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The pound's rally to a four-month high against the dollar is proving too much for currency traders unsure whether Mark Carney will step up stimulus efforts when he takes over as Bank of England (BOE) governor next month.
Sterling's failure to extend its advance after rising above its 200-day moving average on June 13 may be a signal its winning streak is ending, according to Barclays Plc. The pound is also approaching a key Fibonacci retracement level where sell orders tend to be clustered, while the stochastic oscillator crossed a threshold that implies an imminent reversal.
"We're at a point where sterling is a bit stretched," Ken Dickson, an Edinburgh-based director for foreign exchange at Standard Life Investments Ltd., which oversees about $281 billion, said in a phone interview on June 17. "It could be pretty difficult to get beyond here in the near term."
Dickson predicted the currency may fall to about $1.53 in two weeks, from $1.5651 at 10:02 a.m. in New York, after rising from $1.5009 on May 29.
The pound rallied about 5 percent from an almost three-year low of $1.4832 in March as Britain's economy avoided an unprecedented triple-dip recession and inflation accelerated. While that suggests the Bank of England may pull back from stimulus measures that would debase the currency, Carney has said central banks can do more to aid growth, prompting analysts to forecast more weakness for the pound.
Historic Gains
On June 13, Britain's currency climbed above the 200-day moving average for the first time this year. When the pound surpassed that level in August and April 2012, it went on to gain as much as 3.9 percent during the following month, data compiled by Bloomberg show.
That the currency hasn't appreciated this time means its advance may be exhausted, Barclays technical analysts including Jordan Kotick in New York wrote in a June 17 note.
"Lack of upside traction through the 200-day average near $1.5698 is helping to keep us bearish for sterling versus the dollar," according to the analysts. A move below $1.5615 "would encourage our bearish view toward initial targets in the $1.5490 area," they wrote.
The stochastic indicator for the pound versus the dollar was at 88 on June 17, before falling back to 57 yesterday, indicating a selloff. The signal measures the current price relative to the highest high and lowest low during a certain period to determine if a currency is overbought or oversold. When the gauge rises above 80, an oversold condition, and crosses below its moving average, traders consider it a bearish indicator.
Relative Strength
The pound rose as high as $1.5752 on June 17, 0.2 percent from the $1.5789 resistance level that represents its 61.8 percent retracement of this year's high and low based on a Fibonacci chart, data compiled by Bloomberg show.
Fibonacci retracement is named after a 12th century Italian mathematician and based on the theory that prices rise or fall by predictable amounts after reaching a high or low. In this and other forms of technical analysis, investors study charts of trading patterns and prices to predict changes in a currency, security, or index.
"The evidence technically is that the pound is going to struggle to push through," Richard Adcock, a technical strategist at UBS AG in London, said in a June 17 phone interview. "There will be correction to the downside again to unwind the upside extreme."
The pound's 14-day relative strength index versus the dollar climbed to 69.6 on June 13 and was at 62.9 today, compared with the 70 level that indicates a currency has risen too far, too fast. When sterling breached the threshold in September, it started falling within a week, and during the following two months had tumbled 2.7 percent, data compiled by Bloomberg show.
Carney, who takes the helm of the BOE on July 1, said earlier this year that central banks aren't "maxed out," fueling speculation he'll favor measures such as bond purchases. The minutes of the bank's June 5-6 meeting published today showed that outgoing Governor Mervyn King lost his final policy vote, with officials blocking his bid for more stimulus.
The pound will weaken about 4.6 percent to $1.49 by the end of this year, according to the median estimate of analysts in a Bloomberg News survey.
Consumer prices in Europe's third-biggest economy rose 2.7 percent last month from a year earlier, compared with a 2.4 percent increase in April, the Office for National Statistics in London said yesterday. Gross domestic grew 0.3 percent in the first quarter of this year, an official report confirmed May 23. That helped the pound climb versus 11 of the 16 most-traded currencies tracked by Bloomberg over the past month.
While growth has returned to Britain, its projected 0.9 percent expansion this year will be 1 percentage point slower than the U.S.'s, according to Bloomberg surveys of economists.
"There are question marks about how far this strength will continue," Karen Jones, a London-based technical strategist at Commerzbank AG, said in a June 17 phone interview. "My core scenario is that we'll see failure between here and $1.58. The longer-term trend remains bearish."

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New laser therapy used in veterinary rehabilitation
WHITEWATER—Tracy Hansen was in tears last year when she took Grace, her 8-year-old Great Dane, to the Whitewater Animal Medical Center & Hospital.
Grace was knuckling—walking on the top of her toes instead of the pads of her paws--because of a pinched nerve in her back. The 124-pound dog was suffering from chronic arthritis and experiencing neck, back, hip and nerve pain.
Medication was prescribed but caused Grace to have an upset stomach and diarrhea.
Hansen was willing to try anything to get Grace some relief.
That's when veterinary technician Tiffany Gretschmann recommended the clinic's new drug-free, surgery-free and pain-free laser therapy.
It uses specific wavelengths of red and near-infrared light that increases circulation, drawing water, oxygen and nutrients to a damaged area. This reduces inflammation, swelling, muscle spasms, stiffness and pain. The infrared laser light also interacts with cellular tissues increasing cellular function and health, according to a clinic brochure.
After Grace's first treatment and by the time Hansen and her dog left the vet clinic, "she had a spring in her step," Hansen said.
Grace underwent two more laser therapy sessions that week.
Afterward, "she was behaving and moving like a puppy again," Hansen said.
Since then, Grace returns for laser therapy as often as once a week or as needed when Hansen notices Grace struggling to get up or down.
"I can tell if she doesn't come. It's like getting revived," Hansen said.
The Animal Medical Center & Hospital laser therapy equipment fits into a small carrying case.
"Every year, we like to include something new in the clinic and try and stay on top of the new stuff that comes out," Gretschmann said.
Since then, it has been used at least once a day on a dog or cat and even once on a horse.
"Very rarely does it not come out of the box," Gretschmann said.
During the first week of January, 10 laser therapy sessions were scheduled and up to 75 percent of dogs that have surgery opt for it, she said.
Each laser therapy session costs $15 and shows results usually within a half hour of treatment, Gretschmann said. Sessions are about five minutes, depending on the size of the animal and its health issues.
Laser therapy can help with osteoarthritis, joint pain, tendinopathies, edema and congestion, ligament sprains, muscle strains, puncture wounds, post-traumatic injury, post-surgical pain, neck and back pain, hip dysplasia, burns, chronic wounds, rehabilitation and post orthopedic surgical recovery, according to a clinic brochure.
When Gretschmann treated Grace, she donned laser goggles before moving the laser wand on Grace's neck and back. The flashlight-size wand made a soft hum.
"I work lengthwise then sideways and back and forth. With a wound, I wouldn't touch the dog, I'd hold the wand away and drag my finger across the animal's coat to make sure the (laser) light isn't too hot," she said.
Gretschmann verbally soothed Grace while trying to keep her from moving during the therapy session.
"Stay. We're almost done," she said.
"Good girl," Hansen praised Grace.
Hansen has recommended the laser therapy to others.
