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Red Sox announce right-hander Joe Kelly has been recalled from Triple-A Pawtucket and struggling right-hander Heath Hembree has been optioned.
Playing their third game in eight days, the Revolution beat the Fire 1-0 on Saturday courtesy of a late Je-Vaughn Watson strike.
Jimmy Garoppolo could catch a break if recent surgery for Texans star J.J. Watt means Watt is less than full strength when Houston visits in Week 3.
A struggling David Price and a faulty bullpen were the reasons why the Boston Red Sox dropped a second straight game to the woeful Minnesota Twins.
The right-hander allowed a run on three hits on Saturday and hasn't pitched a clean inning in his last five outings. "He's not a confident pitcher right now," manager John Farrell said. A replacement for Hembree wasn't announced, but RHP Joe Kelly "is definitely in play," per Farrell.
Miguel Sano homered and Eduardo Nunez drove in three runs, including two in a five-run seventh inning, as the Minnesota Twins rallied for an 11-9 win over the Boston Red Sox on Saturday night.
Red Sox TV analyst Jerry Remy was hit in the head by a falling TV monitor as swirling winds caused havoc during the first inning at Fenway Park.
Minnesota Twins catcher Kurt Suzuki left Saturday night's game against the Boston Red Sox in the second inning after getting hit in the mask with a foul ball.
Craig Kimbrel could throw a bullpen session on Sunday, while the Red Sox have no timetable for Koji Uehara, who is recovering from a pectoral strain.
An MRI revealed no structural damage or cartilage issues in Mookie Betts' right knee. There is, however, some swelling, which accounts for him being out of the Red Sox's lineup Saturday night. John Farrell classified it as "a short-term situation."
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Schnitz Apple Pie
|10 inch pie shell
|1 (Unbaked, Unpricked)
|Cooking apples
|6 Medium (Yellow Transparents In August, Wealthies And Duchess In September, Courtlands In October, Greenings And Spies In November)
|Thick cream
|1⁄4 Cup (4 tbs), sweet / freshly soured
|Firmly packed brown sugar
|3⁄4 Cup (12 tbs)
|1⁄4 Cup (4 tbs)
|2 Tablespoon
|Ground cinnamon
|1 Teaspoon
Cut each apple into 6 pieces.
Peel and core each section.
Arrange attractively in 1 layer in the pie shell.
Sprinkle on the cream, followed by the brown sugar, the butter cut in little pieces, the flour, and the cinnamon.
Bake 15 minutes at 450 degrees.
Reduce heat to 350 degrees and continue baking 30-40 minutes or until the apples are tender and the crust is nicely browned.
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Nutrition Facts
Serving size
Calories 495 Calories from Fat 199
% Daily Value*
Total Fat 22 g34.4%
Saturated Fat 11.3 g56.6%
Trans Fat 0 g
Cholesterol 33.9 mg11.3%
Sodium 191.4 mg8%
Total Carbohydrates 75 g24.9%
Dietary Fiber 4.6 g18.4%
Sugars 42.6 g
Protein 3 g5.1%
Vitamin A 9.3% Vitamin C 11.3%
Calcium 5.5% Iron 6.2%
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Going into the season, some of us couldn't pick the Rangers low enough. If there were a way to predict they would finish 19th in the 15-team Eastern Conference, we would have done it.
In recent seasons, weren't the Rangers, the worst NHL team a blank checkbook could buy, going to be a mess in the NHL's New Order?
There was the suspicion that the altered rules and tightened enforcement standards would rejuvenate Jaromir Jagr to a point, but that wouldn't be enough, right?
And now that we're on the verge of the new year?
Although the Rangers have been stumbling a bit over the past couple of weeks, they still look like a bona fide playoff team -- quite an accomplishment for a franchise that hasn't played a postseason game since 1997 -- and a challenger to the Flyers in the Atlantic Division.
Jagr, whose attention was intermittent and effort often halfhearted in the past, again is the best player in the league. Rookie goalie Henrik Lundqvist has been a revelation, and winger Petr Prucha also deserves to be on the Calder Trophy "long list."
A team without a captain and without a leader in the varied styles of Mark Messier or Brian Leetch, the Rangers still seem to have good chemistry with Jagr comfortably serving as the catalyst and front man for the Czech contingent. And how strange is it that Darius Kasparaitis -- one of the men wearing the alternate captains' "A" -- has gone from the guy even his teammates held at arm's length to a sage leader at age 33?
In the wake of the Rangers' surprising first-half performance, the face-saving dodge would be to pawn off those gloom-and-doom predictions for the Rangers as the off-target guesses of the biggest buffoons in sports -- "They" and "People." ("You know, Coach, 'They' said you were overrated." "What do you say to 'People' who say you're not tough enough?")
Yet, even when I saw the Rangers knock off the Flyers on opening night in Philadelphia, and heeded the results of the ESPN.com in-game blog and went to Gino's for a postgame cheesesteak, I didn't see much reason to begin making plans to be in Manhattan during the postseason.
For weeks, I waited for the mirrors to break and for the Rangers to get a giddy Ralph Kramden back on the scoreboard after New York goals.
The mirrors haven't cracked, and Ralph hasn't reappeared.
