New landscape and irrigation specifications and details now available Sustainability is more than just a concept or a catchphrase; it also is crucial to business and the environment. That is why the Maricopa Association of Governments (MAG), along with Arizona State University’s Sustainable Cities Network (SCN) Green Infrastructure Workgroup, has significantly updated a portion of …
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Luke Williams and his brother Chuck co-founded American Sign and Indicator in Spokane in 1951 with the invention of the electronic time and temperature sign. The company went on to become the largest electronic sign company in the world throughout the sixties and seventies, and continued making some of the largest scoreboards for sports arenas …
“It’s been over twenty years since I’ve been to Rockville,” Roger confessed as he leaned back in the passenger’s seat. “I’d like to tell you that nothing’s changed much, but that’d be a lie,” Thomas said as his car approached the outskirts of the tiny farming community where they had grown up together. “Ever since …
Originally published in Much Ado About Mensa, 2005. I’ve thought about it a bit and have decided that free will just doesn’t exist. You’re probably thinking, now hold on there – if he made a decision about free will then he just exercised it. Nope, it just seems that way. Let me explain. To me …
Originally published in Much Ado About Mensa, October 2004, Vol. 34, No. 10 You’re in Mensa. So how does it feel to be in the top 2% of the population? When you were first notified you qualified for membership, did you feel vindicated that your intelligence was finally recognized? Did you feel like it was …
Originally published in the February 2008 MAGAZine Newsletter. Can you name the best-selling document in the MAG archives? The most downloaded file on the MAG Web site? Many may be surprised to learn that it is not the Regional Transportation Plan or latest air quality plan, but rather the MAG Uniform Standard Specifications and Details …
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It was my second summer working for Reardan Grain Growers, the local grain storage co-op. The previous summer I had demonstrated that I could operate a shovel, so I was invited back early in the season to help the regular crew empty the grain elevators before harvest began. This primarily involved shoveling grain bins, and …
LAST MAN STANDING The red planet filled nearly a quarter of the sky from her vantage point under the transparent dome on Phobos Station, but Samantha Diaz had no time to marvel at the view. All her senses were dedicated to tracking the other inhabitants of the outpost. She knew they all would fire upon …
As a kid I used to bottle feed baby calves including one year, baby beefaloes (calves that were part buffalo). I can tell you my favorite song off every David Bowie album released since 1966. (Including the Tin Machine CDs.) My biography is published on the same page as Mike Tyson in the 2008 edition …
To show his solidarity with fellow GPM members, Axel Stonebury has declared that he will never join the high-IQ organization known as the Triple Nine Society. The triple nines in the society’s name refer to its membership requirement that candidates score in the top 99.9th percentile on an approved intelligence test. To Axel Stonebury, this …
Gordon Tyus 