Press Release: AZP Adds 2 BX Benchtop AOI Systems

AZP, Inc. Adds Benchtop Automated PCB Inspection from Nordson YESTECH

Sep 15, 2017    

Nordson YESTECH, a subsidiary of Nordson Corporation (NASDAQ: NDSN) and a leading supplier of automated optical and conformal coat inspection systems for the electronics industry, is pleased to announce that AZP, Inc. has purchased two BX Benchtop AOI systems.
Based in Mesa, AZ, AZP, Inc. is a private woman-owned Electronic Contract Manufacturer. Company owner, Debbie Nguyen and the team at AZP, Inc. conducted extensive evaluations on the BX Benchtop AOI and competitive systems, and found the Nordson YESTECH units to be superior.

Nguyen stated: “The BX Benchtop AOIs are one of the best investments we have made for AZP, Inc.  The support we have received from Nordson YESTECH’s Customer Support Group has been exceptional. We are very pleased!”
One of the new BX Benchtop AOIs at AZP, Inc.’s facilityNordson YESTECH's advanced 5 megapixel color camera imaging technology offers benchtop PCB inspection with exceptional defect coverage. This benchtop system inspects solder joints and verifies correct part assembly, enabling AZP, Inc. to improve quality and increase throughput. The optional four side viewing cameras add additional inspection capabilities found only on in-line systems.
The BX is equally effective for paste, pre / post-reflow and even final assembly inspection. Remote programming maximizes machine utilization and real-time SPC monitoring provides a valuable yield enhancement solution.
While providing high quality, cost effective solutions, AZP, Inc. offers complete turnkey manufacturing services. The company’s synergistic approach provides fast and innovative prototyping, state-of-the-art technological excellence, precision assembly, and un-compromised product support.
 

Source: http://www.emsnow.com/npps/story.cfm?pg=story&id=61655

5 Days Until Impact/New York.

Published on Sep 14, 2017

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FANTASYLAND: A Promiscuous Devotion to The UnTrue

What seems like a long time ago now living in New York City, the author of this new book published a magazine called Spy - it was one of your MesaZona blogger's fave reads for a few too-brief years.
A new book has recently been published by Kurt Andersen that probably piles on too many uniquely American fables and tall tales, legends that led us to believe in make-believe convenient fictions put out in Hollywood, Spaghetti Westerns, heroes and heroines galore, good guys and bad guys painted in quick strokes, everything for everybody that created The American Fantasyland.
From Disneyland to Wally-World, and Sheriff Joe to Tele-evangelists and 2 Presidents from television land, How lucky can we get?

Image credit: Keith Negley

Fake News:
It’s as American as George Washington’s Cherry Tree
By HANNA ROSINSEPT. 5, 2017

"Reading a great revisionist history of America is the bookish way to feel what it’s like to be born again. Suddenly past, present and future are connected by a visible thread. Stray details and aberrations start to make sense. You feel ashamed, but also enlightened, because at least you have named the sin: You belong to a nation of bloodthirsty colonizers (Howard Zinn), or anti-intellectuals (Richard Hofstadter) or, in Kurt Andersen’s latest opus, a people who have committed themselves over the last half century to florid, collective delusion.

If, for example, you remain confused about what happened in the last election, Andersen’s retelling of history will clarify things for you. As a host of public radio’s Studio 360, a best-selling novelist and a cultural omnivore, Andersen has been tracking and storing the data on the nation’s unraveling for decades. And he knew that what happened that November night, and in the subsequent months, was not just inevitable but in many ways our nation’s natural destiny. As he explains in what must have been an alarmingly self-confirming last chapter: Donald Trump is “stupendous Exhibit A” in the landscape of “Fantasyland,” a fitting leader for a nation that has, over the centuries, nurtured a “promiscuous devotion to the untrue.

Fake news. Post-truth. Alternative facts. For Andersen, these are not momentary perversions but habits baked into our DNA, the ultimate expressions of attitudes “that have made America exceptional for its entire history.”

