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Loyola University Maryland
Global Studies
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Sigma Iota Rho - Delta Sigma Chapter
The Loyola University Maryland Delta Sigma Chapter of Sigma Iota Rho, a nationally recognized International Relations and Global Studies Honor Society, inducted it first class in the Spring of 2012. Sigma Iota Rho aims to promote and reward scholarship and service among students and practitioners of international and global studies and to foster integrity and creative performance in the conduct of world affairs.
The Greek letters stand for the following Greek words:
Sigma - Σ "synesi," meaning Prudence;
Iota - Ι "ideosi," meaning Ideals; and
Rho - R "romi," meaning Power.
These three qualities are essential for the conduct of successful foreign policy and signify some of the most important values studied by those in the field.
To be become a member of Sigma Iota Rho requires:
• completion of twenty-one credits towards the global studies major at Loyola, and at least two courses at the 300 or 400 level
• a cumulative grade point average in global studies courses of 3.4 or higher
• an overall cumulative grade point average of 3.3 or higher; senior standing.
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Americans have just endured one of the coldest winters in memory, so global warming may not be on their radar. But a new U.N. panel report has just refocused the public debate on a problem some scientists call the greatest threat facing the world.
There is trouble ahead for global agriculture, warns the influential Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, if measures are not taken quickly to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. The panel, which synthesizes the findings of thousands of peer-reviewed studies every seven years, has issued a report card on the state of the planet.
The report card serves as a guide to policymakers and a basis for international deliberations, including the summit on global warming and greenhouse gas emissions scheduled to be held in Paris next year. The report will be officially released on Sunday in Yokohama, Japan, but an advance copy has been leaked.
This IPCC report predicts that by the end of the century, "hundreds of millions of people will be affected by coastal flooding and displaced due to land loss," the majority living in island nations and in southern Asia.
The report goes on to link food price increases (like the 2010 spike in wheat prices that helped spark the Arab Spring) to climate change-related droughts and floods. It forecasts that prices will continue to rise as grain yields decline by as much as 2 percent per decade for the rest of the century, while demand is projected to rise by 14 percent per decade through 2050.


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I don't have to close my blinds when I change my clothes. I can burn crap in my yard.
I can even shuck my shorts and pee in my backyard.
Not that I would do anything like that cause I'm a lady and all…but I could if I wanted too.
However, living in the country has it's downfalls and you can run into the majority of them in one November week.
Like snakes…
Yes, people. A snake…in November. Is it ever safe?
This made me pee on myself in the backyard.
This is one of the reasons I married my husband. 'Cause he ain't afraid of snakes.
And I am afraid of snakes.
The other reasons I married my husband are:
1. Parallel parking.
2. Killing wasps.
3. Sex.
And for those times when I go out to feed the farm cats in my screened in porch during the wee hours of the night and scream hysterically, he comes running with a flashlight.
And when he hollers for a gun and I bring a pistol, he doesn't laugh but patiently explains which rifle he needs…
So he can shoot a rabies infested critter in my porch without shooting the gas grill tank and blowing up our house…
Yes, I married him because he's a sharp shooter who can kill raccoons on my porch.
There, I said it.
And because he will clean up all this after the massacre…
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Christine's on south Hawthorne in Torrance is excellent, sort of an American/Pacific Rim fusion.


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The OpenOffice.org Confererence (OOoCon) 2010 is running its call for papers until June 2 for the conference at the end of August in Budapest, Hungary.
The free office suite project is looking for "creative, ambitious ideas" for presentations from developers and other contributors interested in the OpenOffice technology, including the Open Document Format (ODF). The proposals can be introductory, such as for extensions, or about "deep, dirty, and downright fun aspects of hacking the OpenOffice.org codebase." Talks on community themes are also requested: next to developers and maintainers, the OOoCon 2010 team is also looking for designers, translaters, testers and promoters. Especially sought are papers from local user groups on OpenOffice success stories.
Abstracts of 50 to 250 words can be submitted until June 2 as ODF files on the conference website. The overarching conference topics include interoperability in public administration, plugfest development, OpenOffice in education, open standards and formats, migration case studies worldwide, and the OpenOffice community. Final presentations for successful applicants are due on August 2.
The project is looking forward to participation at the tenth annual OOoCon from August 31 through September 3, 2010 at the Central European University in Budapest. The conference is free, unlike the OpenOffice.org conference for businesses and administrations that takes place in Munich in November.
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A rail carrier providing transportation or service for the United States Government may transport property or individuals for the United States Government without charge or at a rate reduced from the applicable commercial rate. Section 6101 (b) to (d) of title 41 does not apply when transportation for the United States Government can be obtained from a rail carrier lawfully operating in the area where the transportation would be provided.
Source(Added Pub. L. 104–88, title I, § 102(a),Dec. 29, 1995, 109 Stat. 819; amended Pub. L. 111–350, § 5(o)(4),Jan. 4, 2011, 124 Stat. 3853.)
