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HarborOne Bank Conversion May Take Several Months To Complete
Although HarborOne Credit Union members voted to approve converting their credit union charter to a co-operative bank charter, it may take weeks or months to complete the regulatory hurdles, the Boston-area credit union said.
The $1.9 billion HarborOne in Brockton, Mass., said it will be submitting a certified copy of the member vote results and other documents on March 25 to the NCUA and the Massachusetts Division of Banks, which is the first regulatory step in the process that will allow the credit union to convert into a co-operative bank.
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On Monday, the credit union announced members of HarborOne approved the charter change proposal with nearly 62% of voting members casting ballots in favor of the proposal and with over 22,433 of its members exercising their right to vote on the proposal, according to the credit union's statement.
HarborOne's 139,078 members were mailed ballots on Feb. 19. Eligible members mailed in their ballot, placed the ballot in a lockbox at one of the CU's 14 branches, or voted in person during a special meeting March 11. The Colbent Corp. of Braintree, Mass., served as the independent inspector of the election.
After the certified member vote results and its accompanying materials are submitted to NCUA, the agency will have 30 days to either approve or reject the certification. The state's division of banks will have 10 days to either approve or reject the certification as well.
James Rice, HarborOne's senior vice president of marketing, said the regulatory agencies will ensure the ballots and materials submitted to members explaining the conversion proposal were identical to the ballots and materials submitted earlier to the NCUA and the state.
"They want to make certain we didn't make any edits in the materials after the fact, so it will take some time (for the regulatory agencies) to compare what we originally sent to NCUA and what we mailed to members (concerning the proposed conversion,)" said Rice.
"We are not projecting any completion time because the process is subject to regulatory review and possible delay," added Rice.
HarborOne has already submitted its application to obtain FDIC insurance.
"The FDIC won't give us any indication of acceptance until after the NCUA and the Massachusetts Division of Banks give their approval on the member vote (certification)," Rice said.
Because of regulatory constraints, Rice said HarborOne CEO/President James Blake will not be making any comments until after all of the approvals are secured from NCUA, Massachusetts Division of Banking and FDIC, the credit union said.
HarborOne will continue to operate as a credit union until the closing of the charter change transaction.
The NCUA also declined to comment Monday.
Operating as a credit union since 1917, HarborOne has grown to become the largest state-charted credit union in New England. Nevertheless, the longstanding credit union has said its reasons to convert were the flexibility to expand HarborOne's markets and customer base, increase its lending authority, including small business lending, and gain access to additional capital.
HarborOne's President/CEO James Blake has told Boston media that because HarborOne's field of membership is limited to four counties, the credit union has been forced to turn down $70 million in mortgages and other consumer loans from potential members who live outside its market.
Soon after the conversion plan was announced Feb. 16, 2012 and approved by HarborOne's board a month later, it sparked an industry-wide debate and criticism from some credit union leaders.
Except for the $1.7 billion Technology CU of San Jose, Calif. and a few smaller CUs with conversion plans, there has been a lull in activity. Tech CU members overwhelmingly voted last fall not to convert their institution to a mutual bank. Of the total 18,000 votes cast, 14,000 voted no to the conversion and 4,000 voted in favor of it.


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Free service can eliminate taxing time
JANESVILLE—Tax time is here again, and as the U.S. tax code becomes more complicated,� the average person can find it hard to understand.
To help ease the stress of this annual process, the AARP Tax-Aide Foundation, in conjunction with the IRS, will provide IRS-certified volunteers to aid people in getting all the tax credits and deductions they deserve at no cost.
Here's what taxpayers need to know, said Roger Swenson, tax counselor.
1. Who can take advantage of this free service? Low- to moderate-income taxpayers 60 and older.
2. When can taxes be prepared? During February through April 15. Appointments can be made now. Walk-ins also are scheduled during these weeks at some Green County locations listed below.
3. Where will tax preparation take place?�
-- Beloit--Mondays, Tuesdays and Wednesdays at Grinnell Hall, 631 Bluff St., and Tuesdays at the Beloit Public Library, 605 Eclipse Blvd. Call 608-364-2875.
-- Delavan--Wednesdays at the Community Center, 826 E. Geneva St. Call 262-472-9632.
-- Elkhorn--Tuesdays and Thursdays at Peoples Bank, 837 N. Wisconsin St. Call 262-472-9632.
-- Evansville--Wednesdays, Feb. 26 and March 26, at Creekside Place, 102 Maple St. Call 608-822-0407.
-- Janesville--Tuesdays and Thursdays at Janesville Senior Center, 69 S. Water St. Call 608-755-3040.
-- Milton--Fridays at The Gathering Place, 715 Campus St. Call 608-868-3500.
-- Whitewater--Wednesdays at Starin Park Senior Center, 504 W. Starin Road. Call 262-473-0535.
-- Brodhead—Mondays from 9 a.m. to noon starting Feb. 3 at the Brodhead Public Library, 1207 25th St., for walk-in appointments.
-- Albany—Fridays, Feb. 7 and 21 and March 14 and 28, from 9 a.m. to noon at Albany Village Hall, 206 N. Water St., for walk-in appointments.
-- Monroe—Wednesdays at Monroe Behring Senior Center, 1113 10th St. Call 608-325-3173.
-- New Glarus—Friday, March 7, from 9 a.m. to noon at the Sugar River Branch of New Glarus Bank, 1101 Highway 69 South, for walk-in appointments.
4. What should I bring? Social Security cards, photo identification or driver's license for yourself and all dependents; a copy of last year's income tax returns; W-2 forms; 1099 forms plus other income and expense items and your property tax bill or rent certificate if you are a homestead-eligible taxpayer.
More clients are expected to seek this free service this year, Swenson said.
In 2009, local volunteers prepared 1,900 returns in Rock and Walworth counties. That number grew to 2,030 returns in 2011, 2,081 in 2012 and 2,100 in 2013, he said.
"We're going to easily go over 2,300 (returns this year)," Swenson said, of the 60 volunteers.
The service is important because the goal of the IRS and Department of Revenue is to have tax returns filed electronically to speed up the process and get folks their refunds more quickly, he said.
The problem, Swenson said, "is older folks aren't as computer literate as they need to be to pop a tax return out of the computer because many don't have a computer and don't buy Turbo Tax because they don't know how to use it. So they depend on paid tax preparers or volunteer preparers to help them out."
People who go to an AARP Foundation Tax-Aide site don't have to deal with a kiosk or go online. They will get personal attention until their taxes are completed, and their� forms will be transmitted directly to the IRS, Swenson said.
�"Due to the late decisions in Congress that have caused computer update delays at the IRS, we are requesting that for the first week, you schedule simple returns such as Homesteads," he said.
AARP Foundation tax aid volunteers are IRS-certified and trained each year, he said.


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Police training building to be sold
A 402-year-old Grade-I listed building which has been used as a police training college for decades is to be sold and turned into a residential site.
The Home Office will sell its Bramshill House, which also includes a Grade-II listed park of medieval origins, to heritage property developers City and Country.
The Jacobean building was bought by the Government department in 1952 and developed into a national police training college.
Police training in a mock-up plane crash incident in the grounds of Bramshill House
The sale price will become public knowledge when the deal is completed and recorded at the Land Registry - but it was previously reported the property was up for more than £20 million.
A Home Office spokesman said: " We can confirm we have agreed to sell the Bramshill site to City and Country, part of the City and Country Group.
