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Date: 1862-04
Description: Watercolor of the 12th Wisconsin Volunteers marching through on their way to Fort Riley, April 1862. Created by John Gaddis of Company E.
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Description: An Ojibwa man and woman paddle a canoe on a lake at sunset.
Description: On the right, the farmer in his sheepskin coat drives a horsedrawn sled loaded with milk cans to the cheese factory. A blanket is covering the cans to prev...
Date: 1938 ca.
Description: Elmside was built by Peter Van Bergen, a prominent builder of the 1840's, at 302 South Mills Street. The house was later owned by Dr. J.B. Bowen.
Date: 1917
Description: Portrait of Francis E. McGovern, Republican, the 22nd Governor of Wisconsin, 1911-1915.
Date: 1948 ca.
Description: Two preliminary watercolors of the right panel of the Centennial Mural in the Wisconsin Historical Society. The panel displays the history of Wisconsin ex...
Date: 1886 ca.
Description: Oil on linen study of a Confederate holding a wagon wheel, created as part of a painting by the Milwaukee panorama painters active during the 1889s. Altho...
Description: Chief Oshkosh, (1795-) August 29, 1858, Menomonee Indian chief.
Date: 1953
Description: Pencil, ink, watercolor, and gouache design for a white mid-calf street dress for Martha Hyer to wear in "Sabrina" (Paramount 1954). The top of the dress i...
Description: Watercolor painting depicting Lyman Draper, first Secretary of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin, surrounded by volumes of his collections and look...
Date: 1960
Description: Pencil, ink, gouache, and watercolor design for white slacks and a white pullover for Audrey Hepburn in "Breakfast at Tiffany's" (Paramount, 1961). Notes i...
Date: 1997
Description: A watercolor of a piece of pottery and a pan pipe created by late woodland mound builders of Wisconsin.
Date: 1786
Description: Print of a Gilbert Stuart painted portrait of Thayendangea (known also as Joseph Brant). He wears a feathered headdress and a shell around his neck.
Description: Joshua E. Dodge.
Date: 1959
Description: Pencil, ink, gouache, and watercolor design for a black evening dress with criss-cross straps in front and a red full overcoat with fur cuffs made for Shir...
Date: 1850 ca.
Description: Buildings along Wisconsin River.
Date: 1858 ca.
Description: A view of the Synagogue with a one-horse carriage in the foreground. Hölzlhuber occupied the position of organist and choirmaster for this congregation unt...
Description: Pencil, ink, gouache, and watercolor design for a three-quarter sleeve citrine green shirt dress with four buttons, a belted waist, and matching gloves for...
Description: Absalom A. Townsend -- "Born in New Jersey, Dec. 7, 1810. Settled near Gratiot's Grove, Wis., May 18, 1827; served in the Black Hawk war; filled various co...
Description: Painted portrait of Souligny, a chief of the Menominees. He is depicted wearing a James Madison Peace Medal.
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News and notes on health, medicine and fitness
Want to truly know yourself? Ask a friend
How well do we know ourselves?
"It's a natural tendency to think we know ourselves better than others do," says Simine Vazire, an assistant professor at Washington University in St. Louis and author of a new paper on the subject in the journal Current Directions in Psychological Science .
However, Vazire and colleague Erika N. Carlson report that our own self-understanding is marred by blind spots caused by our own wishes, fears and unconscious motives. Friends, the authors suggest, see things in ourselves that we do not. Hence the need to consult a friend to gain a fuller understanding of ourselves.
"There are aspects of personality that others know about us that we don't know ourselves, and vice-versa," Vazire explains. "To get a complete picture of a personality, you need both perspectives."
The new paper also discusses the challenges involved in providing for others the feedback that will improve a person's self-knowledge.
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Book your room at Baymont Inn and Suites Eufaula
Standard Room, 1 King Bed, Non SmokingMax Occupancy: 3 guests (up to 2 children)
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Get an overview of this hotelHotel in Eufaula with free breakfast and outdoor pool
Situated in Eufaula, this hotel is 1.5 mi (2.4 km) from Eufaula-Barbour County Chamber of Commerce and 2.4 mi (3.9 km) from Eufaula Country Club. Old Creek Town Recreation Area is 4.1 mi (6.6 km) away.
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An outdoor pool, a fitness center, and meeting rooms are available at this hotel. Additionally, a 24-hour front desk, express check-in, and express check-out are onsite.
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All 40 rooms provide free WiFi, pillowtop beds, and cable TV. Other amenities available to guests include free local calls, hair dryers, and ironing boards.Information missing or incorrect? Tell us!
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Baymont Inn and Suites Eufaula features an outdoor pool and a fitness center. Guests can enjoy a complimentary breakfast. This Eufaula hotel also offers express check-in and express check-out.
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2003 Kia Sorento Q&A
2003 Kia Sorento Question: Slow Acceleration - Shifting Too Early
My wife came in one day and said that her car takes forever to accelerate on the highway. I took it around the block and sure enough, the car is literally blowing through 1st, 2nd, and 3rd gear and shifting normal through the rest. This once peppy car is slow on onramps, when you pull out onto any major streets, HELL, its slow at ANYTIME! It wasn't always like this. By the way, its the V6, AWD, Automatic tranny. Theres another issue I'm having with the car, you'll have to find it by the question summary of "When I Turn Sharp The Car Binds" - colton.pepper
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Grapes and Tastes Events for Week of June 29th – OPEN 4th of July
Tuesday, June 30th from 7 pm until 9 pm – Join Peggy from Simply Aroma for a Make and Take Class with Essential Oils – Learn how to make a bug spray with Essential Oils and take home – $3 for Supplies – call Peggy at 262-993-6314 to register.
Saturday, July 4th Grapes and Tastes will be open our regular hours from Noon until 11 pm. Come in for all of your picnic beverages and fine cigars.
