Tuesday, January 3, 2012
Sunday, December 25, 2011
Sunday, November 27, 2011
Vote with Your Feet
I watch Judge Andrew Napolitano’s Television program every day. It seems that when he reaches a subject that he can hardly stand to discuss, he will say, “If you don’t like your state’s laws, vote with your feet.” In other words, go someplace else to live. With this message ringing in my ears, I feel very sad about all the corruption that we are forced to tolerate to have a
decent place to live and yet it looks like it will not be decent for longer.
The United States has always been my first choice. I started visiting Europe when I owned a travel agency and then made my fair share of the three-week excursions to visit there. Even on my first trip It just seemed that so many people had some sort of scam going for themselves. It cost me three rolls of Kodak film just to make it through Customs in Spain on arrival on my first trip. At that time in history, I had never had this type of experience for any reason and I still have never learned just to accept it as we have done when someone
asking us for a tip for just doing their job that they are already getting paid for. It was just too blatant. I have enjoyed my trips to Europe but, I was always glad to return home and get away from this hassle.
I was a stock broker when the financial market went corrupt however, it was not an “in your face” type of movement like the Politicians made
in Washington. Many of the politicians do not even pay their taxes on the money that they are paid from our taxes; and
yet, they steal even more money from the same tax payers that was collected to run our government. What kind of people are these people who are managing our country?
However, things are changing here in the U.S. and
decent place to live and yet it looks like it will not be decent for longer.
The United States has always been my first choice. I started visiting Europe when I owned a travel agency and then made my fair share of the three-week excursions to visit there. Even on my first trip It just seemed that so many people had some sort of scam going for themselves. It cost me three rolls of Kodak film just to make it through Customs in Spain on arrival on my first trip. At that time in history, I had never had this type of experience for any reason and I still have never learned just to accept it as we have done when someone
asking us for a tip for just doing their job that they are already getting paid for. It was just too blatant. I have enjoyed my trips to Europe but, I was always glad to return home and get away from this hassle.
I was a stock broker when the financial market went corrupt however, it was not an “in your face” type of movement like the Politicians made
in Washington. Many of the politicians do not even pay their taxes on the money that they are paid from our taxes; and
yet, they steal even more money from the same tax payers that was collected to run our government. What kind of people are these people who are managing our country?
However, things are changing here in the U.S. and
My Mother's Birthday Gift by Pam McGarry
I wanted to get my mother something she would really like for her birthday this year. Since she has been working on this blog, I thought that Dragon Dictate would be great for her. We have used it at several places I have worked to help staff members keep up with their documentation. It has worked well for them, so I thought that it was worth a try for my mother.I started an Internet search to find out more about the choices and prices of the software. I quickly became overwhelmed with the number of options and prices, so I found Dragon's official website www.nuance.com and started my search there. A chat box popped up, which I love. It is so helpful and easy to chat on-line with a sales or customer service person about products. The person I was chatting with helped me to narrow down my choices and then offered me an opportunity to speak with a sales person who could call me right away. We talked and determined that Dragon Naturally Speaking 11.5 Premium with a Bluetooth Microphone was the best choice. Since I was buying it from the company, it came with a 30 day money back guarantee and 90 days of tech support. I bought a training video also that I thought would help my mother. There wasn't any tax on an order shipped from out-of-state to where we live in Pennsylvania, so I used that savings to pay for expedited shipping. I ordered on Friday night and had it on Tuesday.
It loaded easily and I walked through the set up that included training the software to recognize my voice and now I'm pretty much off and running. There are prompts down the right side of the screen, similar to what Quick Books offers, to help me know what to say and do. The prompts change if I'm in email or Word or Excel. It is really something.
My mother is watching the video and me learn how to use it and is ready to get going with it on her own today (less than a week after it arrived). We had purchased IBM via voice more than a decade ago. I remember paying $149 to $179 for it and really never used it. I couldn't get it trained to my voice, which I now know had to do with the poor quality microphone that came with the program, but as a graduate student and county case worker, it didn't dawn on me that I needed to spend even more money to get software to work for me. My total cost for this software, video and expedited shipping with 30 day money back guarantee and 90 days of free tech support $353.92. I'm thrilled. Something that works and is helpful. We love this product and highly recommend it.