"I can't rave enough about it. It's amazing," she said.
Without the laser therapy, Hansen is convinced Grace would not be alive today.
"Often she couldn't get up on her own, her whole backside was down, and her paws were turned under," she said.
Grace doesn't whimper or whine anymore like she did before laser therapy, Hansen said.
"I got my dog back," she said with a smile.
"Dogs are family. We'd do anything to keep her pain free."


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Salmond upbeat after second debate
The momentum from the final television clash between Alex Salmond and Alistair Darling will carry the pro-independence campaign to victory in next month's referendum, the First Minister has claimed.
Mr Salmond said the "Yes campaign are going to have our tails up and our tails will be up for the next three weeks as we carry this campaign to victory".
But Mr Darling, leader of the pro-UK Better Together campaign, said today the independence referendum debate will be a "fight right down to the wire".
He insisted his campaign had the momentum coming out of last night's BBC debate - the second and final TV clash between the two politicians.
A snap poll afterwards by I CM for the Guardian newspaper showed 71% of people questioned thought Mr Salmond won the debate, compared with 29% for Mr Darling.
But the former chancellor insisted: "If you look at all the evidence, all the polls that have been published for the last few months, they consistently show us with a lead, most of them a double-digit lead.
"I'm not complacent - a lot can happen in the next three weeks - but we have momentum. We're making good progress, our activity on the ground, on the streets, has been stepped up dramatically, the results we're getting in are extremely encouraging. I'm very optimistic, but I'm not complacent.
"I've always said I thought this would be a fight right down to the wire, but I am increasingly confident."
Mr Darling, who was visiting a company in Inchinnan, Renfrewshire, said that while television debates were part of the democratic process, the "big debate that actually matters is in people's sitting rooms and people's kitchens, that's where the decision is going to be made".
Mr Salmond, who was visiting the Ferguson shipyard in Port Glasgow, Inverclyde, said too that " TV debates aren't the be-all and end-all".
The First Minister added: "What matters is the impact on our ground campaign, which is our not-so-secret weapon. We're fighting the most energising, electrifying, extraordinary campaign in Scottish political history.
"That's taking place in the town hall, village halls, towns, cities, streets of Scotland and the impact on the morale of activists is of fundamental importance.
"It's about momentum, it's also about argument. People in the next few days are taking postal votes into their hands. In a few weeks' time they're going to go into polling stations and take the future of their country into their hands. When people do that, they're going to vote for something. They're not going to vote against something.
"People want to vote for things and the Yes campaign are articulating an argument about protection of public services, the creation of jobs, the things that an independent Scotland can deliver for people at the front end of things at the present moment - the people needing food banks, the children being threatened with being plunged into poverty, how we create a more prosperous, a more just society.
"That's what's energising the debate and that's what's going to make the difference in three weeks' time."
In the first TV debate between the two men, the Better Together leader was regarded as having secured a narrow victory over Mr Salmond.
The SNP leader revealed he had a "wee sip" of Lucozade before taking on Mr Darling for the second time.
" I haven't been able to take Lucozade for a year because of my diet so that wee sip before the debate no doubt had an impact," the First Minister said.
" We got into very substantive subjects we didn't get the chance three weeks ago - the health service in particular, job creation and the importance of job-creating powers. I thought they were substantive subjects.
"I think, more seriously, it was about the subject matter that we got on to in this debate - the things people really care about, I think that was very, very important."
Mr Salmond claimed that the No campaign had to "rely on big television things because they've got very little on the ground" in the referendum campaign.
In contrast, he argued that those campaigning for independence "regard these things as an opportunity to shift the focus of the argument on to the things that matter, like the NHS, like jobs for Scotland, because on these things Yes will win".
In last night's debate, Mr Darling again repeatedly pressed the First Minister to set out his plan B for a currency if a formal deal could not be agreed with the rest of the UK to allow an independent Scotland to retain the pound.
But the former chancellor appeared to accept Scotland could use the pound regardless of whether Westminster signed up to such an arrangement.
He said: ''Of course we can use the pound... we could use the rouble, we could use the dollar, we could use the yen. We could use anything we want.''
Today Mr Darling insisted the No campaign had been ''right to focus on currency'', adding: ''One of the things that is striking in the last three weeks is the amount of people who have come up to me and said 'What about this plan B?' is quite remarkable.''
When asked if changes would be made to the pro-UK campaign following the TV clash, he said : ''Absolutely not.''
Postal votes for the September 18 referendum are being sent out from today, and Mr Darling said that as the ''finishing post'' comes into sight, Scots are increasingly focused on the decision to be made.
He said: ''There's a very clear choice here and I think people can see that, people are very focused now, especially as they can see the finishing post.
''I'm increasingly confident we will win, but it is our job to win well and to win well we've got to carry on campaigning up until 10pm on September 18."
The Better Together leader continued: ''If you look at all the evidence, all the polls that have been published for the last few months, they consistently show us with a lead, most of them a double-digit lead.
''I'm not complacent - a lot can happen in the next three weeks - but we have momentum. We're making good progress, our activity on the ground, on the streets, has been stepped up dramatically, the results we're getting in are extremely encouraging. I'm very optimistic but I'm not complacent.
''I've always said I thought this would be a fight right down to the wire, but I am increasingly confident.''
The pro-independence Yes Scotland campaign said afterwards its analysis of the ICM poll had put support for leaving the UK at 49%.
The cross-party group also claimed their research showed that Mr Salmond had "decisively" won the debate among female viewers
Yes Scotland chief executive Blair Jenkins said: " Last night's debate was an enormous success for the Yes campaign, which called the bluff of the No campaign on currency.
"The debate now moves on to who best runs Scotland - to the positivity of the Yes campaign against the negativity of No, and how only voting Yes can deliver the job-creating powers Scotland needs to build a more prosperous economy and fairer society."
He added: " Alistair Darling shredded the No campaign's bogus currency claims by admitting that of course Scotland can keep the pound.
"The debate is now going to be about who best runs Scotland - the people of Scotland or an out-of-touch Westminster system. And how only a Yes vote can deliver the job-creating powers that Scotland needs."
Meanwhile bookmakers Wi lliam Hill revealed 84% of the bets on the outcome of the referendum since last night's debate had been placed on a Yes vote, and that 98% of the stake money gambled on the outcome since then is also for this result.
The bookmakers has made No its favourite result for the referendum, with odds of 1/7.
Spokesman Graham Sharpe said: " The Yes campaign certainly appears to have received a major boost as a result of the second debate, and we have cut the odds about a Yes vote from 9/2 immediately before the debate, to a current price of 4/1."
A Downing Street spokesman said: "Following last night's debate, the Prime Minister concluded that the First Minister still has no answers on currency or how to fund public services while relying on volatile and declining oil revenues.
"It remains the Government's position that Scotland can enjoy the best of both worlds - the security of being part of something bigger, without the risk and uncertainty of separation."


