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Welfare for the Wealthy (an Ongoing Series)
An earlier post noted the hot political trend of convincing the upper middle class and the wealthy that they are financially vulnerable and in need of government assistance.
From loan subsidies for McMansions to blue-blood public works, from the doling out of market power and financial support to businessmen, to the offering of government money and tax breaks to (usually well-to-do) people who consume in a government-approved manner, politicians of Red stripes and Blue are all about helping the down-and-out in the (gated) community.
Such welfare-for-the-wealthy is the subtext of Sunday's NYT story about the Children's Health Insurance Program. CHIP was once intended to help children in families that are low-income but that do not qualify for Medicaid; now Congress is pushing for the state-operated/federally supported program to use its money to cover families up to four times the poverty level (e.g., a family of four earning $82,600 a year) — that is, nearly all families in the second-highest income quintile, aka the upper middle class.
The NYT article includes a provocative figure about the effects of CHIP. When the program was first implemented, the percentage of families with income between the poverty level and 200% of the poverty level (i.e., the families whom the program was intended to help) with uninsured children began to decline, falling from 20% in 1998 to about 12% by 2002. However, the percentage of those lower-income families with privately insured children also began to fall over that time, from about 55% to about 45%. Since 2002, the percentage of uninsured children in that income range has roughly plateaued while the percentage of children with private insurance has continued to fall, to about 35 percent by 2006. This suggests (though, by itself, does not prove) that, by 2002, CHIP had gone about as far as it could go in reducing the percentage of uninsured children in poor families; since then, CHIP has simply displaced private insurance — a dubious policy goal.
Given that, it's no wonder politicians want to mission-creep CHIP into wealthier income brackets. But one must wonder what the next welfare-for-the-wealthy program will be. Perhaps a chicken in every pot and a Lexus in every garage?


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|July 2011 Featured Article Winner
Kenny's Death was a running gag in South Park. Kenny's manner of death changes from episode to episode, and usually features someone or something that fatally hurts him. A typical gag features the culprit or accident killing Kenny, followed by the phrases "Oh my God, they killed Kenny!" and "You bastards!" from his friends Stan and Kyle, respectively. Series creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone have said that the "You bastards!" line (often used even for deaths by inanimate objects/accidents) is actually directed towards said creators, for writing the death into the script.[1] In more recent seasons (after season 5), the gag doesn't occur as often.
- See also: List of Kenny's Deaths
- See also: Gallery of Kenny's Deaths
History of Kenny's DeathsEditIn the first few episodes, Kyle says the entire phrase. It usually varies depending on who kills Kenny. On one occasion ("Cartman's Silly Hate Crime 2000"), Stan and Kyle accidentally kill Kenny, causing Stan to cry out, in a somewhat nonchalant way, "Oh my God, we killed Kenny." Kyle replies, "We killed Kenny?" and Stan says, "Yeah, we killed Kenny; we're bastards". Also, when Kyle kills zombie Kenny in "Pinkeye", He says "Oh my God, I killed Kenny! You Bastard!" In the earlier seasons, usually right after his death, rats show up, start nibbling on the body and carry off body parts. In "The Succubus", this is parodied: he is "killed" and rats gather on him, the sun rises and he is standing there alive again when the boys are waiting for Chef to come play baseball, then the next day when he is squashed by the Succubus during Chef's wedding. Also in "Pinkeye" Kenny dies three times. First he is crushed by the Mir space station as it falls from orbit. Then he is cut in half (by Kyle) as a zombie. Then, when trying to come out of his grave, an angel statue falls on top of him, followed by an airplane crashing on top of the statue and Kenny. Kenny even dies in a flashback to kindergarten during the episode "Summer Sucks", when a firecracker he is holding explodes and blows him to pieces.
In "Fat Camp", "The Biggest Douche in the Universe", and "Cripple Fight", it is suggested that Kenny's orange parka plays a major role in his many deaths, even though he has died without it in the episodes "Super Best Friends", "The Jeffersons", "W.T.F.", "Pee", "Sexual Healing", "Mysterion Rises" and " Coon vs. Coon & Friends". In "Fat Camp", Kenny is never actually killed, although a boy, who helped Cartman smuggle candy into the fat camp, dressed up as Kenny, dies in the end; to which Stan replies, "Oh my god, they killed Kenny!...sort of." And then Kyle replies, "Yeah, they kind of killed Kenny, sort of, look alike...you bastards!" In "The Biggest Douche in the Universe", Rob Schneider is killed while wearing Kenny's outfit and in "Cripple Fight" Timmy tries to have Jimmy killed by giving him a parka that resembles one Kenny would wear. Jimmy is seen walking down a street, narrowly escaping death with every step, and Jimbo can even be heard saying "There's Kenny! Kill him!" in the background.
Matt Stone and Trey Parker planned to kill Kenny off for good at the end of season five with "Kenny Dies" and replaced him first with Butters and then Tweek during the sixth season. A story arc that occurs during the second half of the season (starting with "A Ladder to Heaven") involves Cartman being possessed by Kenny after accidentally drinking his ashes (which Cartman thought was chocolate milk mix). Kenny's soul is trapped inside Cartman's body until it is exorcised into a pot roast, which is eaten by Rob Schneider, who subsequently dies. Finally, at the end of the 2002 Christmas episode, Kenny returns, stating that he had been "over there," as he points to his right. During the following season, Kenny seems to have lost his bad luck and doesn't die anymore. Kenny's lucky streak ended during the 2003 Christmas episode ("It's Christmas in Canada"), and died again in "The Jeffersons", "Wing" and "Best Friends Forever".
In "Best Friends Forever", Kenny is the first in South Park to get a Sony PSP and the first in the world to reach level sixty in the game Heaven versus Hell; he dies early in the episode to command Heaven's armies in the final battle against Satan (in the episode he is frequently likened or referred to as Keanu Reeves). His death is not permanent, however, and he is revived, but in a persistent vegetative state with a feeding tube in an almost-serious spoof of the controversy surrounding the Terri Schiavo case in Florida. This episode won South Park its first Emmy.
Kenny has died 126 times in the South Park franchise (98 in the series, 12 in the shorts, 14 in the video games, and twice in the movie). He also dies in the intro during season 7-11.
Recurring deaths and series canonEdit
While the series usually maintains an expanding continuity, it is a running joke that Kenny's deaths from episode to episode are treated in a highly inconsistent fashion.
Early-season deaths are usually treated as "non-canon", in that they are not acknowledged as having happened at all. In the clip episode "City on the Edge of Forever (Flashbacks)", while relating stories of previous episodes, Cartman mentions how Kenny died in one such incident, to which Stan and Kyle protest, "That's not the way it happened; Kenny just died eight hours ago from that monster, how could he have died then too?" Cartman then replies, "Oh yeah. I guess that doesn't make sense." This episode turns out to be a dream within a dream.
Season 14 explains that everyone fails to remember that Kenny has died whenever he does (see below) but one episode shows that Cartman is aware of Kenny's constant deaths, but it's possible that he doesn't find them to be a source of concern. In "Cartmanland", the McCormick family sues Eric Cartman for Kenny's wrongful death, and Cartman protests, "Kenny? He dies all the time!" When Kyle is suffering potentially fatal kidney troubles ("Cherokee Hair Tampons") and Stan tells Kenny several times that he's worried his friend might die, Kenny responds with irritation (with lines such as "It's not that fucking serious" and "You never seem to care when I die!") and eventually yells his own muffled version of Cartman's catchphrase "That's it - I've had enough of this bullshit! Screw you guys! I'm going home!", implying that he is aware of and considerably irked by the other kids' being unaware of his own previous deaths (due to them forgetting that he dies). After doing this, he walks away, only to have a piano crush him while Stan continues to weep for Kyle, oblivious to Kenny's death.
In "Cartman's Mom is Still a Dirty Slut", the second part of a two-part episode (where Kenny had died in the first part), Kenny miraculously materializes next to Stan, accompanied with angelic music, but Stan merely acknowledges him with a slightly surprised "Oh, hey, Kenny."
Kenny himself seems to be somewhat aware of his own recurring death. In "It's Christmas in Canada", Kenny refuses to get on city airline planes and decides to stay in South Park with Cartman. When Stan asks why, Kenny says, "'Cause, dude, I'll fucking die." Kyle, however, does not seem to have realized Kenny's bad luck as he replies "You're not gonna die, Kenny. Don't be stupid." Kenny's will in Best Friends Forever begins "in the likely chance of my demise..." Another instance in which Kenny is aware of his countless deaths is in the first season's Christmas special; he cheers when he realizes he hasn't died at the end. In "Tweek vs. Craig", Kenny avoids shop class fearing the dangers of the many hazardous tools; after he narrowly avoids dying, he channels the dead girlfriend and relatives of the shop teacher for a few moments. Also, the Lyrics of the song "Kenny's Dead" state
Would it be a car crash, a plane, a gun, or suicide?!
He knew one day that the rats would come
But he didn't know they was gonna scream 'bout it!
