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Marisa Miller (full name: Marisa Lee Miller) is an American supermodel and actress born on 6 August 1978. She is best known for her appearances in the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue and her work for Victoria's Secret.
Miller's great accomplishments have led to her being dubbed the "return of the great American supermodel." She attended Aptos High and Monte Vista Christian School. While growing up, she considered herself a tomboy having mostly male friends and also little awareness of anything girly.
She is an ambassador for the American Cancer Society as of 2009. Miller also supports the Young Survival Coalition, which then raises awareness of breast cancer in women under 40. She also supports the environmental organization the Surfrider Foundation, that aims to preserve the world's oceans and beaches.
Marisa hosted the Monte Foundation music festival in October 2009. It is an annual fundraiser for schools in the Aptos area, where she and Guess own a home. Miller is also an ambassador for the USO. Through it, she visits military bases and receives frequent fan mail from American troops worldwide.
Miller loved surfing from an early age. She placed second in the celebrity division of the Kelly Slater Surf Invitational in 2004. Miller also won the most valuable player award at the 4th annual Celebrity Beach Bowl.
Miller was born Marisa Lee Bertetta on August 6, 1978 in Santa Cruz, California, U.S. She is 40 years old as of 2018.
Miller was born to Krista (née Useldinger) and Marc Bertetta and has two younger sisters. She comes from a family of nurses. Miller's mother returned to college to become a pediatrics nurse and her sisters are also nurses.
In 2000, Marisa married a Los Angeles surfing contest promoter and lifeguard from California, Jim Miller. They separated in 2002 and divorced soon after. Even after the divorce, Marisa continued using the surname Miller.
On April 15, 2006, she married music producer Griffin Guess. On December 12, 2012, the couple welcomed their first child, a son Gavin Lee Guess. Miller then gave birth to their second son, Grayson Lee Bazyl Guess, on May 29, 2015.
When pregnant with her second child, she posed as part of a PETA campaign against SeaWorld separating baby Orca from their mothers in 2015.
She was first "discovered" at the age sixteen walking through a San Francisco café by two Italian modeling agents. She talked to her mother about the issue and a few months later, she was on a plane to Italy despite her personality. Miller gained attention when she appeared nude in the first issue of Perfect 10 magazine in 1997.
She was then reportedly showcased in the following issues which included the covers of the Winter 1998 and August/September 1999 editions and also a reprint for the Fall 2004 edition cover.
Marisa became a high-profile mainstream model, after being introduced to fashion photographer Mario Testino. This led to editorials for both the American and Italian editions of Vogue. She was working for Victoria's Secret by 2002 and appearing in the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit. She appeared in their every issue from 2002 to 2008. In the 2007 issue, she famously posed wearing only an iPod. She has also appeared in advertisements for Marc Jacobs, Tommy Hilfiger, Andrew Marc, Victoria's Secret, J.Crew, Guess?, Nordstrom, Bath & Body Works, and True Religion jeans.
In 2007, she filmed her first television commercial for Victoria's Secret, appearing alongside Heidi Klum for the It bra.
She made her debut in the Victoria's Secret Fashion Show on December 4, 2007, and opened a segment in the following year's edition. Her other runway work includes; 2007's Fashion for Relief show, MTV's Fashionably Loud, Imitation of Christ, Inca, and Amir Slama's Rosa Cha.
In 2008, Victoria's Secret put her to work with a five-city tour to promote the 2008 Swim collection's release in stores. It was an April–May tour that included stops in New York City, Miami, Chicago (where she threw the opening pitch at a Chicago Cubs baseball game), Boston, and Minneapolis.
Relaunch of Victoria's Secret's sports line, VSX, then followed, along with her first official campaign as an Angel which was to promote the company's fragrance Very Sexy Dare.
She was chosen to wear the year's "Fantasy Bra for the 2009 Victoria's Secret Fashion Show. It was a harlequin design featuring 2,300 white, champagne, and cognac diamonds, and a 16-carat heart-shaped brown-yellow diamond pendant for a $3-million value and 150 total carats. Miller confirmed in late 2010 that she had parted with Victoria's Secret to pursue other projects.
Miller appeared nude in the first issue of Perfect 10 magazine in 1997. Although Miller came in third behind Ashley Degenford and Monica Hansen in Perfect 10 magazine's first annual model search, she was however repeatedly showcased in the following issues, including the covers of the Winter 1998 and August/September 1999 editions. She also appeared in the reprint for the Fall 2004 edition cover.
Miller appeared in the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue from 2002 to 2008. In a 2008 episode of the Late Show with David Letterman, it was revealed via a three-story billboard in New York City that Marisa would occupy the cover of the 2008 Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue. Sports Illustrated released a "Best of Marisa Miller" swimsuit calendar for the 2009 year in September 2008.
Marisa became the first spokesperson in motorcycle manufacturer Harley-Davidson's one-hundred-year history in 2008. Miller first partnered with Harley to launch the VRSCF V-Rod Muscle motorcycle. She later joined the company in November 2009 to act as the face of their first "Military Appreciation Month" campaign, featuring her as a classic pin-up in military-themed advertisements and online content. In 2010, she worked for the company, this time for their "Start Something" campaign, encouraging dreamers to become new riders.
After signing with the company, Miller received her motorcycle license and now rides a Harley Nightster.
The NFL announced in October 2010 that Marisa had been hired as a spokesperson for the 2010-2011 season. Her duties included hosting the NFL International Series game between the San Francisco 49ers and Denver Broncos in London. This announcement drew accusations toward the league of sending a "mixed message" in hiring a well-known lingerie and swimsuit model on the heels of controversies over reporter Ines Sainz. Marisa designed and released a paddleboard line with Surf-tech aimed at female riders in 2010. She also appeared in a beach-theme commercial for Buick in 2012.
Miller ventured into acting having her first role in R.I.P.D. (2013), with Ryan Reynolds and Jeff Bridges. In the American science fiction action comedy film, she plays Opal Pavlenko, Roy's avatar.
From her 2008 work, Miller landed in the number one spot on Maxim magazine's "Hot 100" rankings for 2008. She beat list regulars such as Scarlett Johansson, Jessica Biel, and Eva Longoria. It marked the first time anyone has debuted on the list in the number one position.
Miller also finished first place in The Best Damn Sports Show Period "Smokin' Sixteen" competition in 2008. She repeated her 2007 win over competitors such as Gisele Bündchen and Adriana Lima. She also ranked second in AskMen.com's "Top 99" for 2010, after she ranked third in 2009, ninth in 2008, twelfth in 2007, and then fourteenth in 2006.
Marisa came in third in FHM magazine's UK edition of the 16th annual "Sexiest Women in the World" poll 2010. She placed behind actress Megan Fox and winner, British singer Cheryl Cole.
The super-model stands at a height of 5 ft 8 in (1.73 m).
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The R.I.P.D star has acquired some good wealth from her wide career which includes modeling and acting. She has an estimated net worth of $20 million.
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Jared Padalecki wants you know that….
Published on March 16, 2015 March 16, 2015 by supernaturalsnark
"I [He], for a long time, have [has] been passionate* about people dealing with mental illness and struggling with depression, or addiction."