"I want to be fair to this team, who I hoped would come out and play as well as they have," Rangers coach Tom Renney said this week. "I guess I'm pleasantly surprised that we have been able to maybe force the pundits to reconsider what we are all about as a team. Having said that, it's still early and anything can happen."
Twenty-three-year-old Lundqvist, one of approximately 17 dark-haired Swedes, is coming off a four-season run with Vasta Frolunda of the Swedish Elite League.
"Goaltenders at this level usually come into their own around the mid-20s, or whatever, after a significant NHL experience behind a No. 1 guy," Renney said. "Henrik's growth, I would suggest, is accelerated simply because of his experience in Europe.
"He's played in a couple of world championships; he's played in a very good Swede league. Our game is a hybrid of both North American and European hockey now, especially with the red line out, so I think there's a level of comfort there for him."
Renney laughed.
"But having said that, too, this is New York, the big city and high expectations, whether we are rebuilding or not," Renney added. "He certainly has met the expectations of the organization, and I would think the fans."
Jagr's reawakening, though, has been the major story. It has gone beyond simply attributing the change to the reopened game. It has to do with a rejuvenation of spirit, and the key will be to keep Jagr in that mode. Instead of giving it the mumbo jumbo of nationalities making no difference, the Rangers have enough of his countrymen around Jagr to form variations of five-man units, if Renney so desires.
"I think the organization's insight into the acquisition of the Czech players to help us to perform better with these new rules and with the red line being out -- all of that has really helped Jaromir," Renney said. "He does have fun when he comes to the rink. He enjoys his teammates, all of them, but the fact that he can speak his native tongue helps him. Not that he doesn't like communicating in English, but it's a good situation for him.
"I think the ability to use his size and strength to protect pucks and work the corners and go to the net in the rules have helped him, but as much as anything, he's just having fun playing."
Renney, who stepped back behind the bench when Glen Sather fired himself to concentrate on his front-office duties late in the 2003-04 season, deserves credit for making something of this quirky mix. And, yes, Sather himself, so hotly criticized for failing to engineer a turnaround in the wake of the disastrous end to Neil Smith's tenure, merits praise for patching together a New Rangers in the wake of the new CBA. Part of that includes having enough decent prospects in the organization -- e.g., Dominic Moore, Fedor Tyutin, Ryan Hollweg, Prucha and Lundqvist -- to fill in the cracks, and more.
"It's nice to know that we're kind of in the hunt," Renney said. "But we have not, at the same time, lost sight of the long-term objective, and that is to develop a team that will win over time."
Renney had a hand in personnel decisions under Sather, since he was the player personnel chief before going back on the bench as Sather's assistant at the outset of the 2003-04 season. And his résumé has a broad-based background, dating back to when he succeeded Ken Hitchcock as coach of a major junior powerhouse, the Kamloops Blazers. The Blazers won the Memorial Cup in Renney's second season before he moved on to the national team -- coaching Canada to the 1994 Olympic silver medal -- then got a 101-game shot as head coach of the then-terrible Canucks.
The surprise probably wasn't that Renney got a second chance but that it took so long to happen.
"Maybe earlier, on the heels of the Vancouver thing, I was hoping that the opportunity to get back in the NHL as a head coach would present itself," Renney said. "But I'm one of those guys who wants to touch every angle of the game I possibly can, and learn as much as I possibly can, so that it continues to be interesting and invigorating and challenging for me.
"The one thing I believe I am is a builder. Being able to do that from the management side of the equation and the player personnel side of the equation, I was really enjoying that. It's funny what happens to you when you're not looking for it."
Renney's right. At the halfway point, the Rangers are far from a cinch to make the postseason. But at least there seems to be some coherence in the Rangers' picture for a change.
Terry Frei is a regular contributor to ESPN.com. He is the author of "Third Down and a War to Go" and "Horns, Hogs, and Nixon Coming."


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UK independent communications regulator Ofcom has announced which companies have qualified to bid in the auction for the extra spectrum earmarked for 4G data.
The companies that will compete in "the largest ever sale of mobile airwaves in the UK" include, as expected, Vodafone and O2 (as Telefónica). In addition, EE and Three are on the list. The former launched its 4G network at the end of October, while the latter will be renting space on EE's network to launch its own offering in the new year. The acquisition of alternative spectrum would allow them to expand their services.
Perhaps a more surprising bidder is BT, through its subsidiary Niche Spectrum Ventures, and the group is rounded off by British business-to-business (B2B) network services firm MLL Telecom, and the UK arm of Hong Kong network provider PCCW, HKT.
The auction process starts in January, when bidders will be competing for two spectrum bands, 800MHz and 2.6GHz. Ofcom has designed the auction so that there will be at least four "credible national wholesalers of mobile services", after perfoming a competition assessment in July. It believes this outcome will provide customers with the best services at lower prices.
Roll-out of the new services is currently slated for late spring 2013.
"The 4G auction will be a competitive process that will dictate the shape of the UK mobile phone market for the next decade and beyond," said Ed Richards, Ofcom chief executive.
