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American History for Ideologues
Joe Lockard
The opening two paragraphs of Thomas Woods' The Politically Incorrect Guide to American History are astonishing. Chapter 1 on 'The Colonial Origins of American Liberty' begins:
"First basic fact: the colonists were not paragons of 'diversity.' They came from one part of Europe. They spoke a common language. They worshipped the same God."
From 1629 to 1775 there were four waves of migration from four geographical regions of England…"
Then Woods provides a specious list of four migration waves, all from the British Isles and all Protestant. And so, in this exercise in what used to be called Anglo-Saxonism, major streams of migration from elsewhere simply disappear. The Dutch immigrants of Woods' own New York disappear; the Germans of the mid-Atlantic colonies, almost as numerous as the Scots-Irish, disappear; the Catholics of Maryland disappear (not to mention the Catholics of Florida, Louisiana, New Mexico and elsewhere, in communities established long before the original thirteen colonies); and, most tellingly, the entire African diaspora in North America and the Caribbean disappears. Even the settlement dates provided for Virginia and Massachusetts are plain wrong.
This is not simply bad history; it is excruciatingly incompetent history. It's also the best-selling general history text in the United States today, one that is in the top ten of the New York Times non-fiction bestseller list. The author has a doctorate in history from Columbia University, where his doctoral examination committee should be walking on campus with paper bags on their heads.
The volume's front cover gives fair warning of its contents, with a Confederate soldier – the true hero of Woods' version of American history – scowling over boldface subtitles such as "The American 'revolutionaries' were actually conservatives," "The Puritans didn't steal Indian lands," "The War on Poverty made poverty worse," and "Hundreds of American liberals had secret ties to the Soviets." The book design, which features large fonts and pull-quote boxes, uses the devices of subject guides like the Dummies series. It is this combination of antagonistic far-right counter-message, mass market design, and dumbed-down simplification that has made the book so popular.In terms of historical narrative, Woods provides a version of US history based on a set of rants that is highly selective in terms of the history it is willing to admit happened. Don't look here for any treatment of Native America beyond the Pequot-Puritan conflict and Cherokee endorsement of the Confederacy. This is a history that uses only the evidence – or non-evidence - that fits its author's prejudices, which can be fairly described as those of a states rights advocate, a neo-Confederate and white supremacist. Although the book takes the form of a John Winthrop to Bill Clinton survey of American history, Woods tries to immunize himself against criticism of his omissions by stating in the preface that the book "is not, and is not intended to be, a complete overview of American history." That could be written off as hilarious understatement, were it not for the sober point that this is pseudo-history written precisely through its omissions. The genocidal Middle Passage, for example, has been omitted entirely as apparent argumentative inconvenience. Concealment and perpetuation of ignorance, not exploration and open discussion, can be the only purposes of this ommission.
Which is not to say that Woods ignores slavery; indeed, the forces generated by the institution of slavery preoccupy Woods, who essentially re-states a couple long-discredited arguments of Ulrich Bonnell Phillips and the school of Southern nationalist historiography. These include assertions that the antecedents of the Civil War lay entirely in the North's attempts to assert political and economic dominance over the South, and to deprive it of sovereignty; that slavery had little or nothing to do with the origins of the war; that Lincoln started the war by mobilizing troops; and that the South was fully justified in resisting an unconstitutional assertion of federal authority, in seceding from the Union, and resisting Northern aggression.
In fact, as will state any honest scholar immersed in antebellum primary sources such as journalistic accounts, political rhetoric, sermon literature, or secession convention minutes, slavery was undeniably central as a cause of the Civil War. This causation filtered through many other social discourses, including party politics, law, economics, religion, and culture, but the recurring root cause is always the huge, immoveable question of African American slavery. Many citizens of northern and western states, including Lincoln, whose opinions were most commonly inflected with anti-black racism, initially preferred to believe that the only cause of war was disunion and its treason. The exigencies of the Civil War, with its massive sacrifices, required Lincoln and Union opinion to confront slavery as the root cause of the war and a moral cause in its own right. Southern nationalist historiography, perhaps represented most influentially by Woodrow Wilson's A History of the American People (1902) and culturally by Thomas Dixon's The Clansman (1905), produced the controlling readings of the Civil War and Reconstruction eras for the first half of the twentieth century. These readings denigrated or dismissed both slavery as a moving force in US history, and the centrality of African American contributions to the nation's political, legal and cultural history. In the twenty-first century, with the benefit of generations of scholarship required to challenge and overcome such racist historiography, to pretend otherwise is American history's equivalent of Holocaust revisionism or denial. In this sense, Thomas Woods, Jr.'s historicization is a cheap, venal version of Ernst Nolte's relativistic soft-pedaling during the 1980s of World War II atrocities, or the more recent version voiced by Holger Apfel, leader of the neo-Nazi National Democratic Party in Germany. Woods' Civil War history that presents Southern whites as the victims closely resembles Apfel's calls for Germany to recognize its victimization and shed its "guilt culture."
