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An introduction to Hmong culture, an eggroll making demonstration and workshop program were presented to members and guests of the Sheboygan County Association for Home and Community Education.
The meeting was held at the UW-Extension Sheboygan County meeting rooms Monday, April 8.
Explaining Hmong history and traditions, Xia Vue Yang said he would try to condense 5,000 years of stories about his country of Laos and how the people were able to make Sheboygan County their new home. During his presentation he demonstrated the Qeej bamboo musical instrument and explained how the Hmong language is tonal and musical.
Pa Yang, from the Union Oriental Market, demonstrated her technique and recipe for making eggrolls. HCE members were then encouraged to participate in the process under the direction of the husband and wife team.
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The event is always a big hit due in part to a number of volunteer chefs.
Some of the delectable treats come from local businesses, but about 70% are homemade.
The fundraiser usually raises about $2,000.
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The younger ones sit there watching CBBC or Cartoon neteork.
While the older ones(the mothers) sit in the front room, mostly *****ing about things.
I am 19 and don't watch kiddies tv or ***** about things.I know my gran likes her family around her at christmas, but does that MEAN I have to stare blankly at a clock intil the last person leaves. Then We go which is 10pm at night.
Every christmas my gran has a do where the hole family gets togethor.
oh..i know what that feels like...neither here nor there...
Then don't go.
I HAVE to go that's the thing
No you don't. You're an adult, you can simply choose not to go.
its not as easy as u might think. i come from a very orthodox/traditional part of the world. there's plenty for the sake of the family and duty that i've had to do...but didn't like at all. it gets complicated...even as adults...not always black/white...plenty of shades of grey too.
its a good thing here we can just say we don't want to go I'm very blunt
u know honestly...i really wish it were that easy. i'm 35 years old..married 7 years now..5 year old kid...and even i can't think of going against my father's wishes(its another matter that he's been a University level boxing and weight lifting champ ) if he puts his foot down about something.


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Egobait exists for one main purpose: to increase visibility (which will hopefully generate links). Designed to appeal to the ego of an influencer, it's a concept that has some negative connotations, due to the whole "ego" bit.
While it's true that some people need to have their ego stroked or threatened in order to acknowledge you, there are still people out there who do things for altruistic purposes. Sure, we want the links and the tweets, but sometimes we also just like to contribute to something.
(And naturally I appealed to the egos of my fellow link builders for help with this post.)
I'll share my outreach email with you below. I have a standing list of industry people who I admire, and whenever I want to do something like this, I put together a list of ones who I think are good choices and, if the list is too big, I'll just randomly choose a few. As you can tell, I'm already trying to appeal to the ego of anyone who wasn't contacted.
I'm writing a post about egobait for link building for Search Engine Watch and am trying to get some ideas for how to do this for specific verticals. I have a very, very bad habit of using SEO examples when I write so I'm going to avoid those as they aren't usually relevant to a lot of other industries of course, so if you are interested in contributing I would be insanely appreciative, but if you're too busy/are just uninterested/think I suck then that's fine too although I'll frown heavily and probably eat one too many muffins.
Here's my list of questions…if you are interested and have the time, you're welcome to answer one question or answer them all. I'll compile all of this for a post that should be live on SEW on June 11th, so if you could get this back to me by June 1st I'd greatly appreciate it.
Notice a few things here:
- I tell them where the piece will be published.
- I include a very honest statement about why I'm asking for their help: it's because I do tend to use SEO-heavy examples and I needed something different.
- I give them an easy out for not responding or participating.
- I give them options to make it easier if they can even answer one question.
- I give them dates for when I need their responses and when the post will go live.
After looking over the tips and answers that people sent to me, I realize that I could have improved my response rate by doing a few things differently. I also thought back to a few recent crowdsourced pieces that I participated in, ones where the outreach email listed other contributors. I think that can be a very good tactic as it can lend legitimacy to your piece.
Anyway, enough from me. I'll get started on what everyone else said now. I'd like to thank the following people for contributing (and inspiring the heck out of me!) Note: some answers have been condensed.
1. Are there any verticals where you feel like egobait is impossible? If so what are they and why is it so hard?
Nick LeRoy: Impossible, no, but is it more effective in some verticals than others? Absolutely. I think someone starting a business or a campaign in general that is in a vertical that isn't established yet would have a hard time. This has a lot to do with lack of individuals associated with the industry or lack of overall exposure.
Jon Cooper: It's hard to say "impossible", but in niches were the tech saviness levels are really low, then it can be quite difficult, just because even though you might have appealed to their ego, it would still be difficult for them to actually implement the link on their website because, as stated, they're not very tech savvy.
Chris Dyson: I've personally found egobait to be a great way for small clients or for my own projects to get on the radar of thought leaders in a new vertical. I don't think egobait is impossible in any vertical, however it may require in depth research/planning, more outreach and paid social media promotion depending on the niche you are working in. Egobait can be a hard sell to clients because I find that some businesses are apprehensive of being positively or negatively associated with other people or brands.
Pete Attia: I think it really depends more on the person than the vertical. Even in marketing where egobaiting is well recognized, it's still effective. I will say, however, egobaiting is much more effective on people with a smaller or new following. I imagine it's because people with large followings are just used to it and become numb.
Gaz Copeland: I think any vertical which isn't particularly tech savvy and doesn't have much in the way of online communities or influencers (they still exist believe it or not!) is going to be difficult to crack with any technique so egobait is no different. On the other hand any vertical which has been hit hard by SEO's in the past, I'm thinking mummy bloggers or similar, just see straight through egobait if it's done purely for links and shares. I wrote a post over on Triple SEO pointing out that I actually dislike the term. As a tactic it's effective, but the term it a little crass for me.
Debra Mastaler: Death and taxes. Who wants to read much less link to anything related to death and taxes? Morbid and boring, no thanks.
