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A loss to Seattle was the destruction of this attractive old theatre in a great area. Could have lived on for years as a stage venue. Just add a stage and take off the bad front fake walls. An eyesore for years.
Is 63 weeks really the length-of-run record for a Seattle theatre?
From 1978 through its closure in 1989, the Ridgemont was operated by a local art-house chain, Seven Gables Theaters. Seven Gables was later purchased by Landmark Theaters. Prior to 1978, the Ridgemont operated as a porn theater.
Bruen, the name on the 1930 photo, also ran the 45th Street in Wallingford.
The Ridgemont property is now an apartment/retail complex, but it retains the theater name. I saw my first subtitled movie at the Ridgemont in 1957 (and also my first nude female — Brigitte Bardot!)
It kicked off the era of arthouses in Seattle, although the Varsity and the Uptown showed occasional imports but mostly from Britain. It had a stepped floor with narrow rows so leg room was terrible and there was no way to improve it without redoing the whole floor. It had a small screen that did not handle scope movies very well.
The Ridgemont Theatre seated 456 people.


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Gray whales arrive early to Whidbey Island
Hikers exploring the bluff trail at Ebey's Landing enjoyed an unexpected treat last weekend. They saw a couple of gray whales feeding about 150-feet off Perego's Lagoon in Ebey's Landing National Historical Reserve.
Orca Network founder Howard Garrett said the organization received four to five reports the afternoon of Feb. 20 that one or possibly two gray whales were feeding in the waters near the popular hiking trail.
A group of six to 12 grays makes a yearly voyage to Whidbey Island, where they feed off the ghost shrimp and other critters buried in the sandy mud of Saratoga Passage. He said the same group of gray whales appears around Whidbey Island each year. They are fixture off the shores between Penn Cove and Possession Point. They typically arrive in Saratoga Passage between March and stay until June; however, they have made longer visits in recent years.
"It's kind of phenomenal because it's really early," Garrett said of the whales' return in 2010.
He said the area around Ebey's Landing is an excellent place to view gray and orca whales. They often travel west from Ebey's Landing to feed. Another popular area to view gray whales is around Langley looking toward Hat Island.
Meanwhile, there is a new addition to the orca population in the Salish Sea, which includes Puget Sound. Garrett said the Center for Whale research reported a baby orca calf was reported off the east side of Vancouver Island. He added that since the beginning of 2009, seven orca calves have been born and they're all doing well. He theorized there may be a correlation between the positive birth rate and the number of salmon returning to rivers and hatcheries. He noted there has been an increase in the number of eligible adult orca males in Puget Sound in the last four-to-five years.
A celebration of the gray whales' return will take place Saturday, April 24 in Langley. "Welcome the Whales Day" includes a parade down Langley's Main Street. Garrett noted the city also has a whale bell that people can ring when the beloved marine mammals are visible.
Whidbey Island's Orca Network relies on people's observations to track the whales as they migrate through Puget Sound waters. If you see a whale please, report it to the Orca Network at 678-6768, or online at www.orcanetwork.org.
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A taste of the reaction to the election results, with a bunch more to come in tomorrow's paper. It's about what you'd expect - people are surprised, and generally happy to see Reichert win. There seems to be a genuine feeling that he can bring some of the unity this community has lacked.
As for my predictions below, I didn't do too bad. But I underestimated Hutto and Paris pretty badly, and I never would have thought Cousino would beat out Gibson. But when you have 521 people voting in the Republican primary it's anybody's ballgame.


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College Alumni Offices Need to Think Beyond Our CheckbooksC.C. Chapman
Recently I was sitting down with some friends and we got discussing how we were interacted with by our various college's alumni offices. Not your typical late night conversation, but it came up and became clear that most of us had the same experience.
They only contacted us when they wanted money or wanted us to attend an event.
Now, I understand that the the primary purpose of the alumni office at a college is to raise money. They do this through mailers, phone calls and by throwing lavish events to wine and dine potential donors. That is how things have always been done, so why change right?
My issue is that I wasn't one of those trust fund kids that gets to go to college.
The idea of donating upon graduation was the farthest thing from being possible. Plus, if I did make a donation it would be tiny and it was clear to me that it didn't matter to the school unless it was a sizable donation year after year.
For most graduates, the first five to ten years is a time when they won't be able to make a donation. Most are working hard just to get their career going, pay the bills and keep moving forward in the brave new world. Even a small donation might be hard and they probably are never talked to about how much any donation would be appreciated.
But, these are some of the most enthusiastic alumni you'll ever find. Leverage that enthusiasm for recruiting, events and more. Just because they can't write a major check or join any of the price-based velvet rope groups you have established don't make them feel alienated.
Most of us who graduate from college find our hearts filled with a sense of pride for our school.
Long after we've left the campus, we are proud of our time there and want to help both the school and the next generation of graduates.
I know for me, when I was able to finally make my first donation it was a major moment in my life.
It meant that I had reached a certain level of success and it felt great to be able to do something that I never imagined I'd be able to do. It wasn't a big check full of zeroes, but it was what I could do at the moment and it felt great.
Alumni offices need to start thinking beyond our checkbooks and realize that alums have more to offer than only money. They have experience, connections and knowledge that can be tapped into. Outside of their circle of friends, they may not have any idea who else around them in their company or town is also an alumni of the school.
Why would it be so hard to imagine events that give back to the alumni community? Bring in alums who can speak on a relevant topic, form mastermind groups or just get together for pure networking rather than fund raising.
How about reconnecting with alums to let them know all the services that are available to them? Make it apparent that you are not there to ask for money, but that any amount is always appreciated. Truly make the meetings about them rather than the school. They'll appreciate it and will start paying more attention.
I'd love to see more alumni networks that could be searched and leveraged in business. Most alumni would love to buy from, work with and hire other alumni. Yet, so few schools make this sort of data and networking accessible.
Too many alumni offices have put up a barrier in front of their passionate alumni that can only be broken with the writing of a check. This culture has to change if schools are going to stay relevant in the lives of their students after they graduate.
Does your school have an active and vibrant relationship with your alumni office? I'd love to hear stories of schools doing it right since I know they must be out there.


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January 4, 2013
California's Leap Off the Green Energy Cliff
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We've been watching our government stick its fingers in the energy pie for decades now... Oil and gas subsidies go back nearly a century. We've doled out an average of $4 billion to them every year since. These incentives include a variety of things like tax credits, write-offs, and royalty reductions.
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Open Casting Call For Film About Socorro Champion Baseball Team
When Jess Araujo heard about the Socorro High School Bulldogs winning the 2009 baseball championship from a family member living in El Paso, he thought it would make a great movie.
"The real story is what it took to get there," Araujo told ABC-7. "The dynamics between the coach and the players and their individual stories. There are key players that have compelling individual stories (about) what they had to go through to even be on the team."
Araujo, who was born and raised in El Paso but is now practicing law in Los Angeles, has been working on writing a script and building a team to help bring the story of the Bulldogs to the big screen. The attorney-turned-producer has been collaborating with Chris Forbes, the coach who led the team to victory. The team is now at the point where it needs people to bring the script to life.
"We're going to need male and female adults of all ages because there are going to be people who are playing the girlfriends, the team members, the coach, the families of the team members, the teachers," said Araujo.
Araujo said he is hoping to cast a "big name" actor to play the role of Forbes, but he would not elaborate on who he's talked to or even who he had in mind. When asked who he would like to see portray him on film, Forbes remained modest.
"A lot of people have suggestions," Forbes said. "In fact, they had a thing on Facebook where people were trying to say who should play me. It doesn't really matter as long as the story gets told."
The open casting call is scheduled for Saturday at Socorro High School, 10150 Alameda Ave., at 10 a.m. No experience is needed.