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Richard Tisei is a Republican running against eight-term Democrat John Tierney in the 6th Congressional District. I don't know a lot about him, but hey! He's a Massachusetts Republican, so how conservative can he really be? He's the minority leader of the state house, and he's openly gay. Plus, he has officially produced the best campaign ad of the season.
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And within the 275-page stack of indictments, the name of one brokerage firm crops up most often, with the most egregious allegations: Gold Coast Mortgage Group Inc.
Gold Coast is one of the few state-licensed brokerage firms named in any of the indictments -- most were bogus "shell" companies. Yet the Gold Coast scam artists went to greater lengths than any defendants to beat the system.
The stolen identity cases arising from the now-defunct Gold Coast firm show the scam at its most deceptive, blurring the ability to determine who is real and who is imagined, who is victim and who is perpetrator. And because the roots of the scam extended deep into many neighborhoods, behind facades that didn't give a clue from the curbside, the fraud traveled far before it was noticed.
Twelve of the 14 Gold Coast defendants have pleaded guilty to charges stemming from loans made over the past four years. Their actions, as alleged in the indictments, border on the comical:
In November 2001, defendant Curtis Prysock picked up a homeless man named Al Jacobs "from the streets of downtown Atlanta," the indictment states. Prysock took Jacobs to West End Mall, to have pictures taken for what would become a false driver's license. He then brought Jacobs to Gold Coast's office in Stone Mountain, where he, broker Kay Polote and others began to reinvent the homeless man as a wealthy minister named Clarence McGinty.
Defendant Wayne Milton allegedly teamed up with the Gold Coast group by stealing the Social Security number of McGinty, his father-in-law. Jacobs got a driver's license and Social Security card in McGinty's name. And Milton, pretending to be a bishop of "Greater Grace" church, signed a fake verification of employment form stating that "McGinty" was his head minister -- and earned $100,000 a year.
"We've never heard of him," Herb Skeens, spokesman of the Conyers-based Greater Grace Ministries, says of Milton. "We've never even had a bishop at Greater Grace Church. It's not a position that we recognize."
Prysock then bought "McGinty" fake W-2s and pay stubs from another co-defendant, Curtis Johnson. And in the next three months, Jacobs, posing as McGinty, qualified for a $269,000 mortgage on a Stone Mountain home, a $160,000 mortgage on an Atlanta home and a $38,000 Mercedes CLK 320 convertible. In the company of "Bishop" Milton, the homeless man attended the closings, a task for which Gold Coast paid him $900. He, too, was indicted.
Several of the brokers and other defendants split the broker's fees on the homes, which sat empty. Dalva Ray Orange, part owner of Gold Coast, allegedly drove the Mercedes. He also arranged 12 other fraudulent loans since 1998, signing applications, pocketing fees and even posing as a borrower himself in six of the loans -- crimes for which he was indicted on charges of fraud and money laundering. Orange pleaded guilty and awaits sentencing.
Gold Coast broker Polote also pleaded guilty and awaits sentencing, for earning $621,000 in broker's fees on 80 fraudulent loans and using six stolen Social Security numbers to invent qualified borrowers.
In addition to Polote and Orange, seven other defendants in the Gold Coast ring will soon be sentenced in federal court. Two more have not yet pleaded. And another three -- all of them former Citizens Trust Bank employees -- have been sentenced to up to five months in jail and ordered bo pay $58,000 in restitution for signing false bank documents for Gold Coast's imaginary borrowers.
Neither the Gold Coast indictments nor the others (see sidebar: P. 39) identify by name any of the people whose Social Security numbers were stolen, except for McGinty and a woman named Joyce Jones. They could not be reached.
When asked whether the identity theft victims suffered major credit problems as a result of the scams, U.S. Attorney's Office spokesman Patrick Crosby said yes. He would not elaborate.
U.S. Attorney's Offices in other states are noticing a similar spike in the falsified loan application scam and have netted indictments in federal court.
In Cleveland, Ohio, 83 people were indicted in August in "the nation's largest mortgage-fraud investigation," according to The Plain Dealer. Appraisers and loan officers, as well as outsiders paid by them, worked out of two unrelated agencies to generate more than 60 fraudulent loan applications, undercover FBI agents found. A similar investigation was carried out in Greenville, S.C., where mortgage broker Jeffrey Greene pleaded guilty this summer to falsifying more than 100 loan applications for mobile homes.
Jim Sugarman, an attorney with the American Association of Retired People, says his Washington, D.C., office sees a steady flow of fraudulent mortgage applications. "We probably get about 10 people a month coming in with problem loans, and almost all of them have falsified incomes," Sugarman says.
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The effect of an evil eye is a fact. This is supported by many proofs from revealed texts and reasoning. Imam al-Bukhari reported on the authority of Abu Hurayrah that the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said, "The effect of an evil eye is a fact."
However, the evil eye can never harm unless Allah wills so. Hence, it shouldn't be a cause of fear or terror to anyone, for supreme power and might are for Almighty Allah alone and He is the Only One we should fear. It is in Him that we should seek protection against Satan and the evil eye. Both al-Bukhari and Muslim reported in their authentic collections that `Aa'ishah (may Allah be pleased with her) said: "The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) used to tell me to recite ruqyah for protection against the evil eye.
