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Editor's note: This is part three of a three-part profile of Heartland Honda in Springdale, Ark. Part one contains a history of the store, as well as details on how the staff has been downsized. Part two focuses on the store's marketing efforts, both in the real world and digitally. Vendors are praised, and panned.
The joys and sorrows of selling Honda are well known. The brand's margins have been low for years. But the company's in-house finance arm has proven invaluable during the credit crisis.
These joys and sorrows are intensified for the single-line dealers, who live or die by the brand. In addition, these dealers have their own issues. They have to comply with Honda's special Powerhouse requirements while at the same time benefiting from special perks.
I got an inside look at the Powerhouse dealer's world in November. As I explained in part one of this profile, I visited Heartland Honda in Springdale, Ark. and had a conversation with Greg Donahoe, who runs the Level 5 store.
My timing couldn't have been better. Just a couple of weeks earlier, Donahoe had attended a symposium for Powerhouse dealers at corporate headquarters in California.
Donahoe told me about the event. He also shared why he thinks Honda margins are so bad, and why he thinks Honda is afraid to enforce an online MAP (minimum advertised price) policy, even though it would be in its best interest.
Strong words perhaps. But Donahoe is no Honda hater. In fact, he loves this year's new models and praises the company's financing and recent invoice discounts, customer rebates and willingness to listen to complaints. Honda asked each dealer at the symposium to write a list of demands, then prioritize. Donahoe had just faxed his new list before we talked.
But before delving into the positives of being a Honda-only dealer, let's get back to those margins.
Market Share at All Costs?
Back in early 2008, the RPM Group managed 20 groups for about 350 dealerships, which skewed toward larger retailers and included about 80 Harley-Davidson dealers. The RPM Group president at the time told me that according to preliminary sales data collected from the stores, the average new-vehicle sales margin in 2007 had been 16 percent. The 2006 average had been 18 percent.
Honda dealers, he said, had been particularly hard-hit. "Several of our Honda-only dealers are in the single-digit gross profit percentage," he noted. "They're running 6, 7, 8 percent gross profit on Honda." I didn't ask whether these statistics took into account holdbacks.
The RPM Group president may not have been authorized to share those numbers (after I included them in an article, he stopped returning my phone calls), but I've heard similar stories from consultants and Powerhouse dealers.
So why are Honda margins particularly bad?
One reason, Donahoe says, is that Honda lacks a good MAP policy for online advertising. "I don't have the accurate, real information," he says, "but I think Honda has some big-volume dealers that are Honda-only, and they put everything on eBay and the Internet for net-net or close to net-net. And whether they get the actual sale, they drive the market because a consumer can go on there and see what they think they can buy it for. That hurts margins."
Donahoe says other dealers feel the same way. "We just got back from Torrance two weeks ago, a big symposium with Powerhouse dealers, and it's a big issue because the margins are lower than they should be," he says. "We've got the Cadillac of touring machines in the Honda Gold Wing. It ought to bring close to list, or it ought to bring invoice at least. There's a 10 percent holdback on them, and dealers sell right into it. It's ridiculous."
Honda does have an online MAP policy for its power equipment. "Generators are our saving force," Donahoe asserts. "There's good margin in it. There's high demand in it. It's a great product.
"And see, that's what's funny," he continues. "They're the same parent company, but obviously Power Equipment and Motorcycles are very different divisions within American Honda. Power Equipment's got their advertising on the Internet figured out. You don't mess with it. You can't whore it out. You can't do any of that."
According to Donahoe, even Honda's Motorcycles division has a good MAP policy for print and traditional media. But he also calls such advertising "a dying breed" when compared to the Internet.
"Where everyone is going, there's no regulations," he reiterates. "In Power Equipment, it's just the opposite. They regulate it. It's a fantastic program. It maintains the integrity of the product. It maintains the margins. And dealers don't dare mess with it because they don't want to jeopardize getting their product line yanked."
So the answer for the Motorcycles division seems to be: Do as Power Equipment does. "There's a big push from the dealer body, I can tell you just from the meeting I was at," says Donahoe.
Why hasn't Honda already implemented a strong online MAP policy?
Donahoe thinks the company is "scared to death to do it" for two reasons. First, there might be legal issues. Telling your dealers what to do, then monitoring them, does seem like a serious project for the legal department.
Second, Honda might be scared that if it were to put an end to heavy discounting, it would lose volume and market share.
"And I beg to differ," Donahoe says. "I think its market share would increase."
As an example, he says first consider that there are about 1,250 Honda dealers nationwide, then ask yourself, how many of those dealers are in the Gold Wing business?
"A handful," he says, "because most of them don't want to compete because the pricing stinks. But if you had that pricing integrity put in place, you would have a lot more Honda dealers selling Gold Wings. They're a premier product, and the customers would want to buy local if it's no different versus here or there."
Donahoe says Honda's status as the country's largest metric importer could hinder its battle against discounters. "Honda's got more capacity to produce, so they have more product out there because they typically have more market share. So it's easier to get your hands on products."
Donahoe praises Honda's efforts to increase margins after the fact by offering retail rebates on scooters, on '08 units like the Recon 250s and 250X ATVs, and on all CRF dirtbikes. He says VTX1800 models have rebates plus "huge" invoice incentives.
"They're trying to clean up their old stock," he says. "It's not totally clean yet, but it's getting there."