Paddy Moogan: No verticals spring to mind immediately that I'd classify as impossible. Some are clearly harder than others and I've sometimes struggled with B2B verticals where targets for egobait with the ability to link are quite limited. I've often found that targets are easy to find in most industries, but ones that have the ability to link to you and / or have a large social following are harder to come by.
Jo Turnbull: I think it is hard to do egobait for the insurance and finance market, not due to a lack of data but due to the fact that everything needs to go through compliance and can take a very long time. This means that any new ideas you many have had for egobait are not so new when it comes to being published as it may have taken up to a month to publish the content.
2. Are there any verticals where you feel like egobait is done too often? If so, what are they and why is it so overdone?
Jon Cooper: Overall, a badge strategy is a type of egobait, and in any blog-happy industry, 99 percent of the time that tactic has been beaten into the ground. So no, I can't think of the overall strategy of egobait being done too often in a specific vertical, but in some verticals the way the egobait is displayed (i.e. badges, but there are others) is used too often.
Chris Dyson: In Online Marketing Circles (SEO, Social Media etc) it seems almost impossible to go more than a week without seeing an egobait post in the echo chamber. 20 Bloggers to Watch in 2013 etc. etc. I'm not saying that these articles are in anyway poorly executed, or don't help both the blog hosting the content or the bloggers featured to gain more exposure, but the sheer volumes of these posts do mean that I will more than likely scroll past them when they end up in my Twitter feed or inbox.
Pete Attia: Although it's slightly off topic, old school sales. I have a hard time dealing with sales people whether it's through work or personal endeavors. They're not trying to get a link out of me, obviously, but the concept is still the same. They'll tell you how amazing you or your company is in order to get whatever it is they want from you. This directly affects their pay scale, so they're over the top about it. It drives me slightly crazy.
Debra Mastaler: The arts (music, movies and TV) and education industry have more infographic and egobait pieces done than necessary: how many times can you write an article on how hot Channing Tatum is or how to secure a loan for college? Enough already.
3. Do you have any examples of successful egobait that you can share, ones you've conducted yourself or simply witnessed/read about? Alternatively if you know of any amazing failures, I'd love to know about those too.
Jon Cooper: I can't share any specific examples, but one type of egobait that seems to be a home run just because of the time & effort involved to produce it is via infographic. It can be hard to justify the cost, but making an egobait infographic is usually a sure thing, and the great thing about it is that it can be scaled.
Pete Attia: Well, one time I did an article about videos, where I mostly discussed the band OK Go's YouTube success. I wasn't necessarily trying to get anything out of OK Go, but I figured I'd email them and mention the article, just to see what would happened. They ended up tweeting the article to their 970k followers. I didn't get a ton of retweets out of it or anything like that, but it was neat just because I've been a fan of the band for years. For the record, my favorite failure is Topeka, Kansas changing it's name to Google, Kansas in an attempt to get Fiber in their city. What's funnier is they ended up installing fiber in Kansas, just a different city.
Gaz Copeland: I do a lot of work with a local photography business and one of the regular pieces of content we produce on their blog is a "wedding venue of the week" post. We include some of the amazing pictures my client has taken with information about the venue itself, the history, location and direction and the best areas to get great photographs there. These posts will more often than not be shared on Facebook and Twitter by the venue, associated staff and any brand advocates they may have. It works really well. I think the key to this series though is that the posts stand alone, they are useful posts first and foremost, they're egobait second. If you go out of your way to write something with the intention of it being egobait then it's gonna fail. If you write a good post and sprinkle it with egobait, you're all set.
Debra Mastaler: The group link building interview Rae Hoffman does is a terrific example of successful egobait. She lines up a bunch of link builders and has each answer a number of link related questions. All the participants promote the piece, and many of us refer to it in later articles to reinforce a point in a blog post. It's a good example of using written interviews to attract links and attention.
Let me show you a couple additional examples outside the SEO industry.
This is a great egobait idea IMO. This man has created an interview series with business experts in Wisconsin. His series is a good example how to incorporate local and topical terms/ideas to attract attention and links using a group of people.
Here's another example I think rocks because it reuses video content to support and promote a new story. The feature article talks about mortgages and foreclosures in the San Francisco area and offers previously recorded video interviews of experts talking about the same issue. Instead of peppering links to the videos throughout the story, they place the videos right after the new feature article but within the top fold of the page so your eye is drawn down to the rest of the content. If this were my blog, I'd send a short email to the people featured in the videos and let them know the videos have been re-released and ask them to retweet, +1, etc.
Paddy Moogan: I can actually remember my own first piece of egobait pretty well and it was pretty successful given the amount of time I put into it. I can't go into loads of detail but it was in the UK and for a company that sold garden sheds and garden buildings online. I put together a list of the top 10 gardening and shed blogs in the UK and let people vote for their favourite site. It was pretty simple and only took me about 3-4 hours and I got seven pretty good links as a result. The process was pretty straight forward and certainly one that can be replicated across different verticals:
- Find 10 websites that are good quality and look active
- Write a short paragraph about each one and why it is a good website
- Publish this page onto the client's website
- Add a simple voting system - I used polldaddy.com
- Contact each of the 10 websites and tell them about the page whilst asking them to encourage their readers to vote for them - this gets them to link without asking for the link!
- Follow up with any who didn't respond
That was about it! The great thing was that it also led to good new relationships with good websites which helped for future link building.
4. What do you think about using negative egobaiting tactics? Like publicly calling someone out in a blog post, or fussing about someone on social media? Is this a good way to build links?
Nick LeRoy: Yup. I would argue it's better than traditional egobait. Just make sure you have thick skin and a strong brand. It's also a pretty good idea to make sure you don't have any skeletons in your closet that you can't afford to be 'outed'.
Jon Cooper: It depends on the level of social distance between you and the person you're calling out. Say, for example, if I called out Richard Branson, then no one would care (distance far too great). The same goes for a no-name blogger calling out someone prominent in the industry. But if you've already built up traction, then calling someone out can generate buzz, and links are one of those byproducts. I've never done this solely for links though, just because it could backfire and cause more harm than good to your brand.
