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When World War II began six decades ago, with Germany's invasion of Poland on Sept. 1, 1939, the biggest fear of this nation's political and military leadership was that Adolf Hitler would successfully build an atomic bomb.
Indeed, refugee physicists here in the United States warned that German scientists had discovered nuclear fission in 1938 and that it was theoretically possible to harness that power in the form of the most destructive weapon in the history of the world.
Recognizing this grave threat to U.S. national security even though this country would not meet the German Wehrmacht in battle until two years after the start of World War II President Franklin Roosevelt approved the creation of the Manhattan Project.
It was the most ambitious scientific-military undertaking in American history. To start from scratch and build an atomic weapon. And to build it before the Germans, who had a three-year head start.
Most of the nation's best and brightest scientists worked on the Manhattan Project, led by the renowned physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer. And after three years of trial and error at the Manhattan Project's compound in Los Alamos, N.M., the United States successfully tested the world's first atomic bomb.
Now, here we are, 60 years later, and the United States finds itself facing a threat to its national security that may eventually become as grave as the Third Reich's race to develop the atomic bomb.
That is: the growing number of authoritarian regimes including China, North Korea, Iraq and Iran that either have or are actively developing nuclear missiles with which they can threaten America's strategic allies, if not this country itself.
Much as the United States created the Manhattan Project to concentrate the efforts of this nation's best scientific minds to build the first atomic bomb, there needs to be a similar project, here and now, to develop and deploy a missile-defense system that can protect the United States and its allies including Taiwan, Japan and Israel from nuclear missile attack.
Our allies agree. Indeed, just this week, Japan agreed to conduct joint research with the United States on a missile-defense system that could destroy incoming ballistic missiles like the one North Korea is about to test (against the wishes of both Japan and the United States).
Taiwan is also seeking U.S. assistance in developing and deploying a missile-defense network that can thwart the M-9 and M-11 ballistic missiles that China has targeted at the island. An anti-missile shield "not only responds to current needs," Taiwan President Lee Teng-hui said this week, "but even more, fulfills the nation's long-term development interests."
The foes of missile defense in this country, many of whom supported unilateral disarmament back before the Cold War ended, continue to argue that a missile-defense system won't work. They liken the interception of an enemy missile to a bullet hitting another bullet.
But there were similar doubts about the technological feasibility of the atomic bomb back in 1939 before the Manhattan Project came into being. And in only a matter of years, American scientists disproved the skeptics by successfully exploding the weapon in the New Mexico desert.
Similarly, the Pentagon has recently proven that it is, indeed, possible to intercept a missile with another missile. Earlier this month, in fact, the military tested its THAAD (Theater High-Altitude Area Defense) rocket at White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico. The rocket zeroed in on a mock enemy "missile" 50 miles into space and destroyed it.
It "was probably one of the watershed events in the technological history of our country," said Air Force Lt. Gen. Ronald T. Kadish.
Foes of missile defense were, nonetheless, unimpressed. It's one thing to knock out one enemy missile, they say, but it's quite another to pinpoint and destroy a number of hostile missiles at the same time.
But that's not the way America's potential adversaries see it. Indeed, China, Russia and North Korea, for instance, obviously believe that the United States is scientifically and technologically capable of developing a full-blown missile-defense system; otherwise, their leaders wouldn't seize every opportunity to decry U.S. research and development in that area.
The United States understood how vital it was to national security to win the race with Nazi Germany to build the atomic bomb. It is no less important today that the United States win the race to deploy an effective anti-missile defense before some unfriendly country or another like China, North Korea or Iraq decides to fire a nuclear missile at the United States or one of its allies. (Copyright 1999 Newspaper Enterprise Assn. Joseph Perkins is a columnist for The San Diego Union-Tribune.)
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Focused on customer experience design and social engagement, he brings over a decade of experience delivering digital platforms and programs for global brands.
He is happiest when collaborating with smart and talented people to create experiences that enrich people's lives -- creative that inspires and delights; digital products that provide value and utility; connecting with consumers by being relevant and responsive.
Andrew believes great customer experiences are built in collaboration with the people that use them and provide mutual value to both the brand and consumer.

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Smyrna Library
The Smyrna Library is conveniently located adjacent to the Smyrna Market Village, Smyrna City Hall and the Smyrna Community Center. The Smyrna Library is the only city operated library in the state of Georgia and has provided service to the residents of Smyrna for 70 years.
The library offers programs for all ages. Stop by and check it out or go online to their website to learn more about their programs and activities including storytime for babies through young children.
Address: 100 Village Green Circle, Smyrna, Georgia 30080 (Directions)
Phone: (770) 431-2860
Hours: Mon-Friday 9:00 a.m. – 9:00 p.m.
Sat 9:00 a.m. – 6:00 p.m.
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Website: www.smyrna-library.com
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This weekend in Olympia was the annual Sand In The City event. Bruce and I went down to the Port Plaza on Saturday to check it out. It is a fun family oriented festival of sorts to benefit the local Hands On Children's Museum.
A lot of folks were there participating in the free (donation suggested) events and programs. 270 tons of sand had been trucked in for the sand sculpting teams to play with. Their artistic talents are amazing as you can see from some of the displays we observed. There was a team sculpting competition.
This looks like Bruce and me watching TV at night.
I thought of Bayfield Al with this sculpture.