"Although Bramshill has a proud history of police leadership training, it is not sustainable. Its closure will save £5 million a year and is another example of how this government is delivering greater value for money for the taxpayer.
"City and Country has a proven track record for the successful restoration and conversion of listed properties of great historic interest to new uses and to a high standard.
"The company has committed to finding new uses for this historic building which would allow partial public access to the site to continue."
The Hampshire site is currently occupied by the College Of Policing, which will relocate by the end of March 2015. Bramshill is also home to the European Police College (Cepol), which all EU member states have agreed will relocate to Budapest to continue its work.
Contracts have been exchanged with City and Country, which intends to develop the site for residential use.
In 2011 the National Policing Improvement Agency (NPIA) was criticised for spending more than £18,000 of taxpayers' money on the mansion and its grounds, including £1,800 on a beehive and cultivator for the kitchen garden, and £147 on rhododendrons.
And in the previous year, the agency was reported to have spent £750,000 on restoring an ornamental bridge.
The NPIA also spent £2 million resurfacing a mile-long stretch of the drive and spent £31,000 on a black tie dinner for officers at Bramshill in September 2007.
A spokesman for City and Country said: " We are delighted to announce the acquisition of Bramshill, which is a truly magnificent building with a distinguished history and of immense aesthetic and social value.
"We believe that our expertise and strong track record in dealing with very precious nationally important heritage assets combined with our sympathetic understanding of the sensitive legacy issues associated with this disposal, were some of the deciding factors in being successful in making this acquisition.
"We relish the challenge of working with key stakeholders and the local community to find a viable, new and beneficial use for this wonderful estate for the benefit of current and future generations."
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Bill Watson confident he can bring GM back to Rock County
JANESVILLE—Developer Bill Watson said Tuesday he is "absolutely confident" he can convince General Motors to return to Rock County to build vehicles in a plant he would like to build south of Janesville.
And if he can't lure GM, Watson said he's just as confident he can attract another automaker that wants an assembly plant that's within a day's drive of 26 million people.
Watson appeared on WCLO's "Your Talk Show" with host Tim Bremel on Tuesday and talked by phone with The Gazette.
When Bremel asked Watson if his plan for a local auto assembly plant was a "build it and they will come" proposition, Watson said "if you do anything that makes economic sense, the guy you targeted it for will take advantage of it or there will be nine more standing in line to take advantage of that."
Asked later by The Gazette for specifics on his plan, Watson said the facility would make the most sense on land along Interstate 90/39 south of Janesville. He would not specifically identify the parcel.
Watson and a group of private investors would build it to a specific automaker's specifications, he said, adding that there would be no taxpayer support, other than perhaps an Interstate interchange.
The group would own the facility and lease it to the automaker, he said, adding that such an arrangement would prevent the automaker from incurring massive construction costs. The lease, he said, would be structured so the automaker could leave at any time if the business was not profitable.
Such flexibility, he said, would open the door for other automakers.
Watson acknowledged that GM currently owns—rather than leases—the vast majority of its U.S. assembly plants.
When asked why he believes GM would be interested in leasing a Rock County facility or who among automakers he has spoken with have bolstered his confidence, Watson declined to answer. He said the answers—at least at this point—are best left out of newspaper stories.
In the five plus years since GM idled its Janesville assembly plant, industry analysts have waffled in their opinions about Janesville's future. Some said that if annual U.S. auto sales hit 16 million vehicles, GM might need the Janesville plant for some sort of production.
Others, however, countered that the aging Janesville facility was too far off a tightening production and supply loop that was consolidating closer to Michigan.
The U.S. auto industry is on track to sell 16 million vehicles this year, but not all of GM's North American plants are running at full capacity. In addition, the automaker has lost U.S. market share in recent years.
Watson said GM likely has no plans for its existing plant, and the community would be better served if it were given the site for redevelopment.
Essential to his project, Watson said, is a solid land-use "playbook" that sets out a clear set of rules that developers and tenants can live with. Long-term investors, he said, can't be asked to make significant investments that are subject to conditional-use permits that can change from council to council or board to board.
Asked on Tuesday's radio show if he would bring GM back to Janesville, Watson's answer was quick and blunt: "Yes."
Bremel then asked Watson if that was an unequivocal yes.
"Nothing's unequivocal, but I'm trying as hard as I know how. …We'll do the best we can, and I'm confident we'll have them here."


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DeAdrick Vance sentenced to 15 years in prison
JANESVILLE--The three children of DeAdrick Vance cried with arms around each other as their mother told the judge why their father is a good man.
Vance pleaded guilty in August to shooting Michael Hooker in the neck Feb. 1 inside Vance's home in the 2800 block Afton Road. Prosecutors called it a drug deal gone bad. Hooker was paralyzed after being shot but now is walking.
"My husband is a great man, a great father to all three of our children," Ami Vance said. "He is my rock, and now I'm his."
Judge Richard Werner told Vance that saying he made a bad decision is an "understatement" and his character is a "mixed bag."
Werner ordered 15 years in prison, five years extended supervision followed by three years of probation for one count of first-degree recklessly endangering safety with a dangerous weapon and one count of possession of marijuana with intent to deliver.
"I need to protect the community," Werner said. "There is no way I can condone the use of weapons in any type of crime … we are very lucky Mr. Hooker is here today and not dead … I have to look at a sentence that will not depreciate the seriousness of this crime."
Before the defense and prosecution recommended sentences, several members of Vance's family shared memories of the defendant and called him a family man who would do anything for them.
"He is a wonderful dad who has always put his kids first," Tammy Ziemer, Vance's sister-in-law, read from a prepared statement. "Family is his life, and we don't know how to function without each other."
Debra Vance, Vance's mother, said she misses eating family dinners her son cooked and misses him fixing her car. She said her son regrets his actions.
"I know he feels horrible about what has happened," Vance said. "He talks about it often and how bad he feels."
Assistant District Attorney Mason Braunschweig said remorse isn't enough.
Hooker's life is changed forever because of Vance's actions, Braunschweig said.
Hooker's wedding was postponed, he's been in therapy, and he can't hold his 1-year-old daughter because of his injuries, Braunschweig said.
"If you take away the personal aspects … in a nutshell, what we have here is essentially a bad drug deal that ended in needless gun violence," Braunschweig said.
He recommended Vance serve 15 years in prison, 10 years of extended supervision plus five years of probation.
Defense attorney Joshua Klaff said Vance did not expect to get away scot-free. Based on Vance's criminal record, work record and family life, Klaff recommended four years in prison with 13 years of extended supervision.
Vance, 34, addressed the courtroom and apologized to Hooker before the judge delivered his sentence.
"I just want to apologize to Mike and his family for what I put them through," Vance said. "I'm not a bad person, I know I'm not a bad person. I made a terrible choice. I feel absolutely horrible for what happened.
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Groshan qualifies for Elks Hoop Shoot National Finals
JANESVILLE--A free throw can be the most pressure-packed shot in basketball.
It is the only skill that the offensive player controls in its entirety. There is no movement to counteract, there is no reaction to the defense, and there is no adjustment for range. Free-throw shooting is the same skill over and over.
Noah Groshan has mastered that skill.
The 10-year-old Janesville resident qualified for the Elks Hoop Shoot National Finals by winning the North Central Regional earlier this month. Groshan made 21 out of 25 free throws at the regional meet, including his last 13, to earn one of 12 spots in the national finals. Groshan is the only Wisconsin boy or girl to qualify for the national meet that features six divisions for boys and girls from ages 8 to 13.
