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Rated 4 out of 5 by Joanie15 from Colorful Focal Point This Rojo Red Tall Cabinet is a scene stealer in my living room. The rich red color is dramatic and goes with any decor. The color and height are pleasing to the eye. I installed cabinet lighting and, with the black interior, the light really shows off a nice collection of glass on the shelves. I also have nice sets of art and gardening books displayed on the shelves. I am considering one of the matching low red rojo cabinets to accommodate a record collection.
Date published: 2015-02-28
Rated 5 out of 5 by Billy from Gorgeous addition to our home! We already had the 46" media cabinet, but after moving into a larger space we naturally gravitated to this bookcase. It is a showpiece against our navy walls, and I/we could not be happier with this purchase.
Date published: 2015-02-24
Rated 1 out of 5 by Thaysa from Terrible Quality!!! Have received this cabinet for the second time in my house today 02/24/2015We bought in December month last year 2014, the first attempt to deliver my cabinet they fail, so We send it back, it has arrived with the glass door holders falling out, nothing that We could fix ourselves, the scru was damaged and the door holder was falling.At both doors there was big gap roles and the wood stick's that hold the glass was flexible, and very fragile, if you touch it moved back and front.This second time today, it just arrived with big cracks from the outside and inside a shelf was cracked and braked.I am so unhappy with this cabinet, and we have been waiting for a while to have it.I really thought that for the second delivery, The cabinet was going to be perfect, but it was even worse. How they did not inspect the product before they send it, out to deliver.IF YOU WANT GOOD QUALITY LIKE US, FOR SOMETHING THAT YOU PAY FOR IT, DONT BUY THIS PIECE.NO more....
Date published: 2015-02-24
Rated 5 out of 5 by Cospuck from "Rojo" - Terrific Bookcase This is a well-built and lovely looking item. It is functioning very well as a bookcase for our art books. Highly recommend!
Date published: 2015-02-19
Rated 5 out of 5 by Alysae from rustic, beautiful, perfect My husband and I fell in love with this at first sight. We went back to look at it often and I had it bookmarked in my phone so I could check on its availability on a regular basis. When the purchase of our new place was final we knew we had to do it. Our kitchen does not have quite enough storage so we knew we needed something to store our dishes. Our style is rustic, modern and this piece fits perfectly. It looks beautiful. It fits everything we need it too. We often come in and look at it and say "I still love it, its so gorgeous!
Date published: 2015-02-17
Rated 5 out of 5 by lannp from Perfect Have had my eye on this cabinet for quite some time. The color and distressed finish is wonderful. And it's slim depth, yet tall height, make it quite a statement. After reading reviews I expect I'd have to seriously wipe down the inside to remove a protective coating applied, but to my surprise, it was quite clean and ready to go. Be sure to secure it to the wall to avoid mishaps (I didn't load anything inside until that was completed). The pieces that hold the doors shut are a bit loose, but for me add to the character of the piece and it's perceived age. Delivery experience was fantastic, the men not only unpacked it but took the time to work with me on getting it level and in the right position, plus tooling all the packing with them as they left.Very happy with this piece.
Date published: 2015-02-17
Rated 5 out of 5 by Northcaro from Statement piece This bookcase is just what I wanted! Great quality, great function and great look. It really makes the room, while providing ample storage. I'd recommend to anyone
Date published: 2015-02-17
Rated 5 out of 5 by zenjunkie from Absolutely Stunning!! We purchased this from the Columbus branch and along with great customer service this purchase has continued to be the center of attention in our home. We use it as our main accent piece with warm brown, cream and red colors throughout our home. We continue to get compliments. All-in-all it is made with high craftsman ship. We are very happy and plan on adding more pieces from this collect.
Date published: 2015-01-15
Rated 5 out of 5 by LisaMack from Beautiful cabinet I had been looking for a hutch/cabinet to fill an empty space in my living room. I stumbled across this piece and fell in love. This piece of furniture demands attention. It is vibrant, rustic and with a great amount of storage space. I get so many compliments on it! I am still working on filling it but plan to put baskets in the bottom two shelves to "hide" some odds and ends. Overall, am very happy with the piece.
Date published: 2014-11-12
Rated 5 out of 5 by Jodi B from Beautiful I bought this for our dining room. The color and finish make this a functional statement piece that can be more formal or casual depending on the rest of your decor. Slight imperfections are built in to the finish, so no worries about kids touching it. It's sturdy and well made. It can be top heavy so be sure to anchor it to the wall. You can't adjust the shelves but the shelf heights allow for the display of large platters as well as stemware and shorter collectibles. It's beautiful and has a slight farmhouse feel while still looking warm and unique.
Date published: 2014-10-28
Rated 5 out of 5 by jayray58 from Perfect Red! My husband & I couldn't be happier with the Rojo Red Tall Cabinet. The color and size are perfect for our kitchen. The red compliments our floors and wall color, which is similar to the green shown in the kitchen in the on-line photos. The whole process from on-line purchase to delivery and set-up went very smoothly.
Date published: 2014-10-28
Rated 5 out of 5 by Gabi M from Love at First Sight We spotted this cabinet on the floor of the Boylston Street C&B in Boston, and we just knew it was the right multifunctional piece for our tiny apartment. We're always striving to find furniture that'll last and serve many purposes, and the Rojo tall cabinet fits the bill. Right now we're using the piece as a combination display cabinet and bookcase in the dining "area" of our apartment. It's quite tall, and so we're going to anchor it to the wall. I also bought a black non-adhesive shelf liner to protect our books (as recommended by C&B). The top doors are a little difficult to open, but quirks come with the design, and we're not too concerned. Also, the red color is deep and rich-- not bright or garish. It really is the statement piece that pulls our whole space together!
Date published: 2014-10-28
Rated 5 out of 5 by AshleyNJ from Love this piece!!! I absolutely love the Rojo cabinet! I bought this a few months ago as temporary storage in our condo Dining Room, and figured can use later for additional storage in another room when we move. It's beautiful, and large enough to store MANY items from my Bridal Shower. I have received many compliments on it. This is a piece that can be used in many ways. Highly recommend. And you can't beat the price for the size.
