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Nice looking bike, I love the colour. I went the 612 route but now heading down the 535 Fireball route.Heres mine :
Here's my latest project. Hardtail frame, left shift 5 speed, kick start, 612cc motor, front fender on rear, etc. Hope I can load picture not to good at that. ERC
Your bike looks great. It will be interesting to see how the one I'm putting together runs. The seat you have is it comfortable? I have a similar one, put it on didn't like it when I sat on it so I made up some brackets and put a foam filled one on. ERC
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Driveshaft Rebuild - ShaftedWritten by on July 14, 2011 The driveshaft is often the forgotten link of your vehicle. This month we'll show you how it works and how to keep yours from breaking.
As automotive enthusiasts, most of us are familiar with the parts needed to make an engine more powerful, a transmission shift harder, or even the rear axle gear ratio required for maximum acceleration. But what about the link between the transmission and the rear end, the driveshaft? Because the driveshaft can't really enhance the performance of our vehicle we often forget about it, just assuming it will do its job until something bad happens. And when bad things happen to a driveshaft, yoke, or universal joints, your drive can get disastrous in a hurry. At the very least, a driveshaft problem will leave your vehicle stranded, and at worst can lead to transmission and rear end damage, or loss of control of the vehicle. For these reasons, the driveshaft is one part of a Mopar where preventive maintenance pays off.
As you'll see in our Hidden Treasures column this month, we recently purchased a groovy '78 Dodge Tradesman 200 California show van. As a running and driving vehicle, we made the trip from Ft. Myers, Florida, back to Lakeland, Florida, without much incident in our new purchase, but noticed a moderate vibration coming from the van's drivetrain. While driveline vibrations can have a variety of sources, experience told us that this vibration was coming from either the driveshaft, transmission or pinion yoke, or one of the universal joints.
It's really no surprise that problems occur with the prop shaft, or driveshaft of a vehicle, especially one that's used in a high-performance application or hauls heavy loads. Every time you drop your car into gear or let the clutch out, the driveshaft is absorbing the torque of the engine and transferring it to the vehicle's differential. Each time you accelerate or decelerate, the driveshaft and its related components are loaded and unloaded, and it happens countless times during a normal drive. The bearings inside the universal joints take a beating as well, since the driveshaft spins at thousands of rpm each time the vehicle is driven. Add a smoky burnout or two or run over some debris, and the shaft itself can become bent and out of balance, which will eventually lead to universal joint failure or premature wear of the pinion bearing of the rear end, or the output shaft bearing or yoke bushing of the transmission.
In our case, we weren't sure what was causing the vibration in our van as the universal joints seemed to be tight and in serviceable condition. While under the van, however, we did notice several dents in our driveshaft indicating it could have been damaged by road debris. Since the driveshaft spins at a relatively high rate, a bend in the driveshaft can cause a pretty severe vibration which can only be repaired by straightening and rebalancing the shaft, or re-tubing the driveshaft altogether. With this in mind, we pulled the driveshaft from the vehicle and took it to our local driveshaft shop, Central Florida Driveshaft, to have it repaired.
Once at Central Florida Driveshaft, the staff placed our shaft in one of their driveshaft lathes to check it for straightness and balance. Spinning the shaft on the lathe, it was quickly apparent that our driveshaft was severely bent and would require major repair. In some instances the shaft can be straightened, but in our case the driveshaft would have to be cut apart and rebuilt with a new tube. Fortunately, Central Florida Driveshaft has new driveshaft tubes, ends, universal joints, and even yokes to make repairs easy. For our driveshaft they recommended replacing the tube, and to save us a few bucks they offered to use a second-hand tube that was in good shape. In addition to rebuilding driveshafts, most driveshaft shops can shorten, rebalance, and repair driveshafts in addition to installing new universal joints. On other project vehicles we've even had them make a driveshaft from scratch based on our measurements.
Unlike the local parts store which may only offer one choice, most driveshaft shops keep a variety of quality parts in stock, including American made universal joints. Mopars used two distinct sizes of u-joint, commonly referred to as the big and small u-joint. Since often a rear differential swap results in a pinion yoke that doesn't match the driveshaft, most driveshaft shops offer adapter u-joints which go from one size to the other, saving the time and expense of changing the yoke or driveshaft. Central Florida Driveshaft offers same-day driveshaft service in most cases, ensuring your ride isn't off the road any longer than necessary to complete repairs. Since our driveshaft needed to be rebuilt with a new tube, we followed along to show you what is involved in rebuilding a Mopar driveshaft.
After it was initially determined that our driveshaft was pretty severely bent, the team at Central Florida Driveshaft quickly cut the ends off of our old shaft and found a secondhand driveshaft that was in good shape to use as a replacement. Since the majority of driveshaft damage occurs at the ends, mostly due to abuse and worn-out or dry u-joints, longer shafts can be cut down and used in shorter applications by welding on new ends. Having the right equipment is necessary to keep the driveshaft aligned and straight during the rebuild process, and the driveshaft must be rebalanced once the work is complete by welding weights to the outside of the shaft. The crew at Central Florida Driveshaft completed the work on our driveshaft and installed new, American made u-joints in a couple of hours. And after reinstalling our repaired driveshaft, our van drives great with no more vibrations. Now we can concentrate on getting our cool cruiser ready for this year's Hot Rod Power Tour by searching the internet for a disco ball, fender flares, TV aerial, and side pipes!
While we were at Central Florida Driveshaft we asked what the most common driveshaft failures were. According to the staff, lack of proper lubrication is the single largest cause of the failures they see, with abuse being a distant second. As you can see from the above examples, bad things can happen when a universal joint comes apart, and adequate lubrication can stop most failures. Central Florida Driveshaft recommends the u-joints be greased at each oil change and checked regularly for sloppiness or wear. If a problem is caught in time, it will require simply having new universal joints installed. If not caught in time, the problem could lead to failure of the u-joint and driveshaft and damage to other components of the vehicle or even injury to occupants. So, when's the last time you lubricated and inspected your u-joints?
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1 We picked up this '78 Dodge Tradesman van as a cool driver and inexpensive alternative to typical A-, B-, and E-Body Mopars. The van's 360 runs good, and the vehicle is in overall great shape, but we noticed a driveline vibration that needs to be addressed before it causes damage. Narrowing the problem down to the driveshaft, we decided to pull the shaft and take it to our local shop, Central Florida Driveshaft, to be rebuilt.2 Always set the parking brake to keep the vehicle from moving—or in our case, a wooden block. Remember that "park" gear will only hold the vehicle if the driveshaft is in place. Also, place a drain pan under the transmission tailshaft to catch any transmission fluid once you pull the slip-yoke out.3 Having an extra 727 slip-yoke around is helpful as it can be installed to prevent leaks and to keep dirt from getting in the transmission while the driveshaft is being repaired. This is one we shattered in one of our race cars, but it still works for our purpose here.4 Once removed, be sure to hold the caps on the rear u-joint by wrapping tape around the u-joint and driveshaft. Failure to do this can result in the caps falling off and the needle bearings being scattered about the floor. If this happens, it's difficult to find all of them or get them back in the cap properly, so it's easier just to tape the u-joint.5 Once removed from the vehicle, we could see several dents in our driveshaft, likely caused by running over some major debris. Though it is possible to straighten driveshafts that are slightly bent, we think this one will need to be re-tubed.6b ..The driveshaft is placed in a specially made lathe where it can be checked for straightness and balance.7 As soon as our driveshaft began to spin, it was apparent that it was too severely bent to straighten. The only option here is to cut the ends of our existing shaft and install them on a different tube.
