Saturday, November 16, 2019

Conversations with John Anderson: Featuring Niall Ferguson (Part I)

Learning from the past - Ferguson was reading Tolstoy's War & Peace at the age of 15 if that tells you anything . . . If this all is all too deep for you to handle and wrap-your-mind around it all now, please take the time to bookmark or save for later > the next post on this blog is Part 111 that was uploaded during the second week of November

Published on Jun 13, 2018
Views: 59,215+
Former Deputy Prime Minister of Australia John Anderson talks to world renowned Stanford University Historian Niall Ferguson about
  • the history, standing and trajectory of Western Civilisation,
  • the evils of totalitarianism,
  • the Western academy,
  • social media and more.
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Conversations with John Anderson: Featuring Niall Ferguson (Part III)


Published on Nov 14, 2019
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Harvard and Stanford Universities Senior Fellow and prolific author Niall Ferguson is one of the world's pre-eminent experts on history, politics and economics.
He shares his current insights on the rivalry between China and the USA, Trump, Brexit and more.
https://johnanderson.net.au/

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https://twitter.com/JohnAndersonAO

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Friday, November 15, 2019

Duh. Dumbing-Down America - With A Few Bright Spots

U.S. workers are failing to improve the skills needed to succeed in an increasingly global economy, according to a government agency report released Friday: Skills Shortage
Less than half of U.S. workers rank in the top levels for mastery of a subject
U.S. Workers Show Little Improvement in 21st Century Skills
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> One in three Americans lacks basic numeracy proficiency            
> Latinos make progress in literacy, digital-solving abilities
"The National Center for Education Statistics asked 3,300 respondents ages 16-to-65 to read simple passages and solve basic math problems. What the researchers found is that literacy, numeracy and digital problem-solving ability in the U.S. have stagnated over the past few years.
  • Some 19% of the test-takers ranked at the lowest of three levels for literacy and 24% lacked basic digital problem-solving abilities.
  • Meanwhile, a shocking 29% performed at the lowest level for numeracy, the same as findings from the previous study conducted in 2012-2014. Almost one in three couldn’t correctly answer “how much gas is in a 24-gallon tank if the gas gauge reads three-quarters full."
Blogger note: HOW MANY MORE 'SIGNALS' DO WE NEED?
"These results are another signal that many Americans struggle with the most basic of math skills,” NCES Associate Commissioner Peggy Carr said in a statement.
“We need to better equip Americans with the numeracy skills that they need for success, starting in middle and high school.”
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Back-To-The-Future: Urbix Chairman Nico Cuevas

OPTIMUM JOINT VENTURE IN CLEAN TECHNOLOGY:
22 August 2018
Flash-Back > Fast-Forward: Here In Mesa Urbix Taking Top Position In World Graphene Production
"Now here's a Lo-Fi downtown Mesa success story if ever there was one: the transformation of an under-used existing 53,000 sq.ft building that didn't deliver the results when city officials wanted to make Mesa "a college town" by locating Wilkes University and the so-called Center for Higher Education in the former Police Building on 2nd Street. What is working well now at LaunchPoint is a company named Urbix, as noted on this blog site last year in a post an excerpt is inserted here.
Read entire post > click here
There's an update today about advanced testing programs and more investments
16 May 2017
A New Era For Transnational AZ-Mexico Tech Development
Chairman of Mesa-based Urbix, Nico Cuevas Ushers in a New Graphene Era
by Maciej Heyman
military-technologies.net
Phoenix, Arizona – May 15, 2017 – At a TEDx event in Hermosillo, Mexico early in May, Phoenix-based Urbix Resources co-founder and chairman, Nico Cuevas, heralded in the Graphene Age.
“We are entering a new era,” Cuevas told a full and enthusiastic audience at the Auditorio del COBACH.
What is coming, Cuevas says, is a “wave of innovation that will allow a social and economic development only comparable to the Industrial Revolution.”
As Cuevas points out, graphene makes possible the next level of technological development, including conductive inks for the production of ultra thin and ultralight circuitry, radically thin mobile phones, super-light bulletproof vests, water purification membranes, light and highly efficient batteries and other innovations . . .
The company recently completed their second round of financing and is moving into position to take their place as one of the top graphene-producing organizations in the world.
Visit: www.UrbixResources.com
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23 April 2018
Mesa-Based Tech StartUp Urbix Announces Series A Funding Oversubscribed at $3.5 Million
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
EIN Presswirelogo
Urbix Resources Announces Series A Funding Oversubscribed at $3.5 Million
Graphene company’s investment oversubscription means full vision high tech initiatives will move forward
 
