| MARHedge World Wealth Summit 2006
After a brief spell with Bank of America in 1983, O'Neill joined International Treasury Management, a division of Marine Midland Bank. In 1988, he joined Swiss Bank Corporation (SBC) to start a fixed-income research group in London, helping to pioneer research on the ECU bond market. In 19991, he became Head of Research globally for SBC. He joined Goldman Sachs in October 1995 as a Partner, Co-Head of Global Economics and Chief Currency Economist. O'Neill received his Ph.D. in 1982 from the University of Surrey after graduating in Economics from Sheffield University in 1978. His Ph.D. thesis was entitled An Empirical Study of the OPEC Surplus and its Disposal. O'Neill joined the board of the European economics think tank Bruegel when it was established in 2004 and is also a board member of a new think tank called Itinera Institute of Research.
Pinellas: News and Notes
How much respect do folks at Academy of the Holy Names have for former St. Petersburg Catholic pitcher Deanna Henriott? Well, they invited her to throw out the first pitch of Wednesday night's SPC-AHN game in Tampa. "Deanna is a great kid and was an awesome pitcher," AHN athletic director Pete Young said. "It was nice of her to drop by." Henriott, an all-Suncoast performer who graduated last year, now plays for the University of Tampa. Among those who helped arrange her appearance at AHN were Ben and Laurie Vyzas, parents of Jaguars catcher Becky Vyzas. Becky, who is an all-county performer, will be one of Henriott's teammates next year at UT. With Henriott watching Wednesday, SPC won 4-0. Check it out Catch 47 will air Saturday night's region boys basketball final, Lakewood 27-2 at Pinellas Park (25-4), 7 p.m.
IAF finally gets Hawks to train pilots
After an agonising wait of 27 years during which over 200 air crashes blotched its flight safety record, the IAF finally inducted the British Hawk-132 advanced jet trainer (AJT) at the Bidar airbase on Saturday. Hawks will simplify the conversion of fledgling fighter pilots from subsonic Kiran trainers to supersonic fighters such as Su-30 MKI, Mirage 2000 and different MiG variants. The IAF has inducted eight Hawks and another 58 will join its fleet by 2010. Once that happens, rookies will no longer train on the unforgiving MiG-21, whose infamous crash history has earned it epithets such as ‘widow-maker' and ‘flying coffin'. Dedicating the Hawks to the nation, Defence Minister A.K. Antony said the government has plans to acquire 40 more Hawks. Group Captain Michael Fernandez, the chief instructor at Bidar, the cradle of fighter pilots in India, remains loyal towards the primitive Iskra trainer he flew in the early 1980s as a rookie.
It's kids vs. 'big' kids in video bowling tourney
Evan Welsh is only 7 but he's already ranked as a "pro" bowler. "I've bowled a perfect game," he'll tell you proudly. But, the Bethel Park youngster doesn't lift a heavy bowling ball. He uses a remote control to win games, earning "pro" status in virtual bowling on his Nintendo Wii game system. Tomorrow night Evan and 35 other classmates from Lincoln Elementary School in the Bethel Park School District will team up with their grandparents to compete in a Wii bowling tournament. The event was organized by school librarian Denice Pazuchanics in conjunction with the library as a way to encourage interaction between generations. Ms. Pazuchanics also said that it's important for students to build a relationship with the library as a lifelong resource.
Obama wins Louisiana Democratic primary
Hillary Clinton in the Louisiana primary after caucus victories in Nebraska and Washington state earlier in the day. Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, meanwhile, was locked in a tight battle with Arizona Sen. John McCain in Louisiana's Republican primary. Neither candidate was expected to reach the 50 percent vote share needed to claim the delegates -- 20 of the state GOP's 47 -- at stake Saturday night. Although McCain has a large delegate lead nationally, Huckabee carried Alabama, Georgia, Arkansas and Tennessee in primaries Tuesday to give him a strong claim to the Deep South. Louisiana election officials said turnout for Saturday's primary was about 15 percent of eligible voters. State Democratic Party leaders said it was too early to say exactly how many of the delegates would go to Obama and how many to Clinton.
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