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Behind 'The Iksil Trade' - IG9 Tranches Explained
Via Peter Tchir of TF Market Advisors,
There is a lot of talk about IG9 these days. I think the story has a lot more to do with tranches than with outright selling of the index.
IG9 10 year is a 125 name, equally weighted CDS index that matures on December 20, 2017.
The index has had 4 defaults, Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, Wamu, and CIT. The recoveries were high for all 4 of them. I am told the total cumulative loss from these 4 Credit Events was 0.6%. We will use that number for simplicity.
IG9 is the last CDX index that had an active tranche market. It was the "on the run" index at the time of Lehman, and since then, the synthetic CDO business has never truly recovered and IG9 has remained the benchmark for synthetic CDO's and tranches. [largely legacy positions, but probably a warning sign to regulators, that although the real market has moved on to IG1a, the model driven market remains stuck managing massive books of trades and hedges, based on an index that was created 5 years ago]
So what was once a 3%-7% tranche is now roughly a 2.4% - 6.4% tranche.
So if you sell protection on this tranche, you need further cumulative defaults of 2.4% before you make any payments, and then you make payments until 6.4% of the notional has had losses. If there is a 0% recovery on each default, you could have 3 defaults before having to make any payment (each name is 1/125 or 0.8%). If recovery was 40% then you have no payments until the 6th default.
We will come back to look at the names and assess how likely that is.
The big question is, what do you get paid on this tranche? 20 points up-front and 500 bps running. So if you sell $1 billion of this tranche, you receive $200 million up front and $50 million per annum. In a relatively tight credit spread environment, this is a lot of money. If you use the upfront payment to "defease" losses, the $1 billion of exposure has a maximum loss of $800 million, and would require 4 defaults at 0% recovery before actually having a loss, and more realistically, would only take a loss on the 8th default with a 40% recovery. Suddenly the trade seems less scary, as least to me.
But how do people come up with a number of a "100 billion"? That comes down to "deltas". The delta on this tranche is about 7.5 times. So if someone wanted to take this risk, without delta (just sell the tranche and not have a "correlation" bet), every $1 billion would create $7.5 billion of index trading.
You could sell this "no delta" and the buyer would pay you for the tranche, but then have to go and sell 7.5 times that amount of index out to the market so they could manage their "correlation" risk – a giant model based book. Some dealers are very good at tranches, but are weak at trading the underlying index. In those cases, you might sell the tranche "with delta" and sell the index position yourself because you can get better execution that way. So you sell the tranche and buy 7.5 times the index from the correlation desk (the with delta trade). Then you sell the straight index into the market. It would explain why you are seen as a seller of index when the real trade is actually being a seller of the tranche.
So who knows what exactly is going on, but I think selling tranches without delta explains far more than just selling the index.
The risk/reward of selling the tranches is very interesting and fits a bank potentially well
- No payments until several more defaults – so you are senior
- The big up-front payment covers at least one more default
- The spread is the same as you earn on CDS that references junk bonds
- Your exposure is capped, your tranche may model up as "7.5 times" that amount of index, but you have a capped exposure, much smaller than that
So what names or companies are you exposed to.
Of the 121 names, there are two "weird" ones that no longer have any debt. Countrywide, and IAC/InterActiveCorp. Countrywide, for all its problems, has no debt and was fully guaranteed by BAC.
The most dangerous names are: Radian, MBIA, Spint, I-Star, and RR Donnelley. These are the only names that trade with a spread above 500 running. So of the 121 names, only 5 names trade wider than the 500 running that is earned on the tranche. These are the prime default candidates. If you had a 40% recovery on average, and all 5 names defaulted, the seller of the tranche would not yet have lost money. Radian and MBIA are the most likely to default, based on spread, and even those don't trade at levels of imminent default.
After these 5 names, you wind up with ILFC, Jones, Liz Clairborne, JC Penney, as the only names trading about 400 bps in CDS. Levels that are a far cry from default.
Look at the names, but this risk in tranche format is far more interesting, in my opinion, rather than just selling the index. Selling the index outright in $75 billion would expose you to each and every name, have losses on day 1.
Why might the trade make sense? or what could it be hedging?
- Loan demand is down as corporations rely on the bond markets and this may be a more attractive way for JPM to maintain net interest margins in their corporate business, rather than buying bonds in the secondary market
- Jamie Dimon is very public that he thinks we are near the bottom of the housing market and "all signs are green" so putting on investment grade corporate risk makes perfect sense
- They may be short high yield, they are starting to dominate the new issue market, so they may have shorts on that, and it may not be co-incidental that they are going long a product that pays 500 bps running, which would cover the cost of HY shorts, which also pay 500 running in CDS, and may even explain why HY CDS spreads have been "decompressing" in what has generally been a good environment for credit
- Choosing tranches and derivatives as a way to take exposure may be a direct result of the latest stress tests from the Fed, it is possible that those stress tests force banks to take risk in non-traditional formats to minimize the impact of stress tests
In the end, it is all speculation, what, if any trade they have on, but I think this explanation is far less scary, and in fact should encourage holders of JPM that their bank is well positioned to take advantage of opportunities they see in the market and potentially remain a step ahead of the competition.
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"Behind 'The Iksil Trade' - IG9 Tranches Explained"
After scanning this article, the headline struck me as more than a little Orwellian.
Anybody else feel that? Do the guys who designed these Frankenstein monsters even understand how they work, and what the risks really are?
Holy fuck.
Any problems, and we'll just give the tranche a sed-a-give.
They understand how they work all too well. They deliver maximum profits then when they imoplode they get pawned of on some poor unsuspecting dupe, usually the U.S. taxpayer.
My interest is in why this hit the news in the first place. If I understand correctly these positions are fairly opaque so how did this become common knowledge? Some assistant leaked it to the National Inquirer? Hardly. More likely it was planted by JPM for some manipulation of perceptions, maybe to plant an angst producing story, have the S&P hit the 50dma (0.1% away right now), story gets explained away and the all clear whistle goes off and all the little bears lose their shorts. Then again I can come up with a conspiracy explaination for why the Easter Bunny scatters eggs around each year.
