#Nicholas Markowitz

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Nicholas Samuel Markowitz was an American teenager who was kidnapped and murdered at the age of 15 after a feud over drug money between his half-brother Benjami...

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CELEBRATING THE COMPOSITIONS OF WAYNE SHORTER, JAZZ SPECTRUM on WGTE, 18 MARCH 2023

Last week’s show was all Wayne Shorter’s playing on many of these very same tunes as selected by the regular host. He was a wonderful saxophonist, playing with both Art Blakey and Miles Davis (and essentially their music directors/composers) in two of the finest bands of their eras.

On the shared notion that he is also in the next tier of jazz composers just below Ellington/Strayhord and Monk, I took the assignment of showing how the tunes breathe and have a life of their own in the hands of the ever evolving jazz community.

My method was to find interesting/favorite players take up these tunes. Often I relied on the Secondhand Songs website for suggestions. But I had some definite ideas, such as relying on Palladium, an ensemble organized by Jesse Markowitz that plays Wayne Shorter music and includes young heroes like Nicole Glover and Sean Mason. Then there’s both Shorter tunes on the Jimmy Rowles/Stan Getz desert istand album, The Peacocks. And, what to do with the Weather Report era? Easy, Christian McBride did one with his pianoless quartet, New Jawn, that nonetheless conveys all the keyboards and percussion.

That was my first set: Palladium’s ESP that includes Shorter’s own voice, Sightseeing, and Lester Left Town.

I first heard Palladium when they did all of Speak No Evil, so that was the next idea with an array of artists and ensembles assaying that brilliant album.

Sanctuary from Ingrid Jensen and Jason Miles, and, at the end of the night, Masqualero with Marc Copland addressed Shorter’s contribution to Miles’ Bitches Brew. And I closed with Sean Mason’s meditative solo piano version of Weather Report’s Palladium as yet another reflection on how the electric tunes are above all tunes with life beyond the production elements.

But mostly I dug into the Blakey and Miles era tunes from the likes of Dave Liebman/Richie Beirach in Quest, the Dave Douglas/Joe Lovano Shorter tribute band, George Cables, Mary Halvorson in Thumbscrew, Fred Hersch (a couple of times), Kenny Werner.

I took the liberty with the Song of the Week segment to make Footprints the Tune of the Week bookending the original with his return to it with his wonderful latter era quartet. There’s Kenny Barron in there along with the SF Jazz Collective (Renee Rosnes arranged the tune).

It’s all pianists at the end.

Here’s the playlist:

18 March 2023

Set 1 (29:11)

Palladium, Don’t Look Back, “ESP” (14:48)

Christian McBride’s New Jawn, Christian McBride’s New Jawn, “Sightseeing” (8:30)

Jimmy Rowles with Stan Getz, The Peacocks, “Lester Left Town” (5:53)

Set 2 (30:05)

Kirk Lightsey Trio, Isotope, “Witch Hunt” (8:00)

Sal Nastico, Complete Bee Hive Sessions, “Fe Fi Fo Fum”. 5:58

Thumbscrew, Theirs, “Dance Cadaverous” (6:19)

Denny Zeitlin, Early Wayne: Explorations of Classic Wayne Shorter Compositions, “Speak No Evil”. 7:17

Set 3 (27:08)

Fred Hersch Trio, Heartsongs, “Infant Eyes” (7:38)

Jerry Gonzalez and the Fort Apache Band, Rumba Buhaina, “Wildflower” (6:44)

Ingrid Jensen/Jason Miles, Kind of New, “Sanctuary” (5:44)

Kenny Kirkland ,Thunder and Rainbows, “Black Nile”. 6:45

Set 4 (29:44)

Joe Lovano & Dave Douglas Sound Prints, Scandal, “Juju” 9:05

Stephen Scott, The Beautiful Thing, “Oriental Folk Song,” (4:32)

Nicholas Payton, Mysterious Shorter,  “Tom Thumb” (6:41

George Cables, One for My Baby, “Virgo”. 7:34

Set 5

Wayne Shorter, Adam’s Apple, “Footprints” (7:29)

Kenny Barron/Regina Carter, Freefall, “Footprints” (9:37)

SF Jazz Collective, Live 2008: Fifth Annual Concert Tour, “Footprints” (9:44)

Set 6

Cutting Edge, The Cutting Edge, “Footprints”  (8:03)

Wayne Shorter, Footprints Live!, “Footprints” (7:55)

Set 7

Ralph Peterson’s Gen Next Big Band, Listen Up,  “This is for Albert” (7:04)

Palladium, Don’t Look Back, “Contemplation” (6:48)

Set 8 (25:14)

Quest, Circular Dreaming, “Nefertiti”. 6:23

Jane Ira Bloom/Fred Hersch, “Miyako” (6:41)

Clifford Jordan and the Magic Triangle, On Stage Vol 1, “Pinocchio” (7:30)

Jimmy Rowles/Stan Getz, The Peacocks, “The Chess Players” (5:43)

Set 9 (27:30)

Kenny Werner Trio, Live at Visiones—Standards, “Fall” (5:51)

Joanne Brackeen, Invitation, “Iris” (6:58)

Marc Copland, At Night, “Masqualero” (4:56)

Palladium, Don’t Look Back, “Palladium” (10:45)

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bruh I love the movie Alpha dog, seen it so many times but it’s so good.

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Elvis, Truelove and the Stolen Boy: The Tragic Machismo of Nick Cassavetes’ ‘Alpha Dog’ by Amy Nicholson

[Last year, Musings paid homage to Produced and Abandoned: The Best Films You’ve Never Seen, a review anthology from the National Society of Film Critics that championed studio orphans from the ‘70s and ‘80s. In the days before the Internet, young cinephiles like myself relied on reference books and anthologies to lead us to films we might not have discovered otherwise. Released in 1990, Produced and Abandoned was a foundational piece of work, introducing me to such wonders as Cutter’s Way, Lost in America, High Tide, Choose Me, Housekeeping, and Fat City. (You can find the full list of entries here.) Our first round of Produced and Abandoned essays included Angelica Jade Bastién on By the Sea, Mike D’Angelo on The Counselor, Judy Berman on Velvet Goldmine, and Keith Phipps on O.C. and Stiggs. Today, Musings concludes our month-long round of essays about tarnished gems, in the hope they’ll get a second look. Or, more likely, a first. —Scott Tobias, editor.]

A decade before the presidency that elevated insults like “betacuck” and “soyboy” into political discourse, Nick Cassavetes made Alpha Dog, a cautionary tragedy about masculinity that audiences ignored. Time for a reappraisal. Alpha Dog is about a real murder. Over a three-day weekend in August of 2000, 15-year-old Zach Mazursky—in reality, named Nicholas Markowitz—is kidnapped and killed by the posse of 20-year-old San Fernando Valley drug dealer Johnny Truelove (Emile Hirsch) with a grudge against Zach’s older brother. No one thought the boy would die, not his main babysitter Frankie (Justin Timberlake), not the girls invited to party with “Stolen Boy,” and not even the boy himself, played with naive perfection by Anton Yelchin, who played video games and pounded beers assuming that his new captor-friends would eventually take him home.