Prior Provisions
A prior section 10721,Pub. L. 95–473, Oct. 17, 1978, 92 Stat. 1383; Pub. L. 96–454, § 10(b),Oct. 15, 1980, 94 Stat. 2022; Pub. L. 103–272, § 5(m)(22),July 5, 1994, 108 Stat. 1378, related to Government traffic, prior to the general amendment of this subtitle by Pub. L. 104–88, § 102(a). See sections 10721, 13712, and 15504 of this title.
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Phil Lutton Who soared - and who came up short - in Broncos-Titans as players make their final audition for Origin spots.
Queensland Maroons name squad for second State of Origin match
Phil Lutton Queensland have named a 22-man squad for Origin II due to the high number of players under an injury cloud.
Untroubled Maroons cruising into Origin
Phil Lutton While the state of New South Wales inhales after good news about Paul Gallen's knee, the anxiety north of the border among those responsible for picking Queensland's Origin squad chiefly surrounds...
The power of one key for Maroons
Phil Lutton One round to play, one spot to fill. Queensland selectors will keep an eagle eye on this weekend's NRL games before deciding on a key final addition to their State of Origin stocks.
Charges, injury derail Mal's perfect Origin preparation
Phil Lutton If death and taxes are life's certainties, then Origin must be at the other end of the spectrum. Even with a stranglehold on the interstate series and a settled core of champions, chaos theory has...
Selectors will get green light on Te'o
Phil Lutton Queensland rugby league selectors will be given the green light to pick Ben Te'o in the State of Origin squad as the South Sydney forward continues to weather assault allegations.
Selectors face difficult choice over Maroons' game two squad
Phil Lutton Breaking up is hard to do. But sometimes people, footballers even, just grow apart. Sigh.
Petero still has an Origin role
Phil Lutton Queensland Origin selectors have a handful of key decisions to make for their game one squad but dropping Petero Civoniceva isn't one of them, writes Phil Lutton.
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Gillett poised to make cut as selectors add spice to winning formula
Phil Lutton NSW will be confronted with a Queensland side stacked with in-form stars and a colossal bench when Mal Meninga unveils tonight the squad that will try to win a seventh consecutive Origin series.
Maroons hopefuls in white-hot form
Phil Lutton New South Wales will be confronted with a Maroons side stacked with in-form stars and a colossal bench when Mal Meninga unveils his squad tonight for the Origin opener.
If it ain't broke: Maroons squad unchanged
Phil Lutton New South Wales may think it's broken after going close in game one but Queensland selectors have seen nothing that requires fixing, unveiling the same 17-man squad for the second Origin in Sydney on...
Myles' messy exit opens door for Shillington
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How are you going to pay for college?
That financial aid letter from your school of choice isn't the end. Keep looking.
Congratulations! But don't think you can quit looking for ways to pay for that sheepskin.
It's true that peak scholarship deadlines are spring and fall. But funding is still available, according to Mark Kantrowitz, publisher of the FinAid and Fastweb college aid websites.
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- College savings calculator:Are you saving enough?
These missives are "often quite cryptic," according to Kantrowitz. "Even if the family figures out which awards are loans and which are grants, it isn't always clear that the financial aid award letter lists financial aid for just a single year."
Keep in mind that tuition and fees will almost certainly continue to rise over the next few years. Today's college freshman may wind up borrowing more heavily than he'd planned.
How much is too much? No more than $8,000 a year, according to Carol Stack and Ruth Vedvik, co-authors of "The Financial Aid Handbook: Getting the Education You Want for the Price You Can Afford."
Ideally, students would borrow a lot less. Deep debt "could ruin a decade of your life or more," the authors write. "Don't borrow a dime more than $32,000 to go to college."
Is there free money?
Concentrate on funding that doesn't need to be repaid. Fastweb is a great source of scholarship offers; it compiles and emails scholarship options based on your specific profile. (You'll need to get used to clicking on "no thank you," though, because you'll have to wade through ads and offers every time you sign on.) Cast as wide a net as possible by searching some other legitimate scholarship search sites too.
If you live near the college, visit its financial aid office at least once this summer and then at least once a month during the school year. Scholarship, grant and fellowship offers are posted on an irregular basis. Or not posted: There might not be room for all of them.
Specify that you want to see every local, regional and national opportunity. For example, I found out about a scholarship from the local Mensa chapter; you didn't have to be a Mensa member to apply (although I am, and I did win one). I also found out about and won a grant for "place-bound" students, i.e., those who have a specific need to go to college right where they are.
Read campus bulletin boards and e-newsletters, too. During my first quarter as a transfer student at the University of Washington, I happened to see the notice for a two-month summer fellowship. I applied and was accepted, which meant half a dozen credits that I didn't have to pay for plus a $2,000 stipend.
Would I have learned about the fellowship any other way? Probably not. Since I hadn't yet declared a major I wasn't attached to any particular department, adviser or mentor. It's worth noting that once you've taken part in a program like this, you'll be in a position to start hearing (or being notified) about other opportunities, such as research grants and international exchange programs.
Apply for anything that might possibly be a match. Even if it's a stretch, write the essay in a strongly positive way that explains why you are the best person to be getting this money. Yes, I said essay: They don't just hand out scholarships like lollipops. You have to convince a committee that you're worthy of the funds. Post continues after video.
