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Each year we wonder where to hang the stockings. When I was downtown, I saw a cardboard fireplace in a shop and had to make one. I took our boat, which has been floating around the house for a month or so now and turned it in to a "brick" fireplace. The fire is a string of LEDs and a… Read more →
Needle Felted Cuteness
Kids have brought upon so much crafting that I never that I'd do, such as needle felting. Many times I've had requests for things objects to be tiny. Needle felting is easy & fairly economical (I buy small scraps of wool roving for a few dollars a piece at a local store or kool-aid dye what I need by a handful at… Read more →
Chicken Portraits
Watercolor illustrations of Chickens. I know your next question and…yes! I'm available for commission should you need a custom portrait of your own fowl. Read more →
Kids Chairs Ikea Hack
There's been a lot of weaving going on at our house and we applied it to some broken Lätt Ikea chairs. The particle board seat didn't last but the frames are sturdy. I did a simple plain weave using a 1″ wide trim. Read more →
Chickens Again
We completed a vegetable garden which got Zach got motivated to make a chicken coop. Last time we had chickens we started with an Omlet Eglu Coop and two pullets and this time we decided to start with babies and a custom coop. We picked up half a dozen 4 day old chicks on Memorial Day. The kids are very excited… Read more →
Personalized Laser Etched Cheese Boards
For Christmas this year we made our families personalized cheese boards harvested from a fallen limb in our backyard. The wood was dried, cut, planed, sanded, laser etched, and oiled with our very own spoon butter. Spoon butter adds a layer of food safe protection for the wood and provides a nice gloss. Before spoon butter was rubbed into the… Read more →
Yo Gabba Puppets
Our daughter is crazy for Yo Gabba Gabba and she wanted to make a DJ Lance Rock sock puppet. I threw in some "Gabba Friends" finger puppets. Being crazy for packing thing in containers, she absolutely needed the radio box. So, a little felt and a little hot glue…. Read more →
It's ad hoc, but it covers.
The kids' old tent bit the dust. It's fair, it was a hand me down that survived 4 kids (and 2 of them are seriously wild). So, at 10pm I got it in my head we had to have a new one. There was a gaping hole in our living room and no home for all the stuffed animals. So,… Read more →
A Very Laser Thanksgiving
The holidays bring out the crafty in us and this year we hosted Thanksgiving so we had to get extra fancy. We wanted one big table so we used 2 pieces of plywood braced with 2×4's. We covered that with a layer of quilt bat followed by $1.99 white muslin. To cover the seam down the middle we laser cut… Read more →
Tiny Duct Tape Double
I've never been too pleased with the result of the duct tape douple, diy dress form method for myself. However, for our daughter it worked out great. Kids have so few curves and so much less fitting in clothes that this was perfect for making a little dress form. It's crazy how little our little person is when seeing the… Read more →
On Site Lumber Milling
Gary Flint, the owner of the on site mill, set up in our driveway and ran our white oak and a neighbor's cherry tree through the saw. Our tree needed some fine tuning with the chainsaw to get through. It's amazing how much usable wood is salvaged from a straight tree. The 2″ thick boards were hauled… Read more →
Carboy Fogponic Garden
The Carboy Fogponic Garden is a vertical growing system that uses an ultrasonic mister and nutrient enriched water to keep plants at optimal humidity and temperature. It's geared toward the lazy grower. Someone who likes the idea of fresh food, but not the dirt or time involved in growing. Why can't we fill the nooks and crannys around us with… Read more →
Preparing Fallen Timber for Milling
We partnered up with neighbors to take care of fallen timber from recent storms. A guy will come over with a portable mill, turn logs into boards, and then take everything off to kiln to dry for a couple of months. Our White Oak log is over 2′ in diameter and 10′ long. We have a couple more trees to… Read more →
Starry, Golden, Mild Failure
I've had a vision for some time of a golden ball throwing shining stars onto our daughter's bedroom walls. So, keeping the materials basic i.e. what I had on hand (air dry clay, a beach ball, star cookie cutters, & gold leaf) I gave it a try. It's kind of a fussy project but was fun to do. See the… Read more →
Cheap All Natural Compost Bins
We picked up some cheap untreated 8′ 1×4″s and a can of butcher block oil and made an all natural compost bin. We didn't want chemicals from treated lumber leeching into compost. The oil goes on easily with a rag and provides a food safe barrier for the untreated wood. With the help of an air compressor and nail gun… Read more →
Etched Bottles : 2011 Stock Gift
As I look back I realize we like to make a stock gift that we give everyone. I think it may have started back in 2001 with a screenprinted totebag filled with home canned pickles and jams. We had some nicely designed custom labels too. One year we made everyone a quilt. Z was in on the topstitching and obviously,… Read more →
Like a Whole New Chair…
Zach's grandma found this little rocking chair at a garage sale (she's a serious garage saler) and we just got it out of storage with all of our stuff when we moved in. It's cute but we thought we could definitely make improvements. Using our Silhouette cutter we made a positive vinyl mask. I kind of went the lazy route… Read more →
Sunday Studio Time: It's a Homemade Christmas
It's been over a year since having time in a studio. Every Sunday we used to spend 4-6 hours working together. We're slowly getting things set up again and are making gifts for Christmas. This year we laser cut (of course) customized and personalized ornaments for our gifts. The star shape matches the wrapping paper. Kim banged out the matching… Read more →
Framing, Windows, and Radiant Floors
The roof is on, most of the windows are in, and the radiant floor in our studio is prepped and ready for inspection. Concrete will be poured over the tubes and foam next week. We're starting to get a sense for what the space is going to feel like and the excitement continues to build with the finish line only… Read more →
Even Without a Roof, a Big Improvement
Beechwood Building has been tearing it up the past week – literally. The roof is off the house and it's already a big improvement to the dull & dirty little ranch that was there. The new roof will be nearly flat and so we're able to see some of the shape of the house. So far so good with regards… Read more →