The warm sunny day brought out even more of the locals. There was a giant sandbox set up for the smaller children to play in while the parents sat nearby or played too. They even had games for the kids like Splash Ball, Bubble Hut, and Chalk Walk to name a few. The usual face painting booth was on hand.
Could you even find your kid in this mass of people?
On a warm day WHY do people have to dress their dog?
There was live entertainment every hour and it was very good. While we watched, a group from the Comerford Irish Dancers performed. In traditional Irish dance the arms are held straight at the dancer's side. Think Lord of the Dance here.
Beautiful young ladies entertained the crowd.
There were many local businesses represented here with food and beverage for sale. All their proceeds were going as donations to the Hands On Museum. What a great community this is and very generous, as well.
Tables were set up for eating, if you could get to them.
It was a nice day and a change of pace from the world of babysitting. There is always something going on in the greater Olympia community and that is one reason we do enjoy spending some time here.
If you read my post from yesterday you may have viewed the comment section as well. I never intended for my post to open a can of worms or create a "bear pit" (as Al once called it on his blog) and I'm sorry if feelings were bruised and so forth.
We all have our own thoughts, opinions, way of life, etc. and I just want everyone to be comfortable in what they are doing. I try to respect everyone's blog and the comments they leave on mine. I appreciate all comments and I will publish them all as long as they do not include offensive language. After that I leave it up to the reader to determine what they will after viewing them. After all, we are all entitled to our own opinions and have the right to express them.
Thank you for stopping by….and Please feel free to leave more comments.
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A fossil or rock dig is not only fun, but it is a great reason to get students to write. Click here to access the free student writing form.
Each year, I set up a classroom dig with my students. All grade levels investigate fossils. I use rocks with just some grade levels. When we do dig for rocks, we analyze rock features and classify them as sedimentary, metamorphic, and igneous.
How to Set Up A Classroom Dig
Materials Needed:
Rocks or Fossils
Paintbrushes (I purchase mine from any discount type of dollar store.)
Sand (or moon sand from Brookstone)
A bucket to hold the materials
A student recording form Click Here To Access It
This is a dinosaur fossil that I made using a mold and plaster of paris.
The students work in small groups to look for rocks and fossils. Once they find something, they write about what they find. I really enjoy seeing the students have fun doing this activity. This gets them to use inference skills because students must use clues about what they have previously learned in order to explain what they have found.
After each student has taken a turn, each person must complete a written form. This is a great way to include grammar and writing.


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An elderly man accused of groping a preschooler in a Raynham supermarket bathroom reportedly failed to show for his arraignment today.
An elderly man accused of groping a preschooler in a Raynham supermarket bathroom failed to show for his arraignment today, according to the district attorney's office.
Market Basket janitor Valerio Rodriguez, 71, of Providence, R.I., faces a felony indecent assault charge after he allegedly reached under a bathroom stall partition and touched a 4-year-old boy's calf June 1.
A judge at Taunton District Court issued a default warrant for his arrest and added a "do not release" order to it, said Gregg Miliote, a spokesman for the Bristol County District Attorney's Office.
"Once he is located and arrested, he cannot be released until he goes before a judge," Miliote said.
That means a judicial officer, such as a justice of the peace, cannot release him on bail if he is arrested overnight, Miliote said.
As of early this afternoon, Rodriguez had not been located, Miliote said.
Raynham police had said the boy's father, Jason R. Beatrice, 31, of Raynham, witnessed the alleged incident from outside the stall.
The enraged father flung open the stall and punch Rodriguez repeatedly, police said.
Beatrice was charged with assault. He will be arraigned at Taunton District Court July 31.
Both men were summonsed the afternoon of the alleged incident, but neither was arrested.
Police said Beatrice later authored and distributed fliers warning of a "predator" at the store, after he reportedly returned to Market Basket July 4 and saw Rodriguez still working there.
A spokesman for Tewksbury-based Demoulas' Supermarkets, owner of the Market Basket chain, said Rodriguez had been suspended pending investigation.
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1.1 This procedure covers the determination of selected perfluorinated compounds (PFCs) in a water matrix using liquid chromatography (LC) and detection with tandem mass spectrometry (MS/MS). These analytes are qualitatively and quantitatively determined by this method. This method adheres to multiple reaction monitoring (MRM) mass spectrometry.
1.2 The Method Detection Limit (MDL)2 and Reporting Range3 for the target analytes are listed in Table 1.
1.2.1 The reporting limit in this test method is the minimum value below which data are documented as non-detects. Analyte detections between the method detection limit and the reporting limit are estimated concentrations and are not reported following this test method. In most cases, the reporting limit is the concentration of the Level 1 calibration standard as shown in Table 4 for the perfluorinated compounds after taking into account the 50 % dilution with methanol. It is above the Level 1 calibration concentration for PFOS, PFBS, FHEA and FOEA, these compounds can be identified at the Level 1 concentration but the standard deviation among replicates at this lower spike level resulted in a higher reporting limit.
1.3 Units—The values stated in SI units are to be regarded as standard. No other units of measurement are included in this standard.
1.4 This standard does not purport to address all of the safety concerns, if any, associated with its use. It is the responsibility of the user of this standard to establish appropriate safety and health practices and determine the applicability of regulatory limitations prior to use.
