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Big Sound Scotch Ale - Cigar City Brewing
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3.5/5 rDev -14.4%
12-20-2011 04:57:16 | More by StayWhatYouAre2
3.5/5 rDev -14.4%
01-26-2012 20:56:37 | More by KAF
3.5/5 rDev -14.4%
03-28-2014 21:50:32 | More by mogburn1317
New Jersey
3.53/5 rDev -13.7%
A: Pours a hazy, chocolatey brown color with no head formation. A very dull looking brew.
S: Very little aroma, but what is there is nice: dark berries, chocolate, and caramel.
T: I'm starting to see a common trend with CCB's malty brews; they're all too sweet. Big sound boasts notes of black raspberries, coconut, and toffee, with dark chocolate on the finish. The flavors here are great, but they are too rich when combined with this brew's low attenuation.
M: Very full body, little carbonation, and nice chewy texture.
O: A decent brew marred by excessive sweetness. I'm starting to not trust CCB's malty beers, because they all contain the same mistake. If sweet brews are your thing, more power to you. I just can't give high marks to a brew like this.
06-26-2011 20:43:13 | More by Avagadro
3.53/5 rDev -13.7%
Poured from a 750 into a snifter glass.
A- dark color. Darker the expected, almost porter like. 2 finger golden head quickly dissapeared and left no lacing.
S- very sweet. Hints of coffee, Carmel, and cherry. You can also smell the alcohol.
T- sweet and roasty. Hints of cherry, coffee, and malts. You can definitely taste the alcohol. A little bit of bitterness at the end of each sip.
M- light carbonation. Very smooth. A little syrupy.
O- too sweet to me. An ok beer but Not sure I would drink again.
07-24-2011 22:59:03 | More by jcreegan
3.55/5 rDev -13.2%
750ml bottle poured into a Cigar City Snifter.
A - Pours a dark cola brown with ruby highlights and a big creamy head of khaki that has great retention and leaves spotty lacing as it recedes.
S - Nice aromas of caramel, chocolate, dark berries, and coffee with just a faint touch of smoke.
T - Follows the nose nicely with flavors of chocolate, caramel, and coffee with a bit of dark cherry, orange peel, and smoke. Bit of a metallic twang to this, I'm thinking the bottle may be past it's prime, but it's still a decent beer.
M - Smooth and creamy, slightly sticky, with a medium-full mouth-feel and moderately prickly carbonation.
O - Solid example of the style, the high ABV is masterfully hidden.
07-19-2011 03:30:46 | More by jsanford
New Jersey
3.58/5 rDev -12.5%
A: Pours a dark muddy brown with a massive (and I do mean massive) coffee-brown head. The head persists, leaving all kinds of lacing.
S: Figs, cherries, brown sugar, toffee, with a deeply-roasted, almost charred, chocolate/coffee note.
T: Creamy chocolate and whipped prune together. Sweet from start to finish. Only in the long aftertaste does this gain some hop bitterness. Very nice, but lacks somewhat in complexity.
M: Rich and smooth with creamy carbonation. The alcohol is extremely well integrated.
O: I know this is down from my earlier firkin review of this same beer, but I've had Traquair House Ale in the meantime, and it's changed how I view the style. With increased ABV comes required complexity.
01-26-2012 00:40:50 | More by speter
3.58/5 rDev -12.5%
A solid pour into my 25cl tulip glass produces a three finger thick, nicely amber tinged, full amber color. The beer is a dark amber color that has a concentrated redness to it. When held up to the light the beer shows a nicely concentrated, red, ruby color. The beer has an interesting note to it up front, it is quite sweet with an almost cinnamon like character to it sweetness; almost reminds me of a deeply caramelized, cinnamon sweetened red-hot. There is a touch of toasted grain underneath the sweet aroma. Perhaps this is a bit too cold (though it is at 50ºF / 10ºC), a quick stint in the microwave has me noticing a bit more caramel character rather than straight sweetness, some berry like fruit character as well as more toasted malt character. Actually the sticky sweetness has now all but disappeared. The aroma started out a bit on the simplistic side, but it does get a bit better if you really let it warm up, though it still doesn't quite have the complexity that I was hoping for.
This is sweet tasting with a thick, chewy body that easily tames the sweetness, which definitely is not cloying. The beer finishes with a touch of warming alcohol as well as a chewy, whole grain toastiness, and a deeply caramelized malt character. A bit of caramelized, marshmallow character is in the middle and the finish has a hint of roast grain that adds just a hint of bite to balance a smidge of the sweetness. This does have some salty smokiness to it as well, which is quite subtle and I would guess is not from any actual peat smoked malt. This has a touch of fruitiness to it with mostly a raisin-like note that likely is contributed by the malt character. While the sweetness is not too much in this warmed up beer, it does still have a candy like note to it with all of the caramelized specialty malt character floating around in this beer.
In hopes of cutting the sweetness I have taken to eating an overly sweetened brownie, this does tame the beers sweetness, but actually brings a touch of tartness out in the beer. It does accentuate a touch more of the light roast character, a slight bit more smokiness, as well as bringing out more of the toasted malt character.
Not a bad beer, I must admit that I got a bit too caught up in excitement around this brewery, my expectations of grandeur where probably a bit too much, but I was expecting a lot more from this beer. It doesn't quite have the complexity and balance that I really want to see in a great example of the style. Really my biggest complaint here is that the beer has a bit too much sweetness; it does need some sweetness, but if it was a touch drier it would really allow a lot more complex malt character to come through. A touch more age might round this out a bit though; six months to a year might see this beer peaking.
