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Sioux Falls police have been looking for suspects after several recent reports of broken windows in houses and vehicles, mostly in the southwest part of the city.
BB-guns are suspected in several of the cases.
I can sympathize. I had a 1976 Chevrolet Scottsdale pickup for many years, before I sold it last fall.
My parents had bought it new, and when they left the farm in 1994 my dad asked me to keep it. I was happy to, although I had to park it outside in the summer and pay to have it stored in the winter.
But even though I treasured it, it was a target for vandals. The side mirrors were hit three times, the driver's side window was broken and finally, someone put a crack in the windshield, all with BB or pellet guns.
Anonymous, stupid, irresponsible vandals with too much time on their hands were responsible, and I had no recourse.
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Weather extremes have forced higher-than-expected abandonment and prevented plantings in cotton fields from Texas to the Carolinas so far this spring.
If the result is a significantly reduced supply, look for a little buoyancy under cotton prices this summer, said market analysts speaking at the Ag Market Network's June teleconference.
According to Carl Anderson, professor Extension specialist emeritus at Texas A&M University, much of the cotton in the Coastal Bend and south Texas region has been abandoned except for a small amount of irrigated cotton.
Last year, those two regions produced 350,000 bales of cotton even after the effects of hurricanes. The year prior, the two regions produced 783,000 bales of cotton. "We would have had over 350,000 acres planted in the area. I expect that the area has now lost most of its dryland cotton, which could reduce Texas production by 400,000 bales."
Planting is wrapping up in west Texas, Anderson says. Traditionally, about 3 million acres are planted there, with about half irrigated. "We've had regional rains that have been good, but other regions have had no rain. A half-inch of rain on top of sand with the wind blowing doesn't last very long. If seeds did germinate they're still in deep jeopardy. I would think we've lost somewhere around 600,000 acres to 700,000 acres.
"If these figures hold true, dry weather would take nearly a million acres off the top of the 4.7 million acres Texas growers had intended to plant. "That's not all that unusual for Texas except that Texas is a major player in the U.S. crop size," Anderson said.
"It's going to eventually have an impact on the market, even though many of the market players today don't realize it. I think the Texas crop is going to fall very short this year. Total production might be in the vicinity of 5 million to 6 million bales."
Meanwhile the Mid-South and Southeast crops "have been extremely wet," said O.A. Cleveland, professor emeritus, Mississippi State University. "The window finally opened and we got the planting in, even though we didn't plant everything we intended. We had a storm last week that gave us 4.9 inches of rain in one Delta county in 90 minutes. That's been the story throughout the spring and early summer.
"We've probably lost 15 percent of our acreage to soybeans," Cleveland said. "Arkansas lost a little more cotton acreage than did the rest of the Mid-South. Louisiana and Mississippi will probably come in around 300,000 acres of cotton each. The only state that had a bit of a comeback in cotton is Tennessee. We could be down as much as 75,000 acres from our intended acres in the Mid-South."
Cleveland said cotton acreage in the Southeast could be down as much as 50,000 acres.
"All in all, we've had a very slow start. Research indicates that a late start would give us a smaller crop. But some of our biggest crops with record yields, came on crops planted very late."
On prices, Mike Stevens, Swiss Financial Services, said, "The market has a dime upside potential and nickel downside potential, just based on speculative attitudes. With crop problems and a better economic outlook, add another nickel to the upside. If history repeats itself, summer rallies will provide short-term selling opportunities unless the fundamentals change dramatically."
"We're in an interesting situation," Anderson said. "There are expectations that we will have a smaller supply of cotton. Down the road and particularly in 2009-10, we have to look at planted acreage, the speed of economic recovery and the level of U.S. exports.
On prices, Anderson said, "Supply and demand is saying that December 2009 will travel between 60 cents and 70 cents. If we get a weather shock, we could see December 2009 climb over 70 cents. If you look down the road at 2010, we're already at 68 cents. If you move that up 10 cents, you're at 78 cents. We are using up our cotton supplies."
John Robinson, Extension economist Texas A&M, said December cotton could range between 55 cents on the low end and 65 cents on the high end. "But if the weather really starts getting bad and the funds really ramp up, I could see it going over 65 cents."
"As important as Texas is to the U.S. crop this year, India is to the world crop," Cleveland said. "The monsoon has been very slow in coming, but it is expected to move into full force. The world must watch that crop extremely close, because it could be so much larger. That's the fundamental internationally that could pull the rug out from under our price forecast. At the same time, if that crop is not as big as it's anticipated to be, it will free up prices to move higher."
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I finally, finally got the shirt done for the BF using McCalls 6044. And now that it is complete, I can say that I spent way more time agonizing over it than I did sewing it. I spent Sunday getting the collar sewn on using David Coffin's instructions in his book, Shirtmaking. At one point, I thought I had done it wrong, unsewed it, then sewed it back, and only then I discovered I did it right the first time! I really think that part of my confusion stemmed from Mr. Coffin's instructions which are so detailed, I sort of get lost about what I'm doing next. He's extremely thorough, but sometimes I just need basic, overview instructions about what we are trying to accomplish here. I will say that it resulted in the best collar I have ever sewn:
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The Senate's Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations is holding a hearing on "Conflicts of Interest, Investor Loss of Confidence, and High Speed Trading in U.S. Stock Markets," and MarketWatch's Steve Goldstein will be live-blogging the proceedings on this high-profile topic.
