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The student of the humanities as well as the intelligent public looks at the history of human thought as a history of abstract ideas. . . . It is true that minds like those of Plato, Thomas Aquinas, Spinoza, Descartes, Hegel and Kant have exercised a strong influence upon the progress of thinking in all spheres, even upon the actual course of historical events. The scientist who looks beyond his specialized work is as fully aware of these historical facts as the humanist. But he is also aware that abstract thinking, remote from, and even antagonistic to the study of nature, leads easily into dogma, taboos and fettering of free thinking because it does not carry its own corrective, the recourse to factual evidence. The scientist, therefore, with all respect for the many facets of the human mind, is more impressed by the revolutions in thinking brought about by great factual discoveries, which by their very nature lead to generalizations which change at once the outlook of many, if not all, lines of thought. Such events are rare. In modern history three are most conspicuous: the explanation of the movements of the celestial bodies by Kepler, Copernicus and Newton; Galileo's experiments inaugurating the age of inductive science, and Darwin's establishment of the theory of evolution on the basis of an overwhelming body of facts. All of them at once evoked the wrath of the vested interests of the mind; all conquered within a generation or two all fields of intellectual endeavor and changed the basic aspects of practically every science, natural or humanistic.
When future historians turn to examine the major intellectual accomplishments of the twentieth century, they will undoubtedly give a special place to the extraordinary achievements in biology, achievements that have revolutionized our understanding of life's processes and of disease. Important intimations of what was to happen in biology were already apparent in the second half of the nineteenth century. Darwin had delineated the evolution of animal species, Mendel had discovered some basic rules about inheritance, and Weissman, Roux, Driesch, de Vries, and other embryologists were beginning to decipher how an organism develops from a single cell. What was lacking at the end of the nineteenth century, however, was an overarching sense of how these bold advances were related to one another.
The insight that unified these three fields- heredity, evolution, and development- and set biology on the course toward its current success came only at the beginning of the twentieth century. It derived from the discovery that the gene, localized to specific positions on the chromosome, was at once the unit of Mendelian heredity, the driving force for Darwinian evolution, and the control switch for development. This remarkable discovery can be traced directly to one person and to one institution: Thomas Hunt Morgan and Columbia University. Much as Darwin's insights into the evolution of animal species first gave coherence to nineteenth-century biology as a descriptive science, Morgan's findings about genes and their location on chromosomes helped transform biology into an experimental science.
Even more important, Morgan's discoveries made it possible to address a series of questions regarding the function and structure of genes. What is their chemical nature? How do genes duplicate themselves? What goes wrong when genes mutate? How do genes provide the basis for understanding genetic disease? How do genes determine the properties of cells, the development of organisms, and the course of evolution? Answers to some of these questions came directly from Morgan and his students; while other advances were the work of scientists touched by his broader influence. In every case, the discoveries made by these pioneering researchers set the agenda for biology in the twentieth century.
For example, George Beadle, who trained with Morgan and with Morgan's student Alfred Sturtevant '12C '14GSAS, joined Edward L. Tatum to examine how genes determine the properties of the cell. In addressing this problem, they discovered that genes control the synthesis of the cell's proteins, many of which are enzymes. Then Oswald T. Avery '04P&S, another graduate of Columbia, teamed with Maclyn McCarty and Colin MacLeod at the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research to show that the transforming genetic material is made of DNA. Theodosius Dobzhansky '64HON, a postdoctoral fellow of Morgan's, related genetic mutations to evolutionary change. Hermann J. Muller '10C '11 '16GSAS, another Morgan student, discovered that X-irradiation dramatically increases the rate at which mutations occur, an advance that focused attention on the role of environmentally induced and inherited gene mutations in important diseases ranging from cancer to Huntington's disease and schizophrenia. Joshua Lederberg '44C, an academic grandchild of Morgan, discovered transduction -the ability of viruses to carry exogenous genes into a bacterial cell- the first step on the road to genetic engineering. James D. Watson and Francis Crick next showed that DNA has a double helical conformation, a chemical conformation that immediately led to an understanding of how DNA and genes are replicated. Edward B. Lewis, another academic grandchild of Morgan, used genetics to probe development and found that a special set of genes determines the organization of the body plan. Thus, biology at the beginning of the twenty-first century represents, in good part, the molecular realization of the ideas and way of thinking introduced at the beginning of the twentieth century by Thomas Hunt Morgan at Columbia University.
Morgan and the Mechanisms
of Mendelian Heredity
In 1904 Columbia University announced the establishment of a new chair in experimental zoology and offered it to Morgan. Arriving on campus, he came under the influence of his long-term friend and colleague, the zoology department's chairman, Edwin Wilson, one of the eminent cytologists of his time and a founder of the field of cell biology. Wilson convinced Morgan that the key to understanding development—how one cell, the egg, gives rise to the animal—is to understand heredity, since it provides the means by which the egg and the sperm carry the properties of individuals from one generation to another.
Later findings proved Wilson correct, and we now know that the human genome consists of 46 chromosomes, arranged in 22 pairs of autosomes (not linked to sex), and one pair of sex chromosomes (two X chromosomes in females, one X and one Y chromosome in males). The 100,000 genes in our genome are arranged along the chromosomes in precise order, with each being uniquely identifiable by its location at a characteristic position (locus) on a specific chromosome. The two copies of a gene at corresponding loci on each pair of chromosomes are known as alleles.
The modern concepts of heredity and the existence of alternative (allelic) forms of genes had been discovered in 1865 by Gregor Mendel, a teacher and monk of the Augustinian monastery in Brno, then part of the Austro-Hungarian empire. Mendel carried out breeding experiments with plants, especially garden peas, and identified hereditary traits in them. These traits, later called factors, were found by Mendel to account for such features as whether peas were wrinkled or smooth and for the differences between dominant and recessive alleles; he did not know, however, where these traits were located or what they were. Mendel's findings were published in the Proceedings of the Natural Science Society of Brno in 1866, only to be ignored until the turn of the century. His work was rediscovered in 1900, just before Morgan arrived at Columbia.
In taking up his own inquiries, Morgan turned from Mendel's plants to the study of animals, but soon found that the rats and mice he was using reproduced so slowly as to be impractical for studying heredity. His search for a more suitable organism led him to Drosophila melanogaster, known as the fruit fly because it feeds on decaying fruit. Drosophila is small, about 3 mm long, and easy to raise in the laboratory -a thousand can be collected in a one-quart glass milk bottle. Moreover, it is fertile all year long and very prolific, producing a new generation every twelve days, or thirty generations per year. Not only are male and female offspring easy to distinguish, but embryonic development occurs outside the body, making it a simple matter to study the effects of mutations on development. Finally, Drosophila has only four pairs of chromosomes.
