Steven Gerrard admitted he is "desperate" for Gareth Barry to join him at Liverpool - as the Aston Villa skipper prepares to lead England for the first time in Sunday's international with Trinidad and Tobago.
Barry is expected to be confirmed on Saturday as the fourth skipper of Fabio Capello's reign after Gerrard, Rio Ferdinand and John Terry.
But Gerrard is already thinking ahead to the prospect of him and Barry continuing their England partnership at Anfield next season. "I know all about Gareth, I am good friends with him off the pitch and I am desperate for us to sign him," he said.
"Gareth Barry is someone who will improve Liverpool. We can't be disrespectful to Villa. He is still their player and we will see what happens," he said.
The Reds have already had one £10 million cash plus players bid rejected by Villa and Barry is due to have further talks with manager Martin O'Neill and co-owner Randy Lerner before any decision is made.
Gerrard added: "Naturally, they are going to try and keep hold of him, and rightly so because he is one of their star men. He has been a fantastic servant for them over many years.
"But, from a biased point of view, I want Gareth Barry to become a Liverpool player.
"He is a good player. But I want Liverpool to be as strong as possible and Gareth Barry will certainly make us stronger.
"You talk about improving the team, the starting eleven and the squad, and Gareth will certainly help Liverpool to become a better team. It is easy to play with good players. I've been asked a lot of questions this season about Fernando Torres and the simple answer is 'it's easier playing with quality players' - and Gareth comes into that category."
Gerrard continued: "I am sure Gareth will find it hard to leave Villa. He has been fantastic for them but, in football, sometimes opportunities come along where you can better your career. I think Gareth is 27 now and he needs to play Champions League football. In my opinion, he needs that now."


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Chris Paul: Phoenix Suns have got to close out quarters better, LA Clippers were aggressors in Game 5
Coverage of the NBA playoffs continues on Tuesday night as the Milwaukee Bucks visit the Atlanta Hawks 2-1 up in the Eastern Conference Finals. Join us live from 1:30am on Sky Sports Main Event & Arena
By Stuart Hodge
Tuesday 29 June 2021 21:31, UK
Image: Phoenix Suns guard Chris Paul in action during Game 5
Phoenix Suns veteran point guard Chris Paul says his team have to be better after their 116-102 defeat to the Los Angeles Clippers on Monday.
The 36-year-old, who is aiming to make his first NBA Finals after 16 years in the league, was disappointed with how his team started against the Clippers.
He said: "We've definitely got to be better. They were the aggressors, they looked like us in Game 4. They hit us with a lot, they were too comfortable. We've got to be better.
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"We've got to close quarters better. That's been a problem for us all series long. Those last two-and-a-half, three minutes of quarters. We took the lead, cut it to 1 or 2, then they go and get a bucket and then they go on a run.
"Our offense feeds off our defense so we've just got to remember that."
Paul George was the star man for the Clippers in Game 5, pouring in 41 points and 20 in the third quarter alone. He finished 15 of 20 from the field, including 3 of 6 from 3-point range and added 13 rebounds and six assists.
"He got it going," Paul said. "He was getting his spots, making shots. Twin (Marcus Morris Sr.) and Reggie (Jackson) got it going early, gave them a chance to settle into the game, we've got to make it tough for them.
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"We gave them a lot of open shots early. They got their threes going and I think, as a team, they play off confidence when they're making shots so we've got to get the right people shooting."
Another aspect that hurt the Suns in the game was a poor start in the first quarter and also a costly 23 points given away off turnovers.
"It is just unacceptable the way we started the game," Suns coach Monty Williams said. "It was a big hole for us. It is pretty obvious that we can't play with the show-up mentality. We showed up in the first quarter and they played with desperation."
Paul said: "It's frustrating (to get off to a poor start) but you realise it's a long game. You settle in and guys came in and we fought back. It seemed like everytime we get there they'd do another run or whatnot so we'll look at it and we've got to come out better.
"That was uncharacteristic of us, especially me. I had a couple of turnovers early in the game, first or second quarter and they converted on all of them. That's uncharacteristic of us and we've got to be better Game 6."
Highlights of Game 5 in the Western Conference Finals between the LA Clippers and the Phoenix Suns
The Suns are trying to make their first NBA Finals since 1993. The Clippers have never been this far in the postseason. It's all set up for another showdown at Staples Center on Wednesday night at 2am, live on Sky Sports Arena and Main Event.
Paul expects his team to respond in Game 6.
He added: "We know we go in there, a place where we won last time. We know they're going to be excited and ready to go so we will be ready.

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Ocala, Florida — Even the best can get better: 47 high school and middle school softball players from all over Marion County were present at CF Field Saturday for the Central Florida Softball camp.
The camp began with a 10-minute warm-up period of stretching, before the campers broke into groups for drills.
In his second season as head coach of the Patriots program, he led CF to a 48-15 record and a berth in the NJCAA national championship game. Fagan, a former NFL player, also has a national champion with the University of Miami in 1983 and has two Super Bowl rings from his seven seasons with the San Francisco 49ers.
CF has high level college players helping at these camps — from their own players to Division 1 players. Fagan said there is so much good instruction to take advantage of and players are encouraged to try new things when they are in a camp environment.
The next Camp is slated for Aug. 15 and is open to athletes in kindergarten through sixth grade. The event is $40 per camper and includes a T- shirt.
For more information or to register online, visit www.cfsoftballcamps.com.


