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Blood-Dark Track: A Family Historyby Joseph O'Neill
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Joseph O'Neill's grandfathers--one Turkish, one Irish--were both imprisoned for suspected subversion during the Second World War. The Irish grandfather, a handsome rogue from a family of small farmers, was an active member
From the bestselling and PEN/Faulkner Award-winning author of Netherland, a fascinating, personal, and beautifully crafted family history.
Joseph O'Neill's grandfathers--one Turkish, one Irish--were both imprisoned for suspected subversion during the Second World War. The Irish grandfather, a handsome rogue from a family of small farmers, was an active member of the IRA. O'Neill's other grandfather, a debonair hotelier from the tiny and threatened Turkish Christian minority, was interned by the British in Palestine on suspicion of being an Axis spy.
With intellect, compassion, and grace, O'Neill sets the stories of these individuals against the history of the last century's most inhuman events.
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"Essential reading....A fascinating exploration of the personal complexities and private intimacies that lie behind a crude word like 'terrorism.'" -The New York Review of Books
"An extraordinary book. . . . As thrilling as a murder trial. . . . The progress of [O'Neill's] investigations are imbued with all the darkening excitement of a novel by le Carré or Greene." —Times Literary Supplement (London)
"A gripping detective story, a thoughtful enquiry into nationalism, and a moving evocation of world war at the edges of its European theatre." —The Economist (London)
"Joseph O'Neill's voice in this book is often intimate and engaging, like someone whispering fascinating secrets, but it is also at times a public voice, deeply involved with the silences and lies which have surrounded the past and distorted the present in both Turkey and Ireland. O'Neill is a born story-teller with a sharp eye, a great style and a good wit. His sense of modern Ireland, with all its ghosts and contradictions, is superb." —Colm Tóibín
"A stealthy, evidential enterprise, it stalks its material, considers, reassesses and chews over the theories. It is a big cat of a book. It creeps up on you, then pounces. And once it has you in its grip, it doesn't let go in a hurry." —Evening Standard (London)
"Every word in this riveting book is carefully freighted. Unlike many books which claim to trace a 'journey,' Blood-Dark Track achieves its ambition, leaving teller and listener at the end with a haunting sense of having arrived somewhere new." —The Times (London)
"Painfully honest and lucid. . . . Joseph O'Neill writes beautifully. The fascination of this book lies in watching him come to terms with the violence in his family's past." —Daily Mail (London)
"The book has certainly worked hard to earn the reconciliation it finally imagines. It is too honest to get what it hopes for; too uncertain to know for sure what it is that has to be reconciled or forgiven. In its very unease, it is a remarkable book." —Irish Times (Ireland)
"The story [O'Neill] tells here yields much evidence of [his] quickness of mind, analytical skill, contemplative ability and sheer endurance. But the book's greatest triumph is the delicate, sympathetic peeling back of layer after layer of two families before and after they overlap." —Observer (London)
"This is a beautifully written and complicated book, in which difficult perceptions are expressed with forensic honesty. Its author finds that he cannot quite define his elusive grandfathers, and their moralities; but he has certainly comer closer to defining himself, and his." —Sunday Telegraph (London)
"The premise for this book is a simple and utterly compelling one; a commonality that brings two heterogenous places and cultures and lives together. The fruit of those parallel journeys is a remarkable book, almost novelistic in form and in style. [O'Neill] is a born writer . . . with a gorgeous sense of history and emotion and timbre." —Sunday Tribune (Ireland)
"[O'Neill's] thoroughness and energy are phenomenal." —London Review of Books
"[O'Neill] uncovers fascinating parallels between the two men, illuminating the ways in which individual lives mesh with history." —Sunday Times (London)
"A moving account, judiciously mixing familial feelings with historical research to powerful effect." —New Statesman (London)
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- Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
- Publication date:
- 10/05/2010
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... the old post cards do not depict Maurilia as it was, but a different city which, by chance, was called Maurilia, like this one.
–Italo Calvino, Invisible Cities
I was born on 23 February 1964 in the Bon Secours Hospital, Cork. The following day my father flew into Cork and went directly from the airport to the nursery ward, where to everybody's amazement he unhesitatingly picked me out from the sixteen newborn babies lying anonymously in their cots. Then he walked quickly to the maternity ward to see my mother. She was in bed, and my father sat down on the rim of the bed. He took her hand. He had been abroad working, and it was their first meeting for over a week. 'Your father has died,' he said. My mother began to weep, and so did my father.
Born the day after his death, I was given my grandfather's name–Joseph.
He died on a rain-blurred day in Istanbul. At some point in the afternoon, Pierre, my mother's brother, sat grieving alone in an Istanbul café. A concerned stranger approached the tearful young man and gently asked him what his trouble was. 'My father has died,' Oncle Pierre said. The stranger took hold of Pierre by the shoulders and looked him in the eyes. 'See to your mother,' he said.