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Identifying and Treating Common Psychiatric Conditions Comorbid with Myalgic Encephalomyelitis and/or Fibromyalgia
Identifying and Treating Common Psychiatric Conditions Comorbid with Myalgic Encephalomyelitis and/or Fibromyalgia
This article reviews the diagnostic criteria for both myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME) (ie, chronic fatigue syndrome) and fibromyalgia (FM) and describes how to differentiate them from depressive and anxiety disorders, the psychiatric conditions with which they are most often confused. The patients in the following Case Vignettes have ME and/or FM; not all have a psychiatric condition.
Despite thousands of peer-reviewed papers documenting their unique characteristics and pathophysiology, ME and FM continue to be mistaken for psychiatric conditions. This is problematic because it can delay accurate diagnosis and appropriate treatment, often for years. Although they have some symptoms in common (eg, fatigue, cognitive problems, unrefreshing sleep), ME and FM differ from each other and from all known psychiatric conditions. Diagnostic clarity depends on knowledge of the diagnostic criteria for each condition and identifying the pathognomonic, non-overlapping symptoms.
Diagnostic criteria for myalgic encephalomyelitis
The Canadian Consensus Criteria are used for diagnosis of ME. These criteria require the concurrent presence of disabling fatigue, postexertional malaise, unrefreshing sleep, muscle or joint pain, mood or cognitive symptoms, and at least 2 of the following: autonomic, neuroendocrine, or immune symptoms (Table 1).1 Postexertional malaise (immediate or delayed), the pathognomonic symptom of ME, is unusual in any psychiatric condition: most psychiatric patients feel better rather than worse after mental or physical exertion. Pain is not a core symptom of any common psychiatric condition but is reported to be elevated in major depression.2 Autonomic, neuroendocrine, and immune symptoms are not common in any psychiatric condition.
What new information does this article provide?
? Myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME) and fibromyalgia (FM) are complex biomedical conditions. Because psychiatric conditions are commonly comorbid, they should be looked for in patients with ME and FM.
What are the implications for psychiatric practice?
? Consider the diagnoses of ME and FM in "psychiatric" patients with a disproportionate number of physical symptoms, especially in those who are not responding as expected to psychiatric interventions.
Diagnostic criteria for fibromyalgia
New criteria for diagnosing FM were published in 2010.3 These criteria eliminate the previously required need for tender points on physical examination and add the criteria of fatigue, unrefreshing sleep, cognitive symptoms, and a long list of somatic symptoms (none of which are specific to FM) to the pathognomonic symptom of widespread pain (Table 2). Since fatigue, unrefreshing sleep, and cognitive symptoms are common to many psychiatric conditions, these new criteria do not aid in the differentiation between FM and a psychiatric diagnosis. A careful review of the entire constellation of symptoms is needed to identify whether the psychological or physical symptoms predominate. In patients with aching, tiring pain all over as the primary presenting symptom in combination with several other somatic symptoms, FM should be considered.
Maggie, aged 51, has suffered from chronic pain for several years since a skiing accident resulted in multiple surgeries on her broken ankle. In the past few years, this pain has become more generalized and is now associated with fatigue and cognitive problems. As she became increasingly unable to work, play, and socialize, depression developed. Now she feels "sick and tired" all the time with "pain all over" and lacks hope for the future.
Ben, aged 30, was a football star in college before coming down with Epstein Barr virus infection. He did not rest when he became ill because it was right before playoffs. He never fully recovered from this infection. He continues to feel "flu-like" most of the time and his energy "crashes" anytime he tries to do even modest amounts of exercise, such as playing with his young children. Since becoming ill, he has noticed a generalized worry about life. Even though his wife works and he has good family support, he cannot suppress the worry that "it will all fall apart."
Joyce, aged 40, developed fatigue, "brain fog," and "pain all over" after the difficult, premature birth of her second child. The child did not sleep through the night until he was 5 years old. When this child was 6 and starting school, Joyce thought she would finally be able to catch up on her sleep and rest. However, her health unaccountably took a turn for the worse and she experienced increased fatigue, orthostatic dizziness, difficulty in regulating temperature, and severe postexertional malaise. Her family physician diagnosed depression and prescribed an antidepressant. This, and other subsequent psychotropic trials, made her symptoms worse. She says she does not feel depressed, just really ill.
Prevalence of comorbidity
ME and FM can exist alone or together or can be comorbid with psychiatric conditions. The prevalence of Axis I conditions, particularly mood disorders, is higher in patients who have ME and FM than in healthy controls. The prevalence of psychiatric comorbidity is about the same in patients with ME as in patients with other chronic medical conditions; however, the rates are higher in patients who have FM. Estimates of comorbidity vary widely from study to study, which may be due to differences in sample types, variance in assessment tools for psychiatric diagnosis, and varying criteria being used for ME and FM. The variance is great enough that trying to estimate rates for individual comorbid psychiatric conditions is not helpful.
The prevalence of concurrent Axis I conditions among patients with ME ranges from 25% to 57%.4-6 The upper estimate comes from an epidemiological study that used flawed diagnostic criteria for ME.5,7 There is no evidence of any special relationship between ME and any psychiatric condition. In persons with ME, the prevalence of personality disorders is similar to that in the general population (less than10%) and much lower than that found in patients with depression.8,9
Rates of depression and anxiety are also variable in FM. The prevalence of "depressive disorders" ranges from 20% to 80% and of "anxiety disorders," from 13% to 64%.10 Axis II diagnoses are identified in 8.7% of patients with FM.11 There is some overlap in the genetics and family clustering of FM, MDD, and dysthymia.12,13 In a recently published review on the connection between depression and FM, Gracely and colleagues14 conclude that while some categorize FM as an "affective spectrum disorder," there are many alternative explanations for the high rates of depression and anxiety in patients with FM. Despite overlapping symptoms and family clustering, current opinion is that FM is not primarily an affective disorder.12,15


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Which new features do you want the most?
Love the fact that you can automatically post a link to your review on Twitter, but it would be great to have a chance to edit the message before it's published as well. That way, I can add tasting notes, or just make sure the tweet matches my usual style. (@CoryOBrien)
On the consumer side, I love to buy teas and blend them creatively once I get them home. Is there a feature where I could post on my tea log and select the teas that I blend and provide a tasting note about them in case others might be interested? Would love to see the combinations that others create too!
A Tea Events feature would be great too, a place where we could see local tea events in our area, and rate them maybe in case they are recurring events? Also what about a place to list or rate local tea houses or places people can get together to have tea?
Make time and temp visability the default with the option of deleting it instead of vice versa. For people that drink a lot of green tea it's a pain to have to move the temp meter just to get it to show up since it's already set at 180, a very common steeping temp for greens. Also, instead of having time and temp on a slider, please change it to a blank field format. I had to set the steeping time for a 2nd infusion green tea at 45 seconds instead of the 40 I actually steeped it for.
For people who rarely pay attention to that sort of thing at all, it would be a pain to uncheck it every single time.
Maybe making it a user preference?
Wait, you mean as a default for that particular tea for each individual user like the way our individual ratings work? Oh yes, that could be a nice touch.
I thought you meant a global default for everything and everybody, which I just couldn't see how would be practical at all. Maybe I ought to consider bedtime soon.
@Angrboda I'm understanding what she said the same way you did initially. Yours makes more sense to me. That could be pretty cool, though I tend to jump around with my steep times and temperatures.
