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A Gift That Keeps On Giving > Rent-A-Bed @ MUG

Image: Tim Hacker/EVT 2/12/2013

These two "muggle-dudes" [tip of the wand to Harry Potter]David Crummey and Ryan Winkle don't look anything like Santa Claus, but once upon a time - three years ago - they organized to start an all volunteer grass-roots movement as an off-shoot of the Neighborhood Economic Development Corporation [NEDCO] called RAIL with one project called Mesa Urban Garden getting established and on-the-ground in a plot of land at 212 East 1st Avenue next to Republica Empanada and the Mesa Family Healthcare Center. It's grown and flourished in the last three years and has good reason to celebrate all the volunteer efforts for an upcoming 4th year with a Full Moon Festival next month.
This community garden harkens back to the time of the city's founding when 1.25-acre lots were allocated to encourage urban farming.
Now 135+ years later, thanks to Creative Place Making and Pioneers in The New Urban DTMesa there's fertile ground in raised beds to rent and reasons to celebrate and help fund another year.

Looking for a creative gift idea that keeps on giving?
Beds Rentals are Available and would make a great gift for someone ready to plant their spring garden in January.
More 411 >>
http://www.mesaurbangarden.com/





Mission Statement: Mesa Urban Garden is a community organization that provides fresh produce directly to the community and local food banks. Anyone can sponsor plots for communal or individual use. We are dedicated to making the garden a point of pride for the residents south of Main, and a feather in the cap for the City of Mesa.

MUG's Most Recent Facebook Updates:

Mesa Urban Garden

19 hours ago

Final reminder! If you haven't already donated to Mesa Urban Garden's grant competition to help us win a $600 grant, please consider a $10 donation now. The deadline is tomorrow at midnight.
It's tax deductible, goes toward a great cause and helps those who are less fortunate eat more fresh veggies. The community garden with the most individual donors wins and at last count, out of 322 teams, we are in 11th place in the country!!! #mesaurbangarden #iheartmesa

 

 

Reason to Celebrate:

LUNA LLENA FESTIVAL: Inaugurate and Irrigate our 4th year at MUG

January 23, 2016, 4:00pm

Mesa Urban Garden

Come join our gardening community for a Luna Lllena (Full Moon) Festival! Gardeners from around the Valley join us for a potluck from 5-6pm and then stay for a huge community CELEBRATION from 6PM-? Enjoy door prizes, live music, art, art activities, food, children's activities, food, drinks and much more!

 



See The Difference You Made > When The Public Speaks Out + Gets Engaged

Encouraging words from Mantill Williams, Voices for Public Transit Community Coordinator:
Over the past several months, you helped us deliver our message to Congress by speaking out in a variety of ways.

Your efforts helped us make it impossible for Congress to ignore this issue or delay taking long-term action any longer.

Tim,

We’re still letting the news sink in—Congress actually passed a fully funded, five-year transportation bill with increased investment in public transit!

December 4 was a milestone for American public transit—and our nation’s entire transportation system.
For the first time in nearly a decade, Congress passed a long-term transportation bill—the Fixing America’s Surface Transportation Act or “FAST Act.” President Obama signed the bill into law just hours before current authorization of transportation programs expired. Voices for Public Transit advocates helped break the impasse in Washington.
We made it clear that the status quo was unacceptable.
The steady escalation of communications from the Voices for Public Transit community over several months made fixing public transportation an issue that Congress could no longer ignore.
- See more at: http://voicesforpublictransit.org/blog.aspx?id=12-10-2015#sthash.Hfl04N8y.dpuf

 

The Internet of Things > Future Now @ 17% Compound Annual Growth Rate 2015-2019

In a press release on December 11, 2015 from Press Release Network:
According to a new International Data Corporation (IDC ) Spending Guide, worldwide spending on the Internet of Things (IoT) will grow at a 17.0% compound annual growth rate (CAGR) from $698.6 billion in 2015 to nearly $1.3 trillion in 2019.
IoT = a network of uniquely identifiable, autonomously communicating endpoints (or “things”)


An Explosion of Connected Possibility

The Worldwide Semiannual Internet of Things Spending Guide forecasts country-level IoT technology spending across more than 40 use cases including automated public transit, remote health monitoring, digital signage, connected vehicles, smart appliances, and air traffic monitoring, among others. Unlike any other research in the industry, the comprehensive spending guide was designed to help vendors clearly understand the industry-specific opportunity for IoT technologies today.

