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Blurgh... I can't believe how quickly I've fallen back into my old routine of work, chores and laziness after our holiday in Denmark and Sweden! And I can't believe the end of summer is almost in sight already!! How did that happen?!
Anyways, I'm not a city person, but I really loved Copenhagen. A very relaxed place to spend a few days, filled with little cafes and beautiful design stores. I felt at home right away ;)
Here are some Instagram pics I took while we explored Denmark's capital :)
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Theo Walcott gave Arsene Wenger yet another reminder of his goal-scoring talents as he bagged a stunning hat-trick to sink Newcastle 7-3 in a 10-goal thriller at the Emirates Stadium.
Walcott scored the opener with a fine curled finish following a break from the halfway line. Newcastle pulled level through Demba Ba, but Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain scored, only for Ba to grab his second to make it 2-2.
Arsenal looked set for a disappointing draw after Sylvain Marveaux equalised Lukasz Podolski's header, but Walcott turned on the class to put the Gunners 4-3 up. The former Southampton man set up Olivier Giroud twice and added his much-deserved third strike in injury time with a deft chip over Tim Krul.
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CARSON CITY – Rep. Shelley Berkley, D-Nev., today said she will introduce legislation to permanently end a Bush era ban on cities - including Las Vegas and Reno – from hosting federal agency and executive branch conferences and conventions.
U.S. Sen. Dean Heller, R-Nev., said he will join Berkley in the effort.
A similar effort in 2009 by U.S. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., did not pass.
Heller and Berkley are both seeking the same U.S. Senate seat, filled by Heller in 2011 when he was appointed to the post by Gov. Brian Sandoval.
The announcement by the two Nevada members of Congress comes as the fallout continues from a now infamous conference held by the General Services Administration (GSA) in Henderson in 2010.
In remarks on the floor, Berkley said some GOP members of Congress are seeking to attack Nevada's tourism industry because of the abuses reported regarding the GSA conference.
"These Republicans are trying to bring back the last administration's so-called 'blacklist' of resort cities like Las Vegas and Reno – prohibiting federal agencies from traveling to hold conferences and seminars," she said. "This policy has damaged the reputation of my state, hurt our economy and killed jobs."
Berkley said the blacklist has been lifted by the Obama Administration, but that it is time to make such a policy permanent.
"Las Vegas wasn't the problem, the irresponsible behavior of the GSA was," she said. "And that's why I am going to introduce legislation to prohibit the blacklisting of any city in America."
Later in the day Heller said he would join in the effort.
"Despite our differing views on the bailouts for Wall Street and Detroit, Obamacare, and stimulus spending that has left many Nevadans out of work, I am pleased to join Congresswoman Berkley in the effort to end the blacklist process by the federal government," he said.
"Nevada offers the best hospitality and convention services in the world, and Las Vegas, Henderson, Lake Tahoe, and Reno have long been favorite destinations for millions of visitors," Heller said. "I have always taken pride in the Nevada delegation working together on Nevada issues, and plan to introduce legislation in the near future."
While Berkley praised President Obama for ending the federal travel blacklist, she did not bring up his controversial remarks made in 2009 when he told companies receiving federal bailout money that they should not "take a trip to Las Vegas" on the taxpayer's dime.
Then-Nevada Gov. Jim Gibbons, among others, criticized Obama's remarks, saying they helped stall the state's economic recovery.
Obama later compounded the controversy when he remarked that responsible people don't "blow a bunch of cash in Vegas when you're trying to save for college."
Nevada is one of several "battleground" states where the 2012 presidential election is expected to be played out in November.
Several congressional committees have held hearings into the GSA conference, which resulted in the resignation of GSA chief Martha Johnson after she dismissed two deputies and suspended other career employees over the incident.
The $823,000 conference was held at the M Resort and Casino, and included a clown and a mind reader. It was the subject of a critical report by the GSA Office of Inspector General.


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GROSSE POINTE, Mich. (AP) - A Detroit-area school district reversed course Wednesday and said former U.S. Sen. Rick Santorum can speak later this month at Grosse Pointe South High School.
Students, however, will need a permission slip from parents to attend the speech, which is planned during school hours on April 24. The Pennsylvania Republican served in Congress for 16 years and was a conservative GOP candidate for president in 2012.
Grosse Pointe South principal Matt Outlaw had canceled the event Monday, partly because the group sponsoring Santorum's one-hour visit wouldn't share a copy of his speech ahead of the appearance. He is supposed to talk about leadership, and Outlaw wanted assurances the address wouldn't turn political.
School spokeswoman Rebecca Fannon said some parents were concerned about Santorum's conservative social views.
"I've learned some things here. I wish we could wind back the clock a bit on this," Outlaw told The Associated Press.
"I spoke to the senator. I apologized for the situation," Outlaw said. "He's very excited to come here. He mentioned that he's been to the Grosse Pointe community many times. ... We think we'll have a very large crowd."
Before the district relented, Santorum released a statement on his website, Patriot Voices, saying he rarely speaks from a prepared speech.
"This has nothing to do with the content of a speech, but rather the context of my convictions," Santorum said of the earlier opposition.
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Picking Your Shot
At some point, you'll have to choose: to shoot or not to shoot. This is one of the most important decisions you will make in the field because once you pull the trigger, there is absolutely no way for you to call back the shot.
Before you shoot, ask yourself:
- Is the shot safe—do you know your target and what lies beyond it?
- Is the animal within your personal effective shooting range (the range at which you can shoot accurately)?
- Is the animal turned in such a way that you can get a good killing shot?
Your goal is to make one-shot kills every time. The shot you choose plays a large part in deciding whether or not you are successful in getting an animal.


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For the last time: the Chevrolet Volt is not a product of General Motors' government bailout. It was conceived in 2007, when George W. Bush was still president, and was well under development by the time a banking crisis and thirty years of mismanagement caught up with old corporation. The Chevrolet Spark? Well, that seems like a different story. Although the minicar also debuted in concept form in 2007, then-vice-chairman Bob Lutz quickly dismissed the notion of actually selling it in the United States. It was only two years later, as GM geared up for intense negotiations with Barack Obama's incoming administration, that a bound-for-U.S.A. Spark resurfaced at the Detroit auto show to prove that the company was serious about producing small, efficient cars. With the Americanized Spark due to arrive in dealerships late this summer — the heart of campaign season — we decided it was time to find out whether the Spark brings change we can believe in or is the harbinger of a socialist apocalypse.