06-20-2009 15:24:45 | More by Gueuzedude
3.64/5 rDev -11%
Appearance- Pours a very dark brown with a small tan head that recedes quickly and leaves no lacing.
Smell- First smell is raisins along with some background notes of toffee and burnt caramel. The raisin/prune smell is very dominant.
Taste- Similar to the smell I get a strong prune taste. I get some dark chocolate and a little burnt caramel on the back end. Almost no bitterness, fairly sweet and tart.
Mouthfeel- Body is medium, good carbonation for the style. Leaves a slick feeling after swallowing.
Overall- Not a bad beer, but the strong prune taste and smell made me not enjoy it as much. A very different take on a scotch ale.
02-10-2014 02:59:49 | More by IPAdams
3.65/5 rDev -10.8%
Consumed 2.3 oz of this brew for reviewing purposes. Heated in an oven for five minutes at 400 degrees, then I dropped it into a vat of liquid helium. BRRR!! When it got back to room temperature, I was ready to try it.
Pours a dark, deep brown with a bubbling, long lasting tan head. Quite a bit of foam on these cigar city brews.
Smells like a bit of roasted malt, sweet caramel, and maybe ... some nuttiness? Earthiness? Not sure.
Taste is mostly sweet, with a strange astringent coffee bittering agent that lingers on the aftertaste, mostly rich roasted grainy caramel malt, and that nuttiness from the aroma becomes more prevalent. Maybe a hint of vanilla ... can't be sure. There's also a strange kind of butteriness to it. Somewhat unusual wee heavy that almost reminds me more of an uber-malted brown ale.
Made it through the big bottle, but not that drinkable, all things considered.
08-01-2009 10:48:11 | More by Overlord
New Hampshire
3.68/5 rDev -10%
Cheers to Bilco for sharing this beer
Review adapted from notes taken 3/31/12
Appearance: Reddish brown, beige head, spotty lacing, retains a nice ring
Smell: Caramel, sugar, a lot of sweetness - toasted bread, bread crust, toasted malts - a hint of fruit, and some booze
Taste: Not a typical Scotch ale, sweet - very caramelized, sweet and malty - toasted malts, bread, dough, molasses, toffee, hints of chocolate and dark fruits
Mouthfeel: Medium to heavy body, smooth, nicely carbonated
Overall: Good stuff
This was an interesting Scotch ale. Bigger and sweeter than the average, with some interesting flavors. This is worth a try, but it's not mind-blowing.
04-26-2012 05:43:44 | More by angrybabboon
New Jersey
3.68/5 rDev -10%
Pours a hazy brown with some red highlights, nice sticky khaki lacing. Scent is of brown sugar, toffee, cherry, nuts, earth and booze. Taste is very sweet and boozy, almost cloying. Working past the harshness, tastes of toffee, earth and some dark fruit. Full bodied, creamy due to the cask pour. A nice ale that is a touch too harsh in the sweetness and boozyness.
06-05-2010 23:15:47 | More by rfgetz
3.7/5 rDev -9.5%
A: Moderate brown hued with red undertones.
S: Pretty underwhelming. A little peat, a little malt, very mild hops.
T: One of the better tasting scotch ales I have had. I will admit, though, that I am very hot and cold with this style. I have to be in the mood for one. It's not one that I necessarily crave or seek out. I'm getting: peat, mild smoke, caramel, some chocolate, toffee, and maybe a little black cherry.
M: Decent. Body is fairly satisfying and abv pretty well hidden. Just nothing about it that really wows me or turns me off one way or the other.
Overall, decent brew. Glad I got to try it. Would like to try the BA version. I bet I would enjoy it more.
01-31-2013 00:12:14 | More by bcostner1
New York
3.73/5 rDev -8.8%
Out of a 750ml capped bottle. Pours a very dark brown color with a huge frothy tan head that slowly dissipated leaving nice chunks of lacing. The aroma is malty & musty, good wet bark scents with hints of copper, caramel and brown sugar. The taste is quite sweet, big brown sugar and honey sweetness. This is somewhat offset by an earthy woody flavor. Throughout the profile there is pockets of dark fruit flavors, raisins and fig. The brew has a chewy feel with fizzy carbonation, any of the earthy characteristics are drown out by the almost cloying sweetness; finishes a sticky and syrupy. An over-reaching scotch ale. It seems to go too big on sweetness when it doesn't need it. The brew has good earthy characteristics but these are crushed by the over the top sweetness.
04-24-2010 04:18:59 | More by Gmann
3.73/5 rDev -8.8%
From the 750ml capped bottle. Poured into a snifter. As others have noted, this is a really dark Scotch ale. Some red highlights if held to a lamp. Persistent thick head.
Excellent aroma. I get ripe sweet cherries, cedar, lavender, sweet tea.
Wow, this is tasty, but it's awfully sweet and thick. I can tell it's going to be a chore to finish the bottle. In the future, I won't open one of these unless I have several people to share with. I get a lot of the sweet cherries drenched in maple syrup. Tastes cinnamon bun-like. It's really sweet. Good, but I think the sweetness detracts from the complexity that would otherwise develop. I can definitely see why people rate this highly; it just runs a little contra to my personal preferences.
