Dancer in Costume in Lobito, Angola

from Everything Everywhere Travel Blog http://everything-everywhere.com/2014/10/22/dancer-costume-lobito-angola/

Air New Zealand ends The Hobbit trilogy with self-proclaimed best in-flight safety video ever

All good things must come to an end. Air New Zealand is concluding its three-year tie up with The Hobbit film trilogy ...



from Tnooz http://www.tnooz.com/article/Air-New-Zealand-launches-Hobbit-safety-video/#utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=air-new-zealand-launches-latest-tolkein-inspired-safety-video

How to piss off the northern English

Despite the fact that economic growth, development, and investment is focused on London, northern England remains a proud region with history and character.



from Matador Network » Matador Network http://matadornetwork.com/life/piss-someone-northern-england/

When you date a Chilean guy

You’ll know enough Chilean music to start your own tribute band.



from Matador Network » Matador Network http://matadornetwork.com/life/12-things-happen-date-chilean-guy/

You've become culturally Argentine

You no longer think fernet tastes like de-icer.



from Matador Network » Matador Network http://matadornetwork.com/life/13-ways-know-youve-become-culturally-argentine/

An Overlooked Advantage of the Amex EveryDay Credit Card

Earlier this year, American Express introduced the no annual fee Amex EveryDay Credit Card, which earns 2X points at U.S. supermarkets on up to $6,000 per year in purchases. Additionally, if you use the card 20 or more times in a billing period, you get a 20% bonus on points earned for purchases made that […]



from Frugal Travel Guy http://www.frugaltravelguy.com/2014/10/why-i-decided-to-get-the-amex-everyday-credit-card-despite-its-low-welcome-bonus-offer.html

Rincon Center Murals in San Francisco, California

The Work Projects Administration (WPA) was the source of countless classic works of American art, but their largest painted commission, the series of murals at what is now Rincon Center, was almost instantly reviled for its realist, some say communist, portrayal of California's past.

The murals were the work of Russian-born artist Anton Refregier who won a competition to paint the works in the newly built Rincon Annex Post Office. From a period between 1941-1948, interrupted by the outbreak of World War II, Refregier created 27 murals on the walls of the post office's main hall. He worked in a "social realist" style that endeavored to paint the lives of the working class as they were with little aggrandizement. Unfortunately almost from the outset, his works came under attack. Even as the artist worked on the pieces, the criticisms started rolling in ranging from a church group complaining that a friar was too fat in comparison to the Indians he was aiding to depictions of union victories and the triumphs of Chinese labor in America being shouted down. Each time, the artist dutifully made adjustments, erasing controversial symbols and changing the race of any offending figures. Even as he actively worked to appease his critics, the vitriol towards his works intensified to the point that near the finish, Refregier refused to work on the murals past sunset due to groups of rabble-rousers that would show up on site to make trouble.

Once the the murals were finished, criticisms of the populist works intensified further as Red Scare alarmists started seeing Communist overtones all of the red-colored items among the murals. A motion to destroy the works even made it to court in 1953, with the backing of the California State Senate. Luckily the furor over the works died down and the murals were given a stay of execution.

The post office gave up ownership of the space in the 1980s and it was developed into a commercial and residential space. The murals were restored as a part of this development. However as the space expanded, the murals were once again put on the chopping block, only to be saved by the lobbying of art preservationists.

from Atlas Obscura http://atlasobscura.com.feedsportal.com/c/35387/f/665719/s/3fbd1a9f/sc/38/l/0L0Satlasobscura0N0Cplaces0Crincon0Ecenter0Emurals/story01.htm

Carcross Desert in Carcross, Canada

If giants had sandboxes, what would they be like? Many children spend hours pondering this question, but you might be surprised to find that the answer lies just north of the tiny Yukon town of Carcross in the form of the world's smallest desert.