Joseph had for years been troubled by a heart problem that necessitated trips to Istanbul for treatment; and in 1961, he suffered a heart attack that brought Oncle Pierre, who was in Lyon studying law and economics, back to Mersin to help his father with the completion of the new Toros Hotel building. Joseph's condition worsened. In January 1964, when Fonda Tahintzi went to ask for the hand of my aunt Amy, he found Joseph in bed, dressed in his bathrobe and too weak to rise. In February, X-rays of my grandfather's heart were taken; these were, according to the Mersin doctors, inconclusive. Joseph appealed for help to Muzaffer Ersoy, his former personal physician, in whom he had great faith. Dr Ersoy, who had moved his practice to Istanbul and was on his way to substantial professional fame, requested that the X-rays be sent to him. Once he'd seen them, he responded immediately. The Mersin doctors had misread the X-rays: far from being inconclusive, they showed that the patient's heart had suddenly enlarged; it was vital that he go to Istanbul immediately for further treatment and tests. Joseph's worst fears were confirmed: for days, now, he had been vomiting in the mornings, grimly muttering, 'J'aime pas ça.' So, wearing a hat placed on his head by Amy, Joseph caught a flight at Adana. It was his first experience of aviation, the death of a friend in an air crash having previously scared him off. On this occasion, though, getting on board the aeroplane truly was a matter of living or dying. Dr Ersoy said that the next three days would be decisive; either the patient would perish or the crisis would pass. Joseph said to his wife, Georgette, 'I promise that if I survive I'll buy you a fur coat. I'll buy one for you and one for the wife of Muzaffer Ersoy.'
Nobody got a fur coat. On the third day of his hospitalization, Joseph died; but not before he had seduced my grandmother one last time. Lying on his bed, he asked her forgiveness for all the harm he'd caused her: 'Pardonne moi pour tout le mal que je t'ai fait.' Mamie Dakad replied, 'I am very happy with what I have had.' My grandfather closed his eyes. For a long time he had worried terribly about dying, but now he was surprisingly and suddenly at peace. 'Comme c'est bon,' he said, and he squeezed his wife's hand; whereupon he died.
My grandmother attached great weight to these dramatic gestures and would occasionally tell the story of her husband's last moments to her daughters. It was, in her eyes, a kind of happy ending, and one which decisively vindicated the steadfast and exclusive love she had borne my grandfather for over thirty years. My mother said to me, 'Because of what he said in the hospital, Maman always kept a good memory of Papa.'
A van came down overnight from Istanbul with the body. The journey was not easy. Snow was falling as the van crossed the Anatolian plateau, a near-desert of desolate, immeasurable darkness. The van slowly made its way through the snowstorm, the flakes falling without cease and still falling hours later as the vehicle slowly climbed the Taurus mountains, where, at the village of Pozanti, Fonda and Amy escorted it for the remainder of the journey. The convoy proceeded through forests and along terrifying precipices towards a narrow chasm known as the Cilician Gate, through which the army of Alexander the Great and the crusaders of the Holy Roman Emperor, Frederick Barbarossa, once passed. Eventually the snow and the mountains gave way to heavy rain and foothills, and finally to drizzle and the maritime plain of Çukurova, which is still referred to by westerners as Cilicia, after the Roman province (briefly governed by Cicero) of which the plain formed part. My grandfather's body was driven through Tarsus, the birthplace of St Paul, where a still-visible hole in the ground is alleged to be the well in which the evangelist hid from his pursuers. Legend also sticks to Tarsus' river, the Cydnus, on whose then navigable waters Cleopatra sailed her barge to meet Mark Antony. The convoy continued south-westward for about thirty kilometres, coming to a place that according to one conjecture is the location of Eden, a theory that, however crazy, is consistent with the remarkable fertility of the local earth, in which superb fruits and vegetables grow, and also with archaeological evidence (produced by the excavations of an English Hittitologist, John Garstang) which suggests that the area — that is, the area now occupied by the city of Mersin — is one of the oldest continuously inhabited spots on the planet.
The van followed Fonda's car along an avenue of eucalyptus trees. This was the eastern road into Mersin. On they went: past the railway line that reaches a charming terminus at Mersin's old railway station, past the courthouse, past the prison, past what used to be known as the Maronite quarter, past the Catholic church, past the old Greek quarter. They entered a town which I imagine I just about remember, a quiet port of white-stoned villas and lush gardens, of untidy shacks and donkeys loaded with panniers leaking peaches, of card-games and tittle-tattle in multiple languages — a town reeking, in the springtime, of orange blossom. There was practically no motorized traffic as the convoy proceeded up the main street, Atatürk Çaddesi, and drove by the Toros Hotel, whose transformation — two large old limestone houses knocked down and replaced by a single, brand-new, four-storey building with fifty-three rooms — Joseph Dakad had only recently completed. The only other vehicles of any size on the street were cabs, which is to say, red-spoked carriages drawn by two blinkered horses whipped into exhaustion.
