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Treasury is a function in transition. Not too long ago, the corporate treasurer was usually seen as the bill payer of the company, the manager of cash flows but little else. It was a transactional role that sat squarely in the middle of the finance cost center. But today, the corporate treasurer is often seen as a strategic partner to the business units, and many companies consider their treasurer an executive-level decision-maker.
A recent survey by the Association for Financial Professionals (AFP) found that more than four out of every five finance professionals think their company's treasury function has become more strategic over the past five years. That survey also found that a significant proportion of treasury teams have taken the lead role in their company's investor relations, in mergers and acquisitions (M&A), and in business continuity planning—all activities that reflect an expanding scope of responsibility.
To trace the arc of this transition and sort out where the treasury function is headed from here, Treasury & Risk sat down with Robert J. Baldoni, the national leader of EY's Global Treasury Services Practice.
T&R: How has the role of the corporate treasurer changed over the past decade or two?
Bob Baldoni: Well, when you ask that question, you also have to ask, 'How has the role of the CFO changed?' What's happened over the past decade is that the CFO role has moved up fairly dramatically in the company, so that many CFOs are now shoulder-to-shoulder with the CEO. That's left a bit of a vacuum in the functional structure of many companies, and that vacuum has usually been filled by the treasurer.
Normally the primary functions under the CFO are the controller, tax director, and treasurer. If you think about the focus of each of these, the treasurer—focusing more on the future and the cash and growth into new markets—has been the logical person to step in for the CFO. So in many companies the treasurer has almost become the 'operating CFO' of the company, handling all the operational elements of finance and leaving the CFO to deal with the higher-level strategic visioning and corporate development.
T&R: This is something you see happening in a lot of large companies right now?
BB: Yes, it's a trend, and I think it's growing.
T&R: What are some of the specific activities you're seeing treasury functions take on that haven't traditionally fallen within the scope of treasury?
BB: Well, many treasurers are getting much more involved in the higher-level functions around things like funding for growth and mergers and acquisitions. Before, the participation of treasury in funding was more around cash management, but now we're seeing treasury more involved in the overall planning and structuring, as well as providing support in the creation of funding vehicles. This is also true for M&A, where treasurers are getting much more involved, much earlier in the due diligence process. Finally, we now see enterprise risk management tending to be housed in the treasurer's space.
To circle back to your original question, the role of the treasurer has shifted from being primarily the bill payer, the banker, the financier to being a really integral part of decision-making at the company, a real value contributor. And that value comes in a lot of shapes and a lot of forms. It could be that a treasurer is walking down the hall to procurement, bringing treasury skills to decisions around the supply chain and commodity exposures and those kinds of risks. The procurement folks might still deal with the supply and delivery risks, but treasury might help with some of the market risk.
Some treasurers are getting involved in pricing and showing the business units how to decide whether to sell in the local currency. If you're up against local competition and you're from another country and another cost base, you can't sell in dollars when everybody else is selling in the local currency. The business unit needs to be able to look at the supply chain and how it feeds pricing and how it feeds risk—and treasury is in the perfect position to help with that. A business unit might even be looking at selling in a third currency because that's what a customer asked for because they happen to have a stream of cash in some other currency. The treasurer can show business units how to present the customer with prices in different currencies, deal with the risk that creates, and calculate the true cost to the company of one-off sales that add unique risks.
Other treasurers are looking at credit issues. For example, we've seen some companies where a third-party contract manufacturer may not have the best credit and treasury helps the company stand between the provider of the materials and the contract manufacturer to reduce the credit risk, because that was a pass-through cost anyway.
These are diverse examples, but they show the range of different higher-level activities that treasury is getting involved in within some companies.
T&R: So, what is the benefit to the company of expanding the role of the treasurer?
BB: I think a company is at a competitive disadvantage if it does not give treasury, and the treasurer, a broader palette of responsibilities. Companies that look at treasury as simply the banker and the financial risk manager are leaving a lot on the table.
T&R: Why is that? Is it because treasurers have a specific skill set they bring to strategic decisions?
BB: That's exactly it. Treasurers have developed tools to manage risk. They've developed tools to provide liquidity. They have tools to take volatility out of earnings. They can use that same toolkit to support the business units as they work on increasing market share; building competitive advantage; and adding stability and sophistication to client pricing, whether through risk sharing or different currency options. These are skills treasury is already using for internal company management. If they push that out to the businesses, they will help the business units meet their goals.
For example, traditionally treasury has always dealt with foreign exchange issues in the past tense. A foreign business unit might project that it will sell 5 million units of X and that it will make so much money. It might actually sell 5 million units, but if the currency moves against it, it may be less profitable. And treasury will be responsible for managing that exposure after the sale is made and the receivable is on the books. But if treasury can get involved earlier in that cycle and help preemptively manage some of the anticipated risk, determine the pricing, maybe encourage some risk-sharing during the bidding process, it can increase the chances that the business unit will reach its profitability goal if it hits its sales target.
If a business unit says, 'I'm not going to lock in this hedge because if rates move the other way, it will hurt my numbers,' that unit is taking a risk not just for itself but for the whole company. If the currency moves against it, the managers may not get a bonus, but the company is also going to take a hit. Treasury, being more objective and looking at things from a broader, corporate-level perspective, might be able to get in there and say, 'We're going to do some options, we're going to use these techniques, and we'll provide you with some of that.' It's pretty valuable to get treasury involved where these conversations are happening.
T&R: Would treasury end up sharing these kinds of risks with the business units, or just help them set up their own financial risk management processes?
BB: I once saw a quote on the desk of an executive I was working with that said, 'Trust only those who have as much to lose as you do when things go wrong.' That's really the key. If treasury is going in to the businesses and saying, 'Let me help you,' they need to have some 'skin' in the game. Treasury can't say, 'You need to hedge all these local-currency sales,' and then disappear, leaving the business unit to make the trade and deal with the consequences on its own if the currency moves in the other direction and it hits their margins. These have to be programs that treasury is prepared to support and co-develop with the businesses.