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As a songwriter (un-famous, un-published, un-paid ) for some 30 years now, with about 150 songs I've written, I've only recently begun paying more attention to the way John and Paul used chord changes to try to learn some new tricks. I probably absorbed stuff from them over the years by osmosis, but I think it might also help me to study them more directly.
Still, if I may toot my own horn, I think quite a few of my songs have neat chord changes.
While I have largely ignored Beatles music in terms of studying it, I have spent quite a bit of time over the years studying the chord changes of three other musicians I really like -- Paul Simon, James Taylor, and Gordon Lightfoot. One habit of James Taylor is to use what his songbooks call "A7dim/Bb" which is really just playing the open A7 chord but using a Bb bass instead of A -- James Taylor has this trick he employs a lot, going from A or A7 with a normal A bass, then transitioning via the "A7dim/Bb" chord to some chord with a B bass (often Bm7, sometimes Em7), and I have incorporated this into a few of my songs. I hope to pick up at least one or two tricks from Paul and/or John.
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When is a hoarder not a hoarder?
If you were to pick up Jung Myoung Sook, her 200 dogs and her ramshackle hillside compound and plop them down in rural America, she'd be consider a hoarder for sure.
But in South Korea, where the dogs she's caring for might well have otherwise ended up as meals in homes and restaurants, she's really more of a saint.
Her neighbors don't always feel that way, but I do.
Jung, who was featured on NBC Nightly News last week, has had to pack up and relocate seven times in the more than 25 years she has been rescuing dogs, due to complaints from those living nearby.
Jung picks ups strays living on the street, and she has also bought dogs that were headed to be sold for their meat.
The AP article said all the dogs in the compound appeared to be healthy.
While a small minority of South Koreans eat dog meat, dogs are raised on farms for that purpose, and can be bought, slaughtered and butchered at open-air markets.
While it has been six years since I visited one there, while researching "DOG, INC.," my book on dog cloning, I haven't been able to get those images out of my head since.
Seeing Jung's smiling face, and reading of her work, helps some.
"My babies aren't hungry. They can play and live freely here," said Jung, 61. "Some people talk about me, saying, 'Why is that beggar-like middle-aged woman smiling all the time,' but I just focus on feeding my babies. I'm happy and healthy."
Posted by John Woestendiek February 9th, 2016 under Muttsblog, videos.
Tags: animals, cloning, cultural, culture, dog, dog meat, dogs, hoarder, hoarding, jung myoung sook, korea, markets, pets, rescue, sanctuary, shelter, south korea, strays
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World's first in vitro puppies born at Cornell
Ten years after a dog was first successfully cloned, scientists have managed to produce the world's first litter of pups to be born through in vitro fertilization.
In July seven puppies were born through IVF at Cornell University — five beagles and two "bockers," or beagle-cocker spaniel mixes.
The achievement was not revealed until this week with the release of the research study.
Seems like science would have happened the other way around — that a "test-tube" puppy would have premiered long before we entered the even more science fiction-like era of cloned dogs becoming available on the marketplace.
But, while IVF has been used for decades in other animals, including humans, scientists had never succeeded in using it to produce a newborn pup.
Previous attempts to use IVF in dogs had resulted in very low rates of fertilization, and no live births at all once IVF embryos were transferred to a host.
"Since the mid-1970s, people have been trying to do [IVF] in a dog and have been unsuccessful," said co-author Alex Travis, associate professor of reproductive biology at the Baker Institute for Animal Health in Cornell's College of Veterinary Medicine.
What made it so difficult were some of the same factors that proved challenging in cloning dogs — females only ovulate once or twice a year, and their eggs are not transparent, making it harder to see the structures inside of the egg.
The Cornell researchers, in a joint project with researchers from the Smithsonian Institution, found that by waiting an extra day for eggs to mature before extracting them, they met with more success.
Adding magnesium to the environment where the sperm and egg met also helped with fertilization, the team found, according to a Cornell press release.
The achievement was revealed this week in a study published online Dec. 9 in the journal Public Library of Science ONE.
The seven surviving puppies (out of 19 embryos) are genetically the offspring of two different fathers (a cocker spaniel and a beagle) and three different beagle mothers, carried by the same beagle surrogate.
Unlike cloning, which involves transferring an existing (or dead) dog's DNA into a donor egg, IVF involves the creation of a new genome through fertilization. Each each animal has a unique set of DNA.
The researchers say the development will open the door for preserving endangered canid species using assisted reproduction techniques.
It could also enable researchers to eradicate heritable diseases in dogs and facilitate the study of genetic diseases in dogs and humans, they say.
(Photo: Cornell graduate student Jennifer Nagashima and Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute research biologist Nucharin Songsasen — lead author and co-author of the study — walk some of the puppies born through IVF; by Jeffrey MacMillan / Cornell University)
Posted by John Woestendiek December 10th, 2015 under Muttsblog.
Tags: animals, assisted, beagles, biology, bockers, cloned, clones, cloning, cocker spaniels, cornell, cornell university, dna, dog, dogs, egg, first, in vitro, in vitro fertilization, ivf, pets, puppies, pups, reproduction, research, science, sperm, study
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China creates "Super Dog" via gene editing
First, scientists in South Korea brought us dog cloning — a chance, or so it was initially described, to use cells from your sick, dying or even dead dog to create the exact same dog again, in healthy puppy form.