As recently as the early 'seventies these squeaking, rocking contraptions were Mersin's main form of taxi transport, and I often boarded them with my tiny, hunchbacked great-aunt, Tante Isabelle, to go from the hotel to the little stone house she shared with her tiny, hunchbacked sister, Tante Alexandra. Shaded by the cab's tassel-fringed bonnet, mesmerized by the carriage's brassy curves and the horses' flying red pom-poms, surrounded by the odours of dung and Tante Isabelle's Turkish eau-de-Cologne, I settled back in the scarlet leather seat like a pocket pasha and waited for the jolt that signalled the start of a ride of heavenly unsteadiness. We took the route taken by the convoy six or so years earlier, past rows of splendid palm trees that seemed to stand to attention, the whitewashed bases of their trunks smart as the spats worn by the Turkish soldiers who, to my delight, seemed constantly to march and parade on the streets of Mersin, often with glorious rockets and artillery on display. 'Dooma, dooma, doom,' I chanted from my great-aunts' balcony in imitation of the drums. I loved the invasion of Cyprus in the summer of 1974, when Mersin was filled with troops and there was a blackout in case the Greeks bombed the town.
We clip-clopped past the official house of the Vali (the provincial governor), past the monumental Halkevi (the House of the People) and its seaward-gazing statue of Atatürk, and then past the Greek Orthodox Church. At the rear of the church was the priest's house. It overlooked an open-air cinema where shadows of bats flitted across the screen. I could not follow the films — I half-remember a tragic melodrama involving disastrous migrations from country to city — or why the paying public, massed amongst winking red cigarette tips, intermittently snapped into fierce, sudden applause, the men rising from blue wooden chairs to clap with frowning, emotional faces. Peering through the rear window with my great-aunt and the priest's family, I looked out on a world full of stories I did not understand.
After the Greek Orthodox Church, the carriage jingled past big merchants' houses, some semi-abandoned, most in disrepair. In the top corner of each, it seemed, lived an old lady whom one knew — Madame Dora, Madame Rita, Madame Fifi, Madame Juliette, Madame Virginie. It was a leafy street, and turtle doves purred in the trees. On we went, hoofbeats clacking, the gentle stink of horseshit wafting up from the street, until we came to Camlibel (pronounced Chumleybell), a small oval park surrounded by villas with gardens that overran with fruit trees and bougainvillaea. At the far end of Camlibel was the Dakad residence, a large, cool, rented apartment on the first floor of a villa. Tante Isabelle's place was only a little further on, just before the military barracks at the edge of the town. That was the long and the short of Mersin in those days: a quarter-hour ride in a carriage, or a five minute drive for a slow-moving car such as the van transporting the body of Joseph Dakad to Camlibel.
If you drove out west of Mersin, you travelled along a beautiful coastline. Once you had passed through the avenue of palm trees by the barracks, crossed the dry riverbed and gone past the stadium of Mersin Idmanyurdu (the football team that has always yo-yoed between Turkey's first and second divisions), in a deafening roar of frogs you came upon mile after mile of orange groves and lemon groves planted, at their perimeters, with pomegranate, grapefruit, tangerine and medlar trees. Then came the villages of Mezitli and Elvanli and Erdemli, the Taurus foothills meanwhile getting closer and closer until, after you'd motored for the best part of an hour, the farmland expired and the road was hemmed in by, on the left, the sea — which indented the land with bays that flared turquoise at their confluence with freshwater streams — and, on the right, rocks covered with wild olive trees, sarcophagi, basilica, aqueducts, castles, arches, mosaics, ruined temples and ghost villages. You drove on until you came to Kizkalesi, an island fortress wondrously afloat three hundred yards offshore that is a relic of the medieval kingdom of Lesser Armenia, and you got out of the car and went swimming in hot, lucid waters. There was nobody else around except for the occasional camel or shy children hoping to be photographed.
In the last twenty years, the beach holiday has arrived in Turkey. Nowadays Kizkalesi is a swollen, chaotic resort crowded by tourists from Adana and the landlocked east. The roadside antiquities are dwarfed by advertising hoardings, pansiyons and summer homes, the inlets and creeks are covered by a mess of unplanned structures, the citrus groves have been razed to make way for holiday complexes and towering, gloomy suburbs. The belching frogs have gone (some, decades ago, packed in ice and shipped by Oncle Pierre to the tables of France), and an hour's drive will barely take you clear of Mersin's concrete outskirts and the moan of cement-mixers and the fog of building dust.