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Emery & Sons is responsible for the construction of a 140-foot diameter 2.3 million gallon partially buried pre-stressed concrete reservoir and an associated 1,900 square foot control building, complete with SCADA system for radio telemetry. The control building houses valves, and flow meters required for the operation of the reservoir as well as a 1,200 gpm duplex booster pump station, miscellaneous instruments, a tablet chlorinator and a recirculation pump for monitoring and boosting chlorine residuals. A seismically activated valve isolation system is also required. General site improvements include the installation of 960 feet of 18-inch ductile iron pipe, the paving of 1,500 linear feet of an existing gravel access roadway, and the installation of 2,700 linear feet of chain link fence as well as earthwork to prepare the site for a second future reservoir of the same size. Over 40,000 CY of excavation is required for this project, and large boulders were encountered during the excavation. Drainage pipe, swales and detention areas were also required to accommodate the new site contours.
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For the potatoes: Steam the potatoes in a covered saucepan with about 1 inch/2.5 cm water in the bottom, until very tender, about 30 minutes.
For the mushrooms: Clean and quarter the mushrooms. Heat just 2 tablespoons of the butter with 1 tablespoon of the olive oil and saute the mushrooms until cooked and golden. Remove from the pan. Heat the other spoonful of olive oil (adding more if you need it) and saute the onion until soft. Add the garlic for 1 minute. Deglaze with the wine and reduce to no more than a spoonful. Add the stock, thyme and mushrooms, season with salt and pepper and cook until the stock has reduced by half. Knead together the flour with the last tablespoon of butter and stir it in. Cook until the liquid has thickened to a sauce, a matter of minutes. Stir in the parsley. Spoon the mixture into a gratin dish.
For the cheese potato top: Heat the oven to 425 degrees F/220 degrees C. Mash the potatoes with the milk and butter until smooth, adding more milk if needed. Season with salt and pepper. Stir in the diced cheese. Distribute evenly over the mushroom mixture, and smooth with the back of the spoon (if you want to be very retro-housewife, make patterns with the tines of a fork or make waves with a spoon). Sprinkle over the Parmesan. Bake the gratin until bubbling hot and golden on top, about 15 minutes.


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In the same family for 53 years, this gorgeous detached Mediterranean home with tile roof boasts approximately 2,565 square feet of living space and sits on one of the best blocks in St. Francis Wood. Built in 1925, this exquisite home offers beautiful architectural detailing throughout including beautiful hardwood floors, crown moldings, high ceilings, arched French paned windows and leaded stained glass doors. The home boasts amazing light and a wonderful floor plan with four bedrooms and two bathrooms on the second floor. Walking distance to private Terrace Park playground and tennis courts, Butterfly Park, Triangle Park, West Portal Village, transportation and close proximity to fine schools and highways 280 and 101. Easy access to the Financial District and Downtown. Four bedrooms, home office, sunroom, two and a half bathrooms, formal entry with beautiful wrought iron winding staircase, formal living room with wood burning fireplace, formal dining room, spacious kitchen, breakfast room, laundry area with new washer and dryer, storage, workshop area in basement, large walk-out two-level party decks, sun porch deck off kitchen, detached two car side by side garage, parking for additional 2-3 cars on brick paved driveway, landscaped front lawns with sprinklers and drip irrigation, landscaped back yard with mature trees and lush greenery, security and surveillance systems, newly painted interior and newly refinished hardwood floors.
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Mentor Program
The PMICIE Mentoring Program provides mentoring opportunities for members of the PMCIE Chapter. This program is a service provided by PMICIE and is designed to encourage and facilitate growth in project management knowledge, professionalism, and skills in alignment with PMI and PMICIE Chapter goals.
Email your applications to: [email protected]
The PMICIE Mentoring Program enables members of the Chapter to share experiences, focus on knowledge transfer and learning together, and to develop, improve, refine project management skills for the benefit of their own professional development. Mentors and protégés (also known as "mentees") are paired based on the mentees' areas of interest or need, time allowances, and other criteria. Participation in the PMICIE Mentoring Program is a self-rewarding experience, which will further establish your part in our professional social network community.
The one-on-one format of the PMICIE Mentoring Program provides mentors and mentees the opportunity to spend individualized time sharing ideas, challenges, and perspectives on specific areas of project management. The value gained from working in a mentoring partnership is largely based on the goals of the partners, engaged participation by both mentor and mentee, and the professional relationship between them. Benefits from participating in mentoring programs include more quickly developing the insight to solve complex problems within the work environment, advance career paths, and to more readily recognize and develop business opportunities.
Mentoring, like much of project management looks "easy" when one witnesses an accomplished professional at work. However, effective mentoring, like project management, is a structured process that requires diligent effort which is only effective when roles, responsibilities, accountabilities, and expectations are shared and in alignment with pursuing a common, well-defined goal. The intent of this PMICIE Mentoring Program document is to provide a summary-level presentation of commonly accepted mentoring practices as guidance for the Chapter's mentoring program. Chapter members are encouraged to pursue additional mentoring references to the extent they are interested in or need to in response to mentoring issues they may encounter.
The program is voluntary, is governed by these guidelines and is designed to provide structure to the mentor/mentee relationship and process, as well as recognizing how to define when the relationship has accomplished its objectives. PMICIE members wishing to participate in the Mentoring Program should sign up with the online form.
