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The lockdown had a direct and resounding impact on physical retail, with significant losses in terms of revenue, but at the same time it accelerated the growth of online commerce, changing the way purchases are made by consumers. With the re-openings, stores have had to adapt to new safety standards and social distancing, while also having to manage a season, summer 2020, that presented itself to the public with timing that had been completely thrown off. All of this while consumers were going through a profound transformation with regards to their needs and visions of reality, which will also undoubtedly have an impact on long-term choices.
“First off, in our 250 stores present in Italy, we applied all the safety measures requested by the national and regional competent authorities, starting from the training of personnel in stores with special programmes and digital training courses, applying the rules with social distancing measures, while asking our customers to follow hygiene guidelines so they can enter the store. We also have international guidelines in this regard. The Bata Group, in fact, serves more than 1 million customers a day in over 5300 stores worldwide”, explains Claudio Alessi (Bata).
Attention to safety is also confirmed by Nino Scaffidi (Killin), who comments: “We respected with maximum attention and rigor the decrees issued by the Government, with one-way paths and dedicated entrances in our stores, while providing all the safety material needed. In some cases, we even went beyond current legislation, for example, by offering free protective masks to customers wishing to enter the store, who did not have them. This is all in line with our company policy, which has always been oriented towards offering clientele maximum service”.
Always in the period immediately following the re-opening of stores, distribution had to manage SS2020 collections already present in stores, and in general, it was necessary to rethink clearance sales strategies and orders for new winter proposals. In Germany, already at the end of April, the HDS/L Federal Association of German Footwear and Leather Goods Industry, in accordance with some large German purchasing groups, proposed postponing the seasonal calendar by four weeks, extending the period of summer sales to the end of July and delaying winter deliveries, thereby resulting in the rescheduling of presentations in the showroom and at fairs.
This past May, also in Italy, the State-Regions Conference declared, for the entire national territory, the postponement of summer clearance sales to 1 August, even if some Italian regions have decided to allow stores to start applying discounts and promotions already in the month of July.
This was a choice made, for example, by the region of Sicily, where Killin Spa is located, allowing the company to start offering discounts as of July: “In my opinion, delaying clearance sales would have given more breathing room to the summer season, which most assuredly suffered during the period of forced store closings – comments Nino Scaffidi. Nevertheless, we must not forget that the overall policy of clearance sales must be managed with careful deliberation and with respect for the consumer. In fact, it’s important to remember that apparel and footwear have quite different profit margins: as far as footwear is concerned, excessive discounts superior to 50 percent are unthinkable in the presence of prices that have already been adjusted. Our policy has always been that of offering our customers products with the right quality/price ratio and reasonable, yet genuine, discounts during the periods of promotion”.
Another aspect that distribution must consider more than ever before is the attentive management of orders and development of collections, with a strict control of pricing policies, to avoid large leftover quantities of stock that remain unsold in warehouses.
“At the moment, we have not overturned our pricing policies, because there is no need. We are in any case developing a plan of promotional initiatives to sell out items from certain categories, so that we can cut back on certain kinds of stock we no longer want to promote during the summer season”, confirms Claudio Alessi (Bata).
Nino Scaffidi (Killin) is of a similar opinion and declares: “Now, more than ever before, it is important to make careful decisions. As far as continuative products are concerned, we will try to use those already present in the warehouse, while for new orders, we will focus our attention on newer products, not only in terms of fashion trends, but also those that are more innovative and technological, offering materials and technologies oriented towards comfort and the well-being of the foot”.
Another thing that must be considered is that consumers of all ages, during the long period of lockdown, were forced to use digital channels to purchase staple goods and other kinds of goods, and among these was also included apparel and accessories. This kind of “familiarization” with online purchases has created profound cultural changes, which will undoubtedly lead to growth for e-commerce and the need of distribution to increasingly integrate offline and online channels, while developing omnichannels, until potentially arriving at initiatives like the virtual fitting room and 3D Avatars.
“In this final period of lockdown for physical stores, e-commerce represented one of the only sources of revenue for the company – confirms Claudio Alessi (Bata) – and so at a strategic level, we focused on improving the ‘customer experience’ on our website, as well as on a customer service that is increasingly focused on the end customer. The project of integration between the online and offline channel began quite a few years ago, when projects of digitalisation still seemed extremely challenging. Now, every initiative that we develop is created with a view to the omnichannel. We have numerous services in this regard, like Bata Finder and Click&Collect (which allows for free in-store exchanges for goods acquired online), while a short while ago, we inaugurated the possibility of making reservations for in-store visits in a simple, fast, and completely free way through our website, allowing customers to avoid lines, but also decide if they would like to be directly
 followed by one of our personal shoppers while they are in the store”.
Nino Scaffidi (Killin) confirms that integration between online and offline will be especially important in the years to come: “Online sales were already going through a period of growth in recent years, but without a doubt the phase of lockdown accelerated this trend. In the future, we will try to increase our online commerce, which today represents an exceedingly small percentage of our revenue, connected to sales through our platform and through Amazon. In any case, I believe that now more than ever before customer service is the factor that will make the difference in the future in terms of growth and customer loyalty. This means professionalism by sales personnel, post-sales service, and a serious offering”.
Finally, another thing to consider is that the Covid experience has led to profound changes in the purchasing choices of consumers, who are more attentive not only to the quality/price ratio as a consequence of this period of on-going economic difficulty, but also inclined to purchase products conceived to last over time, instead of those that tend to wear out over the course of one season. Likewise, comfort will be an important variable in purchasing decisions.
“In the period immediately following the lockdown in our stores in Sicily, Calabria, and Malta, slippers for the home were our number-one selling item, but also slip-ons for the seaside and sports-related items – confirms Nino Scaffidi (Killin). Without a doubt, comfort will be one of the most important factors in purchasing choices, but it is also important to consider that the upheaval created by Covid will lead to greater attentiveness to the quality of what we are buying and the potential use of the footwear. Probably, fewer purchases will be made, but with greater care and closer to real everyday needs”.
This is also confirmed by Claudio Alessi (Bata): “Customers search for quality in products, but also pay attention to price and promotions. Without a doubt, there is now also a lot of attention on hygiene standards, so our standards, which were already high, have been adapted to satisfy present-day needs. We also see that since we reopened on 18 May, customers like to compare and receive assistance in their purchasing choices by our personnel, but above all they desire to see and ‘touch with their hand’ the product, so they can make the right choice”.
What is the best way for distribution to recover quickly and more strongly from this troubled period?
“In the era of fast fashion, where everything moves quickly, this slowdown dictated by processes could help us to find greater creative momentum, while dedicating even greater attention to the needs of our customers”, is the message of Claudio Alessi from Bata.
For Nino Scaffidi (Killin), instead, the answer lies in staying committed to customers and instilling a rapport of trust with them, a formula that has been rewarding this company with positive numbers since 1986.

