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STABLE SOLUTIONS OF COMPOUNDS OF TANNINS WITH BORIC ACID Otto C. Jekel, 1 Freihammerstrasse, Salzburg-Obergnigl, Austria =No Drawing. Filed May 27, 1957, $61. No. 661,593 2 Claims (c1. s 94.33
The present invention relates to new and improved tanning agent solutions and more particularly to stable solutions of boric acid compounds of tannins which are not only suited for tanning animal skins but also and more particularly for topical application to humans and animals in the treatment of disease symptoms caused by fungi and bacteria and known as mycoses.
Solutions of tannins have in the past had the disadvantage of decomposition, changing color and forming solid precipitates after standing a shorter or longer period of time. These phenomena occurred even in the absence of air and light and consequently are independent of the access of air or light. For example, an acetic acid solu tion of tannic acid in n-propanol already becomes cloudy after standing only a few days and assumes a dark color after standing a longer time. The decomposition of such tannin solutions is not readily prevented by chemical means.
According to the invention it was unexpectedly found that solutions of compounds of tannins with boric acid in a solvent mixture of ethyl acetate, ethyl alcohol, acetic acid and water in proportions corresponding to the equilibrium mixture fulfilling the requirements of the law of mass action (Guldberg and Waage, 1879) and containing a maximum of 4% of acetic acid are extraordinarily stable and undergo no or substantially no change even after long periods of standing. Such solutions are not only well suited for tanning of animal skins to produce light leathers, but also for topical application in the treatment of mycoses. It was found that in treatment of mycoses in many instances not only leads to rapid healing but also the treated skin areas become resistant to reinfection.
The equilibrium solvent mixture of ethyl alcohol, acetic acid, ethyl acetate and water employed according to the present invention must at least substantially correspond to the following equation:
(Molar concentration of the ethyl alcohol) X (molar concentration of the acetic acid) :1 (Molar concentration of the ethyl acetate) M (molar concentration of the water) The composition of such equilibrium solvent mixture according to the invention can, for example, be calculated as follows when the mixture is to contain 9% of weight of water and 2% by weight of acetic acid employing the following equations:
X (A) (I) (E) X .11 88.(E)+9+46.(A) +2=1oo United States Etent G 2,970,032 Patented Jan. 31, 1961 the solvent mixture corresponding to a stationary equilibrium is as follows:
, Percent Acetic acid 2 Water 9 It is not absolutely necessary that the concentrations of the solvent mixture be maintained with the greatest exactitude in accordance with calculated quantities for the equilibrium mixture, but the best results are obtained with the exact quantities. The further the quantities deviate from those theoretically required for the equilibrium mixture, the less stable the solutions of tanninboric acid compounds prepared therewith are.
The tannin-boric acid compounds employed according to the invention can be prepared according to the procedures described in application S.N. 192,633, filed October 27, 1951. For example, the following procedures can be employed:
(a) 25.5 parts by weight of pure tannin and 4.5 parts by weight of boric acid are dissolved in 70 parts by weight of ethyl alcohol (96 vol. percent). After the solution has been allowed to stand at v room temperature (about 20 C.) for one hour the ethyl alcohol is removed by distillation and the residue remaining is a compound of boric acid and tannin. Other inert solvents, such as, for example, acetone, can be employed instead of the ethyl alcohol indicated.
The equilibrium solvent mixture of acetic acid, ethyl alcohol, ethyl acetate and water according to the inven- EXAMPLE l 7 parts by weight of tannin and 3 parts by weight of boric acid were dissolved in a mixture of 1.8 parts by Weight of acetic acid, 8.1 parts of water, 53.1 parts of ethyl alcohol and 27.0 parts of ethyl acetate and the resulting solution was boiled under reflux for 1 hour. The resulting clear solution of the tannin-boric acid compound produced was stable and could be stored for any desired length of time without decomposition. The solution was of the following composition:
Percent by wt. Tannin-boric acid compound 10 Acetic acid 1.8
Water e 8.1 Ethyl alcohol 53.1 Ethyl acetate 27.0
Patch tests on human patients (50) on healthy skin revealed no sign of non-compatability with the patients tested.
