Local author releases Christmas romantic-comedy book

CEDARBURG — Local author Carla Luna’s first book in her new romantic-comedy series released today.”Santa Maybe” is the first book in the brand-new Duchess Hotel Series — a set of rom-coms centered around a struggling boutique hotel in Victoria, British Columbia. The story features Rosie Gonzalez, the assistant general manager of the Duchess, and Drew Richardson, the personal trainer at the gym around the corner. To save their jobs, Rosie and her team have to make their hotel more “holiday-forward” by planning a series of Christmas-themed events. Drew offers to play Santa, but proposes a fake-dating scheme to Rosie to help them get through the holidays. If she poses as his date for his ex’s December wedding, then he’ll act like her boyfriend around her family and save her the humiliation of getting set up on awkward dates.”Santa Maybe” is available to order as an ebook or print on Amazon at https://bit.ly/4dEVfF5.Luna will be holdng an Author Meet & Greet at Blue House Books, 5915 6th Ave. A in Kenosha, from noon to 3 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 1 and an event at Love’s Sweet Arrow, 17200 Oak Park Ave. Suite 103, Tinley Park, Ill, from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 7.For more information on all of Luna’s books, visit www.carlalunabooks.com.

Why Historical Tourism Matters for Europe’s Economy

Historical tourism is travel with a very specific purpose. The goal is to explore a specific region’s history and heritage. By visiting heritage sites and historical monuments, and examining artefacts, visitors are transported back to some of the most significant turning points in history.
This gives them fresh new perspectives and deeper insights into days gone by. But the economy stands to gain even more benefits from this renewed interest in Europe’s past. Read on and discover exactly why historical tourism matters for Europe’s economy and its future. 
Specialized Historical Tours Offer Unique Experiences
In more general tourism, visitors often like to go exploring on their own. But with historical tourism, specialized tours are more popular. They offer tourists insights into historical events that they might not experience when touring solo. And they offer impressive economic benefits too. 
Even niche tour operators like Band of Brothers Tours are making their mark on the European economy. 
Band of Brothers tours offer in-depth experiences of World War 2 history, allowing participants to have a personal connection with key historical events. Their unique, tailored military history experiences attract visitors from all over the world. And this means more tourism revenue for the European economy. 
Boosts the Economy 
Historical tourism generates significant income for local businesses and attractions. Indeed, research into the influence of World Heritage Sites on European tourism dynamics supports this. These sites offer significant advantages, even for less developed regions that otherwise experience less recognition. 
Like all types of tourism, historical tourism generates income through tourist spending. It stimulates the local development of small businesses to meet the demand of these international visitors. And it creates employment opportunities, both in jobs at established tourism facilities and in entrepreneurship.
However, whereas ordinary leisure tourism offers these benefits, historical tourism has a competitive edge. Activities and facilities that focus on history and heritage are now in high demand. Which means even more revenue and job creation. 
Offers Employment Opportunities
It is well known that certain attractions, like seaside entertainment facilities, offer economic benefits like increased tourism and job creation. However, while seaside attractions promote seasonal tourism,  historical tourism provides employment opportunities year-round.
Although more peak travel seasons and fair weather play their part, a historical tour is not as dependent on these factors as a seaside vacation. People who take historical tours are less concerned with the weather than the historical importance of their destination. 
Therefore, historical tourism offers more consistent and permanent employment opportunities for local tour operators. Local museums, art galleries, transportation services, restaurants, and, of course, hotels, all benefit from this year-round tourism boost as well.
Preserves Cultural Heritage 
Like all other industries, tourism is subject to trends that reflect society’s changing attitudes. The rise of new niche travel markets like wellness tourism and sustainable ecotourism are great examples of this. These tourism trends all have unique benefits for both the visitors and the economy. 
However, only historical tourism truly promotes and preserves Europe’s rich cultural legacy. Revenue from historical tourism typically funds the preservation of heritage sites, monuments and museums. And this means that Europe’s rich historical legacy will endure for future generations to enjoy. 
Therefore, in areas where funding for historical preservation is in short supply, historical tourism can be the answer. 
Supports Regional Development 
Too often, European tourism centres around the major metropolitan and tourism hubs, to the detriment of outlying areas. However historical tours create more opportunities for these undeveloped and less visited areas, whose attraction lies in their heritage contributions.   
By organizing historical tours in these smaller towns and rural areas, tour companies bring them much-needed public recognition and economic growth. Smaller hotels and inns as well as local dining establishments and traditional artisans all benefit from the increase in potential clientele. 
Promotes Cross-Cultural Understanding
When tourists engage with Europe’s past through tours of heritage sites, they do more than just fill their leisure hours with exciting activities. They receive an on-site education about European history and gain greater cultural awareness in the process. 
This in turn promotes further exploration of all of Europe’s diverse nations and fosters interaction between different cultural groups.  Thanks to growing interest in Europe’s WW2 sites like Normandy, historical tours enhance this cross-cultural understanding and appreciation for the heroes of Europe’s past. 
Conclusion
Historical tourism offers many opportunities of cultural and educational significance for visitors to Europe. It also offers many distinct economic benefits for the countries, regions and towns that they visit. 
Would you consider investing in Europe’s thriving historical tourism industry? It offers much more than just an exciting and potentially lucrative investment. It is a step towards preserving the European continent’s culture and heritage, which is also a powerful investment in the future.