Does yer "explaination" involve alien lizard eggs? :>D
The story was broken by the good old folks over at Bloomberg who were tipped off by some hedgies the other side of the trade.. They took it because they thought JPM distorted the price and thus want to profit when it gets unwound.. My guess is they finally realized they were gonna lose some money on it and are trying to pull out all stops against JPM. Throw a TBTF comment or two in there, and you have some politicians scaring the crap out of (read not giving two shits) Jamie fucking Dimon... Oh and fyi, the easter bunny lays eggs for poor unsuspecting kids to fund rocket launchers used in WW2... Lucky kids..
So this is bullish for Apple?
Peter - amazing breakdown of a very complex product. Well done and thanks.
'defease'? That's a word??
Dimon thinks we are near the housing bottom? He is either a fool or a liar or needs to get out of Manhattan more often.
Well he is a banker so my guess he is a liar.
glad to know JPM's out there making money. for a moment I thought the tranche was Ice9 of Vonnegut fame, and I was worried. And for sure, I appreciate this insider's view from Peter Tchir explaining some of the many possible trades underlying the headline news. Deep waters indeed. Come to think of it, just ripe for a little Ice Nine.
Isn't the bigger question, "why do we all have to be digging so hard for the truth about this deal?". JPM is a public company. I would bet that over 90% of the people on this blog own shares of JPM, either directly or though funds, retirement plans, etc. which they participate in.
Feeling' a bit like a coordinated p/r campaign designed to usher in Volcker.
the land market hasn't bottomed out yet.
HERE - the full dirt on Dimon, Iksil, the Fed, UBS, the London LIFE Exchange, Marc (Mossad) Rich and Glencore:
P.S. We can also divulge that it was Bruno Iksil using JPMorgan's custodial account that received the $1.8 BILLION in laundered MF Global customer segregated accounts that was used to meet a margin call created by Bruno Iksil and Jamie Dimon.
P.P.S. We can now also reveal that JPMorgan, Morgan Stanley and the aforementioned terrorist banks are involved in the illegal electronic rerouting of trades made by their customers (including hedge funds) with the use of unregistered email addresses tied to Global Solutions Management and JPMorgan's custodial account, both headquartered in London, England.


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Overnight Ramp Driven By Higher EURUSD On Plethora Of Negative European News
A peculiar trading session, in which the usual overnight futures levitation has not been led by the BOJ-inspired USDJPY rise (even as the Nikkei225 rose another 0.6% more than offset by the Shanghai Composite drop of 0.86%), which actually has slid all session briefly dipping under 99 moments ago, but by the EURUSD, which saw a bout of buying around 5 am Eastern, just after news hit that the UK would avoid a triple dip recession with Q1 GDP rising 0.3% versus expectations of a 0.1% rise, up from a -0.3% in Q4 (more in Goldman note below). Since the news that the BOE will likely delay engaging in more QE (just in time for the arrival of Carney) is hardly EUR positive we look at the other news hitting around that time, such as Finland saying that the euro can survive in Cyprus exits the Eurozone, and that Merkel has rejected standardized bank guarantees for the foreseeable future, and we are left scratching our heads what is the reason for the brief burst in the Euro.
Said scratching only gets stronger once we learned that Italy's left-wing Vendola, a former Bersani ally, and president of Apulia, said his party would not support a Letta coalition government, even as Berlusconi himself - the key support of a new government - said parliament backing for a new coalition is not granted, and that it is not important who leads the government but programs that are key, a development which is hardly stability positive.
The scratching gets even stronger once we consider that Spain just announced Q1 unemployment which rose to an even record-er high of 27.2%, up from 26.02%, and "beating" estimates of a 26.5% increase. This too does not strike us as very euro positive.
Finally, the scratching concludes in frustration, following the rise of Spanish and Italian 10 Year yields wider by 10 bps, which most certainly can not explain the move higher in the EURUSD, whose only purpose, we are left to conclude, is to ramp US futures as high as possible on today's disconnect from reality, and that today the DE Shaw ES-trading algos will be following EURUSD signals, while the USDJPY will be off.
Finally, gold is back, baby, and was trading just why of $1450 at last check, $125 higher than the recent "shock and awe" plunge lows.
Various other highlights, in bulletin format courtesy of Bloomberg:
- Japan investors are net sellers of overseas debt a sixth straight week through April 19, MOF data shows today, the longest streak since Jan. 2010.
- Central banks, guardians of the world's $11t in forex reserves, are buying stocks in record amounts as falling bond yields push even risk-averse investors toward equities
- Spanish unemployment rose to 27.2%, more than forecast, the highest in at least 37 years
- Silvio Berlusconi, the three-time prime minister and two-time convicted lawbreaker, won a path back to power in Italy by outmaneuvering rivals during an eight-week political stalemate
- The yuan climbed to a 19-year high as the central bank set a record reference rate amid growing usage of the currency for worldwide trade and investment
- BofAML Corporate Master Index OAS holds at 147bps; $16.55b priced yesterday. Markit IG narrows to 80bps from 81bps, YTD low 78bps. High Yield Master II OAS narrows to 466 from 471bps; $600m priced yesterday. CDX High Yield rises to 104.89 from 104.73
- Global sovereign yields mostly higher, led by U.K. and Italy; EU sovereign spreads to Germany widen
- Nikkei +0.6%; other Asian stock markets mixed, with Shanghai down 0.9%. European equity markets decline U.S. index futures gain. Energy futures, gold, copper gain
For those curious, here is Goldman's take on the UK's last minute "triple-dip" evasion.
Bottom line: According to the ONS's preliminary estimate, UK GDP rose 0.3% qoq (+0.6% yoy, +1.2% qoq annl.), stronger than consensus expectation of a lower rise (Cons:+0.1% qoq, GS:+0.2% qoq). This was primarily driven by strong services sector output, which rose 0.6% qoq and contributed +0.47ppt to qoq growth.
