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They are Asian Carp. That is here in Peoria Illinois on the Illinois River. They do not like the vibrations from the boat motors and will jump out of the water. They also jump around the bridge pillars of auto and train bridges. When out on the river you have to be very very carful not to get knocked out by flying fish. I have seen so many people on TV from around here because of this. One guy got hit in the face and made it to the finals on America's funniest home videos. Check out this article it explains the whole invasion: http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4196/is_20061016/ai_n16781193 TROUBLED WATERS: THE ASIAN CARP INVASION; UNWANTED BOUNTY; As fast- Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, The, Oct 16, 2006 by DAN EGAN Second of three parts Havana, Ill. The only thing more spectacular than the volume of Asian carp now frothing the water in some river stretches of the northern Mississippi basin is the speed at which the invasion has occurred. Part-time commercial fisherman Mike Savochka netted 6,500 pounds of bighead carp on a hot summer morning in late July. He said those nets, dropped in the same area of the Illinois River, once regularly filled with 5,000 pounds of native buffalo fish. "Today we got one," he said of his buffalo fish total. "Not 1,000 pounds. One fish." Savochka remembers the first bighead he brought into his wholesaler. Nobody knew what it was. Related Results TROUBLED WATERS: THE ASIAN... Environment: Giant Carp Gone Wild Asian carp a menace to ecology New lake threat: Asian carp Most Popular Articles in News Black Women White ... Naked boys vs. naked ... Tisha Campbell-Martin ... The gangs behind bars ... How do I look? ... "We thought they were salmon," he said. That was just five years ago. Four species of Asian carp are now loose in U.S. waters. The most menacing bighead and silver carp have overwhelmed stretches of river in the Mississippi basin and have been found within about 50 miles of the shoreline of Lake Michigan. Imported as an agent to clean fouled waters, the filter-feeders let loose by government researchers three decades ago have a new generation of biologists in a fight they fret they cannot win. It is a fight that could well change forever life in the Great Lakes region, home to more than 4 million recreational boats and a $4.5 billion annual commercial and recreational fishing industry. Advertisement Caught off-guard by the blitzkrieg speed of the invasion, researchers have yet to figure out exactly how the fish are affecting the Mississippi basin's native species. But those who make their livings studying the infested rivers say there is little doubt that these creatures that are so effective at stripping the plankton at the bottom of the food chain are changing the way things work in the river. Bighead carp can reach a jockey-sized 100 pounds; the jumping silver carp are just a slightly smaller version of the bighead. Neither has a true stomach, which essentially compels them to eat non-stop. One fish can carry as many as 5 million eggs, a devastating attribute if the fish get into waters where no worthy predators exist. "Their strategy," said United States Geological Survey biologist Duane Chapman, "is to overwhelm the environment." Kevin Irons, a biologist with the Illinois Natural History Survey in the Illinois River town of Havana, has watched that strategy succeed. "Six years ago, the Asian carp was nothing," Irons said. "Now most of the biomass out there is bighead and silver carp, so there certainly are implications." But Carole Engle, director of the aquaculture center at the University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff, points out that silver and bighead carp have been swimming in the wild in Southern states for more than two decades, yet they apparently have not reproduced nearly to the extent that they have in Northern waters. She thinks polluted Northern rivers are a big part of the problem. "There are tremendous amounts of nutrients going into that (Illinois) river," she said. That, she said, means there might be plenty of food to go around for all the fish, and she notes that the scientific community has yet to show a direct connection between the silver and bighead carp explosion and the loss of native species on an ecosystem already ravaged by pollution, dams and other invasive species. She said "hysteria" has taken over where hard facts are needed. "We need good science," she said, noting that heavy infestations on the Illinois, Mississippi and Missouri rivers appear to be localized and not uniform throughout the basin. "What impact are these fish really having?" Geological Survey biologist Cindy Kolar agrees that the data on the Asian carp's impact on native species are slim, but that doesn't mean there isn't trouble in the water. "In terms of (scientific) literature, it's just not there yet," she said. "That doesn't mean there are not effects." Illinois biologist Irons points to