It was a bad idea.
Now, scientists in China are hard at work on an equally worrisome one.
Chinese researchers report they have created a beagle with double the amount of muscle mass, through a process called "gene editing."
Gene editing involves injecting embryos with a DNA snipping enzyme, Cas9, and a guide molecule that zeroes in on a particular stretch of DNA. The goal is to knock out the myostatin gene so a dog's body can not produce any of the muscle-inhibiting protein that the gene manufactures.
The result, as they see it, is a Super Dog — useful to the police and military.
This is hardly the first time man has manipulated the species. We've been doing it for centuries by inbreeding them to create dogs that, while not necessarily healthier — and sometimes quite the opposite — better suit our needs and please our eyes.
But gene editing is, right up there with cloning, one of the more blatant, creepy and invasive routes man has taken.
And it prompts us to say, with more emotion than a scientist can probably understand: Dogs are already super, China. So leave them the hell alone.
To create one "super beagle," the researchers injected more than 60 dog embryos. Less than half survived to birth. Of 27 puppies born, only two had the sought after disruption in their myostatin genes.
And in only one was the gene editing considered "complete," said Liangxue Lai, a researcher at the Key Laboratory of Regenerative Biology at the Guangzhou Institutes of Biomedicine and Health.
Custom made, genetically engineered dogs will have "more muscles and are expected to have stronger running ability, which is good for hunting, police (military) applications," Lai is quoted as saying in the MIT Technology Review
Lai and 28 colleagues reported their results last week in the Journal of Molecular Cell Biology, saying they intend to create dogs with other DNA mutations, including ones that mimic human diseases such as Parkinson's and muscular dystrophy to be used in biomedical research.
South Korea's dog cloners, in addition to cloning dogs for bereaved pet owners, are also creating dogs for the police and military, and dogs with diseases for research purposes.
Lai said his group had no plans breed to breed the extra-muscular beagles as pets. But, as the Review article points out, that wouldn't stop others from moving to commercialize the gene-editing process.
A different Chinese Institute, BGI, said in September it had begun selling miniature pigs, created via gene editing, for $1,600 each as novelty pets.
And if gene editing follows the path of dog cloning, now available to dog owners for $100,000, its transition to marketplace will be swift an unregulated.
In addition to pigs, goats, rabbits, rats and monkeys have been engineered using gene editing in China, which considers the efforts a national scientific priority — much like South Korea did with dog cloning.
Lai's team says the sole male dog they successfully produced, named Hercules, would pass the myostatin mutation on if he were to be bred.
"The favorable traits that result from gene editing can pass generation by generation," says Lai.
"Favorable," in this case, meaning what the researchers hoped for.
For the 33 embryos that didn't survive, and perhaps for those that did, we'd hardly consider it favorable, or even necessary.
No dog lover should.
Edit your papers, scientists — not our dogs.
(Photo: Hercules, at left, and Tiangou, the world's first gene-edited dogs, from MIT Technology Review)
Posted by John Woestendiek October 21st, 2015 under Muttsblog.
Tags: animals, beagles, china, chinese, cloning, dna, dogs, embryos, engineering, gene editing, genetic, genetics, injected, manipulation, muscles, pets, super dog
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The last living 9/11 search and rescue dog?
A golden retriever named Bretagne is all over the Internet today — today being 9/11 — looking much grayer around the muzzle than she did in 2001 and being described as the only search and rescue dog at the World Trade Center who is still living.
Whether that's accurate depends on how you define "living."
Not to pick nits, but there's another dog, a German shepherd named Trakr — said by some to have found the last human survivor of the World Trade Center attack — who lives on … in a way.
Trakr was cloned in 2009, after his owner, a police officer turned actor, won an essay contest seeking the world's most "cloneworthy" dog.
Five little clones of Trakr were born, after Trakr's death at age 16 in 2009, and arrived in the U.S. from the Korean laboratory in which the procedure took place.
It's a long story, one you can read about in the book, "DOG, INC.," which recounts how dog cloning became a commercial enterprise.
Here's the short version: Trakr was the partner of James Symington, a Halifax, Nova Scotia, police officer. When Trakr was retired, Symington claimed him as his own. On Sept. 11, 2001, after seeing news reports, Symington, without authorization from his department, took Trakr to the World Trade Center.
There, as Symington recounts it, Trakr discovered Genelle Guzman buried in the rubble — the last survivor found.
Others dispute his account.
Symington later moved to California to pursue a career in acting, taking Trakr with him. When an American company called BioArts announced it was holding a "Golden Clone Giveaway," Symington submitted an essay, and won.
BioArts footed the bill (about $150,000) and sent samples of Trakr's DNA to South Korean veterinarian Hwang Woo-Suk, who was on the team at Seoul National University that produced the world's first canine clone, Snuppy. He'd since been fired and opened his own laboratory, Sooam Biotech Research Foundation.
Trakr's DNA was inserted into five "surrogate" egg cells, each of which was zapped with electricity and implanted into a different female dog.
