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Presidential Address to American Society of Human Genetics (ASHG)
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Presidential Address to
American Society of Human Genetics (ASHG)
Dr. Robert L. Nussbaum, M.D., ASHG President
Annual Meeting
October 26-30, 2004
Toronto, Canada
What is Special about the "Human" in Human Genetics?
I would like to begin where all of my predecessors as President have begun, by thanking the membership for placing their trust and confidence in me to serve as your President this past year. Serving in this role has given me a superb bird's eye view of the organization and the dedicated and knowledgeable people who work in the administrative office. I have also had an opportunity to share the thoughts and wisdom of a remarkable group of people on the Board of Directors and on the committees who give their time and energy as volunteers to our Society. To all of you, I want to express my gratitude and admiration.
When I began to compose my presidential address, I went to the texts of previous presidential addresses and discovered that it was déjà vu all over again: most of my predecessors had done the same thing and had read through the comments of previous Presidents to get some idea of what was expected of them. Most commented that this review of the "sacred texts" was not as helpful as they hoped. Why? They found, as did I, that there was no "formula." HJ Muller, Alfred Knudson, Janet Rowley, Arthur Beaudet, and David Valle, gave scholarly dissertations on scientific areas of personal interest to them and, they hoped, more broadly to the membership. John Hamerton, Margery Shaw, and Charlie Epstein spoke eloquently about important social issues of the day, such as the controversy over the 47, XYY karyotype and antisocial behavior, the concepts of wrongful life and wrongful birth, and, most famously, Charlie Epstein's forceful reminder that "Not everyone loves Human Genetics." Still others gave personal remembrances, such as Judy Hall or Hunt Willard, who spoke of their personal experiences and relationships with mentors and colleagues over the years. I did receive some advice from my adult children to "Keep it short and try to be entertaining." I at least accomplished one of those goals, i.e. to keep it short. I donated a good portion of the time usually allotted to the presidential address to Brendan Lee and the Program committee so they could increase the number of presentations at the plenary session.
[Pause] You are supposed to applaud in appreciation and gratitude for my self-sacrifice . . .
I had to face the dilemma of being just one in a long line of presidents, many of whom were very distinguished geneticists, true giants in the field. What could I say that had not already been said? In this dilemma, I was not alone. There is a wonderful erudite set of essays on 18th century literature by a college professor of mine, Walter Jackson Bate, called "The Burden of the Past and the English Poet" in which he discusses the problem faced by poets who had to ply their craft in the footsteps of the likes of Shakespeare and Dryden. In the introduction to his essay, he quotes an Egyptian scribe who wrote 4000 years ago:
- "Would I had phrases that are not known, utterances that are strange, in new language that has not been used, free from repetition, not an utterance which was spoken by men of old and already grown stale."
Don't we all. So, in trying to find something new to say, free from repetition, I decided to go back to beginning and review what is written in the charter of our Society, when it was launched, and there wasn't a long past history of presidential addresses.
The chartered mission of the Society is:
- to encourage and integrate research, scholarship and education in all areas of human genetics,
- to bring into close contact investigators in the many general fields of research that involve human genetics, and
- to encourage discourse on applications of human genetics to society at large.
The founders of our Society had very ambitious goals, and continuing to strive towards these goals remains critical for the continued vitality and relevance of our Society. They are, however, goals that cannot be achieved without your help and involvement. I will be giving a report on how well we, the members of the Society, are fulfilling the charge and responsibility laid out by its founders.
Broadly speaking, each component of our mission can be mapped onto three major activities of our Society:
- to encourage and integrate research, scholarship and education in all areas of human genetics - that's our journal,
- to bring into close contact investigators in the many general fields of research that involve human genetics - that's our meeting, and,
- to encourage discourse on applications of human genetics to society at large - that's our Policy and Education Programs, as embodied in the work of our permanent Executive Vice President, our Mentor Network and our Social Issues and Information and Education Committees.
Each of these activities is healthy but there is much still to be done as we face a changing terrain with major challenges.
First the journal.
As I am sure you have heard, the entire field of scientific publishing was awoken from its dogmatic slumber by the launch of the Open Access movement. At a meeting of its proponents held in the Spring of 2003, two basic principles were enunciated:
- The author(s) and copyright holder(s) grant(s) to all users a free, irrevocable, worldwide, perpetual right of access to, and a license to copy, use, distribute, transmit and display the work publicly.
- A complete version of the work and all supplemental materials is deposited immediately upon initial publication in at least one appropriate online repository to enable open access and unrestricted distribution.
The real push, however, came this summer when In mid-July, the House Appropriations Committee approved legislation funding the Department of Health and Human Services for fiscal year 2005. Accompanying the bill was a report, with language by Congressman Istook, ordering the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to develop a plan placing an electronic copy of any paper resulting from NIH-funded research on PubMed Central, the free digital library maintained by the National Library of Medicine. As proposed, copies would be available six months after their journal publication date or - if the publication costs were partially paid for by NIH - the initial manuscript would be available immediately on PubMed. Soon thereafter, an open letter from 25 Nobel laureates was sent to Congress in support of the Open Access Initiative.
The underlying motive of making peer-reviewed scientific literature available electronically, on line, without subscription cost is a laudable goal. The devil is of course in the details.
One issue is financial
The Open Access (OA) Initiative says optimistically:
"We can be confident that OA journals are economically sustainable because the true costs of peer review, manuscript preparation, and OA dissemination are considerably lower than the prices we currently pay for subscription-based journals. Moreover, as OA spreads, libraries will realize large savings from the conversion, cancellation, or demise of subscription-based journals."
Unfortunately, this statement was more a leap of faith than a hard-eyed look at the publishing balance sheet. Our journal already operates successfully with open electronic access six months after publication. If even this small delay were eliminated, what would happen to paid subscriptions? We should not lose sight of the fact that the journal is hardly a profit making operation that is lining the pockets of fat cat owners and shareholders. What profit we make from the journal helps support the activities of the Society, including the office, the work of our committees, the outreach efforts, and all the rest.
The second issue of where the online electronic versions are to reside is also an important one. The Open Access model makes a strong scientific argument that
" ... barrier-free access to the literature also means barrier-free access for the software that facilitates full-text searching, indexing, mining, summarizing, querying, linking, alerting, and other forms of processing and analysis."
Just as we have open access to genomic data, expression array data, polymorphism data, just so we need open access to the far more complicated but rich data in the published literature, to allow data mining to support the computer-assisted analysis that can bring novel relationships and correlations to light.
We are concerned that Pubmed Central may not be up to the task of hosting the entire biomedical literature in electronic form as the sole repository. The National Library of Medicine claims that it is. The American Journal of Human Genetics and its publisher, the University of Chicago Press, has actually had some experience trying to get PubMed Central to post full-text articles from our journal in a timely manner - our experience did not build confidence. However, that was in the past and PubMed Central's functioning could always improve.
In a notice published last month, the NIH announced that it was seeking public comments regarding its plans to facilitate Online Access for publications of work supported by the NIH. The intent will be for accepted manuscripts to go into PubMed Central for Open Access as e-publications immediately on acceptance. This version would be replaced by the final copy-edited version from the publisher no more than six months after acceptance with a link to the publisher's website. The NIH "trusts" that the up to six-month delay will not result in such disruption of current journal revenue streams and business models that unreasonable or disproportionate charges will be made to grantees.
Open Access is an issue to which we all, as authors, peer reviewers, and members of a society with a valued journal, must pay attention. The leadership of ASHG is working to reach a reasonable accommodation that will serve the public interest without destroying a whole raft of scholarly journals, including our own.
Now, the meeting.
Here, I would like to turn to the main theme of my address and provide some personal answers to the question I posed in the title of my talk:
What Is Special about the "Human" in Human Genetics?Let me remind you of component #2 of the Society's mission
- to bring into close contact investigators in the many general fields of research that involve human genetics.
In his 1977 presidential address, Arno Motulsky wrote:
- "The boundaries of human genetics are indistinct and blurred. It is sometimes said that future progress in the sciences, particularly in those areas of importance for human health and welfare, will increasingly come from interdisciplinary fields by applying concepts and techniques from one field to another area. We must therefore continue to be on the lookout for methods from other fields
I have been coming to the meetings of the ASHG for many years because it is the one place where not only are novel and exciting findings in human genetics presented, but the attendees care about what these results mean to patients, their families, society at large, and our understanding of who we are as a species. The scope of the meeting is expansive, not narrow. However, new areas of research important to human genetics continue to develop and flourish, often through the efforts of many of our members. Yet often largely outside the boundaries of our meeting. Are we in a position to share in this information and benefit from it? As a society, we all have much to learn in areas of inquiry such as genomics, gene replacement technology, stem cell research, social science and behavioral research, communication research, functional physiological imaging, real-time microscopy, and translational research in multifactorial risk assessment and intervention. This is not to say that these fields are entirely neglected at the meeting or that the meeting is overly occupied with research that is irrelevant to the field of human genetics. No, my greatest fear is that of parochialism, in which we continue a system that is simply a self-perpetuating status quo. If we get set in our ways, become known for being interested in certain areas and not others with relevance to human genetics, we will attract members with research interests that simply reinforce such conceptions. The result? A self-fulfilling prophecy that narrows our membership base and scientific scope. The board of directors discussed this issue among themselves and with the program committee and decided on an experiment that we call "Strategic Outreach".
