The biggest risks facing cities -- and some solutions | Robert Muggah

Published on Nov 30, 2017

Views: 11,772

With fantastic new maps that show interactive, visual representations of urban fragility, Robert Muggah articulates an ancient but resurging idea: cities shouldn't just be the center of economics -- they should also be the foundation of our political lives. Looking around the world, from Syria to Singapore to Seoul and beyond, Muggah submits six principles for how we can build more resilient cities. "Cities are where the future happens first. They're open, creative, dynamic, democratic, cosmopolitan, sexy," Muggah says. "They're the perfect antidote to reactionary nationalism."

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U.S. Military Released Animation Of N.Korea's ICBM Launch

What did it really look like in real time? This is just an animation - if you want to take a look

Published on Nov 30, 2017 

Views: 692

The model shown in this video is notional, but represents a principal tool used to understand the capabilities of ballistic missile threat systems.
Modeling and simulation allows National Air and Space Intelligence Center to assess a ballistic missile system in a physically consistent way which best matches available information.

This product was created to help explain NASIC's ballistic missile analysis mission. It was first used by the CBS News Program 60 Minutes and has been subsequently provided to other external media outlets.

The animation demonstrate a test launch of a North Korean Intercontinental Ballistic Missile (ICBM) launching from a location in North Korea and flying to an open ocean location in the Pacific Ocean. The video opens showing a notional ICBM on a launch platform. The ICBM launches, showing the first and second stage boosters accelerating until the second stage booster releases the reentry vehicle containing the warhead, which continues through
ballistic flight. The video ends, showing the beginning of the atmospheric reentry, then the camera backs away to show the end of the flight.

WATCH THIS Mesa City Council Study Session Thu 30 Nov 2017

Data and analysis from Liz Morales, Director of Housing & Community Development here in Mesa, and two consultants for Phase 1
Views: only 9 to this upload date from YouTube
Please Note: D4 Councilmember Chris Glover once again absent, along with D5 Luna. Both not calling in or on-the-phone.
Please note additional comments from your MesaZona blogger to follow after review and research

10 Year Master Plan Housing Revoews

Super Volcano Concern, Deep Space Revelation | S0 News Nov.30.2017

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"Politics Make Strange Bed-Fellows" : Who is Sean Bowie (Boo-Wee)

Appearing next week here on the same sound-stage here in Mesa on Mesa Morning Live, Swing-District LD18 Democratic Arizona State Senator Sean Bowie and LD ___ Republican Arizona State Senator Bob Worsley are part of the 'great line-up' scheduled live at 06:45 am. Are they an unlikely pair of politicians or what?
Or are they putting politics aside in a show of unity about something?
Now that might be unusual . . .
What could it be?
Is representing voters in LD18 Bowie's only job where he earns $24,000 a year with assignments on the Commerce & Public Safety and Finance Committees?
No - he also works in the ASU Provost Office 

According to this Info-graphic from Arizona Capital Times posted on Twitter, Bowie and Worsley have a voting pattern in common with three other Republicans in the AZ State Legislature: Surprise, huh? 

Source: https://twitter.com/seanbowie

Bowie also posted this on his Twitter site 3 days ago

"Excited to be a guest on December's @MesaChamber Mesa Morning Live alongside @bob_worsley! Join us Friday, December 8th"

Swing-district Dems use divergent vote tactics in Legislature
By Ben Giles 13 Oct 2017 02:17 am
The following story is the first of five to be published over the next two weeks based on voting data the Arizona Center for Investigative Reporting pulled for the 2017 legislative session. The nonprofit group analyzed the number of floor votes that each lawmaker cast the same as every other lawmaker. The result is a first of its kind look at voting patterns between Arizona legislators, revealing alike votes and disparities – some known anecdotally, others not seen before – between lawmakers, at times regardless of party affiliation. . .
READ MORE> https://azcapitoltimes.com/news

What do we know about Sean Bowie? He's a 'newbie' for sure, but you can't hold that against him with no prior experience in government. That could be a good thing mebbe, but take the time to hit this link to an article about him published 02 May 2017

The long shot: Freshman Democrat Sean Bowie learns the tough lessons of serving in a GOP Senate

Alden Woods, The Republic | azcentral.com Published 6:00 a.m. MT May 2, 2017 Updated 6:27 p.m. MT May 9, 2017

Tough Lessons

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Campaign themes 2016

Bowie's campaign website highlighted the following issues:^[1]

“

Education: Make education my number one budgetary priority. Restore cuts to higher education. Economy: Stopping the giveaways to special interests and corporations. Promoting a culture of inclusiveness and hospitality. Immigration: We must secure the border. I support giving our border patrol agents the resources they need to protect our state and our border. 2nd Amendment: I am a strong supporter of the second amendment, and I will protect the rights of gun owners already in place at the state level.[2]

”

Sponsored legislation
Sean Bowie defeated Frank Schmuck in the Arizona State Senate District 18 general election by just 3,000 votes, 51.44% to 48.56%

Bowie won election to the Arizona State Senate in 2016. During that election cycle, Bowie raised a total of $115,164.

[hide]Arizona State Senate 2016 election - Campaign Contributions
Top contributors to Sean Bowie's campaign in 2016
Roe, William G	$5,000
Higgins, David L	$5,000
Fisher, Darin	$5,000
Ld18 Democrats	$5,000
Bowie, Sean	$3,343
Total Raised in 2016	$115,164
Source: Follow the Money

 

Source: https://ballotpedia.org/Sean_Bowie

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OK >> Go > Obsession // Official Video

Yes it is UH Huh :)

Published on Nov 23, 2017

This video has a lot of flashing colors. If you're susceptible to seizures, be careful, please. Your viewing experience will look significantly better if you manually set your YouTube resolution settings to 1440p or 2160p (for desktop, click the gear icon in the lower right). Just leaving it on “Auto HD” results in some pretty intense distortion during a few sections, because when the the colors and patterns get crazy, there’s actually just too much information flying by for YouTube’s normal HD compression. We broke the matrix. The good people of YouTube have been working with us to solve this (it’s a bit rate limitation issue) over the last 24 hours, but there’s no quick fix, and now it’s Thanksgiving in the US, and we’re all with our families.

We hope you like it! Many, many thanks to our collaborators at Double A (http://us.doubleapaper.com/ok-go-ente...).

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Timothy Nordwind
Andy Ross
Dan Konopka

Directed by Damian Kulash, Jr. & Yusuke Tanaka
Technical Team: Daito Manabe & Rhizomatiks Research
Choreography: MIKIKO & Elevenplay
Creative Agency: SIX
Agency Executive Creative Director : Takeshi Nozoe
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Why is Mesa Channel 11 UpLoading This Now?? State of the City 2009

Dialogue with the mayor?

Published on Nov 22, 2017

Mayor Scott Smith delivers the 2009 State of the City address for Mesa, Arizona at the Mayor's Breakfast 2009.