Morgan began working seriously with Drosophila in 1907, with the intention of breeding many generations of flies, and perhaps producing one that looked different from the rest. In short, he hoped to find an occasional fly that had undergone a mutation, sudden change in body form, a phenomenon that had recently been discovered in plants by the Dutch biologist Hugo de Vries. But despite much effort and the breeding of successive generations, Morgan initially failed to detect a single mutation. "Two years work wasted," he lamented to one visitor to his laboratory. "I have been breeding those flies for all that time and I've got nothing out of it."(Harrison, R.G., "Embryology and Its Relations")
Year of Discovery
As the next step, Morgan bred this white-eyed (mutant) male to a red-eyed (wild-type) virgin sister and found that white-colored eyes are inherited in a special way. In the first generation of brother-sister mating, labeled F1, there were only red-eyed offsprings, suggesting that red eye color is dominant and that white eye color is recessive. To prove this idea Morgan carried out brother-sister matings with the next generation (F2) and found that the offspring followed the expected Mendelian ratio for a recessive trait: three red-eyed flies to every one white-eyed fly. With these experiments Morgan started a tradition, which continues to this day, whereby he named the gene "white" by the result of its mutation. But then came a surprise. He had expected there would be an equal number of males and females with white eyes, but it turned out that all the female flies had red eyes; only males had white eyes, and, even more, only some of them displayed the trait. Morgan realized that white eye color is not only recessive but is also linked in some way to sex. The subsequent appearance of two other spontaneous mutations (rudimentary wings and yellow body color) also linked to sex further suggested to Morgan that these three genes might be carried on the same chromosome and that this chromosome is the sex chromosome.
By 1910, it was already known that chromosomes occur in pairs and that Drosophila had four pairs of chromosomes. Several decades earlier, these thread-shaped structures had been seen under a microscope to be located in the nucleus, but nobody knew their function. Morgan later was to describe them in the following terms:
"The egg of every species of animal or plant carries a definite number of bodies called chromosomes. The sperm carries the same number. Consequently, when the sperm unites with the egg, the fertilized egg will contain the double number of chromosomes. For each chromosome contributed by the sperm there is a corresponding chromosome contributed by the egg, i.e., there are two chromosomes of each kind, which together constitute a pair." (Morgan, T.H. et al., The Mechanism of Mendelian Heredity)
When Morgan turned to examining the fruit fly's chromosomes under the microscope, he immediately appreciated that not all four pairs of chromosomes were always identical. In particular, whereas female flies had two identical-looking X chromosomes, in the male the X chromosome was paired with a Y chromosome, which looks different and is never present in the female.
Morgan deduced that a male must inherit the X chromosome from his mother and Y from his father, and he immediately spotted a correlation between these sex-linked chromosomes and the segregation of the factors determining eye color. When the mother was homozygous and had two copies of the gene for red eyes, the male offspring invariably had red eyes, even if the father had white eyes. But when the mother had white eyes, the male offspring did too, even if the father's eyes were red. In contrast, a female fly gets one X chromosome from each parent, and if one passed along an X chromosome with a gene for red eyes, the offspring had red eyes because the color is dominant over white. Only when both parents gave her an X chromosome with a gene for white eyes did she display the recessive trait. From these observations, Morgan concluded that the allele-producing eye color must lie on the X chromosome that governs sex. This provided the first correlation between a specific trait and a specific chromosome.
Morgan's initial paper on fruit flies, entitled "Sex Limited Inheritance in Drosophila," was published in Science in July 1910. In this and in a subsequent paper published in Science in 1911, Morgan outlined his three major findings: (1) that genes must reside on chromosomes; (2) that each gene must reside on a particular chromosome; and (3) that the trait for eye color must reside on the sex chromosome, with the eye-color locus (or white gene) being missing on the Y chromosome and red being dominant on the X chromosome.
These findings formed the heart of Morgan's most
important idea: the chromosomal theory of heredity. He proposed
that each chromosome contains a collection of small units called genes
A focus on chromosomes and their morphology was not what Morgan had in mind when he started to work on flies. In fact, until he saw the white-eyed mutant and appreciated that its defect acted as if it were part of the X chromosome, he had been skeptical about Mendel's theory of heredity and Mendel's factors. Now that he had seen the possibility that these factors might have a physical reality as genes on chromosomes, Morgan began to view the Mendelian theory in a new light.
A Legacy of Accomplishment
From this evidence, Morgan inferred the process of chromosome recombination: he postulated that the two paired chromosomes could "exchange" or "crossover" between each other, and he further proposed that the frequency of recombination is a function of the distance between genes on the chromosome. The nearer two relevant genes lie on a chromosome, the greater their chance of being inherited together, while the farther away they are from each other, the more chance of their being separated by the process of crossing over. In short, Morgan suggested that the strength of linkage between genes depended on the distance between them on the chromosome.
On the basis of these observations, Alfred Henry Sturtevant '12C '14GSAS, then an undergraduate at Columbia College, who was working with Morgan, recognized that the variations in the strength of linkage could be used as a means of mapping genes on chromosomes by determining their relative spatial distances apart. As Sturtevant himself later recalled:
"I suddenly realized that the variations in the strength of linkage already attributed by Morgan to difference in the spatial separation of the gene offered the possibility of determining sequence in the linear dimensions of a chromosome. I went home and spent most of the night (to the neglect of my undergraduate homework) in producing the first chromosome map. . . ." (Sturtevant, A.H., Unpublished interview with G.E. Allen)The Morgan is now the unit of measurement of distances along all chromosomes in fly, mouse, and humans.
