High-and-Fast Times For Mesa Real Estate > AVIVA by Mark Taylor / Turn-Over : $19.2M Invested In Jan 2015 Sold For $45.3M Oct 2019

O Yeah. Baby!
Let the Good Times roll in the luxury rental market in Southeast Mesa and Zip Code 85209.
Just how good can it get in those old Superstition Vistas dreams Roc Arnett had not so very long ago . . .let's just rename a few of the parcels "Mountain Vista".
Forget about all those so-called superstitions - there's a big pay-off in what used to be called 'just dirt' > here's a press release 9 hours ago from Connect Media for your interest:
Thayer Manca Ends Hold on Arizona’s Avia 266, Sells for $45M

October 28, 2019

Thayer Manca Residential ended its hold on the 266-unit Avia 266 in Mesa, AZ, selling the multifamily property to Geringer Capital for $45.3 million.
The Seattle seller acquired the property in January 2015 for $19.2 million, investing close to $4 million in renovations.
CBRE’s Tyler Anderson, Sean Cunningham, Asher Gunter and Matt Pesch represented the seller. “The community’s appeal combined with the market’s fundamentals created significant buyer interest,” said CBRE’s Pesch.

The property at 2354 W. University Dr. has one- and two-bedroom units, with amenities including two swimming pools, fitness facility, resident clubhouse, parcel pending locker and a dog park.
“Avia 266 provided us with an amazing opportunity to harness a true value-add repositioning strategy, in an effort to grow investor capital,” Thayer Manca’s Joe Manca said. “We are very confident in the greater Phoenix market, and it remains a focus of ours as we continue to grow our portfolio.”
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It's OK for Politicians To Lie >> They Do It All The Time

Mark Zuckerberg really sucks!

He's definitely NOT best messenger to deliver that statement made in public testimony before Congress and The American Public last week.

 

 

Facebook is allowing politicians

 

TO LIE

OPENLY 

 

 

 

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Mark Zuckerberg on lies in political ads: ‘I don’t think it’s right for a private company to censor politicians’

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Facebook’s CEO rallies people around the First Amendment

By Zoe Schiffer@ZoeSchiffer Oct 17, 2019, 2:39pm EDT

"Mark Zuckerberg defended Facebook’s policy of letting politicians lie in political ads — along with free speech more broadly — in a speech today at Georgetown University. “I don’t think it’s right for a private company to censor politicians” he said.

Zuckerberg’s speech, which amounted to a rallying cry for the First Amendment during a time when speech rights are under siege globally, acknowledged the fact that Facebook profits off misinformation — but said that’s not why the company decided to allow inaccurate ads to remain on the platform:

"Given the sensitivity around political ads, I’ve considered whether we should stop allowing them altogether. From a business perspective, the controversy certainly isn’t worth the small part of our business they make up. But political ads are an important part of voice — especially for local candidates, up-and-coming challengers, and advocacy groups that may not get much media attention otherwise.Given the sensitivity around political ads, I’ve considered whether we should stop allowing them altogether. From a business perspective, the controversy certainly isn’t worth the small part of our business they make up. But political ads are an important part of voice — especially for local candidates, up-and-coming challengers, and advocacy groups that may not get much media attention otherwise."

Throughout the speech, Zuckerberg couched Facebook’s policies as the result of moral choices rather than business decisions.

“Banning political ads favors incumbents and whoever the media covers,” he said, noting the solution is to monitor who is posting the content rather than the content itself. “You can still say controversial things,” he added, “but you have to stand behind them with your real identity and face accountability.”

Zuckerberg’s comments come at a time when Facebook is under fire for helping spread misinformation and is being investigated by the Justice Department and 40 state attorneys general for possible antitrust violations. . .
To Zuckerberg, the fallout . . . is the cost of defending free expression. “I don’t think most people want to live in a world where you can only post things that tech companies judge to be 100 percent true.” he said. “I believe we should err on the side of greater expression.”