Date published: 2014-08-12
Rated 5 out of 5 by highdeeb from Big on space and visually gorgeous I got this cabinet because my kitchen has limited cabinet space and I wanted something that looked nice and could hold all our dishes and bowls. I love the way it looks with the bright red and dark interior. The unique worn look makes it feel like a beautiful antique as well. I am very happy with our purchase.
Date published: 2014-08-05
Rated 5 out of 5 by Ali_B from Beautiful! Loved this cabinet when I saw it on the website and loved it just as much when it arrived! The quality is good and it has a slightly distressed appearance to it. It really holds a lot of stuff. It's quite tall and seems a bit top heavy so it's definitely advisable to use the hardware provided to anchor it to the wall.
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The last few weeks have been all about the Chinook Salmon. Last year I missed the spawn, so this year I prepared early and followed the complete spawn.
The human made creek at the Rotary Eco Garden for Conservation and Recreation in Cornwall was completed in 1997. The creek runs off of the old Cornwall canal and into the St Lawrence River. Dr. Brian Hickey a research scientist with the St. Lawrence River Institute was one of the main contributors to the building and design of the Rotary Eco Garden.
Dr. Hickey's goal was habitat creation in an urban setting, an area that people and their children could go to and learn about the great out doors with out leaving the city.
Dr. Hickey and Myself.
Dr Hickey discovered the Chinook Salmon spawn in the Fall of 2000, The following year Dr. Hickey captured young-of-the-year Chinook Salmon on four separate occasions. Thus creating the first successful man made Chinook spawn on the St. Lawrence River. At no time was the creek ever stocked, the Salmon showed up and spawned on their own. It's believed the Chinook come from the Great Lakes. The Chinook are able to come through the dams but have a very slim chance of getting back up to the Great Lakes.
The video below shows what I thought was a dead Chinook. I went in the water to retrieve it and turns out it wasn't dead. This fish was at the mouth of the creek. The water at this time of year is painfully cold. I was in the water in jeans and shoes so I didn't have a lot of time to stay in the water.
That Salmon really caught me off guard, that fish was probably 20-25 lbs. The eyes were pretty much rotted right out, yet it still had enough left to swim away.
Below is a Chinook making it's way up the creek.
The Salmon spook very easily, I found one that wasn't camera shy and I was able to get close to shoot some underwater video.
What an amazing species of fish.
Below a small Salmon meets up with a very large one.
Bass and Perch have also made their way into the stream.
A small Perch I caught with my hand. The Cutlip Minnow also lives in the stream. Currently the Cutlip Minnow is a species at risk. The River Institute monitors this species and it is slowly making a come back thanks to the stream and the River Institute.
I pulled a nice Salmon out of the water, it was already dead, hopefully spawned out.
A few other spawned out Salmon.
The spawn usually involved 8-10 Salmon, this year was at least double of that. It's believed that the Salmon have adapted and sustained a population in the St Lawrence River. Instead of going to salt water the Salmon are staying put. The main reason is all the dams the fish would have to travel up to get from the freshwater to salt water.
Thousands of school children now visit this area yearly. The River Institute educates children all about fish and their ecosystems. There are many species of birds that call this area home as well.
That Blue Heron was huge, I was battling this big fella to get position on the shoreline.
The upper pond with condos in the back round. It's a real privilege to have this nestled in a city.
With the word getting out on the Salmon spawn, of course people want to ruin it. People have been fishing there and using other methods to catch the fish. It's taken 11 years to get to roughly 20 Salmon to spawn and it could only take a matter of seconds to destroy it. The River Institute is currently working with the City of Cornwall to get By Laws in place to help protect the spawn. The Salmon population is to fragile to have people removing the fish.
Somebody left the above Salmon on the dock near the spawn location. This was about 1 month before the spawn. The Salmon will hang out at the mouth until the water temperature is cold enough to spawn. That fish didn't get to spawn. I am not sure why someone would just leave it there, What a waste!
Another issue is people are damming up the stream.
The dams add extra stress to the Salmon trying to spawn.
That dead Salmon shows a lot of signs of wear and tear from climbing over dams to get up stream. Other Salmon that were inspected show similar markings or scratches.
Shoreline erosion was another issue with the dams.
With the permission from River Institute Staff I removed some of the dams.
With the cold water I couldn't get all the dams out, but I was able to get the water flowing evenly.
It doesn't take long to lose feeling in your feet and hands in the cold water. I am hoping that the Salmon will be able to run up the stream a little easier. At one point I was removing a dam and a River Institute employee was beside me when a Salmon swims by and rests against my leg for a few seconds. That was pretty awesome. This was the first Salmon spawn I've seen in real life so I was in aww most of the time.
What a great few weeks I had following these amazing fish. The power and determination of the Salmon to spawn to keep the species thriving is nothing short of marvelous.
A huge thank you to the St Lawrence River Institute and their staff for making the St Lawrence River and the Great Lakes a healthier fishery.
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Very nice hotel in a beautiful location!
Overcharged 38.00 service was not good. I will not stay there again. Unhappy with experience.1
Plenty of shopping in area. Staff was very friendly.
They have to keep an eye on the free breakfast. Once they were told about something, they fixed it right away.
This staff set the bar for courtesy, efficiency and speed.
We attended the Yellow Rose Memorial Wrestling event. Our stay was nice. The room was very clean and comfortable. The staff was very helpful and polite. We enjoyed the coffee and tea bar. We did not eat breakfast. I heard that it was very good though.
The only thing I did not care for were the small square pillows on the bed. They are uncomfortable and they go flat during the night. I would much rather have four standard size pillows. Other than that our stay was great!
Need some potatoes or something else with breakfast
Enjoyed the breakfast!
Wish i would have known the hotel was under constuction. He whole place smelled of paint fumes.
The rooms were nice.
The lack of security. There were people fighting in the hallway all night long. Several other guests complained but they did nothing about it until 3am when i threatened to call the police.
