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Important Note: Most of the seeds on this page will
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For years I have wondered why palms are not present in all homes where house plants are enjoyed. I have about come to the conclusion that price and a general misunderstanding about these wonderful plants are the main culprits. The price for a developed palm plant can be quite staggering. Even the smallest palm in a five gallon container can cost around twenty-five to fifty bucks. A mature tree palm delivered to your home can cost from several hundred to several thousand dollars.
A misconception about palms is that they will only grow in the tropics and deserts. While it is true that many of the over three thousand species of palms do thrive in these hot humid areas, it is also true that some are quite cold hardy and with some degree of protection can be raised in areas where it freezes. And it is very true that almost every palm makes a good houseplant although some of the tree types will eventually out grow their limited surroundings.
Another unknown about palms it that they can be easily raised from seed at a cost of less than a dollar each. They require little maintenance and add beauty and value to your home.
Here is a selection of my favorite palms. I hope you will try a few.
BK104 Princeton Field Guides: Palms of Southern Asia
By Andrew Henderson
Hardcover, 264 pages, 6 x 9, full-color photographs, maps, Princeton University Press
"This is a very well-organized field guide. It is clear in its presentation of the facts and the language is without unnecessary complications. The science behind this popular presentation is very sound. The descriptions in general are very concise."—Henrik Balslev, University of Aarhus, Denmark
Southern Asia is a vast and ecologically diverse region that extends from the deserts of Afghanistan to the rainforests of Thailand, and is home to a marvelously rich palm flora. Palms of Southern Asia is the only complete field guide to the 43 genera and 352 species of palms and rattans that occur in Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Cambodia, China, India, Japan, Laos, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Taiwan, Thailand, and Vietnam. This attractive guide's handsome illustrations and succinct, authoritative, and jargon-free text make identification easy. Each species account includes the correct scientific and common names, and fully describes morphology, habitat, and uses. Featuring a distribution map for most species and 256 full-color photographs, this is also the only field guide to cover the extremely diverse palm flora of Vietnam, and the first to offer a taxonomic overview of the rattan species of Southern Asia.
Palms of Southern Asia is a book of major importance for botanists and an invaluable aid for naturalists and conservationists, and it's the perfect field guide for ecotourists traveling in the region.
• Covers all 352 naturally occurring palms in Southern Asia
• Features full-color photographs of 256 species, many never before illustrated
• Includes a distribution map for most species
• Provides the first taxonomic overview of the rattans of Southern Asia
BK105 Timber Press Pocket Guide to Palms
200 Species and Hybrids • 323 Photographs
By Robert Lee Riffle
Flexibound, 237 pages, 6 x 8 1/2, full-color photographs, Timber Press
Unlocks the keys to successfully growing palms
Native to every continent except Antarctica, palms are most closely identified with tropical regions and one species in particular, Cocos nucifera, the coconut palm, is the universally recognized symbol of all things tropical. Yet, many palms can withstand freezing and thus can be grown in mild temperate climates where the average low temperature does not drop below 5°F (-15°C). In addition, palms thrive in a wide range of habitats from swamps to deserts, rain forests to plains and grasslands. Some prefer full sun, others deep shade. Some are stemless shrubs, others are solitary or clustering trees, and still others are vinelike, but all are evergreen.
Given such diversity and versatility, it is surprising that palms are underutilized in landscapes and gardens, even in tropical climes. Several reasons account for this, including misconceptions about the plants' growing requirements and unfamiliarity with their ornamental qualities. This pocket guide remedies both problems. It unlocks the keys to successfully growing 200 of the most common and easily obtainable palm species and hybrids, and it highlights botanical characteristics that are of interest to gardeners and landscapers.
Each description includes details of trunk, crownshaft, leaf, flower, and fruit to assist in plant identification and selection. The extensive cultivation notes include details of mature tree size, cold hardiness, and light, soil, and water requirements. Suggestions for using the plants indoors and out will help even novice gardeners know where to start, and succinct information on seed germination will assist anyone who wants to grow their own palms from seed.
BKP100 An Encyclopedia of Cultivated Palms
By Robert Lee Riffle & Paul Craft
Hardcover, 528 pages, 8 1/2 x 11, full-color photographs, Timber Press,ISBN 0-88192-558-6
An Encyclopedia of Cultivated Palms offers a definitive account of palms that may be grown in the garden and landscape. Because palms are often underutilized as a result of their unfamiliarity—even to tropical gardeners—Robert Lee Riffle and Paul Craft have exhaustively documented every genus in the palm family. Approximately 890 species are described in detail, including cold hardiness, water needs, height, and any special requirements.
Generously illustrated with more than 900 photos, this volume is as valuable as an identification guide as it is a practical handbook. It even contains photos of several palm species that have never before appeared in a general encyclopedia. Interesting snippets of history, ethnobotany, and biology inform the text and make this a lively catalog of these remarkable plants.
BKP101 Palms of South Florida
By George B. Stevenson
Paperback, 252 pages, 6 x 9, b&w illustrations, University Press of Florida, ISBN 0-8130-1441-7
"The value of this book goes well beyond its immediate audience in south Florida, for the palms Stevenson covers comprise the most common horticultural varieties planted throughout the tropics. There is no other single book that describes this group of plants, especially with the diagnostic keys offered by Stevenson."—David W. Lee, Florida International University
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Tell me what love is, what can it be
What is this yearning burning me?
Can I survive it, will I endure?
This is my sickness, is there a cure?
First his obsession seizing my brain,
Starting in passion, ending in pain.
