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Domenici Helps Secure Funding for Tech Research, Oct. 10, 2002
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WASHINGTON, D.C., Oct. 10, 2002 -- U.S. Senator Pete Domenici today touted the approval of a national defense spending bill that includes a variety of funding he sought for Defense Department work in New Mexico, including $21 million for the development of the Magdalena Ridge Observatory and $7.1 million for a microelectronics testing program at New Mexico Tech in Socorro.
As a member of the Senate Defense Appropriations Subcommittee, Domenici helped to reconcile the differences in the House and Senate versions of the FY2003 Defense Appropriations Bill. The $355 billion spending bill now requires final approval from the House and Senate before it can be sent to the President to be signed into law.
"I'm pleased we are finally moving this important funding bill. The fact that we've directed more funding to work in Socorro County only underscores the growing participation of New Mexico Tech research and testing in projects to improve our national security," Domenici said. "With our national security a top priority right now, I am hopeful that the House and Senate will give this bill final approval quickly so that it can become law."
The final bill includes a 4.1 percent across-the-board pay increase for military personnel. It also provides $14.8 billion for Defense Health Care, $263 million above the President's request.
Domenici and Representative Joe Skeen worked to provide $21 million for the continued development of the Magdalena Ridge Observatory in Socorro County. New Mexico Tech is the lead university in a consortium, that includes the Naval Research Laboratory and the Air Force Research Laboratory, to construct and operate the observatory.
"I'm very pleased with the final level we agreed on for the Magdalena observatory, considering the House started at $30 million and the Senate offered none," Domenici said. "This facility will have so many good uses, not only to the Defense Department, but also for science education in New Mexico."
Domenici and Skeen in August traveled to South Baldy in the Magdalena Mountains for an event to unveil a model of the planned $45 million facility, which will be an astronomical research facility using an array of optical and infrared telescopes to produce extremely detailed images of the far reaches of the universe. The observatory is expected to begin operations in 2007.
Domenici was also instrumental in protecting $7.1 million to support the MicroElectronics Testing, Technology & Obsolescence Program (METTOP) program at New Mexico Tech. The funding is provided within the Defense Micro-Electronics Activity account to establish METTOP within Tech's Energetic Materials Research and Testing Center (EMRTC). The METTOP funding will allow New Mexico Tech to expand its RDT&E capabilities to exercise virtually any microelectronic component used in military, space, and commercial applications.
The specific purposes of the METTOP include the verification of complex software models, the determination and documentation of large variations in microelectronic device responses to various environments, and the tracking and documentation of changes in the manufacturing processes of various microelectronic devices used in military, space, and commercial programs.
Elsewhere in the bill for programs funded at WSMR, Domenici gained $2.1 million to begin making critical infrastructure improvements needed to support the High Energy Laser Systems Test Facility (HELSTF), including restoring the on-site firefighting team requirement. This funding is in addition to the $14.4 million requested by the President to support HELSTF operations in FY2003. In addition, the bill has $11.2 million in Advanced Weapons Technology funding to support Solid State Laser development at HELSTF.
Domenici secured $15 million for the Mobile Tactical High Energy Laser (MTHEL), which is a continuation of the combined U.S./Israel THEL program initiated in 1996 to evaluate the effectiveness of THELs to negate the threat posed to population areas by short range Katyusha rockets.


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The nonprofit recently settled a $1.5 million lawsuit with one of the landlords of the closing facility, which previously operated as the for-profit Park Place Athletic Club.
Under its lease agreement, the Beaverton Family Y's equipment and membership were to be returned to the property's owners, Tami and Michael Pardee, in 2013. In her suit, Tami Pardee claimed that the Y was not properly maintaining the equipment at its Beavertown Family location and was trying to divert that location's members to the Beaverton Hoop location.
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Doctor accuses 1-800-GET-THIN president of identity theft
An anesthesiologist says in a lawsuit that he refused to sign a contract allowing affiliated surgery centers to set up a corporation to bill insurers for his services, but it was done anyway.
1-800-GET-THIN president's suit against Times columnist dismissed
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Allergan halts Lap-Band sales to 1-800-GET-THIN clinics
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State launches Lap-Band investigation
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King Ahaz of Judah learned the hard way that a refusal to stand and confess the truths revealed by the Lord leads only to disaster. Today, many professing evangelicals are repeating Ahaz's error, diminishing the importance of difficult but crucial …Read More
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On Thursday afternoon, the Houston Dynamo held a press conference to announce one of the worst kept secrets in soccer. The 2010 AT&T MLS All-Star game will pit the MLS All-Stars against Manchester United of the English Premier League.
"It's a very special moment for [the Houston Dynamo] and Major League Soccer to have a franchise like Manchester United," said Dynamo President Oliver Luck. "It doesn't get any better."
"From the beginning, we wanted to bring one of the biggest and best clubs in the world to Houston for this match and we pushed really hard to make that happen," said Dynamo chief operating officer Chris Canetti.
There is no doubt that the Red Devils fit the bill. Manchester United have won the Premier League the last three years and could make it four in a row this weekend depending on how the results shake out on the final matchday; ManU are battling with Chelsea for the title. In addition, United won the 2008 Champions League and the subsequent FIFA Club World Cup, and numerous FA Cups and other trophies throughout their storied history.
While it is unclear which players will ultimately make an appearance for United with several players returning to the team fresh off World Cup duty, there will likely be a mix of young players like the team's newest acquisition from Mexico, Javier "Chicharito" Hernández, and veteran stars like Ryan Giggs and Paul Scholes.
The city of Houston hopes to use the All-Star game as an audition for a potential World Cup venue. As a result, Mayor Annise Parker and Harris County Judge Ed Emmett were in attendance to support the match.
"Bringing a team like Manchester United, people who don't even follow English football understand Manchester United," said Emmett, who himself is a fan of the Norwich City Canaries. "We want to host the World Cup and we will do a spectacular job and it will be a chance to showcase our community and how much we can do to put on an event like this and hopefully it will put us one step closer to hosting a World Cup."
"Not only will we have an outstanding event at Reliant Stadium, but we will open our doors to the world," Parker said. "It will [help to] put Houston on the map as a soccer town."
British Consul-General Paul Lynch, who was also in attendance at the press conference, was probably the most pleased personally about the news: He is a lifelong Manchester United fan.
