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Amber Coffman's Nostalgia Mixtape
Amber Coffman's Nostalgia Mixtape. Hosted by Sama'an Ashrawi.
The Amber Coffman Episode
Amber Coffman, a singer, guitarist, and human person, tells an incredibly relatable tale of teenage rebellion — inspired by TLC's "Creep."
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Amber Coffman: I'm Amber Coffman, and I'm a singer, musician, person. [laughs]
Sama'an Ashrawi: [laughs]
Amber: I feel kinda weird, like…
Sama'an: Yeah?
Amber: I dunno how this is gonna paint me. I'm really not crazy. I mellowed out.
Sama'an: Welcome to another episode of The Nostalgia Mixtape. I'm your host, Sama'an Ashrawi, and today we have a story about youth, rebellion, and finding one's self. Amber Coffman has had one of my favorite singing voices for a long time, and I don't think I'm alone in feeling that way, but, as powerful as her singing voice is, her speaking voice is very soft, it makes you lean in a little closer so you don't miss a word, and her laughter is infectious. I never get tired of listening to her tell a story. We taped this particular episode on a sunny, breezy day in East Los Angeles, it was a little bit chilly, and I think you can hear a bit of that in the ease of our conversation. Right before we turned the mics on, she had a sort of "a-ha!" moment, she hopped, went down into her basement, and came back with a yearbook from middle school, and a photo album from high school. After serving up some tea [editor's note: just regular tea, there was no hot gossip] she guided me through some of her favorite photos, pointing at certain classmates, telling me their stories, reminiscing about life in Northern California, and guessing the era of certain photos based on the color of her hair. So then we bonded over the way we both dyed our hair as teenagers, and how the music we listened to kind of dictated who we'd end up becoming friends with. But, all that to say: for many of us, our teenage years are when we try to find our boundaries, and a lot of times we find them the hard way. Thankfullyyyyy, Amber turned out alright! Which is why I think you'll really enjoy this story. So, let's jump in.
CHAPTER 1: EL DORADO COUNTY '97-'98
Amber: Good news is that we are eating La Salsa Chilena.
Sama'an: It's definitely not spicy, for sure. [editor's note: ;)]
Amber: It's mild.
Sama'an: [laughs]
Amber: They do make mild, medium, and hot. This is my favorite salsa…
Sama'an: Lemme get a dip.
Amber: It's made in San Diego, and I've been eating for probably…. the first time I had it I was probably about 19.
Sama'an: Wow.
Amber: Or 20!
Sama'an: [chewing intensifies]
Amber: I've only found it on the west side of LA. I've never seen it on this side of town, but it is so good with Have'A Chips, which most people know by now.
Sama'an: You a dedicated salsa, like…. they should give you some kind of stake in the company.
Amber: I would love a sponsorship or a lifetime supply. Anything like that, I'm open to that. So… La Salsa Chilena…
Sama'an: If you're out there…
Amber: I love you.
[editor's note: La Salsa Chilena, if you're out there, please make Amber one of your brand ambassadors.]
Sama'an: [laughs] Alright, cool. What song did you wanna talk about today?
Amber: We're gonna talk about "Creep" by TLC
Amber: [laughs]
Sama'an: I'm so excited right now. [laughs]
Amber: It is a classic.
Sama'an: Can you tell me about when this takes place? Like, what year does this take place in?
Amber: So, this is in the Fall of 1997, in Northern California, in a small, suburban town called Cameron Park. It was an El Nino year, so it was very rainy all year– and cold. And it was an interesting time. Yeah.
Sama'an: What was happening in pop culture in 1997?
Amber: Well, there were lots of R&B girl groups, and there was The Fugees, but that was a little bit earlier. Groups like that. There was the whole sort of — this is in my 13-year-old mind, or whatever, in my world — there was Nirvana and the grunge thing going on. Smashing Pumpkins, Hole. Yeah, and it was… In schools back then, you're identity was sort of one or the other.
Sama'an: You had to choose a side?
Amber: Kinda, yeah. Not that you couldn't enjoy both sides, but, yeah. The way kids sort of congregated and dressed and who they hung out with and all of that was really determined by what music they were into.
Sama'an: That's how the cliques were formed.
Amber: Mhm.
Sama'an: That makes a lot of sense.
Sama'an: First things that come to your head, can you rifle off some songs you would have been listening to — or artists you would have been listening to — at that point?
Amber: "Bullet With Butterfly Wings," the Smashing Pumpkins song.
Sama'an: I don't know that one.
Amber: You don't?!
Sama'an: I'm glad you told me about it because now I'm gonna find out.
Amber: [laughs] Oh shit. You gotta watch the video, too. You always knew what the videos were for a lot of these, you know? That and probably The Score, The Fugees record, I listened to that a lot. This is gonna be kind of a funny combination of songs [laughs]. You know what? I feel like at that time the first Creed single was on the radio a lot.
Sama'an: Oh wow. Okay! That's fine! [laughs]
Amber: It's not that I was listening to it, but…
Sama'an: You were hearing it.
Amber: It was around. Yeah. Do you know that song?
Sama'an: Is it "Will You Take Me Higher?"
Amber: Oh no, no, way before that.
Sama'an: Okay.
Amber: It's like about some court room or something… It was like [editor's note: Amber might do the best Scott Stapp impression I've ever heard] "Court is in sesshunnnn…"
Amber: "…the verrrrrdict is in" [laughs]
Amber: I don't…. [laughs]
Sama'an: [laughs] That was really good.
Amber: Anyway, that was the…
Sama'an: Thank you.
Amber: That was on the radio a lot. Umm… What else? What else? '97, '98… Such a weird time. Green Day. Aaliyah for sure. I think Aaliyah was probably around– that "One In A Million" record was around that time. It's kind of a wild combo.
Sama'an: I'm just putting a mixtape together in my head.
Amber: Yeah [laughs]
Sama'an: Will you tell me just some of the things you would do for fun in middle school? Like what were the things that your friends wanted to do?
Amber: Hmm.
Sama'an: When you weren't rebelling.
Amber: [laughs] Well, some kids had swimming pools. Every now and then there would be a pool party. It was always–
Sama'an: Big deal.
Amber: Huge deal. So fun.
Sama'an: It was an event.
Sam's Town, hot family fun spot in Cameron Park.
Amber: Really, yeah. And they were pretty big, too. There would be a lot of kids at some of them. Yeah. That was really like the most fun, when something like that happened. You know? But, otherwise, you'd get dropped off at the mall with your friends, or something like that. There wasn't a ton to do.
Sama'an: Yeah. And how were you getting to school? Parents dropping you off? Taking the bus?
Amber: Combination of both, but I took the bus a fair amount.
Sama'an: Did you live far from school? Or was it a short bus ride?
Amber: It was probably like a 10 or 15 minute bus ride– I mean if you drove straight there it was a 10 or 15 minute drive because it was in the next town over. It was in a town called El Dorado Hills.
Sama'an: Can you tell me a little bit about your neighborhood? Like if I was riding on the bus with you, what would that ride look like?
Amber: Well, my neighborhood was sort of like, if you were to go a little bit further east you would start getting into like pine trees and people that had ranches and horses. Kind of like a rural thing. And if you went further west, it was like you'd get into some really nice suburban subdivisions, and people are driving, you know, very nice cars and things like that. And my neighborhood was sort of in between those two, in a way; parts of it were nice, you know, other parts not as nice, but it was pretty quiet. There's a tiny airport there, it's one of the things this town is known for.
Amber: Yeah, so there's like a little section of the town where people pull their airplanes into their driveways.
Sama'an: Like a lot of single-seat, double-seat airplanes? Those tiny ones?
Amber: Mhm!
Sama'an: That's awesome! [laughs] That's cool.
Amber: Yeah. There was a place called Cameron Park Lake, which is actually still there. Where you could go and do paddle boats. You couldn't really swim, there wasn't really a swimming place, but, you could go hang out. And there was a place called Sam's Town with an old school arcade with like peanuts on the ground and that sort of thing, which is pretty cool. It really was just like, you know, a truck stop on the way to Lake Tahoe for a lot of people.
Sama'an: How would you have first heard or seen this song?
Amber: Well, I had this album, Crazy Sexy Cool… I probably had had for a couple of years, actually, by the time I was in 8th grade. I think I got that record in 6th grade, in ninetyyyy… '95, '96. But I guess MTV was how I found out about a lot of stuff, or the radio.
Sama'an: Timing wise, would videos come on when you got home from school? Would it be late-night?
Amber: Mmmm… I don't remember. Probably both. I mean I wasn't really up late at night watching TV for the most part. I don't think that would have been allowed. But on the weekends and after school, sure.
Sama'an: I got grounded for listening to… do you remember that 50 Cent song, "P.I.M.P.?"
Amber: Mmmmmm???
Sama'an: "I dunno what ya heard about me…"
Amber: Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Of course.
Sama'an: I was playing that really loud in my room and my mom heard the lyrics, and she was like, "You're grounded from rap music," for like a month. [laughs]
Amber: Oh my god. [laughs] Oh my god.
Sama'an: I probably would have been about the same age as you.
Amber: That's so funny.
Sama'an: Were your parents like… Did they have rules about what kind of videos you were allowed to watch? Music you were allowed to listen to? Or were you kind of on your own for that?
Amber: My dad would try to regulate it a little bit more. Videos, it's like, you know, you can't really show certain kinds of videos on TV anyway. So, for the most part, that was fine. I could kinda watch music videos. But, I had some albums with explicit content that sometimes my dad would decide that he was gonna take away. And then I would end up with them again. For the most part, I was listening to kind of whatever.
Middle school Amber Coffman, middle school Sama'an Ashrawi. Rebels without a cause.
Sama'an: Who are we meeting? What version of Amber are we meeting?
Amber: [exhales] Oh boy. This is like… I had just turned 13, and I was entering into a sort of rebellious streak where I… I dunno. I was just kind of starting to act out a little bit. I got, I think the summer before my 8th grade year…. Does that make sense? I got caught sneaking out and hanging out with the neighbor boy.
