Saturday, March 21, 2020

MEET THE BARRET MULTI-ROLE ADAPTIVE DESIGN SNIPER RIFLE OF U.S MILITARY !


Munitions are manufactured here in Mesa by The Capstone Group - Nammo Talley in a 600-acre ammunitions facility located in the northeast quadrant - hundreds of thousands of rounds
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•Mar 21, 2020
The U.S. Army and Marine Corps are placing orders for a new sniper rifle - Barrett MRAD Viewers may note that U.S. Special Operations Command has already placed an order for the Barrett MRAD last year. U.S Special Operations Command purchased $50 million worth of MRAD rifles, which it designated the Mark 22 Advanced Sniper Rifle. The new rifle will slowly replace existing sniper rifles and heavier anti-material rifles in the inventories U.S. ground forces. The U.S. Army and Marine Corps are placing orders for a new sniper rifle - Barrett MRAD Viewers may note that U.S. Special Operations Command has already placed an order for the Barrett MRAD last year. U.S Special Operations Command purchased $50 million worth of MRAD rifles, which it designated the Mark 22 Advanced Sniper Rifle. The new rifle will slowly replace existing sniper rifles and heavier anti-material rifles in the inventories U.S. ground forces.
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What Evangelical Leaders Told Their Congregations About Coronavirus

Praise the Lord! - You are healed!
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The following are excerpts from the sermons of evangelical leaders in the weeks leading up to an outbreak of coronavirus in the U.S.
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Severe Control Measures

From New York Times Interactive
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This map shows how many people the model estimates could get the virus in each county in the United States by two months from now.
One scenario — which is unlikely — simulates what could happen without any intervention. A second scenario envisions what would happen with some control measures, such as partial adherance to social distancing guidlines and a patchwork of government-imposed restrictions on work, travel, and dining out. A third envisions severe control measures: strict adherance across the country to social distancing, working remotely, closing schools and restaurants and banning large gatherings.
". . . The scenarios do not estimate what effect individual local actions will have on the outbreak. . . 
The economic challenges ??
The Columbia researchers’ model works by observing the behavior of the outbreak in the United States up until March 13, based on case records compiled by The New York Times, commuting patterns and other data.
The researchers use those observations to infer key features of the outbreak. One is how many people each infected person has tended to infect so far, about 2.2. Another is how many people may pass on the virus without knowing that they have it. The disease is spreading far too fast to be explained by known cases alone, and only about 1 in 11 infections have been reported, they found.
Those factors allow the researchers to simulate the spread of a virus in the future. They adjust those simulations under different scenarios in which the nation imposes a range of control measures to stop the spread.
The estimates are imperfect, but they are consistent with the available data. It is impossible to know the exact number of cases a week ago or to predict the future. It is also impossible to model the precise impact of unprecedented measures that America has already put in place to control the outbreak.
But the research estimates that if measures to slow the disease are not effective, the virus could sicken millions of people or more, losing steam on the coasts in May before spreading to the rest of the country over the summer.
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PROP-O-GANDA: Call Trump's "News Conferences" What They Are

Yes that had to be said - this is from Jennifer Senior writing in The New York Times  :
Then contrast them with the leadership shown by Andrew Cuomo, Justin Trudeau and Angela Merkel.

Credit...Erin Schaff/The New York Times
"In a time of global emergency, we need calm, directness and, above all, hard facts. Only the opposite is on offer from the Trump White House. It is therefore time to call the president’s news conferences for what they are: propaganda.

We may as well be watching newsreels approved by the Soviet Politburo. We’re witnessing the falsification of history in real time. When Donald Trump, under the guise of social distancing, told the White House press corps on Thursday that he ought to get rid of 75 to 80 percent of them — reserving the privilege only for those he liked — it may have been chilling, but it wasn’t surprising. He wants to thin out their ranks until there’s only Pravda in the room.
Sometimes, I stare at Deborah Birx during these briefings and I wonder if she understands that this is the footage historians will be looking at 100 years from now — the president rambling on incoherently, vainly, angrily, deceitfully, while she watches, her face stiff with the strangled horror of a bride enduring an inappropriate toast.
If the public wants factual news briefings, they need to tune in to those who are giving them: Gov. Andrew Cuomo of New York, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau of Canada and Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany, whose addresses appear with English subtitles on Deutsche Welle.
They should start following the many civic-minded epidemiologists and virologists and contagion experts on Twitter, like Harvard’s Marc Lipsitch and Yale’s Nicholas Christakis, whose threads have been invaluable primers in a time of awful confusion.
These are people with a high tolerance for uncertainty. It’s the president’s incapacity to tolerate it — combined with his bottomless need to self-flatter and preserve his political power — that leads, so often, to his spectacular fits of deception and misdirection.  . . .
READ THE ENTIRE OPINION FROM JENNIFER SENIOR Click or Tap here
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Doesn't look that much different than "a news conference' staged here in Mesa, Arizona by City Manager Chris Brady to announce the appointment of insider Ken Cost as the new Mesa PD Chief - they waited 4 months to fix the 'sudden resignation of the former chief
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Caliber's Wealth-Creation Downtown Mesa OZ Fund "A Crowning Achievement" In Times of Corona-Virus???

