Photography is NOT A Crime > Release The Mesa Police Body Cam Video

Time and time again when photographic/video/body cam evidence is suppressed in police officer-involved shooting incidents it results in a delayed public outrage about the use of excessive force, headline-grabbing demonstrations, social media outrage, investigation after investigation, notices and settlements of multi-million dollars claims against cities, and the arrests and prosecutions of those paid to serve, protect and defend the public interest.
Since 18 January 2016 when an incident happened here in Mesa - almost four months ago - it started out with just an item on that day's crime reports, slowly gaining traction to create a crescendo in social media over the weekend.

Why?

Mesa Police Officer-Involved Shooting > Sensational Media Beat Reporting

Within the last 24 hours there have been more than 15 articles and reports in local and national media about this incident on 18 January at the La Quinta Inn. Unfortunately it's all getting more sensational all the time - now getting attention from Gawker and tabloid NY Daily News . . . tens of thousands of people have read online and social media or watched news coverage of this one incident here in Mesa.
With the release of a 12-page investigation report on Monday by the Mesa Police Department about officer Philip "Mitch" Brailsford, seen in the accompanying image from that report, headlines are multiplying.

Daniel Shaver, unarmed man killed by Arizona police officer, cried and begged for life before shooting
By Jason Silverstein NY Daily News/

Updated: Wednesday, March 30, 2016, 2:49 PM

An unarmed man who was shot and killed by an Arizona police officer in January cried, complied with police orders and begged for his life before the fatal firing, according to a newly released police report.
Mesa Police Officer Philip Brailsford has been charged with second-degree murder for the death of Daniel Shaver, a 26-year-old Texas man. Authorities have declined to release Brailsford’s body cam footage from the deadly encounter.Source: NY Daily News

Unarmed man begged for life before AZ cop with "YOU'RE FUCKED" sticker on rifle shot him to death
/ Cory Doctorow / 3:35 pm Wed Mar 30, 2016

The body-camera video that presumably shows the shooting of an unarmed man by a former Mesa police officer at a hotel will not be released . . .

From Singapore Today: SF Fed Prez John Williams | Janet Yellens US Fed Reserve Bank Chief @ NY Economic Club



Both in the same day, worlds apart, saying what they think about the global and U.S. economies + some other people talking about what they didn't say
Yellen - "mixed"
Williams - the spoiler alert is that it’s not as bad as everyone thinks.
[links and details to follow]

Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen said on Tuesday the U.S. central bank should proceed only cautiously as it looks to raise interest rates, pushing back on a handful of her colleagues who have suggested another move may be just around the corner.

In her first comments since the Fed decided to hold rates steady two weeks ago, Yellen said inflation has not yet proven durable against the backdrop of looming global risks to the U.S economy, including still-low oil prices and concerns over China.

The comments, which boosted stocks and bonds and hit the dollar, come as healthier measures of U.S. inflation and manufacturing have prompted some other Fed officials to say another policy tightening could come as soon as April.










Trick of the Light?
The U.S. Economy, Global Growth, and International Risks in Perspective
http://www.frbsf.org/our-district/press/presidents-speeches/williams-speeches/2016/march/trick-of-the-light-us-economy-global-growth-international-risks/

A Lesson In Advertising For Visit Mesa: Millenials Don't Like to Get Targeted

Just a quick flashback to a post here on 14 March about the spoon-fed news published by reporters in certain media outlets.
Your MesaZona blogger posed a question: Why focus on millennials as one population group for this ad campaign-buy [contract price not disclosed] when you can easily see in the infographic from the U.S. Census Bureau from July 2014 that there's almost an even spread in generation lines from the ages of 25-65+?

Ten days later on March 24, 2016 Bloomberg Surveillance presented a discussion with Kevin Roberts, the Chairman of one of the world's most creative organizations - the highly  respected Advertising/Public Relations companies Saatchi & Saatchi, speaking from London.

Here's a link to watch >> A Lesson in Advertising
Some take-away, but take the time to see this video
1. Millennials want to be involved but they don't like being marketed to . . . that's a failure
2. Segmenting the public by age is over
3. We don't live in an age-based culture
4. Everything is available to all of us

If the tourism-marketing arm for the City of Mesa chooses to spend money to sell downtown Mesa as the playground for millennials, let's see some results for the 7-month campaign.

Owens Harley included a link to the video you can go to >> here
 "Our downtown Is Your Playground"
Downtown Mesa is a place bursting with energy and life. Between nightlife, festivals, funky little side shops, and proximity to light rail, Downtown Mesa has quickly become one of Arizona’s booming urban centers. So how does an agency tell this story? With a music video, of course.
From creative concept to song writing to drone flying, the OH team led all creative elements of Downtown Mesa’s music video production. We hope you’ll enjoy watching — and visiting — as much as we enjoyed making it.

