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Discussion of everything related to the Theory of Evolution.
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That kind of evolutionary process seems quite dubious to me. It sounds like a lot of speculation regarding an extremely complicated process which has never been observed. I would certainly believe a conclusive report that puts forward a likely mechanism. However, no such evolutionary mechanism is really known. This is one of the most challenging areas of evolutionary science and present explanation seems so far out of the realm of science.
It is difficult to follow what your specific issue is here.
On the one hand it is reproductive incompatibility that leads to speciation so reproductive incompatibility is not something that has to be avoided as there would then be no speciation.
On the other hand you are asking why the males and females can remain compatible and therefore of the same species. It would also help to know what specifically you are referring to re. "simultaneous changes occurring in the reproductive systems of each sex". What specific sex differences of the primates are you concerned about?
Males and females of the same species share the same genome. How that genome is expressed differently in the two sexes is due to selection on that genome in females and selection on that same genome in males. For shared traits there can be a 'tug-of-war' where neither sex can move towards it's own optimum. But over time other mechanisms evolve to produce sex-linked expression of genes. Hormones are the main mechanism, afaik, so genes can be expressed differently in the two sexes.
If we consider the basic reproductive systems the basic mechanisms evolved with the first divergence of two sexes. From a parent body able to produce both sperm and eggs and having the two reproductive systems to do so there evolved those producing only one type of sex cell. With sex determination mechanisms and sex-linked gene expression selection could act on the same genome separately in both males and females. So, if selection acted on the genome when in males to, for example, evolve a structure to deposit sperm inside the female rather than simply expel sperm, selection acted on that genome when in females to deal with that internally deposited sperm (and often in an antagonistic way, see eg female cryptic choice).
Each sex is part of the environment for the other sex and therefore, just like the rest of the environment, creates selection pressures. It is like asking how do organisms manage to evolve in a complementary way with their environment. Each sex is a reproductive resource for the other sex. It is a coevolution process much like other coevolution processes. And the differences between the sexes in the basic reproductive anatomy is no different from the differences is size or colour or appendages or behaviour.
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Basically. If the two sexes became incompatible, how would they reproduce?
Cis or trans? That's what matters.
Re: Evolution of sexual reproduction
As dmehling points out
Well lets try and understand why there is this understanding that humans and apes are biologically related.
According to the modern synthetic theory of evolution
" Very likely an explosion of gene duplications 7-12 million years ago led to the branching off of gorillas and then chimpanzees from the evolutionary line that ultimately became modern humans."
Simply put the process of this evolutionary change is the mutation in many forms of the gene pool that is then passed on to the next generation.
In order for a mutation to be inherited, it must occur in the genetic material of a sex cell.
In the case of human lineage therefore, there must have occurred a mutation in the sex cell of an ancestor that led to the branching off of the ape line.
It is for this reason that apes and humans are related, so the story goes.
The question therefore is whether the biological evidence supports this understanding.
Some of the latest evidence on this matter is a paper in 2007 entitled:-
The Evolutionary History of Human and Chimpanzee Y-Chromosome Gene Loss.
This research compares human and chimpanzee Y-chromosome (a sex chromosome) and finds that 4 genes present in the human Y-chromosome are not functional in the chimpanzee Y chromosome.
In particular the gene "(USP9Y) is critical for spermatogenesis in humans, with any gene disruptive mutations at this locus resulting in azoospermia or the absence of sperm in seamen. Thus the potential loss of this specific gene in the chimpanzee lineage is especially puzzling."
Why is it puzzling?
From the modern evolutionary perspective, a gene that was present in the last common ancestor of humans and chimpanzees has been damaged somewhere in the chimpanzee line. This mutation therefore occurred sometime after the human chimpanzee branching. In humans this gene is critical for the production of sperm cells and any disruption of this gene results in male infertility.
Now if in this hypothetical ancestor this gene had a similar function and was therefore vital for reproduction, how could the chimpanzee's ancestor have lost it given that chimpanzee are naturally fertile.
It must be assumed that the chimps have another gene(s) that provide the function USP9Y has in humans.
These genes must therefore have been present before the loss of USP9Y in the chimpanzee line or otherwise this loss could not have survived in their genome.
However if USP9Y was still functional how could the alternate have evolved while there was no need for it.
