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Thanks to the Internet of Things
February 7, 2019 4:51 pm HershbloggerLeave a comment
Your trash disposal habits might now require a small EMP generator before you can safely throw away a lightbulb.
Recycling is definitely contraindicated without that EMP. Or a 2 pound sledge (wear eye-protection).
The people scanning the conveyor belt to sort actual trash out of the recycling stream could quickly "monetize" burned out lightbulbs without even the bother of diving into a dumpster, and without any computer skills whatever.
Discarded smart lightbulbs reveal your wifi passwords, stored in the clear
I am quite sure this does not apply only to IoT lightbulbs.
The future is stupid, but not stupider than LIFX management. They sell you electronic security breachers so you can implant them yourself. Which would make you the stupidest.
The engineers at LIFX did not encrypt the RSA key on their "smart" lightbulbs, so an enterprising garbage collector who'd 'learned to code' could have root access to your home WiFi because you threw one away.
It isn't believable that the engineers at LIFX failed to understand this problem.
Therefore, it wasn't the engineers who decided to ship these Trojan Horses.
Therefore, protestation from LIFX that they've cleaned up their act is incredible.
That is, it is as credible as Google and Facebook when they claim they protect your privacy – even though selling it is how they prosper.
This is not to say LIFX planned to harvest your WiFi passwords. It is to say they just didn't give a shit.
I can't wait until lightbulbs speak like HAL… I wonder if you can get HAL's voice on Alexa or Google Home?
"Light?… Off."
"Sorry, I can't do that _your name here_."
Sadly, most Millennials wouldn't get the reference, not having seen 2001: A Space Odyessy. I'm sure they are installing these bulbs in their parent's basements.
Posted in internetTagged Facebook, Google, Internet of Things, privacy, security, spy
In China the government tracks your every move
January 21, 2019 8:15 pm January 21, 2019 4:20 pm HershbloggerLeave a comment
Information Warfare: 1984 Becomes Real In 2024
In the United States, we just let Google and Facebook track us. With Twitter brownshirts and the Maim Scream Media™ as the enforcers.
On the whole, the Chicoms are likely fairer, and they're certainly more circumspect.
See Mark Steyn: The Drumbeat of the Mob
Neo: The Covington chronicles: on hating the face of a teenage boy
I don't much like Donald Trump, but, sorry, he's not the problem.
Talk about toxic personalities and hate speech… you collectivists seriously need a privilege check.
Posted in culture, internet, MediaTagged collectivism, Facebook, Google, Maim Scream Media™, Twitter
Escaping the social media garrote
October 31, 2018 6:00 am February 15, 2019 2:17 pm Hershblogger2 Comments
If you think Big Social Media is strangling free speech, or you're just fed up with being the product, or you are realizing what privacy you're giving up by using them, or you're just tired of them lying about all of that; you might find this article of interest.
Ready to Get Off Facebook? Reason Reviews 5 Alternative Social Networks.
Posted in free speech, internet, MediaTagged Facebook, free speech
Crimestop
April 17, 2018 3:34 pm February 15, 2019 2:13 pm HershbloggerLeave a comment
Is free speech under assault on college campuses? Well, some people, including President Trump, think not.
Most of those skeptics promote a distinction between free speech and "hate speech," a term Mr. Zuckerberg has yet to define for us; but he's working on an AI to apply the definition he comes up with: Once all those messy linguistic, contextual, semantic issues humans can't even deal with are programmed.
That is, he dreams of automating enforcement of Silicon Valley values conforming to regulation he's requested from our technology-naive and Constitutionally slipshod Congressional placeholders. They'll be looking to erect an emanating penumbra since: No, there's no "hate speech" exception to the First Amendment. They have to help Mr. Zuckerberg add one.
We can look to George Orwell for insight into how that public/pirate partnership is likely to work out.
"The mind should develop a blind spot whenever a dangerous thought presented itself. The process should be automatic, instinctive. Crimestop, they called it in Newspeak."
-George Orwell, 1984
A model is already apparent. Google fired James Damore for failure to crimestop. On campus, they're calling it "self-censorship."
The Skeptics Are Wrong Part 2: Speech Culture on Campus is Changing
Very Liberal students care far less about giving offense than about being judged. That is, they worry more about tribal membership in-good-standing and find it implausible their opinions would offend anyone. A collectivist approach.
Conservative students are much more concerned about campus thought police than Liberal students. I would have liked to see them less concerned about giving offense to peers as an indication of individualism, but they know they are surrounded by a great number of people who easily take offense. And they are probably just more polite.
I'm sure you can infer other interesting theories yourself, but the result is not good for any of these students: The Stifling Uniformity of Literary Theory
One wonders whether the students that the academy is producing today could if asked to, provide the arguments of their ideological or political counterparts, without resort to crude caricature or ad hominem…What might a course look like if a race theorist such as Derrick Bell was studied alongside someone like Thomas Sowell? For about thirty years both Bell and Sowell were consistently among the top five most cited black scholars in American Academia according to The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education.12 However, as with so many prominent intellectuals, while Sowell is revered among classical liberals, libertarians and conservatives, he is practically unheard of on the left, despite his pioneering work on the economics of race and ethnicity.13 To borrow Jonathan Haidt's phrase, liberal intellectuals are in danger of being 'blind' not only to the other side's moral taste buds, but also to their most important thinkers.14
Here's another post I think helps explain why Liberals don't like free discussion of ideas. They mean well, but can't be bothered to examine consequences in their quest to perfect the rest of us.
Posted in free speechTagged corporatism, Facebook, free speech, SJWs
Dumb f**ks
April 11, 2018 12:26 pm HershbloggerLeave a comment
Mark Steyn had exactly the same reaction I did. I watched some bits of Zuck's testimony on Fox News because I wanted to see the bland boy-face of evil and I wasn't disappointed. He performed magnificently enough that my wife became pissed off at me for yelling at the TV. The snippet Steyn notes provoked my second loudest yell and an admonition to stop ranting.
On Fox, this bit came before the weaseling he did under examination from Ted Cruz, when I erupted with my loudest commentary. My wife changed the channel at that point.
Zuckerberg's intentions are what he thinks makes him a misunderstood white hat. In his ignorant isolation he truly thinks his intentions are good: That is what makes him evil.
When he speaks about "protecting the "community"" he sneeringly arrogates moral superiority, and is too ignorant to even recognize it. When he speaks about "protecting the electoral process" he is saying "War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength." He had no concern about "protecting" the 2012 election, when his company actively aided Obama. So be it, as long we as define that as campaign "contribution in kind," but stop with the maternalistic condescension.
And give up the moral preening that your mission is defining "hate speech."
One senator who did understand the dangers ahead was Nebraska's Ben Sasse. Earlier in the hearing, Zuckerberg had suggested that Facebook will eventually develop algorithms that will sniff out hate speech and be able to address it immediately. "Hate speech — I am optimistic that, over a five to ten-year period, we will have A.I. tools that can get into some of the nuances — the linguistic nuances of different types of content to be more accurate in flagging things for our systems."
When Sasse's turn to question Zuckerberg arrived, he asked a simple question: "Can you define hate speech?"
Zuckerberg said it would be hard to pin down a specific definition, and mentioned speech "calling for violence" as something Facebook does not tolerate.
Does anyone at Facebook understand the ramifications of a vague definition of hate speech? Does Zuckerberg think that the sometimes-violent opposition to any viewpoint that is even remotely conservative on college campuses happened in a vacuum?
He'll be using Fahrenheit 451 as the instruction manual. And on that, Facebook stock rises. We are dumb f**ks.
Posted in UncategorizedTagged Facebook
He's right about one thing
April 5, 2018 1:03 pm HershbloggerLeave a comment
Facebook's Zuckerberg faces reporters' questions
"Facebook (NASDAQ:FB) has two basic questions to address in the Cambridge Analytica data leak scandal, CEO Mark Zuckerberg says on a conference call with media: Can it protect users, and can it make sure it's not used to undermine democracy."
The answer to those questions is no, and they aren't the basic questions, even about the Cambridge Analytics problem he's trying to pretend is the real issue. Cambridge Analytics is just one example in a long list of Facebook exploitations of its users. A more salient question is, "Can a business whose very basis is slight-of-hand betrayal of trust be trusted?" The answer to that question is also no.
The second question is simply absurd. First, speech intended to undermine democracy is a right those living in our Republic already possess. Second, Facebook, by its actions to help elect Barack Obama, invented the practice Zuckerberg decries. Cambridge Analytics didn't even exist when Facebook demonstrated the concept.
"Zuckerberg also says that most users should assume that their publicly available information has been scraped; he's referring here to those who enabled the ability for friends to search for them by phone number or email address.
"We've seen some scraping," he says. "I would assume if you had that setting turned on that someone at some point has access to your public information in some way.""
He means, of course, "accessed by scrapers not employed by Facebook." Facebook scraping also includes information not intended to be public, such as scanning all your Facebook Messenger content. And keeping all the videos you thought you had deleted. What does this tell us? That Facebook wasn't concerned about protecting their most precious resources – your trust and your personal information – despite having been called out on it multiple times. Incompetence by design?
Well, "you" had the setting allowing scraping turned on: It's your fault. Nothing to do with Facebook's decisions about default settings buried under three menu layers. And if you didn't "assume that [your] publicly available information" was going to be scraped then Zuckerberg's right – it is your fault, because as he's said, you're a "dumb f**k."
But that trick never works!
March 31, 2018 12:59 pm HershbloggerLeave a comment
This time for sure!
-Bullwinkle J. Moose.
Facebook Quietly Begins Fact-Checking Political Photos and Videos
Facebook announced today that the company began fact-checking political photos and videos on Wednesday in an attempt to root out fake news. The company announced in a blog post that the changes come as a result of Facebook's plan to review "ongoing election efforts."
"By now, everyone knows the story: during the 2016 US election, foreign actors tried to undermine the integrity of the electoral process," Guy Rosen, vice president of product management at Facebook, wrote. "Their attack included taking advantage of open online platforms — such as Facebook — to divide Americans, and to spread fear, uncertainty and doubt." Rosen said although the clock cannot be turned back, "we are all responsible for making sure the same kind of attack [on] our democracy does not happen again." He said Facebook is taking its role in the effort "very, very seriously."
Mr. Rosen conveniently neglects to mention Facebook's direct assistance to the Obama campaign in 2012, and ignores Facebook's unethical psychological experimentation on its users. So, by "same kind of attack" he apparently excludes domestic actors, like Facebook and the Obama campaign, trying "to undermine the integrity of the electoral process," when they do the same thing of which those pesky Russians are accused. He's not alone among Facebook luminaries in his facile ethos.
Alex Stamos (Facebook chief security officer) had this to say:
Stamos singled out "organized, professional groups" whose motivation is money. "These cover the spectrum from private but ideologically motivated groups to full-time employees of state intelligence services," he said. "Their targets might be foreign or domestic, and while much of the public discussion has been about countries trying to influence the debate abroad, we also must be on guard for domestic manipulation using some of the same techniques."
Stamos apparently is as devoid of self reflection as he is deficient in sense of irony.
What is Facebook but an ""organized, professional group" whose motivation is money"; an "ideologically motivated", "domestic manipulation [clique] using some of the same techniques"? Explicitly including what Mr. Rosen called spreading "fear, uncertainty and doubt", which they euphemized as "mood manipulation" when they did it.
Further reading, or piling on:
Facebook — even as it apologizes for scandal — funds campaign to block a California data-privacy measure
Facebook scraped call, text message data for years from Android phones
Promises, promises: Facebook's history with privacy
Former Facebook Workers: We Routinely Suppressed Conservative News
Google's new motto…
March 22, 2018 1:03 pm HershbloggerLeave a comment
…Don't be Facebook.
At Google, of course, that would not mean "respect user's privacy." It would mean "don't get caught."
I see Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is reacting to his company's poor user-data stewardship by inviting regulation. Not regulation of his company; he's asking for political advertising to be regulated.
"Actually, I'm not sure we shouldn't be regulated," Zuckerberg said in an interview with CNN that represented some of his first public remarks since the Cambridge Analytica controversy plunged his company into crisis and led to calls for his testimony before Congress.
"I actually think the question is more 'What is the right regulation?' rather than 'Yes or no, should it be regulated?'" Zuckerberg told CNN.
The Facebook CEO said that "he would love to see" new transparency regulations for political advertisements. Facebook has been criticized for a lack of transparency.
OK, Mr. Zuckerberg, I'll take a shot at "What is the right regulation?"
First, it's not about political advertising. You're looking to make government regulation a CYA for Facebook: "Look, we followed the regulations!" You're asking to "consult" with government on how political advertising should be constrained. Foxes. Henhouse. Plus a helping of partisanship and financial self-interest.
Advertising isn't the problem. The problem is your business model and its intentional lack of honesty.
The regulation of Facebook, Google, Amazon, Twitter, Apple, etc. should start from the premise that users own their identity data, including when it's aggregated. This enables micro-payments to those whose data is aggregated, each time it is accessed or updated. Basically, an identity copyright law. You're using my identity, you have to pay me.
Defining ownership of the data as the individual's would require absolute positive opt-in – data can't be sold without payment and unless specific permission is given. Big Data like their interminable click-through contracts; they love changing the terms of service at will; they love hiding the opt-out buttons. We need these contracts re-written. One thing would happen for sure; the mandatory opt-in buttons would be prominent and they would list the payment to be gained.
Granting ownership of users' data to users also encourages companies who gather and store it to be careful with it as a fiduciary duty. CEO Zuckerberg appears to agree that that is a good idea.
On Wednesday afternoon, Zuckerberg published a post promising to audit and restrict developer access to user data, "We have a responsibility to protect your data, and if we can't then we don't deserve to serve you."
He's right, Facebook doesn't deserve to serve you for exactly the reason he gave. The word "serve" in that sentence can be interpreted in two very different ways. Zuckerberg is only too happy to "serve" you to advertisers. This attitude is long standing, as noted by the New Yorker in 2010
In [an] exchange leaked to Silicon Alley Insider, Zuckerberg explained to a friend that his control of Facebook gave him access to any information he wanted on any Harvard student:
Zuck: yea so if you ever need info about anyone at harvard
Zuck: just ask
Zuck: i have over 4000 emails, pictures, addresses, sns
Friend: what!? how'd you manage that one?
Zuck: people just submitted it
Zuck: i don't know why
Zuck: they "trust me"
Zuck: dumb f*cks
While Zuckerberg claims he's matured since that exchange, "if you ever need any information" nonetheless remains the raison d'être of Facebook. Zuckerberg went on to say, "I've been working to understand exactly what happened and how to make sure this doesn't happen again." Well, since privacy violations and sleazy ethical conduct just keep happening, he must be a slow learner.
In 2006 Facebook's introduction of "News Feed" made information public that users had intended to keep private. In 2009, Facebook made posts public by default, when they had been private, again by simply changing its ToS. That attracted the attention of the U.S. Federal Trade Commission. In 2011, Facebook was caught tracking you with its cookies even after you had logged out. Zuckerberg is worried about regulating advertising, but Facebook had no problem in 2013 with the posting of beheading videos. In 2014, the company was forced to acknowledge that it had conducted a psychology experiment intended to manipulate users' emotions.
The current angst over Cambridge Analytics should be directed at Facebook business practices. The same thing happened in 2012 with the Obama campaign – except with Facebook's active participation. At the time this was considered a clever advertising use of social media by the Democrats.
So, suddenly, 6 years later, Zuckerberg wants political advertising regulated? You know he made the offer because his lobbyists would write the legislation. It'll turn into a barrier to competition while likely eroding freedom of speech.
Facebook has repeatedly violated agreements with users, changed ToS without warning, hidden privacy controls deep within users' profiles, made and allowed unethical use of its data, and directly participated in targeting election advertising. Maybe they'd be more careful, ethical and transparent if you owned the data.
A final word from Zuckerberg:
The real question for me is, do people have the tools that they need in order to make those decisions well? And I think that it's actually really important that Facebook continually makes it easier and easier to make those decisions… If people feel like they don't have control over how they're sharing things, then we're failing them.
Only one way to fix that. Give them control.
Further reading on owning your own identity:
Who owns your identity?
Google's Alphabet, "A" is for amoral
Posted in UncategorizedTagged Facebook, security
They see you when you're sleeping, They know when you're awake
December 12, 2017 12:56 pm October 30, 2018 3:26 pm HershbloggerLeave a comment
Abusive Behavior on Twitter will enable the company to remove your verified status according to the new Guidelines
"Included in the new verification guidelines was this: "Twitter maintains the right to remove verification at any time externally any notice. Reasons for removal may speculate behaviors on and off Twitter that include…"
"May speculate…"??
This means "may guess at," based on an algorithm. Twitter has a right to do this, but does that make it a company you want using you as its product?
Whether you imagine Barack Obama or Donald Trump as evil incarnate, can you imagine what the Feds might do with such a list? Add you to NICS as "prohibited"? Trigger an IRS audit? Identify who uses the term "undocumented migrants?" Well, that last wouldn't be on Twitter's list, of course.
Continuing (emphasis mine):
That was actions both on and off Twitter.
With a single verdict, Twitter has saddled itself with an incredible responsibility. It not only plans to police its users while they're using the aid. Now it has to police them when they're not on Twitter, too.
That's a remarkably tall order for any company. It's unclear how Twitter will do this, or how effective it will be in searching for violators."
Does it include attending a rally in real space? Facial recognition software makes that quite conceivable.
More from a different section of Twitter policies, where they explicitly invoke guilt by association, The Twitter Rules;
You also may not affiliate with organizations that — whether by their own statements or activity both on and off the platform — use or promote violence against civilians to further their causes.
See, this is why defining speech they dislike as literal violence is so important to the SJWs. Note that it appears to be OK to promote violence against the military or police.
As to the author's question in that first link about how Twitter will accomplish this, here's how Facebook does it, Data Policy:
"We collect information when you visit or use third-party websites and apps that use our Services (like when they offer our Like button or Facebook Log In or use our measurement and advertising services). This includes information about the websites and apps you visit, your use of our Services on those websites and apps, as well as information the developer or publisher of the app or website provides to you or us."
Every time you click on one of those ubiquitous buttons,
…you give the amoral profiteers more psychological leverage.
It isn't hard to imagine a version of Google Glass that tracks eye movement, pupillary diameter, and even heart rate from the blood vessels in your eye – then they'll be guessing your thoughts.
Given Facebook's unethical experiments in psychological manipulation, and the drive to convince us that speech is literally violence, tell me more about what these Progressive funders see in "net neutrality?"
And then check out gab.ai.
You keep using that phrase. I don't think it means what you want us to believe it means.
December 11, 2017 5:21 pm HershbloggerLeave a comment
From the New York Times, a load of illogical, self-serving tripe:
What Facebook Taught Me About Net Neutrality
A few examples where Andrew McCollum destroys his own argument:
"Some colleges didn't like Facebook, and because they functioned as their students' internet providers, they would simply block the site.
While those blocks were always rolled back — often after sustained student outcry — they acutely demonstrated the power of providers to limit the freedom and openness of the internet at whim."
"Always rolled back." So, you could say it's acutely demonstrated that we don't need government regulation to maintain free access, or to decide what innovation is permitted. And that consumers have power.
"The internet has spurred innovation precisely because it has been an open, level playing field, where barriers to offering new products and services have continually come down over time."
Yes, precisely as it was for 20 years BEFORE Obama's imposition of "net neutrality" in 2015. Crediting Obama's regulation with the innovation which preceded it is breathtakingly dishonest. Freedom is slavery.
"If an internet provider slows or blocks a site that you want to look at, it is denying you the right to freely choose the content that's important to you."
Exactly what Facebook, Google, Youtube and Twitter do right now, every f*&king minute, by treating users like rats in a Skinner box; banishing speakers whose politics they disagree with; "demonetizing" sites for the same reason; and skewing search results their Progressive principals' principles don't match. For profit. In secret.
"But we shouldn't stop fighting to make our voices heard. If Mr. Pai's proposal is adopted, we must take the fight to Congress and the courts until we regain a neutral internet that ensures consumer choice without constraint and innovation without barriers."
I'm on board with that: As soon as Twitter is banned from banning people; when Google is required to make algorithms that don't censor – and that don't favor their own products; when Facebook is made into a public utility; when they all are required to pay YOU for using you as a product and conspiring to track your every interaction. I.e., when they are forced to provide the unfettered access they purport to champion.
Who is it that secretly conducted several unethical experiments in psychological manipulation? Facebook.
Who is it that showed the Russians a way to manipulate voters? Facebook.
Who is it that's been massively fined for skewing search results? Google.
Who is it that bans normal speech? Twitter.
Who is it that demonetizes educational video channels? Youtube.
Who spies on you and sells your data? All of them.
And most of it is done in secret. You can't even have a "sustained outcry" if you don't know they've done it. ISPs can't get away with that.
Here's what net neutrality is actually about: Getting the government to point guns at what Schmidt and Zuckerberg find inconvenient to their amoral, exploitive business model.
Posted in UncategorizedTagged Facebook, Google