I start to shiver, then I'm on fire,
Then I'm aquiver with seething desire.
Who knows the secret, who holds the key?
I long for something - what can it be?
My brain is reeling, I wonder why;
And then the feeling I'm going to die.
By day it haunts me, haunts me by night.
This tender torment, tinged with delight!
Tell me wht love is, what can it be?
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Unreleased Radio Transcriptions 1944-1949
Original Release Date: 1991
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1. That's All
2. You Tell Me Your Dream
3. Old Rattler
4. T for Texas (Blue Yodel No. 1)
5. The Cat Came Back
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7. Lawdy, What a Gal
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MLB Trade Rumors: Why LA is Best Place for Prince Fielder and Albert Pujols
By Evan Barnes ,
In a dream world, the Dodgers would be buyers, not sellers this winter. In a dream world, Frank McCourt and his mismanagement wouldn't exist, and fans could look forward to the potential of luring a big free agent.
Yet this is reality. And the fact is that, despite what's going on off the field, the Dodgers have some pressing on-the-field issues. No more pressing than the lack of power in their lineup.
A lot of fingers are pointed at James Loney. Loney is a nice guy, a solid player and perhaps one of the best defensive first baseman in the National League. He's my favorite Dodger because of his professionalism and steady play.
Yet his offensive numbers are shaky. If not for his power surge at end the year, he was bound for a regression that could ease his way out of L.A. He is what he is—a contact hitter who'll drive in runs, get on base but will lack the consistent power of his contemporaries.
With Albert Pujols and Prince Fielder on the market this winter, there's no secret that Dodgers fans would love to exchange Loney for either one. And since Loney has already admitted that he'd have no problem learning to play left field, it makes practical sense to go after them.
Here are some reasons why Los Angeles would be the best place for both.
Prince Fielder has the luxury of playing with Ryan Braun, Rickie Weeks and Nyjer Morgan.
Albert Pujols is playing with Matt Holliday and a rejuvenated Lance Berkman.
Here's what they get in L.A.—the chance to play with the best young hitter in baseball.
Imagine a Dodgers lineup with Kemp and Fielder providing a one-two punch and putting up 35-plus home runs and 100-plus RBI a year easily.
Both would benefit from each other in the same way that Fielder benefits from Braun. He'd be going from one MVP candidate to another.
Picture Pujols with Matt Kemp giving him protection. He'd probably win one more MVP, and he'd revitalize his streak of batting .300 with 30 HRs and 100 RBI. He'd also be playing with a younger partner who could no doubt extend his career well into this decade.
The appeal of playing with potentially the best all-around hitter in the National League is hard to deny.
Also, they wouldn't have the pressure of being the focal point of the offense with Kemp by their side.
Both Fielder and Pujols play for two of the best fanbases in the majors.
If they leave for L.A., they'd get another loyal fanbase that would embrace them with open arms.
Dodgers fans have a loyalty to their first basemen. Eric Karros was a legend of my youth who still gets love despite being in the broadcast booth.
Steve Garvey remains beloved nearly 30 years after his last game at Chavez Ravine. Gil Hodges remains sorely underrated by modern fans despite his slugging power in the 1950s.
Fielder and Pujols would find that despite being a basketball town, they'd be appreciated just the same. Fielder's huge personality would make him the toast of the city, while Pujols' no-nonsense style would appeal to the old-school Dodgers fans and coaching staff, such as Davey Lopes.
For close to three million fans a year, it's not a bad trade-off to give up the Midwest for L.A. There may be more things craving sports fans' attention, but those who love the Dodgers would adore them.
Right now, the Dodgers and their fans need a morale boost.
Two years of a Dodgers divorce and disappointing seasons have made their 2008 and 2009 division titles seem like a distant memory.
There's already some hope in young talent like Javy Guerra, Kenley Jansen and Dee Gordon.
After Kemp's MVP-caliber season, there's a need for somebody else to shoulder the heavy load of bringing the franchise back to respectability.
Fielder and Pujols already have a track record for rejuvenating franchises. Pujols carried the Cardinals as the glare of Mark McGwire faded while Fielder helped give the Brewers their best success in 30 years.
Turning around a Dodgers team with more recent success shouldn't be too hard.
The team hasn't had a slugging first baseman since Eric Karros was in his prime. It's time to change that.
Name the last big-name Dodgers free-agent signing to pan out?
Jason Schmidt was an injury-riddled flop. J.D. Drew was an overpaid disaster. Don't get me started on Andruw Jones, whose weight was bigger than his batting average.
You'd have to look at Juan Pierre, who probably saved his Dodger tenure with his play during the 2009 suspension of Manny Ramirez, and Orlando Hudson, who had an All-Star/Gold Glove season that same year as two of the best free-agent signings of the last five to seven years.
The team has avoided big names like CC Sabathia, Cliff Lee and others for financial reasons or an unwillingness to part with top prospects.
Yet there's probably no safer bet on the market than either Fielder or Pujols.
They'd have much pressure to succeed, but reversing the curse of overpaid Dodgers who don't pan out?
That'd be something worth noting on their resume, something that would actually make fans praise Frank McCourt—briefly.
It's been a long time since the Dodgers had a power-hitting first baseman.
It would be great to see either Prince Fielder or Albert Pujols suit up at Chavez Ravine and help carry this team into a better decade.
The sad thing is that the financial state of the franchise would make it almost impossible to pay them both what they are worth.
Yet, in my opinion, it shouldn't be an excuse not to try, considering the alternative isn't guaranteed to be better.
