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Posted on 01/14/2011 2:00:32 PM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach
Big GHz fight in 2011
Qualcomm has decided to show its dual Scorpion based MSM8x60 mobile CPU and it also told the world that this CPU can hit 1.2GHz, per core that is.
The chip has an Adreno 220 GPU that we know little about and of course its a 45nm chip since 28nm should be only ready in the latter part of 2011. The chip should be able to do high definition stereoscopic 3D video, and multi-party video conferencing as well as some nice gaming.
It is intended for tablets and phones and you can bet that you will find this core in one of the future HTC phones, simply as Qualcomm has quite a few shares in HTC, or so we heard.
With its 1.2GHz core clock MSM8x60 looks to be faster than Tegra 2, but Tegra 2 is available today and Qualcomm is still to ship its first tablet or phone based on this chip. Browsing with two cores should be significantly faster than with one core, which kind of makes sence, but again, lets see it shipping in real designs first.
Lets not forget Texas instruments who is about to ship its 1GHz OMAP 4430 chip and with hope to see 1.5GHz version later this year.
You can read more about the MSM8x60 and see Anand Lal Shimpi's fancy shoes here.
I'm kind of worried about the mobile GHz race we're in right now. You was where it went with the MHz race in desktops.
What...bring it on...consumers benefit.
Mobile devices have two major concerns that desktops don't (or at least not nearly to the same degree). One is energy consumption and the second is heat dissipation. Desktops aren't being held, they are surrounded by multiple fans moving air in multiple directions, and they don't have to be held. They are also plugged in, so battery life isn't a concern.
Wake me up when ARM comes up with an FPU that isn't outperformed by a 486DX.
That's what we thought last time, and then we ended up with grossly inefficient, power-sucking chips.
The thing is that mobile devices don't need that much floating point. So more mips means faster interpreters..like dalvik!
ARM floating point depends on which implementation you're getting. There is VFP, but it is pretty lame, but ARM also has NEON, providing low-end SIMD that can work as the FPU. But that's not to say an ARM implementation even has to use ARM's FPU solutions. Intel's XScale is an ARM with an MMX unit.
And none of those implementations are great compared to other embedded RISC platforms or embedded x86 platforms.
Still I think better than 486, although probably far below the better embedded PowerPC.
And that is more or less what AMD (and others) were stubbornly insisting on the desktop until the K7. "What's wrong with the K6? (or 6x86/MII or WinChip etc) Just look at the Winstone benchmarks!"
First - Android ain't windows. So "Winstonee benchmarks" don't buy you much. Another issue is that the K6 was done at maybe 350nanometers if memory serves. That is VERY different from 45nanometers. It just a completely different discussion.
And while Android isn't Windows - Windows 8 "Midori" will run on ARM. I have seen Windows running on ARM - it was painful. Microsoft has had Windows Vista, 7 and 8 running all running on ARM. They are bringing Windows on ARM to market because they don't want to be caught with their pants down like they were with Netbooks and ceede this space to Android and HP's WebOS devices.
It is clearly the intent of ARM and their licensees to push ARM cores into more mainstream performance intensive applications, but that will be very challenging in its present form. Hopefully Nvidia comes forward with something amazing. But the Cortex family isn't the basis of mainstream success.
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Meatless Monday recipe of the week: Spinach hummus pinwheel wraps
These adorable little wraps are perfect for a lazy Monday night in — and for lunch the next day. They're lightning-quick to make and full of good things like avocado, red peppers and homemade spinach white-bean hummus.
I suppose you could simplify this recipe by using store-bought hummus, but if it's not too much of a hassle, it's definitely worth it to try making it yourself. Plus, you should have some leftover to use as a dip on Tuesday night.
Spinach Hummus Pinwheel Wraps
4 cups packed spinach
1/4 cup low-sodium vegetable broth or water
1 can no-salt-added cannellini beans
2 tablespoons lemon juice (from about 1 lemon)
2 tablespoons tahini
1 clove garlic
1/8 teaspoon fine sea salt
4 whole grain tortillas
1 avocado, thinly sliced
1/2 cucumber, peeled and very thinly sliced
1 small red bell pepper, very thinly sliced
Steam spinach over broth or water. Place spinach, beans, lemon juice, tahini, garlic and salt in bowl of a food processor and process until smooth. You should have about 2 cups hummus.
Spread about 1/2 cup hummus on 1 tortilla, leaving about an inch from the edge. Arrange 1/4 each of sliced avocado, sliced cucumber and sliced bell pepper on top of hummus and tightly roll up tortilla. Repeat with remaining tortillas, hummus, avocado, cucumber and bell pepper. Holding tortillas firmly, carefully cut into 3/4-inch pinwheels and serve.
— Recipe from www.wholefoodsmarket.com
Meatless Monday recipe of the week: Avocado Sandwich
Nothing, absolutely nothing, is easier to "cook" for dinner than a sandwich.
It takes little time to prepare, usually all the ingredients are easily accounted for, and the result is totally customizable for any special tastes in your family.
Today being Memorial Day, there are generally barbecues going on and other activities. Thus, there's a good chance that you aren't cooking at home tonight, and if you are, you've already got a set menu. Totally understandable. But if you are at home and looking for a Meatless Monday recipe — or want to plan ahead for next week's Meatless Monday — give this sandwich a try.
It's got cheese and avocado, layers of crisp vegetables, and the ease of, well, a sandwich. It would make a great lunch, too, because of course, Meatless Monday doesn't just mean meatless dinner.
Avocado Sandwich
4 slices pumpernickel, rye or whole wheat bread
1 ripe avocado (peeled, pitted and mashed)
2 slices Gruyère or Swiss cheese
1 ripe tomato (small size, thinly sliced)
1 cucumber (small size, peeled and thinly sliced lengthwise)
1/4 red onion (small size, very thinly sliced)
Baby arugula (or sprouts)
Mayonnaise (to taste)
Arrange 4 slices of bread on a cutting board. Divide the avocado between two of the slices. Spread the remaining two pieces of bread with mayonnaise.
Working with the avocado bread slices, top each with a piece of cheese, followed by several slices of tomato and cucumber, then some of the onion. Arrange the arugula or sprouts on top.