Our Timeline Tattoo Design
Now that we're mid way through life we thought we might have the good sense to choose a tattoo for ourselves we'll be happy with for the long haul. Maybe it will kick off the start of a sleeve and end with a full body dragon tattoo. Anyway, we wanted something simple and small for our wrists. Neither of us… Read more →
DeBord Residence Elevation Drawings
The next step after making a floor plan is to figure out what your house is going to look like on the outside. The light tan parts of the house will be 4×10 sheets of smooth HardiePanel. Sheets will be lined with an aluminum trim on all sides and have a recessed trim corner. Dark parts of the house will… Read more →
Our Final Floor Plans
We went through many revisions to get to a plan that that both met our budget and our needs. Be wary aspiring home builder. All the pains you're warned of carry truth. After running out of money to pay architects to help us design our house, we took matters into our own hands. We started asking lots of whys and… Read more →
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We are readying ourselves for baby 2.0. Shortly after our first kid was born I scrambled to make a little log book to keep track of her intake, output and sleep. We had started with an iphone app but it just wasn't as easy to us as old fashioned pen and pad – quick to review, easy to break out… Read more →
The Crumbling House
The last month has been a whirlwind of waiting as our plans for renovating the house fall apart. We had hoped the construction loan would be finalized the first of February and builder, bank and ourselves had seemed quite certain that it was progressing smoothly. Our builders even began light demolition (removing every mechanical and appliance down to the hookups)… Read more →
Demolition Begins
We were out our property today meeting with the tree trimmer. There's a ton or work to be done on some massive trees so it's nice to have the work done before our house is complete. We purchased our property and began the design process with our architects in August. In November we had designs for builders to bid on. … Read more →
One-upping Martha Stewart
My sister-in-law requested a rhinestone collar for her beloved French Bulldog. She had seen one that Martha Stewart did for her dogs and thought it would be the perfect holiday bling for Myrtle (her dog). I checked out Martha's tutorial and frankly thought the dangling rhinestones were a little tacky and was not willing to shell out close to $70… Read more →
DeBord House – Bidding Process
We are in the midst of the next stage of the process which is to decide on a builder. Johnsen Schmaling architects provided extremely detailed construction/bid plans. These won't be the final construction drawings but gives all of the information for the builders selected (we chose 3 builders after meeting with 8, to continue with bids) to give a breakdown… Read more →
DeBord Residence Initial Plans
The first wave of plans and design concepts came in from our architects, Johnsen Schmaling, and this was not an easy request for them. I know one builder kept recommending we just level the whole place and start new, but that wasn't the approach we're looking for. Due to budget constraints, some of our "green" building dreams aren't going to… Read more →
New House, Sort Of
As mentioned in the previous post, we have left Chicago and moved to Ann Arbor. Here we're close to both of our families and still an easy trip back to Chicago when we need an urban fix. We purchased 3 acres on Ann Arbor's northeast side. The property boasts tons of gorgeous, huge trees and 1/3 of it if fully… Read more →


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A Legacy of Art
Here you can find out what we do, how we do it and who we serve, as well as meet the people behind all the work we do!
Our Mission
The mission of the Community Arts Center is to enrich our community by nurturing the arts, fostering creativity, and promoting education.
Our 2014 blockbuster exhibit "Re"
explored the possibilities of
creative recycling!
Local, regional, national and international artists are featured in our three galleries, whose content changes on a monthly or quarterly basis. Our most significant annual exhibit takes place during the first quarter of each year, engages the entire building and staff, and highlights the links between the arts and sciences. Prior annual exhibits explored topics as diverse as dinosaurs, trains and outer space.
Class offerings include pottery,
drama, Irish dance and beginning
ballroom dance (pictured).
Classes, camps and lessons are available throughout the year to provide high-quality arts education close to home. Private and group music lessons on a variety of instruments, voice lessons, dance, painting and drawing classes are available for children and adults.
Lunch with the Arts is a monthly series that
encourages the community to meet local and
national artists (like Kentucky's Poet Laureate
Frank X Walker), learn about their art form and
ask them questions.
Events & Community Outreach
The Community Arts Center hosts a variety of reccuring events throughout the year, such as our monthly Lunch with the Arts series, bi-monthly Starry Night Studio Painting Classes, exhibiting artist receptions, juried art shows and seasonal and holiday events.
The Community Arts Center was originally constructed in 1909 as the United States Post Office and later became known as the Federal Building. After the Post Office moved in 1961, the building held military recruitment offices and U.S. Court of Appeals Judge Pierce Lively's law offices.
In 2004, through the generous support of our community, the building was refurbished to its original beauty with the addition of modern amenities. It is now the home to all things arts in our community. The historical post office which once stored letters now has galleries, studios, and classrooms which allow for the teaching, practicing and viewing of the arts. In addition, the adaptive reuse of this landmark preserves our historic downtown and enhances our cultural heritage.In fact, the Community Arts Center is now part of Danville's rich and vibrant Arts District.
Original construction photographs and other memorabilia can be found in the Archive Room on the second floor of the Community Arts Center.
The Community Arts Center provides crucial arts programming to the people in our community who most need it.
Though much of this work goes on behind the scenes and away from the public eye, the Arts Center is continually reaching out to the elderly, those with low-income, and/or physical, mental and developmental disabilities. When we say we want to provide arts opportunities for every member of the community, we mean it!
