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Thanks to online stock trading companies it is now easy for anyone, anywhere to trade stocks online. There are a number of factors to consider before deciding on a trading company. For example:
- researching any and all fees charged (including commissions)
- the company's customer service history (a simple online search for customer reviews will suffice)
- what tools (if any) are provided to customers
- security
- and the company's portfolio
Let's investigate why each of these aspects are an integral part of choosing the right company for you from the sea of online stock trading companies.
Portfolio
The stock trading company you choose should have a wide range of investments available to you in their portfolio. This includes a wide array of stock options, mutual funds, access to the international markets and international stocks, exchange traded funds, availability of savings packages for both education and retirement and a variety of investment services available to customers.
Resources Available
What types of resources are available to you by the companies you are considering? Companies with little-to-no resources may not be the right fit for you. Examples of resources to look for in the company's offerings include:
- stock trading simulators (which help beginners learn about stock trading before they put any money on the line)
- investment plans for education and retirement
- tax advice
- stock research reports
- online forums (to chat with other users and expert investors)
- stock news that is updated consistently
- and automated banking facilities
If a company has few or none of the resources listed above, you may want to keep shopping. There are many online stock trading companies to choose from.
Fees and Commissions
This is a crucial part of online stock trading. Everyone is in it to make money, but you want to make sure that you make money as well. Companies that have large fees and take a great deal of commission may not be the ones you want to go for. Be sure to do in depth research on the fees, commissions and even the required account balance for sign up (to ensure it is within your budget).
Mobility
In this technological day-and-age, it is helpful if a company offers mobile services. With these services you are able to access your portfolio from your mobile phone or other mobile device. Most online stock trading companies support I-phones, Blackberry phones and android powered phones.
Tools
What types of tools does the stock trading company you are considering offer? There are a number of tools that help make trading easier. These include trading charts and graphs, calculators, stock alerts, both level 1 and 2 quotes, search reports, virtual trading facilities and criteria analysis. Each of these tools will serve a purpose in helping with your trades.
Customer Service
As with any company that you are a customer of, choosing online trading companies with excellent customer service and customer support is a must. Great service would include representatives that are knowledgeable, understanding and easy to reach. Many companies offer support via a wide variety of outlets including instant messaging online, email, online forums and traditional telephone contact. The ideal company for you would be one that does not charge for their customer service.
Security
Last, but definitely not least is security. What measures have the online trading companies you are considering set up to keep your information and your money safe? Both your identity and money are at-risk if you choose a company that does not have the appropriate security methods in place. The company should provide a complex, and seemingly annoying, method of accessing the site including complex passwords, secret questions and capture codes (to be sure you are a human and not a computer with hacking software).

Your Choice Barnet - The silent losers

By Linda Edwards,

The Barnet Eye published a blog on Monday, concerning Your Choice Barnet. This says everything except about people with learning disabilities who are forced to trudge the streets in all weathers, walk aimlessly up and down the isles of Supermarkets, and made to travel to different town shopping centres all under the guise of "being in the community". These are the silent 'losers' who cannot speak up for themselves and won't be heard, unless we shout out for them.

This exchange appeared on a forum. Says it all really

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Hi there

Can anyone help ? If an adult has been assessed as having critical support needs, what needs to happen for a Local Authority to change that?

I am hearing reports of a LA which is re assessing people from critical to severe, because they say the family are providing support, so the individual's needs are not critical.

Is there some new ruling that has just come out, because the families concerned are providing the same amount of support they always were?
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Response
From: Anon Carer

I don't have a straight answer to your question but this is so outragous!

The categorisation of needs - i.e. critical, severe, etc - is completely and absolutely about the service-user/person-with-needs REGARDLESS of who then meets those needs whether that is family, friend, neighbour or a paid service provider. I don't know whether it is legally binding but this definition is definitely in the Community Care Adult Service's declared policy guidelines.

Seems your LA are attempting to downgrade needs and thereby support they are obliged to provide or facilitate.

I have known our LA to argue that someone was mis-categorised before and the person in need of support is actually more capable of being independent than previously assessed but I have never heard of any case where the needs remain the same but family support means someone is in effect less disabled.
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This is what happens when budgets are cut. This is how such organisations implement budget cuts by stealth.

