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decision sign As leaders, we all have a lot of decisions to make, and since there are many, it can sometimes be difficult to stay on top of and feel confident about all of them. Would you like a framework, a process, a way to improve your decision-making effectiveness and your confidence in those decisions long after they are made??

Og Mandino, one of my favorite authors, penned this line, one of my favorites, and the underlying idea for this article: ?Use wisely your power of choice.??

Here is the concept behind the framework I am promising: if we are going to make better decisions, it is important to make some basic decisions first, as those become the foundation and guidance for all of the other decisions that follow. Using this suggested framework will make future decisions come easier and with more confidence.?

This framework does something else too ? something perhaps even more important. Your answers to these foundational questions (and your resulting actions) also determine what kind of leader you will become. ?

Let?s survey those most foundational questions and how they help you make so many others more effectively.

What is most important? This is a dual-use question. First of all you, need to know what the most important things are in the bigger picture. Beyond that though, asking this question in the midst of any decision or problem solving exercise will give you immediate perspective and will improve your choices.

What do you believe in? This is the values question. When you understand your most deeply held values and the values of your organization, it will make many decisions easier, and will make some superfluous. Consider this question like a deep breath before deciding. Does the decision you are making align with your values?

What is your purpose? One of the challenges in decision making for all of us, especially as leaders, is to decide what not to do. Chances are you will have many opportunities presented to you and your team, and one of the decisions you must make is to say ?no.? When you and your team are crystal clear as to why you are in business and what your mission or purpose is, it is easier to say no to things that aren?t in complete support of that purpose. You?ve likely heard the phrase ?say no to the good so you can say yes to the great?. . . you can?t do that without knowing your purpose.

What are your greatest strengths and weaknesses? This question must be asked both personally and in relationship to your team. (Of course it works organizationally too.) Knowing your strengths and weaknesses clearly will help you make better decisions. It will help you decide what to do, who to involve and what challenges you might face. It helps define the good options, ones that make sense but may not match our strengths, from the great options, the ones that play to and complement our strengths. While strengths and weaknesses don?t need to be static (you can grow; you can add new resources), knowing where they are at the start of a project (after deciding) is an important part of successful outcomes from your decisions.

What are your basic beliefs about people? Many of the decisions you will make in your professional life will be related to and directly impact other people. Your underlying beliefs about people will have an impact on your decisions subconsciously (and already do). Spending time thinking about both your basic beliefs about people and the specific ones for the people involved in a particular decision will help you make more informed decisions and will perhaps give you a more complete perspective in your decision-making process.

What kind of leader do you want to be? This question gets more to your intentions for individual decisions and your legacy. Do you want to grow your people? Do you want decisions that are more completely committed to by your team? If so, then you will engage more people in decisions more often. Do you want to be seen as a strong and decisive leader? Those choices might lead you to make more independent or unilateral decisions. While your answer to this question may not change the decisions you make, it can definitely impact the way you approach and make them.

Your answers to these questions become your decision-making guidance system. They will not only give you greater efficiency in the short term, but will also give you greater effectiveness and therefore better decisions. Time invested in thinking about these questions ? and helping your team think about and know the answers to them ? will aid in your quest for greater results.

Remarkable Principle: Remarkable leaders know that the best decisions start with the most important decisions.

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Murkowski Backs Same-Sex Marriage (Taegan Goddard's Political Wire)

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PFT: Denver sees Super Bowl opportunity after Miami failure

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With the Dolphins not getting public money to upgrade Sun Life Stadium, it?s widely being assumed that South Florida will be shut out of the Super Bowl rotation.

The logic is simple, which makes it far easier for me to follow.? The NFL has strongly suggested that Miami won?t get another Super Bowl without upgrading the stadium.? The Dolphins, who have made a more clear link between the lack of upgrades and the absence of Super Bowls, have said the upgrades won?t happen without partial public money.? The partial public money isn?t available.? Thus, the upgrades won?t happen.

So future Super Bowls won?t happen, right?

Perhaps.

While we?re told it?s ?not very likely? that Miami will get additional Super Bowls without a stadium upgrade, it?s not impossible.? Ultimately, the owners collectively decide where Super Bowls will be played.

