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"I am starting this review with no stars for 2 reasons. 1 is that due to the lack of the jalapeno called for I substituted it with chipotle in adobo. The second reason is that the pork version is still in the fridge doing its thing. That said I want to note that I made 2 batches of this recipe. One with pork per the recipe and one substituting grou..."
"I can't believe I have not reviewed this yet. Made as directed, this is a great recipe. Excellent flavor combinations and easy to prepare. It is also budget friendly, especially if you use pink salmon instead of red. (I haven't tried tuna yet but I will update this review when I do.) The star rating is for the "as is" recipe, n..."
"A very good recipe for a hearty soup. The recipe works well as stated without add-ins or substitutions.
That being said, this is also a great base recipe to build on. I have, over the years, used many of the modifications mentioned in the reviews. IE adding Garlic, Carrots and Cellery and sauteing the veggies. I also substitute Chipotle ..."
"Works as advertised as a substitute for the box mix. I made a double batch to make a double batch of Recipe #337974 and it worked as good if not better. In fact I printed this recipe on the back of the other just so I would have it handy just in case I need it."
"I have made these muffins twice now with great success both times. They make an excellent change of pace over regular corn muffins and really don't add anything to the prep time. I recommend trying these, as they are worth the extra minute it takes to throw them together.
The first occasion I made them for was for Thanksgiving dinner wher..."
"This review is for the cooking method only as I make and use my own rub and sauce based on Recipe #83678 . I see absolutely no flaw with the rub and at some point I will try it and I will update the review when I do.
I have used this method several times on a few different grills and always with great success.The cooking method works just..."
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This guy nailed it.
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I imagine you're probably correct to some degree, since the existence of a supply chain enables American corporations to contract H-1Bs at all. But that isn't within the jurisdiction of the United States. The fact is that this is a problem for the US economy, and the US has to figure out what to do about it. Not to mention that your recommendation seems to imply that the US should either increase diplomatic relations (with, as you already mentioned, corrupt officials), or intervene in foreign nations' domestic affairs (doesn't the world hate us enough already?), neither of which are likely to have much success. And even if we could find a way to combat corruption and "empower voters," political empowerment in developing nations doesn't happen overnight, and this is a problem for the United States right now.
An intellectual by the name of Ice-T once said, "don't hate the player, hate the game."
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And half of the debate in Parliament is whether or not "Jewish" refers to an ethnic group or a religious group.
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The British and Israelis have to be looking at us as if we are epic cowards. Both have endured terrorist bombings like we do thunderstorms. Yet, they didn't turn into whining sniveling dogs, cowering to authority, handing over civil liberties for a hint of safety.
Have you been to either of these countries? Cameras litter the streets of Britain, many have claimed they are more of a police state than the U.S. is now. Israel has security checkpoints with metal detectors at shopping malls (I've been through them, and the guards aren't much more charming than TSA agents). Make no mistake, this isn't an American problem, this is a progression in Western society in general.
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I'm not sure this is a fair statement to make. By pirating media you are boycotting the media companies; by not partaking in that media at all, you are boycotting both the media companies and the artists who perform the work. This is not to suggest that you are not hurting the artists by doing either; in both cases, lower revenue will hurt artists as much as the production companies (both directly and indirectly). But a boycott is a concept, and in that sense, the act of pirating media (for the media pirate in question) is a boycott of the payment, not the art which the payment is for. Your analogy fails to acknowledge this distinction. An alternative would be if saying you are going to protest the ridiculous pricing of Mars bars by stealing the recipe and making them yourself. And in this way, you may hurt Mars all the same (well, slightly less so because they aren't out any manufactured goods at all) but you aren't saying anything negative about the food itself, just the pricing/corporate policies/etc.
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I don't think that anyone debates how easy it is to steal a bunch of pamphlets. I think it's more about the price of losing a bunch of pamphlets versus losing a tablet.
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If only I still had mod points... so true.
Our own backyard? (167 comments)
I appreciate the idea of searching for extraterrestrial artifacts, but the moon does not seem a logical place for aliens to drop off their stuff. If anything, it seems far more likely that the earth would be such a place, seeing as it has life already (and has been far more active over the course of its history) so if it makes sense to search anywhere, it's here. I'm not sure what could really be accomplished by scouring the moon...
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What are you talking about? There's no such thing as two.
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Honestly, I have no idea what you're talking about. If you wanted to build a rig capable of playing Xbox 360 ports with graphics on-par with the console, you wouldn't need to spend more than $50 on a video card, if that. The whole computer would probably run you less than the Xbox 360, AND it would be capable of upgrades, not to mention a real operating system with real programs. If you really prefer the console controller, you can hook that up to your PC. If you really prefer playing on a TV, get a cheap HDMI cable, or place your PC by your TV. Besides exclusive games (which is entirely a marketing issue), there is no reason to use a console, certainly one like the Xbox 360, over a PC.
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Re:Older books on Kindle are flawed (669 comments)
When you're talking about books being phased out in a few generations, nitpicking about current OCR is irrelevant. OCR technology will improve, industrial design will improve, and it probably won't take more than a decade before all of the "kinks" are worked out of digital literature. And at that point, new generations will be born into it. I think it is a given that digital text will overtake print; it is merely a question of how long.
What about performance? (162 comments)
Okay, so they claim that the memory is denser than NAND, and cheap to boot. That's great. But TFA makes no mention of its performance. How does the read/write speed compare to that of NAND, or magnetic drives? Could the 3D architecture potentially slow read/write times? I'm not trying to make any claims here, but it's a little disconcerting that there is no mention of it at all within the article.
Re:It's cyber-security coordinator Howard Schmidt. (195 comments)
In fact Obama claimed to be for network neutrality so if hes changing his mind on an issue as critical is this, it's a shame he wont be re-elected because hes going to lose virtually all of the youth vote if he messes up on the internet.
You're assuming that most of the youth will actually realize that their rights are being taken away, or be in any way aware of how serious the situation is. It is unfortunate that many of the younger voters who flocked to Obama did so because of his celebrity status, because people want to be part of something big (first black president), etc. The youth vote went to Obama for many of the wrong reasons, and most of them won't notice the danger of losing network neutrality until it's too late. I'm a youth voter in a city that votes strongly dem.
Re:Can someone explain this guy's logic to me (367 comments)
I thought infrastructure support was supposed to be the job of tax dollars? And we would have to pay them even if we weren't connected to an energy grid.
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Hey, come on now. No one RTFA anyways, so what difference does it make? They can link to a picture of goatse, and everyone would just be arguing about how great/bad of an idea it is.


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It's a great limit in the football writing world to speak only a couple of languages, in my case, English and French. One gets the impression following the coronation of King Blatter the Munificent that the tempest of recrimination and accusation over corruption allegations was limited to a handful of British journalists. The Guardian's David Hytner for example notes this morning that news of Blatter's election received "modest disapproval" in mainland Europe. Clearly continental Europe doesn't really much care about the man in Zurich, whose disgusting arrogance more resembles that of a dictator than a dumpy bureaucrat. Blighty stands alone.