I often tell treasurers, 'Don't take that next step until you have your own house in order. Make sure your treasury is stable, your systems are up to speed, you're using straight-through processing, your efficiency is there, your liquidity management is there. Because helping the business units with risk management is going to add complication to your organization. If you're having trouble managing your own day-to-day tasks, you're not going to be able to help others.'
T&R: So, for treasurers who want to take on more responsibility at the strategic level, what's the path forward, beyond getting their function under control?
BB: It's also important to take a broader view of the business. If you're brought into business decisions, production decisions, or acquisition decisions, you want to make sure you're adding value. Generally in the past, treasury was brought in at the back end of acquisitions. Somebody would drop a packet on the treasurer's desk and say, 'We just bought this company. Integrate it.' Now treasury is usually brought in earlier in the process, and it's important for the treasurer to speak up and bring his or her unique expertise to bear on all the complexities of the decision.
Another important step is to implement the most efficient processes and technology infrastructure possible. Treasury tends to have a smaller staff than most other departments; that makes technology even more crucial to treasury. What technology ultimately does is provide scalability to the treasurer by pushing the transactional work down into the system, which frees up staff time for more strategic, value-added work. It also provides scalability, by virtue of the fact that the treasurer can take on more responsibilities without adding staff.
Most treasury functions were not designed, per se. They just evolved over time. Very few people start with a blank sheet of paper and say, 'Hmm. How are we going to build our treasury today?' It's more like 'Here are our immediate needs: We acquired this company; we divested that company. We have three legacy systems. We have staff with these skills and we currently need those skills.' Failure is never an option in treasury. Money has to go out by 3 p.m., so money gets out by 3 p.m. Nobody outside of treasury asks how it got out; they just 'scream and yell' if it doesn't get out on time. So historically the treasury team has found workarounds when necessary to get the job done. They've used spreadsheets, they've found bolt-on systems. Now there is a movement to try to clean up and make treasury more efficient.
Maybe in the past a certain activity required one staff member to create a spreadsheet, then to pass that spreadsheet on to the next person, who would manually take that information and add three numbers and divide it by six, and the spreadsheet would work its way through the process, taking up a lot of staff time along the way. Now, with straight-through processing—meaning you put something in and it's touched very little by human hands as it moves through the process—treasury can add a great deal of efficiency. Treasury systems can automatically get bank account information, execute foreign exchange transactions and confirmations, identify and consolidate exposures. That enhances a company's control process, and it also removes the necessity for the treasury staff to do a lot of tactical work.
T&R: Does the modern treasury function require a significantly different skill set from the traditional repertoire of the treasurer?
BB: Yes, these changes may change the skill mix within treasury. Today's treasury staff needs to be savvy with technology, and the treasurer needs to have experience in selecting, implementing, and using treasury workstations or ERP treasury modules.
Treasury also needs to be much more connected to the markets today. Communications technology is such that if something happens in one country, within 10 minutes it's affected everyone. That wasn't the case in the past. And the things that move the market are different. Back when I was a 'treasury pup,' we used to wait for money supply to come out and then decide how to adjust our positions, and it mattered. Now I don't think most treasurers focus on it as a determinant of their hedging program.
Another important transition is that treasurers need to think more globally. In general, U.S. companies used to be international and now they're becoming global. What I mean by that is: Before, we used to make products here and sell them abroad. But now, where we make a product, where we sell it, where the supply chain is managed, where corporate headquarters is—they're all over the world. It doesn't matter anymore that I can't see it all from my desk. To meet the demands of a globally dispersed company, treasury has to change and grow too. Treasury needs to be globally dispersed. There need to be regional treasury centers. There need to be concentrated areas of risk management. The company needs in-house banks and technology. Treasury needs to be looking at shared services.
These changes are requiring many treasurers to stretch their skill sets, but they are also a large part of what's driving the evolution toward a more strategic treasury function.


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I've joined here a few minutes ago. I've no impression to give other people, other than letting you people know that I am NOT A BIO STUDENT. I'm a civil engg undergrad student from India. I've recently been taking an interest in biology.
But you know, for the past one year I've been thinking of survival (as in survival of the fittest). I've come to independently think that every species on this earth tries to satisfy a requirement of survival. Confusing?! Well, in other words, evolution progressed in such a manner so as to NOT kill us, but make us somehow survive (or live), and then increase our chances of further survival (or surviving further). Still confusing?! Well, I think it serves to convey my idea.
I really want some one to comment about this thought seriously. Can this be true?
Hello Deostroll
Hello Deostroll
My name is Aria. I am a 16yr old high school student and I am also very interested in Biology . I read your idea about "survival of the fittest" and while it is a popular and understandable theory it's an impossibility. The theory of survival of the fittest suggests that we change as our environments change to help us "survive" as well as body parts or functions found useless in a period of time are eliminated and therefor we evolve. This cannot happen. I would like to explain it all for you but it is very complicated. I recommend you rent or buy the movie "Unlocking The Mystery of Life" It will teach you why your idea is not possible and you will learn alot of new and interesting facts. I have seen it a few times and still everytime I watch it I learn new things.
Hello again;
This is Aria again.
I just remembered the theory which proves your idea wrong. It is called "Irreducible Complexity". Micheal Behe wrote a book called Darwins Black Box. I haven't read it because i hate reading but you might find it interesting.
Aria, I believe deostroll was referring more to behavioral changes than biological which is why I recommended that he read about the law of effect.
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First, welcome deostroll. Your question is not real clear, but from what I understand, you seem to take the whole thing upside down.