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Good morning. The hearing will get going in about 15 minutes or so. Stay tuned for what ought to be a very interesting discussion on high-frequency trading.
- 9:18 am
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The lineup for today's hearing is pretty strong: You have Brad Katsuyama, the chief executive of upstart soon-to-be-exchange IEX, and better known as the hero of Michael Lewis's "Flash Boys."
There's executives from both the NYSE Group and BATS. There's Joseph Brennan of Vanguard, the index-fund giant which has defended the HFT firms. There's also a Notre Dame professor well-versed on the subject and an executive from TD Ameritrade, which has routed retail trades to venues where, supposedly, HFT firms can pick them off.
- 9:21 am
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Want some interesting HFT reading? Try this lawsuit — "very dialed into latency arb," according to Rich Gates, who if you've read "Flash Boys," was a mutual fund manager who conducted a test to figure out how these firms were getting the better of his trades.
- 9:32 am
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The testimony of everyone is now live, and can be found here.
- 9:36 am
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Robert Battalio, the Notre Dame professor, makes three suggestions on how to limit conflicts of interest between brokers and investors.
1. Elimination of make-take rebates and fees.
2. Requiring that rebates and fees be passed along to the customer.
3. Enforce current best execution requirements on brokers and improve disclosure.
- 9:36 am
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The hearing has started, with Sen. Levin saying he's troubled by the era of high-frequency trading. He's discussing the flash crash and related problems.
- 9:38 am
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The good folks at the Senate committee have put Battalio's testimony where Katsuyama's is supposed to be; we'll circle back to him in a bit.
- 9:41 am
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Thomas Farley, president of the New York Stock Exchanges, notes that 40.5% of trading last week was off-exchange, a record high. 'We find this troubling and damaging to price discovery," he writes.
He also is advocating the elimination of maker-taker pricing and the use of rebates. "Broad adoption of this policy would reduce the conflicts inherent in such pricing schema and further reduce complexity through fewer order types and fewer venues," he says.
What about high-speed data feeds and colocation, in which the NYSE gets paid to make it easier for HFT to get information on trades? "NYSE is willing to put all options on the table as it pertains to the delivery of market data, however we highlight that this cannot be done in a vacuum and any changes must be applied equally to all exchange and dark pool venues."
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Joe Ratterman, CEO of BATS Global Markets, quotes SEC Chairwoman Mary Jo White approvingly: "I agree with the sentiments recently expressed by SEC Chair Mary Jo White, who said that our markets are "not broken, let alone rigged." Evidence overwhelmingly demonstrates that the automation of the market over at least the last decade has resulted in significant enhancements in market quality for long term investors, whether retail or institutional."
One of his suggestions: "I support the voluntary initiatives of some ATSs to make public their Form ATS, and additional regulatory action could be considered to require ATSs to provide customers with their rules of operation, which would include order types, eligible participant and participant tiers, all forms of data feed products, and order-routing logic and eligible routing venues."
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Ratterman also has an idea on how to limit complexity: Until an exchange gets more than 1% market share over three months, they shouldn't be protected under the order protection rule and they shouldn't share in or receive any Reg NMS plan market data revenue.
- 9:47 am
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Vanguard's head of global equity index group, Joseph Brennan, also says markets are not rigged. "Individual investors who access the equity markets through asset managers like Vanguard have, without question, benefited from the market structure improvements that have been made over the last twenty years."
On HFT: He says market structure should be examined holistically and HFT shouldn't be banned. (An aside: No one seriously is talking about banning HFT.)
- 9:49 am
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Stephen Quirk of TD Ameritrade discusses order routing. He says:
1.) Clients can either use TD Ameritrade's order-routing logic or choose their own.
2.) They don't internalize orders.
3.) They work with multiple market centers, and "adjust accordingly" in picking multiple market centers.
- 9:50 am
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Two cents from Rich Gates — who says he agrees with Senator Levin to do away with payment for order flow and the maker/taker fee schedule.
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Rich Gates adds, however: "2/3 of American distrust the structure of the stock market? So, they don't own stocks? I think the huge drop during financial crisis is the real reason investors distrust the stock market. Not issues with Reg NMS and HFT…."
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Does McCain want troops on the ground? #HFT 🙂
— CMCMFIN (@CMCMFIN) June 17, 2014
- 9:54 am
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Sen. McCain now talking about the so-called SIP, which has been widely faulted for being slower in, essentially, seeing trades than the HFT firms.
- 9:56 am
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Sen. Ron Johnson of Wisconsin points out that he's an individual investor, too, and that commissions have come down rapidly.
- 9:58 am
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McCain understands #flashboys #HFT
— Eric Scott Hunsader (@nanexllc) June 17, 2014
- 9:59 am
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By the way, if you're wondering where Michael Lewis is when discussing the topic that he made famous, the answer MarketWatch has learned is, Norway. Whether for vacation or another book is anyone's guess.
