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Everything I need to know, I learned from Leslie Knope
What better way to start off a new year than with Leslie Knope? I spent most of 2015 watching a bunch of television shows I had missed out on, finally allowing myself to fully understand the current state of pop culture. No longer am I just making Friends and The Simpsons references, you guys. I can finally understand references to Friday Night Lights, Parenthood, and Parks and Rec. (Along with a slew of others.) Of all of the shows I watched last year, Parks really stands out as something special. Each character is so intricate and lovable, each plot line hilarious and heartwarming, each relationship so reassuring and comfortable. Parks and Rec helped me through a lot of things, and the leader of the pack is nothing short of inspiration.
Be the Leslie Knope of whatever you do. What a way to start 2016 (and EINTKILF's fourth year)!
EINTKILF Leslie Knope
1. Being neutral is overrated.
One of the things we all know and love about Leslie is her unbridled passion for everything she loves (or does not love). There is nothing that Leslie is "meh" about (except kind of turtles?) and it is such a nice reminder for those of us who relate. I am not much of a Leslie (like 5-10%) but I do always appreciate the fact that she has an opinion on everything.
Also for the record, pockets are too small in most cases.
2. First dates are the worst.
One of my favorite episodes of Parks is "Practice Date," the episode where Ann takes Leslie on a fake date so she can practice for her date with Dave. Not only is the episode such a great example of the perfection that is Ann and Leslie's friendship, but it is a hilarious and accurate take on dating. Though I personally think (and by god, hope) that I am better at dating than Leslie Knope, I definitely hate first dates more than most things in the world including job interviews. First dates blow, and Leslie's attempt at making small talk, picking out an outfit, and then drunkenly going over to Dave's house after her practice date is just wonderful.
Dates are awful, you guys.
3. Libraries are terrible (not really)
Look, I totally disagree with this but it is one of my favorite running jokes on the show. Because who hates libraries?
4. Overachieving is complicated
Along with her optimism, passion, and ambition, Leslie is a huge overachiever—part of the reason all of her friends love her but are intimidated by her commitment to her friendships. Episodes like "Article Two" prove that being Leslie's friend is kind of like running a competitive marathon—you have to be prepared and you will likely never win. Ben and Ann bidding for the same waffle maker on eBay just goes to show that Leslie's people will do anything for her, but they will literally never top Leslie herself.
5. Priorities are important.
And she has certainly got that right. Work is always, always last.
6. Everything does not always work out the way you planned , and that's OK
Though Leslie Knope is the vision of success (in my opinion), her life was not always a smooth course. Though Leslie initially wins a seat on Pawnee's city council, after she attempts to merge Eagleton and Pawnee, she angers a lot of people and is eventually successfully removed from her position.
Though Leslie has her moments of downheartedness after the recall is announced, she eventually picks herself back up (well, her friends pick her back up) and realizes that she has not peaked quite yet. Everything does not always work out in life, and dreams can change, and they should change, and that's okay. If you don't know exactly what you want to do, you have time to change your mind over and over again until you're happy.
7. What true love looks like.
I know we have all loved a million television relationships over the course of our lives. I am no different than any of you. I loved Jim and Pam, and Ross and Rachel, and Chandler and Monica, and Eric and Donna, and Carly and Sonny, and Sami and Lucas, and I even ship people on shows I don't watch like Once Upon a Time and stuff. TV love is something really special.
But Ben and Leslie, man. I don't know what it is that hits me so particularly. I don't know if it is because Ben Wyatt is 100% my type, if it is because I envy Leslie's self-assuredness, if it is because Ben and Leslie's relationship is never the priority of the show, making it even more special. Whatever it is, Ben and Leslie just sock me right in the cold heart. They are a real cupid's arrow in my life. I love their relationship so, so very much.
There is nothing sweeter than Leslie and Ben's engagement, or their wedding, or that moment when Ann calls Leslie out on being too pushy so she finally tells Ben how she feels but makes sure to ask him how he feels as well because she doesn't want to push too hard anymore. (Hi, that's me, that's where I'm Leslie. I'm a steamroller.) Ben is the perfect complement to Leslie's everything and oh mylanta, I want to find that in my life.
Ben never asks Leslie to apologize for who she is, he only loves her more for it. The dream, kids.
8. How to be the best friend.
And even sweeter than Ben and Leslie are Leslie and Ann. Their friendship is driven by the best things, even though their personalities are so different. Ann is always Leslie's priority. Leslie makes sure than Ann knows how she feels about her at all times of the day. They love and support one another through everything, they are harsh on each other in only the most necessary ways, and they honestly define true friendship love.
Beyond Ann, Leslie is obviously an incredible friend to everyone in her life. She loves and cares for April as if she is her family, she gives Andy all of the opportunities he needs to be the person he becomes, she lets Tom be fully Tom without questions, and ugh, if her friendship with Ron doesn't make you cry on a regular basis, I just don't even know who you are. I hope my friends think I am ONE QUARTER of the friend that Leslie is.
9. Be yourself.
And know that yourself is awesome. Leslie is well aware of how incredible she is, even though she relies on her friends to pick her up in dire situations. Mostly, Leslie's confidence is admirable. Everyone needs a Leslie in their life to inspire them to live their life to their own personal fullest. She is the best, she knows she's the best, and she treats everyone around her with the respect they deserve.
10. Loyalty is everything.
Above all else, Leslie's loyalty is her highest priority, even if she doesn't realize it. Leslie will back up anyone she loves with a fierceness that is impossible to match. She puts everyone before herself and still manages that whole self-care thing. She is only briefly mad at April for wanting to leave the government and almost immediately helps her discover exactly what she wants to do instead. Leslie steps out of the way when Mark has feelings for Ann, even though they have history as well. Leslie created "Galentine's Day" in order to celebrate the love of the women in her life instead of the commercialized holiday of Valentine's Day. Though he is the long butt of a lot of Parks and Rec jokes, Jerry becomes the Interim Mayor of Pawnee and eventually serves numerous mayoral terms before he dies peacefully on his 100th birthday. At the insistence of Leslie, Jerry's mayoral celebration is a real tear-jerker—even though Leslie is not excluded from the mistreatment of Jerry—his storyline conclusion proves that she has always loved him as much as the rest of her friends.
Her love and loyalty is inspiring to me, fictional or not. I love Leslie Knope. I love her. She genuinely makes me want to be a better person. To 2016—the year of being your own Leslie Knope.
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Total Hip Rehab
Let's start!
- Unlike the knee, hip replacement generally feels more natural and does not require intensive rehabilitation.
- If you used to ambulate on your own before surgery, you will be able to do most of the exercises after surgery on your own.
- Limp and feeling of one leg longer than the other is common after hip replacement. The weaker your hip muscles and more advanced your joint deformity before surgery, the higher the chance of experiencing limp and leg length discrepancy. The sooner you regain strength in your hip muscles and you become adjusted to your new hip, the sooner your gait will improve and you will walk normally.
Below are exercises that are recommended after hip replacement. Start as soon as possible after surgery. There is no magic number on many times you should do each exercise. In general, start slow and increase as tolerated. Take regular breaks and exercise throughout each day.
Standing exercises. Make sure you are holding onto a firm surface.
- Knee raises: slowly bend your knee on the operative side and elevate it toward your chest, not higher than your waist. Hold for a few seconds then lower your leg to the floor and repeat (Figure 1).
- Hip abduction: while standing on your nonoperative leg, slowly lift your operative leg and pull it away to the side. Hold for a few seconds then slowly lower to the floor and repeat (Figure 2).
- Hip extensions: while standing on your nonoperative leg, slowly lift your operative leg and pull it backwards. Hold for a few seconds then slowly lower to the floor and repeat (Figure 3).
Figure 1
Figure 2
Figure 3
Pictures are courtesy of HEP2go.com.
This is the single best exercise for your recovery. Use a rolling walker for the first 2 weeks as you adjust to your new hip. You may perceive a leg length discrepancy, feel weak, or be hesitant to put full weight on your hip, and therefore you may have a limp at first. However, as your hip mechanics improve, your limp will resolve and your gait will become more natural.
