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Beat the Streak Report: Wednesday, September 8
Well, isn't "bretzky26" making things interesting?
Our fearless leader upped his/her streak to a robust 37 games after successfully choosing Mark Teixeira for Tuesday's slate.
"bretzky26" is now just a 20-game streak away from taking home the big bucks.
Let's see how this one all shakes out.
Time for Wednesday's picks
Oh, hello there …
? Stephen Drew: .345 AVG (10-for-29) lifetime vs. Giants starter Barry Zito
? Evan Longoria: .545 AVG (6-for-11) lifetime vs. Red Sox starter Tim Wakefield
? David Wright: .375 AVG (12-for-32) lifetime vs. Nationals starter Livan Hernandez
Feeling kinda spicy?
? Jason Kubel: .304 AVG (7-for-23) lifetime vs. Royals starter Zack Greinke
You'll thank me later…
? Billy Butler: .000 AVG (0-for-7) lifetime vs. Twins starter Brian Duensing
? Mark Teixeira: .000 AVG (0-for-4) lifetime vs. Orioles starter Brad Bergesen
? Nyjer Morgan: .000 AVG (0-for-7) lifetime vs. Mets starter R.A. Dickey
Leaderboard time!
Unfortunately, "pops50" saw his/her streak go down in flames after Hanley Ramirer went hitless. We'll miss you, pops.
That means that "astoclubgoer" is in second place in the standings with a 31-gamer.
On that note, he is also the only streaker outside of "bretzky26" who
still has enough time on the calendar to put together a 57-game streak.
Top MLB streakers
? Carlos Gonzalez: 15 games
? A.J. Pierzynski: 14 games
? Neil Walker: 14 games
? Michael Cuddyer: 12 games
? Adrian Gonzalez: 10 games
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Thanks for providing that valuable information that I had so much time to consider before I had to put my pick in.
Top2500 will be posted about 6PM EST & may not include the 2 early games nor No Selections.
For grins, will post the Survivor picks when Top2500 posted. Got 11 of 15 correct yesterday, how many today? Hmmm.
Thoughts on leader's pick today? Orlando has bad numbers vs righties/away games. Subpar numbers all the way around, except for the past 30 days where he's been hot @ 417 but dropping n last 10 days to 317. Here's another positive: 2-4 vs Cook this year, over 500 lifetime.
lol, it is Wednesday today!
Today's current Top2500 listing. Note that list only includes those with streaks of 15 or greater, totalling 187 players. Anyone shorter streak is mathematically eliminated from cash prizes. 53 different players picked.
Batter, Times Picked, Percentage of 187
Robinson Cano, 26, 13.90% (5th)
Joey Votto, 25, 13.37% (5th, 5th, 5th)
Martin Prado, 20, 10.70% (2nd, 5th)
Carlos Gonzalez, 20, 10.70% (48.67% of picks are in the top 4)
Ichiro Suzuki, 9, 4.81% (3rd)
Jason Heyward, 6, 3.21%
Hunter Pence, 5, 2.67%
Josh Hamilton, 4, 2.14%
Troy Tulowitzki, 4, 2.14%
Orlando Cabrera, 3, 1.60% (Leader)
Alex Rodriguez, 3, 1.60%
Brett Hayes, 3, 1.60%
Curtis Granderson, 3, 1.60%
Albert Pujols, 3, 1.60% (3rd)
No Selection, 3, 1.60% (one 18-game hit streak who had a 29-game hit streak earlier in the season + two 15-game hit streaks)
Paul Konerko, 3, 1.60%
Nick Markakis, 3, 1.60%
Michael Young, 2, 1.07%
Joe Mauer, 2, 1.07%
Derek Jeter, 2, 1.07%
Shane Victorino, 2, 1.07%
Neil Walker, 2, 1.07%
Omar Infante, 2, 1.07%
Ian Kinsler, 2, 1.07%
Evan Longoria, 2, 1.07%
Albert Pujols, 1, 0.53%
Rafael Furcal, 1, 0.53% (5th)
Evan Longoria, 1, 0.53%
Mark Teahen, 1, 0.53%
Jose Reyes, 1, 0.53%
Will Rhymes, 1, 0.53%
Lorenzo Cain, 1, 0.53%
Vladimir Guerrero, 1, 0.53%
Brian Roberts, 1, 0.53%
Mark Teixeira, 1, 0.53%
Angel Pagan, 1, 0.53%
Vernon Wells, 1, 0.53%
Ryan Howard, 1, 0.53%
Placido Polanco, 1, 0.53%
Brian McCann, 1, 0.53%
Melky Cabrera, 1, 0.53%
Brandon Phillips, 1, 0.53%
Ryan Theriot, 1, 0.53%
Yuniesky Betancourt, 1, 0.53%
Nelson Cruz, 1, 0.53%
Marlon Byrd, 1, 0.53%
Aaron Miles, 1, 0.53%
Derrek Lee, 1, 0.53%
Matt Holliday, 1, 0.53%
Carl Crawford, 1, 0.53%
Brett Gardner, 1, 0.53%
Delmon Young, 1, 0.53%
Adrian Beltre, 1, 0.53%
Highest No Selection on page 3 with streak of 18, now eliminated
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I tried to keep your style as exact as I could, so people will not be thrown off.
I expanded the list of players included to 15 though so we can ensure that when this list is fully eliminated, the contest is really over.
I seriously doubt that there will be 3 days of tiebreakers or even 1 rainout and 2 days of tiebreakers.
How does it look?
Day games on Tuesday?
Late But:
Hunter Pence playing hard as I watched Cub v. Stros last night. Thinking there is a hit in his bat tonight v. Wells ov Cubs who is hittable. Could be in 1st inning as Wells has a first inning phobia.
Small listing, just did it by hand. So here it is:
Today's current Top2500 listing. Note that list only includes those with streaks of 17 or greater, totaling 114 players. Anyone with shorter streaks mathematically eliminated from cash prizes
Batter, Times Picked, Percentage of 114
Joey Votto, 17, 14.91%
Robinson Cano, 17, 14.91
Martin Prado, 15, 13.16 (2nd)
Carlos Gonzalez, 14, 12.28
Ichiro Suzuki, 4, 3.51
Josh Hamilton, 4, 3.51
Brett Hayes, 3, 2.63
Hunter Pence, 3, 2.63
Paul Konerko, 3, 2.63
Albert Pujols, 2, 1.75
Curtis Granderson, 2, 1.75
Derek Jeter, 2, 1.75
Jason Heyward, 2, 1.75
Joe Mauer, 2, 1.75
Michael Young, 2, 1.75
Shane Victorino, 2, 1.75
Troy Tulowitzki, 2, 1.75
No Selection, 1, 0.88
Orlando Cabrera, 1, 0.88 (Leader)
Only No Selection on page 3 with streak of 18, now eliminated
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bravesfanforlife88, @ 16, reset yesterday with Mi.Cabrera
Hey champ88, are you going to continue posting Top2500ish for rest of the month? If so, I won't. This way we don't post over each other like today.
How does it look? Maybe in future posts, just comma delimit the picks @ 1? Or maybe similar to the way the $3M runners were being tracked a week ago….