Woods' querulous, tendentiousness revisionism leads him to claim that "it was about slavery, but not really about slavery"; the Dred Scott decision was a charade, and Chief Justice Taney's statements alleging black racial inferiority have been decontextualized unfairly in American history textbooks; John Brown was an insane murderer; Lincoln began the 'War of Northern Aggression' by calling up troops to quash legitimate rebellion against federal authority; and there was no 'civil war' per se, since the Southern states had a right to secede and were defending their rightful independence, not contending for national power. There is a particularly egregious mischaracterization of Abraham Lincoln, as Woods prefers to cite only Lincoln's early racism, one he shared with much of the white population of southern Illinois; he refrains from informing readers of Lincoln's lifelong abhorrence of slavery and profoundly altered later views acknowledging human equality. Its purpose seems to be to invite readers to share in anti-black prejudice, as purportedly authorized by Lincoln's own words, whereas the real story of Lincoln lies in the transformation of his views. In Woods' distortion mirror of history, created through exceedingly selective citation, Lincoln becomes a nationalist whose sole purpose was to centralize federal power at all costs, an American version of Garibaldi or Bismark, whereas Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson are anti-slavery men who oppose secession but have no choice except resist Northern invasion.
After this farrago, it comes as little surprise next to encounter the pet theory of neo-Confederates that the Fourteenth Amendment was illegally ratified because Southern states were forced to ratify it as part of their re-admission to the Union. As Adam Cohen pointed out in the New York Times, however, the logical conclusion of this theory is that the Thirteenth Amendment was not legally ratified either, and thus slavery is still legal in the United States. One could push absurdity even further and claim that it is compensation for the descendents of white slaveholders that should be under discussion, not reparations for slavery. The purpose of this attack on the legitimacy of the Fourteenth Amendment has little to do with nineteenth-century history, and far more to do with that amendment's guarantees of equal citizenship, due process, and its equal protection clause, all of which are anathema for the right-wing politics offended that US courts have relied on the amendment to invalidate legal discrimination against women, poor people, and immigrants.
Woods takes readers on a traipse through claims that Andrew Carnegie and John D. Rockefeller represented the genius of US society and "irrational" anti-trust legislation has suppressed the entrepreneurial initiative of capitalism; Calvin Coolidge and Warren Harding were great American presidents because they did so little; Franklin Delano Roosevelt, aided by the "Soviet dupe" Henry Wallace, destroyed US agriculture, prolonged the Great Depression, bought votes with make-work WPA jobs, and deceived the American people into joining World War II; Joe McCarthy was a stand-up guy rightly concerned about Red subversion; and Brown v. Board of Education was the judiciary's surrender to left-wing sociology, a decision that hollowed out the Constitution as a guarantor of states rights. By the time a reader finishes the twentieth century with claims that Bill Clinton abetted radical Islamicists and Serbians were not massacring Kosovo Albanians, the misguided trajectory of crank-written history has already been long-established.
The real question is about the popularity of a book like The Politically Incorrect Guide to American History. Why is a book whose historical narrative so poor, so incorrect (in the sense of fundamentally erroneous, down to basic facts), and so antagonistic towards racial minorities, also so popular?
A significant part of the answer lies in understanding Woods and many others as contemporary anti-federalists for whom American history must be understood as representing a federal government attack of over two centuries' duration on the privilege of citizens to do as they please with their property, money, and lives. For these right-wing anti-federalists, the US constitution provides guarantees for individual liberty under a loose federation of states that may determine differently the meaning of that constitution. It does not charter a powerful national government that inevitably functions as a tyrant and deprives its citizens of their liberties. Thus Mr. Lincoln's armies, even if they fought for Union and against slavery, or the New Deal, even if it fought to end starvation and mass unemployment during the Great Depression, were the face of federal tyranny.
