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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE                                                                     March 13, 2020 Fontes' Emergency Mail Ballot Plan Thwarted by Political, Legal Maneuvering PHOENIX -  The Attorney General today successfully maneuvered a court procedure to stop Recorder Adrian Fontes’ effort to expand voting options. Fontes was set to mail ballots today to voters who are not on the Permanent Early Voting List (PEVL) but eligible for the Democratic Presidential Preference Election on March 17. The goal of the mailed ballot distribution plan was to allow access to voting while cutting down on the need for the public and election workers to interact and touch equipment in polling places, potentially exposing them to the COVID-19. The temporary restraining order stopped Fontes from putting the printed ballots, which had been coordinated for delivery with U.S.P.S. and were ready to mail, on the trucks to the post office. Earlier today, Fontes said in a press release, “We are in unchartered territory with the COVID-19. My first concern is to protect the health of the voters and staff who work in the polling places while maintaining the integrity of the election. Anything we can do to minimize human interaction in the polling place is what we must to do.” Fontes’ plan was to mail-out ballots, giving voters the option to just drop-off the voted mail ballot at a voting location without going into the polling place or engaging with other voters and staff in order to vote. This would have allowed voters to keep to “social distancing” protocols recommended by health officials and still have the opportunity to cast a ballot. It also would have helped alleviate potential lines and voter access issues as the number of locations available for polling places continues to decline due to COVID-19 concerns. “There is a national health emergency. It is time for decisive leadership. My goal is to give voters every option available to vote and still protect public health but it seems that some politicians are more interested in splitting hairs over legal issues and playing politics,” Fontes said. “Some have accused me of ‘going rogue’ – well, if going rouge means helping voters and keeping them safe during a public health emergency, then I guess I am,” Fontes said, in explanation of his decision to send out the ballots under an emergency action, despite not having explicit authority under statute to do so. Fontes argued that state law does not specifically prohibit him from sending the ballots. “In times of emergency, leaders need to step-up and take care of the public. My public is the voters. I am very disappointed that politicians who don’t share this priority were successful in stopping my effort. But, we have an election to run. I am committed now to working with and supporting the Board to run the smoothest Election Day possible,” Fontes said. The Maricopa County Board of Supervisors announced today that they would be reducing the number of voting locations on Election Day due to cancellations by polling place locations and election worker staff.  There is also a lack of cleaning supplies available to meet County Health Department directives for preventing the potential spread of disease in the polling places. The Presidential Preference Election is Tuesday, March 17. ### Contact: Kathren Coleman kcoleman@risc.maricopa.gov 480.438.0919 Maricopa.Vote

Starship Production Streamlining Is Critical Says Elon Musk | SpaceX in ...

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Starship Production Streamlining Is Critical Says Elon Musk | SpaceX in the News Episode 83. Today we check in on the latest Starship updates and events happening at the SpaceX sites in Boca Chica; go over Elon's interview at Satellite 2020; debrief the CRS-20 launch; talk about Starlink and Crew Dragon; look into tomorrow's launch; and finish with today's honorable mention. NEW MERCH: https://teespring.com/stores/spacexce... Use promo code "PADDY" for 10% off this weekend. SUBSCRIBE: https://www.youtube.com/spaceXcentric BECOME AN XCENTRIC MEMBER: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCh4B...

How to think about venture debt

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Get the full interview here: https://tcrn.ch/3cWX0iM
"With the markets in turmoil and fear running rampant through the global economy, you might not think it’s the right moment to start a company. 
According to at least one well-known venture capitalist, however, it’s a great time to start up. 
TechCrunch recently caught up with former founder and active venture capitalist Jason Lemkin to chat about the world of software-as-service companies, better known as “SaaS.” 
Lemkin swung by TC HQ in San Francisco to spend some time with the Equity crew to discuss all things SaaS, markets and startups. Long-time listeners of our Equity podcast will recall that this is not the first or even second time that we’ve had Lemkin on. He was, after all, our first guest, as well as a repeat guest for Episode 100. But as it’s Equity’s third birthday, and the SaaStr conference was just around the corner (now postponed), we had Lemkin back to dig deep into one of our favorite startup categories. "
So let’s get nerdy about SaaS.

Son of Rumplestilstskin | Fractured Fairy Tales| Rocky and Bullwinkle | ...

Turning straw into gold....and, of course there's more to the story

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"The lead characters and heroes of the series were Rocket "Rocky" J. Squirrel, a flying squirrel, and his best friend Bullwinkle J. Moose, a dim-witted but good-natured moose. 