@17: list of picks
@15: list of picks
@4: list of picks
Just a suggestion
@champ88: "I tried to keep your style as exact as I could, so people will not be thrown off."
Blog clock must off again, sprinkling posts around in non-sequential order. Anyway, I think that was a reply to my question above. Anyway, you going to do it from now on?
well I did not want us to lose data and I knew that there was no way a 100 PM start would still be going at 630 PM.
but for the days in which you can use the program, it will be easier to do it that way, since it is cumbersome to do it by hand.
it took me about an hour, but the house was quiet today.
which days in the next week can you use the program?
Cano singles in possibly his last AB off a 3-2 meatball.
Not sure what the point of that was.
He could have tried to make a good pitch and maybe get him out or end up with the same result as what he got.
@champ88: "which days in the next week can you use the program?"
Any day where 1st game is on/after 3PM Eastern & on all weekends. But on weekdays, the listing won't be posted earlier than 5PM Eastern. After this week is over, the listing may be pretty small & compact enough to easily include all still in the running & also to do by hand if needed w/o a program
the Yankees just pinch-hit for Granderson.
0 for 1 with a walk
2 more are eliminated.
@champ88. Careful, doing the Top2500 hooks you, making you want to watch ABs for all/most of the hitters on the list. You may be up very late tonight. I think 00Liber would agree too?
Afternoon results:
Robinson Cano (26, 5th)
Alex Rodriguez (3)
Nick Markakis (3)
Jose Reyes (1) (15-day DL, but user was at 20, so he has some rest days left)
Brian Roberts (1)
Angel Pagan (1)
Brett Gardner (1)
Curtis Granderson (3)
No Selection (3)
Derek Jeter (2)
Mark Teixeira (1)
What happened to this blog? There used to be good information about the BTS picks. Now its infested with useless ramblings and jealousy posts. I hope the guy in the lead does win just to shut them up. Now we have 2 lists so they can have their multiple orgasms everytime someone loses his streak. Why do they care so much about other's picks?
Why do they care so much about other's picks?
So, you've never looked at the leaderboard? I like orgasms.
@gyroman92. When was last time you came to the blog? That Top2500 listing has been running since mid-April I think. And until recently, when most people have been eliminated, the blog continually has had some nice info about picks. Maybe you should consider contributing?
gyroman – Please post who you liked today (Wed) and share your reasoning and please do the same for Thursday.
I posted that I liked Hunter Pence today.
This info is helpful to all.
Inside info on your team is appreciated too.
Survivor Calculator picks by level of confidence:
Good: CIN, ATL, CWS, CHC
So-So: *MIN, STL, OAK, BOS
Iffy: *NYY, *TOR, *CLE, PHI, NYM, AZ, *SD,
* indicates matchups where a team vs pitcher little to no history
If this proves to be a good return like yesterday, I'll post tomorrow's picks later tonite. My idea is that picking a good batter from one of the teams that appear is going to win, may have a higher pct of getting a hit. Corrupted logic? Maybe.
Hi everyone I was at the Yankee game today so I was unable to post earlier. Yesterday's results: Albert Pujols was a half success, succeeding in beat the streak and failing in home run. In survivor the Blue Jays beat the Rangers.
Today's picks;
Beat the Streak: Robinson Cano (Safe)
Survivor: Yankees (Win)- Swisher is the hero saving the day and my streak.
Home run: Jose Batista
I went with Neil Walker today, since he is a great home/night hitter and Lowe is hittable.
The one thing that made me nervous is that Walker was riding a 14-game hit streak and I like to avoid people whose streaks are lengthening.
But usually it is good for there to be SOMETHING that worries me about a pick, because the perfect picks do not come through that often.
@champ88. Same here, kinda. Picked Infante 187 vs Duke because I believed ATL would win & hit well, giving a great batter an extra AB. That worked out too, in fact he may get 7 ABs if not pulled.
Leader's pick benched. So streak remains steady unless Orlando comes in for pinch hitting (possible).
Maybe 7 ABs is pushing it. But 6 ABs will help his chances at getting to 502 and challenge the batting title this year.
wow, cannot believe they pulled Infante with a guaranteed 6th AB coming.
I wonder if Cox realizes Infante is trying to qualify for the batting title?
Votto and Prado both have hits from the top 4.
Gonzalez is 0 for 1 so far.
Tomorrow: CWS in Survivor with Konerko in BTS. Using the new formula I have for that game, averaging +7.66 run differential in last 3 picks.
Predicting CIN over COL tomorrow…
@champ88: "What is 187"?
It was his average vs pitcher last 5 years
Leader has resigned to the fact that Cabrera is most likely going to get in the game at some point in time and pinch hit, and is in big trouble.
Leader also questions manager Dusty Baker for not playing Cabrera today, considering his outstanding numbers against Cook.
Infante now has 407 PA.
He needs 95 more PA to qualify with 22 games left in the season.
Now needs 5 PA in 7/22 remaining games with 4 in each of the others.
But Carlos Gonzalez is also challenging him now for the average and he has already qualified.
"Leader has resigned to the fact that Cabrera is most likely going to get in the game at some point in time and pinch hit, and is in big trouble."
The Reds are already losing 5-1.
If the Rockies get another run or so, they are not going to bring in Cabrera to pinch-hit, if they wanted to give him a day off.
Factoid from Cub game announcers:
"Barry Zito has not won a road game since May 5th."
Day game for the Rockies
My pick is Tulo who has 2HR's Wed night
HR – Pence (You gotta like a guy who bats 3rd and chokes up 2 inches on his bat.)
Survivor – WOW? Rockies look promising(?)
wow, I cannot believe they pinch-hit for Holliday!
Shows how risky it is to pick any Cardinal really.
"Picked Infante 187"
What is 187?
I'm changing my pick for tomorrow from Matt Holliday to Troy Tulowitzki.
So is tomorrow gonna be the day Tulo screws us? He looks ripe for picking but I am afraid of the CIN's pitcher. Either he is going back to pitching well or the league has figured him out. I still want to try to beat my personal best for the season. I still have a chance @ 30+ in my last drive.
ATL have to face Wainwright. He has been iffy but he turned in a couple of complete masterpices last month amongst mediocres. If Wainwright is on, Infante or Prado will 0-fer. And Wainwright pitches well against righties anyway.
I am glad my streak don't count for peanuts because I would be going nuts trying to find a pick for tomorrow.
I switched back to Matt Holliday. Travis Wood has a .212 average against far UNDER my don't pick below .240 average against rule. It could be the 1st day game that Tulowitzki goes 0 fer and I don't want to be in that party.
wow, some people got royally unlucky today in the Indians/Angels game!
Erick Aybar went 0 for 6.
Reggie Willits went 0 for 4 in 6 PA.
Asdrubal Cabrera and Shin-Soo Choo went 0 for 6 in EIGHT plate appearances!!!
If anyone can use this info, here it is. I've been 18 of 28 in picks of all games over last 2 days. Still 2 games to go tonite & picked SD & OAK to win; both winning at the moment — so, maybe 20 of 30 overall.
FYI only, you should do your own research.
