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Comments on Radio-Controlled Web Design
by Art Lawry
24 Reader CommentsBack to the Article
The shim for IE7 and IE8 utilizes `addEventListener` which is not supported by either of those browsers. It also uses `document.querySelectorAll` which is not supported by IE7.
Thanks Chris,
While I personally prefer to work in native JavaScript I find that jQuery's simpler syntax and familiarity within the web design and development communities makes it easier to explain the logic behind what's actually being done.
Nice article, thanks Art. I happen to read this on an iphone 4 though, using Chrome. I cant get the CSS examples to work. The functionak tabs are the ones that use javascript only for me. May be because of the code editor that is used to showcase the examples I am not sure. I will definitely get back and test it on my desktop pc as well.
Thanks Thodwris,
I'm very interested in what you find. Can you let me know what version of iOS your iPhone 4 is currently on as well?
your ie7 and ie8 JS won't work in those browsers because neither supports addEventListener and only ie8 supports querSelectorAll
The only problem is with the JavaScript that sometimes don't support to IE7 and IE8.
Thanks Ben, you're right.
I created a gist of the updated shim that I believe addresses this, but I would love some additional eyes on it.
Why not use a single checkbox input for instances where you're toggling a specific state, like showing or hiding the modal or menu?
Modal: http://codepen.io/shshaw/pen/vBKmJ
Menu: http://codepen.io/shshaw/pen/gvefr
In these examples, "checked" indicates visible and unchecked indicates hidden.
Thanks Shaw,
Checkboxes will work (I reference Chris Coyier's and Scott O'Hara's examples which both use checkboxes). I used radio buttons, even for the two-state use-cases, just to keep the complexity down. I personally prefer using checkboxes for two-state systems.
There may be some benefit to using radio buttons everywhere for implementation consistencies, however, that is if you have at least one system with more than 2 states.
Good thoughts.
To me, a single state toggle is different enough from a multi-state system that the difference in implementations is warranted. The single state toggle code is much easier to modularize with general classes and all that changes in HTML per module is the input ID and label's "for" attribute. A quick example: http://codepen.io/shshaw/pen/Bsbhl
Thanks for the response, and thanks for the article. It got me rethinking some of my simple toggle uses on the site I'm currently developing.
Hi Art,
Love the article. I tried to build something based completely on focus states of a button recently but couldn't get it working on mobile in the time I had, great to see that people are thinking along the same sort of lines.
I'm of a similar opinion to Shaw, that checkboxes are really useful for open/close systems, otherwise I've found I had to hack together solutions such moving a second radio button label above the first to get the binary behaviour. With checkbox inputs in mind, have you got any thoughts on how to create a checkbox & radio input shim for ie7 and 8? As far as I can tell, it's currently limited to interpreting radio inputs only.
Interested to hear your thoughts!
I'm working on a revised shim for radio buttons. It turns out that IE7 and IE8 _really_ don't like triggering onchange events when you interact with their labels.
For the current time I think it's safer to think of this technique as IE9-forward, but I'll post here once I have a more robust shim that handles checkboxes as well. It will most likely involve listening for a click on the labels, triggering change on the radio button, and blurring and focussing to try to force the change. If anyone has experience with this particular IE7 and IE8 shortcoming feel free to contribute.
Here's the revised shim for IE7 and IE8 that also supports checkboxes: https://gist.github.com/artlawry/6d2c15bc6aa1fe499611
IE7/8 really doesn't like triggering onchange events until the radios/checkboxes lose focus, so a bit of click triggering was necessary.
Also, IE7/8 does not like re-drawing parts of the page that dynamically change via sibling selectors, so the solution was to add and remove a class from the radio/checkbox parent which triggers a redraw of everything the input would have access to via the sibling selector.
One final IE8 bug is that any comma-grouped css selectors will fail if any one of them do, so I had to separate out the _starks:checked_ rules from the _starks.checked_ rules.
It's not pretty, but it works.
<nerd>Nice article - but it's Catelyn Stark, not Caitelyn Stark</nerd> ;)
@RSpil, thanks for having my nerd back! I'll update my Codepens _immediately_, may George. R. R. Martin have mercy on my soul.
So cool of you to share the info and super cool of you to write such a great, in depth article.
Much Thanks!
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Too bad it doesn't work with Android stock browser. And css hack doesn't help.
@Paul, thanks for pointing that out. Can you give me any more specifics to track down the problem?
Why create a shim of your own?
For IE lt 9 I use html5.js and ie9.js (and throw respond.js into the mix) - I don't care if IE8 has to load several scripts, users of that browser should be glad to get a working page ;)
Hi Art and everyone,
Inspired by this very article I made a radio controlled lightbox.
If anyone got some time on his hands to review or bugtest or anything, I would be happy to see some feedback or suggestions.
I was so hopeful this would help with make tab panel components work in a consistent way on screen readers, because every implementation of tabs I've seen is problematic. Radio buttons groups function in a way that is almost identical to the recommendations for how tabs should work in a tablist. Unfortunately, JAWS (15 at least) in the latest version of IE on Windows 8.1 does not play well with this method. In Forms mode, it voices "Insert+F! for help" twice every time you move to a different tab. Also, the semantics are a little muddled. Radio buttons have strong native semantics that don't completely overlap with tabs. This means that, though we are told by the screen reader that we are on a tab, we are also informed that the state of that tab is "checked", which doesn't really make sense for a tab. Specifically, aria-checked is not one of the inherited states and properties of something which has the "tab" role. Tabs can be selected and maybe even expanded, but being checked is, I think, pushing it. Also, some of the less common screen reader/browser combinations on Windows are confused by this approach. Try it out in JAWS/Firefox or NVDA/IE, and you'll see what I mean. Haven't tried it with VoiceOver yet, but it would be interesting to see how it works on OS X and iOS devices.
what a nice idea you shared… thanks…
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May 3, 2016
NBC says it has reached a deal with "Tonight" host Conan O'Brien for his exit from the show, allowing Jay Leno to return to the late-night program he hosted for 17 years.
NBC made the announcement early Thursday that O'Brien will conclude his "Tonight" show run, seven months after O'Brien took the reins from Leno.
O'Brien landed the "Tonight" show after successfully hosting "Late Night," which airs an hour later, since 1993. But he quickly stumbled in the ratings race against his CBS rival, David Letterman.
Under Leno, the "Tonight" show was the ratings champ at 11:35 p.m. Eastern time, but he did not meet affiliate expectations with his experiment in prime time.
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The Star, the Born-Again Sinner, and the Gangster
Updating Constance Rourke's famous American archetypes.
Americans may explain themselves to themselves more than any people on earth. Ever since Emerson and Whitman, our native writers have come back to the old questions: What is an American? How are we different from our ancestors in Europe or Africa or Asia? And why can't we come to a conclusive answer after centuries of asking?
One of the best answers was offered 73 years ago in Constance Rourke's American Humor: A Study of the National Character.Rourke's is one of those books that is always being rediscovered. First published in 1931, it was issued in paperback in 1971 and reissued in 1986; and now it is available to another generation of readers, in a new edition introduced by Greil Marcus. Rourke was a pioneer of what was not yet called "cultural studies" and enjoys a cult status among critics and writers, but she deserves a much wider audience—especially now, when endless books and op-eds are being written to explain why our "national character" inspires such envy and mistrust around the world. For American Humor shows, like no other book, how much of that character has remained the same for the last 200 years, and, equally important, the ways we have changed.
Rourke, born in 1885, was part of a generation of critics—including Edmund Wilson and Van Wyck Brooks—that taught Americans to look at their culture in a new way. Instead of the genteel literary heritage of New England, which provided the official, schoolroom version of American culture, Rourke sought the essence of Americanness in folk culture and especially in popular comedy. Much like George Orwell, who in the 1930s searched boys' stories and seaside postcards for clues to the English character, Rourke studied what Marcus' introduction calls "old almanacs, newspaper files, forgotten biographies, songbooks, joke manuals, penny dreadfuls, the unreliable leavings of nineteenth-century American culture."
What she found there were three archetypal figures, emerging from popular comedy: the Yankee, the backwoodsman, and the minstrel. Each member of "the trio," as Rourke often called them, took recognizable form in the 1820s and flourished until the Civil War. More important, she wrote, they remained at the heart of "a consistent native tradition," which she traced through the classic American writers—Whitman, Hawthorne, Henry James—and up to the modernists of her own day, including T.S. Eliot. "Humor has been a fashioning instrument in America," Rourke concluded. "Its objective … has seemed to be that of creating fresh bonds, a new unity ... and the rounded completion of an American type."
