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John Gray, superintendent of Mayflower schools, said the district will continue to weigh its options and collect information after hearing Faulkner County Sheriff Andy Shock's proposal for arming administrators at Monday night's school board meeting.
Gray said the school board heard about a 10-minute address from the sheriff, which was followed by several questions from board members and school administrators. The questions and concerns covered a "broad range," including the positives and potential negatives of the proposal, along with a possible "change in school culture" that might come with arming administrators, the superintendent said.
"No decisions were made on a next move," he said. "We're still processing and looking at what is happening in other places.
"This is a new approach," Gray said. "It hasn't been done anywhere, so we're still collecting information."
Gray said a date for further discussion was not set by the board, but he believes more discussion on the matter will occur.
The school board expressed interest in meeting with Shock, after learning he and Prosecuting Attorney Cody Hiland visited with school administrators over the summer, and discussed Shock's plan.
The school board also discussed, with the sheriff, the possibility of adding a full-time school resource officer, which would be provided by the sheriff's office.
Shock said discussion included the district funding the SRO's salary, while the sheriff's office would be responsible for equipment, fuel costs, training and other requirements.
Shock said the plan would need more discussion, but said he would do everything he could if the board moved forward with the idea.
Gray said the district has also had discussions with the Mayflower Police Department about adding a full-time SRO. The district currently has one part-time SRO, which is provided by the sheriff's office.
Gray said no matter the decision on arming administrators, the district is "keen" on adding a full-time SRO.
"It's something we would like to do," he said. "We're trying to get it in place."
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When it opened in 1872, Shimbashi Station was the first railway terminal in Japan. Old Shimbashi Station is a faithful reproduction of the original building in the same location. The Railway History Exhibition Hall exhibits items associated with Shiodome, the birthplace of railways in Japan. You can also view special railway-themed exhibitions for free. Also, you can see excavated metal items such as ticket punches and other tools used to operate railways, as well as earthenware teapots used in trains. Part of the first floor is glass-walled, allowing you to observe the original building's stone foundation. The spot with the stone foundation and "Mile 0" sign is a designated National Historic Site, "Old Shimbashi Station." A five-minute walk from the Ginza Exit of JR Shimbashi Station.
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Since you're showing love to such a great song, one of my previous bands was on Mike Felumlee's (the old smoking popes drummer's) 'double zero records' label and we provided a cover of Need you around on their tribute CD.
I'm the drummer and I'm jamming in arbogast (www.arbogastmusic.com) /CaSK (www.cask.bandcamp.com) now. Dan from RM went on to form This is Me Smiling/Gold Motel. Good times. Great song.
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Top 10 Best Films to Watch When You're Feeling Adventurous
Just because the summer is coming to a close doesn't mean that your sense of adventure has to go along with it. Coming to you hot off the press is a list of films that you're bound to love when you've got that inner wanderlust lingering in your soul, but neither the time nor the bank account to satisfy it. Without further ado, here are the top ten best films to watch when you're feeling adventurous.
10. Eat, Pray, Love
Based on the best-selling memoir, Eat, Pray, Love tells the true story of Elizabeth Gilbert, a woman who had everything a 21st century woman should want. Still, she finds herself lost and without what she really wants out of life. Upon having this realization, Gilbert hits the road to Italy, India, and Indonesia on an adventure of self-discovery. Gilbert originally took the journey to find herself, but ended up finding true love along the way. Eat, Pray, Love has everything for the hopeless romantic, and the hopeless wanderer.
9. Mr. Bean's Holiday
If you grew up on the crazy antics of Mr. Bean, then Mr. Bean's Holiday will be another episode of crazy antics for you to enjoy. The eccentric, tie-wearing hooligan that we've all grown to love is now venturing across the country of Europe to see the magnificent beaches of Cannes, France. The only problem? He ends up accidentally responsible for a lost child, with the French police squadron hot on his tail, and in a starring role of an artsy film directed by an extremely pretentious director. Live vicariously through all the blunders that you can hope to never experience in your adventures.
8. Wild
In this powerful drama, based upon the novel Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail, Reese Witherspoon plays Cheryl Strayed. Strayed is a young woman whose life began to take a downward spiral into drugs and promiscuous sex after the death of her mother. In order to turn her dark path around, Strayed makes the decision to journey along the Pacific Crest Trail in order to experience a journal of healing, redemption, and self-discovery. Along the way, she finds her inner strength and power, and will no doubt encourage you to find yours as well.
7. The Bucket List
Each year is comprised of 365 days and not all of those days are guaranteed. The wisest decision that we can make is to live each and every day as if it would be our last. This is exactly what Morgan Freeman and Jack Nicholson intend to do in The Bucket List. The story follows Freeman and Nicholson, two terminally ill men who have decided to embrace life instead of fearing the inevitability of death. Together, they begin to compose a "bucket list" of things they want to do before the end of their lives. They begin their around-the-world adventure by sky-diving, driving fast cars, eating at luxorious restaurants, and even reaching the base camp of Mount Everest! The Bucket List will inspire you to leap off of your sofa this instant and have an adventure while there are still adventures to be had!
