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Just came across this. www.thebraziltimes.com/story/1637232.html I Jumped with the guys who invented Skydiving.

Main Canopy. Para Mount 5 Cell. I jumped it from mid 1980 to August 1981. Landed real hard, wouldn't flare or slow down, got renamed Para Thud. I wasn't the only one that was disappointed in the hype compared to real performance. I Jumped with the guys who invented Skydiving.

Yes---there is a plan to visit the Old DZ on Sunday for anyone not in Jail or going through serious detox. I Jumped with the guys who invented Skydiving.

I forgot to include the attached picture so everyone can be recognized at the Reunion. I Jumped with the guys who invented Skydiving.

Yes, the Ridgely Maryland Pelicans Date: Saturday, September 18, 2010 Time: 6:00pm - 10:00pm Location: Harris' Crab House Kent Island Md. Street: 433 Kent Narrow Way City/Town: Grasonville, MD I Jumped with the guys who invented Skydiving.

At the time this Jesus supposedly lived the Jews spoke ancient Aramaic and ancient Hebrew, both lost languages until recently. All that was translated into ancient Greek and from there into every known language on this planet with the translators own writers license. The Roman records from that time show Pontius Pilate having many Jews beaten up and executed with the Sanhedrin as their Court Appointed Attorney. I Jumped with the guys who invented Skydiving.

Your the rebound boyfriend that's supposed to make her ex jealous. You've known her for 7 years but don't know her. Listen to the voices of experience---get out now ! I Jumped with the guys who invented Skydiving.

Are you serious ? Who ever this Jesus is he never died for my sin's. I'm a recovering Catholic from Boston---been through detox and rehab. I Jumped with the guys who invented Skydiving.

(June 27) -- The crucifix is the defining symbol of Christianity, a constant reminder to the faithful of the sacrifice and suffering endured by Jesus Christ for humanity. But an extensive study of ancient texts by a Swedish pastor and academic has revealed that Jesus may not have died on a cross, but instead been put to death on another gruesome execution device. Gunnar Samuelsson -- a theologian at the University of Gothenburg and author of a 400-page thesis on crucifixion in antiquity -- doesn't doubt that Jesus died on Calvary hill. But he argues that the New Testament is in fact far more ambiguous about the exact method of the Messiah's execution than many Christians are aware. "When the Gospels refer to the death of Jesus, they just say that he was forced to carry a "stauros" out to Calvary," he told AOL News. Many scholars have interpreted that ancient Greek noun as meaning "cross," and the verb derived from it, "anastauroun," as implying crucifixion. But during his three-and-a-half-year study of texts from around 800 BC to the end of the first century AD, Samuelsson realized the words had more than one defined meaning. Christophe Simon, This iconic image of Christ dying on the cross may be misleading, according to theologian Gunnar Samuelsson, who says crucifixion was more rare than commonly thought. "'Stauros' is actually used to describe a lot of different poles and execution devices," he says. "So the device described in the Gospels could have been a cross, but it could also have been a spiked pole, or a tree trunk, or something entirely different." In turn, "anastauroun" was used to signify everything from the act of "raising hands to suspending a musical instrument." The manner in which Jesus died is further thrown into question by Samuelsson's discovery that crucifixion may have been an unusual form of punishment in the Roman Empire. Descriptions of crucifixions contained in the thousands of Hebrew, Aramaic, Latin and Greek manuscripts he examined most commonly referred to dead prisoners being placed on some form of suspension device, or living captives skewered on stakes. The first century Roman philosopher Seneca the Younger, for example, wrote about seeing a great many prisoners of war on "crosses" after one campaign. But the scribe then describes how a large number of the dead had been impaled. "If you search for ancient texts that specifically mention the act of crucifixion [as we understand it today]" he says, "you will end up with only two or three examples." That revelation stands in stark contrast to claims that appear in many books on the historical Jesus, as well as more general surveys of life under Roman rule, which state that prisoners were routinely nailed to crosses. (The Encylopaedia Britannica, for example, says crucifixion was an "important method of capital punishment" in Rome.) Of course, this lack of hard evidence doesn't mean that the Roman Empire was a crucifix-free zone. Samuelsson suspects that crucifixion was simply one of a great many methods of execution employed across the empire. He notes that Flavius Josephus -- a Jewish historian and adviser to three Roman emperors in the 1st century -- recorded how Roman soldiers were allowed to use their "wicked minds in various ways to execute" prisoners captured during a Jewish uprising. This suggests that the method of Jesus' execution may have been decided by legionnaires stationed at Calvary, and not by the state. "If we put this on the table, and think that the execution of Jesus was the result of the wicked mind of the soldiers at that very point, we can't know how he could have been executed," Samuelsson says. "The executions of that day could have taken a completely different form from ones the day before." The Swedish scholar isn't sure exactly why the crucifix went on to become the dominant Christian motif. But this symbol only seems to have become fixed in followers' minds long after Jesus' death, as the first T and X shaped crucifixes appear in Christian manuscripts around the 2nd century AD. Perhaps unsurprisingly, Samuelsson's thesis has caused something of an unheavenly row. While fellow theologians have complimented his highly detailed research, many critics in the blogosphere have claimed that he wants to undermine Christianity. Samuelsson -- who believes that "the man who walked this earth was the Son of God, and that he will return to judge the living and the dead" -- says this accusation is simply "stupid." "I'm really just a boring, conservative pastor and I start everyday reading the New Testament," he says. "But my suggestion is that we should read the text as it is, not as we think it is." I Jumped with the guys who invented Skydiving.

