Sometimes communication is all about entertainment. The more creative it is, the more fun!
I love Dueling Banjos! This is adorable! Creative fun from four guys who sing gorgeous 4-part harmony! But I think they forgot something!
Dueling "We Forgot Our" Banjos!
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If you have run a co op class before, but found it overwhelming or haven't because you are intimidated or don't know how to do it, come to Grace Talk Soup this morning and be inspired!
Co op classes are fun and can be such a blessing to those who attend and those who run it! But it is an overwhelming prospect unless you know some tips from the experts.
Today on my podcast, Grace Talk Soup, Carol Topp joins me again to share her expertise on setting up a homeschool co op. Also don't miss the clues for Where's FIMM and the five more FIMM episodes you can cross off your list if you are playing FIMM Bingo! FUN and good info on today's Grace Talk Soup!
Join me live to ask Carol your homeschool co op questions! Thursday morning: 8am PST/ 11am EST
Or listen to the recording!
How to join the show live via the phone:
Phone Number: (724) 444-7444
Call ID: 19736
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Click on the Listen Now button anytime starting 15 min before the show
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Scroll down to the "Past Shows" and click one of the orange "Listen" buttons
Please pass this on to your blog readers and Yahoo groups. Great information on a wonderful homeschool resource: the co op! Don't miss it!
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While FIMM is on location at the Art of Eloquence website, he has been receiving letters from Bonnie. This week Bonnie had a problem she wanted to ask FIMM about. It seems their property was in need of some work and she wanted to ask FIMM about tractors. FIMM opened his email to find this subject line:
To: FIMM Subject: John Deere
FIMM thought, "Oh No! A John Deere Letter!"
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I hope you enjoyed my Tuesday Tip Series, "A Day Without Communication is Like...IMPOSSIBLE!" Effective communicators are more successful in all areas of life and learning speech and debate will only teach your student a very narrow sliver of what he needs to know in order to be an effective communicator in all of those areas.
Keep an eye out for my new eBook and eCourse by this title with expanded tips and resources COMING SOON!
This week I'd like to share a couple of very simple tips that can make all the difference in the world when communicating with someone whether they are a close friend or just someone you meet for three minutes.
Many years ago I heard someone ask another if they were happy. The answer was yes. The response was, "Well, then, notify your face!" Smiling is a simple way we can show that we are friendly, open to conversation and willing to listen. Many a person is intimidated to approach someone who is not smiling. Not smiling can make you appear mean or unapproachable.
Smiling at others can help you make friends, invite conversation and even change someone's mood! I am sure you have had a bad day when nobody seemed to care. Then someone smiled at you from across the street and it just changed your mood. You can do the same for others.
You never know what someone is going through that day. They could be frustrated or even deeply saddened over a close friend's health issues. Smiling at them can make a huge difference in how they see the world that day. It can help them get through a sad time or remember that not all of life is frustrating.
Smiling takes only a split second, but could make a world of difference for someone. Going one tiny step further...
Mark Twain once said, "I can live for two months on a good compliment." The Lord put it this way, "Pleasant words are a honeycomb, sweet to the soul and healing to the bones." Proverbs 16:24
Just one kind word or a short complement can allow a wounded soul to get through just one more day. That one complement may even last a lifetime as they reflect on the lesson of kindness for perhaps the rest of their life!
We are all so busy these days. It's a sign of success in our culture that a busy person is a successful person. But you can take just a moment to share a smile or a kind word with others. Tell that friend how much you appreciate her by dashing off a short thank you note. Share how much a post meant to you by sending just a few lines in an email to its author.
A kind word can go a long way for a weary heart in a big world. So smile when you say that!
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I thought this was kind of fun! TV is one method of communication. Do you know the answers to these early TV questions? Try your hand and I will post the answers tomorrow.
Early TV Quiz:
In what year did television make its debut?
In what year did commercial television with 13 stations become available to the public?
At the end of WWII, approximately how many television sets were in American homes?
