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This year Red Bull Joyride marked its fifth anniversary at Crankworx Whistler. Fusing elements of slopestyle, dirt jump and North Shore-style mountain biking, Red Bull Joyride melds together Whistler's natural terrain with gravity-fed man-made features to create the most challenging slopestyle course on the FMB World Tour.
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Red Bull Joyride 2015 results
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2. Nicholi Rogatkin (USA) 90.40
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5. Logan Peat (CAN) 85.00
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7. Yannick Granieri (FRA) 76.80
8. Louis Reboul (FRA) 74.40
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by Rev. Francis Hoffman "Father Rocky"
Tower of David
In the foothills of the Pyrenees Mountains, separating France from Spain, you will find the remains of ancient stone watch towers which served as sentinels to warn and protect the Christians from advancing Moorish armies. Charlemagne, Roland, and Roncevalles are epic names of persons and places caught up in that struggle. The Blessed Mother, of the House of David, is like a strong tower who wards off the attacks of the enemy. Stay close to her by daily devotions – the rosary, the angelus, the scapular – and you will keep the enemy at bay.
54 Day Rosary Novena based on the titles of the Blessed Mother as found in the Litany of Loreto.
Pope Francis has asked us to pray for the family this year.
We will start May 8.
You can pray the 54 Day Rosary Novena however you wish: alone, in a group, with your family. On a plane, in a train, in the car. You can do the regular, extra, or super-duper. The "super-duper" means praying all 20 mysteries of the rosary daily: Glorious, Joyful, Sorrowful, and Luminous.
Don't worry! There's no such thing as a bad rosary, no matter how distracted you might be or how chaotic life is. If you can't pray the rosary one day, you can get back on track the next day. The point is 'the rosary is powerful.' Very powerful. My father prayed it every day and managed to survive four years in the army in the South Pacific during WWII.
Each day I will post a short reflection on the many titles of the Blessed Mother from the Litany of Our Lady (Loreto) on my Facebook page.
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Vaughn College's Professor Jeff Surovell has been selected to speak at a key global studies conference in istanbul, Turkey June 15-17.
Surovell, a member of the College's arts and sciences faculty, will present a paper titled "Soviet Policy Toward Third World Reactionary Regimes" at the Central and East European International Studies Association's annual conference. The conference brings together international relations scholars from 20 countries.
The topic of this year's conference is "Inequalities, Conflicts and Solidarity in the 21st Century." Among other things, Surovell's paper examines the lasting impact of 20th century Soviet-era policies and to what degree the willingness to embrace regimes at odds with communism was rooted in foreign policy pragmatism.


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Strawberry Purée
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- Blend for 1 minute, using the tamper to press ingredients into the blades.
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Hand foot and mouth disease (HFMD) is a viral infection. It
is not linked to the foot and mouth disease that affect
animals. HFMD is mainly seen in children under the age of 10 or in young adults. It is easily spread from one person to
another. Most people have had HFMD by the time they are
adults. It rarely causes further complications and is very
rarely fatal.
Symptoms usually start three to seven days after
catching the infection and can last from seven to 10 days.
Admission to hospital is rarely needed. The common signs and
symptoms include:
The main way HFMD is spread is by touching the fluid from inside
the blisters or fluids from the nose, mouth and chest spread
from sneezing and coughing. It can also be in bowel movements
(poo) for up to several weeks after a person has been infected.
Hand foot and mouth disease is caused by a group of viruses
known as enteroviruses. It is most commonly caused by the
coxsackie virus A 16, with the virus EV 71 being less common.
This fact sheet produced in consultation
with Emergency Department and Infection Control Department.
First published Oct 2006. Updated November 2010.
References: National Center for Infectious Diseases, Respiratory
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Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over
The most recent home video release of this movie is August 2, 2011. Here are some details…
Spy Kids 3: Game Over releases to Blu-ray on August 2, 2011, with the following extras:
- 10 Minute Film School
- Deleted scenes
- Featurettes
- Digital copy
Spy Kids 3-D; Game Over releases to DVD on February 24, 2004. The package includes:
- Both the 3-D and 2-D versions of the film.
- Four pairs of 3-D glasses
- Ten minute film school on how to make cool home movies
- Alexa Vega in concert
- Making Traks with Alexa Vega
- The making of the film
- Multi-angle piece on surfing and stunts
- Big Dink, Little Dink
- Mega Race Set-Top Game (2-D & 3-D versions)
Related home video titles:
This film has two prequels: Spy Kids and Spy Kids 2. In the movie Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, a young boy named Charlie also chooses his Grandfather to escort him on an adventure. Older teens may enjoy Ricardo Montalban's performance in Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan where he plays another character with a grudge.


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St. Bart's Preschool welcomes inquiries from families interested in learning more about admission to our school.
St. Bart's educational philosophy is based on fostering a love of learning, while celebrating and embracing each child's uniqueness. We are committed to providing an environment where children's curiosity is encouraged.
The dedicated faculty at St. Bart's Preschool is comprised of experienced educators. All classroom lead teachers are New York State certified and possess a Masters in Early Childhood Education. The Faculty is able to work in small groups to reach individual needs, offering challenging but appropriate instruction. In addition to the Classroom Faculty, a School Librarian, a Music Teacher, a Dance/Movement Teacher, a Preschool Lifeguard and Swimming Instructors, and a Tennis Coach bring their expertise to the program to further enhance the curriculum.
St. Bart's Preschool offers a warm, nurturing first school experience. Parent participation is strongly encouraged. There are numerous opportunities including leading and Arts & Crafts activity, chaperoning a class trip, or reading in the Library. Parents also enjoy serving on one of the many Parent Committees available such as Community Outreach, Book Fair, International Day or Parents' Night.
Community is an important aspect of the Preschool program. A monthly community service initiative at the school that includes collecting food for the St. Bart's Food Pantry, donating toys for needy children to the Bowery Mission, and donating gently used books, are just a few school-wide projects. Class IV students also organize and manage a Coat Drive for donation to the Bowery Mission.
Recognizing and celebrating diversity is an important part of life at St. Bart's Preschool. Every race, religion, ethnic and economic background is welcomed! St. Bart's provides a community that is inclusive and comfortable for all. Once a year, the school focuses on a week-long International Studies theme including music, food, art, and dancing from other countries and culture. This culminates in a school wide International Day celebration on the Friday of that week, ending with an international feast for all.
Tennis Instruction, Art Exploration, French Instruction and Cooking with the ABC's are all optional activities available for the students following the regular school day. Class I, II, III and IV bring a lunch if staying for an after-school activity.
