Damn. There's some really good reporting out there if you don't have a short attention span or an attention-deficit disorder and are keen on telling details and phrases - like this from Jane Mayer, a reporter with a checkered past, who snapped 16 pages in The New Yorker - it's way more than yuk-yuk good when she says about VP Pence "A devotional gaze rarely seen since ... Nancy Reagan" Thanks again to Mike Allen aka axios.com - it's #3 on Mike's Top 10 this morning
Stephen Bannon, the former White House strategist, worries that Pence would “be a President that the Kochs would own.”
Farther along in the 16 pages, Mayer describes Pence as "the prim Indiana evangelical".
A New Yorker profileof Vice President Pence by Jane Mayer gets 16 pages in the new issue ... "The Danger of President Pence: Trump's critics yearn for his exit. But Mike Pence ... poses his own risks":
"Two sources ... recalled Trump needling Pence about his views on abortion and homosexuality. During a meeting, ... [a] legal scholar had said that, if the Supreme Court did so, many states would likely legalize abortion on their own. 'You see?' Trump asked Pence. 'You've wasted all this time and energy on it, and it's not going to end abortion anyway.'"
"When the conversation turned to gay rights, Trump motioned toward Pence and joked, 'Don't ask that guy — he wants to hang them all!'"
"Marc Short, the head of legislative affairs in the Trump White House, credits Pence for the Kochs' rapprochement with Trump. 'The Kochs were very excited about the Vice-Presidential pick,' Short told me. 'There are areas where they differ from the Administration, but now there are many areas they're partnering with us on.'"
Over the fireplace in the Vice-President's residence, he has hung a plaque with a passage from the Bible: "'For I know the plans I have for you,' declares the Lord, 'Plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.'"
Department of Education forcibly removes reporter asking to inspect records By Evan Wyloge and Jim Small Arizona Center for Investigative Reporting
The Arizona Department of Education physically removed an AZCIR reporter out of its Capitol Mall offices today in response to a request to inspect the latest school letter grade records. The agency’s security guard told AZCIR’s reporter he was trespassing and pushed him out of the public building after the reporter asked to speak with ADE staff about inspecting public records. Arizona law explicitly requires that government agencies allow “any person” to inspect public records “at all times during office hours."
The 820 kg satellite was carried into orbit on a Rockot launcher at 09:27 GMT (11:27 CEST) today.
Replay of the Sentinel-5P liftoff on a Rockot from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome in northern Russia at 09:27 GMT (11:27 CEST) on 13 October 2017.
Sentinel-5P – the ‘P’ standing for ‘Precursor’ – is the first Copernicus mission dedicated to monitoring our atmosphere. The satellite carries the state-of-the-art Tropomi instrument to map a multitude of trace gases such as nitrogen dioxide, ozone, formaldehyde, sulphur dioxide, methane, carbon monoxide and aerosols – all of which affect the air we breathe and therefore our health, and our climate. Watch the full replay of the Sentinel-5P launch coverage Watch the replay of the Sentinel-5P launch event at ESTEC
The mission is expected to begin full operations six months from now.
“Launching the sixth Sentinel satellite for the Copernicus programme is testament to the extensive competence we have here at ESA, from its moment of conception to well into operations,” said ESA Director General Jan Woerner. “The Sentinel-5P satellite is now safely in orbit so it is up to our mission control teams to steer this mission into its operational life and maintain it for the next seven years or more.” Sentinel-5P – the P standing for Precursor – is the first Copernicus mission dedicated to monitoring our atmosphere. The mission is one of six families of dedicated missions that make up the core of Europe’s Copernicus environmental monitoring network. Copernicus relies on the Sentinels and contributing missions to provide data for monitoring the environment and supporting civil security activities. Sentinel-5P carries the state-of-the-art Tropomi to do just that.
Developed jointly by ESA and the Netherlands Space Office, Tropomi will map a multitude of trace gases such as nitrogen dioxide, ozone, formaldehyde, sulphur dioxide, methane, carbon monoxide and aerosols – all of which affect the air we breathe and therefore our health, and our climate.
Sentinel-5P was developed to reduce data gaps between the Envisat satellite – in particular the Sciamachy instrument – and the launch of Sentinel-5, and to complement the GOME-2 sensor on the MetOp satellite. “Having Sentinel-5P in orbit will give us daily and global views at our atmosphere with a precision we never had before,” said Josef Aschbacher, ESA’s Director of Earth Observation Programmes. “Our historic data records, together with the long-term perspective of the Copernicus satellite programme, opens the doors for generating datasets spanning decades – a prerequisite to understanding our ever-changing Earth. ”
In the future, both the geostationary Sentinel-4 and polar-orbiting Sentinel‑5 missions will monitor the composition of the atmosphere for Copernicus Atmosphere Services. Both missions will be carried on meteorological satellites operated by Eumetsat.
Until then, the Sentinel-5P mission will play a key role in monitoring and tracking air pollution.
Thanks to Mike Allen @ axios.com for sending a summary of this cover story. On the 30th anniversary of Black Monday on October 19,1987 the market could be at the risk of a computer-driven meltdown. . . some hear echoes of the stock market's crash," per the Barron's cover story, by Ben Levisohn:
The problem: Market players rely increasingly on computers to run quantitative, rules-based systems known as algorithms to pick stocks, mitigate risk, place trades, bet on volatility, and much more — and they bear a resemblance to those blamed for Black Monday when the DJIA shed nearly a quarter of its value in wave after wave of selling."
Why it matters: "The proliferation of computer-driven investing has created an illusion that risk can be measured and managed."
"But several anomalous episodes in recent years involving sudden, severe, and seemingly inexplicable price swings suggest that the next market selloff could be exacerbated by the fact that machines are at the controls."
Another waymarking for independent local online publishing here in Mesa, Arizona is memorialized today:
160,174 [page views or hits] As our friends-in-high-places like to say: I am so thrilled I am so excited, and thrilled to the bone - It's way beyond your MesaZona's wildest imagination and expectations when this enterprise was started at the end of February 2015.
Just to make sure you can't keep a good man down for too long, Community innovator/activist Ryan Winkle, who ordinarily does the extraordinary, is getting back into the public-eye in his own way. . . and no doubt is looking happy, positive and up-beat on a new career tangent: Winkle has produced his own video that's already been viewed and watched by more than 350 - it sure beats the YouTube viewer stats for those keeping track of those ever un-popular Mesa City Council public sessions and meetings where we never care to know what's going on except for paparazzi-headline grabbing Kangaroo Court-public meetings where no members of the public were permitted to speak.
The Winkle-produced video shows the pop-event success that 2nd Friday Night Out has had for years as a once-a-month night-time attraction to fill the usual empty streets and sidewalks - they come, they walk around, they may shop and eat/drink for a few hours and then they go!
Every 2nd Friday Night Out -Downtown Mesa, Arizona is a fun adventure with creative themes. Its fun thinking about how Main St has and hasn't changed over the years. I often laugh at the funny way our downtown crew met and how things came about. I always have fun and see a lot of people I know. I feel great seeing such a large crowd walking up and down Main and knowing that it was all driven by a small groundswell of us who showed up and tried.
Thanks to all that have put themselves out there.
Thanks to:
All the small businesses that extended their hours and hosted events and artists.
All the residents and neighbors that collaborated on projects and gave your time.
All those who believed in our grass roots placemaking efforts that is breathing life into Mesa's Downtown.
Thanks to Suzanne Woodford for continually organizing this event on your her own time.
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