IN FEBRUARY THIS year, Michigan-based entrepreneur Robert Simpson decided to see what would happen if he bought the entire stock of one company. Using a single broker, within a couple of days Simpson had paid a little over $5,000 for 1,285,050 shares in OTC bulletin board property-development company Global Links. According to Simpson, these shares were delivered into his account shortly afterwards. Yet the following day 37,044,500 Global Links shares were traded on the bulletin board. The next day, 22,471,000 shares were traded. On neither day had Simpson traded a single Global Link share, he insists. And events surrounding Simpson s investments became yet more confusing. Global Links had only ever issued 1,158,064 shares. Simpson had managed to acquire 126,986 shares that did not exist. How he had managed to be sold more shares than were in issuance is exactly the question Simpson hoped his foray would raise.
Robert Layton obituary Brian Jarman
My friend Robert Layton, who has died aged 90, was a musicologist and Radio 3 producer for more than 30 years who specialised in Scandinavian music and wrote biographies of Sibelius and the Swedish composer Franz Berwald.
Bob was born in Chadwell Heath, east London, the younger child of Edward Layton, a stockbroker, and his wife, Rhoda (nee Aaron), a homemaker. He learned the piano from the age of nine, and excelled at it by the time he was 11. He gave a piano recital of Ravel’s Jeux d’Eau on the BBC Third Programme in 1948, when he was 17.
As Whitney Houston once sang, I believe the children are our future. Some of those children she so famously referenced will be on full display this weekend thanks to the Grammy award-winning Houston Chamber Choir. Led by Founder and Artistic Director Robert Simpson, the virtual concert, themed
A Time to Lift Up will take place Sunday at noon. The show will spotlight both the teachers who lead the choirs as well as the K-12 students and their voices. It will also feature performances by the Houston Chamber Choir in a pre-recorded video format. The performance will be available online through August 31.
Wagner’s
Die Walküre. Conductor: Adam Fischer, director: Sven-Eric Bechtolf. With Christopher Ventris, Ain Anger, Waltraud Meier, Linda Watson, and Tomasz Konieczny. Production from January 2016. Register for free and view here.
1 pm ET: Copland House presents
Underscored: Jalbert’s
Crossings. Vermont-born composer Pierre Jalbert was inspired by the migration of people voyaging into new and unfamiliar places and traces Jalbert’s own French-Canadian-American ancestry.
Crossings is built around a folk song from Quebec,
Quand j’ai parti du Canada (When I Left Canada), which is deconstructed, reinterpreted, reassembled, and reordered in inventive and unexpected ways. The program features a complete performance of the work, preceded by an introductory conversation with the composer, and followed by a live Q&A with viewers. Register and view here.
Among President Donald Trump s 22 complaints about election fraud during the Save America rally earlier this month, he perpetuated lies from Pennsylvania House Republicans.
Repeating a claim first shared by state Rep. Frank Ryan, a Lebanon County Republican, Trump said there were 205,000 more votes than voters in the 2020 presidential election in Pennsylvania. Where did they come from? Trump said to his supporters Jan. 6 before they stormed the U.S. Capitol in a violent mob attack. You know where they came from? Somebody’s imagination.
That fraud claim has been categorically debunked and rejected by courts, which said the Trump campaign failed to produce evidence of widespread fraud.