If ticket sales continue at the same pace they have since commercial flights began again in late August, Prescott enplanements will reach the magic number of 10,000 — the critical number needed for the City of Prescott to receive a significant increase in federal assistance.
That number could jump from the current under 10,000 passenger subsidy of about $150,000 to an estimated $3 million to $5 million, depending on the City’s new terminal project.
In late October, ticketed commercial passengers on flights aboard United Express operated by SkyWest Airlines were estimated to be just a few hundred shy of the 10,000 enplanements necessary to qualify for the increased subsidy by the end of 2018.
City of Prescott Airport Manager Robin Sobotta said ticket sales for flights to either Los Angeles or to Denver have far exceeded earlier expectations.
That demand convinced the airline to add a Saturday flight to Los Angeles to the schedule Dec. 1. Previously, the Los Angeles flights were six days a week, while the Denver flights were seven.
A SkyWest spokeswoman, Laura Watson, said, “We’ve certainly been happy with the launch.”
Sobotta told the press all indications are passenger numbers will continue to increase, perhaps to double or more than what they had been this past year.
Considerable credit is being given to the support provided by leaders in Prescott and the surrounding communities for their endorsement of increased commercial air traffic.
Prescott Mayor Greg Mengarelli has been outspoken in saying Prescott has become a “destination, not a pass-through, for visitors.” He said he and other community leaders were confident that access to a major carrier, coupled with minimal local traffic, was an appealing factor when compared to tedious travel time to a distant congested airport. “And we have free parking,” Mengarelli said.
Another feature — the airport has been designated as Prescott Regional Airport-Ernest A. Love Field. This was a factor in fulfilling the federal requirement for Essential Air Service (EAS).
City staff report they are working with regional travel agencies to encourage them to have passengers book flights in and out of Prescott.
Concurrent with plans for increasing passenger travel are plans for the design and ultimate construction of a new airport terminal.
It is anticipated that preliminary design of a new airport terminal will be submitted near the end of the year. In mid-October, residents had a chance to give feedback to architectural consultants about what they liked in terminal design. Personnel from DWI Architects and Planners were represented by Executive Vice President Sandra Kukla. She told City personnel and the public that it was likely the complete construction design would be finished by late spring 2019.
Cost estimates are just that — estimates. Numbers range from $6 million to $8 million, depending on whether roads and parking also are included in construction figures.
The City hopes to break ground for a new terminal in the fourth quarter of 2019.