This hotel should not have the name Wyndham on. There were sex stains on the bed, hair all over the place, and it was just filthy. It was old. The furniture was very old. I wouldn't rev omen any to stay there.
This hotel should not have the name Wyndham on. There were sex stains on the bed, hair all over the place, and it was just filthy. It was old. The furniture was very old. I wouldn't recommend anyone to stay there.
Microwave and fridge in room
Paint was missing all over our room, tiles were missing in bathroom, breakfast ran out of food
Breakfast area was good.
Bathroom floor laminate was very slippery even when dry. Bathroom had dirty towel wash cloth under sink. Elevator floor had extremely worn laminate flooring
Front desk people very nice
Location. Bug in bathtub. Refrigerator didn't work. Batteries in remote didn't work.
The staff was fantastic. I would have given this hotel 3 stars if not for the staff.
Rooms could have been cleaner. It was obvious unused towels had been on the racks for a while as they were layered with dust. The hotel is definitely outdated and in need of a modern update for guest convenience and comfort. Good hotel overall but not worth the steep price tag, especially when you tack on another $12/day for the quality of breakfast that is normally free in most other comprable hotels.
They had a major leak so no hot water the nite I stayed there
Near the highway.
The TV had a horrible picture. Something was wrong with it, looked like it was 3d but it wasn't
I must say that Poppy at the front desk was the most welcoming staff member I have encountered at a hotel ever. The room was spacious, and comfortable for my family of 4. The breakfast was good, they even had a Texas shaped waffle maker. So Cool!
nothing. This place is great!
Friendly staff. Plenty of amenities and nice pool.
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Tony Buzan looks like he just walked out of a Japanese cartoon. He has an extremely friendly, smiling face that one can only find on tv, making his dark blue suit and pink tie look a bit misplaced under it. But what is perhaps the strangest sight, is that the 66-year-old is drawing images and words with coloured pens instead of neatly writing his appointments in an agenda.
He keeps track of his business by mind mapping, a memory improvement technique that he invented half a century ago. It's supposed to capture ideas by drawing colourful diagrams with words, rather than taking down notes. It's supposed to stimulate the brain to memorise things more easily.
Buzan has written around a hundred books about it, some of them published by BBC Press, and is rumoured to be making over US$150 million yearly. His fees for a program outside of the UK are 15,000 GBP (US$23.000) per day, 10,000 GBP for half a day. The hirer will also have to cover the travel, hotel, and food costs for him and his partner.
And he is in demand. About 200 million people are mind mapping worldwide, Buzan claims. Al Gore has said he does it and another disciple is Vicente Fox, former President of Mexico. "He actually created his political party and won the elections with mind maps," Buzan points out to me rather proudly.
The method was invented when Buzan was in school and university. "I developed it because my marks were going down," he explains. "When it came to exam time, I couldn't remember what was written in my hundreds of pages of notes. Nothing stood out from the blue words. So I started to go through my notes, taking out the key ideas.
"My marks became much better. Those key words were only 10 percent of all my notes, so I had been wasting 90 percent of my time. Also, I concluded that lining the more important things in red made my memory stronger. That's colour coding. It helped me to make associations and connections." Those findings became the basis of his mind maps.
"But don't they...," I try to interrupt him , as we're already ten minutes into the interview and Buzan tells me to shush whenever I express doubts about the technique. "No they don't," he quickly replies. He bursts out laughing. I wonder whether he's stuck-up or simply tired of the amount of times he's had to invalidate criticism. After all, the processes of the brain are extremely complicated.
Still, I manage to ask a question about regular note-taking. Isn't that better when you need to memorise a lot of details? His answer is in the negative. "Normal note-taking damages and interferes with the brains processes," responds Buzan. "If I ask you to tell me ten sentences of ten words or more that you have written, spoken, read or heard in the last ten years of your life, could you?"
I hesitate. I try to remember an article I've recently written, but Buzan interrupts my thought process. "Even as a journalist, you'd probably get the sentences wrong. Your brain doesn't use sentences to remember. It uses images." I nod, and scribble down his quotes. "Linear notes are brain pollution, making the brain malfunction," he emphasises, with a disapproving look on his face as he looks at my notebook.He continues to explain how mind mapping even worked on "Britain's worst six children, from the worst class in the bottom school." It was filmed for the BBC tv programme 'In Search of Genius'. The kids were 10 years old and due to be expelled from school within six weeks.
"They were wildly delinquent," recalls Buzan. "Swearing at teachers, they fought in the playground, slammed doors, walked out of classes. But they listened to me. I asked them to write down their problems and concluded they had pretty depressing lives. So I said: 'I can make all your dreams come true by using your brain. Now go outside. You get five minutes to get your bum on that seat if you want it.' Everyone came back in."
He gave the kids quizzes and memory tests, which they all failed. So he offered to "improve their stupidity" by explaining them how the brain works, catching their attention using a mind map with colours. The class did a second memory test and everyone got a 100 percent grade. "Suddenly, for the first time in their lives, they thought: maybe I'm intelligent."
Buzan's success as a teacher caused him to become a frequent guest at schools and to even help out education ministries in Asia. Singapore led the initiative, starting 15 years ago. "I've taught five thousand of their teachers," says Buzan. "The Ministry of Education now communicates in mind maps to the teachers."
The same thing happened in Malaysia. Buzan was sponsored by Dr. Mahathir bin Mohamad, former Prime Minister of the country and also a mind mapper. The Chinese government followed suit and now publishes his books. The Japanese are also getting into it, says Buzan and shows me an issue of a Japanese magazine. He flips over page after page full of mind maps.
And that's not all. Buzan is looking to expand his business into the Middle East. He's working together with Dubai-based company Right Selection to organise trainings for business companies and workshops in Wellington International School and Jumeirah English Speaking School.
Furthermore, a partnership with Xerox in the region will help schools and the health industry become more colourful. The plan involves putting up coloured signs or using colour in their documentation. "Xerox poured in millions of dollars in research about it," says Buzan. He adds that it's widely known that the brain looks for colour.
