As if we didn't know it already, it's always a good thing to see facts and data dug into time-and-time again for years. < Here's "The Drama Queen" There's one more from June 4, 2019 based on the most recent annual personal financial disclosure released by the Office of Government Ethics last month. It's quite long and filled with reliable details by an organization named Open Secrets The Center for Responsive Politics _________________________________________________________________________
World of Influence: A guide to Trump’s foreign business interests
"Two years into his presidency, Donald Trump continues to make money from properties and licensing deals in nearly two dozen countries around the world, fanning the flames of concerns that the Trump administration is subject to unprecedented levels of foreign influence. Trump continued to hold more than $130 million in foreign assets in a revocable trust as his second year in office came to a close, according to OpenSecrets’ analysis of the president’s most recent annual personal financial disclosure released by the Office of Government Ethics last month. Trump’s business entanglements continue to leave him with positions, assets, trademarks and other business interests in more than 30 countries
Other Countries Trump also holds trademarks and other interests in Australia, Egypt, the European Union, Chile, New Zealand, Malaysia, Morocco and South Africa. He’s also reportedly benefitted from a host of other foreign countries. For example, Kuwait’s government has started to hold their annual Kuwait National Day celebration at Trump International Hotel, just blocks from the White House. Their 2019 celebration was attended by Kuwaiti royalty along with members of Trump’s team including Wilbur Ross, Ben Carson and Kellyanne Conway.
Researchers Alex Baumgart and Grace Haley contributed to this report.
President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump join King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud of Saudi Arabia, and the President of Egypt, Abdel Fattah Al Sisi, Sunday, May 21, 2017, to participate in the inaugural opening of the Global Center for Combating Extremist Ideology. (Official White House Photo by Shealah Craighead)
Great cast + great movie Have we come a long way, Baby? MAYBE
Published on Sep 1, 2011
Views: 4,185,349
"Both the movie and the song are called "Nine to Five". Five years after posting this video I realized that I was getting a steady stream of questions from people who weren't familiar with the movie or the song or both, so there are several people below who asked what the movie and song were before I changed this opening statement. I would guess that the vast majority of them were born after the movie came out in 1980, so I can see why it's not as clear to them as it would be to someone like me who's seen it umpteen times. After the second verse I gave each of the three women their own spotlight during the chorus. Enjoy!
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Anger researcher Ryan Martin draws from a career studying what makes people mad to explain some of the cognitive processes behind anger -- and why a healthy dose of it can actually be useful. "Your anger exists in you ... because it offered your ancestors, both human and nonhuman, an evolutionary advantage," he says. "[It's] a powerful and healthy force in your life." Get TED Talks recommended just for you! Learn more at https://www.ted.com/signup. The TED Talks channel features the best talks and performances from the TED Conference, where the world's leading thinkers and doers give the talk of their lives in 18 minutes (or less). Look for talks on Technology, Entertainment and Design -- plus science, business, global issues, the arts and more. You're welcome to link to or embed these videos, forward them to others and share these ideas with people you know. For more information on using TED for commercial purposes (e.g. employee learning, in a film or online course), please submit a Media Request here: https://media-requests.ted.com/ Follow TED on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/TEDTalks Like TED on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TED
Rocky and Bullwinkle | TV Series Full Episode | Cartoon For Children 🐿️ Subscribe for more Rocky and Bullwinkle 🐿️ http://bit.ly/2x0T3ql 🐿️Episodes in order without compilations 🐿️ https://bit.ly/2K4rl3U 🐿️Episodes in order with compilations 🐿️ http://bit.ly/2p3L2MM
The lead characters and heroes of the series were Rocket "Rocky" J. Squirrel, a flying squirrel, and his best friend Bullwinkle J. Moose, a dim-witted but good-natured moose. Both characters lived in the fictional town of Frostbite Falls, Minnesota, which was based on the real life city of International Falls, Minnesota.[25] The scheming villains in most episodes were the fiendish spies Boris Badenov, a pun on Boris Godunov, and Natasha Fatale, a pun on femme fatale. Other characters included Fearless Leader, the dictator of the fictitious nation of Pottsylvania and Boris and Natasha's superior, Gidney & Cloyd, little green men from the moon who were armed with scrooch guns; Captain Peter "Wrongway" Peachfuzz, the captain of the S.S. Andalusia; various U.S. government bureaucrats and politicians (such as Senator Fussmussen, a recurring character who opposed admitting Alaska and Hawaii to the union on grounds of his own xenophobia); and the inevitable onlookers, Edgar and Chauncy.
