Welcome and thank you for joining us for this discussion. In the spring of 2021, almost exactly a year ago on the day we're recording this, in fact, a group of friends from Canada and the United States began to read and consult together on the topic of the psychology of social change. Coming from different academic and professional backgrounds and exploring articles and stories from various sources, we considered several questions. How do hearts and minds change in the process of social transformation? What elements elevate a person from prejudice to peace? Similarly, what experiences contribute to cultural shifts within and between groups of people? What influences inspire opposing groups to grow out of disunity and into unity? Well, seemingly simple, these questions are obscured in social change work and social movement theory, which often emphasize the notion that conflict and contention are primary means of social change, and that it is only at the structural institutional level that any real transformation can occur. The Baha'i conceptual framework calls us to value the roles of the individual and the community, as well as institutions, even as it calls into question the notion that conflict and contention are essential means of social change. Meaningful lasting and generative change also occurs at the grassroots in the hearts and minds of those seeking to build a better world and in the education of children generation after generation. Today we aim to share several key insights from our group's conversations. We will fail to adequately convey the breadth and depth of the various articles we read, but we offer a tasting platter of sorts to share insights and hopefully stimulate a conversation. Six of our group will present today each for about four minutes. First, Negin Tusi will consider the role of social norms in instigating individual level change and the question of coherence between inner and outer responses to norms. Then, Michael Karlberg will consider the emotional response known as being moved and how human beings respond emotionally to demonstrations of positive values. Aya Amir will look at the contrasting influence of criticism and how, although often touted for its role in instigating change, criticism is often self-defeating. Megan McCullough will then share an example of a constructive social change intervention, which nurtures transformation in hearts and minds across differences among college students. Sheda Azamiin will build on this example to consider further the role of relationships for changing hearts and minds, describing an approach based on the theory of enchantment. Finally, you'll hear from me once more and I will touch on the dynamics among individuals, communities, and institutions in fostering social change and discuss the mutual relationship between structure and psychology. Throughout, we will all raise key correlations we've observed between these themes and teachings from the Baha'i Faith. We look forward to joining you for the live discussion following this video. So, one of the important concepts we wanted to highlight at the beginning is the distinction between private acceptance and public compliance. This has come up in the literature we read on social norms by Elizabeth Levy-Palak and colleagues. The distinction is this, public compliance is when people feel like the society around them, the community around them tells them they should behave a certain way. And they go along with it, so as to not stick out to enhance their sense of belonging, but they're mostly just performing the behavior in public settings. However, in private settings, or if you ask them their opinion anonymously, they don't actually believe it in their hearts. That's public compliance. On the other hand, private acceptance is when people actually personally believe something. They hold on to some attitude because of their internal sense that it's the moral or the correct thing to do. So, for example, when it comes to racial bias, we have this distinction that some people might refrain from expressing prejudice thoughts because they believe the people around them don't approve of racism. And they don't want people to think poorly of them. That's public compliance. But if the social norms change and it's suddenly seen as acceptable to be racist, then there's nothing holding back that first group from expressing bigotry. On the other hand, there are people who don't express prejudice because they sincerely believe it's wrong. It's a deviation from moral standards. And that's private acceptance. And that will stay consistent across time situations. So one thing this work highlights is that laws can change policies can change institutional norms can change, and that might change behavior, but it isn't always sufficient to change attitudes to change hearts and minds. Palak and colleagues have done a meta analysis on what can change people's attitudes in terms of reducing prejudice. And I'll quickly list some of the approaches they examine here. One approach is focused on cognitive training that is actively correcting one's assumptions or focusing on counter stereotypical examples, or replacing a prejudice thought with a thought of compassion or warmth. Other promising avenues they mentioned our efforts to address bias through educational interventions and use of the arts and entertainment media, as well as intentional dialogue and discussion between peers, which highlights the power of profound conversations that touch upon themes of oneness and justice. And one other approach they identified that has been studied for decades is contact theory. This is the idea that interacting with people from different groups can reduce prejudice. Now there are some, there are some conditions under which contact is more effective and under which it's less effective. The main conditions under which contact is effective is when the status of the two groups is equal. Contact is sanctioned by the authorities, and especially when that contact takes place under conditions of mutual interdependence. In other words, you're in a situation where you realize that you need each other you depend on each other. And that changes the way you see the other group as no longer other, but as part of us. We can see examples of this in our neighborhoods with the community building process. People from different backgrounds are interacting with each other, they're working together, they're walking together on that path of service, as that unfolds people gain awareness and empathy for each other's challenges and they feel admiration for each other's strengths. That is really a transformative process. Moving on Nagin's comments. Another theme our reading group explored was about the affective dimension of the psychology of social change. So one of the articles we read together was titled being moved was written by Florian Kova and Julian Deona from the Center for affective sciences at the University of Geneva. Kova and Deona argue that being moved is a distinct type of emotion. In other studies they suggest it's an emotion that can be triggered by circumstances that cause what they call positive core values to stand out. By positive core values, they mean values that in their words, a moral community treats as possessing transcendental significance. In other studies we often refer to these kinds of values as spiritual principles, such as oneness justice compassion courage sacrifice for the common good. Being moved, according to Kova and Deona is the subjective experience of a positive core value. When some circumstance causes it to stand out in a compelling way. Sometimes some stories can trigger this experiences, as can some events. Often these kinds of stories or events highlight a positive core value by contrasting against some troubling background, such as when people make a courageous sacrifice to address some injustice experienced by others. Kova and Deona argue that these experiences of being moved have a positive cumulative cognitive effect on us to help build our internal moral frameworks by strengthening our commitments to these positive core values. In the process, Kova and Deona argue, these experiences can help reorganize our priorities and our action tendencies. They argue that we're especially prone to being moved by expressions of group belonging that, again, in their words, create feelings of oneness with others. All this should sound familiar to my eyes. We often refer to these kinds of experiences as inspiration. We tell stories that are moving in this way. These are collective experiences that are moving in this way. And Abdu'l-Baha seems to allude to all this when he talks about being, quote, quickened with spiritual susceptibilities and heavenly attraction. So how does this concept of being moved fit into a psychology of social change? Well, we can appreciate its relevance by contrasting it with, for instance, the experience of being targeted by criticism. Even a culture that often targets people, sometimes entire social groups, with criticism in the hope that this will change their hearts and minds. But as other literature, our reading group examined suggests, hearts and minds rarely change from criticism, from targeted criticism. On the contrary, hearts and minds become more entrenched most of the time. So this article on being moved highlights an alternative approach to changing hearts and minds based on the unlimited powers of spiritual attraction and inspiration, rather than the limited and often counterproductive powers of targeted criticism. This doesn't mean there's no place for productive forms of criticism. But that's another topic beyond the scope of my brief comments today. As a group, we sought to understand the relationship between prejudice and criticism, and the effects of each on the hearts and minds of individuals. This interest stemmed in part from our collective reading of the current discourses shaping theories of social change. We shared a common concern regarding the overemphasis placed on negative criticism, and we questioned its effectiveness in reducing prejudice and bringing us closer to realizing our inherent interconnectedness as a human family. To begin, I'll share a few words from the Bahá'í writings on the nature of criticism in order to contextualize our approach and ideas that emerge from our discussions. I'll then turn to a couple of the readings that we explored and offer some ideas that we thought were conducive. An overview of the Bahá'í writings on these themes reveals that criticism can manifest itself both positively and negatively. For the purpose of this presentation, I'll speak to the reality of negative criticism. Abdu'l-Bahá tells us the most hateful characteristic of man is fault-finding. And Shelby Effendi describes vicious criticism as a calamity and waste of strength, which she explains leads to the stunting of the growth and development of the community. For this end, Abdu'l-Bahá admonishes us not to contend and wrangle with any individual and to seek not the abasement of any soul. He elaborates that the speech of reproach and rebuke is rather too severe for the people and would be heartbreaking to them. Thus he warns us, beware lest you offend the feelings of anyone or sadden the hearts of any person, or move the tongue in reproach of and finding fault with anybody, though he may be an ill-wisher and an ill-doer. We found that current research on this topic helps substantiate these claims. The article by Robert Barron, which has been offered up to all of you supplementary reading, provides us with an evidence-based analysis on the limitations of destructive criticism. While there are a number of helpful insights, we wish to highlight one particular finding, and that is the article's debunking of the commonly held assumption that criticism is an effective tool for change. In the article, Barron reveals that people generally do not respond well to criticism. Instead, he maintains that criticism tends to invoke anger, tension and resistance in individuals and often leads to lower self-efficacy. Though we generally felt that constructive criticism encompasses a more complex reality than the analysis offered in this paper, we found that the distinction made between constructive and destructive iterations raised questions about the paradigm of criticism currently mobilizing the discourse on social change. Generally speaking, we find that destructive criticism is rampant in our societies, and that it manifests itself in different ways. When considering the question of racial prejudice, it is easy to see how a continued commitment to notions of superiority and the exercise of patronizing and critical attitudes continue to cultivate conditions that fuel intercultural animosity. Such postures tend to foster anger, conflict, defensiveness, and lead to increase intergroup criticism. In the context of racial justice work, what frequently manifests itself in response to these conditions are theories of change that call for a counterattack that adopts a paradigm of criticism that is also destructive in nature. This in turn is met with further criticism by those on the receiving end of these counterattacks. We conclude that the cyclical and reactive tendency to turn to vicious criticism has deep implications and continues to hinder us from drawing