The Professional Touch: How to Think, Act, Write, and Look Your Professional Best

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Praise for THE BIG TECH SCORE

"Filled with great insights and investment wisdom from one of Wall Street's premier technology analysts. Read it and prosper."—Stephen Waite, Executive Director and Portfolio Manager Trilogy Advisors, LLC

"An investment guide rare in its combination of fluent prose and elevated level of investment wisdom. Michael Kwatinetz, king of high-tech securities analysts, offers his readers a quality of thinking about how to create personal wealth that he used to reserve only for Wall Street's most elite investors. Unlike most investment gurus, Kwatinetz is honest about the intellectual homework required to hit his 25% annual return goal, but in a most entertaining fashion, he also offers readers the tools to get that work done."—DON KATZ, Business and Technology Columnist, Esquire, Founder and Chairman, Audible, Inc.

"As someone well experienced in the highs and lows of technology investing, Mike Kwatinetz offers a solid strategy that shares his wisdom with the average investor."—DONNA DUBINSKY, CEO, Handspring

"Mike Kwatinetz understood the benefits and potential of Gateway's business model long before most people on Wall Street knew who we were."—TED WAITT, Founder and Chairman, Gateway

"This insightful book is required reading for investors seeking an effective, yet easily understandable strategy to deploy in today's supercharged stock market. The advice it dispenses is rock solid. The Big Tech Score is definitely NOT for those who fear the consequences of their own personal financial success."—JOHN KOTEN, Editor-in-Chief, Worth

"Mike Kwatinetz is the closest thing to a market oracle in existence today. Mike moves markets simply because he is so often right. He has an uncanny ability to spot the gorillas long before they're on anyone else's radar."—LARRY AUGUSTINE, CEO and Founder, VA Linux

"Mike Kwatinetz is his own man; he does his own thinking-a quality that is all too rare on Wall Street. This separates him from the all-too-frequent consensus thinking of the Street. It is for this reason I listen."—BOB KOMMERSTAD, Chairman, Provident Investment Council

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Junk.......2003-10-06

the most useful page in this book is in the excerpt provided by Amazon. Everything else is regurgitation magazine articles and common knowledge and doesn't provide and investing know how.

Worthless.......2002-05-30

If you find this book helpful, that's an indication that you need to learn a lot more before you consider investing in individual tech stocks. The "advice" in this book varies between obvious, stupid, and silly.

Some things I disliked about the book:

* Gimmicky Money Magazine-like lists. "10 Secrets to Investing Success". "The Seven Deadly Sins of Investing."

* Here are the stocks he thinks you should have bought 10 years ago: Microsoft, Cisco, Applied Materials. Gee, thanks Mike. Now here are the stocks he thinks you should have bought in 2001, when this book was published: VA Linux, Ask Jeeves, Blue Martini. I am not making this up.

* Ultra-ultra-ultra basic advice. How to calculate a P/E given price and earnings. Buy companies with great management teams. Invest in companies who are taking share.

* Lots of fluffy stories about how the web is going to change our lives. Didn't this junk go out of style in the spring of 2000?

If you choose to buy this book, put it in your bookcase right next to "Dow 36,000" in the "what the hell was I thinking buying this book" section.

A Great Blueprint for a Personally Managed Portfolio.......2002-05-26

I originally heard this work through Audible.com, and liked it enough that I've bought multiple hardcopies for friends and myself. The book provides a blueprint for personally managing a small number of stocks. This stock portfolio should be hedged by other diverse investments including safe money (i.e. fixed interest) and mutual funds.

There is a lot of good advice throughout the book. They cover, in part, (1) why you should concentrate on a few stocks and know them inside and out, (2) metrics for determining an appropriate value for a stock, (3) effective screening tools in finding the gems, and (4) some no-nonsense views of how the stock market really operates with respect to analysts. Highly recommended.

Insightful!.......2002-04-08

Mike Kwatinetz and Danielle Kwatinetz Wood, a father-daughter team, have written a readable volume of investment advice that will impress you with its fundamental soundness, if it does not dazzle you with buzzwords and newfangled formulas. With advice that flies in the face of the mantra of portfolio diversification, Mr. Kwatinetz shows how to narrow your portfolio and thereby compete with Wall Street professionals. The authors warn you away from the minefields sown by short-term thinking and guide you toward making that big stock-market score you've been hoping to achieve. The volume's Q & A sessions with stock market gurus are interesting, but appear to be afterthoughts. We from getAbstract recommend this book to regular investors and Wall Street insiders alike.

Buffetting High Tech.......2001-06-22

The author applies Warren Buffett's main street investing approach to High Tech. Other reviewers gave the book a higher rating so I may have missed something but I found the book short on the specifics of timing (not something that interests Buffett either).