preliminary results from a study on an 80-mile stretch of the Illinois River that shows the average weight for a 25-inch buffalo fish has dropped from over 12 pounds to less than 9 pounds in the last five years a period of time that coincides with the invasion. "We're seeing the buffalo are starting to suffer," agreed Rob Maher, commercial fishing program manager for the State of Illinois. Maher adds that he is seeing commercial fishing operations go belly-up across the state, and a big reason is that the only thing fishermen are finding in their nets is thousands of pounds of unwanted fish. The recreational fishery is also suffering. Mike Conlin, chief of fisheries for the Illinois Department of Natural Resources, said he has seen enough to know there is "no question" the carp have squeezed out the native bass on the Illinois River near Peoria and the anglers who chased them. He notes that Peoria's big-time bass fishing tournaments have disappeared in the last decade and said they are "absolutely" a casualty of the bighead and silver carp invasion. Today the big sport in Peoria is watching the silver carp jump. Or slaughtering them with bow and arrow. "We're trying to take advantage of a bad situation," said Christine Appleberg, president of the Illinois Bowfishers association. NO CURES IN SIGHT FISH BREEDING OUT OF CONTROL Biologists concede that they have yet to find a way to halt or even slow the spread, and every section of river or lake the fish colonize is likely a section of river or lake that will have Asian carp for good. Some people are hopeful that strategic fishing programs might someday help curb the Asian carp numbers, but at the moment the price is too low to bring enough fishermen to the river. There is a downside to relying on fishermen to control the species inevitably the fishermen will become dependent on them. That could lead to demands that biologists manage waterways to sustain carp numbers in order to sustain the fishing industry, and "I certainly don't want to be managing rivers for these fish 20 years from now," said Geological Survey biologist Chapman. Another potential control is to plant native predators, but the carp grow so fast twice as fast as other fast-growing Mississippi natives, such as the gizzard shad that there are worries no native species may be able to control them. "Once you get to be a 5-kilogram (11-pound) silver carp, there's not much out there that is going to bother you other than people," said Chapman. Advertisement The extensive dam systems on the rivers of the Mississippi basin could also be used to manipulate the peak spring flows that spawning Asian carp apparently require. There are wilder ideas. Researchers are beginning to look at genetically modifying captive fish so they produce only male offspring. The theory: Release these fish into the wild, and they might just eventually and ironically breed themselves into extinction. Fish poisons such as rotenone, meanwhile, are out of the question except for small-scale treatments because of the number of fish and the vastness of waters they have infested. So the question now is: Where will the fish will turn up next? "In invasion biology, proximity to the source is probably the single most important predictor," said Gregg Sass, director of the Illinois Natural History Survey research center in Havana, Ill. That means the Great Lakes are in trouble. ALREADY VULNERABLE GREAT LAKES COULD MAKE GREAT HOME The only thing standing between the fish and the Great Lakes is an electric barrier on the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal that has a history of power failures. The Great Lakes are already ravaged by the arrival of more than 180 foreign invaders, and the worry is that the carp could be disastrous for an already sick system. Although the lakes still sustain a booming commercial and recreational fishery, in some ways the world's largest freshwater system has become more an artificial fish factory than a self- sustaining ecosystem. The sea lamprey invasion in the middle of the 20th century destroyed what was left of Lake Michigan's overfished native lake trout, the natural king of the food chain. The loss of that top predator opened the door to invading alewives, a pocket-comb-sized Atlantic herring that, coupled with historical overfishing, decimated what was left of Lake Michigan's other native species. Today, lampreys are controlled by a non-stop poisoning program, and alewives are controlled by a non-stop Pacific salmon-planting program, which drives the lake's recreational fishing business. Native species have been eliminated or so squeezed to the side that the entire system is now, in the words of renowned Canadian biologist Henry Regier, "stripped down to just a very simple and sad caricature" of its former self. That makes it particularly vulnerable to new invasions. Picture today's "stripped down" version of the Great Lakes food chain as a skinny tower of building blocks, instead of the fat pyramid it once was. Now imagine the comparative