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Urbix Returns To Where It Started After Getting 'Incubated" @ Launch Point

Looks like 'a day of glory' for District 5 Councilmember David Luna with ribbon-cutting scissors in-hand in the photo opp that got featured in a press release from City of Mesa Newsroom yesterday:
Mesa celebrates expansion of Urbix Resources
into Falcon District
(Launch Point got re-located into empty space at The Mesa Center for Higher Education, the former police station, before city officials cooked-up plans for an ASU satellite campus.)
"Urbix was founded in 2014 and was the first client at the downtown Mesa location of LaunchPoint, the Mesa Technology Accelerator whose mission is to stimulate the establishment and growth of small technology-based companies and other businesses in the east valley. . . "
>> YOU CAN READ ALL OF WHAT THE POLITICIANS SAID in the press release, but here's the better read-out:
"This is a fantastic moment in our young history. To see how this relatively small facility of just 31,000 square feet will have such positive impact in the U.S.'s Energy Storage Critical Mineral Strategy, and also in the world, is super motivating and exciting," Urbix Resources Chairman and Co-Founder Nico Cuevas said.
"This is a huge milestone for us and we have plenty more work to do. We have an incredible team at Urbix and amazing support from the City of Mesa, the region and the state of Arizona."
In support of its eco-friendly approach, Urbix Resources was named Cleantech Open's Best Business Model in 2017. Cleantech runs the world's largest clean technology accelerator program, with the mission to find, fund, and foster entrepreneurs with ideas to solve our greatest environmental and energy challenges.
For more information about Urbix, visit www.urbixresources.com.
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Your MesaZona blogger had this to say on more than three earlier posts:
1 Most recent
30 September 2019
Mesa Start-Up Urbix Expands World-Wide Downstream Processing of High-Grade Graphene Products
BRIEF-Bass Metals Signs MoU With Urbix Resources LLC
Stock Markets7 hours ago (Sep 30, 2019 12:30)
Sept 30 (Reuters) - Bass Metals Ltd BSM.AX :* SIGNED A STRATEGIC MEMORANDUM OF UNDERSTANDING WIT URBIX RESOURCES LLC
* MOU TO WORK OVER NEXT 180 DAYS TO ESTABLISH JV FOR PROCESSING OF BASS HIGH GRADE GRAPHITE INTO VALUE ADDED DOWNSTREAM PRODUCTS
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Bass Metals plans Madagascar graphite downstream JV
30th September 2019 BY: Simone Liedtke
Writer
ASX-listed Bass Metals and downstream graphite processor Urbix Resources have signed a strategic memorandum of understanding (MoU) to identify the optimum joint venture (JV) structure and product mix with a view of establishing a production facility in Madagascar.
Bass’ large flake dominated deposit is suitable for a broad range of downstream applications, the mining company release said on Monday.
Bass and Urbix would delineate terms for establishing a JV facility in Madagascar capable of producing a purified high-value graphite product, which would use Urbix’s propriety technology and Bass’ graphmada large flake graphite.
Urbix’s proprietary advanced technology includes environment- and cost-conscious purification methods that were not reliant on environmentally unsustainable hydrofluoric acid treatments, Bass noted.
Urbix is currently engaged in building what will be one of the largest natural graphite purification facilities in North America.
Upon completion, the 9 450 km2 facility at Falcon Airfield in Mesa, Arizona will have the capability of purifying up to 24 000 t/y.
The parties would aim to establish the JV in the next 180 days. 
Source: https://m.miningweekly.com
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Valley graphene startup to open larger Mesa production facility 
Startup also unloaded assets in Mexico for undisclosed price
 
 
 