Awkward but charming
The best cheap cars, including the original BMC Mini and Fiat 500, transcend their proletarian price tag with cheerful styling. The $12,995 Spark tries to do the same. A bold front fascia, standard fifteen-inch aluminum wheels, and eye-searing colors like "salsa" and "jalapeno" ensure that it won't disappear in a sea of larger, pricier cars. Alas, the four-door hatchback also may draw attention for its proportions, which are as goofy as those of a tween halfway through puberty. The Spark is more than a foot shorter but is 1.3 inches taller than the pricier Chevrolet Sonic. Huge headlamps span the length of a stubby hood. At least it's not boring or dreary.
The same can't be said of the interior. It reprises the motorcycle-inspired gauge cluster from the Sonic, but the downgraded materials remind us that at this end of the market, a $1620 lower base price is a big deal. Body-color trim thankfully interrupts the sea of gray plastic and provides another reason to opt for one of the louder colors. Power windows, but neither power door locks nor mirrors, are standard. Upper trim levels include a seven-inch color touch screen and a USB port. The high roofline provides plenty of headroom even in the back. In other markets the Spark seats five, but in an acknowledgement of Americans' bulk, the middle seat has been eliminated here. That rear bench folds down to open up 31.2 cubic feet of cargo volume.
Made in Korea, made better in the United States
The Spark, which is already on sale in more than 100 countries, was engineered in Korea and will continue to be built there. However, the Spark spent plenty of time at GM's Milford, Michigan, proving ground to prepare for the vigors of the U.S. market. Changes include stiffer front dampers, larger wheels, electric power steering, and a slight displacement increase to the four-cylinder engine. That 1.2-liter engine is still rather petite, but its 83 hp seemed sufficient as we guided the Spark through the ride and handing development loop at the aforementioned proving ground. The steering is quick, precise, and provides better feedback than we've experienced in other small cars with electric steering and, just as important, doesn't get twitchy at higher speeds. Early yet subtle stability control intervention keeps the car pointed in the right direction through midcorner bumps. The throws of the five-speed manual gearbox are smooth if a bit too light (there's also a four-speed automatic). Our short drive did not include any time on the highway, without which it's impossible to issue any kind of conclusive verdict. Still, we'll allow that the Spark comported itself far better than we'd expected.
Chevrolet promises that fuel economy will be "competitive" with the likes of the Scion iQ and the Fiat 500 (which the EPA classifies as minicompacts), so that should translate to a combined figure of about 35 mpg. That's not much better than most subcompacts. Such is the reality in a segment that can't rely on pricey fuel-saving technologies but also must meet modern safety regulations — the Spark has ten air bags. Chevrolet's solution for this arrives next year in the form of a battery-electric version of the Spark.
It's rather unlikely that President Obama will tout the humble Spark as a campaign achievement, but neither is it something to excoriate. The Spark pleasantly fills a bargain-basement niche that's been all but vacated as compacts and subcompacts have climbed higher in price and refinement.
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Frankfurt am Main, October 29, 2009 - Unconditional trust in the quality of electronic freight processes is a key requirement if paper-based freight communication is to become a thing of the past. This is where Traxon Europe's innovative portfolio is at its most competitive. Traxon Europe is a market leader in electronic airfreight communication, offering proven products for quality measurement and assurance. The entire supply chain can benefit from Traxon products.
Now there is something new for forwarders: Traxon Quality Reports for monitoring and optimizing message performance of electronic Master Airwaybills (FWBs) and House Airwaybills (FHLs), and Traxon Performance Reports supporting evaluation of status update (FSU) sending of certain airlines.
The Traxon Quality Reports for freight forwarders stick to the structure of IATA MIP reports. In addition, they are tailored to the needs of forwarders. This new solution provides a means to measure, monitor and if necessary optimize the quality of FWB and FHL messages in particular. A further advantage is accurate information processing, ideally complementing existing IATA Performance Reports to agents based on data delivered by airlines participating in MIP. Traxon's reports offer information on a more detailed level and show even data beyond IATA recommendations.
The latest Traxon Europe FSU Performance Reports likewise serve to enhance quality assurance and improvement, allowing forwarders to accurately measure the efficiency of airlines with respect to status updates. And this, all the way down to the route and even air waybill level. Easy to implement, Traxon Europe FSU Performance Reports are particularly suited to small and middle sized forwarders. At the same time they give them a persuasive sales pitch for their own customers. Because forwarders using Traxon Europe FSU Reports can - by monitoring the FSU performance - much better provide proper FSU quality information to their shippers.
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Yibing Qyang, PhD
Research & Publications
Yibing Qyang obtained his B.S. degree from the Department of Biochemistry, Nanjing University, China and subsequently pursued graduate studies at the Institute of Microbiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences. Then he joined the Department of Molecular Genetics, University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center. After receiving his M.S. degree from Dr. Michele Sawadogo's laboratory, and his Ph.D. from Dr. Stevan Marcus's lab, he spent the next year conducting postdoctoral research at Baylor College of Medicine, where he studied myeloproliferative diseases with a mouse model of Presenilin deficiency. He next joined Dr. Kenneth R. Chien's laboratory at the University of California, San Diego and then the Cardiovascular Research Center, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School and Harvard Stem Cell Institute. He has been studying the renewal and differentiation of cardiovascular progenitor cells, marked by Isl1, a LIM-Homeodomain transcription factor, as well as cardiovascular disease mechanisms using human stem cell and animal models. In October 2008, Dr. Qyang became a principal investigator at the Yale Cardiovascular Research Institute and Section of Cardiology, Dept. of Internal Medicine, and Yale Stem Cell Center. Since 2010, he has been Director of the Yale Stem Cell Research Forum.
Currently, the Qyang laboratory has the following members:
1. Yongming Ren, Ph.D. (Associate Research Scientist; Yale entry level faculty position), graduated from Tsinghua University, China, in 2007. Dr. Ren was awarded a Connecticut Stem Cell grant ($200,000; 11/1/2012 – 10/30/2014).
2. Oscar Bartulos-Encinas, Ph.D. (Associate Research Scientist; Yale entry level faculty position), graduated from University of Madrid, Spain, in 2009. Dr. Bartulos was awarded a Connecticut Stem Cell grant ($200,000; 11/1/2013 – 10/30/2015).
3. Jiesi Luo, Ph.D. (Postdoc), graduated from Michigan State University, USA in 2014.
4. Jinkyu Park, Ph.D. (Postdoc), graduated from Seoul National University, South Korea in 2013.
5. Liqiong Gui, Ph.D., Associate Scientist, graduated from University of Rochester, USA in 2006, and a supported collaborator.
