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Everything posted by Rstanley0312
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That is awesome! Life is all about ass....either you're kicking it, kissing it, working it off, or trying to get a piece of it. Muff Brother #4382 Dudeist Skydiver #000 www.fundraiseadventure.com
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Anyone has an Extra SIM 2012 Book???
Rstanley0312 replied to ferrarimv's topic in Safety and Training
First off, Barrow? Secondly, the dz probably already HAS a 'coppy'. Third, it's easier and fairly cheap to take it to Kinkos and get them to print it off, both sided and bind it together. There is also an app now that you can get on your smartphone. Life is all about ass....either you're kicking it, kissing it, working it off, or trying to get a piece of it. Muff Brother #4382 Dudeist Skydiver #000 www.fundraiseadventure.com -
I just do not understand how anyone could compare a Pilot to a Spinetto.... The Pilot doesn't have near the zip and fun. These two canopies are worlds apart IMHO but that's the thing about opinions.... we all have them and they all vary in some way. Life is all about ass....either you're kicking it, kissing it, working it off, or trying to get a piece of it. Muff Brother #4382 Dudeist Skydiver #000 www.fundraiseadventure.com
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Why am I not surprised to read this comment from you? Life is all about ass....either you're kicking it, kissing it, working it off, or trying to get a piece of it. Muff Brother #4382 Dudeist Skydiver #000 www.fundraiseadventure.com
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http://now.msn.com/now/0309-denver-bernies-sentence.aspx Life is all about ass....either you're kicking it, kissing it, working it off, or trying to get a piece of it. Muff Brother #4382 Dudeist Skydiver #000 www.fundraiseadventure.com
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Not an ad... I want opinions.... skymamma... if it does break the rules feel free to remove it and sorry. Feel free to comment and please continue the discussion on what you feel about restraining a dog. I think it is a very important thing to do! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P1dLt310O5s&feature=youtu.be Seems simple enough. I use a carabeaner and attach it from the harness to the seatbelt(lap part) It gives him enough freedom of movement but keeps us safe...when I use it. For the now dog (roxy) she's usually in a kennel. I drive with the back seats laid down. I f She's not in the kennel I use 550cord and RSL's as a "runner" between the clips that the seats lock into. and, one more beaner and she's got some freedom but she can't jmp on me. That doesnt keep HER safe in the event of an accident, though. If I were to use the clip in the video the leash would still be attached to a harness. In the event of inertia the collar will snap the dogs neck. We recommend the use of a harness but cannot make people use one. Our first concern is that the dog cannot cause an accident... our second is the dogs safety. I use a harness with the click n stay and protect both. I like what you came up with. Life is all about ass....either you're kicking it, kissing it, working it off, or trying to get a piece of it. Muff Brother #4382 Dudeist Skydiver #000 www.fundraiseadventure.com
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QuoteWe keep our 2 girls belted in with padded harnesses that attach to the seat belt. We were driving down I-4 a few years ago. A car was parked in the median. Not sure if it had been in an accident or was broke down. A small dog had escaped from the vehicle and as 2 young girls chased him trying to catch him he ran into the highway. We watched in the rear view mirror as the poor wiener dog was clipped by one car and tossed directly into the path of a pickup. I hate to think what effect that had oon the poor girls. PLEASE RESTRAIN YOUR ANIMALS. I agree Rick and thank you for restraining your dog(s)! Life is all about ass....either you're kicking it, kissing it, working it off, or trying to get a piece of it. Muff Brother #4382 Dudeist Skydiver #000 www.fundraiseadventure.com
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Not an ad... I want opinions.... skymamma... if it does break the rules feel free to remove it and sorry. Feel free to comment and please continue the discussion on what you feel about restraining a dog. I think it is a very important thing to do! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P1dLt310O5s&feature=youtu.be Life is all about ass....either you're kicking it, kissing it, working it off, or trying to get a piece of it. Muff Brother #4382 Dudeist Skydiver #000 www.fundraiseadventure.com
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I think it is important... so important I based a product off of it. I would love to share it but I do not want to "advertise". I wanted to get a feel for other dog owners and what they thought. I find many restraints are a bit complicated. I am not talking about the harness.... that is a good thing. I think even securing your dog without a harness is a good thing. This may not be ideal for the dog's safety but it is for the humans. Even if a dog is well behaved a dog can get spooked and do something unusual like jump in your lap suddenly which can cause an accident or kill you... possibly even someone else. I encourage everyone who has a dog in the car to restrain them. AAA reports about 30,000 accidents every year occur because of unrestrained pets and those are the ones that get reported.... Life is all about ass....either you're kicking it, kissing it, working it off, or trying to get a piece of it. Muff Brother #4382 Dudeist Skydiver #000 www.fundraiseadventure.com
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I want your opinion. What do you think about restraining your dog while riding in the car? Life is all about ass....either you're kicking it, kissing it, working it off, or trying to get a piece of it. Muff Brother #4382 Dudeist Skydiver #000 www.fundraiseadventure.com
