“EVENING ROMANCE”

San Francisco - Oakland, California

PHOTOGRAPHY BY:

EDGAR S. TUMBAGA

@thelordismylight.com

@aka1badboy

NIKON D610

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1/10 sec

34mm

ISO 6400

Willow Lake Reflections - I got lucky with a sunset the other night. I took this one with a little high PoV from a previous post. Just as the sun was dipping down some low clouds moved in over the lake with a little virga which caught the last bit of sun. Using a .6 second I was able to get some smoothness in the water and some great reflections.

Some more of the fireworks shots I took a couple nights ago. These are all composite shots.

I hope everyone is the Valley escaped the massive dust storm we had last night without losing power or and damages. If you got rain, I hate you. (just kidding) There was lightning all around us last night and not one drop of rain at our house. I'm sure glad the dust storm didn't come through when we were sitting along the road waiting for the fireworks to start!!!

Hope you are all having a good week. Do a rain dance.....we need a good soak to settle all the dust!

I stole this link from my friend Lynne's stream. If you've never seen a Haboob, this is what it looks like and this is what our weather was last night. Just click on 'Haboob'.

Haboob

"LAST CALL" . . . A bigger than life bronze and granite monument at the Civic Center in Gilbert, Arizona. It is a tribute to Gilbert Police and Fire personnel who gave the ultimate sacrifice in the line of duty.

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Severe weather destroyed a structure near the SR 87 and Gilbert Road area overnight.

By: Ashley Loose

Posted at 6:54 AM, Jul 18, 2022 and last updated 11 minutes ago

An East Valley mobile home was destroyed when severe monsoon storms swept through the area late Sunday night.

Aerial video from the scene near SR 87 and Gilbert Road shows the home reduced to piles of rubble with debris scattered across the property and roadway.

Overnight, emergency crews were seen at the residence taking a woman from the home by ambulance. Videographers at the scene say the woman was trapped under the debris when the storm hit. Her current condition is not known.

ABC15 is waiting for more information from local officials on the incident.

Nearby, large electrical towers along SR 87 were also toppled during the storm, causing an extended closure of the highway in both directions.

The area received about 1.42" of rain during the storm, according to the Maricopa County Flood Control District, and power was knocked out for tens of thousands of customers in the Valley.

The Grand Canyon closed for only the second time in nearly 100 years on Oct. 1, after Congress failed to pass a budget to fund government operations!

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Gila River RR crossing south of Roll AZ. (postscript below)

Postscript:

Several hours later, my journey south ended abruptly about 20 minutes travel time from the Mexican border on Arizona Hwy 85.

I was driving south around 7 p.m. under the darkness of the new moon, when my rear passenger window on the driver's side was struck by an object thrown from a moving vehicle. I quickly glanced over my left shoulder and saw an oblong hole in the glass immediately behind the window post. The object had just missed striking my head through my open driver's window by inches. As I was in the land of concealed carry and there was a loud bang caused by the incident, my first thoughts were that someone was shooting at me. I had been travelling at 60 mph but immediately slowed down without braking to see that a vehicle had pulled up close beside me. I assumed they were the perpetrators and were going to fire another shot. I got low below my open window to avoid getting hit and didn't get a good look at them as they sped off at an extremely high rate of speed towards the Mexican border. My other recollection is of a second vehicle towing a recreational trailer pulling up beside me. I didn't know if they were with the first vehicle and continued to keep my head down. However, they only appeared be rubber-neckers slowing down to survey the results of the attack that they had presumably just witnessed. They must have decided it was too dark to get a selfie as they too sped off down the highway. The ditch on this highway is very shallow, but full of brush and debris; so I had to continue south for another 10 minutes before I could stop and check myself and my vehicle for further injury.

Now heading back north, I stopped at a Border Patrol Station at mile 58 to make a report. The agents indicated that these individuals were likely heading to Rocky Point Mexico for the Columbus Day long weekend and that bizarre reckless behaviour by drivers on this highway was the the norm. My guess is that I had unfortunately stumbled onto "kill a snowbird night" and that this misadventure might show up on YouTube some day. The agents couldn't help me any further and I headed north to Ajo to file a police report. The police advised that I had been hit with a bottle.

I couldn't travel with a blown-out window; so I drove the same night to a Phoenix dealership specializing in my particular make of vehicle. I assumed wrongly that this very large "superstore" dealership would be willing and able to promptly make repairs and that I could continue on my journey (I still had 30 days health insurance). I was first in line the next morning. The service agent went through the motions of making a phone call. He then told me a replacement window would take at least 8 days to arrive. He also told me that in all likelihood it may take even longer and that I would need to pay him $475 that morning. I resisted asking him if they still used the Pony Express, but I did ask him about vehicle break-ins and why there isn't a stockpile of auto glass in a big city like Phoenix. He answered by saying their criminals use "slim-jims" and never break windows (like it was a higher status criminal). Coincidentally or maybe not, the dealership was named "Surprise ...".