The solution was also clinically tested on 30 cases of onychomycosis (caused by ringworms and germs) of varying degrees of severity, ranging from (1) patients having one or more nails indicating a beginning of an onychomycosis in the form of a discoloration of apart of the nail, (2) patients having nails already partly split or de formed and (3) patients having nails in which the whole nail was swollen and deformed.
When the lesions on the nails of the patients were slight the nails were given no pretreatment before application of the solution according to the invention. When the lesions were more severe, the nails were pretreated with a 5% alcoholic caustic potash solution until slight maceration occurred (about minutes) and then rinsed with water and painted with the solution according to the invention. The number of applications of the solution according to the invention was twice daily except in instances where the patients work required them to come into contact with water repeatedly, the patients were requested to make several additional applications daily. The following table gives the results attained:
Table I Number patients treated Cured Improved The treatment of the less serious cases required about 4 weeks and the more serious required several months. The two patients with incurable onychomycosis were seriously infected cases having suffered lesions involving all nails for 4 and 12 years, respectively. -The causal organism in these two cases was Candida albicans.
The preferred concentrations of the tannin-boric acid compound in the solutions according to the invention lie ganismEpiderm0phyton inguinale) and eczema mycotica (causal organismvarious ringworms and germs) were treated with such a 5% solution. The patients treated were divided into three groups according to severity of the disease, namely:
Group 1: Single seat (foci) of disease up to a diameter of 2 cm.
Group 2: Single larger foci.
Group 3: Several larger foci or several foci of long standing andresistant to other therapy. 7
The treatment consisted of painting the solution on the A diseased areas twice daily for about 2 to 4 weeks in the case of the patients of Group 1, increasing up to 14 weeks for patients in Group 3.
The following table gives the results attained:
Table II Number No impa-tients Cured Improved provetreated ment 31 24 7 21 12 8 1 Group 3 13 7 3 3 The patients in which no improvement occurred were for tanning animal skins, especially for the production 4 of light fine leathers. The following example illustrates the preparation of a leather tanning solution suitable for tanning leather:
EXAMPLE 2 An equilibrium solvent mixture was prepared by mixing 23.60 kg. of ethyl acetate, 1.80 kg. of water, 61.93 kg. of 96% ethyl alcohol and 0.99 kg. of acetic acid. 11.68 kg. of the tannin-boric acid compound prepared as described above under (a) were then dissolved therein.
The following procedure was employed to employ such solution in tanning kip skins:
Limed kip skins which were still moist were repeatedly immersed in alcohol of increasing concentration (starting concentration 50%) to remove the moisture contained therein and dried at a temperature below 40 C. to drive off the alcohol retained. The thus dried skins were then tanned in the tanning solution for six hours.
While several illustrations of equilibrium solvent mixtures have been given by way of example, the proportions of the components of such equilibrium mixture can be varied as long as they at least substantially conform with the quantities required for a stationary equilibrium at the prevailing temperature and as long as the quantity of acetic acid in such equilibrium mixture does not exceed 4%.
The solvent mixture employed in Example 1 for the production of the tannin-boric acid compound solution can be distilled off from such solution to leave the tanninboric acid compound. The recovered distilled solvent mixture has the same concentration as the original mixture, namely, acetic acid 2% by wt., water 9% by wt., ethyl alcohol 59% by wt. and ethyl acetate 30% by wt., and can be reused for the production of further quantities of tannin-boric acid compounds.
This application is a continuation-in-part of my eopending application Serial No. 256,375, filed November 14, 1951, now abandoned.
Instead of pure tannin there also can be used commercial tannins of various kinds as starting material. It is also possible to employ the boric acid excess but in this case the surplus remains unchanged.