Evolution did not progress or anything. Organisms are evolving, but the set of rules are the same since the first living things appeared on earth. And the organisms indeed evolved trying to survive as long as possible, and if possible to find some time to prepare a next generation. But there is no such thing as an increased facility to survive as the time goes. It may seem so, but this is just because organism evolved to survive and the one which have difficulties in that task disappeared in the last few billions year (along with some other which probably as good at surviving but where unlucky enough to meet circumstances they could not overcome like volcanoes, comet crash etc...) Just to say that our chance of survival do not increase as time goes, evolution is an ongoing process, and chance of survival are challenged all the time (environment changes, increased competition by other species evolving and competing with the other... It's a permanent arms race).
And _at_ Aria:
Behe and friends are creationnists. Irreducible complexity and Intelligent design belong to the set of almost (but not quite) scientific disguise creationnist is trying to take to acquire a varnish of repectability. Now that I am sure that you know that, I do not mind if this is your belief, but be prepared to be rebuffed by real scientists (the one who think that experiments can be carried out, and that ideas that cannot be tested should not be considered as science, but as belief) who dislike the mix of science and creed.
Some examples relating to my original idea
Actually I view life from another perspective. It may either be something really cool or somethng down right absurd.
Firstly, to everyone already here, if possible provide links to free resources (like articles etc) on the web. It might help me (and others like me) to get a grasp about this subject, or so I assume . Anyway, I don't want to talk anymore about how to learn biology.
Secondly, I may be rather vague at how I state things here. I believe in something, I feel, which is really strange. I may be stubborn in my views at the moment, but my main point was in trying to somehow find a rational explanation to life; which was why I stumbled over the idea of survival. I don't really mind if anyone says it is ridiculous; just make me believe I am wrong, ok. So let us have no ego problems on this note.
Like mithrilhack suggested even I believe I am more into behaviour than biology. However, I would not want to comment about it; I am still unsure about what actually I'm interested in. So if you find this annoying - I apologize.
Coming back to the main point. I've tried to answer questions related to certain emotions like fear, love, etc. How does behaviour start? How does an emotion start? How did a species become intelligent about their own feelings?
Okay, consider this example. Take the case of stray dogs. I have not really done this experiment. I'm only predicting outcomes here. If you raise your hand to mimic the gesture of throwing a stone, notice what happens - the dogs takes caution. It runs. Now let me raise your curiosity further: suppose this dog for some reason has not had exposure to humans or other dogs at all since birth. It is some how trying to live, and it is doing rather well at that. Now, out of the blue, let some human being mimic the gesture of throwing the stone at him. What will happen now?
I predict the dog will take to its heels.
Now why don't disprove me and explain this in the context of evolution. It would really help.
One other fact of life. This time consider new born babies. As soon as infants are out of their mother's womb, they are cute silent creatures to look at, until they fall hungry. The mother then gives them their breast.Now IT IS A PERFECTLY NORMAL THING. But strangely they know how to suckle as well. Isn't that food for thought? How do they know?
What is the issue with the idea of survival here? Say that the infant did not have the software to suckle. What then? Would it live?
Ok, i'm nopt sure you understand what survival of the fittest actually means. It basically means that the genes that have more offspring will live more than the genes of those that have less or no offspring.
About your example with the dog: either that or the dog will attack the person. This is simply a reflex, the dog is trying to defend himself, as he can detect that the human is trying to hurt him. Here is a contraexample: if you some strange animal that you have never seen before toss a rock at you, don't you run?
About the baby.. Again, knowing a little biology will kill this argument from a start. How does a bird know how and when to build a nest? It is an instinct, a sum of unconditioned reflexes. Undonditioned reflexes are characteristic to the species and are basic thing we need to survive and perpetue the species.I remember reading an anatomy book a few months
ago that clasified memory into memory you are born with(and gave exactly your example), short-term and long-term memory. Now, although this is not correct, it may help you understand a bit..
Secondly: NOT BEHE AGAIN!!! That guy and his book haunt me. Can you believe i have actually read the first pages of his book, as everyone from my a maths teacher to a priest told me it will disproove religion some time back? It is totally nonsense and it totally disproves the basic rule of any debate: balancing arguments. If i say bill gates is satan(see my post in off-topic ) and comes someone that keeps saying: not true, not true i win the debate. The key mistake that Behe and other "scientists" like him make is that in their endless quest to prove that evolution has little evidence they forget that their BELIEF has absolutely no evidence. It is absuletly ok if you choose to believe that God created the world and not to believe in evolution, it is your choise. But please, do not call it science...
"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
Thorndike law of effect denotes the motivation for individuals who tend to repeat and quickly learn those reactions which are accompanied or followed by a satisfying effect, and he tends not to repeat and, hence, not learn those responses which are accompanied or followed by an annoying state of affairs.
"A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort" - H. Albright
Survival of the fittest: This is how I register the concept: only those species survive which are able to suitably adapt to changes or pressures in the environment; the rest die out. I hope this is correct. Someone please correct me if it is wrong. I was not meaning to start a conflict. This is an earnest attempt to simply verify my concepts.
I wasn't talking about survival of the fittest. The key emphasis was on survival - the impulse to stay alive and not simply die or self-destruct or commit suicide.
I figure the infant has the necessary software (to suckle) because that it seems is the only way it would live. Without it, the infant is in danger. I believe this is evolutionary. However, I can't seem to answer why it is so?. I was hoping there would be some answer or some kind of wisdom linked to this.
It is not about survival of the fittest. It is about staying alive. I figure people are most likely to link this with religious thoughts. I'm not keen on that either!
Survival of the fittest refers to individuals, not species. But it is almost Ok.
As our brains evolved, it became engraved in our brain to suck the milk right after birth, because by natural selection the individuals that did that had more off-spring, i was tempted to say. Then i realised what complete rubbish that was- Lamarkism.
How did unconditioned reflexes take birth?
