Educating The Work Force: Hard Data Re/Occupational Employment

From the Western Information Office for the U.S. Department of Labor Bureau of Labor Statistics there's this report for May 2015 [ .html version ] . . . what does this tell you about the emphasis on STEM education??
This report tells you what occupations are parts of the workforce and their average salaries

Informing & Engaging The People - FKN News with Jonathan Pie

Brutally honest views on the world of politics, listening and talking back to some guy named Tim who's the producer connected on his headset, having a good go at the failed campaign to remain in the European Union where incumbent politicians and financial markets got roiled big time taking a drubbing and beating by the vote of the people . . . unlike here in Mesa where people are not engaged in politics and City Hall wants them to stay that way!  

Once again he takes aim at the news and reporters in a hard-hitting hilarious rant

Published on Jul 1, 2016

Views: 17,463

In Jonathan Pie's latest episode he warns people to "stop moping" as a bigger problem is coming

Climate Change Emergency // Unprecedented? Jet Stream Crosses Equator.

Published on Jun 28, 2016

Views: 265,178

The jet stream in the Northern Hemisphere has crossed the equator and joined up with the jet stream in the Southern Hemisphere. This seems like new behaviour, and indicates that climate system mayhem is ongoing.

Our climate system behaviour continues to surprise us in new and scary ways that we have never anticipated, or even seen before.

Welcome to climate chaos. We must declare a global climate emergency.

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Published on Jul 2, 2016

Scientists warn of 'global climate emergency' over jet stream shift
The weather has completely broken its routine. Expect Snow in July. Floods. Hurricane winds in monsoonal weather. Expect everything.
Just as the Native Americans said thousands of years ago, the Earth has four winds.
That is to say 4 jet streams. Two in the northern Hemisphere, and two in the southern hemisphere.
These jet streams drive the Earth's weather and climate.

Often a winter storm, full of blizzardy snow, will arrive to lower portions of the United States, brought by a Northern jet stream, which will dip into the continent.

Low pressure systems almost always accompany such dips in the jet stream.

What is the science behind the Jet Streams?

Each jet stream has a positive or negative charge. The northern hemisphere has 2 positively charged winds, while the southern hemisphere has two negatively charged winds.

For a northern wind, positively charged, to cross the equator and dip into the southern hemisphere signals a massive polarity change in the Earth's Magnetic field.

So what does this mean? Chaos, from a climate's point of view.

Having a jet stream of a positive charge hovering in the Earth negatively charged zone, means that the jet stream is in danger of being captured and having it's polarity changed.
The southern hemisphere would then have three jet streams.

In a worse case scenario the other two jet streams could absorb their northerly neighbor, illuminating that wind all together. An even more catastrophic outcome is the wind does not get absorbed or change polarity, but instead keeps it's polarity.

However this arrangement is total chaos for the climate and we could expect weather disasters mankind has never seen before.

Let's look deeper into what this means for the Earth.
Just like a magnet, there Earth has two polarities.

A south pole and a north pole. These poles transmute the Earth's Magnetic field. Power leaves the Earth through the southern pole, heads out and up. And finally back into the northern pole.

The Southern pole is negatively charged.
The Northern pole is positively charged.

This flow of energy is possible due to the Earth's powerful nuclear core reactor.

The Earth's Magnetic field, among other things, protects all life from the Sun's constant burst of radiation.

Sometimes the sun belches and a super burst heads our way.
These burst are dangerous and can severally damage our satellites and equipment here on Earth.

In the 1800s, one of the most powerful burst ever recorder took out America’s telegraph system. People saw the very wires flaming. And the buildings housing the equipment burnt to the ground.

If such a solar burst were to happen today, it would mean the end of man's technological accomplishments. We would be right back before the industrial revolution.

No power. No cell phones. No cars. No food deliveries. It would be pandemonium.

If the earth experiences a pole shift, there would be a dangerous time when the Earth could not protect us from the Sun's powerful energy. Until the new polarity shift stabilized, the magnetosphere would be weak.

And the Sun's energy would have less of a barrier before striking the Earth, and man's machines.

If the positively charged jet stream does not return to the positive zone, the pole shift could keep on going until the magnetic sphere buckles under mischarged particles.

The Earth's energy would spurt out with no real direction, or place to go.