damage that could be done by pulling a block from the base. "The more complex an ecosystem is," explained Ron Benjamin, Mississippi River fisheries supervisor for the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources, "the more resilient it is." The system is already showing signs of wobbling. In the late 1980s, the average 7-year-old native whitefish in Lake Michigan weighed more than 5 pounds. Today a fish that same age weighs about 1.5 pounds. The reason: The whitefish's main food source, a tiny shrimp-like creature, is disappearing from the lake bottom, a likely consequence of the arrival of the filter-feeding zebra mussel in the late 1980s and its cousin the quagga mussel a decade later. But the trouble they're causing should worry more than fishermen. Advertisement The filter-feeding mollusks have also increased water clarity, which has spawned outbreaks of rotting algae, at times rendering Lake Michigan beaches useless and producing a stink so wretched it does what was unthinkable just a few decades ago it can make you pity the people who live in the million-dollar mansions on the lake bluffs. There are more ominous impacts; in some places on the Great Lakes, mussel-induced algae blooms have triggered botulism outbreaks that have killed tens of thousands of birds. Zebra mussels have also been implicated in increased levels of a toxic blue-green algae called Microcystis, which produces a poison that can cause liver damage. And now there is the looming arrival of filter-feeding Asian carp, dubbed by some the 100-pound zebra mussel and, biologist Chapman notes, another Microcystis-enhancing species. Microcystis is covered with a material that allows it to survive a trip through a silver carp's nutrient-rich gut, and it actually "comes out on the other end stimulated," Chapman said. The question on everybody's mind: Can the Asian carp find a home in the Great Lakes? The unfortunate answer: Yes. Chinese professor Zhitang Yu has studied Asian carp for 50 years and probably knows as much about the habits and needs of the fish as anyone in the world. He thinks our big lakes would be a suitable home, even if they are colder and clearer than the nutrient-rich rivers of the Mississippi River basin. That, he said, means only that the fish will grow at a slower rate. "In northern China, it's very cold, and we have the fish there, too," Yu said through an interpreter. The Great Lakes tributaries, he said, will be the biggest trouble spots. Chapman agrees adult Asian carp might find a home in the lakes, but the fish need the lakes' big, free-flowing tributaries to spawn. Biologists have mapped 22 such rivers on the U.S. side of the Great Lakes, including the Manitowoc and Sheboygan rivers. Most also agree Asian carp could thrive in the warm, shallow bays and harbors of the Great Lakes. Unfortunately, those are the same waters anglers and boaters tend to occupy, as well. What worries U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service biologist Mike Hoff is that the Great Lakes are being compared to other lakes and reservoirs, and they shouldn't be. "The Great Lakes are, in some places, much like rivers. There are big, strong currents," he said. That could make open waters suitable spawning grounds, and that, he said, "unlocks much more habitat." Hoff also worries what the combination of all five carp species could do to the lakes, because they depend on such different types of food. Bighead and silver carp are filter feeders; grass carp eat vegetation; and black carp eat mollusks. And then there is the bottom-foraging common carp, a weed-of-a-species that has plagued the Great Lakes for more than a century. Each individually poses a significant threat, but Hoff said that working together they "can break apart the connections on which our ecosystems are based." The only prediction Chapman will make about how the fish could change the lakes and the way people use them is to "expect the unexpected." Advertisement "It's possible you could drift along for 40 years before they go crazy. Or they could go crazy right away," he said. "You can't predict it." ON JSONLINE.COM A slide show, Sunday's installment of this series, links to the "Troubled Waters" series from past years and more, at www.jsonline.com/links/asiancarp THE SERIES SUNDAY: Super-sized cousins of the common carp are now within 50 miles of Lake Michigan, threatening to forever change life in the Great Lakes region, home to a $4.5 billion annual commercial and recreational fishing industry. TODAY: Picture today's version of the Great Lakes food chain as a skinny tower of building blocks, instead of the fat pyramid it once was. Now imagine the damage done by pulling a block from the base. TUESDAY: The only thing standing between Asian carp and the Great Lakes is a failing electric barrier on a canal that connects the Mississippi River and Lake Michigan. A new barrier would help if the government would turn it on. Chris It's Jimmy Time!! http://www.facebook.com/pages/Team-Fast-As-Fuck/6099474213

