"Any changes to the Basic Law have to be ratified by the country’s legislature, the National People’s Congress, which is controlled by the Communist Party." ... THIS IS THE RUB

"The hitch: the “broadly representative nominating committee.” On Aug. 31, the National People’s Congress Standing Committee ruled that to appear on the ballot, candidates had to get more than half the votes of the nominating committee, which would be identical to the election committee that had picked previous chief executives. To Hong Kong’s pro-democracy activists, this was unacceptable because it guaranteed that only candidates approved by Beijing would be nominated. " ... YES, THIS IS WHAT THE UPROAR IS ABOUT

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China Strikes Back! | ChinaFile

"we agreed that it was dismaying not just that Carter was being kept at official arm’s length and had been personally offended, but that this entire episode was like so many others with which we had both recently been involved. What is more, it struck us as somehow emblematic of the suspicious, secretive, peremptory, punitive way in which official China now so often deports itself in the world, especially toward democracies, which it tends to view as especially seditious, even hostile." ...

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37 all time highs 2014 09 29

Facebook Inc
Nike Inc
Lockheed Martin Corp
Allergan Inc
Fedex Corp
Vertex Pharmaceuticals Inc
Intuit Inc
Sherwin-Williams Company
Cf Industries Holdings
NiSource Inc
Gopro Inc.
Polaris Industries Inc
Church & Dwight Company
Mallinckrodt Plc Ordinary Share
Centene Corp
Athlon Energy Inc
Icon Plc
Jack In The Box Inc
Agios Pharmaceuticals Inc
Receptos Inc
Blackhawk Network Holdings Inc
Blackhawk Network Holdings Inc
Clubcorp Holdings Inc
Ambarella Inc
Sunedison Semiconductor Limited
Ladenburg Thalmann Financial Inc
Radius Health Inc.
Otonomy Inc.
Tetraphase Pharmaceuticals Inc
IGI Laboratories
Tree.Com
Ovascience Inc
Immune Design Corp.
Biospecifics Technologies Corp
Straight Path Communications In
Radiant Logistics
Willdan Group

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Zacks Investment Ideas feature highlights: NQ Mobile, WuXi PharmaTech and Amazon - Yahoo Finance

"If there was ever a stock to have no position in, this would be it." ... JUMPED 10% AFTER THIS WAS POSTED

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Gross’s Last Defiance Stuns Allianz, Pimco in Janus Move - Bloomberg

Gross, 70, had left the bond giant he helped found 43 years earlier without telling its executives, a last act of defiance by a great investor whose strained relationship with his lieutenants had brought him to the verge of being ousted ... “Ever since the Mohamed departure, the knives were out for Bill,” .. e picked up the phone and cold-called DoubleLine Capital LP, asking for Jeffrey Gundlach to discuss joining the much smaller crosstown competitor. The following day, the two men met at Gundlach’s house, where Gross expressed concern that employees were conspiring against him and Pimco might fire him

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Turkish Delight : Architectural Digest

Turkey’s Bodrum Peninsula ... Aegean Sea ... From $925/night;

Movies Watched -- The Conjuring

Added on October 4, 2014 by C. Maoxian.

Horror movie. Relies on sound effects, scary music, and things popping out of nowhere to terrify you ... and it works! I grew up in a house with a dirt cellar, crawl spaces, and a ghost (only saw her once), so maybe I'm more susceptible. :) If you like scary movies, this one isn't bad ... if you don't like scary movies, you should miss it.