9 The driveshaft ends can now be fitted to the new (or in our case, used) tube to ensure a proper fit prior to welding. The driveshaft is actually three pieces, a center tube and two ends, that are welded together to form the driveshaft.10 Once the ends are fitted, the shaft is placed in the lathe again where the ends are welded in place. This is somewhat of an art as the driveshaft is turning at a low rpm, adding one more variable to the welding process.11 With the ends welded, the shaft can be balanced using equipment installed on the same driveshaft lathe. This is a specialty piece of equipment, allowing complete driveshaft servicing and repair on a single piece of equipment to save time.12 The dynamic balancing a driveshaft is very similar to balancing automotive wheels and tires. As the shaft is spun, the balancing unit determines how much weight is needed and in what location.13 Weights are initially held in place with tape while the driveshaft is spun for balancing, then once the best balance is achieved they're tack-welded onto the shaft. Central Florida Driveshaft balances their shafts to better than OEM standards, ensuring each driveshaft operates smoothly. If we install this driveshaft and have a vibration, we should look elsewhere for the source.14a Balanced and ready for service, Central Florida Driveshaft installs new universal joints and the slip-yoke, then liberally greases the u-joints using the installed grease fittings...14b ...Most universal joints have a grease fitting either in the body or in one of the caps. We prefer the fitting in a cap so that the body of the u-joint isn't compromised by the hole.15 As a final step the driveshaft is painted, making our used tube look far better. New driveshafts are painted as well, both to inhibit rust and for aesthetic purposes. With this final step complete we're ready to reinstall our shaft and take the van for a cruise.


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Saturday, June 11, 2016
Newmanstown, PA - There's an old saying in the sports world, "sometimes you've got to lose one (or two) before you can win one." After Saturday evening's event at Lanco's Clyde Martin Memorial Speedway, Morris just might subscribe to that theory.
A couple of near misses earlier in the season - one in which Morris spun himself out while going for the lead - left the Riegelsville, Pa. wheel-twister frustrated but hungrier than ever to record his first career victory on the banks of the Clyde. On Saturday, May 18, that desire carried him to the winner's circle in the 600cc Micro-Sprint feature on MJF Trucking Night at the speedway in Newmanstown, Pa.
Along with Morris, Eric Falini (270cc), Kyle Hehnly (125cc), Jason Swavely (Sportsman), and Ryan Morris (250cc Four-Stroke) all posed for victory lane photos on Saturday. Falini's triumph in the final main event of the night was shortened by rain, as 14 of the scheduled 25 laps were complete before a light mist became heavier and made the track too slick and slimy for racing. Since the race was beyond its halfway point, it was declared official.
The 600cc feature began with polesitter Will Urkuski setting the pace for the first seven revolutions around the Clyde Martin oval. James Morris took the green from the outside of row two, but quickly maneuvered his way to the runner-up spot, with sixth-starter Shane Lewis on his heels.
On the eighth tour, Urkuski got a little bit out of shape in turn two, opening the door for Morris to scoot under him. The two raced wing to wing down the backchute, with Morris edging into the lead as they barreled off of the fourth turn.
Lewis followed Morris past Urkuski, and the Honeybrook Hustler continued his charge to the front by slipping past Morris as the duo accelerated off the second corner. The yellow lights flashed on before Lewis could be scored as the leader, however, putting Morris back in front for the restart with eight circuits in the books.
Despite several attempts by Lewis to shove the nose of his No. 55L under his B&M Auto Body/ Hyper No. 75x, Morris was able to keep his mount at the head of the pack for the duration of the event.
Trailing Morris and Lewis to the checkered were two-time winner Tyler Esh, Eric Bodine, and Heath Hehnly.
Kameron Morral started 17th and finished ninth, earning the 600Scene.com Hard Charger Award.
James Morris registered the quickest lap of the 600cc headliner, thereby earning the Weld Racing Fast Lap of the Feature for his 10.367-second trip around the clay.
Mark Yoder, Hehnly, and Bodine won heat races for the 29-car field. The consolation race was won by Brittany Brown.
In the MJF Trucking nightcap, the 25-lapper for the 270cc Micro-Sprints, an incident on the opening lap forced a complete restart for the 24-cars who made the starting lineup. When they took the green again, the drivers responded by zipping off 14 consecutive laps under green before Billy Logeman came to a stop in turn four, bringing out the yellow flag.
With polesitter Eric Falini showing the way for those first 14 tours, runner-up Nate Weidman slowed and stopped during the caution period. While the track crew worked on removing the Logeman and Weidman cars, the mist (that had been falling since the race went green) intensified, forcing officials to halt the race.
An effort was made to bring the track back into racing condition, but the drivers and officials agreed that it was time to call it a night when the moisture continued to fall.
Falini and his Harmony Auto & Cycle Center No. 80 were declared the winner, with Brian Sholley, Jason Swavely, Mike Rutherford, and Bradley Brown making up the top five when the race was stopped.
Heat race winners included Jesse Maurer, Swavely, and Rutherford. While eight cars were eligible to compete in the consolation race, just six of them showed up on the starting grid. Since all six were guaranteed to qualify, the race was not run and Tony Ecternacht, the polesitter, was declared the winner.
A total of 26 race teams signed in for 270cc competition on Saturday.
Kyle Hehnly's story was much the same as James Morris...Hehnly appeared to have the fastest 125cc Micro-Sprint in two or three of the early season shows, but mechanical gremlins always seemed to appear at the most inappropriate times, like when he was rocketing to the front of the pack or poised for a top two or top three finish.
Hehnly shook his bad luck in grand style last weekend, winning on Friday night at Linda's Speedway, then backing up that triumph with a redemption-earning victory at the Clyde on Saturday.
From his outside front row starting spot, Hehnly outgunned poleman Zack Hollinger as Tim Gehret unfurled the green flag to begin the 25-lapper for the 125cc racers.
Richie Hartman, the defending point champ and winner of the feature on May 4, shot from fifth to second on the opening circuit. Subbing for Dave Grube (who was in a relative's wedding on Saturday), Mike Rutherford drove the No. 3D from the tenth starting position up to third by the time four laps had been scored.
The second and final caution period occurred with ten revolutions complete and Hartman applying some pretty intense pressure on leader Kyle Hehnly. On the restart, however, Hehnly dashed away from Hartman and Rutherford, building a comfortable advantage as the laps clicked off quickly.
The teenager from Stevens, Pa. handled lapped traffic like a veteran and beat Hartman to the stripe by 1.782-seconds. Rutherford survived a nip and tuck battle with Jesse Maurer to finish third, and Derek Ecenrode wound up fifth.
Heat races for the 19 cars went to Ecenrode and Hehnly.
Jason Swavely won his second Sportsman main event of the season, but it did not come aboard his familiar ride, the No. 7c.
Since Ken Miller was not in attendance on Saturday (he was with his son, Kenny III, at a big Quarter-Midget race in Tennessee), Mark Yoder was given the chance to drive Miller's No. 7P. During the Sportsman heats, Swavely's No. 7c suffered mechanical problems, forcing him to drop out well before the checkered.
Because Swavely is trying for his third consecutive Sportsman point title, he and Yoder switched rides for the feature. So Jason Swavely drove teammate Ken Miller's No. 7P to victory, even though he had to start at the rear of the 17-car field due to the exchange of cars.
The Douglassville, Pa. charger flew into third as lap four was completed, claiming the position after a three-wide battle with Bret Habecker and Matt Abers.
He soon secured the runner-up spot from Sheena Logeman and set his sights on leader Wesley Fasnacht. Rumbling off turn four and about to be scored for the tenth time, Swavely blasted to the inside of Fasnacht and assumed command on the homestretch...a lead he would maintain to the end.