"To have the biggest football team in the world from the richest and most important football league in the world coming to what I think is the most important football/soccer town in the United States is really, really big," Lynch gushed.
"This is a great moment in Houston soccer," Luck said.
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Meet: Boston University Last Chance Meet
Location: BU Indoor Track & Tennis Center – Boston, Mass.
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The Short Story: Junior Kiara Porter helped the VCU track & field program finish a strong indoor season by extending it a few more weeks, locking up a spot at the 2014 NCAA Indoor Championships in two weeks. Porter set a school record in the 400m with a time of 52.50, good for eighth-best in the country this year. She was also a part of the 4x400 meter relay team, joined by Niaimani Aduma, Jazmine Wright, and Qualitra Brown, which broke the school record in the event.
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- Porter led the way with her berth in the NCAA Indoor Championships. She needed a PR and a time of at least 52.81 or better to secure the berth, she blistered both of those times, crossing the line in 52.50, two seconds better than her nearest competitors.
- Freshman Imoni Anderson set a PR in the 400m as well with a time of 57.55, which moved her from 10th in VCU history to sixth.
- Sophomore Jessica Ewing finished third in the 200m with a PR of 24.48. She finished her sophomore year ranked third all-time in VCU history, behind two NCAA qualifiers, Porter and Quina Fortune.
- Ewing was followed closely in the event by junior Nicole Grasty, who clocked in at 25.34, good for sixth overall.
- The 4x400 relay posted the best time of the year, clocking in at a school-record breaking time of 3:43.46, besting the only record by nearly two seconds.
- The only male athlete that made the trip for the Black & Gold was freshman Joe Phillips-Mason. He took home seventh place in the shot put with a PR of 46' 6 ¾". He is now eighth all-time in the shot put and weight throw after just his debut season at VCU.
- "We had a very strong finish to the indoor regular season today and extended our indoor season into the NCAA post season for the first time in nine year. Kiara gave the performance of her career today to qualify in the eighth position and help her teammates set a school record in the 4x4. We are very proud of all our athletes who came up here and put down their best efforts to give us some more momentum heading into the outdoor season in a couple of weeks and put a great cap on top of what has been one of our strongest indoor seasons to date. " – Head Coach Jon Riley


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Until I read Howie Carr's Boston Herald column this morning, I had missed the big news from Brown University. Former U.S. Rep. Patrick Kennedy has graciously accepted a two-year appointment as a visiting fellow at the Brown Institute for Brain Science, through the 2012-13 academic year.
Carr cruelly comments: "I guess the rocket-science school was full up. He is quite the scholar, of course." Carr quotes Kennedy speaking on the floor of the House: 'I myself have educated myself.'"
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Stepped Care Treatment for Binge-Eating
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|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT00965705
Recruitment Status : Completed
First Posted : August 26, 2009
Last Update Posted : April 20, 2018
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Temple University is looking for women to participate in a study to evaluate the treatment options available to women living with binge eating disorder.
Binge-Eating Disorder is a significant public health problem for women. Despite this, there is limited research on how best to treat this disorder at varying levels of severity. The purpose of this NIMH-funded study is to enroll individuals in a brief form of cognitive-behavior therapy. If more intense treatment is needed, individuals will be randomly assigned to more intensive group and individual treatments (Cognitive-Behavior Therapy or Dialectical Behavior Therapy). Both of these treatments are talking therapies that have been adapted for women living with binge-eating disorder and are free of charge.
|Condition or disease
|Binge Eating Disorder
|Behavioral: Therapy
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|Study Type :
|Interventional (Clinical Trial)
|Actual Enrollment :
|109 participants
|Intervention Model:
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|Official Title:
|Dialectical Behavior Therapy for Early Non-Responders to CBT
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|June 2009
|Actual Primary Completion Date :
|March 2017
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|March 2017
|Active Comparator: Guided Self Help
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|Active Comparator: Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
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|Active Comparator: Dialectical Behavioral Therapy
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- Number of objective binge eating days or objective binge eating frequency using the Eating Disorders Examination-16 over the last month [ Time Frame: Up to 12 months after randomization ]Number of objective binge eating days or objective binge eating frequency using the Eating Disorders Examination-16 over the last month
Choosing to participate in a study is an important personal decision. Talk with your doctor and family members or friends about deciding to join a study. To learn more about this study, you or your doctor may contact the study research staff using the contacts provided below. For general information, Learn About Clinical Studies.
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|18 Years to 60 Years (Adult)
|Sexes Eligible for Study:
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Inclusion Criteria:
- Adult female, 18 years to 60 years
- Meets DSM-IV criteria for Binge Eating Disorder
- Resides within commuting distance
- Consents to research protocol, i.e.
- 18-24 months in assessment and treatment
- willing to be part of a biological assessment/physiological assessment
- have to be prepared that they will receive a brief individual treatment and if this does not work for them, that they will receive more intensive treatment including both group and individual treatment.
- agreement not to see other health professionals unless recommended
- seeing their own Primary care Physician/Nurse Practitioner for medical screening prior to study (i.e., before being allocated a guided self-help therapist)
- payment for their own medical assessment, monitoring, and medication if needed
Exclusion Criteria:
- Anorexia nervosa
- Schizophrenia, Schizophreniform, or Schizoaffective Disorders, Psychosis NOS, or Bipolar Mood Disorder
- Needs priority treatment for other debilitating conditions, e.g. current substance dependence requiring inpatient detox
- chronic absence of shelter
- IQ less than 70
- Impending jail/prison, court order to treatment, court order to treatment or to jail, or agency order to treatment or to loss of child custody (due to consequent inability to freely drop-out of treatment)
- Is pregnant, plans to become pregnant during treatment, or becomes pregnant before random assignment to study condition
- Medical instability
- Has had or is seeking Gastric bypass surgery
- On anti-seizure medication, beta-blockers, asthma medication, medication for heart disease, or any other medication that affects appetite or weight
- Psychotropics are acceptable if the doses are stable for at least 3 months prior to screening
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|Temple University
|Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, 19122
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|Eunice Y Chen, PHD
|Temple University
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|NCT00965705 History of Changes
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|First Posted:
|August 26, 2009 Key Record Dates
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|April 20, 2018
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Keywords provided by Eunice Chen, Temple University:
Binge Eating Disorder
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Maridel Francis Commagère, 95, of Laguna Beach, CA, passed away suddenly in her Laguna Beach home of natural causes on Tuesday, December 4, 2012. Known as "Mamie" to her family, she was a fixture of Laguna Beach for 54 years and could often be seen waving from her beachfront balcony or displaying one of her American flags.