Chris Dyson: If it's done in the correct manner and not just a malicious or personal attack then I've seen these articles do very well. I've rarely seen a brand or business use this tactic as it is often a tactic used by personal blogs. A recent post I saw from Daylan Pearce got a lot of attention and there was a very interesting debate between Darren Rowse and Daylan in the comments too, regarding the use of Twitter for business/personal purposes. I think this article really got Darren's attention as it used Darren's Twitter handle in the title, which meant every time it was tweeted Darren got a mention. A few years ago the blogosphere seemed to have a lot more debate and it was quite common to see these debates carried out in blog posts/comments - where as now they seem to be carried out across social media channels.
Pete Attia: It works. It causes controversy and debate, which humans are naturally attracted to. That's why celebrity gossip sites do so well. However, I don't think it's worth doing. It puts an aura of negativity around whatever the subject matter is. There are plenty of other ways to get good results and stay in a positive light.
Gaz Copeland: You can definitely overdo it. Nobody likes a brown-noser. James Agate wrote a good post over on Jon Cooper's blog a while ago, one of the sections covered "Avoid being a sycophant". I think that's a great tip.
Debra Mastaler: I have two outlooks on this issue: first, what people do on their blogs or their Facebook/Twitter streams is their business. Suggesting to someone their blog post isn't appropriate or what they write about is wrong is like going to their home and telling them their sofa is ugly. I mean, who am I to criticize their bad taste in furniture? You see things one way, I another and on your blog you can do and say what you please. On the other hand...I am 100% against running false/made-up information for the sake of building links. Notice I said FALSE information... gossip and opinion are one thing (see ugly furniture reference) but flat out making stuff up to attract links? Fraud.
Paddy Moogan: I've never been a fan of the negative approach. Whilst it can certainly generate links, the value of these links is potentially outweighed by negative PR / sentiment towards the client. The last thing I want is to damage the client's standing in an industry so I'd tend to steer away from this approach.
Jo Turnbull: I don't think it is a good practice to publicly call someone out online as a way of egobaiting. If I have a difference of opinion, I will express mine about a certain post. However, I think it is more important to draw on the positives of what people say and turn that into linkbaiting rather than publicly call them out.
5. Do you think using social media alone is enough for a successful egobaiting campaign that will generate links, or do you think it needs to be done in content somewhere and not just on Twitter, for example?
Nick LeRoy: I don't think social media is good for egobait unless you can get interaction between multiple people. For instance, the debacle that occurred a while back for Chef Ramsey "quitting" on two restaurant owners unable to take criticism. TV viewers attacked the owners on Facebook and they made the mistake of freaking out and writing ridiculous comments in response. In all reality, had they just ignored the attacks it would never had been so viral... but EGO wouldn't allow them to let it be.
Jon Cooper: Usually something even better than social media is within the context of their community. One example that I can share that comes to mind is Kane Jamison's Inbound.org 2012 Stats post (sorry for it being an SEO related example!). This communitybait (same strategy as egobait IMO, just a different target) obviously did well on Inbound, probably better than it could ever do on social media alone. So, for example, if the target had a forum, then posting it in the forum would most likely make it blow up.
Chris Dyson: I would always recommend carrying out egobait (or any piece of linkbait) on your own digital assets where ever possible if you are purely looking for links. If the purpose of the egobait is to generate traffic and increase the awareness of your brand then it might be a better option to create the content where there is an already established audience by offering the idea as a guest post for example.
Pete Attia: It depends on what exactly you're trying to achieve. For example, in a certain light, relationship building is egobaiting. I can find a blogger that I want to get a review from, tweet and praise something they wrote, and when they respond, start a discussion. Continue this over a week or two and then ask them for a review. This could be entirely done through Twitter. However, if I was targeting someone more high profile and built an infographic about their achievements or something, it would have a higher success rate if using multiple avenues.
Gaz Copeland: Definitely the best way to do egobait for me is with a good blog post or other piece of content. You can use social media to build relationships at the same time, but I don't think that's going to get you links without some asset in the form of a piece of content.
Debra Mastaler: Needs to be done in content somewhere other than Twitter. Most of the people who come to me for a consult do so because they feel their current link building has hit a brick wall. Most of the time the type of campaign or the type of content they're using isn't the issue, lack of research is. It is really hard to create and execute a successful campaign without knowing who your demographic is or who the right niche and media influencers are to help promote the campaign.
Paddy Moogan: I've always done egobait with content rather than pure social media. I've created content around the people I'm trying to get links from which means I can really play on their ego and makes my approach stand out from the many others that they must receive.
Jo Turnbull: I think it is important to incorporate social media into a content marketing plan and within that you use egobait, instead of just doing social because you think you should not because you understand it or really want to.
How would you use egobait for the following verticals:
1. New restaurant in a small town
Nick LeRoy: I would challenge the starting QB / Basketball / Baseball star from the local college to an eating challenge of some sort. If they are able to complete the task everyone gets a free dessert. If they can't... well it doesn't matter, you've already had them visit the restaurant and you can take pictures / interview etc. and post a press release and on social media. Etc. This would / could also work really well with professional athletes if you have a good enough challenge.
Chris Dyson: If you are launching a new restaurant/bar then I would personally look at tapping into an existing online community such as Yelp Elite. All these people are all Yelp power users and many are bloggers or heavy social media users. Reach out to the local Yelp Community Manager for your area and offer them an exclusive event with some free cocktails and samples from your menu to get them through your doors.
Pete Attia: Find restaurant reviewers and notify them that they would get their first meal free for being a critic. It's important to refer to them as a critic instead of a blogger in an attempt to build up their ego.
Gaz Copeland: I'm a big fan of Man V Food so maybe running some kind of contest or challenge for local food bloggers, writing about each of their accomplishments.