Andersen’s history begins at the beginning, with the first comforting lie we tell ourselves. Each year we teach our children about Pilgrims, those gentle robed creatures who landed at Plymouth Rock. . . .

What happens next in American history, according to Andersen, happens without malevolence, or even intention. Our national character gels into one that’s distinctly comfortable fogging up the boundary between fantasy and reality in nearly every realm. . . . The 1800s see an explosion of water cures and homeopathy and something called mesmerism, which concerns “electricity of the system thrown out of balance” (run that one by your yoga teachers). “Dr.” William A. Rockefeller, father of John D., gets his start mass-marketing a pink elixir called Microbe Killer. . . While the most persistent thread in “Fantasyland” is Christianity — the astounding number of Americans who believe in heaven and angels, which most of Europe gave up decades ago — Andersen reserves a starring role for the secular spiritualists. . . New Agers committed an even greater sin than the faithful . . . simply put: “I do my thing and you do your thing. I am not in this world to live up to your expectations, and you are not in this world to live up to mine.” Or put more simply: You do you.

. . . At the end of his book he tries to redraw a boundary that moves us a little closer to sanity. “You’re entitled to your own opinions and your own fantasies, but not your own facts — especially if your fantastical facts hurt people,” he says, echoing a comment by Daniel Patrick Moynihan. But the attempt is brief and feels halfhearted. By that point the pile up of detail — gun nuts, survivalists, web holes, scenes of cosplay, sci-fi shows and manufactured bubbles of hope — leaves a reader worried that a short manifesto on facts won’t save us.

What we Americans need, it would seem, is something more powerful. A story to end all stories, . .  A collective delusion so seductive that it will have us all, in Locke-step, bowing down to reason and reality. Anyone have any ideas?

 

- Hanna Rosin is a host of NPR’s Invisibilia and the author of “The End of Men.”

FANTASYLAND How America Went Haywire: A 500-Year History
By Kurt Andersen
462 pp. Random House. $30.

Link > NY Times Book Reviews 09.05.2017
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Published on Jun 30, 2017

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Duration: About an hour

 

Has the great American experiment in liberty gone off the rails? Best-selling novelist, public radio host, and acclaimed cultural critic Kurt Andersen tackles that question in his latest book, Fantasyland: How America Went Haywire: A 500-Year History, due out in September.
Get a sneak preview of this provocative chronicle of magical thinking and make-believe that provides a new paradigm for understanding the post-factual present, in which reality and illusion are dangerously blurred.

Mayor John Giles In Israel For A Week

US Mayors Bond with Israel   Eight American mayors took a tour of Israel, wrapping up a weeklong visit to Israel as guests of the AJC (American Jewish Committee) Project Interchange. They met with several of their Israeli counterparts as well as with Palestinian and Israeli Arab leaders in the private and public sectors.        The Jerusalem Post | JPost.com | 2017-09-15T01:46Z

"It’s been inspiring,” John Giles, the mayor of Mesa, Arizona, and seminar chairman of the trip, told The Jerusalem Post on Wednesday as their trip came to an end.

"If they can do it here, we can do it there. Our challenges are smaller, similar but smaller, so it’s inspiring to see a nation dealing in such a positive way with the challenges.” 

According to reporter Sarah Levi's article, the tour included visits to Sderot, Tel Aviv, Jerusalem, the Syrian border and Ziv Medical Center in Safed, which is treating Syrians wounded in their civil war.
“With all the gridlock in Washington, mayors are some of America’s top leaders,” AJC assistant executive director Daniel Elbaum said.

“It was very important to get a bipartisan group, and this is something we looked to get – both members of the Democrat and Republican parties and mayors of diverse areas of the nation. We really wanted mayors who are incredibly respected in their positions but also could possibly run for other offices in the future.”

