Irene Eng The Kibbitzer

Port Washington tennis club has pretty new facility with 17 indoor hartur courts.  I played there few times.  At the testing, there were 5 kids.  The head pro with two assistants took the kids down and mentioned to the parents that we shall watch from the lounge.  If the age is any indication, PW is [...]

There is something unique about tennis: if you play it right, it’s fluid and gracious (vs grunting and bad forms), gentlemanly, physically demanding and can be glamours at times - they did come up with Anna K (okaaay, she never won anything but who cares, come on, she’s quite and beautiful), the top players travel in [...]

In China, individuals and corporations can now buy the rights to seed a cloud for rain. What does that mean for farmers who need the clouds for their crops? … they get upset and cry.  Price starts at only US$3,500, one man had bargained down to $700…

Geography affects characteristic of the region or nation.  Come to think about it, as large as US and China, as small as Italy, the north and south are rather drastically different.  Milaneses consider south of Rome is not Italy and Germans from Frankfurt or Hannover would have trouble understand their comrade from Stuttgart. I don’t want [...]

As of now, Dell hasn’t called … Hellllll

Insider trading is a term that most investors have heard and usually associate with illegal conduct, states the SEC.  But the term actually includes both legal and illegal conduct.  Say I’m buying a stock because the industry or sector has been in the news, I felt it has good value n potential… then it turns out on my restriction [...]

3 ghosts, the auto exit took me out of the DAX with a thin profit.