Debra Mastaler: I'd have the Mayor and Town Council photographed eating there and use the image (with their permission) in a press release and article to the local paper. If the politicians say no, I'd find a group of moms from a variety of preschools and high schools (note the two types of schools) and offer a free meal in exchange for a review. I'd do the article/release/photo-op with them and label it "Mom Chefs Give Their Approval to New ABC Restaurant".
Paddy Moogan: Top x food bloggers who write about the speciality of the restaurant like seafood / steak etc. Perhaps also top x bloggers who have published their own recipes and even choose one to be featured on the restaurant menu for a week.
Jo Turnbull: With the restaurant in the small town, I would write a post on the local town's website. I would also use off line to help promote the restaurant. The message both online and offline would be the same. I would highlight the USPs of the restaurant, for example if it is selling good old fashioned home cooked food, you could play around with the "Home Cooked Meals at (restaurant name) With No Fuss."
2. Ecommerce site selling used sports equipment
Nick LeRoy: This one probably needs to be thought out a bit more... but I would watch out for injuries that occur in very recent pro-games. Did a hockey player get some teeth knocked out? How about a post 'attacking' this individual for not wearing a $9.99 mouth guard? A more 'safe' move could be making a public announcement that your eCommerce site will be sending this pro athlete 100 mouth guards for free.
Chris Dyson: For general link bait I'd create a fake product such as the "Turin Jockstrap" and paint a stain of Christ's face on an old jock strap (hilarity and heresy ensues with the Westboro Baptist church calling me a fag!) (actually do you mind if I use this as an idea for "outrageous linkbait ideas" post... this could be funny) sadly this isn't egobait :( How about....Create a list of local sports clubs/schools (pick those in cash strapped areas) and create a contest for local people to vote on who they want to win some free sports equipment... promote it in the press/social media
Pete Attia: This is an old school idea, but building several lists of local trainers in different cities and write blog posts along the lines of "Top 20 Personal Trainers in San Diego". Then when the posts are up, notify them and offer a badge.
Gaz Copeland: It should be easy to produce content based around sports teams or individual stars, if not targeting them personally with the egobait, targeting any fans or fan communities.
Debra Mastaler: Ever wonder why the payday loan industry is always seen in a negative light while pawn shops are not? Both industries have similar business goals and operating procedures and yet, we create reality shows around pawn brokers and vilify the payday loan industry. Why? The reason is simple: pawn shops learned how to humanize the story behind the need. If you want to promote anything used, humanize the story behind the items you're selling. This should be easy in the used sport equipment area, as every bat, ball and catchers mitt has a dream and a game behind it. Develop your content to appeal to the emotional side while pointing out the economical savings and you'll have a winner.
Paddy Moogan: Local sports team of the month - cover a range of sports and each month or week, feature a new sports team along with pictures, interviews or even videos if you can get them. To sweeten the deal a little, you could even offer some free equipment to youth teams such as footballs or jerseys.
Jo Turnbull: Here you need to highlight the benefits of the sports equipment even if it has been used. Maybe it has only had one owner who never actually used the equipment or if they did you can use the fact that it has been tried and tested so in good working order. The ecommerce site should have content on a school website or a not for profit website talking about the latest equipment they have for sale Maybe they could also have content and include some stats on the % of people who buy sports equipment don't use it and therefore the ecommerce site that is selling the sports equipment is helping the environment - recycling...
3. Educational site devoted to producing documentaries and papers about health issues related to poverty
Nick LeRoy: The problem here is doing something that would / could get a reaction without killing your brand. My gut reaction would be to something controversial that would get people worked up and vocal about illegal immigration and healthcare...
Chris Dyson: Find people who have a similar objective to your own such as local politicians, celebrities or business people who have established social media and press profiles. Reach out and ask them for the opportunity to receive exclusive access to your new piece of content before it's full launch and ask for quotes or interviews for your documentaries, website & research papers. You could also draft a politician/celebrity who is currently promoting their own health/poverty agenda and point out to them how your own work compliments their own ideologies.
Pete Attia: Find industry experts that have written about the issues and ask to interview them for your documentary or paper.
Debra Mastaler: I have two words here: Sally Struthers. Focus on her involvement with the Child Fund: she was one of the very first celebrities to fully support the organization through extensive print, radio and TV spots. Her involvement and how they used her were the subject of many studies and papers, so they'd be a great model to emulate. I like to look at what's been done and what's successful for ideas and inspiration.
Jo Turnbull: For the egobait post I would clarify any myths around poverty for example: Did you know that x % of people who live in poverty suffer x% more health problems or did you know x% of that those living on the poverty line have all gone to good colleges. Top 10 poverty related health issues busted
4. Author who wants to only sell books online
Chris Dyson: Create an ebook interviewing other writers about their passion or offer advice such as their working practices - how to fight writer's block for example. Once the ebook is complete create a method for people to sign up for more information by using something like a launchrock page and contact the interviewees asking for their help promoting the launch. When the book is launched give the book away for free but setup something like pay with a tweet to help gain more traction on social media.
Pete Attia: This is actually Alessio Madeyski's tactic where I believe he got a link from Seth Godin out of it. Find other well respected authors and get their books translated in other languages for them and then post them on your own site.
Gaz Copeland: Book review posts, tweeting quotes from the author maybe.
5. Pest control! (this is my favorite one to think about since I'm terrified of spiders)
Chris Dyson: Negative Egobait.... 50 Celebrities that look like rats? ;)
Pete Attia: Man, that's a tough one. The only thing I can really think of is doing infographics on the negative effects of having specific bugs live in your home and use data from different insectologists' studies. Then when it's created you can show them have you've used their data. Since it's their own information, they're more inclined to link to it or promote it in some fashion. Plus you'd still have an infographic, so if it didn't work out, you could still promote it on its own.
Debra Mastaler: Bugs, snakes and birds don't bother me but I am scared.to.death.of alligators. Another reason not to move to Florida :) This one is easy IMO, I would do a little utility searching using ".edu + your bug keyword" and find ideas, sources and backlinks.
