Links for 2014 11 26

Added on by C. Maoxian.

Not using any electronic device within antenna range of Fedex Field now, @huawei usahuawei.com/2014/10/huawei…  

Website called "NewsDiffs" tracks changes in online news articles from CNN, BBC, NYT and others. fb.me/6TYENoHN7 

This Teacher Taught His Class A Powerful Lesson About Privilege  

"“The closer you were to the bin, the better your odds. This is what privilege looks like. Did you notice how the only ones who complained about fairness were in the back of the room? People in the front of the room were less likely to be aware of the privilege they were born into. All they can see is 10 feet between them and their goal.” 

WE CALL IT BEING BORN ON THIRD BASE

FIX THAT THING | Sugru  

SOMEBODY ELSE MENTIONED THIS STUFF RECENTLY

Rohinni's Lightpaper Is Incredibly Thin, And Printable ⚙ Co.Labs ⚙ code + community  

"The big problem with the product's current, version one, is how it places the LEDs when printed. Right now, they aren't distributed evenly on the printed surface. "

Stop packing so much: The minimalist packing list — Medium  

"The Roost laptop stand is one of my favourite bits of kit." 

SUGRO TOO

Who Rules the Social Web? | Information Is Beautiful  

LOOK AT ALL THE CHICKS ON TUMBLR (all those fashionistas?)

172 all time highs 2014 11 25  

Apple Inc 
Berkshire Hath Hld B 
Visa Inc 
Union Pacific Corp 
Abbvie Inc. Common Stock 
Mastercard Inc 
Celgene Corp 
Honeywell International Inc 
21St Century Fox Class A 
Medtronic Inc 
Actavis Inc 
Lowe's Companies 
Blackrock 
Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc 
Covidien Plc. 
Tjx Companies 
American Tower Corp 
CSX Corp 
Ace Limited 
Liberty Global 
Norfolk Southern Corp 
Liberty Global 
Stryker Corp 
Raytheon Company 
V.F. Corp 
Kinder Morgan Energy Partners L.P. 
Air Products and Chemicals 
Kroger Company 
Northrop Grumman Corp 
AON Plc 
Hilton Worldwide Holdings Inc. 
Becton Dickinson and Company 
Western Digital Corp 
L Brands Inc 
Avago Technologies 
Macy's Inc 
Delphi Automotive Plc 
Humana Inc 
Amerisourcebergen Corp 
Parker-Hannifin Corp 
Reed Elsevier Plc 
O'Reilly Automotive 
Charter Communications 
Nxp Semiconductors N.V. 
Fidelity National Information Services 
Reed Elsevier Nv 
Amphenol Corp 
Roper Industries 
Genuine Parts Company 
SBA Communications Corp 
Whirlpool Corp 
Nordstrom 
Dr Pepper Snapple Group Inc 
Dollar Tree 
Tiffany & Co. 
Kinder Morgan Management Llc 
Edwards Lifesciences Corp 
Biomarin Pharmaceutical Inc 
Carmax Inc 
Carefusion Corp 
Burger King Worldwide 
Henry Schein 
Tim Hortons Inc 
Hanesbrands Inc 
Stericycle Inc 
Pall Corp 
Signet Jewelers Limited 
Dr. Reddy's Laboratories Ltd 
Quest Diagnostics Inc 
Palo Alto Networks Inc 
Wabtec Corp 
Norwegian Cruise Line Holdings 
Mettler-Toledo International 
Sensata Technologies Holding N.V. 
Everest Re Group 
Dentsply International Inc 
Meadwestvaco Corp 
Coty Inc 
Valspar Corp 
Old Dominion Freight Line 
Synopsys Inc 
W.R. Berkley Corp 
Sei Investments Company 
Spirit Aerosystems Holdings 
Zayo Group Holdings Inc. 
Allison Transmission Holdings 
Ingredion Inc 
CDW Corp 
Global Payments Inc 
HD Supply Holdings Inc 
Leggett & Platt Inc 
Keysight Technologies Inc. Comm 
Huntington Ingalls Industries 
Axalta Coating Systems Ltd. 
Ryder System 
Teleflex Inc 
Graco Inc 
Tfs Financial Corp 
Dun & Bradstreet Corp 
Wex Inc 
Lennox International 
Springleaf Holdings Inc 
Erie Indemnity Company 
Teledyne Technologies Inc 
Swift Transportation Company 
HSN Inc 
Validus Holdings 
Servicemaster Global Holdings I 
Iesi-Bfc Ltd 
Landstar System 
Brinker International 
Vwr Corporation 
First American Corp 
Cst Brands Inc. Common Stock 
Catalent Inc. 
Berry Plastics Group Inc 
Burlington Stores Inc 
Buffalo Wild Wings 
Columbia Sportswear Company 
Liberty Broadband Corporation 
Euronet Worldwide 
Murphy USA Inc. Common Stock Wh 
Cracker Barrel Old Country Store 
La Quinta Holdings Inc. 
Knight Transportation 
Amc Entertainment Holdings Inc 
Shell Midstream Partners L.P. 
Marriot Vacations Worldwide Cor 
Heartland Express 
Asbury Automotive Group Inc 
Trinet Group Inc 
Group 1 Automotive 
Werner Enterprises 
Caci International 
Dupont Fabros Technology 
American Realty Capital Healthc 
Chesapeake Lodging Trust 
Dineequity Inc 
Platinum Underwriters Holdings Ltd 
Fidelity & Guaranty 
Sonic Corp 
Liberty Broadband Corporation 
Dplo 
G&K Services 
Clubcorp Holdings Inc 
Healthequity Inc. 
Popeyes Louisiana Kitchen Inc. 
Abaxis Inc 
Ellie Mae Inc 
Mimedx Group Inc 
The Navigators Group 
Cato Corp 
Hawaiian Holdings 
Zs Pharma Inc. 
Fcb Financial Holdings Inc. 
Avalanche Biotechnologies Inc. 
Servisfirst Bancshares Inc. 
Square 1 Financial Inc 
Ovascience Inc 
Douglas Dynamics 
Boot Barn Holdings Inc. 
Zafgen Inc. 
Global Telcom & Technology Inc 
Covenant Transportation Group 
Ocular Therapeutix Inc 
Reading International Inc 
Vectrus Inc. Common Stock 
Triumph Bancorp Inc. 
Quotient Limited 
Upland Software Inc. 
Willdan Group 
Flanigan's Enterprises

Mohnish Pabrai's Million-Dollar Advice For A 12-Year-Old Investor onforb.es/15eJl2A <<-- really great stuff  

'The Financial Times took about 29.5 seconds to load, followed by Bloomberg's pages'. So much work to do. adweek.com/news/technolog… 

  

Links for 2014 11 25

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http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/11/25/us/evidence-released-in-michael-brown-case.html 

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NOT INCL ALL THE MILKMAN'S CHILDREN

$wb $sina BBG-Sina's 51% Chinese Stock Rout That Analysts Never Saw Coming stks.co/d1HyO dumb analysts, smart $$ known 4 a while  

SINA WAS $140 ONCE UPON A TIME

"The Lap Of Luxury" Cheese Collection  

Sevre & Belle Sainte-Maure Caprifeuille (France), Delice de Bourgogne Petit (France), Ubriaco Moscato (Italy), Roncal (Spain), and a jar of Marcona Almonds in Rosemary Honey (4.6oz - from Spain).