The Problem With Believing What We’re Told . . .In an age of information overload, it’s important to find ways to resist the brain’s difficulty in separating fact from falsehood

Wall Street Journal

                                 

      

Mark Rothko: An Artist In His Times 20th Century American Masters

It's another century now, but  let's take a look back:
One of the most influential artists of the 20^thcentury, Mark Rothko’s signature style helped define Abstract Expressionism, the movement that shifted the center of the art world from Paris to New York.
American Masters — Rothko: Pictures Must Be Miraculous,
". . . an intimate portrait of the celebrated painter whose luminous canvasses now set records at international auctions.
Interviews with Rothko’s children, Kate and Christopher, as well as leading curators, art historians and conservators present a comprehensive look at the artist’s life and career . . ."
The PBS series starts with an auction for $84,000,000
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TIMELINE OF THE ARTIST
Over a career spanning five decades, Rothko developed his signature style: large, abstract color fields with luminous rectangular forms that balance depth, shape and hue through the delicate layering of many thin washes of paint.
While Rothko’s paintings show close attention to formal elements, he was concerned with the way the paintings could represent philosophical questions.
In his words, he was “interested only in expressing basic human emotions — tragedy, ecstasy, doom.”
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He went completely abstract in 1947

Published on Jul 2, 2015

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This is a case for Mark Rothko ------------------- about 4 minutes if you need  short versionRectangles after rectangles after rectangles. Rothko was a truly prolific artist who found his groove painting hazy swatches of color and stuck with it until the very end. Maybe you've wondered what the point of it all is, or why he did seemingly the same thing over and over again. Here's your answer.
Stay tuned for cases for other artists, living and dead!

"Born Marcus Rothkowitz in Dvinsk, Russia, on September 25, 1903, Rothko emigrated to Portland, Oregon, with his family at age 10.
He was accepted to Yale on a full scholarship but attended for only two years before moving to New York and enrolling in the Arts Students League.
In 1929, Rothko became a teacher at the Center Academy of the Brooklyn Jewish Center, a post he held for over 20 years.

In the 1930s, he was employed by the Works Progress Administration, where he created haunting scenes of New York subway riders.

As he continued to experiment with his artistic voice, his work became heavily reliant on symbolism and mythological imagery, but by the end of the 40s Rothko developed his signature color field style.

American Masters — Rothko:
Pictures Must Be Miraculous follows his rise in the artworld alongside Willem de Kooning, Helen Frankenthaler, Jackson Pollock, Joan Mitchell and others as Abstract Expressionism took the art world by storm.
The documentary highlights one of Rothko’s most famous commissions, a series of murals for upscale restaurant The Four Seasons in the Seagram Building in New York City in the late 1950s.
Rothko completed the notably dark canvasses, but after dining at the restaurant rescinded the paintings because he found the location too commercial. . .
[What he said about that: " a place where the richest bastards in New York hang out"]
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/mark-rothko-about/11966/
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"Despite the failure of that commission, in 1964 Rothko accepted a commission from the de Menil family to create artwork for a new sanctuary, a project that became the Rothko Chapel in Houston, Texas. After the paintings were completed, Rothko took his own life on February 25, 1970. Though he did not live to see the completion of the Rothko Chapel with his paintings installed, the chapel is now celebrated as one of America’s sacred centers and listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

PBS Book

A Short Swift Time-Line > Cities in The World

 

A Win For The Cyber Warfare War-Fighter: Microsoft Snags A Big $10B Pentagon Contract for JEDI



JEDI - Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure. As conceived, JEDI is meant to unite the entire U.S. military — virtually every fighter on the ground, every ship at sea, and every jet in the air within a single data framework.
AN ENTERPRISE CLOUD SOLUTION, but just hold on to your laser sabers, guys > The JEDI contract process continues to be under investigation by the DoD inspector general and stuck in federal court.
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Every media outlet in The Universe has their stories

This one is taken from Federal Times 
IT and Cloud Report

Amazon or Microsoft? DoD picks a winner for its controversial JEDI contract

By: Andrew Eversden

"Microsoft won the contract for the Department of Defense’s enterprise cloud, potentially worth $10 billion over 10 years, the Pentagon announced Oct. 25.The tech giant won the award over Amazon Web Services, just three days after Secretary of Defense Mark Esper recused himself from the award after months of review because his son worked for IBM. Amazon was widely considered by industry to be the front runner for the award. . .