Cover with the remaining bread and cut each sandwich in half. Serve immediately.
— Recipe from www.ebfarm.com
Meatless Monday recipe of the week: Open-Face Veggie Melt with Herb Mustard Spread
April showers bring May flowers, right? If the storming this weekend has you feeling a little cold and damp on the last day of April, maybe it's time for a bit of comfort food.
A nice, warm, cheesy sandwich loaded with veggies and topped with a tangy mustard sauce probably sounds like it'll warm you right up, doesn't it?
This sucker also is perfect for using up stale bread and veggie leftovers, and if that weren't good enough, it's cheesy enough to trick kids into eating their veggies. All you have to do is make the sandwich base, whip up some sauce (only three ingredients) and top with the veggies and cheese of your choosing. The cheese hides the veggies from skeptical kids, while those who actually like veggies can chose their favorites to customize the sandwich.
Open-Face Veggie Melt with Herb Mustard Spread
Whole grain bread, sliced
Butter, softened Finely diced sweet onions (or chopped green onions)
2-3 vegetables, raw or blanched (*see below) Sliced chedder or or Muenster, Provolone, baby Swiss, or Monterey Jack
1/2 cup mustard (Dijon-style)
Mustard Spread 1/2 cup mayonnaise
1/2 cup sour cream
3-4 tablespoons chopped fresh dill (or tarragon, basil, or chives)
Heat oven or toaster oven to 350 degrees. Mix herb mustard spread ingredients in a bowl. For each serving, slather mustard sauce on two slices of bread. Cut one of the slices in half diagonally and lay the two halves atop the outer edges of the second slice, mustard side up, points facing outward.
Place on baking sheet and layer the veggies on the bread. Bake until veggies are heated, 12-15 minutes. Top with cheese slices and bake until cheese is melted and sandwich is hot, another 4-6 minutes. Serve immediately.
Blanched asparagus, chopped
Arugula leaves, cut into strips
Diced zucchini or yellow squash
Chopped broccoli florets
Thinly sliced mushrooms
Sliced or diced tomatoes
Diced cucumbers
Sliced avocado
Diced green, yellow, red or orange sweet peppers
Roasted sweet red peppers, cut into strips
Grilled eggplant, cut into strips
—Recipe by Terese Allen for www.organicvalley.coop
Meatless Monday recipe of the week: Avocado Tacos
It's supposed to be 80 today. And most of this week, in fact. And it's October.
Because it's so hard to say goodbye to summer produce, may we suggest enjoying as much of it as you can this week before it turns cool again? These tacos hit all the right notes to feel summer-like: creamy avocado, accented with peppers and a homemade salsa with the last of the summer's tomatoes.
Basically, they're summer in a soft taco shell. Enjoy it now, it'll be gone before we know it.
Avocado Tacos
1 ripe avocado, peeled and seeded
1 medium onion, julienne
2 large green peppers, julienne
2 large red peppers, julienne
1 cup fresh cilantro, finely chopped
1 1/2 cups fresh tomato salsa (see below)
12 flour tortillas
Non-stick cooking spray
Fresh Tomato Salsa
1 cup diced tomatoes
1/3 cup diced onions
1/2 clove garlic, minced
2 teaspoons cilantro
1/3 teaspoon chopped jalapeño peppers
1/2 teaspoon lime juice
Pinch of cumin
Prepare salsa as listed below. Spray skillet with cooking spray. Lightly sauté onion and green and red peppers. Cut avocado into 12 slices. Warm tortillas in oven and fill with peppers, onions, avocado slices and salsa. Fold tortillas and serve.
Fresh Tomato Salsa: Mix together all ingredients and refrigerate in advance.
— Recipe from www.fruitsandveggiesmatter.gov.
Spaghetti with Creamed Avocado Sauce
So, we've had a cold snap. The chill probably won't be here permanently for a bit, but, boy, it's amazing how 60 degrees on the thermometer makes us all raid the hot chocolate stash after a blistering summer.
This pasta dish hits all the right notes in cool (or cold) weather, plus it's creamy, healthy and gets you a good helping of veggie. too.
Now, tonight isn't supposed to be the coolest night of the week, but you're pretty good at playing pretend, aren't you? If not, check this blog for some of our other Meatless Monday suggestions and save this one for a really cool night.
Spaghetti with Creamed Avocado Sauce
3 ripe avocados
3 1/2 cups of fresh spinach — 2 cups whole, 1 1/2 cup chopped, separated
1 cucumber, peeled and sliced
1 large vine-riped tomato, sliced
3 cloves fresh garlic
1/2 teaspoon of turmeric
1/4 teaspoon of paprika
1 teaspoon of salt
1 1/2 teaspoon of lemon juice
1/2 cup margarine
1/4 cup of plain soy milk
1 teaspoon of apple cider vinegar
1 pound of 100-percent durum wheat spaghetti noodles, cooked and strained
2 tablespoons of dried basil
1/2 teaspoon of salt
6 tablespoons of pistachios, chopped
6 tablespoons of nutritional yeast
Salt and pepper, to taste
In a food processor, combine the avocados, 2 cups spinach, cucumber, tomato and garlic; mix until creamy.
Add the turmeric, paprika, salt and lemon juice; mix until creamy and set aside.
In a saucepan over medium-low heat, melt the butter into the soy milk and cider vinegar.
Once melted, add cooked spaghetti noodles, basil and salt; mix for 2-3 minutes, or until the noodles are coated with the sauce.
Divide noodles evenly between six plates.
Layer, in this order: fresh chopped spinach, avocado sauce, pistachios, nutritional yeast and salt and pepper.
— Recipe from Ashlae Warner for www.madejustright.com.
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Friday, May 07, 2010
Warren and Me
I've been out of the office for a few days attending to business, but upon my return had an opportunity to read this piece by Andrew Ross Sorkin in the New York Times, which summarized Buffett's position on the Abacus situation as communicated to his shareholders during his annual meeting. Please read the whole thing. Please.
I may have limited credibility, I understand, with readers who don't really know me but have formed certain impressions based upon what I say I do for a living, or where I worked, or how I seem to feel about certain political issues.
On the other hand, Buffett has great credibility and has built trust with a very broad range of people from various walks of life. He is not of Wall Street.