Zabar's Cheese Plate Of the Week  

Danish Blue - 
Rolf Beeler's Hoch Ybrig 
Morbier 
La Tur

The Lavish Cheese Party  

Camembert Calvados From Normandy, France 9oz. Petit Basque from the French Pyrenees 11oz. Drunken Goat, Spanish semi soft cheese 12oz. Dalmata fig Spread, made with Adriatic figs 8.5oz. Volpe Pinot Grigio Salami 8oz. Divina Country Olive Mix, assortment of classic green and black Greek olives 8oz. The Accidental baker's hearty Roasted Garlic & Rosemary Artisan Flatbreads 5oz.

European Collection  

Le Grand Caprin Chevre 
Piave 
Iberico

Zabar's Cheese Plate of The Week  

Chatelain Brie 
Pont l'Eveque 
Istara 
Piave

The BEST Gourmet Food Stores in NYC (PHOTOS)  

SLIDESHOW FREED 

Eataly 
Zabar's Grocery 
Murray's Cheese Shop 
Citarella 
Lobel's Butcher 
Russ & Daughters 
Dean & Deluca 
Despana 
Agata & Valentina 
Fairway Market 
Wild Edibles 
Garden of Eden Market

European Soaps - Purveyors of fine bath and body care products  

In central Africa, the karité tree flourishes remarkably amid harsh, arid conditions. Sometimes called the “tree of life” for its many beneficial uses, it yields a nut containing the natural fat, (butyrospermum parkii) shea butter. One of nature’s most effective moisturizers, shea butter is ultra rich yet gentle, providing deep healing, moisturizing and protection of skin, hair, cuticles and lips. Pré de Provence® is proud to make natural shea butter a key ingredient in many of our products, offering a soothing, softening gift from nature. 

SHEA BUTTER IS THE GOOD SHIT, NOT OILY NOT HARD, JUST THE RIGHT CONSISTENCY

Wild Ophelia - Chocolate With All-Natural Ingredients From American Farms & Food Artisans 

ARTISANS! LOOKS GIMMICKY

http://bloom.bg/1C7Sjx8  

Some eyewitnesses said Brown was shot as he raised his hands in surrender. Police said he attacked Wilson while the officer was in his patrol car.

WELL WHICH IS IT?

Interactive Brokers Launches Information System, IBIS | StockBrokers.com  

"September 30, 2011 at 9:47 am" 

THREE YEARS OLD?

IBKR Latest 10K  

"Interactive AnalyticsSM and IB Options AnalyticsSM—We offer our customers state-of-the-art tools, which include a customizable trading platform, advanced analytic tools and sophisticated order types such as guaranteed combination trades. IB also provides real-time option analytics, an arbitrage meter (a tool that illustrates the extent of the premium (or discount) of the lead month futures price above (or below) its fair future value with respect to the index price) and various combinations of charts and other analytical tools." 

"Interactive Brokers Information System—The Interactive Brokers Information System is a comprehensive and customizable market information workspace. Subscribers to this research platform receive real-time market data, research, news services, analytics, stock scanners, charts and alerts. "

IBKR 20140930 10-Q Q3  

"We also provide information services through the Interactive Brokers Information System (“IBIS”).  IBIS offers subscribers and our brokerage customers a robust suite of informational tools at a fraction of the cost of traditional research platforms.  It includes live quotes, newswire feeds, calendars of economic and earnings events, fundamental research data, charts and more in an interface that can be configured to customers’ needs." 

HOW MUCH OF ESIGNAL'S BIZ LOST HERE?

TweetDeck App For Chrome Is Awesome - Techie Buzz  

By Keith Dsouza on December 7th, 2010 

"If you haven’t done it yet, go ahead and download the TweetDeck app for Chrome from here." 

FOUR YEARS AGO?!?

