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A few years ago we weren't even selling this. Our error. In less than a couple years it's become one of our staff's favorite foods.
It's made by Ronny and Beth Drennan, from Anna "Grandma" Broadbent's recipe, who started selling it from the family barn in 1909. They mix a batch of fresh pork, sage and red pepper and stuff it into cloth bags that are cured by air drying for a week or so. No one knows exactly what this step contributes to the final product, but it's what folks have always done in Trigg County, Kentucky, so they continue today. Before shipping to us, it's smoked over green hickory for 24 hours.
Kept in the cloth bags, it lasts for a long, long time—there's no rush to use it up. Ronny eats his sausage for breakfast with eggs and biscuits. Try it in omelettes. It also makes some serious sausage gravy. While this yummy sausage is air cured, it is not actually cooked. To please your palate, warm it, brown it, cook it up and enjoy.
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For 50 years, Canyon Cinema has provided crucial support for a fertile avant-garde film scene.
Legend has it that Canyon Cinema's first shows in 1961 were projected on a sheet in Bruce Baillie's backyard. Let's print the fact, since it takes little away from the DIY attitude Baillie espoused: It was an army surplus screen. Canyon quickly grew from those ad hoc gallon-jug beginnings into the exhibitor and distributor of Bay Area experimental films, providing crucial support for a fertile avant-garde film scene that came to rival New York in inspiration, ingenuity and influence.
Half a century and various filmmaking formats later, Canyon Cinema continues to hold serve as a distributor, thanks to the dedication of filmmaker and longtime Executive Director Dominic Angerame. For its remarkable legacy and contribution, on its 50th anniversary the organization is saluted as a 2011 Essential SF honoree.
"Immediately I realized that making films and showing films must go hand in hand," Baillie recalled in Scott MacDonald's introduction to Canyon Cinema: The Life and Times of an Independent Film Distributor (University of California Press, 2008), MacDonald's fascinating and colorful compilation of the group's history. "We'd find whatever films we could, including our own little things that were in progress—'we,' there really wasn't any we, just myself for awhile—and show them.
"So I made a thing of it," Baillie continued. "I had no occupation. I couldn't get a real job anywhere. So I thought, I'll invent my own occupation. I set up a little part of the house as an office. I put up a little sign and it turned out to be 'Canyon Cinema' with a light bulb next to it. Fairly soon, we had weekend showings…. I let it be known immediately that I had a place to show films, if any filmmakers were coming through town."
This modest start in a quiet East Bay town soon led to a roving series of screenings in Berkeley and San Francisco. As the community of personal filmmakers grew, Chick Strand (a gifted filmmaker in her own right) furthered the cause by launching a journal, Cinemanews, which Canyon published more or less regularly until 1989. And at the height of the heady '60s, a group of filmmakers that included Bruce Conner, Larry Jordan and Robert Nelson established Canyon Cinema, Inc., as a cooperative to distribute the films of, initially, 25 members. (For more about the early days, visit canyoncinema.com/about/history/.)
In a few years, San Francisco Cinematheque became the exhibition entity while Canyon focused on distribution. The organization's membership gradually and naturally expanded beyond the Bay Area community to where it now encompasses nearly 350 filmmakers worldwide and more than 3,000 films and DVDs.
That's right: DVDs. The digital revolution rattled Canyon, along with every other distributor. "Until the major explosion of DVDs, our business was rising 10 percent a year," Angerame says. "When the Brakhage Criterion DVD series came out [in 2003], we saw a big decrease [in film rentals]. Now we're at sort of a plateau."
That leveling off is due to teachers and curators realizing—after a flash of forgetfulness—than a relatively small amount of Brakhage's great body of work has been digitized. (This is true even after the release of a second Criterion volume in 2010.) The vast majority of Brakhage is viewable only in its original format, celluloid.
The films of other members, including Baillie and Strand, are either available on DVD through Canyon or will be soon. Those films that have been digitized, including some of Angerame's, have been licensed to Fandor and MUBI. "It's an experiment to see if there's any interest in our work and if it can help generate income," Angerame says.
He points out that about half of the Canyon filmmakers can't bear the cost of the digital conversion. And, notably, there are those who flat-out refuse to allow their work to be presented any way other than on film.
"Michael Snow's Wavelength: You see it on 16mm or you don't see it at all," Angerame says. "The same is true of Peter Kubelka's work, and Tony Conrad's."
You have to admire that kind of integrity, and fidelity to artistic vision. Unless, that is, you're one of the nefarious individuals posting bootleg versions of Kubelka's work (and others) on YouTube or Vimeo. Angerame made a practice of sending take-the-video-down letters until, he says, "I had to stop doing it because it was consuming almost all my time."
Along with the Internet, another ticking time bomb is the aging generation of professors who regularly show Canyon films to their students.
"Our financial future is a murky crystal ball because there's no way of predicting our market," Angerame explains. "There's no way of doing a business plan. Some of our biggest renters of 16mm celluloid are university instructors, and as they retire their replacements are not renting films. When Chick Strand ran the film department at Occidental College, she was giving us thousands and thousands of dollars. Now we receive nothing."
But Angerame, who's headed Canyon Cinema since 1980 with a Chandleresque blend of hard-earned pragmatism and dogged idealism, says it's far too early to write film's obituary, even in 2011.
"There's still an amazing interest in 16mm film, especially among the younger filmmakers, here and abroad," Angerame attests. "My employee and all the interns are under 25 and have no interest in working solely in digital."
The degree to which that attitude prevails around the country, especially in academia, will have a crucial effect on Canyon's fortunes.
"We count on newer crops of younger filmmakers coming up, graduating from film schools and taking on teaching positions to carry on this tradition," Angerame says. "And that's really the hope for this entire field [of experimental film on celluloid]."
In a small-margin business, Canyon is perennially walking a financial tightrope. Angerame sold the paper archives — which included filmmaker correspondence and the entire run of Cinemanews—to Stanford University four years ago for a substantial sum, which kept the organization going in the near term. The publication last year of Radical Light: Alternative Film and Video in the San Francisco Bay Area, 1945–2000 (University of California Press, 2010) triggered renewed interest in the work of Curt McDowell and George Kuchar, among others, and a corresponding bump in rentals.
But Angerame has had to take subsequent steps, such as moving Canyon out of the Ninth Street Building this past August to cheaper offices in the Bayview District, not far from Candlestick Park. He's also in the process of filing for nonprofit status to allow Canyon to qualify for (admittedly scarce) state and federal grants.
"What we've realized is that Canyon Cinema cannot really sustain itself through earned income," Angerame says. "We really do need a patron."
Canyon returns to Ninth Street this fall for a series of 50th anniversary shows, including a tribute to "Women in Avant-Garde Film," Friday, October 28, with works by Coni Beeson, Greta Snider, Barbara Hammer, Chick Strand and Jennifer Reeves. A program of Brakhage's hand-painted films unspools November 18 with "Salute to George Kuchar" primed for December 16. (For more information, visit canyoncinema.com/category/news/events-and-screenings/)
Angerame has also curated a 70-minute program for Cinema by the Bay featuring films by Shirley Clarke, Carolee Schneeman, Robert Fulton, Lawrence Jordan (his new piece, Solar Sight) and Angerame himself (The Soul of Things). The show is set for Saturday, November 5 at 4:30 p.m. at SF Film Society | New People Cinema.
The Essential SF honor from the San Francisco Film Society represents hometown recognition of Canyon Cinema's half-century of service to the Bay Area film community. Another tribute awaits in December, when Cuba fetes Canyon with a 50th anniversary celebration. It will mark Angerame's fifth trip to the island nation, a testament to his skill as an ambassador for Canyon Cinema's filmmakers.
With riveting characters, cascading revelations and momentous breakthroughs, Epstein and Friedman's work paved the way for contemporary documentary practice.
Susan Gerhard talks copy, critics and the 'there' we have here.
Universally warm sentiment is attached to the Bay Area's hardest working indie/art film publicist.
The National Film Preservation Foundation delivers another gem with the fascinating three-disc box set 'The West 1898-1938.'