I claim:
1. A tanning solution comprising a substantially stable clear solution of a tannin-boric acid compound in an equilibrium solvent mixture of ethyl acetate, ethyl alcohol, acetic acid and water in such proportions as to satisfy the equation (Molar concentration of acid) X (molar concentration of alcohol) y 4 (Molar concentration of ester) X (molar concentration of water) the quantity of acetic acid in said equilibrium solvent mixture not exceeding 4%.
2. A tanning solution according to claim 1 which contains 5 to 15% of the tannin-boric acid compound.
References Cited in the file of this patent UNITED STATES PATENTS 9,125 Keil July 7, 1942 OTHER REFERENCES Brewster: Organic Chemistry, 1948, Prentice-Hall
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In three games on the week, Brennan recorded one goal and five assists for six points for the Americans.
On Wednesday night, Brennan had five points in a wild 7-6 overtime victory over Lake Erie, tying an AHL season high and establishing a new personal best. All four of Brennan's assists on the night came on game-tying goals, erasing deficits of 1-0, 2-1, 5-4 and 6-5. He also scored a power-play goal in the first period, his third point of that stanza. On Friday, Brennan registered another assist to help Rochester to a 4-1 win over Lake Erie in Buffalo, and on Saturday, Brennan took a game-high six shots on goal in the Amerks' 2-1 loss to Binghamton.
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A year ago, as pro-gambling Maggie Hassan prepared to become governor with a new majority of her fellow Democrats in the House, the odds for a casino appeared better than ever.
Rubens, who had chaired the Granite State Coalition Against Expanded Gambling for almost as long as the pro-gaming forces had pushed for it, had won again. While he was not the only factor in the outcome, he was a key factor.
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"I could never have done it alone," Rubens, 63, said in a recent interview. But, he allowed, "I do credit myself with keeping the coalition together and keeping it broad."
Former state Republican Party Chairman Steve Duprey has taken over as lead coalition spokesman now that fellow Republican Rubens has resigned to run for U.S. Senate. Duprey marvels at Rubens' ability to quickly research and find studies on a wide range of gambling-related issues.
Duprey, formerly on the board of Concord's Capitol Center for the Arts, said the arts sector had not previously recognized the threat to their economic well-being.
Rubens resigned as coalition chairman shortly after the House vote. He announced in September that he would try to unseat U.S. Sen. Jeanne Shaheen. He'll have to win a GOP primary first.
He said, "The experience of fighting a fight this intense all these years kept my political instincts in tune, taught me more about political strategy and coalition building."
"It was illegal to take a check that large at the time, and when I tracked it down, it turned out to be someone associated with the gambling industry."
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"It is the most broad-based coalition in the state," he said. "People at our meetings had never spoken to each other before. After fighting each other on almost every other issue, they were now working constructively, arm in arm, with such friendship. It was an incredible experience."
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Here's an "infographic" (more graphic than informative, we'd say) that's popping up a lot on the Internet these days.
It's from "Knowledge is Beautiful," a new book by British data-journalist David McCandless.
In it, he crunches data to explain the world, or at least random bits of the world, through graphics that — though they might intimidate those of us who prefer a good old fashioned story — are intended to be entertaining, artful and easy to absorb.
"Every day, every hour, every minute we are bombarded with information, from television, from newspapers, from the Internet, we're steeped in it. We need a way to relate to it," his publisher, Harper Collins, writes. The author's visual presentations "blend the facts with their connections, contexts, and relationships, making information meaningful, entertaining, and beautiful."
We'll withhold comment on the book, because we haven't read it (if reading is even part of experiencing it.)
But we've got problems and questions with this particular chart — a ranking of the 87 "best" dog breeds.
(To see a full size version, click here.)
For starters, why — when there are about 180 recognized breeds now — did he limit himself to only the 87 most popular breeds?
Is that a more algorithm-friendly number? Is that the most that could fit on a page before it became so cluttered as to be reader unfriendly, or leave us feeling dog bombarded?
The infographic contrasts the popularity of the breeds with what (according to the formula used by McCandless) are the "best" breeds. The best breed, according to the chart, is the border collie. It concludes the bulldog the most "inexplicably overrated" dog breed.