Why Historical Tourism Matters for Europe’s Economy

Historical tourism is travel with a very specific purpose. The goal is to explore a specific region’s history and heritage. By visiting heritage sites and historical monuments, and examining artefacts, visitors are transported back to some of the most significant turning points in history.
This gives them fresh new perspectives and deeper insights into days gone by. But the economy stands to gain even more benefits from this renewed interest in Europe’s past. Read on and discover exactly why historical tourism matters for Europe’s economy and its future. 
Specialized Historical Tours Offer Unique Experiences
In more general tourism, visitors often like to go exploring on their own. But with historical tourism, specialized tours are more popular. They offer tourists insights into historical events that they might not experience when touring solo. And they offer impressive economic benefits too. 
Even niche tour operators like Band of Brothers Tours are making their mark on the European economy. 
Band of Brothers tours offer in-depth experiences of World War 2 history, allowing participants to have a personal connection with key historical events. Their unique, tailored military history experiences attract visitors from all over the world. And this means more tourism revenue for the European economy. 
Boosts the Economy 
Historical tourism generates significant income for local businesses and attractions. Indeed, research into the influence of World Heritage Sites on European tourism dynamics supports this. These sites offer significant advantages, even for less developed regions that otherwise experience less recognition. 
Like all types of tourism, historical tourism generates income through tourist spending. It stimulates the local development of small businesses to meet the demand of these international visitors. And it creates employment opportunities, both in jobs at established tourism facilities and in entrepreneurship.
However, whereas ordinary leisure tourism offers these benefits, historical tourism has a competitive edge. Activities and facilities that focus on history and heritage are now in high demand. Which means even more revenue and job creation. 
Offers Employment Opportunities
It is well known that certain attractions, like seaside entertainment facilities, offer economic benefits like increased tourism and job creation. However, while seaside attractions promote seasonal tourism,  historical tourism provides employment opportunities year-round.
Although more peak travel seasons and fair weather play their part, a historical tour is not as dependent on these factors as a seaside vacation. People who take historical tours are less concerned with the weather than the historical importance of their destination. 
Therefore, historical tourism offers more consistent and permanent employment opportunities for local tour operators. Local museums, art galleries, transportation services, restaurants, and, of course, hotels, all benefit from this year-round tourism boost as well.
Preserves Cultural Heritage 
Like all other industries, tourism is subject to trends that reflect society’s changing attitudes. The rise of new niche travel markets like wellness tourism and sustainable ecotourism are great examples of this. These tourism trends all have unique benefits for both the visitors and the economy. 
However, only historical tourism truly promotes and preserves Europe’s rich cultural legacy. Revenue from historical tourism typically funds the preservation of heritage sites, monuments and museums. And this means that Europe’s rich historical legacy will endure for future generations to enjoy. 
Therefore, in areas where funding for historical preservation is in short supply, historical tourism can be the answer. 
Supports Regional Development 
Too often, European tourism centres around the major metropolitan and tourism hubs, to the detriment of outlying areas. However historical tours create more opportunities for these undeveloped and less visited areas, whose attraction lies in their heritage contributions.   
By organizing historical tours in these smaller towns and rural areas, tour companies bring them much-needed public recognition and economic growth. Smaller hotels and inns as well as local dining establishments and traditional artisans all benefit from the increase in potential clientele. 
Promotes Cross-Cultural Understanding
When tourists engage with Europe’s past through tours of heritage sites, they do more than just fill their leisure hours with exciting activities. They receive an on-site education about European history and gain greater cultural awareness in the process. 
This in turn promotes further exploration of all of Europe’s diverse nations and fosters interaction between different cultural groups.  Thanks to growing interest in Europe’s WW2 sites like Normandy, historical tours enhance this cross-cultural understanding and appreciation for the heroes of Europe’s past. 
Conclusion
Historical tourism offers many opportunities of cultural and educational significance for visitors to Europe. It also offers many distinct economic benefits for the countries, regions and towns that they visit. 
Would you consider investing in Europe’s thriving historical tourism industry? It offers much more than just an exciting and potentially lucrative investment. It is a step towards preserving the European continent’s culture and heritage, which is also a powerful investment in the future.