Filmmaker and programmer Moore talks process, offers perspective on his debut feature and Cinema by the Bay opener, 'I Think It's Raining.'
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Nehemiah's Final Reforms
1 On that day the Book of Moses was read aloud in the hearing of the people and there it was found written that no Ammonite or Moabite should ever be admitted into the assembly of God, 2 because they had not met the Israelites with food and water but had hired Balaam to call a curse down on them. (Our God, however, turned the curse into a blessing.) 3 When the people heard this law, they excluded from Israel all who were of foreign descent.
4 Before this, Eliashib the priest had been put in charge of the storerooms of the house of our God. He was closely associated with Tobiah, 5 and he had provided him with a large room formerly used to store the grain offerings and incense and temple articles, and also the tithes of grain, new wine and olive oil prescribed for the Levites, musicians and gatekeepers, as well as the contributions for the priests.
6 But while all this was going on, I was not in Jerusalem, for in the thirty-second year of Artaxerxes king of Babylon I had returned to the king. Some time later I asked his permission 7 and came back to Jerusalem. Here I learned about the evil thing Eliashib had done in providing Tobiah a room in the courts of the house of God. 8 I was greatly displeased and threw all Tobiah's household goods out of the room. 9 I gave orders to purify the rooms, and then I put back into them the equipment of the house of God, with the grain offerings and the incense.
10 I also learned that the portions assigned to the Levites had not been given to them, and that all the Levites and musicians responsible for the service had gone back to their own fields. 11 So I rebuked the officials and asked them, "Why is the house of God neglected?" Then I called them together and stationed them at their posts.
12 All Judah brought the tithes of grain, new wine and olive oil into the storerooms. 13 I put Shelemiah the priest, Zadok the scribe, and a Levite named Pedaiah in charge of the storerooms and made Hanan son of Zakkur, the son of Mattaniah, their assistant, because they were considered trustworthy. They were made responsible for distributing the supplies to their fellow Levites.
14 Remember me for this, my God, and do not blot out what I have so faithfully done for the house of my God and its services.
15 In those days I saw people in Judah treading winepresses on the Sabbath and bringing in grain and loading it on donkeys, together with wine, grapes, figs and all other kinds of loads. And they were bringing all this into Jerusalem on the Sabbath. Therefore I warned them against selling food on that day. 16 People from Tyre who lived in Jerusalem were bringing in fish and all kinds of merchandise and selling them in Jerusalem on the Sabbath to the people of Judah. 17 I rebuked the nobles of Judah and said to them, "What is this wicked thing you are doing—desecrating the Sabbath day? 18 Didn't your ancestors do the same things, so that our God brought all this calamity on us and on this city? Now you are stirring up more wrath against Israel by desecrating the Sabbath."
19 When evening shadows fell on the gates of Jerusalem before the Sabbath, I ordered the doors to be shut and not opened until the Sabbath was over. I stationed some of my own men at the gates so that no load could be brought in on the Sabbath day. 20 Once or twice the merchants and sellers of all kinds of goods spent the night outside Jerusalem. 21 But I warned them and said, "Why do you spend the night by the wall? If you do this again, I will arrest you." From that time on they no longer came on the Sabbath. 22 Then I commanded the Levites to purify themselves and go and guard the gates in order to keep the Sabbath day holy.
Remember me for this also, my God, and show mercy to me according to your great love.
23 Moreover, in those days I saw men of Judah who had married women from Ashdod, Ammon and Moab. 24 Half of their children spoke the language of Ashdod or the language of one of the other peoples, and did not know how to speak the language of Judah. 25 I rebuked them and called curses down on them. I beat some of the men and pulled out their hair. I made them take an oath in God's name and said: "You are not to give your daughters in marriage to their sons, nor are you to take their daughters in marriage for your sons or for yourselves. 26 Was it not because of marriages like these that Solomon king of Israel sinned? Among the many nations there was no king like him. He was loved by his God, and God made him king over all Israel, but even he was led into sin by foreign women. 27 Must we hear now that you too are doing all this terrible wickedness and are being unfaithful to our God by marrying foreign women?"
28 One of the sons of Joiada son of Eliashib the high priest was son-in-law to Sanballat the Horonite. And I drove him away from me.
29 Remember them, my God, because they defiled the priestly office and the covenant of the priesthood and of the Levites.
30 So I purified the priests and the Levites of everything foreign, and assigned them duties, each to his own task. 31 I also made provision for contributions of wood at designated times, and for the firstfruits.
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NPR, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the Harvard School of Public Health recently polled 1,081 African-Americans about their lives. One of the areas respondents were asked about was their perceptions of their financial status.
As Code Switch's Gene Demby reported in an earlier post, the effects of the housing crisis and a recession — both of which disproportionately affected African-Americans — didn't seem to dampen a sense of optimism and overall life satisfaction among respondents. But the survey did reveal a dramatic — if not exactly surprising — split between two evenly divided groups of respondents: 49 percent who saw their financial situations as "excellent" or "good," and 50 percent who described their finances as "poor" or "not good."
This finding mirrors attitudes of African-American respondents to a 2001 survey by the Washington Post, the Kaiser Family Foundation and Harvard University. Then, the stats were similar: 49 percent polled saw their financial situations as "excellent" or "good," and 51 percent considered them "poor" or "not so good."
Robert Blendon, a professor of public health at Harvard and one of the 2013 study's co-directors, told NPR's Kathy Lohr that many African-Americans who don't consider themselves well-situated financially still have a sense of optimism. A combined 81 percent of respondents said they would one day attain the American dream — owning their own home, gaining financial security — or already had. Only 16 percent said they felt the dream was out of reach.
"That sense of optimism, with all the problems we found, is really a very important thing to recognize," Blendon told Lohr. "That's what carries people through life, is their sense that things can be a lot better for them in the future."
In many cases, Blendon said that this attitude stems from the fact that many of the participants said they thought they were doing better than their parents did, even amid fears of job stability.
Fifty-six percent of blacks considered themselves better off than their parents when they were their age. Only 14 percent thought of themselves as worse off, while 28 percent considered themselves about the same.
The split in perceptions tracks with a similar divide in attitudes throughout the rest of the poll. One of the starkest differences between the two groups was the degree of job security they reported. Fifty-eight percent of employed respondents with a negative view of their finances said they were very or somewhat concerned that they or someone in their household might lose their job. Only 32 percent of those employed respondents with positive feelings about their finances had that same worry.
Health followed a similar path: A whopping 80 percent of financially stable respondents considered themselves to have excellent or very good health. Contrast that with 64 percent of folks who felt their economic situations were not so good or poor.
For folks like Chinenye Oparah — who is in his 30s and has an industrial engineering degree from Georgia Tech — recent times have been trying. Oparah has worked in construction and in the Fayetteville, Ga., school district. Having been laid off from both jobs, he now works for himself; he got a contract to remove computer systems and projectors from schools that are closing. But it's not a full-time job.
"I actually kind of like working hard," Oparah told Lohr. "But it's been a struggle to balance working hard and bringing home enough to sustain and then spending time with family, spending time with our daughter."
Still, he told Lohr he remains hopeful that things will turn around for his family.
"I'm optimistic about us," he said, "and hopeful, faithful, prayerful that something is going to work out in the very near future."
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Fryingpan River Report 5-7-19
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May 7, 2019
UPPER FRYINGPAN (Mile Marker 8 to Ruedi Reservoir)
FLOW: 190 cfs
WATER CLARITY: Clean, clear, cold. Don't fret if the lower river is off-color, it will clean up above mile 4.
OVERALL RATING: 7 out of 10
FOOD SOURCES PRESENT: Midges, BWO adults and nymphs, winter stones, mysis shrimp
THE LOW-DOWN : It is starting to feel a little more like Spring around here, and bugs are showing up with it. We have started to see a few more BWO's throughout the river, so be prepared with both midge and bwo adults. In the mornings nymphing with small midge patterns seems to be most productive, then switching to baetis patterns in the afternoon.
Mysis shrimp are always a factor in the upper reaches, so be sure to have a few of our Tim Heng's and Will Sands' mysis patterns in your box.