Tweetdeck for Chrome: 7 Features That Disappeared  

December 22, 2011

186 all time highs 2014 11 24  

Apple Inc 
Berkshire Hath Hld B 
Wells Fargo & Company 
Visa Inc 
Pepsico Inc 
Amgen Inc 
Union Pacific Corp 
Abbvie Inc. Common Stock 
CVS Corp 
3M Company 
Celgene Corp 
Nike Inc 
Honeywell International Inc 
Medtronic Inc 
Lowe's Companies 
Express Scripts 
Danaher Corp 
Blackrock 
Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc 
Fedex Corp 
General Dynamics Corp 
Mckesson Corp 
Covidien Plc. 
Hdfc Bank Limited 
American Tower Corp 
Ace Limited 
Illinois Tool Works Inc 
CSX Corp 
The Travelers Companies Inc 
Stryker Corp 
Archer Daniels Midland Company 
Raytheon Company 
V.F. Corp 
Air Products and Chemicals 
PPG Industries 
Allstate Corp 
Northrop Grumman Corp 
Intuit Inc 
AON Plc 
Equity Residential 
Chubb Corp 
Ameriprise Financial Services 
Sherwin-Williams Company 
Macy's Inc 
Seagate Technology. 
Delphi Automotive Plc 
Dollar General Corp 
Amerisourcebergen Corp 
Parker-Hannifin Corp 
Reed Elsevier Plc 
Ross Stores 
Nxp Semiconductors N.V. 
Fidelity National Information Services 
Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd 
Genuine Parts Company 
SBA Communications Corp 
Nordstrom 
Whirlpool Corp 
Dr Pepper Snapple Group Inc 
Dollar Tree 
Edwards Lifesciences Corp 
Netease Inc 
Autodesk Inc 
Credicorp Ltd 
C.R. Bard 
Lam Research Corp 
Biomarin Pharmaceutical Inc 
Carefusion Corp 
Burger King Worldwide 
Tim Hortons Inc 
Pall Corp 
ING US Inc 
Signet Jewelers Limited 
Dr. Reddy's Laboratories Ltd 
Tesoro Petroleum Corp 
Quest Diagnostics Inc 
Palo Alto Networks Inc 
Jarden Corp 
Airgas Inc 
Wabtec Corp 
Navient Corporation 
Norwegian Cruise Line Holdings 
Mettler-Toledo International 
Sealed Air Corp 
Everest Re Group 
Petsmart Inc 
Dentsply International Inc 
Meadwestvaco Corp 
Alleghany Corp 
Old Dominion Freight Line 
Synopsys Inc 
W.R. Berkley Corp 
Jones Lang Lasalle Inc 
RPM International Inc 
Allison Transmission Holdings 
Spirit Aerosystems Holdings 
Reinsurance Group of America Inc 
Ingredion Inc 
Carlisle Companies Inc 
Zayo Group Holdings Inc. 
Global Payments Inc 
CDW Corp 
Leggett & Platt Inc 
HD Supply Holdings Inc 
Broadridge Financial Solutions Llc 
Keysight Technologies Inc. Comm 
Gentex Corp 
Axis Capital Holdings 
Domino's Pizza Inc 
Sirona Dental Systems 
Teleflex Inc 
Brookfield Renewable 
Tfs Financial Corp 
Wex Inc 
Michaels Companies Inc. 
Lennox International 
SS&C Technologies Holdings 
Erie Indemnity Company 
Swift Transportation Company 
HSN Inc 
Validus Holdings 
Verint Systems Inc 
Servicemaster Global Holdings I 
Landstar System 
First American Corp 
Vwr Corporation 
Caseys General Stores 
Receptos Inc 
Catalent Inc. 
Burlington Stores Inc 
Post Properties 
Buffalo Wild Wings 
Berry Plastics Group Inc 
Euronet Worldwide 
Liberty Broadband Corporation 
Big Lots 
La Quinta Holdings Inc. 
Endurance Specialty Holdings Ltd 
Knight Transportation 
Marriot Vacations Worldwide Cor 
Heartland Express 
Impax Laboratories 
Trinet Group Inc 
Group 1 Automotive 
Werner Enterprises 
Caci International 
Dupont Fabros Technology 
Mueller Industries 
Dineequity Inc 
China Biologic Products 
Platinum Underwriters Holdings Ltd 
Fidelity & Guaranty 
Anacor Pharmaceuticals 
Sonic Corp 
Apogee Enterprises 
Liberty Broadband Corporation 
Paycom Software Inc. 
Clubcorp Holdings Inc 
Cyberark Software Ltd. 
Dplo 
Bluebird Bio Inc 
Popeyes Louisiana Kitchen Inc. 
Healthequity Inc. 
Ellie Mae Inc 
Inc Research Holdings Inc. 
The Navigators Group 
Cato Corp 
Universal Electronics Inc 
Chatham Lodging Trust [Reit] 
Coca-Cola Bottling Co. Consolidated 
New Media Investment Group Inc. 
Boot Barn Holdings Inc. 
Zafgen Inc. 
America's Car-Mart 
US Concrete 
Strattec Security Corp 
Covenant Transportation Group 
P.A.M. Transportation Services 
Reading International Inc 
Triumph Bancorp Inc. 
Quotient Limited 
Allied Motion Technologies 
Willdan Group 
Scynexis Inc 
Nv5 Holdings Inc 
Coastway Bancorp Inc.

'Being poor is a full-time job...and it's expensive.' @KillerMartinis wbur.fm/1BVmXde 

Wu Lihong was jailed for speaking out about pollution in China nyti.ms/1vFZx8a pic.twitter.com/rtHJhPTGFs  

Thanks @StanfordBiz for the mention in this article about the #fridaynight dump! Interesting research too! stanford.io/1vGRXe6  

Cc @jtcera RT @googlewmc: Check if pages on your site pass the #mobilefriendly test at g.co/mobilefriendly. pic.twitter.com/41qb3kNmV4 

Seadrill Sinks

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Suspends the dividend ... had been paying out $4 a share, I believe. Anyway, if you understood how surprised the market was, you could have made money on the short side (as a day trader).

Links for 2014 11 24

Added on by C. Maoxian.

2000 IDC 10-K  

The Company distributes its Retail Investor services via the Internet, via 
mainframe-to-mainframe transmission, via mainframe-to-PC download and via 
communication devices that rely on FM subcarriers, satellite transmission, cable 
television systems or telephone lines. Subscribers to Internet-delivered 
services, mainframe-to-mainframe transmissions and mainframe-to-PC downloads 
download the data directly to their computers. 

EARLY DAYS, NO NUMBERS

2001 INTERACTIVE DATE CORPORATION 10-K  

After a decline in subscribers through the end of September 2001, the Company experienced net growth in each of the final three months of 2001, and this growth has continued in 2002. The Company expects the introduction of European real-time streaming financial market data to help enhance the prospects for eSignal in this region. 

NO NUMBERS

2003 Interactive Data Corporation 10-k  

      eSignal services are sold primarily to active retail investors and professional traders. As of December 31, 2003, eSignal had over 52,000 subscribers. The target market for eSignal consists primarily of individuals who make their own investment decisions, trade frequently and earn a substantial portion of their income from trading. 

Within our Retail Investor Services segment, revenues grew by $1,258 or 2.9% from $44,020 to $45,278, which includes an expected 58.6% decline in the Broadcast business amounting to $2,626. This anticipated decline in the Broadcast business is expected to continue as the remaining customers migrate to alternative information sources including eSignal’s Internet based service. Excluding Broadcast, revenue for eSignal’s Internet delivered services grew $3,884 or 9.8%. The number of eSignal subscribers grew by 44% in 2003 to just over 52,000. The lower revenue growth, as compared to the subscriber growth, is due to the majority of the subscriber growth arising from our provision of data feeds to active trader tools, which increases subscriber levels but at a lower monthly subscription rate. We include subscribers who subscribe to the active trader tools to whom we provide data feeds in the total count of eSignal subscribers.

2006 IDC Form 10-K  

Active Trader Services 
Each of the core Active Trader Services offerings, including online advertising on our financial websites, is marketed by sales and product support specialists within eSignal. These offerings are supported by eSignal through the conventional promotional campaigns discussed above as well as through third-party developer relationships which market eSignal’s Internet-delivered services to their customers. eSignal also invites third-party software developers to write trading system software that is compatible with eSignal’s systems and asks trading educators to consider use of eSignal services in their seminars. In addition to direct sales, distribution channel partners have been an important source of new subscribers in recent years. 

eSignal provides streaming, real-time financial market information and access to decision-support tools to active traders, individual investors and investment community professionals, and operates financial websites. 
The financial data available to eSignal subscribers includes equities, options, derivative instrument data, single stock futures, indices, market depth from various exchanges including from the NASDAQ Stock Market, the New York Stock Exchange, the Chicago Mercantile Exchange and the Chicago Board of Trade, as well as ECN and foreign exchange market information, fixed income data, mutual fund data and money market data. In addition, eSignal subscribers receive access to decision-support tools including historical databases, technical 
charting, customizable analytics, back testing, portfolio tracking and news and commentary. As of the end of 2006, this business had 61,725 direct subscription terminals, of which approximately 12,100 were Quote.com-related terminals which were acquired earlier in the year. 
eSignal also operates financial websites that provide investors with free financial information and news about global equities, options, futures and other securities. These financial websites generate revenue through online advertising. 
eSignal’s information is delivered via a sophisticated network infrastructure with an advanced Internet protocol multicast backbone and multiple, geographically dispersed computer server farms. eSignal services include its eSignal and FutureSource® line of workstations; its QCharts® and LiveCharts® family of market data platforms and related analytics; its wireless product, QuoTrek®; an advanced analytics package, Advanced GET®; streaming, real-time, web-based quotes and charting services, MarketCenter LIVE™; financial websites, FutureSource.com, Quote.com and RagingBull.com; and its seminar offering, eSignal Learning. 
This business seeks to expand its portfolio of services and enhance its existing offerings by broadening the content offered across its services and websites, and adding new features and capabilities. 
In 2004, this business finalized the phase out, which began in 2001, of its satellite broadcast-based services. Broadcast-based technology services declined significantly year-to-year, declining 81.5% from 2003 to 2004, 58.6% from 2002 to 2003, and 55.9% from 2001 to 2002, as customers migrated to alternative delivery sources, including eSignal’s Internet-based services. 