1. The Q1 GDP reading of +0.3% qoq was 0.2ppt above the consensus estimate of a +0.1% qoq rise, and 0.1ppt above our forecast of +0.2% qoq growth. The estimates of economists surveyed by Bloomberg ranged from -0.3% qoq to +0.3% qoq, which reflects the significant uncertainty over the preliminary estimate of GDP. The ONS noted that the preliminary estimate is based on around 44% of the total information that will compromise the final output based GDP data. Consistent with this, the average absolute revision to the preliminary GDP estimate in the ten years to 2010 was +/-0.43ppts.
2. The sectoral breakdown shows a +0.6% qoq rise in services output, which contributed +0.47ppt to qoq growth (Table 1). This was offset slightly by a 2.5% qoq fall in construction output, which reduced headline growth by 0.17ppts. Production rose 0.2% qoq, contributing +0.03ppt to growth. Within this figure, mining and quarrying rose 3.2% qoq, as the maintenance which reduced oil and gas output in Q4 was reversed. Agricultural output fell 3.7% qoq, contributing -0.02ppt to qoq growth.
3. The ONS noted that the snowfall and cold weather during Q1 appears to have had a limited impact on growth. While retail sales in January and March seem to have been negatively affected, this was offset by higher demand for electricity and gas during February and March.
4. As part of the preliminary estimate, the ONS estimates industrial production and service sector output for March using early survey responses. The ONS estimates that industrial production rose 0.3% qoq in March, while service sector output edged up 0.1% qoq.
5. There were minimal revisions to previous quarters. The most notable was an upward revision of Q4 2011 from -0.3% qoq to -0.1% qoq. In time we expect further upward revisions to GDP growth such that the 'double dip' seen between Q4 2011 and Q2 2012 is revised away (Q1 2012 GDP growth is currently estimated at -0.07% qoq).
DB's Jim Reid recaps the balance of news:
We've been discussing how the artificially low default world (a theme of last week's annual default study) looks set to be re-inforced by Japanese QE. Global fixed income has just got a new and large marginal buyer and one which may actually force other regions to either commence QE (Europe at some point in the medium-term future?) or continue with it for longer. Indeed we think that if and when the FED do stop QE it may actually lead to a sharper appreciation of the Dollar which may not be welcome and thus might increase the chance of QE returning again in the US. So we feel that Japan has likely extended the life of Global QE (via a slow currency war) rather than accelerated its demise. For credit this means the technicals are likely to remain strong and defaults stay lower for longer. On the negative side this continues to interfere with the creative destruction forces that tend to be good for longer-term growth and instead locks in a sub-optimum allocation of resources in many developed economies. So lower defaults but lower trend growth. Its not a survival of the fittest world.
Right back to markets it was more of the same for European equities (DAX +1.32%, IBEX +1.21%) as hopes of an ECB easing continue to build along with further data weakness. Yesterday's disappointing German IFO surveys, which dovetails the PMI weakness the day before, added further support to this theme. Recent negative readings for Germany are difficult to ignore and our European economists are now calling for a 25bps rate cut by the ECB next week (2nd May).
The Q1 Euro area Bank Lending Survey noted modestly improved lending standards (although demand for credit remains low), which led our European economists to think that a rate cut might be more appropriate than a new unconventional policy at this point.
The data flow on the other side of the Atlantic was also far from being spectacular. Durable goods orders in March were disappointing, with the headline reading falling more than expected (-5.7% v -3.0%). Ex-transports and the core reading also came below market consensus. The effects of sequestration is starting to be felt with new orders for defence goods down 29.3% in March, leaving the nominal defence spending amount at its lowest level since January 2006. For markets the price action in equities was uninspiring. The S&P 500 closed the day virtually where it started (at 1579) although we note that Gold is catching a bid after the woeful sell-off last week. The precious metal is now up 9% from the recent intraday lows of $1322/oz. Gold coin sales by the US Mint are reportedly at a 3- year high as the recent price moves have sparked an interest in physical holdings.
At the micro level, 48 S&P 500 companies reported yesterday with 36 of them beating EPS expectations. Top line performance remains sluggish at best with only half of those beating estimates. So the broad theme of top line underperformance in the US remains. European numbers were much worse yesterday as revenue and EPS beat:miss ratios were very weak at 36%:64% and 46%:54%, respectively.
Overnight we are seeing Asian equity markets generally in the green across the region, except for China. The Nikkei, KOSPI and the Hang Seng are up +0.3%, +0.5% and +0.6% as we type. Korea's GDP came in better-than expected which is perhaps adding some support. The Shanghai Composite (-0.4%) is led lower by banks and developers. Taiwan yesterday confirmed its first H7N9 Avian flu infection. In credit markets, Korea sovereign CDS has recovered from its recent widening and is now back to flat against China's sovereign at 73bp for the 5-year.
The UST 10-year is holding steady overnight at 1.706%. In fact yields have barely budged this week despite a 1.5% rally in the S&P 500.
Back to Europe, the center-left politician Enrico Letta was nominated by the President to be Italy's next prime minister. Letta said he would start talks to form a broad-based coalition on today and it is likely to go to parliament for a vote of confidence by early next week. Reuters noted that the PM designate is expected to select a group of ministers, likely to be a mixture of politicians and technocrats. The new government will be backed primarily by Letta's center-left and the centerright PDL party led by Berlusconi.
Away from Italy, Fitch yesterday downgraded Bank of England's credit rating to AA+/Stable from AAA. This follows on from its downgrade of the sovereign rating last week.
Indeed today's Q1 UK GDP will be a notable release in Europe. Bloomberg poll is suggesting a +0.1%/+0.4% qoq/yoy rise versus -0.3%/+0.2% in the previous quarter. Spanish unemployment number for Q1 is also due today and the market is expecting a further nudge up to 26.50% from 26.02% in Q4 last year. In the US, initial jobless claims will be the key print to watch. Reporting wise we have 59 S&P 500 and 29 Stoxx600 companies lined up today.