A year after Morgan had spotted the white-eyed fly, Sturtevant drew up the first genetic map for the sex-linked genes. A sufficient number of mutations had by then been observed to allow him to express the strength of linkage in units of distance on a chromosome. In fact, the order and spacing that Sturtevant worked out in 1911 are essentially those found on modern maps of the Drosophila X chromosome. The profound insight that genes are aligned on the chromosome like beads on a string with specific distances between them eventually produced a conceptual basis for hunting for disease genes through linkage analysis and for mapping whole genomes, such as the human genome. All this was accomplished by a nineteen-year-old Columbia third-year undergraduate by simply skipping one night's homework! Morgan, who was not given to overstatement, later was to call the realization that genes could be precisely mapped in relation to one another on the chromosome as "one of the most amazing developments in the history of biology." (Shine, I. and Wrobel, S., Thomas Hunt Morgan: Pioneer of Genetics)
By correlating breeding results with cytological observations of chromosomes under the microscope, Morgan's group rapidly transformed the abstract idea of Mendel's hypothetical factors into the physical reality of particular genes located at specific loci along the length of the chromosome. Initially their maps were quite abstract, since they were based only on the relative positions of genes to one another on the chromosome, as determined by linkage analysis -the sort of map now called a recombination map. But two decades later Calvin Bridges '12C '16GSAS succeeded in developing a second independent map -a physical one- showing the exact physical location of a gene on a chromosome. He accomplished this by exploiting an unanticipated advantage of Drosophila, which in its larval stages has chromosomes in its salivary glands that Theophilus Painter discovered to be multistranded and gigantic, much larger than the chromosomes of the other cells of the body. These giant chromosomes show a pattern of bands or stripes that divide each chromosome into physical subregions, and Bridges was ultimately able to recognize 1,024 invariant bands on the X chromosome. The development of physical maps proved especially valuable because they allowed a visual presentation of the sequence of genes on the chromosome -a sequence that can only be inferred from the abstract recombination map.
By 1913 Sturtevant contributed yet another major breakthrough with his insight into the existence of different allelic forms, which he saw as alternative states (alleles) of the same gene at the same locus. Research on the white-eyed gene clearly revealed that a gene could mutate from one allele to another -from red to white. In some rare instances, a red allele was observed to mutate to a different allele, then to a third and eventually a fourth, with each new allele corresponding to a different eye color. But every time a gene gave rise to a new allele, the mutant form was perpetuated in the offspring and remained unchanged unless -again, in very rare cases- a new mutation occurred in one of the offspring. Thus, Morgan's group was able to show that alleles are remarkably stable!
The low frequency of spontaneous mutation and the perpetuation of mutations that did occur indicated that genetic material is constant. The observation was soon confirmed in many other organisms, from Drosophila to man and from bacteria to yeast, offering proof both of inheritance and of the capacity for mutation to allow for evolutionary change in spite of the general constancy of genetic material.
These seminal findings were summarized in 1915 by Morgan and his three Columbia students, Sturtevant, Bridges, and Hermann J. Muller, in The Mechanism of Mendelian Heredity, a book that proved to be of historic importance. To begin with, it set forth the physical basis for the new science of genetics. On top of that, the experimental discipline outlined in its pages provided the first experimental basis for a modern biology, transforming it from a descriptive science that relied heavily on morphology. Anatomy, the queen of the biological sciences from the time of the Renaissance to the beginning of the twentieth century, was now replaced by genetics as biology itself emerged as an exact, rigorous, quantitative experimental science that could exist on an equal footing with physics and chemistry.
In recognition of his work on chromosomes, Morgan was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1933. He shared the prize money with Bridges and Sturtevant. The Nobel Prize recognized Morgan's two fundamental scientific contributions: the development of the chromosome theory of heredity, a theory of the gene that proved to be the driving biological concept of the twentieth century, and the creation of a new biology based on a rigorous experimental method.
The Columbia Environment:
The Fly Room
Morgan surrounded himself with a brilliant group
of undergraduate and graduate students. Together they set up the Drosophila
in Schermerhorn Hall, Room 613, known worldwide as the Fly Room.
In retrospect, the Fly Room seems surprisingly small, measuring only 16
x 23 feet and containing eight desks. Yet, it housed a stream of Columbia
students as well as foreign visitors and soon received wide recognition,
not only for the remarkable quality and clarity of its science but also
for the democratic nature of its social interaction. Morgan encouraged
the free exchange of ideas in an atmosphere that was at once friendly,
yet self-critical.
"This group worked as a unit. Each carried on his own experiments, but each knew exactly what the others were doing, and each new result was freely discussed. There was little attention paid to priority or to the source of new ideas or new interpretations. What mattered was to get ahead with the work. There was much to be done; there were many new ideas to be tested, and many new experimental techniques to be developed. There can have been few times and places in scientific laboratories with such an atmosphere of excitement and with such a record of sustained enthusiasm. This was due in part to Morgan's own attitude, compounded with enthusiasm combined with a strong critical sense, generosity, open-mindedness, and a remarkable sense of humor." (Sturtevant, A.H., Thomas Hunt Morgan: Biographical Memoirs)
Although this idyllic view was not shared by all,* the Fly Room nevertheless characterized science at its best and continues to provide a prototype for how research should be done, at Columbia and elsewhere. In terms of the work conducted there, the science that began at Columbia spread to laboratories all over the world as Morgan, the members of his group, and the scientists they trained helped to shape the course of biology during the decades that followed. Of the people who worked with Morgan directly or who worked with one of his students, five went on to win their own Nobel Prize: Muller, Beadle, Lederberg, and Lewis. Another student, Dobzhansky, went on to place evolution into a modern biological context. Impelled by their achievements, the center of influence in biology shifted from Europe to the United States, making the twentieth century an American Century in biology.
At the same time, the open, critical, yet fully
democratic and egalitarian atmosphere that was evident in the Fly Room
soon came to characterize the distinctively American atmosphere of university
research -an especially significant development as American graduate education
increasingly became the model for graduate education throughout the world.
I have benefited from the comments on this
essay by Garland Allen, Norman Horowitz, Tom Jessell, Joshua Lederberg,
E.B. Lewis, Robert Merton '85HON, Gary Struhl, Andrew Tomlinson, and Harriet
Zuckerman '65GSAS.
* As pointed out by Harriet Zuckerman, this view was not shared by Muller, who stood further away from the group than the rest and thought that his own contributions had not been fully recognized: see Zuckerman, 1977, pp. 141-143; see also Allen, 1978, pp. 201-208.
Allen, G.E. (1978) Thomas Hunt Morgan: The
Man and His Science. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
Goldschmidt, R.B. (1950) "The Impact of Genetics Upon Science" in Genetics in the Twentieth Century, Essays on the Progress of Genetics in Its First Fifty Years (Ed. L.C. Dunn) pp. 1-23, New York, Macmillan.