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The first night of Robyn's tour turned a Hollywood audience (including Adele!) into a room full of friends
Kevin EG Perry Feb 25, 2019 2:51 pm GMT
Credit: Marv Watson/Red Bull Content
Red Bull Music Festival, Hollywood Palladium, Los Angeles, February 22, 2019
There's a moment in the Robyn show. You know, one of those you giddily recount and discuss and dissect later in the night, looking at each other with smiling eyes; the sort you just have to post to Instagram even though your own voice is obnoxiously loud on the audio. The sort that reminds you why we bother with all this in the first place.
It comes, perhaps predictably, during 'Dancing On My Own', a song which could make as good a case as any for being the greatest pop single released in any of our lifetimes. Specifically, it comes a minute in, just after Robyn sings: "But I just gotta see it for myself…" and then the music cuts out and she stops singing, but none of us has realised yet so we're all still singing the chorus at the top of our lungs, a chorus about being alone, and it's just us singing now, the crowd, but somehow it sounds skin-tingling because we're a choir, although we didn't mean to be, and we're not sure how long we should keep going for, because part of us thinks the music will cut back in after a line or two, but it doesn't, so we sing the whole chorus, and Robyn swoons onstage, and we're not alone, we're all together, all of us, joined in one voice in that perfect song in this perfect moment.
So, there's that.
The rest of the show was also very good. This was only the first night (outside Scandinavia) of a huge tour that will take Robyn around America and then back to Europe in April – including two nights in London at Alexandra Palace on the 12th and 13th – and yet it already feels like dying and going to pop heaven.
That celestial impression is reinforced during opener 'Send to Robin Immediately' by the opague white gauze draped all over the stage, the all-white outfits worn by her band, and the copious use of the smoke machine. There's also a big sculpture of three hands thrown back as if dancing in the middle of the stage, which I don't pretend to understand at all. As the night goes on the lighting – and a costume change into black leather from Robyn – transitions the ambience of the room from heavenly cloud to the dancefloor of the world's greatest underground gay club at three in the morning on a Bank Holiday weekend. Which, granted, yes, also sounds like heaven. This is most apparent during heart-rushing highlights 'Love Is Free' – Robyn's housey collaboration with La Bagatelle Magique – and 'Don't Fucking Tell Me What to Do'.
After the aforementioned 'Dancing On My Own' moment Robyn hits us with 'Missing U' and 'Call Your Girlfriend', which let's be honest is just an outrageously good run of songs. There's no way her encore can top that, so instead she takes the adrenaline down a notch with 'Human Being' – accompanied by a beautiful routine with her solitary backing dancer – 'With Every Heartbeat' and closer 'Who Do You Love?' That final song was written after Robyn and her frequent collaborator Kindess enjoyed a spontaneous night out in Stockholm with a Swedish metalhead, and were inspired to write a song about the power of community and the things that bind us all together as a society. It's a fitting way to end a night that proved one of those things is singing along to Robyn at the top of your heart.
Robyn played:
1. Send to Robin Immediately
3. Indestructible
4. Hang With Me
5. Beach2k20
6. Ever Again
7. Be Mine!
8. Because It's In The Music
9. Between the Lines
10. Love Is Free
11. Don't Fucking Tell Me What to Do
12. Dancing on My Own
13. Missing U
14. Call Your Girlfriend
15. Human Being
16. With Every Heartbeat
17. Who Do You Love?
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Canadian building permits surged in May, far exceeding expectations, because of new condominium and school projects. Residential construction plans gained for the third straight month.
The total value of permits issued by municipalities jumped 15 percent to C$5.02 billion ($4.34 billion), Statistics Canada said today in Ottawa. Economists surveyed by Bloomberg forecast a gain of 0.8 percent, the median of 13 estimates. The agency revised April's fall to 4.5 percent from the 5.4 percent originally reported.
The value of permits rose to the highest since October, a sign that the recession that began last year may be waning after the central bank cut its benchmark lending rate to a record 0.25 percent to spur growth.
"Clearly, builders were not scared off by the weak macro economic backdrop," said Charmaine Buskas, an economist with TD Securities in Toronto, in a note to clients. She added that government spending appears to be encouraging construction.
Read Alexandre Deslongchamps's full article "Canada Building Permits Surge in May on Condominiums" in Bloomberg (July 7, 2009).