While requirements to participate in the PMICIE Mentoring Program are minimal and designed to facilitate effective mentor/mentee relationships, the PMICIE Mentoring Program is restricted to members of the PMICIE Chapter. Other specific requirements include:
• Current PMP certification.
• Minimum five (5) years' experience as a project manager.
• Well defined experience, expertise, and skills in multiple areas of project management.
• Commitment and desire to regularly make time available to facilitate mentee development.
• PMICIE acceptance of Mentor Application.
• Participate in Mentoring Program continuous improvement surveys.
• PMP certification not required for Mentees.
• Desire to fully engage in the mentoring process.
• Commitment to regularly meet with Mentor and engage in personal growth.
• PMICIE acceptance of Mentee Application,
• Participate in Mentoring Program continuous improvement surveys.
Both mentors and mentees will complete application forms that include information to facilitate the process of matching mentee needs with suitably qualified mentors. Specifically, mentors will provide summary biographies that identify areas of expertise and experience. Mentees will complete a similar application, but the focus will be on defining the needs and objectives of the mentee for which they desire a mentor.
Benefits of the PMICIE Mentoring Program
There are many tangible and intangible benefits of participating in a mentoring relationship, including:
Provide mentees with an opportunity to:
• Promote a professional relationship that fosters growth and development.
• Learn from experienced project managers.
• Work through a problem on a current project.
• Refine and improve critical thinking skills.
• Obtain ideas for becoming a more effective project manager
• Define goals of growth and a path to achieve them.
• Accelerate and refine project management skill(s) development.
• Increase project management competencies.
• Provide a forum for discussing professional issues and to seek/receive advice.
• Challenge mentees to set stretch goals, take risks, and achieve more.
• Increase self-confidence to take on increased accountabilities and responsibilities.
• Provide role modelling for professional leadership skills.
• Demonstrate mentee's commitment to personal and professional growth
Provide mentors with an opportunity to:
• Give back to the profession by sharing knowledge and experiences.
• Build deeper relationships with PMICIE members.
• Enhance problem-solving skills by assisting with Mentee development.
• Create opportunities for experienced professional to refine knowledge and communication skills.
• Enhance coaching, leadership, and teaching skills; become more reflective practitioners.
• Sharpen skills in the role of "trusted advisor."
• Increase "active listening" skills.
• Create support networks with other professionals.
• Demonstrate professionalism and commitment to professional development for self and others.
Mentoring Process Overview
The mentoring process has an iterative structure involving four phases:
Phase I: Preparation
Phase 2: Negotiation
Phase 3: Facilitation
Phase 4: Closure
While these phases naturally build on one another, predictably, they are not liner and are generally presented as a cycle.


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The simple, sturdy vertical lines of our Mission Hill bedroom speak to the motifs of the Arts & Crafts design movement, ornamented mainly by the grain of the wood, the joinery and the hardware. Although the mortise and tenon joinery and closely spaced long wooden slats are reminiscent of the related mission furniture style and offer a classically traditional aesthetic, the simple silhouette caters to a living style and philosophy that can make any home more satisfying, comfortable and beautiful. Features classic craftsman hardware that emulates a hand forged hammer tone texture in an oil-rubbed bronze finish.


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My parents have had a small business Web site for about 6 years. They've had the same email address since they started, and they have had their email configured so that any email sent to their domain gets dumped into their main mailbox. Last time I visited I set them up with Bayesian filtering and turned on their ISP's default SpamAssassin install for them and thought it would get them through. When I got there this time, I was surprised to see that literally hundreds of spam messages were making it past SpamAssassin, and that their Bayesian filter wasn't picking up the slack, mainly because they weren't diligent about training it.
They had all but given up on email because it was nearly impossible to sift through the thousands of bad emails to get to the few emails that weren't junk, and I'm sure it hurt their business.
The first thing I did was turn off the feature that forwards all emails to a domain to one mailbox. I felt like that was offering no value since they only used one address anyway, and it was probably upping their spam count significantly. A day or so after I did that, they literally got several thousand spam messages in one day, and many of them were repeats. I had also created a new mailbox for them, and set things up so that only emails from people in their address book were forwarded from the old mailbox to the new one. This at least gave them a place to look for messages that they knew to be good, they just had to delete all of the spam every day in the old mailbox.
The other thing I did was remove their email address from their Web site and put up a contact form instead. I've never considered this sort of thing to be good design, but if you give up checking your email due to spam anyway, then drastic measures are required.
Ultimately, we wound up deleting their old mailbox completely and sending a notification of their address change to everyone in their address book. Now they have a nice pristine inbox, but they suffer from the fact that anyone who knew their old email address and didn't get the update on the new one is left out in the cold. Spam is a painful problem for me to manage for myself, but it's something I can deal with. My parents aren't so lucky. There's no question that spam has cost them business, and given that their email address has changed, it may cost them more. They're not really equipped to deal with it at all, and are fortunate to have me around to sort of manage the problem. I don't know what other small businesses who don't have somebody familiar with fighting spam do to cope with the spam problem at all.
I don't know where all this is heading, but I'm losing confidence in filtering as a good solution for most people. It's great for me, but for my parents it's a total loss. Today it looks like the best approach is to guard your email address like your most prized possession, which is sort of contrary to logic when you're in business.


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The purpose of PiBI is to provide practical, research-informed advice and assistance across a broad range of disciplines to help improve personal and business goals.