Jo Turnbull: Maybe here, play on people's fear by writing some great posts on home help sites: "Face your fear and banish those spiders from your home for good in 5 simple ways" "3 Ways To Prevent a Cockroach Infestation" "How you are encouraging more pests to live in your house""5 reasons why spiders are good for a home "
6. Outdoor fabrics and furniture
Gaz Copeland: Maybe creating features on specific properties. If you're a local business featuring local bars and restraints with great outdoor areas would be a good place to start. If you're bigger than that maybe looking through images of iconic houses (PlayBoy Mansion, The White House, etc) and creating features on that.
Well, I have to say that if you get through all of this and you still aren't inspired, you should take a deep breath and read the examples again. I'm happy to see that there's a lot of agreement about egobait.
Egobait can be done to death (but hey, it works well!) but there are many takeaways from successful campaigns. Thanks again to everyone for taking the time to contribute!
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2 Comments · Posted by Andrew Stuttaford in science
Muscular dystrophy is an inalienable human right (or something).
The Daily Telegraph reports:
A group of 34 European politicians, including eight British MPs and peers, has signed a declaration attacking plans which will make the UK the first country in the world to permit the new IVF technique. Under legislation being drawn up by ministers the treatment will be offered to a handful of parents at high risk of having children with conditions such as muscular dystrophy, as early as next year.
The therapy can dramatically reduce the risk of children inheriting disorders of the heart, brain and muscle which are caused by faults in the mother's mitochondria, structures which supply power to cells. But it has proved controversial because it involves substituting a small fraction of the mother's damaged DNA with that of a healthy female donor.
Because the swap takes place at the "germ line", the third party's DNA would not only be passed on to the child, but also to any future generations down the female line. The therapy was recommended to government by the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority earlier this year after a public consultation revealed general support. Doctors developing the treatment have emphasised that the DNA in question lies outside the nucleus of the cell and will have no bearing on the child's personality or appearance.
But a declaration made by members of the Council of Europe, a human rights and ethics organisation made up of politicians from across Europe [it's rather more than that], strongly condemned the decision to permit the technique.The declaration proposed by Jim Dobbin, a British Labour MP, which compared the technique to a "eugenic practice", was signed by 34 members of the human rights organisation's 318-strong parliamentary assembly.
It said: "The undersigned members of the Parliamentary Assembly affirm that the creation of children with genetic material from more than two progenitor persons, as is being proposed by the United Kingdom Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority, is incompatible with human dignity and international law".
Superstition, nothing more. Well, on reflection, monumental arrogance too.
It was signed by five other Labour MPs and peers as well as Edward Leigh, a Conservative MP, and the Earl of Dundee, a hereditary peer along with politicians from twelve other nations. The declaration, in effect a statement of opinion by the signatories, does not reflect the view of the whole Council but could now become the subject of a full debate or report.
That Leigh, supposedly a conservative, believes that this is a matter for some international and unaccountable body rather than something to be decided by Britons for themselves only makes matters worse.
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Should people be allowed to see details of their own genetic information?
Of course.
Yet, as Reason's Ron Bailey points out in a post linking to this article by Slate's Virginia Hughes, "timorous and condescending bioethicists and physicians" insist on getting in the way.
Hughes notes:
The public discussion about DNA testing tends to focus on ethical dilemmas: What if doctors find that a person's father isn't really? Should they tell a patient about a DNA glitch if it's only occasionally linked to disease? What if, while looking for mutations that could explain a known sickness, they stumble on others that might predict late-life dementia or indicate the presence of HIV? Would adding this data to someone's medical record affect health insurance rates? What if—gasp—we end up with a real-life Gattaca?
These questions are worth talking about. But the genetics community and popular press spend too much time debating when and how the medical establishment should "protect" people from their children's or their own DNA.
For example, many bioethicists argue that DNA glitches shouldn't be disclosed if they're ambiguous or linked to untreatable conditions. Doing so "may create unwanted psychosocial burdens on parents," according to a commentary on newborn sequencing in the Journal of the American Medical Association.
Ah yes, bioethicists.
They really are a useless, worthless bunch, philosopher-princelings and wannabe clergymen who hawk their insulting and condescending babble to a political class always looking for new reasons to tell people what not to do.
Bailey concludes:
It is way past time for 25 or so states that have restricted the right of citizens to obtain their genetic information from direct-to-consumer companies to lift their bans.
Indeed it is.
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From a WSJ review of a new book chronicling the Minnesota Study of Twins Reared Apart:
The Minnesota study's IQ results hit a nerve years before their publication in 1990, overshadowing other controversies that might have been. Many of its findings are bipartisan shockers. Take religion, which almost everyone attributes to "socialization." Separated-twin data show that religiosity has a strong genetic component, especially in the long run: "Parents had less influence than they thought over their children's religious activities and interests as they approached adolescence and adulthood." The key caveat: While genes have a big effect on how religious you are, upbringing has a big effect on the brand of religion you accept. Identical separated sisters Debbie and Sharon "both liked the rituals and formality of religious services and holidays," even though Debbie was a Jew and Sharon was a Christian.
Just another example of the 'God Gene' at work, I suppose, and, as such, just another reminder that there is little or no prospect of ever weaning mankind off religion (Professor Dawkins, please note).
On Jews & genetics
3 Comments · Posted by David Hume in history
I have been travelling, and so blogging has been light from my end for a while now. But I thought I would point readers to a long post I put up over at Discover Blogs on Jewish genetics. The post wasn't long enough really to say everything that needs to be said, so I'll follow up, but I didn't have more time than an afternoon to devote to it. Of more relevance to Secular Right readers, I'll be posting a moderately negative review of Larry Witham's Marketplace of the Gods: How Economics Explains Religion over there too. Shorter: more a bibliography than a précis, and a bit ill-timed in regards to capitalizing on the boom of economics-explains-everything books (writing began before the 2008 Financial Crisis).