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Nice to see NBC Won't be Taking a Knee
One story that was completely overlooked during the recently completed round of NFL playoff games was NBC's staunch decision to spotlight kneeling by Super Bowl players of color during the playing of the national anthem.
That's a pretty gutsy move considering any number of conservative, America First, deep-pocketed advertisers are probably deciding right now whether to yank their advertising or let it ride (or, if they don't pull their spend, Tweet an immediate corporate response distancing themselves from NBC and the kneeling players).
Many organizations would see the kneeling question as a real conundrum:
1.) If we don't cover kneeling players, we won't lose millions of sponsor dollars. But will we be doing the right thing?
2.) If we do cover the kneeling, we'll undoubtedly lose millions of dollars. But, we'll be staying true to our values.
NBC didn't flinch. Their Super Bowl Executive Producer, Fred Gaudelli, said, "The Super Bowl is a live event….and when you're covering a live event, you're covering what's happening. So, if there are players that choose to kneel, they will be shown live."
Holy Trump Tweet in the making, Batman!
NBC's decision tells me two things:
1.) The organization will not be cowed by politically conservative sponsors (and, god knows what the ripple effect might be. There's a very real possibility that some neo-conservative advertisers will threaten to yank ALL of their NBC sponsor dollars).
2.) The Matt Lauer disaster notwithstanding, it's obvious that Gaudelli's decision was supported by the C-Suite and driven by the organization's corporate purpose.
In my mind, corporate purpose has evolved from a warm-and-fuzzy "nice to have" statement to becoming an organization's North Star guiding top executives to make the right decision, double down on their core beliefs and convey clear, consistent messaging.
Afterword: Considering the fact the Super Bowl will be played in February (which also happens to be black history month), I have to believe we'll see quite a few Super Bowl players take a knee. It'll be interesting to see how many corporate advertisers stand tall or take a different type of knee and yank their ads.
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It's a Brave New World at the Intersection of Purpose and Profit
Peppercomm has long had the pleasure of partnering with a superb firm known as BrandFoundations. In recent years, they've expanded their solution set to include assisting organizations create a purpose. The following blog is guest authored by one of BF's principals Steve Goodwin (AKA "The Other Steve"). Enjoy….
I'm hopeful that at least some Repman readers will admit to being old enough to remember the classic E.F. Hutton TV ads from the 1970s and '80s that always closed with the investment giant reminding us: "When E.F. Hutton talks, people listen."
Flash forward to this week, and you can bet people are listening after a current investment heavyweight had something to say.
In an open letter to the CEOs of the world's largest public companies, BlackRock founder and chief executive Laurence Fink threw down the gauntlet, informing these leaders that profits alone will no longer be enough to merit the investment firm's support. Going forward, a company must "show how it makes a positive contribution to society."
This is, in and of itself, an absolutely head-spinning moment on Wall Street and beyond: the world's largest institutional investor going all-in on giving back and putting purpose on a par with profits. Heavy stuff indeed.
But the bigger picture here is that BlackRock's edict comes (not coincidentally) as executives worldwide are beginning to grapple with another alarming challenge: how to react and respond when your company finds itself swept up very publicly in any of the myriad issues swirling in the toxic brew that is today's politically charged and divided environment. (Can you say Papa John's?)
It's becoming increasingly clear that this is the new normal. Companies need to thread the needle between doing well financially and doing good globally, all while worrying that a Sunday morning tweet from Mar-a-Lago could ignite a social media firestorm and bring 1,000 reporters to corporate HQ. In this era, companies need to be able to stay above the fray. They need not only to state a clear purpose, but also demonstrate that they've instituted the internal cultural programs to reinforce that purpose and drive it into corporate communications at all levels.
Preparation is Key When Prevention Isn't an Option
You know how follow the leader works. Expect more investment firms to fall in line behind BlackRock. And expect more companies of every size and shape to start taking an unflinching look inward to evaluate everything from their mission, vision and value statements to their philanthropic and cultural initiatives.
Forget wondering whether or not your company will have a reputational issue. When your organization is caught in the crosshairs of a public relations spat, you need to have already evaluated and identified the best way to positively impact society. Your "North Star" of purpose – why your organization exists (beyond profits) and the big honking problem it was founded to solve – is the one place that everyone in the organization can look to for on-brand, on-message guidance and navigation.
To zero in on their purpose, most companies will be wise to avail themselves of the skills of a solid outside partner because proximity can often be distorting for internal teams who are fighting the daily battle…the forest-for-the-trees thing. And given the speed with which your organization and its leaders can find themselves called on the carpet or forced to take a stand on a thorny issue, failing to plan truly is planning to fail.
Steve Goodwin is a founding partner at BrandFoundations. steve@brandfoundations.us
Now, this is what I call a corporate wellness program
Do you workout at gyms? I do. I'm obsessed with exercise (it's my drug of choice). And, I make a point of exercising six days-a-week. Not bragging, just setting up the rest of the blog.
One of the things that's always bothered me, though, are the gyms that ALWAYS have their monitors tuned to Fox or CNN (have yet to train in a Rachel Maddow-friendly facility).
The above ticks me off for two reasons:
My gym is a refuge where I go to not only push myself to the max and, temporarily, escape the latest crisis du jour, it's also "me" time that is fundamental to my emotional and spiritual health.
Despite my focus on successfully bench pressing a little more weight each week, hopping in and and out of those agility drill ladders and using a 20-pound medicine ball to play catch with my personal trainer, I inevitably am distracted by the scrolls running constantly across the bottom of each screen. It's not a big deal but, god forbid I'm in the midst of quickly scanning the latest Trump outrage when, boom, I'm hit smack in the face by the medicine ball, turn an ankle while hopping laterally across the agility drills or lose my grip and suffer the consequences of a 180-pound barbell that comes smashing down and crushes my chest.
Well, one fitness club has finally listened to its customer base and has banned all cable TV networks from the screens in their 125-string chain of gyms.
In doing so, Life Time Fitness is accomplishing three critical image and reputation objectives:
Surprising and delighting clients by recognizing our need for down time from the non-stop media hysteria.
Ensuring clients can focus exclusively on their physical goals and lose themselves completely in their fitness session.
Differentiating themselves from every one of their competitors (a critical move by any business in any industry).
By going dark on cable, Time Fitness has demonstrated an enlightened approach to enhancing the customer experience. Marketers everywhere should not only be emulating TF's segment-busting strategy, they should take a much deeper dive into the smartest ways to understand their audiences' wants and needs.
I could continue, but I know Matt's got an especially vicious session planned for me at noon. Today, though, I will be extra cautious not to let a cable TV scroll announcing Little Rocket Man's latest threat distract me from enjoying a total fitness experience.
Posted in Business, Current Affairs, Public Relations, Reputation Management, Society
The Rosa Parks of Sports
I know I'm a little ahead of myself in terms of the MLK, Jr. national holiday and Black History Month, but I feel compelled to educate a new generation about one of the genuine black pioneers of the past two centuries; a man who, at best, remains a footnote.
I'm speaking of Jack Johnson, boxing's first black heavyweight champion of the world.
I recently rediscovered Johnson through an amazing, three-part podcast series called "History on Fire." Anyone, and I mean anyone, who cares about what once was, and how it shaped what is today, should listen to Doneli Bonelli's podcasts (This is a link to the third, and most inspiring, of the three Johnson podcasts since it describes in detail the outrage of, and backlash by, white society at the time).
Jack Johnson was the Rosa Parks of sports.
Long before Jackie Robinson, Tommy Smith, Jim Brown, Kareem Jabbar, Ali and Colin Kaepernick, there was Jack Johnson.
Johnson redefined racial stereotyping in a Jim Crow era when people of color were still routinely being lynched, denied their basic civil rights and, frankly, tolerated as a necessary evil by the white establishment (as long as they readily accepted their second-class status and dutifully respected whites as their racial superiors).
Johnson not only challenged conventional wisdom, he blew it to hell. He was far and away the best heavyweight boxer of his time. And Johnson was also a party animal to the max.
As might be expected, the white aristocracy refused to acknowledge his nonpareil prowess. Johnson fanned the flames by flouting every existing "rule" for black behavior in a white supremecist society. He dated countless white women, owned his own wildly successful "sporting" club in Chicago, drove the hottest, fastest cars and, to put it mildly, lived life entirely on his terms.
Johnson's amazing string of knockouts over one contender after another not only frightened white society but raised a universal cry for Jim Jeffries, the last undefeated white heavyweight champion, to come out of retirement. Jeffries was coerced to prove that, once and for all, the best black fighter couldn't possibly beat a now-aging, badly out-of-shape but nonetheless, undefeated white heavyweight champion.
On a brutally hot July 4th day in Reno, Nevada, in 1910, Johnson not only destroyed Jeffries but, he also taunted him (and the overwhelmingly white audience as well).
Johnson became the first black heavyweight champion of the world. And, that's when the shit really hit the fan.
The existing powers-that-be made it their business to find reasons to sue Johnson, arrested him for violations of the Mann Act (which prohibited white slavery). Johnson was arrested for driving his girlfriend of the time from Illinois to Indiana. He was sentenced to a full year in federal prison and a fine of $1,000. All because he happened to cross over from one state to another to take his girlfriend to dinner. Amazing, no?
Johnson was forced to flee to another country and prevented from defending his title. These obvious attempts to rid the nation of an individual who defied and upended every norm ate away at Johnson.
It fueled his own self-destructive lifestyle to the point where the once great boxer became a shell of his former self.
A beaten-down, 37-year-old facsimile of what once was Jack Johnson eventually lost the heavyweight championship in 1915 to a mediocre boxer named Jess Willard.
Johnson exited the boxing scene, but never stopped defying the White establishment.
My favorite Jack Johnson story occurred when he was at his absolute peak.
He, and a friend, were barreling down a Mississippi highway at god knows what speed (and, naturally, driving a state-of-the-art auto) when a local cop pulled him over and fined him $50 on the spot.
Jackson pulled out a wad of $100 bills and handed one to the cop. The latter said, "I don't carry that much money on me. I can't possibly give you the change." To which Johnson replied, "Keep it. I intend to return on this road driving at the very same speed, so consider it payment in advance."
As we remember and salute everyone from Sojourner Truth to Rosa Parks, let us not forget Jack Johnson. I've always adored Ali but, frankly, he was testing the barriers and stereotypes that Jack Johnson had already attacked. R.I.P. Jack Johnson.
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You would think by now that most business executives would understand the impact, both positive and negative, that their words have on the public consciousness.
During the holidays, though, we saw two food purveyors fall victim to their own words.
One was a local Arizona restaurant called Cup it up. The other was Papa John's a nationally-known pizza delivery chain.
In the former's case, the restaurant's ultra conservative owners decided, for reasons known best to them, to publish their unwavering support of President Trump and a whole litany of conservative causes.
That didn't sit well with the chef or wait staff. They quit and Tweeted their distaste with the owners' POV. They also made it clear they'd never work for such an establishments.
Customers were also revolted and not only sent back their orders but absolutely crucified the restaurant on Yelp. Oh, and they also stopped patronizing the eaterie. Bottom-line: Cup it up can cup it out. They've shuttered their doors.
At about the same time, John Schnatter, CEO of Papa John's, resigned in disgust saying he blamed the NFL players taking-a-knee controversy for causing lackluster sales.
Once again, an executive's comments caused an uproar and, based upon the avalanche of negative press, Schnatter meekly apologized and returned to his post, chastened and shriveled up almost as badly as a three-day-old slice of pizza.
Both organizations could have avoided these disasters IF they had taken the time to create a corporate purpose that explained why they existed, what their higher purpose was and, critically, was in alignment with the majority of the views and beliefs of their employees, customers, vendors and entire supply chain.
A corporate purpose should serve as an organization's ethical and moral compass that, in times of crisis, can determine the content and tone of any public message. In fact, a carefully thought out "next generation" crisis plan will properly equip any organization of any size to prepare for, and determine the correct response (or non-response) almost immediately.
Please don't confuse the above-mentioned crisis plan with the one sitting in your bookshelf and created by an agency three or four years back. It's as out-of-date (and useless) as a Jeb Bush for president bumper sticker.
Organizations, and their agencies, need to act NOW to ready themselves for the new normal, create a corporate purpose (surveys prove corporations with a purpose outperform their rivals and Millennials increasingly won't work for any company lacking a higher purpose).
With the corporate purpose in place, the communications and strategic planning teams can then meet and assess any, and all, potential vulnerabilities (e.g. Are they ready for a POTUS attack tweet, fake news damaging their brand, industry or societal issues that require to CEO to speak up, looming sexual harassment allegations, etc).
I suspect we'll see many more examples of Cup it up and Papa John-type incidents this year. Sadly, too many executives still maintain a "can't happen to me attitude." Others think corporate purpose doesn't matter. The worst time to prove that perception wrong is after a political magnus opus is published on a web site or a CEO blames a highly controversial issue for hurting his sales.
It's time to shake off the post-holiday hangover and get to work preparing for what can't be anticipated.
Posted in Business, Current Affairs, Leadership, Reputation Management, Society