In June 2009 five clone puppies were born and, a few months later, delivered to Symington. He named them Trustt, Solace, Valor, Prodigy, and Deja Vu, and said he planned to train them all as search as rescue dogs who would carry on Trakr's legacy.
They seem to have fallen out of the limelight since then, and their Facebook page hasn't been updated for a couple of years.
Earlier this year, the man who pushed dog cloning and sponsored the "Golden Clone Giveaway," in an apparent turnaround, said cloning dogs — a service still offered in South Korea — was not a viable, profitable, or humane pursuit, noting that it took up to 80 dogs to clone just one.
Lou Hawthorne headed BioArts, and spearheaded the earliest (unsuccessful) efforts to clone dog at Texas A&M University. That research was funded by University of Phoenix founder John Sperling, who died last month.
While some of the main characters involved in dog cloning seem to be fading from public view, from Trakr's clones to Sperling, dog cloning is not — Sooam Biotech is still carrying out clonings for customers who want duplicates of their dead or dying pets, at a price that has dropped to about $100,000.
But back to the dog who is in the news — Bretagne. She returned this week to the site of the former World Trade Center complex with her longtime handler and owner, where they were interviewed by Tom Brokaw for NBC's Today Show.
Bretagne (pronounced "Brittany") is one of eight finalists for the American Humane Association's annual Hero Dog Awards, and later this month she'll travel with her owner to Beverly Hills for the awards ceremony.
My hunch, and hope, is that Bretagne is not destined to be cloned, and that her owner realizes what many customers of dog cloning have not — every dog, and every person, is one of a kind. And one of a kind means one of a kind. That special something inside your dog can't be re-created in a laboratory.
Posted by John Woestendiek September 11th, 2014 under Muttsblog.
Tags: 9-11, 911, animals, bioarts, bretagne, cloned, clones, cloning, death, dog, dog cloning, dog inc., dogs, golden clone giveaway, james symington, laboratory, last, life, living, pets, re-creating, rescue, search, search and rescue, September 11, sooam, surviving, trakr, world trade center
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Is dog meat on the way out in South Korea?
Daegyo, a Seoul restaurant famous for its dog meat-based offerings, is closing shop — just the latest sign that, as the popularity of dogs as pets increases in South Korea, the centuries-old tradition of eating them is on its way out.
Between the rise of a younger generation, with a deeper affinity to dogs as pets, and a burgeoning animal welfare movement, the consumption of dog meat has been declining steadily — so much so that the owner of Daegyo, at least, has come to see there's no future in serving it to diners.
Oh Keum-il says Daegyo, which opened in a Seoul alley in 1981, will serve its last bowl of boshintang, or dog stew, today.
Oh, both chef and owner of the restaurant, is known for the dog meat dishes she developed and served for over three decades. But she has noticed that the popularity of dog meat is mostly limited to older customers.
"There is too much generational gap in boshintang. There are no young customers," she is quoted as saying in an Associated Press report featured in USA Today.
"The closure of Oh's restaurant, dubbed by a local newspaper as the "Holy Land of boshintang" and frequented by two former presidents, Lee Myung-bak and late Roh Moo-hyun, shows one view of dogs is gaining more traction among young South Koreans," the article reports.
Oh plans to reopen her restaurant as a Korean beef barbecue diner.
It's has been estimated more than 2 million dogs are killed each year for their meat in South Korea.
Butcher Shin Jang-gun, who supplies dog meat to restaurants, said the number of merchants selling dog meat has shrunk to half of what it was. Between 700 and 800 restaurants in Seoul now serve it, he said. Once more than 1,500 did.
"Dog is not an industry with a long-term future," Shin said. "New generations don't eat a lot."
Dogs are still raised as meat on farms in South Korea, and they are still killed and butchered to order at street markets in and around Seoul.
At the same time, about one in five South Korean households now have a cat or dog as a pet, and economic forecasters say that number is increasing. One institute says the pet industry is expected to grow six-fold — from less than a billion to about six billion dollars — between 2012 and 2020.
South Korea is also where dog was first cloned, and the only country in which dogs are being cloned. Farm raised dogs were frequently used as surrogates and egg cell donors as that industry came into existence — not to produce meat, but to allow bereaved pet owners to get laboratory-made duplicates of their dogs.
(Photo: Lee Jin-Man / Associated Press)
Posted by John Woestendiek August 29th, 2014 under Muttsblog.
Tags: animals, boshintang, cloning, closing, daegyo, dog, dog farms, dog inc., dog meat, dogs, eating dogs, generational, oh keum-il, pets, popularity, restaurants, seoul, serving, south korea, stop, tradition
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Second thoughts about dog cloning
One of the men behind the push to clone dogs — and market the service to bereaved pet owners — seems more convinced than ever that doing so was, if not a mistake, at least a quest that led to some bad places.
Lou Hawthorne, who established a cell bank (Genetic Savings & Clone) and pushed researchers at Texas A&M University to try and clone the world's first dog in the late 1990s — in hopes of turning dog cloning into a profitable business — said in an interview last week that cloning has led to thousands of dogs suffering each year.
