You can love me or leave me; but baby believe me when I say, you'll regret it either way.
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probably. it's predictable.
I'm kicking myself. I bought TZA friday for $32.19 but sold on Monday and now it's $36's.
maybe nibble on TNA for the next rally!
done :)
I got attacked for making a few comments on twitter.
I really liked her voice though as it was very unique. Sort of like Billie Holiday.
It's a shame she didn't get help.
Btw, I'm letting my membership expire next month so unless you become a free board, I'll have to see you on the HOUSE OF PLEASURE!
:)
First two days, I think he was testing how much he could get away with and was doing everything other than head stands for attention.
Today, he was so much calmer. Besides a love for socks, he just chews on his toys and listens very well. Walks well on the leash. Hates going outside in the heat but will go on a leash for a walk. He's probably now the most well behaved out of the four.
During the day, he likes to guard the front door. As I'm typing this, he came into my bedroom put his head on my lap to be petted and then went to the other room (like he checks on everyone in the house from room to room).
He's taken a liking to my youngest which I think is great as she had a hard time with the Dane at first (scared of her).
A few more pics taken today:
you really believe a fellow on a message board can bash BAC lower?
lol
this must be blast from the past day.
nice!
took long enough lol
Aldo. So different from the girl dogs. He's definitely full of energy and love!
I thought he'd be worn out from playing with Ziva and the chiweenies but nooooooooooo. He keeps bringing "stuff" in my office to me. I take it he's a jumper too as he was able to somehow get a stuffed animal that was on top of a entertainment center in the family room. Anything soft, he's bringing to me (including hubby's slippers).
When I pretended I didn't see him, he grabbed my arm with his mouth and was trying to get me to get up and play.
tug o war
Loved yesterday's MF AAPL "punked" write up.
Dear Wall Street: Apple Punked You. Again.
This afternoon, Apple (Nasdaq: AAPL ) reported $7.79 in per-share earnings and $28.57 billion in revenue for the fiscal third quarter. Analysts had been calling for $5.80 and $24.92 billion, respectively. Only Steve Jobs could make pundits look this silly.
And that's not even the most embarrassing part. With almost everyone calling for strong but not outrageous handset sales ahead of the release of the iPhone 5 this fall -- 15 million to 17 million, specifically -- Apple sold more than 20 million of the devices. Somebody call Ashton Kutcher. Wall Street just got punked. Again.
Some other facts about the rapidly expanding iEmpire from the Q3 report:
1. Mac unit sales rose 14% while revenue improved 16%. All told, Apple sold $5 billion worth of computer hardware in Q3.
2. While Android tabs from Samsung and Motorola Mobility (NYSE: MMI ) struggle to give consumers the on-demand video they crave, Apple sold 9.5 million iPads.
3. With more than $75 billion in cash and short- and long-term investments on its balance sheet, Apple now has the fiscal heft of a small Caribbean dictatorship. All that's missing are the communism, cigars, and first-rate Major League pitching prospects.
How difficult it must be to work at Research In Motion (Nasdaq: RIMM ) , Nokia (NYSE: NOK ) , or any Apple peer right now. For all the talk of viable alternatives to its iDevices, the numbers suggest that consumers are having none of it. They're hooked on iCandy, and delivering sweet profits to Apple and its investors as a result.
Apple rolls out new macs, shares set record
By Poornima Gupta
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Apple Inc shares flirted with a record $400 on Wednesday, a day after the world's most valuable technology company posted blockbuster results and triggered a spate of brokerage upgrades.
The stock set a lifetime high as a new $999 MacBook Air and $599 "Mac mini" go on sale, the latter rivaling some of the cheaper offerings from Dell Inc or Hewlett-Packard Co.
Apple's stock climbed 3.3 percent to $389.18, bringing the makers of the iPhone and iPad within shouting distance of Exxon Mobil's market value of more than $400 billion despite the oil and gas producer raking in more than four times Apple's annual revenue.