The Preschool is housed on the 4th, 5th, and 6th floors of the Community House of St. Bart's Church. The Preschool entrance is located on 50th Street, between Lexington Avenue and Park Avenue.
The classrooms are spacious and bright, offering a flexible layout for large group, small group or individual activities. Each classroom has a play area equipped with age appropriate blocks, games, puzzles, toys, a sand table and a dramatic play space. Additionally, each has tables and chairs for completing projects and special work, as well as enjoying snack together. Bulletin boards can be found throughout the school displaying the children's original artwork. The Preschool also has access to several large multi-purpose rooms, used for Dance/Movement classes and Parent gatherings.
The Preschool Library has built-in stadium seating. This allows all of the students to easily view the pictures as the story is being read. The Library has approximately 2,500 volumes and averages the addition of 125 new books each year!
The Preschool's Rooftop Playground offers an amazing outdoor play space for the students. The area includes two climbing apparatuses and ample room for riding tricycles, running and skipping. A perfect place for playing!
The heated, salt water pool is located in the basement of the Community House. Students in Class III, IV and V receive weekly swimming instruction by skilled, certified Swimming Instructors. Twice a year, parents are invited to "Swimming Observation". During this time, parents are allowed to observe their son/daughter during their lesson from the first floor Pool Observation Deck. An excellent photo opportunity!
The gym is also located in the basement of the Community House. The children use the gym on Fridays following Swimming and on days with inclement weather. Afterschool tennis classes are also conducted in the gym.The gym is scheduled to be completely renovated this summer to include new lighting, flooring, painting and pads.
St. Bart's Preschool embraces our religiously diverse school community and continues to be a non-denominational Preschool. On Wednesdays, the children attend Chapel together, led by the Preschool Chaplain. During this time, the children sit on floor cushions and on the front pews of the Chapel, providing an intimate setting for the time together. Topics during Chapel relate to helping others, showing kindness to all, being thankful, etc. In December parents, grandparents, siblings, and caregivers are all invited to attend a Family Chapel Service.


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Johnno meets Emily and Natalie of the Dixie Chicks just before they spent some time on Saturday Night Country talking about their 4 Grammy Award winning album "Home" The following is from their web site at dixiechicks.comDixie Chicks are one of a kind. Since exploding onto the national country music scene just three years ago, the Texas-by-way-of-Nashville trio has won millions of fans and an avalanche of awards and critical acclaim. Blending bluegrass skills, pop accessibility, rock beats and stone country music with a brash, irreverent attitude, the Chicks have created a fresh new sound that's instantly recognizable and always engaging.Tracing their roots back to the days when Emily Robison and Martie Maguire sang on the streets of Dallas, the Chicks took flight when feisty Natalie Maines came on board, complementing the sisters' formidable prowess as singers - and pickers - with what one critic called "one of the most powerful voices in the business." Framing Maines' stunning vocals with elegant harmonies and plenty of banjo, fiddle and dobro, the Chicks' debut CD, Wide Open Spaces, took the country music world by storm in 1998, earning the group top awards, including a Grammy for Country Album Of The Year, and selling more than 11 million copies - the best performance by a debut album in the history of country music. Their follow-up, Fly, released in late 1999, proved that the trio was no one-hit wonder, as it reaped an even greater harvest of honors, including more Grammys and the Country Music Association's marquee award, Entertainer of the Year. Yet as spectacularly as the Dixie Chicks' recordings have been received, their brilliance in the studio has found a counterpart on stage. Their reputation as adept musicians and spectacular performers led them from sharing the stage with country music's finest on the George Strait Country Music Festival and the Tim McGraw tour to being enthusiastically welcomed by pop audiences while playing alongside Sara McLachlan, Sheryl Crow, Stevie Nicks and others on the 1999 Lilith Fair tour as well as the televised "Sheryl Crow & Friends Live From Central Park" event. Their "Fly" tour of 2000 saw audiences around the country flocking to catch the dynamic trio in action - and in a departure from the country music norm, they were as likely to include young girls dressed as their favorite Chick as they were adults. "Chicks Rule!" and "Chicks Kick Ass!" were the slogans of choice as the group not only delivered their own irresistible hits but introduced fans to friends and influences such as Willie Nelson, Ricky Scaggs and Patty Griffin. And the trio lived up to the shouts. When the tour came to a triumphant close, shortly after the broadcast of their own NBC concert special, it had become the biggest of the year by a single country headlining act.With a unique combination of respect for country's musical traditions and an unwillingness to be bound by its social ones, it's natural that the Chicks have earned recognition far beyond the genre. Profiled - and acclaimed - everywhere from 60 Minutes with Dan Rather to the pages of USA Today Entertainment Weekly, and Rolling Stone, with TV appearances on Late Night with David Letterman, the Tonight Show, the Rosie O'Donnell Show, the prestigious Sessions at W. 54th series and many more, it's no exaggeration to say that the Dixie Chicks are among the foremost - and most provocative - ambassadors country music has today.
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Are Changes to FCPA Enforcement on the Horizon?
Richard Steinberg 270004HRBG email@example.com | | Tags:  openpages compliance sec fcpa | 0 Comments | 3,061 Visits
We know the Justice Department and SEC in recent years revved up enforcement of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, which certainly has gotten the close and widespread attention of the business community. With the vast majority of U.S. companies large and small operating globally, general counsels, compliance officers, boards of directors, and other business executives are focusing on related risks and controls. And now the U.S. Chamber of Commerce's Institute for Legal Reform, noting that companies want to comply with provisions of the FCPA but unclear enforcement makes it challenging, thinks "it is common sense that the rules of the road are clarified." As such, the Chamber has put forth five recommendations: Adding a compliance defense, limiting liability for the prior actions of an acquired company, adding a "willfulness" requirement for corporate criminal liability, limiting liability for acts of a subsidiary, and defining what constitutes a "foreign official."
It appeared these proposals might gain some traction, and then along came Wal-Mart. The charges of bribery in Mexico and subsequent cover-up seems to have dampened interest in modifying, or some would say softening, the FCPA and related enforcement. Certainly Wal-Mart has put tremendous effort into successfully lobbying legislators in both parties – and supporting the President's initiatives in health coverage and pollution control, and the First Lady's on healthy foods to combat childhood obesity – all of which may serve the company in good stead in containing political fallout. But we can also expect notoriety around the Wal-Mart case to signal the continued relevance of the Act and deflect efforts to weaken it.