Born on February 24, 1917, in Spokane, WA, Maridel was the only child of Mary Loraine (Magee) of Daisy, WA, and Delbert Montanye Francis of Butte, MT.
In 1930 Maridel moved to Long Beach, CA where she survived the 1933 Long Beach earthquake. For several months, she had to attend school in outdoor tents.
Maridel graduated early from Long Beach Polytechnic High School in 1933 at age 16. She graduated in 1935 from Long Beach Junior College. From there she went to UCLA, majored in mathematics and statistics and received her BA in psychology in 1938. She played touch football and was president of her sorority Alpha Delta Pi of which she was a lifelong member. She used to walk from her sorority house on Hilgard to class through the woods which are now parking lots and Hershey Hall.
In 1940, Maridel took a Caribbean cruise aboard the United Fruit Company ship Sixaola. On that ship Maridel met the love of her life, Robert Anthony Commagère of New Orleans. Bob was a purser aboard the ship. Two weeks later they married as soon as the ship returned to New Orleans.
Soon after their New Orleans marriage, the couple moved to California and decided to live in the San Fernando Valley, namely Sherman Oaks and Encino. Bob became the first President of the San Fernando Valley Board of Realtors of which he was an honorary member for life.
They settled in Laguna in 1958, became avid golfers, and were members of the Indian Wells Country Club. In 1962 they built their beachfront dream home. Maridel and Bob were married for 37 years until Bob passed away in 1978. Twenty-four years later, Maridel's beach-loving granddaughter, Carla, moved into the bottom floor. With her partner Hans Hagen, Carla soon had two children who became the light of Maridel's life, and with Maridel's son and daughter-in-law often visiting, there were four generations under one roof. Truly unusual for 2012!
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Maridel passes on her stubbornness, charm, good looks, and love of 5:00 pm to her only son Robert Francis Commagère and his wife Ramira of Los Angeles; five grandchildren, Kerstin Alice (Commagère) Seufert (Dan) of South Lake Tahoe, CA, Anton Robert Commagère of Redmond, WA, Carla María Commagère (Hans Hagen) of Laguna Beach, Juliette Monique Commagère (Joachim Cooder) and Robert Anthony Commagère, II of Los Angeles; two Great grandchildren, Hana Commagère Hagen, 7 and Lyric Commagère Hagen, 5 both of Laguna Beach.
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Guide to Geologic Hazards in Alaska
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- A general term for a mass-movement landform and a process characterized by a flowing mass of predominantly fine-grained earth material possessing a high degree of fluidity during movement. The degree of fluidity is revealed by the observed rate of movement or by the distribution and morphology of the resulting deposit. Mudflows are intermediate members of a gradational series of processes characterized by varying proportions of water, clay, and rock debris. The water content of mudflows may range up to 60%. The degree of water bonding, determined by the clay content and mineralogy, critically affects the viscosity of the matrix and the velocity and morphology of the flow. With increasing fluidity, mudflows grade into loaded and clear streams; with a decrease in fluidity, they grade into earthflows. Also spelled: mud flow. (Neuendorf, K.K.E. and others, 2005)
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May 2002. Exploring the back roads of the mountains south of Monterrey. The route included Rayones, Casillas, Laguna de Sanchez, San Juan Bautista, the back way into Monterrey thru the Canon El Alamo and Hausteca canyon, thru Monterrey and back around to Santiago, Cienega, San Juan Bautista again and exploring down San Juan Baustista canyon as for as I could, then back thru Laguna de Sanchez, over the pass to Casillas, and finally back to Rayones. Photos were laboriously scanned from 35mm film exposed with an Olympus point-and-shoot pocket camera.Read More


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Tech Researcher Leads Study Of Arctic Ozone LossSOCORRO, N.M. October 4, 2011 – A NASA-led study has documented an unprecedented depletion of Earth's protective ozone layer above the Arctic last winter and spring caused by an unusually prolonged period of extremely low temperatures in the stratosphere. Nature magazine published an article in the current issue.
|Dr. Gloria Manney is the lead author of an article in the current issue of Nature about the unexpectedly large loss of ozone over the Arctic during the winter of 2011.
Manney's study was published online Sunday in the journal Nature. She and her 28 co-authors have found that the amount of ozone destroyed in the Arctic in 2011 was comparable to that seen in some years in the Antarctic, where an ozone "hole" has formed each spring since the mid-1980s. The paper's authors include scientists from 19 institutions in nine countries. Manney said she gets great personal satisfaction from the teamwork involved in this research project.
"I can't emphasize this enough – this was a community effort," Manney said. "When we started seeing this severe ozone loss, a lot of people in the ozone-research community got together. We all cooperated to write a very comprehensive paper, instead of competing with each other. It was a pleasure to be a part of this community effort."
The stratospheric ozone layer extends from about 10 to 20 miles (15 to 35 kilometers) above the surface and protects life on Earth from the sun's harmful ultraviolet rays.
The Antarctic ozone hole forms when extremely cold conditions, common in the winter Antarctic stratosphere, trigger reactions that convert atmospheric chlorine from human-produced chemicals into forms that destroy ozone. The same ozone-loss processes occur each winter in the Arctic. However, the generally warmer stratospheric conditions in the Arctic limit the area affected and the time frame during which the chemical reactions occur, resulting in far less ozone loss in most years in the Arctic than in the Antarctic.
Manney and her collaborators studied three satellite data sets, including those from the Microwave Limb Sounder, or MLS, and the Ozone Measuring Instrument, or OMI, both on NASA's Aura satellite. Molecules in the atmosphere emit radiation at a specific frequency. The satellite-borne MLS instrument is akin to a radio receiver, collecting signals that are later correlated to the amounts of specific compounds. The MLS data are used to calculate a vertical profile as a function of altitude, thus allowing the researchers to create a 3-D image of the ozone layer. Another NASA satellite data set provided information on clouds in the polar stratosphere that are important in converting chlorine into the forms that destroy ozone. Still other data sets were provided by balloon-borne instruments launched in the northern latitudes including Canada, Scandinavia and Russia.