In Mersin itself, a huge boulevard now swings along the seafront. Countless young palm trees spring from the pavements, new stoplights regulate the chaos at junctions, traffic islands are dense with flowering laurels, and block after block after block of bone-white apartments take shape from grey hulks. Hooting minibuses race through the streets three abreast, residential complexes multiply along the coast, the minarets of enormous new mosques make their way skywards in packs. In the final thirty years of the last century, the population, swollen by a massive influx from the east, much of it Kurdish, has multiplied sixfold to around six hundred thousand. It's a boom-town. The port, with its officially designated Free Trade Zone, ships' commodities worldwide in unprecedented quantities: pumice-stones from Nevsehir to Savannah and Casablanca; pulses from Gaziantep to Colombo, Karachi, Chittagong, Doha and Valencia; apple concentrate from Nigde to New York and Ravenna; TV parts from Izmir to Felixstowe and Rotterdam; insulation material from Tarsus to Alexandria and Abu Dhabi; dried apricots from Malatya to Antwerp (and thence Germany and France); Iranian pistachios to Haifa (in secret shipments, to save political embarrassment); Russian cotton to Djakarta and Keelung; citrus fruit from Mersin to Hamburg and Taganrog; synthetic yarn from Adana to Norfolk and Alexandria; carpets from Kayseri to Oslo and to Jeddah. Just along from the new marina, you'll find a Mersin Hilton and luxury seaside condominiums; and in the unremarkable interior of the city, the gigantic Mersin Metropol Tower (popularly known as the dick of Mersin) lays claim to the title of 'the tallest building between Frankfurt and Singapore'. On the streets, young women are turned out in European trends, teenagers smooch, and male students at the new Mersin University amble along Atatürk Çaddesi, Mersin's first pedestrianized street, with long hair and clean-shaven faces.
Of course, some things never change. Sailors still sport snowy flares. Men wear vests under their shirts in the clammy August heat, and moustaches, and old-fashioned trousers with a smart crease leading down to the inevitable dainty loafer. You'll still see vendors pushing carts loaded with pistachios, grapes, or prickly pears; corn on the cob (grilled or boiled) is sold at street corners; and shoeblacks grow old behind their brassy boxes. The old vegetable and meat and fish market has kept going, and the pleasant little Catholic Church of Mersin where my parents were married and which I have intermittently attended over the years is the same. As ever, a fountain spurts a loop of water in the church's small, leafy courtyard, and Sunday Mass attracts adherents to all six Catholic rites — Roman, Syrian, Chaldaean, Maronite, Armenian, and Greek. It's a varied congregation. You'll see ageing westernized Christians in drab urban clothes, enthusiastic children packed in scrums into the front pews (boys right of the aisle, girls left), and a big turn-out of worshippers vividly dressed in shawls and baggy pants; these last are Chaldaeans from the mountains in the extreme south-east of Turkey. Not all Mersin Christians are rich.
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Meet the Author
Joseph O'Neill was born in Cork, Ireland, in 1964 and grew up in Mozambique, South Africa, Iran, Turkey, and Holland. His works include the novels Netherland, which won the PEN/Faulkner Award for fiction and the Kerry Group Irish Fiction Award, This Is The Life, and The Breezes. He writes regularly for The Atlantic Monthly. He lives with his family in New York City.
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Sir Martin John Evans FRS (born 1 January 1941) is a British scientist, credited with discovering how to culture embryonic stem cells in 1981, and for his work in the development of the knockout mouse and the related technology of gene targeting.[1][2] In 2007, he was a co-winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in recognition of his gene targeting work.[3][4]
Early life
Evans was born in Stroud, Gloucestershire, England on 1 January 1941.[2] His mother was a teacher. His father maintained a mechanical workshop and taught Evans to use the tools and machines there, including a lathe. Evans was close to his grandfather who was a choir master at a Baptist Church for over 40 years, and whose main interests were music, poetry and the Baptist Church. His mother's brother was a professor of astronomy at the University of Cambridge. As a boy Evans was quiet, shy and inquisitive. He liked science and his parents encouraged his education. He was brought up in Orpington and he went to St Dunstan's College, an independent school for boys in South East London, where he worked hard studying for the University of Cambridge entrance exams. At school he was one of the best pupils, although not at the top of the class.[4]
Evans was a student at Christ's College, University of Cambridge, at a time when there were many advances in genetics. He went to seminars by Sydney Brenner and attended lectures given by Jacques Monod.[4] He graduated from Christ's College, University of Cambridge in 1963,[2] although he did not take his final examinations because he was ill with glandular fever at that time.[1] He moved to University College London where he was awarded a PhD in 1969.[2][5] He became a lecturer in the Anatomy and Embryology department at University College London, where did research work, and taught PhD students and undergraduate students.[5] In 1978 he moved to the Department of Genetics, at the University of Cambridge, where his work in association with Matthew Kaufman began in 1980.[2] In October 1985 he visited the Whitehead Institute, Cambridge, Massachusetts for one month of bench work to learn new techniques.[1][6] In 1990s, he was a fellow at St Edmund's College, University of Cambridge. In 1999 he became Professor of Mammalian Genetics and Director of the School of Biosciences at Cardiff University,[2][7] where he worked until he retired at the end of 2007.[8]
Stem cell research
In 1981, Evans and Kaufman published results for experiments in which they isolated embryonic stem cells from mouse blastocysts and grew them in cell culture.[9] This was also achieved by Gail R. Martin, independently, in the same year.[10] The availability of these cultured stem cells eventually made possible the introduction of specific gene alterations into the germ line of mice and the creation of transgenic mice.