Events Week of June 22nd – Eernisse Funeral Home/Strawberry Festival
- Eernisse Funeral Home – Thursday, June 25th 6:30 pm – Be our guest for Wine & Cheese – Enjoy wine and cheese while learning about the benefits of Advance Funeral Planning, followed by informal questions and answers. Thursday, June 25th 6:30 pm at Grapes and Tastes – Please call Eernisse Funeral Home to reserve a seat for you and a friend, space is limited – 262-284-2601
- Strawberry Festival Specials – Saturday, June 27th & Sunday, June 28th – Stop in at Grapes and Tastes and see us for all of our Strawberry specials and tastes – We are normally closed on Sunday's, but we will be open from 11:00 am – 5:00 pm on Sunday for all of you who would like some very special Strawberry wines. New this year is Bella Bellina Strawberry Moscato!
2nd Saturday Postponed until Saturday, Jan. 17th – In Memory of Harley Pals (Dan's Pa)
Harley Pals (Dan's Pa and Sherrie's Father-in-law) passed away peacefully Saturday, January 3rd. We all celebrated his 90th Birthday this past May and what a blessing it was to have had that time with him. This is a picture of Pa when he was able to go on the Honor Flight on May 2nd, 2010 with Dan. Funeral plans are tentative, but it may be next Saturday, so we are postponing our Second Saturday wine tasting and we will hold it on Saturday, January 17th instead. More details on that tasting to follow.
Great Grapes Club – Wine of the Month – Consumer Choices
It's time for the consumer! I've been proposing to make it personal. Drink what you like. Now it's time for Great Grapes Wine Club members to get what you want. Everyone else may wish to reconsider what's been holding you back from joining our Great Grapes Wine Club. Do you only drink red wine? Are you tired of friends waiting for you to develop a "serious" palate and "grow out of" those silly sweet wines? Forget that stuff! Drink what you like.
Our thoughts on Wine Club, while we languish in our well kept secret "Wine Cellar", had been leaning toward offering more choices once we grew enough in size to at least be ordering a case(s) of a particular wine. That rationale was based on the economics of buying in bulk and getting the best value for our members. Well, maybe we've been putting the cart before the horse. What do you think? We'll continue striving for value, but it's time we were more inclusive. I propose we appeal to old and new members at 5 different memberships, all at the same price ($30 per month) and added value (free glass of wine each month). When you sign up you will receive 1 bottle of a sparkling wine of our choice. For your birthday month you will also receive a coupon for a birthday treat. As the sign up sheet mentions, it's also possible just one super-premium red might come as that month's offering.
The first format is a dry white and a dry red (current format).
The second format would include 2 different dry reds. If format 1 was just one super-premium red, format 2 would be the same for that particular month.
The third format would include 2 different dry whites.
The fourth format would include a dry white and a sweet white.
The fifth format would include 2 sweet wines – sometimes white and red, sometimes 2 white and sometimes 2 red.
We also have some ideas on "Wine Club only" events and specials for the future. Hopefully, we'll have the necessary substantial growth and involvement needed to have a fun wine adventure for all!
Stop in to sign up, or email firstname.lastname@example.com or call 262-376-1200
Great Grapes Wine Club Manager
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Grapes and Tastes carries a wide selection of Wisconsin Gourmet Foods to pair with your favorite wine or add to a gift basket.
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We have a very comfortable lounging area that is perfect for wine tasting parties for birthdays, special occasions, and just for the heck of it.
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Copa di Vino as seen on ABC's Shark Tank
NEW here at Grapes & Tastes as seen on ABC's Shark Tank! We are excited to have this new fabulous product just in time for the nice weather! Only $3.50 per glass!
Copa Di Vino, or wine by the glass, is the brilliantly simple idea of bottling premium wine directly into a glass. Wine lovers can now drink delicious, quality wine from an attractive, eco-friendly, single-serving container. Just peel back the lid and enjoy!
Copa Di Vino has the look and feel of glass, but is made of 100% recyclable plastic. This makes it perfect for all occasions where carrying a bottle of wine, a corkscrew and an extra glass is not convenient like stadiums, golf courses, camping, the beach or picnics. Copa Di Vino is just as comfortable at home Copa allows you to enjoy a glass of fresh wine without having to open an entire bottle.
The company started with a vision: Founder and owner James Martin and his wife Molli, who own two other wineries, were traveling on the bullet train inFrancewhen they discovered wine bottled in a glass. They were both enamored with the concept: it created a simpler access to wine than what current wine bottles could provide. And it reduced the carbon waste created in the bottling of wine by offering a lower weight wine container.
Realizing that beer had enjoyed the luxury of a single-serving can or bottle for decades, James felt the same engineering applied to wine would be a huge success in stadiums and outdoor venues in theUS. He thought of little else for more than a year before deciding to develop the technology. However, he quickly learned that bottling wine in the glass was not as easy as it seemed. Eventually he turned to the inventor/bottler of the wine he had originally seen in France, Pascal Carvin. Rather than reinventing the wheel, the two formed a partnership – Pascal would provide the technology and James would provide the determination and drive to make theUSlaunch a success.
Two years later, James and Pascal are proud to introduce Copa Di Vino.
Shark Tank Update:
In an unprecedented move,Copa di Vino is to appear on Shark Tank for a second time in an episode, which goes to air in April. The entrepreneur who walked away from a deal last season in 2011 is James Martin from The Dalles Oregon who is the owner of Copa di Vino a wine in a cup business. This is the first time an entrepreneur who walked away returns to Shark Tank and is given another chance at pitching a the product. The Sharks circled Martin closely in the water last time out but did not bite on the total business offering the entrepreneur lay on the table.
Last season Martin's invention Copa Di Vino caused a media ripple and there was great interest in the back-story of this self-made entrepreneur. The process bottles wines directly into a wine glass sealed with a peel back top. This allows wine enthusiasts to open a single serving, instead of an entire bottle and drink straight from the glass, James has fostered an industry wide debate similar to screw cap versus cork, highlighting how wine bottles are cumbersome and inefficient.
