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"All other religions give advice, and they drive everything you're doing on fear."
Tim Keller
The Resurgence recently had a great post called "Good News vs. Good Advice." The blog post is an excerpt from a complete talk by Tim Keller called "Gospel Centered Ministry" given at a Gospel Coalition event.
I am reposting and linking because the Resurgence blog post is good. I am reposting and linking because Keller's original talk is good. In truth, I'm reposting and linking because I needed to hear it again. That's the funny thing about "gospel amnesia," I'm never really cured of that pesky illness.
This post and Keller's original words at the GC event caused a bunch of thoughts to begin swirling around my brain. I know it is a common theme around here, but a good one to keep in front of us regularly. I've started my own list below. Feel free to join me.
Good advice is offering up fancy theology.
Good news is telling others the simple story about Jesus.
Good advice will teach security in traditions, vestments and liturgy.
Good news will teach security in Christ alone.
Good advice takes people to a perfect church.
Good news takes people to an empty cross.
Good advice leads others to memorize a catechism or confession.
Good news leads people to memorize three words: "It is finished"
Good advice says "this is how we do it right."
Good news says "This is what Jesus did. It's done!"
Good advice nails a list of "do's and don'ts" to the wall.
Good news points people to three bloody nails.
Good advice talks about dressing your best for church.
Good news talks about being dressed in the garments of Jesus.
Good advice gives a pair of gold-plated/diamond-studded handcuffs.
Good news gives a pardon.
Good advice says, Jesus plus something.
Good news says, Jesus plus nothing.
That will get the ball rolling, feel free to leave your own in the comments below.
Quietly making noise,

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Susan Cianciolo, "When Buildings Meet the Sky"/
Photo: Rosalie Knox, courtesy of Susan Cianciolo
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Towards the closing of this season's relatively quiet New York Fashion Week, the National Arts Club in Gramercy was alive with warmth and laughter in a beautiful farrago of vibrant words and movements. This past Wednesday night artist and fashion designer Susan Cianciolo presented her Fall 2011 Collection, When Buildings Meet the Sky, in enchanting moments woven together by a play of prose titled She Stories of the Sky. Written and imagined by an emerging artist and designer Andrea Diodati, the play conjured up interpretive Noh theater with dance and chant complete with a live flutist and tambourine player.
The clothing was appropriately a riff of Japanese dress. In collaboration with Hinaya textile in Kyoto and kimono fashion stylist Hiromi Asai in New York, Cianciolo sent out colorful kimonos and wide obi-like sashes done in elaborate oriental prints. Many looks were accompanied by mask-like make-up, bright color thick around the eyes, and hair piled up in buns high on heads. Tinges of metallic gold could be found in the clothing and on faces. As the character Nobel Lady Time, Cianciolo herself donned a deep peach-orange kimono and golden make-up with her hair piled up high too.
Moreover, Cianciolo's continuous support for friends and former students was telling not only in the latest February issue of Art Forum but also in the presentation's program. Young designer Willie Norris contributed his bow ties while another emerging designer Su Beyazit helped out with the styling. To note, a few of the models were also current or former students.
Cianciolo's collection as a whole was a performance of a collage of soft and vivid colors in rhythm with the fluid movements of the performers and the words.
The clothing was raw. The girls were barefoot. Beauty is found in strange spaces.
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This is a line etching, of fishing boats in Gloucester, MA. It's probably the first print taken from the plate and lighter than the other "Fishing Fleet" etching which I have called "Fishing Fleet 2" only to differentiate it from this print on the "Collectors Items" page. They were taken from the same plate.
This plate never had aquatint added and was offered only as a line etching.
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Plate Size: 4" x 6"
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The year 2010 is shaping up to be one of the most active primary seasons in recent Colorado history. In the U.S. Senate race, Democratic incumbent Sen. Michael Bennet (who was appointed by Gov. Bill Ritter when Ken Salazar became secretary of the interior) faces a spirited challenge from within his own party from Andrew Romanoff, former speaker of the state House.
Whenever Colorado's budget is in distress, it seems that the biggest target is always on the back of higher education. The four biggest pots of general-fund moneys in the state budget are Medicaid, prisons, K-12 education and higher education. For practical, political and legal reasons, the first three are generally pretty protected. Higher education is often left to bear the biggest brunt of the reductions.
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Amy Goodman is a journalist to be admired. For more than 13 years, she's been on TV and radio with "Democracy Now!" assisted by Daily News columnist Juan Gonzales. Amy is a tireless worker for independent media, and her energy and ability to inspire a crowd are awesome to watch. You can't help but marvel at the incredible drive bundled in such a small package. She has fans and volunteers in tow wherever she goes.
One of my dad's favorite stories about me is when he took me to the Big Top to buy a kite when I was 5. We found everything we needed for 97 cents. I handed my dollar to the store clerk and waited for change. When I asked for it, he told me it was for the governor. I said I didn't want to buy a governor. After my dad and the clerk explained that the governor was going to use my 3 cents for the road to get to the store and the school I would soon attend, I acquiesced and let him keep the change I had anticipated.
As in physics, politics has a handful of immutable laws. One of these is the Law of Overreaching, which states that the party in power will inevitably overreach.
Majority parties tend to act as though the entire population shares their core agenda. The problem with this, of course, is that for the most part no majority is possible without the support of a sizable number of voters who aren't affiliated with either party.
We're all familiar with the endless solicitations for credit cards in the mailbox, but the most desperate one I ever received was an actual check for $100. All I had to do was endorse it and I'd get the cash — along with a new credit card. No strings attached, right?
After the assassination of Sen. Robert Kennedy in 1968, his brother Ted ended a moving eulogy by saying, "My brother need not be idealized, or enlarged in death beyond what he was in life; to be remembered simply as a good and decent man, who saw wrong and tried to right it, saw suffering and tried to heal it, saw war and tried to stop it. Those of us who loved him and who take him to his rest today pray that what he was to us and what he wished for others will someday come to pass for all the world."
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Located in the maritime village of Swan Quarter on the Pamlico Sound, just a half mile from the Ocracoke Island ferry landing, the Mattie Arts Center established its hub in the old Hyde County courthouse in October of 2012 with a vision to expand throughout the county with resident art studios and additional teaching studios as other artists relocate temporary or permanently to teach, learn, and work.
Pamela Cahoon lives here in Swan Quarter but grew up in Fairfield. A retired hairdresser, she loves working with her hands. Whether it's gardening, soap making, sewing, crocheting or painting, she always has a project in the works. If she's not taking a class here to learn a new skill, she's teaching one.
Ed Clarke is a legend for his wood workings, wood burnings, decoys, both in wood and stretch canvas. Married with 3 children, Ed makes his living as a master carpenter and commercial fisherman. Ed is working diligently to become a full-time artist.
Cathy Clayton grew up in Engelhard and now resides in Ponzer, a little hamlet on the edge of Hyde County. She is a multi-talented artist that is not afraid to try something new. From drawing and painting to clay works to jewelry, Cathy has done it all. But her specialty is wood burning, also know as Pyrography. She starts by drawing her design on carbon paper and transferring it to the wood. Then with wood burning tool, she creates amazing art that seems to come to life when she highlights parts with a colored pencil. Some of her creations have taken more than 180 hours to complete. Cathy's love for wood burning began around the age of 11 when she would take a magnifying glass out in the sun and burn initials in the top of the old cistern. Today her works in wood (and gourds) are truly an amazing sight to see. Her plans for the future are to build furniture of her own design and delve into chain saw sculpturing.
Jeannie Dozier is our stained glass instructor and is in high demand these days. She hails from Rocky Mount, but keeps a camper at the local campground near Lake Mattamuskeet where she and her husband stay when the weather warms up. After taking some classes at Nash Community College because she "loved stained glass, but could not afford it", she found that it gave her a chance to do something creative. And creative, it certainly is. From flip flops (her favorite) to beautiful framed pieces, Jeannie's eye for color and design is outstanding. She's usually working on her craft 3-4 days a week and her current project involves blue crabs, which we hope to see in the gallery very soon. Her next endeavor will be etched stained glass, and we are certainly looking forward to that, so stayed tuned!
