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Totem Pole for Beaver House
Dr. Charles Newcombe, an avid collector of Northwest Coast art for many museums, obtained this pole from the village of Kayang in 1911 and had it cut in half in order to ship it to the Brooklyn Museum.
Poles such as this one display a family's origins, supernatural experiences, achievements, wealth, status, exploits, acquisitions, and territories. Photographs from Kayang, Queen Charlotte Islands, identify this example as the front pole of the "Beaver House," owned by the T'uwa clan of the Raven group. Its carved crests represent beings that, according to clan legend, an ancestor encountered. Only the descendants of the clan are believed to have the right to depict this story.
- Culture: Haida, Native American
- Medium: Cedar wood
- Place Made: Q'aayang (Kayang) Village, Queen Charlotte Islands, British Columbia, Canada
- Dates: mid 19th century
- Dimensions: (a) section: 264 x 39 1/2 x 27 in., 1200 lb. (670.6 x 100.3 x 68.6 cm, 544.3kg) (b) section: 234 x 44 x 33 in., 1650 lb. (594.4 x 111.8 x 83.8 cm, 748.4kg) Storage (CRATE made 2009 by Surroundart for 'a' with top Bird detached): 53 x 50 x 240 in. (134.6 x 127 x 609.6 cm) Storage (CRATE made 2009 by Surroundart for 'b'): 56 x 49 x 269 in. (142.2 (show scale)
- Collections:Arts of the Americas
- Museum Location: This item is not on view
- Exhibitions:
- Accession Number: 11.703a-b
- Credit Line: Museum Expedition 1911, Purchased with funds given by Robert B. Woodward
- Rights Statement: Creative Commons-BY
- Caption: Haida (Native American). Totem Pole for Beaver House, mid 19th century. Cedar wood, (a) section: 264 x 39 1/2 x 27 in., 1200 lb. (670.6 x 100.3 x 68.6 cm, 544.3kg). Brooklyn Museum, Museum Expedition 1911, Purchased with funds given by Robert B. Woodward, 11.703a-b. Creative Commons-BY
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- Catalogue Description: Carved Haida totem pole that has been cut into two sections. (In the photograph, details of both sections are shown flanking the speaker figure, 05.588.7418). Both sections are made of unpainted cedar wood with hollow concavities in the rear. Depicted animals on section (a) are (top to bottom): bird (thunderbird or eagle); adult bear; small baby bear's head and paws revealed between upper adult bear's legs; adult bear with long tongue extended downward; head of adult bear or beaver (cut off from rest of its body when totem pole was cut into two sections). Depicted animals on section (b) are (top to bottom): body only of adult bear; baby bear crawling downward with hind quarters at top and head at bottom; adult bear; young bear's head with long ears peering out between legs of adult bear above it. The totem pole was cut into two sections before it was brought to the Museum in 1911. The overall condition of the two sections is poor and unstable. The wood is dry and brittle. There are numerous deep cracks, material losses, and surface abrasions.
- Record Completeness: Best (83%)


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Wallflowers is in stores (finally!) and it's been fun to see it popping up here and there.
Almost a whole year ago it started out as this:
Then from paper it went into the computer where it was digitized, colored, perfected, put in repeat, checked, re-checked, sent off, checked again, and finished! More or less.
I spent way too many nights on the computer and drank way too much Dr. Pepper…but having it done and in my hands makes it all worth it and I'm so grateful for the opportunity.
My Mom made this cute apron…I love how she left the selvages on. :)
And this top that that Suzanne made is about the cutest thing ever:
Wallflowers is available now in brick and mortar quilt shops and online quilt shops. You can find it online here, here, and here.
I have some charm packs and fat quarters to give away…
leave a comment on this post (make sure I have your email!) and I'll pick some winners later this week. Giveaway closed….thanks!
I put a handful of the quilts from my book into my Etsy shop if you're in need of a quilt. Turns out I have a few too many quilts! Ok… maybe more than a few.

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Bradley Battersby, B.A., Certificate of Completion, M.A.