Not only would we be experiencing severe weather changes, but also the solar atmosphere would be chaotic. It could really mean the end of mankind if we don't take the proper precautions.

Store up food and water. Insulate your basement from EMPs. And keep important electronics down there. A ham radio. Several 12 volt batteries. A Generator. Light sources. Things that can be recharged.

Be careful of strangers who will be in desperate need of food and water. They may even kill you for it. At first they will pretend to be nice people and wait for your guard to be down.

Suddenly you will be staring down the barrel of a shotgun, as your food, water and women are hauled away. Most likely they will kill you, so be careful.

Armed independence is best, but if you can not manage it try to get to a camp. The government may provide camps for families in need of food and water and shelter.

If you can not find one then make your way to a river or lake. Arm your self with makeshift weapons. Be vigilant at all cost.

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How Open Is City of Mesa Data?? Transparency Via The Sunlight Foundation

US City Open Data Census

The first step in making data actionable is to make sure the data is easily accessible. Many cities, whether they have an open data policy in place or not, have work to do in terms of making datasets open and available online. Do an evaluation of where your city stands on releasing our landscape of datasets openly and work with your municipal partners to come up with a plan for making all of them open and available.
What is The Sunlight Foundation? http://sunlightfoundation.com/
Making government & politics more accountable & transparent
The Sunlight Foundation is a national, nonpartisan, nonprofit organization that uses the tools of civic tech, open data, policy analysis and journalism to make our government and politics more accountable and transparent to all. Our vision is to use technology to enable more complete, equitable and effective democratic participation.

Our overarching goal is to achieve changes in the law to require real-time, online transparency for all government information, with a special focus on the political money flow and who tries to influence government and how government responds.

And, our work focuses on the local, state, federal and international levels.

Mesa, AZ / 2016
This is the overview page >> TAKE A GOOD LONG HARD AND INQUISITIVE LOOK
Does the City of Mesa still have work to do in terms of making datasets open and available online??
19 out of the 28 data sets HAVE NO DATA , no submissions and NO SCORE
7 data sets were submitted just 3 days ago and are waiting review:

• Budget
• Code Enforcement Violations
• Crimes
• Procurement Contracts
• Restaurant Inspections
• Spending
• Transit

http://us-city.census.okfn.org/place/mesa/2016

Review the guidance below and then submit information about your city's data here.
Any information about the ease with which you were able to find the data is worth noting in the additional comments field at the bottom of the form.
Screenshot of data chart for all cities at right.

Resources and Guidance
Review the list of datasets (found at the bottom of this page) and see if your city makes these datasets easily available online as open data.
These datasets serve as a construct of how to open local government data.
For more examples, see resources from Code for America and the Sunlight Foundation.
You should start by looking to see if your city has an open data portal.
If so, all of these datasets should be published there (if not, please indicate on the checklist).

Next Steps

Once you have an inventory together, work with your city partners to figure out what barriers stand in the way of making any missing datasets open and accessible online and discuss solutions to overcoming those barriers. Work with government to create a timeline tool or alerts for when data will be released.
If your city is making all this data available, now is the time to start thinking about what questions can be answered or problems addressed with these datasets.   
To take this project a step further, you can pick an issue area of particular concern to your city (crime or blight, for example) and do an inventory of all datasets related to that issue.
Then work with issue-area experts from the community to determine what potential value those datasets might have for addressing the problem, or what datasets are missing that would be particularly valuable.