Claudio Alessi – President of Bata Europe
Nino Scaffidi – President of Killin Spa (Scarpinando)


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I have always been passionate about human rights and interested in the ways innovation and technology can be used to improve people’s lives. I’m especially interested in how making information free and accessible to all can help mitigate inequality.

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Theory 1: Epigrams and Involutions “When I’m dreaming back like that I begins to see we’re only all telescopes.” Joyce, Finnegan’s Wake “We have to learn to think differently — in order at last, perhaps very late on, to attain even more: to feel differently.” Nietzsche, Daybreak, II.103 “The greater part of the world’s troubles are due to questions of grammar.” Montaigne Preface. These collected epigrams, my thoughts of the morning — and occasionally late evening — this […]

Simondon in English: “Two Lessons on Animal and Man”

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It is my great delight to help announce the publication of one of the first book-length English translations available of the writings of French philosopher of technology Gilbert Simondon (1924-1989), published by Univocal. The volume is available under the title Two Lessons on Animal and Man and was translated by Drew Burk. The work is composed of a series of lectures intended for undergraduates interested in the humanities, especially philosophy, sociology and psychology. As the translator […]

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“The greater part of the world’s troubles are due to questions of grammar.” (Montaigne) Protocol. Perhaps one dimension of the aesthetic appeal of the mechanical is in the ‘purity’ of the interleaving of dynamisms — the quality of being a kind of ‘moving’ and even ‘living’ diagram that excites certain sensitivities. Each machine is already a manifold network of various configuration-spaces (involving significant mechanical, environmental, logical factors, etc.) — its singular and intricate behavior produced ‘simply’ […]