Sama'an: The boy next door?
Amber: Across the street, yeah. I got in big trouble.
Sama'an: Did you have a two-story house? One-story? What was the sneaking-out process?
Amber: My house was a one-story… [laughs] oh my god [laughs] oh shit.
Amber: This is so crazy. Mine was a one-story house and I would just walk down– my bedroom was across from my parents' bedroom, but I was pretty good at opening doors silently, walking silently, stuff like that, I'm still really good at it.
Amber: It comes in handy for different reasons as an adult. Not waking children, or not waking your boyfriend up.
Sama'an: Mhm.
Amber: But yeah I would walk down the hall, I'd go out the garage. We had like a door to the garage, and then the garage had a door to outside, and then there was like a gate to the front, so, I would usually go that way.
Sama'an: Okay, yeah, I never got caught sneaking out. I had a different situation. I was in a one-story house, my room was at the front of the house, so all I had to do was open the window and pop the screen out. So that was really easy. But the house we snuck out of the most was my best friend David's house and in high school he decided that he had to have, on his car, one of those muffler tips that make it just super loud, you know what I mean?
Amber: [laughs] Mhm.
Sama'an: And so his house was super squeaky and super creaky, so it would take about an hour– maybe not an hour. But it would take like 15 or 20 minutes just to go down the stairs because like one would creak, and then we would wait like five minutes, and then we'd go down the next step… and because his car was so loud, when we finally got outta the house, we would have to push it down the driveway, and push it like two or three blocks down the street in the neighborhood before we started it up.
Amber: That is so classic.
Sama'an: That is… that's the efforts we went through just to go to parties. [laughs]
Amber: Oh man. Yeah. That's awesome.
Sama'an: Anyway, so, I'm very familiar with the world of sneaking out. But you got caught?
Amber: I did.
Sama'an: Not with the boy? But just like trying to get outta the house?
Amber: Uhhh. My mom went through my letters and she found one of me talking about my relationship with the neighbor boy.
Amber: Who was… quite a bit older than me, actually. So, it was like, it was a big deal.
Sama'an: Wow. This really was the beginning of your rebel phase.
Sama'an: That's amazing.
CHAPTER 2: SNEAKIN' OUT
Amber: So, oh man… [laughs] you know, TLC had a big effect on most young girls at that time. And "Creep," the video for the song is TLC sort of dancing around in these amazing silk pajamas. I think because of that video, it created a little bit of an obsession — in young women — with silk pajamas. And you know it'd be like who has them, and girls would lend each other their clothes, too. You'd be like, "Oh, can I wear that?" And your friend would bring it for you the next day. That sort of thing. Very silly, cute, girl stuff. That was really common, we would lend each other clothes and stuff.
Sama'an: Very cute.
Amber: So, you know, this is the early part of eighth grade, in the Fall, I believe. Fall/winter. I'd gotten in trouble over the summer for sneaking out, then, in October, I got in trouble for what was the mother of all of my sneaking out escapades…
Sama'an: [exhales deeply] [laughs]
Amber: … Which was that I decided I was gonna go and take my parents' Isuzu Rodeo, and pick my friend up, and go driving around visiting our friends, at three in the morning. I don't know what made me think that I could do it, but I got it in my head that I could figure it out. I had never moved a car even like two inches before, so I had no idea what I was doing.
Sama'an: Oh my gosh… Oh my gosh, Amber [laughs]
The getaway car. [editor's note: absolute unit.]
Amber: [laughs] I really had no idea, but my friend was a little wild, and she'd driven before, and we were on the phone because I had a phone in my room. She was sorta like… we were just joking about doing it, and she kinda didn't think I would, and so I…
Sama'an: Proved her wrong!
Amber: I went for it. I actually… My dad was out of town for some reason, he wasn't far away, but he was out of town for some work related thing, and my mom was asleep, and I actually turned off all the ringers in the house. I think this might have involved going into my mom's room while she was sleeping and turning off that ringer, I don't know, I don't remember. Anyway, I did that. I snuck out, I stole the car. We drove around town visiting our friends, and it ended with a bang…
Amber: … Because we were driving to what probably would have been the last person that we visited… their house. We'd been driving around for a couple hours at this point. And decided that I wanted to drive, and so, there was nobody on the roads, it was dark still. So we stopped just in the middle of the road, and we switched drivers. And somebody was coming down the street and they saw us and thought it was weird. It was a man in a pickup truck. He decided to follow us….
Sama'an: [whispers] Ohh nooo…
Amber: And I was driving with two feet because I didn't know that you're not supposed to do that. And I panicked, and I crashed the car into a jungle gym.
Sama'an: Awwww Amberrrr
Amber: [laughs] It was uuuhhh… It was terrifying
Amber: [laughs] It was pretty insane.
Sama'an: I'm sorry for laughing.
Amber: Sooo you know they had to go and get our parents. Call them, get them, whatever, and they had to go knock on the door of my house because all the ringers were off.
Sama'an: Were you terrified? Or were you so much of a rebel at that point that you were like, "Whatever?"
Amber: Oh, I was terrified. I wasn't really like a full on, fuck-everybody-rebel. I just had a little bit of a wild streak, you know, and I was kind of trying to figure it out. I didn't want to be in trouble, you know? I just wanted to have some fun.
Sama'an: You just wanted to get awayyyy with things, you didn't wanna…
Amber: So they went to get my mom and they went to get my friend's mom. Friend's mom took her home, my mom was so angry that she said, "Just take her."
Amber: "Arrest her." Because they gave her the option.
Sama'an: Oh my gosh.
Amber: And in a way it's probably better that it went like this because I think it gave my dad a chance to cool off before I came home. [laughs] I think it was probably better, but I was so freaked out. I was the youngest person in the juvenile hall, by far. I think probably it was like 15, 16, 17-year-olds mostly in there.
Sama'an: But that's a big jump when you're that age.
Amber: It is, yeah. My roommate was 17 and she kept talking about how she'd been deemed legally insane.
Sama'an: Oh, good!
Amber: She was like, "Yeah, I'm fifty-one fifty."
Amber: And I was just like, "Oh my god, what the fuck." I couldn't get out of bed, I was so depressed. I was like Dumbo or something.
Sama'an: Aww.
Amber: [laughs] I was like really, really sad. The girls were actually really nice to me, I think they felt like, "What is this young girl doing in here?" They were pretty nice to me. I saw somebody I knew, actually, from my school! He was serving the food in the kitchen, and I guess he'd been in there for a while, I don't know what he did, but that was pretty crazy. I was like, "Woah, dude!"
Amber: You'd go through the [food] line and the guys in the kitchen would be like, "Would you like this? Would you like that?" And he was like, "Would you li– Amber?!" [laughs]
Amber: I looked up and was like, "Oh my god! What?!" It was crazy. Anyways, so that happened, I was put on probation because of what happened. A six-month probation. I think they would come — and you would have a probation officer — they would come and check on you, maybe they would drug test you or something? I never really smoked weed or did drugs so much when I was that age, but I had a probation officer lady.
Sama'an: Ah.
CHAPTER 3: SILK PAJAMAS
Amber: So the TLC thing, the silk pajamas thing comes in later.
Sama'an: [laughs] Yeah?
Amber: I apparently had not learned my lesson. Also, like, when you're a kid, going to juvenile hall and getting on probation and stuff almost gives you a little bit of cred in a funny way. It's like, "Oh damn, that's some serious shit!"
Sama'an: It's edgy.
Amber: You know? Kinda. So I guess maybe because it was fairly mild, like, life goes on, and the probation thing, but whatever, I had not learned my lesson. So, I decided one morning that it might be fun to take some alcohol onto the school bus on the ride to school. I went into my parents' liquor cabinet and I filled a water bottle half-full of Bacardi rum and half-full of apple juice.
Sama'an: There's no way this can go wrong.
Sama'an: This is gonna be fine.
Amber: To this day, I can't stand the smell of this clear Bacardi rum. It's like disgusting to me. Anyway, so, I thought that this would be a fun, funny, sneaky thing to do. So I take this bottle onto the school bus and this happened to be the same day that my friend was going to bring me her purple silk pajamas so I could wear them that day.
Sama'an: Like, wear them at school?
Amber: At school, yeah.
Sama'an: Was that against the dress code?
Amber: No. We would do stuff like that a lot. Kids would get pretty wild there.
Sama'an: And they were cool with it?
Amber: They were pretty cool, yeah. I mean, there was a dress code, but, like, you know, we had a lot of kids that were pretty punk and bold and they would… you know… We had boys that would wear dresses, at that time, in the 90s, that was a bigger deal. But yeah, we probably had a dress code, but people definitely pushed the envelope as far they could.
Sama'an: Silk pajamas definitely counts, for sure.
Amber: Silk pajamas is like, you know, your whole body is covered, what are you gonna do?
Sama'an: True. [laughs]
Amber: So, we were passing this bottle around on the bus, and I wasn't really a drinker, I had no idea what my limits were, or how strong that bottle was.
Sama'an: Also I imagine you were probably tiny.
Amber: Yeah! I was like 105 pounds. [laughs] In the morning I probably had a pop tart or something for breakfast. [laughs]
Amber: Lord knows. [laughs] But, I take this bottle, I'm passing it around and what not, thinking it's so funny. And then, I think it really hit me when I got off the school bus I practically fell off the bus. I was like, "Oh, damn!" And I think people noticed. I'm pretty sure the bus driver probably reported me or something. But, I get off the bus, I meet up with my friend in the spot where we had agreed. This was before texting or anything. You'd just be like, "Okay, meet me here before the bell," and like…
Sama'an: You had to be there.
Amber: Yeah. She hands off the purple silk pajamas that were two sizes too big for me, and I head into the bathroom to change before I go to class, and I put on these pajamas, and I'm like… kinda drunk! So I am sitting on the bathroom tile floor…