*It's a good thing he didnt say compassionate, right?
Yes, Jared has joined the world of putting your face on a t-shirt and selling it in the name of charity. How admirable of him. No, really, it's good of him. And his admission that he's been diagnosed with clinical depression is incredibly brave of him. Depression is nasty and I wouldn't wish it on anyone.
However being depressed doesn't excuse his offensive comments over the past year(s). It doesn't take away from the fact that all he could say about someone who died because of addiction was that their death was stupid. It doesn't take away from all of what he's said. And maybe it's petty, but I'm sure that I'm not the only one wondering why he pretends that he hasn't been a giant dick on social media. And the fact that he's 'nice' in person doesn't bode well either because I can take a guess at which Jared is the genuine one. Ironically enough, he's supposedly less douchey on Facebook.
Mostly?
He started off so well. I'm sure the original comment was something like, "HEY ASSHOLE. You are poison." Before he realised that he's supposed to be all profound and shit.
On a (more) serious note, I do hope he gets all the help he needs (and that he learns how to control himself on the internet). I think it's sad that his friend died but in no way shape or form does he get a pass for trying to destigmatise things like depression and addiction when a year ago, he stigmatized addiction and claimed that tragedy was bad things that he 'read in the paper'. I'm not saying that people can't change but I'm not convinced. If he was serious then he could have easily linked what he said about Phillip Seymour-Hoffman into his campaign and used his own ignorance to highlight what he supposedly wants to get rid of.
But we all know that he won't do that. And as much as I really didn't want to write this post, I don't find any of this admirable at all. It's bit like a smoker trying to sell you nicotine patches. You kind of half-believe that they have your best interests at heart, but ultimately, you're not all that sure that they're the right person for the job. And you can maybe appreciate the effort. A little. Just not enough to buy into it.
In others news, this happened on New Zealand's version of The X-Factor (poor New Zealand!!!)
Apparently, putting gel in your hair and wearing a suit is something that someone else came up with and thus, that person is the only person that can style themselves in that way until the end of eternity. Is that hipster logic? I get the sense they were looking to be front page news and just manufactured this tirade out of nowhere (or saw the contestant backstage and decided to say something) but yeah, cringe worthy barely even covers it.
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Haha you are funny ! You attac Jared this stupid post i what you think you are ? You dont know him you dont know how is really ? You said that Jared need help ! Maybe you to need help maybe whole fandom and fans need help and lern
supernaturalsnark says:
It wasn't my intention to attack him at all. I'm actually kind of sympathetic to what he's going through. However, I, unlike others, do not think that any of this means that I should pretend that he hasn't said some questionable things about the very same conditions that he's trying to destigmatize. And as I said in the post, I'm not about to buy a t-shirt with his face on it when he refuses to admit that he didn't think addiction was a serious disease before it affected him somehow.
I definitely think fandom needs help. Specifically in the not attacking people for having an opinion that goes against theirs department. Maybe someone should suggest that to Jared?
The Funk says:
Besides, nobody is 'attacking' anybody. Since when has being able to express an opinion on one's own site counted as 'attacking'? I propose a vernacular moratorium on this word (along with the bandied-about terms of 'negative', 'insecure' and 'naysaying') in situations where people's opinions differ from what we're made to believe are those of the majority.
Add 'haters' to that, because that's another word thrown around when people are faced differing opinions. I regularly get comments telling me not to post any more, which I find quite funny because it's not like I have thousands of readers who'll be swayed by my evil opinions, 😛
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Dear God…..are you illiterate?
I agree with you, I hope he can get better from treatment and therapy or however it is they treat depression. I'd like to think he'd take a good look at himself and try to improve himself, try to be more compassionate, realize he's said some fucked up things, and stop being an all-around douchebag. At the same time I feel I'd be better off hoping for Santa to bring me a jetpack for Christmas. This is like Kim Kardashian doing a public service announcement discouraging people from being fame whores. It's like Kanye West telling someone to stop being so egotistical and self-centered. It's like Maury Povich encouraging teen aabstinence (I don't know if you get Maury there, he's an old douche who has a talkshow that is almost always paternity test bullshit.) They may think they believe it but ultimately its bullshit. So feel better Jared, but know that there are no free passes for being an a-hole.
X-Factor New Zealand made the US version look like less of a train wreck, wow.
Maybe he's doing that [taking a look at himself] in private (which sounds so wrong,,,LOL), We can only hope that he is and that he keeps the stupidity to a minimum from now on,
This is like Kim Kardashian doing a public service announcement discouraging people from being fame whores. It's like Kanye West telling someone to stop being so egotistical and self-centered. It's like Maury Povich encouraging teen aabstinence.
Exactly! It's like, kudos to you and all but no thank you. LOL I've heard of Maury, Shows like that are so compelling and a bit like SPN in that you know you're watching a train wreck but you can't look away. I love the reactions to negative paternity tests, lmao. People are the worst.
I didn't know New Zealand could get down like that, but that's what happens when the TV company hires egotistical judges who are too big for their boots.
Lol, I watched a few episodes of the US version and my favourite thing was when that little rapper Astro didn't want to do the sing off. I think that eight (nine? ten? idk) year old bursting into tears when she was voted out was also a prime example of why these shows can be so awful.
Has that Facebook post you excerpted since been deleted, or the comment? I'd be interested in seeing the following responses to it. I would painstakingly rake through Jared's Facebook page but I can't be bothered.
Regarding the X-Factor clip, I watched it and found it sweetly ironic Natalia's mention of 'respecting' supposed 'creative integrity and intellectual property' while sitting there looking like a lingering vestige of Born-This-Way Lady Gaga while having a back-catalogue of music that reminds me of the discographies of said 'inspiration' and P!nk going on a horrible, malfunctioning drinking spree. Additionally, I wasn't aware that her husband Willy Moon – who reminds me of a matchsticked and an amazingly even more arrhythmic Shakin' Stevens – was the first person ever to wear hair gel and a suit. He really does epitomise the saying of a person being ahead of his/her own time. He's been influencing centuries' worth of individuals' fashion beyond his own birth.
Stuff like this is one of the reasons I don't watch X-Factor, besides the glaring display of its contrivance. I can feel my intellect go Lemmings-style when I watch any clip of it.
I think it was all deleted but someone might have screencaps somewhere. I can hazard a guess at what 70% of the responses were like though. Fans calling for her to be shot and maimed for daring to come after their 'fave'.