If Loney is willing to learn how to play in the outfield, it makes great sense for the Dodgers to pursue more power at a position that has typically been a bright spot in their lineup.
I'd personally take Fielder because he's younger (27) and has closer ties to Kemp and Tony Gwynn Jr. But I'd have no problem adding Pujols the NL's best hitter over the last 10 years either, while he's still in his prime.


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Welcome to Security Trading and Market Making at Indiana University! In many courses we assume that securities can be issued/acquired without any real effort or expense. The reality is that trading securities has more costs than just merely brokerage commissions. Security trading is complex enough to justify devoting an entire course to it and we will still cover only a portion of the relevant issues. This field of study is known as "market microstructure." Microstructure has grown rapidly into one of the largest subdisciplines of finance and has had a profound impact on the real world. For example, a 1994 research study by two university professors uncovered evidence of implicit collusion by NASDAQ dealers. This led to a class action lawsuit that was eventually settled when 30 brokerage firms paid a total of $1 billion in damages!
There are three main goals for students in this course:
1. To develop a fundamental knowledge of how security trading is conducted, how security traders can minimize their cost of trading, and of how market makers can optimally set prices and execute orders.
2. To gain first-hand experience in trading simulated securities and making a market for simulated securities.
3. To develop group communications skills and report exposition skills by actively practicing these skills.
My approach to teaching involves two key features:
1. Assignment Preparation.
Prior to each class
session students are expected to complete a reading assignment and vote their
opinion on key issues. Students can vote by going to the course web site
http://www.spreadsheetmodeling.com/f535 and clicking on the relevant vote from
the course syllabus. Students are free to complete some or all of them in
groups. To count, votes must be completed by noon on the day of class.
2. Class Participation. Students are expected to play a primary role in explaining the assigned readings, expressing their opinions, asking questions, and contributing to the class discussion. This "active learning" approach is student-centered, as opposed to professor-centered (where the professor simply lectures). This approach is intended to create a more stimulating learning environment and provide students an opportunity to practice their communication skills, which are essential ingredient for a success business. Cold calling will routinely be used to insure that everyone participates. But equally important to class participation is your voluntary contributions, such as comments, answers, follow-up questions, and so on. All forms of class participation will be noted for grading purposes, excluding responses where the student is clearly unprepared or voluntary contributions that are clearly not helpful (just "hot air"). Staying current with the assignment preparation makes class participation easy to do and satisfying. Moreover, proper preparation will benefit you by minimizing the need for "cramming" before exams.
Nearly all of the readings have been bundled together in a coursepack, which is available now at TIS bookstore. Just ask for the F535 coursepack. A few readings come from a recent book "Trading and Exchanges" by Professor Larry Harris. Several copies of this book are available at the reserve desk in the Bus/SPEA library under the F535 listing.
Item |
Points |
Percent |
Off |
Date |
contribution |
20 points 40 points |
6.7% 13.3% |
---- ---- |
---- ---- |
Group Project #1
Security Trader Optimal Order Submission Strategies
Trader Competition
Report |
20 points 40 points |
6.7% 13.3% |
Jan 21 |
Feb 6 |
Group Project #2 Dealer Optimal
Quote and Execution Strategies
Competition · Written Report |
20 points 40 points |
6.7% 13.3% |
Feb11 |
Feb 27 |
Final Exam |
120 points |
40.0% |
---- |
Total Points |
300 points |
100.0% |
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1. Every effort will be follow the schedule; however it may be necessary to make small adjustments.
2. Students are expected to be ready for class at the scheduled time. Classes will start class on time and late arrivals will be frowned on. This policy avoids the problem of having people wander in late and not being able to pick up what is being discussed or even worse disrupting the learning of those who showed up on time.
3. The lists of learning objectives and the broad critical thinking questions suggest the types of questions that will be on the final. I encourage you to use the lists as a study guides.
4. During the semester confidential peer evaluations of individual contributions to team projects will conducted. Individuals who have contributed significantly more or significantly less than their teammates will be rewarded or penalized accordingly. The purpose of the peer evaluations is to provide direct incentives for individual contributions on the team projects and assignments.