Hunting around the upper river with a small streamer can be a lot of fun, you just might turn the biggest fish in the run with a well-presented streamer. Try adjusting your retrieve until the fish give you some positive feedback, and seek out shady areas versus those with bright sun.
This is going to be a big water year around here, there are forecasts for Ruedi becoming full by early July. You couldn't have two more vastly different water years from last year to this one!
HATCHES: Blue Winged Olives 20-22, Midges 20-26, winter stones 16-18, mysis shrimp 16-20
DRIES: Perfect Baetis 20-22, No Hackle BWO 20-22, Collett's Para BWO 20-22, Bill's Midge Emerger 20-22, Skittering Z-Lon Midge 20-22, Biot Wing Midge 20,22, HOH CDC Midge Adult 22-24, CDC Transitional Midge 22, HOH CDC Spent Midge 22-24, Hatching Midge 20-22, Morgan's Para Midge 20-22
NYMPHS: Split Case BWO 20-22, Epoxyback Baetis 20-22, Tungsten Hoover Baetis 20-22, Maggot Midge 20-22, Rojo Midge 20-22, Neon Nightmare 20-22, Lil Foamy 18-20, Bling Midge 20-22, Flashdance Midge 20-22, TC Candy Cane Midge 18-22, Money Midge 20-22, T Midge 20-22, Medallion Midge 20-22, Tim's Mysis 16-18, Will's Epoxy Mysis 16-20
STREAMERS: Slumbuster 6-8, The One Sculpin 4-6, Tim's Autumn Splendor 4-6
HINTS: Hatches are thick in one spot and "not so much" in others, move around until you find 'em!
MIDDLE FRYINGPAN (Mile Markers 4 to 8)
WATER CONDITIONS: Low and clear flows
FOOD SOURCES PRESENT: Caddis, BWOs, Midges, winter stones
OVERALL RATING: 7 out of 10
THE LOW DOWN: The middle Pan as of late has been a sweet spot for finding some great BWO hatches, and also seeing the first signs of caddis adults skittering on the service.
No need to rush to the upper, there is plenty of excellent fishing in this section..
HATCHES: Caddis 16-18, BWOs 18-22, Midges 20-26
DRIES: Peacock Caddis 16-18, Ethawing Caddis 16-18, Parachute Adams 18-22, Hackle Dun Baetis 20-22, Skittering Zelon Midge 20-22, Bill's Midge Emerger 20-22, Brooks Sprout Midge 20-22, HOH CDC Spent Midge 22-24, HOH CDC Midge Adult 24, Hatching Midge 20-22, Morgan's Para Midge 20-22
NYMPHS: Flashwing Black (or gray) RS2 20-22, Zebra Midge Red 18-20, Black Beauty 20-22, Maggot Midge 20-22, Kingrey's Cap'n Hook 20-22, Medallion Midge 20-22, Bead Wing Midge 20-22, Rojo Midge 20-22
STREAMERS: Skully Bugger Rust/White 4, Bonefish Deep Minnow 6-8, Bread n Butter Bugger 6-8
HINTS: Fish a whole mile of river, you'll fish many different water types and get shots at a lot of fish!
LOWER FRYINGPAN (Basalt to Mile Marker 4)
WATER CONDITIONS: Slightly off color recently
FOOD SOURCES PRESENT: Caddis, BWO adults and nymphs, winter stones, midges.
OVERALL RATING: 6 out of 10
THE LOWDOWN: The lower Pan has been yo-yo-ing with water clarity, but the fishing has only seem to get better. In the lower stretches we are able to throw larger flies and heavier tippet.
Stones, worms, and princes have been great lead flies while trailing small baetis patterns.
For hatches, we are seeing BWOs, Caddis, and a few midges.
HATCHES: Caddis 16-18, BWOs 18-22, Midges 20-26, Winter Stones 16-18
DRIES: Pearl and Elk Caddis 16-18, Elk Hair Caddis 16-18, Perfect Baetis 20-22, Sparkledun Baetis 18-22, Morgans Midge 18-22, Perfect Baetis 20-22, Collett's BWO 20-22, Hatching Midge 20-22, Sprout Midge 22-24, HOH CDC Spent Midge 22-24, HOH CDC Midge Adult 24
NYMPHS: Red or Lime Copper John 14-18, Jerome Baetis 20-22, RIP Midge 20-22, Medallion Midge 20-22, Ultra Bling RS2 Gray 18-20, Desert Storm Midge 20-22
STREAMERS: Slumpbuster Black 6-8, Wooly Bugger Olive 4-8, Autumn Splendor 4-8
HINTS: This will be the first section to see some bigger bugs, try using stoneflies as an attractor.
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Hi, this is Paul Naton, founder of Radio Carbon Art and producer of all of the soaring programs available for sale on this site. Let me tell you a little about myself and how I got into r/c soaring and the crazy business of making r/c glider movies and instructional programs.
I've been flying R/C gliders since about 1988, and my passion for flying sailplanes has only grown more obsessive over the years. I started making and selling glider films in 1998, and I've grown my production company Radio Carbon Art into a full time business distributing my entertainment and instructional video productions all over the world.
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I've had a 'thing' about airplanes since I can remember. Most everyone in my family has had some involvement in aviation. My dad flew as crew on the famous China Clipper flying boats in the 1930's and then later on Catalina's and assorted Naval transport planes (MATS) in the South Pacific during WW 2 as a civilian air transport coordinator. My Uncle Norman, who took me for my first small plane flight in his personal Bonanza, was part of the Flying Doctors group in the 50's and 60's and flew small planes for many years in the wilds of Central and South America. My other Uncle David flew the FJ-1 Fury (naval version of F-86) for the Marines in the '60's. Grandpa Ross worked for Ryan Aviation in San Diego in the late 1920's and knew Charles Lindbergh.
My dad had a bookshelf full of vintage airplane books and out of all the volumes in my dad's collection, my favorites were those about gliders. One faded book in particular was filled with pictures of German sailplanes of the 1930's soaring at sites like the famous Wasserkuppe. This classic book 'The Beauty Of Flight' is now on my book shelf.
While I enjoy all types of aviation, gliding seemed the most magical and intriguing. My dad and I folded hundreds of paper planes and built countless Guillows 10 cent balsa gliders. These planes taught me the basics of aerodynamics and the importance of balance and tuning. Free-flight was cool, but I always imagined being able to control my little glider from the ground, giving it some bank just at the right moment to avoid that tree or catch a wind current for speed.
I then enjoyed aviation through plastic modeling and built about at least 50 1/72 scale aircraft kits. The latest AMA and Modeling magazines were available at my elementary school library and I read those cover to cover and learning about the early r/c radio systems and dreaming of one day flying my own radio control model. My first flying model was a balsa and tissue Jetco Thermic Trooper free-flight kit. After weeks of building it in my clothes closet shop space, it lasted a total of two flights before it returned to kit form.
Once I turned 12, I started to take full-scale glider lessons at the nearby Fremont, California glider school and later at the Calistoga glider port. At 12, you don't have much understanding of the air, and most of the time I was in way over my head as far as piloting, but I was progressing slowly towards solo. Unfortunately, my folks split up, and there went the lessons and the full-scale glider flying for a while. At 13, I discovered the sport of sailing, and for the next 15 years I put most of my aviation activities aside, and focused on becoming a top racing skipper, turning professional at age 19.
Fast forward lots of years, to 1984 to be exact, to my college days in the Arts and Design program at the University of California, San Diego. UCSD sits on the bluffs of the pacific coast, virtually across the street from the famous Torrey Pines glider port and it's 350 foot cliffs. I was really into surfing at the time and a wave check at cliff's edge was my routine before and after the days' classes. I enjoyed watching the hang gliders and local group of old retired guys with their big balsa R/C gliders launching out into the building afternoon sea breeze. The R/C models were fascinating to watch, but I had no money or time to get my own plane going. Someday, I thought to myself, someday.
