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VANCOUVER -- If everyone who voted for the Green party Tuesday night had voted for the NDP instead, Adrian Dix would be the new premier of B.C. with a comfortable majority.
The final seat count for B.C.'s election was 50 seats for the Liberals, 33 for the NDP, one for the Greens and one for Independent Vicki Huntington.
But an analysis of the results by The Vancouver Sun reveals that in 12 ridings where the Liberals won, the party received a smaller share of the vote than the NDP and Green party combined.
Had Green voters in those 12 ridings all voted for their NDP candidate instead, the final seat count Tuesday night would have been 45 for the NDP, 38 for the Liberals, one Green and one independent.
The vote split on the right that many Liberal supporters feared didn't really materialize — there was only one riding in the whole province, Skeena, where the NDP won but the Liberal and Conservative vote combined was higher.
Such an analysis assumes, of course, that Green party supporters would all have the NDP as their second choice.
That's almost certainly not the case.
While some Green supporters, perhaps even most, would pick the NDP as their second choice, some wouldn't vote at all if the Greens weren't on the ballot and others might gravitate to the Liberals or even Conservatives.
In most of the 12 ridings where a vote split occurred, the NDP would have had to have taken a substantial majority of Green votes — and the Liberals few if any — to put the NDP over the top.
There hasn't been much polling in B.C. on who Green party supporters would pick as their second choice.
However, a poll of federal voting preferences by Abacus Data last month found that 44 per cent of federal Greens would pick the federal NDP as their second choice, 26 per cent would choose the federal Liberals and just 12 per cent the federal Conservatives.
In the 2009 provincial election, voters rejected a complex Single Transferable Vote electoral system that would have allowed voters to make secondary choices. The proposal needed 60 per cent approval in order to be adopted, but only 39 per cent of voters backed it. The STV system was conceived by a citizens' assembly commissioned by the governing Gordon Campbell Liberals.
The province has experimented with alternative voting systems, most notably in 1952 when an electoral system that allowed voters to rank their choices helped vault W.A.C. Bennett's Social Credit party into power. (The system had been designed by the Conservatives and Liberals to keep the CCF out of power, but many CCF voters picked Social Credit as their second choice.)
While the vote split on the left in Tuesday's election was more severe than the vote split on the right, if there was a two-party system in B.C. the Liberals would still have had the electoral edge.
In a scenario where all Green votes went to the NDP and all Conservative votes went to the Liberals, the Liberals would have won Tuesday, 45 seats to 39, with one Independent.


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http://mmajunkie.com Bellator 43 featured Jay Hieron and Rick Hawn battling it out to determine a winner of the welterweight tournament and a shot at Ben Askren's championship.
But it was Bryan "The Beast" Baker who stole the show when he dispatched of veteran Joe Riggs by second-round knockout and followed suit by proposing to his girlfriend.
Before Baker could pop the question to his now-fiancee, he had to face Riggs, a 10-year veteran of the sport who has 16 knockouts to his credit. But as Baker told MMAjunkie.com Radio (www.mmajunkie.com/radio) on Monday, once felt his opponents power in the opening round, he was confident he would be victorious.
"I felt his punch in the first round," Baker said. "He hit me once or twice, and I was just trying to get comfortable. I always kept in mind that he's dangerous. He does have heavy hands, and he was looking for that precision hit straight to the chin. So, I had to keep moving, and once I felt his power, I was confident I could withhold being knocked out from him. My confidence was gaining more and more throughout the round."
Baker's belief in the strategy that his coaches at Team Wildman Vale Tudo formulated prior to the fight – and as his execution of it – began to materialize toward the end of the opening round.
"My trainer Thomas Denny, he put together a game plan, and I had to believe in it 100 percent, and that's what I did," Baker said. "I wanted him to drop his hands a little bit and hit his body, wear him out. I caught him [with] different angles, and I was able to catch him with his chin wide open."
The 25-year-old Baker seized control in the second round with constant movement. His five-and-a-half-inch reach advantage stifled Riggs' offense, which enabled him to find the opening he was looking for.
"I wanted to be on my wheels, get him moving," Baker said. "Joe Riggs is real flatfooted, and he doesn't like to move around too much. He likes to be in concrete when he swings, so my gameplan was to move him around, get him uncomfortable with how quick I could be, and just land strikes until I found my opening."