We have convened a group of ASHG members with strong ties to other organizations and fields, to be headed by Dr. Diana Bianchi from your board of directors. The Strategic Outreach Committee is charged with organizing a special symposium at the annual meeting designed to highlight a topic that is pertinent and relevant but unusual compared to what is currently presented and discussed at the meeting. The Strategic Outreach Symposium will be a plenary session and should highlight unusual areas that are off the beaten path. What makes this different from the very valuable interdisciplinary symposia that our members suggest to the program committee is that we want the symposium to be primarily, if not exclusively, composed of people from outside our Society, who may never have attended an ASHG meeting, and yet are doing research that may prove very important to future progress in our field. Our success in this endeavor will be measured in a number of ways: first, in how successful we are in putting together symposia here that the members find thought provoking and illuminating. Second, do we encourage attendance at our annual meeting by individuals from these other societies once they encounter the power and beauty of the field of human genetics, and, third, are we asked to participate in other annual meetings to spread the word about human genetics.
Strategic Outreach is doomed to fail, however, without the active involvement of our ASHG membership. Be active, get in touch with the Strategic Outreach group so we can take advantage of your knowledge and contacts within other societies to help us form partnerships. I set this as a challenge to you, the members, to work with your leadership to make the meeting a place where we continue to emphasize that the human in human genetics is special because it requires us to be broad and interdisciplinary if we are going to truly encompass the many ways that genetics is informed by and is applied to human biology, medicine and society.
How about the third component of our mission?
- to encourage discourse on applications of human genetics to society at large.
This aspect of our mission was addressed by Lee Rosenberg in his eloquent presidential address in 1980. He chose to talk about the American society of Human Genetics itself, how it was organized, how it was functioning, who were its members. What I found particularly interesting was that his talk occurred at a pivotal moment in our Society's history, when we were outgrowing the stage of being a cottage industry run out of the academic office of the President and of the journal publisher. In a memorably succinct understatement, Lee said:
"Our organization is anything but a household word. ... [we face a] fundamental problem - namely, that of increasing the likelihood that our opinion will be sought about those matters in the domain of our knowledge and experience".
He went on to recommend that the ASHG establish a permanent office in Washington, D.C. and join forces with other organizations with clout. The society took him at his word, although we took or own sweet time in doing it!
In 1983, ASHG/GSA established its own independent office in the Washington D.C. area with its first executive director, Gerry Gurvich, who was then succeeded by Elaine Strass nine years later,. Nineteen years after Lee's speech, we joined Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology (FASEB) to add our voice to the strength of all the other members of the Federation. Twenty-one years after Lee's talk, Joann Boughman began as executive vice-president to provide a full-time presence on policy issues in Washington. Thus, after nearly 20 years of cautious development and maturation, the Society began to carry out some of the recommendations first proposed by Lee Rosenberg.
The final point I would like to make is that the third component of our mission, to encourage discourse on applications of human genetics to society at large, requires an informed, knowledgeable public, Thus, I want to emphasize the role we need to play in education, particularly what we can do to encourage discourse on applications of human genetics to society at large.
A commitment to education is a duty. The public is clearly supportive of research. Consistently, polls show that When asked if they supported Federal funding for research, over 80 percent said they did, even among those who scored highly on a questionnaire designed to measure levels of reservation about science and technology.
Consistently over the past three decades, when asked to weigh the benefits and risks of scientific research, between 70 and 80 percent of the American public felt that benefits outweighed risks.
Yet, in the recent National Science Foundation survey of public attitudes towards science and technology, half of all adults expressed an interest in science but did not feel well informed while only 10 percent were considered attentive, i.e. they felt informed and read at least a monthly magazine relevant to some area of science.
Society is clearly in favor of research, yet most of them know very little about what we do and how we do it. Informing the public is not, however, a hopeless task.
I draw your attention to a poll released February of last year of American public's knowledge of something very basic: "What is DNA?"
New poll shows dramatic rise in Americans' "DNA I.Q."
Threefold increase delights educators, but is it enough?
Richmond, Va., Feb. 27, 2003 - A new Harris poll of a Nationally representative sample of 1,031 Americans released today showed that the "DNA I.Q." of American adults is much higher expected. The poll found that 60 percent of U.S. adults got the right answer when asked "What is DNA?" When given the multiple choice question, "What does DNA stand for?," two thirds chose deoxyribonucleic acid. The findings show a dramatic rise in genetics awareness since 1996, when a National Science Foundation survey showed only 21 percent of adults could define DNA.
I would love to think that the increasing importance and visibility of Human Genetics is responsible for this rise in what the Richmond Times-Dispatch called the DNA I.Q. Is it perhaps the Human Genome Project and all of the attendant publicity? However, according to the Pew Research Center for the People and the Press, as reported in the National Science Foundation Report on Science and Technology: Public Attitudes and Public Understanding, only 16 percent of the public claimed to be following that story very closely.
Thus, there may be other places where people are getting their information
How can we get involved in education of children below the undergraduate level, in grades K-12, where the vast majority of our school-aged children will receive essentially all the classroom instruction in human genetics they will get for the rest of their lives? We hold our regular local high school program that precedes our annual meeting. This all-day workshop is an all-volunteer effort by a very dedicated group of individuals, people like Paula Gregory, Loraine Omen-Gaines, Suzanne Haga, for whom education is a passion and a calling. We also have participated on a regular basis giving workshops and lectures to teachers at national conferences of the high school biology teachers and the National Science Teachers Association. However we think we can do more, in particular we can contribute to improving the genetics education. I would like to highlight the "Outreach to Teach" or Mentor Program, which the Society established and is working to expand.
The mentor program, sponsored jointly by The American Society of Human Genetics, The National Human Genome Research Institute, The Genetic Alliance, and the Genetics Society of America encompasses roughly 1200 geneticists in the United States, Canada, and Mexico, and 37 other countries who have expressed a willingness to participate in local educational efforts such as DNA day for kindergarten-through-the 12th grade level. We have worked to inform superintendents, science coordinators, and science and biology teachers of the mentor network and educational resources available for use in the classroom. The ASHG organized a meeting last month that brought together representatives of major science teachers groups, organizations that provide online educational material for genetics, experts involved in the Biological Science Curriculum Study textbooks, and a number of other interested parties. Loraine Omen-Gaines, of the Information and Education Committee, was the prime mover and organizer. These discussions, which have now just begun and are in their infancy, are designed to establish partnerships between the Society and educators. There are a number of ways we have explored involving our Society in the education effort, including developing a "clearing house" on our Web site for already existing age-appropriate, well-vetted educational material for our mentors to use when they volunteer in classrooms, joining state and local networks established by the National Science Teachers dedicated to this effort, to even getting involved in consulting with textbook companies that put biology textbooks into thousands and thousands of classrooms around the country.
This effort is an important part of our mission, but I also recognize that we are a small organization whose members volunteer their time and energy to the cause. We all have full-time jobs already. We have a well-run meeting and a presence in the hearing rooms and offices were important public policy is made because we have wonderful people on our administrative staff who can focus their energy on the Society's business. The Board of Directors has been very supportive in setting aside a small fund for developing pilot projects in education as well as for hiring an additional ASHG staff member to spearhead an education initiative. If we are to move out beyond the confines of our meeting and our journal, to encourage discourse on applications of human genetics to society at large, as our charter puts it, we need financial resources beyond what we currently can muster. Foundations who might support our efforts will want us to show that the members are willing to pitch in and support our efforts by contributing. I am launching a fund-raising campaign, to form the basis of an effort in the near future to highlight our initiatives in education to potential donors, either individual or corporate. To start this campaign off, I have a pledge from the Board of Directors to kick-start our campaign. My hope is that the membership will join-in when we come knocking.
The members of this society are dedicated to exploring the many ramifications of human genetics research and informing the public about what we do and why.