By 1951, how many TVs had been sold?
What was the name of the first top rated show in 1948?
What show was credited with creating the demand for TVs?
What was the name of the star of that show?
What was the name of the first children's television show?
What was the year that show came out?
When did the SitCom make its first appearance?
What was the name of the first SitCom?
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A few things came into my in-box this week where the author used creativity to illustrate something about the Christian faith.
In his article this week called, One Way Out, James Robison creatively questioned why unbelievers would think the Lord unmerciful or unkind for providing only one way to salvation. It has become popular to believe, as Oprah does, that there have to be many ways to Heaven or God would not be a loving Father. Here is an excerpt from his article:
You're on the top floor and the building is burning. You don't know which way to go: the stairs, the elevator, the roof, a window? Which door do you take to get to a hallway that's not on fire?
With the smoke, the confusion and the sense of urgency, it is hard to know what to do. You don't know how much time you have and the wrong turn could be disastrous. Suddenly, a man shouts, "I know which way to go. Follow me!"
What do you do? If the person is a complete stranger, you won't know whether or not to believe him. If he is ignorant, it would be foolish to follow him. If the man set the fire himself, then it would dangerous to listen to anything he said. But if the man is the architect of the building and an expert on fire safety, not only would you believe him, but you would do exactly what he said because you'd know that your life depended on it.
He says that, through His Word, we are able to know that the Lord is the archetect of life and that we can trust Him to lead us out of the fire of life on Earth and to the safety of Heaven.
Today's Mountain Wings issue had a beautifully creative story of the dragonfly that helps us understand why nobody has come back from Heaven to help us understand what it is like. It talks about the water beetle and how one day they come out of the water and become a dragonfly. The other water beetles never know what becomes of them. Each knows in turn but cannot go back to share his understanding with the others:
Then he remembered his beetle friends and how they were thinking by now he was dead. He wanted to go back to tell them, and explain to them that he was now more alive than he had ever been before. His life had been fulfilled rather than ended.
But, his new body would not go down into the water. He could not get back to tell his friends the good news. Then he understood that their time would come, when they, too, would know what he now knew. So, he raised his wings and flew off into his joyous new life!
Both of these articles are creative illustrations that help us put into perspective certain parts of our faith. They use the same principles that Jesus did when He spoke in parables making it easier for the people to understand.
Effective communication is all about getting what you know across to someone else in a way that allows him to see things the way you do. They say a picture is worth a thousand words. We do not have a picture of Heaven but we can use words (creative illustrations) to draw a mind picture making it easier for people to understand the truths of the Father.
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I receive a lot of email forwards sharing miraculous stories. Some of them are Urban Legands. Some are true. This one is a true story of a true hero. Here is an excerpt:
PO2 (EOD2) Mike Monsoor, a Navy EOD Technician, was awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor posthumously for jumping on a grenade in Iraq , giving his life to save his fellow SEALs.
At the gravesite, SEALs removed their gold Trident from their uniform and slapped it down embedding it into his wood coffin as a tribute to him. You can watch a YouTube video tribute to him that is posted on this Snopes entry.
The story is true.
Each of our military men and women are heros. They serve and sacrifice for our country and the welfare of others around the world. Their families sacrifice as well.
Pass this on. Remember those who serve. Continue to pray for them and for their families.
May God bless and protect each hero serving our country and their families who sacrifice as well!
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When life hands you lemons, use it as blog fodder!
If you've followed my blog or subscribed to my newsletters for any length of time, you know of the continuing saga of Cable Clods. Cable Clods is the pet name I have for our cable company which takes advantage of the monopoly they enjoy by providing mildly fair to poor service at outrageous prices. Their actions communicate to each of their customers that they don't care. They don't have to. They are the only game in town!
To bring new subscribers up to speed and provide further humor, I have included a recap. Here are the highlights of the past two years:
Dropped the line on our property requiring a full month before they could even install service which meant no phone, internet or cable TV for a month after we moved in. (Try running a business like THAT!)