The problem with leaving outrage over abuse of power to the British journalists, beyond the appearance of sour grapes over the lost 2018 bid, is, well, British journalism. Not the method, without which most of what we know about FIFA's impropriety and the FA's compliance in exchange for votes would never have seen the light of day. Rather, it's the delivery.
'Hopeless' might be a good way to describe it. Marina Hyde for instance concluded an otherwise expert (if at times showy and overly-clever) analysis on the "FIFA family" with this charming declaration: "So on the form book, I'm afraid, you wouldn't bet against Blatter outlasting any number of other vulnerable-looking autocrats, and the Football Spring proving nothing but a false dawn." Okay, let's not bother at act at all, we're screwed then. The Telegraph's Paul Kelso also ended a similarly cogent analysis on the latest FIFA with resignation: "Ultimately no one with a say in the organisation's future, the national associations, the confederations or their delegates to the executive committee has any incentive to look beyond narrow self-interest." Well, that's that.
Many other journalists emptied the adjective bin when describing FIFA's 'farcical' president-for-life Blatter, all with an air of posh cynical despair. "It's all just a silly circus!", we're told over and over. Sepp the Sad Clown will undo himself in his own good time, whether via the Swiss taxman or the potential for further damning corruption evidence, and the rest of us would do well to wait.
This approach evolved partly as a means for journalists to maintain an aura of objectivity—it is, after all, not their place to overtly call for change at FIFA, only note the stench of "alleged" (lawyers lawyers lawyers) corruption—and partly because British journalists have seen these allegations come and go before with little effect. But hipper-than-thou snarky detachment is not the same thing as journalistic non-bias, and there other intriguing angles on this story left uncovered. There has been, for example, to date little British mainstream press coverage on any grassroots FIFA reform group. No questions lobbed to any supporters trusts on their opinion on what should be done in response to Blatter's coronation and FIFA's intransigence. Scant analysis on whether fan pressure on FIFA's commercial sponsors could have an effect.
The assumption, particularly from the "woe-is-me" British left, is that it's all hopeless, that greed always wins, and so let's all go pick up the latest copy of NME and forget the whole thing. Contrast this to the rabid fan blogosphere, which doesn't seem content to wait any longer for FIFA gets their house in order. What that restlessness entails is still unclear, to be sure. But it's still worthy of attention from a press that has done incredible work exposing the sick, unaccountable greed in Zurich, but nowt on the small, green shoots of change starting to bud at home and around the world.


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Sun, Sep 30, 12 at 15:50
A bit OT maybe, but, is anyone on this forum growing Baby Fordhook Lima Beans, Baby Fordhook NOT Fordhook 242, I've been searching for a source to buy or if anyone can spare a few seeds it would be very much appreciated. Most commercial sources I've looked at aren't offering them anymore. It looks like it's another variety that has to get into the hands of seed savers for presevation.
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Here is a link that might be useful: Baby Limas Fordhook
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Burpee doesn't have them and apparently will not have them next year either :(. |
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Thanks Roxanna, had a look but they aren't the right ones, I'm looking for Baby Fordhook Limas, not Fordhook 242 :(. |
Try Seed Savers Exchange. If you join as a member, then you get a catalogue of all the members who grow seeds of thousands of veggies and fruits and they list which seeds they grow and have for sale/trade. I haven't been a member in years, since I don't have enough sunny space to do much veggie gardening, but you might find lots of wonderful things to grow that you won't find anywhere else. Good luck. Martha |
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Thanks Martha, this looks like the best bet for this hard to find bean, hopefully a member has it listed and will be contacted by someone who has a current membership. I'm a Seeds of Diversity member here in Canada but not a member of the Seed Savers Exchange. Annette |
Annette, The Seeds of Diversity's website lists many suppliers - have you tried checking those out? |
- Posted by aftermidnight Z8 V. Island B.C. (My Page) on Fri, Oct 5, 12 at 0:03
Thanks Ianna, I looked, Fordhook and Fordhook 242 have listings but no Baby Fordhook :(. Annette |
Seed Saver's Exchange catalog doesn't have Baby Fordhook, and only one listing for Fordhook 242, I'm afraid. New catalog will be out in a few months, and who knows what will be there. However, I did find this: http://www.everwilde.com/store/Baby-Fordhook-Lima-Bean-Seeds.html I don't know if they ship to Canada, though. |
- Posted by aftermidnight Z8 V. Island B.C. (My Page) on Sat, Oct 6, 12 at 13:32
eahamel, thanks for the link. They say not available yet, maybe there's some hope? Actually I'm looking for this bean for someone in the U.S. who has a more suitable climate for growing these. I'll watch to see if or when they are available, thanks again. Annette |
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Tunisia's Nour Bo al-Eyuin hits Morocco's Fatima Alzahraelahqr during their Kumite (sparring) Karate match at the Pan Arab Games in Cairo. |
Egypt was once again dominant in the Arab Games as it accumulated a grand total of 233 medals in the 2011 edition of the games. They recently concluded in Qatari capital of Doha. The final tally for Egypt included 90 gold medals, 76 silvers, and 67 bronzes. For Egypt this extended their run to four consecutive Arab Games victories, having been the dominant force in 1999 (0man), 2004 (Algeria) and 2007 (Cairo).
Fellow North African country Tunisia finished as runners up with a total of 138 medals, including 54 gold, while Morocco came third with 113 medals, including 35 gold. The hosts, Qatar, finished fourth with a total of 110 medals, including 32 golds.
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Jamie Brock Grubb Sentenced in U.S. District Cour
The United States Attorney's Office announced that during a federal court session in Missoula, on January 6, 2011, before U.S. District Judge Donald W. Molloy, JAMIE BROCK GRUBB, a 22-year-old resident of Bozeman, appeared for sentencing. GRUBB was sentenced to a term of:
- Prison: 60 months
- Special Assessment: $100
- Supervised Release: 7 years
GRUBB was sentenced in connection with his guilty plea to receipt of child pornography.
In an Offer of Proof filed by Assistant U.S. Attorney Marcia K. Hurd, the government stated it would have proved at trial the following:
U.S. Homeland Security Investigations agents were investigating allegations of child pornography access by users utilizing the peer-to-peer file sharing network. One investigation involved a person in Bozeman who had child pornography available to share via a file sharing program beginning in 2009. A taskforce detective in Illinois downloaded numerous images of child pornography from the computer belonging to GRUBB in January, 2009. An FBI agent in Billings also downloaded numerous child pornography images and movies from GRUBB on three different occasions in February, 2009. FBI Agents obtained a federal search warrant for GRUBB's residence in Bozeman, which was served on May 6, 2009.
When questioned, GRUBB admitted that he used the peer-to-peer file sharing program Limewire to receive and possess hundreds of child pornography videos and images. He detailed the search terms he used to find child pornography on Limewire and how he saved it to various computers.
Agents seized various computer equipment at GRUBB's residence. Subsequent forensic examination revealed hundreds of images and movies of child pornography that GRUBB had received via the Internet during 2008 and 2009 and continued to possess until the equipment was seized. GRUBB possessed images and movies of children clearly prepubescent and children engaged in sadistic or masochistic abuse or other depictions of violence.