6. The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
Where do you see yourself in five years? Do you see yourself jumping from a helicopter into shark-infested waters in order to save a missing picture from your job at a magazine company? That's where Walter Mitty sees himself. Ben Stiller plays Mitty, a shy, mild-mannered young man with a wild imagination that takes him through epic car chases, David Bowie-induced trances, and all the way to the legendary Sean Penn. The adventure doesn't end here though. The adventures of Walter Mitty are only beginning. When will yours?
5. Up
In this beautiful Disney-Pixar film, we join Carl Frederickson and Russell on their adventure to Paradise Falls, where Carl plans to live out the rest of his life: a dream he and his wife, Ellie held since they were children. This animated family feature isn't as heavy or climactic as some of the other contenders on our list, but it still holds the same heart. Carl and Russell's shared love for the wild and sense of adventure will creep its way into your heart without a doubt. Pretty soon, you'll want to tie hundreds of balloons to your apartment and float away into the sunset. We won't stop you, but we're sure your landlord might have a thing or two to say about it.
4. The Way
Directed by Emilio Estevez, The Way is a tale of the love between father and son and the beauty of the Camino de Santiago, or The Way of St. James, a Catholic pilgrimage to the Cathedral of Santiago de Compostela . Martin Sheen plays Thomas Avery, a man who travels to France after the untimely death of his son, who was walking the Camino de Santiago at the time of his death. His original intent is simply to retrieve his son's body, but out of grief and honor to his son, Avery makes the Camino de Santiago in his place, meeting several other characters seeking some sort of self-healing along the way. If you're looking for a film to touch your heart and inspire you to make your own personal, spiritual pilgrimage, then this is the way for you.
3. Into the Wild
Nobody on Earth quite understands wanderlust like Christopher McCandless, the man who oh-so romantically burned his remaining money, left his car in the desert, and hitchhiked all the way to Alaska to live out the remainder of his days in the wilderness like his heroes, Thoreau and Tolstoy. Some may view McCandless as a fool for his actions, but no one can deny his spirit and fortitude as a human being to seek a destiny far from the road more traveled. Based on the novel by Jon Krakauer, Into the Wild retells McCandless' story from the time of his graduation to his final days in the Alaskan wilderness. If you ever get the feeling that you just need to run away from the world and its complications, Into the Wild will let you do so.
2. Samsara
Directed by Ron Fricke and shot in a 70 mm format, Samsara is a dialogue-free documentary showcasing the wonder and beauty of our planet and its culture over the course of five years. Samsara is a Sanskrit term regarding to the cycle of life, death, and rebirth. In 99 minutes, the film was shot in over a hundred locations in 25 different countries, including China, Denmark, Egypt, Italy, Japan, South Korea, and Turkey – just to name a few! Travel and see the beauty our planet has to offer without leaving the comfort of your home… For now.
1. The Human Experience
In 2008, four young men went out into the world with the question, "What does it mean to be human?", and this film answers that question. The men lived with the homeless of New York City during one of the coldest recorded winters of the season. They traveled to Peru and Africa to view the human condition across foreign lands with the less fortunate as well. Overall, the men left with a single solitary answer of what it is to be human. In order to find out, you'll simply have to watch this beautiful, yet gut-wrenching film to satisfy your curiosity and your sense of adventure.
Do you have a film that satisfies your need for adventure? Let us know in the comments!
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Do you think it is good to publish another person's Hub on social media site like twitter and facebook if you liked it and wanted to share it?
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Yes, I do and I have. And I would hope that people would return the favor, too!
Yes and I also think you should write nearly a full sentence or paragraph telling in detail why you liked the article,video or link to whatever because then your opinion is noted and it reads like a genuine recommendation, especially on Facebook as some of your friends may care what you share.
I just started on this site 2 days ago and someone has already done that once to one of my articles, and I can honestly say I don't know of anyone who would not want that to happen... I thought it was amazing that someone in the online community put the extra time in to help someone out they haven't even met like that!!
Publishing the link of our favorite articles is great way to share.
First, you can help the owner of the Hub to get traffic and hopefully other will do the same with yours,
and second, it can build our reputation as trustworthy source of great articles or informations around internet if they like the links we publishing, depending on what topic we like or all topic.
Being trustworthy source mean it will have better possibility to be click by others, including our own hubs too, which mean we will get more traffic. But if we only linked our own hubs, unless they like us or they really understand that we always come up with the best articles fresh from our mind, the possibility to get reputation as trustworthy source kind of limited into hmmm... says 30%? Maybe. Hehehe... that is what I think.
It is good to share any good information you come across. But it may not provide link juice if you are thinking of capturing traffic to your websites.
It will send more traffic on the site you are sharing link of..
Yes I do. I know I would appreciate the traffic it brought in if someone liked or tweeted one of my hubs.