It seems there's an interesting analogy here, where the Wal-Mart bribery case might be to the FCPA what WorldCom was to Sarbanes-Oxley. After Enron imploded, there was stirring inside the Beltway about need for legislation, but nothing much was expected to happen – until a few months later when the WorldCom fiasco hit the headlines, thereby generating momentum that turned into a rush to get a law passed. In this instance, it may well be the converse – a law that might have been weakened is more likely to stay as is, with continued strong enforcement by regulators. We'll stay tuned to see what transpires.
Compliance Officers Stretched to the Limit
Richard Steinberg 270004HRBG firstname.lastname@example.com | | Tags:  risk-management dodd-frank compliance openpages | 0 Comments | 2,861 Visits
As a compliance officer, you're dealing with increased regulation and expectations, while related resources are subject to budgetary constraints. Yes, senior managements read the headlines and recognize the reputational and related risks associated with legal and regulatory compliance. But what I and others see are compliance functions having to do more, often without a commensurate increase in resources.
These observations are consistent with a recent Thomson Reuters survey of financial services companies' compliance professionals. The survey shows that compliance officers are struggling to keep up with increasing demands of global regulation – where rapidly growing regulations and increasing responsibilities, together with limited resources and constrained budgets, are causing compliance personnel to reached a "saturation point." A whopping 84 percent of respondents say they expect to deal with more information from regulators and exchanges this year, with almost half expecting the level to be "significantly higher." The increase is expected to come from such events as splitting of the U.K. Financial Services Authority, added regulatory power of the European Supervisory Authorities, expansion of new and existing U.S. regulatory agencies resulting from Dodd-Frank, and expanded enforcement of such regulations as the U.K. Bribery Act and the U.S. Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act.
The survey results show that compliance responsibilities and expectations are diverging from realistic capabilities. For instance, with a key objective being to coordinate with other company professionals involved with regulatory risk, over half of compliance professionals say they spend less than one hour weekly with internal audit colleagues, and one third spend less than one hour per week with legal and risk professionals. And while 70 percent of respondents expect the cost of senior compliance staff to increase this year, only 11 percent of companies expect a significant increase in budgets.
Also interesting in the statement that: "While keeping executive management informed of regulatory issues is a key part of the compliance role, more than a quarter of respondents say they spend less than one hour a week reporting to their boards. In the U.S., more than half of the companies surveyed spend less than one hour a week reporting to their boards. This raises concerns about whether executive management is being kept sufficiently informed on compliance issues." Well, it's not entirely clear from this as to the extent of interaction between compliance officers and senior management – one hour a week with the board may be just fine, as long as there's significant interaction directly with executive management.
In any event, what we see is compliance departments already working at a fast pace with high efficiency, but they face risks going forward if responsibilities and resources aren't recalibrated to be in sync.
Compliance Problems Continue in a Niche Industry
Richard Steinberg 270004HRBG email@example.com | | Tags:  education openpages risk-analytics compliance risk-management risk | 0 Comments | 3,043 Visits
You may remember hearing about problems with the College Board, which owns the SAT, and the Educational Testing Service (ETS), which administers the tests. In the recent SAT cheating scandal the College Board and ETS were accused of having lax security and a system that failed to punish cheats. But problems go back further, when a couple of years ago the SAT has serious issues with incorrect scoring of tests. And media reports speak to extensive incorrect scoring and losing test results in England in 2008, with the UK Parliament calling their operation a "shambles." And as far back as 1983 cheating was suspected in California. For details you may want to refer to my blog posting of November 2011, which includes analysis of what the accused organizations did, or rather didn't do, to right the wrongs.
Well, we now find another player in this industry accused of wrongdoing. Princeton Review, which provides help to students in preparing for college entrance exams and sells study guides, finds itself accused of defrauding the federal government. An arm of the company that provides after-school tutoring to students at troubled schools is said to have falsified records – including forging student signatures, falsifying sign-in sheets, and making false certifications – in order to boost payments due the company. Relevant is that the company was informed of these allegations back in 2006, but prosecutors, who are now suing, say the fraud continued as nothing was done to fix the system. For what it's worth, Princeton Review reportedly closed its tutoring division and says most of its current management joined the company after the alleged fraudulent activity took place.
But what's striking is how the few players comprising this industry have had serious problems – not only in allowing fraud to occur, but also in failing to act in the face of wrongdoing. And this is an industry supposedly driving high academic standards! Yes, we know academic institutions are not immune to misconduct, but we can wonder how these industry players each went so very wrong. And food for thought – do we see other industries with an inordinate number of companies experiencing widespread instances of non-compliance, fraud or other misconduct? And what does that say about the culture not only of the individual organizations, but the industry as a whole? Hmmmm.
Convergence of Governance, Risk & Compliance, Basel II and Solvency II (Track 1014)
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Convergence of Governance, Risk & Compliance, Basel II and Solvency II (Track 1014)
IBM Vision 2012, Tuesday May 16th, 16:45 – 17:45 pm I will be presenting the Convergence
of Governance, Risk & Compliance, Basel II and Solvency II.
In this session I will take you through the most common questions I received from our customers facing Basel II and Solvency II. I will help you understand the challenges from an Operational Risk perspective and speak about how my clients have overcome these challenges.
Convergence, Risk Adoption, Risk Montoring, Loss Registration, Risk Reporting
and Dashboarding and Regulatory Reporting are topics that will be discussed in
this session.
Hope to see you in Orlando next week!
Twitter : #Vision12
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Convergence of Performance Management and Risk Management - Part 2
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Convergence of Performance Management and Risk Management - Part 2
the increase of the Governance, Risk & Compliance maturity level at many of
my clients I see that clients start to realize the benefits of the integration
of GRC activities in their Performance Management cycle. Therefore a follow up
on my previous article around Risk Management and the convergence with
Performance Management.
Let me share some insights on Risk & Performance Management initiatives that keep clients busy around Europe. The following 4 items came up in the last 3 months.
1. Cost control and process performance improvement give us the opportunity to embed controls in our process. Lessons learned from Six Sigma and Lean can give us guidance here.
2. How do I manage organizational and regulatory change and monitor the impact on business processes, policies and my risk and control framework?
3. Trending topic is emerging risks, am I able to identity risks that are coming to me over time?
4. Integrated Financial and Risk reporting, an excellent example of 'Where Performance Management meets Risk Management'.