- 10:03 am
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Katsuyama testimony now posted. This is what IEX wants:
Standardization of Data:
1. When data is requested of participants, ensure that a standard for how the data should be derived and presented is clear and concise.
2. Require market systems, broker-dealers, exchanges, ATSs and SIPs, to time stamp messages sent, received and used internally to a standard granularity of at least microseconds with specificity on where in the system it was recorded.
3. Improve atomic clock synchronization from a one second tolerance to one millisecond or finer.
Data requirement examples:
1. Public disclosure of an anonymous breakdown of subscribers by volume on any registered trading venue (ATS and Exchange).
2. Public disclosure of an anonymous breakdown of message traffic and message to trade ratio by subscriber on any registered trading venue (ATS and Exchange).
3. A complete audit trail of how client orders are handled, including both routing and trading information, available to the client upon request.
Market Operation Disclosures:
1. Plain language rules and common use examples for proposed rules for products and services offered by exchanges.
2. Require public disclosure of alternative trading systems' Form ATS and subsequent products, services, and pricing.
3. Ensure an adequate amount of reporting between exchanges and brokers, as well as between brokers and clients – whereby execution data and routing data is standardized and available upon request.
4. Define acceptable tolerances for trading, market center and inter-market communication system performance to ensure there are no meaningful risks to the integrity of the system in the context of structural inefficiencies which could allow unfair advantages and disadvantages to certain market participants.
- 10:09 am
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Rich Gates chimes in:
Brad mentioned "perverse incentives." He is right! That is why IEX rocks – when presented with those conflicts of interest, IEX made the right choice. And, equally important, it was willing to stand up and shine a light on its competitors who succumbed to the "perverse incentives."
- 10:12 am
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Levin asking Battlio about order routing practices of major brokerages and how they go to venues that pay best rebates.
- 10:16 am
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Katsuyama asked about the order routing practices to high-rebate venues. He says these practices result in a lesser likelihood of getting orders filled.
- 10:17 am
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Ironic, and something not well grasped, that #HFT dominates the quote on mkts where they pay to post rather than getting rebate.
— Justin Schack (@JustinRBLT) June 17, 2014
- 10:18 am
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Katsuyama likens practice to brokers directing clients to longest queue.
- 10:21 am
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Johnson asking Battalio to quantify the conflict of interest. The senator gives an example of investor buying 100 shares at $20.
Battalio cites Goldman Sachs data as saying it would cost an extra 3 or 4 basis points. He also says there's a risk the trade won't execute and then bid the price up.
- 10:23 am
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You're concerned about conflict of interest on 40 cents on 100 shares, Johnson asks?
Battalio: No, concerned about not being able to trade at all.
- 10:26 am
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"You're talking about miniscule amounts," Sen. Johnson says. You're arguing whether fees should be $10.30 or $10.40, the senator says.
- 10:29 am
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Katsuyama, in responding to Sen. Johnson, says the costs are real, even if they are diffuse. "It's not a reason to ignore the issue," he says.
- 10:34 am
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McCain asks Katsuyama if markets are rigged. "It is loaded," he concedes of the adjective. And Katsuyama says he's still an investor and says term is still distraction.
The people who took most offense are those on Wall Street. But the general public didn't react that way, Katsuyama says.
- 10:37 am
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What about co-location, McCain asks.
At IEX, Katsuyama says, they've done the opposite, essentially adding miles of coil to participants. There are still HFT firms who connect to IEX but there are fewer.
- 10:38 am
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— Rick Ellis (@R1506) June 17, 2014
- 10:41 am
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Katsuyama and Battalio discussing a pilot program to eliminate maker-taker on a few stocks. You can read more here on The Wall Street Journal's web site.
- 10:46 am
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Here's a response to Katsuyama on why only 3 HFT firms trade on IEX:
…#HFT does not want to trade in block size or get run over by informed orders. IEX marketing itself as center for that style of trading…
— Justin Schack (@JustinRBLT) June 17, 2014
…so of course #HFT less likely to participate there. All the "rigged" rhetoric can't be helping either. #PSIhearing
— Justin Schack (@JustinRBLT) June 17, 2014
- 10:50 am
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Johnson's back. Asking Battalio about orders that aren't executing.
Battalio says you're getting put at the back of the line, all the time. In certain stocks, this happens 10% to 20% of the time.
- 10:51 am
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"We're not crying fire at a theater," Battalio says. He says paper is very specific. Sen. Johnson says, you may not be, but the press is.
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Katsuyama says the brokerage Interactive Brokers routes in a way that he approves. (It does route to Katsuyama's IEX.)
- 10:56 am
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.@SenRonJohnson trying really hard to make it seem like #HFT isn't affecting him as an individual investor. Uh, ok??
— alexis goldstein (@alexisgoldstein) June 17, 2014
[No relation to the author by the way.]
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if #HFT is so predatory how come $INTC hasn't moved off the $21 offer in his example this entire hearing? #PSIhearing
— Billy Kaos (@billykaos) June 17, 2014
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Levin asks how can an investor make an informed decision on where to get best execution.
