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I much prefer this one: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zOfjkl-3SNE 108 way head down world record!!! http://www.simonbones.com Hit me up on Facebook

Hmm but that one doesn't charge with the cigarette lighter though and would drain the iPod battery. Can't seem to find one anywhere. 108 way head down world record!!! http://www.simonbones.com Hit me up on Facebook

So after getting some of my stuff stolen from my car, I replaced my crappy old iPod with one of these brand spanking new fangled iPod Nano G5s. I also bought a new wireless FM transmitter to keep it plugged in to my car to listen to music while driving. Problem is that the FM transmitters I bought won't work with the new iPod Nano G5. When I plug it in to the iPod the iPod displays a message saying, "this accessory does not support charging" and then does not acknowledge it anymore and won't play music on the radio. The transmitter eventually turns off from not getting a signal. Anyone out there know of a reasonably priced FM transmitter that is compatible with the new Nano G5? 108 way head down world record!!! http://www.simonbones.com Hit me up on Facebook

As much as I hate to admit it... he is that bad ass 108 way head down world record!!! http://www.simonbones.com Hit me up on Facebook

From the most recently sent out email: We are only 2 days away from the fun, the BBQ is cooking, the kegs are chilling, and the captains have been announced. Your speed star captains will be: Scott Latinis Simon Bones RD Latimer Henry Butler Keith Mallett RD Latimer Ray Cordova We will be releasing the draw on Friday night at 7:30pm. If you have not done so, please pre-register for the event at www.skydivehouston.com. Don't forget about the 2nd annual SDH Turkey Bowl after the sunset load on Saturday. We have $500 in prizes on the line, don't miss out! See you all on Saturday at 8:00am. 108 way head down world record!!! http://www.simonbones.com Hit me up on Facebook

I personally know a skydiver in the south west who was victim of something like this. In his case, they pulled him out of the car, strip searched him, searched the car (without his permission), and found nothing. They then resorted to the swabbing because they were sure the smelled MJ. They did not get him on his windshield but they got him on his sunglasses case for MJ residue from the swab and he was fined. OTOH, he did take this to court and it did not stand up. This still does not change the fact that he had to go through strip searching, unauthorized searching of his vehicle, then pay the legal expenses of challenging this. I asked him if he would sue, but to him it was not worth the effort since it was not his home state and he lived a good distance away. 108 way head down world record!!! http://www.simonbones.com Hit me up on Facebook

This is a copy+paste from Todd's email: 10-Way Formation Speedstar Scrambles Competition at Skydive Houston on November 21, 2009 We will have two PAC750XLs' and will put five members of each team on two separate planes with video. Make your formation average the fastest on the best of six team jumps and your team will medal. Open to B Licensed equivalent and above. Party, BEER and dinner to follow the great skydives along with the videographer awards for best videos' of the day. Team Captains will be released on Monday, November 16, 2009. We are expecting at lease six teams in the scramblers based competition. Registration: You can register online here or in person at manifest before 7:45 AM November 21, 2009. Draw: The draw of the one point dive flows for the six jumps will be held at Skydive Houston on Friday November 20, 2009 at 7:30PM. After the draw and manifest chugs a beer we will send the draw to the team captains only and put the draw on the board at Skydive Houston. Bunk rooms and air mattress parking is free in the packing area. Experience Required: USPA B-License or equivalent (50 jumps and current). The team captains will work with ALL skydivers and due their best to see them succeed, after all they want to medal. This event is about learning formation plane loads in small doses, healthy competition, being safe and having FUN! The team captains will assign a Plane Boss for the other plane and their other team members. So safety supervision will be tight on the newer jumpers. Team Selection: This will be a scrambles type competition with TEN members to a team. The team will be assigned a team captain, and 9 other experienced jumpers from all over Texas and hopefully beyond. Skydive Houston will classify jump numbers by: 50-200: Rookie 201-499: Intermediate 500+ Advanced Team Captain: OPEN Skydive Houston will pull the names out of each classification hat at 7:50 AM and put them with their team. The team will consist of 3 Rookies, 3 Intermediate, 3 Advanced, and the Team captain. The team captain will then select his plane boss from the advanced skydivers for his secondary plane. This plane boss position is VERY important. Not only are they in charge of their four other team members, they are the only one besides the team captain to float and spot the formation load. The rest of the members will be behind the line. When the Team Captain leaves with his video the time starts. It’s up to the Plane Boss to leave also! Jump Planes: For this event we will be jumping two PAC750XLs. They have seating for 18 but we keep it at 14 average. The plane is a single turbine powered by at Pratt and Whitney PT6-34, low wing aircraft that can turn four loads an hour. For this event we will send it with the two teams of five and one videographer. That’s 11 on each plane and very comfortable for your seven min ride to 12,000’ which will be exit altitude. Stay OFF the runway, this plane can and will beat you down. (Unless you’re RD Latimer!!!!) Expect one jump an hour from when your feet hit the ground. Our Twin Otter is still down for heavy overhaul but we will have it back up in February/March 2010 just in time for the busy season with the PAC at her side. Cost: Per competitor, Skydive Houston requires a $15.00 Registration Fee. This covers the purchase of 36 medals, dinner, judging and four kegs of beer. Each Jump ticket is priced at $22.00 and the videographer is included with a DVD recording of all the teams’ jumps. Plus free entry into turkey bowling! Party: The night starts earlier so this is easy to do. 4 KEGS, dinner catered from one of Skydive Houston Teams. Good times with good friends, till 8:00PM then it’s the return of Turkey Bowling; All bets are off as we convert the DZ to a bowling alley. One round each, in two stellar Skydive Houston turkey lanes. 1st prize is $200.00 in jump credit, 2nd prize $100.00 in jump credit and 3rd is all of the turkeys bowled. Just in time for Thanksgiving. The highest scoring student will get 1 free jump (Next Student Jump). Rules at Skydive Houston: Violence will not be tolerated. Drama will not be tolerated. Respect others jumpers property. No more than a 90 in the main landing area. Doors open at 9:00AM Friday and close at 11:59 PM Sunday. Keep the public nudity to a slight minimum. You must have FUN. 108 way head down world record!!! http://www.simonbones.com Hit me up on Facebook