McCandless ranks the 87 dog breeds based on these factors — intelligence, lifespan or longevity, ailments, grooming, appetite and costs.
In a way, at least four of those factors are cost-related, aren't they?
How much a dog eats and how much grooming he requires both can make him a more expensive proposition, which we can only assume McCandless attaches negative points to.
The Newfoundland, for example, falls into the "inexplicably overrated" quadrant of the the chart — well, most of him does, a little bit of his big head seems to stick outside that border.
We'd hope McCandless considers a longer life span for a dog to be a good thing, worth positive points, but wouldn't a dog gaining points in that category be losing them in the appetite, grooming and costs categories?
Of course, our biggest is complaint — on top of the sheer stupidity of picking a best dog breed — is that the chart ignores the "best" (and most popular) dog of all, the mutt.
That would complicate matters though, and infographics are all about over-simplifying. And stereotyping, and quanitfying the unquantifiable, and smugly considering yourself an expert based on what your computer has churned out, which infographic perusers should bear in mind, is only as reliable as the data it was fed in the first place.
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Who knows what's best for Jack?
Dog blogger and broadcaster Steve Friess says he's not going to spend $5,000 to put his dog though chemotherapy that could extend his life a year or more — and he's going to try not to feel bad about it.
Even when he says his final goodbye to Jack in what could be less than a month.
In late October, Friess noticed the dog he'd adopted nine years ago was getting lethargic, and that his weight had dropped from his usual 11 pounds to around eight.
A vet diagnosed that Jack had an aggressive form of lymphoma that was spreading quickly through his body.
Friess did some research, checking with friends, and vets, and friends who were vets: One of the latter urged him to "do the full chemo protocol ASAP!" It could send Jack into remission for nine months, or 12 months, or even longer.
Friess and his partner researched, debated and decided against chemotherapy — not because it would be all that rough on the dog physically (they handle it much better than we do). The main reason, he admits, is the money, which, he also admits, they just doesn't have.
There will likely be those who second guess Freiss, or maybe try to lay a guilt trip on him: Take out a loan, hit up your friends, get a second (or third) job, launch an online fundraising campaign, let me be the first to donate.
We've become a nation of such overflowing compassion for dogs, with such promising new medical technologies, and such handy online fundraising tools at our beck and call, that it's easy to lose sight that decisions about life and death — both ours and our dogs — are still our own, and that throwing in the towel, for financial reasons, or others, isn't always a shameful choice.
We suspect Friess will receive some support for his decision, but will hear from many more questioning it. His decision to write about it, as he did in a post for Time.com, is brave, but also an open invitation to second-guessers. In any case, the decision on what's best for Jack should be (and has been) made by the person who knows him best, and deserves to be respected
Friess, a freelance writer and co-host of The Petcast, said neither his advisers nor his vet seemed to be trying to make him feel guilty about his choice. But, as is the way with guilt trips, we often don't need a tour guide. Feelings of shame can start as soon as we ask our vet the question Friess did:
"How much will it cost?"
For Friess, the estimate was a minimum of $5,000 — more than he and his partner had.
"(It) means we have about 30 days. The end will probably come in time for holidays … "We've received a lot of advice, both solicited and unwelcome, through social media. Nobody comes right out to say it, but the disappointment some express at our decision shows that they question our love for Jack. In an era when people spend big on animal clothes, artisanal foods and medical intervention, and when medical science makes it possible to spend $5,000 so Jack dies slightly later than sooner, there is pressure to go as far as we can."
There's one more twist. Friess and his partner are trying to adopt a human baby, and they're working on saving the $15,000 fee for that.
"If that $5,000 could cure the cancer and restore Jack's full life expectancy, maybe we'd do it," he wrote. "Maybe. It certainly would be a tougher choice. But to buy a year during which we'd be waiting for his lymph nodes to resume their swell? We could endure the end stages either now or later."