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LAFAYETTE- Today, detectives with Louisiana State Police were requested by the Lafayette City Marshal to investigate a shooting involving one of their agencies deputy marshals.
The initial investigation by detectives indicates that just before 3:00 p.m., a deputy marshal with the Lafayette City Marshals Office was responding to a call for assistance from the Lafayette Police Department. Officers with the Lafayette Police Department were involved in a foot pursuit with 20-year-old Devante Brown of Lafayette. Brown was a suspect in a narcotics transaction which had just taken place. The officers chased Brown to the 100 block Shamrock Drive in Lafayette.
When the deputy marshal arrived in the area, he located Brown. Brown produced a handgun and shots were exchanged between him and the deputy. Brown was struck multiple times, taken into custody and transported by Acadian Ambulance to a local hospital where he later died from his injuries. The deputy marshal was not injured in the exchange of gunfire.
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After 5 Years of Legal Gay Marriage, Massachusetts still has the lowest state divorce rate and Western Civilization is intact
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In an August 20th column for the Chicago Tribune, Steve Chapman writes,
Opponents of same-sex marriage reject it on religious and moral grounds but also on practical ones. If we let homosexuals marry, they believe, a parade of horribles will follow -- the weakening of marriage as an institution, children at increased risk of broken homes, the eventual legalization of polygamy and who knows what all.
Well, guess what? We're about to find out if they're right. Unlike most public policy debates, this one is the subject of a gigantic experiment, which should definitively answer whether same-sex marriage will have a broad, destructive social impact.
Massachusetts, Connecticut, Iowa, Vermont, Maine and New Hampshire have all decided to let gays wed.
Actually, the "experiment" has been running in Massachusetts for fully 1/2 decade now. Over three years ago I wrote a story, "Christian Right Wrong on Gay Marriage", summing up the apparent non-impact of the then-2 year "experiment". Now, we have 4 consecutive years of data. According to the most recent data from the National Center For Vital Statistics, Massachusetts retains the national title as the lowest divorce rate state, and the MA divorce rate is about where the US divorce rate was in 1940, prior to the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor.


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Normally I try to keep personal stuff off this blog, but this is super-important to me. So here goes.
This laughing, vibrant, slightly drenched lady is Randi Hower Dye, my mother in law. This picture was taken in July 2005, and on March 17, 2006 she died from breast cancer.
This laughing, vibrant, slightly drenched lady is Randi Hower Dye, my mother in law. This picture was taken in July 2005, and on March 17, 2006 she died from breast cancer.
You can't see it in the picture, but at this point the cancer had spread through her body and she had to be pushed everywhere in a wheelchair. At our wedding in November she walked down the aisle, though, and sang for the last time in public. She was incredibly gracious, and I wish I'd had a chance to know her better. I think the best thing I can say about her is that she was my husband's best friend. Not many moms can claim that of their oldest sons. When she died she left behind 6 kids and a husband, and the youngest three were 8, 11, and 15. To me, this is the saddest part of all.
So this year, in October, I'm going to walk in the Breast Cancer 3 Day in Washington DC, and I'm going to raise at least $2300, and to do that I need your help. You can go here to donate to the cause. And because I really really believe in what I'm doing, I'm going to give something back to you: when you make a donation of $25 or more, I'm going to send you a 5x7 print from my Etsy shop. I'm not making any money on these, but I want you to have a reminder of how you've given. So when you're filling out the donation form, under "personal note to the participant" write in the name of the print that you want and I'll get that sent to you. It's a win/win situation: you get an awesome picture AND the knowledge that you've helped others.


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With Catherine Zeta-Jones filming her new movie in Louisiana, Michael Douglas enjoyed some quality time with daughter Carys, 8. The father-daughter duo stepped out for dinner at Pappardella in New York's Upper West Side, where they shared a corner table. An onlooker tells us that the actor "looked in great health and seemed very engaging" with his daughter. When she got up to go to the bathroom, Douglas was greeted by other diners, and he was very patient and obliging with them.
The Twilight gang is back in Vancouver! Ashley Greene and costar Jackson Rathbone went out for a stroll, arm-in-arm, and grabbed lunch at the Cactus Club, a favorite spot. The actress was later spotted shopping along Robson Street. Meanwhile, Kellan Lutz was accompanied by AnnaLynne McCord at department store Holt Renfrew, where they browsed separately.
Were they talking wedding planning? Vanessa Minnillo enjoyed a girls' night on the patio of West Hollywood's Chateau Marmont, where she sipped white wine and listened as her friend told a detailed story. Says an onlooker: "She was definitely having fun and enjoying her 'date' for the night." Later, a suited-up male friend dropped by the table for a quick hello.
Entourage's Adrian Grenier, lunching with producer pal Peter Glatzer at the Living Room inside the W San Francisco. The actor kept it light, ordering Ahi tuna tartare with no bread, as well as chicken vegetable soup, before checking into the hotel.
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I'm pretty ignorant on the Windows subject because I haven't worked with it
in a while. Domain Admin doesn't necessarily have access to the client until
you add it in the admin group.
The other suggestion is from experience...when in doubt, reboot and clap
your hands together.
Hope I helped.
>My network environments are as below:
>1. one master server named: sapdata
>2. One enterprise domain named DNS: sapco.com & NetBIOS: sntnet
>3. All clients include Oracle, Ms Exchange and SQL machines are in a same
>domain (sapco.com)
>4. Backup Unit: HP Storage Works MSL6000
>5. SAN Storage: HP MSA 1500
>6. Backup application: Netbackup 6.0 enterprise edition with fully licenses
>for all clients and also media servers and bare metal
>I am going to explain the Sapco's installation procedure for you in following
> 1. First I logged on with local administrator account for installation.
> 2. Then I run the VERITAS NB6 installation and installed it as a master
>server and entered the license keys.
> 3. After I performed VERITAS wizard steps and configure my device, media
> 4. To installing media server for each workstation we want was one of
>our tasks that we have to do, for the aim I run the VERITAS NB6 installation
>procedure on Oracle workstation as a media server.
> 5. When I run it, I get an error message (that screen shot attached in
> 6. After I referred to administrator guide's I find out we must installed
>the core services (Authentication, Authorization) before install the master
>server so I removed the NB master server.
> 7. The core service installation of our process was in this form:
> Installing Authentication (complete model with server and client)
> Installing Authorization (complete model with server and client)
> installing Netbackup as a master server
> create a machine account for the master server with the
> following command: bpnbat -addmachine
> login to the machine account for the master server with the
> following command: bpnbat -loginmachine
> create the first security administrator with the following
> command: bpnbaz -setupsecurity sapdata
> Add the master server as a host that is authorized to perform
> authorization check with the following command: bpnbaz -allowauthorization
> at the end we try to open the Netbackup for editing access
>in master server properties but the login error occurred (the screen shot
> *Note1: to make sure of this process we did these items for two or three
>times and every time some of the configurations remain from last installation.
> *Note2: after installed Authorization in item 7 I got error message said
>that authorization service couldn't start, I find out I didn't login with
>Domain administrator so that service have a problem to start and it was
>strange thing why local administrator on this machine hasn't enough privilege
>to do this task after this matter I performed installation process with
>Domain administrator.
>Please revert back for any further information and I hope to hear from you


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quote: Only reason gold/silver are volitile at the moment is speculation. People speculate in gold and silver because they think it will appreciate in value faster then say cash, regardless of what happens to supply and demand for the actual metals. Doesn't change anything about the volitilaty of the commodity, just the price.


