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Ty Fitzmorris

casts a light on the shadows of winter P. 14

Jacy Lee does a lot of drugs P. 19

Prof. Werner Von Karmann

superly computes P. 20

Celebrating art & science in Greater Prescott

Alan Dean Foster

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rolls a stone but somehow manages to gather a flowerless plant that, despite the dryness, still grows in the desert.

Russ Chappell

discusses a post-cooperative gallery that’s finally finding it’s own distinct identity with Victoria Page. looks at now, now, fastforwards by rewinding and contemplates when then will be now. (Hint: Soon.)

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Jacy Lee

Kathleen Yetman

Prof. Werner Von Karmann

delves into spoken-word poetry, traumas, social satire, writing, the ’60s, and elementary particles.

remedies whatever ails you with a pharmacological cornucopia of cantankerous-taming tonic tankers.

finds out that falling off the turnip truck is far more dignified and healthful than you might think.

figures out the root of a problem by using some really, really, really, technologically advanced tools.

Alan Dean Foster

+ Flip Photo

conveys his thoughts on the future of transportation and is driven sane by self-driving computers-on-wheels.

A visually stimulating puzzle courteously catered by the Highlands Center for Natural History.

+ Left Brain/Right Brain

discusses the whole tooth and nothing but the tooth with dental technician Mitch Unrath.

Ty Fitzmorris

COVER: Natural tooth slices, backlit and cross-polarized. Photo

by Mitch Unrath. See Steven Ayres’s story on Page 11 for more.

Markoff Chaney

hears then spots a ground-feeding pip who sings for quite a bit more than its super year-round in Prescott.

Steven Ayres

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Discover events in and around Greater Prescott couched in a lively, admittedly antiquated brain metaphor.

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weathers the winter whether or not said winter weather is fully wintery, funkily wavers, or is woefully wimpy.

Smart, quirky comics about strangebut-true animals, inventions, events, and people by Russell Miller

Naturally hollowed human incisor. Photo by Mitch Unrath. See Page 11 for more.

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Plant of the Month

Moss Bryophytes. Photo by Mahieddine Boumendjel. Creative Commons 3.0.

By Mara Kack

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Nestled in the Lynx Lake Recreation Area, two minutes from Costco, The Highlands Center for Natural History invites you to experience the wonder of the Central Arizona Highlands.

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Shade is back with a twist, Children’s story time 1 PM; Adult presentation 2 PM

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in the forest after a rain, and you’ll find the emerald green of mosses.

They may seem out of place here in our dry southwest, but mosses are widely distributed from pole to pole and can be found in a variety of habitats. They are members of the most primitive group of plants, the Bryophytes (one of the two divisions of the plant kingdom).

Bryophytes, unlike other members of their kingdom, don’t have vascular systems for carrying water and nutrients. They don’t have true leaves, true stems, or true roots. Mosses are composed of hair-thin, substratehugging structures that grow in large masses. Locally our most common mosses form soft clusters found hidden on the north slopes, among branches of trees, and tucked in fallen leaves.

Lacking a vascular system, mosses cannot absorb water from the soil or air when moisture concentration is lower than their own structure. As such, mosses are only active when their surrounding environment provides proper moisture. In any season, when the moisture is right, mosses come out of dormancy to grow or complete their unique reproductive cycle.

Moss

life cycles are also unlike “higher” vascular plants. The hair-thin individuals that group to form

the vibrant green beds are actually haploid organisms. In all other organisms, including vascular plants and mammals, only sex cells are haploid — these join to generate the diploid organism. For reproduction in mosses, male and female sex cells, also haploid, are generated. Again, moisture is key, because the male sex cells have a motile, whip-like appendage, the flagellum that allows them to swim to meet their awaiting female cell. Once joined, the now diploid cell produces a long delicate stalk, topped with a balloon full of new haploid moss cells (spores) ready to be dispersed. When conditions dry, the balloon opens and the spores ride the wind to a new location.

Next time you see a moss, look closer — you now know they’re different. And those tiny stalks hold spores that will grow the next generation. ***** Mara Kack, education director at the Highlands Center for Natural History, grew up in Prescott surrounded by its natural wonder and now teaches through science and nature to inspire new wonder in current and future generations.

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Bird of the Month

Spotted Towhee

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Spotted Towhee. Photo by Russ Chappell.

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Spotted

Towhee are large, energetic, colorful sparrows with stocky bodies, fan-shaped tail, and thick beaks that are commonly found in shrubby habitats and thick underbrush, as well as backyards and feeders. The adult’s wingspan is more than 10 inches and they weigh close to 1-and-a-half ounces. The male displays a brilliant black head, throat, and back combined with rufous sides and a white belly, while the female’s markings are similar, save for a brownish color replacing the brilliant black of the male. Wings and backs are speckled with white markings and their bright red eyes are intense. In flight you’ll see white corners on their tails.

Ground feeders, Towhee generally hop along, scratching with both feet in a backward fashion to uncover seeds and small invertebrates, but may also climb into lower branches to feed on insects and fruits, or issue cat like calls, scolding, or communication with their mate.

During the spring breeding season, the male Spotted Towhee spends the majority of the morning singing to attract a mate, but once a mate is located, singing becomes less frequent and they, instead, focus on food.

The

female Towhee builds a nest with dry leaves, stems, and bark, lining it with grass, pine needles and hair. Nests are often located in a depression on the ground and are about 4-and-a-half inches across, although nests may be constructed as high as 12 feet in thick brush. Ground based nests are concealed with clumps of grass, built under shrubs, or possibly in a fallen log.

The female lays two to six eggs approximately 1 inch in length, with an incubation period of 12 or 13 days.

The chicks are born helpless and naked with small tufts of down and their eyes closed. Within 12 days, they leave the nest but cannot fly for another six days. In the interim, the mother will feign injury to draw predators away from her young.

A year-round Prescott resident, this is a beautiful and lively bird you can count on to bring entertainment to your backyard feeder — especially during the mating season. ***** Russ Chappell is a retired helicopter pilot and board member of the Prescott Audubon Society who manages the group’s website and enjoys photographing the numerous birds that visit his office bird feeder.

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It’s a Dark-eyed Junco or a Spotted Towhee!!

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many small songbirds may hop to the ground for one reason or another, it’s the Dark-eyed Junco and the Spotted Towhee that frequently leave signs in the snow as they search for seeds. Juncos are small sparrows that flit through the winter forest floor in flocks. The Spotted Towhee is a larger, more solitary sparrow that casually hops through low thickets stopping frequently to scratch for seeds and insects.

Photos by Mara Kack.

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“The Body Keeps the Score”

By Bessel van der Kolk Dr. van der Kolk presents a brilliant synthesis of decades of research into the effects of trauma. His conclusion, that trauma survivors are ill-served by a psychiatric model that offers a diagnosis for every symptom but makes little effort to identify or resolve the experiential sources of an individual’s distress, is resounding and irrefutable. Van der Kolk writes with passion, eloquence, and authority, most of all on the subject of trauma in children, and outlines thoroughly-researched alternative methods of treatment. Essential reading for health professionals and educators, “The Body Keeps the Score” deserves to be recognized as the definitive text on trauma for our time. — Reva “Welcome to Braggsville”

By T. Geronimo Johnson This provocative, wholly original satire couldn’t be more timely. When four Berkeley students travel to the south to stage a dramatic protest during a Civil War reenactment, friendships are tried and the town’s darkest secrets are uncovered. Poetic, ambi

tious, and resoundingly perceptive. — Michaela “A Muse and a Maze”

By Peter Turchi Beautifully illustrated, “A Muse and A Maze” delights as it demystifies the craft of writing, likening it to puzzles of all kinds. This has been my go-to book as I near the end of a first draft of my own book.

Pick it up and flip through the pages.

Turchi’s brilliance enables both writers and readers to glimpse the wizard behind the curtain. — Michaela “Slouching Towards Bethlehem”

By Joan Didion Short and sweet, these essays capture the unique time in which Didion places her focus: California during the sixties. Didion wastes no time with words and is always in control as she explores topics from John Wayne to Howard Hughes.

— Lacey “Higgs Discovery”

By Lisa Randall If you have ever wondered about physics or cosmology and thought that it’s just too difficult a subject for you to understand, then this book might be a good introduction for you. Randall walks you through the recent discovery of the Higgs boson, an elusive particle that just had to be there but was hard to pinpoint before now. Take the leap — learn some physics. You won’t be disappointed. — Jon

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Vegetable of the Month

Turnip Turnips. Photo by Kathleen Yetman.

