Mesa Temple Update March 28th, 2019

Accompanied by a soaring musical score, the drone does in a fly-over from the south over the large expanse of the Temple grounds where the excavations for the 450-car parking garage can no longer be seen . . .There appear to be rows of palm trees already planted on the Main Street. The drone pans in-and-out for some closer details as well as some panoramic views in the cityscape from different directions

Published on Apr 1, 2019

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March 28th, 2019 video update of progress on the exterior grounds of the Mesa Temple of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints.

Stay tuned for regular updates as work on the Temple grounds accelerates.
Also drone footage from March 5th available

ARMY TO REPLACE HALF OF ITS APACHE GUNSHIPS WITH FUTURE HIGH-SPEED ARMED...

Made here in Mesa/Boeing

Published on Apr 1, 2019

Views: 11,107 [at time of upload to this blog]Before now, the service had only said that the new rotorcraft would serve as a successor to the now-retired OH-58D Kiowa Warrior.
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Captain Boycott & The Building of Community

Where do you think your MesaZona blogger might be going with story . . . adding that oftentimes too-frequently-over-used current buzz phrase "Building Community" in the post headline you see.
An explanation of the word boycott in its current acceptable usage is shown in the opening image to the left, noting the name of a person from 19th Century Ireland - whence the name of the action: BOYCOTT.
An effective way to use your purchasing power to create change.  It didn't just happen overnight - we know the usage of the word in more actions across the political spectrum over the entire world now. Here in America, think Rosa Parks or Cesar Chavez.

Where Does The Word "Boycott" Come From? 

It All Started With A 19th Century Englishman — VIDEO

By Megan Grant 14 Dec 2016

Many things come to mind when we hear the word "boycott," among them Rosa Parks and the Montgomery bus boycott. But what about the word itself? It's no accident: The origins of the word "boycott" reveal that it all began with one man who greatly displeased a group of tenant workers.
In a recent video on the YouTube channel Today I Found Out, host Daven Hiskey explains the etymology of the word and how it was given its meaning.
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The name comes from a 19th century Englishman, Captain Charles C. Boycott. But first, we have to start in Ireland. At the time, just 0.2 precent of the population owned the majority of the land in the country; but the owners didn't live there. Instead, they rented the land out to tenant farmers. In the middle of the 19th century, these farmers started demanding fair rent, free sale, and fixity of tenure. The Irish National Land League was particularly passionate about it.

In September of 1880, the Land League's leader, Charles Stewart Parnell, said that instead of killing a farmer who bid on an evicted neighbor's land (like the crowd suggested), that person should simply be shunned in every way possible — or boycotted, although they didn't have the word yet.
They wouldn't have to wait long, though, because the first documented use of the term was just two weeks later. This, of course, brings us back to Captain Boycott.
Boycott was a land manager for the third Earl of Erne, John Crichton. Because the harvest that year wasn't spectacular, Boycott offered the farmers on his land a rent reduction of 10 percent; but they demanded 25 percent. The Earl of Erne refused, and 11 of the tenants ended up never paying their rent. Thus, Boycott sent out the Constabulary to serve eviction notices to the homes. When the tenants of the land realized what was happening, the women started throwing rocks and manure at the Constabulary until they were unable to serve the notices to the heads of the households — something required by law for the eviction notices to be official. Since some of the notices went undelivered, these people didn't have to leave their homes.
The fired up masses took Parnell's earlier advice, and completely shunned Boycott and people who worked for him, who eventually left and were often threatened until they too joined in the ostracizing. . . Charles Boycott's story was widely publicized; and within 10 years, any business who somehow disappointed the Irish National Land League was quickly boycotted.
Eight years later, in 1888, the word found its way into the New English Dictionary on Historical Principles, which we more commonly refer to as the Oxford English Dictionary . It spread throughout other European languages and made its way to America, when Boycott tried and failed to visit friends in Virginia using the name Charles Cunningham. The newspapers exposed him and published his whole story, and the word "boycott" became part of our American English language.

April Fools' Day Round-Table Discussion: The Recent Surge of Migrants

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Martha McSally.

U.S. Sen. Martha McSally has organized a roundtable discussion on the recent surge of migrants being apprehended and released into Arizona communities.
She's hosting Monday's event in downtown Phoenix.
Expected to attend are officials from the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, U.S. Customs and Border Protection, the mayors of Mesa and Yuma, and members from non-governmental organizations.
Arrests all along the southern border have skyrocketed in recent months.
Border agents were on track to make 100,000 arrests and denials of entry at the southern border in March, over half of which are families with children.
To manage the crush, Customs and Border Protection is reassigning 750 border inspectors from their usual duties at the ports of entry to help Border Patrol keep pace with arrivals in between ports of entry.