I had a discussion with this a long time ago with my teacher, and today with my girlfriend which probably knows more biology than me. The result we reached: we don't really know. We know they are vital to the survival of the species, we know they are characteristic to the specis and we know we all have them. But how did they appear? My girlfriend's position is by evolution. I say this can not be since it has Jean Baptiste de Lamarck written all over it. Plus weknow that unconditioned reflexes are indispensable to life. I say they appearead along with the organ. How? By a geentic accident? Impossible... Maybe i lack the knlowledge or simply we don't know...
So, sorry, i can't tell you. Caught totally off-guard for this kind of question. I'll do some research
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Loretta E. Krause, 81 a long-time Janesville resident, passed away Tuesday, March 25, 2014, at Edgerton Care Center, where she had made her home for the past four years. Loretta was born in Wonewoc, WI, on Nov. 5, 1932, the daughter of John and Margaret (Lucht) Monskey. She graduated from Elroy High School. Loretta married Robert G. Krause on Feb. 18, 1951. He preceded her in death on March 4, 2010. She was employed in the office of Parker Pen Company for 25 years and was a member of St. Matthew's Evangelical Lutheran Church.
Surviving are one son, Douglas (Susan) Krause of Fort Wayne, IN; three grandchildren: Sharon (Eric Fischer) Krause of Janesville, Monica Krause of Washington, DC, Tony Krause of Auburn Hills, MI; two brothers, Eugene (Pat) Monskey and Richard Monskey; as well as a sister-in-law, Karen Monskey; many nieces, nephews and cousins. In addition to her husband and parents, she was preceded in death by one brother, Gerall Monskey.
Funeral services will be at 10:30 a.m. Saturday, March 29, 2014, at ST. MATTHEW'S EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN CHURCH with Pastor James Janke officiating. Entombment will be in Milton Lawns Memorial Park Mausoleum. Visitation will be at ST. MATTHEW'S CHURCH on Saturday from 9:30 until 10:30 a.m. Memorials may be made to St. Matthew's Evangelical Lutheran Church or the Edgerton Care Center. HENKE-CLARSON FUNERAL HOME is assisting the family.
A Special Thank You to the Edgerton Care Center for all of their
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Where do we go from here?
I have recently become interested in evolution, and I am curious as to what everyone thinks would be possible directions that homo-sapiens may further evolve? I realize that it takes millions of years, and there is a significant chance that we might destroy ourselves before we see any significant change, but I have thought of certain areas that may influence, for the good or bad, our development. Our poor diets (high calorie intake) causes multiple diseases, plastic surgery causes genetic effects on the phenotype to be relatively useless, and our advancements in technology may make our lives easier, but it seems we are creating lifestyles with low activity and isolation.
One guess I have is that we might develop smaller mouths and larger heads (due to development of the brain, but shrinking portion sizes and vitamin supplements may render many of our teeth expendable).
One thing of which I'm pretty certain is that we become very dependant (in the distant future maybe even symbiotic) with machines and technology. Even today man is pretty much bound to certain technological innovations, such as clothes. Without clothes, we would still live in the savannahs. Similarly, soon many if not most people will need some kind of seeing aid, because poor vision is no longer an evolutionarily significant disadvantage due to the invention of spectacles.
Human evolution is very likely to hand in hand with all kinds of technical tools we develope, and in the future they will surely be much more sophisticated than our current "essentials", namely clothes, spectacles and such. Many devices could even obtain their power from the body itself and thus become even more integral part of us. There could be some standard devices every baby gets, like a vaccine/drug pump taking care of vaccination programs and medication in some common infections, and maybe the eyes need be operated right after birth as well, since generations of poor-sighted ancestors have caused most of the babies to be next to blind. Then us humans would upkeep and maintain manufacturing plants for these technical devices bit like termites and some ants upkeep their fungus factories and we would be inseparable: machines and humans - just like termites and mould, algae and fungi, and so on! :)
well, surgery does not cause genetic changes
we're evolving all the time. We are growing taller, the metabolism must change due to changed diets and amount of available food.
Cis or trans? That's what matters.
Naturally surgery does not cause genetic changes, but it may still affect our genes via natural selection. For example, it can allow "poor" genes to remain in the gene pool. This is just an arbitrary example, but if a person carries a gene for an ugly nose that would normally lower his or her chances of getting a partner and kids, this might not be the case if plastic surgery became routine in the future. That is, if almost everyone's nose was remodeled to ideal, beautiful nose, then we would start carrying a lot of "ugly nose" genes that would normally be reduced in the gene pool. That would cause a sort of loop, where the surgery would become more and more integral part of human life, since otherwise people would have hideous noses :)
Interestingly, people in some parts of the world have performed a certain type of "surgery" routinely to all male children for millennia by chopping off the hood of their pecker. I am not aware if men in areas were circumcision is prevalent have accumulated any mutations related to this. They could, for example, have poorer natural immune defence around the genital area because the lack of foreskin prevents most of the microbes from living in the genital area, thus reducing the need of immune defence in the area. And if their children then would not be circumcised, they might be more prone to infections of the genital area because they have evolved to live without the foreskin.
I have been under the impression that the increase in the human average height has been attributed to more nutritious diet, not genetical changes. That is, people in the medieval times could grow pretty much as tall as we do nowadays, but diseases and especially poor nutrition often prevented them from reaching their (genetically) maximum height.
This is supported by the phenomenom that modern day Americans are becoming shorter than their parents because of the poor quality of the average American diet :P
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well, that's possible...
Cis or trans? That's what matters.
Re: Where do we go from here?