The business was pitched to the Sharks for a $600,000 investment for 20% of his company. The total package included the Copa di Vino
product, a bottling business and winery. The Sharks were very keen on the bottling invention but not so keen on the wine it contained or the bottling facility or winery. All Sharks saw the potential of the Copa di Vino plastic container and saw scope for multiple applications and an opportunity to make money. Their interest was purely in the intellectual rights and patent to the process and packaging and they wanted to strip away the Copa di Vino container part from the other two parts (winery and bottling plant) from the deal and focus exclusively on the peel back container.
James Martin walked away from the Shark Tank last season, after turning down an offer for the Copa di Vino container, but he is back for more negotiation, which indicates he has had a change of heart perhaps or has restructured his offering.
The line up from last season has seen some changes of investors, Martin will be pitching to:
• Robert Herjavec, – an immigrant factory worker's son, now a technology mogul, who sold his first internet companies for over 350 million dollars.
• Barbara Corcoran, – turned a thousand dollar loan into a real estate empire (The Corcoran Group) worth hundreds of millions in the city of Manhattan.
• Kevin O'Leary – venture capitalist who started a software business in his basement, which he eventually sold for 3.2 billion dollars
• Daymond John – fashion and branding expert who grew his homemade hats and t-shirts into the globally recognized fashion brand FUBU which has grossed over $5 Billion in sales to date.
• Kevin Harrington (Seasons 1 and 2), "is the King of infomercials. His genius marketing of products such as the Obama coin and the Rock n' Roll Stepper has amassed billions of dollars in sales.
• Mark Cuban – owner of Landmark Theatres and chairman of HDNet the HDTV network and the outspoken owner of the 2011 NBA Champions, The Dallas Mavericks.
• Lori Greiner – Queen of QVC. She holds 108 patents and has launched over 300 products–grossing 500 million in worldwide retail sales.
It really will be exciting in the extreme to see if the new investors have a different view on the business to their colleagues from last season. The product is great and the Sharks and Martin came so close to a deal last time. This show will be a real cliffhanger to see what the pitch to the Sharks is and whether or not they bite this time.
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Gage had a UCL and had surgery Nov 5th. I need to take new pics, but the newest ones on here are about a week old...we still have a couple of stitches that need to dissolve but they're steadily disappearing! :-)
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Here's a brilliant idea.
Always have your game make a local save, if nothing else purely for backup purposes in case something horrible happens to the server and server backups, but also just because people tend to like to have a copy of things for themselves, and like to play offline.
So game developers: always keep local saves. Have the servers check the local saves to make sure it knows which one it should be using.
If it's a "competitive" game and they don't want people hacking game saves for a competitive advantage, then make sure to ban offline files for competitive play. That makes sense. I think everyone can get behind that. Otherwise, just don't lock up save games. Especially don't do that in an artificial way as a means of DRM. You're pushing those people who realize that any content they want is technically free a few clicks down the internet road over the edge.
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Drivers and carriers receive recognition and awards.Read More
Siphiwe Baleka, a driver for Prime, Inc., won the male 40-44 division of the Powerman Muncie Sprint Triathlon Saturday, Oct. 1, with a time of 1:09:32. The contest includes separate stints in swimming, biking and running. Baleka runs Fitness Trucking Inc., a company that sells DVD exercise videos for drivers that they can do in the truck or outside the cab in 30 minutes or less to keep a regular exercise routine and stay fit while ...Read More
Carriers chase after a diminished pool of owner-operator candidates with higher pay, bonuses and more compensation options.Read More
Truckers and carriers receive recognition and awards.Read More
Commission has sued Prime Inc. over allegations the carrier discriminated against female driver applicants.Read More
Truckers and carriers receive recognition and awards.Read More
A panel of three fleet executives discussed Thursday morning the changing outlook of the trucking industry during the Commercial Vehicle Outlook Conference in Dallas. CSA regulations, electronic on-board recorders, hours of service and driver recruitment have garnered attention from fleets recently. Russell Stubbs, president and CEO of FFE Transportation Services; Robert Low, president and founder of Prime Inc.; and Don Orr, president and CEO of Central Freight Lines, discussed the impact of these issues on truck ...Read More
After a truck payment, insurance is often the biggest fixed cost for owner-operators, particularly those running under their own authority.Read More
Carriers and drivers receive recognition and awards.Read More
Siphiwe Baleka (pictured), whom you will remember as the Prime-leased owner-operator who competed and walked away with a couple titles in the U.S. Masters National Swimming championships I wrote about in May, has made headlines yet again -- this time not just for his swimming prowess. He placed 56th of 577 competitors at the Warsaw Optimist Sprint Triathlon qualifier for the U.S.A. Triathlon organization running and biking in addition to swimming. Take a look at the ...Read More


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Disgusting!!! Roach, hair in food,moldy toast
We walked in and were greeted by a roach crawling behind the "Please wait to be seated" sign.Place was almost empty but were seated at a dirty table.Food arrived with a 6" black hair.Ketchup bottle flip-up lid had black furry mold.Grandson ate 1/2 of raisin toast that had green mold on 2 sides.Manager was unconcerned by my comments.Should have run out the door as soon as I saw the roach!Wonder what the kitchen looks like???
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I really have had my hair cut by stylist all over the world and I can truly say that my best hair cuts have been from Lawrence!He is a great listener and problem-solver. I've never felt rushed in and out.He does not overschedule.Waiting time is not more than 5 minutes. He does an amazing job with color. Looks like the color I was born with! Truly a gentleman...my appearance HERO! Thank you, Lawrence!!