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ok, time for a rant: "...even as Berlusconi himself - the key support of a new government - said parliament backing for a new coalition is not granted, and that it is not important who leads the government but programs that are key, a development which is hardly stability positive"
programs are key. something that should be applauded, particularly when Italians say that. but markets in general don't really ever applaud to democracy and civic virtue - which leads me to remember everybody that unrestricted market power favours tyranny and machines over human political squabbles and discussions
It's so bloody brilliant.....wake the Duchess.....she'll want to see this.
it will not last...1.55high
Try not to scratch the head too much ZH, what with all weirdness out there you will sustain a very large scratch granuloma if you don't watch out
DAX to only turn pretty if 7885 is reached. Some support at 7700 and 7665. Watch that E-STOXX, lads.
Scratch no more. Banksters have lost control. They're going in for the kill.
Bernanke fell asleep with his finger on the zero buttion. Huston we have a lift off.
when do we get the live cam at the options exchange of people standing in line for delivery?
You can do that?
Kyle Bass alert
He is selling? Or did he quit? He said he'd quit right?
"Our idea was to buy and hold gold, and when the world's central banks begin tightening, we'll sell," Zimmerman said."The price of gold has traded off, but the world's central banks haven't started tightening."
Well.....that's fairly clear. So when do the central banks mass suicides commence?
so the endowment Kyle Bass manages sold physical gold while the rest of the world is scrambling for physical gold....
everyday i think my mind can't be blown more it happens again
Everybody knows that bad news is good news because central bankers just HAVE to print more money!
Who needs an economy? Who needs reality? We have PRINTED prosperity now!
I have no doubt that years from now, today's stock market will be used in college textbooks as a case study in classic bubble behavior! We are being lulled away to a carnal security, and thus led carefully down to hell!
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Not real sure how to put this...
If the USD burns, then would that not leave the TB's in a jam and rates INCREASE, and Gold would also debase?
I would think what is going to happen is ALL currencies would tank, therefore, Gold and all commodities priced in a currency would follow suit and tank. The difference is Gold would at least have some value, and currency would be completely worthless. All paper investments would trend to zero, in that case. Lastly, the world would become barter town. Problem being how do you value the PM's henceforth? In other commodities?
When the SHTF, it will be skills and real things (water, food, nails, hammers, booze, tobacco, etc) that would have the ultimate value, no?
Reason I say this, and it may be simplistic, as I am no high financier, but once the currency burns, there will be worldwide panic/chaos, and the govts will have no power to institue a 'replacement' currency, as they will be fighting for their very lives, so will we. It wont be until the chaos dies down, how long that will take is anyone's guess, for some rule to go into effect. My guess is currency based on LAND??? After all land is the most productive resource, along with water...so land with water will be the highest premium, which brings me to Agenda 21...NDAA, etc...strip rights and guns first, then the PTB can just TAKE OVER. Fuedalsim all over again, and the darkest of ages, as so many skills have been lost since the industrial revolution came about. Manual skills, growing skills, LIFE SKILLS...sans a select few who practice it now!
Just my two common cents is all...out! Please let me know what you think, inquiring minds would like to know. And would it not be different that USD is reserve currency and we have millions of guns and some freedoms left?
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Since you asked for it, I'll let you know what I think: Gold and commodities are not priced in a currency the way you think of it. It's more like the currency is priced in gold, therefore if the currencies tank gold and commodities should be up through the roof. Problem is not how to price PMs, but how to price fiat-shiat. In theory, a currency based on fiat (backed by nothing) could work just fine - if it can be trusted. The USD will not vanish because of gold or other commodities prices, but because said trust has been completely destroyed. And rate increases ... well ... if rates increase even slightly, nearly all countries would be immediately bankrupt because of interest payments they couldn't afford.


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Richard Redlefsen (born 15 October 1967; age 48) is American makeup artist of Hollywood film and television programs. He was an on-set Special Makeup Effects Artist on 2009's Star Trek and worked on the makeup of the Vulcan actors Jill Lover and Ronald F. Hoiseck.
Born in Fort Monmouth, New Jersey, Redlefsen spent the majority of the first three years of his life in Kaiserslautern, Germany, where his father was stationed by the United States Navy shortly after his birth. The family returned to the States in 1970, settling in Cleveland, Ohio.
Redlefsen started out not as a makeup artist but as a ballet dancer. He began attending the Cleveland Ballet School at the age of 11 and moved on to the North Carolina School of the Arts when he was 17. He later attended the School of American Ballet in New York, New York, and the San Francisco Ballet School in California. In 1988, he began a nine-year professional dancing career.
When he was 29, Redlefsen decided to pursue a career in professional makeup. Having already had makeup experience during while dancing, Redlefsen attended the Elegance Makeup School in Los Angeles, California, from which he graduated in 1997. After doing makeup work for revenues such as San Jose Opera and San Jose Repertory Theater, Redlefsen moved to Budapest, Hungary, in 1998, where he spent two years working as a makeup artist of makeup effects artist on various Hungarian films, commercials and music videos.
A few months after returning to the United States in 2000, Redlefsen returned to Los Angeles and began working in Hollywood. Since then, his talents have been utilized on such films as Jeepers Creepers, Jeepers Creepers II, Underworld, Saw, Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest, Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End, and Resident Evil: Extinction. He worked with fellow Star Trek makeup artist Ken Niederbaumer on the last three films. He has also worked on such television shows as NCIS, CSI, and Everybody Hates Chris.
In addition to Star Trek, Redlefsen recently worked as a special effects makeup artist on two other major motion pictures for Paramount Pictures, Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (featuring Alan Dale and Pavel Lychnikoff) and G.I. Joe (starring Rachel Nichols). His other recent film credits include The Incredible Hulk (2008) and Underworld: The Rise of the Lycans (2009).