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I am an ecosystem ecologist broadly interested in plant ecology and biogeochemistry. Research in my lab centers on ecosystem analysis, with emphasis on the interactions between soil, water, plants, and the atmosphere that control biological communities and the cycling of nutrients. We use a variety of approaches, from large-scale manipulations to laboratory experiments and paleoecological reconstructions, to understand the resilience of plant communities and ecosystem processes to environmental changes. I am excited by integrative research questions that span levels of biological organization, particularly questions that explore the evolutionary, physiological, and ecological mechanisms that contribute to species controls on ecosystem processes.
We work on a variety of research issues including permafrost degradation and changing wildfire regimes that are important to global change and environmental policy arenas. However, lab members work on a diversity of topics that range from microbial and plant species controls on trace gas emissions to paleoanalysis of peat deposits.
B.Sc. - Villanova University 1997
Ph.D - University of Alberta 2002
Mendenhall Postdoctoral Fellow, U.S. Geological Survey 2002-2004
Several important research themes in my lab include:
Plant Controls on Biogeochemical Cycling.
Plants can have direct and indirect influences on ecosystem processes and soil environments. In boreal regions, I examine how mosses, particularly Sphagnum species, influence decomposition and nutrient cycling. In many regions, wetlands are vulnerable to invasive species invasions due to their hydrologic function. We are beginning to examine the role of invasive species on biogeochemical processes in wetlands of the Great Lakes basin.
Climate change and disturbance in boreal regions.
The boreal region is a landscape mosaic shaped by disturbances, but in many regions climate change has caused pronounced shifts in the frequency and severity of disturbances such as wildfire, permafrost degradation, and insect outbreaks. Fire has strong controls over carbon sequestration across boreal landscapes, and we are beginning to examine the influence of burning on other aspects of biogeochemistry such as mercury cycling. I am particularly interested in how fire impacts peatlands, given the large organic matter stocks that reside in these ecosystems. We also are very interested in rates of permafrost degradation, and the impacts of thaw on greenhouse gas emissions between ecosystems and the atmosphere.
Whole Ecosystem Experiments in Climate Change.
Given that many boreal regions are experiencing or will experience warmer and drier conditions, we are examining how wetland communities and biogeochemical processes will respond to changing climatic and fire regimes. We recently established a series of water table drawdown and soil warming experiments in fens in interior Alaska. This work is affiliated with the Bonanza Creek LTER site. See the Turetsky lab website for more details on this project
Selected Publications
Turetsky, M.R., B.W. Benscoter, S. Page, G. Rein, G. van der Werf, and A. Watts. 2015. Global vulnerability of peatlands to fire and carbon loss. Nature Geoscience, doi: 10.1038/NGEO2325
Turetsky, M.R., A. Kotowska, J. Bubier, N. Dise, et al. 2014. A synthesis of methane emissions from 71 northern, temperate, and subtropical peatlands. Global Change Biology, 20: 2183-2197
Klapstein, S.J., M.R. Turetsky, A.D. McGuire, J.W. Harden, C.I. Czimczik, X. Xu, J.P. Chanton, J.M. Waddington. 2014. Controls on the rate and age of methane released through ebullition from Alaska peatlands following permafrost degradation. Journal of Geophysical Research, 119: 418-431
Turetsky, M.R., B. Bond-Lamberty, E. Euskirchen, J. Talbot, S. Frolking, A.D. McGuire, E.-S. Tuittila. 2012. The resilience and functional role of moss in boreal and arctic ecosystems. Tansley Review for the New Phytologist, 196: 49-67
Turetsky, M., E.S. Kane, J.W. Harden, R.D. Ottmar, K.L. Manies, E. Hoy, E.S. Kasischke. 2011. Recent acceleration of biomass burning and carbon losses in Alaskan forests and peatlands. Nature Geoscience, 4: 27-31
Turetsky, M.R., W. Donahue, B.W. Benscoter. Experimental drying intensifies burning and carbon losses in a northern peatland, Nature Communications, in press.
Turetsky, M.R., M.C. Mack, T. Hollingsworth, J.W. Harden. Patterns in moss productivity, decomposition, and succession: Implications for the resilience of Alaskan ecosystems. Canadian Journal of Forest Research 40: 1237-1264
Turetsky, M.R., S.E. Crow, R.J. Evans, D.H. Vitt, R.K. Wieder. 2008. Tradeoffs in resource allocation among moss species control decomposition in boreal peatlands. Journal of Ecology 96: 1297-1305
Turetsky, M.R., C.C. Treat, M. Waldrop, J.M. Waddington, J.W. Harden, A.D. McGuire. 2008. Short-term response of methane fluxes and methanogen activity to water table and soil warming manipulations in an Alaskan peatland. Journal of Geophysical Research Biogeosciences, 113, doi: 10.1029/2007JG00496
Complete list of publications can be found here
Effective teaching and mentoring both in and out of the formal classroom are important components of my program. My goal as a teacher is to challenge students to think, to communicate, and to become life-long learners. I currently am teaching IBIO*6630 (Scientific Communications) and BIOL*2060 (Ecology).
Graduate Students
Graduate students in my lab are expected to identify novel research hypotheses, develop approaches to testing these hypotheses, and take advantage of opportunities and research interests in the lab. My goals as a faculty advisor are to mentor students through the scientific process, to challenge students to achieve their academic potential and meet career goals, and to encourage a creative, interactive, and fun learning environment. If you are interested in joining our research team, please view our lab website for more information on how to apply.
Current Lab Members
Dr. David Olefeldt (postdoc)
Lucas Jacob Albano (MSc student)
Natalie Zwanenburg (MSc student)
Zhichao Jiao (MSc student)
Jennifer Bernard (MSc student)
Tobi Oke (MSc student)
Dan Greenacre (undergraduate student)
Abra Miller (undergraduate student)
Arielle Garrett (undergraduate student)
Megan Nelson (undergraduate student)
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PeatNet: fostering international collaborations in peatland science
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MOUNT PLEASANT - Beginning next month, eight small groups working on ideas as diverse as high-tech toys that talk to kids through computer tablets to building a new and improved shoulder brace will begin gathering at Town Hall for a 14-week crash course they hope will help them strike it rich.
Harbor Accelerator's 14-Week course
Week 1: Who is your customer?
Week 2: Sell something to someone.
Week 3: Map out what Customer Development looks like.
Week 4: Dive into the Data - what is important for you to be tracking?
Week 5: The Team - what skill sets are needed on your team?
Week 6: From the customer's perspective
Week 7: How are you different from the competition?
Week 8: How do you tell your story?
Week 9: Pricing
Week 10: Go sell some more.
Week 11: Build a pipeline.
Week 12: Create your financial and operational plan.
Week 13: Understand raising capital.
Week 14: Tighten up the plan and go!
Dubbed the "Harbor Accelerator," the partnership between a nonprofit and town government aims to help entrepreneurs - in the words on its business cards - "stop writing a plan and start executing a business."
Harbor Accelerator mentors
Patrick Bryant, co-founder, lead mentor
Eric Bowman, founder, Sparc
Brad Ball, founder, Social Wine Bar
Adam Bernholz, founder and CEO, GreenWizard
Jim Bozard, founder, Coastal Corrugated
Dave Brown, founder, Cigar Row
Willis Cantey, founder, Cantey Technology
Cary Chastain, owner, Moe's Southwest Grill
Bobby Collins, partner, PURE
Tom Demuth, founder, IDEA LLC
Kevin Eichelberger, founder and CEO, Blue Acorn
Grady Johnson, president, S.C. Biz News
Jim Kindley, director, College of Charleston MBA Program
Gene King, partner, WRSequence
Noah Leask, co-founder and CEO, ISHPI
Robert New, founder, Charleston Port Services
Christine Osborne, founder, Wonder Works
Steve Parker Jr., partner, Levelwing
Mark Richards, founder, PolyClean USA
Geoff Shuler, retired Boeing executive
Mitch Smith, founder, Root Loud
Chad Walldorf, founder, Sticky Fingers
Tom Wilson, founder, Jack Russell Software
Adam Witty, founder, Advantage Media Group
It's the brainchild of John Osborne and Patrick Bryant, two entrepreneurs who co-founded the nonprofit and have spent the past 75 days launching it on a shoestring budget.