Sama'an: Like while you're putting them on?
Amber: Yeah. And in walks the principal!
Amber: And I was busted!
Sama'an: Yeah!
Amber: Completely busted. [laughs]
Sama'an: You probably smelled like a bottle of rum!
Amber: I prrrrobably did. [laughs] Yeah, I got in a looooot of trouble. It was not good. It was not good. And then after that there were no more big things like that because that was a violation of probation which meant I had to go to court and be punished for violating that.
Sama'an: Oh my god.
Amber: They put me on house arrest! It was pretty crazy. It's funny because… I think it's interesting because I was not headed for a life of crime, I don't think I was headed for, like, real big trouble. I wasn't destructive, I was just kind of like… I was pushing some buttons, you know? But I wasn't as destructive as some kids that I knew were. Because I knew kids that really did get screwed and they spent lots of years going in and out of the system getting in trouble and stuff, but I don't think I was ever really in danger of that. Nonetheless, they put me on house arrest. [laughs]
Sama'an: [laughs] For how long?
Amber: For two months.
Amber: Yeah. And then I had to this thing called work project which is sort of a more harsh community service where you're doing yard work. It's supposed to be "hard labor," you know? We would go to a park and clean up leaves and stuff.
Sama'an: What were you wearing when you cleaned up the park? [laughs]
Amber: I don't knowwww. I'm sure they gave us a vest.
Sama'an: Not silk pajamas?
Amber: I have a vague memory of my dad taking me there and dropping me off. Ugh, god. My poor parents, my poor dad.
Sama'an: Awwww.
Amber: [exhales] So, yeah, there you have it!
Sama'an: Wow, thank you. Thank you for telling that story. [laughs]
Amber: Yeah, it was pretty crazy.
[Amber and Sama'an sing "Creep" together"]
CHAPTER 4: CHANGE YOUR STARS
Amber: I loved TLC so much. That record in particular. I was obsessed with them. Everybody was. You know? I miss the days of the R&B girl group. Those were some special years.
Sama'an: Maybe it'll come back.
Amber: Yeah, I hope so.
Sama'an: That'll be cool. I would be down with that.
Amber: Yeah. Or something new! You know? A few years after that, it was probably two years after that that Britney Spears came out. And then, from there NSYNC and stuff like that. That sort of was a turning point, I think.
Sama'an: Were you listening to them?
Amber: I was not. I was not convinced.
Sama'an: So when you got to high school, what were you listening to then?
Amber: It's interesting… I think that 8th grade into high school marked my shift towards listening to a lot more rock music. Because before that for my entire childhood, it was only Whitney Houston, Mariah, all these girl groups. Yeah. I think around the middle of 8th grade I started to shift more towards listening to rock music. My freshman year… I think it was in the middle of my freshman year, I started going to local hardcore shows.
Amber: And then there was a period of time in like late 9th grade, early 10th grade, where that was the only music. Everything else was "sell out" [laughs]. You know, there was that whole period of time where if you made any music that was remotely catchy…
Sama'an: It was trash.
Amber: It was selling out. [laughs] So that was it. I went through a lot of phases. Oh! But you know what, now that I think about it, this is what happened: The house arrest thing happened, which meant that I wasn't allowed to leave the premises of my house except to go to school or church. So I was not allowed to go to, say, like, the grocery store with my parents. Doesn't matter.
Sama'an: Couldn't even do that.
Amber: So, I started going to church a lot because it was like a scene, you know?
Sama'an: Right.
Amber: Youth group was like, you sit around with a bunch of friends, and everybody talks about what they feel guilty about, or their feelings, and it was such a funny mixture of kids. It was like the pastor's kids, and then it was like the white, wannabe gangster kids that were a little older. They were the kinda kids that were always getting high all the time, getting fucked up, and then they'd come to youth group and kind of confess it all. Blow off their guilt, steam, or whatever. Yeah and then there was like me and it was such a funny time. But I did eventually, in 9th grade, I went through a short phase where I kind of bought into it.
Amber: Yeah.
Sama'an: What made you snap out of it?
Amber: I don't knowww exactly. I think I just didn't believe it anymore. There's not really any deciding moment that I remember that was like "an awakening." There were lots of youth groups in this town, all over the area, that you could go to, and some of them had a punk band, or something like that, so really it was…
Sama'an: Like Christian punk?
Amber: Sure. Yeah. It was really more of a social thing than anything. Then, yeah, at the end of that year I had already left that behind and started going to these local shows to see local bands and stuff. Later, in high school, my friend Haley Dekle — she was in Dirty Projectors and we've done a lot of stuff together — we met in high school, and we used to "meet each other halfway," as we would call it; we'd meet halfway between our houses. And then we'd walk to the Circle K gas station and then kind of just like…
Sama'an: Loiter?
Amber: Buy Pop Rocks and kick around and check out the scene [laughs] at this gas station. There was a Taco Bell, a pizza place, and just kind of a random little strip mall.
Sama'an: So when you were getting around you weren't biking, you were walking?
Amber: We would walk, yeah.
Sama'an: You were a walker.
Amber: Yeah. I didn't really get around on a bike too much. I did have one, but, yeah. It's so different now. I've been back and I've seen it and it looks so different. I lived in a little court and I'm trying to think how I can describe it. The houses were just like probably built in the '80s, kind of boring-looking suburban houses. They're fine. Some of them are very nice, others are kind of more modest.
Sama'an: Lot of trees? Little trees?
Amber: There's trees. There's a fair amount of trees. Like oak trees, and maybe some pine trees here and there. We were kind of in the… we were on the way to Lake Tahoe and we were sort of before you get into the rural area that you drive through, so we did have some pine trees, but we were a little bit more scrubs and we had big oak trees and things like that. So, to walk to the Circle K, I would leave my house and walk up a street, and turn down another kind of busier street, and we would meet up at the beginning of this field. This was like a big, open, grassy lot. I'm talking about the dry, golden California grass. And that was sort of a short cut, you could just cut straight through there and walk to this gas station. Instead of going like, way, way up this road and going around. Now, it's all been built out, the field is not there anymore. But yeah, that was it.
Sama'an: Last question for you, do you believe that people can change their stars? That you can change your own destiny?
Sama'an: Tell me why or why not.
Amber: Well, I don't know if there's a "destiny," you know? I think you can definitely change. The decisions that you make determine where you end up, and what ends up happening. There are things, like, factors that are out of your control that certainly affect you. I mean, I won't pretend to say that we all have the same opportunity because it's so much harder for some people than it is for others, but, we absolutely have a choice. You know? Yeah, I think how you decide to spend your time, and what you decide to do, that's where you end up.
Sama'an: Nice.
Amber: Do you?
Sama'an: Yeah. I totally do. 100%. I feel like we've both probably done that at different points in our life.
Amber: [laughs] Mhm. I think instincts are very important, and it's very really to trust your instincts, and to know how to listen to them and follow them.
Sama'an: I agree. Intuition is really important.
Sama'an: And I definitely have some friends who would say that it's usually better to listen to a woman's intuition than a man's. [laughs]
Amber: [laughs] Sometimes. I have to give credit to… I think your intuition and instinct is super important, but sometimes you have to be careful not to be governed too much by your emotions, and I do give credit to, like, thinking things through and being logical, but I think it needs to be a balance between the two.
Sama'an: Mhm. Hey, thank you for telling your story!
Amber: Yeah! For sure. It was fun. [laughs]
Sama'an: I really appreciate it. [laughs]
Amber: I feel kinda weird. I don't know how this is gonna paint me. I'm really not crazy, I mellowed out.
Sama'an: Yeah, I mean, you were really young when this story happened. You've changed a lot.
Amber: Oh yeah.
Sama'an: For sure. We all have.
Amber: That was the end of my rebel phase. Thirteen.
Sama'an: You went out in a ball of fire.
Amber: Yeah, I did.
Sama'an: That's pretty amazing.
Amber: So embarrassing. My poor dad. Sorry, Dad.
Sama'an: Sorry, Pops.
Amber: Sorry, Mom.
Sama'an: Don't you just wish you could have been there with Amber, helping her get into and out of some of that trouble? If I was there, I totally would have created some kind of diversion so the principal wouldn't have walked into that bathroom and found her. BUT also the imagine of drunk, 13-year-old Amber sitting on the floor of a middle school bathroom in silk pajamas is kind of hilarious? Also I wanna say that my sister, Alice, when she first started driving tried to drive with both of her feet the first few times behind-the-wheel. She scared the hell out of my parents and me. She drives with one foot now, don't worry. Anyway! I really need to thank Amber one more time for telling that story because she was feeling a bit nervous about it beforehand and she wondered how people's perception of her might change after hearing the story, but I think most of us out there went through some kind of rebellious phase in our teenage years, and, in that way, her story is more relatable than not. So, thank you, Amber, for letting us meet teenage you. We really appreciate it. Yeah. Thanks for tuning in to the Nostalgia Mixtape. I'm your host, Sama'an Ashrawi, this podcast is produced, as always, by Jason Crow.
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using System.Linq;
using System.Threading.Tasks;
using Tweetinvi.Client.Requesters;
using Tweetinvi.Core.Client.Validators;
using Tweetinvi.Core.Iterators;
using Tweetinvi.Core.Web;
using Tweetinvi.Exceptions;
using Tweetinvi.Iterators;
using Tweetinvi.Models;
using Tweetinvi.Models.DTO;
using Tweetinvi.Models.DTO.QueryDTO;
using Tweetinvi.Parameters;