Because there is no parole in the federal system, the "truth in sentencing" guidelines mandate that GRUBB will likely serve all of the time imposed by the court. In the federal system, GRUBB does have the opportunity to earn a sentence reduction for "good behavior." However, this reduction will not exceed 15% of the overall sentence.
The investigation was a cooperative effort between U.S. Homeland Security Investigations and the Federal Bureau of Investigation.


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How should one read JPMorgan's Whale Report? I suppose "not" is an acceptable answer; the Whale's credit derivatives losses at JPMorgan's Chief Investment Office are old news by now, though perhaps his bones point us to the future. One way to read it is as a depressing story about measurement. There were some people and whales, and there was a pot of stuff, and the people and whales sat around looking at the stuff and asking themselves, and each other, "what is up with that stuff?" The stuff was in some important ways unknowable: you could list what the stuff was, if you had a big enough piece of paper, but it was hard to get a handle on what it would do. But that was their job. And the way you normally get such a handle, at a bank, is with a number, or numbers, and so everyone grasped at a number.
The problems were (1) the numbers sort of sucked and (2) everyone used a different number. Here I drew you a picture:1
Everyone tried to understand the pool of stuff through one or two or three numbers, and everyone failed dismally through some combination of myopia and the fact that each of those numbers was sort of horrible or tampered or both, each in its own special way. Starting with:
VaR: Value-at-risk is the #1 thing that people talk about when they want to talk about measuring risk. To the point that, if you want to be all "don't look at one number to measure risk, you jerks," VaR is the one number you tell the jerks not to look at.
It didn't help that much here, for reasons both systematic (VaR is based on historic moves in prices and didn't take into account that (1) the CIO basically was the market in some of what it traded and (2) everyone knew it) and idiosyncratic (JPM built a new VaR model and implemented it and only later realized there was an error in the spreadsheet2). More troubling, when JPMorgan built its new VaR model, which reduced VaR with no change in assets, it kept its VaR limits the same.3 If your risk limits made sense under the old model, and the new model is designed to show less risk for the same assets, then why would the same risk limits still make sense under the new model?
RWAs: With Basel III slowly phasing in to JPM's reporting, the CIO was given a (not particularly strictly enforced) mandate to reduce Basel III risk-weighted assets. RWAs are among other things a risk measure. The more risky assets you have the more risk you have, n'est-ce pas? But it's not that simple: if you have two inversely correlated risky assets you should have less risk than having either of them on its own. So when you're told, as the CIO was, to reduce RWAs, you can (1) get rid of some risky assets, or you can (2) add inversely correlated assets, or you can, as a CIO executive marvelously put it, (3) "win on the methodology."4 Note that methods (1) and (2) reduce risk; method (3) just changes some spreadsheets. The actual approach was some mix of (2) and (3), with an uncomfortably high dose of (3) and, for that matter, an uncomfortably high dose of being wrong about the correlations.
P&L: P&L is a sort of a risk measure insofar as losing a ton of money today provides some evidence that you might lose a ton of money again tomorrow. Conversely not losing a lot of money today should be some weak indication either (1) that you won't lose a lot of money tomorrow or (2) that you've manipulated your P&L. Guess which? Page 64:5
April 10 was the first trading day in London after the "London Whale" articles were published. When the U.S. markets opened (i.e., towards the middle of the London trading day), one of the traders informed another that he was estimating a loss of approximately $700 million for the day. The latter reported this information to a more senior team member, who became angry and accused the third trader of undermining his credibility at JPMorgan. At 7:02 p.m. GMT on April 10, the trader with responsibility for the P&L Predict circulated a P&L Predict indicating a $5 million loss for the day; according to one of the traders, the trader who circulated this P&L Predict did so at the direction of another trader.
Five million or seven hundred million, ONE OR THE OTHER.6
CSW 10% and CS01: JPMorgan tracked sensitivity of its portfolio to (1) one-basis-point moves in credit spreads (CS01 or CSBPV, as JPM called it) and (2) 10% moves in credit spreads (CSW 10%). The former was criticized for not capturing convexity, among other issues; the latter was more popular but still pretty first-order. After all the whole point of the CIO book was to be CSW 10% neutral, while serving as a tail-risk hedge: as they put it in an internal presentation (page 38), it was meant to be an "option with positive convexity, positive carry and upside on large spread widening and default waves."
This was a good idea but it didn't work: the measurement didn't reflect what happened, because the raw sensitivities to across-the-board credit spread moves didn't reflect the correlation between moves in investment-grade spreads (which JPMorgan was mostly long) and high-yield spreads (which they were mostly short). So the "neutral" portfolio kept losing money. Pages 40-43:
By mid-March, the Synthetic Credit Portfolio was still experiencing mark-to-market losses. A trader performed a detailed analysis around this time and determined that, even though the Synthetic Credit Portfolio appeared to be balanced under CSW 10%, its actual performance – and in particular, the fact that it lost money when the markets rallied – suggested that it continued to have a short bias. The trader attributed this to the significant amounts of protection that he had purchased since January, and he therefore considered what steps he might take to finally balance the Synthetic Credit Portfolio. … On March 23, a trader explained to CIO Market Risk the trading he had done: "[I] switched the book to long risk[.] [I] am done[.]" He explained his view that "this is it for a neutral profile[, and] right now we have a market neutral ratio between HY and IG."
So they got longer investment-grade credit, compounding the eventual losses.
Scenario analysis: After JPMorgan got advanced copies of the "London Whale" articles, members of the CIO team were directed to do scome scenario analyses of potential losses. Good idea! But the actual analysis had two main problems. First, it analyzed some scenarios ("bond market crash" or a "Middle East shock"), but neglected to address the one that happened ("we get picked off after articles on our positions are published"). This is sort of natural in the abstract – you can't predict every scenario that might happen – though a little embarrassing insofar as the analyses were done after the articles came out, though before the next trading day. In estimating their risk, CIO's traders didn't even to attempt to analyze trading dynamics in the product that they traded.
Second … second this is just terrible (pages 59-60):
Specifically, [one CIO trader] informed the trader who had generated the estimates that he had too many negative scenarios in his initial work, and that he was going to scare Ms. Drew if he said they could lose more than $200 or $300 million. He therefore directed that trader to run a so-called "Monte Carlo" simulation to determine the potential losses for the second quarter. A Monte Carlo simulation involves running a portfolio through a series of scenarios and averaging the results. The trader who had generated the estimates did not believe the Monte Carlo simulation was a meaningful stress analysis because it included some scenarios in which the Synthetic Credit Portfolio would make money which, when averaged together with the scenarios in which it lost money, would result in an estimate that was relatively close to zero. He performed the requested analysis, however, and sent the results to the other trader in a series of written presentations over the course of the weekend. This work was the basis for a second-quarter loss estimate of -$150 million to +$250 million provided to senior Firm management.
There are contexts where you can say "well, our worst-case loss is $1bn, and our best-case gain is $950mm, so our expected loss is $50mmm," but telling your CEO what your worst-case loss might be is not one of them. Bad time to average.7
I'm gonna give the prize for worst measurement, though, to Ina Drew. Here is Felix Salmon:
Ina Drew, the person in charge of the portfolio, sent an email to JP Morgan's CEO and CFO, in which she observed that the move [after the stories came out] was "an eight-standard-deviation event".