Jim Gallucci has been a sculptor for more than 35 years. He is a graduate of LeMoyne College, where he received a BA in English, and of Syracuse University, where he received a BFA and MFA in Sculpture. He has worked as an art instructor at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro and the University of Alabama at Huntsville. Presently, Jim works at his Greensboro, N.C., studio. Most of his pieces are commissions for public, corporate and residential spaces around the country. He was one of 7 leading southern sculptors selected to exhibit in the first phase of the Sculpture for New Orleans public outdoor art exhibit project which opened for Super Bowl 2013. In that same year he learned of the MATTIE Arts Center and made the magnanimous offer to build and consign one of his famous interactive "gateway" sculptures to the center in an effort to further it as a tourist and art destination. Seen here and dubbed the "Gateway to the Arts" is the sculpture designed and created by Jim at the MATTIE Arts Center.
Jane Gibbs, a native of Hyde County, went to school in Virginia Beach and now resides in Fairfield. She is currently the Chairman of the Board of the Friends of the 1854 Hyde Countys Historic 1854 Courthouse organization, the non-profit organization, which oversees the operations of the MATTIE Arts Center. She has been involved with the art center for over 3 years. Jane has always loved art and specializes in landscapes and portraits in oil. "I love it because I can forget about everything else and just create; it's very relaxing." Averaging 2-3 days a week at the easel, she divides the rest of her time between running Jane Cuts, Curls, and Colors and being a grandmother. She is also a talented fruit and vegetable carving artist.
Elizabeth Gurganus is a Swan Quarter area resident who sews just about anything you can imagine. From purses to dolls to wedding gowns, her craft keeps her busy 6-8 hours a day, but she is always looking for something new for her next project. Her mother taught her at the tender age of 9 and she loves to sew, wedding gowns being her particular favorite. She is also an accomplished photographer with an emphasis on the natural beauty of the Lake Mattamuskeet area and you will find some of her works on display in the gallery.
Mark Hierholzer, a professional artist and instructor in "Impressionism", shares his time between his homes in Richmond, Va. and Swan Quarter. MATTIE owes its beginnings to his encouragement and support. Mark conducted our very first painting class and continues to teach here on a monthly basis. Each class begins with a college level education in art history and the Renaissance masters who gave birth to Impressionism as an art form.
Becky Jones spent 33 years in Dinwiddie, Va before moving back to her home town in Belhaven and now lives in Pantego. She specializes in acrylics and enjoys painting birds, flowers, and animals in particular. Finding joy and inner peace in the creation, she spends 3-5 hours a week perfecting her wonderful talent. Becky is a student studying impressionist oil painting.
Carolyn Jones, another Hyde County native, is a hand crafter of fine jewelry currently working with granite stones to incorporate into her necklaces. She is a self-taught artist who has been at it for about 4 years, exhibiting in arts and craft shows on a regular basis. She sometimes spends most of her day on projects, when her health allows, and enjoys the benefits of having something to do; and we are pleased to gain the benefit of her gifted talents.
Andy Mann is tracing his Native American heritage to a tribe on Lake Mattamuskeet. He has an innate talent for woodworking and specializes in model boat building. Andy will build one to your specifications up to 4 feet in length and color to your preference. His goal is to become a full time professional artist.
Karen Midgett lives in Stumpy Point (Dare County) about 10 miles from the Hyde County line and is a professional in fused glass using her finds from the shores of the Pamlico Sound.
Pearly Moore, from Engelhard, is a great grandmother and accomplished basket weaver, a craft she learned while living in Fayetteville years ago.
Tom Phillips is probably out on a boat somewhere moored in some quiet bay writing his book after having put down his paintbrush. Tom is a talented, self-taught artist and his numerous paintings grace the walls of the gallery and Studio. His specialty is acrylics, mostly of landscapes near and far and his eye for catching natural light is quite remarkable.
Laura Hayes Rodrigues resides in Engelhard and is a young mother of 2. A true multi-media artist and instructor, her works include painting, faux stained glass and scratch-art, all original designs. She maintains a robust business on FaceBook. When asked how much time does she spend at it?, she replied, "Too much!", working until 1:00am almost nightly. Laura also did our store front and studio lettering.
Staci Sawyer's mom still lives near her native Scranton community. After graduating from East Carolina University, she settled in Raleigh as a full time jewelry artist working primarily in sterling silver. Her successful business is known as Juniper Bay Metals (www.juniperbaymetals.com).
Carolyn Sleeper is a very successful clay artist from Washington, NC and has taught many classes here. Her popularity as a teacher is exceeded only by her delightful personality. She is the owner of Slatestone Studio and is known for her whimsically styled, hand-built clay creations
Rene St. Hilaire resides in Raleigh. She and her husband have bought land on the shores of the Pamlico in the Scranton area where they eventually plan to move. Rene works in acrylics with Hyde County as her subject matter.
Judy Swindell lives in Fairfield but came from Virginia. Her specialty is water colors capturing wildlife and still life subjects, but you may find her talented hand on local mailboxes by special order. She says she mostly enjoys painting because it's realistic and relaxing. Quilting is another craft that she has mastered, making quite a few for the family. At the age of 9 she began painting with watercolors and has been back at it for more than 11 years learning the basics from Pat Boyd of Washington, NC


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Three media and entertainment veterans have launched BRaVe Ventures, a new enterprise aimed at identifying new technologies that are changing how people consume digital media. The firm was co-founded by Jesse Redniss, a former USA Network executive; David Beck, an executive at Spanish-language station Univision; and Gary Vaynerchuk, a prolific angel investor with early-stage bets on Twitter, Tumblr, Uber and other startups who recently launched his $25 million VaynerRSEfund for seed investing. "The entire ecosystem is in flux," said Mr. Redniss. "Content consumption is changing, and today it's a whole new paradigm."
ALSO IN TODAY'S VENTUREWIRE (subscription required):
Udacity has raised $35 million, the latest e-learning startup to raise funding in a growing sector that has seen hundreds of millions invested in a bid to redefine the way people learn. Drive Capital led the round, with participation from existing investors including Andreessen Horowitz and CRV.
Massdrop, which combines e-commerce and bulk discounts with "enthusiast" communities online, has raised $6.5 million in Series A funding led by Mayfield Fund, joined by its earlier backers Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, First Round Capital and Cowboy Ventures.
Numerify, which helps chief information officers figure out how their IT operations are performing, raised $15 million in Series B funding led by Sequoia Capital, with current investor Lightspeed Venture Partners also participating.
IronSource, which has developed a platform that helps application developers distribute and monetize their apps, has turned to Chinese, American and European investors for a funding round of approximately $85 million.
WiserTogether, which provides treatment comparison software to employers and health plans, has raised $9 million in Series B financing and formed a relationship with medical-cost transparency company Castlight Health.
Inspirato, a travel club that rents high-end vacation homes, has raised $20 million in additional growth financing from new investor W Capital Partners. Prior investors Institutional Venture Partners and Millennium Technology Value Partners also participated.
Kabbage is expanding from small-business loans to personal ones, in a direct assault on Prosper, Lending Club and other online alternative loan services.
Science, a Los Angeles-based incubator, has purchased PlayHaven's mobile ad network from Upsight for more than $20 million in cash, Dow Jones VentureWire learned.
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Tiger Global Raising Another Huge Fund. Tiger Global Management has begun raising another $1.5 billion to invest in private companies, Fortune's Dan Primack reports, citing sources. The new fundraise comes just five months after it raised its last $1.5 billion pool, making it the quickest fundraising turnaround in recent memory.
Foreign Entrepreneurs Face Israeli Immigration Hurdles. Israel's tight immigration rules can make getting a work visa extremely difficult, forcing many foreign entrepreneurs to live and work below the radar, often with nothing more than a tourist visa, reports the WSJ's Amir Mizroch and Orr Hirschauge. That means they have to leave the country every few months to renew the visa–more often than not, driving to the Jordanian border and back.