Now, Goldman antagonists will argue Buffett is merely talking his own book, since he is a significant investor in Goldman. This is undoubtedly true, but it is not a secret. Therefore Buffett has publicly put his reputation, earned over 50 years, on the table regarding Goldman. And for those younger readers, or those older ones who may have forgotten, Buffett many years ago had a sizeable investment in Salomon Brothers (a place I also worked, incidentally). When Salomon fell upon its trouble in the Treasury Bond scandal, Buffett did not hesitate to dismiss maangement and actually install himself as CEO in order to help Salomon through its life threatening moment. And in that case, again, he had a longstanding relationship with Salomon's CEO, John Gutfreund. Buffett did not defend him or his management in that case despite his investment. In the Goldman case, by contrast, he clearly has asserted a powerful Goldman defense and stood up for Lloyd Blankfein.
Goldman really needed that. Someone who had courage and credibility to take up their side in the court of public opinion. I know I would retain him as my expert witness in front of a jury.
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By Escort81, at Fri May 07, 01:45:00 PM:
There is scuttlebut that settlement talks are ongoing, with a number in the $1-5 billion range (an order of magnitude greater than I guessed), or lower if Blankfein offers up his scalp.
Buffett's comments get to the heart of the issue of material disclosure (whether the identity of Paulson, or his role in selecting the MBS should have been mentioned in the offering documents). His comments in quote in the article:
"I don't care if John Paulson is shorting these bonds. I'm going to have no worries that he has superior knowledge," he said, adding: "It's our job to assess the credit." The assets are the assets. The math either works or it doesn't.
The Ackman point of view -- that it would have been unethical to disclose Paulson's identity -- should get him a role as an expert witness for Goldman if the case ever goes to trial.
Sort of a minor point, but Sorkin repeats the information that ACA claims it didn't know that Paulson was on the other side of the transaction. Having read a fair amount about all of this, I do understand that there is ACA Management and ACA Capital, different parts of the same company. One part clearly knew who Paulson was, having communicated with Paulson repeatedly in the composition of the synthetic security. Has anyone read somewhere that it was ACA policy to not allow the Management people to talk to the Capital people?
By Bomber Girl, at Fri May 07, 02:57:00 PM:
Evidently, the SEC is trying to keep Mr. Buffet busy elsewhere, according to the WSJ: "The Securities and Exchange Commission is looking into disclosures made by billionaire investor Warren E. Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway as it sought to purchase Burlington Northern Santa Fe railroad, The Wall Street Journal reported, citing people familiar with the matter."
Another timing coincidence, unless one is paranoid of course.
By Cardinalpark, at Fri May 07, 03:08:00 PM:
There's no case. And I can't believe GS will settle for anything remotely close to $1bn.
Pelligrini from Paulson is on the record that he told ACA his short position/intentions anyway. Buffett's point (buyer's are responsible to assess the assets, and the assets are clearly and well disclosed) and Ackman's point that Goldman's ethical requirement is NOT to disclose the opposite sides of the trade anyway all erode whatever case the SEC thinks they have.
And yes, it is remarkable that the SEC is taking a run at Buffett's 13D disclosure on his intentions regarding buying the railroad. I suspect at most he had a minor a technical mistake and quite possibly has an excellent argument that until he finalized a deal, his intentions hadn't changed and therefore a new, updated filing was not required.
By Escort81, at Fri May 07, 04:21:00 PM:
Heh, Bomber Girl, "just because you are paranoid doesn't mean they're not after you."
I think that quote is originally from Joseph Heller in Catch-22.
I can see Goldman settling this for something under 9 digits to just make it go away, but Gasparino's reported number of $5B seems way high, given the size of the syntheitc security to begin with. Of course, based on the comments at the Zero Hedge link I provided above, some believe such a figure is way too light, and represents a speeding ticket, given the size of the GS bonus pool last year (though I am not sure how that is relevant).
I can also see Goldman digging in its heels and letting it go to trial. There is the calculation of reputational damage, and opening the door for other litigation. I would guess the SEC would not settle for much below $100 mil.
Goldman has serious problems -- in part deserved, in part unlucky. We're not hearing much about Morgan Stanley right now, are we? -- there's reasons why-for.
People who think this is only about ABACUS are deluded. If you think the SEC charges over ABACUS are undeserved, you're "deluded squared". If you think the SEC will settle ABACUS anytime soon, you're "deluded cubed."
On a scale of "who's responsible?" for our current USA financial predicament, Goldman isn't top of my list ... actually they're way far down on my list. But they're on my list.
Lloyd wasn't the worst Wall Street CEO ... far from it. I actually kinda like the guy. But in the 2007 - 2008 timeframe Lloyd put Goldman Sach's interests before that of the USA ... and then ... when the World started melting down .... he asked Hank for a USA bailout and go it ... else Goldman would have been gone too.
I half believe the even worse conspiracy theories about Goldman's actions in recent years. Why? ... because Goldman today is all traders. It's no longer your Daddy's Goldman Sachs.
Can you put "Greece" and "Goldman" in the same sentence. A lot of people will want to.
Goldman hardly even trades real stuff anymore. Goldman could be orderly liquidated and the World wouldn't care. Why? ... because their current business model has little direct connection to the economy other than posing a systemic risk to the rest of us.
ABACUS wasn't just a one-off screw up ... to me to me it's endemic of Trader Mentality run amok.
There are root causes deeper than Wall Street for our current national financial predicament, but Goldman only played -- and profited -- off it.
Look, I'm just another asshole with an opinion. But tell me where I'm wrong on the foregoing. I'm a former "Wall Streeter" inclined to give the industry a break.
If my blue collar dad were still around, and knew what I knew, he'd want Goldman razed to the ground. He represents a sizeable voting demographic. Can you say "Reagan Democrat"? It's in play.
If I'm thinking this way .... you all Establishment Ruling Class have bigger problems. Developing ....
"I know I would retain [Warren Buffet] as my expert witness in front of a jury."
In court -- on an issue like this -- given his past written criticisms of things like Credit Default Swaps and Wall Street in general -- even I could cross-examine Warren Buffet to the point of Michael Vick doggie inhumane ....
Buffet invested in Goldman and GE in similar fashion to why John Pierpont Morgan acted in 1907 -- he had to.
