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Thursday, September 12, 2019

How craving attention makes you less creative | Joseph Gordon-Levitt

Is it Pavlovian magic?

Published on Sep 12, 2019

Views: 25,170+

Joseph Gordon-Levitt has gotten more than his fair share of attention from his acting career. But as social media exploded over the past decade, he got addicted like the rest of us -- trying to gain followers and likes only to be left feeling inadequate and less creative. In a refreshingly honest talk, he explores how the attention-driven model of big tech companies impacts our creativity -- and shares a more powerful feeling than getting attention: paying attention.
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Barney Farms General Plan Amendment, Queen Creek Arizona

Hmmm ...5 years ago here's a slick re-vision of a look at lands that were once just dirt with low agricultural property tax assessments. It was produced by Jason Barney, who as a family member might have his own reasons to upload this.
Just coincidentally, the projections used are from the Urban Land Institute that clearly has vested interests in commercial real estate.

Published on Jul 26, 2014

Putting Barney Farms to work for Queen Creek by building roads, bringing jobs, and generating sales tax.

IMAGINE THAT! The Land-Baron Barney Family in Queen Creek: Turning The Family Farm Into A Real Estate Gold Mine

QC Mayor Gail Barney had to
recuse himself over a conflict
of interest for Barney Farms

Sure looks like Queen Creek is becoming a BIG BONANZA for "Sons of The Pioneers", six generations on where one of them _ Gail Barney - is the Mayor of Queen Creek, and another just happens to be the President/Chief Executive Officer of The East Valley Partnership.
Denny Barney - please use the Search box on this blog for more than a few posts, that include Denny Barney and Roc Arnett and the redevelopment of the Mesa Temple Area by City Creek Reserve, a for-profit affiliate of The Church of Jesus Christ of The Latter-Day Saints to build a small-scale version of the 23-acre City Creek in Salt Lake City, Utah. No financial details were every disclosed to the public.
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Note: Queen Creek Mayor Gail Barney recused himself due to "a conflict of interest" when motions were made in front of the city council
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In 2016, 500 acres of Barney Farms was rezoned to residential. The original family farm land holdings were 1,575 acres
For a background and history, in a video from Jason Barney uploaded to YouTube telling the story they want to be told, readers of this blog can click here.

"In 2018, the residential portion of Barney Farms was purchased by Fulton Homes. Construction on the 1,702 lots with a spectacular lake and park began in 2019.

Currently Available for Sale and Development:

90 Acres of Light Industrial
20 Acres of Commercial
20 Acres of Multifamily
40 Acres of Light Industrial
Click for Map
Image to the right:
The proposed sites for the Barney Farms lake well and well/tank site. (Submitted graphic) Details farther down

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How about another one of those "pretty pictures"

< ... Here it is with a monument at the front.

Also included:

An Aquatic Center

Source > http://www.barneygpa.com/

For more information:

Jason Barney

For More Information: Jason Barney

480-818-2000 - jason@jasonbarney.com

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"A $210,184 contract with Clear Creek Associates for design, construction management and evaluation services for two new wells to be drilled at the Barney Farms residential development was approved in a recent 6-0 vote by the Queen Creek Town Council.
The decision was made at a Sept. 19 town council meeting.
The wells are to be west of Meridian Drive, between Germann and Queen Creek roads.
“The two wells are identified to be constructed in areas agreeable to both the town and the developers of the Barney Farms project,” Paul Gardner, utilities director, said in a memo to the council. . .
Voting to approve the contract with Clear Creek Associates at the Sept. 19 meeting were Vice Mayor Emilina Turley and council members Jake Hoffman, Robin Benning, Dawn Oliphant (by phone), Julia Wheatley and Jeff Brown.
Mayor Gail Barney recused himself for a conflict of interest.
The Barney Farms lake well was included in the fiscal year 2018-19 approved budget.
The Barney Farms well and tank was originally programmed for the fiscal year 2018-20 timeline, Mr. Gardner said in the memo.
“An accelerated schedule is required to keep pace with development,” he said.
Source: https://queencreekindependent.com/news/
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Revised impact fees to be considered Oct. 16 by Queen Creek council

Sep 5th, 2019 · Comments: 0

A public hearing held Sept. 4 on proposed changes to the Town of Queen Creek’s impact fees has been continued to Oct. 16 because of a miscalculation on three of the amounts. Residential and non-residential impact fees are one-time fees assessed to new development to pay for the new growth’s proportionate share of necessary infrastructure. […]

Meeting in the middle: Apache Junction, Queen Creek to share a border at State Route 24