Another reason this could be good is the amount of influence social sites are beginning to have on links and website ratings. The more links pointing to quality content within Hubpages the better for the community as a whole.
I am all for sharing great content and do it as often as I can without going overboard.I believe the more people who share hubs, the more Hubpages will become known as a quality content site, which will benefit us all with increased traffic.


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Everyday objects turn into faces!
Wild Faces is project which i put together ashtray, cookies, paper pyramids and ping pon rackets. The idea is to descontextualize everyday objects and give them life into wild and everyday funny faces. This collection was exhibited in Maga - Visual Exhibition in Caldas da Rainha, 2010. Can see more here. Barcelona, 2010
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A ceremony of pomp and splendor is the "only" way some people say the Caddo Parish Confederate Memorial should be celebrated on this it's one hundredth year. The Daughters of the Confederacy commissioned the memorial in 1906.
"If we don't remember our history, if we don't learn from our history then we will be bound to repeat it again. We don't want to go through that again," says Larry Garrett. He and his wife dressed in period costume for the service. They consider themselves "civil war buffs".
"It was about the rights of citizens and we don't need to forget the states rights that are granted in our constitution," Garrett.
But others don't see the celebration that way. A handful of protestors marched up and down Texas street to make their point.
"It's a symbol of shame! we we are supposed to be progressing in america. It's a symbol of shame," says one activist.
Baruti Aganakue says he only sees pain in the symbols of the confederacy. "Murders have been committed under this very flag. My great grandmother woke me up in my sleep and told me i had to come to this," he says.
It's not a debate the had resolution at this ceremony. But it did come to the forefront again--- as people on both sides remembered the long divisions that have marked the south for close to 150 years.
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* A specific learning disability
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The word Dyscalculia is composed of the the Greek prefix "Dys" for difficult and the Latin word "Calculare", which means "to count". Thus the word literally means difficulty counting, but in common usage today it means extreme difficulty learning or comprehending mathematics/arithmetic. Sometimes it is referred to as math dyslexia.
According to the US National Center for Learning Disabilities, it refers to a wide range of lifelong learning disabilities involving math, varies from person to person and affects people differently at different stages of life. As with reading, when basic math skills are not mastered early, more advanced math becomes extremely difficult for teens and adults. It often occurs together with dyslexia, dysgraphia and Attention Deficit Hyperactive Disorder (ADHD), though it is a separate learning disorder.
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function or structure in the area most related to math ability is believed to be the primary cause. Less research has been conducted on the disability than for reading disorders, but recent studies show
either less grey matter or less neural activity in the 'intra-parietal
sulcus', an area of the brain known to be involved in mathematical reasoning.
In some cases the disorder can arise after birth, usually the result of a brain injury to the same or related regions of the brain.
Approximately half of those with dyscalculia have dyslexia. A July 2014 study from Oxford university suggests that a strong genetic component does link math and reading abilities
Computer software for teaching math is now often better than any traditional pen and paper teaching program. Properly designed software offers a number of advantages over traditional math teaching systems including:
Deciding which software application to use can be overwhelming since
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One application we are familiar with is Nessy Numbers from Nessy Learning which teaches mathematical strategies using a colorful interactive game format, highly motivating for children who struggle with math.Specifically the software teaches multiplication and how to read an analog clock, which involves basic addition and subtraction. Full disclosure: we are Nessy affiliates, meaning we market some of their products, but only because we believe they are best in class. Nessy also produces great reading software.
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I started watching this one day in a hotel after flipping channels and finding nothing else on. It really is interesting, usually because no one EVER listens to Kristen (the host). They ususally think they know better.
The comedy comes in with the expectations. Its like, "Yes, we will completely transform this house in two weeks with only 1000 dollars." And they really believe that. But then, its like, double, triple the timeline, and at least double the budget. So, it really is kind of a comedy.
I remember one episode I watched recently was where they didn't work on it for two weeks straight and then where amazed when they were behind schedule. or when they kept buying high end appliances and stuff for a small, not-high end community. It was actually too expensive for the community surrounding.
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On this day: 26 January
Looking back through the events, signings and memorable matches that happened on this day in City's history...
Pablo Zabaleta's solitary goal late on helped City battle through the almost customary tough assignment at Stoke in the fourth round of the FA Cup.
It may not have the been the proverbial 'cold night Tuesday night in the Potteries' that is said to be the true test of a team's mettle, but the Blues still had to battle hard against Tony Pulis' resilient outfit.
The Blues had come closest to scoring when David Silva rattled the woodwork in the first half, but Pablo Zabaleta proved to be the man of the moment when he stole into the penalty area and drilled a low shot into the net in front of the ecstatic City travelling contingent.
It's easy to forget now, but Oldham Athletic spent several seasons in the top flight of English football, and City had to battle hard to come away from Boundary Park with a 1-0 win in the first season of Premier League.
Five City players received yellow cards in a feisty affair, including goalscorer Niall Quinn.