It's the epitome of a beer you share out big time. I'd have a hard time even finishing a 12 oz bottle.
04-18-2010 16:50:41 | More by Patrick999
3.75/5 rDev -8.3%
06-20-2013 23:57:43 | More by Zonian1
3.75/5 rDev -8.3%
09-08-2013 16:46:07 | More by Photekut
3.75/5 rDev -8.3%
01-05-2014 05:14:30 | More by ChrisCBeets
3.75/5 rDev -8.3%
02-12-2014 23:08:03 | More by Kegatron
3.75/5 rDev -8.3%
08-10-2013 21:39:46 | More by bum732
New York
3.75/5 rDev -8.3%
03-30-2014 21:48:38 | More by pjkelley82
3.75/5 rDev -8.3%
12-30-2013 13:46:13 | More by BuckTuckian
3.75/5 rDev -8.3%
07-30-2013 18:22:09 | More by jivex5k
3.75/5 rDev -8.3%
04-08-2013 02:05:50 | More by hopkrid
3.75/5 rDev -8.3%
07-05-2013 01:44:11 | More by pathman
Big Sound Scotch Ale from Cigar City Brewing
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This article is a couple years old, back before we really latched on to the topic of oversigning and started keeping up with it, but it speaks to the very heart and soul of this website. Written by a very well-known blogger, Matt Hinton, who used to run the blog Sunday Morning Quarterback, the article is laser focused on Nick Saban's recruiting practices and abuse of the oversigning loophole. Matt now writes for Rivals and can be found here.
We are linking this for a couple of reasons: A.) because Matt put together version 1.0 of the Saban Cup and probably didn't even realize it at the time (see below), B.) to show that we are not the only ones aware of this or who have blogged about it - there are others out there who have figured it out as well and are against it, and C.) because Matt cites a suggestion made by Brian Cook, another well-known blogger who runs MGoBlog and writes for the Sporting Blog, regarding what the NCAA should do to address the oversigning issue.
"Brian's laid out a sensible policy proposal on this front: players don't have the option to break their obligation to schools; make the obligation a two-way street. When a kid signs a letter of intent, the school should be bound to show where his scholarship is coming from under the limit. If it can't, at least within two or three positions, no letter. If they anticipate a veteran also-ran or likely medical liability on the team will be willing to give up his slot, make him sign a waiver saying so before that scholarship goes up for grabs.
Coaches can hide answers from reporters, but they have to be accountable to their own players, no matter who recruited them."
Brian's solution is a little more lenient than our solution, whereas we we suggested that coaches be required to report their recruiting budget by a certain date (prior to signing day) and that becomes the number of letters of intent they can sign (maybe you throw in a petition policy where a coach could be granted x number of extra letters - maybe something like 1 per year - but it has to be absolutely clear that the extra guy signed was signed to cover the loss of another guy in the same recruiting class that didn't make it academically - a coach would not be able to get an extra letter if it meant having to take a scholarship from one of the players he claimed when he announced his budget number).
Therefore, if Saban reports 66 players on scholarship by the deadline date then he gets 19 letters of intent to work with. Gone are the days of signing and placing, gone are the days of oversigning and culling the rosters, and gone are the days of subsidizing academic and athletic attrition. And don't tell us it can't be done because programs all over the country are already doing it, just look at the bottom half of our big board. Furthermore, if you want to play the "academically impoverished" card we don't want to hear that either.
Regardless of the solution, the problem is clear, oversigning is an issue that is yet to be completely dealt with and it needs to be addressed.

subset: commoncrawl


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Adherents to the old basketball saying, "offense wins games, but defense wins championships," must have been pretty excited about Texas basketball on the morning of Saturday, February 19. Texas had just completed locking down Oklahoma State, and had been playing soul-crushing defense on the rest of the Big 12 for the previous month. But later that day, the team suffered a loss at the hands of the Nebraska Cornhuskers. Losing a road game in February wasn't particularly surprising; the surprise was the way in which it happened. The Texas defense, not the often criticized offense, was responsible.
The importance of defense for the 2010-2011 Texas Longhorns.
Before I dig into discussing my take on what happened to the defense, I want to take a step back and emphasize just how important defense was to winning and losing for the 2010-2011 Texas Longhorns. So much of the talk around this team has been about offensive inconsistency, which misses the real story of the season. Prior to the Nebraska game, Texas had played consistently great defense, with a few occasional blips that usually led to losses. After the Nebraska game, Texas played poor defense in most of the remaining games.
On the season, when Texas played good defense, they won the game. When they played poor defense, they lost. Using the kenpom.com site, you can rank each Texas game by defensive efficiency. Of their 12 worst defensive showings, 8 were losses. Texas did not lose a single game when they played good defense. Contrast this with the list that ranks Texas games by offensive performance. There isn't nearly the same relationship between offensive performance and wins and losses for this team.
So if we want to understand the Texas season, we need to figure out what happened to the Texas defense. There are a variety of ways to measure defensive performance. Different measures incorporate different aspects of that performance. One that I find to be particularly informative is to look at the shooting efficiency of the opponent. As a shooting efficiency number, I like to use:
efficiency = points/(FGA+0.44xFTA)
This formula tells how many points a team or player scores for each attempted field goal or trip to the line. It is directly related to the so-called "true shooting percentage." (Note: I think that the 0.44 multiplier was determined by studying NBA games, and not NCAA games. There might be a better multiplier for the NCAA, but I don't know what it is, and I doubt it would be much different. If anyone could point me to this information, that would be appreciated.)