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The Mycenaean civilization flourished in the late Bronze Age, from the 15th to the 13th century BCE and extended its influence not only throughout the Peloponnese in Greece but also across the Aegean. in particular, on Crete and the Cycladic islands.The Mycenaeans were influenced by the earlier Minoan civilization (2000-1450 BCE) which had spread from its origins at Knossos. Crete to include the wider Aegean. Architecture, art and religious practices were assimilated and adapted to better express the perhaps more militaristic and austere Mycenaean culture.Major Mycenaean Centres
Major Mycenaean centres included Mycenae (traditional home of Agamemnon ), Tiryns (perhaps the oldest centre), Pylos (traditional home of Nestor), Thebes. Midea, Gla, Orchomenos, Argos. Sparta. Nichoria and probably Athens. Beyond trading relations, the exact political relationship between these centres is not clear. However, there were many shared cultural features such as architecture, frescoes, pottery. jewellery, weaponry, and of course, the Greek language and writing in the form of Linear B (an adaptation of the Minoan Linear A).Advertisement
The Mycenaean Megaron was the precursor for THE later Archaic and Classical temples of the Greek world.Mycenaean Architecture
A large palace complex has been found at most of the Mycenaean centres. These complexes, whilst displaying some site-unique developments, also display important architectural features in common. The complexes were built around a large rectangular central hall or Megaron. The Mycenaean Megaron was the precursor for the later Archaic and Classical temples of the Greek world and consisted of an entrance porch, a vestibule and the hall itself. This was the heart of the palace and contained a large circular hearth (usually more than 3m in diameter) with four wooden columns supporting a holed ceiling or light-well. It was also the throne room of the ruler or wannax. There is usually a second, smaller hall (Queen’s Megaron ), many private apartments and areas set aside for administration, storage and manufacturing. Rooms were richly decorated with fresco paintings on the walls and plaster painted floors. Regarding materials, rooms in the palace were constructed with rubble fill and cross-beamed walls covered in plaster inside and limestone blocks outside. Columns and ceilings were usually of painted wood, sometimes with bronze additions.
The whole palace complex was surrounded by a fortification wall of large unworked blocks (termed Cyclopean as it was believed that only the Cyclopes could have moved such massive stones). Such walls could reach 13m in height and be as much as 8m thick. Corbel galleries - arched corridors created by progressively overlapping stone blocks, circular stone tombs with corbelled roofs, and monumental doorways with massive stone lintels with relieving triangles are also common features of Mycenaean sites. Other Mycenaean architectural structures include damns for flood management, particularly at Tiryns, and bridges built from large roughly-hewn stone blocks.
That the Mycenaean civilization had trading contact with other Aegean cultures is evidenced by the presence of foreign goods in Mycenaean settlements such as gold. ivory, copper and glass and by the discovery of Mycenaean goods such as pottery in places as far afield as Egypt. Mesopotamia. the Levant. Anatolia. Sicily and Cyprus. No doubt perishable goods such as oil and wine were also significant Mycenaean exports.Advertisement Mycenaean Art
In art as expressed in fresco, pottery and jewellery, the Minoan love of natural forms and flowing design was likewise adopted by the Mycenaean artisans but with a tendency to more schematic and less life-like representation. This new style would become the dominant one throughout the Mediterranean. Geometric designs were popular, as were decorative motifs such as spirals and rosettes. Pottery shapes are much like the Minoan with the notable additions of the goblet and the alabastron (squat jar) with a definite preference for large jars. Terracotta figurines of animals and especially standing female figures were popular, as were small sculptures in ivory, carved stone vessels and intricate gold jewellery. Frescoes depicted plants, griffins, lions, bull-leaping, battle scenes, warriors, chariots, figure-of-eight shields and boar hunts, a particularly popular Mycenaean activity.
Little is known for certain regarding Mycenaean religious practices beyond the importance given to animal sacrifice, communal feasting, pouring of libations and offerings of foodstuffs. The presence of double axe carvings and horns of consecration in art and architecture suggest strong links with the Minoan religion, although these symbols may have been adopted because of their political resonance. Architectural features such as sunken basins and fresco depictions of altars hint that the Megaron may have had a religious function. Many centres also had specific sanctuary sites for worship, usually close to the palace complex. It is clear that burial was an important ritual as evidenced by the presence of monumental tholos tombs, prominent grave sites and the quantity of precious objects which were buried with the dead - golden masks, diadems, jewellery and ceremonial swords and daggers.
With the mysterious end of the Mycenaean civilization during the Bronze Age Collapse around 1200 BCE (possibly through earthquake, invasion or in-fighting) came the so-called Dark Ages and it would be many centuries before Greek culture would finally regain the heights of the late Bronze Age.Advertisement About the Author
Agamemnon was the King of Mycenae and leader of the Greek army in the Trojan War of Homer’s Iliad. He is presented as a great warrior but selfish ruler, famously upsetting his invincible champion Achilles and so prolonging the war and suffering of his men. A hero from Greek mythology, there are no historical records of a Mycenaean king of that name. [continue reading ]
Argos lies on the fertile Argolid plain in the eastern Peloponnese in Greece. The site has been inhabited from prehistoric times up to the present day. Ancient Argos was built on two hills: Aspis and Larissa, 80 m and 289 m in height respectively. Argos, along with Mycenae and Tiryns, was a significant Mycenaean centre, and the city remained important throughout. [continue reading ]
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Linear B Script was the writing system used by the Mycenaean civilization. Examples of this script have been recovered from late Minoan II contexts in Crete and Mycenaean IIIA-B contexts in mainland Greece, which suggest that the script was in use between c. 1450 and c. 1100 BCE. The use of Linear B Script was restricted to major palace sites such. [continue reading ]
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Mycenae was a fortified late Bronze Age city located between two hills on the Argolid plain of the Peloponnese, Greece. The acropolis today dates from between the 14th and 13th century BCE when the Mycenaean civilization was at its peak of power, influence and artistic expression. In Mythology In Greek mythology the city was founded by Perseus. [continue reading ]
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Two gold cups were found in a tholos at Vapheio, the region near Sparta in what is today southern Greece. The tholos is believed to be that of a king. These cups are believed by many to be of differing origins, one Minoan and one Mycenaean. However, the cultures are so similar, and the artifacts so alike, that one can be inclined to believe that there is no true difference.
The gold cup on the left in the text is arguably Minoan. This cup depicts a man tying a bull. This appears to be in preparation for sport. The Minoans believed the bull to be sacred, and it seems that bulls were used in many rituals. In addition to the man and the bull, the cup shows trees, earth and clouds. These are all depicted rather naturalistically. They are not quite as big as they would be in nature, and this only adds to the centrality of the bull. The lines are curving and contoured, reminiscent of the Toreador Fresco, which also depicts a bull ritual as its main focus.
On the right, however, is a Mycenaean cup. The portrayed images appear to be Minoan. The images on this cup are obviously contoured, almost the same as the Minoan cup. However, the author argues that the execution in Mycenaean. Rather than expressing the natural setting of the bull (the landscape forms surrounding it) as the Minoan cup, the Mycenaean cup focuses more on the struggle of the captive bull. Indeed, as one looks at the cup on the left, the bull is the largest feature.
Despite some slight differences, it is arguable that there really isn’t too much that is different about these two cups. The one on the right is cruder, but the iconography is the same as Minoan. It would appear that the Minoans had a large amount of influence on the art of the area of ancient Greece. Discoveries at Thera bear striking resemblance to Minoan art as well. While lacking in naturalistic detail (as Egyptian art does as well) the contours of the figures are very similar. Perhaps the Mycenaeans borrowed from the Minoan and Theran traditions. The “Goddess” fresco certainly seems to support this theory.
In conclusion, while the two cups have slightly differing styles, it seems like too much is being made of differing styles. It seems that essentially Minoan and Mycenaean art is the same. The two cups were created the same way: by hammering from the inside and the smoothing the edges. In addition, both have the same iconography. The lack of landscape forms on the one cup hardly seems justification enough to call them two different art forms from two different civilizations.
Laurie Schneider Adams, A History of Western Art (New York, N.Y. McGraw-Hill, 2001).Others are Reading
Both the Minoan and Mycenaean cultures were early Greek cultures, spanning several centuries before Christ. Much is not known regarding these people, but archeologists have been able to determine some information from their findings. It is the purpose of this paper to compare and contrast and Minoan and Mycenaean cultures.
These two early cultures were situated very near each other geographically, on the Mediterranean, and they shared similarities of climate. Because of the mixing of the two cultures, at least during parts of their history, their arts and cultures blended, and both of the cultures generated wealth, at least for some of the people. Both of the cultures developed a writing system, although the degree of sophistication of the system differed somewhat. Enormous quantities of Mycenaean and Minoan pottery have been found throughout the Eastern Mediterranean, and the artistic designs on the pottery is one way of learning about these early civilizations (Feldman 4).
Both of the cultures had a royal class, and both cultures developed sophisticated architecture, one of the principal ways of expending their wealth (Graham 9). Not a lot is known about the religions of the Minoans and Mycenaean cultures, except from the images left on their art. Greek mythology as we know it today came from the Mycenaean culture, but material evidence does not reveal very much about the spiritual lives of the Minoans (Graham 18). Both of the cultures developed beautiful art, costumes, buildings, indoor plumbing, and beautiful architecture, the remains of which tell the stories of these early cultures and their lives. Both cultures developed expertise in pottery, although the topics and images depicted varied between the two cultures.
The Minoans and Mycenaean cultures had a stratified society, although more is known about the upper classes, as they expended their wealth on buildings and tombs and left written records about their a.More on Minoan and Mycenaean Cultures.
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During the Second and Third millennia BC, Aegean civilizations include three related yet diverse cultures. These cultures include the Minoan culture located on the island of Crete, the Cycladic culture located on the Cyclades Islands north of Crete, and the Mycenaean culture located on the mainland of Greece. Although there were many differences, there were many mutual traditions and styles (Janson 92).
Not much is known about the Cycladic civilization except what has been learned from the art they left behind. Around 2800 BC, Cycladic female nudes made of marble are described as "Generally they have a flat, wedge-shaped body; a strong columnar neck; a tilted oval shield of a face; and a long ridge like nose" (Janson 93). The Cycladic sculptors then embraced a new style. The newer sculptures were of nude female figures that lacked the full figure appearance and instead portrayed narrow hips and petite breasts.
This change is believed to be related to a change in religious beliefs (Janson 94).
The Minoan civilization was the most prosperous and extraordinary. There are many stages of their civilization that materialize then vanish suddenly. The theory behind these sudden changes is archaeological disasters and historical forces (Janson 94). The Minoan people were undeterred by these disasters. When earthquakes destroyed the Minoan palaces, which occurred at least three times, the Minoans rebuilt them, each more impressive then the previous palace. One of the more remarkable palaces was the Knossos. The Knossos was covered with beautiful wall paintings of images of nature, showing the Minoans love of nature.
The Minoans were a peaceful people. They had no need for walls or fortresses since their island location provided them with a view of all their surroundings, enabling them to see attackers well in advance.
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Custom Student Mr. Teacher ENG 1001-04 24 April 2016Minoan and Mycenae Civilization Comparison Essay
During the civilizations of Minoan Crete and Mycenae of mainland Greece, many changes impacted Minoan civilization in which some cultural legacies of the Minoans survived after the Mycenean takeover of the Minoans. Both Minoan and Mycenean civilizations share some differences and similarities, which shaped their cultural legacies. Many factors, such as technology, trade, geography, art, military, government, and society, changed or continued with each civilization. For example, the Minoans built a strong navy in which they interacted with other ancient civilizations, such as Mesopotamia and Egypt, without being intimidated. This allowed Minoans to be exposed to other cultures through trade and imports, which influenced their own culture. As a result, Minoans were the forerunner of Greek civilization and considered the first European civilization. While the Minoans used their navy for protection, the Myceneans used their military for expand their empire. Ultimately, Myceneans took over the Minoans. Trade appeared to be more crucial to the Minoans while the military was critical to the Myceneans.
There was a fusion of cultures between the Minoan culture with Helladic culture of mainland Greece, which evolved into Mycenaean civilization. They shared similarities and differences such as geography technology, trade, art, military, government, and society. After the ruins of both civilizations were studied, the influence of both cultures on each other is evident in which their cultural legacies changed or survived. First, one difference of the Minoans and Myceneans was the geographical location regarding different terrain and surroundings. For example, Minoans were located on an island called Crete which was surrounded by water. The climate was great for agriculture with mild winters and warm summers. In addition, the land was fertile, which produced food for the people and for export. As a result of Crete’s abundance of materials, the Minoans where able to trade many objects and natural resources with other countries such as, Egypt and the Middle East. The Minoans traded with neighboring civilizations by boat.
In contrast, Mycenae was located on the main land of Greece. Instead of trading, Myceneans concentrated on warfare. Second, one similarity between both civilizations was their military. Both relied on their military, but differed on the way the military was utilized. Third, the Minoans built a strong navy, but did not use excessive force. The Minoans used their military for protection in which they could interact with others, such as Egypt and Mesopotamia, without fear of war. In contrast, the Mycenaeans used excessive force to expand their civilization. For example, they took over the Minoans during the peak of their civilization. Their societies differed in principles, in which the Mycenaean’s society was influenced by military advancements, and the Minoans society was affected by technology, art, and trade. Fourth, the Mycenean cities were heavy fortresses while Minoans were surrounded with art of everyday life. Both appreciated art. Minoan art included pottery and art of everyday life while Mycenean art focused on hunting and war.
They also had different views on government. Fifth, another difference between Minoan and Mycenean civilization focused on the government and society. The Mycenean society was monarchial. The monarch ruled the administration as a head bureaucrat. The Myceneans were ruled by a king who accumulated wealth and power. Their king was a warlord who focused on battle and invasion. In contrast to the monoarchy, archaeological evidence demonstrated a decentralized culture without powerful warlords or centralized authority in the Minoan. In addition, the wealth was shared with the rest of society compared to the king of the Myceneans, who became wealthy. Initially, the Minoans did not have a hierarchy, which was evidenced by tombs without hierarchal structure. Later, the Minoans established an authority focused on a king while developing a bureaucracy. A social hierarchy separated people into nobles, peasants, and slaves.
Sixth, at the height of Minoan civilization, women played a powerful role in society, which was not noted among the Mycenean civilization. Today, women are gaining more opportunity and obtaining powerful roles in society. Seventh, there was an interruption of Minoan civilization in which it was debated that this was invasion of Mycenean civilization or natural disaster, such as the Thera volcano eruption or tsunami. The evidence of Mycenean cultural influence on Minoan art and trade is a strong indication. The Minoans were a mercantilist people involved in trade, but their culture after 1700 BC demonstrated organization without military aristocracy that was shown later. In fact, large number of weapons were found in the Minoan royal tombs, which may indicate the Mycenean influence. Societies throughout the world have continued the principles of both ancient societies Both ancient civilizations share similarities and difference in the importance of trade, military, art, technology, government, and society.
In conclusion, many changes impacted Minoan civilization after the Mycenean takeover of the Minoans in which some cultural legacies of the Minoans survived. The Minoan and Mycenean civilizations shared differences and similarities that have influenced their cultural legacies. Many factors, such as technology, trade, geography, art, military, government, and society, changed or continued with each civilization. While the land where the Minoans lived is deforested compared to the abundance of natural resources that existed in ancient times, a culture evolved that has been the foundation the first European civilization that has been changed, destroyed. and survived. It has a legacy that has contributed to the world and its local region through trade, military, art, technology, government, and society.
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It becomes inherently more noticeable how much food I eat during the summer. During the school year, I eat three times a day because I only have so much time. Now that most of my days consist of staying at home and studying, food has become so much more accessible. Instead of having to suffer a grumbling stomach in class, I can just go downstairs whenever I want to fix myself something to eat. Of course, this blessing is also a curse. I’ve pretty much resorted to eating every three hours due to boredom.
Occasionally, hunger overrides boredom and I cook because I’m hungry. After my mom and I went out to practice driving, we came home famished and exhausted. Lunch, we decided, would be quick and simple. My mom began to pull vegetables out of the refrigerator as I selected a box of rigatoni from the pantry.
This pasta dish is what I like to call of the everything-but-the-kitchen-sink variety. We used up all the random, leftover vegetables—a handful of snowpeas, a lone bell pepper, a few shallots, a cucumber, and some okra. I sliced the vegetables (to match the shape of the pasta) while my mom sliced a chicken breast and sautéed it. Then she pan-fried the vegetables and added the cooked pasta. Some cooking water and a few spoonfuls of grated parmesan cheese were added to create a sauce.