Google X Founder Sebastian Thrun Departs. The founder of search giant Google's factory to develop and build "moonshot" technologies, who launched the company's driverless car project and was the project lead on Google Glass, is no longer a VP and fellow at the company, TechCrunch reports. Thrun also co-founded and currently runs online education startup Udacity.
Another New Health IT Accelerator Opens. Sometimes, it seems like the health IT sector has as many incubators and accelerators as it does startups to enroll in them, VentureBeat reports. Clinical software vendor Athenahealth has opened a new one, called the "More Disruption Please (MDP) Accelerator."
Venture Debt Giant WTI on Dangers Ahead. The 34-year-old venture debt firm Western Technology Investment has seen a few cycles, and its CEO, Maurice Werdegar, talks to StrictlyVC about the current landscape. Among the interesting tidbits: The firm has done deals with companies right out of Y Combinator, and many of the deals it's doing are with seed syndicates.
Why Twitter and Facebook Suddenly Want to Handle Your Money. In the space of a recent week, both Twitter and Apple made major announcements about payments, and Facebook has been beta-testing its own "buy" button, which shows up next to posts and ads, allowing users to complete a purchase without ever leaving the network. So what's behind this race to payments and why do social networks now want in? Ryan Holmes, founder of HootSuite Media, offers some thoughts in a blog post for WSJ's Accelerators blog.
Clinkle Finally Launches App. After 17 months of jokes, $30 million in funding, a talent exodus, layoffs, and product delays, Clinkle got something out the door, TechCrunch reports. Clinkle backers include Accel Partners, Andreessen Horowitz, Intel, Intuit and Stanford's StartX accelerator.


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Both of my books reviewed on Uk Amazon by a text book editor, and both with 5 stars: 5.0 out of 5 stars
The Luck of the Weissensteiners, 29 May 2013 This review is from: The Luck of the Weissensteiners (The Three Nations Trilogy) (Kindle Edition)
This is an extraordinarily good read which is both enjoyable and instructive. It captures the predicaments of people who are displaced by war, prejudice and social hostilities with great insight. The characterisation is both finely drawn and entirely believable. The characters' experiences are set in context: the geographical and historic backgrounds are very carefully researched and accurately described. The background and the story are skillfully intertwined to make the storyline illuminating and compelling. The story is full of interest and the reader identifies readily with the characters in a most enjoyable way. At the same time we are learning about how those times really were, with all their horror but also with hope for the future and heroic actions that inspire. Strongly recommended for anyone who likes their fiction in the historical context.
5.0 out of 5 stars Sebastian, 29 May 2013 This review is from: Sebastian (The Three Nations Trilogy) (Kindle Edition)
Sebastian is the second the Three Nations Trilogy; the first book, The Luck of the Weissensteiners, was set in the 1930s and World War 2. Sebastian opens in 1913 and follows him and his family through World War 1 and into the post-war period. Both books have as their themes, identity, nationality and borders. Set as they are in central and eastern Europe, they highlight the instability of life there in the first half ot the 20th century, the rapid shifts and power struggles and the extreme effects on individuals who are facing serious difficulties in holding onto a normal life of any kind. Eastern Europe was truly a melting pot at that time. Fischer has described the background wonderfully well and very accurately but he never becomes tedious. As with the Weissensteiners, deft characterisation ensures that the reader empathises with each individual family member. The book explores the reactions of the characters to extreme duress and shows how they may err but also how they retain a capacity for helping each other and doing the right thing. The author really appreciates the social pressures of the early 20th century: the adoption of more liberal attitudes since that time can obscure our view of the way life was then, but this book is brilliantly and clearly set in the real social scene of the time. The storyline starts quite slowly but quickly gathers pace. This makes it a very good read and leaves the reader with a strong sense of the realities of the period. Comment Comment | Permalink


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For some, it's been pretty hard-going for the last month, ever since the time of the Spring Equinox (23rd September). We are in a time of releasing old patterns and gaining new insights - particularly about our relationships (to others and to ourselves). Last night's Full Moon in Aries was the second Aries Moon and because of this, the energy was amplified. It's very unusual to have two full moons in the same sign consecutively. The Fire of Aries combined with being in the sign of Scorpio (Water) can often bring up feelings of anger, fear or melancholy. These 'shadow' emotions tie in with this time of the Dark Goddess as Venus is in retrograde until 19th November - so hang in there! I love that Queen Elizabeth I wore the emblem of the Phoenix over her Solar Plexus. The Phoenix is a totem associated with the sign of Scorpio representing rebirth and emerging triumphant from the flames of dark times.
Instead of fighting the Shadow or Dark Goddess within ourselves, try to embrace this time of change as an opportunity for growth and liberation. I find the Goddess Medusa to be particularly good to work with feelings of anger and frustration. And what is the Goddess Venus trying to tell you about the relationships or lack of relationships in your life? What relationship patterns are you noticing at this full moon? Create a list of relationship experiences that you can now take responsibility for (well at least half, hey?!) and then say goodbye to them and thank them for all that they have taught you. Now you are ready to create a wish list for the kind of relationships you are getting ready to embrace! Go for it, don't hold back.
For those of you who are still feeling ties to old partners or behaviours and need to cut energy ties to the past, you can EMAIL ME to receive an exercise to consciously release yourself from etheric and energy ties.
The energy of the full moon will still be strong tonight so use this time to consciously create change and manifest the joy and abundance you truly deserve.


text: IBM unveils first Linux-only mainframes ARMONK, N.Y. (Reuters) - International Business Machines Corp. Friday said it is launching its first mainframe computers that will only run Linux, saying the alternative operating system is gaining ground as companies tighten purse-strings in the tough economy. IBM said the two new machines, the iSeries for small businesses and the more powerful and costly zSeries, can replace racks of smaller server computers made by rivals like Dell Computer Corp. and Sun Microsystems Inc. ``This is really a first for IBM. It is the first time we are introducing new mainframe technology designed for Linux and server consolidation. This is really the first pure Linux mainframe,'' Peter McCaffrey, director of product marketing for the machines, said in an interview. The support for Linux comes as IBM is seeing a resurgence in mainframe sales. IBM mainframes, large, multi-processer machines, ruled the computing world in the 1960s and `70s but were usurped by cheaper PCs and servers. Yet IBM says the business is once again booming as companies find it is costly to link dozens or even hundreds of servers together to meet their corporate networking needs. The Armonk, New York-based company says its eServer zSeries mainframes have been the fastest-growing platform in the industry and the only one to post five consecutive quarters of growth. IBM has offered Linux as an alternative platform on its mainframes for some time, and says Linux accounts for 11 percent of the computing capacity, as measured in millions of instructions per second, it shipped in its last quarter. But the new products are its first Linux-only mainframes. ``It (Linux) is becoming an important and growing part of the overall mainframe business. Many IT organizations are cutting costs, and what they found is they can use the mainframe to cut costs by sweeping the floor of the Dell-Intel or Sun-Unix servers,'' McCaffrey said. The lower-end iSeries could replace up to 15 regular servers and would cost around $50,000, while the powerful zSeries could replace hundreds of servers and would cost about $400,000, McCaffrey said. He said that compares with an average mainframe cost of about $750,000. The mainframes would also be configured so technicians with little or no experience on traditional IBM mainframes could easily set them up, McCaffrey said. ``It does allow us to reach different customer sets and different audiences that we couldn't reach with traditional full-blown mainframes,'' McCaffrey said. ``We've really hidden and eliminated the complexities sometimes associated with that and made it more of a load-and-go package.''


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Community Development Committee Agenda
Standing Committee of the City Council, Minneapolis, Minnesota
Regular Meeting
September 24, 2013
1:30 p.m. - Room 317 City Hall
NOTE: All cellular telephones and electronic devices to be switched to a non-audible function during Council and Committee meetings.
Committee Members Present: Council Members Goodman, Quincy, Reich, Lilligren, Gordon (quorum 4)
Committee Members Absent: Council Member Samuels.