"One of the globally exposed torture systems is called 'white torture,' which is colourless torture. Using that method, they don't break bones anymore. They deprive their victims of colour. When you do that, the brain goes mad."
Along the way, Buzan's also founded the World Memory Championships (WMC). This year, Bahrain hosted the seventeenth edition of the event. The battle is held yearly to determine who has the most powerful memory in the world. Contestants were called upon to memorise hundreds of historical dates and random words as well as matching long lists of names with faces.
The winner of the seventeenth edition this year is Ben Pridmore, a 32-year-old financial analyst from the UK and born with a "memory slightly above average at best," he'd told me earlier. He's now trained himself for hours at a time to memorise a shuffled pack of cards in 24.68 seconds, memorise 27 packs of cards in one hour and 4140 binary digits in thirty minutes.But, surprisingly enough, not by using Buzan's method. "Mind mapping is only tangentially related to memory, and not something that is useful for competitions," he'd explained to me. "I don't have a reason to use it in real life either." However, he did agree that using images and colours helps the memory.
"There are three basic principles of remembering things effectively: pictures, interest and association. So if you need to remember a sequence of things, think of a story associating the images together. Imagine yourself pouring a bottle of milk over a loaf of bread if you want to buy a bread and milk. That way, when you remember one thing, you'll remember the other. In competitions, I have a mental image for each combination of numbers or cards and create a strange and funny story with that."
The mind map method might not lead up to winning the WMC, but there are many other areas in which Buzan expects it will. Sports, for example - Buzan is also involved in training athletes who will participate in the London Olympic Games in 2012.
"Coaches have begun to realize that athletic sport is primarily mental," he explains. "Let me give you a very gross example. There are stories from all over the world of how small, untrained, unfit mothers see their baby under a car. The only way to save the baby is to lift the car." A dramatic pause. "And they lift it. The brain totally directs the body to do that."
So how do you train an athlete, I ask. By putting babies in danger? He laughs. "No, you tap into what a swimmer is thinking about for six hours, six days a week, fifty weeks a year, for four years... If they're not thinking correctly, their swimming will disintegrate. I make them think about images of success and the best swimmer they've ever seen. I tell them: 'Watch videos of Thorpe and Phelps. Pump those videos into your body as you go up and down.' The brain sculpts the body."
Because of the London Olympics coaching deal, Buzan is being scheduled into 2012. Is it full? "No. It could be, but I don't allow that. I have committed myself to work with certain governments for periods of time every year."
He pretends to throw a ball at me. "I'm gonna throw it now," he warns me. I pretend to catch it. "See?," he then says. "All you did was imagine and your body sat up. The brain does it and the body obeys."
But Buzan doesn't need to convince me; he's already convinced millions of people into buying his books. He's even created software out of his idea called iMindMap, which allows computers to mind map things.
Buzan, however, sticks to doing it the old-fashioned way. As he looks at a radio illustrating his next interview appointment, he tells me I definitely have to start doing it too. "Mind mapping is changing the way people think," he says with a smile.
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Posted by: Helen Bruce Thursday, 11 December 2008 10:17 AM[UAE] - UAEThis was a great article and I will definitely follow up more reading regarding mind mapping, I have a poor memory, yet when I think of how to remember something I always refer to a picture, rather than words!


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The methods for obtaining a controlled magnification of three-dimensional (3-D) integral images are usually based on the increase of the spatial ray-sampling rate of elemental image arrays. This is usually done by use of the moving array-lenslet technique. The major drawback of this technique is the alignment complexity due to the small lenslet movement. In this paper, we are proposing a digital magnification method that uses interpolation principles to increase the spatial ray sampling rate of elemental image arrays without lenslet movement in the pickup procedure. We compare the reconstructed 3-D integral images obtained when using the optical or the digital magnification methods, and show that the quality of both reconstructed 3-D integral images is the same.
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W. Song, "Digital Magnification of Three-Dimensional Integral Images," J. Display Technol. 2, 284-291 (2006)
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Quoting business legend Jack Welch — "change before you have to" — and Charles Darwin — "it's not the strongest or smartest species that survive, but the ones most adaptable to change" — speakers at the annual State of the Magazine Nation gathering in Toronto reiterated that the old days of print-only magazine brands are gone.
But that doesn't mean print magazines themselves are irrelevant, and judging by actual sales of digital magazines — growing, but a pittance compared to print — there's good evidence to back that up.
State of Magazine Nation speakers Shelagh Stoneham, Jeanniey Mullen and Lynn Chambers
"There are permanent shifts in the way people consume media," said Lynn Chambers, TC Media group publisher and one of three speakers. For example, readers of TC Media's
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And where eyeballs go, ad dollars follow. In the U.S., ad spending in social media, email and mobile marketing is expected to increase from 16 percent of total ad spend in 2011 to 26 percent in 2016, Chambers said.
But Chambers is bullish on magazine brands because their content is trusted by readers. Readers also "accept the ads as part of the experience," she said to the audience of several hundred magazine and agency people.
The key is to take a magazine's brand and deploy it across other platforms in ways that make sense for the brand, readers and advertisers, and offer advertisers packages: something they appreciate in an increasingly fragmented marketplace. Chambers said 18 percent of TC Media's revenue came from partnership packages in 2011. She used an example from an
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Chambers revealed that TC Media sold 10,244 digital publications in 2011, a growth rate of 117 percent versus 2010, but a drop in the bucket compared to the publishing giant's overall print circulations in the millions. Also noteworthy is that 39 percent of digital sales are from outside Canada. (Aside: the tablet edition of Masthead's sister title,
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Chambers also emphasized that advertisers today are looking for a combination of paid, earned and owned media, and publishers are well positioned to take advantage of this trend.
The cross-platform approach taken by many magazine brands gives more importance to total audience reporting, suggested Shelagh Stoneham, vice-president and general manager of brands and marketing communications for Rogers Communications. ABC's new
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"Magazine publishers really aren't magazine publishers anymore, they are brand managers," she said, pointing out that 39 percent of tablet owners read magazines on their devices.