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Holiday break doldrums can spark kids' creativity
It's inevitable during the holiday season: Kids get bored. But the doldrums are just the thing for unleashing children's creativity.
Give them a few ideas and supplies, and step out of the way.
Here, three crafts authors offer ideas for turning the blahs into hurrahs.
Brenna Maloney, a Washington, D.C., mother of two, is the author of three sock-project books, including the new "Sock It To Me" (Stash Books, 2012).
She turned to sewing with stretchy socks five years ago to offset job stress. Replicating a favorite sock bunny her mother made her when she was a girl, Maloney then turned to crafting snakes, mice, sea creatures - and, more recently, evil clowns and snowman assassins.
Some of her biggest fans are pre-teens, who pose new project ideas and ask for help. "I work with (the kids) and bring them in on it," said Maloney, now an editor at "National Geographic Explorer" magazine.
For kids who know how to use a sewing machine or would like to learn, Maloney suggests starting with a snake, turtle or starfish; the snake project is posted at Maloney's website, www.brennamaloney.com.
"Think about the sock and how it's shaped. Turn it and twist it," Maloney said. She uses a sock's pattern, plus stuffing and embellishments to turn it into a creature.
Emily K. Neuburger's crafting projects evolve around storytelling. A former teacher, she offers art and writing classes for children from her Amherst, Mass., home.
The projects in her book "Show Me a Story" (Storey Publishing, 2012) and at her website, www.redbirdcrafts.com, encourage kids to play and experiment. She advises parents to leave out interesting, new supplies, such as pinecones and paint, for children to explore.
Help them "begin that process of imagining new worlds and telling stories," she said.
For the holidays, Neuburger suggests that kids can share a personal memory or retell the Christmas story using memory cards or story stones. Pictures from the story are glued to cardboard surfaces or small stones. Neuburger uses colored paper and fabric scraps to make simple images.
"Learning to know what to include in a story and what to leave out is an important storytelling skill," Neuburger said in her book.
She also recommends making a story grab bag: Allow kids to search through magazines, maps and catalogs, and cut out interesting words, numbers and pictures. Find other images online. Also, kids can draw, paint or stamp their own images.
Glue these story-telling prompts to cardstock (or cereal-box cardboard). Neuburger follows with Mod Podge to seal the images, but this step can be skipped.
After the images dry, place them in a bag. From there, children can pull cards to build a story together. It can feel like a game, she said.
"That element of the unknown and the randomness - kids love it," said Neuburger. "They have to work with it. There's humor."
If they can wield a pair of scissors, children can make the cute characters in Sarah Goldschadt's book, "Craft-A-Day" (Quirk Books, 2012). It provides a crafting motif for each week of the year, and a simple paper cut-out or small felt object each day. There's a new iPad app for downloading templates and instructions.
The animal patterns, including a penguin, dog and raccoon, are most likely to grab a child's imagination. After tracing a template, kids can use it to make ornaments, cards, magnets, gift tags, mobiles and cake toppers.
Goldschadt, a graphic designer, recently shared some of her crafts with teenagers in an after-school program at a library near her New York home, and was impressed by the kids' dedication to finishing their owl and bird ornaments.
"It was the most quiet they'd ever been," she said, "and they stayed longer to get it done."
Goldschadt's website: www.sah-rah.com

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Hedrick Smith won the Pulitzer Prize for international reporting for his stories about Russia in the early 1970s, when he was the Moscow bureau chief for the New York Times. After he returned to the U.S., he described his many encounters with ordinary Russians in their homes, at restaurants and factories and on trains, in “The Russians.”His book was translated into 16 languages.
Now Smith has turned the tables. “I’m covering America as a foreign correspondent would cover it,” he said, discussing his latest book in a telephone interview. “I could have called it ‘The Americans.’ ”
“Martin Luther King, Jr. and the American Dream Today”
Hedrick Smith covered Martin Luther King Jr. during the civil rights movement of the 1960s at racial hotpots lsuch as Birmingham and Albany, Ga., and at the March on Washington. In this lecture, he tells personal recollections of Dr. King and relates the lessons of the civil righrts movement and other grass roots movements of the 1960s and ’70s, to America’s current problems of gaping income inequalities and a polarized political system beholden to wealthy special interests.
As given upon the occasion of Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, January 20, 2014
Congressional Republicans like to talk about creating jobs and growing the economy. With the government shutdown and rigid spending cuts, however, Congress created a fiscal drag that cost the economy a full percentage point of economic growth in 2013.
Now, Congressional Republicans are again digging in their heels against measures that would ramp up the economy and generate jobs. It’s time for Congress to take a refresher course in growth economics — the economic forces and programs that power U.S. growth.
As President Barack Obama barnstorms the country, he should be making the argument that it is not only fair, but smart growth economics to raise the minimum wage, extend unemployment benefits and reduce income inequality. These steps will help accelerate economic recovery this year above its anemic 1.9 percent growth rate in 2013.
As first publish by the Los Angeles Times on January 7, 2014.
By Hedrick Smith
The narrowly approved contract agreement between Boeing and its Washington state workforce will be hailed by some as a victory for the canny, hardball brinkmanship of Boeing’s management and the knuckle-under economic pragmatism of the International Machinists Union.
But the steep cutbacks in retirement and health benefits that tens of thousands of Boeing workers were forced to swallow have far larger implications for middle-class America.
Boeing’s stingy treatment of its highly skilled workforce offers a vivid example of how America’s new economy has created gaping economic inequalities and steadily squeezed the economic life out of the U.S. middle class over the last three decades, even as corporate profits and CEO pay have skyrocketed.
Boeing’s case epitomizes that sharp economic divide. For just as the company was wringing concessions from its workers, its board of directors approved a 50% increase in the company’s stock dividend and a $10-billion stock buyback that will richly reward investors and executives who get paid in Boeing shares.