I covered the now completely open window with plastic and headed north to the land of laws and customer service. The repair took only a few days at an auto body shop in my home town. One day to get the glass and one day to repair.

My trip to 'Merica over, I may travel to safer and friendlier locales in future like Mogadishu.

Jim wasn't very slim in these videos:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=dIDaaWV5B4U

www.youtube.com/watch?v=be4WpT_Oyu4

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From reviews - 1 hour replacement !

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"Hassle-Free

Had a passenger window replaced after a break-in. Daniel, my tech, was quick and curteous in his work and completed the job in about an hour. Will be using Safelite for glass repair/replacement moving forward."

A photo of the Haboob that approached phoenix with some force!

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Garrett Archer, the "Data Guru", speaking with attendees at an event hosted by Arizona Talks at Greenwood Brewing in Phoenix, Arizona.

Please attribute to Gage Skidmore if used elsewhere.

As I hiked the Circumference Trial I saw a lot of activity. A Phoenix Fire Department helicopter came off of Piestewa Peak to a Landing Zone at the north end of the parking lot. A 9 year girl had fallen and hit her head. The Helo had inserted the medical team and was waiting further direction. Head injuries cause tremendous anxiety. There is usually significant bleeding and fear of concussion, neck injury and skull fracture. After evaluation the medical team decided that the girl could walk down from Piestewa Peak. I hustled up the Piestewa Summit Trail and caught the Mountain Rescue team as they descended a few hundred yards below the Summit. The girl was accompanied by a female that I think is her sister. They did not need to use the Stokes Basket and were carrying it back down. As they went down the trail, the girl's mother had come up the trail to meet her. Smiles of relief all around today.

I talked with a Fire Captain on the trail. He said the change in the weather and the lower temperatures had brought out a lot of people. They had three rescues yesterday. He said their worst month is January because of New Year's Resolutions. He told me that Piestewa injuries are usually knees, ankles, broken legs and concussions. The injuries on Camelback Mountain usually involve significant falls - often by free climbers - and are usually much more serious.

N109FB is an AGUSTA SPA model A109E. I think it's called "Firebird 10". The rescue hoist is installed on the starboard side.

Thanks to Matt Halvorson for the heads up on the news story

www.abc15.com/dpp/news/region_phoenix_metro/central_phoen...

www.kpho.com/story/15971893/girl-9

Posted: Nov 06, 2011 4:26 PM MST Updated: Nov 06, 2011 4:40 PM MST

By Phil Benson - email

PHOENIX (KPHO) -

Phoenix fire crews rescued a girl who was injured while hiking on a mountain trail around noon Sunday.

Phoenix Fire Department spokesman Scott McDonald said the 9-year-old girl had reached the top of Piestewa Peak and was in the process of coming down when she fell. McDonald said she suffered cuts to her forehead.

"Some folks up there controlled the bleeding and called 911," McDonald said.

When fire crews arrived, the bleeding had stopped, McDonald said. Firefighters helped the girl walk safely down the mountainside.

"This is our fourth mountain rescue this weekend," McDonald said. "We'd like to remind everyone to wear proper shoes and drink plenty of water."

Copyright 2011 KPHO. All rights reserved.

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This is the centerpiece of the Fernando Botero installation at Desert Botanical Garden. It is titled "Woman Reclining / Mujer reclinada".

The description reads:

Reclining Woman / Mujer reclinada. Fernando Botero (Colombia, 1932-2023). Bronze / Bronce. EA 3/3. Private collection of the Botero Family / Coleccion privada de la familia Botero.

"Form is the exaltation of nature. / La forma es la exaltacion de la naturaleza" Fernando Botero

dbg.org/media-release/desert-botanical-garden-announces-f...

Desert Botanical Garden proudly presents the iconic work of Fernando Botero in Fernando Botero: The Master marking the first major Botero exhibit in Arizona. The exhibit highlight includes significant works from the Colombian artist’s career and will open Oct. 7, 2023 and run through March 31, 2024. Tickets on sale July 14 at dbg.org.

Fernando Botero: The Master showcases voluminous sculpture playfully intertwined with the Garden’s own large-scale living collection of magnificent saguaros, towering cardons and the beautiful Papago buttes, the exhibit is complimented with a colorful indoor gallery in Dorrance Hall, highlighting Botero’s paintings, drawings and small sculpture.

“The Garden is thrilled to bring the first major Botero exhibit to Arizona. The Garden’s art exhibitions have become a vibrant and compelling point of pride in the Valley’s cultural scene since 2009,” says Ken Schutz, the Garden’s Executive Director. “In 2021-2022, Dale Chihuly’s work drew more than 601,000 visitors to the Garden and drove more than $23 million in economic impact. With several successful ‘blockbuster exhibitions’ under our belt, the Garden is excited to host the artwork of one of the most important artists in the world”.

www.abc15.com/entertainment/events/fernando-boteros-art-i...