This award is an important step in execution of the Digital Modernization Strategy

The DoD cloud strategy called for a multi-cloud, multi-vendor strategy, but industry has had concerns that the award will lead to vendor lock-in. . . "

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In a statement, Amazon officials expressed surprise at the announcement.
Amazon Web Services AWS is currently the only cloud provider for the U.S. intelligence community, having hosted secret and top-secret classified data for nearly six years.
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Microsoft Wins Massive JEDI Cloud Contract
By Patrick Tucker       Defense One |              

"The outcome comes as a surprise to many observers who described Amazon as the almost-certain winner of the Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure, or JEDI, program. Amazon was considered by many to be the only qualified bidder because it had the largest enterprise cloud infrastructure and already had reached the necessary highest security level, known as Impact Level 6. 

Controversy has dogged the program from the beginning. Several competitors, led by Oracle, protested the Pentagon’s original requirements for the program, arguing that the rules favored Amazon over other, smaller providers.
They even took their concerns directly to President Donald Trump, who has a well-known dislike for Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos. At one point, the president told then-Defense Secretary James Mattis to “screw” Amazon, according to a new book by a member of Mattis’s staff.

 In July, the president began to publicly question the competition; shortly thereafter, new Defense Secretary Mark Esper halted the program and launched a review. Just days ago, Esper unexpectedly announced he was recusing himself from the award decision because his son worked for IBM, a bidder that was eliminated in an early stage of the competition.
In a statement, Amazon officials expressed surprise at the announcement. AWS is currently the only cloud provider for the U.S. intelligence community, having hosted secret and top-secret classified data for nearly six years.

> Microsoft’s advantage may have come from a deeper relationship with the Pentagon. Their business with the department has been picking up.
> In November, the U.S. Army chose the Microsoft HoloLens for its next-generation heads down data display for distributed infantry.
> Microsoft is also considered the certain winner in the Defense Department’s other cloud contract.
> And its Office 365 Suite is the centerpiece for both bidding companies in the Pentagon’s multibillion Defense Enterprise Office Solutions contract, which aims to provide a single suite of business cloud solutions to all defense agencies.
Officials have argued that JEDI would be a vast improvement over the military’s current capability, a series of clouds and networks kludged together, a situation that contributes to massive data latency that is hindering operations. "
 

Don't Data Yourself?

It's way too early to do that

Published on Oct 25, 2019

Views: 1,315+

Oct.25 -- The story of the year has been the bond market’s proactiveness in pricing in potentially dire economic outcomes. In Treasuries, the recent price action has been more a story of the bond market right-sizing economic expectations. That is, not any negative indicator is perceived as a portent of imminent doom that fosters a flight to safety and lurch downwards in yields – whether that be instances of soft U.S. economic data or earnings reports.
Bloomberg's Jonathan Ferro sat down with Kathy Jones of Charles Schwab, Colin Robertson of Northern Trust and BlackRock's Jim Keenan to discuss the markets developing reaction function.

Demonstrating Quantum Supremacy

It's exponential and all that infrastructure 'stuff'' . . . all kind of amazing for sure! PARALLEL PROCESSING AND ALL THAT YOUNG TALENT

Published on Oct 23, 2019

Views: 3.27M++

We’re marking a major milestone in quantum computing research that opens up new possibilities for this technology. Learn how the Google AI Quantum team demonstrated how a quantum computer can perform a task no classical computer can in an experiment called "quantum supremacy."