One spring day in 1988, I stopped by Torrey Pines to check out some huge storm surf pounding the coast. A front had passed through and it was blowing a stiff 25 kts. At the edge of the cliff stood a few guys flying some small gliders that were going really fast. I'd never seen anyone flying RC's in this much wind, and these guys were flying full-on aerobatics like at an air show. This type of slope flying was new to me and I spent the next 3 hours watching these guys and asking questions about the gliders. One of these guys turned out to be the legendary Charlie Richadson, then a little known Southern California sailplane designer, who was test flying his new Savaron twist-wing slope plane.
Seeing these pros fly high speed aerobatics in strong winds was a life changing experience for me. That day I decided that I needed to learn how to fly r/c gliders like those guys. Cliff soaring would be was something fun to do when the surf was flat or blown out, which is about 80% of the time, even in San Diego.
I started hanging around the Torrey glider pits observing the pilots flying and asking a million questions. My first actual stick time was on a guys' Gentle Lady which was a full three mistakes high. I quickly got the hang of turning, applying my full-scale piloting experience to the model. A little cocky now, with 30 minutes of stick time in my log book, I went out and bought a Kyosho Melody, a semi-scale looking 1.5 meter plane and a Futaba Attack 4 AM radio. The sexy looking but rather heavy and fast Melody turned out to be a terrible trainer. I tried to teach myself to fly by gliding it off of the smaller cliffs in Del Mar. After a month of crash landings on the beach and nightly repairs, I finally had gained some basic control of the model, enough to try the big Torrey cliff on the next windy day. That day came, and yes, I had a long successful flight in real slope lift. I was hooked! But I still sucked at flying and had a lot to learn.
A few weeks later at the same big cliff, I stalled the Melody in a turn and crashed it well below the cliff's edge. I had to hike up from the beach 320 vertical feet up the trail-less crumbling bluff to the Melody crash site. Right next to the Melody wreck, I spotted an entire wing tip of another glider buried in small landslide of sandy mud. Just under the dirt surface was an entire 2 meter Wanderer glider! It only took about 20 minutes to dig it out of the cliff sand, excavating the glider out like some rare dinosaur fossil. She was still in one piece! The planes power switch was in the 'OFF' position, hence the reason for the crash. After a week of careful restoration and the addition of a new receiver and battery, the Wanderer was ready to fly again. I spent every day that summer flying this easy to fly trainer, and finally learned to soar confidently and have complete control of my plane in all wind conditions.
My future mentor Charlie Richardson was just starting his glider kit business of CR AIrcraft Models, and he was often at the Torrey Pines Glider Port cliff site testing his latest designs. I was always pestering Charlie with questions about his Turbo wingeron sloper, a glider I desperately lusted for, and we eventually struck up a trade deal. I did the graphic designs for his kit boxes for free and in return, he built me a custom Turbo. I was very fortunate to have Charlie as my tutor as I was starting out, he taught me how to properly build, tune and fly the higher performance gliders like the ones he was designing and selling. After a few years of daily slope practice, I was good enough to start competing in slope races as a member of the CR Aircraft glider team. Soon CR planes like the Renegade and Raider were dominating the California slope race circuit with both of us bringing home many trophies and season championships in the early 90's.
Handlaunch gliders were becoming very popular by 1991, and Charlie was working on some innovative HLG glider designs utilizing his slope plane experience. At first I thought handlaunch was really stupid. Throw for hours and go up more than 200 feet once in a while? I thought that I'd just stick to the rush of speed at the slope. I had that brazen attitude until I caught my first big booming thermal from a 50 foot hand launch and climbed out higher and faster than I had ever done on the slope. Flying HLGs was really hard and frustrating, but I just had to learn how to do it. I finally got good after a year of daily practice at some local flat fields near the coast. Charlie's Climmax series of HLG's where soon the most popular planes on the contest circuit, and I won most of the major U.S. HLG contests with this design. I still get more airtime on my HLG's then any other planes I own, and flying these light thermal gliders has never been boring as it is so darn challenging.
This whole soaring video thing started when Charlie and I wanted to make some simple demo videos to attract customers to our booth at the AMA model expo trade show in Pasadena, CA. We started video taping each other flying, showing off the aerobatic and speed performance of the CR gliders. Our first demo videos were crude, shot on 8mm video with basic edits done with 2 VCR's hooked together with popular music over-dubbed for a soundtrack. The trade show crowds went nuts for the videos because the flying styles were very cutting edge and in these pre-internet days, no one had seen slope soaring video footage like this. The CR kits always sold out once the guys saw these demo videos.
I had a feeling that there might be a market for a more professionally produced film series, but video technology was still seriously expensive and primitive. In college I had taken lots of video production classes, but you still needed a room full of really exotic gear to do even simple video shooting and editing. The technology was just not available for the type of flying film I envisioned. That would soon change.
Fast forward again. In 1997, I had the chance to take some serious time off and travel. I bought a VW camper, a high-tech Sony Hi8 video camera, a case of tapes, and packed my vehicle with planes and future wife Aimee and left on a no-schedule-to-follow trip around North America.
Now I didn't do this trip with the intention of making a soaring movie. However, after previewing some of the footage that we shot while flying gliders in some weird and wonderful places, I began to think about making a formal film about my experiences. My inspiration was the classic surf film 'The Endless Summer', the story of young guys roaming the world in search of perfect waves. I was doing the same thing in essence . . . searching for perfect soaring conditions where ever they might occur, in the vastness of America.
The trip was incredible, I wore out 3 planes, built 3 more in the van, and flew places with my glider that had not been flown before. How would I tell the story of this unbelievable adventure to my flying buddies?
I had over 20 hours of flying footage to edit together, and no way to do it. High technology to the rescue. I found this local San Diego guy who had just purchased a new Macintosh-based non-linear computer editing system, and he could edit the movie together digitally for a fraction of the time and cost it would have taken with analog tape to tape systems. He had a 20 gig hard-drive, which was huge and expensive for 1998, but could hold just enough footage for a one hour movie. After a few weeks of editing work, I had my first film done, the famous 'Endless Lift', first available on VHS tape. I spent $3000.00 on the whole production, a fraction of what it would have cost only a few years earlier.
The internet age was just starting, and I sold the first copies of Endless Lift through the then new RC Soaring Exchange e-mail list. Word of mouth spread, and in a few months, had made back the production costs and a tidy profit. I was suddenly in the soaring film business.
A few years later, I made my second film, Endless Lift 2, which was a compilation of my best travels and soaring events since the Endless Lift journey. I shot the footage on analog Hi8 video but edited it on a better quality Avid editing system. The overall movie quality was OK, but I was never happy with the image quality and the lack of editing control when you are on the $60.00-by-the-hour studio clock. Again, new technology arrived just in time in the form of the new Digital Video standard, finally giving me a cost-effective way to produce quality films myself.
The first digital video cameras and affordable computer editing systems hit about 1999, and I invested in a Canon GL-1 pro DV camera and a PowerPC Mac with a then huge 80 gig hard-drive. Without this new video technology and the internet to sell the final product, a small niche company like Radio Carbon Art wouldn't be able to exist. Learning to shoot and edit like a pro filmmaker is an ongoing challenge which utilizes all of my talents, skills and design education. I do it all, write, shoot, edit, sound mix, design the graphics and titles, and create the marketing materials. My goal is always to make each film unique and in some way, and better than the last.
While the entertainment and travel films are a blast to make, I soon learned that the true value in making these videos was to teach others the techniques you need to know to be successful in the sport of r/c soaring. I still remember the years of painful trial and error I experienced when I was learning to build and fly, even though I was fortunate to be among really experienced soaring pilots. If I had a resource like my training videos to learn from, it would've saved me years of learning and lots of money. My first how-to program is titled The Secrets of Thermal Soaring, and it is still one of my best sellers.
R/C soaring is a young sport which is shaped in part by technology. There are always going to be new designs, materials, electronics and new flying techniques to learn. I spend a huge amount of time learning, researching, and testing the latest planes and products, scouring the planet for the 'best of the best'. My training video series will keep you updated on all of latest technologies and required skills as they evolve. My goal for Radio Carbon Art is to cover every aspect of the sport in detail and build up a comprehensive library of information that you can purchase, review, and learn from at your own pace. The Soaring Master Class training video series is an example of an ongoing project to bring together the knowledge of the great minds and personalities of the current soaring world.