To help put this efficiency number into context, it is useful to calculate it for a number of the Texas players. Jordan Hamilton gets 1.11 points for every shot or trip to the line. Tristan Thompson gets 1.10. Generally 1.10 is quite good for an offense, and bad for the defense. Jai Lucas had 0.88 points for every shot or trip to the line this year, which is not so good.
We can evaluate the Texas defense with this statistic. It just shows us how efficient each shot or trip to the line was for the opposing teams. From the start of conference play on, we have:
|Oak St.
|Oak St.
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Prior to the Nebraska game, Texas made many of its opponents the shooting equivalent of Jai Lucas. But in the losses to Nebraska, Colorado, Kansas State, Kansas, and Arizona, Texas' opponents were at least as efficient as Jordan Hamilton and Tristan Thompson. Even in most of the wins after February 19, opponents were still somewhat efficient. Baylor, OU, and A&M were much closer to Gary Johnson levels of efficiency (G.J. was at 1.04 on the season). In the games that Texas won, they held their opponents at or below the Gary Johnson efficiency level. In the games that Texas lost, their opponents shooting efficiency was as good or better than Jordan Hamilton's shooting efficiency.
What accounted for the changes in defensive performance as the season progressed?
I think we first need to understand what factors existed that made the Texas defense so good in the first place. For my purposes, I am just going to look at the Texas stats from the start of conference play through the NCAA tournament. I am doing this because I think it captures both the best and worst of the Texas season, as well as preventing games against teams like North Florida and the Naval Academy from skewing the numbers.
The Texas defense was exceptional at keeping opponent shooting percentages down. From the conference season on, opponents averaged just 29% from three point range, and just 45% from two point range. In addition, Texas didn't foul very much. Texas' opponents beginning with the start of conference play averaged 0.31 free throw attempts for every field goal attempt. Throw in the nice work Texas did all year on the defensive glass and you have a recipe for major success on defense.
We can dig a bit more into the numbers, using some of the handy data you can pull out of sportsline.com. They provide a breakdown of every shot taken in every game. They subdivide these shots into various categories, such as "layups" (really just shots taken near the basket), dunks, jump shots, 2 point shots, 3 point shots, etc. If we compile all of these data, we can find interesting things. For example, from the conference season on, Texas' opponents shot 29% from three point range, 33% on jump shots from two point range, and 31% on all jump shots. If we combine layups and dunks into a single category that I will call "shots near the rim," we find that Texas' opponents shot 56% on shots near the rim over this same time frame, and that 38% of all opponents' charted shot attempts were taken near the rim.
With these data, it is possible to study how opponents success rates with different types of shots changed from game to game. I have done this, and I think that the biggest factor, by far, was the opponents FG% on jump shots. There is a very strong relationship between opponent shooting efficiency and that opponent's FG% on jump shots. See the figure by following the link below.
Link to a plot of points/(FGA+0.44xFTA) as a function of FG% on jump shots.
The major factor in the Texas defensive collapse seems to be Texas' ability to defend jump shots. The Nebraska game seems to be the exception to this, as Nebraska only shot 35% on jump shots (Nebraska hurt Texas in other ways). But Colorado, Kansas State, and Kansas all averaged around 50% on jump shots. Arizona only hit 37% on their jump shots, but this number is a bit deceiving. Strangely, Arizona only managed 15% on 2 point jump shots, but hit 57% of their three point shots.
There are also a few other secondary factors that seem important. In the Texas losses Nebraska, Kansas, and Arizona were fairly effective at getting shots near the rim. Roughly 50% of all charted shots were near the rim in these three games. Texas also managed to put Nebraska and Colorado on the free throw line a fair amount.
Why did Texas stop effectively defending jump shots?
These statistics do a good job of telling us what happened, but they don't do much to explain why. I would be curious to know what people think.


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NASHVILLE, Tenn. (BP) -- Canada's leading doctors association has approved a resolution that says an unborn child does not become a human being until it is fully born.
Delegates to the annual General Council meeting of the Canadian Medical Association (CMA) voted Aug. 15 to endorse wording in Canada's Criminal Code that says a baby "becomes a human being within the meaning of this Act when it has completely proceeded, in a living state, from the body of its mother...."
The resolution was intended to stop a "backdoor" effort in the Canadian Parliament to renew a debate about abortion by revising the code, said the delegate who proposed it, the CMA reported.
Canadian Physicians for Life decried the resolution, declaring "every Canadian doctor knows that the unborn child is a live human being," according to LifeSiteNews.com.
The CMA General Council meeting was held in Yellowknife, Northwest Territories.
ACADEMIC WITCH HUNT AIMED AT SOCIOLOGIST -- An important component of pro-homosexual propaganda is the notion that children raised by homosexuals turn out as well as children raised by heterosexuals -- but University of Texas at Austin (UT) professor Mark Regnerus undercut that notion with a study published in June in the journal Social Science Research.
Regnerus used one of the largest data sets ever amassed for such a study. He found that children raised by homosexual parents have had more problems than children raised by married heterosexual parents in virtually every one of more than 40 categories examined. When the children grow up, they have problems with impulse control, depression and thoughts of suicide. They are more likely to need mental health therapy and identify as homosexual themselves.