Sometimes I forget to log time and temperature and edit later. The only reason I realize it is because there's nothing there. I think that your idea of making it be some kind of user setting would be the way to go. I know I'd prefer that to having a lot of default 180's floating around because we all forgot to delete it.
But in the grand scheme of things, I personally don't find it any trouble at all to move the slider back and forth a couple of notches.
@Angrboda, I did mean a global default. For green tea drinkers, having to move the marker back and forth even though it's already set at 180 is just as much of a pain in the butt than you having to unclick it. Don't get me wrong, I'm not invalidating your opinion- either way is a pain for different people.
I'm not so lazy that I can't move the slider. I like not having a default, because everyone's drinking different teas at different temperatures. It takes two seconds at most, so I don't see why this is really an issue.
I have to agree with Teaplz on this. Unless the majority of all teas logged by all users are green, a non-optional default 180F temperature setting seems more a way to inconvenience the many for the benefit of the few.
I understand your concern, but we also have to think of the people who are not submitting that info. For people that are noting temp, most likely the temp they use won't already be selected (so you'd have to move the slider anyways), and even if it is you still care enough to provide that info so you probably will take the time to move it anyways. The problem with automatically including it is if people don't want to submit that, its more likely that they would add a tasting note without noticing that the temp is already picked, so you'd end up with incorrect temps. I hope that makes sense.
Then maybe just have them as blank fields instead of a slider. This way we can enter the EXACT time and temp instead of rounding and if they're left blank they just don't show up.
How about boxes to check in the tasting notes for additions to tea: milk, soy, sugar, artificial sweetener, stevia… and some people seem really interested in trying salt and butter so maybe add those too? How about boxes to enter how much leaf (by both weight and measure) and water is used? How about a box to enter which infusion it is?
I was just searching this thread to see if this had been suggested. I strongly second this! I think drop-downs for additives would be really helpful. If I know that this tea gets really high marks, but the people rating always drink it with milk, and I never do – that would be really helpful.
We already have some features planned that will help incorporate exactly these things. Thanks for the suggestion.
I agree , an "additions" checkbox would be very helpful !
This may be a feature already but I can't seem to find links to the teas on the seller's websites. If this feature is not available then I think it would be a good addition.
I've seen it, but only with certain brands. I know Adagio is one of them. I want to say Rishi is, too? It'll show up in next to the tea if you have any on your shopping list, but also on the side bar if you're looking at the tea's page.
Yes, just confirmed Adagio has linkage. [There are 304 Adagio teas?! What the what?] I'm going to assume that this is because some of our tea brands are mislabeled and need to be meshed and whatnot, but I agree that it would be nice to see that on some of the other brands.
I second (third?) that. I know some of the bigger name brands like Teavana and Adagio have links here but no one else does, even when their websites are easily located on Google (so it's not as if all these other companies don't have a webpage or that it's hard to find). I think it would be great publicity for many of the smaller tea companies in particular.
We definitely agree with this and try to add as many as possible. Links offsite to the tea company pages are managed by Steepster admins and it is difficult to keep up with the large number of teas added to Steepster on a daily basis. Also, we have arranged commission rates with some companies but don't have the capacity to arrange that with everyone, which makes the process of adding new links rather slow. We will continue to add links offsite and it's our goal to eventually have links on all of the tea pages that go to the place where you can buy that tea online. Sorry there aren't more, we'll keep doing our best. I hope this makes sense, let me know if you have any other questions. [email protected]
Just skimming over these makes me really happy. Fortunately, we've already considered most of these and have many of them on our list of planned additions. However, there are also a number that are new and very clever. I'm excited to see where this forum goes and to see all the new requests as the site continues to evolve. I haven't had a chance to go through a read them all (I have to get some work done) but I plan to go through and offer responses where appropriate. Keep the ideas coming!
@ Jason – Just wanted to say that you Steepster Boys ROCK!
indeed! I love this site! thank you!
Taken from mystarbucksidea.com… As ideas are considered, how about they get flagged as either "denied" (not gonna work), "launched" (idea is implimented), or "coming soon" (idea is in the process of being launched)? When an idea gets one of these tags, it is closed for further comments. To save room maybe the commentary could even be deleted leaving only the original idea to show that it has been requested and is or has been dealt w/…. Or better yet, They could all be removed from this thread which is for current requests and there could be different files (for lack of a better word)… one each for launched, denied, and coming soon… Basically Steepster update list.
Dunno if you haven't seen this yet, but they've got a feedback section where some ideas are flagged like that. It's obviously not forum-related but that might give you an idea of what they've got slated for release.
Thanks, I have. But it doesn't seem to work. It doesn't let me add feedback. I've tried a couple times. I'm just thinking that slotting it in the forum would make it easier to find and navigate. But that's just me:)
Interesting idea. I'm not sure if this is the place for that, but I agree there could definitely be better organization and a better method for letting the users know the status of ideas outside of GetSatisfaction.
I could have sworn I saw this posted but I couldn't find it to reply on so if it is, I apologize… but that states my point. How about a search box for the forums? That way a repeat feature/steepster select request or forum topic isn't posted.
Does the search work for this thread? I never find what I'm looking for when I search even though I know it's here… So I'll post my idea here: not only the ability to have separate ratings for each tea, but choose a general tea rating or one specific to that cuppa. I'd like to know if a black tea is crap oversteepedf for 15 min, but I don't want that affecting the general rating of the tea. Also, as far as general ratings go… I thought I read how the rating is determined and it wasn't just simply the sum of the scores divided by the number of scores given. If I am remembering correctly, can it please be changed to the way I described?
Could it be arranged that when we click on the "last updated" link it takes us to the latest update? Can the word "reply" in the dashboard be linked to what post it's refering to?


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José Barron, 22, began volunteering two days a week at the World Vision Storehouse in Fife, Washington, two years ago.
"I like volunteering here because I notice that I love working with people," José says. "I love my job. Coming here has changed my life."
The Storehouse provides school supplies, diapers, clothing, building materials, Family Food Kits, and more to small charities to distribute through their ministries to local families who are in need -- either because of a natural disaster or other crisis, or because of poverty.
The operation can't succeed without volunteers, and José is among the most committed of these faithful servants.
"Wherever they wanted me to be, I just be there, because I know that I don't do it for me, I don't do it for no one else, I just do it for the Lord," says José.
He loved volunteering at the Storehouse so much that he eventually started coming every day. He'd wake up at 4:30 each morning to catch four different buses from his home in Kent to get to the Storehouse in Fife by 7 or 8 a.m. The trip home at night sometimes took longer.
After a few months, staff at the Storehouse found out about José's exhausting commute, and began giving him rides.
"Workers here, they've been more than friends," says José. "They've been almost like a family to me."
José has become especially close with Storehouse manager Reed Slattery.
"I told Reed [that] he's been almost like a dad to me," says José. "My dad is not here with me, but I get that love that I've never gotten from him."
Reed feels the same way. "José has become part of our family," he says. "He's a great friend of mine. He's got the biggest heart of anybody that I've ever met. He's always thinking about somebody else."