When using the walker, stand up straight so that your weight is evenly distributed. Walk short distances at first until you get more comfortable. As you walk, try to adjust your gait (speed, length of each step, and weight bearing) so you are walking evenly on both sides. As your hip strength and gait improve, wean off the walker and transition to walking on your own or use a cane if you feel you still need continued support.
Note: make sure there are no tripping hazards where you walk.
Hip Precautions
- Do not bend at your hip greater than 90 degrees while sitting or standing.
- Do not cross your legs while seated.
- Do not bend deeply at the knees while in a standing position.
Pictures are courtesy of HEP2go.com.
Final words!
- Remember, the #1 priority in your hip recovery is restoring normal gait.
- Hip exercises against resistance (e.g., using elastic bands) are not necessary in the first 2 weeks.
- Most patients do not require formal physical therapy. You will be evaluated in clinic at 2 weeks after surgery and outpatient therapy will be ordered if necessary.
- Activity is the body's natural blood clot prevention mechanism.

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You would not tie an anchor to a drowning man and claim you were helping him swim. Yet the Obama administration's Department of Justice has done something quite similar with a determination that Native American reservations may become centers for "legal" marijuana sales and use, notwithstanding that this policy stands in stark violation of the federal Controlled Substances Act.
This new push for expanding marijuana use is legally suspect. Prior DOJ memoranda suspending enforcement of federal drug laws, such as in Colorado, were contingent on the alignment of marijuana sales and use with prevailing state laws or regulatory regimes. But Native American reservations are not legally equivalent to states; rather, they are "dependent domestic sovereigns," broadly subject to federal law.
But there is worse in store. The impact on both Native Americans and the broader principles of political and economic integrity will be deeply damaging.
Native American history teaches that many tribes have suffered as much from well-intentioned but devastating policies offered by "friends" as they have from malign attacks by those who sought to destroy their culture. To this litany of harm from good intentions can now be added "legal" dope and the fanciful notion that drug proceeds will lift Native American economies more than they will worsen their health and criminal-justice burden.
There is the threat to Native lives from substance abuse, which has a history of degradation, violence, and pathology for First Americans. Alcohol abuse is pronounced, while heroin and methamphetamine are established threats, especially for tribes adjacent to Southwest Border smuggling routes. According to the National Household Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH), the Native American rate of past-month illicit-drug use is 29 percent higher than the rate for whites (12.3 percent vs. 9.5 percent), while the Native rate of past-year drug abuse or dependence is 77 percent higher (14.9 percent vs. 8.4 percent).
Such afflictions are worse for the vulnerable. Natives suffer disproportionately from the harms of drugs due to poverty, remoteness, and inadequate public-health resources, including the limitations of the Indian Health Service. Effective reporting from Sari Horowitz of the Washington Post documents the pathologies of reservation life among the 566 federally recognized Native groups (found in 35 states), including high rates of poverty, unemployment (reaching 87 percent at Pine Ridge, S.D.), domestic abuse, sexual violence, school dropout, early death, and suicide.
How conceivably could adding increased supply (and acceptability) of an addictive drug associated with psychosis, IQ and learning loss, increased susceptibility to suicide, school failure, and greater need for drug treatment be anything other than a needless disaster?
In addition to the damage from addiction, there is damage to the wider community. Internationally, "legal" drug markets are known to be accompanied by organized crime, prostitution, theft, violent coercion, neighborhood degradation, and economic loss, as documented by the Netherlands' "cannabis cafes." Meanwhile, Colorado is already experiencing lawsuits filed by businesses claiming harm from marijuana sales operations, based on racketeering and organized-crime statutes.
Consider that Southern California alone is home to nearly 30 recognized Indian tribes, with a total population of nearly 200,000. Were they to become purveyors of marijuana, by the experience of Colorado, they could quickly become smuggling centers for black-market marijuana distribution to surrounding communities and states. Reservation boundaries could turn into "domestic borders" comparable to international borders, where drug operations by criminal organizations thrive in driving illegal cultivation and trafficking.
This determination also presents an obvious course for fueling corruption in reservation politics, and equally worrying, U.S. financial affairs, for the emerging market in illicit drugs threatens our economic integrity nationwide. Not only has the DOJ set about dismantling, in states that have legalized, basic banking and money-laundering protections against criminal organizations penetrating the financial system, but there is further risk from another center of illicit finance and money-laundering: the cash business of casinos.
There are nearly 500 Indian "gaming" operations found in nearly 30 states, and while the revenues are great (estimated at $27 billion annually), many are in serious debt. What would another cash business, dealing in addiction and in violation of federal law, presumably paying no federal taxes, do to tribal integrity? What could this contribute to the power of transnational criminal cartels?
Already, marijuana-related law firms from Colorado are guiding those tribes with casinos in setting up high-potency marijuana operations. The potential for public corruption is high, as is the certainty of increased suffering among America's longest victims.
Legal reservation dope is the most dangerous and shameful policy that has yet been proposed by the Obama administration. By John P. Walters & David W. Murray
David W. Murray and John P. Walters direct the Hudson Institute's Center for Substance Abuse Policy Research. They both served in the Office of National Drug Control Policy during the George W. Bush administration.
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Monday, July 21, 2008
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Moving my daily blog to a new site: http://dailyeye.smugmug.com/
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Tuesday, July 1, 2008
Sunday we went to the Open Barn held by SuDan Farms in Canby, Oregon. We often buy lamb from them at the Farmer's Market in Milwaukie. The lamb is fine, grass-fed quality and so are their chickens. They also sell wool, blankets, and yarn. This was a difficult photo to make given the poor light and the quickness of the chicks.
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06 Sep Content marketing 101
Whether you're just starting out with content marketing, or you've been using the same approach for a while, one of the first steps to take if you want to stand out from your competitors is to have a smart content marketing strategy plan.
As Hubspot states, a content marketing strategy "is the piece of your marketing plan that continuously demonstrates who you are and the expertise you bring to your industry". This type of content is vital for the growth of your business, as long as you have a good plan.
So, how do you create a content marketing strategy?
First of all, you need to define your goal, your aim for developing a content marketing plan.
Then, you need to define your target audience, in order to generate relevant and valuable content that they want to read.
After that, you can start brainstorming content ideas, let your imagination fly, always focusing on your target and their interests.
Types of content:
There are plenty of options for content you can create. The most popular formats are:
Blog Posts
You can have a blog on your website, but you need to know that Blog Posts should be published regularly in order to attract new visitors. As we said before, all your posts should provide valuable information for your target. If your content is useful for them, they will share it.
Infographics can organize and visualize data in a more compelling way, making it clearer and easier to understand.
This format is commonly used on social media platforms, because it's more effective and shareable than long, tedious explanations. News and magazines use this format all the time.
This is one of the most engaging formats, but requires a bigger investment of time and resources than graphic or written content. Despite that, videos are so effective that it's a medium worth experimenting with.
This is a format that is increasingly growing. If you are thinking about interviewing people, you can consider podcasting as another content format to experiment with.
Social Media
Posting on social media is vital to amplify your brand's reach and deliver your content to your customers where you know they spend their time. As the others formats, it's important to post the type of content your followers expect to see; and to adapt the content on the different platforms.
At Cualit, we are constantly planning and designing global content marketing strategies for various customers in multiple industries, in order to help them grow their business. You can check out some of our case studies here.
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Loyola Law School Honors L.A. County Supervisor Sheila Kuehl with Cochran Public Service Award During Diversity Week
Loyola Law School, Los Angeles honored Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors Chair Sheila Kuehl with its Johnnie L. Cochran, Jr. Public Service Award on Thursday, March 1, 2018 from 6-8:30 p.m. at a ceremony and reception on Loyola's downtown L.A. campus.
The Cochran Award is presented annually to an individual who embodies the qualities of Loyola alumnus Johnnie L. Cochran Jr. '62, who was known as a trailblazer, innovator, master attorney and mentor. Mrs. Dale Mason Cochran, his widow, presented the award along with Dean Michael Waterstone. Carl E. Douglas, The Douglas Firm, served as master of ceremonies. Proceeds from the event benefit Loyola's African American Scholarship Fund.
