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Fabulous romance with an interesting twist but don't count on the publisher's summary to make a decision to buy. The glaring errors in the publisher's summary make me think that the publisher never read the book. The plot is terrific but the summary is really off the mark. Bess is majoring in counseling not fashion design. She is not a waitress but the manager of a sweets store in a tourist town. She is dating a "towny", Nick, but there was no indication that her family would not approve of him but would be surprized and question her because they knew her longtime boyfriend,Andy. Nick had had a terrible childhood and wasn't going to college and seemed like a misdirected but nice guy underneath. Beth didn't want to explain herself because she wasn't confident of her relationship with Nick and "it was none of their business". Andy is a philandering cad not an intellectual but he did have plenty of money. There was not much to chose between to two young men except that Andy was a cheating liar and Nick wasn't directed but meant well and both of the men manipulated Bess. The young Bess made some bad choices and as a result had to make some very difficult decisions later in her life. The plot centers on information gathering and decision making process with sex and relationships both past and present thwown into the mix.
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This is probably one of the best stories I have listened to in a long time. When I first started listening I was not sure how I would like the flash backs to then/now but once I got into the story I could not stop listening. As stated in the earlier review, the summary is very misleading and not at all what the book is about. Nick is not a "bad boy" and no one in Bess' family ever disapproved of him because they never met him. Bess did not have him over because she did not want to explain why she was seeing Nick when she was supposed to have a boyfriend, Andy, back at home. In addition, her parents were not even at the summer house just a parade of different relatives each week. Bess was not a waitress she was the manager of an ice cream shop. This was a great summer romance with a twist of something different. Definitely worth a credit or your money. Narrator was excellent too!
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Megan Hart is an amazing story teller, never failing to make you believe even the paranormal is reality. Her characters are so vividly burned into your head and heart you find yourself totally caught up in each one. I love the way she weaves characters from other books so very subtly into this one. Read "Deeper" as the 5th installment after first reading in this order 1.Dirty, 2.Broken, 3.Stranger, 4.Tempted.
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I have enjoyed every Megan Hart book I have read but this one hands down was my favorite. It can be labled as a paranormal romance as well. I loved the development of the story transitioning from past to present. I wish the ending would have found the miracle I was looking for in the book but what is a romance without loss.
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I'm a fan of Megan Hart and was looking forward to listening to this book, especially after reading so many glowing reviews. Unfortunately I was greatly disappointed. The premise had a lot of promise and the method of telling the story in both the past and present made it even more interesting. But I kept waiting to find out why she was so taken by Nick who seemed childish and selfish and spent 20 years with a man who seemed to treat her badly even before they were married. Despite waiting for the entire book I never saw the redeeming side of either of these men. I'm left to believe their "good" side was always "offstage" or the great quantities of sex was the extent of their attraction. Usually Ms Hart creates well rounded believable characters but this time I simply couldn't believe this woman who seemed to be an intelligent, rational person would put up with being treated with contempt by both of them yet still claim to love the one and stay with the other for 20 years. Savannah Richards did a good job of narration, yet I couldn't help but wonder at times if she was emphasizing the hurtful way they spoke to each other when at times it should have been more neutral thus reinforcing my dislike for all of the characters. In the end I simply didn't care about any of them. If this had been my first Megan Hart book it would probably have been my last. As it is I'm still a fan because I know most of her books are much better written. So now I'm looking forward to listening to the next one.
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"Nowhere to turn: must parents relinquish custody in order to secure mental health service for their children?
Part 1: FAMILIES and advocates
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July 2003
Chairman Collins, Senator Lieberman and members of the Committee, NAMI would first like to thank you for holding this critically important hearing on the crisis of states forcing families to give up custody of their child with a mental illness to secure necessary services.
I am pleased today to submit the following testimony on behalf of the National Alliance for the Mentally Ill (NAMI) on the issue of custody relinquishment – the tragic practice of states and local governments forcing families to turn custody of their child with a mental illness over to the state to secure necessary treatment.