As the oldest of the four children, José feels the burden of providing for and protecting his family, especially because his dad isn't around. "Trying to keep the house standing, it's not easy," says José.
José's family moved to the United States from Mexico when he was just 9. His single mother struggled to make ends meet. She found work cleaning houses, but it wasn't always enough to support her four growing kids. The family would often go without dinner a couple of nights a week.
"She'd be scared to let us know that, 'You know what, I'm sorry, but we won't be able to eat tonight,'" says José.
Because he knows what it is to be hungry, he now does his part to make sure there are enough groceries.
"When I started volunteering here, this is the way that I've been blessed a lot. The food kits that I get to take home have been so amazing," says José.
These Family Food Kits have enough food to feed a family of five for a day. They have dry goods like macaroni and cheese, rice and beans, and lentil soup. Sometimes José gets to take a few home from the Storehouse.
"One of the things I like about the food kits is the lentil soup, because it reminds me of my home back in Mexico," says José.
No one understands the people that the Storehouse serves better than José. "I know sometimes when we do the food kits, or I hear different stories from people, it touches me because I live that story, and it's not easy," he says.
As José greets people at the Storehouse, they are more than customers to him. He's seen tears in people's eyes as they fill up their carts and say thank you.
"They get so amazed by the things we're giving them," says José. "It makes me realize that everything I'm doing is changing someone's life."
For a man who works more than 40 hours per week without pay, it would seem that José has enough on his plate. But recently, he's taken up another hobby -- running.
In February, Reed encouraged him to run a 5k, and José agreed. Then they started training together for a half marathon in June.
"I'm running for Team World Vision. It's 13 miles and I feel like I'm already ready to run it. I'm raising money to send to Africa to send clean water down there. I'm doing it because I wanna do it for other kids," says José.
On June 22, José finished the half marathon in Seattle in 2 hours and 41 minutes. "Jose raised $395 by himself and we had over $600 come in for the team -- and most of that was because of him," Reed says.
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Epilogue: Shortly after this interview, José was offered a full-time job at the World Vision Storehouse in Fife, Washington. His first day of work fell on July 1, his 22nd birthday. He said it was the best birthday he's ever had.
Abby Stalsbroten is an associate photo producer with World Vision U.S.
Make a one-time donation to help feed U.S. children and families in need. Each World Vision Family Food Kit includes nutritious meals like oatmeal, lentil soup, pasta, and bean-and-rice casserole. Your gift can help fill the gap during these summer months, when many children are out of school and thus lose the stability and dependability of hot meals each day.


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Doris Pearl Joranlien, age 84, of Brodhead, passed away on Wednesday, March 5, 2014, at Select Specialty Hospital, Madison, WI. She was born on September 8, 1929 in South Beloit, IL, the daughter of Everett and Carrie (Burger) Fowler. She married Selmer T. Joranlien on February 24, 1951 at West Luther Valley Church (now Bethany Lutheran) rural Brodhead. He passed away on December 18, 1998. Doris and Selmer farmed in Avon and Spring Valley townships, Rock County, from the time of their marriage until 1970. Subsequently, she worked in the bakery at Swiss Colony, Monroe, WI, retiring after more than twenty years of dedicated service. Doris and Selmer enjoyed road trips out west and trips to Las Vegas. They especially enjoyed spending time at their trailer in Lynxville along the Mississippi River, where they fished and socialized with friends in their retirement camp. Doris also enjoyed cooking and making lefse and krumkakke during the holidays for family and friends. Her skills as a master crocheter are seen throughout her house and in the homes of family, friends and acquaintances.
Doris is survived by three sons: Alan (partner Joe) of Madison, Henry (Brigitte) of Williamsburg, VA, Thomas, Brodhead; a daughter, Janice (Douglas) Knight, Brodhead; six grandchildren: Amber (Robert) Harlow, Natasha (Ernest) Langston, Jessica Owens, Alex Joranlien, Greg (Pamela) Knight, Carmen (Brian) Schuweiler; five great-grandchildren: Robert Jr., C. J. and Jeffrey Harlow, Abigail Langston and Aiden Knight; one great-great-grandchild, Cayden Langston; a sister-in-law, Mary Fowler; and special friends, Kay Stacey, Mary Hafen, and the late Gloria Schils. She was preceded in death by her parents, husband; and her three brothers: Gerton, Clayton and Robert.
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TOWN OF RICHMOND--Susan K. Miller doesn't remember much about fall shearing the year her husband, Sam, died.
"I was in a fog," she said. "I was going through the motions."
In the two years since then, she has made adjustments to how Tall Grass Farm in the town of Richmond is run so she can handle most of the work with the Angora goats.
On Saturday, Susan invites people to watch goat shearing and to eat lunch provided by the cooks of the Richmond Methodist Church.
The fall fiber jubilee is a tribute to the memory of Sam. It also is an affirmation of what a woman can do with faith and a little help from her friends.
After Sam died of complications of chemotherapy in July 2011, Susan tended the couple's 33 goats with a broken heart.
"I was struggling with everything," she recalls. "I was muddling through, but people reached out to me. My church family surrounded me. A member of my church called me every day for weeks."
People who attended past jubilees in spring and fall encouraged her to keep the farm and to keep hosting the jubilee. Her colleagues at Mercy Options, where Susan works in Janesville as a clinical psychotherapist, offered support. Even her clients wanted to take care of her.
She reached out to friends, who helped her make hay and clean the barn.
Eventually, Susan began to feel Sam's presence and guidance about making decisions on practical things at the farm.
"I could hear him telling me to sell the bucks because I could not handle them," she said. "Then I sold some of the does because there were too many of them."
Today, Susan tends 18 goats, one lama and three Shetland sheep.
"I am so proud that I am able to maintain this farm with the help of friends," she said. "Sam loved this place. He put so much work into it. Sometimes I am so tired when I come out of that barn at night, but this place grounds me. The animals, the soil, the changing of the seasons saved my sanity."
On days when she works in Janesville, her alarm goes off at 4:20 a.m. so she can get her chores done before leaving.
"The goats are my therapy," she said. "When I have a bad day at work, I go straight to the barn when I come home."
Years ago, Susan didn't even know what an Angora goat was.
She and Sam lived in the San Joaquin Valley of central California. Susan was a successful business administrator who followed an inner voice that told her to study psychology and counseling. Eventually, she and Sam wanted to be closer to their daughters and first grandchild.
In August 1994, the Millers moved to Wisconsin, where they bought a five-acre farm with a rundown barn and weathered buildings. Slowly, they made improvements while working in careers off the farm. Eventually, they began raising Angora goats for their lustrous fleece, which they turned into yarn, blankets and clothing.
They felt the energy of new life when the animals had babies. They nurtured their goats and kept them healthy. Twice a year, they also sheared them.
In 1996, Sam came up with the idea of a jubilee in the spring and the fall to celebrate mohair and other natural fibers. He figured they had to shear the goats anyhow so why not make an event of it.
On the night Sam died, Susan saw a blanket of fireflies in the field across from her farm.
"I don't know whether it was Sam telling me that everything will be OK or if it was God telling me," she said. "You can see an event like that as an ordinary thing or as a miracle."
