NEW QUAKE: 7.3 Quake/Off the Japan Fukushima Coast./10 FT. TSUNAMI.

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Published on Nov 21, 2016
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Mesa Office of Economic Developments Wants To Make Sure You Know This

City of Mesa Office of Economic Development receives Arizona Data Center Award

Post Date: 11/21/2016 10:27 AM

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The City of Mesa’s Office of Economic Development has been honored by the Global Data Center Alliance (GDCA) with the Economic Development Team of the Year Award.
The award was presented at a ceremony November 17 at the Hotel Valley Ho in Scottsdale, Arizona.
“We are very pleased to be recognized with this esteemed Data Center Award for Economic Development Team of the Year,” City of Mesa Economic Development Director Bill Jabjiniak said. “Our team has worked diligently to make Mesa a premier location for technology companies and to provide assistance to data centers considering Mesa as a place to locate.”
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411 Session: Mesa ArtSpace Lofts

Is this in-fill project the remedy to heal a scar of vacant real estate here in The New Urban Downtown Mesa?
Due to strong local momentum for the arts as a strategy for downtown development, Artspace has been working with the Mesa community since 2012 to explore the feasibility of an Artspace live/work project . . . good things take time

Opposite Visions? Cornucopian Vision of Development + Humanity OR Environmental Catastrophe

Podcast

The Second Ehrlich-Simon Wager with Joanna Szurmak

November 19, 2016 Garrett M. Petersen 

Today’s interview features Joanna Szurmak of the University of Toronto. Our topic for today is the second proposed bet between Paul Ehrlich and Julian Simon. Joanna has written a paper titled “Care to Wager Again? An Appraisal of Paul Ehrlich’s Counter-Bet Offer to Julian Simon” along with coauthors Vincent Geloso and Pierre Desrochers, both former guests of this show. We mentioned the original Simon-Ehrlich bet briefly in my conversation with Steve Horwitz, but in this episode we talk about it in more detail.

Julian Simon had a cornucopian vision of development and humanity. In his view, things are getting better as we develop new ideas for improving our lives and our world. Paul Ehrlich has precisely the opposite vision. He has been predicting environmental catastrophe since the 1960s.
Julian Simon famously challenged Ehrlich to a wager. Simon challenged Ehrlich to choose any five commodities whose prices were not controlled by governments, betting that their inflation-adjusted prices would fall rather than rise. While Ehrlich was very publicly predicting the depletion of many commodities, Simon challenged him to put up or shut up. The five commodities Ehrlich chose—copper, chromium, nickel, tin, and tungsten—all fell in price between 1980 and 1990.
The subject of Joanna’s research is the counter-bet Ehrlich offered Simon in 1994. Ehrlich, along with climatologist Stephen Schneider, bet that 15 trends would worsen between 1994 and 2004:

1. The three years 2002-2004 will on average be warmer than 1992-1994.
2. There will be more carbon dioxide in the atmosphere in 2004 than in 1994.
3. There will be more nitrous oxide in the atmosphere in 2004 than 1994.
4. The concentration of ozone in the lower atmosphere (the troposphere) will be greater than in 1994.
5. Emissions of the air pollutant sulfur dioxide in Asia will be significantly greater in 2004 than in 1994.
6. There will be less fertile cropland per person in 2004 than in 1994.
7. There will be less agricultural soil per person in 2004 than 1994.
8. There will be on average less rice and wheat grown per person in 2002-2004 than in 1992-1994.
9. In developing nations there will be less firewood available per person in 2004 than in 1994.
10. The remaining area of virgin tropical moist forests will be significantly smaller in 2004 than in 1994.
11. The oceanic fishery harvest per person will continue its downward trend and thus in 2004 will be smaller than in 1994.
12. There will be fewer plant and animal species still extant in 2004 than in 1994.
13. More people will die of AIDS in 2004 than in 1994.
14. Between 1994 and 2004, sperm cell counts of human males will continue to decline and reproductive disorders will continue to increase.
15. The gap in wealth between the richest 10% of humanity and the poorest 10% will be greater in 2004 than in 1994.

Simon declined the second bet because the measures were both too difficult to quantify and too disconnected from the thing Simon was actually interested in: human welfare. Simon explained it as follows:

Let me characterize their offer as follows. I predict, and this is for real, that the average performances in the next Olympics will be better than those in the last Olympics. On average, the performances have gotten better, Olympics to Olympics, for a variety of reasons. What Ehrlich and others says is that they don’t want to bet on athletic performances, they want to bet on the conditions of the track, or the weather, or the officials, or any other such indirect measure.

Joanna, Vincent, and Pierre have gone to great lengths to figure out who would have one on each of the 15 points had Simon accepted the bet. Listen to the episode to find out!