The idea began to form after several Charleston Metro Chamber of Commerce members traveled last year to Nashville, Tenn., where a similar accelerator takes up about 20,000 square feet of space and helps launch about 60 businesses a year.
Osborne, who also runs the business Funding Charleston, and Bryant, who has started several businesses here, said they hope to create a similar success story in the Lowcountry.
"The beauty of being an entrepreneur is we don't always know what success will look like at the end," Bryant said, "but our current goal is to take those eight start-ups and put a lot of resources on them.
"If I had to define a master goal of the Harbor, it is clearly to create a collision among entrepreneurs in Charleston and those who support them," he said. "If we create collision, then the rest will happen. Success will be there."
Filling a void
When Osborne and Bryant started their businesses in the Charleston area, they did not experience the level of support they hope to provide for the next wave.
While their Harbor Accelerator is loosely based on a similar program in Nashville, Osborne and Bryant also visited San Antonio; Richmond, Va.; and Raleigh as they were putting together their plan. They were drawn to the idea as a way to give back.
"We're entrepreneurs ourselves," Osborne said. "Patrick and I have plenty to do. We didn't need a hobby."
The nonprofit has been backed mostly by volunteer help and in-kind donations.
Here's how it will work: Each of the eight businesses will be teamed up with three mentors, with whom they will meet once a week for an hour. "That's powerful," Osborne said, adding that the idea is to pack about 18 months worth of learning into 14 weeks.
The project received 31 physical applications - and about 80 more online, including submissions from a start-up company in Colombia, South America.
It has selected a team working on new technology for shoulder braces, while another will allow a venue to receive images, sort them and display them on a main video monitor - an idea Bryant calls "Instagram meets Jumbotron."
There is also a science-technology-engineering and math toy and a software platform for teachers that would let them give the same exam to students in different ways, so that "C" might be the correct answer for Question No. 5 on one test while "A" is correct on another.
Osborne said the final few will be chosen by Dec. 15, though it's not too late for other businesses to apply, if they're ready to launch.
"We do not want a concept," he added. "We do not want to chat about an app that might be cool."
Once selected, the teams are expected to move in to their new cubicle at Town Hall and start the program, which will finish up by April 10.
Bryant and Osborne met with mentors during a reception last week, and Bryant urged them to urge the businesses to embrace risk, adding there will be other specialty experts involved to provide guidance on marketing, the law and accounting.
"We'll let lawyers talk about mitigating risks - that's not our job," Bryant told the mentors. "Here's what we want you to do: Teach them how to be fearless."
The town gets on board
When the Great Recession began, Mount Pleasant Town Council tried to revive its economy by forming its first business incubator program in 2009. The town has sought to diversify its economy and change its reputation as a bedroom community.
Dubbed Biz Inc., the program was given about 2,500 square feet inside part of the town hall complex - the newer building at Ann Edwards and Houston Northcutt. It aimed to help new businesses in a creative cluster, such as culinary arts, landscape architecture and interior design, but the town began to wind it down last year.
"The occupants of the space never quite got scalable, never located to the community," said Councilman Chris O'Neal, chair of council's Economic Development Committee. "We never had the growth that was hoped for."
The Harbor Accelerator is different for two reasons: The town isn't running it but instead is contracting with a nonprofit. Also, the point isn't to provide office space to start-ups as much as to give them an intensive four-month course to get them up and going.
O'Neal called the Harbor Accelerator's 24 mentors "a who's who of folks who have been there, done that in Charleston."
Across the Cooper River, the city of Charleston has run its Digital Corridor and Flagship incubator, which cater to emerging high-tech and digital companies.
Mount Pleasant's Harbor Accelerator is open to all types of businesses, though Osborne said it may favor ideas that align with the Lowcountry's existing economic engines, such as aerospace, tourism, food and health care. What's important is that any idea can be scaled up quickly.
"We're right up front that we want the next Blackbaud or Benefitfocus to come out of this building," he said.
It's difficult to say exactly how much the town is subsidizing the nonprofit, but Town Administrator Eric DeMoura said it has a one-year agreement to provide office space and utilities for $1 a year.
"We don't have a use for that space right now, so it's not like we've incurred a tremendous cost," he said. "If even one business is successful and relocates here - and we hope they all are - they will pay property taxes, offer jobs and other opportunities. That's worth something. It's worth more than what we're providing them here."
Bryant said the town's space is perfect because it's accessible 24 hours a day, has several restaurants within easy walking distance and has plenty of parking.
Town Councilman Chris Nickels noted this town has had mixed results with incubator projects so far, and town officials hope this will be different.
"If it doesn't work this time," he said, "I think we're about done with these things."
Future possibilities
Town Councilman Elton Carrier, a retired banker, said the sticking point for emerging entrepreneurs is getting their first loan. "Most companies can't get a bank loan initially to get going," he added. "It's just critical."
Osborne said he has reached out to venture capitalists in New York and Chicago to keep them updated about the project.
At the Nashville Entrepreneur Center, about 65 percent of the companies received an average of $800,000 for the first round of funding, Osborne said. That capital can help them rent real estate, hire people, pay for services, "and that's after just a 14-week process."
O'Neal said even if the Harbor Accelerator is only able to replicate 10 percent of Nashville's success, it will be worthwhile. Carrier agreed with the idea's merit, adding, "I just wish we could find some more space over here."
The Harbor Accelerator is expected to launch a similar 14-week program in the fall of 2014, and there could be more after that.
DeMoura said it eventually might have to relocate when the town needs that space as it builds a new Town Hall nearby. "I would hate to see a location problem damage the progress that's being made," he said.
Bryant said discussions already have begun about how the Harbor Accelerator might evolve in 2015.
Meanwhile, town officials, mentors and others will wait to see what the entrepreneurs can come up with early next year.
"The story's not written here yet. I think that's important to know," O'Neal said. "While we're excited about this . we don't know what the story is going to be. On some level, it's a leap of faith for this council that I think will be borne out."
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In 2010, there were 123 million women in the civilian noninstitutional population, and of this number 72 million, or 58.6 percent, were in the labor force—that is, classified as either employed or unemployed.
Women's labor force participation is significantly higher today than it was in the 1970s. Women's labor force participation rate peaked at 60.0 percent in 1999, following several decades in which women increasingly participated in the labor market.
The unemployment rate for women in 2010 was 8.6 percent. Of the 72 million women in the labor force, approximately 6 million were unemployed.
These data are from the Current Population Survey. To learn more, see Women in the Labor Force: A Databook (2011 Edition), BLS Report 1034, December 2011. The civilian labor force participation rate is the civilian labor force as a percent of the civilian noninstitutional population. The civilian labor force comprises all persons classified as employed or unemployed. Employed persons are those who did any work at all as paid civilians; worked in their own business or profession or on their own farm; worked 15 hours or more as unpaid workers in a family business; or were temporarily absent from their jobs because of illness, vacation, bad weather, or another reason. Unemployed persons are those who had no employment during the survey week, were available for work at that time, and made specific efforts to find employment sometime in the prior 4 weeks.
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If you've been following the recent big news about Monsanto's infamous weedkiller RoundUp and cancer, you'll have heard that industry's "dirty little secret" just got dirtier.
If you've been following the recent big news about Monsanto's infamous weedkiller RoundUp and cancer, you'll have heard that industry's "dirty little secret" just got dirtier.
Here they go again. Congress is once again considering "fast track" approval of the controversial Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) agreement. Fast track means no public hearings, no floor debate, no amendments — no civic engagement whatsoever.