Signed us on a promotion for a year but never gave us that rate (April Fool! LOL)
Billed us $800 but refused to tell us what for. Later we found out they had us confused with another customer in a different city.
Repeatedly made service appointments requiring us to be available all day where their rep never showed up
Certain TV channels periodically don't have sound and some occasionally have no picture (Aren't those two things rather important for TV?)
Internet connection fails often and 99 times out of 100 it's because they are "upgrading" their service
"Upgrading Service" is code for "we want to raise your rates"
Phone service dropped in the middle of a 911 call
Phone service drops in the middle of my internet radio show
Phone service dropped while attempting to call Cable Clods to complain about our other services
Cable Clods phone tree routes trouble calls incorrectly which at one point sent me to a total of 6 different people in 4 different departments during as much as a 45 minute wait after which it...dropped the call!
I have a Word Doc for Cable Clods called the Incompetence Log which is approximately 30 pages long. However, in less than three weeks we will be moving and Cable Clods will no longer have the Tabares Family to kick around anymore! (Spoken in my most Nixon-like voice) We were preparing to bid Cable Clods a fond farewell when they felt the need to sing their Swan Song!
Yesterday about half way through my podcast, Grace Talk Soup, my phone cut out leaving my guest and listeners wondering whahappen! I made a valiant attempt to call back in to the show, but the phone was unwilling to give me a dial tone. I ran upstairs to grab my cell phone dialing madly and stopping to grab the charger on the way back into my office. God smiled upon me and I was able to get back on the show.
My regular listeners are familiar with my phone troubles so they correctly assumed I lost connection and had been waiting patiently for me to find my way back to the show. I made my apologies for Cable Clods for they know not what they do.
After my show, my father called to share some news about our new house in Arizona. He wondered why the phone never rang on his end. I explained the Cable Clods credo "We get your money; you get bupkis!" It cut him off in mid laugh! I tried to call back but, as luck would have it, what I didn't have was another dial tone!
I ran back upstairs for my cell phone and tried to call him back. As I was dialing, the home phone rang. Yup! It was my dad again. He said he would talk fast so as to avoid further Cable Phonus Interuptus.
Oh the endless hours of cable MISadventure I will be missing in Arizona where Cable Clods does not have the corner on the monopoly. After we inform them we are leaving, they just might lay off Automated Audrey. After all, she'll have a lot fewer reconnection procedures to perform from now on!
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Foot in Mouth Man (FIMM) has been hiding on the Art of Eloquence website each week for several weeks now. Have you found himm? We are having such fun dressing him up. I am getting emails from all over that you are having such fun finding FIMM!
Take a look at FIMM through the weeks:
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I hope you're having fun playing "Where's FIMM?" each week. Don't forget to visit Art of Eloquence and find himm!
FIMM's cousin was flying in from out of town to help Blogger Cable while FIMM's on location on the Art of Eloquence website. He had some trouble so we thought he would fill in for FIMM here too. Take a look:
Airline Worker: Hi Sir. How can I help you?
Slimm: Actually, I'm only 5' 5" tall, but I'd like to book a flight to Bloggerland.
Airline Worker: Y...you don't have to be tall to book a flight to Bloggerland. When did you want to book it?
Slimm: I don't need a book, but I'd like to get there on July 1st.
Airline Worker: O...K...Did you want a non-stop flight, Sir?
Slimm: No. I'd like to stop.
Airline Worker: Where, Sir? I have one with a stop in Cyberville. Would that work?
Slimm: No, I'm going to Bloggerland.
Airline Worker: Yes, Sir, but where would you like your layover?
Slimm: I don't need to lay anything over anywhere. I just need to get to Bloggerland.
Airline Worker: So...you do want a non-stop flight?
Slimm: Oh I definitely want to stop!
Airline Worker: Are you sure, Sir? Where?
Slimm: I am positive. In Bloggerland!
Airline Worker: Well...yes, Sir. That's a non-stop flight.