Evans and his collaborators showed that they could introduce a new gene into cultured embryonic stem cells and then use such genetically transformed cells to make chimeric embryos.[11] In some chimeric embryos, the genetically altered stem cells produced gametes, thus allowing transmission of the artificially induced mutation into future generations of mice.[12] Transgenic mice with induced mutations in the enzyme Hypoxanthine-guanine phosphoribosyltransferase (HPRT) were created.[13] The HPRT mutations were produced by retroviral insertion, but it was proposed that by taking advantage of genetic recombination between the normal HPRT gene and an artificial gene sequenced added to the cultured embryonic stem cells, "it may also eventually be possible to produce specific alterations in endogenous genes through homologous recombination with cloned copies modified in vitro". The production of transgenic mice using this proposed approach was accomplished in the laboratories of Oliver Smithies,[14] and also of Mario Capecchi.[15]
Awards and recognition
- 11 March 1993 - Fellow of the Royal Society.[16]
- 1998 - Founder Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences.[7][17]
- 3 May 1999 - The USA charity March of Dimes awarded their annual prize in Developmental Biology for research into embryonic growth jointly to Professor Richard Gardner of Oxford University and Evans.[18]
- 21 September 2001 - Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research, jointly with Mario Capecchi and Oliver Smithies.[19][20][21]
- 2002 - Honorary doctorate from Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, USA.[22]
- 1 January 2004 - Knighthood (Queen's New Years Honours) for his services to medical science.[2]
- 19 July 2005 - Honorary doctorate from the University of Bath, England.[23]
- 8 October 2007 - Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, jointly with Mario Capecchi and Oliver Smithies.[3]
Personal life
When Evans was a student in Cambridge he met his wife, Judith, at a lunch held by his aunt, wife of an astronomy professor.[4] Later, after they were engaged, their relationship was not going well and Judith went to Canada; however, a year later she returned to England and they got married.[4] In 1978 they moved from London to Cambridge with young children, and they lived in Cambridge for more than 20 years before moving the Cardiff. They have one daughter and two sons.[19] Their older son was a student at the University of Cambridge and their younger son was a boarding pupil at the Christ Church Cathedral School in Oxford and sung in the Christ Church Cathedral choir.[4]
Judith Evans, granddaughter of Christopher Williams, was awarded an MBE for her services to practice nursing in 1993.[24] She was diagnosed with breast cancer at about the time the family moved to Cardiff. She works for breast cancer charities, and Martin Evans has become a trustee of Breakthrough Breast Cancer.[4]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Evans, Martin J. (October 2001). "The cultural mouse.". Nature Medicine 7 (10): 1081-1083. Retrieved on 1 October 2007.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 Stem cell architect is knighted BBC News : Wednesday, 31 December, 2003
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2007. Nobelprize.org. Retrieved on 8 October 2007.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 4.5 4.6 "Desert Island Discs with Martin Evans". Desert Island Discs. BBC. Radio 4. 2008-02-17.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 20th Nobel Prize for UCL community. University College London (2007-10-08). Retrieved on 9 October 2007.
- ↑ Sir Martin J. Evans: Interview. The Nobel Foundation.
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 Staff list: Sir Martin Evans FRS, DSc. School of Biosciences, Cardiff University. Retrieved on 1 October 2007.
- ↑ Chan, Xuefei (2007-12-07). Experiences of the Nobel Prize Laureates in Physiology or Medicine. People's Daily. Retrieved on 5 Apirl 2008.
- ↑ Evans M, Kaufman M (July 1981). "Establishment in culture of pluripotential cells from mouse embryos.". Nature 292 (5819): 154-6. doi:10.1038/292154a0. PMID 7242681.
- ↑ Martin G (December 1981). "Isolation of a pluripotent cell line from early mouse embryos cultured in medium conditioned by teratocarcinoma stem cells.". Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 78 (12): 7634-8. doi:10.1073/pnas.78.12.7634. PMID 6950406.
- ↑ Bradley A, Evans M, Kaufman MH, Robertson E (1984). "Formation of germ-line chimaeras from embryo-derived teratocarcinoma cell lines.". Nature 309 (5965): 255-256. doi:10.1038/309255a0. PMID 6717601.
- ↑ Robertson E, Bradley, A., Kuehn, M., Evans, M. (1986). "Germ-line transmission of genes introduced into cultured pluripotential cells by retroviral vector.". Nature 323 (6087): 445-448. doi:10.1038/323445a0. PMID 3762693.
- ↑ Kuehn MR, Bradley A, Robertson EJ, Evans MJ. (1987). "A potential animal model for Lesch-Nyhan syndrome through introduction of HPRT mutations into mice.". Nature 326 (5819): 295-298. doi:10.1038/326295a0. PMID 3029599.