Our willingness to embrace interdisciplinary approaches and our commitment to have an ongoing dialogue with policy makers and the public is "what's special about the human in human genetics."
Thank you for your attention and enjoy the rest of the meeting. I certainly will!


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Seventy-two-year-old Seth Wagner doesn't knickknack or paddywhack. He drives flat-out around road courses in his 651hp Hemi Charger
After an exhausting day of refilling prescriptions, playing bingo, and forgetting where they live, most 72-year-olds are ready to hit the sack before happy hour. Not Seth Wagner. It's after 9 pm when we call to chat about his car, and he's still wide awake watching Speed TV. Staying up later than most old folks, however, isn't what makes him a cool cat. Neither is the fact that he does what he can to stay in shape. You see, the reason why Seth stays fit is because he's a road racing addict, and he knows that dealing with the rigors of constant g-loads can be taxing for people half his age. "A lot of old people drink too much beer and eat too much turkey, so they can't even get in and out of their cars. I try to stay in shape so I can spend as much time on the track as possible," he says. Putting his money where his mouth is, Seth frequently pounds on his Corvette ZR1 and Porsche 911 Turbo through the ultrahigh speed track known as Road America. Nevertheless, he thought it would be so much more fun to do it in a muscle car, and that epiphany has materialized in the form of a Hemi-powered, four-linked, 1967 Dodge Charger built by Johnson's Hot Rod Shop. See this car up close, and it will be one of the few instances in life where you want to trade places with someone far more elderly than yourself.
Way before the Hamptons got invaded by elitist Manhattan transplants, it was a blue-collar district of Long Island that Seth called home. As unimaginable as it may be today, it even had a dragstrip—one that Seth spent plenty of time at as a teenager. He bought a Y-block–powered '56 Ford Crown Victoria when he turned 16, slapped on a McCulloch supercharger, and went racing. A stint in the military and family obligations forced Seth into a temporary retirement from hot rodding, but he never strayed too far from his true passion. "While I was going to school, I started working with my father-in-law, who taught me the art of injection molding. I eventually opened up my own shop in Detroit, and my first big break was getting hired by Ford to make the molds for its cruise control units," he says. "So while I didn't have the time to build hot rods, as an OEM supplier I was always involved with the automotive industry in some capacity. Today, we manufacture everything from steering columns to ignition switches to lighting equipment to taillight assemblies for suppliers like Saginaw, TRW, and Valeo. We didn't take off for China like a lot of other companies, and we've kept our business right here in America."
About 10 years ago, after several decades of building up a successful business with over 300 employees, Seth felt that it was time to take a step back and hand over the daily operations of the company to his son. That meant he had a lot more free time on his hands, opening up the floodgates to get back into the hobby full-bore. He found a '49 Ford business coupe, and restored it at home. From there, the collection grew rapidly to include an all-steel '32 Ford roadster, a '41 Willys truck, and a '36 Ford three-window coupe. The street rodding crowd isn't exactly into driving their machinery hard, so Seth started hanging out with some local road racers. "I always like watching vintage road racing, so it didn't take much for my friends to talk me into going to some open track days," he says. "I started running laps in my Cadillac CTS-V, and I got hooked. I don't like drag racing anymore because waiting around all day to make two passes gets old. I want to spend my time on the track improving my driving skills."
Seth's road racing fix led to the acquisition of some more appropriate track hardware, such as an '03 Corvette Z06, an '09 ZR1, and a turbo Porsche. Despite the cornering and braking prowess that these late-models offered, he felt they were a bit mundane. Seeking to combine his love of corner burning and old-school iron, Seth picked up a '67 Dodge Charger that had already been restored. That made it a perfect candidate for a full g-Machine transformation, and to turn his vision into a reality, he called up Johnson's Hot Rod Shop. "After my own attempts to build the Charger stalled, I realized that the caliber of car I wanted was beyond what my own talents could support," he says. "Of all the people I could have called, Alan Johnson was a natural choice. The creative vision, technical ability, and enthusiasm he brings to the table are second to none. Aesthetically, I wanted the Charger to stay true to Dodge's original design, but beneath the skin I wanted a fully modernized and over-the-top chassis and suspension."
To that end, the B-Body's archaic underpinnings were replaced with a Magnum Force K-member, tubular control arms, and a racy splined sway bar. Out back is a Magnum Force four-link suspension, with RideTech coilovers supporting each corner. Stopping power comes courtesy of 14-inch discs swiped off of an '06 Dodge Viper, and sticking it all to the pavement are Billet Specialties Lobeck wheels—measuring 18×9 in front and 19×12 in the rear—wrapped in Pirelli tires. Building such a capable suspension without an over-the-top engine combo just wouldn't be right, so a Ray Barton 528ci Elephant does its best to give the chassis a workout. Based on a Mopar Performance iron block, it boasts a forged rotating assembly, aluminum heads with massive 2.375/1.900-inch valves, a cross-ram intake manifold, and a pair of Edelbrock 650-cfm carbs. The Hemi is good for 651 hp and 618 lb-ft of torque, and it sends all that grunt back to a Bowler 4L80E trans and a Dana 60 rearend.
Anyone familiar with Alan's work knows that his creations are anything but bolt-on-engineered machines. For Alan and the crew at JHRS, factory sheetmetal—even when it's perfectly straight—is merely a rough draft. Whenever there's an opportunity to tighten up gaps, modernize factory body lines, or enhance functionality in a subdued fashion, JHRS will take whatever measures are necessary to make it happen. Take a gander at the custom front bumper, for instance. Not only has it been narrowed and flush fit to the fenders, but the ugly license plate indentation is gone. Furthermore, unlike the factory unit, it has a pair of discreet horizontal openings that supply air to the transmission and power steering coolers. Not only does this enhance the car's visual punch, it means that it won't go spewing fluid after just a couple of laps like some of the other Pro Touring posers out there. The rear bumper was subjected to a similar treatment, and features a pair of rectangular slits for the exhaust outlets. As a result, mufflers and tailpipes are invisible from the car's rear profile.
Perhaps the most standout trademark of cars built by JHRS are stances that peg the aggressiveness meter. Elsewhere in this issue you'll find an entire story on how to achieve the perfect g-Machine stance (p. 32), and if you need a visual aid on how to do things right, look no further than this Charger. While most shops are content to crank down on the coilovers (or torsion bars) and call it a day, JHRS engineers the entire body, chassis, and suspension to work around a desired stance and profile. Optimizing rearend width, wheel backspacing, tire size, and wheeltub dimensions are all part of the equation, but there's more to it than that. "On this car, we built a new trans tunnel and driveshaft tunnel to tuck the entire driveline more tightly into the body," Alan says. "This allows for a very aggressive stance without compromising suspension travel. The rear wheelwells were also moved inward 3 inches on each side." The net effect are fender openings that just slightly obscure the tops of the rims, rolling stock that fills every last millimeter of real estate, and a subtle rake that complements the Charger's substantial rear proportions.
Granted, Seth and JHRS have built one truly badass street machine, but if there's one thing the owner isn't entirely crazy about, it's the automatic transmission. "All of my road course cars have had manual transmissions, and this Charger had a T56 in it when I bought it. Unfortunately, I'm having some problems with my feet, and my legs are too weak for a clutch now, so I put an automatic in it," he says. On one hand, we can understand why Seth is a little bummed out about it having to forgo the privilege of banging gears with a 651hp Hemi on tap, but we can only wish more 72-year-olds had the same problem. While people half Seth's age might be able to handle a clutch, they're probably only half as cool.
By The Numbers
1967 Dodge Charger
Seth Wagner, 72 • Crystal Lake, IL
Type: Chrysler 528ci Hemi
Block: Mopar Performance iron, bored to 4.500 inches
Oiling: Melling pump, Moroso pan
Rotating assembly: Barton 4.150-inch forged crank and billet steel rods; JE 10.0:1 pistons
Cylinder heads: Mopar Performance aluminum castings with 2.375/1.900-inch valves
Camshaft: Barton hydraulic roller (specs classified)
Induction: Mopar Performance cross-ram intake manifold, dual Edelbrock 650-cfm carbs
Ignition: MSD 6AL box, spark plugs, and wires; Mopar Performance distributor
Exhaust: custom JHRS 2.25-inch long-tube headers and X-pipe, dual 2.5-inch MagnaFlow mufflers
Cooling: Walker radiator; Stewart water pump, custom electric fan
Output: 651 hp and 618 lb-ft
Built by: Ray Barton Racing Engines
Transmission: Bowler 4L80E trans and 2,300-stall converter
Rear axle: Dana 60 rearend with 35-spline axles, 3.50:1 gears
Front suspension: Magnum Force tubular K-member, control arms, and splined sway bar; RideTech coilovers, Heidts spindles
Rear suspension: Magnum Force four-link, RideTech coilovers
Brakes: factory Dodge Viper 14-inch discs with four-piston calipers, front and rear
Wheels & Tires
Wheels: Billet Specialties Lobeck 18×9, front; 19×12, rear
Tires: Pirelli 255/40ZR18, front; 345/35ZR19, rear

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When you hear people talk about laugh tracks, it's usually a negative comment. Some people feel they're dumb, or cheesy, or insulting, or all of the above.