A few other tips:
- Fraternal organizations. Does a parent belong to a sorority or fraternal organization? These groups may offer funding.
- A parent's employer -- or yours -- may provide scholarships. Ask.
- The alumni association of your chosen school might give out money. Hunt down any local or regional alumni groups. My daughter won a grant from the Alaska chapter of her university's alumni group. She found out about this only two days before the deadline and had to rush to get the application form, have a teacher recommend her and write an essay. It paid off: Less than a week before high school graduation she found out she'd earned a $1,000 scholarship.
- Focus on your field. Sometimes professional groups -- law, social work, medicine, teaching -- offer scholarships. Ditto special interest clubs. For example, I saw a fabric art scholarship offered by a local quilting guild, and a grant offered by a welders union for those who wanted to take welding classes at the community college.
- Use education tax benefits. Kantrowitz says that families may overlook the Hope Scholarship and Lifetime Learning tax credits as well as the tuition and fees deduction. There's also a student loan interest deduction, which can be claimed even if you don't itemize.
- Work a part-time job while in school. It is possible. People do it all the time and still manage to keep their grades up and have the vaunted "college experience."
Sound like a lot of work? It is. You know what else is a lot of work? Paying back tens of thousands of dollars in debt, especially if you can't find a good job immediately after graduation.
Zac Bissonnette, author of "Debt-Free U," interviewed a young woman with $45,000 in loans. The only job she could get after graduating was managing a doughnut shop.
"It wasn't taking her anywhere near the field she wanted to be," he says, but heavy debt meant that "she didn't have the luxury of choice."
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The City of Seattle works to keep all adults and children safe from domestic violence and sexual assault. We help victims and survivors create safe and violence-free lives, and heal from the trauma of abuse or sexual assault.
The Human Services Department invests $4.5 million annually in victim services programs to ensure victims and survivors find safety, holds offenders accountable, builds community support to end abuse and violence, and ensures that all citizens have access to critical services. This involves collaborating with numerous private and public agencies to provide many services and programs, convening elected leaders and community partners to work together, and seeking public and private funding to enhance programs and services for Seattle residents.
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Seattle Family Justice Center Feasibility Analysis
The City of Seattle and the Seattle Police Foundation are pleased to provide the final report from the Seattle Family Justice Center Feasibility Analysis. Based on the positive feedback and recommendations included in the report, City leadership will be proceeding to the next stage of development for a co-located domestic violence response center based on the Family Justice Center model. The next steps will be to engage in a strategic planning process and to begin fund development. The strategic planning process will ensure that the ultimate design of the project will meet the unique needs of our community.
Biennial Report on Domestic Violence in Seattle
Toward Safety and Justice: Domestic Violence in Seattle is a biennial report that aims to raise public awareness of all aspects of domestic violence � what it is, who and how many people it affects, and how the community responds to domestic violence. The report include national and local criminal justice and service data that helps explain the scope of the problem in our region. Also, it includes the City�s efforts to address these problems and gaps in services.
Promising Practices in Sexual Violence Prevention and Community Mobilization for Prevention: A Report to the City of Seattle
This report was commissioned by the Seattle Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault Prevention Division within the City of Seattle Human Services Department. The report is an overview of the current state of the literature related to effective and promising approaches to sexual violence prevention. Additionally, current knowledge regarding best practices and critical elements of community mobilizing as a prevention strategy are reviewed. The goal of the report is to assist the City and its community partners in identifying sexual violence prevention-related activities that are likely to carry the greatest impact given limited resources.
Youth Involvement in Prostitution in Seattle
"Who Pays the Price? Youth Involvement in Prostitution in Seattle", completed by Dr. Debra Boyer, was commissioned to guide funding and policy decisions, and to help facilitate a more coordinated response to the problem.
Through The Lens of Domestic Violence: A look at Housing and Homelessness
Strategic Plan
The 2013-2015 Domestic Violence Strategic Plan: Seattle�s Criminal Justice Response, adopted by the Domestic Violence Prevention Council in January 2013, builds upon the ongoing efforts of the City of Seattle to achieve a bold vision � that Seattle will become a community where there is no domestic violence. The response to domestic violence within our community includes a broad spectrum of intervention and prevention initiatives carried out by numerous agencies, all of which are designed to address the comprehensive needs of a domestic violence survivor. This proposed plan is the continuation of Seattle�s efforts to reflect upon and improve our criminal justice system�s response to domestic violence, which comprises a narrow range of interventions and services. The graphic below provides a visual representation of the strategic plan, including purpose, focus areas, guiding principles and factors critical to success.
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Interview: Ben Okri
Ben Okri grapples with deep, elemental issues in his latest book, A Time for New Dreams (published today). With this series of 'poetic essays', the Booker Prize-winner and one of Granta's Best Young British Novelists employs a unique style to elucidate his ideas about the modern world. He illustrates how the economic meltdown and environmental catastrophes have brought us to a crossroads.
Granta's Saskia Vogel spoke with Ben about his new take on the essay form, his love of Montaigne and whether his new book represents a manifesto.
SV: The essays in your collection, A Time for New Dreams, are redolent with stirring observations on poetry, childhood and other themes. How did you come to write this new book? Were you writing for a specific reader?