It is now debatable that humans are actually evolving backwards. To explain this, you know how evolution depends on certain factors, such as, natural selection. Variations in human genetic information is through mutations. As humans are finding ways to "cheat", i.e. the "weak ones" or those with "inferior genes" may still survive and pass on their genes. As such, we would provide a wide gene pool yet with no methods of passing only the best genes on (that is moral, I mean, kill off the weak, and I'll be first on the list!!). To some extent, the "best genes" are more likely to survive, i.e. money+ when genes+, however benefits and monetary help as well as "society being all equal" hinders "culling" of the weak. Hence, I think personally, that Human Evolution is probably occurring mostly in undeveloped countries compared to developed countries.
Take care that humans evolving is completely different to advancements made in technology.
Last thing is, personally, I suspected that humans stopped evolving as soon as we grew a conscience!!!
As opposed to Natural Selection, could eugenics be the way of the future that our gene pool is manipulated. 'Artificial' mutations would be a way to remove harmful diseases and such, but I pretty sure the world is not ready for such wide spread uses...
Re: Where do we go from here?
Now, I hate to be all uppity, but eugenics is, what I think, completely and morally incorrect. Now, I think it's bad enough we research animals in this way, and we breed animals like this, but it's like saying: "Oh, you have desirable traits and so do I so let's produce offspring" Hell no! Also with "I don't have desirable traits, so I will continue to have no children or kill myself". But then again, I do see the point of it eliminating diseases, kind of like building a fence around a cliff rather than parking an ambulance at the bottom.
Hopefully, I could stop being such a cold fire, but when it comes to 'artificial' mutations, what do you mean by that? Gene Therapy? Search it up XD. Maybe it might make for a nice career choice; I am certainly keeping my options open!!!
Of course the human heigth is affected by genes, and on average, e.g. people in Japan have genes for shorther height than, say, Scandinavians. If an average Scandinavian person has a poor diet and health for much of his youth, he is likely to be about as short or maybe shorter than your average Japanese person. However, if the both have a good diet and no serious or long-lasting illnesses, the Scandinavian person is very likely to reach the maximum height that his genes allow, and be considerably taller than the Japanese person, whose maximum height is capped by his genes and does not increase no matter how much he eats.
As far as I know it is quite well supported that it was the environment, not genes that cause e.g. your average medieval European to be much shorther than what the Europeans are today. After all, human genes do not change that much in few hundreds of years. Even during the 19th century the average height was still much lower than today, so it seems quite certain that the genes for heigth haven't changed this drastically in less than 200 years.
The diet and health in general have changed drastically during this time, though.
In any case, if I'm correct, we might see something similar happening in the poorest regions of Africa today: if their health and diet increase during the next few decades, their average height should do so as well. I do not know if this has been observed or studied so far.
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Re: Where do we go from here?
I would like to point out that evolution does not have direction, and thus cannot go backwards. It is true that some traits can be reversed, for example bacteria easily lose their antibiotic resistance if there are no antibiotics in their environment any more. You could easily interpret this as goin backwards as the bacteria lose an ability and thus become less advanced and "poorer". However, what actually happens is that the new bcateria that do not have the resistance genes are actually better suited for their new environment and do better than the complex, antibiotic resistance ones because they do not carry the extra metabolic load of antibiotic resistance any more.
Similarly, albeit not as obviously, humans keep evolving even today. If poor eyesight can be fixed by spectacles, there is maybe no more need for good eyesight genes, and thus, in the current environment, humans could slowly evolve towards poorer sight. However, as the evolution only acts based on the current environment and the pressure it causes, this can be either bad or good in the long run. But evolution does not care about what happens in the future.
You also cannot count out technological advantages when it comes to evolution. Humans (and other animals) evolve to direction that allows them to best utilize their environment, and for us humans, the environment is a technology-filled one. Certain birds would starve to death if all sharp sticks disappeared, because they use sharp sticks to dig maggots to eat. They are evolutionarily bound to this "technology". Similarly, humans would do really badly in many areas of the world if there were no clothes. We have evolved to use clothes so well that we lost our own fur. Many crustaceans have lost their own shells because they use other dead animals' shells as their own and thus they do not need to spend energy to grow their own.
It is well possible that similar but way more sophisticated technological methods become integral for human life in the future. In history it was maybe clothes that was the technological innovation that allowed humans to conquer the whole planet. Maybe in teh future it is something high-tech stuff that must be implanted to all humans to allow space-faring. And without those implants, space-faring humans might risk extinction. Think about some method of eliminating solar radiation and cosmic rays, for example.
So, in a nutshell: humans keep evolving and evolution has no direction, nor does it aim to generate anything "good" - just gene complexes that do better in their current environment than their rivals do. (Or any other replicating entities. According to certain scientists, in addition to genes this could as well be any information, such as computer programs)
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Stomach bloating and weight gain
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I have yet to go through all the pages - but I will once I post. Like everyone else, I just want to share my story and/or find answers.
My problem began the last week of July, a week before my bodybuilding/figure competition. My stomach began to stick out and it feels like I swallowed a bowling ball? I eat very healthy, weight all my food, and lift weights 5/week and do cardio 3/week. My life is very regimented so anything out of the ordinary cannot be attributed to even a slight caloric fluctuation. 2.5 months later I have put on 5lbs and and have the distention/heaviness feeling 24/7. I did start taking probiotics and have daily bowel movements but this make no difference w/ my symptoms. I have seen since my GP and GI specialist and all they want to do is give me prilosec and tell me its acid reflux, they did an abdominal ultrasound which was negative. I think because I am young (30) in great shape and small, when I say my stomach sticks out they just look at me like I am insane.
I recently talked to a friend on mine, and she said she had two friends with GI issues - both thought they had a dairy/wheat allergy. Once a doctor actually listened and did some testing, they both had parasites. My cousin also had similar symptoms and found out she had a bacterial overgrowth and was given antibiotics.