And hit him with a shotgun
In "Cartman Joins NAMBLA", Kenny spends most of the episode upset that his mother is having another child, and continually tries to find ways to abort the fetus. Near the end of the episode, Kenny is unexpectedly killed by being backed over by an ambulance. In the final scene, Kenny's mother and father fawn over the infant she has just given birth to. Kenny's father, struck by how much the new child resembles their deceased son Kenny (including orange parka), decides to name the new baby boy Kenny in his brother's memory, to which Kenny's mother declares "Yes! A brand-new Kenny!" The final punch line of this gag comes when Kenny's father says "God, this must be like the 50th time this has happened", to which his mother corrects, "52nd". (Arguably, this is indeed the 52nd incarnation of Kenny).
The gag of Kenny dying in almost every episode was dropped with the airing of "Kenny Dies", in which Kenny's death is treated with more weight; in particular, the other boys are somehow able to sense that it would be more permanent but its probably because they know the death will happen beforehand—though it should be noted that in a few episodes—for example "Pinkeye"—they treat his death as if permanent (ironically, since Kenny comes back to life twice in that episode). Unlike previous episodes which his death is over-the-top, he suffers from a serious muscular disease and the boys and their parents are shocked by it (Stan in particular could not bear to see him in the hospital). The reason Kenny was killed off in Season 6 was because Trey Parker and Matt Stone were getting tired of killing him and decided to just get rid of him but they then decided to bring him back by leaving clues of his return such as having his soul live inside of Cartman. At the end of "Red Sleigh Down" Kenny returns and the boys did not sound surprise and respond to him as if they knew he was coming. Since his permanent revival, Kenny has died extremely rarely throughout episodes. He has not died at all in Season 10. However the usual lines were used in "Make Love, Not Warcraft" when his character was killed along with everybody else by a person with a high level, and in "The Return of Chef", when Chef was killed.
The episode "Mysterion Rises" finally begins to explain Kenny's deaths, when Kenny, as Mysterion reveals to Captain Hindsight his superpower is his familiar inability to die, explaining he's died countless times, usually ending up in Heaven or Hell, but no matter what he wakes up in his bed the next day in his same clothes. It is slightly implied this is involved with the Cthulhu cult, as his parents were arrested for their involvement ten years ago. He questions them about it and they claim they were drunk and have no memory. While at the cult meeting, he hears the phrase "That is not dead which can eternal lie, and with strange aeons even death may die" and becomes very upset, going to the Goth Kids for an explanation. Henrietta shows him a copy of the Necronomicon and explains that cultists have been attempting to summon Old Ones to our world for years. A picture from the book shows six cloaked men standing around a Pentagram with an infant in the center, possibly attempting a summoning. This may be how Kenny received his immortality.
After Bradley (as Mint-Berry Crunch) finds out he has real powers as well, which Coon & Friends do actually recognize, Kenny (Mysterion) - probably realizing he'll just sound desperate for attention - gives up on trying to convince the others and instead just shoots himself again.
At the end of "Coon vs. Coon & Friends" we learn that, because something that happened to his parents in the cult meetings ten years prior, Kenny is reborn after each of his deaths and placed in his bed, wrapped in his orange parka, and wakes up the next morning, fully grown, in the same condition he was in before he died.
Prior to these episodes, three explanations had been provided for Kenny's deaths - in an interview with Trey Parker he was asked why Kenny died and responded "he's poor". In another instance however, he claimed Kenny was a "supernatural demi-god" and an FAQ response in 2003 regarding Kenny's Christmas resurrection claimed that there "was a connection between Jesus' death and Kenny's resurrection"
In Popular CultureEdit
- The phrase "Oh my God, they killed Kenny!" was ranked #35 on TV Land's Greatest TV Catchphrases and Quotes. It was here that Matt Stone and Trey Parker revealed that "they" and "bastards" were referring to themselves.
- In the book series Animorphs, a character quotes, after an orange figure has died, "Oh my god! They killed Kenny!" on the second page of book 22, The Solution.
- In a battle between Kenny G and Flea on Celebrity Deathmatch, Flea rips out Kenny G's lower jaw, and then throws it into the audience like a boomerang, causing the jaw to come back and bury itself right into Kenny G's skull, killing him. Nick Diamond, one of the hosts, says, "Oh my God! Flea killed Kenny G! Flea killed Kenny G!" Then a little boy in the audience yells out, "YOU BASTARD!"
- On the Boy Meets World episode "And Then There Was Shawn", which is a parody of Scream, Kenny is the first person to die by having a pencil stabbed in his head. Eric responds by shouting "Oh my god! They killed Kenny!" Someone then replies with "You Ba..." which is cut off when the killer appears as they run out of the room screaming.
- Kenny's constant death and Stan/Kyle's response had become so well known that after winning his fight against Ken Shamrock at UFC 40: Vendetta, Tito Ortiz (notorious for putting on a t-shirt offending his defeated opponent) put on a shirt that read "I killed Kenny, you bastard".
- In the March 2 episode of FX's Dirt, a hostage situation shows a Kenny character being shot twice and killed. A nervous actor begins laughing, saying "Oh my god, you killed Kenny."
- In the episode "In Sickness and in Hell" of the TV series Xena: Warrior Princess, Xena picks a louse from her hair and tosses it into the fire. In an almost inaudible voice, the other lice scream, "Oh my god, you killed Kenny! You Bastard!"
- In the Lionhead game Black & White, in the first island if you kill the third sailor by the boat, the other sailor says, "Oh my god, you've killed Kenneth!"
- In the video game crossover comics. Charlie from Street Fighter dies in all of the comics. Since Charlie is known to die in every game he was in, they make him die the same way Kenny always dies. Sakura and Cammy from Street Fighter quote Stan and Kyle "Oh my god They killed Charlie, You Bastards!"
- In Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Danny Strong informally dubbed his character Jonathan Levinson as the "Kenny of Buffy"[2] due to the great number of bad things that have happened to him.
- In International Moron Patrol, the character John the Hedgehog dies in every episode, similar to Kenny.
- In Halo 3, when the IWHBYD (I Would Have Been Your Daddy) skull is turned on, marines will sometimes shout out: "They killed the Chief! You bastards!" - When the player dies.
- In "A Tale of Two Cows", chapter of Drawn Together (another Comedy Central animated series), when the Live Action Cow started to kill in another cities, the L.A.C. kills everyone in South Park (we can see Kyle, Jesus, Chef, Mr. Garrison, etc.), except for Kenny. That was an inversion of the running gag to the death of Kenny.
- In 2006, Russian punk-rock band Sloat released the song, Oни Убили Кенни (Russian: They killed Kenny). The video for this song includes clips from episodes where he died periodically. It also includes montage from South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut.
- Douglas Henshall, who plays Nick Cutter in the British sci-fi series Primeval, stated that he wanted, the character Tom Ryan to be the show's version of Kenny, being killed and resurrected throughout the series.
- Carnival Phantasm references the "E-Rank Luck" of the character Lancer, who dies in every episode. Upon his deaths, nearby characters scream, "Oh my god, they killed Lancer!" and "You bastards!".
- In Death Note (2017 film) Kenny was the first to have the name written down in the Death Note, and "decapitation" was the death manner specified by Light.
- ↑ "Classic & Original TV Show Video Clips Online - 100 Catchphrases". TV Land. Retrieved on 2009-01-27.
- ↑ Springer, Matt, "Big Man on Campus", from Buffy the Vampire Slayer magazine #13 (UK, September 2000), page 20-21.


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Lukta and his father, Kiakshuk, were both featured in the famous "Sculpture/Inuit. Sculpture of the Inuit: Masterworks of the Canadian Arctic" touring exhibition (1971-73). His sister, the graphic artist Paunichea, is the mother of Aqjangajuk Shaa. Lukta's three sons are also strong and innovative carvers. [Padlaya Qiatsuk, Pootoogook Qiatsuk] Since the 1950s, Lukta has been an important figure in the art of Cape Dorset, gaining recognition as a sculptor, a graphic artist and a printmaker (he trained in the beginning days in 1957-58). He was the main printer for more than two hundred graphics, including a good number of the most highly esteemed images. As a sculptor, he likes both figurative and wildlife subjects, and has an interest in birds, particularly owls.
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In his career, former FPA president Jim Barnash has run his own advisory firm, worked for several large financial services companies, and run his own consulting firm to help advisors grow. Now Barnash has joined Merion Wealth Partners, a company backed with private equity, that is entering the somewhat crowded world of advisor firm rollup and consolidation firms.
Merion Wealth, though, highlights its differentiation from the HighTowers and United Capitals and Focus Financials of the world by design–the advisors will eventually run the firm and will decide among themselves its ultimate business destiny.
Richard Hughes, a former Envestnet PMC co-president and Rittenhouse Investments executive who joined Berwyn, Pa.-based Merion Wealth as president in March, said in an interview with AdvisorOne on Monday that as the company's advisor network grows, "the advisors will have controlling shareholders votes; they'll decide the ultimate destiny."