Arts Cart
The Arts Cart, often dubbed "Art with a Heart," is a program that takes arts activities to those with mental, physical and emotional disabilities, or those who are touched by poverty. We partner with service organizations like Pioneer Vocational Industrial Services and McDowell Place to identify those people most in need of valuable arts experiences regardless of their abilities.
The Arts Cart makes arts activities, such as painting, drawing and music-making, accessible to members of the community who otherwise might not have an opportunity to experience them. This program fosters creativity, develops artistic skills, promotes self-expression and improves self image.
Meet Our Staff and Board
Mary Beth Touchstone
Executive Director
Mary Beth works closely with our board to make sure that we know our mission, that we actively plan how to achieve that mission, and that our organization runs smoothly in all respects. Before coming to the Arts Center, Mary Beth was the Vice President of Technology Management at JP Morgan Chase.
Mary Beth's favorite thing about the Arts Center: I like being able to effect change so quickly and directly. When a person here has a great idea, we can implement it in as little as a week, directly affecting how people in our community experience art. It's a great feeling knowing that I was directly involved in exposing people to something that will change their lives forever.
Contact Mary Beth if you are redeeming a gift certificate, if you want to rent the Arts Center for your own event, or to book a private Starry Night Studio.
Lauren Hunter-Smith
Marketing Director
Lauren manages all marketing and communications for the Arts Center, overseeing advertising, branding, social media and website content, e-newsletters, and planning and promotion of special events. She has a bachelors in biology and studio art from the University of Kentucky. After graduating, she spent time with the Peace Corps in Benin, West Africa, using her graphic design skills to create non-verbal communication charts for physicians working there. Previous to joining the Arts Center staff, she was the curator of education and graphic design at the Headley-Whitney Museum in Lexington, Ky.
Lauren's favorite thing about the Arts Center: The joyous atmosphere coupled with the dedicated staff and vast variety of programming make the Arts Center irresistable to anyone! Regardless of which demographic you fit into, there is something for you here."
Contact Lauren if you have questions about the Arts Center's social media pages, want to sign up for an enewsletter, want to guest blog, if you're a member of the news media, or if you're interested in cross-promotion with the Arts Center.
Gretchen Hines-Ward
Education Director
Gretchen Hines-Ward has experience in many areas related to arts and education. Her graduate work in educational communication from Murray State University has led her to jobs curating exhibits, coordinating educational goals (for places like planetariums and historic sites), and arts administration for higher education.
She has also dabbled in as many art forms as she possibly can. With a degree in music from The College of William and Mary, Gretchen has spent a lot of time playing in orchestras, singing in choirs, performind ballads in coffee houses, and marching in bands. She has also been a costume designer for numerous theatrical productions and technical clothing designer for a commercial clothing company. Gretchen has worked as a freelance writer, photographer and graphic designer on occasion, and currently spends her free time in fiber arts such as knitting, sewing, and spinning. She and her husband currently live on a farm in Mercer County.
Gretchen says: My favorite thing about working at the Community Arts Center (besides the wonderful staff!) is the opportunity to work with so many different artists in so many different mediums. I love being able to learn from them and collaborate with them on creative ideas. New ideas are always welcome, and our goal to support art in all forms, at any level, in any medium, gives us countless opportunities for creative programming.
Contact Gretchen if you want to teach a class, to ask about an existing class, to request a new class, to book a field trip, or if you need information about summer camps.
Brandon Long
Programming Director
Brandon was born an artist and a musician who joined the Arts Center in January 2007. He's in charge of scheduling and hanging exhibits, maintaining gallery spaces, developing content for the annual blockbuster exhibit, instructing Starry Night Studios sessions, leading Arts Cart outreach programs, creating innovative new programming for the Community Arts Center, and creating all of our graphic designs. Before working at the Arts Center, he was a merchandising coordinator at Joseph Beth Booksellers.
Brandon's favorite thing about the Arts Center: The reason I come to work every day is that we are providing a unique experience for artists young and old that simply didn't exist on a local level when I was growing up. My daughter, at five years old, is one of the most driven, creative young people I've ever been around and I can't help but think that the Arts Center is one of the main proponents of her enthusiasm. Sometimes people will tell her, "Jillian, you're going to be a great artists someday," and she replies, "I already AM an artist." That's when I know that at least one person has fully gotten our message and mission, and that makes it all worth it
Contact Brandon if you are an artist who wishes to exhibit at the Arts Center, if you have questions about the annual juried show "Horizon: Contemporary Landscape" or if you would like to book an Arts Cart visit to your area.
Nancy Martindale
Visitor Services Coordinator
Nancy does a little bit of everything! You'll see her working the front desk, leading volunteer training, teaching classes, helping out in Lisi's Art Lab... just about anywhere, really. Nancy also gathers valuable feedback from the community and visitors so that the Arts Center can provide the highest possible quality of exhibits, services and classes. Nancy is a retired teacher and former education coordinator for the Arts Center. She is an artist in her own right, working mainly with fabrics and hand-made felt, but she was also a juried potter in the Southern Highlands Guild and Pennsylvania Guild back in the 90's.
Nancy's favorite thing about the Arts Center: My favorite part of working here is the variety of exhibits, people, and activities I get to be part of. Never a dull day at the Arts Center!
Kate Snyder
Development Director
Kate is responsible for developing and implementing the Arts Center's fundraising programs by connecting art-lovers in the community with opportunities to bring their passions to life. Kate holds a BA in Anthropology and an MA in the Theology and Archaeology of the Old Testament. Prior to joining the Arts Center, Kate spent eight years in non-profit fundraising and development in Pittsburgh, PA.