To win tomorrow: CWS, *LAD, *CIN, STL, SF, *TOR
(*) indicates matchups where "team vs pitcher" has little to no history/data for 1 of the teams
"Asdrubal Cabrera and Shin-Soo Choo went 0 for 6 in EIGHT plate appearances!!!"
I've been there w/ my picks many before. Some days, its not meant to be. I bet I could pitch to them and the result would be the same.
"I am glad my streak don't count for peanuts because I would be going nuts trying to find a pick for tomorrow."
I think tomorrow will really separate out the contenders from the pretenders.
If you can afford an off-day, I would suggest looking for a safe do not play pick, if it exists, because I doubt the landscape will be this poor for the rest of the season again.
Those right on the edge have a very difficult decision to make tomorrow.
I found a couple of daring picks. Definitely left of field picks but I just saw the leader's posts and I don't want him to blame me if I influnced him in any nagative way. Keep searching. There are a couple of them out there. I guess I can afford to pick them since my streak don't count but I am still trying to pretend that I am making the pick under "real" situation.
There is another bad day coming up on the 16th. Don't know the pitchers yet but from the teams match-up, don't look that promising.
Honestly, my biggest pet peeve about this game is the deadline for making picks. I absolutely have no problem them making the deadline 5 minutes before the game starts. What I would suggest(and it would of certainly influenced/changed my pick today) is, for example, make a 5:00 cutoff for games at 5:05, and then for people that are eyeing games that start at 7:05, make it a 7:00. This prevents people from picking people who will not be in the lineup for that given game, because the worst way to lose would be way of the pinch hitter. I don't see any clear cut advantage with the system I just proposed.
The 16th? No offense to bretzky26 or astoclubgoer, but I think the only people still trying for cash at that point will be those chasing Dick/Geoff not the $3M. We shall see
@bretzky26. Would be nice if that could be done, but should a game start early (rare) due to potential rain, even 30 minutes early, MLB would have to scramble to update systems to update locks. Oh, and for those that think they can cheat with multiple accounts & get away with it…. pick a game at 5 & if lose, pick another at 7 with another account. Then there's the issue of the leaderboard. If I'm competing with you for a run at the money and I see you picked and lost, that might influence my pick to include an injured one that won't play. The above scenarios are all possible and maybe can be prevented but I dont' see the game changing. I'd also like to wait if possible. Even for Survivor… knowing who is in the lineup can help determine a team to pick. Not knowing until 6 hours later sucks.
I think the leader will at least take the Dick's prize. He is only 6 games away. He has a good momentum and luck going his way. Strange things happen that inexplicably go his way. And he is using a method that has not been seen before. I didn't even know until now Cabrera didn't start today. I had him confused with Phillips for some reason.
@btsplayer. Use rotoworld to help with lineup changes. Maybe the leader will get 44 or better. Then again, I thought Geoff would beat it a by a couple games & when Dick was alone at the top, I wasn't sure he'd stop at 43 either. Luck has a way of turning on a dime.
Acutally, I just spent the last 1/2 hr looking though and tomorrow is not that bad. There are some good picks, albeit iffy, if you look outside the box just a bit. But this year has been iffy picks almost everyday. And most of the so-called solid picks have been the biggest streak killers after everyone piles in on it. If you're just looking for name brand players, you not going to find a good one tomorrow.
@champ88. Post the Top2500 tomorrow if you would.
@bretzky26: Good luck chasing 44. But once you hit that, I & many more will be digging thru our jinx boxes until we find something that works, be warned
To win tomorrow: CWS, *LAD, *CIN, STL, SF, *TOR
rotoworld: Kemp/Furcal being rested. LAD prediction based on flawed info. Can't update my program before games lock. I'll consider the LAD/HOU game as a no-pick.
^^ Cabrera(DET) DNP today. Prediction of CWS winning looks better now.
"@bretzky26. Would be nice if that could be done, but should a game start early (rare) due to potential rain, even 30 minutes early, MLB would have to scramble to update systems to update locks. "
That has almost never happened and the one time it did, it was announced the night before.
I mean they have the same "problem," when a game rains ouit and they make it up the next day during the afternoon on a day with a 700 lock.
So they are definitely capable of making the change and it very likely is just changing the time in the code.


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Last year, when I was seriously considering switching away from the iPhone to an Android smartphone, I became smitten with HTC's One S, which at the time was offered on T-Mobile's service. I wrote in April 2012 that, were I to make the leap to Android, I might have done it with this phone.
Now, I'm glad I didn't. HTC announced Tuesday that it won't be upgrading the One S beyond its current Android 4.1.1, even though it has the specs to handle version 4.2 and the rumored 4.3.
Though the HTC One S is still a young phone at just over a year old, its update cycle has come to an end. HTC tells us that the One S will no longer be receiving updates, keeping it on Android 4.1.1 Jelly Bean and Sense 4+ at the latest. The phone's 1.5GHz processor and 1GB of RAM should have made it powerful enough to handle any Android releases coming down the pipeline right now, but the lack of continued updates for an Android device remains — unfortunately — unsurprising.
The One S was originally released with Android 4.0.3, and it has received at least one OS update. But to have its run ended here when it's fully capable of handling the latest and greatest version of Google's mobile OS has got to be disappointing to current owners.
Put other another way: People who bought the One S on a two-year contract when it was first released still have 9 months left to go on those agreements, and already the device has been cast aside by its manufacturer.
Owners of the larger HTC One X will fare better. That phone will get a bump up to Android 4.2 sometime this month. Of course, exactly when will vary by carrier. In the U.S., the One X was sold by AT&T.
The notion that a phone of this caliber can be orphaned so quickly is one of the biggest drawbacks to the Android platform. Updates to existing Android devices are left up to the whims of the manufacturers and the carriers. By contrast, the One S's contemporary on Apple's iOS platform – the iPhone 4S – will soon be getting iOS 7, which will be its second operating system upgrade. And given Apple's history, it will likely get at least one, possibly two more.
The decision also comes at a bad time for HTC, which is struggling as it tries to compete with the Samsung juggernaut. HTC has won high critical praise for its current flagship model, the beautifully designed 2013 HTC One, but Samsung's Galaxy S4 is formidable. The fact that the One S won't be getting updates should give potential buyers of the current HTC One serious pause. It certainly would factor in on my decision whether to buy it. Given its current straits, you'd think HTC would be doing everything it could to instill confidence that current phones won't be kicked to the curb in the near future.
There is another option, though. HTC recently started selling the One Play Edition, which comes with a version of stock Android 4.2 and is sold, unlocked, through Google for $599. It should get updates in a more timely fashion, and for longer, than HTC One smartphones that are tied to carriers. There's a similar version of the Galaxy S4, too.
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Addenda & Revisions
The Richard Diebenkorn catalogue raisonné documents all of the artist's unique works known to the editors and the Foundation at the time of publication. Works that have emerged after publication are shown here in Addenda. Information unavailable to us at the time of publication, such as an unresolved collection credit at the time of our provenance research deadlines, is shown here in Revisions. The final dates for provenance research were: volume 2 (1933–1955), December 1, 2012; volume 3 (1955–1966), June 1, 2013; and volume 4 (1967–1992), December 1, 2013.