Each member of the trio contributed to that type. The Yankee, Rourke wrote, was "astute and simple, gross and rambling, rural to the core," hiding his sharp intelligence under a taciturn mask. He loved whittling, swapping, and practical jokes, and he always parried a question with another question. On the stage, where he was given outlandish New England names like "Jedediah Homebred" and "Jerusalem Dutiful," the Yankee was shown thwarting his enemies—especially the snobbish Briton—thanks to his sly rustic wit.
If the Yankee turned silence into advantage, the backwoodsman triumphed through sheer volume: "He shouted as though he were intoxicated by shouting." Born in the wilds of Kentucky and Tennessee, the backwoodsman—faced with hostile Indians and unforgiving soil—met adversity with comic self-inflation. Davy Crockett, the classic backwoodsman of legend, was "shaggy as a bear, wolfish about the head, and could grin like a hyena until the bark would curl off a gum log"; he could "whip his weight in wild cats" and "put a rifle-ball through the moon." The tall tale, with its deadpan exaggeration, was the natural idiom of the backwoodsman.
Third, and most intriguing, was the minstrel: the white performer in blackface, of whom "Jim Crow" Rice was the first and most famous. Rourke acknowledges that "blackface minstrelsy has long been considered a travesty in which the Negro was only a comic medium." But she honors it nonetheless, for providing a picture, however distorted, of genuine African-American folk culture: "[T]he songs and to a large extent the dances [in minstrel performances] show Negro origins," Rourke insists, "though they were often claimed by white composers." "The Negro," in this strangely mediated form, communicated African music and dance to America; a century before the Jazz Age, Stephen Foster took the tune for "Camptown Races" from a black folk melody. The minstrel's "humor" combined energetic nonsense-verse—what Rourke calls "unreasonable headlong triumph launching into the realm of the preposterous"—with the "tragic undertone" found in work songs and spirituals.
Rourke's achievement in bringing "the trio" to life is remarkable, and the quotations and anecdotes she gathers from her 19th-century sources remain startlingly fresh. But reading American Humor in 2004, one can't help but wonder: Do these three figures still "induce an irresistible response," as they did for Rourke in 1931? Do the Yankee, the backwoodsman, and the minstrel still offer "emblems for a pioneer people" when the people aren't such pioneers anymore?
The answers, I think, are "no," "yes," and "sort of," in that order. Of the trio, the Yankee is certainly the least visible in today's popular culture. Partly this is because New England has lost its distinctive rural character, which could still be recognized as late as Robert Frost's North of Boston in 1914. But the vanishing of the Yankee is also due to our diminished taste for his virtues: self-deprecation and a poker face. Far more to our taste is the outrageous boastfulness of the backwoodsman, who finds descendants in the action hero and the rap star. In the superhuman feats of the first and the braggadocio of the second, we see the strutting of the figure Rourke called "the gamecock of the wilderness." And, of course, the baleful tradition of the minstrel can be seen in the relentless appropriation of black popular culture by white performers, from Elvis to the present. But the qualities Rourke admired in minstrel performances—the triumphant energy, the tragic undertone—are still very much a part of the American aesthetic. The difference is that now we can experience it in genuine African-American culture—from the jazz of Louis Armstrong to the prose of Ralph Ellison—as well as in hybrids and imitations.
Most interesting of all, however, is to speculate about what a contemporary version of Rourke's book might include. If a Rourke of 2031 were to use popular culture to identify our most common archetypes, what would she find? First of all, I think, would be the Star, a type unknown in 1830 but absolutely central today. The Star is our secular, consumerist version of the Greek god: The pinnacle of aspiration and the focus of fantasy, he or she gets to enjoy what the rest of us only dream about. The Star—whether he is an actor or singer or sports figure—is not simply admired for what he is done; he is worshipped for who he is, gratuitously. The intensity of our worship and need also gives rise to the subcategory of the Fallen Star, from Marilyn Monroe to Kurt Cobain. The Fallen Star allows us to mix pity with our envy, reassuring us that, while we may dream of becoming one, the Star is best seen from a distance.


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May 2, 2016
The Humane Society of Eastern North Carolina is asking for your help in providing care to a severely mistreated dog.
6-year-old Hope is a pitbull mix that was found wandering in a Pitt County parking lot last week. She is suffering from a variety of health problems such as heartworms and ear infections, but most noticeably are the wounds inflicted through mistreatment.
Hope has been overbred to the point that her breast tissue nearly drags on the ground. The dog also has urine burns on her legs and paws, a sign officials say she was forced to sit in her own waste for extended periods of time.
Hope is already being treated for fleas, but will likely need expensive procedures, including a mastectomy to make a full recovery.
Staff at the humane society estimate Hope's care could cost up to $1,000. They're asking for donations to help cover the costs. They're also looking for the right owner to adopt Hope when she's ready for a new home.
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The special "And Man Created Dog" (National Geographic, 6 and 9 p.m.) tracks the way humans have changed their best animal friend over the centuries. Through domestication, the physical characteristics, senses and certainly the looks have all changed in the species that arose from wolves. The report shows how dogs have been adapted in specialized ways, from farm work to the soothing qualities of canines stationed in nursing homes. Eighty percent of dog breeds, according to the report, were created in the past 200 years.
Can't imagine that very many people in these parts, following the tragic events of the week, would have the stomach for "The Devil's Teardrop" (Lifetime Movie Channel, 8 p.m.), an adaptation of Jeffrey Deaver's bestseller that begins with the shooting deaths of seven at Union Station in Washington, D.C. The serial killer chase includes Natasha Henstridge, Tom Everett Scott and Rena Sofer in the cast. Catch it on a rerun months from now.
Looks like another swell episode of "Mad Men" (AMC, 10 p.m.), as Don heads to Acapulco for the holidays, before before "Rubicon" (AMC, 9 p.m.) continues to spin its web.
Speaking of which, the action on "True Blood" (HBO, 9 p.m.) lately has been absolutely head-spinning.
Guest stars on series tonight include Tom Skerritt on "Leverage" (TNT, 9 p.m.). But more unexpected is the guest spot by the wife of the Vice President, Jill Biden, popping up on "Army Wives" (Lifetime, today, 10 p.m.).
Well there's an actual exhibition football on today with Bengals vs. Cowboys (NBC, 8 p.m.), as if to tell you summer is almost over.
Always in season is the baseball rivalry of Red Sox at Yankees (ESPN, 8 p.m.) wrapping up in the Bronx. This afternoon, it's Mets at Phillies (SNY, 1:30 p.m.) and Giants at Braves (TBS, 1:30 p.m.).
Emma Roberts stars in the 2008 "Wild Child" (ABC Family, 8 p.m.), about a Malibu girl in a British boarding school.
Yet another series about people who keep too much junk in their homes is "Hoarding: Buried Alive" (TLC, 9 p.m.). I feel like collecting all of them and keeping them forever.
The final four compete on "The Next Food Network Star" (Food Network, 9 p.m.) with the "Iron Chef American" challenge.
Kristin was voted off "Big Brother" (CBS, 8 p.m.), so there's just one showmance to break-up, as we learn who won Head of Household.
But I wanna tell ya: An all day Bob Hope salute on Turner Classic Movies, including, in prime time, "Road to Morocco" (8 p.m.), "Nothing but the Truth" (9:30 p.m.), "Where There's a Life" (11:15 p.m.), "Alias Jesse James (12:45 a.m.), "Critics Choice" (2:30 p.m.) and "Call Me Bwana" (4:15 a.m.).
Sunday Talk
ABC: Gens. Ray Odierno and Peter Chiarelli. CBS: Retired Coast Guard Admiral Thad Allen, Tony Perkins, president of the Family Research Council. NBC: White House energy adviser Carol Browner, House Minority Leader John Boehner, Democratic Leadership Council chairman Harold Ford Jr., Rep. Mike Pence. CNN: Admiral Allen, Govs. Jennifer Granholm and Bob McDonnell. Fox News: Gov. Mitch Daniels.


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• The Avengers face off against the World Breaker.
• Discover the imminent threat to the Avengers World.
• Watch as we get our first hints as the hidden connections between the events of Avengers and New Avengers.
• The Illuminati have learned that Earth is the center point for the death of the Universe.
• If this is true, doesn't that mean destroying it might save everything else?
• Enter the world eater, Galactus.