singapore ‘Chinese go home’: Man hurls racist remarks at Singaporean woman at tourist attraction in Japan

A Singaporean woman’s solo trip in Japan turned sour when a local man started heckling her and behaved aggressively.Stomp contributor Jann said the incident took place at Hakone Shrine on the morning of Nov 19, when she was posing for photos at the iconic spot, being “very mindful of the three-minute rule”.

She was referring to a rule about how visitors are allowed up to three minutes to take pictures at the shrine.

Jann, who is in her 50s, explained: “There is a signboard placed prominently next to the queue for the shrine. From what I could see, everyone was abiding by the rule — tourists and locals alike.

“I had asked a solo traveller (a PhD student from China) queuing in front of me to take my pics and I would take his.

“It is possible the Japanese man thought we were together in a group and therefore should take three minutes in total. Even then, I am sure the two of us took three minutes or less. There was a line of visitors since it’s a famous spot, so both of us were very mindful.

“This Japanese guy was heckling me in the background, saying, “Chinese go home.”

“When I asked him whether he had actually timed me, he just repeated the above refrain and showed me his middle finger. I should have probably walked away at this point, but in a flash I thought I should take his pic for remembrance.

“He snatched away my phone, pushed me and refused to return my phone.

“Fortunately, a big European guy stood up, removed my phone from the man and returned it to me, saying, ‘You don’t treat a lady like that.’

“Like all bullies, the man capitulated when confronted by a bigger guy.”

The Stomp contributor, whose phone strap was broken during the altercation, added: “I have actually written to the Japanese tourism agency with feedback to install a timer at the shrine.”

Jann, who is currently still in Hakone, shared her background: “I studied Japanese for a while and have a sense of affinity with Japanese culture. I am very mindful of Japanese customs e.g. keep your volume low, don’t eat while walking, etc.

“It’s quite a pity that I came across such an unreasonably rude Japanese. He was clearly heckling because of anti-Chinese sentiments and did it even when I was taking photos.

“This is the very first time I have encountered such antagonistic behaviour with expressed anti-Chinese sentiments. I am sharing this so that solo travellers to Japan can be more mindful of anti-Chinese sentiments and Japanese misogyny.

“To be clear, there is always bad sheep in any race, country or region. Just be mindful of what can happen. Anyway, running into a local bigot is a small incident in the bigger scheme of life.”

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Discover How NASA’s EMIT Is Revolutionizing Climate Science From Space