nearer to the truth of our inherent oneness. In this regard, we gathered some helpful insights from a paper titled Group Criticism and the Intergroup Sensitivity Effect, where we explored the relationship between criticism and group membership. Two main ideas were helpful to our deliberations and we considered how they might shape our understanding on the role of criticism in reducing prejudice. The first idea is that criticism tends to be better received when it is offered by members of the same group. The second is that the authors found that the most effective approach to intergroup criticism is when an outsider acknowledges weaknesses within their own group before pointing to similar problems in the other group. This for us resonated with the teachings of the faith in that we are enjoying to bring ourselves to account and to refrain from seeking out faults and others. We also considered how our conception of accompaniment has helped us avoid such pitfalls. As a reading group, we wanted to further explore promising approaches to combating prejudice that were highlighted in other readings, like mutual interactions across difference or contact theory, peer led discussion and dialogue. So we drew upon scholarly and empirical insights from the Multiracial Unity Living Experience or M-Rule program at Michigan State University. M-Rule brings together a range of students and creates a thoroughly diverse, peer led learning community in a co-curricular process that interrogates the racial status quo in local, national and transnational spaces. Dr. Richard Thomas and Dr. Jean Gazelle, two Baha'i colleagues working in race relations co-founded M-Rule in 1996. It emerged out of Dr. Gazelle's focus on social justice pedagogy and Dr. Thomas' scholarly contribution as a historian documenting what he calls the other tradition, the history of extensive interracial cooperation for racial justice and the recognition of this force as a catalyst of social change. The M-Rule program is a continuity of the other tradition in practice. In her article, Walking the Talk, Multiracial Discourses, Realities and Pedagogy, which we read as a group, Dr. Gazelle describes how a relational view of social change is critical to the M-Rule project and its dual approach of consciousness raising and community building. She says, the M-Rule goal is to help students see themselves as part of a community where the whole is greater than the sum of its parts and that the whole cannot be truly whole when parts are disadvantaged and excluded. After this learning, the next step is to cultivate a sense of caring, a deep feeling that starts with self-awareness and expands outward toward a concern for the welfare of others. The quest for social justice cannot be a theoretical process alone. It has to move people to action. So one way of thinking about consciousness raising, according to the author, is a deeper collective facing of the reality of injustice in order to more meaningfully move to the possibility of greater justice. The article mentions engaging with unsettling and uncomfortable aspects of diversity discourse, including exposing students to structural inequalities and power relations, challenging their racial thinking, and expanding possibilities for individual actions for those who are conscious of collective reality. But importantly, this is done as part of a process of relationship and community building across difference, which seeks to empower interracial groups to collectively strive for a vision of interracial community characterized by deep feeling, care and concern, transcending lines of us and them. In practice, this looks like diverse teams of student staff living and working together on campus to build community among peers of diverse backgrounds. These teams collaboratively plan and facilitate weekly spaces of dialogue on social issues that foster friendship and understanding across difference and enable participants to explore pressing social issues in a way that is informed by history while considering their agency to better the world. In the process of study, action, reflection, consultation and planning, guided by professional staff, these student teams learn to cultivate an environment that is open to all. They seek out diverse perspectives through intentional outreach, inviting new people into the conversation and nurturing deeper relationships with those already involved. An example of a distinctive approach to social justice work inspired by the high principles was helpful for our group and considering the role of relationships and environments of learning characterized by unity and diversity to the advancement of social change. It also helped us consider more deeply the level of care and intention that is needed to bring people in groups who have been systematically separated and exploited into truer relationships based on mutuality and trust. The National House of Justice wrote in its July 22 2020 message to the highs of the United States racism cannot be rooted out by contest and conflict. It must be supplanted by the establishment of just relationships among individuals communities and institutions of society that will uplift all and will not designate anyone as other. The change required is not merely social and economic, but above all moral and spiritual. Thank you Megan. When I discuss further the role of relationships and transforming hearts and minds, it may be helpful to call to mind the Universal House of Justices December 30 letter, in which the House describes the dedicated efforts of in kindled souls around the world to transcend differences and harmonize perspective in the process of social change and to reflect on the many ways that this can work. Our group also read a piece on a specific framework within the diversity, equity and inclusion training field called the theory of enchantment by Chloe Valderie. Chloe Valderie is an American writer and as she describes herself an entrepreneur who's passionate about love, especially love across differences and compassionate anti racism. She's informed by Martin Luther King Junior's vision of a beloved community as the outcome of social change and a society in which non violence is the norm. While we don't agree with all elements or endorse her framework itself, we noticed how the theory of enchantment framework brings language to the DEI field around justices both an outcome and a spiritual process. To start, I should note that there is some research pointing to conditions in which diversity, equity and inclusion programs or DEI programs can inadvertently cause division, particularly when disparate experiences between participants becomes an emphasis. One way this might happen is when there is not an adequate focus on the participants unifying characteristics. What we found powerful about Valderie's theory of enchantment model is its ability to increase openness and trust from participants of diverse ideologies and backgrounds through character development and social emotional learning. To avoid polarization through emphasizing shared challenges, needs and goals, and encourages participants to acknowledge their human identity and connect with one another in a way so that they do not shy away from understanding intimately each other's personal experiences with oppression. The program helps create awareness of a more foundational identity between participants that unites them while striving to understand and welcome the diversity of experiences at the same time. There are three main principles about Jerry's theory of enchantment. The first is to treat people like human beings, not like political abstractions. The second is to criticize, to uplift and empower, never to tear down or to destroy, which also relates back to the previous presentations on criticism today. And the third is to root everything we do in love and compassion. In developing the theory of enchantment Valderie actually studied what people already love and how they are attracted in order to figure out what she observed as conditions for love. And her finding was that love is evoked when we can see ourselves and our potential reflected back to us, which is also a tenant we see in restorative justice practice. And in the by writings. This sounds very much like one of the ways we understand justice, the ability to each develop or latent capacities. Moving off of this we observed that Valderie's approach embeds a recognition of the humanity of those who perpetrate injustice, and embeds hope in the possibility for change and the other, which is a thread throughout her practice. The theory of enchantment is just one example of a DEI program operating today, and one that we found offers some application of the elements of the Bahá'í teachings, particularly a sense of coherence between the outcomes of social change that we wish to bring about and the loving relationships and processes of transformation that we are building to achieve these outcomes. When we speak of psychology we do not mean to imply that individuals are isolated from the world around them. It is a token of relationships through which social change can advance, and I will be built on that theme by mentioning some of the institutional and structural forces that we all interact with, and that shape our psychology. It is tempting to swing to either side of the pendulum, either focusing on institutional and societal structures to create widespread social change, or narrowing down to the individual and their immediate relationships to encourage change only at the grassroots. On the ground on behalf of Shoghi Effendi, we cannot segregate the human heart from the environment outside us, and say that once one of these is reformed, everything will be improved. Man is organic with the world, his inner life molds the environment, and is itself also deeply affected by it. The one acts upon the other and every abiding change in the life of man is the result of these mutual reactions. This light neither extreme is sufficient. We must look at the interplay of heart and environment, and how each affects the other. One article we read by Lucius T. Outlaw Jr., Professor of Philosophy at Vanderbilt University, spoke to the effects of social ordering and schooling on racism, and how white supremacy is systematically reproduced in both white and racialized children, generation after generation. In the North American context, he describes how both knowledge and ignorance are systematically used to nurture white supremacy. This mechanism is not hidden in the shadows, but has been made legitimate, acceptable and valued by sufficient numbers of people and groups to have become an underlying organizing principle of society. An alternative reading of reality that elevates the oneness of humanity has to account for and counteract these prevailing social forces. Although much can be correlated between Outlaw's discussion of racism and the Baha'i teachings on race and unity, I wish to focus here on the relationship between structure and psychology. In the Pitavia Gan, Baha'u'llah explores the theme of cultivated ignorance and its impact on both society and the human heart. The Universal House of Justice takes up this theme in its statement that the perpetuation of ignorance is a most grievous form of oppression. It reinforces the many walls of prejudice that stand as barriers to the realization of the oneness of humankind at once the goal and operating principle of Baha'u'llah's revelation. As Baha'is, we know the power of education to transform hearts and minds, and we're not alone in this knowledge. Outlaw points to the power of education, both as the disease and the cure. He argues for reeducation and retraining of education workers to correct for the continuing misinformation that encroaches on all sides. There are many well-wishers of humanity pursuing the same aim of transforming education. It is difficult when the operations and priorities of institutions of society seem to be entirely disconnected from the aspirations and hopes at the heart of individual and community life. This discrepancy is evident on many issues related to education, such as school funding, teacher training and accompaniment, and even the safety of school children from gun violence. These issues weigh heavy on our hearts as we witness the effects on children in our neighborhoods and elsewhere. The gap between institutional change and cultural change can generate conditions for conflict, as we see all too often. On the other hand, however, this same gap can generate hard-won conditions for creativity and collaboration that sow seeds of transformation. This creative work is in the hands of all protagonists of the Institute. The content and approaches of the Baha'i conceptual framework for action are shaping a mode of education that places the oneness of humanity at its center. Furthermore, social action projects and contributions to discourse bring thoughtful attention to the broad scope of issues that require attention to advance the prosperity of humanity. The contributions of each individual in these areas of action are shaping a new culture, which in turn will shape future generations. On behalf of our group, I want to thank you for your attention to these presentations. We'd like to now open the discussion app for questions and comments from the audience.