Groshan, the son of Mark and Sherrie Groshan, will compete in the 10-11 age group at the national meet on April 12 in Springfield, Mass. He won local, district and state competitions in advancing to the North Central Regional, making the most free throws out of 25 attempts at each event.
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Bloomberg reports that in its first day, the SEF handled more than 100 trades, conducted by more than 50 companies around the world. The value of the trades—which included interest rate swaps, credit default swaps, foreign exchange swaps, and commodity derivatives—totaled more than $6 billion.
"It's encouraging to see that despite market uncertainty and last-minute regulatory changes, more than 50 of our clients are already trading on our SEF," says Ben Macdonald, global head of product for Bloomberg and president of Bloomberg SEF LLC. "We see this as a positive start."
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Public Record for Jan. 14, 2014
-- LATRINA S. HARRIS, 28, of 2006 Mason Road, Beloit, at 9:57 p.m. Sunday at Center Avenue and Court Street, Janesville, on a charge of possession of marijuana with intent to deliver. Police say they found 1.7 ounces of marijuana when they stopped Harris' car. She also was cited for nonregistration of the car.
-- CHRISTOPHER A. DIMAS, 29, no known address, at 8:02 p.m. Sunday at 3105 Village Court, No. 2, Janesville, on charges of aggravated battery causing great bodily harm, domestic abuse and violating a domestic abuse no-contact order.
Intoxicated driving arrests
-- KAREN S. DOYLE, 48, of 2724 E. Hayley Lane, Milton, at 1:37 a.m. Thursday on North West Rotamer Road at Pleasant Road, town of Harmony, when the car she was driving went into a ditch, hitting a Charter Communications box and a utility pole. She was arrested on a charge of operating while intoxicated causing injury, unreasonable and imprudent speed and not wearing a seat belt. Doyle was admitted to Mercy Hospital and Trauma Center, Janesville, and released Friday. A passenger, Robert J. Weiland, 45, same address, was transported but declined medical attention at Mercy. Weiland was cited for not wearing a seat belt.
-- BRIAN L. BURKE, 24, Madison, at 2:33 a.m. Saturday on Highway 14 at Butts Corners Road, Evansville, after the car he was driving ran off the road. The arrest was listed as his third for intoxicated driving.
-- RENITA M. NANCE, 19, of 338 Cherry St., Janesville, charged with operating a motor vehicle without owner consent and disorderly conduct. She is accused of taking a van from 403 Center Ave., Janesville, during a Jan. 8 argument about ownership of a dog.
-- BURGLARY to a residence in the 300 block of South River Street, Janesville, reported at 1:30 p.m. Saturday. A Wii video game and vintage toys, valued at $850, were reported taken.
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-- HIGHWAY 213 JUST EAST OF LUTHER VALLEY ROAD, TOWN OF PLYMOUTH, at 3:55 a.m. Jan. 4, when a pickup truck driven by Micah L. Beaudin, 29, of 6509 W. Liberty Ave., Beloit, crested a hill and struck a car that had gotten stuck in a snow bank. Conditions included wet, icy pavement and blowing snow. Beaudin was cited for driving too fast for conditions. Injured in the stuck car were Juan Estrada Ambriz, 25, of Mundelein, Ill.; Alejandro Gil Ambriz, 31, of 9204 E. Creek Road, No. 36, Clinton; and Ricardo Gil Ambriz, 23, same address as Alejandro.
-- AMBER K. BLEY-ALDRIDGE, 37, of W7209 Highway 12, Whitewater, charged with felony delivery heroin, repeater, and misdemeanor possession of drug paraphernalia. Walworth County sheriffs deputies say Bley-Aldridge sold heroin Dec. 3 and had equipment for cooking heroin when police searched her home Jan. 1. In a separate criminal complaint, Bley-Aldridge is charged with felony possession of narcotic drugs, repeater, and misdemeanors of possession of illegally obtained prescription, possession of drug paraphernalia and two misdemeanor charges of possession of a controlled substance, repeater. Whitewater police say she had prescription drugs, heroin, and paraphernalia in her purse Nov. 13.
-- DIANE HELGELAND, 59, Lake Geneva, charged with felony identity theft. Town of Bloomfield police say Hegeland opened a credit card account in 2004 under a former employee's name and owes more than $8,000 to the credit card company.
-- MARCUS A. JONES, 20, of 122 S. Franklin St., Whitewater, charged with two felony delivery of non-narcotics, and misdemeanors possession of marijuana, possession of drug paraphernalia and bail jumping. Walworth County sheriffs deputies say Jones sold controlled substances twice in October and said they found marijuana and paraphernalia at his home Dec. 12.
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America's improving fiscal health is starting to be reflected in the market for Treasuries.
As the Federal Reserve scales back its unprecedented bond buying this year, the ability of the world's largest debtor nation to attract investors underscores the strides the U.S. has made to strengthen its creditworthiness after the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression. With the budget deficit at a seven-year low and household wealth rising to a record, investors from mutual funds to foreign central banks are buying a greater share of Treasuries at government auctions than ever before, as bond dealers that are obligated to bid by a smaller share.
"This goes a long way to blunting the criticism of investing in the U.S. dollar," Wan-Chong Kung, a bond manager at Nuveen Asset Management, which oversees more than $100 billion, said in an April 2 phone interview from Minneapolis.
Investors submitted bids for $1.73 trillion of government notes and bonds at auctions held in the first quarter, or 3.07 times the $564 billion that was sold, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. The bid-to-cover ratio rebounded from last year's 2.87, which was the lowest annual level in four years.
The last time the ratio was higher on a quarterly basis was in 2012, when demand peaked at a record 3.12 times. Investors also bought 58.7 percent of Treasury debt issued last quarter, with the rest purchased by the 22 primary dealers that trade with the Fed.
Increased demand has helped curb U.S. borrowing costs, confounding forecasters who said yields would rise as the Fed started to cut back on its $85 billion of monthly purchases of Treasuries and mortgage-backed bonds to support the economy.
After yields on the 10-year note reached a 29-month high of 3.05 percent at the start of the year, they have since declined and ended at 2.73 percent last week. Yields were little changed at 2.72 percent as of 8:40 a.m. in New York.
Economists have responded by cutting their yield estimates every month this year. They now say yields on 10-year Treasuries, a benchmark for everything from mortgages to car loans and corporate bonds, will end the year at 3.34 percent, based on last month's median estimate in a Bloomberg survey. In January, their forecast was 3.44 percent.
Bond buyers are demanding less compensation as the U.S. fiscal balance improves. After budget shortfalls topped $1 trillion in the four years after 2008 as the government boosted spending to bail out the nation's banks and revive the economy, the deficit is now projected to narrow to $514 billion this fiscal year, the Congressional Budget Office said on Feb. 4.
That's equal to 3 percent of the gross domestic product (GDP), which is close to the average of the past four decades.
Better Shape
The gap reached 9.8 percent of GDP in 2009, the widest in at least three decades, data compiled by the agency show. A smaller deficit reduces the amount of new bonds the Treasury needs to sell, which may help buoy demand as the Fed pulls back.
The Fed, which bought more than a half-trillion dollars of Treasuries last year as part of its third round of quantitative easing, will stop purchasing bonds by October, economists' estimates compiled by Bloomberg show.