The Irishman struck 13 minutes from time to settle matters and disappoint City's former striker Joe Royle, who was in charge of Oldham at the time and would go on to take the reins at City in 1998.
City had another trip to the Potteries in the FA Cup on this day in 1991, this time to take on Port Vale at Vale Park.
Niall Quinn was on target to put City, managed by Peter Reid, ahead but former striker Darren Beckford levelled the tie before the break.
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Homegrown Tomatoes, poem by Jenifer Lee Wallace
First thing you notice is the color. "Red" doesn't do it justice. This shade only exists in Technicolor. They haunt my dreams in late February, when a foot of snow covers the ground. Not ruby, not scarlet, not cardinal. "Pulsing … Continue reading
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News in the Redneck Press World
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What to Expect When Your Wells are Fracked
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Greece, memoir by Rachel Cann
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November 8, 2013
3 Ways User Generated Videos Boost Your Marketing Strategy
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If your rules are unclear or you don't deliver of the prize you're offering because of a lower pool of entrants than you anticipated, you can expect that consumers will take note. Which is why having a smooth, fun, and altogether enjoyable contest can do a lot for your business, now and in the long run. Submissions don't need to go viral for it to be considered a success. As long as you're bringing about awareness for your brand, engaging consumers, and acting on your best behavior contests can be a valuable marketing strategy.
The best marketing strategies are always evolving. Failures should be studies and successes should be celebrated, but in either case, marketing involves a lot of thinking and planning ahead. User generated video has been keeping businesses on their toes to develop fresh, successful ideas to catch and keep consumer interest.
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After a few weeks off, Marvel is back with a new Spider-Men teaser, this time revealing the costume of one of the two titular "Spider-Men."The reveal suggests a traditional, classic Marvel Universe Peter Parker Spider-Man. Click on the image to your right to get a better look. What do you think? Does this Spider-Man costume suggest to you what this mystery project is all about? As like last time, here is all Marvel has to say at the moment: "This June - history will be made for the Marvel Universe." SPIDER-MEN #1
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Johnson Beharry has just missed out on a place in the Dancing On Ice final.
The army hero became the 13th contestant booted from the figure skating show, after finishing in the bottom two with Chloe Madeley when public votes and judges' scores were combined.
After a final skate-off, hosts Phillip Schofield and Holly Willoughby threw the vote over to judges Robin Cousins, Jason Gardiner and Emma Bunton. All three chose to spare Madeley, who tripped over during her earlier routine, but praised Beharry for his sensational progress throughout the show.
Cousins congratulated Beharry for making the semi-finals, while Gardiner noted that the former soldier had come "an incredibly long way", before expressing his desire for a "final that we can be proud of".
Bunton concluded the vote by calling Johnson an "inspiration" for performing a solo routine in tonight's show, given that months ago he was unable to even stand up on the ice.
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". . . the real conundrum in modern markets is the continued reliance of investors and policymakers on two false mantras. The first is that markets are efficient; and the second is that investors are rational. Both assertions are so specious that one has to question both the sanity or the intelligence of those who cling to them."
~ Michael E. Lewitt
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My goal with this week's series of posts was to simply make readers aware of some of the structural problems that our markets and economy face right now. We've looked at some of the ways today's markets are different, a few ways to manage your money in challenging times, and 5 investing challenges for the next decade. Today, I'd like to look at Modern Portfolio Theory (MPT), the basis on which many retail investors' portfolios are constructed. If you visit a financial planner or read a personal finance blog, you will probably hear a lot about the virtues of MPT.
What Is Modern Portfolio Theory?
Put simply and leaving out a lot of statistical jargon, Modern Portfolio Theory proposes that it's possible to construct a portfolio of investments that maximizes returns and minimizes risk by diversifying investments among uncorrelated assets. There are 2 key assumptions inherent in MPT:
1. Investors Are Rational: This means that investors, collectively, will be correct in their economic and financial assumptions on average. In other words, market moves are always rational and based on the fundamental economic and corporate realities of the moment.
2 Efficient Market Hypothesis: Those who subscribe to this view believe that all information relevant to a stock is priced into it at a given point in time. In other words, the stock price is reality.
MPT Is on the Money
Those who subscribe to Modern Portfolio Theory believe that, because investors are rational and markets are efficient, it's pointless to try to beat the market by timing entries and exits. It's futile to try to buy a stock based on good news because the efficient market has already priced that information into the security. The Digerati Life had a great post this week that discussed MPT and the Efficient Market Hypothesis.
Proponents of the Efficient Market Hypothesis (EMH) argue that it's impossible to use technical indicators or stock picking to time the markets and that it's better to simply match market performance by using index funds or exchange traded funds (ETFs). Efforts to time the markets using either fundamental or technical analysis are regarded as gambling.
Pop Economics had an article on Why We Panic and How to Avoid It. Pop suggests we turn off the T.V. and ignore the stock market to avoid getting sucked into the vortex of a market panic. The key is to avoid the herd mentality and trust that markets will go higher in the long run.