NASA’s EMIT mission, initially focused on desert mineral mapping, now encompasses a range of studies from greenhouse gas detection to snowpack analysis and the effects of dust on climate, reflecting significant contributions to Earth and environmental sciences. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
Launched in July 2022, NASA’s EMIT mission aboard the International Space Station has evolved from mapping minerals in deserts to a broader role in climate science, agriculture, and hydrology.
It now helps pinpoint greenhouse gas emissions, measure snowpack melting rates, and assess the climate impact of dust, supporting numerous new research projects across various scientific domains.
Observing our planet from the International Space Station since July 2022, NASA’s EMIT (Earth Surface Mineral Dust Source Investigation) mission is beginning its next act.
At first, the imaging spectrometer was solely aimed at mapping minerals over Earth’s desert regions to help determine the cooling and heating effects that dust can have on regional and global climate. The instrument soon added another skill: pinpointing greenhouse gas emission sources, including landfills and fossil fuel infrastructure.
NASA’s EMIT collected this hyperspectral image of the Amazon River in northern Brazil on June 30 as part of an effort to map global ecosystem biodiversity. The instrument was originally tasked with mapping minerals over deserts; its data is now being used in research on a diverse range of topics.Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
Mission Expansion and New Applications
Following a mission extension this year, EMIT is now collecting data from regions beyond deserts, addressing topics as varied as agriculture, hydrology, and climate science.
Imaging spectrometers like EMIT detect the light reflected from Earth, and they separate visible and infrared light into hundreds of wavelength bands — colors, essentially. Scientists use patterns of reflection and absorption at different wavelengths to determine the composition of what the instrument is observing. The approach echoes Isaac Newton’s prism experiments in 1672, in which the physicist discovered that visible light is composed of a rainbow of colors.
“Breakthroughs in optics, physics, and chemistry led to where we are today with this incredible instrument, providing data to help address pressing questions on our planet,” said Dana Chadwick, EMIT’s applications lead at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California.
Perched on the International Space Station, NASA’s EMIT can differentiate between types of vegetation to help researchers understand the distribution and traits of plant communities. The instrument collected this data over the mid-Atlantic U.S. on April 23. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
New Research Projects Utilizing EMIT
In its extended mission, EMIT’s data will be the focus of 16 new projects under NASA’s Research Opportunities in Space and Earth Science (ROSES) program, which funds science investigations at universities, research institutions, and NASA.
For example, the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) and the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Agricultural Research Service are exploring how EMIT can assess climate-smart agricultural practices. Those practices — winter cover crops and conservation tillage — involve protecting cropland during non-growing seasons with either living plants or dead plant matter to prevent erosion and manage nitrogen.
Agriculture and Environmental Management
Imaging spectrometers are capable of gathering data on the distribution and characteristics of plants and plant matter, based on the patterns of light they reflect. The information can help agricultural agencies incentivize farmers to use sustainable practices and potentially help farmers manage their fields.
“We’re adding more accuracy and reducing error on the measurements we are supplying to end users,” said Jyoti Jennewein, an Agricultural Research Service research physical scientist based in Fort Collins, Colorado, and a project co-lead.
The USGS-USDA project is also informing analytical approaches for NASA’s future Surface Biology and Geology-Visible Shortwave Infrared mission. The satellite will cover Earth’s land and coasts more frequently than EMIT, with finer spatial resolution.
Enhancing Snow Melt Estimates
Another new project will test whether EMIT data can help refine estimates of snowpack melting rates. Such an improvement could inform water management in states like California, where meltwater makes up the majority of the agricultural water supply.
Imaging spectrometers like EMIT measure the albedo of snow — the percentage of solar radiation it’s reflecting. What isn’t reflected is absorbed, so the observations indicate how much energy snow is taking in, which in turn helps with estimates of snow melt rates. The instruments also discern what’s affecting albedo: snow-grain size, dust or soot contamination, or both.
For this work, EMIT’s ability to measure beyond visible light is key. Ice is “pretty absorptive at near-infrared and the shortwave infrared wavelengths,” said Jeff Dozier, a University of California, Santa Barbara professor emeritus and the project’s principal investigator.
Other ROSES-funded projects focus on wildflower blooming, phytoplankton, and carbon dynamics in inland waters, ecosystem biodiversity, and functional traits of forests.
Climate Effects of Dust
Researchers with EMIT will continue to study the climate effects of dust. When lofted into the air by windstorms, darker, iron-filled dust absorbs the Sun’s heat and warms the surrounding air, while lighter-colored, clay-rich particles do the opposite. Scientists have been uncertain whether airborne dust has overall cooling or warming effects on the planet. Before EMIT, they could only assume the color of particles in a region.
The EMIT mission is “giving us lab-quality results, everywhere we need to know,” said Natalie Mahowald, the mission’s deputy principal investigator and an Earth system scientist at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York. Feeding the data into Earth system computer models, Mahowald expects to get closer to pinpointing dust’s climate impact as Earth warms.
Greenhouse Gas Detection
The mission will continue to identify point-source emissions of methane and carbon dioxide, the greenhouse gases most responsible for climate change, and observations are available through EMIT’s data portal and the U.S. Greenhouse Gas Center.
The EMIT team is also refining the software that identifies and measures greenhouse-gas plumes in the data, and they’re working to streamline the process with machine-learning automation. Aligning with NASA’s open science initiative, they are sharing code with public, private, and nonprofit organizations doing similar work.
“Making this work publicly accessible has fundamentally pushed the science of measuring point-source emissions forward and expanded the use of EMIT data,” said Andrew Thorpe, the JPL research technologist heading the EMIT greenhouse gas effort.
More About EMIT
The EMIT instrument was developed by NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), which is managed for the agency by Caltech in Pasadena, California. Launched to the International Space Station in July 2022, EMIT is on an extended three-year mission in which it’s supporting a range of research projects. EMIT’s data products are available at the NASA Land Processes Distributed Active Archive Center for use by other researchers and the public.

