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Which of the following statements is true of linkage?
A) Linked genes are found on different chromosomes.
B) The observed frequency of recombination of two genes that are far apart from each other has a maximum value of 100%.
C) The closer two genes are on a chromosome, the lower the probability that a crossover will occur between them.
D) Crossing over occurs during prophase II of meiosis.
E) All of the traits that Mendel studied–seed color, pod shape, flower color, and others–are due
to genes linked on the same chromosome.


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To quote one of my favorite SNL skits, "who are the ad wizards that came up with this one?"
The week becomes even more truncated when a Monday night road game is followed by a road game the next Sunday. Over the past decade, the NFL schedule makers have set up that scenario -- away Monday, away Sunday -- 24 times. Draw your own conclusion as to the impact: Road teams are 12-12 in their ensuing Sunday games, and have lost seven of the past 10.
But the odds are further stacked against the Colts. The Panthers were off last weekend. Carolina last played, and won, Oct. 14 at Arizona. Sunday marks only the third time since 1997, and the first since 2004, that a team has played away from home on Monday and again the next Sunday against a team coming out of its bye.
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This is a dangerous game, IMO. A very rare away-monday night/away next Sunday vs. team off Bye combined with the potential to look ahead at the Patriots. Really, what the hell were the schedule makers thinking when they drew this up?
Greg Aiello, the NFL's vice president of public relations, said the league is sensitive to every team's scheduling concerns and attempts to minimize what might be considered inequities.
"But sometimes it is unavoidable when you are constructing a 256-game schedule," Aiello wrote in an e-mail. "It's just the way it worked out this year."
So he's saying that this schedule quirk was just plain unavoidable? I'm not saying they did it on purpose, but to have it turn out this way - did they even try to fix it to make it a bit more fair?
Update [2007-10-24 12:2:7 by jdb]: : Ahhh the internet. Found the video of said SNL skit.

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So, how do you think this went? Here's how I see it:
HGH: "Hey Soth can I play moar plz?"
Soth: "HGH you are my home dawg and whatnot but sry, u suxxorz LoL!"
HGH: " I wanna go home now. You hurt my feelings =( ."
Soth: "OK dawg, laterz."
Reporters: "Soz HGH howz it goin? So are they shipping your ass out?"
Alright, in all seriousness now, do you think there is any possibility that Matthews gets traded? If so, where? Do you think that maybe we can do something like the Dodgers did with Andruw Jones and restructure his contract, making him more tradeable? The White Sox and Yankees are the obvious fits. Maybe the Orioles could play him in left or put him in center and shift Adam Jones to left. They seem committed to Felix Pie but I have to believe they would want to upgrade LF if given the opportunity. Hell, maybe the Braves would be interested. He could reunite with his old BFF's GA and Kotch and right now their center fielder is Gregor Blanco, who has no power at all. HGH could play good defense and he has good speed and can hit 15 homers to 20 homers if healthy. I'm just spitballin' here.
Your thoughts?


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OAPs' band will play on thanks to theatre (From Witney Gazette)
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OAPs' band will play on thanks to Chipping Norton theatre
3:30pm Thursday 15th August 2013 in News By Katriona Ormiston
CARE home residents are making sweet music thanks to The Theatre in Chipping Norton.
As the Witney Gazette reported in January, The Theatre has been running music therapy workshops at the Southerndown Care Home, in Worcester Road, and other homes for the elderly in the town.
The Theatre has now handed over a box of musical instruments to the home so residents can keep playing.
Resident Alma Ferriday, 80, said: "It gives me great pleasure. I was an evacuee during the war and it's nice to get back into doing the things we didn't have a chance to do when we were younger."
Music sessions were also held at the Henry Cornish Care Centre in Oxford Road and Beech Haven Care Home in Burford Road.
The Theatre's project manager Anne Gill said: "The sessions were lovely and engaging, it was wonderful to be a part of that."
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Mike Alvarado and Breidis Prescott met on the undercard of the Manny Pacquiao vs. Juan Manuel Marquez pay-per-view broadcast. Prescott made his name with a knockout of Amir Khan in under a minute but hadn't found a ton of success afterward, which led to his being brought in to play opponent to the undefeated Alvarado.
Prescott looked to work a very stiff jab as the fight opened which allowed him to throw off the rhythm of Alvarado. Alvarado came out in the second round throwing jabs of his own to set up his right hand, which was somewhat effective but his defensive holes resulted in him still getting tagged at times by Prescott.
The action kept at a high pace through three rounds, and then in the fourth round Prescott really opened up, busting Alvarado up with uppercuts and hooking punches. Alvarado didn't go down but he was bleeding badly from his nose, the inside of his mouth and a bad cut over his left eye. Both men kept swinging through the end of the fourth round really opening up.
The two fighters continued their blood and guts battle as the fight wore on, fighting with big power shots in close. Prescott started to lose some snap on his punches around the sixth round, which allowed Alvarado to start clawing his way back into a fight after he seemed to have lost the first five rounds.
Heading into the final few rounds it seemed pretty clear that it was going to take something incredible from the remaining two bouts to top this for being the most exciting fight of the evening.
With Alvarado losing the fight six rounds to three on the SB Nation scorecard, the final round turned into a slugfest before Alvarado landed a series of uppercuts that buckled the legs of Prescott and sent him to the canvas for the first time in his career. Prescott got to his feet but Alvarado poured on the punishment and forced referee Jay Nady to step in and save him from any further punishment.
It was a great dramatic comeback knockout for Alvarado, who survived a dangerous fight that left him with a cut over his eye, a torn lip and busted nose. It was an incredible fight.
A tweet from Kevin Iole shows just how much Alvarado needed the KO:
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