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Copyright: January 14, 2012
Publisher: Divertir Publishing LLC
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On Tuesday, January 12th 2010, a magnitude 7.0 earthquake shook the island nation of Haiti. The United States Agency for International Development estimated the death toll to be somewhere between 46,000 and 85,000 people, with 220,000 injured and over 1.5 million homeless. Many organizations, both from the U.S. and abroad, responded to the appeal for humanitarian aid. Dr. Stephen Schroering and Chris Rakunas went to Haiti to deliver over 21,000 pounds of medical and surgical supplies to the New Life Children's Home in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, and several other hospitals.
In Tears for the Mountain, Chris recounts his mission to deliver these supplies to the earthquake-ravaged island nation. Chris discusses both the triumphs and heartbreaks of the trip, the problems with distributing aid in a nation lacking the most basic infrastructure, and his unexpected encounter with a notorious Haitian warlord.
A portion of the proceeds for this book will be donated to the New Life Children's Home in Port-au-Prince, Haiti.
Kathy's Review:
This is a first-hand account of hospital administrator Chris Rakunas' experience in Haiti after the earthquake in 2010, offering medical support at an orphanage. It details the conditions, the chaos and the wonder of the human spirit amidst such a tragedy. Though he was only there for a couple of days, he was able to witness first-hand just how ravaged this nation really is.
The suffering goes beyond the damage from the earthquake - the people of Haiti have long suffered at the hands of their government. Entire villages are starving to death, with no help in sight. Stories of how their former leader sacrificed and burned Haitian citizens in order to instill fear and cooperation are horrifying beyond imagination.
The stark contrast between American society and comforts and the conditions found in Haiti made me feel thankful and a little bit ashamed of how easy we have it. We have access to food, shelter, electricity, medical care, and we feel safe in our homes and neighborhoods (for the most part). None of that exists in Haiti. A simple walk down the street can turn into confrontation. People are desperate and starving and are in survival mode.
The author disdainfully describes a Hollywood film crew that tagged along with them to film the conditions in Haiti and how inconsiderate they were, more concerned with getting the film footage than with the humanity before them. Almost like it's not real to them.
The formatting of the ebook is pretty messy - there are bad page breaks and it looks like the footer has gotten interspersed in the middle of the pages - but after a while I just started to ignore them. The story is engrossing enough that it's easy to look past it.
One last note: proceeds from this book will go to the orphanage in Haiti where Rakunas and his colleagues stayed. A good cause and a very interesting read - I encourage you to read this and learn about a country not too far away from ours, but it may as well be in a different world.


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Traffic alert: For 836 drivers, a new shift coming at NW 72nd Avenue
Yet another major traffic pattern change is coming to State Road 836, the Dolphin Expressway, that will force commuters to be on their toes.
Beginning Saturday at dawn, drivers going westbound on 836 and wanting to exit at NW 72nd Avenue will have to leave the highway at a new ramp just after NW 57th Avenue, said Oscar González, spokesman for the State Roads 836-826 interchange reconstruction project.
The shift is part of the $560 million overhaul of one of the busiest interchanges in South Florida, a maze of soaring ramps and flyovers near Miami International Airport.
"The biggest change is for those people exiting at 72nd Avenue," González said."The change is that now they will have to exit about half a mile earlier from the current exit ramp. If they miss that exit they will have to continue on 836."
Drivers who miss the new exit can continue west and exit at Northwest 87th Avenue/12th Street and head east to 72 Avenue.
Currently, drivers continue westbound on 836, and at 72nd Avenue take the exit ramp.
Another change will involve a shift of all westbound traffic to the left onto new lanes on 836 after the new 72nd Avenue ramp.
This shift involves the so-called split in lanes on 836. The three on the right take traffic westbound on 836 and the two on the left lead vehicles to 826, the Palmetto Expressway.
"The split is moved farther west from where it was before," González said.
The interchange reconstruction project began in 2009 and is now currently expected to be completed late next year.
Project limits are on 826 from approximately just north of Southwest eighth Street to Northwest 25th Street.
On 836, project limits extend from just east of Northwest 87th Avenue to Northwest 57th Avenue.
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How Special Are You?
In this week's Success Newsletter, I would like to talk about 'how special are you?' and the difference between plastic self-esteem and authentic self-esteem.
First a quick update:
Hollywood continues to portray women as sexual objects – "The new female comedian has to be the sexual aggressor, sexually provocative, dominant & successful." Read my insights on FoxNews.com.
Now, let's talk about "How special are you?"
"On a reality TV show, a girl planning her Sweet Sixteen wants a major road blocked off so a marching band can precede her grand entrance on a red carpet. Five times as many Americans undergo plastic surgery and cosmetic procedures as ten years ago, and ordinary people hire fake paparazzi to follow them around to make them look famous. High school students physically attack classmates and post YouTube videos of the beatings to get attention. And for the past several years, Americans have been buying McMansions and expensive cars on credit they can't afford." – The Narcissism Epidemic: Living in the Age of Entitlement – by Jean M. Twenge and W. Keith Campbell. 2009
Jean Twenge is a Professor of Psychology at San Diego State University. She quotes me in her book above speaking about celebrity narcissism, Paris Hilton and others.
In an hour-long recorded conversation, Professor Twenge and I debated various points about narcissism and its causes. Professor Twenge believes that narcissism became widespread from the 1980s onwards largely due to parenting, the media and the self-esteem movement. (You can listen to our recorded interview and conversation here).