It's an interesting response by Iran after the charges against them of smuggling Iranian weapons into Syria for Hezbollah last week. Israel just recently released their evidence of the illegal arms shipments. http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5j7KL97vZXP7V6wB3VkuwCgjoPKjQ 108 way head down world record!!! http://www.simonbones.com Hit me up on Facebook

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I've been there and written on the walls. There is lots of tension and hate there. While there are some murals pushing for peace, there are also many public murals calling for more blood. Though calmed down significantly, it's obvious that IRA and UFF activity are not dead. 108 way head down world record!!! http://www.simonbones.com Hit me up on Facebook

Maybe the wall dividing West Belfast. There's been peace there for a few years now. Maybe the Catholics and Protestants can get along. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peace_lines Edited to add link 108 way head down world record!!! http://www.simonbones.com Hit me up on Facebook

I'll see you there! I suggest people get on my team. That's the team that will be taking gold. It is also the team that will float all of the kegs before anyone else gets any. http://www.facebook.com/home.php?ref=home#/event.php?eid=207642899534&index=1 108 way head down world record!!! http://www.simonbones.com Hit me up on Facebook

The Thresher sinking was not related to any kind of nuclear accident. They took on a seawater leak at test depth which in turn grounded some vital electrical equipment that initiated a reactor safety shutdown. The shutdown of the reactor was coincident to their situation at hand. In an attempt to blow their ballast tanks, moisture in the high pressure air lines froze and stopped up the air pipes which caused a failure in the ability to emergency surface. Had the reactor not shut itself down, they probably still would have sunk. This was not a problem with reactor operation, the reactor did what it was supposed to do sensing a problem. This was a QC problem with welding sea water piping inside the sub and moist air where it shouldn't have been. The nuclear sub USS Scorpion also sunk for reasons unrelated to nuclear operations. 108 way head down world record!!! http://www.simonbones.com Hit me up on Facebook

What??? It can easily be done without risking prompt criticality! Just cause Chernobyl was an older poorer design (which had many of its safety features removed during the incident) doesn't mean it can't be done safely. If you limit rod speeds and have scrams based on rate of power change (and a few other protections against rapid reactivity insertion) than it shouldn't even be an issue. Besides, there are still several operational Chernobyl reactors today that didn't have all those nasty problems considering the awful design. Most civilian reactors just don't need many of the pros that come with high enrichment like more responsive changes in power levels etc. But would probably still benefit some from refueling less often and creating less volume of high level waste. How much does refueling cost, about a million a day I believe? Guaranteed massive explosion? Pffft. Come one now. It's been used over and over again for decades without issue considering the many operating errors I've seen 108 way head down world record!!! http://www.simonbones.com Hit me up on Facebook

Sure there are pros and cons to every type of design. That doesn't mean it isn't currently being done successfully in some types of currently operating reactors. 108 way head down world record!!! http://www.simonbones.com Hit me up on Facebook

You can go much much longer than that if your fuel is enriched to 97% 108 way head down world record!!! http://www.simonbones.com Hit me up on Facebook

That is a good question. Spent fuel waste isn't really generated very often from a reactor. Once a reactor is fueled, the uranium stays in for a very very long time. An even more interesting question is why do people think of spent fuel when they think of "nuclear waste"? The overwhelming majority of "nuclear waste" is clean enough to eat off of. As a rough estimate from experience, I would say that far less than 10% of volume disposed of as "nuclear waste" actually has any real or significant contamination. You would be shocked to see the amount of day to day things that get disposed of as "nuclear waste" at a nuke plant, yet you can dispose of your smoke detectors in the trash and have them around your house. The poly bags just keep piling up. 108 way head down world record!!! http://www.simonbones.com Hit me up on Facebook

