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Deep sea diving … in a wheelchair? Artist Sue Austin takes her wheels underwater to combat limiting views of disability
After a battle with illness damaged her ability to walk, artist Sue Austin started using a wheelchair. In a talk at TEDxWomen, she describes how beginning to use a wheelchair — something she found exciting and freeing — inspired people she knew to treat her differently:
"Even though I had this new-found joy and freedom," she says in her talk, "people's reaction completely changed towards me. It was as if they couldn't see me anymore, as if an invisibility cloak had descended.
"They seemed to see me in terms of their assumptions of what it must be like to be in a wheelchair.
"When I asked people their associations with the wheelchair, they used words like 'limitation,' 'fear,' 'pity' and 'restriction.' I realized I'd internalized these responses and it had changed who I was on a core level. A part of me had become alienated from myself. I was seeing myself not from my perspective, but vividly and continuously from the perspective of other people's responses to me.
"As a result, I knew I needed to make my own stories about this experience, new narratives to reclaim my identity."
Sue began to factor her wheelchair into her art, hoping to encourage viewers to reconsider the way they look at disability — to show that a wheelchair isn't a punishment, but an opportunity to experience the world in a different way.
One way she did this was by working with a team to create a self-propelled wheelchair that works underwater, allowing Sue to scuba without leaving her chair.
I realized that scuba gear extends your range of activity in just the same way that a wheelchair does," she says in her talk, "but the associations attached to scuba gear are ones of excitement and adventure — completely different to people's responses to the wheelchair. So I thought, 'I wonder what will happen if I put the two together?'
At first, the goal seemed impossible: "When we started talking to people about it, engineers were saying it wouldn't work, the wheelchair would go into a spin, it was not designed to go through water — but I was sure it would," Austin told the BBC. But things worked out, and the results are quite spectacular. "If you just put a thruster under the chair all the thrust is below the center of gravity so you rotate," she said. "It was certainly much more acrobatic than I anticipated."
Watch Sue's entire talk below, and see more of her art at her website.
Facebook Makes Us Sadder And Less Satisfied, Study Finds
Facebook's mission "to make the world more open and connected" is a familiar refrain among company leaders. But the latest research shows connecting 1.1 billion users around the world may come at a psychological cost.
A new University of Michigan study on college-aged adults finds that the more they used Facebook, the worse they felt. The study, published in the journal PLOS One, found Facebook use led to declines in moment-to-moment happiness and overall life satisfaction.
"There's a huge amount of interest … because Facebook is so widespread," says research co-author John Jonides, a University of Michigan cognitive neuroscientist. "With something like half a billion people who use Facebook every day, understanding the consequences of that use on our well being is of critical importance."
The study authors did not get at the reasons Facebook made their test subjects feel glum. But Jonides suspects it may have to do with social comparison.
"When you're on a site like Facebook, you get lots of posts about what people are doing. That sets up social comparison — you maybe feel your life is not as full and rich as those people you see on Facebook," he says.
Interestingly, Jonides notes, the study found the effects of Facebook are most pronounced for those who socialize the most "in real life." He says the folks who did the most direct, face-to-face socializing and used social media were the ones who reported the most Facebook-related mood decline.
"It suggests that when you are engaging in social interactions a lot, you're more aware of what others are doing and, consequently, you might be more sensitized about what's happening on Facebook and comparing that to your own life," Jonides says.
The researchers also tested and discounted other reasons for our unhappiness. TheUniversity of Michigan notes:
"[Researchers] also found no evidence for two alternative possible explanations for the finding that Facebook undermines happiness. People were not more likely to use Facebook when they felt bad. In addition, although people were more likely to use Facebook when they were lonely, loneliness and Facebook use both independently predicted how happy participants subsequently felt. 'Thus, it was not the case that Facebook use served as a proxy for feeling bad or lonely,' says [lead author Ethan] Kross."
We reached out to Facebook for a response, but got an automatic reply. These findings, however, add data points in our quest to understand Facebook and other social media's effect on our emotional well-being, whether it's the behemoth social network's role after relationships end or our feelings of regret after pressing "share."
If you're feeling bummed, researchers did test for and find a solution. The prescription for Facebook despair is less Facebook. Researchers found that face-to-face or phone interaction — those outmoded, analog ways of communication — had the opposite effect. Direct interactions with other human beings led people to feel better.
Kevin Breel is Inspiracity: Speaker, Comic, Teenager, Activist, Popular Kid …
My story is this. Four simple words: I suffer from depression. For a long time I think I was living two totally different lives, where one person was always afraid of the other. I was afraid that people would see me for who I really was. That I wasn't the perfect, popular kid in high school everyone thought I was. That beneath my smile there was struggle. And beneath my light there was dark. And beneath my big personality just hid even bigger pain.
The world I believe in is where where embracing your light doesn't mean ignoring your dark. The world I believe in is one where we are measured by our ability to overcome adversities not avoid them.
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Hey, Kid: Thoughts For The Young Oddballs We Need So Badly
Rian Johnson, who wrote and directed films including Looperand Brick, not to mention directing a few episodes of Breaking Bad, tweeted early this morning: "To me the great hope is one day some little fat girl in Ohio is going to make a summer movie where skyscrapers don't fall over like dominoes."
This took me a moment to process as I rubbed my eyes over a cup of coffee, but I eventually understood the plaintive wish at the center of his surprisingly profound statement, and I recognized it:When I am drowning in the familiar, I am comforted by the belief that somewhere there is a kid who will one day do something different.
And my next thought was, "If I were that girl, why would I believe anyone would care?" So the thought after that was, "I need to write that girl a letter."
So these are my survival hints for young creative weirdos, a phrase I use not just with love but with reverence. I take in a lot of books, movies, television, online writing, and other stuff. You are the ones who will keep making it. You will make the summer movie without the skyscrapers, you will make the better summer movie with skyscrapers, and most importantly, you will make the thing I'm not picturing because I couldn't possibly — only you could.
Don't confuse what people are getting with what people want. It's very easy to pull back and think, "Well, superhero movies are what people want; that's just the way it is, so who cares about my idea for a story about a family operating a grapefruit grove?"
But Superman has only been around for 75 years. A hundred years ago — within the lifetimes of many people who are still alive! — we didn't even have superheroes in their current form. If you had told people then, "I am a young person, and I intend to create Superman," they would have told you, "That's nice, dear, eat your dinner." Things change.
What that means is that there was an audience somewhere that was open to Superman but not getting Superman. That goes for both the sublime (there was an audience for Avenue Qbefore there was Avenue Q) and the ridiculous (there was an audience for Twilight before there was Twilight). The fact that nobody is doing what you imagine doing is the beginning of your idea, not the end. People want to read things that haven't been written, see things that haven't been made, and hear things that don't yet exist. Don't be discouraged when you don't see yourself reflected in what's being shown to you, let alone what's being heavily marketed to you.
Learn the difference between feedback and criticism. Feedback is primarily for you; criticism (in the sense of "a movie critic" or "an arts critic") is primarily not. Criticism is part of an ongoing cultural conversation that's designed to make everybody smarter and better and more thoughtful and to advance the art form itself; it's done even when the creator of a piece is long dead. It's not really for you.
Feedback, on the other hand, is aimed at you to make you better, and that's the only kind of feedback worth paying attention to. If you can't listen to it and take it in without your hackles rising, you will never become good. Period, boom, g'bye.
But! Only listen to it if it's supposed to make you better, not if it's supposed to make you stop. And remember: much of what is presented as criticism or feedback is not about you at all. Some people are just walking around with a mouthful of acid, and they spit it at you because you're there. You will know them by their tendency to spit acid at everyone indiscriminately and by their inability to love anything as much as they hate everything.
Get to know pod theory. When you work with a group of people on a project (as you probably often will) and it goes well, make them what we'll call your "pod." (One of my past editors taught me that phrase.) Your pod may grow out of your band, or your camp friends, or your college friends, or the people in a play with you, or the people who work on your web site. You'll notice pods all over the place, especially on Twitter, if you follow writers and musicians and comedians and people like that. There are groups of them that know each other, talk back and forth — those are pods.