Harrison, R.G. (1937) "Embryology and Its Relations," Science 85:369-374.
Jaffe, B. (1958) Men of Science in America: The Story of American Scientists Told Through the Lives and Achievements of Twenty Outstanding Men from Earliest Colonial Times to the Present Day. Rev. ed., 715 pp. Chapter 16. New York: Simon & Schuster.
Judson, H.F. (1979) The Eighth Day of Creation: The Makers of the Revolution in Biology. New York: Simon & Schuster.
Kohler, R. E. (1994) Lords of the Fly: Drosophila Genetics and the Experimental Life. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Morgan, T.H. et al. (1915) The Mechanism of Mendelian Heredity. New York: Holt Rinehart & Winston. Reprinted. Johnson Reprint Corporation with an Introduction by Garland E. Allen, 1978.
Morgan, T.H. (1934) Embryology and Genetics. New York: Columbia University Press.
Morgan, T.H. (1938) The Theory of the Gene.
New Haven: Yale University Press
Sturtevant, A.H. (1959) Thomas Hunt Morgan: Biographical Memoirs. National Academy of Sciences 33:295.
Sturtevant, A.H. (1965) Unpublished interview with G.E. Allen, Pasadena, Caltech Archives, pg. 28.
Sturtevant, A.H. (1965) A History of Genetics. New York: Harper & Row.
Watson, J.D. (1968) The Double Helix: A Personal Account of the Discovery of the Structure of DNA. New York: New American Library.
Zuckerman, Harriet (1977) Scientific Elite: Nobel Laureates in the United States. New York: Free Press.


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The following is a continuation of menu food porn from my recent Veggie Grill weekend. This post hereby includes upcoming Veggie Grill menu items of the 'fork and knife' variety (brief pondering: Do you call it 'knife and fork?' Or is that phrasing simply more carnivorous?), a morning visit to the Hollywood Farmers Market, strolling the Venice Beach pier, more silly photos, and further anticipation for the Beaverton opening, just over a week away. Never before have I muttered a similar sentiment for this suburb, but I like to think I returned from my December travels lighthearted, open-minded, prepared to take public transportation wherever it may go (and in any language), and certainly, craving American-style vegan cuisine.
First up, I appreciate a hotel with a chilled pitcher of soymilk, ready to go.
You know, I should have gotten my hopes up (and denied my bladder) when I passed by this publicity poster in an upstairs room. I missed out on a Dolly Parton lobby-walk-by, by mere moments.
My time visit to the Hollywood Farmers Market.
Oh, California.
I picked up two new-to-me varieties of avocado: Bacon and Zutano.
We were serenaded by a Michelle Williams look-a-like in between produce stops.
Branded iced tea shots from a Ghostbusters-style backpack. So LA?
Moving on, we made it to the West Hollywood Veggie Grill, which I had lunched at last fall on my first visit to LA, for our second lunch tasting.
The full menu is here.
Here's what we all came here for, the food.
Most importantly, we started again with nachos. Most definitely, I did not complain. I may have applauded. I'm not normally one for the D-cheese, but Veggie Grill uses it as a base in their nacho sauce, and it really works.
Uptown Nachos [Daiya-based sauce]
Sweetheart Chili Cheese Fries [Daiya-based sauce]
NEW: Bayou Chickin' Caesar Wrap
Chillin' Chickin' Strips, Sweetheart Fries, Ranch and Sweet & Sour for dipping
Wait a minute!
Chickin' nuggets, Chipotle Ranch (how I dig thee) and BBQ sauce
NEW: Buffalo Chickin' Sandwich
Fun tidbit: all sandwiches are available wrap-style or served on a bed of kale
NEW: Chicken Fried Steak Plate [Gardein] with Mashed Potato & Cauliflower (aka Caulipots! Name credit: Isa Chandra Moskowitz), Steamed Kale and Porcini Caper Gravy
NEW: The Gluten-free Urban Plate with Grilled Portobello, Grilled Tempeh, Caramelized Onions, Steamed Kale (aw, yeah!), Chipotle Ranch (yeahyeahyeah!), Tomatoes with Basil and Guacamole
NEW: Chocolate Pudding Parfait with Crushed Oreos and Sour Cream Frosting
Our Sunday tasting club: Terese from Veggie Grill, Janessa, Webly, myself and Veggie Grill 's "Food Man" himself, Ray.
One last look – surely, that's a celebrity power couple clandestinely dining on the patio. It would be almost exciting as realizing Daryl Hannah was sitting behind us the day before in a series of ridiculous pudding photos.
Farewell, Hollywood!
Hello, Venice Beach…
After a week back in rainy Portland, I admit, I missed reading on the beach.
If only there was a rum-based cocktail in a coconut available in place of $3 PBRs. Isn't this the land of $2 buck Chuck?! The red is vegan-friendly, btw.
With that, we were on our way back to Portland –
Avocados & lemons in tow
I also had some Nicobella chocolates in my bag to sample back home.
On the downside, the mysterious Michele's take out did not make it home with her.
More discussion coming soon to Stumptown Vegans, in addition to photos and menu tales from next week's pre-opening event in Beaverton. Check out their website and facebook for Portland AREA opening information. I'm out.
As for me, I'll be in Chicago for the first time with the VVC gals this weekend (please share any tips!), and I'm focused on hushing my inner New Yorker about the idea of an authentic, deep dish pizza.


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The dude who got popped looks like this:
See the resemblance?
I dunno...I race on what I eat and what I drink. I don't even take supplements partly because I'm afraid that something like this might happen to me. All my friends will hate me (more than they already do), I'll have to quit cycling and ultimately find a new sport to fill the void of self loathing and failure that USACycling gives back to me. Maybe I should start taking a one-a-day vitamin and an occasional iron pill when I'm on my period.
There is a well written blog based in SoCal called Cycling in the South Bay.(I recommend you bookmark that blog. Very good reading) that covers what, I think, many master cyclists are probably thinking on the subject.
I have only spent a bit of time racing in SoCal while on business trips but I can tell you, it's a completely different world than back east. I went to one race and in the masters race alone, there was something like 10 national champions and 2 world champions. Everybody was fucking tan and was racing on what seemed like a $10,000 bike. They all had their shit together. Before the race, guys were getting ready next to their team cars, and I'm guessing discussing tactics and the proper way to eat puppies. I was obviously from out of town but nobody gave a flying shit. Totally unwelcoming. To be respected or even noticed, I needed to punch the biggest, baddest motherfucker in the yard., except that couldn't happen because they were all big and bad and I was pale and slow just excited to be riding without a thermal jacket on. I still look back at this open office park crit being held in February as one of the most brutal 60 minutes I've ever encountered on two wheels (partly because I wasn't ready and partly because of the level of competition).