The stakes are high. The TPP would be the largest trade deal in history, covering 792 million people and about 40% of the world's economy. If fast track is approved, rules affecting food and farming — among many other sectors — will be negotiated completely behind closed doors.
When more than 3,000 sustainable and organic farmers get together in one place, amazing things can happen.
I spent last weekend at the Midwest Organic and Sustainable Education Service conference — aka MOSES. From its quiet beginnings in 1990, the MOSES event has grown into the largest organic farming conference in the country. The annual gathering in La Crosse, Wisconsin has become a mainstay of Midwest sustainable ag innovation, skill-sharing and community-building.
Organic farmers who use agroecological practices build healthy soil, conserve water, protect pollinators and keep the air and water clear of harmful pesticides. We owe them thanks for this. They also produce bountiful crops.
Yesterday, these hard-working farmers received an important boost of recognition from the scientific community with the release of findings from a major new study comparing the productivity of organic and conventional farming.
Food safety matters to us all, and we all play a role in keeping food safe — from farm to fork. With the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) finalizing new food safety rules, it's critical for farmers and eaters alike to speak up and ensure the agency gets these rules right.
As our friends from the National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition (NSAC) point out, provisions in the Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) — if done wrong — run the risk of "putting farmers out of business, limiting consumer choice, and increasing the use of chemicals rather than natural fertilizers."
Before we move fully into the busy end-of-year season, it seems useful to take a moment to step back, take a breath and take stock of where we landed after the mid-term elections. Some surprisingly heartening lessons emerge.
We're all familiar with the high-level analysis by now — the very big impact of big money, ascension of climate-deniers to Senate leadership, polarization of politics, etc. But as you dig a bit deeper, a more optimistic picture comes into focus. From community pushback of corporate control to a rekindled conversation about national food policy, some very real, very hopeful shifts are in motion.
At my Thanksgiving meal with family and friends, we'll be talking about what we're thankful for. I'm very thankful to live in the resource-rich state of California, the topmost producer of fruits and vegetables in the country. And I'm thankful for the hard, often dangerous work that thousands of farmworkers do across the state to help bring nature's bounty to our table.
I'm also thankful for the growing awareness that food choices matter. People in California — and across the country — are beginning to see that choosing food grown without chemical pesticides is not only healthier for their own families, but can help protect the health of farmers and farmworkers, families in rural communities and children everywhere. This is real and exciting progress.
Today is World Food Day and around the world communities are taking a stand against hunger. But the solutions put forward differ dramatically depending on what one understands the "food problem" to be. For many, every day is World Food Day and presents both the necessity and opportunity to fight for farm and food justice; for them it is a matter of integrity and survival.
Walking past the ancient Roman Coliseum on my way to the recent International Symposium on Agroecology, the surprising twists of history were on my mind. Even a few years ago, the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization — host of the symposium — would never have organized such a meeting. "Agroecology" was considered far too radical and dangerous a concept to many in FAO who had dedicated long careers to exporting the chemical-intensive "Green Revolution" model of agriculture around the world.
Yet there I was, along with 400 other scientists, agri-food system researchers, farmers and social movement leaders, commencing an intensive two-day exchange of agroecological knowledge, science and practice in the heart of Rome.
One morning a few weeks ago, I received an email from the National Academy of Sciences' National Research Council (NRC), announcing the makeup of a provisional committee of experts that has been tasked with carrying out a comprehensive new study of GE crops. This study is supposed to assess the history of GE crops around the world, the diverse experiences of farmers in different countries and a wide range of "purported" negative and positive impacts of GE seeds and their associated technologies (for example, pesticides).
Done right, this could be an illuminating investigation, right? But as I looked over the bios provided on NRC's webpage, I quickly realized that the Council appears to have a pretty poor idea of how to carry out such a challenging, complex and multi-faceted study. In fact, this week 67 scientists and researchers publicly rebuked the NRC for failing, right at the outset, to put together a slate of experts equipped for the task (full letter here).


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COLUMBIA — A review of economic statements issued by South Carolina lawmakers and state officials has found they claimed $19.5 million in income in 2012.
The State newspaper reviewed the 179 statements and found a wide disparity in what lawmakers put in the documents. State law requires lawmakers report any money they get from public sources.
State Sen. Tom Davis reported $2.3 million in income, even including the $1.1 million value of his Beaufort home. The Republican said he benefits from money spent on roads and utilities, so he thinks it is income that should be reported.
On the other end, state Rep. B.R. Skelton, R-Six Mile, didn't even disclose his $22,900 annual legislative salary as public income. He told a reporter he did not know he was supposed to report that money and amended his filing statements for the past five years.
How much lawmakers should disclose about the money they make is a key question as South Carolina considers revamping its ethics laws. Some argue that releasing too much information will prevent some people from running for an office that is supposed to be just part-time. But lawmakers might also be able to hide conflicts of interest if the guidelines are not tight enough.
A bill that would require lawmakers to disclose the sources of all their income passed the House, but wasn't brought to a vote before the Senate. To keep pressure to change ethics laws, Sen. John Courson, R-Columbia, assigned a special committee of three Democrats and three Republicans to hold public hearings this summer and fall and study the issue.
"My fear is that concern about tightening our ethics laws could start to wane as time goes by unless we have some entity to keep it alive," Courson said.
The review of the reports by the newspaper found that state officials and lawmakers reported $4.5 million in salaries from the state. They also reported getting $7.4 million in fees from government entities, most of it in Medicaid payments or legal fees from the state Workers' Compensation Commission. Lawmakers also reported $2 million in income from family members who worked for state agencies.
But some large sums of money were not reported. State Sen. Hugh Leatherman, R-Florence, did not report the $735,000 in contracts from the state Department of Transportation given to Florence Concrete Co., which he founded in 1955 and managed until 1994. Leatherman said he doesn't think he has to report the income because he only has minority ownership of the company and does not do any day-to-day management.
The libertarian-leaning South Carolina Policy Council is joining with several liberal groups to call for lawmakers to voluntarily report all of their income. So far, 34 lawmakers have responded to the effort, but many of them already are disclosing the extra information on their statements.
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A Winning Season
George and Laura Bush Invite People to the White House to Look Back on Big Events—and to Talk About the Future
Congratulations are in order since we saw you last. So tell us, how did you celebrate your victory?
Mrs. Bush: I can't even remember back to election day [laughter].
President Bush: We had Thanksgiving together. It was the first chance we actually had to grab a moment and reflect. And, fortunately, we were there with Mother and Dad and the girls.
Mrs. Bush: And my mother.
We've heard so much about red states and blue states. Do you believe that we are truly a nation divided?
President Bush: In recent history we've had close elections. On the other hand, in my first term I was able to bring people together to reform education and the tax code, and I intend to bring people together to do big things for the country—Social Security reform, legal reform and [to] continue to work on education reforms. People are really Americans first, rather than being a Democrat or a Republican or an independent. They truly love their country. And that's the kind of spirit that makes it possible for a President, after a good, tough campaign, to govern.
This was a particularly bitterly fought race, though.
President Bush: Not really. That's what every reporter says after [every] election.
Mrs. Bush, do you see a role in bringing the country together?
Mrs. Bush: One [goal] that I'm interested in is working with kids. I read a New York Times story about how we have neglected boys. We paid a lot of attention to girls over the last 20 or 30 years, but we thought our boys could take care of themselves—and we've come to find out boys need nurturing just like girls do. I think we ought to figure out ways that organizations already doing great work—Boys and Girls Clubs and the Big Brothers/Big Sisters and churches—can pay close attention to boys. We let boys go home after school while their parents are still at work, and, you know, we might protect our girls a little bit better than that. But as we look around, we find that most of the kids who get into trouble are boys.