BO: I tend to write books of essays with a theme running through them. It takes a while for the theme to coalesce for me. It can sometimes be years before I know that certain pieces of writing resonate and belong together. But I am always listening.
My first collection of essays, A Way of Being Free, coalesced around the idea of freedom, but it was more an attitude, an orientation even. It was generously received and it took me a while to think I could say something beyond that. A Time For New Dreams is not a collection of essays in a normal sense. Essays are usually a full exploration of an idea and they give evidence and quotations along the way. That ...for most of us, childhood was a period of our most intense and furious dreaming. was too laborious for what I was trying to do in this book. I felt a need to bring about a marriage of forms and was interested in finding the place where poetry and the essay meet, which is why A Time For New Dreams is subtitled 'poetic essays'. I sense that poetic essays, or what I tried to do in this book, should be an essay with the brevity and spring of poetry. The astonishing thing about poetry is that it leaps to place itself having already done all the thinking and imagining required, and gives you the fruit of that meditation. That is what I wanted with this collection.
I imagine a reader who, like me, is a bit exasperated with the accumulation of the follies of our times, someone ready for a new way of looking, thinking and being; someone who combines youth and experience, idealism and realism. Someone who isn't afraid to dream but also is not afraid to roll up their sleeves and participate in the tough magic of life.
In many of the essays – 'The Romance of Difficult Times', for example – you number the paragraphs, some of which are as short as a single line. Other essays, such as 'Photography and Immortality', take a more standard prose form. How do you decide on the structure of your texts?
I find that the structure emerges from the idea itself. Sometimes an idea can almost become too luxuriant in its expression and you need a structure, not to tame it, but to arrive at what, for me, is the ideal in the form of the compressed essay. This gives an idea of expressiveness combined with restraint, power held back by form, intensity that's not allowed to explode all over the place but to have a pouncing feel. And only the right form will do that.
Every piece ought to have something of the quality of a living thing – a slight quality of immeasurability – and only in its true form can it achieve this. Also, I like brevity of thought. There are few things more powerful in writing than a strong thought, whether a thesis or anti-thesis, expressed briefly. It is a paradox contained in a nutshell. I like powerful small units, so the aphorism threads its way through this volume.
There are these varied forms as the book is also structured round an idea of a suite, with a leading melody running through it – the melody of childhood. This is the foremost melody because, for most of us, childhood was a period of our most intense and furious dreaming. The title, A Time For New Dreams, is just a hint that it would be good to recover that dreaming in adulthood and to have that elasticity of imagination in our adult years. So the melody of childhood is the keynote, running against other melodies of politics and censorship.
I felt an echo of Milan Kundera's Art of the Novel in your book. Do you feel A Time for New Dreams is in dialogue with certain other texts?
First of all, it is lovely that you felt Kundera's presence and at least some sort of dialogue with The Art of the Novel. Kundera is also inclined towards the aphoristic and the clearer, most direct statement – rather than endless exposition.
...many, many of the old dreams are exhausted or are proving moribund and severely limited I have always loved the essay form and it is one of the forms I fell in love with very early on as I read my way through my father's library. I developed a real affection for great English essays of 18th century. But my chief affection has to be for the essays of Francis Bacon, which have an extraordinary combination of brevity and the highest thought. He is unmatched in the way in which he can say so much in such a short space. He boiled these essays down over years to such a point that people who read them at the time, his wife included, just couldn't make out what he was saying. They were so gnomic. This is the impact of the poetic on the essay form. It is the fruit, the distillation, not the whole journey.
The complete opposite of Bacon, I also love the essays of Montaigne – who is more expository and fluid, as he takes his time and wanders through classical antiquity. He loves his Greek and Roman authors, and quotes liberally – and he always expresses more uncertainty.
Between Bacon and Montaigne is something of where my feelings lie. Although I quoted from other writers in my early years, I am not a big fan of citing other people too much. I now think that if you have something you have thought about and what to share with folks, you need to say it yourself and find the best way to say it. People can always go back and read the old masters themselves.
You write: 'Beauty leads us all, finally, to the greatest questions of all, to the most significant quest of our lives' This transports me back to the first essay, 'Poetry and Life'. How do poetry and beauty mingle in their purposes, and in their effects on people?
Whenever we use the word beauty or we feel it, it comes from a sense of something indefinable. The mind can't quite pin down what it was that created that emotiton or feeling. It is intangible; a poignant and haunting feeling that reaches places in you that you can't grasp or touch. It is as if some sleeping self wakes for a moment and expresses a note of wonder at something. It is that note of wonder that does it. Suddenly you become aware that you are more than what you thought you were. You feel a certain sweet inwardness, suddenly sense that the house has more rooms in it than you thought. That is what poetry does. That is what beauty does.
You write poetry, essays, short stories, novels . . . How do you choose how you will tell your stories?