"The borrowing is coming down sharply on the public sector side," Robin Marshall, a fixed-income director at Smith & Williamson Investment Management, which oversees $23 billion, said in an April 2 telephone interview from London. That's "bullish" for U.S. government bonds, he said.
Marshall said he has been buying longer-term Treasuries.
American consumers are also in better financial shape than ever before. Net worth for households and non-profit groups climbed to a record $80.7 trillion at the end of 2013, according to Fed data released last month.
After U.S. households had more of their wealth destroyed during the credit crisis than at any time since the end of World War II, they now have almost $12 trillion more in assets than their pre-recession peak in 2007.
The same goes for American companies, which amassed more than $2 trillion in cash for the first time as profits doubled from the last quarter of 2008, according to data compiled by Bloomberg and the Bureau of Economic Analysis.
Bond raters have taken notice. Fitch Ratings increased its outlook on the U.S.'s AAA grade on March 21 to stable from negative, joining Moody's Investors Service and even Standard & Poor's in assigning stable outlooks on the U.S. S&P dropped its rating to AA+ in August 2011, citing political wrangling over the debt limit and the lack of a plan to reduce deficits.
With the U.S. economy showing signs that the worst recession in seven decades is behind it, Richard Schlanger, a money manager at Pioneer Investments, which manages $20 billion in fixed-income securities, says there is more value in higher-yielding assets such as stocks than Treasuries.
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Growth in the world's largest economy will accelerate to 2.7 percent this year from 1.9 percent last year, according to economists surveyed by Bloomberg. By 2015, the U.S. will expand 3 percent, which would be the fastest in a decade.
"It's slow and steady improvement," Schlanger said in an April 4 telephone interview from Boston. In the quarters ahead, "we're going to see much stronger growth and then bond yields are going to drift higher."
Exchange-traded funds that invest in U.S. stocks amassed $17.4 billion last month, the most among all classes of ETFs, data compiled by Bloomberg show. At the same time, investors yanked $10.3 billion from the funds that buy U.S. government debt, the biggest exodus since 2010.
While Fed Chair Janet Yellen accelerated the shift after saying on March 19 that a strengthening U.S. economy may prompt the central bank to lift rates six months after it stops buying bonds, last week's payrolls report caused Treasuries to rally as speculation, that the Fed will accelerate the unwinding of its accommodation and raise its benchmark rate, cooled.
Employers added 192,000 jobs in March, less than the median forecast for a 200,000 gain in a Bloomberg survey. The result came after a 197,000 increase in February that was more than first estimated.
Last week, Yellen followed up her March comments by highlighting inconsistencies in labor-market data, saying the recovery "still feels like a recession to many Americans."
Traders have now dialed back their wagers on the likelihood the Fed will start raising rates in June 2015 to 54 percent, based on futures trading on the CME Group Inc.'s exchange, from 64 percent a month ago. The Fed has held its benchmark rate at close to zero since 2008.
The latest data will "help keep a bid in Treasuries," Guy Haselmann, a New York-based interest-rate strategist at primary dealer Bank of Nova Scotia, said by phone on April 4.
Relative Value
With inflation still below the Fed's target of 2 percent, Haselmann said he prefers longer-dated Treasuries. U.S. government debt due 10 years or more returned 6.9 percent in the first quarter, the most since 2012. That outstripped the 1.8 percent gain including reinvested dividends for the S&P 500, the benchmark gauge for American equity.
Geopolitical strife from Russia to Thailand, as well as increasing concern over a slowdown in China, has reinforced the value of dollar-based assets. The dollar is forecast to rise 6.4 percent versus the yen and 5.4 percent against the euro by year-end, data compiled by Bloomberg show.
At the same time, yields on Treasuries are still higher relative to bonds from other major global economies, making them attractive to investors on a relative basis. The extra yield that investors get for holding 10-year U.S. notes instead of similar-maturity German bunds increased to 1.19 percentage points last week, the most since October 2005.
"It's clear that U.S. Treasuries internationally demonstrated their place not only as the most liquid market but also, from a relative value standpoint, as very compelling," James Camp, a money manager who oversees $5.5 billion in fixed income with Eagle Asset Management, said in a telephone interview on April 4 from St. Petersburg, Florida.


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China's army may be behind a computer hacking group that has attacked at least 141 companies worldwide since 2006, according to a report by a U.S. security firm.
The attacks, mainly directed at U.S. companies, were carried out by a group that is "likely government sponsored" and is similar "in its mission, capabilities, and resources" to a unit of the People's Liberation Army, Mandiant Corp. said in a report today.
Mandiant said it traced the group, labeled Advanced Persistent Threat 1, to four large computer networks in Shanghai. Two of the networks serve the Pudong New Area district, where a secret army unit called 61398 is based, the report said.
"It is time to acknowledge the threat is originating in China," Alexandria, Virginia-based Mandiant said. "Our research and observations indicate that the Communist Party of China is tasking the Chinese People's Liberation Army to commit systematic cyber espionage and data theft against organizations around the world."
A recently prepared U.S. secret intelligence assessment, described Feb. 11 in the Washington Post, said the country's economy is endangered by a massive and prolonged computer-espionage campaign from China. The New York Times also last month said its computer systems were breached by Chinese hackers, a claim China has denied.
China's Foreign Ministry said today the country opposes computer hacking and that it is a victim of attacks. The U.S. is the biggest attacker of China's Internet, said Hong Lei, a spokesman for the ministry. Making "unfounded accusations" is not conducive to resolving the issue, Hong said when asked about the report at a regular briefing today.
"It's inaccurate and unprofessional to accuse the Chinese military of Internet attacks," the Ministry of Defense said by fax today in response to a Bloomberg News request for comment on the Mandiant report. "China's military has never supported hacking and the country has always cracked down on relevant criminals."
A spokesman for President Barack Obama's National Security Council said the U.S. has "substantial and growing concerns" about cyber threats, and the administration is aware of the Mandiant Technologies report and its contents.
"We have repeatedly raised our concerns at the highest levels about cyber theft with senior Chinese officials, including in the military, and we will continue to do so," the spokesman, Tommy Vietor, said in an e-mail.
Vietor didn't draw a specific link between China and hacking attacks. "The U.S. and China are among the world's largest cyber actors and it is vital that we continue a sustained, meaningful dialogue and work together to develop an understanding of acceptable behavior in cyberspace," he said.
Obama issued an executive order Feb. 12 directing the government to develop voluntary cyber-security standards for companies operating the nation's vital infrastructure, such as power grids and air traffic control systems.
Bloomberg News reported in November that hackers from China broke into computer systems at Coca-Cola Co. in 2009 and reported in July that Chinese hackers targeted 20 organizations, including the European Union Council, while being monitored by security researchers in 2011.
Bloomberg's Dune Lawrence, while reporting on Chinese online espionage this month, also suffered a hacker attack that Google Inc. said may have been state-sponsored.
APT1 has attacked companies in 20 major industries, and 87 percent of the targets are based in countries where English is the first language, according to the Mandiant report. Targets were based in countries including the U.S., Canada, the U.K., India and Singapore. Mandiant's research was reported earlier by the New York Times.
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Never too young to lead
Today is International Youth Day, designated by the United Nations to draw attention to issues uniquely affecting the world's young people.
Wikipedia has a very simple definition for youth: "the time of life when one is young."
As youth engagement director at World Vision International, it is my job to be connecting, catalyzing, and convening youth around the countries where World Vision invests. In doing so, I have found that there are a lot of similarities and differences among youth around the world.