The self-conceived moral purpose of Woods' narrative lies in confronting such excesses by the US federal government and its "imperial judges" in order to rescue liberty from domestic tyranny. Claims of legal and social equality, and social policy that promotes such human rights, are foreign to this concept of American tradition. Rather, this is a radical egocentrism that promotes exclusive private possession, and individual liberty in defense of possession establishes its sacred center. As the Bush administration pursues its concept of an "ownership society," a text like this one provides readers with a history that attempts to justify contempt for taxation and social legislation as un- and anti-American.
Joe Lockard is an editor in the Bad Subjects Collective and assistant professor of American literature at Arizona State University.
Post-publication note: Professor Woods responded to the above essay with his own comments. Eric Muller, a law professor at University of North Carolina, has also responded, noting Woods' founding membership in the neo-Confederate League of the South. Muller has continued to unearth materials testifying to Woods' advocacy of secession and participation in the white supremacist League of the South, raising the question of why the Fox Network and others have celebrated Woods as a major new intellectual figure?
The following photograph appears on the League of the South website, documenting Woods as a speaker at their 1998 conference.


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Does anyone have divorced parents? Do are they able to family functions together or are they still bitter? My parents have been divorced about 7 years now and both remarried. The people they are married to now had nothing to do with the divorce. Anyway, my mom is planning a baby shower and she asked me if my dad and his wife Melissa would be interested in having a joined party, because I'm only around for a couple of days and it will be busy. I asked my dad and he seemed okay with it, but I received a facebook message this morning saying that him and Melissa would rather have they're own party. I just don't see the reason for the extra stress and work when my mom is planning one already. Melissa and I haven't ever had a great relationship but it would be nice if for family functions she could put what ever negativity she has toward me away and leave it alone. I don't want the baby to grow up in this unneeded stress.
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The kicker was at my wedding, how normally the father walks to bride down the isle. Problem was, I dont keep in contact with my dad, except for the big things, like birth of his grandchild, or my wedding. My stepdad has been there for me more over the years, but I didnt want to have to pick one of them, and I didnt want them both to do it, because that seemed like it would have been awkward, too. Instead, my husband walked down the isle with me, rather than wait down the isle. That way, we had it as we were equals, partners, and neither parent could be offended.
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Under s20 of the Act, the proprietor of a registered mark has the exclusive rights to use that mark in relation to the goods and/or services in respect of which the mark is registered. They also have the right to authorise others to use the mark.
The benefits enuring to the owner derive from the marketing advantage of having goodwill in a name or logo. Proprietors of trade marks treat their trade marks as disposable assets to be sold, licensed, assigned, bequeathed or mortgaged. Registered trade marks are characterised legally as personal property under S21 of the Act.
Under the present legislation it is also possible to assign a trade mark which is either registered or in the process of being applied for pursuant to S106. A person who becomes entitled, whether by virtue of a transfer of the registered mark or the right to apply for the mark, must apply to the Registrar to be registered as the proprietor of the mark in respect of the goods/services in respect of which the assignment has effect. ( S107) A clear distinction must be made between licensing and assignment, as once the Assignor parts with ownership of the relevant mark, they no longer have the right to use it, unless the Assignee licenses back a right of use to the Assignor.
Licensing has some distinct advantages as a means of exploiting trademarks, as it provides flexibility to parties. The Trade Marks Act provides for the formal recordal of a trade mark licence but has dispensed with any substantive examination of the licence agreement.
An assignment of a trade mark can be partial in respect of some goods or services or in respect of the area in which the mark is to be used. It isn't necessary for the assignment to be in writing although the Registrar will require some kind of documentary evidence that establishes the title of the Assignee. (r10.1 Trademark Regulations)
The ability of the owner of the trade mark to license the trade mark is a highly desirable feature of the commercialisation and marketing strategy. Licensing can include manufacturing goods through a Licensee, or appointing authorised distributors and franchising.