"We live in a time when high self-esteem is encouraged from childhood, when young people have more freedom and independence than ever, but also far more depression, anxiety, cynicism, and loneliness… More than any other generation in history, the children of Baby Boomers are disappointed by what they find when they arrive at adulthood." – Generation Me: Why Today's Young Americans Are More Confident, Assertive, Entitled — and More Miserable Than Ever Before – by Jean M. Twenge. 2006
Professor Twenge and I have differing opinions about self-esteem as the cause of narcissism. Professor Twenge argues that parents continually tell their children how special they are and therefore the children grow up feeling entitled and turn into narcissists. However, I refer to narcissism as fake or plastic self-esteem and argue therefore that authentic self-esteem is not the cause of narcissism.
A narcissistic person is self-promoting, self-indulgent, selfish, self-serving, promiscuous, highly competitive, unable to form meaningful relationships, displays strong and aggressive reactions to criticism or rejection, suffers from deep insecurities and is motivated by instant gratification.
But I do agree with Professor Twenge that parents are a primary cause of narcissism: not when tell their children they are special but when they tell them that they are special for no reason. And here is where the argument begins, not with the academic psychologists and researchers but rather with the New Age teachers who believe that we are all naturally special and wonderful because we are children of God or some similar argument i.e. we are all wonderful for just being here.
While that principle sounds poetically and philosophically inspiring and warming to the heart, it doesn't translate with the psychological and behavioral development of a child. Here we are presented with two extremes – 1. The parents who destroy a child's self-esteem by continually judging, condemning and criticizing the child and; 2. The parents who create narcissists by continually telling their children they are special and winners even when they do nothing at all (thus instilling fake self-esteem, entitlement and greed.)
Humans have six core emotional needs – including significance, challenges, love & connection, meaning & purpose and growth.
Authentic significance occurs when a person feels that they are needed and are making a difference – when they are contributing. The experience of fulfillment and pride in one's abilities and achievements only occurs when one faces challenges, conquers them and achieves something of note – even if that simply entails completing chores around the house, writing an essay, passing an exam or performing in a co-curricular activity. Love and connection occurs when there is real intimacy in the relationship (vulnerability, triumph, disappointment and failure); this cannot occur when a parent tells a child that he or she is a winner even though they lost the race, failed the test or didn't even make an effort; or when a parent prevents the child from experiencing loss or disappointment. Motivation is replaced with entitlement when a child believes that he or she has to do nothing in the world to succeed or to possess whatever her heart desires.
Children need authentic praise, feedback, guidance, discipline and structure. Although the human brain doesn't fully develop until we are in our mid-twenties, children recognize the difference between earned praise and fake adoration. And I believe it is this ability to perceive the difference between earned praise and fake praise that leads to such emptiness, anxiety and depression in adulthood; at a subconscious level the person realizes that there is not authentic achievement in what they are doing because the parents never really saw him as an individual because they were too busy praising him no matter what he did or how he performed or behaved. It is impossible for a child to learn to appreciate his individuality when he is always told he is better than everyone else and never taught to recognize and appreciate the individuality, uniqueness and differences in others.
Anxiety is also created in the adult because the parents never allowed the child to experience the full range of emotions including disappointment, loss and fear. And instant gratification and constant consumerism are created in the adult because the parents never taught the child to appreciate the process of goal-setting, planning & working for the goal or the pride of attaining that goal. Loneliness is created in the adult because the parents never taught the child how to relate to others, how to give authentic praise, how to receive criticism or how to love and connect with another human being by identifying and accepting imperfections in self and others and learning to give and receive – not just constantly take.
If narcissism is fake or plastic self-esteem, what is real self-esteem?
Authentic self-esteem is simply how much you like yourself – how significant you feel and how talented and capable you believe you are. If you look at the examples of the narcissistic celebrities (including many of the TV reality stars and all of the Housewives TV series) you quickly see that although they scream loudly about how special they are, it is obvious that they do not like themselves and they have no meaning, significance, purpose or passion in their lives. In other words, their self-love is not organic or authentic – it is a desperate attempt to fill an inner emptiness, self-loathing and meaninglessness in life.
While the New Age movement and some spiritual leaders teach that we are human beings not human doings, they miss the point that we only feel fulfilled, worthy and significant when we are doing something truly beneficial for others. Yes, when we are giving and helping others is the moment that we truly feel and believe we are special. When we express love, we feel more significant and we raise our self-esteem!
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On Episode 283 of CrossFit Radio, host Justin Judkins interviewed two female CrossFit Games competitors: Natalie McLain from Colorado and Michelle Letendre from Quebec. This episode was webcast live at 6 p.m. PDT on Wednesday, July 3, 2013.
2:20 Natalie McLain placed second at the South West Regional and qualified for the CrossFit Games for the first time. She gave her thoughts on the Regional competition and talked about how she hopes training at high elevation will help when she goes to California. As a rookie Games athlete, McLain is determined not to be intimidated, and she described how she's been training and preparing for the the unknown and unknowable. She explained why she squats nearly every day and why the volume of her workouts is staggering. She also gave advice to other athletes who want to qualify for the Games.
26:04 Michelle Letendre spoke about how hard work helped her qualify for her third CrossFit Games. She said the Regional programming was effective for finding the fittest athletes, and she talked about having a concise plan for the Games. Letendre, who finished second at the Canada East Regional, described how she'll train for Games and prepare for surprises and unknown events. She said the mental side of CrossFit will definitely be front and center when the Games start at the end of July.