By JPMcT, at Fri May 07, 07:28:00 PM:
The problem with all the hoopla on this and other blog sites is that everybody wants to overanalyze Goldman's position...possilbe is some weak way to justify the SEC witch hunt.
The RAW facts of the deal are clear...they WERE clear to all who partook...and there was no public remorse or complaint at the time.
The stand that the principals were not aware of Paulson's position is hard to believe...but, as Buffet so succinctly states...was irrelevent.
...other than to wonder why nobody at the SEC seems interested in what Paulson knew.
"The RAW facts of the deal are clear...they WERE clear to all who partook"
No they weren't. In fact, the gist of the SEC's complaint is exactly the opposite.
You can keep denying so -- EVEN USE ALL CAPS TO DENY SO -- but it is what it is. If Goldman's conflict had been fully disclosed, the dumb German bank may still have bought what it thought was "BBB" -- but that's not the applicable legal standard.
PER THE FACTS OF THE SEC COMPLAINT ... GOLDMAN LOSES. NO JUDGE WILL GIVE GOLDMAN EARLY DISMISSAL. THUS, IT GOES TO A JURY OF BROOKLYN DOORMEN AND BRONX BUS DRIVERS, IN WHICH CASE GOLDMAN WILL GET HOSED. Even I could "kill" in front of said jury given target defendants who'd persist in wearing those funny white collared shirts with the French cuffs. (Better than sex, I'm now thinking ... !)
But going to a jury can't happen in 2010. The process just takes so long.
Rumors about a settlement are Goldman spin, I strongly suspect. A lot of key MSM editors have been treated to steak dinners and BJs recently, I strongly suspect. The bid/ask on settlement has to be too wide right now. The SEC needs a big win right now. I don't see Goldman offering up billions and Lloyd's scalp to the SEC on this little case -- and I can't see the SEC accepting less, right now. In a year or so, SEC v Goldman will be looked on as a sideshow and likely settled as such.
JPMcT -- and others here -- have a strong argument that the SEC's unwilligness to negotiate this case to a settlement months ago is politically motivated. But you can't say the SEC doesn't have Goldman by the balls on the facts. And it was a billion dollar deal. And there's a reason why Bear Stearns turned this deal down before Goldman did it (Paulson had worked at Bear).
I've suggested this in prior posts: whoever acted as Goldman's deal lawyer on ABACUS wasn't filled in on Paulson's involvement. If said lawyer had so known, said lawyer would already have hung out. Ergo, the Fabulous Fab kept said lawyer in the dark -- either naively or purposefully.
What happens when traders pretend to be bankers.
Reread that last sentence slowly.
>> Buffett's comments get to the heart of the issue of material disclosure (whether the identity of Paulson, or his role in selecting the MBS should have been mentioned in the offering documents).
Anon attorney here. I need to get a handle, but I'm a bit paranoid. You get a handle and it's not too damn hard for Google, Yahoo or FB to figure out your identity. The next thing you know every inane comment you write on the internet shows up on you FB page. That would suck.
In any event, Escort81, the issue is not Paulson's identity. His identity is immaterial. The material fact that was omitted was that one of the parties involved in selecting the securities that comprised the basket of securities in the Abacus transaction was shorting the securities, or at least a portion thereof.
From the perspective of an attorney who, admittedly, doesn't practice securities law this is a textbook case of securities fraud. It is undisputed that material facts known to Goldman were not disclosed to the buyers of the securities. This case is open and shut, which is precisely why Goldman is trying to negotiate a settlement.
TTOH, your writing is still cracking me up. It's funny 'cause it's true. If this case goes to trial Goldman will go down in flames in front of a jury full of unemployed and underemployed workers. Like I said in my first comment on this case, this is the sawdust in the transmission case.
And you have the politics of this down pat. A pro-Wall Street bias is the Achilles heel of the Republican party. I just don't get it, but then I grew up an Iowa farm boy.
Same anon attorney here. Realized I wanted to follow up on one more comment.
>> "I don't care if John Paulson is shorting these bonds. I'm going to have no worries that he has superior knowledge," he said, adding: "It's our job to assess the credit." The assets are the assets. The math either works or it doesn't.
This is, in my opinion, precisely where CardinalPark, Escort81, and Buffet get it wrong. This statement is true in trading. But issuing securities is not trading; it brings the issuer within the purview of the '33 act and the '34 act, which impose affirmative disclosure obligations on the issuer. Goldman failed to meet those disclosure obligations.
By JPMcT, at Sat May 08, 10:33:00 AM:
I suppose the lawyers in the discussion are correct. Much like medical malpractice and product liability cases, you can only win in front of a jury of dopes.
...of which we are in no short supply.
But that doesn't make it right...a sense lost long ago by the legal profession.
I merely summarize what I have posted before of the facts of the case...and you all please tell me why Goldman has an "open and shut" judgement pending.
If that is the law, then the law is an ass.
To wit:
The hypothetical securities in the fund probably would increase or decrease in value if the referenced residential real estate markets improved or declined. This was exactly the vehicle that investors wanted to exist. ACA itself selected the specific interests, accepting some suggested by Paulson, but rejecting many others proposed by him.
ACA's parent company insured a senior portion of the same fund against default, and the SEC now says that ACA the parent did not know that ACA the subsidiary had any dealings with Paulson. (Except that presumably ACA the parent had complete control over ACA the subsidiary, so how could it not have known?).
So IKB and ACA Capital bought the new fund, as they intended, because they thought real estate was going up, and Paulson sold it short, as he intended, because he thought real estate was going down. Goldman Sachs also was "long" the portfolio, and lost $90 million on their investment, made with full knowledge that Paulson was intending to go short. If IKB and ACA Capital thought the RMB markets would decline, they could have shorted the portfolio.
The SEC now says that Paulson's position was adverse to IKB and ACA Capital because Paulson was short the portfolio. But this is true only if the markets declined. If the markets had instead improved, as IKB and ACA Capital believed they would, then Paulson's short position likely would have been "squeezed," and in that event IKB and ACA Capital (and Goldman Sachs) would have profited significantly from their trades.