namespace Tweetinvi.Client
{
    public class TweetsClient : ITweetsClient
    {
        private readonly ITwitterClient _client;
        private readonly ITweetsRequester _tweetsRequester;

        public TweetsClient(ITwitterClient client)
        {
            _client = client;
            _tweetsRequester = client.Raw.Tweets;
        }

        public ITweetsClientParametersValidator ParametersValidator => _client.ParametersValidator;

        // Tweets

        public Task<ITweet> GetTweetAsync(long tweetId)
        {
            return GetTweetAsync(new GetTweetParameters(tweetId));
        }

        public async Task<ITweet> GetTweetAsync(IGetTweetParameters parameters)
        {
            var twitterResult = await _tweetsRequester.GetTweetAsync(parameters).ConfigureAwait(false);
            return _client.Factories.CreateTweet(twitterResult?.Model);
        }

        public Task<ITweet[]> GetTweetsAsync(long[] tweetIds)
        {
            return GetTweetsAsync(new GetTweetsParameters(tweetIds));
        }

        public Task<ITweet[]> GetTweetsAsync(ITweetIdentifier[] tweets)
        {
            return GetTweetsAsync(new GetTweetsParameters(tweets));
        }

        public async Task<ITweet[]> GetTweetsAsync(IGetTweetsParameters parameters)
        {
            if (parameters.Tweets == null || parameters.Tweets.Length == 0)
            {
                return new ITweet[0];
            }

            var requestResult = await _tweetsRequester.GetTweetsAsync(parameters).ConfigureAwait(false);
            return _client.Factories.CreateTweets(requestResult?.Model);
        }