Kuehl, a former Loyola Law School adjunct professor, represents Los Angeles County's Third District. In this role, she has helped create the L.A. County Sheriff's Civilian Oversight Commission and Office of Child Protection. In addition, she has championed criminal justice reform to help juvenile and adult offenders restart their lives. Previously, Kuehl served in the California State Senate and State Assembly, where she was the first woman to be named Speaker Pro Tempore.


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Minoxidil is an effective, clinically proven treatment for male pattern baldness. It's applied directly to the scalp in the form of a spray, foam, or solution.
Marketed as 'Rogaine' in the US, it works by expanding the blood vessels in your scalp, improving blood flow to the hair follicles so they produce stronger, healthier hair.
Minoxidil's strength lies in its ability to slow or stop hair loss, rather than simply regrowing hair. Hair growth is a secondary benefit.
It's been demonstrated that Minoxidil improves scalp coverage in around 60% of men.
Is Minoxidil an Effective Hair Loss Treatment?
If you've looked in the mirror recently and wondered why you've started looking more like your senior relatives with a bald spot, thinning hair, or a receding hairline – you're not alone. Two-thirds of men in the UK will eventually experience male pattern baldness (also known as androgenetic alopecia), as a result of their genetic make-up.
But that doesn't have to be the end of the story.
Clinically-proven treatments for male pattern baldness (MPB) are available. You may have already come across Finasteride, a tablet that blocks dihydrotestosterone (DHT), which is the hormone responsible for a lot of MPB hair loss.
There is also a topical treatment for MPB, Minoxidil, which works by increasing the blood flow to the hair follicles. The best regime to combat hair loss is to combine both tablet and topical treatment.
In this post, we explain what Minoxidil is and how it works, before exploring its effectiveness as a solution for male pattern hair loss.
What is Minoxidil?
Minoxidil has an interesting history. In the late 1950s, the Upjohn Company were carrying out clinical trials of the drug as an oral treatment for hypertension (high blood pressure). The scientists found that Minoxidil had a curious side effect – it was causing patients to sprout extra hair all over their bodies.
Seeing the potential for Minoxidil as a remedy for hair loss, its creators began testing a topical version that could be applied directly to the scalp. They formulated a solution that worked to effectively encourage new hair growth and thus the treatment as we know it was born.
Also known as Regaine or Rogaine (in the US), Minoxidil is available as a spray, foam, or lotion and in different strengths – typically 2% and 5% (extra-strength). You don't need a prescription to start using it: you can buy it online or over the counter in most pharmacies – or you can buy it directly from Manual online.
How Does Minoxidil Work?
With male pattern baldness (MPB), hair loss is caused by shrinkage of the hair follicles (the tiny "capsules" that produce one single hair each) on your scalp. This can be the result of age and hormonal changes, such as sensitivity to the hormone DHT.
Minoxidil works to halt – and even reverse – the effects of MPB. As a vasodilator, it expands the blood vessels in your scalp and improves the blood flow to the hair follicles. This has the beneficial effect of reversing shrinkage of your hair follicles, as they receive oxygen and vital nutrients from the increased blood flow.
The treatment also positively affects the growth cycle of your hair. Each hair follicle goes through a cycle where the hair grows, rests, and eventually falls out – allowing a new hair to begin to grow. While the hormonal changes associated with MPB upset this cycle, Minoxidil effectively "resets" it so you'll have a longer, healthier growth phase, resulting in thicker, healthier hair.
How Effective is Minoxidil?
Overall, when used regularly and as directed (see "How to apply Minoxidil" below) Minoxidil is very effective at treating hair loss caused by MPB in the majority of men. The highest strength version of the treatment (the 5%) has been found to be the most effective.
One study determined that around 60% of patients treated with the 5% solution experienced increased scalp coverage after 48 weeks of use. Another study compared the 5% solution to the 2% and found that the men treated with the 5% solution had 45% more hair regrowth at week 48 compared to the 2%. Those who had used the 5% also responded more quickly to treatment.
How Long Does Minoxidil Take to Work?
As you might have guessed from the above research results, time is key to success with Minoxidil. You'll probably find it takes 3–6 months to notice a positive effect on your hair. In addition, the benefits of the treatment will cease once you stop using the product – usually within 4–6 months. So it's best to build it into your daily routine if you want to enjoy lustrous locks long-term.
It's important to be aware that Minoxidil regenerates your existing hair follicles; it doesn't regrow them. If there are areas of your head that have no hair at all and haven't for some time, Minoxidil may not cause any new hair to grow there. That's why it's advisable to start treatment at the earliest sign of MPB.
Can Minoxidil Reverse a Receding Hairline?
Interestingly, Minoxidil has been approved by the FDA as a treatment for hair loss on the top of the scalp only. As it stands, there hasn't been enough research into the efficacy of Minoxidil when it comes to a receding hairline.
Initial studies and clinical trials focused solely on the top of the head, and there's no guarantee that Minoxidil will help your hairline. However, Finasteride has been shown to be effective on this particular area of your scalp — another reason why combining the two medications is the most promising hair loss treatment.
How to Apply Minoxidil
Before applying Minoxidil to your scalp, your hair should be completely dry. You might also want to separate your hair into sections so you can see your scalp better. The solution should make contact with your scalp rather than your hair as much as possible.
The treatment needs to be applied to the problem areas of the scalp in the quantity advised by the manufacturer's information leaflet. Keep your head tipped back while you apply the liquid and move your hair to help direct it to the right place (this avoids too much dripping and wastage of the solution). Wash your hands thoroughly after using Minoxidil.
Repeat the application twice a day, leaving a 12-hour interval between treatments. The second application should be at least an hour before bed, so the solution doesn't just rub off on your pillow. Avoid the temptation to apply Minoxidil more than twice a day – this doesn't provide any extra benefit and increases the risk of side effects.
Important note: Minoxidil should not be applied to scalp skin that is inflamed, infected, irritated, or painful. This article addresses Minoxidil as a treatment for male pattern baldness only.
Is Minoxidil Safe?
Minoxidil is a safe and effective treatment for men between the ages of 18 and 65 who are experiencing male pattern baldness. Significant side effects are rare.
During the early stages of treatment, some men notice additional hair loss – but don't panic: this is likely to be a sign that your hair growth cycle is being regenerated. Usually the old, brittle, unhealthy hair will be replaced with new, strong, healthy growth that is thicker than before. Other mild side effects include irritation and some reddening of the scalp skin.
More serious but uncommon side effects are: hypotension, chest pain, rapid heartbeat, faintness or dizziness, sudden unexplained weight gain, swollen hands or feet, and persistent redness or irritation of the scalp. You should contact your doctor straight away if you notice any of these symptoms. If you have cardiovascular disease or cardiac arrhythmia then you should consult a doctor before using Minoxidil.
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Key Takeaways…
So, does Minoxidil work? The answer is: Yes! The majority of men will enjoy a fuller, thicker head of hair when they make Minoxidil treatment part of their daily routine. To really wage war on MPB hair loss, you could also boost your arsenal by combining topical Minoxidil with Finasteride tablets.
If you have any medical questions or concerns about Minoxidil, please seek professional medical advice.


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Sting in the Yellow Tail: Cheap, but not so cheerful for upmarket Aussie wines
Look out ahead: Yellow Tail is back. Illustration: Simon Rankin
The wine appears to use what you might call the Foster's Lager marketing strategy – make a brand known as iconically Australian even though we don't really love it ourselves.
Yellowtail – a brand which adorns many varietals from white and bubbly through to reds – is according to scan data the second biggest brand by volume in Australia. But for many Australian it is best known as an export wine.
Yellow Tail is in the news because it paid big bucks for an advertisement during this week's Super Bowl.
The impact of Yellow Tail is legendary in America. As The New York Times reported in 2006, "Nothing like this has ever happened before in the American wine business."
At one point it was the No.1 selling wine in the USA and is still the No.1 imported wine.
Invented in 2000 by John Casella, an Aussie vigneron whose wine-making heritage stretches back centuries to Sicily, Yellow Tail was specifically designed for export.