Katsuyama replies that most people won't put in time to understand that.
Levin persists: Government should force transparency?
Katsuyama: There's been no attempt by the market to do it.
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Katsuyama says focusing on disclosure will cause least amount of disruption.
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McCain asks, is it a serious issue? Battalio: We think it is, and an easy one to fix.
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That's all for Katsuyama and Battalio.
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Now the exchange execs and those of Vanguard and TD Ameritrade testifying.
- 11:23 am
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Not on the list of witnesses at today's hearing: Actual regulators. http://t.co/JhoRtTArti
— Ivan the K™ (@IvanTheK) June 17, 2014
.@matt_levine @IvanTheK as soon as you stick your hand up as an #HFT you get subpoenaed or sued
— Scott Avdiros (@ScottAvdiros) June 17, 2014
- 11:33 am
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Questioning begins. NYSE's Farley says the appearance of conflict from maker-taker is one of confidence.
- 11:35 am
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Here's a comment from The Modern Markets Initiative — the trade group representing the HFT firms. Doesn't say much, but here we go:
"The Modern Markets Initiative applauds efforts to strengthen our
financial markets and root out bad actors in today's marketplace, no
matter the frequency of trading.
"Though the witnesses have different perspectives on how to improve
financial markets, they all agree technology has greatly benefited
today's modern investor and the benefits of high frequency trading
should be preserved.
"Today's modern markets offer lower costs and more transparency
than ever before for retail investors. The MMI supports efforts to
increase transparency and the availability of data to ensure that future
innovations benefit all market participants."
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BATS CEO Ratterman defends maker-taker as way to reduce spreads. It's allowed for innovation in pricing and markets, he says.
Eliminating it wouldn't eliminate conflict, he adds. To do that, it would require price fixing.
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"There is a sense, that boy we don't have as much confidence as we use to have," says NYSE's Farley on impact of high-frequency trading debate.
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The market seems to have spoken — TD Ameritrade /quotes/zigman/9766366/delayed /quotes/nls/amtd AMTD and Schwab /quotes/zigman/240465/delayed /quotes/nls/schw SCHW both up over 4%.
Translation: Not much appetite to dramatically change the rules.
- 11:53 am
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Levin trying to praise Vanguard's brokerage arm for not accepting payment for order flow — but Brennan doesn't know what the details are and why they act the way they do.
- 11:59 am
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Securities Technology Monitor gets what is likely first mention ever at a Senate hearing.
Levin is quoting comments made in that publication about order routing. He's trying to nail down the role of payment in determining best execution.
All things being equal, that would be a factor, TD Ameritrade's Quirk concedes.
- 12:01 pm
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Quick recess — hearing to reconvene at 12:15 p.m.
Your blogger is going to some caffeine. Don't mistake that for lack of interest — think it's been a very interesting discussion so far.
- 12:16 pm
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@pattersonscott Apparently, they always get to the last factor.
— Shane Corwin (@scorwin99) June 17, 2014
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Still in recess. Feel free to chime in your thoughts in the comments section below, or tweet me directly at @mktwgoldstein.
- 12:20 pm
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A related story to check out: SEC has 'straggler' investigations from financial crisis, enforcement chief says.
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The session has re-started.
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TD Ameritrade's order routing to Direct Edge (now part of BATS) being discussed. Direct Edge paid the highest, and got all the non-marketable orders.
TD Ameritrade's Quirk says firm made about $80 million from 'maker-taker' rebates.
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McCain asks impact of banning "maker-taker" on operations. BATS's Ratterman says they would have change the way they charge. "It's not fundamental, we would adjust our pricing to whatever framework the law would allow."
NYSE's Farley says result would be fewer order types and fewer venues. If you ban maker-taker without doing more, volume would shift to darker markets, he adds.
- 12:35 pm
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Ratterman says seeing trend in direction of transparency (such as Form ATS being disclosed), and medium-term is the 'holistic' review of markets by the SEC.
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The stock exchange operators are also higher on Tuesday, though not as strong as the brokerages. IntercontinentalExchange /quotes/zigman/23571824/delayed /quotes/nls/ice ICE (owner of NYSE) and Nasdaq /quotes/zigman/86035/delayed /quotes/nls/ndaq NDAQ each up about 1%.
- 12:41 pm
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TD Ameritrade's Quirk says "I think we would be willing to share data" with Notre Dame professor Battalio (from the earlier session) provided security concerns met.
- 12:42 pm
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This is quote of TD Ameritrade's Quirk:
"These terms don't mean anything to Mom & Pop: co-location, HFT, they don't know. We don't want to spook them or think we're being unfair."
— Heidi N. Moore (@moorehn) June 17, 2014
- 12:44 pm
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Levin wrapping up hearing, saying conflicts and HFT contribute to lack of confidence and leaving investors worse off. "Hopefully, the regulatory agencies will take action," he said, adding he hopes the SEC doesn't take as long as they take on some other actions.
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And it's over. To recap: this hearing was very much focused on order routing. If y ou want more high-frequency trading discussion, there's another one in the Senate Wednesday, this time from the Senate Banking Committee. (MarketWatch won't be providing blow-by-blow on account of the Fed decision.)