Agreed ! I Jumped with the guys who invented Skydiving.

“If Barack Obama isn’t careful, he will become the Jimmy Carter of the 21st Century.” That’s the view of a commentator writing for Germany’s Berliner Zeitung newspaper, who notes that Obama is in danger of becoming a one-term president like Carter. German media weighed in with commentary after Obama’s June 15 speech about the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico and America’s energy future. Der Spiegel magazine’s website observed: “President Barack Obama's address from the Oval Office was supposed to be a moment of leadership during the worst environmental disaster in American history. But critics from across the political spectrum wondered afterwards whether he'd shown leadership at all. “The geyser of oil in the Gulf of Mexico seems, technologically, to lie beyond anything either BP or the U.S. government was prepared for, and Obama failed to mention any specific new ideas. ‘The tragedy unfolding on our coast is the most painful and powerful reminder yet that the time to embrace a clean-energy future is now,’ he declared, without offering policy details.” Germany’s Suddeutsche Zeitung newspaper said Obama was “cautious” and “vague” in his speech, and stated: “This president won’t lead America out of a crisis this way — and he certainly won’t usher in a new era.” And Berliner Zeitung opined: “In his speech, Obama tried to make a virtue of an emergency. He said a shift to new energy sources was now a 'national mission.' Just as the nation once mobilized its powers for World War II, now it needs to conquer its devilish dependence on fossil fuels . . . If Obama wins this debate, and achieves a true shift in energy dependence, then his name will perhaps be mentioned again in the same breath with great American presidents. "Politically, though, it's fraught with risk. His opponents have already charged Obama with using the Gulf catastrophe to advance his climate agenda in Congress. Republicans rely on the tendency of Americans to prefer cheap fuel and big cars with a certain level of power. “Over 30 years ago, after all, another president called for smarter American energy policies in a televised speech from the Oval Office. He wanted to know, 'Why have we not been able to get together as a nation to resolve our serious energy problem?' That president's name was Jimmy Carter." I Jumped with the guys who invented Skydiving.

It can also be a motorcycle or bicycle cover. Or give it to a Bar/Restaurant for their ceiling. I Jumped with the guys who invented Skydiving.

So---- no comments on the Agendas by anyone ? This is as exciting as who's running for the BOD. I Jumped with the guys who invented Skydiving.