Questions of this nature remain unanswered by the modern theory.
As dmehling rightly states, there a great deal of speculation and virtually no evidence put forward in support.
That is why a considerable amount of rethinking is taking place in biology.
Re: Evolution of sexual reproduction
Sorry for the delay in responding but I have been busy elsewhere.
Of course mutation doesn't have to happen in the sex cell, but however and wherever it happens it must appear in the sex cell for that mutation to be inherited.
With respect you appear to be missing the point the data is revealing.
Common decent is a fundamental pillar of Darwinian theory whether neo or classical.
The so called tree of life (TOL) is the explanation for all the diversity we see in nature. Please check the illustration here
If you look at this TOL, at it's root is the origin of this diversity of life.
At the top of this diversity there are the different biological divisions, the frog, butterfly and flower representative of the different phyla (body plans).
Between these bookends we see the branching out of organisms as life became more complicated and varied. The driving force for this diverse change being random mutation filtered by Natural Selection. The whole process being gradual.
The question is whether the data, be it biological or fossil support this hypothesis.
Darwin himself acknowledged that the data in his day could be interpreted differently. The reason - he was aware of the fossil record and in particular the record of what is known as the Cambrian radiation. That is why he took the view that the fossil record was incomplete and therefore could not be relied upon.
Despite the common perception that the fossil record provides confirmation for the neo-Darwinian account of the origin of new biological forms, the data of the Cambrian radiation actually contradict the expectations of neo-Darwinism at nearly every point. Even Richard Dawkins himself, in his book the Blind Watchmaker acknowledged
"It is as though they [the invertebrate phyla] were just planted there, without any evolutionary history."
According to neo-Darwinism, biological change occurs as natural selection acts on random genetic changes and mutations, selecting those changes that favor the survival of the organisms that possess them. Over time, small-scale advantageous genetic changes accumulate, eventually resulting in large-scale changes in the morphology of organisms. Thus complexity should accumulate in a gradual bit-by-bit fashion over vast periods of geologic time resulting in new body plans (Phyla)
However contrary to the predicted patterns above, the Cambrian radiation
and subsequent variation occurs after and not before the basic body plans appear in the fossil record.
In other words the TOL starts at the top and diversifies down to species level.
The so-called "inverted cone of diversity."
As stated above, the fossil record shows a hierarchical "topdown" pattern in which phyla-level disparity of body plans appears first followed only later by species-level diversity. Major innovations in body plans precede minor variations on basic designs.
This is what the fossil data reveals, and this along with the genetic data emerging is all running contrary to the Darwinian thinking of common decent.
Science always goes where the evidence leads.
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Can you explain this? I didn't get it much...
Cis or trans? That's what matters.
Re: Evolution of sexual reproduction
I assume you are familiar with the term Cambrian (radiation) Explosion that describes the geologically sudden appearance of multi-cellular animals in the fossil record during the Cambrian period of geologic time. During this event, over forty separate phyla first made their appearance on earth. Phyla constitute the highest biological categories or taxa in the animal kingdom, with each phylum exhibiting a unique architecture or structural body plan.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/evolution/libra ... 34_02.html
Familiar examples of basic animal body plans are cnidarians (corals and jellyfish),
mollusks (squids and shellfish), arthropods (crustaceans, insects, and trilobites),
echinoderms (sea star and sea urchins), and the chordates (animals with backbones), the phylum to which all vertebrates including humans belong.
Recent dating has shown that this radiation occurred within a very narrow window of about 5 million years, some 530 million years ago and that represents a very small fraction of earth's history.
The other noticeable feature of this sudden appearance is that in almost all cases, the body plans and structures present in Cambrian period animals have no clear morphological precursers in earlier strata.
In other words as Richard Dawkins put it "It is as though they were just planted there, without any evolutionary history".
Darwin's hypothesis of common decent, as illustrated by the TOL states that the higher taxa arrive by a process of gradual increase in diversity and complexity from simple beginnings, i.e. a bottom up progression from a single common ancestor, diversifying by branching off as more complex structures evolve. The frog, butterfly and flower in the illustration are representations of these phyla at the top of the tree.
The fossil data however is showing that these top biological complex structures( plyla) represented by the frog etc in the Darwinian TOL arrived suddenly and separately and then branched into the various species we have today, showing of course a top down progression.