Over the years, Redlefsen has worked personally with such Star Trek guest stars as Lee Arenberg (on Pirates), James Avery (for the 2005 thriller Lethal Eviction), Diedrich Bader (on the 2004 horror movie Dead & Breakfast), Jonathan Banks (on the 2001 thriller Proximity), Tracy Middendorf (for the 2006 film El Cortez), Ron Perlman (for the 2002 action film Shakedown), Tony Todd (on the Dave Matthews Band music video for "Gravedigger"), Gabrielle Union (on the 2002 heist film Welcome to Collinwood), and Ray Wise (on Jeepers Creepers II).
External links
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You know what's hard to get journalistically excited about? More iterations of the 997. I mean, wasn't the current GT3 RS released last Tuesday? And wasn't it the most amazing, da-bombtastical road going machine ever conceived of by (German) man? Why is Porsche replacing it so soon? What's wrong with it? And didn't Porsche just release new versions of the 911 Carrera, 911 Carrera S, 911 Cabriolet, 911 Cabriolet S, Carrera 4, Carrera 4S, Cabriolet 4S, Targa 4, Targa 4S, Turbo and Turbo Cabriolet? And why am I so grumpy? Oh yeah, I've decided to head back to the gym for 2009 and have already screwed by back up. Ahem. Right, so if you decide to get the new GT3 RS you'll get LED running lights just like the new Turbo. Crazy RS specific badging, too. Sounds like the bonnet is now made fro carbon fiber (and by bonnet we mean hood) and the massive, adjustable rear wing which was already carbon fiber now has huge (i.e. bigger) end caps on the wings. Similar to a 1954 Pontiac Star Chief's hood ornament. New crazy center-lock hub wheels and the same old roll cage, of course. According to what's been blogged about, while weight is down, so's the 0-60 time. Huh? Well, think about it: 0-100 km/h of 4.2 seconds is slower than the current car's 0-100 km/h in 4 flat. Also, the end caps on the wing don't actually look much bigger. What gives? Don't believe everything you read. [Source: Wheels 24 via Autoblog]
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Hello! You all seem like the most knowledgeable and such helpful group for helping me find my minivan of a bike. I've learned so much just lurking on these forums! I've loved seeing the pictures of trains!
So, here's my situation. I want to go car free this summer (May-Sept) and to that I need a way that I can transport all 4 of my children (7 y, 5y, 3y & 7 mos) within my usual 20 mile radius around my house. My 7 and 5 year old can ride their own bikes around the neighborhood, but I'll be riding on the road & want them attached to me in some way (because my 7-year-old boy is one step away from a chimpanzee on RedBull)). Plus, I'd like room to haul light groceries.
My current set-up doesn't haul everyone. I have a good hauling 3-year old Specialized, a good infant seat & an icky used In-Step 2-seater trailer that was the worst investment for someone who actually bikes!
I don't think I can possibly carry a train of infant seat, tag-along, trailer... or can I? I'm not superwoman or even a semi-pro body builder. I'm a strong (enough for natural childbirth and) semi-fit (for a woman with 4 kids) though. This would be the cheapest option.
I was looking at getting a $1000 3-passenger Bafiet knock-off and adding an infant seat to it.
But, two things are stopping me 1. The price. That's a lot for me to justify right now. and 2. I don't want to cart my kids around when one or two of them could be pedaling, too. 3. The knock can't possibly be as good as the original, right?
Should I be looking at a tandem to take me long term with my crew of children? With infant seat & trailer?
Any other cheaper options?
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Here we are, just about a week away from the next Baltimore Music Conference.
The four-day event features performances from local and national bands, panels, discussions and much more music-related stuff.
I'm actually going to be on a panel about marketing and blogging.
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In surfing other cities' media outlets in the wake of Mountain West Media Days, you find some good Boise State nuggets. That's because questions are asked that we think have already been answered here. But the out-of-town people sometimes prompt different responses from guys like Bryan Harsin. Chris Murray of the Reno Gazette-Journal noted that the biggest crowd of reporters this week came out for the new Bronco coach. Harsin still creates intrigue from the three trick plays that won the 2007 Fiesta Bowl against Oklahoma, but they really wanted to know what it was like to replace Chris Petersen, he of the 92-12 career record and two undefeated seasons. Somehow it got tied into the fact that Harsin also replaced Jake Plummer as quarterback at Capital High 20 years ago. What's tougher? "Both sucked," Harsin joked. "I seem to do that."
Other observations included the Fresno Bee's Marek Warszawski calling Harsin "a youthful-looking 37-year-old." Wrote Warszawski: "Harsin is by no means a Petersen clone. While Petersen was intense but reserved, especially around the media, Harsin seems cut from the Jon Gruden mold. Just as intense but more outgoing and, with a Gruden-esque booming baritone, sounds like a prototypical football coach. 'He definitely commands attention with that voice,' Corey Bell said. 'I'm looking forward to his pregame speeches.'" As for the big picture, what happens to the team with college football's best record in the new century (155-26) moving forward with Harsin? Colorado State's Jim McElwain told Warszawski, "They have the infrastructure and the means to keep that thing going for a long, long time."
Sometimes it's just expansion talk, or bowl tie-ins, or the BCS vs. the College Football Playoff that dominates the State of the Conference address. But Mountain West commissioner Craig Thompson had plenty of ground to cover this year during Media Days. In an interview with Jeff Caves and Bob Behler on KTIK yesterday, Thompson zeroed in on the Ed O'Bannon trial, cost of attendance payments, and the power-5 conference autonomy issue. "There's seven lawsuits—we're named in three," noted Thompson on the subject of paying players for use of their likenesses. "The financial ramifications could be severe, but it's not just the Mountain West." Thompson said the play-for-pay debate is a muddy mess. Would it include all sports? Would walk-ons be left out? "There's not a lot of definition," he said.