In coming months, Apple is expected to roll out a new iPhone, which is likely to give the world's most valuable technology company another shot in the arm and offer a challenge to rivals such as Google Inc and Research in Motion.
The new phone could also propel Apple to leap past Exxon.
"We expect Apple will become the largest market cap company on the planet when the stock hits approximately $445 which is only about 13 percent away from aftermarket levels," said Gleacher & Co analyst Brian Marshall, adding that this is based on the assumption that Exxon shares remain flat.
Apple shares rose to a high of $405 in after-hours trading on Tuesday after iPhone sales and strong Asian business helped Apple's quarterly results beat Wall Street's expectations. Sales of its iconic products far outpaced forecasts, helping drive a near doubling of revenue in the fiscal third quarter.
"China is showing phenomenal strength for Apple and was up six-fold," Wells Fargo analyst Jason Maynard said. "This remains a huge opportunity for Apple and, in our view, is a major differentiator for the company. Apple has been able to successfully monetize China where competitors have been challenged."
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Bank of America Merrill Lynch and Wells Fargo raised their estimates on Apple's yearly earnings by 10 and 13 percent. Caris & Co raised their price target to $600 from $500, while Brigantine Advisors raised their target on the stock to $450 from $400.
"We find Apple's valuation compelling, particularly based on the upside potential from revenue and earnings growth in the Mac/PC and iPhone segments and from gross margins," Bank of America Merrill Lynch said in a note to clients.
Apple moved 20.34 million iPhones during the quarter, which analysts say helped it vault past Nokia and Samsung Electronics to become the world's biggest smartphone maker.
While iPhones remain the flagship device, the company touted its new line of Intel-powered Macs on Wednesday and the latest version of its operating software, the multi-touch enabled Mac OS X Lion.
Mac shipments have helped Apple make the top-three among PC vendors in the United States, the first time it has done so in years, according to research firm Gartner.
Analysts worry that the success of the iPad will take away from not just Microsoft Windows PC sales, but also Apple's Mac business, something the company dismisses.
"It's taking away from the PC. When we surveyed people who buy iPads, more of them were choosing it instead of a computer," marketing chief Phil Schiller told Reuters.
"More are choosing it instead of a Windows computer than choosing it instead of a Mac."
I bought some yesterday $9.50. Did you?
the truly "dumb" people trade based on emotionally/politically/religiously derived beliefs.
P.S. it's "gotta" and "they're" not gota & there.
tee hee hee!
you got an ipad Z?
kids and hubby love watching movies on theirs. there's wireless at the pool and they go there and watch while tanning (I prefer to preserve my ghostly glow).
congrats on the calls!
smart man :)
The $7.99 membership hasn't caused any hardship yet. Plus, it's taking me forever to catch up on the first 3 seasons of Son's of Anarchy!
Happy trading!
I did it!! I adopted him!!!
He doesn't come to live with us until next weekend though when his stitches heal up completely. Try were concerned that maybe he might get a little "too excited" coming home to three girl dogs.
Played with him for a while today and he was very well behaved. He's very good at playing fetch with a ball.
I bought 2 shares yesterday for sh*ts and giggles.
hoping to make enough to pay my HUGE $7 Netflix premium next month! ROFLMAO!
I knew you would be a man of logic.
People are over reacting to the hike.
It's still a good price IMO. They're trying to push people out of getting DVD's into streaming while while still being able to profit while building their streaming business.
Not to mention they pay for providing the service and their expenses have drastically increased (of course emotional folks never research that aspect of the business).
Ziva will do fine. She's much calmer now thank goodness.
I Took her to doggy camp and she did very well with other dobes. I was going to buy one of them that she really liked but thought it would be better to adopt from a rescue rather than from a breeder.
Eh the chiweenes stick together.
Funny thing yesterday (which shows how calm Ziva is now) she came in from outside and went over to their pillow and snatched one of their chew toys (she has her own and I think she did it intentionally). As she's walking over to her pillow, I hear a chiweenie running down the steps in super man kind of speed and the smallest chiweenie went flying in the air and grabbed the toy out of Ziva's mouth and ran upstairs with it.