As of 2011, all videos are shot in High Definition 1080P format, with the Electric Sailplane Clinic being my first all HD production. You can also now order Digital Download editions of all of our training videos and entertainment films at a more affordable price featuring instant download access, no shipping fees, and no taxes.
The last few years I've been focusing on flying high performance electric gliders for Altitude Limited Electric Soaring (ALES) competitions and learning how to fly the new F5J class of electric launch thermal duration tasks. I like electric-launch because a lot of the best fields I fly are too small to set up a winch and I would rather spend time in the air and not shagging a high start or winch chute. I still love my F3K gliders and use them for keeping my low-level thermal skills sharp. However, nothing beats a big 4 meter thermal glider blasting off a strong winch with mono line or going vertical with a well-powered electric. I'll be a life long soaring junkie for sure. This sport stays interesting to me as there are so many new skills and types of soaring to master. GPS racing looks cool, but I just may have to get back to my slope soaring roots, I miss the speed and power of it.
You can use our contact form if you have any questions for me, I'm always available to help you out. Thanks for reading this, gotta go flying now.
Paul Naton • producer/owner Radio Carbon Art
Appendix 0: A Few Soaring Accomplishments - Contests:
1st overall Polecat ALES/F5J contest champion 2016
1st day and 2nd overall Polecat ALES/F5J contest 2013-14
2 Time US 60" Slope Racing Season Champion
1st Place Unlimited Class - World Soaring Jamboree
4th Place 60" Racing Class - World Soaring Jamboree
Multiple ISR Slope Racing Contest Wins
Three 4th place finishes International Slope Racing Championships.
A few F3F contest wins, fastest time 34.10
A Few Soaring Accomplishments - HLG/F3K:
1st Place HLG - World Soaring Jamboree
1st Place Team IHLGF Poway
Multiple top 10 finishes IHLGF Poway, best 4th place overall
1st Place Riverside Open
1st Place LA Open and various TPG Club contests.
A Few Soaring Accomplishments - Other:
4th place 1999 World Speed Trials, second fastest gate time 167mph
Set Dynamic Soaring Record 173 mph, June 2000, a record that stood for 3 years
Developed frontside/shearline Dynamic Soaring technique
Design the first purpose built Dynamic Soaring speed plane the "Speed Runner" with Charlie Richardson
Appendix 1: Gear
What gear do we use to make the our videos?
All Mac's of course, lots of terabytes of HD space, Final Cut Pro Suite, Adobe Photoshop CS and Adobe Design Suite, and tons of other software. Canon SD HD video cameras, 2 Canon Digi SLRs, Sennhieser wireless mics, Mackie mixers, Mobius HD mini-cams, specialty mics, and lots of coffee, delicious dark coffee.
Appendix 2: What I Fly
Euphoria F3J 4m Strong • Euphoria F5J 4m • Xplorer X3 3800 F5J electric • Xplorer X2.5 3800 F3J • Cormier Mach 60" Wingeron • Carbon Shrike 60" Pitcheron • CR Carbon Contender wingeron • CR Climmax Pro • CR Turbo S Wingeron • Snipe F3K • Sirius F3K Disser edition • Zoloft Slope DLG • XP-4 F3K hlg • 1975 Hobie Hawk • 4 channel modified Radian Electric • Radian UMX Mini • Radios: 2 JR 9305 2.4 DSMX
Left: At the 1999 World Speed Trails at Kiona Butte, Wa. I flew the second fastest time through the 100 meter course at 167 mph.
Plane is my CR/Naton designed Speed Runner, first r/c glider designed specially for Dynamic Soaring speed records. This plane set the DS record at 173 mph in 2000, a record that stood for 3 years.
Right: Testing my new Euphoira F3J 4m at my local field in Pennsylvania, 2015.


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if you used an external drive as the destination, after check that the connection and the writing privilege is ok, you can re-make the seletion(sometimes, the drive volume for the external drive is changed).
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Joshua Middleton is a comics artist who works in mainstream American comics, but whose work feels outside of that world in many ways.
Middleton draws in an open lined style, with few spotted blacks, that feels to me like it carries more influence from Japanese and European comics than major American comics. Nonetheless, after a stint on Crossgen's Meridian and a short run on his own creator owned project, Sky between Branches (image above), he went to work for Marvel Comics, creating covers and sometimes interior art for titles like NYX, New Mutants and X-Men Unlimited. He did a bit of work for Udon and Dark Horse and then Moved to DC, where he has done a number of covers and the full mini-series Superman/Shazam: First Thunder (with writer Judd Winick). Middleton seems to have settled in there as a cover artist for Vertigo titles like American Virgin.
Middleton's site features galleries of his work from various projects, arranged by covers, comics pages and sketches & character designs, including some concept designs for Serenity's "Inara". He started a blog this fall in which he posts unpublished work, sketches, news, notices of originals that are up for auction and sometimes some YouTube style vids of images as he works on them.
Middleton often does the complete artwork for the pieces he works on, pencils, inks and colors, again more in keeping with European and independent comics than the normal approach of major American comics companies, which is based on a team model (or assembly line if you want to be cynical).
His ink rendering style utilizes a fine outline, with little variation in line weight, also like the European ligne claire comics style or like inks for animation. His color feels almost like cartoon cell painting, with broad areas of relatively flat color laid against one another with few gradients or painted effects except in backgrounds.
He works with lots of subdued, neutralized colors, particularly blues that are pushed almost to gray. It's an unusual approach for mainstream comics coloring, although it has some characteristics in common with coloring for some American comics that are very manga influenced. The difference is that Middleton does it with more aplomb and a firmer knowledge of anatomy and geometric form than the color artists for many of those titles.
Overall, though, Middleton's aim seems always to be in service of the emotion of the story, whether in characters faces or the emotional effect of color and tone on the scene as a whole. I hope his success as a cover artist doesn't keep him from applying that approach more sequential work; telling stories, after all, is what comics do best.


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Nigerians everywhere, those of belief and those of none, are mourning the death of pastor Lawan Andimi, taken from us by Boko Haram for his refusal to denounce his Christian faith.
I did not know Pastor Andimi personally. Yet Nigerians and I both know him and his church by their works: healing, caring, feeding and educating, particularly in the northeastern regions of my country—in those areas threatened for too long by terrorists. Every day, the Church of the Brethren in Nigeria (EYN) places itself there bravely where the brotherhood of man is most in need of sustenance.
Pastor Andimi's ministry was located only 60 miles from the town of Chibok, from where in 2014 the world witnessed the shocking kidnapping of 267 schoolgirls. That even one individual—this time a man of the church—could still be taken by the terror group seven years later might be viewed as evidence the terrorists are fully functional, and undefeated. But it is not.
Since I was first elected to office in 2015, 107 of the Chibok girls have been freed. Today we seek the others. Boko Haram are no longer one, unified threat, but fractured into several rivals. These splinters are themselves degraded: reduced to criminal acts which—nonetheless no less cruel—target smaller and smaller numbers of the innocent. We owe thanks to the Nigerian defense forces, bolstered by our partnership with the British, American militaries and other countries that we are winning this struggle in the field.
But we may not, yet, be completely winning the battle for the truth. Christianity in Nigeria is not—as some seem intent on believing—contracting under pressure, but expanding and growing in numbers approaching half of our population today. Nor is it the case that Boko Haram is primarily targeting Christians: not all of the Chibok schoolgirls were Christians; some were Muslims, and were so at the point at which they were taken by the terrorists. Indeed, it is the reality that some 90 per cent of all Boko Haram's victims have been Muslims: they include a copycat abduction of over 100 Muslim schoolgirls, along with their single Christian classmate; shootings inside mosques; and the murder of two prominent imams. Perhaps it makes for a better story should these truths, and more, be ignored in the telling.
It is a simple fact that these now-failing terrorists have targeted the vulnerable, the religious, the non-religious, the young, and the old without discrimination. And at this point, when they are fractured, we cannot allow them to divide good Christians and good Muslims from those things that bind us all in the sight of God: faith, family, forgiveness, fidelity, and friendship to each other.