A license of a trademark need not be put in writing although it is considered good practice for the licensor and licensee to do so. One of the critical aspects of maintaining a trademark's ongoing validity of ownership is to establish that the registered owner has used the trademark. Under the Act use of the trademark by an 'authorised user' will be taken to be use by the registered owner for this purpose. To qualify as an 'authorised user' it must be demonstrated that the licensor has 'control' over the use of the trademark.( S8)
S8 indicates what types of user will be regarded as constituting control for the purpose of the Act. Perfect control over the trademark will not exist if the Licensor retains the ability to control the quality of the goods or services to which the trademark is being applied S8(3) or exercises financial control over the trading activities in relation to which the trademark is being used S8(4)
Despite the existence of these provisions, Courts have sometimes held that the fact that the trademark owner has granted a licence, (regardless of the level of control required or allowed by the terms of the licence contract), is been sufficient to satisfy this test. The reason is because the section isn't addressed to the control of the mark's use, rather control of the provision of the service in relation to which the Licensee uses the mark. It makes sense for the proprietor to retain some control over the activities of the Licensee's activities even if only slight. For instance there is a real risk that where a Licensee exploits a trade mark they may become associated in the public perception with the mark, to the extent that the mark no longer represents a trade connection with the Proprietor, thereby compromising the validity of their registration.
The definition of 'authorised user' may encompass a broad range of subsidiaries of a trade mark owner, whether or not there is any formal licence agreement. Any person who claims an interest in relation to a mark can have their claim recorded in the Register, although such a record doesn't constitute proof of it's accuracy S116.
Under S111 when a person requests to be recorded as having some claim or right in a trade mark other claimants are informed of any assignments.
Licenses can present both risks and opportunities and the contract is the mechanism by which the allocation of risk can be managed. In the drafting of license agreements the Licensor should consider the scope of the licence, whether the license is granted on an exclusive basis in the sense that the Licensee is the only person with permission to use the trademark, even to the exclusion of the Licensor. An exclusive licensee may do all things the owner is entitled to do subject to what is agreed between the parties in their licence contract. A Licensor can limit an exclusive or sole license to territory, fields of use and/or duration. It is important to ensure that the granting of the license is not deemed to be anti-competitive under the Trade Practices Act 1974.
Another important consideration is the transferability of the licence. It is common for clauses in licences to stipulate that a licence is non-transferable, so that the Licensee is not authorised to permit another person to use the trademark. It is wise to include in any licence minimum performance obligations, methods of payment, provisions as to the duration of the licence and territorial operation, including whether the licensee has the ability to sub-license. Other provisions will provide for quality and trading approvals, in respect of the Licensor's requirements for the standards to be met by the Licensee in relation to the production and distribution of the licensed products; inspection of samples of the licensed product before it is produced in significant quantities, and a right to reject samples or demand alterations to satisfy the Licensor's specifications. The right to be provided with samples of the production run of the licensed product is another mechanism to protect the Licensor's trademark.
As the goal of merchandising is to generate revenue and achieve market penetration, whilst maintaining the integrity of the brand, the licence should address: a) the setting of minimum sales and/or production goals, and if they aren't achieved the appointment of either an additional or alternative licensor. b)set guidelines for the use of the licensor's brand c) set quality standards for the merchandise to be produced or sold by the Licensee d) reserve an entitlement to inspect samples and final items of the product or serve and if not satisfied, require the samples to be remade e)specify the style of retail outlets that the products are to be sold through.
Licenses should contain clauses dealing with intellectual property, including any indemnifying the Licensee against third party infringement claims. A licensor who granted an indemnity would normally reserve to the licensor the right to manage the proceedings. The Licensor may also consider whether to grant to the Licensee the contractual right to bring infringement proceedings against unauthorised use of the licensed product, particularly if the License is exclusive for a particular territory in which the Licensor has no presence and isn't in a position to monitor the market. There would be requirements to notify the Licensor of infringing activity and indemnifying the Licensor against claims arising from the licensee's infringement action. Proceeds from infringement actions are usually applied towards the costs of infringement action, with the remainder distributed between the parties.
The advantages of licensing of a trademark are that it allows or brand extension, where the Licensor licenses its brand name to products and services related to its core product or service, allowing them to leverage off their IP with minimal investment in product development or distribution.
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Tim Carpenter Returns Home to Push Single-Payer Healthcare
Tim Carpenter makes his single-payer pitch.
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Tim Carpenter had been the longtime face of progressive politics in Orange County before leaving in 2002 to become a top organizer for Dennis Kucinich's presidential bid followed by his current post: national director of the Progressive Democrats of America (PDA), which is based in Carpenter's new home state of Massachusetts. The PDA's "Health Care NOT Warfare" campaign brought him back home to Orange County in October, when he campaigned for local Democrats, including Debbie Cook and Steve Young, who shared that vision.
Neither Cook nor Young won their congressional races in November, but President Barack Obama's victory kept the PDA's hopes for single-payer healthcare alive, so much so that the group is making a California swing that ends Saturday at the Democratic Party's state convention in Sacramento.