By Kathleen Yetman

The

turnip (Brassica rapa) is a member of the mustard (Brassicaceae) family and is related to radishes, cauliflower, and cabbage. Tracing the history of turnips is difficult, however they are thought to have originated in middle to eastern Asia. The flesh of the root is white as is the skin except for the top, which is often purple, yellow, or green depending on exposure to the sun.

Like other root vegetables, turnips grow best in cool weather. Farmers in the Prescott area grow turnips year-round using season extension techniques like shade during the hottest part of the summer and row cover during the coldest part of the winter. Turnips harvested in the fall through spring will have the best crunch and mild taste. Turnips are a juicy and refreshing snack on hot days.

The

root and greens have been used as fodder for livestock for centuries.

Turnips mature quickly, are well adapted to many climates and have proven to be a valuable energy source for animals. Some farmers

also use turnips as cover crops — plants that protect and increase the biodiversity of the soil — because of their ability to aerate the soil, thus creating space for future plants, especially in heavy soils like clay.

Turnips are a good source of vitamin B6, folate, calcium, potassium, and copper, and a great source of vitamin C, dietary fiber, and manganese. Both the root and greens are enjoyed in culinary dishes all over the world. Pickled turnips are popular in Japan and Lebanon. In Turkey, turnips are added to a spiced carrot juice and served ice cold. There are as many ways of preparing turnips as there are cultures that eat them.

Turnips are fantastic either sliced or grated in salads and can be roasted, boiled, fermented, stewed, sautéed, mashed, used in a stir fry, and eaten raw like an apple. ***** Kathleen Yetman is the Managing Director of the Prescott Farmers Market and a native of Prescott.

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Left Brain: January’s mind-full events

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“Ancient of Astronomy of the Southwest” • 6 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 21: Prof. Bryan Bates, of Coconino Community College, discusses his research from Wupatki National Monument, Chaco Canyon, Mesa Verde National Parks, and other sites related to the Southwest's ancestral Puebloan people. A Third Thursday Star Talk via the Prescott Astronomy Club. (Prescott Public Library, 215 E. Goodwin St., 928-777-1500)

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Willow Lake bird walk • 8 a.m. Saturday, Jan. 23: Local, guided bird walk at Willow Lake with Eric Moore. (Jay’s Bird Barn, No. 113, 1046 Willow Creek Road, 928-443-5900, RSVP)

MLK Day march • 10 a.m. march, 10:30 a.m. ceremony Monday, Jan. 18: March and ceremony honoring Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (Start: Prescott College Welcome Center Parking Lot, 220 Grove Ave.; Finish: Prescott United Methodist Church, 505 W. Gurley St.) IMAGE: Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. graphic. Courtesy image.

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“Observational Drawing” • 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 6: Robert Esson discusses the art of drawing and sketching astronomical observations. (Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Building 74 Lecture Hall 107)

“Arizona Ghost Towns” • 5 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 7: Historian Marshall Shore discusses boom-to-bust and tourist destination ghost towns like Jerome, Crown King, Two Guns, and more. An Arizona Humanities Lecture Series event. (Prescott Public Library, 215 E. Goodwin St., 928-7771500) Fain Park bird walk • 8 a.m. Friday, Jan. 8: Local, guided bird walk at Fain Park with Micah Riegner. (Jay’s Bird Barn, No. 113, 1046 Willow Creek Road, 928-443-5900, RSVP) “Azetcs in Arizona, then and … now?!

Reflections of a Modern-day Azetec Warrior” • 1 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 9: Alberto Olivas discuses Azetc history in Arizona. (Phippen Museum, 4701 Arizona 89, 928-778-1385, $5-$7)

Shade the Raven • 1 p.m. children, 2 p.m. adults Saturday, Jan. 9: Shade the Raven and her keeper, Emily Cory. Children's program includes “Shade: A Story About a very Smart Raven,” read by the author, Diane Phelps Budden. Adult's program includes a presentation of Cory's research. (Highlands Center for Natural History, 1375 S. Walker Road, 928-776-9550, $5 per program, RSVP) “Arizona on Stage” • 2 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 9: Theater historian Tom Collins discusses three great actresses who wowed audiences in the Arizona Territory: the notorious burlesque songstress Pauline Markham, the scandalous stage beauty (Mary) Jeff reys-Lewis, and “the world's greatest actress” and quixotic celebrity Sarah Bernhardt. (Peregrine Book Co., 219A N. Cortez St., 928-445-9000)

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“The Historical Development of Modern Geology” • 5:30 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 12: John Hughes discusses the historical development of modern geology. A monthly Central Arizona Geology Club meeting. (Prescott Public Library, 215 E. Goodwin St., 928-777-1500) “Death Cafe” • 5:30 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 14: People, often strangers, gather to eat cake, drink tea, and discuss death with the objective “to increase awareness of death with a view to help people make the most of their (finite) lives.” (Peregrine Book Co., 219A N. Cortez St., 928-445-9000) “Shooting Birds: The Modern Naturalist Approach” • 7 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 14: Photographerbirder-librarian Rich Lewis discusses how birding and photography can intersect the life of a naturalist. (Prescott College Natural History Institute, 312 Grove Ave., 928-350-2280)

“Prescott Weather” • 1 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 23: Dr. Mark Sinclair, program chair of Applied Meteorology at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, discusses the climate history of Prescott and our current El Niño winter. (Phippen Museum, 4701 Arizona 89, 928-778-1385, $5-$7)

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“War & Memories” • 2 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 30: Vietnam veteran Gary Clemmons discusses his book and personal battle with Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder. (Peregrine Book Co., 219A N. Cortez St., 928-445-9000)

Multi-day Prescott Area Boardgamers • 5 p.m. Wednesdays, Jan. 6 & 20: Play European-style board games. (Prescott Public Library, 215 E. Goodwin St., 928-777-1500) Solar Education Party • Noon Fridays, Jan. 9 & 16, 11 a.m. Jan. 23: Learn politics and solar saving options. (Call for location and more info, 928-227-2146)

Prescott Orchid Society • 1 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 24: Monthly Prescott Orchid Society meeting. (Prescott Public Library, 215 E. Goodwin St., 928-778-6324)

“Free Sunday Cinemas” • 1:30 p.m. Sundays, Jan. 17, 24, & 31: “Life in the Undergrowth: Supersocieties,” by David Attenborough, “Africa: Eye to Eye with the Unknown,” “Congo,” and “Dirt! The Movie,” plus raffles. (Highlands Center for Natural History, 1375 S. Walker Road, 928-776-9550)

Williamson Valley Trail bird walk • 8 a.m. Friday, Jan. 28: Local, guided bird walk at Williamson Valley Trail with Ryan Crouse. (Jay’s Bird Barn, No. 113, 1046 Willow Creek Road, 928-443-5900, RSVP)

Winter Prescott Farmers Market • 10 a.m. Saturdays: Enjoy local organic produce and goods from local farmers. (Yavapai Regional Medical Center parking lot, 930 Division St., PrescottFarmersMarket.Org)

“Insights to the Outdoors: Adventures Astronomy” • 6:30 p.m. Friday, Jan. 29: Brian Dewelles discusses the planets, stars, and constellations through his mobile planetarium, plus real night skies telescope viewing. (Highlands Center for Natural History, 1375 S. Walker Road, 928-776-9550)

Drop in chess • 2 p.m. Saturdays: Play chess, all ages and skill levels welcome. (Prescott Public Library, 215 E. Goodwin St., 928-777-1500)

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Prescott Public Library vieweries • January: Library viewerie from Thumb Butte Quilters. (Prescott Public Library, 215 E. Goodwin St., 928-777-1500)

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Granite Basin bird walk • 8 a.m. Friday, Jan. 15: Local, guided bird walk at Granite Basin with Bonnie Pranter.

(Jay’s Bird Barn, No. 113, 1046 Willow Creek Road, 928-443-5900, RSVP)

“Arctic Dreams” • 9:30 a.m. Friday, Jan. 15: Discuss Barry Lopez's “Arctic Dreams,” a work about imagination and desire in a northern landscape. A monthly Natural History Book Club meeting. (Prescott College Natural History Institute, 312 Grove Ave., 928-3502280)

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“The Art of Brewing Your Own Kombucha” • 9 a.m. Saturday, Jan. 16: Learn the whys, how-tos, and benefits of this DIY ancient elixir. (One Root Tea, 500 W. Gurley St., 928-221-2533, $25, RSVP)

“Underground Prescott” • 1 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 16: Patricia Ireland Williams discusses Prescott's catacombs, tunnels, speakeasys, opium dens, and bordellos. (Phippen Museum, 4701 Arizona 89, 928-778-1385, $5-$7)

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“Explorers of the Amazon” • 7 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 28: Micah Riegner discusses the history of ornithological exploration in the Amazon. A monthly Prescott Audubon meeting. (Trinity Presbyterian Church, 630 Park Ave., PrescottAudubon.Org) PHOTO: Micah Riegner. Photo by Mark Riegner, his dad. Find out more about Riegner's upcoming Central Amazon bird and mammal tour, June 1-14, 2016, via the “Amazon!” link at PrescottAudubon.Org.