Cassavetes’ daughter went to the same high school as Nicholas Markowitz. The murderers were neighborhood kids and he wanted to understand how fortunate sons with their whole lives ahead of them wound up in prison. The trigger man, Ryan Hoyt—“Elvis” in the film—had never even gotten a speeding ticket. Prosecutor Ron Zonen hoped the publicity around Alpha Dog would help the public spot the real-life Johnny, named Jesse James Hollywood, who was still on the lam despite being one of America’s Most Wanted. So the lawyers gave Cassavetes access to everything: crime scene photos, trial transcripts, psychological profiles, police reports, and their permission to contact the criminals and their parents. Cassavetes even took his actors to meet their counterparts, driving Justin Timberlake to a maximum security prison to get the vibe of the actual Frankie, and introducing Sharon Stone to Nicholas Markowitz’s mother, a broken woman who attempted suicide a dozen times in the years after her son's death.

Alpha Dog, pronounced Cassavetes, was “95 percent accurate.” Which was part of why it got buried, thanks to Jesse James Hollywood’s arrest just weeks after the film wrapped. Cassavetes hastily wrote a new ending to the movie, but his problems were just beginning. Hollywood’s lawyers insisted Alpha Dog would prevent their client from getting a fair trial, and used the threat of a mistrial to force Zonen off the case. “I don't know what Zonen was thinking, handing over the files,” gloated Hollywood’s defense team. “It was stupid.”

The publicity, and the delays, dragged out the pain for Markowitz’s family, especially when they heard Cassavetes had paid Hollywood’s father an, er, consulting fee. “Where is the justice in that?” asked the victim's brother. “This just goes on and on, and I’m spending my whole life in a courtroom.”

The film, too, was pushed back a year from its Sundance premiere. Despite casting a visionary young ensemble—Alpha Dog was my own introduction to Yelchin, Ben Foster, Olivia Wilde, Amanda Seyfried, Amber Heard, and the realization that Timberlake, that kid from N*SYNC, could actually act—no one noticed when it slid into theaters in January of 2007. It wasn’t just the bad press. It was that audiences couldn’t get past that Cassavetes’ last film was The Notebook. No way could the guy behind the biggest romantic weepy of a generation make something raw and cool.

But he had. Alpha Dog is a stunning movie about machismo and fate, two tag-team traits that destroy lives. Think Oedipus convincing himself he can outwit the oracle of Delphi. But Sophocles’ Oedipus telegraphs its intentions, elbowing the audience to see the end at the beginning. Greeks sitting down in 405 BC knew they were watching a tale that came full circle. Every step Oedipus takes away from his patricidal destiny just moves him closer to it.

If you map Alpha Dog’s script, instead of a loop, it looks like a horizontal line that plummets off a cliff. For most of its running time, Alpha Dog could pass for a coming-of-age flick where a sheltered kid with an over-protective mom (Sharon Stone) taps into his own self-confidence, right up until the scene where he tumbles into his own grave. Audiences who’d missed the news articles about the case weren’t clued into the climax. Cassavetes doesn’t offer any hints or flash-forwards, not even an ominous “based-on-a-true-story.” (The film might have been more successful if he had.) Instead, he lulls you into joining the kegger, watching Zach crack open beer after beer as though he expects to live forever. “There’s a movie sensibility that the film doesn’t conform to,” said Cassavetes. “You don’t watch this film. You endure it.”

As Zach, his eyes red-rimmed from bong rips, not tears, is shuttled between party dens and wealthy homes, he’s given several chances to escape. He’s even revealed to be a Tae Kwan Do blackbelt who can jokingly flip his captor-buddy Frankie (Justin Timberlake) into a bathtub. But Zach stays put—he doesn’t want to get his big brother Jake (Ben Foster) in more trouble, not realizing that Johnny is too busy making nervous phone calls to his lawyer and his aggro father Sonny (Bruce Willis) to get around to asking Jake for the $1200 in ransom money.

Zach’s death is disorienting, almost as if Psycho's Marion Crane got murdered in the second-to-last reel. In a minivan en route to his execution, he innocently tells Frankie he wants learn to play guitar. “It bugs me that I don’t know how to do anything,” he sighs. Meanwhile Johnny assures his dad that there’s no need to call off the killing. “These guys are such fuck-ups, nothing's gonna happen,” he shrugs, a rare example of cross-cutting that defuses tension in order to make the shock of the gunfire even worse. Up until the last second—even after Frankie binds him with duct tape—a sobbing Zach still can’t believe Frankie would hurt him, and honestly, Frankie can’t believe it himself. And Yelchin’s own early death makes you ache for him to get a happy ending, which Cassavetes dangles just out of reach.

This is how evil happens, says Cassavetes. Masterminds are rare. Instead, people like Frankie can be basically good, but can also be panicky and passive and selfish. Shoving Zach in Johnny’s van was an idiotic impulse by upper middle-class kids, who flipped out when they realized the snatching could get them a lifetime sentence. There’s no honor or glory in the violence. Johnny, the cowardly ringleader, talks tough, but orders his most craven friend, Elvis (Shawn Hatosy), to pull the trigger while he and his girlfriend Angela (Olivia Wilde) get drunk on margaritas. And after the murder, one side effect is that Johnny can’t get an erection. When Angela tries to get Johnny in the mood in their hideout motel, the walls close in on him, suffocating the mood.  

Away from his boys, Johnny is weak. Surrounded by them, he's the king. Alpha Dog sets up a culture of animalistic dominance. Johnny’s rental house is basically a primate cage at the zoo, only decorated with weight benches and Scarface posters. All of Johnny’s boys jockey to be his favorite and tear each other down in order to bump up their own rank. Kindness is weakness. When a fellow dealer with the ridiculous nickname Bobby 911 cruises by to negotiate a sale, he snarls at a guy who vouches for him: “You don’t need to tell him I’m good for it, man!”

Elvis, the future shooter, is the lowest member of the pack. He can’t ease into the group without Johnny ordering him to go pick up his pit-bull's poop in the backyard. Why do they pick on Elvis? He owes Johnny a bit of money, but the source of the scorn is simply group think. No one wants to be nice to the outcast, and Elvis is just too sincere to be taken seriously. When Elvis offers to get Johnny a beer, the guys tease him for being in love with Johnny. When he says sure, he does care about Johnny, they twist words into a gay panic joke. Elvis can’t win—they won’t let him—so he literally kills to prove his worth, and winds up sentenced to death row, where the real boy, just 21 at the time of the shooting, remains today. Another life wasted.

Cassavetes humanizes the killers because he wants us to understand how their micro decisions add up to murder. Not just the gunmen. Everyone’s a little to blame. The kids who got drunk with “Stolen Boy” and didn’t call the police. The girls who told Zach that being kidnapped made him sexy. Even Zach’s older step-brother Jake, an addict with a twitchy temper who escalates his war with Johnny to a fatal breaking point. Neither boy will back down over a $1200 debt, and there’s an awful split screen call when Johnny dials Jake intending to bring Zach home, but Jake is so boiling over with anger, his Bugs Bunny voice shrieking with outrage, that Johnny just hangs up the phone.

The opening credits, a montage of the cast’s own old home videos, underline that these were young and happy children—the kind of kids people point to as examples of the suburban American ideal. Over a treacly cover of “Somewhere Over the Rainbow,” we watch these real life boys being cultured to be brave: riding bikes, falling off dive-boards, running around with toy guns, going through the rituals of young manhood, from bar mitzvahs to karate lessons. Yelchin—recognizably dark-eyed and solemn even as a toddler—grins wearing plastic vampire teeth.