Swavely crossed the finish line with a margin of 3.772-seconds over Habecker, with Sheena Logeman placing third. Abers and Fasnacht finished fourth and fifth, respectively.
The Weld Racing Fast Lap of the Feature was recorded by Swavely, as he turned a quick lap of 11.204-seconds.
Curtis R. Miller and Fasnacht were victorious in Sportsman heat race action on Saturday.
Steering the Elite Concrete/ Animal Resorts No. 93, Honeybrook's Ryan Morris captured his second straight win and third overall in the main event for the 250cc Four-Stroke Micros.
Starting on the outside of the fourth row, Morris weaved his way to third after three trips around the oval. He bypassed Lew Kepple for second on the seventh tour, then squeezed under Scott Renninger to grab the top spot on lap nine.
Two-time winner Chip Geib motored into the runner-up spot with ten to go, but could not get close enough to challenge Morris.
At the conclusion of the 25-lapper, it was R. Morris, C. Geib, and Renninger, who notched the best finish of his Lanco career. Donna Geib was fourth, followed by Lew Kepple.
With a dozen of the Four-Strokes on hand, the two heat races were won by Kepple and R. Morris.
The five feature winners received gift certificates as part of the K1 Race Gear Proven Performance Program presented by Nouse Signs & Graphics. The gift certificates can be used for the purchase of a new two or three-layer custom race suit from K1 Race Gear.
The Mark Millwright & Rigging point chases now get a week off as the Lanco club's annual Memorial Day Open Show takes center stage this Saturday, May 25. The non-points program will consist of both winged and non-wing 600cc activity; the 600's will compete in a complete show of qualifying and 30-lap feature with wings bolted to the top of the roll cage, then come back and race again in another complete program - but minus their wings. The wingless portion of the Memorial Day Open Show is the second annual Kerry Gilbert Memorial Race, run to honor the memory of the longtime Lanco racer, club officer, and track official who did so much for the organization and its drivers.
The 600's will be joined by the 270cc, 125cc, Sportsman, and 250cc Four-Stroke Micro-Sprints for the Memorial Day Open, which is sponsored by Bud's Spring Service and carries rain dates of Sunday, May 26 and, if needed, Monday, May 27.
Gates will open at 2 p.m. on Saturday, with warm-ups scheduled to begin at 4:15. The first heat race goes green at 5:30, which is 30-minutes earlier than normal.
General admission tickets for adults are just $8.00, with discounts for Senior Citizens and Students. Youth between the ages of six and twelve are admitted for just $2.00, and children under the age of six are free. And parking is always free at the Clyde!
The speedway will be dark on Saturday, June 1...there will be no racing as the club takes its yearly "spring break" on the first Saturday in June. The excitement returns on June 8 when the five weekly divisions of Micro-Sprints swing back into action.
600cc Micro-Sprint Feature, 25 laps: 1.James Morris, 2.Shane Lewis, 3.Tyler Esh, 4.Eric Bodine, 5.Heath Hehnly, 6.Will Urkuski, 7.Taylor Troxel, 8.Tim Iulg, 9.Kameron Morral, 10.Brent Ely,, 11.Steve Kemery, 12.Mark Yoder, 13.A.J. Michael, 14.Mike Rutherford, 15.Ryan Morris, 16.Dan Souder, 17.Brittany Brown, 18.Bruce Ginther Jr., 19.Travis Esh, 20.Chris Gerhart, 21.Jared Esh, 22.Mike Freed, 23.Peter Michael, 24.Kory Merkey.
DNQ: Jered Hook, Paul Graham, Troy Musselman, Chris Panczner, Rebecca LaMothe.
270cc Micro-Sprint Feature, 25 laps (rained out after 14 laps): 1.Eric Falini, 2.Brian Sholley, 3.Jason Swavely, 4.Mike Rutherford, 5.Bradley Brown, 6.Jesse Maurer, 7.Heath Hehnly, 8.Kyle Spence, 9.Zack Fouse, 10.Danny Braun Jr., 11.Barry Shearer, 12.Christi Sweigart, 13.Jim Skias, 14.Nate Weidman, 15.Billy Logeman, 16.Dan Lane Jr., 17.Damon Bomgardner, 18.Corey Schmuck Jr., 19.Nick Sweigart, 20.Kory Shissler, 21.Michael Binkley, 22.Tony Echternacht, 23.Richie Hartman, 24.Sheena Logeman.
DNQ: Kevin Kopp, Toby Blumenshine.
125cc Micro-Sprint Feature, 25 laps: 1.Kyle Hehnly, 2.Richie Hartman, 3.Mike Rutherford, 4.Jesse Maurer, 5.Derek Ecenrode, 6.Dylan Adams, 7.Chase Gutshall, 8.Kory Merkey, 9.Nick Sweigart, 10.Adam Minzer, 11.Chip Geib, 12.Brent Shearer, 13.Matthew Donley, 14.Dylan Binkley, 15.Zack Hollinger, 16.Brie Weiler, 17.Alexis Sheely, 18.Walt Wampole, 19.Jimmy Wampole.
Sportsman Micro-Sprint Feature, 25 laps: 1.Jason Swavely, 2.Bret Habecker, 3.Sheena Logeman, 4.Matt Abers, 5.Wesley Fasnacht, 6.Charles Hellinger, 7.Anthony Yerger, 8.Dave Kemp, 9.Robert Shanaman, 10.Jas Hehnly, 11.Jenna Heagy, 12.Matt Peachey, 13.Tim Ziegler, 14.Kerry Lengle, 15.Mark Yoder, 16.Curtis R. Miller, 17.Brian Becker.
250cc Four-Stroke Micro-Sprint Feature, 25 laps: 1.Ryan Morris, 2.Chip Geib, 3.Scott Renninger, 4.Donna Geib, 5.Lewis Kepple Jr., 6.Eddie Nocera, 7.Devin Adams, 8.Kim Enck, 9.Ronald Good, 10.Steve Smith Sr., 11.Sheila Fetter. DNS: Brandon Morrison.
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Iowa State Begins NCAA Regional Play This Week
AMES, Iowa – The Iowa State women's golf team was focused during the week in preparation for the 2014 NCAA West Regional, May 8-10 at the Tumble Creek at Suncadia Resort in Elum, Wash.
The Cyclones, ranked 25th nationally by Golfweek, are making their school-record fifth-straight NCAA Regional appearance and yearning for their first trip to the NCAA finals. Twice in the last four years, the Cyclones were just five shots shy from advancing on (2010 and 2011).
Iowa State head coach Christie Martens knows how special it would be for her team to advance to the National Tournament.
"Making it to regionals is a great accomplishment, but now it's about testing ourselves and seeing how good can we be and embrace the process of getting better," Martens said. "Now we have two seniors in our lineup that really want that to be a big part of their legacy."
This year's NCAA Championship will be contested at the Tulsa Country Club, May 20-23 in Tulsa, Okla. The top eight teams and low two individuals not among the top eight teams in each of the three regionals will advance on to the NCAA finals.
Iowa State is led by its top-four players Sasikarn On-iam, Prima Thammaraks, Cajsa Persson and Chonlada Chayanun. All four boast stroke averages of 74.05 or below, rank in the top-150 nationally and have the capability of going low at any tournament, as attested by their 10 combined top-10 finishes.
Seniors On-iam and Thammaraks have been the backbone of ISU's success in the last four years. Both will be playing in their fourth NCAA Regional, joining Punpaka Phuntumabamrung and Beth Bader as the only Cyclones to achieve the feat.