Richie Havens RIP

Yesterday saw the passing of Richie Havens, a true legend. I first came across Ritchie when I was 18 years old at a late night screening of the film Woodstock at the Phoenix Cinema in East Finchley. If you've ever seen the film, you'll know there is some fantastic music in the film as well as a lot of dross. Richie Havens opened the festival and the film. At the time I didn't know the story, but all of the other acts turned up late, so he had to busk for a couple of hours. The track "Freedom" was one of the songs he busked. The reason I didn 't know is because it was a mindblowing performance, so full of intensity and passion. At the time I was a punk, so for a blok strumming an acoustic guitar to blow me away was a measure of the power of his performance. I don't think I've ever seen a more powerful piece of acoustic music ever.

The last time I saw Richie was at the jazz Cafe a couple of years ago. He was older, wiser and more gentle in his manner, but his music was mindblowing. After the show I bought a few CD's he was selling and ended up having a chat with him. He was a gent. I wanted to get him to play the Mill Hill Music Festival this year, but we couldn't make it happen.

My guess is that if you don't like Richie Havens, you probably don't like music

RIP Richie, Good luck at the big festival up in the sky !

Your Choice Barnet - The question that matters

Who are the winners and losers. That is what I ask myself, when I ponder the question of the private company set up by Barnet Council to provide social care in the Borough. The company is called "Your Choice Barnet". Earlier this year Barnet Council had to use taxpayers money to bale it out and stop it going broke. The reason? Because of a reported £2 million defecit in its accounts, after less than a year in business.

They say if you want to know the real story, follow the money. So I ask myself, what has this £2 million extra cash, not in the original plan been spent on? Have recepients of social care all of a sudden been getting Starbucks Cappucinos for 10p instead of the plastic cups of nescafe for £1.00 that they were getting before. Have the mini buses been replaced with a fleet of Rolls Royces. £2,000,000 is a lot of cash. I am not aware of a sudden flood of people needing extra care appearing in the Borough, so what has this cash been spent on? The council have provided social care for years, they know what it cost. It's not like they've set up a new type of technology, that is untried with hidden costs.

So where are the winners in the big £2 million hand out? From what I hear it isn't the people attending day centres or with care needs. I've not heard of anyone saying things have got better and they get more? Have you, if you have I'd love to hear !

So where has all the cash gone? Has it gone to lawyers and accountants, which any new organisation will need? Has it gone setting up a board of directors and paying them generous salaries? Has it gone on new offices and furniture? I'd love to know. For a business with a turnover the size of Your Choice Barnet it has either been spent on things that it wasn't spending on before, things which add nothing to delivery of care, or it has been a case of a monumental failure of the company to have an adequate financial plan.

In either case, the failure has been so spectacular that it has exceeded even the worst and wildest guesses of critics like me by a factor of astronomical proportions.

What happens in most businesses when the management team screw up and a bale out is required? They all get the sack. Fred Goodwin at RBS is one we all know. he bankrupted the bank, so he was sacked and lost his knighthood. Why has no one at the council even mentioned the possibility of sacking the board and taking it over (as happened with RBS)? Why is there not even an acknowledgement that it has gone wrong.

Winners and Losers? That is the question. Who are they? If £2 million has been overspent, someone somewhere must have got a lot of money that wasn't in the original business case. Shouldn't we, as taxpayers, be told who?

Friern Baarnet Community Library - The coming week

Friern Barnet Community Library

The People's Library

Events:

Mondays 2.40-3.40
School Chess (Dwight School)

Mondays 7.00-9.00pm (Next meeting 22 April)
Weekly meeting - all welcome

**Please bring a copy of the last minutes and the agenda with you, to save one person doing lots of copying - thanks**

Tuesdays 7:00-8:00pm
Yoga with Emily

Wednesdays 11:00-11:45am
French Rhyme Time for Toddlers (with local mum Dorothee - in French)

Thursdays 11:15-11:45am
Song and Story Time for toddlers (with local mum and pre-school teacher Tanya CRB checked)

Thursdays 1:00-3:00pm
Knitting Group

Thursdays 7:00-10:00pm
Open Mic Night - all welcome
Contact: Arnie Donoff apdonoff@yahoo.co.uk

This Thursday 25th April, Andrew will be back with a folk/blues extravaganza!

Fridays 11:00 - 1:00pm
Reading Group
Saturdays
Open as usual
Every 2nd Saturday 2-4pm (From May 11th)
Barnet Borough Sight Impaired Meeting

Upcoming events:

Tue 23rd April – 6-8pm World Book Night – Peggy Sherwood will be giving away copies of The Reader

Greenacre Writers Literary Festival

Friday 17th May 4.30-6.30pm – So you want to write for Kids! Creative writing workshop with author Miriam Halahmy.
Book workshop: https://sites.google.com/site/greenacrewriters/greenacre-writers-literary-festival
Friday 17th May 7.00-10.00pm - Open (Literary) Mic coordinated by Allen Ashley, author. Come along and read out your writing, poems, flash fiction etc - 5min slots.