Conservative Apache Junction Mormon Republican Rusty Bowers Out-On-A-Limb

What's with this long-time serving member and Speaker of the AZ State House got up his sleeves after the resignation of David Stringer. His vacant seat has temporarily left Republicans with a 30-29 majority in the House.

Bowers branches of power could be breaking down when you consider all the bills finding their ways into his committee.

 

Police Report: Former Rep. David Stringer Paid Boys For Sex

The report, released with 426 pages of investigative files, offers details of the unspecified sex charges that prompted two ethics complaints against Arizona Republican Rep. David Stringer. He resigned on Wednesday after refusing to turn over documents demanded by the ethics committee. 

In a different report, Bowers is quoted as saying, “How this could happen is beyond my imagination, how a justice system could fail in this way, in my view.”

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Under state law, GOP precinct leaders from the county where Stringer was elected must nominate three people to fill his seat.

Republican precinct leaders met in a Prescott banquet hall Sunday afternoon to debate who should represent District 1, a deep-red stronghold that spans the city and rural areas.

The three Republican finalists named to replace Stringer for the District 1 seat:

• Former Arizona Senate President Steve Pierce
• GOP field organizer Steven Sensmeier 
• Former Arizona Secretary of State Ken Bennett.

The Yavapai County Board of Supervisors must now pick someone to fill the seat from the list of three nominees. They're scheduled to meet for a vote at 9 a.m. Wednesday.

Big Run-Up: Shares of Verra Mobility Corp (NASDAQ:VRRM) Reach 52-Week High

According to to this report yesterday  in Baseball Digest posted by Kathy Lenkie on March 31,2019, that happened during mid-day trading on Friday . The company traded as high as $11.85 and last traded at $11.69, with a volume of 7673 shares. The stock had previously closed at $11.45. 
What to make of this report from a source named "Baseball Digest"? What's baseball got to do with Verra Mobility other than both are located here in Mesa @ Riverview there's Sloan Park, Spring Training for 12 weeks for the Chicago Cubs, and American Traffic Solutions headquarters close by.
The share amounts featured in the report are interesting to note . . . [See continuation of report farther down]
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That was yesterday  . . . Today
Michael Baxter published this in https://postanalyst.com/
Verra Mobility Corporation (VRRM): Chase Insider & Institutional Changes, Not Stock Prices
Verra Mobility Corporation (NASDAQ:VRRM) enjoyed a 32.22% run-up in share price since hitting record low of $9. The stock managed 3.93% rise and now stands at $11.9 as of 3/29/2019. At a recent session, the prices were hovering between $11.41 and $11.91. This company shares are 17.65% off its target price of $14 and the current market capitalization stands at $1.9B. The recent change has given its price a 13.5% lead over SMA 50 and 1.1% lead over its 52-week high. The stock witnessed 12.26% gains, 18.06% gains and 14.09% gains for the 1-month, 3-month and 6-month period, respectively.
Verra Mobility Corporation (VRRM) Top Holders
Institutional investors currently hold around $652 million or 78.1% in VRRM stock.
Look at its top three institutional owners:

• Vanguard Group Inc owns $91.8 million in Verra Mobility Corporation, which represents roughly 4.83% of the company’s market cap and approximately 14.08% of the institutional ownership. Similar statistics are true for the second largest owner,
• Fmr Llc, which owns 7,411,151 shares of the stock are valued at $88.19 million.
• The third largest holder is Fairview Capital Investment Management, Llc, which currently holds $73.42 million worth of this stock and that ownership represents nearly 3.86% of its market capitalization.

Verra Mobility Corporation 13F Filings

At the end of December reporting period,

• 32 institutional holders increased their position in Verra Mobility Corporation (NASDAQ:VRRM) by some 34,966,017 shares,
• 31 decreased positions by 15,837,711 and held positions by 3,963,232.