In some countries, it seems that every day is "youth day." You turn on the television or open a magazine, and the culture seems preoccupied with feeling young again and hanging on to that time of youthfulness. In other countries, youth are struggling to have a voice in their community and are disproportionately affected by issues of unemployment and poverty.
The importance of role models
When I travel and meet with youth, I like to ask them who their role models are. Who do they look up to? Who spends time encouraging and helping them? The answers are diverse and depend on where I am. In some parts of the world, there's a long list. In others, I find youth who don't even understand the question. I tend to find a strong correlation between their answers and their well-being and prospects for the future.
When I was in Bethlehem (in the West Bank) several months ago, I asked the above question to a group of six women and two men who were youth leaders in the community. Their response showed me the critical role of mentors. The young women's response was the local World Vision community development manager, because she showed how a woman could be a strong leader and respectfully ask questions and even challenge customs. They said that she provided a great example that the young girls in the community emulated.
Good role models are key for young people today. Youth are looking for examples and relationships with adult leaders. I still remember some of the key people who were available, showed an interest, and helped me as I moved from childhood to adulthood.
Learning from each other
When we invest in youth, they often become role models for us as well. Robert F. Kennedy said, "The world demands the qualities of youth. Not a time of life, but a state of mind."
I've worked with youth for most of my adult life! They challenge me to embrace so many of the qualities I admire in young people. Here are four of the more important lessons I've learned from youth:
Youth want to participate. Wherever I travel, I find youth wanting to engage and participate in conversations and decisions affecting their communities. As part of our community development approach, we really see active participation as key and have made exciting progress toward increasing youth engagement.
It's okay to challenge expectations. With age comes a tendency to stick to the rules and do things the way they've always been done. But youth are unafraid to question expectations and rebel against what's placed on them -- often to our annoyance. Many youth have a curiosity to understand things and forge their own path, which often enables them to discover new and better approaches.
Have fun -- the journey is often as important as the destination. Youth remind us that life is to be experienced and explored. I have found that youth value having fun and experiencing life. And when they get excited about a cause, their passion becomes contagious, and they freely invite others to join them and be a part of their journey.
It's about relationship -- community is key. Community, collaboration, and friendship are important values to this generation. All young people learn and grow, positively or negatively, from the relationships they form after they begin to break away from their parents. Creating a good community is something they yearn for and it impacts them profoundly. When I think of the range of World Vision's youth networks around the world, each group seems to thrive on core communities of friends first.
"You're never too young to lead"
Youth have a unique perspective on the world as it is and the world as it can be. There is a lot our generations can learn from each other.
This International Youth Day, we are focusing on this quote by former U.N. secretary-general Kofi Annan: "You are never too young to lead." On our Global Youth Blog, we are sharing stories of how young people all around the world are leading. We're also asking youth to share their voice, passions, and opinions by taking our Global Youth Vote survey. No matter your age, we'd love your input; and perhaps you can share it around.
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Paul Newnham is the global youth engagement director for World Vision International.
In honor of International Youth Day, we'd like to invite you to join World Vision and our partners at Microsoft, Intel, and the UK development agency, British Council, to help bring digital access and education to children in Africa by building fully-equipped computer centers in schools. Through these partnerships, your gift will have double the impact to fund a child's digital future.


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Diane E. Adams, 67, Lake Geneva, died Monday at Holton Manor Nursing Home, Elkhorn. A celebration of life will be at 6:30 p.m. Saturday at Steinke Funeral Home, Lake Geneva. Visitation will be from 4 p.m. until the time of services Saturday at the funeral home.
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Brain size=IQ level theory (Blacks vs Whites & Asians)
Human Anatomy, Physiology, and Medicine. Anything human!
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Thank goodness there was no mention about Indians.
"Nothing in biology makes sense except in the light of evolution"
-Theodosius Dobzhansky
Re: Brain size=IQ level theory (Blacks vs Whites & Asians)
hi i have just stumbled accross this subject while doing some impartial research of my own.
I would just like to clarify a few points if i may
ok so we have
with totaly oposing views on this subject
bluecafe seems to slip off the topic most of the way through his post
but is saying that african origined (for lack of better word) have large barin mass and that there skulls are larger. then he goes on to explain how the The gene microcephalin (MCPH1) has a large tendancy to mutate in african population which would explain the reduced brain size(although i would like to say he use the words cranial which is the bone structure and not the actual brain)
didnt he just say that the africans (blacks) had larger brains? how does that figure? if i choped off the bottom of my legs would i still put my hight down as 6ft?
i diverge anyway
it seems that all the people that have been refferenced by blue cafe are saying that all the studies havnt been totaly equal and that the negro population hasnt been represented accuratly due to disiese mutation and poor health, in my opion an acuarte sample of the african poulation.
i have gooogled Phillip V. Tobias which seems to be blues main source and havnt been able to find any of the data from his work and the only data that has been provide in this thread has been by tjj
which is
Table 1. S.J. Gould's ' corrected' final tabulation of Morton's assessment of racial differences in cranial capacity
Population Cubic inches Cubic centimeters
Native Americans 86 1410
Mongolians 87 1427
Modern Caucasians 87 1427
Malays 85 1394
Ancient Caucasians 84 1378
Africans 83 1361
as as from what i have been reading through gould is about as far left as you can get so its pretty relible conversion although the original data could of been modified at the source
for me to be totaly satisfied with a conclusion to this could anyone post a link to modern data related to this or where i can find it.
im sorry this hasnt been a particculary well structured/spelt post.
and am eager for more inforamtion
Re: Brain size=IQ level theory (Blacks vs Whites & Asians)
Its funny how blacks will talk about having a bigger penis and thats all cool when science shows its 1/2 inch larger on average, but the moment a study showing a 10-15 point IQ gap appears its suddenly offensive and racist. Science is science let the facts speak for themselves and quit putting lables on stuff which is just based on studies.
It's funny how someone manages to compare penises with brains.
You take a measuring tape, tell people to drop their pants and just size up their pecker. The only thing you gotta standardize is the state of the woody: limp or pointing up.
Now, with brains and IQ you have a million variables you need to standardize (like said here already a myriad times), which is practically impossible.
So whilst you can easily measure people's penises and proudly call it a scientific study, labelling a certain race more intelligent than another solely based on some IQ scores is far from a "fact"...
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"This notwithstanding I cannot critisize the background of the paper, but I would like to point the fact that he author defends sir Cyril Burt who has admitted creating data does not plead for complete objectivity in the review."
Not true, Burt did not admit to creating data. Also, after he passed away one of his academic 'rivals' at his University had a large amount of Burt's papers destroyed. The whole episode has been discussed in a couple of books.
More interestingly though, subsequent twin studies have reached similar findings to Burt. Behavioural traits are significantly heritable.
"Behavioral genetics has repeatedly found that the "shared environment" — everything that siblings growing up in the same home have in common, including their parents, their neighborhood, their home, their peer group and their school — has less of an influence on the way they turn out than their genes. In many studies, the shared environment has no measurable influence on the adult at all. Siblings reared together end up no more similar than siblings reared apart, and adoptive siblings reared in the same family end up not similar at all. A large chunk of the variation among people in intelligence and personality is not predictable from any obvious feature of the world of their childhood." http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/11/magaz ... wanted=all
Also, it's worth mentioning that 'Mismeasure of Man' cited above is a badly flawed propaganda piece. Have a read of the various negative reviews which are linked on wikipedia.