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This creature Life, beyond all evaluations, remains an uninterpretable difference — a kind of difference which is primary with respect to a differential identity, a difference which directly induces individuation, and thereby also seduces us to imitation, to the law of identity, and the shackles of representation. Difference for itself becomes the enemy and not a single word is possible on the value of life; how can we interpret this chaosmogenetic reality, arrive at by […]

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    Transiency hurls itself everywhere into a deep state of being. And therefore all forms of this our world are not only to be used in a time-specific sense, but should be included into those phenomena of superior significance in which we partake, and of which we are a part.   Rilke     Ideas arrest and extrude contents from a flux and thus illuminate forms from chaos. An inversion or involution, not the […]

On the Misery of the Unbeliever

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The Bhagavad Gita, like any text or doctrine rigorously indebted to the religious genre of literature, presents the (post)modern or skeptical reader with all the things that Krishna attributes to “cynical people:” perhaps nothing but misery or frustration (83.3). In the same sense, it is an awesome text due to its absoluteness. The word “metaphysics” in philosophy has recently come to designate a form of thought which perpetuates the belief in the necessary or absolute […]


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Fragglepuss Anime Review 75: Baccano!

Review By: John Fragglepuss Evans

Genre: Action, Comedy, Mystery, Historical, Supernatural, Time Stuff

First Aired: Summer 2007, 13 episodes + 3 OVAs

Summary: During the early 1930s in Chicago, the transcontinental train, Flying Pussyfoot, is starting its legendary journey that will turn into a bloody murder mystery. At the same time in New York, the scientist Szilard and his aide Ennis are looking for missing bottles of an immortality elixir. As if that is not enough, a war between mafia groups is getting worse. Also, on board the Advena Avis in 1711, alchemists are learning the price of immortality. Baccano! is based on the award-winning light novels of the same name. The events across different times and places, including many characters, initially seem unrelated but turn out to be part of a connected storyline. Merging all of these events together are Isaac and Miria, the most lovable and unlikely pair of thieves you will ever meet.

Baccano! feels like a story better fit to novels. The series bounces around between so many different characters and time periods at such a rapid rate that it leaves a trail of confusion as to what is happening in what year and if certain events are occurring before or after other events. By the time I had wrapped my head around it all, the series was practically over. If I watched the series for a second time, I feel like it would make a lot more sense. Baccano! Is similar to Durarara!. If you have seen Durarara!, imagine the wide variety of characters, add in frequent changing of time periods, and you pretty much have Baccano! The original novels of both series are written by the same author, Ryogo Narita. Even the opening of each series is strikingly similar, with each character being introduced and the previous episode being recapped all in the opening sequence. As a final note, the soundtrack was on point throughout Baccano!, providing a proper 1930s feel, and with music that would change based on the mood of the scene.

You might enjoy this if: You are ready for a lot of complexity in an anime that will require your full attention at all times.

You might not like it if: You want to understand an anime the first time through.

Note to the Viewer: Pay attention to Isaac and Miria. They are so much fun to watch.

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La vache!

Pity the poor cow. They give us milk and cheese, meat and leather, are the source of sustenance and prosperity. They are venerated in some cultures yet treated like so much merchandise and with a flagrant lack of humanity in others. Adding insult to injury, the word ‘cow’ is never used as a compliment.

‘La vache’ expresses surprise in French. Whether a ‘wow’ or a ‘damn’, either positive or negative. It is slang but not vulgar.

However, to say someone or something is ‘vache’ means it’s not nice. Nasty, mean, tough… Arrête d’être vache! Stop being a cow!

To do something mean to someone is to ‘faire une vacherie’. It seems somehow unjust that the language always attributes the feminine gender to such behaviour. I’ve seen it in both men and women. Note that in French, however, it is ‘une vache’ but ‘un boeuf’.

Until recently I thought these were just different names for male and female. I did not know that milk cows (‘vache laitière’, not to be confused with ‘vache à lait’…) are a completely different subset of the bovine species from beef cattle. Ah, the ignorance of the city mouse!

However, to be really mean and horrible takes being a cow a step further.

In my early days in the French corporate world, a colleague pulled me aside and told me to watch myself around so-and-so. “Attention,” she said, “C’est une peau de vache.

“A cow skin? Whatever does that mean?” I asked. Turns out that this is worst kind of person, the one who will smile to your face and stab you in the back as soon as you’re not looking. Worse, they will go to any length to get what they want.

