because normally they pull so easy. But under the right circumstances you can put a lot of load on it. I actually couldn't pull it at all. It almost killed me. On the other hand if I had striped the cable or if it had been on the other side I might have released one riser and not the other which also could have killed me. So pinched housings have happened before. Been their, done that, lived to wear the t-shirt. Lee Lee lee@velocitysportswear.com www.velocitysportswear.com

What can happen is that you can stall one side of the canopy. So rather then a banking turn and a spiral one side actually stalls and back slides. One side of your canopy tries to go backwards as the other is going forwards. Think flat spin. It can give you severe line twist almost instantly and feels weird. Some times it feels like your almost thrown and spinning on your back backwards. And this isn't necessarily a wing loading thing. Now some canopies do this more easily then others but that doesn't necessarily mean that this is a bad canopy. It's all about how you fly it. You're getting to know your canopy. That includes learning the limitations of your envelope. Lee Lee lee@velocitysportswear.com www.velocitysportswear.com

What was she researching? And if you see her again ask he if she would like to have minutes rather then seconds of micro gravity. Have her call Exos Aerospace and Technologies. They've been dragging their heels getting the sounding rocket program back up and running but we finally have our next launch window scheduled. Reserve a slot now for your next flight into space. Lee Lee lee@velocitysportswear.com www.velocitysportswear.com

Internet couch potatoes might not be your demographic. Their are dating groups that specialize in adventure activities. Usually it's not an online thing. The basic concept is that they have a calendar, a schedule where you can sign up for activities along with other singles. Example, they might for instance plan a day of skydiving at a drop zone. So you sign up and go out for a tandem with fifty other single people. Or they may plan a mountain bike ride or camping trip or what ever. Basic concept is get twenty to a hundred single people with some common interest together in one place and let them try to hit on each other. I don't know if their is any success in that regard but we got a lot of tandems out of them. But the concept is not bad. You get to meet a large group of people who are: 1. out doorsy 2. single 3. looking. It's the basic concept of just go and do the things that you enjoy and hope to find some one similar. The thing is that you're rolling the dice hoping that some one you meet will also be looking. This at least concentrates all the single and looking into one place. Their are plenty of adventurous people out their but the problem is they are out their, doing shit. Actually you remind me of some one I know named Amy. Skydiver but mostly into climbing now. Remind me some time and I'll tell you the Nepal story. Best advice is just keep doing your shit. Keep a sharp eye out for any guy that appears to be alone. And when you see some one likely pounce. Remember if they are alone it's probable because they have given up on trying to find some one to go with them and just went on their own. Their's kind of an unwritten rule that you don't intrude on some one elses nature time. So if you want to make something happen you will have to initiate it. No one is going to approach some one else, especially a woman, say when your out on a hike. It's rude and some what threatening. So if you want to catch one you are going to get out their and chase him down. Lee Lee lee@velocitysportswear.com www.velocitysportswear.com

Parachute labs is credited at the beginning of the book. Just glancing through it I see numerous places where Sherman has clearly inserted his opinions. It might be fun to start a game to see how many sherman issims we can pull out of it. I may have to print off a copy and go through it with a high lighter and see if I can mark all the things John inserted into the text. It's like a code. Read only the highlighted lines and it spells out a secret message... "BUY A RACER OR YOU WILL DIE...", "ONLY RACERS ARE SAFE..." I wonder what it will say if you read the unhighlighted, non Sherman, passages. Seriously, I think I'll start a thread of "Shermans". Now where's my high lighter... For years now we've had the book of Sandy as the holy text. Are we really going to have to go through the next ten years under the book of Sherman? Lee Lee lee@velocitysportswear.com www.velocitysportswear.com

And in that list of Must's lies your down fall. By definition you have several contradictions there. Skydiver /= (sorry no Not Equal key) Financially responsible Over their Ex /= Faithful Skydiver /= able to accept your jobs (I'm assuming those responsibilities might interfere with DZ time.) Skydiver /= children (Children other then himself?) It sounds like you are seeking some one who is... mature. A skydiver who is mature... Cue the Laugh track. Lee Lee lee@velocitysportswear.com www.velocitysportswear.com