Barnash (left), who will continue to live in the Chicago area but "will be doing a lot of travel," noted that while a majority of the ownership of Merion Wealth "right now lies in the hands of the management team and board, the majority of the ownership will be in the hands of the advisors." Partnership gives advisors "leverage plus scale on pricing. But it also provides for a long-term succession strategy to preserve your legacy … with a defined mechanism for how you'll get out—or provide your own succession planning."
Barnash, who is senior VP, said in an interview Monday with AdvisorOne that Merion Wealth is "providing a platform for a partnership, so advisors will have a say-so in the business." The platform, he said, will provide a range of back-office services for advisors, and will have "great tools" for risk management, asset management and technology, but "the direction is to provide advice to clients and get paid for it—not just [levying a fee for] assets under management to get paid—the AUM trend is primarily meant for the largest firms to move from transaction to fees," but that model doesn't necessarily meet advisors' best interests, or clients'.
Barnash's role will be in business development, "identifying advisors who fit the target," walking them through the process of joining Merion, "to make sure there's a good cultural fit," and then "helping them continue in their growth strategies."
The partnership would be especially appealing to advisors from their 30s into their 50s who want to be in the business for a long time and who are already independent, though Barnash says "we wouldn't rule out" breakaway brokers. The right cultural fit would be advisors who want to grow but have hit a "ceiling of complexity" in dealing with compliance, technology or capacity issues and "don't have access to the capital to grow out of it."
Merion Wealth, he states emphatically, is "not for those who are in their late 50s or 60s who want to park and then go away." Barnash says part of the value to advisors is gaining access to Merion Wealth's board, who he says possesses much in the way of entrepreneurial talent and which in the past "have figured out a way to make complicated businesses more simple."
In addition to full partnership, Barnash said advisory firms could also join Merion as an "affiliate—dip your toes in the water, for perhaps a three-year trial period, with some cash and some exchange of equity. If it's not working out, you can walk away; or you can join the broker-dealer using a flat fee, fee-for-service model; or you can join the [Merion corporate] RIA with no exchange of capital or equity, but you have access for a fee to the Merion services."
While the right kind of advisor will likely be fee-based, Barnash said "we can take on any kind of advisor," and that while "we're not looking to compete with independent BDs," Merion does have a broker-dealer in place that will allow advisors to continue their legacy commission business.
Barnash says the Merion model allows for "true independence," but with scale, using cloud-based technology that won't force its partners into using specific applications. While he said "we don't want to use the term 'clearing-firm agnostic,' we have an existing relationship with Pershing, and we've had conversations with TD, Fidelity and Schwab." Merion also has a relationship with a trust company [Sterling Trustees] and is about to announce a relationship with a private bank," all so the independent Merion partners can compete. "We won't have 15 relationships; we'll probably have four."
Speaking of Barnash, Hughes (left) said "he could have had a job anywhere," and so is pleased to have him join Merion Wealth. "We have a team in place right now," said Hughes, to handle the number of advisory firms in its pipeline, noting Merion has just hired a chief compliance officer and is in talks to hire a chief operating officer, "but much of the staffing will be determined by deal flow." For advisory firms who join Merion Wealth—either using Merion's corporate RIA or its broker-dealer, "there is a cash component and an equity component," Hughes said, "which will go on in perpetuity," until the advisor partners deem it time for a liquidity event, though he pledges "we won't sell to a strategic partner," and that those advisors merely looking to cash out won't fit the culture test at Merion.
Hughes says that one of Merion Wealth's founders, Greg Campbell, "used his private equity fund [CDV Capital] to get us started."
What differentiates Merion Wealth from HighTower, United Capital or Focus Financial? "They focus on the wirehouse breakaway advisor—we're not avoiding the breakaway, but odds are we will do more business with the already independent advisor," says Hughes.
In addition, he says, "our capital structure is different than theirs. They need a liquidity event in five, six or seven years. We're providing advisors with human expertise but also financial capital." That capital will allow partner advisors to grow their businesses through acquisition, Hughes said, plus "our model allows for continuation of their own brand."
"If you're an entrepreneur who wants to grow, Merion would be a good choice for you; if you want to understand how to create greater wealth for yourself, then Marion's an appropriate firm. And if you recognize that clients are in need of more comprehensive wealth management services [that you can't deliver yourself] but you want to remain the quarterback of the relationship, Merion's an appropriate firm. The collective whole is greater than the sum of its parts."


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Session management approach - choice vs. discipline (1 messages)
Bring up the topic of stateful and stateless applications and you can guarantee to get a house divided, almost equally on both sides. This leaves the average developer confused - is holding state good or bad? The answer is different : It is inevitable in circumstances and avoidable in certain others. Is session(a means to maintain state) management a matter of choice if one has the discipline. I would say so. Some thoughts at: http://regumindtrail.wordpress.com/2007/05/23/session-management-approach-choice-vs-discipline/ I would like to know the community views on this.
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- Re: Session management approach - choice vs. discipline by Cameron Purdy on May 24 2007 07:16 EDT
Re: Session management approach - choice vs. discipline[ Go to top ]
Here's another article on the subject: http://dev2dev.bea.com/pub/a/2005/05/session_management.html Peace, Cameron Purdy Tangosol Coherence: The Java Data Grid
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It's not just Dodge Vipers and SRT-10s getting wrecked by mother nature. Feast your eyes on this mud-caked Corvette ZR1 absolutely destroyed by a twister. Why does mother nature hate American sports cars?
There's nothing sadder for us than seeing a totaled piece of supercardom, especially one as fast and accessible as the Corvette ZR1. This car was caught up in a recent Texas tornado and reduced the $120,000 beast to a $19,600 salvage title asking price. The auction listing at Copart.com (now removed) described the damage as "ALL OVER," which seems about right.
Estimated repair price is over $74,000 and the extent of the damage means the car will never be quite right again, which leads us to the silver lining behind this cloud: the 638 HP, 6.2-liter supercharged LS9 V8 appears to be uninjured. Given the construction of the Corvette's rear subframe, it's a a good possibility the entire driveline is okay to the differential. There are at least three perfectly good carbon ceramic brake corners. This means the car has the potential to be the greatest donor vehicle ever.
Imagine a 638 HP tubbed Prius. Maybe a sub-four second Volvo station wagon. The possibilities are nearly endless. What would you put a ZR1 powertrain in? [LSXTV via CorvetteBlogger]


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Key Words: More on EvolutionOctober 26, 2007 — Deacon Duncan
Daniel MacIntyre wants to continue our discussion on evolution and racism.
I have never stated that there is no evolution. fully believe that species change and that natural selection is a great way to winnow out the defects that crop up. My argument has been that Darwinists haven't shown that this is sufficient to explain the full picture. Specifically, that the Intelligent design is still a valid competing theory. The link the Professor either failed to follow or ignored is but one example of my arguments in this area. Oh, and as far as ID being a "stupid design that was inferior to what unbelievers could come up with," not knowing the reason for the design is not the same thing as knowing that the design was inferior.
Notice the careful word choice here. "I fully believe that species change," not "I fully believe that new species can and do arise by descent with modification from common ancestors," and "natural selection is a great way to winnow out…defects" not "variation plus natural selection is a powerful mechanism for generating novel structures and behaviors." Not to read too much into what he didn't say, but it does sound like he's appealing to the guarded and reluctant admission by creationists of the fact that some evolutionary mechanisms do exist. The typical creationist demurral, however, is that these mechanisms are much more limited, and far less capable, than evolutionists describe them as being.
And that's my point. It's not that the creationist design is inferior because we don't know what purpose a designer might have had in mind. It's inferior because anti-Darwinism is defined by the idea that Creation lacks the sophisticated capabilities that make it possible for new and innovative species to evolve. The whole point of the ID argument is that we must infer an "intelligent" designer because the sophisticated mechanisms that evolutionists have come up with are entirely missing from God's design for life on earth. And since these missing mechanisms are things that make it possible for life on earth to innovate, to adapt to changing conditions and to replace species lost to extinction (changing climates, asteroid strikes, etc), we are left with a creationist version of biology that is less stable, less adaptable, less innovative, less self-repairing, and less viable than the design that evolutionists have come up with. The only way to deny that the creationist design is inferior is to invent a special standard specifically tailored to make creationism look good.
Now, lets talk about race and genetics:
Hogwash. Geographical isolation, like other forms of isolation, produce separate species, not separate "races." Racism is not part of "standard evolutionary theory." Humans are all in the same gene pool, which is why Bob Jones University felt it necessary to ban interracial dating until just recently. From an evolutionary perspective, the only "distinct race" is the human race.
The Professor can be forgiven for believing this. After Hitler, the Eugenics movement, and other Darwinistic embarrassments, it became unfashionable for evolutionists to believe in a genetic component to race. However, quite a few recent studies suggest just the opposite.
Yawn. Christians are always blaming someone else for the godlessness they see in the world. Used to be Jews and witches, now it's atheists and "Darwinists." How many sermons have been preached about the "mark of Cain" and "the race of Ham" and "slaves be subject to your masters"? Like I pointed out before, bigots appeal to whatever authority they think will bolster the case for racism. So? At least he's willing to "forgive" me for telling the truth.