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Longtime collaborators Odd Thomas and Propaganda have a new home at Syntax Records. The California-based label brought the rap artists onto their roster this summer. The pair will join the likes of Braille, Kaboose, DJ Promote and a host of other hip-hop all stars.Add a comment


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Yoga DevaRead MoreLauded by reporters from Tropolism as "the coolest yoga studio of all time," and available for rental for private events, Yoga Deva was designed by Phoenix-based architects Blank Studio to serve as a calming sanctuary from the zooming cars and bustling sidewalks of the outside world. Long, walnut benches and a radiant-blue wall greet visitors in the front lobby, drawing them toward a sunlit yoga room with towering mirrors and white, wavy ceilings. Serenity and balance in the studio is a must for owner, Davis, who aims to deepen the mind-body awareness of all who enter. At the studio, she uses all natural modern technology to promote pain relief and anti-aging benefits. After sustaining numerous injuries during her two-decade career as a professional ballet dancer, Davis found relief through inner reflection, which she harnessed during her time as a body-centered psychotherapist, and movement. Today, she channels her love of meditation and physical action into yoga, helming a team of certified instructors who lead classes in a variety of styles ranging from Vinyasa flow to Yin yoga. Sessions cater to students of all levels and can be modified to personally cater to clients. During each session, they guide students through poses and stretches designed to soothe the mind, heal the body, and enhance flexibility. The instructors strive to create a sanctuary of silence in the yoga room, requesting that guests leave all cellphones, pagers, and singing animatronic trout in the dressing room. In addition to yoga, Yoga Deva also offers therapeutic massage therapy to ease minds and sore muscles.2680 S Val Vista Dr, Bldg N8, Ste 143Gilbert, AZ US
Hyatt Place Phoenix / GilbertRead MoreProperty Location When you stay at Hyatt Place Gilbert in Gilbert, you'll be in the suburbs and within the vicinity of Big League Dreams Sports Park. This hotel is within the region of Superstition Springs Center and Golfland SunSplash. Rooms Make yourself at home in one of the 127 air-conditioned rooms featuring refrigerators and flat-panel televisions. Your room comes with a pillowtop bed, and all rooms are furnished with queen sofa beds. Wired and wireless Internet access is complimentary, while 42-inch high-definition televisions with cable programming provide entertainment. Private bathrooms have designer toiletries and hair dryers. Rec, Spa, Premium Amenities Take advantage of recreation opportunities including an outdoor pool and a 24-hour fitness facility. Additional amenities include complimentary wireless Internet access, shopping on site, and a television in the lobby. Guests can catch a ride on the complimentary shuttle, which operates within 5 mi. Dining You can find a meal at a coffee shop/café serving guests of Hyatt Place Gilbert, or stop in at a snack bar/deli. At the end of the day, relax with your favorite drink at a bar/lounge. Business, Other Amenities Featured amenities include complimentary high-speed (wired) Internet access, a 24-hour business center, and a computer station. Planning an event in Gilbert? This hotel has facilities measuring 1100 square feet (99 square meters), including small meeting rooms. Free self parking is available onsite.3275 S Market StGilbert, AZ US
Snip ItsRead MoreMost of the time when kids go to get their hair cut, they're lucky if they're able to watch a movie they've seen a thousand times or play with the single toy the salon keeps on hand. But even that doesn't generally happen. And because most salons don't bother to entertain kids, haircuts can be a difficult thing for them to sit through. Yet, when kids go to Snip-Its, they get an adventure. Staffers first hand kids a Snip-Its Adventure Club card, and then invite them to sing along with the salon's own cast of animated characters. There's Curly Comb, the adventurous Flyer Joe Dryer, and the group's leader, Snips, an anthropomorphized pair of scissors with a shock of brown hair. This same crew stars in computer games and activities that kids can play at each salon station, which dazzle eyes with more bright colors than a car covered in Lisa Frank stickers. While their clients explore imaginative worlds, stylists use a proprietary line of natural and allergen-free products to create buzz cuts and bobs. At the end of the process, kids visit the Magic Box. The enchanted device awards kids a prize in exchange for a swatch of hair. On special occasions, stylists can also photograph a baby's first haircut or transport girls to Tinseltown during a Hollywood Party. In order to make every salon experience exciting for kids and relaxing for adults, Snip-Its partners with Autism Speaks and trains stylists to work with kids with autism.2743 S Market StGilbert, AZ US
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Simply Ravishing - The SalonRead MoreReduce your stress with a day filled with relaxing spa services from Simply Ravishing - The Salon in Gilbert. Have a long day? Pamper yourself with a relaxing and hydrating facial. With acne treatment, you are sure to find a good skin care treatment match for your skin type at Simply Ravishing - The Salon. Put an end to your muscle spasms with one of the massages offered at this establishment. If you're looking for the most current on-trend hairstyles, swing in this salon and enjoy a new 'do. From sassy and sexy to reserved and professional, the nail treatment choices at this spa are endless. Simply Ravishing - The Salon offers a plethora of beauty services such as make up application, but that's just the tip of their offerings. If you're leaning toward an alternative service, such as aromatherapy and reflexology, look no further than this spa. To avoid lines and accommodate guests in a timely manner, this spa serves all guests on an appointment-only basis. The spa treatment menu here is reasonably priced so you won't have to worry about spending more than you intended to. Conveniently charge by major credit card when cash isn't an option. Drivers can take advantage of the parking lot near Simply Ravishing - The Salon and save time on hunting for a parking spot. If flawless hair is what you're going for, the experts at Simply Ravishing - The Salon are here to help you out.2401 E Baseline RdGilbert, AZ US
Gilbert Dogs 24-7 LLCRead MoreBoasting a 100% cage-free environment and over 8,000 total sq. feet, Gilbert Dogs 24/7 & Chandler Dogs 24/7 keep pups active as they romp around in open playrooms supervised by well-trained staff on grounds open 24 hours a day. The boarding facility screens every dog during a behavioral evaluation conducted prior to admission. All pooches that pass are free to run around the daycare gnawing on toys, crafting canine art, and acquiring best friends who don't ever demand that they fetch newspapers or platters bearing three-course meals. Supervising staff members are certified dog lovers and have completed an Interpreting Dog Body Language seminar to help diffuse potential conflicts in the playroom, and film videos of pups having fun to show to returning owners. For clients leaving their pups for an extended period, the facility's overnight boarding service allows owners to rest easy knowing that an overnight staff member is always on hand to comfort canines after nightmares of losing at poker. The shop rounds out its canine-comforting service menu with shuttle rides to appointments or puppy field trips, courses in obedience training, and spa grooming sessions in which pups are washed, dried, and brushed until coats gleam with a healthy shine.868 North Gilbert RoadGilbert, AZ US


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The Sports & Exhibition Authority will spend as much as $1.1 million to determine the cost and feasibility of building a pedestrian bridge that would link Downtown and the Lower Hill District near the spot where the Civic Arena once stood.