Who is NAMI?
NAMI is a nonprofit, grassroots support and advocacy organization of consumers, families (including parents and caregivers of children and adolescents with mental illnesses) and friends of people with serious mental illnesses. Founded in 1979, NAMI today works to achieve equitable services and treatment for more than 15 million Americans living with severe mental illnesses and their families. Hundreds of thousands of volunteers participate in more than one thousand local affiliates and fifty state organizations to provide education and support, combat stigma, support increased funding for research, and advocate for adequate health insurance, housing, rehabilitation, and jobs for people with mental illnesses and their families.
NAMI applauds the leadership of Senator Collins (R-ME) – as Chair of the Senate Committee on Governmental Affairs -- for holding this hearing and for joining with other Congressional leaders -- Representatives Patrick Kennedy (D-RI) and Pete Stark (D-CA) – in asking the General Accounting Office (GAO) to report on this national tragedy. NAMI consumers, families and advocates are truly grateful that this committee is taking a close federal look at a system that forces families to be torn apart simply to access treatment and services for children – who often suffer from serious mental illnesses.
The GAO Report on Custody Relinquishment
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The GAO report – Child Welfare and Juvenile Justice – Federal Agencies Could Play a Stronger Role in Helping States Reduce the Number of Children Placed Solely to Obtain Mental Health Services – confirms that states and counties force families to give up custody of tens of thousands of children and adolescents with mental illnesses to the child welfare and juvenile justice systems to secure necessary treatment. This national tragedy exists even though those systems are not designed primarily to provide mental health care and often fail to represent a therapeutic environment for children with mental illnesses.
The GAO report supports NAMI's landmark study -- Families on the Brink: The Impact of Ignoring Children with Serious Mental Illness, published in 1999 by NAMI, in which 20% of families surveyed reported having to give up custody of children to the state to secure treatment for their mental illnesses.
NAMI is deeply concerned with both the findings in the GAO report and with the failure of states to track and report on the number of families that are forced to relinquish custody of their child because there simply is no other way for them to secure services. The report revealed that no formal or comprehensive federal or state system exists to track the number of families asked to relinquish custody of their child to secure mental health services. In fact, the GAO report admits that figures available from 2001 understate the problem. Of those states from which the GAO could not obtain estimates, five have the greatest populations of children in the nation.
Based on estimates provided in the report from 19 states and 30 counties, the GAO found that more than 12,700 children were placed in the child welfare or juvenile justice systems in 2001 for mental health treatment. That figure is likely a gross under-estimate of the problem because most states failed to provide data -- including those states with the largest population of children. Therefore, it seems quite safe to say that thousands of additional families have been impacted by this unthinkable practice.
According to the GAO report, families were forced to turn their children over to child welfare and juvenile justice systems even though none of the children had been abused or neglected – nor had they committed a delinquent act. It happened because necessary home and community based mental health services for children with mental illnesses are not available in most communities across the country.
Families from all financial levels may be forced to make the heart-wrenching decision to give up parental rights of their child in exchange for help, but the federal government picks up most of the tab for residential care for children from low-income families. In many cases, the cost runs as high as $250,000 per year for a single child.
The report highlights something that NAMI families know all too well – the systems designed to serve families with children with mental illnesses are not family-friendly. This often overwhelms families who require immediate and intensive assistance. As the GAO report indicates, living with a child with a serious mental illness without appropriate treatment or services—without any support—strains a family's ability to function.
The GAO report also highlighted other issues that are quite familiar to NAMI families including the fact that school personnel often do not understand basic facts about childhood mental illnesses and are unprepared to effectively teach children with them. Also, school officials continue to blame parents for a child's mental illness. There are also numerous barriers to treatment and services, including discriminatory caps on mental health insurance coverage, strict Medicaid eligibility requirements, and a profound shortage of mental health specialists for children.