Once Baker found the opening, he ended Riggs' night with a counter left hook and immediately shifted his focus to the post-fight proposal.
"If the fight went wrong, then everything would've went wrong," Baker said. "Everything had to be perfect. First and foremost was the fight.
"It wasn't in my head until they were like, 'Here's the fight. Just do what you do.' And I had to try to pull it all together at that moment because it didn't hit me until that moment. That's when my mind and heart was racing a 1,000 miles per hour.
As for the post-fight speech and proposal, sure, it may have been a bit corny to an outside. But it was heartfelt.
"It's what I wanted to express to her," he said. "It's what I want to spread to this world – just looking at positives. There's so much negative everything in this world as far as marriages and going through with my story.
"I just want to be a good voice and a light into this world. The truth of joy is so much stronger. Loving somebody is so much stronger than any kind of negative this world can offer. So, that's what I wanted to express, and that's what I did."
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Swine flu was widespread in only 25 states last week — mostly in the Northeast and Southwest, officials at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Friday.
In late October, 48 states were reporting widespread cases of swine flu. But since then, there's been a decline across the country, and it appears that a fall wave of swine flu infections has peaked.
Meanwhile, a shortage of swine flu vaccine is easing, with 73 million doses now available, roughly twice as much as there was a month ago. And another 10 million doses are expected in the next week, Dr. Thomas Frieden, the CDC's director.
Initially, limited supplies caused the CDC to advise state and local health officials to reserve doses for those at highest risk for severe complications from swine flu or those who take care of them. That group includes pregnant women, children and young adults, health-care workers and people with asthma and certain other health problems.
Demand for the vaccine is still high in many places, but enough has become available that some communities are now giving it to people outside the priority groups, Frieden said.
"The number of communities that do that will increase in the coming weeks," he predicted, at a press conference in Atlanta.
At least three states — Alaska, Arkansas and Oklahoma — have begun offering swine flu vaccine to all comers. And some communities have opened vaccinations up, including Broward County, Fla., and Sacramento County, Calif., said Paula Steib, spokeswoman for the Association of State and Territorial Health Officials.
Since it was first identified in April, swine flu has sickened an estimated 22 million Americans and killed 4,000. It has proved to be similar to seasonal flu but a bigger threat to children and young adults.
The swine flu pandemic has so far hit in two waves in the United States: First in the spring, then a larger wave that started in the late summer.
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Anti-abortion campaigners have told judges a "buffer zone" outside a London clinic defies their right to protest.
Attendees of a vigil run by the Good Counsel Network (GCN) have challenged a ban on protests targeting users of the Marie Stopes facility in Ealing.
The 330ft (100m) buffer zone was imposed by Ealing Council in April 2018 after women complained of intimidation.
Council lawyers said some women had been "significantly affected by their encounters with the activists".
In July 2018, protesters lost their bid to remove the buffer zone.
This is now being challenged at the Court of Appeal by Alina Dulgheriu and Andrea Orthova, who regularly attend vigils held by the GCN.
GCN's lawyers argued the order "criminalises acts of prayer".
The said the ban interfered with the protesters rights under the European Convention on Human Rights to freedom of expression.
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After this week, it'll seem like Derek Miller and Alexis Krauss have come out of nowhere to form the outfit on everyone's CMJ breakout list. But there are roots, dug deep and spread far: Past members of Sleigh Bells went on to form buzz-band Surfer Blood. Derek's old hardcore band Poison The Well toured with Give Up The Ghost, the defunct hardcore outfit of past BTW Cold Cave's Wes Eisold. Alexis Krauss is a school teacher with a pop-singer past. All of which gives certain strength to their reinvention in this excellent new outfit.
It bears mentioning that Derek lived (and recorded most of these demos) down the hall from one of our apartments, and that his tracks were passed to us by hand some months ago — a true bedroom project. In that form the songs showed jagged promise, but after seeing them fleshed out and flooring the Hype Machine party at Santos yesterday, they're no longer an "if" but "when." In part because the rough edges of those demos' combustible pop are now more finely razed, in part because of Alexis Krauss's outsized yet totally natural stage presence.