Cost control and Process improvements
Implementing and testing controls has become a huge cost for many organizations. That is why some of my clients are now looking for a way to reduce cost by embedding controls in their existing business processes. This goes hand in hand with the global initiative on cost reduction. While optimizing or even re designing core business processes internal controls are being embedded in the process. What I see is that the organizations that involve process owners and process contributors are most successful. This is an initiative that we have seen before in Lean Six Sigma projects. The only way to optimize processes and to reduce waste is to involve the process owners. Instead of increasing regulatory pressure we should seek a solution in this area in my opinion. Business cases around this have proven to be very successful and savings up to millions of Euros per year have been achieved.
Regulatory change
Regulatory changes are a huge concern of many risk, compliance, legal and audit professionals. How can we monitor these changes and how can we understand the impact on our organization? Taking this together with the fact that policy management is changing from a 'must do' once a year to a continuous process tells us that an integrated approach to Governance, Risk & Compliance is necessary to drive performance. I come across clients that have a monthly Performance Report that shows how they derived business objectives from their policies and how they are performing on a compliance level to these objectives. What risks did they identify in this process and how will they respond to these risks? Organizations realize that they need to understand the correlation between processes, policies, regulations, business objectives, risks and controls and how they might impact each other. An integrated GRC view is the only way to face this challenge.
Emerging Risk Modelling
One of the trending topics among customers is Emerging Risks. Can we model risks that we see coming and can we follow up on risks that are getting closer or fading away? Analytical Risk modeling is an answer to this question. This also let you perform risk forecasting with different scenarios. Interesting question is how the increase of a risk exposure in an operating entity will impact my group level exposure? Risk Analytics, derived from the Performance Management area can help us answer these questions. A financial performance management cycle contains the exact same characteristics.
Integrated Financial and Risk performance reporting
Financial and Risk reporting are standard items in today's Annual Reports, Tax statements, Management reports and Regulatory reports. The big question is how do I keep all of this information organized in such a way that I understand the source of the information, the transformation it has gone through, the owner of the information and most important when information changes at the last moment that all information output contains the latest version? No bigger reputational risk than sending out inconsistent information to stakeholders. Some organizations saw their share price drop with 25% due to inconsistent external reporting. One of my clients has implemented a solution that orchestrates all of these information sources with workflow capabilities and even XBRL output. From a risk perspective this is a great mitigation of your reputational risk and an excellent example of 'Where Performance Management meets Risk Management'.
Blog post by Erwin Boeren
Senior Governance, Risk & Compliance specialist IBM Europe
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Convergence of Risk Management and Performance Mangement
Erwin Boeren 270002C43V firstname.lastname@example.com | | Tags:  analytics grc busness management openpages ibm erwin boeren performance risk | 0 Comments | 1,775 Visits
Last year IBM acquired OpenPages as a strategic move into the area of Governance, Risk and Compliance. The lasest announcement to acquire Algorithmics (quantitative risk management) shows the continuous commitment of IBM in the GRC market. GRC software will integrate into the Business Analytics Software group, the area where the former acquisitions like Cognos, SPSS and Clarity systems already resides.
Now that Risk Management is evolving, more and more organizations are starting an enterprise approach to risk management. And this is where I see the need for Risk and Performance Management convergence.
In past Risk Management implementations I see that a major portion of time and budget was spent on Risk Reporting and Dashboarding. Especially the need for self service reporting, where users can ad hoc create their own risk reports, is growing. We do not want to wait in the queue waiting for our report to be created. 2 days later you missed the opportunity to respond and the loss is there.
With this self service capability the question automatically pops up 'can I trust my data'. And now we are back in the area of data governance. This is exactly where the area of Performance Management is today.
Apart from these reporting and dashboarding capabilities Enterprise Risk Management means alignment of risks and controls to the strategic initiatives of the organization. What will prevent me from reaching my business goals? Isn't this defined as a risk? And how will we prevent this from happening? Wasn't that defined as a control?
Even more interesting are questions like, 'What if I was able to perform risk scenario planning?', 'What if I could predict risks from happening?' or 'What is the correlation between the risks that have materialized?'.
And there is the proof that Risk Management and Performance Management have lots in common and should be integrated. Lets call it Business Analytics.
Erwin Boeren
Governance, Risk & Compliance Leader
IBM IOT Southwest Europe
COSO in the Cloud
Richard Steinberg 270004HRBG firstname.lastname@example.com | | Tags:  openpages erm risk itg it-risk coso risk-management | 0 Comments | 3,195 Visits
If you haven't already seen it, it's worth a look – The Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission just published a thought paper dealing with risks related to cloud computing. It leverages off COSO's enterprise risk management framework, speaking specifically to issues surrounding hosted services delivered over the internet. The paper is geared not to the techie, but rather to management level personnel who need to understand not only the benefits, but also the associated risks. The paper briefly outlines the many benefits of cloud computing, including greater technology value at lower cost, faster speed of deployment, common technology platforms, reduced need for support personnel and related expenditures, and environmental benefits.
Naturally, most of the focus is on the risks. These include the strategic – with lower barriers of entry for new competitors and related challenge to current business models – and dependency on cloud service providers which in turn drives legal and related risks. Others include lack of transparency, reliability and performance issues, security and compliance concerns, and elevated risk of cyber attack or data leakage. The paper also deals with issues inherent in moving to the cloud, such as the extent to which management considers the impact on the company's organization and IT and other personnel resources, noting "In many cloud scenarios, the organization no longer has complete or direct control over technology and technology-related management processes. Management must determine if it has the risk appetite for the entire universe of potential events associated with a given cloud solution as some of these events extend beyond the organization's traditional borders and include some events that have an impact on the [cloud service provider(s)] supporting the organization."
The paper also discusses cloud issues in the context of COSO's ERM Framework's eight components, outlining how each can be addressed and used in evaluating cloud computing alternatives. It provides suggestions for dealing effectively with the more significant risks, and highlights key decisions to be made by senior management – as well as responsibilities of C-suite executives – and areas on which the board of directors needs to focus its attention. If your company is already in the cloud or considering going there, the paper is worth the read.
Governance. Risk and compliance on the iPad
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With Cognos 10.1.1 released you must have noticed the ability of having your reports and dashboards on mobile devices like iPad and iPhone.
With these mobile capabilities CROs (Chief Risk Officers) will now have the ability to measure risk from their mobile devices. For volatile risk areas like Market and Credit Risk this can make a huge difference.