6. Lingfeng Qin, M.D., Research Scientist, and a supported collaborator.
7. Xia Li, M.D., visiting scholar from China.
8. Nicole Boardman, Yale Junior Undergraduate Student.
Previous Qyang lab members:
1. Min Young Lee, D.V.M, Ph.D. (graduated from Chonnam National University, Korea), postdoc training in Qyang lab (2009-2012), now Assistant Professor in Department of Molecular Physiology, College of Pharmacy, Kyungpook National University , South Korea.
2. Esra Cagavi Bozkulak, Ph.D. (graduated from University of California, Los Angeles, USA), postdoc training in Qyang lab (2010-2012), now Assistant Professor in Gebze Institute of Technology, Faculty of Science, Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, K:141, 41400, Gebze-Kocaeli, Turkey.
3. Xin Ge, Ph.D., (graduated from University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, USA), postdoc training in Qyang lab (2010-2013). Dr. Ge was awarded a Brown-Coxe postdoctoral fellowship ($50,000; 7/1/2011 – 6/31/2012). Dr. Ge is now an Assistant Professor in Shanghai Jiaotong University, China.
4. Peter John Amos, Ph.D., (graduated from University of Virginia), postdoc training in Qyang lab (2010-2013), now a scientist at University of Washington Seattle, Dr. Amos was awarded a Connecticut Stem Cell grant ($200,000; 9/1/2011 – 6/30/2013) during his training in Qyang lab.
5. Biraja Dash, Ph.D., graduated from Network of Excellence in Functional Biomaterials, National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland in 2014, trained in Qyang lab (2013-2016), now a scientist at Department of Surgery, Yale University.
6. Zhengxin Jiang, Ph.D. (graduated from Baylor College of Medicine, USA), postdoc training in Qyang lab (2013-2015), now a scientist at Northwestern University.
7. Ting Yi, Ph.D. (Postdoc), graduated from University of Vermont, USA in 2013, trained in Qyang lab (2013-2015), now pursuing a MBA degree at Quinnipiac University.
8. Carol Suh, graduate student who obtained a M.S. degree (2012-2014). She obtained her B.S. from Harvard University in 2011.
9. Hongwei Wu, M.D., visiting student who obtained Ph.D. degree (2011-2014). He was from The Third Xiangya Hospital of Central South University.
10. Yan Xu, M.D., visiting scholar (2014) from The Third Xiangya Hospital of Central South University.
11. Jessica Tuan, Master Student at Yale Biomedical Engineering (2011-2012), now a medical student at Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science.
12. Caroline Greenberg, Summer Intern 2011, Medical Student in Yale School of Medicine.
13. Andre Alcon, Summer Intern 2011, Medical Student in Yale School of Medicine.
14. Grant Senyei, Yale Undergraduate student (2008-2010), now a medical student at Northwestern University School of Medicine
15. Karen Xiao, Summer Intern 2012, undergraduate student at Georgetown University.
16. Zelun Wang, undergraduate summer student 2013 from Rice University.
17. Mengyan Liu, undergraduate summer student 2014 from University of New Haven.
18. Hong Wu, Ph.D., visiting scholar from China.
Education & Training
- PhDUniversity of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center (2002)
- MSUniversity of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center (1999)
Honors & Recognition
|Awarding Organization
|Connecticut Stem Cell Program Established Investigator Award
|Connecticut State Government
|Connecticut Stem Cell Program Established Investigator Award
|Connecticut State Government
|NIH Independent Scientist Award
|YCCI Scholar
|Yale Center for Clinical Investigation
|American Heart Association Scientist Development Award
|Connecticut Stem Cell Program Early Stage Investigator Award
|Connecticut State Government
Professional Service
|Ad hoc Member for NHLBI PPG Precision Medicine and Patient Care
|Ad hoc Member, NHLBI Cardiovascular Development Consortium
|Yale University
|Co-organizer and Invited Speaker for Monthly Forum for Chinese Visiting Scholar at Yale, which helps these visiting scholars to improve their research skills and to learn American culture.
|2015 - Present
|Ad hoc Member, NHLBI PPG for Cardiac Repair and Regeneration
|Ad hoc Member, NHLBI Ancillary and Collaborative studies/proposal for Progenitor Cell Biology Consortium (PCBC).
|Ad hoc reviewer for NHLBI VCMB study section
|Journal of Experimental and Clinical Cardiology
|Editorial board
|2011 - 2016
|American Heart Association
|Regular Member
|2011 - Present
|AHA CVD1 or CVD2 Study Section
|2011 - 2016
|Yale University
|Member, Committee for The Lo Family Stem Cell Research Fellowship, Yale University.
|2011 - Present
|Yale university
|Director for Yale Stem Cell Research Forum
|2010 - Present
|British Medical Research Council
|British Medical Research Council grant reviewer, England
|2010 - Present
|The International Society for Stem Cell Research Member (ISSCR)
|Regular Member
|2007 - Present
Departments & Organizations
- Cardiomyopathy & Inherited Cardiovascular Disease Program
- Cardiovascular Medicine
- Experimental Pathology Graduate Program
- Internal Medicine
- Molecular Cell Biology, Genetics and Development
- Molecular Medicine, Pharmacology, and Physiology
- Office of Cooperative Research
- Pathology
- Qyang Lab
- Vascular Biology and Therapeutics Program
- Yale Cardiovascular Research Center
- Yale Combined Program in the Biological and Biomedical Sciences (BBS)
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the intention, 2012
the intention was to draw a line. a loud, dusty and labour-intensive effort resulting in a tenuous thread. an incision hardly to be notice in the quotidian flow, almost invisible when rain has soaked the chalky white cut and rendered it grey like the rest of the cobblestone pavement. a line art drawing in its most basic form.
the intention was to draw a line as long as possible. a loud and dusty undertaking carried out in the crowded streets until the passersby would start to question the reasons for my action and bring it to a halt.
the intention was to furrow the urban surface, to dredge up the primeval materiality behind its social patina. where are these cobblestones coming from, how many cliffs were therefore laid flat, what is the etymology of a citified rock?
the intention was to have a cut in reality which will slowly fade away with the lapse of time. because nothing is carved in stone…
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yeah, farewell
hey, farewell
alllmy n-ggas farewell
look, some n-ggas let there dirt out,
some n-ggas keep it in 'em
so when a man dies all his secrets go with him
and fame a part of history no longer known
done did a lot of dirt I'll bury with me when i'm gone
when my story's told, how will they tell it?