I thought to myself oh hell is about to break loose but Ziva stood there with a confused WTF look on her face and sauntered off to her pillow.
I see not much has changed LOL
hope you're doing well Z
Don't stress over it. I know you feel bad even so.
Every single day can't be perfect and as long as the gains out number the losses, that's all that's important.
I see guys who are huge traders on Syke's profit.ly and all of them have some losses.
you'll kick butt again next week
had a guy AVI but who knows!
but you call them out and they tell all their cult pals to mark you as spam and next thing you know you've lost your account!
then it's twittercide commie style!
ugh twitter and message board posters are making me insane
for some reason, they're always right when the market goes down or when it's up.
someone was tweeting he knew a POS was going to tank. WTF everything's down jerkface. Not just your POS. It's following the market.
Same guy a few days ago said he was long TZA and soon as TNA shot up to $87 he was long on TNA with no more talk about TZA.
I'm so going to have a twitter break down one of these days.
So what do you guys think of this guy?
He's 1 year's old and was living in a good home except the owners lost their house and had to put their pets up for adoption. So he's been well cared for and even trained.
At his previous home, he lived with four other dogs (also put up for adoption...not dobies), a cat and a toddler so he's good with everyone.
I get first rights to adopt (the rescue isn't going to put photos up on their web until after I come visit him).
Love to play fetch with a ball.
Well sadly Yak, the shelters are getting over populated.
Now, you can easily pick up a full breed of anything because so many people have lost their homes and have had to give up their pets.
I'd say about half the Rescue's dogs are not abused or neglected dogs but well treated/trained family pets. Unlike before you didn't know what you were getting.
thank you Dolo. I wasn't expecting it to be up so much this morning. Been taking like $50-100 swings.
Everyone last night on twitter were claiming to be long on TZA which made me even more nervous!
hope you guys are kicking butt :)
No, it's a requirement unfortunately.
for all rescues.
Getting his thingy surgically altered :(
I have to do over night swings now (you know why).
After next month, I'm back with ya!
but for the last couple days, have been buying and holding TNA over night and it's worked out pretty well.
So I bought some TNA yesterday @ $82.20 and woke up this morning and saw it was $84 pre market (woohoo). I got all excited and sold (reading twitter world coming to an end tweets) thought better let go and grab the $$$ and run (or go back to sleep that is)....
then it goes up over $86!!
good morning
we love horror!
Fascinating! Sorry, catching up on some replies.
I can believe it. While in Panama, I never lost connection and the gov't makes internet wifi free for everyone.
Interestingly on the other hand, St Thomas in the US Virgin Islands which uses mainly AT & T had the shittiest internet service I've ever come across to date.
Here in the states, I pay a fortune for my cable and you have no idea how many trades I've panicked over due to losing internet access mid trade! At lease 2-3 times a week which is unreal.
Here's some interesting information I found on Panama:
http://www.businesspanama.com/investing/opportunities/ecommerce.php
Panama - The New Digital Frontier
by Nils Petterson
Panama is the new strategic location for Internet Data center and telecommunications companies in Latin America due to the burgeoning technology industry in the area and the country’s growth as a technology hub with the best submarine Fiber Optic Connection in Latin America. Leading Internet companies and Carriers are already leveraging the benefits using Panama as the gateway for the region.
Important players like Global Crossing, MCI, Sky Online, New World Communication, Cable & Wireless and Nautilus have decided to install Network Operation Centers in Panama, taking advantage of the geographical location providing an abundant supply of submarine fiber optic communications circuit on both coasts and which makes possible interconnection close to North and Latin America, Asia, Europe, Africa and the world over redundant routes.