That puts total institutional holdings at 54,766,960 shares, according to SEC filings.
The stock grabbed 21 new institutional investments totaling 23,699,957 shares while 19 institutional investors sold out their entire positions totaling 9,419,360 shares.
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NOTE: The company is a large one — it counted about $350 million in adjusted revenue in 2017 — but its name might not ring a bell.
According to https://www.govtech.com/biz on 22 Oct 2018, that's because, up until June 2018, it was known as American Traffic Solutions.
Under that brand, it built big market positions in its respective areas of work and integrated its technology with all but a couple tolling authorities in the U.S.
Though the majority of its business is in the private sector, Verra’s government work includes red light cameras, speeding cameras and handheld radar guns for law enforcement. . .
It’s actually the second government-serving tech company to announce that it was going public since the beginning of September — it followed an announcement that six gov tech companies were merging into GTY Holdings.
And like in the GTY Holdings deal, Verra Mobility followed the “blank check company” approach to going public. That is, the company didn’t have its own initial public offering. Rather, a special purpose acquisition company called Gores Holdings II was created and filed for an IPO a while ago, and that company then bought Verra, making it a public company.

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Investors Gripe About Verra Mobility Corporation
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Verra Mobility Corporation (VRRM): Chase Insider
& Institutional Changes, Not Stock Prices

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Investment Research Analysts Opinion: Verra
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Separately, BTIG Research initiated coverage on shares of Verra Mobility in a research note on Wednesday.
They set a “buy” rating and a $15.00 target price  for the company.
The company has a quick ratio of 2.69, a current ratio of 2.69 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 2.85.

A number of institutional investors have recently modified their holdings of the business:

• United Services Automobile Association acquired a new stake in Verra Mobility in the 4th quarter worth about $112,000.
• Her Majesty the Queen in Right of the Province of Alberta as represented by Alberta Investment Management Corp acquired a new stake in Verra Mobility in the 4th quarter worth about $440,000. 
• Highbridge Capital Management LLC acquired a new stake in Verra Mobility in the 4th quarter worth about $488,000.
• Bank of New York Mellon Corp acquired a new stake in Verra Mobility in the 4th quarter worth about $575,000. 
• Brown Advisory Inc. acquired a new stake in Verra Mobility in the 4th quarter worth about $1,127,000.

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About Verra Mobility (NASDAQ:VRRM)
Company website: https://www.verramobility.com/ 

This is Verra Mobility on YouTube Published on Jun 7, 2018

"Welcome to Verra Mobility, a new smart mobility company focused on safe cities, smart roadways and the connected systems that tie them seamlessly together.
Over the past 15 years, we have been on an exciting journey– one that has seen us grow in size, scale, and impact. With our recent acquisitions of Highway Toll Administration and Euro Parking Collection, we are excited to further cement our position as a global leader in safe and smart mobility solutions.
While we continue to honor the heritage of these legacy brands, Verra Mobility will lead with a passion for growth and a purpose of impact. We believe our actions have the ability to move the world, and we exist to create smart mobility solutions that enable the world to move safely and easily.
We seek this purpose by never taking our eye off what’s most important, our customers. Whether it’s local governments, commercial or rental fleet owners, tolling authorities or law enforcement, we understand that no one is the same. We sit at the nexus of this mobility ecosystem in service of solving our customers’ most complex challenges and meeting the demands of a fast-growing mobility sector.
Today marks an important milestone in our company, but it’s just the beginning of our journey as we transition our legacy brands to Verra Mobility. We look forward to continuing the conversation of our new brand with you in the weeks to come."

American Traffic Solutions changing name - Phoenix Business Journal

David Roberts is the CEO of Verra Mobility, formerly American Traffic Solutions

 

Management Team | Verra Mobility

ir.verramobility.com

The Investor Relations website contains information about Verra Mobility's business for stockholders, potential investors, and financial analysts

Safety Camera Enforcement

• Speed Enforcement
• Red Light Enforcement
• School Bus Stop Arm Enforcement
• Bus Lane Enforcement
• Railroad Crossing Enforcement
• Enforcement Support (ticketing)

Safety and Data Analysis

• Real-time Crash Reports
• Video-Enabled Crime Data

 

China's Economic Data Offers Markets Signs of Stability

Strong economic data coming out where China is the major force in Global Growth

Published on Apr 1, 2019

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Apr.01 -- Mike Swell, head of global fixed income portfolio management at Goldman Sachs Asset Management, Ben Laidler, global equity strategist and head of Americas research at HSBC, and Matt Hornbach, head of global interest rate strategy at Morgan Stanley, discuss Chinese economic data.

They speak with Bloomberg's Jonathan Ferro on "Bloomberg Markets: The Open."