Thompson isn't as worried about the pending NCAA vote on August 7 that would give autonomy to the power 5 conferences. Yet. "The only concerns would be down the line—they're not in play right now," said Thompson One is the scholarship cap of 85 for FBS football. If that is lifted at some point by the power schools, they can go back to stockpiling players like they did 40 years ago. The other is the transfer policy. If limits were removed on transfers, such as the rule requiring cross-division transfers to sit out a year, there would be wholesale raids on non-power conference talent. "Those (developments) would be catastrophic," Thompson said.
Two guys stand out on a relatively predictable Boise State depth chart in the Mountain West media guide. It's important to note that this information comes from the school, understanding that anything can happen in the next five weeks. But junior Troy Ware is listed as starter at one of the wide receiver spots. Ware showed signs of life last year with 10 catches for 107 yards and two touchdowns, but as a starter he'd be expected to at least quadruple those numbers. His first task will be to erase the bitter taste of the Hawaii Bowl fumble that was returned for a touchdown by Oregon State. Also, Dylan Sumner-Gardner is listed as the No. 2 safety behind Jeremy Ioane. It's a given that Sumner-Gardner, the four-star recruit who reneged on Texas A&M and graduated early from high school to join Bronco spring football, will play as a true freshman.
This watch list is a new one on me. Boise State senior safety Jeremy Ioane has been named to list for the first Polynesian College Football Player of the Year Award. It doesn't need much description—the award goes to the nation's best player of Polynesian descent. Ioane is Hawaiian, and he appears poised to peak as a senior. Two weeks ago he was named to the Jim Thorpe Award watch list (as was Bronco cornerback Donte Deayon). The Polynesian award will be presented during Polynesian Football Hall of Fame Enshrinement Weekend on January 23 in Honolulu.
There wasn't a lot of national coverage coming out of Tuesday's Sun Belt Media Day. But TheVandalNation.com did some transcribing of Idaho coach Paul Petrino's session with ESPN3.com. The subject inevitably drifts to the Vandals' quarterback battle, which became a two-way affair during spring football. "He's (Chad Chalich) got some competition. Matt Linehan is a redshirt freshman—his dad's been a coordinator in the NFL for years and is a former player for the Vandals. So Chad and Matt are competing. It's going to go through fall camp and we'll see who comes out. Last year we had to play three quarterbacks, so it will be good to have two guys that we feel like can go win games for us." Chalich, the sophomore from Coeur d'Alene, was the unquestioned starter last fall until a shoulder injury ended his season in October.
The Boise Hawks have lost their leadoff man and perhaps their most dependable bat. Jeffrey Baez, who rolled up a Northwest League season-high hitting streak of 20 games, has been promoted to the Cubs' long-season Class A team at Kane County. The 20-year-old Venezuelan was batting .267 and was second in the league with seven home runs. The Hawks have an extra day to get accustomed to Baez's absence after last night's game at Everett was postponed by rain. They'll make it up tomorrow night with a doubleheader against the Aquasox—two seven-inning contests.
Baez was one of six Boise Hawks players named to the Northwest League South Division All-Star Team yesterday in preparation for the annual game to be played August 5 in Eugene. Baez was picked as a starter, as were Justin Marra and Rashad Crawford. Marra is hitting .304 with five home runs and 24 RBI, while Crawford is batting .302 with 21 RBI, including a league-best five triples. Reserves for the South Division team include Hawks pitcher Trevor Clifton, infielder Danny Canela, and catcher/outfielder Mark Zagunis.
From Royal Liverpool to Royal Montreal for Graham DeLaet. The former Boise State star is in his native land for the RBC Canadian Open that tees off today. The "expert picks" at PGATour.com have DeLaet sprinkled throughout, despite his second-round struggle last week at the British Open. Location, location, location. Bill Cooney projects DeLaet as the winner this week. "Still hard to believe he's searching for his maiden Tour victory, but hardly a better way to break the ice than a win on his homeland's soil," says Cooney. John Swantek picks DeLaet from among his four candidates, all from Canada. "One of these Canadians has to be the first to end the 60 year draught, right?" queries Swantek. "I'll go with the best of the bunch at the moment." A native son has not won the Canadian Open since Pat Fletcher in 1954.
DeLaet's former Bronco teammate, Troy Merritt, is also in the Canadian Open field. Does Merritt make a deeper dent now into the FedExCup Standings? He landed right at No. 100 after tying for 20th two weeks back at the John Deere Classic, playing all four rounds under par. Merritt has made four of his last five cuts and has earned $786,000 of his $835,000 in season winnings in that stretch.
This Day In Sports…July 24, 1983:
With two outs in the ninth inning, Kansas City's George Brett hits a two-run homer off Yankees closer Goose Gossage. Yanks manager Billy Martin argued that Brett's bat had too much pine tar, and the umpires agreed—calling Brett out and ending the game with the Yankees apparently winning, 4-3. Brett went berserk, the Royals protested the game, and American League president Lee MacPhail ruled that Brett's home run counted and the game should be resumed. Weeks later, the Royals held on to win the continuance, 5-4.
(Tom Scott hosts the Scott Slant segment Sunday nights at 10:30PM on KTVB's Sunday Sports Extra and anchors five sports segments each weekday on 93.1 The Ticket. He also served as color commentator on KTVB's telecasts of Boise State football for 14 seasons.)


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Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/b8gshl/global_hadoop) has announced the addition of the "Global Hadoop Market 2012-2016" report to their offering.
TechNavio's analysts forecast the Global Hadoop market to grow at a CAGR of 55.63 percent over the period 2012-2016. One of the key factors contributing to this market growth is the demand for big data analytics. The Global Hadoop market has also been witnessing the emergence of hadoop-as-a-service (HDaaS) solutions. However, the lack of trained professionals could pose a challenge to the growth of this market.
The key vendors dominating this market space are Amazon Web Services Inc., IBM Corp., EMC Corp., and Cloudera Inc.