Re: Stomach bloating and weight gain
i to suffer from this, its has been hapenning for the last 2 years. i have seen many doctors for it. the doctor i am currently with has had me take many different tests has given me many different medicines and alot of advice which all does not help.
i do my own experiments to try and help this problem. what i found is alot of it is stress when i stress about it it gets worse. and with being a wrestler i always stress beacuse when im bloated im 5-7 pds over my natural weight and just puts me farther from my wrestling goals. but when i releax and calm down it works it way back to normal over a period of time.
the best thing to do is to stick to a consistant diet. for me i eat 3-4 meals a day any all healthy meals. oatmeal every morning and have a very healthy lunch and dinner. for instance chicken,turkey,fish, salads, fruits, eggs vegatbles. i find when i eat to much of anything i will get bloated.
also excerise when i run its an imedite relief after my workout.its hard to run at first because my stomach is so uncomfortbale but i fight through it because in the end i feel great.
but it is hard to keep a consitant diet everyday, so when i do eat anything other then a small healthy meal i get bloated and depressed and its a vicious cycle that im fed up with..
but for me the key things are to not stress, eat consistant and not alot. and also to excerize.
i hope what i have said can help you .
Re: Stomach bloating and weight gain
In the past 1 and a half years i have had the same symptoms . bloating . constipation and excessive weight gain i was a size 10 I've put on over 20 kgs . I've had constant pain in my stomach and sides i blow up like a balloon. i look pregnant . i can't get rid of it somedays its smaller than the others but even thats to big.
i was thinking it may be cysts having similar symptoms but I'm just not sure . i was taken to hospital last year with acute stomach ache but the doctors couldn't determine what it was .i need help it seems like everyone has the same problem here but nobody has an answer .. i just want my body back and my health this is depressing and i feel like crap all the time ... definatly a self-esteem killer.
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hello, everyone
I have some of them same problems, after having my second child, I had the baby blues, i fought for along time time before going to the doctors/ After going to the dr, i was put on medication, two year later, i had problems sleeping, problems walking, fatique, weaker muscles, inflammation of joint ,itch ears, weight gain and also i was sick al lthe time with flu like issues. So i went to specialist , on doctor diagose me with fibromyaglia , arthritis. three months of my liver almost fail from medication. I was sent to another specialist . this guy was awesome. before i could tell him that i was going to refuse to take more meds, he told me no more meds. right on!! he also told me that i was suffering from toxin posioning from my depression meds, What!! i could understand , so the med that i have been taking from one problem was make another. Well at the same time my dogs were suffering for liver problem cause by a food allergy ( hot spots) so i went to a wellness center that sells holistic products and came across alot of information. Well after changing, their food and had probotic powder,they are getting better, more energy , and hot spots going away.. what a relief, So i got started on research if this is helping my dog.What can i do for myself except selling my house because i'm 33 and cant walk upstairs or continue working in landscaping.. At the wellness center they have these ion foot bath machine, it showed that i have a yeast problem which by researching causes inflammation. after four treatments the yeast was gone and also my flu like feeling was gone too. wow!! my excited, so lets get to the root problem why does my body not function like everyone else. Because i have a food allergy,,as a baby i had allergy to dairy. Than i came across this auto immune diease called celiac. After reading i knew this was my problem from the start. i had even had my gall bladder out at 17. which is aother sign. Now!! it's been four weeks since i been weening off medication, two full weeks off of medication, one week on a gluten free and dairy free diets, i have loss 10 lbs, sleeping better, no itchy ear, more energy, less hungry, it was so easy to switch from bleached flour to rice, i hate pasta and the rice pasta is so good, i have not had to restrict myself from pizza, muffin, just change the ingredients of the dough, cake mix, the best pancakes are from a company called pamela products, so good and i havent bother to tell my family that i have switch the flour, they just think I am baking more, actually my husband told me we have to stop eat so much bake goods, !!! Even though you dont think you have this just try and see what happens!! it made a world of difference. i wish someone gave me this information alot earlier, there is proof in biology book that i have been reading from!! how cells and glands work with the small intestine. so good luck and hope this helps someone, i know in canada 1 in 133 people suffer from this and this would explain over weight, dieases, and why we are getting sicker and not better with the easy made food available to us.
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I have had this problem for 4-5 years. It's miserable! Everytime I eat I look like I'm 5 months pregnant. Even after I just drink something I blow up. It's frustrating and makes me very depressed to where I won't leave the house because I can not fit in my clothes. I don't eat much because of this, yet I'm still gaining weight and blowing up. I have had my gallbladder removed but that hasn't helped me any. Ive had a panendoscopy and colonoscopy which both were normal. I just pray there will ne am answer to what this is.
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I will repeat what a lot of other posters have said. Dump all sugar and white flour from your diet. Go on high protein with vegetables. Atkins and Protein Power both are good diets. So is South Beach. This is not about losing weight, although you probably will. This is about killing yeast spores in the digestive system. If you have any of the following problems: toenail fungus, bloating, excessive gas occasionally or often, digestive troubles such as IBS, itching skin and rashes that come and go, dandruff, allergies.... then you may very well have too much yeast built up in your system. Try high protein for one week and do not cheat. The diets offer you a list of foods that are OK because some vegetables like potatoes are starchy which ends up being turned into sugar in your system. Take a laxative if you eat just meat and cheese. This is not celiac disease which is an allergy to gluten. This is a build up candida in your system from years of eating sugar, pasta, bread, potatoes, white flour, etc. Drink lots of water! If this helps you in a week, you will know. Good news is that it is reversible.
Thanks Emmajean...it makes much sense what u said..and I feel most of all those symptoms. I will def try one of those diets! Thank you soo much for your help!
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So relieved to find people who have the same problem!
Someone said they had a test and found they had a delay in their stomach emptying. That would make the most sense about my symptoms - what can they do to fix that?
I read about cutting out sugar and white flour but candy is about the only thing that doesn't make me bloat and salad makes me bloat the worst it seems! I even get bloated 2 seconds after drinking just plain water. It's causing me such a confidence problem I don't want to go swimming or anything that shows off my stomach or else I don't eat which isn't healthy. I'm constantly asking my husband if I look pregnant or if an outfit hides my bloating well enough. Anyone with cures?