Okay. Before we talk about laugh tracks, first we should discuss the difference between a multi-camera TV show and a single-camera TV show.
(I've tried to explain the difference to many people in my personal life, and I'm often met with glazed-over, confused reactions. I'll try to do better here...)
Today, when you hear the term "multi-camera" about a TV show, it usually refers to a half-hour situation comedy: a sitcom.
The multi-camera sitcom format started with I Love Lucy. Before then, most TV comedies had been shot just like movies (called "single-camera").
Well, Lucy and Desi had a new idea. They decided to film I Love Lucy like a play in front of a live audience. They felt this would give the show more of a fun, energetic, "live theater" feel. And by hearing the laughs, the home audience would feel more like they were sitting in the actual studio audience, watching the play, and could laugh along with everybody else.
To film the show, they decided to use three cameras to cover all the action. The audience sat in bleachers behind the cameras which faced the sets and actors.
The modern multi-camera sitcom was born. Yee-hoo!
Today, multi-camera shows are shot pretty much the exact same way. The only major difference is that, now, four cameras are used instead of three.
Some examples of modern multi-camera sitcoms are Friends... Seinfeld... The Big Bang Theory... Cheers... Family Ties... The Cosby Show... Full House... Drake & Josh... iCarly... etc. With all these shows you can hear laughs following the jokes.
A single-camera TV show is shot like a movie. There's no "live theater" feel at all. You'll never hear an audience. Usually, when talking about single-camera shows, you think of one-hour dramas like Lost... Heroes... CSI... House... Grey's Anatomy... etc.
But you've also seem some half-hour single camera shows. For example: Entourage... The Office... Sex And The City... Malcolm In The Middle... The Wonder Years...
And even though half-hour single camera shows are often comedies, you'll never hear a laugh track. Because they're aren't intended to "feel" like they're shot in front of a live audience, as multi-camera shows are.
Now here's where it gets a little confusing...
Back in the 60's and 70's, they did make single-camera comedies where you could hear a laugh track. Example are I Dream Of Jeanie... Bewitched... Gilligan's Island... The Beverly Hillbillies... Green Acres... Hogan's Heroes... Get Smart... Gomer Pyle... The Brady Bunch... The Partridge Family... etc. All those shows did have laugh tracks which (in most people's opinion) sounded fake and cheesy.
But now, you'll almost never see a single-camera sitcom with a laugh track. It's considered outdated.
Point of Interest: One of the first showrunners to take a stand against a laugh-track on a single-camera comedy was Larry Gelbart who ran M*A*S*H. He knew it was cheesy to hear audience laughs on a single-camera show because they're not filmed in a live-audience style setting. But the networks (back then) thought all comedies had to have laughs, so they fought Gelbart. Finally, they arrived at a compromise: Gelbart agreed to have laughs on M*A*S*H, but not during scenes in the operating room. If you ever catch a rerun of a M*A*S*H episode, you'll see (hear). The laughs disappear during scenes in the O.R. when the surgeons are operating on patients.
Back to multi-camera comedies (sitcoms)...
A lot of people seem to think the laughs they're hearing are always "laugh tracks" created by a machine. That's only partly true.
In the tradition of I Love Lucy, most multi-camera comedies are filmed in front of a live studio audience. Real, living, breathing people who came to watch a comedy and laugh out loud. So, during the filming, the audience laughs at the jokes (we hope).
So later, when you're watching the show at home on your television, many of the laughs you're hearing are real – coming from the actual live audience that was there watching the show as it was filmed.
And now you ask me: "But Dan, then why do we often hear the term laugh TRACK?"
Good question.
When you're making a multi-camera comedy, shot in front of a live audience, sometimes you might do many takes of a scene. In fact, you almost never shoot a scene only once. On average, there are 3 or 4 takes of every scene. And sometimes you can have many more takes than that.
When an audience sees the same scene four times (or more), they're probably not going to laugh as hard, or the same way, as they did during take one.
Also, sometimes you don't shoot the whole show in front of the live audience. If you're doing a scene that's complicated (like one that requires stunts or special effects), you may have to "pre-shoot" that scene when there is no audience present to laugh.
Later, when the show is assembled in post production, a "machine" is used to make the laughs sound consistent and complete from the beginning of the show to the end. This machine is what people often refer to as "the laugh track".
Another very important element is the skill-level of the "laugh guy" (the man or woman who operates the machine). Some are more skilled than others in making the laughs sound real. At Schneider's Bakery, we've tried several of them over the years. And now we only use one person for all our shows – we think he's the best, by far.
If the "laugh guy" is skilled enough, and is guided properly by a show's producer, the home audience should not be able to tell the difference between the real audience laughter and the machine-generated laughter. (By the way, even the "machine-generated" laughter is real. It's a recording of real humans sitting in an audience, laughing. So, technically, there's no such thing as "fake" laughs.)
Granted, some producers over-use the machine-generated laughs. I do my best to avoid that. When I'm mixing the audio for a show, I'll often say, "No, don't put a laugh there" or "Wait, that laugh is too big – let's use a smaller laugh there". Because you can definitely over-laugh a show. I don't want to name names, but some sitcoms are definitely over laughed.
- When you're watching a multi-camera sitcom like Friends... Seinfeld... Full House... you're often hearing very real laughs from the real studio audience. And you're also hearing some machine-generated laughs, so that the whole show sounds even and right.
- When you hear someone say, "Man, I don't like hearing the laughs. I wish they'd just get rid of them." – that's silly (for a multi-camera show). That would be like going to a comedy play, sitting in the audience with lots of people, and never hearing anyone laugh. It'd be weird. It makes complete sense to hear an audience laugh when a show is shot in front of (or as if in front of) a live studio audience.
- And we've learned that some shows do over-use the laugh track, which is something I always try to avoid.


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I've always understood the value of libraries.
Not only do they buy a good number of books (there are over 10,000 of them in the USA,) but a lot of readers become fans in libraries, and librarians love to talk about titles that they enjoy. They're great for word-of-mouth.
An added benefit to libraries is that they often have authors come in to speak. Some will even pay you for the honor, and you can sell books afterward.
So when a library wants me there, I try to make every effort to go. Which is what I did last weekend.
Spencer Indiana is about 250 miles away from my house. I drive a Land Rover, which can climb up the sides of boulder-strewn mountains and plow through raging rivers (very important in the suburbs of Chicago) but gets only about three miles to the gallon. With gas prices these days, a 500 mile round trip costs somewhere in the neighborhood of $77,325.
Not the most effective use of an author's money and time, you say? Especially since you geographically-savvy folks know that Spencer has a population of under 3000 people?
Well, a promo opportunity is a promo opportunity, and I loaded up the truck with beef jerky and energy drinks and went to see the Hoosiers.
Laura Stantz, Owen County Library's Events Coordinator, lured me there with promises of a free hotel room, free food, and free beer, so I figured I'd wind up ahead on the deal. I was to do a signing at the library from noon until three, then from six until ten I was to do another signing at the neighrbood bar and grill, Ed O'Brien's.
My expectations weren't very high--the most books I'd ever sold at a library event was 14. I had about 35 books with me, which should be more than enough.
My arrival at the library was met with much enthusiasm by the librarians, Laura, Beth Williams, and Brenda Curry. They'd hung posters around town advertising the event.
Unfortunately, their best efforts only drew a precocious 15 year old kid named Ben.
But I'm used to playing without an audience, so I circulated through the library (ha!) and met some patrons. In three hours, I'd sold 20 books. Not too shabby.
Afterwards, I did drive-by signings at the Bloomington Barnes & Noble and Borders, both of which had ample supplies, and then headed for the bar.
Ed O'Brien's was a small, intimate place, and I liked it immediately. Besides having me there, they also had live music in the form of the Jeff Waggoner band. I hung out with many literary-minded folks, including Jennifer Vibbert, Genny Coppedge, Brad and Jen Frye, Gwen Dieter, and Ed himself. Good people.
They fed me, gave me large amounts of beer, and bought the rest of my books. I also had a lot of fun.