Emma is an experienced and confident advocate who appears regularly in Court. She provides advice, both in conferences and in her written work, which is thorough yet easy to digest. Drafting documents for Claimants and Defendants forms a significant part of Emma's practice.
Emma accepts instructions in all areas of personal injury work and acts for both Claimants and Defendants. Emma regularly appears in trials, Costs and Case Management Conferences (CCMCs), Case Management Conferences (CMCs) and interim applications. She regularly advises on both liability and quantum and frequently drafts Particulars of Claim, Defences, Schedules of Loss and Counter-Schedules of Loss. Emma regularly advises on complex future loss issues, including future loss of earnings and handicap on the labour market.
Acted pro bono for the victim of an armed gang assault in his appeal against the CICA's initial award of approximately £4,000. Injuries suffered included a fractured skull with 10cm head wound, PTSD and post-concussion syndrome. The final sum awarded was in excess of £94,000.
Acted for a family in an inquest where the deceased had died from mesothelioma. The finding was that the mesothelioma was likely to have been caused by exposure to asbestos in the deceased's workplace in the 1970s, rather than from (disputed) exposure in her home.
Obtained judgment for the Claimant in a food poisoning case against a large pub chain.
Advised in a brain injury case where issues akin to those raised in Billet v MOD were likely to be raised. Emma explained the various approaches that could be taken by a Court in assessing future loss of earnings/handicap on the labour market, including applying an adjusted disability multiplier.
Advised the Claimant on the necessary medical evidence and potential quantum in an accident at work case which caused a short-lived back injury but which resulted in the development of Functional Neurological Disorder, resulting in the Claimant being wheelchair bound and unable to work.
Motor indemnity issues arises from such claims.
Emma is also experienced in dealing with fundamental dishonesty cases and cases resulting in the removal of QOCS protection after a case has been struck out.
Argued successfully that a liability admitted claim should be dismissed under Section 57 of the CJCA 2015. Although some elements of the claim were established by the Claimant, the Judge found that there had been a significant exaggeration in respect of the extent of the injuries sustained. Emma successfully argued that the extent of the exaggeration was sufficient to be considered fundamentally dishonest and persuaded the Court to dismiss the entire claim under s.57.
Successfully set aside a Claimant's notice of discontinuance and had the case struck out on the basis of the Claimant's conduct, thereby removing QOCS protection.
Persuaded a Judge to strike a case out rather than make an Unless Order where there had been numerous and significant breaches of the directions order. The Defence had raised dishonesty in respect of failure to mention numerous previous accidents and injuries to the medical expert.
Acted for Defendants in cases where the Claimants failed to attend the trial. The cases were struck out for non-attendance and findings were made that the conduct of the Claimants obstructed the just disposal of proceedings. QOCS protection was therefore removed.
Acted in a case involving a laparoscopic assisted vaginal hysterectomy. The issues involved whether the Claimant had received sufficient information about the risks prior to the surgery and whether the resulting complications were due to negligence or were simply an ordinary risk of properly performed surgery.
Defended a claim involving allegations of failing to provide sufficient information about the risks of plastic surgery and the need for further rectification surgery as well as allegations that the surgery itself had been performed negligently. The case also involved insurance issues.
Emma has acted in numerous cases involving allegations of negligence against opticians/optometrists for failing to spot signs of retinal detachment and/or failing to urgently refer to an ophthalmologist.
Emma acts in cases involving product liability and property damage cases, advising on prospects of success and potential value of claims.
A mains water leak caused property damage to a hotel. The claim involved issues of commercial loss of revenue as well as repair costs.
Fire damage to a commercial property caused by a faulty tumble dryer. Claims were brought against the manufacturer of the product by the landlords and also the tenant, who ran a business from the premises. The damages claimed included building damage, contents and stock damage.