Regnerus concluded, "The empirical claim that no notable differences exist must go."
The study received nationwide media attention and an immediate backlash from pro-homosexual quarters. Activist blogger Scott Rose complained in a June 21 letter to UT President Bill Powers that Regnerus' study made "gay people look bad, through means plainly fraudulent and defamatory." He also said the Witherspoon Institute and the Bradley Foundation, which provided $750,000 to fund the study, are "anti-gay political organization[s]."
But Regnerus has defenders in the academic community. Byron Johnson, co-director of Baylor's Institute for Studies of Religion, decried the "witch hunt" and said, "Typically, when [academics] disagree with research, we do our own." Notre Dame sociologist Christian Smith argued in The Chronicle of Higher Education, "Whoever said inquisitions and witch hunts were things of the past? A big one is going on now.... In today's political climate, and particularly in the discipline of sociology -- dominated as it is by a progressive orthodoxy -- what Regnerus did is unacceptable. It makes him a heretic, a traitor -- and so he must be thrown under the bus."
Regnerus has a bus ticket -- tenure -- so he cannot readily be thrown under. Bob Woodberry, an untenured Christian professor also in the UT sociology department, did not have that protection, and in July he moved to Singapore for employment.
HIGH STUDENT LOAN DEBT COMMON AMONG SEMINARIANS -- Rising educational costs are becoming a critical problem for an increasing number of seminarians, the Association of Religion Data Archives has reported.
It's not unusual for seminarians to graduate with up to $80,000 in debt, the ARDA reported, based on data from several studies representing a diversity of denominational service. Concurrently, the average starting salary for full-time clergy was $44,140 last year, the U.S. Labor Department estimated.
The debt is affecting graduates' ability to serve and their readiness to start families, research revealed, and seminaries are employing more caution when accepting applicants who already are financially heavy laden.
The ARDA cited studies from the Center for the Study of Theological Education at Auburn Theological Seminary in New York, the Center for Applied Research in the Apostolate at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C., and the Evangelical Lutheran Church, but noted no research about Southern Baptists specifically.
Southern Baptist seminarians generally carry less debt than their counterparts in other denominations because the cost is offset by the Cooperative Program.
In tracking three studies conducted in the past 20 years, Auburn researchers noted the disturbing trend. While the average level of debt for borrowers was $14,450 in 1991, that figure was $25,000 just 10 years later, researchers said. Figures from the latest study were still being tabulated, but researchers said numbers already indicate an "alarming" rise in debt levels, the ARDA reported.
The Georgetown study noted that some Catholics are graduating with so much financial debt that they're "too poor to take the vow of poverty."
Researchers cited a two-sided problem "reflecting both the debt acquired to become a minister and the ability to pay it back after graduation," the ARDA reported. Seminaries are addressing the problem by educating students on the perils of student debt, while trying to cut educational costs.
DESIGNER BABIES 'MORAL OBLIGATION,' ETHICIST SAYS -- A leading bioethicist has promoted the creation of designer babies as a "moral obligation" in a popular mainstream magazine, the British edition of Reader's Digest.
Writing for the magazine's September issue, Julian Savulescu said parents should be able to weed out embryos who test positive for personality traits that could prove harmful to "themselves and others."
"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," Savulescu wrote, according to an Aug. 16 report in The Telegraph.
Savulescu is an ethics professor at Oxford University and editor in chief of the Journal of Medical Ethics.
Pro-life bioethics specialist Wesley Smith said Savulescu's recommended path has been traveled before.
"Eugenics originated as a 'moral obligation,' moved from there to legal coercion, and ultimately crescendoed into the worst evils of human history," Smith wrote on his blog. "And now many of those same ideas have regained sufficient respectability the Reader's Digest editors think them worthy of respectable presentation. This won't end well."
According to The Telegraph, Savulescu also said, "If we have the power to intervene in the nature of our offspring -- rather than consigning them to the natural lottery -- then we should."
Genetic screening already is performed in some cases, Savulescu pointed out.
"We're routinely screening embryos and [fetuses] for conditions such as cystic fibrosis and [Down] syndrome, and there's little public outcry," he said.
"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 [closer] to creating designer humans.
"Whether we like it or not, the future of humanity is in our hands now," Savulescu wrote. "Rather than fearing genetics, we should embrace it. We can do better than chance."
KNOXVILLE ABORTION CLINIC CLOSES AFTER 38 YEARS -- A Knoxville, Tenn., abortion clinic closed Aug. 10 because it did not have a doctor with admitting privileges at a local hospital.
The Volunteer Women's Medical Clinic was forced to shut down after a state law requiring abortion doctors to have admitting privileges took effect July 1. The clinic was no longer able to provide abortions without an approved physician. The facility could no longer meet its financial obligations because of an inability to see patients, said the center's owner, Deb Walsh, in a message to supporters.
"I'm so angry about this, also sad ...," said Walsh, who had worked at the clinic for more than 30 years. The center had been open for 38 years, she said.
Pro-life advocates welcomed the closure, reducing to eight the number of abortion clinics in Tennessee. "Protective pro-life legislation saves lives," said Brian Harris, president of Tennessee Right to Life.
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Miami County detectives are investigating the theft of more than a semi trailer of soybeans worth more than $16,000 from a grain bin in the northern part of the county.