As Commander-in-Chief, you made the very difficult decision to send America's sons and daughters into war. How do you feel when you hear soldiers talking about scavenging for scrap metal to protect themselves?
President Bush: Our soldiers deserve the best. Obviously, if soldiers are looking for metal to protect themselves, we've got to do a better job and we will.
There are a lot of parents out there worried by Internet rumors about the return of the draft. Can you put that question to rest?
President Bush: When I met with some of the families who lost a loved one, Marine families at Camp Pendleton, a woman was there with her three young boys. She said, "Can you promise me that there won't be a draft?" I said, "I'm not going to institute the draft. We don't need a draft, and there will not be one."
You have said you support letting states choose whether gay couples can enter into civil unions.
President Bush: Right, legal arrangements.
Is a couple joined by that kind of legal arrangement as much of a family as, say, you two are family?
President Bush: Of course. But I do not believe that society is well-served by changing the definition of marriage between a man and a woman.
You're a big baseball fan. Do you want a tough steroids-testing policy?
President Bush: I do. Tough means there's no doubt in a fan's mind that the players are clean. And that's up to baseball and the players to devise that, and if they don't devise it, Congress is likely to devise a plan. The game is suffering right now, because people are losing confidence.
Do you still have confidence in Barry Bonds's 703 homers?
President Bush: I know he's a great baseball player and baseball needs to clean up its act.
You're not a vain man, and yet there is talk about every President in office aging. Do you see it when you look at pictures of yourself?
President Bush: Are you suggesting I could use a little hair coloring [laughter]? No, I haven't thought about it, I really haven't.
Your religious faith has been widely discussed. Can you tell us the last decision you made that you really thought about in prayer?
President Bush: I pray every day.
Do you ask your staff to join you?
President Bush: No, I don't. It's a very personal matter.
Mrs. Bush, during this incredibly busy year, you had to take on the task of cleaning out your family home and moving your mother to an apartment.
Mrs. Bush: Every time I had a couple of days available, I went to Midland to help my mom pack up. It was really a wonderful opportunity to have her there as we decided which things to move to her apartment or to our ranch, or which ones we got rid of. One of the things I boxed were letters—millions of letters she had written to her mother, and her mother's letters, and my letters from college. So since my mother has been at the White House for the Christmas holidays, she's been going through those boxes. It's been really fun. I am aware how important that time [together] is, even though I am really, really busy.
President Bush: You are never too busy to love somebody.
Mrs. Bush, what is it like to become caretaker to your parent?
Mrs. Bush: Well, I'm an only child. I know that if I don't take care of my mother—not take care of her, I mean, she's perfectly able to take care of herself—but if I'm not there to support her emotionally, that there won't be anybody else. And I'll tell you what you also think about at this stage, it's what your kids will do when it's you, when you're the one that needs the help. You hope they'll be there for you.... You know, it's a wonderful time, at the holiday season, to go through your life like that. We had a tradition on Christmas Eve. We would have our dinner, and then get out the old movies.
President Bush: We may resurrect the tradition.
This is the season of charity. What is your philosophy on giving?
President Bush: We give to our churches. We give to groups that are effective at providing help, a diverse group of people, organizations.
Do you try to make a conscious effort to tithe?
President Bush: It's certainly a good goal to strive for.
What would your dream jobs be, if you weren't doing this right now?
Mrs. Bush: Lying on the couch [laughter].
President Bush: This is the kind of job where you don't have time to dream. You just do your job.
Well, we'll see if you can imagine this: You get to be the U.S. ambassador someplace in the world. Which country would you choose?
President Bush: I'm not going to answer that question. When I pick one country, imagine all the headlines across the world: "Bush Didn't Choose Us" [laughter].
Mrs. Bush: I don't know about choosing a job for us to be an ambassador, but I will say that I do look forward to a time when we can travel. [As President and First Lady], our trips are always fabulous. But, you know, it's not sitting at the sidewalk cafe watching the crowds walk by.
President Bush: She's going to invent some disguise [laughter].
Mrs. Bush: He's not going to be going with me. I'll be with the girls.
Speaking of the girls, you've spent a lot of time with them in this past year. What did you learn about them?
Mrs. Bush: How much they have grown up and how much confidence they have, each of them, and how delightful
they are. We knew that, but there's a difference between being 15 and 23, in how they get along with their parents, and that's fun for us.
President Bush: I learned they can stand in front of 25,000 people and introduce their dad, which says a lot about their maturity.
Is it true they decided to get involved in your campaign after Jenna had a dream that you lost?
Mrs. Bush: I said that.
President Bush: You did? My take on all this is that the girls realized that this would be the last campaign, and that they love their dad, and that they want to participate and give it their all to help me get reelected. And I'm glad they did. It would have been horrible, frankly, for them to look back and try to explain to their kids, well, the '04 campaign was interesting, and I watched it on TV.
Speaking of the campaign, do you think the efforts of people in the entertainment community, the Brad Pitts and Ben Afflecks, actually backfired on John Kerry?
President Bush: You know what I think? I think endorsements are great to generate publicity, but no one really listens to anybody else's endorsements. Probably the one that matters most is who your parents are going to vote for, or who your spouse is going to vote for.
Do you have a favorite movie this year?
President Bush: Friday Night Lights. West Texas football. We lived in west Texas during those years when Odessa Permian High and Midland Lee, where Laura went to high school, had an intense rivalry. And it was really unbelievable. A good movie.
Mrs. Bush: I saw Vanity Fair on a weekend when George was campaigning during the high anxiety of the campaign. One of my best friends came over, and we worked out and had lunch and then watched it here in the theater, and it was a chick flick, but we both loved it.
What book are you reading right now?
Mrs. Bush: I'm reading The Kite Runner [by Afghani author Khaled Hosseini]. It's really great.
President Bush: Max Frankel's book on the Cuban Missile crisis [High Noon in the Cold War].
Do you own an iPod?
President Bush: I do. I use it mainly for when I go out and ride my mountain bike. I crank it up. Van Morrison and Linda Gail Lewis are on there [You Win Again]. It's a great album, by the way.
We've certainly seen an increase on TV of foul language and sexual titillation. Where do we draw the line?
President Bush: They put the on/off button on TVs for a reason. We're in a free society and creative people come up with all kinds of ideas to try to lure listeners. I would hope there would be a time when studios take a step back and look at what they're producing and realize the consequences. But the consumers of America can control the content by not paying attention to it.
In closing, if we meet again next year, what would you like the biggest headline to be at that time?
President Bush: "His Hair Is No Longer Gray" [laughter]. Good one, huh? [No], the world is more free, and democracy is taking hold in parts of the world that have been condemned to tyranny. And freedom is more than just democracy. Freedom is freedom from disease and from hunger, and we'll continue to lead and other nations will come. I'm looking forward to it.
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Spanning 31 songs and two discs, one covering "The Most Popular Recordings" (aka "The Hits") and one covering "The Obscure & Unknown Recordings" (aka "The B-Sides and Cover Versions"), Rhino/Elektra's 2004 compilation Campfire Songs: The Popular, Obscure & Unknown Recordings of 10,000 Maniacs is as good a career overview as could be assembled. The hits disc may miss a minor charting single like "Few and Far Between," but it has all the songs of note, from the hits to album tracks. Meanwhile, the rarities are devoted pretty much to B-side covers in addition to four previously unreleased demos, the early outtake "Poppy Selling Man," plus their cover of
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Never even heard of this... There's a gun exhibit? Where, when, details... Please.
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July 23, 2003, 11:18 PM
It's on the inside back cover of July/August 2003 Muzzleloader. It's called Three Centures of Tradition: The Renaissance of Custom Sporting Arms in America. Runs from July 12-Oct. 5, 2003.