When I was a kid, the disaster we worried about most was a nuclear war. That's why we had a barrel like this down in our basement, filled with cans of food and water. When the nuclear attack came, we were supposed to go downstairs, hunker down, and eat out of that barrel.
Today the greatest risk of global catastrophe doesn't look like this. Instead, it looks like this. If anything kills over 10 million people in the next few decades, it's most likely to be a highly infectious virus rather than a war. Not missiles, but microbes. Now, part of the reason for this is that we've invested a huge amount in nuclear deterrents. But we've actually invested very little in a system to stop an epidemic. We're not ready for the next epidemic.
Let's look at Ebola. I'm sure all of you read about it in the newspaper, lots of tough challenges. I followed it carefully through the case analysis tools we use to track polio eradication. And as you look at what went on, the problem wasn't that there was a system that didn't work well enough, the problem was that we didn't have a system at all. In fact, there's some pretty obvious key missing pieces.
We didn't have a group of epidemiologists ready to go, who would have gone, seen what the disease was, seen how far it had spread. The case reports came in on paper. It was very delayed before they were put online and they were extremely inaccurate. We didn't have a medical team ready to go. We didn't have a way of preparing people. Now, Médecins Sans Frontières did a great job orchestrating volunteers. But even so, we were far slower than we should have been getting the thousands of workers into these countries. And a large epidemic would require us to have hundreds of thousands of workers. There was no one there to look at treatment approaches. No one to look at the diagnostics. No one to figure out what tools should be used. As an example, we could have taken the blood of survivors, processed it, and put that plasma back in people to protect them. But that was never tried.
So there was a lot that was missing. And these things are really a global failure. The WHO is funded to monitor epidemics, but not to do these things I talked about. Now, in the movies it's quite different. There's a group of handsome epidemiologists ready to go, they move in, they save the day, but that's just pure Hollywood.
The failure to prepare could allow the next epidemic to be dramatically more devastating than Ebola Let's look at the progression of Ebola over this year. About 10,000 people died, and nearly all were in the three West African countries. There's three reasons why it didn't spread more. The first is that there was a lot of heroic work by the health workers. They found the people and they prevented more infections. The second is the nature of the virus. Ebola does not spread through the air. And by the time you're contagious, most people are so sick that they're bedridden. Third, it didn't get into many urban areas. And that was just luck. If it had gotten into a lot more urban areas, the case numbers would have been much larger.
So next time, we might not be so lucky. You can have a virus where people feel well enough while they're infectious that they get on a plane or they go to a market. The source of the virus could be a natural epidemic like Ebola, or it could be bioterrorism. So there are things that would literally make things a thousand times worse.
In fact, let's look at a model of a virus spread through the air, like the Spanish Flu back in 1918. So here's what would happen: It would spread throughout the world very, very quickly. And you can see over 30 million people died from that epidemic. So this is a serious problem. We should be concerned.
But in fact, we can build a really good response system. We have the benefits of all the science and technology that we talk about here. We've got cell phones to get information from the public and get information out to them. We have satellite maps where we can see where people are and where they're moving. We have advances in biology that should dramatically change the turnaround time to look at a pathogen and be able to make drugs and vaccines that fit for that pathogen. So we can have tools, but those tools need to be put into an overall global health system. And we need preparedness.
The best lessons, I think, on how to get prepared are again, what we do for war. For soldiers, we have full-time, waiting to go. We have reserves that can scale us up to large numbers. NATO has a mobile unit that can deploy very rapidly. NATO does a lot of war games to check, are people well trained? Do they understand about fuel and logistics and the same radio frequencies? So they are absolutely ready to go. So those are the kinds of things we need to deal with an epidemic.
What are the key pieces? First, we need strong health systems in poor countries. That's where mothers can give birth safely, kids can get all their vaccines. But, also where we'll see the outbreak very early on. We need a medical reserve corps: lots of people who've got the training and background who are ready to go, with the expertise. And then we need to pair those medical people with the military. taking advantage of the military's ability to move fast, do logistics and secure areas. We need to do simulations, germ games, not war games, so that we see where the holes are. The last time a germ game was done in the United States was back in 2001, and it didn't go so well. So far the score is germs: 1, people: 0. Finally, we need lots of advanced R&D in areas of vaccines and diagnostics. There are some big breakthroughs, like the Adeno-associated virus, that could work very, very quickly.
Now I don't have an exact budget for what this would cost, but I'm quite sure it's very modest compared to the potential harm. The World Bank estimates that if we have a worldwide flu epidemic, global wealth will go down by over three trillion dollars and we'd have millions and millions of deaths. These investments offer significant benefits beyond just being ready for the epidemic. The primary healthcare, the R&D, those things would reduce global health equity and make the world more just as well as more safe.
So I think this should absolutely be a priority. There's no need to panic. We don't have to hoard cans of spaghetti or go down into the basement. But we need to get going, because time is not on our side.
In fact, if there's one positive thing that can come out of the Ebola epidemic, it's that it can serve as an early warning, a wake-up call, to get ready. If we start now, we can be ready for the next epidemic.


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"Jesus said, 'Let the children come to me, and do not prevent them; for the kingdom of heaven belongs to such as these."
-Matthew 19:14
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Rev. Bernard Maria on the day of his First Profession- March 25th, 1954
Dominic Bui Quang Trung was born on November 24th, 1919 at Trà Lũ, Trà Đoài, Xuân Trường, in the Nam Định province, of the diocese of Bùi Chu, Vietnam. He received the Sacrament of Baptism on November 30th, 1919, and received St. Dominic as his patron saint.
Dominic entered the seminary at Bùi Chu. On December 14th, 1947, Reverend Dominic was ordained a priest at Quần Phương - Bùi Chu. He chose his motto as:
"ADVENIAT REGNUM SACRATISSIMORUM CORDIUM"
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and Mary come"
After his ordination, he was made assistant pastor of Thức Hóa, Bùi Chu, and was made a spiritual director for the Daughters of Our Lady of the Holy Rosary and the Trung Linh seminary.
Because Reverend Dominic wanted to dedicate himself more fully to God, he requested to enter the Congregation of the Mother Co-Redemptrix, an entirely new Vietnamese order. On February 2nd, 1953, Reverend Dominic entered the novitiate of the Congregation of the Mother of the Redeemer (CRM), and received his new name: "Bernard Maria Bùi Khải Hoàn," according to the custom of the congregation. Reverend Bernard made his first vows on March 25th, 1954.
Rev. Bernard Maria (front row, far left hand corner) on the day he received the habit of the CRM brothers
Reverend Bernard assigned to build up the Congregation of Mary, Queen of the World
On November 11th, 1954, Reverend Bernard was sent by his superior, Reverend Dominic Trần Đình Thủ, to Bùi Chu to take care of a small associate group of women known as the Lovers of the Holy Cross.
In February 1956, Reverend Bernard brought these women from My Tho to settle in Bùi Môn, Gia Dinh (which is Saigon City today). From 1957 on, Father Bernard wholeheartedly helped this associate improve in numbers, finance, and spirit.
In May 1959, Reverend Bernard wrote and revised the Constitution and statutes, and requested to change the name of the associate to the Congregation of the Missionary Sisters of Mary, Queen of the World, our Mother Community.
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Why Do We Waver In Our Faith?
Faith is essential because it's required for our salvation.
However, even after accepting Christ, believers are to continue living by faith. Some of us may have great faith while others have only a little. But we can also be characterized by wavering faith—up one day, down the next. Genuine faith is the confident conviction that God will do what He promised. However, if we take our eyes off Him and start looking at our circumstances, our confidence in Him could start to wobble. We will all experience situations like this because the Lord tests our faith in order to make it stronger.
The short book of James contains practical advice for those whose faith fluctuates because of difficult circumstances (1:1-8).
When we start doubting, we're driven and tossed about like the surf of the sea. James says a doubleminded man is unstable in all his ways and should not expect to receive anything from the Lord. To be double-minded is to go back and forth in our thinking. We may begin with strong confidence in God, but as time goes by and the difficult situation continues, we may start to doubt that He will do what He's promised.
Doubting and questioning are not necessarily the same thing. Questioning is seeking to gain further information or understand whether we're accurately hearing from the Lord. Doubting, on the other hand, involves believing what we think, see, or feel rather than what we know God has said. It's natural for us to question or doubt when we're suddenly overwhelmed by a distressing event. The Lord understands our struggle and wants us to come to Him with our pain and confusion. We may have to take time to pray, listen, and evaluate before we know what He's saying. Sometimes God has to sift our thinking by reminding us of His truth or His faithfulness to us in a similar situation.
Even if we've trusted the Lord for many years, certain conditions may cause our faith to waver.
A situation goes against our human reasoning. A good example of this is Peter's experience of walking on the water. He started out confident, but as soon as he looked away from Jesus and saw the waves, he started thinking humanly—people can't walk on water—and his faith faltered. We are just like Peter when we know what God has said but try to add our reasoning to His commands. For instance, if we give part of our income to the Lord, it seems like we won't have enough. But Jesus said, "Give, and it will be given to you" (Luke 6:38). Anytime we rely on our own logic, we'll miss God's best for our lives.
We allow feelings to overcome our faith. If the Lord calls us to do something that seems impossible or unreasonable, we can be certain that He will equip us for it. However, if we let feelings of fear, inadequacy, or unworthiness cause us to doubt His promise, we could miss the opportunity through disobedience. Because the Holy Spirit lives within us, we can live a supernatural life in His power if we'll just obey Him. We're called to live by faith, not fear.
We don't see God in certain circumstances. The Lord has promised to take care of us, but it may not be in the way we want. We may think that the Lord couldn't possibly be in the midst of a difficult or painful situation, but He is. According to Romans 8:28, He promises to work all things for our good if we love Him and are called according to His purpose.
We listen to negative counsel. When we're trying to discern the will of God, we must be careful whom we ask for guidance. Some friends might offer to help us seek the Lord's direction through prayer, but others may simply tell us what we want to hear or what they'd do in that situation.
We focus on the circumstances. Little problems can become huge when they dominate our thoughts. That's why we must always consider every situation in the light of our great God. He can handle anything and everything. Worry and fretting demonstrate that we do not trust the Lord.
We may be ignorant of God's ways. When Lazarus fell ill, Mary and Martha called for Jesus because they believed He could heal their brother. They thought they knew how God should work in the situation, but Jesus had something greater in mind. He delayed coming in order to raise Lazarus from the dead. Spiritually speaking, we must ignore our watches and calendars because God's timing is not ours. He alone knows what to do, and when to do it. His delays do not mean He's forgotten us.
We might feel guilt over past sins. Sometimes we doubt that God could possibly forgive us for something we did in the past. Even after we've confessed it, we still carry a heavy load of guilt. The problem is one of unbelief because 1 John 1:9 says, "If we confess our sins, He is faithful and righteous to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness." As believers, there's nothing we have to do to earn His forgiveness since Christ paid for all our sins on the cross. Although we may still have to deal with the consequences, our guilt has been removed.
We could be listening to the devil. He's always trying to deceive us and put doubts in our minds so we won't trust the Lord (John 8:44).
How do we deal with doubts?
Where do these doubts come from?
Has God ever failed me in the past?
Didn't the Lord promise to meet all my needs (Phil. 4:19)?
Did He give me the Holy Spirit to enable me to believe Him and do whatever He requires of me (John 16:13)?
Did He not promise to be with me at all times (Heb. 13:5)?
Will my unbelief cost me a lifetime of regret?
How would you describe your current faith? Is it strong, weak, or wavering? Is anything presently causing you to doubt God? If so, what can you do to strengthen your confidence in Him?
What kinds of situations typically tempt you to doubt the Lord? What Scripture passages address these issues?
Have you ever faced a fork in the road that determined your future? If so, did you believe God or allow your reasoning or feelings to govern your choice? What happened as a result of your obedience or disobedience?
1 James, a bond-servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, To the twelve tribes who are dispersed abroad: Greetings.
6 But he must ask in faith without any doubting, for the one who doubts is like the surf of the sea, driven and tossed by the wind.
6 Be strong and courageous, do not be afraid or tremble at them, for the LORD your God is the one who goes with you. He will not fail you or forsake you."
38 Give, and it will be given to you. They will pour into your lap a good measure--pressed down, shaken together, and running over. For by your standard of measure it will be measured to you in return."
13 But when He, the Spirit of truth, comes, He will guide you into all the truth; for He will not speak on His own initiative, but whatever He hears, He will speak; and He will disclose to you what is to come.
Biblical faith is the confident conviction that God will do what He has promised. But what happens when we waver between our own thoughts and those of our Lord? How do we recover when our own feelings and our circumstances crowd out our faith in Him?