        // Tweets - Publish

        public Task<ITweet> PublishTweetAsync(string text)
        {
            return PublishTweetAsync(new PublishTweetParameters(text));
        }

        public async Task<ITweet> PublishTweetAsync(IPublishTweetParameters parameters)
        {
            var requestResult = await _tweetsRequester.PublishTweetAsync(parameters).ConfigureAwait(false);
            return _client.Factories.CreateTweet(requestResult?.Model);
        }

        // Tweets - Destroy

        public Task DestroyTweetAsync(long tweetId)
        {
            return DestroyTweetAsync(new DestroyTweetParameters(tweetId));
        }

        public Task DestroyTweetAsync(ITweetIdentifier tweet)
        {
            return DestroyTweetAsync(new DestroyTweetParameters(tweet));
        }

        public Task DestroyTweetAsync(ITweet tweet)
        {
            return DestroyTweetAsync(tweet.TweetDTO);
        }

        public async Task DestroyTweetAsync(ITweetDTO tweet)
        {
            await DestroyTweetAsync(new DestroyTweetParameters(tweet)).ConfigureAwait(false);
        }

        public async Task DestroyTweetAsync(IDestroyTweetParameters parameters)
        {
            await _tweetsRequester.DestroyTweetAsync(parameters).ConfigureAwait(false);
        }

        // Retweets

        public Task<ITweet[]> GetRetweetsAsync(long tweetId)
        {
            return GetRetweetsAsync(new GetRetweetsParameters(tweetId));
        }

        public Task<ITweet[]> GetRetweetsAsync(ITweetIdentifier tweet)
        {
            return GetRetweetsAsync(new GetRetweetsParameters(tweet));
        }

        public async Task<ITweet[]> GetRetweetsAsync(IGetRetweetsParameters parameters)
        {
            var requestResult = await _tweetsRequester.GetRetweetsAsync(parameters).ConfigureAwait(false);
            return _client.Factories.CreateTweets(requestResult?.Model);
        }

        public Task<ITweet> PublishRetweetAsync(long tweetId)
        {
            return PublishRetweetAsync(new PublishRetweetParameters(tweetId));
        }

        public Task<ITweet> PublishRetweetAsync(ITweetIdentifier tweet)
        {
            return PublishRetweetAsync(new PublishRetweetParameters(tweet));
        }

        public async Task<ITweet> PublishRetweetAsync(IPublishRetweetParameters parameters)
        {
            var requestResult = await _tweetsRequester.PublishRetweetAsync(parameters).ConfigureAwait(false);
            return _client.Factories.CreateTweet(requestResult?.Model);
        }

        public Task DestroyRetweetAsync(long retweetId)
        {
            return DestroyRetweetAsync(new DestroyRetweetParameters(retweetId));
        }

        public Task DestroyRetweetAsync(ITweetIdentifier retweet)
        {
            return DestroyRetweetAsync(new DestroyRetweetParameters(retweet));
        }

        public async Task DestroyRetweetAsync(IDestroyRetweetParameters parameters)
        {
            await _tweetsRequester.DestroyRetweetAsync(parameters).ConfigureAwait(false);
        }

        public Task<long[]> GetRetweeterIdsAsync(long tweetId)
        {
            return GetRetweeterIdsAsync(new GetRetweeterIdsParameters(tweetId));
        }

        public Task<long[]> GetRetweeterIdsAsync(ITweetIdentifier tweet)
        {
            return GetRetweeterIdsAsync(new GetRetweeterIdsParameters(tweet));
        }

        public async Task<long[]> GetRetweeterIdsAsync(IGetRetweeterIdsParameters parameters)
        {
            var iterator = GetRetweeterIdsIterator(parameters);
            return (await iterator.NextPageAsync().ConfigureAwait(false)).ToArray();
        }

        public ITwitterIterator<long> GetRetweeterIdsIterator(long tweetId)
        {
            return GetRetweeterIdsIterator(new GetRetweeterIdsParameters(tweetId));
        }

        public ITwitterIterator<long> GetRetweeterIdsIterator(ITweetIdentifier tweet)
        {
            return GetRetweeterIdsIterator(new GetRetweeterIdsParameters(tweet));
        }

        public ITwitterIterator<long> GetRetweeterIdsIterator(IGetRetweeterIdsParameters parameters)
        {
            var twitterResultIterator = _tweetsRequester.GetRetweeterIdsIterator(parameters);
            return new TwitterIteratorProxy<ITwitterResult<IIdsCursorQueryResultDTO>, long>(twitterResultIterator, dto => dto.Model.Ids);
        }

        public Task<ITweet[]> GetUserFavoriteTweetsAsync(long userId)
        {
            return GetUserFavoriteTweetsAsync(new GetUserFavoriteTweetsParameters(userId));
        }

        public Task<ITweet[]> GetUserFavoriteTweetsAsync(string username)
        {
            return GetUserFavoriteTweetsAsync(new GetUserFavoriteTweetsParameters(username));
        }

        public Task<ITweet[]> GetUserFavoriteTweetsAsync(IUserIdentifier user)
        {
            return GetUserFavoriteTweetsAsync(new GetUserFavoriteTweetsParameters(user));
        }

        public async Task<ITweet[]> GetUserFavoriteTweetsAsync(IGetUserFavoriteTweetsParameters parameters)
        {
            var iterator = GetUserFavoriteTweetsIterator(parameters);
            return (await iterator.NextPageAsync().ConfigureAwait(false)).ToArray();
        }

        #region Favorite Tweets

        public ITwitterIterator<ITweet, long?> GetUserFavoriteTweetsIterator(long userId)
        {
            return GetUserFavoriteTweetsIterator(new GetUserFavoriteTweetsParameters(userId));
        }

        public ITwitterIterator<ITweet, long?> GetUserFavoriteTweetsIterator(string username)
        {
            return GetUserFavoriteTweetsIterator(new GetUserFavoriteTweetsParameters(username));
        }

        public ITwitterIterator<ITweet, long?> GetUserFavoriteTweetsIterator(IUserIdentifier user)
        {
            return GetUserFavoriteTweetsIterator(new GetUserFavoriteTweetsParameters(user));
        }

        public ITwitterIterator<ITweet, long?> GetUserFavoriteTweetsIterator(IGetUserFavoriteTweetsParameters parameters)
        {
            var favoriteTweetsIterator = _tweetsRequester.GetUserFavoriteTweetsIterator(parameters);
            return new TwitterIteratorProxy<ITwitterResult<ITweetDTO[]>, ITweet, long?>(favoriteTweetsIterator,
                twitterResult =>
                {
                    return twitterResult.Model.Select(x => _client.Factories.CreateTweet(x)).ToArray();
                });
        }

        public Task FavoriteTweetAsync(long tweetId)
        {
            return FavoriteTweetAsync(new FavoriteTweetParameters(tweetId));
        }

        public Task FavoriteTweetAsync(ITweetIdentifier tweet)
        {
            return FavoriteTweetAsync(new FavoriteTweetParameters(tweet));
        }

        public Task FavoriteTweetAsync(ITweet tweet)
        {
            return FavoriteTweetAsync(tweet.TweetDTO);
        }

        public async Task FavoriteTweetAsync(ITweetDTO tweet)
        {
            try
            {
                await FavoriteTweetAsync(new FavoriteTweetParameters(tweet)).ConfigureAwait(false);
                tweet.Favorited = true;
            }
            catch (TwitterException ex)
            {
                var tweetWasAlreadyFavorited = ex.TwitterExceptionInfos != null && ex.TwitterExceptionInfos.Any() && ex.TwitterExceptionInfos.First().Code == 139;
                if (tweetWasAlreadyFavorited)
                {
                    tweet.Favorited = true;
                    return;
                }