"This exhibition will feature American gunamkers' contemporary translations of traditional European, British, and American sporting arms made between 1640 and 1940. An introductory section will also feature antique arms that served as stylistic and technological inspirations for these artists. Guest curators include gunsmith Mark Silver and Wallace Gusler, Master Gunsmith at Colonial Williamsburg."
Museum is at 2400 Third Ave. South, Minneapolis, MN 55404, 612-870-3131 or http://www.artsmia.org
July 24, 2003, 01:59 AM
I'm afraid that you are off by one state to the east. The display is in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Milwaukee is in Wisconsin.
Milwaukee is predominantely German and Polish. Rather rotund people. As you go east from Milwaukee, you get the Nordic blood. I think that Minnesota has a lot of Nodic blood. Believe me, it shows in many of their women. Anyway, a visual indication of where you are.
Minneapolis people have the Vikings and Timberwolves. Milwaukee has the Bucks and cheer for the Packers. Milwaukeeans have playoff hopes in football, Minnesotans in basketball.
Thanks for the heads up though.
4v50 Gary
July 24, 2003, 11:24 AM
Opps. My mistake and thanks for the correction. :o
Mike Irwin
July 24, 2003, 12:04 PM
Hey, it's the uppermidwest. The landscape all looks the same...
July 24, 2003, 12:11 PM
Here's a very biased review done by the left-leaning Minneapolis Star Tribune.
Review: Gun show at Minneapolis Institute of Arts misfires
Mary Abbe, Star Tribune
Published July 18, 2003 ART18
Should you be naive enough to imagine that the 65 guns now on view at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts are really just fancy-pants decorative art -- as the museum's promotional materials claim -- the gun sights will set you straight.
Angle your head just right and you can peer through the gleaming telescopic sight on the 1987 "American bolt-action rifle, Mauser" or the 1999 "American single-shot sporting rifle, Hagn action" and line up an imaginary target in the cross hairs.
You're probably not supposed to do that, because the show is framed as an exercise in history and aesthetics. You're supposed to be musing about the guns' marvelous craftsmanship and admiring the single shot's "temper-blued express sight with gold lines and a Schmidt and Bender telescopic sight in a custom-made quick detachable mount."
English-American -style (1700s) flintlock pistol
Behind the grandiose title -- "Three Centuries of Tradition: The Renaissance of Custom Sporting Arms in America" -- lurks a gun show, pure and simple. The guns date from the 1660s to today, and were custom-made for clients ranging from French royalty to contemporary collectors. Recent decades have seen a renewed interest in custom-made guns that's similar to the handicraft revival permeating everything from musical instruments and furniture to clothing and jewelry.
Some of the early guns are indeed beautifully ornamented, with gold and silver inlays and fine carving typical of 17th-and 18th-century furniture -- not surprising, because the same artisans often made furniture and weapons. The bulk of the show, however, has no such aesthetic appeal, and quickly deteriorates into a gloomy display of killing tools.
American single-shot sporting rifle, Hagn action, 1999
Most of the guns were intended for shooting game animals, birds or spinning clay discs, and there is something deeply unsettling about encountering so many of them in an art museum. There is, of course, a long tradition of art museums displaying weapons and armor as part of their medieval and Renaissance collections, notably in New York, Chicago and Philadelphia. The Minneapolis museum recently added a couple of fancy early guns to its Baroque gallery, where they sit uncomfortably amid the tapestries and paintings.
Such collections are mostly holdovers from the late-19th and early-20th centuries, when rich Americans bought antique armaments in admiration of European culture and history. The "Centuries" show expands on that tradition with contemporary pieces, including some by gunsmiths affiliated with Colonial Williamsburg.
The show is, in other words, impeccably grounded in cultural history and museum practice. Even so, it feels wrong in both time and place. Minnesota's recent gun-law changes make the museum look especially hypocritical. Like most cultural organizations, it bans guns and displays signs to that effect at each entrance. Yet the show celebrates and fetishizes certain types of guns: rich people's.
The exhibition, which the museum organized, was in the works long before the new gun law was passed, but the debate about the role of guns in American life is age-old. For an art museum to start buying and showing guns -- even beautifully crafted, historically resonant models -- can be read only as an endorsement of gun culture. That's both unnecessary and offensive.
Violent double-take
By coincidence, nearby Walker Art Center is showing an exhibition of art about boxing: contemporary paintings, photos, sculptures and installations that offer various perspectives on another violent sport. The differences between the shows are significant.
The Walker's show is a nuanced meditation on many aspects of boxing, including the racial and socioeconomic tensions inherent in a sport whose champions are often economically deprived blacks battling before affluent white audiences. While some of the Walk er works play up the racial, sexual and erotic charge that courses through boxing, the sport's exploitative undercurrents are equally evident. That complexity makes the Walker's show an exemplary presentation that both informs and challenges viewers to reexamine a controversial subject.
The institute's gun show, by contrast, is nothing more than celebratory propaganda hiding behind a thin veneer of historical gimcrackery. To take the most obvious example, it touts the talents of contemporary gunsmiths but says not a word about the Eurocentric classism inherent in a blood sport whose chief practitioners are rich white men. In Britain today, such traditional blood sports as fox hunting pit rural against urban voters and raise screaming newspaper headlines. No such brouhahas cloud the sunny days of happy shooting at the institute.
There are plenty of places where a historical gun show could be contextualized so it made more sense: Colonial Williamsburg; a Western Americana museum; a hunting museum. This show's heavy emphasis on contemporary guns catapults it into the current political debates and makes the Minneapolis museum appear to be a pawn in the gun lobby's maneuverings.
In a recent long and thoughtful interview, director Evan Maurer acknowledged the contradiction in the museum's simultaneously banning and exhibiting guns. He insisted that the show was not taking sides in the public debate, and said the institute had gone out of its way to avoid partisan behavior. It did not seek funding from gun lobbyists, interest groups or manufacturers. It did, however, run ads in sporting magazines, gun-collector publications and the program for the country's biggest antique-firearms show in February. It also made gun-safety information available as part of the show.
A gun collector and skeet-shooter himself, Maurer wrote an enthusiastic introduction to the show's catalog. He fondly recalls childhood visits to the arms and armor collection at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, where he would gaze in "reverential communion" at an elegantly engraved, gold-inlaid fowler made for Napoleon I.
The "Centuries" show includes a rifle and four matching pistols by the same gunsmith, Nicholas Noel Boutet (1761-1833). They're unquestionably splendid examples of their craft. Maurer's hope is that viewers' admiration of the Boutet guns will inspire them to visit other parts of the museum.
"Part of my job is to broaden the base of who comes to this museum," he said. "If they've come to see this exhibit, I think they're going to be interested in furniture and decorative arts, and we have a very good chance of showing that the objects they love are very similar to other objects in our collection."
Maybe. Bait and switch sometimes works as a marketing tool. But this show undermines the museum's credibility and is just as likely to offend longtime visitors.
Three Centuries of Tradition: The Renaissance of Custom Sporting Arms in America
What: Fancy title aside, "Centuries" is a gun show. It features about 65 handmade guns -- rifles, pistols, shotguns -- dating from the 1660s to today. Some are ornately carved or decorated with inlays of gold, pewter, ivory and other precious materials, but the majority are just well-made guns. Gloomy and oppressive, "Centuries" is an offensive display of high-end killing tools in an otherwise pacific setting.
When: Thru Oct. 5.
Where: Minneapolis Institute of Arts, 2400 3rd Av. S.
Tickets: $6 adults, $5 seniors and students, $4 ages 6-12, free under age 5. 612-870-3131 or http://www.artsmia.org.
And some letters to the editor:
Artistry of firearms
Bravo and my sincere thanks to Evan Maurer and the Minneapolis Institute of Arts for presenting a firearms exhibit (Star Tribune, July 18).