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A foggy and frosty scene along the Trent and Mersey Canal at Shobnall, Burton on Trent in Staffordshire, England. This view along the canal and tow-path, shows private gardens backing onto the canal on the left, weeping willows and other trees to the right and a narrow boat emerging from the fog.
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1E-12 (25 C)
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Keep tightly closed.
Protective gloves. Chemical safety goggles.
Wear dust mask.
Sweep up, place in a bag and hold for waste disposal. Avoid raising dust. Ventilate area and wash spill site after material pickup is complete.
Stable at normal temperatures and pressures.
Strong oxidizing agents.
Carbon monoxide, Carbon dioxide, Nitrogen oxides.
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May cause skin irritation. May be harmful if absorbed through the skin.
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In case of contact, immediately wash skin with soap and copious amounts of water.
In case of contact with eyes, flush with copious amounts of water for at least 15 minutes. Assure adequate flushing by separating the eyelids with fingers. Call a physician.

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**** (of 5)
The bottom line: An elaborate academic analysis of the minor prophets.
This commentary provides a comprehensive analysis of four Old Testament books and the reader certainly will have little room for questions or need further investigation outside of this text. The book of Micah, for example, is about ten pages in a standard Bible, and Allen’s book devotes more than 120 pages to Micah alone. For each prophet, the book provides an introduction, and then addresses the dating, authorship, and the historical setting behind the book. Next, the author details theology, a bibliography, and then an analysis of the book.
I used this text as part of a graduate-level seminary course and my readings were restricted to the books of Jonah and Micah. This book is an excellent resource, but may provide more than what a preacher/teacher may need. It certainly covers all bases in regards to an academic analysis.
Dr. C. H. E. Sadaphal

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You can't order grilled chicken with a side of zucchini pasta at McDonald's. But you can make the same dish using many of the ingredients from a McDonald's kitchen.
Such was the task at North Side High School in Fort Worth Thursday: to "use what you have and turn it into a dish," says teacher and chef Mike Gantz. Sounds like a week night at your house, doesn't it?
A room full of teenagers at the school's impressive culinary facility used familiar McD's ingredients like hamburger meat, buns, hashbrowns and even Big Mac sauce to make dishes that certainly didn't look like they came from a fast-food joint.
Ingredients used in the culinary competition Thursday were donated by McDonald's of Greater North Texas. It was a first-of-its-kind event in D-FW, though the group will likely host more, and donate more ingredients, so cooks of all culinary levels can show what they can do with McDonald's food.
See delicious photos in the gallery below.
The school's massive prep rooms, lined with commercial-grade stoves and ovens, are part of a $11.3 million project funded by a 2007 capital improvement program at Fort Worth ISD. Teacher and chef Kim Church, who has been with the district for 35 years, said the new facility affords students a much larger opportunity to consider a career in a restaurants.
"These kids are using tools and equipment that is way beyond a commercial kitchen," assistant principal David Trimble added. It's way bigger, too: The facility is more than 48,000 square feet and includes 17 classrooms and two full production kitchens. Before the facility was built, culinary arts students were taught in portable classrooms that couldn't accommodate more than a dozen people.
In Gantz and Church's classes, students start with the basics -- how to make stocks and safely cook meat, for instance. By year's end, they're searing filets and poaching lobster tails.
The food the students made seemed like it was straight off of a cooking show.
Take the chicken and zucchini pasta dish: The students refer to it by its proper name, chicken roulade -- that's stuffed chicken, in this case with red peppers and mushrooms. Underneath the chicken were balsamic vinegar "pearls" made by a student interested in science who used agar-agar to make little bubbles that burst like caviar. And the zucchini pasta: Boiled and tossed in pesto, right?
Nope. "We blanched it -- that's a fancy word for heating it, very quickly, so it shocks the vegetables," senior Xavier Thompson explained. His time in the class has inspired him to consider the Culinary Institute of America next year. Either that or his "back up plan," he tells me: Duke University.
All of the students made their dishes in an hour or less. They used techniques that seem applicable in their real lives, such as using stale bread (in this case, McDonald's buns) as bread crumbs in a meatball dish. They ended up winning "best taste" in a friendly food competition Thursday night.
Another student group took McDonald's hotcakes and shaped them like a taco around fried chicken -- their version of chicken and waffles. The chicken was covered in a granola crust and fried, then topped with a zingy maple syrup punctuated by red pepper flakes.
Six teams turned in dishes. I'd pay for each one in a restaurant.
Perhaps we'll see these bright young students in restaurants someday. "I want to open my own restaurant or run a restaurant for someone," said senior student Joe San Miguel.
"[The class] has given me a lot of ideas about my future."


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Barcelona have reportedly offered Philippe Coutinho to Arsenal in a swap deal that would see Matteo Guendouzi head in the opposite direction, reports in England say
Barcelona are desperate to offload Coutinho when the transfer window reopens for business, but the Brazilian’s underwhelming performances for Bayern Munich seem to have fended off suitors.
After failing to live up to expectations at the Camp Nou upon his blockbuster €140million arrival from Liverpool, the 28-year-old forward spent the 2019/20 campaign on loan at Bayern.
However, Coutinho’s qualities didn’t fall into Hansi Flick’s plans for the next season, which is why the perennial Bundesliga champions decided against purchasing the ex-Inter Milan star permanently.
While Quique Setien already made it clear that Coutinho has no place in his Barca team for the next season, the Catalan giants have failed to cash in on their flop.
As reported by the Mirror, the La Liga runners-up may have come up with a plan that would help them get rid of the forward’s whopping wages by offering him to Arsenal in exchange for Matteo Guendouzi.
📰 [Foot Mercato🥈] | FC Barcelona negotiates with Arsenal for an exchange between Philippe Coutinho and Mattéo Guendouzi, who opened the door to a leave Arsenal. pic.twitter.com/fesCmtBlLR— BarçaTimes (@BarcaTimes) July 18, 2020
Guendouzi, on the other hand, has found himself on the fringes of the Gunners squad following a bust-up with Mikel Arteta during a 2-1 defeat to Brighton back in June.
The 21-year-old Frenchman has not featured for Arsenal ever since and could be on his way out of the Emirates Stadium in the coming months.
Arteta is keen to bolster Arsenal’s firepower ahead of the 2020/21 campaign and may embrace the prospect of having Coutinho at his disposal.
Meanwhile, Barcelona need to replace Arthur Melo, who will join Juventus for €72million, and the up-and-coming deep-lying playmaker fits the bill.