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Petra's kiln re-build
Kilns December 24, 2018
Three years ago I was commissioned by Petra to build her a new diesel fired salt kiln. Based on a simple opposing jet burner layout and tall enough that it was easy for her to load. the kiln was completed in 2015. However in 2017 she moved house and wanted to take her still relatively new kiln with her. So a team of us carefully de-constructed the kiln, palletised the bricks and other materials and it was moved to the new site.
It's taken a while for the new studio to be built and so the re-build of the kiln only got underway in October this year. I had a team of Chris and Adrian to help out and in September we started by building the kiln shed from a simple pole carport kit-set. We then built the small retaining wall and filled it with metal as a platform for the kiln.
Once we had a shelter to work under we moved the bricks onto the site and started the job of sorting out the different brick types and the job of grinding and cleaning up the salted bricks. The hot face bricks are a Shiral 38% Alumina brick and are hardly affected by the salt, so in the firebox and floor the bricks are laid with a fresh face in, but most of the walls and arch is laid with the salt side in (so the kiln is essentially pre-salted).
The outer coursework is re-used common brick and the chimney is re-used H30 bricks. The mortar on the Shiral bricks is a fireclay/silica sand mix and the mortar for the commons is my local clay and sharp washed sand.
It's been a great project to work on and interesting to see where the wear and tear is most evident from the previous dozen or so firings of the kiln before we demolished it. The kiln is finished and only the oil system to set up and then it's ready once again for Petra to use regularly.
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La pile, dite plus précisément pile romaine, pile gallo-romaine, pile funéraire, est une sorte de tour élevée, de plan carré ou rectangulaire, plus rarement circulaire, constituant un monument funéraire. Les piles, élevées entre le  et le , se retrouvent dans les zones d'occupation romaine. Les piles portent souvent un nom local, comme « tourasse » ou « tourraque » en Gascogne ou en Languedoc.

Terminologie
Le terme de pile, désignant indistinctement toute sorte de construction massive s'apparentant à un pilier, s'est naturellement imposé dans le langage populaire pour ces édifices. En Guyenne et Languedoc, on emploie les mots tourrasse ou, en Gascogne, tourraque, augmentatifs occitans de « tour ». Le nom de Peyrelongue (« pierre longue ») habituellement donné aux mégalithes, se retrouve en plusieurs endroits, avec les formes Pirelongue ou Pirelonge (tour de Pirelonge à Saint-Romain-de-Benet, près de Royan). En Saintonge, on trouve les noms de lieux Fana ou Fa, dérivés du latin fanum, « temple » (voir le site gallo-romain du Fâ). Il existe parfois une variante fanal, qui se rapproche d'une des hypothèses avancées jadis, selon laquelle ces monuments auraient servi de tours à signaux. Il n'est pas impossible, car ressortant d'une tradition romaine, qu'une lumière ait été placée en haut de la construction pour honorer les morts, pratique qui se retrouvera après le  avec la lanterne des morts placée dans les cimetières et qui présente certaines similitudes avec la pile romaine. Le toponyme Montjoie, désignant fréquemment l'emplacement d'un monument élevé à un carrefour, se retrouve parfois associé à une pile (pile de la Montjoie à Roquebrune, Gers).

En dehors des régions françaises, on emploie le terme plus générique de mausolée, soit que le caractère funéraire soit demeuré évident par la bonne conservation du monument, soit qu'on lui ait attribué d'autres fonctions : borne, monument commémoratif, etc., qui l'auraient protégé du vandalisme.

Caractéristiques
La pile est constituée d'une tour de base carrée ou rectangulaire, dressée sur un socle et entourée d'un enclos qui recevait les tombes des défunts de la famille du principal récipiendaire. La base ou socle est généralement de dimensions supérieures au reste de la construction, puis suivent des « étages » simulés par des bandeaux ou des corniche, parfois par un léger retrait. Un dernier niveau présente une niche, le plus souvent voûtée en berceau ou en cul-de-four, orientée à l'est ou au sud, qui abrite une statue, dont la tête amovible pouvait être changée et remplacée par le portrait du dernier défunt. Le sommet de la pile est en forme de dôme, de cône ou de pyramide. La tour est pleine : les murs extérieurs sont en pierre ou en brique, d'appareil soigné comportant souvent des motifs décoratifs, parfois des bas-reliefs ou des statues, tandis que l'intérieur reçoit un blocage de matériaux grossiers. Les excavations pratiquées par les curieux au  n'ont jamais révélé la moindre cavité intérieure. La pile n'était pas un tombeau, mais un cénotaphe. Les tombeaux se trouvaient vraisemblablement dans l'enclos qui entourait la pile.

La hauteur moyenne d'une pile, difficile à établir en raison de la dégradation des monuments subsistants, pouvait atteindre ou dépasser une dizaine de mètres. Celle de Cinq-Mars (Indre-et-Loire), la plus haute, atteint 29,50 m. La Tourasse à Aiguillon (Lot-et-Garonne) est de plan circulaire, mais son statut de pile funéraire, quoique probable, n'est pas assuré. La Pyramide de Couhard, à Autun, affecte comme son nom l'indique la forme d'une pyramide romaine, c'est-à-dire assez aiguë.

Fonction
Les piles ont été longtemps qualifiées de « mystérieuses », la connaissance de leur fonction s'étant d'autant plus perdue que leur décor extérieur avait souvent disparu.

Bornes
Parmi les hypothèses les plus souvent proposées, figurent les « bornes », compte tenu de leur présence le long des voies romaines. Mais, même en tenant compte des édifices disparus, leur nombre n'est pas suffisant pour justifier leur usage systématique dans ce sens, et leur grande taille apparaît quelque peu disproportionnée avec le rôle d'une simple borne. Enfin, certaines piles se trouvaient en dehors des grands axes de circulation. Il est certain qu'en revanche les piles pouvaient servir de repère.