This is the exact reverse of Darwinian theory.
One of the outstanding features of this diversification being "stasis."
Each phyla down to species level is also isolated from all others.
So instead of having a single Tree of Life (TOL) there are several trees each one remaining isolated from all others.
I hope this explains matters a little bit better.
There have been attempts to try and explain this data through Darwinian theory but it is proving an impossible task. I have come across two or three attempts and I would be happy to put them up for discussion.
As more fossil beds are found, the Cambrian Explosion is looking more artifactual. The changes were pretty quick, but following the Snowball Period reradiation, some rapid changes are to be expected.
Darwin was a uniformitarian, but that hasn't been the prevailing attitude for half a century.
Re: Evolution of sexual reproduction
(1) If I understand you correctly you are stating that the Cambrian radiation (explosion) is of human origin. Is that correct? Because that is what artifactual means.
http://mw2.merriam-webster.com/dictiona ... 1282767154
Well there is the famous Burgess shale in Canada, the Chengjiang strata in China perhaps the two most studied sites.
There of course other sites, North West Scotland, the Bastian formation of East Greenland, Siberia and others.
Can you be a little more precise? To what Cambrian strata are you referring.?
The snowball earth hypothesis is considered to have come before the Cambrian period
and you are suggesting this may have triggered the evolution of multi-cellular life that we see in the Cambrian strata. Have I understood you correctly?
If so, can you provide any data that would show how multi-cellular life emerged, or are you simply echoing another hypothesis?
Darwin's theory was based on gradualism. Dawkins, Coyne, Orr, Jones and others continue to have that view. Read Dawkins " Climbing Mount Improbable"
Eldridge and Gould have rejected gradualism with their Punctuated Equilibrium theory, with the Cambrian Radiation forming the basis of the data that led them to that view.
This debate has been going on for some decades now, so perhaps, can you explain more clearly what the "prevailing attitude" has been for half a century.
That having been said do I assume you agree with me at least in part when I say that Darwin's theory is being falsified, at least on the point of gradualism.
I still don't think you guys are really understanding my point. I'm not really asking how sexual reproduction originated or how it actually works. Rather I am interested in how sexual compatibility is maintained between the sexes of a species, as a species proceeds down a particular evolutionary path. Consider primates for example. They would have arisen from a single common ancestor. For a new species to develop (I'm assuming a species cannot interbreed with its parent species) would you not have to have simultaneous changes occurring in the reproductive systems of each sex?
As you have these primates evolving into separate groups of humans, chimpanzees, gorillas, etc. there would have to be considerable evolution within each species since the biology of each sex is significantly different from its counterpart. Is there some kind of mechanism that would cause the reproductive systems of both sexes to undergo changes that are complementary to each other?
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What is the prevailing view currently? I'd hate to be left behind.
I think by artifactual he means to say that some factor causing the fossil record's incompleteness accounts for lack of precambrian ancestors, ie there were ancestors, we just don't have fossils for them. At least I think thats what he means?
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Florida schools banning cheerleaders from wearing uniforms during school because they are 'too vulgar'
School spirit is taking a back seat to fashion propriety in Florida, where a school district is banning its own cheerleaders from wearing their uniforms during the school day.
As first reported by the Tampa Bay Times, the Pinellas School District is refusing to allow cheerleaders at a number of its schools from wearing their uniforms during the school day. According to upset parents, it was decided that the uniforms were against the district's dress code because the sleeveless tops and short skirts that are universally identified with school cheerleaders are deemed "too vulgar."
According to Clearwater (Fl.) Countryside High Principal Gary Schlereth, allowing the cheerleaders to wear their uniforms maintains a double standard for other students who might then feel it was acceptable to wear shorter skirts than they are allowed.
"A parent looks at their son or daughter getting 'dress coded' for wearing something short," Schlereth told the Times. "Then they look at the cheerleading uniform and they say, 'What about that?'"
While there is legitimate logic behind the ban, the decision to keep area cheerleaders from wearing their uniforms on game days is a sudden departure from past tradition.