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fernando_Botero

Fernando Botero Angulo (19 April 1932 – 15 September 2023)[2] was a Colombian figurative artist and sculptor.[3] His signature style, also known as "Boterismo", depicts people and figures in large, exaggerated volume, which can represent political criticism or humor, depending on the piece. He was considered the most recognized and quoted artist from Latin America in his lifetime,[4][5][6] and his art can be found in highly visible places around the world, such as Park Avenue in New York City and the Champs-Élysées in Paris, at different times.[7]

Self-styled "the most Colombian of Colombian artists",[8] Botero came to national prominence when he won the first prize at the Salón de Artistas Colombianos in 1958. He began creating sculptures after moving to Paris in 1973, achieving international recognition with exhibitions around the world by the 1990s.[9][10] His art is collected by many major international museums, corporations, and private collectors, sometimes selling for millions of dollars.[11] In 2012, he received the International Sculpture Center's Lifetime Achievement in Contemporary Sculpture Award.[12]

Desert Botanical Garden has an incredible collection of plants and cacti arranged in a beautiful park setting.

dbg.org/

"Think the desert is all dirt and tumbleweeds? Think again. Desert Botanical Garden is home to thousands of species of cactus, trees and flowers from all around the world spread across 55 acres in Phoenix, Arizona."

Desert Botanical Garden

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This is the view as I enterred the Desert Botanical Garden to see the Fernando Botero installation. I was greeted by these Holiday decorations. I suppose this is a Cactus Tree. In the background you can see a large Botero sculpture. I believe it is titled "Dressed Woman". I understand it is 12 feet tall and weighs 3,400 pounds.

dbg.org/media-release/desert-botanical-garden-announces-f...

Desert Botanical Garden proudly presents the iconic work of Fernando Botero in Fernando Botero: The Master marking the first major Botero exhibit in Arizona. The exhibit highlight includes significant works from the Colombian artist’s career and will open Oct. 7, 2023 and run through March 31, 2024. Tickets on sale July 14 at dbg.org.

Fernando Botero: The Master showcases voluminous sculpture playfully intertwined with the Garden’s own large-scale living collection of magnificent saguaros, towering cardons and the beautiful Papago buttes, the exhibit is complimented with a colorful indoor gallery in Dorrance Hall, highlighting Botero’s paintings, drawings and small sculpture.

“The Garden is thrilled to bring the first major Botero exhibit to Arizona. The Garden’s art exhibitions have become a vibrant and compelling point of pride in the Valley’s cultural scene since 2009,” says Ken Schutz, the Garden’s Executive Director. “In 2021-2022, Dale Chihuly’s work drew more than 601,000 visitors to the Garden and drove more than $23 million in economic impact. With several successful ‘blockbuster exhibitions’ under our belt, the Garden is excited to host the artwork of one of the most important artists in the world”.

www.abc15.com/entertainment/events/fernando-boteros-art-i...

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fernando_Botero

Fernando Botero Angulo (19 April 1932 – 15 September 2023)[2] was a Colombian figurative artist and sculptor.[3] His signature style, also known as "Boterismo", depicts people and figures in large, exaggerated volume, which can represent political criticism or humor, depending on the piece. He was considered the most recognized and quoted artist from Latin America in his lifetime,[4][5][6] and his art can be found in highly visible places around the world, such as Park Avenue in New York City and the Champs-Élysées in Paris, at different times.[7]

Self-styled "the most Colombian of Colombian artists",[8] Botero came to national prominence when he won the first prize at the Salón de Artistas Colombianos in 1958. He began creating sculptures after moving to Paris in 1973, achieving international recognition with exhibitions around the world by the 1990s.[9][10] His art is collected by many major international museums, corporations, and private collectors, sometimes selling for millions of dollars.[11] In 2012, he received the International Sculpture Center's Lifetime Achievement in Contemporary Sculpture Award.[12]

Desert Botanical Garden has an incredible collection of plants and cacti arranged in a beautiful park setting.

dbg.org/

"Think the desert is all dirt and tumbleweeds? Think again. Desert Botanical Garden is home to thousands of species of cactus, trees and flowers from all around the world spread across 55 acres in Phoenix, Arizona."

Desert Botanical Garden

DBG Festive

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This was the plant that had burnt the night before. ABC 15 News

This is the centerpiece of the Fernando Botero installation at Desert Botanical Garden. It is titled "Woman Reclining / Mujer reclinada". He has very descriptive titles.

I posted a previous photo from Sunday morning. I returned Tuesday evening at dusk for some photos. DBG had decorated this exhibit with poinsettias. Sun is setting to the right.