Meshell Ndegeocello Announces New Album, "Comet, Come To Me"
Queen of neo-soul, Meshell Ndegeocello is releasing a new album this June, 'Comet, Come To Me'. Watch above as she speaks candidly about the new album and her creative process. "It's not a concept album but a body of work inspired by creative impulse in the now and randomness." Meshell's last album was her Nina Simone dedication, Pour une Âme Souveraine.


MIDLAND, Mich., and WILMINGTON, Del., March 28, 2019 – DowDuPont™ (NYSE:DWDP) today provided an update to its previously stated modeling guidance for the first quarter of 2019, as a result of near-term trends and discrete headwinds in some of its key value chains in the Agriculture and Materials Science divisions.
· Agriculture: Flooding during the month of March in the Midwestern region of the U.S. has culminated in a federal disaster declaration for the region. Transportation disruptions throughout the region and significant road closures have halted farming operations, limited the ability to deliver products to customers, and delayed pre-season applications. As a result, division net sales for the first quarter of 2019 are expected to be down 4 - 6 percent and operating EBITDA is expected to be down $125 - $150 million, as compared to the same quarter last year. An assessment of the full year impacts, accounting for delays in first quarter customer deliveries along with expected recoveries, will be provided with the upcoming first quarter earnings release.
· Materials Science: Net sales are expected to be down low-teens percent (versus previous guidance of down high-single digits percent) and operating EBITDA is expected to be down mid- 20s percent (versus previous guidance of down low-20s percent). The midpoint of the Division's updated guidance results in approximately $100 million lower operating EBITDA versus previous guidance, driven primarily by greater-than-expected margin compression globally in Packaging & Specialty Plastics.
· Specialty Products: Net sales and operating EBITDA are expected to be in line with previous guidance.