The tragic reality is that as a nation we abandon and neglect families with children with mental illnesses – driving them into the wrong systems. Those systems that do exist to serve children and adolescents with mental illnesses struggle with inadequate funding or budget cuts. They are fragmented and overly bureaucratic. Families in crisis are left on their own to navigate multiple, complex systems that do not work well.
Parent Testimony Presented at the Senate Hearing
Gets to the Heart of the Crisis
The stories of the families testifying at the Senate hearing represent the stories of thousands of families from across the country. These stories are quite familiar to NAMI. They include parents being blamed for their child's mental illnesses. Parents being told by multiple state or local mental health authorities and other agencies that they do not have the resources to address the child's treatment needs, and referrals being provided to multiple state and local agencies, including the child welfare agency. The child welfare agency in turn frequently telling families that they cannot provide services unless the child is in state custody. Parents are also told to call the police because the juvenile justice system is the only place for a child to secure treatment for a mental illness. The manner in which families – attempting to access services for their children – are being treated is truly unfortunate.
Families are also left without insurance coverage because their private insurance plan includes discriminatory and restrictive caps on mental health coverage – which families with a child with a severe mental illness quickly exhaust. Families in need of mental health treatment and services often do not qualify under the strict income and asset limits in the Medicaid programs. The testimony before the committee makes clear that families with children with mental illnesses – from across our nation -- are abandoned in their hour of greatest need.
In addition, the tragedy of custody relinquishment is well documented in numerous media accounts of families being torn apart to secure mental health services. These stories are powerful and share many of the same elements as families struggle to secure services for their child. In fact, Senator Collins decided to hold the custody relinquishment hearings after reading the Portland Press Herald/Maine Sunday Telegram series titled Castaway Children: Maine's Most Vulnerable Kids.
The Reality of Childhood Mental Illnesses
for Families Across the Country
The prevalence rates of youth with mental illnesses are staggering. Approximately 7-9% of all children have a diagnosable serious mental disorder, which translates into millions of youth and one or two of the children in every classroom.
--New Freedom Commission's Interim Report, October 2002
NAMI is deeply concerned with the information reported to the President in the New Freedom Commission's Interim Report in October, 2002. It is consistent with the research and information in the Surgeon General's 2001 report on children's mental health and the seminal report released in 1999. According to the Surgeon General's report, 1 in 10 children and adolescents in the United States suffers from a mental illness severe enough to cause impairment while fewer than 1 in 5 of these children receives needed treatment. Moreover, the World Health Organization Global Burden of Disease Study indicates that by the year 2020, childhood neuropsychiatric disorders will rise proportionally by over 50% to become one of the five most common causes of morbidity, mortality, and disability among children. (WHO, 2001)
One thing is patently clear -- too many children with mental illnesses are not receiving any services. The circumstances are even worse for African-American, Latino and other youth from ethnically and culturally diverse communities. Tragically, they often bear a significantly greater burden from unmet mental health needs and thus suffer a greater loss in overall health and productivity. (Surgeon General 2001 Report on Mental Health: Culture, Race, and Ethnicity)
What are the consequences for the roughly 80% of youth with mental illnesses who fail to receive services? The long-term consequences are staggering in both human and fiscal terms. Suicide is the third leading cause of death in adolescents aged 15 to 24. (Centers for Disease Control, 1999) Over 30,000 lives are lost each year to suicide. (Commission's Interim Report, October 2002) The evidence is strong that as many as 90% of children and adolescents who commit suicide have a mental disorder (Institute of Medicine Report, 2002 and Surgeon General, 1999).
Youth with untreated mental illnesses also tragically end up in the criminal justice system. According to a recent study – the largest ever undertaken – an alarming 65% of boys and 75% of girls in juvenile detention have at least one psychiatric diagnosis. (Teplin, Archives of General Psychiatry, Vol. 59, December 2002). The prevalence rates of children and adolescents with mental illnesses in the juvenile justice system is a moral outrage and speaks to our nation's failure to build an effective mental health treatment system.