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Poetry Discussion Group • 1 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 6: Poetry lovers gather and discuss poetry in an informal setting with copies provided by facilitators.

(Prescott Public Library, 215 E. Goodwin St., 928-777-1500)

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hop swing, flamenco, and Latin dance.

(Flying Nest Movement Arts, 322 W. Gurley St., 928-432-3068, prices vary) Mindfulness meditation • 7 p.m. Tuesdays: Meditation group open to people of all faiths and non-faiths.

(First Congregational Church, 216 E. Gurley St., PrescottVipassana.Org) Performance dance/movement arts classes • Wednesdays & Thursdays: Learn contemporary dance, movement for life, and normative movement. (Flying Nest Movement Arts, 322 W. Gurley St., 928-432-3068, prices vary)

“Where Are You?” • 3 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 6: Learn how place and time exert powerful influence on plot and characters and set the atmosphere that permeates a story. A Writing Workshop event. (Prescott Public Library, 215 E. Goodwin St., 928-777-1500, RSVP)

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“Saturday Day Night Talk” series • 7 p.m. Saturdays: Weekly talk series including “Learning How to Learn on the Path of Self-Knowledge,” “Only Praise,” “The Year of Living Dangerously,” “Leading Life with a Broken Heart,” and more. (Vigraha Gallery, 115 E. Goodwin St., 928-771-0205. $5).

“Treasure Island” • 6 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 7: Via satellite, The National Theatre Live’s presentation of Bryony Lavery’s take on Robert Louis Stevenson’s story of murder, money, and mutiny.

(Yavapai College Performing Arts Center, 1100 E. Sheldon St., 928-776-2000, $9-$15)

Art

“The Housekeeper” • 1 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 9: An unlikely relationship develops after the death a selfstyled literary artist’s aged and domineering mother in this comedy. (Prescott Valley Library, 7401 E. Civic Circle, 928-759-3040)

“Colors of the West” • From Jan. 1: New art show featuring colors of the West. (Mountain Artists Guild & Gallery, 228 Alarcon St., 928-445-2510)

“The Housekeeper” • 3 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 10: Ditto for the Jan. 9 show. (Chino Valley Senior Center, 1021 W. Butterfield Road, 928-636-9114)

“Visions of Silence” • From Jan. 4: Images that prove silence can be more than serenity or calm.

(Prescott Center for the Arts Gallery, 208 N. Marina St., 928-445-3286)

Open Mic Poetry Jam • 7 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 13: Monthly poetry jam presented by Decipherers Synonymous.

(The Beastro, indoors, 117 N. McCormick St., 971-340-6970)

“Select Works” • From Jan. 5: Photography by Margaret Wright and contemporary sculpture and installations by Joe Dal Pra. (Yavapai College Prescott Art Gallery, 1100 E. Sheldon St., 928-776-2031)

“Les Pêcheurs de Perles” • 10:55 a.m. Saturday, Jan. 16: Via satellite, The Metropolitan Opera’s presentation of Georges Bizet’s opera of lust and longing set in the Far East. (Yavapai College Performing Arts Center, 1100 E. Sheldon St., 928-7762000, $20-$24) “The Lady of Camellias” • 6 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 19: Via satellite, The Bolshoi Ballet’s presentation of John Neumeier’s tragic masterpiece. (Yavapai College Performing Arts Center, 1100 E. Sheldon St., 928-776-2000, $9-$15)

4th Friday Art Walk • 5 p.m. Friday, Jan. 22: Monthly art walk including more than 18 galleries, artist receptions, openings, and demonstrations.

(ArtThe4th.Com)

Contra Dance • 7 p.m. lesson, 7:30 p.m. dance Saturday, Jan. 23: Contra dancing. Via Folk Happens.

Calls by Archie Maclellan, music by Chupacabras. (First Congregation Church, 216 E. Gurley St., 928-925-5210, $4-$8) Open mic poetry • 5:30 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 27: Poet Dan Seaman emcees monthly open mic poetry.

(Peregrine Book Co., 219A N. Cortez St., 928-445-9000)

“Turnadot” • 10:55 a.m. Saturday, Jan. 30: Via satellite, The Metropolitan Opera’s presentation of Giacomo Puccini and Franco Alfano’s story about a proud princess of legendary China. (Yavapai College Performing Arts Center, 1100 E. Sheldon St., 928-776-2000, $20-$24)

Ashley Darling Design showcase • Jan. 22-Feb. 22: One-of-a-kind wearable art by Ashley Darling that “welcomes a fairy tale kind of magic into our modern day ordinary life,” in various styles and colors, including coats crafted from super soft sweaters, luxurious scarfs, vintage findings, lace, and cuddly blankets. Show opening co-insides with the 4th Friday art walk. (Thumb Butte Distillery, 400 N. Washington Ave., 928-443-8498) PHOTO: “Vintage White Elf Couture.” Coat by Ashley Darling.

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Multi-day Creative writers group • Noon Tuesdays, Jan. 5 & 19: Writing, sharing, and discussion. (Prescott Public Library, 215 E. Goodwin St., 928-777-1500) “The Housekeeper” • 7 p.m. Jan. 7-9: An unlikely relationship develops after the death a self-styled literary artist’s aged and domineering mother in this comedy. (Stage Too, North Cortez Street alley between Willis and Sheldon streets, 928-445-3286) Winterscapes • 9 a.m. Jan. 19, 21, 26, & 28: Capture the Arizona Highlands winter landscapes in colored pencil. (Highlands Center for Natural History, 1375 S. Walker Road, 928-776-9550, $88)

“Vanya & Sonia & Masha & Spike” • 7:30 p.m. Jan. 21, 23, 24, & 28-30; 2 p.m.

Jan. 25, 30, & 31: Witness a weekend of rivalry, regret, and raucousness when Vanya and his adopted sister Sonia’s quiet life is interrupted by their movie sister, Masha, and her 20-something boy toy, Spike, in this comedy. Directed by Catherine Miller Hahn. (Prescott Center for the Arts, 208 N. Marina St., 928-445-3286, $18-$22) Yoga classes • Mondays, Tuesdays, & Thursdays: Yoga classes including Ayurveda, over-50, mindful, and dynamic flow yoga. (Flying Nest Movement Arts, 322 W. Gurley St., 928-4323068, prices vary) Social dance classes • Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays, Fridays, & Sundays: Learn the Argentine tango, WestCoast swing, tribal belly dance, Lindy

’Tis Art Academy children’s art exhibit • Through Jan. 14: Art created by more than 90 children, ages 4-15, from fall art classes at ’Tis taught by Melody McConaughy, Susan Lutz, Rebecca Knows the Ground [sic], And Elynn Colaianni. (’Tis Art Center & Gallery, 105 S. Cortez St., 928-775-0223) “Workshop Wonders” • From Jan. 14: Art by instructors of the “Workshop Wonders” classes.

(Mountain Artists Guild & Gallery, 228 Alarcon St., 928-445-2510) “Little Treasures” • From Jan. 15: Art by the finest artists of the SWAA featuring works by Maureen Anderson, Bonnie Casey, Barbara Clatlin, Elisa Drachenberg, Doug Miley, Lilly Miley, Pum Rote, Deborah Salazar, Joe Tomasic, and Linda Umphrey. (’Tis Art Center & Gallery, 105 S. Cortez St., 928-775-0223) “The Eyes Have It” • Through Jan. 19: Annual winter photography show. (’Tis Art Center & Gallery, 105 S. Cortez St., 928-775-0223) Yavapai College watercolors • Through Jan. 21: Yavapai College watercolor class show. (Arts Prescott Gallery, 134 S. Montezuma St., 928-776-7717) “A Piece & a Poem” • From Jan. 21: Annual show featuring pictures and words. (’Tis Art Center & Gallery, 105 S. Cortez St., 928-775-0223) Sullivan & Morrow • From Jan. 22: Gourds and mosaics by Margaret Sullivan and Vickie Morrow.

(Arts Prescott Gallery, 134 S. Montezuma St., 928-776-7717)

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Alan Dean Foster’s

Perceivings

By Alan Dean Foster The first car I ever owned was a 1969 Corvette maroon coupe with removable hardtop, modest 350 engine, and gleaming factory side pipes. It was a thing of beauty and hopefully today, owned by someone else, remains a thing of beauty.