Sleigh Bells are just a duo — Derek on beat production, guitars, and songwriting; Alexis Krauss on vocals — but their tracks ram together many sonic worlds. Their electronic beats thud with gut-rattling low end; guitars are distorted siren squalls ("A/B Machines"), or heavily gated and thoroughly crunched power chords ("Infinity Guitars"), or playful, beach bum strums (the Beta Band-y "Ring Ring"). Krauss flips easily from hip-hop hook sass ("Beach Girls"), to pop power to sunshined, coquettish coos. The demos that are floating around are all getting re-recorded soon, but you should have a few to get familiar:
Sleigh Bells – "Ring Ring" (MP3)
Sleigh Bells – "Crown On The Ground" (MP3)
Sleigh Bells – "Beach Girls" (MP3)
Sleigh Bells – "Infinity Guitars" (MP3)
Next up for Sleigh Bells: re-recording all of this stuff, and lots more. Until then, hear "A/B Machines" and "Infinity Guitars" at MySpace. And if you're at CMJ, don't miss their set at Market Hotel on Friday night with the former Bells of Surfer Blood.
Here's some vid to give you a sense, from the duo's set at Le Poisson Rouge last month:
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Just like hippies dropping tabs of LSD in the late 1960s and groovin' on hallucinogenic images in their scrambled brains, the cinematic engineers behind the Marvel Cinematic Universe just went "far out, man" with Doctor Strange.
This is a good thing. In fact, it is more much than just good. This is great because the strange Doctor Strange is so refreshing as a stylistic twist on the usual Avengers superhero story.
The physical now gives way to the metaphysical, even though the filmmakers maintain the usual quota of battle scenes vs. dramatic and/or humorous moments that are part of the Marvel formula.
One surprise is the quality of the filmmaking. Despite his somewhat mediocre career to date, American writer-director Scott Derrickson (Sinister, The Day the Earth Stood Still) shows his command over the dazzling visual palette of the new film; he worked with his pal C. Robert Cargill on the screenplay; he is blessed with an utterly engaging and convincing performance by English superstar Benedict Cumberbatch in the title role; and he takes Marvel into a deep dive into Oriental mysticism. This after a steady dose of more familiar comic book conventions in the Avengers, Iron Man, Captain America, Thor and Hulk movies, not to mention the hilarious Guardians of the Galaxy.
Doctor Strange is the 14th film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. It is the first to completely engage and thus establish a multi-verse, through magic and mysticism in the story and through the dark art of digital special effects in the real world. This multi-verse will allow future Marvel instalments to access other dimensions and worlds with more "logic" in the leap, especially compared to the seemingly random scenes in Avengers: Age of Ultron when our tortured heroes were just trippin' out.
As a comic book character, Doctor Strange launched in Marvel's Strange Tales #110 in July of 1963. In the subsequent decades, the character never entered Marvel's pantheon of top-ranked superheroes. That gave the filmmakers licence to reinvent him somewhat in the new film. Strange is still an arrogant, self-serving but supremely talented neurosurgeon Stephen Strange; he still is reduced to a physical wreck in a car accident; he still travels to Kathmandu to find a way to heal his trembling, scarred hands through a reluctant embrace of Eastern spiritualism; and he still becomes a sorcerer.
But many of his personal quirks, the specifics of his training in mysticism and martial arts and his non-magical girlfriend (Rachel McAdams) are reworked from his comic book origins story. Among many other changes, his mentor — The Ancient One — is now a Celtic woman and not an Asian man. She is played by Tilda Swinton, who is wondrous to behold for her androgynous physicality, modulated vocal tones, bald head and earthly sensuality.
The villain of the piece is equally fascinating because Marvel cast the great Dane, Mads Mikkelsen in the role of Kaecilius. Mikkelsen brings a calm malevolence and contained fury to the role, which enhances his many physical and metaphysical battles with Cumberbatch. They are worthy opponents.
Other key players include Chiwetel Ejiofor, who reportedly was instrumental in making the role of magician Karl Mordo less of an all-out villain, veering towards moral ambiguity as he charts his course in this film and other Marvel movies to come. British actor Benedict Wong plays Wong, who is Strange's highly intelligent ally and not the stereotypical Asian manservant he was in the comics. So that is also a good thing.