I didn't even know who either of them were until I saw that she used to be called Verbalicious. I think I still have one of her songs on a mixed CD somewhere. But yeah, the irony was quite glaring and I think they just did it for attention. The Norman Bates comment was a bit bizarre. I used to watch X-Factor back when it started (UK version) and it was fun to watch (even the more exuberant acts weren't mocked relentlessly and there was always one that inexplicably made it through). Now it's all gone too far and it is clearly just a marketing ploy for the record companies and artists alike. Hahaha, I'm with you on Lemming-style depletion of intellect, though I replaced X-Factor with various Real Housewives franchises so I'm probably not better off, I need an intervention. 😛
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Kalli says:
Given the cost of these t-shirts, I'm not sure there's nuch, if any, money going to "charity" and also, coming so soon after best friend Stephen Amell's strikingly similar campaign and the attention that got, I do have to wonder. Jared's track record can't be undone by his saying he's been struggling/thinking/dealing for a while, but he can create positive associations to outweigh those in a search engine (like Misha covering up his child labour youtube videos with Random Acts stunts, which Jared also got in on with things like the coins)
I guess Amell helped him with the idea. Wasn't the 'cutesy' story behind his Facebook that Stephen persuading him to join and helped him set it up? And yeah, I think it's safe to say that the vast majority will go on costs or straight to TWLOHA's pockets. Doesn't something like 20% of what's donated actually go to charity?
Hard pass, basically.
Oh god, the coins. I remember that and remembering thinking that two rich actors doing that with money wasn't really a good idea but fandom loved it. *bitchface*
For me all Jared literally has to say, "I've said some shit in the past that was ignorant, demoralising, mean-spirited and inappropriate and I realise that I should think before I speak and that I was wrong for saying/doing what I've done." He won't though, and that's why it's hard to take him seriously with his 'charity' and sudden desire to de-stigmatise anything.
I also won't forget how he basically egged fandom into engaging with young beliebers and starting that whole fandom war. Embarrassing doesn't even cover it.
Man, let me tell you, this site is like manna from heaven. Finally, someone else sees what I see! Jared claims to be against bullying, yet he consistently IS the bully. And SPN fans brush it under the rug because Jared. Gimme a break. I was not aware that I had to sign over my critical thinking skills or integrity to be part of a fandom. I just finished reading some similar shit on Facebook today. I packed my toys and came straight here. Now….where do you keep the wine?
*hands you a glass of wine*
Exactly! Before recent times, he was just outright nasty on his Twitter. I'm sure he still is but I have stopped paying attention. It's ridiculous, but some SPN fans are bullies themselves so I'm not surprised that they brush it under the rug. They always have some excuse for his behaviour. I'm sure 'he's depressed, we have to be nice about him' is getting a lot of mileage at the moment as well. I don't even bother with the SPN fandom these days, they're always overreacting over some silly mess or defending ridiculous behaviour. Ain't nobody got time for dat!
Marlie says:
Misha Collins, of course, is a favorite target of Padalecki and Ackles'. There was that one time Jared left some fish in Collins' car, which his kids initially took the fall for. Fans also know about the famous coin prank. That one involved Collins losing a bet to Padalecki in a game of "Words With Friends." Misha paid Jared his money in coins, dumping nearly $2,000 into Padalecki's trailer. Padalecki then literally repaid the favor by dumping $600 worth of coins into Collins' car, after donating the money to his charity, Random Acts.
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Heath Shuler besuchte bis 1991 die Swain County High School und studierte danach bis 2001 an der University of Tennessee Psychologie. Noch während seiner Zeit an der High School begann er eine Football-Karriere als Quarterback. Während seiner College-Karriere zählte er zu den besten seines Alters und wurde bei der Verleihung der Heisman Trophy Zweiter.

Shuler kam 1994 in den NFL Draft und wurde dort als dritter Spieler dieses Drafts von den Washington Redskins verpflichtet. Die Redskins planten, ein neues Team um den jungen Heath Shuler aufzubauen. Seine Rookie-Saison verlief mäßig (zehn Touchdowns, zwölf Interceptions, Quarterback Rating von 59,6), und Washington gewann nur drei Saisonspiele. Seine zweite Saison 1995 verlief kaum besser: nach nur drei Touchdowns, aber sieben Interceptions, wurde er Mitte der Saison von Reserve-Quarterback Gus Frerotte auf die Ersatzbank verdrängt. Die Saison 1996 verbrachte er größtenteils auf der Ersatzbank als dritter Quarterback hinter Frerotte und Brian Mitchell. 1997 wurde Shuler zu den New Orleans Saints abgegeben, wo er anfangs wieder Starting-Quarterback war, aber Mitte der Saison nach schlechten Leistungen (zwei Touchdowns, 14 Interceptions, Quarterback Rating 46,6) seinem Ersatzmann Mario Bates Platz machen musste. Nach einer Fußverletzung zog er sich aus dem Profisport zurück. Er stand 1998 zwar noch im Trainingskader der Oakland Raiders, absolvierte jedoch kein Spiel mehr. Für seine Misserfolge wurde der einstige Nummer-Drei-Draftpick Shuler vom Sportsender ESPN zu einem der "25 größten sportlichen Enttäuschungen" gewählt.

Zu dieser Zeit gründete er in Knoxville eine Immobilienfirma, die bis heute eine der größten ihrer Art im östlichen Tennessee ist.

Politische Karriere

Politisch wurde Shuler Mitglied der Demokratischen Partei. Bei den Kongresswahlen des Jahres 2006 wurde er im elften Wahlbezirk von North Carolina in das US-Repräsentantenhaus in Washington, D.C. gewählt, wo er am 3. Januar 2007 die Nachfolge von Charles H. Taylor antrat. Nach zwei Wiederwahlen konnte er sein Mandat im Kongress bis zum 3. Januar 2013 ausüben.

Shuler gilt als konservativer Demokrat. Er war im 112. Kongress stellvertretender Fraktionsvorsitzender der Blue Dog Coalition, eines Bündnisses von finanz- und gesellschaftspolitisch konservativ eingestellten Abgeordneten der Demokratischen Partei. Politisch ist Shuler gegen eine Liberalisierung von Abtreibungsgesetzen, gegen eine Kontrolle von Waffenbesitz sowie für eine harte Linie gegen illegale Einwanderer. In diesen Punkten steht er der Republikanischen Partei relativ nahe. In Wirtschafts- und Umweltfragen jedoch liegt er auf der Parteilinie der Demokraten. Im Kongress war er Mitglied im Haushaltsausschuss und im Verkehrsausschuss sowie in zwei Unterausschüssen. Im Jahr 2012 verzichtete er auf eine weitere Kandidatur und wurde nach seinem Ausscheiden aus dem Kongress am 3. Januar 2013 Lobbyist für die Firma Duke Energy.

Seit 2003 lebt Shuler in Waynesville (North Carolina). Er ist mit Nikol Davis verheiratet, mit der er zwei Kinder hat.

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You're right, we were among the first to drive the new Civic when it was launched here in April. But that was the Civic RS, and this is the Civic EX. That's why we have it here.
A lot, actually. While the Civic RS with its 1.5-litre turbo four-pot was the first Honda to be sold in the Middle East with a force-fed engine, the ES is powered by a naturally aspirated 2.0-litre four-cylinder unit that's good for 158bhp and 187Nm of torque. This mill replaces the 139bhp 1.8-litre engine that used to be the only engine available with the Civic earlier.
You said there's a lot that's different. And you mentioned just the engine. So, is that it?
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Q: Can I use JMS with a regular (i.e not Java EE) Java Application? I'd like to use the Java Message Service but it says it's for the  Java EE Platform. Is there a way to port it to a regular Java application (which I'm working on in Eclipse)?