Kate's Favorite Thing About the Arts Center: I love the inter-generational programming and the fact that there really is something for everyone at the Arts Center. Anyone in the community can get involved, from a toddler wielding a paintbrush to an eighty-year-old with a burning desire to learn the French horn. To me, that breadth of opportunity is what community is all about.
Contact Kate if you are interested in sponsoring an event, giving a cash or in-kind gift, or volunteering your time.
Andrea Cutts
Volunteer Extraordinaire
Andrea first volunteered for us during in August 2013, and she stayed! You'll see Andrea working the front desk, changing out crafts and activities in Lisi's Art Lab, running around town telling local businesses and visitors about upcoming events, serving as a paintwaiter during Starry Night Studio, helping build exhibits... just about anything and everything!
Andrea says: I saw a call for Dantastic Revenge volunteers on Facebook. It was a lot of fun and I thought I'd like to come back more often. Now, I can't leave this place! I love seeing people's reactions when they come in to the exhibit... It means a lot to me to see them so appreciative of the hard work we've put into it.
Not sure who to talk to? Email email@example.com and someone will respond to you soon!
Board of Directors
The Arts Center is served by a rotating set of board members selected from all different areas of the Danville community that devote their time, money and talents to fulfill the mission of the Arts Center.
Steve Griffin, President
Jo Ann Rice, Vice President
Matt Sirasky, Treasurer
Dr. Barbara Hall, Secretary
Jennifer Ahnquist
Gary Barkman
Suzanne Farmer
Margo Goodwin
Amanda Hendershot
Steven A. Hoffman
Niki Kinkade
Barbara Lockhart
Christopher J. Tucker
Sarah Wiltsee
Dr. Tom Baeker, Emeritus Board Member
Host an Event
Host your own Starry Night Studio
The Community Arts Center's popular Starry Night Studios are a "social painting experience" held several times a month in our Grand Hall.
If you can't make it to a scheduled Starry Night Studio or want to host one of your own, gather 10 friends and email Mary Beth to schedule it. Starry Night Studios are great for birthday parties, a girls' night out, staff retreats, client appreciation, or just because!
Host your next event at the Community Arts Center
The Community Arts Center offers a graceful and intimate for your next special event, and is conveniently located in downtown Danville. To make a reservation, download the rental contract, then call 859-236-4054 or email firstname.lastname@example.com.
Our Grand Hall is available to rent for private birthday parties, anniversary celebrations, weddings, meetings, conferences and holiday events!
Rental of the Grand Hall includes the use of catering space, a large beverage counter and a reception table area, and can comfortably seat 90 guests at a formal dinner or 125 guests at a cocktail buffet with space for music and dancing.
For more informal occasions, Kids World on our lower level and the Farmers Bank Gallery and Lockhart Gallery upstairs can also be reserved.
We do not provide catering services or rental of tables, linens or dinnerware.
-$80/hour for the Grand Hall, including set-up and take-down time
-$30/hour for the upstairs galleries, including set-up and take-down time
-$50 one-time administrative fee
-$150 fee if serving alcohol
-$300 damage deposit
Note: We must receive 50% of the total rental price to formally reserve your date and time.
Weisiger Park, the open area outside of the Danville Courthouse across the street from the Arts Center, is also available for use in conjunction with your event. This space has a small gazebo and is available nearly year-round. Call 859-236-4054 to find out more about this rental option.
Download our complete rental contract for more information.

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For me to say
That I loved you
Only Yesterday
That I am not
Your missing piece
So give our hearts
And souls some peace
I know that apology's not enough..
To heal the wound of a broken bluff..
But from me you should run away..
Cause in your arms my heart can't stay..
There's still one thing
I want you to know..
Once in my life,
I had loved you so.
Do not beg for me
Back to you..
Cause someone deserves you
Better much more than I do.
Hope we'll be friends till the end of time..
Greeting each other everyday with a smile..
Don't let yourself with me suffer and die..
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Thank you to everyone that submitted an entry to this week's 90210 Caption Contest.
It was a pretty good beginning to the game, though we'd love to see more responses next time.
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IMW Industries, Ltd., a wholly-owned subsidiary of Clean Energy Fuels Corp., (NASDAQ: CLNE) today announced an exclusive distribution and customer care agreement with Russian Machines Corporation (RM), part of the Basic Element Group. Under the agreement, RM is named the exclusive distributor of IMW compressors, compressed natural gas (CNG) filling solutions, parts, and sole provider of maintenance and service within the Russian Federation. The agreement supports the May 2013 Russian decree 767-p to convert 50 percent of public transit and other vehicles to natural gas fuel by 2020 in cities with a population over one million.
"The Russian CNG vehicle market holds tremendous potential and the market for quality compressor equipment is expected to rapidly increase," said Andrew J. Littlefair, president and CEO of Clean Energy. "As reported by Reuters in May 2013, Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev's May decree underscores the economic and environmental benefits a vibrant Russian CNG vehicle market would represent and we're eager to help this market succeed."
RM's GAZ Group is the leading company in Russia for the manufacturing of commercial vehicles, such as buses and light commercial vehicles, powered by gas fuel including liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) and CNG. GAZ Group has approximately 65 percent of the bus manufacturing market in Russia. In 2013, GAZ Group launched production of PAZ-3204-4238 and KAVZ natural gas buses and produced a pilot batch of pre-serial bi-fuel Gazelle BUSINESS LCVs which run on CNG and gasoline.
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The offense scored their 14 runs on 18 hits – both season highs – but the biggest hit of the game came in the third inning, when Ramos crushed a no-doubt home run off Mets starter Carlos Torres for a grand slam.