The Aura Satellite has been collecting ozone data since 2004. The two satellites gather data as they orbit. For this study, Manney and her colleagues examined 3,500 measurements of the ozone layer and its chemical constituents. An older satellite no longer in service, the Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite, collected similar data sets for about 10 years beginning in the early 1990s. Manney and her team found that the ozone loss above the Arctic during the early months of 2011 was significantly higher than any previous year.
Shortly after the Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite was launched in 1994, Manney was the first author on a similar paper in Nature. She was among the first scientists to publish findings showing global satellite observations that pointed to ozone destruction caused by reactions with chlorine monoxide in the Arctic. .
"When I wrote that paper in 1994 in Nature, that was first time global measurements were used to demonstrate that some chemical ozone loss was happening in the Arctic," Manney said. "I ended that paper by saying that since the temperatures in the Arctic stratosphere are so variable and we can't predict what they'll do from year to year, there is a possibility of seeing more severe chemical ozone loss. To me, in a sense, this paper is sort of the sequel to that 1994 paper."
The 2011 Arctic ozone loss occurred over an area considerably smaller than that of the Antarctic ozone holes. This is because the Arctic polar vortex, a persistent large-scale cyclone within which the ozone loss takes place, was about 40 percent smaller than a typical Antarctic vortex. While smaller and shorter-lived than its Antarctic counterpart, the Arctic polar vortex is more mobile, often moving over densely populated northern regions. Decreases in overhead ozone lead to increases in surface ultraviolet radiation, which are known to have adverse effects on humans and other life forms.
"Day-to-day temperatures in the 2010-11 Arctic winter did not reach lower values than in previous cold Arctic winters," Manney said. "The difference from previous winters is that temperatures were low enough to produce ozone-destroying forms of chlorine for a much longer time. This implies that if winter Arctic stratospheric temperatures drop just slightly in the future, for example as a result of climate change, then severe Arctic ozone loss may occur more frequently."
Although the total amount of Arctic ozone measured was much more than twice that typically seen during an Antarctic spring, the amount destroyed was comparable to that in some previous Antarctic ozone holes. This is because ozone levels at the beginning of Arctic winter are typically much greater than those at the beginning of Antarctic winter.
Manney said that without the 1989 Montreal Protocol, an international treaty limiting production of ozone-depleting substances, chlorine levels already would be so high that an Arctic ozone hole would form every spring. The long atmospheric lifetimes of ozone-depleting chemicals already in the atmosphere mean that Antarctic ozone holes, and the possibility of future severe Arctic ozone loss, will continue for decades.
She also said that researchers' ability to monitor the ozone layer above the Arctic could be greatly diminished in coming years.
"Our ability to quantify polar ozone loss and associated processes will be reduced in the future when NASA's Aura and CALIPSO spacecraft, whose trace gas and cloud measurements were central to this study, reach the end of their operational lifetimes," Manney said. "It is imperative that this capability, and that for the balloon-based measurements spanning the Arctic that were also essential to our study, be maintained if we are to reliably predict future ozone loss in a changing climate."
Manney said scientists can simulate the main features of current annual cycles of ozone loss, but the atmospheric processes are so complex and include so many variables that computer models don't accurately predict what will happen.
"Current models that predict temperatures from year to year aren't very good at getting the low values in the Arctic winter stratosphere," she said. "We have limited ability to predict right now. From my point of view, that's an important point. This paper shows that it really takes all these data sets – not just ozone as a function of altitude, but also measurements of the compounds involved in destroying it. We need to put together all the pieces that lead to chemical ozone destruction. This winter shows us that we don't have a complete understanding of all of the atmospheric processes involved yet."
For more information on NASA's Aura mission, visit: http://www.nasa.gov/aura
For more information on NASA's CALIPSO mission, visit: http://www.nasa.gov/calipso
By Thomas Guengerich/New Mexico Tech
Steve Cole of NASA and Alan Buis of the Jet Propulsion Lab contributed to this article.


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[ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/DERBY-4631?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:all-tabpanel ] Mamta A. Satoor resolved DERBY-4631. ------------------------------------ Resolution: Fixed > Wrong join column returned by right outer join with NATURAL or USING and territory-based collation > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Key: DERBY-4631 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/DERBY-4631 > Project: Derby > Issue Type: Bug > Components: SQL > Affects Versions: 10.6.1.0 > Reporter: Knut Anders Hatlen > Assignee: Mamta A. Satoor > Labels: derby_triage10_8 > Fix For: 10.9.1.0 > > Attachments: DERBY_4631_not_for_commit_patch1_diff.txt, DERBY_4631_not_for_commit_patch1_stat.txt, DERBY_4631_not_for_commit_patch2_diff.txt, DERBY_4631_not_for_commit_patch2_stat.txt, DERBY_4631_patch3_diff.txt, DERBY_4631_patch3_stat.txt, DERBY_4631_patch4_diff.txt, DERBY_4631_patch5_diff.txt, DERBY_4631_patch6_diff.txt, DERBY_4631_patch7_diff.txt, releaseNote.html > > > SQL:2003 says that the join columns in a natural join or in a named > columns join should be added to the select list by coalescing the > column from the left table with the column from the right table. > Section 7.7, <joined table>, syntax rules: > > 1) Let TR1 be the first <table reference>, and let TR2 be the <table > > reference> or <table factor> that is the second operand of the > > <joined table>. Let RT1 and RT2 be the row types of TR1 and TR2, > > respectively. Let TA and TB be the range variables of TR1 and TR2, > > respectively. (...) > and > > 7) If NATURAL is specified or if a <join specification> immediately > > containing a <named columns join> is specified, then: > (...) > > d) If there is at least one corresponding join column, then let SLCC > > be a <select list> of <derived column>s of the form > > > > COALESCE ( TA.C, TB.C ) AS C > > > > for every column C that is a corresponding join column, taken in > > order of their ordinal positions in RT1. > For a right outer join, Derby doesn't use COALESCE(TA.C, TB.C), but > rather just TB.C (the column in the right table) directly. > This is in most cases OK, because COALESCE(TA.C, TB.C) = TB.C is an > invariant in a right outer join. (Because TA.C is either NULL or equal > to TB.C.) > However, in a database with territory-based collation, equality > between two values does not mean they are identical, especially now > that the strength of the collator can be specified (DERBY-1748). > Take for instance this join: > ij> connect 'jdbc:derby:testdb;create=true;territory=en_US;collation=TERRITORY_BASED:SECONDARY'; > ij> create table big(x varchar(5)); > 0 rows inserted/updated/deleted > ij> insert into big values 'A','B','C'; > 3 rows inserted/updated/deleted > ij> create table small(x varchar(5)); > 0 rows inserted/updated/deleted > ij> insert into small values 'b','c','d'; > 3 rows inserted/updated/deleted > ij> select x, t1.x, t2.x, coalesce(t1.x, t2.x) from small t1 natural right outer join big t2; > X |X |X |4 > ----------------------- > A |NULL |A |A > B |b |B |b > C |c |C |c > 3 rows selected > I believe that the expected result from the above query is that the > first column should have the same values as the last column. That is, > the first column should contain {'A', 'b', 'c'}, not {'A', 'B', 'C'}. -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. If you think it was sent incorrectly, please contact your JIRA administrators: https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/ContactAdministrators!default.jspa For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira
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LoadingReadyRun: Mercenary Solutions 3
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Even the world's most badass soldiers of fortune have occasional money trouble.
