Emotional health is defined by four markers: our degree of self-love, of openness, of communication and of trust. Watch our film to interrogate your level of emotional health. If you like our films, take a look at our shop (we ship worldwide): https://goo.gl/CKuFv9
Each of us holds the most important title in American democracy: citizen. Yet most Americans believe we are powerless to make government respond or hold public officials accountable. A 2015 Pew Charitable Trusts survey found that 74% of Americans believe that most elected officials don’t care what people like us think. But we can make them listen—if we fully embrace our rights and responsibilities as citizens in a democracy, and use the skills of effective citizenship to make government work for us. This is not just a theory. Americans frequently prove that we can make government respond. We, the people, are the beginning and the end of our democracy—and today, more than ever, we must build and flex our citizenship muscles to fulfill that exalted status.
Finding out about this how many years after the fact? ....Way too quick pointing about some flaws and mistakes in information - now it's all done by satellites
Published on Nov 20, 2017
Views: 4,006
These intricate, curious maps were supposed to be destroyed. The ones that remain reveal a fascinating portrait of how the U.S.S.R. monitored the world.
English retiree John Davies has been smitten with maps his whole life. “I was drawing maps of my house as a toddler,” he said. Though his career in software didn’t allow regular forays into cartography, he would visit map shops on his travels.
On a business trip to Riga, Latvia’s capital, in the early 2000s, he hit the mother lode. Davies happened upon a shop that held bundles of Cold War-era maps of British cities, created by the Soviet military. The maps were so detailed that they included such elements as the products factories made and bridges’ load-bearing capacity. “I was just amazed,” Davies said.
Will they get off the ground? There's been months of real estate speculation all around this buzzing hive of activity This story from AZ Big Media has been circulating for days . . . it's no wonder it finally got picked up, including quite a few remarks from Mesa Mayor John Giles Mesa sets its eyes on e-commerce trade with Mexico Business News | 9 hours ago | Cronkite News As trade between the U.S, Mexico and Canada is debated by top negotiators in Mexico City as part of NAFTA, one Arizona city is working on a long-term million-dollar project that would potentiallyincrease direct trade with Mexico. The Phoenix-Mesa Gateway Airport Authority Board will vote in the next few days to approve a master development agreement with the company Mesa Skybridge for an infrastructure project at the airport. The project, if approved, would include a program to facilitate cargo processing that goes to Mexico by bringing Mexican customs officials to the Valley airport, otherwise known as the Unified Cargo Processing Program, recently created by the U.S. Customs and Border Protection. “It has the potential to be the most significant source of commerce between Mesa and Mexico,” Mesa Mayor John Giles said. Giles added the “premise” of the project is to build an e-commerce distributioncenter at the airport and seize the opportunities of this growing industry in Mexico. Last year, e-commerce produced around $17.63 billion in Mexico, according to a report by the Mexican Internet Association. According to the same report, two out of three Mexican online buyers shopped from international retailers in 2016, and the number one market was the U.S. “The consumers in Mexico would receive the same delivery schedules that consumers in the U.S. have,” Giles said. After the approval of the project, Mesa Skybridge would move forward with the application to bring the Unified Cargo Processing Program to the airport, according to Ryan Smith, Phoenix-Mesa Gateway Airport director of communications and government relations. “The program will abide by whatever regulations and rules are set. It’ll find it’s way around that and be flexible to any changes that may come up or occur,” Smith said Specifically in terms of NAFTA, Mexican officials have recognized the 23-year-old agreement needs to be updated to consider new business transactions such as e-commerce, but the three involved countries could not come to an agreement during the previous rounds when the U.S. suggested it wanted to raise the current dollar limit of products that can be exported with no tariffs. “All of the mayors of cities in Arizona and the governor, we’re all very concerned about the NAFTA negotiations because trade with Mexico is very important to every city in Arizona,” Giles said. “This opportunity for e-commerce is just the latest example of why our relationship with Mexico is important for Arizona,” he added. According to Giles, the company is committing to build 20 or 30 million dollars of infrastructure during a 50 or 60 year-period, which will include “buildings, streets and other infrastructure,” some of those “tied to e-commerce.” Giles reiterated both the City of Mesa and the Phoenix-Mesa Gateway Airport would benefit from continuing the trade agreement with Mexico. “If we have good trade relations between the U.S. and Mexico, that’s good for the Arizona economy and for the Mesa economy. We’ll have more jobs and a busier airport if we have a strong NAFTA agreement,” Giles said.
