Richard Branson Fast Track 100, sponsored by Virgin Group, at its yearly event, where places to join Richard Branson on trips to South Africa to provide coaching and mentoring to students are auctioned to attendees. In 2009, Jason Luckhurst and Boyd Kershaw of Practicus, Martin Ainscough of the Ainscough Group and Matthew Riley of Daisy Communications helped raise £150,000 through the auction. In March 2008, Branson hosted an environmental gathering at his private island, Necker Island, in the Caribbean with several prominent entrepreneurs, celebrities, and world leaders. They discussed global warming-related problems facing the world, hoping that the meeting would be a
Richard S. Scorer recognition for an outstanding contribution to the Society and meteorology. Richard S. Scorer Richard S. Scorer (1919–2011) was a British meteorologist. He was a contributor to the theory on mountain waves. Scorer also worked on the cloud physics and his exchanges with the American meteorologist Joanne Simpson helped to better understand the formation of cumulus clouds. Richard Scorer was born in Lincoln, County of Lincolnshire in England, in 1919. From his youth, he showed great aptitude for mathematics and won a scholarship to the University of Cambridge where he did his undergraduate studies. In 1941, during World War II, he