It is as if some sleeping self wakes for a moment and expresses a note of wonder Before a novel is born in the mind of the writer, it isn't a novel. Before a short story is conceived, it isn't a short story. A poem is often an incomplete swell of feeling, or maybe even just a beat that latches on to a wandering theme. The point I am trying to make is that, before they become what they are, all these forms are an insubstantial swirl of a mood inside us. How often has the mood or an idea of a short story become a novel? Or the mood or idea of a novel become a short story? It is all in its original, pre-creative state. This becomes the germ of an idea, and depending on its inner potential for drawing all sorts of related elements in one consciousness, it will take a certain form. Which form this is depends on the inner magnetism of the idea itself. So I stress the idea of listening – you hear an idea, but what is it? The form of a thing doesn't reveal itself in the import of its creation, or even in the nature of its unfolding. Sometimes things are grown way beyond their destiny and sometimes things are under-nurtured and abbreviated. So I think one of the most difficult things in a writer's life is knowing what a thing ought to be.
To what extent do you feel A Time for Dreams is a manifesto?
I don't think it is. A manifesto is too definite, too deliberate. I am working with suggestiveness, with hints and orientations. In a way it is a cubist text because I am wandering round the different facets of this big subject – what it means to be where we are now, and how we are going to leap from this place to our new place with full consciousness and intelligence. It is more like a preparation for this new foundation – like cleaning our eyes so we can see clearly; like limbering up or toning the mind in preparation for the courage I feel we will need for these new times. We are at some kind of crossroads, and many, many of the old dreams are exhausted or are proving, one by one, to be moribund and severely limited in what they can give us. And we can't go on carrying those old dreams. ■
An extract of Ben Okri's novel Songs of Enchantment was published in Granta's second Best of Young British Novelists issue in 1993. Buy the issue here or subscribe to our online archive to browse through thirty-two years of Granta for the price of a single print issue.
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ladfromaus says:
I believe he wants the R6's keys because after a hard day one would want the most comfortable bike, which he says the R6 is. That computes just fine for me. Each to their own interpretation I guess.
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Goonabz says:
When you guys at MCN actually go back to carrying out some real bike comparisons (cos this is definitely NOT) on and off the track that actually mean something then maybe they'll be worth reading about and watching.
Why do you have to keep on insulting our intelligence with these meaningless tests.
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As is said the Duke is more or less a superbike and certainly is a superbike price! For that sort of wonga I think an R1 would be in my shopping list which would blow the Duke away. Why not compare it to the GSXR750?
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What's the point?
So the most expensive bike with the biggest engine is 'best'? (even though it's too focussed and uncomfortable to ride for long on the road.)
And they had to go all the way to Sicily to find that out?
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It's funny, MCN at their cost publish a video for us to see (that means FREE) sharing their preference after riding the bikes in a place that is their choice (I would have chosen Italy too :`) and what they get is a bunch of old women winging how they would or wouldn't have done it, yet none of them have cared to share a FREE link to their own video review at their expense.
Don't mind the Nags MCN....keep the FREE videos coming...
PS. Can I come to Italy with you next time? ;`)
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it seems a valid comment that the 848 evo is getting closer to traditional superbike size (although the dry mass in the paper seems alot lower than the supersports machines).
I would personally love to see a similar specced bike with a more supersport capacity, especially if there was a further weight loss, then a 696 engine of this quality should place it more in the supersport category.
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Agree with LaughMuBai... what a bunch of whiners. Would you prefer a boring test in the UK, with crap weather, and a couple of boring bikes? How else do you compare something that is not "in a class" and who said the racing derived 600cc and 1000cc classes are all we should look at in sports bike terms.
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Despite having lost millions thanks to his short position in Herbalife (HLF), activist investor Bill Ackman is holding firm.
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In a wide-ranging talk, now posted on YouTube, Ackman said, "I'll make a prediction. This business will be shut down. This business will collapse. I can't give you the precise date, but we will have made progress in that direction within 12 months. That's my prediction for today."
Ackman has said the company was a "pyramid scheme" and has backed up that belief with a short position that includes a price target of $0, according to Business Insider. Ackman rarely takes a short position and has said that when he does he believes the world would be better off once that company is out of business.
Ackman's short position in Herbalife resulted in a battle royale of sorts with another activist investor, Carl Icahn, who bought 16 percent of Herbalife and declared Ackman "totally wrong." In the Oxford interview Ackman said, "Seems like every day (Icahn) goes on CNBC and says what a great company it is. Every time he says that the stock goes up a few dollars."
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Ramey did acknowledge that Ackman's attacks have had an effect on the company's ability to recruit, but that distributor growth was still 13.3 percent in the third quarter. Short interest in Herbalife, Ramey pointed out, declined from 29.5 percent to 18.3 percent, another reason for optimism. The analyst also said the company has a healthy balance sheet and plenty of cash on hand.
Meanwhile, a source told CNBC Thursday that Ackman was preparing another major presentation on Herbalife at the Robin Hood Investment Conference in November. According to the source, the presentation will include new information that Ackman's firm, Pershing Square, has uncovered, most of it coming from several former Herbalife employees.
Ackman restructured his position last month to reduce the risk of being caught in what Icahn referred to as the "mother of all short squeezes."
At the time of this writing, Jim Probasco had no position in any mentioned securities.