The description reads:

Reclining Woman / Mujer reclinada. Fernando Botero (Colombia, 1932-2023). Bronze / Bronce. EA 3/3. Private collection of the Botero Family / Coleccion privada de la familia Botero.

"Form is the exaltation of nature. / La forma es la exaltacion de la naturaleza" Fernando Botero

dbg.org/media-release/desert-botanical-garden-announces-f...

Desert Botanical Garden proudly presents the iconic work of Fernando Botero in Fernando Botero: The Master marking the first major Botero exhibit in Arizona. The exhibit highlight includes significant works from the Colombian artist’s career and will open Oct. 7, 2023 and run through March 31, 2024. Tickets on sale July 14 at dbg.org.

Fernando Botero: The Master showcases voluminous sculpture playfully intertwined with the Garden’s own large-scale living collection of magnificent saguaros, towering cardons and the beautiful Papago buttes, the exhibit is complimented with a colorful indoor gallery in Dorrance Hall, highlighting Botero’s paintings, drawings and small sculpture.

“The Garden is thrilled to bring the first major Botero exhibit to Arizona. The Garden’s art exhibitions have become a vibrant and compelling point of pride in the Valley’s cultural scene since 2009,” says Ken Schutz, the Garden’s Executive Director. “In 2021-2022, Dale Chihuly’s work drew more than 601,000 visitors to the Garden and drove more than $23 million in economic impact. With several successful ‘blockbuster exhibitions’ under our belt, the Garden is excited to host the artwork of one of the most important artists in the world”.

www.abc15.com/entertainment/events/fernando-boteros-art-i...

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fernando_Botero

Fernando Botero Angulo (19 April 1932 – 15 September 2023)[2] was a Colombian figurative artist and sculptor.[3] His signature style, also known as "Boterismo", depicts people and figures in large, exaggerated volume, which can represent political criticism or humor, depending on the piece. He was considered the most recognized and quoted artist from Latin America in his lifetime,[4][5][6] and his art can be found in highly visible places around the world, such as Park Avenue in New York City and the Champs-Élysées in Paris, at different times.[7]

Self-styled "the most Colombian of Colombian artists",[8] Botero came to national prominence when he won the first prize at the Salón de Artistas Colombianos in 1958. He began creating sculptures after moving to Paris in 1973, achieving international recognition with exhibitions around the world by the 1990s.[9][10] His art is collected by many major international museums, corporations, and private collectors, sometimes selling for millions of dollars.[11] In 2012, he received the International Sculpture Center's Lifetime Achievement in Contemporary Sculpture Award.[12]

Desert Botanical Garden has an incredible collection of plants and cacti arranged in a beautiful park setting.

dbg.org/

"Think the desert is all dirt and tumbleweeds? Think again. Desert Botanical Garden is home to thousands of species of cactus, trees and flowers from all around the world spread across 55 acres in Phoenix, Arizona."

Desert Botanical Garden

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The annual Cronkite Award Luncheon has become one of the most anticipated events in the Valley. The 2017 honorees were Judy Woodruff and the late Gwen Ifill. Photos by Gabe Mercer

We left the summit quickly and were in the scree chute (couloir) when the snow hit. When we got to the saddle I looked back and got this photo. The wind was blowing about 40+knots. Rare to have snow in Maricopa County in May.

A week after we climbed this, a photographer/hiker died in the chute

Hiker dies after fall on Four Peaks, east of Valley

Reported by: Deborah Stocks Email: dstocks@abc15.com

Last Update: 6:20 pm

Slideshow Glenn Sprock at Miner's Peak (Courtesy: Sprock family)

PHOENIX -- Authorities say a man has died after he fell while climbing in the Four Peaks area, about 60 miles from downtown Phoenix.

Maricopa County Sheriff's Deputy Lindsey Smith said crews began searching for 53-year-old Glenn Sprock after he was reported overdue from a hike Saturday morning.

Lake Patrol deputies and search and rescue crews worked to bring Sprock down from the mountain, according to Smith.

Smith said Sprock died while on the way to the hospital. Sprock's wife, Carol, said that her husband died "doing what he loved best -- hiking and taking pictures";

Family statement

Glenn died today doing what he loved best--hiking and taking pictures.

Each week he plotted a new hike, researching the trails online and in books, waiting impatiently for Saturday when he'd leave before 5 in the morning to drive an hour or more and then hike several miles.

All the while trying to use his camera to capture a glimmer of His Creator's artwork majesty .

His wife called him a desert rat because he couldn't get enough of Arizona's desert and mountain ranges, their landscape a siren song to his heart. For him they were God's canvas and each camera click was an act of worshipping His Lord.