will they say I was a giver or will they say I was selfish
will they say I was a sinner or pretend I was a saint
will I go down as a winner, whats the picture they gon paint
wouldn't say that I'm a quitter thats one thing I know I aint aint
will they tarnish, will they taint?
glorify me, overthink, say they know me, say I'm great
say I'm phoney, I was fake
say the things about me they never told me to my face
I was loved I was hated
just a n-gga with a dream
I'm a liar I was honest, I was all of these things
when I'm gone let em talk
they discussing who I am
when they bury me just know I was nothing but a man
wasn't nothin' but a man
This for n-ggas climbin' heavens stairwell
yeah, hey farewell
yeh, hey farewell
this for n-ggas climbin' heavens stairwell
I pray you farewell
I bid you farewell
yeah, ey, farewell
yeah, yeah
If I should die Lord this here is my will
reincarnate a n-gga send me right back to the Ville
let me relive my younger days just once again
reenact my memories from every friend to every sin
keeping demons buried in my closet
but yet I put in work like a deposit on my bank account
my eyes lit while I think about my childhood now Im blanking out
those were truly my best days
the only thing I had to stress was how the hell to get laid
gradually turn into me stressin' how the hell to get paid
been making songs so long, now how the hell they get played
ok, I'm blowing up quickly
I guess the flow is sickly
but yet I can't forget my past and hope it won't forget me
got good grades but age can't stop strays so pray for me
pour liquor for my n-ggas but hey, don't wait for me
cause I'm trying to cheat death, she had to bury my ass
you know the cliche "lifes a bitch" well I'm gon marry that ass
and sign a pre-nup
think back to when we tore the skating rink up
rapping and we scrapping, we got older hit the teen club
gave mean mugs to n-ggas but we winked to all the girls
then we went back to the crib thinking we had saw the World
lyrics courtesy of www.killerhiphop.com
no way, came a long way from having mom chauffer
its hard to think these hoes at some point were so pure
but now we play the game, when its over send me back
I swear I'm not gon change a thing
I swear I'm not gon change a thing
This for them n-ggas climbin' heavens stairwell
yeah, hey farewell
I pray you n-ggas farewell
this for n-ggas climbin' heavens stairwell
hey farewell, hey farewell
yeah, farewell


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Teacher resources and professional development across the curriculum
Teacher professional development and classroom resources across the curriculum
Course Goals and Structure
|Overall Goal | Observe | Explore | Define | Apply | Evaluate
Part C: Define, Understand the Standards
As you teach, it's useful to have a working definition of the process standards. In this part of the course, we help you develop such a definition using the material you've worked through in the previous parts as context. This is supplemented with explanatory video, sample problems, and a particular focus on the teacher's role in implementing this standard. This part provides a more formal grounding for the experiences in the rest of the course. It highlights key points, additional methods, and features commentary from teachers and students.
Key Points
These prose essays define the standard in the context of the problems already featured in each session.
Additional Methods
These methods are additional strategies to keep in mind as you integrate the process standards in your teaching.
Throughout the Define part, comments from teachers and students that illuminate the standard are featured in video and/or text.
As mentioned previously, the journal appears at the end of each part. In Define, the journal questions will allow you to evaluate your understanding of the process standard.
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The champagne remains corked. The beer still rests on ice. And the celebration will have to wait at least one more day -- maybe longer.
The Dodgers' trend of despondent play continued for a fifth straight game as the club fell to the Rockies, 4-3, on Friday night at Dodger Stadium.
The magic number for the Dodgers to clinch the National League West still sits at one, but now that number also represents the difference in the standings between the Dodgers and Rockies.
The one-game lead is the Dodgers' smallest since April 22. If the Dodgers complete their collapse and cede control of the division to the Rockies, they would become the first squad in Major League history to lead its division or league from May 10 or earlier until the final week and lose it, according to STATS.
There's been plenty to blame for the Dodgers' inability to clinch the NL West, but the man most responsible for the Dodgers' woes this time around? None other than Manny Ramirez.
Ramirez -- whose recent at-bats have been an exercise in how not to come through in the clutch -- struck out in all four of his trips to the plate as the Dodgers fanned a season-high 13 times.
"It's definitely a concern," Dodgers manager Joe Torre said after the game. "He just doesn't look comfortable up there." That definitely was the case Friday as Ramirez continuously looked out of rhythm at the plate.
After almost every pitch, Ramirez stepped back out of the batter's box, paused, adjusted himself, paused again and then stepped back in. That formula only was dysfunctional, and Ramirez came up empty when he could have driven in runs his team desperately needed.
Ramirez stranded Andre Ethier at second base in the first inning. He left runners on second and third in the third. He stranded another man at second to end the fifth.
And then with the Dodgers on the verge of completing an improbable three-run comeback in the seventh, Ramirez struck out with men on first and second.
In all, Ramirez stranded six runners, five of which were in scoring position.
"I just stuck with my best pitch, which was my fastball," said Rockies starter Ubaldo Jimenez, who fanned Ramirez three times. "Sometimes it happens. He had a bad day." While a night like that might rattle some hitters, Ramirez seemed at ease with himself after the game.
"My confidence is always up," he said. "I'm one of the best hitters. All you have to do is check my police report and see that I'm still a good hitter."
It's an attitude that Ramirez has shown during the other times he's struggled this season, and he repeated it a couple of different times in the postgame clubhouse.
"Today I had a bad day, but remember, they didn't [build] Rome in one day," Ramirez said. "So I know I'm one of the best hitters in the game, and I'm just going to come tomorrow and be patient."
Ramirez's confidence might not be shaken, but the same cannot be said for the confidence of the fans at Dodger Stadium.
Those sentiments were expressed after Ramirez's fifth-inning strikeout when Dodgers fans showered their embattled slugger with boos, perhaps prompting second baseman Orland Hudson to offer Ramirez some friendly advice as the two players walked back to their respective defensive positions at the start of the sixth inning.
But it seems as though a different approach at the plate -- rather than a quick pep talk -- is what Ramirez really needs right now.
Ramirez is 0-for-10 with eight strikeouts in his past three games. He's hitting just .216 (16-for-74) over September and October, and Ramirez's current .290 batting average is the lowest it's been since April 17.
While Ramirez's swoon might seem to epitomize everything that's gone wrong for the Dodgers this past week, there might be a silver lining somewhere.
The Dodgers aren't the first playoff team to crawl into the postseason. In 2006, the Detroit Tigers lost their last five regular-season games to lose the American League Central to Minnesota. But the Tigers, who entered as the Wild Card winner, made the World Series a few weeks later.