2004 43.7 2005 45.8 2006 61.7

2009 IDC Form 10-K  

Active Trader Services 
Challenging conditions in the active trader market have impacted our eSignal business in recent years. Expansion of the eSignal business is partly dependent on the growth in online trading accounts managed by active traders. Stock market volatility is an important trend that can influence active trader subscriptions. During periods when the major stock markets are less volatile, we have experienced that active traders tend to trade less frequently and that cancellations of eSignal’s services typically increase and new subscriptions slow. Periods of declines in the major stock markets also have greater potential to lead to an increase in cancellations of eSignal’s services by traders who are unable or unwilling to withstand losses. In addition, online brokerage firms continue to upgrade the features and tools they provide to their active trader clients, a trend that is resulting in intensified competition to acquire new subscribers. Related to these dynamics, we have experienced period-over-period declines in eSignal’s direct subscriber base in recent quarters and as a result, a decline in subscription-related revenue. Although major stock markets experienced a meaningful recovery in 2009, this recovery has yet to translate into a meaningful increase in the number of our active trader direct subscribers and it is unclear if or when it will do so. Factors such as price, ease of use and range of services, including the ability to directly execute their trades, are factors active traders consider when selecting a financial information service provider. Despite these challenges, eSignal’s base of direct subscribers grew modestly in 2009 as a result of deployments by institutional customers during the year. eSignal’s online advertising revenue declined in 2009 as a result of difficult market conditions. More specifically, businesses that advertise online continue to reduce such spending and there is intensifying competition to attract online advertisers. Other factors that may affect eSignal’s ability to grow include increasing adoption of its offerings by financial institutions, the effectiveness of its redistribution network, price increases and changes in demand for its suite of real-time market data terminals, which vary in price. 
We believe that eSignal’s future growth is dependent on expanding its direct subscriber base for its offerings with both active traders and financial institutions. In particular, we believe that the combination of vendor consolidations and increased cost pressures is creating an opportunity for adoption of eSignal’s desktop solutions by financial institutions in the wealth management market. 

NO NUMBERS? 

eSignal’s information is delivered via a sophisticated network infrastructure with an advanced Internet protocol multicast backbone and multiple, geographically dispersed computer server farms. eSignal services include its financial websites: Quote.com®, RagingBull.com and FutureSource.com; subscription services aimed at active traders: its eSignal-branded workstation and related offerings such as eSignal®, eSignal Market ScannersSM, eSignal, and Advanced GET® Edition; eSignal OnDemand; LiveCharts® and QCharts® market data platforms; and QuoTrek® for wireless access to real-time streaming market data; trading education services aimed at active traders through its seminar offerings, eSignal Learning; and real-time market data platforms designed for investment community professionals: eSignal Pro®, the FutureSource® line of workstations and the web-based Market-QSM desktop solution. 

Our eSignal business provides real-time financial market information and access to decision-support tools that assist active traders, individual investors and investment community professionals in their analysis of securities traded on major markets worldwide. As of the end of 2009, this business had 56,492 direct subscription terminals, compared with 54,870 and 61,347 at the end of 2008 and 2007, respectively (the number of direct subscription terminals for 2008 and 2007 reflects the reclassification of certain product sales that had been inadvertently included as direct subscriptions in prior periods). Although active traders have historically been the primary target market for eSignal’s offerings, in 2009, we experienced increased institutional interest in certain offerings developed by eSignal. eSignal also operates financial websites that provide investors with free financial information and news about global equities, options, futures and other securities. These financial websites generate revenue through online advertising. 

YES NUMBER

2010 IDC Form 10-K  

Active Trader Services 
Our Desktop Solutions business, formerly known as eSignal, has been impacted by challenging conditions in the active trader market in the past several years. Expansion of this business is partly dependent on the growth in online trading accounts managed by active traders and the trend in stock market volatility. During periods of low volatility in the major stock markets, our active trader clients tend to trade less frequently, and cancellations of our services increase and new sales slow. Periods of declines in the major stock markets also have greater potential to lead to an increase in cancellations of desktop solutions by customers. In addition to factors such as price and ease of use, active traders consider the range of services, including the ability to directly execute their trades, when selecting a financial information desktop solutions service provider. The competition to acquire new subscribers remains intense and is impacted by online brokerage firms continuing to upgrade the features and tools they provide to their active trader customers. If our subscribers can obtain the financial information services we offer directly from the brokerage firms that use to execute trades, they are less likely to contract with us. Although major stock markets have recovered in recent quarters, this recovery has not translated into a meaningful increase in the number of our active trader direct subscribers and it is unclear if or when it will do so. Increased trading activity in the energy and commodities sectors has benefited certain of our offerings, including our FutureSource® Workstation and Market-QSM products, which are used by financial institutions and corporations, as well as active traders. 

The combination of all of these trends has impacted our ability to grow our direct subscriber base. As of December 31, 2010, Desktop Solutions supported approximately 54,000 direct subscription terminals, a 3.6% decline from approximately 56,000 direct subscription terminals as of December 31, 2009. In addition, the mix of subscribers may shift slightly from period to period, which can also impact revenue. At the same time, we are positioning certain products, such as Market-Q and eSignal®, to target the wealth management operations of financial institutions including financial advisors, stock brokers and other investment community professionals. 
Across each of our businesses, regardless of business segment, our offerings are contracted with customers through fixed fee subscriptions (on either a multi-year, annual, quarterly or monthly basis), variable fee based on usage or a combination of fixed fee subscription and usage-based fees. In addition, some of our services generate one-time or non-recurring revenue, such as one time purchases of historical data or installations (including installations of product upgrades). Our contracts typically renew automatically unless canceled by one of the parties.

IDC Form 10-K 2011  

As of December 31, 2011, our workstations and related services supported approximately 83,000 total subscribers worldwide. 

Within our Trading Solutions segment, we report the total number of global subscribers across our range of workstations. As of December 31, 2011, we supported approximately 83,000 total subscribers worldwide, which was essentially unchanged from the same period last year. Subscriber declines primarily within our active trader platforms were offset by subscriber growth for our wealth management workstations. In our prior filings, the number of subscribers we reported was limited to direct subscription terminals within our historical Active Trader segment. Period-to-period changes in the total number of global subscribers, as well as shifts in the mix of subscribers by service type can also impact future revenue.