This one we call the Angel candle. A beautiful design that makes you smile. Angels floating on clouds holding up stars and the moon. Perfect for Christmas or baptism candles.
The depth of detail is wonderful, not just on the surface, this design is 3 mm deep.


The root grammatical relation points to the root of the sentence. A fake node ROOT is used as the governor. The ROOT node is indexed with 0, since the indexing of real words in the sentence starts at 1. This relation is universal.
There should be just one node with the root dependency relation in every tree. If the main predicate is not present (due to ellipsis) and there are multiple orphaned dependents, the leftmost dependent should be promoted to the head (root) position and the other orphans should be attached to it.
ROOT PT no governo .


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Ни́на Ильи́нична Нисс-Го́льдман (, Ростов-на-Дону — 30 января 1990, Москва) — советский  и , , один из членов-учредителей общества художников «4 искусства» (1924—1931, Москва), член Общества русских скульпторов (ОРС) (1925—1932, Москва), член МОССХа с момента его основания (1932), старейший член Союза художников СССР.

Биография

Нина Ильинична Нисс-Гольдман родилась 19 сентября 1892 года в Ростове-на-Дону в семье врача Ильи Гилелевича Рындзюна.

С 14 лет начала обучение в Киевской скульптурной школе, но уже в возрасте 16 лет в 1909 году уезжает в Париж и поступает в знаменитую «Академи Рюсс». Там она знакомится с Александром Архипенко, Оскаром Мещаниновым, Амедео Модильяни, Ханой Орловой, Хаимом Сутиным, Осипом Цадкиным, Иосифом Чайковым и другими. С Модильяни, по её словам, они частенько ходили в соседнее кафе есть луковый суп. Испытала влияние О. Родена и А. Майоля. Экспонент выставок «Мира искусства» (1915—1917).

С 1920 года Нисс-Гольдман преподает во ВХУТЕМАСе (В 1926 году реорганизован во ВХУТЕИН), где получает звание Профессора.
В 1926 году Нина Ильинична по рекомендации Владимира Фаворского уезжает в 2-х летнюю командировку в Италию.

В Московских, Всесоюзных и зарубежных выставках Нисс-Гольдман начинает участвовать с 1915 года. Её работы находятся во многочисленных музеях страны, в том числе в собрании русского авангарда 1920-х годов в Русском музее, Третьяковской галерее. Бюст поэта Валерия Брюсова (1924), который ей позировал незадолго до своей смерти, до сих пор экспонируется на выставках, посвященных русскому искусству XX века.

Умерла в Москве, похоронена на Преображенском кладбище.