The policy shift isn't just taking place at Countryside. In fact, schools across the Tampa-St. Petersburg region are following suit, with the likes of Clearwater (Fl.) Gibbs High, St. Petersburg (Fl.) High and St. Petersburg (Fl.) Northeast High all joining in on the new game-day uniform ban, at least until an acceptable solution to both lengthen skirts during the day and provide arm cover is agreed upon.
In the meantime, the parents of cheerleaders who looked forward to the tradition of wearing uniforms on game days are distraught that their children are being cheated out of a practice they feel is an integral part of the cheerleading experience.
"The girls are there to promote the school," Norma Fraser, whose daughter Jeana Fraser is a sophomore cheerleader on the varsity squad at Countryside, told ABC News Tampa Bay. "My daughter loves Countryside. She wants this to be a positive thing and she wants to keep the tradition and so do I."
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UPDATED: Authorities pull female body from the river near Monterey Dam
JANESVILLE—Authorities pulled a female body from the Rock River near the Monterey Dam at about 6 p.m. Friday.
Sgt. Mark Ratzlaff said a city of Janesville firefighter waded into the water and retrieved a body. The body has not been identified.
"At this time, we don't know who (it is)," Ratzlaff said.
The body is that of a female age 60 or older.
Authorities have been searching for 75-year-old Mary Coulthard, 208 N. Main St., since May 3. She was last seen the evening of May 2.
"At this time, nobody has said anything to indicate it's her," Ratzlaff said.
Coulthard's family has been contacted and told a body was found, but that does not mean it is Coulthard, he said.
Earlier this week, police found personal property of Coulthard's on the Milwaukee Street bridge as well as south of the bridge on land near the Rock River. That prompted ground, water and aerial searches of the river, police said.
Based on the location of the property, police believe Coulthard traveled along the river at some point, police said.
Police Chief David Moore said he didn't know how long it might take to make an identification. After the body is identified, the family will be notified and only then would the identity be made public.
An autopsy has not yet been scheduled, but it will eventually take place in Madison, Ratzlaff said.
Various characteristics such as facial features, scars, tattoos and dental records, are used to identify bodies.
Before the body was recovered, a half dozen Janesville police officers blocked the bicycle trail near Monterey Dam and closed the sidewalk on the nearby Center Avenue bridge.
A Gazette photographer on the scene said a firefighter retrieved the body along the south bank of the river midway between the Center Avenue bridge and the first railroad trestle downstream.
The body was caught on debris under the water's surface, Ratzlaff said.
Police said there were no signs of obvious trauma or foul play, "but obviously nothing will be for sure until we're able to conduct an autopsy," Ratzlaff said.
A call was received at the Rock County 911 Communications Center at 4:41 p.m.
A 15-year-old boy rode his bike to It's a Keeper Bait & Tackle, 815 S. Washington St.
Bait shop owner Shawn McCarten said the boy "seemed a little flustered and confused." McCarten's wife, Marci McCarten, said the boy's face was "just sheet white."
A customer in the bait shop, Joe Villa, said the boy approached him and said he needed to talk to someone.
"He said, 'I was on the other side of the river, I looked down and saw something. I think it's a body,'" Villa said the boy told him.
The boy was fishing on the south bank when he found the body.
"'I saw shoes and pants, and I think there's something in those pants,'" Villa said the boy told him.
After police arrived, Shawn McCarten, the boy and a police officer walked down to the river and saw what appeared to be a body, McCarten said.
McCarten described the body as small-framed.
"I saw blue jeans, maybe, white tennis shoes and a partial torso," McCarten said.
When she was last seen, Coulthard was wearing blue jeans, white tennis shoes and possibly a tan winter jacket. She is about 5 feet, 2 inches tall and 100 pounds. Coulthard has gray hair and hazel eyes.
Police earlier said they didn't believe�Coulthard's case was related to that of Clayton Courtney, who was charged Tuesday with stabbing his roommate Sunday and is suspected of killing a female friend the same day.
"There is nothing at this point that would indicate that" the female body found is connected to Courtney, Ratzlaff said. "We won't know for sure until the autopsy."
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Grand Geneva Resort to host Wisconsin Governor's Conference on Tourism in March
LAKE GENEVA — The Grand Geneva Resort in Lake Geneva will host the annual Wisconsin Governor's Conference on Tourism in March.
The event Sunday, March 2, through Tuesday, March 4, is an opportunity for people in the Wisconsin tourism industry to network and learn how to grow their businesses.