Your genes on cuisine
2 Comments · Posted by David Hume in culture, science
A year ago there was a paper on the effect of diet on enzyme production, Diet and the evolution of human amylase gene copy number variation. That human evolution skeptic, P. Z. Myers, has just noticed the paper, and says:
This work by Perry and others went on to look for patterns in different human populations with different dietary historys, and discovered that there is a correlation: cultures with diets heavy in starch, agricultural populations such as Americans, Europeans, and Japanese, or hunter-gathers who live on many roots and tubers, have a higher average copy number than cultures that depend more on hunting and fishing.
Look at the distributions! Populations with little starch in their diets also have a relatively low copy number of 5.44 amylase genes per individual; we french fry eaters have a higher number of 6.72 amylase genes per individual. The difference is small, and the distributions also overlap significantly (note that some with high starch diets only have 2 copies, and some living on low starch diets have 13 copies), but the difference is measurable and significant. It implies that there may have been some selection for greater copy numbers in cultures with diets high in starchy plants.
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Michigan's elected leaders are notorious for sugar-coating the realities of doing more with less. So props to Mayor Dave Bing and the Detroit Works project he has championed for telling Detroiters the truth about their limited options for redeeming Michigan's largest city -- and reminding them how quickly those options will narrow if Detroit's elected leaders fail to seize the moment.
The Detroit Future City report unveiled Wednesday is best understood as a municipal triage plan. Squarely confronting the chasm between residents' expectations and the city's capacity to meet them, the report's authors have done their best to apportion the city's dwindling resources across a sprawling landscape of deprivation.
They've asked the tough questions field medics ask when the number of wounded people exceeds the medical resources available to treat them:
Which neighborhoods can be saved by emergency surgery, and which are doomed with or without such intervention?
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Whose damaged limbs can heal, and whose must be amputated to prevent the spread of life-threatening infection?
Who can be treated in place, and who must be moved to better-equipped facilities to enjoy a reasonable chance for recovery?
Planners who endeavor to bend the future to their vision are always criticized for playing God, or, what is worse in some circles, distorting the free market. But the Detroit Future City report is less about picking winners and losers than about conjuring a city that, unlike today's Detroit, affords a reasonable quality of life to the greatest possible number of residents.
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Nobody will be forced to move, or denied the municipal equivalent of palliative care wherever they choose to live. But if implemented, the Future City plan would codify the tale-of-two-cities scenario that already exists, formalizing the boundary between neighborhoods that retain critical mass and the more sparsely populated hinterlands where the amenities associated with urban living are generally unavailable.
Opposition to the vision outlined in the Future City plan will likely come mostly from those who find themselves on the wrong side of that boundary. But they've been placed there already by history and demographic trends more powerful than any urban planners' vision. And allocating a greater share of Detroit's diminishing resources to its most devastated neighborhoods is less likely to save them than to doom slightly healthier neighborhoods whose survival currently hangs in the balance.
The Kresge Foundation's decision to back the Future City's way forward with $150 million will make it difficult for all but the most demagogic office-seekers to dismiss that path out of hand. It was an awfully long time coming, but the vision-thing Dave Bing promised is tangible at last.
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Whoever joins the 2013 mayoral scrum, and whatever emergency management contingencies come to prevail in Detroit, the detailed framework made public Wednesday will be the playing field on which the city's future is won or lost.
Bing's planners have confronted Detroiters candidly with the hard choices before them; his successors will either make those choices purposefully, or cast Detroit's fate to the wind.
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ROME - Italy is withdrawing its aircraft carrier the Garibaldi from NATO's operation in Libya to cut 80 million euros ($114 million) in costs, a minister announced July 6.
They also planned to pull out another ship from the mission.
"We have cut back costs in Libya, from 142 million euros forecast in the first half of the year to less than 60 million for the second half," Defense Minister Ignazio La Russa said after a government meeting.
The news came after Italy's Cabinet moved to cut spending military spending.
The plan had been drawn up to pull the Garibaldi, its three fighter jets and 1,000 personnel out of the mission as they were "no longer necessary", La Russa said.
The Garibaldi would be replaced by a smaller boat and other planes from military bases would be used, he added.
Another ship would also be withdrawn from the mission as well, he added without elaborating.
Italy has several ships and eight planes deployed in NATO's mission against Libya's Col. Moammar Gadhafi. Seven of its air bases are also used by other members of the coalition.
With Italy grappling a financial crisis that has forced it to pass a series of austerity cuts, the government on July 6 said it had decided to gradually reduce its military operations abroad.
Italy has troops deployed in Afghanistan, Lebanon and Kosovo and is involved in NATO's military operations in Libya, despite the objections of the anti-immigrant Northern League party, Berlusconi's coalition ally.
The League, lead by populist Umberto Bossi, has called for a dramatic reduction in Italy's military presence abroad to free up public funds.
Some 7,200 Italian troops were deployed in 28 countries as of June 30, according to the defense ministry website: 4,200 troops in Afghanistan, 1,700 in Lebanon and 650 in the Balkans.
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Kris Jenner has declared her love for her estranged husband.
The 'Keeping Up with the Kardashians' star split from Bruce Jenner in October after more than two decades of marriage, but posted a touching tribute to him online to celebrate their 23rd wedding anniversary on Monday.
The 58-year-old Kardashian family matriarch shared an old photograph of them on Instagram, with the caption: "Happy Anniversary to one of the most amazing men I know!!!! I love you, Wow 23 years!!!!! #love #weareofficiallyvintage"
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BREMERTON - Bremerton School District staff, board members and others had accolades for outgoing Superintendent Lester "Flip" Herndon on Thursday, Herndon's last board meeting.
Herndon, 43, announced on Monday he would take a job with Seattle schools as assistant superintendent for capital, facilities and enrollment planning. His last official day is Aug. 31, after four years with the district.
Assistant Superintendent Aaron Leavell will head the district until Herndon's permanent replacement is appointed. A public forum on the process is set for Aug. 29.
Bremerton Mayor Patty Lent presented Herndon with a key to the city "because of what you've done and the legacy we're going to have from your tenure."