Federal money will reimburse the SEA for 80 percent of the cost, said Mary Conturo, the city-county authority's executive director, leaving the public agency with a tab of up to $225,000.
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We are now launching the fifth competitive call for exhibition proposals for the new Octagon gallery. This is an opportunity to show off your current research. The theme for the fifth exhibition, inspired by the Gallery name, is EIGHT. Proposals on this theme are invited from across the UCL community.
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By Maisie McCabe, mediaweek.co.uk, Thursday, 16 September 2010 03:11PM
YouView (formerly Project Canvas) will drive consumer choice and provide competition to pay-TV platforms such as Virgin Media and Sky, according to chief executive Richard Halton.
This morning (16 September), it was announced that Project Canvas, the joint venture between the BBC, ITV, Channel 4, Channel Five, BT, Talk Talk and Arqiva to provide internet-connected TV through TV sets, will be called YouView, and Halton was named its chief executive.
The service will offer on-demand TV and PVR capabilities without a monthly subscription fee, but will allow commercial broadcasters to use micro payments and pre-, mid- and post-roll ads to generate income.
Speaking after the launch, Halton said: "It is important that free-to-air TV continues to be successful, because 10 million people get TV through Freeview. It must be relevant and, being a connected platform, will be essential in providing competition to Sky and Virgin.
"YouView allows Freeview to go from being quite a constrained platform to one that's very open. It will drive choice of content and innovation of content. It should drive better and more consumer choice."
The name YouView was chosen from of a selection of ideas because it "resonated" with YouView's core target audience of Freeview customers, Halton said. "When we tested it with Freeview customers, they got it."
The launch of YouView is expected in the first half of next year and YouView marketing director Tim Hunt is currently running the media and creative pitches. Halton declined to comment on YouView's marketing plans or its agency roster.
YouView is owned equally by each of its seven partners and each partner's investment is worth approximately £4.5m a year, which Halton said he hoped they thought was a "pretty cost-effective way to develop a platform".
The YouView EPG will not carry any advertising, in line with the not-for-profit aims of the business. While YouView will not have a payment system, commercial content owners will be able to insert their own, or use facilitators such as PayPal.
When questioned about the complaints broadcasting regulator Ofcom had received about the YouView project, Halton said he was confident any issues would be resolved and confirmed YouView was in dialogue with Ofcom about the concerns.
Halton said: "We have never claimed YouView would be open source, but we want to get to the position where open standards can be used on any device. Any concerns can be addressed and we will reach out to people to do that."
YouView Ltd was incorporated as a company with Companies House on Tuesday (14 September) and is a separate company from each of its partners, with around 100 members of staff.
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The New New Kool Aid
13th November 14
Posted in Start ups
The first 'tech' conference I attended was SXSW in 2007. Screens in every hallway were showing a live stream of this thing called twitter. Everyone had a Second Life strategy, plan or notion. And no-one, as far as I noticed, was talking about Facebook which had only opened up to the general public six months earlier. I met some extraordinary people, I heard some outstanding talks and returned to London having drunk *all* the Kool Aid.
Last week, at WebSummit 2014 in Dublin, among the hundreds of eager start-ups who pay fancy money for the opportunity to meet more money, I saw a number of startups who wanted to be 'The Tinder for real life encounters', all using the word 'spotted' in their names. There were dozens of variations of 'A social network/platform/app enabling friends/family/strangers to share photos/videos/plans'. There was even 'A social network that allows you to share short updates with friends by answering the question 'what are you up to?' – something familiar about that particular concept, I felt.
Clearly, then, WebSummit made me feel old, grumpy and nostalgic and I don't want to be old and grumpy. Not yet, anyway. It's very tempting to hark back to 1994 or 2004, when the internet was a wide open frontier and everything was up for grabs and wax lyrical about all the big dreams being dreamt. But as Kevin Kelly says, right now, today, in 2014, is the best time in human history to start something. There are "more opportunities, more openings, lower barriers, higher benefit/risk ratios, better returns, greater upside," than ever before, and the evidence of this optimism, this can-do spirit was certainly present in Dublin, even if the some of the ambition seemed a little slight.
Of course the majority of the startups exhibiting at WebSummit won't get beyond year one, let alone year five – but all these young people (and these were young, young people) have all started something, raised a little capital from friends and family, worked late nights, called in favours and launched their own thing into the world. And they are keen and smart and committed and will learn from success and learn from failure and make better things and bigger things. And they'll solve harder problems than what happens if you see someone you like the in the street but can't find them on Tinder.
And, because they are not tired and old and jaded and grumpy and nostalgic, WebSummit was probably a great experience for them. They'll have met their peers, discovered new technologies, allies, funders, competitors. They might decide to go back to the drawing board and start again, or refine their proposition, or perhaps decide that they might need some old-fashioned marketing to differentiate themselves from the other startups who are doing similar, but not exactly the same, things.
But I'm sure they won't stop starting something new. They're entrepreneurs, startups, founders, dreamers. It's who they are and what they do. In Dublin last week there was lots of Guinness downed, but also plenty of a new vintage of Kool Aid. At WebSummit both tasted pretty good.