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Stanford University (Drama); American Film Institute (Directing Fellow); Savannah College of Art and Design (Digital Photography). Bradley has a wide range of experience in the film industry as a screenwriter, director and cinematographer. He has written and directed five feature films, written numerous screenplays, and directed a number of television episodes and commercials. He has directed such acclaimed actors as Martin Landau, Courteney Cox, Jeremy Piven, Nastassja Kinski, Peter Coyote and Kris Kristofferson. He taught at the American Film Institute where he was a Directing Fellow, and has also taught at Chapman University, the Los Angeles Film School, UCLA Extension, and the Maine Media Workshops. Bradley is responsible for creating the award-winning Moving Pictures Department at Idyllwild Arts.
Sheryl Haler, B.F.A., M.F.A.
Texas Tech University (Design Communication); University of Houston (Clay/Fiber/ Sculpture). Exhibitions: Textile Arts Centre, Chicago; Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts; Arkansas Arts Center Decorative Museum; Provincetown Museum, MA. Co-author, Design Concepts and Applications.
C.J. Julian, M.F.A.
Florida State University Film Conservatory (Filmmaking). C.J.'s first teaching opportunity came as a Photography Department Coordinator at Penland School of Crafts, where he worked with world renowned photographers, including Keith Carter, Jerry Uelsmann and Sally Mann. He was selected a Visiting Cinematographer in Residence at FSU, where he taught graduate cinematography and served as an MFA thesis advisor. After moving to Los Angeles, C.J. spent eight years working as a Director of Photography and Set Lighting Technician on over 200 features, commercials and music videos. His credits as Director of Photography include the critically acclaimed feature Blink, and the award winning documentary Mythic Journeys. As a screenwriter, C.J. has written or collaborated on several screenplays. He is a staff writer with Lobrau Productions and volunteers with the Young Storytellers Foundation in Los Angeles where he mentors youths in writing and producing their own screenplays. Since 2008, C.J. has worked at EFILM, a leading Digital Intermediate facility, as an Imaging Science Coordinator. EFILM has afforded him the opportunity to work with Academy Award winning filmmakers, while using and developing innovative technologies that are leading the way in digital filmmaking. He has contributed on the Digital Intermediates of over 100 feature films, including recent projects, Looper, Tree of Life and The Avengers.
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Chapman University (Art & Communications); University of Southern California (Film Production). Mark's career in the motion picture industry spans 20 years and includes work in nearly every position critical to the creation of a film. As a cinematographer, Mark has shot over a dozen features and scores of other projects including commercials, music videos and shorts. His cinematography has won several awards including the Nissan FOCUS Award. He is a member of the Directors Guild of America, and as second unit director, he directed the "Flying Elvises" and the Hawaii aerial sequences in Honeymoon in Vegas, a 1993 Golden Globe nominee for Comedy. Previously, Mark taught at Chapman University's Dodge College of Film & Media Arts. In 2006, he mentored the director of the Coca-Cola Refreshing Filmmaker Award winning film The Reel Monkey. In addition, Mark served as the cinematographer on the project. Mark has also guest-lectured at the USC School of Cinematic Arts.
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Pomona College (French Literature). June has worked in many capacities in the film industry as a studio executive (Vice President, Feature Division, MGM), as a script analyst (DreamWorks, HBO), as the Head of Research for a reality series on Fox, and the co-producer of an independent feature and a television movie for PBS. In addition, June has worked closely with screenwriters of projects developed in conjunction with CBS, Showtime and HBO. She taught the Art of Producing and Film History at the Idyllwild Arts Academy, an independent prep school with pre-professional training in the arts. June is a proud member of the Producers Guild of America.
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The Employee-Motivation Checklist
Of course you want employees who are happy, motivated, and productive—who doesn't? Following each of these simple steps will get you where you want to be.
Great leaders make all the difference.
In business, we see the impact of great leaders such as Tony Hsieh, who took the helm of online shoe retailer Zappos.com from founder Nick Swinmurn. Under Hsieh's leadership, the company grew from $1.6 million in sales in 2000 to more than $1 billion in sales in 2009.
Through many years of research, trial and error, and working with companies of all sizes in numerous industries, I have identified 16 critical ways to motivate your employees. Learn these techniques and adapt as many as possible in your business.