(Photo of Jack by Steve Friess)
Posted by John Woestendiek November 17th, 2014 under Muttsblog.
Tags: animals, cancer, care, chemotherapy, choices, costs, death, decisions, dog, dogs, financial, guilt, health care, jack, life, lymphoma, medical, options, ownership, pet, pets, shame, steve friess, technology, treatment, veterinary
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Uber rude: Guide dog forced to ride in trunk
The National Federation of the Blind in California has filed a lawsuit against Uber Technologies Inc., saying its drivers have refused to transport blind people who use guide dogs and, in one instance, forced a guide dog to ride in the trunk of a car.
One registered Uber driver in Sacramento put a passenger's guide dog in the trunk while transporting her, and refused to pull over after the customer realized where the animal was, according to the lawsuit.
Other blind riders with service animals have been refused service and harassed, the National Federation of the Blind of California alleges in a civil rights complaint filed this week in San Francisco federal court.
Uber is a ride-hailing app that connects its registered drivers with riders. It is up and running in more than 70 U.S. cities.
While the company does set guidelines for the drivers — and pretty much any schmo can be one — it points out those drivers are independent contractors, and that the company cannot be expected to be able to fully control their behavior. (Or, it follows, be held legally liable for it.)
Uber, like Lyft Inc. and other car-booking companies, are seeking to crack open the $11 billion U.S. taxi and limousine market, according to Bloomberg News.
Through the app, they hook up people needing rides with registered drivers offering one, and take a cut of the fares collected — in effect collecting money while doing none of the actual physical work, and avoiding any actual responsibility.
The federation filed the lawsuit based on complaints from more than 30 blind customers nationwide who have been denied rides because they had guide dogs — a violation of the Americans with Disabilities Act and California civil rights laws.
The advocacy group says the company monitors and controls interactions between drivers and customers, and should adopt and enforce policies to prevent discrimination against blind people with service animals. It is seeking a court order declaring the company discriminates against blind customers with guide dogs, and measures that would ensure that drivers don't refuse rides to the vision-impaired.
"The Uber app is built to expand access to transportation options for all, including users with visual impairments and other disabilities," said Eva Behrend, a spokeswoman for San Francisco-based Uber. "It is Uber's policy that any driver partner that refuses to transport a service animal will be deactivated from the Uber platform."
What action, if any, was taken against the driver who allegedly put a guide dog in a car trunk wasn't specified, but we think he deserves a lot more than being "deactivated."
Posted by John Woestendiek September 11th, 2014 under Muttsblog.
Tags: application, apps, blind, california, car, civil rights, disabilities, discrimination, guide dogs, mobile, national federation of the blind, ride, service dogs, taxi, technology, transport, uber, uber technologies, vision impaired
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Talk the dog: Humanizing our pets
There are two main reasons I'm against humanizing our pets.
One, it's messing with nature — dogs (ideal beasts, in my view) should stay dogs.
Two, portraying them as humans, giving them human attributes, or using them as our puppets, implies our species is superior, and worth imitating. Oftentimes, from what I've seen of it, it's not. We're are way too far from perfect to appoint ourselves role models for the animal kingdom.
I get slightly peeved when I see technology being used to make dogs more human — especially when, because we deem it cute and entertaining, we put our words in their mouths.
So, immensely popular as it is, I'm less than smitten with My Talking Pet, an app that allows us to take a photo of our cat or dog, record an audio message, and get a video of our pet — animated so that mouth, nose and eyebrows move as the pet appears to talk.
From the samples I've seen, the words we put in the mouths of dogs are only further proof that we're not the intellectually superior species we think we are.
"People are obsessed with it," said Iain Baird, who developed the app with his former school buddy, Peter Worth. "I think it's really struck a chord with how close people are with their pets."
The concept, he told Fortune.com, came while he and some friends were in a London pub talking about a YouTube video featuring a "talking dog" that had gone viral. They decided to come up with an app that would make it easy for any pet owner make their dog "talk," and it hit the iTunes market in early 2013.