And all it might take for Ramirez is one decent at-bat or one good day at the plate to snap him out of his current funk.
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NEW YORK -- Johnny Manziel barely had time to shed his draft night angst at a late-night party before he received a good look at what he was in for at his new home, at the extreme expectation and staggering burden he will bear as the latest designated savior for the Cleveland Browns.
The season ticket sales had spiked by the thousands in the hours after he was selected with the 22nd overall pick in the 2014 NFL Draft. After a year in which the head coach, the general manager and the president of the organization were all fired -- with the owner himself still under scrutiny for his non-football business dealings -- prosperity and stability finally looked to be within the Browns' grasp with Manziel. It seemed fitting for a team that hasn't had much good news since Jim Brown retired, that has spawned a new nickname -- the Factory of Sadness -- that their hopes would be housed in the slight, but dazzling quarterback. Good fortune for Cleveland, even in these last 24 hours, is fragile.
And so, in the space of just a few hours, Cleveland was so giddy that Manziel was asked about his ability to lure his friend LeBron James -- who donned one of Manziel's new jerseys Friday -- back to town. And then it was whipsawed by the news that Manziel might have to scramble far more than anyone wants him to, because his best receiver might be lost for the season.
The news that receiver Josh Gordon, who emerged as one of the league's best wideouts last season, could face a lengthy suspension for another violation of the league's drug policy, pulled the clouds that had briefly parted over Cleveland back together, shrouding the franchise again in gloom. Later, it was followed by the revelation that receiver Nate Burleson broke his arm in a recent OTA workout, an injury the Browns had kept secret until now. His agent wrote on Twitter that Burleson had a minor surgery.
And Manziel thought his green room wait was nerve wracking?
Anyone in the Browns' organization who knew about Gordon's situation on Friday was not spurred by it or Burleson's injury to immediately seek one of the receivers from this deep class. The Gordon news broke just before the draft resumed Friday night, and with their second-round pick (No. 35 overall), the Browns eschewed the receivers and instead went with a mauling offensive lineman, Joel Bitonio. They followed up that pick in the third round with linebacker Christian Kirksey (No. 71) and running back Terrance West (No. 94). The Gordon situation had so completely eclipsed the Browns that Bitonio was asked if he was surprised the team didn't draft a receiver instead of him and was queried about his thoughts on Gordon's situation.
"Regarding the other incident, it's not my place to really talk about that," he told reporters. "I really don't know any of the details or anything like that, so I'm not sure what exactly happened with that situation, but hopefully it works out for us, and hopefully, it's not as serious as people say it is."
After the third round concluded, both general manager Ray Farmer and coach Mike Pettine declined to discuss Gordon or Burleson.
Historically, it's almost always as serious as it seems for the Browns. Few fan bases are more loyal and more deserving of victory. But even by the tumultuous standards of the franchise, the last 24 hours have carved new peaks and valleys. After making three trades in the first round Thursday, and coming away with defensive back Justin Gilbert -- remember him -- and then Manziel, Browns fans were reveling in a rare few hours of unalloyed optimism -- or at least the ones who hadn't yet learned about Gordon's possible suspension. Perhaps the Browns were foolish to have much confidence that Gordon would be a reliable receiver. Even as Gordon blossomed into an 87-catch player last season, the Browns were concerned. Former team president Joe Banner had tried to trade him last year.
Now Gordon is the problem of the Browns' new regime and, by extension, Manziel. Depending on the outcome of an expected appeal, Gordon's career with the Browns could be over. While Burleson is expected back for training camp -- his agent said he would be 100 percent -- Farmer, who earned plaudits for how he worked the draft order Thursday to get the players the Browns wanted, curiously ignored wide receivers Friday.
Manziel was long done with his day by that time, but he should have been watching closely. He is being counted on not only to compete with veteran Brian Hoyer to be the starter, but to be the face of a franchise that has all too often been defined by a grimace. The football gods gave Cleveland 24 hours to feel good about the Browns. Now they face their first real test of what is to be a new era, and Gordon may have already failed them.
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Introduction to Stata
This tutorial is function-oriented, focusing on the data-management tasks most needed by data analysts working with sample survey data. It works up from basic tasks, such as how to drop variables, to the tasks needed for complex file organization, such as how to reshape and merge data files.
There is also a section on Analyzing Data from Sample Surveys. It explains which sampling weight command to use and whether to use svy or robust cluster to adjust for survey design effects.
These web pages assume that you are using Stata Version 13 or above for Windows.
If you would like to run the example commands, you need to copy the example Stata data files to your local PC. Click download sample data for instructions. If you're using a computer at the Carolina Population Center, the data are available to you on Q:\temp\statatut\.
See Stata Windows environment below for an orientation to the Windows interface. It also gives you sources of help beyond this tutorial.
Other resources available to help you learn Stata include the UCLA's IDRE Stat website, several introductory guides in the CPC library and others available from Stata Press, and Stata Corporation's Resources for learning Stata.
SAS Users: the SAS User's Guide to Stata may help you make the transition from SAS to Stata.
A simple example
- input: putting data into Stata
- generate: creating a new variable
- list (or browse): viewing the contents of memory
- save: saving memory in a permanent Stata-format file
- log: capturing the results of Stata commands for printing
- Stata's default actions
- how data are stored in RAM
Using permanent Stata data files
- clear: clearing Stata's memory
- set memory: allowing enough space for the data
- use: copying the file into memory
- save,replace: saving changes
Describing the data
- describe: names of variables
- summarize: the mean, min, and max of variables
- codebook: more univariate statistics
- tabulate: frequencies and cross-tabulations
- data types and data storage
Groups and subsets of data
- if: do command for a subset of observations
- sort: order observations by the values of a variable
- by: do command for groups of observations (requires sort)
- in: do command for a range of observations
- relational, logical, and arithmetic operators
- missing values
Changing the data
- replace: change the values of a variable
- recode: change the values of a variable
- rename: change a variable name
- label: labeling variables, values, and data files
- drop: drop one or more variables
- drop if: drop observations conditional on one or more variables
- edit: editing the data file directly
Data cleaning
- do: storing and executing commands in do-files
- #delimit: writing long commands in do-files
- /* */: documenting your do-files
- finding and fixing outliers
- duplicates: finding duplicate ids
Adding summary statistics to a data file
- egen: add summary statistics to each observation
- collapse: create file of summary statistics by groups
Combining data files
- one-to-one: same observations in each file
- match merge: many observations in each file match, but some don't
- one-to-many: hierarchical data, analysis at the lower level
- merging summary statistics: hierarchical data, analysis at the higher level
- appending: adding observations with the same variables
Reshaping a data file
- reshape long: change variables to observations
- reshape wide: change observations to variables
Documenting Your Work
- histogram with normal curve fitted to it
- graph box plot displayed for two groups
- scatter plot
- twoway scatter plot with regression line
- other resources for learning graphics in Stata
Analyzing Data from Sample Surveys
- Data characteristics: stratification, clustering, sampling weights
- Choosing the correct weight syntax: pweight, aweight, fweight, or iweight?