1. Make employees feel they are doing something meaningful.
A recent survey by BNET (which is now part of CBS MoneyWatch) asked the question, "What motivates you at work?"
The results showed that doing something meaningful is more important than money or recognition to your employees. Twenty nine percent of respondents said that doing something meaningful was the most motivating thing about work. Money motivated 25 percent, and recognition 17 percent.
Therefore, the number one way to motivate your employees is to make them feel that they are doing something meaningful. Now, if your vision is to alleviate poverty, as Kiva's is, getting your employees to feel like they are doing something meaningful is pretty easy. This might not seem quite as simple for the typical for-profit company. But this, too, is relatively straightforward. Establishing your company's vision and goals—particularly involving your employees in creating them—will motivate them to achieve these objectives and help them feel that they are doing something meaningful.
2. Effectively communicate and share information.
You also must consistently share new information to ensure that your employees make good decisions.
You must always let employees know how the organization is progressing toward achieving goals. Setting KPIs and posting the associated KPI results monthly will allow you to achieve this.
3. Give employees clear job descriptions and accountability.
It is critical that you give each of your employees clear job descriptions and accountability. It's not enough to just state each role's responsibilities; rather, you must specify the expected results and tasks. For example, the customer service manager's described role might be to handle all inbound customer service calls. Their expected results, however, might be to answer all calls within 15 seconds or less, resulting in 90 percent customer satisfaction in telephone follow-up service. Only by specifying roles and expected results and accountability can you get what you want from each employee.
4. Give and receive ongoing performance feedback.
When things do go wrong, don't blame. You want to replace who questions with how questions. For example, rather than saying, "Who screwed this up?" say, "How could we improve this process or avoid this in the future?"
5. Have—and show—faith and trust in your team.
Most humans have relatively fragile self-esteem. If you don't believe your employees can do something, they won't believe they can either, and they won't do it. You must have faith in them. You can't just say you have faith: you need to show you do to enhance their confidence in their ability.
To achieve this, give your employees some autonomy to make decisions. Let them take ownership of challenging projects and decide how to complete them. Although it can be a challenge for almost any manager, you must let them fail sometimes and not get angry about it.
6. Listen to, focus on, and respect your employees' needs.
You've likely heard this before, but it's worth repeating that in leadership, listening is more important than speaking. I love this quote: "Questions unite. Answers divide." Asking questions of your team will get them to participate; dictating the answers will cause them to tune out.
7. Provide recognition to worthy employees.
Recognition is an amazing motivator. Adrian Gostick and Chester Elton authored a book called The Carrot Principle in which they discuss a study of more than 200,000 employees that they conducted over a 10-year period. The study showed that the most successful managers provided their employees with frequent and effective recognition. In fact, they found that managers realized significantly better business results when they offered employees recognition in the form of constructive praise rather than monetary rewards.
8. Provide fair compensation and pay for the performance you seek.
First, you must pay a wage that employees believe is fair compensation. Second, you must pay for performance whenever possible. This does not mean 100 percent contingent compensation. It means that you set expectations for base pay while also providing bonuses and clearly defining success. This will compel employees to strive to achieve the goals you have outlined.
9. Foster innovation.
Managers must realize that the vast majority of innovations come from frontline employees. They come from the people who are manufacturing your products or designing your services, who are interfacing with customers, and who are solving problems on a daily basis. As such, innovation must be encouraged.
10. Establish fair company policies that support the company's goals.
Developing fair company policies that adequately support the company's goals will motivate your employees even more. For example, you cannot treat attending a seminar as a personal day if you want to encourage continuous learning. Rather, ensure your policies and practices encourage employee feedback, collaboration, decision-making, and so on.
11. Get ongoing input from employees.
You want to invite your employees to help set goals so that they really buy into them. Seek employee input on key decisions and plans on an ongoing basis.
Understand that as the leader, you will make the ultimate decisions and plans. Even if you don't follow your employees' advice or take their suggestions verbatim, however, the very act of soliciting their feedback will give you more information and ideas and will make them feel involved.
12. Manage, but don't micromanage.
Employees do not like to be micromanaged. It's disempowering. It's therefore important to distinguish the difference between checking in and checking up on your employees.