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The effectiveness of this therapy is self explanatory not only in Dr. Ivar Lovaas' study but also in the collected scientific data at Autism Partnership. They found that 95% of the young children who have received intensive behavioural intervention for a year have acquired speech. 71% of them can speak a 3-word sentence or move.
This program is developed for each individual child to address critical foundation skills necessary for long term success. Our consultants specialize in developing curriculum to address areas such as language, behaviour and social skills which are necessary to improve quality of life for all children with autism. Progress is achieved through the use of specialized teaching techniques as well as focus on teaching and improving appropriate behaviours.
As soon as a child is diagnosed with ASD, the child should seek for immediate treatment. Some are diagnosed as young as 14 months when parents notice symptoms of ASD while some are diagnosed at a later age of 3 . Regardless of when a child is diagnosed, treatment should begin immediately to catch up with his/her normally developed peers. A typical individual ABA program comprises of 15 - 30 hours per week of intensive therapy depending on the child's age, school placement and ancillary services.
This program includes four components:
Our program looks at a child in a holistic way, making sure we teach all the necessary skills for successful development. Skill areas can include but not limited to :
Sessions are conducted in a 1:1 format most of the time although we do include small group teaching and / or structured play dates at different stages. Depending on each child's needs they will also be recommended for different group programs.
All skills are taught using research based precision teaching techniques to ensure that the student is learning at a maximal rate. Our teaching environment is systematically manipulated to help a child remain successful while teaching new skills.
Each child is treated by a team of well trained therapists who provide direct line implementation of ABA teaching on a daily basis.
The therapist will be teaching all the target skills as set by the case consultant. Regular Supervision will be carried out by your child's case supervisor who will oversee therapy sessions to monitor quality of therapy and to evaluate program goal and curriculum design.
The supervisor will ensure that changes are made as soon as challenges arise and programs can be added where necessary.
There will be a monthly clinic meeting arranged for the treatment team and family to discuss the child's progress, current issues of concern and to review short and long term objectives. The clinic meeting will include practical demonstrations of therapy programs and future program recommendations. Other professionals involved with the student are also welcome to attend clinic meetings.
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A letter from Rachel Weller in Ethiopia
October 2013
Gambella, Ethiopia
How does one adequately describe a once in a lifetime event?
On the same weekend that my friends and relatives in the US were celebrating the birth of our nation, the Anywaa people were gathering in Gambella to celebrate the dedication of the Bible – the whole Bible – in their own language. They recognized it as a sort of birth, allowing them clearer exposure to the mysteries of God. Michael and I, along with several former missionaries and offspring of missionaries – including a grandchild and a great grandchild – were honored to participate in the joy and experience the excitement of the community to hold in their hands the Word of God that needs no more translation for them to understand.
There were two days of speeches, singing, remembering old times when the missionaries first came to the region, and reviewing the process that followed, bringing this great work to completion. Presbyterian missionaries were the instigators and the constants in the process. Marie (Breezy) Lusted and Niles Reimer – both retired now – had worked since the mid-1970s to bring the Old Testament to the Anywaa (formerly called Anuak) language. The history is fascinating, but there isn't room for the whole of it here. Both Breezy and Niles had other assignments, but both had an interest in translating and the ability to do so. Obstacles seemed to repeatedly attempt to halt the work – language helpers moving on in life and even death, a country revolution, a revolt against the revolution. Added to these were technical difficulties such as learning the newest thing in communication: how to work a computer – in a time when chips, disks, and mice were most likely to be dipped, slipped, and trapped! But the two missionaries were persistent, and God blessed the work, allowing both of them to enjoy the satisfaction of a job well done.
Niles, known among the Anywaa as Okwomchor, and his wife, Ann (called Nyodier in Anywaa) came for the celebration. Breezy (known as Nyajak), unable to travel for health reasons, joined us by Skype, giving greetings in Anywaa to the great delight of the crowd. The translation work was started working in notebooks with pencils, progressed to personal computers when few desktops had room for one, and was finally completed by Skype with the four translators working from two time zones in the United States and two locations in Ethiopia! All the celebrators understood the marvel of the accomplishment and so the rejoicing was exactly what it should have been – overwhelming!
Now that the whole Bible is available, people need to learn to read it. The church in Gambella understands that basic literacy is an important goal, not only for adults, but also for children. With that in mind, a group of teachers, parents and administrators of four church-run pre-schools went to visit an innovative school being operated by sister synod, Western Wollega Bethel Synod, in the mountains to the west of Gambella. What we saw on our visit was inspiring.
Children sat at tables, busily placing rubber letters on matching spaces on cards, and then identified the word they had spelled by looking at the picture. The innovative program allows children to work at their own pace, moving up a ladder of success to complete up to grade four literacy and numeracy. In addition, the children learn science and English in the same manner. The leaders of the four pre-schools are in the process of considering adopting this program or a similar one, in order to provide, not just education, but a good education to their children. Tools such as these help children to process information and use it, rather than simply memorize and reproduce information without really understanding how that information might be relevant to their own situations. Using the Bible for reading practice, they will also learn to understand how the ancient Words of God speak directly to them today, guiding them in the way they live and showing them a path of excellence for the future.
Use the links below to see pictures from the Bible dedication ceremony in Gambella and from the pre-school in Western Wollega Bethel Synod.
Anywaa Bible Dedication:
Kids learning to read:
For strength, we rely on your prayers; for companionship, we rely on your letters, emails, and Facebook greetings; for daily bread, we rely on your financial support.
Rachel Weller – along with Michael
rachel.v.weller on Skype
Rachel Vandevort Weller on Facebook (Please message me a reminder of how we know each other.)
The 2013 Presbyterian Mission Yearbook for Prayer & Study, p. 107
Read more about Michael and Rachel Weller's ministry
Write to Michael Weller
Write to Rachel Weller
Give to Michael and Rachel Weller's sending and support
God bless good job!
This is great news. Keep up the great work Mike and Rachel. And i hope Rachel can have a real house soon. Love you both1


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Is this tattoo related? No. No it's not (unless you consider the fact that Marisa and I have had this track blasting on a continuous loop at the Needles and Sins Compound today whilst much booty-shaking has taken place). Regardless, it's just too damned good of a song NOT to bring it to your attention.
Multi-instrumentalist Alex Walker teamed up with Brooklyn soul-singer Len Xiang and MC Kobie Powell (remember him from Us3 back in the 90s?) to give us "Gotta Lose" - a soul/hip-hop track that is easily replacing anything I had previously considered to be my "Summer Jam of 2010."
Not only is it available as a free download at Lapdance Academy, but Alex has decided to make the instrumental/vocal stems available (as well as an Apple GarageBand file) and publish the track under a Creative Commons License. This enables all of you remixers/producers/masher-uppers to hack away at the song to your heart's content - and select remixes will be given fresh cover-art (courtesy of yours truly) and added to the Lapdance Academy catalog.
Personally, I can't wait to fire up the synths and drum-machines this weekend and get my "hard-house, hyphy, ragga, shoegaze" remix on...
Download the song at www.lapdanceacademy.com/gottalose !
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Now that we have Passover, Easter and Tax Day behind us, it's time to celebrate with another afternoon of FREE live music at Parkside Lounge!
Saturday, April 18th - 2pm
Lapdance Academy Presents:
"Death, Taxes & Resurrection"
317 E. Houston St. (at Attorney)
New York, NY
We'll be welcoming our newest additions to the lineup (The Celebration of Man, Samuel Barron, Seth Berkowitz of Lucky Ghost and Matt Whyte of Earl Greyhound) as well as performances from all your old favorites (Alex Walker, Emily Zuzik, Dorie Colangelo, Len Xiang, The Knuckleheads and yours truly)!
Everyone is encouraged to dress in the "Easter Best" now that spring has sprung - and what better way to spend a 70 degree, sunny saturday than in a dark LES bar? It's a FREE SHOW, but the hat will be passed and a portion of the proceeds will go to the Save The Music Foundation.
And speaking of FREE...
Odds are you illegally download music from the internets. There's also a strong chance that this racks you with such guilt that you lie awake in bed at night thinking about all of the bloated, soulless industry fat cats artists that you've stolen money from. Well, my friends, I have the question for you: what if artists actually gave their stuff away for free, on purpose, and it was actually good?
Crazy Talk, I know, but that very thing is happening at the newly launched Lapdance Academy.
Lapdance Academy is a collective of musicians who believe that the best things in life should be free: love, fountain-soda refills and DRM-exempt mp3 releases! Head on over to lapdanceacademy.com to download a free copy of Alex Walker's classic crowd-pleaser, "White Gown," and my shanty-town sing-a-long, "Lydia The Tattooed Lady."