Since he wasn't addressing MPT or EMH directly, I sent Pop an email and asked him to clarify his views on them. He was kind enough to send back a well thought out reply. He sort of puts himself in the middle of the debate, feeling like markets are "mostly efficient", but subject to emotional excesses that periodically take them away from fair value – especially over the past couple of decades. Where he does agree with the MPT proponents is on the idea that it's pretty hard for the average investor to decide whether a given stock or market is over or under fair value. Over longer periods of time, like the amount of time we spend saving for retirement, Pop feels reasonably confident that stocks will generally rise.
MPT is Out to Lunch
Michael Lewitt writes the HCM Market Letter and has just released a book called The Death of Capital: How Creative Policy Can Restore Stabilityin which he outlines his ideas on how to fix the mess we're in right now. He provided a brief summary of some of his ideas in a recent edition of John Mauldin's Outside the Box. If you get a chance to read the whole thing, I highly recommend it. Today's opening quote is taken from this piece as well. Here is the continuation of Lewitt's thoughts on rational investors and efficient markets:
"Yet these two bugaboos are supported by reams of academic research and much of the investment establishment! It is my contention that these delusions are why capital continues to be terminally mismanaged by the professional investment class. With few exceptions, professional investors in all asset classes have produced at best mediocre returns for their investors."
Ouch. I'm guessing Mr. Lewitt won't be joining the MPT fan club anytime soon.
One of the main purposes of diversification is to reduce risk by investing in asset classes that are either not correlated or are inversely correlated. Opponents of Modern Portfolio Theory would argue that these correlations aren't always the same and can vary greatly over time.
During the past couple of decades, markets have become more and more correlated, nullifying the advantages of diversification. You can read more about this in the Globe's recent excerpt of a book by John Authers called The Fearful Rise of Markets: Global Bubbles, Synchronized Meltdowns, and How To Prevent Them in the Future. Authers argues that the bubble of 2007 wasn't allowed to deflate sufficiently, and that the rally of 2009 "rested on exactly the same pathologies of herding behavior, moral hazard, and a simplistic faith in models, combined with synchronized and self-reinforcing trading, that created the super-bubble in the first place."
My 2 Cents
Like Pop, I sort of come down in the middle of this debate. The difference is that I would land more on the "MPT is out to lunch" side of the fence. Here are a few of my thoughts:
- Rational Investors & Efficient Markets: The markets are run by humans (and computers programmed by humans). As such, rationality and efficiency are elusive and inconsistent at best. I tend to agree with Michael Lewitt on this. As for the "reams of data" that support MPT, most of this is based on historical performance. Given my view that today's market is structurally different than in the past, that data is specious. As such, I won't be using it to manage our money.
- Diversification: I like the idea of diversification, but I think that it's overused as a rationale for people to own a lot of equities in different sectors and assume they are diversified. A diversified portfolio invested 80% in stocks is not truly diversified. In today's markets, increasing and shifting correlations between asset classes make cash the best diversifier. Stock and bond markets have, and will continue to be, volatile until we bring the economy and the markets back into balance .
- Market Timing: I would not advocate that the average investor should be day trading stocks. But I'm not a fan of the ostrich approach either. I have less faith that the markets will inevitably go higher than many. It's not that I don't think folks should invest in stocks at all; it's just that I think we need to really look at whether, and to what degree they fit our personal situation. If our markets are in a 20 (or more) year period of stagnation, that's significant to people who are 40 or older who are saving for retirement. When you buy does matter, and you do need some sort of exit strategy – even if you're a long term investor. Again, I would direct you to a long term chart of the Nikkei. Do your savings have a time horizon that could withstand that type of market action? If so, then go ahead and dollar cost average your investments. If not, think about strategies to control your risk a little more.
- Technical Analysis: When I traded, I used technicals all the time. Many of the professionals and computers that run the markets are driven by technical indicators. That's part of the reason markets have become so highly correlated over the past two decades. If you ignore technicals, you're ignoring one of the key drivers of today's markets. If you are relying solely on Modern Portfolio Theory, you are investing in yesterday's market. That market no longer exists.
I hope that you've found this week's series useful, or at least thought-provoking. If you have any questions about these issues or want to suggest a topic for future discussion, send me an email and I'll do some research for you.
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Gloria And Matt Barnes, *Uh oh, something's a-brewing in professional NBA drama-mama world. Rumors have it that Eva Longoria and Matt Barnes are dating. But Longoria swears the stories aren't true. However, Barnes' recent ex-girlfriend and baby's mama, Gloria Govan (pictured above), ain't buying it.
"I'm not sure if I think they're rumors," the Basketball Wives star told Sister2Sister magazine. "I think at this point having been with Matt, I don't really put anything past him. He hasn't directly said, 'I'm doing this. I'm doing that.' I've heard from some sources that it could be a definite possibility."