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Jess Myring, a genetic counsellor who works with parents to figure out if their children will have genetic diseases, went to the session with her two children, Grace, three, and Theo, 18 months.
Mrs Myring said: "We quite often go to the drop-in sessions because it's a really nice way for the kids to do something in the museum and get involved.
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Over the years I have mentioned on several occasions that I am no devotee to the superhero genre. Sure, I can appreciate how vast the field is and that it has millions of fans. The truth is though, for the most part I can take them or leave them. My one major exception is the Hulk. It started when I was a kid and I loved the TV show starring Bill Bixby and Lou Ferrigno – AWESOME!
Even though the Hulk is my guy as it were, I do have a bit of a soft spot for another couple of characters from the superhero-verse. One such character also hails from the pages of Marvel comics, the Fantastic Four to be specific. The one I have in mind is similar in many ways to my green friend in that he is super strong, smart, and tends to leave a trail of destruction and broken stuff in his wake. I am of course referring to the Thing, or Ben Grimm as he was originally known.
The appeal? Simple, he is bright orange, looks hugely muscular, and the best part is that he looks like he is made from solid rock. How could you not love him? Being part of the FF, a franchise that has not been all that popular outside of comics, has meant that over the years there has not been a ton of Thing merchandise released.
Recently I was away on a trip to Los Angeles with Ms. ToyNerd. We stayed with a friend and as I had never been to the City of Angels before, I was asked what I wanted to do while there. Without hesitation I had a response: I wanted to hit up some of the local bodegas. Not very sexy I know, but with a majority population of Mexican-Americans, I figured there were bound to be some sources for cool bootleg toys. Once you cross the border and head south, bootleg toys can be found in practically every market. I figured my chances might be pretty good in LA… I was correct.
The first piece I snagged was this one. Standing an impressive 15″ tall, here we have what looks more like a movie version of the Thing. What is most impressive is that this item made it back on the plane in one piece.
This is actually a coin bank and you can see the slot on his back conveniently located between his shoulder blades. The piece has been crudely painted and this is typical for bootlegs of this type. Most surprising is that the whole thing was made from plaster and is quite fragile. Once filled with cash the only way to get it back is to smash the bank. I'm pretty sure that I don't plan on doing that any time soon.
Next up is a five pack of 5″ action figures, and these could not be more bootleg if they tried. Mixing Marvel, Disney, and DC licenses all in one set would be almost impossible to make happen in the real world. Miraculously it has here though.
Batman comes packaged with the Hulk and Mr. Incredible…
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Coincidentally while we were away Ms. ToyNerd reminded me that she was holding another Thing item in her pocket book for me. I had forgotten all about it.
It is a zipper pull that was released by the design house Tokidoki. The whole line is really cool and all I know is that they sold like bonkers in my shop. At just 1″ tall they are small enough to fit in to any collection and costing just a few bucks, why not?
Last up is a piece I received from one of my business partners a while back. It is a ceramic mug of the Thing's head. I love this piece and it has sat in my office since I got it. Made by Sherwood and released in 2005, I think it is a must have for any Fantastic Four fan.
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LANSING, Mich., May 22, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- As Michigan motorists prepare to hit the road this Memorial Day weekend with the unofficial start to summer, the state's top utilities and others who work alongside those roads are reminding drivers to slow down in utility work zones.
A coalition of more than a dozen Michigan utilities, telecommunications providers, waste haulers and the unions that support them, along with Gov. Rick Snyder, the Michigan Legislature, Michigan Department of Transportation and Michigan Public Service Commission joined to promote Michigan Roadside Safety Awareness and the need to Slow Down and Go Around at an event held near the Capitol steps in downtown Lansing today.
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As Creel and others looked on, Michigan Department of Transportation Director Rick Steudle, acting on behalf of Gov. Rick Snyder, presented a proclamation declaring May 22, 2014 as Michigan Roadside Safety Awareness Day.
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"Working in and around roadways is often required by employees who provide electric, gas and telecommunications services, waste hauling, as well as those in the construction trade, and there's no doubt this work presents a daily danger," Dan Malone, Consumers Energy's senior vice president of distribution, operations, engineering and transmission, told the assembled group.
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In 2013 there were 4,080 construction zone and utility related crashes in Michigan, 10 of which were fatalities and another 107 serious injuries. Public Acts 103, 315 and 464 are all related to driving safely in roadway work zones, and provide for penalties for those who don't respect the zones, with severe penalties for those who injure or kill workers in these designated areas.
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Additional evidence found in the Leik home that went against him in the Beineman murder included fresh scuff marks in the kitchen, a bloodstain on a uniform hanging in the basement that matched the victim's type, and dust recently knocked off the pipes as if someone had been suspended there. Cord marks on the victim's wrists matched an electrical cord found in the Leik basement.
Collins had been talking to friends about the missing girl and when one woman told him that the wig shop owner could identify the man who had picked her up, Collins was shaken (as she reported to police later). He asked repeatedly if that was true. Then she recalled him saying that the girls were stupid and careless, and had deserved it. In the same conversation, he had said something to the effect that the bodies had to be placed in such a way as to be discovered so that the person who did it got credit for killing them. Later, Davis claimed that Collins pressured him to provide him with an alibi about riding bikes together that day. He also sent him to get a new license plate for the bike he had ridden that day, claiming he had lost the plate. After Collins was questioned by police, David saw him remove a Bold box from his car that appeared to contain items of women's clothing. A Bold box was missing from the Leik house, and a neighbor said that she saw Collins drive away with it on his motorcycle. Collins was later picked out in a line-up by several girls who claimed he had tried to pick them up that day. Seven of them testified in court.