- ↑ Doetschman T, Gregg, R.G., Maeda, N., Hooper, M.L., Melton, D.W., Thompson, S., Smithies, O. (1989). "Germ-line transmission of a planned alteration made in a hypoxanthine phosphoribosyltransferase gene by homologous recombination in embryonic stem cells". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 86 (22): 8927-8931. doi:10.1073/pnas.86.22.8927. PMID 2573070.
- ↑ Thomas KR, Deng C, Capecchi MR. (1992). "High-fidelity gene targeting in embryonic stem cells by using sequence replacement vectors". Mol Cell Biol. 12 (7): 2919-2923. PMID 1620105.
- ↑ List of Fellows of the Royal Society: 1660–2007: A - J. The Royal Society. Retrieved on 9 October 2007.
- ↑ Directory listing. Academy of Medical Sciences. Retrieved on 9 October 2007.
- ↑ March of Dimes Prize in Developmental Biology: Previous Recipients. March of Dimes. Retrieved on 1 October 2007.
- ↑ 19.0 19.1 2001 Albert Lasker Award - Acceptance remarks by Martin Evans. Lasker Foundation. Retrieved on 10 May 2008.
- ↑ 2001 Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research. Lasker Foundation. Retrieved on 10 May 2008.
- ↑ Albert Lasker Award. Cardiff University. Retrieved on 10 May 2008.
- ↑ Biography: Professor Sir Martin Evans FRS. Cardiff University. Retrieved on 10 May 2008.
- ↑ Summer graduation ceremonies begin today at Bath Abbey. University of Bath (2005-07-19). Retrieved on 8 October 2007.
- ↑ Leader of the Stem Cell Revolution Wins Noble Prize. Medscape Today (2007-10-17). Retrieved on 2 November 2007.
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The Orioles today announced that they have acquired OF Chris Roberson from the Philadelphia Phillies in exchange for cash considerations.
Roberson, 28, spent most of last season with AAA Ottawa, where he batted .266 in 113 games playing primarily in center field. In two recalls by the Phillies in 2007, Roberson batted .286 (8-28) in 28 games.
A switch-hitter, Roberson was drafted by the Phillies in the 9th round of the 2001 First-Year Player Draft and made his major league debut in 2006. He was named the Phillies' best minor league player and Eastern League rookie of the year in 2005 after batting .311 with AA Reading.
To make room for Roberson on the 40-man roster, OF Jeff Fiorentino was designated for assignment by the Orioles. Fiorentino, who hit .253 in brief stays with the Orioles in 2005 and 2006, batted .282 with 15 homers and 65 RBI at AA Bowie this past season.


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Distinguishing Among the Three Persons of the Trinity within Reformed Tradition
I do not think the talk of "roles" is the best way to speak of the eternal distinctions between the Persons of the Trinity
Traditionally, the way in which the Persons of the Godhead have been distinguished—and they are distinct (which suggests three hypostases) not different (which would suggest another ousia)—is not by roles or by eternal relations of authority and submission, but by paternity, filiation, and spiration. To put it another way, the Father is the Father (and... Continue Reading
May A Christian College Administer Communion?
The question is whether it is proper to administer communion (the Lord's Supper or the Eucharist) outside the visible, institutional church
When private persons, who have not been authorized by Christ nor ordained by his church, take upon themselves the prerogative of administering Christ's sacraments, they are usurpers. However well-intentioned they may be, they are doing what does not belong to them. The sacraments were to be administered by the true, visible, institutional church. The great... Continue Reading
Toward a Better Reading: Reflections on the Permanent Changes to the Text of Genesis 3:16 in the ESV
We're concerned that this new rendering repeats the very mistakes that led to the formation of the ESV in the first place
As users of the ESV, we have always known that the translation of the ESV occurred in context of concerns about gendered language. We understood the concern as such: Because Bible translators can read meaning into gendered words based on current sociological agendas, we want to be constrained by the actual words of the text... Continue Reading
Mortification and Vivification
Without the Spirit of God, there would be neither mortification nor vivification in the life of the believer.
Both mortification and vivification are the work of the Holy Spirit in the believer's life. As Paul states, "If you are living according to the flesh, you must die; but if by the Spirit you are putting to death the deeds of the body, you will live" (Rom. 8:13; see also Rom. 8:4; Gal. 5:16-25;... Continue Reading
Complaining Isn't Authentic, It's a Waste of Time
We've begun to celebrate complaining as a virtue rather than a vice
Complaints spring from a heart that thinks it deserves better. But in a fallen world people sin against you, families are broken, relationships are hard, work drains you, and suffering is commonplace. Water is wet and life is hard—that's just the way it is. The sooner I recognize this, the better. Then, when I'm tempted... Continue Reading
History Taken Out Of God's Hands: Middle Knowledge
"In the theory of middle knowledge, that is precisely the case with God. God looks on, while humans decide."