Likewise, when managing, don't dictate every detail of how to complete a project. Remember, employees can't grow and gain new skills if you're telling them exactly what to do for every project they work on. They need a sense of autonomy to feel that they're succeeding.
13. Encourage teamwork.
Most projects you complete will require input from several employees within your organization. Encourage these employees to work as a team rather than a collection of individuals to complete these projects. The easiest way to do this is to set up an initial meeting for the team, refer to them as a team, and give them enough autonomy so they act like a team.
14. Modify your management approach for different types of employees.
Great leaders let the employees they're managing dictate the management approaches they use. Some employees may need or desire more handholding and coaching, whereas others will want or require less. It's important to think about each key employee and determine the best way to lead him or her.
15. Give employees opportunities for personal growth.
Because people who get the chance to grow their skills and expertise take more pride in their jobs, you want to encourage employees in your organization to gain new skills. You can do this in many ways, such as providing on-the-job training and other opportunities to teach your employees new skills.
16. Fire people when needed.
The final technique for motivating your team is to fire people when needed. Underperformers can kill an organization; they can become cancers. When other employees see these individuals getting away with underperformance, then they start to underperform. Therefore, firing—as long as you explain to your team why people were fired—can actually motivate your employees.
- Do Less, Achieve More: The Beauty Of Effective Delegation
- 4 Reasons Your Company Needs To Stop Making Excuses And Create Systems
Excerpted with permission of the publisher, Wiley, from Start at the End: How Companies Can Grow Bigger and Faster by Reversing Their Business Plan by David Lavinsky. Copyright (c) 2012 by David Lavinsky. This book is available at all bookstores and online booksellers.
Author Dave Lavinsky is the cofounder of Growthink, a consultancy that helps entrepreneurs and business owners identify and pursue new opportunities, develop new business plans, raise capital, and build growth strategies.
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Great post, thanks for sharing.
The number 7 of thi list, Provide recognition to worthy employees is important.
Employees motivates work better.
The incentive travel is a great way from provide recognitiona at the employees.
The company Maritur offers professional services for incentive groups in diferents destinations in mexico.
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Great checklist, especially #1. Giving value and making your employees stay in your company meaningful really motivates them. It gives them the great reason to be more productive, not only for today, but also for the future.
Guys, this is about motivating your staff, it's an article to help Business owners and entrepreneurs get back to ground level. I own a Printing Company, have done for over 10 years now, there is always a reason to read these articles because we sometimes get lost in the Chaos that bogs us down, day in day out. There is something here that every Employer/Entrepreneur can use, learn or refresh on. Yes we can all pick out one number in this check list and make a comment. The way I read it they are references which can be expanded if needs be.
Yes, these are all common sense and yes, all have been rolled out before. But there is a difference between talking the talk and walking the walk. Having worked for 3 large global companies, I found that only my first 2 actually did what they said. In every organization there are bad apples, but there were extensive resources available to help coach and mentor employees before they would have to be fired. Sometimes, people are just put in a role that they are not suited for - whether under- or over-challenged.
Good read. I don't mind being reminded of what constitues good management.
David, really nice piece. Some of the points you make are interesting. As I head up a growing 6 year old marketing firm - its interesting to see the points you make. We have a diverse groups of young folks (all in our 20's & 30's) that make up our team. Each of us has a unique set of skills and getting the most out of each person is something we work hard on every day. We're all at different stages in our career and sometimes get lost in the daily grind, however its important to realize (and embrace) the bigger goals we have as a company and we certainly are blessed to have such a strong group of individuals that make up our team.
regards to #14... Do your employees have an opportunity to do what
they do best every day?
Chances are, no they don't. Why? Because we devote most of our time
trying to fix their shortcomings rather than working on developing
their strengths. If you agree,
I highly recommend you read the book StrengthsFinders 2.0 and take
the online assessment. The knowledge derived from these results will
help you and your team uncover their true talents.
Great article. Of all the factors you mentioned, employee recognition for excellent work is probably the easiest thing a manager or company can do, but they don't. Several studies out there show over 50% of employees are not happy with the recognition they receive at work. We just completed a test to show that you don't have to spend a lot of money on a recognition program, it really is the thought that counts.
Congratulations Dave for the tips.