Tags: advertising, Arizona, content marketing, Digital, digital advertising, Mesa, music, Music Video, Social Media, Tourism, Video

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Update from 10 March Post > Behind-the-Screen Installation for Mesa Musical Shadows

Here's a close-up look at the ongoing work - almost ready for going public this saturday

MESA MUSICAL SHADOWS

Mesa Arts Center

[North Campus @ Center Street]

Grand Opening & Public Unveiling: 

Sat 02 April 2016 2:00-3:30 PM

Your MesaZona just could not wait to take another look at what's going on since getting curious in a post here on 03 March seeing an area surveyed earlier and "under-wraps".

The finished lay-out and design is shown in the image to the right of tiles pink-and-blue - the artwork consists of light sensors and small speakers embedded in a geometric arrangement of colored concrete tiles, placed flush to the concrete plaza surface outside the north Ikeda Theater lobby opposite the Center Street light rail station.

Each sensor will respond to changes in light, which will trigger different melodic or percussive sounds, emitted through speakers embedded in the plaza.

If multiple sensors are activated by a group of people playing together, a complex composition can be created.

Artist: Daily tous les jours, from Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Mesa Musical Shadows is generously [over $400,000] supported by a grant from ArtPlace America.

It is part of the 21st Century Cafe Society Project, a multi-phase initiative to create a welcoming and activated environment at MAC's north entry plaza

[more details about Mesa 21st Century Café Society can be found in earlier posts here].

 

 

EVENT DETAILS: 

A special event to celebrate the completion of Mesa Musical Shadows, Saturday, April 2, 2-3:30 p.m. The event will include:

• music and refreshments,
• remarks from Mesa Vice Mayor Dennis Kavanaugh and Councilmember Chris Glover,
• a special performance of a commissioned dance piece to be performed with the artwork
• ribbon cutting
• and an opportunity to be one of the first people to “play” the piece!

Let's see how exciting an over $4000,000 artwork can be . . .

From Arizona to International Space Station: Orbital ATK Cygnus Resupply Mission AOK

Just wanted to follow-through with a post from 22 March about a local aerospace business expansion to show global connections for unsuccessful launch and docking.
Image to the left shows Cygnus in red achieving berthing to the ISS on Saturday.
Some complications to get to the success with different teams and locations around the globe. Worth the read - and to know that Russian engines are used.
(Images: via NASA, ULA, Orbital ATK and Jacques van Oene/Spacepatches.nl – also L2 Artist Nathan Koga – plus L2’s Cygnus Section – Containing presentations, videos, a vast set of unreleased hi-res images, interactive high-level updates and more, with additional images via Orbital ATK and NASA)
It's from a very detailed article written on March 25, 2016 by Chris Gebhardt, Chris Bergin and William Graham that appeared on NASA Spaceflight.com

Cygnus completes ISS arrival as ULA investigate Atlas V launch

https://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2016/03/cygnus-final-atlas-iss/
Cygnus OA-6 Arrival:
Immediately following launch, Cygnus – named S.S. Rick Husband – successfully entered its target orbit and deployed its lightweight solar arrays.
Since then, Orbital ATK mission controllers in Dulles, Virginia, spent the early days of Cygnus’ mission uploading and executing the first of a series of rendezvous phasing burns (called DV – Delta Velocity burns) to refine the S.S. Rick Husband’s trajectory toward the Station.
The first DV burn occurred on Wednesday, lasted approximately 10 minutes, and was designed to raise Cygnus from its initial near-circular 230km orbit to the 400km orbit of the ISS.
A similarly long DV burn followed, again to raise Cygnus to its proper orbital altitude.
This was then followed by a planned phasing burn to align Cygnus into the exact orbital corridor of the Station and then by a final set of DV burns on Friday to bring Cygnus to its “Go/No-Go for Joint-Ops” decision point, which it reached roughly 5hrs prior to capture at approximately 01:40 EDT Saturday.
Once Cygnus received the “go” from MCC-H (Mission Control Center – Houston) for Joint Ops, Cygnus slowly approached the Station to the Joint Targeting Reference Point (JTRP), which it arrived at just over 3hrs prior to capture – at approximately 03:30 EDT
From this point until capture and berthing, every step of the rendezvous required a strong communications link through the JEM (Japanese Experiment Module) PROX system between Cygnus, the ISS, and ground controllers.