Miami landed on the endangered Super Bowl species list after a continuous rainfall marred Super Bowl XLI between the Colts and the Bears.? The league wants the paying customers to be protected from the South Florida elements ? less than a year before the NFL will be subjecting the paying customers to the New Jersey elements.

That remains the biggest disconnect, in our view.? It?s fine to drop the Super Bowl experience into Manhattan in the dead of winter, and to charge fans four figures to freeze while watching the game, but it?s no longer acceptable to spend a full week in Miami with the remote possibility that it will rain for four hours on Sunday night?

The problem for the league is that, if the owners relent and award additional Super Bowls to South Florida, the not-so-subtle ?upgrade or else? mandate will come off as hollow.? But by removing Miami from the rotation, the league necessarily won?t have as much leverage to squeeze every last penny out of the other potential Super Bowl locations.

Even now, the owners need Miami at the table in order to get the best possible deal out of San Francisco for Super Bowl L and Houston for Super Bowl LI.? Likewise, it?s possible that Miami will launch a dramatic, eleventh-hour reconfiguration of its bid to give the NFL more money to make up for the lack of a stadium upgrade.

At a time when the NFL is trying to expand the universe of potential Super Bowl locations in order to have more bids to pit against each other, it makes no sense to slam the door on playing the game in one of the best places it can be played, regardless of whether the stadium is renovated.

Source: http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2013/05/06/denver-sees-a-super-opportunity-in-miami-stadium-defeat/related/

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AT&T Beam is a USB LTE modem with built-in LCD, due May 10th for $20

With the onset of MiFis, smartphone hotspots and other methods of tethering your computer to the 'net, USB modems aren't exactly the most popular devices on the block anymore. It doesn't mean they're not desirable to business folk, however, so most carriers keep at least one or two in their lineup. AT&T just introduced the Beam, its latest dongle from Sierra Wireless, which offers the usual LTE domestically (700/AWS) along with tri-band HSPA+ (850/1900/2100) and quad-band GSM / EDGE.

The key feature here is its built-in 96x64 black-and-white LCD panel, which displays signal strength, data usage and other stats. Finally, it offers mobile hotspot capability, GPS and microSD card support (up to 32GB), and will work on Win 8 / RT laptops and tablets. Dimension-wise, it weighs 1.91 ounces and measures a stout 1.97 x 2.58 x 0.46 inches (50 x 65.5 x 11.7mm). If that fits your purposes, the Beam can be all yours starting May 10th for $20 and a two-year commitment.

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Wind, not water, formed mound on Mars, new analysis suggests

May 6, 2013 ? A roughly 3.5-mile high Martian mound that scientists suspect preserves evidence of a massive lake might actually have formed as a result of the Red Planet's famously dusty atmosphere, an analysis of the mound's features suggests. If correct, the research could dilute expectations that the mound holds evidence of a large body of water, which would have important implications for understanding Mars' past habitability.

Researchers based at Princeton University and the California Institute of Technology suggest that the mound, known as Mount Sharp, most likely emerged as strong winds carried dust and sand into the 96-mile-wide crater in which the mound sits. They report in the journal Geology that air likely rises out of the massive Gale Crater when the Martian surface warms during the day, then sweeps back down its steep walls at night. Though strong along the Gale Crater walls, these "slope winds" would have died down at the crater's center where the fine dust in the air settled and accumulated to eventually form Mount Sharp, which is close in size to Alaska's Mt. McKinley.

This dynamic counters the prevailing theory that Mount Sharp formed from layers of lakebed silt -- and could mean that the mound contains less evidence of a past, Earth-like Martian climate than most scientists currently expect. Evidence that Gale Crater once contained a lake in part determined the landing site for the NASA Mars rover Curiosity. The rover touched down near Mount Sharp in August with the purpose of uncovering evidence of a habitable environment, and in December Curiosity found traces of clay, water molecules and organic compounds. Determining the origin of these elements and how they relate to Mount Sharp will be a focus for Curiosity in the coming months.

But the mound itself was likely never under water, though a body of water could have existed in the moat around the base of Mount Sharp, said study co-author Kevin Lewis, a Princeton associate research scholar in geosciences and a participating scientist on the Curiosity rover mission, Mars Science Laboratory. The quest to determine whether Mars could have at one time supported life might be better directed elsewhere, he said.

