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To: 2MAR$ who wrote (83284)11/16/2011 5:42:25 PM
From: TobagoJack  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 218578
 
the troops may soon be needed elsewhere. just in in-tray

Report: Bullet hit window where Obamas live

Secret Service searches 'Occupy DC' encampment...

As other cities crack down, DC Council backs 'Occupiers'...

UNIONS SUPPORT...


Occupy protesters plan to 'shut down' Wall Street on Thursday...

'You're going to see what a Molotov cocktail can do to MACY'S'...



'OCCUPY' PAVEMENT...

Party Over In Zuccotti Park, But Not The Whining...

Down to a dozen overnight...

Shooting at UC Berkeley during protests...

Man arrested at LA camp for public masturbation in front of children...

Now, ringworm and scabies hit 'occupy' camps...

DEM POLL: 'OCCUPY' GRATING ON VOTERS...






To: 2MAR$ who wrote (83284)11/20/2011 5:03:25 AM
From: elmatador  Respond to of 218578
 
This is what a South version of Steve Jobs look like: "consider that Marcio Mello, Mr. Optimism, is wearing Crocs — yes, the moulded, perforated, jellylike footwear — with his navy blue pinstripe suit. They are ugly. His proper shoes are in his desk drawer. My pumps are encased in little white operating-theatre booties, a requirement of all visitors — there’s a machine right inside the front door of HRT Oil & Gas into which you place one foot, then the other, and voila, disposable booties envelop each shoe. The booties are ridiculous.

To state it gently, this is odd.

A more generous observation: the freedom of being one’s own boss accommodates the fulfilled expression of such fetishes, including a distaste for what dirt will do to an off-white corporate carpet, not to mention Mello’s preference for prefacing an annual report with the unconventionally swooning statement: “One look makes you discover love.”
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Mello, a petroleum geologist with a PhD in molecular geochemistry, launched a handful of companies before creating HRT. He took HRT public last autumn in an initial public offering that raised 2.5 billion reais (about $1.4 billion). The Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan took a small stake in the HRT exploration story, which is chiefly focused on the hunt for oil and gas in two regions: the Solimões sedimentary basin in the Amazonian rainforest, and a vast holding of close to 100,000 square kilometres off the coast of Namibia, a geological match, Mello believes, with Petrobras’s own deep-water successes off the Brazilian coast.

In late October, HRT announced an agreement with a Brazilian subsidiary of Russia’s TNK-BP, through which TNK gained a 45-per-cent stake in Solimões in exchange for $1-billion.

It all sounds so upbeat.