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Friday, June 10, 2016

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What ABOR Said and Approved Yesterday : 2 Media Accounts + Original Source

What ABOR approved
[ excerpts taken from this State press article By Joshua Bowling | 47 minutes ago ]

" . . . Crow shifted gears farther into the future and discussed ASU's continuing plans with the city of Mesa to establish an ASU presence in the city's downtown. He said the model for the idea is akin to ASU's partnership with Phoenix, where the University utilizes spaces provided by the city. [Blogger's Note: Phoenix and Mesa are two very different cities - what works in one does not mean it will work the other]

". . . There are not very many opportunities like this that come around where we have an opportunity to leap-frog to a world-class facility," Crow said. "We believe that we have the means ?, the mechanisms ?, the drive ? and the commitment ?? to make this work."

Crow said the ever-lengthening light rail route would provide an effortless form of transportation for students to travel both to and from several of the University's campuses. [Blogger's Note: and students could leave Mesa on light rail to travel into the ever-expanding ASU Tempe campus - that way business in The New Urban DTMesa, just recovering from three years of Valley Metro construction, will not get impacted and disrupted again]

Ram Krishna

The board members agreed with ASU's proposals for expansion into Mesa, but Regent Ram Krishna [in image to the right ]expressed frustration with how long the move to Mesa is taking.

It should be done as immediately as possible, he said.

Ram Krishna

Secretary

Hometown: Yuma

Term Expires: 2020

Business Phone: 928 726-6943

Ram.Krishna@azregents.edu

Ram Krishna, M.D., was appointed by Gov. Brewer and to an eight-year term on the board, which began in May 2012. He currently serves as secretary of the board, chairs the Health Affairs Committee, and is a member of the Academic and Student Affairs Committee, the Regents’ Award Committee and the Regents Executive Committee

Regent Krishna is an orthopedic surgeon who is currently in private practice in Yuma. He is a member of the Arizona Board of Medical Examiners, Arizona Orthopedic Society, Arizona Medical Association and Yuma County Medical Society.
Source: https://www.azregents.edu/regents/ram-krishna

Readers of this blog might like to note this artice from June 7, 2016 "The Arizona Medical Association is urging the Arizona Board of Regents to conduct an immediate investigation into the departure of the senior leadership team at the University of Arizona College of Medicine-Phoenix. . . "

Here's how mainstream media work with each to promote the story:

1. Phoenix Business Journal

ASU gets OK for Mesa campus (so long as city voters approve tax hike)

Jun 9, 2016, 8:58pm MST

Tim Gallen Digital Editor

Arizona State University received the all-clear from the state Board of Regents to expand into Mesa — pending voter approval of a tax increase, reports The Arizona Republic.

Mesa voters will decide this fall on a proposed increase to the city's sales tax that would fund academic buildings in downtown in which ASU would operate and manage."

2. Arizona Republic

Regents give ASU go-ahead to expand into Mesa if city voters approve deal

June 9, 2016 The Arizona Republic | azcentral.com 5:54 p.m. MS

Anne Ryman and Maria Polletta, [image at left]

Anne Ryman

@anneryman

I cover higher education for The Arizona Republic and azcentral. Got a story idea? Email me: anne.ryman@arizonarepublic.com. Retweets/links not endorsements

For Budget details:

ABOR approved all of the proposed university budgets on Thursday. ASU has an additional $7 million to appropriate however the University sees fit, according to the budget. Although University officials will get to decide how to best spend the money, they did not specify where the sum will go.

The board approved each university's capital development plans for the upcoming academic year.
ASU also pitched a housing complex which would feature an assisted-living facility on Mill Avenue and University Drive, near the Tempe Campus. The assisted-living units would aid the elderly and those who require regular physical assistance.

Morgan Olsen, chief financial officer, treasurer and executive vice president at ASU, said the model age range for such housing would fall between 50 and 70.

The three universities will present further to ABOR at the final board meeting on Friday.

Meeting Documents for Meeting: 6/10/2016

2016-06-Board-Book.pdf
Item 9 Attachments.pdf
Amended Executive Session Agenda.pdf
Amended Schedule.pdf

SOLAR MINIMUM/CERN/MINI ICE AGE/TAMBORA/5.2 Quake CA.

Published on Jun 10, 2016

5.2 EARTHQUAKE, SOUTHERN CA. CERN UPDATE. MINI ICE AGE AND THE YEAR WITHOUT A SUMMER, 5.2 EARTHQUAKE, SOUTHERN CA. CERN UPDATE. MINI ICE AGE AND THE YEAR WITHOUT A SUMMER, The year 1816 is known as the Year Without a Summer (also the Poverty Year, the Summer that Never Was, Year There Was No Summer, and Eighteen Hundred and Froze to Death, because of severe climate abnormalities that caused average global temperatures to decrease by 0.4–0.7 °C (0.7–1.3 °F). This resulted in major food shortages across the Northern Hemisphere.
Evidence suggests that the anomaly was predominantly a volcanic winter event caused by the massive 1815 eruption of Mount Tambora in the Dutch East Indies, the largest eruption in at least 1,300 years after the extreme weather events of 535–536. The Earth had already been in a centuries-long period of global cooling that started in the 14th century. Known today as the Little Ice Age, it had already caused considerable agricultural distress in Europe. The Little Ice Age's existing cooling was aggravated by the eruption of Tambora, which occurred during its concluding decades.http://www.BPEarthWatch.Com

UPDATE! 18 QUAKES NOW! IN SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA..ONE 5.0 Others smaller !