This is a semester unlike any other. This is very different from what I was expecting, definitely. Not only are we all at home due to the coronavirus crisis, but there is the most consequential presidential election probably since 1860. It is officially Berkeley time. Welcome everybody. I just want to do two very quick things. The first of which is to remind you of the voter registration dates in the state of California. Myself and my co-teacher Sarojaya Raman, we are teaching this semester a course under the Big Ideas Program, Election 2020. A class actually taught about an election in real time. My name is Ritika Kupam. I am a first year at UC Berkeley. Currently I am taking my classes from home. Taking a Zoom course, it's school minus all of the, you know, parts that people would classify as fun. I find that it's really, really difficult to get a Zoom class right. But the 2020 election course is one that I have been fascinated by. Politics in America are so complicated and interwoven. It's hard to figure out where do I start. An election is about so much more than voting. This class gives me a lens with which I can view current events right now and learn about how what is happening is deeply rooted in our history. So I don't really think the struggle around voting rights is over. We started very much embedded in the contemporary moment and then gone back into the past. So I made students read the Constitution and Declaration of Independence and talked about the ways in which our elections and our government is actually structured. I would offer this book. This is Nick Estes, Our History is the Future. We spent a tremendous amount of time talking about the question of race and racism in this class. I feel quite firmly that if you're talking about American politics and you don't put race at the center of that conversation, you're doing it wrong. While I get to do a lot of lecturing about the history of American politics and Saro spends a tremendous amount of time talking about how social movements operate, we get to bring in lots of different voices from across both California and the nation to bring in questions about women of color rights, of indigenous peoples organizing. There's multiple voices in this class. Great stuff. What questions do you have? Yeah, hi Professor. I was just curious about how the methods of integrated voter engagement begin. I guess I'm wondering what is the state of the federal government within a concept of a revoke? Do you think people see that as performative or actual progress for Trump? What can we do under our current system to help indigenous peoples thrive? My hope for students coming out of this class is that they will be actually empowered to believe that they can become agents of their own lives and political activists and participants. There's a deeper level of power which is... I have not voted before. I have just turned 18. This class has really taught me to kind of shift my whole point of view of what it means to vote. We can really make an impact. Of course, we just learned in this class that voting is the first step, right? We do have to take steps beyond that, but it is a good start. Ritika? Yeah, my question was more about how can we retain people in social movements, giving them the knowledge that this is a long-run thing. This is something that's going to go for decades. Ultimately, beyond just winning in November election, if people care about change in this world, it cannot be about just one candidate versus another. It has to be about thinking about how do we organize and engage around greater power for people for more transformative change over time. Terrific. Thank you. We are officially out of time. I will see you all on Wednesday. All right? Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Bye, everybody. Thank you.


Hello. Give me just a moment here and we will get started. Thanks everyone for joining today. I'm Nikki Johnson, the Managing Director for the CPA, and I'm very excited to tell you about all of the great things happening within the organization. We will go through a review of the new membership model and cover questions at the end. You can use your webinar toolbox on the right hand or control panel on the right hand side of your screen to submit any questions and we'll get to as many of those as we can after the session. So I want to introduce CPA 2.5 and I'm not sure if anybody picked up on our little snappy spin, but the 2.5 kind of goes in line with our 25th anniversary that we are celebrating in 2017. So why are we doing this? The CPA is in the state of expansion, both in membership and industry authority as well as contribution. And to keep that going, we need to, like all organizations, challenge ourselves and innovate in order to remain relevant in our changing industry. The new CPA membership model does this and it does it just in time for our 25th anniversary, as I mentioned, happening next year. And as you might imagine, much has changed in this industry in 25 years. And what you will learn about today will certainly help shape and fund the next 25 years for CPA. So let's get into it. When we started the process, the board and staff of CPA, I challenged the board and everyone to establish a why statement about CPA. Exactly why is it that we do what we do? Why are we in existence? And here is the result. We believe in building a better supply chain through education, networking and industry exposure. We give, oh, pardon me, let me back up here. We allow our members to innovate and grow their businesses. We are CPA, the Association for Contract Packagers and Manufacturers. So this really is the root of where this model came from, that statement. I am not going to go through all of the benefits of membership. Those are available online, but I am going to go through some of the key benefits for all members and then drill into some other things that are pertinent to our very important associate members. So as you guys know, the CPA offers two types of membership, the regular membership, which is our core member, the contract package or contract manufacturer. And those folks make up the majority of our association. The rest of the organization, which is about 20 to 25%, are suppliers to the industry and we refer to those as associate members. So here are some key benefits that all members are going to enjoy in this new model. Each member on the website is going to get a new version of their web page on CPA's website. It will be a content management page and there we will be able to add searchable content, including video, that will not only help increase member exposure on the CPA website, but the website or the web in general. The next big thing that I think is really important to talk about is the fact that we've furthered our partnership with PMMI Media Group. We're a publisher of Contract Packaging Magazine and Packaging World and we are offering members advertising as part of their membership. So those things kind of switch up depending on what type of member you are, but all members will get a digital ad spot in CP Focus. And I'm going to exit my presentation really quick and show you online what that looks like and I think it will be very familiar to everyone. They're sent out via email like e-newsletters and they look like this.  The kind of icing on the cake is whatever you submit, whether it's a video, a white paper, the choice is yours. Whenever anyone clicks on your ad spot, you will get the contact information for that individual. So the platform is called LeadWorks and it's something that Packaging World does a great job of. So they call it Lead Generation and as a member of CPA, you will get that as part of your membership. And I also want to take this opportunity to kind of talk about the audience of Contract Packaging Magazine and their digital collateral like the Contract Packaging Focus. I think there's been some misunderstanding within the membership and within the market as to who the audience is. And I've heard members say, well, why would I be interested in advertising here? It only goes to my peers. It goes to other Contract Packagers. Well, it does go to Contract Packagers just like yourself, but it also goes to thousands of others who have indicated through Packaging World Magazine that they have interest in Contract Packaging Services, that they are buying or will be buying those services. And that list is about 25,000 individuals long. So the Contract Packagers, of course, are seeing this, but a lot of potential customers and your customers are seeing this. And you will know who has interest because you'll have the LeadWorks platform working behind the scenes. So again, if there are any questions about this, please feel free to submit your questions. Let's go back to the presentation here. The next item I want to talk about is a member profile. And this is an opportunity for each member to submit a story, almost a case study, something that is focused on your core competencies to the CPA for us to push out both through membership as well as the industry. So what will happen here is upon renewal, you will get a template to use for submitting your profile. And that hopefully will make it easy. You don't need to recreate the wheel. We'll give you a template to work from. And then as we collect those, they will go out in a number of ways, probably in our e-newsletter connection, social media, and just to our database. And our database includes folks that have visited us at PackExpo, those people that have indicated that they have interest in Contract Packaging Services. And that list is about 2,000 individuals. And the link in group page for CPA is almost 4,000 members. So as you can see, it gives some really great exposure to members and something that hasn't been available in this sort of structured program in the past. The next thing I want to talk about is something that is brand new to CPA and something we are really, really excited about. And that is a partnership that we've made with the packaging school. So you can look them up online. They are an entity that's built an online packaging curriculum with the help of Clemson University. We will have their courses available on our website. They are available at a discount for CPA members, and this means member companies. So anyone in your organization, as many as you want, can participate in this discount. I encourage you to take a look at the courses. It's a very robust program, and we are really excited to be partnered with these guys. So the courses should be on our website within, I'd say, the next 30 days. And the members will be given a coupon code to use. Again, any questions there, please let me know. The next thing that I wanted to talk about is we are offering legal consultation with our attorney, Eric Greenberg. As many of you folks know him, he's been part of CPA for a very, very long time.  