🐿️ Dudley Do-Right of the Mounties", a parody of early 20th century melodrama and silent film serials of the Northern genre. Dudley Do-Right is a Canadian Mountie in constant pursuit of his nemesis, Snidely Whiplash, who sports the standard "villain" attire of black top hat, cape, and large handlebar moustache. This is one of the few Jay Ward cartoons to feature a background music track. As is standard in Ward's cartoons, jokes often have more than one meaning. A standard gag is to introduce characters in an irised close-up with the name of the "actor" displayed in a caption below, a convention seen in some early silent films. However, the comic twist is using the captions to present silly names or subtle puns. Occasionally, even the scenery is introduced in this manner, as when "Dead Man's Gulch" is identified as being portrayed by "Gorgeous Gorge," a reference to professional wrestler Gorgeous George. 🐿️ Fractured Fairy Tales" presented familiar fairy tales and children's stories, but with altered storylines and modernized for humorous effect. This segment was narrated by Edward Everett Horton; June Foray, Bill Scott, Paul Frees, and an uncredited[citation needed] Daws Butler often supplied the voices.[32] 🐿️ Aesop & Son" is similar to "Fractured Fairy Tales", complete with the same theme music, except it deals with fables instead of fairy tales. The typical structure consists of Aesop attempting to teach a lesson to his son using a fable. After hearing the story, the son subverts the fable's moral with a pun. This structure was also suggested by the feature's opening titles, which showed Aesop painstakingly carving his name in marble using a mallet and chisel and then his son, with a jackhammer and raising a cloud of dust, appending "And Son." Aesop was voiced (uncredited)[citation needed] by actor Charlie Ruggles and the son, Junior, was voiced by Daws Butler. 🐿️ Bullwinkle's Corner" features the dimwitted moose attempting to introduce culture into the proceedings by reciting (and acting out) poems and nursery rhymes, inadvertently and humorously butchering them. Poems subjected to this treatment include several by Robert Louis Stevenson ("My Shadow", "The Swing", and "Where Go the Boats"); William Wordsworth's "Daffodils"; "Little Miss Muffet", "Little Jack Horner", and "Wee Willie Winkie"; J. G. Whittier's "Barbara Frietchie"; and "The Queen of Hearts" by Charles Lamb. Simple Simon is performed with Boris as the pie man, but as a variation of the famous Abbott and Costello routine "Who's on First?". 🐿️ Mr. Know-It-All" again features Bullwinkle posing as an authority on any topic. Disaster inevitably ensues.
First the exclusive THE NEXT BIG INEQUALITY CRISIS Projected net job growth, 2017–30 Think polarization and inequality are bad now? Buckle up: big cities are poised to get bigger, richer and more powerful — at the expense of the rest of America, a new report by McKinsey Global Institute shows.
Why it matters: McKinsey's analysis of 315 cities and more than 3,000 counties shows only the healthiest local economies will be able to successfully adapt to disruptions caused by the next wave of automation. . . The big picture: The labor market will become more polarized.
SPOILER ALERT:
What's next:
It's going to be up to local and federal policy makers to proactively create employment paths for the those most likely to face displacement, McKinsey's Lund said. "Lifting up these places will not just happen naturally," she said. "It will take a concerted effort."
The deepening fault lines in today’s economic landscape are defined both by education and by geography. There is a widening gap between the haves–well-educated and well-located–and the have-nots. And in the U.S., at least, that divide is going to get worse. That’s the conclusion of a new study being published later today by the McKinsey Global Institute. It looks at 315 U.S. cities and 3,000 counties and how their workers will be affected by automation over the next couple of decades. My takeaway after reading it: your zip code may be the most important determinant of your economic future.
Consider this:
– The 25 U.S. mega-cities and their peripheries that have led growth in the last decade—home to roughly a third of the workforce—will continue to capture 60% of job growth through 2030, according to the study.
– By contrast, 54 trailing cities and 2,000 rural counties—home to a quarter of the population—will suffer, with virtually no growth in employment.
– The remaining cities and counties represent a muddy middle, where job growth will be possible, but not certain.
The report should be a call to action, particularly for cities and counties in the muddy middle. “America is a mosaic of local economies on diverging trajectories,” the report says, and “automaton could widen existing disparities.” But communities have an opportunity to improve their odds by working to build the “workforce of the future,” creating job and skill training programs and encouraging smart employer-educator partnerships. As I’ve said before in this space, preparing workers for the next wave of automation may be the defining challenge of our times. This report suggests every community needs to put it at the top of their priority list. Other findings from the report:
– The education fault line will grow deeper: Individuals with a high school degree or less are four times more likely to hold roles that can be automated than people with bachelor degrees.
