It's Out! ...Back-Alley Rendering of Architectural Fantasy

Hard-to-Believe the Mesa Chamber Commerce of Commerce is "jumping the gun" with the choice of this figment-of-the imagination drawn-up by the schemes of a private real estate developer (and AZ State Politician) to capitalize on his closely-held holding companies and cohorts of "friends-in-high-places" in the generations-old political machine who made a monopoly-game on Main Street here in Mesa.

it's just another :Pie-In-The-Sky Dream"that would radically transform The New Urban Downtown Mesa.

A 14-15 story building plopped-down on top of a 1-acre parking lot is way out-of-place and way out-of-scale in Mesa's unique historic district.
It's not a pretty picture and it is not real.

It's real estate speculation way short of public benerfits

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O Yeah? Who Says It Can't Be True?

 Inside the security meltdown at Intel
Last week, . . .  Intel, one of the world’s largest chipmakers, said all modern processors can be attacked by techniques dubbed Meltdown and Spectre, exposing crucial data, such as passwords and encryption keys. The biggest technology companies, including Microsoft Corp., Apple Inc., Google and Amazon.com Inc. are rushing out fixes for PCs, smartphones and the servers that power the internet, and some have warned that their solutions may dent performance in some cases.

"It can’t be true."
HERE'S THE TEASER:
". . . It was late November and former Intel Corp. engineer Thomas Prescher was enjoying beers and burgers with friends in Dresden, Germany, when the conversation turned, ominously, to semiconductors. 

Months earlier, cybersecurity researcher Anders Fogh had posted a blog suggesting a possible way to hack into chips powering most of the world’s computers, and the friends spent part of the evening trying to make sense of it. The idea nagged at Prescher, so when he got home he fired up his desktop computer and set about putting the theory into practice. At 2 a.m., a breakthrough: he’d strung together code that reinforced Fogh’s idea and suggested there was something seriously wrong. . . "

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HERE'S SOME NO-HYPE NEWS The World-Famous Nile Theater Re/Generates Itself

Don't miss this little local story published about 12 hours ago taken from AZBigMedia

The Historic Nile Theater in Downtown Mesa (105 W. Main St.) is getting a new look for 2018. It is introducing a new logo and website that incorporates the music venue and café under one name and brand image.
 
(Image from Mesa Historic Preservation in the 1920's)

Well mebbe just a little hype:

It will also be the cornerstone of Main Street renovation efforts from the City of Mesa.  

On Wednesday, February 28 at 10:30 a.m., Mesa Mayor John Giles will be on hand for a ceremonial groundbreaking to kick off the renovation. Plans include opening up the street-front façade with a modern take on the original theater marquee.  . . "

Michelle Donovan of the Mantooth Group had this to say in a direct quote:

"The logo and joining of the café and theater are final seal on the work we have been doing since taking over the space 7 years ago.  The re-branding ties all our efforts together into one complete package and gives us room to grow into what The Nile really has always been – a focal point of entertainment and community for Downtown Mesa. . .

The celebrations for the day conclude with a show featuring Senses Fail, Reggie and The Full Effect, and Have Mercy. Donovan explains the line up is almost like a reunion tour of bands that have performed at The Nile over the past 20 years. . . These groups bring back a lot of memories from coming to The Nile when I was in high school and college, and now as the owner,” she's quoted as saying.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Link > https://azbigmedia.com/mesas-nile-theater-vegan-cafe-kick-off-new-look/

UpDate on IoT >> Intelligent World

Good morning: It's another new news day ! Please don't say TL:DR
The following from :Forbes: Intelligent World
"The Internet of Things is one of the most defining technologies of the Fourth Industrial Revolution. It can transform how organizations design, produce and sell their products and services, as well as how they become part of a larger ecosystem – both physical and digital. While the bottom-line benefits of IoT are clear – higher revenue, reduced costs and improved efficiencies – the path to successfully leveraging these technologies is not.. . "

State Of The IoT: Why So Many Business Leaders Are Paying Attention

IoT is ranked as the most important technology initiative by senior executives; more important than artificial intelligence and robotics, among many others . . . If you look at industrial IoT and you do your homework, it has the potential to be the biggest business opportunity yet. eCommerce and cloud computing were highly disruptive, but IoT is going to be even bigger.