UNIT I: OVERVIEW Classroom Activities Assignment Preparation Web Links |
(1.) Jan 14, Introduction· Syllabus · Trading Stories
Buy Side Vs. Sell Side · Photographs |
· Harris (2002), pg 11-19, 32-35, 38, 44-57, 62 · Vote1 |
Major financial news sites:
MSN Money (CNBC) |
MECHANISMS Classroom Activities Assignment Preparation Web Links |
(2.) Jan 16, Orders and Market Structure · Market Orders · Limit Orders · Demo of ECN 3D limit order book · Validity, Expiration, and Other Instructions · Quote-Driven Markets, Order-Driven Markets, Brokered Markets, Hybrid Markets · International Survey of Trading Mechanisms |
· Harris (2002), pg 68-78, 82-86, 89-96, 101-102 · Jain (2002a), cover, tables 1-4 · Vote2 |
Use Market Orders and Limit Orders to Trade Securities based on Political & Economic Events: Global Stock Exchanges: |
(3.) Jan 21, Limit Order Book Vs. Call Markets
Kickoff Group Project #1 · Uniform Pricing Rule and Single Price Auctions · Discriminatory Pricing Rule and Continuous Two-Sided Auctions · Exercise in Limit Order Book vs. Call Markets |
· Handout: Group Project #1
Harris (2002), pg 116-129
Handout: Examples of Limit Order Book and Call Markets · Vote3 |
Real-time, 3D consolidated LOB of 5 leading ECNs: |
(4.) Jan 23, · Paris Bourse / Euronext trading mechanism · Tokyo Stock Exchange trading mechanism
· Biais, Hillion, and Spatt (1995), pg 1655, 1659-1662, 1665, 1671 · Euronext (2000), pg 1-2 · Euronext (2000), pg 1 · Hamao and Hasbrouck (1995), pg 849, 851-859, 864
Associated Press Article (
Hansch, Naik, and
Viswanathan (1998), pg 1653-1654
Ellul (2001), pg 1,
5-9 · Vote4 |
Leading Global Exchanges: |
(5.) Jan 28 Recent Structural Changes · Impact of SEC order handling rules · Impact of decimalization · Trading meets the Millennium |
· Barclay, Christie, Harris, Kandel, and Schultz (1999), pg 4-10, 12-13, 15, 26 · Chakravarty, Harris, and Wood (2001), cover, pg 3-9 · Jennings (2001), pg 1-5 · Carroll, Lux, and Schack (2000), pg 36-42 · Vote5 |
Recent Developments in Trading: |
MAKING ISSUES Classroom Activities Assignment Preparation Web Links |
(6.) Jan 30, Inventory Management · Dealer inventory and the liquidity spectrum · NYSE specialist inventory · FX dealer inventory |
· Grossman and Miller (1988), pg 617-622 · Hasbrouch and Sofianos (1993), pg 1565, 1568-1573
Lyons (1998), pg 1-3, 6-10 · Vote6 |
Forex Trading:
(7.) Feb 4, Insider Trading
The case of Johnathan Lebed · The law and investigation of insider trading · Costs and benefits of insider trading
Insider trading in · Laws and enforcement around the world |
· Harris (2002), pg 584-587, 591-595 · Bhattacharya, Daouk, Jorgenson, and Kehr (2000), pg 69-70,73-74, 82-83, 93 · Bhattacharya and Daouk (2002), pg 75, 80-84, 89, 92-93 · Vote7 |
15 year old stock manipulator:
The complete "Next" story on
Jonathan Lebed
Enforcement Activity: |
(8.) Feb 6 · Security Trader Competition (bring your computer to class) |
(9.) Feb 11, Competition / Integration in Options · Kickoff Group Project #2
Multiple Listing and Designated Primary
MarketMaker (DPM): Pre-reform Evidence
Post-reform Execution Performance
Does a National Market System exist? |
· Handout: Group Project #2 · Mayhew (2002), 931, 933-934, 948-949, 955
Hansch and Hatheway (2001),
pg 0-1, 6-8, Tables 3-4, Figure 1
Battalio, Hatch, and Jennings
(2001), pg 1-6, 40-41, 44, 46-47, 56 · Vote9 |
US Options Exchanges: |
CONTROVERSIES Classroom Activities Assignment Preparation Web Links |
(10.) Feb 13, Day Traders· What day traders do · NASAA findings and recommendations · The case of Mark Barton · Trading is hazardous to your wealth |
· McMillian (1999), first four pages and last page
NASAA Report (1999), Two
covers, pg 1, 9-13, 44-46
Wall Street Journal Article ( · Barber and Odean (2000), pg 773-776 · Vote10 |
Day Trading Firms (Warning: may be hazardous to your wealth!)
Castle Online |
(11.) Feb 18, NASDAQ Implicit Collusion Trial The Plantiffs: Security traders who traded in NASDAQ securities The Defendants: NASDAQ dealers The Charge: Implicit collusion to create and maintain excessively wide spreads The Jury: The entire class · Price clustering · Odd-eighth avoidance · Response to adverse publicity · The defendant's view · Jury verdict: Guilty or not guilty? |
Independent Expert Witnesses: · Harris (1991), pg 389-395 · Simaan, Weaver, and Whitcomb (1998), pg 11 · Chakravarty, Harris, and Wood (2001), table 4 Witnesses for the Plantiffs: · Christie and Schultz (1994), pg 1813-1825 · Ingebretsen (2002), pg 116-117 · Wall Street Journal Article 5/27/94 · Christie, Harris, and Schultz (1994), pg 1841, 1846-1855 Witness for the Defendants: · Woodward (1997), pg 0-11 · Vote11 |
Info on NASDAQ market making: |
NEXT Classroom Activities Assignment Preparation Web Links |
(12.) Feb 20, New Ways To Trade · Wholesale trading of large package trades · Optimark · Primex Auction |
· Kavajecz and Keim (2002), cover, abstract, pg 1-9, table 1-4, figure 1 · Optimark Materials · Primex Auction Materials · Vote12 |
Trading Innovators: |
(13.) Feb 25, New Trading Systems · NYSE's OpenBook · NASDAQ's SuperMontage · ATSs |
· Boehmer, Saar, and Yu (2002), cover, pg 1-7, table 1-3 · NASDAQ's SuperMontage · Moszkowski, Gutierrez, and Clark (1999), pg 1-15 · Vote13 |
ECNs: Island, Archipelago, Redibook, Brut, NexTrade, Bloomberg Tradebook, Attain |
(14.) Feb 27 · Dealer Competition (bring your computer to class) |
(15.) Final Exam · Final Exam = T.B.A. |
We will kickoff group project #2 on Jan 21th. Students will be organized into teams and each team will download a security trading simulation based on the Excel add-in program @RISK. Teams can analyze a variety of security trading problems. For example, one type of problem requires that a certain number of shares is desired to be purchased within a particular timeframe. In implementing this request, the general goal is to minimize the utility cost of trading = total cost of trading on shares purchased + (penalty coefficient) * (shares not purchased within the timeframe). Teams will use their own intuition to search for an optimal order submission strategy (order type, size, and price, pattern over time, etc.) for each problem. Security trading problems can vary based on security trader type, degree of trader patience, magnitude of trader penalty cost for execution failure, performance metric, and stock that is being traded. Each team's order submission strategies will be put to the test in a live, head-to-head, security trading competition on Feb 6 and each team will summarize their security trader strategies in a written report.