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Wisconsin Employer's Guide
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Wisconsin Employer's Guide

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ASIN: 0735547068

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The Wisconsin Employer's Guide is an authoritative book that provides the lay of the land of employment law for business owners, managers, and human resource professionals. Written from an employer's point of view, the Guide integrates the federal and particular state laws that affect the employer-employee relationship. Using plain English, this work explains the legal aspects of the events and situations most employers face. This 8th Edition of the Wisconsin Employer's Guide includes: discussion of the major 2004 changes to federal overtime rules and COBRA notice requirements new sections on employee evaluations and investigating employee misconduct new section on Migrant and Seasonal Worker Protection Act. Chapter headings are: Hiring Termination Health and Safety Civil Rights Hours and Pay Unions, Government Contractors, and Miscellaneous Regulations The Guide comes in a three-ring binder; each chapter is tabbed and includes numbered section headings in bold print for ease of use. Relevant state and federal agencies are listed at the end of each chapter, as well as citations for the information discussed

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Wisconsin Employer's Guide

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Wisconsin Employer's Guide: A Handbook of Employment Laws and Regulations

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Wisconsin Employer's Guide: A Handbook of Employment Laws and Regulations
Amy L. Greenspan , and Victoria Gold
Manufacturer: Summers Pr Inc
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ASIN: 1567590829

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This book concerns the most important relationship most people have outside the family: the relationship between an employer and an employee. That relationship is crisscrossed by a complex web of laws and regulations. This book describes those laws in a direct, straightforward fashion.

The Wisconsin Employer's Guide provides the "lay of the land" of personnel law and regulations and integrates the state and federal law that is relevant to an employer. Each section of the book attempts to include both the underlying concept and a simple, straightforward rule.

This book is written in small, self-contained sections. The reader does not need to refer to the rest of the chapter, much less the rest of the book, to find information about a topic. Although this method of writing causes some duplication, it more than repays the reader in the efficiency of its use.

The Wisconsin Employer's Guide is supplemented at least yearly, and more often if major legislation or court cases require. In order to incorporate updated pages easily, the book is published in a three-ring notebook. The Wisconsin Employer's Guide is, and will continue to be, one of the most current employment law books available anywhere in the nation.

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This book is a companion volume to Quarantine Pests for Europe, 2nd Edition and Illustrations of Quarantine Pests for Europe. The three titles are the result of collaboration between CABI and EPPO to compile current data on pests quarantined in Europe and the Mediterranean region. This volume provides updated geographic distributions of over 350 pests for which data sheets and illustrations are already available. It provides a map for each pest showing its current world distribution and a list of the countries and provinces in which the pest has been recorded, each coded to indicate the current status. Coverage extends to insects, mites, nematodes, fungi, bacteria, viruses, and parasitic plants.

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Illustrations of Quarantine Pests for Europe

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ASIN: 0851991505

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This book is a companion volume to Quarantine Pests for Europe, published originally in 1992 by the European and Mediterranean Plant Protection Organization (EPPO) and CAB International (CABI) for the European Union. The previous book provides information on identity, hosts, geographical distribution, biology, detection, and identification, means of movement and dispersal, pest significance, phytosanitary measures, and a bibliography for all the quarantine pests listed by EPPO and the European Union, but does not contain any illustrations. The present book contains approximately 400 color illustrations, some of them new in relation to the very first illustrations of the EPPO Data Sheets which appeared in Bulletin OEPP/EPPO Bulletin in the 1980s. The book covers most of the quarantine pests listed by EPPO and the European Union, including those which have been added to the quarantine lists since 1992. Thus it will be compatible with the second edition of the volume of text data sheets, planned for publication at the end of 1996.

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Quarantine Pests for Europe

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ASIN: 0851991548

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A result of collaboration between the European and Mediterranean Plant Protection Organization (EPPO) and CAB INTERNATIONAL sponsored by the Commission of the European Union, this is a book of data sheets on pests of quarantine significance for Europe and the Mediterranean region. Coverage extends to insects, mites, fungi, bacteria, viruses, nematodes, and parasitic plants. It includes organisms found outside Europe and the Mediterranean that present a risk to the region, as well as those which are present but have restricted distribution and are subject to phytosanitary controls. All 188 data sheets from the first edition have been revised, some data sheets covering groups of similar organisms have been split up, and 56 new sheets have been added, resulting in a total of 300 data sheets. The second edition will therefore continue to represent a definitive reference source, not only for those with specific interests in plant quarantines, but also for all concerned with pest management.

Distribution Maps of Quarantine Pests for Europe

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Distribution Maps of Quarantine Pests for Europe
I. M. Smith
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Quarantine Pests for Europe: 2 Volume Set: Quarantine Pests for Europe and Illustrations of Quarantine Pests for Europe (Cab International Publication)

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Quarantine Pests for Europe: 2 Volume Set: Quarantine Pests for Europe and Illustrations of Quarantine Pests for Europe (Cab International Publication)
M. J. Pearce
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A result of collaboration between the European and Mediterranean Plant Protection Organization (EPPO) and CAB INTERNATIONAL sponsored by the Commission of the European Union, this two-volume set contains data sheets and illustrations on pests of quarantine significance for Europe and the Mediterranean region. Coverage extends to insects, mites, fungi, bacteria, viruses, nematodes, and parasitic plants. The volumes also include organisms found outside Europe and the Mediterranean that present a risk to the region, as well as those which are present but have restricted distribution and are subject to phytosanitary controls. All 188 data sheets from the first edition have been revised, some data sheets covering groups of similar organisms have been split up, and 56 new sheets have been added, resulting in a total of 300 data sheets. This set represents the definitive reference source, not only for those with specific interests in plant quarantines, but also for all concerned with pest management.