It is always great to have reminders...
However, I just would like to add some questions to the discussion:
What are your strengths, values and believes?
What is your life/career purpose?
What do you stand for?
Do you "walk the talk"?
Do you choose to be the manager or the employee? What best fits you?
Are your daily day choices aligned with who you really are?
If we are brave enough to accept the challenge to "start from the beginning of the beginning", maybe we will have a lot of insights...
Kate Mendes
This reminds me of Gung Ho! the book. The question is, why don't companies honor these actions? So many failing companies are missing these important tasks and yet they don't see it.
Great article! I would love to excerpt it for my next newsletter. In my experience, a business with happy & motivated employees will be much more successful!
A great practical list. Each of these in the list maps directly to the five social needs of the brain, in order to be engaged and operating at maximum effectiveness. Number 14 is different from all other items on the list, only in that it references a requirement of the leader to know how to truly empathize and tune in to the needs of each person, and then be able to shift gear accordingly. And that in itself is a brain-based competency.
Well I am no expert in such high end issues but I just want an opinion from all you people on this incident. An employee made a mistake and he was kind of propelled into doing so by his happenings in his personal life. He was thrashed by his Boss behind the close door and the poor man offered a sincere apology on such occurrence. The next day, his boss brought up this issue again in a Team meeting and made his best effort to insult the employee in front of others in order to establish his Bossing. Now, do you wise people think what happened to that man was something that he deserved or such situation could have been dealt in a more delicate way ?? We know that our personal life must not over ride our professional life but we must remember that we all humans after all not some pre-programmed proto type. Shouldn't the Boos sympathize the employee who is suffering from personal life distress ??? Can it be made an apparent tool for motivating employees ??
For every action, there is a reaction. Be responsible.
16 only works if you've done a good job of 2 or 3, in my opinion.
I would also add this: when you solicit feedback, don't become defensive or angry when you get it! Even the military provides for candid discussion when an lower rank asks "permission to speak freely." I've seen this too often, a person is written up for "disrespect" or "telling me how to do my job" when all that has been done is the employee responded to a request for information and they provided a suggestion.
I totally disagree with the concept of firing people will motivate employees. I think it is a wrong concept. Firing concept creates internal turmoil in a team and depresses the efficient workers and subjects them to internal work related politics. The result? A company will lose talented workforce. I agree with the fact that everyone is proud of doing something meaningful in order to say that he/she has done that. That definitely motivates employees. In my career I have see good people has been fired 80% of the time. That theory is blunt.
I have to disagree. The staff knows who the useless coworkers are. It can't be hidden. As an employee, I know who gets by through sucking up, who passes the buck to another worker, who can't be depended on to meet their part of a deadline. Too often the entire team suffers the boss's displeasure because of one mediocre worker. If the boss gets rid of those kinds of people, it actually makes for a better work environment for the other staff.
Intersteting...... But stik Have a Bing question....how to state That employee has "doing something meaningful"
The essential of Teamwork still back to "ARE" .... Acceptable .....Respectable...... Respectable ......
Dave, I guess one of the most important factor in motivation if manager/leader kills his self interest and consider team objective over his personal. Generally, we are not very good in accountability in organizations. Especially, managers are difficult to be held accountable. For example, managers hire wrong employee and later fire him due to under performance. A sound organization should consider all such factors (from hiring to coaching, developing, caution, warning to firing) before firing employees.
Thanks for sharing...however you don't need to motivate them, as everyone is
already motivated. YES even IF they are
motivated to do nothing...they are still motivated. You just have to
motivate them in the right direction.
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With the introduction of the C6 Corvette a few years ago, Chevrolet really upped the ante in the world of affordable supercar performance. This is especially true of the ZO6 model, which can hang with the big boys in the upper echelon of performance machines. Additionally, its retail price tag will only make you take out a second mortgage, rather than hawking everything you own, including your first-born child.
For 2007, Chevy didn't exactly reinvent the wheel with the Corvette, but the auto giant definitely refined the rough edges of the previous two model years. As with any new platform, be it automotive or anything else, the first year is usually spent working out the bugs, and trying to make improvements that will give future models better performance over past versions. Improvements can even trickle down from the 24 Hours of LeMans-winning Corvettes, like the decision with the C6 to use non-retractable headlights, something that undoubtedly caused a rusty taste in the back of Corvette purists' mouths (before the C6, the last time a Corvette didn't have the flip-up lights was 1962).