Be ready SAW 4 is on the horizon. I think it is due out in October. Chris It's Jimmy Time!! http://www.facebook.com/pages/Team-Fast-As-Fuck/6099474213

Jimmy's ashes were released into the sky July 29th over Skydive Chicago. Everyone would like to thank Rook, Frankie, and the staff at SDC for all the support and dropping what they were doing to make it happen on one of their busiest weekends. Attached are a few pictures. Blue Skies Jimmy!! I miss you more and more each day. Chris It's Jimmy Time!! http://www.facebook.com/pages/Team-Fast-As-Fuck/6099474213

Try Lowe's they don't care if you want to help anyone or do anything. Chris It's Jimmy Time!! http://www.facebook.com/pages/Team-Fast-As-Fuck/6099474213

here is mine Items shipped on July 19, 2007: Delivery estimate: July 23, 2007 - July 25, 2007 1 package via USPS 1 of: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Book 7) Sold by: Amazon.com, LLC thats ok I'll be busy all weekend at the dz anyway. No time to read when you want to make 15-20 jumps a day. Chris It's Jimmy Time!! http://www.facebook.com/pages/Team-Fast-As-Fuck/6099474213

I had heard or read one time where his suit failed during the freefall and his hand had no feeling for some amount of time. Could you get alittle more details on this? I think it would really give us a clear understanding of the risks he took. Also what was the process for the planning of this jump and how long did the planning and preperations take? Can't wait to hear this show!!! This one will rank right up there with the Bill Booth interviews in my book!!! Chris It's Jimmy Time!! http://www.facebook.com/pages/Team-Fast-As-Fuck/6099474213

I was 24 Chris It's Jimmy Time!! http://www.facebook.com/pages/Team-Fast-As-Fuck/6099474213

Yea and tell them to bring the pictures they owe Team FAF!!! Pretty sad we were waiting a whole year for them.. that reminds me will the '06 Couch Video be available at '07 Couch???? Chris It's Jimmy Time!! http://www.facebook.com/pages/Team-Fast-As-Fuck/6099474213

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/01/25/earlyshow/leisure/main1236856.shtml CBS) Everyone knows that fisherman love to tall tales. But Jeff Morrow has the proof to back his up, because it was caught on tape. Earlier this month, in a tournament off the coast of Guatemala, Morrow, a lawyer from Jacksonville, Fla., hooked a feisty sailfish from a tiny, inflatable kayak. Morrow told The Early Show co-anchor Julie Chen Wednesday he was in the thick of the contest when he and a friend suddenly decided to alternate on a kayak and go fly-fishing for sailfish. In all, Morrow and the friend reeled in four fish and one dolphin from the kayak, and many other fish from regular boats. But his sailfish adventure is the one he'll remember. The friend, on a nearby boat, captured the scene on camera. Watching the video along with Chen, Morrow explained that he caught the sailfish with a fly-rod. All the fish caught in the tournament were released unharmed, and Morrow says at one point on the video, where it appears he and the fish are struggling, he's actually attempting to position it to remove the hook so he could free the fish. Was he scared? "It was a very exciting form of fishing. I was frightened and so was the fish. My eyes would look right on the fish's eyes, he was so close to me. And I could feel his fright and he could probably feel my fright." At times, Morrow added, "It was like a bull coming at me. He charged the boat a couple of times with the bill." At one point, the fish jumped out of the water and almost hit the kayak as he came back down. "It took me about three-and-a-half miles, about over an hour, drug me around in the Pacific. … We were in about 2,000 feet of water." Morrow came through it unscathed. He says it was "primeval, almost. It's other-worldly. The way that works is that he just drags your boat around, so you're not pulling back so hard. You're basically on a sleigh ride, and it's very exciting." Morrow is a founding member and the current president of the Southern Sailfish Association, a non profit organization that bills itself as being made up of "sportsmen who care." The group says its mission is "to promote the catch and release of billfish globally, and to promote medical, legal, and financial assistance to indigent residents of Central America, South America, and Africa. Chris It's Jimmy Time!! http://www.facebook.com/pages/Team-Fast-As-Fuck/6099474213