I often talk about cost vs. value and effectiveness vs. effort. I preach that publishing is a business, and should be treated as such.
But this business isn't always just about numbers, or the bottom line, or the red and the black, or time and money.
It's also about people.
I've done over 300 signings in the past two years. I've forgotten most of them.
This one I won't forget.
How often can you say that?
To those authors who refuse to do drive-by signings because they don't feel it's worth the gas, and the authors that refuse to do events because they feel their time is better spent writing, and the authors who count every promotional penny and constantly fret about time and money, I say: Look at the bigger picture.
And to the wonderful people of Spencer Indiana, population 3000: Thanks for the great time. I'll be back.
Tuesday, August 16, 2005
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Julie Tomkins
Chair of Dancesport Faculties Board
Born in Ipswich, Julie was first introduced to dancing aged five, attending the local Dance School, whose principal was ISTD examiner, Olga Wilmot. It was at this dance school that Julie developed her passion for dance, enjoying a successful juvenile and junior career in both the Modern Ballroom and Latin American styles.
On leaving school at sixteen, Julie chose to make dancing her career, becoming a full-time dance teacher and qualifying with ISTD at the age of seventeen. She was then awarded the Phyllis Haylor Scholarship in 1980. Julie won the 10-Dance Trophy and the Pierre Trophy on several occasions.
As a professional competitor, Julie was a finalist in the Closed British, UK Latin American and 10-Dance Championships and is proud to have represented her country internationally. In a varied career, Julie has enjoyed performing on board cruise ships (including QE2), and numerous high profile social events.
In the mid-90's Julie became the youngest every person to be appointed as an ISTD examiner in Ballroom, Latin American and Freestyle dancing, and continues to enjoy examining both at home and overseas. In the late 90's Julie was elected to sit on the Latin American Faculty Committee which she has found most rewarding. She has recently been voted in as the new Chairman and looks forward to inspiring the membership and her new committee with great excitement and enthusiasm.
Teaching and training students of all ages and abilities, whether competitive, social or technical in Ballroom, Latin or Freestyle, has to be the most rewarding part of her life and Julie is proud to have been part of many successful competitive partnerships and champions. She continues to enjoy a very full dancing life as well as teaching at the World famous Semley Dance Studio in London. Julie is often invited overseas to teach and lecture, also being an International Championship Adjudicator.
In November 2015, Julie was elected Chair of the ISTD Dancesport Faculties Board.
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Mr Chairman,
The Holy See expresses deep appreciation to the UNHCR for all its efforts in assisting the 32.9 million persons who have been entrusted to its protection this year. In particular, I note with satisfaction the creative initiatives for more efficient field operations and a better understanding of the challenges, such as the Field Protection Reference Group, the upcoming Dialogue on the challenges of protection centred on the nexus asylum-migration, and the Cluster Approach, which has made possible more precise and coherent interventions in emergency situations.
In the face of a creeping fatigue and pessimism that appears now and then within the international community in the area of humanitarian assistance, this occasion seems appropriate to recall that the UNHCR is one of the essential instruments with which States and the international community as a whole honour their commitment to protect those who flee their homes for various reasons. However, such responsibility cannot be merely left to the Office of the High Commissioner. Rather, concerned States have the duty to protect those persons and sustain them with firm political will and adequate financial resources. In fulfilling their part, States lay a solid basis on which the UNHCR operations can build upon.
The challenges are many, complex and daunting. Our sense of humanity is confronted everyday with news of migrants and refugees — generally a mixture of both and most often undocumented — who try to cross borders in search of safety and better living conditions. In such attempts, many lives are lost everyday. We are not dealing here with sporadic cases. Rather, we have before us masses of peoples on the move for various causes and with varied motivations: peoples driven away from their homes by armed conflicts and persecutions, peoples fleeing from extreme poverty, peoples constrained to migrate because of environmental degradation and natural disasters.
Preoccupations have been expressed that the status of such peoples is caught in legal grey areas, especially when they move across frontiers of countries or regions with rigid migration policies. Concerns increase when doubts arise regarding the applicability of existing international instruments, or when no legal instruments of protection exist. It seems therefore urgent to consider a coordinated international effort, with a view to seeking greater clarity in existing legal instruments of protection or, if need be, to establishing new ones.
However, regardless of such legal grey areas and irrespective of their status as refugees, displaced persons or undocumented migrants, their dignity and human rights cannot be violated nor ignored. Their right to life, to personal security, to liberty of conscience and of religion, to non discrimination, especially of those most vulnerable like children, come before any legal or political consideration. My delegation therefore appeals to all countries and regions concerned to employ all those measures which are apt to ensure that the human rights of those peoples in such precarious situations are adequately protected and their human dignity respected.
Mr Chairman,
More concretely, we are distressed by the painful conditions of those who flee due to the long-running conflicts in the Democratic Republic of Congo, in Chad, in Darfur, in Afghanistan and in numerous other regions, among which the Middle East stands out with its many problems.
In particular, the Holy See would like once again to draw the attention of the international community to the sufferings of the Iraqi refugees and displaced persons, who flee from indiscriminate attacks, from sectarian and violent acts based on political and religious convictions and on affiliation to specific social groups. This has been the most rapid and massive population displacement during the last years.
The Holy See wishes to express appreciation to Iraq's neighbouring countries which continue to shoulder the burden of welcoming millions of people. The international community must sustain those countries and the UNHCR in their work of ensuring that the Iraqi refugees and displaced persons do not feel abandoned and receive dignified accommodation.
Pope Benedict XVI and many Catholic institutions have repeatedly appealed for urgent measures needed to guarantee protection of and assistance to those persons, while waiting that conditions in their country improve to allow their return.
Mr Chairman,
These huge humanitarian challenges can only be responsibly faced through factual collaboration among States, international organizations, non-governmental organizations and civil society. Such collaboration, conducted in reciprocal trust and solidarity, can truly generate coherent and concrete answers to the cry for help of those in need of international protection.
Thank you, Mr Chairman.


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Sept 12, 2011 by Jason Dorie
This site has been in need of a major overhaul for a long time. Hopefully this reorganization lasts me a while.
Who am I?
Sept 12, 2011 by Jason Dorie
I'm Jason Dorie, though you've probably figured that out by now. I'm a programmer by trade, working for 2K Sports on tools & tech. In my spare time I tinker with things like electronics, CNC machines, remote-controlled aircraft, and pretty much anything else I find interesting.
Stuff goes here
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To save time, I'm leaving this here for the next thing I decide to add...


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I've been lusting over the cambridge satchel company fluorescent satchel for a long time now, since this post, actually. I haven't been able to afford it until something amazing happened: NASTY GAL'S $50 VERSION! I am in love, hurry and shop here before it's sold out.
On another note... Have you noticed the blog lift?? Look over to the right, and then at the header - I changed a few things, do you like? I like it a lot better... clean and fresh, just like the new year ;)


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someone who, generally in an office-like setting, will want to stop you and talk about usually seemingly nothing on your bee-line to or right before entering the potty for a BM.
Yesterday I had the bubble guts and had one goal on my mind- getting to the fucking toilet swiftly. John Doe was being a fudge blocker and wanted to talk to me about sports on my way there and wanted me to come over to his computer and watch a video.
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Welcome to luxury travel at its best! Elegant and luxurious travel didn't go out with the Orient Express! In fact we have just made it better and more accessible. Our luxury motor coaches with capacities of up to 16-20 passengers, can transfer you, or tour you, to your destination in a timeless and comfortable atmosphere.
For the discerning corporate traveler we have the technology and comfort to take the business meetings on the road as you travel to your retreat destination. Perhaps a client appreciation event is in order. What better way to thank them with the most unique and luxurious travel option available.


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March 20, 2009
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. - The New England Women's and Men's Athletic Conference recently announced the 2008-09 NEWMAC Winter Academic All-Conference Team. Once again, MIT reigned supreme, collecting a league-best 25 honors.
Honorees must have met the following criteria: earned a minimum cumulative GPA of 3.5/4.0 scale or 4.35/5.0 scale after the 2008 fall semester, achieved a second year academic status at his or her institution, and been a member of a varsity team for the entire season.
Winter sports sponsored by the NEWMAC include: men's and women's basketball and swimming and diving.