The report doesn't say how many eight-sigma events the CIO has ever seen: my guess is that this is the only one. But here's an idea of how crazy eight-sigma events are: under a normal distribution, they're meant to happen with a probability of roughly one in 800 trillion. The universe, by contrast, is roughly 5 trillion days old: you could run the universe a hundred times, under a normal distribution, and still never see an eight-sigma event. If anything was a black swan, this was a black swan. And it didn't help JP Morgan's "tail risk book" one bit. Quite the opposite.
Both Felix and Ina are wrong here in important ways. First, Felix. The JPMorgan CIO book was billed internally (and externally) as a "tail risk book" but no one should interpret that as meaning "this makes money on the occurrence of every tail event." That is impossible. Things occur. The book won't make money if an asteroid hits the earth.8 A tail risk book isn't "this book will make money if the market moves against it" – that's impossible – it's "this book will make money if some specifically identified somewhat unlikely bad thing happens." The unlikely bad thing here was to some approximation "credit spreads blowing out"; the actual event that happened was "the CIO got correlations very wrong and then everyone ganged up on them." It's hard to hedge the risk of getting your hedge wrong.9
But second, Ina Drew bought into that same pseudo-methodology. You can't tell someone that a thing that just happened was an eight sigma event. It just happened. "We ran some numbers, and they showed that this was an eight sigma event, so the event is wrong." Nope. The numbers were wrong. Or: the numbers were right.10 Treating those numbers as a substitute for the thing was wrong.
As losses mounted, everyone figured this out:
These losses were inconsistent with the earlier loss estimates and prediction from one of the traders that the market would "mean revert," and they caused Messrs. Dimon, Braunstein and Hogan as well as Ms. Drew to question whether the Synthetic Credit Portfolio team adequately understood the Synthetic Credit Portfolio or had the ability to properly manage it.
I don't fully buy the popular position that no one could understand the Synthetic Credit Portfolio or properly manage it, but I'll cheerfully believe that no one could adequately understand it just by focusing on a few high-level numbers. Particularly when all of those numbers were massaged to tell those managers what they wanted to hear. That, in the end, is what undermines your credibility at JPMorgan.
Report of JPMorgan Chase & Co. Management Task Force Regarding 2012 CIO Losses [JPM]
1. This picture is just for pretend; don't take the lines too seriously. Consider, though, for instance:
- "Ms. Drew did not receive detailed trading or position reports on the Synthetic Credit Portfolio in the ordinary course, did not request any such reports during this time, and regularly monitored only the Synthetic Credit Portfolio's profits and losses, VaR and stress VaR." (page 32)
- "In the last week of December, Mr. Braunstein asked CIO to evaluate the impact of a further reduction of $20, $40 or $60 billion of RWA." (page 27)
- "On March 30, the executive responsible for the Synthetic Credit Portfolio requested assistance from Firm-wide Market Risk in understanding the relationship between their trading and RWA. … He also stated that he was no longer confident in his team's 'ability to achieve the targeted RWA and their understanding of the synthetic levers to achieve the RWA objectives.'" (page 45)
- Etc.
2. Page 128:
The Model Review Group employee discovered that West End defaulted to running Uniform Rate rather than Gaussian Copula in this cell, including for purposes of calculating the VaR, contrary to the language in the Model Review Group approval. Although this error did not have a significant effect on the VaR, the incident focused the reviewer's attention on the VaR model and ultimately led to the discovery of additional problems with it.
3. Pages 77-79:
Beginning in mid-January 2012, CIO breached its VaR limit on multiple days, which also contributed to breaches of the Firm's VaR limit. CIO explained to Mr. Hogan and Firm-wide Market Risk that the breaches were being addressed in two ways: (1) continued management of CIO's positions, and (2) implementation of a new, "improved" VaR model for CIO. … In an e-mail to Mr. Hogan on January 25, Mr. Goldman reported that the new model would be implemented by January 31 "at the latest" and that it would result in a "significant reduction" in the VaR. … There was no corresponding change made to the CIO Global 10-Q VaR limit at the time of the new model's implementation – i.e., it remained at $95 million. Following implementation of the new model, the CIO VaR fell below the limit, as expected.
4. Page 39:
On March 1, the day after the CIO Business Review, an executive with responsibility for the Synthetic Credit Portfolio e-mailed one of the traders to express concern that if the traders needed to "[a]ctually reduce the [Synthetic Credit Portfolio]" in order to decrease RWA, they would not be able to "defend" their positions. This e-mail appears to address the concern that an unwind of positions to reduce RWA would be in tension with "defending" the position. The executive therefore informed the trader (among other things) that CIO would have to "win on the methodology" in order to reduce RWA. This phrase refers to the traders' goal, described above, to convince the Firm that it should change the methodology of the model used to calculate RWA for the Synthetic Credit Portfolio.
5. And it was pretty systematic. Page 47:
At certain points throughout early 2012, the information the [junior] trader [who marked the CIO's book] was collecting from
the market indicated losses in the Synthetic Credit Portfolio. But on a number of days beginning in at least mid-March, at the direction of his manager, he assigned values to certain of the positions in the Synthetic Credit Portfolio that were more beneficial to CIO than the values being indicated by the market. The result was that CIO underreported the losses, both on a daily basis and on a year-to-date basis.
6. Pages 64-65. Note they settled on $400mm, why not.
7. Also enjoyable is that, during these discussions, this happened (fn. 76 on page 61):
The full text of the senior team member's e-mail stated that they must "prove the point [that everything's fine] today with as much ambiguity as poss[ible]." It is the Task Force's understanding that he meant to say "little" rather than "much."
Freud's understanding might differ.
8. Nor will it make money if the counterparties from whom JPMorgan bought protection defaulted on their trades. This is a thing that a lot of people spend a lot of time worrying about, and I found it sort of poignant to see JPMorgan worrying about it as the Whale story broke:
On April 11, Mr. Wilmot circulated to Messrs. Dimon, Braunstein and others a presentation on the Synthetic Credit Portfolio that addressed, among other things, notional exposure relative to various counterparties, maturities, certain positions and profit-and-loss scenarios, noting that it had been reviewed with Jes Staley, Mr. Braunstein, Ms. Drew, Mr. Zubrow and Mr. Hogan.
Of course in the end those counterparties made out like bandits and one of them hired Jes Staley.
9. Oversimplified! Nassim Taleb would not approve. It's easy to hedge the risk of getting your hedge wrong: make your hedge, and the thing it hedges, smaller! That's sort of the opposite of what CIO did; a number that they didn't pay much attention to was just notional, which ballooned throughout the life of this story.
10. Actually Ina was being a little conservative. If she believed her trader's estimate (page 60) that he was "80pct confident the pnl for q2 is going to range between -150m and 250m," then some simple fake-o math gives you an eight-sigma quarterly loss of $1.25bn, or an eight-sigma daily loss of $155mm. The actual one-day loss was like three times that. Twenty sigmas. Impossimable!
Comments (33)
Yay! Charts with animals! This is almost as good as chocolate frosted animal crackers!
Hey, if I could just say one thing. I've never met Matt, but I'm gunna say he was raised by whites.