We'll have plenty of more releases coming in the near future (including "From Soil To Shale" by Dogs of Winter on 5/12), so be sure to join our mailing list and follow us on the social networking platform of your choice:
Smell that? That's the smell of Free! And in this godforsaken economy, we need to embrace all the Free we can.


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Amy Hutcheson, BFA 2004, Illustration
Image above: Untitled
Reception: Sunday, April 29, 2012 from 2-4 pm
Nathan and Dorothy Shainberg Gallery
The Memphis Jewish Community Center
6560 Poplar Avenue
Memphis, TN
Transformation, featuring new paintings, opens on April 29 and will continue on view through June 7.
Three Memphis College of Art students were chosen to participate in the In, On or Of Paper exhibition at the Paper Circle Gallery, Ohio's Premiere Center for Paper and Book Arts. This exhibition was juried by prominent book artist Eileen Wallace and will include work from students Emily Chaplain, Evan Hoffman, and Josh Orr.
Evan Hoffman, Corrosive PolliNATION
You are invited to the premiere of The Art Academy: A History of Memphis College of Art at Studio on the Square, Wednesday, May 2nd, 7:30 pm. An art exhibit and auction of original works created for the film will be on display in the lobby from 12 noon to 10 pm, with an informal reception at 6pm, prior to the screening. Sales of artwork will support the artists, and a portion of proceeds will benefit MCA.
Tickets $12. Seating is limited. Buy now at theartacademy.eventbrite.com. For more details, visit www.truestorypictures.org.
Carol DeForest, BFA 1977, Clay
Gwen English, MFA 1995, Studio Arts
Jeanne Seagle, BFA 1972, AVA
Lisa Tribo, BFA 2009, Drawing
with Jimpsie Ayres, Valerie Berlin, Anne Davey,
Peggy McKnight, Mary Norman, and Carol Sams
Reception: Saturday, April 21, 2012 from 5-8 pm
3009 Davies Plantation Road
Lakeland, TN
Domestic, an art exhibit about the balance between art and life, times ten will be on view through June 4.
There are many tools available when it comes to financial literacy. It can be quite overwhelming at times. One way to help narrow down what you may be looking for is to determine what you are trying to find out. Are you looking for what the difference might be if you were to change your student loan plan? Trying to figure out a budget? Trying to determine how much interest you would end up paying on a car loan? There are tools for any type of scenario you might imagine.
The Department of Education has a handy tool when it comes to student loan repayments and options. Not sure what plan might be the best for you? Is is better for you to stay under the the standard repayment plan or go under the income-based repayment plan? These are questions that you will face once you have graduated but it's not too early to start getting answers to some of these questions. Visit the calculator through the link above to put in some of your student loan figures and see what a loan payment might or will be.
Don't know how much you have borrowed at this point? You may visit the National Student Loan Data System any time you would like to see how much you and your parents (with the PLUS) have borrowed.
The University of Nebraska-Lincoln has taken student finance in a different direction. They have set up a Student Money Management Center that is an excellent resource for any financial related to college students. More information is best could be easily related to this school. Check out their website and see questions and subjects from student loans to credit card tips to breaking bad money habits (see their ezine for a sample).
As always, if you have questions, comments, or concerns, please let us know.
Image above: Landscape of Memory 1
The Landscape of Memory is on view from April 12 through May 12.
From the Artist: "This series of work combines my film-based images with digital scans. The work explores the desire to recall the past. Memory is vague, unreliable, often clouded by dreams and visions. I have attempted to capture these qualities of reminiscence in my images."
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Image above: Road Through Trees, oil pastel on paper
New paintings by two painters exploring the subject of "Trees," on view from April 13 through May 5 at Askew Nixon Ferguson Architects, 1500 Union Avenue, Memphis.
Mitra Abbaspour
Art Historian, Associate Curator of Photography, MoMA
In the Studio: Photography, Modernity and the Middle East
Thursday, April 12
7 pm Callicott Auditorium
Part of this awareness is trying to pass along the best information for you to use when you encounter these decisions. This week will highlight some things you should keep in mind about repayment.
Sallie Mae – one of the servicers for the Department of Education – has provided a list of the Top 10 Things Students Should Do at Repayment.
Have you wondered about what happens to your student loans and what you need to know while you're in school? In your grace period? Nelnet has set up a resource for borrowers on both of these topics. Depending on which one you want more information about, click on the In-School Deferment for more information or click on In Grace Period for more information about these topics.
More information will be provided in the upcoming weeks. As always, you are welcome to visit with the Financial Aid Office regarding any of this information provided or any questions you may have.
Jeanine Jablonski, MFA Studio Arts, 2005
Gallerist/Curator, owner, Fourteen30 Contemoporary Gallery, Portland OR
Love it or GTFO; (What We Talk About When We Talk About Art)
Tuesday, April 10
7 pm Callicott Auditorium
On behalf of the Sonny Boy Blues Society (SBBS) and Southern Bancorp, the Arkansas Delta Arts Partnership is accepting submissions for the 2012 King Biscuit Blues Festival Poster contest. The winning entry will be printed as a commemorative poster to publicize the 2012 festival. The artwork may also be used on T-shirts, postcards or other festival souvenirs. All sales will go to SBBS and the winner's original artwork remains the property of SBBS. Incorporation of elements representing Helena are encouraged.
Judging: Three finalists will be selected from all entries. The final winner will be selected from the top three finalists. Contest finalists will be notified by letter.
Award: Winning artist will receive: $800 and V.I.P. status during the 2012 festival.
Entry Deadline: Friday, July 20, 2012
Pickup: The winning entry will remain the property of SBBS. All other artwork may be picked up at First Delta Insurance/KBBF Headquarters, 400 Plaza Street after the festival.
Unveiling & Signing: The winning entry will be unveiled on Thursday, August 23, 2012 at Southern Bancorp, 502 Cherry Street. The artist will be requested to sign commemorative posters at that time.
To download the contest guidelines, agreement and entry form click here: 2012 Poster Contest
Visiting Lecturer
Mitra Abbaspour
Art Historian, Associate Curator of Photography, MoMA
In the Studio: Photography, Modernity and the Middle East
Thursday, April 12
7 pm Callicott Auditorium
Mitra Abbaspour is an Associate Curator in the Department of Photography at The Museum of Modern Art and a PhD candidate in the Department of Art History at The Graduate Center, CUNY. At MoMA, she leads a research initiative centered on the Thomas Walther Collection, which draws together photograph conservators and historians to explore the formation of photographic modernism in the early decades of the twentieth century. Additionally, she is preparing to defend her dissertation, a study of photograph archives dedicated to Armenian, Kurdish, and pan-Arab practices. This study considers the ways in which photograph archives call on the history of the medium to represent the relationship between the Middle East and modernity. She has authored numerous articles on contemporary photographers from Tracey Moffatt to Shirana Shahbazi. Recently, her focused study of a photograph of General Andranik "A Hero and a Homeland for Armenians in America: Photography's Role in the Diaspora," appeared in the International Journal of Middle Eastern Studies. Mitra served as part of a curatorial team for the exhibition Re-Orientations: Islamic Art and the West in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries, which was culled from the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. She has also taught in the art history departments of Hunter College, Brooklyn College, and the University of California, Riverside.
Before arriving in New York, Mitra was Assistant Curator and Museum Writer at UCR/California Museum of Photography. While there she oversaw the program of rotating exhibitions, curating a wide range of thematic and monographic shows from One Ground: Four Palestinian and Four Israeli Filmmakers to Lori Nix: Accidentally Kansas. Mitra has been a guest curator at the Sweeney Art Gallery, Riverside and Galleria Metta, Madrid. Mitra received her master's degree from the University of California, Riverside and completed her bachelor's degree at Scripps College in Claremont, California.
