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hey it sound like you just got fruit looped mark

wow, that is great i was wondering how they got on top of the plane, the video is excellent of that exit and i love the exit outta the back of the skyvan while the skyvan is inverted! mark

here's a photo of an exit outta the pink skyvan that i wanna try. mark

here's a photo of the pink skyvan that i've been using for wallpaper. i wanna try this kind of exit! mark

the year started great but i had a major set back lately. i lost my job today. i was playing in a blues trio and we would play every weekend in grocery stores. there are 10 or 12 stores of one chain and we would tour from store to store around the city. it lasted for 2 1/2 years. oh well. that's just today. -stuff i got accomplished this year were very few (12) jumps, because i have been eager to buy a rig which i luckily just finished paying for but haven't jumped yet! -i got to go to amsterdam to meet my girlfriend who was on tour and i was able to meet benW, my first dropzone.com meeting, there. last january i made five jumps in brazil and i am going back for christmas but i don't think i can jump cause of my sudden cash shortage. we are flying american airlines! -i was also able to go to deland and i made five jumps, -also a guy named 'bungee' (Stephane Drapeau) who had been my instuctor here at para-vision in quebec was killed at deland this spring. RIP bungee -oh yeah i also had a car accident (no injuries for me) and have finally gotten another car (better too) straightened out. -i got two jumps in at skydive new england over all a good year with some seriosly downpoints and some real highs. setting my sights on many more jumps though this coming year. i have only 37, the last being in july at skydive new england.

hey jfields i just downloaded those videos offa your server and i averaged 55 kb/s and they were going simultaniously thank you! mark

this is is good site for statistics and the guy trys to evaluate what went wrong in each case and possible solutions or disturbing trends for the rest of us to become aware of. http://www.skydivenet.com/fatalities/ mark

hey brandon i've got a friend who runs a quality shirt silkscreening business, only thing is i live in montreal. but if you wanna check out prices once the design i finalized i'll get him to bid. i certainly want a shirt for my self though!

hey martz i jump at paravision in st. jerome quebec. what is victoriaville like. i want to make it to nouvel air before winter just so i can say i "know" remi