"A cloned dog contributes to the happiness of a family but I do not think it is possible to do it without a huge amount of suffering to hundreds of others," Hawthorne told The Mirror, which was reporting on the first dog cloning for a customer in the UK.
Hawthorne has been out of the dog cloning business since shutting down BioArts, the successor to Genetic Savings & Clone, which closed not long after efforts to clone a dog at Texas A&M were dropped.
That research was funded by John Sperling, the wealthy founder of the University of Phoenix and the boyfriend of Hawthorne's mother. Millions of dollars were poured into the attempt to clone Joan Hawthorne's dog, Missy, a husky-border collie mix.
When Texas A&M dropped the project, scientists as Seoul National University in South Korea began their own effort to clone the world's first dog.
They picked up where American scientists left off, and dog cloning was achieved within two years with the 2005 birth of Snuppy, an Afghan hound manufactured from cells taken from a veterinary student's dog.
Hawthorne, under the auspices of Bio Arts, later teamed up with Hwang Woo Suk, one of the lead scientists on the Snuppy project who opened his own lab after being fired from the university.
First, he had Hwang clone Missy, resulting in a dog named Mira, but when the clone was delivered to Joan Hawthorne she didn't want her. She told a New York Times reporter at the time the puppy was too rambunctious.
Then Hawthorne and Hwang teamed up to produce and sell more clones. They held a "Golden Clone Giveaway," in which a free cloning was offered to the winner of an essay contest, and an online auction where five winning bidders, offering upwards of $150,000, had their dogs cloned.
A second South Korean company RNL Bio, with help from another of Snuppy's creators at SNU, was also cloning dogs — and it produced the first one sold to a customer not connected to the industry, a pit bull named Booger, five copies of which were cloned from the dead dog and, eventually, brought home by the California woman who owned him.
RNL pulled out of cloning pet dogs in 2011, not long after the publication of my book, "DOG, INC: The Uncanny Inside Story of Cloning Man's Best Friend."
Hawthorne had already stepped away from the business by then. In September of 2009, Hawthorne pulled out of the partnership with Hwang, citing, among other reasons, his concerns that accepted animal welfare protocols — or at least those accepted by most Western countries — weren't being followed by the South Koreans.
He also, at the time, blamed court fights over patent rights, the high cost of cloning, deformities and abnormalities that occurred in the cloning process, and what he called the "distraction factor" — annoying questions from the media and bloggers about the wisdom and ethics of cloning dogs.
(As a newspaper reporter who wrote one of the earliest articles on commercial dog cloning, then a blogger, and then the author of "Dog, Inc.," an expose of the dog cloning industry, I'm pretty sure that latter group included me.)
In his interview wih the Mirror, Hawthorne referred to the vast numbers of dogs that it took — up to 80, he said — to clone just one.
And, he said, random dogs used for cloning by Korean researchers were returned to the dog farms they were borrowed from — farms where dogs are raised for their meat.
"That is why I got out," Hawthorne said. "I couldn't care less if the cloning business world collapses but I care about suffering."
Sooam told me, in 2009, that dogs used in the process were returned to the farms. In more recent years, however, Sooam has insisted that both the dogs from whom egg cells are harvested, and those who serve as surrogate mothers, are sent to adoptive homes when their use in the laboratory is completed.
Hawthorne's remarks came after the birth of Mini Winnie, a dachshund cloned by Hwang's lab for a London resident who won a contest sponsored by Sooam. As Sooam attempts to spread the word about its unusual service, Hawthorne has taken to speaking out against it.
"Dog cloning is unviable," Hawthorne said. "It cannot be achieved at a price people can afford."
Hawthorne now cares for two clones of Missy — Mira and Missy Too.
The Mirror reports Hawthorne has more recently been working on cures for human cancer and Alzheimer's, and the newspaper quoted him as saying human cloning would be safer and more viable than dog cloning.
"Unlike the dog industry, no human would die."
(Photos: Lou Hawthorne with Mira; Snuppy at Seoul National University, James Symington, winner of the "Golden Clone Giveaway," with five clones of his former police dog, TrakR, in Los Angeles; Mira at the dog park; by John Woestendiek)
Posted by John Woestendiek April 16th, 2014 under Muttsblog.
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UK's first canine clone is born in Seoul
With more than 500 canine clones now roaming the world, you wouldn't think the fact that one has been produced for a pet owner in the UK would make such a big splash.
But it has, and a big splash is just what the cloners had in mind.
To introduce its unique service to Britain, Sooam Biotech, the South Korean laboratory that's now the only company cloning dogs, borrowed from an earlier chapter in dog cloning's bizarre history. It held a public contest, awarding a free cloning as the grand prize.
The winner: Rebecca Smith, 29, of London, who learned in late March that a clone of her 12-year-old dachshund Winnie had been born in a Seoul laboratory, BBC reported.
She named the dog Mini Winnie.
The competition saw dog owners submit videos of their dogs and compete for the chance to "immortalize" their pet for free. The bill for dog cloning normally runs around $100,000.
"Sooam Biotech is looking for one person with the most special and inspiring reason for cloning his/her beloved dog," the company said in announcing the contest.