A neighbor claimed that she had heard screams from the Leik home on the night the girl had disappeared, but this was not used in court. It is in the police file.
If Collins had taken the stand, James says, the State was going to use a witness who claimed that he had beaten her into submission with his forearm and then had raped her. Later he had apologized, she claimed, saying that he couldn't help it.
Another girl was ready to testify that Collins had told her that he knew how to commit the perfect crime. He had said he no longer believed in the Ten Commandments, especially the fifth one, "Thou Shalt Not Kill." He also had written a paper in which he claimed that if a person was smart enough to get away with it, he could do anything he pleased. Society's rules were meaningless.
From Catching Serial Killers: Learning from Past Serial Killer Investigations, by Earl James. Lansing, MI: International Forensic Services, 1991.


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i'm adding a picture that might make things clear. the green arrows are E exerted by a single charge at (0,0,0). so, from symmetry, you argue that E in that axis cancels each other, but can't you say as well, that if you were to add them up (0,y,0)+(0,-y,0) you'd get the same answer? -note that i refer to E outside the box, as i understand that inside (from gauss law) the field is zero in any case
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After the most disappointing season the Red Sox have seen in decades, the regulars of OTM decide to go drown their sorrows together. Really, they thought it was a good idea at the time.
Gizmosandy and Bloggy are the first to arrive, Sandy orders himself a nonalcoholic beverage, then, when he thinks nobody is looking, takes an egg from his pocket and mixes it into the drink. When he catches Bloggy staring at his drink in disgust, Sandy explains that the Red Sox have upset his stomach, and the rotten egg is supposed to help, he continues into a discussion about how the egg helps purge the system, but at this point Bloggy has his hands over his ears and is singing "Oh, Canada" to himself so he doesn't have to hear.
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Lung Transplant| They were a mere 13 steps up an ordinary staircase. But they symbolized, ironically, how steeply a man's life can decline because of illness.
Less than a month ago, it took Mark Tomes five minutes to ascend those steps in his home. He suffered from severe emphysema, the result of a nearly four-decade, two-pack-a-day smoking habit. He routinely required six liters of oxygen to breathe. Physical exertion that most of us think nothing about – like climbing a short flight of stairs, washing pots and pans or even taking a shower – forced him to increase the flow to nine or 10 liters.
"There was no quality of life," he says bluntly. "I was just hanging on, not living." But Tomes got what he calls "a new lease on life" Sept. 19 when he underwent a successful lung transplant only days after he went on the waiting list at University of Colorado Hospital.
He was the hospital's first patient in a clinical trial of a new procedure, called ex-vivo lung perfusion (EVLP), in which surgeons actually remove a lung from a potential donor's body to inspect it.
Until the trial, they would examine x-rays of the lung, looking for signs of scarring and trauma and measuring partial pressure of oxygen in arterial blood to decide if the organ was suitable.
With the EVLP trial, though, they hook the potential donor lung up to a ventilator and circulate oxygen-carrying liquid through it. It gives them an opportunity to actually see, touch and test the lung to decide if it is viable for transplant.
The closer look could yield big benefits. "It allows us to identify lungs in donors that we might otherwise reject," says cardiothoracic surgeon Michael Weyant, MD, who performed Tomes' lung transplant.
Two weeks after leaving UCH, Tomes is recovering nicely. He's making twice-a-week clinic visits for the first month after the transplant, and is getting infusions to treat a megalovirus, the result of immunosuppressant drugs he takes to ward off organ rejection. Those medications, in turn, have caused some swelling in his feet.
But as he sat at a hospital cafeteria table last week speaking with a reporter, Tomes dwelled mostly on the positive change in his life that occurred in the relative twinkling of an eye.
He'd quit smoking in 2000, but the damage was done. His emphysema landed him in the hospital in 2005 with double pneumonia, after which he went on disability. Prescribed oxygen, his reliance on it increased as his health worsened. The three liters he started on soon doubled as his stamina decreased.
Before the lung transplant, 2011 had been distinguished mainly by a rapidly diminishing sense of hope and two four-day hospital stays, first to treat a bronchial viral infection and then pneumonia.
The disease also ended his work life. Tomes spent 28 years working in lawn service and sales in Omaha, Neb. After moving to Denver in 1998, he installed and programmed phone systems. He was employed by a casino in Blackhawk when his disease forced his retirement and accelerated the downward spiral.
"I'd stand at the sink, cleaning pots and pans," he recalls, "and couldn't bend over to put them away without getting out of breath. I'd try not to get down. I'd tell myself 'It is what it is. You just have to live with it.' But I had no life."
After his second hospitalization this year, his pulmonologist referred Tomes to UCH to be evaluated for a lung transplant. He went through the requisite testing, and had been on the waiting list only a day in September when he got a surprise call. There was a lung available for him – Tomes was the only candidate it fit – but the lung transplant would include a new procedure, EVLP, that the hospital had not done before.
"They gave me 10 chances to say no," Tomes relates. "They told me I could say no all the way until I was going into the OR and it wouldn't be held against me. I didn't feel pressured at all. It was my decision to back out at any time."
