Tuesday, January 15, 2019

Female Orgasm vs Male Orgasm - How Do They Compare?

Are they equal? ... details

Published on Jan 15, 2019

What's the difference between a female orgasm or a male orgasm? How do the two compare? In today's educational episode, we're comparing the two to see what the difference is.

City of Mesa: 1,2,3,4 Swearing-In Ceremonies for Mesa City Council

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Swearing In Ceremony for Jen Duff

Published on Jan 15, 2019

Time: 09:03

Held on Thursday, Jan. 10, 2019 at Mesa Arts Center
Councilmember for District 4

Swearing In Ceremony for Francisco Heredia

Time: 10:57

Swearing In Ceremony for Kevin Thompson

Time:08:49

Swearing In Ceremony for David Luna

Time: 09:06

The City of Mesa Has A Problem Managing "MicroMobility"

Hmm....Once again, dear readers, where are the communications & community engagement with the public BEFORE these risks and threats to public safety get dumped on the sidewalks here in downtown???

Needless to say your MesaZona blogger's opinion is not mixed. ASU in Tempe has banned them. Scottsdale is impounding them and imposing fines. MESA DOES NOTHING.

Here's a Playbook for those pervasive scooters. Help is on the way, while city spokesperson Steve Wright says that they are "considering the options" today at the same time another venture-capital funded company deploys another 1,000 eScooters!

What's the difference you can clearly see in this image below compared with what we've been seeing here all along the sidewalks in Downtown Mesa for months?

Users are operating on the streets NOT the sidewalks and they are wearing helmets. How best to manage these services???? Mesa has done nothing.

. . . "there’s still so much to learn,” said Russ Brooks, T4America’s Director of Smart Cities. “They can help advance city goals related to equity, access to jobs and services, climate, and more. But in order to achieve these goals, cities have a major role to play in thoughtfully managing them to ensure that the benefits accrue equitably to everyone."

http://action.smartgrowthamerica.org

The Playbook is divided into eight policy sections: General provisions, operations, equipment & safety, parking & street design, equity, communications & community engagement, data, and metrics.

A new playbook for shared Micromobility

An evolving guide for cities struggling with dockless bikes and scooters

Two years ago fleets of dockless scooters and bikes weren't even within the realm of possibilities. Today, hundreds of cities across the country are grappling with how to manage the latest advances in shared micromobility services.

That's where this our brand new resource—the Shared Micromobility Playbook—comes in as cities consider how best to manage these services.

Produced with feedback from the 23 cities that participated in our Smart Cities Collaborative, the Playbook is intended to help all cities better understand the variety of policy options at their disposal by exploring the core components of a comprehensive shared micromobility policy.

How can our streets be safer for the most vulnerable users?

Next week, our colleagues at the National Complete Streets Coalition will release Dangerous by Design 2019. This report ranks the largest 100 metro areas and each state plus Washington, DC based on how dangerous they are for people walking.

Register for the release webinar on January 24 at 2:30 p.m. EST and learn more about the problem and what can be done to save lives.

The DRUDGE REPORT Is Getting More Respect [+ Viewers] These Days

Ever wonder why? Check out the format:

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. . . and from 'The Gray-Lady' New York Times on the same subject:

Trump Claims There Is a Crisis at the Border. What’s the Reality?

By JOE WARD and ANJALI SINGHVI JAN. 11, 2019

LINK > Images and article

Three data points from a massive graphic that takes up half (columns 2-4) of today's N.Y. Times front page (by graphics editors Joe Ward and Anjali Singhvi):

"Illegal Immigration Is Near a 50-Year Low … In 2017, arrests for illegally crossing the border were at their lowest point since 1971. Undetected illegal border crossings have dropped at an even faster rate, according to estimates by the Department of Homeland Security."
"But Families Are Coming in Record Numbers ... A record number of families have tried to cross the border in recent months, overwhelming officials at the border and creating a new kind of humanitarian crisis."
"Studies Have Found No Link Between Immigration and Crime ... The Cato Institute, a libertarian research center, analyzed ... Texas data for 2015 and found that the rate of crime among undocumented immigrants was generally lower than among native-born Americans."

Go deeper.

Let Them Eat Fast Food

According to a report today from axios.com Trump said he paid for the meal himself because much of the staff in the White House residence has been furloughed.
[Image credit: Susan Walsh/AP taken from the Axios report]

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"We ordered American fast food, paid for by me. Lots of hamburgers, lots of pizza," Trump said after returning to the White House from New Orleans.

"We have some very large people that like eating, so I think we're going to have a little fun."

State-Of-The-City Extravaganza: Mesa Mayor John Giles On-Stage

Here we go again! . . . Scrambled eggs, anyone?
Please note that Sally Jo Harrison, President/CEO of the Mesa Chamber of Commerce has a contact number to become a sponsor.
Price:
$2500 Event Sponsorship
$1500 Table Sponsorship

$500/$600 Table of 10 [Member/Non-Member]

Here In Mesa eScooters Are Risks & Threats to Public Safety

Clearly here's more evidence of that issue in an image from a couple of days ago: not one but two dumped in the public rights-of-way on the sidewalk while three city employees are leaving after lunch. They missed seeing these somehow.
In spite of trying the "Raise Less of A Ruckus" approach to this issue of threats to public safety posed by dumping these
"environmentally-friendly" alternative modes of transportation,

Mesa has not proposed any regulations for rental scooters and bikes, but the idea is being considered.HUH?

According to a story written by the Arizona Republic reporter Rick Randazzo , city spokesman Steven Wright is quoted as saying "We are looking into how we regulate these things, . . ." HUH?

It was also announced today in a press release that a 5th company - Uber - is deploying 1,000 electric bikes and scooters in Mesa and Scottsdale via its Jump subsidiary.
The image to the right, taken outside Mesazona Market on Main Street clearly shows another eScooter left in the public right-of-way.
Readers will note in the link provided to Randazzo's report that it's all about money, business and tech. Randazzo also reports that unlike Lime and Bird [2 of the other venture-capital funded companies who dumped eScooters on the sidewalks, Uber reached out to the cities beforehand, rather than dropping the scooters off unannounced.
Apparently, officials inside City Hall said OK instead of calling a moratorium of more threats and risks to public safety that are posed by eScooters dumped or operated on the sidewalks here. Uber spokesman Walter Andrews, who is overseeing the Jump deployment in Arizona, realizes that eScooters belong on 'bike-friendly roads' NOT THE SIDEWALKS: "With great weather, popular local events, and bike-friendly roads, Scottsdale and Mesa are perfect cities for e-bikes and scooters, . . ."
Blogger Note: Every day I see users of eScooters operating them on the sidwalks, not on the streets at the same time there are clearly-marked warnings to WALK YOUR WHEELS.
Apparently there is no monitoring or enforcement of the regulations!
Yesterday yours truly witnessed a very ugly confrontation between an eScooter user barreling along on the sidewalk in front of Antique Plaza and a family man walking his baby carriage and two dogs when he point-black told the eScooter-user she was dangerous to his safety and posed a threat. It turned into a loud, shouting, profanity-infused and angry stand-off. When one of the owners of Antique Plaza stepped-out hearing the loud shouting, I asked him how many times he's witnessed eScooter users whizzing-by in violation of state state statutes. . . many times. Did he complain? Yes - to who? The Downtown Merchants Association.

https://www.azcentral.com/story/money/business/tech

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