Here are some snippets:
- On a geographic basis, Asia/Pacific is the clear leader when it comes to IoT spending with more than 40% of the worldwide total coming from this region in 2015.
- North America and Western Europe are the second and third largest regions with combined spending of more than $250 billion in 2015.
- The regions that will experience the fastest growth in IoT spending over the five-year forecast period are Latin America (26.5% CAGR), followed by Western Europe, and Central and Eastern Europe.
- From a vertical industry perspective, Manufacturing and Transportation led the way in worldwide IoT spending with 2015 totals of $165.6 billion and $78.7 billion, respectively. -Over the next five years, the industries forecast to have the fastest IoT spending growth will be Insurance (31.8% CAGR), Healthcare, and Consumer.
- The fast expanding Consumer IoT market will be the third largest IoT spending category by the end of the forecast period.

Because the Internet of Things is being applied in so many different ways across industries, it’s not surprising that the fastest growing use cases vary from region to region.
• In Central & Eastern Europe (CEE) and the Middle East & Africa (MEA), the fastest growing IoT category is smart buildings
• In Latin America, the fastest growing IoT category is maintenance & field service
• In Asia/Pacific, insurance telematics is being used to monitor driver behavior through a vehicle-mounted device and the data is rapidly being employed as a means of determining insurance policies and rates.
• In North America, in-store contextual marketing is growing rapidly as retailers seek to capture continuous, real-time streams of data from mobile devices, online customer activity, in-store Wi-Fi routers/beacons, and video cameras in order to gain insight into customer behavior and desires.
In addition to the IoT use cases identified above, connected vehicles – a broad category that includes emergency, infotainment, security, vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V), and vehicle-to-infrastructure V2I) applications – was among the fastest growing use cases across five of the six geographic regions.

Media Master Trump Stages A Rally in America's Most Conservative City

While the New Urban DTMesa is regenerating a more diverse and creative place out of its old Mormon roots into a smart new growth expansion of opportunities in neighborhood economic development, retail, arts, innovations and livability, the conservative politics in Goldwater-Arpaio-Russell Pearce SB1070 territory is now attracting "The Donald" like a mad swarm flying back to the beehive for honey to mine the manna from the broad suburban-fringe conservative base in Maricopa County that voted 55% for Mitt Romney in the last prez campaign. Mitt Romney was at Dobson Ranch here in Mesa on Saturday, denying claims of a draft-Romney campaign financed by wealthy Mormons in Wyoming, Utah and Colorado just in case there's a brokered RNC nomination convention in Cleveland.
Trump will be here on Wednesday - flying into Phoenix-Mesa Gateway Airport . . . got your tickets yet?

Auralnauts uploaded this 7:42 You Tube video - 1,910,719 views
> see DARTH TRUMP https://youtu.be/KU_Jdts5rL0

Trump will be doing a Fly-in at Phoenix-Mesa Gateway Airport [image to right] after Tuesday's last Republican "debate" in Las Vegas - who knows if what happens there stays there? . . .

NextMesa /GOP Politix Stage > Romney & McCain Today +Trump Next Week

Three Republican wannabe Presidential hopefuls, two who didn't make into the Oval Office and one pulling out all the stops to get there, just happen to be using the geographic platform of Mesa - the most conservative city in America - to score political points.
Romney & McCain will be at Dobson High School for a campaign rally.
Trump outdoes them big time just announcing a rally today at Phoenix-Mesa Gateway Airport arriving in his own big jet.

- Wednesday, December 16, 2015 -

Mesa, Arizona

International Air Response

12:00 PM

Doors will open at 10:00 a.m.

Please limit personal items for expedited entry.

Get Tickets



http://www.donaldjtrump.com/events/trumpmesa.eventbrite.com

Sat 12 Dec All Over Downtown/Day & Night > Add Teddy Bear Drive

Getting' crazy-bizzy in a wildly wonderful way dashing through the blizzard of all the PopUP Pro-Motions in The New Urban DTMesa - over and around the streets we go making spirits and lights bright!
Happier Holidays - all of them for everybody
Share the Love > Lotsa Love + Big Hugs
Abrazos a todos
Teddy over to the left enjoys the snuggles

NOT on the roster of THE BIG WE official highly publicized events is this one on Saturday 12 December from 4-10 pm.
Black-leather bikers might look big-and-bad but they have hearts of gold when raising the roar for a good cause: Bikers Against Child Abuse.
Get down and bring a teddy bear or toy to A.M.P. Moto Works,
two blocks south of Main Street @ Broadway on Saturday.
Free to all who love motorcycles and their families.
Free hot food on a cool night [drinks and dessert included] + great vendors, people, + more.
It - like most of the businesses here - is independently owned and operated. http://www.ampmotoworks.com/
Spread the word on Facebook! https://www.facebook.com/events/412257452301766/