GETTING VERY 'SOCIAL' > City of Mesa Economic Development Advisory Board

'Fearless leader' and Chairman of the Not-So-Bored EDAB Bill Jabjiniak was all around the meeting chamber before this monthly get-together of 12 mixing with nearly everyone while a few late arrivals grabbed their coffee and got down to business almost immediately moving rapidly ahead with Item 4 with all the feel-good vibe all the table.

4. Discussion with Vice Mayor Luna 
David Luna right away got into comfortable one-on-one talk with members that he knows, mentioning in detail his appreciation for ongoing good relations. For those he didn't yet know, he right away established a rapport, continuing a recitation of all the good things going in District 5.

5. Visit Mesa Update

Marc Garcia CEO of VisitMesa.com, seen in the image to the left, facing members of the board, went on to present a good up-tick in Hotel and Overnight Lodging resulting from using social media more than print media to advertise Mesa to wider markets both national and international partnerships with new branding from their public relations campaigns by AOL/Millennial Media. He and Michelle Streeter together provided more details of success using 'spheres of influence' generated by Facebook.
 

Falcon Strategic Plan Update

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Rich Adams making a point

 

 

 

 

 

 

Don't believe it - the Mesa Sport Complex IS NOT DEAD

 

 

Getting Spooked Yet? WIKILEAKS DATA DUMP > A Mega-Trove of CIA Secrets

This just out
 Author: Lily Hay Newman. Lily Hay Newman     

Date of Publication: 03.07

Time of Publication: 11:40 am

Source: Wired

On Tuesday morning, Wikileaks published a data trove that appears to contain extensive documentation of secret Central Intelligence Agency spying operations and hacking tools.

Codenamed “Vault 7,” the file contains 8,761 documents, and Wikileaks claims that it represents “the majority of [the CIA] hacking arsenal including malware, viruses, trojans, weaponized ‘zero day’ exploits, malware remote control systems and associated documentation.”
Initial expert reactions are that the data seems legitimate, and will create deep problems for the CIA on many fronts. The leak has the potential both to undermine the organization’s ability to carry out offensive intelligence gathering, and to damage its international public perception.

The leak exposes CIA capabilities and tools like unpatched iOS and Android vulnerabilities, strategies for compromising end-to-end encrypted chats (though not undermining the encryption itself), bugs in Windows, and even ability to turn Samsung smart TVs into listening devices.
“From what I can tell, this seems to be legitimate,” says David Kennedy, CEO of TrustedSec, who formerly worked at the NSA and with the Marine Corps’ signals intelligence unit. “It shows expansive capabilities of the CIA and divulges NSA tools as well.

. . . But a lot of it seems to be missing, as far as direct codebase used for these.” Wikileaks says it redacted much of that more specific information.
Those redactions, in part, make it difficult to ascertain just how comprehensive the leaked information is. In spite of Wikileaks’ claims, it is only a small fraction of the CIA’s total arsenal. WikiLeaks itself has said it will release additional CIA data dumps in the future.

“I don’t think that this is everything. It likely represents a very limited view of the overall network exploitation program,” says Jake Williams, founder of the threat intelligence firm Rendition Infosec.
The Wikileaks dump includes no mention of iOS 10, for instance, an operating system that has been on the market for months. “But there’s a lot here and it’s likely going to be very damaging to US international relations.”
Given the polarized political climate in the US, and President Donald Trump’s recent feuds with the intelligence community, the leak highlights a tension between the importance of checking intelligence overreach, and the need to maintain US defense and intelligence-gathering capabilities abroad.

It also keeps WikiLeaks once again at the center of a potential firestorm—one that will likely disrupt the CIA’s operations.
“Who knows how it got leaked,” says Kennedy. “But honestly if I were a foreign nation and published this, I would think that this could completely reduce our capabilities abroad.”
Disclosing software vulnerability spy tools hinders intelligence organizations because it gives manufacturers the opportunity to patch their code, and close the backdoors that allowed spies access. Protecting users necessitates that process, as does the reality that intelligence groups can’t ensure that some malicious actor isn’t also using an active exploit. If the CIA can get into a device, so can a black hat hacker.
During the Obama administration, the White House worked to create the Vulnerabilities Equities Process, which attempted to create a framework the intelligence community could use to motivate disclosure of as many vulnerabilities as possible, while still allowing agencies to retain some undisclosed zero-day vulnerabilities when they concluded it was in the public interest.
The CIA leak appears to validate criticism that the process lacks transparency, and doesn’t achieve its goals.
“We were [estimating] the total arsenal of zero days was in the dozens and that was for everyone, including NSA,” says Jason Healey, a cyber conflict researcher at Columbia University. “So if you find dozens in here alone, then that means we only guessed part of the total.”

Vault 7: WikiLeaks Release: 'Year Zero' Largest Ever Publication on CIA ...

Getting spooked yet ???

Published on Mar 7, 2017

WikiLeaks has published what it claims is the largest ever batch of confidential documents on the CIA, revealing the breadth of the agency’s ability to hack smartphones and popular social media messaging apps such as WhatsApp.