Not everyone agrees with this view. Some people say that it detracts from human freedom, so they speak of God's middle knowledge. That is, although God knows all the possibilities of what might happen in the future, his decree depends on man's choices and actions. In this view, God decreed that which he foresaw would... Continue Reading
Following Trans Bathroom Policy, Target's Sales Tank
It's bad news for Target and the trans activists trying to get other major retailers to degender their restrooms.
Target's leadership refuses to concede their controversial bathroom policy has anything to do with their poor fortunes. However, the very day Target announced its sad sales figures, it also announced it would spend $20 million to install single-use bathrooms in the rest of their 1,800 stores. This is a ton of money to fix a... Continue Reading
Would You Rather Have Blood Filled Hands or Beautiful Feet?
The task is simple – we are called to be faithful.
The contrast is staggering: on one hand the unfaithful ambassador who doesn't share the truth fills his hands with blood as person after person he had a chance to share truth with but didn't dies in their sin. On the other hand is the faithful preacher who shares the truth and has beautiful feet as he... Continue Reading
Does Prayer Change God's Mind?
Does prayer make any difference? Does it really change anything?
"The very reason we pray is because of God's sovereignty, because we believe that God has it within His power to order things according to His purpose. That is what sovereignty is all about—ordering things according to God's purpose. So then, does prayer change God's mind? No. Does prayer change things? Yes, of course." ... Continue Reading
What Do You Think? Part 2
When homosexual ideology is tolerated in the PCA: How our commitment for the gospel can be compromised?
But when anyone preaches from the pulpit that individuals with homosexual desires are "born that way through no fault of their own," then this is clearly and willfully redefining this biblical teaching. Homosexual character and desires are, like all sin, brought into effect by our sinful desires, passions and lusts; it is one of the... Continue Reading
For the Bible Tells Me So: Biblical Authority Denied … Again
A true defense of the Christian faith has never been more needed than now, but an attempt to rescue Christianity from its dependence upon Scripture is doomed to disaster.
"Jesus loves me — this I know, for the Bible tells me so." A mature Christian faith will say more than that, not less than that. "For the Bible tells me so" does not mean that we do not have reasoned answers to difficult questions, but it does mean that we admit our dependence upon Scripture —... Continue Reading
'Hillsong' Casts a Secular Lens on an Evangelical Band
It took only one Hillsong service for Mr. Warren. 43, to overcome his knee-jerk prejudice
Mr. Wagner acknowledged that Hillsong risked being criticized for participating, but said the documentary "fits right into the church's M.O.," which includes the evangelist knack for "being right at the forefront of using every kind of media possible to bring God to the secular popular consciousness." Michael John Warren, the director of MTV documentaries... Continue Reading
Sexuality and Our Public Lives: The Tower of Babel and the Kingdom of Christ
Genesis gives a fascinating account of fallen man's collective attempt to define their own name themselves; a name that is very different from what God had already decreed
This is the brave new world in which we live – a world where anyone and everyone can "make a name for themselves", even despite the name they were born with and given. But unlike Genesis where God, in judgment, came down and confused their languages, perhaps now God is doing something far worse: letting... Continue Reading
In 20 to 40 years, Most Americans Won't Have Sex To Reproduce. Get Ready.
Within the next few decades, that percentage will skyrocket. Developments in bioscience will combine to make IVF cheaper and much easier.
These factors, plus a robust, profit-seeking fertility industry, constitutionally protected advertising, and the libertarian streak in American culture (especially around parents and children), lead me to believe that sometime in the next 20 to 40 years, Easy PGD will be the most common way Americans conceive their children. For 100 million years, all our... Continue Reading
A Classic Book on an Evangelical History and Theology of Renewal
Tim Keller says that if you read this book, you'll say that you now know where he got all his material
I read this book multiple times in the 1980s. Though I've not reread it since, I still cite from memory many significant Lovelace insights: "characteristic flesh," "the sanctification gap," "n-step sanctification," "the need for a tuned and adapted form of nouthetic counseling." There is not another book quite like Richard Lovelace's The Dynamics of... Continue Reading
Desiring to Rule Over Genesis 3:16
This debate will push exegetical considerations to the forefront of disagreements
I would place myself among the vast number of evangelicals who hold to the first view. Additionally, I would agree with those who promote view 2–those who hold that the latter Divine pronouncement concerning the relationship between Adam and Eve in Genesis 3:16 is "a description of the perversion of hierarchical relationships (woman seeking to... Continue Reading
Book Review: The End of White Christian America
Has White Christian America lost its cultural and political influence?
One good thing about White Christian America's declining political clout is that evangelicals can return to the biblical obligation of making disciples, rather than making political ones. Yet there is some very noticeable but subdued cheerfulness by Jones for the end of White Christian America and one gets the sense that he's not alone in... Continue Reading
The Attraction of Idolatry
To see the allure of idolatry can be hard for those of us in the Western world.
The whole system of idolatry—guaranteed, selfish, easy, convenient, normal, logical, pleasing, indulgent, and erotic—when you look at it that way, the allure of idolatry does not seem far removed from us. It is easy to see how we can make idols out of everything from health insurance to retirement accounts to political candidates to academic... Continue Reading
Police, Protesters, and All the Wrong Questions
The Bible is relentlessly realistic about sin and government and this should make us clear-eyed on these issues.