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I've posted a lot about the graffiti walls around AUC in Cairo; you may recall that AUC was organizing a panel on it earlier this month. Ebony Coletu, one of the organizers, has a well-illustrated piece at Jadaliya under the title "Visualizing Revolution: the Politics of Paint in Tahrir." The pharaonic themes are emphasized, among others.
Read it of course, but most importantly, look at the pictures.
Thursday, April 19, 2012
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A Russian national, Farid Essebar, who allegedly hacked and duplicated bank website pages to dupe 1,000 people of US$4 billion (S$5 billion), has been arrested in Thailand, a senior official at the Department of Special Investigation (DSI) said yesterday.
The 27-year-old Moroccan-ethnic suspect went by the online screen name "Diabl0".
The US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) arrested him and an accomplice when he was 18 years old for unleashing the "Zotob" computer worm to hack information. He served one year in prison.
Pol Colonel Songsak Raksaksakul, director of the DSI Bureau of Foreign Affairs and Transnational Crime, said that after a request by Swiss police, his agency joined forces with the Immigration Police and the Office of the Attorney-General.
They launched an investigation into some 10 Russian and Moroccan nationals on suspicion of hacking activities.
The Thai authorities' probe found that Essebar and two other gang members had lain low in Thailand for three to four years.
They allegedly hacked into computer systems to set up phoney bank front pages and used the victims' personal information on the Internet banking system to reserve accommodation and flights.
The gang's actions caused US$4 billion (S$5 billion) in damages to some 1,000 people in Europe, Songsak said. The DSI followed Essebar for two years before the Criminal Court approved his arrest warrant, he said. Essebar would be extradited to Switzerland within 90 days.
Songsak said Essebar was listed on Wikipedia as a computer criminal who also hacked many media websites and was wanted by the FBI.
He said Essebar spent money on luxuries and travel but had no gambling habits. He reportedly had some property in Thailand.


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Homegrown Defender: Urinary infections face natural guard
Bacteria are adept at sneaking past our defenses, succeeding most often when swallowed, inhaled, or given free passage via a cut or scratch. But over the past 2 decades, scientists have found that even before the immune system can gin up a response to such intruders, built-in antimicrobial agents in the intestines, lungs, and skin act as a first line of defense. A new study shows that one of these antimicrobial shock troops, a peptide called cathelicidin, patrols another portal as well—the urinary tract.
Cells that line the urinary tract all the way back to the kidneys churn out cathelicidin in response to bacterial invaders, researchers report in the June Nature Medicine. Furthermore, inflammatory cells later deliver a second dose of the antimicrobial peptide to those passages, the scientists say. By damaging the bacterial membrane, cathelicidin usually kills a microbe on contact.
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It was in 1979 when, in the small town of Issaquah, Wash., Village Theatre first began producing musical theatre and classic plays. Now, with operations in both Issaquah and Everett, Village Theatre is a leading producer of musical theatre, with over 18,000 subscribers.
Their mainstage productions, under Executive Director Robb Hunt and Artistic Director Steve Tomkins, have included beloved classics such as Annie Get Your Gun, The Full Monty, Show Boat, and Jesus Christ Superstar. It's their Village Originals programming, however, that have made them a national leader in the development and production of new musicals. They've launched over 125 new musicals to date, many of which have gone on to tour nationally and have been staged in New York City and beyond.
New musicals that have taken shape on Village Theatre's stage includes Next to Normal, which won the 2010 Pulitzer Prize for Drama and three Tony Awards; Million Dollar Quartet, which also won a Tony Award; and, recently, Trails, a new musical that earned a full mainstage production in Village Theatre's 2012-13 season.
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Is America a Christian Nation?
As I plan on celebrating the 4th of July with my family. I am thinking about the country I live in and so here are questions I have had and others often discuss. Is America a Christian nation? Was it founded on Christian principles, God, Jesus, faith? What makes any nation a Christian nation? What does it take for a country to be a Christian nation? Is it possible? Can any country be a Christian nation? Why or why not? Does free will, freedom, choice, help or hinder the process of a nation being Christian? What do you think? Share your thoughts.


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British army stages record-breaking virtual battle
The British army has conducted its largest virtual battle simulation, involving 220 soldiers.
The experiment was carried out at the Army's Land Warfare Centre in Warminster, Wiltshire.
The two-hour scenario saw soldiers on computers completing virtual missions in a fictional French town.
The Army says the simulation will help it to find out which resources it needs to invest in, once it takes control of its own budget in April 2013.
"The aim is to understand how various changes have an impact on the speed at which command can respond," said Col Tim Law, assistant head of army force development.
"We're trying to determine exactly what we need to fight and win the wars of tomorrow."
Virtual clutter
By altering variables, like the number of troops on the ground and the amount of surveillance and communication available, the simulation had provided essential data about what was the most useful in a battle situation, Col Law said.
Combining virtual simulations and training exercises on the ground has already indicated ways logistics can be improved.
Each company in Afghanistan was provided with three Intelligence Corps personnel, but there remained uncertainty as to where they were best placed - out in the field or back at base, Col Law said.
"We have already determined in this experiment that it's better for them to be at battlefield HQ, feeding information down the line and planning ahead," he added.
