alea-institute/kl3m-data-sample-004-shuffled huggingface dataset:
II-00229

From:

Sent:

To:

Subject:

Tamara Pullum-Vachon <tpullumvachon@yahoo.com>

Friday, December 3, 2010 2:13 PM

dfadefinitions <dfadefinitions@CFTC.gov>

Re: No loopholes in Dodd-Frank

1) Securities and Exchange Commission/Commodities Futures Trading Commission, Re: Commercial Risk (CFTC RIN

3235-AK65, SEC File Number $7-12-10)

Dear Commissioners Shapiro and Gensler: Don’t let the American Bankers Association (ABA) redefine important terms like

"commercial risk" to keep banks that engage in risky derivatives trading from complying with transparency and business

conduct requirements. Commercial risk should not be expanded to include financial risk. Accepting the ABA argument

would open the door for exemptions for risky hedge funds and insurance companies.

2) Commodities Futures Trading Commission, Re: Position Limits (RIN 3038-AD 17 )

Dear Commissioner Gensler: The CFTC needs to set strong position limits to crack down on the energy and food commodity

speculation that serves no productive purpose. I urge the Commission to define limits that will address not only manipulation,

but also excessive speculation, which will require a stricter approach.

3) U.S. Department of the Treasury, Re: FX Swaps (75 FR 66426 Document Number 2010-27274)

Dear Secretary Geithner: Just say "no" to foreign exchange traders who want to exempt foreign currency derivatives from the

clearing and transparency requirements of the

Dodd-Frank Act. $4 trillion dollars a day is traded in these highly-leveraged swaps and this number may increase to over $10

trillion in a decade. As the head of the Financial

Stability Oversight Board your job is to decrease risk in the system, not encourage off-book trading and opaque markets.

Tamara Pullum-Vachon

Duck Drive

Howell, MI 48855
George BELLEVUE, petitioner, v. UNIVERSAL HEALTH SERVICES OF HARTGROVE, INC., dba Hartgrove Hospital.

No. 17-842.

Supreme Court of the United States

March 19, 2018.

Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit denied.
Carl ROMERO, petitioner, v. UNITED STATES.

No. 17-5014.

Supreme Court of the United States

Oct. 2, 2017.

Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit denied.
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DEK-M NATIONWIDE, LTD., petitioner, v. David HILL, et al.

No. 17-1313.

Supreme Court of the United States

May 14, 2018.

Petition for writ of certiorari to the Court of Appeals of Texas, Fourteenth District denied.
Rick D. SALERNO, petitioner, v. DEPARTMENT OF the INTERIOR.

No. 17-7576.

Supreme Court of the United States

May 21, 2018.

Petition for rehearing denied.
EX-10.11





 Exhibit 10.11 

AMENDMENT TO CUSTODY AGREEMENT (U.S. Dollar Only) 

WHEREAS, World Gold Trust (the “Trust”), a Delaware statutory trust organized in series (each, a “Fund and collectively, the
“Funds”), and The Bank of New York Mellon, a New York corporation authorized to do a banking business (“Custodian”), have heretofore entered into a Custody Agreement (U.S. Dollar Only) (“Agreement”), dated as of
January 5, 2017; and 
 WHEREAS, the parties hereto desire to amend the Agreement (“Amendment”) to list on Schedule II
thereto a new series of the Trust. 
 NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the agreements and obligations set forth herein and for other good
and valuation consideration, the receipt and sufficiency of which are hereby acknowledged, each of the Trust, on behalf of each Fund, and the Custodian hereby amend the Agreement and agree as follows: 

Schedule II.    Schedule II is hereby amended by listing a new series thereon, with such new series underlined in
such amended schedule, as follows: 
 “Schedule II 

SPDR® Long Dollar Gold Trust 

SPDR® Euro Gold Trust 

SPDR® Pound Gold Trust 

SPDR® Yen Gold Trust 

SPDR® Gold MiniShares Trust” 

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have caused this Amendment to be duly executed and delivered as of June 6, 2018. 

 

			
	WORLD GOLD TRUST,
	 On behalf of each Fund listed on Schedule II,

as amended herein

		
	By:	 	/s/ Laura S. Melman
	Name: Laura S. Melman*
	Title: CFO and Treasurer
	Date: June 6, 2018


  

			
	*Authorized to sign on behalf of the Trust in this capacity since an officer of the Trust’s sponsor
	
	THE BANK OF NEW YORK MELLON
		
	By:	 	/s/ Phyllis A. Cietek
	Name: Phyllis A. Cietek
	Title: Vice President
	Date: June 6, 2018
Raymond Torres TEDTAOTAO, petitioner, v. TERRITORY OF GUAM.

No. 17-7984.

Supreme Court of the United States

May 14, 2018.

