Niall Ferguson on Understanding Brexit and Donald Trump (Pt. 2)

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Boing! Boing! Boeing Awarded $49.2M Contract for Qatar "Maintenance Augmentation Team Services"

Boeing contracts for Qatar’s AH-64E support

Dec 27, 2018 in Aviation, News 

The U.S. Army has contracted a Boeing to support of Qatar’s AH-64E Apache Guardian attack helicopters.
The U.S. Army Contracting Command has awarded Boeing Co. contracts for Maintenance Augmentation Team services for the Qatari Air Force AH-64E attack helicopters.
The contract, announced Wednesday by the U.S. Department of Defense, is worth more than $49.2 million. Work will be performed in Mesa, Arizona, with an estimated completion date of July 31, 2024. It expected that Qatar Emiri Air Force to receive the first batch of 24 Boeing AH-64E Apache Guardian attack helicopters before the end of 2019.
According to Boeing, the AH-64 Apache is the world’s most advanced multi-role combat helicopter and is used by the U.S. Army and a growing number of international defense forces.
Boeing delivered the first U.S. Army Apache AH-64A in January 1984.
Since then, the U.S. Army and other nations have received more than 2,200 AH-64 Apache attack helicopters.

Boeing’s global customers for the Apache include Egypt
Greece,
India
Indonesia, Israel
Japan, Korea
Kuwait
the Netherlands,
Qatar, Saudi Arabia
Singapore,
UnitedArab Emirates
United Kingdom.
Source: Defence Blog.com

Tags: Qatar, Boeing, AH-64E Apache

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The helicopters will be equipped with

• AGM-114R Hellfire laser-guided missiles
• FIM-92H Stinger missiles with air-to-air launchers
• 70 mm Hydra air-to-surface rockets.

Qatar is tapping Boeing to maintain the country’s fleet of AH-64E Apache helicopters. Awarded by the US Army Contracting Command, the $49.2 million Foreign Military Sales contract provides for Maintenance Augmentation Team services for the Qatari Air Force. Qatar ordered 24 Apache Guardians in 2016, and expects to receive the aircraft from 2019 through to mid-2020. The helicopters will be equipped with AGM-114R Hellfire laser-guided missiles, FIM-92H Stinger missiles with air-to-air launchers, and 70 mm Hydra air-to-surface rockets. Work will be performed at Boeing’s factory in Mesa, Arizona, with an estimated completion date of July 31, 2024.
Source: https://www.defenseindustrydaily.com 

The Boeing Co., Mesa, Arizona, was awarded a $49,210,651 firm-fixe-price Foreign Military Sales (Qatar) contract for Maintenance Augmentation Team services for the Qatari Air Force AH-64E aircraft. One bid was solicited with one bid received.
Work will be performed in Mesa, Arizona, with an estimated completion date of July 31, 2024. Fiscal 2018 operations and maintenance Army funds in the amount of $49,210,651 were obligated at the time of the award. U.S. Army Contracting Command, Redstone Arsenal, Alabama, is the contracting activity (W58RGZ-19-C-0008). 
Source: https://dod.defense.gov/News/Contracts

 

A Sucker's Stock Market Rally Yesterday? One-Time Irrational Trump Pump-Up

Hard to figure out this See-Saw up-and-down bounces and falls in all the daily tickers.
People are hedging their bets, bailing-out of certain stocks, betting on others, and all over the exchange boards all over the globe.
With Stocks on Brink of Bear Market, Is It Time to Buy? or sell . . .
Yesterday was a buy-on day > up over 1,000 THE BIGGEST DAY IN STOCK MARKET HISTORY

Fund Investors Pull $56 Billion in Biggest Exit Since 2008

By Charles Stein    

‎December‎ ‎26‎, ‎2018‎ ‎9‎:‎23‎ ‎AM Updated on ‎December‎ ‎26‎, ‎2018‎ ‎10‎:‎44‎ ‎AM 

Investors are bailing out of mutual funds as if it were 2008.

Mutual funds suffered redemptions of $56.2 billion in the week ended Dec. 19. That’s the biggest outflow since the week ended Oct. 15, 2008, according to data released Wednesday by the Investment Company Institute. And the numbers over the last several weeks have only gotten worse as the chart below shows.

Outflows Accelerate

Weekly redemptions for stock and bond funds surge

Source: Investment Company Institute

Yet even as investors were dumping mutual funds last week, they added $25.2 billion to exchange-traded funds. And a group of optimists -- corporate insiders -- have stepped up their buying over the past two months

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

CELEBRATING A DECADE OF VALLEY METRO > Little Eva - The Locomotion

 
All-Aboard
Free Rides for everyone on December 27th - What's your destination?

Scott Smith, ex-Mesa Mayor and now President/CEO of Valley Metro

The Future of Ozones for Mesa > More Industrial/Residential Sprawl

That was the answer to a question  appearing in my inbox in an email blast sent by Smart Growth Action Content on December 13, 2018.
First of all - and it certainly looks like it's a foregone fact-of-life here in Mesa:
Mesa Sprawls!
Here is a 32-year time lapse of urban sprawl in Mesa.
Published on Dec 14, 2016, so far the streaming upload has only received 41 views! HEY!!

