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1000 tulosta hakusanalla Glenn Martin
A young German sailor comes to Australia in 1928, spending two years in Australia and New Zealand working on farms and becoming an elephant handler in Wirth's Circus. He returns to Germany, but leaves again in 1936 for America. He returns to Australia as a seaman, but deserts ship in Adelaide. Travelling up to Sydney, he meets a lady, Glenn Martin's father's cousin, and they marry after a lightning romance, following which he gets an acting role in the film "Forty Thousand Horsemen". When the Second World War starts, he is arrested and put into an internment camp in Victoria. She joins him. At this point she discovers that back in Germany, he was a Baron. They spend the war in the camp. He discovers that his lands in Germany have been confiscated by the Soviets. Despite the fact that people now know he is a Baron, he returns to being a seaman. With three children, they settle in Sydney.
The I Ching is the "singular book of great esteem", having originated in China around 5,000 years ago as a form of divination. Around 3,000 years ago it was formulated into a system of sixty-four images with corresponding text, built up from the foundational yin-yang (binary) concept. It has been used since then by emperors, officials and ordinary people for wisdom and guidance. Lest that be thought superstitious, let it be said that the influences on each moment are vast and deep, and the concepts of the I Ching plumb those depths, in ways that speak to our inner core. This is as true now as it ever was. This book is about the river of wisdom and insight that has flowed through one person's life for over fifty years. The improbable (an ancient Chinese book) meets the practical and the inspiring in the present.
This book is a collection of poems, intended as the fourth volume from the author. It includes short poems and long poems. There are poems about writing poetry, poems about living, and poems about observing life. The poet may look with a hard eye at times, but his intention is always to encourage the heart.
What happens when you go back to a place you visited forty-six years ago? Tasmania. Do the ghosts rise up, or has the past all been erased? What if you now knew that some of your ancestors had lived there? Convicts. And another branch of your family settled there and came to prominence? Colonialists. It might start to look like a patchwork instead of a simple story. And then the patches might be stitched together and make a quilt. Thirty-two stories stitched together with meaning. The quilt approach.
A prominent stream of my ancestors is Scottish, particularly the Mackie family. Scottish people began emigrating as far back as the early 1600s. Many of them went to America, but in 1852 Alexander and Rachel Mackie emigrated to Melbourne, taking with them their five children. Alexander was a skilled tradesman, both a weaver and a stonemason, and Melbourne was about to stir as the hub of the Victorian colony's gold rush. It would have been a cheerful story of increasing prosperity that flowed down through the generations, except for the fact that Alexander's son, Robert, was killed in a goldmine in Collingwood.
This is a book of poems, Glenn Martin's fifth collection. The poems were written at various times of Glenn's life. They are set out in three themes - Young, Living, and Firm Ground. He is old enough for his life to have assumed some shape, be it unconventional or apparently not career-focused. However, he has written over fifteen books that are not poetry books, on themes ranging from ethics and values to family history and reflections on experience. He has been young, embedded in social and economic necessities, and occasionally imbued with certainties. One hopes to eventually stand on firm ground.
Glenn shares threads of his life in this searching memoir. It includes glimpses into his doomed relationships, his experiences as a teacher - despite this not being his chosen career, and his experiences in other roles. He has been a manager, a magazine editor, head of a national organisation, and a writer of commentary for management professionals. He has been a hippie living in the hills. He has become the writer of many books. And he has maintained his enjoyment of life. It is a book Glenn calls "a reflection on experience".
"Travel with a pen", these days, is a metaphor for travelling with a laptop. I went to Tasmania for two weeks, intending just to keep a diary of my experiences. I was going there to graduate from my Diploma of Family History course, and I was going to Oatlands, in the midlands, to explore more of my great great grandmother's story as a young Irish convict in the 1850s. And I was hoping to see places I hadn't seen before. The diary grew into something more, this book. It is easy, when in possession of a laptop, to slip from observation and reporting into reflecting on experiences. For me, it evoked the idea of Boswell's London Journal.