Color-print of the technique of photography from 1854, a hand painted color print from the book The History of Photography and PioneerPhotographers in Iran by Yahya Zoka (Tehran, 1997)
Cathy Wilson, recipient of a Faculty Enrichment Grant, will give a talk titled An educators' journey as an accidental tourist, Fulbright Scholar, artist and consultant in Pakistan
Wednesday, April 11, 12:10-12:50, Myers Auditorium
Visiting Lecturer
Jeanine Jablonski, MFA Studio Arts, 2005
Gallerist/Curator, owner, Fourteen30 Contemporary Gallery, Portland OR
Love it or GTFO; (What We Talk About When We Talk About Art)
Tuesday, April 10
7 pm Callicott Auditorium
Jeanine Jablonski is the Owner and Director of Fourteen30 Contemporary, a Portland, Oregon-based contemporary art gallery. Now in its fourth year of programming, the gallery has presented more than 25 exhibitions of emerging and new generation of artists from around the world, including works by Frank Haines (US); Walead Beshty (US); Brendan Fowler (US); Alex Hubbard (US); Thomas Moecker (DE); Chris Johanson (US); Richard Jackson (US); Kim Fisher (US); Nick van Woert (US); Grier Edmundson (CA); Bobbi Woods (US) and Brian Kennon (US). Fourteen30 Contemporary works with museums, private and corporate collections, along with individual clients, providing them with a comprehensive selection of contemporary fine art.
Jablonski has held myriad of positions including work with various for profit and non-profit art institutions, including Delta Axis, Lantana Projects, Portland Art Center, and the Elizabeth Leach Gallery. She is the Co-founder of A Conversation in Culture, an independently published and distributed guide to the Northwest region.
MFA, Memphis College of Art; BFA, Oregon College of Art and Craft.
Grier Edmundson, looking around looking, Fourteen30 Contemporary, Portland 2011
Bill Stewart of Vamp & Tramp book sellers lecture at MCA in conjunction with the exhibition Revealed Terrain: Landscape in Contemporary Book Arts curated by Cynthia Thompson at the Brooks Museum.
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featuring new works by Veda Reed, BFA 1956
Noctilucent Clouds, 2012, oil on canvas, 44×60″
April 3 – 28, 2012
Reception: Friday, April 6 from 6-8 pm
David Lusk Gallery
4540 Poplar Avenue
Memphis, TN 38117
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To keep Chemehuevi alive, Hill often talks to himself. "All the elders are dying off," he says. "There may be about 30 true Chemehuevi left."
More than words are lost when languages die. They carry valuable information about a population's history and living environment.
"These people have been living and interacting within their ecosystems for millennia," Anderson says. "There is any number of things that people have been talking about for years that we're unaware of that could help society. For example, the Maya had an extremely sophisticated knowledge of astronomy, and most of it is lost."
So how do you save a language? Hill tried the obvious route—teaching his stepson—without success. "I taught him a word a day, and he used to write them down," he says. "I don't know what happened to that."
Anderson and the others at the institute perform linguistic triage with technology and psychology. First they determine why a community or group has abandoned a language in the first place. Then they work to elevate its status.
"Talking dictionaries help, and we're trying to build talking encyclopedias," Anderson says. "People love to play with them, especially young people. We show them that the stuff their grandparents know isn't boring."
The institute goes where their assistance is wanted, from Siberia to Africa to India. In doing so, they've identified 18 "hotspots"—homes to languages on their last gasps. Two of the top five are in the United States: the Pacific Northwest and the Southwest. These are places with high concentrations of Native American populations.
"It's a rescue mission," Anderson says. "But we're trying. We're trying."
Robin T. Reid, a freelance writer and editor in Baltimore, Maryland, last wrote for Smithsonian.com about fossils in Kenya.


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Brent Davidson came to UND as a walk-on and he'll leave collecting a pay check for playing hockey.
Davidson has signed a one-year contract with Boras HC of the Swedish professional league. He said that UND women's hockey associate coach Peter Elander, who used to coach the Sweden national women's team, helped hook him up.
"He's got contacts over there and he helped me out," Davidson said.
Davidson achieved career highs in games played (26), points (eight), goals (five), assists (three) and plus-minus (+10) as a senior. Davidson played on a line with first-round pick Brock Nelson and second-round pick Danny Kristo during the playoffs.
The Morden, Man., native already has received some advice on the Swedish league from fellow Morden native Colby Genoway, who previously played there.
"It's really exciting," Davidson said. "I'm happy to know that my hockey career isn't over. The University of North Dakota is great for developing players and giving them exposure to making the step to the next level. Thankfully, I was able to progress my game enough to head over to Sweden. We'll see where the next chapter takes me."


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Many years have passed since Kyle Brennan left Earth in the X-Shuttle. The story however continues with Julian Gardna, the child who ran away from home has now grown up, but in an attempt to steal a ship, was arrested and sent to be rehabilitated. Unbeknown to him, his past holds many secrets and his future even more. A new threat has entered the known universe, a race who have devastated one sector, and have the power to continue their reign of destruction: the Khaak.
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Andy Dunn, known far and wide as The Zman (accept no substitutes) has been a strong supporter of the XNA community for many years now (and the Managed DirectX community before that). This coming Sunday at 9:41 pm EDT (UTC + 4) the Kickstarter project for the game, Guncraft, (on which he is the Lead Programmer) comes to a close. They've garnered pledges in the amount of $15,375 at the time I'm writing this. The project must meet a funding target of $16,000 by the aforementioned deadline. I think this is going to be a really
fun game. I've pledged $65 towards it (and would pledge more if it weren't tax season). If you have some spare loot and think it'd be a fun game, or if you just want to say thanks to him for everything he's done over the years (and everything he's likely to do in the years still to come), consider visiting that Kickstarter link above and making a pledge. If they don't reach $16,000 then none of the donations take effect. Anyway, I'll be keeping my fingers crossed that it meets the goal. I've spent money on many stupid things...(Read whole news on source site)


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Ignacio "Nacho" Magos is looking for players for the upcoming season to play fastpitch softball with the Madera Yotees 18-over team.
The team will play in an upcoming tournament in May in Las Vegas and a league at Buchanan High School in June or July.
"Last year, we just played at Buchanan and went about .500," Magos said. "The year before, we went to a tournament in Riverside and saw that they were serious about softball."
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MIGHTY LIII Conference
Department of Mathematics
Phone 515-294-1752
Hotel Memorial Union on campus
Gateway Hotel & Conference Center
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This conference is supported in part by the National Science Foundation via grant number DMS-1238712, the National Security Agency and the Institute for Mathematics and its Applications (IMA) through its Participating Institution (PI) Program. PI members may use IMA/PI funds to support personnel's travel to this conference.
This conference is also sponsored by Iowa State University and the Department of Mathematics. Ron Graham's lecture was made possible in part through patronage by the College of Liberal Arts Sciences F. Wendell Miller Lecture Fund.


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Spurs players and officials past
and present give an account of
their most memorable game involving the club.
Please contribute yours, by e-mailing to firstname.lastname@example.com
The worse was losing in the final to
Arsenal the following year - total heartache.
I played with some great players in my
time and am proud to say I played alongside Lucy Pinnock, a naturally
gifted player with great potential who was tragically killed in a
motorbike accident a while back - I was sure she would go on to play for
England one day.
19th April 1994 our Ladies team was rocked by the tragic news
of the death of our co-founder and Secretary Sue Sharples. Sue had been
involved with the Greater London Women's League for a number of years and
it was decided that the cup competition for teams in the lower divisions
and reserve teams would be renamed the Sue Sharples Memorial Trophy, a
collection was made from friends, colleagues and other clubs and a
magnificent trophy not unlike her favourite FA Cup was purchased.
first final was to be played in May 1995.
It was deemed that Tottenham Hotspur Reserves would reach the
final and took on Wembley Mill Hill 3rds at Leyton Pennant FC in
had spent a good part of the season out with an injured ankle and really
should not have played at all. It was decided that I would play the
second half ... luckily as goalkeeper I was a member of the "good, I
don't have to run too much in goal" school of thought.
The score at half time was 0-0 and our first half keeper Tracy
Clay had made some good saves, so it was a tough act to follow.
I remember making a couple of saves including a one on one with
Rachel Yankey who is now a professional with Fulham and an England
international. I think it
was in the last 15 minutes or so when our strikers Julie Maile and Lucy
Pinnock scored to give us a 2-0 win.
elation at the final whistle was immense and I just ran towards the
centre circle and the rest of the team, as I got about ¾ of the way I
just stopped in my tracks as the enormity of the occasion hit me. I
collapsed in heap and cried. My pride being completed when I was invited to collect the
trophy alongside skipper Allyson Browne.
My Job was to mark Hazel all through the game, which I did to the
best of my ability hence we won!!
Hazel was getting extremely miffed with me and I think Pete too! Especially
when he shouted "Ooh Hazel you've messed your hair up
now!" I don't think that went down too well, but at least
Hazel didn't see any of the Ball that game!