Yep Sunny is in East Peoria (PM Sunshine she will be in Ottawa all weekend I am sure) or drive up to Skydive Chicago. That is about the closest 2 options I know of around here. Most of the guys at IVPC stopped rigging besides Jack Tillman. Chris It's Jimmy Time!! http://www.facebook.com/pages/Team-Fast-As-Fuck/6099474213

Mike and Charlie Mullins... Thats to easy you need to try alittle harder Chris It's Jimmy Time!! http://www.facebook.com/pages/Team-Fast-As-Fuck/6099474213

Here is what happens when it does happen.... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3JHzikn1Fxc Chris It's Jimmy Time!! http://www.facebook.com/pages/Team-Fast-As-Fuck/6099474213

I know my old neighbor was telling me about a software code she was writing that would be a whole new way to surf the internet. We moved away and a year later I was hearing about things in vista that sounded like what she told me. I made a phone call to another old neighbor who told me microsoft bought her code for alittle over $5 million plus royalties and she has since moved and bought a $1.8 mil house. If I could be a forward thinker like that. Chris It's Jimmy Time!! http://www.facebook.com/pages/Team-Fast-As-Fuck/6099474213

I seen it the other night during stunt junkies. Very Funny!! Unrealistic if you want to get technical but I don't and I laughed my ass off. It is pretty good. I did a search online but have not found anything about it. No it is not the bail-out pilot. It is about packing there first chutes. Chris It's Jimmy Time!! http://www.facebook.com/pages/Team-Fast-As-Fuck/6099474213

It is with great sorrow in our hearts that we must share some awful news with all of our brothers and sisters. Our beloved friend and teammate died in a motorcyle crash early Friday morning. Anyone who knows Jimmy knows he was always striving to have the most fun possible both with his family and friends. He passed doing one of the things he loves the most and will always be remembered for being the life of the party and a friend to everyone. He will be greatly missed by many!! The Visitation will be held Tuesday May 22nd from 4-8 PM and Funeral service will be Wednesday May 23rd at 11 AM at Weerts Funeral Home 3625 Jersey Ridge Rd. Davenport, Iowa 52807 563-355-4433 The family requests in lieu of flowers please contribute to the Childrens college fund. Please make checks payable to The Tribbett Family Please keep his family in your thoughts and prayers! http://www.qctimes.com/articles/2007/05/19/news/local/doc464e7eb69c633509752660.txt Bettendorf man dies in motorcycle accident By Kurt Allemeier | Saturday, May 19, 2007 A 38-year-old Bettendorf man was killed early Friday after his motorcycle crashed into the back of a minivan on 53rd Street in Davenport. Davenport police identified the motorcyclist as James Tribbett, of 3128 Marynoel Ave. The accident occurred about 12:55 a.m. on 53rd Street east of Utica Ridge Road but before the Bettendorf city limits, according to police. A minivan driven by Paul Benevides, 20, of Rapids City, Ill., was eastbound at or near the 45-mph speed limit, according to police. After passing through the Utica Ridge Road intersection, the motorcyclist accelerated rapidly and crashed his 2003 Honda motorcycle into the back of the van. The motorcycle rider was pronounced dead at the scene. Benevides was not injured. The crash remains under investigation Chris It's Jimmy Time!! http://www.facebook.com/pages/Team-Fast-As-Fuck/6099474213