From the New York Times:
…A striking feature of many of these changes is that they are local. The genes under selective pressure found in one continent-based population or race are mostly different from those that occur in the others. These genes so far make up a small fraction of all human genes. …
So yes, professor, race has a genetic component influenced by natural selection.
And it's an illusion. Humans are all part of the same gene pool. Granted, local populations can and do manifest some amount of variation, but where evolutionists and racists part company is in the idea that the specific variations equate to a distinct "African race" whose intelligence (whatever that means) is inferior to that of the alleged "European race." Evolutionists, by and large, recognize that this kind of superficial categorization is scientifically vacuous. The data do not say what the racists want them to say.
From the same article that reported on Watson's apology:
Dr Watson has said before that there is a genetic basis for intelligence – something undisputed by other scientists. But experts deny there is any such thing as race on a genetic level.
Consider the history of ancient Egypt, one of the earliest advanced civilizations, and home to the pyramids and the famed Library of Alexandria and other similar achievements, and then check your map to see which continent Egypt is located on.
So let's skip the rest of Mr. Macintyre's discussion of "race" and the genetic history of Africa, and move on to his closing comments.
Yes, the reaction against Watson was because of the racist remarks. However, you will note that Watson's apology did exactly NOTHING for him. Conservatives, coming from a Biblical perspective, forgive when someone repents – as Watson clearly did.
Hmm, somehow Watson's apology doesn't strike me as being quite as sincere as Bill Clinton's was. At least Clinton eventually admitted wrongdoing, and there's no doubt he was sincerely sorry he'd given in to temptation. Watson never quite admitted saying anything racist, he just said "I cannot understand how I could have said what I am quoted as having said," and apologized to "those who have drawn the inference [i.e. it's their doing, not mine!] … that Africa… is somehow genetically inferior," and then went on to defend the idea certain no-longer-specified groups might indeed evolve into groups with different "behavioural abilities."
Without referring directly to the subject of racial differences, Dr Watson once more invokes the idea that Darwinian natural selection has led to differences in behavioural ability between people from different geographical regions of the world. "We do not yet adequately understand the way in which the different environments in the world have selected over time the genes which determine our capacity to do different things," he says. "The overwhelming desire of society today is to assume that equal powers of reason are a universal heritage of humanity.
"It may well be. But simply wanting this to be the case is not enough. This is not science. To question this is not to give in to racism. This is not a discussion about superiority or inferiority, it is about seeking to understand differences, about why some of us are great musicians and others great engineers."
So I think MacIntyre may be giving Watson more than a little benefit of the doubt when he suggests that Watson has sincerely repented (as opposed to merely running some damage control in the face of an unexpected backlash).
I will grant him one thing, though: Conservatives do indeed forgive their own. In fact, they're so forgiving, it's not even necessary that the guilty party confess and repent (Tom DeLay comes to mind). So far, however, I haven't heard many conservative Christians coming to Watson's defense or claiming that his "apology" means we should all forgive and forget. They're too busy gloating over how racist Watson and the rest of them "Darwinists" must be. So perhaps the reference to Bill Clinton is misleading. It doesn't seem to be the case that many of them have forgiven Watson either.
[Update] Nah, I'm not happy with what I wrote. It "feels good" (in the self-righteous sense) to say stuff like that, but let's face it, "us vs. them" is a pretty low grade of thinking. There are saints and sinners across the political spectrum and it's silly to try and claim that such sweeping overgeneralizations have any meaning or significance. I withdraw the remarks, though I'll leave them in situ as a reminder to myself that I'm not above such foolishness if I just speak off the top of my head without thinking.


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Upfront: Stargate Universe premiered to a lot of hype that wasn't completely fulfilled. The episode was dark, as expected, but lacking in the energy I needed to really get hyped about it. The acting wasn't stiff, but I think the background music kept things in a very mellow state.
My devotion to the franchise kept me riveted and though I don't think tonight's episode was a stellar hit as some would lead you to believe, it delivered an interesting situation that will have me coming back for more… if anything, just to see if things improve or as I get more involved with the characters than I did tonight.
I don't give everything up, but there are spoilers included below.
A Bit Of A Recap
The Stargate Universe opening scene has viewers watching a ship (the Destiny) drift towards them. The scene has a rather epic looking feel to it and what I didn't know at the time was that this might have been the best scene of the show.
We go inside the ship and watch it slowly powering up the hallways, eventually finding ourselves looking at a Stargate powering up itself up and the event horizon bursting forth from the ring. People start to come flying through it, piling in on each other in an obvious state of panic.
Meanwhile, Dr Nicholas Rush (Robert Carlyle) is on a balcony, looking down on the scene, almost looking pleased.
We then experience a series of flashbacks interjected with the developing real-time plot (ala Lost) that help explain some back-story on some of the characters and the developing scenario.
We see boy genius Eli Wallace (David Blue) get recruited because he solved an online game that was designed by Dr. Rush from Stargate Command. After Wallace solves the game, Lt. General Jack O'Neill (Richard Dean Anderson) and Dr Rush show up at his door the next morning. Anyone ever see The Last Starfighter? I'm just saying.
When Wallace gets on board, he's shown a series of videos to get caught up on the history of the Stargate program. LOL - "Hi, I'm Dr. Jackson (Michael Shanks), and behind me is a Stargate." I felt like I was watching the DNA video from Jurassic Park.
The rest of the Stargate Universe premiere shows us the attack that forced the impromptu evacuation, focusing on the people on board the Destiny as they try to comprehend their new situation situation - between each other and between them and the ship/environment they now find themselves in.
The Destiny is a ship built by the Ancients. Apparently, the Ancients sent these automated vessels out into the universe to plant Stargates, but then they ascended and kind of forgot about the ships. The Destiny is in mechanical disarray and it reminds me of my 1969 Mercury Cougar, where it will be needing a lot of duct tape.
The creative team behind Stargate Universe, Brad Wright and Robert Cooper, tries to pull the viewer into the dark and desperate atmosphere the survivors are in. Much like the desperate plight humanity found itself in on Battlestar Galactica.
It wasn't very distracting to me, but if you remember, they were going to use a different filming technique that was inspired by how Joss Whedon filmed Firefly. They used a lot of hand-held camera angles and it complemented the desperate situation the people were in. If they don't get too carried away with this technique, it should be acceptable for viewers throughout.
Another difference I noticed only took place once in this 2-hour premiere; When we came back from a commercial break, we experienced a flashback, then we jumped into a different scene where there was a seriously steamy interaction between two people. If you were expecting a family friendly show like all the previous incarnations of Stargate, even if it was one scene, it was there. And from what I've read in other sources, it won't be the last time they throw a curve ball at the viewer in the sexuality department.
I don't like Dr. Rush, and that's a compliment to Robert Carlyle's portrayal of the role. The scientific greed that Dr. Rush exhibits makes me dislike or distrust this guy. It's Rush's fault they ended up on the Destiny. During the unexplained attack on the base that forced the evacuation, Rush interrupted the emergency dialing of Earth to try a new idea he came up with about the 9th chevron. Guess it worked.


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In my opinion, it should be taken as a point of pride that the Packers can dominate a team while being flagged 13 times for 130 yards. This is an impressive feat, even more so because of the fact the Lions were shut out. Seriously, they couldn't score a point, and they were spotted 1.3 football fields. NIIIIICE.
One Packer who has taken this fair-play idea to heart: Chad Clifton. He ensured that the Lions were given an equal playing field as long as he was on the field, and I'm willing to bet he pointed out to the men in stripes that he was going to line up off the line a few times. "Just watch for it fellas, it's in the interest of fairness." Otherwise, how can you explain being flagged twice for it when ALL tackles do it?
Going into Sunday's game against Cleveland, I'm assuming that the penalty handicap McCarthy is discussing with his personnel is sitting right at 15 penalties or 145 yards. Either is an acceptable number and will set forth a legitimate challenge for the Packers to overcome, as well as provide the swine-flu, riddled Browns with decent chance to play a meaningful football game, otherwise, what do they really have to look forward to?
My recommendation to the fans? See the penalties for what they are, an equalizer. You will be much happier on gameday, and victories will be that much sweeter when you realize all that the Packers had to overcome.


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Tyler Howe, The Campanellis, Upstage Crew Bring Their Tunes to Summer Craft Beer Festival!
Not only great brews and great food, but great tunes as well are on tap for the Summer Craft Beer Festival on July 19 at John Ball Park in Grand Rapids.
Don't miss the live entertainment that will be performing at the fourth Summer Craft Beer Festival!
Have a listen to all the great bands slated to play!
First up is local musician Tyler Howe!
Tyler Howe is a singer-songwriter from Grand Rapids. After traveling with multiple bands around the country and recording drum tracks for various artists, Howe had the opportunity to sing and act in "New Stage," a web series produced by YOBItv starring Mike "The Situation" Sorrentino from "Jersey Shore." Howe is currently featured on YOBItv/Myspace's "Take The Stage," starring music manager Johnny Wright and producer Rodney Jerkins. Since then, his own music has been taking over the spotlight.