And so, Carpenter will be back Tuesday evening in the same Orange union hall that hosted his last PDA visit, and he'll be surrounded by pretty much the same cast of characters. The Town Hall Meeting from 6:30-8 p.m. at Teamsters Local #952, 140 South Marks Way, Orange, features as speakers: Carpenter; Teamsters Local #952 Secretary/Treasurer and Executive Officer Patrick Kelly; 44th Congressional District candidate Bill Hedrick; and PDA California/OC Chapter leader Dr. Bill Honigman.
The California Nurses Association/National Nurses Organizing Committee has joined PDA in sponsoring the Golden State trip, which has been endorsed by Congressman John Conyers (D-MI), who is carrying legislation to set up a single-payer healthcare system in the U.S.
Carpenter maintains that the experience of other countries shows that single-payer is the only system that can provide universal care while lowering costs, and that it would create an estimated 2.6 million jobs in health-care and related industries in the U.S. "PDA remains committed to the single-payer solution," says Carpenter, "and we will continue to push for it inside and outside the beltway."
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Toronto Hotel Special Offered Just in Time for Excitement Around the City
Exclusive Offer From the Toronto Marriott Downtown Eaton Centre Hotel Sets the Stage for a Memorable Getaway
TORONTO, ON -- (Marketwired) -- Oct 15, 2015 -- Toronto in the fall is a beautiful city. Before the winter frosts set in, the city wears the inviting glow of autumn like none other. And one of the finest luxury hotels in Toronto can make the city even more special.
The onset of Toronto's gorgeous fall weather also means that holiday shopping is about to start in earnest. Starting now, the Toronto Marriott Downtown Eaton Centre Hotel is offering guests its "Shop 'til You Drop" package. A $25.00 gift card for the Toronto Eaton Centre, one of the largest shopping centres in the country, is the perfect head start to the holiday shopping blitz.
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Abrothrix sanborni
|Scope: Global
Language: English
|Scientific Name:
|Abrothrix sanborni
|Species Authority:
|(Osgood, 1943)
Common Name(s):
Akodon sanborni Osgood, 1943
|Taxonomic Source(s):
|D'Elia, G., Teta, P., Upham, N.S., Pardiñas, U.F.J. and Patterson, B.D. 2015. Description of a new soft-haired mouse, genus Abrothrix (Sigmodontinae), from the temperate Valdivian rainforest. . J. Mammal..
|Taxonomic Notes:
|Formerly in Muridae family. May be conspecific with A. longipilis, but has not yet been formally documented (Pearson 1995, Pine et al. 1979, Patterson, et al. 1989). It has been reported as hybridizing with A. longipilis so the validity of the species should be reviewed (G. D'elia pers. comm.)
|Red List Category & Criteria:
|Near Threatened ver 3.1
|Year Published:
|Date Assessed:
|Patterson, B. & D'Elia, G.
|Amori, G. (Small Nonvolant Mammal Red List Authority) & Schipper, J. (Global Mammal Assessment Team)
Listed as Near Threatened because the known extent of occurrence of this species is probably not much greater than 20,000 km², and populations are in decline because of loss of habitat due to increasing timber exploitation. Almost qualifies as threatened under criterion B1.
|Previously published Red List assessments:
|Range Description:
|This species occurs in southern Chile and the range is thought to extend into adjacent Argentina (Musser and Carleton 2005). The species has been noted at Parque Nacional Nahuel Huapí in Argentina but never confirmed (Cabrera 1961; Galliari et al. 1996).
|Countries occurrence:
Native:Argentina; Chile
|Additional data:
|Range Map:
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|There is information on decreasing of collected specimens (Murua et al. 2003). There is evidence of decreasing of population in some localities (G. D'elia pers. comm.).
|Current Population Trend:
|Additional data:
|Habitat and Ecology:
|Coastal rainforest (Valdivian forest) until around 800 m. The species is not found on any inshore islands (B. Patterson pers. comm.)
|Major Threat(s):
|Deforestation of the coastal forest for timber activities.
|Conservation Actions:
|There are several protected areas in the range of the species.
Cabrera, A. 1961. Catílogo de los mamíferos de America del Sur. Revista del Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales Bernardino Rivadavia 4: 309-732.
Galliari, C., Pardinas, U. and Goin, F. 1996. Lista comentada de los mam¡feros Argentinos. Mastozoología Neotropical 3(1): 39-61.
IUCN. 2008. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Available at: http://www.iucnredlist.org. (Accessed: 5 October 2008).