READ MORE: https://on.rt.com/84zw

Mesa City Council Meeting Mon 06 March 2017

NO VIEWS AND LOTS OF EMPTY SEATS .... lots of people in Mayor's photo opp
As usual items of consent agenda flash by and get approved fast
Approved Minutes for this meeting can be found here >> http://apps.mesaaz.gov/meetingarchive/ccminutes

Published on Mar 7, 2017

Duration: 09:37

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Burn-in & Test Strategies (BiTS) Workshop Here in Mesa March 5-8

Cohu Introduces New RF Contactor For Mobile Market

POWAY, CALIF.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--
Cohu, Inc. (NASDAQ:COHU), a leading supplier of semiconductor equipment, announced today the introduction of the new cDragon contactor for testing a wide spectrum of RF devices used in mobile and IoT (Internet of Things) applications.
The expansion of RF semiconductors continues to be driven by growing device interconnectivity and data sharing. The new cDragon leverages advanced micro electroforming technology to build contact elements that optimize signal performance for high frequency semiconductor test, such as those used in GPS, Bluetooth, cellular and wireless transmission. These devices are key to enable the connectivity in today’s smartphones, cars and emerging IoT products. cDragon combines excellent signal integrity with long-life and elastomer-free architecture. It is well suited for harsh, high volume production environments requiring tight temperature accuracy during test.
During intensive testing at a leading semiconductor manufacturer, the new cDragon has proven its stable performance in high volume production. The innovative contact spring manufacturing technology delivers remarkably long lifespan and stable signal integrity. Cohu has received initial volume production orders for cDragon that are expected to ship in the first and second quarter of 2017.
Cohu will be showcasing cDragon Contactor and other innovative test contactors at the Burn-in & Test Strategies (BiTS) Workshop from March 5^th to 8^th in Mesa, Arizona.
About Cohu:
Cohu is a leading supplier of semiconductor test and inspection handlers, micro-electro mechanical system (MEMS) test modules, test contactors and thermal sub-systems used by global semiconductor manufacturers and test subcontractors.

About Coho
a global leader in test handling, thermal subsystems, package inspection, contactors and MEMS test solutions used by the semiconductor industry. We provide our customers with outstanding products and services that reflect our commitment to operational excellence, innovation and market leadership.
Cohu, Inc. was founded in 1957 and is comprised of three business units, Delta Design, Rasco and Ismeca.
http://www.cohu.com/ 

Delta Design has been part of Cohu since 1967 and pioneered pick-and-place handler technology in the 1980s. The company rapidly grew to become the industry leader by the early 1990s. In early 2000, Delta Design developed the first solution for actively controlling temperature during test of power dissipative ICs, thus solving a critical yield problem when testing high-end microprocessors.    

The acquisitions of Rasco in 2008 and Ismeca in 2012 extended the product portfolio to include gravity, strip and turret handling equipment and added new critical technologies to the company in contactors, MEMS and LED test, and vision inspection. Today, the company offers the broadest portfolio of enabling technologies in the industry that can be integrated in any of its handler platforms to optimize semiconductor test and solve some of the most challenging customer requirements.

Apple Global Command Center Mesa Goes 100% Renewable

7 March 2017 by Military News

Apple joins RE100, announces supplier clean energy pledges

Apple is already powering its operations in the US, China and 21 other countries with 100 percent renewable energy; and, in 2015, powered 93 percent of its operations around the world with renewable energy.

 

 

 

The company continues to invest in high-quality, clean energy projects to help it meet and maintain its goal, and Lisa Jackson, Apple's vice president for Environment, Policy and Social Initiatives, announced today that Apple has completed construction on its latest renewable energy project — a 50-megawatt solar farm in Arizona. Apple worked with local utility Salt River Project on the solar array, which will provide renewable power to Apple’s global command data center in Mesa, Arizona. That’s equal to the energy use of over 12,000 Arizona homes.

Apple has invested in renewable energy for several years. Lisa Jackson, , said Monday that the company completed construction on its latest renewable energy project — a 50-megawatt (MW) solar farm in Arizona, Apple worked with local utility Salt River Project on the solar array, which will provide renewable power to Apple's global command data center in Mesa, Arizona. The solar farm provides power equal to the energy use of more than 12,000 homes

 

RE100 > The world’s most influential companies, committed to 100% renewable power

Source: http://there100.org/re100

RE100 is a collaborative, global initiative of influential businesses committed to 100% renewable electricity, working to massively increase demand for - and delivery of - renewable energy.

The private sector accounts for around half of the world’s electricity consumption. Switching this demand to renewables will accelerate the transformation of the global energy market and aid the transition to a low carbon economy.

RE100 shares the compelling business case for renewables and showcases business action, while working with others to address barriers and develop transparent reporting mechanisms.

RE100 is brought to you by The Climate Group in partnership with CDP, as part of the We Mean Business coalition.

Companies joining RE100 are encouraged to set a public goal to procure 100% of their electricity from renewable sources of energy by a specified year.

Since RE100 was launched at Climate Week NYC 2014, the campaign has continued to gather momentum and is now being rolled out in India and China in addition to Europe and the US.

Companies have joined from all over the world and from a wide range of industrial sectors - from telecommunications and IT to retail and food.

Animated Map: the Most/Least Educated US States

Arizona = #47 out of 50

Published on Feb 23, 2017

Views: 17,498

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WalletHub compared all 50 states across 11 total metrics grouped by category. The states were graded on a weighted 100-point scale, with 100 being the highest possible points.

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