IBM developed a risk monitoring system for CROs where one single version of the truth is provided of different risk areas like Credit Risk, Market Risk, Counterparty Credit Risk, Liquidity Risk, Basel II, Solvency II and Operational Risk. Not only does a CRO have the ability to monitor all these risk areas but he can also monitor the correlation between those risk areas and he is able to respond immediately to changes. Responses can immediately be formulated in the integrated social media platform.
One version of the truth and guaranteed quality of your data is simple to say but how do you govern this? This is where IBMs investment in data models starts to pay off. Since decades IBM develops and maintains data models for financial services including out of the box technical and business definitions. This enables organizations to come to one definition of risk over the entire organization. Taking definitions centrally will add value in the process of taking down the silod approach we spoke about in earlier articles. It will also help you in the accountability process of the business. Finally it is the business that should own the business definitions.
As discussed in our previous published blog (The convergence of GRC and Performance Management) Business Analytics capabilities like risk forecasting, risk adjusted profitability calculations, scenario planning and predictive risk analysis are part of this risk monitoring system called FIRM (Finance Integrated Risk Management).
The new regulation for Insurance companies, Solvency II requires organizations to plan their risk assessments and capital requirements 2 to 5 years ahead and to reflect impact on financial positions when a risk materializes. All this means that an integrated approach to risk management is a must. In next blogs we will go deeper into the Solvency II regulation.
GRC Maturity: From Disorganized to Integrated Risk and Performance - Part I
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This is the first in a series of four blog posts where we will present risk and compliance speaker and thought leader, Michael Rasmussen's, GRC maturity model. For more insightful information on GRC and to exchange ideas with risk and finance colleagues, come see us in Orlando at Vision 2012.
Success in today's dynamic business environment requires organizations to integrate, build and support business processes with an enterprise view of governance, risk management and compliance (GRC). Without an integrated view of risk and compliance, the scattered and nonintegrated approaches of the past fail and expose the business to unanticipated risk.
In a mature GRC program, the organization has an integrated process, information and technology architecture that provides visibility across risk and compliance domains. It offers an integrated approach for business managers and executives to leverage GRC data for risk-aware decision-making and resource allocation.
Inevitable Failure: Managing GRC in Silos
The multifaceted risk environment
Risk to the business is like the hydra in mythology — organizations combat risk, only to find more risk springing up to threaten them. Executives are constantly reacting to risk appearing around them and fail to actively manage and understand the interrelationship of risk across the enterprise.
The dynamic and global nature of business is particularly challenging to risk management. As organizations expand operations and business relationships (e.g., vendors, supply chain, outsourcers, service providers, consultants and staffing) their risk profile grows exponentially. Organizations need to stay on top of their game by monitoring risk to their business internally (e.g., strategy, processes and internal controls) and externally (e.g., competitive, economic, political, legal and geographic environments) to stay competitive in today's market. What may seem an insignificant risk in one area can have profound impact on others.
Organizations are increasingly aware of the critical need to link risk management and corporate performance management. To manage corporate performance, the organizations must understand risk and make risk-informed business decisions.
In the area of regulatory risk, organizations face an expanding regulatory environment with rapidly increasing requirements that burden the business. Organizations face expanding regulations, increased fines and sanctions, and aggressive regulators and prosecutors around the world. Reputation and brand protection is also a significant compliance and risk management issue in a global environment.
Isolated risk and compliance initiatives introduce greater risk
Managing GRC activities in disconnected silos leads the organization to inevitable failure. Reactive, document-centric and manual processes for GRC fail to actively manage risk in the context of business strategy and performance, and leave the organization blind to intricate relationships of risk across the business. Siloed GRC initiatives never see the big picture and fail to put GRC in the context of business strategy, objectives and performance, resulting in complexity, redundancy and failure. The organization is not thinking about how GRC processes and controls can be designed to meet a range of risk and compliance needs. An ad hoc approach to GRC results in poor visibility across the organization and its control environment, because there is no framework or architecture for managing risk and compliance as an integrated part of business. When the organization approaches risk in scattered silos that do not collaborate with each other, there is no possibility to be intelligent about risk and understand its impact on the organization.
A nonintegrated approach to GRC impacts business performance and how it is managed and executed, resulting in:
The pain organizations have expressed
Siloed GRC processes, though effective in their own silos, are ineffective at an aggregate level, as the organization does not have a complete view of GRC in the context of the business. Corporate Integrity finds organizations that lack a collaborative, integrated and enterprise approach to GRC have:
Continue on to Part II in this series: GRC Maturity — Measuring a New Paradigm for Risk and Compliance
GRC Maturity: From Disorganized to Integrated Risk and Performance - Part II
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This is the second in a series of four blog posts where we present risk and compliance speaker and thought leader, Michael Rasmussen's, GRC maturity model. For more insightful information on GRC and to exchange ideas with risk and finance colleagues, come see us in Orlando at Vision 2012.
GRC Maturity — Measuring a New Paradigm for Risk and Compliance
Lacking an integrated view of GRC results in business processes, partners, employees and systems that behave like leaves blowing in the wind. Modern business requires a new paradigm for tackling risk and compliance issues across the enterprise. No longer can organizations afford to focus on single risk and compliance issues as unrelated projects; nor can they allow software Band-Aids that are not integrated with the business to masquerade as GRC. A targeted strategy addressing GRC through common processes, information and technology gets to the root of the problem.
With changing and diverse risks bearing down on the organization, there is a clear need to tackle the problem at its root and develop a mature approach to GRC. Instead of treating each risk and compliance issue as an individual problem, organizations need to define a common process, information and technology architecture to manage GRC across the range of issues.
To address these issues, leading organizations have adopted a common framework, information architecture and shared processes to effectively manage risk and compliance, enable risk-aware decision-making, increase efficiencies, and be agile in response to the needs of a dynamic business environment.
The questions organizations must ask:
A well-defined GRC environment will not only do risk assessment and modeling, but will also deliver definition, communication and training on risk-taking and accountability. The organization must map the interrelationship of risks to controls, policies, enterprise assets (e.g., business process, employees, relationships, physical assets and logical assets), and incidents to business strategy, objectives and corporate performance.
Mature GRC delivers better business outcomes because of stronger integrated information, which will:
Architect integrated GRC systems and processes
A properly defined GRC architecture is built upon common process, information and technology components that are adaptive to a dynamic business environment and integrate with critical enterprise applications. No longer is risk and compliance about an annual audit; it now involves continuous monitoring in an ever-changing environment. GRC has to be sustainable as an ongoing and integrated part of business processes. A successful and mature GRC strategy has a symbiotic influence on the variety of business stakeholder roles and their common requirements.
