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You can jump with less than 500 jumps at the palm if you have completed flight 1 course #1 and #2 I have seen people with about 300 jumps jump there.

First 800 or so on a 200 Maveric. next 800 on heatwave 120 then crossfire 109 for 800 circa then various cross braces mainly JVX

I take it you are a democrat to the grave... lol How the hell is Kerry being subpoenaed by Congress and ignoring the legal responsibilty to attend, anything close to flogging a dead horse. Nice try, I guess your cognition is set in concrete.

you guys might be interested in this, http://rt.com/usa/157152-kerry-congressional-subpoena-benghazi/ Despite being subpoenaed by Congress to testify on the 2012 Benghazi attack later this month, US Secretary of State John Kerry will not appear before the House of Representatives’ oversight committee as demanded. So how is a subpoena in any way optional?

Unless a cross section of your lower back is more like a rectangle than an oval, then you will find cut in laterals more comfotable and will follow the contours of your body. That is what a harness is designed to do after all. I do not understand how having cut in laterals could have a negative impact on harness input.

Tiny rigs should mean tiny x braced canopies and by tiny I mean smaller than 80 square feet. I jump canopies less than 80 square feet an have just moved from a Vector to a Javelin. These are very sensiteve to harness position. Maybe small rather than tiny catering for 80-100 square feet this will become more of an issue. The Jav has chest rings that I do not particularly like for going fast head down or on an angle as the shoulders tend to sneak outwards but I do not feel it has any impact on harness turns. Maybe on a bus like a 96 or something, lol. Both have cut in lats but the vector has the hard bits that still goe to the corner. Hard to say if cut in laterals make much difference. Not many rigs do not have them these days anyways so I guess we get what we are given. The world champs do not seem to have a problem with them.

Looks like I am nt the only one connecting the dots. http://www.dnaindia.com/analysis/column-us-could-bring-about-its-own-decline-1983870 pretty much the same as what I was saying.

Mayby excercise a little diplomacy? Encourage discussion? Condemn violence rather than incite it? At the moment they are just poking the stick into the hornets nest and making up and defending lies. Read the first three lines I have written above... There was an agreement made in Geneva recently, do you know about that? Why does the US send over officials and immeitely after Kiev goes at it? Where do they get their encouragement from? Right this minute Ukraine is going to war over Ukraine. The future will tell you that you are quite wrong there and it will bite everyone in the ass. Not just the US and co. I would ask the CEO's of lockheed martin and the many other military contractors that same question over a couple of quiet drinks... I would encourage diplomacy and discussion and an election with the potential for referendums. It is clear that the majority of Ukraine were unhappy with the previous corrupt government. This bares no reflection on the level of satisfaction that the population has in the Rebels that movd in an ceazed power illegally. A open fair vote is the way of democracy, not a coup. I am sure this question has been answered. The agreements made in Geneva on the 17th of April have not been met by Kiev, Neither have they been supported by the US or the EU. It is quite clear that conflict is wanted by these parties. I think they all know damned well that an election now will oust the rougues in Kiev. Once again this is about energy and influence. There is much more to it than the rhetoric we are being told on the news by all sides of the story.

http://rt.com/news/156248-russian-rocket-engines-pentagon/ Rammifications of knee jerks come back to bite...

I beg to differ. I am not, I am pointing out the implications of the US isolationist sanctions. The bigger picture. BRIC is probably less prudent than SCO at this stage, but in the longer term the populations and economies of all these countries will become very important indeed.. As I already pointed out, the US and coalition equipment was transported through both BRIC and SCO states to Afghanistan. This would not be happening again at the current rate. BRIC becomes more important when one considers the economic sanctions and who has financial ties to whom. People are lead to beleive the Russia will be left on its own due to these sanctions, it is actually quite the opposite. China will likely be the worlds largest economy by the end of the year and India will be coming in years to come with a faster growing population than China. The EU countries are clearly apprehensive about such sanctions as they will freeze next winter if Russia turns the gas off. EU economies will also suffer without the all important energy. I believe it will be the USA that will end up isolated from the rest of the world if Washington do not buck up their ideas, these sanctions are like shooting your foot with a shotcun at point blank as far as I can see.