Susan saw it as a miracle, one of many that she has embraced as she tries to find a new normal without her husband of almost 25 years.
"I am blessed by seeing the miracles of everyday life," she said. "That there are fireflies. That the trees grow. That the swallows return in the spring."
A year after her husband's memorial service, Susan said, she saw Sam in a dreamlike state while she was half awake and half asleep.
"He said goodbye, which he wasn't able to do in his last hours," she said.
The experience affirmed Susan's belief in what she calls "something bigger than all of us in the universe." She always has had a lot of faith and doesn't know how she would have survived the loss of her husband without it.
"I had moments when I lost my direction," she said.
"But I never considered leaving the farm. My roots are too deep."
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Weather won't play a factor in Super Bowl revenue
If you read some sports website fan forums, there is sentiment out there hoping MetLife Stadium is hit with a snowstorm and sub-zero temperatures Sunday, ruining the Super Bowl and making it the last Super Bowl ever held outdoors north of the Mason Dixon line.
They want the NFL to learn its lesson with empty stands surrounding the Denver-Seattle matchup Sunday.
The updated forecast makes that scenario unlikely. Temperatures are expected to be near 40 with 10 mph winds.
That still might be enough to keep MetLife Stadium from being packed, and will be less than optimal conditions for the NFL's biggest game.
But those figuring the league will take a financial hit if a blizzard blindsides the activities are mistaken.
In fact, wintry conditions in New York/New Jersey, as well as around the U.S. could be a benefit to the NFL.
More people staying at home mean more television viewers. And THAT is what the NFL is concerned about. The amount of people at the stadium is just background music.
That was driven home when the Packers went to the Super Bowl in 2010 at Jerry Jones' palace in Arlington, Texas.
I was fortunate enough to win a lottery among Packer season-ticket holders to purchase two Super Bowl tickets at $800 each (face value). I bought the tickets but did not want to pay hotel and air flight to Dallas and sold them to a friend.
If the game had been in New Orleans or San Diego, I would have gone. Dallas, no.
When the holders of my tickets—these were tickets issued to season-ticket holders of the game participants—they found that their seats weren't ready.
Approximately 3,200 fans at that game were told that the tickets were no good. It got them in the stadium, but the seats weren't available. The announced attendance that day was 103,219.
Think about that. There were more than 100,000 people in the stadium, but season-ticket holders of the teams that were playing in the game were the ones that got second-hand treatment.
The NFL settled with those displaced fans. The league offered the fans who got no seats at all various compensation packages: $2,400 plus a free ticket to 2011 Super Bowl, or a ticket to a future Super Bowl with airfare and four nights hotel, or a $5,000 payment (with the possibility of more than that for verified expense). The league also offered about 2,000 fans a ticket refund or a future Super Bowl ticket for being "significantly delayed" getting to their seats.
The point is fans of the participating teams are second-class. The VIPs that make of the majority of the Super Bowl crowd are NFL league and team staff members, host city officials, league advertisers, and high rollers who can afford to buy the expensive seats.
Look at the crowd Sunday. You won't see sections full of orange-clad Bronco fans or blue-clad Seahawk fans. The spectators at the game are inconsequential.
What makes the Super Bowl are the fans around the country that have money down on the game, participate in office pools or throw house parties. They have the TV sets on that establish the yearly TV ratings for the game.
The Super Bowl is basically bulletproof. The TV ratings will be there come hell or 5 feet of snow. And those ratings will allow the league to again boost its advertising rates for next year's game.
The price of a 30-second spot on FOX on Sunday will again set a record. The price of a 30-second spot during the game will surpass $4 million. According to Fox and NFL officials, advertising during the broadcast has been sold out for several weeks.
That is what drives the NFL. If there were enough hotel rooms in the area, the NFL would not hesitate to hold the Super Bowl in Green Bay.
Think of what kind of ratings that would bring. But all the league bigwigs that attend the game have to have a place to sleep, and there aren't enough hotels in Wisconsin to handle that crowd.
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Just one quarter of people think they will receive the social service care they need in old age or if they suffer disability, according to new research.
A poll commissioned by 75 charities and voluntary organisations found that only 27% of people in England believe there would enough help available for themselves or a family member.
It concluded that concerns over care could prove crucial at the general election, with voters ranking the issue second only to health as a government spending priority.
Asked about how the coalition is dealing with care, more than half of respondents (55%) said the Government should be doing more.
Richard Hawkes, chairman of the Care and Support Alliance (CSA), said: "Care is well and truly an election issue.
"The message from the public is loud and unambiguous. It's a real vote of no confidence.
"They are worried about who will care for them or their loved ones, if they can no longer do basic things for themselves.
"Above all, they want the Government to invest more money in the system."
T he YouGov poll of almost 4,700 people in England for the Care and Support Alliance found that a third of the population (32%) rely on the care system either for themselves or a close family member.
Asked what public services the Government should spend more on, 67% of respondents replied h ospitals and local GP surgeries, followed by 47% who said more money should go towards s upporting for elderly and disabled people.
As respondents got older, they expressed increasing concern over the care that would be available to them and their loved ones.
Some 39% of people in their late teens and early twenties believed they would not receive adequate care compared to two thirds (71%) of those over 60.
An upcoming overhaul of the care system will see its cost capped for the first time.
But the CSA said that the system was "on its knees", suffering from a surge in demand and "chronic under-funding", with fewer people getting the attention they need.
And it pointed to claims made last month by councils that £3.5 billion has come out of the care system in the last four years.
Research by the London School of Economics has shown that 500,000 people who would have got care in 2009 are no longer entitled to it.
The findings announced today come ahead of the publication next week of a report on the future shape of England's care system.
A panel of experts led by economist Kate Barker and backed by the King's Fund health think tank will set out a blueprint for merging parts of the social care system with the NHS.
Experts have warned that integration of the two systems is required to cope with the demands placed on them by an ageing population.


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It's final exam time, and this year, law schools are receiving a passing grade… even after struggling on the "job placement" portion of the test.
On August 19, Kaplan released a survey of 2014 law school graduates, determining how they felt about their law school experience. The survey of 1,273 graduates covered a number of topics, including professor quality, preparation for the workforce, and placement in the workforce.
Overall, more graduates felt they had a top-notch education in 2013 than in the previous year. 40 percent gave their law school education an A, up 3 percent from 2012. 45 percent gave their education a B, and only 4 percent gave D or F overall grades.
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"Jobs are top of mind for law school graduates in what continues to be a challenging job market for new attorneys, so it's not too surprising that students are tough graders on this front," said Steven Marietti, vice president and general manager of Kaplan Bar Review, in a statement. "The survey tells us that students are happy with the quality of their legal education overall and still see law school as a worthwhile investment, but they really want more assistance from law schools in helping them land jobs in the legal sector."
According to recent ABA statistics, schools are increasing the number of graduates they place in jobs requiring bar passage, but at a slow rate. In 2013, 57 percent of graduates landed jobs requiring bar passage out of school, up 0.8 percent from 2012. However, the rate of unemployment among these graduates also rose slightly, to 11 percent in 2013.