Yet sadly, there is a tiny, if vocal, minority of religious leaders—both Muslim and Christian—who appear more than prepared to take their bait and blame the opposite religious side. The terrorists today attempt to build invisible walls between us. They have failed in their territorial ambitions, so now instead they seek to divide our state of mind, by prying us from one from another—to set one religion seemingly implacably against the other.
Translated into English, Boko Haram means "Western teachings are sinful." They claim as "proof" passages of the Quran which state that Muslims should fight "pagans" to be justification for attacks on Christians and those Muslims who hold no truck with them. They are debased by their wilful misreading of scripture—at least those of them who are able to read at all.
Of course, there is much of Christianity and Islam—both in teaching and practice—that are not the same. Were that not so, there would be no need for the separateness of the two religions. Yet though these unread terrorists seem not to know it, there is much between our two faiths—both the word and the scripture—that run in parallel.
For the Bible teaches, "Each one must give as he has purposed in his heart, not grudgingly or under compulsion" (2 Cor. 9:7), while the Quran states: "There is no compulsion in religion" (2:256). Similarly, the Bible states: "For if anyone is a hearer of the Word and not a doer, he is like a man who looks intently at his natural face in a mirror" (James 1:23). The Quran concurs: "Those who believe and do good works, theirs will be forgiveness and a great reward" (35:7).
I call on Nigeria's faith leaders, and Nigerians everywhere, to take these words of concord—and the many more that exist—to their hearts and their deeds. Just as my government, and our international partners, quicken our campaign to defeat Boko Haram within and without our borders, we must turn our minds to the future. There is no place in Nigeria for those who seek to divide us by religion, who compel others to change their faith forcibly, or try to convince others that by so doing, they are doing good.
Rather, we might all learn from the faith and works of Pastor Andimi. There seems little doubt he acted selflessly in so many regards—giving alms and prayers to both Christians and Muslims who suffered at the hands of the terrorists. And he passed from us, rightly refusing to renounce his faith that was not for his captors to take, any more than his life. His belief and his deeds are a lesson and an inspiration to all of us.
Muhammadu Buhari is President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.


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According to a local Italian artist, the volatile soccer player Mario Balotelli has commissioned a life-sized statue of himself to "immortalise" himself in his home in Brescia, Italy.
"I have received the commission, but I've never met Balotelli so I am working from photos," Livio Scarpella told the Italian newspaper Il Giornale di Brescia. "I presented several drawings but Mario wanted to be immortalised in a pose that shows him having scored a goal, highlighting his muscles and with an expression of defiance."
(MORE: Looking Back at Balotelli's Turbulent Time in the English Premier League)
Understandably, the Italian media has jumped to the conclusion that the pose will be based on the 22-year-old's iconic celebration after scoring his second goal in last summer's European Championship semi-final against Germany. Balotelli's performance was good enough to spring the surprise win though Italy was thumped 4-0 in the final by Spain. "I have imagined him as an athlete from ancient times and the statue will be a mix of classical and pop style in platinum and coloured bronze with the eyes made of stones," said Scarpella. Well, quite.
It's just the latest incident in a tumultuous few months for Balotelli. He started the season with Manchester City, who is currently defending their English Premier League title, which was secured in dramatic fashion on the last day of the 2011/12 campaign when Balotelli's assist set up the winning goal in injury time to beat Queens Park Rangers 3-2, thus denying their local rivals Manchester United the championship for a 20th time. But Balotelli never seemed to settle this season, and was sold to AC Milan in January.
(VIDEO: Mario Balotelli Opens Up to TIME)
Life has been anything but dull since moving back to Italy. He scored twice on his debut and added another two goals over his next two games. But he drew a blank in last weekend's derby against Inter, who were fined €50,000 ($65,000) by the Italian league in light of fans racially abusing Balotelli, who used to play for Inter (the fine was also for racism towards another former player, Sulley Muntari, as well as offensive banners and the usage of a laser aimed at players' eyes). Balotelli raised a finger to his lips when Inter fans were abusing him.
MORE: Scoring the Goals That Sank Germany, Balotelli Says it Loud — He's Black, Italian and Proud


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RENEW Energy Maintenance repeatedly experienced control system failures on their Suzlon S64 wind farm in Southwest Minnesota and a general lack of flexibility. A control system retrofit replaced the existing turbine controller and the electrical pitch system and provided them with maximized availability and new life to the turbine.
An increased number of failures on the control system
Over the past decades, thousands of wind turbines have been installed worldwide and it is common that after ten years of operation their performance starts decreasing and faults occur. At RENEW Energy Maintenance's remote wind project in Minnesota, they faced similar problems.
"These turbines historically had high rates of control system failures with limited flexibility in terms of improvements, whether that be control logic improvements or hardware improvements, such as upgrading components," explains RENEW's Director of Operations Nick Siddens.
RENEW was on the lookout for a cost-effective retrofit solution that would make the aging turbines run more efficiently and increase profitability. Many potential suppliers were in play but in the end, RENEW decided to partner with DEIF.
"After considering all our options, we moved forward with DEIF because of their willingness to work with RENEW to provide a very robust and affordable system for ourselves and our current customers. Not only did this improve the performance of the project, it also qualified for 80% of the Production Tax Credits".
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Significant revenue is lost when wind turbines are down and due to the harsh environments, the controller eventually will fail. To make a successful retrofit, a lot of important parameters need to be fulfilled.
"We made a thorough analysis of the wind turbines' performance and the conditions under which they operate and based on that we tailored a solution that would meet Jim and his team's expectations", says Jan Harrestrup, Vice President, DEIF.
Besides extending the turbines' lifetime significantly, the availability of the turbines has been optimized with a two-digit number. The immediate result is that the turbines 6 months after the retrofit have produced more energy than the previous 12 months.
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David Lee Roth Explains Where Van Halen's 'Arrogance' Came From
David Lee Roth said Van Halen's character, including their arrogance, was the result of many years of preparation before they even got together.
He also outlined his approach to leading a concert, and revealed that he'd been getting ready for his January Las Vegas residency as long ago as last October.
"We did our 10,000 hours before we even did our first record," Roth said about Van Halen on the latest episode of The Roth Show. "We were the result of really unsmiling, unfriendly European music teachers, and when we brought it together we brought craft. Thousands and thousands of hours of just working together as a team, and working together as individuals. And that's where our spirit and our drive, and maybe some of our arrogance, came from."
You can watch the episode below.
He also explained his attitude toward being the band's frontman. "I've been in three good car accidents as a passenger, and the first thing I said when I woke up was, 'How are you?'" he said. "That is built into everything I do as an MC. ... I started getting myself ready – like a boxer or a ballerina or a tap dancer, and I'm kinda like a combination of all of it – I'm depending on my body completely. … I started getting that ready around my birthday last October."
Roth repeated comments he recently made that the residency wouldn't be a Van Halen tribute show and how he had no intention of sounding like the band used to sound live. Instead, he wants the concerts to sound like a fully produced album. "Man, that's a high hurdle," he admitted. "You're gonna have to come after the show, tell me if I did it." Noting that he decided not to give the band a name, Roth added that he did name its sound as "horses of God," telling his colleagues, "Let's see if you can add up to that."
He then attempted to outline his thought process in presenting his performance, comparing it to what he called the "old British music hall" approach known as "routining."
"You take 10 acts, 10 records, 10 songs, like a DJ, perhaps," he explained. "What order are they put in and how are they presented? Is there overlap, quick segue, do you stop and introduce? Routining. And you have to be able to work with your audience the same way that you work with a single individual. Sometimes it's in debate, sometimes it's conversations, sometimes you're laughing and celebrating together.
"Frequently, in my audience, it is the victory dance. But it's back and forth – a little but more like fucking sometimes. And at the end of the day, it's not who you slept with, it's who wants to sleep with you again. … Am I making any sense here? I'm trying!"
Roth also referenced the fact that the first of three shows will take place on Jan. 8, "Elvis' birthday – let's not let the poetry of this be lost!"


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35 pyramids found in Sudan
At least 35 small pyramids, along with graves, have been discovered clustered closely together at a site called Sedeinga in Sudan.