What is the impact of untreated and poorly treated mental illnesses in children on families? Simply put – devastating. Stigma and shame drive many families away from the treatment system. Suicide severely impacts the families left behind – who often wrongly live with extreme shame and guilt over not having prevented the death of their loved one.
NAMI is frequently contacted by families from across the country who have struggled to get treatment for their child, and in the process attempted to navigate a fragmented, broken and under-funded system. Often these families have long since exhausted their private insurance benefits for mental health coverage (90% of private health insurance plans place restrictive and discriminatory caps on mental health benefits) and paying for intensive services is simply not financially feasible. Most of these families do not qualify for Medicaid benefits. State agencies and others tell many families that the only way to access critically needed treatment is by relinquishing custody of their child to the state. This causes unthinkable stress for families, hit at their most vulnerable moment.
Some families also report being told that to access treatment or services for their child, they should either call the police and have their child arrested or leave the child at a hospital or treatment center. An arrest means that the child may receive services through the juvenile justice system and parental abandonment means that the child will be referred to the child welfare system for possible treatment. Families are suffering a great and unnecessary burden because of the lack of effective treatment for children with serious mental illnesses. We would not think to treat families with a child with another serious illness – like brain cancer – like this – it is fundamentally unjust to treat families with children with serious mental illnesses like this.
Federal Action Critically Necessary to Help Address the Crisis
Our nation's failure to prioritize mental health is a national tragedy.
--New Freedom Commission's Interim Report, October 2002
NAMI applauds Senator Collins for proposing the introduction of federal legislation to address the custody relinquishment crisis in our nation. NAMI also applauds the Congressional leadership of Representatives Patrick Kennedy (D-RI) and Pete Stark (D-CA) in working to address the crisis in the children's mental health system.
NAMI is also grateful to Senator Collins for her co-sponsorship of 3 critical pieces of legislation that, if enacted, will help to address custody relinquishment -- the Paul Wellstone Equitable Treatment Act (S. 486), the Family Opportunity Act (S. 622) and the Child Healthcare Crisis Relief Act (S. 1223).
Federal legislation and action is critically necessary to ensure that services are delivered to children with mental illnesses and their families and that families are no longer torn apart to secure services.
States clearly lack the resources and scope of understanding to do it alone. When the states cannot solve such problems, the federal government has a responsibility to act – as a partner in our federal system.
Families suffer greatly from the lack of treatment options. The system for delivering mental health services to children and their families is complex; the patchwork of providers, interventions and funding streams contributes to the lack of treatment. There is a desperate need for appropriately trained child psychiatrists, psychologists and social workers.
In addition to support for the federal legislation addressing custody relinquishment -- that Senator Collins may introduce -- and in response to the GAO report -- NAMI asks for Congressional support of the following legislation pending in Congress that can make a difference in reversing the moral, economic and political scandal of child custody relinquishment—
Federal action is also needed to encourage states to adopt Medicaid options that would help to eliminate the practice of states forcing families to give their child up to secure treatment for mental illnesses. The unfortunate reality is that only three states have adopted the first such option – the Medicaid Home and Community-Based Waiver option for children with mental illnesses. This option is only available to families in Kansas, Vermont and New York. It provides Medicaid funding for home and community based mental health services for children who require intensive and costly institutional care. The second Medicaid option is the TEFRA or Katie Beckett option – which is currently used by approximately 20 states, however in only 10 states for services for children with mental illnesses.
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Red-crowned Cranes in Songhua Basin, northeast of Harbin. @ C. Michael Hogan The Songhua River, draining a sizable area of northeastern China, is the chief tributary of the Amur River, and is the 65th largest river in the world. The Songhua runs a total length of 1927 kilometres, when its longest tributary, the Nenjiang River, is included; the Nenjiang drains the North Manchurian Plain and the Nenjiang River grassland ecoregion. The lowland floodplain area of the Songhua Basin is a vast level expanse that has invited meandering of the river channels and also invited agricultural exploitation.