On-iam leads the team in stroke average at 73.28 and is coming off a top-10 performance at the Big 12 Championship (T9th) en route to all-tournament honors. On-iam was named Big 12 Golfer of the Month in March after tying for medalist honors at the Hurricane Invitational.
Thammaraks is fourth on the team in stroke average (74.04) and has two top-10s on the season. She leads all current Cyclones with eight career top-10 finishes.
You can follow all the live scoring at the NCAA West Regional at Golfstat.com.
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Born Ian Holm Cuthbert on Sept. 12, 1931 in Goodmayes, Essex, England, he was the son of Scottish parents James Harvey Cuthbert and Jean Wilson. Holm's parents worked together at West Ham Corporation Mental Hospital, where his mother was a nurse and his father wore many hats, including as a psychiatrist, the hospital's superintendant and an early innovator in the controversial technique of shock therapy treatment. Raised in London, Holm was educated at the nearby Chigwell School in Essex. Drawn to acting and the theater after attending a production of "Les Misérables," he joined a local drama society in his teens, and later won admission to the revered Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in 1949.... Continue Bio >>
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Irene Ayad, who received her Ph.D. from Cornell University, is an architectural historian and urbanist with particular interest in 20th century western and non-western architecture as well as in community development and historic preservation.
She is currently completing a manuscript on Louis Kahn's social housing and community projects. Her essay "Louis I. Kahn and Space Frames," focuses on Kahn's triangulated structures and their impact on his mature work. The essay is published in Beyond the Cube: The Architecture of Space Frames and Polyhedra. The book received and "honorable mention" by the AIA. In addition she has published several critical reviews of manuscripts on Kahn's work.
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Ole Miss sophomore Kevin Gilmore was found dead in a remote area of the campus. The scholarship basketball player had missed a game the night before his body was found.
One the first anniversary of the discovery of Kevin Gilmore's body, the Ole Miss student-run newspaper took a look back at the incident.
Could a campus urban legend that Ole Miss students have been passing down for years reveal at least part of the truth behind Kevin Gilmore's death?
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A contingent of Royals associates served a Thanksgiving meal today at the Guadalupe Centers, Inc. in Kansas City.
The mission of the Guadalupe Centers, Inc. is to improve the quality of life for individuals in the Latino communities of greater Kansas City.
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Absolutely! Netflix's problems were started by the rate change more than any other factor by a huge margin.
As to the 5 shows that AMC produces, it is not sure at all that the Killing will be around much anymore. I read somewhere yesterday that this season is down 20% from previous seasons. While I like it very much, I can understand that. How long can you have a show about a single crime?
The others are all niche shows. I love Walking Dead and Hell on Wheels, and like Breaking Bad, never did like Mad Men. And I'm 68, well out of the niche demo that Walking Dead seems to cater to.
Did you catch Rubicon? IMO, it was AMC's best show & I love them all. It was "too smart" for the general population who loves weekly "who done it" criminal shows.


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Zone of the Enders Review
Konami 2001, 2012
There are hints of potential greatness throughout
Zone of the Enders
: dog fights between agile war machines, high speed action with stunning camera work, and a story of innocent youth caught in the midst pointless bloodshed. Most notable, though, is the Orbital Frame -- the weapon you pilot -- Jehuty. Because when it comes to cool looking robots that have defined much of Japan's most popular cultural exports, Jehuty could easily be the sexiest.
It has the aerodynamic look of a machine, a crystal like sharpness to its limbs, but utilizes organic animation, its ligaments moving with a human familiarity. Jehuty looks like it could be, and is in fact named after, a god. Controls like one, too, requiring a constant firing of its back jets to gracefully whoosh around your locked on target, dodging lasers and then dashing in with your forearm blade. Then, when things get hot, you can quickly cast distance between you and your enemies while splashing them with collective bursts of energy from multi-shot cannons.
But the actual person inside Jehuty is less than divine, he's Leo Stenbuck, and you've heard his story before. A big hearted boy who accidently stumbles upon great power and must use it against his will, facing the horrors of war at a pure age. The premise of many popular anime series, it has every reason to work for
Zone of the Enders
, but Leo Stenbuck is there to make sure it doesn't. You'll hear plenty of "No, you listen!" "I won't fight for you anymore!" and "Leave me out of this!" throughout, a spine chillingly dumb series of adolescent rage. Of all kinds of people to come aboard a killing machine this badass, it had to be Leo.
That may be a personal frustration, depending on what you were expecting from
Zone of the Enders
, but the real problem is the game doesn't capitalize on this annoying and melodramatic teen. Because convenient for Leo, all of the enemies you'll be facing are unmanned machines. A message of anti violence supplemented by constant battle against computers, the game cheaply dodges its own message and challenges. Leo's unwillingness to take life is never tested effectively, even the colony he fights to save being void of human activity. Robots hovering over lifeless cities, Leo might as well be playing a video game.
And not a very good one, as admiring the dynamic camera that follows the clashing of blades and high speed combat is about as much you can appreciate. Which does get old when there are only two types (and a half, being generous) types of enemies and an almost equal variety of different environments that you'll be repeatedly back tracking to as you collect upgrades for Jehuty. These upgrades are most often new weapons, always completely ineffective compared to your simple combo swings. And so as powerful as Jehuty initially feels, the game and its encounters are nearly unchanging from start to finish.
You'll melee everything until you hit huge bosses that force a more removed approach with their ranged barrages. Here you simply hold down your jets in one direction and return fire, effectively dodging everything. Combating this boredom is the fact that these bosses are actually manned by human opponents, giving an opportunity for some drama, but they amount to adults that simply mock Leo about his young age. "I won't let some kid make a fool of me!" pretty much sums up the atmosphere of all the fights, shallow encounters reminiscent of many forms of entertainment geared to rile up young children. Maybe the game should of shot for something below an M rating.
More offensive is that even when Leo's naivety gets another friend of his nearly killed, he remains oblivious, never making any leaps in maturity. Instead of recognizing his limits as a pacifist, the game steers him into falling for Jehuty's battle computer, ADA, the female voice that tutors you throughout the game. She repeatedly reminds him that she's a program and incapable of emotion, but Leo doesn't seem to understand that, or anything else for that matter. Before that relationship can even hope to come to fruition, however,
Zone of the Enders
end its 3 hour tale, never taking the brilliance of Jehuty's agility and control to a competitive level. And when you get to pilot something so wickedly designed, it makes the experience that much more unforgivable.
Booting the game up again in 2012 is indeed a depressing reminder of what could have been. The opening screen lending ear to a
main menu theme
, sung with an electronically resonating, reverberating female voice, sharply lifting and echoing towards you from what feels like the very voids of outer space. For that brief flicker of haunting beauty,
Zone of the Enders
feels like it's going to be utterly legendary. The Japanese space opera of human strife and combat mechs to define a generation.
What a tease.
Zone of the Enders: The 2nd Runner Review
Konami 2003, 2012
Konami has left Jehuty in a coffin on Callisto, an icy moon off of Jupiter, as the only salvageable remnant of their first attempt at the genre of high speed robot action. Too beautiful a beast to be scrapped entirely, Jehuty and its battle A.I. personality, ADA, are instead safely stored away, waiting to be reawakened by a 2nd Runner. That pilot turns out to be retired ace, Dingo Egret, who also comes across the machine by accident, but perhaps this time giving the developers one more shot at creating a game Jehuty deserves.
That there is more action in
The 2nd Runner's
first few minutes than there was in its predecessor's entirety is certainly a good start. The opposing military force that Leo faced before, BAHRAM, floods the moon's snowy canyons with both familiar and new enemy types, making a massive skirmish as grounds for the Dingo's first tutorial aboard Jehuty. But being a smug veteran with a watchful eye for the safety of his comrades, Dingo shows no hesitation in piloting the Orbital Frame and engaging the hostiles that seek its seizure.