Valley native dies in Fort Bragg
The military community at Fort Bragg is mourning the death of a Valley native.
Private First Class Patrick Hernandez, 30, died in a military Humvee crash on base Monday.
Hernandez joined the Army in August of last year and served as a military policeman. He recently graduated from airborne school at Fort Benning in Georgia.
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Neighbors in the 500 block of South Clifton Street, near Lambert Road in La Habra, heard six shots around 7:15 p.m. on Thursday. Police quickly arrived to find Nick Burresch, 24, and Phillip Reinig, 30, bleeding out in front of a home.
After being treated by paramedics, the pair was rushed to UCI Medical Center in Orange, where they were later pronounced dead.
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I think that our shelves show some insight into who we are.
Our priorities, our interests, etc.
Our tolerance for clutter, piles, and dust.
Plus, it gives me another excuse to practice taking pictures and experimenting with lighting. Here’s the shelf under one of my end tables:
From left to right:
Marketing Fine Art Photography, by Alain Briot (Amazon)
This book is a great resource for anyone who would like to start selling their photographs at art shows or through galleries. Alain covers all the important aspects of selling photographs.
Epic Content Marketing, by Joe Pulizzi (Amazon)
I bought this book back in May because I knew that my role at Website Pipeline would involve creating more content strategy. I’ve been following Pulizzi’s Content Marketing Institute for several years, and this book did not disappoint. I’d recommend it for anyone working in a digital marketing role.
The Life-Changing Magic of Cleaning Up, by Marie Kondo (Amazon)
This was another October buy compliments of Website Pipeline’s generosity. I’m about halfway through it and my impressions are mixed at this point.
The Year Yellowstone Burned: A Twenty-Five Year Perspective, by Jeff Henry (Amazon)
This is another October purchase that I have not read yet, but will start shortly. I found this book recommendation among a list of must-read photography books.
Vision and Art: The Biology of Seeing, by Margaret Livingstone (Amazon)
Yet another October purchase that I haven’t had a chance to read yet. This book frequently comes up in forum discussions on serious photography and creating better photographs, though it is not strictly a book for photographers. As I’m quite focused on improving my craft, this is on my short list.
Speedliter’s Handbook, by Syl Arena (Amazon)
Here’s an October purchase that I have read! Though I no longer shoot with Canon, I had been reading recommendations of this book for a long time, and the lighting concepts presented here can apply to any type of speedlight/flash system. I enjoyed this book and learned quite a bit, marking several pages that I will refer back to.

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Donaldina Cameron captured the nation’s imagination at the turn of the 20th century. She was an early anti-human trafficking pioneer who ran a safe house for vulnerable girls and young women on the edge of San Francisco’s Chinatown. Read an excerpt from “The White Devil’s Daughters,” by Bay Area author Julia Flynn Siler.
Many city residents who are not housed or are food insecure depend on humanitarian aid from Food Not Bombs to survive. But state regulations taking effect in January jeopardize the group’s 35-year mission of sharing food outside the confines of government bureaucracy.
Nearly 200 California cities allow private organizations to manage key aspects of their downtown and commercial districts and to implement policies that restrict the rights of homeless people, according to a new report from the UC Berkeley School of Law.
District 6 Supervisor Jane Kim represents the city’s wealthiest and poorest ZIP codes. She has focused much of her political energy on inclusionary housing — programs mandating a percentage of apartments in new developments be set aside at below-market rates — and set a new standard by securing higher-than-normal affordability ratios on several mega-projects. On homelessness, she says that if elected mayor, she would treat it more like a public health crisis than an economic problem. Second in a series analyzing the mayoral candidates’ records and pledges on housing and homelessness.
A trio of African-American organizations aimed to get some answers from aspiring local leaders at “Facing the Voters,” a candidates’ forum hosted by the Public Press and moderated by its publisher. The candidates were given the opportunity to lay out their bona fides with respect to this city’s dwindling, marginalized African-American community; some did that and some did not. First of two articles.
Three African-American groups are sponsoring a May 5 candidate forum to focus attention on issues important to the black community. Organizers have invited all candidates running for San Francisco mayor, District 8 supervisor, Superior Court and the 12th Congressional District.
California officials are taking their first, tentative steps toward requiring cities to plan for severe sea level rise that scientists now say could conceivably elevate high tides by up to 22 feet by the middle of the next century. A state-funded study recommends that local planners adopt a risk-averse approach to permitting developments such as hospitals and housing in areas that have even little chance of flooding in the coming decades.
City native Victoria Ortiz’s path to homelessness began in the East Bay more than two years ago when she was pregnant, working at a Staples and subletting a room. A housemate stopped forwarding the rent to the landlord, and everyone was evicted. This is the story of her determination to find stable housing for her family while living at a shelter in San Francisco.
A 44-year-old retired firefighter calls herself a “guinea pig” in an experiment to create more shelter for homeless people in San Francisco. For the foreseeable future, she said, how she handles herself will “make or break” a pilot project involving a tiny dwelling on a private lot.
Across the country, 1,400 community clinics that care for some of the poorest people in the United States are anxiously making contingency plans for how to cope with potential funding cuts, all because Congress allowed a critical program to lapse. The impact is already being felt in San Francisco and the Bay Area.


The Mysteries of Firewalking Revealed
Cargioli, Theresa; Gaites, Craig; Van Fleet, Geoff; Liem, Andre; Lyubchenko, Lev
The act of firewalking was once thought of as a supernatural experience, shrouded in mystery and revered as a feat of courage and determination. Through the use of computer aided engineering and basic thermodynamics, firewalking can now be explained scientifically. We created a mesh in GAMBIT that included a representation of a human foot, a steam layer and the hot coals. The steam layer was created by the Leidenfrost effect, which we were testing the validity of. We determined, using FIDAP, that the combined effect of the steam layer?s poor conduction and the favorable thermal properties of both the foot and coal make it is possible for anyone to walk along a hot coal bed. After taking away the steam layer, we discovered that the steam layer played a vital role in protecting the foot. If it is not present, the foot will be burnt, as the temperature of the foot at the location of the nerve ending will surpass the pain threshold temperature of 318 Kelvin.
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Written by Nancy Rubin Stuart
Narrated by Lee Ann Howlett
Duration 1 hour and 52 minutes
Originally published in 1991 as a Book of the Month Club Featured dividend and awarded the Best Nonfiction Book by the American Society of Journalists and Authors, this authoritatively researched portrait of Queen Isabella brings to life one of the most controversial figures in European history–a woman who was passionate lover to Ferdinand of Aragon, conquered the Moors (Muslims) of Spain, funded Columbus on his famous journey, brought the Renaissance to Spain, and was hated for introducing the Spanish Inquisition. Like many modern career women, Isabella was torn between her workaday obligations, her marriage, and child-rearing. Which was she–a visionary, a saint, or a she-devil? Listen to Isabella of Castile and decide for yourself.
Who then, was the real Isabella?
Was she, as some people still believe, an unrecognized saint who deserved beatification because of her charitable acts to her subjects, her special concern for widows and orphans, and insistence upon cleansing the church of corruption?
Or was she a heartless bigot–a religious fanatic who forced conversions of Spanish Moors and Jews to Christianity on pain of death through the instruments of the Spanish Inquisition?
Was she, as history suggests, a brilliant woman–the only European monarch who understood the implications of a successful transatlantic crossing–and consequently sponsored Christopher Columbus’ famous journey across the ocean to the New World.
Who, then, was the flesh-and-blood Isabella? As her dramatic biography reveals, the queen was a very human blend of these three historical images.
Isabella of Castile describes the complex social and psychological forces that drove the queen to become one of history’s most famous and quixotic monarchs, a monumental figure who is alternately revered and despised to this very day.
About the author:
Nancy Rubin Stuart is an award-winning author and journalist who specializes in women, biography, and social history. Her books include Poor Richard’s Women: Deborah Read Franklin and the Other Women Behind the Founding Father, published in 2022. Earlier books include Defiant Brides, named by the Wall Street Journal as one of the best five books on Revolutionary-era women, the acclaimed The Muse of The Revolution, and the national best seller American Empress.
As a journalist, Nancy’s work has appeared in the New York Times, Huffington Post, The Washington Post, The New England Quarterly, and national magazines. She serves as executive director of the Cape Cod Writers Center.
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Presidential hopefuls Sen. John McCain and Sen. Barack Obama both blamed Washington for irresponsible spending and urged Wall Street reform Monday after lending giant Lehman Brothers filed for bankruptcy and Bank of America announced plans to buy out Merril Lynch.
In a year of faltering Wall Street firms, the news drew focus to the bailout powers of the Federal Reserve once again, following the federal takeover of lenders Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac last month. McCain has long been against government bailouts in cases of irresponsible lending.
“I am glad to see that the Federal Reserve and the Treasury Department have said no to using taxpayer money to bail out Lehman Brothers, a position I have spoken about throughout this campaign,” McCain said in a press statement, calling the Lehman Brothers crisis “the latest reminder of ineffective regulation and management.”
Obama, who has been a stronger supporter of government intervention, agreed that current regulation has been ineffective, saying, “too many folks in Washington and on Wall Street weren’t minding the store,” in his own press statement.
McCain described his administration’s planned efforts to “replace the outdated and ineffective patchwork quilt of regulatory oversight in Washington and bring transparency and accountability to Wall Street.” The Arizona Republican has long been a proponent of increasing lender responsibility in the private sector.
At a rally in Jacksonville, Fla., McCain told called for stricter government regulation to avoid major federal bailout.
“We will never put America in this position again,” McCain said, according to Bloomberg news.
The McCain camp also released a TV ad Monday morning pledging to help the country’s “economy in crisis.”
“Only proven reformers John McCain and Sarah Palin can fix it,” the ad’s announcer says.
Senator Obama tied McCain’s financial proposals to that of the Bush administration, calling his opponent’s philosophy one “that says even common-sense regulations are unnecessary and unwise, and one that says we should just stick to our heads in the sand and ignore economic problems until they spiral into crisis.”
Referring to the current Wall Street predicament the “most serious financial crisis since the Great Depression,” Obama called for “modernizing the rules of the road to suit a 21st century market.”