- Commands to analyze survey data: svy, robust cluster, subpop
- Logistic Regression Example: adjust, svylc, svytest
- Common errors and how to avoid them
Labor-Saving Techniques
Miscellaneous Tips and Tricks
- getting help for Stata
- updating Stata
- importing and exporting data files
- working with large files
- shrinking large data files
- error messages and what they mean
- missing values and how to work with them
- the by command in detail
- exporting results to MS Office
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Rootstelevison.com is devoted to showcasing genealogy videos and is international in it's scope and coverage. The two women who started this were the creators of the "Ancestors" series for PBS. Most recently they tested Roots author Alex Haley's nephew and found he had Scottish ancestry.
Megan has also been instrumental in uncovering the truth and setting the record straight about Annie Moore the first person to pass through Ellis Island, New York.
My series By Her Roots is featured in webisodes. The first seven webisodes is on my search for my ancestor Peter Martin's roots (c1749) in Nova Scotia. One more webisode to go and I am editing it right now. Hope you join us over there..Alannah Ryane
Looking for William Johnson, Joseph & Margaret Scallion 1798 Co. Wexford
Am reviving my Co of Wexford research for webisode #8 of Part One of my series "By Her Roots" for Rootstelevison.com and my youtube channel which will lead me to Part Two in Ireland.
William Johnson b 1760 with son Lawrence b 1792 and Andrew Scallion b 1790 all from County of Wexford show up in Nova Scotia buying land in 1802 just after the 1798 rebellion. Were they rebels or loyalists and what all were they escaping. Have not found any records of anyone else arriving with them just William and the two boys but Andrew's parents were listed on his marriage record as Joseph Scallion and Margaret Doyle.
My researcher in Dublin found only one marriage record for a Joseph Scallion and Margaret Doyle dated 1783 at the Cross of Ballysheen in parish of Carne Co of Wexford. their 5 children were born and/or baptized there or Butlerstown parish of St Ibers. One was born in 1790 but his name was William. If he came alone with William Johnson and his son Lawrence maybe he changed his name to his middle name to lessen confusion? Am researching all wexford church ruins in these areas.
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First shows up in Halifax Nova Scotia in 1749. Rumored to be in regiment of foot and from Galway. I Have put the majority of my research in my series "By Her Roots" Part One "The search for Peter Martin" for Rootstelevison.com and on my youtube channel. #7 webisode is on the Peter Martin record I found in the Fortress of Louisbourg. A researcher is looking now for more on this man. PRO in england says has no more info.
the Galway Martins of Ballanahinch Castle heritage have no records of him.
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Researching Irish family history for my webisode #8 of my series "By Her Roots" part one on Rootstelevison.com and my youtube channel which leads into Part Two which will be based in Ireland.
Charles G. hayes was said to be from Dublin. Immigrated to Canada around 1884 died in Toronto Ontario 1926. Married Ada May Williams of England. Children Charles, Stanley, Norman Ann. A Dublin researcher has checked all the Charles Hayes he could find in Dublin and followed their history but no Charles G. Am looking now in Cork as have been told large concentration there.
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Atari Wants To Work With 'Illegitimate' Sites... After Being One Of The Earlier Supporters Of 'Pre-Settlement' Deals
from the well-that's-a-turn-around deptReader Alan points us to an interview with an executive from Atari, where he talks about a new program to work with file sharing sites, even as they make unauthorized copies available:
With the GO affiliate program, you're intending to work with sites that host illegitimate versions of Atari games - it's rare to see a company engaging with, rather than fighting, unlicensed distribution.Now some of those quotes struck me as interesting, because as you may recall, Atari was actually one of the earliest believers in "arming up a cadre of lawyers" and having them send out pre-settlement notices. It was one of the customers of Davenport Lyons, which was the predecessor of ACS:Law in the practice, and it only backed away, when it realized how much negative publicity it was receiving for threatening people if they didn't pay up.
Truth be told, why in the world would I ever want to go after my fans? These are people who absolutely love our classic old arcade games. I joke about the fact that it seems like every computer science student, after their first year of programming class, goes off and writes a copy of Asteroids or Missile Command or Battlezone. The web is filthy with those.
Now, instead of arming up a cadre of lawyers the smart thing to do is say, "Look, you're fans of our games, let us give you the legitimate version of the game," and then bring those affiliates into the fold by saying, "We'll actually share revenue with you." They've been running that less than optimal, if not [coughs] a little dodgy, version of Asteroids or Missile Command, so why not just run the original one, share in the revenue and still have the same appeal to the fans they want to draw to their site? And we've got the library of all our other great games that we can bring to them as well.
So it's great to see the company looking to be a lot more embracing of ways to work with sites, and recognize that these are fans, not people to be attacked, but we shouldn't forget that it initially approached the space very differently.
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Adeline Hornbek's answers to some of the questions on the Testimony of Claimant are difficult to read, though you will have more success with the high resolution version. Try to decipher as much as you can before referring to the partial transcript.
1. What is the purpose of this form?
2. What can you learn about Hornbek's house and other improvements?
3. Why might Hornbek have insisted on explaining that her husband abandoned her and her family?
4. Why do you think Hornbek cultivated such a small portion of the homestead land?
5. In what year did Hornbek prove up on her land?
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Answer (Question 1): Adeline Hornbek, 55 years. Florissant, El Paso County, Colorado
Answer (Question 2): I am a native born citizen of the United States.
Answer (Question 3): Early in the Spring of 1878. Early in the Spring of 1878. Log House 1 ˝ story, 3 rooms upstairs--3 rooms downstairs. Main part is 30 x 19 ft. Ell is 14 ft. x 16 ft. Shingle roof. Eleven windows. Eleven doors. A good Milk House, Chicken House. A large corral has a shed on two sides. Stables for 9 horses, has wagon shed attached. Whole interest in 1/4 mile Ditch and one half interest in ˝ mile Ditch. $1200.