North of the 60th parallel, the Carcross Desert is not the northernmost desert in the world, but it is the most remarkably contained, and once held the Guinness World Record as the Smallest Desert in the World ( an honor that now belongs to the Atacama Desert in Chile). At just one square mile in area, it seems more like humans attempted to deposit a few thousand tons of sand along nearby Lake Bennett and missed their target by a few miles. In sharp contrast to China's afforestation efforts on the frontier of the Gobi desert, nature has succeeded in sustaining this ecological gem for thousands of years.

The Carcross Desert was formerly the bed of a Pleistocene glacial lake, and remains arid due to the rain shadow effects of the mountains in Yukon's southern lakes region. Although the winds are harsh and inhibitory to most plant life, the dunes are home to a few unusual flora, even sporting the exceptionally rare Baikal Sedge (which is normally found only off the coast of Lake Baikal in Siberia).

It also offers unusual recreational opportunities for outdoorsy Yukoners. Many in Whitehorse travel south during the summer months to go sandboarding on the dunes.

from Atlas Obscura http://atlasobscura.com.feedsportal.com/c/35387/f/665719/s/3fbd1a9a/sc/10/l/0L0Satlasobscura0N0Cplaces0Ccarcross0Edesert0E2/story01.htm

Hey Verizon, what happened to those discounts you promised?

from Elliott http://elliott.org/problem-solved/hey-verizon-happened-discounts-promised/

Hay it is Flooding

Beaming Into the Geekhouse Here’s a video clip of an appearance I made a few weeks ago when I virtually visited Cali and John at their new Geekhouse. Here’s more on their website! Daily Photo – Hay it is Flooding Okay that may be one of my dumbest photo titles ever, but I'm gonna stick […]



from Stuck in Customs http://www.stuckincustoms.com/2014/10/23/hay-it-is-flooding/

Hikers discover firearm booby trap

Mike and Jennifer Colbach escaped serious injury when they stumbled upon a makeshift firearm booby trap.



from Matador Network » Matador Network http://matadornetwork.com/life/hikers-discover-firearm-booby-trap-across-oregon-trail/

Why we Israelis travel in packs

Nothing brings people together like being hated and threatened, and when you grow up with that, it just stays with you.



from Matador Network » Matador Network http://matadornetwork.com/abroad/israelis-travel-packs/

Watch this waterfall ceased to exist

50mph winds swept through the region, hit the River Kinder, and made us all question the concept of gravity.



from Matador Network » Matador Network http://matadornetwork.com/life/windy-england-yesterday-waterfall-ceased-exist/

WOW Air Starts US Flights With Amazing Fares

I hadn't actually heard of WOW Air until I visited Iceland this summer, where they were advertising all over the airport. They're an Icelandic low cost carrier and started operations in 2011, so are still very new. They exclusively operate a fleet of A320s, each of which features 174 seats spread across 29 rows, with 29-30" of pitch per row.

What's really cool is that they announced service to the United States today. Via airlineroute.net, WOW Air will begin flights to Boston and Baltimore as of 2015.

As of March 27, 2015, WOW Air will begin 6x weekly flights between Reykjavik and Boston, as follows:

WW125 Reykjavik to Boston departing 3:35PM arriving 5:50PM

WW126 Boston to Reykjavik departing 6:55PM arriving 4:05AM (+1 day)

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from One Mile at a Time http://onemileatatime.boardingarea.com/2014/10/22/wow-air-starts-us-flights-amazing-fares/

ANA To Start Serving Food In Business Class

I received an email from ANA this evening with the following subject line:

"Business class in-flight meals on flights to Japan from December 2014!"

You heard it here first, folks! ANA will serve food in business class starting in December 2014! ;)

Now some people will say "Lucky, stop picking on them, you can't speak a lick of Japanese." That's true... but I'm also not trying to run a marketing campaign in Japanese... in Japan. ;)

Anyway, what ANA is really trying to announce is that they're partnering with some pretty popular hotel chains and restaurants for their in-flight menus.

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from One Mile at a Time http://onemileatatime.boardingarea.com/2014/10/22/ana-start-serving-food-business-class/