To successfully jump formats, publishers need a "crystal clear" sense of their brand's "point of view," built on the brand's character and positioning, she said.
Jeanniey Mullen of Zinio, another speaker, focused on innovation in magazine publishing. Her company, for example, is experimenting with digital "Collection Issues," which combine relevant content from different magazines into one publication.
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Todd Latham
29 March 2012 at 6:28 PM
So glad I stumbled upon this post and comment thread. As a B2B magazine publisher and owner since 1989, I am still passionate about print magazines - I prefer to read ink on paper and so I will continue to cater to that part of my demographic who feels the same way. For those readers who prefer digital delivery, we serve on demand.
I really liked the comment from Jaded - agencies are more an obstacle to ad sales than a help... especially towards B2B. Most don't understand the word 'niche', often confuse clients with metrics that don't matter and then beat you up on price so they can get a better margin on rate card... not sure if those savings are passed on to the client or not.
Keep up the great dialogue on Masthead Doug - now if only I could read it in print again... :)
9 March 2012 at 8:15 AM
Really, at the end of the day, clients do not care about how the agency gets the job done. Almost I suppose like those companies who buy products from known child labour factories. As long as the product is good, that's all they care. As a business decision... good! Morally and etically? BAD! No, I think it's up to the agency management to control their own ego driven staff members. Every show knows who they are, and how they behave. No one has the right to treat others who are doing their job with anything less than with common courtesy. Unfortunately, we as media sales people have created this monster. When they have those huge budgets, we continually turn the other cheek. Free trips, tickets, dinners, theatre, private boxes, all given to people who treat others poorly, and only because we want the $$. More than once I, as a sales director, have gone to an agency head to report the behaviour of one of their people. On the whole, they don't care, as long as the bottom line is there.
8 March 2012 at 4:06 PM
Does this mean editors-turned-advertising execs will get a big raise?
8 March 2012 at 11:36 AM
Anon - I wonder what it will take for advertisers to read this and realize it is their agencies that are being written about. If the clients had any idea how badly their dollars are being wasted ......
7 March 2012 at 3:00 PM
The points in these comments, while sad, are deadly accurate. I can't help wondering what it will take for the Media Directors out there to realize this is their staff being written about. As an experienced and long time media rep, I can't believe that even in this day and age, this kind of behavior us not only tolerated, but encouraged. Reps all know the agencies who take pride in their boorish behavior. When they lose the big account which makes them so large, and jobs are on the line, it's always interesting to see the change in behavior. Mmmmm... I wonder if these media people could then suddenly need help? Maybe a reference? Seen it many times. Currently there is one large agency, who will go unnamed, who have lost an auto client. Funny, but the media department is suddenly being nice.
5 March 2012 at 9:32 AM
Congratulations to both Jaded and Doug Bennet for pointing out the elephant in the room. I can only hope some of the agency media directors are honest enough to look at their own staff and understand we're talking about them. Times have changed. There is no need for the attitude which exists in some agencies. The reps you are treating badly can be a big help, but only if you let them. I hate to admit it, but I share Jaded's feeling. We're screwed. Sunny, Patrick, Sue, Moira, Sarah, help us out here. You know what's going on, and only you folks can stop it.
3 March 2012 at 6:31 PM
Doug Bennet is right on the money. The problem is that media planning and media buying decisions are increasingly made by 12-year-old Prima Donnas at the agencies. Sneer if you wish but it's true - most of these kids have more piercings and tattoos than they do gray matter between their ears. Even if you produce a serious magazine for a serious audience (like a trade pub for the medical supply field) they ask why they can't find you on Facebook. And they're perfectly serious. This is what magazines face every day. This is our future. We are so screwed.
Doug Bennet
1 March 2012 at 9:48 PM
My comment is that most of the challenges facing magazines are not due to a readership crisis. It's an advertising crisis. As Anonymous points out, readers love to read about their passions. The best magazines catering to these passions continue to enjoy large and enthusiastic readerships... audit numbers bear this out. But advertisers and ad agencies are caught up in the digital hype... not that they shouldn't be paying attention. But one wishes they wouldn't throw out the baby with the bathwater. My two cents.
1 March 2012 at 6:03 PM
Thanks for pulling it all together a la article!
1 March 2012 at 4:49 PM
Anon, all you need is the right social network. Follow the right people on Twitter and they'll send you all the topical content you ever want to read. But beyond that, many people are shifting to reading print media in digital form - which counts as digital media.
1 March 2012 at 3:21 PM
I confess to being a magazine supporter. To me, nothing beats flipping through the pages of a good magazine. But to the magazine professionals reading this story, I have a serious question, and one I'd welcome their respone to. Simply, have we complicated a simple and straight forward thing? True boaters love to read about boats. True car people love to read about cars. Outdoor enthusiasts want to read about their passion. For those with a real passion, I personally don't believe the digital world has yet established an ability to replace a good sexy topic-specific magazine. What do you think?
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Possible Bug: Bound items that come equipped on Retrofits are not sellable to vendors
For items that were bound that I wanted to get rid of, I always just sold them to a vendor.
As of Season 2, are we not allowed to do that anymore, or is this bugged? I was also not allowed to de-replicate it (I was on my ship when attempting this). My only option was to "discard" it, which gives you no credits. I should point out that the bound items I was trying to sell where the Mk X stuff that came with my Escort Refit when I bought it as a Vice Admiral. Are these bound items different from looted bound items? Is this a bug? |
Sold a Bound item last night fine. I'd /bug the item in question...
I had the same problem with the equipment that came with my retrofit cruiser. I have since sold other bound equipment fine.
"Normal" bound items are sellable to vendors just fine. But the Bound items that come with the retrofits are not sellable at all. I will bug it this evening. |
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George Claffey has been involved in technology and technology education for the past fifteen years. George is currently employed by the Board for State Academic Awards and serves as the Chief Information Officer for Charter Oak State College, Connecticut's largest provider of online learning, and also the Connecticut Distance Learning Consortium, a consortia providing ASP based eLearning, ePortfolio, and eTutoring collaborative environments to K-12 and Higher Education entities nationally. He oversees technology operations including the data center that supports over 130 institutions and 100,000 students nationally that use the CTLDC to support their eLearning, ePortfolio, eTutoring, and disaster recovery operations.
