Managers at Boeing's largest factory in Everett, Washington, "will hound mechanics" to keep quiet about safety and quality assurance concerns, a mechanic who has worked for the company for more than three decades told The Guardian.
16.05.2024 - 14:15 / forbes.com / Christopher Columbus
Christopher Columbus’s fortunes have changed over the past several decades. Monuments that once celebrated his memory have been toppled or spattered with paint. Disdain for his colonialist ways is unmistakable. But few interventions are as thoughtful as the art of Hew Locke.
In 2018, Locke embellished a photograph of the Columbus statue in New York’s Central Park, bedecking the explorer in pearls and gold filagree. With this reimagining, Locke simultaneously evoked the loot Columbus sought from the New World, the people he ransacked, and their spiritual attachment to the treasures he claimed on behalf of Spain.
It’s a Mesoamerican version of King Midas: The folly of Columbus is revealed by the fulfilment of his wishes. And like the Midas story, it never happened.
Hew Locke’s Columbus, Central Park provides a fitting introduction to El Dorado: Myths of Gold, an exhibition at the Americas Society that examines the mythic roots and tragic consequences of European colonization of Indigenous lands. Part of Project El Dorado, which also includes a scholarly publication, the exhibition mixes ancient and contemporary art to show the layers of misapprehension – both disingenuous and genuine – underlying first contact. Even if the process of demystification cannot revive the victims of genocide, it might improve present-day conditions.
Before it was a place, El Dorado was the name of a king. Even richer than Locke’s Columbus or the legendary Midas, the Golden One was said to be powdered in gold dust by his attendants, giving offerings to the gods by plunging into a lake. Originating with the Muisca people of the Colombian Andes, the story was overheard by European adventurers keen to believe that great riches were to be found in the Americas. They imagined an entire kingdom of gold. And they searched for it relentlessly from the Caribbean to the Amazon Basin.
The Europeans were primed by Marco Polo’s reports of golden lands in the Orient. (Columbus was a keen reader of Marco Polo’s Travels.) European explorers were further convinced by the willingness of American natives to trade their gold for novelties such as mirrors. By European standards, the Indigenous peoples appeared to treat gold as a limitless resource, a commodity of such little local value that great fortunes could be spent on trinkets. (The colonists also took this as a sign that the Indigenous peoples were savage – unable to recognize the value of what they had – and therefore deserving of subjugation.)
As the scholars involved in Project El Dorado explain, the Europeans made false assumptions because they had the wrong premises. Importing the idea that gold was a form of money (along with other Old World diseases), they failed to appreciate the
Managers at Boeing's largest factory in Everett, Washington, "will hound mechanics" to keep quiet about safety and quality assurance concerns, a mechanic who has worked for the company for more than three decades told The Guardian.
If a pilot is grounded for mental health reasons, how long should it take for them to get medical approval? Do pilots need to tell the FAA every time they go to therapy? Should pilots on ADHD medication be able to fly?
Flying with Alaska Airlines is about to get more comfortable.
It’s already shaping up to be a busy summer travel season in the United States. On the Friday before Memorial Day, the U.S. Transportation Security Administration (TSA) screened 2.95 million airline passengers, the highest number ever recorded in a single day. And Airlines for America, a trade group representing major U.S. airlines, has estimated a 6.3 percent increase in fliers this summer over the last. While airports are certainly going to be more crowded, one carrier is trying to make the in-flight experience a little roomier for some lucky fliers.
Cruising is an efficient means of travel, allowing you to tick off multiple bucket-list destinations in one fell swoop. However, that means you might only spend about 8 hours in each port (although more and more cruises are staying in ports overnight.)
In a state where the journey is as often as absorbing as the destination, the temptation to draw up a challenging, action-packed Alaska itinerary is more than compelling. Routes here take in everything from Panhandle forests to frigid Arctic tundra.
Seattle-based Alaska Airlines serves complimentary hot meals to first-class cabin passengers on most flights more than 670 miles.
JetBlue and British Airways have submitted a codeshare agreement with the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT), hoping to make travel easier for fliers across the Atlantic.
Generation Z — people born between 1997 and 2012 — is a large market in the travel industry. Skift Research revealed in a January report that 75% of Gen Z travelers in the U.S., U.K., and Germany had taken two or more trips during the previous 12 months.
Finally, temperatures are rising, making it enjoyable to stroll through the sunny streets of Paris while visiting some galleries. At least, that’s what Vogue France suggests this May. From the first solo exhibition in France of American artist Gwen O'Neil to the unforgettable works of painter Marc Chagall, the editors of Vogue France have selected these as the must-see exhibitions in Paris (and elsewhere in France), presented in chronological order of their closing dates.
In the heart of Sonoma Plaza, amidst charming boutiques and welcoming tasting rooms offering the finest local wines, sits the El Dorado Hotel & Kitchen. In the hospitality world, luxury is continually redefined. It is no longer just about opulence or extravagance. True luxury lies in experiences that touch the soul, ambiance that exudes warmth, and service that anticipates every need. It is about creating memories that linger long after the visit ends. El Dorado in Sonoma, California, exemplifies this new standard by seamlessly blending elegance with comfort. Admittedly, when I first visited El Dorado six years ago I thought it was just a restaurant. But El Dorado is more than just a restaurant; it is a hotel that radiates charm, comfort, and unparalleled hospitality with direct access to many of the best wineries in Sonoma County.
Earning airline miles while paying rent is a win-win situation — and Bilt Rewards has officially expanded this benefit to Alaska Airlines cardholders.