It takes another ten minutes for Yelchin’s character to sneak into the film sideways in a profile shot eating dinner with his parents, played by Sharon Stone and David Thornton. His Zach is barely even visible as brash Jake barges into the scene to beg for money. They say no, Jake stomps out, and Zach finally makes himself seen when he runs after his brother, begging to go anywhere less suffocating. Zach’s mom loves him so much that she watches him sleep. “I’m not fucking eight!” he yelps. He’s 15—practically a man, in his own imagination—and desperate to get away, even if it means mimicking Jake, a Jewish kid who’s so scrambled that he has a Hebrew tattoo on his clavicle and a swastika inked on his back. Jake starts to say that he wishes his own mom cared about him that much, but as soon as he gets vulnerable, he spins the moment into a joke. “Boo for me,” Jake grins, and takes another swig of beer.

“You could say it’s about drugs or guns or disaffected youth, but this whole thing is about parenting,” grunts Bruce Willis’ Sonny Truelove. “It’s about taking care of your children. You take care of yours, I take care of mine.” He’s half-right—his parenting is half to blame. Sonny and his best friend Cosmo (Harry Dean Stanton) taught Johnny to bully his friends. Cosmo, looking haggard and hollow, mocks Johnny for having one girlfriend. “You gotta plow some fucking fields,” he bellows. “Men are not supposed to be monopolous!” Not that “monopolous” is a real word, and not that Cosmo fends off women himself, except in his own big talk.

Cosmo and Sonny’s own posturing gradually emerges as being more dangerous than Johnny’s because it's more integrated into society. They’re the type of creeps who rewrite the rulebook to suit them, and attack journalists who try to tell the truth. When a fictitious documentarian asks Sonny about his son's drug connections, the father shrugs, “Did he sell a little weed? Sure.” But when the interviewer presses him further, Sonny snaps, “I’m a taxpayer and I’m a citizen and you are a jerk-off.”

Cassavetes, of course, understands growing up with a father who left a giant footprint to fill. His father, John Cassavetes, the writer-director of Shadows and Faces and A Woman Under the Influence, was one of the major pioneers of independent cinema. He died when Nick was 30, before his son attempted to take up his legacy. “We never really talked film theory,” said Cassavetes. “My experience with my dad was more along the lines of how to be a man, how to be yourself, how to free yourself from what society tells you to do, how to release yourself as an artist.”

It makes sense that Cassavetes would make his own ambitious, and maddeningly singular film. And perhaps it even makes sense to him that fate has yet to give him the reward he’s earned. Alpha Dog deserves to be acknowledged as one of the most incisive examinations of machismo and the banality of evil. But like his fumbling criminals, he knows he’s not really in charge of his life. Admitted Cassavetes, “I'm not smart enough to really have a master plan for my career.”

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A bizarre tale led by the Thick Thighs Spooky Vibes Hocus Pocus Halloween Shirt Furthermore, I will do this charismatic host Joe Nocera, a New York Times journalist who decided to dive into the case after his psychotherapist neighbor, Ike Herschkopf, mysteriously disappeared, The Shrink Next Door looks at how therapy can go very, very wrong. Talking to a number of Herschkopf’s previous patients—among them Marty Markowitz, who vividly describes the way his therapy sessions spun out of control as Herschkopf began inserting himself into Markowitz’s life—the podcast’s many twist and turns make it as compelling as it is horrifying. Mark Kenly Domino Tan’s spring 2023 show was presented in the sparkling white interior of the Nikolaj Contemporary Arts Center. The organ was the room’s only reminder that the space was once a holy one, St. Nicholas Church. But I’m going to go out on a limb and say that Tan’s collection had a touch of the divine; it could be read as a homily on elegance.

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Nicholas Markowitz’s murder, the inspiration for Alpha Dogs

August 9, 2000 Santa Ynez mountains, Goleta, California Nicholas Markowitz is murdered over an alleged $1,200 debt his half-brother owed to a drug dealer

Markowitz was kidnapped while walking along a street, originally to be held as ransom to settle a debt owed by Markowitz’s brother Ben to Jesse James Hollywood. Markowitz, while held hostage, was brought to parties and seemed safe and to be…

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Krewella Get Wet Album 320kbps

Get WetStudio album by ReleasedSeptember 20, 2013(1)Recorded2011–2013Length51:53LabelColumbiaProducer

Rain Man

Cash Cash

Quicy Kwalae

Dallas K

Savoy

SmarterChild

Ethan Davis

KillaGraham

Krewella chronology

Play Harder (2012)Get Wet (2013)Ammunition (2016)

Singles from Get Wet

'Killin' It' Released: January 20, 2012

'Come & Get It' Released: November 21, 2012

'Alive' Released: February 5, 2013

'Live for the Night' Released: July 2, 2013

'Enjoy the Ride' Released: December 9, 2013

View credits, reviews, tracks and shop for the 2013 320 kbps File release of Get Wet on Discogs. Naruto shippuden online games. Label: Columbia - G36U. Format: 12x, File Album, MP3 320 kbps. Genre: Electronic, Pop. Style: Progressive House, Electro House, Drum n Bass, Dubstep. EDM duo from Chicago, Illinois., Type: Group, Founded: 2007 in Chicago, Area: United States.

Get Wet is the debut studio album by American electronic dance music band Krewella. It was released in the United States on September 24, 2013 by Columbia Records. This is their only album with former member, Kris Trindl, who later resigned from the group in 2014. It was preceded by the singles 'Killin' It', 'Come & Get It', 'Alive', 'Live for the Night' and 'Enjoy the Ride'.

Chart performance(edit)

Get Wet debuted at number eight on the Billboard 200, with 27,000 copies sold in its first week.(2) The album made its debut at number forty on the New Zealand Albums Chart.(3)

Track listing(edit)

All tracks written by Kristopher Trindl, Jahan Yousaf and Yasmine Yousaf except 10 which was co-written by Toby Gad.(4) Kms for office 2016. All tracks produced by Rain Man except 1, 8, 12, and where noted.

Standard editionNo.TitleWriter(s)Producer(s)Length1.'Live for the Night' (with Cash Cash)

Jahan Yousaf

Yasmine Yousaf

Kristopher Trindl

Jean Paul Makhlouf

Alexander Luke Makhlouf

Samuel Frisch

Nicholas Ditri

Daniel BoseLovic

Cash Cash3:262.'We Go Down'

Rain Man

Quincy Kwalae (co.)

3:053.'Come & Get It'

J. Yousaf

Y. Yousaf

Trindl

Melissa Arzoomanian

Mike McGarity

Rain Man3:254.'Enjoy the Ride'

J. Yousaf

Y. Yousaf

Josh Alexander

Billy Steinberg

Trindl

Dallas K

3:315.'We Are One'

J. Yousaf

Y. Yousaf

Trindl

Rain Man4:366.'Dancing with the Devil' (featuring Patrick Stump and Travis Barker)

J. Yousaf

Y. Yousaf

Trindl

Patrick Stump

Gray Smith

Ben Ebertd

3:587.'Alive'

J. Yousaf

Y. Yousaf

Trindl

Nathan Lim

Jake Udell

Rain Man4:488.'Pass the Love Around'

J. Yousaf

Y. Yousaf

Trindl

Rick Markowitz

SmarterChild3:189.'Ring of Fire'

J. Yousaf

Y. Yousaf

Trindl

Graham A. Muron

Ethan Davis

Megan Kabir

A. Jeff Halavacs

4:2310.'Human'

J. Yousaf

Y. Yousaf

Gad

Trindl

Quincy Harrison

Stephan Swartz

3:1511.'Killin' It'

