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As seen on the newswires: First the Old Man, now the Big Wind. New Hampshire’s Mount Washington has lost its distinction as the site of the fastest wind gust ever recorded on Earth, officials at the Mount Washington Observatory said Tuesday. The concession came three days after the World Meteorological Organization posted a snippet on its Web [...] 
It looks like the first half of the year at my day job is going to feature my juggling several fun, but inconveniently timed, big projects. I fear that there will be more weeks like this one, where all sorts of articles worth sharing pop into my inbox, but I don’t have time to do them [...] 
I’ve observed on this blog previously that I have a fascination with complex relationships with systems. It’s one of the things that attract me to my little niche of the actuarial world, where I enjoy poring through piles of data to spot odd correlations upon which my businesses can profit. Sometimes my love of patterns [...] 
Seen in the Australian Financial Standard: Actuaries will play a more central part of the banking and financial services sector as a result of the US sub-prime mortgage crisis, according to Greg Martin, Institute of Actuaries of Australia president. “We are seeing enterprise risk management (ERM) roles proliferate across the financial services sector particularly where recent volatility [...] 
For those in the Southeast who might be anxious about the world coming to an end thanks to the drought, perhaps a story in Sunday’s Sydney morning Herald might offer some hope: As at 9am yesterday, Sydney had received a whopping 172.4 millimetres since the start of February, compared with 4.4 millimetres for the same period [...] |
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