[Note: The sound quality drops about an hour into the episode. Skype failed and we had to switch to a telephone line.]
Other links:
Here is a 1998 interview with Julian Simon detailing his Cornucopian worldview.
Pierre Desrochers and Vincent Geloso wrote a detailed article on the first bet.
Download this episode.

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Looking Back + Ahead > All Too Soon or Too Much Too Late ? // Party Time @ Fiesta Again? [Gary Nelson Takes Another Look]

Pre-Note: Your MesaZona blogger is always surprised when Conservative Republicans in the most conservative city in America want to use government intervention to grant tax advantages to developers. . . there's gotta be a reason for that [even though the City of Mesa OED is very careful to state no properties or owners are identified]
Now a "Contributing Writer" for The East Valley Tribune, Gary Nelson who has been covering Mesa and the east Valley far longer than your MesaZona blogger, hits the pulp pages again in the paper print version of Sunday's Tribune with three articles about Fiesta Mall, Fiesta Village and the Fiesta District in its current reincarcarnation called the Southwest RDA by the City of Mesa Office of Economic Development [OED] shown in opening image for this post.

WestJet Tickets Go On-Sale Today > Expanding WorldWide Flight Options from Gateway

WestJet welcomes Mesa, Arizona, to its growing network

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Anna ChmielewskaPosted on November 21, 2016Categories Uncategorized

 

CALGARY, Nov. 18, 2016 /PRNewswire/ – WestJet announced today it will begin serving Phoenix-Mesa Gateway Airport from Calgary and Edmonton starting January 19, 2017. Seats will be available for purchase by calling WestJet at 1-888-937-8538 (1-888-WESTJET) and through travel agencies as of 12 p.m. MST on Monday, November 21, and on westjet.com as of 12 p.m. MST on Tuesday, November 22.

“We are proud of our expanding network of more than 100 cities in over 20 countries, and our reputation as an established, trusted brand with more than two decades of service to Canadians,” said Bob Cummings, WestJet Executive Vice-President, Commercial. “We have provided hundreds of thousands of our guests with non-stop service between Canada and Phoenix since 2004, and now look forward to bringing low fares and our signature brand of caring, friendly service to our second destination in Arizona.”
Details of WestJet’s new non-stop service to Mesa, Arizona:

WestJet is also offering deals on destinations across Canada, the U.S., Mexico, the Caribbean and Europe as part of a system-wide Black Friday sale until November 25, 2016. For more information, please visit westjet.com.
WestJet Vacations provides guests with affordable, reliable and easy-to-book travel experiences to 65 destinations in 21 countries, including the Caribbean, Central America, Europe, Mexico and United States. Leveraging WestJet’s extensive network and remarkable guest experience, WestJet Vacations offers guests a great flight schedule and a wide variety of hotel and resort options to create fun and affordable vacation experiences in Arizona and across the WestJet network. 
About WestJetWe are proud to be Canada’s most trusted airline, powered by an award-winning culture of care and recognized as one of the country’s top employers. WestJet, and our regional airline, WestJet Encore, offer scheduled service to more than 100 destinations in North America, Central America, the Caribbean and Europe. Through our partnerships with airlines representing every major region of the world, we offer our guests more than 150 destinations in more than 20 countries. Leveraging WestJet’s extensive network, flight schedule and remarkable guest experience, WestJet Vacations delivers affordable, flexible travel experiences with a variety of accommodation options for every guest. Members of our WestJet Rewards program earn WestJet dollars on flights, vacation packages and more. Our members use WestJet dollars towards the purchase of WestJet flights and vacations packages on any day, at any time, to any WestJet destination with no blackout periods  ̶  even on seat sales. For more information about everything WestJet, please visit westjet.com.  
Connect with WestJet on Facebook at facebook.com/westjet
Follow WestJet on Twitter at twitter.com/westjet
Subscribe to WestJet on YouTube at youtube.com/westjet
Read the WestJet blog at blog.westjet.com
SOURCE WestJet


