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To: Sowbug who wrote (36731)	2/27/1998 6:40:00 PM
From: Glenn D. Rudolph	Respond to of 61433

****OT****** Truth is stranger than fiction: Mom sentenced in obesity death United Press International - February 27, 1998 16:45 %DOMESTIC %US %FATGIRL V%UPI P%UPI MARTINEZ, Calif., Feb. 27 (UPI) - A judge in northern California has spared a mother from going to jail for child abuse in the death of her 680-pound daughter. Superior Court Judge Richard Arnason instead sentenced 49-year-old Marlene Corrigan today to three years probation, 240 hours of volunteer work, a $100 fine and counseling. Corrigan pleaded guilty to misdemeanor child abuse in the death of her 13-year-old daughter, Christina, whose naked, filthy body was found in her bed in November 1996. Prosecutors initially charged the mother with felony child abuse for neglecting Christina, which could have led to a prison term. But she was acquitted of the felony charge in the non-jury trial, and said at today's sentencing for the lesser offense that she will suffer for the rest of her life without her daughter. Corrigan acknowledges she was too passive in caring for Christina and would have handled her weight problem differently had she knew then what she knows now. -- Copyright 1998 by United Press International. All rights reserved.

To: Sowbug who wrote (36731)	2/27/1998 6:53:00 PM
From: emil	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 61433

OOOOT: First I wondered about this not being better. But as I have done some short term trades with stocks that carry 1/2 to full point spreads, splitting the spread is crucial. And it makes it more cumbersome to guage where a stock is actively trading (hot price) with only seeing the bid. On top of that, say the bid/ask moves in several positions, and one or two haven't traded yet, it means swapping into the quotes pages, for each stock. Now I have somewhere between 2-3 windows instead of one for the same info. It means where I used the page as an active guage for all positions, I now know it is more of an afterhours view of my positions. I concur with your love for datek in regard to many aspects where they have others beat hands down. And in our last tech downturn I was especially appreciative of their 30% margin ratio! I am not looking to jump ship by any means. I started with etrade and will never go back. But I am curious if bid price is used for last trade in portfolio views commonly with other online brokers. thanks for the thread address as well.