If you want to use the library space, events MUST be booked beforehand. In the first instance please contact Rosa: friernbarnetcommunitylibrary@gmail.com

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The Barnet Eye urges everyone associated with the Library to attend the meeting on Monday this week. There is an important meeting of the trustees on Wednesday and it is vital that anyone with any issues to be raised uses this meeting to make sure these issues can be raised

The Saturday list special - What's best in Barnet - The Deputy Mayors recommendations

By Kate Salinger,

As Deputy Mayor, I have had the privilege of meeting people from all over the borough who volunteer for others with no thought of reward. I salute each and every one of them, knowing that their work is incredibly valuable to our large community, although often unsung. I will now sing loudly an aria on behalf of the volunteers of Barnet who work in shops, places of worship, schools, community halls, parks, oh, anywhere that people can meet. The following is a list of all the people and organisations I have visited who are, I think, staffed by VOLUNTEERS. I have also visited many wonderful organisations (Flower Lane Centre for Autism and Community Focus to name but two) where volunteers work but are managed by paid workers.

So, here is the list of GOOD THINGS IN BARNET VISITED OVER THE LAST YEAR

All the people who helped to organise street parties for the Queen's Diamond Jubilee.

East Barnet Valley Bowls Club

East Barnet Royal British Legion

Friern Barnet Royal British Legion

Greenacre

Barnet Multicultural Community Centre, West Hendon

Rainbow Centre, Dollis Valley

Diabetes UK, Barnet Branch

Barnet Multifaith Forum

East Barnet Festival (not held this year due to too much rain but AL:WAYS excellent)

120th Hendon Air Training Corps

Friends of Montclair(town twinning group)

Friends of Barnet Countryside Centre

Monday Youth Club, Martins School

Friern Barnet Summer Show

Mill Hill Garden and Allotment Society

Wright Community Development Trust

St John's Ambulance Brigade

Barnet Older People's Assembly

Friends of Morphou (town twinning)

East Finchley Arts Festival

Finchley Art Society

Lions Club International (Edgware Branch)

Cancer Research Shop (East Barnet)

Barnet Elderly Asians Group

Women's Interfaith Network

Finchley Rotary Club

How fortunate have I been to visit all these places and people? Answer.....extremely fortunate.I hope that everyone who might scan down this list and currently does not volunteer, might be prompted into thinking that they might.

All the best,

Cllr. Kate Salinger

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If you have a list of things in Barnet that you think we should know about, let us know ! A fine choice by one of Barnets most popular councillors

The Friday Joke - Your Choice Barnet Business Case Justification

Can someone explain how a shortfall of £2million in a total budget cost of running the Your Choice Barnet services of approximately £5million to £6.5million is a “solid” Business Case?

The Councillor responsible for Adult Social Services response to a question at the recent Barnet Council Cabinet meeting was interesting. According to the councillor the Business Case was “solid” for setting up Your Choice. Indeed having insisted the Business Case anticipated these shortfalls, the councillor then went on to say that the draconian and vicious cuts to workers’ terms and conditions.... Sorry he definitely did not say that, he said the proposals will “deliver further efficiencies”. “Further to what?” we wondered.

Just before that motion we had listened to the Leader of the Council talk to the Welfare Reform motion saying it was needed to ensure that it “pays to work”. With the cuts proposed to Your Choice workers and the Housing 21 workers and Fremantle workers before them, I’m starting to wonder if what is meant by the phrase is a society where the ‘worker pays to work?’

Having spoken to many Your Choice workers in the last few weeks, this is what one of them said:

“Support workers at Your Choice are being substantially de-skilled, by being given a new job description to justify a third of their monthly wages being taken from them. Service users at Your Choice are having a massive change in the hours that they are being supported – meaning that they can enjoy less leisure and educational opportunities. They are unaware of how severely their lives will be affected for the worse by these cuts”.

This has been repeated over and over that a cut to the workers ultimately means a cut to the service user.

What you can do

Please sign this petition

http://petitions.barnet.gov.uk/YourChoiceBack/

Of course, you may just think it's all very funny, our money being wasted like this !

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