Album Reviews

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Terrible—>Fantastic

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Messiaen, Olivier and Jennifer Bate – La Nativite du Seigneur, Le Banquet Celeste
Messiaen, Olivier and Paul Jacobs – Livre du Saint Sacrement
JLin – Dark Energy
Ekoplekz – Reflekzionz
Kaufmann, Jonas – Nessun Dorma – The Puccini Album
Berta, Ales – Dvorak: Symphony No. 7 – Brahms: Prelude and Fugue

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Acre – Better Strangers
Ekoplekz – Four Track Mind
JME – Integrity

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Paranoid London – Paranoid London

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Capitalist Times Contribution: Taking Flight

In my latest Capitalist Times contribution, Taking Flight, I cover a communication infrastructure company poised to expand through the airline and Internet of Things industries:

Most of us expect to be able to call a coworker, text a friend and pull up Web pages or videos at any time. But in many places, data connections like the ones we use every day don’t exist, even if they’re necessary for safety or monitoring and administering far-flung business operations.

For example, the remote areas where mining and drilling for oil and gas occur usually lack the fiber-optic connections or mobile telephone towers that power business communication in the office environment. Traveling by plane can lead to similar disruptions when you aren’t flying above populated areas. Data connections also don’t usually exist at sea.

Things I Learned this Week

Among the things I learned this week:
* The same skills that make a good prompter make a good manager. (Courtesy: Met Opera Guild Podcast, Episode 17 Inside the Prompter’s Box)

* The incredible tastiness of shrimp burgers. (Courtesy: EK)

* If you go to a basketball game to see a particular season, go early in the season when they won’t sit him to rest. (Courtesy: LeBron James)