What you want isn't to beat everybody else in your pod and be the biggest success; what you want is for everybody to do well. What's good for somebody in the pod is good for the whole pod. (This is a rough translation of "it's who you know," but it doesn't matter who you know if you know a bunch of people who don't help each other out.)
Do a lot. This may seem like strange advice, but I mean it — do a lot. Write a lot, paint a lot, shoot a lot of film, take a lot of pictures, dance a lot, sing a lot, whatever the thing you do is, do it a lot. You have to get limber and skilled, so that when you have an idea, you can manipulate it and do the work part of the work. The idea is sort of the balloon in a balloon animal; you have to have it, and it has to be strong, or else there's nothing. But you'll be distinguished more by your handling of it than by the thing itself, and the best way to do that is to do the thing you do a lot.
You may well make your first — and best — art from the things you most wish wouldn't happen. This is the most personal part of this advice. Bear with me.
Everything worthwhile has a strong feeling in it, which means if you're going to make great stuff, you're going to have strong feelings. This is part of why people associate artistic types with moody outbursts or temper tantrums or lying around saying, "Oh life!" And it's sort of true.
But you may also find that you have all the big feelings, including the incredibly uncool big feelings. There are things I did, particularly in middle school and to a lesser extent high school, that are just so mortifying to me that I hesitate to describe them in detail. (One example: I once went to a local jewelry store at the mall to meet an Olympic skater who was signing autographs there, because one of my friends told me he was cute, so when I met him, what came out of my mouth was, "My friend told me I should come meet you because you're so cute.") (I still hate that I did this. Still. And I was 13.) (Wanted. To. Die.) (Still do.) (I apologize, Peter Carruthers.)
I was terminally awkward, like I was trying to operate a computer with mittens on, so that socially speaking, instead of typing "Hi!" I would wind up typing "HA4TFAT4WEAW!" and people would back away.
The chances are excellent that at some point, you will do something like this — something big, intentionally or accidentally theatrical, something that you will still slightly sweat telling people about in 30 years. It is who you are. It marks you, and us, and those who are like you, and us. (Hey, flawless impulse control is overrated.)
Here's the good news: that may be your first material. The first personal essay I ever wrote in the style I write now was something I wrote in my junior year of high school about being in eighth grade and accidentally dumping my entire dinner in my lap at the annual banquet of the Delaware Society of Professional Engineers, where I was being honored for my accomplishments on the math team.
Now just chew on that for a minute. If there were an Uncool Olympics based on that experience, I would be dancing up and down the levels of the medal stand with all three medals in my hands, and they would play my anthem three times while I waved all the medals yelling, "That's right, suckers. SNACK ON THIS, FOR I AM TRIUMPHANT."
But something in me recognized it as funny rather than purely miserable, and I wrote about it, and people thought it was funny. That same year, I started writing something I called Memoirs From The Country Club's Reject Pile, where I mined additional embarrassing and/or treacherous tales of acting like a doofus for material. As you can tell just from that title, there is a direct line from that project — now lost to the ages, and manufactured from the scraps of my embarrassments like a loony patchwork quilt — to what I'm doing now, on account of which I once got to act like a doofus in front of Jon Hamm at the Television Critics Association awards!
(Cue Joni Mitchell's "The Circle Game.")
And so in closing. Out here, we are already waiting for you. We are already anxious for you; Rian Johnson is anxious for you in the middle of the night in between thinking about award-winning directing jobs. Out here, we want to see your stuff. Don't get me wrong — some of us will disappoint, reject, confuse, misunderstand, mislead, or even exploit you. (Not the good ones of us on those last couple. But some.) But we want to see your stuff. Keep going.
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"Pee Wee kind of sensed the sort of helpless, dead feeling in me and came over and stood beside me for a while. He didn't say a word, but he looked over at the chaps who were yelling at me and just stared. He was standing by me, I could tell you that."The hecklers ceased their attack. "I will never forget it," Robinson quoted in the biography by Arnold Rampersad,
It was simple on its face, but as deeply layered as the gesture it memorialized. With Robinson receiving death threats and heckling and taunts from the crowd in a ballpark on the road, Pee Wee Reese walked over to him on the infield at a point either before or during a game and offered a quiet but significant gesture of friendship and comradeship."My father had done his own soul searching," said Mark Reese, Pee Wee's son, "and he knew that some fans, teammates, and yes, some family members didn't want him to play with a black man.""I remember Jackie talking about Pee Wee's gesture the day it happened," Rachel Robinson said yesterday. "It came as such a relief to him, that a teammate and the captain of the team would go out of his way in such a public fashion to express friendship."
November 2, 2005, Two Men Who Did the Right Thing, New York Times By IRA BERKOW
Beginning in 1996, Radio Diaries gave tape recorders to teenagers around the country to create audio diaries about their lives. NPR's All Things Considered aired intimate portraits of five of these teens: Amanda, Juan, Frankie, Josh and Melissa. They're now in their 30s. Over this past year, the same group has been recording new stories about where life has led them for our series, Teenage Diaries Revisited.
Here's our first installment: Amanda Brand is gay. Her family is conservative Catholic, and when she was a teenager, her parents were convinced she was only going through a phase. Recently, Amanda sat down with her mother and father in Queens, N.Y., in the same house she grew up in, to revisit her tumultuous teen years.
Teenage Diaries Revisited: A Gay Teen's Family, 'Evolved'
Photo: Radio Diaries (left), David Gilkey/NPR
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"To live in this world
you must be able
to do three things:
to love what is mortal;
to hold it
against your bones knowing
your own life depends on it;
and, when the time comes to let it go,
to let it go."
—Mary Oliver from "In Blackwater Woods", in American Primitive (via growing-orbits)
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This biopic of Temple Grandin, illustrates the possibilities of overcoming limitations even autism. Temple did not speak until she was four. She had difficulty with social relationships and emotional regulation through out her childhood. She processed information differently, experiencing things visually, as pictures.Temple's mother and several teachers supported and nurtured her potential. She developed an interest in cattle while spending time at her Aunt and Uncle's ranch. This passion ultimately led Temple became an expert in animal husbandry and Professor at Colorado State University. Her humane designs for cattle processing plants has done her awards from PETA. She is an author and tireless advocate for those with autism. She is noted for creating the 'hug box', a way of relieving stress.
Learning From Kurt Cobain's Mistakes
"Uhhh … whatshisname … the screaming, you know, the blonde. …"
She was talking about Kurt Cobain.
I had absolutely no right to be as upset about Cobain's passing as I was. You know, someone famous dies and you feel forlorn for a few hours because you didn'tknow them. But when Cobain died, I was devastated.
In part, I blame his biographer Michael Azerrad.
I found his book at Barnes & Noble. There — in the music section — was the perfect heart map for my teenage angst: Come As You Are: The Story of Nirvana.
In no time at all, the book was dog-eared, crusty, bent back, spine cracked and totally disgusting. I dragged it into the bathtub, into school, looked at it while I was eating, sitting on a curb, in the car, anywhere.
It is a book about three band members (plus musician Courtney Love) whose rejection of the mainstream made them even more popular within it. They appealed to outsiders everywhere, and they appealed to me.
I identified so heavily with the protagonist of the story that I started shaving the sides of my head, playing guitar, seeking out punk records and romanticizing drugs. I melded my own personal angst (divorce, family secrets, outsider status) with Cobain's. I took control of the alienation I felt in the suburbs and embraced it.
I would lie on the ground in my room pretending to be dead on the anniversary of Cobain's suicide every month, weeping as Nirvana Unplugged played behind me.
I was so performatively distraught that I decided to make an appointment with the school counselor. I signed myself up on the door to her office and was called in later that afternoon to talk about my troubles.
I told the counselor about my depression.
Not any real, family things, but the grief I was feeling about Cobain. She looked genuinely concerned. After furrowing her brow she suggested that if I were to follow Kurt's example too closely, I might end up making some of his mistakes. I left the office considering this. Perhaps modeling my life after a deceased heroin addict wasn't the best takeaway from his suicide.
I picked the book back up and looked a little closer at the things that made Cobain feel alive. His style of punk, as told by Azerrad, was "do-it-yourself, be-yourself, low-tech ethos." Punk and zines.
I went back to the idol-worship drawing board. I started attending shows by local punk bands. I found zines by girls who were writing about their darkest secrets — liberating themselves by transforming these shames into art. I then started writing myself. And I found readers who understood, forging a place for myself in punk culture.