Songhua River in context with the larger Amur Basin. cc-3.0 The size of the catchment of the Songhua River is approximately 1,444,000 square kilometres. The Songhua Basin is a significant habitat area for the migrating Red-crowned Crane, as well as other rare crane species. There have been prior episodes of contamination of the Songhua River, most notably a large scale benzene spill; moreover, river water quality has been degraded by widespread runoff of nitrates, phosphates, pesticides and herbicides associated with agricultural intensification in the basin.
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The Nenjiang River rises in the Daxingan Mountains; the terrestrial basin of the Nenjiang River (also termed the Nen River) is chiefly characterised by the Nenjiang River grassland ecoregion, an expansive low lying grassland. The basin's rich soils have inticed intensive agricultural exploitation, and the ecoregion also suffers from overfishing. The Nenjiang Basin is circumscribed by low mountains, the Large Hinggan to the west and the Little Hinggan to the north. Higher mountain landforms that define the northern extent of the Korean Peninsula demarcate the southern margin of the Nenjiang Plain.
The Nenjiang River is the longest influent element for the Songhua River. Its [catchment] is a breeding habitat for a number of rare and endangered cranes including the Critically Endangered Siberian Crane (Grus leucogeranus), the Endangered Red-crowned Crane (Grus japonensis), the Vulnerable White-naped Crane (Grus vipio); the Demoiselle Crane (Grus virgo) is also found in the Nenjiang Basin.
Other notable bird species breeding in the Nenjiang Basin are White Stork (Ciconia ciconia), Black Stork (C. nigra), Oriental White Ibis (Threskiornis aethiopicus melanocephalus), Great Bustard (Otis tarda, VU), Mandarin Duck (Aix galericulata), and Eurasian Spoonbill (Platalea leucorodia).
Notable mammals in the Nenjiang Basin include the Dhole (Cuon alpinus, EN), the Corsac Fox (Vulpes corsac), the Siberian Large-toothed Shrew (Sorex daphaenodon), the Manchurian Hare (Lepus mandshuricus) and a variety of other carnivores and herbivores. This basin is quite depauperate with respect to reptiles.
Typical vegetation in the lowlands of the Nenjiang River Basin consists of a distinctive coniferous swamp forest interspersed among meadows dominated by grasses and sedges. Forests are dominated by the Daurian Larch (Larix gmelini ssp. olgensis) which may penetrate a lower story of Japanese White Birch (Betula platyphylla subsp. mandshurica). Meadows are dominated by grasses such as Chee Reed Grass (Calamagrostis epigeios) and another boreal reedgrass, C. purpurea, that are adapted to grow in flooded soils. Such ground cover often manifests as dense tussocks that emerge from the flooded areas. Lakes are frequently filled or lined at the margin by the salt-tolerant reed, Phragmites australis.
Upper mainstem
The upper mainstem of the Songhua River is often termed the Second Songhua River (or sometimes the Ersong River); it can also be viewed as the major south fork river element joined by the Nenjiang River to form the lower reach of the Songhua. The river rises in the Changbai Mountain Range, and the chief ecoregion spanning the upper mainstem [catchment] of the Songhua is the Northeast China Plain deciduous forests. Tributaries of the Second Songhua include the First Dao, Second Dao, Huifa, Lafa, Yinma and Yitong Rivers. There are several major dams across the upper mainstem: notably the Baishan, Fengman and Hongshi Reservoirs.
Amphibians found in the upper Songhua mainstem include the Siberian Salamander (Salamandrella keyserlingii); the Long-tailed Clawed Salamander (Onychodactylus fischeri); Gensan Salamander (Hynobius leechii); and the Korean Water Toad (Bufo stejnegeri).
Some of the notable mammals found in the Second Songhua River Basin include Brandt's Vole (Lasiopodomys brandtii); the ungulate Chinese Goral (Naemorhedus caudatus, VU); the fossorial Roborovski's Desert Hamster (Phodopus roborovskii); the mouse-eared bat Far Eastern Myotis (Myotis bombinus, NT)
Reptiles found in the upper mainstem include the Amur Grass Lizard (Takydromus amurensis) and the Taiwan Beauty Snake (Orthriophis taeniurus).