The five-run third inning knocked Torres from the game after allowing a total of eight earned runs, but no Mets pitcher could fool the Nats, who seemed set on breaking out of their offensive funk and earning the win for Jordan.
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Did the Polynesians bring the rats with them deliberately, and if so, why? Did they eat them? It's hard to imagine rats stowing away in a canoe. Where would they hide?
Published March 18, 2014
So why did the chicken cross the Pacific? Well, apparently it didn't. At least not all the way.
Scientists looking into the DNA of ancient and modern chicken breeds found throughout Micronesia and Polynesia have determined that they are genetically distinct from those found in South America. The research runs counter to a popular theory that Polynesian seafarers might have reached the coast of South America hundreds of years ago, before European explorers.
Among the intriguing indications that contact might have been made between Polynesians and the native peoples of South America was the supposed pre-Columbian presence of non-native chickens, allegedly introduced to the continent by seafarers from South Pacific islands. More evidence comes from the ubiquity of the sweet potato, a South American native, in the South Pacific—it was already widespread throughout the islands by the time James Cook sailed into the region in 1770. (See National Geographic's South Pacific photos.)
Now it appears the chicken link, at least, may be severed, according to Alan Cooper, director of the Australian Centre for Ancient DNA, a co-author of the study published this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
Researchers sequenced mitochondrial DNA from 22 chicken bones found at Polynesian archaeological sites and 122 feathers from modern chickens living on islands across the South Pacific. They used an enzyme to remove any contamination by modern DNA that may have clouded the results of earlier studies. When the team compared the "cleaned-up" DNA of Polynesian chickens with that of ancient and modern South American chickens, they found the two groups were genetically distinct.
The chicken DNA does not support a connection between the peoples separated by the Pacific, Cooper said. "Indeed, the lack of the Polynesian sequences [of DNA] in modern South American chickens ... would argue against any trading contact as far as chickens go."
Cooper and his colleagues were able to trace the origins of Polynesian chickens back in time and across the Pacific, following the lines of what must rank as one of the boldest, most romantic, and least understood human migrations of all time—the peopling of the tropical islands of the South Seas.
"We can show [from chicken DNA] that the trail heads back into the Philippines," Cooper said. "We're currently working on tracing it farther northward from there. However, we're following a proxy, rather than the actual humans themselves."
Colonizing the South Pacific
The peopling of the South Pacific happened in two stages, the first of which took place more than 3,000 years ago when mysterious seafarers known as the Lapita set off from Papua New Guinea's Bismarck Archipelago into the great blue void of the Pacific. Within a startlingly few generations they managed to find and colonize hundreds of hidden tropical paradises: Vanuatu, Fiji, Tonga, Samoa, New Caledonia.
They sailed as pioneers, not explorers, bringing their families and everything they might need to build new homes on the lands they clearly expected to find: flints for toolmaking, pottery, and foodstuffs—including their chickens.
A second, much later phase, beginning around the year A.D. 800, saw them expand into the vastness of the eastern Pacific—to Tahiti, Bora Bora, the Marquesas, Easter Island, and Hawaii. Precisely how these people accomplished such astonishing voyages, and why they attempted them, remains an intriguing mystery, for they left behind no writings and very few artifacts. (Read "Beyond the Blue Horizon" in National Geographic magazine.)
With so few clues to work from—not a single example of an early Polynesian voyaging canoe survives today—archaeologists have been forced to tease out the story of this great migration from the evidence of scattered bones and pottery shards on far-flung islands, and strands of DNA from the plants and livestock the South Seas pioneers brought with them and whose descendants live on today.
Using these bits and pieces, archaeologists have been able to put together a rough time line of the Polynesians' eastward expansion across the Pacific, and the legendary bit of southerly backtracking that led them to discover New Zealand around the year A.D. 1300. But one of the great questions remains: Did they make it all the way across the Pacific to the coast of South America? Did they beat Columbus to the New World? It is a matter of heated debate among South Pacific scholars and one unlikely to be put to rest by the latest findings on chicken DNA.
David Burley, an archaeologist at Simon Fraser University in Canada who has been working in the South Pacific for more than 25 years, has no doubt the Polynesians reached the New World, whatever the evidence from chicken DNA. "The evidence for Polynesian contact with the New World prior to Columbus is substantial," he said. "We have the sweet potato, the bottle gourd, all this New World stuff that has been firmly documented as being out here pre-Columbian. If the Polynesians could find Easter Island, which is just this tiny speck, don't you think they could have found an entire continent?"
Bones of Contention
The idea that Polynesians might have introduced the chicken to South America and thus left behind evidence of their seagoing feat is a fairly new one. For many years, scholars assumed that early European explorers from Portugal and Spain brought the birds to South America, along with horses, pigs, and cattle.
A 2007 study, however, announced the discovery of chicken bones found at an archaeological site near Santiago, Chile, that yielded radiocarbon dates between 1321 and 1407—long before the arrival of Europeans. The early dates, the location along the Pacific coast, and the presence in the bones of what appeared to have been a unique genetic mutation common to Polynesian chickens raised the tantalizing prospect that the meaty birds may have been introduced by South Pacific seafarers.
"It is the most likely explanation," said Alice Storey, an archaeologist with the consulting firm Archer CRM, who led the 2007 study in Chile. "I have investigated many other potential routes of introduction, and none of them are as likely as a Polynesian introduction."
Within a year, though, those results were called into question by other researchers. A subsequent analysis by Cooper and his colleagues of the DNA from the Chilean finds challenged the dates and suggested that the genetic mutation originally thought to have come from Polynesian forebears was in fact a fairly common mutation found in chickens throughout the world. That study formed the basis of the most recent research into the DNA of Polynesian chickens that appeared this week.