We will kickoff group project #1 on Feb 11th. Students will be organized into teams and each team will download a dealer simulation based on a pure dealer market (similar to (pre-reform) NASDAQ or the London Stock Exchange). Teams can analyze a variety of dealer problems. Teams will manage the strategy of one dealer in competition with other dealers. The overall goal is to maximize profits and control inventory risk. Teams will search for an optimal dealer strategy (quote prices and depths, execute large orders in full or partial, adjust to order arrival patterns, adjust to information arrival, and manage inventory) for each problem. Dealer problems can vary based on dealer risk aversion and security volume of trade. Each team's dealer strategies will be put to the test in a live, head-to-head, dealer competition on Feb 27th and each team will summarize their dealer strategies in a written report.
Session |
Learning Objectives |
(1.) Introduction |
¨ Define the bid, ask, spread, and BBO. ¨ Determine the BBO prices and depths given quotes from various exchanges. ¨ Explain what participants are on the buy side vs. the sell side. |
(2.) Orders and Market Structure |
¨ Explain the major order types and their key properties. ¨ Know the terms to describe limit price placement. ¨ Who supplies liquidity in a pure quote-driven market, a pure order-driven market, a hybrid market, and a brokered market. ¨ Compare the performance of pure LOB vs. Hybrid vs. Dealer-emphasis systems. |
(3.) Limit Order Book Vs. Call Markets |
¨ Describe various order precedence rules. ¨ For a given set of orders, work out the limit price placement, trades, quotes, and changes in the limit order book for: (1) a limit order book market and (2) a call market. |
(4.) Paris, Tokyo, and London |
¨ Describe the trading mechanism of the Paris Bourse / Euronext. ¨ Describe the trading mechanism of the Tokyo Stock Exchange. ¨ Describe the trading mechanism of the London Stock Exchange pre & post 1997. |
(5.) Recent Structural Changes |
¨ The main impacts of the 1997 SEC-mandated reforms. ¨ The main impacts of the 2001 SEC-mandated decimalization. ¨ Explain ECN, demutualizing, after-hours trading, CLOB, Super Montage. |
(6.) Inventory Management |
¨ Significance of the inventory problem along the liquidity spectrum. ¨ Why dealers want to manage their inventories and how they do it. ¨ Compare the average dealer volume, average dealer profit, and inventory half-life of FX vs. equity. |
(7.) Insider Trading |
¨ What is insider trading? ¨ What are the costs and benefits of prohibiting insider trading? ¨ The main findings of Bhattacharya et al about the Mexican market. ¨ The main findings of Bhattacharya and Daouk about the world. |
(9.) Competition / Integration in Options |
¨ Define multiple listing, DPM, NMS, crossed, locked, trade-through. ¨ Discuss the impact of multiple listing and DPM on market performance. ¨ Explain how the options markets have changed since the summer of 1999 ¨ Discuss the evidence that a NMS does or does not exist in options |
(10.) Day Traders |
¨ Provide arguments that the day trader training business is legitimate or not. ¨ What degree of success have day traders actually had? ¨ Describe behavior finance evidence that trading is hazardous to your wealth. |
(11.) NASDAQ Implicit Collusion Trial |
¨ What is price clustering and how pervasive is it? ¨ Highlight the main points against the NASDAQ dealers. ¨ Highlight the main points in favor of the NASDAQ dealers. |
(12.) New Ways To Trade |
¨ Explain how trades are packaged, how transparent they are, and why there are gains. ¨ Explain how Optimark works and their new "three-dimensional" orders. ¨ Explain how the Primex Auction system works. |
(13.) New Trading Systems |
¨ Describe the main impacts of NYSE OpenBook. ¨ Describe the main impacts of NASDAQ SuperMontage. ¨ In your opinion, are the future prospects for ATSs positive or negative? Justify your answer. |
Additional Web Links
Leading Traditional Brokers:
UBS Paine Webber
Fargo Investments
Spear Leeds & Kellogg Specialists
Wagner Stott Bear
Walter N. Frank & Co.
NYSE Program Trading Statistics
Arbitrage Firms:
Sanford C. Bernstein
UBS Paine
Museum of American Financial History
Volatility Indexes:
CBOE VIX and VXN
Mutual Fund Performance Ratings:
Global 24-hour trading in stocks:
Nine exchanges in three time zones try to create 24-hour trading in a "Global Equity Market"
Converting Bond Trading From Phone To Electronic:


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She has her mother's full lips and her father's button nose.
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- 2 pound(s) chicken breast
- 2 small onions
- 2 can(s) cream of chicken soup
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yikes, these people wonder why the government ends up banning everything
no these people wonder why u cant answer a simple question ive looked around for the answer but i cant find it anywhere and i though id give this a try...
if you did not run nolva and a proper pct along with liver sups during your cycle then do yourself a favor not using mdrol again
if you did then to answer your question you could use ecdysterone oncycle, but it does not mess with hpta axis so why not use it for pct to help reserve muscle. i think ecdysterone is even more crap that no2 products and muscletech so i would stear clear. go with usplabs/nimbus nutrition/ rpn/ anabolic innovations
this board is really good for questions but you have to do your own research and ask specific questions
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i am 6'5, 245lbs, 7% BF
my lifting experience, general diet, and supplement history is
You shouldn't be running such powerful steroids(or any for that matter) if you don't know the answer to this.