Lower mainstem
The lower mainstem of the Songhua can be considered as the river below the confluence with the Nenjiang River. The initial portion of this reach flows through the Northeast China Plain deciduous forests, while the final portion (up to discharge to the Amur River) flows through the Amur Meadow Steppe. Thus flora and fauna of the initial portion of the lower mainstem are similar to those discussed above under the upper mainstem. The following discussion will focus upon the biota found in the Amur meadow steppe (i.e. the portion of the Songhua River within about 300 kilometres of the confluence with the Amur River).
Notable mammals found in the lower mainstem terrestrial environment include the Amur Hedgehog (Erinaceus amurensis); the Flat-skulled Shrew (Sorex roboratus); the broadly distributed Parti-coloured Bat (Vespertilio murinus), whose eastern range limit is the Songhua Basin.
Oriental Fire-bellied Toad. Source: H.Yan/EoL Amphibian and reptilian species diversity in the lower Songhua Basin is relativley low. Amphibians occurring in the lower Songhua Basin include: Dybowski's Frog (Rana dybowskii); Oriental Fire-bellied Toad (Bombina orientalis); Mongolian Toad (Pseudepidalea raddei), whose range extends from western China and eastern Siberia to Korea and to the northeast as far as the Amur Basin.
Notable reptiles in the Amur meadow steppe in the lower Songhua Basin are: the Steppe Rat Snake (Elaphe dione) and the Ussuri Pitviper (Gloydius ussuriensis).
Water quality
The Songhua River has experienced notable episodic water pollution events, particularly in the year 2005. Particular contaminants of concern include benzene, benzopyrene, nitrobenzene, anthracene and pyrene. The 2005 incident occurred as a massive pollutant release in the Songhua River, with ensuing major health risk impacts to the downriver Russian city of Khabarovsk.
In addition to the episodic water pollution events, the Songhua Basin has experienced ongoing effluent impacts of heavy metals as well as nitrate and nitrite loading. These nitrogen loadings include effluent from industrial and municipal wastewater, as well as agricultural runoff from poorly managed application of fertiliser. Much of the municipal wastewater impact results from cities in the watershed that have inadequate sewage treatment facilities, generating considerable amounts of wastewater that is untreated or partially treated (i.e. less than secondary treatment).
Satellite view of braided channels of the Songhua River. @ NASA Within the Nenjiang Basin, the two largest protected areas are the Zhalong Nature Reserve in Heilongjiang Province, and the Momoge Nature Reserve in Jilin Province; each of these sites consists of expansive flooded grassland.
Yiwulu Shan is a hilly area near the Northeast China Plain where a nature reserve (114 square kilometres) protects forested area resembling the prehistoric vegetation of the plain. Here, a mixture of deciduous broadleaf species and Pinus tabulaeformis is found. Forests likely represent the most intact stands in the western part of Laioning Province, and may be the closest to a surviving refugia example of the broadleaf forests that once covered the plains.
- Asian Development Bank. 2005. People's Republic of China: Songhua River Basin Water Quality and Pollution Control Management: Strategic Planning Report.