The mind-blowing segments of Doctor Strange involve the manipulation of realities, including turning the physical worlds of New York, London and Hong Kong into fantastical streetscapes that change planes, defy gravity and leave our heads spinning. Even Dutch artist M.C. Escher would have been impressed.
The routine segments of the new film involve the plodding story; the bones of the narrative are too obvious from the beginning, even if you are not familiar with the comic books. But Cumberbatch, Mikkelsen, Swinton, Ejiofor and even McAdams get to layer in the emotional and intellectual flesh that at least enhances the obvious plot points that Marvel needs to make to prepare Strange for future films.
For two teasers on where this might go, you absolutely have to stay through the end credits! And I say, bring it on, more Strange!
Doctor Strange opens in theatres Nov. 4.
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Third Party Watch reports that Ron Paul has received a million votes for liberty.
Here's an excerpt of the story from TPW:
Ron Paul finished third in the Indiana and North Carolina primaries tonight, but it looks like those showings of 8% and 7% respectively will be enough to push him past the one million vote mark.
As of this moment, Paul has added 60,757 votes to his total… with 15% of the votes still to be counted in each state. Dave Leip's Atlas of Election Results shows Ron Paul with 990,043 primary votes and another 44,003 caucus votes… well over one million. By the time every vote is counted tonight, Paul will probably top a million primary votes without even considering caucuses in the equation.


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The availability of generic drugs saves not only patients but the entire health care system substantial amounts of money.
From 2006 to 2010, the average monthly retail cost for a generic drug rose only 29 cents – from $20.60 to only $20.89. Over the same period, however, the cost of branded drugs doubled, from $91 a month to $187.
By the end of this year, patents will have expired for the two top-selling drugs in the world: Lipitor, with 2010 sales of $10.7 billion, and Plavix, with sales of $9.4 billion. Indian generic maker Ranbaxy has acquired the formula for Lipitor from Pfizer, and will begin making generic atorvastatin on Nov. 30, 2011.
Since the U.S. Food and Drug Administration allows the first generic manufacturer of a drug six months exclusivity, other generic manufacturers will not be allowed to compete in the marketplace until May 2012.
Still, patent law remains complex. Some of Pfizer's additional patents on Lipitor don't expire until 2015 and 2017, which could possibly make it more difficult for other generics to enter the market.
In any case, the addition of generic atorvastatin will have a big impact on the statin market. Even at 10 percent, the initial savings comes to $1 billion.
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Mo. judge strikes down cellphone tower laws
Ruling finds lawmakers didn't follow proper procedures
A Missouri judge has struck down two new laws that limited the ability of local officials to regulate cellphone towers, ruling that lawmakers violated procedural requirements when passing the measures.
The decision barring the laws from being enforced may not be the final word. Representatives of cellphone service providers and cities said Tuesday that the ruling could be appealed to the Missouri Supreme Court and that lawmakers could revisit the issue next year.
Gov. Jay Nixon and legislative leaders had said the new laws could encourage the expansion of high-speed Internet and wireless telephone service across Missouri by lowering the hurdles that telecommunications companies must clear to add or expand equipment on towers.
Six western Missouri cities sued, alleging numerous violations of the state constitution. Cole County Circuit Judge Patricia Joyce issued a preliminary injunction on Aug. 27 that blocked the laws from taking effect as scheduled the next day.
In a written order dated last Thursday, Joyce issued a permanent injunction and declared the laws invalid. She said the measures violated constitutional requirements that bills contain only a single subject clearly expressed in their titles and that lawmakers not amend them to changes the bills' original purpose.
The attorney general's office, which defends state laws, said Tuesday that it is reviewing the ruling and has until Dec. 2 to decide whether to appeal.
AT&T, which backed the measures, said in an email that the company is confident the laws will be upheld if appealed and that the limits on local regulations "are good for telecommunications-related investment in Missouri."
Richard Sheets, the deputy director of the Missouri Municipal League, said the ruling provides "kind of a reprieve right now" but that he expects lawmakers will try to pass similar legislation during their annual session that starts in January.