Small business help comes for rural Washington counties at new center at LCC

A new Small Business Development Center office on the Lower Columbia College campus will provide local entrepreneurs free guidance on every step of running a small business, from fleshing out a new idea to exporting goods internationally.The new office aims to mainly support Cowlitz, Wahkiakum, Pacific and Grays Harbor counties — more rural areas with higher poverty than the state average.Having an office to help that part of Southwest Washington has been a long-term goal, State Director Sheryl McGrath said. Although the office only just opened Wednesday, she already has many ideas about future partnerships with LCC and other local organizations.“We’ve got a dream that’s going to grow,” she said.

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Sheryl McGrath, Washington State Director of the Small Business Development Center, cuts the cake at the opening celebration for the center’s Longview location Nov. 13. The cake was provided by Sweet Side of Bex, a Kelso bakery. 

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How does it work?The Small Business Development Center is a national organization funded by the U.S. Small Business Administration that advises small business owners on topics like finances, marketing and human resources. It has 33 offices in Washington, with the closest in Vancouver, and almost 1,000 nationwide.The organization previously had an office in Kelso, but its services were more targeted toward Clark County, said Kyle Todd, the business advisor for the LCC office. The Kelso office closed to allow the Vancouver Small Business Development Center to take the lead in Clark County.People looking for help from the Small Business Development Center are typically assigned to the advisor who is closest to them geographically, but if they have a specific need, they may be assigned to an advisor farther away who specializes in that topic, Todd said. He considers his specialty area to be startups and businesses that are looking to expand out of the startup phase.Even before the office just formally opened, people were already signing up for appointments, Todd said. To keep each meeting confidential, the office does not accept walk-in clients.Get adviceTo schedule an appointment at the Small Business Development Center, call 833-492-7232 or email Kyle Todd at [email protected] advisors are required to take a six-month certification training before they can start working, to make sure they understand the organization’s standards.“It ensures that we speak the same language, we’re using the same terminology,” McGrath said.

Lower Columbia College students and staff, along with Small Business Development Center staff, attended the opening of the organization’s new office inside LCC’s Business Achievement Center Nov. 13. 

Minka Atkinson

Why is it needed?The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services reports Wahkiakum had the fourth highest poverty rate in Washington state in 2018-2022, while Pacific County was ranked eighth, Grays Harbor ninth and Cowlitz 16th.In Cowlitz County in particular, the state Employment Security Department reports the unemployment rate has run about two percentage points higher than the national average, and even three or four points higher during recessions.In September, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics lists the Longview metro area with the second highest unemployment rate of the state’s 13 metro areas, with only Yakima ahead.Longview Mayor Spencer Boudreau, who attended the center’s opening, said he hopes expanding opportunities for small businesses will help grow LCC as well as improve Longview’s economic situation.“We’re not just a timber town,” he said about the city originally formed around the Long-Bell Lumber Company in the early 1920s. “We’re not just an industry town. Longview’s second century can be built on partnerships with LCC.”Many local business owners, like people around the country, are struggling to keep up with inflation and a rising cost of living, he added.“It’s a tough world out there economically,” Boudreau said.According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics’ Consumer Price Index, the annual inflation rate in 2024 was 2.6% in October. It has dropped from a high of 9.1% in June 2022, but many Americans are still noticing high prices for groceries and other necessities.

Small Business Development Center State Director Sheryl McGrath introduces Kyle Todd, the business advisor for the Longview office, during its opening event Nov. 13.

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How does LCC benefit?LCC staff hope the office will draw more community members to the school’s business programs.The Small Business Development Center is located inside LCC’s Business Achievement Center in the Applied Arts Building.“Coming here to the Lower Columbia College campus made absolute sense because of this amazing business center here,” Todd said.Todd said that although he is not a member of LCC’s faculty, he would be open to getting involved by giving presentations to business classes in the future.Business is one of the biggest programs at LCC after degrees like English and math, which students looking to transfer to other schools tend to take, said Mark Gaither, the lead faculty advisor for the Business Achievement Center.Students and community members alike often come to the school to ask for advice on running a business. Gaither said LCC’s business center typically sees at least two community members each week with questions about things like creating a website or getting a business license.“There’s been a missing component,” he said. “People who are interested in starting a business, how do they do that?”The Business Achievement Center tries to ensure that its services do not compete with professional advisors, and points visitors toward paid options that can provide more in-depth information, Gaither said. It partners with programs like Recast Your City, which aims to help cities revitalize their downtowns.He said he hopes people who visit the Small Business Design Center will turn to LCC if they are interested in learning more about business management. LCC offers for-credit business classes as well as non-credit continuing education classes that people who are not students can sign up for.“I see those expanding considerably,” Gaither said.
Minka Atkinson is a news reporter for The Daily News covering education, health and social services in Cowlitz County.

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