Agent Van Alden with a twist on Isaiah 45:8: "Drop down, you heavens, from above, and let the skies pour down righteousness" ... series is wrapping up for sure as Omar Little dreams a little dream.
Links for 2014 10 12
A CLASSIC
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AMSA has requested a cargo manifest for Flight M370 from Malaysia Airlines.
The manifest is expected to give the search operation a better idea in identifying objects they spot in the Indian Ocean if they indeed came from the missing plane.
However, the Malaysian authorities to date have refused to release it, insisting the document is with the police who are conducting their own investigation into the cause of the plane’s disappearance.
TONS OF MANGOSTEENS?
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Emirates chief Tim Clark reveals suspicions over true fate of missing flight MH370
The executive has vowed that he will not rest until the truth is known, declaring: “I will continue to ask questions and make a nuisance of myself, even as others would like to bury it.”
COULD BE ON THAT AIRBASE IN THE SOUTH INDIAN OCEAN
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INTERESTING, HAD NO IDEA THIS EXISTED
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"To Hong Kong With Love and Squalor," by @JiayangFan (New Yorker): ow.ly/CCff9
Along with economic wealth, the residents of Hong Kong developed a political awareness that remains largely foreign to those on the mainland
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Movies Watched -- Captain Phillips
Fast forwarded from ten minutes in ... hate Tom Hanks, esp. with a fake Boston accent ... looks like a variation on war porn except the bad guys here are scrawny east Africans; no one sheds a tear when they're shot from a distance with high-powered rifles.
Movies Watched -- Dallas Buyers Club
Most interested in Matt McC's regimen for becoming this gaunt without dying. Couldn't really buy his transformation from crass redneck to microfiche reading medical researcher. Movie ran about 20 minutes too long but I watched the whole thing at normal speed, thus earning a yellow rating.
Every Ingredient, Its Purpose and Source
This is kind of neat, Tom's of Maine (which is of course a Colgate-Palmolive property now), provides these tables for the ingredients of their products.
Links for 2014 10 11
PENDLETON SHIRTS AND SPERRY TOPSIDERS IN LONDON
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HOLY SHIT, NEWS TO ME
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DANISH SAILBOATS FAVORED BY MARC
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Chinese Firm Buys the Waldorf Astoria: Is a 'China Panic' Next? - DailyFinance
"It's not the same," says Susan Wachter ... "The driving force in the Japan expansion was that Japanese market prices were so high -- clearly in bubble territory. Japanese investors found U.S. real estate bargain priced, and overpaid," Wachter says.
LOL NOTHING LIKE CHINA
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Inside the Biggest-Ever Hedge-Fund Scandal
VALENTINA RECOMMENDED ... REVERSED AND GONE SHORT ONE WEEK BEFORE THE CONFERENCE, CRAZY
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SNØHETTA DESIGN:
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Motifs for the new banknote series
Norges Bank has decided that a combination of two proposals submitted will go on for further work. The obverse sides of the notes will be developed on the basis of the proposal from The Metric System, Norwegian Living Space. The basis of the reverse sides will be the pixel motifs submitted by Snøhetta Design, Beauty of Boundaries.
MINECRAFT FANS REJOICE
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footnoted* — GT Technologies warned in August
"Clearly, none of these folks were reading the company’s SEC filings"
WONDER HOW MANY SUBSCRIBERS MICHELLE HAS?
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INTERESTING SORT OF STATUS SYMBOL
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YES, TAKES MONEY THOUGH
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CARD READER?
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WORSE THAN A POST ON HUMMUS
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Ooops. Link was missing on $GTAT post. Company warned in August Q. bit.ly/1tLdo6P
TOO BAD ONLY MICHELLE READS THE FILINGS
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40,000-Year-Old Indonesian Cave Art Found to Rival Europe Images - Bloomberg
“European’s can’t exclusively claim to be the first to develop an abstract mind anymore,” he said. “They need to share this, at least, with the early inhabitants of Indonesia.”
WHEN DID WE MAKE THAT CLAIM?
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Brooklyn Home Prices Reach Record in Third Quarter - Bloomberg
Home prices in Brooklyn jumped to a record in the third quarter, extending a surge that has made the New York borough the only part of the city to surpass the peak in values before the financial crisis.
NOW A "DESTINATION" ... WONDER WHAT PLACES NEXT TO THE SEWAGE TREATMENT PLANT IN GREENPOINT ARE GOING FOR?
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ETF Trading Portfolio Update -- October 13, 2014
Four changes to the trading portfolio this week ... MidCaps were a long held long, now reversed ... being on the right side of VXX/XIV (and Energies: DUG, ERY, SCO) helped soften the blow of the bad across the board market breakdown. The bonds reversed in September 2013, so recognizing that at the time, when no one else did, has also helped.
Willing To Act Faster And Pay More
From November 1989 ... reminded by recent Waldorf sale (emphasis mine):
The sale of controlling interest in Rockefeller Group Inc. to a Japanese firm was denounced by some people as a foreign takeover of one of America's classic landmarks.
But U.S. companies weren't totally left out in the cold. The owner of Rockefeller Center contacted some 20 potential investors -- two-thirds of them from the U.S. -- in its search for a joint venture partner.
Few of the dozen interested parties could compete, however, with Mitsubishi Estate Co., real-estate professionals say, because it wanted so badly to get into the New York market and was willing to act faster and pay more.
The Japanese real estate giant agreed last month to pay $846 million for 51% of Rockefeller Group, which also is involved in real estate development, management and brokerage.
People familiar with competing firms' strategies say Mitsubishi's offer was much higher than offers that others were contemplating. But other potential investors complain Mitsubishi had an unfair advantage. They say Mitsubishi got a jump on studying Rockefeller Group's finances and was allowed to make an advance bid that pre-empted an auction.