For her part, Storey stands by the pre-Columbian dates she and her team obtained for the chicken bones in Chile. She argues that the DNA results in the study released this week are far from conclusive.
"Indeed, the bulk of their research focuses on modern DNA," she said. "Using modern DNA to understand what people were doing in the past is like sampling a group of commuters at a London Tube station at rush hour. The DNA you get is unlikely to provide much useful information on the pre-Roman population of London."
As humans moved around the world, they brought chickens along with them. So modern chicken populations aren't necessarily representative of past populations, Storey said. "We know from his journals [that] Cook moved chickens all over the Pacific, as did other Europeans, so DNA from chickens living on Pacific islands today has little to tell us about what people were doing in Polynesia, the Pacific, and in Southeast Asia before A.D. 1600."
The new research appears to have laid these old bones to rest, but questions remain. One thing is certain: If the dates of the 2007 study are correct and there were indeed chickens in pre-Columbian South America, they had to come from somewhere. There is also the matter of the sweet potato, a definite South American native, which had spread throughout the Pacific by the time Europeans arrived on the scene.
"The sweet potato is a good question," conceded Cooper. "The bottle gourd was recently shown to have probably crossed to South America by marine currents, not human trade, as previously assumed, so I also wonder about the potato's ability to be dispersed in that fashion."
If the presence of pre-Columbian chickens is a good indicator that Polynesians succeeded in crossing the Pacific, the absence of one of their old shipmates—Rattus exulans, the Pacific rat—makes an equally compelling case against it. The Pacific rat is known to have traveled everywhere with their Polynesian hosts, and wherever they landed they invariably established thriving local rat populations that live on to this day. There are no Pacific rats in South America.
I believe that the Polynesians brought the chickens to South America. Not the Europeans. The chickens that were used in the study belonged to breed Araucana which were kept by the Mapuche tribe. The breed is renowned for laying blue eggs which is unique just to the Araucana. No other breed lays blue eggs. The blue egg gene originates from an original cross that goes way back to Java, Indonesia, The cross was between a red junglefowl which all chickens descend from and green junglefowl which is endemic to a small number of islands in Indonesia. The green junglefowl carries the tinted egg gene which is responsible for the blue eggs in the Araucana.The tribes that sailed out of Java into the vast Pacific ocean brought along this hybrid chicken as a good luck charm and also a beacon for other tribe members in case they were lost, the crow of the male is distinct from the average barnyard rooster. As the other various Polynesians got ahold of this chicken they eventually hit South America which eventually got into the possession of the Mapuche. It is also noted that Mapuche men would fight the roosters as entertainment. The same practice that the Polynesian did. Go figure!
Doesn't explain the reverse migration of the Potato to Polynesia, with radio-carbon dating in Pacific islands to before 1000 AD. Not only did the actual potato migrate with human help, but the Polynesians used the same name as the South American natives who first cultivated it.
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I have a question. Aren't all breeds of chicken originated from Red and Grey junglefowls from Southeast and South Asia, respectively? If that is the case, doesn't all chickens trace their roots to any of these countries, including the Philippines where wild junglefowls still exist and are called Labuyo.
Since Tahiti was discovered by Europeans on Bougainville's 1769 voyage it's most likely the picture depicts a late 18th C view.
Chicken DNA in Polynesia can be traced back to Philippines. It means that Philippines fishermen have a long history of seafaring. Bajo de Masinloc is just a backyard in comparison. China historical claim to the whole South Pacific just got busted.
As there is a difference between Polynesian and South American chicken DNA, further testing of fossil chicken bones from Rapa nui might show us whether the chickens there came from South America or from Polynesia.
Kukul Khan - the Mayan emperor who is depicted as a man holding two eggs, was meant to have brought agriculture and the domestication of animals to central America from Asia - maybe he is responsible for the spread of chickens to South America.
Carta sobre o Descobrimento do Brasil by Pero Vaz de Caminha, written for the king of Portugal, D. Manuel, about the expedition of Pedro Alvares de Cabral to the northern of the future Brazil in 1500 tells about the choc and the fright of the indians seeing chickens on the portuguese boat. They were not afraid of the captain, clad in armour and fully armed, but took fright and ran to the shore seeing and hearing the ferocious birds pecking on the deck.
Has anyone tested Arabic chickens for DNA's? There seeems to have been a lot of cross the ocean travels by them. They came across on the Kamchak Current in the north and went home on the Equatorial current six months later. Great for vacations.
Please don't mistake theory for hypothesis, conjecture, supposition, intuition, notion, and the ever popular, belief.
An interesting theory on polynesian migration techniques is that explorers would set out during off-seasonal meteorologic reversals and sail more or less into what would be the prevailing breeze. In this manner they were able to migrate from west to east with the knowledge that the returning trade wind can blow them safely home. As they cast out in this manner they discovered polynesia.
Migration would then follow each explorational success, the polynesians settling a vast area of the globe. They set out looking for new lands as population and tribal pressures grew. And the lands they found were unpopulated.
These things are important. Explorers may not have brought chickens with them, or ate them before they hit the continent. And full scale migration may not have followed because the great new land wasn't suitable for polynesian settlement. There was a well established population already there.
So no chicken. But they grabbed some tubers and some gourds. I for one think that it would be more amazing to think that they could make it as far as they did and not continue to the Americas. Maybe people struggle to think that they turned their back once they found it. "There are no islands here".
Sweet potatoes float.