IKB and ACA Capital were wrong. Real estate markets continued to decline, part of the "subprime meltdown," and therefore IKB and ACA Capital lost a lot of money, and Paulson made a lot of money. (GS, as noted above, lost $90 million on the deal, 5 times the amount of its commissions, since GS was also "long" in the deal. So if GS intended to mislead anyone and make lots of money, it didn't quite get there . . .).
In any ordinary market and economic situation, that would be the end of that. Two very astute investors thought markets would go one way, and the markets went another way. The investors were told exactly, precisely what they were buying, exactly, precisely what the ratings and risks were, and they were told to do their own due diligence, which they either did do or didn't do.
Now 3 years after the deal was done and the losses were realized and paid, neither IKB nor ACA has sued Goldman Sachs or anybody else in connection with their losses. They took a view on the markets. Their view was wrong. They lost. Next case.
I say again...WHERE'S THE BEEF???
Goldman told the banks that the CDO assets had been picked by a neutral independent collateral manager. That was false and it was material. QED.
You keep pointing to other facts and ignore the ones that go to the heart of the SEC's complaint. Then you blame the SEC, lawyers and jurors, while you'd give Goldman a pass even though they f*cked some clients with Abacus.
Our federal securities laws are premised on full disclosure. It's a better approach than "merit review" which some state laws had. E.g., once upon a time you couldn't buy in the Apple IPO if you were a Massachusetts resident because the Massachusetts Secretary of State thought it too speculative.
But a disclosure-based system only works if the players abide by it -- and the SEC polices it on occasion.
Financial Services Reform might expand fiduciary duty requirements, which would be a bad thing.
CP, since you have mentioned Buffet's reputation and credibility, I am wondering about the post Tyler Durden has up. He says Moody's received a Wells Notice cease and desist letter from the SEC back in March that they are just now making public.
Buffet, a serious investor in Moody's has been selling his stake since about then. Coincidence?
Is that the action of a man with a sterling reputation or a nefarious insider?
I am asking out of curiosity as the workings of Wall St are a complete mystery to me.
By JPMcT, at Sun May 09, 10:11:00 AM:
"You keep pointing to other facts and ignore the ones that go to the heart of the SEC's complaint...(etc.)..."
We'll have to agree to disagree. I think my facts are cogent.
Unlike you, I think that institutional investors in Structured Investment Vehicles that do their own research and live in the land of investments that are really high stakes wagers...do indeed know what they are getting into. They are not "widows and orphans".
They didn't get "f*cked"...they lost a bet. Period.
If they DID get "f*cked"...where is the lawsuit? Where is the outrage? Why did they just hand over the chips, pay up and move on to the next table in the casino?
I am not defending Goldman anymore than to say that what they did was business as usual.
THE REAL QUESTIONS are, IMHO, twofold:
1. Should this actually be "business as usual". The simple answer is no. However, let's not forget that federal directives in the mortgage industry thru legislation and "Community Investment" was what got this whole ball rolling. It was unsustainable... designed to fail, if you will. The smart people knew that and decided to set up a game to make some money on it. Had the US Congress kept it's idiotic ideas out of the markey, there would have been no crises.
So, "financial reform" should really begin within the house of those who are proposing it.
I doubt that will happen. Indeed, federal monkeying with the financial industry is likely to get worse.
2. Why, after three years and no lawsuits, is THIS PARTICULAR CASE getting so much press?
Perhaps because it is impossible to actually grasp the concepts. Even those of us on this blog who consider themselves savvy investors cannot completely agree on what the hell went on.
The general public can't "take sides" easily.
They will need direction to find out who the villain is.
Of course, the "villain" beneath the whhole debaucle is the US Congress.
What better case could they have brought to the public to beat the drum that it was actually "Wall Steet versus Main Street"?
They (and their approved Media) define the case. They control the timing (and, I am sure, the result).
They keep their rather stupid, incompetent control alive and well.
Case closed.
The SEC couldn't investigate its way out of a wet paper bag. Can you say "Madoff"? In SEC v Goldman the SEC is actually piggy-backing on the investigative work of the Levin committee who were all over the Fabulous Fabrice last year.
But that doesn't mean that the SEC doesn't have good facts in the Goldman case. I conceded above that the SEC needs a big win and is taking it out on Goldman, but that doesn't mean Goldman isn't culpable on Abacus. ... "and it's not business as usual." If people like Fabrice purposefully kept details about Paulson's role away from their own deal lawyers, they could even get jail time. That'd be fraud with a capital "F".
"after three years and no lawsuits"
Actually, there are many, many lawsuits out there. Countrywide (Bank of America) just settled one for $600 million.
Goldman seems to have been tagged far less than the other big banks -- that's to their credit -- but they all have big exposures.
To me it'll be a miracle if Moody's and McGraw-Hill (S&P) don't get sued out of existence. So far judges have been buying their "First amendment" defense, but they're not close to half-way getting across the minefield. Moody's disclosure about the SEC Wells notice is actually a small item in the scheme of things -- it's a lazy case for the SEC.
So there's a reason Buffett has already cut his Moody's stake almost in half.
Lehman for example sold a bazillion dollars of preferred before it went under. Most of the other big banks were underwriters. The recently released Lehman bankruptcy exam report has already made the factual case for the plaintiff's lawyers. This one case alone could play like Worldcom and lead to an ultimate settlement of $ 3 to $ 5 billion.
I'm intrigued by the litigation over flawed mortgage securitizations. Every big bank has big exposure. Generally, judges have been cutting the banks a break by shrinking the suits on standing grounds and dismissing most of the claims. But plaintiffs can still win big casino if they can show that "professed mortgage underwriting guidelines weren't followed." Meanwhile financial guarantors like MBIA are trying to get out of their guaranties on these deals by also claiming that "professed mortgage underwriting guidelines weren't being followed." We all know that "professed mortgage underwriting guidelines weren't being followed", so this could get interesting -- a single MBS tranche can easily go $1 billion -- which is why the potential damages here are staggering.
Bigger picture, I don't know what replaces our MBS market. Collectively, we killed a good thing. The Fed can't just keep buying Fannie and Freddie paper forever.
By Cardinalpark, at Sun May 09, 12:08:00 PM:
Truth -
on one point that seems to be central to your position, the selection agent for the reference securities in Abacus was ACA. It was not Paulson. That was by contract and pursuant to an engagement and was properly disclosed. Furthermore, ACA was a prodigious buyer of the ABACUS securities.