But today's had the better witness list.
- 12:48 pm
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Before closing it up, here are a few comments from around the Twittersphere.
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Economic harm can come from bad broker routing. But harm to investor confidence? Give me a break.
— agthreesixty (@agthreesixty) June 17, 2014
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McCain. "We would not be holding this hearing if there were not significant issues out there" #PSIHearing
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Evaluation Process of California Falconry Regulations
According to the Federal Regulations (Title 50, Part 21, Subpart C, § 21.29), all states are mandated to submit falconry regulations that meet federal regulation standards on or before January 1, 2014. Once the state's regulations are approved by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (Service) Director and by the state's regulatory process, falconry permits will be issued solely by the state rather then the Service.
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"A State (including the District of Columbia), tribe, or territory under the jurisdiction of the United States that wishes to allow falconry must establish laws and regulations (hereafter referred to as laws) that meet the standards established in this section." "The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (Service) Director must determine that a State, tribal, or territorial falconry permitting program meets the requirements and standards of this section. The Director must certify no later than January 1, 2014, that a State, tribe, and territory willing to allow falconry meets the federal standards. At that time, all Federal falconry permits and the Federal permitting program will end. Falconry will not be permitted in a State or territory or by a tribe after this date until that State, tribe, or territory develops a permitting program the Director certifies to be in compliance with these regulations." "State, tribal, or territorial laws may be more restrictive than these Federal standards but may not be less restrictive."
(See Title 50, Part 21, Subpart C, § 21.29)
To meet this mandate, the California Department of Fish and Wildlife will be developing an Environmental Document (ED) to comply with the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) process.
CDFW is committed to meeting the January 1, 2014 deadline and has outlined a proposed schedule to do so prior to this deadline (see table below). The new falconry regulations for the State of California ultimately change Title 14 of the California Code of Regulations. The FOSR for Section 670 is posted below.
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The California Department of Fish and Wildlife prepared a draft environmental document pursuant to the California Environmental Quality Act; (CEQA). You may access the document and associated appendices by clicking on the links below. The public comment period concluded on February 1, 2013. The final environmental document is posted below.
The California Department of Fish and Wildlife is in the midst of updating CCR, Title 14, Section 703, related to falconry fees. View notice. The comment period concluded on July 30, 2013. The FOSR for Section 703 is posted below.
All files are offered in PDF format.
- Final Environmental Document Regarding Falconry
- Appendix A - Summary of Public Comments Regarding the Environmental Document
- Appendix B - Proposed Regulations
- Appendix C - An Historical Background of Falconry
- Appendix D - Current Federal Regulations, 50 CFR § 21.29
- Appendix E - Current California State Regulations, Title 14 § 670
- Appendix F - Species Accounts
- Appendix G - Wildlife Habitat Relationship (WHR) Species Maps
- Appendix H - List of Individuals and Organizations Receiving Notice of the Draft Environmental Document
- FSOR for CCR Title 14, Section 670
- FSOR for CCR Title 14, Section 703 and Section 703 verbatim
Meetings and Calls
- A brief update was given at the November 2011 Fish and Game Commission Meeting, agenda item 6. Another update was given in August 2012, agenda item 22E. The regulatory package was seen at the Commission in November 2012, agenda item 13. In February 2013 a discussion was held at the Commission meeting, agenda item 4. In March 2013, the regulations were adopted by the Commission, agenda item 7.
- A conference call was held on April 27, 2012. The purpose of the meeting was to give a brief status update of the regulation process and answer any questions related to the environmental process. The meeting notes are now available.
- A conference call was held on August 10, 2012. The purpose of the meeting was to go over revised schedule and discuss proposed regulatory changes. The meeting notes are now available.
Updated August 30, 2013
|Falconry Regulation Process
|Time Period
|Public Scoping Meeting
|Nov 18, 2010
|Notice of Preparation
|Dec 2010
|Public Online Falconry Survey
|Sept 2010 – Feb 2011
|Compile Falconry Data
|Summer 2011 – Fall 2011
|Preparation of DED and Draft Regulations
|Fall 2011 – Summer 2012
|Update to Commission
|Nov 16, 2011
|Public Informational Call
|Apr 27, 2012
|Finalize process for electronic reporting requirement to USFWS
|Summer 2012
|Update to Commission
|Aug 8, 2012
|Focused Public Information Call
|Aug 10, 2012
|Fish and Game Commission – Scoping
|Oct 3, 2012
|Fish and Game Commission – Notice
|Nov 7, 2012
|Commission Submits Notice to OAL
|Nov 13, 2012
|OAL Publishes Notice for CCR, Title 14, Section 670 (regulation)
Public comment period initiates for Section 670
|Nov 23, 2012
|Fish and Game Commission - Discussion
|Feb 6, 2013
|Fish and Game Commission – Adoption
Public comment period concludes for Section 670
|Mar 6, 2013
|Department Publishes Notice for CCR, Title 14, Section 703 (fees)
Public comment period initiates for Section 703
|Jun 14, 2013
|Public comment period concludes for Section 703
|July 30, 2013
|OAL approves Rulemaking for sections 670 and 703
|August 27, 2013
|Submit Final Regulation to USFWS
|August 30, 2013
|USFWS Publish in Federal Register
|Jan 1, 2014
|CA Regulation Effective Date
|Jan 1, 2014
Additional Information and Resources
- 2013 Falconry Regulation Change Q&A (PDF)
- Notice of Changes and New Regulations to Section 670, Title 14, of the California Code of Regulations
- US Fish and Wildlife Service 3-186A electronic reporting
- 2011-12 Resident and Migratory Upland Game Bird Hunting Regulations
- Federal Falconry Regulations (Title 50, Part 21, Subpart C, § 21.29)
- California State Falconry Laws and Regulations (PDF)
- Fully Protected Animals in California


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Mount Jefferson Wilderness
IntroductionThe United States Congress designated the Mount Jefferson Wilderness (map) in 1968 and it now has a total of 109,082 acres. All of this wilderness is located in Oregon and is managed by the Forest Service.