Datasets

Dataset	Details
Asset Disclosure	Top-level government officials’ financial assets. (More info)
Budget	Municipal budget at a high level (e.g. spending by sector, department etc). This category is about budgets which are plans for expenditure (not actual expenditure in the past). (More info)
Business Listings	A directory of all licensed businesses in the municipal area, including key information such as: name, address, contact information, business type. (More info)
Campaign Finance Contributions	Amount contributed to each candidate and by whom. (More info)
Code Enforcement Violations	Building code inspection data surfacing reports on particular properties from code enforcement officials. (More info)
Construction Permits	Locations of issued construction permits. (More info)
Crime	City crime report data, preferably at a reasonably disaggregated level. (More info)
Lobbyist Activity	Actions of named registered lobbyists. (More info)
Procurement Contracts	The full text of municipal contracts with vendors, including amount, awardee (name, address), date awarded etc. (More info)
Property Assessment	Data about assessed property values. (More info)
Property Deeds	The recording of property sales, mortgages, and foreclosures. See your local Registry/Recorder of Deeds. (More info)
Public Buildings	Public Buildings: Locations of city-owned buildings. (More info)
Restaurant Inspections	Outcomes of food safety inspections of restaurants and other similar providers of food to the public. (More info)
Service Requests (311)	Non-emergency Service Requests: Non-emergency service requests, (that some cities request by dialing 3-1-1), such as: graffiti, non-working traffic lights, noise complaints, parking law enforcement, and potholes. Data should be at granular (per request) level. (More info)
Spending	Records of actual (past) municipal spending at a detailed transactional level, for example, at the level of month to month expenditure on specific items (usually this means individual records of spending amounts at a fairly granular level - e.g. $5-50k rather than at the $1m+ level). Note: a database of contracts awarded or similar is not considered sufficient. This data category refers to detailed ongoing data on actual expenditures. (More info)
Transit	Timetables (schedules), locations of stops, and real-time location information of all municipally run or commissioned transit services (buses, subway, rail tram etc). (More info)
Zoning (GIS)	The mapped zone (GIS) shapefiles of designated permitted land use in your city. (More info)
Web Analytics	Overall traffic stats, page-level traffic stats, site search logs, and browser-agent breakdowns from your city’s primary web property. (More info)

Mesa, AZ / 2016
This is the overview page >> http://us-city.census.okfn.org/place/mesa/2016
This is the overview page where you can see the state of open data across each key dataset.





http://us-city.census.okfn.org/

Wake Up Mesa! - New Tools For The Urban Toolbox Tax Increases? Tax Breaks?

Boise, Denver, Greenville, Minneapolis, Nashville, and Pittsburgh are six of the many cities using a new strategy for economic development.
Rather than offering tax breaks to lure companies, these cities are creating walkable, vibrant, inclusive neighborhoods that are attracting residents and employers, supporting existing businesses, and fostering entrepreneurs.

We talk about this new approach in our most recent report, Amazing Place: Six Cities Using the New Recipe for Economic Development. The report takes an in-depth look at the development strategies at work in these six cities, and is designed to show communities everywhere how to create diverse and durable local economies that last beyond the lifecycle of any one employer.

As part of Tuesday’s kickoff for the new report, we hosted an online conversation about creating these amazing places. Participants heard an overview of the guide as well as a detailed discussion about development in Denver, Greenville, and Pittsburgh. A recorded version of the webinar is now available.

Watch the recorded webinar

	Click here to view the archived webinar
	Click here to download the presentation (PDF)

Joining the webinar were Geoff Anderson, President and CEO of Smart Growth America; Alex Hutchinson, Economic Development Specialist at Smart Growth America; Aylene McCallum, Director of Downtown Environment for the Downtown Denver Partnership; Nancy Whitworth, Deputy City Manager for Economic Development at the City of Greenville, SC; and Bill Flanagan, Chief Corporate Relations Officer for the Allegheny Conference on Community Development in Pittsburgh, PA.
Thank you to everyone who joined us for the webinar earlier this week, both as speakers and participants. To learn more about this new resource, download the full report.

Want more help creating an amazing place?

Food Hardship Nation-wide + Arizona

“Food hardship is a serious national problem that requires a serious national response,” said Weill. “It is crucial that the nation take actions that will dramatically decrease food hardship numbers. The cost of not doing so — in terms of damage to health, education, early childhood development, and productivity — is just too high. The moral cost of not doing so is even higher. . .
“It’s good to see progress, but the food hardship rate is still unacceptable,” said Jim Weill, president of FRAC.

“The data in this report represent an economic and political failure that is leaving tens of millions of Americans struggling with hunger, and this struggle is happening in every community in America. We must redouble our efforts to ensure no American is left behind.”

Despite Arizona officially recovering from the recession this year, millions of Americans live in households that struggle to put food on the table, according to a report, How Hungry is America?, released by the Food Research & Action Center (FRAC).

