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Strategies & Market Trends : Anthony @ Equity Investigations, Dear Anthony, -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Anthony@Pacific who wrote (74807)	1/28/2002 10:24:38 AM
From: 200ma	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 122087

too boring, could we get a summary with bold and who to short in this case :), hope everything is going ok for you Tony and that your court days will end soon

To: Anthony@Pacific who wrote (74807)	1/28/2002 12:00:22 PM
From: 200ma	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 122087

AP, any thoughts on MEDC? finance.yahoo.com

To: Anthony@Pacific who wrote (74807)	1/28/2002 6:01:15 PM
From: If only I'd held	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 122087

So why the hell were you trying to cheat the landscaper out of money? Were you trying to gain something from that post? You go to court with a landscaper who is suing you for payment for their services, you lose the case and have a judgement against you, then you try to hide your assetts from this landscaper instead of just paying them? Damn Anthony, that is dispicable. Do I have my facts straight here? Pay your bills Anthony. If you aren't satisfied with what they did, then you don't call them back. But you don't cheat them out of their money.

To: Anthony@Pacific who wrote (74807)	1/28/2002 10:07:12 PM
From: kumqwatt	Respond to of 122087

In a New World, a Puzzling Directive From the S.E.C. By GRETCHEN MORGENSON The New York Times January 27, 2002 As the Enron (news/quote) saga shows, investors have entered a new world where accountants don't account, managers manipulate and corporate disclosures conceal. And, if an event of last week is any guide, the world has also become one in which the nation's top securities cops may act to thwart enforcement of securities laws. Last week, regulatory officials said, the Securities and Exchange Commission sent a letter to the National Association of Securities Dealers directing a regulator there to drop a suit it had planned to file against a member that is violating a securities law. At issue is a practice of Island ECN, the nation's top electronic stock trading network, to withhold from the overall market access to its best bid and offer prices on the world's most heavily traded security, the Nasdaq 100 tracking stock. Island makes its prices in this stock, known as the QQQ, accessible only to its paying customers, not to the overall market. Island's closed system is bad for investors in two ways. Those who do not pay to trade on Island may be missing out on a better price that appears there. Those who trade only on Island may be using inferior prices if better prices exist elsewhere. Congress tried to prevent such a system from springing up way back in 1975 when it directed the S.E.C. to devise a national market system so that all investors could see and act on the best prevailing prices for stocks. To that end, Securities Exchange Act Rule 301(b)(3) says any market participant responsible for at least 5 percent of a listed security's share volume for four of six months must give all investors access to its best prices in that security. Island, the venue with the biggest share of QQQ trades, has met that percentage threshold every month since last April. Andrew Goldman, an Island spokesman, said the company would love to get its customers' bids and offers into a national market system. But the current venue to do so, the Intermarket Trading System, is too slow for Island's fast-trading clients. "The I.T.S. system has delays up to 60 seconds," he said. His traders would rather pay more to get instant executions. Nevertheless, a law is a law, and with Island well above the 5 percent threshold in the QQQ, the N.A.S.D. was preparing to sue the network. It seems likely that Mary L. Schapiro, president of the N.A.S.D.'s regulatory unit, didn't want to repeat the mistakes of predecessors who were found by the S.E.C. in 1996 to have allowed anti-investor practices to take place on Nasdaq. Then the S.E.C. sent its letter directing the regulatory unit not to pursue the matter. When asked about the letter, neither the N.A.S.D. nor the S.E.C. would comment. The commission may have been persuaded to call off the watchdogs by Hardwick Simmons, chairman of the Nasdaq stock market, who wrote a letter on Dec. 4 stating that Nasdaq does not believe Island should be required to participate in the I.T.S. This view may not be surprising, given that Nasdaq rakes in a lot of money from Island for its QQQ trades. Based on its volume in the security, Island probably provided Nasdaq with more than $8 million in revenue last year. Dean Furbush, a senior official at Nasdaq Transaction Services, said Mr. Simmons's letter was just a policy suggestion for the S.E.C. to consider. "I feel strongly that this is a pro-investor view that stands on its own, independent of business," he said. There is a growing sense of unease among investors that the S.E.C., under its new chairman, Harvey L. Pitt, may not be the investor protector that the Enron era requires. The view appears to be justified. nytimes.com

To: Anthony@Pacific who wrote (74807)	1/28/2002 10:43:11 PM
From: TsioKawe	Respond to of 122087

PEACE New York has many peace festivals, including the renowned festival held in Amenia each year, where peace is proclaimed in every major language. While my Grandfather Turtle was visiting New York, a message was given to me to ask him on behalf of the American Festival what the word for peace was in Abenaki. I agreed to ask. When I found Grandfather, he was sitting against a rock in the shade, puffing slowly on his pipe and looking out at the beauty of oositgamo, "the surface of our mother," and at the blue sky above him, his head leaning back with pleasure. He and the rock were as one, rooted in the great earth, strong, enduring, unchanging. He seemed timeless, as if he had always been there. I explained the situation to him - the person who passed the message to me needed an answer by three o'clock, your time . It was urgent.(or so it seemed} He didn't look at me but continued slowly smoking his pipe, just as he had been, his eyes unwavering. "What's peace?" he answered. "I'm not sure of this word. What does it mean?" I didn't know what to say; my mind went blank. I didn't know myself.(Anthony@AOP what is this I ask?) "Does it mean there is no war going on?" There will always be war - somewhere. You can't stop that. We don't have a word for that kind of peace. When someone gets angry at you, you try to talk to them, you try to understand each other. Just like husband and wife; they're not always peaceful <but each is right in their own way > "The way I'm sitting here?" There's no word for that. You just do it. It's that simple. "You ask these people what they mean by peace,and I'll tell you in Abenaki." Some time later he taught me a few phrases for an inner peace, each includig the root syllable wunt - one of which was wunt-taktek or "peaceful." But he made a memorable point that peaceful afternoon.hwa-sa-hwy "the wordfor light shall we continue I ask?? Attienne