If he is on the rebound… "Dang. I haven't even been out of the house for a month. Those are the things that float around that start to get to you in your relationship. I know he denied it, but I don't really know too much about that situation to say it's not true, but I don't know enough to say that it is. It wouldn't surprise me."
Perhaps the recent heartbreak has her all mixed up and nothing she's heard is true.
Also, Barnes doesn't have a job right now since all the ballers are locked out by the NBA. So to afford the cost of luxury for Ms. Longoria is one thing, along with child support. Whew.
Meanwhile, Longoria who's dating Penelope Cruz's little brother Eduardo, posted this on her WhoSay account:
"Once again, press gets it wrong, Matt Barnes and I are not dating!"
In the same statement the actress also slammed the press for jumping to conclusions about pal Jessica Simpson's pregnancy (that part turned out to be true). Longoria added, "we are doing a charity event together for Padres and Athletes vs Cancer."
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It was Saturday, under the sign of Capricorn. The US president was Lyndon B. Johnson (Democratic).
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In UK Green Green Grass Of Home by Tom Jones was in the top 5 hits.
Grand Prix, directed by John Frankenheimer, was one of the most viewed movies released in 1966
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Now, That's A Good Question is a wonderful book. The back cover poses the question, "If you had the opportunity to quiz one of today's foremost theologians, what would you ask?" That is the thrust of this book. Through the 1980's, R.C. hosted a radio program unimaginatively titled Ask R.C. and this book represents about 300 of the questions he faced. The questions are divided into 22 sections and the topics range from the Bible to salvation to the end times to heaven and hell. Here is a completely random list of some of the questions he answers:
- How can church members influence seminary education?
- What should we conclude about the polygamy practiced by Old Testament heroes?
- When we experience trials, how can we determine if they are the consequences of violating a scriptural principle, a test from the Lord, or an attack from Satan?
- Are there certain ethical standards the government should uphold on a biblical basis?
- Why did Jesus say some people wouldn't die before he came back?
- What is existentialism, and how should I respond to it?
- Is it proper to say "if this be your will" when we pray?
- If someone wanted to read three Christian books this year, which three would you most recommend?
- Does the Bible tell us what heaven will be like?
Each answer is only a few paragraphs in length and more often than not provides a satisfactory answer to the question that was posed. There are a few of them where I wish he would give a more definitive answer, but on the whole he takes a stand and backs it up with proof from Scripture. The questions represent his views in the mid 1980's and I'm sure some would have changed slightly by this time, but there were very few that I disagreed with. The majority are handled with Scripture and with grace. If you had the opportunity to ask one of today's foremost theologians a question, there is a good chance you would find the answer in this book.
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Lutz, a rail-thin 26-year-old with short-cropped jet-black hair, begins with a fistful of southpaw power chords, blasting through his band's odd pop songs with all the requisite gusto, albeit without the bells and whistles found on the Herms' soon-to-be-released full-length debut. In some ways the skeletal treatment and peculiar surroundings are almost better: They bring out the twists, the smartass sentiments, and the off-kilter melodies of the songs.
Maybe all you really need to know about the Herms can be gleaned from a careful listen to about 30 seconds of "Volleyball Song," a tune Lutz plays second in tonight's miniset. By the song's second verse, the saccharine drip of major-chord cheer and a bouncing backbeat has lulled us into a calm just short of a diabetic coma. It's familiar and comfortable. But then, out of nowhere, there's a sucker punch of unexpected melody and tonal oddities. Lutz bats the song about like a coy kitten before letting it scurry away on that backbeat. To the drunks and the bookish types alike, it's clear that he's not merely a clever slacker with a guitar; he is a musician who can raise the hair on the back of your neck.
So it goes with the Herms. They make the familiar sound foreign, they spot out that reflex mechanism of ours that yearns for nostalgia and they tap it with a ball-peen hammer, and the sensation feels funny and natural. The musicians' record collections include the Velvet Underground, the Wedding Present, the usual suspects, but it's their talent to draw on these influences without aping anyone in particular: That's what separates the Herms from nearly every other band digging for gold in the same long-barren hills of classic influences. Here's a band that can remind you of great bands, and still be great in its own right. And that's what you hear in those 30-odd seconds of "Volleyball Song."
"That song?" Lutz asks later, a little surprised and a little dismissive. "I wrote that song when I was 18."
"It's a little strange how old they are," he says of the songs in the band's repertoire, shortly to be released by local indie Jackpine Social Club. "But when I would play them back then, I would hear them, you know," and this is where, as he does fairly often, the 26-year-old singer stops explaining with words and sings the "dut-da, dut-da" of the drum part he envisioned eight years ago. "Right now, when I hear them with the whole band, it's really the first time they've sounded like how I imagined them."