- Chinese Vegetation Map Compilation Committee (CVMCC). 1979. Vegetation map of China. Map (1:10,000,000). Science Press, Beijing. ISBN: 7030089561
- Michael D.Glascocka, Yaroslav V.Kuzminb, Andrei V.Grebennikovc, Vladimir K.Popovc, Vitaly E.Medvedevd, Igor Y.Shewkomude, Nikolai N.Zaitsevf. 2011. Obsidian provenance for prehistoric complexes in the Amur River basin (Russian Far East). Journal of Archaeological Science Volume 38, Issue 8, pages 1832–1841
- Jingshuang Liu and Junbao Yu. 1999. Dynamic variation of nitrogen content in the Second Songhua River. Chinese Geographical Science. vol.9, no 4, pp 368-372
- J. MacKinnon and K. Phillipps. 2000. A Field Guide to the Birds of China. Oxford University Press, New York. ISBN: 0198549407
- X. Wang, Z. Zhou, Y. Jia, P. Hu, & Z. Cao. 2010. Study on impacts of climate change on water resources in Songhua River Basin. China Institute of Water Resources and Hydropower Research. A956
- World Wildlife Fund. 2008. Nenjiang River grassland. Topic eds. M. McGinley & C.M. Hogan. Encyclopedia of Earth. National Council for Science and the Environment. Washington DC


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Additionally, all forms of skydiving use essentially the same equipment excepting Tandems and Wingsuits.
What other discipline has demonstrated an increasing number of tailstrikes, that in the worst case may drop an aircraft onto a home or business?
Faced with rising insurance cost, no assurance of skill, training, and knowledge, could possibly inspire a DZO to continue to allow wingsuiting? Several DZ's have now banned or severely regulated wingsuiting. This isn't a beneficial trend in the sport, IMO.
Most every person on the board has realized error in the response to canopy issues, and most feel that error began 15 years ago. This is our chance to prevent wingsuiting from becoming another canopy issue. We can be ahead of the curve and not play "catch-up" like we are with canopy incidents.
How many pre-BSR deaths were there of low-time skydivers wearing wingsuits? At least 5 we can prove, nearly double that in related incidents.
How many post BSR deaths of low-time skydivers wearing wingsuits?
The excellent and oft-asked question from an earlier post is responded to in an FAQ about the standardized training proposal.
PowerPoint presented to board-
Proposed Proficiency Card-
Proposed Evaluation Sheet-
The original proposal in 2008/2009 in person and over email.
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In 2010, USPA generated a poll, sent out to the general membership. This online poll produced a result of 65% of all respondents in favor of a required, standardized training.
In 2012, USPA sent out a request for responses to this topic, sent over Twitter, Facebook (several pages) personal emails, and here on Dropzone.com. Greater than 80% of respondents have asked for standardized instruction, administered by USPA.
There is no cost to USPA for these materials, the proposal, and there are no additional costs to develop the system as it's been tested for 5 years in development, 3 years in actual implementation. The safety record of 600 test cases is demonstrable both by numerous DZO's and other documentation.
The system we use, although it is not tied in any direct way to the USPA proposal, demonstrates the quality of training materials used for the proposal.
In short, the proposal merely asks that USPA adopt a required FFC using the same syllabus provided when I submitted a proposal to change SIM Sec 6.2 into a new section now seen as Sec 6.9, with all aspects of a proper FFC included. It's deplorable that this has become a tailstrike conversation. At the same time, the industry now has a different perspective and contributor to the conversation than it had 30 days ago.
It would be a sad day in skydiving if the only exit points for wingsuiters was a cliff. Even in BASE, there are regulations being proposed and insurance required at certain exit points.
It's not just a skydiving issue.
Proposal Promoter - 20
Straw men - 0
The list of unsupportable, unprovable and irrelevant arguments with which you promote your proposal would be amusing if it didn't represent such a potential danger to the sport in general.
One bottom line: As per floormonkey's query, as soon as an exception is made for wingsuiting, then GUESS WHAT, FOLKS? Any discipline without an equivalent "instructor rating" becomes lawyer food.
Get a clue, people. There is a small minority of people who stand to benefit from this "instructor rating" that is at complete variance with everything USPA has done with regard to sport parachuting instruction during its entire existence.
It rejects the private market solution which has proven to work across all of these other disciplines in favor of "crony capitalism" that forces people to purchase the services of "rated instructors" who are "anointed" (as the good perfesser
Kallend so elegantly stated
) by the association.
Those who intone that we "must" do this because the insurance companies won't insure our airplanes otherwise are either misinformed or deliberately misleading the parachuting public.