I came back east thinking California guys were fast because it's warm out there, they can train year-round. I was pretty impressed with the scene, actually and I always have wanted to hit it again when I was ready for a good ball kicking. I wasn't thinking the racers were all doped up. Maybe I was naive. Nobody would do drugs for masters racing, right? But then Pete Cannell happened back here and I guess my eyes opened up a bit. There are dicks everywhere.
Even with that being said, I wanna try to give this guy the benefit of the doubt. But then I look at his results:
Holy effing unstoppable RoidMan!!! He won EVERY race he entered between May, 2012 and September, 2012, where he finally got beat (2nd place in the Road Race Nationals.) He must have been devastated (sarcasm font).
I don't want to cast any stones because I'm 3,000 miles away and don't know shit about Richard Meeker or his test or any other bullshit other than what I've read. I just know that one dude won just about anything and everything he entered, was tested, tested positive. That adds up to me.
So... Richard, if you lay eyes upon this blog, I want you to know it's hard for me, some asshat blogger 3,000 miles away, to believe that you were on nothing but bread and water and your shitty nutritional supplement that you claim included anabolic steroids. After reviewing the information, I tend to think you were on some serious Ivan Drago I must break you shit. I'm not telling my audience what to think, I'm just saying I think you did a bad thing and you should live up to it. If you were a real man, you'd walk away from cycling entirely or maybe..just maybe...tell USA Cycling about your methods and where you got your drugs. But, again, not casting stones. Just in case you really are guilty...that's what I think you should do.
What's the point here? I really hope USA Cycling ramps up their testing on the amateur levels. Masters and even category level racing deserves to be run with fairness. Red flags should go up when riders are winning everything they enter. If this is the case, they should be targeted. They should be given fair treatment with everything being kept confidential. If they are found breaking the rules, they should not be allowed to race again, like ever, for the rest of their lives. Bike racing is huge right now. I don't know what USA Cycling's budget is but, they need to devote a big chunk of it to amateur testing. I know it's expensive. I don't care.


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Loved her pets and spending time with family
Judy Marie (Hawken) de Kanter, age 62, of Tuscumbia, died Thursday, April 4, 2013, at her home. She was born in Tuscumbia on October 8, 1950, a daughter of the late Jack and Margaret (Holtmeyer) Hawken.
Judy loved her many pets, enjoyed fishing, reading and spending time with family.
Those who survive her include: her daughter, Katherine Gigrich and husband Scott of Eldon; former husband, Hans de Kanter of the Netherlands, four grandchildren, Breanna Brinkman, Jesse Gigrich, Olivia Gigrich and Matthew Distler; two brothers, Larry Hawken of Las Vegas, Nevada and William Hawken and friend Ellen Byrd of Tuscumbia; two nieces, Maggie McCulley of Mexico, Missouri and Samantha Rhodes of Arkansas and one nephew, John Hawken of Tuscumbia.
Her brother, John Hawken, step-father, Carl Hawken and in-laws, Marinus and Peggy de Kanter, also preceded her in death.
A memorial service will be held at 3:00 p.m. on Thursday, April 11, at Rekus Funeral Home in Eldon. Pastor Tony Corado will officiate.
Memorial contributions are suggested to the City of Eldon Animal Control Center, 1000 Highway Y, Eldon MO 65026.
Condolences may be shared with the family at www.rekusfh.com.


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Bloomberg: Thousands Will Need Housing
New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced that while public transportation and schools are almost back on track, close to 40,000 New Yorkers will need housing assistance following the aftermath of superstorm Sandy. Photo: Associated Press.
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How Will the Universe End?
My vague qualm about the unlikeliness of Kaku's lifeboat theory was considerably sharpened when I talked to J. Richard Gott III, an astrophysicist at Princeton University. Gott is known for making bold quantitative predictions about the longevity of things—from Broadway shows like Cats to America's space program to intelligent life in the universe. He bases these predictions on what he calls the Copernican Principle, which says, in essence: You're not special. "If life in the universe is going to last a long time, why do we find ourselves living when we do, only 13 billion years after the beginning?" Gott said to me, speaking in an improbable Tennessee accent whose register occasionally leapt up an octave, like Don Knotts'. "And it is a disturbing fact that we as a species have only been around for 200,000 years. If there are going to be many intelligent species descended from us flourishing in epochs far in the future, then why are we so lucky to be the first?" Doing a quick back-of-the-envelope calculation, Gott determined that it was 95 percent likely that humanity would last more than 5,100 years but would die out before 7.8 million years (a longevity that, coincidentally, is quite similar to that of other mammal species, which tend to go extinct around 2 million years after appearing). Gott was not inclined to speculate on what might do us in—biological warfare? asteroid collision? nearby supernova? sheer boredom with existence? But he did leave me feeling that the runaway expansion of our universe, if real, was the least of our worries.
Despite the pessimistic tenor of Gott's line of thought, he was positively chirpy in conversation. In fact, all the cosmologists I had spoken to so far had a certain mirthfulness about them when discussing eschatological matters—even Lawrence Krauss, the one who talked about this being the worst of all possible universes. ("Eschatology—it's a great word," Krauss said. "I had never heard of it until I discovered I was doing it.") Was no one made melancholy or irritable by the prospect of our universe decaying into nothingness? I thought of Steven Weinberg, the Nobel laureate in physics who, in his 1977 book about the birth of the universe, The First Three Minutes, glumly observed, "The more the universe seems comprehensible, the more it also seems pointless." It was Weinberg's pessimistic conclusion in that book—he wrote that civilization faced cosmic extinction from either endless cold or unbearable heat—that had inspired Freeman Dyson to come up with his scenario for eternal life in an expanding cosmos.
I called Weinberg at the University of Texas, where he teaches. "So, you want to hear what old grumpy has to say, eh?" he growled in a deep voice. He began with a dazzling theoretical exposition that led up to a point I had heard before: No one really knows what's causing the current runaway expansion or whether it will continue forever. The most natural assumption, he added, was that it would. But he wasn't really worried about the existential implications. "For me and you and everyone else around today, the universe will be over in less than 10^2 years," he said. In his peculiarly sardonic way, Weinberg seemed as jolly as all the other cosmologists. "The universe will come to an end, and that may be tragic, but it also provides its fill of comedy. Postmodernists and social constructivists, Republicans and socialists and clergymen of all creeds—they're all an endless source of amusement."