"Our work doesn't preclude the existence of lakes in Gale Crater, but suggests that the bulk of the material in Mount Sharp was deposited largely by the wind," said Lewis, who worked with first author Edwin Kite, a planetary science postdoctoral scholar at Caltech; Michael Lamb, an assistant professor of geology at Caltech; and Claire Newman and Mark Richardson of California-based research company Ashima Research.

"Every day and night you have these strong winds that flow up and down the steep topographic slopes. It turns out that a mound like this would be a natural thing to form in a crater like Gale," Lewis said. "Contrary to our expectations, Mount Sharp could have essentially formed as a free-standing pile of sediment that never filled the crater."

Even if Mount Sharp were born of wind, it and similar mounds likely overflow with a valuable geological -- if not biological -- history of Mars that can help unravel the climate history of Mars and guide future missions, Lewis said.

"These sedimentary mounds could still record millions of years of Martian climate history," Lewis said. "This is how we learn about Earth's history, by finding the most complete sedimentary records we can and going through layer by layer. One way or another, we're going to get an incredible history book of all the events going on while that sediment was being deposited. I think Mount Sharp will still provide an incredible story to read. It just might not have been a lake."

Dawn Sumner, a geology professor at the University of California-Davis and a Mars Science Laboratory team member, said that the specificity of the researchers' model makes it a valuable attempt to explain Mount Sharp's origin. While the work alone is not yet enough to rethink the distribution of water on Mars, it does propose a unique wind dynamic for Gale Crater then models it in enough detail for the hypothesis to actually be tested as more samples are analyzed on Mars, Sumner said.

"To my knowledge, their model is novel both in terms of invoking katabatic [cool, downward-moving] winds to form Mount Sharp and in quantitatively modeling how the winds would do this," said Sumner, who is familiar with the work but had no role in it.

"The big contribution here is that they provide new ideas that are specific enough that we can start to test them," she said. "This paper provides a new model for Mount Sharp that makes specific predictions about the characteristics of the rocks within the mountain. Observations by Curiosity at the base of Mount Sharp can test the model by looking for evidence of wind deposition of sediment."

The researchers used pairs of satellite images of Gale Crater taken in preparation for the rover landing by the High-Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera onboard the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter satellite managed by Caltech for NASA. Software tools extracted the topographical details of Mount Sharp and the surrounding terrain. The researchers found that the various layers in the mound did not form more-or-less flat-lying stacks as sediments deposited from a lake would. Instead, the layers fanned outward from the mound's center in an unusual radial pattern, Lewis said.

Kite developed a computer model to test how wind circulation patterns would affect the deposition and erosion of wind-blown sediment within a crater like Gale. The researchers found that slope winds that constantly exited and reentered Gale Crater could limit the deposition of sediments near the crater rim, while building up a mound in the center of the crater, even if the ground were bare from the start, Lewis said.

The researchers' results provide evidence for recent questions about Mount Sharp's watery origins, Lewis said. Satellite observations had previously detected water-related mineral signatures within the lower portion of Mount Sharp. While this suggested that the lower portion might have been series of lakebeds, portions of the upper mound were more ambiguous, Lewis said. First of all, the upper layers of the mound are higher than the crater walls in several places. Also, Gale Crater sits on the edge of Mars' northern lowlands. If it had been filled with water to near the height of Mount Sharp then the entire northern hemisphere would have been flooded.

Soil analyses carried out by Curiosity -- the rover's primary mission is two years, but could be extended -- will help determine the nature of Mount Sharp and the Martian climate in general, Lewis said. Wind erosion relies on specific factors such as the size of individual soil grains, so such information gleaned from the Curiosity mission will help determine Martian characteristics such as wind speed. On Earth, sediments need some amount of moisture to become cemented into rock. It will be interesting to know, Lewis said, how the rock layers of Mount Sharp are held together and how water might be involved.

"If the mechanism we describe is correct, it would tell us a lot about Mars and how it operates because Mount Sharp is only one of a class of enigmatic sedimentary mounds observed on Mars," Lewis said.

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