Intrepid travelers accept been “going on safari” in East Africa for able-bodied over a century, and Tanzania’s acclaimed Serengeti National Park and Ngorongro Crater abide to awe and affect adventurers from about the globe. However, travelers added are analytic to analyze the lesser-known areas and acquaintance the brightness of Africa in solitude, abroad from the crowds. Mbali Mbali Lodges and Camps, proprietors of four affluence carnival camps, offers aberrant chimpanzee examination opportunities during a week-long carnival addendum in Western Tanzania.
The arena south of the abundant Lake Victoria and on the shores of Lake Tanganyika, in Western Tanzania, is home to admired populations of chimpanzees and aswell houses some of Tanzania's best kept secrets. This arena is absolutely one of the a lot of limited regions actual in Africa. Mbali Mbali Lodges and Camps of Tanzania amalgamate two of their carnival camps in an amazing week-long adventure. This adventure to Western Tanzania, featuring three nights anniversary at two of the best chimp biking and examination locations in Africa, is a absolute acclaim to the acceptable carnival acquaintance in East Africa. Travelers will adulation accepting abroad from the crowds and will adore the abundance of both Kungwe Beach Lodge and Gombe Forest Lodge.
This carnival begins with three mornings of chimpanzee tracking in Mahale National Park followed by baiter rides, fishing and bonfires at the lodge. At Gombe Forest Lodge, the additional stop, in accession to circadian chimp trekking, guests can abide breath with hikes to the Kakombe waterfalls and Jane’s Peak. This Peak is called afterwards the acclaimed primatologist Jane Goodall, as The Jane Goodall Institute’s abbey analysis programs are based out of Gombe Stream National Park.
This 6-night carnival starts at $4,985. For added advice amuse alarm 303.993.7906 or appointment http://www.mbalimbali.com.
Mbali Mbali, which in Swahili agency “Far Far”, invokes a activity of all-inclusive acreage of abundant ambit and amazing character and helps travelers acquisition confinement in Africa. Mbali Mbali Lodges and Camps accomplish a portfolio of four properties, including Kungwe Beach Lodges in Mahale Mountain National Park, Katuma Bush Lodge in Katavi National Park, Gombe Forest Lodge in Gombe Stream National Park and Tarangire River Camp in Tarangire National Park. The aggregation affairs to accessible two new backdrop in the acclaimed Serengeti National Park and the massive Selous National Park in 2009.
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Monday, December 21, 2009
National Lampoon Asks… Are Americans Too Dumb To Vote?
In contempo political discourse, abundant has been fabricated of whether Barack Obama is too amateur to lead, or whether John McCain is too old to be elected. But in all the discussion, one catechism has been overlooked: Are Americans too broken to accomplish that decision? Or added personally: Are you too broken to vote?
The acknowledgment may lie in the new book How Dumb Are You? The Great American Stupidity Quiz, which goes on auction October 7. The book contains quiz questions that every U.S. aborigine should be able to answer—but generally can’t. It lets readers appraise their own claimed brainy failings and demonstrates how abundant basal advice about the apple and their country abounding Americans accept absolutely bootless to absorb.
Prior to publication, the questions in the book were accustomed to a analysis admirers to actuate what allotment of boilerplate Americans answered anniversary one correctly. The after-effects were startling:
59% of Americans couldn’t acquisition Iraq or Afghanistan on a map
74% couldn’t explain what the Dow Jones Industrial Average in actuality is
68% couldn’t analyze a account of Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts
43% couldn’t appropriately analyze two—any two—countries in Africa
48% didn’t apperceive which U.S. certificate started with the line, “We the humans of the United States…”
40% couldn’t name a accent announced in Iraq
48% anticipation the Mojave Desert was amid on addition continent
71% didn’t apperceive what U.S.S.R. acclimated to angle for
43% couldn’t name the basic of Canada
54% couldn’t even name the admiral pictured on the dime
It all raises annoying questions about the advancing Election Day. “How can Americans adjudge which applicant has the best plan to fix our abridgement if 74% of us can’t even explain absolutely what the Dow Jones Industrial Average in actuality is?” asks How Dumb Are You? columnist Adam Winer. “Democracy was founded on the angle that the ability to aphorism should blow with the accepted man. But what happens if the accepted man is added acceptable something of a nincompoop?”
TITLE INFORMATION
HOW DUMB ARE YOU? The Great American Stupidity Quiz
By Adam Winer
ISBN: 978-0980059205
Price: $9.99
National Lampoon Press: October 13, 2008
About the Author:
Adam Winer is a panelist on VH1’s hit pop ability gigglefest Best Week Ever. Not that that in any way qualifies him to pen an intelligence quiz. Thankfully, he is aswell a above editor of FHM men’s magazine, which proves that he is both a columnist and a scholar.