Excess inventory, of course, is a festering problem of the past few years. When Donahoe first entered the market in 1996, he had the opposite problem. "I can remember back in the day you'd want to be careful if you sold a bike for too low because you might not be able to get another one," he says.
Powerhouse Perks
If Honda pricing policies sound like a mess, keep in mind that most other OEMs are grappling with the same issues. And lest you envision a bleak life for the single-line Honda dealer, keep in mind that many entrepreneurs have made a fortune owning such a store. Heartland Honda's annual revenue, for example, went from $1 million in 1996 to $15 million in 2008.
But bringing in big bucks requires spending big bucks. Opening a Powerhouse store isn't cheap. Accordingly, Honda provides incentives.
"Automatic inventory replenishment is one of them," Donahoe says, "which has reduced our flooring."
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The most recent Powerhouse perk? Honda has created a BIG (business improvement group) 20 group just for L5 Powerhouse dealers. Donahoe says about half of the 44 L5 dealerships have joined. The first meeting took place at the Powerhouse symposium. "I'm pretty excited about it because for once in the lifetime of this business, it's going to be an apple-to-apple comparison. We all face the same issues."
Powerhouse dealers also get enhanced co-op funds — theoretically. "There's some stuff that we're supposed to get that maybe we're not per se getting," Donahoe explains. "That's what the symposium was about."
Overall, Donahoe is positive about Honda corporate. "They're trying," he says. "They want Powerhouse to work; they want it to be an added benefit, in particular for the dealers that have got the investment in the facilities and manpower. But they're also trying not to alienate the rest of the dealer body."
Most readers will remember the debacle that ensued when Honda entered the PWC market, selling the units only to stores that agreed to become Honda-only. "The watercraft thing bit them in the ass," says Donahoe, whose store ironically just had a good watercraft year.
Regardless of any potential sticking points, Honda is still promoting the single-line concept. "Let's say an open point came open somewhere," Donahoe says, "if you want to be an open point, you're going to have to be a Powerhouse dealer. That's what they're saying."
Not that any OEM is trying to add a bunch of dealers right now. Just the opposite. Donahoe knows of a couple of Powerhouse dealerships that have gone out of business.
Flexing Honda's Finance Arm
One major benefit of selling Honda is shared by all dealers of the brand: American Honda Finance Corp.
"They're very strong," Donahoe says, citing the readily available installment loans with competitive terms. "It's a huge advantage."
G.E. Money runs Honda's revolving program. "They don't buy anything," Donahoe says. "We don't even send them any paper."
To be fair, Donahoe doesn't like revolving loans. "Even during the high times," he says, "we would only do a revolving if the customer just pushed and pushed, and we felt like we were going to lose them to another dealer that was going to slap them on it."
Low initial payments and high interest rates, Donahoe notes, hinder future sales. "We know what our cycle is. It is two, two and a half years [before a] trade. We want customers to be in a position to be able to do so."
Like most Powerhouse dealers, Heartland Honda sells a lot of used units of all brands. These used units, of course, provide much higher margins. In a recent year, the store sold 1,200 new units and 600 used units sourced from customers and auctions.
AHFC will finance only pre-owned Hondas, so Donahoe has close relationships with three local banks. "We're trying to get our foot in the door with some credit unions," he adds, "but they're so guarded. We can't penetrate them."
The banks also have risen their standards. "They're kind of picky now with credit," Donahoe reports. "They want money down. It's back to how it should be, as opposed to buying with zero down and the whole lock, stock and barrel. You've got to put yourself in an equity position and have decent credit."
Heartland Honda is even willing to co-sign for select customers, although the store doesn't broadcast the service. "There's got to be an extenuating circumstance for me to tote the note," Donahoe says.
Similarly, Donahoe has looked into creating his own finance company, but he doesn't like the high risk involved in repossessing easily hidden vehicles and then turning them into cash.
Honda Marks 50th Anniversary With 11 New Units
In recent years, fairly or not, Honda has earned a reputation of not introducing as many new units as other OEMs.
"Well, Honda is slow to react," Donahoe admits. "They have always been very conservative."
Our conversation turns, naturally enough, to Honda's late entry into the side-by-side market. "The Big Red that we have is a fantastic MUV," Donahoe says. "It truly is, but it appeals to such a niche market within the MUVs because we don't have a four-seater. We don't have a sport model. If you want a workhorse, we've got the best one probably, but as far as sport riding or the family that needs the capacity to hold more people, we've missed some sales."
Donahoe refers to the wide selection offered by Polaris. "And they're selling a bunch of them," he says. "Maybe we'll see some new [Honda] ones come out in the future. I don't know."
Ironically, given its reputation, Honda has 11 new or revised motorcycles and scooters for the 2010 model year, its 50th in the United States.
Donahoe is excited. He particularly likes the VFR1200. "It's a sweet ride," he says. "It's going to be very accepted. But it's going to be so expensive. That's the only problem." (Honda has since announced a $15,999 MSRP.) "But technologywise, man, we got to sit on it out there, and it's nice."
Donahoe also is confident about selling the VTX1300 customs, the new Shadow 750s and the NT700V touring bike. "I think that bike will do pretty well," he says. "I had a salesperson take it home over the weekend, and he said it's awesome."
