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How Colorado emerged as the quarantine location of choice for rich Americans and a haven for millennials looking to escape the coasts
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Steven Shane, Compass’ top agent in Aspen, Colorado, has $1.084 billion in property under contract.

His figure from the same period last year — the 35 days to September 30 — was $111 million, he said.

“We’ll close more than nine times what we did last year in dollar value,” he said. “Almost 10.”

Shane, who has worked in the Aspen market for 20 years and ranks among Real Trends’ top 20 agents nationwide, said the market had welcomed a huge influx of buyers since the onset of the pandemic, despite agents’ inability to show properties from March through May.

Craig Morris, a top Sotheby’s agent, said he’d had a similar experience in Aspen.

Where he generally has five to 10 properties under contract at a time, he has 24 right now, he said, and his 42 closings this year have already outpaced his yearly average of 30 to 35.

“It has become glaringly apparent that people have been moving from densely populated cities to an environment that provides open space,” Shane said.

“Even though we were unable to show property, if you were to look at Aspen-specific sales in 2020 from January 1 to date” — through August 25 — “we sold $916 million worth of real estate. In the same time frame last year, $647 million in sales. So even though we were unable to show for three months, there’s been a YTD increase of 30%.”

Zillow data shows that median list-price and sale-price numbers are up year-over-year in Denver and popular suburbs like Colorado Springs and Fort Collins. Price cuts and inventories for sale saw major drops in all three markets — inventories in Denver, Colorado Springs, and Fort Collins were down by 28.3%, 7.1%, and 18.2%.

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UBS said in an August research note that it thinks the trend of “interstate migration to lower-cost, more tax-, business-, and regulatory-friendly states” is “structural in nature,” meaning permanent.

In short, people are moving to states a lot like Colorado.

The Rocky Mountain state is hot, especially with millennials

Denver is especially attractive to millennials, ranking second on a SmartAsset list, published in June, of the most popular cities for movers of that generation. It’s increasingly attractive to companies as well — the Silicon Valley firm Palantir Technologies relocated its headquarters to Denver from Palo Alto in August.

The Denver suburbs also boast one of the richest neighborhoods in the US; Cherry Hills Village was the only neighborhood not in New York or California to make the top five in Bloomberg’s annual ranking.

In December, US News & World Report said Colorado was the eighth-fastest-growing state. Census data released in May indicated that Denver ranked among the 15 cities with the largest numeric increase in population over the past decade (from April 1, 2010, to July 1, 2019).

Many millennials (and rich millennials in particular) have been flocking south and west over the past few years, and Colorado is a favorite spot.

Business Insider talked with eight 20- and 30-somethings who had moved to the …read more

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A bottle full of air will give you the same bouyant force as an equal weight of water. A gallon of water weighs 8.3 lbs, so 5 gallons of water weighs 41.5 lbs.

That means that four such bottles will give you 166 lbs of bouyant lift. Enough to lift a light person, but you have to consider the weight of the craft itself. Even if the whole thing only weighs twenty pounds, will you have enough lift for yourself, along with any clothes, gear, and fish you might catch

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Peter Lynn C-Quad 3.2

This is a single skin traction kite – that is the sail is a single piece of fabric supported by a spar structure, unlike a parafoil kite which has no spars and gets it’s shape by being inflated by air whilst flying.

The C-Quad range comes a various sizes – from 2.2 square meters through to 8.5 square meters (and larger sizes do exist, but aren’t that common) – although the 3.2 and the 4.2 are the best suited for general use. They were originally designed for kite surfing, but were quickly found to a) sink when hitting water, and b) be very very good for all other traction activities. For the larger sizes (4.2 upwards) inflatable flotation tubes can be fitted to the vertical spars if you really want to go out on the water (there are better options….). You can use them for kite jumping (a dangerous passtime time that none should attempt, but everyone does do at some point), but they aren’t the best for this (everyone goes for the Flexifoil Blade II’s for this).

In flight they are actually graceful in the sky. They are flown in a manner very similar to the Revolution kites (i.e. lots of wrist movements, not a huge amount of hand pulling to turn).

I use mine for good old being-pulled-along-ground-by-big-kite kind of fun, but have also used it to kite buggy a couple of times (my objective for this year was to do some kite buggying), and they work great.