These days his vineyard near the tiny NSW town of Yenda contributes just a fraction of the grapes necessary for Yellow Tail, which includes eight white varietals, five sparkling and nine reds.
Yellowtail's Superbowl push shows it is chasing a big and broad market. The sort of market you can reach at a $7 price point.
While nobody is saying the wine itself is anything other than quaffable, the New York Times nailed it as "the perfect wine for a public grown up on soft drinks".
The 'Bronx zoo' of Australian wine
In the past ten years the reputation of Yellow Tail shifted in the US. Wine fads lead to wine backlashes (chardonnay took years to be reputable again after the 1980s) and Yellowtail has lost its spot as America's most popular wine.
The price and reputation of Yellow Tail has become, among Aussie wine exporters, something of an issue. Yellowtail was so popular it spawned a generation of Aussie imitators which also had animals on their bottles.
"In 2001 you couldn't find an animal on a bottle of wine, now you walk in to a wine shop and it looks like the Bronx Zoo," the distributor of Yellow Tail told VinePair blog in 2015.
Not all those wines were good. That has apparently led to a marketing problem with Australian wine known for cute "critters", rather than serious quality, and a drop in sales. Australia's US market share shrank fast.
Wine Australia has previously reported comments from a 2017 focus group of American industry insiders. Their enthusiasm for Australian wine is real, but the things they have to say about Yellow Tail's effect on the market are eye-opening.
One wine buyer in Manhattan said: "Brands like Yellow Tail have given the Australian wine market a 'bad name' to the consumer, while a discount outlet manager in New Jersey said insiders know about high quality Australian wine, but "it's lost in the shadow of Yellow Tail".
Timing is everything
The Yellow Tail Super Bowl ads come at a sensitive point. The industry is still trying to pull back together after a collapse in global exports from 2008 to 2013. The US recession and our high dollar made selling Aussie wine in the USA difficult.
2017 was the first year where we got back close to our 2007 exports levels. China is helping a lot. They love our wine and view it as fancy. When asked if Australia was associated with expensive/fine wine, 78 per cent of Chinese said yes. When Americans were asked the same question, just 45 per cent agreed.
"The critical issue for the Australian wine category is that it lacks penetration in the premium market – Australia holds only 1 per cent of the market," says Wine Australia in its most recent report on the US market.
For now, Australia dominates the other end of the market. Around 95 per cent of Australian wine sold in America has an export value of $5 per litre – equivalent to $8 per bottle retail.
Watch me Wallaby take the blame, mate …
Is the failure of Penfolds to sell a lot of fancy wine in America really Yellow Tail's fault?
The man who invented Yellow Tail, John Casella, objects to any suggestion his brand has dragged down fancy wines.
"If they are chasing consumers at the other end of the market it has nothing to do with us," he told the AFR in 2013.


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Missing Voices of the 'Modesty Crisis'
A Los Angeles-based filmmaker and acting teacher named Robin Garbose recent published this essay in Haaretz, explaining why she became Orthodox as an adult. In her piece, Garbose laments that with the current criticism of Haredi values like gender separation, "the baby is being thrown out with the dirty bathwater."
Garbose writes about why she was attracted to Haredi life; her desire "to transcend this toxic cultural climate" in which images of women are digitally altered to become thinner, more "perfect," in advertising of all sorts purveying products "in the hope of remedying our gross inadequacies."
She argues:
I had an opportunity to step into the mysterious and remote world of Haredi Jews. I appreciated that tzniut (Jewish laws of modesty) shifted focus from the body to the person, from objectifying and sexualizing women to valuing inner beauty. Though I didn't own a long skirt, I saw these ancient concepts as a refreshingly counterculture expression of female dignity.
I don't understand how Garbose can willfully ignore the plentiful evidence that the obsession with women's external "modesty" is not about the dignity of women, but rather its perversion: the control of women in every possible form. It even included, not long ago, spray painting out the face of the "woman" on this poster of Adam Sandler dressed in drag for his latest movie.
There are examples that are ridiculous, like the one above, and examples which are deadly serious, like this one. A woman was beaten on January 24 in Beit Shemesh, as she hung posters (none of which contained an image of women) promoting Israel's national lottery. Her "crime?" Wearing pants.The behavior of her attackers is, of course, morally reprehensible. The shocking lack of response from within the Haredi community, with some notable exceptions is also morally reprehensible.
I understand the appeal of Haredi life, I do. There are some wonderful aspects to Jewish life there. A focus on family and ritual, a warmth and a passion for being fully engaged with Jewish life. But being religious should not require being blind to the toxic aspects of the increasingly relentless focus on what women wear and where they go.


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Poise is a key attribute for leaders. A calm approach to decision-making leads to success in the crisis environment. At the ripe old age of 9 or 10 years old, I recall receiving some salient advice on leadership during crisis from my favorite cartoon at the time. A character stated, "The less time you have, the more you have to use it wisely." It's amazing what stays with you, but this statement has drifted in my mindscape all of these years. Crisis management is not about skipping steps, but putting into play exactly what you have practiced, just a bit faster. Developing a track record of success during crisis evolutions helps to build your leadership toolkit like no other experiences. It also makes you a "go-to" player among your peers.
Crisis scenarios are characterized by two components. You learn the most from the ones that are a complete surprise and the outcomes can impact human safety or include a potential dollar loss. Either way, those in the decision-making apparatus take on a tremendous amount of actual and perceived pressures. Sometimes the biggest pressure is determining whether you are really dealing with a crisis level event or one that is a simple decision away from being completely mitigated. The Zen practitioners among us will tell you that you approach each one in exactly the same way.
What can you do to raise your comfort level in making decisions during a crisis?
Be calm. Your poise and posture are contagious among your team members.
It's all in the preparation. Train like you fight is a common mantra in military circles. It holds weight in almost every environment, business and military alike.
Recognize how to engage your talent during these difficult times. Your "eagles" can help get you through rough times with their competencies and talents.
Practice how you will make decisions in the crisis environment by conducting exercises meant to identify your gaps and shortcomings.
Conduct a "hot-wash" following any major event. Keep the circle of decision makers relatively small. Exclude attribution and include honesty in these sessions. Some real nuggets have come from these reviews.
It was Sun Tzu who famously wrote, "Every battle is won before it's ever fought." What you do in preparation may just be the difference between surviving a crisis and being overwhelmed by one.
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Finding affordable brushes is something I always like to do. In fact, most of the brushes I own are very affordable or were affordable when I bought them. Some of them have gone up in price by now, but still, I think that a good brush doesn't have to cost an arm and a leg. When I was in the USA last summer, I knew I would be able to hit up Target: THE place to go if you're looking for an affordable brush. I picked up a few from their store brand Up & Up, Sonia Kashuk & ELF and here's what I think of them.
Looking for some affordable brushes? Try your hand at these!
On my trip to target I picked up a few different brushes that I had heard lots about via the international online beauty community. I pretty much bought each brush EmilyNoel83 on Youtube loves to use. I have been watching her videos for years and I really wanted to try a few. Two of the brushes I bought on her recommendation are the ELF Studieo Small Stipple brush and Sonia Kashuk Core Tools Small eye shadow brush no. 106. She also tried some Up & Up brushes just before I left and raved about them, so I decided to try out a few of those as well.
Up & Up powder brush
The Up & Up Powder brush appealed to me the moment I saw it. It is a large, fluffy brush with a slightly tapered shape. The super soft hairs are made out of a synthetic material and the brush holds together nicely even after a few months of use and washing it. My favorite way of using this brush is to apply bronzer all over my face. I like using flat top kabuki or more pointed brushes for applying my powder, but for bronzer this works miracles. I especially love using this in combination with my Hourglass Ambient Lighting powder in Radiant Light.
Up & Up Complexion brush set: blush
I also bought a set of brushes from Up & Up of which this blush brush is the first one. This angled brush is a good brush if you like to apply blush, but can also be used for highlight and contour if you wish. It is still soft and fluffy, but this brush is a tad more dense than the powder brush. It is fairly flat and like the powder brush this holds up nicely after continuous washing. This isn't my favorite brush in the kit and I prefer my Zoeva Luxe Sheer Cheek brush for blush application over this one, but only just.