So assuming the market bottomed out this past season (cross your fingers), Honda is set to have a decent golden anniversary.
Says Donahoe: "Hopefully, if the market will rebound on the street, I think we've got some product that will meet demand."


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VANCOUVER, B.C. — Zach Parise lifted the silver medal draped around his neck, stared at it for half a second and dropped it disgustedly to his chest.
"I thought we had another chance to win," Parise said, disappointedly. "When you go from that high down to that low, I can't even describe it. It just ended."
With a party stretching from Victoria to Newfoundland seconds from erupting Sunday, Parise caused an entire nation to lose its pulse for several terrifying minutes when his last-minute, tying goal exemplified exactly why he is considered the United States' brightest star.
But if hockey is, indeed, Canada's game like all the posters inside Canada Hockey Place claimed during this incredible two-week Olympic tournament, Sidney Crosby is the face of Canadian hockey.
And Canada's hockey hero delivered yet again with the biggest overtime goal in Canadian Olympic history to knock off the rival Americans on Canadian soil for a thrilling, 3-2 gold medal triumph.
"It doesn't even feel real. It feels like a dream," Crosby said. "You dream of that moment a thousand times growing up, and for it to come true is pretty amazing."
It's not often games live up to every speck of hype, but this 67-minute, 40-second nail-biting, high-octane, physical, fight-for-every-feasible-inch-of-ice hockey game would be impossible to match.
Players exuded every ounce of energy for their country's sweater, but in the end, it was the Canadian flag being paraded around the 200-foot sheet of ice.
"This game showed all the good there is in hockey," said Jamie Langenbrunner, who battled relentlessly all tournament and showed why his choice as U.S. captain was a no-brainer. "The heart and determination everybody plays with, the battle level, the character of the athletes, it's a pretty special sport.
"It was a fun game to be a part of. Wish I could be on the other end of it."
He almost was.
Parise, perhaps the only American who would have been a shoo-in to make the star-studded Canadian roster if he had been born in Red Deer or Moose Jaw and not Minnesota, tied the score with 24.4 seconds left when he crashed the net and buried Patrick Kane's shot that deflected off Langenbrunner's skate.
The arena went silent. Parise sprinted to the glass in elation.
"I was really excited. We got another crack at it," Parise said.
The 20-minute overtime would be played 4-on-4 though, which gave the Canadians more of an advantage than if it was 5-on-5. That's because once the ice opened up, Canada's stars were given more of a canvas on which to perform.
Other than one Joe Pavelski chance, the Americans never threatened Canadian goalie Roberto Luongo in OT while Ryan Miller had to come up big against Jarome Iginla, Scott Niedermayer, Dany Heatley and Rick Nash.
Crosby, who was quiet most of the game, needed only one chance to stick the dagger in the Americans' heart.
After a puck hit referee Bill McCreary's skate and changed direction, Iginla went into the corner prepping to battle defenseman Ryan Suter.
But suddenly Iginla heard Crosby yell.
"There's different pitches of yell, and you can tell he had a step," Iginla said.
Crosby did, on defenseman Brian Rafalski. Iginla made a perfect pass that Crosby buried through Miller's pads while Iginla was face-first on the ice. It was just a great play by two great players.
"I couldn't believe it. It was done," Iginla said. "I didn't see where he put it. I just saw him jumping around."
The fans went into a frenzy, soon chanting, "CROSBY! CROSBY!"
"Guys like that find a way," defenseman Chris Pronger said.
For Canada, the victory meant national pride.
For the Americans, there was, as Bloomington's Erik Johnson said, "complete disappointment" over their silver medals. "It's something none of us want."
But as teammate Brooks Orpik said, "You let the dust settle and get some time to reflect, I think this group will be proud of what we accomplished. Nobody gave us a chance to even medal."
Winning gold and beating the Canadians in such a partisan environment could have been a seminal moment for USA Hockey. Not much was expected of Team USA in this tournament, yet behind Miller's brilliance in goal, a bunch of hungry forwards and an underestimated blue line, the Americans played on par with the Canadian superstars.

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boro going down.
well it looks like its going to happen doesnt it. 11 games without a win. totally unacceptable isnt it. how can steve gibson sit there and support the so called manager. if i was steve gibson i would give gs his p45. i think the boro needs a good overhaul. new manager...new players...new everything really. i think we might do ok in the championship..but then again if gs is the manager then we might end up in league one. please steve do something. swallow your pride and wield the axe now and stop the rot.Sort: Newest | Oldest | Most Replied Expand all replies
expat_smoggie expat_smoggie Feb 2, 2009 01:30 Flag
Boro going down....yes I am afriad so..we were artificially high at the beginning of the season and now in a true position which fits our quality of play, quality of purchases over the last 2 years and quality of management and backroom staff.
I am afraid experience southgate has not worked due to a lack of experience support behind him....correct me if I am wwrong but this is the first full season since all of Mcclarens back rooms staff have left....?! can any one substantiate that..?
come on boro..!!
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expat_smoggie expat_smoggie Feb 2, 2009 01:32 Flag
Sorry typo in the mast thread...i meant to say Experiment Southgate' has not worked.. I know I am a dumb #$%$..!
The Chelsea game was almost a forgone conclusion, and by the reports I was listening to last night we could have conceded 10.
I reckon the game against Blackburn on Saturday is the crucial one...if we lose that..... DOOMED!