Here's the first two:
I want a gun-phone.
"How do they get the-"
"Not our problem!"
Very nice episode. No one appreciates the troubles of freelance mercs.
maybe could cut back on ammo?
All knife kills!
I love the Mercenary Solutions videos. On a semi-related note, can I offer Kathleen and Alex some hot tea with honey? Talking like that must hurt after a while.
Need more than Burnt Dong XD Fantastic!
Love Merc. Solutions...hehe
very fun
i like the this one better than the second
Good to see mercenaries Kane & Crowthorne once again!
A plan for an overthrow in North Korea?...
GODDAMN YOU, KIM JONG-IL, for running a country in an uncomfy climate!
"This isn't C4.... It's cookie dough!"
(On a side note, I once heard about this one woman whose body got severely fucked up presumably from eating a lot of raw cookie dough... >____< ...Just saying.)
EDIT: So so far this year, you guys have delivered burns towards Justin Bieber, Ke$ha, and now Perez Hilton. Still about three months left in 2010, so which other celeb(s) this year will incur LRR's hatred? ^_^
Good to see that they have a scope on the shotgun.
Eeee, I love Mercenary Solutions so much! Also, cookie dough is totally worth $9.99 a pound.
It's Cookie Dough Mk. 4!
Very glad to see the Mercs, again.
So... they're doing the Parez Hilton job for free or are they pulling a Joker and getting paid anyways?
omg, so funny! Great episode this week. :)
I lost my shit when Alex said that Corporal Hungrywhiskers' Diabetus was acting up... Bloody hell Alex, you're hilarious
That was another great episode guys, back to the regular quality.
UGH!! What a pain in the dick!!
We need more than burnt dong!!
I love seeing Alex get involved in stuff, recently caught up on all the existing Crapshots which feature him so prominently.
This was one of the best I've had the pleasure of watching- I liked the previous Mercenary Solutiuons, but I think this is far the best!
"I know exactly where I left that tank! It's at the bottom of that vally, on fire!"
Mercenary Solutions for the win. But who is that guy, I don't recognise him from any other video than previous MS's.
By the way, if I remember right there was an incident in Finland's army where the crew did so good winter camouflage for their APC that they couldn't find it before spring.
"We didn't lost the tank, I know where it is. It's on the bottom of the canyon on fire."
Shiiiiit, I double posted...
That would be Alex Steacy http://loadingreadyrun.com/info/about
He's in the Crapshots that the guys have up on Youtube, and is brilliant :D
And who says being a Mercenary is glamorous?
"what a pain in the dick!"
Mercenary solutions 3?! Where is 1 and 2?
I see I wasn't the only one who saw that and I will get that scoped shotgun even if it will cost my life. also I now what it is like people say you have lost our tank but know I know exactly that it barrel rolled down the mountain into the enemies and then exploded.
Not just any shotgun; a shortened, pistol handle shotgun. A regular one could use a scope if you are firing slugs, but I am still trying to figure this one out.
Remind me to hire these guys next time I want a thorough job. Great episode.
This makes me so sad I haven't seen mercenary solutions 1 + 2 :( It was awesome this week!
Hilarious episode ... "I'll do Perez Hilton for free" ... Need help?
Haha! "Standard ethnic cleansing gig"
Hilarious line!
Nah, I'm pretty sure that's C4.
Loved the New Steveland reference.
Great work as always guys!
Sudden urge to bake cookies... but what if its C4?
Did Kathleen just say that it was a 'pain in the d*ck'? :O
All I could think of was the voice of Snake. But anyways, great episode.
They are over on LRR's main site where their Pre-Escapist videos are hosted. Let me find the links for you:
1. http://loadingreadyrun.com/videos/view/404/Mercenary-Solutions
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To date, this is my all time favourite article I have ever written. I think because I do enter juried shows, and I do often get rejected from them. And I really want to get accepted. I did well in 2011, but still have yet to get into Houston or Quilt National. With Houston Quilt Festival just around the corner, I thought this would be an appropriate time to post it. Without further ado, here is my article.
This article was published in the Winter 2010 CQA/ACC issue. Please don't copy without written permission. Thanks so much!


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Second, however, he could never enjoy the life of an NFL coach, a frustrating life in which the nation's top college players must be shared with the 31 other pro teams. As a USC recruiter, Carroll is so personable and persuasive that he shares the players he wants with nobody.
Sitting at the kitchen table with Mrs. Jones, he rarely loses when he looks in her eyes and says, "Mary, I need your son."
For he only uses this touch when he means it, and the Mary Joneses sense that.
As I said when USC first considered him four years ago, Carroll will win here because he's the best recruiter I'd known in 66 years as a football writer. It's unthinkable that the alumni would let him go. It will be harder to hold onto his quarterback, Matt Leinart, but that can be done too. All Leinart needs is an insurance policy against an injury that would threaten his pro career if he plays another year for the Trojans. What's more, as I first wrote for a 1934 newspaper, to be a USC student with a car of your own has to be the greatest life in the world.
For a Change, Colts Do It Right
THE INDIANPOLIS COLTS came out passing Sunday for the first time this season. In earlier games, their passer, Peyton Manning, had shared the snaps with Edgerrin James, who is almost as efficient in his specialty, running the ball, as Manning is when he throws it. The difference — and it's a huge one — is that good running backs aren't nearly as productive as good passers, as Manning demonstrated Sunday when he routed Denver, 49-24.