My other memorable game would have to be when we played at Rushden and
Diamonds ground (lovely pitch). I felt like a real professional,
it's only a shame I can't play like one!
think we
are the best Under-10 team in the whole of England and we always play as
a team and no one is better than any one else.
match is my best for two reasons the first being I scored two goals and
the third goal was a own goal from my corner and the second reason was
it just goes to prove that if you work together as a team you can
achieve anything.
Go under 10s ... we are the League Champions this year and hope to be
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TSI Holds
Once admitted to Texas Tech University, the TSI Student Compliance Office (West Hall, Room 117) will place a registration hold on any students whose records indicate absent THEA scores and/or proof of exemption on file.
The TSI Developmental Education Office (Holden Hall Room 78) will place a registration hold on any student's records that show the student has not met TSI score requirements on one or more sections of the test. The hold will remain until the student is certified as TSI complete.
The above mentioned holds are to ensure students are registered in the appropriate developmental courses and that compliance with the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board is being met. Each registration must include a developmental program that is set up during a TSI advisement session (required before registration) in the TSI Developmental Education Office (Holden Hall Room 78). After the initial appointment students will continue advisement for any enrollment change (registration, add/drop, withdrawals) on walk-in basis with the TSI Academic Program Advisor. Once students are certified as TSI complete the registration holds will be removed and the TSI restrictions on registration will be lifted.
Students may appeal withdrawals when extenuating circumstances exist by picking up an Appeal of Withdrawal form in Holden Hall Room 78.
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Opportunity KnocksSep 2003
When I tell people that we have nearly 170 committees at the Association, I usually get a wide-eyed stare. And then I explain that these are active committees that are the heart of the Association. I invite you to visit our website and look at the list of committees it is a list of enormous range, and as President I get to both wonder at and extol the accomplishments of our committees on a daily basis.
We have just gone through the appointment process for the new committee year that begins in September, and for those of you who believe it is difficult to get on one of our committees, rest assured that opportunities are still available. After all, we have nearly 4,000 committee slots. In thinking about the opportunity this affords, let me steer you in perhaps a different direction than you would expect.
We have many committees geared to the popular practice areas of our profession. And a good number of those committees are over-subscribed. While these committees provide their members with excellent professional development opportunities, they do not get you away from your day job (admittedly a particularly outmoded concept in our current 24/7 legal world). How about thinking beyond your specialty? Why not use an Association committee to broaden your horizons? Many of our committees are dealing with the pressing social or international issues of the day. Others are performing public service or doing law-related education. You can learn new areas of law and public policy and feel involved in shaping that policy. Who knows, you may even develop a new vocation or avocation out of your committee service. Many have.
One example of a committee to think about joining is the Committee on Military Affairs and Justice. That committee was formed after the Second World War and was instrumental in writing the Code of Military Justice. Since then it has gotten involved in a variety of issues, many of which have overtones in the general society, such as women and children in combat, and the treatment of lesbians and gay men in the military. After the September 11th attacks, when President Bush issued his order establishing military tribunals to try enemy combatants, the Committee was the first to issue a report with national resonance, raising questions regarding the constitutionality of the order. The American Bar Association eventually adopted a policy based on the analysis of the Committee. Since then, the Committee has been involved in other aspects of the "war on terrorism".
In a similar vein, our International Security Affairs Committee was active in addressing policy issues with regard to the authority of the President to undertake military action in Iraq. This Committee continues to monitor world events. Indeed, we have a range of committees in the international field with many active members who do not have an international practice.
Closer to home, if you are interested in cutting-edge scientific issues, we have both a Committee on Science and Law and a Committee on Bioethics. If you would like to address the concerns of different cohorts of the Bar, we have committees on Women and the Profession and Minorities in the Profession, Senior Lawyers and Young Lawyers, and Law Student Perspectives. Our Housing Court Public Service Projects Committee looks at how people who go into housing court, the huge majority of whom are unrepresented, can be given the help they need to cope with the procedures and the stresses of this incredibly busy court.
Of course, we will be delighted to try to accommodate your committee interest even if you still want to join something tied-in with your bread-and-butter. We expect members of all of our committees to be active participants, to help write reports and plan programs. This participation makes our committees what they are, and enriches your experience. Serving on an Association committee is not a spectator sport.
On page 3, you will see information on a number of committees that have vacancies. If you are interested in applying for one of those, please reach out to the relevant committee chair. In addition, any time you would like to request a placement on a committee, you may contact Stephanie Glazer, our Director of Committee Membership Services, at 212-382-6664 or email@example.com. She will be happy to let committees know of your interest, and answer other questions on committee service and the procedure for getting on committees.
Getting involved in an Association committee is really what were all about. Many people cannot stay away once they get a taste of committee
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If you go with Geekwire columnist John Cook's take on Nordstrom's fourth quarter performance, the department store chain "is in a bit of a pickle." Sales through the company's 117 department stores during that period reportedly slipped 3.3 percent. Sales per square foot fell 2.4 percent, and the total of $3.6 billion in sales from all channels was pretty much flat vs. the year-ago quarter.
Of course, the holiday quarter was tough on a lot of big chains due to severe weather, economic uncertainty and ... well, Amazon. (Curious how Amazon's name comes up these days in reference to nearly every quarterly report.)
Also curious was how Kyle Stock of Bloomberg Businessweek saw the same story through different eyes. While acknowledging Nordstrom's difficulty in getting foot traffic during the holidays, this columnist paints a picture of a progressive, tech-savvy retailer pushing boldly into a certain omnichannel future. While many chains still seem to be treating their web and mobile businesses as a necessary evil, Nordstrom's aggressive investments in digital landed them a 30 percent boost in online business from a year earlier. It was the online channel, in fact, that probably saved the chain from having a disastrous year.
Nordstrom's total sales growth over the last two years has seesawed from roughly the negative 20 to positive 30 percent ranges. Meanwhile, its online business has consistently grown 20 percent or more, quarter after quarter.
And management is far from resting on its laurels, digital-wise. The company announced plans to spend 30 percent of cap expenditures on technology, up from its historic 20 percent. Mr. Stock of Bloomberg Businessweek estimates that internet sales now account for about a third of company revenue, this compared to Macy's — a competitor that's no slouch at e-commerce — doing about 11 percent of its sales online.
Further, Nordstrom is heavily committed to its mobile efforts, both on the consumer and in-store customer service sides. According to RIS News, Nordstrom is working hard to integrate tablet devices into store operations, largely to improve POS efficiency. The company also points to learning quite a bit about mobile shopper behavior from its Nordstrom Rack customers and is rolling out some "pretty big improvements" to its mobile site in the spring.
Perhaps most important to Nordstrom's success is the thread of humility that seems to run through management. "There's a lot of newness that keeps coming out and our line of sight in that world is really only roughly a two to three year period," Nordstrom EVP and CFO Michael Koppel told RIS. "To say that we're going to reach a peak and then it's going to stop, I think, would be misleading on our part."
By 2019, what percentage of overall sales do you predict Nordstrom will see from online and mobile sales?
Many stores are defining "omnichannel" as a way to link stores and e-commerce more effectively, especially in terms of fulfillment of web orders. (Kohl's announced yesterday that it is speeding up its efforts to fill orders from its physical locations...where Macy's and Nordstrom have a head start in this area.) Nordstrom has a particular challenge using "omnichannel" for more than just better logistics management, as a company known for "high-touch" customer service and location-based merchandising. These kinds of mobile tools can only go so far with a brand that depends heavily on individual engagement.
I was in the flagship store a couple weeks ago. Two employees busy talking to each other, one on their smartphone as I was looking around a designer collection. I found one employee who was best of class and purchased several items. If I hadn't, I wouldn't have.
Going full out on technology to me, in that store, meant throwing in the white flag on managing employees.
Yes, many Nordie's customers shop digital because there are fewer physical stores near where we may have moved. But I would suggest what made Nordstrom great is in danger - clearly evident on the sales floor one day.
Nordstrom is embracing the digital shopper and reality. Unlike some of the retailers that have been discussed in these pages over this topic, Nordstrom's is systematically and iteratively experimenting and developing their approach to a balanced retailing experience for their customers - whether online or in-store. Given their typical shopper, I suspect we'll see a continual growth in Nordstrom's e-commerce/online business. Same-day delivery, and overall ease of shopping will cater to their shopper profile. It would be prudent for other retailers to monitor Nordstrom's digital evolution.
I think what's most interesting about the two perspectives shared in the article is that one insisted on looking at stores as a stand-alone channel and the other instead focused on online and its positives. And I think both are wrong. Online influences what happens in stores and stores influence online behavior too. Retailers recognize this - and would dearly love to measure it - but the financial analyst world appears bent on measuring retail the old way, channel by channel.