Purchased: December 2001

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carbon fibre+fibreglass core (leading edge), fibreglass (vertical spars). Chikira Nylon 4 – 30mph (although 8 – 20 is more fun/safer)
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£150.00 (inc. handles) + lines (220lb top, 80lb bottom)

Good Things

  • Very powerful for it’s size (I have heard it said that a 3.2 C-Quad is equivalent to a 4.0 parafoil such as a Blade II, that may, or may not be true – it’s very hard to judge exactly………).
  • Cheap (there are now cheaper traction kites – the Rhombus Firebees for instance).
  • Very, very manoeuvrable and quick.
  • In light winds you can actually do most of the Revolution Type tricks – slides, flying backwards, even the dive-stop. Just don’t try it in strong winds……..
  • Works great as a kite buggy engine (seems to hold it’s own against more advanced parafoil designs).
  • Due to their design can’t collapse in the same way as a parafoil kite does in gusty wind.

Bad Things

  • Putting it away (or even putting it up) can be a nightmare! There is a technique to do it, but even so 1 times out of 10 it goes wrong & you spend upto half and hour messing around with twisted lines and bridles……
  • It’s got spars, therefore it breaks. The cost of a leading edge replacement is around £11 if you fit it yourself. I have done this twice in 1 year.
  • On a related note – the connector between the vertical spars and the leading edge itself can become damaged – and in my case this caused the vertical to puncture the sail… twice.
  • Powerful – there is a tendency to forget the power of the C-Quad & end up doing superman impressions at speed, on your face, across the flying area if you are not careful (but that is part of the fun of big kites. I think….).
  • Different flying technique to parafoils – can be difficult to learn (or so I have been told – as I started with the Revolution I didn’t have a problem with the C-Quad).
  • Although they can’t collapse, they can fall from the sky – usually at the extremes of the wind (right above your head, or right out the extreme left or right) they can simply start falling, leading edge first.

Final Thoughts

I like the C-Quads – even if putting them away is a trial – even more so by yourself in a strong wind. The ability to almost trick fly the things in low wind, and get pulled around in higher wind is fantastic. You will find by talking to other flyers that people usually love or hate the C-Quads – you really have to try for yourself before you can judge these. Just bear in mind they cost a lot less than some of the other alternatives……

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[Verse 1: David Paich]
I hear the drums echoing tonight
But she hears only whispers of some quiet conversation
She’s coming in, 12:30 flight
Her moonlit wings reflect the stars that guide me towards salvation
I stopped an old man along the way
Hoping to find some old forgotten words or ancient melodies
He turned to me as if to say
"Hurry boy, it’s waiting there for you"

[Chorus: Bobby Kimball]
It’s gonna take a lot to drag me away from you
There’s nothing that a hundred men or more could ever do
I bless the rains down in Africa
Gonna take some time to do the things we never had

[Verse 2: David Paich]
The wild dogs cry out in the night
As they grow restless longing for some solitary company
I know that I must do what’s right
As sure as Kilimanjaro rises like Olympus above the Serengeti
I seek to cure what’s deep inside
Frightened of this thing that I’ve become

[Chorus: Bobby Kimball]
It’s gonna take a lot to drag me away from you
There’s nothing that a hundred men or more could ever do
I bless the rains down in Africa
Gonna take some time to do the things we never had

[Bridge]
Hurry boy, she’s waiting there for you

[Chorus: Bobby Kimball]
It’s gonna take a lot to drag me away from you
There’s nothing that a hundred men or more could ever do
I bless the rains down in Africa
I bless the rains down in Africa
I bless the rains down in Africa
I bless the rains down in Africa
I bless the rains down in Africa
Gonna take some time to do the things we never had

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Written By
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Release Date
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Smitty
6 years ago
People!!!!!!! Think about it and then look at the entire song and the line following “bless the rain”
He’s meeting a love interest!! He is thrilled (blessed) its raining in Africa!! Why?? Because “it’s going to take some time to do the things we never have” The writer is think about a few days between the sheets!!!! Call me crazy!!!!!

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Maxx305 294
4 years ago
Gta vice city

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Stropey 174
3 years ago
Funny thing. When my mom first heard the song, she legitimately thought the line “Theres-nothing-that-a-hundred-men-or-more-could-ever-do” was “There’s nothing that a hundred men on Mars could ever do.”

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Expooler 142
3 years ago
Stranger Things Anyone?

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John
3 years ago
I love this song. Here is what it means to me:

The singer is has a deep relationship with a woman but feels incomplete and needs to part from her so he can go on a quest (in Africa) to become whole.
The drums are calling him but she can’t hear them.
He is looking for some timeless knowledge. He asks an old man who says “It’s waiting there for you,” meaning your aspiration is out there. Go find it. It’s very difficult to leave her. A hundred men couldn’t do it. He is going off to wild Africa to create greatness in himself – to get beyond this frightening thing he has become. He knows he must leave, but shes waiting there for him–the 12:30 flight has arrived. He should be there for her–but he needs to go off. He will immerse himself in Nature–the hugeness of natural Africa.