James rarely carried the ball against the Broncos in the 35-3 first half, when Manning, throwing on first down most of the time, took the Colts to five of their seven touchdowns.
The Colts hadn't played that way during the regular season, when they lost three times though James experienced three big days running the ball. Hence, they must play their next playoff game on an outdoor ice rink in frozen New England Sunday instead of their indoor stadium in Indianapolis.
The NFL awards postseason game sites to teams winning the most regular-season starts. And Manning wasted so much time faking handoffs or handing off to James in losses to Kansas City, Jacksonville and New England that he faked himself out of the home-field advantage in the playoffs.
It may sound unreal that a quarterback who passes for an all-time record 49 touchdowns, as Manning did this season, didn't pass often enough — but that's it, precisely. The truth is that James, except as a decoy, is all but irrelevant to the Manning offense, which works just as well with backup runners. The Colts only need James on second and long or other sure passing situations when the defensive focus is on Manning. Instead they've co-featured him in every game this season until last week against Denver, when, as Manning finally opened up, the rout was the payoff.
Brady or Manning? The Field Will Tell
THE NEW ENGLAND PATRIOTS are a passing team too, or have been, or can be, and Patriot passer Tom Brady will have two advantages on Manning. He will be playing at home, and he's had more practice (and more success) passing in winter weather. He even wins in driving snowstorms.
The field will dictate what happens, but on any kind of field, the Brady-Manning showdown will be the big game of the pro season so far, by far — although it could be eclipsed a week later by either Brady or Manning at Pittsburgh.
If the Manning circus train instead of the Edgerrin James freight train unpacks in Foxboro, it is by no means a sure thing that it will be derailed by an off track. The principal unanswerable question of the week is what kind of off track it turns out to be. Supposing the referees can keep the football dry, and supposing there isn't too much wind, Manning and his three gifted little receivers should be able to navigate — even in freezing weather — much as they do on their indoor field in Indiana. For passing teams, a freeze is passable. Indeed, the Colts figure on a clear, cold day.
On a sloppy field or in a New England windstorm, Brady will have the advantage in part because his receivers are a bit bigger than Manning's and because his offensive line is considerably bigger. What's more, the Patriots can be expected to attack aggressively with their good pass offense. By contrast, despite Manning's skills with a thrown ball, he usually wants to set up his passes with handoffs to James. Against a wily team like New England's, that will cost him.
The final pre-game unanswered question is what difference it will make to the Patriots to have so many of their good defensive players out with injuries. The Patriot coach, Bill Belichick, has been the NFL's most successful over the years in the science of plugging up injury-related holes — but plugging up against Manning is something else.
Chargers Lose to Their Own Play-Callers
THE SAN DIEGO CHARGERS, with the NFL's fourth or fifth best team, are out of the playoffs in large part because of their players' unfamiliarity with the pressures of the postseason, in which the demand is for the right mix of coolness and emotion. When they lost to the New York Jets on wild-card Saturday, 20-17, the Chargers played their game much of the time, but started tense and finished tense, and that finished them.
Quarterback Drew Brees, throwing often to converted basketball player Antonio Gates, brought the Chargers from 10 points down to 17-17 at the end of regulation. Then after their defensive team stopped the Jets in overtime, Brees, skillfully manipulating offensive coordinator Cam Cameron's plays, passed the Chargers down the field again — as far as the Jet 32. But he never threw another pass.
The Chargers' last six offensive plays of the 2004-05 season were all runs, which is the way the good NFL teams did it a half century ago, maybe, but not now. What's more, their last three plays, in the tensions of a fifth-quarter tie, were all power plays by LaDainian Tomlinson, a speed-and-moves expert who isn't a power runner. Nor in the gathering tension could his blocking line give him much help. In such circumstances, the best blockers in the world, whoever they might be, can't be relied on to blast a hole in an eight-man line.
It's unclear whether Cameron or Coach Marty Schottenheimer made those fated final decisions, for the San Diego head coach doesn't wear a headset. But it's just the way Schottenheimer would have run the game at the end, had he been the play-caller, and it beat him. It was a rare rainy day in the Southland, and the kicker he's hired is a rookie, who predictably, on the slick field, missed from 40 yards.
That made the other quarterback, Chad Pennington, the winner, Pennington doing it with the accurately thrown long passes he's capable of. Though the Big Apple media seems to have declared war on him, Pennington, when injury-free, ranks with the best there are in his profession.
A Warmup Game for Philadelphia
THE MINNESOTA VIKINGS have one thing in common with the Green Bay Packers, whom they walloped the other day, 31-17, to advance to next Sunday's second-round game in Philadelphia. If you combined Minnesota's best defensive players with the best of Green Bay's, you'd have the NFL's 25th or 26th best defensive team.
Thus if the Eagles still have Super Bowl pretensions minus their injured ace, Terrell Owens, their meeting with Minnesota appears to give them a splendid warmup occasion. It's been a month or more since most of the Eagles have played in a counting game, and they could need some adjustment time.
They need fear only a shootout, in which Daunte Culpepper of Minnesota might outshoot Philadelphia's Donovan McNabb. A bigger version of Ben Roethlisberger, Culpepper is still throwing to the Viking equivalent of Owens, handy Randy Moss. After the Packer game, Moss probably had the best explanation for why his team played so tension-free and skillfully that day. The media, he believes, by focusing on Moss' antics, took the pressure off the rest of the Vikings.
For the Eagles, McNabb doesn't have much to throw to now, but the rest of his team remains the NFC's most solid.
Rams Match Up Well With Vick
THE ST. LOUIS RAMS, after taking care of Seattle again in Saturday's NFC wild-card game, 27-20, are surprisingly on pace, following an 8-8 regular season, to make the Super Bowl and conceivably even win it. There's still one key if. They can keep rolling on if, in Atlanta Saturday night and thereafter, early and often, they attack with their best players, who are also the NFL's best pass-offense players.
On defense, emphasizing speed, the Rams match up well with the Falcons, whose quarterback, Michael Vick, can be the most exciting player in any tournament. In recent weeks, the Rams have shown that they're mastering their new gap defense — in which they can use their superior speed to charge between blockers and attack Falcon ballcarriers while simultaneously rushing Vick. In their secondary at the same time, the Rams, favoring zone defense, are amply experienced in the right coverages for Vick. The problem with man-for-man defenses in an Atlanta game is that in such alignments, pass-defense players have to turn their backs on Vick to cover his receivers. And with their backs turned, they don't see him darting away from collapsing pockets and tearing off — when he is the most dangerous.