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I just want to say... the movie is great! Also, if active duty or retired military want to stand and salute I say more power to them. They have earned it. My grandfather once walked right in front of a line of 50 ppl at an air show to talk to a Col. standing in front of his P51. The Col. turned towards my grandfather instantly and saluted him then hugged him. Cutting in line is rude but in this situation he earned it! Life is all about ass....either you're kicking it, kissing it, working it off, or trying to get a piece of it. Muff Brother #4382 Dudeist Skydiver #000 www.fundraiseadventure.com
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The school counseler thinks my boy has oppositional defiance
Rstanley0312 replied to catfishhunter's topic in The Bonfire
*** We can take this one to SC but I will disagree with that 100% having lived it for the last 4 years. What other job requires you to supply everything for your job and then watch it get destroyed every year and then have to start over the next year? I have bought close to $800 worth of books for the classroom each year for the last 4 years and get to collect a box of shredded paper and books that are missing 1/2 their pages to throw away at the end of every school year. See all those borders on the bulletin boards? Schools do not supply those, teachers buy them. See all the reading books in the classroom? Teachers had to supply those. See all the classroom activities and toys and just about everything minus the desks and the chairs? Teachers had to buy all of that out of their pocket. Sure, we get a $200 deduction on our taxes but its not even close to what gets spent to make sure the kids have materials so they can learn while in the classroom. This is all for a job that requires a Masters degree and continuing college classes every year making less than $30k after 4 years on the job. Lets add in the hours and hours a week spent grading reports at home, fielding calls from parents on why problems were marked wrong on tests and then most of the weekend preparing the lessons for the next week. I added the hours up in terms of time in the classroom, grading, planning and working with parents on behavior issues in a week and it was approaching 60 hours. As for the "3 month Vacation"? School ends first or second week of June. It then takes most of the next week to break the classroom down and remove all the belongings for it so it can be cleaned over the summer. Then there was the final grading at home in there too. Week or two spent finalizing all the student records to move with the students so the next year teacher can have their records. We wrapped up all the paperwork around the third week of June this year. There were 8-10 days that the Teachers had to report in for training and CPR certification during July and then they had to return all the supplies to the classroom the second week of August and have all the classrooms signed off on by the middle of the third week for school to start the next week. In addition there was the almost mandatory college courses and professional development courses that we had to pay out of pocket for over the summer. That was not including the optional summer school that they taught and we did for the money that took up the first 2 weeks of August. Total time off school for the whole summer? 4 weeks and its impossible to pick up a second job since you can only work for the end of June - end of July. Babysitting rates pay out a LOT more when you look at the real time put in by teachers. I know a few teachers that have found it to pay out better to quit teaching for a few years to avoid paying out the childcare expenses when they have a child. There are bad teachers and good teachers just like in every other profession. Sadly the system is what is broken.... I know that I would never trust a school teacher or professional to tell me my kid has something listed in the DSM IV. To the OP..... my 8 yr old is very similar... I just try to create good healthy boundaries and use my judgement to know when it is time to let the boy lead or do his own thing. It sure isn't easy. Life is all about ass....either you're kicking it, kissing it, working it off, or trying to get a piece of it. Muff Brother #4382 Dudeist Skydiver #000 www.fundraiseadventure.com -
The school counseler thinks my boy has oppositional defiance
Rstanley0312 replied to catfishhunter's topic in The Bonfire
If we're going to use logic to describe payscales, can anyone explain why we pay CEOs of huge corporations tens of millions of dollars, and they drive said corporations into bankruptcy? Personally, I think if we educated our children well, we would end up with a productive society. That is worth any price, but it takes long-term planning. Something Americans aren't very good at anymore. We pay them what they are worth at the time. Many CEO's have cut their teeth and proven themselves. To run the companies they run, they earn the pay. That is not to say that they are not human and fail from time to time. Just like a highly recruited college athlete or NFL vet that flops after the next contract is signed. It happens and that focus is another reason why we are no closer to solutions.... only blame. I digress .... i don't want this to end up a speakers corner debate.... onward and upward. Life is all about ass....either you're kicking it, kissing it, working it off, or trying to get a piece of it. Muff Brother #4382 Dudeist Skydiver #000 www.fundraiseadventure.com -
Salon and CNN ran a phony story about a 1%er businessman leaving only 1% tips too. What a joke. They didn't even try to verify it... just ran it. Life is all about ass....either you're kicking it, kissing it, working it off, or trying to get a piece of it. Muff Brother #4382 Dudeist Skydiver #000 www.fundraiseadventure.com