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I'm 18 years old and honestly reading this forum makes me want to cry. I already went to a gastro. doctor they did an upper and lower GI. (for a different reason) however they didn't find anything wrong. I have almost all of the problems stated on the forum... I have a modeling competition March tenth, I was actually researching ways to prevent my spontaneous "pregnant-like" belly, when I stumbled upon this forum. I was hoping I could find a "quick fix". I'm going to try everything that was said to help; even a little help... well its better than no help. I just don't know what to do anymore, I can't stand looking like I'm pregnant, I was always under ninety pounds, until I was seventeen. I was put on medicine after medicine for my depression, and then when they discovered I was bi-polar they started putting me on medicine for that and they all made me gain forty pounds!! So I'm not used to looking more than stick thin, let alone pregnant! I'm going to check this forum as much as I can, please if any one has any other suggestions (besides any already on here) PLEASE LET ME KNOW. I've printed out numerous exercises, I'm hoping maybe my situation is different and I can get SOMETHING out of that. =/ Other wise thank you in advance for anything anyone has to offer
*I read up a little since I read a couple of hours ago and didn't read until after I just posted this. But I don't eat sugar. The only sugar I consume comes naturally from the V8 V fusion I drink, Or from orange juice I drink. I don't have time to read all the posts, but if you comment on mine I will definitely read them
Re: Stomach bloating and weight gain
Possible Answers to Look into:
My history first:
I'm 54 years old and my entire life since I was age 14 I have been no more then 105 lbs. In 2000 I had half my thyroid taken out and currently on 88 mcg of levoxyl for hypothyroidism. I put on 20 lbs from thyroid however over the past 3 years very strange symptoms have been occurring and all thought to be my thyroid. Now my doctor doesn't think so.
My symptoms are extended stomach that makes me look 10 months pregnant. I now weigh 135 lbs yet my arms, legs and everywhere but my belly still look like if I am 105 lbs. Constipation, memory fog, fatigue, depression, muscle aches. (tore both rotator cuffs by just tossing a little cat toy).
One visit my vitamin D was low so I was given the mass dosage. I had to repeat this twice, then take a normal supplement. Then I started to have what masked as a kidney problem. All test which included ultra sounds were negative. It cleared up yet the bloating stayed. New symptoms arrived. I'm not experiencing swelling from the abdomen down to my calves.
After test after test, colonscope, endoscope, ultra sound, blood test, all shows normal. I'm lucky in that my doctor is great. She knows something is going on and it isn't my thyroid.
She tested blood again and found I had a Vitamin B-12 deficiency and ordered me to take 1000 mcg a day. Didn't help still bloated.
Then she put me on a hormonal patch (climara) a low dose one. No results with the bloating
Then I read something interesting and decided to try it. I have yet to speak to my doctor about this so I warn everyone to be careful if they try it.
I read about the genetic marker of the MTHFR. Some websites report that 3 out of 5 people have it, some say 2 out of 5, and one report was 4 out of 5. Anyway.
I ordered through Amazon the 5-MTHF 10 mg, http://www.amazon.com/Metabolic-Mainten ... 358&sr=1-6 and Methyl B-12 http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001F0R7VE
After 3 days my stomach went down, my weight is 124 right now after the 3 days. I felt vibrant, zero depression, I actually woke up feeling rested. I was feeling a little too much racy like if I drank too much coffee so now I am playing with the dosage and taking the 5MTHF every 3 days but I'm taking the B-12 every day.
I'm also still on the patch.
Now I believe it is one of these three things that is working.
I am going to be getting a CatScan next week to make sure nothing is there in the pelvic or abdomen that the endoscope and ultra sound did't pick up. I expect this test result also come back negative.
I will request my doctor order the gentic test to see if I have it. The test the doctor should write to the lab is called MTHFR.
Some insurance companies do not cover it so make sure you check on that. If not the test shouldn't cost more then $150.00 dollars.
Please read up on MTHFR and the 5-MTHF there are youtube video's on the MTHF I think if you search "The new 5MTHF Craze"
MTHF is basically folate acid in the pure form. Your body goes through about 4 stages to process regular folate acid you get from foods to the pure form of methyltetrahydrofolate. The 5-MTHF bypasses the body so that you get what you need immediately. It works with B-12 so you have to take both together. Now the 10mg might be too much for some. If you can find Methyltetrhydrofolate in 5mg I would buy that one. Thorne labatories does make a 1 mg one but I don't think you'll see results from that.
Most doctor's are not aware of the deficiency with Folate Acid and when they test for it, they test wrong.
Now my hypothesis is that it is a Vitamin B-12 Deficiency which would raise your folate acid if your blood was tested but you really do not have too much folate acid. It takes a long time for a Vit B-12 deficiency to show up on lab work.
There would be no harm to try this as they are water soluable however if you feel that racy feeling decrease the 5MTHF but do keep taking the B-12.
If this doesn't work and you are a female I would suggest it is hormonal.
I have 3 things going on with me
Thyroid (by the way, it took 3 years of me feeling hypothyroid before my lab values actually showed up. if your Tsh is over 3.00 you need medication) Find a new doctor if they disagree.
Deficient in vitamins
Re: Stomach bloating and weight gain
I would like to first thank you for posting this and even though I don't have all the problems you've had, I do have enough that I feel something has to be done. I am somewhat confused with only one thing in your post, you say stay away from fermented foods yet everything I read says we need fermented foods....???? Unless their are more than one kind and I admit I'm dumb to fermented foods etc. Then only thing I know about foods is, how to eat it! (LOL) I already started the Probiotics that I have to keep in frig. it's called "VSL #3" and I was only taking one a day until I read your post and now I'm taking about 6 a day, thinking about going up to 8! What do you think??? I also eat Activia every morning and every night. I am waiting on the pharmacist to get in my colon cleansing in which should be today he said. Right now other than the Activia I am staying away from all carbs. Do you have any advise for me at all, I am so ready to get back to normal !!!!!!!!!! And will you please explain the "fermented foods" to me? Thank you soooooooooo much!!!!!!!!!!!