The laws set forth a lengthy list of things that cities, counties and state entities could no longer do when regulating cellphone towers. They would be barred from evaluating applications for cellphone towers based on whether there were other possible locations or whether a company could have added its equipment to an existing tower used by a competitor. They also could not have required companies to remove existing wireless facilities as a condition of building new ones.
Ric Telthorst, the president of the Missouri Telecommunications Industry Association, said the new state laws were intended to create uniform rules across scores of local governments.
"It's my understanding that (in) some municipalities in the state, the procedure by which they permit towers is somewhat cumbersome and lengthy and unpredictable," he said.
Sheets said the municipal association had been assured by wireless providers as recently as last year that there were no major problems with how cities were regulating cellphone towers.
"Cities certainly want to deploy broadband, but we want to protect the public interest - the land use issues, the safety of those towers and (requiring that towers be) located where they protect property values," Sheets said.
Joyce's ruling didn't address the merits of local regulations on cellphone towers.
She said the two new laws violated the constitution's single-subject requirement because their generic titles of "relating to telecommunications" did not encompass everything in the bills. She noted that one bill also contained provisions related to railroad crossings and utility right-of-ways. Another bill contained provisions related to cable TV services, which she said are not legally the same as telecommunications.
Joyce also said lawmakers had changed the bills' original purpose through the amendment process.


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Interfaces matter. The more public they are, the more they matter. Indeed, once a public API -- such as Conway's CPAN modules or Bloch's Java SPIs -- attracts widespread usage, changing it becomes practically impossible. By contrast, just about anything else can be easily fixed in a later release.
And yet -- as indicated by Brooks' famous aphorism, plan to throw one away; you will, anyhow -- you're most unlikely to concoct the perfect API at your first attempt.
Making the task more daunting still, the dark art of interface and API design is certainly not an easy one to master, there being many disciplines in play: computer science, human factors (ergonomics), cognitive science, psychology, sociology, linguistics, usability, and so on.
I've spent the past few weeks researching this difficult topic and found very few references dedicated to this subject. Instead, many books devote a section or two to the art of interface design, or perhaps mention it in passing while analyzing a knotty design or coding matter.
This meditation reports the interface and API design references I've found useful and further presents some general interface design ideas and checklists in the hope that they may prove useful -- and that they might be improved upon by your insightful feedback.
Bloch's Seven Characteristics of a Good API
In his How to Design a Good API and Why it Matters keynote, Joshua Bloch proposed seven characteristics of a good API:
Bloch also cautions that you need at least three different implementations of an API before you can be confident of its soundness.
Conway's Sufficiently Advanced Technologies (S.A.T)
Like Bloch, Conway proposes seven API design tips, namely:
Some example S.A.T.-esque modules that achieve a lot with very little interface are: strict, diagnostics, Smart::Comments, Perl6::Say, Perl6::Slurp, IO::Prompt, Getopt::Clade, Getopt::Euclid, Tie::File, Win32::TieRegistry, IO::All.
Further tips gleaned from listening to TheDamian's YAPC::Asia 2006 S.A.T talk are:
Perl 6 Design Principles
The linguistic and cognitive principles behind the Perl 6 design are nicely laid out in Perl 6 and Parrot Essentials as follows:
API Design Checklist
After all that, here's my attempt at an API design checklist:
Some Examples of Interface Mistakes
For some light relief from all those checklists, from the thousands of interface and API goofs that have been made over the years, I list here a few random ones I remember.
Perl 5's "string eval" and "block eval" is an example of violation of the "principle of distinction", aka "different things should look different" (this has been fixed in Perl 6, where block eval is now spelled try). This example illustrates the importance of choosing good names. Certainly, I've been shocked many times over the years at meeting experienced Perl programmers who were completely unaware that Perl supported exception handling and I feel that would not have happened had Perl sported a try keyword.
Lexical file handles are, for me, the most important feature introduced in Perl 5.6. Those evil old global file handles spawned a host of unfortunate idioms, such as:
In terms of a clear and simple interface to perform a simple task (set autoflush on a file handle), it doesn't get much worse than that, a compelling illustration of why keeping state in global variables is just plain evil. I won't dissect this horror further, other than to exhort you to replace it with:
To round out this section, notice that the ANSI C strtok function has a shocker of an interface: it surprises by writing NULLs into the input string being tokenized; the first call has different semantics to subsequent calls (distinguished by special-case logic on the value of its first parameter); and it stores state between calls so that only one sequence of calls can be active at a time (bad enough in a single-threaded environment, but so intolerable in multi-threaded and signal handler (reentrant) environments that the POSIX threads committee invented a replacement strtok_r function).