A: JMS is part of the Java EE spec, but you can use it from any Java application.  Depending on your needs, you may have to run a standalone broker, but this is just like running a regular daemon (or Windows service).

A: Yes, you absolutely can use JMS from a J2SE application.  In fact, you can access a JMS broker from programs not written in Java at all.  The ActiveMQ JMS server includes several transport connectors.  The connectors allow clients to interact with ActiveMQ using different communication protocols.  Most Java clients use the openwire connector.  I've written a PHP client that used the STOMP protocol with great success.  It consumed messages sent to a JMS Queue by a Java application running in the Tomcat Servlet Container.

A: This is a much more complicated question than the answer would indicate. Jms is a spec. Really just a set of interfaces. You can absolutley use those interfaces from a standalone java process. Hell you could write your own jms compliant messaging implementation. Questions you should be asking yourself is what messaging implementation will i be using and does it support jms? Even after answering that there are numerous caveats to take into account when connecting to brokers outside of a container including but not limited to transactionality, load balancing, connection pooling, and high availability. You should be very clear about what your trying to do and what messaging vendor you are working with before you can answer this completely

A: Many Messaging servers also provides their java api for the communication like MQ, open source Apache ActiveMQ. In that case you don't realy need to worry about JMS. You simply need to understand and use that API.

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Washington State's defensive line took heat, now looks to bring its own
Aug. 3, 2017 Updated Thu., Aug. 3, 2017 at 10:35 p.m.
Washington State's Hercules Mata'afa (50), a two-year starter at defensive end, had a team-high five sacks a year ago. (File / AP)
By Theo Lawson theol@spokesman.com(509) 939-5928
PULLMAN – Mike Leach philosophy states that every position is up for grabs all the time.
For the Washington State coach, it's a subtle way of reminding his veterans that jobs aren't won based on clout, accolades or last year's numbers. And it's a way to tell his youngsters that the "freshman" on their athletic bio is nothing more than a label if they can prove their worth on the practice field.
Of course, Leach gets the occasional sideways glance from reporters when he alleges that even fourth-year starting quarterback Luke Falk is still fighting for his spot. And sure, it's hard to imagine the offensive line without consensus All-American Cody O'Connell starting at left guard, or a linebacker corps without all-conference selection Peyton Pelluer starting at the Mike position.
Granted, those three also happen to be a few of WSU's hardest laborers – hence their clout, their accolades and their lofty numbers.
Falk, O'Connell and Pelluer will surely be at the front of the depth chart when the Cougars open against Montana State on Sept. 2. And they represent just a small portion of the returning talent this particular WSU team boasts. The Cougars, return seven starters on offense, nine on defense and two on special teams. That makes them the Pac-12's most experienced club.
There aren't a ton of mysteries, but here's a few positions to keep an eye on as the Cougars travel to Lewiston to continue fall camp on Friday:
The defensive front took heat for its relative inability to take down the quarterback last year. The Cougars notched 20 sacks and were better than only two teams in the Pac-12: Cal and Oregon State, though neither the Golden Bears nor Beavers played in a bowl game.
The line loses just one major contributor, Rober Barber, and Barber's senior season was cut by three games because of legal hurdles.
Defensive end Hercules Mata'afa is the group's anchor, and the junior looked especially spry Thursday during a D-line vs. O-line drill, blasting past O'Connell a few times to "sack" the QB.
"I like going against Cody because he's big, he's got long arms and that's like the typical O-line size in the NFL," Mata'afa said after practice. "So the more work I get with him, the better I'll be."
DL Hercules Mata'afa post #WSU practice. https://t.co/rKu2gCLKE8
— Theo Lawson (@TheoLawson_SR) August 4, 2017
Daniel Ekuale, a strong run-plugger, also showed impressive push throughout the drill. Teammates and coaches believe he's better equipped to get to the quarterback this season and if Thursday's practice was any indication, they're spot on.
"He's a bigger dude, so he's more of a run-stopper, but I see him getting better with his pass-rush," Mata'afa said of Ekuale.
End Nnamdi Oguayo rounded out the first group, but D-line coach Jeff Phelps said Garrett McBroom, Kingston Fernandez, Nick Begg and Derek Moore give the Cougars "a great support group."
"We've got a lot of depth and we have to make sure we stay healthy," Phelps said. "But they're flying around and they're looking good."
D-coord Alex Grinch post #WSU practice. https://t.co/PMSqqas7Pg
Most expect that the Cougars will have a three-headed, six-legged monster in the backfield this season with Jamal Morrow, James Williams and Gerard Wicks all back on campus.
But for that to happen, Wicks might have to elevate his game a notch. Otherwise, it'll be a two-headed, four-legged … well, never mind, it'll just be something.
Per Leach, "our two top guys right now are James and Jamal."
"We're going to have to narrow them down," he added.
Morrow's been his steady self through two days and Williams was one of the most valuable Cougars on Wednesday, hauling in a pass from Falk on a shoot route into the end zone. The offense ran another goal-line set on the very next play and Williams took a shovel pass from Falk before bouncing around the edge into the end zone.
Williams wouldn't mind seeing a few more shovels this fall.
"Usually when we do a shovel pass, they don't see it coming," he said.
As is the case for much of the defense, separation among running backs doesn't usually happen until the pads come on. Which serves as a reminder: The Cougars will have two days of shoulder pads – Friday and Saturday at Lewiston's Sacajawea Junior High – before going full pads Sunday.
Expect for Morrow, Williams and Wicks – Keith Harrington, too – to all get carries this fall. For now, Morrow and Williams will be getting most of the meaningful ones.
RB James Williams post #WSU practice. https://t.co/Z7aAC06GeI
Inside and outside, the Cougars are talented. You'd be hard-pressed to find a group of Leach receivers that isn't.
Tavares Martin Jr. seemingly has one of the outside jobs sewn up, but to sort the other one out, we might need a fight to the death between Dezmon Patmon and Isaiah Johnson-Mack. Both have left an imprint on the first two days – Patmon was excellent on Wednesday and Johnson-Mack made some highlight grabs on Thursday.
And at 6-foot-5, C.J. Dimry certainly can't be ignored. He'll be on the field plenty.
"On the outside, man those guys can run a little bit," said Dave Nichol, who's coached the outside receivers at WSU since 2015, but will work with the inside receivers this fall. "They're big. They should be big playmakers. That's the biggest thing, is get them consistent."
Kyle Sweet is getting a bulk of the reps at the "Y" and Robert Lewis is a thing at the "H." But the Cougars have depth inside, too, with players like Jamire Calvin and Easop Winston Jr.
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I'm excited for my big scan tomorrow, but nervous as well. Of course I am always thinking positive, but it's still nerve-wracking. At least this time I can enjoy the scan (if there is anything to enjoy about it). My first PET scan I was in so much pain (I had just had my bone marrow biopsy the day before and could barely walk because of that damn tumor)...so at least I will be pain free this time! Yippee!
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USDA Commits More Money To Three Chesapeake Bay Watersheds
Farmers and landowners in three "showcase" watersheds in Maryland, Pennsylvania and Virginia will receive more money and technical help from the federal government to improve the water quality of the Chesapeake Bay Watershed, USDA Deputy Secretary Kathleen Merrigan announced earlier this week.