Yet the poor cow’s hide makes such a lovely chair!

Aside from having their name so often taken in vain, the French cow’s life is not so bad. We have many small, family-run farms where just a few cattle graze in the fields.

Perhaps this is why the most famous of French cows is always smiling. The cheesy laughing cow of course!

Do you have a favourite expression involving cows?

  1. Karen Hemingway · May 14, 2019

    I don’t have a favourite expression but agree that these easy going animals get a bad rap. Even before nursing six children, I always wanted to milk a cow…for years it was on my list of things to do! I attended every school farm trip or visit to the pumpkin patch and apple orchard in the hopes of having the chance. In 2013 my dream became reality at a farm in Surrey BC owned by a friend. It was as good as I thought it would be! Much respect to the humble cow!

    • MELewis · May 14, 2019

      Good for you for realizing that dream! I have never done that but I see them up close often as I walk the dogs. It’s funny to see how curious they are. One of our Frenchies has a mild obsession with farm animals as is always straining at the leash to reach them. To his surprise one day a cow leaned over and licked him right on the nose! 😻

  2. Suzanne et Pierre · May 14, 2019

    I know all of these expressions but I must admit I had forgotten half of them. It is interesting to think that we treat the cows so badly (in terms of our expressions!) Very interesting post. (Suzanne)

    • MELewis · May 14, 2019

      Thanks, Suzanne. I think it is interesting, and probably indicates on some level the value we place on the cow in our culture even if we don’t talk nice to them!

  3. midihideaways · May 14, 2019

    As I child I used to get milk from a farm down the road – we would be allowed to go and watch the cows being milked, and I used to love the smell in the stable. These were cows that would be out in the pastures all day and come back in the evening – not reared intensively but with much respect… And the milk was always delicious!!

    • MELewis · May 14, 2019

      Interesting! Presumably not in France though….where was that?

      • midihideaways · May 18, 2019

        In Germany, Bavaria to be exact…

  4. phildange · May 14, 2019

    I’m surprised you didn’t mention the adverb “vachement”, that is daily used to mean “very” and does not suffer from a negative bend : “C’était vachement bien !”
    I’m sure you never heard of our regional show/sport, “la course landaise”, played with “des vaches landaises”, small nervous and quick black cows . The guys, “les écarteurs” do all sorts of acrobatics above and around the running cows .

    • MELewis · May 14, 2019

      Oh, you’re right! How could I forget ‘vachement’? Probably I was in too much of a hurry, as usual… As for your crazy cow races, you underestimate me. I worked for years as a translator and one of my clients was always sending me obscure texts on tourism from various regions. I remember racking my brain to come up with a translation for that one, but probably ended up using the translator’s old trick of just putting it in quotation marks. I always wondered though if it was just for fun or is it cruel in the way of bullfighting? Those photos sure make it look entertaining!

      • phildange · May 14, 2019

        It’s not a fighting, there are no weapons . Les écarteurs have to catch things stuck on the cows, to avoid them with elegance like the bullfighters do, jump above them with their feet in a béret basque, or in a somersault …
        About using “vache” for mean in colloquial French, it has nothing to do with the value our culture places on cows . i wrote a comment some time ago about the origin, it is related to the South-West ha ha . After the Wars of Religions had downsized French population, the first French Bourbon king was crowned under the name of Henri IV . He already was the king of Navarra, across western Pyrenees, he was a Protestant who accepted to convert to Catholicism and brought back peace in the new kingdom “de France et de Navarre” . His family castle is in Pau, 80 kms from my place .
        The only thing is he had to besiege Paris first, and his army’s banners showed a cow’s head . For the Parisians of the time, the cow meant the enemy, and from then the word got its negative connotation .

  5. 355101pkl · May 14, 2019

    It supposedly says in the bible that god gave man dominion over animals. if we take that as a core belief it would also follow that ,god also gave us intelligence be aware that pain, suffering and love is not unique to man. Its plain to see that the message is we need to treat all his creatures with respect .You may not be religious, i am not , but i do believe that we should treat every living thing with respect simply from the viewpoint that life is so unique in the universe . Cows are beautiful where would we be without them?

    • MELewis · May 14, 2019

      I am not religious either but I agree with wholeheartedly.

      • 355101pkl · May 14, 2019

        Of course the bit where I said god is “his”. it. may be otherwise !