IDC Form 10-K 2012  

As of December 31, 2012, our workstations and related services supported approximately 81,000 total subscribers worldwide, compared with approximately 85,700 total subscribers as of December 31, 2011. Please note that the total number of subscribers now includes certain subscribers who use modified versions of our workstations which offer fewer features and limited content (these subscribers had not been included in prior quarterly or annual filings during 2011 or 2012).

Wealth Management  

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eSignal, Inc.: Private Company Information - Businessweek  

Company Overview 
eSignal, Inc., an interactive data company, provides streaming, real-time financial market data, news, analytics, and decision-support tools for professional and individual traders. The company offers eSignal, a trading software for traders and investors; eSignal OnDemand, a delayed intraday and daily market data and charting package; and eSignal, Advanced GET Edition, which offers users with predictive and proprietary indicators, as well as the Advanced GET Scanner for catching the signature GET trade set-ups. It also provides LiveCharts that provides a Web-based access to market quotes, charts, and news; QuoTrek, a real-time mobile tool that offers streaming quotes, charts, and news from the markets; and eSignal scanners, which provide real-time scans of the stock market. In addition, the company offers eSignal Pro, a global market data and analytics platform for broker-dealer, institutional trading, and sell-side community; FutureSource Workstation, a real-time market data and decision support software for commodities, financial futures, and foreign exchange trading communities; and Market-Q, a market data solution for financial services professionals. Further, it offers integration solutions. eSignal, Inc. was founded in 1983 and is headquartered in Hayward, California. The company has additional offices in Bedford and Boxborough, Massachusetts; Chicago and Lombard, Illinois; New York, New York; London, United Kingdom; Paris, France; Geneva, Switzerland; Dubai, United Arab Emirates; Sydney, Australia; Hong Kong; and Singapore. eSignal, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Interactive Data Corporation.

IDC Interactive Data Corp Latest Form 10-K  

"Corporate History 
On February 29, 2000, Interactive Data Corporation was created through the merger of Data Broadcasting Corporation, which included the eSignal suite of workstations and the BondEdge fixed income analytics offerings, and the business then known as Interactive Data Corporation, which included historical and end-of-day pricing, evaluations and financial information, an entity which has been in the financial data business for over 45 years. On July 29, 2010, we were acquired by investment funds managed by the Sponsors (the “Merger”). 
Since the merger of Data Broadcasting Corporation and Interactive Data Corporation in 2000 through January 2010, we have completed a dozen acquisitions of varying sizes. Acquisitions such as ComStock in 2003, IS. Teledata in 2005 and 7ticks in 2010 enabled us to enter adjacent real-time markets. Acquisitions such as Merrill Lynch’s Securities Pricing Service in 2002, FutureSource in 2004, Xcitek in 2007 and NDF in 2008 strengthened and expanded our existing pricing, reference data and active trader services by bringing to us, among other things, complementary content and capabilities, new customers, and broader distribution capabilities in certain geographic regions." 

WHAT SPONSORS? 

"We also market a range of workstations that primarily target the wealth management, energy and commodity and active trader sectors. Our workstations help our customers analyze and make investment decisions about financial instruments traded on major markets worldwide, including equities, futures and commodities. Our primary wealth management workstations are PrimeTerminal and Market-Q, which are hosted market data workstations sold in Europe and North America, respectively. Along with our web-based hosted solutions, these workstations aggregate content that may be sourced from both the customer and from a number of information providers, including us, and then tailor the visual display of the content to the needs and specifications of clients. By using a software as a service (“SaaS”) business model for our web-based hosted solutions, we enable customers to lower expenses by reducing the need for owning and maintaining costly IT infrastructures and managing market data volumes. Under our eSignal® and FutureSource® brands, we provide workstations and related offerings that deliver real-time financial market information and provide decision-support tools that address the needs of active traders, energy and commodity professionals, and other investors. These workstations are complemented by services for wireless access to real-time streaming market data. As of December 31, 2013, our workstations and related services supported approximately 81,700 total subscribers worldwide, compared with approximately 81,000 total subscribers as of December 31, 2012." 

NO GROWTH 

"Added new content and analytic capabilities for our range of workstations (FutureSource, Market-Q, eSignal and PrimeTerminal);" 

"intensified competition for active trader subscribers have potential to adversely impact our future revenue." 

"Within our Trading Solutions segment, we report the total number of global subscribers across our range of workstations. As of December 31, 2013, our workstations and related services supported approximately 81,700 total subscribers worldwide, compared with approximately 81,000 total subscribers as of December 31, 2012. Please note that the total number of subscribers now includes certain subscribers who use modified versions of our workstations that offer fewer features and limited content (these subscribers had not been included in prior quarterly or annual filings during 2011 or 2012). The total number of subscribers as of December 31, 2012 was updated so as to be comparable to December 31, 2013. Period-to-period changes in the total number of global subscribers, as well as shifts in the mix of subscribers by service type can also impact future revenue." 

INCLUDING ALL THE POOR LIVECHARTS SUBS TO KEEP THE NUMBERS UP? 

"The revenue performance within our Trading Solutions segment in recent years has been impacted by challenging market conditions, which have continued to affect the segment’s new sales and cancellation levels to varying degrees across both product areas. During 2013, we have experienced extended sales cycles, particularly for larger, more strategic engagements, while cancellations have increased in certain product areas, such as hosted web applications, due in part to cost pressures facing certain clients resulting in the business being shifted to lower priced alternatives or a decision to host the web application internally. In our workstations product area, our success in expanding the subscriber base for our workstations in the North American wealth management sector in recent quarters has helped to offset challenges in retaining subscribers for our workstations targeting the active trader segment. Growth in our Trading Solutions segment is dependent, in large part, on a combination of the following: increasing real-time feeds sales, driving continued adoption of our trading infrastructure managed services, expanding our presence in the wealth management sector, attracting new subscribers for our active trader, and energy and commodity workstations, and strengthening overall customer retention." 

LIKE MAKING IT VERY HARD TO CANCEL

Pinata Love  

HE DOESN'T WANT TO BEAT HELL OUT OF SPIDERMAN

On the tarmac in Newark  

WOULDN'T FILL YOU WITH CONFIDENCE

China blinks as economic downturn deepens - AmBevPritch  

"a return to the bad old ways of credit-driven growth" 

NAH, QUOTES CHOVANEC SO YOU CAN BE SURE IT ISN'T RIGHT

Legacybox  

VHS TAPE CONVERSION! ;-)

DNS Cache Poisoning in the People's Republic of China - Research - ViewDNS.info  

LATEST OUTAGE THE WORST I'VE EVER SEEN IT ... EDGECAST THING?

Google launches Contributor, a crowdfunding tool for publishers — Tech News and Analysis 

"On Thursday it starts rolling out a new one called Google Contributor, which is designed to allow web users to pay sites that they visit a monthly fee, and in return see no Google ads when they visit those sites." 