@Gil Carvalho Simple the Polynesians traded with the various tribes of South America primarily the coastal tribes like the Mapuche and Quechua. read my comment on the origin of the South American chicken, The study that was done is nonsense I sense that something to do with a pride that Europeans conquered South America is the correct one and that Polynesians having contact with natives of South America is wrong as these people are just primitive in their eyes. The people that done this study were white by the way.
So only Europeans can DISCOVER ? ?
@Alfredo Quedi actually, it is believed that most Pacific Islands were populated by ancient Austronesian stocks from the Philippines, who, in the first place, might have originated in present day Taiwan.
About Bajo de Masinloc; China has been trading with Filipinos eversince time immemorial. In fact, during the Ming dynasty, while China closed its doors to Japan, allowing only trade every ten years, China kept its doors open to traders from the Kingdom of Tondo (in present day Manila) who are able to make trades with the Empire every year. Therefore, their supposed "discovery of the island is ridiculous. Their maps illustrated all of China's trading partners including the chiefdoms in the present day Philippines.
@Jaime Pretell-Samsey but floating thousands of miles in salt water from non-human means is unlikely, considering the potato was first cultivated in a mountainous climate. Also, the Pacific Islanders called the potato the same name as the South Americans who first cultivated it. Did the name for the potato also float with it randomly across thousands of miles? Why did the potato not also float to Africa, Australia or Europe?
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6'5", 200 lb. sophomore forward from Menomonee Falls, WI (Menomonee Falls). Averaged 2.6 points and 1.7 rebounds per game last season. The J.P stands for Jean-Pierre.
6'10", 225lb. junior forward from Cream Ridge, N.J. (New Egypt). Started in 18 games last season, leading the team in blocked shots with 30.
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6' 6", 220 lb. junior guard from Greensboro (Hargrave Military Academy). Suspended by coach Roy Williams to begin the season. Led the Heels in scoring last season, averaging 14.6 points per game. Was team-leader in 3-pointers with 89.
6'7", 225 lb. junior forwrd from Webster, N.C. (Smoky Mountain). Scored 54 points in 32 games last season, with career-highs in points (8) and minutes (21) against Boston College.
Jackson Simmons
6'8", 220 lb. freshman forward from Oxford (J.F. Webb). Associated Press 2013 Player of the Year in North Carolina, Parade and McDonald's All-American. Averaged 22.9 points, 12.9 rebounds and 5.6 blocks last season, leading his team to 3A state title where he was named MVP.
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James Manor
6'6", 220 lb. senior forward from Carrboro (Chapel Hill). A walk-on who joined the varsity team in October 2012 after two years on the JV squad. Played in 12 games last season, scoring four points and grabbing 3 rebounds.
Denzel Robinson
6'4", 220 lb. senior forward from Chapel Hill (Chapel Hill). A walk-on who joined the varsity team in October 2012 after two years on the JV squad. Played in 12 games last season, scoring two points with four rebounds.
6'10", 280 lb. sophomore forward from West Palm Beach, FL. (Dwyer). Averaged 2.3 points and 2.4 reboiunds in 30 games last season. Had a season-high 11 points and eight boards against Florida Atlantic.
Joel James
James Michael McAdoo
6'9", 230 lb. junior forward from Norfolk, Va. (Norfolk Christian). Led the Tar Heels in rebounding (7.3) and steals (54) and was second in scoring with 14.4 per game last season. Had a career-high 26 points and 14 rebounds against Gardner-Webb last November.
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6', 175 lb. senior guard from Mount Airy (Mount Airy). A walk-on who joined the varsity team in October 2012 after playing on the JV squad his sophomore year. Had five points in 13 games last season.
Hall of Fame coach in his 11th season as head coach of the Tar Heels. Has two NCAA Championships at UNC (2005, 2009) with a 700-180 record entering the season. His teams at UNC and Kansas have won 79.5% of their games, second all-time winning percentage to Kentucky's Adolph Rupp. A 1972 UNC graduate from Asheville.
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LAS VEGAS (AP) -- Authorities say two suspects shot and killed two police officers at a Las Vegas eatery Sunday before fatally shooting a third person and killing themselves inside a nearby Walmart.
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Las Vegas police spokesman Larry Hadfield says the spree began late Sunday morning when a man and woman walked into CiCi's Pizza and shot two officers who were eating lunch.
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The Stunned Mullet
The Stunned Mullet is a smart-casual Modern Australian Restaurant located in Port Macquarie NSW. Positioned across from iconic Town Beach, it epitomises the Australian coastal lifestyle. Casual, relaxed dining whilst taking in sweeping views- all the way out to Point Plomer in the north.
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One Bank Turns Attention to Scooter Stuart Life Insurance Payouts
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Did you know leadership at One Bank & Trust has steered the Little Rock lender back to court in a new lawsuit connected with its former owner, Layton "Scooter" Stuart?
The Pulaski County Circuit case seeks to pierce the veil of several entities and have them declared to be alter egos of Stuart, who died in March 2013.
Perhaps the most significant is the Stuart Family 1997 Trusts, which have claim to $14.7 million remaining from a life insurance payout after Stuart's death.
One Bank's complaint alleges that Stuart exercised financial control over the trusts, which included improper borrowings against the life insurance policy.
The suit argues that since Stuart exercised individual control over the trusts, the insurance payout should be treated as his individual asset and subject to financial claims by One Bank.
Other entities targeted by the lawsuit include Rivercity Energy Co., controlled by Stuart and allegedly used to facilitate self-dealing with One Bank, and OneFinancial Corp., the holding company that was 99.9 percent owned by Stuart.
Among other things, OneFinancial was the conduit for TARP funds to flow from the U.S. Treasury to rebuild One Bank's capital. Stuart allegedly diverted about $2.3 million of the $17.3 million in TARP money to repay the bank for funds he used for personal expenses.