David J. Bartholomew, from London School of Economics, who has writtena textbook on factor analysis, also explains in "Measuring Intelligence: Facts and Fallacies" where Gould goes wrong in this area.
Gould also makes some misleading comments about the early performance of Jewish migrants on psychometric tests. Goddard never found that Jews as a group did poorly, and there is no evidence the tests were used in passing the 1924 Immigration Act (see, Franz Samelson (1975, 1982), Snyderman & Herrnstein 1983).
Gould states that Morton "doctored" his collection of results on cranial size, but J. S. Michael (1988) remeasured a random sample of the Morton collection he found that very few errors had been made, and that these were not in the direction that Gould had asserted.
Rushton & Ankney have published a new paper on this.
Rushton, J. P., & Ankney, C. D. (2009). Whole-brain size and general mental ability: A review. International Journal of Neuroscience, 119, 691-731.
Re: Brain size=IQ level theory (Blacks vs Whites & Asians)
You know my I.Q. was wrongly told to me. I don't know if the person out right lied but they had two standardized test to look at with in one point of each other. Standardized public school I.Q. tests and I didn't know for almost twenty years that my I.Q. is actually ten points and an entire percentile higher then was stated to me. I believe it made me act "slower' all these years…
Was this person also female a bigot; a sexist? I will never know.
My mother has an I.Q. of 165 but I believe she has been so discriminated against it's impossible for her to even get close to what one could do with this. Not my mom but to the point. And these auditions are held behind a scrim…
Re: Brain size=IQ level theory (Blacks vs Whites & Asians)
Brain size does not always determine IQ. Women, for example have smaller brains than men, but theirs are more developed than men's.
"It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is the most adaptable to change."
~Charles Darwin
Re: Brain size=IQ level theory (Blacks vs Whites & Asians)
…very nice Virus…
Re: Brain size=IQ level theory (Blacks vs Whites & Asians)
Brain Size Matters: a Reply to Peters
by J. Philippe Rushton and C. Davison Ankney
University of Western Ontario
'Rushton (1995) reviewed 100 years of scientific literature and found that across a triangulation of procedures, brains of East-Asians and their descendants average about 17 cm3 (1 in3) larger than those of Europeans and their descendents whose brains average about 80 cm3 (5 in3) larger than those of Africans and their descendents. Although critics can pick outliers to show counter-examples and suggest opposite trends (as could critics of a statement that men are, on average, taller than women) the aggregated data are clear (see Rushton, 1995, for full discussion of alleged counter examples).'
'Globally, racial differences in brain size parallel those found in measured intelligence. Europeans in North America, Europe and Australasia have mean IQs of around 100. For East Asians, measured in North America and in Pacific Rim countries, means range from 101 to 111. Africans living south of the Sahara, African-Americans and African-Caribbeans (including those living in Britain), have mean IQs of from 70 to 90 (Lynn, 1991). Elementary speed of information processing in 9- to 12-year-olds, in which children decide which of several lights stands out from others, show that racial differences in mental ability are pervasive. All children can perform the tasks in less than 1 s, but more intelligent children, as measured by traditional IQ tests, perform the tasks faster than do less intelligent children. Japanese and Hong Kong children have faster decision times (controlling for movement time) than do British and Irish children who have faster decision time than South African Black and African-American children (Jensen, 1993; Jensen & Whang, 1993; Lynn, 1991).'
For the record, I fit firmly into the group that comes 'second'.
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C'mon David, I'm including you in 'east asians' - top of the pile!
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Theories - Origin of Life
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...Actually, no. I refer to the second half of my post, like I said in the question. I did not refer to one specific point near the end of my post.
I am asking you for the fifth time to complete your response, or to concede points. Conceding points is not conceding the entire discussion, and I will not treat it that way. In fact, it will give the impression that you are a thoughtful person who is actually engaging seriously in the discussion. However, if you simply do not answer, that gives the impression that you are simply refusing to admit that you cannot. If you need time to think, then it would be polite to specify that. If you cannot respond and are still trying to maintain the same position without making any changes, I suggest that you ask yourself why that might be.
Furthermore, please do not use responding to me as an excuse to avoid responding to Luxorien.
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No problem, man. I got time.
I don't understand any part of that last sentence except the pronoun, so I might as well take this opportunity to mention that I have girl parts. I don't mean that as a reprimand - just stating a fact.
Good luck.
If arguing with people on the internet helps me understand science, then I will do it. FOR THE CHILDREN.
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It seems to me that you are being quite evasive here.
I believe I have responded to all the points you have made. If I have missed any then please be courteous enough to specify what I have not responded to.
Also I have no intention of avoiding a response to anyone, nor have I even suggested that as an excuse. I will simply put your last comment down to a misunderstanding.
It is noticeable to me that you have not responded yourself to the points I have raised in rebuttal. Are you then conceding those points?
If not perhaps, could you in in turn address the issues I have raised.
You do appear to be getting a bit rattled.
Thanks for the gender correction.
I have a very busy life at the moment and cannot devote all the time I would wish to this forum, so I appreciate your patience.
I will go over your last post point by point as far as possible, and will start later on this evening.
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I would call it frustration than being "rattled," thank you - it's now been a month that I've been trying to get you to answer. If you were uncertain about anything, it would only have taken a couple of minutes for you to check, and I was assuming you could do that without me reposting it (although of course I would have, if you had asked). You were certainly able to find the comment about speciation which is within said post.
I will, of course, start replying when you have finished. If I think I have points to concede, I will do so at that time. Since you say you have no intention of evasion, I will give you the benefit of the doubt, at least for now.
The sections for which I see no response are as follows. If you actually did reply to any of it (besides the speciation comment containing the Wikipedia link, which I already know about), then please give me the page and post number.
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This is going to be a long one, so take your time.
Yes you are right it has been a month, but what have you contributed in that time? What response have I had from you?
However I don't get frustrated, I have just learned to cope.
Now now, I don't need you to give me the benefit of any doubt, whether you harbour any doubts really is your concern.
I would have thought my response on the wiki link along with the probability point was sufficient to answer most of your questions, but it seems not, so I will deal with all your points even though I will find myself going over the same ground again'
So, how many "chances" are enough? And what are "correct" mutations.
The "Chances" question can only be answered with probability theory. I have already dealt with that aspect of this subject see scottie » Sun Mar 04, 2012 7:42 pm page 41
The question of "correct" mutations being random makes no sense when we are dealing with for example proof reading. This type of process requires some template to compare with in order to be "correct".
How about checkpoint systems during cell division. Here again there must be some template by which the process is able to determine when the process is ready to move on to the next stage.
In other words there must be some body plan by which these mutations can be compared in order to make any determinations as to whether to continue or abort.
No one as far as I am aware has even adequately addressed the how cell differentiation can be the result of random mutations to the genome.
The question is not whether the bacteria grow any faster, the question is does this produce any new species.
The Lenskie experiment has clearly shown that no new species has emerged despite all the mutations that occurred.
May I refer you to the previous discussions on this subject
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For a start there has not been enough time in earth's history for any probability theory to be used in connection with these ideas.
This is not about semantics. Random Mutations are the driving force in Darwinian processes. The problem is that you have to rely on such vague terms as "enough chances" to try and justify the hypothesis.
Well you are right. You can suppose its possible to make any manner of assumptions if you wish to be charitable.