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One responsibility of dog ownership is making sure your dog receives his yearly vaccinations. One of those vaccinations most likely includes the vaccine for Canine Influenza. In this blog post we will talk about Canine Influenza and the health risks to your dog, if he were to become ill by catching this disease.
The first cases of Canine Influenza appeared in the United States in January of 2004. The American Veterinary Medicine Association, or the AVMA, www.amva.com, discovered the first strain of Canine Influenza at a greyhound race track in Florida. The first strain of the illness was named H3N8 Influenza A. Later that year, from June through August, outbreaks of the respiratory illness were reported at greyhound tracks in six states: Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Kansas, Texas, and West Virginia.
In 2005 the disease continued to spread, this time reaching 20 greyhound tracks in 11 states. From January to May, cases were reported in: Arizona, Arkansas, Colorado, Florida, Iowa, Kansas, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Texas, West Virginia, and Wisconsin. Since the original outbreak in 2004, Canine Influenza has been reported in more than 40 states and in Washington D.C. as well.
A second strain of Canine Influenza was discovered in 2015, in Chicago. The second strain was called H3N2. The AVMA said the H3N2 strain found in Chicago was identical to a strain discovered in Asia, affecting dogs living in the countries of Korea, China, and Thailand.
This respiratory virus is highly contagious amongst dogs. Dogs that have a mild form of the disease will have a soft, wet cough. This cough will persist for ten to thirty days. Other symptoms include fever, loss of appetite, and tiredness. Your dog might also have discharge coming from his nose, stemming from a bacterial infection that often accompanies Canine Influenza.
Dogs that suffer from a more serious case of Canine Influenza may develop a very high fever and it may appear as though they have pneumonia.
All dogs are at risk of catching Canine Influenza so it’s important that you vaccinate your dog. If you plan to board your dog at a facility, or if your dog is frequently exposed to other dogs it’s even more crucial to have your dog vaccinated. There are vaccinations for both strains of Canine Influenza—some facilities only require one vaccination for boarding, while some require both. Check with your facility first to see what they require.
Canine Influenza spreads between dogs when an infected dog sneezes, barks, or coughs. Sharing toys and food also puts other dogs at risk as well. If your dog shows any signs of illness, it’s best to clean everything your dog has come into contact with. Items such as shoes, clothing and hands should be cleaned and disinfected after exposure to an ill dog. This will cut down the risk of exposure to other dogs that are healthy and well.
While Canine Vaccine can be fatal, the mortality rate is less than 10%. If your dog does contract Canine Influenza, it is in the dogs’ best interest to be quarantined away from other dogs until he is free of the disease. Your veterinarian might prescribe an antibiotic to prevent further infection from occurring and they might suggest something for pain relieve as well.
It is not possible to transmit Canine Influenza from dog to human, so at this time, dog owners are not at risk of catching it. While humans are not at risk, other animals are. It is possible for dogs to infect cats, therefore, cat to cat transmission is possible.
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LCD Backlight Module Market Analysis, Size, Share, Growth, Trends and Forecast 2019-2024
Market Study Report LLC has announced the launch of LCD Backlight Module market report, a comprehensive study enumerating the latest price trends and pivotal drivers rendering a positive impact on the industry landscape. Further, the report is inclusive of the competitive terrain of this vertical in addition to the market share analysis and the contribution of the prominent contenders toward the overall industry.
Backlight module provides light source to the LCD panel , because the LCD itself does not radiate. In order to allow users can clearly see the picture on LCD displayer , we set up the backlight module to illuminate the LCD panel .From this ,we can see the information on LCD display. Therefore, ?Backlight Module” is one of the key components of the LCD panel. The backlight module is composed of the light source, light guide plate, optic films, and other mechanical parts.
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- The study entails a detailed overview of each company with respect to the stance it holds at present in the LCD Backlight Module market.
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- The sales amassed by the products as well as the revenue they hold over the forecast period have also been enumerated in the report.
- The application landscape of LCD Backlight Module market, as per the report, is segmented into Consumer Appliances, Electrics and Others. The market share procured by the application segments has also been given in the report.
- The study includes the forecast of sales as well as the revenue these application segments will accrue over the projected duration.
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Chapter 1: Methodology & Scope
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Chapter 3: LCD Backlight Module Industry Insights
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Chapter 4: LCD Backlight Module Market, By Region
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Rough initial 2 component 2D Sersic model parameters for the provided model images.
A data frame with 39 observations on the following 10 variables.
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Axial ratios of Sersic disk profiles defined as minor-axis/major-axis
These rough initial guesses of the galaxy models were derived from single Sersic fits taken from Lange et al 2015.
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Specsavers in The Forge is proud to say that one of its team members, Roslyn MacFadyen, has qualified as a Dementia Friend.
Dementia Friends is an Alzheimer’s Society initiative and helps staff to develop an understanding of dementia and support customers and employees who are affected by the condition.
Being a Dementia Friend, staff members with the qualification will wear a badge on their uniforms to indicate their increased level of dementia awareness to customers.
Retail director Angela Lucas said: ‘We believe very strongly in the importance of having our staff trained in dementia care, as we want to provide the best customer service for everyone that comes into the store.’
Proactive in supporting all customers
Angela added: ‘As a team we are very proactive to ensure that we have the ability to effectively support all customers who need additional help because of a condition like Alzheimer’s.
‘It’s been a really interesting and illuminating course, giving us the ability to understand the needs of those suffering from dementia and it is now great that we have Roslyn who is fully qualified.’