J. Yousaf

Y. Yousaf

Trindl

Udell

Lim

Rain Man3:2612.'This Is Not the End' (featuring Pegboard Nerds)

J. Yousaf

Y. Yousaf

Trindl

Alexander Odden

Michael Parsberg

3:53

iTunes bonus tracksNo.TitleProducer(s)Length13.'Lights and Thunder' (featuring Gareth Emery)Gareth Emery4:4214.'Enjoy the Ride' (Acoustic version)3:28

Krewella Discography

Charts(edit)

Weekly charts(edit)

Chart (2013)Peak positionAustralian Albums (ARIA)(5)45Canadian Albums (Billboard)(6)14Japanese Albums (Oricon)(7)55New Zealand Albums (RMNZ)(8)40UK Albums (OCC)(9)179US Billboard 200(10)8US Top Dance/Electronic Albums (Billboard)(11)1

Year-end charts(edit)

Chart (2013)PositionUS Top Dance/Electronic Albums (Billboard)(12)22Chart (2014)PositionUS Top Dance/Electronic Albums (Billboard)(13)25

Release history(edit)

Krewella Get Wet Album

RegionDateLabelFormat(s)Australia, GermanySeptember 20, 2013Sony Music EntertainmentCD, digital downloadUnited KingdomSeptember 23, 2013RCA RecordsUnited StatesSeptember 24, 2013Columbia RecordsJapanMarch 19, 2014Sony Music Entertainment Japan

References(edit)

^'iTunes - Music - Get Wet by Krewella'. iTunes. 2013-09-23.

^'Krewella Debuts top 10 on Billboard'. MSOPR. Retrieved July 2, 2017.

^'NZ Top 40 Albums Chart | The Official New Zealand Music Chart'. Nztop40.co.nz. 2013-09-30. Retrieved 2015-11-17.

^'Search : ASCAP'. Ascap.c-m. Archived from the original on 2013-03-06. Retrieved 2016-05-21.

^'Australiancharts.com – Krewella – Get Wet'. Hung Medien. Retrieved November 20, 2013.

^'Krewella Chart History (Canadian Albums)'. Billboard. Retrieved April 2, 2014.

^'Top of the Shops - アルバムの公式リストは、日本で数週間を販売しました' (in Japanese). Oricon. Retrieved April 5, 2014.

^'Charts.nz – Krewella – Get Wet'. Hung Medien. Retrieved November 20, 2013.

^Chart Log UK: 'CLUK Update 5.10.2013 (wk39)'. UK Albums Chart. Zobbel.de. Retrieved September 28, 2017.

^'Krewella Chart History (Billboard 200)'. Billboard. Retrieved September 28, 2017.

^'Krewella Chart History (Top Dance/Electronic Albums)'. Billboard. Retrieved September 28, 2017.

^'Top Dance/Electronic Albums – Year-End 2013'. Billboard. Retrieved June 12, 2020.

^'Top Dance/Electronic Albums – Year-End 2014'. Billboard. Retrieved June 12, 2020.

Retrieved from 'https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Get_Wet_(Krewella_album)&oldid=982110826'

Get WetStudio album by ReleasedSeptember 20, 2013(1)Recorded2011–2013Length51:53LabelColumbiaProducer

Rain Man

Cash Cash

Quicy Kwalae

Dallas K

Savoy

SmarterChild

Ethan Davis

KillaGraham

Krewella chronology

Play Harder (2012)Get Wet (2013)Ammunition (2016)

Singles from Get Wet

'Killin' It' Released: January 20, 2012

'Come & Get It' Released: November 21, 2012

'Alive' Released: February 5, 2013

'Live for the Night' Released: July 2, 2013

'Enjoy the Ride' Released: December 9, 2013

Get Wet is the debut studio album by American electronic dance music band Krewella. It was released in the United States on September 24, 2013 by Columbia Records. This is their only album with former member, Kris Trindl, who later resigned from the group in 2014. It was preceded by the singles 'Killin' It', 'Come & Get It', 'Alive', 'Live for the Night' and 'Enjoy the Ride'.

Chart performance(edit)

Get Wet debuted at number eight on the Billboard 200, with 27,000 copies sold in its first week.(2) The album made its debut at number forty on the New Zealand Albums Chart.(3)

Track listing(edit)

All tracks written by Kristopher Trindl, Jahan Yousaf and Yasmine Yousaf except 10 which was co-written by Toby Gad.(4) All tracks produced by Rain Man except 1, 8, 12, and where noted.

Krewella Songs

Standard editionNo.TitleWriter(s)Producer(s)Length1.'Live for the Night' (with Cash Cash)

Jahan Yousaf

Yasmine Yousaf

Kristopher Trindl

Jean Paul Makhlouf

Alexander Luke Makhlouf

Samuel Frisch

Nicholas Ditri

Daniel BoseLovic

Cash Cash3:262.'We Go Down'

Rain Man

Quincy Kwalae (co.)

3:053.'Come & Get It'

J. Yousaf

Y. Yousaf

Trindl

Melissa Arzoomanian

Mike McGarity

Rain Man3:254.'Enjoy the Ride'

J. Yousaf

Y. Yousaf

Josh Alexander

Billy Steinberg

Trindl

Dallas K

3:315.'We Are One'

J. Yousaf

Y. Yousaf

Trindl

Rain Man4:366.'Dancing with the Devil' (featuring Patrick Stump and Travis Barker)

J. Yousaf

Y. Yousaf

Trindl

Patrick Stump

Gray Smith

Ben Ebertd

3:587.'Alive'

J. Yousaf

Y. Yousaf

Trindl

Nathan Lim

Jake Udell

Rain Man4:488.'Pass the Love Around'

J. Yousaf

Y. Yousaf

Trindl

Rick Markowitz

SmarterChild3:189.'Ring of Fire'

J. Yousaf

Y. Yousaf

Trindl

Graham A. Muron

Ethan Davis

Megan Kabir

A. Jeff Halavacs

4:2310.'Human'

J. Yousaf

Y. Yousaf

Gad

Trindl

Quincy Harrison

Stephan Swartz

3:1511.'Killin' It'

J. Yousaf

Y. Yousaf

Trindl

Udell

Lim

Rain Man3:2612.'This Is Not the End' (featuring Pegboard Nerds)

J. Yousaf

Y. Yousaf

Trindl

Alexander Odden

Michael Parsberg

3:53

iTunes bonus tracksNo.TitleProducer(s)Length13.'Lights and Thunder' (featuring Gareth Emery)Gareth Emery4:4214.'Enjoy the Ride' (Acoustic version)3:28

Charts(edit)

Weekly charts(edit)

Chart (2013)Peak positionAustralian Albums (ARIA)(5)45Canadian Albums (Billboard)(6)14Japanese Albums (Oricon)(7)55New Zealand Albums (RMNZ)(8)40UK Albums (OCC)(9)179US Billboard 200(10)8US Top Dance/Electronic Albums (Billboard)(11)1

Year-end charts(edit)

Chart (2013)PositionUS Top Dance/Electronic Albums (Billboard)(12)22Chart (2014)PositionUS Top Dance/Electronic Albums (Billboard)(13)25

Release history(edit)

RegionDateLabelFormat(s)Australia, GermanySeptember 20, 2013Sony Music EntertainmentCD, digital downloadUnited KingdomSeptember 23, 2013RCA RecordsUnited StatesSeptember 24, 2013Columbia RecordsJapanMarch 19, 2014Sony Music Entertainment Japan