Carol Sprock

Adapted from Wikipedia

Four Peaks (Yavapai: Wikopa[1]), at 7657 feet (2335 m) in altitude, is a prominent landmark on the eastern skyline of Phoenix, part of the Mazatzal Mountains. It is located in the Tonto National Forest 40 miles (64 km) east-northeast of Phoenix, in the 60,740-acre (245.8 km2) Four Peaks Wilderness. On rare occasions, Four Peaks offers much of the Phoenix metro area a view of snow covered peaks, and is the highest point in Maricopa County.

The name Four Peaks is a reference to the four distinct peaks of a north-south ridge forming the mountain's summit. The northernmost peak is named Brown's Peak and is the tallest of the four at 7,657 feet (2,334 m).[2] The remaining summits from north to south are Brothers Peak at 7,642 feet (2,329 m), Sisters Peak 7,575 feet (2,309 m) and Amethyst Peak at 7,524 feet (2,293 m) in altitude.

This is the patient walking out. As I hiked the Circumference Trial I saw a lot of activity. A Phoenix Fire Department helicopter came off of Piestewa Peak to a Landing Zone at the north end of the parking lot. This 9 year girl had fallen and hit her head. The Helo had inserted the medical team and was waiting further direction. Head injuries cause tremendous anxiety. There is usually significant bleeding and fear of concussion, neck injury and skull fracture. After evaluation the medical team decided that the girl could walk down from Piestewa Peak. I hustled up the Piestewa Summit Trail and caught the Mountain Rescue team as they descended a few hundred yards below the Summit. The girl was accompanied by a female that I think is her sister. They did not need to use the Stokes Basket and were carrying it back down in pieces. As they went down the trail, the girl's mother had come up the trail to meet her. Smiles of relief all around today.

I talked with a Fire Captain on the trail. He said the change in the weather and the lower temperatures had brought out a lot of people. They had three rescues yesterday. He said their worst month is January because of New Year's Resolutions. He told me that Piestewa injuries are usually severely sprained knees, ankles, broken legs, and concussions. The injuries on Camelback Mountain usually involve significant falls - often by free climbers - and are usually much more serious.

Thanks to Matt Halvorson for the heads up on the news story

www.abc15.com/dpp/news/region_phoenix_metro/central_phoen...

www.kpho.com/story/15971893/girl-9

Posted: Nov 06, 2011 4:26 PM MST Updated: Nov 06, 2011 4:40 PM MST

By Phil Benson - email

PHOENIX (KPHO) -

Phoenix fire crews rescued a girl who was injured while hiking on a mountain trail around noon Sunday.

Phoenix Fire Department spokesman Scott McDonald said the 9-year-old girl had reached the top of Piestewa Peak and was in the process of coming down when she fell. McDonald said she suffered cuts to her forehead.

"Some folks up there controlled the bleeding and called 911," McDonald said.

When fire crews arrived, the bleeding had stopped, McDonald said. Firefighters helped the girl walk safely down the mountainside.

"This is our fourth mountain rescue this weekend," McDonald said. "We'd like to remind everyone to wear proper shoes and drink plenty of water."

Copyright 2011 KPHO. All rights reserved.

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An original Interactive Art Sculpture designed and created by MRISAR’s R&D Team, New Leipzig, North Dakota.

Photonic Pentiductor Sculpture is an upgraded version of our Pentiductor that we designed & fabricated in 1993. This features both light and sound attributes. It is an exciting educational exhibit that delights both young and old. It features a touch sensitive oscillator, which also produces light patterns in relation to how the touch plates are operated. The five-sided design makes it adaptable to fill inner floor spaces and to work with both single users and groups.

To operate it, touch the metal circle of the Large Touch Plate with one hand and a metal circle on one of the Small Touch Plates with the other hand at the same time. Figuratively in electrical terms, think of the Large Touch Plate as its positive terminal, its Small Touch Plates as its negative terminal and your body as its conductive wire. Optionally many people can use the device together in a number of ways such as having one person touch the large plate and another person touch a small plate and then in turn touch their remaining hands together. Additional people can be added to form a chain between the two users who are touching the large and small plates. The key is to make sure you are touching each other’s skin for conductivity to take place. The device is also able to work with single arm operation should a user have a disability that prevents two-hand use or even with amputee limbs.

A version of MRISAR's Super Pentiductor is part of Popnology.

The MRISAR Team of New Leipzig, ND collaborated with Stage Nine by creating the robotics, interactive components and landscape for 6 Interactive Exhibits (Mars Probe Rover, Super Pentiductor, Cybermatrix-robotic tic tac toe, Challenge the Robot, a 5 finger Robot Arm Exhibit and a 3 Finger Robot Arm Exhibit) that are part of Popnology, which opened at the Los Angeles Fair in 2015. From there Popnology went to the Arizona Science Center in 2016. See links below for more information.