Sorry man, do some research.
I'm gonna go ahead and guess that the OP is someone under 21 who already got a thread removed in this section so he registered a new name to 'start fresh'
No this is my first time using this site so i appreciate the honesty as well as the advice, when i took the first cycle of mdrol i was on milkthistle, pct, proper diet omegas ect...
you were on pct??? wtf does that mean lol
Hey BlankFace28, everybody wants you to lay out what you are doing and your stats:
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ZydoSEO - 4:29 am on Feb 6, 2013 (gmt 0)
I agree with Andy on the following with a slight twist:
have a different view with regards Penguin and links. For one thing, it is extremely difficult to separate out the various algorithmic changes Google makes. Even calendar dates can be problematic since many changes occur concurrently. In a way, it is unhelpful to look at calendar dates and update names, and better to look at symptoms.
In terms of Google's handling of links, my opinion is that certain link activities trigger negative handling of a site, often for specific keywords or specific keyword patterns.
The presence of those negative links is what triggers this problem. However (and it's a big however) there is a side effect of being flagged for those link activities, which is to "taint" other links to a site, even those that could ordinarily be regarded as good links to have. Even if you remove the bad links, you are potentially still left with the 'good links gone bad'. Disavow provides a means to overcome this particular problem.
I have often postulated that such a side effect does exist like Andy mentions where otherwise good links get flagged as bad when problematic linking activities are detected with other inbound links by Penguin. This is similar to Panda where otherwise quality content pages on your site can also be affected by Panda when other lower quality pages trip the Panda Filter.
I see Penguin as more of a "hybrid" between a filter (an algorithmic action taken against a site which when the problem that triggered the filter is corrected, the algo will automatically be lifted) and a penalty (a manual action taken against a site that requires a Reconsideration Request/manual review in order to get it manually lifted). Penguin seems to be like a filter in that Penguin is triggered algorithmically, but more like a penalty in that a Reconsideration Request/manual review is required to get it lifted. This is something new with Google, but enforcing policies by running algo's offline and then applying them through Panda and Penguin updates against their real-time results is also new.
Where Andy and I differ seems to be in what the Disavow Tool achieves. IMO Disavow is logically equivalent to taking down those links. At the moment disavowed links remain in Google's link graph, but essentially get flagged as NOFOLLOW when those links get recrawled over coming weeks after being disavowed.
But whether you take all of the bad links down manually, by using the Disavow Tool, or a combination of both... it's as if the site is STILL flagged as being under the Penguin hybrid filter/penalty. This is why I believe Google is requiring a Reconsideration Request once all questionable links are down (and/or Disavow has had time to process) in order to recover from Penguin. It likely has to be lifted manually (though it was triggered algorithmically).
Many webmasters are afraid to submit a reconsideration request because they know their site will not withstand a manual review, possibly for other reasons. Others don't know how to ID "bad" or "questionable" links so they end up not taking all or enough of the links down that triggered Penguin. So even though they might have removed all questionable links, many sites affected by Penguin never recover. They can't without a Reconsideration Request and passing a manual review of the site (not just for links, but for everything that might be a violation).
It is possible to get Penguin lifted IMO. Some have successfully done so. It's likely that many sites have had it lifted, and don't even know it because they have eliminated a lot of links that made the site rank pre-Penguin. But at least once lifted, the site has a chance of ranking again for those same phrases that they used to assuming good links are acquired in a way acceptable to Google going forward. But as long as your site remains flagged by Penguin, you likely have zero chance of every ranking for those phrases again.


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The State Board of Education will return Windham schools to local control at the end of June with the caveat that the commissioner of education will help choose the next superintendent.
Three years ago, state officials intervened in Windham and appointed a special master, Steven Adamowski, because of concerns about declining academic performance and discord on the local school board.
"This decision coincides with the start of the superintendent search process," Education Commissioner Stefan Pryor said Monday. The Windham school board decided not to renew the contract for current superintendent, Ana Ortiz, last fall.
The agreement that the new superintendent would be jointly selected "enabled us to conclude that ending the special master relationship made sense," Pryor said. "We are grateful for [Adamowski's] contribution."
The state has the authority to appoint a special master in districts that are low-performing and not showing improvement. A special master works with the local superintendent and school board to improve schools, but has the authority to make management decisions for the school system.
The State Board of Education voted last week to end the special master's tenure in Windham because of strides made by the district and the imminent departure of the current superintendent.
Adamowski, who has also served as special master in New London for the past 18 months, is planning to retire at the end of the June. He previously served as superintendent in Hartford.
For his first two years as a special master, Adamowski was paid $225,000 through a contract with the State Education Resource Center, a nonprofit agency primarily funded by the Connecticut State Department of Education. But last fall, state officials decided that he should be hired by the state Department of Education — rather than SERC — and his pay was reduced to $162,000 to bring it in line with other top-level salaries in that state agency.
Although the special master position will be eliminated in Windham, the district will continue to receive additional money from the state. Pryor said the district will receive $750,000 annually to ensure that funding is adequate to continue with various reforms. The district has been receiving an additional $1 million each year with the special master in place.