References(edit)

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Jesse James Hollywood was a mid-level drug dealer living in Los Angeles. With the help of his former high school friends, he was able to build a profitable illicit drug operation. However, like all drug operations, feuds can turn deadly. One of Jesse’s friends from high school, Ben Markowitz, owed him $1200. On August 6, 2000, Jesse and his cronies, Jesse Rugge, and William Skidmore, spotted Ben’s 15-year-old half-brother, Nicholas, who had run away from home, walking on the side of the road. They decided to abduct him so as to hold him for ransom in lieu of his brother’s debt. The gang then drove up to Santa Barbara, where Jesse Rugge was ordered to watch over the teen. For the next three days, Jesse took Nicholas to several house parties. Roughly 32 people were aware he was being held hostage, but did not bother reporting it to police as the teen appeared to be having a good time drinking and smoking weed. After Jesse James informed Jesse Rugge that they would be safely returning the boy back to his parents, they threw a goodbye party. However, Jesse James had a sudden change of mind when he learned that he could be facing up to life in prison for the kidnapping and decided it would be best to kill Nicholas. He called up another member of the gang, Ryan Hoyt, who also owed him money, and instructed him to to do the deed, even giving him the firearm to do it. After the party, Jesse Rugge, Ryan, and Graham Pressley drove Nicholas to the Santa Ynez Mountains where Ryan struck him over the head with a shovel and shot him nine times, killing him. 

Nicholas’ body was discovered three days later, and everyone except for Jesse James was arrested for their involvement in the kidnapping and murder, as Jesse James had already fled the country. After five years of being on the FBI’s Most Wanted list, Jesse James was found in Brazil and extradited to America, where he was convicted of kidnapping first-degree murder and sentenced to life in prison. The 2006 film Alpha Dog is based on the murder.

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Bootleg trading !!

Hey folks I’m a new Bootleg trader and I would love to expand my collection so let’s trade (I also gift in reasonable amounts) I usually reply in 24 hours :) [Side Info I don’t list full cast info for my videos but I have them on my computer.]

Videos: Amelie (with Philipa Soo) Avenue Q OBC Book Of Mormon (with Ben Platt) Come From Away OBC Dear Evan Hansen OBC Dear Evan Hansen (with Micheal Lee Brown & Olivia Puckett) Great Comet OBC Great Comet (with Shoba Narayan & Dave Malloy)   Heathers (with Dan Domench) Hamilton OBC Hamilton Bway 2016 (with a lot of understudies and standby’s) Hamilton Bway 2016 Replacement Cast Hamilton Angelica Tour August 2017 Legally blond (idk the cast tho) Les Mis bway 2007 Next To Normal 8/3/2010 Newsies 2014 Closing Night Newsies 6/3/2016 National Tour  Spring Awakening (1st National Tour Amazing quality !!) Rent 10th anniversary cast Wicked (with Stephanie J. Block) Wicked (Kristin Chenoweth last performance) 

Wants: ANYTHING NOT ON THIS LIST but I’ll love you if you have Bare (Off-Broadway),Bring it on, Chicago, In The Heights, Hamilton Chicago, or anything Waitress !! But i don’t accept rar folders cause my computer can’t open those :c

Audios: (under the cut with full cast info)

Hamilton: (chronological)

27/7/2013 Vassar College (tracked) Cast: Utkarsh Ambudkar, Daveed Diggs, Joshua Henry, Chris Jackson, Lin Manuel Miranda, Javier Muñoz, Ana Nogueira, Presilah Nunez, Anika Noni Rose

01/09/16 (tracked) Jon Rua (u/s Alexander Hamilton), Leslie Odom Jr., Renee Elise Goldsberry, Alysha Deslorieux (s/b Eliza Hamilton), Christopher Jackson, Daveed Diggs, Okieriete Onaodowan, Anthony Ramos, Jasmine Cephas Jones, Jonathan Groff

Jun 16, 2016 | bwaycomet's master - Limited trade (2:1) - Miguel Cervantes (Hamilton), Daniel Breaker (Aaron Burr), Ari Afsar (Eliza), Aubin Wise (s/b Angelica), Amber Ardolino (u/s Peggy/Maria), Colby Lewis (s/b Washington), Chris De'Sean Lee (Lafayette/Jefferson), Wallace Smith (Mulligan/Madison), Jose Ramos (Laurens/Philip), Alexander Gemignani (King George III), Malik Shabazz Kitchen (Philip Schuyler/James Reynolds/Doctor), Jose Amor (Seabury), John Michael Fiumara (Charles Lee), Remmie Bourgeois (George Eacker), Chloe Campbell, Jean Godsend Floradin, Aaron Gordon, Holly James, Justice Moore, Samantha Pollino, Candace Quarrels

Hamilton - Broadway - July 29, 2016 - MP3 Untracked - LIMITED TRADE (2:1)  (Javier Munoz (Alexander Hamilton), Sydney James Harcourt (u/s Aaron Burr), Lexi Lawson (Eliza Schuyler), Christopher Jackson (George Washington), Andrew Chapelle (u/s Marquis de Lafayette/Thomas Jefferson), Okieriete Onaodowan (Hercules Mulligan/James Madison), Anthony Ramos (John Laurens/Phillip Hamilton), Elizabeth Judd (u/s Angelica Schuyler), Alysha Deslorieux (u/s Peggy Schuyler/Maria Reynolds)​, Rory O'Malley (King George).  Elizabeth's first performance as Angelica. :

MPEG - TRACKED (ZIP) | August 9, 2016 Javier Muñoz (Hamilton), Lexi Lawson (Eliza), Austin Smith (u/s Aaron Burr), Alysha Deslorieux (s/b Angelica), Nicholas Christopher (s/b George Washington), Andrew Chappelle (u/s Lafayette/Thomas Jefferson), Okieriete Onaodowan (Hercules Mulligan/James Madison), Thayne Jasperson (u/s John Laurens/Philip Hamilton), Sasha Hutchings (u/s Peggy/Maria Reynolds), Rory O'Malley (King George III)

M4A - UNTRACKED | Broadway | December 8, 2016 Cast: Javier Muñoz (Hamilton), Lexi Lawson (Eliza), Brandon Victor Dixon (Burr), Mandy Gonzalez (Angelica), Nicholas Christopher (Washington), Seth Stewart (Lafayette/Jefferson), Jordan Fisher (John Laurens/Phillip Hamilton), Jasmine Cephas Jones (Peggy Schuyler/Maria Reynolds), Rory O'Malley (King George) Notes: Jasmine’s last performance as Peggy/Maria. Jasmine gets a little ovation after her high note in “Say No To This” and right as “Room Where It Happens” starts.

