First Ski Jump


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Zia is in the 4th grade, so she's probably nine or ten years old. Here, she wears a camera while taking her first run on the ski jump. She's certainly got more guts than I do! This is my vision of ski jumping. -via reddit

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It's clear from the audio that this isn't her first ski jump; just her first ski jump this size. She asks about if it's faster, and takes solace in that although it's longer, it's "just a bigger 20". She is clearly comparing the jump to other jumps she's done.

I'll always think of your last link as "the agony of defeat".
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Her sheer jubilation at the end is amazing. Neat!

The scariest part might be the skinny ramp. There's no margin for error and no bailing out if you have second thoughts on the way down! I've done plenty of jumps on regular slopes, but that little ramp would make me weak in the knees.
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Didn't have the sound on, so the first minute of it was pointless. I had to play the jump part again, since it didn't look like she actually left the ground at first.

I'd be too chicken to do it.
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My Rotary club bought "expired" tetracycline for pennies on the dollar. Sent it to San Salvador and saved thousands of lives after rebels destroyed water and sewage plants.
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This is so obvious... If you double the expiration date of a medicine, you cut the profit of the companies by half (sort of, of course - if you don't need to discard an expired medicine, you won't need to buy a new box if needed at least not that often). The pharmaceutical industry is evil, profiting on people's life and death at their own will. See the HIV for example (or even cancer): instead of searching more effectively for an actual cure, they just prefer to let people live thethered to their "cocktails" (which aren't cheap) for life. Profit, of course, so they can "spend the money of the profit on new researches"... yeah, sure.
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This is the oldest news... There are studies showing this same result every couple years, dating back to the Army circa Korean war. (1950s)
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Except that you do have to watch the expiration dates of some drugs. That should be pointed out in the article. This is from the Harvard University site http://www.health.harvard.edu/staying-healthy/drug-expiration-dates-do-they-mean-anything

It's true the effectiveness of a drug may decrease over time, but much of the original potency still remains even a decade after the expiration date. Excluding nitroglycerin, insulin, and liquid antibiotics, most medications are as long-lasting as the ones tested by the military.
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