Get a sample of his music here!
Second on the bill will be The Campanellis!
The Campanellis are a Grand Rapids-based rock band comprised of Joel Gilbert, Paul R Jaissle, Dan Fisher, Jon Pataky and Keith Jaissle. Combining the restless adolescent energy of The Ramones and The Replacements with the classic Midwest power-pop of The Raspberries and Shoes, the Campanellis sing songs about having fun, hanging out and, most importantly, girls. The Campanellis love rock 'n' roll and they love you, too.
Get a sample of their music and purchase their album here!
Then, Upstage Crew is bringing the blues!
Upstage Crew draws upon years of collective performance experience. Inspired by '60s blues revival artists like Peter Green and Charlie Musselwhite as well as West Coast and Chicago blues influences, Upstage Crew plays throwback blues that are sure to please every blues fan.
For samples of their music, click here!
Don't miss all these awesome artists at this year's Summer Craft Beer Festival!


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15 cheesecakelets
- Serving suggestion:
- 2 cups strawberries, chopped into quarters
- 1/2 teaspoon balsamic vinegar
- 1/2 to 1 teaspoon sugar
- 3 eggs, yolks and whites separated
- 2 tablespoons sugar
- 1 teaspoon best-quality vanilla extract
- 1 cup cottage cheese
- 1/3 cup all-purpose flour
Step 1
Put the strawberries into a bowl and sprinkle with balsamic vinegar and sugar. Stir before covering with plastic wrap and leaving to steep while you make the cheesecakelets.
Mix the egg yolks with the sugar, beating well. Add the vanilla, cottage cheese, and flour. Then, in another bowl, whisk the whites until frothy with a hand whisk and fold into the cottage cheese mixture.
Heat a smooth griddle or nonstick skillet and dollop the batter onto it make cakelets of about 3 to 4 inches in diameter. Each cheesecakelet will take a minute or so to firm up underneath, then you should flip it and cook the other side, and remove to a warmed plate when ready.
Turn the strawberries in the ruby syrup they've made and squish some pieces with a fork at the same time. Serve with the hot cheesecakelets.


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Journey of Man
Journey of Man Previous Broadcasts
KQED Plus: Tue, Apr 22, 2014 -- 9:00 PM
Today, some six billion people are spread across the planet. But there was a time when the human species numbered only a few thousand and the world was a single continent: Africa. Then a small group left their African homeland on a journey into an unknown, hostile world. Against impossible odds, these extraordinary explorers survived and went on to conquer the earth. Their story can finally be told through the science of genetics. Dr. Spencer Wells, a 33-year-old geneticist, has been disentangling this epic story from evidence all people carry with them - in their DNA - inherited from those ancient travelers. Wells travels to every continent in search of the people whose DNA holds humanity's secret history, including Namibian Bushmen, Chukchi reindeer herders of the Russian Arctic, Native Americans and Australian aborigines.
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Identical twins Camille and Kennerly Kitt are multi-talented professional duet harpists and Film/TV/Commercial actors. Known as the "Harp Twins", Camille and Kennerly perform internationally as a dynamic acoustic and electric rock Harp Duo. As actors, The Kitt Twins have appeared in three feature films - two of which also feature the twins performing on their harps. With over 500,000 fans across their social media sites and over 25 million views on their YouTube music videos, Camille and Kennerly are easily the most followed and recognizable harpists in the world.
The Kitt twins made their Hollywood film debut as the "Merry Christian Twins" in the feature film POLITICS OF LOVE as actors, soundtrack writers, and soundtrack performers (harp and vocal). POLITICS OF LOVE was directed by William Dear (Angels in the Outfield, The Perfect Game) and stars Ruby Dee, Loretta Devine, Gerry Bednob, Brian White, and Bollywood superstar Mallika Sherawat. Additionally, Camille and Kennerly had roles as "The Marcelli Twins" in the dark teen comedy BLACKTINO – produced by Elizabeth Avellan (Sin City, Predators, Machete), and starring Danny Trejo, Michelle Rodriguez, Daryl Sabara, and Jeff Fahey. BLACKTINO premiered at The Paramount Theater on opening night of the SXSW (South by Southwest) Film Festival. Most recently, Camille and Kennerly portray the biological daughters of Vince Vaughn's character in the DreamWorks film, DELIVERY MAN - starring Cobie Smulders, Bobby Moynihan, and Chris Pratt. The Kitt Twins have also starred in numerous short films.
Camille and Kennerly have been cast as principal roles in several commercials, including a national US commercial for the TOSHIBA Tablet and national Japanese commercials for CHUPA CHUPS lollypops, which aired for two years in Japan. Most recently, ORKIN Pest Control featured Camille and Kennerly playing their harps in a viral commercial campaign.
The Kitt twins made their professional musical theater debut as "The Geminae" in the musical comedy A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum by award-winning, professional theatre company: Theatre Nebula. As models, Camille and Kennerly have done commercial Campaigns for several new clothing lines, and were cast by 17 Magazine as runway models for prom-wear.
Harp Duo:
As the world's only identical twin professional harpists, Camille and Kennerly have a passion and flair for arranging and performing contemporary music for Harp Duet. The twins were trained classically but their true musical love and passion is playing rock, metal, alternative, and crossover genres. The Harp Twins perform on identical statuesque acoustic Concert Grand Harps as well as identical modern ebony Electric Harps. Most recently, Camille and Kennerly teamed-up with Harpsicle/Rees Harps to show what can be done with smaller, affordable harps. The twins' new metallic blue harps bring a new element to the breadth of their Duet Harp Revolution. Camille and Kennerly have created a unique niche for themsevles: They play rock and metal using only their two harps. Unlike other artists who cover contemporary music, the twins use no backtrack, studio, or production people. They are the archetype of true independent artists. Camille and Kennerly are recognized for their remarkable duet harp arrangements of songs by artists such as Guns N' Roses, Iron Maiden, Led Zeppelin, Metallica, Aerosmith, Ozzy Osborne, Megadeth, AC/DC, The Rolling Stones, Blue Oyster Cult, Scorpions, Eagles, The Police, Bon Jovi, Pink Floyd, U2, Journey, Evanescence, The Cranberries, Coldplay, The Beatles, Johnny Cash, Deep Purple, and many more. The twins also arrange and perform a jukebox of TV and Movie Soundtrack, Anime, and Video Game hits. Some fan favorites include their renditions of music from Game of Thrones, The Walking Dead, The Elder Scrolls, Final Fantasy, Star Trek, Star Wars, Doctor Who, Downton Abbey, Zelda, Mario, Silent Hill, Harry Potter, Saint Seiya, The Lord of the Rings, and The Hobbit. In addition to being prolific arrangers, Camille and Kennerly compose and perform their own original pieces for Harp Duet. Camille and Kennerly's radical Duet Harp Revolution is changing the world's perception of the harp, and the way harp is played - one song at a time.
The Harp Twins headline concerts, as well as perform as featured artists for public, private, philanthropic, academic, corporate, cultural and political events. Camille and Kennerly have performed for celebrities and political leaders. The Harp Twins were invited to represent the US at the 2014 World Harp Festival ("Festival Mundial del Arpa") in Paraguay, where they performed over 2 nights (including an organizer requested encore presentation the final night of the festival due to the success of their first performance) and taught master classes. Camille and Kennerly were also asked to be cultural ambassadors for the United States during their trip to South America. So, the twins stayed after the festival to speak and perform at schools and towns in Paraguay. The Harp Twins were featured musicians at the Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Celebration, playing for three events over two days, including a dinner where President Barack Obama was the speaker. Other notable duet harp performances include a luncheon where former First Lady Laura Bush was the featured speaker and a dinner event with former Vice President Cheney as the special guest. The Harp Twins were featured performers for a private pre-opening event to celebrate French haute couture fashion designer Jean Paul Gaultier's exhibit "From the Sidewalk to the Catwalk", which premiered at the De Young Museum in San Francisco. Additionally, celebrity photographer, Martin Schoeller, asked Camille and Kennerly to perform at both opening events for his book "Identical: Portraits of Twins" in New York and Beverly Hills, CA.
Camille and Kennerly and their music have been featured in worldwide mainstream media such as CBS News, National Geographic, The Huffington Post, The Huffington Post UK, The Huffington Post Chicago, Metal Hammer Magazine, Doctor Who Magazine, ABC News, Conan O'Brien's TeamCoco, Rolling Stone ES, G4TV's "Attack of the Show", The Soup, VSAUCE, BuzzFeed, Nintendo Life, Chicago's WGN News, Metal Underground, LA Weekly, AMCtv.com, Guitar World, Revolver, RightThisMinute, The Telegraph UK, Daily Mail, Kotaku, Yahoo! News, and Yahoo! Music Canada. Notably, Camille and Kennerly were featured in one of the UK's biggest metal music magazines, Metal Hammer. In the article and interview, titled "Harp Attack", the Harp Twins were labled a "Hot New Band". Additionally, Doctor Who Magazine featured Camille and Kennerly's Doctor Who Theme cover in their Five Doctors / 50th Anniversary issue.