Our first victim in this tale of dueling Vettes is the coupe. It arrived equipped from GM with all the normal things you'd find in a straight-off-the-assembly-line model: the superior LS2 6.0L powerplant (which puts out a claimed 400 hp); GM's active handling system; computer-controlled traction control (which can, thank the gods, be turned off at the touch of a button); and speed-sensitive steering (which applies more force as the speed rises).
Both test cars were also equipped with the optional six-speed automatic, which, since 2006, have had easy-to-operate paddle shifters. However, in most situations, we left the shifting to the auto box, which lets you rev the car to your heart's content. Add to that powertrain the 3LT package, which includes a host of luxury-type items (Bose 7-speaker stereo, XM Satellite Radio, head-up display, and adjustable leather sport seats).
The real amazing part of the powertrain has to be the LS2 364ci V-8, making power that propels the '07 from 0-60 mph in 4.5 seconds. On the Super Chevy-approved dragstrip, Raceway Park in Englishtown, New Jersey, the maroon-colored machine turned in a best time of 12.74 at 113 mph in the quarter-mile (that run was made at 3 p.m., with an outside temperature approaching 90 F).
This time was achieved with the transmission doing all the work itself. Attempts to better this e.t. by shifting ourselves with the paddles proved fruitless. On the road course, the paddles work great. They just don't shift quickly enough to make a difference in the quarter-mile. Once in a while you may get lucky and guess the proper shift point and go quicker, but this will be the exception, not the norm. Perhaps for 2008, the engineers will have gotten it perfect.
Also hindering dragstrip performance was Chevy's electronic torque management ninnies. Slapping the throttle to the floor produced nary a hint of wheelspin. You could feel the hesitation as the power came on progressively. This probably cost a few tenths. Our best 60-ft time was a 2.01 (done repeatedly), though our best e.t. came with a 2.03 short time. Still, we remember not too long ago when you needed a limited edition (and horribly expensive) 405-horse ZR-1 to run 12.8 or 12.9. Now the base Corvette coupe will eclipse these times.
Over on the Raceway Park road course, the C6 handled very predictably-with all the traction control assist (we like to refer to them as cheating) mechanisms turned off, the car ran around the track consistently in the 1.26 range, with a best of 1.25.09. (For comparison sake, our 2006 ZO6 test machine ran 1.21.92, with most laps in the low 1.22s.) This is extremely good considering that the car comes from the factory on run-flat tires-skins that are great for cruising, but not the optimal selection for proper corner carving.
That being said, if there's a slight push at corner entry, it's nothing a little trail-braking can't solve. As for a corner exit understeer problem, it's nothing the ample amounts of power-on oversteer can't solve. In reality, this car is just the right balance (for a car that sees mostly street driving) for just about any enthusiast.


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Lie back and work on your tan with relaxing beach amenities like umbrellas and sun loungers. After a day at the beach, enjoy amenities at Privilege Aluxes Isla Mujeres Hotel like an outdoor pool, a children's pool, and a health club.
A complimentary breakfast is offered. Dining options at the resort include a restaurant and a snack bar/deli. Guests can unwind with a drink at one of the resort's bars, which include a beach bar, a swim-up bar, and a poolside bar. A computer station is located on site and high-speed wired and wireless Internet access is complimentary. This beach resort also offers a rooftop terrace, a garden, and a terrace.
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Satay - This restaurant specializes in Asian cuisine and serves dinner only. Reservations are required.
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Sabor - This restaurant serves breakfast, lunch, and dinner. Guests can enjoy drinks at the bar.
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New venues opened in San Diego, while others moved or closed
The big story in jazz in 2013 will be the Jan. 21 grand opening of San Francisco's SFJAZZ Center, a three-story, 35,000 square foot complex that may rival New York's Jazz at Lincoln Center as the nation's premier jazz venue.
The big story in jazz in 2012 in San Diego was the succession of jazz venues that opened, disappeared or were reborn at new locations, and annual events that moved forward or not at all.