Popnology; from Science Fiction to Science Fact, is a new interactive exhibition that seeks to awe, enlighten and educate its visitors with outstanding displays of technological advances inspired by pop culture. It’s about how technological advances and pop culture have influenced each other. Other exhibitions are: the original DeLorean from “Back to the Future”; The Batmobile from “Batman Forever”; The iconic “Time Machine”; the “Terminator”; replicas of three different Mars rovers from JPL; and the HAL 9000 computer from “2001: A Space Odyssey.”

MRISAR is the most versatile Robotics R & D Team in the world. Team members are John and Victoria Siegel and their daughters Autumn and Aurora Siegel who joined the team as preschoolers. All four members are inventors and artists. Everything that MRISAR creates is designed and fabricated in their shops and labs by their team of family members.

In 2010 MRISAR, (a business that has Designed, Fabricated & Marketed the Earth’s Largest Selection of “Internationally Renowned & Awarded, World-Class Robotics Exhibits & Devices”; and “Hands On” Scientific, Technological & Interactive Art Exhibits), purchased a disused school on the plains of North Dakota and relocated to it. Profit from their International Exhibit Sales helps fund their Humanitarian R&D and the transformation of the 36,000 sq. ft. complex, surrounded by 10 acres in North Dakota, into a World-Class “Interactive, Robotics, Technology, Invention, Art & Nature Center”.

MRISAR website is www.mrisar.com.

Links:

Featured Exhibition - Arizona Science Center. azscience.org/popnology POPnology offers a riveting, memorable exploration of popular culture’s impact on technology – past, present and future – and its direct effect on how we live and work, how we move, how we connect and how we play.

Tickets for the Gala opening were from $500 to $50,000 depending on the seating. azscience.org/Donate/galaxy-gala

www.youtube.com/watch?v=BjYNBZZF_oQ This is a shop test of our Interactive Technological Sculpture “Super Pentiductor” prior to the Popnology installation.

Click this link to see images of Popnology including our robotics. The 3rd image down the page is our 5 Finger Robot Arm. www.raisingarizonakids.com/2016/02/popnology-exhibit-ariz...

Click this link to see images of Popnology including the Mars Probe Rover Robotics and landscape we created. downtowndevil.com/2016/02/11/77425/arizona-science-center...

Click this link to see images of Popnology including our robotics. cronkitenews.azpbs.org/2016/02/05/arizona-science-center-...

Click this link to see images of Popnology including our robotics. www.azcentral.com/picture-gallery/entertainment/kids/2016...

Click this link to see images of Popnology including our robotics. www.abc15.com/entertainment/events/popnology-exhibit-brin...

www.lacountyfair.com/learn/popnology . There are images of our robotics on this page as well as a video at the bottom showing some of our work.

www.dailybulletin.com/lifestyle/20150904/popnology-exhibi...

www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQwc3rKbmPM This video catches a glimpse of our 3 finger robot arm moving dino eggs, our super pentiductor being used, our 5 finger robot arm and the telepresence control council for our 3 finger robot arm to make it move dino eggs.

An original Interactive Art Sculpture designed and created by MRISAR’s R&D Team, New Leipzig, North Dakota.

Photonic Pentiductor Sculpture is an upgraded version of our Pentiductor that we designed & fabricated in 1993. This features both light and sound attributes. It is an exciting educational exhibit that delights both young and old. It features a touch sensitive oscillator, which also produces light patterns in relation to how the touch plates are operated. The five-sided design makes it adaptable to fill inner floor spaces and to work with both single users and groups.

To operate it, touch the metal circle of the Large Touch Plate with one hand and a metal circle on one of the Small Touch Plates with the other hand at the same time. Figuratively in electrical terms, think of the Large Touch Plate as its positive terminal, its Small Touch Plates as its negative terminal and your body as its conductive wire. Optionally many people can use the device together in a number of ways such as having one person touch the large plate and another person touch a small plate and then in turn touch their remaining hands together. Additional people can be added to form a chain between the two users who are touching the large and small plates. The key is to make sure you are touching each other’s skin for conductivity to take place. The device is also able to work with single arm operation should a user have a disability that prevents two-hand use or even with amputee limbs.

A version of MRISAR's Super Pentiductor is part of Popnology.

The MRISAR Team of New Leipzig, ND collaborated with Stage Nine by creating the robotics, interactive components and landscape for 6 Interactive Exhibits (Mars Probe Rover, Super Pentiductor, Cybermatrix-robotic tic tac toe, Challenge the Robot, a 5 finger Robot Arm Exhibit and a 3 Finger Robot Arm Exhibit) that are part of Popnology, which opened at the Los Angeles Fair in 2015. From there Popnology went to the Arizona Science Center in 2016. See links below for more information.