It wasn't until after the app was featured on the "Ellen" show that it really took off.
Last October, Kat Dennings and Beth Behrs, stars of the CBS sitcom "2 Broke Girls," praised the app while on the show. In the weeks that followed it became the most downloaded paid app in the Apple iTunes store.
Worth and Baird say their company, WOBA Media, began thinking even bigger after that — including offering a "devil mode," which adds glowing red eyes to the pet, and "angel mode," in which the pet appears under a halo.
Taken alone, "My Talking Pet" is just a little harmless fun — as is dressing the dog up for Halloween, treating the dog like a spoiled grandchild, or calling them "fur babies".
The dangers come when our seeing them as humans sabotages our attempts at training, when we start assigning dogs human emotions they don't have, and holding them to human expectations.
We should be close to our pets. We should see them as family members — only canine ones. To manipulate them, to turn them into something else (humans, or angels, or devils), to put words into their mouths, all takes away from appreciating them for what they are.
Just something to keep in mind as technology marches on — often making bigger inroads than we originally anticipated.
How long will it be, for example, before cutting edge, 21st Century technology, like that used in "My Talking Pet" is turned around on us, and the app takes on a mind of its own, and our pets are giving us their unsolicited opinions on the best brand of dog food, cereal or car to buy?
That could never happen, could it?
Posted by John Woestendiek September 4th, 2014 under Muttsblog.
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Do we really need a "war" against dog poop?
In the annals of Gotham's crimefighting superheroes, Abby Weissman might not go down as one of the all-time greatest.
But at least he will be noted for capturing a dog pooping on camera and, far more important, that doggie's caretaker not picking it up.
Faster than a speeding bullet, he posted it on Facebook:
In the post, Weissman fires a first blow in his quest for justice, and calls upon others to join in fighting the scourge of canine caretakers who don't pick up after their charges — by submitting photos and videos of scofflaws caught in the act to his block association's Facebook page.
Weissman is president of the South Oxford Street Block Association in New York's Fort Greene neighborhood.
The association started a "Dog Walkers Hall of Shame" campaign July 30, after his home security camera captured a dog walker, busy with her cell phone, walking away from the mess the dog had just deposited on the sidewalk in front of his house.
Weissman hopes a little public humiliation will be more effective than the seldom enforced "pooper scooper" law, and its $250 fines.
Since 2013, 63 "pooper scooper" violations have been issued in Brooklyn, DNAInfo reports. An officer must witness the incident to issue a summons, according to the Department of Sanitation.
Weissman, like any good superhero, seemed to take a great deal of pride in catching the scofflaw, at least on video. "We always wanted a photo or video or someone actually letting their dog shit and purposefully leaving it there. Here it is, thanks to Dropcam."
I'm all for owners taking responsibility for what their dogs drop, and all for laws enforcing that. And I'm fine with fines.
I'm just not so sure we have to view it all in terms of a "war," and I question whether all the high tech weapons being seized upon — like hidden cameras, and sending dog poop to laboratories to see if its DNA can be matched to a particular dog — are a bit of an over-reaction, better used on terrorists than people who don't pick up dog poop.
I have a problem with public "shaming," too — whether it's being used on deadbeat dads, the customers of prostitutes, or those who fail to pick up dog waste. It reminds me of those stocks and pillories we used to punish wrongdoers in colonial times. I'd like to think we've become a little more civilized since then. And I'd like to think we're smart enough to realize people who engage in shameful behavior often don't have a huge sense of shame in the first place.
Most of all I'm puzzled about how we let something with such a simple solution become so huge, and gobble up so much time, money and technology. How much is being wasted sending dog waste through the mail for analysis in laboratories? How many hours did Weissman spend watching video to pinpoint the culprit who pooped in front of his house?
Sometimes I think our species is prone to escalating anything that can possibly escalated.
Perhaps a psychologist could explain that to me.
In the meantime, can't we all just pick it up?
Posted by John Woestendiek August 13th, 2014 under Muttsblog, videos.