A common thread that ties together each of Kara's positions in information technology is her uncompromising commitment to providing the best technology experience possible for faculty, students and staff at the institutions where she has worked. From the outset, NERCOMP has been a significant part of Kara's work-life. Her association with NERCOMP began with attendance at workshops and the annual conference and progressed to presenting at workshops, becoming a Professional Development Coordinator and speaking at the annual conference. A consistent underlying theme of Kara's presentations is improving the approachability and resulting experiences her clients have with technology. Kara is an appreciative beneficiary of NERCOMP as well, taking full advantage of NERCOMP's extensive programming to develop her career, make connections within the community, and expand her skillsets. Besides her many contributions to NERCOMP's mission to support professional development through her workshop and conference work, Kara has been an Institutional Representative and active member of the annual conference program committee. In 2011, Kara was asked to be vice-chair for the 2012 annual conference, and in 2013 she served as the conference chair. In the spring of 2014, Kara was elected Vice Chair of the NERCOMP board a position that has allowed her to expand her active involvement to new levels. Kara received her bachelor of arts in English with a concentration in Secondary Education from Regis College in 2003 and her master of science in Organizational and Professional Communication from Regis in 2006. In the fall of 2014, Kara joined the Harvard Business School community. Kara is currently an Associate Director of MBA Program Technology serving the technology needs of HBS' esteemed MBA Program. Kara joined Tufts University in July 2006 as an IT services coordinator, a function centered on the daily operations of University Information Technology's (UIT) support center. That position evolved to include advanced problem solving and improving direct communication and interaction between UIT and the community. The next step in Kara's career at Tufts involved a focus on client relationships. Kara's team was responsible for increasing communication and collaboration between IT groups at Tufts in order to improve the quality of IT services across the Tufts community. Kara's role continued to evolve with a strong concentration on Service Management and a focus on managing the university's IT Service Management platform.
Previous to her roles at Tufts, Kara held the position of Regis College ITS helpdesk coordinator, maintaining the institution's helpdesk services and training student employees as well as faculty and staff.
As Director for Research and Instruction Services at Brandeis University, David helps lead a team of reference librarians and instructional technologists providing a broad range of services and programs supporting teaching, learning, and scholarship. David's background is in higher education, instructional technology, and library-I.T. collaboration. He holds a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from Brandeis, an M.A. in Humanities from Indiana State University, and has taught numerous French, Writing, and Humanities courses. In his years in I.T. at Brandeis, David worked in various capacities related to the support of instructional technology and user services, including managing the Language Media Center, Instructional Technology Resource Center, and Media Services group, as well as contributing to the management of key services-the course management system, model teaching and learning projects, classroom technology support, and public computing services. More recently, David's interests focus on integrating library and I.T. resources in instruction and research and exploring new areas of collaboration between faculty, students, and I.T. and library staff in teaching and learning. David sits on the SIG Masters Committee and the Program Committee, has hosted recent SIGs on videoconferencing and pedagogy, and has presented at the NERCOMP annual conference and at SIGs on student management and course management systems.
Dawn Thistle has served as Executive Director of Information Technology & Media Services at Assumption College since January 2008. For 10 years prior to that appointment, she was Director of Library Services. In the role of Executive Director of IT she sets the department's strategic direction in consultation with Assumption's administration, Board and faculty. Current projects include completing the implementation of a new enterprise resource planning (ERP) system, the ongoing development and support of a new web site and portal, and creating a technology certification program for student staff.
Previously she worked at the College of the Holy Cross as Head of Reader Services and Music Librarian. She holds a Bachelor of Music degree from Oberlin College Conservatory of Music, the M.Mus. from New England Conservatory of Music and the M.S. and D.A. from Simmons College Graduate School of Library and Information Science.
Dr. Thistle is active in NERCOMP, having served on the Program Committee since 2009, Educause, the American Library Association and the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL). She has served as President of the New England Chapter of ACRL, and in 2009-2010 served as Chair of the ACRL College Libraries Section. She is an alumna of the ACRL/Harvard Leadership Institute and has served on five NEASC reaccreditation visiting teams. Dr. Thistle has presented at a NERCOMP SIG, ALA, ACRL, ACRL New England, New England Library Association, Massachusetts Conference of Chief Librarians of Public Higher Educational Institutions, NELINET and other conferences on topics including using LIBQUAL survey data, library collection analysis, strategic planning, and Library/IT relations. She has published in CIO Insight, Industry Week and College & Undergraduate Libraries (forthcoming).In recognition of her service to Assumption College and "for [developing] the library as both a learning and gathering space for intellectual and social growth," Dr. Thistle was awarded the President's Medal in 2006. In May 2011 the Assumption College Student Government Association presented her with the "Above and Beyond Award" for her efforts to communicate with and involve students in technology planning.
Dr. Thistle lives with her husband and two dogs in Oakham, Massachusetts, where she enjoys gardening, kayaking, watching the hummingbirds and playing the organ for her church.
Kevin has been the Vice President for Information Services at Nichols College since January, 2005. During his time at Nichols, Kevin has been a part of many significant changes. Kevin managed the integration of the Information Technology department with the Library, identifying opportunities to blend the best services of each area in support of students and faculty. Given the relatively small size of the I.T. organization, Kevin has also been very active as a project manager for many significant initiatives at Nichols; including the implementations of a new student information system, student portal, CRM system, new web site, and many other supporting systems.
In addition to his responsibilities as VP for Information Services, Kevin assumed management responsibilities for the Division of Graduate and Professional Studies from February, 2012 through June, 2013. In this transitional role, Kevin was tasked with reorganizing and sharpening the organizational structure, integrating academic oversight with the day division, and increasing enrollment.