The ease of Jehuty's power comes across just as brilliantly as before, but with a decisive character in the driver's seat and enough targets to actually justify the firepower,
The 2nd Runner
feels entirely different from its predecessor, and extraordinarily more appropriate. Flocks of drones blot the skies and reveal that your laser cannons can lock on to dozens at once, sending out dancing blue vectors that create a dazzling show of explosions and smoke rendered in a subtle cell shade. All while you dash between spurts of melee and dispatch enemy frames into burnt embers,
The 2nd Runner's
visual flare never fails to compliment its anime styled violence.
Many fans of the genre would probably like to see their own imagined mecha anime come to life in this way, and perhaps that's what's being seen here in Kojima's (the producer) refashioned vision for
Zone of the Enders
. A new explosive playground of action cut up between well produced cartoon cutscenes,
The 2nd Runner
begins with some really cool concepts and entertaining developments, namely Dingo's dire predicament. Shot multiple times in the back by his ex comrade, Nohman, Dingo is left for dead, floating in his own blood in a zero gravity corridor. Witnessing the murder, Ken Marinaris, a spy within BAHRAM and Nohman's ranks, figures that Dingo's talents are worth saving, and so she revives the pilot.
But the gesture is hardly one of sympathy. Dingo awakes to find himself in a high tech plug suit and back inside Jehuty, the machine he pilots now acting as his life support. If he leaves the cockpit or disobeys Ken's orders, he's a goner. The complete linkage of a human being to a weapon in this manner shows fascinating potential in creating a real bond between the player and Jehuty's A.I., ADA, and at some moments it really delivers. Particularly one dog fight against an enemy Orbital Frame who battles you from pitch darkness, where ADA's voice is all you can rely on. She counts down the distance between you and the enemy pilot, simultaneously warning you of incoming attacks before you come to a melee engagement and a chance to deal damage.
All of the boss encounters feature a kind of creative element like this, though few end up as interesting. Viola, Leo's old nemesis, returns as a vengeful A.I. for several spars with Dingo, for example. Each time she'll require some kind of physical attack to break through her shields, typically some piece of metal from the environment for you to break her charges with. Once that is figured out she's quite the bore, as are other bosses that fall too deeply into their own patterns. These methodical battles pale in comparison to
The 2nd Runner's
more shoot'em up styled set pieces, such as taking on an armada of battle ships or working your way up an outfitted train in a high speed subway chase.
Dodging cannon fire as you meet your opponents head on is a thrill, but one not offered by the usual arena like face offs between Jehuty and BAHRAM's grunts. Using pretty much the same camera system as its predecessor, the game's new set of fast moving and deadly enemies create a new nuisance to the controls. Often there are many, and targeting one for some blade swings means most will be left out of view. An occasional laser to the rear is perhaps tolerable, but when you come across more punishing attacks, the system can become chaotic and unfair.
Which sort of emphasizes a dependency on Jehuty's subweapons that you discover. Most are just for show, like Halbred, a fat laser beam you can weave around at the expensive cost of energy, but ones like Gauntlet are rather imbalanced in your favor. It's a blowback, shotgun like attack that's first useful in sending enemy frames into the narrow ravines on Mars, as they take double damage when smacked into walls. But that enjoyment later turns into sheer abuse. An unblockable blast, it rams even the most formidable opponents helplessly around the field. And it's especially necessary given the pick-off-the-wounded approach players must take to overcome a challenging group of enemies aided by a limiting camera.
It's worth noting the specifics like this because
The 2nd Runner
really is a short experience, making each of its best moments quite memorable, and its worst a shamefully wasted opportunity. In a time frame of 5 or so hours, its cutscenes choose not to carry the initially simple tale of vengeance, but instead feature winded history lessons and vain attempts at making battles seem more dramatic than the gratingly unnatural dialogue can ever hope to realize. It's like Kojima's team is forcing their vision for something grander into way too small a space, granting you powers like the awesome Zero Shift maneuver at the last minute. This allows Jehuty to teleport directly behind his opponents from any distance, but it comes to no impressive use in the remainder of the game's offerings.
Replaying the game with all the gained levels and weapons of your previous saved file isn't the most admirable work around to this, but Japanese mecha fans may very well settle for what
The 2nd Runner
is offering. After all, this is easily the most polished and spectacular action seen out of Japanese styled, robotic combat games, and Japan's lack of interest in raising that bar doesn't seem to be changing anytime soon. Likely, the task will fall again to Kojima, a man whose preference for over the top drama is at least also rooted in a passion for sweet, bipedal destruction.
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Re: Zone of the Enders HD Collection Review
You may want to put some kind of wrapper around the three reviews indicating a) what this is - a recently released collection? Bought all together, or separately? Digital download, thinking behind the re-release etc. Just a para at the start and maybe sum up at the end?
Apart from that I haven't read it - it's too intimidating in its current format for someone like me who doesn't know what it's all about
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There isn't much more I can do, unfortunately. This forum only allows 5 images so I had to take out the headers for each article, but I still think the format is somewhat self explanatory. There are two games in the collection, and so you are looking at 2 articles.
It's not the GC format, just a write up of two games with individual scores.
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American football remains a crowd favorite no matter how rough and nasty it gets. The players alone already make the game so exciting. Some have brute strengths while others are so small you can't believe they can run around the field like mice. Yet, no team can win the cup with pure strength and speed. Each of the players must possess agility, skills and of course- brilliant minds. The game sometimes gets too complex the spectators are utterly surprised at the outcome of events. The field lines alone can already get a newbie fan confused. But with these no-brainer beginner tips, good old American football can be understood with no sweat. Here's how to get started:
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Scoring. Since football has its roots in the English rugby, the manner of scoring is almost the same. The touchdown is still the highest single score which is equal to six points. After a successful touchdown, the offense can gain extra points through a field goal where the ball is kicked at the opponent's two-yard line. But if after the fourth down and a touchdown can't be achieved, the offense can aim for a field goal which is equal to 3 points.
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I have a Marmot Helium 15* bag (2lb2oz) and an Exped synmat 7 (15oz.) and I sleep as good or bettewr than at home. When it's not that cold, I use it like a blanket.
I have a Marmot Helium 15* bag (2lb2oz) and an Exped synmat 7 (15oz.) and I sleep as good or bettewr than at home. When it's not that cold, I use it like a blanket.
I just bought a new one from Cabelas, their brand. I prefer rectangular and over sized so I can turn over inside the bag. Since I don't use it for backpacking, weight was not a factor. Rated to -10 and has a canvas/cotton outershell and an oversize zipper. I have a similar bag from Coleman that I bought 45 years ago that finally wore out. Havn't used the new one yet, but will in September.
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The coldest rated bags (as low as -45 degrees F for arctic expeditions) do all seem to use down as a fill, so there does appear to be some advantage to it, but for bags in the -10 to +40ish degree range, the cost and weight seem to be about even for down and synthetic fills.
Has anybody here used both types of bags recently (modern down bag and modern synthetic-filled bag) in similar conditions and if so, was there any noticeable difference?
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From what I understand the synthetic bags are more efficient when they are damp. The down bags semi collapse when they get damp and loose some insulation value. Many of the new down bags have a membrane that helps with the moisture problems. Down will also keep you warmer in most cases unless it gets wet. The down are also supposed to last longer and are lighter.
I also always store my down bags in a closet on a hanger. They should not be stored in their stuff sacks.