It may not refute NS but it is certainly evidence against as I stated
I haven't suggested that NS in unlimited, however it is attributed with going from Amoeba to Man. That's a very bold claim, so what is the evidence to back it up.
It's not a question of whether the species goes extinct. Species do go extinct. The point is whether they change into new species, That is what Natural selection is supposed to accomplish.
I am aware of their " not surprising from an evolutionary perspective" view but are they speaking from the perspective of speciation? The fact is they are not. The variations they are referring to are variation within species that appear to be governed by cellular responses to climate change. If natural selection was at work (in other words if NS was causing these changes) why would they be disturbing?
After all is it not expected that natural selection will result in changes such as these.
They are disturbing because they don't sit very well with Natural Selection expectations.
I accept their data not their "disturbing" perspective.
So scientists are now relying on symantics are they?
You are going around in circles here How then did the program arise?
The common ancestor argument is an assumption. The creationists argue that the data this argument rests on is equally applicable to the creation argument. So this is no different to the "God did it argument" except in your case you are only moving the problem back.
The method by which the common ancestor arrived is no different to how Drosophila arrived.
Ernst Mayr one of the fathers of the Modern Synthesis in his Crafood Lecture put it this way.
http://www.biologie.uni-hamburg.de/b-on ... luence.htm
According to Mayr, God didn't do it. Natural Selection is what did it via common ancestory. That was his philosophy as he himself has put it.
But you eventually get back to the single cell. He provides no explanation any more than Darwin himself did.
How did the cell emerge? There is no plausible answer that scientists can envisage other than by some outside agency.
My argument is simple. The same process that caused the cell to emerge is the one that has caused the different species to emerge and that is by an outside agency.
Craig Venter has shown that an outside agency (his team) have managed to demonstrate proof of concept. Albeit not in the creation of life but how an existing life form can be changed by design.
However In his intellectual arrogance Ernst Mayr classically contradicted his own argument.
His philosophy as he states it, is "governed both by the universal laws of physics and chemistry by a a genetic program (his words).
Every scientist knows that a program be it genetic or otherwise does two things.
1) It uses natural forces which are governed by universal laws
2) It injects decision nodes into the process to over ride that natural progress and directs (governs) towards a specified goal.
He then goes on to state as if it were a fact that it was natural selection that created this program.
What decision node has natural selection injected into a process governed by the universal laws that has resulted in this genetic program?
Natural Selection has to work on what is already there, that is why is regarded as a selective process.
It does not create anything let alone inject decision nodes into any process.
For example how is the genetic code(s) the result of natural selection. There is no answer yet according to Mayr and all those who follow his philosophy, natural selection has somehow done just that. It is a dogma nothing else.
Yes I did use the term programmed. I am not alone am I?
Your assumption is that climate change is man made. You appreciate that the debate around this is quite vigorous.
Logic does not necessarily reflect reality as I have pointed out to you before. It can only be used if it is based on evidence, and with respect that is where your problem is
Well we are back to the Wiki argument which I have dealt with.
This whole post has really been an exercise in futility as I have gone over the same ground before and with others, however I don't get frustrated as this is the price one has to pay for dealing with what is essentially
a philosophical position trying to pose as science.
Re: Theories - Origin of Life
Finally. Something we can agree on. Have you ever looked into the extensive research on the origin and evolution of religion and the psychology of religious belief? Doing so might be more fruitful than continuing with your misunderstandings and misrepresentations of biological evolution.
Re: Theories - Origin of Life
You mentioned sickle as your favourite that is why I went on to analyse it in the way I did.
I also said I am quite happy to respond to your HIV and antibiotic resistance examples as well if you wished, so I don't "keep talking about sickle cell anemia as though the existence of beneficial mutations stands or falls on this example."
If you recall I wrote
I hope you are not deliberately trying to misquote me and introduce straw man arguments.
My point was and is, if you wish to point to "beneficial examples" then keep them in the context they appear.
This is what I wrote on page 41
scottie » Sat Mar 03, 2012 5:23 pm
(my emphasis)
I have not argued as you are suggesting, since when does "most other mutations .. are deleterious" some how translate into, as you put it "the premise that random mutations cannot be beneficial"
Perhaps rebutting what I actually say would be helpful
Further My point
Your response
Your first point is somewhat bizarre. Are you actually suggesting that fetal hemoglobin was not produced first?
I would have thought it was obvious that fetal hemoglobin had to be produced first if as you claim sickle cell is a random mutation. What on earth was it a mutation of, if fetal hemoglobin was not there in the first place.
(or have I missunderstood you somehow?)
Your second point is also somewhat curious.
Fetal hemoglobin actually protects against malaria, it is when that protection is removed as part of the development process, that children become exposed. So the mutation is initially deleterious and then some protection is offered in the hetrozygote.
This is what I mean when I suggest that you report on these matters in context.
And again I remind you that the whole point of this discussion is about NS being the process of speciation.
You then go on :-
What evidence do you produce, that the course of the (random) gene duplications is what led to the present series of hemoglobin genes?
I understand the hypothesis you are presenting and trying to explain, however what evidence do you call on that shows these random mutations have in fact produced the "present series of hemoglobin"
I appreciate you actually believe this, but you have to do more than state a belief if you are going to present it as a fact, and an empirical one at that.
As indeed you believe what you further go on to say
Again I appreciate you actually believe that, however you have to provide the evidence to support that statement if you are presenting it as having any empirical support? Are you able to do that?
However we are all agreed on this point, as you put it, "
( well almost agreed I would add most random changes..)
You appear not to have thought through the natural implications of the statement.
If random and unguided mutations produce speciation and as molecular evolution puts it
What has produced the incredible copy fidelity achieved by a sophisticated error-checking system involving base selection, proofreading and post replication repair.
Are you seriously suggesting that this same process of a tiny portion of random and indeed unguided mutations has also produced the sophisticated error-checking, proofreading and post replication repair.
Are you not aware that in order to proof read, or repair the entire process must have some template or body plan to check against.
The rest of your rather long essay stands or falls on these statements if it to be empirically sound.
From a philosophical standpoint it may come over as sound, but we are dealing with reality.
Finally as regards Shapiro's essay.
Actually Shapiro rejects neo darwinian or the standard hypothesis. His view is that there is a third way that is neither Darwinian nor ID. He calls it Natural Genetic Engineering.
He is not able to explain how this cellular engineering actually got started except that it was not through some Darwinian process.
Since you are not necessarily questioning the scientific conclusions of his paper, perhaps you better read it more carefully, because he is actually arguing against your clearly stated views.
I do really understand the papers I cite.
Now you bring up the Molecular Evolution quote I presented.
You appear once again to be misrepresenting my position, and then arguing against that misrepresentation.
This straw man argument is a debating tactic that you probably are aware of, but I hope you are not using it as a strategy.
It is quite clear I did not quote from Molecular Evolution because I agreed with the premise of the paper, as it is clearly one that tries to explain evolutionary theory which I disagree with.
That quote was in the context of what constituted a mutation, as not all mutations are random or randomly neutral if any change in genetic sequence is regarded as a mutation.
Many biologists hold the view that any change in genetic information is a mutation.
I quoted it to show that even evolutionary biologists recognise that most random mutations are deleterious to the organism. These researchers themselves recognise that and so do you, as I have previously shown.
My whole point is really quite simple.
I am arguing that it is the cell with it's built in systems, that responds to the environment and not the other way around as you argue in the case for natural selection.
Random mutations that the cell for some reason cannot correct, debilitate the cell's response to that pressure.