Petition for writ of certiorari to the Supreme Court of Guam denied.
**Judgment of the Court (Eighth Chamber) of 14 April 2011 – Commission v Spain**

**(Case C-343/10)**

Failure of a Member State to fulfil obligations – Directive 91/271/EEC – Pollution and nuisances – Treatment of urban waste water – Articles 3 and 4

Actions for failure to fulfil obligations – Examination of the merits by the Court – Situation to be taken into consideration – Situation on expiry of the period laid down in the reasoned opinion (Art. 258 TFEU; Council Directive 91/271, Arts 3 and
4) (see paras 54, 64)

**Re:**

| | |
| --- | --- |
| | Failure of a Member State to fulfil obligations – Infringement of Articles 3 and 4 of Council Directive 91/271/EEC of 21 May 1991 concerning urban waste water treatment (OJ L 135, p. 40). |

**Operative part**

The Court:

| | | |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 1. | | Declares that, by failing to ensure that: |

–        urban waste water from the agglomerations with a population equivalent of more than 15 000 of Valle de Güimar, Noreste (Valle
Guerra), Valle de la Orotava, Arenys de Mar, Alcossebre and Cariño is collected in accordance with Article 3 of Council Directive
91/271/EEC of 21 May 1991 concerning urban waste water treatment, and

–        urban waste water from the agglomerations with a population equivalent of more than 15 000 of Arroyo de la Miel, Arroyo de
la Víbora, Estepota (San Pedro de Alcántara), Alhaurín el Grande, Coín, Barbate, Chipiona, Isla Cristina, Matalascañas, Nerja,
Tarifa, Torrox Costa, Vejer de la Frontera, Gijón-Este, Llanes, Valles de Güimar, Noreste (Valle Guerra), Los Llanos de Aridane,
Arenys de Mar, Pineda de Mar, Ceuta, Alcossebre, Benicarló, Elx (Arenales), Peñíscola, Teulada Moraira (Rada Moraira), Vinaròs,
A Coruña, Cariño, Tui, Vigo, Aguiño-Carreira-Ribeira, Baiona, Noia, Santiago, Viveiro and Irán (Hondarribia) is treated in
accordance with Article 4(1), (3) and, where applicable (4), of Directive 91/271,

the Kingdom of Spain has failed to fulfil its obligations under those provisions of Directive 91/271/EEC;

| | | |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 2. | | Orders the Kingdom of Spain to pay the costs. |
10.1(b)(ii)
- First Amendment - Supplemental Retirement Income
Plan
  FIRST
AMENDMENT
 
 TO THE
 
 HOOKER FURNITURE
CORPORATION
 
 SUPPLEMENTAL RETIREMENT
INCOME PLAN
 
 
 
 FIRST AMENDMENT, dated as of May 24, 2007, to
the Hooker Furniture Corporation Supplemental Retirement Income Plan (the
“Plan”), as adopted by Hooker Furniture Corporation (the “Company”) effective as
of December 1, 2003.
  The Company, pursuant to the authority granted
to it under the terms of the Plan, now wishes to amend the Plan.
  NOW, THEREFORE, effective April 1, 2007, the
Plan is hereby amended as follows:
  I.           Appendix
A shall be amended in its entirety to read as follows:
 APPENDIX
A
 
 PARTICIPANTS
 
 The following Eligible Employees have been
designated by the Board of Directors as Participants in the Plan:
 
 Participants who commenced participation on
December 1, 2003:
 
 R. Gary Armbrister
 Raymond T. Harm
 Henry P. Long, Jr.
 E. Larry Ryder
 Michael P. Spece
 Paul B. Toms, Jr.
 
 Participants who commenced participation on
April 1, 2007:
 
 Bruce R. Cohenour
 
 II.           In
all respects not amended, the Plan is hereby ratified and
confirmed.
 *  *  *  *  *
 To record the adoption of the First Amendment
as set forth above, the Company has caused this document to be signed on this
24th
day of May, 2007.
 
 HOOKER
FURNITURE CORPORATION
  By: /s/ Edwin L.
Ryder
H. Res. 205 

In the House of Representatives, U. S., 

March 5, 2009. 

Resolved, That during further consideration of the bill 

(H.R. 1106) to prevent mortgage foreclosures and enhance 

mortgage credit availability, pursuant to House Resolution 

190, amendment number 1 printed in House Report 111–21 

shall be considered as perfected by the modification printed 

in the report of the Committee on Rules accompanying this 

resolution. 

Attest: 

Clerk.
Dione M. THOMAS, petitioner, v. SOTERA DEFENSE SOLUTION, INC., et al.

No. 17-5121.

Supreme Court of the United States

Oct. 2, 2017.

Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit denied.
Exhibit 32-2


                CERTIFICATION PURSUANT TO 18 U.S.C. SECTION 1350
                AND SECTION 906 OF THE SARBANES-OXLEY ACT OF 2002

          In connection with the report of Rezconnect Technologies, Inc. (the
          "Company) on form 10-Q for the period ending September 30, 2004 filed
          herewith (the "Report") I, Derek J. Brent, Chief Financial Officer, of
          the Company, certify, that to the best of my knowledge:

               1.the report fully complies with the requirements of Section 13
               (a) or 15 (d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934; and

               2.the information contained in the Report fairly presents, in all
               material respects, the financial condition and results of the
               Company.

          This certification accompanies the Report pursuant to Section 906 of
          the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 and shall not, except to the extent
          required by the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, be deemed filed by the
          Company for purposes of Section 18 of the Securities Exchange Act of
          1934, as amended.

          Dated: as of September 30, 2004

          /s/ Derek J. Brent
          ----------------------------------------------------------------------
          Derek J. Brent, Chief Financial Officer
Thurmond R. GUESS, Sr., petitioner, v. David ADAMS, et al.

No. 16-9710.

Supreme Court of the United States

Oct. 2, 2017.

Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit denied.
Cochise Bahar LEE, petitioner, v. Clark E. DUCART, Warden.

No. 17-7899.

Supreme Court of the United States

April 16, 2018.

Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit denied.
Ian Aulden CAMPBELL, petitioner, v. Donald W. STEPHENS.

No. 17-1391.

Supreme Court of the United States

May 14, 2018.

Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit denied.
Mikeal Glenn STINE, petitioner, v. UNITED STATES.

No. 17-7757.

Supreme Court of the United States

March 19, 2018.

Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit denied.
Joseph P. DONAHUE, petitioner, v. UNITED STATES.

No. 16-9418.

Supreme Court of the United States

Oct. 2, 2017.

Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit denied.
Cleared Derivatives – March-April 2020 and 

beyond

GMAC Meeting, December 17, 2020
The analyses and views expressed herein are those of the 

authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the 

Commission or CFTC Staff.

DISCLAIMER

2
3

Key themes in 2020

• The pandemic was in the category of ‘extreme but 

implausible’ as defined pre-Feb, 2020

• Real-world stress tests infinitely more instructive 

than any supervisory stress tests 

• Questions about margin calls and systemic risk

• ‘Lessons learned’ will continue through 2021 
DCR’s Risk Surveillance Branch

• Margin model 

• Quantitative oversight of DCOs’ margin models

• Daily risk surveillance

• Hands-on quantitative surveillance of risk 

exposures in futures and swaps

• CCP resilience

• Supervisory stress testing

• Systemic risk issues

4
5

Posted IMs at record highs

Source: CFTC

0%

10%

20%

30%

40%

50%

60%

70%

80%

90%

100%

0

100

200

300

400

500

600

700

CDS F&O IRS Incremental Change (%, RHS)

Margin ($bns)

1/2/2020 4/2/2020 7/2/2020 10/2/2020
6

VM calls were bigger

0

10

20

30

40

50

60

1/2/2020 4/1/2020 7/7/2020 10/5/2020

Variation Margin Payments

Incremental IM Change

Margin ($bns) Source: CFTC
7

COVID-shocks were deep in the tail

• Scores of moves bigger than the 99.7% coverage that many CCPs target

• Question: Is IM meant to cover all price moves?

• More interesting: Did margin models react appropriately?

Source: CFTC staff analysis
8

Product-level breaches are interesting, but ...

• Products do not default, firms default

• Question: Did account-level breaches threaten CCPs, their members?

* Breach Dollar Importance = Open Interest * (Dollar PnL - Initial Margin), Contract Dollar Outstanding = Open Interest * Initial Margin

Source: CFTC
9

Questions and ongoing analysis

• Were some margin models too reactive, not 

appropriately anti-procyclical?
10

Aggregate flows might be indicative of 

procyclical behavior

Source: CFTC

• “DV01” is the dollar value of a one basis point shift in interest rates

• “Notional Indexed” is based on Gross Notional Values (i.e. fixed and floating legs assumed to have positive notional values)
11

But there is heterogeneity among firms

Source: CFTC
12

Aggregated – CDS

Source: CFTC

• “CS01” is the dollar value of a parallel, one basis point shift in the underlying credit spread curve

• “Notional Indexed” is based on Net Notional Values (i.e. short and long positions are netted)
13

Disaggregated

Source: CFTC
14

Margin calls and Systemic risk

• Did margin calls cause stresses in the funding 

markets?