Governor Scott Walker, Green Bay Packer Jordy Nelson and international tourism expert Roger Brooks will be in attendance.
The conference will include a keynote presentation about the importance of arts, culture and tourism with keynote speaker Robert Lynch, president and CEO of Americans for the Arts. Jim Knight, former senior director of training and development from Hard Rock International, will present about the importance of customer service.
Gov. Walker will present the Governor's Tourism Awards Tuesday, March 4, at a dinner. The awards recognize people and organizations that have made a large impact on Wisconsin's tourism industry.
Nominations will be accepted through Friday, Jan. 17.
For a complete agenda, more information, and to register online visit wigcot.org. Registration closes Friday, Jan. 31.


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Today has been one of those take a step forward take MANY steps backward... you know those days?
Oh sigh, I'm glad I actually have the motivation to even attempt to get a lot done but I think that frustrates me even more. I have all this drive and can not get ANYWHERE or anything done.
Pretty much any progress I make I turn around and that much more has been messed up in another room. It's nothing new, it's the same old story every Mom shrugs about.
I remind myself I have four kids and a job, and a husband that works long hours. It's hard, though. I should be able to do this.
I want to be able to do more than keep up. I want to be ahead!
But I can't even see the middle of the road, let alone the finish line.
Maybe it's the Venti latte I just had or the music playing right now or the breeze and the open window, but the pile of colored papers and stickers on the dining table makes me happy, really. It means we've had less TV time and more creative moments.
The dollies on the floor make my heart swell. I have a girl! And she plays with dollies.
The dishes in the sink, well, there's not much that makes me happy about that but I guess I am glad we use so many pots and pans- it means less convenience foods, it means meals are prepared here.
I wonder if motherhood has made me lazy, or apathetic to the dis-order.
Ivy and I sat and ran our fingers through buttons for the longest time the other day. Picking out the pretty ones, me teaching her colors, her showing me she knows not to put them in her mouth, me watching her turn from baby to girl.
I dry the tears from a broken cabbage plant, a school project that didn't quite survive the ride home on the bus. I put it in a pickle jar, and I'll try to save it.
I zip up a jacket, I velcro some shoes, I re-attach a Lego guy arm, I re-fill more juice, I re-place a battery, for the umpteenth time.
In the middle of finally tackling whatever it was I finally have a moment to do, everyone will want to go outside. And it's a beautiful day. And I choose who [or what] I say no to.
You know who wins.
I'll try again tomorrow or maybe the next day. Me in my pickle jar, watch me grow.


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Sox ride homers to Civil Rights Game win
Four long balls include Beckham's first, Ramirez's tiebreaker
By Scott Merkin / MLB.com
There were four errors committed by the White Sox, with a chance for two more to be charged. Alexei Ramirez was picked off first base on a hit-and-run call made by manager Ozzie Guillen in the fifth, and starter Clayton Richard exited after three inconsistent innings.
No, it was not a baseball sight to behold, during a game that covered 3 hours, 39 minutes. But the White Sox didn't seem to care about style points.
"That's a huge win, especially losing a starter early and with four errors in the game," said White Sox reliever Scott Linebrink, who threw a scoreless eighth as one of six White Sox pitchers in the victory. "A lot of things didn't go right for us. Hats off to our offense, who battled back and put up runs."
"It's exciting to have that resiliency and fight and ability," said Richard of the White Sox offense. "It shows a lot about our guys."
Try as they might to give away this second contest of a three-game weekend set, the White Sox (32-36) actually produced their top comeback of the 2009 campaign. Trailing, 5-0, in the fourth and with Johnny Cueto, the National League ERA leader, on the mound, the South Siders looked all but certain to drop six games behind Detroit in the American League Central.
But singles from Brian Anderson and Chris Getz with one out in the fourth were followed by Gordon Beckham's first career home run on a 2-1 offering from Cueto. Beckham's 384-foot blast stood as the first of four long balls for the White Sox, all but erasing the sting of the season-high quartet of miscues.
"Down 5-0 on the road, it's tough to come back," Beckham said. "We did, we clawed and we kept putting up runs. We put pressure on them and came out with a big win."
"Facing the pitcher we were facing, facing Cueto, I don't think we were going to be back in the game so fast," Guillen said.