Council Committee Coordinator: Irene Kasper (612) 673-2219
Community Planning & Economic Development (CPED)
1. Year 2012 METP Partners of the Year Awards:
METP Youth Program Award and Adult Program Partner Award.
Staff Report: METP Partners of the Yr RCA
Action Taken: Youth Partner of the Year award presented to HIRED and Adult Partner of the Year presented to East Side Neighborhood Services.
Consent Items
2. Greater Metropolitan Housing Corporation (GMHC):
Approve extension of the $750,000 line-of-credit with GMHC to 7/31/2016.
Staff Report: GMHC Extension RCA
Action Taken: Approved.
3. Lowry Ave Corridor (Stinson Blvd NE west to Theodore Wirth Pkwy) and Penn Ave N Corridor (49th Ave N & Osseo Rd south to I-394) Cooperative Agreement:
Authorize Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with Hennepin County for multi-jurisdictional coordination of redevelopment efforts on the Lowry Ave corridor and the Penn Ave corridor and delegate authority to determine compliance with the MOU to the CPED Director.
Staff Report: Lowry-Penn Corridors MOU RCA
Action Taken: Postponed.
4. Hi-Lake Triangle Apartments (2230 E Lake St):
a) Approve appropriation to establish the CPED Fund 01CTA – Hi-Lake Triangle with initial appropriation of $5,000;
b) Approve increase in CPED Common Project Reserve, $425,000; Approve increase in CPED Common Project Uncertified, $425,000, & increase revenue source;
c) Authorize loan of $425,000 in Transit Oriented Development (TOD) Program funds to the Hi-Lake Triangle Apartments Project;
d) Authorize Easement Option Agreement;
e) Approve resolution rescinding Modification No. 122 to the Common Development and Redevelopment Plan and Common Tax Increment Financing Plan, and authorizing administrative amendments to the Hi-Lake Triangle Apartments Tax Increment Financing Plan and Modification No. 23 to the Model City Urban Renewal Plan (Also in W&M/Budget).
Staff Report: Hi-Lake Tri Apts RCA; Hi-Lake Tri Apts EX1; Hi-Lake Tri Apts EX2; Hi-Lake Tri Apts DFC MEMO
Action Taken: Approved.
Council Member Johnson
5. Public Realm Advisory Committee:
Consider resolution establishing the committee and appointing representatives, with related actions (Postponed 9/10/2013).
Staff Report: Public Realm Advisory Cmte RESL; SUBSTITUTE RESL
Action Taken: Approved substitute resolution entitled "Creating and appointing representatives to the Park Committee (PC) and related actions."
Notice: A portion of this meeting may be closed to the public pursuant to Minnesota Statutes Section 13D.03 or 13D.05.
Next Committee Meeting: 10/8/2013
Committee actions referred to the next City Council Meeting: 10/4/2013
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GALVESTON, Texas - One person is dead and another has been hospitalized after an accident on the Seawall in Galveston on Sunday.
Galveston police said a red Ford pickup truck crossed over fives lanes of traffic before it hit two people who were standing in the 2300 block of Seawall Boulevard just after 7 a.m. The truck then drove over the seawall, coming to rest on the sand below.
Witnesses told police the driver had been traveling on 21st Street before he turned right on the Seawall Boulevard, picking up speed as he crossed over all of the lanes.
Police said Kevin Wade Wilson was driving the pickup. The 49-year-old is charged with manslaughter and aggravated assault. Both charges carry a combined bond of $750,000.
Wilson was transported to John Sealy Hospital for minor injuries. Authorities said Wilson is on probation for a previous narcotics conviction and they are investigating to see if he was intoxicated at the time of the accident.
Raphael Flajole, 62, died at the scene. Police said he is from Lake Orion, Michigan, and was visiting Galveston with family. Local 2 has learned Flajole is the brother of a Galveston priest and was in Texas with other family members to celebrate the 50th anniversary of his brother's ordination.
The other pedestrian, identified by Galveston police as Shane Sabala, 48, was rushed to the hospital and is listed in stable but serious condition.
Witnesses watched as a heavy-duty tow truck hoisted the Ford back to street level following the investigation.
"It's a sad, sad situation. I have been here my whole life and I think I can count on my head maybe twice I've seen that, but nothing as tragic as this. It's awful," said Kevin Martin.
The Texas Department of Public Safety and the League City Police Department assisted Galveston police at the scene.
"The combined and swift response from agencies around the county including the Galveston Police Department, Galveston Island Beach Patrol, Texas DPS and the League City Police Department, along with assistance form The Jesse Tree, a community assistance organization, is a testament to how we can come together in the face of this tragedy to serve and provide for the citizens and guests of our island," Galveston Police Chief Henry Porretto said.
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Dan Rayburn / StreamingMediaBlog.com:
Here's How The Comcast & Netflix Deal Is Structured, With Data & Numbers — There's been a lot of speculation involving the business and technical details surrounding the recent deal between Comcast and Netflix and plenty of wrong numbers and information being used.
Discussion: @numonkeys, @pkafka, @samschwartz and Daring Fireball
Nick Blake / @numonkeys: Great article about the Netflix-Comcast deal via @streamingmedia Nice work @DanRayburn - http://blog.streamingmedia.com/ ...
Peter Kafka / @pkafka: Netflix may pay Comcast ~ $12mm/year w/new deal, says @DanRayburn, who doesn't think the Internet needs saving. http://blog.streamingmedia.com/ ...
Sam Schwartz / @samschwartz: Thanks @DanRayburn for demystifying a complex topic. http://blog.streamingmedia.com/ ...
John Gruber / Daring Fireball: Netflix, Comcast, and Apple TV
Ben Thompson / stratechery:
Comcast deal is beneficial for Netflix but not for true net neutrality — e Netflix and Net Neutrality — This article is by definition very US-centric, but the general principles apply broadly — For anyone remotely connected to technology, the idea that net neutrality is an unabashed …
Discussion: Marco.org
Todd Spangler / Variety:
ABC will live-stream Oscars on web and mobile only to pay-TV subscribers in select markets — ABC Will Live-Stream Oscars to Web, Mobile Apps for First Time — But There's a Catch — Alphabet net to offer kudocast through Watch ABC apps and website, accessible only through certain pay-TV partners
Discussion: Capital New York, Broadcasting & Cable, App Advice, AppleInsider, Engadget, Mediaite, CNET, The Verge, The Wrap, MacRumors and @zseward
Aldrin Calimlim / App Advice: You Can Watch ABC's Oscars Telecast Live Stream On Your iOS Device - Or Can You?
Matt Wilstein / Mediaite: How to Watch the 2014 Oscars Online
Joan E. Solsman / CNET: Oscars to stream live Sunday, but only for some
Josh Dickey / The Wrap: Oscars Telecast Streaming Live for the First Time Ever
Juli Clover / MacRumors: ABC to Stream Oscars Live to 'Watch ABC' iOS App for Select Customers [iOS Blog]
Zach Seward / @zseward: You can only watch the Oscars online if you live in one of eight US markets and subscribe to cable http://variety.com/...
Todd Spangler / Variety:
ABC Signs On to Twitter's Advertising Program, Starting With #Oscars
ABC Signs On to Twitter's Advertising Program, Starting With #Oscars
Discussion: @twitterads and The Next Web
Twitter Advertising / @twitterads: We're excited to announce a partnership with ABC for @TwitterAmplify! First program kicks off Sunday for the Oscars: http://variety.com/...
Janko Roettgers / Gigaom:
Hulu is selling its Japanese service to Nippon TV — Hulu Japan is being acquired by the local broadcast giant Nippon TV. Hulu CEO Mike Hopkins announced the move in a blog post, which read in part: … Hopkins said that the service had grown to a size where a sale to a strategic buyer made sense.