“Panama has become an increasingly important technology hub for Latin America," said Nils Petterson, the founder of ALTEC1, the first internet data center in open two years ago in the City of Knowledge Tecnopark in Ft Clayton - a US military base converted into a Technology Park, research center and Education Campus, the vision of Mr. Petterson opened the door for companies such as DELL, Telecarrier, Spherion, MCI, Unicef, Isthmus Crossing, who opened up a presence in Panama and established" Network Access Points (NAPs)”, Data Centers, a Call Center aimed at supporting and serving the growing demand for those services in Latin America and a prime choice for companies from anywhere in the World in need of a secure place to store data and secure communication based on the availability of fiber optic cables, the geographical location, the fiscal incentives granted by the local government, the dollars-based economy and the social stability of the country.
Most of the data transmission technologies found in developed countries like ADSL, Cable modem, ISDN, wireless , frame relay , Ethernet and ATM with support for high speeds and broadband services are widely available in Panama from several suppliers including Cable & Wireless, Tele Data, Telco Virtual, GbmNet, Sky on Line. Union Fenosa, ACP (Panama Canal Authority) and Etesa who have built a Telecommunication Network to compete again the main operator and offer connectivity across the Isthmus of Panama.
Panama’s Internet Data centers gives the region's technology companies the ability to choose from the premier telecom companies to optimize their Internet presence and improve business performance and revenues, providing the best infrastructure, security, scalability, performance, connectivity, reliability and convenience for web sites and E-Business in a Tax Free environment. Response times for end-users, is among the fastest in the industry, thanks to the direct access to all the largest submarine Fiber Optic cables including Pan American, Global Crossing PAC & MAC, Maya 1, and Arcos 1.
PANAMA’S COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE
Availability of several Neutral Data Centers , built with world class quality and fully redundant
Panama is the landing point for several fiber optic sub-marine cable systems on their way to Latin America and the rest of the world including:
Maya 1 connecting with Honduras, Mexico and Miami
Pan American connecting USA, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Chile,
Global Crossing PAC network linking Mexico and California and South America
Global Crossing MAC network linking all South American Cities
Arcos 1 linking all the Caribbean Islands and Central America territories.
Tax Free Environment: No Tax in the City of Knowledge and Howard.
The U.S. dollar is used as legal tender in Panama.
Banking institutions in Panama have strong ties to both Latin American and G7 countries. There are more than 120 banks in Panama City, making it a serious player in the international financial arena.
Panamanian law firms are amongst the world most international, and have substantial exposure to Latin American clients.
Panama as a distribution center for the world: Panama has long been the physical and cultural gateway to Latin America. It is the main distribution center for commercial goods and merchandise to Central and South America. The Colon Free Zone is one of the world's largest redistribution points, and as the economy of Latin America continues to expand, this trading role of Panama will grow in importance. The demand for trade financing will escalate accordingly. In the cultural sense Panama is the transition point from the industrialized world to Latin America. It is one of the few countries that are equally capable in common law as in civil law; in English as in Spanish.
SECURITY:
No Earthquakes
No Hurricane
No active volcanoes
QUALITY OF LIFE:
No pollution
Pleasant weather all year round
Natural environment
Fully bilingual
MARKET OVERVIEW
Panama's population is estimated at 3 million. Approximately 72% of Panamanian households have a telephone line. Local calls represent 80 % of total traffic.
The telecommunications sectors have great potential to contribute to the economic development of Panama via direct investment in technology and infrastructure. Other sectors with growth potential are depending on technology such as tourism and transportation, through the multi-modal transport infrastructure that includes the canal, ports, highways, railroad and telecommunication.
The telecommunication market first opened in January 2003, and a legion of companies with and without experience have receive a license from the “Ente Regulador de los Servicios Publicos” (the local FCC) who have granted more than 1800 licenses to 176 operators, the primary objective for most of the new players is International long distance and the use of services such as VOIP (Voice Over Internet) and VON (Voice Over the Net). The Regulatory Authority has ruled that in order to provide these services a license needs to be obtained. In an apparent attempt to stem telephone company revenue losses due to Internet telephony, the new operators TELECARRIER, CLAROCOM and CABLE & WIRELESS, who use the technology for reducing their cost of operation but are trying to block the access to the free world, have asked the government of Panama to block 46 UDP ports by all Internet service providers. The ports include those that are commonly used for voice over IP as well as some that are used for other purposes, apparently with the idea that these, too, could be used to circumvent the POTS (plain old telephone system, a term of art) in making telephone calls.