Organizations need to be intelligent about what processes and technologies they deploy. The goal is to make an effective decision once, and comply with many regulations, manage a range of risks and maximize value from the convergence of technology, people and process. A sustainable approach to GRC results in an organization looking to the future and mitigating risk in the course of business, as opposed to putting out fires by reacting to risk and control issues as they arise.
Mature GRC enables the organization to understand performance in the context of risk and compliance. It achieves the definition of GRC, which is "a capability that enables an organization to reliably achieve objectives [GOVERNANCE] while addressing uncertainty [RISK MANAGEMENT] and acting with integrity [COMPLIANCE]." Effective and mature GRC delivers:
Continue on to Part III in this series: Five Stages of GRC Maturity


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ATLANTA-The Georgia Department of Labor announced that the state's seasonally adjusted unemployment rate in February was 5.4 percent, unchanged from January. The rate was 6.2 percent in February 2015.
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Kim Dennis has been named as the general manager of the Effingham Herald, Morris Multimedia Vice President Joe McGlamery announced Monday.
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Known as the Emerald Isle, Ireland is famous for its green countryside. Throughout much of its history, Ireland fought against rule by Great Britain. Most of the island gained independence in the1920s. However, Britain continued to control a section called Northern Ireland. In the 1990s the independent republic of Ireland became a successful member of the European Union. The capital is Dublin.
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The Republic of Ireland occupies most of the island of Ireland, which lies across the Irish Sea from the island of Great Britain. The British controlled the area for about 750 years, until 1921, when they made southern Ireland a dominion. The link with the United Kingdom ended when Ireland became a republic in 1949. However, Northern Ireland, which occupies the rest of the island, has remained a part of the United Kingdom. Area 27,133 square miles (70,273 square kilometers). Population (2014 est.) 4,596,000.


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Sam Amidon returns to The Cedar in support of his new album Bright Sunny South (Nonesuch). The folk songs, shape-note hymns, and country ballads that Amidon performs deal on the surface with the darkest, most fundamental of issues—the specter of death, the looming clouds of war, unquenchable longing, unrequited love. Yet there is beauty and comfort in these time-tested words and well-worn melodies and in Amidon's simple, emotionally direct delivery of these songs.
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In older adults with diabetes mellitus, hypoglycemic events and dementia appear to be associated, according to a study.
There is a growing body of evidence that diabetes mellitus (DM) may increase the risk for developing cognitive impairment, including Alzheimers disease and vascular dementia, and there has been research interest in whether DM treatment can prevent cognitive decline, the authors noted in background information for the study, which was published June 10 on the website of JAMA Internal Medicine.
When blood glucose declines to low levels, cognitive function is impaired and severe hypoglycemia may cause neuronal damage. Previous research on the potential association between hypoglycemia and cognitive impairment has produced conflicting results.
Kristine Yaffe, MD, of the University of California, San Francisco, and colleagues studied 783 older adults with DM and an average age of 74. During a 12-year follow-up, 61 patients (7.8%) had a reported hypoglycemic event and 148 (18.9%) developed dementia.
"Hypoglycemia commonly occurs in patients with diabetes mellitus and may negatively influence cognitive performance," the authors wrote. "Cognitive impairment in turn can compromise DM management and lead to hypoglycemia."
Patients who experienced a hypoglycemic event had a two-fold increased risk for developing dementia compared with those who did not have a hypoglycemic event (34.4% vs. 17.6%), according to the study results. Older adults with DM who developed dementia had a greater risk for having a subsequent hypoglycemic event compared with patients who did not develop dementia (14.2% vs. 6.3%).
The two-way association remained even after adjustment for age, sex, educational level, race/ethnicity, comorbidities and other covariates, the authors wrote. "These results provide evidence for a reciprocal association between hypoglycemia and dementia among older adults with DM."
In an invited commentary, Kasia J. Lipska, MD, MHS, of the Yale University School of Medicine in New Haven, Conn., and Victor M. Montori, MD, of the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn., wrote: "Hypoglycemia in the course of type 2 DM treatment is both common and associated with poor outcomes. Therefore, decisions about the intensity and type of antihyperglycemic therapy must take into account the harms of hypoglycemia. Involving patients in these treatment decisions may favorably shift the current glucose-centric paradigm to a more holistic patient-centered one."
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I am a big fan of the GameCube controller, so comfortable!
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Welcome back Griffin!
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Nice one Matt, good interview.
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I've got the basic white Wii U, so my USB hard drive is a godsend.
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There's such a wide range of Pokemon though, you'd think a lot of them would have to be left out?
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I'm intrigued. I really like the premise of The Fall, but games that are set 'in the dark' sometimes irritate me (like Doom 3). Hope it comes to Europe!
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It's the year of Wii U.
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For a second there I thought that was a console bundle.
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What an excellent review! Even though I'm a NES gamer of old, I had never heard of this game until the recent 3DS release.
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But then that would mean the Last Story wasn't really the last story! I suppose that hasn't hindered 'Final' Fantasy.
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"Looks like we don't have a choice!", I wonder if that's a slight nod to the leak.
on Fish now plays... Street Fighter II...
Robert the Bruce let me right down, lost all my chips.
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I'm thinking no, it probably wasn't worth it! I imagine Nintendo's a pretty cool place to work.
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Great review. I'm looking forward to getting this, the longevity doesn't worry me too much.
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Updated the article with the reuploaded vids. Not sure how long they will last if big N are keep to stamp them out though.
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"This video is no longer available due to a copyright claim by Nintendo of America Inc.." - could well be legit :)
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A controversial opinion, but Sunshine is probably my fave too. I finished Galaxy 2 recently and that was great as well.
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I'm not sure, but I fear it might be beyond his lifespan!
Bunny movin'
Perplexing pixelated picture puzzles perhaps?
Fun! Fun! Minigolf TOUCH! review...
Putting for one.
Sonic & All-Stars Racing Transformed review...
Sega does what Nintendoes.
Motion in the small ocean.
Robox review...
Difficult difficult lemon difficult.
Hardkore fun (...not that kind)
Max and the Magic Marker review...
Draw your own conclusions (a-haaa).
Good times or a load of balls?
Cats and ninjas, a winning combination?
Nintendo President Satoru Iwata Passes Away at 55
Rest In Peace
Nintendo has detailed the return of its World Championship
Do you have what it takes?
Disney Infinity 3.0 Edition Officially Revealed
The Force is strong with this one...