As a football organization, the Rams might not be solid enough to overwhelm Atlanta except on offense. They still own the NFL's most formidable offensive team when Marc Bulger is throwing to Torry Holt, Isaac Bruce or Marshall Faulk or the young threats from Shaun McDonald and Kevin Curtis to Dane Looker and Mike Furrey — provided only that Coach Mike Martz is calling pass plays. If Martz uses Faulk on first-down power plays, Vick wins going away.


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When the photographer Douglas Sonders met Emma, a Pit Bull, black Labrador mix, he was touched by her gentle disposition and knew he had to take her home. With his ongoing personal project Not A Bully, the artist hopes to change public perception about so-called "bully dogs," breeds like Pit Bulls, Boxers, Rottweilers, French Bulldogs, and Boston Terriers, who together make up 40% of shelter dogs.
Tests by the American Temperament Tests Society conducted in 2009 displayed excellent behavior and tenderness on the parts of these breeds, and yet unfair prejudice continues to cloud the judgement of adoptive families, and many dogs go without finding a permanent, loving home. Emma, for instance, was nearly put down and subsequently went nine months in the foster-care system before finding Sonders.
Through a series of poignant images, Not A Bully hopes to change all that. Sonder's canine portraits are shot with the same careful reverence displayed in his commercial and editorial captures of celebrities; seen in high resolution and saturated in rich color, the animals are desperately emotive. Personalities shine through expectant eyes and eager tongues; the dogs pant excitedly, peer curiously at the viewer. Set against the most brilliant black fur, radiant topaz eyes shine bright, and chests perk up at attention, revealing soft and tender patches of white fur. Similarly, heads bow down slightly below the center of the frame in a show of trepidation and approval-seeking. These deeply-feeling creatures—capable of joy, fear, wit, and wisdom— are clearly anything but bullies. (via My Modern Met)


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Seth Godin recently wrote a blog post titled: Beware of the CEO blog. He writes:
"It's apparently the newest thing. I just got off the phone with one CEO who's itching to start, and read an email from another who just did.
Here's the problem. Blogs work when they are based on:
Pithiness and
(maybe Utility if you want six).
Does this sound like a CEO to you?
Short and sweet, folks: If you can't be at least four of the five things listed above, please don't bother. People have a choice (4.5 million choices, in fact) and nobody is going to read your blog, link to your blog or quote your blog unless there's something in it for them."
This kind of statement is warranted given the role and demands of a CEO and it's clear that a lot of CEO blogs are for the most part ghost written by someone in the marketing department or a third party ghost writer. Let's face it: most CEOs don't have the time nor patience to write blog posts on a consistent basis. While the demand for more CEOs and senior executives to join and engage in the online conversation, they have greater pressures at hand: growing the business, meeting or exceeding profitability for their shareholders and managing the overall business goals and objectives for the company. There are some exceptions to the rule – a few high profile CEOs who have been blogging for an extended period of time, most notable among them, Mark Cuban, owner of the Dallas Mavericks, Jonathan Schwartz, the CEO of Sun Microsystems, Tony Hsieh, CEO of Zappos.com and Guy Kawasaki, founding partner and entrepreneur-in-residence at Garage Technology Ventures, among many others. These CEOs among others are utilizing Web 2.0 technologies, social networking, and social media to push their agenda, educate the market, and use their blogs as a platform to highlight industry trends, challenges, and bring insight by combining personal experience and industry expertise. Why? Simply put, they understand the need to adopt new ways of communicating with the online communities beyond their internal groups such as employees and shareholders.
My personal experience with launching our own blog and our CEO's blog brings me to this topic. I believe that executives down to employees should take a top down approach when it comes to blogging and if a company decides to take this on, it needs to be implemented with the right strategy and plan in place. Our CEO Pat Clawson is a great example of how he leverages the blogging platform to communicate a clear message on the industry trends and challenges but how certain issues impact the market as a whole. It's not just about engaging but educating as well. Here is an example of what not to do in a CEO blog in a CEO blog – McAfee CEO David DeWalt's blog of using the platform to promote the company and its products and services. People aren't interested in coming to your blog to read more about your company and your products, they want to learn and gain insight into your expertise and knowledge about what's going on in the industry and how it will be impacted. While this isn't the worst example of a bad CEO blog, this is just one to demonstrate some common mistakes CEOs make when it comes to blogging.
Getting back to the point, out of curiosity I took this question to several CEOs and executives who are active on Twitter and blogging and posed the question: Should CEOs blog? Why or why not? This blog is to shed some light for those who are looking to start or already have established a blog, what are some of the dos and don'ts? This will be a rolling series to provide different perspectives on this topic – first of which begins with my Q&A with Guy Kawaski who was named as one of the top CEO bloggers to provide his perspective. At the end of this series, I will provide an outline of key steps to achieving a successful CEO blog and dos and don'ts.
Q&A with Guy Kawasaki:
Do you think CEOs should or shouldn't blog and why?
It's hard to provide a definitive answer to this because there are several key factors at play. First, is the company publicly traded? If it is, then the CEO must be very careful to limit the information in the blog—so much so, that the blog may be rendered boring. Second, can the CEO write well? If not, is she or he willing to use a ghost writer? Third, does the CEO truly have something significant to say? This is a "duhism," but not enough CEOs as themselves this question.
How important is it for CEOs to blog?
On a scale of 1-10 where 10 = "you'll get fired if you don't do this," blogging is about a 4 or 5. Fundamentally, a CEO is paid to lead, and that's what she or he should focus on. Blogging can be an aspect of leading (specifically, communicating), but it is by no means to that end. It's not an end in itself.
Should you get other senior management to blog? Why or why not?
The same questions apply to the CEO as senior management.
Do you think blogging by a CEO has a positive or negative impact to their overall brand?
The best case is that the CEO's blog is mildly interesting. The worst case is that the CEO's blog is deadly boring. The worst case is much more likely. What the CEO should truly do is ensure the creation of great product or services so that OTHER people blog about the company.
What other ways can it benefit the Company and its overall business objective?