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Why Everyone In Your Organization Is Critical To IoT Implementation

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Implementing IoT often requires a cross-functional team, and IoT projects are better implemented from the bottom up versus the top down. Projects start small with a well-defined scope, teams move quickly, learn as they go and repeat in iterations until they find success.

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Why Collaboration Is Essential For Successful IoT Implementation

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6 Ways To Get Actionable Insight From Your IoT Data

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Don’t Get Caught Unprepared When It Comes To IoT Security

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The Future Of Industrial IoT: Q&A With Rich Rogers, SVP, Hitachi Vantara

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4 Reasons That Architecting For Change Is Critical For IoT

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5 Areas Where IoT is Having the Most Business Impact

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iNNOVATION DISTRICT: Can It Accelerate Us To Re/Generate Mesa's "Old Donut-Hole"??

Does Mesa have all the stuff-in-place to make it work?
These districts by definition, are “geographic areas where leading-edge anchor institutions and companies cluster and connect with start-ups, business incubators, and accelerators. Compact, transit-accessible, and technically-wired, innovation districts foster open collaboration, grow talent, and offer mixed-used housing, office, and retail.”
Can you wrap your head around that or get through it?
The Rise of Mesa’s Innovation District        

Date: Thu 18 Jan 2018

Time: 8:00 AM - 10:30 AM MST

Event Description: Please note none was included
This is an event you need to register for on the website for The Mesa Chamber of Commerce - it's open to the public free admission.
Posted here is some background and related content as well as additional resources
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Keynote Speaker: Jennifer Vey, Senior Fellow, Brookings Institution
Panelists:

Karrin Taylor Robson, Chair, GPEC Next Leadership Council
Ji Mi Choi, Associate Vice President, Arizona State University
John Graham, President & CEO, Sunbelt Holdings
Jenny Poon, Founder, Co+Hoots

 

Location:

Mesa Arts Center
Nesbitt/Elliott Playhouse

Date/Time Information:

8 a.m. – 9 a.m. Registration, refreshments and networking
9 a.m. – 10:30 a.m. Program

Fees/Admission:Invitation

TO REGISTER

Link > http://www.mesachamber.org/events/details
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The Rise of Innovation Districts

A New Geography of Innovation in America
By Bruce Katz and Julie Wagner
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Quick streaming video uploaded more than 4 years ago

Published on Dec 16, 2013

Today, innovation is taking place where people can come together, not in isolated spaces. Innovation districts are this century's productive geography, they are both competitive places and 'cool spaces' and they will transform your city and metropolis.

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As the United States slowly emerges from the Great Recession, a remarkable shift is occurring in the spatial geography of innovation.
For the past 50 years, the landscape of innovation has been dominated by places like Silicon Valley—suburban corridors of spatially isolated corporate campuses, accessible only by car, with little emphasis on the quality of life or on integrating work, housing and recreation.