San Francisco, April 7, 2017: Michael Luwoye (Alexander Hamilton), Joshua Henry (Aaron Burr), Solea Pfeiffer (Eliza Schuyler), Isaiah Johnson (George Washington), Jordan Donica (Marquis de Lafayette/Thomas Jefferson), Mathenee Treco (Hercules Mulligan/James Madison), Rubén J. Carbajal (John Laurens/Philip Hamilton), Emmy Raver-Lampman (Angelica Schuyler), Amber Iman (Peggy Schuyler/Maria Reynolds), Rory O'Malley (King George III) 

Mai 2017  cast: Donald Webber Jr (u/s Alexander Hamilton), Lexi Lawson (Eliza Hamilton), Nik Walker (u/s Aaron Burr), Mandy Gonzalez (Angelica Schuyler), George Washington (Bryan Terrell Clark), James Monroe Iglehart (Marquis de Lafayette/Thomas Jefferson), J. Quinton Johnson (Hercules Mulligan/James Madison), Anthony Lee Medina (John Laurens/Philip Hamilton), Alysha Deslorieux (Peggy Schuyler/Maria Reynolds), Brian D'Arcy James (King George), David Guzman (u/s Philip Schuyler/James Reynolds/Doctor), Samuel Seabury (Thayne Jasperson), Gregory Haney (u/s Charles Lee), Rickey Tripp (George Eaker), Ensemble: Lauren Boyd, Sasha Hollinger, Elizabeth Judd, Kim Taylor, Tanairi Sade Vazquez, Voltaire Wade-Greene (swing), Zelig Williams

FLAC - UNTRACKED | 1st National Tour - Tempe, AZ | February 1, 2018 Ryan Alvarado (S/b Alexander Hamilton), Julia K. Harriman (Elizabeth Schuyler), Nicholas Christopher (Aaron Burr), Sabrina Sloan (Angelica Schuyler), Isaiah Johnson (George Washington), Josh Andres Rivera (S/b Lafayette/Jefferson), Mathenee Treco (Mulligan/Madison), Ruben J. Carbajal (Laurens/Philip), Peter Matthew Smith (King George III)​

Others: (alphabetical)

Bandstand - Papermill Playhouse - November 15, 2015 - WAV (Tracked & Untracked) Cast: Corey Cott (Donnie Novitski) , Laura Osnes (Julia Trojan) , Beth Leavel (Mrs. Adams) Joe Carroll (Johnny Simpson), Geoff Packard (Wayne Wright) 

The Band’s Visit - Off-Broadway - November 30, 2016 - M4a (Untracked)  Cast: Ari'el Stachel (Haled/Trumpet), Tony Shalhoub (Twefig/Conductor), Sharone Sayegh (Israeli Soldier 1/Anna),  Kristen Sieh (Israeli Soldier 2/Iris), George Abud (Camal/Violin), Alok Tewari (Simon/2nd Clarinet),  Harvey Valdes (Guitar/Oud), Sam Sadgursky (Clarinet/Flute), David Garo Yellin (Cello), Rachel Prather (Ticket girl/Julia), Daniel David Stewart (Papi), Andrew Polk (Avram), John Cariani (Itzik), Katrina Lenk (Dina), Bill Army (Zelger),  Erik Lieberman (Telephone Guy), Jonathan Raviv (Sammy/Guard) 

Dear Evan Hansen  Cast: Colton Ryan (u/s Evan Hansen), Laura Dreyfuss (Zoe Murphy), Mike Faist (Connor Murphy), Rachel Bay Jones Heidi Hansen), Kristolyn Lloyd (Alana Beck), Michael Park (Larry Murphy), Will Roland (Jared Kleinman), Jennifer Laura Thompson (Cynthia Murphy) notes: Colton's second performance as Evan. 

Dear Evan Hansen 10/7/2015 Arena Stage Cast: Ben Platt, Mike Faist, Laura Dreyfuss, Will Roland, Alexis Molnar, Michael Park, Jennifer Laura Thompson, Rachel Bay Jones Notes: Contains Cut Songs

Dear Evan Hansen 21/11/2017 Broadway anyirismusical’s master Cast : Noah Galvin, Mike Faist, Will Roland, Laura Dreyfus, Kristolyn Lloyd, Rachel Bay Jones, Jennifer Laura Thompson, Michael Park Notes: Noah’s first show as Evan

Miss Saigon - Broadway - March 29, 2017 (Matinee) - M4a (Untracked)  Cast: Jon Jon Briones (The Engineer), Lianah Sta. Ana (alt. Kim), Alistair Brammer (Chris), Katie Rose Clarke (Ellen), Nicholas Christopher (John), Devin Ilaw (Thuy), Ericka Hunter (u/s Gigi) notes: This is Ericka’s first show as Gigi!

Hadestown (July 31, 2016 Matinee): Cast: Nabiyah Be (Eurydice), Damon Daunno (Orpheus), J. Bernard Calloway (u/s Hades), Amber Gray (Persephone), Matt Saldivar (Hermes), Lulu Fall, Jessie Shelton, Erica Sweany (Fates). New York Theatre Workshop.

In The Heights - March 8th, 2007 - Off-Broadway Cast: Lin-Manuel Miranda, Christopher Jackson, Asmeret Ghebremichael (u/s Carla), Andrea Burns, Robin de Jesus, Karen Olivo, Mandy Gonzalez, John Herrera, Priscilla Lopez, Olga Merediz, Eliseo Roman, Seth Stewart

In the Heights - Off-Broadway - June 9, 2007 - MP3 (Tracked) Cast: Lin-Manuel Miranda (Usnavi), Mandy Gonzalez (Nina), Joshua Henry (u/s Benny), Karen Olivo (Vanessa), Robin de Jesus (Sonny), Doreen Montavlo (u/s Abuela Claudia), John Herrera (Kevin), Priscilla Lopez (Camila), Andrea Burns (Daniela), Janet Dacal (Carla), Eliseo Roman (Piragua Guy), Rickey Tripp (u/s Graffiti Pete), Doreen Montalvo (Bolero Singer)

Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder / Audio / 2015-11-13, National Tour (Cleveland, OH): Cast: John Rapson (D'Ysquith Family); Kevin Massey (Monty Navarro); Kristen Beth Williams (Sibella Hallward); Adrienne Eller (Phoebe D'Ysquith); Mary VanArsdel (Miss Shingle)*hochbergaudio’s master

School of Rock / Audio / 2015-11-09, Broadway:  Cast: Alex Brightman (Dewey); Sierra Boggess (Rosalie); Spencer Moses (Ned); Mamie Parris (Patty); Dante Melucci (Freddy); ​Evie Dolan (Katie); Jared Parker (Lawrence); Isabella Russo (Summer); Bobbie MacKenzie (Tomika); Brandon Niederauer (Zack)

Spring Awakening 12/2/2011 2NT LA (tracked) Cast: Christopher Wood, Elizabeth Judd, Coby Getzug, Courtney Markowitz, Jim Hogan, Aliya Bowles, Rachel Geisler, Emily Mest, George Salazar, Devon Stone, Daniel Plimpton, Sarah Kleeman, Mark Poppleton  

Wicked / Audio / 2013-05-28, Broadway: Cast: Lindsay Mendez (Elphaba); Katie Rose Clarke (Glinda); Derek Klena (Fiyero); Adam Grupper (The Wizard); ​John Schiappa (Doctor Dillamond); Randy Danson (Madame Morrible); Catherine Charlebois (Nessarose); F. Michael Haynie (Boq) *Lindsay and Derek’s first show

Wicked / Audio / 2014-02-22, Broadway:  Caat: Lindsay Mendez (Elphaba); Alli Mauzey (Glinda); Kyle Dean Massey (Fiyero); Tom McGowan (The Wizard); Carol Kane (Madame Morrible); Catherine Charlebois (Nessarose); Michael Wartella (Boq) *Lindsay, Alli, Kyle, and Tom’s final show

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I still don’t understand how nobody could’ve taken nick home before the rest killed him. Smh

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Solved Sunday's - Nicholas Markowitz

Solved Sunday’s – Nicholas Markowitz

Welcome back to Solved Sunday’s. Let’s get straight into it.