Saturday night's game-winner actually was delivered by Ramirez, whose three-run home run in the sixth came on the first pitch thrown by one-time White Sox reliever Nick Masset. Ramirez's eighth home run marked his third in four games, snapping a 5-5 tie, and served as one of four hits and three of his four RBIs.
Scott Podsednik (No. 2, among his three hits) and A.J. Pierzynski (No. 7) also cleared the fences. It was Ramirez's 363-foot drive, though, which turned the tide of the game.
"I was trying to throw a slider, and it spun right down the middle," said Masset of Ramirez's blast to left. "It's probably the first time I've thrown a spinning slider right down the middle and the worst time to do it."
Richard gave up five runs, three of them earned, over three innings, while striking out four and walking one. He also committed his second error in two starts, contributing directly to a run for the Reds (34-33) in the third.
To show how important this game was in Guillen's mind, he lifted Richard for pinch-hitter Josh Fields in the fourth after just 65 pitches, and following Beckham's three-run home run.
"There was one shot I had to get us back in the game," Guillen said. "Besides, I had a gut feeling he was not throwing the ball well."
"If I throw the ball well and make the plays on the mound, they are not looking at that situation," Richard said. "But that's not my call at all. It's their decision."
D.J. Carrasco (2-0) pitched two scoreless innings to earn the victory, while Bobby Jenks gave up Jay Bruce's 17th home run in the ninth as the only blemish on his 16th save.
In between the two, Matt Thornton pitched out of a first-and-third, nobody-out situation in the seventh, which he partially created by giving up consecutive singles to pinch-hitter Wilkin Castillo and Ramon Hernandez in relief of Octavio Dotel, allowing the Reds to cut the lead to one. Thornton struck out Bruce swinging, retired Ryan Hanigan on a short pop fly to Anderson and Adam Rosales' grounder to Beckham at third ended the threat.
This victory improved the White Sox to 4-3 on their eight-game Interleague road trip and marked the first time they scored 10 runs in a game since May 29 at Kansas City. A frequently maligned offense deserved the lion's share of credit for this success story, which went from a standing-eight count to a thunderous knockout like the ones that brought fame and fortune to Muhammad Ali, who was one of the honorees during the Civil Rights Game weekend.
It's up to Mark Buehrle, with the support of this same strong offense, to build on the momentum Sunday afternoon.
"We might roll from here," Beckham said. "Hopefully, we can put a star by that one at the end of the season."
Scott Merkin is a reporter for MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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DA: Man who shot dogs will not be charged
JANESVILLE—A Janesville man who shot two of his neighbors' dogs in July, killing one of them, acted in self-defense and will not face criminal charges, District Attorney David O'Leary said Monday.
Janesville police wrapped up their investigation into the July 27 shooting in the 1400 block of Sharon Street and did not recommend charging the 38-year-old man when they forwarded the case to O'Leary's office last week.
"I feel that he was acting in his own best interest," Detective Erik Goth said.
O'Leary seemed to reach a similar conclusion, writing in an email that he will not charge the man.
"The state cannot overcome the suspect's right of self-defense," O'Leary wrote. "The criminal matter is closed."
The two dogs were not on leashes and had chased a squirrel onto the man's property around 7:45 the night of the shooting, according to police reports obtained by The Gazette. There is no fence separating the two properties.
The dogs then appeared at the door of the man's garage as he was finishing some yard work and ran toward him, police said.
Startled, the man fired six shots at the dogs, police said. One of them, Pepper, was killed and another, Dakota, was wounded.
The man was taken into custody as police responded to reports of the shooting, Goth said, but he was released after police spoke with him and decided he had acted in self-defense.
The dogs' owners have spent weeks pushing for authorities to bring animal cruelty charges against the neighbor, saying he overreacted and did not need to shoot the dogs.
Owner Maria Ochs said she knows her family is at fault for letting the dogs run without a leash and that she'd gladly pay a fine for that if it meant her neighbor would face charges in the shooting.
"We tried everything to get justice for our dogs," Ochs said through tears Monday. "Everybody knows that my dogs aren't aggressive, and they didn't deserve this."
Multiple attempts to contact the man on Monday were unsuccessful.