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Toronto: Zac Efron's career is booming
- Zac Efron plays a doctor in JFK assassination film
TORONTO — A year and a half ago Zac Efron was dipping a toe in more adult fare, playing the stormy love interest in The Lucky One.
Then he starred in Lee Daniels' The Paperboy, a no-holds-barred Floridian tale of murder and sex co-starring Nicole Kidman. That performance (at least, according to the thick stack of press notes Parkland reps were handing out) caught Parkland director Peter Landesman's eye.
The Paperboy "was raw and dirty," Efron concedes in an interview hours before Parkland's premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival. "That movie was really unafraid to go certain places. I definitely was able to challenge myself in a different way than The Lucky One, for instance. And I think that's part of the reason that I was maybe thought of for this."
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There is a very sick part of me that loves cheesy music and movies. I blame it on being left alone with basic cable in the 1990's: You couldn't change the channel without hearing some schmaltzy song playing in the background!
And so today on the Kotaku Mixtape, we're celebrating at some of the cheesiest songs to ever grace video games.
Some of these songs are great, like the silly and glib "War's Never Been So Much Fun" from the Amiga game Cannon Fodder. Others, like "Bundle of Nerves" from the 3DO game Virtuoso, are despicable, foul things that perhaps are best left forgotten. That said, they all have one thing in common: They're all teeth-grindingly tacky.
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Angels With Burning Hearts - Burning Rangers
War Has Never Been So Much Fun - Cannon Fodder
Night Trap - Night Trap
Slingshot (Japanese Version) - Daytona USA 2
Girl in the Tower - King's Quest VI
Rogue Warrior Rap - Rogue Warrior (Featuring Vocals by Mickey Rourke)
Dreams Dreams - NiGHTS into DREAMS…
Bundle of Nerves - Virtuoso
I Am The Wind - Castlevania: Symphony of the Night
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Universal Algebra and Lattice Theory
Short-course on Cryptography
Contributed Papers
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Opening Address
Tom Archibald - France, Germany, and the making of modern mathematics
Deborah Ball and Hyman Bass - The role of definitions in teaching and learning
Robert Calderbank - Quantum computers and cellular phones
Andrew Granville - Uncertainty principles in arithmetic
Anand Pillay - Stable theories, examples, and applications
Madhu Sudan - List decoding of error correcting codes
CMS Coxeter-James Lecture
Jingyi Chen - Recent developments in mean curvature flow of higher codimension
CMS Doctoral Prize
Alina Carmen Cojocaru - Elliptic curves modulo p
Richard Anstee - A conjecture for small forbidden configurations
Francois Bergeron - On a conjecture about Littlewood-Richardson coefficients
Nantel Bergeron - Combinatorial Hopf algebra have character
Iliya Bluskov - LDEO in recent search for designs
Jonathan Jedwab - Constructing binary sequences with merit factor greater
than 6.34
Mark Kayll - On weak Sidon sequences: a new proof with an improved bound
Marni Mishna - Automatic combinatorial identities arising from symmetric
Lucia Moura - Primitive pentanomials and orthogonal arrays
Frank Ruskey - Some recent results about Venn diagrams
Nabil Shalaby - Skolem and Rosa-type sequences
John van Rees - (m,t)-splitting systems and set intersection systems
Timothy Walsh - Generating gray codes in O(1) worst-case time per word
David Wehlau - Complete caps in PG(n,2)
Julian West - Perfect matchings for the Gale-Robinson sequence
Dynamical Systems, Celestial Mechanics
Larry Bates - Complete integrabilty beyond Liouville-Arnol'd
Stefanella Boatto - Curvature perturbations and vortex stability
Monica Cojocaru - Periodic solutions for projected dynamical systems
Zuosheng Hu - Favard's theorem for almost periodic processes on Banach
Wu Jianhong - Hyperbolic PDEs with delay: delayed diffusion and
retarded reaction in biological systems
Tomasz Kaczynski - Detection of interesting dynamics via combinatorial index
Bill Langford - Hopf meets Hamilton under Whitney's umbrella
Dan Offin - Lagrangian singularities and stabiltity of periodic orbits
Juan-Pablo Ortega - The geometry of Hamiltonian conservation laws
George Patrick - Interactions of relative equilibria of point vortices
Ernesto Perez-Chavela - Relative equilibria in the charged three body problem
Mark Roberts - Relative periodic solutions of symmetric Lagrangian systems
Christiane Rousseau - Modulus of orbital analytic classification of a family
unfolding a generic saddle-node
Manuele Santoprete - Qualitative properties of the anisotropic Manev problem
Dana Schlomiuk - Recent results on global problems about planar polynomial
vector fields
Tanya Schmah - A slice theorem for cotangent-lifted symmetries
Jedrzej Sniatycki - Poisson algebras in reduction of symmetries
Cristina Stoica - Bifurcations from collinear relative equilibria for triatomic
Andre Vanderbauwhede - Bananas and banana splits: degenerate subharmonic branching
in reversible systems
Graphs and Matroids
Kathie Cameron - Finding induced matchings and dissociation sets in graphs
Dalibor Froncek - Factorizations of complete graphs into spanning trees
Penny Haxell - Independent transversals in r-partite graphs
Peter Horak - Covering vertices of a graph by trees
Jing Huang - Bigraphs of Ferrers dimension two and circular arc graphs
Gary McGillivray - Near-Unanimity functions of reflexive graphs
Sean McGuinness - Sequential transversals in matroids
Jenny McNulty - Non-orientable matroids and characteristic sets
Wendy Myrvold - Hunting for torus obstructions
Nancy Neudauer - Graph representations of a bicircular matroid
Ortrud Oellermann - Contour vertices and convexity notions in graphs
Bruce Reed - An odd version of Hadwiger's conjecture
Nick Wormald - Tournaments with many Hamilton cycles
Roger Yu
Bing Zhou - List colouring the hypergraph of maximal cliques of
planar graphs
Harmonic Analysis
Michael Christ - On multilinear oscillatory integrals
Walter Craig - On surface water waves
Galia Dafni - Some results on the spaces Qa(Rn)
Andrea Fraser - A classification by multipliers of Calderón-Zygmund
SIO's on the Heisenberg group
Sinan Gunturk - Accuracy of one-bit quantization and the fair-duel problem:
some extremal problems on {-1,+1} sequences
Steve Hofmann - Lp bounds for Riesz transforms
Elliot Krop
Michael Lacey - Hilbert transform on smooth families of lines
Marius Mitrea - Estimates on Sobolev and Besov scales for elliptic
PDE in non-smooth Riemannian manifolds
Gerd Mockenhaupt - On the Hardy Littlewood majorant property
Camil Muscalu - On an inequality of Kato and Ponce in non-linear PDE
Melvyn Nathanson - Problems in additive number theory
Malabika Pramanik - Averaging and maximal operators for curves in R3
Eric Sawyer
Andreas Seeger - Maximal functions associated with Mikhlin-Hoermander multipliers
Daniel Tataru - Lp bounds for the eigenfunctions of the Hermite operator
Gunther Uhlmann - The Dirichlet-to-Neumann map and the boundary distance
History of Mathematics
Tom Archibald - Jules Tannery, Paul Appell, and the mathematical research
community in France, 1870-1914
Lawrence D'Antonio - The solution of the Beha-Eddin problem: elliptic curves to the
Hardy Grant - Greek mathematics in cultural context
Alexander Jones - Ptolemy's mathematical tones
Israel Kleiner - Fermat: The founder of modern number theory
Gregory Moore - Attacking the infinite, defending the infinite: Cantor's
strategy and tactics
Ram Murty - History of the Euclidean algorithm
Nathan Sidoli - Menelaus' Theorem in Ptolemy & Theon
Glen Van Brummelen - Taking latitude with Ptolemy: Al-Kashi's final solution to the
determination of the positions of the planets
Mathematical Biology
Fred Brauer - A discrete model for SARS transmission
Daniel Coombs - Equilibrium behaviour of cell-cell synapses
Gerda de Vries - Using mathematical models to deduce the spatio-temporal
dynamics of nuclear proteins from experimental fluorescence
recovery curves
Roderick Edwards - Central pattern generators for digging behaviour in sandcrabs
Maren Friesen - Sympatric ecological diversification due to frequency-dependent
competition in Escherichia coli
Daniel Grunbaum - Extracting social behavior rules from group dynamics of
schooling fish
Yue-Xian Li - A theory of forced pattern formation in excitable media
Gerald Lim - A numerical study of the mechanics of red blood cell shapes and
shape transformations
Frithjof Lutscher - A solution of the drift paradox
Nathaniel K. Newlands - Multi-scale modeling of tuna population dynamics: search
behaviour drives schooling, aggregation and dispersal
Eirikur Palsson - Chemotaxis, cell adhesion, and cell sorting using Dictyostelium as a
Alexei Potapov - Climate and competition: the effect of moving range boundaries
on habitat invasibility
Peter Taylor - Negotiation in evolutionary games of conflict
Brian G. Topp - The pathogenesis of type 2 diabetes: a dynamical bifurcation?