Dans le même ordre d'idées, elles auraient marqué la limite de certains territoires, ou servi d'amer dans les régions côtières.

Temples
Enfin, on a souvent pensé qu'il s'agissait de temples dédiés à divers dieux, dont Mercure, patron des voyageurs. De nombreuses statues de divinités et d'objets de culte ont été retrouvés aux abords des piles.

Monument funéraire
Il est communément admis aujourd'hui que les piles sont des monuments funéraires, destinés à célébrer la mémoire de personnages importants. Les tombeaux se trouvaient dans l'enceinte entourant la pile, qui pouvait être une nécropole de quelque importance.

Cette fonction funéraire n'est pas forcément en contradiction avec les diverses hypothèse précédentes, car les tombeaux étaient souvent bâtis aux carrefours, selon les règles mêmes établies par les arpenteurs romains, et leurs enceintes, presque toutes disparues, contenaient objets de culte et statues de divinités.

Conservation
Un grand nombre de piles ont disparu, faute d'entretien, car étant pleines, elles ne pouvaient être d'aucune utilité de logement ou de stockage, si ce n'est de servir de carrières de pierres. Beaucoup ont disparu lors de la christianisation (saint Martin de Tours se serait employé à en détruire un grand nombre). Certaines, comme la seconde tourraque de Labarthe-de-Rivière (Haute-Garonne) ont dû laisser la place à une voie de chemin de fer, une route ou d'autres aménagements. Longtemps objets de mystère, à l'origine mal définie, les piles ont été étudiées tardivement. Aujourd'hui la totalité des piles sont inscrites comme monuments historiques. Elles sont classées en tant que colonne monumentale.

Localisation
Les piles se retrouvent dans tout l'espace de la colonisation romaine, avec une nette prédominance pour le Sud-Ouest de la France. Le département du Gers en compte 8 subsistantes, après en avoir possédé 12 recensées. Des monuments funéraires dont on peut comparer le principe à celui des « piles » françaises se trouvent aussi en Espagne (Tour des Scipion à Tarragone), en Allemagne (Igel), en Tunisie (Kasserine, Henchir-em-Naam), en Libye (Ghirza), etc.

Région Centre-Val de Loire

Indre-et-Loire
 Cinq-Mars-la-Pile : pile de Cinq-Mars
 Marcé-sur-Esves : pierre de Faon

Région Nouvelle-Aquitaine

Charente-Maritime
 Authon-Ebéon : la Pyramide ou fanal, très dégradée, surtout à la base Elle mesure environ 16 m de haut.
 Aumagne : pile de Chagnon, ou de Villepouge (détruite au  s. mais dont les fouilles ont été riches d'enseignements).
 Saint-Romain-de-Benet : tour de Pirelonge : base de 6 x 6 m, hauteur 25 m, elle a conservé son couronnement conique.

Lot-et-Garonne
 Aiguillon : la Tourasse. Cette pile, dite aussi de Pirelongue, est de plan circulaire, d'un diamère de 9 mètres pour une hauteur actuelle de 5. Deux autres piles, à Buzet et à Bourran, se trouvaient à des distances égales de 3 lieues gauloises (soit environ 7 kilomètres), ce qui a accrédité l'idée qu'il pouvait s'agir de bornes. Des fouilles alentour ont permis de découvrir en 1827 diverses pièces romaines, gardes d'épées et autres objets archéologiques.
 Saint-Pierre-de-Buzet : [[Pile gallo-romaine de Saint-Pierre-de-Buzet|tour de Peyrelongue]], en petit appareil cubique très régulier. La niche voûtée en cul-de-four s'ouvre à 4,50 m du sol.

Région Occitanie

Ariège
 Moulis : pile romaine de Luzenac

Haute-Garonne
 Labarthe-Rivière : la Tourraque, en bordure d'une voie romaine, fortement dégradée depuis la gravure de 1884 qui montre encore son couronnement pyramidal, aujourd'hui disparu. Une autre pile située à proximité fut détruite pour l'établissement de la voie de chemin de fer au .
 Beauchalot, en bordure d'une voie antique. Petit appareil, niche, hauteur 12,80 m.
 Valcabrère : restes d'une pile dont les parements ont presque entièrement disparu.
 Montréjeau, rive gauche de la Garonne, niche, décor en alternance de pierres noires et jaunes.

Gers
 Saint-Lary. « La plus intéressante du Gers », dit Ph. Lauzun. Elle a conservé une grande partie de son revêtement extérieur et de sa décoration.
 Ordan-Larroque : pile de Lasserre, ou d'Encassou-Pancaran : hauteur actuelle 6 m, très dégradée ; pile de Larroque-Mengot, dite aussi Peyrelongue, hauteur 10 m, le parement et la niche supérieure ont disparu. La petite niche a été aménagée au  s.
 Biran : tourraque de Lacouture, 11,30 m de hauteur, c'est la plus imposante des piles gersoises. La niche, voûtée en cul-de-four, s'ouvre vers le sud.
 Roquebrune : pile de Montjoie. De faible hauteur, elle comporte une niche voûtée en berceau et sa nature n'est pas connue avec précision, il pourrait s'agir d'un temple.
 Saint-Arailles : tourraque de Merlieu. La pile commence à être démolie en 1856. Après disparition de la partie supérieure, la hauteur est de 5 m, la base de 3,80 m sur 2,70 m.
 Mirande : pile d'Artigues ou de Betbèze, dont ne subsiste que la base (3 m de haut) (une seconde pile située à proximité a disparu au XIXe s.)
 Lamazère : tourraque d'Ortolas, hauteur 5,50 m.

Notes

Voir aussi

Articles connexes
 Pile de Cinq-Mars
 Mausolée d'Igel
 Tour de Pirelonge
 Pyramide d'Authon-Ébéon
 La Tourasse (Aiguillon)
 Tourraque de Lacouture

Bibliographie
 Philippe Lauzun, Inventaire général des piles gallo-romaines dans le Sud-Ouest de la France et plus particulièrement du département du Gers, Bulletin Monumental, Caen, Henri Delesques, imprimeur-éditeur, 1898
 Camille Jullian, La Question des piles et les fouilles de Chagnon (Saintonge), Mémoires de la Société nationale des antiquaires de France, T. LVII, Paris, 1897
 Pascale Clauss-Balty (sous la dir.), Les piles funéraires gallo-romaines du Sud-Ouest de la France, Pau, Presses Universitaires de Pau et des Pays de l'Adour, 2016

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A: Because it's an Object and not an Array, you should use Object.keys or some other method to access each property of the object instead. For example:
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A: A succinct way of iterating properties of an object, usisng forEach and the keys method of Object
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ASU's student newspaper, The State Press, featured a story about The Be ONE Project's Program Director, Tristan Peterson-Steinert, who is currently a student at Arizona State University. Here Tristan talks about the effectiveness of ONE Day and about Positive Peer Pressure, the concept behind The Be ONE Project. Read the article below!
USA Today picked up a story about The Be ONE Project from local affiliate AZCentral. This article summarizes our short story and also about where we hope to be going in the future. Check it out below!
In the August 2014 edition of Raising Arizona Kids, Matthew explains how The Be ONE Project is changing school cultures throughout Arizona, and outlines his vision for The Be ONE Project's future.
Kohl's Cares Scholarship Program honors local teen Matthew Kaplan for his outstanding community-service organization, The Be ONE Project.
Time for Kids interviewed Matthew Kaplan about receiving Disney Channel's "Hero for Change" Award at the 2014 Radio Disney Music Awards in this special feature.
Arizona Jewish Life Magazine featured Matthew Kaplan and The Be ONE Project in the March 2014 edition of their magazine. Matthew talks about the process of planning an event and the catalyst for founding his anti-bullying organization.
Matthew Kaplan, founder of The Be ONE Project, was featured on CBS 5 News by award-winning journalist Catherine Anaya as a part of her "Better Arizona" segment.
Go Inspire Go is a non-profit organization that leverages social media to tell the stories of everyday people doing amazing things. This year, Go Inspire Go launched a campaign to tell the stories of 50 extraordinary people in all 50 states, and Matthew Kaplan, along with The Be ONE Project, was chosen to be their first hero and the kickoff story of the campaign.
Matthew Kaplan Wins Grant and Ambassadorship to D.C.
For his work with The Be ONE Project, Matthew Kaplan was selected as one of 51 National Child Awareness Month Youth Ambassadors. Matthew had the opportunity to attend a three-day leadership training on Capital Hill and recieved a $1,000 grant to support The Be ONE Project.
To learn more, visit the link below.
The Be ONE Project was featured in an editorial in the Jewish News of Greater Phoenix. This article, written by editorial intern Erica Morris, highlights the vision and successes of the program.
Matthew Kaplan was awarded the AmTrust Bank Caring Kid Award for his work as the founder and executive director of The Be O.N.E. Project. Along with a $150 savings account at AmTrust Bank, Matthew was given a segment on Sonoran Living Live where he sat down and spoke about The Be ONE Project with Terry Ouellette.


