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SAM221 VIP up from DC area, not JBA and northwest. Where is KANSAS going today?….
ROXAN25 E-3F Sentry AWACS done and heading NW. This one keeps dropping on and off. IT was not named ROXAN25 in previous post
here if you ghost
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will watch. saw him last night but did not talk to. We'll see. IRL taking priority, don't know how he does the marathons. took me to task during notables creek.
Shake Shack Inc sold by leonard Green & Partners Mg'ing Partner-Jonathan Sokoloff: $24.29m-Feb 13-14
Jonathan D. Sokoloff has served on the Board of Directors of Shake Shack since December 2012. Mr. Sokoloff is currently a Managing Partner with LGP, which he joined in 1990. Before joining LGP, he was a Managing Director in Investment Banking at Drexel Burnham Lambert since 1985. Mr. Sokoloff serves as a member of the board of directors of the parent holding companies of Advantage Solutions and Jetro Cash & Carry and serves as a member of the board of directors of The Container Store, USHG, J.Crew, Jo-Ann Stores, Signet Jewelers Limited and Top Shop/Top Man Limited. He is a trustee of his alma mater, Williams College, as well as a trustee of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and a director of the Melanoma Research Alliance. Mr. Sokoloff brings to his service on our Board of Directors particular knowledge and experience in finance, and his broad-based experience in the leadership of retail businesses and the board practices of other major corporations.
https://www.leonardgreen.com/team/
https://www.finviz.com/insidertrading.ashx?oc=1175522&tc=7&b=2
India builds wall to hide slum ahead of POTUS visit
A half-kilometer (1,640-foot) brick wall has been hastily erected in India's Gujarat state ahead of a visit by U.S. President Donald Trump, with critics saying it was built to block the view of a slum area inhabited by more than 2,000 people.
"Since they are spending so much money on this wall, why not use that to improve our slum and provide better facilities for us," said Keshi Saraniya, a resident. "Why are they hiding us poor people?"
Trump is visiting the city of Ahmedabad in Gujarat during a two-day trip to India next week to attend an event called "Namaste Trump," which translates to "Greetings, Trump," at a cricket stadium along the lines of a "Howdy Modi" rally attended by Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi in Houston last September. Trump is to drive along a road next to the slum and will be accompanied by Modi, who is from Gujarat.
News reports said the wall was originally planned to be 6-7 feet (1.8-2.1 meters) high but was reduced to 4 feet (1.2 meters) after it received widespread publicity.
Senior government official Bijal Patel said the wall was built "for security reasons" and not to conceal the slum.
"Apart from security reasons, the wall is also part of a beautification and cleanliness drive," she said.
Several political leaders were quick to criticize the wall's construction, questioning Modi's development work in his own state. Modi was chief minister of Gujarat for 12 years before becoming the country's prime minister in May 2014.
Authorities on Monday also served eviction notices to 45 families living in another slum area near the cricket stadium.
The residents said they were asked to leave because of the upcoming event, but the city's civic body denied it.
"We have been living here for the last 20 years and now we are suddenly being told to vacate because some important leader is visiting this city for a day," said Sanjay Patani, a resident. "This is injustice."
Kishore Varna, a government official, said the land belongs to the civic body and evictions were done under the law. He didn't say why the eviction notices were sent just days ahead of Trump's visit.
Trump, who has pledged to build a wall along America's border with Mexico to stop people from entering the U.S., is visiting India on Feb. 24-25. His visit is aimed at smoothing ties strained by trade disputes and could also allow him to woo tens of thousands of Indian-American voters ahead of the U.S. presidential election.
Trade tensions between the two countries have escalated since the Trump administration levied tariffs on steel and aluminium from India.
India responded with higher tariffs on agricultural goods and restrictions on U.S. medical devices, prompting the U.S. to retaliate by removing India from a decades-old preferential trade program.
https://asia.nikkei.com/Politics/India-builds-wall-to-hide-slum-ahead-of-Trump-visit
dave has been on repeat mode for some time. have not watched it for a long time. It's a good intro for newbs but that's about it. He takes stuff from here for the fin side. Seen it.
from May 2019
Who Is Robert Mnuchin, the Man Who Made Jeff Koons the World's Most Expensive Living Artist This Week?
Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin's father has been making waves in the art world for years.
This week, Jeff Koons's stainless steel sculpture "Rabbit" (1986) made headlines across the world when it sold for to Robert Mnuchin for $91.1 million at Christie's, making it the most expensive work by a living artist ever to have sold at auction.
News that Koons had unseated David Hockney as the world's most expensive artist likely inspired in you a wide array of emotions that may have included "Wait, Mnuchin, as in Steven Mnuchin?" Yes. Robert Mnuchin is Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin's father and this fact is not exactly a coincidence. One of the wonderful (and terrible!) things about the art world is the way that, like the better parties in Proust, it's a nexus for the most influential people from a variety of disciplines. ("Rabbit," after all, came to Christie's from the estate of magazine magnate S.I. Newhouse Jr., who bought it from the artist Terry Winters through Larry Gagosian.) And then they all get together and make decisions that you read about in the newspaper.
To understand a little more about who Robert Mnuchin is will help you make sense of the price he paid for that bunny—and, indeed, and the art world itself. See, Robert Mnuchin came to the art world after retiring from Goldman Sachs in 1990 at age 57. At Goldman he'd earned the nickname "Coach" for his hands-on management style and pioneered the kinds of deals that we now know as block trading—appropriate enough for someone whose son would go on to make his money in mortgage-backed securities.
During his time at Goldman he started collecting art, names like Willem De Kooning, Mark Rothko, Franz Kline and Clyfford Still. Though these artists are all legendary, his collecting largely started because a dealer who showed these artists, Xavier Fourcade, happened to live four blocks away from Mnuchin's townhouse at 45 East 78th street. Fourcade would tell Mnuchin to stop in after work for a scotch, and to see the new works.
"I’m really a collector at heart, who happens to be a dealer," Mnuchin told me in 2015. "I feel that every dealer should be that way."
After retirement, Mnuchin and his wife tried their hand at running the Mayflower Inn in Washington, Connecticut, but it was a decidedly slower pace for the Coach. By 1992 he was dealing art out of the townhouse, which still houses the gallery today. The gallery has operated under various names in partnerships with the major art world players James Corcoran (C&M Arts) and Dominique LĂ©vy (L&M Arts). Not that it's been all about wheeling and dealing. Mnuchin happens to do celebrated shows with David Hammons, who is perhaps America's greatest living artist.
All this is to say that this purchase wasn't entirely out of character for Mnuchin, and if anybody can put together such a large sum of money for a Jeff Koons, it's him. In fact, he bought a Rothko for $75 million in 2012, which adjusted for inflation, is actually more than $91.1 million. Mnuchin said that he purchased that Rothko for someone else and it's likely that he bought the Koons on behalf of someone else as well.
Art dealing is fun but it's also a margins business: it's rare for someone to take on such a high cost alone in the hopes of selling it for more down the line. Sometimes at lower prices dealers will bid on an artist they don't represent as a way of flirtation, but at a high level this would be like committing to marriage on the first date. All we really know about this particular purchase is that it's sure to have made Jeff Koons extremely happy. And in the end, isn't that enough?
https://www.townandcountrymag.com/society/money-and-power/a27505787/robert-mnuchin-jeff-koons-rabbit-sculpture/
guess I missed that, I switched off early 2018 just after the move from half to here. I still point people to it for the intro reasons.
that voice just grates. knows enough on the fin side to attract new eyes-not putting him down mind you, role to play for sure. Not enough meat with that though-depends on what your background is. have a heavy one in that.so it's just noise.
overall, not just china. Use it just like the gaming platforms. Way too many back-doors in that. had one for a spell in the early 2000's
very sad having a front row seat to it. It wasn't perfect in the 70's but it is miles away from passable now.
never saw active evidence in my case but it seemed so rudimentary for the data is offered-could have done a much better job in presenting it. like an old DOS comp really.