Up & Up Complexion brush set: foundation
Why oh why? Flat foundation brushes are not my thing. This one in particular I do not like. It applies the product quite streaky as the brush is too thickly packed. As you can see in the picture where I run my finger through the hairs, there are little clusters of hairs that separate and this type of brush is just not my thing. What I do like to use a brush like this for is for applying face masks. So I chucked this where I keep my face masks as then I will make sure to get some use out of it.
Up & Up Complexion brush set: finishing
The reason I bought the set? Because it contained miniature version of that powder brush. This finishing brush is ideal for applying powder to the under eye area, which is what I have been using this for and it works an absolute charm. This one brush was well worth buying the entire set for. It is small enough to fit into my under eye area, fluffy and soft and picks up just the right amount of product for setting the under eye. Yes this brush gets not one, not two, but three thumbs up!
Up & Up Complexion brush set: concealer
This brush looks like a miniature version of the foundation brush, however, I found this to feel a lot nicer than the foundation one did. Still, these type of brushes are not my favorite, but I am hanging on to it as I think it might still be useful in the future. It is a tad bigger and more bendy than the one I own by Sigma and I prefer this one over the Sigma version of this brush, so I decided to hang on to it for now.
ELF Studio Small Stipple brush
A brush I had very high hopes for was this Small Stipple Brush from ELF (Eyes Lips Face). I already knew ELF brushes as my first forays into makeup meant I purchased a few of their brushes way back in the day and absolutely loved them. So I knew I would like it, but that it would become an instant hit? Who'd have thought! I love this brush for applying contour. It is very small, but therefore perfect for fitting into the hollow of my cheek and since this is a stipple brush you will never pick up too much product.
ELF Blending Eye brush
One can never have too many blending brushes and when I spotted this brush from ELF's 1 dollar line, I just thought I'd give it a whirl. This isn't the best brush ever but I do really like it, especially when you consider the price. I find it a bit too small for blending out shadow. It is more like a more stubby sized pencil brush than an actual blending brush for my tastes, but what I found this works for tremendously well is applying a smokey color on the lower lash line. And that's what I've been using this for.
Sonia Kashuk Core Tools Small eye shadow brush no. 106
THE brush I wanted to pick up because of EmilyNoel83 was this small eye shadow brush. And this brush again has been a game changer. Whenever I feel like packing on some darker color in my outer corner/ outer V area I pull out this and it gives a flawless look every time. It's tiny, which suits my eye shape. It packs on color just fine and I like using a Real Techniques base shadow brush for blending that out. So yes, this is a total winner.
Sonia Kashuk Core Tools Large Shader brush no. 203
Last but not least, I decided to buy the large shader brush. And what a gamechanger that has been. I even put it in my 2015 favorites and it defeated my trusty, but old and tired fluffy HEMA brush. Finally I found a worthy successor! This brush is fairly large, but it makes for THE BEST application for highlights on the brow bone are. The shape just works for underneath the brows. The brush is dense which packs on color, but not too much and because of the larger area you are done with one swipe. If you can get your hands on one of these brushes then I would highly recommend you pick up this one.
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A Sooke man died Tuesday afternoon after his car left the 7500-block of West Coast Road around 1:30 p.m. and hit a tree.
Ambulance paramedics conducted advanced living-saving measures for nearly half an hour to the man – the vehicle's lone occupant at the time – but he was later pronounced dead at the scene.
Sooke RCMP said the man's SUV appeared to be travelling westbound when it crossed the centre line and the opposing traffic lane before it left the road and continued down a small embankment before crashing into a tree.
"Witnesses to the collision immediately attempted lifesaving efforts to the man until they were relieved by first responders," said Sooke RCMP Sergeant Kevin Shaw, in a statement. "I'm very grateful for the contributions and lifesaving efforts of all involved, witnesses and first responders."
A collision analyst is working alongside the detachment to determine the cause of the crash, which is still under investigation. The B.C. Coroners Service is also investigating.
Sooke RCMP is asking any witnesses who may have seen the driving behaviour of the man prior to the crash to contact 250-642-5241. He was driving a grey, mid-90s Nissan SUV.
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Selling your products from your country to China was once impossible for small businesses when China had just opened its trade borders. It was necessary to find a Chinese partner in order to create a Chinese company through a joint venture or else to create a WFOE (Wholly Foreign-Owned Enterprise). This process was long and costly both in terms of time, money, and effort. Then in 2008 was created Tmall, the e-commerce platform belonging to Alibaba which today is the leader of online commerce platforms in China. It allowed foreign companies to sell their products there. However, the procedures still required some efforts such as registering a foreign company in China, opening a Chinese bank account, and stocks of products in China.
It was in 2014 that Tmall launched Tmall Global, a similar platform allowing foreign companies to sell their products directly in China. Establishing THE link between foreign companies and Chinese consumers, the creation of this platform has greatly facilitated the sale of foreign products in this market. Indeed, having a local business, a Chinese bank account, or registering your business is not necessary. In addition, it is not mandatory that the stocks of products are in China (which is not problematic since the Chinese are not sensitive to delays with regard to foreign products) and foreign products are well received by Chinese consumers!
And the icing on the cake, companies are paid in their currency, which greatly simplifies their transactions. Since Tmall Global greatly facilitates the sale of foreign products in China, how can you be present there? How to sell on Tmall Global? Here are the tips and steps that we suggest you follow …
How to sell on Tmall Global?
Need more information on Tmall? Read our Tmall Guide & to go further with our China eCommerce Guide. The reading of these two guides should answer all your questions about how to succeed on Chinese e-commerce platforms, from choosing one to setting it up and optimizing it to get more sales.
First, what do you want to sell on Tmall? Because you cannot sell everything and anything on this platform! This is a B2C platform and not a B2B platform, so here are the types of products that you can sell there:
- Clothing
- Lingerie
- Shoes
- Cosmetics
- Care products
- Watches
- Glasses
- Jewelry
- Phones
- Appliances
- Baby products (clothes, food, …)
- Drinks
- Foodstuffs
- Furniture
- Cars and automotive products
- Health products (vitamins, supplements, …)
- Cooking tools
Then we ask you the question: what type of store do you want to open in Tmall Global?
Sell on Tmall with a Flagship store:
Only for brands with a registered trademark (® or ™). The owner must be the formal representative of the brand.
There are several scenarios:
- The store sells on behalf of a single brand (owned by the merchant),
- The store sells on behalf of multiple brands (all owned by the merchant)
- The store sells on behalf of a multi-brand marketplace (owned by the merchant)
Tmall Authorized store:
Merchants with documents giving the right to distribute and sell a brand.
- The store sells products from one brand
- The store sells products from multiple brands (must all be owned by the same entity)
Tmall Specialty store:
For merchants with two or more brands belonging to the same Tmall product category.
- The store sells products from two or more brands that the merchant does not own
- The store sells products from a brand owned by the merchant and also sells products from a brand not owned by the merchant
- The store sells products from two or more brands that the merchant owns
Once the answers to these questions are validated, you can begin the process to start selling on Tmall Global.
The entry process for Tmall Global
Tmall Request entry
Entering Tmall Global is much simpler than any other option. To do this, you will have to prove certain things by providing documents.
For example, you will need to provide a certificate/license to operate your business, the Tmall service contract, a copy of the brand owner's ID, and a statement of account.
You may also be asked for other documents, such as the trademark registration certificate (in your country) or your trademark license agreement.
You will also need to provide product descriptions in simplified Mandarin.
Having a Mandarin-speaking partner familiar with Chinese business such as the GMA team will be of great help.
Provide proof documents
You will not only need to provide documents as proof that the brand belongs to you but also as proof of compliance of your products with Chinese standards and regulations, a logistics plan, etc. …
There is also a part of subjectivity in your integration with Tmall Global since your brand must have sufficient assets to be competitive and sell on a platform of this scope.
Sell on Tmall, but at what price?