Popnology; from Science Fiction to Science Fact, is a new interactive exhibition that seeks to awe, enlighten and educate its visitors with outstanding displays of technological advances inspired by pop culture. It’s about how technological advances and pop culture have influenced each other. Other exhibitions are: the original DeLorean from “Back to the Future”; The Batmobile from “Batman Forever”; The iconic “Time Machine”; the “Terminator”; replicas of three different Mars rovers from JPL; and the HAL 9000 computer from “2001: A Space Odyssey.”

MRISAR is the most versatile Robotics R & D Team in the world. Team members are John and Victoria Siegel and their daughters Autumn and Aurora Siegel who joined the team as preschoolers. All four members are inventors and artists. Everything that MRISAR creates is designed and fabricated in their shops and labs by their team of family members.

In 2010 MRISAR, (a business that has Designed, Fabricated & Marketed the Earth’s Largest Selection of “Internationally Renowned & Awarded, World-Class Robotics Exhibits & Devices”; and “Hands On” Scientific, Technological & Interactive Art Exhibits), purchased a disused school on the plains of North Dakota and relocated to it. Profit from their International Exhibit Sales helps fund their Humanitarian R&D and the transformation of the 36,000 sq. ft. complex, surrounded by 10 acres in North Dakota, into a World-Class “Interactive, Robotics, Technology, Invention, Art & Nature Center”.

MRISAR website is www.mrisar.com.

Links:

Featured Exhibition - Arizona Science Center. azscience.org/popnology POPnology offers a riveting, memorable exploration of popular culture’s impact on technology – past, present and future – and its direct effect on how we live and work, how we move, how we connect and how we play.

Tickets for the Gala opening were from $500 to $50,000 depending on the seating. azscience.org/Donate/galaxy-gala

www.youtube.com/watch?v=BjYNBZZF_oQ This is a shop test of our Interactive Technological Sculpture “Super Pentiductor” prior to the Popnology installation.

Click this link to see images of Popnology including our robotics. The 3rd image down the page is our 5 Finger Robot Arm. www.raisingarizonakids.com/2016/02/popnology-exhibit-ariz...

Click this link to see images of Popnology including the Mars Probe Rover Robotics and landscape we created. downtowndevil.com/2016/02/11/77425/arizona-science-center...

Click this link to see images of Popnology including our robotics. cronkitenews.azpbs.org/2016/02/05/arizona-science-center-...

Click this link to see images of Popnology including our robotics. www.azcentral.com/picture-gallery/entertainment/kids/2016...

Click this link to see images of Popnology including our robotics. www.abc15.com/entertainment/events/popnology-exhibit-brin...

www.lacountyfair.com/learn/popnology . There are images of our robotics on this page as well as a video at the bottom showing some of our work.

www.dailybulletin.com/lifestyle/20150904/popnology-exhibi...

www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQwc3rKbmPM This video catches a glimpse of our 3 finger robot arm moving dino eggs, our super pentiductor being used, our 5 finger robot arm and the telepresence control council for our 3 finger robot arm to make it move dino eggs.

2017 Cronkite Award for Excellence in Journalism. ASU Honors Judy Woodruff, Gwen Ifill of ‘PBS NewsHour’ with Cronkite Award. Photos by Marcus Chormicle

Secretary of State Ken Bennett, State Treasurer Doug Ducey, Fred DuVal, Barry Hess, Christine Jones, former Congressman Frank Riggs, Mayor Scott Smith and Andrew Thomas speaking at a debate hosted by the Arizona Hispanic Chamber of Commerce, Univision Arizona, ABC15 and the Phoenix Union High School District at Central High School in Phoenix, Arizona.

Please attribute to Gage Skidmore if used elsewhere.

This is the Fernando Botero sculpture that greets visitors at the entrance to Desert Botanical Garden. It is titled "Dressed Woman / Mujer vestida". Botero has very descriptive titles. I understand that she is 12 feet tall and weighs 3,400 pounds.

The description reads:

Dressed Woman / Mujer vestida. Cast 2018. Fernando Botero (Colombia, 1932-2023). Bronze / Bronce. EA 2/2. Art of the World Gallery, Houston, TX. artoftheworldgallery.com

"Reality is boring, art should be an exaggeration / La realidad es aburrida, el arte debe ser una exageración"

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Desert Botanical Garden proudly presents the iconic work of Fernando Botero in Fernando Botero: The Master marking the first major Botero exhibit in Arizona. The exhibit highlight includes significant works from the Colombian artist’s career and will open Oct. 7, 2023 and run through March 31, 2024. Tickets on sale July 14 at dbg.org.

Fernando Botero: The Master showcases voluminous sculpture playfully intertwined with the Garden’s own large-scale living collection of magnificent saguaros, towering cardons and the beautiful Papago buttes, the exhibit is complimented with a colorful indoor gallery in Dorrance Hall, highlighting Botero’s paintings, drawings and small sculpture.