I USE ADBLOCK AND HAVEN'T SEEN AN AD IN 20 YEARS

Paul Annett on Twitter: "Today my eldest asked me if the Barclays logo is the Twitter bird's dad. http://t.co/qITcIcosUh"  

CUTE, AND NOT MOM

There's a Suicide Epidemic in Utah — And One Neuroscientist Thinks He Knows Why - Mic  

" often attributing gun use, low population density and the area's heavy Mormon influence as potential factors. But Renshaw thinks he's identified a more likely cause for the Utah blues: altitude." 

ALTITUDE NOT ATTITUDE

Laurie Voss on Twitter: "Pity the poor AWS graphic designer who had to come up with 30+ distinct icons for almost wholly abstract concepts: http://t.co/Lyduxy2H0Z"  

EASY, TAKE ANOTHER BONG HIT

Kim Possible on Twitter: "1970s lego had the right idea http://t.co/NaaKo2kger"  

"A LOT OF QUEER BOYS LIKE DOLLS HOUSES"

APIs.io - the API search engine  

NICE

An Interview with Flickr cofounder Stewart Butterfield on the Workplace Communication App Slack | MIT Technology Review  

"I try to instill this into the rest of the team but certainly I feel that what we have right now is just a giant piece of shit." 

GEN X SMARTASS, ONCE MARRIED TO THAT FABULOUS FAKE

184 all time highs 2014 11 21  

Apple Inc 
Berkshire Hath Hld B 
Visa Inc 
Pepsico Inc 
Amgen Inc 
Union Pacific Corp 
Abbvie Inc. Common Stock 
3M Company 
Nike Inc 
Honeywell International Inc 
Medtronic Inc 
Lowe's Companies 
Costco Wholesale Corp 
Express Scripts 
Danaher Corp 
Blackrock 
Fedex Corp 
General Dynamics Corp 
Covidien Plc. 
Hdfc Bank Limited 
American Tower Corp 
Ace Limited 
Illinois Tool Works Inc 
CSX Corp 
Reynolds American Inc 
The Travelers Companies Inc 
Stryker Corp 
Archer Daniels Midland Company 
Raytheon Company 
V.F. Corp 
Air Products and Chemicals 
PPG Industries 
Kroger Company 
Allstate Corp 
Northrop Grumman Corp 
Marathon Petroleum Corp 
Intuit Inc 
AON Plc 
Becton Dickinson and Company 
Chubb Corp 
Ameriprise Financial Services 
L Brands Inc 
Sherwin-Williams Company 
Brf-Brasil Foods S.A. 
Macy's Inc 
Seagate Technology. 
Delphi Automotive Plc 
Magellan Midstream Partners L.P. 
Dollar General Corp 
Parker-Hannifin Corp 
Monster Beverage Corp 
Constellation Brands Inc 
Ross Stores 
Fiserv Inc 
Nxp Semiconductors N.V. 
Fidelity National Information Services 
Spectra Energy Partners LP 
Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd 
Genuine Parts Company 
SBA Communications Corp 
Nordstrom 
Whirlpool Corp 
Dr Pepper Snapple Group Inc 
Dollar Tree 
Netease Inc 
Autodesk Inc 
Fleetcor Technologies 
C.R. Bard 
Access Midstream Partners L.P. 
Carefusion Corp 
Sunoco Logistics Partners LP 
Hanesbrands Inc 
Tim Hortons Inc 
Buckeye Partners L.P. 
Enbridge Energy L.P. 
Pall Corp 
ING US Inc 
Church & Dwight Company 
Dr. Reddy's Laboratories Ltd 
Waters Corp 
Tesoro Petroleum Corp 
Varian Medical Systems 
Ashland Inc 
Jarden Corp 
Airgas Inc 
Wabtec Corp 
Navient Corporation 
Norwegian Cruise Line Holdings 
Mettler-Toledo International 
Footlocker Inc 
Sealed Air Corp 
Snap-On Inc 
Everest Re Group 
Petsmart Inc 
Dentsply International Inc 
Meadwestvaco Corp 
Alleghany Corp 
Valspar Corp 
Williams-Sonoma 
Old Dominion Freight Line 
Synopsys Inc 
W.R. Berkley Corp 
Jones Lang Lasalle Inc 
RPM International Inc 
Spirit Aerosystems Holdings 
Reinsurance Group of America Inc 
Ingredion Inc 
Carlisle Companies Inc 
Zayo Group Holdings Inc. 
Global Payments Inc 
Leggett & Platt Inc 
Broadridge Financial Solutions Llc 
Keysight Technologies Inc. Comm 
Gentex Corp 
Hcc Insurance Holdings 
Axis Capital Holdings 
Domino's Pizza Inc 
Sirona Dental Systems 
Trident Performance Group 
Teleflex Inc 
Brookfield Renewable 
Tfs Financial Corp 
Dun & Bradstreet Corp 
Michaels Companies Inc. 
SS&C Technologies Holdings 
Swift Transportation Company 
HSN Inc 
Validus Holdings 
Verint Systems Inc 
Servicemaster Global Holdings I 
Landstar System 
First American Corp 
Cst Brands Inc. Common Stock 
Caseys General Stores 
Receptos Inc 
Catalent Inc. 
Burlington Stores Inc 
Berry Plastics Group Inc 
Euronet Worldwide 
Murphy USA Inc. Common Stock Wh 
Liberty Broadband Corporation 
Big Lots 
Nice-Systems Limited 
La Quinta Holdings Inc. 
J2 Global Communications Inc 
Knight Transportation 
Marriot Vacations Worldwide Cor 
Heartland Express 
Impax Laboratories 
Caesarstone Sdot-Yam Ltd 
Hillenbrand Inc 
Group 1 Automotive 
Werner Enterprises 
J & J Snack Foods 
Mueller Industries 
Dineequity Inc 
Anacor Pharmaceuticals 
Apogee Enterprises 
Paycom Software Inc. 
Dplo 
Global Partners LP 
Healthequity Inc. 
Pra Health Sciences Inc. 
Ellie Mae Inc 
Inc Research Holdings Inc. 
The Navigators Group 
Cato Corp 
Coca-Cola Bottling Co. Consolidated 
New Media Investment Group Inc. 
Q2 Holdings Inc 
Boot Barn Holdings Inc. 
US Concrete 
Strattec Security Corp 
Covenant Transportation Group 
P.A.M. Transportation Services 
Reading International Inc 
Kona Grill 
Triumph Bancorp Inc. 
Quotient Limited 
Allied Motion Technologies 
Willdan Group 
Scynexis Inc 
Nv5 Holdings Inc 
Flanigan's Enterprises

Exclusive: China ready to cut rates again on fears of deflation - sources | Reuters  