This communication structure ensured the ability to manually abort – or at least retreat – Cygnus’ approach to the Station in the event of a problem with the spacecraft or the ISS.
Once at the JTRP, Cygnus stopped relative motion with the ISS and awaited a second Go/No-Go decision from MCC-H.
At this point, Cygnus was in the Joint Operations Phase (JOPS) of approach, as overviewed in documentation acquired by L2..
Approximately 3hrs before capture, and with MCC-H providing a “go” to proceed, Cygnus performed the first of four ADV thruster burns (ADV1) to begin moving closer to Station.
During these proximity ADV burns, Cygnus – until capture – made use of the TriDAR vision system designed by Canadian company Neptec with the support of NASA and the Canadian Space Agency.
TriDAR – tested during several Space Shuttle missions and used by SpaceX’s Dragon – will provide Cygnus controllers with real-time visual guidance for navigation, rendezvous and docking procedures.

After Cygnus’ completed her first two ADV burns, the ISS maneuvered to capture attitude – a 5 minute process that took place just over 2hrs prior to targeted capture time.
Then, with just under 2hrs to go until capture, MCC-H issued another Go/No-Go decision regarding two more ADV burns for Cygnus, which took the spacecraft to its 250m hold point below the ISS.
An hour later, MCC-H gave the “go” for Cygnus to depart the 250m hold point and enter the Keep Out Sphere (KOS) of the ISS.Cygnus then pulsed its thrusters and enter the KOS.
Up until this point, Orbital ATK controllers at their facility in Dulles had full control over Cygnus.Once Cygnus entered the KOS, NASA controllers at MCC-H joined the Orbital ATK team for the tricky rendezvous and berthing of Cygnus.Just under half an hour prior to capture, Cygnus arrived at the 30m Hold Point.
Atlas V Launch:
The veteran Atlas V rocket launched on its first attempt at the opening of the available window on Tuesday, lighting up the sky as she gracefully departed SLC-41 at Cape Canaveral.Vulcan:
Despite Atlas V’s impressive track record, ULA is preparing to bring a new rocket online by the end of the decade.
Due in part to geopolitical and US political considerations regarding Russian-built engines for the Atlas V fleet and also to increasing competition from SpaceX, ULA announced in September 2014 that it had entered into a partnership with Blue Origin to develop a new series of liquid oxygen and methane engines for a new first stage booster.
The Vulcan is designed to launch with dual Blue Origin BE-4 engines. However, Aerojet Rocketdyne is also developing the AR1 engine which could power the Vulcan Centaur.
ULA notes that their strategic partnership for American main engines – along with Orbital ATK for the solid rocket boosters and RUAG Space for domestically-produced composite structures – enables collaborative development of Vulcan to maximize the value of this new launch capability.
“Vulcan Centaur will revolutionize spaceflight and provide affordable, reliable access to space with an American main engine,” added Mark Peller, ULA’s program manager for major development.

Maricopa County Prez Primary 2016 Election = A Fiasco + A National Disgrace

Outrage and investigations on the state and federal levels have been provoked by massive suppression of voters' rights here during last Tuesday's elections in Maricopa County for the presidential preference primary.
The reactions from voters were fierce, fast and furious even in districts where less than 50% of eligible voters took the time to get registered.
Both Arizona Governor Doug Ducey got involved and Phoenix Mayor Greg Stanton asked for a Department of Justice investigation to confirm legal actions to examine the issues after voters raise their voices to complain. Your MesaZona blogger at this point in time has not heard a statement from Mayor John Giles.

The Arizona State Legislature is on schedule for hearings to start on Monday. Even in news outlets on the other side of the planet in the Arab world, this report from Gulf News had this to say:
[March 26, 2016 | Last updated less than one minute ago]
PHOENIX: Hours-long waits for some Arizona residents for presidential primary voting have led to accusations of voter suppression from Democrats and civil rights proponents who cite a decision by elections officials to slash the number of polling places this year.Residents in metro Phoenix have been bristling for years over a perception that state leaders want to make it harder for them to vote, and the mess at the polls Tuesday only heightened their frustration.

Helen Purcell, recorder for Maricopa County shown in the image to the left,  took responsibility for Tuesday’s foul-up and acknowledged she made a mistake. She said she relied on voter turnout expectations, the fact independents could not vote in the primary, and that most Arizonans are mailed early ballots. But she said the problems at the polls were in no way intended to suppress participation.

NBC News ran this piece by Raul A. Reyes yesterday Mar 25 2016, 2:50 pm ET 
Opinion: Latinos Disenfranchised in Arizona Primary Fiasco
What a mess. The big news out of Arizona on Tuesday night wasn't only the respective victories by presidential candidates Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump. It was also the abject failure of Maricopa County officials to properly run the elections.
The 2016 Arizona primary was a disgrace. Not only did it reflect extraordinarily poor judgment by elected officials, Maricopa County in effect disenfranchised untold numbers of voters. This sorry state of affairs illustrates why Latinos still need the protections of the Voting Rights Act.