I have used Marmot hydrogen 30 degree bag for last couple of years, 14oz if i remember right. Its good to me to about 25. Last year temps dropped down to 15-20. I used my cabelas XPG bivy and was good with that.
Marmot helium here in the long version. 15 degree bag. I don't like being cold at night. For september high country it is plenty warm. Go as light as you can afford to go in the 15 to 20 degree range if you're a backpack hunter.
Cost and weight comparison of down and synthetic fill are not the same when you compare higher quality down. 750 fill and higher. Down of this grade will be lighter and more expensive. I would buy an 850 or higher fill bag if u want to go the down route and weight is a priority.
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I am freaking out, after we upgraded to 5.0.8 my favorite Zimbra web client feature is gone as far as I can tell--the ability to right click on the sender name of a message, and getting the "Edit" command allowing you to edit any message as new.
It allowed me to create and create templates, and to keep common messages in ready response. In fact I even did some user education of this feature (see "Cursed By My Own Hubris?" below.)
What happened? Please tell me I am not the only one that cared!
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Cursed By My Own Hubris?
This was sent out as training material on April 8th:
"In Zimbra, you can make any email a 'template' in order to reuse it. It doesn't matter whether you are the person that created it, or whether is in your Inbox. You can repurpose any message from any folder!
Select an email from the message list. Right-click on the name of the sender (or recipient) of that message to pop-up a contextual menu. If you did it right, you should see an item in the menu called 'Edit'. (Mac users can control-click if they don't have a multi-button mouse.) This will create a message with exactly the same contents as the one you selected. "


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Football may be on everybody's minds these days but don't forget the Braves!
You can bring you kids to meet a few players, coaches and alumni at the Braves Country Caravan, which begins touring the Southeast on Tuesday, January 22nd.
The tour starts at 12:30 at Taco Mac Power Lunch, 2275 Marketplace Blvd, Cumming, GA 30041. Later the same day it will be at Academy Sports and Outdoors, 320 Peachtree Pkwy, Cumming, GA 30041 from 3:30 to 5:30.
On Wednesday the Caravan will stop at the AT&T Store, 3431 Lenox Road Northeast Atlanta, GA 30326
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"Fool's Gold" - Lessons for Risk Managers
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In a previous blog, I recommend Gillian Tett's book, Fool's Gold: How the Bold Dream of a Small Tribe at J. P. Morgan Was Corrupted by Wall Street Greed and Unleashed a Catastrophe. In this blog I want to describe a few of the key risk management lessons that I was able to glean from reading the book. We'll start with the first two here.
Lesson 1: If it sounds too good to be true, it probably is.
Fool's Gold is a great title for this book. As Tett writes, "For the first time in history, banks would be able to make loans without carrying all, or perhaps even any, of the risk involved themselves. That would, in turn, free up banks to make more loans, as they wouldn't need to take losses if those loans defaulted." Doesn't this sound like a too-good-to-be-true story? It was and the mistakes that financial institutions made nearly brought down the global banking system. As risk managers we need to dig deeper and get to the bottom of "deals" that are too good to be true.
Lesson 2: There are many tools that can help reduce risk, but used inappropriately they can actually increase risk.
Warren Buffet defined prophetically in 2003 that the new financial tool called derivatives were "financial weapons of mass destruction." The crucial point about derivatives is that they can do two things: help investors reduce risk or create a good deal more risk. Everything depends on how they are used and on the motives and skills of those who trade in them. Some investors like derivatives because they want to control risk, like wheat farmers who prefer to lock in a profitable price. Others want to use them to make high-risk bets in the hope of making windfall profits, kind of like playing the lottery. Credit derivatives were used to manage the risk attached to the loan book of banks and these tools offered a way of controlling risk, but they could also amplify it; it all depended on how they were used. In the subprime CDO market they greatly amplified the risk and the majority of senior managers within the financial services firms did not understand this risk.
Check back tomorrow for the next three lessons from Fool's Gold.
"Fool's Gold" - More Lessons for Risk Managers
Patrick O'Brien 270004PR46 email@example.com | | 0 Comments | 278 Visits
On Monday, I blogged about Gillian Tett's book, Fool's Gold: How the Bold Dream of a Small Tribe at J. P. Morgan Was Corrupted by Wall Street Greed and Unleashed a Catastrophe. Here are a few more of the key risk management lessons that I was able to glean from reading the book.
Lesson 3: You cannot afford to overlook or underestimate the correlation of risks.
There were two innovations that fueled the growth in the subprime mortgage market. The first was credit derivatives: in its simplest form, a credit derivative is a contract between two parties in which the seller agrees to compensate the buyer if a loan goes into default. The second innovation involved a process called securitization, which traditionally involved lenders selling their loans to an investment bank. The investment bank "bundled" the loans together and sold pieces of the bundle to pension funds and other investors. The original lenders, having offloaded their loans, could make new ones. The investors acquired a slice of the loan bundle and its interest income without having to go to the trouble of meeting and assessing the borrowers.
The innovation was securitizing not just loans but credit derivatives. It was first applied to corporate loans which tend to have very little correlation (correlation is the degree to which the defaults in any given basket of loans might be interconnected). But then it was carried over to mortgages and more importantly subprime mortgages. The financial services sector industrialized the procedure, and began selling securitized debt and derivatives on an extraordinary scale. The fatal mistake was not realizing that subprime mortgages were highly correlated, especially in an economy where interest rates were rising and housing prices were falling nationwide. Moreover, subprime mortgages had intrinsic flaws (such as issuing loans with escalating interest rates to homebuyers with dubious credit ratings) that inevitably resulted in extremely high default rates.
J.P. Morgan opted not to get into this market, a very smart expression of a cautious corporate risk culture that ultimately saved the company from the disasters others suffered. Fool's Gold gives a great account of how Morgan risk managers struggled to understand how other banks could be making so much money and covering their risks at the same time. To their credit, they did not enter the market because they understood the risk and did not have a way to mitigate it.
Lesson 4: Do not think that models are anything more than a guide or a compass.
Models are useful but they have limits. They are essential for navigating in the world of modern finance, but they are not infallible, no matter how well crafted they are. Models are only as good as the data that is fed into them and the assumptions that underpin their mathematics. The key simplifying assumption on which the credit derivative models rested was that the future was likely to look like the recent past. New financial innovations have no way to be tested relative to their risk level except by means of computer simulations that use historical data. But there are no statistics that truly represent the environment surrounding the new instrument and, as a consequence, no one really fully knows what are the risks associated with the instrument. This is especially true of risks connected with the "correlation" factor. Hence, innovations can always have "surprises" connected with their usage. Remember that models are only tools and should not be used without human intelligence.
Lesson 5: Regulation is not a panacea.
As the crisis unfolded, there was a lot of blame placed on regulators and regulation. Although the Federal Reserve had the legal authority, they did not have the inclination to regulate the behavior by banks that led to the disaster. Alan Greenspan, head of the Fed, admitted that he had made a 'mistake' in believing that banks would do what was necessary to protect their shareholders and institutions. This "absence" of the oversight of the bank regulators has resulted in lots of discussion around new regulations, new regulatory agencies and so on. Tett's book does an especially nice job in explaining how banks worked to get around capital requirements using the new tools and instruments. Part of the problem connected with the absence of the regulators during this period of time was that the banks worked very hard to expand their use of leverage in ways the policy makers could not see. Of course, this came back to haunt them when the collapse occurred. Financial institutions will always attempt to get around regulations in one way or another because it is profitable to do so. In addition, regulators are always behind what is going on in the industry. This is just the nature of the relationship.