Ochs has spread the word about the shooting, handing out fliers that tell her family's side of the story: That the dogs were shot as they turned away from the man and were leaving his garage.
In Goth's report on the shooting, however, he writes that he spoke with Michael Hotchkiss, a veterinarian who examined the dogs.
Hotchkiss concluded Pepper, "Was shot facing the weapon that was fired at (her)," Goth wrote, and that Dakota's position toward the shooter "couldn't be determined accurately."
The veterinarian was on vacation and could not be reached for comment Monday.
All of the shell casings officers recovered after the shooting were found inside the man's garage, as was the body of Pepper, according to police reports.
Ochs called the investigation "botched" and said she has felt "blown off" by police and prosecutors.
Asked if she would pursue any sort of civil lawsuit against her neighbor, Ochs said she was not sure, but the district attorney's decision not to pursue charges could make that difficult.
Ochs is planning a Sept. 28 memorial service for Pepper. That also will be a chance to thank the officers and veterinarians who helped save Dakota, she said.
Her family has since left Sharon Street—Dakota was afraid to go outside there after the shooting, Ochs said.
The man and his wife told police they sometimes felt intimidated by the dogs before the shooting but never talked with Ochs about them, according to police reports.
The two families haven't spoken since the incident, Ochs said.


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Congrats to the newest Element pro, Evan Smith! The new video project The Evan Smith Experience premiered at Mr. Smalls Theatre in Pittsburgh, and as the crowd roared with applause, Evan's first pro model board was then unveiled. Members of the Element and DC teams rushed the stage to congratulate Evan, who couldn't believe what was taking place. To culminate the evening Evan's band, The Drowning Clowns took the stage and played an amazing set, making for an all around epic night and what Evan called "the best day of his life."
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Walworth County district attorney to focus on combating heroin 'epidemic'
ELKHORN�— Walworth County District Attorney Dan Necci hopes former heroin addicts can convince youth about the dangers of the drug.
"More important than hearing from me or somebody from the sheriff's office is hearing that story, especially to our young people," Necci said.
Heroin, a drug growing in popularity at a local, state and national level, affects people of all ages and backgrounds, and needs to be addressed, Necci said.
As part of a multiprong, anti-heroin initiative he has planned for 2014, Necci wants to educate the community about heroin's effects on the county.
Necci has already been reaching out to the community and plans to continue to do so with law enforcement.
On Monday, he spoke to the Delavan Rotary Club, where he jokingly said he "scared the pants off them" about heroin in their communities.
"You're not looking down your alleys and seeing heroin addicts, there is this whole sub-culture that is going on that the average person isn't aware," Necci said.
"It's our job to get out there and educate the public as to what is going on and hopefully educate young people as this is not something to be trifled with."
In addition to working working with law enforcement and educating the community, Necci plans to:
-- Continue the county's partnerships with treatment organizations within the community.
-- Recommend tougher sentences for heroin dealers.
-- Help develop a new drug court.
The county was awarded a $157,609 recurring grant from the Wisconsin Department of Justice to fund a drug treatment court for heroin users.
Necci called heroin an epidemic. He said making it the No. 1 priority in 2014 for law enforcement, prosecutors and community members would be a step toward helping addicts and taking dealers off the streets.�
"The amount of lives I have seen destroyed by it already in a year in this position is tremendous," Necci said.
The number of samples of suspected heroin submitted from Walworth County to the state's crime lab has increased 80 percent between 2009 and 2012, Necci said.
"If we don't do it now, we're going to be in some real trouble," Necci said.
The effort to create a drug court is being led by Judge David Reddy, who would oversee it.
The start date along with other details about how the drug court would operate will be discussed Friday at a County Criminal Justice Coordinating Committee meeting, said Katie Behl, treatment court coordinator.
The idea is to have it operate much like the OWI Court that began in October 2011.
Initially, it will focus on people charged with possessing opiates and heroin and possibly extend to people involved with other drugs, Behl said.
The goal of court treatment programs is to reduce recidivism.
Defendants in OWI Court fulfill their sentence while detoxing. In return, they learn how to leave their destructive lifestyles behind and start fresh through bi-weekly meetings, random drug and alcohol testing and individual counseling, Behl said. The hope is they get tools and coping mechanisms to keep them out of the legal system.


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