Eastern European Philosopher Slavoj Žižek Breaks Down US Election

That's right: a philosopher from Slovakia who gets so excited when he thinks and talks that he salivates.

Published on Nov 15, 2016
Views: 40,883
Since the US presidential election, pundits have been struggling to explain Donald Trump's shock win. Prominent Slovenian philosopher Slavoj Žižek believes the result exposes the failure of American political elites.

Here We Go Again With That "Downtown Vision Thing"

Who wants to go here to take Mesa to the next level? Is this what works for Mayor John Giles or is there another direction?
At tonight's Mesa City Council Study Session for Monday, Nov 21, 2016,one item stands out on the Final Agenda, but first some background to put things into perspective . . . 16 years later fast-forward to this Monday, November 21, 2016 where Director of Downtown Transformation, Jeff McVay, will be making a presentation of the results of months of online surveys and community meetings to a study session of the Mesa City Council. Real estate developers' perspectives are included also.

16 years ago demolition bulldozed the site, with reporter Gary Nelson calling the 30 acres " a vast scar of empty real estate" in an article from 3 years ago. With the recent rejection by voters saying NO to a sales tax hike for another bogus downtown redevelopment plan, who knows if  and when another Pie-In-The-Sky plan will fly?

NASA found 15,000 Near Earth Asteroids

Fun to watch
Published on Nov 16, 2016
That is correct.
We now have a total of 15,000+ near earth objects which we assume to be Asteroids. Maybe it's a great time to float a bunch of cubesats into the Asteroid Belt and let us watch it 24/7. Or not, there is a still a weird "Asteroids are doomy but not that doomy" feel to the over all space agency message. So make of it what you will.

Personal Income Data for 2015 by Local Area [with links]

EMBARGOED UNTIL RELEASE: 8:30 A.M. EST, Thursday, November 17, 2016

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The U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) has issued the following news release yesterday:

Local Area Personal Income: 2015

Personal income grew in 2015 in 2,552 counties, fell in 548, and was unchanged in 13, according to estimates released today by the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis. On average, personal income rose 4.7 percent in 2015 in the metropolitan portion of the United States and rose 2.7 percent in the nonmetropolitan portion. Personal income growth in 2015 ranged from -30.3 percent in Sully County, South Dakota to 35.0 percent in Loving County, Texas.Personal income is the income received by, or on behalf of, all persons from all sources: from participation as laborers in production, from owning a home or unincorporated business, from the ownership of financial assets, and from government and business in the form of transfer receipts. It includes income from domestic sources as well as from the rest of the world.
Personal income is the income that is available to persons for consumption expenditures, taxes, interest payments, transfer payments to governments and the rest of the world, or for saving. Personal income for 2015 ranged from $3.6 million in Loving County, Texas to $544.3 billion in Los Angeles County, California.
Per capita personal income–personal income divided by population–is a useful metric for making comparisons of the level of personal income across counties. Table 1 presents estimates of per capita personal income by state and county. In 2015, it ranged from $16,007 in Wheeler County, Georgia to $194,861 in Teton County, Wyoming.

 

The county personal income estimates released today continue the successively more detailed series of data releases from the Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) depicting the geographic distribution of the nation’s personal income for 2015. National estimates of personal income for 2015 were released in January 2016, followed by preliminary state personal income estimates in March. The personal income estimates released today provide the first glimpse of personal income for 2015 in counties and metropolitan statistical areas. The geographic picture will be completed with the release of real personal income for states and metropolitan areas in June 2017.
Updates to Local Area Personal Income. In addition to today's release of 2015 local area personal income, BEA released revised statistics for the 1998 to 2014 period.
Revisions were made to incorporate the results of the annual revision of the national income and product accounts (NIPAs), the annual revision of the state personal income accounts, and to incorporate local area source data that are more complete and more detailed than those previously available.
In addition, this year's revision introduced two major methodological improvements affecting nonfarm proprietors' income that were discussed in the March, July, and October 2016 issues of the Survey of Current Business:
(1) improved geocoding and editing of source data from IRS Form 1065 (Partnership Returns) and Schedule C of Form 1040 (Sole Proprietor Returns)
(2) an improved method of allocating national control totals to states and counties.
A complete presentation and discussion of the data and revisions will be provided in the December 2016 issue of the Survey of Current Business.

Regional Data

Fips	Area

00998	United States (Metropolitan Portion) $ 52,896
38060	Phoenix-Mesa-Scottsdale, AZ (Metropolitan Statistical Area) $ 43,264

The full text of the release on BEA's Web site can be found at www.bea.gov/newsreleases/regional/lapi/lapi_newsrelease.htm 

 

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