DescriptionFive glaciers mantle the slopes of stately Mount Jefferson, the dominant feature in this region of the High Cascades: Whitewater, Waldo, Milk Creek, Russell, and Jefferson Park. At 10,497 feet, Mount Jefferson challenges hikers with the steepest, most difficult climb of Oregon's high summits. The southern portion of the area rests beneath 7,841-foot Three Fingered Jack. Most of the high country of this Wilderness is wide open, almost like a park, with scattered tree cover, long talus slopes, rocky outcroppings, alpine meadows, and year-round patches of snow. Between 5,000 feet and 6,000 feet you'll find more than 150 small lakes, about half of them stocked with trout. A grand forest of Douglas fir, silver fir, subalpine fir, mountain hemlock, lodgepole pine, ponderosa pine, and cedar mix with vine maple, huckleberry, and rhododendron to distinguish the lower elevations. The vast Warm Springs Indian Reservation shares a long northeastern border. Hikers can wend their way through approximately 190 miles of very heavily used trails, including about 40 miles of the Pacific Crest National Scenic Trail. Jefferson Park, Marion Lake, Pamelia Lake, and Jack Lake are the most impacted by human traffic.
Planning to Visit the Mount Jefferson Wilderness?
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- Plan Ahead and Prepare
- Travel and Camp on Durable Surfaces
- Dispose of Waste Properly
- Leave What You Find
- Minimize Campfire Impacts
- Respect Wildlife
- Be Considerate of Other Visitors


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To protect the civil rights of all Americans, and for other purposes. Introduced to the Senate, January 7, 2003.
H.R. 1910: To prohibit discrimination on the basis of genetic information with respect to health insurance [thomas.loc.gov].
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text: Michael, I agree with John, but I wonder about the CPU drain on the file servers to keep up with the demand; it will be nice to have numbers on some simple benchmarks (bonnie, iozone,...) once you have it up and running... Regards, paulo > Interesting... a sort of 'poor man's multipathing' > You would have to closely monitor that the mirroring over the network > link is up and running. > Also look at http://www.drbd.org/ which might be the cat's pyjamas for > this application. > > On Mon, 2005-11-21 at 17:12 -0800, Michael Will wrote: >> I have not completely though this out yet, but what about something like >> this: >> >> Have 1U or 2U servers with internal drives split into two (software) >> raid volumes. >> Connect them with 1 ethernet cable to a switch fabric to serve half of >> the storage. >> >> Connect them in pairs with the second gigabit ethernet cable directly >> (crossover, >> same cable as non-crossover since it is gigabit, most mainboards have >> two nics down >> nowadays) >> use network-block-device to mirror one of the two groups to the other >> server. >> -- Paulo Afonso Lopes | Tel: +351- 21 294 8536 Departamento de Informática | 294 8300 ext.10763 Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia | Fax: +351- 21 294 8541 Universidade Nova de Lisboa | e-mail: pal at di.fct.unl.pt 2829-516 Caparica, PORTUGAL


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It has been a year since I first started tracking scoring chances and I have yet to see a team run over their opponent like the Los Angeles Kings did to the Phoenix Coyotes in the Western Conference Finals. It may have taken them five games to win the series, but this could have easily been done in four because Phoenix was completely outmatched both at even strength and on special teams. They were outchanced by 41 overall and by 30 during five-on-five play alone. The Coyotes have made a habit out of riding the Mike Smith train to victory this season but not even Henrik Lundqvist can carry his team through a series when the team in front of him is getting destroyed.
It's been a nice run for the Coyotes but it was evident in Game One that they were on life support and didn't have the talent up front or on defense to compete with a team like the Kings in a series.
Los Angeles Kings – Phoenix Coyotes Series Scoring Chances
LA's chances are in grey, Phoenix's are in maroon. This is from LA's perspective
The only weak point for LA was their 5-on-4 play as they created only 17 scoring chances in about 43 minutes but luckily for them, the Coyotes' powerplay was about five times worse as they created seven fewer chances with three more minutes of powerplay time. To make things worse, the Kings had half as many shorthanded chances as the Coyotes had with the man advantage. It's really hard to be competitive when you are getting crushed at even strength and can't make up for it on special teams, which is why Mike Smith should have just been given the Conn Smythe if Phoenix somehow managed to win this series. Alas, the better overall team prevailed and the Kings are heading to the Stanley Cup Final.
