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Looks like it works okay with the Google RSS page too..

Yes I like my name, but it seems like every other parent in the decade I was born in had the same idea for a good name, so approximatly half of the other males I know who are my age are also named David.

Isn't that what the "suicide lane" is for in the middle??

Stopping at stop signs is a sign of weakness.

Here's the original thread on the ad And you can see the whole video of the ad here as well

From the article, it sounds like the plane, a taildragger, ground looped on landing with fatal consequences.

Happy Birthday!! Hope it's a great one!

As seen in a cat's diary: Day 183 of my captivity... My captors continued to taunt me with bizarre little dangling objects. They dine lavishly on fresh meat, while I am forced to eat dry cereal. The only thing that keeps me going is the hope of escape, and the mild satisfaction that I get from clawing their furniture. Tomorrow I will eat another houseplant. Today my attempt to kill my captors by weaving around their feet while they were walking almost succeeded - must try this at the top of the stairs. In an attempt to disgust and repulse these vile oppressors, I once again induced myself to vomit on their favorite chair. I must remember to try this on their bed. Decapitated a mouse and brought them the headless body in an attempt to make them aware of what I am capable of, and to try to strike fear in their hearts. They only cooed and condescended about what a good little cat I was. Hmmm, that did not work according to plan . There was some sort of gathering of their accomplices. I was placed in solitary throughout the event. However, I could hear the noise and smell the food. More important, I overheard that my confinement was due to my powers of inducing "allergies." I must learn what this is and how I may use it to my advantage. I am convinced the other captives are flunkies And maybe snitches. The dog is routinely released and seems more than happy to return. He is obviously a half-wit. The bird, on the other hand, has got to be an informant and speaks with them regularly. I am certain he reports my every move. Due to his current placement in the metal room, his safety is assured. But I have patience, I can wait, it is only a matter of time...

Here's some pics of the area from July... -The trailhead at Maroon lake -The view from W. Maroon Pass looking toward Frigid Air Pass -Looking toward Pyramid Peak

Those passes approach 13,000 feet in elevation. You will encounter snow. Probably not anything consolidated or thick enough to use an ice axe or cranpons on though... West Maroon Pass is steep with some climbing over rocks at the top. If there is snow up there it may make it dangerous. Not to discourage you but, unless you have experience in the high mountains with snow, you may want to consider another route, something lower (I highly reccomend the out and back to conundrum hot springs). The weather is apt to change very rapidly on you and this time of year significant snow accumulation is possible. On the other hand, it could be warm and sunny the rest of the month and for your trip and you could be looking at no snow and a great loop... You might want to make the call when you get out here.

Which Loop? The loop of four passes? (West Maroon to Frigid Air to the other two that I cant remember) Or are you going via the conundrum hot springs? My girlfriend and I went on a hiking trip in that area over July 4th. The snow still hadn't melted out at that point and one of the passes (Triangle Pass) we had to go over was very dangrous with steep snowfields and very loose rock / mud couloirs. The snow should have melted out by now.. That said, the mountains recieved significant snow last weekend . Some of that snow will probably stick around through the winter, so be prepared for cold, wet weather! Shoot me a PM if you have any questions about the area, I am pretty familar with it!

exactly!

I was wondering why that thread got deleted

1. Place Half Full Pint (or other large vessel) of beer on a table. 2. Place two (2) chopsticks on the rim of the glass parallel to each other approximatley 0.5 inches apart 3. Carefully balance a 1.0 to 2.0 US-ounce shot glass of sake on the chopsticks. 4. Upon all parties at the table having completed previous steps, everyone is to shout in unison "SAKE! SAKE! SAKE! BOMB!!" (optional, other phrases may be used, or you may proceed directly to step 5) 5. All parties should slam their fists down on the table on the word, "BOMB". The desired effect is that all shot glasses of sake shall fall into the beer glasses. 6. All parties shall consume their beer as fast as possible. 7. Repeat as desired.

I'm certainly not trying to advocate disconnecting an RSL to anyone based on this experience. This is a pretty unusual occurance and you're probably much more likely to need an RSL due to a low cutaway then to have something like this happen. Actually the jump was tons of fun. It was only scary in retrospect, as I was standing on the ground when I discovered the problem.