Discovered between 2009 and 2012, researchers are surprised at how densely the pyramids are concentrated. In one field season alone, in 2011, the research team discovered 13 pyramids packed into roughly 5,381 square feet (500 square meters), or slightly larger than an NBA basketball court.
They date back around 2,000 years to a time when a kingdom named Kush flourished in Sudan. Kush shared a border with Egypt and, later on, the Roman Empire. The desire of the kingdom's people to build pyramids was apparently influenced by Egyptian funerary architecture....


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3 Pandemic Travel Trends That May Stick Around
COVID-19 has challenged families in different ways, and many had to cancel or reschedule trips during the pandemic due to travel restrictions, which meant missing out on quality time with loved ones and the mental health and self-care benefits of going on vacation.
Although 61% of families had a trip canceled due to the pandemic in 2020, travel is still top of mind as 82% of families already have travel plans in mind for 2021, according to the 2021 Vrbo Trend Report. The report, which includes vacation rental marketplace data as well as survey data from family travelers, also revealed some travel habits that arose during the pandemic are likely to remain popular this year.
"Let's face it, the pandemic makes it tough to predict what travel will look like in 2021," said Melanie Fish, Vrbo's travel expert. "That's why we combined search and demand trends with a first-of-its-kind traveler survey of U.S. families. The combination gives us the most accurate picture possible of the plans families are making."
Consider these pandemic-era trends as you make your vacation plans moving forward:
Staying in the Driver's Seat
With travel restrictions and social distancing guidelines in place throughout much of 2020, many families opted to avoid flying and visiting crowded places by instead jumping in the car to hit the open road. This trend is likely to continue in 2021 with 59% of families saying they are more likely to drive instead of fly on their next trip. A change of scenery can be refreshing and motivating after staring at the same four walls in your home, so consider taking a road trip and exploring a new destination, even if it's just down the road from home.
Mixing Work and Play
Many people were forced to adapt to working from home or facilitating e-learning for their children due to COVID-19. While turning homes into makeshift offices or classrooms wasn't an easy task for many families, the schedule flexibility provided by the remote setup allowed for the rise of the "flexcation" – mixing vacation time with virtual work and school. In fact, 1 in 3 families surveyed said they were able to travel because they were working from home, and 52% of those who took a flexcation during the pandemic found the experience refreshing with 67% saying they would do it again.
Another benefit of flexcations is experiencing amenities you may not have access to at home. Consider some of Vrbo's most sought-after amenities and vacation spots when planning your next getaway:
- Splash in the sun in Cape Coral, Florida where 92% of vacation rentals have pools.
- Cook over an open fire in Sevierville, Tennessee, where barbecue grills are included at 87% of vacation homes.
- Cozy up by the fire with a book and some hot chocolate in Steamboat Springs, Colorado where fireplaces are an amenity offered in 87% of vacation rentals.
Seeking Wide Open Spaces
Many travelers gravitate toward vacationing in peaceful and picturesque destinations, and the open sky, fresh air and scenic views may be even more appealing amid the pandemic. According to the report, 61% of U.S. families said they are more likely to visit an outdoorsy destination than an urban one and 54% are more likely to head to a national park than an amusement park.
Find more ideas for planning your next vacation – or flexcation – along with the full Trend Report at vrbo.com.


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In the worst of times and places—whether natural disasters or everyday crises—Volunteer Ministers are there with their skills, providing relief and succor to those in need.
Find out how to help yourself or those you love.
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The Scientology Handbook: Tools for Life film
An introduction to basic Scientology principles from The Scientology Handbook—tools to overcome any problem and achieve a more fulfilling and happier life.
- This film brings to life each of the 19 chapters of The Scientology Handbook.
- Solutions to the most common difficulties and the most challenging situations are presented in this film.
- Each principle is illustrated with examples drawn from life, increasing understanding and application.
Religious Influence in Society by L. Ron Hubbard
In 1973, Founder of Dianetics and Scientology L. Ron Hubbard conducted a sociological study in New York City and discovered a society that had dramatically worsened from the city he remembered years before. From this study he predicted where the culture was headed: rampant immorality, violence as sport, and ultimately, politics by terrorism.
Needed was a way to help others live their lives and build their futures. In answer, Mr. Hubbard drew the plans for a grassroots movement, one that would instill these values back into society and so halt the decline: the Scientology Volunteer Ministers Program.


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Hi all, my name is Rusty Buchert and I am the Sr. Producer for Linger in Shadows. Some of you may have heard about it already from coverage here and there, but there are a lot of questions surrounding this unique title. It will be releasing on the PlayStation Network on October 9, so I wanted to explain today about what Linger is and what it isn't. I'll start with the easier side, and that is Linger in Shadows is NOT a game. It was never meant to be a game and it will never be a game. Yes it has trophies, but it still isn't a game and I'll explain why a little later on.
So then, what the heck is it? There are a few different answers to that question and I'm going to try and cover them here. So here is the short version and then I'll ramble on in more detail. Linger in Shadows was created by Plastic, from the demoscene. It is an experiment with the demoscene and it is an experiment in Interactive Digital Art.
Now for the first part: what the heck is the demoscene and why does it matter? The demoscene came from an underground digital art culture that started in the 80's. A "demo" is an audiovisual program created to demonstrate and push the limits of a machine through the devotion, creativity and originality of the demosceners who created the "demo". Like games, "demos" went from being made by individuals to being made by groups. The demoscene has created some amazing pieces over the years, and that is why we decided to reach out to the demoscene and see what they could do with the PlayStation 3 hardware. The results are pretty amazing. The kicker is that the folks who made Linger in Shadows did it part-time after-hours. This is a work of passion for them; they have day jobs too.
Previously demoscene productions were passive experiences. You ran it, sat back and watched. One of the things that Plastic wanted to do with Linger was to move in a new direction. Linger can be watched passively, but you won't get the whole experience that way. It is meant to be an experience that you explore through. Look beyond the frame of what you see. Search for new things, experiment with the SIXAXIS, and you might be surprised by what you find.
I hope you've had a chance to check out the trailer on PSN. If you haven't seen it yet, give it a look. You can also find out a little more about Linger in the Shadows here.
I'll be back here on the blog soon to talk more about Linger in the Shadows, Plastic and how this all got started.


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Tuesday, November 8, 2011
Purr for Cory
39 comments:
- Mark's Mews (Marley, Lori, Loki, and Binq) said...
We are purring fer Cory. We hope the pee problems are temporary...
- Nov 8, 2011, 12:06:00 AM
- Ivan from WMD said...
We hope everything turns out OK with Cory and that whatever she's got can be fixed fast! Purrs to you--she'll be home soon.
- Nov 8, 2011, 12:07:00 AM
- Angel MoMo and Charlotte said...
Oh nos! I am purring and purring for my lovely furriend. Get well soon, Cory!
- Nov 8, 2011, 12:12:00 AM
- momsbusy said...
we will add cory to our purrayer list.
yuki, kintaro, & tt
of kazoku neko - Nov 8, 2011, 12:15:00 AM
- ANGEL ABBYGRACE said...
We are purring for Cory.
Abby - Nov 8, 2011, 12:17:00 AM
- Gemini and Ichiro said...
We are purring hard for Cory. Fortunately UTIs are fixable and we hope that she will feel better soon and be right back where she belongs, with you.
- Nov 8, 2011, 12:21:00 AM
- Summer at sparklecat.com said...
Ellie, I know you are really missing Cory right now! I am purring that whatever is going on with her is easily dealt with, and that she is back home first thing in the morning!
- Nov 8, 2011, 12:35:00 AM
- Scout and Freyja said...
Oh, sweetie, just be happy that your momma and dadda are taking good care of your little girl. We are sure she'll come home feeling much better than when she left.
- Nov 8, 2011, 12:58:00 AM
- Barbara said...
George and Gracie are purring hard as they can!
- Nov 8, 2011, 1:38:00 AM
- Ikaika said...
We are sending our best healing purrs to Cory for a speedy recovery. She will be home soon.
- Nov 8, 2011, 1:50:00 AM
- Tama-Chan, Benny, Vidock, Violette, Ollie, Heloise, Momo, Ryu said...
