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Good for you. There are plenty of people walking around with metal in them that weren't as lucky. Also, I think "try it for bit and see how you feel" said elsewhere in this thread isn't the best advice. Odds are those landings will be on good weather days with a good spot, good traffic and easy landings. I mean, if you want a real feel for how the canopy will perform, get out 10 seconds before the green light comes on and and see how well it lands in the Walmart parking lot The OP is horridly uncurrent. No reason to be under a 170 anything when a 190 will be more forgiving of errors.

ZHills would be pretty good. They have a decent amount of peeps living on the DZ you can socialize with. You should be able to do laundry there too.

I remember a poll in the women's forums once, asking when you(women responders only) experienced their first orgasm. I think the average was something like early to mid 20's. One girl posted she had her first in her early teens and some of the other women in the thread said they didn't believe her. Guys have their first orgasm, what, age 12-16 maybe, or whenever the first time they masturbate is? Dunno if that's a physical difference or mental one.

Yeah, was gonna say, that seems a little long to wait I never really understood arbitrary "waits". I mean, nothing at all wrong with waiting until each person gets comfortable with the other person, but how do you pre-define a set amount of time that stuff takes?

Take care of your students, they'll end up your most loyal jumpers. Events can put a DZ on the map. ZHills/Sebastian always has boogies going on, beach jumps, drunken dodge ball. Palatka has their hog flop. Time your events so you're not competing with other boogies. Keep jumpers informed. Mailing list, Facebook page with events going on. A good DZ is about a community so build that and the jumpers will keep coming back.

Awesome. I already have my room booked. Will be going down late Wed night and staying through to Sunday. Should be some good views.

Apparently I don't get out enough. I had to google who they were. That and I no longer watch normal TV. I bought a Popcorn Hour and I just download and watch everything I want these days.

Awww, poor kid. Playing with dangerous shit as a kid is a right of passage. When I was 6 I was building machetes out of rusty lawn mower blades and hacking my way through 6ft milk weed on my parent's farm. That and playing with my sister's huge ass horse that pretty much just had to accidentally step on me to take me out.

Right. Because you never got away from mom/dad when you were 6 and did stupid shit.

http://www.ninds.nih.gov/disorders/gbs/gbs.htm It seems to be caused by your own body's immune system going batshit crazy. Since vaccines trigger an immune response, it's not unreasonable to think they could trigger it too. http://www.cdc.gov/FLU/about/qa/gbs.htm I think the may reason they ask is if you've had GBS in the past you probably wouldn't want to chance it happening to you again because of a vaccine shot.

Huh, did he stop drinking Red Bull or something?

Yep. I like the idea of online dating. It's an environment where you're meeting nothing but people that are single and looking for a relationship. You also get a bit of info on their interests right up front. Those are things you don't get in real life meeting someone on the street. You get to do it from the comfort of your home too. What could be better? So, should be real easy right? Find some profiles, email enough til you run into someone that thinks you're interesting, do a coffee date and if you click, start hanging out and see where it goes. Yeah, no, it feels like a second job: Wading through a lot of whackos. Tuning your profile so you get better response rates. Learning to tempo your email conversations so they don't lose interest/don't scare off. Bleh. I'm beginning to think going up to a random person on the street, starting a conversation and asking if they'd like to hang sometime is way easier and much more effective.

Did you skip eating/drinking before the jump due to nerves? If you don't keep hydrated/fed you can crash after an adrenaline rush. Happened on one of my AFF jumps. Got sick on a tandem jump once too, but I think that was because of the harness being tight.

Yeah, and those autism rates dropped as soon as Thimerosal wasn't used in vaccines. Oh wait, no, they didn't. http://autism.about.com/b/2009/01/26/new-study-shows-no-connection-between-thimerosal-in-vaccines-and-autism.htm I guess the CDC and NIH and many many other scientists were correct when they tested and concluded that vaccines do not contribute to autism. But hey, random people with blogs say different, so maybe them and the WHO don't know what they're talking about. Even Bill Maher says vaccines are bad and he has a TV show, so you know it's true.

The way the graphs are used is typical of junk pseudo science. They show a small subset of data and jump to a conclusion they want to reach. Showing a line graph pointing down and surmising "well, diseases were on their way down anyway therefor vaccines did nothing" is not science. Also, that assumes that data tells the whole story. The dude has an agenda. How do I know he didn't cherry pick the data? Maybe infection rates for polio, small pox, etc in other countries were going up before vaccines hit? Would he show those graphs? I doubt it. I really find it laughable the ways in which people don't trust science. They drive in their cars, use their air condition, cook eggs on teflon pans, watch TV, chat for hours on their cell phones, type away on their computers on the internet.. all brought to us by men and women in white lab coats using this little thing called Science. But vaccines? Oh man, the white lab coat dudes are idiots or are all bought and paid for by Big Pharma and they're putting poison in our bodies. Drink green tea instead, because that's what the Chinese did 2000 years ago and they knew more than we do today. It's BS.

Nataly, what I'd do is document your reaction this time(how long after the shot you got sick, the symptoms, etc) and then next year when the shots come around get another one and see if you have the same reaction. It could very well be a co-incidence or you just may be someone that has a bad reaction to the shots. I got my fly shot last Thursday and didn't even have a sore arm from it. If you have a bad reaction to the shots there's nothing wrong with not getting them. Let the rest of us that don't have reactions get them and you can benefit from herd immunity. As for "vaccines don't even work" posts... I prefer to get my science from respected well educated scientists rather than crack pots on the internet posting graphs that don't mean anything. Vaccines are extremely effective. Small pox killed over 300 million people in recorded history. Vaccines eradicated it in a decade for a mere $50 million dollars a year in costs.

Nice segment. I love it when they get good external sound of a wingsuit. It sounds like a jet.

Because I have a job, don't live with my mother and know how to use a spelling checker.

Nominations don't mean squat. Hitler got nominated. I imagine most presidents get nominated. I believe Bush got nominated in 2002.

I'm guessing the reasons will be: *The Cairo speech *His work on nuclear disarmament *Removal of the missile defense system in Eastern Europe that improved relations with Russia *The beginnings of dialogue with Iran and Cuba

I think the biggest worry with H1N1 is that it'll mutate into something nastier. The 1918 spanish flu started out as the "three day fever", it wasn't a big deal til it mutated. The idea behind the vaccine is to stamp out the current H1N1 and keep it from spreading before it can mutate. I never used to get vaccines because I'm a healthy guy and I really don't worry about getting knocked out by some strain of flu. But now I get them to help with herd immunity and so I know I won't spread the flu to someone too young or old to handle it.

I just think the picture is just supposed to be viewed on an 80 inch LCD monitor.

If a "blown toggle" is your riser cover coming off and toggle coming undone and flapping around in the air with you, I'd sure as shit be calling up my rig manufacturer to have it fixed ASAP if that ever happened to me. Properly functioning gear shouldn't be falling apart like that. This isn't the early 90's when gear wasn't designed for freeflying.

The risk of GBS is practically non-existent and it's rarely fatal. I'll be getting the vaccine when it becomes available for my risk group(healthy adult male). I ate chicken for lunch. That was probably more likely to kill me than the flu shot I got 30 mins beforehand.

Very cool. Do you have a post that lays out how your home is designed? There's some cool stuff with this being done in Florida, zero energy homes. Might be more of a challenge here since AC is pretty much required in the summer months. http://www.fsec.ucf.edu/En/research/buildings/zero_energy/index.htm