The two main collaborators in the Herms, Lutz and bass player Alex Tuzin, met around a foosball table at a stinky co-op in Berkeley, where Lutz studied English and Tuzin studied cognitive science and economics. After some time out of school, Lutz worked a few odd jobs and spent a summer housesitting in France and writing Hollywoody, a 779-page novel telling the meta-story of Romeo and Juliet through the love affair of a porn star, Holly, and a Muppet, Woody (seriously; he's currently shopping it to publishers). When he moved back to town he and Tuzin picked up where they had left off, landing their first proper gig after practicing with drummer Ryan Mulroney for only two days. It was last October at the Bottom of the Hill, where they opened for Kill Hannah, a band Tuzin accurately describes as "six guys playing one note at a time, with makeup and shit."
Today the Herms are four guys -- Lutz, Tuzin, Mulroney, and new keyboardist Matt Gereghty. When you see them play, it's Lutz who's the most magnetic. Onstage, he shrugs his shoulders in time the way the puppet in his book might, and he innately knows to back off the mike before launching into his thick howl. It may be an overstatement to say he's a natural, but the fact is in the past handful of months the Herms have played about every smallish venue in San Francisco and have nearly become the house band at Café Du Nord. "We actually have to turn gigs down," Tuzin says. "After trying to get any gig we could for a long time, it's weird to have to think like that."
Although it's hardly surprising, especially if you've ever seen the Herms play, seen them wrestle against the expectations of the kind of crowd that turns out for Ted Leo, say, or darling pop near-star Kelley Stoltz -- unrelentingly apathetic and bespectacled people who cross their arms and stare at their shoes and wouldn't be impressed if Christ's second coming was recorded on 180-gram virgin vinyl. Under the lights of a gig that will be poorly paid and lazily received, the band's shyness fades, and the Herms come alive, powered by the promise of post-teen rock 'n' roll transformation. Infectious and rough around the edges, the band channels the punk spirit of basement shows it's never played and records it's never listened to. The kind of sweat and guts put into its performances -- a snarling lyric here, a self-aware flourish there -- has the power to convert the despondent. "After we opened for Ted Leo," Tuzin says, "we got all these e-mails from people who liked us better."
On tape, the same spirit comes through. The songs turn sharp corners to avoid the standard pop conventions, but somehow, even the strangest tunes -- the punch-drunk organ grinding of "Now Everyone," the preaching drone of "The Organization," or the spry, bubbly bass lines of "Volleyball Song" -- never overreach. Armed with the mid-fi glow of a trusty home-studio Tascam 388, the musicians take the arrangements and chord changes we've heard a million times before and apply their signature wide-eyed gloss.
When you pull apart the stuff that makes up the songs -- keyboard flash, squally guitar, uptempo pop backbeats -- it calls up anything from the early B-52's to the goddamn Doors. But when it jells, the Herms' sound is singularly their own. "People mimic bands and sounds because they idolize a band or sound," Tuzin says, "and basically just play it again and again, but less sincerely."
Which brings us back to "Volleyball Song," a tune that, looped through headphones all afternoon, reveals its most rewarding surprise: Somehow, with every listen, it sounds less and less self-consciously quirky and more and more sincere. After Lutz plays the song at Café Van Kleef, the golf clap from the crowd doesn't seem to indicate that anyone was listening closely to that 30-second return trip to an unfamiliar place. But they will be soon enough.


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Marriott seeks mobile contextual moments that matter
LITCHFIELD PARK, AZ – A Marriott International executive at the Mobile Shopping Summit 2014 said that figuring out what are the right contextual moments on mobile to engage with customers is a big lesson that needs to learned.
During the panel discussion, "From First Click To Last Click- Overcoming The Disconnect Between Discovery And Purchase," executives from Marriott, Staples, Swrve and ZineOne touched on how to drive ongoing engagement with mobile users. For Marriott, which has 18 different brands around the world, mobile is one of the top three company wide initiatives.
"How do you put in a backlog of a number of different relevant offers and present them at the right time," said Susan Preski, director mobile products, Marriott International, Bethesda, MD. "Figuring out those contextual moments is the big lesson we have to learn.
"For someone arriving in Baltimore, where there are seven different Marriott brands, you don't want to keep pinging them," she said. "Gathering that information so it is a relevant message is key."
The Mobile Shopping Summit was organized by Worldwide Business Research.
Mobile first
Marriott made the decision last year to develop customer solutions from a mobile-first perspective. Previous to that, it took a Web first approach
However, mobile comes with a unique set of challenges that need to be overcome.
"It is a much broader scope, you have different countries, different operating systems, different types of users than the desktop," Ms. Preski said.
The company looks to create a seamless experience between Marriott the brand, Marriott the Web and Marriott the apps.
However, with 18 different brands under the Marriott umbrella, the company also recognizes that having a consistent voice across all of these may not be the answer so it looks to how to talk to each group of customers differently.
At the same time, Marriott is trying to avoid mistakes made by competitors who may have launched too many apps.
"We watched some of competitors make big stumbling mistakes by doing multiple apps for multiple brands and that did not work well for them," Ms. Preski said. "So we are in constant communication with our partners at each of the brands so that we are meeting their needs but also we need to meet the mobile customers needs."