It was time to tally up the eschatological results. The cosmos has three possible fates: Big Crunch (eventual collapse), Big Chill (expansion forever at a steady rate), or Big Crackup (expansion forever at an accelerating rate). Humanity, too, has three possible fates: eternal flourishing, endless stagnation, or ultimate extinction. And judging from all the distinguished cosmologists who weighed in with opinions, every combination from Column A and Column B was theoretically open. We could flourish eternally in virtual reality at the Big Crunch or as expanding black clouds in the Big Chill. We could escape the Big Crunch/Chill/Crackup by wormholing our way into a fresh universe. We could face ultimate extinction by being incinerated by the Big Crunch or by being isolated and choked off by the Big Crackup. We could be doomed to endless stagnation—thinking the same patterns of thoughts over and over again, or perhaps sleeping forever because of a faulty alarm clock—in the Big Chill. One distinguished physicist I spoke to, Andrei Linde of Stanford University, even said that we could not rule out the possibility of their being something after the Big Crunch. For all of the fascinating theories and scenarios they spin out, practitioners of cosmic eschatology are in a position very much like that of Hollywood studio heads: Nobody knows anything.
Still, little Alvy Singer is in good company in being soul-sick over the fate of the cosmos, however vaguely it is descried. At the end of the 19th century, figures like Swinburne and Henry Adams expressed similar anguish at what then seemed to be the certain heat-death of the universe from entropy. In 1903 Bertrand Russell described his "unyielding despair" at the thought that "all the labors of the ages, all the devotion, all the inspiration, all the noonday brightness of human genius, are destined to extinction in the vast death of the solar system, and that the whole temple of Man's achievement must inevitably be buried beneath the debris of a universe in ruins." Yet a few decades later, he declared such effusions of cosmic angst to be "nonsense," perhaps an effect of "bad digestion."
Why should we want the universe to last forever, anyway? Look—either the universe has a purpose or it doesn't. If it doesn't, then it is absurd. If it does have a purpose, then there are two possibilities: Either this purpose is eventually achieved, or it is never achieved. If it is never achieved, then the universe is futile. But if it is eventually achieved, then any further existence of the universe is pointless. So, no matter how you slice it, an eternal universe is either a) absurd, b) futile, or c) eventually pointless.
Despite this cast-iron logic, some thinkers believe that the longer the universe goes on, the better it is, ethically speaking. As John Leslie, a cosmological philosopher at the University of Guelph in Canada, told me, "This is true simply on utilitarian grounds: The more intelligent happy beings in the future, the merrier." Philosophers of a more pessimistic kidney, like Schopenhauer, have taken precisely the opposite view: Life is, on the whole, so miserable that a cold and dead universe is preferable to one teeming with conscious beings.
If the current runaway expansion of the cosmos really does portend that our infinitesimal flicker of civilization will be followed by an eternity of bleak emptiness, then that shouldn't make life now any less worth living, should it? It may be true that nothing we do in A.D. 2004 will matter when the burnt-out cinder of our sun is finally swallowed by a galactic black hole in a trillion trillion years. But by the same token, nothing that will happen in a trillion trillion years matters to us now. In particular (as the philosopher Thomas Nagel has observed), it does not matter now that in a trillion trillion years nothing we do now will matter.
Then what is the point of cosmology? It's not going to cure cancer or solve our energy problems or give us a better sex life, obviously enough. Still, it is bracing to realize that we live in the first generation in the history of humanity that might be able to answer the question, How will the universe end? "It amazes me," Lawrence Krauss said, "that, sitting in a place on the edge of nowhere in a not especially interesting time in the history of the universe, we can, on the basis of simple laws of physics, draw conclusions about the future of life and the cosmos," he said. "That's something we should relish, regardless of whether we're here for a long time or not."
So, remember the advice offered by Monty Python in their classic "Galaxy Song." When life gets you down, the song says, and you're feeling very small and insecure, turn your mind to the cosmic sublimity of the ever-expanding universe—"because there's bugger-all down here on Earth."


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Dinoshark (UK - DVD R2)
Marcus tackles this month's monster combined with another monster movie
Out of an iceberg comes a prehistoric tadpole and now three years later (giving it time to grow of course) a local tourist destination is getting some unexplained attacks, and just when it doesn't sound Roger Corman typical enough for you, the prehistoric creature is a Dinoshark!!
After Stonehenge Apocalypse, Sinbad and the Minataur and Sharktopus over the last few months, all of these DTV titles are beginning to merge into one. With their Baywatch style acting, their terrible dialogue, their more than terrible special effects and just general awfulness, I can't work out if I'm growing accustomed to their badness or if Dinoshark felt a little bit slicker than the others.
I'm not sure what it was exactly. Eric Balfour was about as bad as he was in Skyline, no one else does much better with their "lay out the god-awful plot at every available moment" dialogue and even though the effects for Dinoshark were much better than Sharktopus (not hard) I found myself watching this recycled plot with a little bit more willingness to get involved. Well until about the half-way point anyway... I'm only human after all.
I don't want to spend ages dissing the movie because these low budget monster-fests are what they are and given the right environment they can be a blast. I just lose the will to watch once the grindingly bad characters begin going through the watered down Jaws motions. Balfour and his co actors broodily staring off to the distance trying to add weight to their situation might work if it wasn't for the daytime TV score trying to muster up a mood. There are too many things that are a mish-mash for it to work for me. If they were just out for laughs I might warm to it or if it was a bit more grisly with the attacks that could ramp it up. Hell, recently Piranha 3D more than showed how to strike a fine balance and balance is what's sorely missing here. Oh and entertainment. That's missing too.
Once again this DTV monster flick looks exactly like a nineties TV show. Same sun drenched location, same grain filled visuals and the same bad presentation of the bad special effects. Speeded up film made the effects look worse as per usual and the textures on that Dinoshark are not convincing at all. The overall image is quite colourful due to the warm sunshine but it's very grubby and any and all detail is lost in the soft image with the wider shots looking dreadful.