Marketing that Interrupts for Good
3rd November 14
Posted in Creativityforgood
Author: Damien Le Castrec, Strategist, BBH London
One type of post shouts out above the noise of our crowded social timelines: good causes. The Ice Bucket Challenge and #nomakeupselfie have been hard to ignore in 2014.
Social media is a fertile environment for good causes. They give users the opportunity to look good by spreading good, and for organisations to promote themselves.
Although 'clicktivism' and 'hashtag campaigning' is a relatively fresh move for charities, it has a lot in common with a more traditional model: interruption marketing.
Interruption marketing stops people while they're consuming content in a broadcast environment, to "force" them to watch commercials. As social media platforms shift towards a 'paid for' model, behaving more like broadcast media, it is only natural that marketing attempts to interrupt content consumption here too.
But a few weeks ago we launched a new charity campaign, with a different take on interruption marketing.
The recent fame of these social media campaigns means that other forms of digital marketing are sometimes overlooked. There is a digital environment where causes can find more than a short span of attention and where they can tap into 'The Database of Intentions'. It's search.
We share more with Google than we do with our closest friends, and as any good friend, search engines have the opportunity to influence these shared intentions.
Social media gives causes mass attention and a burst of fame, while search offers specific intentions and the power to influence them. Search might not make the cause as famous in the short term as a broadcast burst; by definition, it is only targeting a limited group of people. But it can unlock genuine change and perhaps allow for a more prolonged campaign.
One million searches for elephant riding take place every year. We designed a campaign to interrupt this intention.
Our idea was to give tourists information about animal entertainment when they are in the mindset of planning and researching a trip. So we created a search-led campaign that intercepts the million queries for elephant riding, to reveal the suffering that takes place behind the scenes.
This is a media behaviour that tour operators already leverage to promote themselves through paid search advertising. We decided to outbid them to bring the truth to the top of tourists' search results pages.
To outbid real tour operators, we behave like one: buying the same ads, promoting the same kind of experiences, but with a difference: we tell the truth about animal entertainment.
Thanks to a carefully crafted bidding strategy, our search ads promoting "an authentic elephant ride" are the first result holidaymakers see. The link takes them to our fake tour operator video who reveals the way elephants are trained to force them to get used to the unnatural act of being ridden.
Tourists who could have been part of the problem can then become part of the solution by funding the search bidding (on a CPC basis, £3 will educate 280 tourists). Their donations will help to hold our video at the top of search results to educate more tourists like them.
- Media consumption vs. active intention: Interruption marketing is traditionally based on interrupting people's media behaviours. But search gives us the ability to interrupt the intentions we're trying to influence.
- Fame vs. relevance: Interruption marketing is usually an awareness-driven model where communications perform when remarkable. But in a search environment, the focus is on relevance.
- Short-lived vs. long-term: Interruption marketing operates with a traditional "launch and forget" mindset. But with search, ads are triggered as long as they have a purpose.
Search offers new opportunities for creativity and performance, whether for causes or commercial brands. Let's hope our industry isn't too hooked on fame to embrace them like it should…
Bohemias and Backwaters
14th October 14
Posted in culture
Last week we were lucky enough to be invited to speak at Belgrade Design Week – a fabulous event in an exciting city to visit.
Finally getting the opportunity to use William Gibson's great passage on bohemias ('where industrial civilisation went to dream') from All Tomorrow's Parties in this most bohemian of cities, we compared physical and digital enclaves to see whether digital bohemians could learn anything from the decline of alternative subcultures in the real world.
As always, let us know what you think in the comments below.
A Public Service Announcement
28th August 14
Posted in Rants
I am happy that I'm not going to indadvertedly click a link on twitter and find myself watching a video of the beheading of James Foley. But the removal of this video and other content from Google, Twitter and Facebook raises important questions about media, freedom of expression and control of information.
In the digital age, we are nearing the point where an idea banished by Twitter, Facebook and Google all but vanishes from public discourse entirely, and that is only going to become more true as those companies grow even further.
Should Twitter, Facebook and Google Executives be the Arbiters of what we See and Read – Glen Greenwald
As is pointed out here, this is not a question of censorship. Rather it is an editorial decision, made on perfectly reasonable moral and taste grounds and at the request of the family of James Foley. And while we might completely agree with the decision in this instance, are we happy for Facebook to delete content created by Syrian dissidents? Or not remove videos of other gruesome actions that do not involve Western journalists. Or allow the publication of live tweets of IDF military actions against Hamas? These complex religious and geopolitical issues are throwing up new moral, social and editorial challenges for technology companies. But as these companies morph into not just media companies, but media itself, it is becoming important to ask what precedents are being set? What actual policies are at work?
We have no rights beyond what the companies give us in their terms of service, where quaint ideas like the First Amendment have no application.
The huge centralized web services such as facebook and google, the Stacks as Bruce Sterling calls them, are making these editorial decisions because we've both asked and allowed them to. They are incredibly useful services and incredibly convenient services and incredibly free services to use. We might not pay with our wallets, but instead we pay with our views, our content, our shares, likes, retweets and our profiles. If you're not paying for it, you're the product being sold. We know this. Facebook and Google and Twitter ultimately can decide what goes through their pipes – if we don't like their decisions we can take our cat photos elsewhere, however inconvenient that might be.
So, if we're the product, who are the customers? Brands, obviously, who love the convenience and the scale and the data and metrics they get from their paid-for relationships with The Stacks. And brands too, make sacrifices when they embark on these relationships. The world of brand microsites was one of variable quality, but vast variety. Today's uniformity of branded voice and imagery, the identikit, out-of-the-box formatting solutions provided by tumblr and facebook and youtube can almost induce nostalgia for the visual assault of the World Wild Web. Again, google and twitter and facebook have the right to design their pipes their way – if brands don't like the formats on offer they can take their content elsewhere, however inconvenient that might be.