Kevin finds the most interest in working on opportunities to enhance the living and learning environment at Nichols. As such, Kevin actively engages with faculty and students on a regular basis. Although not an academic by trade, Kevin has not been a stranger in the classroom. He is a frequent guest lecturer on topics such as information security and systems strategies. Kevin's latest foray into the classroom is team teaching a class on project management and information technology strategies.
Prior to Nichols College, Kevin was the Regional Information Technology Director for GKN Sinter Metals in Worcester, MA; overseeing manufacturing technology operations at six plants in Massachusetts and Wisconsin. Kevin has over 30 years of experience in information technology, spanning industries such as high tech manufacturing, managed health care, and automotive parts manufacturing. During his professional career, Kevin has been the Chairman and Treasurer of the MFG/PRO New England User's Group, and was a member of the Oracle Automotive Customer Advisory Board.
Kevin also serves as a Corporator, representing bank depositors, at Webster Five Savings Bank.
Kevin has an M.S. degree in Computer Information Systems from Bentley University, and a B.S. degree in Business Administration from Western New England University.
Matthew has over eighteen years of experience in higher education, as a Librarian and as an IT professional. He managed the Visual Resources Library and was Systems Librarian at the Boston Architectural College, where he later oversaw the college's administrative systems and, ultimately, directed the IT operations. At MIT, Matthew led a team of software developers and managed support and client relationships with key administrative areas, including the Registrar's Office, in addition to contributing to major student systems projects. Currently, Matthew is Deputy Chief Information Officer at Massachusetts College of Art and Design, where since 2012 he has directly managed the Enterprise Services team, including infrastructure, enterprise applications, identity management, and web development. Matthew also served as Interim Chief Information Officer for a year, overseeing the use of technology at MassArt, including both strategic planning and operations, and managing a group of ~20 full-time staff in five functional teams. For the last five years, Matthew has been a member of the NERCOMP Program Committee, chairing the Systems and Solutions track for two years, and assuming the role of Vice-Chair for the Program Committee in 2013-2014. Matthew is currently the Chair of the Program Committee for the NERCOMP 2015 Annual Conference and has been appointed to the NERCOMP Board of Trustees. In addition, Matthew has acted as the Institutional Representative to NERCOMP for both MIT and Massachusetts College of Art and Design and presented at the NERCOMP conference in 2012 and 2013. For Educause, Matthew is currently the chair of the Administrative Systems Management Constituent Group, presented at the Annual Conference in 2013, and has been a reader for the 2013 and 2014 conference programs. Matthew holds a BA in History from Trinity College, a Masters Degree in Library and Information Science from Simmons College, and was the recipient of a Thomas J. Watson Fellowship to study the architecture and design of the London Underground.
Tina is the Director of Academic Technology & Consulting within Bowdoin College's Information Technology (IT) Division. She oversees educational technology, research computing, classrooms, technology training, academic software, and the Blackboard learning management system. In addition, she manages the IT Division's operating budget and capital budgets, most recently the projects to update the entire campus network and collocate the data center. With a focus on change management, Tina provides outreach, communication and training for enterprise-wide technology projects, such as VoIP and student information system.
Many of our greatest achievements in the next decade will involve partnerships and integrations. At Bowdoin Tina was instrumental in transforming the strained relationship between IT and the Library to a collaborative partnership. Now she is building partnerships across the institution, and would like to work with the NERCOMP Board to identify ways NERCOMP can facilitate more inter-institutional partnerships.
Spending as many years in higher education as a student as she has as a a salaried employee, Tina holds a Ph.D. in Information Science & Technology and M.S.L.I.S. (Library & Information Science) from Syracuse University, a master's degree in geographic information systems (GIS) from the University at Buffalo, and a bachelor's degree from Cornell University.
For professional development, Tina has participated in the NERCOMP-EDUCASE Workshop Series for IT Managers, the Center for Technology Leadership's Aspiring CIOs workshop and HERS: Advancing Women Leaders in Higher Education Administration. She has presented at NERCOMP, NITLE, Campus Technology, and ACRL conferences, among other conferences.
Tina serves on the faculty of the NERCOMP-EDUCASE Workshop Series for IT Managers Part 1 and has been on the NERCOMP Annual conference program committee for the past two years. Through these opportunities, Tina learned the value of NERCOMP in expanding one's knowledge, network and aspirations. As a Board member, she will contribute to and expand the lively NERCOMP community.
Christine has been at MIT in the IT department since 1994. In her most recent position as Manager for Strategic Communications for Information Services and Technology (IS&T) at MIT, she is responsible for both internal communications for the department and external communications to the MIT community, their clients, vendors and the world. She also works closely with the Head of Information Services and Technology (IS&T) at MIT on strategy and planning for the organization. Much of her experience has been to bridge boundaries and to cultivate and maintain relationships within IS&T, between IS&T and other MIT departments and between MIT and other universities.
Prior to joining MIT, Christine worked as a Business Controller for four years at Coral Networks (a start-up corporation) and before that spent six years at Wang Laboratories as a Financial Analyst. Christine has been actively involved in the higher education community with NERCOMP, the Boston Consortium, and the Council for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE). She has been involved with NERCOMP as MIT's Institutional Representative (IR); as a collaborator with board members; on the annual SIG planning meeting; and on outreach and promotion of NERCOMP at MIT. She also is very involved with the Boston Consortium and in 2007 worked with several Boston Consortium members (who are also NERCOMP colleagues) to launch an IT and Libraries Communications Community of Practice which meets quarterly. She is a 2009 graduate from the Susan Vogt Leadership Fellows program with the Boston Consortium and a 2007 graduate from the CASE Summer Institute in Communications and Marketing with CASE. Christine received an AS from Marian Court Junior College of Business in 1984 and a BS in Accountancy from Bentley in 1991.
Themba Flowers is currently a manager in Academic IT Solutions and Co-Director of the Center for Science and Social Science Information (CSSSI) at Yale University. In these roles, Themba wears many hats with responsibilities encompassing the overlaps between Library, IT, learning environments, research services, and educational technologies.