ISSUE LIBRARY: Human Rights Death Downtown by Michael Moore September 11, 2001 Dear friends, I was supposed to fly today on the 4:30 PM American Airlines flight from LAX to JFK. But tonight I find myself stuck in L.A. with an incredible range of emotions over what has happened on the island where I work and live in New York City. My wife and I spent the first hours of the day — after being awakened by phone calls from our parents at 6:40am PT — trying to contact our daughter at school in New York and our friend JoAnn who works near the World Trade Center. I called JoAnn at her office. As someone picked up, the first tower imploded, and the person answering the phone screamed and ran out, leaving me no clue as to whether or not she or JoAnn would live. It was a sick, horrible, frightening day. On December 27, 1985 I found myself caught in the middle of a terrorist incident at the Vienna airport — which left 30 people dead, both there and at the Rome airport. (The machine-gunning of passengers in each city was timed to occur at the same moment.) I do not feel like discussing that event tonight because it still brings up too much despair and confusion as to how and why I got to live… a fluke, a mistake, a few feet on the tarmac, and I am still here, there but for the grace of… Safe. Secure. I’m an American, living in America. I like my illusions. I walk through a metal detector, I put my carry-ons through an x-ray machine, and I know all will be well. Here’s a short list of my experiences lately with airport security: At the Newark Airport, the plane is late at boarding everyone. The counter can’t find my seat. So I am told to just “go ahead and get on” — without a ticket! At Detroit Metro Airport, I don’t want to put the lunch I just bought at the deli through the x-ray machine so, as I pass through the metal detector, I hand the sack to the guard through the space between the detector and the x-ray machine. I tell him “It’s just a sandwich.” He believes me and doesn’t bother to check. The sack has gone through neither security device. At LaGuardia in New York, I check a piece of luggage, but decide to catch a later plane. The first plane leaves without me, but with my bag — no one knowing what is in it. Back in Detroit, I take my time getting off the commuter plane. By the time I have come down its stairs, the bus that takes the passengers to the terminal has left — without me. I am alone on the tarmac, free to wander wherever I want. So I do. Eventually, I flag down a pick-up truck and an airplane mechanic gives me a ride the rest of the way to the terminal. I have brought knives, razors; and once, my traveling companion brought a hammer and chisel. No one stopped us. Of course, I have gotten away with all of this because the airlines consider my safety SO important, they pay rent-a-cops $5.75 an hour to make sure the bad guys don’t get on my plane. That is what my life is worth — less than the cost of an oil change. Too harsh, you say? Well, chew on this: a first-year pilot on American Eagle (the commuter arm of American Airlines) receives around $15,000 a year in annual pay. That’s right — $15,000 for the person who has your life in his hands. Until recently, Continental Express paid a little over $13,000 a year. There was one guy, an American Eagle pilot, who had four kids so he went down to the welfare office and applied for food stamps — and he was eligible! Someone on welfare is flying my plane? Is this for real? Yes, it is. So spare me the talk about all the precautions the airlines and the FAA is taking. They, like all businesses, are concerned about one thing — the bottom line and the profit margin. Four teams of 3-5 people were all able to penetrate airport security on the same morning at 3 different airports and pull off this heinous act? My only response is — that’s all? Well, the pundits are in full diarrhea mode, gushing on about the “terrorist threat” and today’s scariest dude on planet earth — Osama bin Laden. Hey, who knows, maybe he did it. But, something just doesn’t add up. Am I being asked to believe that this guy who sleeps in a tent in a desert has been training pilots to fly our most modern, sophisticated jumbo jets with such pinpoint accuracy that they are able to hit these three targets without anyone wondering why these planes were so far off path? Or am I being asked to believe that there were four religious/political fanatics who JUST HAPPENED to be skilled airline pilots who JUST HAPPENED to want to kill themselves today? Maybe you can find one jumbo jet pilot willing to die for the cause — but FOUR? Ok, maybe you can — I don’t know. What I do know is that all day long I have heard everything about this bin Laden guy except this one fact — WE created the monster known as Osama bin Laden! Where did he go to terrorist school? At the CIA! Don’t take my word for it — I saw a piece on MSNBC last year that laid it all out. When the Soviet Union occupied Afghanistan, the CIA trained him and his buddies in how to commits acts of terrorism against the Soviet forces. It worked! The Soviets turned and ran. Bin Laden was grateful for what we taught him and thought it might be fun to use those same techniques against us. We abhor terrorism — unless we’re the ones doing the terrorizing. We paid and trained and armed a group of terrorists in Nicaragua in the 1980s who killed over 30,000 civilians. That was OUR work. You and me. Thirty thousand murdered civilians and who the hell even remembers! We fund a lot of oppressive regimes that have killed a lot of innocent people, and we never let the human suffering THAT causes to interrupt our day one single bit. We have orphaned so many children, tens of thousands around the world, with our taxpayer-funded terrorism (in Chile, in Vietnam, in Gaza, in Salvador) that I suppose we shouldn’t be too surprised when those orphans grow up and are a little whacked in the head from the horror we have helped cause. Yet, our recent domestic terrorism bombings have not been conducted by a guy from the desert but rather by our own citizens: a couple of ex-military guys who hated the federal government. From the first minutes of today’s events, I never heard that possibility suggested. Why is that? Maybe it’s because the A-rabs are much better foils. A key ingredient in getting Americans whipped into a frenzy against a new enemy is the all-important race card. It’s much easier to get us to hate when the object of our hatred doesn’t look like us. Congressmen and Senators spent the day calling for more money for the military; one Senator on CNN even said he didn’t want to hear any more talk about more money for education or health care — we should have only one priority: our self-defense. Will we ever get to the point that we realize we will be more secure when the rest of the world isn’t living in poverty so we can have nice running shoes? In just 8 months, Bush gets the whole world back to hating us again. He withdraws from the Kyoto agreement, walks us out of the Durban conference on racism, insists on restarting the arms race — you name it, and Baby Bush has blown it all. The Senators and Congressmen tonight broke out in a spontaneous version of “God Bless America.” They’re not a bad group of singers! Yes, God, please do bless us. Many families have been devastated tonight. This just is not right. They did not deserve to die. If someone did this to get back at Bush, then they did so by killing thousands of people who DID NOT VOTE for him! Boston, New York, DC, and the planes’ destination of California — these were places that voted AGAINST Bush! Why kill them? Why kill anyone? Such insanity… Let’s mourn, let’s grieve, and when it’s appropriate let’s examine our contribution to the unsafe world we live in. It doesn’t have to be like this… Yours, Michael Moore mmflint@aol.com www.michaelmoore.com Michael Moore is an activist, filmmaker, author and social critic. His most recent film is The Big One. Donate Your Tax Rebate! CorpWatch PO Box 29344 San Francisco, CA 94129 USA Tel: 415-561-6568 Fax: 415-561-6493 URL: http://www.corpwatch.org Email: corpwatch@corpwatch.org