According to Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WestJet,
WestJet Airlines Ltd. is a Canadian airline that began as a low-cost alternative to the country's competing major airlines.^[5] WestJet provides scheduled and charter air service to 100 destinations in Canada, the United States, Europe, Mexico, Central America and the Caribbean. Founded in 1996, it is currently the second-largest Canadian air carrier, behind Air Canada,^[6] operating an average of 425 flights and carrying over 45,000 passengers^[7] per day. In 2013, WestJet carried 18.5 million passengers,^[8] making it the ninth-largest airline in North America by passengers carried. WestJet is a public company with more than 10,000 employees,^[8] is non-unionized and is not part of any airline alliance. It operates three variants of the Boeing 737 Next Generation family, as well as Boeing 767 aircraft, on select long-haul routes.^[9] Its subsidiary WestJet Encore also operates the Bombardier Q400. The airline's headquarters is located adjacent to the Calgary International Airport.^[10]
In 2015, WestJet had passenger revenues of $4.029 billion (CAD) and its earnings per share increased 19% to C$2.92.^[11] In 2015, WestJet was rated as the 8th best low-cost carrier in the world and the second best in North America by Skytrax.^[12Founded by Clive Beddoe, David Neeleman, Mark Hill, Tim Morgan and Donald Bell, WestJet was based on the low-cost carrier business model pioneered by Southwest Airlines and Morris Air in the United States. Its original routes were all located in Western Canada, which gave the airline its name.
In 2004, rival airline Air Canada accused WestJet of industrial espionage and filed a civil suit against WestJet in Ontario Superior Court. Air Canada accused WestJet of accessing Air Canada confidential information via a private website in order to gain a business advantage.^[18] On May 29, 2006 WestJet admitted to the charges leveled by Air Canada and agreed to pay C$5.5 million in legal and investigation fees to Air Canada and donate C$10 million to various children's charities in the names of Air Canada and WestJet.^[19]
From 2012 to 2014, WestJet further expanded into the United States by adding Chicago via O'Hare International Airport, Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport, Myrtle Beach International Airport, and New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport.
On November 15, 2013, WestJet announced their first destination in Europe. Seasonal service from St. John's, Newfoundland to Dublin, Ireland, will operate from June to October 2014.^[41]
The mainline fleet currently consists exclusively of Boeing aircraft, while wholly owned subsidiary Encore flies Bombardier Dash 8 Q400s. 20 examples were originally ordered with options for up to 25 more.

Need A Cosmic Perspective >> Red Vs. Blue - Clusters in Stars + Politics

Published on Nov 18, 2016
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This started off as a video about Phil Plait's Bad Astronomy Red Vs. Blue Stars and became something else. Why is mankind at war with itself? God Bless everyone,
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The Colors of Stars: Red vs. Blue
By Phil Plait
Open clusters—sometimes still called galactic clusters, though that’s an old-fashioned term—are beautiful. They’re clumps of stars ranging from dozens to thousands of members, all occupying a relatively small volume of space. Usually they’re bound together by their own gravity, but over tens or hundreds of millions of years (sometimes even more) interactions between the stars in the cluster fling members away.
Many of the stars have life spans much shorter than this. The most massive ones fuse hydrogen in their cores much faster, making them brighter, hotter, and bluer. So why, in the Hubble image of the open cluster NGC 299 shown above, are some of the brightest stars red?
It’s because those are massive stars that have stopped fusing hydrogen into helium in their cores. The inert helium has built up in their centers, getting tremendously hot. This extra energy gets dumped into the stars’ outer layers … and when you heat a gas, it expands. So too these stars have swollen up, growing huge. That means their surface area has expanded, and the amount of energy they radiate per square centimeter drops. They cool, and turn red. Astronomers, clever folks that they are, named these kinds of stars red supergiants. Although cooler than their blue brethren, they are so big that their increased areas more than compensate for the lower temperatures, and they shine tremendously brightly.
So even though the blue stars in the cluster are brilliant, the red ones can be just as luminous.
It’s also possible these supergiant stars have evolved even further, piling up enough helium in their cores to begin fusing that into carbon. Those can have inert but incredibly hot carbon cores, with thin shells of helium and hydrogen fusing outside of it. The details can be complex, but in the end it all points the same way: The stars are in their end stages, and will soon explode as supernovae.
So look again at that photo.

The three bright red stars are probably the most massive stars in the cluster, and were once blue. This is more than just an interesting piece of scientificness.
It’s also a powerful tool: Using sophisticated models based on decades of knowledge learned about stars, we can calculate how old a star will be when it changes from a blue “normal” star to a red giant. This happens to more massive stars first, so by measuring the most massive star that hasn’t yet become a red supergiant, the age of the cluster can be found (assuming all the stars formed at the same time, a reasonable assumption). And indeed, NGC 299 is young, about 15 million to 20 million years old. How cool (or hot) is that? Although there are lots of details to consider, just by glancing at this image, I can tell you quite a bit about what you’re seeing. Now consider this: NGC 299 is 200,000 light-years away! It’s not even in our own galaxy, but instead in the Small Magellanic Cloud, a satellite galaxy to our own. Lots of much closer clusters look like this through my own telescope, but thanks to the power of Hubble NGC 299 lets slip its secrets to us.
I talk about how stars evolve over their lifetimes in Crash Course Astronomy: Stars, and go over clusters in another episode. Here’s the cluster one for your edification.
And as a final note: These supergiants, in death, seed the galaxy with heavy elements necessary for the creation of more stars, planets, and the basic ingredients for life.
In death there is life, which is true on the scale of microbes and humans and the stars themselves.