Discussion: Hulu Blog, Home Media Magazine, CNET, Broadcasting & Cable, VentureBeat, TechCrunch, Variety, Hollywood Reporter, Reuters, Los Angeles Times, The Next Web, Engadget and Re/code
Mike Hopkins / Hulu Blog: An International Update From Hulu in Japan
Erik Gruenwedel / Home Media Magazine: Hulu Sells Hulu Japan
Tom Cheredar / VentureBeat: Hulu sells its 'Hulu Japan' service to Nippon TV
Todd Spangler / Variety: Hulu Japan to Be Acquired by Nippon TV
Natalie Jarvey / Hollywood Reporter: Hulu Sells Japanese Business to Nippon TV
Richard Lawler / Engadget: Hulu sells its Japan operations to a local broadcaster, licenses brand name and tech
Peter Kafka / Re/code: Hulu Sells Japanese Business to Nippon TV
Peter Kafka / Re/code:
Amazon Talks to Music Labels About a Streaming Service — Amazon gives away movies and TV shows to people who join its Amazon Prime subscription service. When will it start giving away music, too? — Maybe this year. People have been predicting that Amazon would offer a Spotify …
Discussion: VentureBeat, Good E-Reader, AppleInsider, The Verge, Engadget, 9to5Mac, MacRumors, Mashable, App Advice and The Next Web
Tom Cheredar / VentureBeat: Amazon may launch an Amazon Prime Music streaming service
Michael Kozlowski / Good E-Reader: Amazon Developing a Prime Streaming Music Service
Sarah Silbert / Engadget: Amazon is reportedly working on a music-streaming service
Jordan Kahn / 9to5Mac: Amazon in talks w/ labels for new music streaming service as Pandora hits 250m users
Juli Clover / MacRumors: Amazon May Add Streaming Music to Prime Service
Jason Abbruzzese / Mashable: Amazon in Talks to Begin Streaming Music
Alex Hern / Guardian:
Google fights court-ordered takedown of anti-muslim video — 'Innocence of Muslims' actor succeeds in copyright claim in San Francisco ninth circuit court — Google is fighting a US court's demand that it take down a trailer for an Islamophobic movie called Innocence of Muslims due to a copyright claim.
Discussion: Los Angeles Times and Techdirt
Eriq Gardner / Hollywood Reporter:
Secret 'Innocence of Muslims' Order Caused Google to Go Ballistic
Secret 'Innocence of Muslims' Order Caused Google to Go Ballistic
Discussion: Plagiarism Today, Technology & …, New York Magazine, Techdirt, @grimmelm, @mrpolyatheist, @evacide, @blogdiva, @maira, @flohmann and Electronic Frontier Foundation
Jonathan Bailey / Plagiarism Today: The Troubling 'Innocence of Muslims' Ruling
Venkat Balasubramani / Technology & Marketing Law Blog: In Its "Innocence of Muslims" Ruling, the Ninth Circuit is Guilty of Judicial Activism-Garcia v. Google
Adam Martin / New York Magazine: YouTube Ordered to Remove Innocence of Muslims, at Actress's Behest
Mike Masnick / Techdirt: Horrific Appeals Court Ruling Says Actress Has Copyright Interest In 'Innocence Of Muslims …
James Grimmelmann / @grimmelm: It gets much, much worse. The injunction issued a week ago, UNDER A GAG ORDER. Unbelievable. http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/ ...
GodHatesFAQs / @mrpolyatheist: Google called the order removing Innocence of Muslims a "classic incursion on the First Amendment" http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/ ...
Eva / @evacide: Just when I thought the "Innocence of Muslims" case couldn't get any weirder: http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/ ...
Liza Sabater / @blogdiva: I AGREE A PERFORMER'S COPYRIGHT SHOULDN'T TRUMP FAIR USE http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/ ... but "IP per creative worker " has HUGE DMCA implications
Maira Sutton / @maira: Absolutely bonkers—When Google was ordered to take down "Innocence of Muslims," the court even issued a gag order. http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/ ...
Fred von Lohmann / @flohmann: Hollywood Reporter appreciates peril to movie studios and Internet alike from Innocence of Muslims ruling. http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/ ...
Ricardo Bilton / Digiday:
Beyond tweeting: Demystifying the social media editor — While the popular perception of the social media editor is a fresh-out-of-college intern sitting on Twitter all day, the now-ubiquitous role is more complicated than that — and more important — "Twitter and Facebook have become far …
Discussion: @10000words, @crackliffe, @hashtagchad, @jaredbkeller, Talking Biz News, @antderosa, @ashleykmayo, @bydanielvictor, @joelcifer and @raju
@10000words: So what exactly does a social media editor do all day? A lot, it turns out: http://digiday.com/... (via @digiday)
Chris Rackliffe / @crackliffe: Ever wonder what Social Media Editors actually do? This is pretty spot-on: http://digiday.com/... (via @Digiday)
Chad Coleman / @hashtagchad: Preach! MT @AshleyKMayo: Perception of a SM editor is intern staring at Twitter all day. Role is WAY more complex: http://digiday.com/...
Jared Keller / @jaredbkeller: TBH I mainly just tweet shade all day but w/e RT @AntDeRosa: Not dead yet: demystifying the social media editor http://digiday.com/...
Anthony De Rosa / @antderosa: Not dead yet: demystifying the social media editor http://digiday.com/...
Ashley Mayo / @ashleykmayo: The perception of a social media editor is an intern staring at Twitter all day. The role is WAY more complex: http://digiday.com/...
Daniel Victor / @bydanielvictor: "Social media editor" means totally different things for each news org. I explained a little about the @nytimes team http://digiday.com/...
Joel Pavelski / @joelcifer: Social media editors differ at every pub, but here @bydanielvictor @margafret @HeyVeronica explain their roles a bit http://digiday.com/...
David Sirota / PandoDaily:
MPAA response to Pando investigation confirms strength of visual-effects workers case against Big Hollywood — Last night, the Hollywood Reporter published a rewrite of Pando's recent scoop about the Motion Picture Association of America. The piece reviews what we originally reported …
Discussion: Variety and Hollywood Reporter
Ted Johnson / Variety: Film Czar Ken Ziffren: L.A. Is In A 'Bad Spiral' Of Loss Of Movie, TV Production
Madison Gray / Poynter:
Detroit news outlets join forces in reporting from the grass roots — A long worn-out joke about Detroit goes something like this: "The last one out of the city, please turn off the lights." — It's a tired jab at a city that has taken more than its share of punches for its seemingly …
Discussion: @poynter
Casey Newton / The Verge:
ShowYou update turns viral videos into a personalized iPad TV channel — For all the great videos on the web, picking which ones to watch has never been much fun. Sites like YouTube and Vimeo suggest related videos for you to watch, but often require a lot of decision-making on your part.
Nicoletta Pittner / American Press Institute:
Why fact-checking is the root of journalism: 8 good questions with PolitiFact's Angie Drobnic Holan — Angie Drobnic Holan is top editor in charge of PolitiFact, a news unit within the Tampa Bay Times organization. She sees fact-checking as a part of journalists' mission to hold politicians accountable.
Discussion: @tglaisyer and @niemanlab
Tom Glaisyer / @tglaisyer: Why fact-checking is the root of journalism: An interview with @PolitiFact 's @AngieHolan http://www.americanpressinstitute.org/ ...
Lucia Moses / Adweek:
Food & Wine Launches New Brand for Millennials — It's debatable whether millennials are special, but one thing is certain: Their relationship with food is. They want it to be authentic, they want to know how it was produced, and they want it to be a shared experience, preferably involving small plates eaten at communal tables.
Discussion: @leoburnett and @qualityrye
Leo Burnett / @leoburnett: Food and Wine launching new brand for millennials, a generation (says @Adweek) that consumes food in a specific way http://www.adweek.com/...
Ken Doctor / Nieman Journalism Lab:
Tribune and Time Inc. spinoffs face uncertain future as parents strip digital assets, add debt — The newsonomics of the print orphanage — Tribune's and Time Inc.'s — Talk about spin. Two of America's once-iconic publishers are about to be spun. Spun off, that is …
Jason Abbruzzese / Mashable: Ahead of Spinoff, Time Inc. Faces an Uphill Climb in Digital
Joshua Benton / @jbenton: "Given the structure of the Tribune deal, that newspaper spinoff might as well declare bankruptcy on day one" http://www.niemanlab.org/...