By this time in my life, I was a professional Portlander, desensitized to celebrity. I looked upon my teenage idol-worship with embarrassment. But when Courtney looked up at me from the couch and appraised my outfit for her boyfriend ("nerdy" and "very Olympia"), my heart skipped a beat. I owed it to that awkward, angsty 13-year-old inside of me to be over the moon with excitement. I had arrived to the party 10 years late, but I had arrived.
Years later, in my 20s, I was folding xeroxed copies of my zine in an L.A. rehearsal space waiting for my date to finish band practice when I met Courtney Love, slumped on a couch next to a seedy-looking manager-kind-of-boyfriend-guy.
By this time in my life, I was a professional Portlander, desensitized to celebrity. I looked upon my teenage idol-worship with embarrassment. But when Courtney looked up at me from the couch and appraised my outfit for her boyfriend ("nerdy" and "very Olympia"), my heart skipped a beat. I owed it to that awkward, angsty 13-year-old inside of me to be over the moon with excitement. I had arrived to the party 10 years late, but I had arrived.
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Man's Search for Meaning
Viktor E. Frankl
"Live as if you were living already for the second time and as if you had acted the first time as wrongly as you are about to act now!"
Timeless wisdom from Viktor Frankl
"So the focus is on the process of persisting through it despite the challenges, not giving up, and that's what leads to success," Li says.
All of this matters because the way you conceptualize the act of struggling with something profoundly affects your actual behavior.
In 1979, when Jim Stigler was still a graduate student at the University of Michigan, he went to Japan to research teaching methods and found himself sitting in the back row of a crowded fourth-grade math class.
"The teacher was trying to teach the class how to draw three-dimensional cubes on paper," Stigler explains, "and one kid was just totally having trouble with it. His cube looked all cockeyed, so the teacher said to him, 'Why don't you go put yours on the board?' So right there I thought, 'That's interesting! He took the one who can't do it and told him to go and put it on the board.' "
Stigler knew that in American classrooms, it was usually the best kid in the class who was invited to the board. And so he watched with interest as the Japanese student dutifully came to the board and started drawing, but still couldn't complete the cube. Every few minutes, the teacher would ask the rest of the class whether the kid had gotten it right, and the class would look up from their work, and shake their heads no. And as the period progressed, Stigler noticed that he — Stigler — was getting more and more anxious.
"I realized that I was sitting there starting to perspire," he says, "because I was really empathizing with this kid. I thought, 'This kid is going to break into tears!' "
But the kid didn't break into tears. Stigler says the child continued to draw his cube with equanimity. "And at the end of the class, he did make his cube look right! And the teacher said to the class, 'How does that look, class?' And they all looked up and said, 'He did it!' And they broke into applause." The kid smiled a huge smile and sat down, clearly proud of himself.
Stigler is now a professor of psychology at UCLA who studies teaching and learning around the world, and he says it was this small experience that first got him thinking about how differently East and West approach the experience of intellectual struggle.
"I think that from very early ages we [in America] see struggle as an indicator that you're just not very smart," Stigler says. "It's a sign of low ability — people who are smart don't struggle, they just naturally get it, that's our folk theory. Whereas in Asian cultures they tend to see struggle more as an opportunity."
In Eastern cultures, Stigler says, it's just assumed that struggle is a predictable part of the learning process. Everyone is expected to struggle in the process of learning, and so struggling becomes a chance to show that you, the student, have what it takes emotionally to resolve the problem by persisting through that struggle.
"They've taught them that suffering can be a good thing," Stigler says. "I mean it sounds bad, but I think that's what they've taught them."
Granting that there is a lot of cultural diversity within East and West and it's possible to point to counterexamples in each, Stigler still sums up the difference this way: For the most part in American culture, intellectual struggle in schoolchildren is seen as an indicator of weakness, while in Eastern cultures it is not only tolerated but is often used to measure emotional strength.
It's a small difference in approach that Stigler believes has some very big implications.
Stigler is not the first psychologist to notice the difference in how East and West approach the experience of intellectual struggle.
Jin Li is a professor at Brown University who, like Stigler, compares the learning beliefs of Asian and U.S. children. She says that to understand why these two cultures view struggle so differently, it's good to step back and examine how they think about where academic excellence comes from.
For the past decade or so, Li has been recording conversations between American mothers and their children, and Taiwanese mothers and their children. Li then analyzes those conversations to see how the mothers talk to the children about school.
She shared with me one conversation that she had recorded between an American mother and her 8-year-old son.
The mother and the son are discussing books. The son, though young, is a great student who loves to learn. He tells his mother that he and his friends talk about books even during recess, and she responds with this:
Mother: Do you know that's what smart people do, smart grown-ups?
Child: I know … talk about books.
Mother: Yeah. So that's a pretty smart thing to do to talk about a book.
Child: Hmmm mmmm.
It's a small exchange — a moment. But Li says, this drop of conversation contains a world of cultural assumptions and beliefs.
Essentially, the American mother is communicating to her son that the cause of his success in school is his intelligence. He's smart — which, Li says, is a common American view.
"The idea of intelligence is believed in the West as a cause," Li explains. "She is telling him that there is something in him, in his mind, that enables him to do what he does."
But in many Asian cultures, Li says, academic excellence isn't linked with intelligence in the same way. "It resides in what they do, but not who they are, what they're born with," she says.
She shares another conversation, this time between a Taiwanese mother and her 9-year-old son. They are talking about the piano — the boy won first place in a competition, and the mother is explaining to him why.
"You practiced and practiced with lots of energy," she tells him. "It got really hard, but you made a great effort. You insisted on practicing yourself."
"So the focus is on the process of persisting through it despite the challenges, not giving up, and that's what leads to success," Li says.
All of this matters because the way you conceptualize the act of struggling with something profoundly affects your actual behavior.
Obviously if struggle indicates weakness — a lack of intelligence — it makes you feel bad, and so you're less likely to put up with it. But if struggle indicates strength — an ability to face down the challenges that inevitably occur when you are trying to learn something — you're more willing to accept it.
And Stigler feels in the real world it is easy to see the consequences of these different interpretations of struggle.
"We did a study many years ago with first-grade students," he tells me. "We decided to go out and give the students an impossible math problem to work on, and then we would measure how long they worked on it before they gave up."
The American students "worked on it less than 30 seconds on average and then they basically looked at us and said, 'We haven't had this,' " he says.
But the Japanese students worked for the entire hour on the impossible problem. "And finally we had to stop the session because the hour was up. And then we had to debrief them and say, 'Oh, that was not a possible problem; that was an impossible problem!' and they looked at us like, 'What kind of animals are we?' " Stigler recalls.
"Think about that [kind of behavior] spread over a lifetime," he says. "That's a big difference."
Not East Versus West
This is not to imply that the Eastern way of interpreting struggle — or anything else — is better than the Western way, or vice versa. Each has its strengths and weaknesses, which both sides know. Westerns tend to worry that their kids won't be able to compete against Asian kids who excel in many areas but especially in math and science. Li says that educators from Asian countries have their own set of worries.
" 'Our children are not creative. Our children do not have individuality. They're just robots.' You hear the educators from Asian countries express that concern, a lot," she notes.
So, is it possible for one culture to adopt the beliefs of another culture if they see that culture producing better results?
Both Stigler and Li think that changing culture is hard, but that it's possible to think differently in ways that can help. "Could we change our views of learning and place more emphasis on struggle?" Stigler asks. "Yeah."
For example, Stigler says, in the Japanese classrooms that he's studied, teachers consciously design tasks that are slightly beyond the capabilities of the students they teach, so the students can actually experience struggling with something just outside their reach. Then, once the task is mastered, the teachers actively point out that the student was able to accomplish it through hard work and struggle.
"And I just think that especially in schools, we don't create enough of those experiences, and then we don't point them out clearly enough."
But we can, Stigler says.
In the meantime, he and the other psychologists doing this work say there are more differences to map — differences that allow both cultures to more clearly see who they are.
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All of the houses with the exception of the Barnes (70's) houses have fireplaces. Hence an unofficial Barnes house motto: Fires in our hearts, not in our places. See also: 3rd Street: Lights in our hearts, lights in our ceilings. Although Noyes (I can't speak for Fels and Sawtell) has been known to play the Yule log on youtube from time to time.