"Fool's Gold" - Worth Its Weight in Gold for a Risk Manager
Patrick O'Brien 270004PR46 email@example.com | | 0 Comments | 316 Visits
How often have you wondered what exactly happened during the subprime crisis, when the financial system nearly collapsed and trillions of dollars of "wealth" evaporated? I have read numerous articles and attended sessions at risk management conferences, but truly understanding what went wrong has escaped me, until now. Gillian Tett's splendid book, Fool's Gold: How the Bold Dream of a Small Tribe at J. P. Morgan Was Corrupted by Wall Street Greed and Unleashed a Catastrophe, has given me a new level of insight into the complex world of financial derivatives and an appreciation for the events that preceded the melt down.
I work in the computer software business and experienced firsthand the dot-com bust of 2000. As VP of Corporate Strategy for a public software company, I was involved in M&A activities, strategic partnerships and large OEM deals with dot-com companies. I rode the wave of going from $15/share to $95 and back down to $5. I understand the difference between client/server, n-tier, and cloud computing, and the subtleties between ISV, OEM and VAR relationships (in this context VAR means "value added reseller" not "value at risk"). I know why the dot-com era was a façade and why the bubble eventually had to burst.
As I read accounts of what was happening during the subprime crisis, I struggled to understand key concepts such as CDS (credit default swap), CDO (collateralized debt obligation) and SPV (Special Purpose Vehicle). I blamed my inability to grasp what was really happening on my lack of experience with complex financial products: I wasn't "in the business."
After reading Tett's book, I now realize that I wasn't the only one who couldn't figure out what was going on. "As the pace of innovations heated up," Tett writes, "credit products were spinning off into a cyber-world that eventually even the financiers struggled to understand. The link between the final product and its underlying assets was becoming so complex that it appeared increasingly tenuous. . . . Most financiers lacked the cognitive skills to truly understand the connections in this new world." Oh yes, and "even regulators seemed only vaguely aware of what the banks were really doing."
I highly recommend reading Tett's book. She is able to decipher Wall Street mumbo-jumbo in terms that a lay reader, or at least a determined lay reader, can understand. Tett provides a rich cast of characters and a storytelling device that helps make this book compelling fun to read. More importantly for risk managers, however, you will also gain a new appreciation for the significance of sound risk management for your organizations. There are lots of reasons why the crisis developed, for example greed, carelessness, and deceptive practices. But across the financial services industry, systemic weaknesses in risk management culture, discipline, and implementation of best practices added fuel to the flame.
In a subsequent blog I will summarize some of the key risk management lessons that Fool's Gold uncovers.
Fool's Gold: How the Bold Dream of a Small Tribe at J. P. Morgan Was Corrupted by Wall Street Greed and Unleashed a Catastrophe. Published by Free Press, 2009.
Live Blogging from RMA GCOR 2010 – Boards and Risk
John Kelly 270004J7VQ email@example.com | | 0 Comments | 282 Visits
Just attended a great session presented by Matthew Neels, Chief Compliance and Risk Officer at Capital One. Mr. Neels focused on building board interaction and driving board attention to the right areas of risk through an integrated risk management framework. He began with an interesting question, "Should you be using an implicit or explicit framework and how is your board making a decision on that framework?" The correct answer of course is: both are required to effectively manage risk.
The discussion then moved to how "driving board attention to the right areas can be difficult" as board reporting is often a "laundry list of potential risks, current issues and decision requests." He stated, "Without a framework you have everything coming in at once without context." He then offered several suggestions for preventing information overload:
The goal according to Matthew is to establish a "common scale that enables cross-category comparisons and risk aggregation."
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Live Blogging from RMA GCOR 2010 – OpRisk and the Financial Crisis
John Kelly 270004J7VQ email@example.com | | 0 Comments | 148 Visits
Patrick de Fontnouvelle of the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston presented a an interesting session at GCOR 2010 titled, "The Role of Operational Risk in the Recent Financial Crisis." His basic premise was that the financial crisis of 2008 could have been avoided had financial institutions implemented and followed basic operational risk management best practices. And more importantly, that there is a history of operational risk management best practices being violated repeatedly throughout history with predictable consequences. He recommended three steps to moving forward and preventing similar crises in the future:
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Live Blogging from RMA Global Conference on Operational Risk 2010
John Kelly 270004J7VQ email@example.com | | 0 Comments | 273 Visits
Against the backdrop of Copley Square, Boston on St. Patty's Day, Yousef Valine, Executive Vice President at First Horizon described the need to focus on non-financial risk and particularly, operational and business risk. GCOR (Global Conference on Operational Risk) 2010 is the fourth annual event hosted by the RMA (Risk Management Association). In his keynote address, Mr. Valine stated that while most believe earnings volatility is a factor of financial risk, earnings volatility can be attributed to non-financial risk 30% of the time – operational risk (12%) and business risk (18%) – versus financial risk 70% of the time. The key message being that business managers need to be operational risk managers at heart and need to foster and facilitate a strong risk-aware culture.
Of course this makes the Madoff scandal at $65b even more troubling (note: Harry Markopolos will provide an in-depth review of the factors that enabled Madoff and how to prevent similar fraud in the future in his Keynote Address at OPUS 2010). Yousef emphasized that 45% of the loss amount ($19b) was the result of loss events in "Client Products and Business Practices" and that while it represented 45% of losses, the number of events (frequency) only represented 11% of total. Conversely, "Execution, Delivery and Process Management" represented 35% of frequency but only a fraction of the dollars lost. Ultimately, organizations need to consider severity versus frequency when reviewing loss events and mitigation practices.
Stay tuned for more from GCOR 2010.
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Risk Chat with Eric Krell: Part One
Gordon Burnes 270004HVEW email@example.com | | 0 Comments | 181 Visits
Is risk management a strategic differentiator? When Toyota shifted the culture to one that valued and rewarded volume production, did it lose sight of quality as a strategic differentiator? Is Kermit the Frog a risk manager?
Union Bank Selects OpenPages for OpRisk Framework
John Kelly 270004J7VQ firstname.lastname@example.com | | 0 Comments | 241 Visits
Recently purchased by The Bank of Tokyo Mitsubishi (the 2nd largest banking group in the world), Union Bank, N.A. out of San Francisco has been asked to lead the way for the entire organization with respect to adopting Basel II and the advanced measurement approach for operational risk measurement.
Marty Blaauw, Senior Vice President of Operational Risk at Union Bank stated, "At Union Bank, we are striving to use the advanced measurement approach for operational risk measurement and OpenPages provides an integrated operational risk management framework that will assist us in this goal. We are confident that OpenPages' solution will allow us to streamline our operational risk management and measurement process and provide the integrated risk reporting and dashboards being requested at the executive level."
Welcome Union Bank to the OpenPages community!
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Upcoming Proxy Season Disclosure Requirements
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You're probably familiar with the SEC's new disclosure governance related rules, which relate to:
What might not be entirely self-evident is when they take effect. Help is provided by Pric
The effective date of the new rules was February 28, 2010. Accordingly, the Form 10-K and proxy statement of a calendar year company must be in compliance with the new disclosure requirements if filed on or after February 28, 2010. If a calendar year-end company files its proxy statement on or after February 28, 2010, the proxy statement must comply with the new disclosure requirements. This is true even if the 2009 Form 10-K was filed before February 28, 2010.


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February 2, 2015
Our image of the week shows Joana Grah, the levitating PhD student.
Image by Carola-Bibiane Schönlieb, Joana Grah and Kostas Papafitsoros.