While everyone I knew was buying their first car (or second, or third), I diligently squirreled away what money I could accumulate all through high school, college, and even graduate school. My intent when I had enough money was to try and buy a used Mercury Cougar, but Fate and the L.A. Times classified section intervened.

In the “used cars for sale” ads in the newspaper (some of you may remember when used cars were more commonly sold this way … some of you may remember newspapers), “Cougar” came in alphabetically just above “Corvette.”

It was one year old and $2,000 … a good buy even back then. A good buy because the kid who owned it had accumulated so many speeding tickets that the judge in his traffic court case gave him a choice: get rid of the ‘vette and buy a VW bug, or have his driver’s license suspended.

Scarcely believing my luck, I got there in time with the two grand, and low and behold, for many, many years I drove a car as flashy as most in L.A. I’ll never own another one.

Rise of the pod people How to drive people sane(ly)

Oh, my next car will likely also be electric, but I won’t be driving it. Because we are on the cusp of the biggest revolution in personal transportation since the horse-and-buggy gave way to the first progenitors of that aforementioned Corvette.

Just as electric cars stand on the verge of replacing those powered by petrol, so the ordinary automobile is about to be rendered obsolete by the self-driving people mover.

If you’ve seen Google’s prototype autonomous vehicle then you know it looks more like a toy than a “real” car. It’s tiny, and pudgy as a pug, and has all the curb appeal of a beach ball with doors.

You might as well set a Mercedes Smart car beside a Lamborghini. The folks at Google couldn’t care less, as could those at Tesla, Mercedes, and (probably) Apple. These companies have this entirely new vision of what a car should be. Instead of something fast, heavy, and able to leap tall buildings in a single bound, the engineers and designers working on the autonomous vehicle see it as … an appliance.

What a radical notion. Just as a refrigerator is designed to keep food cold, and a range is intended to cook it, and a telephone is intended to put people in touch with one another, so the self-driving car will be built to do one thing: convey people from one place to another as efficiently and with as little effort as possible on the part of its users.

Traditional

tirely. They’ll still be present at races, and for a while at least, allowed to share the roadways with their newfangled autonomous offspring. But for the great bulk

vehicles won’t disappear en-

I

like sharp cars as much as the next guy, but my eyes aren’t what they used to be and when it comes to reaction time, I’m willing to surrender my options to the next generation of self-driving computers-on-wheels. They’ll react faster and will make better driving decisions than any human.

Maybe I’ll finally be able to catch up on my reading.

Currently

(pun intended, I suppose) I drive a 2-year-old electric car, which due to inflation cost me rather more than a couple of grand, and I’m delighted with it. It’s everything they say it is.

With luck, I’ll never own another one.

of the traveling public, a self-driving vehicle will become the overwhelming choice.

Envision it. You step into your transport and settle down in a comfortable seat that can be as padded as your favorite easy chair. It can swivel as you like, to face any direction. You punch in or give by voice command directions to your destination. Then you settle back and wait to get there.

Along the way you might lose yourself in the scenery. You can text or talk on the phone without fear of breaking the soon-to-be archaic laws against such methods of communication. Mothers will no longer have to make a succession of near-instantaneous choices between watching the road ahead and dealing with rambunctious children.

On your way to work you can busy yourself on the internet or on your laptop or pad … or make a demonstration piece out of Legos. Missed breakfast? No problem. Just heat it in the vehicle’s compact built-in microwave that’s powered by the same battery system that propels the car, then sit back and smell the coffee. On long drives, watch a movie with the rest of the family.

Sight-impaired? No longer a problem. You a senior who is no longer able to qualify for that antique piece of plastic called a “driver’s license”?

Your freedom of movement is now fully restored.

Pizza franchise owner? No need to hire a driver: Just give your much smaller and cheaper to operate autonomous delivery vehicle a destination (unless you provide drone delivery service, which is faster still). Like to have a drink or two with the gang? No more worries. Computers don’t have to take breathalyzer tests.

Bad weather? No more squinting to see through driving rain, snow, or sleet, and if conditions are too dangerous for driving, your transport will slow or stop accordingly until it is once again safe to proceed at speed.

Or … just take a nap.

Elements out of All-Free-Download.

Com. Fair Use. Illustration by 5enses.

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***** Alan Dean Foster is author of more than 120 books, visitor to more than 100 countries, and still frustrated by the human species. Follow him at AlanDeanFoster.Com.

Likenesses The art of Mitch Unrath

“I want to make real teeth.”

Complete molar in porcelain and acrylic. Photo by Mitch Unrath.

By Steven Ayres

The craftsman

at his bench, bent over his work, honing its fine details, thickly surrounded by tools of his trade passed down to him from generations past — he’s an archetype in our culture, representing the relentless pursuit of artistic vision embedded in deep tradition. He might be a Swiss clockmaker of the 1850s, intently

focused on the bits of metal in his hands, working through the night in dim tallow light, heedless of time and somehow outside it. But this woodland crofter’s cottage, thatched in pine needles, is just a few blocks from the courthouse square in Prescott. And it’s full of teeth.

“It all started with my great-grandfather.”

Mitch Unrath crouches in a rolling desk chair, masked in a magnifying loupe, bent closely over the little chip of whiteness in his left hand as

he sculpts it with a tiny bur spinning silently at 18,000 rpm, teasing out the perfect shape within.

His bench is cluttered with dental casts, the walls and surfaces of the room crowded with antique tooth samples, ancient electrical machines, 19thcentury furniture and a glass case with a collection of museum-quality animal and human skulls.

Always at his feet is Cody, the sort of whip-smart, high-energy dog who really needs a job. A TV blares random noise off to one side, but he only glances up to scan the pictures of his patient’s face and teeth on his computer monitor.

A family legacy Mitch is an artist and craftsman of the oldest school, plying the trade and building on the legacy of three generations of his German forebears.

But it’s not a craft people generally hold in high esteem or even think much about. From outside it seems mundane, colorless, utilitarian: “dental technician.”

Mitch recalls that early in his career it seemed much that way to him, too.

“I was just working, working, working, making teeth. Then I met some people who really loved doing it” — world-class technicians exploring the edges of the technology — “and I said, ‘wow, I should do that!’

“I picked it up on my grandpa’s knee, helping him in his practice” from a very early age. “So, I’ve been in this business pretty much since I was born.”

Attracted to the cowboy fantasies he’d loved in books as a child, technician Frank Unrath left Germany in the ’50s to work at St. Joseph’s Hospital in Phoenix and married a pretty nurse called Kitty, who gave him two kids. The family soon returned to Germany so Frank could help in his father Robert’s dental practice, and Mitch quickly grew close to his grandfather. “We always hung out together,” Mitch says.

Robert’s father and grandfather were master woodcarvers, and his stepmother was a dentist too. Mitch breathed the work in almost as genetic destiny, tightly alloyed with his lifelong love of painting and sculpture.

After formal training at the Hoppenlauer school in Stuttgart, Mitch worked through his two-year military obligation running his own dental lab. But the visits to his uncle Egon’s Sedona ranch drew him back to our more open skies in the early ’80s.

Places & plying Phoenix was too hot, and looking northward for opportunity, Mitch landed a job as the in-house technician for Dr. Paul Hicks in Prescott. The people were nice and the position comfortable enough. But over a few years his artistic bent and Teutonic devotion to quality began to nag at him.

“Dentists are under a lot of pressure. They have to pay big bucks for the materials and equipment” — legally required in the U.S., but not so much

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... FROM PAGE 11 elsewhere — “and this is what’s causing everyone to go make their stuff in China.”

In the daily routine of a dental practice, speed is important to making the numbers work. Price matters a lot to Americans, and here the lure of cheap Mexican dentistry is especially strong. “You can go to Mexico and get expensive dental work by people who really know what they’re doing too,” Mitch points out. But economy rules the business, even in Europe, he says, “where the best artists are still working.”

One day he took some scrap materials and set out to make a tooth that looked truly real.

“I was tired of ‘fast,’” he says, and wanted to see what slow, careful diligence could produce.

He turned out four teeth that seem freshly pulled from someone’s mouth, with complete roots, nerve passages, and the fine cracks, stains and discolorations that signal life.

He took the teeth to a trade show where the company that made the materials was exhibiting. He pulled them from his pocket, and soon other visitors were crowding in to ask questions. Behind him the exhibit staff beamed as the afternoon went by.

They’d sold three times their target for the day. “The reactions were really good,” he says. On seeing the

work, “dentists would go really quiet,” Mitch says, and murmur, “’you need to raise your prices.’”

But money wasn’t the thing. “I never thought of it as a business, more a really cool personal challenge,” he says. “From that day on, I started making coollooking crowns and getting better at it.