As for roommates, a few people in student life go through and do all the pairings by hand after reading all of the surveys, which ask everything from your favorite types of music to when you go to bed. I can't say much more than that, but how nice is it that it's humans (with compassion, empathy etc.) rather than, like, an algorithm. (Is that what other schools do? I don't know… my school only has 700 people.) They're able to be really accommodating.
-Alan '15
It isn't impossible, but it is pretty unlikely. For starters, it would depend on availability. You'd have to wait for juniors and seniors to reserve their rooms and then see if there are any left over. (Note that juniors aren't even guaranteed singles — although I've never heard of any not getting one.) Regardless, what makes this difficult is that it's such a gamble: while you are waiting to hear about all this, you can't exactly have the back-up plan of already having a room and roommate secured, because then what would your roommate do? And also, everyone would do it if it were easy. Having said all that, I know a few people who have done it.
Also note that with a note from a doctor you can get a medical single. House Chairs also get singles — even if they are sophomores — but that shouldn't be your reason for applying to that position.
You can ignore everything I just said if you want, because what you should really just do in this situation is email Sam or Sage (our housing goddesses) and talk it through with them. Especially if you are a current student, which I have a hunch you are. That way they can look at the nuances of your situation (ah, the perks of a school of 700).
-Alan '15
Hey there!
Lucky for you, Emily, Jeremy and I did a comprehensive visual tour of our houses and rooms. You can find that here.
Also, make sure to check former intern extraordinaire India's Room Series.
Have fun!
~Carlos '14
I noticed you mentioned houses with no set quiet hours, but I thought I'd just go ahead and list what type each house is!
Colonials: Swan, Stokes, Canfield, Dewey, Booth, Kilpatrick, Leigh, Woolley, Franklin, Welling, Bingham, and McCullough.
Woo ('New'): Paris-Borden, Perkins, and Merck.
Barnes ('Barnes'): Fels, Noyes, and Sawtell.
Hope that helps!
- Julia


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Congratulations to Procurement Leaders on a very impressive back-to-back win of PPA Business Media Brand of the Year. Few companies have won this award even once, but twice in a row is quite the accomplishment.
There's a reason Procurement Leaders keeps picking up awards, and how it can take the same award many years running. Alex, Quang and the team at Procurement Leaders never let up on innovating and improving the site. From the very first day Affino started collaborating with Procurement Leaders, it's been a continuous process of growth and advancement. The Procurement Leaders website is already way ahead of the competition, and with new services being launched all the time, there is no sign of any slow-down.
If you have not yet taken the time to browse through this excellent website and experience the numerous quality services members can avail themselves of, we encourage you to do it now - to witness first-hand what all the fuss is about:
[View Procurement Leaders Site]
Both Affino and Jonathan Collins & Associates (JCA) have a long standing and successful working history with publishing companies and agencies. Affino from a solutions / technical architecture standpoint, while JCA has considerable industry insider knowledge as its key personnel have worked with and for many of the largest publishers at the highest level, and for the greater part of their careers.
The intention of the Partnership is to pool resources, knowledge and experience with a view to providing publishers with the very best consultancy and solutions for monetising the digital side of their business and achieving enduring success online.
To assuage any fears for existing customers, this is to be a working partnership where both companies remain entirely independent. Affino's existing publishing clients can avail themselves of JCA's expertise and insights. For customers active in other sectors, there will be no discernible changes at all.
Affino and JCA are dedicated to creating the very best online experiences for customers and service providers alike. Both partners share an ethos of close and collaborative relationships working towards common goals. We firmly believe this partnership will be invaluable for publishing companies wanting to transform their businesses to succeed in this digital age.
You can contact Jonathan Collins of JCA on +44 (0)20 3393 3240 or by sending an email to firstname.lastname@example.com
IMRG and Affino have been working together since the turn of the year to produce an Ecommerce benchmarking system that will allow for a fully-automated data collection and analysis process. The new service will be embedded on a client's website, using a smart code and revolutionary sampling algorithms driven through the Affino Social Commerce platform. Retailers will be able to compare performance with their sector peers - including metrics such as conversion rates, average order values and checkout abandonment – in order to improve their business. Users of the service will be able to access the daily index at any time, a process that will become the barometer for the Ecommerce industry and measuring sector performance. Graeme Howe, Managing Director of IMRG, said: "This new dynamic benchmarking service will be revolutionary for our members, and we're really excited to see them get so closely involved. Beta testing has been going really well." The smart sampling provides accurate trends without affecting the performance of a client's website. The official launch date for the new service will be announced in due course.
[view official posting on IMRG.org]
You should have already read that publishers' traditional revenue streams of advertising and subscription are not really translating into online success - there's too much free stuff online, so subscriptions and connected advertising revenues are turning out to be relatively low yield. Some publishers are pinning their hopes on Native Advertising - i.e. Advertorials by another name - but most savvy consumers have already learnt to spot and avoid clicking on those also. In my previous blog post I pointed to smart brand advocacy - Endorsement and Product Placement as being the most likely future for advertising. So what is left to publishers - what does the future of publishing hold?
As I see it, pushed content has limited scope for delivering revenues on its own, or in tandem with any kind of advertising - even in conjunction with smart endorsements and product placements. Publishers need to be thinking more about their subscribers as members, and start providing connected member services - to service the entire vertical space for that membership. A key component to any modern business is 'Engagement' - i.e. how businesses connect with and make themselves relevant to their customers on an ongoing basis - this will ongoingly mean delivering interactive member services.
You pretty much need to think on an almost cradle-to-grave progression when targeting say a professional sector / vertical. Starting with your likely members' education needs, then career / recruitment, category intelligence and training, seminars and events, marketplace, networking and collaboration. The intended audience must feel that they are joining a professional members club which will forward their lifestyle experiences / career opportunities and thus significantly improve their quality of life. People go to well-connected schools and join highly-networked member clubs to ensure better jobs and brighter, more successful futures.
It's easy to find professional analogies and examples, one of the very best examples is triple PPA award-winner Procurement Leaders, which dominates the Chief Procurement Officers vertical. Procurement Leaders' unique combination of interactive membership services puts them in an almost unassailable position. At its heart, Procurement Leaders is a publishing business - delivering news alerts,
The demise of traditional publishing media is well documented, and barely a month goes by without another title disappearing from the news-stand. The move to digital is now quite a few generations old, and it's quite evident that for most publishers, simple subscription and advertising alone do not generate sufficient revenues online.
Publishers have to look for other sources of revenue, and the more successful ones are more and more reliant on value-added member services. Much of this involves increased granularity in personalisation, and the ability to offer up additional content and services at a very highly targeted level. The very best sites can now offer unique customer journeys on a per-user basis, where each member's individual needs are fully catered for in a single seamless experience.
Most Publishers need to be thinking a lot smarter, and on more holistic terms - as to what sort of experience they can provide to their membership / readership. The following list details the key services / potential sources of revenue available:
A great example of a Publisher which is already pursuing such an agenda is triple PPA award winner Procurement Leaders. The ever-evolving Procurement Leaders website is the new industry standard in 360° personalised member services - already providing all of the above and continuously striving to improve its offerings.
Much of Procurement Leaders' success is to do with their great vision of what is possible, but also the empowering nature of the Affino Social Commerce Solution which enables and powers their ambitions.
On March 21, the Professional Publishers Association (PPA) brought together a panel of leading-edge technology providers to discuss the challenges, opportunities and trends - chiefly on the subject of how best to monetize digital content. The Digital Leaders Network will be convened periodically to confer on the best way forward for the publishing industry.
After helping Procurement Leaders win 3 PPA awards last year, including 'PPA Independent Publisher Digital Product of the Year'- Markus had plenty to share with the panel on how we at Affino help publishing companies achieve their online potential.
Which digital platform you choose to run your online business on, and how flexible and capable that platform is, is obviously a key concern for future success.
Publishing is still in the throes of a major step-change in the move to digital technologies, and most publishing companies' futures are at stake - the right choice of approach and platform to the forthcoming challenges will decide which companies thrive, and which wither and fade away...