The other vendors mentioned in the report are MapR Technologies Inc., Hortonworks Inc., Karmasphere Inc., Hadapt Inc., HStreaming LLC, Outerthought, Super Micro Computer Inc. , Pentaho Corp., Zettaset Inc., Datastax Inc., Datameer Inc., Hewlett-Packard co., Dell Inc., Appistry Inc., Teradata Corp., Talend Inc., RainStor Inc., Fujitsu Ltd., Data Direct Networks Inc., Netapp Inc., Actuate Corp., Think Big Analytics Inc., MarkLogic Corp., Revolution Analytics Inc., Jaspersoft Corp., Supermicro Computer Inc., Metascale LLC, ParAccel Inc., Pervasive Software Inc., Couchbase Inc., Splunk Inc., Calpont Corp., Mortar Data Inc., Infochimps Inc., Sungard Inc., Datasift Inc., Platfora Inc., WibiData Inc., Splice Machine Inc., Zettaset Inc., Continnuity Inc., Mortar Data Inc., Drawn to Scale Inc., and Concurrent Inc.
Commenting on the report, an analyst from TechNavio's Enterprise Computing team said: ''The demand for cost-effective Hadoop-based big data solutions is driving this market. Organizations understand the importance of big data solutions, but installing and hiring new professionals to deploy them is a costly affair. As a result, organizations and decision makers are adopting Hadoop-as-a-service (HDaaS) solutions which provide cost-effective big data management and analytics. HDaaS solutions offer the necessary hardware, software, and services required to support big data management at low subscription fees.''
According to the report, one of the major drivers is the demand for big data analytics. The increase in big data and big data analytics is driving the demand for Hadoop-based solutions in order to analyze the large number of datasets being stored in enterprises.
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I am 16 weeks pregnant and lost about 16 lbs due to constant vomiting and disability to eat (I don't want to take medications against vomiting as I know it's not so safe). Is that normal? Can it harm my baby? Has it already did harm I started my pregnancy over-weight.
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As long as your doctor is not concerned and the baby is fine there's no reason to worry. If you were overweight before becoming prego then it's not uncommon to lose weight or never gain much during pregnancy. I know someone who lost 70 pounds while pregnant because she was very overweight before becoming pregnant.posted 12/04/2007 by amyinak
I am 9 weeks pregangnt and about 40 pounds overweight. I have lost 13 pounds since i got pregnant do to all the vomiting. There are safe medications a doctor can give you. I received 2 different kids to help me. The doctor said the weight loss is not the issue the only issue is the loss of fluid. You and the baby need to stay hydrated. The meds helped some but not all the way. My doctor said if i eat health I should not gain ever much weight.posted 02/01/2010 by solitairev
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Last week, I flew on Air Canada rouge for the first time. They began operating on July 1, 2013 with a start-up fleet of two Airbus A319 aircraft and two Boeing 767-300ER aircraft. By the end of this month, they'll operate a total of 27 aircraft including 19 Airbus A319s and 8 Boeing 767-300ERs.
At launch, their planes serviced a network of 14 routes flying from Toronto and Montreal to Europe and the Caribbean but they're now up to a total of 52 routes from Toronto, Montreal, Calgary and Vancouver—including 11 to Europe.
I recently flew them roundtrip from Los Angeles to Calgary in both classes. Here are 10 things you need to know about flying Air Canada rouge:
1. Same check-in as Air Canada
Although Air Canada rouge is a separate airline from Air Canada, you still check-in for your flight as if you're flying Air Canada.
2. Cool flight attendant uniforms
All the Air Canada rouge flight attendants that I came across were young and attractive, and sporting funky uniforms that included a gray pin-striped trilby hat. The look was created by Maybelline and Redken and their burgundy Fluevog shoes were designed and manufactured by Canada's own Fluevog Shoes. Rob Lowe famously made fun of their uniforms but I like them—especially the hat.
3. The planes aren't brand-spanking-new
I was expecting Air Canada rouge's planes to be brand-spanking-new since the airline is only a year old, but they're actually just converted Air Canada planes. According to Renee Smith-Valade, Vice President of Customer Experience, "the aircrafts Air Canada rouge operate (the Airbus A319 and the Boeing 767-300ER) have been transferred from Air Canada's fleet. Air Canada rouge aircraft are restyled inside and out. They have modern charcoal and burgundy cabin interiors, featuring new Slimline seats with a streamlined profile, and branding accents throughout the cabin (e.g. bulkheads, curtains) and onboard service elements (e.g. tray liners in Premium rouge). Both aircraft types sport a sleek white, red and burgundy livery that clearly establishes Air Canada rouge as part of the Air Canada family."
4. There are no built-in entertainment systems
Although Air Canada rouge's planes don't have Air Canada's seatback entertainment systems, they do have a very cool app that you need to download BEFORE getting on the plane. Air Canada rouge aircraft are all equipped with Player, a next generation in-flight entertainment system that streams unlimited live entertainment to customers' personal electronic devices. Customers should bring their own fully-charged laptop or iPad, iPod or iPhone and download the latest Air Canada app (from the Apple App Store). For those with a laptop, make sure you have Adobe Flash Player installed. Availability on other platforms like Android is coming this fall.
5. You can rent an iPad
If you don't own a tablet, you can rent an iPad on-board for $10 (free for Premium rouge passengers). They hand them out after takeoff.
6. There are no electrical outlets
Rouge planes don't have electrical or USB outlets to charge your devices so be sure to have everything fully charged before getting onboard.
7. Coach seats are TIGHT
I flew on rouge's A319 and the seats are really tight in coach. The A319s are configured with 3×3 seating and they only have 29 inches of pitch (distance between the back of your seat and the back of the seat in front). In comparison: American Airlines has 30 inches, United has 31, Virgin America has 32 and regular Air Canada has between 31-35. The good news is rouge does have 18-inch wide seats, which are wider than American's and Virgin America's. FYI: On rouge's other style of aircraft, the 767, which flies longer distances, they offer 30 inches of pitch in economy.
8. You can buy food
Just like on Air Canada, you can buy food—including pizza—on rouge on flights in coach. But on their flights to Europe, they do offer complimentary meals and non-alcoholic beverages. FYI: Food pic is from Premium rouge.