“I want to make natural teeth. I knew I had the artistic ability, but it was a matter of seeing what others could do that was natural-looking.”

For tips he sought out leading technicians with similar ambition, those who meet the rarefied needs of the top five percent of the market worldwide. On that he built his own techniques through experiment and practice.

“Once you study natural teeth, you’re in a whole different world,” he says.

Creating teeth and dentures was once a standard part of every practice, but today’s programs no longer train dentists in the technician’s art. The technical schools are disappearing as the industry refocuses on China, automation, standardization and quality that’s just good enough to sell. “We’re a dying dinosaur breed here.”

Better than ‘perfect’ Mitch began showing the work to potential dentist clients. Most, he says, “thought about higher profits”

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first, but a few got with the program and signed on.

Where Americans are drawn to the ideal of “perfect teeth,” Europeans prefer the deeper character of the natural smile, with all its apparent faults. “I grew up with teeth, so I really don’t know how most people think teeth should look,” Mitch says. “Shapes can make people look more youthful if they’re done right. That’s what people should look for, not white and straight.”

“I got to the point where a lot of (industry) people couldn’t see what I was doing, so I didn’t argue, I just moved away from them.” A lot of the trick is “who you choose to work with. You have to be picky and choose the right dentists.

“Then I raised my prices, mostly to afford the higher-end European equipment.”

Mitch’s expensive German kiln, for example, produces a superior translucency in porcelain that he says “let me really see what I was building in.”

“I do a lot of showcase pieces” to demonstrate what’s possible, and the best dentists appreciate the quality, he says. “I tell all my doctors, ‘don’t use me for everything,’” only the jobs where the fine detail really matters.

“A good technician can make a bad dentist look good and a good dentist even better. It happens a

lot,” he says. But, “You need both a technician and a dentist to make a really good case.”

A decade ago, Mitch began moving away from porcelain and metals, committing to harder and more durable zirconia as the new state of the art.

First he builds up a shape model in light-cured acrylic, much like a bronze sculptor’s clay, carefully fitting it to the cast of the patient’s mouth and teeth.

He transfers the model to a high-tech Italian pantograph and painstakingly copies it into a chalky block of half-sintered zirconia from Europe, scaling it up from the model to prepare for precisely 20 percent shrinkage during the 12-hour final firing.

“Now it’s all computers, computers, computers,” he grouses.

“I used CAD/CAM for several years, now I’m back to manual. I’ve still got that stuff out in the shed.” Computer control is great for speed and repeatability, Mitch says, but it’s necessarily short on very fine detail.

Likeness & legacy Like porcelain, the sintered zirconia is perfectly white. After final hand-shaping it moves to another bench, brightly lit by a tree-filtered south window, a set of overhead fluorescent tubes, and a four-lobed Victorian dentist’s exam lamp. This is where the

magic happens.

His deep interest in the anatomy of teeth led him Using special ceramic stains, tiny cotton swabs to art photography and the images on this page. and ultra-fine brushes, Mitch begins layering color Whatever the activity, “Once I’m in the zone, I’m onto the tooth, modeling on high-def photos of the really at it,” he says, and deep-diving all-nighters are patient’s other teeth, tickling in the highlights and not uncommon. bluish lows that evoke translucency and the life He often gives technical workshops at universibeneath. He gently brushes a nearly imperceptible ties and large labs around the world, including four blue line as the basis for a subtle enamel crack, foltrips to Australia. Recently, he acquired another lowing up with a teahouse in the neighborcolored stain as definihood and furnished it tion. On completing each with antiques as a live-in “Once you study real teeth, you’re color stage he pops it teaching facility for a few into a special computerstudents. in a whole different world.“ controlled kiln to perma“A lot of techs out there nently fix the dye. The would like to do this kind CLOCKWISE FROM TOP LEFT: results are uncanny. of work,” he said, but the The color complete, time and cost pressures A selection of skulls from Mitch Mitch takes it back to the of production dentistry Unrath’s lab; casts of good teeth carving bench for final make it hard to get above fitting and careful polishstandard, and there are for study; Mitch Unrath’s first ing. few teachers in that realm. attempts at real-looking teeth; “Since I got to that “My job is about art,” “Balance,” a tooth scan by Mitch point (of understandMitch says. “Even if I ing what the work could won the lottery I’d still be Unrath; Mitch Unrath. be), I have a hard time doing this, maybe not as All photos by Mitch Unrath except not doing it. When I try much. to do it fast, I get re“My dad still does it. the first two, by Steven Ayers. ally frustrated, and I tell My grandpa did it right to them I need a little more the end. I’ll be doing it as time. I can always make long as I can.” a tooth look better. I have to tell myself to stop at a point that’s not 110 percent for me. I never really ***** know when to quit.” But everyone has to step back You can often find Mitch Unrath and Cody hanging sometimes. “I have to have fun with what I do,” he at The Local, or call the lab at 928-776-8818. says, and while he loves travel and the outdoors, he doesn’t think of those pursuits first. “When I need Steven Ayres edits for news and corporate puba break, I get into my antique clocks, woodcarving, lications in Japan and makes music and radio in stained glass, I might even carve a tooth for fun.”

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News From the Wilds Weather Average high temperature: 50.9 F (+/-4.4) Average low temperature: 21.1 F (+/-4.3) Record high temperature: 73 F (Jan. 5, 1927) Record low temperature: -21 F (Jan. 22, 1937) Average precipitation: 1.73” (+/-1.73”) Record high precipitation: 7.79” (1916) Record high snowfall: 53” (1967) Record low precipitation: 0” (5.3 percent of years on record) Max daily precipitation: 2.97” (Jan. 22, 2010) long the rivers and creeks flow and the length of our spring bloom, this could indicate that we might have a vibrant, fertile spring and summer.

Northern Goshawks, one of the rarest North American hawks, visit our region briefly now before migrating back north. Photo by Ty Fitzmorris.

By Ty Fitzmorris

January

in the Mogollon Highlands is when the long quiet of winter reaches its coldest and snowiest, as storms bluster and howl, pushing plants and animals to the limits of their strength. The frigid days, however, are often interspersed with sunny, cold days that skitter with bursts of bird and mammal activity.

Every plant and animal has a set of strategies for making it through this time of scant resources and dangerous temperatures — pregnant female Black Bears hibernate in underground dens; Bobcats, Coyotes, and deer grow thicker coats and subtly re-route blood flow away from their skin and extremities; and ground squirrels, chipmunks, and Beavers settle into the well-stocked dens that they’ve been provisioning for months. Insects and herbaceous plants have evolved so that only their eggs and seeds overwinter, while

trees decrease photosynthesis either by dropping leaves or by insulating them with thicker coatings and alter their chemistry by increasing lipid content and membrane permeability to decrease risk of frost damage. In many cases these adaptations, both physiological and behavioral, are remarkably complex.

But the glimmers of the coming spring continue as well. Some animals are “planting their seeds” for the coming year, including the Black Bears and River Otters, both of whom are giving birth. Many of our wind-pollinated trees are in flower, during this time when the broad leaves of deciduous trees have been dropped, and this allows wind-bourn pollen to reach further without as many obstacles. Unfortunately, the many species of juniper in our area are among this group, making the next several months the peak allergy season for humans (and some other animals) in the Mogollon Highlands.

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This

winter, our weather patterns continue to be strongly affected by the nowmature El Niño climate pattern that has formed in the equatorial Pacific Ocean. This weather pattern has already caused substantial climatic variation for all of North America — heavy snowfall in the Pacific Northwest, warm temperatures in the Northeast, and a increasing amount of rain and snow here in the Mogollon Highlands of Arizona. October and November 2015 both brought heavier than average precipitation due to El Niño, together amounting to 24 percent of the year’s total, making up for a weak monsoon.

Many forecasters are predicting that this El Niño will be among the three strongest on record, and for our region the consensus is that this will likely mean much more snow than normal (the National Weather Service predicts a 50 percent increase!), and given that our snowpack is disproportionately predictive of how

January,

with its snowfalls and floods, is one of the best times of the year to study the activity of mammals by examining their tracks in fresh snow and clean riverine sand. Not only does this season present us with the best tracking substrates, but mammals are particularly active during the breaks between storms, searching actively for food, so a small area of pristine snow or mud can yield amazing tracks and fascinating stories. Look especially for intersecting trails of different animals, and signs of predators tracking prey. We are lucky to live in a part of North America where activity in the wilds never goes completely silent, and the stories of our animal neighbors are abundant. ***** Ty Fitzmorris is an itinerant and often distractible naturalist who lives in Prescott and is proprietor of the Peregrine Book Company, Raven Café, Gray Dog Guitars, and is cofounder of Milagro Arts, a community arts nexus, all as a sideline to his natural history pursuits. He can be reached at Ty@PeregrineBook Company.Com.