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I am an Herbalife dist. and find that the all natural plant based vitiman supplements have been very beneficial for me and my customers, I don't activly recruit new dist., at this time. When my wife and I started 7 years ago one of our friends mentioned "pyramid scheme" if that is true then so are other franchises, Burger King, McDonalds, Arbys, Taco Bell, Auto Zone and Subway to mention a very few, and my franchise fee is about $50.00 a year as opposed to thousands a year for the others. I also have the opportunity to make a lot of money and help other people get and stay healthy, depending on how hard I want to work. Finally Hebalife has been in business for at least 40 years and growing consistantly since they started. My question is, "how long has Mr.Ackman been in business and how many people has he helped".
He was giving a subpoena (all archived on the net) and head of SEC said "we don't do that". Good companies can be destroyed in this manner and upstarts don't stand a chance.
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Arrive in Georgetown at any time. Your local guide will hold a general briefing in the evening, normally between 7pm and 8pm (a note will be posted in the arrival hotel with details).
Georgetown the chief port, capital and largest city of Guyana is situated on the right Bank of the Demerara River Estuary. It was chosen as a site for a fort to guard the early Dutch settlements of the Demerara River. The city of Georgetown was designed largely by the Dutch and is laid out in a rectangular pattern with wide tree lined avenues and irrigation canals that criss cross the city.
Most of the buildings in the city are wooden with unique architecture dating back to the 18th and 19th centuries. For the most part the buildings have Demerara shutters and designed fretwork which trim eaves and windows. Main Street Georgetown provides several excellent examples of old colonial homes, a prime example of which is the State House, built in 1852. The State House is set in large gardens and is painted green and white and has hosted many visiting dignitaries.
Enjoy a free day in Georgetown to explore the city or take an optional city tour. Other fantastic day tours from Georgetown include an optional full-day excursion to Kaieteur and Orinkuik Falls.
The Kaieteur Falls which was first seen by a European on April 29, 1870 is situated in the heart of Guyana on the Potaro River, a tributary of the Essequibo. The water of Kaieteur, one of the world's natural wonders, flows over a sandstone conglomerate tableland into a deep gorge - a drop of 741 feet or 5 times the height of Niagara Falls.
The Orinduik Falls is where the Ireng River thunders over steps and terraces of solid jasper, a semi precious stone. With a backdrop of the rolling grass covered hills of the Pakaraima Mountains, this is truly one of the most beautiful locations in Guyana's hinterland.
Guyana's most popular day trip takes in both of these spectacular falls. The trip departs from Ogle Airstrip and lasts 7 to 8 hours with two hours spent on the ground at each water fall.
This morning take a priavte bus through the rainforest to the Iwokrama River Lodge. Arrive at the Kurupukari crossing and continue transfer to the Iwokrama River Lodge. Arrive in the early to mid afternoon. Free time to explore the trails around the River Lodge with an Iwokrama Ranger. You could explore the Screaming Piha Trail near the River Lodge, home to Bronzy Jacamar, Chestnut & Waved Woodpecker, Amazonian Antshrike, Gray Antbird, and Strong-billed Woodcreeper. We may also see Gray-winged Trumpeter, Black-tailed, White-tailed, Violaceous and Collared Trogons, Plain-brown, Wedge-billed, White-chinned, Buff-throated, Chestnut-rumped and Barred Woodcreepers. As the day ends we will look for Ladder-tailed Nightjar; Great and Common Potoo and the rarer Rufous Potoo and White-winged Potoo. After dinner, we will take you out on to the river to spot caiman and other nocturnal wildlife.
At dawn on day 4 take a boat trip on the Essequibo River past Indian House Island to look for wildlife. Dawn song on the river may include five species of Tinamou, Marbled Wood-Quail, Band-rumped Swift, White-banded and Black-collared Swallows, and Guianan Streaked-Antwren. After breakfast, you will leave the field station for the journey to Turtle Mountain. Along the way Harpy Eagle have been seen and we may also see Greater Yellow-headed Vulture, King Vulture, Gray-headed, Double-toothed and Plumbeous Kites and Black-faced Hawk. Then make the exhilarating climb up the mountain to its summit at 935ft (approx. 360m). It takes 1 ¾ hours to walk up the mountain, but the effort is more than worth it for the breathtaking views over the forest canopy when you get there. On the walk Black Spider and Red Howler Monkeys are often seen. Enjoy a picnic lunch in the forest. On the return trip visit the small Amerindian village of Fair View where you may experience the process and use of cassava (once there are materials available), the staple of the Amerindian diet. We will visit the Butterfly Farm where butterflies are bred for export. This afternoon back at the Field Station we will spend time exploring the trails in the forest where we might see Swallow-winged Puffbird, Black-spotted Barbet, Golden-collared, Yellow-throated, Crimson-crested and Red-necked Woodpeckers, Guianan Toucanet, Black-headed, White-browed, Ferruginous-backed, Warbling, Scale-backed, White-plumed, and Rufous-throated Antbirds, Ringed Antpipit, Black-tailed Tityra and Thrush-like Schiffornis.