Yea, and I'm Jerry Cougar Mellancamp
can anyone point to a good article on convexity?
Well, Jes Staley was one of the empty suits that Dimon was complaining about last week. He's the very definition of a Peter Principle manager worried about his rep instead of managing/fixing the business.
Guy's been failing upwards ever since he got pushed out of JPM Equities.
If you get in touch with Ms. Silverstein at Congregation Beth Sholom she may still have a copy of my Sunday school presentation on why Moses would have been better served by investing in a passive index fund rather than an actively managed fund during the 40 years he was all like "meh" in the desert. Assuming you get a copy of the deck skip to section three "Fixed Income" and you'll find a good summary of convexity there.
Sunday school at a synagogue?
Allow me to offer you this fine kosher bacon cheeseburger.
You may not.
Tell me how running two lines of business at JPM (asset managment and the IB), being in the running to lead JPM after Jamie signs off, getting approved by Barclay's Board to be their CEO (but having european regulators deny him), as well as becoming partner at a top HF qualifies as "failing upwards". Go on.
Matt – good work today, I suspect many a Wall Street manager will be lifting from your piece. But back to the opus you wrote for Silverstein – IIRC, was that the one where you argued there were only 5 Commandments, that the stone tablet Moses had in his left hand were the actual commandments while the tablet in his right hand were footnotes?
*by whales
They have it, it sucks.
Clearly you don't know what the fuck you're talking about. But hey, don't let that get you down…keep posting more. I don't see enough of your posts on this site and I really think you're a funny guy.
I just threw up in my mouth. The thought of Ina Drew, Voldemort, and modelling, all interwoven in Matt's graphic, brought me back to a very hairy evening in Tijuana years ago.
Continually moving up to bigger and better positions is the "upwards" part of failing upwards.
Two weeks…..
1. Happy to oblige.
2. Lighten up, Francis. -
Matthusalem, Mehtusalem; same diff, no diff.
Is that you Jes? I thought we talked about this type of protectionist behavior?
You fucking dont get what footnotes are for? is the executive editor on holiday?
I wanted to downvote this a second time so I opened the page in an incognito window. Turns out Disqus tracks votes by IP, not using cookies. Who knew?
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Breakfast Topic: Who do you want to kill? {WoW}
Jan 11th 2010 8:58PM @Possum & Fletcher
Repetition doesn't necessarily equal stagnation. In fact, repetition can often, in writing, if used correctly, to really bring out or reinforce ideas and motifs. Of course there's a line for how many times something should be repeated and it all depends on the situation and circumstances, but just because Grom fell from grace and redeemed himself doesn't mean that Garrosh following in his father's footsteps is necessarily a bad thing. As long as he doesn't exactly mirror his father's example - of course there would be some degree of variation. This whole supposition would tie in well with the fact that orcs tend to take great pride in their lineage. Besides, Garrosh in general is already a step backward for the orcs. Here's hoping that, as with Grom, he's taking one step back and two steps forward.
And Fletcher, I agree that Saurfang would be an excellent choice for warchief but I'm not so sure Blizzard would go through with it. Saurfang has always been a loyal adviser and (relatively) humble warrior. I'm not saying it's not possible and I'm not saying I don't like the idea, but something in my gut feeling says Saurfang will not become the new warchief. I do believe though, that either Garrosh's reign will be short, or he will relatively quickly turn himself around.
Someone mentioned it elsewhere, but I think Rexxar would make an amazing warchief, despite being only half-orc. I like the idea of someone who exiled themselves, and wandered aimlessly for a time before grabbing the reigns of their people and leading them - we saw the same thing with Tirion and the Argent Crusade. Again, I don't think this will happen, but it would certainly be awesome.
Breakfast Topic: Who do you want to kill? {WoW}
Jan 9th 2010 10:12PM Okay everyone, we get it. You want to kill Garrosh. Everyone does.
Just wait on him though. There has to be a reason Blizzard is garnering this much hate against him. They have plans for him - give credit where credit is due, Blizzard is damn good at spinning a story. I wouldn't be surprised to see him go the same way his father went - dying in an honorable battle while at the same time redeeming himself from his years of douchebaggery. Maybe to save Varian or Jaina? Hmmm? Who knows what could drive him to do that, it would all depend on sheer circumstance and the questlines leading up to that.
As for who I'd like to kill...how about something different? A member of the Pantheon? You know, the guys who sent Algalon the Observer to judge us, and initially deemed we were fit for destruction? Maybe we convinced Algalon that we were totally cool and should be allowed to live, but what might happen when he comes back into the celestial office and is like "Yeah, 10 or 25 mortals kicked my ass so I didn't really fill my planetary genocide quota this week. Azeroth is full of a bunch of hardasses." I would imagine that rather than accept Algalon's diagnosis, they'd probably either deem him weak or defunct and then either send another Observer to wipe us out, or show up themselves with their stompin' boots on. Hell, this could even lead to a situation in which Algalon sides with us and helps stand against his former master. Maybe his lended power is what allows us to defeat such an entity? I mean, sure, this situation would finally complete him as a clone of The Silver Surfer and all, but still. I love Algalon. I'd love to see him at our side.
This situation would be especially viable in Cataclysm considering the closeness of Deathwing to the Pantheon (he was created as Neltharion by Pantheon member Khaz'Goroth, shaper of the earth and is essentially a non-crippled Hephaestus - all of the dragon aspects were created by a member of the Pantheon). It's not hard to imagine how we could make the jump from Deathwing to his creators, especially when they catch wind that one of their creations made to guard Azeroth has been corrupted by the Old Gods, as had all of the Guardians in Ulduar).
Breakfast Topic: Who do you want to kill? {WoW}
Jan 9th 2010 9:54PM If you'd read Of Blood and Honor, I highly doubt you'd want to see Tirion killed. He's one of the most exemplary characters in Warcraft lore. He was an honored paladin of the Silver Hand, who lost everything; his family, his land, his title, and for a temporary time, his light-given powers, all over an oath he made to an orc (Eitrigg). His sense of honor is likely the strongest depicted among all humans in the game and all preceding lore.
His depiction in WotLK has been disappointing however; he seems too hellbent on vengeance against Arthas for some reason. Sure, everyone despises Arthas, but Tirion was content with living for decades under Kel'Thuzad's (and eventually, Arthas') nose, only defending himself against the undead when they were on his front porch. Suddenly he gets into a 2-minute scuffle with Arthas at Light's Hope and decides he's going to lead the charge and devote his entire being to defeating him? It feels kind of forced from a writing standpoint. They've missed every opportunity to see a reunion between Eitrigg and Tirion (the ToC raids would have been perfect for this). They've done little to display his sense of honor and tolerance among all races to give that sense of him to those who haven't read the book. This is also a minor gripe, but their choice of voice actor for him was poor as well - whoever does him is a good VA, but his voice definitely does not suit Tiron's character well at all.
Drama Mamas: Mismatched ambitions in the Dungeon Finder {WoW}
Dec 25th 2009 7:47PM I've really been enjoying these articles on the new LFG system and how, despite what a convenience it is, it can still be an occasional problem for some.