The 5.1 option does the basics but really only takes full effect when the score kicks in as everything else lives in the centre speaker throughout. Dialogue is okay, with some of the sea based scenes not holding up so well and the action scenes tend to sound like a wave of noise as opposed to a layered mix of screams, dialogue and Dinoshark noises. Overall, this whole mix sounds like a TV movie (as expected) so don't expect too much from it.
There were no features on this one. Ahhh and there was me hoping for a Jaws anniversary style affair. Maybe in twenty-five years' time we'll get one.
Dinoshark was a little bit better than the other DTV dross I've seen lately but that doesn't stop it being exactly the same movie with a different combination of monsters. The effects are also a slight step up but are not consistent enough to be considered good, and the less said about the actors, the score and recycled plot the better.
The disc itself is barebones with bargain bin A/V, so I'm not sure what the best scenario for picking up this movie might be but I bet it would involve beers and a pizza and a whole room full of people ready to laugh at cheap monster movies' ever decreasing appeal. Seriously just go pick up Piranha 3D, it's so much more fun.
Review by Marcus Doidge
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That first image should be captioned 'Why the long face?'
Suitable only for persons of 15 years and over
Disc Details
Release Date: 2nd May 2011
Discs: 1
Disc Type: Single side, dual layer
RCE: No
Video: PAL
Aspect: 1.78:1
Anamorphic: Yes
Colour: Yes
Audio: Dolby Digital 5.1 English, Dolby Stereo 2.0 English
Subtitles: N/A
Extras: N/A
Easter Egg: No
Feature Details
Director: Kevin O'Neal
Cast: Eric Balfour, Iva Hasperger
Genre: Drama and Horror
Length: 90 minutes
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A Delaware Water Gap man wanted on child pornography charges has turned himself in to police.
A Delaware Water Gap man wanted on child pornography charges has turned himself in to police.
James Lamb, 54, turned himself in Tuesday morning at Magisterial District Judge Brian Germano's office, according to Monroe County Chief Detective Eric Kerchner.
Detectives said they began investigating Lamb after his wife told them she discovered numerous images of child pornography on his computer.
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Franz Beckenbauer has admitted that Bayern Munich were handed a "tough draw" in the quarter-finals of the Champions League on Friday after they were paired with Juventus.
The Bavarians ran out 4-1 victors in the two sides' last meeting back in 2009 - also in Europe's elite club tournament - but their former captain is under no illusions as to the difficulty of the tie that the Bundesliga leaders have been given.
"It is a tough draw. It's 50-50, although it's not such a good thing that Bayern kick the tie off at home," Beckenbauer told Sky Sport Deutschland.
"Whoever leads the Italian league with a nine-point advantage can obviously play football. Malaga or Galatasaray would have been more feasible, but a draw cannot be requested."
Former Bayern trio Stefan Effenberg, current CEO Karl-Heinz Rummenigge and ex-midfielder Lothar Matthaus were also all wary of the Italians' threat.
"It will be an unpleasant task. Juventus can take on any opponent in the world, are incredibly strong defensively and have a superior clock-ticker in Andrea Pirlo," said 1999 Champions League runner-up Effenberg.
Meanwhile, Rummenigge noted: "This is not a dream draw. Although we won 4-1 the last time we played them, we will nonetheless need two more good days in the office to reach the semi-finals.
"I hoped that Bayern would have been paired with another opponent," concluded FCB legend Matthaus.
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Niitty thieves two points from PantherNation.
Antero Niittymaki [9] had a world beating 31 saves on 33 shots, including several breakaways and other outstanding post to post saves. He even had an assist. The book on Nitty is that he's a streaky goaltender, and when he's hot like this you ride him 'til the wheels fall off. I doubt we see Smitty next time out.
First Period
FLA 8:10, Dvorak 1 (Kreps)(SH)
TB 18:32, Stamkos 3 (St. Louis, Lecavalier)(PP)
Second Period
FLA 6:33, Horton 1 (Weiss, Kulikov)(PP)
Third Period
TB 7:17, St. Louis 3 (Lecavalier, Hedman)(PP)
TB 13:29, Malone 5 (Stamkos, Niittymaki)
The Lightning, frankly, played their worst hockey since the Atlanta game. The difference was that they got great goaltending and they were a little bit tighter in the neutral zone than they were against the Thrashers. Good teams find a way to win when they don't play their best hockey. That said, the Lightning ought not make a steady diet of giving up breakaways at key junctures of games.
Steve Downie [10] had 3 shots and 3 hits in 12:37 and keeps drawing penalties from the opposition right and left.
Drew Miller [11] had 1 shot and 2 hits in 11:38.
Zenon Konopka [12] had 1 shot and 2 hits in 9:34 as the fourth line's ice time crept up by about four minutes in this game. They are fun to watch.
James Wright [13] had 1 shot in 11:26.
Victor Hedman [14] rebounded from an earlier shorthanded giveaway that ended up in the back of his net to have an assist, 2 penalty minutes, 3 shots, 1 hit, and 1 blocked shot in 24:30. The hilarious thing is that 24:30 seems like a light night for Hedman in the ice time department.
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- Model is 5'9" and is wearing a US size S
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Rated 5 out of 5 by Natella from Super jacket! I got this in my usual xs size, fits great, I can zip it , my bra size is 34-A or 32-B , the leather is soft, the color is more like soft-dark red, not like crazy-red:), like some pictures show here, it looks expensive, hope it helps:)
Date published: 2013-10-09
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Deanna Templeton and Ed Templeton
Saturday, March 12, 2011 at Domy Books, Austin
913 E Cesar Chavez, Austin, TX 78702
Exhibition runs March 12–April 28, 2011
Pretty much the whole Austin art scene was psyched about this one - Ed and Deanna Templeton's only second collaborative art exhibition. The show consisted entirely of photos and not one photo too many. It felt like one piece that you walk into. Capturing suburbia coming to terms with and exposing its sexuality. The gallery itself is actually inside a book store in town called Domy Books. The go-to place for Matt Furie zines, handmade cards, Limited Edition Chris Ofili art books, or to geek out over Blu. They also have a book called "Cat getting out of a bag" which is like seinfeld but with kitties. Take a look. - Words & photos submitted by Manik Nakra
Deanna Templeton and Ed Templeton
This was baby Seiben's first art show!
I love that Ed hand wrote the show title with a very thin coat of paint. The translucence really helped with the sexual adolescence that was running through the show. Also hand drawn type always rules.