"Agriculture remains a key part of the solution to the Chesapeake Bay restoration," Merrigan said at farm in Pennsylvania's showcase watershed.
"The showcase watersheds strengthen USDA's commitment to funding priority conservation practices in places that will do the most good for water quality in the Bay and its tributaries," Merrigan said.
The three featured watersheds are the 23,000-acre Upper Chester River Watershed in Maryland's Eastern Shore; the 34,000-acre Conewago Creek Watershed in Central Pennsylvania, where Merrigan announced the showcase watersheds; and the 67,000-acre Smith Creek Watershed in Virginia's Shenandoah Valley.
The USDA is responsible for implementing new conservation practices on 4 million acres of farmland through 2025. Farmers and forest owners in the Chesapeake Bay watershed will have access to resources to prevent soil erosion and keep nitrogen and phosphorus out of the streams, creeks and rivers which drain into the bay.
The USDA will target federal money to where it will have the greatest impact on improving water quality impact. The department will also see that the conservation work farmers do is accurately reported and credited.
The USDA's work in the Chesapeake Bay is funded, in large part, by the Chesapeake Bay Watershed Initiative (CBWI). The initiative is one of the largest single federal investments in work to improve water quality in the bay and its watershed.
The 2008 Farm Bill established the CBWI and provided what USDA says is an unprecedented $188 million from 2009 — 2012 to support restoration of the watershed.
The showcase watersheds are designed to demonstrate water quality improvements through expanded producer outreach, innovative conservation practices and intensive conservation planning, implementation and monitoring.
The USDA, EPA and the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) want to communicate to every farmer in each of the watersheds to gauge their conservation practices and to explain that more money and technical assistance is available.
The USDA has committed more money and staff and the EPA is providing money to support coordination and nutrient management. The USGS plans to assist with monitoring that evaluates the water quality impact of the increased conservation treatment.
Each showcase watershed also is supported by a diverse group of non-governmental partners, including local watershed groups and non-profits that are committing substantial resources to the coordinated effort.
For more information about NRCS Chesapeake Bay activities, visit www.nrcs.usda.gov/feature/chesapeakebay.html.
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Especially during the winter having dry, cracked, and/or chapped lips is a big problem! So what do you do? I mean we can always pile on the chapstick for instant relief but what about after that? How do you heal it? Lip exfoliation is where it is at!
You can either buy a set or kit or make it at home! I recommend either Mary Kay's Satin Lips set or the Bliss Fabulips Treatment set! Both are great, high quality and will leave your lips feeling wonderful. but if you are more industrious and trying to ave the cash, then making it is an easy simple option. The recipe is seriously super easy!
Get an airtight container for storage, this can either be a Tupperware container, a baby food jar, or a an old, empty and cleaned, moisturizer, face scrub, or lip balm jar/pot. Just make sure that whatever it is isn't to big (you shouldn't have it less than halfway full), closes tightly, is cleaned and sanitized, and is safe to be placed in the refrigerator.
Step Two:Cut up and eight of an avocado. Dice it into small and thin pieces. an eight of an avocado is best seen as cutting the avocado in half lengthwise, and then cutting up a fourth of one of the halves.
Choose and oil and measure a 1/4 cup of it. You can use olive oil, avocado oil, or a personal favorite coconut oil. You can not use vegetable oil or canola oil.
Mix the avocado pieces into the oil. Mash it and mix it until they are blended smoothly. You can also add a small amount of vanilla, coconut, or almond extract at this time to make the scrub taste and smell the way you'd prefer.
Add Sugar! add 1/4 cup of granulated sugar into the mix. The mix should become smooth yet grainy. If it becomes to stiff (like a ball of dough) then add a small amount of oil into the mix.
Use this mixture by putting a small amount on your lips, rubbing them together gently for about 2 minutes, and then washing the mixture off with water. After using this (or any other) lip scrub make sure you apply a healthy amount of lip balm. My favorite is the Bliss Fabulips Softening Lip Balm.
Close the container tightly and store it in your refrigerator. Use 1-3 times a week.
This scrub is not intended for or appropriate for use anywhere but the lips. It is not meant to be a scrub for the face at all! Please do not use it as a facial exfoliant!
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Dr Helena Liu
Senior Lecturer, Management Discipline Group
Core Member, CBSI - Centre for Business and Social Innovation
PhD (USyd)
Helena.Liu@uts.edu.au
Dr Helena Liu is a critical theorist who joined UTS Business School in January 2016. She was awarded her PhD in 2012 from the University of Sydney Business School. Dr Liu's research focuses on the discursive construction of leadership, which has led her to examine how leaders apologise for failure and the media representation of banking CEOs during the Global Financial Crisis. Central to her work is the critique of how power sustains our enduring romance with leadership.
Can supervise: YES
Dr Liu's research is broadly concerned with the ways gender, race and class dynamics underpin our understandings of 'leadership.' She is at the moment inspired by the potential for critical race and decolonial theories to interrogate the invisible dominance of whiteness in leadership. She aims to explore through future research the ways through which leadership could be exercised towards solidarity and justice.
Dr Liu is currently teaching strategic human resource management at the undergraduate level and diversity and inclusion and future of work at the postgraduate level.
Liu, H 2020, Redeeming Leadership: An Anti-Racist Feminist Intervention, Bristol University Press, Bristol.View/Download from: UTS OPUS
Pullen, A, Rhodes, C, McEwen, C & Liu, H 2019, 'Radical politics, intersectionality and leadership for diversity in organizations', MANAGEMENT DECISION.View/Download from: UTS OPUS or Publisher's site
Liu, H 2019, 'An embarrassment of riches: The seduction of postfeminism in the academy', Organization, vol. 26, no. 1, pp. 20-37.View/Download from: UTS OPUS or Publisher's site
Given critiques of postfeminism as a neoliberal and patriarchal discourse that has taken considerable tolls on professional life, its popularity in organisational practice seems out of place. This article explores the processes of postfeminism through an autoethnographic inquiry of my experiences working as a research fellow at a leadership research centre in Australia. In theorising from my narrative accounts as an early career scholar, I offer a view into the entangled processes of postfeminist knowledge production and my own making as a postfeminist subject. In doing so, I attempt to illustrate the seductive appeal of postfeminism as an ostensibly empowering process that ultimately preserves White elite class patriarchal power.
Liu, H 2019, 'Just the servant: An intersectional critique of servant leadership', Journal of Business Ethics, vol. 156, no. 4, pp. 1099-1112.View/Download from: UTS OPUS or Publisher's site
Servant leadership offers a compelling ideal of self-sacrificing individuals who put the needs of others before their own and cultivate a culture of growth in their organisations. Although the theory's attempts to emphasise the moral, emotional and relational dimensions of leadership are laudable, it has primarily assumed a decontextualised view of leadership untouched by power. This article aims to problematise servant leadership by undertaking an intersectional analysis of an Asian cis-male heterosexual senior manager in Australia. Through in-depth interviews with the manager and his staff, the article shows how his attempts to practice servant leadership were informed by intersecting power dynamics of race, gender, sexuality, age and class that subordinated him to white power. The findings demonstrate the ways servant leadership is necessarily embedded in wider power structures that shape who gets to be a "servant leader" and who remains merely a "servant".