A recent Econsultancy feature discussed the challenges Integration poses for business growth. No matter what type of website / online business you run, there's likely some need for Integration to provide you with the full solution you require. Ecommerce websites typically have a large number of Integration requirements - I have listed the key areas below. Integration is often a costly and time-consuming activity, and one which needs to be maintained in perpetuity. There are of course a number of different Integration strategies, and consumers should be well aware that not all systems are created equal. Here below, I outline the 4 key considerations for businesses to think about before starting down the long road of Integration.
It pays dividend to have full oversight of your business requirements at the start of your project process. There are some very different systems in the marketplace, and some will be far better tailored to your needs than others. It almost goes without saying that some degree of Integration will be required, but the more holistic a core solution is, the lesser the up-front cost. With a solution like the Affino Social Commerce Platform, most of the key Integration Areas are already catered for. For instance, you may not choose to use the Affino CRM Component in the longer-term, but you can make use of it in the first phases of your roll-out while you build up your business. Having more elements of your overall solution included in the core system greatly reduces costs and overheads - and makes for a simpler owneship experience.
Many companies we deal with are tempted to do too much, too soon - that is to say, to fit too much into phase one of their project - this can be both a costly and risky strategy - as well as being time-consuming. With a solution like Affino though - where there's a large
Our Affino Social Commerce Solution - soon to be version 7.5, has been around for a lot longer than many realise, and has quite an illustrious history. This article is intended to illuminate some of the highlights from Affino's past evolution - especially for those who have not yet had the pleasure of experiencing Affino.
The roots of Affino go back to Markus's (Affino CEO) consultancy years of 1997/8 where Affino evolved out of the somewhat more rigid 'Sunrise' Platform, which Markus developed to run websites for Audi, Casio and Carrera Technology. The original Carrera Technology implementation has continued to influence the development of Affino, as it really was a state-of-the-art Ecommerce experience of that time, with a series of advanced specifier steps in the checkout process, and real-time inventory integration and delivery management - pretty state-of-the-art for 1998.
The company Emojo (a precursor to Comrz, with several of the same staff) was founded in 1998 with a view to developing 'Sunrise' into a more modular platform that would be easier to implement, and most importantly - be easy to manage by customers. Right from the offset, the intention was to build the best system for selling online. There was always a long term goal of creating a full-featured modular hub, with essential plug-and-play functionality at its core, and simultaneously empowering site owners to take full control of their entire online business and to maximise their revenues through the Internet.
A key cornerstone to doing business online is the ability to sustain complex, long-term dialogues and interactions with customers. This is why, right from the start, Affino came fully loaded with social-interaction capabilities. In the early years, Ecommerce took a bit of a back seat, while the social engagement core of the system was being finessed.
Flash has largely come and gone, as has Affino IPTV and numerous other innovations of their time, which have since been replaced with ever-evolving contemporary technologies like Responsive Design and the Automated Customer Ladder. The future direction for Affino is always guided by finding the best balance between empowerment, total technical ability, seamlessness, learnability and simplicity. Affino has always been developed with the intention of delivering the
Affino 7.4 is very much a usability focused release which includes six months' worth of usability improvements and bug fixes. There are key usability improvements throughout Affino and the CRM in particular has been transformed in its day-to-day usability with this release.
Affino 7.4 also introduces two new significant behind the scenes changes. The first is that everything now points to affino.com, the second is the shift for the Design Centre to be the Classic Design Centre. You should not notice any changes with these two introductions except they're pointing at different locations.
This release also prepares much of the groundwork for Affino 7.5 which sees the introduction of the responsive design centre later this quarter.
The Affino 7.4 is very much a stability release and is an essential update for all Affino sites. It is an easy update, simply go through the standard update process. You will need a new licence key to access the updated Social CRM elements so please contact your account manager.
It is essential that you run through the complete update process starting with the Affino Updater, followed by the System Update, Re-Initialise Site, Design Element Update, Skin Update and finally Clear Guest Cache; all of which are available on the Settings > Update screen.
Social CRM
Affino's Social CRM has seen major improvements in this release with the focus on improving the sales workflows and productivity. It means it is now easier to work with prospects as they are created as non-members and then seamlessly transitioned to full members when they register, bringing along all the pre-registration contact history. A major focus has been on minimising the steps required to manage prospects, e.g. entering the details on the contact for a new Account will instantly create the account.
Finding contacts is now much easier as you can tag them to your 'My' list anywhere with simply a click. When searching and you select a user from the predictive drop-down you will be taken to them immediately.
We also introduced Contact Notes which let you easily track any correspondence with the contact. These are then instantly trackable to Accounts and to a centralised Contact Notes screen. Future upgrades will see
Increasingly Affino training involves conversations on how to get started with SEO, here's the Quick Start guide on SEO with Affino. SEO is one of the three key ways to promote your site.
This is Not an in-depth guide on how to use each of the Affino elements or on specific SEO strategies, rather it is to help you get started with the basics, i.e. a 'What to do' rather than a 'How to'. Some of which happens in Affino, and some of which happens externally.
The first thing you need to do is to create your brand profile, or update it to include the essentials outlined by Stefan in his great 'Creating the Perfect Brand Profile' article.
Based on your Brand Strategy identify the initial keywords you want to promote. These are based around your products, services and more importantly on what you would search for to find your products and services. Essentially these are your target customers' interests.
Build up a hierarchy of keywords (Topics) in a simple indented list, just starting off in a Word document, e.g.
You'll use this to help identify the key word and terms you'll be promoting your site on.
The Essentials are: Personality, Unique Content and Currentsy, see my post here. If you don't get these right, forget about any of what I've outlined below. You'll just be wasting your time and money.
If you have them covered, and are committed to them, then they will be the cornerstone of a great site.
Update your Zone so you have the right site information and SEO settings. You can always change these, but get the basics set up straight away. Make certain your site Keywords are in place.
Turn on logging so that you have the essential data available to you in your Affino Analysis Centre. This will allow you to evaluate your future campaigns.
Update the Zone (your site information) to be as relevant as possible. Make sure you're using the best domain as your Zone Domain and
2014 is going to be an exciting year for Affino. Q1 will see the Affino 7.5 release, which introduces the new Responsive Page Designs. These have been a long time coming, but the wait will be worth it. To provide the best experience we went right back to the drawing board for how we serve live pages in Affino so that we could produce the very best responsive interfaces.
In fact Responsive Design is the main priority for the first 6 months of 2014 and everyone should look to be rolling out fully responsive sites on Affino by the end of 2014. We will continue to support the Classic Designs, and you will be able to run the Classic Design Centre alongside the new one until Affino 8.
As usual note that the priorities are subject to change, however we do anticipate a significant pick up in the rollout of new updates once the new Responsive Design Centre is complete. It will be the culmination of a four year plan we've been working through to delivering ultimate cross-platform social commerce experience.
The new responsive page rendering engine is being written entirely scratch using an object oriented approach which is seeing page generation times up to 10 times faster. The pages themselves also render dramatically faster on the browsers, and we are optimising every part of the process to ensure the fastest mobile experience possible.
The new Object Designer allows you to design and preview designs across multiple form factors with unlimited undo and redo whilst designing. Updated Design Styles now incorporate Form Styles and have been greatly extended to allow for very tightly styled sites including auto-scaling of fonts.
Every single Design Element, Template and application interface is optimised around responsive resizing and cross device usability.
To get the new Responsive Design Centre to you as soon as possible we will be staging the introduction of responsive elements. Phase One sees the roll out of the promotional elements so that you can design and roll out promotional sites (including most social elements), this will be followed by the ecommerce elements and then the remainder.
2013 saw the Control Centre consolidated around the new Affino 7 interface, which is both very usable and presentable. 2014 will see a major focus
2013 was a year of two halves for Affino development. The first half was primarily focused on the Affino user experience and the second half has been focused on creating a new Responsive Design front-end for Affino which is due for launch in Q1 this year. Along the way Affino saw some great improvements.
We built Affino to scale this year, and to scale at speed without needing any human intervention. This meant major architectural changes where we changed virtually every platform that Affino was running on, or where we kept the same platform we moved to the latest generation.
We also focused on optimising many key aspects of Affino so that it is faster across the board. We have carried on in the second half of the year, and Affino's upcoming responsive design pages are stunningly fast. We know you appreciate the speed improvements you already see, so be prepared to be delighted when you move to responsive.