– As the education fault line deepens, so will racial fault lines: as many as 12 million Hispanic and African-American workers may be displaced.
The report will be published later today at McKinsey.com. https://fortune.com/2019/07/11/mckinsey-report-automation-zip-codes/m
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< Here's the 'screen-grab' image of Hizzoner John Giles, once again charged with presiding over meetings of the Mesa City Council. He has his own ways of running these meetings that somehow don't always go according to plan. Capturing the facial expression could send a message of some kind that is certainly open to interpretations, whether intended or not...
First off when you see the YouTube video, take a count of the number of seats occupied by the public (it's by far NOT a standing-room-only crowd). There's an Mesa Urban Myth about citizen participation and citizen engagement that is Open to Question time-and-time again.
O Lordy! this meeting starts right off with a record-breaking invocation that goes on for more than 5 minutes. Then we get the Don Pardo "The Price Is Right"-voiced KevinChristopher who rattles off the entire Consent Agenda for another 7 minutes - and that's after the usual orders of meeting procedures are to ask for blue comment cards that can be submitted by members of the public who are allowed only 3 minutes to speak.
Note how few members of the public are here - in a city of more than 500,000 and only 42 views on YouTube. Mesa Channel 11 viewer count is unknown.
There are a lot of carry-over questions from two previous study sessions about the questionable proposed plans and phasing for The Union.
Painful dental work for the Hizzoner the Mayor or what?
Mayor John Giles and City Manager Chris Brady go to pains to try to make explanations over a lot about the confusion created by all the previous presentations .... Take the time to notice all the eye-shifts during this session and decide what's credible or not.
...and once again, Econ Dev Director Bill Jabkiniak is called on to provide some credibility
Items from the public are last on the list: there are two and then one more.
IMPORTANT: Watch this public meeting. WHY? There are way too many things that tend to Fly-Under-The-Radar. . .once again very few members of the public every show up or bother to take the time to know what's going on at these meetings. Notice how on-the-edge Mayor Giles is right from the start - suits-and-ties guys for this latter-time in the day session _________________________________________________________________________ 1 Review and discuss items on the agenda for the July 8, 2019 regular Council meeting.
2 Presentations/Action Items:
> 2-a 19-0797Hear a presentation, discuss, and providedirectionon the proposed Audit Plan for FY 2019/20. 2-a
> 2-b 19-0816 Appointment to the Economic Development Advisory Board.2-b 3 Acknowledge receipt of minutes of various boards and committees.
> 3-a 19-0807 Economic Development Advisory Board meeting held on May 7, 2019.3-a 4 Hear reports on meetings and/or conferences attended. 5 Scheduling of meetings and general information. > See post on this blog from July 4th for Meeting Details and Links to the Attachments that were proved. _________________________________________________________________________ Item 1 Mark Freeman has arranged for a presentation and discussion for Item 1 about "a vending machine" for medications - they give out a lot of pharmaceuticals on-call. They used to purchase from hospitals in the city
CITY MANAGER CHRIS BRADY: Re: Proposed Plans for developments at Riverview and Sloan Park Developer Union Mesa Holdings LLC (Do you know who are the partners) Brings up Bill Jabjiniak and JD Beatty to "fill-in" some blanks after Wednesday with discussions with outside legal counsel. Very careful Mark Freeman has met with Bill Jabjiniak to clarify some other questions, Brady asked for more clarifications about parking spaces. Both Freeman, Brady and Giles are very concerned about parking for the Cubs - Why is that? 430 + 2100 [BTW there are parking charges usually paid in cash during the brief Spring Training season. . . the Cubs get the entire gate for ticket-sales. see exhibits in attachments _________________________________________________________________________ ITEM 2-A
POTENTIAL LIABILITIES Hear a presentation, discuss, and providedirectionon the proposed Audit Plan for FY 2019/20. It's about 12 minutes in --- reading right from a prepared script on the table QUESTIONS? Kevin Thompson: Preferences AND comments about Construction Manager At Risk and Over-Cost Job Adjustments over possible "cheating the price" City Manager Reply: (Please pay attention to Chris Brady's body language and eyes > NERVOUS LAUGHTER Mark Freeman: How many CMARs are there???
PLEASE WATCH THE INTERCHANGES. TWO AUDIT EMPLOYEES AND THEN THE CITY ENGINEER STEPS UP TO SIT-IN. So many big projects going on at the same time . . . BEWARE Greenfield $160M Project Signal Butte $360M Project
andlook who shows up! the City Engineer! John Giles thinks the Audit Department might get too ambitious - he's quickly assured that is not the case by any means ________________________________________________________________________________ STUDY SESSION 41 Minutes 42 Views at time of upload to this blog