Liu, H 2019, 'To be a hero and traitor: A reflection on truth-telling and fear', Ephemera: theory and politics in organization, vol. 19, no. 4, pp. 865-873.View/Download from: UTS OPUS
Liu, H & Pechenkina, E 2019, 'Innovation-by-numbers: An autoethnography of innovation as violence', Culture and Organization, vol. 25, no. 3, pp. 178-188.View/Download from: UTS OPUS
This article offers an account of a university exercise in 'innovation' to illustrate how innovation discourses and processes can be a vehicle for violence in organisations. Presented as two narratives of the same event told from different perspectives, our stories of a curriculum redesign workshop explore the ways innovation became a form of symbolic capital that prompted struggles of control and compliance among individual staff. Schemes of managerial dominance then were in turn individuated, while the assault of innovation became institutionalised and ultimately shielded from critical interrogation. In presenting these accounts, we seek to challenge the rising dominance of innovation as something vital to economic growth and social needs, highlighting instead how its romanticisation is highly problematic.
Aumais, N, Basque, J, Carrim, NMH, Daskalaki, M, Dorion, L, Garneau, J, Jeanes, E, Kostera, M, Liu, H, Loacker, B, Muhr, SL, O'Shea, SC, Plotnikof, M, Siegert, S, Śliwa, M, Villesèche, F & Vladimirou, D 2018, 'In 1000 words: #TimeIsUp, academics and organization studies', M@n@gement, vol. 21, no. 3, pp. 1080-1117.View/Download from: UTS OPUS
Heizmann, H & Liu, H 2018, 'Becoming green, becoming leaders: Identity narratives in sustainability leadership development', Management Learning, vol. 49, no. 1, pp. 40-58.View/Download from: UTS OPUS or Publisher's site
Sustainability leadership, exercised towards ecologically sustainable practices in business and society, has emerged as an important aim of leadership development programmes. Through the multimodal discursive analysis of a sustainability leadership centre in Australia, we demonstrate how its identity narratives reproduce individualist ideals of leadership and take for granted the hyperagency of heroic individuals to single-handedly solve environmental crises. Specifically, we illustrate how the development of sustainability leaders is co-constructed through the Buddhist narrative of Prince Siddhartha via three stages: leaders first find their calling that activates their inherent capability to effect change, reach awakening through self-discovery and self-empowerment with the help of the development programme, and finally transform the world through building both successful and meaningful careers. In the light of these findings, we question whether sustainability leadership discourses glorify the self and ironically sustain our disconnection from nature in the pursuit of business success.
Heizmann, H & Liu, H 2018, 'Virtual Special Issue: Discourse', Management Learning.View/Download from: UTS OPUS
Liu, H 2018, 'Re-radicalising intersectionality in organisation studies', Ephemera : Theory and Politics in Organization, vol. 18, no. 1, pp. 81-101.View/Download from: UTS OPUS
Although intersectionality emerged in the 1970s through the activism of Black feminists, its application to organisation studies in recent years has too often been deradicalised as a tool to collate and commodify differences. In this article, I propose that we need to re-radicalise intersectional theorising. I offer biography and history as two methodological tools with which we may fulfil intersectionality's social justice aims. Biography compels researchers to align ourselves with the struggles of marginalised subjects. History asks us to locate our subjects in their specific histories of social injustice. It is my hope that through critical, reflexive theorising, we may protect the radical roots of intersectionality and guard against its co-optation into prevailing systems of white imperial power.
Pechenkina, E & Liu, H 2018, 'Instruments of white supremacy: People of colour resisting white domination in higher education', Whiteness and Education, vol. 3, no. 1, pp. 1-14.View/Download from: UTS OPUS or Publisher's site
This article extends the critical race literature in education by theorising the ways through which white power passes through the bodies of people of colour in higher education institutions. Using autoethnographic inquiry of our experiences as non-white academic and professional staff in two Australian universities, we examine the ways we became co-opted into reinforcing white privilege while subordinating or marginalising students of colour. Rather than complying with the white supremacist ideologies and practices of our institutions, we explore the potentials for resistance against the institutionalised racial order, recognising that writing and publishing our experiences is one approach to speaking out against white supremacy at our universities.
Liu, H 2017, 'Beneath the white gaze: Strategic self-Orientalism among Chinese Australians', Human Relations, vol. 70, no. 7, pp. 781-804.View/Download from: UTS OPUS or Publisher's site
This article analyses the ethno-cultural identities of Chinese Australian professionals through a postcolonial lens. Drawing on in-depth interviews with 21 participants, it explores how they engaged in self-Orientalism; casting themselves as exotic commodities for the benefit of white people and institutions. In particular, they enacted Chinese stereotypes through 'mythtapping' and 'mythkeeping' in order to secure recognition under the white gaze. As mythtappers, professionals presented themselves as custodians of an ancient and mysterious culture that offered organizational wisdoms for 'the West.' As mythkeepers, the professionals allayed white anxieties by surrendering themselves to white Australians as pathways into their communities. However, the professionals' Orientalized identities are not passively determined, but are in some cases tactically and strategically resisted through 'mythbusting.' The article contributes to postcolonial theorizing by demonstrating how imperialist ideologies constrain the lives of people beyond the colonizer/colonized dichotomy and by illuminating the potential for their resistance against Orientalization.
Liu, H 2017, 'Reimagining ethical leadership as a relational, contextual and political practice', Leadership, vol. 13, no. 3, pp. 343-367.View/Download from: UTS OPUS or Publisher's site
Interest in ethical leadership has been spurred by the widespread reporting of corporate malfeasance and corruption in the last decade. Although ethical leadership theories have highlighted the importance of ethical considerations in leadership, the dominant discourses of this field tend to treat ethical leadership as individualised, decontextualised and power-neutral. The purpose of this article is to address these limitations of the mainstream literature through a reimagination of ethical leadership research, development and practice grounded in a feminist, communitarian and corporeal ethic. This approach, I propose, has the potential to reorient leadership as a collective ethico-political project exercised towards the goals of equality, justice and emancipation.
Liu, H 2017, 'Sensuality as subversion: Doing masculinity with Chinese Australian professionals', Gender, Work and Organization, vol. 24, no. 2, pp. 194-212.View/Download from: UTS OPUS or Publisher's site
Within western gender structures, dominant discourses of Asian men as weak, feminized and asexual continue to render Asian masculinities subordinate to white hegemonic ideals. Although research of gender in organization studies has revealed important insights into how gender might be redone or undone, non-white voices remain marginalized in this critical project. This article explores through in-depth interviews the ways by which Chinese cis-male professionals in Australia attempt to coopt desexualizing discourses and 'do' masculinity through sensuality. Specifically, the findings show how their sensuality is practised across various dimensions at work and beyond, including via the presentation of the self, relationships with others and representations in social texts. In presenting the voices of Asian men, this article seeks to illuminate their individual and collective pursuits for decolonization, agency and pleasure.