RATE CUT AS GOOD AS SIGNAL AS ANY THAT YOU NEED TO BEWARE, MAKE SERIOUS CONTINGENCY PLANS

Meet Alibaba's Woman of Mystery in Los Angeles  

"At Harvard, Zhang was one of a dozen students from China who had left the country after the 1989 crackdown on dissidents, described in a Newsweek profile in 2000 as part of an influential "Tiananmen Generation" who had received American educations and were debating whether to accept lucrative offers from U.S. companies or return to help build the Chinese economy. " ... AROUND MY AGE ... ALL THE CHINESE IVY LEAGUE WOMEN OF THAT GENERATION ARE LIHAI

China’s Central Bank Comments on Interest Rate Cut (Translation) - Bloomberg  

TRANSLATION ... TURNOVER AT BBG SO HIGH I DON'T KNOW ANY OF THE CHINESE STAFF ANYMORE

央行有关负责人就下调人民币贷款及存款基准利率<br/>并进一步推进利率市场化改革答记者问-中国人民银行  

INTEREST RATE CUT EXPLAINER

TweetDeck by Twitter - Chrome Web Store  

UM HOW DO I LAUNCH THIS IN FUTURE?

China’s New Global Leadership  

"while China’s geopolitical status is rising rapidly, alongside its economic might, the US continues to squander its global leadership, owing to the unchecked greed of its political and economic elites and the self-made trap of perpetual war in the Middle East." 

YOU DON'T HAVE TO BE A SAIS GRAD TO UNDERSTAND HOW DISASTROUS THE NEOCON WARS HAVE BEEN FOR AMERICA (AND GREAT FOR CHINA)

My latest: A closer look at the MIT Billion Prices Project jpkoning.blogspot.ca/2014/11/not-yo… 

SHIITAKE

LOVED this @nytimes #longread on what our passwords say about us: nyti.ms/11KyZFn Tremendous piece by @ian_urbina  

Ex-CFO of China's Longtop found liable in rare U.S. investor trial mobile.reuters.com/article/idUSL2… 

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fun lounge set  

MAYBE BETTER SINCE I HATE THE SHIRT POCKET ON THE JAMMIES

fun print jammies  

cigar case  

SANTA WILL BRING

Laptop Camera Cover Set | Electronic Frontier Foundation  

Say goodbye to that unsightly sticky note/masking tape/nectarine sticker guarding your machine

HA! ALL OUR MACHINES ARE BLACK TAPED

google cache of the now deleted from mainland sites phoenix weekly story on xu caihou's booty webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache… 徐才厚被抄家内幕:豪宅搜出1吨多重现金  

Nice summary of China making the global internet more like its intranet. Begins with #hk example. By @beijingscribe bloom.bg/1HsII49  

@NIUBI HAS BEEN SAYING THIS FOR YEARS AND THE ECONOMIST SHAMELESSLY STOLE HIS CAGED BIRD METAPHOR

http://www.chinasmack.com/2014/pictures/modern-china-reimagined-in-famous-12th-century-chinese-painting.html  

Chinese Convicted of Fatal Crash, Deported seattletimes.com/html/localnews… "Xu was 19..purchased the Mercedes C300 4 days before with cash" OF COURSE  

top ten jammies  

ASSUMING YOU WANT TO PAY $300 ... HANRO CALIDA OLATZ ALL GOOD NAMES

Beautiful tribute to his dad by @jimcramer - thestreet.mobi/story/12963316…  

"For years I used lunch bags from "Moana," some deadbeat women's-clothing store that stiffed my dad and wrecked his year. That's how it works with small businesses. "

PARTING SHOT

"When he had a stroke three years ago and needed round-the-clock help, we had to fight those sons of bitches who wrote the policies to get the money they owed him to pay the nurse."

ANOTHER SHOT 

". The truckers were unionized, and they usually didn't help. Even in his 80s. Thanks for nothing, guys "

ANOTHER SHOT ... CRAMER HAS LOTS OF SCORES TO SETTLE

"He always said, "Call me Ken," but they always called him Mr. Cramer. He will always be Mr. Cramer. I will always be Jimmy. We buried him with his Eagles hat."

JIMMY MADE A HUNDRED MILLION, UNLIKE HIS DAD

"my wife-to-be Lisa Detwiler."

CRAMER IS FINALLY GETTING REMARRIED? DOES SHE KNOW WHAT SHE'S GETTING INTO? ;-)

"At the time of publication, Action Alerts PLUS, which Cramer co-manages as a charitable trust, had no positions in the securities mentioned."

HOW'S THAT FOR A BUZZKILL ENDING?

A bleak exit letter from influential scribe @bobdavis187 : Are we witnessing the end of China’s economic miracle? on.wsj.com/14XYllx  

GHOST TOWN BLUES ... STAY WITHIN THE THIRD RING ROAD AND RETAIN YOUR OPTIMISM (that's what i do)

http://zite.to/1v49ESM  

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RT @ThatsOnline: Congratulations, It's a Match: The Man Bringing Tinder to China goo.gl/BIPi93 pic.twitter.com/7qwRaNwdVP  

NOT LIKE MOMO ... CAREFUL WHAT PIC YOU PICK

Michelle Phan: From YouTube Star to $84 Million Startup Founder | Re/code  

"Michelle Phan — with more than a billion views on YouTube and seven million followers; her own L’Oreal line and lifestyle media network; booming e-commerce beauty startup called Ipsy; and a new book – is teaching more people how to decorate their faces than perhaps anyone else in the world." 

" “So many of my friends have 200,000 subscribers, and they make around five to six K a month,” she said. “Which is completely cool.”" 

WRONG, THEY'RE LOSERS

2 Worlds of Hong Kong, and a Fatal Intersection - NYTimes.com  

"With four years of experience, he would have been earning $600,000 to $800,000 a year, according to a banker familiar with the company’s compensation."

NAH, I THINK HE WAS A SCRATCH TRADER AT BEST, MAYBE HKD800,000

STOCK CONNECT SCHEME REDUCES DIM SUM ISSUERS' COSTS  

Bank of China, the sole clearing bank for the Shanghai-Hong Kong stock connect scheme, cleared 12.08 billion yuan 
(1.97 billion U.S. dollars) for Hong Kong Securities Clearing Company Limited with a southbound trading turnover of 
407 million yuan for China Securities Depository and Clearing Corporation Limited, Xinhua reported this week citing 
a bank statement. 
 Four bonds from China Construction Bank, were listed on the Luxembourg Stock Exchange this week. The bonds are 
tranches of the bank's 5-billion-U.S. dollar medium term note program and the first to be listed in Luxembourg. All 
four tranches are denominated in the Chinese currency. 
 Away from the stock-connect scheme, the Australian stock exchange ASX.AX and Bank of China 601988.SS have 
agreed to work together to boost yuan trading in Australia. The fourth-biggest lender was appointed this week as the 
official clearing bank in Australia. (Full Story)

Citigroup Executive Probably Killed Himself, Police Say - Bloomberg  

"The building’s doorman had gone to the apartment to check on Miller after his boyfriend was unable to reach him" 

BACKPAGE BACKDOOR ... KINKY GAY SEX GONE WRONG OR SOMETHING ELSE?