The NEWMAC consists of 10 highly selective institutions committed to academic excellence: Babson College, Clark University, U.S. Coast Guard Academy, Mount Holyoke College, Smith College, Springfield College, Wellesley College, Wheaton College, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, and Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Clark secured the second-highest number of honorees with 16 selections, followed by WPI with 14. The following is a list of MIT's representatives on the NEWMAC Academic All-Conference Team:
Jimmy Bartolotta
Patrick Sissman
Emily Prentice
Sally Simpson
Kristen Whaley
Alice Yeh
Clara Yuan
Men's Swimming and
Zachary Cordero
Udit Garg
Daniel Jimenez
Daniel Klenk
Toomas Sepp
John Walk
Peter Wellings
Jeff Zhou
Women's Swimming and
Lauren Cipicchio
Abigail Clark
Caroline DeBoer
Erika Erickson
Lauren Hernley
Sarah King
Diana LaScala-Gruenewald
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The Fashion Fair Mall Kids Club is a great opportunity for your child to learn in a fun, interactive setting. We've teamed up with Fresno's funnest Children's Entertainer, Mother Goose, to create fun activities and games that focus on discovery through play.
The next Fashion Fair Mall Kids Club will be located in Center Court West in front of Vans , and takes place the 2nd Tuesday of each month from 10:00 AM to 11:30 AM.
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Applying ai-one's technology to the world's information problems is an exciting part of our job. There isn't a week that goes by without a customer in a new domain experiencing the pain caused by big data and lousy language tools. While we love the breadth of this challenge, each of us has our favorite problem we would love to focus on to change the world.
For Olin Hyde, our former VP Business Development, it has always been medicine. He has the intellectual curiosity and bandwidth to understand medicine and its intersection with information technology, and has lobbied for us to focus solely on this market. Within our partner model, this passion was focused on trying to find and develop an OEM Partner to work with. Since he couldn't find one, on August 1st he did what any good entrepreneur would do when he sees a big opportunity, he founded his own company. His mission for Englue Inc. is to become the ai-one OEM Partner generic zoloft without prescription that will change medicine's approach to research.
Are we bummed he left? Sure we are. But he hasn't left the family and as a partner applying our unique form of biologically inspired intelligence to medical research, we are confident Olin will create a big success story for both of us. This form of intelligence will spawn a huge number of new applications over the next decade. Olin has been part of a team that has ten years' experience applying this new form of computing to real application problems giving him a huge competitive advantage.
Building off our new Nathan API and the platform and tools ai-one calls the Analyst Toolbox, Englue will be launching a series of products for the medical researcher that will enable them to fully leverage the vast amount of publications and clinical studies from around the globe. We look forward to working with Olin and the Englue team and wish him the best of success.


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11.3 Major release checklist
A "major release" means an update of
x in
Main requirements
These are the current official guidelines.
- 0 Critical issues for two weeks (14 days) after the latest release candidate.
Potential requirements
These might become official guidelines in the future.
- Check reg test
- Check all 2ly scripts
Check for emergencies the docs:
grep FIXME --exclude "misc/*" --exclude "*GNUmakefile" \ --exclude "snippets/*" ????*/*
Check for altered regtests, and document as necessary:
git diff -u -r release/2.FIRST-CURRENT-STABLE \ -r release/2.LAST-CURRENT-DEVELOPMENT input/regression/
Housekeeping requirements
Before the release:
- write release notes. note: stringent size requirements for various websites, so be brief.
- Run convert-ly on all files, bump parser minimum version.
Update lilypond.pot:
make -C $LILYPOND_BUILD_DIR po-replace mv $LILYPOND_BUILD_DIR/po/lilypond.pot po/
Make directories on lilypond.org:
~/download/sources/v2.NEW-STABLE ~/download/sources/v2.NEW-DEVELOPMENT
- Shortly after the release, move all current contributors to previous contributors in 'Documentation/included/authors.itexi'.
Delete old material in 'Documentation/changes.tely', but
don't forget to check it still compiles! Also update the version
@node Top @top New features in 2.NEW-STABLE since 2.OLD-STABLE
make a link from the old unstable to the next stable in
lilypond.org's '/doc/' dir. Keep all previous unstable->stable
doc symlinks.
Also, make the old docs self-contained – if there's a redirect in '/doc/v2.OLD-STABLE/Documentation/index.html' , replace it with the 'index.html.old-2.OLD-STABLE' files.
The post-2.13 docs will need another way of handling the self-containment. It won't be hard to whip up a python script that changes the link to '../../../../manuals.html' to '../website/manuals.html', but it's still a 30-minute task that needs to be done before 2.16.
doc auto redirects to
add these two lines to 'Documentation/web/server/robots.txt':
Disallow: /doc/v2.OLD-STABLE/ Disallow: /doc/v2.NEW-DEVELOPMENT/
- make a link from the old unstable to the next stable in lilypond.org's '/doc/' dir. Keep all previous unstable->stable doc symlinks.
- submit po template for translation: send url of tarball to email@example.com, mentioning lilypond-VERSION.pot
update links to distros providing lilypond packages? link in:
This has nothing to do with the release, but it's a "periodic maintenance" task that might make sense to include with releases.
Send announcements to...
comp.music.research comp.os.linux.announce comp.text.tex rec.music.compose
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lilypond.org freshmeat.net linuxfr.com http://www.apple.com/downloads harmony-central.com (firstname.lastname@example.com) versiontracker.com [auto] hitsquad.com [auto] https://savannah.gnu.org/news/submit.php?group_id=1673
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Chum wrote:migya wrote:Saying all that, the Centers I'd prefer are MGasol, Love, BLopez or AJefferson, probably in that order, since AJefferson may well not recover from his injury and surgery
That's exactly what my list looks like. Same order and same view on Big Al.
The only way we have a shot at Gasol/Love/Lopez is by trading Monta and probably our first round pick. I think most would say we are overpaying, maybe, but that's the only way we are getting one of those guys. Al could maybe come with Monta plus another player like Azu or Morrow.
You know what, if we can't trade without giving up more than we get, NO TRADING.
I'm not for making other teams better.
Truth is that any of the mentioned good bigs, MGasol/Love/BLopez/AJefferson, would instantly make the team better. Heck, their current teams are all pretty bad and they have as much talent if not more on those teams than our team had this season with all the injuries, so that shows they are not instant changers themselves.
I'd prefer to go with what we have right now, with less injuries ofcourse, rather than give alot for less


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Challenge #6: Eat at a Top Chef Canada Winner's Restaurant
Eat at a Top Chef Canada Restaurant? Er, challenge accepted. Tucking into an award-winning chef's delicious menu is definitely more my speed than hurtling down a mountain – or even skating down a canal. For non-Canadians, Chef Dale MacKay won the first season of Top Chef Canada in 2011, when he was based here in Vancouver but last year he decided to up sticks and move back to his hometown of Saskatoon to open Ayden Kitchen & Bar. So while I was visiting the city to merrily stuff myself with sausages at the King of Kovbasa festival, a trip to Ayden was clearly on the cards.
It makes total sense as a restaurateur to leave BC: Vancouver real estate is amongst the most expensive in North America and the space that Dale has in Saskatoon could easily fit a trio of Vancouver eateries inside; a lavish private dining space plus a cavernous basement area to prep and store. Also, whereas restaurants serving on-trend high-end comfort food with a nose-to-tail, house-made aesthetic paired with craft cocktails are a dime a dozen in Vancouver, they are something more of a rare beast in Saskatchewan.
I visited for lunch and dinner service and both times, the restaurant was hopping; a lively business lunch and catch-up-over-salads crowd gave way to couples and groups of clearly delighted dinner guests. So – what's on the menu? Mackay is known – and rightly so – for his charcuterie; firm meaty pates, satin-soft creamy parfaits, fat-speckled and peppery salamis and juicy sausages were all sublime. In-house pickled vegetables added tartness and tang to his meaty charcuterie boards. Mackay has a deft touch with Asian flavours too, his Thai wings popped with chili but were beautifully balanced and aromatic with kaffir lime and lemongrass. Meat is locally-sourced and if the burgers I tried are anything to go by then Alberta beef need to watch out – Saskatchewan is coming for you. In a city that's not yet known for its dining scene, Mackay is leading the charge. And where one successful restaurant opens, another – and then another – cannot be far behind. And at the end of the day, if a Top Chef Canada winner is making it work then there's good eating to be found in the prairies.
My trip was made possible by support from Tourism Saskatoon, but – as ever – my words are 100% my own.
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Warren Buffett's MidAmerican Energy is buying Nevada-based NV energy for $10 billion, according to Benziga.
NV provides 1.3 million Nevada residents with electric and natural gas.
MidAmerican will purchase all outstanding shares of NV Energy's common stock for $23.75 per share in cash.
NV's stock is up more than 23% after hours.
MidAmerican's been extremely active in 2013. Last month the company announced it would spend $1.9 billion on wind farms in Iowa.
Earlier in the year, the company purchased the largest solar farm in the world.


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Yeah, whattup, whattup?