Oh Ellie, we feel for you and are sending the loudest purrs we can muster. along with some gentle woofs and neighs from Tommy and Vidock, and good vibes from #1. We hope little Cory will be all better soon.
From all your friends at The Poupounette - Nov 8, 2011, 1:50:00 AM
- Mr Puddy said...
You have my purrs !!
I send a ton of purring to Cory plus Paw crossed. I hope Nothing serious .
Hugs to you and your family, Ellie
xoxo - Nov 8, 2011, 2:06:00 AM
- Whisppy said...
Oh oh. Sounds like a urinary tract infection. We're sure the vet would get her fixed real quick and she'll be home before you know it, Ellie!
- Nov 8, 2011, 2:28:00 AM
- Milo and Alfie Marshall said...
As soon as mom told us she read it on FB we hadta come over. We are sending HUGE healing PURRS for Cory ~ and love for yoo. xx
- Nov 8, 2011, 3:43:00 AM
- Fuzzy Tales said...
Oh noes! Of course we're purring our loudest for Cory, that she'll be home today and be fine. We hope it's an easy fix!
Sending kitty kisses and universal Light! - Nov 8, 2011, 4:07:00 AM
- Parker said...
You know that you have purrs from us!
Get well soon sweet Cory-Cat!
Smoochies! - Nov 8, 2011, 4:37:00 AM
- Barb said...
Oh, my! P-problems are No Fun for anybuddy! Prayers and purrs from me and the Gs
- Nov 8, 2011, 5:38:00 AM
- Angel Simba said...
Purring very hard for Cory, and for you, Ellie. You must be confused and worried about where Cory is.
- Nov 8, 2011, 5:45:00 AM
- Cat with a Garden said...
What terrible news, we hate to think of Cory being poorly! We are purring nonstop fo her to get better and be home soon.
- Nov 8, 2011, 6:04:00 AM
- The Florida Furkids said...
We're purring loud and hard for Cory!
The Florida Furkids and Angel Sniffie - Nov 8, 2011, 6:15:00 AM
- Brian's Home Blog said...
My sisters and I are all sending many, many purrs to sweet Cory.
- Nov 8, 2011, 6:23:00 AM
- The Island Cats said...
We are purring for Cory and hoping she will be okay and can come home today. We can see how worried you are, Ellie.
- Nov 8, 2011, 7:08:00 AM
- Angel Prancer Pie said...
Purrs, purrs and more purrs fur Coretta! Get better and come home soon! xoxo
- Nov 8, 2011, 7:47:00 AM
- Connie - Tails from the Foster Kittens said...
More purrs for Cory. I hope everything is OK.
- Nov 8, 2011, 10:02:00 AM
- The Monkeys said...
Oh no! We hope that Cory is better soon and we are sending lots of purrs!
- Nov 8, 2011, 10:25:00 AM
- Diana Parkhouse said...
Sometimes my Monkey cat has pee problems, from stress (what the?! Stress?! She's bonkers). The medicine they give her is really good. She even like the taste of it. Hope Cory is home and feeling better ASAP.
- Nov 8, 2011, 10:59:00 AM
- Unknown said...
Oh Dears! We will purray for all of yous and particularly Cory and we hopes they finds out what it is and she comes home soon!
Nellie - Nov 8, 2011, 11:35:00 AM
- Egan said...
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cattongues.blogspot.com - Nov 8, 2011, 12:07:00 PM
- The Whiskeratti said...
Cory, we're glad you're home. Hopefully it will all be resolved quickly and painlessly.
- Nov 8, 2011, 1:37:00 PM
- Forty Paws said...
We are sending tons of purrs and purrayers for Cory, and hoping that she gets good medicines to help her pee issues.
Luf, Us - Nov 8, 2011, 1:50:00 PM
- Mariodacat said...
Oh dear - we do hope Cory will be okay. I'm going to start purring for her right now and won't quit until she's home. purr purr purr purr purr purr purr purr
- Nov 8, 2011, 1:50:00 PM
Sending Purrs your way. We do hope the doctors can figure out what is going on with her.
Jude,Poo,Babybella,Piper & Marley - Nov 8, 2011, 2:03:00 PM
- Angel Junior, Orion and Sammy said...
We are purring for you Cory! Hope your pee problems are solved with some anitbiotics!
- Nov 8, 2011, 2:47:00 PM
- Random Felines said...
How scary....we are purrin everything is OK...
- Nov 8, 2011, 2:59:00 PM
- Cat said...
Oh sweet Cory, my boys are sending their strongest healing purrs to you!!! Hopefully some medication from the vet will help you to be better soon.
- Nov 8, 2011, 4:20:00 PM
- Brandon - The dog with a blog said...
We are so glad to hear you are home; we hope the test results are good!!
Brandon's Raiser - Nov 8, 2011, 6:20:00 PM
- Saku said...
Good to hear you are home Cory, I'm sure your momma is very happy as are your human parents. Hope the results of your tests are clear and everything is okay.
- Nov 8, 2011, 7:23:00 PM
- Cat and DOG Chat With Caren said...
cory we are so happy to hear that you are home and we hope that all goes well with your tests.
How dare they keep you away from the responsibilities of your blog! The nerve!
((((hugs))))) - Nov 8, 2011, 8:42:00 PM
- Quill and Greyson said...
Oh Dear Cod I am purring so hard! I'm hoping there is an update sweet Cory is fine!!
- Nov 8, 2011, 9:45:00 PM


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Robert Plant Reportedly Prepping New Album With Alison Krauss
A new album from Robert Plant and Alison Krauss is reportedly in the works.
The duo famously collaborated on 2007's Raising Sand, which earned platinum sales and took home five Grammy awards, including Album of the Year.
During a recent episode of the Everyone Loves Guitar podcast, Greg Leisz, the pedal steel guitarist who played on Raising Sand, mentioned he'd heard material earmarked for the new LP.
"I actually just recently heard a song from the upcoming record," Leisz admitted. "[Plant] is doing another record with - has done another record - with Alison Krauss and I heard a track from it the other day."
According to Leisz, the song, which he described as "incredible," was titled "Searching For My Baby." "When you hear that, it's going to blow your mind," the musician declared. "It's fantastic."
The latest information regarding a second Plant/Krauss collaboration aligns with details revealed last year. A May 2020 story in Uncut magazine about Lucinda Williams noted that the country singer had just gotten back from a recording session with the duo in Nashville. The magazine added that T-Bone Burnett, who produced Raising Sand, was also with them in the studio.
During a BBC radio interview two months later, Plant jokingly referred to Williams as "a little tinker," before admitting "there's all sorts of stuff rumbling and smoking left, right and centre right now" regarding another album with Krauss.
Besides Raising Sand, the Led Zeppelin frontman and bluegrass-country singer also worked together on the 2015 single "The Light of Christmas Day," which was included on the soundtrack to the feature film Love the Coopers. The most recent studio albums from each artist - Carry Fire by Plant and Windy City by Krauss - came out in 2017.


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Internode adds Darwin POP
Expanded Oz backhaul makes far north feasible
The expansion of Australia's backhaul networks is paying off for Darwin residents, with ISP Internode announcing that it's going to add its own POP in the country's northernmost state capital.
The company says its Darwin POP will be switched on early in 2012.
Darwin's remoteness from the rest of the country, and its historical lack of backhaul competition, has resulted in very limited broadband competition in the city, since anybody building DSL networks in the city could only buy their backhaul links from Telstra.
However, the rollout of the regional backhaul network being built by Nextgen Networks under government assistance (the Regional Backhaul Blackspots Program) is changing the landscape in Darwin.
Internode's Simon Hackett said the combination of a local POP with Nextgen's backhaul will deliver lower prices and higher speeds to the company's Darwin customers.
Internode already has ten POPs covering Perth, Adelaide, Melbourne, Canberra, Sydney, Hobart and Brisbane.
The company had already landed its own DSLAMs in Alice Springs, and has installed DSLAMs in four Darwin exchanges, which it says will be switched on as soon as Nextgen completes its links to Brisbane and Adelaide. Those links are due for completion during December.
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