Rebecca Tyson - Dispersal of the codling moth
Pauline van den Driessche - The spatial spread of a multi-species disease
James Watmough - Spatial patterns of biological invasions
Mathematical Education
Brent Davis - A study of mathematics pedagogy
Panel Discussion - School Mathematics Curriculum: Is there any hope left for
"Less is More"?
Peter Liljedahl - What can mathematicians tell us about learning mathematics?
Christine Stewart - Any valid method will be accepted...but should it be?
Model Theory and Recursion Theory
John Baldwin - Categoricity and model completeness
Gregory Cherlin - Countable universal graphs with forbidden subgraphs: a decision
Paul Eklof - Tilting toward definability
Yuri Gurevich - Logic of choice
Carl Jockusch - Completing pseudojump operators
Julia Knight - Computable classification
Richard Ladner - The influence of recursion theory on computational complexity
Chris Laskowski - The complexity of trivial, uncountably categorical theories
David Lippel - One-based theories and finite axiomatizability
Dave Marker - Remarks on Zilber's pseudoexponentiation
L. Newelski - Countable coverings of groups and graphs
Gerald Sacks - Bounding theorems
Ted Slaman - Random sequences and recursive measures
Robert Soare - Automorphisms of the computably enumerable sets
Simon Thomas - Asymptotic cones of finitely presented groups
Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations
Georg Dolzmann - Nonconvex variational problems and minimizing Young
Stephen Gustafson - Asymptotic stability and completeness in the energy space
for nonlinear Schroedinger equations with small solitary waves
Robert Jerrard - Vortex fliaments in Bose Einstein condensates
Nathan Kutz - Dynamics and stability of periodic solutions of the optical
parametric oscillator equations
Giovanni Leoni - On optimal regularity for free boundary problems
Yi A. Li - Hamiltonian approximation of the Green-Naghdi (GN)
equations to the water wave problem
Bob Pego - Dynamic scaling, Smoluchowski ripening and Burgers turbulence
Dmitry Pelinovski - Bifurcations and stability of BEC solitons in optical
Keith Promislow - Bifurcation in elliptic-parabolic models of membrane hydration
Arnd Scheel - Absolute instabilities of standing pulses
Daniel Spirn - Dynamics and instability of vortex sheets with surface
Vitali Vougalter - Spectra of positive and negative energies in the linearized
NLS problem
Number Theory
Amir Akbary - On non-vanishing of convolution of Dirichlet series
Chantal David - Average Frobenius distribution for inert primes in Q(i)
Karl Dilcher - Resultants of Chebyshev and related polynomials
John Friedlander - On a zero-sum problem
Hershy Kisilevsky - Twisting elliptic L-functions by Dirichlet characters
Claude Levesque - Fundamental systems of units for some families of number
fields of degree 12 over Q
David McKinnon - Rational approximation and counting points
Ram Murty - Modular forms and Dirichlet series
Nathan Ng - Discrete moments of the Riemann zeta function
Damien Roy - Simultaneous approximation and small value estimates
Cam Stewart - On a family of pseudorandom sequences
Gary Walsh - Ternary recurrence sequences and torsion points on Williams curves
Hugh Williams - Periodic continued fractions with short periods
Operator Algebras
Martin Argerami - Young's inequality for trace-class operators
Berndt Brenken - A C*-algebra for a winding on the torus
Julian Buck - Connes-Chern characters of hexic and cubic modules
Michael Burns - Extending Jones' planar algebras to broader classes of
Ken Davidson - A Kaplansky Theorem for free semigroup algebras
Andrew Dean - Classification of C*-dynamical systems
George Elliott - Amenable C*-algebras: The gathering storm
Juliana Erlijman - On braid subfactors and generalisations
Remus Floricel - E0-semigroups in standard form
Thierry Giordano - Some developments on orbit equivalence
David Kerr - Noncommutative geodesic flows and dynamical growth
Dan Kucerovsky - Locally full extensions
Michael Lamoureux - Representation of linear operators by Gabor multipliers
Jamie Mingo - Orthogonal Polynomials and non-crossing annular diagrams
Andu Nica - On and around the q-circular element
Igor Nikolaev - Moduli of Riemann surfaces and classification of simple dimension
groups of rank 2n
Vladimir Pestov - Distortion property and the infinite unitary group
John Phillips - From spectral flow to the local index formula
N.C. Phillips - Crossed products of irrational rotation algebras by
actions of finite groups
Bahram Rangipour - Cyclic homology of Hopf algebras and duality in cyclic
Christian Skau - Free continuous actions of countable groups on the Cantor
Keith Taylor - From projections to tight frames
Quantum Cohomology and Mirror Symmetry
Ionut Ciocan-Fontanine - Gromov-Witten invariants of GIT quotients
Alastair Craw - Towards the McKay correspondence in higher dimensions
Chuck Doran - Integral structures, toric geometry, and homological
mirror symmetry
Barbara Fantechi - Quantum cohomology for orbifiolds
Holger Kley
Sándor Kovács - Zero sets of holomorphic one forms on varieties of general
Ravi Vakil - Schubert induction
Representations of Associative Algebras and Related Topics
Yuri Bahturin - Gradings on finite-dimensional algebras
Raymundo Bautista - The category of morphisms between projective modules
Frauke Bleher - Actions of finite groups on homogeneous coordinate rings
Thomas Bruestle - Elliptic Lie algebras and tubular algebras
Ragnar Buchweitz - The derived Eckmann-Hilton argument and commutativity
of Hochschild cohomology
Xueqing Chen - Root vectors and integral PBW basis of the composition
algebra of the Kronecker algebra
Christof Geiss - Semicanonical bases and preprojective algebras
Ed Green - Ext-algebras of Koszul-like algebras
Ellen Kirkman - Fixed subrings of Noetherian graded regular rings
Shiping Liu - The no loop conjecture for special biserial algebras
Frank Marko - Properties of Schur superalgebras in positive characteristics
Alex Martsinkovsky - Stabilizing the Auslander-Reiten formula
Markus Schmidmeirer - Birkhoff's problem and poset representations
Rita Zuazua - Almost split sequences for complexes of fixed size
Universal Algebra and Lattice Theory
Erin Beveridge - Irresponsible homomorphisms and rank infinity
David Casperson - ALDOR and universal algebra
Dejan Delic - Hereditarily homogeneous locally finite groups
Dwight Duffus - A lattice theoretic approach to union-closed set systems
Jie Fang - The endomorphism kernel Property in finite
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George Gratzer - Games sectional complements play
Benoit Larose - The complexity of solving polynomial equations over finite
Ralph McKenzie - The interplay between structural insight and algorithmic
problems in general algebra
Bob Quackenbush - The classical umbral calculus via universal algebra
Michael Roddy - Bruns' conjecture
Boza Tasic - HSP ¹ SHPS for commutative rings with identity
Matt Valeriote - Definable principal congruences and solvability
Shelly Wismath - Inflations and generalized inflations
Short-course on Cryptography
Neal Koblitz - Introduction to elliptic curve cryptography
Mike Mosca - Quantum computing and quantum cryptography
Doug Stinson - Introduction to cryptography
Hugh Williams - Cryptography and number theory
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Paul Shippey drove a Smart ForTwo across Canada's Dempster Highway, one of the roads featured in Ice Road Truckers and the only all-weather road into the Arctic Circle. This is his crazy story, which originally appeared on Wired.com. —Ed.