CEOs should focus Twitter versus a blog. What CEOs should do is tweet, not blog. Or have a ghost tweet as her or him. Blogging requires a carefully crafted, legally and HR cleared essay that shows intelligence and insight on at least a weekly basis. Good luck. Tweeting requires a good link to something that the CEO (or ghost) finds interesting. These tweets should point to articles, blogs, etc that the CEO thinks his or her audience would find interesting. This is a lot easier to do and a lot safer too.
Top 5 dos and don'ts for senior management and CEOs when it comes to blogging?
Sponsor a company blog as opposed to a blog or blogs tied to specific people because the overall purpose is to communicate with the company's customers, provide tips and tech support, and engender loyalty. Good examples of this type of blog are here..
Can bad blogging kill your brand? Any examples?
Kawasaki says: "If blogging killed your brand, you had a pretty weak brand already, and it probably deserved to die."
President Barack Obama sets a great example on how he uses social working and Web 2.0 technologies to educate and forward his agenda. He is considered an Internet marketing maven who has used platforms such as YouTube, Twitter, Facebook, and MySpace to market his message across to millions of individuals.
First and foremost, I believe CEOs should ask themselves whether they have the right ideas, content, and dedication to create and share their content/message with the world. Second, what is the overall objective? As Godin mentioned in his blog, there are key components to launching and maintaining a successful blog that others will want to read and follow. If you don't meet the criteria, then it might not be your cup of tea. But rest assure, if it's not you, the CEO blogging, be sure to get your company behind a corporate blog to create a competitive advantage.
While it sounds like a "me too" approach, the way we communicate has significantly changed. My belief is that CEOs should definitely blog and every company should have a blog because it's not about the return on investment (ROI), but about the return on influence within your industry. By adding your voice through a blog, you're putting a face to the company and humanizing your brand, not to mention elevating your thought leadership. And, if you don't have the time to blog, get a ghost writer to meet with you on a weekly basis, brainstorm on some key topics, and voice your opinion and why people should care. While the option of using a ghostwriter might not be ideal, as long as they can take YOUR message to your blog, it's a step forward in moving the needle and getting your company front and center in the market. The article on cbsnews.com Why Most CEOs Who Blog – Blog Badly sums it up nicely: keep your posts short, clear, educational and most of all, compelling. Don't become the poster child for "Why CEOs shouldn't blog" but take a leadership role and drive a message that can change the market perception, interests the readers (journalists, buyers, bloggers, etc.).
My blog: How to Achieve Return on Influence Through Corporate Blogs
David Meerman Scott: The Future of PR: should your CEO blog?
Jeremiah Owyang: The Many Challenges of a CEO Blog
Guy Kawasaki is a founding partner and entrepreneur-in-residence at Garage Technology Ventures. He is also the co-founder of Alltop.com, an "online magazine rack" of popular topics on the web. Previously, he was an Apple Fellow at Apple Computer, Inc. Guy is the author of nine books including Reality Check, The Art of the Start, Rules for Revolutionaries, How to Drive Your Competition Crazy, Selling the Dream, and The Macintosh Way. He has a BA from Stanford University and an MBA from UCLA as well as an honorary doctorate from Babson College. You can read completed coverage of blogging at http://blogging.alltop.com/.
Be on the lookout for Part II in Should CEOs blog. This one takes the perspective on why CEOs should stick to internal blogging with Chris Hewitt.


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Every once in a while, Colts owner Jim Irsay launches the Twitter equivalent of an Easter egg hunt. Currently, Colts fans are making guesses like crazy, and wondering if they're getting warm.
On Saturday night, Irsay said that his team, which has been very active so far in free agency, is "working on a deal, one we've been working on for five days," and that "we're very, very close to making it work."
Later, Irsay narrowed the range of potential guesses to one position: "Wide receiver!!"
But there aren't many free-agent receivers with names justifying the use of two exclamation points. Darrius Heyward-Bey was cut on Tuesday, and Randy Moss still has some caché, baby.
That leaves restricted free agents, where Giants receiver Victor Cruz and Steelers receiver Emmanuel Sanders are the top targets. But with Irsay saying that the Colts have been working on the deal for five days and given that Cruz's agent change delayed prevent CAA from talking contract during the five-day waiting period, it's probably not Cruz.
Unless, of course, the Colts were spending the first part of the past five days coming up with an offer-sheet strategy with a 2013 cap number that would prevent the Giants from matching.
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As the Colts try to replace offensive coordinator Bruce Arians, they're going to start with a guy who has already proven to be able to handle what they do.
According to ESPN's Chris Mortensen, Stanford offensive coordinator Pep Hamilton is "a leading candidate" to take over the same job in Indianapolis.
Hamilton's actual title at Stanford is "Andrew Luck Director of Offense," since the position was endowed by an anonymous donor who wanted to honor the former Stanford and now-Colts quarterback. That makes it sound more academic, I suppose.
Hamilton was also mentioned as a candidate for the Jets coordinator job, but his familiarity with Luck (and the fact he's Andrew Luck and not Mark Sanchez) probably makes the Colts job a better fit.


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Winnebago County Sheriff's Police
News Media Release
News Release Number
Information: THEFT ARRESTS
Date: September 23,2013
Time: 1000 a.m.
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During the past several months numerous thefts have taken place at quarries in Winnebago, Boone and Ogle Counties. Hundreds of pounds of wire have been stolen along with tools. Major damage has been done to machinery from which the wire was stolen from.
In addition to the thefts from quarries thefts have also occurred from rural farm properties. Items taken include metal gates, fences and tools.
Detectives from the Winnebago County Sheriff's Department, Boone County Sheriff's Department, the Ogle County Sheriff's Department and the Belvidere Police Department have worked together on this series of crimes.
On Sunday September 22, 2013 at approximately 11:20P.M. a truck was stopped by the detectives from the listed agencies. The truck was occupied by Andrew A. Garkey (DOB 5-20-87) and Cecil C. Sexton (DOB 11-24-87). The truck contained barbed wire, fence posts and other items determined to have been stolen from a farm property on Severson Road shortly before the truck was stopped. The truck was stopped near 6900 Kilburn Road.
A search warrant was executed on September 23, 2013 at 6949 Kilburn Ave, the residence of Garkey and multiple stolen items, including metal farm gates were recovered.
Garkey and Sexton are charged with felony theft and lodged in the Winnebago County Jail. They are presumed innocent unless proven guilty in court.
The investigation is on-going and additional charges are pending relative to the thefts from the quarries.