  6. Susanne · May 14, 2019

    “Waiting until the cows come home” was a favourite expression of my grandmother’s. I guess it means to wait a long time as cows are slow critters for the most part. They do have lovely eyes though, don’t they? I was really struggling to say something kind about these helpful beasts!

    • MELewis · May 15, 2019

      I remember someone (mother or grandmother?) using that expression too! Also, ‘and another cow flew by’ meaning, as my Brit friends might say, ‘Right, pull the other one?’ They do have lovely eyes and behind them, so much (for me at least) previously unimagined intelligence. 👁👁

  7. Dale · May 14, 2019

    Great post, Melanie! How about: “Le diable est aux vaches”. – meaning, rien ne va plus – all is going to hell in a handbasket.
    P’tite vache – for Cow Brand baking soda 😉
    or petite vache vs grosse vache: petite meaning to be sneaky or hypocritical vs grosse meaning openly detestable, odious.
    Faire la vache, being lazy.

    Seriously, how did cows come to have such a bad rap?

    • phildange · May 14, 2019

      I never heard any of the 3 expressions “Le diable est aux vaches”, “P’tite vache” or “Faire la vache” that you mention . In what tribe do you live ?

      • MELewis · May 14, 2019

        The bilingual ones from the great white north! Differences between Québecois and l’Hexagone?

      • phildange · May 14, 2019

        Oviously a different shape triggers different sounds

      • Dale · May 14, 2019

        I was searching for where using “vache” in all these ways came from and landed on “Le diable est aux vaches” – not that I ever used that expression myself. I have used petite and grosse vache towards deserving women before and we still call it P’tite Vache baking soda even if it’s Arm and Hammer!
        Remember that discussion on chienner? same difference with faire la vache when one feels particularly lazy.
        South shore of Montreal is where I am at 😉

      • phildange · May 14, 2019

        So you exiles developed your own language ? Did you receive a royal license for that ?

      • Dale · May 14, 2019

        I dunno… I’m blaming the farmers – well, for part of them!

      • MELewis · May 15, 2019

        Dale, I’m just glad to have you providing some insights into different expressions that I may encounter in Canada – so as not to make a fool of myself by completely misunderstanding what people are saying in my home country!

      • Dale · May 15, 2019

        Honestly… I laugh when they have those Facebook things on Canadian expressions – 2/3 I know but the others? No clue… they must be used in the Maritimes only!!

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New real estate programs give students real-world experience

AJ Brooks
A.J. Brooks, whose real estate projects include the Selina Catahoula Hotel in New Orleans, joined Freeman in 2019 to help develop the school’s real estate programs.

When A. J. Brooks (MBA ’12) was hired to help develop the Freeman School’s new real estate programs, he knew immediately what kind of courses he wanted to build.

“At Freeman, we’re focused on action learning — taking students out of the classroom and into the industry,” says Brooks, lecturer in finance and assistant director of real estate at the Freeman School. “Some schools have elements of this type of learning, but we fully embrace it because it depicts the real world in all its complexity and leads to very powerful learning outcomes. I think this is where Freeman real estate education really differs from other schools.”

One of the action-learning courses Brooks introduced is a hospitality real estate development class that partnered with award-winning boutique hotel company Graduate Hotels last year. Students in the course were able to take on the role of real estate entrepreneur by running a feasibility study and pitching a new hotel development project to members from Graduate Hotels’ management team.

Another course Brooks teaches, Cases in Real Estate, again puts students in the role of prospective real estate developers.

“Every year our students end up going out and doing exactly what an entrepreneurial developer would do – identifying a piece of land and writing a full business proposal for the development of that land, which they end up presenting at the end of the semester to an investment panel filled with industry experts,” Brooks says.

Brooks earned his MBA from Freeman in 2012 and worked as a developer for roughly seven years before returning to Tulane to teach full-time. Among his many projects, Brooks developed what is now the Selina Catahoula New Orleans, a boutique hotel property that opened in downtown New Orleans in 2016.

Launched in 2019, the Freeman School’s Real Estate programs include a specialization in real estate for Master of Management students, a concentration in real estate for MBA students and a first-of-its-kind double-degree program in which students earn both an MBA from the Freeman School and a Master of Sustainable Real Estate Development from Tulane’s School of Architecture.