If the new Windham superintendent's contract is not renewed, the state education commissioner will continue to play a role in the selection of any replacement through 2019.
In New London, Superintendent Nicholas Fischer's contract was not renewed and he will depart in June, but Pryor said he did not think the special master arrangement will stop there. He expects that a replacement for Adamowski will have to be hired.
Adamowski said Monday that he suggested the elimination of the Windham special master position to Pryor last fall when the Windham school board decided not to renew Ortiz's contract.
"Given the opportunity for the selection of the new superintendent," Adamowski said, "I had recommended to Commissioner Pryor in the fall that this would present an opportunity to make a transition in Windham."
Adamowski said he thinks "Windham is ready for a less intensive form of supervision." He said the special master position is "intended to right the ship and get things back on track in a district viewed as incapable of making improvements."
New London has not yet made enough improvement to drop the special master program, Adamowski said.
Windham's school board is far more functional, Adamowski said, pointing to improved scores for students who are in programs that have been changed through the reform effort. For instance, he said, the scores for fifth graders, who were moved from the middle school back to the elementary school have improved.
But Randall Prose, president of the Windham Federation of Teachers and a high school social studies teacher and Tracy Lambert, chairwoman of the Windham Board of Education, said the results are more mixed.
Prose said that having two leaders — a superintendent and a special master — created confusion.
"He's a bright man and did some great things," Prose said, "but when he's not in the district and but a couple of days a week, but yet making the final decision, that's really a tough set up. .. It was a real systemic mess."
On test scores, Lambert said, there have been some "subgroups" that have done better, but overall, students have not shown any "real improvement."
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June bugs
Colonel Hathi:
Well it seems longer than a month since i last wrote but it has been a really busy month with lots of big dates in it. On top of that the midge clock finally bonged a death for windless bouldering until september and it got hot and humid. All in all i got left feeling like hard bouldering was struggling to get a word in edgeways. Some highlights then. After Waking up from Katie's brothers stag do, i made my way home and with time getting on i thought it'd be a nice day to check out Swarthbeck Ghyll a new local spot Pete Gunn had found last year. There was a promising boulder there which Kris Hall had just put up a nice bloc on too. 60˚ overhangs tend to be hard no matter what holds turn up on them. Luckily, as it's often not the case, this one had a decent amount of holds and the ones which broke off left solid ones behind. This session was interesting as it was a day where i expected nothing, i'd been running round like paintball Rambo the day before and had a tea entirely consisting of meat and beer (and the odd cheeky softy). Regardless it was lovely to be out climbing and a nice breeze was keeping thinks good on the blocs. Upon arrival i launched into cleaning and sequence deciphering whilst Katie had a nap. I managed to wake her up by moving some big boulders around right next to her which was my signal that i'd like to put my shoes on soon. It was a perfect session really, i guessed a sequence fast and after one tiny microbeta tweak i huffed and puffed through from the start, winding up through all the gears as the last bits of energy got sucked into the squeezer. I am unfit this year but contently so, i have embraced the boulderers lactic acid melt down pump as a trade off to doing ~60 seconds worth of moves above 80% of max instead of ~30 seconds. After 30 seconds i seem to get the gradual onset of a normal lactic acid pump but can still squeeze holds for a bit until total meltdown. At which point i seem to be totally out of breath and in need of a good sit down. Its a fun game to play as its a bit like the classic sport climbing pump you get but at a much higher intensity level and over a quicker time span. It was an awesome feeling to put up such a fun boulder in such a fashion. A perfect day really, go to a new line, clean it, work it out and only just climb it with one all out attempt. One attempt is all you need though when things go your way. Colonel Hathi is a great boulder. Really fun and its got the only true clock move i've ever done outside (rather than just getting muddled hands on something not that hard).
Training Room:
Next up came the news that the matting was going to be ready for the Beastmaker training room at Eden Rock and that meant a few days of hard graft in there getting everything ready. The boards are all tailored in there to be certain difficulties and the 55˚ is the best board i've ever trained on. It is incredibly nice of Micky and Katie to let me have free reign on the two boards and where the 45˚ is maybe 6B+/C to get up using the biggest holds and best feet the 55˚ is around 7B+ and it soon gets harder if you stray from those holds, as a result i have found its been the best tool for pushing my board strength ever and i'm looking forward to the coming years of climbing in there. I've pretty much trained on boards for most of my life, in garages, bedrooms or walls, they are my only ever coach, team mate and indoor inspiration. The recipe is pretty simple really, go climbing, have fun, rest, fingerboard to get the fingers stronger on basic grips, rest, bring the body in line with the fingers on a steep board, rest, go outside and learn to put the power down again, repeat.
Going outside is the hard part in June. It managed to get unseasonably windy for a few days thanks to a good northerly the other week and i spotted a half chance to get back to scotland even after the midge clock had bonged! I was keen to clear up a tiny bit of unfinished business North of the Wall. It'd have to be a day trip this time due to work but Cal was up for it and we boshed up the road for a grand day out. I managed to get the Cruachan! Arete at Carrick from a sit start, once again winding up through the gears as the boulder pump set in, its about 15 moves of super sustained squeezing. I managed it quite early on so i decided to work the full traverse a bit more before we left, but that is very much a harder prospect in June, one for October. We got lucky as when we called in to Glen Croe on the way out we met a ferocious midge pack in the trees and quickly retreated to the car. Cal'd never been to Dumby and i hadn't been to Dumby since it was cleaned up. The graffiti removal is so well done its like it was never there. Its definitely moved up the urbanized crag league tables to somewhere near Ilkely's ambience now. We randomly met some other friends there and had an ace session. I felt like i was running on fumes after a long day but after warming back up i managed Fire Starter in about 5 minutes on my 3rd attempt i think. flashes of the classic Slap Happy and The Shield took me and Eddie onto Pongo sit. I almost got that by stealing Cal's sweets but for a saggy foot pop after the hard bit, it was a lot to ask by that point as it was 9 in the evening and we'd set off at 10 in the morning, the wheels were well and truly off so we hit Dumby M&S and scored the ultimate reduction jackpot, a world of tasty treats was reduced to 50p. £4 later and we were feeling human again after a grand day out.