Lent noted the district's deeding of the old Bremerton Junior High School campus to the city for a youth wellness center.
Lane Dowell, a community member who was on the 2009 superintendent search committee, said Herndon brought dynamic change to the district. He said Herndon was a standout among applicants.
"I knew right away we had a crackerjack," Dowell said.
Under Herndon's leadership, the district established a pre-K through eighth-grade STEM school, a new Montessori program, an alternative program for students in grades 9 and 10, extension of a Spanish-immersion program and new online school options. Herndon said all of these presented wider options to students and families and helped turn Bremerton's reputation around. He cited support from the community and staff in helping bring about the change.
"There really are some great people here who work hard for the benefit of all students," Herndon said.
"You are a strong, thoughtful, courageous, visionary leader, and I'm going to miss you terribly," said personnel director Denise Zaske.
Board members said Herndon helped them understand cutting-edge trends in education and challenged them to push the district forward. His Friday memos to the board were in-depth, informative reports often with "homework assignments" required, board member Dave Boynton said.
Board member Dave Rubie said that while he didn't always see eye to eye with Herndon, he always felt respected.
"You've always had a very even keel, keeping everything professional, and that's very much needed," Rubie said.
A number of people mentioned that Herndon's new job will reunite him with his Seattle-based family, and they expressed gratitude to him for making Bremerton a steppingstone in his ascendant career. Herndon has had a residence in Bremerton, but his children attend Seattle schools.
"Seattle's gain is definitely Bremerton School District's loss," said board member Ken Watkins. "I hate to see you go, but I'm very happy for you. Happy trails to you."
"The sacrifice you've made with your family, I really understand and I appreciate," board president Carolynn Perkins said. "You have more than succeeded in bringing Bremerton to the next level. I'm very proud of what we've achieved."
Perkins said the board will present an open slate to the public at the Aug. 29 meeting as far as what the next steps will be in replacing Herndon. The board made no mention of initiating a formal search at this time.
What: Public forum on superintendent search
When: 5 p.m. Aug. 29
Where: District administration building, 134 Marion Ave. N
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The search for an Alzheimer's patient who walked away from his home ended happily early Monday morning.
Lexington Police issued a Golden Alert for William Wethington, 74, after he walked away from his home on East Loudon Avenue Sunday night.
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A recent CNN Money article lauded Hattiesburg's "long-standing tradition of entrepreneurship" as a primary reason for the city's ranking among the Top 10 Best Places to Launch a Small Business.
That ranking does not surprise Andrew Murff, director of Business Launchpoint, a small business incubator created in 2005 through a collaboration between The University of Southern Mississippi and the Area Development Partnership.
"Business Launchpoint's critical role in assisting small businesses is evident by our recognition from CNN and has only been possible by generous support from regional organizations and businesses," said Murff.
Business Launchpoint, located in downtown Hattiesburg, provides early-stage business counseling assistance, office space, shared office services and amenities to assist companies with launching and developing new ventures. The company's mission is to assist potential high-growth businesses and to create jobs and wealth within the community.
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Meghna Naidu enacts the role of a sex worker in a film that aims to expose some harsh realities of rural India.
The movie, titled Rivaaz , is made by Ashok Nanda. The film's story is based on true facts about certain Indian villages where flesh trade is the livelihood of people. Women in such villages are pushed into prostitution while men become their pimps.
In 'Rivaaz', Meghna plays a girl named Chanda in one such village. Although her mother and father prompt her to become a prostitute, Chanda is against this tradition. And when she finally does succumb, she is unable to get customers and is beaten by her brother.
Ashok Nanda reportedly did extensive research on the subject. He has also visited some of these villages under cover.
When Meghna first heard the movie's subject, she refused to believe that such villages exist anymore. But Ashok Nanda provided her with irrefutable proof. That's when she realized the harsh realities many girls live under in these villages.
Meghna says working in 'Rivaaz' was a very disturbing experience. Even though she was playing just a character, she was disturbed to see how parents push their daughters into prostitution.
'Rivaaz' was mainly shot in Wai in Maharashtra. The movie also stars Deepti Naval and Alok Nath .
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The whole purpose is for children in our community to get to know people in the court system and community and turn to us for help if they need it, rather than be afraid of us or the police officers.
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As a true book nerd, I love Barnes & Noble. Today I visited there and was pleased to find one of the plush chairs back in the corner free. Across from me was a coffee table and matching cozy chair. After a few moments, an older man sat down. White, around 50 years of age with dark hair, his protruding beer belly covered by a casual T-shirt, and he wore glasses. I dislike how Barnes & Noble arranges its furniture so you end up across from strangers, and I wanted to leave, but dammit that chair was comfy.
Immersed in my reading, I jerked up when I heard the unmistakable sound of a cell phone camera going off. The man across from me was looking away and rubbing his grey flip phone casually against his shirt.
The camera click was like a gunshot in the forest, and I was the frozen deer.
I first thought, 'Oh god, did he just take a photo of me??!!' Creepshots are a popular internet theme and I've read countless news stories about how 'this' is a thing – to photograph unknown women for the purpose of sexual perversion. It's even all over Twitter.
My pulse sped up and my gut instinct told me that this happened, that this man had photographed me. I froze for a moment, not sure what to do. Quickly I got up and walked away. The towering bookshelves stood between us like wooden soldiers. I tried to get control.
Except I couldn't.
I felt fucking violated.*
I found my male companion and tried to explain, but either I didn't explain it well or he didn't believe the guy actually took a photo. I felt crazy and began to doubt myself. 'Maybe it didn't happen…' When I decided to walk back around five minutes later to see if he was still there, the perpetrator was gone. I searched the store. He was nowhere.
I sat down at one of the wooden tables, not wanting to invite another opportunity for some stranger to sit by me. I wondered, 'My legs were crossed and I was wearing a skirt. Was that it?' and 'My keyhole peasant top shifts around and sometimes shows more cleavage than it should. Was that it?'
