Overview of High Frequency Trading - What’s Driving the Markets?

Introduction to High Frequency Trading

And hear our most excellent home-grown, all-Vermont Funk band, Electric Sorcery !! Playing 2:00 PM at the historic Gathering Inn, Hancock, Vermont !

The doors of sound have been ripped off the hinges by Electric Sorcery who routinely electrify Vermont’s Northeast Kingdom. Towns are regularly woken out of their slumber by the by the wicked sound of this power trio.

Electric Sorcery takes psychedelic music firmly rooted in the 70s and adds their own special twist. Funky rhythms and psychedelic guitar riffs come together to create an intriguing sound that is sometimes very heavy.... This is a fun listen and anyone who gravitates towards the psychedelic sounds of the 70s needs to hear this… - SeaOfTranquility.org 

Meet & Eat    Greet & Drink

Saturday, September 25, from 2 – 4 PM  

1295 Route 100

Diagonally opposite the Hancock Hotel

Please bring your concerns, your hard questions, and your ideas.  The Independent vision for Vermont is all about you, your families and communities !

Mike Ruppert, the Prophet of Collapse, came to the mountains of Vermont last May.

Part 4 in a series focusing on how Vermont can generate much-needed revenue and restore Vermont's Commons in this new century.

VC: Before we dive in, I’ve gotta ask a burning question. Your publishing house, Chelsea Green, is publishing Bill Kauffman's book on secession movements in the United States this fall. Was there much "in house" discussion about Chelsea Green publishing a book on this topic? What do you want our readers to know about Kauffman's book?

Chelsea Green publisher Margo Baldwin.

Everyone envisioning a clean-energy future in the U.S. or Vermont should know that the best policy to create real cost-effective and fast deployment of renewable energy is what is known as a feed-in-tariff, or FIT. A FIT is the only policy that removes the monopolistic corporate controls over the utility grid and allows anyone to effectively become a power company with cost-effective renewable energy.  

Electric assist bicycle motors are a boon for people who want the low cost, convenience, and exercise benefits of bicycling, but maybe not all the exercise benefits that the distance or topography of their trips would offer.

They're also great for cycling late at night without getting the metabolism too high for easy sleep. I used to keep an electric bike for night-time climbs of the 700 vertical feet on the trip from town to home, for precisely that reason. Alas, the motor burned out just after the warrantee expired, though I used it but weekly. I haven't risked any more money on an electric bike in the seven or so years since then.

Recently I read that the Tour de France officials are checking bicycles for hidden motors, after allegations that Swiss cyclist Fabian Cancellara used one when he won the Tour of Flanders and the Paris-Roubaix.

I understand that tiny, concealable, but significantly powerful electric motors represent a nightmare  for bicycle race officials. As someone who supports transportation cycling, however, I'm glad to see the technology has come this far. Not because I can see a point to paying $2500 or so for this level of miniaturization. But if premium technology this light and small is available, I assume that the less expensive technology for us ordinary blokes has improved significantly, too. (As the design adage has it, "Light, inexpensive, robust: pick any two.")

On the other hand, maybe amazing high-end technology is not the place to look for harbingers of better bike motors for the rest of us. The technology advances and economies of scale from China putting 100 million electric bikes on the road may be more important. 

BirdInTheHand

Folks,

As of Friday morning, I am officially on the ballot for Vermont Senator for Addison County!  Thanks to you all for your hard work and great ideas.  Your contributions have served to get the Independent word out there, encourage people to register to vote, even built a parade float.

But I’m not gonna do an NPR on you and beg for even more funds.  Funds’ll come, somehow.  What’s really needed is organisational help.  I’d like to set up a community forum in Addison County every month until the election.  A forum in which people from all walks of life can address the candidates directly with concerns, questions, and even vent steam together with neighbours on how broken the system is.  If you know something about community organising and publicity, please contact me directly, robert@senatorwagner.com.

Thatcher Moats wrote in today's Times Argus that the Montpelier City Council released a ruling on Friday that Vermont Compost's operations pose no "public health hazard or risk."

At the time, I could see no reason for holding the hearing. Moats quotes Mayor Mayor Hooper on her thoughts as to why the hearing took place:

Mayor Mary Hooper, who signed the six-page decision, said the duration of the conflict and unanswered questions surrounding it warranted a hearing to try to put the long-running dispute to rest.

"That in my mind … was sufficient to want to say, 'OK. Let's make an affirmative decision one way or another about what's going on, so we're not speculating,'" Hooper said.

Some other excerpts from the article:

The city's latest ruling is not surprising; nobody at the hearing presented evidence that food waste was creating a health risk...

[Vermont Compost owner Karl] Hammer said on Saturday that he was pleased with the ruling.

"It's a judicious and sensible point of view," he said.

It's also predictable, he added.

"It's what I expected they would do: determine there's no health threat because nobody was really saying there is one," he said.

Hooper said she hopes the issue is resolved for the sake of Vermont Compost and the LaRosas.

"It's a very important business in our community and I'm happy neighborhood concerns have been dealt with," he said.

The LaRosas could not be reached for comment Saturday.

State action on nominally unrelated issues may still threaten Vermont Compost's operations. Karl Hammer has expressed concerns that authority granted by the legislature this session to Act 250 officials may result in his farm being declared not a farm. 

Vermont Compost is the site for the June 22 quarterly meeting and midsummer celebration of the Central Vermont Food Systems Council; come on by starting at 5 pm.