Of course we started looking into the stock prices and how the company is doing. Barchart shows this stock as a BUY. www.barchart.com
It loaded easily and I walked through the set up that included training the software to recognize my voice and now I'm pretty much off and running. There are prompts down the right side of the screen, similar to what Quick Books offers, to help me know what to say and do. The prompts change if I'm in email or Word or Excel. It is really something.
My mother is watching the video and me learn how to use it and is ready to get going with it on her own today (less than a week after it arrived). We had purchased IBM via voice more than a decade ago. I remember paying $149 to $179 for it and really never used it. I couldn't get it trained to my voice, which I now know had to do with the poor quality microphone that came with the program, but as a graduate student and county case worker, it didn't dawn on me that I needed to spend even more money to get software to work for me. My total cost for this software, video and expedited shipping with 30 day money back guarantee and 90 days of free tech support $353.92. I'm thrilled. Something that works and is helpful. We love this product and highly recommend it.
Of course we started looking into the stock prices and how the company is doing. Barchart shows this stock as a BUY. www.barchart.com
| NUAN (Common Stock) | |
| Exchange | NASDAQ GS (US Dollar) |
| Price | $25.96 |
| Change (%) |  0.16 (0.62%) |
| Volume | 593,351 |
| Today's Open | $25.77 |
| Previous Close | $25.80 |
| Intraday High | $26.01 |
| Intraday Low | $25.74 |
| 52 Week High | $26.97 |
| 52 Week Low | $15.56 |
| Data as of 11/14/11 11:22 a.m. ET Minimum 20 minute delay Refresh quote | |
Harry Dent "The Great Crash Ahead"
Harry Dent was mentioned week on the Fox news show Freedom Watch. I knew Harry Dent’s new book had The Great Crash Ahead: Strategies for a World Turned Upside Down had come out in September.
Hearing Harry Dent mentioned again was exciting to me. I’m anxious to see what predictions he has for the upcoming years in his new book. I found the Roaring 2000s Investor really interesting and informative. The book provided a look into the future based on what was learned from the past
Harry is not afraid to state his opinions that are at times thought to be unusual or controversial. It is always good to hear what creative geniuses like Harry is thinking and take that information into account when making decisions about your future and finances.
Harry provides background information about all of his opinions, which I particularly enjoy. As we approach the end of this year it is important to think about the changes that are coming in the New Year as well as distant future and how to handle them.
Til Tomorrow… Pat
Hearing Harry Dent mentioned again was exciting to me. I’m anxious to see what predictions he has for the upcoming years in his new book. I found the Roaring 2000s Investor really interesting and informative. The book provided a look into the future based on what was learned from the past
Harry is not afraid to state his opinions that are at times thought to be unusual or controversial. It is always good to hear what creative geniuses like Harry is thinking and take that information into account when making decisions about your future and finances.
Harry provides background information about all of his opinions, which I particularly enjoy. As we approach the end of this year it is important to think about the changes that are coming in the New Year as well as distant future and how to handle them.
Til Tomorrow… Pat
Friday, November 25, 2011
William O’Neil's CAN SLIM System
In 1980 I attended a one day seminar in Chicago given by William O’Neil on his CAN SLIM System. I had been interested in Technical Analysis for a decade and this was a good opportunity for me to have some really good training from one of the top Technical Analysts just an hour flight from home. To this day, the first indicators that I look at when checking out a stock is a print out a technical analysis chart of the stock in question to see if it is in an up, down or sideways trend.
Sometime in the 1990 my home state approved the sales of an investment that was paying out 8%. I had been working with technical Analysis and helping my clients make up to a 20% return on their retirement accounts during the same time period when other people in town were lining up to buy an 8% return from a fund that turned out to be a Ponzi Scheme that cost investors
tens of thousands of dollars.
Many people never even thought of trying to learn to make money by investing for themselves. I highly recommend William O’Neil’s book How to Make Money in Stocks.
Sometime in the 1990 my home state approved the sales of an investment that was paying out 8%. I had been working with technical Analysis and helping my clients make up to a 20% return on their retirement accounts during the same time period when other people in town were lining up to buy an 8% return from a fund that turned out to be a Ponzi Scheme that cost investors
tens of thousands of dollars.
Many people never even thought of trying to learn to make money by investing for themselves. I highly recommend William O’Neil’s book How to Make Money in Stocks.
Happy Thanksgiving!
I just wanted to take a moment to wish everyone a Happy Thanksgiving/Black Friday Holiday Weekend. I hope that you and your family enjoy all that this weekend has to offer from food to shopping, family and friends, TV and Movies.
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