Rumor: Disney Infinity 3.0 Leaked Early
Straight from a Galaxy Far, Far Away...
Mario Kart 8 DLC Pack 2...OH YEAAAAH!
Nintendo should do this more.
The Nintendo GameCube: An Interesting Legacy
Will The Wii U Have a Similar Fate?
Project Ukulele - Possible Hint at Characters
Could it be?
Free to Play Pokemon Shuffle now available on 3DS eShop
Nintendo offers another micro-transaction based title
Gold Mario Amiibo is a Wal-Mart Exclusive
Get ready to shell out your coins
Area Effect Announces Izle for Wii U
Part action, part adventure, all cel-shaded
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Intellectual property is a strategic asset for an organization, which when leveraged effectively, can provide lasting advantage. At each stage in your organization's journey, intellectual property challenges evolve and your intellectual property management strategy will also need to evolve. From securing your first intellectual property rights as a start-up, to perpetuating innovation in a mature organization, and everything in between, here's a look at how intellectual property challenges change as your company scales.
In order to boost innovation in your organization, leadership must enable employees with the right tools and technology. Though many may envision innovation tools as sticky notes and markers on whiteboards, there are many tools beyond the basics which can help drive innovation past the brainstorming stage. Here are some of the core types of tools and technology which can drive innovation at your organization:
Data empowers users across your organization to make informed business decisions and perpetuate strategic initiatives. For intellectual property teams, data can provide powerful insights regarding patents and their performance, as well as shine light on opportunities on which the organization can capitalize. Here are five questions which data can answer about your organization's patent portfolio:
Your company's innovation strategy is an incredibly important element in taking your organization from an emerging newcomer to an established cash cow. Innovating constantly ensures your organization's ear is always to the ground to stay proactive instead of reactive, but in many cases, that's easier said than done. An effective innovation strategy must scale with the organization. Here are three ways to effectively scale your organization's innovation strategy:
In today's environment, organizations are well-positioned to make a powerful, positive impact with their innovation. While many organizations have focused on improving the triple bottom line by increasing their sustainability efforts, or those in their supply chain. However, organizations have relatively extensive resource pools, full of top talent, capital, supplier networks, brand reputation, and more. This means that they are well-equipped to not only make process improvements, but also to truly innovate and invent to make a difference where it's needed. For example, these innovations in clean technology and medical technology can improve the environment and save lives, respectively.
A balanced intellectual property (IP) portfolio helps your organization to leverage its IP assets most effectively, ensures flexibility to adjust for strategic or unexpected changes, and optimizes use of IP management resources. Maintaining a balanced IP portfolio requires diligent monitoring of assets and their uses, but how can your organization tell when the portfolio has become imbalanced? Here are 4 signs to watch out for:
For scaling companies, intellectual property can be used to protect core functionality, to maintain competitive edge, as a point of leverage for investment, and more. However, it can be difficult for an already time-strapped, growing company to strategically consider the dynamic structure and ongoing management of its intellectual property portfolio, but these actions can be a driving factor in the company's success. Here are six tips to help your team build and manage a dynamic intellectual property portfolio as your organization grows.
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An innovation ecosystem is a network of stakeholders collaborating together in order to increase opportunity and innovation to benefit the whole, instead of its parts. Startup incubators, for example, can be seen as a small-scale innovation ecosystem, since their creation is usually a means for fledgling companies to share ideas and learn best practices from experts, in order to magnify the chance of their success. Over the years, innovation ecosystems have become more apparent due to technology's enhanced ability to support collaboration globally. Successfully innovative organizations have learned to reap the benefits of innovation ecosystems to improve their own individual success and the success of their markets.
There's a lot of information out there on if your idea can be patented and how to do it. While this information is most definitely useful, what it doesn't tell you is if your idea should be patented. Many large organizations may have strategies to patent any idea which comes along, but for companies just starting out or scaling to growth, it can be more difficult to tell if it's necessary to protect ideas with patents and it can be tempting not to as a means to save a little cash.


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LOS ANGELES (AP) -- The new "American Idol" is Jordin Sparks.
Sparks beat out Blake Lewis to take the title.
Host Ryan Seacrest says a record 74 (m) million votes were cast by fans of the Fox show. He did not give a vote breakdown.
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Calne woman runs London Marathon in memory of friend's husband (From This Is Wiltshire)
Calne woman runs London Marathon in memory of friend's husband
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Admin assistant Sarah Markley ran her first London Marathon in four hours 12 minutes in memory of her friend's husband Paul Beament, who died of mouth cancer.
Miss Markley, 41, of Curzon Close, Calne, has raised more than £600 for the Mouth Cancer Foundation and said the event was overwhelming.
She said: "The last few miles were an absolute killer.
"The last mile was incredible, it was amazing to look round and see the crowds cheering."
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70% hike in Israeli settlement activity in 2013
Israeli construction in the West Bank increased by 70 percent from January to June compared to the same period in 2012, an anti-settlement advocacy group said.
UPI News says that according to a report released by the group, Peace Now, more than 340,000 settlers live in the West Bank, more than triple the number who lived there 20 years ago when the 1990s Oslo Accords were signed.
More than half of the new settlers moved to three settlements, and 64 percent of the growth is taking place in regions that could remain in Israeli control in potential land swaps with Palestinians, the report said.
Some 60 percent of the housing units currently under construction are in more isolated settlements. The longer Israel develops isolated areas like these, the more difficult a two-state solution would be, Peace Now concluded.
Peace talks between Israeli and Palestinian officials took place in July, but the outcome of the discussions has been kept mostly secret.
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas was in Europe this week to push for an Israeli settlement freeze, and Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu is scheduled to go travel Europe next week to meet with U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry to discuss peace negotiations.
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Dump truck/back hoe work
I was tring to get some idea what it cost to hire someone with a back hoe/dump truck to move some dirt for me. Has anyone hired anyone one to do something like that recently ?
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In my area a backhoe will cost between $60-75 per hour. Not sure about a dump truck.
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Around the Louisville area a skid steer should be between $65-$75 per hour. A backhoe should be between $75-$90 per hour. A Tri axle dump truck usually goes around $75-$90 per hour. A single axle dump truck should be somewhere right around $50-60 per hour. Don't know where youre located but I hope this helps. If you're close to the Louisville area I can recommend some reliable excavation contractors.