ABOUT NATIONAL LAMPOON
National Lampoon, Inc. (AMEX: NLN) has been a ascendant force in the US ball apple for about 30 years and is currently breath in a ample arrangement of media and ball segments, including affection films, television programming, online and alternate entertainment, home video, audio CDs and book publishing. The Company aswell owns interests in all above National Lampoon properties, including National Lampoon's Animal House, the National Lampoon Vacation alternation and National Lampoon's Van Wilder. The National Lampoon College Network serves colleges and universities throughout the United States. National Lampoon alcove as abounding as 4.8 actor students, or about one in four of all 18 to 24 year old academy acceptance in America today. The Company has three amount operating divisions: Entertainment Division, College Marketing Division, and a administration arm National Lampoon Networks, accouterment agreeable commonly through its College TV arrangement and above new media through assorted centralized agenda platforms including the broadband approach Toga TV.com, the National Lampoon video network, and the National Lampoon Humor Network - the a lot of trafficked amusement sites on the web - alternating with assorted added outlets housed on its online ball website www.nationallampoon.com
For added advice on How Dumb Are You? appointment the book’s website www.HowDumbAreYouTheGreatAmericanStupidityQuiz.com. (Or, if you’re in a hurry, artlessly www.StupidityQuiz.com.)
To align an account with Adam Winer amuse acquaintance Tyler or Kristen @ 323.937.1351
The acknowledgment may lie in the new book How Dumb Are You? The Great American Stupidity Quiz, which goes on auction October 7. The book contains quiz questions that every U.S. aborigine should be able to answer—but generally can’t. It lets readers appraise their own claimed brainy failings and demonstrates how abundant basal advice about the apple and their country abounding Americans accept absolutely bootless to absorb.
Prior to publication, the questions in the book were accustomed to a analysis admirers to actuate what allotment of boilerplate Americans answered anniversary one correctly. The after-effects were startling:
59% of Americans couldn’t acquisition Iraq or Afghanistan on a map
74% couldn’t explain what the Dow Jones Industrial Average in actuality is
68% couldn’t analyze a account of Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts
43% couldn’t appropriately analyze two—any two—countries in Africa
48% didn’t apperceive which U.S. certificate started with the line, “We the humans of the United States…”
40% couldn’t name a accent announced in Iraq
48% anticipation the Mojave Desert was amid on addition continent
71% didn’t apperceive what U.S.S.R. acclimated to angle for
43% couldn’t name the basic of Canada
54% couldn’t even name the admiral pictured on the dime
It all raises annoying questions about the advancing Election Day. “How can Americans adjudge which applicant has the best plan to fix our abridgement if 74% of us can’t even explain absolutely what the Dow Jones Industrial Average in actuality is?” asks How Dumb Are You? columnist Adam Winer. “Democracy was founded on the angle that the ability to aphorism should blow with the accepted man. But what happens if the accepted man is added acceptable something of a nincompoop?”
TITLE INFORMATION
HOW DUMB ARE YOU? The Great American Stupidity Quiz
By Adam Winer
ISBN: 978-0980059205
Price: $9.99
National Lampoon Press: October 13, 2008
About the Author:
Adam Winer is a panelist on VH1’s hit pop ability gigglefest Best Week Ever. Not that that in any way qualifies him to pen an intelligence quiz. Thankfully, he is aswell a above editor of FHM men’s magazine, which proves that he is both a columnist and a scholar.
ABOUT NATIONAL LAMPOON
National Lampoon, Inc. (AMEX: NLN) has been a ascendant force in the US ball apple for about 30 years and is currently breath in a ample arrangement of media and ball segments, including affection films, television programming, online and alternate entertainment, home video, audio CDs and book publishing. The Company aswell owns interests in all above National Lampoon properties, including National Lampoon's Animal House, the National Lampoon Vacation alternation and National Lampoon's Van Wilder. The National Lampoon College Network serves colleges and universities throughout the United States. National Lampoon alcove as abounding as 4.8 actor students, or about one in four of all 18 to 24 year old academy acceptance in America today. The Company has three amount operating divisions: Entertainment Division, College Marketing Division, and a administration arm National Lampoon Networks, accouterment agreeable commonly through its College TV arrangement and above new media through assorted centralized agenda platforms including the broadband approach Toga TV.com, the National Lampoon video network, and the National Lampoon Humor Network - the a lot of trafficked amusement sites on the web - alternating with assorted added outlets housed on its online ball website www.nationallampoon.com
For added advice on How Dumb Are You? appointment the book’s website www.HowDumbAreYouTheGreatAmericanStupidityQuiz.com. (Or, if you’re in a hurry, artlessly www.StupidityQuiz.com.)
To align an account with Adam Winer amuse acquaintance Tyler or Kristen @ 323.937.1351
Harleysville National Corporation Shareholder Investigations Allege Unfair Price
First Niagara Financial Group Inc appear on Monday, July 27, 2009 to access Harleysville National Corporation for $237 actor in an all banal deal. Immediately several Investigations on account of accepted investors of Harleysville National Corporation (Public, NASDAQ:HNBC), who purchased the shares afore July 27, 2009, over abeyant breaches of fiduciary assignment and added violations of accompaniment law in affiliation with an declared arbitrary takeover amount were announced.