Избранные работы

Нисс-Гольдман создала множество портретов своих современников. Ей, в частности, позировали
 Александр Белобородов
 Валерий Брюсов
 Дуся Виноградова
 Джованни Джерманетто
 Константин Паустовский
 Александр Солженицин
В музеях также находятся портреты
 Якова Свердлова
 Николая Гастелло
 Антуана де Сент-Экзюпери
 Андрея Платонова

В Москве установлено около десятка её памятных скульптур и мемориальных досок: Льву Толстому, Рахманинову, Боткину, Остужеву, Телешову.

Цитаты
 Александра Шатских:

…скульптор Нина Нисс-Гольдман, жившая в Париже в 1910—1915 гг. и общавшаяся с Эли Надельманом, Ханой Орловой, в своих пластических экспериментах была близка Александру Архипенко и Жаку Липшицу. Её статуи и изваяния … отличались пластической мощью, не дававшей никаких оснований дискриминировать их как «женские» работы.

Из воспоминаний современников

 А.Бурганов: «… К ней притягивает то, что она, наверное, единственный живой мост между нами и великими художниками прошлого. Когда вы наклоняетесь, чтобы поздороваться с Ниной Ильиничной, то чуть не сталкиваетесь лбом с великим Модильяни, который тоже именно в этот момент нагнулся, чтобы поцеловать свою подружку. Трудно поверить, что Модильяни, Бурдель, Майоль, Блок, Брюсов были живыми людьми. Для всех нас это картины, скульптуры, книги. Нина Ильинична просто и естественно передает нам теплоту рукопожатия своих великих современников в наш сегодняшний день. Это прикосновение есть чудо. Оно дает нам живое ощущение истории. Мы начинаем верить в самих себя».
 Т.Хвостенко: «… Скончавшаяся в 1990 г в возрасте 98 лет Нина Ильинична Нисс-Гольдман поражала воображение постоянно окружавшей её молодежи рассказами о необычайных подробностях своей скульптурной карьеры. Она училась в 1908 г в Париже в знаменитой академии РЮСС среди богемной русской интеллигенции, лично знала Бурделя и Боннара, была приятельницей Модильяни, а также прославленных позднее Садкина, Архипенко и других. Обожала русскую поэзию и была собеседницей Клюева, Хлебникова, Бальмонта, Есенина, Цветаевой, разумеется, Ахматовой, а также и подруги Блока — Надежды Павлович, и успела лично слышать Блока, Вячеслава Иванова, Маяковского, Мандельштама. Создала бесчисленное количество портретов различных своих современников и гордилась, что Москву украшает около десятка её памятных скульптур и мемориальных досок: Льву Толстому, Рахманинову, Боткину, Остужеву, Телешову и другим».
 А.Поверин: «… Этот рассказ я услышал от Нины Ильиничны Нисс-Гольдман — выдающегося советского скульптора, и, наверное, поэтому он показался мне словно высеченным из камня. Мастерская Нины Ильиничны находилась на Верхней Масловке. Тогда там жили и работа-ли многие известные советские скульпторы. Вообще люди, с которыми мне посчастливилось в то время общаться, были удивительные. Одна Нина Ильинична чего стоила. Она училась в Париже. Общалась с Бурделем, Деспио и Пикассо. Дружила с Модильяни и Цадкиным. В России сорок с лишним лет преподавала во ВХУТЕМАСе и ВХУТЕИНе. Очень многие выдающиеся советские скульпторы прошли через её руки. Она лепила с натуры Клюева, Брюсова и Платонова. Дружила с Маяковским, Мухиной и Бруни и т. д., и т. д»
 Валентина Мордерер: «…Совсем другой тип богемной интеллигентности являла часто приходившая в этот дом по вечерам скульптор Нина Ильинична Нисс-Гольдман. Ходить ей было тяжко из-за возраста и болезней, но жила она на Мясницкой совсем неподалеку и была слишком охоча до новых книг и впечатлений. Немногословная, философическая и ехидная Нисс, к счастью, и помыслить не могла, какая её ждет посмертная слава. Сперва её сделала героиней своей повести "На Верхней Масловке" Дина Рубина, а затем и вовсе она превратилась в знаменитость после выхода на экраны в 2005 году одноименного кинофильма, где в главных ролях снимались Алиса Фрейндлих и Евгений Миронов. Так что земная слава не только проходит, но иногда и сваливается ниоткуда. Нина Ильинична была преисполнена чувства собственного достоинства, цену себе знала и ни в коей мере не гналась ни за дешёвой, ни за дорогой популярностью. Но получила её сполна.»