So to be clear, let me remind you of what I actually wrote as a direct quote from Molecular Evolution.
All models recognize that most random changes to the genome are deleterious, because they will tend to disrupt highly organized genetic information. It is the relative proportions of mutations that are advantageous, neutral or nearly neutral that is debated.
The question of what categorises a mutation is perhaps better left to another post.
Do you wish me to respond to your HIV and antibiotic examples?
May I request however before you feel the need to respond to any of my arguments please present an argument against what I actually write.
Thank you for the reply. I will reply in kind (for all of your posts, of course, not just the most recent one) by next week.
In the meantime, I will point out:
I think that anyone who reads the discussion since page 39 will see my responses. I suppose I assumed it was understood that I didn't really want to reply until you had responded point by point, which I suppose I might have made clearer. (You appreciate that someone not arguing in good faith could take advantage of this to drop points they didn't want to answer, not that I'm imputing this to you.)
I would also like to mention that the quoted statements above came across as quite condescending. Of course I'm sure this was not your intent, and it doesn't make much difference to me personally either way, but I thought I would let you know.
I'd rather not comment on this again, since the issue is over now that you've finished the reply.
is not an answer to the question.
I know that you might think there is a standard definition, but if so please quote it to me. I think that your use of the word may not be what I am understanding from it.
Finally, you seem to have left my final point out of your reply - I assume this is an oversight.
The question was, do you understand the difference between speciation and production of new biological information? If so, please humour me and give an answer, since I think this might be an important point.
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I'm not sure what you mean by keeping things in "context." I guess you're saying that any example of beneficial mutation is, in a sense, taken out of context because you think I'm not representing the full complexity of the issue?
I agree that I left out a lot of detail, but as I said before, nothing I left out was relevant. You offered some assorted statements about sickle cell anemia that had nothing to do with the fact that sickle cell anemia is caused by a random mutation and that it does confer an advantage, albeit one that is highly situational.
Since the statement I was responding to read as follows:
-March 3rd, pg. 41
As I have said many times before, my only contention is that random mutations can produce beneficial mutations. Your statement from March 3rd appears to contradict that. Much of what you've said in response to my first post has been irrelevant to the question of whether there is such a thing as a random mutation that can produce an advantageous phenotype.
In one of my previous posts I explained that I took your statement to mean that a beneficial mutation could not be produced randomly, and you neither confirmed nor denied this interpretation. Based on your most recent foray, it sounds like you wish to deny this interpretation. If that is the case, the prosecution rests.
I think perhaps I did not make myself clear. Yes, I am actually suggesting that fetal hemoglobin was not produced first. But I'm talking on an evolutionary time scale, not during the life of a single organism. Our (reptilian) ancestors had normal adult hemoglobin before they had fetal hemoglobin.
You have misunderstood me so severely that I'm unsure how to proceed. I'm not sure why it would be "obvious" that fetal hemoglobin was produced first if sickle cell is a random mutation. There is no logic in that statement. Fetal hemoglobin and adult hemoglobin are not produced by the same genes. A mutation in the gene that codes for adult hemoglobin will have no effect on fetal hemoglobin production. Nor will a mutation in fetal hemoglobin affect adult hemoglobin production. They are two separate molecules, with different structures. They are produced by different genes. There's a good diagram of the gene clusters here.
I'm confused by this. Are you saying that the sickle cell mutation causes the cessation of fetal hemoglobin production? Are you arguing that the mutation is occurring as the child develops? I still don't get what fetal hemoglobin has to do with anything.
Evolution by gene duplication is old news. As far as I know, researchers still regard the origin of hemoglobin clusters by duplication as a matter of fact. That article is not very recent, but it has the advantage of being available in full text for free. A search of more recent papers turns up a lot of abstracts that seem to treat this as a matter of course.
I'll stop there for now, because it's almost time to go to work.
If arguing with people on the internet helps me understand science, then I will do it. FOR THE CHILDREN.
Re: Theories - Origin of Life
Creationists have not managed to come up with viable arguments against the evidence for evolution, particularly for gene duplication, even more particularly for polyploidy, and most particularly for allopolyploidy (verging on the perverse). Maybe the creator had the hiccups or just ran out of ideas.
Evolution has nothing to do with creation of life - only modification after the event.
Science is not driven by "argument" and even if there were data generated that impeached the thery of evoluton, it would not de facto establish some religious concept as its replacement.
Re: Theories - Origin of Life
I've been thinking about the comments earlier, and I realized while writing it that the discussion has started to get less useful for me as well – not least because of how much time it's taking (this reply took ~12 hours to make, including all the researching, and it is ~26 pages long in Word). As a result, I'll make this my last response.
However, I still suggest you read it carefully, and try to make sure you understand my points. If you have a few questions about the scientific content, I can probably still find some time, but try to make sure you actually understand what the question is first and have tried to understand the scientific opinion on it (for example, on Wikipedia or TalkOrigins, or in a science textbook). Of course, when looking for evidence, I would suggest you make sure you understand this link as well: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confirmation_bias.
Anyways, I hope this is useful to you. I have divided up my discussion into posts based on how you divided yours ‒ approximately 1:1, but I split a couple of them for consistency of post length.
Yes, but the fact that variation does arise is the important point (and it is very easy to observe). The mechanism by which it occurs is irrelevant to the original argument. It turned out that the mechanism was mutation, but their discovery only strengthened the original argument instead of being required for it.
So just to be clear (since you have "no problem with it"), you agree that natural selection occurs, and that changes occur in species over time as a result?
Remember, if you want to say that change does not occur, you must say that one of the four premises is false. Again – can you reconstruct the argument? If so, please humour me and demonstrate your understanding.
Again, the appearance of genetic variation is random, and natural selection is not random. The two are separate processes; natural selection acts only after the genetic variation is generated.
The first process is random, and the second is not. This means that after natural selection, the variation within the population is also not random, although it is constrained by what the first process generates.
I apologize if you already understand this, but I don't see what it is that you're not getting.
You gave these three descriptions:
...and you said that the first contradicted the other two. As I already mentioned, I see nothing in any of these quotes which implies any contradiction between them, or with my own understanding of mutations or natural selection. Again, it would be helpful if you could specifically identify what you think the contradiction is.
I would also point out that of the three quotes, only the second is actually a specific definition – the others are descriptions. For example, the only thing the third description really implies about mutations is that they continuously generate genetic variation.
If you go to the Berkeley website and look at their definition of mutations (the quote you have taken is from their natural selection page), you get this definition:
Again, I don't see the contradiction. The second of your quotes is somewhat more advanced, referring to the process causing the change rather than the change itself, but the end result of what the DNA sequence is afterwards is the part that is relevant to natural selection.
Mutations are random. Some kinds are more likely than others (sometimes much more likely, as you correctly point out below), and there are also some things that can cause mutations with very high probability (like UV light). However, there is no guarantee that any particular mutation will be observed.
The "needs" of the organism are only important in the second stage, natural selection. So I suppose that if you constrained "mutation" to refer to only the changes that persisted in the population, then you would only see those which corresponded to the "needs" – that is, the beneficial ones (or at least, the ones that are not detrimental) – because otherwise they would have disappeared.
Is this what the misunderstanding is? If you observe a mutation that has spread within the population, then it is highly likely to be beneficial. That doesn't mean that all mutations are beneficial, because natural selection filters them (we don't see any mutations that caused the animal to die as an embryo, for example).
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