By definition, the Abacus trade required a long and a short aside. Paulson told ACA what it was prepared to short. ACA responded by selecting, by contract, what it was prepared to own. Period.
Furthermore, it is common convention, and the SEC has previously taken the position, that it is unethical for the intermediary to disclose the identity of the opposite sides of a trade.
Thus Goldman has excellent arguments about its disclosure - one, the reference securities were impeccably disclosed and behaved exactly as one would hav e predicted given the subsequent performance of the underlying mortgage securities; two, ACA, the selection agent went long in size, putting its $ where its mouth was; 3) so did goldman and 4) Goldman did not disclose the 2 sides of the trade, though they disclosed directly to one another.
If the question is will his be summarily dismissed, the answer is likely not. Almost no cases get chucked out this early. But I'd wager if it goes the distance, Goldman wins.
"the selection agent for the reference securities in Abacus was ACA. It was not Paulson. That was by contract and pursuant to an engagement and was properly disclosed."
Au contraire... It's a key part of the SEC's case that the offering materials say that ACA was doing the picking, when Paulson had a hand in doing the picking -- no small thing actually. Paulson even knocked off eight names at the very end of the process, per the SEC complaint.
This was a billion dollar deal and the Offering Circular alone runs nearly 200 pages of the usual BS. There's an awful lot of disclosure. McKee Nelson -- which used to be a big securitization shop -- were the outside lawyers.
But I'd bet that McKee Nelson didn't know much about Paulson in the deal. It's not a good fact if McKee Nelson "asked for everything" but never knew that Paulson paid GS $15 million to initiate this deal and especially so if they were purposefully kept in the dark about Paulson helping pick the portfolio.
This wasn't the worst deal done in the last five years, but these kind of deals sucked from the get go. Goldman wasn't top of the league tables in doing these deals, if that's some consolation.
But DC and Wall Street lost their minds over mortgages.
One of the Goldman bankers involved in ABACUS has "disappeared." She's married to the founder of C-Bass, which was some kind of Merrill subprime mortgage conduit that blew up in 2008.
Many people think that we were collectively ripped off in the billions by criminal incestuous Wall Street insiders in 2007 - 2008. I half believe it too.
"But I'd wager if it goes the distance, Goldman wins."
SEC v Goldman will become a sideshow, unless more damning facts come out and it widens and connects to other actions. The SEC alone wouldn't worry me, but Goldman will lose this case.
By JPMcT, at Sun May 09, 10:28:00 PM:
"Goldman will lose this case"
Most sheep tied to a post do, indeed, ultimately lose.
That's a no-brainer.
Think of that the next time you are inclined to make a business donation to the Democratic Party.
There seems to be an infinite amount of room under the Obama bus wheels.


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I thought we were all just riding the recruiting high but 9 to 10 wins seems more realistic when you look at that chart. Go Hoke and Go Blue.
Wins of First Year Coaches 2001-2010
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I looked at the coaching records of new hires since 2001. There's a pretty wide spread. I looked at returing starters vs. this data but the data I have is incomplete. Hopefully this comes out. My wife is about to pull the plug on me.
I don't have time to play with the sizing here. This has some value maybe. If I come back to this I'll add more detail.
The negative 10 outlier is Stan Parrish following Brady Hoke at Ball State...
[Ed-M again: Adding some thoughts so I can get this to 200 words and bump to Diaries.
The bell curve here suggests the data are pretty solid, but a Delta of +0.5 or 1 wins for a new coach seems really really good. Reason being, look at the third chart, with the coaches who took over 12-win teams. We're not talking about replacing just fired guys, but also those who moved up or moved on after dream seasons. Michigan is in that 7-win area where only two teams improved.
So is there an advantage gained from having a 1st-year coach? This doesn't say, but it's not a massive disadvantage, which is what I kind of expected would happen.
I think this needs to show the difference between coaches replacing a fired guy (which suggests there was a level of suspected incompetence) versus a coach brought in to replace a legend or retiree, who in turn was followed out the door by most of his starters. In other words, it's gotta pull out the noise. There's plenty of that around, since we can expect the circumstances of the team that lost 10 more games from the year before had a lot more going into them than Stan Parrish (meh) taking over for Brady Hoke (RAWR!)].
Maybe I'm reading this wrong, but it looks to me like the chart indicates a 62% shot at 14-0.
The chart represents that only 2 coaches who inherited a team with 7 wins the previous year won more than 7 games the next year, so I'm unsure how you draw that conclusion.
However, I don't know that we can really draw any correlation between these numbers because of how many factors there are, what was the recuiting class like, how many players graduated, who was the coach that left, are there sanctions involved, Lane Kiffin is two of those dots, etc, etc.
EDIT: looking at it further, 13 coaches with 7 or fewer victories won 8 or more games in their first year, that's 6.5%. I think you can also see that the bulk of the positive deltas occur at or below 6 wins (which makes sense to me), but I think that colors the delta chart in a rosy light.
One thing I just noticed is that the trend goes up until year 6 and then drops a tad before it goes back up again at year 9. This is interesting if you think about the real first class a coach gets to recruit from start to finish is about 6 years out. By the time they are seniors one would assume they have bought in to the philosphy and schemes from the regime.
Then the little drop off (Years 7 & 8) are the kids/classes that need to step up and fill those shoes, as they mature they improve even more than their predecessors. Pretty cool, I like stats when one can apply some good old common sense to back it up.
um... where is this discussion coming from? unless i'm missing something, the above data only applies to the first year after a coach is hired. the numbers on the x-axis of the bottom chart are wins from the previous year, not years coached.
LOL Derp, I think I should not post before coffee.
ha, that was an impressive amount of analysis pre-coffee.
dude, that made my day. I am still laughing at how seriously you were analysing that data in entirely the wrong way. I agree with andrew though, that was some impressive analysis for having not had a coffee yet.