Sorry for the delayed patch notes everyone, we are stil working on some last minute improvements. Expect Exposure to go live today, March 7th. Servers will be down from 4PM GMT/8AM PST until 5PM GMT/9AM PST. Servers will be wiped to ensure proper patch deployment.
It's only one week until the new update crashes into your PCs. We are super excited about this and today we want to wrap it all up once again since there is a really good initial feedback from internal and external testing.
We are coming really close to the release of the next update. The date is set: March 7! Today we are going to give you more details about what it will bring into the game. The only thing that is missing is the title of the update. And we'd like to ask you for help. We'll be listening to your suggestions over the weekend for the name of our new baby. Feel free to share your thoughts in the comments section.


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Benadryl for Dogs - The pros and cons & safety of it.
If you are a dog owner then, you must know that your pet dogs often suffer from allergic reactions that cause severe discomfort to them. Well, you will be happy to know that with Benadryl you are now able to treat all the discomforts of your loving pet. Benadryl is a common medicine used for treating allergenic reactions both for human beings, as well as dogs. Benadryl is also known as diphenhydramine in medical terms. This medicine is normally available in the market both in the form of tablets as well as cream. Benadryl is an FDA approved medicine and is highly recommended by veterinary doctors in order to treat allergies that are usually being diagnosed in your pet dogs. This anti-allergic medicine is found highly effective in dogs suffering from skin problems like itching, sleeplessness, motion sickness, stuffy nose and many more similar problems. It is a good remedy to treat all kinds of allergies in your pets if given with proper recommended doses with respect to your dog's weight.
Benadryl is a safe medicine for your pet's dogs as no major side effects have been noticed from the research on dogs that were treated with this medicine.
This medicine is a highly recommended one by veterinary experts to treat allergic reactions in dogs, and its effect has been reported to be long lasting.
You can give Benadryl to your dog for a long term with recommended doses, and it will keep away the dog from any common allergic reaction.
You can go for Benadryl in case you notice symptoms like itching or scratching and red eyes with sneezing. This medicine is also beneficial to treat the toes red skin of dogs with a foul smell.
Just like human beings, dogs are also bitten by various kinds of insects that cause swelling in their body and sometimes lead to some major allergic reaction. Benadryl works wonder to give immediate relief to your dog for such kinds of allergies caused due to insect bites.
The most striking thing about Benadryl is that it gets absorbed by the body very quickly. So, your dog will get an immediate and instant relief from his discomforts.
In the case your dog is diagnosed with muscle's tumor, the doctor can prescribe Benadryl as researches have shown that it is highly effective for muscle tumors.
You often give vaccination to your dogs. But sometimes after vaccination your dog may show some allergic reactions. In such a situation, Benadryl can be used to minimize the problem instantly.
Relief from vomiting, itching, insomnia, etc. are some of the other benefits of giving Benadryl to your dog.
If the problem of your dog is diagnosed properly and recommended doses of Benadryl are given to your dog in proper time, then you will surely observe positive reaction in your pet's activity.
You need to be very sure before giving Benadryl to your pet dog as this anti-allergic medicine may react with other drugs that your dog is consuming for other problems. So, you are highly advised to consult with a qualified doctor and inform him about all the medicines that your pet is consuming for other health problems before you go for Benadryl.
Benadryl is not exactly formulated to cure the allergy problems that your dog is facing. It works on the symptoms and not the actual cause of the problem. You will be wrong if you think that after using Benadryl your dog's problem will get cured permanently. You may again see the symptoms in your dog once the effect of the medicine gets over with time.
One of the most common side effects that are being noticed in dogs after using Benadryl is Sedation. Though some dogs show this symptom, it's not mandatory for all dogs. So, keep in mind that your pet dog may not show any side effect like this.
Another disadvantage of Benadryl is that it can't be used in liquid form. It is because the alcohol percentage in liquid Benadryl is reported to be very high and as such they may not be appropriate your pet dog.
In case you are not staying in United States then be extra careful while using this medicine. It is because the chemical composition of Benadryl may not be the same in other parts of the world. So, be very careful and see the package instruction carefully before using for your dog's safety.
It is often reported by the dog owners that Benadryl causes dry mouth to their dogs, and they also observe less urination in their pets due to dryness caused by Benadryl.
In very rare cases it is found that the dog that is given Benadryl vomits along with some symptoms of gastric disorder.
Your dog may look a little drowsy once the medicine comes into effect.
Benadryl can't be given for a long term as in some cases it is reported by the owners that Benadryl weakens their dog's immune system.
Overdoses of Benadryl might show severe side effects. As such the doses should be based on the weight of your pet. So, you need to consult with qualified veterinary doctors before opting Benadryl for your pet dog.
If you do not want to worry about giving an overdose or be worried about the side effects of Benadryl for your dog, you can try Pet Bounce. It's a completely safe, all natural joint pain relief that works very well. I've used it numerous times, and I can give it to my dogs without feeling worried.
Well, it's obvious that being a dog owner you will be worried about the discomforts of your dog caused due to allergies. But, now with Benadryl you can easily help out your dog to get rid of all its discomforts. All you need to remember is that all the cons of this medicine can be overcome only if you give this to your dog as per the recommended dosage along with proper diet. For better result, you can consult with a veterinary expert before using this medicine for your dog.


Takeaway: Bud rot starts inside of a bud, so it is not easily seen until it has started to spread. It favors dense colas and densely leafed plants. Dealing with a suspected outbreak requires swift action.
Discovering that your cannabis crop has developed bud rot is definitely going to ruin your day. Learning how to detect bud rot, and how to avoid it in the first place, are the best tools that a grower can have in his or her arsenal.
Bud rot is a generic term for a type of grey mold known as Botrytis cinera. It can attack blossoms when they are growing on the plant or not become present until they are hung to dry. Either way, swift action is required to try and mitigate the damage bud rot can cause.
Bud rot starts inside of a bud, so it is not easily seen until it has started to spread. It favors dense colas and densely leafed plants.
The infected bud will generally start to show a white mold, which will turn to grey and eventually black. Collapse of the bud will coincide with the darkened appearance and it will be reduced to a mushy mess.
Botrytis is spread by spore, like other molds and fungi. It thrives in conditions where humidity levels are high (over 50 percent) and temperatures are not too cool and not too hot.
Like other fungi, it will form where there is poor ventilation and circulation. It also needs ultra-violet light to survive.
There are very few chemical options for the treatment of bud rot. Treatment of bud rot is usually surgical. The first sign of an infected blossom calls for action. It should be excised with sterile cutting tools.
Each cut should occur between two and four inches below the infected bud. If there are multiple infected buds to remove, the cutting device used should be sterilized between cuts and again before being put away after use.
The infected buds should be bagged and removed from the area. If possible, they should be solarized under plastic to kill the pathogen before being thrown away.
Another non-chemical method of control of bud rot, as referenced above, is to cut off any available UV light. This is of course done at the expense of THC levels, but if there is an outbreak of botrytis, war needs to be declared to eradicate it.
If there is no risk of runoff, and it is used judiciously, Bordeax mix has been used effectively by some cannabis growers. It will need to be sprayed well before harvest though to avoid damage. This copper and lime mixture has been used effectively in the control of fungal pathogens on crops for almost 200 years.
In the world of agriculture, there are two other chemicals that are approved for post-harvest treatment on crops with Botrytis. These active ingredients are Fludioxonol and Pyrimethanil. Neither is approved for use on medical cannabis, nor are they allowed for organic food production.
If no other change is made, growing sativa varieties of sativa crosses will reduce the chance of developing bud rot. This is not to say they never get them, nor is it to say that indicas always get them. However, sativas are far less likely to develop bud rot based on the areas of the world they evolved in.
Changing conditions in the grow room, or rather maintaining proper conditions, will do more to prevent the development and spread of bud rot than by changing varieties grown.
High humidity: Grow room humidity levels should not exceed 50 percent.
Medium temperatures: Unlike mildews that like it hot (powdery mildew) and those that like it cool (Downey mildew), bud rot likes mild temperatures. By keeping the growing area at least 70F (21C) to 80F (26C), bud rot will be kept at bay.
Poor air circulation: mold thrives in stagnant air. Keeping horizontal air flow (HAF) fans running at all times and maintaining adequate ventilation will reduce the chances for bud rot to establish.
Dense foliage/Dense colas- While there may be nothing that can always be done about these, plants should be spaced far enough apart to achieve proper circulation. If there is reasonable risk for Botrytis to make an appearance, some preventative thinning of branches and foliage may be advisable.
All of these conditions enumerated above apply to cut and drying blossoms as well as those that are still attached to the cannabis plants themselves. Even when removed, cannabis blossoms still need their space.