Sep 2nd, 2019 · Comments: 0

When State Route 24 is constructed east from Ellsworth Road to Ironwood Drive, it will be the dividing line between the municipalities of Apache Junction and Queen Creek. Drivers in Mesa on Loop 202 Santan Freeway can take SR24, the Gateway Freeway, south to the Phoenix-Mesa Gateway Airport and east to Ellsworth Road, south of […]

We Are So Blessed Here In Arizona! CD 5 AZ-Congressman Andy Biggs Is The Chosen One

Biggs is a newbie to Washington DC, elected to Congress in 2017. Just in the time since then, he's gained a reputation as an outspoken conservative voice in the House, where he is a member of the Judiciary and Science and Technology committees. He has come out in support of private prisons that allegedly allow immigrant detainees to work for as little as $1 a day and contributed to an effort to transform the investigation into the firing of FBI Director James B. Comey into a probe of Comey’s handling of Hillary Clinton’s email.
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BREAKING NEWS: Our members elected @RepAndyBiggsAZ as our next chairman! pic.twitter.com/meI1v4TnRR
— House Freedom Caucus

(@freedomcaucus)

September 10, 2019

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House Freedom Caucus picks Andy Biggs as new chairman

Re-Visiting 'The Twilight Zone' > In Black-and-White

The gun solution we're not talking about

Send this to Mesa Arizona Mayor John Giles why don't you? ....

Published on Sep 11, 2019

Views: 519,530++

Universal background checks won't fix America's gun crisis. But there's something else that might.

Low-Key Introduction > One of The Most Important Books of The 21st Century

Thomas Piketty‏Verified account @PikettyLeMonde

By the way, Capital and ideology is published today in France!
In a few months in English and other languages http://piketty.pse.ens.fr/fr/ideology

12:41 AM - 12 Sep 2019

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This is more like it: THE IMPACT
"The epic successor to one of the most important books of the century: at once a retelling of global history, a scathing critique of contemporary politics, and a bold proposal for a new and fairer economic system. ... Google Books "

"Our economy, Piketty observes, is not a natural fact.
Markets, profits, and capital are all historical constructs that depend on choices

. ... Piketty argues for a new “participatory” socialism, a system founded on an ideology of equality, social property, education, and the sharing of knowledge and power."

https://www.hup.harvard.edu › catalog

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economics

Thomas Piketty Is Back With a 1,200-Page Guide to Abolishing Billionaires

By William Horobin ‎September‎ ‎11‎, ‎2019‎ ‎9‎:‎00‎ ‎PM

"Thomas Piketty’s last blockbuster helped put inequality at the center of economic debates. Now he’s back with an even longer treatise that explains how governments should fix it –- by upending capitalism.

The French edition of “Capital and Ideology,’’ weighing in at 1,232 pages, comes out on Thursday

(English speakers will have to wait till next year for a translation)

It’s a sequel to “Capital in the 21st Century,’’ which has sold more than 2.5 million copies in 40 languages since 2013, according to its publisher.

Nobody can be sure how many of that book’s buyers actually got through all 900-something pages. But its impact has been undeniable. . .

“The time has come to exit this phase of making property sacred, to go beyond capitalism,’’ the economist told French magazine L’Obs.
Piketty says he’s improved as a writer. “If you read one of them, read this one,’’ he told L’Obs.
And he says his new book addresses two shortcomings of the last one, which was too focused on Western economies, and didn’t give enough space to the political ideologies that lie behind inequality. . . "
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“In this book I will try to convince the reader that the lessons of history can be leaned upon to define a more demanding norm of justice and equality,” he writes, in an extract from the new book published by Le Monde newspaper.

Piketty says his conclusion is that it’s a mistake to see inequality as rooted in nature, or driven by changes in technology. Its real causes are to be found in politics and ideology -- and that makes it easier to challenge.

But the fixes proposed by Piketty under the banner of “participatory socialism’’ would involve dramatic upheaval for the world’s developed economies . . .
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Thomas Piketty caused a sensation in early 2014 with his book Capital in the Twenty-First Century, which sparked a global debate about inequality and contributed to a revived wave of interest in socialism across the world.
Now Piketty is back with an audacious follow-up, Capital and Ideology, in which he urges us to radically reappraise everything we think we know about politics, ideology, and history.
And on 14th May 2020 he returns to the Intelligence Squared stage to discuss the themes of his new book.
> Piketty will argue that our market economy is not an inevitable feature of human nature, but an historical construct that arose out of countless choices and decisions people have made over time.
Such decisions gave rise to slavery, serfdom and colonialism.
> Piketty will lay bare the ideologies that sustained not only the unjust and unequal societies of pre-modern times, but those that are used today to justify the deepening inequality of what he calls our hyper-capitalist system.
And he will set out his manifesto for how we can build a new participatory form of socialism.