Key Findings:

• Nationally, one in six households reported they struggled to afford to buy food.
• Rates of food hardship in 2015 varied from a low of 8.4 percent in North Dakota to a high of 23 percent in Mississippi.
• 31 states had at least one in seven respondent households (14.3 percent or more) answer that they did not have enough money to buy food at some point in the past 12 months.
• The states with the worst food hardship rates are: Mississippi, Louisiana, and Alabama. Of the 16 states with the worst food hardship rates, eight were in the Southeast.
• Of the 109 large MSAs surveyed, 93 had at least one in eight (12.5 percent or more) households affirmatively answer that they struggle to afford food.
• Arizona is tied with Missouri at No. 18 on the list for Worst States in the Nation for Food Hardships

“Progress is great, but families going hungry is still unacceptable,” said Cynthia Zwick, executive director of the Arizona Community Action Association (ACAA).  “Food hardship remains a very serious problem in Arizona and across the country that needs to be addressed quickly, efficiently and effectively on a collaborative basis.”. 
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$75K UPS Grant to Develop Native Edge Online Platform

EINPresswire.com/ -- MESA, AZ--(Marketwired - July 01, 2016) - The National Center for American Indian Enterprise Development (the National Center) recently received a $75,000 grant from The UPS Foundation, which drives corporate citizenship and philanthropic programs for UPS (NYSE: UPS). The grant will be used to further develop the Native Edge, the National Center's innovative online platform designed to give Indian Country the edge in business.
"The UPS Foundation is honored to support the National Center for American Indian Enterprise Development's efforts to expand and enhance the Native Edge," said Eduardo Martinez, president of The UPS Foundation and chief diversity and inclusion officer at UPS. "Our goal is to fund powerful programs that make a lasting difference to the global community."
Indian Country Today called the Native Edge a "Linkedin, Monster.com & Facebook for Natives." The online platform -- found at www.nativeedge.com -- features four components:

• The Hire Edge, which helps Native American business owners find employees, and job seekers to find potential employers. It also helps Corporate Diversity Recruiters to meet and exceed their diversity goals by matching them with Native American workforce.
• The Native to Native (N2N) Edge Community allows businesses to network with each other and initiate new relationships.
• The Training Edge, which provides business owners and their employees with interactive tools and training sessions to help in their professional development.
• The Procurement Edge, which is a database for both federal and corporate procurement opportunities, which also allows for Native-owned businesses to partner and team with each other.

Basic membership is free of charge, and includes access to the Hire Edge and N2N Edge Community. Access to the Training Edge and Procurement Edge is possible through a low monthly or yearly subscription fee.
"The National Center is incredibly grateful to have the support of The UPS Foundation as we continue to promote and advance the Native Edge," said Gary Davis, President and CEO of the National Center. "The Native Edge is already transforming the way Indian Country does business by providing both employers and job-seekers with an online platform to match skills and talent with the best jobs. The UPS Foundation's generous contribution will enable us to expand the platform's reach even further, opening up its benefits to an even wider audience. We look forward to continuing our strong relationship with The UPS Foundation in the years ahead."
In addition to the Native Edge, the National Center hosts the largest economic development event in Indian Country -- the Reservation Economic Summit (RES). RES brings together tribal leaders, elected officials, representatives from business, established or aspiring Native American business owners, and many more to learn, brainstorm, collaborate, and network in an innovative and motivational atmosphere. The next regional RES -- RES Oklahoma -- will take place from July 11-14 at the Hard Rock Hotel and Casino, just outside of Tulsa, OK. For more information about RES or to register for the event, please visit www.res.ncaied.org.
Established in 1951 and based in Atlanta, GA, The UPS Foundation identifies specific areas where its backing clearly impacts social issues. In support of this strategic approach, The UPS Foundation has identified the following focus areas for giving: volunteerism, diversity, community safety, and the environment. In 2015, UPS and its employees -- active and retired -- invested more than $110 million in charitable giving around the world. The UPS Foundation can be found on the web at UPS.com/foundation.
About the National Center: The National Center for American Indian Enterprise Development (NCAIED) is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization. With over 40 years of assisting American Indian Tribes and their enterprises with business and economic development -- we have evolved into the largest national Indian specific business organization in the nation. Our motto is: "We Mean Business For Indian Country" as we are actively engaged in helping Tribal Nations and Native business people realize their business goals and are dedicated to putting the whole of Indian Country to work to better the lives of American Indian people -- both now... and for generations to come. For more information, please visit www.ncaied.org.
The following files are available for download:

• PDF
• Screenshot of the Native Edge

CONTACT:
Lewis Lowe
lewisl@strategies360.com
202-333-2234