Nicholas Samuel Markowitz (Nick)

Nicholas Samuel Markowitz (Nick) was a 15 year-old boy from West Hills, Los Angeles, he was born on the 19th of September 1984, to Mum Susan who was a homemaker and, Dad Jeff Markowitz who also had two older kids from a previous relationship, he ran the family company which produced aviation components.…

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LIzard Mouth Canyon, site of Nicholas Markowitz's murder. Source of the movie "Alphadog". #alphadog, #nicholasmarkowitz, #murder, #santabarbara, #kidnapping, #abduction, #lizardmouthtrail https://www.instagram.com/p/B0bNT8Rn_Ps/?igshid=1796v8puwgty9

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August 9, 2000 Santa Ynez mountains, Goleta, California Nicholas Markowitz is murdered over an alleged $1,200 debt his half-brother owed to a drug dealer Markowitz was kidnapped while walking along a street, originally to be held as ransom to settle a debt between Markowitz's brother Ben and Jesse James Hollywood. Markowitz, while held hostage, was brought to parties and seemed safe and to be enjoying himself, so witnesses were unaware of his situation. After learning what penalties a kidnapping charge would entail, Hollywood instructed Ryan Hoyt to murder Markowitz in exchange for clearing Hoyt's monetary debt to Hollywood. Markowitz was brought to the mountains, bound and gagged with duct tape, hit over the head with a shovel, and shot 9 times with a semi-automatic pistol. Hoyt was sentenced to death in 2001 and currently awaits his sentence in San Quentin's death row. Hollywood, because he was not present during the murder, was given a life sentence without parole. The movie Alpha Dog is based on the events leading to and including Markowitz's death, though some details have been changed including Markowitz's name.

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Shared PDF Book Trading Strategies for Capital Markets

Introdution About This Book: In his superbly entertaining and informative book, Hedgehogging,investment guru Barton Biggs quotes Charlie Munger, alter ego ofWarren Buffett and vice chairman of Berkshire Hathaway: “I have knownno wise person over a broad subject matter who didn’t read all the time—none, zero. Now I know all kinds of shrewd people who by staying withina narrow area can do very well without reading. But investment is a broadarea. So if you think you’re going to be good at it and not read all thetime, you have a different idea than I do....You’d be amazed at howmuch Warren [Buffett] reads. You’d be amazed at how much I read.” In its2005 listing of the world’s 400 richest people, Forbes described Munger asa self-made man with a net worth at $1.7 billion, making him number 387.This is a book about trading and financial markets that takesMunger’s advice seriously. It borrows insights from many disciplines andcasts a wide net in the search for perspective. It uses financial history todevelop an understanding of market institutions and to provide a filter forviewing current market practice. It uses finance theory as a framework foranalysis and to build a toolbox that traders can use as they battle in thetrenches, which is where it really counts. In this respect, the book seeks toplace the markets and trading strategies in the bigger picture of the globalpolitical economy. It describes how the capital markets work in practice;what the drivers are, how they can be recognized, and how sensible trading strategies can be developed and implemented. Above all, the bookunderstands markets to be dynamic real-time reflectors of the world inwhich we live, rather than mathematical abstractions.Financial markets are rational (but not perfect) discounters of events,information, and trends. However, the book presents an argument (alongwith evidence) that some bets in the market are better than others. That is,1IntroductionCopyright © 2007 by Joseph Benning. Click here for terms of use.there are some bets that have a demonstrably better chance of success,with less risk. The market is not a strictly random walk. While some maybe fooled by randomness, in Nicholas Taleb’s memorable phrase, thisbook argues that the opposite can be the case as well: Nonrandom eventsare sometimes incorrectly attributed to chance. The result is that valuableopportunities are missed. The underlying thrust of strategy should be totake a broad enough view of events to be able to recognize favorable conditions and capitalize on them, a modus operandi similar to card countingat blackjack, but infinitely more complex.The book is divided into three sections. The first presents a conceptual framework for market analysis. It can be thought of as a road map tothe discussion that follows. The second section explores core elements ofthe capital markets. It describes market organization; key elements of thesecurities and derivatives that account for the bulk of the instrumentstraded, and key price drivers. With the liberal use of examples, it goes onto elucidate different trading strategies and how to implement them,depending on market view. Finally, the last section considers risk management, reviews some recent developments in behavioral finance research,offers a view of how markets function, and sums up.THE CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORKThe conceptual framework for the book sees financial markets not asmathematical abstractions but as engines of discovery that reflect the economic, political, and social forces that shape—and are shaped by—thesocieties in which they reside. Accordingly, the model presented to organize this discussion is a qualitative one. It portrays the markets in terms ofcycles, big ones and little ones. The little ones are business cycles. The bigones can be sparked by major events, or they can gather force as trends inapparently unrelated areas coalesce and produce discontinuities that resultin rapid and unexpected change. These discontinuities can produce effectsthat ripple through financial markets for years or even decades to come.The idea that ripple effects can affect prices down the road years laterin a predictable way is controversial. Many, if not most, finance theorists(though not practitioners) subscribe to the idea that markets quickly, almostinstantaneously, absorb and discount new information. Market prices are acombination of random noise and reaction to new information. The newinformation is thought to be quickly reflected in market prices, which area reasonably accurate assessment of fundamental values, on average, overtime. If prices do fall temporarily out of line, arbitrageurs will buy thecheap securities and sell the expensive ones until their prices revert back totrue fundamental values. Sometimes price are high; sometimes they arelow, but over time and on average they are priced about right. Markets aremean-reverting, or at least sufficiently so, so that no one is able to beat the2 Introductionaverage on a risk-adjusted basis over time. That, in a nutshell, describes thecore of the efficient market hypothesis (EMH).This book has no serious quarrel with the general thrust of that argument. Considerable research has shown that most new information is in factdiscounted fairly quickly. Among the more compelling evidence offered isthe fact that no one has shown a way in which the market can be beaten systematically over time, after adjusting for risk. The view developed here isfrom a different perspective. It is that there are market tipping points wherethe odds of generating trading profits are better than average. In that sense,a successful trader is like a blackjack player who is adept at counting thecards. But there is an important difference. Successful card counters are routinely escorted out of the casino. In the financial markets the players aretypically given broad hints about policies likely to affect market prices.Knowing how to interpret those hints and act on them is critical to successful trading. But that requires understanding the historical forces that drivemarkets and the economic, political, and social institutions that guide them.Note the idea that there are historical forces in play. The Danish philosopherKierkegaard is credited with making the observation that life must be livedforward, but can only be understood backwards. So we must understand history. As history unfolds, so do markets. The pace is uneven, filled with discontinuities. But understanding history provides both a framework and alens for viewing and understanding market behavior.This book suggests that while most information is rapidly incorporated into market prices, not all of it is, at least not immediately. Sometimes it takes the market rather a while to fully incorporate newinformation into the price structure. Recognizing and acting on situationslike this is the trader’s equivalent of card counting. But that is difficult formany traders to do. There is always the uncomfortable feeling of the trainhaving left the station. And it is difficult to act without putting themarket’s behavior in some kind of recognizable context that gives structure to decision making. Accordingly, the market model presented in thefirst chapter is designed to help structure decision making in such a waythat the odds of success are better than they ordinarily would be.After the model is presented, the first section goes on to detail economic, political, social, and institutional developments that have shaped(and continue to shape) the capital markets. An important part of the story,often forgotten, is that history, institutions, and culture matter. Financialmarkets do not exist in a vacuum. They function in the rough and tumbleof the real world; they have long memories, pace Harry Markowitz, andthey exhibit recurrent patterns of behavior. It is temptingly easy to beseduced by the four most dangerous words in the English language: “Thistime it’s different.” Trying to trade without putting market behavior insome sort of political, institutional, and historical context is simply askingfor trouble.Introduction 3INSTRUMENTS, INSTITUTIONS, AND RISKThe second section of the book concerns the instruments and institutionsof the marketplace. It discusses key characteristics of the major instruments in the major market sectors. Treasury notes, bills, bonds, and repurchase agreements are covered on the debt side, as are Chicago Board ofTrade Treasury futures and federal funds. Eurodollar futures contracts arebriefly discussed. The mechanics of swaps and options are considered. Onthe equity side indexes such as the Dow Jones 30 Industrials, the S&P500, and the Russell 2000 are analyzed, as well as the companion futurescontracts that trade against them. Gold, though not a capital market instrument, is followed by many market professionals and is regarded by manyas the canary in the coal mine. It is also central to the story of the formation of modern capital markets. Accordingly, some notes on gold tradingare included as well.On the debt side of the equation, considerable time is spent on Fedpolicy, the yield curve, and Treasury futures contracts. Pricing modelsbased on the yield curve and Fed policy are developed. Market structureand the mechanics of Treasury auctions come in for some discussion.Some rationales for adopting trading strategies based on monetary policyare explored. Methods of strategy implementation are examined as well.The chapter on basis trading reviews the traditional cash-and-carry modelusing Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT) Treasury bond and note futurescontracts. Specifics of the delivery process and its relevance to basis trading are considered using numerous examples.With respect to equities, the book reviews some of the more prominent stock pricing models and criticisms of them. It examines three prominent U.S. equity indexes and the methodology used to construct them andtheir usefulness as benchmarks. It discusses important structural features ofequity markets, requirements for exchange listing, valuation theories, andtheories of market timing. It also takes a look at exchange traded funds(ETFs), their pricing and uses. In addition to cash market indexes and ETFsthis section devotes a chapter to equity index futures contracts. Particularattention is paid to the cash-and-carry model. Several examples are provided for calculating the fair value of equity index futures contracts, giventhe cash index price. Strategies discussed for equity indexes include program trading, growth versus value, trading sectors against broad-basedindexes, and correlation trading against other indexes and ETFs.The third and final section of the book surveys some recent developments, touches on value at risk (VaR) as a framework for risk management, discusses gold markets, considers market volatility, and examinessome of the more important criticisms behavioral finance has leveled atthe neoclassical model. Finally, it offers a summary and suggests thatthere is an art to trading that combines analysis and interpretation.