Well, one thing that I have noticed in observing relationships. A good relationship may be wonderful. But a bad one is always hell. You can be perfectly happy on your own, but you can never be happy in a bad relationship. I see a lot of people that settle for bad relationships because they are afraid to be alone. I also see people that are miserable in bad relationship that just sit their and suffer for fear of ending it and being alone. Don't really get it. But if you are happy then don't feel you have to do any thing that might undermine that. Lee Lee lee@velocitysportswear.com www.velocitysportswear.com

I think this is the fundamental downfall of on line dating. A person can generally make a decision faced with three options. But as the number grow the ability to make a choice declines. With almost unlimited, infinite options people find it difficult to make a choice. Their will always be some one else out there. Some one taller, some one handsomer, With a better job, pick any criteria you want. With a hundred messages a day the grass will always be better on the other side of the fence. If a reasonable attractive woman post a profile on one of these site, she can have a date and a free dinner every night for the rest of her life with out ever having to to go on a second date. The fact that the people I know who found relation ships on line are those who did so rather quickly bears this out. Picked from the first few before she was forced to wade through hundreds if not thousands of messages and profiles. Theirs some thing else. It seems to me that as time goes on, people who have not settled down, tend to have a harder time doing so. i think part of it is that as you live on your own you learn to be happy on your own. Their is less pressure as the myth that you have to have some one in your life to be happy fades. It may be that as they become less desperate their standards rise. If they are happy on their own then their is no need to tolerate things that they might once have been willing to forgive. Till you are stuck demanding a level of perfection that no one is libel to be able to live up to. I remember a movie. Basically it was about a guy who died and went to heaven. There he met and fell in love with a soul who had not yet been born. He followed her down to earth but god warned him that if he didn't find her with in so many years that he would never meet her or be happy. I have a theory that it's kind of like that. That their is a window, a time in our lives during which these things are possible. The farther out side of that window you are the harder all of this becomes till it reaches a point that it's just too late. Lee Lee lee@velocitysportswear.com www.velocitysportswear.com

What made me laugh is that they say they are concealing his identity because he is a victim of domestic abuse. Can you imagine what would happen if it came to light that an Army Ranger was being beat up by his wife. Would his rep ever recover? He'd probably be driven out of the service just on principle. And do you hear that voice? I would think that alone would be considered grounds for divorce, poor bastard. http://patch.com/florida/dunedin/man-uses-gopro-camera-capture-domestic-abuse-0 Lee Lee lee@velocitysportswear.com www.velocitysportswear.com

Yes. It's actually very easy for this to happen on a racer. Much easier then on a one pin rig. You see if one loop cuts and the other is not completely severed then the PC just flips up on one end. The cap just hinges up on one end and the base of the spring pops out.It just flaps their with no force on the remaining loop. Any type of pinch on one loop or a bit of fabric caught in the look inside the D-bag and this can happen leaving the pilot chute just flapping on your back. I know a guy this happened to. A one pin has the loop passing through the center of the spring. If the loop is "pinched" at least the spring continues to pull on it. The spring can not just escape like on a racer when one loop for what ever reason hesitates to let go. Lee Lee lee@velocitysportswear.com www.velocitysportswear.com

I don't know about the whole long board thing. I think you're better off with some thing like this... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pdW2f88gVDE Lee Lee lee@velocitysportswear.com www.velocitysportswear.com

I see two obvious possibilities. The first is that it was some kind of mind game trick. If you had chased after him or contacted him it would mean that you had a week personality and he could control you. The second very real possibility is that their was some thing that he really did find objectionable. A deal killer. Example, he saw that you were a smoker. I use that as an example because I'm allergic to it. I would have pulled the cutaway handle right there. If that's the case, then at least he was straight up and honest about it from the beginning. Or maybe he spotted that you were a skydiver. Were you wearing a closing pin necklace? May be he's been burned dating a jumper before and made you. If you want to avoid things like this in the future you might want to put a disclaimer in your ad, full disclosure. Just to save time and disappointment. Lee Lee lee@velocitysportswear.com www.velocitysportswear.com