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¹ Anchor institutions are research universities and research—oriented medical hospitals with extensive R&D. A new complementary urban model is now emerging, giving rise to what we and others are calling “innovation districts.” These districts, by our definition, are geographic areas where leading-edge anchor institutions and companies cluster and connect with start-ups, business incubators and accelerators.¹ They are also physically compact, transit-accessible, and technically-wired and offer mixed-use housing, office, and retail.
Innovation districts are the manifestation of mega-trends altering the location preferences of people and firms and, in the process, re-conceiving the very link between economy shaping, place making and social networking.^{2
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“The trend is to nurture living, breathing communities rather than sterile remote, compounds of research silos.” –Pete Engardio, “Research Parks for the Knowledge Economy,” Bloomberg Businessweek
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Our most creative institutions, firms and workers crave proximity so that ideas and knowledge can be transferred more quickly and seamlessly. Our “open innovation” economy rewards collaboration, transforming how buildings and entire districts are designed and spatially arrayed. Our diverse population demands more and better choices of where to live, work and play, fueling demand for more walkable neighborhoods where housing, jobs and amenities intermix.
Innovation districts have the unique potential to spur productive, inclusive and sustainable economic development. At a time of sluggish growth, they provide a strong foundation for the creation and expansion of firms and jobs by helping companies, entrepreneurs, universities, researchers and investors—across sectors and disciplines—co-invent and co-produce new discoveries for the market. At a time of rising social inequality, they offer the prospect of expanding employment and educational opportunities for disadvantaged populations given that many districts are close to low- and moderate-income neighborhoods. And, at a time of inefficient land use, extensive sprawl and continued environmental degradation, they present the potential for denser residential and employment patterns, the leveraging of mass transit, and the repopulation of urban cores.https://www.brookings.edu/essay/rise-of-innovation-districts/
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The Brookings Institution, evaluating the 100 largest metropolitan areas in the country from 2010 to 2015, recently reported that while every city they studied achieved job growth, and 98 percent of cities expanded their gross metropolitan product, only 53 percent saw their median wages rise.
In other words, in 47 out of our nation's 100 largest cities, the individuals at the middle of their metropolitan income distribution saw their wages fall, or at best, stay the same. The authors of the report concluded that "economic growth alone, even growth that produces rising living standards, does not reliably assure better outcomes for all groups in a metropolitan area."
So what does? What are the other ingredients necessary to produce inclusive economic prosperity?
Enterprise Community Partners, a Washington D.C.-based non-profit, recently published Opportunity360, a web-based tool that combines over one hundred and fifty public and proprietary data sources to provide insight into inclusive economic development across the country. More than a white paper or a data-visualization platform, Opportunity360 is at its heart a diagnostic tool, revealing not only the symptoms of unequal development, but also the underlying conditions that shape it."We want to help users of the platform build a narrative around economic development and understand the context of the information they're reading, not just provide terse charts and spreadsheets," said Vrunda Vaghela, Director of Special Projects at Enterprise.
To illustrate this, Vaghela took me on a walkthrough of Opportunity360.
https://www.enterprisecommunity.org/opportunity360
She typed in my office address, and the screen filled with graphs dividing up performance metrics for housing stability, education, health and wellbeing, economic security, and mobility. In each category, the strength of the census block was measured against region, state, and country averages.
A COMMUNITY OF OPPORTUNITY

A community of opportunity is one in which the available pathways lead to positive outcomes for all residents, including housing stability, education, health and well-being, economic security and mobility. http://bit.ly/opportunity360 pic.twitter.com/afpkm6n2bN

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Published on Nov 10, 2017

Learn about Opportunity360, a comprehensive approach to understanding communities and improving outcomes.

 

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Bruce Katz, Jeremy Nowak Visit Chattanooga To Celebrate “The New Localism” Jan. 29 At Edney Innovation Center

Tuesday, January 9, 2018
The authors define the New Localism as “a problem-solving practice and governing philosophy for the 21st century. It emerged out of pragmatism—out of the need to rescue communities in decline—but is increasingly focused on linking local communities to the growth sectors of the global economy in ways both inclusive and environmentally sustainable.” The book uses Chattanooga as an example of how this pragmatic, solutions-oriented approach has produced some remarkable economic and community development successes in the community.

“Bruce Katz and Jeremy Nowak have spent their careers advancing bold insights and practical ideas about how cities can become more competitive, attractive, livable and prosperous,” said Mayor Berke. “Chattanooga has been a place where many of their ideas have taken root with tremendous success, evidenced in our rising wages, thriving startup community and tremendous private-sector investments throughout our city.”
"Mr. Katz and Mr. Nowak’s visit to Chattanooga coincides with a number of exciting developments in Chattanooga’s Innovation District, including the upcoming release of a months-long public planning process. The Enterprise Center organized the process to maximize the potential of the Innovation District," officials said.
“We founded the Innovation District several years ago as a kind of living experiment in shaping Chattanooga’s future,” said Ken Hays, president of The Enterprise Center. “We believed that by intentionally bringing talented knowledge workers together and giving them the tools and resources they need to thrive, we could spark the kind of innovations that will help prepare Chattanooga for the 21st century economy -- and we were right. If we’re going to sustain our success, we need to make some strategic, visionary choices today about where and how to invest our financial, human and social capital tomorrow. Our new plan will guide us as we build on our existing achievements, invite new partners to support our work, and push our innovation economy farther and faster.”
 

From China's Global Television Network: View on Iran Nuclear Agreement

Trump said yesterday this is the last time it gets renewed .... and then what?

Published on Jan 13, 2018

Last October, US President Donald Trump refused to certify the Iran nuclear deal, citing the US' national security interest. By this Friday, Trump has to make a decision regarding whether to reimpose the US economic sanctions on Iran that were waived when the nuclear deal went into effect. He must also certify whether the deal is working. How has the Iran nuclear deal served the interests of each side? What if the US ends its commitment to the deal? And how will Iran respond to the forthcoming US decision?

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