Prior to 2013 our focus on uptime had been to make Affino run as effectively as possible on fixed hardware. The reality is that approach is not the best way to develop for the Internet. There are simply too many opportunities for systems to be 'shocked'. Moving to the new generation auto-failover and auto-scaling architecture, and focusing on up-time for the user versus up-time for individual systems has made all the difference.
For high performance Affino sites there has been precisely 0% downtime since the launch of the new architecture. For entry-level Affino sites the uptime has been as high as 99.98%. In fact from the human interaction standpoint in almost all down-time events since the transition a new system has been in place by the time the user hits the re-load button on the browser.
When taken together, the great performance improvements and incredible uptime, it means that Affino is now always there to deliver a fast and effective experience to all users.
Messaging saw a complete overhaul with new Message Campaigns for mass, personal and SMS campaigns. We split up the old newsletter system to separate out the mailing lists and the message campaigns, and it has transformed how you can communicate with your community through Affino.
Message Campaigns can now be used not only to send occasional manual
Over the last 12 months, we have heard a lot about the need for replatforming, owing to game changers and paradigm shifts in the online retail industry. The chiefest of these is the increasing consumer shift to mobile devices and the need to provide a seamless high-level customer experience across all channels of involvement. Responsive Design will of course be essential, but there are several other key criteria which will need to be seriously considered too.
Here follows a quick checklist vs your current platform as to whether you need to change-up to a more powerful engine to grow your business effectively in 2014:
According to IMRG, in 2013 it was mobile devices that were responsible for the net growth in eCommerce - you need Responsive Design to be able to provide your customers with a seamless experience across all their chosen touchpoints.
Can you update content. structure. layout, design and campaigns without agency assistance? Speed of reaction is critical of course to maintaining a healthy competitive advantage, and if you can do more yourself you save on overheads...
Are your customers actively engaged on your sites - by means of social and participative functionalities? Customers need a platform for communication and participation, they want a voice, and are no longer content to just pass silently through checkout.
It is essential for marketing effectiveness to be able to target each customer demographic with their perfect experience on a dedicated and relevant domain. Failure to provide a high-level dedicated experience will mean customers look elsewhere for satisfaction.
It is inevitable that the website front-end will need to be integrated with key back-office technologies, for many platforms this can be a very high-level overhead experience. Indeed, for many platforms this can be the chief bugbear and often means the web team spends more time managing the system than developing and evolving the customer experience.
A successful retail platform requires ongoing customer incentivisation and activity triggers, relatively
You will have noticed that we're fully embracing the Affino brand. Up until now we have had Comrz front and centre and Affino has very much been the product brand.
To make everything simpler and more effective we will now be focusing on just the Affino brand, and all of our engagement will be through Affino and affino.com. The company will remain as Comrz Ltd, but will be trading as Affino.
It will take most of January for the switch to be completed, but it is already well under way. Let us know what you think.
We would like to thank everyone for a great 2013. We welcome on board splendid new Affino users, and celebrate the amazing success that so many of you are seeing with your online engagement and revenue growth.
It has been a year when we've seen some great site evolutions and have started to see Affino sites win major awards. In particular Procurement Leaders with three PPA awards (the UK publishing Oscars). We continue to see Affino sites evolve towards their potential and we'll work with you to help you get the maximum benefit from your online presence over the coming year.
This year has been a great transitional year for Affino with the first half of the year focused on the Big Bang move to the new super scaling high availability version of Affino. From your feedback we know that you're appreciating the solid improvements in uptime and performance.
Online business has been evolving more gradually over the year and the improved stability in the ecosystem means that for the first time we've been able to slow down the release cycle somewhat, something that we know many of you appreciate. Looking ahead we're aiming to bring out just three to four major release each year, compared to the 6+ we have been historically.
There have been a number of key enhancements to Affino this year including the greatly enhanced Analysis Centre with the updated Customer Ladder, Ecommerce Dashboards and greatly increased timeframes for all analytics. Messaging had the biggest evolution to-date with greatly improved messaging campaigns, SMS integration and improved auto-responders.
Invites and relationship management have both been transformed this year, in fact it is now easier to look up, select and connect throughout Affino. Affino's look and feel also improved considerably with more refined styling options, Design Panels and greater ability to use custom CSS.
The second half of this year has been all about developing Affino into being a cutting edge responsive design platform that works seamlessly across all devices. Like many good things it's taking longer than we had hoped to bring you the first responsive release, but the long baking period will be worth the wait.
This year has been very much a transitional
Hearty Congratulations to Procurement Leaders on winning their third PPA award in a year - 'PPA Independent Publisher Digital Product of the Year'.
The Affino-run site has now garnered 3 major awards since September:
2013 - PPA Digital Brand of the Year - Business Media - Winner2013 - PPA Business Media Brand of the Year - Winner2013 - PPA Independent Publisher Digital Product of the Year - Winner
The core web team, including Web Manager Quang Luong and Web Developer Sebastian Salcedo deserve high praise for all the hard work and diligence that's gone into making Procurement Leaders the Digital Product of the Year. Quang Luong kindly acknowledges Affino's part in their success:
"Affino provides us with a set of tools and platform enabling us to deliver our award-winning website - recently winning the PPA Independent Publisher Digital Product of the Year 2013"
Get further insights on the road to success by reading the 'Procurement Leaders Case Study'.
Many people don't realise quite how many ways you can have to derive revenues through your online presence. In this article we focus on generating revenues from and through a website and its associated online activities. There are other ancillary monetizing streams like App creation and merchandising, but these typically require additional resources and expertise so they are omitted on this occasion.
We always encourage our solution customers to consider their own consumers' onsite journeys. Obviously you have several different types of consumer: Suspect > Prospect > Customer > Regular > Advocate - and each will use the website in their own different variety of ways. Early stage consumers are more interested in prospecting, research and validation, whilst latter stage consumers require their own voice and a dialogue / input with the site owners and other site members.
It's fascinating to see how Amazon, Apple and Google have evolved their offerings and ramped up their customer bases. If we take Amazon as an example - with its gradual evolution from hard copy to digital formats (eBooks, Music & Video) and the creation of devices (Kindle) to consume those services. Apple and Google have always been digital players so their evolution was much more straight-lined. Although each has come from the opposite side of the spectrum - Apple moving from digital devices (computers initially) into digital services, whilst Google evolved the other way round - from services into devices. All three companies though are highly proficient at monetizing different touchpoints and activity centres.
All website owners should be tuned into a similar mindset - if you are a solid products player, you need to evolve digital offerings as the marketplace is becoming more and more 'mobile-oriented'. As a digital services provider - which category all websites fall into now, you cannot get away from focusing on the mobile devices with which consumers will increasingly consume your products and services.
Most people think of monetizing in terms of either straightforward ecommerce or advertising sponsorship. There are however many more ways to accrue revenues if you have the correct type of website platform. Here are some of the key examples:
How quickly you can react to market forces is usually the dividing line between success and failure. Every opportunity is fleeting, and rarely are you the only one competing for said opportunity. In marketing, first mover advantage is often the key to seizing the deal. How much you can do in-house at but a moment's notice is therefore crucial for your success rate.
If you have read 'Maxmising Revenue #1' - you will know that Gill & Macmillan attribute the ability to create new targeted sites on new domains at will, as a significant cornerstone of their recent success. For BIBA Medical, the ability to take charge and make swift changes has been key to their online growth, as Web Manager David Reekie notes: "The best thing about running BIBA Medical on Affino is that I have total hands-on control over every aspect of our business on the Internet".
When you read the two recently published Case Studies (BIBA Medical and Irish Books Direct), you will see the importance the Web Managers place on being able to do everything themselves. In a forthcoming case study from Human Kinetics, they talk about the significant challenges their web development team faced when running their sites prior to Affino. Every single change, new promotion or campaign had to go through the development team - the support burden was getting to a point of unsustainability. Post Affino transition, Human Kinetics now have category editors empowered through workflows, and marketing personnel who can trigger their own campaigns without needing to bother development. Development can now focus on innovating and delivering a better service with Affino.