Dude...I'm still laughing (though I hope I'm laughing with you at this point and not at you).
finish this season 11-3 (Conference Championship lost and Bowl win included) thanks to hoke "walking" to Ann Arbor, Greg Mattison hiring, and D-Rob on a mission to prove he's a true dual-threat!. Bleed Maize and Blue
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What I find most interesting about the data is that the charts seem to show that first-year coaches tend to do as well as or better than their predecessors, and not only when taking over teams with very low win totals, but also when taking over teams in the 7-11 win range. Only the new coaches taking over 12-win teams appear to have consistently done worse, and it's pretty uncommon to post back-to-back 12-win seasons under any circumstances.
That's presumably because coaches tend to get fired for underperforming relative to talent and circumstance.
The slope of the least squares line is about 1. I don't think you can say that "first-year coaches tend to do as well as or better than their predecessors". Their success rate seems to be neither better nor worse. This is also pretty clear from the top graph which looks like a nice spread-out Bell centered around 0.
The observation about taking over 12-win teams is accurate, but there's obviously not much place else to go but down when your team wins 12 games in a season...
What this shows is that new coaches, in their first year, are (on average) no better than their predecessors. This suggests an 8–4 regular season would be pretty good for Michigan, and 9–3 would be outstanding.
I am not suggesting that the fans would be happy with 8–4, only pointing out what is realistic. At 9–3, Hoke would be in the 75th percentile for a first-year coach. At 8–4, he would be above average.
It would be interesting to see the data for Years 2 and 3. Most new head coaches replace someone who failed, so you expect to see improvement. However, the data suggests that it's hard to make great progress immediately, because you still have mostly the same players, and it takes a while to install a new system.
there are issues with some of the data (the +9 data point is not real - probably a few more of these with interim coaches) but I don't think it changes the distribution too much. I'm not going to be able to revisit this without marital strife.
On par new coaches don't do much their first year.
Exceptions (>2 delta wins) for 6+ win programs are Charlie Weis-Notre Dame-2005 COACH, Jimbo Fisher-Florida State-2010 COACH, Chris Petersen-Boise State-2006 COACH, Gary Crowton-BYU-2001 COACH.
Petersen is a stud but is not instructive - different team (9 wins)/league. Weis is ... Weis. Fisher was coach in waiting (same playbook-same terminology-less Bowden). Crowton looks like the best - "be like this guy" for Hoke.
Last year, we would have guaranteed improvement.


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How A Chin Up Can Change Your Life
This is one of the most difficult blogs I have ever had to write. Writing about personal issues is never easy. But when it is a message that everyone can benefit from, my responsibility is to share.
As a fitness professional, part of my job is traveling around the world presenting in hopes something I say can help someone else become more mentally or physically fit. I am honored to be in front of thousands of people a year and there are few rushes greater than receiving an email from someone's whose life has been positively changed as a result of something I said, did, or wrote.
But sometimes the hardest people to reach are the closest ones to you. The "expert" always seems to be someone you don't really know. In your own house, rarely are you seen as possessing as much expertise as someone you might find on the internet.
Helping the ones more familiar with you is not always easy. The people that you try to help the most sometimes fight back the hardest. How do I know? Because it was happening in my own home.
As any presenter knows, it is often easier to talk about some things than it is to do them. Here I was doing all I could to help people around the world and I couldn't seem to help the one closest to me: my wife.
Amanda was an athlete in high school and college, but after a career and four children, fitness had slipped away from her. After our fourth child, she was overweight and it definitely became a household issue that put a strain on us. The weight wasn't just holding her back, it was also hurting me because I knew if things didn't change, our disconnect could seriously damage our relationship. I was in a tough position. Although I had the information and experience to help her, bringing up the topic would only be a painful reminder of her current condition. Any mention of working out or a better diet usually resulted in an argument and oftentimes tears (and or some Baskin Robbins in spite).
Sometimes the best time to start new things is during a big moment of change. When many things are new, it could be the best time for a fresh start.
Exactly 2 years ago, we took on one of the most drastic changes as a family and moved from New Jersey to North Carolina. We were in a new state, would be making new friends and in many ways were starting over. It would be new schools to attend, a new house to fill, and a new refrigerator to fill too. In the moving process, there were many things we left behind. Some of it was furniture and old items that were either no longer needed or no longer served us. It was also the perfect time to leave some bad habits behind too. But to do this, I learned you have to take small steps and it helps to get some other people involved.
After the move, Amanda made some new friends that all had the habit of going to the gym. I was happy when Amanda said she was going to start with one day a week (as long as I wasn't there of course!) One day turned into two and she got past the initial soreness of training that had her limping up the stairs, the positive results started to happen. The weight started to come off, healthy foods started to show up and after a few months all my patience paid off with one magic question: "What do I have to do to get a chin up?"
It was my opening. Every experienced fighter looks for one. He or she waits for the right time, and that was my opportunity to strike. Finally, fitness wasn't MY thing anymore. It was OUR thing and she was open to my advice. We discussed methods of getting to the right weight and getting stronger. We up'ed her training to 4 days a week and I found myself often getting less workout time than her!
But then, sitting with our two-year-old while "mommy was at the gym," I received a video text on my phone. The video was Amanda getting the first chin up in almost two decades (and it was actually a pull up which is harder!) Of all the titles and awards I have helped people achieve, nothing made me more proud than that video.
But with any challenge, there is always more. The compliments rolled in and after losing 35 pounds, she got 2.
Then 2 became 5, and 5 became 7 chin ups in a row. Then she added more weight and even did one with 15 pounds added to her.
But it all started with that one chin up.
Whether you are looking to improve your own fitness or want to help the people closest to you, you need to find that opening. You need to be patient. But when you find his or her "chin up" you need to help how you can, positively comment when you have the chance and celebrate the successes when they happen.
This isn't just some theory I am writing about. This is something I lived first hand.
I originally created TFW over a decade and a half ago to help the best fighters in the world prepare for battle. Ironically, now that same TFW system is helping the people closest to me fight battles in our home. Now my daughter Sofia has to worry her house record for chin ups is in jeopardy. But more importantly now she (and all our kids) have a great role model of a mom.
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Title: Carrie Dunlap papers, 1907-1959
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The Ruth Bryan Owen letters are intimate personal letters to a lifelong woman friend. Within the group there are different signatures and/or letterheads 1) Mrs. Ruth Bryan Leavitt 2) R with B imposed upon the R within a circle 3) Ruth within a circle 4) Daniel 5) Ruth (Daniel) 6) Dan. The letters signed "Daniel"contain much information on the life and career of Ruth Bryan Owen.
