John Giles: Mesa Mayor. Personal Injury Attorney ...and

his office location on 2nd Street is the registered address for two Political Action Committees with the same PAC ID#201-6001 registered with the Federal Election Commission who are financing and trying to influence voters here in Mesa to approve Question 1 on the Nov 8 ballot election.
"The committee" for Yes1 is partisan [all Republican], raising over $200,000 to spend on a PR campaign that Chad Williams, head of The Summit Consulting Group, admits is A MAJOR SCREW-UP with numbers that have tanked. Keep in mind that the dollar-amount reported is only for the period ending in mid-September that had to get disclosed - a couple hundred thousand more might have been raised by groups not registered as PACS that don't have to disclose who gave what or how much - that's called "dirty money".
The United Mesa Fire Fighters Association [same PAC ID# at same address] has poured money into the Mesa City Council District 2 election campaign to support Shelly Allen.

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Visit http://www.jgileslaw.com/ We offer friendly and professional legal counsel. Our firm has the experience to take on all levels of cases, but is small enough to deliver personalized and detailed service for each client.

We represent cases in the following areas of personal injury: * Wrongful Death * Dog Bites * Product Liability * Medical and Hospital Negligence * Auto Accidents * Truck Accidents * Motorcycle Accidents

Free Case Evaluations for Mesa and East Valley Area Personal Injury Claims

The Law Office of John C. Giles offers free case evaluations for personal injury claims in the greater Phoenix area.

Talk to us about your accident or injury. We strive to make our office a friendly approachable environment. You will be greeted by a friendly staff and receive prompt attention to address your claim.

John C. Giles is a people person and really cares about your injuries. He will listen to you, and address your concerns in a way that you can understand. No intimidation, no ego, just honest legal counsel.

Fees collected only if we are successful in recovering a settlement for you.

If you do not make money, we do not make money. No out of pocket costs. Contingency fee agreements determine our fees at settlement.

Contact us at 480-964-3505

The beauty of what we'll never know | Pico Iyer

Published on Nov 1, 2016

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Almost 30 years ago, Pico Iyer took a trip to Japan, fell in love with the country and moved there. A keen observer of the human spirit, Iyer professes that he now feels he knows far less about Japan -- or, indeed, about anything -- than he thought he knew three decades ago. In this lyrical meditation on wisdom, Iyer expands on this curious insight about knowledge gained with age: that the more we know, the more we see how little we know.

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If Congress was your co-worker - Starring Chris Pine

Published on Nov 1, 2016
Views: 160,889

Why do we put up with these people?

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New Batch of Health Care Stats [2013]

Advisory
November 2, 2016
BEA Releases New Batch of Health Care Statistics
SUITLAND, Md. -- The Bureau of Economic Analysis released a fresh set of statistics Wednesday detailing how much the United States spends to treat different diseases and medical conditions. The numbers, which cover 2013, offer new insights into health care, which accounts for more than 17 percent of the U.S. economy. Here are some of the findings: Spending per person and the average expenditure to treat medical conditions (i.e., the price of treatment) each grew at the rate of 1.9 percent in 2013 from 2012. This growth rate is lower than the historic averages over the 2000 to 2012 period, when per person spending grew at an average annual rate of 5.4 percent and the expenditure per treatment grew at a rate of 4.3 percent. The price of treating digestive conditions, such as abdominal hernia and appendicitis, grew at the fastest pace in 2013, increasing at a 6.9 percent rate. (That’s 1 percent faster than average rate logged from 2000 to 2012.) The price of treating mental illness grew at the slowest pace, rising just 0.5 percent in 2013. (That’s 2 percent slower than the average rate from 2000-2012.) The top three spending disease categories in 2013 were: symptoms, including check-ups, and some preventative services; circulatory; and musculoskeletal. These were also the top three spending categories in 2012. Of those three disease categories, the symptoms category, which also includes allergies and flu-like symptoms, topped growth in spending by increasing $13.5 billion between 2012 and 2013. That was followed by the musculoskeletal category at $7.9 billion in growth. Circulatory spending came in at $240 million. The statistics are part of BEA’s Health Care Satellite Account, created in 2015, to offer a new way of looking at health care spending.  This data project breaks out spending by the treatment of disease, such as circulatory diseases or cancers, rather than by place of service, such as hospital or doctor’s office.   The statistics cited in this advisory come from BEA’s “Blended Account,” which combines data from multiple sources, including large claims databases, covering millions of enrollees and billions of claims.  The newly released statistics, along with information about BEA’s Health Care Satellite Account, are available on our public website.
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Spontaneous Creative Place Making On-The-Ground Here In The New Urban DTMesa

Is this installation going to be a Pop-Up phenomenon or an ephemeral part  of the urban landscape landscape?  
Time will tell and it's a story your MesaZona blogger wants to write about ... how did this happen?
It all started about a year ago [or more] when Marie Green, a retired psychiatric nurse from Bayshore, Long island, purchased a condo in Robson Villas. She had previously rented an apartment at Cimarron but after doing some arithmetic, decided to became an owner of real estate here.
A brave, risky and yet calculated move when after settling in to her 2-story home, an open empty space next to the property on North Robson Street made her dream. Now we all know what Sigmund Freud, founder of Psychiatry, has to say about dreams and the unconscious, but this get-go Ms. Green is working to make her dream real.