22 August 2018
Flash-Back > Fast-Forward: Here In Mesa Urbix Taking Top Position In World Graphene Production
Now here's a Lo-Fi downtown Mesa success story if ever there was one: the transformation of an under-used existing 53,000 sq.ft building that didn't deliver the results when city officials wanted to make Mesa "a college town" by locating Wilkes University and the so-called Center for Higher Education in the former Police Building on 2nd Street.
What is working well now at LaunchPoint is a company named Urbix, as noted on this blog site last year in a post an excerpt is inserted here. Read entire post > click here
There's an update today about advanced testing programs and more investments
16 May 2017
A New Era For Transnational AZ-Mexico Tech Development
Chairman of Mesa-based Urbix, Nico Cuevas Ushers in a New Graphene Era
by Maciej Heyman
military-technologies.net
Phoenix, Arizona – May 15, 2017 – At a TEDx event in Hermosillo, Mexico early in May, Phoenix-based Urbix Resources co-founder and chairman, Nico Cuevas, heralded in the Graphene Age.
“We are entering a new era,” Cuevas told a full and enthusiastic audience at the Auditorio del COBACH.
What is coming, Cuevas says, is a “wave of innovation that will allow a social and economic development only comparable to the Industrial Revolution.”
As Cuevas points out, graphene makes possible the next level of technological development, including conductive inks for the production of ultra thin and ultralight circuitry, radically thin mobile phones, super-light bulletproof vests, water purification membranes, light and highly efficient batteries and other innovations . . .
The company recently completed their second round of financing and is moving into position to take their place as one of the top graphene-producing organizations in the world.
Visit: www.UrbixResources.com
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23 April 2018
Mesa-Based Tech StartUp Urbix Announces Series A Funding Oversubscribed at $3.5 Million
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
EIN Presswirelogo
Urbix Resources Announces Series A Funding Oversubscribed at $3.5 Million
Graphene company’s investment oversubscription means full vision high tech initiatives will move forward
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Downtown Mesa's Micro-Mobility Make-Over? One More Tricky Make-Believe Transformation

Whatever happened to those over-hyped promises from city urban planning officials and all those Unicorn VC-funded start-ups - funded by billions of dollars - who dumped thousands of e-scooters onto the sidewalks and public rights-of-way here in 'The old Donut-Hole' more than two years ago?... without any prior notice to the public ahead of time
Hmmm. That just did not work out
 
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Golden Shovel + Golden Prospector Awards 2019

The 2019 Golden Prospector Awards is open to all AAED members in good standing. To be eligible, at least some part of the project must have occurred in 2018 and have been completed by April 30, 2019.
Arizona Association for Economic Development Presents 2019 Golden Prospector Awards
HMA Public Relations | atNovember 5, 2019
(PRESCOTT, Ariz., Nov. 5, 2019) -- The Arizona Association for Economic Development (AAED) has presented seven Golden Prospector Awards recognizing excellence, innovation and creativity in economic development.
The city of Goodyear won two of the awards, one for attracting Andersen Corporation to the city as the deal of the year and one for its website, “Goodyear Economic Development.”
Other websites earning Golden Prospector Awards were the city of Mesa’s “SelectMesa.com,” the city of Prescott’s “PrescottBiz.com” and the city of Surprise’s “AZTechCelerator.com.”
The city of Eloy was recognized for its marketing brochure, “Intersection of Value, Location and Opportunity,” and Pinal County’s multimedia promotion “Outdoor Activity Video” also received a Golden Prospector Award.
In addition to the Golden Prospector Awards, there were eight Awards of Merit also presented at AAED’s Fall Forum in Prescott.
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2019 Golden Prospector Awards were presented during the Celebration Luncheon at Fall Forum October 24, 2019
Mesa earns Golden Prospector Award from AAED for economic development efforts
November 7, 2019 at 8:10 am
The City of Mesa's Office of Economic Development has won a Golden Prospector Award from the Arizona Association for Economic Development (AAED), recognizing excellence, innovation and creativity in economic development.
Mesa was recognized for its website, "SelectMesa.com." . . .
AAED, founded in 1974, has a mission to serve as Arizona's unified voice advocating for responsible economic development through an effective program of professional education, public policy, and collaboration.
Extract and Image - with no names of the city employees - is from https://www.mesanow.org/news/public/article/2409
For more information on AAED, visit www.aaed.com or call (602) 240-2233.
CONTACT: ANNELISE KRAFFT
(602) 957-8881
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The City of Mesa did a whole lot of 'shoveling' lately - in the fringes of the Inner and Outer Loops in northeast and southeast Mesa while more than one vacant eyesore has  plagued the NWC intersection of Main & Country Club Drive where a Valley Metro Light Rail platform has been in operation 3 years - it's that infamous Bailey's Brake Service site the city of Mesa wanted to seize using Eminent Domain.
The perspective in this image provided shows the expanse of the sight with the 15-story assisted-living facility Courtyard Towers looming in the background
Here's one more major eyesore here in Downtown Mesa - it's the Infamous Site 17 
The city of Mesa took a wrecking-ball to the 27-acre neighborhood demolishing more than 60 homes and spending $6,000,000 to clear the site for plans and financing from a Canadian development that never quite 'worked-out' or 'materialized.
The area used to be Rendezvous Park . . .
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The following images are all taken from recent press announcements from the City of Mesa Newsroom
. . . if you're interested, you can find the details using the following link
https://www.mesanow.org



















 
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