According to the largest local telephone company, the amount of traffic generated by VON or VOIP represents a market of approximately US$30 million. VOIP’s future is still unclear because the case is in the hands of the Supreme Court of Justice who will rule on the use of VOIP.
CALL CENTERS
15 licenses have been issued for Call Centers since the government of Panama agreed to eliminate a US$1 tax on international calls in order to make call centers competitive with the rest of the world The principal participants are DELL, Health Link Networks, Language Line, Sitel, Spherion , and 4500 jobs have already been created.
ON-LINE GAMBLING.
Panama has now passed its fully regulated Internet Gaming laws. This makes it the only regulated jurisdiction in the world now issuing licenses to those operators wishing to stay on the good side of US law. Panama’s laws are of the same high standards as the Isle of Man, and Nevada’s large casino-resorts’ choice for I-gaming.
We expect a large exodus of companies from other Central American countries like Costa Rica and several Caribbean islands where the situation is unclear and the price of bandwidth is astronomical compared to Panama where several companies, including Global Crossing, TeleCarrier, and Sky on line are dumping the capacity at $ 300 per GB in comparison with $ 5000 to $ 12,000 per GB in other countries in the region.
MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS
Two authorized operators, Cable & Wireless and Bellsouth Panama, are fighting each other to gain customers, but the price is still the highest in the region because of this dual monopoly .Total cellular phone users reached 750,000 in 2003 with good prospects for continued growth in the future, especially for pre-paid services. Approximately 85 % of the estimated total market for wireless services (US$133 million) comes from pre-paid services. The remaining 15% comes from post-paid services, oriented primarily to corporate and personal high consumption users. Bellsouth, the largest cellular operator, accounts for 55% of the market. The other 45% is controlled by Cable & Wireless Panama. In 2003 Cable & Wireless Mobile launched its new GSM/GPRS platform on 850 MHz, launched to upgrade its current TDMA platform, with capability for data transmission services. Bellsouth also launched a new platform (CDMA) which became operational in December 2002. Market growth due to the new platforms is expected to be at least 16% above the prior year.
A challenger, Tricom, based in the Dominican Republic, which is offering cellular look- alike products based on Motorola’s IDEN digital radio trucking technology is trying to enter the market and the Supreme Court is resolving the legal issues regarding the services directed to the corporate market to reduce the high cost of cellular . At this moment, however, the penetration of Tricom does not exceed 6% of the total market
VOICE SERVICES
Voice Services include local, domestic, international long distance and public pay phones. Since the privatization of the government-owned operator (INTEL), Cable & Wireless has been offering basic services on a five year exclusive concession. This market condition granted by law ended on January 2nd 2003, when the market was opened to competition. With 420,000 lines installed (around 12.6 lines for each 100 inhabitants), on a digital platform installed by ALCATEL and Ericsson, Panama offers first class service compared to most of the Latin American countries. The total voice market in Panama is estimated at US$ 424 million. Local Services, including domestic long distance, represent about 80% of the total.
LOCAL SERVICES
As of August 2003, over 14 new operators have applied for Basic Service concessions. Operators such as Bellsouth, Telecarrier, Cable Onda, Galaxy Communications, Tricom, one world communication and Advanced Communications are already in operation and a price war is helping the customer to have a choice of services and price. Most of those concessions are only targeting the most populated zones of the country, mainly Panama City and Colon, leaving the rest of the country to be served by Cable & Wireless. This situation is largely due to the investment required not only to provide the service but to comply with the service standards set by the local telecommunications authority.
DOMESTIC LONG DISTANCE SERVICES
Nine new licenses have been issued to operators that are going to provide Domestic Long Distance. Most of the operators currently own network infrastructure being used to transport data and to provide Internet services and last mile with Cable & Wireless, the price of a national long distance call was reduced from 0.15 to 0.10 by Telecarrier.