Human Aspects
The three greatest experts in the human side of interface design that I'm aware of are:
From The Design of Everyday Things, Norman's seven principles of design are:
Some other principles derived from Norman and Nielsen's works are:
GUI Design Checklist
Here's a brief GUI design checklist. For more details, see the most excellent About Face 2.0 by Alan Cooper.
Some References Added Later
Some Related Perl Monk Nodes
Updated 10-jun: Minor wording improvements, expansion of "Conway's S.A.T" (thanks drbean), "Human Aspects", "GUI Design Checklist", and "References" sections. Updated 30-jan-2011: Added modernperl Ugly Perl reference.
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Meringue Topping
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1. When should I start potty training?
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The IT Crowd. Friends. How I Met Your Mother. Even in the West, these popular sitcoms have influenced other shows. But in China, one show isn't exactly "inspired" by these programs.
The Shanghai television program in question is Ipartment (which loosely translates as "Love Apartment" in Chinese). It features a couple of guys, a couple of girls, and an apartment—and a whole bunch of storylines and dialogue you've enjoyed before. (Ha, not that Western sitcoms are a breeding ground for novel ideas!)
Ipartment's first season was apparently original, but its latest season, season three, is raising eyebrows in China. People are pointing out how brazenly it copies Western shows. The sitcom does tweak the characters and their relationships, but side-by-side comparisons confirm just how closely Ipartment seems to regurgitate shows like How I Met Your Mother and Friends.
Legally, this brazen copy might exist in a gray zone as brand new Chinese regulations state that the country's TV studios cannot remake foreign shows. That's why Ipartment, which steals from a whole bunch of shows and not a single one per se, could be "okay". Yes, I know, that doesn't make much sense! But, hey, if a Chinese variety show is willing to copy Conan's opening credits...
Online in China, some are criticizing Ipartment for its lack of originality, and there's even a blog that calls out and compares each rip off (one thing Westerners forget is that it's often Chinese who first point out rip-offs and express displeasure over them). Others say that the show is good, so it doesn't matter. Good, maybe, very familiar, definitely.
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Eric Jou contributed to this report.
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RANCHO MIRAGE, Calif. - When President Barack Obama and Chinese President Xi Jinping (shee jihn-peeng) sat down for dinner, they feasted on several dishes prepared by one of America's top chefs.
The White House says celebrity chef Bobby Flay prepared a menu for the two leaders that included lobster tamales, Porterhouse steak and cherry pie.
The meal was served Friday in the dining room at Sunnylands, the sprawling estate in Rancho Mirage, Calif., where Obama and Xi met for their talks.
Flay is known for his Southwestern cooking. He owns several restaurants around the country and stars in several cooking programs on the Food Network.


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Decisions by Jon Corzine to chart a "radically different course for MF Global and try to turn the 230-year-old commodities broker into a full-service investment bank," were the main reason the firm went bankrupt, according to a preview of a House subcommittee report released Wednesday.
Specifically, the report says, Corzine's missteps included his insistence that "no one could challenge his decisions," and the fact that he acted as a "de facto chief trader" and insulated his trading activities from the company's normal risk management review process.
House Republicans' full report, "The Collapse of MF Global," is to be released Thursday by the House Financial Services Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, chaired by Randy Neugebauer, R-Texas.
"Our investigation is essentially an autopsy of how MF Global came to its ultimate demise and what can be done to prevent similar customer losses in the future," Neugebauer said in the release announcing some of the report's key findings.
As the release notes, Corzine, a former co-chairman of Goldman Sachs who later became a U.S. senator and governor of New Jersey, resigned from MF Global on Nov. 4, 2011, almost 20 months after becoming the firm's chairman and CEO. The brokerage had declared bankruptcy four days earlier and its collapse revealed a $1.6 billion shortfall in customer funds.