But that said, the question asked for discussion is much more difficult to answer. What is the future of the department store? Nordstrom sits between the foundering JCP, which tried to reinvent the store at a time when the store's future has never been more uncertain, and the effort failed. Whatever your argument as to the source of the failure, we will now never know whether the store part of that experiment stood a chance, and love him or hate him, Ron Johnson's store design was at least the most innovative thing to happen to department stores since the escalator.
On the other side is Macy's, which is taking the turtle's slow and steady pace against Johnson's now-expired hare. The focus is all on omni-channel, but more about integrating the store into the supply chain and beefing up the online presence than in really integrating digital and store per se.
And I don't think either one actually is posing a real answer to the question "What is the future of the department store?" That question is much more complicated than digital vs. physical. Where department stores used to be the place to go to acquire brands, that's no longer true, even in the digital space. Why should I go to Macy's or Nordstrom if I can get the brands I love direct from the manufacturer? And manufacturers, upset by the arms-length transactional relationships involved with "I'll display and sell your stuff however I like" have responded by trying to clamp down on how their brand is displayed and priced. The end result, to me, is a sea of sameness. Will a Nordstrom look any different than a Macy's if the brands ultimately get their way? No.
So yeah, digital is important, and financial analysts need to get with the program on measuring retail success. The store is not the be-all end-all of the chain, and neither is online alone its savior. But the future of the department store - answering that question is going to be ugly, messy, and I think it's going to take awhile. And we may lose a chain or two in the process.
Digital is Nordstrom's growth path. It empowers the company to reach customers in rural states where there are few or no Nordstrom stores. If the store can maintain its reputation for fantastic in-store customer service (and Bob Phibbs raises a flag on this one) they'll be well-poised for future success.
Technology-wise, Nordstrom was late to the game, but has leapfrogged the competition. The only thing I worry about, with regard to the company is over-expansion of stores.
It used to be an exciting rarity to have a Nordstrom nearby (sort of like Trader Joe's, but for clothes). Now, at least in Miami, the chain has 3 stores within about 20 miles of each other, 2 within about 5 miles of each other.
This certainly creates some comparable store issues (does Dadeland Mall cannibalize Merrick Park? It has to). It also loses a bit of cachet.
I think a lot of Nordstrom's online growth comes from parts of the country/world, where a store is not available. Is it a good thing when a store opens there too?
I'm sure the folks at Nordstrom are smart enough to analyze this geographic conundrum. And I'm also sure they're smart enough to pull back on store growth when they sense they've lost their edge. That's just good retailing.
I thought the humility of management comment was interesting, and is maybe a major driver for their digital efforts. Digital success now and into the future is probably predicated on breaking free of long-standing norms of how to run a successful retail business. Management culture may be a huge factor in what retailers succeed over the next few years with respect to digital. There's simply little choice but to weave other channels into the business across sales and service - you have to follow shoppers wherever they may wish to buy, in the store, online, on the go, or at home and make that experience as seamless as possible.
When you think about Nordstrom's reputation for high touch, quality in-store service, their efforts online seem to mirror that mantra but in a virtual way. The challenge for them over time may not be so much digital execution as ensuring the Nordstrom brand continues to stand for quality service across channels.
In five years, the distinction between digital and in-store sales will probably disappear as all transactions happen digitally, but fulfillment happens based on shopper preference (browse/try in store, pick-up in person or delivery). The "store" will become a place with multiple entry points (physical, mobile, web, social) but the shopper will be recognized equally across those channels, that each enhance the shopping experience in different ways.
Gib Bassett, Retail and Consumer Goods Industry Principal, Oracle
They seem to be doing off-the-radar, interesting stuff in their skunk works, Nordstrom Data Lab - code on Github? Wow! PhD in bioinformatics, those are little crumbs that suggest that there might be the beginnings of a there, there. Oh and then we have the local talent. I'd say they have the potential to do some breakthrough work because they get the importance of building an innovation culture - that is what I found reading between the lines. Google is so great! Good luck Erin and Dave.
Vahe Katros, Consultant, Plan B
You can either invest in the future, and grow like Amazon is, downplaying immediate profits, or you can hang onto outmoded ways and thinking and either disappear from the scene, and cripple along as "once giants" like A&P and Sears have done.
Herb Sorensen, Ph.D., Scientific Advisor Kantar Retail; Adjunct Ehrenberg-Bass, Shopper Scientist LLC
I think because of management's low-key nature, Nordstrom hasn't received the accolades it deserves with respect to creating an experience that fulfills it mission regardless of channels. (The comparison I'm thinking of here is Macy's, which gets tons of press around "omnichannel.")
As far back as 2003, Nordstrom had Web-enabled POS. In 2008, it introduced buy online, pick up in store. Having developed a multi-channel infrastructure during the past 10 years, Nordstrom is now focused on fine-tuning the customer experience across channels.
It's become an incubator for innovative channel blurring retail concepts - think Bonobos, Etsy, Sole Society, Blue Nile.
Through these partnerships, Nordstrom gains not only access to narrowly distributed brands but also insight into online branding, e-mail marketing, customer acquisition/retention and other intelligence that it can incorporate into its own banners AS WELL AS unique concepts that it can bring into its stores to drive traffic. Even the decision to accept HauteLook returns at Rack is all about driving cross-channel traffic.
Because Nordstrom tends to be an early adopter rather than a fast follower, it has been willing to test - and sometimes fail - which is a trait that Wall Street doesn't often reward.
That being said, I do think Nordstrom will reach its goal of achieving 50% of sales online in the next 5 to 7 years.
Nordstrom's is definitely on to something big here! With their limited number of stores, super brand recognition and inventory restrictions to stock a broad/deep assortment in all locations, utilizing the online store is the way to leverage all of the above!
My best guess is they could gain 50%+ on their current digital channels over the next 5 years.
Nordstrom is a very innovative and forward-looking retailer. They have hired a LOT of Amazon folks over the last few years and are taking advantage of that mindset to continue to push (and test) boundaries.
Thinking of "digital" as a distinct "channel" is deceiving and confuses the role of digital in the path to purchase. It is no longer go online or go to a physical store. And it's not just about buying online and picking up in-store - or the reverse. Shoppers today have many different touchpoints (both digital and physical) on their way to a purchase. And while it's difficult to measure each component's contribution to the sale, that doesn't mean it's not happening. The appeal of a simplified last-touch attribution model needs to be weighed against its misleading conclusions on where to invest the next dollar.
Todd Sherman, Managing Partner, T3C Partners
"...Sales from all channels was pretty much flat vs. the year-ago quarter." To me, this pretty much says it all, and laudatory remarks seem out of place...at the very least.
And I'm sick of hearing about how it's all Amazon. The big A has less than 1% of the nation's retail sales (though if you added up every decline they get blamed for it would seem more like 101%).
So what's Nordstrom's problem? I think it has three of them:
1) the company is, of course, known for its service, and - as Dick notes - this is a tough thing to translate into online. Though it seems to be doing well there so far, I'm wondering how far it can go with things like tailored apparel.
2) much of its sales volume is - for want of better term - "business attire" and I wonder how much of a future that model has in a nation of flip-flop wearers.
3) It has the Walmart problem: it has saturated the market - or nearly so - though in this case the higher-end market...not very hard to have double digit growth when you have only one store in a five state area, but much more so when you have ten or twenty there.
Nordstrom used to have me as a loyal customer, because they were the only place that carried narrow shoes. At one point I was told to go to Nordstrom online because they decided to no longer carry all the narrow styles at the store. I did go online, but I went to Zappos because they had an even larger selection.
The problem with not capturing sales in the store with the selection and personal customer service customers have grown to expect is that the convenience of searching out alternatives online will too easily take one to their competitor. Amazon understands and takes advantage of this.
Nordstrom's digital push, and their continuing investments, are like other areas of their business (e.g., loyalty marketing): best-in-class. Their key is pursuit of viewing online directly in tandem rather than in opposition to the store. We work with a lot of retailers and it is still the status quo that stores and direct/digital are more often siloed than not. Customers don't view it that way and unless merchants fully embrace that the way Nordstrom has, they will lose.