Selling your products on Tmall Global is a golden opportunity! But it's not free, you have to take into account the costs of this presence.
When you decide to launch your online store on the Tmall Global platform, you have to pay 4 types of fees that can vary a lot:
- Deposit costs (up to € 25,000)
- Annual service fees (ranging from 5,000 to 10,000 € in general)
- Commission costs (ranging from 1 to 5% depending on the category of your product)
- Payment processing fees (approximately 1%)
Some fees represent a large sum depending on your type of business. There is an effective alternative to sell your products on the platform: find a Tmall agent partner to sell your products on his platform. This option will allow you to not pay the deposit fees as well as the service fees, but there will be higher commission fees.
The last important point for the sale, count between 1 and 2 months to start selling, it is the time that can take the approval process of Tmall.
Getting paid, the last step
And certainly the most important because you will be paid with Alipay, the most used payment system in China. So be sure that your bank account is compatible with Alipay, if not, find a bank where it will be possible.
In fact, unlike in Western countries, Chinese people buy online and pay via payment systems.
- Read also Tmall Sales channel.
- How to open a Tmall account
- How to maximize sales on Tmall
- How much cost Tmall store and management
The lifestyles and habits of Chinese people are very different from those of Westerners. This is why, as we advised you above, providing you with the ideal partner can only help you in your process of entering the Chinese market.
Why do you need to choose GMA to sell on Tmall
- A team of 70 digital marketing specialists in China
- With a deep knowledge of the Chinese lifestyle
- A passionate Franco-Chinese team
- Professionals who support companies in their development in China
- eCommerce Specialiste in China and certified TP (Tmall Partner)
Helping you is our mission, we are here to show you the right paths to follow and what is not to be overlooked. Call us to discuss your project, we will be happy to answer you!


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Something scary is happening to America's ethics. Moral issues are becoming less about right versus wrong and more about "my truth and your truth." Just look at the way our culture—media, politics, even schools—is blurring the lines on what consists of murder, sexual immorality or lying. This disturbing trend is the reason prominent theologian Wayne Grudem wrote his latest book, Christian Ethics: An Introduction to Biblical Moral Reasoning.
Wayne joined me last week in the podcast studio, where I interviewed him on my "Strang Report" podcast about his new book. We discussed what inspired him to write the book, what ethical issues he addresses and why he believes our culture needs this lesson now more than ever. (Click on the podcast at the end of this article to hear our enlightening conversation.)
Wayne's 1,296-page tome addresses the issues he has been teaching as a university ethics professor for 41 years. In fact, a lot of the book's chapters grew out his lectures on ethical topics. As I flipped through several of the chapters, I quickly realized they were chock-full of wisdom.
"There are moral standards in the Bible that apply to all people for all time because they come from our Creator," Wayne says. "But Christians can't assume that they know those because they haven't grown up in a culture where everyone assumes that it's wrong to tell a lie, it's wrong to take God's name in vain, it's wrong to sleep together outside of marriage. … I wrote the book to try to summarize what the whole Bible teaches on all these ethical questions."
When I saw the sheer size of Christian Ethics, I knew it would be a popular staple in many seminaries and Christian universities. But I questioned how Wayne would get laypeople and pastors to buy—let alone read—the book. Yet he reminded me that his Systematic Theology, which is as long as his new book, still sells to Christians all over the world and in about 15 languages. He's had people tell him that book has greatly affected their walks with the Lord and their own personal lives.
"I'm hoping that people will take away from the book a deeper confidence of what it means to walk in a manner worthy of the Lord, fully pleasing to Him, bearing fruit in every good work and increasing in the knowledge of God. That's Colossians 1:9-10, and that's my goal for the book."
I think Christian Ethics will build you up in your faith—and perhaps be a great Christmas present for your pastor! The book is available at bookstores and online at Amazon.
Although some reviewers have complained about Wayne's conservative bent regarding government and politics in the book, he says he hopes people can lay their criticisms aside and consider where in Scripture he is getting his beliefs.
But those same reviewers would probably also complain about my latest book, Trump Aftershock, where I detail how God is using Donald Trump to turn our nation in the right direction. From lessening federal funding for abortion to moving the U.S. Embassy to Jerusalem to forcing Turkey to free wrongly imprisoned Pastor Andrew Brunson, Trump is shaking the world with his agenda. To buy a copy of my book and download a free chapter, visit trumpaftershock.com!
I hope you enjoyed reading about Wayne's powerful new book on Christian ethics. I encourage you to share this article on your social media and speak up for biblical truth.


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This strategic plan takes CLE into the first strategic planning cycle as a corporate body separate of the Kenya School of Law (KSL) in line with the CLE Act 2012. It defines CLE's strategic direction over the planning period 2019 – 2023 by laying down the strategic goals and objectives to be pursued and action plans for their accomplishment. It also provides an implementation framework for the Management and the Council to monitor and evaluate the plan's implementation.
It is a regulatory requirement for all state corporations to develop a strategic plan to provide a clear road map to the realization of the mission and attainment of the vision and the development of this plan is a compliance with this requirement. The plan further outlines the CLE's contribution to national development objectives in line with the 2ndMedium Term Plan (2013-2017) of Vision 2030.


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I. Loma Linda University Mission-Focused Learning
- Have prayer (phone, videoconference, text-based discussion board), etc.
- Make use of Bible-centered video clips, verses, stories, worship thought, devotional (www.biblegateway.com).
- Make use of Ellen G. White selected quotes from her inspired writings (www.whiteestate.org).
- Make use of Seventh-day Adventist Health Heritage (stories, ideas, tips, experiences, resources) (www.adventisthealth.org).
- Make use of LLU pioneers' stories (www.llu.edu).
- Make use of LLU missionary stories, community experiences
- Link to LLU 360 videos.
- Make use of inspirational stories.
- Remember, the student is the center of the teaching-learning process.
- Employ the highest of ethical standards.
- Use community-applied learning activities (service-learning, community outreach, family and workplace) in the spirit of LLU's mission.
- Employ student journals with self-reflections about how the course impacts student life. (Video or text-based format).
- Keep wholeness in mind is when selecting learning activities (visit to the portal, activities, journal, videos, resources) - LLU Center for Spiritual Life and Wholeness.
- Have students participate in self-assessment exercises on course content.
- Encourage or require students to view online University@Worship services (Wednesdays and recorded sessions). There may be opportunities for online students to participate in live University@Worship services via Zoom. If interested, contact one of the LLU chaplains: Chaplain Swenson or Chaplain Brooks.
- Develop instructor videos and make available via the learning management system (Canvas).
- Create online conversations/discussion items of selected topics around the LLU and Adventist values.
- Provide links to selected external Seventh-day Adventist resources in areas of health, family relations, spiritual life, etc.) - LLU Center for Spiritual Life and Wholeness.
- Use a consistent module design with specific item/section about Mission-Focused Learning (LLU Course template, see "example course" in Canvas).
- Show empathy, pray with students, ask about how things are going, etc. Show kindness and interest for the well being of the student with uplifting encouragement. Use phone, Skype, or other digital video media.
- Provide online communities/social media spaces (for interactions around impacts in life, prayer, coaching, inspiring each other) - www.llu.edu/social.
II. Learning Styles
- Focus on specific student needs.
- Engage students towards higher levels of thinking, promote active learning by promoting active student involvement.
- Encourage students to draw upon their own experiences.
- Use problem-solving exercises.
- Build options for students to work individually as well as work together.
- Explore the theory of adult learning styles and incorporate them into the course.
- Define and list learning outcomes: ILOs, PLOs, and CLOs.
- Build activities that include hands-on experiences with individual and group activities in ways that student's life experiences can be explored and connected to the course goals and outcomes.
- Involve the learner actively in all course components.
- Have students get to know each other through photographs, biographies, teleconferencing, and, when possible, face-to-face.
III. Self Training
- Be pro-active with faculty training and support on campus.
- Work with other faculty to build courses.
- Find a mentor who is familiar with online education; either an on-campus or remote mentor.
- Use your own experiences and reflection to improve the course over time.