"Choices made by Jon Corzine during his tenure as chairman and CEO sealed MF Global's fate," Neugebauer stated. "Farmers, ranchers and other customers may never get back over $1 billion of their money as a result of his decisions. Corzine dramatically changed MF Global's business model without fully understanding the risks associated with such a radical transformation."
The subcommittee's staff investigation of MF Global involved three hearings, more than 50 witness interviews, and the review of more than 243,000 documents obtained from MF Global, its former employees, federal regulators and other sources.
"By expanding MF Global into new business lines without first returning its core commodities business to profitability, Corzine ensured that the company would face enormous resource demands and exposed it to new risks that it was ill-equipped to handle," the subcommittee report states.
In order to generate the revenue needed to fund MF Global's transformation, Corzine invested heavily in the sovereign debt of struggling European countries, the report states. These investments, which carried enormous default and liquidity risks, were a "prime focus" of Corzine's attention and he failed to develop a corporate strategy for managing the risks, the subcommittee majority staff found.
Authoritarian Atmosphere
Corzine also created an "authoritarian atmosphere" at the firm. He made "significant changes to MF Global's senior management, including the hiring of Bradley Abelow, his former gubernatorial chief of staff, as the firm's chief operating officer," the report notes.
When MF Global's chief risk officer disagreed with Corzine about the size of the company's European bond portfolio, Corzine directed him to report to Abelow rather than to MF Global's board of directors, the report says. "This change effectively sidelined the most senior individual charged with monitoring the company's risks and deprived the board of an independent assessment of the risks that Corzine's trades posed to MF Global, its shareholders and its customers."
Corzine Insulated Trading Activity From Review Process
By acting as MF Global's "de facto chief trader," Corzine insulated his trading activities from the company's normal risk management review process, which enabled him to quickly build the company's European bond portfolio "well in excess of prudent limits without effective resistance."
The report states that rather than hold the European bonds on MF Global's books, which could expose the company to earnings volatility, Corzine chose to use these bonds as collateral in repurchase-to-maturity transactions. "This permitted the company to book quick profits while keeping the transactions off its balance sheet."
Failure to Initially Disclose Extent of Risks
The report also notes that the "belated disclosure in October 2011 of its extensive European RTM portfolio–which amounted to 14% of MF Global's total assets–combined with poor earnings news prompted credit rating agencies to downgrade the company's credit rating to junk status."
The downgrade set off a "run on the bank" by MF Global's investors, customers and counterparties that created a liquidity crisis during what would turn out to be the company's final days.
"Because Corzine had failed to integrate systems and controls for managing the company's liquidity and protecting customer funds, the company could not fully assess and anticipate its liquidity needs during the crisis, nor could it coordinate its cash management, liquidity monitoring and regulatory compliance functions," the report says.
Liquidity Crisis Prompts Withdrawal of Customer Funds
"As the company struggled to find additional liquidity," the subcommittee reports, "company employees identified excess company funds held in customer accounts. However, because they did not have an accurate accounting of the amount of customer funds the company held, they withdrew customer funds as well as company funds."
The subcommittee notes that it will be up to prosecutors and regulators to determine whether MF Global or its employees violated laws or regulations when these withdrawals of customer funds were made.
'Dereliction of Duty'
"However, the responsibility for failing to maintain the systems and controls necessary to protect customer funds rests with Corzine," the report maintains. "This failure represents a dereliction of his duty as MF Global's chairman and CEO."
In its report, the subcommittee recommends that Congress consider legislation to impose civil liability on the officers and directors of futures commission merchants like MF Global who sign financial statements or authorize transfers from customer segregated accounts. Such legislation could "restore investor confidence in the derivatives markets and ensure that an FCM does not misuse customer funds in the future," the subcommittee report said.
Other Findings of Investigation to Be Released
The subcommittee report is also expected to address regulatory agencies' failure to share critical information with each other about MF Global, failures by credit rating agencies to sufficiently review MF Global's public filings, and concerns about the New York Federal Reserve's decision to designate MF Global as a "primary dealer" despite the company's troubled financial situation.


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Equity futures are higher this morning as they have overall moved sideways for the past week remaining above 1,040 on the SPX but below 1,100. Both the dollar and bonds are down, oil is up, gold is down. The Euro is higher, but still beneath its primary down channel line, it is probably getting close to resistance and relatively speaking the dollar is holding up strongly, just beneath that overhead resistance.