Published June 10, 2016

Thursday, June 09, 2016

Listen Up, Folks! Here's An Idea for Downtown Transformation > Invite BYU

[Updated 12 June 2016]

Happened to catch a quick sound-byte on the radio - here's a link to tune in to the entire promotion titled

Mesa Hopes New ASU Campus Spurs Downtown Growth [with word "hope" emphasis]

By Lauren Gilger

Published: Thursday, June 9, 2016 - 2:44pm

Updated: Thursday, June 9, 2016 - 4:25pm

with Jeff McVay on KJZZ this afternoon for more media hype where he mentioned the LDS Temple as one of the downtown's "great amenities" stating it was the first one constructed in the United States outside of Salt Lake City . . . so, following that forward-thinking to run off a list of amenities [usually used to promote real estate] instead of proposing a Pie-In-The-Sky scheme for an ASU Downtown campus here that would devour and radically transform downtown Mesa just like ASU devoured downtown Tempe with fast-food joints, boisterous bars and booms for private developers in student housing

QUESTION: Is this the kind of transformation we can believe in? ...or the kind of transformation everyone wants?
Just another one of those slick-and-quick Fiascos from City Hall that would spend over $100 Million of taxpayers' money targeting at attracting only one specific demographic - so-called Millennials?

Are we not a multi-generational group here in Mesa?
[and who needs to make "a deal with the Devil to import transient students??]

Why not really put Mesa on the map and establish a satellite campus here for Brigham Young University??

. . . THIS would be the perfect marriage to continue the faith, education, heritage, religion and traditions of this city's founders and pioneers and their descendants [sometimes numbering over 100 from just one "founding father"] who have established an active network of LDS faith-based wards and stakes in all of the six election districts here in Mesa. It is not infrequent that many of those elected - the Mayor and six Mesa City Councilmembers - to serve the public interests in the diverse city's population also served as bishops and presidents of LDS stakes. Other religions organize as parishes for congregations of believers who are less active in local politics and usually do not vote as an entire bloc or ask for high voter turnout to support certain selected candidates.

The demographics for the student body enrollment would certainly fulfill all the desires to attract millennialls here [see description below]

BYU is recognized as one of the best private religious universities in the U.S.
Many elected government officials and employees inside City Hall have earned Bachelor's and/or Master's degrees from this institution of higher learning.
Its reputation for department and program excellence goes unchallenged.
Its athletic department [Mascot Cosmo The Cougar is shown in image] is strong.
Financing the construction would be a cinch since many of the descendants of the pioneers who have earned fortunes in agriculture, business and commerce, and real estate development are certainly generous individuals.

Having BYU students here would, in addition, relieve some of the concerns about rowdy and drunk students, and issues of public safety.

According to Wikipedia Brigham Young University (often referred to as BYU or, colloquially, The Y) is a private research university located in Provo, Utah, United States.

It is owned and operated by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church), and, excluding online students, is the largest of any religious university and the third largest private university in the United States, with 29,672^[5] on-campus students.^[9]^[10]^[11] Approximately 99 percent of the students are members of the LDS Church, and one-third of its US students are from Utah.^[12]

Students attending BYU are required to follow an honor code, which mandates behavior in line with LDS teachings such as academic honesty, adherence to dress and grooming standards, and abstinence from extramarital sex and from the consumption of drugs and alcohol.^[13] Many students (88 percent of men, 33 percent of women) either delay enrollment or take a hiatus from their studies to serve as Mormon missionaries.^[14]^[15] (Men typically serve for two-years, while women serve for 18 months.) An education at BYU is also less expensive than at similar private universities,^[16] since "a significant portion" of the cost of operating the university is subsidized by the church's tithing funds.^[17]

Some may ask: Why BYU?

......but I say Why not?

Boeing targets October test for improved Chinook rotors

09 June, 2016 by Beth Stevenson Phoenix

Boeing is targeting an October test of new CH-47F Chinook rotorblades to increase its maximum take-off weight by 907kg (2,000lb), despite the upgrade not yet being fully funded by the US Department of Defense.

A US Army-owned Chinook is at the manufacturer’s Mesa, Arizona facility where it is undergoing modifications ahead of tests of the honeycomb composite rotorblades, which form part of the service’s Block II upgrade plan.
Full evaluations will begin in October, following preliminary trials the previous month. Once fielded, the upgrade will increase the heavy-lift helicopter’s useful load to 13,600kg, up from 12,700kg at present.
Although the enhancements are yet to be approved by the US Department of Defense, there is an acknowledgment that “we need to work through Block II to keep the aircraft viable”, says Mark Ballew, director of attack helicopter sales at Boeing. A milestone B decision on the upgrade package is expected in the first half of fiscal year 2017.
Boeing is pursuing a Chinook sale to Germany as a replacement for the Luftwaffe’s fleet of Sikorsky CH-53Gs. It may offer Berlin the extended-range model – currently performing “remarkably well” with the Royal Canadian Air Force – which has twice the fuel capacity of baseline F-model.

The airframer considers the Chinook to be the “sweet spot” for Germany in terms of lift capabilities, says Ballew.

ASU Board of Regents: Crash Course + Cheat Sheet

The Arizona Board of Regents is the governing board for the state’s public universities: Arizona State University, Northern Arizona University, and the University of Arizona. The Board provides policy guidance in such areas as: academic and student affairs; financial and human resource programs; student tuition, fees, and financial aid programs; university capital development plans; strategic plans; legal affairs; and public and constituent outreach.
The Board consists of twelve members, eleven voting and one non-voting. This includes the Governor and Superintendent of Public Instruction as ex-officio members, each serving while they hold office, and two Student Regents. Also at the table, and an essential partner with the Board of Regents is the chair of the Arizona Faculties Council – the coordinating body for the faculty governments of the three universities.

Except for ex-officio members and Student Regents, and as noted, the term of a Regent is eight years. As Regents finish their terms, new Regents are appointed by the Governor and confirmed by the Senate.
https://www.azregents.edu/about/board-members

Board Members