He decided to move ahead, in large part because of his trust in Weyant. "I was scared," Tomes says. "I didn't know if I was going to live or die. But I had total trust in Dr. Weyant. He was so self-assured in his own skin, and he let me know he would not do anything to me that was not in my best interest."
The lung didn't turn out to be viable for transplant, so Tomes went home Saturday, Sept. 17.
He got another call, however, Sept. 19, notifying him that another lung had arrived, this one from a donor in Southern California.
By 1 p.m. he was "stuck in a little room," waiting for the transplant to begin. But it wasn't until 11 p.m. that he stood in a shower, lathering himself with antibacterial soap, laboring to breathe. He was so weak his providers moved a bed next to the shower for him.
About an hour and a half later, Weyant came by to see him in pre-op. "He said, 'The lung looks good. I'll see you in the OR,'" Tomes says. After a roughly two-and-a-half hour procedure, he awoke at about 4 a.m. with a new lung.
He had just one scare during his eight-day stay, a bout of atrial fibrillation the hospital treated successfully with medication and an electrical shock. "That got me back to normal," he says, "but it concerned me."
There have been other bumps in the road that normally accompany a lung transplant. He's fighting the infection, as well as pain caused by 35 incision staples and two tubes draining fluid. But he has no complaints.
"So what?" he says. "Pain goes away, and it lets you know you're healing." He's also walking around without a longtime, unwelcome companion: his oxygen tank. "I knew the minute I got the ventilator out after surgery I could breathe better," he says. His oxygen requirement immediately decreased to 2 or 3 liters; he's now completely off it as long as his oxygen saturation level stays at 90 percent or greater.
Tomes now thinks of his life in terms of what he can do, not what he can't. He's considering going back to work, and looks forward to taking up again the woodworking hobby he once enjoyed.
"I'm looking forward to doing normal stuff," he says. "If I want to drive somewhere, I can just do it."
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The case has highlighted the problems in historic rape investigations where material evidence is lacking and much rests on the woman's word. Lawyers for the women said they felt the women's testimony had not been respected.
Justice Minister Christiane Taubira said there might be grounds to appeal.
''I'm shocked by gang rapes, by every form of aggression against women, and I think we have to create conditions so that the facts are established and those guilty can be effectively identified,'' Ms Taubira said.
The French Minister for Women's Rights, Najat Vallaud-Belkacem, said the case showed that better education on sex and sexuality was needed in schools.
The Fontenay-sous-Bois attacks took place between 1999 and 2001. Nina said that when she was 16 years old, she was returning from a cinema when she was grabbed by a group of local youths, taken to a basement, raped and subjected to a series of brutal sex attacks.
The extremely violent, prolonged attacks continued daily, in car parks, stairwells, apartments, cellars and an empty playground.
She said there would be ''at least 25'' youths present during attacks in which she screamed, cried and vomited. One witness described 50 boys queuing to attack her.
Nina kept quiet about the attacks until 2005, when she told a police officer after she was left unconscious by a brutal beating.
Psychiatric experts had said that both Nina and Stephanie were victims of rape. Nina has put on 70 kilograms since the attacks. She described the weight gain as a shell behind which to hide. Stephanie attempted to kill herself a few days into the trial, which was held behind closed doors because the defendants were minors at the time of the rapes. GUARDIAN
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Karl Hudson-Phillips has died Posted: Wednesday, January 15, 2014Karl Hudson-Phillips has diedEMINENT Queen's Counsel, former judge of the International Criminal Court and former Attorney General of Trinidad and Tobago Karl Hudson-Phillips, has died.PM sends condolences to Hudson-Phillips' family'QUEEN PENNY NEXT PM'"Spiritual healer" predicts Pennelope Beckles-Robinson would become the next prime ministerOverturned truck was carrying lyeNo serious injuries reported after chemical spill off Churchill Roosevelt/ Uriah Butler Highway interchange.Latapy settles $5m lawsuit with TTFAFORMER national football coach Russell Latapy has withdrawn a lawsuit against the Trinidad and Tobago Football Association (TTFA) for more than $5 million in compensation after both parties arrived at an out-of-court settlement.More blows for Sugar Aloes over Bodyguard snubThe debate over Michael (Sugar Aloes) Osouna's decision to reject Roger (Bodyguard) Mohammed for the Kalypso Revue tent's 2014 cast continued to rage within the calypso fraternityEx-Central Authority director on e-mail probe: Cops using faulty approach to GoogleNo protected State witness killed in 3 yearsCops blamed: burnt teen to finish interview todayOVER a three-day period, teenager Jamerson John is expected to give police a statement into his claim that he was set on fire by police officers while in custody.Cops launch probe into missing cocaine at stationAN investigation has now been launched into how 40 rocks of cocaine went missing from the Mayaro Police Station over the last weekend.'Petrotrin execs still in their cushy jobs' despite finePresident-general of the Oilfields Workers' Trade Union (OWTU) Ancel Roget:No school for Israel until rash clearsOil spill sickens La Brea pupilChildren's registry comingDe CoteauTwo die in bus, maxi collisionTWO people are reported dead following a collision in Carenage late yesterday between a Public Transport Service Corporation (PTSC) bus and a yellow-band maxi-taxiWPC committed to stand trialPOLICE constable Nicole Clement has been committed to stand trial for perverting the course of public justice through conspiracy.
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