[????????????????? Does John Giles plan to run for higher office ?????????????????? ]

 

Mayor Stephanie Miner of Syracuse, New York, said she gained not only a meaningful personal experience but relevant infrastructure information that she hopefully can implement in her city.

Albuquerque Mayor Richard Berry, who has been to Israel before, believes this trip helped strengthen the bond shared by the United States and Israel.

Link > http://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/US-mayors-bond-with-Israel-505158

 

U.S. Mayors Visiting Israel, Exploring Areas for Bilateral Cooperation

PR Newswire

Sep. 11, 2017, 11:46 AM

JERUSALEM, Sept. 11, 2017 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- A bipartisan delegation of U.S. mayors is visiting Israel with AJC (American Jewish Committee) Project Interchange for intensive dialogue and briefings. The week-long educational seminar, sponsored entirely by AJC Project Interchange, is designed to further enhance U.S.-Israel relations at the important municipal level. The delegation is chaired by Mayor John Giles of Mesa, Arizona.

The seminar is intended to provide these policymakers with a first-hand understanding of Israel, its vibrant democracy, diverse society, and regional challenges. They will meet with senior Israeli, Palestinian, Israeli Arab leaders, and other influential figures across the political and social spectrum.

Importantly, the mayors will meet with their Israeli counterparts to discuss best practices for their home communities on economic development, technology start-ups, to crime, at-risk youth, education, urban revitalization, and city administration. The delegation also will observe how Israel balances the preservation of its heritage with modern municipal management and the provision of social services.

Discussion topics will range from Israel’s strategic environment to

• education,
• economic development,
• city administration and technology

• best practices on technology start-UPS
• environmental and water management
• absorption and integration of immigrant communities.

All of these areas are issues facing the cities and communities the Mayors represent.

Link > http://projectinterchange.org/?seminars=1

In addition to visiting significant historical and cultural sites, the delegation will visit Tel Aviv, Israel's South (the border with Gaza) and North (the Syrian border), and Jerusalem, including the Old City. The delegation will also travel to Bethlehem and Ramallah to meet with Palestinian government and civic leaders.

The mayors will witness Arab-Jewish cooperation firsthand through organizational visits and will learn about Israel's humanitarian assistance, including aid provided at Israeli hospitals treating wounded individuals from the Syrian Civil War.

 

AJC Project Interchange:

For 35 years, AJC Project Interchange (American Jewish Committee) has brought nearly 6,000 influential figures to Israel from 100+ countries and all 50 U.S. states, offering broad exposure and first-hand understanding of the complex issues facing Israel and the region. AJC Project Interchange has led numerous delegations of Mayors to Israel from the U.S. and Europe. www.projectinterchange.org 

Major-Country Diplomacy: China Raising Global Influence

Mesa City Council Meeting Mon 11 Sept 2017

Published on Sep 11, 2017
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Duration: 31:52

Mesa City Council Study Session Mon 11 Sept 2017

Published on Sep 11, 2017
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Duration: 36.18

Starts with review of Final Agenda for regular meeting and a protest on application 3 for a liquor license - with explanation by City Attorney Jim Smith about what this Council is. Unusual amount of time spent on allegations and how to deal with them.
Remarkably City Manager Chris Brady chimes in with caution to not set a precedent and to "Open A Pandora's Box"  to deal with application only and not any relationships or evaluating other allegations and investigating employees, friends or their relationships.
[That took 12 minutes]
NO QUESTIONS on rest of agenda . . .  
Item 9 Presentation on RDAs by Bill Jabjiniak and Sara Sorenson, with a member of the design team for 16 months, Bruce
Key= proving predominance of blight, using GPLETS as financing tool
Redevelopment/Adaptive Re-Use
Rejuvenating "economic vibrancy"
Key issues/problems: Out-dated Model ???
GPLETS
Investment in public infrastructure
Site demolition
Many visions with different disclaimers
Consolidation of properties
"High-quality" employment
Supporting Projects - new tech district?