There is much on the lectures, the film she wrote, financed and produced in Miami, and its promotion and distribution, her family, etc., but with William jennings Bryan mentioned only indirectly most of the time.
Among these letters are examples of the postmark for Cocoanut Grove with the "a" Oct. 27, 1919 and without the "a" Jan. 12, 1925. The last part of the collection are the personal papers of Carrie Dunlap. Most deal with her academic background, others with her retirement years.
The first part of this collection contains the letters by Ruth Bryan Owen (later Rohde) to Carrie Dunlap, 1907-1929; the second part are the credentials of Carrie Dunlap, the school teacher. Carrie was the daughter of Millard Fillmore Dunlap, banker in Jacksonville, Ill. and campaign treasurer for William Jennings Bryan.
The Honorable Ruth Bryan Owen was the first elected congresswoman from Florida, the first female Democratic member of the House from the "Old South" and later the first United States female ambassador. She sponsored the bill for the creation of the Everglades National Park. In addition, Ruth was the daughter of William Jennings Bryan who was nominated for President of the U.S. three times. He was last nominated in Denver in 1908 to run against William Howard Taft.
Access Restrictions: This collection is open for research.
Use Restrictions: Carrie Dunlap Papers Finding Aid © 1993 University of Miami. Requests to reproduce or publish materials from this collection should be directed to firstname.lastname@example.com.
Related Materials:
Marjory Stoneman Douglas Papers
Augustus Seymore Houghton Papers
Reclaiming the Everglades: South Florida's Natural History, 1884-1934For more information please see http://everglades.fiu.edu/reclaim/bios/owen.htm.
Finding Aid Revision History: Revised by Beatrice C. Skokan on 03/26/2009.
Container List (PDF): http://proust.library.miami.edu/findingaids/legacy/asm0061CL.pdf


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February 22, 2013
Ye Olde Post
Guys, it's Friday. I'm in jeans and I just need to make it through the next seven hours. I'm so very excited for this weekend because Adam finally doesn't have to work this Saturday so we will be going to the Renaissance Fair!! Sure, I go every year, but this year is special... because I will finally be dressing up this time! I mean in full puffy dress, long sleeves, bodice type dressing up. Adam has even agreed to dress up with me. You have no idea how excited this makes me.
We will be making a point to take pictures and eat one of those massive turkey legs while we are there. Happy day!!
This is definitely one of those places where you feel
awkward when you're
the one dressed up.
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February 20, 2013
Not So Wise Now
So I got my wisdom teeth out last Thursday and boy, was that interesting. My face is finally going back to it's normal size and I'm starting to be able to eat more than applesauce and pudding.
Second day puffy right there, and day two of not showering. Thankfully Adam's family let me stay at their house in the "sick chair" where I could recuperate and try to be less dead. Adam was very sweet and changed out my bloody gauze as well as taking video of me right after the oporation. It's a little embarrasing but kinda entertaining so I thought I'd share.
Part 1
Part 2
Part 3
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February 07, 2013
Five Things I'd Rather Be Doing
I'm stitting here at work with a very full tummy (turning on my sleep mode) with three hours left of work to go. Although I love my job, there are quite a few other things I would like to be doing:
Cleaning my room.
I know this may sound like torture to some of your but my room is horrible and I desperately need a clean slate. Also, if I clean my room, I can get my new bookcases in finally!
Playing outside.
I don't know if you're in Arizona or not, but February is a beautiful month where it is sunny and warm outside with birds singing (it's like everyone elses' late spring). I do not want to be stuck inside on a day like this.
Cuddling my man.
Adam has been putting some crazy hours at work so I haven't been able to see him much. Knowing that we are both amazingly tired, I would love to just laze about on the couch with him watching our shows.
Working on my homework.
This also sounds like a very not fun thing, but when your classes are fiction writing and drawing, it doesn't exactly feel like homework.
Driving to the beach.
It's been a few years since I've been to the ocean and I feel it calling my name. It's one of those urges I get every once in a while that needs to be quickly satisfyed lest I feel inccomplete.
So there is my list, and in exactly 2 hours and 50 minutes, I'll be on my way to freedom.
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February 05, 2013
A New Start
Wow wow wow. It's been way too long since the last time I blogged. I couldn't talk about it earlier for obvious reasons, but I left my old job at the law firm for...duhn duhn duuuunh!!! Another law firm! This time instead of being the receptionist who does what everyone doesn't want to do, I'm a paralegal for one of my attorneys from the last job. I've only been here for five days and it's a lot to learn but I'm having fun. I definitely stay busy and get a lot of work done. The office is super beautiful and there lots of other attorneys besides patent and trademark attorneys.
I'm trying to get back into the blogging realm but it might take a while since school started up. This time I'm taking Intermediate Fiction Writing and Drawing 101. I love both these classes but the three hour class periods are kind of killing me, especially right when I get off work and run to school. Luckily I get along with my teachers and it's only three days a week.
So next weekend I'm getting my wisdom teeth taken out and I'm going to have Adam record the aftermath. If it's funny (and not too embarrassing) I'll most likely link it to a post for your viewing enjoyment. I planned it right on Valentines day (so romantic) and then won't have to go back to work till Tuesday thanks to the holiday coming up. So it'll be a five day weekend for me. [Here's a
to my favorite wisdom teeth video]
I also didn't get to blog about my trip home to Washington this January but it wasn't exactly super eventful. Lots of laying around the house with my family having fun and being cold.
Oh! And I ended up in the ER again a few weeks ago. This was for these huge convulsions I was having (not a seizure). It wouldn't stop and Adam literally had to drag me out of my bed to get me to go (from my last experience with the hospital and the massive bills left behind, you can probably see why). We waited in the waiting room for 4 hours before my "twitching" had finally stopped. I couldn't even walk before that. So five hours total time, without seeing and doctor, and a promise to be very sore the next day, I was finally dropped off at my house around 2am.
I guess a lot has happened to me in the last few weeks I haven't been blogging. I'll try harder to do some regular posting.
Over and out.
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