                throw;
            }
        }

        public async Task FavoriteTweetAsync(IFavoriteTweetParameters parameters)
        {
            await _tweetsRequester.FavoriteTweetAsync(parameters).ConfigureAwait(false);
        }

        public Task UnfavoriteTweetAsync(long tweetId)
        {
            return UnfavoriteTweetAsync(new UnfavoriteTweetParameters(tweetId));
        }

        public Task UnfavoriteTweetAsync(ITweetIdentifier tweet)
        {
            return UnfavoriteTweetAsync(new UnfavoriteTweetParameters(tweet));
        }

        public Task UnfavoriteTweetAsync(ITweet tweet)
        {
            return UnfavoriteTweetAsync(tweet.TweetDTO);
        }

        public async Task UnfavoriteTweetAsync(ITweetDTO tweet)
        {
            await UnfavoriteTweetAsync(new UnfavoriteTweetParameters(tweet)).ConfigureAwait(false);
            tweet.Favorited = false;
        }

        public async Task UnfavoriteTweetAsync(IUnfavoriteTweetParameters parameters)
        {
            await _tweetsRequester.UnfavoriteTweetAsync(parameters).ConfigureAwait(false);
        }

        public Task<IOEmbedTweet> GetOEmbedTweetAsync(ITweetIdentifier tweet)
        {
            return GetOEmbedTweetAsync(new GetOEmbedTweetParameters(tweet));
        }

        public Task<IOEmbedTweet> GetOEmbedTweetAsync(long tweetId)
        {
            return GetOEmbedTweetAsync(new GetOEmbedTweetParameters(tweetId));
        }

        public async Task<IOEmbedTweet> GetOEmbedTweetAsync(IGetOEmbedTweetParameters parameters)
        {
            var twitterResult = await _tweetsRequester.GetOEmbedTweetAsync(parameters).ConfigureAwait(false);
            return _client.Factories.CreateOEmbedTweet(twitterResult?.Model);
        }

