% of Loss of Capital
5
10
15
20
25
30
35
40
50
60
65
% Gain Needed to Recover
5.3
11.1
17.6
25.0
33.3
42.9
53.8
66.7
81.8
100
122
150
Tuesday, January 31, 2012
Time to put a major bounty on these big snakes..........
IT SOUNDED like a joke when the news first broke in 2000: giant Burmese pythons were invading the Everglades. But scientists have measured the impact of the arrival of this voracious species and the news is troubling.
In areas where the pythons have established themselves, rabbits and foxes can no longer be found. Sightings of raccoons are down 99 per cent, opossums 98.9 per cent and white-tailed deer 94 per cent, according to a paper published on Monday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
''What if the stock market had declined that much? Think of the adjectives you'd use for that,'' said Gordon Rodda, an invasive-species specialist with the US Geological Survey, who published research in 2008 showing Burmese pythons could expand across the southern United States.
In areas where the pythons have established themselves, rabbits and foxes can no longer be found. Sightings of raccoons are down 99 per cent, opossums 98.9 per cent and white-tailed deer 94 per cent, according to a paper published on Monday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
''What if the stock market had declined that much? Think of the adjectives you'd use for that,'' said Gordon Rodda, an invasive-species specialist with the US Geological Survey, who published research in 2008 showing Burmese pythons could expand across the southern United States.
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Hunters helping big game populations...........
Hunters,
Lets help each other out and tell everyone where the wolves are so we can up our wolf harvest. Im hoping that we would all like to support this wolf locator map to help reduce the wolf population and hopefully restore the herds they have damaged.
The map is located on my website www.RidgelineOutdoors.com. For this to work ill need you all to let me know when (date) and where (specific location ) you have a sighting, tracks, harvest, wolf kill, whatever.... email this information to ridgelineoutdoors@hotmail.com and ill get it updated quickly.
Please forward this to your friends so we can get this started. Thanks for your help and go kill one!
Here is the map. These are only my personal experiences in the past few weeks so there are only a few. http://ridgelineoutdoors.com/wolf_map.html Lets get more on here, anywhere in the west.
Travis Brown 208.870.2599
www.RidgelineOutdoors.com
Lets help each other out and tell everyone where the wolves are so we can up our wolf harvest. Im hoping that we would all like to support this wolf locator map to help reduce the wolf population and hopefully restore the herds they have damaged.
The map is located on my website www.RidgelineOutdoors.com. For this to work ill need you all to let me know when (date) and where (specific location ) you have a sighting, tracks, harvest, wolf kill, whatever.... email this information to ridgelineoutdoors@hotmail.com and ill get it updated quickly.
Please forward this to your friends so we can get this started. Thanks for your help and go kill one!
Here is the map. These are only my personal experiences in the past few weeks so there are only a few. http://ridgelineoutdoors.com/wolf_map.html Lets get more on here, anywhere in the west.
Travis Brown 208.870.2599
www.RidgelineOutdoors.com
Tuesday, January 24, 2012
Could you hear the groan Mr. Obama?
Every High School administrator in the country probably came close to defecating in their pants tonight with the Teleprompter-in-Chief announcing that he wants all students to be required to stay in high school until they are 18 or until they graduate.
Imagine what the schools will have to do to oversee these "students' who don't want to be there, don't want to learn, have no ambition or work ethic and just want to remain disruptive to the students and teachers around them. Go ahead, just put armed guards in every hall way (make sure they are all NEA members while you are at it) and keep these young thugs occupied with biology, economics, physics, history and higher or lower math. Yea right. Is it any wonder we fall further behind in the global rankings?
Imagine what the schools will have to do to oversee these "students' who don't want to be there, don't want to learn, have no ambition or work ethic and just want to remain disruptive to the students and teachers around them. Go ahead, just put armed guards in every hall way (make sure they are all NEA members while you are at it) and keep these young thugs occupied with biology, economics, physics, history and higher or lower math. Yea right. Is it any wonder we fall further behind in the global rankings?
Monday, January 23, 2012
Remember "TRADING PLACES"?
Remember this part of the movie? On the commodities trading floor at Four World Trade Center, the Dukes commit all their holdings (Randolph doing so against Mortimer's advice) to buying frozen concentrated orange-juice futures contracts; other traders follow their lead, inflating the price. Before the real crop report is declassified, Valentine and Winthorpe sell futures heavily at the increased price. After the forecast that the orange crop will be normal, the price of orange-juice futures plummets. Valentine and Winthorpe successfully cover their short sales, turning a profit of more than three hundred million American dollars. The Dukes fail to meet a margin call and are ruined, being left owing three hundred and ninety-four million American dollars for futures now worth a fraction of what they contracted to pay. Valentine and Winthorpe explain to the Dukes that they had made a wager on whether they could get rich while making the Dukes poor simultaneously. Valentine collects $1 from Winthorpe (who had believed their revenge plan would fail) while Randolph collapses holding his chest, a heart attack having seized him, and Mortimer shouts angrily at his brother about their failed plan.
Well as of today, Orange Juice has just hit an all time high price of $223.25 , and has returned a jaw-dropping 32.4% YTD, or 7,032% annualized. This is the biggest 4 day surge since October 2006, and for all intents and purposes, essentially the biggest ever. Needless to say, Randolph and Mortimer Capital LLC is back up and running, and has been forced to limit investor inflows due to unprecedented interest in this asset class, which, yes, you can eat (a little freeze drying may be required in advance). At this rate, bottle service of Dom Perignon will cost less than a small container of Tropicana!
Well as of today, Orange Juice has just hit an all time high price of $223.25 , and has returned a jaw-dropping 32.4% YTD, or 7,032% annualized. This is the biggest 4 day surge since October 2006, and for all intents and purposes, essentially the biggest ever. Needless to say, Randolph and Mortimer Capital LLC is back up and running, and has been forced to limit investor inflows due to unprecedented interest in this asset class, which, yes, you can eat (a little freeze drying may be required in advance). At this rate, bottle service of Dom Perignon will cost less than a small container of Tropicana!
Sunday, January 22, 2012
Saturday, January 21, 2012
Twisted Taco.......run, flee or stay hungry
I've been eating in restaurants for most of my life, well since I moved to San Diego about 33 years ago. Outside of the three tiny reservation towns we lived in while I was in high school, (note, not a single one of them had a public restaurant) I can usually find a decent place to eat.
Today, after a swim meet, we took in the Twisted Taco in Dunwoody, Georgia.
Do not, I repeat, do not ever order the carne asada taco's in that place.
Today, after a swim meet, we took in the Twisted Taco in Dunwoody, Georgia.
Do not, I repeat, do not ever order the carne asada taco's in that place.
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