INTERNATIONAL LONG DISTANCE (ILD)
Forty-seven new licenses have been issued to new operators of ILD This used to be the most profitable market segment, requiring a lower infrastructure investment... Most of the new players are relying on third party network infrastructure and carriers to transport voice traffic. Interconnection agreements, service level agreements and local loop availability are the most important issues being faced by new entrants in this segment, and the dominant operator is trying very hard not to facilitate the entry of new competitors The market winner is CLAROCOM who is take away a large chunk of the market from Cable & Wireless and making an alliance with TRICOM and Net2Phone with an as yet unclear status but with a huge quantity of traffic and customers, no data is yet available from Telecarrier or other challengers.
PAY PHONES
Eleven new operators have obtained licenses to offer services representing a $ 50 million market mostly in the largest city, leaving the greatest part of the country without telecommunication services due to the high cost of installation and operation; Cable & Wireless is already asking for fair treatment from the Ente Regulator for universal access.
PRIVATE VOICE CIRCUITS
Since January 2003, ten operators have been granted licenses to offer private voice circuits.
DATA SERVICES
At least fifty companies have licenses to offer services for last mile and Internet dedicated access solutions; the widespread use of wireless technologies such as Spread Spectrum and LMDS solutions, fiber optic and ADSL targeted to corporate and private users has been evolving since 2002. The market leaders are Alianza Viva, TeleCarrier, Cable & Wireless, GbmNet, Broadband, Telco Virtual, ACP, DataTel, and Ufinet who have an agreement to use the dark fiber with ALTEC1/OPTYNEX
The leader is TELECARRIER who took over several companies including Alianza Viva, TeleData, net2net and Fuzion telecommunications and is still trying very hard to resolve technical issues caused by a wide range of disparate equipment from several manufacturers.
Data services account for a market size of US$75 million, with approximately 9,500 point-to-point private circuits in operation among operators such as Cable & Wireless, Cable Onda, Telecarrier, GBnet, Broadband.
INTERNET
Seventy-seven providers are trying to survive with 145,000 paid internet accounts and an average 3 users per account, and more than 4000 direct connections through leased lines and other dedicated links, Public kiosks have been installed around the country by SENACYT a Government-sponsored institute , and INTERED a public peering point . The number of Internet dial-up connections kept growing in 2003 with the introduction of new prepaid services and charges per minute of connection.
In 2002 Cable & Wireless launched an aggressive campaign to penetrate the Internet market with ADSL technology. The Kilobyte price for dedicated Internet access dropped significantly, as the main providers such as Cable & Wireless, Telecarrier and Cable Onda lowered their rates. The new pricing structure benefited both residential and corporate markets, reaching a level of $39 per month for a dedicated 128K connection. Internet access, hosting and first tier IP services represented approximately a US$27 million market, showing an increase of 18% over the prior year.
Let's go Jeter!!!!
oh and congrats!
Good Saturday Chris,
I was going to say that and typed over it. Ha!
You guys do look very young for your age.
You're a trip!
doing anything special?
don't say Chuck e cheese!
Happy Friday Chris!
Those are some awesome pictures!!
Looks like you guys had a blast.
Thanks for sharing.
We got a lot of rain here so it's sort of ucky right now.
You nor the 20 others! Haha
That was fun.
I think a few opened up just a little bit then but were still believers (or just didn't want to disbelieve). Anyways I noticed a few making safe comments (jokingly but not wanting to upset the other believers). I could tell some wanted to say more but weren't comfortable yet how others would react.
I don't know who came out first but I'm sure it probably opened the door for others.
Yep, that basically sounds like me for many years.
I was taught to respect authority and everything done by our gov't is for the greater good and should never be questioned.
I still don't believe in most conspiracies but am a little more open minded now about them.
Oh gosh if we keep this up, we're going to turn this into a tears of hope board!
I knew you had a great personality/sense of humor that night we were doing the GF's chat and I didn't realize the speaker was built into my laptop! Goodness knows what I was saying! Lol