With only a salaried staff of three, Mesa Channel 11 with operation facilities inside City Hall provides and develops content for Mesa residents, visitors, employers, educators and more, from Public Service Announcements to News Magazine shows, Mesa 11 produces and broadcasts news and events in and around the City of Mesa. Link >> Mesa Channel 11 In the interest of keeping citizens, residents [and voters] informed about what our elected representatives to the Mesa City Council actually do on-the-job and how meetings are conducted it's a good thing to see in-person and first-hand the Mayor, City Manager, and the six councilmembers.
Oftentimes very few members of the public show up at City Council meetings and study sessions [or make comments] for one reason or another. Having taken the time to attend some meetings, it's rare to see other members of the media being there physically. Nonetheless, reports and articles about what your government does do get written and published. [ all images in this post from mesaaz.gov ] There's an important City Council Study Session this morning starting at 07:30 a.m. with one of the items on the agenda Hear a presentation, discuss and provide direction on the City Council Strategic Priority "Placemaking" and the related departmental proposed budgets. Readers can access and download the 28-page presentation by hooking up with this link http://mesa.legistar.com/LegislationDetail.aspx?ID=2703119&GUID=9FA99E81-1663-44E3-AB14-37D8E58DAAA4
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MIT Proves That No Minimum Wage Earner Can Support a Family
A new tool crunches data that yield startling results.
Living Wage Calculation for Arizona
Hourly Wages
1 Adult
1 Adult 1 Child
Living Wage
$10.47
$22.37
Poverty Wage
$5.00
$7.00
Minimum Wage
$7.90
$7.90.
The minimum wage peaked in 1968 at $8.54 per hour, after adjusting for inflation. The current $7.25 is far too low for the 3 million hourly workers who earn at or below that threshold, and certainly not at par with the wage hikes instituted by other countries with similar economic trajectories. Here’s The Economiston the United States' embarrassingly low minimum wage: Given the pattern across the rest of the OECD, a group of mostly rich countries, one would expect the U.S., where GDP per person is $53,000, to pay a minimum wage around $12 an hour. That would mean a raise of about 65 percent for Americans earning the minimum pay rate.
MesaZona blog viewers might be curious about why post this now?
Just happened to engage with someone scouting locations downtown for a movie about "The Seven Deadly Sins" by a certain faith-based group. Admittedly, yours truly could not even remember what those so-called sins were and wondered why they selected downtown, with filming scheduled to start in June . . . something about promoting a pledge with role-playing? Like that Unity Pledge promoted here in Mesa,mebbe? As oftentimes happens, as shown in the accompanying GIS map-image, those with a tradition of faith have the largest amount of sin per capita while calling themselves "saints", Latter Day or not
Pieter Breugel The Elder
[Notice the counties in Arizona with high density] A set of United States maps showing the counties that have the highest concentrations of sin, based on the "Seven Deadly Sins," has caused a stir . . . In each of the maps the southeast, an area often referred to as the "Bible Belt" for its tradition of faith, has the largest amount of sin per capita . . .
"We compiled those maps from the standpoint of geographic information science," Mitch Stimers, who worked on the study as a graduate student at Kansas State University in 2009, told The Christian Post in an interview on Friday.
Now a director of institutional research and instructor of geography and geosciences at Cloud County Community College, Stimers insisted - with your MesaZona blogger in total agreement - "we weren't attempting to interject any moral interpretation into them." Source: Christian Post
People have always been immoral, shiftless, and self-gratifying. For ages, humankind struggled to find a conceptual system to operationalize their spiritual shortcomings.
Pride is excessive belief in one's own abilities, that interferes with the individual's recognition of the grace of God. It has been called the sin from which all others arise. Pride is also known as Vanity. Envy is the desire for others' traits, status, abilities, or situation. Gluttony is an inordinate desire to consume more than that which one requires. Lust is an inordinate craving for the pleasures of the body. Anger is manifested in the individual who spurns love and opts instead for fury. It is also known as Wrath. Greed is the desire for material wealth or gain, ignoring the realm of the spiritual. It is also called Avarice or Covetousness. Sloth is the avoidance of physical or spiritual work.
From an announcement yesterday Able Aerospace receives certification from Japan Civil Aviation Bureau
By Mark Banham April 26, 2016 11:22
The Textron subsidiary Able Aerospace Services has achieved certification from the Japan Civil Aviation Bureau (JCAB) as an approved maintenance organisation (AMO). The JCAB-AMO certification, which is issued by Japan’s minister of land, infrastructure, transport and tourism, allows the service centre to perform repair or alteration of aircraft components including rotors, transmissions, mechanical/ electric accessories and major parts for JCAB-licensed operators.
From its headquarters and maintenance facilities on the Phoenix-Mesa Gateway Airport in Mesa, Arizona, Able offers FAA approved component repair, overhaul and approved replacement parts solutions to commercial and military aviation fleets in more than 60 countries worldwide.
Since its inception, Able has grown to more than 500 employees providing thousands of approved repairs and some of the world’s largest exchange inventories.
ABLE EARNS CERTIFICATION AS JCAB APPROVED MAINTENANCE ORGANIZATION
by Able Engineering
Recognition from Japan Civil Aviation Bureau extends company’s broad global certification
DSA 2016: MD Helicopters, Brunner Aerospace in discussions with Malaysian Army for MD-530G training
Dzirhan Mahadzir, Kuala Lumpur - IHS Jane's Defence Weekly
20 April 2016
MD Helicopters Inc (MDHI) and its pilot training provider, Brunner Aerospace, are in discussions with the Malaysian Army on the scope of the training programme for the MD-530G helicopters. Malaysia has purchased six MD-530G helicopters that will be used by the Malaysian Army Air Corps for security operations in the state of Sabah in east Malaysia. Andrew Pillado, MDHI's vice-president of business development, told IHS Jane's that the exact number of pilots and technical personnel to be trained to instructor level had yet to be finalised. Christopher Myers, senior vice-president of Brunner Aerospace, said initial training, which will be conducted at MDHI's facilities in Mesa, Arizona, will consist of basic aircraft qualification and weapon system familiarisation to safely release ordnance. Source: IHS Jane's Defense
The EU's 4th Anti-Money Laundering Directive came into effect in 2015. Andrew Bowen studies its provisions and the challenges member states will face in implementing
Swimming World Biweekly‘ssecond April issue is now available!
Take another look at the Mesa Arena Pro Series (complete with photo gallery!),
Swimming World Biweekly: Top Stories About Olympic Hopefuls Available Now!
22 April 2016, 11:51am
FEATURES - 006 2016 ARENA PRO SWIM SERIES MESA – FINALS RECAP by Cathleen Pruden
- The full recap from Mesa, AZ as the pros invade the desert.012 MESA PRO SWIM SERIES PHOTO GALLERY Photos by Peter H. Bick and others
Or watch this 08:51 minute video uploaded to YouTube and published April 20, 2016