I went from a stiletto 150 to xfire2 129 then Katana 120. And LOVE the Katana!!! The Katana I demoed kept spanking me a couple line twists out of 30 jumps I think I had 5 nice on heading openings with it. I ordered a new one anyway after discussions with a few friends that had them. My Katana has been great for 50ish jumps now. opens great!!! on heading 80-90% of the time. nice and soft even softer then my xfire!!!! on my xfire I rarly heard my pro track go off during a swoop not with my Katana it is rare if I do not hear it. Don't always put your faith in the demo canopies. I know they are supose to be just like what you order but it was not for me. If you see something on a canopy you demo that is not charateristic. Talk to someone that flies one and ask them over a beer. This sometimes gets you a bigger picture. Chris It's Jimmy Time!! http://www.facebook.com/pages/Team-Fast-As-Fuck/6099474213

not another weekend with you f'ers my liver will not be able to handle it. Chris It's Jimmy Time!! http://www.facebook.com/pages/Team-Fast-As-Fuck/6099474213

the repayment is a pretax deduction from your payroll also. it is not a pre-tax payment for mine. might want to chwck into that just to make sure. Chris It's Jimmy Time!! http://www.facebook.com/pages/Team-Fast-As-Fuck/6099474213

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070502/ap_on_fe_st/good_samaritans_cited_1 TWIN FALLS, Idaho - Canoeist Dennis Bohrn and his companions were stunned when they saw a woman jump off the Perrine Bridge, her body landing near them in the Snake River. Many in the group were crying by the time they managed to reach the woman and paddle her body to shore. So Bohrn was shocked when an officer walked up and instead of thanking or comforting the group last Sunday, wrote out a couple of $85 tickets for failing to have life jackets on board either of the two canoes. "The body was right there," said the 58-year-old Twin Falls resident. "A girl deputy was trying to console everybody. Then a sergeant walked up. He said, 'I see you don't have any life jackets so I am going to give you a citation.' It seemed a little cold." Twin Falls County Sheriff Wayne Tousley said he stands by the deputy's decision, although he added, "Could it have been done at another time? He had a discretion." Bohrn said he and his friends are still traumatized from witnessing the death. He plans to contest the citations in court. "Maybe you get kind of cold in that job," Bohrn said. "I think there is a time and a place. They should use common sense. Maybe his superiors could tell him, 'Next time, wait until they get to the dock and the girls aren't crying.'" Chris It's Jimmy Time!! http://www.facebook.com/pages/Team-Fast-As-Fuck/6099474213

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Ixtapa is about 2 hours north of Aucopulco (sp???) on the Pacific side of Mexico. You fly into Zihuatinao (once again sp????) Airport code ZIH. Sorry no idea on the dates Chris It's Jimmy Time!! http://www.facebook.com/pages/Team-Fast-As-Fuck/6099474213

Here are my 3. A.J., Sis, & Rock Star Chris It's Jimmy Time!! http://www.facebook.com/pages/Team-Fast-As-Fuck/6099474213

THANKS!! Now I know... Now to find something else and save the wine glasses for something less important then VD...like our Anniversary Chris It's Jimmy Time!! http://www.facebook.com/pages/Team-Fast-As-Fuck/6099474213

Bought my wife 4 Riedel Ouvertune White Wine Crystal glasses. To add to her collection. Chris It's Jimmy Time!! http://www.facebook.com/pages/Team-Fast-As-Fuck/6099474213

I use an SkySystem Oxygen A3 w/o a lens w/ Gatorz or Googles. I have had an issue a time or two where the velcro strap had come loose. and the helmet has lossened up. This has happend more lately after I had them rebuild it. I have seen snaps placed on the end of the velcro at your position much like factory diver. I have not been to concerned as I am aware of the problem and my big melon holds the helmet well with the new liner. Chris It's Jimmy Time!! http://www.facebook.com/pages/Team-Fast-As-Fuck/6099474213