Craig Saila / @saila: Print spin-offs will mean job losses, says @kdoctor—I wonder what it'd look like if they only kept the journalists? http://www.niemanlab.org/...
Agence France Presse:
Hong Kong journalists vow not to be intimidated by savage attack on Kevin Lau — Hong Kong journalists have vowed not to be intimidated by a savage attack on a veteran colleague that has stoked fresh concerns for media freedom. — Kevin Lau - former editor of the liberal newspaper Ming Pao …
Discussion: Poynter, Wall Street Journal, Committee to Protect … and The Global Muckraker
Sandra Oshiro / Poynter: Hong Kong journalists, students rally against intimidation after knife attack on editor
Joseph Lichterman / Nieman Journalism Lab:
Cut loose by UC Berkeley, hyperlocal site Mission Local looks to spin off as a for-profit — Five years ago, in the worst days of the economic collapse, Len Downie and Michael Schudson wrote their benchmark report "The Reconstruction of American Journalism," attempting to chart a course forward for a news business in trouble.
Discussion: Nieman Journalism Lab, UC Berkeley Graduate School …, @niemanlab and Mission Loc@l
Lance Knobel / Nieman Journalism Lab: J-schools: Success in news today is about a lot more than reporting and writing
Chuck Harris / UC Berkeley Graduate School …: Edward Wasserman — Students: … Dean of School: — Permanent Faculty:
Nieman Lab / @niemanlab: One of the brightest stars of the teaching hospital model for j-schools is being cut loose to fend for itself http://www.niemanlab.org/...
Lydia Chávez / Mission Loc@l: Mission Local Will Become Independent
Don Clark / Wall Street Journal:
Dailymotion Tries Original Shows In Bid for U.S. Viewers — Less than a year after French officials scuttled a plan for Yahoo to acquire a majority stake in Dailymotion, the Paris-based video site is accelerating efforts to attract more viewers from the other side of the Atlantic.
Discussion: The Wrap, Tech Times and @erichschwartzel
James Crugnale / The Wrap: Dailymotion Launches Original Programming With First Series 'Feedback Kitchen' Featuring Mario Batali
David Jones / Tech Times: Microsoft plans to challenge YouTube with Dailymotion deal: What needs to be done for this to work
Rupert Murdoch told Rebekah Brooks to make Sun more 'fun', court hears — Former editor tells phone-hacking trial that News Corp chief believed paper had become too bogged down in 'pure politics' — Rupert Murdoch made Rebekah Brooks editor of the Sun because he wanted her to make it more …
Phone-hacking trial: Brooks 'agreed payments to officials'
Phone-hacking trial: Brooks 'agreed payments to officials'
Discussion: Reuters, Guardian, @patrickjbutler and @franceshinde
Michael Holden / Reuters: Ex-Murdoch editor Brooks: 'I sanctioned payments to officials'
Patrick Butler / @patrickjbutler: Rebekah Brooks admits "balance went right out the window" in Sun coverage of Shoesmith and Baby P http://www.bbc.co.uk/... #understatement
Frances Hinde / @franceshinde: Phone-hacking trial: Brooks 'agreed payments to officials' http://www.bbc.co.uk/... What, just what was she doing meeting army chiefs?
Nick Davies / Guardian:
Rebekah Brooks 'decided not to help phone-hacking inquiry in 2006'
Rebekah Brooks 'decided not to help phone-hacking inquiry in 2006'
Discussion: New York Times
Katrin Bennhold / New York Times: Tears and Tissues as Editor Testifies in Phone Hacking Case
Willard Foxton / Telegraph:
It's only the threat of piracy that keeps the online music and TV industries honest — Streaming is rapidly becoming the way most of us consume music, film and television. Much of the best stuff is only available there, as anyone emerging from a House of Cards binge will tell you.
Discussion: @willardfoxton
Clay Shirky / Politico Magazine:
What the decline of television means for politics—and why the medium is the new message. — In the annals of political lore, the transformative effect of the 1960 debate between Richard Nixon and John F. Kennedy has a way of getting overstated. Nixon's sweaty upper lip. Kennedy's youthful vigor.
Discussion: @katyonthehill and @evgenymorozov
Katy Bachman / @katyonthehill: The sidebar is more accurate than the overblown main story: TV Is Dead. Now What? http://www.politico.com/...
Stuart Dredge / Guardian:
Spotify and Ministry of Sound settle music playlists copyright lawsuit — Playlists based on dance brand's compilations will be removed from streaming service's search engine — Dance brand Ministry of Sound and streaming service Spotify have reached an "amicable" out-of-court settlement in their legal battle over music playlists.
Discussion: Plagiarism Today, Digital Spy, Music Week and hypebot
Jonathan Bailey / Plagiarism Today: 3 Count: Controversial Takedown
Bruce Houghton / hypebot: Ministry Of Sound and Spotify Reach Out Of Court Settlement


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The Orcas Hotel is located in the remote San Juan Islands. The hotel, which was built in 1904, earned a place on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982. In 2002, the owners asked us to rehabilitate and rearrange the inn's existing second and third floor bedrooms to incorporate private bathrooms while retaining the inn's historic character and architectural value. Our work began with an existing condition assessment that evaluated the hotel's historically significant spaces, features, finishes and structure. We also evaluated options to increase ADA accessibility and energy efficiency. Our recommendations preserved the hotel's significant architectural features, such as the proportion, styling and location of the windows, yet updated the hotel with contemporary amenities. In 2004, the hotel's owners again hired us to rehabilitate the main floor of the hotel to accommodate a commercial kitchen, café, accessible bathrooms and front lobby. Here again our recommendations focused on preserving the hotels historically significant features, such as the main staircase, while increasing the structure's usability, accessibility, and safety.
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A Voice for the Wild Flowers
By Melinda Pillsbury-Foster
If the tourist's vision is distracted from the magnificent heights and vistas of the Valley looming all around them for a moment that attention focuses on the undulating meadows or even on the Yosemite Chapel that still stands just where it has been for over a century.
Yosemite has that effect on us.
It is the transcendental beauty of Yosemite that made it the focus for many in the environmental movement. Many of the first activists, Galen Clark, John Muir, among them, were inspired by that beauty and, appropriately, the first nature film was made and shown in Yosemite Valley in 1912.
This surprises most people. Firsts of all kinds are normally widely proclaimed by those involved. The reason for this oversight is understandable. The making of the first nature film was perhaps the least important factor in play at that moment in history.
The man who saw the need, built the camera, made the film, showed it to the Park Service and extracted their commitment to change policy was Arthur C. Pillsbury. He was determined to give nature, in this case the wild flowers, a voice of its own. That he was successful is evidenced by
the fact that it is images of nature that drove the environmental movement from the time he showed his first movie until today.
The world of 1912 was very different from today.
The technology of the 20^th Century was altering the values and perceptions of the 19^th . Photography would play a pivotal role throughout the century. The inventions that would take the human eye inside the cell, under the ocean, and make it possible to see a flower blooming would prove to be transformational in many ways. Photography would remake the tiny environmental movement into a major force for conservation. Pictures of the world of nature would allow nature a voice it had never had before.
A. C. Pillsbury was the determining factor in the direction of change. He was the first to see that technology could be used to change the course of history by providing more enlightened understanding of the natural world. He saw the potential that would allow nature the voice it desperately needed.
He believed the images would tell their own story.
It was in the second decade of the 1900s that America began to see the images and therefore understood the need for conservation. The environmental movement of the 19^th Century produced volumes of words about the natural world, but was attempting to swim upstream against the
tides of change that were taking Americans into the cities and suburbs and away from a day to day relationship with nature.
At the beginning of the second decade of the 20^th Century environmentalism involved only a limited elite, those who had time, money and inclination to spend time in the wilderness. Theodore Roosevelt, the president most committed to preservation, became committed to a view of conservation that included husbanding the resources of lumber and water. Trees, with their majesty and awesome size, were the horticultural focus of the work of Muir and the Sierra Club from 1906 until Muir's death in 1914. Environmentalists saw nature as something to be preserved unchanged. They saw humanity as separate. A. C. Pillsbury saw them as expressions of the same evolutionary forces. Humanity needed to be reminded of the generative power of Nature to understand its relationship with the Earth.
