Could You Fall in Love With a Hologram? Lack of Romance In Japan Stirs up a Multi-Million Dollar Bu$ine$$

Published on Sep 22, 2017

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Meet Hikari, an anime virtual wife, and Eisuke, a virtual boyfriend who plays to a masochist fantasy, these are products of a multi-million dollar industry that's sprung up in response to Japan's relationship crisis. In episode three of the Bloomberg video series Love Disrupted, we look at the characters invented to fill the romantic void in Japanese lives.

Video by Vicky Feng, Robin Fall, Pavel Alpeyev and Karen Lee

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Ray Dalio > A Lifetime of Principles

Published on Sep 17, 2017

Views: 14,506

Ray Dalio says it took more than great returns to turn Bridgewater Associates into the world's largest hedge fund. It took principles -- prescriptive rules for life and business that Dalio established over four decades. The principles are what make Bridgewater unique, and unusual. Now Dalio has published them in a book, along with his life story. Bloomberg's Erik Schatzker sat down with Ray Dalio at Bridgewater's campus in Westport Connecticut to review those principles.

BEA News: Gross Domestic Product by Metropolitan Area, 2016

The U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) issued the following news release on September, 20 2017:
EMBARGOED UNTIL RELEASE AT 8:30 A.M. EDT, Wed  20 Sept 2017
Gross Domestic Product by Metropolitan Area, 2016



Real gross domestic product (GDP) increased in 267 out of 382 metropolitan areas in 2016. Real GDP by metropolitan area growth ranged from 8.1 percent in Lake Charles, LA and Bend-Redmond, OR to –13.3 percent in Odessa, TX.
Real GDP for U.S. metropolitan areas grew 1.7 percent in 2016, led by growth in professional and business services
information services
finance, insurance, real estate, rental, and leasing.
The full text of the release on BEA's Web site can be found at www.bea.gov/newsreleases/regional/gdp_metro/gdp_metro_newsrelease.htm 
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GDP SW Region included

5 Finalists Announced To Fill Vacant Seat on Mesa City Council District 3

Announcement from the City of Mesa Newsroom

Mesa City Council selects finalists for open District 3 council seat

September 21, 2017 at 12:30 pm

 The Mesa City Council selected five finalists for the open District 3 City Council seat during this morning's Study Session. The Council will interview the finalists and appoint someone to the seat during a special City Council meeting on Sept. 28. There were 31 eligible applications received for the position.

The five finalists are:

• Pablo Felix,
• Francisco Heredia,
• Frank Mizner,
• Theresa Ratti 
• Christian Stumpf

Applicants must have resided in District 3 for a period of no less than two (2) years in order to be eligible for the appointment.

 

In accordance with the Mesa City Charter, Council needs a decision and a final vote on the appointee no later than 30 days after the vacancy was created.

If no decision is made by Sept. 30, a special election will be called to elect a replacement.

 

The appointee will serve as the District 3 Councilmember until the election on Aug. 28, 2018. A runoff election, if required, will be held on Nov. 6, 2018.

Public Information and Communications

Contact: Steve Wright

Tel. 480-644-2069

steven.wright@mesaaz.gov 

Source: http://www.mesanow.org/news/public/article/1960
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Here's some information the contenders included in their council applications:

Pablo Felix: A Mesa resident of two decades and corporate sales consultant for a human resources company. He has volunteered in the community, including a stint as a former assistant Boy Scoutmaster. He's a native Spanish speaker, with a bachelor's in marketing from Arizona State University.

In his application, he wrote: "Because I love this community, I want to build upon the good that has already been done by those before me and serve my neighbors."

Francisco Heredia: A relative newcomer to District 3, Heredia has worked for civic engagement organizations Mi Familia Vota as a national field director and One Arizona as director. He moved to the district in 2015 and holds a master's degree in public administration from ASU.

Heredia worked in community relations at the Maricopa County Recorder's Office until Sept. 15. He resigned to pursue other projects and consulting.

Asked why he did not specify that he was leaving his job on the application, Heredia said there wasn't room. The application did not have a word limit, according to the city.

He wrote, "This is a time to heal and move forward with the work that needs to happen in both District 3 and the city."

Frank Mizner: A former planning director for Mesa who ran for council in 2004. He's board president of the Homeowners' Association at Dobson Ranch, a planned community in southwest Mesa. He has a master's degree in urban geography from the University of Arizona.

Christian Stumpf: A director of external affairs at the Nature Conservancy and former vice president of government relations at the American Lung Association of the Southwest. He was also a finance director at the Arizona Republican Party. He's two courses shy of a bachelor's degree in political science at ASU.

Stumpf wrote, "This is a great opportunity to have a voice for District 3 and Mesa at a time when big changes are happening."

Theresa Ratti: A Mesa Public Schools teacher who moved to Mesa with her family in 1974. She collected signatures with Save our Schools Arizona, which was created to halt the state's school voucher expansion. She has a doctorate in leadership and policy from ASU. 

She wrote: "Participating in the Hispanic Leadership Institute-East Valley opened my eyes even more to the great need of our Latino community, a need I see on a daily basis teaching."

 

The above information is this source:

5 candidates vie to fill Mesa City Council spot after Winkle ousted

Lily Altavena, The Republic | azcentral.com Published 6:47 p.m. MT Sept. 21, 2017 | Updated 7:00 p.m. MT Sept. 21, 2017

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You can use this link to watch a video of today's study session
https://mesazona.blogspot.com/2017/09/council-study-session-9202017-date-of.html

or

https://youtu.be/GR-umPGQqlw 

 

 

 

 

 

 

A Smog Vacuum Cleaner + Other Magical City Designs | Daan Roosegaarde

Hey! .... nice to see

Published on Sep 19, 2017

Views: 31,395

Daan Roosegaarde uses technology and creative thinking to produce imaginative, earth-friendly designs. He presents his latest projects -- from the sidewalks of Amsterdam, where he reinterpreted "The Starry Night" to get people thinking about green energy, to Beijing, where he developed a smog vacuum cleaner to purify the air in local parks, to a dance floor that generates electricity to power a DJ booth. Check out Roosegaarde's vision for a future where creativity is our true capital.

Council Study Session - 9/20/2017 DATE OF MEETING IS INCORRECT AGAIN

"Good morning", says the mayor for the Mesa City Council Study Session on September 21, 2017, forgoing any of the usual points-of-order for conducting a public meeting
Once again, few members of the public are attending this public meeting
Published on Sep 21, 2017
Views: 3
PLEASE NOTE: Entire session agenda below that will be inserted later

No roll call. No asking for all blue comment cards. No reading of the agenda.

Up first: Solar Parasol Project in South Parking Lot of Mesa Arts Center
Extended explanation of sources for city electric utilities supply. . . 

The Way We Get Power Is About to Change Forever: Batteries

Published on Sep 18, 2017

Views: 426,368

The age of batteries is just getting started. In the latest episode of our animated series, Sooner Than You Think, Bloomberg’s Tom Randall does the math on when solar plus batteries might start wiping fossil fuels off the grid.