Выставки
Общее число выставок и экспозиций, в которых принимала участие скульптор Н.Нисс-Гольдман не поддаётся учету.
 1924 г. Москва: 26-я ВЫСТАВКА МОСКОВСКОГО ТОВАРИЩЕСТВА ХУДОЖНИКОВ
 1925 г. Москва: ВЫСТАВКА ХУДОЖНИКОВ «4 ИСКУССТВА»
 1926 г. Москва: ВЫСТАВКА ЖИВОПИСИ, ГРАФИКИ, СКУЛЬПТУРЫ, АРХИТЕКТУРЫ ОБЩЕСТВА ХУДОЖНИКОВ «4 ИСКУССТВА»
 1927 г. Москва: 2-я ВЫСТАВКА СКУЛЬПТУРЫ ОБЩЕСТВА РУССКИХ СКУЛЬПТОРОВ (ОРС)
 1929 г. Москва: 3-я ВЫСТАВКА СКУЛЬПТУРЫ ОБЩЕСТВА РУССКИХ СКУЛЬПТОРОВ (ОРС)
 1933 г. Москва: ВЫСТАВКА "ХУДОЖНИКИ РСФСР ЗА XV ЛЕТ(1917—1932). Скульптура
 1934 г. Москва: ОТЧЕТНАЯ ВЫСТАВКА ПРОИЗВЕДЕНИЙ ХУДОЖНИКОВ,КОМАНДИРОВАННЫХ СОВНАРКОМОМ РСФСР, НАРКОМПРОСОМ, «ВСЕКОХУДОЖНИКОМ» И МОССХ ПО СССР В 1933 ГОДУ
 1937 г. Выставки за границей: МЕЖДУНАРОДНАЯ ВЫСТАВКА «ИСКУССТВО И ТЕХНИКА В СОВРЕМЕННОЙ ЖИЗНИ»
 1937 г. Москва: ВЫСТАВКА МОСКОВСКИХ СКУЛЬПТОРОВ
 1939 г. Москва: ВСЕСОЮЗНАЯ ВЫСТАВКА МОЛОДЫХ ХУДОЖНИКОВ, ПОСВЯЩЕННАЯ ДВАДЦАТИЛЕТИЮ ВЛКСМ
 1940 г. Белорусская ССР: СОВЕТСКОЕ ИЗОБРАЗИТЕЛЬНОЕ ИСКУССТВО. ПЕРЕДВИЖНАЯ ВЫСТАВКА В ЗАПАДНЫХ ОБЛАСТЯХ БССР
 1940 г. Москва: ВЫСТАВКА СКУЛЬПТУРЫ МОСКОВСКОГО СОЮЗА СОВЕТСКИХ ХУДОЖНИКОВ
 1945 г. Авт. Респ., края и области РСФСР: ВЫСТАВКА ХУДОЖЕСТВЕННЫХ ПРОИЗВЕДЕНИЙ К КОНФЕРЕНЦИИ АКАДЕМИИ НАУК СССР ПО ИЗУЧЕНИЮ ПРОИЗВОДИТЕЛЬНЫХ СИЛ МОЛОТОВСКОИ ОБЛАСТИ
 1946 г. Москва: ВСЕСОЮЗНАЯ ХУДОЖЕСТВЕННАЯ ВЫСТАВКА
 1955 г. Москва: 50 ЛЕТ ПЕРВОЙ РУССКОЙ РЕВОЛЮЦИИ
 1955 г. Москва: ВЫСТАВКА ЖИВОПИСИ, СКУЛЬПТУРЫ, ГРАФИКИ И РАБОТ ХУДОЖНИКОВ ТЕАТРА И КИНО МОСКВЫ И ЛЕНИНГРАДА
 1957 г. Москва: ВСЕСОЮЗНАЯ ХУДОЖЕСТВЕННАЯ ВЫСТАВКА, ПОСВЯЩЕННАЯ 40-ЛЕТИЮ ВЕЛИКОЙ ОКТЯБРЬСКОЙ СОЦИАЛИСТИЧЕСКОЙ РЕВОЛЮЦИИ
 1957 г. Москва: ВЫСТАВКА ЖИВОПИСИ, СКУЛЬПТУРЫ, ГРАФИКИ К ПЕРВОМУ ВСЕСОЮЗНОМУ СЪЕЗДУ СОВЕТСКИХ ХУДОЖНИКОВ
 1958 г. Москва: ВСЕСОЮЗНАЯ ХУДОЖЕСТВЕННАЯ ВЫСТАВКА «40 ЛЕТ ВЛКСМ»

Семья
 Отец — Илья Гилелевич Рындзюн, выпускник Императорской военно-медицинской академии, известный в конце 19 века в России врач, специалист по водной терапии. Основал в Ростове-на Дону одну из первых в России водолечебниц. Автор учебника «Основы водолечения и светолечения».
 Мать — Матильда Борисовна Рындзюн, урождённая Райвич.
 Муж — Александр Гольдман, математик.
 Брат — Владимир Ильич Рындзюн, писатель, публицист, журналист, известный под псевдонимом А. Ветлугин; автор произведений «Авантюристы гражданской войны», «Третья Россия», был секретарём и переводчиком А. Дункан и С. Есенина, работал с А. Толстым. В эмиграции после революции.
 Дочь — Нисс Александровна Пекарева (урож. Гольдман) (1913—1984), архитектор, автор многочисленных статей и монографий по истории и теории архитектуры, в том числе «И. А. Фомин» (1953), «Новая Каховка» (1958), «Московский Метрополитен» (1958), «Электросталь» (1962), «Кремлёвский дворец съездов» (фотоальбом, 1965—1978, ряд переизданий), «М. В. Посохин: народный архитектор СССР» (1985) и др.
 Зять — Александр Васильевич Пекарев (1905—1978) — архитектор, скульптор. Член Союза Архитекторов СССР. Член Союза художников СССР. Главный скульптор ВДНХ.
 Внук — Денис (1938), окончил ЛИСИ. Работал мастером на строительстве металлургического комбината «Североникель» (г. Мончегорск). C 1973 живёт в Риме. Работал в Ватикане на «Радио Ватикана» (1974—1977), в Русской службе Би-би-си в Лондоне (1978—1981), на «Радио Свобода» в Мюнхене (1985—1995).

Упоминания
 «Дом на Масловке» — документальный фильм режиссёра Сергея Логинова (1990).
 «На Верхней Масловке» — повесть Дины Рубиной. Действие повести происходит в Городке художников. Прототипом «старухи» послужила Нина Ильинична Нисс-Гольдман, занимавшая мастерскую 11 в доме 1.
 «На Верхней Масловке» — фильм 2005 года по одноимённой повести Дины Рубиной, в ролях Алиса Фрейндлих и Евгений Миронов. Снимался непосредственно в интерьерах Городка художников.
 «Четыре искусства» — художественное объединение, существовавшее в Москве и в Ленинграде в 1924—1931 годах
 «Городок художников» — архитектурный комплекс по ул. Верхняя Масловка в Москве.
 «Список художников Серебряного века» — включает живописцев, графиков и скульпторов, работавших в 1900—1930-е годы в России и входивших в различные художественные группировки и объединения.
 «Скульптор Г.Шульц» — портрет Н. Нисс-Гольдман (гипс, 1969).
  — двухтомник с воспоминаниями художника и реставратора Татьяны Васильевны Хвостенко, Олимпия Press, Москва 2003.
 Н. И. Нисс-Гольдман на сайте «Масловка. Городок художников».
 10000 лучших художников мира (XVIII—XXI вв.).
 «Jewish Women in the Russian Avant-Garde»
 «Jews in the Russian Avant-Garde: A National Art?»