Sometimes the same agenda can come from different perspectives.
Muir's death came at the end of his losing battle to defend Hetch Hetchy from being dammed as a water supply for San Francisco. Muir lost that battle, deemed to be the most vigorous of his career despite his unremitting efforts and the assistance of hundreds of activists. Muir did not use images in his campaign. He relied on words, petition, and pleas to government at the state and national levels. An elitist movement had failed to move an elitist government.
There is a general tendency to credit Muir with anything having to do with conservation during the early 1900s. This is not supported by the facts. Muir's focus was on Hetch Hetchy. His horticultural attentions, where they went anywhere, were on trees. His attitude on action and on his priorities is encapsulated in this quote:
"Any fool can destroy trees. They cannot run away; and if they could, they would still be destroyed -- chased and hunted down as long as fun or a dollar could be got out of their bark hides, branching horns, or magnificent bole backbones... Through all the wonderful, eventful centuries since Christ's time -- and long before that -- God has cared for these trees... but he cannot save them from fools -- only Uncle Sam can do that."
The focus of Muir's life and of the Sierra Club was to persuade government to act to preserve places like Yosemite and Hetch Hetchy. At that point in time no one had mentioned the wild flowers that were rapidly disappearing. The wild flowers would become a test case to prove that a picture is worth many thousands of words.
It happened in Yosemite.
A small boy who watched that showing under a night sky lit with stars, enchanted as the images of a flower danced its way into bloom, flickering across the small screen hung on the porch of the Studio of the Three Arrows in Old Yosemite Village told me about how it had touched him.
When he told me about that evening the little boy, AC 's son and my father, had become a very old man, but the showing was still alive in his memory for many reasons. It had been a proud moment. This was the first time a group of people gathered and saw with their own eyes a flower blooming, an event that takes, depending on the kind of flower, hours or weeks in our time to
film. He had helped make that happen.
That first showing took place in the summer of 1912.
The man who invented the camera, made the film, and then narrated that evening's presentation was Arthur C. Pillsbury, the owner of the Studio of the Three Arrows. Later the same year A. C. Pillsbury showed the film to those who could change policy with the Park Service. One showing was
enough to do that. The impact of images was already being felt.
The technical details of how the process was originated were cataloged in Picturing Miracles of Plant and Animal Life_ by Arthur C. Pillsbury, published by J.B. Lippincott, 1937. Through the decades of the twenties and thirties lapse-time films and the many other films A. C. produced through his business, the Pillsbury Picture Co., Inc. would continue to bring alive the fascinating world of nature. His work is also collected for its superb beauty. It is easy to photograph beauty and touch the viewers heart, but A. C. Pillsbury had also touched their minds.
His films would be shown both in Yosemite and in theaters around the country as short subjects before the main showing. At first only A.C. made such films but soon it became an industry that continues to this day, moving from the big screen to the small one of television and from there on to the Internet.
A.C.'s films would also be shown as part of the lecture series that took A. C. around the world. A. C. lectured before the National Geographic Society in Washington, D. C. many times. A. C. sold his films to others so they, too, could use them in presentations. David Curry used films produced by the Pillsbury Picture Company for his own lecture tour.
A. C. addressed the Town Hall in New York, was invited to MIT and most major universities. Those who heard him said it was an experience they would never forget and most of the movers and shakers in America attended one or more of his lectures and screenings. Most Americans first saw a flower blooming and the unlocking of the mysterious, unseen life of the microscopic first in one of the films A.C. produced with a camera he built himself. A. C. had majored in mechanical engineering
while at Stanford. His films were purchased by schools and universities for their own use, as well. Many of those reels of film wore out, screened into fragments.
A. C. Pillsbury was a visionary and an activist who used cameras instead of petitions. He ignored politics as a source of frustration, choosing a path straight into the minds and hearts of the public. He was convinced that the best solution was insights from education that could evolve
into persuaded commitment on the part of the public. As an individual he lived within his limitations and he was a busy man. When we are busy we try to solve several problems simultaneously. One of the problems he needed to solve was personal.
The personal story, the 'why' remained with the small boy who grew up in Yosemite and Berkeley and went on to a career in engineering. That story did not make it into the books, it was private. My father told me about that evening after he retired from the University of California and was living with my older sister in 1990.
The porch where that small boy watched the showing was between the road and the Yosemite Chapel. It, and the entire village that once stood there, are now gone with the exception of the concrete sidewalks that line the street between the Chapel and Sentinel Bridge. In 1912 the Village was the hub for the Valley. The Studio of the Three Arrows stood at the most prominent corner at the bottom of the Village near the Chapel. The corner was a Y where the main road into the valley joined the main
street of the Village. The road into the Valley at that point ran near the valley wall and turned left into the Village in front of the Studio of the Three Arrows.
A. C.'s concern had been growing for several years. In 1912 the wild flowers were disappearing from Yosemite. He saw species vanish. The meadows, where the Evening Primrose lived, were being mowed by the Park Service, then under the management of the U. S. Cavalry. The Park Service used the small amount of 'hay' thus produced as fodder for their horses. A. C. was a student of botany and was appalled by the steady attrition and loss of entire species. He could have petitioned and written letters but instead he took stock of the tools at hand and did something else. A. C. still believed individuals could make a difference.
In so doing he solved several problems at one time and spoke volumes about how he looked at the world.
He needed a chore that his youngest son could help with that would take the boy's mind off a family tragedy that had taken place the year before, an accident in which the boy had been injured that had left him afraid of heights. Young Arthur was set up in Bridal Veil Meadow, then the closest location where they could find the flowers he wanted to photograph, with a stop watch and pencil and paper. He was told to time the motion of several varieties of flowers. For several hours a week Young Arthur did this, determining the time it took for six different species of flowers to go from bud to bloom. Over the next several months
Young Arthur fell in love with nature. He learned to climb, extinguishing his fear by learning how to scale the Ship Stone, a rock that still sits near the site of Old Village. His desire to find flowers
and careful training helped him conquer the fear of heights instilled in him by the accident.
While this was going on, in his spare time, A.C. Pillsbury, perfected the first working mechanism for a camera that allowed for the automatic exposure of film at set intervals, making the process of lapse-time for plants possible. He used Young Arthur's notes to do this. Then the
operation was moved to a shelf in the very cramped Studio of the Three Arrows and a budded plant was transplanted there to be filmed.
From Miracles of Plant and Animal Life by Arthur C. Pillsbury
"This early work was carried out as a hobby in my Yosemite Studio. Only
the most cramped space was available – the camera on a narrow shelf so
it could slid back and forth, the flower in the corner and just room to
squeeze in beside the camera to focus it and tend the flower. The
results were shown in the little evening entertainments we gave the
Yosemite tourists on our open porch. A few flowers at first, the number
increasing year by year, until all of the most distinctive ones were
pictured......One of the first reactions of seeing a reel of flowers
growing and opening was to instill a love for them, a realization of
their life struggles so similar to ours, and a wish to do something to
stop the ruthless destruction of them which was fast causing them to
become extinct."
The Studio of the Three Arrows became a learning center for Yosemite using the technology of photography in ways that were eventually copied throughout the world. The 'informal entertainments' provided in the evening for tourists became a standard still used today.
Films were shown, lectures given; questions answered; Cards illustrated with tinted photos the types of plants and flowers to be identified were sold.
The employees, A. C.'s children and their friends spending the summer in the small compound of tents clustered around the Studio, became a school for photography, botany, Sierra zoology and art. They produced the post cards, tinted the cards, practiced their photography, and learned to identify all of the plants and animals living in the Valley. At the Studio the visitor could buy a box of those botanical cards with a tinted print of the flower on one side and a description of the plant on the back. Awareness helped to build the movement for preservation, just as A. C. had thought it would.