- Expect to benefit from multiple roles as an online instructor through your own transformative learning by reflecting constantly during the course and after the course.
- Do not be afraid or hesitate to ask questions during exploration and discovery of new online approaches.
IV. Social Presence
- Employ multiple technologies to communicate with your students:
- Use the phone.
- Use video conferencing.
- If possible, employ a face-to-face component in your class.
- Include a faculty biography, complete with photographs and videos about your personal life—don't forget the personal touch.
- Initiate contact with your students; students often will not initiate contact with you.
- Be timely with giving feedback.
- Set a clear policy for faculty and students regarding behavior in the online course.
- Encourage contact between students, and also between student and faculty.
- Have specific office hours and a phone number where faculty can be contacted. Consider having a Zoom[1] office where students can come.
- Let students know how when faculty will be present, and how much time students are expected to put in each week for class participation.
- Employ an anonymous polling survey during and after the course (i.e., SurveyMonkey, polleverywhere.com).
- Be prepared to provide basic technical assistance to students.
- Interact with students to mentor, encourage, and support. Seek out those who are not active in the course. Interaction is essential.
V. Knowing Technology
- Do not rely upon just one technology for communication.
- Know the bandwidth capacity or geographical location of your students. Do not build an object that requires high bandwidth if all students don't have it.
- Be flexible with educational technologies—successful teaching can be achieved with any technology.
- Build content in the proper format: HTML for online viewing, PDF for downloading and printing, Rich Text (.docx) for editable documents.
- Don't rely on technology to keep students happy. Real student satisfaction is increased with the personal attention they receive from the instructor.
- Master the use of any technology you expect students to use.
VI. Collaboration
- Use cooperative learning with group projects. Planning successful cooperative learning projects takes extra effort on your part but increases successful student learning in the long run.
- Foster a feeling of community and camaraderie.
- Remind your students that learning is social in nature and technical tools can enable social interaction.
- Show students you care about them and their success in the course. Caring online is a reciprocal process that requires commitment to teaching and learning by both students and teachers.
- Build collaboration by validating the importance of past experiences of students.
- Convey your experiences as an online teacher. Let students know it is common to have trouble familiarizing themselves with online programs.
- As an instructor, be clear about your expectations and how you will respond to questions and postings.
- The instructor can demonstrate their commitment and caring by actively commenting when appropriate.
- Have the students get to know you personally with your teaching experience and personal life.
VII. Feedback/Assessment
- Be sure to give specific and timely feedback. The faster you give it, the more beneficial it is to the student. The longer feedback is delayed, the less it impacts student learning.
- Tell your students how quickly they can expect replies from you.
- Ask students about the course as they progress through it. When you find out about problems, confusion, or just good ideas, implement them during the course, if possible.
- Employ an anonymous polling survey during the course (i.e., Qualtrics, SurveyMonkey, polleverywhere.com, etc.).
- Request to have an online instructor to do a peer-review of your course.
- Refine your next online courses by listening to your previous students.
- Use rubrics.
- Set up online course student evaluations to be sent out at the end of the quarter.
VIII. Active Course Management
- Have early course availability when possible.
- Establish clear expectations.
- Use one email application for communication; either the internal course email in Canvas, or regular email.
- Communicate high expectations.
- Use a variety of large group, small group, and individual work experiences.
- Use rubrics for assignments for clear grading and grading criteria.
- Show up and teach.
- Use links to current events applicable to the learning module.
- Emphasize how much time students are to commit for the class.
- Be present and active in online discussions.
- Determine a reasonable response time, and communicate this with students.
- Set the example by timely feedback, interest in student work, and building relationships.
- Have a "Plan B" when things don't go as expected; be flexible, whenever possible.
- Use the 'Student View' feature available in most Canvas to get the student perspective of what the course looks like.
IX. KIS/Course Design
- Be consistent in the overall course design. Provide a basic structure for the course.
- Do not use any technology that you cannot teach students how to use.
- Test drive the course by using the 'Student View' to assure things work as expected.
- Use technology appropriately; make sure your students have sufficient Internet capabilities for content creation.
- Course design should have a clear and easy path to navigate through the class. Do not radically change the Canvas course design elements.
- Do not bury content several layers deep with links.
- Have virtual office hours, or communicate to students how and when they can contact the instructor. Set up a Zoom office.
- Have a plan and policy for times when students declare Internet or course availability problems, because students are known to constantly declare electronic issues.
- Design the syllabus as a roadmap through the course.
- Show up and teach—good teaching matters.
- Remember: most online courses use Word and PDF documents, PowerPoint, audio files, and video, email and phone for communications. But not all courses need every new technology for the sake of technology. Simple beats complex.
X. Academic Integrity
- Provide guidance to students from the institution, school, program, and course perspectives and policies.
- Have each student acknowledge, agree and understand an academic integrity policy.
- Guide discussion and brought forward in course guidelines/syllabus.
- Ask students to create a class policy of academic integrity.
- Include a lesson on avoiding plagiarism.
- Include links to guides on plagiarism.
- Monitor course and deliverables closely.
- Use Turnitin or similar service.
- Use proctored exams when necessary.
XI. University Support
The University should provide:
- Complete support for online students:
- Admissions
- Registration
- Financial aid
- Online library resources
- Courseware platform
- Technical support
- Library access
- Professional development opportunities for online instructors that specifies techniques to integrate active learning pedagogy into online courses.
- Just-in-time training resources for online instructors.
- Technology support and course design support.
XII. Federal Requirements
- New Federal requirements for Distance Education: Regular and Substantive Interaction (RSI)
For More Information Contact:
- Office of Educational Effectiveness
- firstname.lastname@example.com
- Ext. 15042
- http://www.llu.edu/assessment
[1] Contact the Office of Educational Effectiveness to set up such an office that does not require you to send students an invitation: firstname.lastname@example.com.
[2] Contact the Office of Educational Effectiveness: email@example.com; ext. 15042
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Jones, a soft-spoken physicist who specializes in metal-catalyzed fusion, archaeometry, and solar energy, joined the 9/11 research effort after being intrigued by the unexplained collapse of the 47-story WTC 7 at 5:25 p.m. on the afternoon of 9/11. Jones scientific interest was sparked after having read the August 2002 report in American Free Press that molten iron had been found in the rubble of all three collapsed WTC towers including WTC 7.
As this reporter discovered in the summer of 2002, "literally molten steel" had been found, more than a month after the collapse, at the bases of the collapsed towers, where their load-bearing central support columns connected to the bedrock. "Such persistent and intense residual heat, 70 feet below the surface, could explain how these crucial structural supports failed," I wrote at the time.
Peter Tully, president of Tully Construction of Flushing, New York, told this reporter he had seen pools of "literally molten steel" at the World Trade Center, where his company had been contracted to remove debris, weeks after the three towers collapsed.
Mark Loizeaux, president of Controlled Demolition, Inc. (CDI) of Phoenix, Maryland, wrote the clean-up plan for the WTC and confirmed the presence of molten metal at the site.
"Yes," Loizeaux said, "hot spots of molten steel in the basements." These incredibly hot areas were found "at the bottoms of the elevator shafts of the main towers, down seven [basement] levels," Loizeaux said.
The molten steel was found "three, four, and five weeks later, when the rubble was being removed," he said. Loizeaux also confirmed that molten iron had been found in the rubble of WTC 7, the tower owned by Larry Silverstein which was neither hit by an airplane nor severely damaged, but which collapsed mysteriously in the late afternoon of 9/11.
In 2005, Jones began investigating the collapse of WTC 7 and the large amounts of molten iron seen falling from the burning South Tower. These two subjects remain completely unexplained in the official literature on 9/11.
"The specifics of the fires in WTC 7 and how they caused the building to collapse remain unknown at this time," the FEMA-sponsored WTC Building Performance Study of 2002 concluded. "Although the total diesel fuel on the premises contained massive potential energy, the best hypothesis has only a low probability of occurrence," it said. The way that the building collapsed within its own footprint suggested that it was an "internal collapse," the report said.
The long awaited NIST report on the collapse of WTC 7 is supposed to be released next year.