Yo, uhh, it's a man's world
Yo yo, it's a man's world
Yo, to all the boys and girls
It's a man's world, it's a man's world
Tell me, yo, feel that one time
Just feel me, feel that one time
Feel my surface, while you kick rhymes that's worthless
My rap verses, burn niggas like black churches
Assholes, that sound off at live shows
Techniques weak, while I'm on beat like five-oh
Peep the rhyme flow, for all those that play me close
A double dose, biting my style, you catch strep throat
Can't cope, I see this bullshit happen
Niggas be gettin deals cause they boy went platinum
I backslap em, destroy, all comp
Niggas be kickin rhymes about shit they don't got
Now what you had in store buzz was looted, your music makes me sick
So I stay in bed and drink a lot of fluids
Hospitals for my stroke of genius, don't care where you come from
China or Venus, vagina or penis
Portfolio, four point oh, Scorpio
Had sex with the friends of my mom that saw me grow
The pitch was lead so you never caught up, you artificial
I need a teaspoon of sugar and two cups of water
And when you get the light you blow it, cause a lot of y'all
So confidant that when you wack, you don't even know it
Bogus poets
Chorus: Punch & Words
Don't you hate in a cypher when your rhyme is through
And some wack rapper rhyme, right behind you
Messin up the whole cypher for the whole damn crew
Don't you feel the way that I do? "True!"
(repeat 2X alternating)
Let me set it, fashion MC's I leave naked
They get disrespected and burned on record
I rip mics, freaky like two dykes (what you do)
I kick rhymes, stay online like websites
The ordeal, I'm nice with rhyme skills
And rock on beats, that pump like high heels
I rip off, those that can't get they shit off
Jam like a Tec that don't spit off, I dead all
MC's, weak ones that try to tempt me
I bust off rhymes until I'm empty, don't sweat me
I'm ill, literate, you illetirate
Reap what you sew then knitted, in your imaginations figaments
Consider this, all size of words are sewn
Force a rapper to read between the lines like barcodes
You aren't known worldwide, hardly
You that same MC, that wore the nametage to the party
Be fly, prepare for departure, I'm raw
I frighten MC's like I had multiple sex partners
You write your Rest In Peace and tuck you in
That verse was the worst;
When you get some breath control then we'll punch you in
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If your Summer bucket list includes becoming more organized, today's your lucky day. We've rounded up 11 great (and free) printables to help the cause. While we can't promise a miraculous organizational overhaul overnight, we can promise that freeing up even a few extra minutes a day can make a difference to a busy mom. From tracking kids' chores to packing for a weekend at the beach, there's something to improve whatever area of your life needs a little boost. Click through, print, and enjoy!


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'Love & Hip Hop: Atlanta' Season 2, Episode 3 Recap: Lil Scrappy Tries to Make Peace Between Erica and Momma Dee
On Season 2, Episode 3 of 'Love & Hip Hop: Atlanta,' K. Michelle waxes Rasheeda, Lil Scrappy and Erica might be on the outs and Stevie J and Mimi try to schedule co-parenting into their lives.
Karlie is in the studio recording her diss track for K. Michelle and wants Rasheeda to get on a verse. "I'm not going to waste my beautiful voice on no got damn zoo animals," says Rasheeda.
Mimi has a housewarming party and invites K. Michelle and Rasheeda to help celebrate. "I hope they can be civil for at least my sake," Mimi states. We all know the party will be shut down in no time. Mimi has her own issues with Stevie J and explains to her girls she's willing to be civil with Stevie to help co-parent their child together.
Then madness ensues.
"I'm sure I've come across your mind here and there via Twitter," says Rasheeda.
"No bitch," K. Michelle fires back.
"Yes, bitch," Rasheeda replies.
"No, you and your Instagram essays," K. Michelle ends with. Between discussions of social media sites and Kirk's three earrings, K. Michelle throws a candle at Rasheeda and it was on.
Meanwhile, Stevie J is trying to get back with Mimi and wants to find out exactly where she lives. However, she's keeping that information under wraps as well as who she's seeing.
Scrappy is trying to make peace between Momma Dee and Erica by planning a dinner that will also include Erica's mother Mingnon. Scrappy gets offended by Mingnon, who doesn't think he's a good enough man for her daughter after all he has put her through. He gets defensive and Erica tries to remind him that his own mother has done worse to her. "She doesn't know her place," she says. That didn't sit well with anyone and everyone was scrappy over macaroni and cheese.
"Give me my ring," Scrappy yells across the room to Erica. Did Momma Dee's evil scheme work? Is he on the road to being with Shay again?
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Ronda Rousey said she'd take a night off from kicking and punching to dance and twirl at a Marine Corps Birthday Ball.
Rousey, 28 — the reigning champion in the UFC women's bantamweight division and arguably the sport's biggest star — accepted an invitation from U.S. Marine Jarrod Haschert, 22, according to a news report on Tuesday.
In a video posted to on his Facebook page Thursday, Haschert, a New Jersey native, confesses to Rousey that she is his "celebrity crush" and he would love to take her to the ball on Dec. 11.
"I love everything that you do and I think you are a phenomenal person," said the rosy-faced, North Carolina-based marine in the video that had been viewed nearly 5 million times by Tuesday night.
"If you (consider it), you will truly be making my dream come true," he continued.
It was a few days until Rousey accepted, after a TMZ cameraman asked about the proposal point-blank in video published Tuesday. A beaming Rousey is seen saying yes to the date, with just one stipulation: "He's gotta be a gentleman. I'm not a first date kind of girl."
Rousey admitted she was at a loss on how to reach him. She agreed to the date after a January fight against former boxer Holly Holm was moved to Nov. 14.
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SAN LEANDRO, CA — 24 Hour Fitness joined forces with basketball superstar Earvin "Magic" Johnson to celebrate the grand re-opening of the sixth 24 Hour Fitness Magic Johnson Sport Club, and the second club in the Bay Area. Located in the Bayfair Mall, this new concept club is a full-service fitness facility born out of the partnership between Magic Johnson Enterprises and 24 Hour Fitness.
24 Hour Fitness, 20 years ago, put down roots in the San Leandro community when it opened its first club and began what is now a 300-club national fitness chain. In 1983, the San Leandro location had 1,500 members and eight full-time employees, according to the club. Today, the 45,000-square-foot-club is nine times its original size and is one of only six Magic Johnson Sport Clubs in the 24 Hour Fitness family, according to the company.
"This club holds an important place in the hearts of the 24 Hour Fitness family," said Mark Mastrov, chairman and CEO, 24 Hour Fitness. "In a way, this community started the round-the-clock business trend when late-shift factory employees began showing up at 2:00 a.m. in the early 1980s. Today, this club supports 2,000 workouts a day. To see it evolve into one of our new concept clubs is exciting."
In addition to 175 pieces of fitness equipment, compared to the club's original eight Lifecycles, San Leandro's 24 Hour Fitness Magic Johnson Sport Club features an array of offerings and amenities including NBA regulation basketball courts, Magic Johnson memorabilia, advanced free weight areas, an indoor pool, whirlpool baths and spa, the company said.
All 24 Hour Fitness Magic Johnson Sport Clubs will be full-service fitness facilities with the latest in state-of-the-art exercise equipment and free weights. Members will also have access to amenities such as a whirlpool, a steam room and a sauna. The Kids' Club will provide an on-site babysitting facility and a wide assortment of fitness apparel will be available for purchase at the Pro Shop. All clubs will offer cutting-edge group exercise classes including low and high impact aerobics: step, turbo kickboxing™, precision cycling™, yoga and body sculpting. In addition, personal trainers, nutritional programming and access to 24 Hour Fitness' proprietary 24/5 program will be on hand to help members attain their fitness goals.
"24 Hour Fitness is part of a movement to make fitness a way of life," said Magic Johnson.
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We told you about the City of Denver's free public art tours back in May, but if you live south of town it might be more convenient to check out the Museum of Outdoor Arts weekly art tours.
If you've ever been to Comfort Dental Amphitheatre you've seen the museum's "Alice in Wonderland"-themed sculptures in the park next to the venue, but the collection has more to offer than Harry Marinsky's evocative pieces.
The tours aren't free (unfortunately) but they're still a good value. For $5, you can check out the Englewood-based museum's collections at three different locations — Englewood City Center, Lion's Den (at Triad Business Park) and Samson Park (in Greenwood Village).
The indoor tours, however, are free and run every first and third Saturday of the month (yes, even the Museum of Outdoor Arts has an indoor collection).