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Boro are definately going down! The only hope we've got is to SACK Southgate. Nice guy, rubbish manager!
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–, Sunday, February, 01, 2009, (12:03am)
Associated Press reports:
A crippling winter storm has plunged about a million customers into the dark from the Midwest to the East Coast, and thousands of people in ice-caked Kentucky have sought refuge in motels and shelters.
This report, incidentally, is currently less than one hour old:
Dozens of deaths have been reported and many people are pleading for a faster response to the power outages. Some in rural Kentucky ran short of food and bottled water, and resorted to dipping buckets in a creek ...
Local officials grew angrier at what they said was a lack of help from the state and the Federal Emergency Management Agency.
Oh, hello. It's a Katrina moment for President Obama.
Emergency Management Director Randell Smith ... said roads are littered with fallen trees and people shivering in bone-chilling cold are in need.
"We've got people out in some areas we haven't even visited yet," Smith said. "We don't even know that they're alive."
Smith said FEMA was still a no-show days after the storm.
According to the Katrina template, this is all Obama's fault. Yet Kentucky's Democrat governor Steve Beshear earlier praised Obama's swift action ... in making a phone call:
"I can't tell you how appreciative we were," the governor said. "He not only expressed his concern, but he obviously had the Kentuckians in his thoughts and prayers, and he communicated that to us."
Imagine the outrage if Bush had "communicated" those thoughts from his comfy thermostat-cranked Oval Office. We live in a time of change!
UPDATE. Maybe the President just doesn't like white people.
UPDATE II. "I'm one of those Kentuckians without power (going on five days now)," comments Dodd. "I've also watched the Obama team's bumbling, stumblng, Keystone Kops transition and first couple of weeks in office. It's fine with me if he everyone he "supervises" stay far, far away. We already have enough total incompetents "managing" the problem right here in River City."
UPDATE III. Further from Caleb Howe.
UPDATE IV. The AP piece linked above has been updated, with much of the quoted material now gone. The original piece can still be found here.
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"He not only expressed his concern, but he obviously had the Kentuckians in his thoughts and prayers, and he communicated that to us.â€
See, it is the thought that counts.
Sun 01 Feb 09 (01:16am)
"I can't tell you how appreciative we were,†the governor said. "He not only expressed his concern, but he obviously had the Kentuckians in his thoughts and prayers, and he communicated that to us.â€
Obamaccles Hussein II The One made a phone call only 'cos his version of Lil Lachhie Harris said "Its a good idea to give the mugs a call, purse your lips and sound like you give a fat rats 'cos the suckers will think that is important - they will, yer know, 'cos we'll send Channel X, Y and Z a press release telling them the wonderful thing you did, and they'll tell the world how important you are. Just how easy is this gig, I tell ya what Mr Pres!"
And the people swooned!
Sun 01 Feb 09 (01:28am)
I'm one of those Kentuckians without power (going on five days now). I've also watched the Obama team's bumbling, stumblng, Keystone Kops transition and first couple of weeks in office. It's fine with me if he everyone he "supervises" stay far, far away. We already have enough total incompetents "managing" the problem right here in River City.
Sun 01 Feb 09 (01:33am)
Sun 01 Feb 09 (04:29pm)
My 82 year old father lives in Kentucky. He spent eight hours chipping the ice off his driveway so the could get his car out of garage and up the steep driveway to the road. He then drove 80 miles until he could find a hotel with heat.
Contrast with the New Orleans "victims" who wouldn't do anything to help themselves.
Jesus did the loaves and fishes. Maybe Gore can do the pizza and blankets.
Sun 01 Feb 09 (01:34am)
But the seas have begun to recede, so at least they won't drown.
Sun 01 Feb 09 (02:21am)
Dodd is right. The less Washington gets involved in things, the better off we are. Why, the Kentuckians are bathed in the warmth of Obie's love and concern, so what have they got to complain about?
You won't see them getting the play in the media that New Orleans got, though.
Sun 01 Feb 09 (02:53am)
Sun 01 Feb 09 (01:11pm)
Yep! You need an incompetent city mayor bleating unfounded (and subsequently disproven) allegations on Oprah for a start, then a governor waiting too long to call for federal support. In hindsight, Bush could probably have been quicker in sending in federal relief - something he'll probably admit in his memoirs - but whoever the president was at that time (Kerry was probably thankful he'd lost in 2004) was going to deal with a perfect storm (excuse the pun) of dysfunctional federal/state/local government interrelationships at the time. Pity more media focus wasn't on this angle.
You won't see them getting the play in the media that New Orleans got, though.
You mean like made-up stories about hillbilly gang rapes in the refuge centers, and gun-toting Deliverance types shooting at tree clearing crews and rescue helicopters? And it's all Obama's fault?
Sun 01 Feb 09 (04:47am)
'Bout the same here along the North bank of the Ohio River and SE Ohio in general and as bad or worse in parts of WVa. Strickland (Ohio Governor-D) and Beshear are not going to say anything critical as long as they are hopeful of Federal Bail-outs of their finances. And the media is doing their best cricket imitation as far as any questions as to FEMA's response. However, I will bet that if ACORN suggested the weather was affecting "voter" registration, Fed money would start pouring into the area. If we only had some community organizers.......
Sun 01 Feb 09 (05:44am)
Its a dire situation because Obama is dynamiting the power lines.