'Empowerment' has always been one of Affino's core values - the ability of small teams of individuals to take control over vast Affino portals. Affino's Empowerment is best explained by the 10 following benefits:
Christmas is a scary time of year for many shoppers as they have to buy gifts for the extended family - some members of which they don't know particularly well. Even though it's customary to ask recipients what they would like to receive, there is still usually a plethora of vague messages which leave a heavy burden on the shopper.
There are two ways to help out such shoppers, and usually two quite different types of shoppers actually. The first way is to set up manual recommendations - in terms of simple Bestsellers Lists or Recommended Gifts within fixed themes. I know some of my family members who shop this way - i.e. what's the most popular within a category. It's also the lazy way out for both retailers and shoppers alike, and often a surefire way to give someone something they may have already. For Retailers though it is a quick and easy fix, as you can usually create recommended product selections by simply assigning existing products and multi-displaying them into new seasonal categories.
The second route is one in which John Lewis in particular has always excelled at - which is in making recommendations to shoppers based on specified input criteria. If you view the Toys sections of their site for instance, you get to filter by Age, Brand, Character, Type, Boys' Toys and Girls' Toys. This is never more important than at Christmas when so many shoppers are venturing out into unknown territory. Most shoppers do care also about what they are giving and would like to be in a position to make the best choices.
The way John Lewis and our own Affino Social Commerce Solution achieve these kinds of recommendations is via careful Topics Assignment, such that every product available on site is assigned defining Topics - gender, age, occasion, theme etc. This allows shoppers to filter products / gifts on precise criteria. Moreover the topics can be used to create 'Topic Landing Pages' where all products in the same category can be grouped and displayed together for increased impact.
Smaller retailers can compete with the likes of John Lewis by applying their Topics criteria more finely, and more creatively - by using personal knowledge to highlight specific categories of products which are not specified in such a way on other retail sites. If there is a big Christmas movie for
This post was prompted by an email we received last week stating - "How much do you lose to cart abandonment?" - from a certain something company offering a very specific solution for spotting, analysing and dealing with abandoned shopping carts. This highlights two very different approaches to eCommerce sites in general - most of the sites out there are what we would determine fragmented 'bolt-ons' - i.e. a core eCommerce / checkout system with lots of 3rd party integrations - difficult to set-up, manage or evolve. The Affino Social Commerce Solution is a much more holistic approach, as all the essential tools and utilities are included and built into the very core of the system.
Most people don't realise quite how much is available on-tap in Affino, so here follow some of the less obvious included elements - which very much sit within the areas of Sales and Marketing Automation and Social Utilities, all of these of course help with maximising revenues, improving customer retention and generating repeat sales:
This is simply one of the many triggers within Affino's Messaging solution - others include: Purchase, Login, Birthday and Conversion Event - all despatched fully automatically to incentivise customers
Part of Affino's Customer Ladder solution, there are currently 42 trigger types with subsets, including: Cancelled Purchase, Friend Bought from Invite, Item added to Basket, Item added to Wishlist and of course Purchase - these can auto-despatch a variety of messages, or trigger coupons, discounts, store credits or other rewards
You can assign any Conversion Event to a Lead Generation Profile, which logs resultant leads and sends notifications to the appointed Leads Manager/s
Another essential Conversion Event utility, where any conversion even can trigger a content subscription - such that customers get notification whenever a new product is added to a specified category
Based on topics assignment and registered user preferences / likes, Affino recommends content, media, products, contacts and events - so customers get more of what they like - and so do you
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The Sun Club in Tempe. Mad Gardens on Van Buren. The Stumble Inn down in Tucson. In another lifetime (read: more than 25 years ago) these and a dozen other scuzzy dives around Arizona were all ground zero for punk rock.Flash forward to present day and many of the aforementioned spots have lo ... More >>
2012 is looking to be a comeback year for infamous Phoenix-born "deathrock" combo The Mighty Sphincter. The mythic band -- part of the same Placebo Records scene that birthed JFA, International Language, and many, many more -- has always been lead by songwriter Doug Clark, and he says that ... More >>
Over the past couple weeks I interviewed key members of the early '80s Phoenix skate punk. The results, printed in this week's issue, coincide with this weekend's JFA 30th Anniversary show at Hollywood Alley. Everyone I spoke to was funny, insightful, and has a genuine lifers; people doing it ... More >>
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Bravo to Mayor-elect Cranley for considering a more cost-effective alternative to the "Streetcar to Financial Ruin." I would encourage him to take advantage of Cincinnati Metro's knowledge to establish circulator bus routes between major parking lots and attractions. Encourage Metro to purchase the greenest, most efficient, modern, small buses with bike racks available, rather than […]
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Following the departures of coordinators Mike Zimmer and Jay Gruden what appears for now to be the final component of the Bengals musical chairs on the coaching staff was put into place Thursday.
The team announced it hired Brian Braswell to the assistant offensive line/quality control position previously held by Kyle Caskey. Caskey took over as running backs coach with Hue Jackson being promoted to offensive coordinator.
Braswell worked at Morehouse College since 2005. The last six years he served as the Offensive Line Coach/Run Game Coordinator.
Interestingly, his connection with the Bengals came this past season joining the team as part of the NFL Bill Walsh Minority Internship coaching program.
"Brian is an energetic guy who finds ways to contribute, and we're happy to add him on for 2014," said Marvin Lewis. "We were very impressed with the work he put in for us in the offseason and training camp last year."
Braswell will work closely with Assistant Head Coach/Offensive Line Coach Paul Alexander and also handle other game preparation duties.
At Morehouse, he also coached the field goal and extra point teams and he developed and installed strength programs for athletes at the school.
Braswell also gained NFL experienced as a spring/summer intern with the Pittsburgh Steelers in 2010.
The 35-year-old Braswell's hometown is College Park, Ga. He attended Hampton (Va.) University, where he played center and tackle on the football team.
This hire looks to complete the coaching carousel and round out the Bengals staff entering the offseason.
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Hey guys, given Paul McGann's wonderful performance at The Night of the Doctor. I've managed to create a petition so maybe, just maybe, we could get an 8th doctor's series. PLEASE SIGN THIS, ASK YOUR GRANDMA, YOUR DOG, YOUR FRIENDS, YOUR ENEMIES. EVERYONE MUST SIGN THIS BECAUSE IT NEEDS TO HAPPEN WHILE PAUL IS UP AND KICKING! HE HASN'T AGED SO MUCH AND HE'S STILL ABLE TO PLAY THE PART! COME OOOOON.
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"Around the Library in 30 Days!" Library Card Challenge
September is National Library Card Sign-Up Month, and the Lima Public Library Youth Services Department will be celebrating with a fun and interactive game challenge to our young patrons, preschool - 5th grade. Kids collect stamps in their "Library Passport" by completing library-related activities and questions during their library visits in September and using their library cards to check out different kinds of library materials for youth. Kids who complete the game will be entered into a prize drawing for a private pizza and movie party at the Library for up to 6 fr
Cherie Dupler Holding Book Signing on September 11, 2014
Cherie Dupler will sell signed copies of her new book, Mable's Girl, at the main library on Thursday, September 11, from 5-7 p.m., on the main floor. If you enjoy inspirational family stories, interspersed with humor, you will likely enjoy this book.