News From the Wilds, too A very brief survey of what’s happening in the wilds ...

Skyward

By Ty Fitzmorris High mountains • Snow covers the high mountains and melts slowly, trickling through the soil to recharge large underground lakes called aquifers. Aquifers recharge at extraordinarily slow rates, however, and typically only from this type of gradual melting.

Snow will cling to the north sides of the mountains for many months, feeding our rivers and aquifers through the spring.

• Black Bears give birth, usually to two blind cubs. The cubs will stay in dens with their mother for several more months, and forage with her through the next year before establishing territories of their own.

Visit: Spruce Mountain Loop, Trail No. 307.

Ponderosa Pine forests • Groups up to 200-strong of adolescent and nonbreeding Ravens forage together in the backcountry. Ravens are unusual among the birds in that they form clear dominance hierarchies and sometimes even hunt in packs with both other Ravens and other species, prompting Bernd Heinrich, a prominent Raven researcher, to label them “wolf birds.”

• Great Horned Owls finish nest building and lay eggs.

• Northern Goshawks, the rarest in North America of their group of hawks (the Accipitridae), stop over in our region for barely over a month before heading back to the north.

These larger cousins to the Cooper’s Hawk are generally denizens of the deep wilds, but can be seen across our region during this time.

• Ponderosas continue “weeping” excess water out of their branch-tips.

This cold-adaptation reduces the risk of dangerous ice-crystal formation in the tree’s tissue, creating a gentle “rain” of tiny droplets of sap.

Visit: Schoolhouse Gulch Trail, No. 67.

Pine-Oak woodlands • Williamson’s Sapsuckers begin their migration to their summering grounds to the north. These woodpeckers make

January days are often sunny and clear, though plants remain largely quiescent. Photo by Ty Fitzmorris. holes in the bark of Ponderosa Pines and other conifers, and wait for insects, mainly ants, to be drawn to the sap. Many species of overwintering insects, such as the Mourning Cloak Butterfly (Nymphalis antiopa), rely on these “sap-wells” during the coldest months for crucial nourishment.

• Javelina conclude their mating season, which began in late November.

Visit:Little Granite Mountain Trail, No. 37.

Pinyon-Juniper woodlands • Bobcats begin their mating season.

• Our many species of juniper begin their flowering now, aggravating the allergies of humans and nonhumans alike.

• Gray Fox begin their mating season, which will last until March.

Visit: Tin Trough Trail, No. 308.

Grasslands • Mixed-species flocks of sparrows, including Brewer’s, Sage, Lincoln’s, Chipping, Savannah, White-crowned, and Black-throated, forage together for grass seeds and insect eggs, larvae and pupae. Over the next two to three months some of these species begin their migration back to their summer breeding grounds to the north, some migrating as far as Alaska.

Visit: Mint Wash Trail, No. 345.

Riparian areas • River Otters give birth in riverside dens, while Beavers begin their mating season nestled in their lodges.

• Arizona Alders (Alnus oblongifolia) begin flowering. These beautiful trees don’t typically cause allergies, though they may slightly exacerbate those caused by junipers. Notice that the Alders bear two different designs of flower — small, round, cone-like growths and long, pendant droops.

The cones are the female flowers, which capture the pollen from the long male flowers. Some types of cone actually manipulate air currents around them, pulling pollen inward in small whirling vortexes, and this is more easily accomplished when other trees don’t have leaves to get in the way of the wind-born pollen.

• January’s storms knock migrating waterfowl from the sky, and they will often settle in lakes to wait for clearer weather. Exotic species brought into our area in this way include Tundra Swan, Ross’s Goose, Blue Goose, Snow Goose, Common Loon, and, extremely rarely, the small, uncommon Brant and the larger Greater White-fronted Goose.

Visit: Sycamore Basin Trail in Sycamore Canyon Wilderness, USFS Trail No. 63.

• Jan. 3: The Quadrantid Meteor Shower is at its peak after midnight. This mild-mannered shower will be somewhat washed out by the third quarter Moon, but the brightest meteors should be visible. The Quadrantids can produce up to 40 meteors per hour appearing to radiate from the constellation Bootes.

• Jan. 9: New Moon at 6:30 p.m.

• Jan. 23: Full Moon at 6:46 p.m.

• Astronomical highlight: The brightest stars in the night sky are visible in winter and are not only a beautiful sight, but are the easiest to learn the names of. The totem of winter stars is the constellation Orion, which contains two of the sky’s brightest stars, Rigel and Betelgeuse.

Orion is followed through the sky by his hunting dogs, Canis Major, whose brightest star, Sirius, is the single brightest star visible from Earth, and Canis Minor, whose brightest, Procyon, is the seventh brightest. Look also for Capella (in Auriga), Castor and Pollux (in Gemini) and Aldebaran (in Taurus), forming the Winter Hexagon.

Deserts/Chaparral • Packrats (Neotoma spp.) begin their mating season. Packrat nests can be extremely old, with some continuously inhabited for as long as 50,000 years. These species have been instrumental in reconstructing climate and vegetation patterns over the last 15,000 years, through the research of Thomas Van Devender.

• Desert Mistletoe (Phoradendron californicum), a parasite of acacias, mesquites, palo verdes and buckthorns, bears its red-white fruit.

These fruits are eaten by many species of birds, but primarily by Phainopeplas (a relative of the flycatchers).

Visit: Aqua Fria National Monument.

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You know, That New Gallery

That New Gallery at the Prescott Gateway Mall. Courtesy image.

Gallery opens a new window into the Prescott art scene

By Robert Blood [Editor’s note: The following interview was culled from conversations between the reporter and Victoria Page, CFO of That New Gallery.

Visit the art gallery 10 a.m.-8 p.m.

Monday through Thursday, 10 a.m.9 p.m. Friday and Saturday, and 11 a.m.-6 p.m. Sunday at the Gateway Mall, 3250 Gateway Blvd., near Dillard’s. Find out more at ThatNew Gallery.Com or call 928-445-0788.]

How did That New Gallery get started?

The Gateway Mall approached several art organizations to see if any of them were interested in opening up an art gallery. The groups as a whole weren’t interested — they didn’t want to commit to a lease — but some people from those different groups got together to give it a try.

The gallery opened in November of 2014, which means it’s been open for more than a year now. The artists just jumped into it. I don’t think any of them were really business people.

They tried to form a co-op to pay

rent and utilities with the monthly dues paid by each member, and it changed from there. I came on board a week after it started. I’m primarily an oil painter, but I’ve done enough shows that I realized jewelry always sells well, so I started doing jewelry, as well as pottery and a line of greeting cards. So, I’m an artist, but the main reason I’m here as the CFO is because of my work at other galleries and owning my own businesses through time. They didn’t know my experience here, and I didn’t really know anybody here. Most of the artists didn’t know each other — it was just by association through other art groups. Early on, they realized it couldn’t function as a club type co-op, that it had to be managed.

Working with artists is … a lot like trying to herd cats. Depending on where someone is in the course of their development as an artist, there can be a lot of ego that makes things difficult, if not impossible. So, after six months, a group of the members pooled their resources and seven of us became owners of the Gallery.

That was in June of 2015. It was a

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That New Gallery’s board of directors: Victoria Page, Mary Schulte, and Corey Burk. Courtesy image. contentious transition, but a couple of the members left who didn’t play well with others, and it was better for everyone.

It seems like the gallery’s profile in the community and local media has gotten a lot bigger lately.

We weren’t making much money.

The rent was paid and the phone was working, but we weren’t moving forward. We were pedaling in the same place. Once seven of us became owners, we started advertising.

Sales started going up. … Prior to that, a lot of people didn’t even know we were here. It was mostly people who walked the Mall that found us and said, “Oh, there’s a gallery here.” Now we get repeat customers coming back. When we started the space looked like a bad display at the county fair. It was just thrown together with tables with tablecloths, stuff everywhere without a plan.

We’ve evolved since then. All it took was a little planning.

What are some of the nuts and You’re probably tired of anbolts of That New Gallery’s swering this, but what’s with membership and functioning? the gallery name?

We’ve got art We were strugfrom 14 members gling to find and we rent out a name, then the back wall to someone pointed a visiting artist out that whenevevery month for er a new gallery $75, plus the 30 opens downpercent commistown, no one can sion. If artists are ever remember interested, there its name — it’s are slots open in always “that the schedule new gallery” for 2016, an on Montezuma application or wherever.