Kings Individual Scoring Chances
Anze Kopitar, Justin Williams and Dustin Brown ran wild and shredded everything that the Coyotes tried to use against them. The play from Kopitar in general was just phenomonal. He led all forwarsd in scoring chances for, gave up less than half in his own end and was also terrific on special teams. The only game where he wasn't a positive player in scoring chances was Game 5, in which he was even. Everyone knows that he is an all-world talent but his performance was on another level this series.
Aside from Jarret Stoll, every Kings player was positive in scoring chances at even strength, which shows how badly the whole team outplayed the Coyotes. They appear to be in good shape heading into the Stanley Cup Final. Stoll's line appears to be a concern, but take note of how much better his linemates (Lewis and King) were away from him.
Kings Chance Differential per 15 minutes
SCF 15 = Number of LA scoring chances that the player was on ice for per 15 minutes, SCA 15 = Number of PHX scoring chances the player was on ice for per 15 minutes, Diff/15 = Scoring chance differential per 15 minutes. Chart sorted by scoring chance differential
Willie Mitchell and Slava Voynov were actually the Kings best defense pairing and outperformed both Doughty and Scuderi. Both pairings spent a considerable amount of time against Phoenix's top-six but Mitchell & Voynov gave up much fewer chances relative to their ice time than Doughty & Scuderi did. Those two were also creating slightly more, as well. Matt Greene and Alec Martinez also heavily outchanced their opponents but they received the easier matchups and zone starts.
Stoll was the only player who didn't have a positive differential but that's likely because he didn't create many chances. The Kings' third line was hard matched against Phoenix's first line for a few games this series and their primary task was to defend. All three (Lewis-Stoll-King) could have done better in that regard but they didn't surrender nearly as many chances as the Carter-Richards-Penner line. It's a good thing those three made up for that with their offense.
Coyotes Individual Scoring Chances
Mikkel Boedker was the only Coyotes player to have a positive scoring chance differential and there were only a few players who had a respectful showing. One of them was Phoenix's terrific young defenseman Oliver Ekman-Larsson. He played most of his minutes against Kopitar's line and managed not to be completely buried despite that. What turned things around for him was Dave Tippett taking Rostislav Klesla off his pairing and replacing him with Michal Rozsival. Rozsival still got outchanced but he wasn't nearly as bad as Klesla. Ekman-Larsson was overmatched against Kopitar but he did his best to not get destroyed by that unit.
Unfortunately for Phoenix, everything postiive done by Ekman-Larsson and Rozsival was erased by their "top defense pairing" of Keith Yandle and Derek Morris. Those two were simply atrocious in their own end and weren't even matched up against Kopitar's line. LA's second and fourth lines saw the most time against that pairing and they were creating chances left and right against Yandle & Morris. I would love to see a reason for Tippett giving these two so much ice-time at even strength because they were not getting the job done even with sheltered minutes and hurting the team. Yandle's puck-moving skills are a major asset for this team but he was still spending too much time in his own end despite that.
Coyotes Chance Differential per 15 Minutes
SCF 15 = Number of PHX scoring chances that the player was on ice for per 15 minutes, SCA 15 = Number of LA scoring chances the player was on ice for per 15 minutes, Diff/15 = Scoring chance differential per 15 minutes. Chart sorted by scoring chance differential
It is easy to see how much better Ekman-Larsson and Rozsival were compared to the rest of the defense and how awful Yandle & Morris were. General knowledge would lead one to believe that Morris could be dragging Yandle down but Yandle's numbers here are actually a lot worse than Morris'. A scoring chance WOWY for both of them would be interesting to see. Rostislav Klesla was also a wreck defensively and it shouldn't take a genius to figure out why he was bumped off the shutdown pairing in favor of Rozsival.
Relative to the team average, Doan, Vermette and Boedker had a good showing and why Taylor Pyatt was promoted initially to the first line instead of Boedker is a good question. Boedker actually played the majority of his minutes against the Kopitar line and still came out in the black in scoring chances. If Boedker not being promoted wasn't bad enough, Tippett also bumped him down to the third line so that Ray Whitney could stay in the top-six. Nevermind that Whitney was completely ineffective and Phoenix was in need of forwards who were capable of driving the play.
Head-to-Head at Five-on-Five
The head-to-head numbers reveal that Ekman-Larsson & Rozsival were actually beaten down by the Kopitar line and did most of their damage against almost every other line and defense pairing from theKings. Their performance against the Mike Richards line compared to Yandle & Morris is very impressive. On that note, take a look at what the Kings fourth line did to those two. Depth players being able to outchance a defense pairing that plays 20+ minutes a game like that probably means that said defense pairing shouldn't be playing that many minutes.