Other named defendants are Stuart's estate, Tom Whitehead, One Bank's former chief financial officer who allegedly aided and was rewarded by Stuart's alleged financial chicanery, and JAS Properties LLC, allegedly controlled by Whitehead and the conduit for $25,000 he allegedly received for helping Stuart.
One Bank previously filed an $18.8 million claim in federal court for money allegedly owed in connection with Stuart and his suspect dealings with the bank.
One Bank received $3 million in May as reimbursement for payments it made to keep Stuart's life insurance policy in force. The reimbursement came from the insurance payout seized last year by the U.S. government.
Included in its new lawsuit in state court is a claim for an additional $472,520 the bank said it is owed in connection with life insurance premiums paid but unverified by John Hancock Life Insurance.
The U.S. government disputed that added amount as did Dick Torti, executor of Stuart's estate and trustee of the insurance trusts.


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CSP Mobile Productions Chooses Ten More Canon HD Lenses For Its On-Location Vehicles, Including The New 53-Ft. HD-2
Specialists in providing on-location HD facilities for the coverage of major league and college sports throughout the U.S., CSP Mobile Productions has recently outfitted HD-2, its new 53-ft. production vehicle, with ten HD lenses from Canon U.S.A., Inc., a leader in digital imaging solutions. HD-2, CSP Mobile Productions' third new HD production vehicle introduced within the past two years, will carry eight newly purchased Canon HD lenses, including: one XJ100x9.3B, two XJ86X13.5B, and three XJ72x9.3B long-field HD zoom lenses; one HJ14ex4.3B wide-angle portable HD lens; and one KJ20x8.2B portable HD lens with 2x extender. HD-2 will also be equipped with two Canon HJ22ex7.6B portable HD lenses from CSP Mobile Productions' existing inventory. Two additional newly purchased KJ20x8.2B portable HD lenses will be carried by the company's two other HD trucks, HD-1 and HD-3.
"We run Canon HD lenses exclusively on all of our HD trucks primarily due to the reliability of the lenses themselves and Canon's service," noted Len Chase, president/co-owner of CSP Mobile Productions. "Our company is based in Saco, Maine and, in addition to sports, we also provide on-location HD production facilities for such clients as broadcast and cable networks, corporate communicators, pay-per-view producers, and Internet content providers. HD-2, which debuts this November, was built by Kentucky Trailer Technology. It is a highly advanced 53-ft. expando truck that's wired for seven eight-channel video servers and also includes an advanced HD production switcher, a digital audio console, and facilities for 16 cameras, each of which has a Canon HD lens on it."
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Today in History
Today is Friday, April 27, the 118th day of 2012. There are 248 days left in the year.
Today's Highlight in History:
On April 27, 2011, powerful tornadoes raked the South and Midwest. According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, more than 120 twisters resulted in 316 deaths across parts of Mississippi, Alabama, Tennessee, Virginia and Georgia.
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In 1521, Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan was killed by natives in the Philippines.
In 1777, the only land battle in Connecticut during the Revolutionary War, the Battle of Ridgefield, took place, resulting in a limited British victory.
In 1805, during the First Barbary War, an American-led force of Marines and mercenaries captured the city of Derna, on the shores of Tripoli.
In 1822, the 18th president of the United States, Ulysses S. Grant, was born in Point Pleasant, Ohio.
In 1865, the steamer Sultana exploded on the Mississippi River near Memphis, Tenn., killing more than 1,400 people, mostly freed Union prisoners of war.
In 1932, American poet Hart Crane, 32, drowned after jumping from a steamer into the Gulf of Mexico while en route to New York.
In 1941, German forces occupied Athens during World War II.
In 1967, Expo '67 was officially opened in Montreal by Canadian Prime Minister Lester B. Pearson.
In 1972, the Apollo 16 mission to the moon ended safely.
In 1973, Acting FBI Director L. Patrick Gray resigned after it was revealed that he'd destroyed files removed from the safe of Watergate conspirator E. Howard Hunt.
In 1982, the trial of John W. Hinckley Jr., who had shot four people, including President Ronald Reagan, began in Washington. (The trial ended with Hinckley's acquittal by reason of insanity.)
In 1992, the new Federal Republic of Yugoslavia was proclaimed in Belgrade by the republic of Serbia and its lone ally, Montenegro. Russia and 12 other former Soviet republics won entry into the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank. Betty Boothroyd became the first female Speaker of Britain's House of Commons.
Ten years ago: South African entrepreneur Mark Shuttleworth arrived at the international space station for an eight-day, seven-night cruise that had cost him $20 million. A biker brawl at Harrah's Casino in Laughlin, Nev., left three bikers dead and 12 others wounded. Derek Lowe of the Boston Red Sox pitched a no-hitter against the Tampa Bay Devil Rays (final score: 10-0). Mattel toy company co-founder Ruth Handler, creator of the Barbie doll, died in Los Angeles at age 85.
Five years ago: President George W. Bush and visiting Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe (shin-zoh ah-bay) threatened stronger punitive actions against North Korea if it reneged on a promise to padlock its sole nuclear reactor. A judge in Madrid indicted three U.S. soldiers in the 2003 death of Jose Couso, a Spanish journalist who was killed when their tank opened fire at a hotel in Baghdad. (The U.S., which found the use of force was justified, has refused to hand over the soldiers.) The government reported economic growth slowed to a near crawl of 1.3 percent in the first quarter of 2007. Master cellist Mstislav Rostropovich (mis-teh-SLAHV' rah-stroh-POH'-vich) died in Moscow at age 80.