Yesterday's session was quite volatile as the DOW fell more than 200 points from its high. The internals were more evenly split with 51% of the NYSE volume on the downside. There were 45 new NYSE lows, and 35 new highs.
Jobless claims rose to 456,000 from 453,000 the week prior. Consensus was expecting a drop to 448k. Here's Econoday:
HighlightsThe DOL reports, "States reported 4,995,133 persons claiming EUC (Emergency Unemployment Compensation) benefits for the week ending May 22, a decrease of 10,588 from the prior week. There were 2,256,591 claimants in the comparable week in 2009."
Initial jobless claims continue to disappoint but only mildly, at 456,000 vs. expectations for 448,000 and vs. 459,000 in the prior week which was revised 6,000 higher. The four-week average rose for the fourth straight week to its highest level in three months, up 2,500 to 463,000.
But there is improvement on the continuing claims side, hinting at new hiring. Continuing claims fell a very steep 255,000 in the May 29 week to 4.462 million and the lowest level since late 2008.
Disappointment over initial claims is offset in part by the improvement on the continuing side. But until initial claims begin to improve, the outlook for payroll growth remains uncertain.
That's still 2.74 million people on Emergency Unemployment Compensation.
The Trade Balance for April came in at -$40.3 Billion, this is down from March's -$40.4 Billion. Exports slipped $.7 B, while Imports also fell but not as much, down $.4 B. Overall lower activity with exports falling more than imports could be partially the response of the rising dollar. Below is Econoday's summary:
Weaker exports led to a widening of the trade deficit in April. The overall trade gap widened to $40.3 billion from $40.0 billion in March. The April shortfall came in a little smaller than the market forecast for a $41.0 billion deficit. For the latest month, exports slipped 0.7 percent while imports decreased 0.4 percent.
The petroleum goods gap, however, narrowed to $24.0 billion from $24.5 billion in March. The nonpetroleum deficit widened to $27.9 billion in April from $26.7 billion the month before.
By end-use categories, goods exports' weakness was led by a $0.7 billion decline in consumer goods. Foods, feeds & beverages fell $0.6 billion. Industrial supplies and autos were up $0.6 billion and $0.1 billion, respectively.
Softness in goods imports was led by a $1.7 billion fall in consumer goods-indicating that businesses are more cautious about consumer demand in coming months. Auto imports dipped $0.2 billion. However, the bright spot in imports is a $1.4 billion jump in capital goods excluding autos. Businesses appear to see demand strong enough to expand or upgrade capacity.
Today's report raises the issue of whether sovereign debt problems in Europe are damping overall demand. Due to the drop in exports, equities should not like today's numbers despite the deficit being smaller than expected.
$40 billion a month is still down a third from 2007 levels, and almost seems quaint now that weekly debt issuance is 3 times that amount.
What was that big jump in exports from China I was reading about? Where were they exporting to? There needs to be a better way to track trade – measuring in currency is flawed. Tracking the shipping indices has been a better way to keep an eye on it, below is the current Baltic Dry Index, you can see that it collapsed 90% and has rebounded in a manner similar to most parabolic collapses. The latest trend is another turn down:
Here's a chart showing the BDI over the past year, it has yet to break its most recent uptrend:
Stocks may have finished wave 2 of 3 down yesterday, or we may have one more c leg up as yesterday's down stroke appeared to be a middle movement for wave b. We'll know if we get over yesterday's high or not, either way we are likely getting very close to wave 3 of 3 down. The movements are shortly spaced, so don't be surprised by more intraday reversals. Support and resistance remain the same. Below is a 30 day, 30 minute chart of the SPX just for some perspective:
A few days ago a longer term sell signal was given when the 20 day moving average crossed under the 200 day moving average. This last produced a sell signal in late 2007. You can see that we received a buy signal in June of 2009. This signal has very few false alarms, especially if you give it until the averages are separated by 1%, which they are right now.
Hey, if you're being smart and conservative you will have the majority of your assets well protected so that you can take advantage of what's coming. While you may not like the dollar, for right now a majority cash position is giving me the opportunity to think clearly and to have some peace of mind…
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