You can use him as a founding board for a new idea if you've got a question about a contract and that sort of thing. So when you renew, you will be given instructions on how to utilize all of these benefits. And again, I'm focusing solely on just the key areas. The long list is on the website, so please be sure to take a look at that. Let's move on. So as I mentioned, we've got our regular contract packaging members, and then we've got our associate members. And some of the things that the associate members have been asking for are more opportunities to engage with contract passengers. So this is what we've done. We've given them two options. Suppliers can choose to be a regular associate member, or they can choose to be a gold supplier associate member. And some of the things that those folks get are listed here. One is first right of refusal on many of our sponsorship opportunities. We're really lucky that we've got some awesome, awesome supplier members within our organization, and they do a great job of supporting the CPA in the way of sponsorships, almost to the point where we've got a cat fight over who's going to get to them first. So the gold members will have that first right of refusal. Also in the supplier directory, in the new enhanced directory that everybody will be participating in the enhanced version of this, the gold suppliers will be listed first, and they will be designated by a special new gold supplier logo. The other thing that we're adding that really will benefit everyone who attends the annual meeting is an event app. So you'll be able to manage your time at the annual meeting from your phone. And one of the benefits for gold suppliers is that they get a profile within the app automatically as part of their membership. Also, they will be given an opportunity to do a webinar that's hosted, promoted, and recorded and archived on the website with CPA. So we will do one of those a year on an educational topic. And let's see here. In addition to the focus, the ad piece that I showed you all earlier, the gold supplier will also get a full-page ad and their choice of issue in contract packaging magazine, or if they don't want to do that, they can do another digital ad. They can choose one or the other. And one of the last things that's a key thing that I want to mention is that we're adding banner ad capability within our website and on a new member's online forum. So the gold members or gold supplier members will get that as part of their membership as well. So just real quickly too, the members-only forum is another value piece that we're adding that we'll launch at the start of the year. And that is going to be available to all members. And it will be an opportunity to network within our community without physically being somewhere with somebody. Networking has been a huge, huge area of value for the CPA, so we're looking for ways to enhance that, give folks more opportunity to network, and virtually is one way to do that. So some changes here. So to accommodate the improved value proposition of the CPA into efficiently and effectively execute and manage the long list of benefits, the dues structure is changing. Currently we collect dues on your anniversary with the CPA. We're changing that, and all dues will be collected at the first of the year, every year. And that also means that our fiscal year is also changing to the calendar year, just really trying to streamline things and use our resources in the most efficient way possible so staff can stay focused on adding value and not so much just the day-to-day paperwork and things that need to happen on an ongoing basis. So what does this mean for you? So on November 1st or right around there, you're going to receive a pro-rated invoice for 2017. For every month into 2017 that you've already paid for, in 2016 you'll have a credit towards your new dues. So on that renewal invoice that you get November 1st, you will make your designation. So what I mean by that is regular members, we're moving to kind of a sliding scale in dues. So right now everybody pays the same amount. And what we're doing here is something that's very, very common in associations and in our industry. We are basing it on annual revenue. So if you're an organization that does $10 million or less than $10 million in revenue, your annual dues will be $1,995. If you're between $10 million and $50 million, your dues are $2,995 and over that $3,995. Associate members, this is where I said you've got a choice. So regular associate members, their annual dues are $3,995 and gold supplier $9,995. The number on the gold supplier may seem high, but I will tell you coming from the supplier industry, much of my career has been spent in that role. It's a great deal. There are so many value pieces that far outweigh that dollar amount. And that's the way we've tried to structure all of this in that everything that you're going to get from CPA, from a business development standpoint, if you were to go out and do it on your own, the price would probably be much higher. So back to regular members really quick, because I know that we're going to get some questions here. When you make your designation, it will be confidential. Only accounting staff on the inside will have this information. No other member companies will have this information. And there's no audit process either. You're on your honor as far as what designation you make. And the idea here is that if you're a larger organization, you may be able to support the CPA and the industry at a higher level. But that designation is totally up to you to make. I think that was it on that. I also wanted to explain kind of what went into this decision and how much work and contemplation was made leading up to this. And it was probably better than a year of research and planning a whole lot of board meetings and just a lot of modeling and things going on. We did look at a couple of different other models that were not revenue-based. And we did some kind of focus group testing within the membership and found out really quickly what was going to resonate with members and what wasn't. And this was the model that seemed to be the right choice and certainly put us in a position to move the association forward and prepare us for the future. The other big, really big thing was our partnerships within the industry. I mentioned PMMI Media Group, the packaging world and contract packaging magazine folks really worked closely with them on providing the right pieces for the membership based on what the members were telling me, the things that they wanted and hoped to get out of CPA. Really working closely with Joe Angel and his group on building this out. The partnership with the packaging school is another one. A lot went into that and we certainly thank those folks for helping us move forward. Let's see here. Another thing too, I wanted to do a really good gut check on dues. How do we compare to other associations and so on? So what you're looking at here are just a few other associations that are within packaging. Some are closer related to us than others, but the first one is the Pressure Sensitive Tape Council. The next one is Flexible Packaging Association. And the next two y'all should be very familiar with F4SS and IWLA. So what you're seeing here is the dark green bar is their high end, the high end of their dues and I'm sorry the low end and the light green is their high end. So as you can see, we're doing okay. I think we're well in line with what the industry is doing and on the associate member side, on the supplier side, same thing. So I couldn't find the data on IWLA, that's why that's blank, but again, I think we're well within the range of other associations and I do think in many cases our value proposition is much stronger. In the new model with all of the things that we're adding, I think we're blowing some of these other folks away. Let's see here. I think that was really all I had. I want to check and see if there are any questions coming in. I don't have anything yet. I'm going to give it a few more minutes and see if anybody does have anything that they want to ask. I know that Vicki Smitley, the CPA board president, is also on the line. Vicki, I don't know if there's anything that you want to mention or share here as we close up, but I'll open it up to you in case. Hi, Nikki. Thanks for this. I think the big thing I just want to mention is the opportunity for every company to share this out with their entire staff. We are still a single company, single rate membership model, so that means you pay one rate and all of your employees can participate. Say there's a Lunch and Learn webinar. You can gather all your employees in the conference room and everybody can participate. So it's not a pay-by-person, and I think in comparison to some of the educational pieces that we've looked at, the annual fee can sometimes be justified in just one Lunch and Learn, if you will, depending on how many people you have that take advantage. So with that, I'll turn it over to anyone that might have a question. Please type it in, send it through, and Nikki will address that as we see them come through. Thanks again, Nikki. Okay, thanks, Vic. And to Vicki's point, a lot of the pieces, the benefit pieces, I think will resonate with some of the folks that are on the line. In some cases, it might be more important for one of your marketing folks to take a look at it and really evaluate, you know, this is something that we need to take advantage of, because, you know, we all wear different hats, and I think some of the things that we're offering will, you know, we want everybody to take full advantage of absolutely every benefit that membership offers, but sometimes it takes bringing somebody else within your organization into the fold to get those things done. And I think even in this evaluation period, it would be important for all of those critical people on your staff to know what it means to be a member of CPA, because, you know, there are several things that we do offer currently that members just simply don't take advantage of, one of which is a press release program. So while I've got everybody on the line, anytime your company issues a press release, if you send it to us, the CPA, specifically Jill Gabbard, and we can give you that information, you know, her contact information, it gets posted on the CPA website. And then in most cases, we put that news in our e-newsletter as well. So we've always offered that program, and very few members take advantage of it. And I truly believe it's because maybe the marketing person or whoever manages your press releases doesn't know to put CPA on their distribution list. So what will happen when, I mentioned this earlier, and the fact that we want everyone to take advantage of all of the new pieces, we are going to try to make this as easy for you to do that as possible by providing you with a checklist. When you renew, you're going to get instruction on how to reach Eric Greenberg, how to submit your profile, how to load your video to your new webpage on CPA's website. All of those things, we're working on infrastructure and process to get this just easy for you to take advantage of, and then immediately reaping the benefits of it. So back to the content management page real quick on the website. Today, that directory, as it stands today, gets approximately 4,000 unique views, our visitors, per month. It's huge, guys. So what we're hoping to do is to build it even bigger and more attractive to the search engines to build that up even more. But what will happen is with this new page and the way that it's managed on the back end, if you will, our hope is to be able to find out how many views were on each one of the pages. So right now, the way that the web page is built, we only know that there's 4,000. We don't know that packaging unlimited got 500 of those, or whatever. But the way we're going to structure this moving forward, the hope is we're really going to be able to glean some good data and provide that to you so you can see some of the exposure that you're getting from the CPA website. And there's a whole technical discussion on search engine optimization and how it all works. And I won't bore you with those details.  