I am pleased to announce the 2.3.5 version of Ask Alexa! In this version I continue (along with help from the community) to evolve the application to allow more conversational syntax, along with adding more functionality for existing and new devices.
This app is used for those who are not happy with simply with simply saying "Alexa, turn on the living room". If you are curious about the STATUS of a light, or run a very complex set of instructions (or even use a little bit of logic to choose what runs), then this program is for you! While the thread is long, I recommend you start with the first paragraph here ([RELEASE] Ask Alexa).
This will be a SIMPLE upgrade (as defined as Scenario 1 http://thingsthataresmart.wiki/index.php?title=Ask_Alexa#Frequently_Asked_Questions_.28FAQs.29) Simple update the main app and weather app in your IDE.
PLEASE NOTE: Now that this app is rather stable (It is now almost 2 years old!) now I will be updating it less frequently except for bugs and new features. I am waiting for Amazon to release their 'push' notifications where some amazing stuff will happen with this app. Until then, if you do have a great feature idea for this app, just let me know.
Switch restrictions Introduced in a minor revisions a few weeks ago, this allow you to use a switch (real or virtual) to determine if a macro or extension runs. While it won't go to replace WebCoRE, it will allow you to make simple decisions about automation within Ask Alexa. This is also included in the weather report extension, which was also updated today.
Extension Group Output to Message Queue based on suggestion from @bwyble. As we all move toward using the Native Alexa Routines to run some of the nice reports from Ask Alexa (eventually using the notification function) this allows you to combine the outputs from all Extensions within a group and output them as one long speech. For Brad, this is taking multiple voice reports and having one output Alexa (or his TTS speaker) can output using the Message Queue functions.
For those with IDE integration with GitHub, simply update the repository and you will have the latest code for the SmartApp itself. However, your lambda code, intents and utterances should be upgraded as well.
Sometimes it works best if I can work real time with you. To facilitate this, I have created a Slack channel: https://askalexa.slack.com. Using this tool is easy and will allow for real-time collaboration to solve the problems faster. To use this feature, I must invite you to the Slack channel. This will not be for normal questions; please use this forum for that function.
The Echo, as it is designed currently, cannot react to switches opening or other actions within SmartThings. She will do things for you, but only at your direction and at the time of the request. The delay timer mentioned in the control macro happens at the SmartThings hub, not within the Amazon Alexa control. See the new Message Queue functions for similar functionality with Big Talker!
When evaluating new features I will typically ask for a valid use case. If it can be used by others to bring them value I will put it on my list of future revisions. Not all suggestions will be used and many times I add aspects of the request.
There are no dumb questions, but many of the questions you may have were probably answered in the year since the initial release. Please take some time to go through the forum and the wiki if you have issues. And don't be offended if I give you the specific area of the manual that answers your question. I have spent almost as much time on the documentation as I have on the app. Finally, there are some big fans of Ask Alexa that know almost as much as I do. They can also help.
Feel free to send me forks of utterances or even code revisions. As mentioned above, if it adds value to the overall program I will try to include it. This also goes for the wiki documentation…while I have spent over a year and a half creating this document, I am open to it being improved; I know there are probably still grammatical errors or syntax issues…If you find them, fix them…I will include your name (if I can) in any fixes submitted.
If you find a bug or a consistent crash please help me track it down by giving me repeatable steps to reproduce it. A non-reproducible bug, many times, indicates other areas that may be at fault besides the app. If you watch the live logging and see a red error with a line number, that is very helpful to me! However, I will need a full screenshot and not a copy/paste of the text. But be careful about revealing your OAuth and AppToken in your public posts. People can control you house with that information. You may want to blur that out.
As mentioned above, revisions will be less and less now. And with the code base now unified, I expect less and less additions…especially as I partner with other application developers to ensure their strengths can be brought into the notification model of Ask Alexa . Any and all suggestions are still on the table for addition.
I have updated Ask Alexa to 2.3.5a. For those new users who are doing an installation, you will find one less step to simplify this process.


WetCanvas > Explore Media > Digital Art > Some new ones again.
View Full Version : Some new ones again.
PS5.5 - Airbrush - Wacom - No reference. Comments?
the pictures that follow is 10 minute ones. Time limit is good exercise.
That's some of the new ones. Sorry about the download time.
Love the camel! I thought they weren't supposed to be friendly!!. I like the sketched in look, which is like natural media, and yet it is it own thing.
The out-of-focus background is the same way too, kind of natural media, but not, makes the pictures distinctive.
The black one comes out too dark on my monitor to make out the details, unfortunately.
I'd swear the giraffe was a 3D model with texture mapping.
I really like the animals, the ostrich in particular. I also like the effect/mood you are going for in the first one.


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Alan Braxe @ Goya Social Club Nov. 8th
Nov. 8th Jägermusic & Goya Social Club proudly present "French Touch" legend, ALAN BRAXE.
Tickets On Sale NOW: https://goo.gl/MgfApp
Alan Braxe's musical journey began in Paris in the late-90s and he was at the epicenter of the French electronic music scene as it exploded. Alan's work ran deep through the collection of seminal tracks that made the rest of the world sit up and take notice of the French Touch sound.
Braxe's debut single, 'Vertigo' came out on Roulé, Daft Punk's Thomas Bangalter's Label in 1997. He then scored a global smash in 1998 with 'Music Sounds Better with you' a track co-written with Bangalter and Benjamin Diamond under the name Stardust.
Next up he founded Vulture Music, an uncompromising, stripped back, anti-glam label which put out singles, often with collaborator Fred Falke. One of these, simply titled 'Intro' was released in 2000 and became a bona fide house music classic, played by all kinds of DJs, in all kinds of clubs, all over the world. Other hits followed, including 2004's 'Rubicon', 'Discopolis' by Lifelike and Kris Menace and this rich vein was supported by the now legendary, Braxe-run, Social Club nights in Paris where the likes of Tensnake, Jacques Lu Cont, The Magician, Lifelike and Kolombo would play whatever they wanted.
Following a recent hiatus, Alan Braxe is now back. And it's all about the music. He's in the studio crafting his own new sounds, plus an exciting collaboration with Dj Falcon. He's also firmly back on the DJ circuit and every gig is hotly anticipated.
Be sure to join us Wednesday Nov. 8th at Goya Social Club for a very special evening with one of electronic music's finest…
Want to reserve a bottle/table?
Whatsapp us at +34 681 65 00 40.
Alan Braxe, Clubbing Spain, French Touch, Goya Social Club, House Music, Madrid, Paris
Young Franco "About This Thing" feat. Scrufizzer
Goya Social Club w/ SEB ZITO


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