Musser, G.G. and Carleton, M.D. 2005. Superfamily Muroidea. In: D.E. Wilson and D.A. Reeder (eds), Mammal Species of the World: a geographic and taxonomic reference, pp. 894-1531. The John Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, USA.
Pearson, O. P. 1995. Annotated keys for identifying small mammals living in or near Nahuel Huapi National Park or Lanin National Park, southern Argentina. Mastozoología Neotropical 2: 99-148.
Pine, R.H., Miller, S.D. and Schamberger, M.L. 1979. Contributions to the mammalogy of Chile. Mammalia 43: 339-376.
|Patterson, B. & D'Elia, G. 2008. Abrothrix sanborni. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2008: e.T754A13074935. . Downloaded on 19 August 2017.
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Sonam Kapoor is one of those few actresses who went from flab to fit, her hot bikini avatar in one of her movies is a proof for that fact.
Looks like the actress doesn't ever stop working out, for she looks super hot in her latest gym workout picture! Dressed in a skimpy, black gym attire, Sonam looked super hot!
Prem Ratan Dhan Payo actress looked thin, delicate and outrageously hot in her midriff baring gym attire. The actress along with posting this gyming pic, wrote, "#nofilter ready to kill it!! @dtanna @radhikasbalancedbody Come back fast!!!"
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Working with a fitness guru like Salman Khan seems to have got her addicted to fitness as well, and so she is seen calling her trainer to come back soon and start her workout routine.
Sonam Kapoor who had dedicated the past few months to Neeraj Bhanot biopic and Prem Ratan Dhan Payo, has finally got a break from work which she has decided to spend, working on her hot body.
This actress has already given a complex to many women across the world with her fashion sense and now with this hot look, even the hottest gal in Bollywood will have to buck up for the competition.
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Doctor Who fans, prepare to let your jaw drop and your wallet open wide at the sight of this refrigerator kitted up as a TARDIS.
Artist Joy Alyssa Day created a special kit that you can attach to your fridge and transform it into a good TARDIS replica. It doesn't just look the part, though—the beacon flashes, and an audio module will play your favorite police box sounds when you reach for your chilled goods.
The kit includes a skin that attaches to the front of your fridge, and all you have to do is make a few cuts for the door handles. If you have a cold water dispenser on your refrigerator, there's a stiffened "phone door" that swings open when needed.
You can get your hands on one of the full sets for $185 over at Joy's website, Glass Sculpture, or just pick up certain elements of the kit, starting at $12. Each kit is customized for your fridge's size and door type. The downside? It does not make your fridge larger on the inside than it is on the outside.
And just remember: You shouldn't let your friends actually step inside your refrigerator, ok?
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Speakers Announced for Now / Next / Why
Contagious' Now / Next / Why 2015 series has been specifically designed to deepen understanding of one of the biggest, hairiest topics in our industry today. We'll be showing you lots, but we'll also be helping you apply it directly to your business or those of your clients.
The event's theme is Obsessing Experience. The Contagious team, along with industry experts, will demystify the concept of creating meaningful brand experiences across multiple touchpoints, considering the biggest challenges, some of the smartest solutions and the techniques for making these happen.
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Matt Watkinson is a designer and consultant who helps businesses get their customer experience right. Matt has worked with some of the most successful brands, design agencies and management consultancies around the world, specialising in joining multiple touchpoints together to create a single experience. He is the author of The Ten Principles Behind Great Customer Experiences, which was voted CMI management book of the year and is now widely regarded as one of the most practical and influential works on the subject.
Speaking at all our Now / Next / Why events, Watkinson will be joining our closing METHODS & MECHANICS section, providing an overview of his principals, grounded in practical advice for how they can be applied to any business.
He will then be collaborating with the Contagious Insider consultancy team to deliver a workshop that will invite the audience's participation in defining creative, connected and consistent brand experiences.
Chris Grantham is a brand thinker and strategist, working as brand experience portfolio director in IDEO London with many leading brand experience organisations including IHG, Hakkasan Group, IKEA and Nike. Having worked in brand communications and classic brand strategy, Grantham is now fascinated by more agile brand development processes such as developing a brand's strategy and actions in the same iterative design exercise.
At Now / Next / Why in London on April 21, Grantham will join our opening CASE & CAUSE section, explaining why deeply understanding consumers, the role a brand plays in their lives, and translating that to every part of their experience, is vital for modern businesses.
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