Slimm: If it doesn't stop, how would I get off the flight?
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Concluding this week with my series, A Day Without Communication is like...IMPOSSIBLE!
You may be able to get through your entire life without ever having to make a speech but you can't get through one single day without communicating something to somebody!
9. Friendship "A word aptly spoken is like apples of gold in pictures of silver." Proverbs 25:11
Good communicators enjoy:
Self Confidence
Leadership
Personal Presence
Credibility
Ability to Explain and Persuade
Understanding of Others
Interaction Enjoyment
Happiness
And all of these qualities help us make friends and maintain relationships!
A study by the National Communication Association in 2001 revealed that "Youngsters with poor communication skills are sometimes viewed as less attractive by their peers and enjoy fewer friendships. Antisocial and violent behavior often accompany or occur with underdeveloped social and conflict management skills. On the positive side, the ability to communicate orally supports sound psychological development. One's self concept is acquired through interaction with others."
The study shows that effective communicators are more likely to make contributions in groups, exert influence over others to achieve a desired result and use socially acceptable behavior in doing so to accomplish many of their wants and needs.
"Pleasant words are a honeycomb, sweet to the soul and healing to the bones." Proverbs 16:24
Effective communicators are also better equipped to handle anger in a positive way. The American Psychological Association outlines four communication based steps to take when dealing with anger:
Talk about your feelings
Calmly express yourself
Listen to others
Negotiate
"An offended brother is more unyielding than a fortified city, and disputes are like the barred gates of the citadel." Proverbs 18:19
Those with ineffective communication skills are unable to share their thoughts and calmly express themselves in order that their friends might understand them. Further, they are unwilling to listen to others and negotiate with them in order to work through the inevitable issues friends have.
Communication skills have always been important to master, but recent technological advances have left individuals with the impression that communication is easy and unimportant to study. Many have come to think of communication as the very narrow speech and debate necessary only for lawyers and politicians. If communication skills were not an important subject worthy of the attention given to math, science and history, then why has the Lord seen fit to mention it hundreds and hundreds of times in His Word?
"Let your conversation always be full of grace, seasoned with salt, so that you may know how to answer everyone." Colossians 4:6
"But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts: and be ready always to give an answer to every man that asketh you a reason of the hope that is in you with meekness and fear:" 1Peter 3:15
"From the fruit of his mouth a man's stomach is filled; with the harvest from his lips he is satisfied." Proverbs 18:20
"The wise in heart accepts commands, but the chattering fool comes to ruin." Proverbs 10:8
"He who answers before listening-that is his folly and his shame." Proverbs 18:13
"A fool's mouth is his undoing, and his lips are a snare to his soul." Proverbs 18:7
"A fool finds no pleasure in understanding, but delights in airing his own opinions." Proverbs 18:2
"With his mouth the godless destroys his neighbor, but through knowledge the righteous escape." Proverbs 11:9
"The lips of the righteous nourish many, but fools die for lack of judgement." Proverbs 10:21
"-So is my word that goes out from my mouth: it will not return to me empty, but will accomplish what I desire and achieve the purpose for which I sent it." Isaiah 55:11
The world is a smaller place through technology and we are no longer sharing our thoughts with only like-minded individuals. Communication technology does not equal communication skill and effective communication is required in every day life more today than ever before!
In a recent article some disturbing statistics are found in the UK which I believe are mirrored in the United States today:
"The number of children who arrive at primary school unable to speak in full sentences is rising, according to a government review which today reveals that 7% of children now have a serious communication problem."
"In some of the most disadvantaged areas of the country, up to 50% of children had speech problems"
"If a child is exposed to a relentless diet of TV and computer games and deprived of interaction at home, that is very damaging."
The article goes on to say that "Instead of being an optional add-on, communication skills should be at the heart of the primary curriculum ... speech and listening have been elbowed out of schools for literacy and numeracy for too long." And it confirms that "...people have fewer options through life if they cannot speak"
Virginia Beardshaw, chief executive of I CAN, a speech charity, said: "Communication is the fundamental life skill for the 21st century."