The San Diego Thanksgiving Dixieland Jazz Festival celebrated its 33rd anniversary in Mission Valley, while the six-year-old Jazz 88 Ocean Beach Music & Art Festival was sadly dormant this year, due to an apparent lack of funding.
After five years, Dizzy's left downtown's San Diego Wine & Culinary Center, and — after staging shows at Little Italy's Back Room@98 Bottles and McCrea Music Company in La Mesa — is now ensconced in its new home in Pacific Beach. To its credit, The Back Room@98 Bottles is now hosting several jazz shows a month on its own.
Top trumpeter Gilbert Castellanos this fall began a Friday night piano trio series at the Westgate Hotel's Plaza Bar. One of the guests pianists was North Park's Geoffrey Keezer, who -- with singer Denise Donatelli --this month shared in his third Grammy Award nomination of the past three years.
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Meanwhile, Fresh Sound — Bonnie Wright's cutting-edge improvisatory music series — was reborn at downtown's Space 4 Art, where she continues to showcase daring iconoclasts.
In the summer, a new series of mainstream and smooth-jazz concerts by national acts was launched in July at the Grand Del Mar.
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Happily, the La Jolla Athenaeum's consistently superb jazz series stayed put for its 23rd consecutive season. So did the all-star Athenaeum Jazz at the Neurosciences Institute Auditorium series, although that stellar venue this fall morphed into the Scripps Research Institute Auditorium (and began charging hefty rental fees, unlike the Neurosciences Institute, which made the auditorium available free to the Athenaeum and all other nonprofit arts groups).
Under any venue name, Athenaeum jazz program director Daniel Atkinson continued to do what he has done for the past three decades, booking some of the finest established and rising stars in the international jazz world to perform here.
Downtown's Anthology, which opened with a flourish in 2007, featured some major jazz acts among its eclectic pop offerings this year. But the recent news that Anthology will be dark for at least the first week of January, a month for which the venue's web site does not list a single concert, was met with understandable disappointment and some concern.


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Srichan received her Master's in Library Science from Emporia State University, Kansas. She is a committee member of the non-profit Books for Thailand Foundation. She is also an appointed faculty member at Thammasat University's Department of Library Sciences and the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences at Khon Kaen University.
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Feb 19, 2012
LEGO World - Copenhagen 2012
Here is very quick video I've put together to give a bit of an overview of the MINDSTORMS area.
8 comments:
- Joey Kelly said...
What was that BIG red robot?
- Feb 19, 2012, 3:15:00 PM
- Robotica said...
that is a trike kids can sit on and drive, it has 18 NXT, 24 NXT motors for driving and 8 for steering.
it also has 16 light sensor, and 24 touch sensors.
more about the trike and other amazing creations later.
- Feb 19, 2012, 5:20:00 PM
- Menno Gorter said...
0:48 Me talking with David Gilday :-)
But my models are not in your video, so are you planning to make a more complete version. ;-)
- Feb 21, 2012, 10:46:00 AM
- Robotica said...
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- Robotica said...
- Feb 22, 2012, 5:12:00 AM
- Damien Kee said...
Hi Menno,
I visited your area 3 times but there were never any robots actually moving at the time :)
I also know how you don't like people to take detailed video or photos so they cannot reproduce your robots so didn't want to get in trouble with you :)
It's good to see the spider video that Robotica found though :)
- Feb 27, 2012, 4:03:00 PM
- Menno Gorter said...
A pity nobody told you when I normally go for a lunch, diner or sleep. :-)
I hope to make clearer posters for the nxt time. ;-)
As far as I know my models did walk for at least 90% of the time Legoworld was opened to the public.
@ Robotica: thanks for the link.
It shows how Omnispider has changed a bit; it is now able to detect the position of obstacles. (not only the distance)
When I find some time I'll try to upload an attempt to show a minority of what happened in my surroundings at Legoworld.
