Quiet Please!!

"If somebody skates at top level, I cannot improve it.  So I have to stay quiet...I had nothing to do."
Anonymous

Status UN quo continued

Status "UN"quo

Pete Carroll and general manager John Schneider are willing to do and try just about anything if they believe it will result in increased success, as evidenced by a reported 284 roster moves in their first year together. They fear neither criticism nor failure. They draft whom they believe in. They chase the free agents they like. They play whoever earns it on the practice field. They ignore conventional wisdom.

"We really don't care about what other people think and we're not going to be driven by what the status quo might think and we've really trusted our gut on decisions," Carroll said. "We've done a lot of questionable moves that people want to know about … it has helped accelerate the process."

From the outside, Pete Carroll can look like cheerleader-in-chief, just an uplifting motivator. Inside they swear there's a smart football mind obsessed with competition in everything, winning the small battles that lead to winning the big ones, like a Super Bowl.

If no one else recognizes that as great coaching, Carroll doesn't seem to mind. He had practice to run Thursday anyway. Set to music, of course.

"We have fun doing it."

He'll never apologize for that, either.

:-))

Trust, but Verify before you Buy

Another wonderful article from Clark Howard that applies to everything:

See what marketers know about you

By Clark Howard

ClarkHoward.com

Marketing organizations that have been super secretive are now facing scrutiny in the aftermath of continuing revelations about government spying.

One called Acxiom that I've talked about in the past reportedly has massive documentation on who you are, what activities you like, what cars you own, what your mortgage is, what kind of ailments you have, etc.
This data can be continually crunched and packaged for sale thanks to the miracle of parallel computing technology. But now for the first time, you can get a peek at what's in your Acxiom file.

Just go to AboutTheData.com and you can answer a series of questions to fully verify that you are who you say you are. Then you can see the info they have on you that they believe is fact -- but may actually be fiction.

Out of a sample group of 4 people on my show staff, two were able to see their records and two weren't. The two of us who couldn't probably couldn't because we've frozen our credit.

My executive producer Christa was able to see her file. It contained incorrect info including the wrong age of her kids, the wrong number of children, and the wrong income. My associate producer Joel's file was even more radically wrong. It listed him as a blue collar craftsman who completed high school, but had no college education. Joel is, in fact, a graduate of Kennesaw State University and not a craftsman -- unless you count drinking craft beer as a qualifier!

So these data brokers are out marketing what they claim is a precisely fine-tuned dossier they have on you. And in many cases it's kerflooey! "All the inaccurate data, all the time." How's that for an advertising slogan, Acxiom?!

Fortunately, you have the option to go to AboutTheData.com and opt out so they can stop compiling data on you!

One caveat, though: There's been a lot of widespread suspicion that the opt out form may be a backdoor kind of way for Acxiom to collect further data on you. The company denies it, but that hasn't quelled the skeptics. Use your own best discretion before taking the leap.

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Quote worth repeating again:

"It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know that just ain't so."  Mark Twain

Professional, "highly trained" (whatever that means) Stock analysts are a great example, especially when they appear on CNBC or Bloomberg TV :-))

Go Netflix Go!

Much more interesting investor call then having to listen to a bunch of analysts asking questions as though they are trying to sound smarter than each other :-)

Netflix 2nd quarter conference call

Here comes Yahoo!

Yahoo Weather App:   Forecast for Yahoo:  Bright and Sunny

 Yahoo 2013 Q2 earnings video