Don't make the mistake of thinking that your child will learn to communicate well just by talking. Don't wait until he is in high school or college to begin teaching communication skills to your student. Speech and debate classes can teach a great deal but speech and debate are NOT the only communication skills we need to master!
Communication touches every aspect of our every day lives and each communication skill is unique and distinct. You cannot learn to communicate effectively in your marriage, as a parent, to share or defend your faith or in business by taking one college speech class. There is much more to communication skills than just speech and debate and it is vital that we take steps to ensure our children have the skills they need for success all areas of life!
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JoJo Tabares holds a degree in Speech Communication, but it is her humorous approach to communication skills which has made her a highly sought-after Christian speaker and writer. Her articles appear in homeschool publications, such as Homeschool Enrichment Magazine and The Old Schoolhouse Magazine, which also endorses her Say What You Mean curricula. You can also find JoJo on web sites such as Crosswalk.com and Dr.Laura.com. For more information on communication FUNdamentals and Christian-based communication skills for the whole family, including Say What You Mean Every Day, please visit http://www.ArtofEloquence.com
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If you are not playing Where's FIMM? each week, you are missing out on some FUN! Just look for the FIMM picture that looks different from all the rest. Here's what FIMM normally looks like:
But each week he puts on a new "look" and hides in a different page on the Art of Eloquence website! This week he is EASY to spot! Find FIMM and be entered into our drawing and you could win a free Art of Eloquence eProduct of YOUR CHOICE!
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If you have read my blog for any length of time, you probably know that I have been at odds with my cable company for two years. From the entire month it took them to install our service when we moved in to the unidentifiable billing process to the service interruptions every time they "upgraded" something and the customer service phone tree resembling an Abbott and Costello routine, I am giddy to know that Cable Clods does NOT serve the Arizona area!
As my parents were helping us find a home in Arizona, they knew they didn't have to take into account the school districts because we plan to continue to homeschool our son. However, they were happy to report that anywhere we moved inside of the Phoenix area was outside the domain, MIScommunication and MISmanagement of my comedic friends at Cable Clods!
I do hate packing and I will not be excited to drive all our "stuff" 5 hours to get to Arizona but I will not miss very much about California. And on the very tip top of the list is our internet provider slash telephone service slash cable company I affectionately call Cable Clods!
In three weeks I get to "drop their line" for a change!
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As you are probably aware, in February the courts ruled that homeschooling was illegal in California. There was a rehearing and oral argument was held on June 23. According to HSLDA, a decision could be handed down at any time.
In the meanwhile, the case of Rachel L. has moved forward and "the juvenile court judge terminated jurisdiction over the two youngest L children in a hearing held on July 10, 2008."
Mr. L’s attorneys will make the appellate court aware of this new development and move to dismiss the petition pending in the court of appeal. Since, the children are no longer under the jurisdiction of the juvenile court any decision by the court based on the two-year-old petition could not be enforced against the children.
Mike Farris, Chairman and Founder of HSLDA called this “a significant favorable development toward preserving homeschooling freedom in California”
Keep praying everyone! Keep sharing your homeschooling experiences and successes with your friends and neighbors! We can change the way some folks think about homeschooling through our example.
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Well it's finally coming down to the end. We are currently living out of boxes and expect to move to Arizona in the next three weeks. Two weeks after we move my first born will be leaving for Vanderbilt University.
It doesn't seem like it could be 18 years ago that I brought her home from the hospital. Why just a year ago wasn't she 6 years old winning a figure skating trophy at competition? Seems like just a few months ago that we began homeschooling. Wasn't it just yesterday when she earned her black belt in Karate at the age of 13?
When I was a kid, it seemed like Christmas took forever to get here. Now I am already thinking that Christmas is only about five months away. I can't imagine what life will be like without her here each day. Seeing her smiling face we paid $6500 worth of braces for...