82 all time highs 2014 11 20  

Amgen Inc 
Nike Inc 
Lowe's Companies 
Illinois Tool Works Inc 
Ace Limited 
CSX Corp 
The Travelers Companies Inc 
Archer Daniels Midland Company 
Kinder Morgan Energy Partners L.P. 
V.F. Corp 
Air Products and Chemicals 
Kroger Company 
Allstate Corp 
Telus Corp. Non Voting Shares 
Chubb Corp 
Sherwin-Williams Company 
L Brands Inc 
Macy's Inc 
Seagate Technology. 
Dollar General Corp 
Magellan Midstream Partners L.P. 
Monster Beverage Corp 
Ross Stores 
SBA Communications Corp 
Whirlpool Corp 
Dr Pepper Snapple Group Inc 
Kinder Morgan Management Llc 
Netease Inc 
Dollar Tree 
Fleetcor Technologies 
Carefusion Corp 
Sunoco Logistics Partners LP 
Hanesbrands Inc 
Tim Hortons Inc 
Dr. Reddy's Laboratories Ltd 
Waters Corp 
Tesoro Petroleum Corp 
Airgas Inc 
Jarden Corp 
Norwegian Cruise Line Holdings 
Everest Re Group 
Dentsply International Inc 
Petsmart Inc 
Coty Inc 
W.R. Berkley Corp 
Williams-Sonoma 
Jones Lang Lasalle Inc 
Ingredion Inc 
Zayo Group Holdings Inc. 
Axis Capital Holdings 
Domino's Pizza Inc 
Kar Auction Services Inc 
Trident Performance Group 
Brookfield Renewable 
Michaels Companies Inc. 
HSN Inc 
Swift Transportation Company 
Validus Holdings 
First American Corp 
Cst Brands Inc. Common Stock 
Caseys General Stores 
Receptos Inc 
Murphy USA Inc. Common Stock Wh 
La Quinta Holdings Inc. 
Heartland Express 
Impax Laboratories 
Caesarstone Sdot-Yam Ltd 
Dineequity Inc 
Apogee Enterprises 
Great Western Bancorp Inc. 
Global Partners LP 
Dplo 
Pra Health Sciences Inc. 
Sunoco L.P. 
Cato Corp 
America's Car-Mart 
Global Telcom & Technology Inc 
Covenant Transportation Group 
Kona Grill 
Willdan Group 
Madison County Financial Inc 
Flanigan's Enterprises

What’s Wrong with "Wetback"?: What a Congressman's Slur Reveals - racismreview.com  

“My father had a ranch; we used to have 50-60 wetbacks to pick tomatoes. It takes two people to pick the same tomatoes now. It’s all done by machine.” 

I'VE ALWAYS LIKED THE TERMS WETBACK AND BEANER, DIDN'T THINK OF THEM AS "SLURS"

北大副教授与女学生发生不正当性关系被除党籍|北大副教授|不正当关系_新浪新闻  

"与女学生王某确有不正当性关系" 

BETTER IF FEMALE PROF AND MALE STUDENT ... WONDER WHERE SHE IS FROM?

Vanguard Takes a Victory Lap: 86% of its Stock Funds Beat the Peer Group  

JUST THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN SKIMMING 15 BPS VERSUS 150 BPS

Tower houses - Architecture - How To Spend It  

"create a panoramic platform facing north towards the Catskill Mountains." ... STRICT BUILDING HEIGHT REQUIREMENTS IN DESIRABLE AREAS

Hugh Hendry: 'Desperate times breed desperate measures...  

HE'S RIGHT ABOUT A LOT OF THINGS BUT THAT DOESN'T MEAN HE'S MAKING MONEY

Costolo’s Family Trusts Sell 50% of Twitter Stock This Month - Bloomberg  

"The Richard Costolo 2001 Living Trust and Lorin Costolo 2001 Living Trust, named for his wife, sold 283,460 shares in transactions on Nov. 3 and Nov. 17 for $11.6 million, according to regulatory filings. Costolo owns 36,028 shares in the company directly, 509,828 unvested restricted stock units and 283,460 shares in the trusts after the sales." 

SO HE'S DIVERSIFYING ;-)

Air Quality China on the App Store on iTunes  

STILL CARRIES US EMBASSY DATA, SAYS KIM

Interview with Evan Osnos, 2014 National Book Award Winner, Nonfiction  

"it feels ludicrous, which is nice" 

IMAGINE THE WAVES OF ENVY RIPPLING ACROSS THE EXPAT WORLD LOL

Analog Industries » A Discussion of Post-Digitality » Dear Cory Doctorow: Please Shut The Fuck Up About Music...  

"Survivor bias, my hairy white nuts." ... THE MACHINE IS STILL REAL AND POWERFUL, LOOK AT TAYLOR SWIFT (whoever that is)

The Rape Accusations Against Bill Cosby Must Not Be Ignored - The Atlantic  

"And then next thing I know, I was being undressed on his couch. I was so out of it." 

WHAT WAS THE MICKEY FINN?

Why Jumei’s Business Model is Broken. Selling Authentic Makeup Is Costly - Asia Stocks to Watch - Barrons.com  

"Investors are worried that as an online discounter, Jumei can’t control its sourcing and inevitably sells counterfeit products. About 30% of Jumei’s GMV came from third-party merchants last year and most of Jumei’s tier-one brands such as Estee Lauder, Lancome and Clinique were sold by these third-party merchants who relied on parallel importing to make money. By not controlling the sourcing directly, Jumei runs the risk of selling fake products on its site." 

YEP, KEEPS A LOT OF SMART PEOPLE FROM BUYING FROM THEM ... AND OF COURSE VIPS CAN KILL THEM OFF

Stock Quote JMEI Jumei International Holding Limited  

11:32AM   Jumei International (JMEI) Stock Lower Today After Third Quarter Earnings Results at TheStreet 

DIDN'T SHOW UP ON MY SCANNER PRE OPEN?? DID 5MM SHARES IN THE END ... OH REPORTED EARNING AFTER HOURS ON PREVIOUS DAY, WOULD HAVE BEEN ON SCANNER THEN

Candidates for Future Fraud Award  

The gala culminated with the awarding of the two country awards: Xiu Laigui, Chairman, Xiuzheng Pharmaceutical Group Co., Ltd. won the country award for the Mainland China Region and Kenneth Lo of Cry...

Netflix still dominates streaming, but Amazon is picking up steam (@pkafka via @Recode) ow.ly/EB6Rn #MustReads  

I WATCHED TRANSPARENT AND WOULD WATCH BOSCH IF THEY MADE IT

Movies Watched -- Locke

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Watched 20 minutes of this then quit even though it was less than 90 minutes long in total. Guy driving his car and talking to various people on his hands-free phone. For 90 minutes. Wasn't interested.