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Nearly seven months after thousands of space and science enthusiasts converged on the Central Coast to celebrate the start of the first-ever interplanetary mission to originate from the West Coast, similar gatherings are planned throughout the region to mark a milestone in the historic voyage.
NASA’s InSight lander, which began its journey to Mars aboard a United Launch Alliance-built Atlas V rocket that was launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base on May 5, is predicted to touch down on the surface of the Red Planet just before noon Monday. Several watch parties have been scheduled around Lompoc and Santa Maria to mark the momentous occasion.
The landing, if successful, would be the first for an Earth-based spacecraft on Mars in six years. The last such landing was NASA’s Curiosity rover in 2012.
Landing on Mars is no sure thing, NASA pointed out in its informational materials ahead of the planned landing.
“Only about 40 percent of the missions ever sent to Mars — by any space agency — have been successful,” a U.S. space agency spokesperson said in a statement. “The U.S. is the only nation whose missions have survived a Mars landing. The thin atmosphere — just 1 percent of Earth’s — means that there’s little friction to slow down a spacecraft. Despite that, NASA has had a long and successful track record at Mars. Since 1965, it has flown by, orbited, landed on and roved across the surface of the Red Planet.”
The InSight lander, which is the first dedicated to studying the deep interior of Mars and the first to place a seismometer directly on the surface of another planet to detect quakes, is on track to fall onto a section of Mars known as the “Elysium Planitia” around 11:47 a.m. PST. Because it takes about eight minutes for light to travel from Mars to Earth, the landing signal isn’t expected back on Earth until about 11:54 a.m. at the earliest.
NASA is slated to stream video of the landing, and that broadcast will be among the attractions at the several local viewing parties.
Among the watch parties planned in Lompoc:
- The Lompoc Public Library, 501 E. North Ave., is inviting community members to gather at the library from 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. to watch the landing. It is expected that NASA materials will be made available during the event.
- Explore Lompoc, a marketing organization that coordinated several of the local launch events for the start of the mission in May, will host a multiscreen landing party from 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. at the Hilton Garden Inn, 1201 North H St. Light snacks will be provided.
Two large events have also been planned in Santa Maria — at Hancock College and at the Discovery Museum.
Officials at Hancock are inviting community members to a free viewing party that will be held from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the Marian Theatre on the school’s Santa Maria campus. Along with video of the landing, that event will also include experts who will be on hand to lead discussion and commentary.
Those experts will include Brian H. Day, from NASA’s Solar System Exploration Research Institute, and Hancock astronomy professor Vince Tobin.
“This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for people to see and learn about a real flying saucer’s mission to Mars,” said Richard Mahon, academic dean at Hancock. “Decades of work have come down to this one feat and the college is excited to share this moment with the community.”
Space enthusiasts and families are also invited to a multifaceted viewing party scheduled for 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the Santa Maria Valley Discovery Museum, 705 S. McClelland St.
At that party, the landing will be shown on the museum’s “Vandenberg Launch Experience” 90-inch screen. In addition to the viewing, children will be able to build "mini-landers," learn about shock absorption with a Jell-O experiment, and better understand the InSight’s mission by interacting with a hands-on seismograph.
“Thanks to our educational partnership with Vandenberg Air Force Base, we’re able to offer our community a front-row seat to the exciting world of space exploration,” Program Director Amy Blasco said. “We’re looking forward to witnessing aerospace history with our patrons.”
The InSight mission is planned to last one Martian year, plus 40 Martian days. That amounts to about two Earth years.
For information on how to view the landing online, visit https://mars.nasa.gov/insight/timeline/landing/watch-online/.


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Location is great, right next to Paddington Station & 3 different tube lines. Staff was pretty courteous and polite, just seemed unable to help with anything a lot of the time.
They lost power on the last day of my stay causing me to oversleep and miss a meeting. Guess they slipped a notice under the door that I didn't see. More annoying though was just the lack of amenities at the price point I was paying. Not a good value for the money IMO. No mini fridge for 230+ USD a night? Entertainment was messed up too, ended up getting charged for 2 movies, neither of which I could finish because they errored out halfway through and there was no way to fast forward or resume the movies other than re-starting them and watching them again from the beginning. I called the front desk and asked about this, they ensured I wouldn't be charged, I was.
The 4-star Mercure London Paddington hotel blends contemporary design with the convenience of being in central London. Located next to Paddington station, this stylish hotel offers state-of-the-art facilities to help make your stay a welcome one. Its serene setting offers a contrast to the hustle and bustle of the city, with each room providing guests with the comforts of home and more. The hotel comes equipped with a 24-hour gym, while the on-site restaurant serves food and drinks all day.
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ALPHONSE, THERE’S MUD ON THE CEILING!
I DO NOT LIKE BOOKS ANYMORE!
Hilda and the Runaway Baby
ALPHONSE, THAT IS NOT OK TO DO!
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I made this gif to celebrate the paperback edition of Hilda and the Runaway Baby. I’ve only just found out you can animate in Photoshop and this is the first animation I’ve made in years. So much fun. In other Hilda-news, Beijing Cheerful recently published … Continue reading
It was really exciting to be invited to exhibit some of the original screenprints from Hilda and the Runaway Baby as part of a group show at the Hive library in Worcester. Hatched! featured illustrations from seven new books by four Illustration tutors at Worcester … Continue reading
This is the most complicated print I’ve ever made, it took ten screens and I think it might still need another cat. This is the Runaway Baby’s village, which has chimneys from the Alpujarras.


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Milwaukee, WI - The Admirals will host their first ever Great Skate Event from 5:30 to 7:30 pm on Wednesday, February 28th at the Slice of Ice at Red Arrow Park in downtown Milwaukee. Admirals players and Roscoe will be skating and available for pictures and autographs throughout the event.
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Kicking off in Atlanta, the tour will "bring the flavor and color back to dance music."
Playful and easygoing, this track is built for early morning dance floors and sunset rooftop raves.
The lineup features a handful of EDM heavyweights including Boombox Cartel, Aluna, and more.
In lieu of the beloved festival brand's IRL event, the second digital installment of Lighting in a Bottle will also feature SOFI TUKKER, Aluna, and more.
They will join headliners Billie Eilish, The Killers, Tame Impala, and Lizzo.
Groovy dancehall rhythms combine with Aluna’s signature electropop flair for a summer dancefloor jam.
This record features remixes from Sofi Tukker, UNIIQU3, TOKiMONSTA, Virgil Abloh, and more.
Tune into the two-day streaming event on Twitch to commemorate National Women's Month.
"International Women’s Day is more than just celebrating our collective successes and achievements. It’s about accelerating gender parity and seeing positive change for women all over the world."
Celebrate the future of dance music with these artists, whose work is already impacting the community's next wave.
Aluna shares the challenges and opportunities she was presented with when deciding to embark on her solo debut.
Aligned with her quest for representation, the rework bundle consists of BIPOC and female producers.
The stream will go live via Twitch on November 1st.
Aluna encourages fans to "dress to impress" as she prepares to perform songs from her upcoming album "Renaissance."
Annie Mac, A-Trak, Diplo, Dillon Francis, Icona Pop, and many more have pledged their support.
"I would stand on huge stages singing to thousands of white people, bringing soul, meaning and magic while feeling like an alien."
Aluna also signed to Mad Decent and announced a new album on the way.


Although the League of Women Voters (LWV) never endorses candidates or political parties, we do take stands on issues we have studied and on which we’ve reached consensus. The LWV of Illinois and LWV-Jo Daviess County support the proposed graduated income tax amendment (referred to as the Fair Tax amendment) to the Illinois Constitution that will be on the Nov. 3 ballot. As a matter of fact, the LWVIL has been in favor of such an amendment since 1991.
If approved by three/fifths of those who vote on the amendment or 50 percent of those who vote in the General Election, what would the proposed amendment do? It would remove the portion of the Revenue Article of the Illinois Constitution approved in 1970 that is sometimes referred to as the ‘flat tax,’ that requires all taxes on income to be at the same rate. It would give the State the ability to impose higher tax rates on those with higher income levels and lower income tax rates on those with middle or lower income levels.
The amendment would not put any particular rate structure in the Constitution. Setting the rate structure is a statutory responsibility of the legislature. However, when the legislature approved putting the proposed amendment on the November 2020 ballot during the spring 2019 legislative session, it also passed legislation that would institute the graduated income tax structure above if the amendment is ratified.
For decades Illinois legislators have found it hard to cut services. Ninety-six percent of Illinois’ General Fund spending is on the core services of education, healthcare, social services, and public safety and paying those who provide those services in our communities. It has been equally difficult to raise the taxes to pay for them. Instead, for decades administrations and legislators of both parties have turned to irresponsible practices of pushing the cost of education to local property taxes, shorting or skipping altogether payments to pension funds, and “borrowing to spend.” These practices have compounded the problem of inequity in our schools so dependent on community property wealth, put greater burden for higher education costs on our college students, and severely strained social and mental health service agencies around the state. Additionally, the high cost of debt service further exacerbates Illinois’ budget shortfalls.
We believe approving the Fair Tax Amendment is part of the solution to these problems. If the tax burden must increase in Illinois, on whom should it fall? We believe the answer is clear and unequivocal. After all, from 1979 to 2017, the average incomes of the top 1 percent in Illinois have increased 254 percent.
The incomes of the bottom 99 percent increased by 20 percent. The bottom 90 percent were actually earning less after inflation in 2017 than in 1979. The “Fair Tax” Amendment will allow Illinois to shift some of the tax burden to those with greater ability to pay.
Friends have called us recently requesting information about the proposed amendment. One asked whether the amendment would change Illinois’ current policy of exempting all retirement income from being taxed. Neither the amendment, nor the tax structure proposed if the amendment is approved, changes Illinois’ retirement and pension income tax exemption. The power to tax retirement income is already given to the legislature by statute if it should choose to do so.
Another friend inquired about how this amendment would affect the taxation of small businesses. Generally, small businesses are organized as Subchapter S corporations, partnerships, or sole proprietorships. This allows them to be taxed on their business income at the same rate as the owners’ personal income is taxed. Therefore, only small business owners whose total income including income from their small business exceeds $250,000 would see an increase in their Illinois income tax. There is also an Illinois corporate replacement income tax which is not affected by this change in the law.
The LWV of Jo Daviess County encourages you to become fully informed on the Fair Tax Amendment. On September 22, the LWVs of Champaign County and McLean County sponsored a presentation on the Fair Tax Amendment with Ralph Martire, executive director of the Center for Tax and Budget Accountability. LWV members were able to pose frequently asked questions about the amendment to Mr. Martire. Here’s a link to that one and a half hour webinar: youtube.com/watch?v=mDhJrog_Sko&feature=youtu.be.
The LWV of Jo Daviess County urges you to vote yes to approve the Fair Tax Amendment.