In addition to the partnership with Graduate Hotels, students in the first year of the programs competed in the National Real Estate Challenge, an invitation-only case competition hosted by the University of Texas at Austin, and reenergized the Tulane Real Estate Club — which Brooks founded when he was an MBA student.

Inspired by the Real Estate programs’ potential, alumnus James C. “Jim” Hendricks (MBA ’74) established the James C. Hendricks Real Estate Fund at the Freeman School to help ensure that students seeking careers in real estate will have the educational tools to thrive. Hendricks, retired managing director at Clarion Partners and CEO of Lion Industrial Trust, believes Tulane is an ideal place to study real estate and hopes that his support will further develop Real Estate education at the Freeman School.

Jim Hendricks
Jim Hendricks (MBA ’74)

“When I attended Tulane in pursuit of my MBA, the business school was much smaller and didn’t have the variety of offerings it now does. Fortunately, I became associated with the Trammell Crow organization and remained so for over 20 years,” Hendricks says. “Today, I’m honored to be able to play a part in bolstering these exciting new real estate programs at the Freeman School of Business.”

New Orleans is an exceptional place to study real estate, Brooks says, due to the abundance of both historic buildings and government tax incentives available to developers seeking to restore those buildings.

“There are a lot of deals that are doable in New Orleans because of its historic nature that may not otherwise be doable in other cities,” he says. “Although historic rehabs can often be more complex than traditional deals, it can make for a really exciting, dynamic, and unique environment.”

After Hurricane Katrina, there was an explosion of real estate development in New Orleans that resulted in the current vibrant downtown skyline. “It’s such an exciting time to be in the city, with all the development that’s happening,” says Brooks. Though the COVID-19 pandemic makes the future of the commercial real estate industry more uncertain, Brooks says it’s a thrilling time to be involved in real estate, and he’s confident in the future of New Orleans. “It’s a resilient city.”

Hendricks hopes other Tulane alumni in the real estate industry will join him in supporting the Freeman School’s real estate programming. “I know there are a lot of alumni in the industry and supporting this new real estate program is a wonderful way to support talented future real estate leaders,” he says.

Looking to the future, Brooks has a number of exciting plans for the Real Estate programs, including building a class around a real estate fund that invests actual money in deals. Similar to Freeman’s Darwin Fenner Student Management Fund, Brooks said students would truly benefit from this real-world experience: “I would love to give students the ability to participate in underwriting actual deals. When the stakes go beyond the hypothetical, that is where the true education and preparation for a career in real estate begins.”


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Drama-focused program unites future ESL teachers with international high school students

SJMHS drama program students

The innovative after-school program allows teachers to implement creative ways of teaching English through a drama-based context.

This 2018 Fall semester, the linguistics department set into motion a brand new program that partners Fresno State’s future Teaching English as a Second Language (TESOL) teachers with English as a Second Language (ESL) international students at San Joaquin Memorial High School (SJM).

The participating SJM students are studying abroad from various countries including China, South Korea, Indonesia, Philippines, and Vietnam. The students are not only improving their language skills but are also enjoying socializing and contributing to a team in a fun and engaging way.

The program was created to directly address the specific language needs of the SJMHS students which would also provide Fresno State’s TESOL students the opportunity to experience teaching ESL hands-on.

“In particular, we hope to help these students develop confidence in using English, to gain social interaction skills. We even have some domestic students volunteering in the program to help with that and to help them improve their listening and speaking skills in English,” said Dr. Jaydene Elvin, TESOL Coordinator and Professor of Linguistics at Fresno State.

“This program’s impact has been tremendous at SJM. Our students receive direct expert instruction from Fresno State, while also being introduced to the University early in their high school careers through this innovative program,” said Sung Chu, Director of International Recruitment & Strategic Partnerships at SJM.

The program has been equally beneficial for Fresno State graduate students as well, as it serves as additional exposure to teaching language.

“The kind of learning students are getting in this class is beyond anything I could teach them in a theoretical class. They are gaining real-world experience, and they are facing challenges that you can only get when you are out in the real world working with the ESL students. So I hope that my graduate students are able to connect the theories and strategies that are taught in the classes with real-world experience,” said Elvin.

Teaching inside SJMHS classroom
Many of the graduate students have taken the initiative to invent and implement their language exercises to help nurture the growing skills of the SJM students in the program.