Sun 01 Feb 09 (05:54am)
I'm with Dodd that the less the Feds do, the better off Kentucky is.
However, it WILL be Obama's fault in the future if he continues on with his "global warming" screed, and the planet continues to cool as it has been doing the past ten years or so.
We're at a low point in solar activity, we are VERY cold this winter, and preparing for "global warming" is the exact opposite of what needs to be done.
Sun 01 Feb 09 (08:00am)
Sun 01 Feb 09 (01:22pm)
Well said, Mamapajamas. When KRudds ETS kicks off, heating costs will go through the roof. Not that big a deal when you live in Eumundi (or similar) but it means a whole lot more if you live in places like Tasmania or above the snowline.
Some in rural Kentucky ran short of food and bottled water, and resorted to dipping buckets in a creek …
Oh the humanity…
Sun 01 Feb 09 (08:49am)
Sun 01 Feb 09 (11:10am)
Yeah - I wonder about that bit myself. In Asian crises such as typhoons, mud slides, tsunamis, coups, flus and ferry sinkings people cop the battering, pick themselves up, dust themselves off and get on with it, with whatever they have.
Lee Kuan Yew said "In the West, especially after World War II, the government came to be seen as so successful that it could fulfill all the obligations that in less modern societies are fulfilled by the family." The Great Community Organiser is certainly keeping the myth alive in the US!
In Kentucky I thought they lived a more self sufficient life than in Louisiana, where they all felt they had to sit and wait for George Bush to feed and water them and warn them to behave like human beings.
Its fine to be innefectual as long as you can exude compassion/empathy from every pore. If you can manage a tear accompanied by a slight choke in the voice as you tell all your disciples "I feel your pain", even better. Anyway, Mr President is busy calling world leaders to discuss the dangers of global warmening…
Sun 01 Feb 09 (08:59am)
Obama and FEMA Leave Americans to Die in Kentucky
The US media doesn't care at all.
Sun 01 Feb 09 (10:13am)
I blame Obama for dynamiting the levees holding the snow back!!!
And when the government assistance vans come RUN!!! They executed 500 in New Orleans!!!!
(This moonbat thing is easy, all we need to do is repeat the same crap back with Obama in the place of Bush)
Sun 01 Feb 09 (10:25am)
The Obama administration has already made it clear....white male construction workers need not apply for help from the government. I have to assume since Obama isn't sending help to our suffering citizens, they must be mainly white males.
This is the first racist government we have had since the 1950's.
Sun 01 Feb 09 (11:34am)
The main disaster is when a Republican gets elected. This magnifies all subsidiary disasters through the media looking glass.
Sun 01 Feb 09 (11:42am)
Well he hasn't had his Bush moment yet ....
Of overflying the scene in Air Force 1
as our friend GW did of hurricane Katrina !
Sun 01 Feb 09 (11:59am)
I would be interesting to hear Penny Wong's opinion on this. After all if she reckons that:
The scorching weather across southern Australia proved the accuracy of warnings by climate change scientists,
Then what does the weather in Kentucky prove?
Sun 01 Feb 09 (01:45pm)
The fact is that this is a worse reaction than Katrina. The Bush reaction after Katrina was one of caring and compassion. Unfortunately the Governor of Louisiana refused to call in more help. Unfortunately the Mayor of New Orleans refused to call for a mandatory evacuation.
Obama proposes spending $500M on condoms and sending $4 billion to ACORN. When we need to make upgrades in our infrastructure. The Obama administration and it's arrogant, ignorant, and idiotic plan is failing America.
Sun 01 Feb 09 (04:11pm)
The BBC (right now, via ABC News Radio) is still making a lot out of the Katrina disaster in their analysis of the Bush years. No mention of the local government failings or the exaggerations in the media reporting. The BBC's narrators are accomplished in putting on the understated but earnestly concerned voice. Plausible rogues!
Sun 01 Feb 09 (05:25pm)
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ST. THOMAS, Ontario - The message beckons from a downtown sports bar's marquee two hours east of the U.S.-Canada border at Detroit:
"Jump Into The Shark Tank As Joe And The Boys Go For Lord Stanley."
The words appear above the door to Legends. And when the Sharks and Red Wings clash Saturday in Game 5 of their deadlocked playoff series, a big chunk of the crowd inside will be rooting for the team in teal.
The fact that the sports bar is 123 miles from Detroit and 2,554 miles from San Jose doesn't matter. Because when the Sharks acquired Joe Thornton from the Boston Bruins in November 2005, the deal also included the loyalties of many fans in St. Thomas, Thornton's hometown.
"People here really follow Joe," said Andy Lerikos, owner of Legends. "He means a lot to this town."
If the town remains loyal to Thornton, it may be because Thornton has remained loyal to the town.
Early in his NHL career, he sponsored benefit games to save the St. Thomas Stars, the youth hockey team on which he once played. Each summer, he returns to relax and bike around the region's two-lane roads. Three years ago, he began investing some of his millions in a nearby farm where he and his girlfriend spend six weeks in the off-season.
"That's home," Thornton, 28, said this week. "That's where my parents are, my grandparents and the kids I grew up with. That's where they all are, so it's just nice to go back."
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Other St.
But Canadian cities are particularly proud of the NHL players they produce and St. Thomas - population 36,110 - is no exception. Signs on each road leading into town proclaim it to be "Joe Thornton's Community."