After working in the nuclear power industry for years I know first hand how many misconceptions there really are in the general public about nuclear power. I agree with George, this should have been done years ago. Not issuing licenses for 30 years over public fear and lack of education has been counterproductive. Nuclear really is the most ideal option available. Many people like to worry about nuclear waste but have never worked with, measured, or counted 'nuclear waste' and really have no idea what it really is. I have. If they did, they would be really surprised as to what the fuss is all about. 108 way head down world record!!! http://www.simonbones.com Hit me up on Facebook

Ummm... you must be mistaken. That's not me at all! Totally the wrong hair color. Couldn't have been me! Dammit. 108 way head down world record!!! http://www.simonbones.com Hit me up on Facebook

Great success, great party, great times. The pictures surfacing on facebook... oh boy. 108 way head down world record!!! http://www.simonbones.com Hit me up on Facebook

I always bring the alternate rig 108 way head down world record!!! http://www.simonbones.com Hit me up on Facebook

Right around the corner! I was planning on heading out Thursday night but since the Pogues are playing in Houston that night, I'll see y'all Friday morning 108 way head down world record!!! http://www.simonbones.com Hit me up on Facebook

I'll be bringing a fun costume. If everybody else fails to follow suit, I won't mind looking silly. I know what I'm good at 108 way head down world record!!! http://www.simonbones.com Hit me up on Facebook

I agree, it will never full die, but it is certainly dying and on the downward trend. Here is a thought, belly flyers lose the resources to make their records any bigger, but their is no shortage of people. The head down records will only get big enough until there just aren't enough freeflyers to go bigger. 108 way head down world record!!! http://www.simonbones.com Hit me up on Facebook

So here is the current position of freeflying, pay attention for all you kids who keep believing that freefly is the way of the future and all that nonsense. 2008 Nationals VFS: 6 teams entered open class 10 teams entered advanced class 2009 Nationals VFS: 3 teams entered open class 3 teams entered advanced class 2008 Nationals artistic 3way freefly: 3 teams entered open class 6 teams entered intermediate class 2009 Nationals artistic 3way freefly: 4 teams entered open class 5 teams* entered intermediate class *Some background: USPA scheduled 4 days to complete VFS competition this year. Because so few teams showed up, it was all pretty much done in one day. There is a rule in competition that says that if an event goes two years in a row with less than 4 teams entering, it is removed as a competitive event. When we finished VFS competition for the day, we saw that 4 teams had entered artistic freefly open (one team only being a guest since not all members were US citizens) and only 3 had entered intermediate. In order to prevent the first strike against intermediate freefly some of us threw together last minute artistic FF intermediate teams moments before registration closed. We were able to do this only because VFS was over. I'm not sure if a guest team counts towards the minimum of 4 rule, but if it doesn't, there will be no freefly artistic open competition anymore. It will be dead. Both open and advanced class VFS have first strikes against them. Each only had 3 teams show up this year (one in open was a throw together because only two teams showed up for open class). This means that unless at least 4 teams each show up for VFS open and advanced class next Nationals, then VFS will be a dead competition discipline. Or they will merge the classes into one class and any weekend jumper team you put together will have to compete against Arsenal and Standard (good luck). There are only two classes of competition in freefly because so few teams show up. VFS has open and advanced. Artistic has open and intermediate. Freestyle only has one class. BELLY 4 way on the other hand, has 3 national level classes: open, advanced, and intermediate. Between the three, 57 teams showed up. That's right, 57. That means at least 285 people (not including alternates) showed up to keep belly 4 way alive. Many states even have a rookie class. 16 teams showed up for 8 way. Belly also has multiple competitions with several classes: 4way, 8way, 10way, and 16way. A belly 4way team requires 5 people to compete. 4way Belly flyers pulled 57 teams. 8way requires 9 people, they pulled 16 teams. Artistic freefly only requires 3 to compete. We pulled 6 teams, 1 guest, and two last second throw together teams from VFS competitors (only made possible by the lack of VFS teams showing up). People don't show up. Freeflying is dying. Almost every state has regional belly 4way competitions. Some have tried 2 way VFS competitions, but almost always, the events get canceled because nobody shows up. I've heard from more than one competitor at Nationals that they are going to stop competing in freeflying because it's dying off and that they're going to start competing in belly 4way, because that's where the action is. Unfortunately, they're right. It is dying and the action is apparently in belly 4way. But that's just competition. What about freefly events? Almost every boogie has some belly bigway organizing. I've seen many times freeflyers trying to host a freefly event, but nobody shows up and the event is eventually canceled. Almost every state has a belly formation record and womens belly formation record. Few states have freefly formation records and even fewer (if any) have womens formation records. There will always be people who play with sitflying at their home dropzones. This does not mean that freeflying as a discipline isn't dying off as a whole. Do you love freeflying? Do you want to do your part to not only keep the discipline alive, but grow? If so, then I'll see you at Nationals next year in Chicago, and at the bigway events, and at the freefly boogies. 2010 Nationals, Dates: September 11-24, 2010 Location: Skydive Chicago, Ottawa, Illinois Stop being a hypocrite. You've got 11 months to save up for airfare and some jump tickets. Be there. 108 way head down world record!!! http://www.simonbones.com Hit me up on Facebook