Answer (Question 4): Myself and one child. I am the head of a family. My husband Elliott A. Hornbek abandoned me over ten (10) years ago, since which time I have supported myself and family. My said husband did not pay for these improvements nor any portion thereof--.
Answer (Question 5): Have not been absent
Answer (Question 6): Three acres only. Each season Have cut about twenty tons hay each year. Raised Potatoes and other garden (illegible).


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LONDON, ONT. -- A decade ago, Carolina Kostner was the ingénue of the World Figure Skating Championships, a 16-year-old Italian who bounded around the MCI Center in Washington, D.C. like a frolicsome fawn as Michelle Kwan won her last of five world titles.
Sixth going into the free skate, Kostner finished 10th after having been a surprising fourth in her European Championships debut two months earlier. That drop was not yet the problem such results would soon become.
It wasn't long before the pure joy of skating that Kostner poured into her performances began to get muddied through the prism of others' perceptions. When her results did not match what the early success seemingly had foretold, Kostner began to face criticism that would intensify as her career bounded like an out-of-control roller coaster.
"Everybody was talking about this huge talent, huge talent, and then you kind of have big expectations on yourself," Kostner, the reigning world champion, said Tuesday morning, after she worked out the jet lag of Monday's trip from Europe with a practice that included no jumps. "And my career grew and grew and grew, and I was just expecting more and more and more. And then you fall."
Kostner did not just fall. She dropped off the face of a cliff at the 2006 Olympics and 2009 worlds and 2010 Olympics. Her 15th-place free skate at 2009 worlds had one fall, no clean triple jumps and, most embarrassing, four single jumps. Her 19th-place free skate at the 2010 Olympics had three falls and just one clean triple jump.
The worst, in some ways, was the 2006 Winter Games in Turin, Italy. There she was, the reigning world bronze medalist, falling apart on home ice.
Kostner had begun to skate like a deer in headlights, a deer on the first day of hunting season. She always was nervous in competition and often came completely unstrung after one mistake.
The press in Italy, a country that had paid little attention to figure skating for decades before she arrived, wrote her off for good after the Vancouver Games.
"It was really hard times," she said. "So I told myself, no results any more, just skating. And that's what I started skating for, right? Not to be known or anything."
It turned out the best times and results were ahead.
Last season, Kostner added the world title to a record that now includes three other world medals, plus eight straight European medals, with five titles. It also includes finishes of ninth and 16th at the Olympics and 12ths in the 2006 and 2009 worlds.
"I think everybody has ups and downs in their lives," she said. "We learn from the biggest disappointments, right? You learn how to be humble to yourself and to be humble to others. You learn to respect and learn the value of a medal much more."
Two-time U.S. champion Ashley Wagner was an 11-year-old flower girl at Kostner's 2003 world meet debut. Wagner, who also made her world debut at 16 and struggled the next three seasons, is struck by Kostner's resilience.
"Her lows are definitely low," Wagner said Tuesday, after skipping a morning practice because her skates were in luggage that finally arrived as her evening practice began. "We have all seen her have some really rough skates. It is impressive she doesn't let that become entirely the skater she is. To come back so strong and put it together mentally and physically is impressive."
This has been a curious season for Kostner. Her boyfriend of five years, 2008 Olympic race walk champion Andrea Schwazer of Italy, was thrown out of the 2012 Summer Games before his event because of a positive test for EPO. Schwazer had kept the banned blood-boosting drug in Kostner's refrigerator, hidden in a package of vitamin B-12, and he insisted after being busted that she had no knowledge of his doping.
Kostner has stood by her man. She also stuck to a decision made two months before his doping scandal to skip the fall Grand Prix season. Then she did two minor winter competitions, plus Italian nationals and Europeans, as preparation for worlds, in which the women's event begins Thursday.
"When it came to October, November, I had this moment when I said, `Uh-oh, did I make the wrong decision?"' Kostner said. "But it came to a point where I just needed some time for myself, for being a young woman and having time for my friends.
"It turned out it was the right decision. If it's going to be positive or negative on my worlds. . .I don't think that is going to be the reason if I skate good or bad."
It would not have been surprising if Kostner, 26, had decided to stop for good after winning the world title on her 10th try. She thought about it, then decided this was the time to enjoy what took so long to achieve, no matter the result on the scoreboard.
"When an artist becomes a master, it's his best time," Kostner said. "I love to do it. I'm not ready to give that up yet."


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Prominent so-called "ethicist" and Oxford University Professor Julian Savulescu claims that humanity has a "moral obligation" to genetically engineer children — essentially creating "designer babies" — to make them into better people, sparking an outcry among critics who claim such morally repugnant practices would be akin to playing God. Embryos that do not qualify for life in his view, such as those whose genetic make-up is perceived to indicate potential future "personality flaws," would presumably be destroyed.
Savulescu wrapped his argument in pseudo-compassionate language, claiming he simply wanted the best for children, parents, society, and the human race. Plus, he argued, some people already screen their future children for diseases before deciding whether or not to abort them, so using DNA and bio-technology to enhance people's personality traits is not actually a very big leap.
"Surely trying to ensure that your children have the best, or a good enough, opportunity for a great life is responsible parenting? So where genetic selection aims to bring out a trait that clearly benefits an individual and society, we should allow parents the choice," Savulescu claimed, garnering headlines around the world with his call to legalize such procedures. "To do otherwise is to consign those who come after us to the ball and chain of our squeamishness and irrationality."
According to Savulescu, whose controversial brand of so-called "ethics" has become a magnet for harsh criticism in recent years, improving the human race through genetic engineering is not just a good idea — it is a "moral obligation" to prevent the propagation of undesirables. Humanity left to its own devices, Savulescu apparently believes, will produce inferior people not worthy of living life.
Of course, that argument is hardly new. National Socialist (Nazi) Germany under Adolf Hitler as well as Planned Parenthood founder Margaret Sanger relied on a similar philosophy — known as eugenics, though the term is rarely used now due to its negative connotations — to advance their vision of "cleansing" the human gene pool. Both argued that "race" and intelligence should be used as criteria.
Savulescu, however, points to different traits that should be extinguished. "Indeed, when it comes to screening out personality flaws, such as potential alcoholism, psychopathy and disposition to violence, you could argue that people have a moral obligation to select ethically better children. They are, after all, less likely to harm themselves and others," he argued. "If we have the power to intervene in the nature of our offspring — rather than consigning them to the natural lottery — then we should."