The summer 2010 USPA Board of Director’s Meeting will be held July 16-18 at the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Nashua, New Hampshire. The General Membership Meeting will be held at 7 p.m. on July 16. All USPA members in good standing are encouraged to attend. E-mail uspa@uspa.org or call USPA Headquarters at (540) 604-9740 for more information. This is the Meeting Schedule and Agenda. http://www.uspa.org/NewsEvents/News/tabid/59/ctl/Detail/mid/797/xmid/14910/xmfid/19/Default.aspx I Jumped with the guys who invented Skydiving.

The only DZ to jump at in Ohio is this one www.skydiveohio.com/ Does anyone else notice Ohio begins and ends with a Zero ? I Jumped with the guys who invented Skydiving.

From the USPA Website today. On June 3, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) issued a final rule amendment to Part 65 of the Federal Aviation Regulations, which addresses certification of parachute riggers. The change to Section 65.111(b) removed the authority of a non-certificated person (including a rig owner or packer) to “maintain or alter” a main parachute when not under the supervision of a current parachute rigger. A person may still pack a main parachute “when that person will be the next jumper to use the parachute” or, in the case of packers, for instance, “when under the supervision of a current certificated parachute rigger.” The FAA says the amendment corrects an unintended change to the rule when it was last revised in 2001. I Jumped with the guys who invented Skydiving.

Just found out the State Bird of Louisiana is the Pelican I Jumped with the guys who invented Skydiving.

Found this on Snark. "Dennis Hopper filed for divorce from Victoria Duffy in January, but was unable to have the divorce finalized before his death. Hopper fought bitterly to make his divorce from Duffy official before he died, but lost his battle with advanced prostate cancer before it was final. Under a prenuptial agreement between Hopper and Duffy, she is reportedly entitled to receive 25 percent of Hopper’s fortune and a $250,000 life insurance policy, among other assets. According to the prenup, Duffy was only eligible to receive the payout if they were married and living together at the time of Hopper’s death. Victoria Duffy is expected to argue that she was “living” with Dennis Hopper when he died because she was living at a house on his property. Hopper spent his final days in another house on the same property. Hopper’s lawyers, however, are preparing to fight Duffy’s claims in court. In court papers filed by Hopper seeking to divorce Duffy, the Easy Rider star claimed his estranged wife was “insane and out of her mind with “inhuman tendencies”. He also accused her of stealing more than $1.5 million in artwork from him and had a restraining order banning her from his home. Before their bitter separation, Duffy and Hopper were married for 14 years and had one child together, now 7-year-old daughter Galen." I Jumped with the guys who invented Skydiving.

Lite sprinkles in the late afternoon, no problem. I Jumped with the guys who invented Skydiving.

Deland Florida has all your looking for. It's the center of Skydiving on Planet Earth. http://skydivedeland.com/ I Jumped with the guys who invented Skydiving.

Check out the events and some other stuff too. www.skydivethepoint.com Do not land in the water---see attached photo. I Jumped with the guys who invented Skydiving.

You never lose your Skydiving Girlfriend---you just lose your turn. I Jumped with the guys who invented Skydiving.

U.S. Air Force 1966-1970 I Jumped with the guys who invented Skydiving.

To ease concerns within the competition community, Meet Director Bill Wenger and Rook Nelson, owner of Skydive Chicago, decided to change the registration and competition start dates for the 10- and 16-way events at this year’s USPA National Skydiving Championships in Ottawa, Illinois. Registration for 16-way will now take place on September 14 with competition on September 15-18. Registration for 10-way will take place September 15 with competition on September 16-19. Wenger and Nelson also discussed date changes for the canopy formation competitions, but have decided to leave the dates as-is. For more information write to Competition@uspa.org I Jumped with the guys who invented Skydiving.

Didn't work---it did clean up Internet Explorer though---thank's. What next ? I Jumped with the guys who invented Skydiving.