His current and previous functions include teaching workshops, managing technology initiatives, designing and supporting next-generation learning spaces, as well as providing support for data analysis, data visualization, research design, and active learning pedagogies.
After graduating from high school at Northfield Mount Hermon, Themba received a Bachelors degree from the University of California at Berkeley in Spanish and Portuguese with a minor in Linguistics. He has also started a Masters Degree in Educational Technology. In previous lives, Themba has been a web developer, information security analyst, database programmer, designer, deejay, teacher, and an artist.
Before joining the NERCOMP board, Themba sat on the NERCOMP Annual Conference Planning Committee, starting on the Teaching and Learning track and moving into the Library/IT track in subsequent years.
Andrea Milligan has been working in higher education for over fifteen years and has a wide array of experience in instructional technology, information technology and library technology. Currently, Andrea is the Director of Distance Learning and Instructional Technology at North Shore Community College in Danvers, Massachusetts. Andrea is also an adjunct faculty member at North Shore Community College and teaches one section of Fundamentals of Computer Concepts. Prior to coming to North Shore Community College, Andrea was the Director of Academic Technology at Framingham State University, where she worked for over twelve years. Before becoming the Director of Academic Technology, Andrea was the Reference and Instructional Librarian at FSU for four years. Through her most recent roles,
Andrea has over nine years of practical and theoretical experience in promoting and facilitating the use of technology as an integral part of the total academic experience; helping faculty in the design and development of Web-enhanced, hybrid and online courses; providing professional development opportunities to faculty in using technology effectively in the teaching and learning environment; assisting and supporting faculty and students in the use of academic technology tools; and maintaining an awareness of the latest instructional technologies and emerging technologies that might have an impact on the teaching and learning environment.
Andrea serves as a NERCOMP co-Blackboard User Group SIG Master along with attending the SIG Master meetings to help plan the schedule of events and assisting other SIG Masters with their SIG planning through the Ubuntu calls. Andrea also serves on the NERCOMP Annual Conference Planning Committee and has enjoyed playing a role in setting the agenda for the conference.
Deborah Saks is the Director of ITS- User Services at Framingham State University. She is responsible for the provisioning and continuous improvement of technical support services offered to students, faculty and staff at Framingham State University. This includes, but is not limited to, management of the day to day operations for the help desk, technology service centers, technical support staff, media services, copy center, computer labs and technology enhanced classrooms. Deborah recommends and often oversees the implementation of responsive service strategies based on strong understanding of the unmet needs of the community.
Lisa Trubitt is the Assistant CIO for Policy & Communications at the University at Albany, SUNY, where she focuses on improving and administering IT services to the University community. Current responsibilities include: IT policy development; internal and external communications; fostering relationships and working with various stakeholder and advisory groups; and strategic planning. Her interests range from the professional development and mentoring of staff to exploring creative solutions for organizational challenges and rethinking the role of IT in higher education.
The co-founder and former leader of the EDUCAUSE IT Communications Constituent Group (ITCOMM), Trubitt has given numerous presentations and authored articles on the importance of IT communications. Policy-related activities include presentations and service on the former ICPL Advisory Committee. Trubitt is currently the director of the EDUCAUSE Institute Management Program faculty. She has also served on the EDUCAUSE Annual Conference Program and Professional Development Committees. She is currently a member of the NERCOMP Board and faculty for the Workshop Series for Managers Part 2. She is a trustee of the Capital District Library Council (CDLC) and a Frye Leadership Fellow (2007). Trubitt holds a bachelor of arts in English and Criminal Justice and a master of arts in Criminal Justice from the University at Albany.
Karen is Director of User and Technical Services at Wesleyan University. In her unique role, Karen has oversight for both the front end user support operations including Desktop Support and student Helpdesk and the back end technical support team comprised of network administration, data center, and system administrators. Bridging the divide between these mutually dependent, but often at odds groups is challenging and always interesting. Karen and her team provide the foundational support for all other IT operations in the University and provide strategic input regarding systems and infrastructure. Currently, Wesleyan is undergoing a network refresh which will substantively improve bandwidth across campus providing the needed support for future initiatives such as Coursera and the burgeoning use of HD media on campus.
Since joining Wesleyan, Karen has been an active member in NERCOMP. She hosted her first SIG in May 2010 on desktop virtualization and has since presented at two annual conferences as well as participated in two other SIGs including a panel for the 2012 Women in Technology Leadership SIG. For the past two years, Karen has served on the Annual Conference program committee and this year, Karen is leading the online program committee team. Additionally, Karen co-leads the virtual workshop project for NERCOMP bringing low-cost online only content to help the organization expand its reach and engage constituents who are underrepresented in the traditional SIG model. This effort has thus far been extremely effective with 135 sites participating.
In 2012, Karen participated in the NITLE Innovation Studio, a new initiative comprised of project teams employing entrepreneurial and design theory strategies. Karen and her teammates continue to run the only remaining project, Collegiate Collaborations, a community site aimed at reducing the fear and uncertainty of engaging in cross-institutional collaborations. The group has been invited back this year to speak at the 2013 NITLE Symposium in April.
Prior to coming to Wesleyan, Karen spent 15 years at the American School for the Deaf in West Hartford, CT where she was IT Director for 10 of those years. Karen focused much time on the importance of broadband access and two-way video installing the school's first system in 1999. She and a colleague at Gallaudet University organized a conference on two-way video in Deaf education, an initiative that led to 3 conferences over 6 years. She has spoken at numerous conferences on the topic and participated on a panel at the FCC on the importance of ERate to broadband in schools.
Recently, Karen initiated Wesleyan's membership in National Center for Women in Information Technology Academic Alliance program to help Wesleyan encourage young women in the field of technology.
Karen is energized at the prospect of participation on the NERCOMP board. The organization has been a vital resource for her and she looks forward to helping shape its future particularly the increasing role of online interactive programming. Technology's ever-changing nature and rapid growth make communities such as NERCOMP vital to success both together and at individual institutions.


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