Another bottom line:
The insurance companies do NOT care about a USPA-sanctioned rating system; they only want people to quit hitting the tails of the airplanes they insure. Period. Full stop.
And they want it done now, not on the the months-long and/or even years-long event horizon of a "standardized wingsuit instructor rating" program.
And nothing about a wingsuit "instructor rating" speaks directly to the insurance company's concern except as a selling-point subset of a larger "solution" to a manufactured problem. It's all a smokescreen for a select few who hope to be the "anointed ones" at the expense of the rest of the sport.
Seriously, all of you who are involved in disciplines other than wingsuiting -- guess what's going to happen to the liability environment when there is a USPA-sanctioned, discipline-specific "instructor rating" for one discipline but not the others?
This is Politics and Liability 101, people, and all of you non-wingsuiters who support this USPA-forced "wingsuit instructor rating" are just cutting your own throats.
This whole thing is based upon an utterly bogus premise -- that somehow wingsuiting is "different" and "more dangerous" than other sport parachuting subdisciplines.
It is not, and everyone who says it is does not know the history of parachuting, never mind basic physics.
When people first started doing RW (aka "formation skydiving") it was frequently condemned as dangerous and foolhardy and a threat to jump aircraft.
Ditto for CRW, about which people wailed and gnashed their teeth because "what other discipline can exit the aircraft 5 miles (or more) from the DZ and show up at point of deployment
4 minutes
9 minutes after exit, roughly
6 minutes
12 minutes following pilot notification of skydiving activity?"
And when freeflying started THAT was a threat because of the higher speeds were incompatible and therefore dangerous to other freefallers.
Etc etc
ad nauseam
But guess what? We figured it out, didn't we? And all without imposing USPA-mandated sub-discipline "instructor ratings" that make the USPA bureaucracy proliferate and create endless liability permutations of which lawyers can take advantage.
And then we come to the Great Canopy Debate (biiig straw man that), wherein the bureaucratic inertia of the training system we already have prevented USPA and even the industry itself from responding correctly and in a timely manner to that issue -- when canopy technology and performance outstripped a training regimen predicated on teaching freefall fun skills at the expense of parachuting survival skills.
The AFF system is in fact the primary reason the canopy thing got out of hand for so long because the entrenched AFF bureaucracy resisted the major system overhaul necessary to reduce open-canopy injuries and fatalities -- i.e., discarding freefall-fun-skills-first-based teaching in favor of first teaching understand-your-gear-learn-how-to-fly-your-parachute.
This is FACT, not rhetorical supposition based upon unsupported and unprovable straw man arguments.
Moreover and in many ways more importantly, the bureaucracy proliferation that will start but not end with "standardized wingsuit training" will literally strangle the sport because, you know, like, dudes and dudettes, why the F did we start skydiving in the first place?
For the freedom of it, the thrill of it, the adventure of it all -- not to be told at each and every incremental step of the way what to do, how to do it, when and where to do it, and only by those "anointed ones" who ride herd on us.
The "revamped" training system is bad enough. Add this ridiculous proposition to it and watch the sport slowly die because you will drive away the very people who are most attracted to its essential nature.
So please, instead of mindlessly accepting the feel-good premise of "standardized instruction," THINK IT THROUGH and consider all of the ramifications.
As soon as you do, things will start looking much more clear.
P.S. For the record, I have no problem with any of the private-sector wingsuit training operations in effect right now, to include the one the Proposal Promoter developed at Elsinore. In fact, I wholeheartedly support it and its predecessors and progeny, just as I do all the private-sector, non-USPA-
RW, VRW, CRW, FF, demo and other sub-discipline schools out there.
For the record also, I recognize and appreciate both the volume and quality of work the Proposal Promoter has done in developing and advancing wingsuiting training. I just wish he'd leave off with trying to force-feed it to everyone in alliance with the USPA and let the marketplace respond to the issue the way it does to all of the other subdisciplines.
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