The Harp Twins' music has also caught the attention of the original artists and music composers. The legendary heavy metal band, Megadeth, shared Camille and Kennerly's cover of their song Ä Tout le Monde" on their social media sites calling it "great". Bear McCreary, (composer of the music from Battlestar Galactica and The Walking Dead) shared Camille and Kennerly's arrangement of his Walking Dead theme on his official sites calling it " awesome" and "one of the most unusual covers" of his music that he had ever heard. Also, the German power metal band Blind Guardian shared The Harp Twins'cover of their "The Bard's Song" on their official social media sites. Additionally, Blue Oyster Cult founding member, Albert Bouchard, called the twins' arrangement of "Don't Fear the Reaper" a "great arrangement", saying on their video "I love how you covered the lead guitar lines". And European folk metal band, Equilibrium, shared a collaboration cover of one of their songs in which the twins were featured on their official site saying they were "simply blown away".
Since December 2013, Camille and Kennerly have released 3 cover albums: Harp Attack, Harp Fantasy, and Harp Attack 2. All 3 CDs have been top selling albums on their distributer.
Special Interests:
Camille and Kennerly are Third Degree Black Belts in Tae Kwon Do and are former Tae Kwon Do instructors. The twins are also "Distinguished Experts" in rifle marksmanship and are trained in horseback riding. Camille and Kennerly have a heart for philanthropy and are also actively involved in their community. Since they were children, Camille and Kennerly have worked to support underprivileged children overseas. They have been volunteer companions for special needs children, teens, and young adults for many years. The twins know sign language and volunteered for over 6 years at a monthly Deaf/Hard-of-Hearing social gathering.
Fun Fact: Camille and Kennerly were competitive swimmers for many years as children and both qualified for the Junior Olympics 5 times, competing in all 4 strokes.
Camille and Kennerly graduated "Summa Cum Laude" (with highest honors) from the prestigious Conservatory of Music at Wheaton College, both with a Bachelor of Music degree in Harp Performance. The twins were on the Dean's list every semester and earned straight As. Prior to transferring to the Conservatory, Camille and Kennerly completed their last two years of high school while simultaneously enrolled in a music studies program at a local college. While completing the music studies program at the college, the twins were in the Honors Scholar Program, inducted into the National Honor Society Phi Theta Kappa, published authors in the academic journal Essai, held a 4.0 out of 4.0 GPA, and were faculty nominated scholars for both years – representing their college at several state-wide events.
For booking, inquires, and press, please e-mail firstname.lastname@example.com or call 312-753-8030.
Brand/Product Advertisement:
If your company/brand is interested in having Camille and Kennerly as brand ambassadors, please e-mail firstname.lastname@example.com. Camille and Kennerly review all offers personally. To send product samples, please also e-mail firstname.lastname@example.com for mailing information.
Fan Mail:
For fan related messages, please connect with Camille and Kennerly directly by writing on their Facebook fan page: www.facebook.com/CamilleandKennerly or Twitter. Camille and Kennerly reply personally to as many messages as possible.
Please also visit Camille and Kennerly's official Harp Duet website:


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Monday, November 30, 2009
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Sunday, November 29, 2009
The Medical Center, and a chair
Tuesday, November 24, 2009
Forgotten sketches
Monday, November 23, 2009
New bits and pieces
Thursday, November 19, 2009
The Story Mansion show
At long last
Friday, November 6, 2009
Exhibition: Drawing on Main
You are Invited to "Paul Heaston: Drawing on Main"
Throughout last winter, MSU grad student Paul Heaston drew everything within view on 6 blocks of Main Street in a sketchbook. For the first time, limited edition prints of the complete set of drawings will be shown (and sold) at the T.B Story Mansion from November 12th through 14th. MSU School of Art, Friends of the StoryMansion, and Downtown Bozeman Partnership have collaborated to connect the University, arts, and business communities through this remarkable work and to celebrate our rich past and vibrant present.
Schedule of events for exhibition "Paul Heaston: Drawing on Main"
at the T.B. Story Mansion. All events are free and open to the public
Thursday, Nov. 12, 7 to 9 pm: Opening reception for the Downtown and University communities featuring a gallery talk by the artist, refreshments, and music byJawbone Railroad.
Friday, Nov. 13th, 12 to 5 pm: The Story Mansion will be open to view the exhibit.
7 to 9 pm: Public reception featuring a gallery talk by the artist, refreshments, and music.
Saturday, Nov. 14th, 10 to 5 pm: Open Mansion to view the exhibit
10 to 12: coffee and doughnuts and historic tours by the Friends of the Story
12 noon to ?: "Sketch crawl", a drawing workshop in the BonTon Historic District
with Paul Heaston and MSU School of Art faculty
We are grateful for generous sponsorship of Old Main Gallery, Ferraro's Fine Italian Restaurant, and Mackenzie River Pizza. The exhibition is brought to you by The MSU School of Art, The Friends of the Story Mansion, and the Downtown Bozeman Partnership.
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Q&A: ESPN Radio Seeks To Broadcast A Long Shadow In Sports Coverage
By Barry Janoff
May 1, 2012: This week, ESPN Radio New York, which launched in 2001 and is the flagship station of ESPN Radio, moved its signal from 1050 AM to 98.7 FM under an agreement between ESPN Audio and 98.7's owner, Emmis Communications. ESPN New York 98.7 becomes New York's first 24/7 FM-based sports talk station.
Both 98.7 FM and 1050 AM will simulcast content before 1050 AM, which competes in the region with ratings-leader WFAN (on the CBS Radio network), converts to ESPN Deportes New York Radio in conjunction with Hispanic Heritage month (Sept. 15 – Oct. 15). According to Traug Keller, ESPN svp-production, Business Divisions, "Opportunities like this don't come along too often and it's tremendous that we were able to conclude a deal that will enhance our mission of serving sports fans in not just English but Spanish as well."
The move is important to ESPN's radio strategy. According to the company, 137 of it's 364 full-time radio affiliates are positioned on the FM band, representing a growth rate of 120% in the last two and a half years. FM stations make up 30% of ESPN's total affiliate base.
The roster on ESPN Radio New York is formidable: Mike & Mike in the Morning, The Herd with Colin Cowherd, The Stephen A. Smith and Ryan Ruocco Show, The Scott Van Pelt Show and The Michael Kay Show. ESPN Radio also broadcasts MLB, NBA, the NFL draft, college football, the FIFA World Cup; and ESPN New York is the home of the Knicks, Rangers and Jets.
Dave Roberts, ESPN Radio New York vp-GM, spoke with NYSportsJournalism during a recent broadcast of Mike and Mike from the MLB FanCave in New York about the pros, cons and power of radio in a complex, multi-media landscape.
NYSportsJournalism.com: With so many other ways that people can get information, how strong a medium is radio?
Dave Roberts: Very strong. We keep people coming back by making sure that the content in compelling, and that the personalities are likable and credible. But those are just some of the ingredients that make up the success we are having and the potential for further success as we move forward.
NYSJ: How important has it been to incorporate TV, social media and other forms of entertainment and informational outlets into the radio mix?
DR: That interaction is the community of radio, because you can bring together all of the platforms, be it TV, social media or the digital platform of ESPN.com. A case in point: Tim Tebow did his first exclusive interview as a member of the New York Jets on The Michael Kay Show, with Michael and Don Le Greca. That interview was simultaneously on TV on ESPN's SportsCenter and also streamed on ESPN.com. It was one of the most heavily-trafficked days that we've seen on our site on a Friday. So that is an example of how good content can transcend any platform.
NYSJ: What is some of the more unique programming on ESPN Radio?
DR: We premiered with the start of the baseball season a weekly segment with Bobby Valentine on The Michael Kay Show. With Bobby, who used to be with ESPN, now manager of the Boston Red Sox, that is a true eye-on-the-enemy type segment that we will run throughout the MLB season. [Laughs.] The manager of the Red Sox talking about the world of baseball on New York radio! But the bottom line is that Bobby Valentine is a big-time personality who understands the business and isn't afraid to speak his mind. That all adds up to very strong radio.
"Tim Tebow did his first exclusive interview as a member of the Jets on The Michael Kay Show. It air simultaneously on TV and also streamed on ESPN.com. It was one of the most heavily-trafficked days we've seen on our site."
NYSJ: Are there any limitations being put on him by the Red Sox, MLB?
DR: Not that I know of. It will be like a manager's report, except that he will be on ESPN Radio in New York. But it is exciting for the listeners and baseball fans because they'll get a fresh take from Bobby Valentine's perspective, from someone who tells it like it is.
NYSJ: So if he criticizes the commissioner or the umpires, would he get fined by MLB and, if so, would ESPN Radio pick up the tab or the Red Sox?
DR: [Laughs.] We won't get fined. But we will serve our fans extremely well by having someone who is willing to tell it like it is.
NYSJ: What has been the response to having The Mike and Mike Show on ESPN2?