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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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On 08//06/2011 after visiting a used car sales event by Enterprise and my credit union School First we where unable to find the best price for the car we wanted 2011 Kia Sorento.
We decided to go to Riverside Mitsubishi Kia Car dealership just down the road my wife, daughter and I where greeted real nice by the sales personal and we new what we wanted sales took us for a test drive and we walked inside to negotiate the price after several rounds I was clear that I stand firm on the price of the car at $23,990.00 + fees I even wrote it. As normal counter offers then they met the price but using rebates I said no we are working with the price of the car.
To make a long story short they tried to put me in a used car I did not like it, back to the new car the salesman turned and asked the manager David Acbar who I never met until now, he told me $23,660.00 I said not with the rebate, yes with rebate I said no, David Acbar asked will you tell me I told him I did, since I got here and wrote it 23,990.
David got upset a said no way you are unrealistic he then thru up his arms and started to make the motion to leave while saying (Just leave go back to enterprise) I could not believe this I walked back and told David that I did not think he should be speaking to me this way he did not care and continued to say to leave, I asked for his name that when he told me David Acbar since I did not understand his last name that well I asked for his card he relied Just remember it. My daughter held my hand and said lets just leave daddy
David thinks just because we look Hispanic he can speak to us this way he is wrong what a disgrace to represent Kia Motors and his dealership.
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We just returned from our long weekend in Conway. There were two couples, 3 children ranging from 5 months - 4 years old and 1 grandmother. This was our second visit to the farm, and it was just as spectacular as our first stay! Linda and Jay are amazing hosts and have created a sanctuary in the mountains for folks looking to escape the hustle and bustle of every day life! The farmhouse is so warm and inviting that it's impossible to not relax right away! The kids enjoyed playing in the yard, riding bikes/scooters and walking to the river! Linda and Jay even raked piles of leaves for the kids to jump in, and boy did they jump! It was my niece's 3rd bday and Linda truly helped us in making it a special day for her! The house was equipped with a cake, candle and decorations to boot! It is clear how much Linda and Jay love what they do and it shows in the beauty of the home and the warmth it wraps you in as soon as you enter its doors:-) Thank you Linda and Jay, we truly cannot wait to come back!
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|Sun, 10-19-2008 - 6:47pm
Hi this is my first time posting on this board. I am tired, frustrated, pissed off and at the end of my rope so please forgive my ranting. My daughter has always been a difficult, headstrong child. Her brothers are very easygoing. It was quite bad when she was very young and she would throw these monster tantrums. We were really worried and thought there might be something seriously amiss but then her babysitters, preschool teachers, and everyone else told us what a delightful, sweet, helpful child she was. It got much better for a few years where she great. We thought maybe because she is so bright maybe she just had a lot of frustration when she was younger. Lately she is impossible again. She talks back, can be hateful, argues with everything, won't do what is asked of her, throws these drama fits if she doesn't get her way the precise moment she wants something and cries loudly so we can hear her when we are trying to ignore her. I have to admit I do not handle it well. I get mad and yell which I know only makes things worse. I think I am writing more to find out what I should do to keep my cool than what I can do about her. I have tried to talk to her but she won't talk to me or is snotty so I just end up getting mad.My husband is not around much so this all falls to me. Please help. I always thought I was a pretty good parent but now I'm really beginning to doubt myself at every turn.
|Wed, 10-22-2008 - 1:05pm
Hi Jenny.
What I have found works best for me keeping my cool is to remember that they are making choices that have consequences both good and not so good. I am very big believer that while we can not always control the situations we find ourselves in and rarely those around us, we can control our reactions and how we chose to respond.
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I am very clear with the kids about what I expect from them, what the consequences are and what the rewards are. Because they know the rules and expectations they know when they are making a choice to break them and thus accepting the consequence. I don't accept "I didn't know." "It's not fair." If they try, they get asked what did you do? Are you allowed to do it? What happens if you do that? So you made a choice to accept the consequence because you wanted to jump on the bed, not pick up your stuff, etc. I do give reminders especially if I see them about to do something that they shouldn't be. I use the phrases make smart choices, think about your choices, stop and think about what you are about to do.