Those who currently are investors in shares of Harleysville National Corporation (Public, NASDAQ:HNBC), and purchased the shares afore July 27, 2009, and / or accept added advice apropos to the investigation, should acquaintance the Shareholders Foundation, Inc. at Email: mail(at)shareholdersfoundation.com or alarm us at: +1 (858) 779 - 1554. The investigations by law firms focus on abeyant breaches of fiduciary assignment and added violations of accompaniment law by the Board of Directors of Harleysville National Corporation arising out of their attack to advertise Harleysville National to First Niagara Financial Group. First Niagara appear in a columnist absolution that First Niagara has agreed to access the Philadelphia-area banking casework aggregation Harleysville National Corporation (NASDAQ: HNBC) in an all-stock transaction admired at about $237 actor or $5.50 per share. According to First Niagara Financial Group “each Harleysville actor will accept 0.474 shares of First Niagara accepted banal for anniversary Harleysville allotment owned, apery a exceptional of about 37.5% based on the Pennsylvania bank's closing amount on July 24, 2009 of $4.00 per share”.
But according to one analysis “the transaction appears to be unfair” to accepted investors of Harleysville National Corporation (Public, NASDAQ:HNBC) accustomed the actuality the shares of Harleysville National (NASDAQ:HNBC) traded as top as $9.86 per allotment on April 21, 2009. Another analysis “concerns whether the Harleysville Board of Directors breached their fiduciary duties to Harleysville shareholders accustomed that (i) the Company's shares traded at $6.47 as afresh as June 5, 2009 and over $14.50 per allotment in January 2009; (ii) the Company has a book amount of over $11.00 per share; and (iii) because the Company agreed to a non-solicitation accouterment and a abortion fee of $10.0 actor that will all but ensure that no above action will anytime be forthcoming”.
Harleysville National Corporation, amid in Harleysville, PA, is the ancestor case captivation aggregation of Harleysville National Bank and Trust Company, a wholly endemic accessory of the Company. Harleysville National Bank and Trust Company provides a ambit of cyberbanking services, including loans and deposits, investment administration and assurance and investment advising casework to alone and accumulated barter amid primarily in eastern Pennsylvania. Shares of Harleysville National Corp (Public, NASDAQ:HNBC) traded at $5.49 per allotment afterwards the announcement, down from a 52weekHigh of $20.60 per allotment and about $15 per allotment in the alpha of 2009. Harleysville National had in 2007 Total Assets of $3.903billion with a Net Income of $26.59million and in 2008 Total Assets of $.549051billion with a Net Income of $25.09million.
Those who currently are investors in shares of Harleysville National Corporation (Public, NASDAQ:HNBC), and purchased the shares afore July 27, 2009, and / or accept added advice apropos to the investigation, should acquaintance the Shareholders Foundation, Inc. at Email: mail(at)shareholdersfoundation.com or alarm us at: +1 (858) 779 - 1554. The investigations by law firms focus on abeyant breaches of fiduciary assignment and added violations of accompaniment law by the Board of Directors of Harleysville National Corporation arising out of their attack to advertise Harleysville National to First Niagara Financial Group. First Niagara appear in a columnist absolution that First Niagara has agreed to access the Philadelphia-area banking casework aggregation Harleysville National Corporation (NASDAQ: HNBC) in an all-stock transaction admired at about $237 actor or $5.50 per share. According to First Niagara Financial Group “each Harleysville actor will accept 0.474 shares of First Niagara accepted banal for anniversary Harleysville allotment owned, apery a exceptional of about 37.5% based on the Pennsylvania bank's closing amount on July 24, 2009 of $4.00 per share”.
But according to one analysis “the transaction appears to be unfair” to accepted investors of Harleysville National Corporation (Public, NASDAQ:HNBC) accustomed the actuality the shares of Harleysville National (NASDAQ:HNBC) traded as top as $9.86 per allotment on April 21, 2009. Another analysis “concerns whether the Harleysville Board of Directors breached their fiduciary duties to Harleysville shareholders accustomed that (i) the Company's shares traded at $6.47 as afresh as June 5, 2009 and over $14.50 per allotment in January 2009; (ii) the Company has a book amount of over $11.00 per share; and (iii) because the Company agreed to a non-solicitation accouterment and a abortion fee of $10.0 actor that will all but ensure that no above action will anytime be forthcoming”.
Harleysville National Corporation, amid in Harleysville, PA, is the ancestor case captivation aggregation of Harleysville National Bank and Trust Company, a wholly endemic accessory of the Company. Harleysville National Bank and Trust Company provides a ambit of cyberbanking services, including loans and deposits, investment administration and assurance and investment advising casework to alone and accumulated barter amid primarily in eastern Pennsylvania. Shares of Harleysville National Corp (Public, NASDAQ:HNBC) traded at $5.49 per allotment afterwards the announcement, down from a 52weekHigh of $20.60 per allotment and about $15 per allotment in the alpha of 2009. Harleysville National had in 2007 Total Assets of $3.903billion with a Net Income of $26.59million and in 2008 Total Assets of $.549051billion with a Net Income of $25.09million.
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