One thing I'd like to contribute, though, is that while overgeared players can often be whining brats, or aloof, they're not always the source of a group's problem. I don't mean failure when I say a group's problem - I mean a group's problem with conflicting personalities, or goals, or an exaggerated sense of failure (one wipe due to a simple mistake or in a hard instance does not mean everyone else in the group is an incompetent noob).
I play a Paladin, Retribution mainspec and Protection offspec. Both specs are relatively geared, my Ret set coming from being my guild's dedicated raiding Ret, and my Tank set coming completely from the new LFG system's generous amount of badge rewards and epics from the new 5-man's. The latter should tell you that I'm no stranger to Random Dungeons with random people.
Anyway, one particular instance sticks out in my mind, a Heroic Nexus run, in which our healer, a druid, asked if we could try for the achievement on the second boss - in which you have to kill all 3 of her illusions within 5 seconds of each other each time she splits. He insisted on doing it, as this was the last achievement he needed for a Red Proto-Drake. So we engaged the boss (I was lucky enough to dps for once this time through), and did our best to get this guy his achievement, even though most of us had already completed it. We even went so far as to wipe it up and run back when we didn't succeed the first time. The second time we came close, but didn't end up getting it (apparently if one of her illusions is dps'd down while channeling a spell, it'll sit at 1 hp until it finishes casting before it dies. This time lapse ended up ruining our attempt at the achievement). I apologized to our druid healer and was met only with silence. A few minutes later he managed to tell us, "Great. Now I have to wait another day."
As we pulled to Anomalus, I asked if we could do his achievement, Chaos Theory. The druid's only response was "no." I was a bit frustrated, but figured it's just a pug and it's not like I'm up for a red drake today, I can always come back and do it with some guildies when I get the chance. We finished the boss and continued to clear through the instance. The last straw for me, though, was when I looked over at our healer during the pulls to Ormorok as saw that he had respecced to Boomkin and was now dpsing. He would shift out in the event that our tank needed heals - but the point was, he was no longer interested in fulfilling the role he had signed up for in our group. In addition, I was having some trouble controlling my aggro (I was waiting a few seconds after the tank for each pull, and using Hand of Salvation when I could, but despite that if I crit too much on my first few attacks I'd often have aggro from at least one mob). Because of this, I was taking a few hits - our tank wasn't incredibly geared, but he was good and was quick on taunting back off of me whenever he could. So I'd be injured, but still alive. In many pulls before and after Ormorok, I'd get aggro and survive with maybe 10% health, and because our healer was busy screwing off in Moonkin form, I'd die to some easy-hitting trash AOE or another aggro. I died avoidable deaths in that instance because our healer was mad he didn't get his achievement.
At the end of the instance, he took his loot and dropped group immediately. No thanks or goodbyes. It may be worth noting that this player was not particularly well geared. Not that he wasn't capable to run Heroic Nexus, but the fact is, it was his attitude that ruined the run for the rest of us, not his gear.
My point is, many geared players are a problem. But often times, people can be a problem regardless of gear. People can decide to act vengeful or spiteful toward people with or without gear. Despite this point, I haven't been feeling a lot of love for us hardcore types, both in these articles and in the groups themselves, although I can't say it's undeserved. Many of us can be elitist or treat the game like it's another job, but still more of us see the game for what it is - just that, a game. I was hoping, if you were willing to continue this topic a bit more, that you'd be able to dispense some wisdom for skilled and/or geared players about what they can do to help their lesser-geared groupmates, what they can do to avoid being dramas mamas, and what casual and hardcore players alike can do to help break the barrier between them.
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Breakfast Topic: What kind of PuG are you? {WoW}
Dec 11th 2009 8:11PM I'm usually the one telling the bad jokes :D
But I'm also the Roflbution paladin who's trying to break the stereotype of useless Retardins. I dispel, I HoP when DPS pulls aggro, I rebuff any 10m blessings I had to use, I never keep up crusader aura, I top the meters of most groups I'm in (although now that I'm reading that Recount is bugged in cross-server dungeons I'm starting to doubt myself on that point).
But unfortunately, I'm also a ToGC geared DPS with a terrible knack for getting all of the mobs right on me by the time my "rotation" has reached Divine Storm, even when I'm holding back. My guild's tanks can barely hold off of me in 5-mans and they're much better geared than 99% of pugs I run with. So I end up also looking overzealous and unable to control my aggro, and I had to establish a pull-by-pull rotation of Hand of Salvation, Divine Shield, Hand of Protection, and Divine Protection just to keep myself alive and, as often as I can, away from the top of the threat meter.
First impressions: Icecrown Citadel raid and 5-mans {WoW}
Dec 11th 2009 7:34PM My guild has cleared everything available in 10 and 25-man ICC. If you can clear past Faction Champs and/or Twin Valkyr on ToGC25, you can easily do everything in ICC. Wipes are to be expected while everyone learns the fight firsthand, but we still managed to clear 25 in one night and 10 in the next.
I can confirm...Gunship battle is the most fun I've ever had playing this game.
Patch 3.3 known issues {WoW}
Dec 9th 2009 4:21AM Here's a good one for you.
My guild was one of the few lucky enough to get into ICC 25 (most other endgame guilds were locked out after the first boss or two; due to this we ended up getting server firsts on Gunship and Saurfang).
After Deathwhisper, in her room, there is a giant elevator that raises you up to the top of the citadel. There, you start the trash pulls toward gunship. The trash pulls come in the form of large NPC fights between horde and alliance of assorted classes. Well, before everyone had even gotten up the elevator, someone accidentally pulled and wiped the raid.
Okay, no biggie, we take our lumps and get back in. Might as well port back up there, right? (For those who haven't been inside yet, there is a portal function exactly like in Ulduar). Well, since the Alliance NPCs were still in combat with our friendly Horde NPCs, they never moved back to their original spots and were fighting right at the top of the elevator. What's more, they would automatically target anyone that came up there.
Doesn't sound so bad, right? Well, take into account the fact that, in order to avoid anyone exploiting the elevator, if your raid group is in combat with the opposing faction's npcs, they will randomly teleport you up the elevator. Not your whole group. One by one. Meaning, if you're running back from the wipe, and someone ports up to the room, they get everyone else in combat, then the trash mobs start ganking your raid 1 person at a time. We eventually got past it by having everyone jump on the elevator at once without anyone getting in combat, then zerging. We still almost wiped due to random teleports and evade bugging, but got them down and that was all we needed to progress. I highly doubt Blizz intended this.
Raid Rx: Cheater's guide to healing heroic Val'kyr Twins {WoW}
Dec 4th 2009 8:59PM I've seen one or two people mention it already, but you can indeed dps through the dark bubble if your raid knows exactly what to expect, and exactly what they need to do about it.
For this strat to work, you need to understand how the Twins' special abilities work (and you'll find that, if you ask around, a disturbingly low amount of people actually do). They have 4 abilities:
1. Light Vortex
2. Dark Vortex
3. Light Bubble -> Heal
4. Dark Bubble -> Heal
This is in no particular order. The twins choose which ability they will cast at RANDOM. However, there is 1 important rule to remember about which abilities they can choose from, which will allow you to predict which ability will come 4th with 100% accuracy: The Twins will cycle through all 4 abilities before ever repeating one. This means that, say, if they've used:
Dark Bubble, Dark Vortex, Light Bubble
We can say for sure that the 4th ability they use will be Light Vortex. Then ability #5 will be chosen again at random.