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Argh, now you are taking me bit too seriously. Apparently the talk about Martian ants and The Matrix weren't enough to indicate that I was mostly joking. You are completely correct in what you say and I'm not doubting empirical science.
I originally just tried to point out that there is empirical evidence on evolution just like there is evidence on most other scientifical theories. These evidences may not be as obvious as those we have on the Earth's shape, but nonetheless they can be regarded as "proof" of evolution. Thus I think one can talk about proofs of evolution. You don't have to rely on ancient fossils or such, modern-day laboratory experiments provide proofs as well.
Of course, in science, new evidence emerge, and existing views may need to be corrected, but this applies all science, not just the theory of evolution.
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You are deviating from the scientific method. All hypotheses must be tested, if they are tested and shown to be false, they must be adjusted or discarded, and a new hypotheses formed. Evolutionary thought overlays many branches of science and depends on each science to "prove" it.
Evolution presents many self admitted hypotheses to form the entire theory. It is not even scientific to say something is "proved" in the context of the scientific method. The next step after a theory is scientific law. It must be stated that evolution is scientific law if it has passed the theory stage. Are you willing to say this?
The problem is that the scientific community allows no rebuttal for the general idea of evolution. If you try to tell me there is no politics involved, then excuse me while I regurgitate.
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I think I should have wrote the last post like this. The reasoning in the first is not linear. This is better.
You are deviating from the scientific method. All hypotheses must be tested, if they are tested and shown to be false, they must be adjusted or discarded, and a new hypotheses formed. Evolution presents many self admitted hypotheses to form the entire theory.
The reason many hypotheses are still presented in textbooks and have been rejected by many modern scientists is a testament to the fact that the old hypotheses are untestable. You can not observe them, only provide hard evidence with interpretation which amounts to circumstantial evidence, and speculation.
In another thought, how are you going to "prove" the oxygen catastrophe. You can provide oxidation evidence but it does not rule out every other possibility--which would be required to make a scientific deduction.
It is not even scientific to say something is "proved" in the context of the scientific method. The next step after a theory is scientific law. It must be stated that evolution is scientific law if it has passed the theory stage. Are you willing to say this?
The real problem is that the scientific community allows no rebuttal for the general idea of evolution. So most science students can only think and reason within the context they have been presented for years and years.
If you try to tell me there is no politics involved, then excuse me while I regurgitate.
Evolution presents many self admitted hypotheses to form the entire theory. It is not even scientific to say something is "proved" in the context of the scientific method. The next step after a theory is scientific law. It must be stated that evolution is scientific law if it has passed the theory stage. Are you willing to say this?
The problem is that the scientific community allows no rebuttal for the general idea of evolution. If you try to tell me there is no politics involved, then excuse me while I regurgitate.
Uhuh, scientific fundamentalists are almost as annoying as religious ones. I wrote the word proof with quotation marks (i.e. "proof" and "proved") especially to indicate that it must not be taken literally, but still I get these replies where people take my every word literally... pretty much like religious fanatics do.
If normal people talk about evolution, the shape of Earth or the colour of your gramma's hair, they can for sure use the word proof when they discuss about the evidence that support their view. Who gives a fcuk if it's a scientifically poor choice of word, unless of course you happen to be having that conversation with a bunch of scientific nitpickers to whom it apparently is a matter of life and death :)
Or maybe this forum is just for hardcore scientists where every single word must be used in the exactly right context, and all common sense is strictly forbidden because it may inviolate the mighty Scientific Method. Petty amateurs such as myself or the original poster of this thread are probably better off if they promptly go back to their sandboxes and just keep playing.
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Yes, we're playing with semantics, regarding "proof"
Scientific proof is a definable term. Look it up people.
What did the parasitic Candiru fish say when it finally found a host? - - "Urethra!!"
Like I said, "proof" it was a poor choice of word in the first place, but I did put my proof in question marks to indicate that I wasn't talking about scientific proof or any such exact term - this is not playing with semantics, it was just a word that I though best described what I tried to say (and obviously didn't do so). Hell, why would I have used the question marks if I was talking about a defined term? Instead, I tried to use the word in the context people use it in everyday conversation, which generally just means that proof = something that strongly suggests that a thing is so.
Of course since this is a scientific forum, I guess it's fair to expect that people stick to scientific terms as much as possible. I try to behave myself in the future.
Re: 5 best proofs of evolution
Intelligent Design
We know that design necessitates a designer. In fact, in accordance with this fundamental axiom, design detection methodology is a prerequisite in many fields of human endeavor, including archaeology, anthropology, forensics, criminal jurisprudence, copyright law, patent law, reverse engineering, crypto analysis, random number generation, and SETI. And how do we recognize intelligent design? In general, we find "specified complexity" to be a reliable indicator of the presence of intelligent design. Chance can explain complexity alone but not specification -- a random sequence of letters is complex but not specified (it's meaningless).)
So where's the proof of God's existence? In accordance with our familiar axiom and in light of the tremendous advances we've made in molecular biology, biochemistry, genetics and information theory, the proof of God is all around us!
Through the microscope, we observe the E. coli bacterial flagellum. The bacterial flagellum is what propels E. coli bacteria through its microscopic world. It consists of about 40 individual protein parts including a stator, rotor, drive-shaft, U-joint, and propeller. It's a microscopic outboard motor! The individual parts come into focus when magnified 50,000 times (using electron micrographs). And even though these microscopic outboard motors run at an incredible 100,000 rpm, they can stop on a microscopic dime. It takes only a quarter turn for them to stop, shift directions and start spinning 100,000 rpm in the opposite direction! The flagellar motor has two gears (forward and reverse), is water-cooled, and is hardwired into a signal transduction (sensory mechanism) so that it receives feedback from its environment. ("Unlocking the Mystery of Life," video documentary by Illustra Media, 2002.)
When we apply the general principles of detecting specified complexity to biologic systems (living creatures), we find it reasonable to infer the presence intelligent design. Take, for example, the bacterial flagellum's stator, rotor, drive-shaft, U-joint, and propeller. It is not convenient that we've given these parts these names - that's truly their function. If you were to find a stator, rotor, drive-shaft, U-joint, or propeller in any vehicle, machine, toy or model, you would recognize them as the product of an intelligent source. No one would expect an outboard motor -- much less one as incredible as the flagellar motor -- to be the product of a chance assemblage of parts. Motors are the product of intelligent design.
Furthermore, the E. coli bacterial flagellum simply could not have evolved gradually over time. The bacterial flagellum is an "irreducibly complex" system. An irreducibly complex system is one composed of multiple parts, all of which are necessary for the system to function. If you remove any one part, the entire system will fail to function. Every individual part is integral. There is absolutely no naturalistic, gradual, evolutionary explanation for the bacterial flagellum. (Michael Behe, Darwin's Black Box, 1996.)