Here's the point: We come to the table assuming that evil must be restrained both in citizens and in government. This causes us to ask questions like, "How can we best make sure we're restraining evil and injustice in law enforcement? How can we best make sure we're restraining evil and injustice in those lodging... Continue Reading
What is the Spirit's Role in Our Reading of Scripture?
There is a false notion among evangelicals that we can either trust in the ordinary means of grace and the church's creedal catechetical tradition, or we can be sensitive to the Holy Spirit's leading.
Both the charismatic and the conservative, more subtle teaching on the Holy Spirit and God's word cuts us off from the Trinitarian work in communicating God's word to the whole communion of the saints. And for some reason this exciting teaching often comes off as a spiritual buzz kill. I am referring to church tradition... Continue Reading
Are You Going to Hurt Me?
The fear is there, the fear is real
But it does have to be this way because ever since our first parents were ushered out of that garden, men have proven their willingness to violate trust, to misuse strength, to blaspheme God's good order. Not all men, of course. But some men. Enough men. Strength that was given to protect has been used... Continue Reading
A Pastor Talks about the Pressures to Plagiarize
What in the USAmerican evangelical culture would tempt pastors to plagiarize?
Plagiarism is a collapse of faith. This collapse of faith knocks down three dominoes. First, a belief in the Creator God's ability to grant creative, original thought to the local church pastor (stuck in the cornfields of Iowa). "That big shot pastor is on radio, sometimes on TV, he or she's got books galore. I've... Continue Reading
2 Samuel 19: A Case Study in True and False Repentance
Ask yourself, when you repent of your sin, are you more like Shimei or Mephibosheth?
God has these two men in the Bible for several reasons: to show us the nature of David's kingdom, the outcome of Saul's line, the ethic of a king after his own heart, and nature of David's kingdom after his exile. But one of the many things God is doing in this passage is giving... Continue Reading
How Fear Can Lead to a Denial of the Gospel
"We've got to do something or everything will get completely out of control." Fear is a powerful motive.
As I distilled and thought about the massive assault of words that came my way, I began to understand the fear. The idea is this. If men aren't in charge, then the home will disintegrate, society will crumble, the women will take over, the kids will rebel, and the woman will become a manipulative, domineering... Continue Reading
Service or Sabbath
Despite the duty and benefits of service, something better is before us. According to Jesus, it is better for us when we sabbath than when we serve
In the earliest of days, God ceremonially worked, and then he ceremonially rested. We believe this was the rotation presented by God to Adam. Six days he was to worship by laboring; one day he was to worship by not laboring…It is not even a day when one has to keep the tight ceremonial additions... Continue Reading
Why I'm Glad We Marched and Wish We Hadn't
On July 9, a handful of our staff and members participated in the Black Lives Matter march in Augusta. I'm glad they did and wish they hadn't.
Carl Ellis: On one hand, 'black lives matter' (all lower case, 'blm') is a truth. This truth encompasses the healthy concern for matters that touch black lives—criminal justice reform, racial justice, just policing, better community relations, crime reduction, urban homicide rates, discipleship, mass incarceration, abortion rates, poverty reduction, education, employment, ethnic reconciliation, accurate representation of our history,... Continue Reading
Evolution Just Got Harder to Defend
A new fossil discovery makes it even tougher for Darwinists to explain the origin of life.
Dr. Stephen Meyer explains in his book "Signature in the Cell" why this may be Darwinism's Achilles heel. In order to begin evolution by natural selection, you need a self-replicating unit. But the cell and its DNA blueprint are too complicated by far to have arisen through chance chemical reactions. The odds of even a... Continue Reading
Stop Dressing So Tacky for Church
"It's like some people decided to stop mowing the lawn and then decided to come to church."
Shouldn't people have that same reverential attitude when they show up at church to meet God, some ask? After all, doesn't your dress reveal the importance you attach to an occasion? That sentiment, however, is seen as hopelessly old school in many popular megachurches across America. Casual Fridays has morphed into casual Sundays. And many... Continue Reading
Church History: The Racist Heresy In Southern Baptist History
Their heresy was racism, and this heresy ran deep within them
Manly declared that, when it came to his right to buy and to sell African Americans, "I had no more doubt or compunction than in pocketing the price of a horse or anything else that belonged to me." The founders of the Southern Baptist Convention and of The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary were zealous... Continue Reading
Even the Government's Smartest Lawyers Can't Figure Out Religious Liberty
Religious liberty is more fundamental to Constitutional principles than non-discrimination, Kirsanow argued. "Religious liberty is an undisputed constitutional right," he wrote. "With the exception of racial nondiscrimination principles embedded in the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Amendments, nondiscrimination principles are statutory or judicially created constructs." It took the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights three years... Continue Reading


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