After this the wind died and the weather went so muggy and ming that Katie and I resorted to trad! I look like the worlds most enthusiastic tradder compared to Katie, but she is a keen seconder and together we have had a lovely time bumbling about on E2-E4s, the E5 we did was a bit much and i got my ears burned by her. Living in the lakes it must be done as there are some bloody good trad routes. The highlight of that week was an epic ascent of GTX in the rain (the route was dry bar the top slab so only the last 2m were epic and getting across to the AB point) This put us off tradding enough for me to attempt bouldering again.
There are a few lines in my time climbing where upon seeing them i have been left totally open jawed. For me the extremes of these almost Stendhal moments have been Superbloc, The Young and Lanny Bassham. My own developments can't count as it is a different process. Upon seeing someone else's climb you know it can be done as it has been, and in the case of the 3 above i knew the history around them and i wanted to climb them more than any others. Of these climbs i'd say The Young is my absolute favourite, but being in the county i'm biased, unfortunately it is not quite a boulder problem it is a solo. It'd been a mini dream of mine since 2009 to do the second ascents of all three (i'd already got superbloc in the bag). I'd abbed The Young before doing it, and originally i wanted to do Lanny ground up like Superbloc as it is ultimately more satisfying and better style. I went up twice when it was freezing and got to the top sloper match ground up but the cold and wind shut the ground up team of Me, Ned, Katzy and Ryan down. As the years have past since and my life has changed i found myself becoming aware that action is required rather than distant hopes of serendipity. The chances of me finding myself up at Rylstone again with the top clean were diminishing (moorland rock is often scrittly) Basically i talked myself out of the ethical stand point in favour of actually climbing it and having fun on a clean boulder. The decision was made in my mind that it was time to take on the meaty, blobby, bassy Bassham again. It is such a fantastic boulder, every move is interesting and relatively hard, there's not a crimp in sight just pockets slopers and clamping. It is also a hard test piece. Ben usually climbs hard boulders most winters in a casual, just out for 30mins with Klem before picking May up, manner, never mind when he's got a raging psyche on and has lost half of his one stone body weight. It was a brilliant effort putting this line up out the blue in a protracted flash of inspiration when he did. Lanny seems to require a raging psyche to do it i think. It's an hour's slog up Barden Moor and it's so high that you normally need loads of pads to be able to be sure of walking out again.
Here comes in my Steck-ian approach to highballing. I took one pad and stuffed a carrier bag with a pair of Instinct VS's, chalk bag, fleece (not needed) and some food & water, along with an 18m static (courtesy of Caff and Bailes sheathing a 100m static on Hoy last year in 3 places when jugging out the Long Hope on it) gri gri and harness. It was a bit of a gamble but i'm a world leader in decking off things and i've got respectable legs rather than snappy boulderers sparrow ones. The other main challenge was that it was June. It looked windy so the midgies would at least be kept at bay and i had a raging psyche and a lot of steep board squeeze to combat the lack of friction.
Anyhow after abbing and cleaning the scrittly top slopers as well as sussing the top (all the other rock is quite bomber) i dropped the top match (the crux for me as being bigger than Ben my ass hangs out on the slopers) The wind was frustratingly missing the boulder and i was sweating, i rarely sweat a lot in my hands but i was asking for it in those conditions. 40minutes of battle against my mind and the newly arrived sunshine lead to crunch time, i was going backwards and had only got back up there once. I implored the Bassham performance subconscious to do its work and somehow i managed to just squeeze up it despite feeling the gop on move 3. Polish Dave once wisely told me he ignores conditions in that it teaches you to try hard, and that some of his best ascents have been on boulders where he's had to dry holds etc, there is a lot to be said of this ethic when it works (and lots of bad things when it doesn't) as at the top of Lanny i was ecstatic, what a brilliant coup, i'd got in there whilst it was hibernating. Why try it now and not Autumn or spring? well my projects whiteboard is full of things where i have to have perfect conditions to stand a chance of doing them and this year its looking quite full. So planning ahead i thought Lanny was worth a punt in June. Varian 3, June conditions 2 (i've had two horrific and midge aborted attempts to boulder in June this year too)
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Infertility is one of the taboos of society that can be challenging and frustrating for couples who are giving their all just to conceive. Couples feel helpless and isolated when they learn that they have a low to nil chance of conceiving. While this is not necessarily a disease, this disorder can cause the same amount of stress and hopelessness.Male infertility is a disorder that can make men feel heavily burdened. However, knowing more about male infertility will strangle the misconceptions associated with the inability to conceive. By arming ourselves with what we should know about male infertility, we can assess the different options to make the right decision.
Defining Infertility
Infertility is the inability of a couple to conceive after trying for one year. Infertility for women is the inability to deliver a baby to full term. Defining Male Infertility Male infertility, also termed as male factor infertility, is simply the man's attribution or cause to a couple that has no ability to conceive. Continue reading →