But I will say the result is what's important. And CPA has such a historic position on the web. We are viewed as a very credible source in the eyes of the search engines. And that's why we want to leverage our position on the web to help individual member companies even build a bigger web presence for themselves. So again, it's kind of technical, but it is a big piece that seems somewhat unimportant, but I'm telling you it's very important. I think that is it. I don't have any questions, surprisingly. So I want to tell you also that you'll be receiving an email with a link to the recorded version of this if you want another somebody within your organization to listen to it, view it. It will be available on demand. And of course, I'm available to answer any individual questions that you might have. We'll be at Pack Expo next week after next. It's the Contract Tech Team Sourcing Center. It's in the North Hall, booth 5810. Lots of the board members will be there to answer any questions that you have about the new model. And also just a reminder that on that Tuesday of the show, it's 3 p.m. We are presenting on the innovation stage. And then immediately following that is our meet and greet happy hour in the booth. So if you're putting CPA on your list of things to do, that may be a good time to set aside for us because we'd love to see you. Again, thanks, everyone, and please contact me within a week. Yeah. This is Jill. We do have a couple of questions. So I'll read the questions. Oh, okay. Yeah, because I'm not seeing them. Okay. Yeah, I got them. So the first question is, are there changes for regular associate member benefits? Yes. So yes, there are several. And you can let me... I'm trying to see if maybe I can show you where to find them. And we can look at them really quick.  Some of the new ones are designated new. So you can take a look at those. There are probably several things on here that you didn't even know were available. The one thing that I will mention is we've got...we're building a structured program for collecting and distributing associate member white papers, educational type of information, we will have...you will be able to submit so many of those to us for distribution and posting on the website. I believe this memory serves me. Regular members get three of those. Gold suppliers get double that. Again, there's a long list here, and I don't know that we should go through all of them, but the information is there. And then at the bottom of this list, you will see that they're the add-on pieces for the gold members. So at the top of the list is everything the regular associate members get. And then at the bottom are the add-ons for gold suppliers. Jill, what's your next question? So another question was, will we get the presentation? You answered that question that it will be available on demand on the website next week. The third question is, will the lead generator tool be available for hits on the member company's website link? I'm thinking that question means, will it be available on the directory of the CPA website? I think that's what they're asking, and the answer is no on that. But I mentioned early on in this presentation about funding the future. And I will tell you that that software, that information on the web is something that we are looking to engage and provide with down the road. So it's a marketing automation type of platform that is basically kind of serves as color ID for your website. And it is something that is on our radar and something we are working on. And hopefully it's something we'll add to the mix very soon. So that's a really good question. Okay. And another question is, can you talk a little bit about the push to include contract manufacturers? Yes. Yes. So the membership, you know, the services that our members provide have really broadened over the last 25 years. A lot of folks that started out solely in secondary packaging, repack business are now mixing and blending, and they're performing manufacturing functions. And we need to be relevant to our association and our members, right? So we needed to find, in my opinion, we needed to add the term manufacturing kind of to our stick, because that's who we are, and that's where the business is going in many respects. You know, that very turnkey type of application, if you will, our opportunity, they're more prevalent now than ever before. And a lot of folks that found themselves just repacking are now doing way more than that in our full-blown manufacturers. So it's certainly an area of growth for our members and then for the CPA, because I think we will attract more members, you know, by including that term in who we are. So to that point, in your communication from us last week about the launch of the new program, there was mention there of an updated logo, and you'll find that the tagline includes the term manufacturers. And that's available for download for members. So you'll want to update all of the places that you've got the CPA logo with the new CPA logo. And as I mentioned, the gold suppliers are going to have their own special designation as well with a special logo. And there was something else I was going to mention that's completely slipped away from me as it relates to manufacturers. But are there any other questions, Jill? I see something about associate membership expiring on October 31. Can we extend to November or December to have the time to present new membership models to internal folks? Everybody on this call needs to know that this is your association. We're going to work with you. Certainly, contact Jill or myself will figure it out. No worries. I think we can work through those kinds of details. So I can give a specific example to that question. So if someone's current dues took them through the end of October, on your invoice that you would receive from me, you would see two months worth of the dues at the current price that would be added to next year's dues. So you wouldn't actually have to pay for November and December until you would renew and pay the dues for next year. So it would be a little bit additional cost, but you would essentially have a few months that you could take and explore this and just pay for the next two months. Yes. And the other thing, technically, you've got until January 1 to decide what you want to do, and hopefully we've made that a no-brainer for you here once you dig into what you're getting. And then from there, we just need to get over the hump of this transition. And then from there, you'll know, okay, my dues are January 1. You'll know when they're due. Where right now, we've got 200 renewals going out randomly. And in many respects, the member doesn't even know what month they'll do. So this is going to make it a lot easier for everybody just to know, okay, January, I know that my CPA dues are up. And then also, that's when most all of this kicks in. Some things will be available before then. Like I said, that's the packaging school. It likely will be up before January 1. But January 1 is when you're going to take advantage of the new benefits. Anything else, Jill? Nope, that's all the questions. Okay, terrific. With that, I'd like to thank everybody for their time. And again, if any of us can answer any individual questions for you, please don't hesitate to reach out. Again, as I said, this association belongs to the membership. Everybody on this call. So we're here to make this transition an easy choice for you and just the process simple. So please let us know if we can help. Thanks, everybody. Have a great day.


Hello, I am Dr. Ajay Asarkar, junior resident at the Department of Radio Diagnosis, Grand Government Medical College, Mumbai. Today I will be talking on the rule of cardiac MRI in evaluation of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy. Cardiomyopathy refers to primary disease of the myocardium that can result in systolic and or diastolic dysfunction and can manifest in congestive heart failure. Types of cardiomyopathies can be hypertrophic, dilated, restrictive, left ventricular non-compaction, and arrhythmic right ventricular. These can either be inherited or sporadic. Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy or HCM is the most common monocytic cardiovascular disorder affecting one of every 500 adults and is characterized by left ventricular hypertrophy in the absence of any other systemic or cardiac disease to account for the changes noted. Although the usual diagnosis of HCM relies on clinical assessment and transphoracic echo, recent studies have demonstrated the increased brutality of cardiac MR imaging and multi-detector CT in diagnosis, therapeutic planning, and prognostication. Our patient, a 34-year-old male, presented with chief complaints of intermittent chest pain since six months without any history of palpitations, dyspnea, without any history of hypertension, diabetes, smoking, or tobacco use. These pointed to a cardiac cause for his complaints. A further workup and echo was planned which revealed asymmetrical septal hypertrophy, mild MR, trivial TR. Subsequently, a cardiac MRI was planned which revealed asymmetrical basal and mid-septal hypertrophy seen on short axis and two chambered views, and fibrosis in the form of late gadolinium enhancement involving basal anterior and septal segments. There was no evidence of systolic anterior motion of the mitral valve leaflet. Neither was there any left ventricular outflow tract obstruction. These findings confirmed a diagnosis of asymmetrical non-obstructive hypertrophic cardiomyopathy. HCM is a genetic disease affecting proteins of myocardial sarcoma and associated myofilaments characterized by LVA hypertrophy without secondary cause. While some patients are asymptomatic, others develop nonspecific symptoms including chest pain, dyspnea, palpitations, syncope, or nearsyncope. Symptoms of heart failure may also develop at any stage. However, the most feared complication is sudden cardiac death. Hyper HCM is a monogenic disorder and myosin heavy chain 7 and myosin binding protein Cg mutations account for most cases. The gross pathology shows a disproportionate ventricular and septal hypertrophy involving basal and mid ventricular region while microscopy shows myocyte hypertrophy and dysarray. Most common diagnostic criteria of HCM on imaging is LV wall thickness more than 15 other although HCM can be present with any degree of hypertrophy. A symmetrical septal hypertrophy is commonly defined by a ratio of wall thickness of septum to non-hypertrophic segment being more than 1.3. X-ray findings are variable and may include enlargement of cardiac silhouette or left bacterial enlargement. ECHO is the first line diagnostic method for differential diagnosis in HCM. The first echocardiographic criteria for diagnosis of LV hypertrophy is LV mass index. However, ECHO is limited by availability of acoustic windows and is a highly operated dependent. Hence, cardiac MR is now emerging as a vital