Images, connecting directly to the emotions of the viewer, changed public opinion through education and opened up an avenue for environmentalism to the general public. Lapse-time films would become staples in Hollywood within a a handful of years, the microscopic films following soon after the invention of that camera in 1927.
Entrepreneurship, using the innovations provided by an individual moved fast.
Most of the young people who worked at the Studio of the Three Arrows were from Berkeley and Stanford. They went on to careers in every imaginable profession, carrying with them the lessons they learned at the Studio of the Three Arrows in Yosemite.
One the back of the card for the Snow Plant it says,
" Sarcodes Sanguines or Snow Plant grows up through the pine needles as
soon as the snow melts, throughout the Sierras at an elevation from four
thousand feet up. The lower fleshy, semi-transparent stalks have long
curling bracts, among which the wonderful flaming red waxen bells hang,
the whole plant looking like a glowing lighted taper in the aisle of a
cathedral. It is a saprophyte, growing in clumps. I have counted twenty
in a group."
The front of the card:
The Outcome for Environmentalism
In the wake of making the first lapse-time film of wild flowers a newly revitalized movement for conservation sprang up. A. C. had shown his film to many garden clubs throughout California and especially around Berkeley in Northern California near the Pillsbury home; it had an impact. Women's groups began asking for protection for wild flowers. Then as today, it was the images, not words, that made this possible.
The year after he introduced the first film of a flower blooming another problem introduced itself to his attention. This time it was the economic marginalization of the Native Americans who had originally lived in Yosemite, the Miwok. A. C. began thinking about the problem because his three kids had become interested in playing Indians. A. C. had already published a book with some of the legends of the Miwok when a friend of the family who had studied the ways of Native Americans came to spend time in the Valley during the summer of 1913. She encouraged the kids to dress up as Plains Indians and for the next several years the Studio of the Three Arrows rang with play acting and crafts learned from the Miwok still living in the Valley.
Through this interaction A. C. became aware of the economic problems the Miwok faced. His solution was the institution of what was called Indian Field Days. This event took place in August of every year and brought together tourists and concessionaires to enjoy a series of games with prizes and the opportunity for the Miwok to sell their baskets, a craft that provided badly needed income. A. C. became the chief organizer for all of the entertainments that drew people to Yosemite.
All of the photographic concessionaires took pictures of the Indians. They then sold prints to tourists thus making a profit. But it was A. C. who thought about how the problem faced by the Miwok, in the face of progressive policy that ignored their heritage, their needs, and their dignity, could be surmounted.
We now understand the impact that compelling visuals can have on events. Vietnam and other major events have proven that public opinion shifts fastest on images. Visuals drove the culture of the last century. Visuals are still the most potent medium for change, now at the beginning of the 21^st . Consider for the moment the impact of the photos from the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq as opposed to the written reports. It is the visuals that evoke our outrage, our sympathy and our action. In 1912 A. C. already understood very well. Others had been working, talking and writing. A. C. supplied the visuals.
A.C.'s earlier career included years as a photo journalist. He had recorded the first fraternity Rush at Stanford University, chronicled the opening of the mining towns in the Yukon with a panorama camera he built while still a student at Stanford in 1896. He took the panoramas of the burning of San Francisco that made vivid and real to the world the destruction of that great city. Those became the images published every where that brought the reality home to humanity. A. C. would use
the profits from the San Francisco photos to buy his studio in Yosemite.
Images tell the story; they penetrate our minds and and emotions, staying with us, changing how we view the world and events. Images far more than words move us to action. The story of the wild flower, its struggle to live, its beauty and endurance, first became real for humanity on the porch of the Studio of the Three Arrows in Yosemite.
Seeing was believing.
A.C. helped others learn his techniques, always glad to share. He made his inventions available to everyone, refusing to patent them. This included the lapse-time camera for photographing flowers, the X-ray motion picture camera (1917), the microscopic motion picture camera (1927), and the underwater motion picture camera (1930). This was not ignorance but evidence of his personal commitment to education.
These became tools for Hollywood almost immediately. Hollywood knew a
good thing when it saw it.
A. C. said in a magazine article printed in Sunset Magazine in the spring of 1927 written about the development of his microscopic motion picture camera, " I believe this discovery will be of inestimable value in bacteriology and probably will lead to much greater knowledge of
communicable diseases, their cause, prevention and cure." Then he added: "This invention is to be dedicated to educational purposes. I could not think of even attempting to make money out of it. I will not commercialize it." The writer, H. H. Dunn, went on to say, " That is the attitude of the Californian who, saying he is not a scientist, yet has made one of the most important contributions to the science of medicine."
The applications would prove to be endless.
A. C.'s goal was to solve problems, giving scientists and the public better tools for understanding the world around them. He had been invited to Berkeley to finish the development of the camera whose images proved to be transformational for that generation of scientists. His ability to see the application for innovations to solve problems was one aspect of the lesson his life offers. The second is his willingness to share, thus enriching the world with images that have become our common heritage. Individuals can solve our problems if they have the freedom and desire to do so.
The lapse-time camera was one step in a logical progression through the life and work of one man. As Margaret Mead would say a few years later, "A small group of thoughtful people could change the world. Indeed, it's the only thing that ever has." The individual is the smallest group of
people. Sometimes that is all it takes.
Clearly, A. C. did not rest on his laurels. He moved on to other projects. For him there were always more things to do, enough to fill several life times. In refusing to patent his inventions he believed he was making them most available to the world. He was also following the rules by which he had been raised, to serve others and society. That probably seems naive today. It isn't really. It is still the right thing to do when it is what we choose for ourselves.
The innovations of A. C. Pillsbury provided the tools that were used by him and others to transform the way we see the physical world and ourselves. They accomplished the goals seamlessly. They provided insights into disease and cures. They were used by the entertainment Industry to make countless movies that helped formulate our views of the world in which we live; Hollywood also used them to connect us to worlds of the imagination. His inventions were and are used in schools from
primary to graduate all over the world every single day.
His inventions took the words on the page and converted them into images that touched us emotionally. When you go to the theater and see the worlds beyond our eyes now you will know how and where the means were created. A. C. Pillsbury was a man who rejected the idea that government
had all the answers. He believed the answers were with individuals – and he was right.
When you drive by the Chapel in Yosemite now you will know what happened there and why it matters.


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SAN JOSE, Calif. — EBay Inc. said Tuesday it is sending notices to sellers hawking recalled items, warning that they could be kicked off the Web site and may have to forfeit their fees.
The San Jose-based company, which listed 559 million items worth $14.46 billion last quarter, is also asking shoppers to be extra diligent about e-mailing or talking directly to sellers, and it's providing links to the government's database of recalled goods.
The warnings come after Mattel Inc. and smaller toy makers issued several high-profile recalls over the past few months involving at least 21 million toys because of concerns about lead paint or tiny magnets that could be swallowed.
On Tuesday, a random check showed 111 listings on eBay for Thomas & Friends Wooden Railway, made by Oak Brook, Ill.-based RC2 Corp. That product was recalled late last month for excessive levels of lead. Sellers listed more than 6,000 Mattel items, including numerous products covered by government recalls.
EBay, which said it cannot police the millions of new and used items for sale on its site, is providing a tip sheet and hyperlinks to a recall database on its product category pages and in popular forums such as the Toy & Hobbies discussion board.
It's also partnering with the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission to educate buyers about recalls.
"We see extra education as part of our responsibility in light of the recent toy recalls," said Catherine Schwartz, eBay's toy and gadget director. "Listing items on eBay which have been recalled is strictly prohibited and if the CPSC asks eBay to remove an item, we will take it down."
EBay, an online marketplace established in 1995, does not have its own inventory and prohibits numerous items but has little legal liability for products listed on its U.S. site.
Government watchdogs acknowledge they're still trying to figure out how to police and publicize recalls in the age of e-commerce.
"The rapid growth of online shopping exposes consumers to a different set of challenges in identifying potentially recalled or defective products being sold online," Acting CPSC Chairman Nancy Nord said.
EBay shares closed at $39.33, down 33 cents or less than 1 percent. In after-hours trading, they gained back 8 cents.
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