Liu, H 2017, 'The masculinisation of ethical leadership dis/embodiment', Journal of Business Ethics, vol. 144, no. 2, pp. 263-278.View/Download from: UTS OPUS or Publisher's site
This article argues that while ethical leadership in mainstream theorising is assumed to be a cognitive exercise, leaders' bodies in fact play a significant role in the social construction of ethical leadership. Their bodies (both their exposure and concealment) become particularly potent when leaders are depicted via the interplay between visual and verbal modes in the media. In order to extend current understandings of ethical leadership, this study employs a discourse analytic approach to examine how visual and verbal devices convey ethical leadership for two of Australia's major bank chief executive officers -- John Stewart and Ralph Norris -- before and during the global financial crisis. Based on the analysis, this article demonstrates that ethical leadership is constructed through the confluence of elite and working class masculinities that is multimodally embodied and disembodied. The article suggests that what it means to be an ethical leader is invariably informed by class-based patriarchal norms that can serve to reinforce the masculinisation of ethics.
Liu, H 2017, 'Undoing whiteness: The Dao of anti-racist diversity practice', Gender, Work and Organization, vol. 24, no. 5, pp. 457-471.View/Download from: UTS OPUS or Publisher's site
As Australia propels towards a so-called 'Asian Century', pro-diversity discourses have begun to permeate organizations and society. Yet despite this outward commitment to ethno-cultural diversity, mainstream diversity discourses and practices have been critiqued for subordinating social justice agendas and reinforcing the dominance of whiteness. This article analyses in-depth interviews with 18 Chinese Australian managers and local councillors engaged in various forms of diversity advocacy and practice. By reading their voices via the Chinese philosophy of Daoism, I offer an anti-racist praxis of diversity that bears the potential to disrupt white supremacy through the strength of softness and the power of non-action.
Liu, H, Cutcher, L & Grant, D 2017, 'Authentic leadership in context: An analysis of banking CEO narratives during the global financial crisis', Human Relations, vol. 70, no. 6, pp. 694-724.View/Download from: UTS OPUS or Publisher's site
Liu, H & Baker, C 2016, 'Ordinary aristocrats: The discursive construction of philanthropists as ethical leaders', Journal of Business Ethics, vol. 133, no. 2, pp. 216-277.View/Download from: UTS OPUS or Publisher's site
Philanthropic giving among leaders is often assumed to be an expression of ethical leadership in both academic and media discourses; however, this assumption can overlook the ways in which philanthropy produces and is underpinned by inequality. In order to extend current understandings of ethical leadership, this study employs a critical discourse analytic approach to examine how the link between philanthropy and ethical forms of leadership is verbally and visually constructed in the media. Based on the analysis, the article demonstrates how the construction of Australian philanthropists as ethical leaders is achieved through their representation via three paradoxical identities: Aristocratic Battlers; Caring Controllers; and Publicity-Shy Celebrities. These discourses are mediated by Australian cultural norms and serve to conceal yet ultimately reinforce social and economic inequality. The article proposes that a critical discursive approach to understanding leadership ethics can help to explore the hidden or adverse effects of ostensibly ethical practices.
Liu, H & Baker, C 2016, 'White Knights: Leadership as the heroicisation of whiteness', Leadership, vol. 12, no. 4, pp. 420-448.View/Download from: UTS OPUS or Publisher's site
This article draws on critical race theory to interrogate whiteness in dominant discourses of leadership. We conducted a discourse analysis of the media representations of 12 business leaders engaged in philanthropy in Australia to demonstrate how white practices of normalisation, solipsism and ontological expansiveness underpin the construction of white leaders as speaking for society, mastering all environments and self-sacrificing for the greater good. Our analysis suggests that 'doing leadership' is inextricably linked to 'doing whiteness', while the invisible presence of whiteness in leadership discourses sustains white power and privilege. By 'naming' whiteness and its practices, we aspire to unhinge it from its location as transparent, dominant and ordinary, and begin theorising leadership in ways that are conducive to the goals of racial equality.
Liu, H & Pechenkina, E 2016, 'Staying quiet or rocking the boat? An autoethnography of organisational visual white supremacy', Equality, Diversity and Inclusion: An International Journal, vol. 35, no. 3, pp. 186-204.View/Download from: UTS OPUS or Publisher's site
The purpose of this paper is to reflect on critical race theory's application in organisational visuals research with a focus on forms of visual white supremacy in the workplace. Drawing on the authors' personal experiences as racialised "Others" with organisational white supremacy, this paper employs reflective autoethnography to elucidate how whiteness is positioned in the academic workplace through the use of visual imagery. The authors' autoethnographic accounts discuss how people of colour are appropriated, commodified and subordinated in the ongoing practice of whiteness. Illuminating the subtle ways through which white supremacy is embedded in the visual and aesthetic dimensions of the organisation provides a more critical awareness of workplace racism. This paper advances the critical project of organisational visual studies by interrogating the ways by which white dominance is enacted and reinforced via the everyday visual and aesthetic dimensions of the workplace. An added contribution of this paper is in demonstrating that visual racism extends beyond misrepresentations of people of colour, but can also manifest in what the authors conceptualise as "visual white supremacy".
Liu, H 2015, 'Constructing the GFC: Australian banking leaders during the financial 'crisis'', Leadership, vol. 11, no. 4, pp. 424-450.View/Download from: Publisher's site
Mainstream accounts of the global financial crisis (GFC) have treated the 'crisis' as fixed and given with the role of leadership as paramount. Through the intertextual reading of media texts and interviews with banking leaders, this article in contrast demonstrates the dynamic, discursively constructed nature of leadership during the GFC. Despite the relative buoyancy of the local economy and strong performance of the major banks in Australia, the findings show how some banking chief executive officers were able to exploit the GFC by co-constructing with the media vivid, compelling narratives of their leadership in delivering their banks from 'crisis'. Although banking leaders conveyed via interviews an intractable, unpredictable view of the crisis and their adoption of more reactive approaches to the GFC, this study suggests that the media played a powerful role in enforcing a separation between 'front stage' and 'back stage' leadership performances. The article concludes that the vivid metaphors of crisis leadership lauded in the media served to reinforce the romance of leadership and potentially elide considerations of banking reform in the aftermath of the GFC.
Liu, H, Cutcher, L & Grant, D 2015, 'Doing authenticity: The gendered construction of authentic leadership', Gender, Work and Organization, vol. 22, no. 3, pp. 237-255.View/Download from: UTS OPUS or Publisher's site
Authenticity has been a focus of much leadership research in recent years. Despite this interest, there has been a dearth of studies that explore the role of gender in the social construction of authenticity. To date, authentic leadership theories have tended to be either gender neutral or, where gender has been considered, it is argued that women as 'outsiders' are less likely to be accepted by their followers as authentic leaders. In this study we examine the media representations of the CEOs - one male, one female - of two major Australian retail banks during the global financial crisis. Our approach enables us to show that authenticity is something leaders 'do' rather than something they 'have' or 'are', and that being constructed as authentic depends on the leader performing authenticity in line with gender norms deemed appropriate for the socially constructed context in which they are expected to lead.