Painting by Judy Downs. can be downAnd the name Courtesy image. loaded from our stuck. At some website, Thatpoint, it probNewGallery. ably won’t make Com. … As far sense to call it as levels of expertise go, it’s mostly That New Gallery. I don’t think That retired people who show here. We Old Gallery has the same ring to it, have sculpture, some with fiber-clay, though. recycled objects, and jewelry with semi-precious In terms of art stones, glass and buying culrecycled objects. ture, do you We have glass, find people pottery, photogcollect mulraphy, watercoltiple pieces by ors, oil paintthe same artist ings, and mixed or is it more of media. We have a hodgepodge? one of a kind For some creations for sale people, art has from $9 up to to really speak to $3,000, so it’s a them. For others, wide range. Artyou could almost ists rotate their talk them into Painting by Victoria art every three anything. There’s Page. Courtesy image. months or so, a huge gap but they’re stagbetween those gered, so there’s kinds of art always something different. Most of buyers, but that’s just my observathe pieces are originals, but we have tion. As an artist, if you’re not good some prints. at selling yourself, you’re relying on

that first kind of buyer, and you’ll days, Christmas, and any occasion. make art that’s more gratifying and Our biggest challenge is just getting you’ll probably be a lot poorer. Let’s people through the door. It’s hard face it: Most people don’t have an to pry people away from downtown ounce of education in art. They’ve Prescott. never allowed themselves to experience it. They often trust what other ***** people tell them. For me, it’s all Visit That New Gallery 10 a.m.-8 about color. That’s what feeds me. p.m. Monday through Thursday, 10 When people move to the Southwest, a.m.-9 p.m. Friday and Saturday, they tend to go beige. They want to and 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Sunday at the become part of the desert. My work’s Gateway Mall, 3250 Gateway Blvd., too bold for that, but I knew that near Dillard’s. Find out more at when I got into this. Then again, ThatNewGallery.Com. Contact the we’ve been selling a lot of pieces by gallery at 928-445-0788 and Judy Downs, who paints images from Africa including elephants, giraffes and zebras. We also have sold many abstract pieces by Donna Bobadilla, who was a guest artist in October, Photo by Frank Cuva. then joined Courtesy image. the gallery.

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By Markoff Chaney

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now, you’re probably sick of holidays and those inevitable (and inevitably redundant and/or boring) “Year in Review” and “Top Stories of the Year” articles.

Don’t pretend you’ve kept up with the papers. You’ve probably started the New Year with a stack of old news that would make the Collyer brothers balk.

Instead of recapping recent events, let’s look toward the future … by looking back a century.

Here’s a highly partial, by-nomeans complete list of famous, infamous, or otherwise noteworthy 100-year anniversaries to ponder in 2016.

Jan. 24, 1916 • In Browning, Montana, the temperature drops from 44 F to -56 F in one day, the greatest change ever on record for a 24-hour period in the U.S. and world at large.

Feb. 9, 1916 • At 6 p.m., a monocle-clad Tristan Tzara enters the Cabaret Voltaire stage and her performance instigates the Dadaism art movement, according to Hans Arp. Feb. 28, 1916 • American expat and novelist Henry James dies of a stroke at age 72.

March 7, 1916 • In Munich, Germany Die Bayerischen Motoren Werke (better known as BMW) is founded.

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“Boy with Baby Carriage,” a painting by Norman Rockwell, which was the first Rockwell image used as a cover for The Saturday Evening Post on May 20, 1916. Fair use.

March 22, 1916 • Yuan Shikai, the last Emperor of China, abdicates his throne, thus restoring the Republic of China.

April, 1916 • William J. Newton and Morris Goldberg invent the toggle light switch.

May 20, 1916 • The Saturday Evening Post publishes a cover with “Boy with Baby Carriage,” its first Norman Rockwell painting cover.

May 22, 1916 • The U.S. Supreme Court decides “United States v. Forty Barrels and Twenty Kegs of Coca-Cola, 241 U.S. 265,” and Coca-Cola is allowed to continue including caffeine in its product.

June 15, 1916 • U.S. President Woodrow Wilson signs a bill incorporating the Boy Scouts of America.

July 1-12, 1916 • A shark (or sharks) attacks five swimmers along 80 miles of the New Jersey coastline causing four deaths and one limb amputation. The event later inspires author Peter Benchley to write “Jaws.”

Aug. 25, 1916 • U.S. President Woodrow Wilson signs legislation creating the National Park Service.

Oct. 16, 1916 • Margaret Sanger opens the first U.S. birth control clinic.

Oct. 28, 1916 • Meteorologist and father of the National Weather Service, Cleveland Abbe dies.

Nov. 5, 1916 • Emperors of Germany and Austria proclaim the Kingdom of Poland.

Nov. 7, 1916 • Republican Jeannette Rankin of Montana becomes the first woman elected to the U.S. House of Representatives.

Nov. 22, 1916 • Journalist and novelist Jack London dies of kidney failure at age 40.

Dec. 30, 1916 • The legendary Grigori Yefimovich Rasputin is assassinated via attempted poisoning and a trio of gunshots just shy of age 48.

Date unknown, 1916 • Oxycodone, a narcotic painkiller, is first synthesized in Germany. ***** Markoff Chaney is an Earth-based whodunit pundit and (Fnord) Discordian Pope. He has lotsa bills and no sense. Contact him at Noisy NoiseIsNoisome@Gmail.Com.

Let’s do drugs An addicting corner of the antique world

By Jacy Lee

labels are amusing and available.

You probably think this article is

I

articles are about antiques and collectibles, so fat chance. This one is mostly about things that held drugs.

Let’s

start with cocaine. Cocaine, a derivative of the coca plant, was a popular drug in the late 19th to early 20th century. Aside from use as a recreational drug, it also appeared in many over-the-counter products.

Hair tonics for ladies, such as Lydia’s and Burnett’s, contained cocaine. Women would massage these tonics into their scalps. You’d have to be a numbskull not to figure out where the term “numbskull” came from. Old bottles and boxes of these products are very collectible.

Let’s do more cocaine. There is one cocainebased product from the 1800s that has spawned more collectibles than almost any other product on Earth. That’s both an amazing boast and probably true. You guessed it, Coca-Cola! The most prolific “soft” drink in the world was initially a syrupy elixir based on cocaine. It was later modified into a soda and went global. Obviously, it had an addictive nature. Long into the mid-20th century, cocaine was still an ingredient. Today its addictive property has been replaced by caffeine.

Still, think of the myriad real antiques and modern collectibles available from just this one product.

Perhaps

some alcohol could temper all this cocaine. Alcohol is a drug, and for 10 years in the early 20th century it was illegal nationwide. But like any other drug, where there’s demand, there’s supply. Moonshining aside, there were countless legal ways to beat prohibition. Health tonics and medicines were the most common. Old bottles from these products had colorful names and labels. Alcohol’s inclusion in food was another trick. Bricks Banquet mincemeat had a Federal Prohibition permit and was 14 percent alcohol. A side of this with dinner was like having a glass of wine. Although full cans or jars of these types of products are rare, old stock

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going to be about drugs. You know,

was thinking of doing a little more cocaine, but instead I’ll switch to opium. Opium, the mainstay of the opiate family, is derived from the poppy plant. Poppy is common from the Middle East to the Far East. In the Far East, opium has spurred an entire subculture. Opium dens and opium beds were the primary milieus. Complete opium beds are rare to find in the U.S., but I’ve come across them from time to time. An opium bed is a bed, about queen size, with elaborately carved panels and a roof enclosing it. There are probably pieces Examples of “Jamaica Ginger,” a patent medicine of these beds available in antique shops under the guise of carved that during Prohibition became a convenient way Asian panels. Opium pipes are to get alcohol but, because of an adulterant, far more common, particularly caused a form of paralysis nicknamed “Jake Leg.” in the western U.S., where Chinese immigrants were transPhoto by Deltabeignet, public domain. planted as cheap labor. Most American opium pipes were unadorned, simple clay pieces.

They are often discovered by old building owners, treasure hunters, and archaeologists.

Small, local museums almost always have them, but they are rare finds in antique shops.

Well, it’s time to roll EVERY this article up, and TH I avoided a proper “Reefer Madness.”

It just goes to show you that you can skip marijuana on your way to harder drugs. So, next time you’re choos2016 ing between Pepsi or January 22 Coke, remember you’ve February 26 already made a choice: March 25 April 22 Let’s do drugs.

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By Prof. Werner Von Karmann The phone rang and my officemate Merrit answered the phone. Still focused on my computer screen, I watched as a stream of numbers scrolled past, numbers that represented my latest simulation of whether vortex structures off the tip of a helicopter rotor blade were converging to an answer or were diverging off into NaN (not a number) world.