The signs went up years ago, and the Bruins logo is prominently displayed. But on most, a small Sharks decal also has been slapped over the out-of-date Boston symbol.
St. Thomas sits about halfway between Toronto and Detroit, and Buffalo isn't much farther. Traditionally, Maple Leafs fans outnumber Red Wings fans, who outnumber Sabres fans. But the Sharks are making inroads.
"And there'd be more Sharks fans here if we didn't have the three-hour time difference," said Bob Todd, one of Thornton's youth coaches.
At Perani's Hockey World, just off a St. Thomas exit from the area's only freeway, San Jose jersey sales have gone up over the past two years. And at one elementary school not too far from St. Thomas, a teacher - another of Thornton's former coaches - stirs things up by prompting 6-year-olds to chant, "Go, Sharks, Go!"
"I don't know if Joe realizes just how much commotion he's caused," Rick Smith said. "I've got all sorts of kids now paying attention to the Sharks."
Jumbo Joe
St. Thomas' economy is part agriculture, part industry. The Ford plant continues to produce Crown Victorias, though there's only enough work for one shift these days.
Because of its location on a direct route between Buffalo and Detroit, St. Thomas became the railway capital of Canada in the 19th century. And it was an accident in the city's rail yards that brought early notoriety in 1885.
The Barnum & Bailey Circus was in town and the star attraction was Jumbo - "heaviest elephant ever seen by mortal man." But as Jumbo was being returned to his railroad car in St. Thomas, an unscheduled freight train burst through the fog and killed him.
The town built a statue of Jumbo in 1985 to commemorate the centennial of his death. A little more than a decade later, the Boston media started referring to Thornton as Jumbo Joe. Friends and family in St. Thomas still wince.
"We never liked that nickname," said Alex Thornton, Joe's older brother.
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Alex, 35, moved to Boston the same year Joe was drafted by the Bruins and stayed, teaching high school and now earning a phD in education at Boston University. A third brother, John, 31, is a lawyer who lives in Denver and serves as Joe's agent.
The chance to cheer Joe on in the playoffs brought Alex to Detroit, and then back to the family house. It is a modest, three-bedroom, 1,200-square-foot brick ranch that backs up to tracks that bring trains to the Ford plant twice a day.
Joe's father, Wayne, a steel company purchasing agent, built it in 1973, across the street from the house where Joe's mother, Mary, lived. St. Thomas claims Thornton as its own, but the neighborhood is in Lynhurst, a small suburb.
Yes, an NHL MVP earning $6.7 million a year could buy his parents a nicer place - if they wanted one. They don't.
"They like it, they like the neighbors, Grandma's across the street," Joe Thornton said. "They're just the kind of people who don't like change."
Outside, the only clue about who grew up here is the brass "19" placed into the concrete when a new porch was poured a year or so ago. It was the contractor's idea.
Inside, it's a memorabilia-filled museum. Trophies and medals. Hockey sticks and magazine covers.
Every spot on every wall is covered with family pictures or images from the world of hockey. A photo of Joe with the legendary Gordie Howe. Another taken at Maple Leaf Gardens shows Joe smiling into the crowd, looking for his parents after his goal for the Bruins beat Toronto.
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Joe no longer stays in his old room when he shows up in St. Thomas. Now he has the farm, about 250 acres of land in two plots, part of a valley carved eons ago as glaciers receded from the north shore of Lake Erie, about six miles away at Port Stanley.
There's an updated farmhouse on the larger piece of land. And behind the house, not far from the pool and sauna, Thornton and friends have spread out sheets of Plexiglas on the ground. That way, in June and July he can practice firing pucks on a smooth surface against makeshift boards.
One of Thornton's friends, neighbor Dan Chauvin, sees another use for the farm.
"You could have a pretty nice Stanley Cup party out here, couldn't you?" suggested Chauvin, who joins Thornton for 25-mile bike rides during the summer.
Canadian hockey players traditionally buy cottages on isolated lakes for summertime relaxing. Thornton didn't go that route.
"I don't like seeing too many hockey players during the summertime because I see enough of them over the winter," he explained. "I like seeing my ex-schoolmates and the kids I grew up with."
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The parents of those kids have vivid memories.
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by Ben Sauder
Music Reviews, Folk, Alternative, Pop, Rock, Ben Sauder
Father John MistyFear Fun Available now on Sub Pop (May 1, 2012)
"I never liked the name Joshua, I got tired of J.," reveals former Fleet Foxes drummer Josh Tillman on his
new album Fear Fun, opting for the less serious moniker of Father John
Misty. The shedding of his former identity and the arrival of a new one not
only comes in the form of a new name. It's as if the J. Tillman of old, the one
heard harmonizing in Fleet Foxes, and creating solo albums of harmless folk
songs, was born anew with an edgier style, a stronger propensity for
rock-influenced songwriting, and a fresh haircut.
While this rebirth of sorts may have fans of his previous
work slightly concerned, there is no need to worry. Fear Fun manages to
hang on to the core appeal of Tillman's previous work while charting new
territory in both lyrical content and musical approach.