Both characters lived in the fictional town of Frostbite Falls, Minnesota, which was based on the real life city of International Falls, Minnesota.[25] 

The scheming villains in most episodes were the fiendish spies Boris Badenov, a pun on Boris Godunov, and Natasha Fatale, a pun on femme fatale. 

Other characters included Fearless Leader, the dictator of the fictitious nation of Pottsylvania and Boris and Natasha's superior, Gidney & Cloyd, little green men from the moon who were armed with scrooch guns; Captain Peter "Wrongway" Peachfuzz, the captain of the S.S. Andalusia; various U.S. government bureaucrats and politicians (such as Senator Fussmussen, a recurring character who opposed admitting Alaska and Hawaii to the union on grounds of his own xenophobia); and the inevitable onlookers, Edgar and Chauncy. 🐿️ 🐿️ 🐿️ 🐿️ 🐿️ 🐿️ 🐿️ 🐿️ 🐿️ 🐿️ 🐿️ 🐿️ 🐿️ 🐿️ 🐿️ 🐿️ 🐿️ 🐿️ 🐿️ 🐿️ 🐿️ 🐿️ 🐿️ 🐿️ 🐿️ 🐿️ Dudley Do-Right of the Mounties", a parody of early 20th century melodrama and silent film serials of the Northern genre. Dudley Do-Right is a Canadian Mountie in constant pursuit of his nemesis, Snidely Whiplash, who sports the standard "villain" attire of black top hat, cape, and large handlebar moustache. This is one of the few Jay Ward cartoons to feature a background music track. As is standard in Ward's cartoons, jokes often have more than one meaning. A standard gag is to introduce characters in an irised close-up with the name of the "actor" displayed in a caption below, a convention seen in some early silent films. However, the comic twist is using the captions to present silly names or subtle puns. Occasionally, even the scenery is introduced in this manner, as when "Dead Man's Gulch" is identified as being portrayed by "Gorgeous Gorge," a reference to professional wrestler Gorgeous George. 🐿️ Fractured Fairy Tales" presented familiar fairy tales and children's stories, but with altered storylines and modernized for humorous effect. This segment was narrated by Edward Everett Horton; June Foray, Bill Scott, Paul Frees, and an uncredited[citation needed] Daws Butler often supplied the voices.[32] 🐿️ Aesop & Son" is similar to "Fractured Fairy Tales", complete with the same theme music, except it deals with fables instead of fairy tales. The typical structure consists of Aesop attempting to teach a lesson to his son using a fable. After hearing the story, the son subverts the fable's moral with a pun. This structure was also suggested by the feature's opening titles, which showed Aesop painstakingly carving his name in marble using a mallet and chisel and then his son, with a jackhammer and raising a cloud of dust, appending "And Son." Aesop was voiced (uncredited)[citation needed] by actor Charlie Ruggles and the son, Junior, was voiced by Daws Butler. 🐿️ Bullwinkle's Corner" features the dimwitted moose attempting to introduce culture into the proceedings by reciting (and acting out) poems and nursery rhymes, inadvertently and humorously butchering them. Poems subjected to this treatment include several by Robert Louis Stevenson ("My Shadow", "The Swing", and "Where Go the Boats"); William Wordsworth's "Daffodils"; "Little Miss Muffet", "Little Jack Horner", and "Wee Willie Winkie"; J. G. Whittier's "Barbara Frietchie"; and "The Queen of Hearts" by Charles Lamb. Simple Simon is performed with Boris as the pie man, but as a variation of the famous Abbott and Costello routine "Who's on First?". 🐿️ Mr. Know-It-All" again features Bullwinkle posing as an authority on any topic. Disaster inevitably ensues."

"Opting-In" > ELLIOT ROAD TECH CORRIDOR OVERLAY ZONE

Item 5-d File #20-0299 was added to the agenda for the regular Mesa City Council meeting on Monday, March 16, 2020
SIGNAL BUTTE GRID LLC
A Delaware Liability company,  and Eric Stoutenburg proactively notarized an agreement signed February 24,2020 in Colorado. . .