I'm at the wheel of the diminutive 1,800-pound Smart ForTwo and I'm doing 70 on an iced gravel road 15 feet wide. It would be harrowing under the best of circumstances, but I'm coming up on an 18-wheeler carrying 20 tons of oil pipes. Snowbanks on either side of me stand 6 feet high, so there's nowhere to go but straight ahead.
I'm about to meet the most dreaded monster on the Dempster Highway - an ice trucker hell-bent on making it to Inuvik. There's no time for contemplation. I ease off the gas and hug the snowbank. It's a delicate balancing act. Go too far and the the tiny Smart's tiny wheels will bog down in the slush. It's an adrenaline-pumping split second and then the monster barrels past me in a cloud of icy powder.
I just survived another encounter with a Dempster monster during a wild drive from Inuvik, Northewest Territories to Dawson City, Yukon.
This extreme road test of two Smart ForTwo Passions involves five journalists on a crazy travel adventure. There's no way to get five guys in two Smarts; we had a chase vehicle along for the fun. Mercedes-Benz of Canada loaned us the cars to see how they'd handle the extreme conditions.
The plan was to drive the microcars, with their itty-bitty 1-liter three-cylinder engines, from Whitehorse, Canada (the capital of Yukon province) to Inuvik and then on to Tuktoyaktuk. Tuk is one of the last settlements above the Arctic Circle in the Northwest Territories. Temperatures during the journey would range from a balmy minus 8 to minus 60 Fahrenheit.
Everything is bigger way up north. Except a Smart ForTwo. That's one of them following the semi.
Our goal was to drive the 1,000 miles up and back in five days. The last stretch from Inuvik to the Inuit settlement at Tuk involved driving 120 miles on the frozen Mackenzie River and over some ocean inlets. We got to Tuk and built an igloo around the Smart with some help from the locals before heading back down to the Dempster highway.
The Dempster is the lifeline road into the Arctic. It is Canada's only all-weather road into the Arctic Circle. This vein supplied miners during the Klondike gold rush of the late 1800s and still serves that purpose today. Goods and supplies are ferried in and out of the northern towns all the way to the oil rigs near the Beaufort Sea, aka the Arctic Ocean. The reality TV series Ice Road Truckers brought the road some notoriety.
At one point we were at the summit of a pass on the border between Northwest Territories and Yukon provinces. We were about 2,500 feet up and the wind was blowing a steady 90 mph. The temp gauge read minus 15 Fahrenheit. With the wind chill, it felt like 60 below. We'd been driving on backcountry ice roads for several hours and met a crazy Italian cyclist riding solo across the tundra.
The beauty of the landscape up here is breathtaking. Mountain ranges stretch into the distance under a rust-colored sun. We stopped for photos, but it was a struggle to open the door against that howling wind. My little Smart is bobbing around in the gusts as snow blows horizontally over the car like a jet plume.
The brake calipers were freezing up on the rotors, at one point locking the front wheels of my Smart. We stepped out of our warm cocoons into the arctic blast. My friend opened his door and his winter glove was sucked out. It vanished, blown off the mountain. It happened to another fella too. It's extreme up here, and it isn't the kind of place to stop for a picnic. After a few photos, we decided it was time to get out of the wind tunnel before our Smarts went the same way as the gloves. That was the only time during the entire journey that the cars showed any signs of of vulnerability.
The Lilliputian machines started without engine warmers, even after temperatures in Tuk hit 40 below zero. It stunned the locals, who faithfully plug in their engine warmers each night. The engine, all 70 horsepower of it, did amazingly well propelling the 1,800-pound cars over the passes of the Richardson Mountains.
It's a long stretch from Inuvik to Dawson City, so we put the pedal to the metal as much as possible. All things are relative in a Smart, so that means we were doing between 60 and 75 mph on the fairly smooth ice and snow. That's not as crazy as it sounds - the Smart has a great stability-control program and traction control. The handling is impressive, even on slick ice.
The suggested cargo limit of a Smart ForTwo is 400 pounds. Each car is laden with 40 gallons of spare gas, two spare tires, emergency supplies, survival kits and, of course, the driver and his luggage. We were carrying every ounce of the suggested cargo weight, and it was evident whenever the suspension bottomed out in rough terrain and the 15-inch tires clawed their way over drifts, bumps and holes.
One must bear in mind that this vehicle was designed for the streets of, say, Paris, not the wintry deserts of the Arctic. Considering that, the little ForTwo has more than exceeded expectation. My 6-foot-2 frame fits comfortably in the cozy cabin, which feels spacious until you look over your shoulder and notice there isn't much room behind the seat. Still, we managed to squeeze the essentials in.
Driving 1,000 miles in one of the most remote places on earth is an incredible experience. The scenery is stunning, and we were lucky enough to spot a lynx on the roadside before it trotted off into the bushes. It's very rare to see a lynx. We saw a lot of wolf tracks and spotted some moose and elk too, but fortunately not in our path. We were in the land of the wild things, with polar bears to the north and grizzly bears to the south. There are a lot of things up here than can kill you. It keeps you humble.