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Murder of Nicholas Markowitz

[universallycrownpirate]

Malcolm Gladwell (* 3. September 1963 in Fareham, Hampshire, England) ist ein kanadischer Journalist, Autor und Unternehmensberater.

Gladwell veröffentlicht einen Podcast mit dem Titel Revisionist History, von dem 2016 und 2017 je eine Staffel mit 10 Episoden erschien. Die etwa 45-minütigen Episoden behandeln "übersehene und missverstandene Ereignisse".

Gladwell verfolgt einen interdisziplinären Ansatz, der Erkenntnisse aus Gesellschaftswissenschaften, Psychologie, Kommunikationswissenschaft, Wirtschaft, Politik, Technologie und Verbraucherforschung zueinander in Beziehung setzt. Besonders oft geht er den überraschenden Anwendungsmöglichkeiten von Forschungsergebnissen in den Bereichen Sozialwissenschaften und Psychologie (Wahrnehmungs- und Verhaltensforschung) nach.

Gladwell ist als Redner in Wirtschaftskreisen gefragt. Nach eigenen Angaben nimmt er keine bezahlten Beratungsaufträge an, die über das Halten von Vorträgen hinausgehen.

Gladwell wuchs in Kanada auf und lebt heute in New York City, USA. Er machte seinen Abschluss in Geschichte 1984 an der Universität Toronto und arbeitete zunächst beim American Spectator, dann von 1987 bis 1996 für die Washington Post. Seit 1996 schreibt er als Redaktionsmitglied für die Zeitschrift The New Yorker und hat mit seinen Features eine große Anhängerschaft gewonnen.

Gladwell ist Autor der beiden Bestseller Tipping Point (engl. The Tipping Point – How Little Things Can Make A Big Difference) und Blink! Die Macht des Moments (engl. Blink – The Power Of Thinking Without Thinking).

Tipping Point (2000) beschreibt das Zustandekommen und Funktionieren von Trends und wie Unternehmen die Kenntnis dieser Prozesse für das Marketing ihrer eigenen Produkte nutzen können.

Blink! Die Macht des Moments (2005) beschäftigt sich mit der Rolle der Intuition bei der Entscheidungsfindung und der menschlichen Fähigkeit bzw. Unfähigkeit, bei zeitlich begrenztem Informationsinput sinnvolle Entscheidungen zu treffen.

Typischerweise zieht Gladwell zur Illustration seiner Thesen Beispiele aus vielen scheinbar weit auseinander liegenden Fach- und Lebensbereichen heran, die er eingängig und mit viel erzählerischer Verve dem Leser vorstellt. Oft sind es alltägliche Beobachtungen, die ihm Anstoß zur Auseinandersetzung mit seinen Themen geben.

So „bedankt“ er sich in Blink! am Ende des Buches bei drei Polizisten dafür, dass sie ihn kurzfristig festgehalten hatten, weil sie ihn für einen gesuchten Sexualstraftäterhielten. Gemeinsam hatten Gladwell und der Gesuchte nur eine wilde, krause Haarmähne, wobei es 20 Minuten dauerte, bis der Irrtum aufgeklärt war. Er bezeichnet diese Erfahrung mit der Macht des ersten Eindrucks als Initialzündung für sein Buch.

Wie leicht man einem Stereotyp – gerade im Zusammenhang mit Rassenzugehörigkeit – zum Opfer fallen kann, beschäftigt Gladwell durchgehend, auch aus seiner eigenen Erfahrung als Kind eines englischen Vaters und einer aus Jamaika stammenden Mutter.

Die RAND Corporation („Research ANd Development“, deutsch: Forschung und Entwicklung) ist eine Denkfabrik in den USA, die nach Ende des Zweiten Weltkriegs gegründet wurde, um die Streitkräfte der USA zu beraten.

Bekannte Mitarbeiter

Henry H. Arnold, Gründer

Donald Wills Douglas, Gründer

Arthur Emmons Raymond, Gründer

Harry Igor Ansoff

Robert Axelrod

Paul Baran

Barry W. Boehm

Cecil Hastings

Bruce Hoffman

Harry Markowitz

Delbert Ray Fulkerson

Albert Wohlstetter

J. C. C. McKinsey

Allen Newell

Paul O’Neill

Daniel Ellsberg

John von Neumann

John Forbes Nash

George Dantzig

Herman Kahn

Harold L. Brode

Simon Sinek

Jon Folkman

Katsuaki L. Terasawa

Donald Rumsfeld

Condoleezza Rice

Francis Fukuyama

Murray Gell-Mann

Cheryl Benard

Nicholas Rescher

Anthony Downs

Anthony Russo

Lloyd S. Shapley

William F. Sharpe

Malcolm Gladwell