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A poet is not an apostle; he drives out devils only by the power of the devil.
- Søren Kierkegaard
There’s nothing more painful than remembering something happy while you are distressed.
- Dante Alighieri
You can always make time for people. The point is, you have to want to.
- Katie Kacvinsky
The one and only reason behind all the miseries and failures of our life is our selfishness and the deeds induced by our selfish nature.
- Deep Trivedi
Patriotism is, fundamentally, a conviction that a particular country is the best in the world because you were born in it…
- George Bernard Shaw
If one were to build the house of happiness, the largest space would be the waiting room.
- Jules Renard
Truth, in matters of religion, is simply the opinion that has survived.
- Oscar Wilde
I'm a slow walker, but I never walk back.
- Abraham Lincoln
Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon.
- Woody Allen
If you have time to whine and complain about something then you have the time to do something about it.
- Anthony J. D'angelo
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A Legacy of Love: How One Artist Completely Changed America’s Perception of Text and Symbolism
In 1958 New York City, a small loft on Coenties Slip is home to a young Air Force veteran writing a poem. The poem is notable, not just for its author, but for the way he scripts the word “LOVE,” stacking the LO above the VE. This simple iconography became the basis for one of the most recognizable images of our time, in which the
uppercase letters are squared with the O tilting to the right. This image would later appear in countless iterations, from a MoMA Christmas card in which the bold use of green/red/blue first appeared to the first in the “LOVE” U.S. postage stamp series to the Hebrew version, Ahava, displayed in the art garden of the Israel Museum.
The poet was in fact the burgeoning artist Robert Indiana, whose iconic contributions to the Pop art movement of the 1960s would thrust him into the international spotlight. Yet Indiana was much more than just the creator of this piece of the American consciousness, clearly evident in the new career-spanning retrospective “Robert Indiana: A Legacy of Love” coming to the McNay Art Museum this fall.
Opening Oct. 15, “Robert Indiana: A Legacy of Love” honors the life, art, and resounding legacy of the late Pop icon through more than 75 paintings, prints, sculptures, costume designs, and digital artworks. A self-proclaimed “painter of signs,” Indiana shaped a highly original body of work that explores American identity; his own personal history; and the power of abstraction, symbolism, and language. The timing of the exhibit couldn’t be more relevant.
“Some of the most iconic artworks in this exhibition speak to the universal themes of a shared human experience, often in single words—like ‘love,’ ‘hope,’ and ‘art,’ ” says Richard Aste, McNay director and CEO. “The art of the late Robert Indiana, and that of today’s artists who lean into his legacy of love, will uplift our community and offer hope and inspiration to every San Antonian in these challenging times.”
What’s unique about the exhibition at the McNay is its examination of the culture of art in post-war America as a whole. This examination is deeply invested in post-war culture’s fascination with the meaning behind text and symbol, as well as Indiana’s contributions to it. “A Legacy of Love” surveys Indiana’s art in conversation with works by his contemporaries, Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein, as well as Indiana’s successors, contemporary artists including Mel Bochner, Deborah Kass, Glenn Ligon, Stephanie Patton, and Jack Pierson. This contextualization helps us, the viewers, appreciate Indiana’s astounding legacy while experiencing the visceral joy of his work, artworks that at once call on the viewer to “see” and to “read,” pioneering a triumphant union of text and image that remains undeniably relevant today.
“Character counts, photo captions, and text messages fill our daily lives now more than ever,” said René Paul Barilleaux, head of curatorial affairs. “In his unique approach to image-making, Indiana’s art really anticipated the global digital moment we’re experiencing today with short, direct, text-based bursts of communication.”
Yet the thrilling discovery illuminated by “A Legacy of Love” is how vital Indiana’s career remained after leading the Pop art movement of the 1960s. The artist’s desire to work was relentless, as he created paintings, prints, and sculptures characterized by clean lines and saturated color up until his death in 2018. His legacy, clearly outlined in the exhibit, influenced myriad artists’ work. Of particular interest are examples by artists with ties to San Antonio, including Jesse Amado, Alejandro Diaz, Chuck Ramirez, Ethel Shipton, and Gary Sweeney. Indiana’s lasting impact on the history of contemporary art remains profound, as his images take on new meanings in the present day.
“Robert Indiana: A Legacy of Love” allows museum visitors to explore the rich and prolific career of one of America’s most beloved and iconic artists in a way never previously exhibited. The exhibition is organized into five “chapters” exploring the artist’s impactful combination of text and image through different lenses: “Icons,” “Pop Art,” “Robert Indiana and Marsden Hartley,” “Performance,” and “A Legacy of Language.”
The works of art on view are drawn primarily from the strong Indiana representation in the McNay’s collection, primarily because of the friendship between the artist and San Antonio collector and McNay patron Robert L.B. Tobin. Select loans from the Whitney Museum of American Art, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Blanton Museum of Art at the University of Texas at Austin, Ruiz-Healy Art, and various private collections are also included throughout each section.
To represent Indiana’s gravitational pull on today’s art world, the McNay commissioned artworks for “A Legacy of Love” that add a dimension of our current moment. These commissioned pieces are a first for the museum, six major digital artworks that will live both in the galleries and online, featuring the text-based images of Brooklyn-based poet, designer, and artist Annika Hansteen-Izora. Her work mirrors Indiana’s fascination with the power of symbols, language, and the universal human experience while speaking to the complexities of community care and the role of art in our digital age.
The exhibit extends into the McNay’s beautiful 26-acre grounds. Outdoor sculptures by Indiana, Sweeney, and Alejandro Martín, each investigating language in visual art, intermingle with the facade, gardens, and fountains of the McNay’s iconic Spanish Colonial Revival architecture. Built in the 1920s by artist and educator Marion Koogler McNay, the residence later became Texas’ first modern art museum when it opened in 1954. Today, 200,000 visitors a year enjoy works by modern masters including Paul Gauguin, Vincent van Gogh, Edward Hopper, Joan Mitchell, Alice Neel, Georgia O’Keeffe, Pablo Picasso, Jackson Pollock, and Pierre-Auguste Renoir.
“Robert Indiana: A Legacy of Love” is the latest in the McNay’s commitment to bringing the best in modern art to southeastern Texas. Schedule your visit today at https://www.mcnayart.org. The McNay has safety protocols in place and is open to the public.
“Robert Indiana: A Legacy of Love” opens Oct. 15 and runs until Jan. 24.


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Yuri Dashevsky discusses the importance of law and order, upholding the Constitution and education
Happy Labor Day! “Tasty Spot” Georgian bakery, “Ester” grocery, JCC of Marine Park, Tamaqua Club on Gerritsen Beach… not an inch of Brooklyn is taken for granted.
Our first one was a resounding success, while held in Russian – for the earliest supporters in the TriState area.
At the South Brooklyn Republicans Club with (l to r) NYPD Detective Jay Cohen, Councilwoman Inna Vernikov, and NYPD Chief Joseph Fox, at the Knights of Columbus 3051 Nostrand Av.
Announcing my candidacy in a company of brave and honorable friends.

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