The weather can be equally lethal, and it changes very quickly. We saw temperature swings of 35 degrees in a single day - and all of them well below freezing. My feet were often cold as ice, even in the car. I wore boots rated to 35 below with two pairs of wool socks. I occasionally slid foot warmers into my boots. I didn't feel them at all.
But the most dangerous things you find up here are man-made and ride on 18 wheels.
I can honestly say that spending as long as 13 hours a day in the Smart didn't hurt. Sure, I was exhausted, but my body didn't ache. My little Smart was comfy and cozy and surprisingly sure-footed in even the worst conditions. But it was exhausting. My mind felt depleted when we finally pulled into the former gold-rush mining town of Dawson City after driving the Dempster Highway in just about the last car you'd expect to see up there.
Paul Shippey is a photojournalist, automotive writer and adventurer who is, if you ask us, just a little bit crazy in a good way. He lives in Boulder, Colorado.
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The Lions roared into the Conference North play-off final with yet another victory over North Ferriby United.
Guiseley seem to hold the Indian sign over Ferriby, despite the East Yorkshire outfit finishing above them in the table.
Ferriby could have won the title on the last day of the regular season but had to settle for runners-up spot.
Mark Bower's men did the double over them on their way to sneaking into the play-offs by bagging fifth place and they won home and away in the end-of-season extras to book their place in Saturday's play-off final against Lee Sinnott's Altrincham.
The Lions had a two-goal cushion from the first leg and it was just as well as the second clash was a tight affair.
Ferriby had the first chance of the game but a foul on Wayne Brooksby, a former Ferriby player, led to a free-kick which Adam Boyes headed wide.
It was very much nip and tuck as the nerves jangled. Boyes had another half-chance after Danny Boshell had put him through but Ferriby striker Anthony Wilson also tested the visitors' defence in the goalless first half.
There was more defending needed from the Lions after the break and Steve Dickinson, who was again inbetween the sticks with supporters' player of the season Steve Drench still suffering from illness, had to be on top form.
Brooksby hit the winning goal against his former club with a superb strike from outside the area.
Dickinson was tested time after time. Wilson, Nathan Jarman and Danny Emerton were all thwarted.
Bower said: "Six months ago if anyone had said we would be back here beating them for the fourth time this season to reach the play-off final I would have said they were crazy.
"We had to defend well but we stuck to our game-plan and when our chance came Wayne took it magnificently. I think that goal was the final nail in their coffin.
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Unemployment rates rose in nearly 90 percent of large U.S. cities in June, partly because many young people graduated from school with no firm job prospects.
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The retirement parade continues in the House of Representatives, with a new and surprising grand marshal for the moment. Mike Rogers, the House Intelligence Committee chair, has served seven terms and risen quickly in Republican leadership, but has decided to retire rather than defend his MI-08 seat. Just a year ago, Rogers sounded as though he'd be sticking around for a while:
Seven-term Republican Congressman Mike Rogers of Michigan says he won't seek re-election.
The chairman of the House Intelligence Committee announced his plans on Friday morning during an interview on a Detroit radio station. He says he'll serve out the end of his term and plans to start a national radio program.
Last year, Rogers had said he would not run for the U.S. Senate in Michigan this year, saying the best way for him to make a difference in Washington is staying in the House.
What changed his mind? Rogers got an offer to host a Detroit talk-radio show:
House Intelligence Committee Chairman Mike Rogers plans to leave Congress after this year to host a talk radio show for Cumulus Media Inc, the Michigan congressman said on Friday.
"I had a career before politics and always planned to have one after. The genius of our institutions is they are not dependent on the individual temporary occupants privileged to serve. That is why I have decided not to seek re-election to Congress in 2014," the Republican said in a statement.
Speaking earlier to a Detroit radio station, Rogers said he plans to start his Cumulus show in January, the Detroit News reported.
"They may have lost my vote in Congress, but you haven't lost my voice," he told WJR-AM, according to the newspaper.
Rogers and I are roughly the same age, and he came to Congress in 2001 at 37. His previous career was at the FBI, investigating corruption and organized crime. His new career will, as he suggests in his statement, be more like his second career than his first. One has to admire, though, the willingness to walk away from Washington instead of sticking around for a lifetime, like one of Rogers' Michigan colleagues, who's now attempting to pass the seat held by the family for nearly a century to his wife.
The timing is less admirable, though, or at least more problematic. Until now, there was little reason to think that Rogers and the GOP wouldn't hold this seat. It's nominally a swing district with an R+2 rating from Cook, and Mitt Romney won it by three points over Barack Obama in the 2012 election. With the sudden departure of Rogers, a hold here is less certain, especially given the lateness of the decision. It's unlikely that any Republicans had seriously organized in the district at this point, but Democrats probably have, and the GOP will be at a disadvantage for at least a while in a close district. If this turns out to be a wave election, the timing may not matter much anyway.


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In the complex, contentious arena of ethnicity, few identities are more interlinked than English and Welsh. It is a consequence of being part of the same state for more than 700 years, for more than 400 of them indistinguishable in administrative terms. Many of us, though clear which side of the line we stand on, have strong links to other side.
That reality has been reflected in rugby, through numerous players who were eligible for either side. This reached a logical culmination in 1993 when Rupert Henry St John Barker Moon was playing scrum-half for Wales while his opposite number was Dewi Morris (who points out that he would have attracted a little less attention had he used his first name, Colin, instead).
Yet among the dually qualified, Walter Vickery, born 100 years ago on 25th October 1909, remains unique. He is the only Wales player whose father had played for England. He was one of the many benefits Wales acquired from the late nineteenth century migration from the depressed farmlands of the West of England into the booming industrial communities of South Wales.
So used are we to images of economic decay that it is easy to forget that a century ago South Wales was one of the most dynamic, rapidly-growing regions on earth. Among the migrants was George Vickery, born in 1879 in Chard, Somerset (as it happens, the town where my grandfather was born 25 years later).
George moved to Wales and played for Aberavon. In 1905 he was called up by England, but like many English players of this period his first international was also his last, as they went down 17-3 to Ireland. This was a famous match played at the Mardyke in Cork where the RFU chose to send its team on the long rail journey third class, having already undermined them by Hon Sec Rowland Hill's veto on choosing army officer Basil Maclear, whom he declared 'not good enough'.
Stationed in Ireland, Maclear accepted the offer to play for them, and ran amok in their victory in front of a temporary grandstand created by lashing together beer barrels.
Walter's international career was rather longer. After a traditional apprenticeship with junior clubs Taibach and Cwmavon he had graduated to his father's old club in 1928. This was a time when they were consistently among the best clubs in Wales - they had been unofficial champions four times running in the early 1920s, the period in which they earned their 'Wizards'; nickname from a local reporter who labelled them the 'Wizards of the West'.
It was also a vintage period for off-field talent. Among the children growing up in Port Talbot as Walter Vickery was building his life on the docks and with the Wizards were future actor Richard Burton, politician Geoffrey Howe and trade union leader Clive Jenkins.
Vickery, a pacy back-rower, served a long apprenticeship in a career that peaked in the first few months of 1938, when he was 28. He was chosen for all three Wales matches that season (this was the period when France was excluded), in a team that beat England and Ireland and fell short of a Triple Crown only because of a late, contentious penalty awarded against a forward who was trapped in a ruck with an unconscious team-mate beneath him, that gave Scotland - who took the Crown instead - an 8-6 victory at Murrayfield.
