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I'm not sure if it applies to your field, but I've heard of companies posting phantom jobs for different reasons. Posting for positions that are either already filled, don't exist, or are not yet ready to fill. The reasons are varied, from wanting to appear like they are a growing company, keep their name out there to job applicants, having a steady stream of qualified people on file when positions do come up etc.

An interesting book is called "This time is different 8 centuries of financial folly" by ken rogoff. He looks at data from financial crisis in the past to see patterns and effects. In terms of banking crisis, one of the most common effects from recent past is 5-7 years of decline in employment, and nearly a doubling of national debt and increases in defaults by nations which is almost exactly what is happening now. There are some larger patterns that are not going to be solved with tax policy, and historically have not either. Should wealthy pay more taxes, of course, the carry over policy should be eliminated so hedge fund mangers pay taxes at income tax rates, not capital gains rates. Social security taxes should not be capped at 108k it should be for all of your income. But at the end of the day these policies are not going to turn around and end the downturn in the economy over the next few years, eliminate the debt and get spending back to the point it was 10 years ago.

This is true, but the end up paying capital gains taxes, or at least can incur them, but often times especially with the past few years, can carry over losses, depreciation to offset gains from current year and minimize or even eliminate tax payments for a current year.

I already know what I have to sell, should I send you the link to my "personal ad" on craigslist.

So after years of thinking about it, and years of putting it out of my memory I finally got off my balls to jump. Part of the impetus is I moved across country for grad school, didn't really have any new friends, and no old ones telling me not to do it. August 2011 I finally set up for my AFF 1 Class. Finished the class August 9th but weather prevented me from jumping. After a couple days of not jumping I was getting somewhat anxious and annoyed that I couldn't get up and do it. They offered for me to do a working tandem which i refused, because I wanted my first jump to be AFF level 1. The benefit of sitting at the dropzone for 3 days after waiting for the weather to turn was I learned alot of extra things, worked on my exit positions, canopy work and just gear basics. August 12th it was finally clear for my level one, on the plane I made some silly quote to my instructors to try and pass off the nervousness, something like "After ecstasy, the laundry" We get to the door , I really have no idea what the count was but in no time we were in freefall. The first 10 second all I could think about is how load freefall was and how much quieter it was in the plane and why no one had prepared me for this. I got some practice pulls, and my instructor had to manually put my hand on the PC handle which deployed with no problem, Canopy ride had no issue, followed directions on radio and landed safely. I'm now at 23 jumps, cleared for solos and a hop n pop and check dive away from my A license. I am loving SkyDive New England, such a friendly staff, safety first and good sense of humor. They keep me coming back for more. I plan on getting my license the next clear day they have out there.I also have about an hour in the local tunnel working on my tunnel progression. I've jumped from a Supper Otter, a Cessna and my favorite a Skyvan. (Love hanging from the bar on the skyvan, and running full speed out) I'm planning on going to Eloy for XMAS to jump for a week during the part of the boogie I will be there, hope to clear 50 total jumps and get my B license by then. Also signing up for some canopy courses and tunnel time while there. I can see that the meth level addiction to the sport has taken a hold of me. Last night I combined skydiving and football in my dreams where kick returns were done in freefall, weird dream and Calvin Johnson beat the hell out of me. If anyone is in eloy during dec 20-27 you should hit me up and we can do some jumps. Anyways this is my biggest obsession and I need to infect others on the internet with it, or find others from real life to participate, which is not likely. Anyways, cheers, I'm at SNE until the end of the month.

From my understanding its about being current, skydiving is not like scuba diving where you get certified don't dive in a year and step back into it. I actually did my AFF level 2,3 and 4 at Texas Skydiving near Austin and had a friend do a tandem there and his Level 1 and 2. James is a good instructor who really helps you relax. But what most people have said is true, if you have a long gap between your AFF levels you will basically be starting over. (Also being from texas I know there is no tunnel nearby so that advice doesn't help) You should by all means do a tandem, get a feeling for it, enjoy it, dip your toes in the pool, but the best advice is to keep your your AFF levels jumps close to each other so you stay current and are able to remember them to learn. Best advice, do your tandem out there, you could even do a working tandem. The jumps could count towards your 25 on your license but hold off on doing AFF until you are 18 and know you can get them done. In the mean time save the money so you know you don't have a financial delay slowing your AFF or license progression.

One thing that helped me is when people would give me the relax hand signal I didn't really know what to do with it. When they started telling me to breathe, take a deep breath I instantly started to relax, not sure if that helps, but as a recent jumper I've noticed that all the hand signals are very defined legs out, arch etc, but relax is not as simple, maybe come up with specifics on how to relax like take 2 deep breaths or something else that works for you. I end by saying I know nothing so ask your instructors, but just giving you what worked for me with a similar issue.

I luckily have not had an injury, I'm still early, but I had some flare issues on some jumps, flaring too early and releasing it instead of holding it. I uploaded the landing on my 11th jump which was my first coach jump and 4th since being off radio and off AFF. You can see I flare WAY too early, release it then reflare, which was totally wrong. I also should have PLF'd the landing instead of trying to run it out. It really sucks you had an injury so early but on the plus side you will probably never space a landing again. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ya8WIYBCoHU

wingsuit laser tag?

I have land, capital, and connnections to build a tunnel, just need some partners,can easily get financing from goldman 'sachs or another bank i deal with.

there is also an iphone version

I'm new to the sport, and my whuffo moment was, "why don't i get sucked out of the plane when the door opens"

I always think of some silly line from a stephen segal movie, "anticipation of death is worse than death itself" The first time I was defiantly nervous, I was jumping from a twin otter but with 2 instructors they basically go and you don't really have the strength to fight them, i'm sure i hesitated but they just pull you, so the hard part is getting in the plane. My second jump was from a cessna where you have to hold onto the wing strut and stand on the landing gear, climbing out was tough but once I was there, there were not really any good alternatives although I did "check-in" a few times. I'm about to do my level 6 jump this week. The thing that always gets me is how fast they get me into the plane after I arrive at the DZ, in my head I feel like I need some time to process that i'm here and its going to happen before just hoping in the plane when the engine of my car is still warm, I'm sure the more experienced I get this will be a luxury to get in the air so fast.