The developer agreement was mailed
c/o ABLE GRID ENERGY SOLUTIONS
1495 Canyon Boulevard Suite 218
Boulder, CO 80302
(Detail excerpts and link to attachments below)
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BLOGGER NOTE: There's already all too much slow-jammed into the agenda, so why add one more to the heap?
An easy hunch: The more items on one meeting's agenda that city officials throw all together in a single public meeting, the less attention any one item is likely to get
Furthermore, at last Thursday's 19-minute "Study Session", 3 district members were absent and didn't bother to take the time to participate on-the-phone. That circumstance is unusual in itself when half of the seats for elected district reps were left empty. Item 5-d got no attention whatsoever.
Note: It takes anyone - including members of the public - a lot of time to access and review basic information provided in all the meeting detail's attachments.
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HERE'S THE OVERALL BIG PICTURE:
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Here are some short clips from one of the four attachments provided for just this one item in File #20-0299
COUNCIL REPORT
Coordinated With: The Office of Economic Development has worked closely with the Development Services Department and the City Attorney's Office
Date:  March 16, 2020 
To:  Mayor and Council
Through: Christopher J. Brady, City Manager
From:  William J. Jabjiniak, Economic Development Director  
           JD Beatty, Economic Development Project Manager
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Subject:
Development Agreement between City of Mesa and Signal Butte Grid, LLC relating to 10.153 acres of property located north of Elliot Road and west of Signal Butte Road for the purpose of “opting-in” to the Elliot Road Tech Corridor zoning overlay.
(Council District #6)
Image view is the general area
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Staff recommends that the City Council approve the following document: 
1. Resolution authorizing the City Manager to execute the Development Agreement between the City of Mesa and Signal Butte Grid, LLC.
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Here's another excerpt inserted here for your interest:
NOTE all the excluded uses:
"The owner is agreeing to the rezoning of the property to LI-PAD by "opting-in" to the Elliot Road Technology Corridor, the acceptance of the approved Design Guidelines to ensure quality development, and the restriction to not allow the following land uses: 
Correctional Transitional Housing Facility 
Clubs and Lodges 
Cultural Institutions 
Day Care Centers as a stand-alone use, allowed as a component of a service to onsite business or industry 
Places of Worship 
Schools, Public or Private 
Animal Sales and Services
Artists' Studios 
Automobile/Vehicle Sales and Service
o Automobile Rentals o Automobile/Vehicle Sales and Leasing
o Automobile/Vehicle Repair, Major
o Automobile/Vehicle Repair, Minor
o Automobile/Vehicle Repair, Washing o Large Vehicle and Equipment Sales, Services and Rental
o Service Station
o Towing and Impound 
Banks and Financial Institutions 
Building Materials and Services 
Commercial Recreation
o Small-Scale
o Large-Scale 
Eating and Drinking Establishments as a stand-alone use, allowed as a component of a service to on-site business or industry
o Bars/Clubs/Lounges
o Coffee Shops/Cafes
o Restaurants, Bar and Grill
o Restaurants, Full-Service o Restaurants, Limited Service
o With Drive-thru Facilities
o With Outdoor Seating Areas
o Off-track Betting
o With Live Entertainment 
Farmer's Market 
Food and Beverage Sales
o Convenience Market 
Funeral Parlors and Mortuaries 
Light Fleet-Based Services 
Live-Work Units 
Maintenance and Repair Services 
Medical Marijuana Dispensaries 
Medical Marijuana Cultivation Facilities 
Parking, Commercial 
Personal Services 
Plant Nurseries and Garden Centers 
Retail sales, General 
Retail Sales, Large Format 
Swap Meets and Flea Markets 
Tattoo and Body Piercing Parlors 
Handicraft/Custom Manufacturing 
Light Assembly/Cabinetry 
Recycling facilities
Warehouse and storage
o Contractor’s Yards
o Indoor Warehousing and Storage
o Mini-Storage
o Wholesale 
Airport land use classifications
o Aircraft Refueling Stations
o Aircraft Light Maintenance
o Airport Transit Station
o Airport Related Long-Term Parking Lots 
Transportation Facilities
o Freight/Truck Terminals and Warehouses
o Transportation Passenger Terminals 
Specific Accessory Uses and Facilities
o Outdoor Storage
o Outdoor entertainment or activities as an accessory use
o Outdoor Display 
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File #:

20-0299

Type:

Resolution

Status:

Agenda Ready

In control:

City Council

On agenda:

3/16/2020

Title:

Approving and authorizing the City Manager to enter into a Development Agreement with Signal Butte Grid LLC, relating to approximately 10.153 acres of property located near the northwest corner of Elliot Road and Signal Butte Road for the purpose of “opting-in” to the Elliot Road Technology Corridor zoning overlay. (District 6)

Attachments:

1. Council Report, 2. Resolution, 3. Opt In Form, 4. Development Agreement

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DEVELOPER AGREEMENT 1O Pages 239KB
COUNCIL REPORT 4 Pages
Purpose and Recommendation: 
To consider the proposed Development Agreement (DA) between the City of Mesa and Signal Butte Grid, LLC. The DA allows Signal Butte Grid, LLC to opt-in to the LI PAD (Elliot Road Tech Corridor zoning overlay) which includes a variety of stipulations for future development of the site (outlined below).
By allowing the property owner to “Opt-In” to the LI PAD Overlay, the zoning of this property will be changed from Agriculture (AG) use to Light Industrial with a Planned Area Development (LI PAD) zoning
Noted in the Discussion:
". . . By allowing Signal Butte Grid, LLC to opt-in, the City is setting them up to create the most advantageous economic and environmental balance of build-out land uses based on community and regional characteristics.
By opting-in, to create the most advantageous economic and environmental balance of build-out land uses .
^ READ THAT AGAIN ^

• to create the most advantageous economic and environmental balance of build-out land uses
• to create the most advantageous economic and environmental balance of build-out land uses

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Background (excerpts from the Council Report
The area included in the Elliot Road Technology Corridor has been planned for employment related uses for over 20 years.
The installation of high-capacity utilities along Elliot Road, and the presence of Apple’s Global Command Center in the Corridor make this an attractive area for employers and developers in need of “shovel ready” development.
The city’s initiation of this rezoning case was a direct effort to rezone the corridor to Light Industrial so that prospective high-tech employers, like Signal Butte Grid, LLC, can move directly into the more abbreviated site planning process and construct their needed facilities.

 

GEO-FENCING > The Threats and Dangers To Civil Liberties

"Imagine how this would have gone for someone without the funds to hire a lawyer… or for any number of people who may feel there's nothing they can do to prevent cops from obtaining their information from a third party. . ."
That's the opening from an article from one of your MesaZona blogger's favorite source. With today's announcement of A NATIONAL EMERGENCY and giving the green light to more tracking and total surveillance, that Brave New World forecasted in 1984 is happening faster than anyone could have imagined.
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Let's continue . . . 
". . . The novelty of this inverted interpretation of probable cause doesn't lend itself to simple answers. Clearing your name isn't as easy as showing up at the cop shop with a reasonable explanation about why your location data is all over the crime scene.
When rounding up the usual suspects means harvesting data on hundreds or thousands of innocent people, the possibility of putting the wrong person in jail increases exponentially.
McCoy's experience may be an outlier, but it won't be that way for long. . ."

Filed Under: 4th amendment, florida, gainesville, geofence warrant, geolocation, location data, warrants, zachary McCoy

Florida PD's Reverse Warrant Leads To Innocent Man Being Targeted In A Robbery Investigation

(Mis)Uses of Technology

from the let-me-ride-my-bike-through-the-wide-open-country-that-I-love dept

Fri, Mar 13th 2020 10:45am — Tim Cushing

Riding your bike while sending out geolocation data is the hot new crime.
Cops are using reverse warrants with increasing frequency, inverting the usual investigation process by demanding info about everyone in a certain area before trimming down the data haul to a list of suspects. It's sort of like canvassing a neighborhood, except investigators approach companies like Google, rather than people who might have seen something.
The problem with these dragnets is it makes everyone in the area a suspect. The more heavily-trafficked the area is, the more problematic this process is. Reverse warrants have already resulted in innocent people being jailed. This report by NBC News is another cautionary tale -- one that involves a man who became a suspect in a robbery just because he wandered into the geofence set up by cops.

The email arrived on a Tuesday afternoon in January, startling Zachary McCoy as he prepared to leave for his job at a restaurant in Gainesville, Florida.
It was from Google’s legal investigations support team, writing to let him know that local police had demanded information related to his Google account. The company said it would release the data unless he went to court and tried to block it. He had just seven days.
[...]
In the notice from Google was a case number. McCoy searched for it on the Gainesville Police Department’s website, and found a one-page investigation report on the burglary of an elderly woman’s home 10 months earlier. The crime had occurred less than a mile from the home that McCoy, who had recently earned an associate degree in computer programming, shared with two others.
Now McCoy was even more panicked and confused. He knew he had nothing to do with the break-in ─ he’d never even been to the victim’s house ─ and didn’t know anyone who might have. And he didn’t have much time to prove it.

This put McCoy in the very uncomfortable position of proving his innocence even before he had even been charged with a crime. Realizing there was a good possibility approaching the department directly would result in his immediate arrest, McCoy hired a lawyer using money given to him by his parents from their savings. His lawyer, Caleb Kenyon, went to court to get the warrant killed. . . "
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