Later that season came Aberavon's 16-6 win over Cardiff. It was no great shock that they should win, since the Wizards had a winning record against Cardiff between the two wars. The margin, though, was distinctive - in a low scoring period it was the heaviest defeat suffered by Cardiff between 1936 and 1950 - as was a spectacular solo try, charging from his own half, by Vickery.
He retained his place for the opening match of the following season, at Twickenham. Welsh captain Wilf Wooller was so confident beforehand that he said 'If this side does not win, we never shall win again at Twickenham'. They lost 3-0 to a try by Richmond prop Derek Teden.
It was a last international for Vivian Jenkins at fullback and also for Vickery. Wales made nine changes in all and Vickery gave way to Les Manfield, who was also dually qualified and had turned down an England trial. Manfield played brilliantly in Wales's two remaining games and was durable enough to return when international rugby resumed eight years later.
Vickery also returned after the war, captaining Aberavon for the 1945-6 season, during which he reached the age of 37. He proved similarly durable in life, evidently the genetic inheritor of more than rugby skill. George lived to be 91 and Walter made it to 90, dying in 2000 - a lifespan which sadly encompassed the decline of his club.
Tim Fauvel was the last of 48 Wizards to play for Wales (George Vickery was their one England player) when he was capped on the disastrous tour of New Zealand in 1988, and they were among the main victims of the introduction of leagues, regularly dropping from the top flight during the 1990s.
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Following heavy lobbying by hedge fund manager and major shareholder John Paulson of Paulson & Co., the Hartford Insurance Group said Wednesday that it was exiting its life insurance and individual annuity businesses and exploring the sale of its independent broker-dealer, Woodbury Financial Services, in order to concentrate on its mutual fund and property and casualty operations.
The Hartford said in a statement that it would stop new sales of its individual annuity products on April 27 and would also "pursue sales or other strategic alternatives for our Individual Life and Retirement Plans businesses," in a process that the company said would take 12 to 18 months. The company also said all existing policies would remain in force and "be fully supported according to the contract terms."
Hartford chairman, president and CEO Liam McGee (left) says in the statement that the company's "sharper focus will lead to an organization that, over time, will be positioned for higher returns on equity, reduced sensitivity to capital markets, a lower cost of capital and increased financial flexibility."
Woodbury, whose representatives voted it a Broker-Dealer of the Year for 2011 in Investment Advisor's annual reader survey, reported it had 1,550 producing reps as of April 1, 2011. Led by president and CEO Patrick McEvoy, Woodbury had average annual GDC per rep of $147,000 in 2010, and gross revenue that year of $238.7 million.
Those numbers for 2010 placed Woodbury in 16th place among independent broker-dealers as measured by both number of reps and annual revenue in Investment Advisor's annual Broker-Dealer Survey published in June 2011.
According to the company's presentation to analysts and media Wednesday, the number of Woodbury reps as of year-end 2011 was 1,400, while revenue for the year from the BD was $250 million.
In response to a question by an analyst during the presentation, Christopher Swift, executive VP and CFO of The Hartford, characterized Woodbury's earnings as "modest," noting that Woodbury's $250 million in revenues "are essentially offset by commissions and operating expenses."
"It will take a number of months for a definitive agreement" to be reached on selling the businesses, Swift said. A timeline presented in the analysts presentation shows that the "sales process" for the individual life, retirement plans and Woodbury businesses would take up to six months, and closing any transactions would take about 12 months
The Hartford's retirement plan business had $52.3 billion in AUM and revenue of $766 million in 2011. It has been a major player in the 401(k), 403(b) and 457 retirement plan markets.
In an article Tuesday for AdvisorOne's sister publication PropertyCasualty360, Arthur D. Postal writes:
"The decision is a capitulation to Paulson, and that its decision was likely linked to the economic downturn, when it was caught with variable annuities that offered guarantees to investors.
Hartford's innovations, including guarantees, in the VA market forced other market players to follow, resulting in an increase in a VA market that had been in the doldrums since the Bush tax cuts that helped lift total VA sales to $180 billion in 2007.
However, as the stock market plunged and the economy sunk, the product began to take a heavy toll on Hartford.
By late 2008, it was seeking outside investors and funds from the Troubled Asset Relief Program initiated by the Bush administration in the fall of 2008.
Its need to "derisk" the business has resulted in a plunge in market share and investment in the business. From a top sales spot in the mid-2000s, Hartford finished 2010 in 20th place among leading variable-annuity sellers, and last year it didn't make the top 20 chart compiled by industry-funded research firm LIMRA.
The Hartford's net income for 2011 fell 61% to $662 million. Individual-annuity earnings for the 2011 fourth quarter were also down by 10% from a year ago (from $96 million to $86 million), due to what the Hartford described as increased annuity outflow.
The runoff of the annuity operation also affects its fixed and fixed-indexed annuities, a much smaller proportion of its book of business.
McGee says in a statement released at 5 a.m. this morning that the company's sharper focus "positions the Hartford to deliver superior performance and greater shareholder value."
He says the company is placing its individual-annuity business into runoff "and is pursuing sales or other strategic alternatives for its individual life, Woodbury Financial Services and Retirement Plans."
McGee says the company will stop new annuity sales effective April 27 and expects to take a related after-tax charge of $15 million to $20 million in the second quarter of 2012.
This action is also expected to reduce annual run-rate operating expenses by approximately $100 million, pre-tax, beginning in 2013.
He said mutual funds "is a high-return business, and we are enthusiastic about our strategy to accelerate sales growth with the expanded Wellington Management sub-advisory relationship."
For further information on The Hartford's plans, please read Arthur Postal's story on PC360.com.


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These are the books I plan to read over the next couple of weeks / months:
The Waking Fire. The Draconis Memoria 1 / Anthony Ryan –> I already started it and will give it more of my time when I am done with Assassin's Fate
Retribution. Lyre Thief Trilogy 2 / Jennifer Fallon –> I have been looking forward to it and it should get published any day now. I will probably get to it sooner rather than later.
Memories of Ice. The Malazan Book of the Fallen 3 / Steven Erikson –> Re-read! Some time in June and I am very much looking forward to my favourite volume of the series!
Empire in Black and Gold. Shadows of the Apt 1 / Adrian Tchaikovski –> Yes, I will! I will start another multi-volume series. I am curious and heard only good things.
Swan Song / Robert McCammon –> I got a sample and loved it – reminds me a lot of The Stand, but also of The Passage by Justin Cronin. I love the little girl already!
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban / Joanne K. Rowling –> To continue my Re-read.
Something by Stephen King–> I haven't decided yet. Maybe Cujo, Dreamcatcher or Under the Dome.
Black Sun Rising. The Coldfire Trilogy 1 / C.S. Friedman –> Sci-Fi and Fantasy all together! I read a sample a while ago and decided to get the whole book after that.
Kings of the Wyld. The Band 1 / Nicholas Eames –> I need to see if all the hype is justified 🙂
The Heart of Myrial. The Shadowleague 1 / Maggie Furey –> Because there are not enough books on this list that feature dragons.