After being out-of-touch for a while, got this email in my inbox six days ago:
"Hi, Tim,
Marie Green here.  Have a new addition to downtown Mesa.
Please come and see the Labyrinth that John Jay Pelletier created yesterday.  I found him online, don't know him, never met him.
Yesterday he showed up unannounced and created a Labyrinth on the empty lot between Robson Street Villas and Inside The Bungalow.
It was my dream for over a year.  I was researching the Labyrinth at Superstition Mountain Museum and came across his name.  Contacted him and the rest is history. "

The dream isn't history yet - still some work to do that's engaging these two active people.
If readers of this post take  a close look or zoom-in of the image taken the same day as Marie's email, you'll see the outlines of the earthwork and a little banner with information packet in front with this:
What is A Labyrinth?
Included on the take-away that question is addressed by saying they are ancient human symbols, appearing on most inhabited continents in pre-history, featuring the image of The Man In The Maze from the Salt River Pima Maricopa Indigenous Peoples who inhabited what is now Mesa centuries before the arrival of "The Pioneers" here in the mid 1850's.
This work-in-progress expands our understanding of "walk-ability" here in Mesa to include both art in the environment and mental health:
Why do we walk Labyrinths?
According to the on-site information, "a labyrinths is not a maze, but a walking meditation device with a single winding path from the edge to the center. There are no tricks, choices, or  dead ends. The same path is used to return to the outside. Combining a number of even older symbols, including the circle, spiral and meander, the labyrinths represents our true selves and back out into the everyday world.
Walking a labyrinths is a right-brain activity [creative, intuitive, imaginative] and can induce or enhance a contemplative or meditative state of mind. It is a tool which can clear the mind, calm our anxieties during periods of transition and stress, guide our healing, deepen self-knowledge, enhance creativity, allow for reconciliation, restore feelings of belonging to a community, and lead to personal and spiritual growth.
For many walkers, the labyrinths becomes a metaphor for the journey of life . . "

It might not be all that to everybody, but yours truly is thrilled and excited what two people who never met before are doing here in The New Urban Downtown Mesa . . very excited. 

Should any readers look at this as art here's a good read with a nice video
What is land art?

This modern-yet-ancient art form raises questions about humanity's relationship to the environment

Starre Vartan

November 1, 2016, 5:43 a.m.

"You probably recognize land art, even if you don't know exactly what it is. You may have even made some yourself, if you've drawn intricate patterns on a beach or arranged stones in a pattern near a stream bed. Land art is that which is made from natural materials, built or created in an outdoor setting, and which makes some kind of comment or observation about the environment.
That accessibility is part of the foundation of land art — sometimes called earthworks or earth art. It grew out of and shares common ground with the artistic movements of conceptualism and minimalism, but some think land art is arguably the oldest creative form. Monuments like Stonehenge, the Mexican pyramids, and the Nazca Lines could all be considered ancient earthworks or earth art."

Source > What is land art?

R U A Maker? We All Want to Make The New Urban DTMesa Great : Get In Sync

4th Annual SOUTHWEST MAKER FEST.

Saturday March 11th 2017 from noon to 7pm Downtown Mesa on Macdonald and Main St.

Whether you are an exhibitor, performer, presenter, maker or volunteer we are happy to hear from you all!
Invitations for exhibitors and volunteers are on our Web Site, if you would like to join us please select the appropriate link.
Otherwise Please Save the date and Attend.
 

If you have questions that are not answered in our FAQ section please contact:Julie Shepard for Exhibitors, Performer, and PresentersEric Ose for volunteer and other questions

We guarantee you we will: “MAKE IT” a Great Day!                                             

INFOGRAPHIC From City Data >> Mesa, Arizona (AZ) Income Map, Earnings Map + Wages Data

This post is where you, dear readers get to do the work searching for information ... what are you looking for?

Mesa, Arizona (AZ) income map, earnings map, and wages data based on the data from 2000 / 2013 when the population of Mesa, Arizona was 396,375 / 457,59

 

Population in 2014: 464,704 (100% urban, 0% rural). What happened to sub-urban?

Population change since 2000: +17.2%

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Interactive to zoom-in on specific areas
Categories:

• Income statistics for All residents
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Races in Mesa, Arizona (AZ) Detailed Stats

Ancestries, Foreign born residents, place of birth

Categories

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• Geographical mobility in Mesa
• Children Nativity (place of birth) in Mesa
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• Grandparents responsible for own grandchildren in Mesa

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