“One of my students spent two lessons teaching them how to debate, and there was another activity called “alibi” – that’s where a (fake) crime was committed, and some students were suspects, and the rest were investigators,” said Elvin. “The suspects had to come up with convincing alibis, and the investigators had to ask questions to work out ‘who did it’. So that’s a great activity as students had to improvise their answers  and make it convincing, while the other students are learning how to form questions in English.”

A vital feature of the program is that it provides reflective space for the TESOL students, where they can come up with ideas and solutions to their experience in the SJM classroom. TESOL students also engage on the program’s blog, where they can upload lesson plans, collaborate on new ideas, and offer support to one another.

With the current semester coming to a close, Elvin reflected on the benefits that she’s seen her TESOL students enjoy during their time at SJM.

“I think it has been really nice to see how much my graduate students have grown and developed as a result of this experience,” said Elvin. “They have faced a number challenges as they had to get to know the students and discover what activities worked best with them, but I have definitely seen an improvement in their abilities as teachers.”

The program will continue in Spring 2019. TESOL students will again be able to take advantage of this unique opportunity that has proven to be inspirational for both graduate, and high school students alike.

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Baby shit: My trip to Baltimore, Part I

I’m sitting on the plane getting ready to take off for Baltimore for wedding number two this weekend. I highly suspect that the baby in front of me shat himself before boarding the plane and the parents were simply too lazy to change him. So now it smells like baby shit. Yay.

Now there are two small brown hands peeking out from the seat in front of me. Part of me really wants to touch one of the hands to see what it does. Maybe it’ll be like my cat with his paw under the bathroom door swatting desperately at the air for more contact. Or maybe the hands will recoil and a squeal will emerge from the creature in front of me. Perhaps he’ll peek one of his little eyes through the crack between the seats. I really want to mess with this kid because he keeps banging into the seat and shaking the tray table on which I am writing. Plus he smells like shit.


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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Year: 2007
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Violence and mayhem ensue after a hunter stumbles upon a drug deal gone wrong and more than two million dollars in cash near the Rio Grande.

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No Country for Old Men (2007)
Another great one from the Coen Brothers
27 January 2009 - 3 out of 3 users found this review helpful.
INSTANT CLASSIC.: YES, this film is as good as the critics say. YES, the performances are as good as the Academy says. NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN is one of my favorite films and I have watched it many, many times. Javier Bardem, makes an excellent screen villain, this guy is really scary, you would not want him chasing you. Josh Brolin, and Tommy Lee Jones turn in Solid Performances, and Woody Harrelson also. I'm saving my praise for KELLY MACDONALD, one of my favorite actors. KELLY nails that southern accent. which is always surprising because her speaking voice is so Scottish, she does not have a lot of screen time but when she is on screen, you will know, you are watching a great performance. I absolutely give NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN <> Ten Stars 10**********


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We had a ball!

No really, it was excellent.

What was? The fund raising ball for Seb’s school of course.

For me, this was a big deal as I’ve never really been to a formal function in my life. I spent my later high school years in a rural NSW town and the graduating “formal” was at the local RSL with many people (including me) turning up in rather less than black tie.

Even our wedding wasn’t this formal. Sure I wore a suit and tie, but it was at the Melbourne Zoo.

This one was the real deal, 3 piece suit for me and a lovely ball gown for Kim hob-nobbing with the social elite of the school 8) – I don’t think we offended too many…

Kim’s gown was strapless, and superbly exposed her … tatoo of PePe Le Pew on the back of her right shoulder. Nobody made any comments, but there were a few strange looks.

I probably looked a bit “Fat Controller” but thoroughly enjoyed the experience.

We had dinner, danced, and was hopelessly outclassed in the fund-raising auction. There were various donated items up for grabs: holidays, phones, a square of MCC carpet, a cricket bat signed by Sachin Tendulkar, and a bright yellow Honda scooter. The highlight of the auction for me had to be: The $300 voucher for dinner at Jacques Reymond that sold for $320 …

To what end are the raised funds going? The ball is run by the schools Parent’s Association and funds are used to improve school equipment and services in a manner decided by the parents rather than regular school administration. As an example, the PA chose to purchase a mini-trampoline for the Early Learning Center – and Seb benefits directly 3 days a week 😀

Overall, a positive experience and one I wouldn’t hesitate to have again.

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