Urban Warrior 5, as the project is called, has cost about £1m to develop and was built with VBS2 software, which is also used commercially by the games industry to create virtual worlds.
Lovelle - the name of the fictional town in the simulation - was a replication of a town in France where the training exercise had been carried out in real life, said Col Law.
"But with virtual we can add 'clutter'," he said. "Like trees and civilians."
There were inevitably comparisons with Activision's Call of Duty series, but Urban Warrior 5 was not a game, said Dr Nigel Paling, science advisor with the UK government's Defence Science and Technology Laboratory.
"We have tailored commercially available software, but we're pushing the edges of realism and scale," he told the BBC.
"In Call of Duty buildings don't 'rubble-ise'. We have recreated actual weapon effects."
Unlike real life however, soldiers in the game are able to regenerate if killed.
"This is not about killing people," said Col Law, "It's about winning the battle."
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Lt Col Charlie Barker, chief of staff at Urban Warrior 5C, is unequivocal that Call of Duty would not have been a viable - if more economic - alternative.
"It would be like trying to do 120mph in the fast lane on a bicycle," said Lt Col Barker.
However, Col Law admitted virtual environments had their limits.
"The problem is that all you have is the screen," he said.
"In reality your unit would be shouting, 'Look out, over there,' - situation awareness isn't entirely visual."
Further simulations involving different troops will be run until June 2013, after which all the data will be analysed.
"The Army is seeking to modernise and define its direction in the future," said Col Law - although he admitted this was a challenging task.
"We are noting that current events show how unpredictable this will be," he added. "It's a bit like nailing jelly to the wall."


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Six babies have died in the last 12 months in Northamptonshire after suffocating whil sleeping with a parent.
Northamptonshire Safeguarding Children Board (NSCB) says the figure is above average and is launching a campaign urging parents to ensure babies sleep in their own cot or Moses basket in the same room as them.
Carolyn Fox, director of midwifery at Northampton General Hospital, said: "Our midwives are huge advocates of physical contact between parents and babies because it's so important for a newborn's early development and emotional security.
We're not for one moment suggesting that parents should reduce the amount of waking time they spend in close contact with their baby.
"But we can't ignore the evidence before us, that in this county too many babies have died in circumstances where sleeping arrangements were not safe."
Falling asleep holding your baby - whether in your bed, on a sofa or in an armchair – "places the baby in a perilous position". Mrs Fox said.
She added "With a newborn, the tiredness can be overwhelming and you can find yourself nodding off when you feed or have a cuddle.
"So we're particularly appealing to dads, grandparents and other family members – if you see that mum has fallen asleep with the baby, don't leave them like that.
"In a cot, on their back, in your room – that's the safest place for your baby."
The Chron has reported on two inquests in 2015 where a babies from Abington and Duston died after co-sleeping - one on her mum's shoulder on a sofa and another in the parent's bed.
The "Safe Sleeping for your Baby" campaign recommends that:
- the safest place for babies and infants to sleep is in their own cot or Moses basket, and in the parent's room for the first six months of life.
- babies should be gently put back onto their backs up to the age of six months and care should be taken that the baby does not overheat due to too many blankets or high room temperature.
-it is also advised that babies and infants should NEVER be left to sleep for long periods in travel systems or car seats.
Sleeping next to your baby, or co-sleeping, is one of the biggest causes of death for babies under a year old.
While parents may consider it to be a secure physical and emotional sleeping environment for their baby, sharing a sleep area with a baby can be extremely dangerous, teh NHS says, as it increases the child's chances of dying by accidental suffocation.
Young babies have not developed the muscles in their necks to be able to move their heads or lift their head away from danger, even if they are not able to breathe.
Louisa Russell, of Northamptonshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust, said "Every baby death is a tragedy, especially so when it may have been preventable.
"The Health Visitors in Northamptonshire visit all new babies and their parents at home around the eleventh day after their birth.
"At this time they give advice, support and information to ensure babies sleep safely.
Health Visitors are available to continue this support throughout the early months and years of a child's life.
"Health Visitors, like everyone else are committed to preventing any more babies dying so tragically".


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Good morning everyone!
Here we sit in mid-July, and I hope you have had a wonderful summer so far. If you have found yourself busy, or with little time, I hope you have something planned. It doesn't have to be an extravagant trip, but some time to sit with God and reflect. Ponder His word, and look at His glory that surrounds us.
Last night I walked out my back door, and suddenly my breath left me for a moment. My eyes had landed on the most spectacular sunset I'd seen in a while! There were so many colors, all intertwined with each other radiating beauty. I stopped what I was doing, snapped a picture and just sat for a moment. Have you ever found yourself in those moments? Moments that take your breath away.
The bible tells us about the glory of God, yet I don't think I really grasp it until something takes my breath away. What about you?
As the boldness of the colors shouted God's glory and presence this week I thought we'd focus on a verse the Israelites found themselves looking at the glory of the LORD. I don't know about you, but I want God to show me His glory!
"And as Aaron spoke to the whole community of Israel, they looked out toward the wilderness. There they could see the awesome glory of the LORD in the cloud." Ex. 16:10 NLT
Friends, this week look for the glory of God. He will take your breath away. I promise.
This week God, show off for us! So that we may see, and boast of, your glory!
© Gentle Whisper Ministries 2016