The Father John Misty aesthetic shines on the album's first single, "Hollywood
Forever Cemetery Sings." Backed by a hypnotic drumbeat and a grinding electric
guitar, Tillman delivers darker lyrics than on previous projects - a staple of Fear
Fun. On the slow jam "Funtimes in Babylon,"
Tillman showcases his talent for tragic imagery, singing, "Ride around my
wreckage on a horse knee-deep in blood / Look out Hollywood here I come." Another, "I'm Writing
a Novel," channels the Beatles' "Ballad of John and Yoko" with a lively beat, a
gang of riffing guitars and a squealing organ pad. Other tracks find Tillman
paying homage to classic 70's country western guitar work, handclapping fiddle
shufflers, and synth-laden disco grooves.
Tillman's announcement earlier this year upon his departure from Fleet Foxes
said, in part, "Farewell Fleet fans and friends. Back into the gaping maw of
obscurity I go." Lucky for us, Tillman was rejected by that maw, and it has
thrust him back into the spotlight as Father John Misty. Here's a stream of the entire album from the Sub Pop YouTube page:
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The miraculous story of Lee Daniels' "Precious: Based on Push a novel by Sapphire" continues.
The film stunned many by winning both the Grand Jury and Audience Award at the Sundance Film Festival, but now it's made history. Today, "Precious" won the People's Choice Audience Award at the Toronto International Film Festival. No other film has won both audience awards at both festivals. Ever. Taking into account the film's acceptance into the Cannes Film Festival and the upcoming screening at the New York Film Festival, the little picture who people scoffed at for starring Mo'Nique and Mariah Carey has already cemented itself as one of the most critically acclaimed and beloved movies of the year.
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In the world of politics, it takes very little to generate heat. Both parties are guilty of pouncing on the opposition because it makes their followers feel motivated and also because it might win the hearts and minds of those sitting on the fence. Yet the reality is that very few among us are swayed by these political games. We, unfortunately, understand the nature of politics and we tend to believe little that spouts from the mouth of the elected.
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And so I find myself puzzled today that the Missouri Democratic Party is up in arms that some Democrats appointed to state positions by Gov. Matt Blunt have in the past donated money to Republican candidates. In the world of the state Democratic party, you're either "fer us or agin us," or so it would seem. State law dictates that many state appointees be evenly divided among the two major political parties. Sikeston's own Board of Municipal Utilities is just one example of that policy. So when it comes time for Gov. Blunt to make a Democratic appointment, he does just that. But the Democratic party wants none of it. They want only card-carrying Democrats who wouldn't support a Republican if their life depended on it. Problem is, there are few of those animals remaining.
Most politically active Missourians may indeed identify with one party or the other but they are not afraid to support a candidate of the opposite party when they feel that would be best for the state (or even for their own interests). By donating to a candidate of an opposite party, it carries no meaning other than the obvious - you feel that person is the best candidate regardless of party affiliation. To read something sinister into that is just bull-headed.
The Missouri Democratic Party has ample work ahead of them. Just look at the Missouri Legislature to see their obvious failures in the campaign arena. The party would be better served by promoting their own agenda instead of fretting over which Democrat gave money to which Republican. But then again, it's that kind of wasted fretting that got the Democratic Party in the sad shape they currently enjoy in the Show-Me State.


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Tim Blair
–, Wednesday, December, 26, 2012, (5:32am)
Systematic musicologist Richard Parncutt wishes for harmony:
I am Australian, living in another country, waiting for "reconciliation" to really happen so that I can be proud of where I come from.
Parncutt, who currently pursues his interests in systematic musicology at Austria's University of Graz, also wishes for a global wealth tax and the banning of Page 3 girls. And – as Jo Nova and Andrew Bolt have already observed – he wants to kill global warming deniers:
The death penalty is an appropriate punishment for influential GW deniers …
GW deniers … are already causing the deaths of hundreds of millions of future people. We could be speaking of billions, but I am making a conservative estimate …
If a jury of suitably qualified scientists estimated that a given GW denier had already, with high probability (say 95%), caused the deaths of over one million future people, then s/he would be sentenced to death. The sentence would then be commuted to life imprisonment if the accused admitted their mistake, demonstrated genuine regret, AND participated significantly and positively over a long period in programs to reduce the effects of GW (from jail).
Nice of him to give us the option. (Incidentally, if killing "future people" is a capital crime, it would be interesting to hear Parncutt's views on abortion.) Besides his issues with people who don't agree with him about the weather, Mr Music also has problems with fellow academics:
During the 1990s I (an Australian) applied for professorships in several different Canadian, American, British, German and Austrian universities without success. In most cases, the person who was offered the job was clearly less qualified that I am …
Maybe they just knew the difference between "that" and "than". But we shouldn't be too hard on this teachy preacher, since he's apparently a victim of racism:
In recent years, I was repeatedly attacked by workplace colleagues with the apparent intention of forcing me to leave my department. The stated reasons were generally arbitrary, exaggerated, misleading or invented; the real reasons were presumably my cultural and disciplinary Otherness, coupled with envy of my research record, my interdisciplinary and international mobility, and my desire to promote transparency and high academic standards. To my astonishment, other colleagues not only failed to defend me – sometimes they even sided with the attacker/s. While many people were unsure what exactly was going on, they were also generally unwilling to be informed. Again, this is a subject statement, and readers may reasonable suspect me of being a bit paranoid. But there is plenty of good objective sociological research on academic mobbing, which – from a psychological or sociological point of view – is closely related to racial discrimination.