tool in imaging cardiomyopathies. One added advantage of cardiac MR is that it has excellent soft tissue contrast resolution. Many phenotypic forms of HCMR recognized on cardiac MR and are illustrated as below. Following are a series of cases that are presented to our institute showing the various phenotypic expression of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy. This is a case, first is a case of asymmetrical HCM in a 64 year 62 year old male presenting with complaints of great to greatly dyspnea. Asymmetrical septal form is a most common morphological variant and in this the ventricular septum is disproportionately enlarged and with the interseptal myocardium most commonly involved. Concentric HCM is seen in this 34 year old male presenting with complaints of chest discomfort and sweating. It is the second most common phenotype and characterized by diffuse thickening of the LV. The diagnosis, however, should be made in the absence of secondary cause like hypertension, eotix stenosis or the patient being an endurance athlete. A pical HCM is seen in this 64 year old male complaining of exertional breathlessness. This variant is also known as Yamaguchi syndrome and it is characterized by a spade like configuration of LV cavity since most of the hypertrophy is confined to the apical portion of LV. Mass like HCM seen in this 72 year old male complaining of dyspnea and exertion. In this variant there is exuberant focal thickening of the left ventricular cavity simulating a cardiac mass. Dynamic and functional parameters are also assessed via MR. The left ventricular outflow tract obstruction is seen as a gradient of 30 mmHg which is considered obstructive and is an independent predictor of adverse outcomes like sudden cardiac death and potentially lethal arrhythmus. This systolic anterior motion of mitral valve leaflet is also seen here which shows co-aptation of the mitral valve to the basal septum and mitral regurgitation that is detected posteriorly. Myocardial viability is assessed via gadolinium enhancement in dynamic phase. The late gadolinium enhancement shows non-viable myocardium which is seen in the below mentioned two cases. First is the case of a 50 year old male presenting with breathlessness and tachycardia showing endocardial enhancement pattern. Second is a case of a 64 year old male presenting with complaints of dry cough with breathlessness showing mild heterogeneous and myocardial deliad enhancement seen in basal, antroceptile and mid-antroceptile segments. Lately MR has emerged as a gold standard for risk stratification in cases of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy. The LV wall thickness more than 30 mm is a negative prognostic indicator. Gradient across LV OT being more than equal to 30 mmHg is again a negative prognostic indicator. Deliad enhancement shows fibrosis which is again a negative prognostic indicator. Left ventricular rejection fraction may be decreased in HCM in its burnt out phase. Figure 1 shows the gross thickening of the interventricular septum being 30 mm with near complete obj. of the left ventricular cavity in a 30 year old female. The second series of figures shows burnt out HCM characterized by focal thinned out burn, focally thinned out and ballooned LV apex with presence of a small clot in a 72 year old male. The velocity encoding gradient here also shows decreased ejection fraction of 25%. Differential diagnosis of HCM include concentric ventricular hypertrophy due to an underling secondary cause like hypertension or physiological in ethyl which is shown in the above three figures. Cardiac amyloidosis is also a differential which is differentiated on the basis of diffuse endocardial late gadolinium enhancement predominantly in base and mid zone not following in any vascular territory in a 69 year old female who is an already unknown case of cardiac amyloidosis. Management can be conservative and systematic in the form of lifestyle modifications, genetic counseling, screening, pharmacological drugs in while invasive procedures include percutaneous alcohol septal ablation or surgical myotomy. Patients with arrhythmia or survivors of sudden cardiac death are treated with implantable cardiac defibrillator or the end stage treatment is cardiac transplant. In conclusion HCM is the most common monogenic cardiovascular disorder characterized by diverse phenotypic expression. Management is based on a thorough understanding of underlying morphology, pathophysiology and clinical course. Imaging is fundamental for diagnosis, characterization and risk stratification and to guide therapy. Even though ECHO is the initial imaging modality, cardiac MR is emerging as a powerful tool that provides clinically useful information for screening. Furthermore the unique ability of cardiac MR lies in detection and quantification of scar and fibrosis using the delayed enhancement techniques. This is the list of my references which I have used for this talk. Thank you.


Today is Tuesday, so I'm in the kitchen right now. I want to make breakfast and prepare spaghetti for breakfast I want to add some vegetables to it. So I have card, wind beans, spring onion, the normal onion, then I have smoked fish and then I have goat's meat Yes, I love goat's meat. So I have some spice here too. So garlic and ginger. So first of all, I'm going to put this, wash this and put it in the fire When you see ginger like this, avoid it. This thing is not strong.  I don't know what it's smelling like You can also add lemon juice to this But though I don't have lemon juice in this today. I feel light any time I take this So I take this one glass every morning and one glass at night. Look at my nails If you're processing it to Merrick, I'll advise you use a glove. If not, this is what This is what your nails is gonna look like Hi guys Hi, good morning guys. It's been days. I came on here today is Thursday And I have a whole lot to do. Today is another of my filming day and I want to make a video for YouTube today and also I want to do something about my hair like it's so messy So I don't know if I'll be able to take you guys through the process But yeah, if God do not give me good hair, I feel by now I'll be bald So the hair is breaking on my nails So no matter how How the undergrowth is It doesn't really allow it to break that back guys This is what I'll be using to relax my hair for mega growth So I just quickly went to get warmth up because I had some left over from the other one that I used I bought a whole pack Previously so it's finished the reason why I didn't buy the whole pack because I don't know. I'm feeling like trying something else trying some other products But yeah, I don't know if I really want to Part of me is like trying something new part of me is like Why not just stick here? I'll make that decision after relaxing this time. Maybe the next one What do you guys think? Do you have any better relaxer that you feel you can recommend? Please leave it in the comment section. So it also Comes with a shampoo this Sacher's shampoo trust me. This shampoo will Wash your hair completely. I also wanted to Get a conditioner for from them. I didn't see so I had to buy this from ellen I just remember after taking my bath I remember that I was going to do something to my hair and I would have to go back to the bathroom So I felt there was no need for me to use a body lotion. So after my hair, I'll do that Guys, it's time to wash my hair I Only use just one piece of that Relaxer that I got all this while I used two And I always don't finish the two. I will have to just Treat the way I just thought I should just use one first I should use the one I got if it's finished then I use the The remaining half. I didn't know that That is going to do the job. So I've been wasting my products Our name is Perry. Yes. Can you introduce yourself? My name is Perry. I'm a model. Please go Let me let me let me move this camera forward Guys, she's so tall I saw her today, right?  Yes So We did a shoot today. This is the The finished look guys. What do you guys think? Like she's glowing Glowing to the gods. Oh my god Thank you, Perry for coming You're my hubby Guys, I just got into the supermarket to get some skincare products. So let's see what we can pick I got some products So I want to do a little unboxing. I got some new favorite drugstore products So let me show you guys what I got. I got this from nupandil. See Zero three Zanzibar. I got this very shade The o3 because of the under eyes I needed a powder that a press powder that I can use to Set the under eyes before using my setting powder and I got that I got the kiss beauty setting spray for 2000 Is a makeup artist in case you're not aware and also please subscribe to my channel Turn on the bell notification. So you don't miss new videos. And I also Create short content as well. I got the vitamin c face serum from dr. Rochelle. I guess you guys have seen me with the Dr. Rochelle face cream I did a review on that in case you haven't seen that review I'll leave it in here or here Towards the end of this video. So you go check that out So I'm going to bring the vitamin c face serum review to you guys I also got facial spray with aloe, coquimba and green tea So this is from the jam ageless I've heard that this is like a dupe for the mario badass cure setting spray I decided to try this out. This is one of my favorite products I got this in amber from beauty by ad So this is how it looks like. Well, I love the fact that it came with a small puff I got this nameless lashes and I really love it And I pray that my clients love it. So I got this from eye magic. They are black gel liner in E01 Let me show you guys what it looks like I just hope this is not gonna dry out because I'm so scared of gel liner that dry out it's When you use it on the eyes, it breaks into the eyes. So that's the reason why I'm scared About gel liner that dries out. So this is their This is supposed to be a brush that you use to line your eyes obviously I'm not using that. I got this brow temer from Braumatic by damn sale. I love the shape guys. I just really looks like this on the brows I'm not just in the pan. I got this davis pencil in 018. The reason why I bought this pencil is because of the sharpener I'm going to I'm still going to use the pencil. I've been having issues with sharpening my pencil because of the sharpeners that I have I don't know you spend so much to buy a sharpener and it's not working and it's really painful I don't know if that happens to you guys if your makeup artist for you do makeup and you're looking for something to sharpen you look at this pencil for Merak cosmetic I use the sharpener I have to sharpen this pencil and It was breaking it Result will not give you that sharp edge you're looking for. So that's the reason why I got this So guys, I got this from Viva's glam. Thank you so much for this gift I also got this earrings Or I think this goes for one thousand error each I love Small earrings like this. I don't like something Very big. So I got that color. I got the whites Color I got this one that I don't know what fruit shape is this Boya, this red one is so beautiful.  