what about milestones like: * first jump at a new DZ or * first jump at a DZ in a foreign country or *first jump in a different time zone or *first jump onto a different continent

congratulatons benw! so a 'C' license gets you tea with the Prince in england hey? i wonder what you're gonna get for your 'D'!

thank you for the concern and thankfully i had a pretty low speed collision but because the other woman had a 4*4 truck my car was to low for the bumper to help and thats why it got so damaged. now it is really just a waiting game for the insurance to figure it out. and even though the my new rig is new to me it would really fall into the 'almost new' really the used category. and now with all this to worry about i can't even afford the long distance call to your boss to beg for your freedom even though i realize it is to late for this weekend! blues skies soon! mark

hello skystorm so i kind know what you're feeling this weekend, i was driving to skydive new england in maine from montreal where i live and as i was about to cross the border into america some mindless vermont woman crossed over two lanes of traffic trying to exit last minute and totalled my car. i was even going to pickup and jump my rig for the first time but i ended having to hitch hike back home (200 kms) and no jumping for me this weekend!

hello emma lots of info at: http://www.skydivenet.com/fatalities/

yes! beer, but how do i get it to you? i did my AFF at paravision, up in Bellefeuille, about 45 kms north by St Jerome. i am gonna go check out nouvel air soon, i drive by there alot, both places have the Beech 18's so the only difference was that i knew people up north!

hey ben okay, so i will be in holland from august 3 until august 10. i will be staying in amsterdam and i've haven't jumped out of a porter before so rotterdam sounds pretty good to me! i will be staying in a friends appartment there so as soon as i get the phone number i will let know. looking forward to jumping with you i am waiting for my new (well new to me) spectre 170 which is in a ups courier truck but should be in my container thursday or friday! blues skies all mark

hello my name is mark and i am a full time musician. i play a contrebasse or upright bass or stand up bass, you get the idea. i play as many kinds of music as i can and luckily that puts me in jazz, blues, country, bluegrass, rock musique actuelle projects. lots of intense people which is probably why i took so well to all the people in skydiving! i live in montreal and we just finished our international jazzfest and the jazzfest was good enough to me employment wise to let me buy a slighly used spectre 170 to complete my first rig.

hello i am a jumper out of montreal quebec canada and i have just gotten my first rig, and i am approaching 40 jumps. i should have accomplished that by next week and then i will be going to amsterdam for about ten days, where i am gonna to try and get some jumps in. does anyone know any jumpers in holland that can help me find my way out to the dropzones? i've been cruising the webpages of dz's that i find listed here. any contacts would be appreciated. also this thursday i am gonna be in skydive new england, anyone of you going to be there?