The simplest way to make money in the stock market is to buy shares when they are cheap and make profits when their prices increase. This technique is known as value investing and is the creed of the world's most successful investor, Warren Buffett. But how do you know when a share price is cheap?This book explains in simple terms how you can develop your own UK share and FTSE100 valuation spreadsheets to calculate share and market valuations. Comparing the valuations to current market prices reveals when shares are underpriced and produces calibrated buy and sell signals. The FTSE100 system, for example, indicates the periods when you should be invested in the FTSE100 and the periods when you should not be. Since 1984 the in-periods have produced 94 times more capital growth than the out-periods.The new valuation system is the heart of this complete practical guide for managing your own investments. It shows how you should be able to double the value of your long-term investments purely through avoiding high commercial fund management fees. Using the new valuation system should help you do a lot better than this and, for example, secure a pension up to eight times larger than that provided by commercial managers.As well as providing comprehensive information about the practical and profitable ways in which you can use the new valuation system, this book is a complete toolkit for creating personal wealth through UK equity investment. It includes risk controls, tax breaks, free information sources and recommendations on the best service providers. In short this book is your first step along the road to financial security.
Successful strategies for high long-term returnsThe long-term benefits of investing in the stock market are clear. For periods of ten years upwards, equities have delivered higher returns than any other non-physical UK asset class. Those investing for the long term should put their money to work in the stock market.In this easy-to-follow practical guide, Glenn Martin introduces seven strategies for index investment in the FTSE 100 and FTSE 250. These strategies can be followed by anyone willing to adopt a systematic approach and accept short-term risk in exchange for long-term rewards. Incredibly, even the most advanced strategy requires no more than an hour per week of your time.The seven strategies involve varying levels of risk. For those who want to commit the minimum time and take on less risk, there are two passive buy-and-hold strategies. Those wanting to commit a little more effort and take on higher risk – with the potential for higher rewards – can use a proven system to time when to invest in the stock market and when to hold funds as cash. The most advanced strategies, which carry higher short-term risk with the potential to achieve spectacular long-term returns, make use of the gearing offered by spread trading. Each strategy has a set of clear and simple instructions, plus there are historic performance tables and the expectations for future returns.Unique features of this innovative book include:- How to construct a spreadsheet to produce a valuation of the FTSE 100 and the expected returns from a five-year investment in the index. These valuations constitute buy/sell signals which have delivered a profit for every historic period in the market.- How to extend the spreadsheet to calculate post-tax returns tailored to your own tax circumstances.- A Market Momentum System that uses simple moving averages to signal when you should exit the market to minimise the impact of major market crashes.- 30-year track records for all the investment strategies.- A system for creating a synthetic tax-free FTSE 100 tracker using FTSE 100 spread trades.- A FTSE 100 spread trading simulator that enables you to test the historic returns you would have achieved according to your appetite for short-term risk. At the highest level of short-term risk, £1,000 would have grown to more than £12,300,000 over 30 years, with all of the gains being tax-free.Leaving your cash in a deposit account could see its real value whittled away by poor interest rates and inflation. If you are looking for a way to grow your money significantly over time by following a straightforward investment plan, then this book shows you how.
"A Modest Quest" describes the author's quest to find out about his family's past. It was intended just to find out the basic facts about his parents' brothers and sisters, and his grandparents. Growing up, he had thought that all his grandparents had died before he was born. This was not the case, but it took some serious research and more than two years to bring the facts to light, and by then the lives of the ancestors had pulled him in. The quest was extending far beyond its initially modest aims. "You don't understand a person until you know something about their parents", and so the quest has to continue. This is probably the first of several books. The book explores the ancestors of Glenn Martin, looking back from the present to about the late 1800s. Most of this book takes place in New South Wales, with some excursions into Victoria and South Australia.