The idea behind the 'luck' strategy is to save 2 different sets of cooldowns for 2 specific abilities:
Offensive cooldowns for Dark Bubble
Defensive cooldowns for Light Vortex.
Obviously, as Matt said, do what you can to survive and keep everyone else alive during Light Vortex. DPSing the Dark Bubble isn't easy, but it certainly can be done. The idea is to have everyone watching DBM, or at least have your raid leader call it out on vent if you abide people who do not have the addon. At 3-5 seconds before a new special ability, have everyone switch from Lightbane to Darkbane in case she begins to heal. Save Bloodlust for this. If Darkbane does not bubble herself, switch back to Lightbane, resume DPS, and handle the other ability accordingly. If Darkbane bubbles herself, blow Bloodlust/Heroism, every personal cooldown you have, haste potions, wild magic potions...everything you can possibly do to stop that heal from casting. Yes, she will take reduced damage when everyone is in Dark Essence, but if everyone uses everything they have, you can break that bubble. It also helps to have 2-3 melee dps that know what they're doing to stay in Light Essence for the whole fight and stick only on Darkbane. They will have to pay extra attention as they'll serve 2 purposes: Extra DPS on the shield, and backup orb soakers, in case any slip by the ranged soakers. They will also have to dodge a lot of incoming Dark Orbs in order to stay alive and in order to keep feeding the main group orb stacks. When the shield does go off, they need to blow their cooldowns as well, and they will often push the interrupt over the top. If everyone is pre-dpsing and bloodlust and personal cooldowns and pots are all saved for that very moment, you will break that shield and interrupt that heal.
I played the role of one of the Light Essence melee, and it worked beautifully. There were a few flukes but once everyone could reliably and preemptively switch over to Darkbane it was a clean kill (our healers did an amazing job of keeping everyone alive through Light Vortex).
One more thing worth mentioning, if Dark Bubble is your first ability, you may want to just not bother with it at all and just let it happen. If your dps is really good the lowest you're going to have them at that point is probably about 80% or so, so just let them heal to full and be content knowing that you won't have to deal with Dark Bubble again for at least another 3 abilities. That's what happened on our first kill: First ability was bubble, they healed 85% to full, we resumed DPS. Then we got Dark Bubble again as our 5th ability, we busted through that just fine with Bloodlust, and we got the kill. Grats to our warrior who got heroic Death's Choice :D (Lucky so-and-so *grumble grumble*)
Phat Loot Phriday: Sharpened Obsidian Edged Blade {WoW}
Dec 4th 2009 8:15PM This is a great sword, even for dps, providing you need all that expertise.
Remember kids, the expertise "cap" for dps is 26, or -6.5% chance to dodge/parry. This completely removes a regular boss's chance to dodge from behind, and while it takes a whole lot more to remove parry, we don't have to worry about parry at all. The expertise rating on the 25-man version of this sword is worth a whopping 12.56 flat expertise, so even if you've collected only a little bit of expertise gear (or even none at all) you're already almost halfway to your cap.
I was dying to get this on my main (retribution paladin) for a long time, but Onyxia apparently hates me with all of her soul, and hasn't dropped this or the 10-man version for me despite having run both versions every week since the encounter was updated. I actually got my Best-In-Slot Axe off of heroic 25 Faction Champs, upgraded from a 232 Edge of Agony, before I ever saw this drop. I still haven't seen an OEB drop.
Ret Pallies, remember that you get get a whopping 10 flat expertise through your Glyph of Vengeance. I'm still not expertise capped without this glyph active, meaning I'm only expertise capped when using Seal of Corruption. Although this glyph can certainly help out and make gearing more convenient, it's always better to be expertise capped through gear alone, as that lets us still stay capped during fights that require Seal of Command (trash, phase 2 on onyxia, phase 1 on Northrend Beasts [depending on your guild's strategy], TOC Anub'Arak, etc). Either version of the Obsidian Edged Blade can go a long way to ensure that we stay at that cap.


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July 27, 2009, 10:00 AM
By Senator Jacob Javits
By 1975, we will see the fruits of true, equal educational opportunities in our country. The Ralph Bunche, Jrs. and Jackie Robinson, Jrs. will at least have the hope of achieving greatness on their merits without consideration of color. And the generation that follows them, the Negro children born twenty years from now, will be able to compete as equals with their fellow Americans.
Within relatively few years we should also see a marked increase in the number of Negro Representatives in the Congress. Spurred on by the passage of last year's civil-rights bill, leaders of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People have launched a drive to practically triple Negro registration in the South and put it on a par with the present 60 per cent registration among eligible white voters. Their immediate goal is the election of three Negro Congressmen from Mississippi and one each from North Carolina and South Carolina by 1960. I believe that the total number of Negroes in Congress (four in 1958) will start to reflect their population share of 10 per cent and that between thirty and forty qualified Negroes will be elected Representatives at the opening of the 106th Congress, second session, in the year 2000.8
In addition, Negro leaders have told me privately that they feel it will be possible to name a Negro to the U.S. Supreme Court Bench9 in about ten years, and that at the same time we may have the first Negro since Reconstruction days sitting in the U.S. Senate.
It will be noted that in no case are we talking about more than a fair share based on merit and equal opportunity for 10 per cent of the population.
The extent to which Negroes are barred at the polls in the South is enlightening in that it shows the potential vote there, once the racial bar is lifted. In Alabama, for example, in six counties of the state, with a total of 33,179 potential Negro voters, not one Negro was registered in 1956. Local discriminatory legislation further cuts down the number of Negroes actually voting. In Mississippi, there were 22,000 Negroes registered in 1954. But even this small total was cut because only 8,000 of this number had paid the poll tax; in the 1956 gubernatorial primary approximately 7,000 actually voted. Poll taxes are still required in five states: Alabama, Arkansas, Mississippi, Texas and Virginia.
The question of electing Negroes to high office raises the touchy issue of whether the achievement of full civil rights for minority groups will lead members of that group themselves to discriminate against others. In other words, will Negroes vote for a Negro candidate just because he is a Negro and for no other reason?
The best answer I know is that in my entire career in public life, I have found members of minority groups particularly scrupulous in judging candidates on their merits. We would be doing the majority of Negroes a disservice to intimate they would be prompted to vote on racial lines.
History bears out this confidence in the citizenship quality of minority groups. During Reconstruction, when negroes, by voting on racial lines, could have overwhelmed white candidates in the South, they did not. An estimate made by the U.S. Senate said that in 1868, there were 703,500 Negro voters in the South as compared to 660,200 whites. In South Carolina, Alabama, Florida, Mississippi and Louisiana, the number of registered Negro voters far exceeded the whites. Yet the newly enfranchised Negroes did not vote only for Negroes, even in those tempestuous days. In the Constitutional conventions called under the Reconstruction Act of 1867, Negro delegates constituted a majority only in South Carolina. Louisiana was evenly divided by agreement. In the other states, whites controlled by majorities of from sixty to ninety per cent.