        #endregion
    }
}

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The Australian Society for French Studies and the Australian Journal of French Studies are pleased to announce the second annual co-sponsored ASFS/AJFS Postgraduate Prize.
A prize of $500 will be awarded for the best article (4,000-6,000 words inc. notes) by a postgraduate student on any aspect of French Studies (except French language studies). The prize will be awarded at the annual conference of ASFS in Adelaide in December 2016, and the winning article will be published in a 'miscellaneous' issue of AJFS.
Applicants must be enrolled in a research higher degree at an Australian university and be a member of ASFS. Previous prize recipients are not eligible to submit an article. Articles may be written in English or French and must be presented according to AJFS style guidelines (see http://online.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/loi/ajfs or http://artsonline.monash.edu.au/australian-journal-french-studies/. They will be assessed by a joint ASFS/AJFS judging committee which may call upon relevant expertise in its deliberations.
The deadline for submissions for the inaugural prize is Friday July 31, 2016. The winner will be announced in December 2016.
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Oyster, which employs a business model similar to Netflix, received $14 million in its second round of financing.
By Geoff Weiss • Jan 15, 2014
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After tendering $14 million in a new round of financing, investors are hoping that e-reading startup Oyster will harvest a pearl.
The company, which launched out of New York last fall, employs a business model similar to Netflix, offering customers unlimited access to over 100,000 e-books for a monthly subscription fee of $9.95.
With this latest fundraising round led by Highland Capital Partners and additional capital from an existing investor, the Peter Thiel's Founders Fund, the company's total funds are now upwards of $17 million, reports The New York Times.
Oyster's co-founder and chief executive, Eric Stromberg, told the Times that the funds would aid in a significant expansion effort to platforms beyond its existing iPhone and iPad apps.
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And at the same time that it's seeking to add more platforms and users, Oyster is also pursuing more publishers to add to its arsenal of book titles. While it has already signed HarperCollins and Houghton Mifflin, notes the Times, the company's pitch to skeptical publishers for an all-you-can-read business model is that it "will draw in more readers, eventually expanding the universe of book customers."
Oyster currently competes with Scribd, which launched in 2007 and has raised a reported $25 million in venture capital.
And to distinguish itself from the collection of 300,000 titles available to Kindle owners via Amazon's Lending Library, Oyster has implemented "lightweight community features" within its app, noted TechCrunch, including the ability to share and receive book recommendations from friends.
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Until last month, it was something of a Herculean task for interested shoppers, of which there are many, to get their hands on one of Telfar's iconic "Bushwick Birkins." But unlike an actual Hermès carryall, exclusivity was never founder Telfar Clemens' intention. Demand had simply eclipsed supply. So for one single day in late August, the brand decided to do things differently.
Rather than exhausting supply, the brand would simply enable demand. In those 24 hours, an unlimited number of customers could pre-order a bag in any size, color or quantity, with "guaranteed delivery" by January 15. "This is a way to both support us, buy direct and guarantee yourself a bag," the brand wrote in a release, "even if you have to wait for it."
In Telfar's case, this made-to-order business model serves a myriad of purposes, the most notable of which, of course, is a democratization of the brand's signature product. But as growing numbers of brands seek to adopt better — i.e., more sustainable, more ethical, more personalized — sourcing, manufacturing and distribution standards, the made-to-order format is looking like it could tick all the right boxes. And as the equivalent of one garbage truck of textiles is landfilled or burned every single second, it also addresses the fashion industry's waste problem head on.
Still, though, there are a lot of questions, particularly for those consumers who are interested in dipping their toes in the still-somewhat-murky made-to-order pool for the very first time. To help make sense of it all, we took a page from our earlier resale guide and compiled this shopper-first primer on the state of today's made-to-order system — and where it could go in the (very near) future. We hope this helps you navigate whatever it is you're trying to shop, be it a pair of jeans superbly fitted within an inch of its life or, maybe, a Bushwick Birkin of your own.
Telfar's Small Dark Olive Shopping Bag, pictured at New York Fashion Week.
First things first: What's made-to-order, and how does it work?
Back in 2018, we loosely defined the made-to-order model as that which "sees fashion brands tailoring each individual garment to the customer's size, body type and in some cases, style preference." And while that's certainly true, it's not just about the personalization of a garment to serve a customer. On the business side, made-to-order also enables brands and retailers to only make exactly what they need. That precision is especially attractive to those companies aiming to decrease their overall waste. (More on that later.)
Designer Autumn Adeigbo launched her eponymous made-to-order fashion brand in 2017, and has spent the last three years building a label in which the fashion industry's greater carbon footprint is top of mind. Clearly, her mission has legs: Over the summer, Adeigbo secured $1.3 million of institutional investments from roughly 15 investors, including Stitch Fix CEO Katrina Lake.
Adeigbo is publicly tight-lipped about the specifics of her supply chain ("I can't be as transparent as I'd like because it's such a competitive business," she says), but shares that her clothing — vibrant, sophisticated styles at contemporary price points — is produced locally in New York City, in female-owned and-operated facilities and over the span of two to five weeks. By making only what's ordered by consumers themselves, Adeigbo is able to purchase her materials in limited quantities and maintain very little inventory at any one time. This not only minimizes fabric waste, excessive manufacturing and surplus stock, but also enables a more intimate relationship with her suppliers.
"If the fabric is super-expensive and I don't want to keep it on hand, I work with textile mills that will do smaller quantities for me," she says. "It's important to partner with people who believe in where your brand is going and are willing to do what they traditionally might not because they believe in you as an entrepreneur."
Where can you shop made-to-order garments?
Well, lots of places!
Let's start with the luxury sector, wherein the concept of customized product that's created specifically for you is more ubiquitous. "Made-to-order is, honestly, as close to dressing like a celebrity most of us will get," says celebrity stylist Laura Jones, who, in 2018, founded The Frontlash, a fashion magazine about sustainability and activism. "It takes a little more time and effort, but the final result is always worth it — a piece that's unique and well-made."
In the ultra-high-end sense (think couture or fresh-off-the runway), much of this is achieved via pre-order, something for which Moda Operandi is known. In hosting online designer trunkshows, typically spanning two to four weeks, the luxury retailer enables shoppers to pre-order pieces that may have only just debuted on the runway that same day.
"Moda Operandi has been such a trailblazer," says Adeigbo. "I mean, I've bought from them and waited between three weeks to six months for my product because if I want it, I'll wait for it. And I'm not a fast consumer. When I buy something it'll be in my closet for a decade, probably."
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But made-to-order is also gaining steam in the direct-to-consumer space, creating more accessible product at (much) lower price points. Some startups like Ministry of Supply and Rapha, which make businesswear and sportswear, respectively, produce their garments on-demand with 3D-printing machines.
In the contemporary space, Misha Nonoo was an early adapter, having shifted her business model to made-to-order production in factories in Peru and China back in 2017. Other categories still that feature zero-inventory supply chains include — but aren't limited to — ready-to-wear (Fame & Partners, Olivia Rose, MaisonCléo, SuitKits), activewear (Ultracor), menswear (Alton Lane, Stòffa) and footwear (Amanu).
Much of the onus falls on the customers themselves to research the current offerings in any given category. "A [lack of] widespread availability is probably the main barrier to consumption right now," says Halley Morrissey, vice president of business development at retail and consumer-goods accelerator XRC Labs. "You have to research to get it right, which isn't a bad thing."
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What makes made-to-order such a big deal lately?
In 2018, Burberry came under fire after the U.K.'s largest luxury house revealed in its annual report that it had burned approximately $37 million worth of clothing and cosmetics. But it was, and is, not just Burberry that takes part in this practice: All across the retail and consumer industries, companies will often destroy excess inventory so as to prevent out-of-season items from being sold at a discount, thereby damaging brand exclusivity. And according to think tank New Standard Institute, the average consumer bought 60% more clothing in 2014 than in 2000, but kept each garment half as long. We're buying more, but also wearing less, and that's creating enormous amounts of waste, too.
The cycle continues into supply chains: For business models like the ones employed by fast-fashion retailers, a constant demand for new, cheap clothing has led to exploitative, even dangerous labor practices, alongside already-environmentally-harmful production methods.
To be clear: Just because a fashion brand has no inventory does not mean that it is "good" for the planet and/or the people with whom it works. A label can minimize its excess fabric while still sourcing that fabric from shifty suppliers. But by moving less product upfront, a made-to-order brand can ensure the garments it's making will be created, and worn, with intention.
"Online returns have gone through the roof due, in large part, to wrong sizing or ill-fitting garments," says Morrissey. "And now with a pandemic, people are buying many sizes and trying them on at home. But we feel the supply-chain waste from all of those returns, as well as the production, could be mitigated with on-demand manufacturing, where pieces are customized to your size and made in relatively small batches."
XRC Labs works with Nimbly, a supply-chain-management startup that's creating a network of state-of-the-art knitting machines to enable on-demand manufacturing for participating partners. Nimbly conducts an audit of each brand's business model, and finds and queues up an ideal factory mix that reduces waste and emissions.
In some cases, slimmer inventory models like the ones Nimbly is affording are also less expensive for the brands themselves. Maybe a label finds itself with excess inventory after basing seasonal production numbers off lofty estimates, or maybe its wholesale partner over-ordered units that just haven't sold. As Jones explains: "Many brands are suffering from the cost of overproduction, and are both burned out and have been burned by retailers who order stock under contracts that benefit the retailer more than designer and often end up hurting a brand financially."
So yes: Made-to-order production has the potential to address some of fashion's most glaring pain points, especially as consumers continue to advocate for a slower, more conscious model — one in which we wouldn't mind waiting weeks for a delivery if it meant the garment was created with care.
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What's next for made-to-order into 2021 and beyond?
As promising as no-inventory may be, it's not for all brands — at least right now, when moving toward on-demand manufacturing could require a top-to-bottom business overhaul. And because a made-to-order supply chain can be more slender than one that revolves around something like unit estimates, it could also eliminate positions — which, if you're a brand that upholds responsible and ethical labor practices, could have a negative effect. A retailer doesn't have to commit to an entirely made-to-order fulfillment model to embody the low-waste practices that it represents.
"All retailers are looking for that silver bullet of a better range-planning tool that will marry their sales performance data with predictive analytics with market trend insights to help them produce closer to demand and help them achieve a much stronger full-price sell-through so they don't have all this excess inventory," says Morrissey. "Make the right amount of stuff, and then make it more sustainably."
But if there was a moment for otherwise uninclined brands to test the no-inventory waters, Jones believes it's now, when the industry at large is deep in a state of flux. As a jumping-off point, consider a designer like Prabal Gurung or Antonio Berardi, both of whom attribute 20-25% of sales to made-to-order, according to Vogue Business.
"Much like advancements in tech in general, on-demand manufacturing is only going to get better, faster and cheaper," says Morrissey. "It's certainly not going to go away. It's the future of the apparel industry." In 2016, investor and futurist Ray Kurzweil even predicted that people would be 3D-printing bespoke clothing in their homes by now, which, as Morrissey says, "we think is a little aggressive."
Though to solve fashion's waste crisis, why should it be the shoppers' duty to 3D-print clothing if the fashion houses themselves generate the lion's share of global greenhouse gas emissions? (For reference: Just 100 corporations are responsible for 71% of emissions worldwide.) If anything, the pandemic has proved that brands are able to move swiftly in times of need — so when we discuss if (and when) made-to-order will trickle into the mainstream, it's really up to brands to make that decision for themselves.
"I saw a lot of the big fashion houses making headlines by deferring some of their manufacturing resources to create PPE," says Morrissey. "So to me, they demonstrated a level of nimbleness that I'd love to see them replicate in the on-demand manufacturing space. I'm encouraged by that, and I look forward to seeing luxury brands act much the same way when converting some of their share of inventory to newer ways that are more sustainable."
People should still make educated decisions as to what they're purchasing and what the ramifications are for their purchase, says Adeigbo. Jones suggests starting small: Invest in something with a smaller buy-in, like a headband or, speaking of PPE, a cloth mask, so you can start to understand how shopping made-to-order is a different experience; follow made-to-order brands that match your style on Instagram; trial some DIY made-to-order by taking ill-fitting pieces in your closet to a local tailor.
"While made-to-order is a really encouraging way to shop and consume consciously, I don't know that it's entirely realistic for everyone," says Anita Patrickson, Hollywood stylist and founder of customizable sandal sandal brand Amanu. "But what I do know is that we need to buy less, buy better. And I think we need to demand that brands are transparent in the process. From the farm to the factories to the shipping to the labor costs, and we just have to get out of just this over-consumption. It's killing us, and it's killing the planet."
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To help you feel prepared and confident on your travels, we've partnered with Rosetta Stone to show you how you can learn a foreign language before your next trip!
In preparation for my upcoming trip to rural Ecuador, I found myself needing to brush up on my knowledge of Spanish and hopefully expand beyond "hola" and "cerveza, por favor;" let's face it, my cringeworthy Spanglish was not going to cut it.
Without the time or energy — let alone expenses — for a private tutor or in-person class, I found a few minutes a day on Rosetta Stone to be the perfect way to learn the language and practice anywhere!
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In the United States, we have the luxury of constant high-speed internet everywhere we go; however, many popular travel destinations like South America and much of Europe is notorious for having inconsistent — or nonexistent — wifi. Knowing I wouldn't have international data or wifi on my next trip, I was thrilled to discover you can download lessons to listen offline! Put these to use on the plane, at your hotel, or even driving to work.
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Have you ever used a language-learning app that taught you phrases you would never use in a real-life situation? I definitely have! Rosetta Stone's built-in Phrasebook lessons has provided the need-to-know phrases for dining out, meeting people, shopping, getting around, health and safety and more! I feel much more confident communicating with people in rural Ecuador for my upcoming trip!