The Star Tribune's refusal to print an unbiased review should not dissuade people from visiting the "Three Centuries of Tradition" exhibit. Those who are able to comprehend the skill and artistry required to create fine weapons like those on view at the MIA will find it both appropriate and compelling.
As for the gloomy display of killing tools that appears to be all your writer could see, should all the bows and arrows be removed from Native American exhibits because a visitor might associate them with violence? Should the museum refuse to display carvings and paintings that depict victory in battle?
It isn't the MIA's exhibit that missed the mark. It's the newspaper's failure to distinguish between an individual's political views and what should have been knowledgeable coverage of an excellent exhibit.
Lynda Snell, Andover.
Leave politics out of review
For the record, I am not a member of the National Rifle Association, I think the recent changes in the Minnesota gun laws were stupid and I have never owned a gun.
But the Star Tribune's July 18 critique of the gun exhibit at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts had nothing to do with art. The reviewer could not get past her politics.
I look forward to appreciating the art of this new exhibit.
Brian Bergs, Minneapolis.
Needed: An open mind
The Star Tribune's review of the Minneapolis Institute of Art's exhibit "Three Centuries of Tradition: The Renaissance of Custom Sporting Arms in America" was a waste of newspaper space.
The reviewer hated the exhibit before walking in the door. The reader would have been better served by a review written by somebody with an open mind who could appreciate the artistic ability and engineering genius of the gunsmiths.
On a positive note, it was good to see the paper devote so much space to pictures of the guns.
Les Delton, Mound.
4v50 Gary
July 24, 2003, 12:50 PM
Thank you Ready on the Right. What a disgusting view by the newspaper and I'm glad the letters to the editor voiced that perspective.
July 24, 2003, 04:53 PM
This was my letter to the author of that pathetic excuse for a review:
I found the article in which you stated that having a firearms exhibit at the Minneapolis Institute of Art "undermines the museum's credibility and is just as likely to offend longtime visitors" pretty humorous. I guess you want to appear open-minded, but only about subjects that pass your personal political litmus test. Well, I have some bad news for you: your "review" was no more open minded than the homophobic rantings Jason Lewis spewed forth after a recent SCOTUS decision, it was just phobia from the other end of the political spectrum. I am sure that while you were viewing those "oppressive" and "offensive" killing tools it never once occurred to you that you would not have the luxury of critiquing the exhibit if it were not for the men who deployed those tools on the battlefield. Firearms are inanimate objects. They are not capable of projecting either good or evil, they are only tools in the hands of men and women. A great man once said that "an unarmed man can only flee from evil, and evil is not overcome by fleeing from it." Lucky for you not everyone is willing to flee. I hope you sincerely enjoy the freedom that others fought to provide you with, maybe someday you'll even appreciate it.
David Haagensen, RN
(to make things a little clearer for you not in Minnesota: Jason Lewis is a local conservative talk show host)
July 24, 2003, 11:49 PM
As you go east from Milwaukee, you get the Nordic blood.
Please correct me if I am wrong, but I believe you meant to say west if you were referring to the direction of Minnesota. Heading east from Milwaukee would net you a whole lotta Lake Michigan. :D
Here's a very biased review done by the left-leaning Minneapolis Star Tribune.
One would be hard-pressed to find a major metropolitan newspaper with a more socialist bent than The Star Tribune (semi-jokingly referred to by locals as "The Star and Sickle"). The St. Paul paper, The Pioneer Press, is similarly left-leaning, but not to quite the same extent.
July 25, 2003, 01:54 AM
I think someone needs a compass, or GPS? :rolleyes:
July 25, 2003, 08:32 PM
Heading east from Milwaukee would net you a whole lotta Lake Michigan. There goes my attempt to sell real estate at The High Road. Typing too late at night I guess.
Andrew Rothman
May 25, 2004, 04:59 PM
Sorry for the Zombie thread, but the unbelievably inappropriate "review" of the show WON FIRST PRIZE in the Arts & Entertainment category of the 2004 Minnesota Society of Professional Journalists Page One Contest.
This is the same review that the Strib's own ombudsman said crossed the line between review and personal bias.
4v50 Gary
May 26, 2004, 12:18 AM
Those self congratulating dogs of the media's own mutual admiration society.
Heck, I'm seeing that exhibit anyway. It opens June 10 at Conner Prairie in Fishers, IN.
May 26, 2004, 12:18 AM
Hey Matt:
I missed the review first time around, but I appreciate it no less for its age. It's a great example of the kind of bias that often "slips through" the so-called mainstream media, because, at best, they don't even recognize it for what it is. That the author won a "first prize" from any organization is disturbing enough, but the fact that she won it from the Minnesota Society of Professional Journalists is, well, you know.
May 26, 2004, 12:59 AM
This is the same review that the Strib's own ombudsman said crossed the line between review and personal bias.
Do you have a link to the ombudsman's comments?
Andrew Rothman
May 26, 2004, 11:54 AM
Ombudsman's (and editor's) comments:
Joel Rosenberg has a nice Blog entry about it, too...
May 26, 2004, 01:10 PM
Every story I read like this I think is the worst story ever. Then the next week something even worse is written. I am no longer suprised about anything. I guess I am suprised this pathetic author would be given a reward for something like this.
May 26, 2004, 03:58 PM
Milwaukee German, Minnesota Scandanavian...whicheverway you look at it, like my sister says "it's the land of big, white people..." heck, we only have a short three months of real summer (that's going outside without a parka over your bermuda shorts...)
At any rate, the exhibit is not to be missed, esp. if you are a fan of the Kentucky, Pennslvania longrifle genre. The price of admission is covered by just being able to see U.S. Grant's target rifle and the Napoleon set...
The modern stuff is a little weak, both for what is shown, and the explanations, but it's a minor part of the exhibit...
Go See It...
May 27, 2004, 09:35 AM
I think that the lesson to be gleaned from the review article (and the mindset of the "art" world in general) is:
Displays which offend conservatives (pornograpy or blasphemy as art) are thought-provoking, create discussion, and are positive.
Displays which offend liberals (case in point) are inappropriate, without value and unworthy of display.
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Player of the Game
Tony Sipp pitched strong in relief today, which was enough to win him Player of the Game honors. Sipp came on with 2 outs in the 6 inning and continued to pitched through the 7th. He did not allow a single runner and struck one out, giving him a score of 1.82. After 90 games into the season, Sipp finally wins his first PoG.
Feathers Up
Tribe hitters took advantage of walks as they inched their way back. Their first run came in the 4th inning when Jose Lopez hit a sacrifice fly with the bases loaded. Their next run came in the 5th inning when Jason Kipnis singled Lou Marson home. The Indians offense drew 4 walks in the first 5 innings.
Josh Tomlin has a wonderful moustache.
Feathers Down
Josh Tomlin is coming off of a strong start, but he quickly got behind in today's game. He gave up a lead-off single (Shelley Duncan's marvelous defense held him to a single) and then a 2-run home run to Carlos Pena, giving the Rays an early lead. The inning continued with a walk and a Luke Scott triple (which should have been a single if Shin-Soo Choo cut it off properly), giving the Rays their 3rd run of the inning. Josh Tomlin gave way to Tony Sipp in the 6th inning after allowing the Rays to score their 4th run.
The Indians only managed 4 hits today, one to each of the first 3 batters in the line up and one to Casey Kotchman. All of the hits were singles. They were lucky to score 2 runs on just the 4 hits. They did, however, have several opportunities to score with the bases loaded.
Play of the Game
Shin-Soo Choo sldes to cut off a ball and misses, allowing a single (or double) to turn into a triple.
Final Score: Cleveland Indians 2 – Tampa Bay Rays 4