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Human Flight 3D Movie ... IMAX
Rstanley0312 replied to joaocorreia's topic in General Skydiving Discussions
I do not want to be too tough on a movie that is promoting skydiving but the trailer does not make me want to see it. It looks kind of lame. Dude, dialog in a sky flick is like dialog in a porno flick. You'll get over it. Valid point..... my comment on the acting would not have stopped me from seeing it anyway. Life is all about ass....either you're kicking it, kissing it, working it off, or trying to get a piece of it. Muff Brother #4382 Dudeist Skydiver #000 www.fundraiseadventure.com -
Drill....Baby....Drill. Good job domestic oil production is UP for the past two years, eh? But they are selling it all to other countries..... Life is all about ass....either you're kicking it, kissing it, working it off, or trying to get a piece of it. Muff Brother #4382 Dudeist Skydiver #000 www.fundraiseadventure.com
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You are right... that is why they are done at 10,500 from a 182 and there is no problem having outside video. I know this because I've done outside video for an AFF out of a 182. Life is all about ass....either you're kicking it, kissing it, working it off, or trying to get a piece of it. Muff Brother #4382 Dudeist Skydiver #000 www.fundraiseadventure.com
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You answer your own question as far as I can see. You admit Coaches aren't trained to do anything in deploying for a student, so there's nothing they can do except deploy themselves. Any other action only introduces more risk into the scenario. There's no new EP, or alteration to any existing EP that I can see which would change this. The only way a coach could help in this situation is to deploy for the student, which, as we've already ascertained, they're neither trained for nor allowed to do. Yes, it'd suck bailing on someone who's having trouble, but it'd suck worse killing them because you're tying to be a hero. I'd follow my training and rely on the students EPs to kick in or at worse an AAD save. This is the scenario that scares me the most. Watching a student who cannot find their handle. There are a couple of cues... the first being point at them "pull". I think before I tracked away and dumped I would point at them and then to the reserve with altitude on my side... then I would move to tacking off and pulling..... Scary situation. Life is all about ass....either you're kicking it, kissing it, working it off, or trying to get a piece of it. Muff Brother #4382 Dudeist Skydiver #000 www.fundraiseadventure.com
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Well said and I loved your drinking and driving analogy. Life is all about ass....either you're kicking it, kissing it, working it off, or trying to get a piece of it. Muff Brother #4382 Dudeist Skydiver #000 www.fundraiseadventure.com
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Large Sitfly formations have been done here and there for fun, but at no point was it an official category for USPA state/national record keeping. Any previous claim to a sitfly formation record could only be unofficial and arguable. There weren't any official judges to validate the record against uniform guidelines. There's a picture up in the Bent Prop of a large sitfly round Amy organized some time ago that would probably have counted towards something at the time, but it's tough to try and claim it afterward for a few reasons. 1) The new sitfly national records are still subject to the rules of other national records in that it must be judged and certified within 90 days of completing the formation. 2) The formation is supposed to be submitted to the judge for proposal before the formation is attempted showing who is in what slot with what grips. Some judges have been lax on this rule and there are some sneaky ways people have gotten around this (ie videoing the dirt dive and/or drawn formation prior to the jump when the judge was not immediately available). The new sitfly records also come standard with 3 classes at both state and national level: 1) General 2) Womens 3) Collegiate I'm going to be spending some time getting copes of the new revised reporting forms and working on the first National record attempt event for mid-late August on the east coast a few weeks after the new head down world record. Awesome. Life is all about ass....either you're kicking it, kissing it, working it off, or trying to get a piece of it. Muff Brother #4382 Dudeist Skydiver #000 www.fundraiseadventure.com
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I am glad I typically jump at a smaller DZ. There is probably a small chance I will ever see you in the sky unless we see each other at a boogie. I do not have many jumps and I only have a coach rating (working on AFF this year) but you are the jumper that hurts people. You should feel lucky some of these jumpers give you the time of day after how many low timers they have said this exact same crap to over and over and seeing most not listen. I hope you will come around and I hope you do not hurt yourself.... most importantly .... I hope you do not hurt or kill another jumper..... especially my friends Most of what you have written proves your lack of experience and it is painful to read. To the OP... read and listen to the EXPERIENCED skydivers here and talk to your instructors at your dz. Have fun and take it slow. The rules and RECOMMENDATIONS are written in blood. Remember that! Life is all about ass....either you're kicking it, kissing it, working it off, or trying to get a piece of it. Muff Brother #4382 Dudeist Skydiver #000 www.fundraiseadventure.com
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Tube Stows are the devil! You will get a bag lock and you may die with them........ Life is all about ass....either you're kicking it, kissing it, working it off, or trying to get a piece of it. Muff Brother #4382 Dudeist Skydiver #000 www.fundraiseadventure.com