After a pre-dawn breakfast we depart by Bedford truck to the Iwokrama Canopy Walkway. This transfer is through the heart of the Iwokrama Forest, where there is a good chance to see the elusive Jaguar. The Iwokrama forest is rapidly gaining an international reputation for its healthy jaguar populations that seem not to be troubled by the appearance of curious humans. No promises, but many have been lucky! The Canopy Walkway is a series of suspension bridges and observation decks of up to 30 meters (98 ft) in height and 154 meters (505 ft) in length. The state-of-the-art construction allows trees to grow normally by using adjustable cables and braces throughout the support structure. The four observation decks enable visitors to view the mid and upper-level forest canopy and allow wildlife to remain relatively free from human intrusion. Caica Parrots, Painted Parakeets, Guianan Toucanet, Pompadour Cotinga, Plumbeous Pigeon, Red-and-green Macaw, Screaming Piha and a host of crown specialists come within our view. This evening remain on the walkway after dark and return to the camp for dinner.
Although the forest around Atta Lodge is excellent for birds, the major attraction here is a 154 metre long canopy walkway which is only 750m from the lodge. The walkway has four platforms, the highest of which is over 30 metres above the ground, and these will allow us to get great looks at a range of canopy species, many of which we would struggle to see well from the forest floor. Amongst the likely highlights are Painted, Brown-throated and Golden-winged Parakeets, Caica Parrot, Guianan Puffbird, Waved and Golden-collared Woodpeckers and Spot-tailed, Todd's and Ash-winged Antwrens. The walkway is also an excellent place to look for various species of cotinga including the poorly known and range-restricted Dusky Purpletuft and if there are any suitable fruiting trees nearby, we stand a good chance of seeing this bird, as well as the more widespread Purple-breasted Cotinga. Another area where we will want to spend some time is the clearing around the lodge, as this is one of the best places to see another of Guyana's "must see" birds, the Crimson Fruitcrow. This species is seen here on a reasonably regular basis, as it often comes to feed in some of the nearby trees. The clearing is also a reliable site for Black Curassow as there is a family party which has become habituated to people and regularly passes through the clearing. With reasonable luck, we should be able to add this bird to the impressive list of species we hope to see around the lodge and walkway. Other species we hope to encounter during our stay include Spix's and Marail Guans, Grey-winged Trumpeter, Red-fan Parrot, Eastern Long-tailed Hermit, Crimson Topaz, Great and Paradise Jacamars, Guianan and Pied Puffbirds, Guianan Toucanet, Red-billed Woodcreeper, Black-throated Antshrike, Guianan Streaked Antwren, Guianan Warbling Antbird, Pompadour Cotinga, Purple-throated Fruitcrow, Tiny Tyrant-Manakin, Helmeted Pygmy-Tyrant, Golden-sided Euphonia and both Red-and-Black and Yellow-green Grosbeaks. During our two nights stay, another of our major targets will be the poorly known White-winged Potoo which, after dark, can be found both around the lodge and at the walkway. Locating this bird will be one of our major priorities but we will need a bright moon-lit night to stand a reasonable chance of seeing it.
This morning we will welcome the dawn chorus from the tree-tops on the canopy walkway. After breakfast we will travel by Bedford Truck to a rainforest trail to a special locality where Guianian Cock-of-the-rock are known to display and nest. If it is active, we may be able to visit a nearby Harpy Eagle nest. The nest itself is located in a huge emergent tree and if we are extremely fortunate, we may see one of the adult birds bringing a sloth or monkey to the nest to feed their chick. The trek into the nest site is about an hour each way on a reasonable trail. We will then continue on to the Amerindian community at Surama. The village of Surama is situated in a small savannah, deep in the rainforest and surrounded by forest clad hills. It was here that Charles Waterton passed through in 1812 in search of the secrets of the useful Wourali poison known as Curare. Waterton was so stunned by this spot that he wrote in his memoirs "The finest park that England boasts falls short of this delightful scene". On arrival in Surama receive a welcome from a village counsellor and settle into your accommodation. This afternoon escorted tour of the village, visiting the local school, medical centre and church along with some of the village houses. Tonight enjoy an educational walk to observe wildlife and experience the mystique of the forest after dark.
Rise before dawn on day 8 for a walk across the savannah and then the exhilarating climb up Surama Mountain in the cool morning air. This is the best time to observe bird life along the trail. Breakfast will be served at a lookout point which affords incredible views across the village and savannah to the Pakaraima Mountains. After walking back to the village, many might opt to rest and relax around the cabins. This afternoon a local guide will escort you for a short walk on trails to observe the forest and bird life and talk about medicinal plants. Whilst Neomorphus ground-cuckoos are undoubtedly amongst the toughest family of birds to locate anywhere in the Neotropics, Surama offers one of the best-known chances for seeing Rufous-winged Ground-cuckoo and to maximise the odds of us finding one, we will use expert local guides to assist us. We will, however, still count ourselves as extremely fortunate if we succeed in getting good looks at this extremely elusive species.