Примечания

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Bethany Hamilton- At the age of 13 with a promising professional surfing career ahead of her, Bethany was attacked by a 14 foot tiger shark while surfing. She lost her arm in the attack and almost died. Instead of giving up, she started surfing again just 26 days after the attack. About 2 months later she was competing in major competitions and went on to win several global matches. The attack could have stopped her and left her depressed and reclusive, but she chose to move forward. As a result, she is a global beacon of hope and faith. "I know life can be hard, but I've learned that even the biggest challenges and scariest fears can be overcome, no matter what you're facing." Bethany Hamilton. Check out her website to learn more about her life and mission: https://bethanyhamilton.com/
Oprah Winfrey- As a child, Oprah felt unloved and alone as she was neglected, physically and sexually abused and she was passed between the homes of her mother and grandmother. After becoming pregnant and losing the baby shortly after birth at age 14, she went to live with her father. He shared his strong value of education with her and taught her she could be more. Later in life she shared: "I am so grateful for my years literally living in poverty, because it makes the experience of creating success and building success that much more rewarding." Her gratitude for the good and the hard times is one of her core beliefs today. Oprah has created her own charitable foundation that serves many needs including those that might be in the same situation she was in as a child. Check out her causes here: https://www.oprah.com/sp/owcf_resource.html
JK Rowling - She wrote the first book of Harry Potter as a young single mother of an infant and living on unemployment. She had just left an abusive marriage and was lonely. "I was jobless, a lone parent, and as poor as it is possible to be in modern Britain without being homeless," she later shared. By every measure she could think of she was a failure. She contemplated suicide. The Dementor characters in her book were drawn from her own experience with depression. Her manuscript for Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone was rejected by 12 publishers. The 13ths publisher agreed to print it at his 8 year old daughter's request but warned Rowling to get a day job because she wasn't going to make money as a children's author. She went on to become one of the best selling authors of all time as well as the first female author to become a billionaire. Ironically enough the title of billionaire was taken away from her because of all her charitable giving. She gives to several charities as well as founded her own, Lumos, with the goal of getting children out of orphanages/institutions. https://www.wearelumos.org/
Why were these women able to overcome barriers that would have stopped 90% of others?
One of the things that really strikes me is how different each of their mindsets had to be in order to handle the adversity and then change it into possibility.
It gives me some areas to look at in my own mindset.
What area of your mindset could use some work?
I love how all three of these women used their influence and abundance for good. If you have blocks about making money you might consider thinking like a philanthroper.
Confused on how to bring more positive thoughts into your life? Look for my next blog post on how to change the negative chatter in your head to something that will propel you forward in your goals.
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— город, определённый указом правительства Японии, административный центр префектуры Ниигата.

География
Ниигата — крупный порт на побережье Японского моря, расположенный на равнине Этиго у устья рек Синано и Агано.

Климат

История
Около 7 тысяч лет назад Синано и Агано впадали в лагуну, расположенную на месте нынешней Ниигаты. К началу XI века накопившиеся в лагуне речные осадки привели к формированию новой береговой линии, близкой к современной, а вдоль побережья образовались высокие песчаные дюны. К началу эпохи Эдо реки текли по курсу, близкому к современному, за исключением того, что Агано, ранее впадавшая прямо в Японское море, стала впадать в Синано недалеко от её устья.

Согласно Нихон сёки, в VII веке на месте Ниигаты была основана первая крепость. В 1616 году в устье Синано был основан порт, который начал интенсивно развиваться со второй половины XVII века, когда через него стали провозить рис. В 1858 году Ниигата стала одним из пяти портов страны, открывшихся для иностранных судов.

1 апреля 1889 года Ниигата получила статус города. Административная территория города неоднократно расширялась за счёт присоединяния к нему окружающих муниципалитетов.

В конце Второй мировой войны командование вооружённых сил США предложило этот город как одну из целей для нанесения ядерного удара (24 июля 1945 года Ниигата была включена в окончательный вариант перечня из четырёх городов Японии, на которые предлагалось сбросить атомные бомбы)

В июне 1964 года в Ниигате произошло , которое привело к крупным человеческим жертвам и материальному ущербу.

В 1973 году численность населения города составляла 384 тыс. человек, здесь действовали крупный морской порт (грузооборот 13 млн. т в 1969), предприятия нефтедобычи, нефтепереработки и нефтехимии, производства ферросплавов и алюминия, электро- и транспортное машиностроение, текстильная, лесопильная, бумажная и цементная промышленность.

После расширения границ города в 2005 году, в 2007 году Ниигата получила статус города, определённого указом правительства.

Экономика
Ниигата является важным торговым и промышленным центром, крупнейшим портом на западном побережье Японии. Грузооборот порта на 2008 год составлял 32,1 млн т. Также город является важным транспортным узлом — он является конечным пунктом Дзёэцу-синкансэн и скоростных автострад «Хокурику» и «Банъэцу». Также через него проходят дороги национального значения № 7, 8, 49, 113, 116, 402, 403 и 460.

Образование

Колледжи и университеты
 Университет Ниигаты
 Интернациональный университет Японии
 Университет Ниппона Дэнтала
 Университет международных отношений и информационных исследований Ниигаты
 Университет фармацевтики Ниигаты
 Университет Сэйго Ниигаты
 Университет здравоохранения и социального обеспечения Ниигаты

Культура

Праздники и фестивали:
 Фестиваль Ниигаты (в августе)
 Фестиваль манги

Города-побратимы
Ниигата является городом-побратимом следующих городов:

  Галвестон, США (1965);
  Хабаровск, Россия (1965);
  Харбин, КНР (1979);
  Владивосток, Россия (1991);
  Биробиджан, Россия (2005);
  Ульсан, Республика Корея (2007);
  Нант, Франция (2009).

Примечания

Литература

Города префектуры Ниигата
Города, определённые указами правительства

Административные центры префектур Японии


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