I am relieved that my kids can watch youtube without clicking on a thumbnail and seeing James Foley's horrific murder. But I am also telling them that if they want a place on the internet where they are not the product, a place where they are the editor, where they set the precedents and make the policies, a place that is theirs, then they will have to own it and pay for it and make it. They'll have to buy a domain and manage some hosting and create some content and establish their own digital identity. And they'll have to deal with the inconvenience and freedom that comes with it.
[note - this post was provoked by links on NextDraft, Dave Pell's excellent daily newsletter]
Leadership and the Amplified Self
28th July 14
Posted in leadership
Author: Jim Carroll, Chairman BBH London
I am not a leader.
It took me many years to realise it. Indeed I was in a position of some responsibility when the truth dawned. I finally understood that I am in a relationship business, but I'm uncomfortable with relationships; that I shrink from delivering bad news, when I should be characterising it as good; that I am emotionally squeamish, when leadership requires psychological strength. I was a disappointment to myself.
Despite, or perhaps because of, this revelation, I have remained interested in the art of leadership. What defines a great leader? How do you spot leadership potential? Can you train it, learn it, define it? I'm aware that a wealth of airport management books endeavour to answer these questions, but I confess I've never felt compelled to read them. Let me offer my own, admittedly simple, perspective on the subject.
In the course of my career I've been fortunate to have worked with quite a few great leaders. And I have to say that, on the face of it, they have little in common. Some were passionate and visionary, others were practical and pragmatic; some were sensitive and personal, others were pugnacious and combative. None was in any way a perfect paradigm. Indeed all have been flawed, often in very engaging ways.
But there was one particular thing they all shared. Their leadership style was consistently an extension of their own strong personalities. They were authentic, but they were also larger than life. Their very real virtues had found a louder voice, a bigger stage. They were hyperboles of themselves if you like.
Leadership in my experience is The Amplified Self.
This analysis has led me to a relatively straightforward piece of advice for the aspirant leader: establish what you're good at and do it in a bigger, bolder way.
And yet this is easier said than done. 'Know thyself' was inscribed above the Temple of Apollo at Delphi. It was a resonant maxim precisely because self knowledge is so difficult to achieve.
I probably spent the first ten years of my career working out what I had to offer professionally. However much my appraisals identified the occasional virtue, I couldn't help concentrating on the cited shortcomings. Because they were the same shortcomings year after year: a sluggishness with spreadsheets and Harvard Graphics, a lack of commercial rigour in my arguments, a failure to make eye contact in meetings. Like a diligent student I would concentrate on addressing my weaknesses. But however hard I tried, with every passing year my appraisal changed very little. And I never did win that IPA Effectiveness Award…
I think there comes a point in everyone's career when we give up addressing the faults we cannot correct, the blemishes we cannot wipe clean. The point in one's career when one focuses on building on strengths and virtues, accentuating the positives rather than eliminating the negatives. And I think that's the point that one finally gets to discover one's true leadership potential.
If you think you have the charisma, stamina, vision and appetite to lead, don't spend your time reading the text books, mimicking your predecessor, emulating your hero. Don't be someone else's shadow, their pale imitation. Don't try to be someone you're not.
Look in the mirror. Isolate your truest strengths, the ones that set you apart, that make you unique. And turn those strengths up to eleven.
Be your own Amplified Self.
The Man That Didn't Blink
30th May 14
Posted in strategy
Author, Jim Carroll, Chairman BBH London
First published in Advertising Week Europe supplement
I knew a man who never blinked. It was quite discomfiting. I'd not considered blinking that important until confronted with its absence. This chap just seemed a bit odd, a little lacking in emotion. Was he perhaps an android? When talking to him I couldn't avoid the impression that he was unnaturally certain of his own opinions. And that that blind certainty was what I was finding unattractive. I realised that, whilst I like the self-assured, absolute certainty can be troubling, alienating, disturbing.
I guess that's why I've always responded better to leaders who, though boundlessly confident, exhibit a sensitivity to risk and doubt, a consciousness of paths not taken. I'm rarely convinced by absolute conviction.
For similar reasons I feel certainty in advertising has always been fool's gold. Claude Hopkins wrote Advertising Science back in the 1920s. And science has given us analytical tools and techniques that have dramatically enhanced our understanding of consumers and our ability to communicate effectively. But, however much we may wish it, science has never given us certainty.
I recently attended a stage adaptation of the great Henry Fonda movie, 12 Angry Men. At its heart it's a celebration of reasonable doubt, and an indictment of the unreasonable certainty that so many people carry around with them. I was struck by the idea that reasonable doubt is a force for good in society. Because life is an ongoing navigation of trade-offs, dilemmas and contrary preferences. Life isn't about certainty.
In our business I've seen how, many a time and oft', the quest for unreasonable certainty has actually fostered doubt and indecision. The pursuit of total proof can close windows of opportunity and analysis paralysis can inhibit bold leaps forward.
Recently we have all been redesigning the marketing model. We have embraced the vision of a customer engagement system that is more connected, more targeted, more knowing and less wasteful. Something that learns, creates, adapts and distributes in real time. But we should not imagine that any new model will deliver unreasonable certainty. All models need ideas to animate them. And the best ideas occur at the intersection of logic and magic, at the meeting point of rationality and emotion.
What is exciting about the modern age of marketing is the opportunity it affords us to explore this happy interaction between art and science. At BBH we've been talking a lot about High Performance Creativity. We believe that technology enables a more intimate relationship between creativity and performance, and that that intimacy will generate better, more effective work. We believe that data should not just be big; it should be strategically insightful and creatively inspiring. We believe that performance measures should not be backward looking proofs, but live, forward-facing guides. We believe that, while High Performance Creativity cannot promise certainty, it can deliver incredible potency.
I'm reasonably certain about this.