DR: Tremendous, both from outside and inside ESPN. We are excited about Mike and Mike even more than ever. And the reason is that Mike and Mike has really caught on in New York. And I say that because for five months straight they have been in the Top Ten [in ratings]. In January, they were actually second with the 25-54 [audience] and they have been consistent in first among men 18-34. That is a testament, again, to strong content. It doesn't have to be what people call 'local.' If there's a big story, Mike and Mike owns it. And listeners across the New York area find them credible and likable, and more and more are turning to into the program. And even though with the ESPN2 show they are considered national, they really work their butts off to make sure that they are immersed in [the New York] market. They are a true part of what we do at the station.
NYSJ: Both Mike Greenberg and Mike Golic, as well as Erin Andrews and Dick Vitale, were in a recent ad campaign for Diet Mountain Dew, and both Mikes are turning up in commercials for other goods and services. Do you see that hurting their credibility?
DR: Listeners understand the reality of personalities. They also understand the best personalities know how to separate different aspects of their career and business opportunities from the journalistic side and the credibility side. And when you're talking about Mike Greenberg and Mike Golic, you're talking about two men at the top of the class in what they do.
NYSJ: Care to share some insightful comments about Stephen A. Smith, who has added a daily radio show with Ryan Ruocco to his schedule?
DR: The bottom line is that the man is everywhere. He does a two-hour show for New York, then turns right around and does two hours for Los Angeles. Then he might be on SportsCenter for four or five different segments. Then he'll do Outside the Lines for another segment. And he has become a regular debating Skip Bayless on ESPN2's First Take. Stephen A. Smith has almost 500,000 followers on Twitter. That is a whole vehicle by itself. If Stephen A. tweets out that he will have an exclusive interview on his program, a lot of people do follow him. We've seen evidence of that. He goes to a New York Knicks game, and every player walks over to shake his hand and have a conversation. He has relationships with the star players. He was the first person to report that LeBron and Dwyane and Bosh would unite in Miami. He brakes stories like that based on relationships and credibility. When Mike D'Antoni resigned as head coach of Knicks, he broke that story on ESPN New York and across the other ESPN platforms. It's all about making contact, establishing relationships and good reporting. He has very good ratings, and they are growing. We're looking for ways to make him even more visible on ESPN Radio and across ESPN.
NYSJ: What is the challenge at this time of year, for example, when there is breaking news and compelling stories coming alms simultaneously out of the NFL, baseball, the NBA, NHL and other areas?
DR: Obviously, we cover all the big stories. We can really do the best job locally and nationally with the resources of ESPN, which really is a differentiator for us in this market. We give importance to the New York Jets and the quarterback situation with Mark Sanchez and Tim Tebow. But we covered the Peyton Manning story when he signed with Denver. We cover the Knicks, but they are a national story with Jeremy Lin, Carmelo Anthony, Amar'e Stoudemire. We cover the Yankees and Mets, but with Bobby Valentine and the resources we have available at Bristol — John Kruk, Tim Kurkjian, Buster Olney — no one can stand up to the number of people we have covering baseball. So, to your question, it's always a challenge, but it's always fun. In the world of sports, every day is different. There is always a new story line, new drama to talk about.


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Entertainment on the stage at the Flavor Fare
North Fourth and State streets
Co-sponsored by BMO Harris Bank, GreenFields of Geneva and Geneva Chamber of Commerce. Stage greenery supplied by Plandscape, Inc.
Sound by R/J Recording & Sound
Friday, Sept. 7
4:30 - 5:30 p.m.: Under the Willow — With Erin Duffy's soulful voice and heartfelt lyrics mixed with a fiddle and dance, Pat Donovan's rhythm guitar playing, and Tim Dunham playing either lead on acoustic, ripping reels on the banjo, or sweet licks on the Mandolin, no show is ever the same.
6 - 7:30 p.m.: Billy Elton — Celebrating the music of Billy Joel and Elton John. Featuring Reid Spears on piano and vocals.
8 - 9:30 p.m.: Assisted Living — Classic Rock with diverse hits from Jackson Browne to the Allman Brothers performed by five musicians who have played together for 15 years.
Saturday, Sept. 8
noon - 1 pm: State Street Dance will be performing pieces from their two annual shows this past June, Swan Lake and King of the Pridelands. Voted "The Best" Dance School/Studio in our area from the Best of the Fox, State Street brings you a variety of dance, specializing in ballet.
4 - 5:30 p.m.: Swings n' Arrows — Swing through time listening to classic jazz by Swings n' Arrows, a jazz sextet led by trumpeter John Lash. Get hip to the sounds of '40s swing, '50s bop, and '60s cool jazz.
6 - 7:30 p.m.: Lincoln Don't Lie — Reminding you of everything that is great about country music. Led by the sultry vocal talents of lead singer, Tarah Tesmer, Lincoln Don't Lie celebrates some of today's great country music as well as adds a new twang to some great alternative hits.
7:30 p.m.: Introduction of 2013 line-up for Dancing with the Geneva Stars — Cultural Arts Commission
8 - 10 p.m.: Hiline Band — Motown, '70s and '80s party songs and a touch of swing.
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The Blind Roosevelts — Move to a mix of acoustic/electric rock laced with strong harmony vocals.


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Where to dine in Hawaii for Valentine's DayMany restaurants will be offering special menus for Valentine's Day, but we've rounded up the best of the best. Celebrate with your sweetie at one of GAYOT's Top Valentine's Day Restaurants in Hawaii, presented in alphabetical order.
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Last week, a Canadian group released a video of two lugers preparing for their event while the 80′s hit "Don't You Want Me" played in the background. The tagline? "The Games have always been a little gay."
The video — a response to Russia's anti-gay policies — immediately went viral, logging millions of views and generating tons of positive feedback from fans.
But not from lugers.
The New York Times reported that some members of the American luge team are displeased with the spot.
"They're making fun of our sport for their cause and it doesn't really make a lot of sense to me," said Christian Niccum, an American Olympian.
"Between this kind of stuff and the 'You're such a luger,' it's pretty tired," added teammate Jayson Terdiman.
Those poor luge guys. Between the skin-tight body suits and the laying on top of each other, they probably take a lot of flack from friends, family and countrymen. Getting teased on an international scale, during the only time of year that their sport gets any attention, must be a little annoying.
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Exeter City Council is looking at removing Band E from its housing allocation system.
Doing so would allow the Council to spend more time working with those with the greatest housing need, such as vulnerable adults and families with safeguarding issues and health and wellbeing needs.
Currently people registering with the Council for housing in the city are placed in one of five bands with 'A' signifying the greatest need and 'E', no housing need at all.
A task and finish group was recently set up to review Exeter's allocation of social housing and came up with the recommendation to remove Band E.
Teignbridge District Council and Torbay Council have already agreed to remove Band E from their systems.
Cllr Rob Hannaford, Lead Councillor for Housing and Customer Access, said that 60% of those who had registered in Exeter with Devon Home Choice and were classed as Band E - with no housing need - had not submitted a bid (or request) for a property within a 12-month period.
"Our staff are finding that they are spending a large amount of time registering people in Band E but the reality is that they are not actually bidding for any properties.
"For this reason, we are also proposing to remove people from the register across all the bands, who have not bid within the last 12 months, where it is felt that the properties are suitable for them."
The Council is also looking at giving additional priority to working households and those who make a contribution to the local community, including former military personnel. In addition, it is planning to only register applicants with a local connection of two year's residence in Devon.
Cllr Hannaford added: "In Exeter we have a significant number of people who are genuinely in need of a roof over their head but there are others on the housing register who are either currently renting privately or from a housing association or even own their own home.
"We need to make changes to the way we allocate social housing in Exeter and prioritise those in the greatest housing need, those who desperately need a roof over their head," he said.
The recommendation is going before Exeter's Executive on Tuesday 15 July and if agreed, people in the city will be consulted on the proposed changes later in the summer.
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Edinburgh - Ratho is the closest Paintball site to Edinburgh
Set in over 55 acres of pure paintball wilderness, our awesome Edinburgh site offers a massive variety of game zones and scenarios, with on-site facilities that are second to none. Every standard of paintballer is catered for here, with over 15 varied game zones patrolled by fully-trained marshals. No Mans Land, Trenches, The Compound and A Bridge Too Far are real favourites at our top class venue.
We located just off the A71, close to junction 1 of the M8 and only 6 miles south of Edinburgh. Full maps and directions are provided on completion of booking.
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Paintball Edinburgh - Queensferry
Edinburgh - Queensferry is the closest Paintball site to Edinburgh
20 minute drive from Edinburgh
A paintball site of some considerable excellence, our Queensferry venue will have you brimming with adrenaline from the minute you put on your mask and grab your paintball gun! We have some truly excellent Game Zones that are sure to test your paintballing mettle and you and your mates will engage in a battle royale to be crowned champions! With top notch facilities and equipment as well, this is one site you really shouldn't miss!
Paintball Shotts
20 minute drive from Edinburgh
An 800 acre paintball site built onto an old explosive manufacturing plant. Paintball at Shotts comprises of battling through the old architecture, the surrounding woodland and a series of purpose built fortifications. A breathtaking and adrenaline charged experience.