We were both Ph.D. students, part of a NASA research group of over 100 people who already had their Ph.D.s.

There was a future astronaut in the group who would later die in the Shuttle Columbia accident. The algorithms and theories we were using were named after the person(s) in the next office(s). The building we were in was the Numerical Aerodynamic Simulation Facility. Upstairs, was a Cray 2 supercomputer and on our desks we each had Silicon Graphics Inc. workstations. I still had my Mac 512 from grad school. That same building now houses the Pleiades supercomputer; the same one that’s featured in that

Ask a Rocket Scientist Super-powered, super-sized computational tools movie, “The Martian.”

Merritt launched into a discussion with the other person on the phone.

His voice rose in pitch and I heard him say, “Well it’s not like it’s …”

But, indeed, it was rocket science.

When

the editor of 5enses asked me to host this column, I saw it as an opportunity to help answer some questions about the physical sciences. I admit that I don’t know a whole lot about a lot of stuff, but I do know a lot about my own specific area of computational fluid dynamics and the mathematics and physics of transonic high Reynolds number fluid flows on turbomachinery such as wind turbines, gas turbine engines, and helicopter rotors. The editor said that it would be great to

have someone field questions about the physical sciences. So here I am.

When people send in questions, I’ll answer from my own knowledge or reach out to people who know more than I do for more input. I’ll also provide references to justify the answers. In each column, I may attack a few questions and also provide some words on something I personally find interesting. Please submit your questions to the editor and I’ll pick from those.

Have

you seen “The Martian”? I won’t give away any spoilers, but there were a few things I want to say about it. First, the passion of the scientists and engineers portrayed in the movie was fairly accurate. Even the political play that

goes on at the top level at the NASA administrator’s office seemed correct.

The passionate young scientist seemed close; I saw that passion in the people I worked with who literally closed their office doors to find out the cause of the shuttle accident. There was one quirky error, though.

In the movie, there’s a scene showing the young, passionate scientist sleeping in the machine room of the Pleiades supercomputer to solve the problem for orbital celestial mechanics. No one sleeps in that room; it’s too noisy and cold. My colleagues used that same computer facility to determine how the foam insulation broke off the shuttle main tank by simulating from first principles the trajectories of chunks of foam and how those chunks impacted the orbiter’s wing. [1] Anyway, this leads to the first “Ask a Rocket Scientist” question: What is a supercomputer?

A

supercomputer is a machine capable of performing an extremely large number of mathematical operations, known as floating point operations per second (FLOPS), that has an extremely large amount of computer memory known as Random Access Memory (RAM) measured in bytes, and has a huge amount of permanent storage also measured in bytes. A FLOP is simply a mathematical operation — for example 1.0 + 2.8 = 3.8.

Today, a typical supercomputer can perform around a petaflop (i.e.

1,000,000,000,000,000) floating point operations per second, have memories of terabytes and 1000s of petabytes of storage (think of 100 of 1,000s of hard drives).

A supercomputer is used to perform “capability” computations. For instance, it might simulate how a car

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these computers to model the brain to understand how it works — and, at the moment, it takes a room full of computers just to simulate the neural responses of a tiny chunk of brain matter. (See HumanBrainProject.Eu.) But how does all of this affect the rest of us ? The computing capability will eventually find its way to consumer electronics and the computer on your desktop. The computing capability on your smartphone and your iPad all started at the government and industry research labs where they were using the biggest supercomputers of the time.

Come to think of it, the computing that I do today on my laptop far exceeds what I had on the Cray supercomputers 20 years ago. ***** Prof. Werner Von Karmann is literally a rocket scientist. Send him questions at 5ensesMag@Gmail.

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Visualization of flow field and six degree of freedom simulation of foam piece breaking off of STS-107 (Shuttle Columbia) main tank and striking the wing leading edge of the Orbiter. [2] engine works to the finest level of detail and requires a large room filled with computers working on that one simulation for weeks. Or it might be used for “capacity” simulations that, instead of studying one car design, studies 1,000 car designs … in one day.

As technology changes and improves, the very definition of what a supercomputer is — and by extension, what it’s capable of — changes. The Top 500 list provides a catalog of those systems. [3] Here are the top three and some of their specs. (Those with technophobia should skip ahead): 1. Tianhe-2 (MilkyWay-2); running a TH-IVB-FEP Cluster, Intel Xeon E5-2692 12C 2.200 GHz, TH Express-2, Intel Xeon Phi 31S1P; by NUDT; at the National Super Computer Center in Guangzhou, China; 3,120,000 cores; 33,862.7 TFLOPs/ second Rmax; 54,902.4 TFLOPs/ second Rpeak; and 17,808 kilowatts of power.

2. Titan; running a Cray XK7, Opteron 6274 16 C 2.200 GHz, Cray Gemini interconnect, NVIDIA K20x;

by Cray Inc.; at DOE/SC/Oak Ridge National Laboratory, U.S.; 560,640 cores; 17,590.0 TFLOPs/second Rmax; 27,112.5 TFLOPs/second Rpeak; and 8,209 kilowatts of power.

3. Sequoia; BlueGene/Q, Power BQC 16C 1.60 GHz, Custom; by IBM; 1,572,864 cores; 17,173.2 TFLOPs/second Rmax; 20,132.7 TFLOPs/second Rpeak; 7,890 kilowatts of power.

At

this point, you may be asking yourself, “What do we do with such big computers?”

Well, they haven’t yet used them to determine the orbit of a return rescue mission to Mars. But scientists do use these systems to perform very complex simulations to address complicated science questions such as the historical effect of CO2 emissions on our changing climate. Scientists can perform experiments by varying the

inputs to the computer models and then quantify statistical certainty of their predictions. Scientists are also using these systems to gain better understanding of combustion processes that may lead to improved emissions and efficiency from the internal combustion engines used in automobiles, airplanes, and for electric generating plants. Scientists are even using

[1] Gomez III, Reynaldo J. “20 Plus Years of Chimera Grid Development for the Space Shuttle. STS-107, Return to Flight, End of the Program.”

(2010).

[2] Murman, Scott M., Michael J. Aftosmis, and Stuart E. Rogers. “Characterization of Space Shuttle Ascent Debris Aerodynamics Using CFD Methods.” AIAA Paper 1223.2005 (2005): 20.

[3] November 2015 | TOP500 Supercomputer Sites, http://Top500.Org/ Lists/2015/11, visited on 2015-12-16.

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This

Jan. 3: Festival of Sleep Day • If you give two sheets …

Jan. 4: Trivia Day • Did you know … ?

Jan. 5: Bird Day • You’ll flip for this one.

Jan. 13: Skeptics Day • According to whom?

Jan. 15: Hat Day • A worn celebration.

Jan. 16: Nothing Day • Jan. 17: Ditch New Years Resolutions Day • Hello desserts.

Jan. 18: Thesaurus Day • Treasure the onomasticon of approximations.

Jan. 29: National Puzzle Day • Eat your heart out, Will Shortz.

Jan. 31: Backward Day • .Yad Drawkcab

This

bizarre gastropod, known commonly as the Scaly Foot Snail, lives at extreme depths (over a mile deep) in the oceans near hydrothermal vents. It is the ultra hot, toxic chemical saturated water that helps make this animal so extremely unique. A kind of bacteria that this snail plays host to, helps build the shell casing for this creature. That shell is made of iron! This is the only known animal that manufactures an iron skeleton. Beneath the iron is a spongier tissue which acts as a shock absorber should the snail be rough handled by its only known predator, the vent crab. Also, many of these snails are magnetic.

amazing vehicle was commissioned by a Russian Count named Pyotr Shilovsky in 1912. Working with Irish designer Louis Brennan and the ODDLY ENOUGH ... crabs work so hard at cracking the Scaly Foot’s defenses that they often blunt their own Wolseley Tool and Motorcar Company, Shilovsky was on claws, doing actual damage to themselves. hand when it debuted in London in May of 1914 to rave reviews. It weighed nearly three tons and carried up to ***** six passengers. It could drive forward and reverse, stop and park. Should the driver forget to put down the stabilizing posts and walk away, the car would automatically drop them once the stabilizing gyroscopes ceased spinning.

Years later, Louis Brennan built a rather more successful gyro car, but Brennan (who was ironically hit and killed by a car) is best known for his work on helicopters, monorails, and single track railroad systems.

ODDLY ENOUGH ... Thinking (erroneously) that Count Shilovsky had died in the Russian Revolution, the directors at Wolseley Tool and Motorcar Company decided to bury this car. ***** Russell Miller is an illustrator, cartoonist, writer, bagpiper, motorcycle enthusiast, and reference librarian. Currently, he illustrates books for Cody Lundin and Bart King.

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