The "ethics expert" also correctly points out that many people, especially in the West, have already embraced some of the fundamental tenets of his philosophy: namely, that unborn children with certain characteristics can and should be exterminated. But there is a difference between Nazi eugenics and his philosophy, Savulescu alleged, saying that his designer baby proposal would be "voluntary" — at least in the beginning.
"We're routinely screening embryos and fetuses for conditions such as cystic fibrosis and Down's syndrome, and there's little public outcry," Savulescu claimed. Perhaps the blanket statement unfairly downplays the opposition to aborting children due to genetic problems — especially in the United States — but at least in Europe and the United Kingdom, his claim that there has not been a particularly vociferous or widespread outcry against the practice is largely true.
Even recently, Savulescu continues, the public, or at least broad segments of it, has mostly accepted the imposition of the eugenics philosophy without much outrage. Obviously, it is not commonly referred to as eugenics — people familiar with the word often recoil in horror when it is mentioned — but the practice of selecting children for extermination based on genetics is already widespread, often with taxpayer backing.
"What's more, few people protested at the decisions in the mid-2000s to allow couples to test embryos for inherited bowel and breast cancer genes, and this pushes us a lot close to creating designer humans," Savulescu correctly observed. "Whether we like it or not, the future of humanity is in our hands now."
For people who believe in God, what Savulescu is really saying is that humans can do better than their Creator — quite an audacious claim by any standard, even if one holds the belief that "nature" is supreme. "Rather than fearing genetics, we should embrace it," he argued. "We can do better than chance."
Savulescu, who also serves as director of the Uehiro "Center For Practical Ethics" at Oxford, made his latest argument in the most recent edition of Reader's Digest published on August 21. But it is not the first time he has proposed genetic engineering for humans.
In 2009, he issued similar calls at the "Festival of Dangerous Ideas" in Australia. In a controversial talk entitled "Unfit for Life: Genetically enhance humanity or face extinction," Savulescu essentially argued that if people refuse to accept his demands for modifying the genetic make-up of future humans, humanity itself may face extinction.
Other far-out proposals that have led critics to label him everything from a dangerous lunatic to an evil monster include a piece published in the disgraced Journal of "Medical Ethics," where he serves as editor. The dubious journal recently published a piece arguing in favor of legalizing the murder of children up to the age of three or even older — dubbed "after-birth" abortions in the paper.
Following a tsunami of outrage over the grisly proposal, Savulescu leaped to defend his decision to publish the call to exterminate imperfect or unwanted children even after they were born. "What is disturbing is not the arguments in this paper nor its publication in an ethics journal. It is the hostile, abusive, threatening responses that it has elicited," he wrote, citing angry comments made at news sites. "More than ever, proper academic discussion and freedom are under threat from fanatics opposed to the very values of a liberal society."
A protégé of "utilitarian" infanticide advocate Peter Singer, Savulescu has regularly found himself under fire from all sides for his claims. He argued, for example, that cloning and then killing humans to provide cells for therapy was "morally required." And after his recent ranting on the supposed morality of genetically engineering babies and terminating those he views as unfit, the outcry once again began to build — especially among Catholics, Christians, and pro-life activists.
"Of course this is eugenics repackaged for a more technological age, but Savulescu isn't deterred," wrote pro-life commentator Rebecca Taylor, comparing Savulescu's proposal to the dystopian future presented in the movie Gattaca where non-engineered humans are second-class citizens. "He falls for the fallacy that this time eugenics is different because parents can choose instead of being coerced by the government."
Taylor also blasted the notion that behavior could be predicted based on genetic information, noting that much of a person's character is the result of his or her environment and upbringing. She also cited the looming demographic nightmare facing countries like China and India — both of which now have far more males than females due to cultural preferences, modern technology and widespread, sometimes coercive abortion.
"The only way to avert the evils of eugenics is simply not to subscribe to the idea that some of us are genetically superior to others. We all have worth that is not based on a string of nucleotides," Taylor concluded in her piece for LifeNews.com. "None of us should be discarded in favor of another that is deemed 'genetically superior.' [Savulescu's] 'procreative benefience' is simply another way of labeling people as 'valid' and 'invalid.' … I say, 'No thank-you!'"
While out-of-control self-styled "ethicists" continue to make increasingly outrageous and deranged proposals, the backlash, of course, is growing as well. Average people are quickly losing any and all respect for a field that purports to be about "ethics" even while arguing for legalized murder of children, genetic engineering of babies, government-enforced euthanasia, the drugging of humanity, and much more.
However, as numerous analysts have noted, the attempt at "normalizing" horrific and barbaric acts that were once considered unthinkable is well underway. Slowly killing people like Terri Schiavo through dehydration, for example, did not become legal until being advanced in half-baked "ethics" journals.
It appears that prominent members and organs of the pseudo-ethics cabal are increasingly leading the way toward a nightmarish future where human life — especially "sub-standard" life, in their view — has no value. And without an outcry and an end to the massive tax subsidies, it is unlikely to stop.
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Prominent so-called "ethicist" and Oxford University Professor Julian Savulescu claims that humanity has a "moral obligation" to genetically engineer children — essentially creating "designer babies" — to make them into better people, sparking an outcry among critics who claim such morally repugnant practices would be akin to playing God. Embryos that do not qualify for life in his view, such as those whose genetic make-up is perceived to indicate potential future "personality flaws," would presumably be destroyed.


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This is a patch from SEGA for the Medieval 2: Total War - Kingdoms.
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- Denmark now has Norwegian units available to them when the Kalmar Union is formed.
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Twittering Trees, that explored my impressions of Twitter and why my excitement was building for this communication trend - especially in the field of genealogy. Well, my feelings have not changed at all, and in fact, I spend more time on Twitter trying to keep up with current genealogy/historical news than I do with any other social media these days. In that last post I explained that it was just easier for me to tweet under @Pastology to keep things simple. While I will continue to tweet current events in genealogy/history land on the @Pastology account, I find life has become even more complicated career-wise, so I decided to end my issues of split personality, and create my own Twitter account. This new account (@Historiana) will have more personal impressions/tidbits from my research/genealogy encounters.....and probably a lot more fun! So, where did I get the name "Historiana", you ask? I've actually used this for years as an account name around the web, and always thought of it as a play on the word origin "Victoriana". Which means, it will be a playful feed on things historical/genealogical......with a spice of librarian sense....or nonsense! Plus, some things may be a bit more regional.....I am in Kentucky after all.....but I also travel and come across tidbits from all sorts of places. If I rant about anything non-historical.....be patient, it is only a momentary pause in the proceedings.
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