She is a treasure. The other day she was spending time with her friends before we leave California and found an I Love Lucy purse. She brought it home for me. You see, when we first began homeschooling, we would take an hour break for lunch and watch I Love Lucy. We could repeat the lines word for word. Sometimes we talk in lines from movies and we finish each other's sentences with them.
The episode pictured on my new purse is Vitametavegimin, our favorite episode. Now every time I see this purse, it will remind me of my precious daughter and what a fine young lady she has become.
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Baker Street
Ladies and gentlemen: We are now traveling through Baker Street . As you can see, Baker Street is closed to through traffic. Had we been told ahead of time, all those wishing to take an unscheduled tour of Baker Street, would not have been able to exit at this time.
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We took a trip up to Sacramento this past weekend and when we came back, my son was someone else! It sounds like Invasion of the Body Snatchers but it's true.
While visiting his cousins this weekend, my son discovered the joys of having milk in his cereal and hamburgers!! Things he NEVER would eat in all his 9 years on this planet! ROFL He also received a few fun books for his birthday and now he is an avid reader! He read two and a half of the books (100+ pages each!) while on the 7 hour trip home in the car!
I asked him why the change. He said the fireworks changed his brain.
You see, we went to see the fireworks show on the 4th of July. Usually my son, who has Sensory Integration Dysfunction and hates loud noises, would have held his ears and been very uncomfortable with all the very loud noise of the fireworks. But after a few fireworks, he began to love the show! It was amazing to watch as my son had a ball watching the night sky for signs of the thunderous light show! The very next day is when he had his first cereal with milk and the rest was history!
I thought about that all the way home. How one small change in perception can change a child's life. One small change in the way his brain communicates with itself and he began to be open to the possiblities he never considered before. Once that happened, he realized that there were other things he might like as well. And that opened up even more for him. Can a child change over night to enjoy the simple things most of us take for granted? The answer is a resounding...YES!
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Where's FIMM? Did you find himm this week? Where's FIMM? Come find the only Foot in Mouth Man picture that is different from all the rest. Email what he looks like and where you found himm to fimm@artofeloquence.com and win a free Art of Eloquence eProduct of your choice!
Episode 106: Another "Where's FIMM?" Contest Clue from FIMM
I am hearing from folks about how much fun it is to find FIMM each week. I hope you are all having as much fun finding FIMM as we are hiding himm. lol There is only one more day this week to find FIMM for our "Where's FIMM?" Contest. Tomorrow he changes his appearance and hides in another place on the Art of Eloquence website so catch him today before he changes!
Just look for the picture of FIMM on the Art of Eloquence website that looks different from all the other FIMM pictures. Then email fimm@artofeloquence.com and tell us what he looks like this week and where you found him. You will be entered into the drawing to win a free Art of Eloquence eProduct of your CHOICE!
If you listen to Grace Talk Soup each week, you will hear me announce a clue as to what FIMM looks like that week. And every few weeks Communication FUNdamentals blog readers can find a "Where's FIMM?" contest clue about where FIMM is hiding. The only trouble is, FIMM is not very good at giving clues because he is a notoriously bad communicator. You will have to figure out his clue. Give it a try:
Hi Communication FUNdamentals blog readrs! I'm FIMM. You know, Foot in Mouth Man. I'm Art of Eloquence's mascot and resident MIScommunicator.
Wright now I am hiding on there website somewhere. Here's a clue to were you can find me.
I'm on the webpage that u can view over. Just about below halve way down on the side where you see all the package values that are special.
Don't forget that Im very patroitic this weak. Sea what I'm holding? I love America!
Well, I hope you find me today after my grate clu. Good luck in the drawing!
Your's very truerly,
FIMM
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It's been several days since I was able to post here at Communication FUNdamentals! We drove 7 hours up north to Sacramento to visit my MIL for her birthday. She is 83! We got stuck an extra day so I was unable to post Tuesday Tips on Tuesday. So here it is on Wednesday! LOL