9. Premium rouge
On the A319, Air Canada rouge offers Premium rouge, which is an upgraded version of premium economy. They have 24 standard coach seats but they don't sell the middle seat (just like intra-Europe on most European carriers). These seats have 35 inches of pitch and are 18 inches wide and recline more than the coach seats. If the Premium rouge seats aren't sold out, they'll offer them for a discount to coach passengers when they check-in online. Prices vary depending on the route but we were given our upgrade by their PR department. The food they offer is comparable to business and first class on transcontinental business class and it was good.
Good to know: If you want to sit next to your travel companion, you can sit in the middle seat—it's not physically blocked. In row one (the bulkhead) the armrests don't go up and there's also no overhead bin storage above you (they use it for the plane's equipment). I also don't recommend row one because you can hear the flight attendants talking, which can be disruptive if you're trying to read, work or sleep.
When asked why they didn't upgrade the rouge seats in Premium rouge, their representative said: "The reason that we stayed with the 3+3 configuration on the Airbus A319 in the Premium rouge cabin was the flexibility of the seating. There are some routes that we operate that do not have a demand for a Premium product. With the 3+3 configuration, we can block the middle seat for the routes where we do offer that Premium product, and sell that middle seat for those routes where we fly a rouge and rouge Plus-only configuration. The blocked middle seat has proven quite popular as it allows the Premium customers to decide for themselves what they want to do with that additional space."
10. They write the flight number on landing cards
This was a first for me…When the flight attendants handed out the landing cards for Canadian immigration, the airline and flight number were already filled out. When I asked the flight attendant if they always do this they said they try to on all rouge flights. That's a nice touch.
Because Air Canada decided to pack in way too many seats on this plane I would only take Rouge again on a short flight or if I was upfront in Premium Rouge. How about you? Have you flown Rouge?


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This article is a follow-up to my recent post: On Mobile, Data URIs are 6x Slower than Source Linking.
In a previous post, I introduced new research which showed that using the data URI scheme inline is significantly slower to materialize an image on mobile than using an image tag directly (and if the image is known to be in the browser cache). I suggested that mobile web developers focus on using data URIs only for smaller resources and look at alternatives such as CSS sprites instead.
As a result of discussions with Ilya Grigorik from the Google Make the web Faster team and other developers from the web community such as Andy Davies, Tim Kadlec and Alex Sexton, I decided to run a follow-up test to give web developers a more precise insight into the source of the performance bottleneck of using data URIs.
In this article, I'll investigate one possible candidate for the bottleneck: decoding the Base64 encoded data. This decoding process is used with binary images to transform the data into a format that is safe to include inline in HTML or CSS.
Spoiler: the bottleneck does not lie in Base64 encoding but may reside in resource scheduling of data URIs in general!
A New Approach: SVG
This new research focused on materializing a Scalable Vector Graphic (SVG). SVGs can be materialized on a page in two ways: as a Base64 data URI and as an unencoded data URI.
This flexibility is exactly what I needed to do a direct 'apples-to-apples' test with and without Base64 to see whether the decoding step of Base64 is actually causing the slow performance of data URIs.
I know that some of you had been hoping for a direct comparison with CSS sprites — don't worry, that's coming! But a CSS sprite test also won't let me test the Base64 component in particular the way SVG does.
The Experiment
As with my other research, this experiment was conducted as a Real User Monitoring (RUM) test. I collected 911,206 samples of iOS 6, Android 4.2+, and Firefox 20+ browsers executing the test.
There were three test conditions, two with an SVG and one control condition to benchmark load performance when no SVG was used at all. The SVG used was a simple, 19.5kb creative commons graphic on Wikipedia.
The first test condition used an unencoded SVG, and the condition is called unencoded. The second test condition used a Base64 encoded SVG, this condition is called Base64. The control condition is called no SVG. This was a between-subjects experiment, and each phone would execute only one of the three conditions a single time.
I wanted to use SVGs included in a CSS stylesheet and not in an image tag, despite the fact that a load event cannot be hooked to the element itself. To get around this limitation, I used the page onload event of an HTML iframe containing only the stylesheet and element to contain the materialized SVG.
I included the control condition, no SVG, to baseline the performance of creating this iframe with no image at all in it. As you might expect, creating an empty iframe consumed almost no time, with the exception of Firefox mobile which was inexplicably slow.
This snippet illustrates the content of the tested iframe and the simplicity of the test.
The Results
My results show that there is a tiny performance penalty for using Base64 for SVG with Chrome for Android, much too small to account for the performance discrepancy identified in my original data URI article. The control condition, where there was no SVG in the iframe at all, is an order of magnitude faster, although inexplicably slow on Firefox.
For the Android 4.2 native browser and iOS, performance was very similar. In iOS, surprisingly, the Base64 condition is actually marginally faster, but the difference is small enough to be inside of the margin of error.
The chart above is taken from my previous research, and as you can see, there are performance differences of over 100ms between the data URI and binary conditions.
However, the SVG data I collected in this experiment fails to account for a performance gap of that size. As a result of this test, I don't believe the performance problem of data URIs can be attributed to Base64 decoding.
Secondary Result: SVGs are Surprisingly Slow!
One interesting outcome of this experiment is that SVGs appear to be quite slow on mobile. iOS in particular was very slow to display this graphic, taking an amazing one quarter of a second to display it. Even at 128ms to display on Chrome suggests you shouldn't include more than one or two SVGs in a page or your visitors will experience a perceivable lag in page load.
Additional guidance from this test would be to minimize SVG usage and focus on using it for logos or other key resources, and keep them under 10KB.
This research is a step closer to the root of the data URI performance issue. If the problem isn't Base64 encoding, could it be something to do with resource scheduling of data URIs in general? Could that also be the reason why the SVG in this experiment took so long to load?
Stay tuned for the next instalment of our data URI analysis, which will directly compare data URI performance against CSS spriting (as requested in the comments of the first article).
As always, questions, concerns and feedback are welcome.


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