LOL the sky is not falling at all. There is always prosperity and poverty somewhere in the world. There is always a balance. The properity of US citizens is rapidly declining so it may seem as if the sky is falling for some, not so for others. The point is that these nations do not need the USA. The petro dollar is at risk here. Those countries represent over half of the human population and emerging markets are growing. The only thing keeping the US$ as a global reserve currency is the petro dollar. Current US sanctions are leading these counrties to move away from the petro dollar and use thier own currencies. Pretty simple, beleive what you want but the writing is on the wall. http://www.wallstreetsectorselector.com/investment-articles/analyst-desk/2014/04/world-slowly-waves-good-bye-petro-dollar/

Read my above post. Agreed! and not just Americans either.

This is from a naive standpoint. Domestic capital is staying in Russia due to the sanctions, they are fast tracking a domestic payment platform (sidestepping visa and mastercard) and they are now also side stepping the petro dollar. If you look into this a little more closesly, you will find that the USA are shooting themselves in the foot and the wound could be terminal. With tensions building up in the South China Sea at the same time (yes energy, again), the US is building up troops and equipment there too. This will not please China. This also places further strain on the US Military and economy. Much of the US coalition equipment that is in Afghanistan now will want to be removed soon enough. How do you think that got there? On BRIC and SCO countries' rail roads... The single largest point of this however, is the demise of the petro dollar. Saddam tried -look what happened. Gadaffi tried - look what happened. You think the US are going to march into the Kremlin and hang Putin by the balls? ... The BRIC and SCO contries hold much more power than what any media outlet will be willing to talk about, and almost half of the worlds population. No amount of gold plated tungsten or debt tickets (printed dollars) will be able to escape the forthcoming revisitation of the scenario that was faced by Nixon in 1971, when the gold was dropped and the petro dollar was adopted. US default. This move away from the petro dollar is going to hurt everyone. http://www.usdebtclock.org/ Once the catylist has been ignited (Petro dollar being ignored and oil traded by other countries in their own currencies). Then the derivatives ponzie will also collapse, the debt will be called in and this this in turn will expose the tungsten bars in fort knox, all the other scams that have been conjured up as well as a run on the banks. If the amrerican people think this 'little scuffle' in Ukraine is just that; Then you had better start picketing outside the white house as your president is waging your future (immediate and long term) with these sanctions. Obviously there is much more to it than 'the scuffle' we are being lead to beleive it is, or why would they be bothering.

wow! You realise this can escallate into a major international war? The sanctions that have just happened in the past couple of weeks have prompted major energy deals between Russia-China and Russia-Iran within the same time period? These energy deals jeapodize the petro dollar (will not be done in US$) and in turn the entire US and world economy. I think people that do not 'give a shit', ought to open their eyes and ears if they value their current lifestyle.

Well if war was not usually about energy, then an answer could be that there is such thing as minding your own business. There is more to this than the usual democracy and people's rights rhetoric. This is about energy. Annexing Crimea is all Russia needed to do to secure their interests. They did it legally, with precision and with very little casualties in a few days. The next phase is not going to be so pretty.

Who are the rioters? The people that staged a coup earlier this year and overthrew an elected government (though a corrupt one), or the ones that are resiting those very people now. Seems like the usual double standards going on here.

Yeah I definately understand that. It seems Putin has to do nothing to win... It is beginnng to look really ugly and with the tension in the south china sea also starting to swell, it is not looking like sunshine and lollipops at all is it.

So the shit has been hitting the fan for a while and this is where politics is discussed on this site... Where is the discussion? http://rt.com/news/155424-donetsk-clashes-ukraine-protesters/