The contest was similar to one held in the U.S. when dog cloning first hit the market. It was called the "Golden Clone Giveaway," and the winner was TrakR, a search and rescue dog whose owner said the German shepherd found the last survivor in the rubble of 9/11.
The weird and wacky story of how dog cloning was achieved, how it was marketed, and the first customers to sign up for it can be found in my book, "DOG, INC.: The Uncanny Inside Story of Cloning Man's Best Friend."
The UK's first canine clone — who won't arrive in the country until after a 6-month quarantine period — was cloned at Sooam Biotech, a laboratory run by Hwang Woo Suk, who was a member of the Seoul National University team that produced the world's first canine clone, Snuppy, in 2005.
That research began after an earlier effort to clone a dog in the U.S., at Texas A&M University, was unsuccessful.
The Texas A&M research was funded by John Sperling, founder of the University of Phoenix. After cloning a cat, and assorted farm animals, the Texas A&M efforts to clone a dog were called off, but Sperling's front man, who had established a company to store the cells of dead and dying dogs (Genetic Savings & Clone), even before dog cloning was achieved, later teamed up Hwang and Sooam to offer an online auction, with the highest bidders receiving clones of their dogs.
Hwang founded his lab after getting fired from Seoul National University when his claim to have produced the world's first cloned human embryos was deemed fraudulent. He was later convicted of embezzling research funds and illegally buying human eggs, but his 18-month sentence was suspended.
Hwang has more recently has embarked on trying to clone a woolly mammoth from 10,00-year-old remains found frozen in Siberia.
Meanwhile, he's churning out laboratory-created dogs, more than 500 of which have been born to surrogate mother dogs at his lab and kennel.
To create Mini Winnie, a piece of skin was taken from Winnie and transported to Seoul. Cells from the sample were placed inside an anonymous donor dog's egg cell and, with a jolt of electricity, they merged.
Then the embryo was implanted inside a surrogate dog that gave birth, via Caesarean, to Winnie on March 30.
"The world would be a better place with more Winnies in it," Smith, 29, says in a Channel 4 documentary, "The £60,000 Puppy: Cloning Man's Best Friend."
Smith received the original Winnie as a present on her 18th birthday, and she says the dog helped her overcome "lots of demons," including an eating disorder. Smith says Mini Winnie looks identical to the original, who is old and arthritic, but still alive.
Hundreds of pet owners have had dogs cloned since the first customer, a California woman who received five copies of her dead pit bull, Booger.
Critics of the process say cloning doesn't result in the resurrection of an animal, but a laboratory-made twin, whose creation requires the involvement of numerous other dogs, and who might not act like the original at all.
Initially, two South Korean companies were cloning dogs for pet owners (and even more for research purposes), but one of the, RNL Bio, has pulled out of the dog-cloning business.
While the cloning process has grown more efficient, some animal welfare groups say risks are still high.
Dr Katy Taylor, Head of Science at The British Union for the Abolition of Vivisection, said: "Cloning is a very unpredictable and extremely wasteful process … In order to produce just one 'perfect' clone, many puppies with the same genes as a loved animal will be born … Some of these puppies will be aborted or will die soon after birth from unpredictable health complications and severe birth defects."
Defective pups, and the South Korean laboratory's failure to follow animal welfare protocols, were among the reasons cited by the American company that teamed up with Hwang for pulling out of its dog cloning arrangement.
The documentary, while it mostly follows the judges as they visit with contestants and their dogs, does go some interesting places, including Edinburg, for an interview with Sir Ian Wilmut, cloner of Dolly the sheep. Wilmut doesn't endorse pet cloning, and says he remains skeptical of it, saying it will lead to lots of disappointed customers who, despite their hopes, won't get an animal with the same personality as the original.
There's also an interview with a pet owner, not a contestant, who views dog cloning as a Hitleresque pursuit, and there are several allusions to the fact that some Koreans eat dog meat.
"The £60,000 Puppy: Cloning Man's Best Friend" was made by the same independent production company that produced "I Cloned My Pet," several episodes of which appeared on TLC.
"The £60,000 Puppy" is an improvement over those productions, which brushed aside most ethical questions and animal welfare concerns about pet cloning. While the new documentary doesn't delve too deeply into them either, it does present something more than a one-sided view.
Like the earlier documentaries, it reinforces that most customers of dog cloning are, shall we say, eccentric sorts, and that their attachment to their dogs — as with all of us — is a powerful one.
Perhaps the most telling moment, though, comes as the judges debate — American Idol style — the public relations benefits of each contestant.
After that, the winner is … after a long, long pause … announced.
Cloning, it seems, is no longer some futuristic pipedream. It has become a reality, and apparently an entertainment form.
My view? Cloning is no game show, or at least it shouldn't be.
(Photos: Top, Mini Winnie / Channel 4; middle, Hwang in his lab / John Woestendiek; bottom; Smith and the original Winnie / Channel 4)
Posted by John Woestendiek April 11th, 2014 under Muttsblog.
Tags: animals, biotech, book, canine, cells, clone, cloned, clones, cloning, contest, customers, dog cloning, dog cloning book, dog inc., dogs, free cloning, great britain, hwang woo suk, laboratory, marketing, pets, science, seoul, seoul national university, snuppy, sooam, technology, uk
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