I wanted to cover myself with my favorite blanket and go unseen.
And then I thought…What the heck was wrong with me? I'M A FEMINIST. Of course it isn't my fault that rape culture exists and we have these freaking creepers who harass women. I KNOW THIS.
So what's up with all the internal misogyny? No matter how much we learn, how much we engage in discussions on the topic, how much we advocate for women and the activist work that we do – are we still chained to the patriarchy? I am pretty self-aware, and didn't think I had internalized oppression like this … but I guess I had. Maybe we all do.
I texted one of my friends who has training in this sort of thing. She quickly texted back and then called, recommending that I file a police report and speak to the Barnes & Noble manager.
I balked … for some reason I felt shame, even though I knew it wasn't my fault. And the idea of telling someone, someone in authority … well, that made it real. That made me a victim.
I'm not a victim!
And ye t… I am. Many women are or will be.
Stats don't lie – According to RAINN, one out of every six American women are raped in their lifetime. A sexual assault occurs once every two minute,s and while it is difficult to obtain stats on sexual harassment, any woman can tell you this happens often. My situation? Just another day in the life of being a woman.
I realized that my friend was giving the same advice that I would have counseled someone, so I decided to speak to the staff at Barnes & Noble.
And … the most screwed up thing happened … somehow this affected me on a deeper level emotionally that I would have thought would be triggered. That feeling of violation resulted in a combination of angerfearshameanxiety that struck me like a viper.
My hands started shaking and I spent the next five minutes in the bathroom to give myself a moment. I didn't want to report it. I mean, maybe I was wrong? Maybe it's just all in my head?
Again, that feeling of 'feminist guilt' flooded me … this wasn't me. I'm the girl raised on badass feminists like Xena, Buffy, and Eowyn!
I pushed myself to go make a report, approaching a younger woman at the Customer Service desk. When I told her I wanted to file a report about a creepy man who took a photo of me, she looked shocked. "My manager should know what to do …"
I waited. I fiddled with my phone, running my finger lightly over the smooth case.
The manager approached me. I told him what happened, how I was pretty positive that this creepy man took a photo of me and I wanted to file a report in case this was a regular thing he did.
"Ohhh," he drawled. "That is creepy. We want all of our customers to feel safe here. What did he look like?"
I explained but added that he had already left. I had not been sure to make a report but decided to do so (not mentioning how it took me a while to get over the anxiety of the issue).
His remark? "You don't have to [i.e., in a 'you should have' tone] , but I wish you had reported this right away so we could have said something. If you see him again in here let us know."
I was dumbfounded. And feeling a bit guilty. Had I screwed up by not reporting it sooner? No, wait, I hadn't – forget this! Who is this manager trying to make me feel guilty?
That last bit of anger spurred an additional question. "Oh, but what about the cameras …? I mean, maybe —"
His expression stopped me, and he said that the cameras don't actually work.
OKAY BARNES & NOBLE, I SEE YOU. Way to decorate the place with fake cameras. Cool.
I left. He didn't apologize. He didn't make a report. He didn't offer me any options (did I want to file a store report? did I want to take any action?).
My friend called back to check in right after and I began laughing from the ridiculous of it all. Did I honestly just experience the patriarchy in action? I mean, first the violation, then my male companion doubting me, and then the male manager expressing no remorse and taking no action … are you serious??
I'm not quite like Xena, Buffy, or Eowyn – I don't use a sword. But I do wield words. I wrote this because it's a form of empowerment for me, but I also wrote this for you, Gentle Reader.
Should you ever have someone (woman or man/friend, family, student, etc) approach you because they felt violated (harassment, assault, rape), remember this story. It's not easy to approach someone when you've been made to feel victimized. Don't brush off their concerns or make them feel worse about the situation. Words are powerful. Be careful how you wield them.
Most especially, as I reflect on this event I realize how much more I have to go when it comes to deconstructing the patriarchy. Although I consider myself a feminist who understands these terms and concepts, I realize how much I have internalized the oppression. It's important to identify this …so I may eradicate it.
But ultimately, regardless of all the reflecting that I do … I'll always wonder if a creepshot of me is floating around the internet.
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Man charged with allegedly extorting BYU student for sex, money
A 36-year-old Orem man was charged with a first-degree felony for allegedly extorting a 21-year-old Brigham Young University student for sex and money.
Brad Ray Adams was charged in 4th District Court on Monday with one count of attempted forcible sodomy, a first-degree felony; one count of voyeurism, a Class A misdemeanor; and one count each of theft by extortion and attempted theft by extortion, both Class B misdemeanors.
Provo police said on Feb. 22, the student met Adams via Craiglist and began communicating by e-mail and text messages. After the student sent Adams sexually suggestive photos of himself, Adams threatened to send the photos to the university's honor code officials, charging documents state.
Adams suggested the student come to his Orem apartment, which he did, and the two men had consensual sex, charging document say.
After the sexual encounter at the apartment, the student told Adams he didn't want any more contact, but Adams persisted in having the relationship, police said.
Adams told the student that he had recorded everything during their sexual encounter on camera and would release the video unless he was paid $260, charging documents state.
"Brad allegedly told the victim to give him sex or money, or he would tell his family, friends, and BYU Honor Code Office," Provo police said in news release Monday. "The victim gave the suspect $260, hoping this would end the relationship. Brad continued to persist for money or sex."
Adams continued to demand he be paid $800 or $600, plus sex, charging documents say.
Police set up a sting operation after the student told his story to police, court document say. In the set-up encounter, the student gave Adams $800 in exchange for the compromising photos, police said.
Adams was arrested after the exchange.
During a police interview, Adams confessed to what had happened, court documents say. Police seized Adams electronics as part of their investigation, which will include looking for other victims.
Anyone with information of other victims may call Detective Brian Taylor at 801-852-7328.


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Unanimous Pictures is pulling out of UK distributionless than a yearafter launching into the market. The company, formerly known as Halcyon Pictures, will now concentrateexclusively on production.
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