An interesting sidelight on the Reconstruction era is that while it has been maligned as a dark period in Southern history, the fact is that many liberal trends and reforms developed. The new governments organized in the South not only eliminated slave codes, but also established public-school systems, proposed land reforms and sought minimum-wage legislation. The concept of Federal aid to education was introduced by Reconstruction legislation.
Nor were the "carpetbaggers" universally opportunists and crooks. Some were high-principled Northerners honestly seeking to aid the South. But the dishonest ones, to quote a contemporary historian, "gave the South a bad name while Boss Tweed had his serpent grip on New York City and squeezed out more millions than were stolen in the entire South."
Basically, voting on racial or religious lines was the issue raised when New York's outstanding Governor and legislator, Alfred E. Smith, sought the presidential nomination in 1920, 1924, and 1928. Would a majority of Protestant Americans vote for a Catholic candidate? In 1928, the Democratic party gave Smith the nomination and he suffered a smashing defeat in terms of electoral vote: Hoover-444; Smith-87. He lost the traditionally Democratic states of Texas and North Carolina.
8. Thirty-six African-Americans were elected to the 106th Congress.
9. In 1967, nine years after this article was written, Thurgood Marshall became the first African-American Supreme Court justice.
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We just finished a small kitchen remodel and I was going to put up a metal bookshelf/potrack. I asked our GC if he could mark the studs on the wall so that when I decided on a rack, I could mount it myself.
He said "oh no that wall is all lathe and plaster. You can't find a stud in there." At the time I didn't question him and just thought I would do a small bar to hang utensils on. But now I really want this bookshelf/potrack. Is there anyway I can mount something this heavy? What did he mean I can't find the studs? Are there no studs or are they just hard to find? Any advice appreciated. |
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I'm not sure why your general contractor told you that there were no studs behind the lath and plaster wall, but I would be inclined not to ask him any more questions. There have to be studs back in there, lath and plaster is not structural. You can find them with a stud-finder device(electronic), or you can drill holes. They should be on 16 inch centers. |
Probably didn't want to be bothered I'd guess. Thank you for a more reasonable answer. |
Most of the stud finders are pretty poor at lath and plaster walls. The addition of metal mesh at inside and outside corners does not help much. You can try measuring on 16 inch centers from the nearest corner, but stud spacing was often not very even when lath and plaster walls were used. I usually measure and then drill 1/8 inch holes using a small carbide tipped masonry bit to find the actual studs and edges. The holes are easily repaired with spackle and you can be pretty sure you have found the studs. If you zigzag the holes up and down about 1 inch as you move sideways it weakens the plaster less than a straight line of tightly spaced holes. |
Thanks brickeyee. I will try the stud finder 1st and if that doesn't work I will go to town with the drill. I really want that potrack. I love GW. Here I have 2 very thorough answers for free, while the guy who is getting all my life savings is no help at all. |
- Posted by sombreuil_mongrel (My Page) on Tue, Mar 28, 06 at 0:22
Hi, Depending on the weight of the cookware and the structural integrity of the plaster, you may get by with a wall anchor of some kind. Like a molly, so-called. If your home is of mid-century vintage, and has wire lath and hard cement plaster, essentially interior stucco, you are in business. OTOH, If it's 200 year old horsehair and clay over lath which has the nails pulling loose, you'd better find those studs. In my case, the older part of my house has the stud cavities filled with brick (nogging), interior heart pine sheathing (horizontal 1x12's) and finally lath & plaster. So I can screw into any part of those walls and find anchorage. Casey |
- Posted by breakeroff (My Page) on Tue, Apr 11, 06 at 18:32
I haven't done it, but I have also heard of people hammering very thin (but long) finish nails to probe the walls for studs. It could be tricky though because if you hit lath you might be fooled into thinking it's a stud. Just knock the house down and start over! :) |
i've found the best way to locate studs in my lathe & plaster house is to use two stud detectors. different companies stud detectors work slightly differently, so you can confirm the location before you go drilling/hammering. Make sure that you move the stud detector perfectly horizontally for best results. If you move up/down it'll detect the lathe. If you move left/right it'll see through the lathe to the studs. I've got a +98% success rate doing it this way. |
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The photos above show my gloves at various stages of the construction. I like to recommend that you avoid inflexible or heavy stitch holders during construction; it makes it more difficult to assess fit when trying on a partially completed glove. Stitches are less likely to pull or elongate using waste yarn as a holder. Choose a smooth yarn of the same or of a lighter weight to use. I use several different colours of markers to keep track of the start of round, the thumb gusset and any stitch pattern sections.
As it is not always possible to measure the recipient, glove pattern sources like Ann Budd's book "The Knitters Handy Book of Patterns" are recommended. This book includes five gauges and seven sizes for knitters to work from.
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The above quote pretty much summed up the entire cast of characters of New Girl -- especially during this episode, which saw yet more heartening-yet-horrifying Cece-Schmidt weirdness, more Nick pretending college girls satisfied him, and more Jess attempting to handle adult responsibilities. In this case, the "adult responsibilities" came in the form of Russell's teenage daughter, who was -- not unlike myself -- a ginger who must be stopped. To her credit, she did manage to single out the acting philosophy of this show: "It's like Gossip Girl, only everyone is old and poor."
Long story short, Jess met Russell's ex (Jeanne Tripplehorn), who was in the habit of referring to Russell as her "husband" and thus blurring the already unclear divorced-versus-not-divorced status of their relationship. It was all so Jess could take care of Russell's daughter Sarah for the weekend. (Apparently when both parents are unavailable the girlfriend of a few weeks is the de facto guardian?) Despite Nick's attempt to leverage his "I hang out with underage girls who know about Banksy" coolness, Sarah deemed Nick's eyes "so brown -- like poop." In fact, it was just a complex teenage ruse to hide Sarah's crush on Nick, who was busy dating "mature and interesting" girls named Chloe. Even as Jess insisted Nick was "dirty and weird," Sarah wouldn't be placated.
Another someone who wouldn't be placated? Cece. She was freaking out that she might be knocked up, especially considering how birth control in Schmidt's world was "like one of those plastic barbecue covers in a hurricane." As Jess tried to calm Cece, Schmidt mistakenly thought they were conspiring to make Jess the third vertex of their love triangle. Father material, folks! In fact, they were pondering the ridiculosity of a Baby Schmidt. Jess and Cece's vision: "Would he be, like, nursing 24 hours a day?" Schmidt's version: "I was break dancing at 8 months old. They say that I needed a magnum-size diaper." I don't even know what that means -- except... gross.
Even without knowing Cece might be with child, Schmidt sensed a tonal shift and offered to take Cece on a proper date. And by "proper," I mean Italy on Ice ("Drea de Matteo is scheduled to appear, but they're not liable if she doesn't"). This only served to stress out Cece more. She urged Schmidt to invite another girl to enjoy Schmidt's pappacorn -- that's "popcorn" in Italian. Natch, he fake-called Nick -- Nickole, if you're nasty. Choice lines: "You takin' care of that tushy for me?" Nick: "I'm not doing squats if anything... I'm trying to eat less donuts."
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