So I got this Hi beauties Okay, so guys, I'm going to color my triple stand um I just got a call from the rider that my triple stand is at the Delivery point abyss. It's very sunny guys. I'm breathing. I don't know. I'm so excited about this triple stand I just hope that He meets all the hypes Sorry guys, I couldn't show you the The stuff I went to pick up yesterday That was because I got back very late and I tried making a video for you guys and There was no light Yes Okay, so I just thought I should come on here quickly and show you guys what I got I'm sorry. This was supposed to be unboxing But yeah, it's still unboxing. Okay, so I was supposed to open this here But I was so curious to know What was the second item inside? That was why I had to open it Where I went to get the The items from the problem right now is that I ordered for two items and they brought me the same items I don't know if that makes sense. Yes. I ordered for two different items, but they brought The same item. I don't know if that English is making sense. Like today my tired is tired I'm so tired like guys. I've been working since morning is what I'm having with me right now The same triple stand. I had no choice. I had to pay and collect it because if I tell them to go Chain do this and that it will take a whole Lot of stress and I didn't want to go through that So because it was paid on delivery. I just had to pay and collect the items I'm adding to triple stand right now Okay, so let me just show you guys Let me open Whoa, I just So this is what the triple stand looks like It's very portable guys I saw this Online and I fell in love immediately. I needed something like this like let me just show you guys I hope I don't end up breaking this thing because I don't think I know how to open it Okay, so If you want to make It sit down video. You can just pull this up And fix your phone Okay So this is how lengthy it is Let me see if I can read If they have they should have a manual. Yeah, they have a manual inside I'm not sure you see this because it's white This manual is to guide you on how to Or adjust this tripod I don't know what the length is. I think it's from here to here It is 2 Point two to three centimeters So they didn't really say So you can still pull this. I think this is where it stops It's not that long As I expected like this tripod stand met almost all my expectations Where I have issues with it Is the length the length is not as Lenty as I thought I thought it was going to be very like like 18 inches or something But I think this like 12 inches if I'm not mistaken I feel the quality is going to last long. This thing here is is the bluetooth We also have a charging port The tripod stand I'm using right now Has a remote but You have to replace the battery if it's dead and I've I haven't been enjoying that bluetooth at all because if I change the battery today and I use it the next day is dead so I just abandon it. It's called cj s e a j i c That's what it's called Looks like a torchlight It looks like a microphone Okay, see you guys


Hey friends today, we are hanging out at Disney's animal kingdom There are a whole bunch of new things that I wanted to come out and show you guys including the return of the tumble monkeys To the festival of the Lion King, which I'm so happy they are back and then also I wanted to ride some rides eat some food It's been a while since we've been on Expedition Everest And that's one of my all-time favorite rides and just have a beautiful animal kingdom kind of day Anywho's let's go do this Today is July 18th And I have to say it has been an extremely hot July this year in Florida And animal kingdom is definitely one of the hottest parks and we're looking at 94 degrees out today 94 degrees out and it probably feels like 103 and I'm excited to be back here The reason I haven't been out so long is because it's been so hot, but there's a lot of new things This will also be the first time that I get to go see the new Finding Nemo musical Because that actually started or premiered when I was on my road trip up north in Pennsylvania checking out all those theme parks So it's gonna be good to catch that and then like I said the tumble monkeys and a bunch of other animal kingdom food that I haven't been able to try so a fun-filled day today, and I'm excited It's also a great start to the day when you first walk in and you get to see divine Look at her. Isn't she amazing? We actually matched today. Like I feel like my shirt blends in pretty well. I Picked this shirt. It's a natural. It's an Ewok shirt from Roosevelt But I like it because it kind of reminds me of animal kingdom and look at that It's perfect We're gonna try our best to stay cool today by having a good rotation You know we're gonna ride a ride then maybe go see a show then maybe grab a snack and just kind of keep it going So that way we're not just constantly out in the sun I'm feeling like we're gonna need a really good strong start to the day So I think we're gonna head over to expedition Everest and ride that first I feel so fancy like you know what we're going to animal kingdom. We're gonna ride expedition Everest first We might actually have to hold the brakes on expedition Everest because the smiling crocodile is open And you know believe it or not Even though animal kingdom is open until eight o'clock at night a lot of the food places close at three o'clock And this is one of them a smiling crocodile closes at three o'clock the park is open to eight But I've always wanted to come here and get the tacos They have pulled pork street tacos chicken street tacos street corn tacos, and I always miss it So I think before expedition Everest maybe some tacos, which I don't know if that's the greatest idea But we're gonna go for it This is actually a pretty good deal for 999 you get two tacos and chips and salsa and that's not that's a pretty good deal You know what I mean, and like I said, it's only open till three o'clock So that's why we're gonna do it now, and I'm also gonna show you another boot that's open only until three o'clock So in case you ever want to get any of these you gotta know you got to be here by three But here are the tacos themselves and I went with the pulled pork one I was gonna go with the chicken one But I kind of was feeling the pork and I like the look of the salsa look at this That looks really really good. I was not expecting that like I'm all about it So we're gonna dive in and give them a go. I Feel like I should dip the taco into the salsa first But we're gonna try it on its own first and then try it with the salsa. So here we go. I Love how we have the lime crema on there and then some peppers And I'm gonna add a little bit more the lime the pork is actually really good Oh, I gotta get that chip out of it get that chip out of my salsa, and now we're gonna go in here. Look at that That's the way Now I think we're ready Well, I'm happy that we got these this was a great option Like I said if you want something quick and fast these street tacos really do the trick and plus I love the name of the little location the smiling crocodile. It's perfect Another really cool stand that's right next to the smiling crocodile is the eight spoon cafe And this also closes early too So if you want to get some good mac and cheese, then you got to get here early Including the pulled pork jelly donut sandwich that is basically a pulled pork sandwich in between the jelly donut Which I've had before and it is actually interesting and also look at these signs. Look at this.  I'm excited for Everest One of the things I love about animal kingdom is and no matter how many times I come here I can always find like little tucked away pathways and little hidden spots that I've never seen before and As I was making my way over to expedition Everest I noticed by this cold beverage refreshment stand they had like this little area over here And I always kind of thought that this was like closed off for like, you know I mean not like maybe for cast members But this is an entry way to the lower garden seating area and look at this over here It's so well themed and it's so pretty and I can't believe I've never really paid attention Look at this bicycle with the rose petals on it and you actually get to walk down here And it's got a nice little seating area back here a nice little boat down here. This is very nifty I love all the theming that they do here. Oh, wow. Look at those fans right there That's the place you want to sit. That's probably the coolest spot in this whole park. That's outdoors right there. Oh boy. I Think you guys have come to realize I get distracted very easily I'm like first things first expedition Everest then I'm like street tacos then I'm like, ooh fans I get really excited over the littlest thing, but I always want to point them out and show you But here we go we have made it over to expedition Everest and dare I say maybe later at the end of the video maybe we might go for a ride on Cali River Rapids and Try to avoid being a soggy bottom boy I always do that like last at the end of the night because there's a good chance you're gonna get soaked I'm gonna be sure to check the wait time for expedition Everest, but luckily we're living the single rider life So we're not gonna have to wait long because we're gonna use a single rider line It says 45 minutes, but like I said, we're doing single rider Which all you do is just walk to the side of the building not where the lightning lane is You'll see like a little sign back here that I'll show you They actually don't even have a sign out front. So a lot of people don't even know a single rider line Exists but here it is. You see it single rider entrance open And it looks like our wait time was Exactly, I don't know. I'd say 10 seconds. Yeah Coming to ride with you We might have to take the hat off for this expedition or I could just hold it this whole time. Oh, yeah Oh Here we go gets me every time Look at that expedition phone Well, that was a lot of fun We literally rated 10 seconds in the single rider line We walked right up and then we got to ride with a friend and she watches the videos. It was so fun Thank you so much for riding with me It was a lot of fun and I love how you matched the energy with me and it was great now I think since it's raining out right now I think we're gonna try to make it over to the festival the Lion King for the three o'clock showing So we only have like 15 minutes. So I'm gonna run in the rain.  