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The inspiration for this salad comes from kisir, my favorite Turkish salad, made of bulgur, fresh vegetables and lots of fresh herbs. In my salad, I roasted the vegetables and tossed them with cooked wheat berries and lots of fresh herbs. A splash of olive oil, lemon juice and pomegranate paste and you will not want anything else for the […]READ MORE →
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I went to a Russian school in Azerbaijan. Or to be more precise, it was a mixed school, with half of the students getting their education in the Russian language, with the other half – in Azeri. I was in the Russian half. I remember how as a schoolgirl I was enamored with the writing of the Russian writer Aleksandr […]READ MORE →
Another summer is slowly coming to a close. I can't believe how fast it's been fading away this year. To say goodbye to summer and to welcome fall, I made this fusion salad in which I used a colorful array of fresh summer vegetables along with marinated mushrooms and pickled cucumbers, both clearly suited better for fall or winter, at […]READ MORE →
Tri-Color Bell pepper salad is one of my favorite summer salads. It is very simple and refreshing. In this salad, red, yellow and orange bell peppers are first roasted, then mixed with fresh herbs, garlic, lemon juice and olive oil. I like to use peppers of different colors as this really makes for an attractive salad, but either color alone […]READ MORE →
Dear friends, Thank you so much for all your lovely comments and wishes you left on my previous post! Here I am again. Up and running, not on my new blog as I promised and thought I would be, but on this old blog of mine I love so much I can't say good bye to. With that said, today […]READ MORE →
When I had just launched my blog a little more than 4 months ago, I didn't know I would soon be receiving emails from around the world from people who at one point in their lives happened to be in Azerbaijan, whether for work or for travel. Some share their stories about the country, some write about their experience with […]READ MORE →
Last time my mother-in-law visited us, she gave me all of her recipe notebooks full of the recipes she has collected over years. It is a special collection and I am going to hand it down to my daughter when she grows up, provided she develops a passion for cooking just like her grandma and … all the modesty aside… […]READ MORE →
My spinach repertoire continues. This time I added a spinach salad I learned from my dear friend Asli. They came over for dinner the other day. The table was set… but I was missing a salad. I had a bag of baby spinach sitting in my refrigerator and Asli suggested we make spinach salad with walnuts, cheese and apples. The […]READ MORE →
I wrote earlier that my favorite vegetable is eggplant. But I have a favorite fruit, too. POMEGRANATE! In California, Farmers Markets, some grocery stores carry this fruit, usually during the pomegranate season, which is around November-February. During that time I run from store to store in search of the juiciest, largest, cutest pomegranates! Then I bring them home and with […]READ MORE →


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A battle over the crapper is underway at the studio where "X Factor" and "Dancing with the Stars" are taped ... rife with allegations of toilet squatting ... and TMZ has obtained a photo of the sign that set the whole thing off.
Both shows tape at the legendary CBS Studios in Hollywood -- and recently, one of the common restrooms contained a sign with the "X Factor" logo.
Someone named Rob who works at "Dancing with the Stars" felt the "X Factor" people were claiming the bathroom as their own ... so he left an angry note right on the door which reads, "These restrooms are for everyone. If you have a problem with that, come see me. I'm on stage 46. Just ask for Rob. I'm the 6' 3" black man."
An "X Factor" spokeswoman told the NY Post the show wants to extend an olive branch to the note writer ... saying, "Please tell Rob he's welcome to use our restrooms anytime!"
I thought we arent supposed to fear Black People. This man is insinuating we should, given he's the one that mentioned color. Front knee kick disables these types instantly, irregardless of their size, on in his case, color. Citing your height (or color) means nothing, if one knows how to deal with such imbeciles. They're always expecting the left cross---and suddenly their knee buckles. Guess we're all equal where it really counts. Weak knees.
I guess he wrote that last part about himself to let people know if they say anything to him, he will cry racism like they all do. waaaaa waaaa And we all know the outcome when a black cries racism, Mr. Whitey gets fired.
Sounds like the note writer is racist. We blast people for using the race card for negative incidents, or when they say anything about black people and rage or whatever. He wrote this letter saying his being black should intimidate you. So it's only okay to call black people intimidating when it's to their advantage? Why not blast him TMZ?
I like his style. ; )
I don'*****ch either show.
@ArtofWar... your fighting game is week. Come back when you're schooled in the Art of Breaking Bones.
Hey, Insecure-But-Tall-Rob, after you're done using the head, I have the name of a writing tutor I'd like for you to meet. She can really help you to solve your severe capitalization and punctuation issues. Using a marker is a wee bit different than texting. Ciao, 6'3"!
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What a jerk. And wtf does him being black have to do with anything? He should be fired.
Are we sure Rob isn't Kardashian and the 6'3 black man isn't Lamar Odom?
please tell Rob that the politically correct term for "black man" is Afro-American man. However, black man sounds more intimidating and that's probably what Rob was going for.
Doesn't sound like much of an olive branch if the X factor dweeb is still implying he owns the restrooms.
Why did Rob think it was important to tell everyone the color of his skin? are people supposed to be afraid of this clown because he is black? If he hits someone and they press charges against him, big bad Rob would be arrested no matter what the color of his skin is?
WOW. And people wonder why there is racism in our country.


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If you thinking of getting into devices, don't forget WD. It would be great to be able to turn on my WD TV Live Plus, select VODO and stream Pioneer One.
VODO extends reach to consumer devices via BitTorrent Inc.
Forbes' Oliver Chiang reports on VODO partner BitTorrent's move towards becoming embedded in devices like Blu-Ray and DVD players, digital TVs and tablets:
Users will be able to share BitTorrent-certified content between the devices by burning DVDs or through a wireless connection.
… The new client sports a new user-interface that emphasizes the discovery, playing and sharing of media to woo over more users. It will also have new features like a media player, and an app on Android smartphones and tablets that will allow users to download and control media through those mobile devices. In the demo, it all seemed to run pretty smoothly. The question on my mind, then, was what sort of content would I want to watch with BitTorrent?
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if you have the privilege of being neutral and you do it and stay silent, it only benefits the oppressors
your neutrality is literally never going to help those who are being crushed by an oppressive system
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Favre was hinting around that he was about to hang it up. It made sense to find his eventual replacement.
Elway brought Manning in to win now. Shouldn't they do whatever is necessary to make that happen?
It's like needing a car. So you go out and buy a Maserati. And then instead of buying gas for it, you go out and buy a horse . Now it would be awesome and totally worth it if that horse turned out to be the next Seabiscuit, but in the meantime your stuck with a stalled Maserati sitting in the driveway with a pigeon that looks a little like Bill Belichick crapping all over it.
I've completely lost track of my analogy...
At least Elway got rid of that station wagon with the
bumper sticker.
Peyton was coming off a major injury and is 36....which was the reason why a lot of posters were whining when they signed him....so it would make sense to draft his eventual replacement too correct?
Well the first thing they did to achieve the goal of winning now was sign Manning....unless you think we would have been closer not signing Manning, and keeping Tebow while drafting defense and signing FA's. As for the moves they have made, they upgraded our TE's, drafted RB depth and a potential HR hitter in Hillman, drafted a DT in Wolfe, our secondary by signing Porter and Adams.
and your analogy is confusing....maybe it's me. I guess you were trying to say what good does it do for us to have a HoF QB and much better offense if the defense sucks...well, I guess about as much as an improved defense would be with the same stone age 3 yards and a cloud of dust offense
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Vermont Organ Donor Registry grows by 700 percentStaff Report | January 23,2013BURLINGTON — Take my heart, please.
The Vermont Organ Donor Registry has announced an almost 700 percent increase in registered donors since the start of 2012.
The registry and its social initiative Donate Life Vermont started that year with 2,896 registered organ and tissue donors in Vermont, and by Jan. 1 of this year the registry had grown to over 23,000.
The registry, which started in 2010, credits multiple factors for the growth, such as Facebook's announcement this year of a partnership with Donate Life America to spread the word about organ donation.
The registry also partnered with the DMV this year to register when getting an enhanced driver's license.
The registry says more than 116,000 people are waiting for a life-saving organ transplant, and this list includes more than 100 Vermonters.
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Yes, I went off Prozac about 10 days ago. I went on it in June to try and curb the binge problem. Yes, at 20 mg it made me feel better, but I was still bingeing. I tried 40 mg and it made me not care about anything. I felt like a zombie. I went back to 20 mg, but then I noticed that I was gaining weight. I went up 20 lbs from June to August. Even when I was able to string together 14 clean days, I never got back to my pre prozac weight.
Am I depressed? Are some of these overwhelming feelings Prozac withdrawal? I don't know. Things are tough right now in my life. I will know better in a few days. TOM is ending and I hope to get a few solid days on plan.
I have tried 5htp but I am not sure it helped. Maybe now that I have Prozac experience I will see the difference. I still have the Mood Cure book, which I will re read.
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Timothy Simons of Strasburg was recognized for his academic achievements at his March 1 graduation from Universal Technical Institute in Exton, Pa.
Simons graduated with a 4.0 GPA and 98.96 percent attendance. He received five "Student of the Course" awards, earning the highest grade of the course, as well as 19 Directors List Awards. He is also nominated into the Alpha Beta Kappa Honor Society.


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