• The denominator problem – How big were 

CCPs’ margin calls (IM or VM or both?) relative 

to the other liquidity demands on clients, 

intermediaries and the broader system?
II-00985

From:

Sent:

To:

Subject:

Antonio Chavez <chavez_tony@sbcglobal.net>

Thursday, December 2, 2010 9:25 AM

dfadefinitions <dfadefinitions@CFTC.gov>

Re: No loopholes in Dodd-Frank

1) Securities and Exchange Commission/Commodities Futures Trading Commission, Re: Commercial Risk (CFTC RIN

3235-AK65, SEC File Number $7-12-10)

Dear Commissioners Shapiro and Gensler: Don’t let the American Bankers Association (ABA) redefine important terms like

"commercial risk" to keep banks that engage in risky derivatives trading from complying with transparency and business

conduct requirements. Commercial risk should not be expanded to include financial risk. Accepting the ABA argument

would open the door for exemptions for risky hedge funds and insurance companies.

2) Commodities Futures Trading Commission, Re: Position Limits (RIN 3038-AD 17 )

Dear Commissioner Gensler: The CFTC needs to set strong position limits to crack down on the energy and food commodity

speculation that serves no productive purpose. I urge the Commission to define limits that will address not only manipulation,

but also excessive speculation, which will require a stricter approach.

3) U.S. Department of the Treasury, Re: FX Swaps (75 FR 66426 Document Number 2010-27274)

Dear Secretary Geithner: Just say "no" to foreign exchange traders who want to exempt foreign currency derivatives from the

clearing and transparency requirements of the

Dodd-Frank Act. $4 trillion dollars a day is traded in these highly-leveraged swaps and this number may increase to over $10

trillion in a decade. As the head of the Financial

Stability Oversight Board your job is to decrease risk in the system, not encourage off-book trading and opaque markets.

Antonio Chavez

11848 Vanowen St.

North hollywood, CA 91605
```

[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3904 Introduced in House (IH)]

<DOC>

116th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 3904

     To amend titles 23 and 49, United States Code, to repeal wage 
 requirements applicable to laborers and mechanics employed on Federal-
      aid highway and public transportation construction projects.

_______________________________________________________________________

                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             July 23, 2019

  Ms. Foxx of North Carolina introduced the following bill; which was 
referred to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, and in 
 addition to the Committee on Education and Labor, for a period to be 
subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration 
  of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee 
                               concerned

_______________________________________________________________________

                                 A BILL

 
     To amend titles 23 and 49, United States Code, to repeal wage 
 requirements applicable to laborers and mechanics employed on Federal-
      aid highway and public transportation construction projects.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Highway Trust Fund Reform Act of 
2019''.

SEC. 2. PREVAILING RATE OF WAGE REQUIREMENTS.

    (a) Repeals.--The following provisions are repealed:
            (1) Section 113 of title 23, United States Code (and the 
        item relating to such section in the analysis for chapter 1 of 
        such title).
            (2) Section 5333(a) of title 49, United States Code.
    (b) Applicability.--
            (1) Effective date.--Subject to paragraph (2), the 
        amendments made by this section shall take effect on the 31st 
        day following the date of enactment of this Act.
            (2) Existing contracts.--The amendments made by this 
        section shall not affect any contract in existence on the date 
        of enactment of this Act or made pursuant to an invitation for 
        bids outstanding on such date of enactment.
                                 <all>
```
PAICE LLC, et al., petitioners, v. FORD MOTOR COMPANY.

No. 17-220.

Supreme Court of the United States

April 30, 2018.

Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit denied.
Younes KABBAJ, petitioner, v. AMERICAN SCHOOL OF TANGIER, et al.; and Younes Kabbaj, petitioner, v. United States.

No. 17-5183.

Supreme Court of the United States

Oct. 2, 2017.

Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit denied.
Alty ADAMSON, petitioner, v. Thomas GRIFFIN, Superintendent, Green Haven Correctional Facility.

No. 17-8017.

Supreme Court of the United States

May 14, 2018.

Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit denied.
Andracos MARSHALL, petitioner, v. UNITED STATES.

No. 17-7651.

Supreme Court of the United States

March 5, 2018.

Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit denied.
EXHIBIT 32. 1

CERTIFICATION
PURSUANT TO
18 U.S.C. SECTION 1350,
AS ADOPTED PURSUANT TO
SECTION 906 OF THE SARBANES-OXLEY ACT OF 2002

In
connection with the Annual Report of Optibase Ltd. (the Company) on Form
20-F for the period ending December 31, 2003, as filed with the Securities and
Exchange Commission on the date hereof (the Report), the undersigned hereby
certifies that to the best of my knowledge:

1.     The
Report fully complies with the requirements of Section 13(a) of the Securities
Exchange Act of 1934; and

2.     The
information contained in the Report fairly presents, in all material respects,
the financial condition and results of operations of the Company.

Date: May 17, 2004

| | /s/ Tom Wyler                 
| | ------------------------------
| | Name: Tom Wyler               
| | Title: Chief Executive Officer

---

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