Headed out and up the road to fame is Swara Bhaskar, starring in the soon to be released multi-starrer "Tanu Weds Manu". For some the path to stardom might seem like quite a rocky one, but Swara's well known co-stars seem to be smoothening things out and making the experience fun for her.
Word has it, that famous Bollywood actor R Madhavan (who plays a lead role in the movie) along with the chief assistant director and Deepak Dobriyal recently played a friendly prank on Swara. The story goes like so – one day on the sets while getting ready to shoot a dance sequence, the cast was informed that legendary Indian dance choreographer Saroj Khan would be choreographing their dance steps. Swara was innocently excited and thrilled hearing this, being a huge Saroj Khan fan.
Realizing this, the idea frequented the frequency of Madhavan's mischief-making antennas and he came up with a scheme, where they introduced innocently oblivious Swara to a lady that looked a little similar to Saroj-ji on the sets. Blinded and star struck, Swara carelessly let her guard down and began animatedly expressing her love and respect for Saroj-ji, she also touched the woman's feet in respect while the others stood by and watched biting on their tongues, emotions and patience holding back the laughter.
It was not long before, Swara stopped abruptly amidst her emotion-filled enthusiastic praise and gullible conversation and realized with a fear-filled shocked expression that she was not talking to the real Saroj Khan, just someone who looked like her. Thats when Madhavan barked out his long suppressed laugh leaving Swara to feel all goofy and embarrassed, though relieved.
She obviously took the joke in good spirits and sometimes its camaraderie like this that always make all the hard work these actors put in easy and all the more memorable. Tanu Weds Manu comes out soon and one can only hope that the audiences enjoy the movie more than the cast seem to have enjoyed themselves acting in it.


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Lex Allgaier was born and raised in Katy, Texas, and is a fifth-generation Texan. Lex grew up in a ranching family and learned at an early age the value of hard work. Upon graduating from Katy High School, Lex attended Texas A&M University where he was a member of the collegiate rodeo team, competing in National Intercollegiate Rodeos across Texas and Louisiana.
After graduating from Texas A&M, Lex clerked for a prominent Houston Family Law attorney known to take cases to trial where he solidified his career choice to be a trial lawyer. Lex attended St. Mary's University School of Law and was a member of the National Trial Team where he won the best speaker at multiple mock trial tournaments across the country.
Lex briefly practiced Family Law prior to representing injured Texans due to the negligence of others. For Lex, there is no greater joy than bringing justice to those injured from the negligence of others by holding responsible parties accountable. Lex has experience representing injured Texans in auto and commercial vehicle accidents, wrongful death, premise liability, and many others.
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The Minister of State for the Armed Forces, Penny Mordaunt, has announced that the Red Arrows are to fly over Brighton Pride…but it knows nothing about it!
Speaking at the pro-Brexit Out and Proud launch event in London last night, the Portsmouth North MP said: "I can offer you a bit of an exclusive tonight. If they would like it, Brighton Pride will have been offered the Red Arrows to fly over the city.
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If it was to go ahead, this would be the first time in Pride history that the Red Arrows have flown over a parade.
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Q: How to set use Ubuntu python after installing conda? I just installed Ubuntu 16.04. I installed anaconda3 and I know that Ubuntu comes with Python 2.7, and I still want to use it aside from conda's version of Python.
When I use python or python3, they both refer to conda's Python. How can I change it so that python would refer to Ubuntu's Python 2.7 and leave python3 to call for Python 3.7 from conda?

$ echo $PATH
/home/mohammed/anaconda3/bin:/home/mohammed/bin:/home/mohammed/.local/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games:/usr/local/games:/snap/bin

$ which python
/home/mohammed/anaconda3/bin/python

$ which python3
/home/mohammed/anaconda3/bin/python3

A: You can define your script's platform of execution through your shebang.
All you have to do is add at the first line of your python file, the full path to your 2.7 python (e.g. "#!/usr/bin/python2").
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In my last column, I argued that, like it or not, we as faculty members need to participate in and lead the effort to define and measure our own productivity. The alternative is to allow others to determine the tools and scales of measurement, and try to live with the inevitable distortions, oversimplifications and skewed incentives that result.
The first step is to insist that productivity measurements acknowledge all three types of faculty effort: teaching, research and service. Attempts to assess productivity that do not account for all three categories will be misguided and inaccurate; worse, such unbalanced metrics will in turn create perverse incentives that undervalue and thus undermine the types of effort that are overlooked.
But measuring the productivity of people who don't produce tangible goods will never be straightforward, because the outputs are so varied in form and manifestation, and even in timeframe: the full impact of what faculty "produce" may not be felt for years as their students, projects and contributions mature and evolve in the cumulative world of knowledge. The temptation is always to measure what can most easily be counted; we must supplement the obvious numbers with assessments of what really matters.
In research, publications are easy to count and so are research dollars. All other things being equal, more publications and more funding are suggestive indications of greater impact, accomplishment and "productivity." But all other things are never equal: publications vary in quality and impact, funding varies in availability and competitiveness by discipline, or across the theoretical/applied spectrum.
Moreover, measuring an input like funding ignores what the funding led to – what did it produce? Constructs like the H-index can help fine-tune assessment of research impact, but in some fields research outputs take other forms, less amenable to pure citation analysis: from patents, disclosures and partnerships to paintings, plays and poems. We must also account for the significant productive effort that goes into supervision and training of graduate students.
Teaching has several simple-but-incomplete metrics: student-faculty ratios assume that each instructor has only a fixed amount of "teaching" to divide among learners; higher graduation rates can reflect lowered standards or increased student success; student course evaluations can devolve into a thinly veiled popularity contest. There are nuggets of utility in numbers like this, but to characterize (and incentivize) truly productive teaching we ought to recognize outputs like student engagement, learning outcomes assessments and curriculum innovations (which, like foundational research, have effects that grow in time). We also should capture the impact of efforts outside the classroom, like thesis and pro-ject supervisions, experiential and service-learning activities, and the informal but productive interaction that makes up unassigned teaching.
Service doesn't mean only internal committee work. Faculty engage in community service, both local and global. As specialists in their field, they advise governments, industry, non-profits and other institutions; and they serve their disciplines by reviewing or editing the "productions" of their colleagues.
These and other aspects of productivity require interpretation, and some rely on self-reporting. Informal activities are always harder to quantify than formal ones, but we still could identify proxies that at least take those otherwise overlooked efforts into account.
In my experience, this struggle between objectivity and interpretation, between reductive quantification and subjective characterization of quality, is very familiar in peer review and tenure-and-promotion assessment. Those processes are far from perfect, but we do as a profession aspire to assess the whole faculty member, and to balance output numbers with more ineffable evaluations.
I'm advocating that instead of relying on a few easy-to-acquire but easy-to-misinterpret numbers we must commit to building a more complex model of faculty productivity – one that incorporates what is good about how we already assess one another for career progress but is also accessible to external stakeholders demanding numbers. Instead of endlessly arguing the implications of incomplete and misleading simple counts and averages, let's commit to an argument up front about what goes into a few composite numbers that in the end we can accept as an approximate representation of productivity. And then we can turn our attention to the comparatively simple chore of improving what lies beneath.