Before every day of jumping I generally grab the riser, turn it and look at the cutaway cable and check that the cable is in the hard riser housing, not next to it. I probably would have noticed any incorrect routing when I did that. I don't actually remember checking all this on the jump in question, but it is something I generally check. At any rate, you bring up a good point that this should be part of the check every time.

I'm not going to get into the RSL / no RSL debate, I actually firmly believe in RSLs. However, with this particular rig and a now demonstrated problem, unless I figure out for certain what caused the problem and know I can 100% prevent it in the future, I think I am better off without it. I have had a cutaway. I didn't even think of the RSL when it happened and I pulled the reserve handle.

I'm actually pretty confident that it was hooked up correctly. My rigger was the one who hooked it up, and I was very through checking the rig on this jump, like I said I triple checked everything just because I had a bad feeling about it.

It was the first thing I checked on the next jump

I had a very scary thing happen to me on a jump a week ago and I am trying to figure out the cause. Has anyone ever heard of anything like this happening? When I was landing, as the canopy fell to the ground I heard that distincitive "ka-chink" of the three rings disconnecting and the left riser came off. It was held onto the container only by the RSL. The cutaway handle was undisturbed and stowed in the pocket. After the riser came off, the cutaway cable was protuding from the housing just like it should be if it were hooked up. I am very lucky that this did not happen in the air...regardless of how it unfolded, it would have been an ugly situation. If it had disconnected at deployment, it would have pulled the RSL and fired my reserve into my main which would have still been connected by the right riser. If it had happened at 100', it wouldn't have been good. The container is a Wings W-22. The rig was fresh off a repack and the cutaway cables had been cleaned and lubricated as part of the repack. I checked the 3-ring assembley before the jump, and everything was correctly assembled. My rigger did not modify the cutaway system in any way during the repack. The cutaway cable is not too short so far as I can tell, as there is about 4 inches of excess cable. The jump was a very "hands-on" jump....we launched a 6-way tube. I had two people taking grips on my legstraps and I got kicked in the face pretty hard during the jump. My theory on what happened is that during the jump, someone grabbed the MLW just above the cutaway handle, got the left cutaway cable with it and pulled it to within a quarter inch or so of cutting away the riser. This could have kept the cutaway cable just barely through the white loop, held on by tension throughout the canopy ride and when the tension came off the riser as the canopy collapsed to the ground, the cable fell through the white loop, cutting the riser away. There is about 2 inches of cable exposed between the top of the cutaway handle and the cable housing. I have tried on the ground, and been unable to get the cable to "stick" in the "almost cutaway" position described above. After I got the canopy re-hooked up (It was a pain in the ass, the loose riser tangled through all the lines), I disconnected the RSL and jumped it again without incident. Based on this incident, I have disconnected the RSL. I really like the idea of an RSL, but it could have killed me in this situation. The weird thing about the jump is I had a bad feeling about it from the begining. I double and triple checked my gear on the ground. I almost didn't go on the jump just because something didn't feel right.

Anyone else see the pictures of the people evaduating the island and think the same thing I did?...

"God made all of this evidence contridicting the bible to test our faith. " That's the line that I got from a creationalist that left me walking away dumbfounded, unable to continue the debate against.

As someone who has paid my fair share of taxes in boulder county, this whole thing pisses me off. When this all first started, I thought that after all of the bad publicity the Boulder police have recieved in this case, they had to have some pretty good evidence against him to bring him in on these charges. Then he was given a free flight home to the US, in first class no less. Then the media was full of images of a state owened plane making the special trip to california just to pick him up. And now it turns out there is almost no way he did it. How many tax dollars were spent bringing this guy to Boulder? So he knew some facts of the case that wern't known to the public...even though 90% of everything else he said didn't add up. It sounds like he may have just gotten lucky on part of his "confession". I would have thought the Boulder PD would have done their homework better on this one before taking such expensive steps under the microscope of the whole world. This is yet another black eye for an already tarnished organization They were already the laughing stock of the country, now they are the laughing stock of the world. I gotta laugh about Karr himself though, I mean WTF? He got lots of noteriety for this, that's for sure. But now that he has been exposed as a creep and a pedophile and an all around weirdo, he will never be treated with any kind of respect by anyone. Give it another year and no one will even know his name.

And it appears as though you were correct: No Charges to be filed against Karr in the Ramsey Case

The latest track has Ernesto making a tour of the whole Atlantic coast