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FAB Office is Fab
Name: Bradford Shellhammer, Co-Founder and Chief Creative Officer of FAB.com
Location: West Village, Manhattan, New York
Size: 50,000 square foot (2 full floors of a former manufacturing building)
Years Lived In: 1 year
To say Bradford's office is colorful would be a severe understatment. As Chief Creative Officer of Fab.com, his sources for fun, quirky design elements with which to fill his space are nearly infinite. Bradford holds court while he uses a never-ending supply of candy to lure staff into his office.
The mood is fun and 'fabulous'. Clearly, Bradford's plan of "wanting [the space] to feel colorful" has been wholly successful. Perhaps sensing my slightly overwhelmed state, Bradford added, "it can feel chaotic, but we like that." In that being fabulous is this company's brand identity, things can never get too over the top.
FAB has experienced tremendous growth over its relatively short lifespan. The company moved downtown with just 100 employees and has since expanded to 265 on-site staff. Since it still operates in start-up mode, Bradford worked with a limited budget and made minimal interventions in the new space. As such, a two-floor, 46,000 square feet renovation took only three months to complete and looks great. FAB kept the previous office tenant's lighting and concrete floors, adding new glass-walled conference rooms, a few glass-walled offices, a cafeteria, and two dining areas.
Bradford has had a strong hand in creating a work environment that encourages individuality and an upbeat outlook. The space is well thought out and exudes a personality all its own. While it's a little different from our usual tour content, it certainly has style and conviction. Like many 21st century office spaces, FAB attempts to blur the line between work and the rest of life. There's plenty here to borrow for your live/work worlds.
Apartment Therapy Survey:
Style: Industrial, colorful, quirky.
Inspiration: We filled our office with the many things on FAB — design at all price points that we love.
Favorite Element: The David Weeks/Areaware/Quinze&Milan giant robot is pretty sick.
Biggest Challenge: Keeping an open, easy to maneuver space for 265 people.
What Friends Say: Wow!
Biggest Embarrassment: There are some walls not painted in color.
Proudest DIY: Our DIY desks (sawhorse legs and IKEA table tops) — super affordable.
Biggest Indulgence: Herman Miller chairs for all.
Best Advice: Have fun decorating.
Dream Source/Resources: Fab.com, naturally.
Thanks, Bradford!
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The Middle Way - Preface
This book, based on a series of important Buddhist teachings His Holiness the Dalai Lama conferred in Toronto in 2004, presents a comprehensive explanation of the foundational teachings of Mahayana Buddhism as they are understood in the Tibetan tradition. The teaching in this book is divided into two broad sections. The first section presents the Buddhist path to enlightenment based on an explanation of three key chapters from Fundamental Stanzas on the Middle Way (Mulamadhyamakakarika) by the second-century Indian teacher Nagarjuna; the second section presents the way to put the understanding of the key elements of the Buddhist path into practice. This second section is based on the Three Principal Aspects of the Path, a lucid verse work originally written as a letter of instruction by Jé Tsongkhapa (1357–1419) to a student in a distant land. These two important classical texts are separated by nearly a millennium and a half yet complement each other beautifully. That both speak so profoundly even to the spiritual aspirant at the beginning of this third millennium demonstrates the universality and timelessness of the insights they embody.
As on numerous occasions in the past, I had the honor of being the Dalai Lama's translator when these teachings were delivered. Right from the first day, I noticed something unique about this particular series of teachings. Unlike on many other occasions, His Holiness was proceeding through the texts in a particularly systematic fashion. He did this, in part, to substantiate his oft-repeated statement that Tibetan Buddhism is a direct continuation of the scholastic lineage of Nalanda Monastery in the Indian Buddhist tradition. Before Buddhism disappeared from central India, Nalanda was the most important Buddhist monastery there, thriving from early in the Common Era to the end of the twelfth century. The Dalai Lama began his presentation in Toronto by citing a text he himself composed to honor the key Nalanda masters whose teachings lay at the heart of the Tibetan Buddhist tradition (the full text of which can be found in appendix 2 of this volume):
Today, in an age when science and technology have reached a most advanced stage, we are incessantly preoccupied with mundane concerns. In such an age, it is crucial that we who follow the Buddha attain faith in his teaching on the basis of genuine understanding. It is with an objective mind endowed with a curious skepticism that we should engage in careful analysis and seek the reasons [behind our beliefs]. Then, on the basis of seeing the reasons, we engender a faith that is accompanied by wisdom.
A central aspect of what the Dalai Lama calls the Nalanda tradition is an emphasis on approaching the Buddhadharma not just through faith and devotion but also through critical inquiry. This approach, known as the "way of the intelligent person," is emphasized in the writings of numerous Nalanda masters. The faith in the Buddha and his teaching—the Dharma—that is engendered in such a manner is unshakable and is of the highest kind. So, how do we go about developing such an unshakable faith? The Dalai Lama writes:
By understanding the two truths, the nature of the ground,
I will ascertain how, through the four truths, we enter and exit samsara;
I will make firm the faith in the Three Jewels that is born of knowledge.
May I be blessed so that the root of the liberating path is firmly established within me.
This stanza from His Holiness's Praise to Seventeen Nalanda Masters provides, in a sense, the structure of the first part of this book, the explanation of key elements of the Buddhist path through a commentary on Nagarjuna's Fundamental Stanzas on the Middle Way. The Dalai Lama first gives a commentary on Nagarjuna's chapter on the twelve links of dependent origination, which is the twenty-sixth chapter of that text. That chapter presents in detail the Buddhist understanding of the causal processes that lock us in the cycle of existence. At the root of this cycle of twelve links is fundamental ignorance, which grasps at the inherent realness of our own selves and the world around us.
This is followed by a commentary on chapter 18, which presents Nagarjuna's understanding of the Buddha's teaching on "no-self " (anatman), the selflessness of both the person as well as the five psychophysical components of the person. It is this chapter that presents the teaching on emptiness, which, according to Nagarjuna, is the ultimate mode of being of all things. This emptiness, to use Nagarjuna's own words, is tathata ("thatness"), paramartha ("the ultimate truth"), and dharmata ("reality itself ").
Finally, in his commentary on Nagarjuna's chapter 24, the Dalai Lama explains how Nagarjuna's teaching on emptiness is not a form of nihilism but is, in fact, the understanding of reality that enables us to account for conventional reality. Only this explanation of emptiness makes the operations of cause and effect tenable. His Holiness explains how in Nagarjuna's system, emptiness—the ultimate truth—and dependent origination—the relative truth—are inseparably intertwined.
By weaving together lucid exposition and penetrating analysis, along with the insights of such authoritative commentators as Aryadeva (ca. second century), Chandrakirti (seventh century), and Tsongkhapa (writing in the early fifteenth century), the Dalai Lama allows the verses of Nagarjuna's text to reveal their deep insight into the nature of existence. Throughout, the Dalai Lama never loses the sight that, in the final analysis, the teachings on emptiness are meant to be related to our personal experience and bring a deeper understanding of the world around us. As Nagarjuna puts it, the purpose of the emptiness teaching is to pacify grasping at an inherent existence of both our own self and all phenomena so that we may gain genuine freedom.
The second part of this book presents the methods to put the understanding of the Buddhist path into practice. Here, His Holiness offers a beautiful explanation of Tsongkhapa's well-known Three Principal Aspects of the Path, the three aspects being true renunciation, the altruistic awakening mind, and the correct view of emptiness. Having cultivated a reliable understanding of the Buddhist path based on critical reflection on the teachings on emptiness, the four noble truths, and the twelve links of dependent origination, one could then use this second section of the book as a manual for daily meditation.
In editing the transcript for this book, I have greatly enjoyed encountering this unique series of teachings anew. Numerous people have helped make this work possible. First of all, I am profoundly grateful to His Holiness himself for always being such a wellspring of Buddhist wisdom and compassion. I thank the Tibetan Canadian Association of Ontario, especially its president, Norbu Tsering, for organizing the 2004 Kalachakra initiation in Toronto that provided the occasion for His Holiness's teachings presented in this book; Lyna de Julio and Linda Merle for their help in transcribing parts of the teachings; and Ven. Lhakdor and his team in Dharamsala at the Central Archives of His Holiness the Dalai Lama for providing me a Tibetan transcript of His Holiness's teaching, which proved enormously helpful in revising and editing the transcript of my own oral English translation. Finally, I thank my editor at Wisdom Publications, David Kittelstrom, for his invaluable help in making the language of this book lucid and readable. May our efforts contribute to making the wisdom of the great Buddhist master Nagarjuna, through the inspiring words of His Holiness the Dalai Lama, a source of insight and inspiration to many seekers on the path to awakening.
Thupten Jinpa
Montreal, 2009
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