Liu, H & McGrath-Champ, S 2014, ''Inspired by business': A case of mentoring among low socio-economic students', International Studies in Widening Participation, vol. 1, no. 1, pp. 2-14.View/Download from: UTS OPUS
To boost enrolment and retention of students from low socio-economic backgrounds in higher education, existing research has proposed a number of ways to support their university experiences. One initiative highlighted in the literature is mentoring, which has been shown to enhance students' skillsets, networks, and their self-esteem. This study examines the experiences of mentoring for low socio- economic status students accepted into a competitive widening participation programme, 'Inspired by Business', at the University of Sydney Business School. The purpose of the research was to evaluate the programme's perceived benefits for both mentees and mentors. Through interviews conducted with students and mentors, the findings reveal that mentoring was highly beneficial for the students, where the informal networks that developed between the participants developed their social capital and enhanced their sense of belonging. However, we highlight that mentoring processes of matching and preparation are critical aspects of mentor satisfaction.
Fee, A, Mcgrath-Champ, S & Liu, H 2013, 'Human resources and expatriate evacuation: A conceptual model', Journal of Global Mobility, vol. 1, no. 3, pp. 246-263.View/Download from: UTS OPUS or Publisher's site
The purpose of this paper is to introduce a conceptual model that integrates multi-disciplinary research in relation to crisis management, and to consider its application for international human resource managers in preventing and managing the evacuation of expatriate staff during crises.
Liu, H 2010, 'When leaders fail: A typology of failures and framing strategies', Management Communication Quarterly, vol. 24, no. 2, pp. 232-259.View/Download from: UTS OPUS or Publisher's site
In an era characterized by the widespread availability and accessibility of information and growing concerns over ethical and "authentic" leadership, business leaders are increasingly required to answer to public concerns about their past and present failures. Failure in the existing scholarly literature is largely confined to quantifiable measures of poor performance of a leader's direct actions.This article offers a more elaborate typology of leaders' failures and the framing strategies regularly employed by leaders, based on a discourse analysis of media texts. The author presents a framework through which the ways in which leaders actively construct and negotiate images of leadership style, effectiveness, and authenticity can be systematically explored.
Liu, H 2019, 'Decolonising organisations with bell hooks' in McMurray, R & Pullen, A (eds), Power, Politics & Exclusion in Organization and Management, Routledge, London, pp. 110-128.View/Download from: UTS OPUS
Liu, H 2019, 'Redoing and abolishing whiteness in leadership' in Carroll, B, Firth, J & Wilson, S (eds), After Leadership, Routledge, London, pp. 101-114.View/Download from: UTS OPUS
Liu, H 2018, ''Leadership from the margins: Practising inclusivity with "outsiders within"' in Adapa, S & Sheridan, A (eds), Inclusive Leadership Negotiating Gendered Spaces, Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke, pp. 1-20.View/Download from: UTS OPUS or Publisher's site
The invisible dominance of white elite class masculinity remains a defining feature of leadership theory and practice. This chapter draws on the work of Black feminist, Patricia Hill Collins, to theorise inclusive forms of leadership that are done by those on the periphery of organisations and society. Specifically, I draw on Collins' concept of 'outsiders within' to interpret the leadership of a biracial multigenerational Chinese Australian woman chief executive officer (CEO) who attempted to support gender and racial diversity in her company. I suggest that we can look towards people who are traditionally denied the title of 'leadership' for an ethico-politics of inclusion that resist the normalised power structures of leadership.
Liu, H 2017, 'Redeeming difference in CMS through anti-racist feminisms' in Pullen, A, Phillips, M & Harding, N (eds), Feminists and Queer Theorists Debate the Future of CMS, Emerald Publishing Group, Bingley, pp. 39-56.View/Download from: UTS OPUS or Publisher's site
I propose in this chapter that the dominant practice of critical management studies (CMS) is characterised by white masculinity, where theorising tends to assume a white universal norm while commodifying difference. This approach treats diversity as something CMS has, rather than is. In order to disrupt the prevailing practice, I explore how anti-racist feminisms (a term I use here to refer to the diverse movements of postcolonial feminism and feminisms of colour) may shape CMS towards a more reflexive and meaningful engagement with difference. In reflecting on my own performance of white masculinity as an aspiring critical management scholar, I suggest that an anti-racist feminist approach bears the potential to challenge relations of domination within CMS and reinvigorate our pursuits for emancipation. It is my hope that the anti-racist feminist perspective advanced in this chapter may offer an opportunity for critical management scholars to 'do' critique differently through a radical inclusion of previously marginalised perspectives.
Liu, H 2016, 'A fairytale career: Media representations of Australia's first female banking CEO' in Elliott, C, Stead, V, Mavin, S & Williams, J (eds), Gender, Media, and Organization: Challenging Mis(s)representations of Women Leaders and Managers, Information Age Publishing, Charlotte, NC, pp. 49-62.
Leadership Diversity through Relational Intersectionality in Australia


DreamWorks is a leader in developing brands that are realized in seemingly thousands of different ways. So when Mission was asked to partner in extending those branded experiences, we enthusiastically accepted the challenge.
The DreamWorks DreamPlace experience builds upon the box office successes of the studio's most adored film characters and brings them to life in experiential activations around the world. For both the Shrek and Kung Fu Panda Holiday Experiences, Mission created the consumer website, reservation system integration, on-site collateral, interactive storybook and marketing campaign. With great respect for the brand guidelines and established assets, we created pre- and post-activation experiences that further strengthened the relationship between the consumer and the branded property, and drove incremental revenues for the studio.
For a variety of other DreamWorks properties, including Trolls, How To Train Your Dragon and Dinotrux, Mission developed complex interactive online and offline experiences featured on their Create web portal. Responsible for the product development, user-flow, user-interface design and backend development of these experiences, Mission's full team was involved with strategizing, concepting and implementing these loved activities.
This "Hug Time" experience allowed members to build their own custom Troll, create its Pod and then use the Troll Name Generator to bring it to life. Users could share their creations via social media, save to their Family Gallery and download line art versions for custom coloring pages.
The objective was to create activities where kids could engage with the brand characters both online and offline.
For the Dinotrux activity, we created 12 customizable areas to swap in parts, colors, textures and accessories. Kids could then share and print out their custom Dinotrux and build the foldable model.
In the How To Train Your Dragon franchise, the Book of Dragons has become a centerpiece to the story. The richness of the tome's origins inspired us to create an experience that allowed for endless customization while staying true to the brand and storyline.
In addition to the custom dragon flyers, kids could download their own Book of Dragons and add profiles of their creations.
The DreamWorks DreamPlace was an international holiday experience themed to both Kung Fu Panda and Shrek. The customer journey began months in advance with registration, family profile creation and wish list building. The experience concluded during the holidays with a visit to DreamPlace where they participated in interactives and a visit to Santa.
The technical lift included the integration of various 3rd party registration platforms and DreamWorks proprietary customer relations engine.
To amplify the previsit engagement, chapters of an interactive book were pushed to registered families and initiated the storyline they would soon experience.
Built from the profiles created at registration, families received custom boarding passes that initiated their onsite adventures.