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Paintball Cumbernauld, Glasgow
56 minute drive from Edinburgh
Located just 20 minutes from Glasgow city centre, this epic woodland war zone is home to a whole host tailor-made game zones including: The Black Fortress, The Village and Tonic Waste.
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Renowned musicians to play French composers in Dillon
Members and friends of the internationally renowned American String Quartet join pianist Debra Ayers, a regular performer with the Breckenridge Music Festival, for an evening of works by French composers on Sunday at Lord of the Mountains Lutheran Church in Dillon. The American String Quartet, which is celebrating its 37th season in 2012-13, is critically acclaimed for its presentations of the complete quartets of Beethoven, Schubert, Bartok, Schoenberg and Mozart, in addition to contemporary music. Members to be featured at Sunday's concert include Laurie Carney on violin and Daniel Avshalomov on viola, joined by Carney's husband, William Grubb, on cello and Ayers on piano. Grubb, an accomplished cellist and teacher, instructs at the Jordan College of Fine Arts at Butler University, the University of Cincinnati College Conservatory of Music and the Aspen Music Festival and School. "The three string players met at Juilliard 40 years ago, and we met Debra at least 25 years ago when she was head of (public relations) for the Aspen Music Festival, where we were all performers," Carney said. Sunday will be a Summit County first for Carney, Avshalomov and Grubb. Ayers performs internationally as a recitalist in addition to her numerous appearances with the Breckenridge Music Festival."Debra is a wonderful resource for the (festival) because she has many friends and colleagues in the music world that she performs with and brings to the (festival)," spokesperson Olivia Grover said. "We are lucky to have her in our family." Sunday's program includes Joaquin Turina's Piano Quartet, Op. 67, Olivier Messian's Theme and Variations for Violin & Piano, Ernest Chausson's Piece, Op. 39 and Gabriel Faure's Piano Quartet No. 1 in C minor, Op. 15.All of the selected composers are French, with the exception of Turina, from Spain, who studied in Paris in the early 20th century, Carney said. "So much of our repertoire is German, and we wanted to do something different, so we decided to do a French theme with some rarely heard works," Carney said.Carney, who is a founding member of the American String Quartet, holds the distinction of performing quartets longer than any woman in the field. The American String Quartet began performing concerts while she was still an undergraduate at Juilliard. She also has been a faculty artist at the Aspen Music Festival and School since 1974 and the Manhattan School of Music since 1984. To make it in the field, Carney recommends that aspiring classical musicians "recognize that talent and hard work will be prerequisites" but also "be willing to make a candid assessment of your chances once the hard work is done because the classical music profession is a small and competitive one.""I've witnessed a lot more woman willing to face the challenges in what was, for many years, a male-dominated field," she said. Avshalomov, hailed by The Strad magazine as "one of the finest occupants of that chair, both instrumentally and musically, of any quartet now active" performs nationwide as a soloist and in collaborations, in addition to the American String Quartet. He has been on the faculty of the Manhattan School of Music since 1984 and at the Aspen School since 1976. "It is not every day that musicians of such international acclaim and caliber perform here," Grover said. "After all, the American String Quartet is one of the world's foremost quartets." Sunday's concert is a joint presentation by the Breckenridge Music Festival and Summit Music and Arts.
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Bering Sea ice threatens crab fishery
Sea ice is encroaching unusually early on the central Bering Sea, threatening to grind Alaska's economically important snow crab fishery to a halt at the peak of the season, leaving crabbers facing major losses.
Earlier-than-expected ice is moving south over prime crabbing grounds, forcing boats away from their catch and putting millions of dollars of equipment in jeopardy.
These kind of "mother nature effects" are part of the fishing business everywhere, said Karen Gillis, the executive director of the Bering Sea Fishermen's Association.
But this fishery, which was expected to net 80 million pounds this year, hasn't seen a natural event like this in 20 years, she said, and it could have a devastating economic impact on crabbers and their families.
"We're talking about household incomes that are being severely impacted, households that don't have a lot of other income sources," Gillis said.
Crabbing boats are out retrieving their pots or sitting in Dutch Harbor rather than delivering their catch to the now iced-in Trident Seafoods processing plant on St. Paul, said Edward Poulson, an advisor for the Bering Sea Crabbers Association and longtime crabber.
"Every day the boat sits in town waiting to see if the weather is going to turn you're burning money," Poulson said.
If this goes on for much longer, he said, vessel owners will start sending their crews home.
There's another concern: the equipment already in the water.
Some 8,000 pots are in the water right now -- putting a total of more than $8 million worth of gear potentially in the ice's path, said Heather Fitch, an area management biologist with the Alaska Department of Fish and Game in Dutch Harbor.
The phone in National Weather Service ice forecaster Becki Legatt's Anchorage office has been ringing with calls -- 30 or 40 in the past few days -- from concerned crabbers who want to know where the ice is going to go.
"A lot of them are really concerned about their crab pots and where to drop them," Legatt said. "At $1,000 a pop you don't want to lose them."
Very cold temperatures and strong winds are pushing the ice south at the rate of 10-15 miles a day, according to the National Weather Service. A rate of 2-3 miles a day is normal. The ice itself has a maximum thickness of two feet.
The conditions are rare, but not unprecedented, scientists say.
Ice in this area of the Bering Sea is normal, just not this early, said Legatt.
"It's definitely impacted the fishing grounds," said Legatt.
It has also reached the place where most snow crab is processed, Seattle-based seafood giant Trident's massive St. Paul plant.
"We have to deliver a certain amount of our crab to St. Paul and with the way the ice is, you just can't get to it," Poulson said.
Calls to Trident company spokesman Joe Plesha were not immediately returned Wednesday.
But for the moment, Poulson said, crabbers are less concerned with getting out and fishing than with getting their gear out of the water.
The ice could reach St. George by the end of the week if weather patterns hold, Legatt said.
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MIAMI (AP) — Suspended Miami Dolphins guard Richie Incognito says teammate Jonathan Martin sent him a threatening text message only a week before their relationship mushroomed into a harassment case that has prompted an NFL investigation.
In an interview with Fox Sports televised Sunday, Incognito said he didn't take the threat seriously. Incognito said he regrets racist and profane language he used with Martin, but said it stemmed from a culture of "brotherhood" in the locker room, not from bullying.
"A week before this went down, Jonathan Martin texted me on my phone — 'I will murder your whole … family,'" Incognito said, quoting Martin as using a profanity. "Now did I think Jonathan Martin was going to murder my family? Not one bit. He texted me that. I didn't think he was going to kill my family. I knew it was coming from a brother. I knew it was coming from a friend. I knew it was coming from a teammate. That just puts in context how we communicate with one another."
Martin left the team two weeks ago and alleges he was harassed by teammates, including Incognito. Martin is in counseling for emotional issues, and he'll discuss the case late next week with a special investigator hired by the league.
"This isn't an issue about bullying," Incognito told Fox. "This is an issue of my and Jon's relationship. You can ask anyone in the Miami Dolphins' locker room who had Jon Martin's back the absolute most, and they'll undoubtedly tell you me.
"All this stuff coming out, it speaks to the culture of our locker room, it speaks to culture of our closeness, it speaks to the culture of our brotherhood."
The Dolphins (4-4) play for the first time since Incognito was suspended when they face Tampa Bay (0-8) on Monday night.
Teammates both black and white have said Incognito is not a racist, and they've been more supportive of the veteran guard than they have of Martin. It's uncertain whether either will play again in the NFL.


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The Hunchback of Stuttgart is getting its own 29 MPG, 300 HP, direct-injection V6. Hey, if high-output V6 engines are good enough for the Camaro and Mustang, they must be good enough for the Porsche Panamera, right? Wrong.
For 2010, the Panamera will get a putative poor-people option — a tweaked version of the Cayenne's direct-injection 3.6-liter V6 making 300 HP and 294 lb-ft of torque packaged with Porsche's PDK double clutch automatic. Only the PDK double clutch auto. In two-wheel-drive form it'll return 30.4 MPG and in the Panamera 4 with all-wheel drive expect 29.4 MPG (25 MPG in a combined Euro cycle). For those keeping track, and to point out how insane Porsche is for building a V6-engined version of the Panamera — and thus destroying the only positive of the large-rear-end four-door Porsche, here's how the Panamera breaks down against the latest crop of American pony-car V6s.
Porsche claims a curb weight of 3,814 lbs including a 66 lb reduction from the engine alone, but the total figure isn't specifically tied to the two- or all-wheel-drive model. Considering it's a Porsche, we're a bit disappointed with the output on this mill.
Let's face the facts — given the Panamera V6 starts at $74,900 and the V8-engined S starts a touch under $90,000 — what kind of person buys the V6? It's not like there's a slew of sorta-rich folks out there who want to look like they can drive a $90K car but only have $75K to spend. Is Porsche now building cars for the Jersey-bound wife of the one I-banker who didn't get a bonus this year? Wait, don't answer that. It'll just make us cry.