With the attitude I've approached it a couple of ways. I make them start over and keep trying until they can talk to me without it. Someone, I think here told me to treat it like I would whining in a toddler -- you can't understand them when they talk that way. I have had him go back into his room and calm down. Then come back out and we will start over. I just keep sending him back until he gets it. I've also asked him if he would talk to his teachers this way and what would happen if he did.
I refuse to fight and get into arguments about what he can and can't do. He wants to discuss it, then I will but I won't if he gets that entitlement attitude or becomes rude.
All of those things help me to keep it in perspective. Because it is less about me than it is about what he is thinking and feeling. I don't feel guilty about impossing consequences when they know the rules/expectations. I feel more in control of my reactions because I know that I am not being arbritary and I am not just reacting in the moment.
|Sat, 11-22-2008 - 12:21pm
Thanks for the reply. I didn't visit the board for a bit. I am doing better about not engaging in the fights. Yesterday my daughter started in first thing in the morning (her absolute worst time!) and my husband told her to go upstairs becuase he didn't want to listen to someone standing in the middle of the breakfast area crying. She stomped off but came back much more pleasant.
We are, however, having a HUGE ongoing issue with clothes. We are tight on money and she is incredibly picky about her clothes. She has about three things she is willing to wear. She pulls them out of the dirty clothes day after day. She begged me to take her to Justice, a store she loves that specializes in tween clothes that is pretty expensive. I agreed with the caveat that she has to try on the outfit, love it and promise to wear it -- she often has me buy things that hang in a closet after she has worn them once (so of course I can't just take them back). She threw a fit in the store about wanting two outfits which I bought. I thought they were too small but let her make the decision. And, you guessed it, a week went by and she made excuses not to wear them. Today she says she doesn't want them, they are too big (?) and it's all my fault. I plan on taking them back which leaves her with basically one or two things she will wear. Is this the right thing?
Talking to her doesn't really work because when she calms down she is very reasonable and makes promises that she then breaks. It's like the promises she makes in the stores. I think returning the new clothes is a good consequence. What do you think?


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EAST RUTHERFORD >> Did you notice how after each of the Giants four most recent losses defensive end Jason Pierre-Paul would tell the media questioning him how his Giants were still going to make a run and stay in playoff contention until the end of December?
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EAST RUTHERFORD >> Another fourth quarter collapse and another loss for the Giants.
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EAST RUTHERFORD >> There are plenty of reasons why at 3-7 and on a four-game losing streak the Giants are moving closer to a second straight losing season.
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EAST RUTHERFORD (AP) >> The Giants' running game could have its best back available when it plays the San Francisco 49ers.
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AP Sports Writer SEATTLE >> As the rain started falling harder, a shower of Skittles joined the wet stuff pelting from the sky.
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East Rutherford >> In case you thought Odell Beckham Jr. was super human you should have seen him when they sang the national anthem Sunday at MetLife Stadium.
Beckham better be worth the wait
This guy better be good because even Lawrence Taylor or Eli Manning didn't generate the type excitement around East Rutherford Odell Beckham Jr. has for Tom Coughlin, his team, and especially Giants fans.
Falcons' Osi Umenyiora, Giants keep friendly ties
FLOWERY BRANCH, Ga. (AP) >> Osi Umenyiora still goes online to play video games against his buddy Victor Cruz.
Giants welcome road-resistant Falcons to MetLife Stadium
EAST RUTHERFORD >> In typical fashion, Tom Coughlin hasn't given his Giants defense any chance for elation after its dominant performance at ashington a week ago when four interceptions and a few fumble recoveries led to a 41-14 laugher that got the G-Men their second straight win.
G-Men getting healthy at just the right time
East Rutherford >> The Giants practice field outside the Quest Diagnostic Center was packed Wednesday.