" . . . a booming economy is taking the area storm"?
Let's go to the land of Make-Believe in one more spoon-fed piece of media manipulation - thanks to Christopher Boan, East Valley Tribune Staff Writer in a story published yesterday. It's hard to swallow if you have actually walked all along Main Street here in Downtown Mesa to really see the eight commercial properties that then-AZ State Senator Bob Worsley scooped up gambling in real estate speculation at the same time holding the trust of public elected office.
Feds tout Opportunity Zone impact on Mesa             




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Friday, March 20, 2020

That Old "Downtown Vision Thing', The End of The Cycle > The Clock Is Ticking . . .To The Stop Button

"The city may get their vision done when the economy turns down and everyone will go away.  As a Board, we want to get people together to sit down and within a few days nail down a vision.  Another concern that this Board sees on many levels is the economic cycle. 
As things are taking longer, whether it is development agreements or getting through permitting or other issues, we see that clock ticking and that time is precious. 
We are not at the beginning of the cycle. . ."
-- Chair Ovando-Karadsheh understood that the market drives business, but why are people having that hesitation?  (Economic Development Advisory Board Meeting Minutes February 11, 2020 Page 6 of 9 )
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Councilmember Duff stated one of her objectives coming onto Council is creating that vision and inviting people to that vision. 
DMA is going through strategic planning and their vision.  The Downtown Transformation Office will be engaged and are waiting for the Census to be done. 

She has been working within those efforts to press forward to have a holistic vision as a city of who we are. 


If the city doesn’t do that, whoever will show up at our door and develop on our streets will define who we are.
 
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Radical New Social Norms: 'QUARANTINE SHAMING'

“Quarantine shaming” —
calling out those not abiding by social distancing rules — is part of a new and startling reality for Americans who must navigate a world of rapidly evolving social norms in the age of COVID-19."
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The Associated Press published an article that described the backlash the chairman of Arizona’s Asian Chamber of Commerce Ryan Winkle received after posting a photo on Instagram of him attending a small dinner at a local restaurant to bolster the business and bring together other leaders to discuss how to help Asian-American eateries devastated by the coronavirus.
“My thinking is always about the economics.

Imagine when all these businesses shut down.
That’s a whole different problem.”
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"As schools close and shelter-in-place orders sweep across the U.S., the divide between those who are stringently practicing self-isolation and those who are still trying to go about some semblance of a normal life has never been more clear.
Complicating matters: What was socially acceptable even 48 hours ago may now be taboo, as government officials race to contain the virus with ever-expanding circles of social isolation.
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'Quarantine Shaming': US Navigates Radical New Social Norms

The Associated Press
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"The chairman of Arizona's Asian Chamber of Commerce didn't see much downside to attending a small dinner at a local restaurant to bolster the business and bring together other leaders to discuss how to help Asian-American eateries devastated by the coronavirus.
That was, at least, until he posted about it on Instagram. The feedback was swift from people who were appalled that Ryan Winkle would promote a gathering — even a small one — as COVID-19 raged and entire cities were urged to self-isolate.
“I started getting some messages saying, ‘Hey, why are you trying to spread the virus?' I was like, ’It’s a small event, and everyone had washed their hands, and they had sanitizer on the tables,'” Winkle said of the dinner held Saturday in Mesa, Arizona.
“My thinking is always about the economics. Imagine when all these businesses shut down. That’s a whole different problem.”
. . . Winkle, for his part, has re-examined his approach to social distancing since the weekend event. It helps that Mesa instituted a ban on dine-in serve at restaurants and bars on Tuesday.
“I get it, and I get where they’re coming from,” he said.
“I definitely took it to heart and thought maybe it's time to start slowing things down.”
READ THE ENTIRE REPORT > Associated Press Online via NY Times
 
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