Oh Bob and we Bob and we've everyone seek shelter seek shelter Well, that was a fast two-minute and 30-second shower Literally was two minutes and 30 seconds like just like that Like I think we were running right by those bathrooms right there and then it just stopped now and that's Florida But I think we're gonna make it over to the vessel like hey, hopefully I Picked the wrong shoes today. Now. I've got soggy shoes These are like that net mesh material and my soaks my soaks are soaked my soak is soak Maybe during festival the Lion King. I'll take my socks and shoes off and let the dogs out for a little bit Let them dry off a little bit Looks like the next show time for the festival the Lion King is in in five minutes five minutes I hope that we're gonna be able to get in for this show or else. I sacrificed my soggy dogs for no reason Like I said in the beginning of the video. I'm very excited to come and see festival the Lion King This is one of my all-time favorite shows I always get goosebumps whenever I watch the show and when the parks first reopened the festival line came back It came back as a modified show and they didn't have the tumble monkeys in it And that was one of my favorite scenes it reminds me of the firerees in the labyrinth if you guys ever seen the labyrinth movie The firerees were like the fox looking fire muppets and they dance around Sarah It's so cool, but they were my favorite part and they were gone and now they're back and I can't wait to see them Wow looks like we are gonna make it in here for the three o'clock showing there's not even a big line in here So we're really lucky I'm very excited for this. I Can't guarantee we're gonna get good seats Especially showing up like five minutes to prior show time But you never know things could work out for the best and plus it's just me so oh jumble friends Party of one Look at that a party of one I got a great seat isn't that awesome? It's really pays to come by yourself the animal kingdom The group that I walked in are going all the way back there But like I've got like the first like three rows right here And I get to see all the performers come out from right here, so that's gonna be really fun Honestly, I think we had the best seats in the house right next to Simba that was fantastic. Look at him. That is the lion king That was absolutely amazing such a great show And I was so lucky to get that seat too because what they normally do is they try to move everybody down So then they you know grab parties or two and one and I was at the very end right next to Simba I was so happy the tumble monkeys were fantastic Their energy was like at a thousand and let me know in the comments If you guys know what I'm talking about when I said they're like the fireys from the labyrinth I think that's the name of the Muppets in the labyrinth fireys But let me know if you guys know what I'm talking about and if you agree with me because I really I just see them And it was such a favorite part of the movie for me And yeah, it's great to have a back now. I guess we're gonna continue moving around and enjoy the park a little bit more Since we're over here in Africa There's been one thing that I've been wanting to try over here at the crucifari coffee shop in bakery and My friend Kristen right down Main Street told me I should get it So I think I'm gonna I'm gonna try it today and it's the marinated chicken flatbread look at this It comes with the marinated chicken topped a cucumber tomato salad Tahini sauce greens and served with seasoned house-made chips and I've had the spiced hand pies before those are actually very good But I'm a little interested in this I'm getting adventurous here And I like it like usually I would get it without the tahini sauce because I've never had it before but yeah Mix it up a little bit, you know They also have a port one, but since we got the port tacos earlier I decided to get the chicken taco the chicken one this time and take a look at that Doesn't that look amazing? Like I'm excited to even try the chips I think we're gonna try the chips first. Look at that. They're very airy house-made chips I bet you it's got a good little sound effect too. Here we go Yeah, try your chip. They're very good chips. Yeah, would you want to try a chip?  Yeah get on there Come on in you want chip? They're house-made chips from over there.  So it was really cool I really like when things like that happened and I'm just like hey Anyone want to chip you want to chip and the chips are good. They have like a special seasoning to it I'm not even sure I can't pinpoint exactly what it is But they are different and special now we got to try the flat bread or chicken pita Here is a good look at it before we dive into it Let me pull it out to the side there and I mean it looks good I'm a little nervous about the sauce But one thing that I've really grown to appreciate while making these videos is trying new things and Trying sauces because I'm a very picky eater believe it or not, but I have you know Experienced and expanded my palate greatly and let's pick it up and see oh man That is how big and we might have to actually slide this down and use the thing the pita looks really good though We might have to slide it like we do Casey's look at that. Oh, I Had to put the camera down because it's going down. We're gonna lift this bad boy up I'm gonna kind of I'm gonna try to eat it like this and then that way I don't make a mess out of it.  I pulled out a piece of it I really can't taste the sauce though I only did was just taste the chicken and the pita itself. This is actually amazing like this is the same price Almost the same price as the tacos and I have to say I think I would much rather get one of these instead of the tacos The tacos were a little bit smaller and you got salsa with it But I feel like this is just a little bit better and the chips are definitely hands-down better I would just get the chips alone if I wanted a quick snack, but very well done. I love it It's a really good meal And then you can use your chips as little dips to pick out the pieces that fell off the pita Alright enough of the chicken pita business, but I do have to say that flatbread was amazing and thank you so much Leah But now I wanted to show you guys the wait times It looks like dinosaurs at a 40 minute wait finding Nemo the big blue and beyond which is the new show starts at 430 We have just about 30 minutes, and I think we can make it try Saratop spin is only a five minute wait Avatar flight of passage was 125 minute wait Cali River Rapids is 70 minutes. What is going on there? That does not seem right at all I remember doing Cali River Rapids like walk on but it is a hot day like I said Navi River 60 minutes, so it doesn't seem overly busy dinosaurs only 40 minutes. That's not too bad at all. I Really did want to go do Cali River Rapids, but 70 minutes I feel like that's not what I'm really up for right now. I guarantee by the end of the night It's gonna be a walk on like there will be nobody waiting to do Cali River Rapids. I Think we're gonna make our way over to the finding Nemo theater and see if we can catch the next showtime Which is in 10 minutes 10 minutes But I do want to point out though if you plan on coming to any of these shows You definitely want to prepare a little bit more than what I am me being a single person It's a little bit easier, but a lot of these shows they fill up fast You don't get good seats, so go wait for a little bit and even some of them have lightning lane Like you can use a lightning lane for them So give it some time. Don't try to show up like I do I mean unless you're by yourself because like I said you will you'll get lucky probably The finding Nemo is a musical and it's another show kind of like Festival of the Lion King But when Festival of the Lion King came back it came back like it's an altered version from what I've been told This is a brand new show the big blue and beyond and I'm excited because I really did love this before it was one of like the more entertaining and it's great to get out of the heat and get in the AC and I'm excited to see it. I didn't watch any videos about it, so I'm gonna see a fresh eyes with you Oh Yeah, as you can see lots of people here This is what I was talking about and they have one two three four five only six show times here 1030 to end the last one is four. Oh, this is the last show of the day. We got really lucky here. Holy moly So I'm glad that we're going in now It has been like three years since I've been in this theater. This is exciting Wow, I am so excited to be back in this theater Like I said, I think it's been about like maybe three years since I've been here. It looks so beautiful in here I really love it.  I Think this is the closest you can get to the stage possibly I Really can't tell if the best or the front is the best seat, but I mean why not nobody else is sitting down here Literally, I don't think anyone came to the front row except me The only thing is the stage is a little bit higher than I am so I might have to pick it up like this This theater is absolutely massive don't look at this It's huge and I feel like I'm in aquarium with all these blue lights I don't know how well it's gonna affect on the camera, but I kind of like the way it looks now You got a little light on this face and a little blue on this side Houses many aquatic species including fish from the wild need our help It's your first day of school Are you Oh This guy Much an awesome perspective sitting in the front row Like you got to see them really up close and it was so amazing. I really really love that the show was fantastic I loved it a lot. I'm so happy. It's back. It's such a great like It's just such a great like fresh of breath air seeing Disney entertainment. You know what I mean? I love it Just to give you guys some perspective I sat right here like I said in the front row and you can see all of the stage like right here I felt like they were performing just for me, but the characters do I mean well the performer Is not the characters they have performers do walk up here and they go around up there So you will miss a little bit of the action, but that was great like I felt like I felt like they were like just like it Was great very awesome You know what's really funny is we started off the day talking about how hot it is and I have been pretty much staying cool It was so nice sitting inside the Finding Memo theater and then Fessel the Lion King It's been really easy going in especially when we had a little bit of that rain and the humidity rose up Like I thought I was gonna be roasting, but yeah, it's not too bad at all And once again, I really am I want to emphasize on how amazing that show is the performers in there They are just so on the talented. I really love it I feel like I'm on like a special Broadway in like New York City, but here I am at Disney's Animal Kingdom Since we're over here in Dinoland I wanted to come over and check on this little crocodile that they have here Well, he's not little and I always come and look at him every time I've been here ever since the first time I came to Animal Kingdom I thought it was so cool and I don't even know if it's the same crocodile or not I should ask somebody, but I don't see him and I haven't seen him in a while So I hope that he's still here like I usually sometimes I see him laying here, but no I don't see him I haven't seen him in a while if anybody knows any information about this crocodile Let me know because I really do love it. It's like been kind of a tradition for me since my first trip to Animal Kingdom And with that, I think we are done here today I had a great day today actually hanging out going and riding Extradition Everest and then also I'm happy to see the tumble monkeys back. That was fun to see Festival of Lion King Finding Nemo was fantastic I didn't notice the pelican wasn't there like the big pelican in the show And that was like one of my favorite things because it was so like You know eye catching you know what I mean, but everything else I mean the show was great. I'm glad to see a lot of the characters that were like returned and yeah It was a great day today. I thought it was gonna be super hot. I didn't even sweat that much. I feel comfortable Yeah, it was actually overall an amazing day So I'm so happy that I got to come on make a video and I hope you guys enjoyed it because I enjoyed making it We'll see you next time. Bye