Still, our former Melbourne boy (who occasionally flies home) is happy in his new country, where he's lived since 1998:
I do not wish to discourage people from visiting Austria. Compared to most other countries, and even Western countries, Austria is a peaceful place – there is relatively little violence. It is very unlikely that you will experience a physical threat of any kind …
Unless you disagree with him about climate change.
Have Your Say
"Systematic Musicologist". Sounds like a profession that comes in handy.
Wed 26 Dec 12 (08:18am)
He's on the softest end of the softest, least useful and least recognised academic discipline of them all. Systematic musicology is an umbrella term for subdisciplines and paradigms which address questions about music in general.
Only the central Europeans still look at this tripe. It's the remnant bath-tub ring from the failed 19th century positivist effort to 'discover the laws of music' as if is was something quantifiable like physics or chenistry.
So this complete loser is a perfesser in an area of research which failed the century before last.
Wed 26 Dec 12 (08:20am)
Here we go again with one of these university types who want to rule the world! Yes my friends, they are to be found in every Australian city, but Melbourne would appear to be blessed with an over abundance of them. Perhaps he should stay in Graz!
Wed 26 Dec 12 (08:26am)
Wed 26 Dec 12 (04:59pm)
He'd be perfect for the politics department at Monash or RMIT.
Quite appropriate he feels at home in Austria.
Wed 26 Dec 12 (08:35am)
While pondering the irony of being executed by a musicologist for not listening to climate specialists like Flannery and Gore, I wonder if Parncutt actually makes the cut as a gaian death cultist. Perhaps he's a little behind Andrew Lovelock who wants 9/10 of people disappeared for the benefit of the lucky 10 per centers but a little advanced on Clive Hamiltion who only wants to suspend our democratic processes.
Wed 26 Dec 12 (08:37am)
Parncutt sounds like a Renaissance man, too advanced to be understood by the plebian masses, who don't appreciate his rare mixture of humility and blinding brilliance.
Or something.
Wed 26 Dec 12 (08:47am)
I'd side with his attackers too. Who would want to go and work with him every day?
Wed 26 Dec 12 (08:49am)
Thu 27 Dec 12 (06:03pm)
i'm with you shamed, what a tosser.
Even his views on contraception could be interesting.
Wed 26 Dec 12 (08:54am)
what a plonker.
Wed 26 Dec 12 (08:55am)
Wed 26 Dec 12 (02:04pm)
The words "so far up himself he can't see the light of day untill he yawns" do tend to suggest themselves.
"academic mobbing" ... AGW sceptics
"group thinkers" ... ABC people
"credible scientists" ... global warmists
Any other pigeon holes, or does that cover it?
Wed 26 Dec 12 (08:55am)
....caused the deaths of over one million future people…
Fair warning. Stop when you get to 1,000,000, and you can avoid prison.
Wed 26 Dec 12 (08:56am)
Fri 28 Dec 12 (12:12am)
The problem with your idea, rinardman, is that you're killing imaginary people that don't exist outside of his head and he'll be more than happy to imagine a few extra dead people to make up the numbers.
This almost HAS to be a hoax. Being an academic myself, I believe without question that there are academics who see the world this way. But no one with a physics background or in a field that has some basis in mathematics could possibly be that innumerate. Could he?
Wed 26 Dec 12 (09:01am)
Wed 26 Dec 12 (04:44pm)
I think the professor's problem is that he strayed too far from his area of expertise. He is trained in a subject where there is no known content to one where a little disciplined thought attached to knowledge would be of assistance. Rather than studying under the good professor could I suggest his students take up plumbing or some other useful endeavour.
Not getting those jobs had nothing to do with you being an arrogant up yourself sanctimonious twat then Dick? Or did you fail to include that possibility in your thesis?
Wed 26 Dec 12 (09:01am)
What a good little Marxist he is. He's also 999,799 signatures short of his goal of 1 million.
Wed 26 Dec 12 (09:02am)
"A 'subject' statement"?
Without wishing to add to this poor little man's paranoia, should the word not be "subjective"?
Wed 26 Dec 12 (09:04am)
Since our earth was created, it has cooled, warmed, cooled again, with this continuing to happen over the many millenia. So although the GW advocates may have something right, it has absolutely NOTHING to do with how we breathe out or whatever!
Still, if this person wants to kill, let him start by killing himself.
Wed 26 Dec 12 (09:06am)
This guy is also way behind in the world wide "climate scare" propaganda campaign. He is still stuck with the "G W(warming)" of 4-5 years ago when the campaign has shifted ground and moved to the "G C(hange)" scare model.
Wed 26 Dec 12 (09:07am)
Parncutt suffers from terminal Greerism, that condition in which Australian academics are filled with the need to make outrageous statements in the hope that someone notices them. Like other Greerism sufferers, Pancutt has an over-developed sense of his own cleverness.
Wed 26 Dec 12 (09:16am)
Parncutt is nothing more than a dictatorial nerd running off at the mouth. We have been hearing this puerile and nauseating twaddle from no hopers like Parncoot for a while now.
Wed 26 Dec 12 (09:23am)
He'd be a ring-in for runner-up in the Assange Conceit & Lack of Self Awareness award this year.
Of course, Assange would win first prize.
Wed 26 Dec 12 (09:38am)
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