The next five years should bring significant changes in Information Technology (IT) capabilities and range. Animation and multilingual translators will allow the stores and e-commerce to bring real time customer associate assistance to consumers on demand. While this will greatly expand the retailers ability to address the customers specific areas of concern plus technical and practical inquires, there will not be a solid IT ability for expanding solutions to include add-on sales and impulse sales. This is no small issue to the gross sales and profit lines especially for the brick and mortar retailers which know well their loses with every e-sale. Attempts to fortify these needs create screen clutter or annoying chatter that cause irritation and confusion and lead to many abandoned carts or site abandonment.
As time goes by and these advertising needs are placed in the content of an order confirmation with the ability to create and bill, order amendment increases. The next 30 to 50 years of IT development is where we will see enormous changes in buying habits and abilities. Nordstrom may or may not be here to enjoy the near or long therm IT enhancements for B&M and/or e-commerce retail. Looking at e-commerce as a way to stabilize and grow the whole corporation is a technical abandonment of where lost sales issues are in the company. This is not to say e-commerce isn't important but to reinforce the importance of store sales which is were the real loses are happening and need to be stopped.
The issues raised here do point to a model for the luxury department store channel. By focusing on effective integration of digital tools, Nordstrom is able to invest in business growth without necessarily building more and more locations. A Nordstrom in a small community makes no sense, but enabling all small communities to "shop" Nordstrom virtually connects millions of small town dwellers to an ever-improving luxury shopping experience online. The caveat is ensuring the historic investment levels in in-store experience, especially professional service excellence.
As long as the investment is balanced, Nordstrom will thrive in the long term.
The danger is for the moderate department stores. Content and experience differentiators are very difficult to come by in their space.
Mike Osorio, Senior VP Organizational Change Management, DFS Group


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A curious silence in Westminster
But I'm curious whether Archbishop Nichols knows about this meeting. I'm curious whether he is happy that the pastoral centre of his diocese is hosting a conference for an organisation whose aims are to defy and undermine a Catholic moral teaching repeated again and again in recent years.
There is no doubt in my mind that Quest openly opposes the Magisterium on the issue of the compatibility of the full expression of homosexuality with the full expression of the Catholic faith. Indeed, they say these things are quite compatible.
So, rather than sitting here doing nothing, I wrote to the Westminster Diocesan Office for Pastoral Affairs on Monday morning. Undoubtedly, it must be a busy office but I was sent a prompt reply stating that it had no responsibility for London Colney.
Next, I sent an email to London Colney and to the office of Archbishop Nichols directly which read as follows:
Dear sirs,
I understand that Quest are to hold a conference at London Colney Pastoral Centre on 22-24 July. As a concerned Catholic, I would like to ask whether the diocese approves of Quest being allowed to hold their conference in a centre which it owns, and also whether Archbishop Nichols lends his support to this conference.
Yours faithfully, etc.
I did not expect an immediate answer, but perhaps at least a holding response acknowledging my email. Unlike the Pastoral Office, however, neither London Colney nor the office of Archbishop Nichols replied.
By Tuesday evening when there was still no reply, I thought that perhaps they needed a little reminder of my correspondence. While this might seem a bit hurried, the conference is due to start this coming Friday and I thought it best to clear these matters up. So, I wrote for a second time:
Dear sirs,
Given the proximity of the Quest conference, I would appreciate it very much if you could answer my two questions which I submitted to you yesterday. I will be quite content with yes or no answers:
1) Does the diocese approve of Quest being allowed to hold their conference in a centre which it owns?
2) Does Archbishop Nichols lend his support to this conference?
Yours faithfully, etc.
Today there has been once again no reply from either party: not from Alan Johnstone, the administrator of London Colney, and not from the office of the Archbishop.
Now, call me old fashioned, but I am not drawing any conclusions from the current radio silence (or whatever the email equivalent is). I'm sure these offices are very busy and have a mountain of work to get through. But surely enquiries about current events could receive punctual replies, even of the briefest kind. Indeed, I have attempted to make their job easier for them by simply asking for 'yes' or 'no' answers. They could satisfactorily have answered my emails something like this:
Dear thingy,
1. Yes (or no, as the case may be)
2. Yes (or no, as the case may be)
Yours, etc.
So, there we have it. I thought I would let readers know that I have been trying to get some clarity from Westminster Diocese on this question. It does OWN London Colney after all. And Quest is clearly a group which both professes to be Catholic and at the same time defies the Magisterium (which includes the teaching authority of the bishops in communion with the Holy See) on a key area of human sexuality. I suppose what I'm getting at is that this is quite a grave question really. I don't want to overstate the matter but there it is.
So, does the diocese approve of Quest holding this conference at London Colney, and does Archbishop Nichols lend his support to Quest's conference?
I will of course write again tomorrow morning.
15 comments:
- Ben Trovato said...
Don't hold your breath!
- 20 July 2011 at 22:35
- umblepie said...
Well done Ches. What a mess our Catholic leadership is in. St John Fisher, pray for us all.
- 20 July 2011 at 22:45
I suppose the diocese is more concerned about prosecution under SORs than anything else - sad really.
- 20 July 2011 at 23:21
- Ben Trovato said...
Remember the diocese also has much more serious problems to address: such as the highly successful Vaughan School and its lamentable Catholic ethos...
- 21 July 2011 at 08:44
- Genty said...
Thank you for your perseverence, Ches. But I wouldn't expect a reply much beyond: Hold your tongue. Perhaps that's what the non-replies signify.
I've read that the diocese is due to close the centre at the end of this year. I suppose it's entirely feasible that next year's conference could be held in Westminster Cathedral hall.
When it's a lay person who has to point out errors to an Archbishop the world has gone upside down. Whodda thunk it would come to this?
- 21 July 2011 at 08:57
- Ches said...
Dear friends,
I'm not expecting a reply (though I would like one), or holding my breath, so much as moving through a procedure that I think is required by fairness. If no reply is forthcoming, then we'll see what to do next.
- 21 July 2011 at 09:53
Have you tried telephoning them with these questions? Might have more luck extracting an answer.
- 21 July 2011 at 09:56
Send a letter registered, and a copies to the Nunciature and to Rome, indicating in the original the list of recipients. But really, I don't think you will stop the Conference any more than you will stop the Soho.
- 21 July 2011 at 10:23
Rock and a hard place. If they were to cancel it, how many microseconds later would a writ claiming discrimination fall on the floor? No it's about time that they picked a case to challenge the anti catholic discrimination laws, but I'm not sure this is it.
- 21 July 2011 at 10:36
- Ches said...
These are all interesting considerations. I'll reveal my own mind on this tomorrow at some point.
- 21 July 2011 at 10:40
- GOR said...
I commend your efforts, Ches!
But as is often the case with the institutional Church, concerns about orthodoxy or orthopraxis get scant attention. However, should a complaint be received from some dissident group, people spring into action... What was that bit about "itching ears" and not listening to sound doctrine...?
- 22 July 2011 at 13:02
Draw conclusions, by all means. I have full knowledge of irrefutable evidence of the dissent being promoted at the Soho 'gay' Masses, that has been sent to Archbishop Nichols since he returned to Westminster. Not one reply has been received by the person who sent it. The modus operandi is as follows (and again, I have seen the evidence for this):- If a person writes to Archbishop Nichols to complain about the Masses, but encloses no evidence of dissent, they are sent a misleading letter signed by him, stating that there is no problem with the Masses, that they are in full accordance with Catholic teaching, etc, etc. If, however, a person sends him a letter enclosing indisputable evidence of dissent - no reply at all. It is VERY hard to see how he is acting in good faith regarding all this.
- 22 July 2011 at 19:50
- Ches said...
Pat, can you contact me off the blog? Have a look at the profile which has a link to my email address.
- 22 July 2011 at 19:55
- EditorCT said...
"Not draw conclusions"? Unbelievable.
There is only one conclusion to draw given all the on-record statements available from Archbishop Nichols on the subject of sodomy and it is that he sees nothing wrong with it. He actually thinks that the Church's teaching on this (and women's ordination) might change.
See www.catholictruthscotland.com video clip of him being interviewed on BBC before I remove it.
The only conclusion anyone can draw about the UK bishops individually and collectively, is that they are apostates. Some of us reached that conclusion a very long time ago.
And no, I'm not "ranting" or "raving" or "angry." Just stating the blankety blank obvious.
- 22 July 2011 at 23:26
- Ches said...
Editor CT, the only court capable of giving AVN+ due process is the Roma Rota. I can hardly pretend to be inquisitor and judge also. Just a concerned Catholic asking questions.
Incidentally, every clip of Archbishop Nichols which has been isolated from context has been weakened in its effectiveness. I wish whoever edited them had left them in their original state.
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