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MADISON—The Evansville/Albany wrestling team cherished every moment of its first-ever trip to the University of Wisconsin Fieldhouse.
The Blue Devils also caught a glimpse of what they hope their program's future looks like.
Division 2 powerhouse Ellsworth won 12 of 14 matches on Saturday, topping Evansville/Albany 65-6 in a WIAA state team wrestling semifinal dual. The Panthers, making their ninth straight trip to state, went on to beat Pewaukee for the championship, its sixth overall and fourth in the last seven years.
"There is always another level," Blue Devils coach Rob Kostroun said. "This was our first time here, and we're definitely not going to go home and not learn lessons.
"They're No. 1 for a reason. They put 12 kids into the individual tournament. They're very well-coached, they have a long history and tradition, and they have great fans. It was a privilege to compete with them."
Ellsworth won nine bouts by pinfall, including two from state champions Jens Lantz—in the first match of the day at 126 pounds—and Gable Frandson.
Evansville/Albany earned a pair of decisions.
Sophomore Jordan Meyer, who was the runner-up in Division 2 at 132 pounds at the individual state meet, claimed a 9-2 victory at 132 pounds. And junior Dustin Bjugstad won, 2-0, at 220 pounds.
"It was really cool being the first team up here from Evansville," Meyer said. "We were just trying to enjoy the experience.
"I think we wrestled well against some of the top kids in the state. We'll have most of us back next year, so we're hoping to get back here and maybe make some improvements."
There were just three seniors on the Evansville/Albany team that went 21-4 in dual meets this year.
The Blue Devils lost during the regular season to Division 1 teams Elkhorn and Stoughton, as well as Lodi. They avenged that loss to Lodi with a victory in the sectional semifinals and beat West Salem/Bangor to make the program's first trip to the state team meet.
Evansville/Albany will return all three of its individual state qualifiers—Meyer, Bjugstad and 170-pounder Tyler Grant—as it hopes to continue to build its program into a perennial power like the one it faced on the mat on Saturday.
"We're going to learn and educate ourselves, and we're going to get better and hopefully be back here again to wrestle on this stage," Kostroun said. "I know the season just got over, but I'm already excited to start working for next year.
"They got here because they worked with each other and pushed each other, and I'm real proud of them."
126—Jens Lantz (Ell) pinned Chase Katzenmeyer, 3:22. 132—Jordan Meyer (EA) dec. Brad Cain, 9-2. 138—Tristen Mueller (Ell) pinned Nathan Vickery, 1:25. 145—Jacob Fuchs (Ell) dec. Hayden Milz, 5-3. 152—Josh Hines (Ell) maj. dec. Nick Lehman, 14-6. 160—Gable Frandson (Ell) pinned Jake Carpenter, 3:53. 170—Logan Kemmerer (Ell) maj. dec. Tyler Grant, 16-5.
182—Brandon VanderMarliere (Ell) pinned Lincoln Rosonke, 2:55. 195—Brock Steldt (Ell) pinned Lucius Rinehart, 1:36. 220—Dustin Bjugstad (EA) dec. Kenny Stowe, 2-0. 285—Brody Kemmerer (Ell) pinned Ryan Meehan, 1:00. 106—Andrew Swanson (Ell) pinned Taylor Milz, 1:14. 113—Gabe Mancino (Ell) pinned Eric Sasse, 0:20. 120—Anders Lantz (Ell) pinned Brandon Robinson, 5:50.


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5917 N. Broadway Chicago, Illinois 60660
(312) 742-7502
Fee: $38.00
Come out and enjoy a performance about the legendary Scottish regiment's valiant history and tour in Iraq, Black Watch is presented by CST at Chicago's Broadway Armory (5917 N. Broadway)—a space used for military training by the State of Illinois during World War I, and the only armory playing host to this visceral production through its 2012 tour.
Tickets for Black Watch at Chicago's Broadway Armory (5917 N. Broadway) are $38–$52, with special discounts available for groups of 10 or more. For more information or to purchase tickets, contact Chicago Shakespeare Theater's Box Office at 312.595.5600 or visit the Theater's website at www.chicagoshakes.com.


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Your Views: Chief justice debate in Wisconsin shows need for term limits for all
The recent controversy over the selection and duration of tenure for chief justice of Wisconsin's Supreme Court persuades me that we need open elections and strict term limits for all government positions.
There's no such thing as a completely objective, impartial judge, whether in the highest courts of the land or any other. Leaders, legislators and bureaucracies in all three branches of government impose statutes and administrative rules upon us that are interpreted by judges, which eventually establish precedent in the courts. So long as there's a need to interpret the intent of most laws and policies, there's no doubt that a judge's personal bias directs his or her course and consequence upon the citizenry.
The American interpretation of fairness dictates that the chief justice position, like any other in government, should be open to change and competition with a reasonable balance among those vying for it. It matters not that this seat only has ceremonial status. Every other position in every level of government changes over time, depending upon the preference of the citizens. Term limits for chief justice and all Supreme Court judges will help to prevent partisan dictatorships and will promote public participation at the polls.


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5610 W. Lake St. Chicago, Illinois 60644
(773) 287-7658
Fee: $2
Age Range: All ages
Austin Town Hall will host a Celebration of Black History month with an arts and cultural performance. Know Your Heritage will be presented February 7, 2013 from 6:00 p.m.-7:30 p.m. All ages are welcome. Fee is $2.