Sunday, September 12, 2021

Hmmm...A COLLECTIVE VISION To Make Mesa A More Vibrant, Prosperous, and Thriving City...'Taking Steps'

The City of Mesa is seeking public participation in two planning efforts to create Mesa’s Footprint for the Future.
Both efforts seek to develop a collective vision on how to make Mesa a more vibrant, prosperous, and thriving city for generations to come.
 
> The aligned effort will ensure efficiency and effectiveness in the process for research, community engagement, and staff resources.

Mesa Takes Steps to Enhance the Quality of Life and Recreation Amenities

 
For media inquiries please contact (480) 644-4699 or Kevin.Christopher@mesaaz.gov
Four Faces of Leadership and the Importance of The Vision Thing | The  Stewardship Report
Contact: Kevin Christopher
(480) 644-4699
Kevin.Christopher@mesaaz.gov
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A Community Space

Share memories, suggest ideas and provide recommendations on topics relevant to the plan.  

 
Help Shape the Future of Mesa

We invite you to visit one of six community workshops to provide your feedback on the needs and priorities for creating Mesa’s Footprint for the Future.

DETAILS

You're Invited! - Climate Action Plan Input Sessions

Virtual Lunchtime Series

The Climate Action Plan is our commitment to proactively and responsibly protect and conserve Mesa’s environment and natural resources. Your input is needed to help guide the next update of the plan related to community action and priorities.

REGISTER HERE 
 

Help us Create our Footprint for the Future

 

THE U.S. MILITARY PRESENCE AROUND THE WORLD REVEALED || 2021

HARMLESS GOSSIP: Glorious Tool of Social Bonding /. An Equal Opportunities Pursuit

Just like almost everyone else, your MesaZona blogger loves stories - especially when someone adds ''You didn't hear this from me." OK let's leave that there... Gossip has a poor reputation (have you heard?). But I am going to argue in favour of this pastime, first coined by – who else? – Shakespeare.

Yet another victim of the social quicksand of the pandemic, which has dissolved the kind of commonplace interactions we now realise we took for granted, harmless gossip is a glorious tool of bonding. It’s not only me who thinks this. Prof Robin Dunbar, whom I trust implicitly not only because he heads up a fancily named department at Oxford, but because he is a fellow Liverpudlian, is of the same opinion.

I love a good gossip – life’s twists and turns intrigue and titillate

Whether it’s about football transfers, relationship scandals or Westminster feuds, gossip is a glorious tool of social bonding

Gossip might be better if one is connected, however tangentially, to interesting and eminent people. But gossiping is an equal opportunities pursuit – as twitching curtains in suburban neighbourhoods and sidebar private messages between PTA members can attest.

It isn’t malicious tattling that I enjoy. . .but there is no doubt that the surprising twists and turns of life intrigue and titillate. Historical ones, too . . . "

Hannah Jane Parkinson
Fri 10 Sep 2021 02.00 EDT
 

Saturday, September 11, 2021

Sergei Rachmaninoff: Piano Concerto No. 3 | Khatia Buniatishvili (piano)...

Skepticism: Why critical thinking makes you smarter | Bill Nye, Derren B...

Stung Real Good by the Most Secure Phone on The Planet (or so they were told)

It's a long story - here's a little of it and YOU can read a lot more: Billed as the most secure phone on the planet, An0m became a viral sensation in the underworld. There was just one problem for anyone using it for criminal means: it was run by the police

Big Bang’s targets’ alleged crimes ranged from drug trafficking to attempted murder. What they had in common was their choice of texting app.

Hook, line and sinker: the An0m phone sting led to more than 800 arrests around the world in June 2021. Illustration: Sébastien Thibault/The Guardian

‘Every message was copied to the police’: the inside story of the most daring surveillance sting in history

<div class=__reading__mode__extracted__imagecaption>Hook, line and sinker: the An0m phone sting led to more than 800 arrests around the world in June 2021. Illustration: Sébastien Thibault/The  Guardian<br>Hook, line and sinker: the An0m phone sting led to more than 800 arrests around the world in June 2021. Illustration: Sébastien Thibault/The  Guardian</div>

Construction's Graphene Revolution Has (Finally) Begun

Trump Awards Cold Open - SNL