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It's a well-known fact among intelligent people that places filled with cultural or natural integrity are more inspiring and fulfilling than places founded upon commercial pursuits. To look upon forests throbbing with ancient and newly-born life, to watch the fading light dance across hushed waters and disappear into the darkness beyond, or watch the sunlight reflect off pink clouds at dawn and paint them a crimson red at dusk. Alternatively, to absorb your own personal meaning from a painter's masterwork, or consider the intricate, painstakingly formed architecture of the world's great structures, to dance awkwardly to music you've never considered before, to perceive the imprint of the past on the present and witness with astute comprehension both the pleasures, and the plights, of our vast, diverse human family...<BR>
Lake Arrowhead--and the rest of the San Bernardino mountains--to me, represents one of the last vestiges of nature in an area of the world where every field is being replaced by forcibly planted, manicured facsimiles of the natural world. But even Arrowhead hasn't escaped the onslaught of "tourist trap stores" and merciless world domination by fast food chains such as McDonald's...well, at least you can get a lakeside view with your Big Mac and side-order of fries...lol!
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It's kind of a road bike
CAAD9 5, all 105 except for a new Ultegra 6700 chain.
Upgrades in the near future are Ultegra shifters, the seat (I loooooove that OEM San Marco, and it's a beautiful seat (works with the color scheme absolutely perfectly), even though I've heard bad things.. it's atrocious in anything other than cycling shorts, but I never ride it without them and I'm sure all low profile seats are like that. It's just taken a scrape or two and that's starting to bother me. That and the silver painted-on logo towards the front disintegrated within the first 400km. Recommendations for cleaning a white saddle in the mean time, and for a similar color/style saddle in a couple months? The shifters are next because I just had my 105 FD shifter die after about 2000km, which is very disappointing. I got lucky with the LBS and they replaced it 2 months after the end of the 1 year warranty.
>2500k and not a single flat. I don't think it's fair to knock on wood anymore. (update feb 7 2011: whoops)
2009 Cannondale CAAD5 (white), stock Shimano 105 pretty much everything. Slowly Ultegra-izing, so far: the chain.
early 90's Peugeot Success, the city commuter (wanna help finding a date on this one?)
I use simple green spray to clean my white saddles and bar tape and it works great. I've heard good things about the magic erasers too.
2003 Klein Q Carbon Race Crazy Plum, 105 w/ Ultegra FD + RD, Reynolds Wheels, Toupe Saddle
I just bought this new Fuji SL-1 Comp. I was previously riding a Specialized Allez. Not a very good picture, unfortunately, as I couldn't find my camera and had to use the cellphone to take it.
congrats...hows the switch from Alum to CF?
2010 Fisher Cronus
I've already posted my new bike pics and such. Here's the link:
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Nice bike. I am a huge fan of the fast all white bike too! Enjoy the ride and keep turning the cranks.
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After looking at the pic's of the bikes, it won't hold a candle against most of the bikes you guys/girls ride; however, I really enjoy my Roubaix Expert.
i've posted this before, but i've changed so much on it that i think it warrants another post.
the build is as follows... 2002 merlin extralight frame, reynolds ouzo pro full carbon fork, dura ace 7800 crank (w/ ultegra big ring), brakes, RD, FD, shifters and cables, ultegra 12-27 cassette, 105 chain, miche supertype post, bontrager rxxxl stem, easton ea70 bars, specialized toupe 143 ti rails, speedplay zero pedals, easton ea90 slx wheels, bontrager rxl tires and deda tape. blackburn flea front and rear lights and bontrager rxl cages.
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you'd be surprised what I had to go through to find a decent post. I had issues with posts slipping no matter what i did, i first tried a bontrager rxl carbon post, no dice, in fact the slipping pretty much chewed off all the clearcoat from the post, i tried an american classic ti post, same deal, i used liquid torque on the carbon post and no help... i found this post (miche supertype) at some hipsterish sorta shop selling fixed gear bikes (predominantly) in brooklyn. it's on the heavy side @ a bit over 260 grams but not a single issue since i installed it.
i also tried a thomson post which was very harsh on my posterior. this, also being alloy is a bit more forgiving.
"...I thought about evening when the boys wash up, sing, eat, raise a cup of wine in honor of love and life, and waiting at the door, the bicycle, stilled, because only moving does it have a soul, and fallen there it isn't a translucent insect humming through summer but a cold skeleton that will return to life only when it's needed, when it's light, that is, with the resurrection of each day." -- Pablo Neruda
If I don't have any patients in the day plus the weather is warm and dry, I usually ride my Colnago for a few blocks and then sit down to enjoy a nice cup of coffee to recuperate. The other day I had a tight race with a Mongoose 26" ....boy that hurted. Had to call in my message theoropist that evening.
Just recently got into to cycling again (for real this time though) and I've been riding a hybrid, but recently decided to fix up an old road bike my father-in-law bought me on the cheap a few years ago. As far as I can tell its a 1979 Motobecane Mirage. Nothing fancy, but its my first road bike and I love the feel of it.
This is also the first time I have worked on a bike more than adjusting the seatpost height. I did an overhaul on this one, and loved it. I took everything off except the BB and cleaned up all the rust. Overhauled the hubs. Regreased the headset bearings. Gave it new bar tape and all new cables and housing and tuned up the shifting.
I have new tires and pads for it, but I'm waiting for my new wheels to come in before I put them on.
My first road bike. Picked it up two days ago. I was a 260+ lb clyde 3 months ago. I bought a TREK 7300 Hybrid and rode it for 950 miles and I have shed 30 lbs so far. I started doing longer rides. 30 miles is normal ride now. 40 on somedays and I even did my first half century a couple of weeks ago. Love the long distance calorie burning rides! Knew I would have to upgrade to a road bike and after much research and test rides I purchased this little beauty.
I am still a 230 lb clyde and after the first 30 mile ride on the 2.3 I experienced numbness in an area I had never experienced numbness before!
The stock saddle had to go! I got a fitting today and replaced the stem with a longer and slightly more upright one. Also replaced the saddle with an inexpensive Planet Bike a.r.s. gel. My 7300 had a small Serfas cruiser gel and I never had this problem with it so I decided to go big and comfy this time around. Once I loose another 45 lbs or so I will reevaluate the saddle.
I love this bike!
10 lbs a month for 3 months is seriously impressive.
Congratulations on the weight loss.
Thanks! It's a lot more work taking it off than it is putting it on! I absolutely fell in love with cycling this summer. I don't ever see myself not doing this. And I will never be fat again.
Markrj, way to go on the weight loss and discovery the joys of cycling!!! Keep it up!!! Cycling is the best!!!
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