After breakfast take a three mile walk across the savannah and through the rainforest to the Burro Burro. Your guides will paddle you on the Burro Burro River for opportunities to observe Giant River Otters, Tapir, Tira, Spider Monkeys and many more species. Return to village before departing Surama by Bedford Truck to Ginep Landing for a boat trip on the Rupununi River to Karanambu Ranch. This is the home of Diane McTurk, widely known for her work in rehabilitating orphaned, giant river otters to the wild. Diane and her otters have appeared on National Geographic, Jeff Corwin Experience, Really Wild Show (BBC) and the Calgary's "Zoo World". Karanambu has a long history of visiting naturalists and Diane's father, Tiny McTurk, has welcomed David Attenborough and Gerald Durrell (Three Singles to Adventure). Late in the afternoon we will travel by boat to look for wild Giant River Otters and as dusk falls to the ponds to see the giant Victoria Amazonica waterlily, bloom at dusk. On the return trip we will spotlight for Black Caiman and birds and creatures of the night. Dinner with Diane, will include stories on the history of the family and the Rupununi Savannahs.
Diane sometimes has resident orphaned otters and you can help her as she tends to them. You can visit Simoni Pond for some of the best inland fishing (add US$15.00) in Guyana including Peacock Bass or explore the flooded forest or savannah. Explore the Rupununi River in search of wild Giant River Otters, Black Caiman and Arapaima. An evening visit to Crane Pond to see hundreds of Ibis, Anhinga, Heron and Egret roosting is a highlight. If you are interested in birdwatching you can explore woodland patches or gallery forest along the river where we'll hope to find such species as Spotted Puffbird, Striped Woodcreeper, Pale-bellied Tyrant-Manakin, Golden-spangled Piculet, Bearded Tachuri and Capuchinbird. When water levels are appropriate a wooded swamp near the ranch is the site of a surprisingly large colony of Boat-billed Herons, as well as several species of Egrets, Anhingas and Wattled Jacarnas. A feature bird for the area is Agami Heron.
This morning travel out onto the savannah to search for a Giant Anteater. After an early lunch take a flight back to Georgetown.
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December 17, 2007
Welcome to the annual Securities Industry News Buyers Guide and Resource Directory, where we present a categorized who's who of systems and service providers as well as a look forward at the trends that will affect our readers in the year ahead.
Much has changed since our 2007 edition, which is hardly surprising given the blink-and-you'll-miss-it nature of the financial services industry. Exchange mergers were announced at a rapid clip--Deutsche Borse's Eurex with the International Securities Exchange, the Nasdaq-OMX-Borse Dubai tie-up, and Nasdaq's purchase of the Boston Stock Exchange and Philadelphia Stock Exchange, to name a few--making the formation of NYSE Euronext, which was finalized in April, and CME Group's combination of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange and Chicago Board Options Exchange, closed in July, seem almost old hat.
On the regulatory front, the U.S. Regulation National Market System and its best-execution requirements have furthered market fragmentation, driven up trading volumes and led to a flood of market data. Whether the European Union's Markets in Financial Instruments Directive, which went into effect on Nov. 1, will have similar results, as is anticipated, will be a question for 2008.
And the downturn in the credit markets, sparked by the subprime debt crisis, has shaken investors' confidence in mortgage-backed securities and caused them to take a closer look at the risks involved in a variety of complex financial products.
All of these developments will continue to play out in 2008, and SIN will cover each twist and turn. But in this Buyers Guide, we turn our attention to other growth areas that will see plenty of activity next year. One such sector, research technology, is booming, as Alex Jaworski points out, as buy-side firms look to both better manage the massive amount of information that floods portfolio managers' in-boxes and take some of the research function upon themselves. Vendors that provide tools for intelligent search and data mining, research performance measurement and management, among others, will find a tremendous amount of growth in IT spending, according to TowerGroup research director Dushyant Shahrawat.
For many in the wealth management industry, a major focus next year will be on finding technology solutions to the operational challenges created by the next-generation of separately managed accounts--unified managed accounts and unified household accounts--says Chris Kentouris on page 12. And one year on, the changes to the U.S. Federal Rules of Civil Procedure are driving vendors to develop innovative e-communications archiving systems that are increasingly geared toward not just storing information, but finding and delivering it quickly, reports Carol E. Curtis.
And what does 2008 hold for the newly transatlantic exchanges that have resulted from this year's slew of mergers? As John Hintze writes, they will be working to integrate their systems with an eye on capitalizing on growing interest in options trading among retail investors on the Continent, as U.S. broker-dealers expand their operations in Europe to take a piece of that market.
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The battle against mortgage fraud is not new and neither are the ways alleged schemers try to beat the system to pad their wallets. But the Feds are going after these people with renewed vigor.
Hakeem Rashid is a mortgage loan originator who worked for two companies, including Regent Mortgage Funding on 87th Street just off the Dan Ryan Expressway. He was one of four people recently indicted for allegedly taking part in a $16 million lending scheme.
According the federal indictment, between 2005 and 2008, Rashid and his three co-conspirators falsified mortgage loan documents concerning the income, employment and financial qualifications of people they helped obtain loans.
Rashid helped recruit people to purchase a total of 35 properties in or around Chicago, paying them to buy those properties knowing that those people would have to be fraudulently qualified in order to get the mortgage loans.
By processing these loans, they received payments from the banks; their fees for bringing in the business. They also bought some of the properties themselves, or refinanced the loans, again getting paid.
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