“The Garden is thrilled to bring the first major Botero exhibit to Arizona. The Garden’s art exhibitions have become a vibrant and compelling point of pride in the Valley’s cultural scene since 2009,” says Ken Schutz, the Garden’s Executive Director. “In 2021-2022, Dale Chihuly’s work drew more than 601,000 visitors to the Garden and drove more than $23 million in economic impact. With several successful ‘blockbuster exhibitions’ under our belt, the Garden is excited to host the artwork of one of the most important artists in the world”.

www.abc15.com/entertainment/events/fernando-boteros-art-i...

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fernando_Botero

Fernando Botero Angulo (19 April 1932 – 15 September 2023)[2] was a Colombian figurative artist and sculptor.[3] His signature style, also known as "Boterismo", depicts people and figures in large, exaggerated volume, which can represent political criticism or humor, depending on the piece. He was considered the most recognized and quoted artist from Latin America in his lifetime,[4][5][6] and his art can be found in highly visible places around the world, such as Park Avenue in New York City and the Champs-Élysées in Paris, at different times.[7]

Self-styled "the most Colombian of Colombian artists",[8] Botero came to national prominence when he won the first prize at the Salón de Artistas Colombianos in 1958. He began creating sculptures after moving to Paris in 1973, achieving international recognition with exhibitions around the world by the 1990s.[9][10] His art is collected by many major international museums, corporations, and private collectors, sometimes selling for millions of dollars.[11] In 2012, he received the International Sculpture Center's Lifetime Achievement in Contemporary Sculpture Award.[12]

Desert Botanical Garden has an incredible collection of plants and cacti arranged in a beautiful park setting.

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"Think the desert is all dirt and tumbleweeds? Think again. Desert Botanical Garden is home to thousands of species of cactus, trees and flowers from all around the world spread across 55 acres in Phoenix, Arizona."

Desert Botanical Garden

We left the summit quickly and were in the scree chute (couloir) when the snow hit. The wind was blowing about 40+knots. Rare to have snow in Maricopa County in May. The chute is tricky enough without these winter conditions. A week after we were here a photographer/hiker - Glenn Sprock - died in this chute. Rest in peace Glenn - I hope you are getting some great photos in Heaven.

Adapted from Wikipedia

Four Peaks (Yavapai: Wikopa[1]), at 7657 feet (2335 m) in altitude, is a prominent landmark on the eastern skyline of Phoenix, part of the Mazatzal Mountains. It is located in the Tonto National Forest 40 miles (64 km) east-northeast of Phoenix, in the 60,740-acre (245.8 km2) Four Peaks Wilderness. On rare occasions, Four Peaks offers much of the Phoenix metro area a view of snow covered peaks, and is the highest point in Maricopa County.

The name Four Peaks is a reference to the four distinct peaks of a north-south ridge forming the mountain's summit. The northernmost peak is named Brown's Peak and is the tallest of the four at 7,657 feet (2,334 m).[2] The remaining summits from north to south are Brothers Peak at 7,642 feet (2,329 m), Sisters Peak 7,575 feet (2,309 m) and Amethyst Peak at 7,524 feet (2,293 m) in altitude.

Hiker dies after fall on Four Peaks, east of Valley

Reported by: Deborah Stocks Email: dstocks@abc15.com

Last Update: 6:20 pm

Slideshow Glenn Sprock at Miner's Peak (Courtesy: Sprock family)

PHOENIX -- Authorities say a man has died after he fell while climbing in the Four Peaks area, about 60 miles from downtown Phoenix.

Maricopa County Sheriff's Deputy Lindsey Smith said crews began searching for 53-year-old Glenn Sprock after he was reported overdue from a hike Saturday morning.

Lake Patrol deputies and search and rescue crews worked to bring Sprock down from the mountain, according to Smith.

Smith said Sprock died while on the way to the hospital. Sprock's wife, Carol, said that her husband died "doing what he loved best -- hiking and taking pictures";

Family statement

Glenn died today doing what he loved best--hiking and taking pictures.

Each week he plotted a new hike, researching the trails online and in books, waiting impatiently for Saturday when he'd leave before 5 in the morning to drive an hour or more and then hike several miles.

All the while trying to use his camera to capture a glimmer of His Creator's artwork majesty .

His wife called him a desert rat because he couldn't get enough of Arizona's desert and mountain ranges, their landscape a siren song to his heart. For him they were God's canvas and each camera click was an act of worshipping His Lord.

Carol Sprock

In Memory of two News Chopper crews.

The Two news helicopters you see here, were covering a police chase on live TV collided and crashed to the ground Today 7-27-07, killing all 4 people on board.

Photo taken on 7-24-07 while hiking around Phoenix Mtns Preserves.

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