Quarantine Pests for Europe: Supplement 1993-95

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Quarantine Pests for Europe: Supplement 1993-95

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This digital document is an article from Security Management, published by American Society for Industrial Security on July 1, 1998. The length of the article is 3735 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

From the supplier: The Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago, Illinois was able to provide adequate security for the late Princess Diana when she visited the facility in June 1996. As soon as the visit was confirmed, the museum's security department discussed safety issues with all other department heads, the Chicago Police, Scotland Yard and the State Department. Plans were established to handle crowds, media people and other participating celebrities.

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Title: A night to remember. (Princess Diana's visit to Field Museum in Chicago, Illinois)(includes related article on security risk reduction)(Cover Story)
Author: DeQuendre Neeley
Publication: Security Management (Refereed)
Date: July 1, 1998
Publisher: American Society for Industrial Security
Volume: v42 Issue: n7 Page: p36(6)

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Natural history, according to the Linnaean system: Explained by familiar dialogues, in visits to the London Museum : in four volumes

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Natural history, according to the Linnaean system: Explained by familiar dialogues, in visits to the London Museum : in four volumes
John Rippingham
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Report on a visit to some European natural history museums

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Report on a visit to some European natural history museums
Frederick C Paulmier
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The shapes of things to come?: Reflections on a visit to the Hall of Human Biology, South Kensington

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The shapes of things to come?: Reflections on a visit to the Hall of Human Biology, South Kensington
A. J Duggan
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A visit to Karewa Island,: Home of the tuatara (Field Museum of Natural History. Fieldiana. Zoology)

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A visit to Karewa Island,: Home of the tuatara (Field Museum of Natural History. Fieldiana. Zoology)
Karl Patterson Schmidt
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SAMPLE THIS! Inludes 5-1/4" disk and documentation. Includes complete exercises for laboratory courses in Physical Geology and uses color maps.

Exploring geology: Introductory laboratory activities

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Exploring geology: Introductory laboratory activities
Leon E Long
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Exploring Geology - Introductory Laboratory Activities
Sill, O*Dunn
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E=MC2

In previous science, from the special theory of relativity, arrives the belief that mass and energy are interchangeable and also are related by the equation E=mc2. In this equation, E stands for energy, m for mass, and c2 for the speed of light multiplied by itself. According to Einstein's general theory of relativity, light can be bent by gravity. In Einstein's special theory of relativity, nothing can travel faster than the speed of light. With all due respect, my research disagrees with Einstein.

If gravity can bend light (starlight curvature in space), then gravity is faster and more powerful than light. Therefore it is possible to travel beyond the speed of light.

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A stunning reflection on post-quantum theory........2004-03-10

It is difficult to find words that accurately, much less adequately, attest to the singular experience offered by this imaginative journey into the realm of cosmological science.

My professional endeavors bring me into regular contact with cutting-edge innovations produced by the most resourceful scientific minds at one of America's preeminent research institutions. Still, in all sincerity, and without exaggeration or exception, no scientific study has been discussed more often among myself and my colleagues, nor any with more enthusiastic and wide-eyed attention, than the research underpinning godstar science.

To label the author's scientific exposition as unorthodox would be to strain that word beyond all utility. Still, it is premature to call it revolutionary; contra Ralph Nader, a lone man's endeavor does not a revolution make. The result is something else: a bold leap beyond all limits of faith and provable reality.

The casual reader will be, in a word, stunned by the declarations and accompanying reasoning. A more careful reading will delight the mind with the merry dance wherein one fluctuates between amusement and bemusement; though in truth that dancing is not altogether unlike that of a rhythmless schoolboy who mistakes enthusiasm for talent. That is to say, the ride from a to b and back again is a bumpy one.

In the final analysis, it is all too easy to dismiss as intellectual quackery a work of this sort, without even bothering to read and consider the argument presented. It is far more amusing and far more rewarding to save such dismissal until after taking this pleasurable romp through the underpants of post-Einsteinian physics.

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Initiation has often been accepted as a common phenomenon with a coherent meaning in the Greek world, and seen as the key to understanding a wide range of cultural and literary artefacts. In this volume, an international group of experts in Greek religion and society challenge the privileged status of initiation as a paradigm in classical studies. The case studies used range widely, from the ancient Greek wedding and adolescent haircutting rituals to initiation in Greek myth, tragedy and comedy. The collection will be useful for undergraduate and postgraduate students of Classical Civilization and Ancient History in general and Greek religion and literature in particular.

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