Not so, says Raymond Mikulich, managing director of Shearson Lehman Hutton Inc., which handled the sale for Rockefeller Group. He says all investors were told they could place a pre-emptive bid by agreeing to the seller's financial and management conditions. "But of all the people we talked to, none was as aggressive as Mitsubishi," he says.
They increased their stake in Rockefeller Group in July 1990 and July 1991. Japanese had bad timing with Pebble Beach golf course and Hotel Bel-Air as well.
Amy Winehouse Channel
Pandora algo-generated playlist:
- Amy Winehouse -- Valerie (BBC Sessions)
- The Neville Brothers -- A Change Is Gonna Come
- Adele -- Set Fire To The Rain
- Nina Simone -- Feelin' Good
- Amy Winehouse -- Me & Mr. Jones
- Corinne Bailey Rae -- Breathless
- Etta James -- Woke Up This Morning (Live)
- Amy WInehouse -- In My Bed (CJ Mix)
- Gotye -- Somebody That I Used To Know (feat. Kimbra) [never heard of 'em, liked it]
- The Temptations -- Ain't Too Proud To Beg
- Adele -- Skyfall
- Amy Winehouse -- I Heard Love Is Blind (Live at Concorde)
- Etta James -- At Last (Live)
- Ray Charles -- Sticks And Stones
- Alicia Keys -- If I Ain't Got You (Live)
- Adele -- Daydreamer
- Etta James -- These Foolish Things (Remind Me Of You)
- Meghan Trainor -- All About That Bass [never heard it, amusing]
- Alicia Keys -- Fallin'
- Norah Jones -- Don't Know Why
- Etta James -- All I Could Do Is Cry (Live)
- Otis Redding -- Hard To Handle
- Leela James -- When You Love Somebody
- Duffy -- Warwick Avenue
- Corinne Bailey Rae -- Is This Love
- Ray Charles -- What'd I Say [girl with the diamond ring knows how to shake that thing]
- Meghan Trainor -- Title [born 1993, self-released albums, YouTube star?]
- Aretha Franklin -- Respect
- Otis Redding -- I've Been Loving You Too Long (To Stop Now) (Live)
- Mark Ronson -- Valerie [Amy Winehouse singing]
- Smokey Robinson & The Miracles -- You've Really Got A Hold On Me
- Gnarls Barkley -- Crazy [digital distribution hit, led to hit album]
- Lily Allen -- Fuck You
- Alicia Keys -- No One
- Norah Jones -- I've Got To See You Again
- Leela James -- A Change Is Gonna Come
- Otis Redding -- These Arms Of Mine
- Lauryn Hill -- Can't Take My Eyes Off Of You [the classic cover]
- Duffy -- Mercy
- Adele -- Hometown Glory
- Amy Winehouse -- You Know I'm No Good (BBC Sessions)
- Alicia Keys -- When You Really Love Someone
- Corinne Bailey Rae -- I'd Like To
- Adele -- One And Only
- Amy Winehouse -- Addicted
- Ray Charles -- Hallelujah I Love Her So
- Otis Redding -- Stand By Me
- Bill Withers -- Ain't No Sunshine
- Adele -- Fool That I Am (Live)
- Amy Winehouse -- Teach Me Tonight (Hootenanny) [channeling Billie]
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- Duffy -- Stepping Stone
- Al Green -- Let's Stay Together
- James Brown -- Try Me
- Amy Winehouse -- Our Day Will Come
- Ray Charles -- I've Got A Woman (Live)
- Al Green -- Tired Of Being Alone
- Lauryn Hill -- Doo Wop (That Thing)
- Adele -- Right As Rain
- Alicia Keys -- Wreckless Love
- Bob Marley -- Is This Love
- Sade -- By Your Side
- John Legend -- Slow Dance
- Duffy -- I'm Scared
- Ben E. King -- Stand By Me
- Amy Winehouse -- October Song
- Ray Charles -- Tell Me How Do You Feel
- Etta James -- At Last
- Marvin Gaye & Tammi Terrell -- Ain't No Mountain High Enough
- Amy Winehouse -- The Girl From Ipanema
- John Legend -- P.D.A. (We Just Don't Care)
- Adele -- Make You Feel My Love (Live)
- Alicia Keys -- No One (Live)
- Corinne Bailey Rae -- Till It Happens To You
- Amy Winehouse -- You Know I'm No Good
- Ray Charles -- I Got A Woman
- Adele -- First Love
- Etta James -- I'd Rather Go Blind
- Amy WInehouse -- Love Is A Losing Game
- Ray Charles -- Mary Ann
- Leela James -- My Joy
- Duffy -- Hanging On Too Long
- Melody Gardot -- Your Heart Is As Black As Night
- Adele -- Turning Tables
- Etta James -- All I Could Do Is Cry
- Feist -- My Moon My Man
- Adele -- Rolling In The Deep
- John Legend -- Save Room
- Amy Winehouse -- Pumps
- Etta James -- Only Time Will Tell
- Ray Charles -- I've Got A Woman
- Ingrid Michaelson -- The Way I Am [another self-release? liked the voice / song]
- Amy Winehouse -- I Heard Love Is Blind (Demo)
- Feist -- 1 2 3 4
- Adele -- My Same
- Otis Redding -- I've Got Dreams To Remember
- Etta James -- Steal Away
- Amy WInehouse -- He Can Only Hold Her
- Adele -- Melt My Heart To Stone (Live)
- Ray Charles -- Georgia On My Mind (1955)
- Etta James -- Stormy Weather
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Norway's Minecraft Currency
Check out the whole series, I think they're beautiful.