It's not supernatural powers that help Joana fly, but the equation on the blackboard. This partial differential equation can be used to fill in specific parts of an image based on what's around it. The process is called inpainting. For this image the equation was solved numerically to remove the stool Joana was sitting on. Image inpainting has wide ranging practical applications: from the restoration of satellite images, enhancement of medical images, the renovation of digital photographs and artwork, to special effects in images and videos.
This image was created by Carola-Bibiane Schönlieb, head of the Cambridge Image Analysis group at the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, University of Cambridge, Joana Grah and Kostas Papafitsoros. It won the EPSRC science photo competition in 2013. You can read more about Schönlieb's work on inpainting in this Plus article.
See here to see previous images of the week.
January 8, 2015
Our image of the week may look like a bird in flight...
Image by Hamid Naderi Yeganeh.
...but it's actually a collection of points in the plane given by a mathematical formula. To be precise, it's a subset of the complex plane consisting of points of the form
for and
The image was created by Hamid Naderi Yeganeh. You can see more of Hamid's images on this website and on the American Mathematical Society website.
See here to find out more about the complex plane and here to see previous images of the week.
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January 2, 2015
Charlie Stripp, Chief Executive of Mathematics in Education and Industry (MEI), has been awarded an MBE in the 2015 Queen's New Year Honours List in recognition of his services to education.
Charlie Stripp. Image from the NCETM website.
Charlie taught mathematics for ten years in the state sector before joining MEI in 2000 to set up the pilot project that eventually became the Further Mathematics Support Programme. He became MEI's Chief Executive in 2010. Charlie is also Director of the National Centre for Excellence in the Teaching of Mathematics (NCETM), seconded from MEI on a half-time basis, and is regularly consulted by the government on mathematics education issues.
"I am delighted for my work to have been recognised with this very special honour," says Charlie. "In recent years there have been unprecedented changes in mathematics education, particularly in curriculum development and the professional development of teachers, and it has been a privilege to have been in a position to influence them."
MEI's Chairman Gerald Goodall says: "MEI plays a leading role in expanding opportunities for access to high quality mathematics education and we are very fortunate to benefit from Charlie's leadership. MEI's trustees and staff are delighted to see Charlie's hard work and dedication recognised in this way."
Congratulations Charlie!
December 24, 2014
It must almost be holidays for everyone and so it's nearly time to celebrate! For many people that involves having a nice cold glass of something and we have found the very best way to open a bottle – a beautiful Klein Bottle Opener from Bathsheba! We love Klein bottles, just one of many beautiful mathematical surfaces. You can read all about them while you enjoy your glass of bubbly!
Merry Christmas from all of us here at Plus!
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December 23, 2014
Still have presents to buy? You'll need to be quick! To help you win the race to get those final gifts here are some mathematically sporty books by some of our favourite Plus authors!In the brilliant Taking chances John Haigh gives a brilliant introduction to probability and its role in the lottery, quiz shows, games and all types of sport. Haigh has also written two excellent books with Rob Eastaway, How to take a penalty: The mathematical curiosities of sport and The hidden mathematics of sport.
If football in particular is the passion of your intended recipient, we recommend How to score: science and the beautiful game by Ken Bray. And for a mathematical book, filled with football inspired illustrations of mathematical ideas, there's The Num8ber My5teries by Marcus du Sautoy.
All our sport knowledge comes from our neighbour and boss, John D. Barrow, who often drops in to convey the latest mathematical news from the world of physical activity. One of our favourite stories was how he discovered a new rowing rig by analysing the maths of the ideal positioning of rowers. You can read 99 other fascinating facts in his book 100 Essential Things you didn't know you didn't know about sport.
And of course, you can read more about the mathematics of sport on Plus and the Sportal.
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December 21, 2014
"A mathematician, like a painter or poet, is a maker of patterns. If his patterns are more permanent than theirs, it is because they are made with ideas."
Shane Shambhu as Ramanujan and David Annan as Hardy in the play A disappearing number. Photo: Tristram Kenton.
This beautiful sentence is from G.H. Hardy's 1940 essay A mathematician's apology. The work was Hardy's attempt to justify the pursuit of pure maths to non-mathematicians and to explain its motivation. It focuses on the beauty of maths and, unlike many other attempts to make maths appear attractive, takes pride in the un-applicability of pure maths — partly because something that has no applications can't do any harm. It's an understandable sentiment for a pacifist like Hardy at the time of WWII. And although Hardy was proved very wrong about the "purity" of his own field, number theory, which is today used in cryptography, it's still a fascinating and thought-provoking read.
In the Apology Hardy also mentions the mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan, who played a defining part in Hardy's mathematical life:
"I still say to myself when I am depressed, and find myself forced to listen to pompous and tiresome people, 'Well, I have done one the thing you could never have done, and that is to have collaborated with both Littlewood and Ramanujan on something like equal terms.'"
Hardy's collaboration with the self-taught Indian genius was remarkable. It inspired the 2008 play, A disappearing number, which we explored in this Plus article. You can also listen to our podcast with actor and mathematician Victoria Gould reading a section from the foreword to Hardy's Apology.
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CIA chef takes talent to Burlington school kitchens
Burlington School District filling kitchens with culinary background.
Standing last Friday in Burlington's Champlain Elementary School kitchen where he has worked since April, chef Dustin Smith admitted that he has taken some grief for his job choice.
One of his former Culinary Institute of America roommates now works at the renowned Manhattan dining destination, Le Bernadin; another cooks in a high-end restaurant in New Jersey.


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Dallas, TX (Sports Network) - Vince Carter finished with 14 points and eight
assists and helped the Dallas Mavericks pull away in the fourth quarter in
their 111-96 victory over the Orlando Magic at American Airlines Center.
Carter was one of six Mavs in double-figures, as Shawn Marion and Elton Brand
each chipped in 17 points to help cap a 4-1 homestand. O.J. Mayo added 13
points, while Dirk Nowitzki and Mike James contributed 12 points apiece in the
Arron Afflalo and Maurice Harkless paced the Magic with 21 and 20 points,
respectively, and Nikola Vucevic totaled 16 points and 13 rebounds in the
loss, Orlando's 15th in its last 16 games.
Dallas had a week off thanks to the All-Star break, while the Magic were
coming off a double-digit loss to the Charlotte Bobcats on Tuesday. The rest
certainly helped down the stretch, as the Mavs outscored Orlando, 38-17, over
the final 14 minutes.
J.J. Redick, one of the most sought-after sharpshooters prior to Thursday's
trade deadline, had a chance to give Orlando its largest lead at eight points
late in the third quarter, but Mayo hustled back on defense and blocked his
shot at the rim.
Mayo then raced down the court and threw an alley-oop to Carter to spark a
15-3 spurt that ran into the fourth quarter, with Jae Crowder's 3-pointer
giving Dallas an 88-82 lead it never relinquished.
Carter had eight points during run and highlighted a game-sealing 14-0 push
with one of his four 3-pointers and a behind-the-back pass to Marion for a
layup and an insurmountable 106-90 lead with under three minutes to play.
Orlando's starting point guard, Jameer Nelson, limped off the court with a leg
injury during the run and did not return with the outcome no longer in doubt.
Carter's buzzer-beating 3-pointer ended a high-scoring first quarter that saw
the Magic shoot 60 percent and the Mavs an even more efficient 64 percent en
route to a 42-30 lead.
Things slowed down considerably in the second quarter, and the Magic were
within 59-53 at halftime before taking their first lead, 62-61, on a Vucevic
bucket early in the third.
Harkless scored 11 points in the frame to keep Orlando in front before the
Mavs made their comeback.
Game Notes
The road team had won each of the last nine meetings ... Vucevic has recorded
32 double-doubles this season ... Orlando has dropped nine straight on the
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