The bacterial flagellum (not to mention the irreducibly complex molecular machines responsible for the flagellum's assembly) is just one example of the specified complexity that pervades the microscopic biological world. Molecular biologist Michael Denton wrote, "Although the tiniest bacterial cells are incredibly small, weighing less than 10-12 grams, each is in effect a veritable micro-miniaturized factory containing thousands of exquisitely designed pieces of intricate molecular machinery, made up altogether of one hundred thousand million atoms, far more complicated than any machinery built by man and absolutely without parallel in the non-living world." (Michael Denton, Evolution: A Theory in Crisis, 1986, p. 250.)
Hehe, what a classic.
If something is too complex for a man to manufacture, it cannot exist unless someone has designed it. Sheesh. How pathetic is it if the only way you can possibly try to prove the existence of your god is to point out that a bacterium's flagellum is complex. That is sooo last year. Please, find yourself a new proof, this one we've seen already!
Hell, a twelve-gram bacterial cell. Who comes up with this **** in the first place, do you actually understand anything about what you write? Well, luckily at least the references are fresh and up-to-date.
Re: 5 best proofs of evolution
It depends on what you mean by "design." Snowflakes certainly look designed... each is both complex and unique. Are they evidence of a snowflake designer?
Specified Complexity is a Red Herring. We cannot tell if for example, The Elephant is the result of a Specified Design by looking at it. Was the Elephant the Intended result of a designer, or one of many possible results of evolution?
Such fields have instead taken much out of the mystery of Life which used to be included under theology. Just as we now understand where lightning comes from (not Zeus) we also now understand much more about where babies come from.
We are not talking about a"chance assembly of parts," we are talking about evolution, which means Selection.
Strange then that neither Behe nor any other IDer has been able to show that any Specific flagellum is, indeed, I.C. Behe only talks about these devices in general terms, yet his whole point is supposed to be about how these things are IC at the molecular level of detail. Anything that is IC can be explained by evolutionary exaption, in any case. The IC argument assumes that parts remain the same over time and never change their function. It also assumes that parts were not lost (as in scaffolding). This is not how evolution is believed to work.
Denton now thinks that evolution is responsible for all this, but was guided by an unfolding plan from God. See: Nature's Destiny (1998)
A question i always like to ask to mess with ID proponents is this: if you have a designer that is smart enough to design everything, wouldn't this designer be irreducibly complex? How on earth did the designer appear? was there some designer of the designer?
"As a biologist, I firmly believe that when you're dead, you're dead. Except for what you live behind in history. That's the only afterlife" - J. Craig Venter
Re: 5 best proofs of evolution
There are some things that cannot be explained by man. We would just be arrogant to think that we could possibly have all the answers. From a common sense standpoint, intelligent design makes sense. I'm typing this using a computer that isn't all too complex, but certainly I must assume from opening the case (voiding my warranty) and looking at the parts that somebody purposefully built it. The parts don't work together by chance. We look at complex systems in the world, much more complex than a pc, yet conclude that somehow it all came together by chance in the beginning of time? Seems doubtful. Any theory of origins must be accepted by faith, and, in truth, you must accept both creation and Biblical Christianity by faith. By the way, this is a pivotal point of Biblical Christianity.
Science cannot explain the origins of man, because the scientific process demands observation. Even if we could observe some sort of evolution (which I do not concede), how could we be sure it was the same process under the same conditions as existed in the beginning of time? You would be trying to prove an historical fact through science, like trying to prove the landing of the Mayflower through soil samples.
I think an interesting question could be put to you. If ID is not true, then from where did the original elements originate? If you believed in big bang, where did the explosion originate? If you believe in some kind of ooze pool, from where did the ooze come?
Finally, how can science prove something that scientists were not there to observe? Now if you do believe the Bible, then you have a documented account. If you don't believe the Bible, then you are stuck.
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UW-Whitewater students take away lessons after filming a documentary on WWII veterans
WHITEWATER—Katie Klepper didn't expect to foster close ties with people at least three times her age.
She also didn't anticipate she'd tie-dye T-shirts with Fairhaven Senior Services residents, and come in a day shortly after and find the residents wearing them.
She certainly didn't expect to log almost 40 hours of volunteer time in a semester while creating a documentary on World War II veterans and tackling a full course load.�
Klepper, along with four other UW-Whitewater juniors and seniors, volunteered at Fairhaven, and filmed and edited more than six hours of interviews with a group of five male veterans who live at the senior home. The end product is a 15-minute documentary on the veterans and their experiences before, during, and after the war.
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Three of the students will be presenting the documentary, "A Mission to Honor," on Monday as part of the Fairhaven Lecture Series. The University's School of Graduate Studies and Continuing Education presents the lectures each semester.
Each semester features a different theme. This semester the focus is on legacies and lessons in the age of President Abraham Lincoln.
Professors or experts typically present the lectures, but students with research related to the themes can be invited to lead the conversation, said Sue Wildermuth, Cross Cultural Communications professor.
"It's very rare anyone besides faculty present at that," Wildermuth said. "I think, again, they were very innovative and wanted the opportunity to share it and bring it into the community."
What started as service learning for the students' Cross Cultural Communications class turned into an experience that has broadened Klepper's perspective on peace, war, and anthropology.
She plans to attend graduate school for anthropology.
Before, she thought experiencing different cultures meant going outside the U.S.. Now she knows otherwise, noting there are co-cultures, such as the elderly, veterans and the LGBTQ community, right in Whitewater.
"I can experience more than just other cultures," she said. "I can experience co-cultures within my culture and I thought that was a neat experience, and it was a really good learning experience."
The students were required to log 20 hours of volunteer time for their class and put together some sort of project on the oral histories they recorded. The students were assigned to record the veterans' stories.�
But Klepper, Jarred Donlon, Ashlee Lamers, Carolyn Larsen and Travis O'Gallagher didn't want to stop at just documenting, and they didn't want to write another paper.
"I've written plenty of papers in my undergrad experience, and I didn't want to do that," Klepper said.
So they made a cultural artifact that will last for years and share a segment of history.
Cross Cultural Communications is the study of contacts and interactions of people from different cultures, according to the course description. Students analyze verbal and non-verbal communication within and between cultures by interacting with people in their environment.
The 32-student class was broken into small groups and sent to volunteer at Fairhaven, a Whitewater adult day care, or with English language learning families.
Wildermuth said the group of five that went to Fairhaven shined and went the extra mile.
"They went above and beyond," Wildermuth said. "They really wanted to create something for the veterans because they did make those connections. They could have stopped at collecting the raw data … but they wanted to do something more."
Klepper became close with one veteran in particular, John Klindt.
Klindt became a reverend after being affected by the dropping of the atomic bomb, Klepper said.
The two would talk about religion, war and peace.
Klepper, a senior majoring in liberal studies with a minor in peace and justice, said the conversation with Klindt was natural and valuable.
"I talked to him a lot and spent a lot of time with him so I felt I had a really good personal connection with him," she said. "It was interesting to hear his perspective and that religious background, and (to see) someone who is actually promoting peace rather than war through religion."
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JANESVILLE--Andy Wolf calls the donation "a huge blessing."
His father, Tony, died in December from cancer and left a stack of medical bills.
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They raised $16,000 the first year.
"For a bunch of girls who thought they were an unorganized mess, it turned out pretty good," Casper said. "The amount raised varies every year and ranges between $10,000 and $16,000."
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