Vermette's line also did a solid job against the Richards line but that is completely cancelled out by the fact that the Kings fourth line beat them badly. How that managed to happenis beyond me. Boyd Gordon's line was also dismantled by the Kopitar line as Tippett tried to use a shutdown approach by matching Vermette & Gordon against them. Martin Hanzal being suspended in Game Three probably affected how he uses his forwards because he is usually deployed against other team's top forwards. Both of Hanzal's linemates being ineffective at even strength likely had something to do with that, as well.
Head-to-Head Ice Time at Five-on-Five
One thing that should jump out is that Tippett constantly made changes to his lineup while Darryl Sutter used the same lines & defense pairings throughout the series. The only change he made was inserting Kyle Clifford in the lineup in place of Colin Fraser for Games Two & Three. Tippett tried just about everything to give his team a spark and even went to desperate tactics by dressing Paul Bissonnette so that he could play a total of three minutes and two seconds.The only changes which had somewhat of a positive impact was having Rozsival and Klesla switch places and replacing Gilbert Brule with Marc-Antoine Pouliot on the fourth line.
As far as matchups go, Ekman-Larsson & Rozsival vs. Kopitar's line is the obvious one here. OEL spent over half of his ice-time against the Kopitar line and judging by the head-to-head numbers, he payed a huge price for it. Sutter, on the other hand, wasn't as extreme with his matchups as Doughty, Scuderi, Voynov & Mitchell played most of their minutes against the Coyotes' top-six. He did protect Greene & Martinez, though as those two played most of their minutes against Phoenix's bottom two lines.
Head-to-Head Scoring Chances per 15 Minutes
Ekman-Larsson's performance against the Kopitar line looks a little more reasonable here but he still gave up over three chances for every 15 minutes he played that line. Although, that isn't nearly as bad when you compare it to how bad the forwards played against them. This also shows how bad Yandle & Morris were against the Kings' fourth line. Holy smokes.
Scoring chance data for this series was compiled using Vic Ferrari's Time On Ice scripts. Time on ice data was also compiled using Ferrari's time on ice site.


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Going through a set of warm-up exercises before practices and games cut the rate of knee and ankle injuries in girls playing soccer and basketball in a new study.
Fewer of the high school students suffered noncontact injuries, including anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) sprains, when their coaches were trained to lead the warm-up sessions.
Researchers said that training coaches in these exercises may be a low-cost way to prevent injuries that sometimes require expensive surgeries -- and may turn girls off from physical activity. Exercise in teen girls has been linked to better grades, less obesity and lower pregnancy rates.
"We see that girls that are active in sports are less likely to get involved in some of these other high-risk behaviors, so keeping them active and making sure an injury doesn't take them out is important," said Dr. Cynthia LaBella, from the Northwestern Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago, who worked on the study.
Warm-ups, she added, are "worth the time and the money invested for the long-term health of the girls."
Tim Hewett, head of sports medicine research at The Ohio State University and Cincinnati Children's Hospital, said that during puberty, both girls and boys shoot up in height, but girls' muscles don't develop as much as boys' do.
Because of that imbalance, studies have shown they get between two and 10 times more injuries like ACL sprains than boys, he added.
"The good news in all this is, these imbalances that we observe can be corrected with neuromuscular training," Hewett, who was not involved in the new study, told Reuters Health.
LaBella's study involved mostly low-income girls playing on high school soccer and basketball teams in Chicago public schools. Ninety coaches were randomly assigned to be taught a warm-up program involving strengthening, balance and agility exercises to lead before every game and practice, or to stick with their usual warm-up routine.
The warm-up also involved exercises focusing on how to jump and land safely. The regimen was designed to take about 20 minutes, and coaches were given a DVD and laminated card to help them keep track of the exercises.
Over the course of the season, they recorded whenever one of their athletes missed a practice or game due to a leg, ankle or foot injury.
About 1,500 girls were included in the study -- half on teams that did the warm-up program, and half on teams that didn't. In total, there were 96 injuries during the 2006-2007 season in the "control" group that did no extra stretching and strengthening, compared to 50 injuries in girls who did the warm-ups.
Specifically, there was a 35 percent reduction in leg overuse injuries with the warm-up program and a 44 percent lower rate of acute non-contact injuries.
The researchers calculated that three or four coaches would need to be trained in the exercises to prevent one gradual-onset injury and between 11 and 16 coaches to prevent an ACL sprain or any type of injury that required surgery.
Even the cost of training 16 coaches, at about $1,300, would be significantly less than the $17,000 or more needed for ACL surgery, they wrote in Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine this week.
Some coaches might not want to use the warm-up program because it takes time out of already limited practices, LaBella and her colleagues said. Along those lines, coaches that were instructed to do warm-ups as usual, without learning the exercises, generally didn't do them at all or had athletes do warm-ups themselves, they found.
"Coaches oftentimes are hesitant to take practice time away from skill development," LaBella told Reuters Health. "They may only get the gym for an hour."
But, she continued, "We really feel like it should be a routine part of sports training for teenage girls. It's worth the investment."
Hewett said that the warm-up exercises, when done correctly, can improve jumping height and power -- not just prevent injuries. That's one way to sell them to coaches, he said.
"You can make a huge difference in the athleticism of these girls," Hewett said. "There's many ways we can show these kids that they're faster, quicker, more balanced athletes."