Some of Ed and Deanna's art books were set up. I think Ed autographed all of them! He drew and signed so many drawings of little monster s on skateboards and posters for fans. How sick is that! I wish I had one of those little drawings.
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Deanna told me this particualr piece was about kids becoming aware of their sexuality but also being abused by eing written on.
Ed and Deanna are very humble people. Chatting with fans here.
That Mat Brinkman book is so cool. That Mat Brinkman show at The Hole,NYC recently looked so sick.
This is Russell Etchen. Founder and curator of Domys most excellent book selection and exhibiting...
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Jack Williams turns over the keys to his Mooney to AOPA Foundation President Bruce Landsberg.
A World War II veteran decides to part with his last airplane after decades of general aviation flying. A flying husband and wife trade their cross-country speedster for an aircraft more suited to exploring their own backyard. Donors to the AOPA Foundation recently turned their decision to part with a beloved airplane into a contribution to the future of GA.
Champ: J. Lloyd Huck
J. Lloyd Huck nearly had a dilemma. A day after promising his American Champion Champ to AOPA, the second aircraft he was to donate, the veteran pilot got an unexpected call. A buyer had finally come forward, and placed a deposit.
Huck, made short work of that situation, closing the deal and donating the proceeds to AOPA.
Call it the donated Champ that almost was, and a very generous donation (about $75,000) that will go a long way toward supporting the freedom to fly that Huck fought for, in more ways than one, during an aviation career that began during World War II.
Huck soloed in the U.S. Army in 1943, and earned a place in the cockpit of a Boeing B-17, though he was ordered to serve first as an instructor—not his first choice. After six months, he was assigned to fly the B-29, and would continue his service in the reserves for five more years after the war.
Huck launched his working life as a junior chemist and retired from Merck as the chairman of the pharmaceutical company's board. Huck's general aviation career spanned decades, but time and health finally caught up with Huck this year, just short of his goal of flying until he celebrated 90 years in July.
Huck had already donated one of his personal aircraft: the AOPA 2009 Let's Go Flying Sweepstakes Cirrus SR22 and bought the Champ, which is able to fly under light sport aircraft (LSA) rules. Huck was able to extend his time in the cockpit by about three years, and said that he believes that his latest donation will also serve an important purpose.
Huck said general aviation must address a number of problems, including the decline in the pilot population—and the challenges facing flight school operators, including liability issues.
"These are problems that have to be solved," Huck said. "I think AOPA is addressing those issues in the best possible way."
AOPA Foundation President Bruce Landsberg said Huck's generosity has made a difference many times over.
"Lloyd Huck, in addition to serving the nation so well in World War II, has been a great asset to GA," Landsberg said, noting Huck's donation of the 2009 Sweepstakes Cirrus. "He also gave his last aircraft to enable the AOPA Foundation to help preserve the future of GA, and we are indebted."
Mooney: Jack and Ellyn Williams
Jack Williams bought his 1988 Mooney PFM from the factory in 1989, a month after he earned his private pilot certificate in a Cessna 152. He and his wife, Ellyn, who he said earned her private pilot certificate a couple years later, flew the speedy Porsche-powered airplane across the country so many times that Williams said he's lost count.
"She's efficient, she's fast, we've really enjoyed her," Williams said of the Mooney, which was re-engined with a 280-horsepower Continental 550 in 2004. But the Southern California couple spent little time over the Western states, and Ellyn never quite grew comfortable with the faster Contintental-powered airplane. After 23 years and almost 3,700 flying hours, they considered selling the Mooney that had served them so well on long-haul trips, and opting for an airplane that would allow them to slow down and fly a little lower to appreciate the landscapes closer to home.
As they began the search for a new airplane, they considered their options for selling the Mooney. The market for airplanes has been slow, and it could take some time sell it, Williams said.
"It's not a plane that wants to be parked sitting with a 'For Sale' sign on its propeller," he explained. Then, when Williams was looking on the AOPA Foundation website at ways to give to the organization, as the couple does every year, he noticed a mention that one could donate an airplane. He filled out his information and got a call from the foundation.
"It just seemed to me it was a good way to optimize its value all around," he explained. "If AOPA could put it to good use actually using the airplane, that could be great." And if the organization decides to sell it, he added, it is in a much better position to optimize the yield of the sale.
In the meantime, the Williamses were searching for the right airplane to take on their new mission. They had previously taken a demo flight in a Diamond, which fit the bill and offered the visibility and advanced technology they were seeking, and settled on a DA40 XLS. After the Diamond made it to their home airport in Big Bear, Calif., the couple left for one last trip in the Mooney, across the country to deliver it to AOPA headquarters in Frederick, Md.
Ellyn, who handles co-pilot duties with her husband but had let her currency lapse, had a chance to get some experience in AOPA's own Diamond DA40 with an instructor; and Jack plans to take the newly purchased Diamond to the spacious runway at Jacqueline Cochran Regional Airport for some touch-and-goes to get comfortable with it. Then, it's on to set out for destinations in the West.
"It's probably about time we explored our own backyard," he said.
"The Mooney is a wonderful donation to the Foundation," noted Landsberg, "and we'll always remember where she came from. It's always special when someone like Lloyd or Jack and Ellyn gives us an important part of their lives. Pilots form a bond with our aircraft, and the Foundation is most appreciative."
Why donate
The AOPA Foundation's airplane donation program, like many organizations' car donation programs, allows a donor to bypass the hassle of selling and gain a tax benefit, all while contributing to a cause. The AOPA Foundation, one of the few nonprofits to accept airplanes, is in an ideal position to be able to work with aircraft owners because employees know the market, said AOPA Foundation Vice President of Strategic Philanthropy Stephanie Kenyon.
"It's a really nice program because often it takes so long for someone to sell an airplane," Kenyon said. AOPA Foundation staff will walk a donor through the process, which for Williams didn't take very long, she said.
When the foundation receives an airplane, it may choose to keep it for staff transportation or training, or in the case of the 2009 Cirrus SR22 that Huck donated, give it away as a sweepstakes airplane. Or, the organization could sell the airplane; in those cases, the proceeds would go toward supporting the AOPA Foundation's goals of improving GA's safety, preserving and improving community airports, growing the pilot population, and educating the public on the benefits of GA. In the case of the Mooney, current plans are to keep it.
Owners can start the process of donating an airplane on the AOPA Foundation website or contact a staff member.
"It benefits us, it benefits them," Kenyon said. "It's really an easy thing to do."