Native apps
One way Marriott is meeting customers' needs is by building native apps.
"It is untethering us from the write once and deploy everywhere platform, which you customize and then are constantly are tripping yourself to get new experiences out the door," Ms. Preski said. "So freeing ourselves and being able to take our existing base and then start to delight."
By building natively, this helped the company roll out mobile check-ins, which have had a good uptick, per Ms. Preski.
Now the company is focused on mobile service requests to enable guests to easily have a two-way conversation with the front desk around their needs.
Marriott tests new features such as these by rolling out a proof of concept to a group of ten hotels in each of the brands to see how customers respond.
One challenge Marriott is facing is how to give guests a way to use their mobile phone as a key because the chain has so many locations and creating a cost-effective solution that adds value for the customer is difficult.
"Focus on the things that you can do to delight your users that help solidify the engagement you have with them," Ms. Preski said.
Providing utility
With so much time being spent in apps but 19 percent of users engaging with an app only once, merchants need to be approaching app development with a longer-term point of view, per Christopher Dean, CEO of Swrve.
He recommends merchants integrate their apps with their other systems of record such as their CRM programs so they create as complete of a user profile as possible. This will enable merchants to provide more utility in their apps.
"You have to think about the design and development of the app, not just the acquisition but you have to think through the engagement," Mr. Dean said.
Staples is trying to address this challenge by focusing on creating personalized first-time user experiences.
"Literally the best experience I could have, I am sitting here with my app and look over at yours, it is also the Staples app but it is a very different experience on yours versus mine," said Ryan Bartley, director of mobile at Staples, Framingham, MA.
"If you can get them in the right relevant context the minute they hit it, you get them over the first hump," he said.
Mcommerce upswing
In the short term, retailers need to focus the table stakes in mobile such as providing a personalized experience and great omnichannel experiences.
"Longer term, it is about being predictive," Mr. Barley said. "We should understand what our customers want before they even ask for it."
Sensors such as Bluetooth Low Energy beacons are an important opportunity in mobile that could change the way that consumers shop and replenish products.
The challenge here will be getting enough sensors in places where they are needed.
"That is what is going to change the game significantly over the next few years," Mr. Bartley said. "It is fundamentally happening right now in many places."
Mr. Bartley also predicts that mobile-enabled commerce will make a significant leap forward in 2015.
"I would say that 2015 is the year that pure ecommerce through mobile device really takes off," he said. "I think Apple Pay is a big part of that.
"Today, it is not very easy to buy things in ecommerce. We are bullish about Apple Pay and other payments that reduce the friction."
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Predictably, I received a lot of response to my column last Tuesday about the 2008 property tax assessments.
"How can the values increase way beyond what the property could sell for?" asked one irate reader. "Have the assessors been asleep for the past year?"
As I noted in my series about falling property values earlier this year, the Board of Assessors uses comparable sales from the previous calendar year to determine values in the current year. In a declining market, that all but assures that many properties will be overvalued.
Also, since the pace of sales declined markedly in the second half of 2007, the majority of comparable sales were more than a year ago.
Still, that methodology doesn't explain some of the increases that homeowners have received in the past 10 days.
For example, there's a small street at The Landings that has seven very similar properties.
The 2007 fair market values ranged from $477,000 to $522,500.
In 2007, three of those seven properties sold for an average price of almost exactly $400,000. This is not complex math. The sales on the street clearly indicate that the actual fair market values are about 20 percent less than the 2007 valuations.
But all seven properties saw increases of a few percentage points for 2008.
Frankly, it's not hard to find other properties that are clearly overvalued given the market as it stands today.
For example, there's a nice condo on West Gwinnett Street that's on the market for $249,000 but jumped in value from $266,000 in 2007 to $313,500 this year. Another condo in the same building is valued at $276,000 but is on the market for $229,500.
Of course, if those condos ever sell, the new owners will be paying taxes based on the 2008 values, not the actual sale prices. That fact puts additional downward pressure on real estate prices.
Some readers have sought my advice on such issues, but there's not much else I can say that I haven't said already.
Voters in Chatham County can make their concerns known as we move toward this fall's election. Property owners can explore the data publicly available at www.chathamcounty.org/prc.html and file their appeals.
Some might want to consider a class action lawsuit.
Of course, most home- owners are protected by Stephens-Day and will not file appeals since this year's increases will have no effect on their taxes. Still, as was noted in this paper on Sunday, county officials expect a record number of appeals this year.
These are especially worrisome issues because I have so far seen no evidence that the real estate market has hit bottom.
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Rheological and electrical properties of carbon black-based poly(vinylidene fluoride) composites
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DOI: 10.1002/pen.23519
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Wang, J., Wu, D., Li, X. and Zhang, M. (2013), Rheological and electrical properties of carbon black-based poly(vinylidene fluoride) composites. Polym Eng Sci, 53: 2541–2548. doi: 10.1002/pen.23519
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