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In this issue:
- Backwards – World's First Smartphone, Music from Mainframes
- Forwards – IBM 5 in 5, The Era of Cognitive Computing
- Forwards – IBM's Green Initiatives
Looking Backwards – World's First Smartphone, Music from Mainframes
Our December theme for The Greater IBM Connection is 'corporate history', and Paul Lasewicz, IBM Corporate Archivist, has shared with us some very interesting highlights from IBM's history such as the fact that IBM invented the world's first smartphone. It was also fascinating to learn of the musical compositions done from mainframes, perhaps the forerunner of the digital music trend of today. Here are the some of the highlights from looking backwards:
- World's First Smartphone = Apple or Android? Think Again….
- Christmas Carols on the IBM 704
- The Soothing Music of 'IBM 1401: A User's Manual'
- Did You Know About the IBM Gift Advisor?
Looking Forwards – IBM 5 in 5, The Era of Cognitive Computing
Each December, IBM unveils the 5 in 5 — five predictions about technology innovations that will change the way we work, live and play within the next five years. The ideas come from the thousands of biologists, engineers, mathematicians and medical physicians in our Research labs around the world — IBM has the world's largest industrial research organization.
In the next five years, computers will begin to mimic and augment the senses, helping us become more aware and more productive. Today, we see the beginnings of sensing machines in things like self-parking cars–and the future is wide open. From the company that built Watson, the Jeopardy!-winning computer, here are five upcoming technology advances that will change your world:
Touch: You will be able to touch through your phone
Sight: A pixel will be worth a thousands words
Hearing: Computers will hear what matters
Taste: Digital taste buds will help you to eat smarter
Smell: Computers will have a sense of smell
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Looking Forwards – IBM's Green Initiatives
Building a Smarter Planet is a fundamental part of who IBM is as a company, and green initiatives are a key part of the focus for the present and future. Here are a few highlights from the past week:
- IBM Connects Electric Vehicle Charging Stations in Europe
- IBM Centennial Grant Supports Movement for Green Schools in Singapore
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Kyes Stevens is a poet, historian and the founder and director of the Alabama Prison Arts + Education Project at Auburn University.
She earned her M.A. in women's history and M.F.A. in poetry at Sarah Lawrence College in New York.
Kyes will speak on the topic of "prison art" and will facilitate the instillation of an exhibit of artwork from the Alabama Prison Arts + Education Project at the ERDCC from 1-3 p.m. Monday, March 7, in the visitor's center at the Eastern Reception, Diagnostic and Correctional Center (ERDCC).
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Greetings from Peru! My wife and I got lucky and are staying for 10 days to visit and stay with her family.
While I was here my nephew told me of a problem he has with his HP laptop. It contains believe it or not Windows 7 Home Basic.
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Dotsie wrote:Wow, Trish, you've really thought about this haven't you!
You don't work in taxes by any chance?
No, I don't work in taxes. Although next season, I might. Maybe.
A friend of mine is a CPA --which is like a chartered accountant. Tammy's not a typical accountant. At all. You walk into her office wearing more than jeans and Harley T-shirt and you're way overdressed. ;0)
That's how taxes work here.
You get used to it.
Moist could impose levys on wages, number of vehicles per household, number of chimneys per household (don't laugh, this was actually done), etc.
A 1% wage tax wage tax was imposed here in Wintersville 15+ years ago, ostensibly to help support the police dep't, but 2 years ago, a permanent 1% levy (1 million dollars) was voted in on top of that.
Yeah, it is double taxation. And it is unconstitutional.
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Kihei and Central Kihei offer things to do for all age groups. From the Oceanside part of Kihei beach, it's easy to view the western part of Maui, Molokini, Kaho'olawe and Lana'i. Kalama Beach Park offers rolling lawns shaded with palm trees, which are great for picnics or relaxing. The park is composed on 36 acres that run along the ocean and at certain times of the year hosts craft fairs and music concerts. For younger vacationers, the skateboarder park, baseball fields, children's playground, basketball courts and hockey rink rank among the favorite spots. Azeka Place in Kihei has 50 shops and restaurants. When you don't feel like cooking a meal in your Kihei vacation rentals Kihei dining offers everything from local regional and Pacific Rim cuisine to chain restaurants.


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JP Morgan agrees to sell commodities business
JP Morgan has agreed to sell its commodities trading business to Switzerland-based energy-trading company Mercuria Energy Group, according to a person familiar with the situation.
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