Thinky.done – early learnings
10th March 14
Posted in Experiments
We've closed the garage door on our first experiment of 2014 over at thinky.do and there's a post about what we learnt about bitcoin from our Open Wallet Experiment there. A few weeks ago we went public about our rebooted approach to experimentation, so what have we learnt about learning one month on?
First off, constraints are both good and bad, or, more accurately, helpful and limiting. We set ourselves the goal of thinking up and launching an experiment, in public, in a 4 week period. And, Yay us, we got it out of the door. Just. We might have had a better conceived, better executed experiment if we'd given ourselves more time, but we might also still be in idea generation phase, filling up whiteboards with hypotheticals and possibilities instead of results and learnings. We did it, it's done, onto the next doing.
Second, the subject of the experiment. The extended Labs team were absolutely certain that Bitcoin was the right subject for our first foray. Everyone was talking about it, none of us understood it properly, this was our chance to learn. And learn we did. We now know how to buy it, look after it and spend it. We've also learnt that bitcoin is a hard thing to think about and a difficult tool to use for experimental purposes. Getting to grips with bitcoin took time and the technical restraints meant several 'pivots' before the Open Wallet Experiment got out there. And while we're not bitcoin billionaires, we're in a better position to talk to clients about the benefits and drawbacks of cryptocurrencies than we were in January.
And lastly, how we work. We couldn't have done anything without help from a number of people. Colleagues in BBH, partners outside (particular thanks to the guys at MediaMonks for talking us through bitcoin practicalities), people who emailed and commented on the blog and our G+ page, all helped tremendously.
And so, on to Experiment No2. Trying to remember what we've learnt already, and not forget that each month we're starting over, all over again.
Letting Companies Share Great Ideas
10th March 14
Posted in Start ups
In his new book on creativity Sir John Hegarty cautions the creative industry to not become enthralled with technology, but instead allow technology to liberate great ideas. This is the idea behind Pie, a tool for modern teams to save and share inspiring finds and ideas.
Pie originated in the BBH ZAG bakery and we spoke with Pieter Walraven, formerly Product Director of BBH ZAG Asia, about the things he learned during his journey from an idea to a funded startup.
So what is Pie and how did you get the idea?
Pie is a link-sharing tool that helps teams share and organize the zillion things they see at work every day. At BBH me and Thijs Jacobs (former BBH Asia Pacific Head of Creative Technology) noticed that people are constantly sharing and discussing inspiring things over email. We loved the culture of sharing, but we saw that sharing ideas over email is broken. It clutters inboxes and relevant finds easily get buried. After talking to other companies and clients about this issue we learned that they have the same problem. This is when started thinking about a technology enabling an open culture of sharing with the bigger vision of liberating great ideas.
When you say you 'started thinking about a technology' what does that mean, how did you translate your idea into an actual product?
What we did early on was look at the current relevant software offerings out there such as Yammer and Sharepoint and didn't really like what we saw – who decided that enterprise software has to be dull?! So we shifted our focus to consumer apps as they're much better at creating a great user experience.
Obviously, we liked the visual aspect of Pinterest and found that boards are a great way to organize things. We've used elements from Pinterest and other popular consumer applications to design our first MVP and tested 2 hypotheses: 'do people want to use this?' and 'will people be drawn in by the visual consumer-like design?'.
(An early iteration of the Pie MVP)
So you tested your assumptions, what was the next step? When did you actually set up Pie as a company?
To maximise our chances of building a successful global SaaS company we knew we had to raise external funding and attract top talent. Most high-profile strategic investors only invest in strong and autonomous founding teams so shortly after we've completed testing our MVP we set up Pie as a separate company with myself and Thijs as founders and major shareholders.
As we both have prior experience of tech startups our pitch deck was mainly focused on the founding team. It also included the positive market outlook – "Adoption of Social Enterprise is Booming" – and the findings of our MVP which consisted of both usage data and the interest of potential clients.
(Pie pitch deck: market opportunity slide)
For structuring our financing we used a model called convertible notes. A convertible note is basically a loan that converts into shares of preferred stock upon the closing of a the next round – Series A – round of financing. Here's a great TechCrunch article on convertible notes with all the pros and cons.
After a few hectic and uncertain months we managed to raise our target of $800K from a list of notable investors including BBH Asia Pacific's former ECD, Steve Elrick, a U.S.-based VC, Siemer Ventures, and Peng Tsin Ong, founder of Match.com and widely considered one of Asia's most successful tech entrepreneurs.
So tell us a bit about your daily routine at Pie, what keeps you busy?
It might sound obvious, but I underestimated the amount of time I have to spend on hiring. Our culture is our most valuable asset and it takes time to carefully select people that match the rest of the team. Of course it doesn't help that these kind of people already have a great job! Basically hiring great people takes time, but luckily it gets easier as Pie's exposure grows and we gain more international traction.
(Pie's stream where you can see what coworkers are collecting and sharing)
Other than hiring me and the rest of the Pie team are 100% focused on growth. Everything we do is directly or indirectly related to growing our user base. We're constantly iterating on Pie to improve either the user engagement or the virality. We've also been writing and seeding content for our target audience to attract users and have had some success with this – we've been live for 1.5 months and over 700 companies are on Pie ranging from Spotify to Shell. We're seeing companies saving and sharing industry news, innovations, market data, trends, but also funny videos. Companies such as Edelman and IDEO use Pie to keep track of market trends and collaborate around certain topics. Besides internal sharing they also use Pie to share inspiration and links to relevant articles with clients.
Proximity (BBDO) uses Pie to collect and organize UX best practices. They create boards with finds that can be used for later use. Before Pie was introduced people were storing things in email drafts or spreadsheets invisible for their coworkers to see. By collecting things on boards knowledge that was previously hidden in silos now gets exposed to the rest of the team.
(A library of posts collected by a team on a 'collaborative board')
Lastly, we regularly post interesting reads on work hacks for modern teams on our Facebook page and on Twitter and have recently released a chrome extension allowing direct posting from any website.