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Here in Mesa it's definitely a Tale of Two Zones located in The Outer Loops that don't exactly fit the established criteria to get pre-designated as 'low-income communities' - in affluent Northeast Mesa and affluent Southeast Mesa:
The Falcon Field Opportunity Zone
The Phoenix-Mesa Gateway Airport Zone
(Both former military airfields now clustered with industrial/tech corridors and master-planned communities)
Hold onto that thought for a moment to see what a new OZone report has to say after meticulously ranking and assessing 7800+ Opportunity Zones by their smart growth potential and current social equity to identify which ones are positioned to bring positive social, environmental, and economic returns 
Sprawl or smart growth: the future of Opportunity Zones

Guiding Equitable Investments

Which Opportunity Zones have the most smart growth potential?

The newly created Opportunity Zones program will likely go down as the largest and most significant federal community development initiative in U.S. history, with trillions of dollars in new private investment about to start flowing into pre-designated low-income communities around the country.

The BIGGEST QUESTION TODAY IS THIS: will these investments benefit the people living in these communities now, or will they be displaced as new interest and development brings increased property values and rents? And what kind of development will this incentive bring? Unsustainable, car-dependent sprawl (the dominant growth paradigm in the United States today) or walkable, mixed-use communities with a variety of housing options for everyone?

The Future of OZones Here in Phx East Valley > Let's Sprawl Some More!

That's THE QUESTION in my inbox in an email blast sent by Smart Growth Action Content on December 13, 2018.
First of all - and it certainly looks like it's a foregone fact-of-life here in Mesa:
Mesa Sprawls!
Here is a 32-year time lapse of urban sprawl in Mesa.
Published on Dec 14, 2016, so far the streaming upload has only received 41 views! HEY!!

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Here in Mesa it's definitely a Tale of Two Zones located in The Outer Loops that don't exactly fit the established criteria to get pre-designated as 'low-income communities' - in affluent Northeast Mesa and affluent Southeast Mesa. 
Hold onto that thought for a moment to see what a new OZone report has to say after meticulously ranking and assessing 7800+ Opportunity Zones by their smart growth potential and current social equity to identify which ones are positioned to bring positive social, environmental, and economic returns 
Sprawl or smart growth: the future of Opportunity Zones

Guiding Equitable Investments

Which Opportunity Zones have the most smart growth potential?

The newly created Opportunity Zones program will likely go down as the largest and most significant federal community development initiative in U.S. history, with trillions of dollars in new private investment about to start flowing into pre-designated low-income communities around the country.

The BIGGEST QUESTION TODAY IS THIS: will these investments benefit the people living in these communities now, or will they be displaced as new interest and development brings increased property values and rents? And what kind of development will this incentive bring? Unsustainable, car-dependent sprawl (the dominant growth paradigm in the United States today) or walkable, mixed-use communities with a variety of housing options for everyone?

3 Workshops For Potential "Angel Investors"

PRESS RELEASE from Mesa Now, The City of Mesa's Newsroom

City of Mesa and PHX East Valley Partnership offer a free workshop series for potential Angel Investors

December 13, 2018 at 2:55 pm

Are you looking for a new way to diversify your portfolio but not sure how to become an Angel Investor?

The City of Mesa Office of Economic Development has partnered with East Valley Partnership to offer a three-workshop series for budding Angel Investors.

The series of workshops, beginning Jan. 9, at LaunchPoint in downtown Mesa, is designed to help you learn tools and skills to evaluate investment opportunities. Most people are aware of common investments such as real estate, stocks, and bonds but there are many companies in startup and growth phases that are also looking for investment to help them reach their next stage. These workshops are aimed at teaching individuals the basics of angel investing.
The PHX East Valley Angel Investor Initiative started as a response to the common hurdle for startups and early stage companies, which is limited access to equity investors in the East Valley. The goal is to help boost economic growth by providing education and raise awareness of the important role angel investors play in helping to fund startups. Angels can provide critical access to early-stage funding for PHX East Valley tech startups and the workshops are aimed at connecting with potential angels. Mike Hutchinson, Executive Vice President of the PHX East Valley Partnership said, "We are pleased with the results we've achieved thus far and continue to look for ways to raise awareness of the program, while sparking investment in our communities."
An "angel" is an individual who invests his or her own money in startup companies in exchange for an equity share of the business.

In 2016, Angel Investors helped create nearly 264,000 jobs in the United States. Moreover, startups receiving angel funding are more likely to remain in business after four years, grow to 75 employees or more, and receive venture capital funding in the future. According to a Sept. 2018 Angel Capital Association news article, Angels invest in a variety of industries with more than two-thirds of deals funding companies in the Tech and Life Science fields. Jim Goulka, the managing director of Arizona Tech Investors said, "the absence of a concentrated tech community - such as Silicon Valley - makes it difficult for startups to compare notes and develop synergy and Angels have positive, measurable impacts on startup success." There are many potential investors in the local communities and these workshops have been designed to encourage them to learn how to invest.
Nascent Angel Investors are encouraged to attend all three workshops and to share the information with others who may be looking for new ways to diversify their investments.
The series of events will be hosted at LaunchPoint, in the Mesa Center for Higher Education located at 245 W. Second St. in Mesa. All workshops are 5:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. and light refreshments will be provided.

Please join us for:
Jan. 9 - Successful Startups
How to Evaluate a Startup with No Revenue

Jan. 23 - Is This Company Worth It?
Setting the Terms of a Deal

Feb. 6 - Trends in Investing with a Nod to Venture Capital
Angel Investing - Doing It
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For further information

Email: info@phxeastvalley.org

Call:    480-834-8335.

To register for the events, please visit http://www.evp-az.org/what-we-do/phx-east-valley-angel-investor-initiative/.

Contact:
Kelley Keffer, Project Manager
City of Mesa Office of Economic Development
Tel: 480-644-6958Kelley.keffer@mesaaz.gov