The question of what caused the 47 load-bearing central columns of the twin towers to fall has been a fundamental question about the unexplained collapses of the WTC towers. The fire-induced collapse scenario does not explain why these crucial internal box columns would have failed.
Last summer, after obtaining pieces of the hardened molten fragments from the WTC, Jones and other scientists at BYU conducted extensive laboratory tests and found that the molten metal was primarily composed of iron with slight traces of structural steel. From the physical and photographic evidence Jones concluded that Thermite, or a similar aluminothermic process, was used to slice the central core columns and bring down the twin towers.
Jones, along with 2 other physicists and a geologist at BYU, conducted Energy Dispersive Spectroscopy (EDS), X-ray Fluorescence (XRF) and Electron Microprobe analyses on the samples.
The previously molten metal samples were predominately iron, with very little chromium, Jones said, along with uncommon chemical elements in abundance such as fluorine and manganese. Aluminum and sulfur were also present, which he said would be expected from thermate reactions. Thermate is Thermite, which is powdered aluminum and ferrous oxide, with 2 percent sulfur added to the mixture to increase the steel-cutting effectiveness of the reaction.
"The results," Jones says in a presentation he recently gave at Idaho State University, "coupled with visual evidence at the scene such as the flowing yellow-hot liquid metal still red after falling about 500 feet, provide compelling evidence that Thermite reaction compounds (aluminothermics) were used, meaning Thermite was deliberately placed in both WTC Towers and WTC 7."
See: http://worldtradecentertruth.com/volume/200609/DrJonesTalksatISUPhysicsDepartment.pdf
Jones' research papers are online at www.journalof911studies.com.
On September 5, Doug Fabrizio, executive producer of RadioWest on the University of Utah's public radio station invited Jones to come on his one-hour program to discuss his 9/11 research.
Before Jones could even discuss his research, however, Fabrizio was aggressively quizzing him on the "Neo-Conservative motivation" for the attacks, and repeatedly pressed him to comment on a subject far outside his field and competence to explain who within the government could have been involved in the attacks if not 19 Arab hijackers with box cutters.
Because Jones is a physicist and is not engaged in the political background of "false flag" terrorism attacks, he reluctantly responded to Fabrizio's question by citing the author Webster Tarpley's analysis that individuals such as Paul Wolfowitz and Richard Perle, who are linked to the "international banking cartel," have been named, by Tarpley, as possible suspects.
Jones was careful to say that these were not his ideas, but Tarpley's, and that these were possible suspects that Tarpley had named.
Jones is generally reluctant to discuss the political implications of his findings, and his comments about Wolfowitz and Perle on the radio program created quite a "buzz on campus," the Deseret Morning News reported.
After interviewing Jones for a brief 20 minutes, Fabrizio said goodbye to Jones and turned the remainder of the hour over to a discussion of conspiracy theories with two Jewish professors, a Robert Goldberg from the University of Utah and Gary Fine from Northwestern.
The first caller was a William Tumpowsky, chairman of the Jewish Community Relations Council and board member of the local Israeli-fund raising organization, the United Jewish Federation. Tumpowsky charged that Jones' was using code language to make anti-Semitic allegations. Goldberg supported this accusation.
Starting from this outrageous allegation, Fabrizio continued the hostile discussion with Goldberg and Fine, with frequent allegations that the now-absent physics professor was nothing more than an anti-Semite indulging in conspiracy fantasies. The most significant evidence brought forth by Jones' research was not even discussed.
Within two days, the authorities at BYU apparently caved to organized Jewish pressure and put Jones on paid leave. Students who had already begun their fall physics courses with Jones will be taught by other faculty members for the rest of the semester as university administrators review his statements and research.
Repeated calls to BYU spokeswoman Carri Jenkins about the banning of Jones from the classroom were not returned. Jenkins has not responded any of my questions left with BYU's communications office.
"I'm not sure we did it the right way," Fabrizio said after he accepted responsibility for the radio program that sparked the sacking of Jones.
Asked why he had pressed Jones to make a statement about who was behind the attacks, Fabrizio said, "I was interested in what motivated the science." This is, however, a less than honest answer because Jones has always stressed in his presentations that it is the unexplained collapse of WTC 7 and the presence of molten iron in the rubble that motivate his investigation.
The American Association of University Professors criticized BYU's decision to place Jones on paid leave for his comments on the radio program.
AAUP general secretary Roger Bowen called BYU's decision "distressing" and said Jones shouldn't be removed from teaching classes for statements made outside the classroom.
"Academic freedom also protects extramural utterances, that is, statements made by faculty outside the classroom when they speak as citizens," Bowen told the Deseret Morning News. "It's very clear there never should be official retribution for faculty who exercise their rights as citizens, with the very careful disclaimer they are not speaking on behalf of the university."
The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education joined the criticism of the BYU decision against Jones.
"BYU is literally the example we use of a university that does not promise strong free speech or academic freedom protections," FIRE president Greg Lukianoff said.
Photo: Christopher Bollyn and Professor Steven E. Jones discussing the molten metal seen cascading from the 81st floor of WTC 2 and found under the rubble of all three "collapsed" towers of the World Trade Center. The bag in front of Bollyn contains samples taken from the molten metal found at the WTC site. These samples are primarily molten iron, the end product of the Thermite reaction along with aluminum oxide and tremendous heat release.
"The data doesn't lie," Jones said. "I have to speak the truth the best I know it as a scientist I feel the responsibility to speak out."


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Apple's latest iPod nano has been pulled apart to reveal a number of anonymous, Apple-branded chips, though NAND flash from Toshiba and a Bluetooth chip with FM radio from Broadcom could be identified.
In its official teardown, iFixit noted that its look at the integrated circuits on the new iPod nano's logic board was "hindered" because of the fact that many of the chips are unnamed. Of the nine chips on the logic board, only four could be properly identified.
Leading the way is the Toshiba THGBX2G7D2JLA01, which includes 16 gigabytes of NAND flash. The Broadcom BCM2078KUBG also includes both the Bluetooth and FM radios.
Joining them is a touchscreen controller from Texas Instruments identified as 343S0538, as well as a chip from NXP Semiconductors labeled 1609A1. The remaining mystery chips follow:
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iFixit also found that the battery in the new iPod nano is soldered directly to the logic board and adhered to the back of the display. They did find a plastic pull tab presumed to be in place for removing the battery, however they found the adhesive holding the battery in place was too strong.
The new 3.7V, 0.8Wh, 220 mAh battery is more than twice that of the 0.39 Wh rating of the sixth-generation iPod nano. The solutions provider also found that the LCD and digitizer glass are not fused together, which means each component could be replaced separately.
The same could not be said for the battery, Lightning connector, or volume controls, all of which are soldered to the logic board. Pulling out the logic board also removes the battery, button cable, Lightning connector, and headphone jack.
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How many ml in 1 litro? The answer is 1000. We assume you are converting between milliliter and litro. You can view more details on each measurement unit: ml or litro The SI derived unit for volume is the cubic meter. 1 cubic meter is equal to 1000000 ml, or 1000 litro. Note that rounding errors may occur, so always check the results. Use this page to learn how to convert between milliliters and litros. Type in your own numbers in the form to convert the units!
1 ml to litro = 0.001 litro
10 ml to litro = 0.01 litro
50 ml to litro = 0.05 litro
100 ml to litro = 0.1 litro
200 ml to litro = 0.2 litro
500 ml to litro = 0.5 litro
1000 ml to litro = 1 litro
You can do the reverse unit conversion from litro to ml, or enter any two units below:
The millilitre (ml or mL, also spelled milliliter) is a metric unit of volume that is equal to one thousandth of a litre. It is a non-SI unit accepted for use with the International Systems of Units (SI). It is exactly equivalent to 1 cubic centimetre (cm³, or, non-standard, cc).
El litro (símbolo l o L) es una unidad de volumen equivalente a un decímetro cúbico (0,001 m3). Su uso es aceptado en el Sistema Internacional de Unidades, aunque ya no pertenece estrictamente a él. Normalmente es utilizado para medir líquidos o sólidos granulares.
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