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Deutsche Bank AG was dethroned after a nine-year reign as the world's biggest currency trader by Citigroup Inc., a Euromoney Institutional Investor Plc survey showed, as subdued volatility depressed trading in the euro.
Citigroup, which last led the ranking in 2002, claimed 16.04 percent market share, beating Deutsche Bank's 15.67 percent, Euromoney said in a statement. The U.S. bank trailed its German rival by just 0.28 percentage point in the 2013 poll, the second-slimmest margin since it began in 1976. Barclays Plc was the third-largest trader, with a 10.91 percent share.
The biggest dealers in the $5.3 trillion-a-day foreign-exchange market are facing reduced revenues after stimulus efforts by central banks around the world muffled many of the trends that traders and investors use to make money. That's adding to competition among banks, which are pushing more trading onto electronic platforms to boost market share.
"We're a big euro bank and it's not helped that the euro has not been a focus of attention over the past 18 months," said Kevin Rodgers, global head of foreign exchange at Deutsche Bank in London. "Currency volatility in my career hasn't been down at these levels for any length of time, ever. What will cause it to bounce, I don't know."
The euro traded in its narrowest range against the dollar since its 1999 debut in the last week of April, moving just 0.7 U.S. cent between $1.3785 and $1.3855. Three-month implied volatility on the currency pair dropped to 5.5475 percent on May 2, the lowest since 2007.
The Euromoney rankings are drawn from a survey of traders in the foreign-exchange markets. This year's was based on 14,050 responses, representing $225 trillion of turnover, London-based Euromoney said. Deutsche Bank was ranked number one since 2005.
The Frankfurt-based bank jointly led a survey of 2013 market share published by research company Greenwich Associates in March, along with UBS AG.
Citigroup's move to the top spot "is a validation of our continuing effort to better serve our clients by providing them the best pricing, trade execution and advisory services," Nadir Mahmud, the bank's global head of foreign exchange and local markets, said in an e-mailed statement. The bank headed the rankings for the survey's first 23 years, according to Euromoney.
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Citigroup named Mahmud as successor to Anil Prasad in February, agreeing for him to move to London from Singapore, where he led the bank's markets business in the Asia-Pacific region. Prasad left to "pursue other interests," Citigroup said at the time.
Deutsche Bank's Rodgers will retire in June to focus on academic and musical interests, according to the Frankfurt-based lender.
Mahmud assumed his position against the backdrop of allegations, first reported in June by Bloomberg News, that traders at currency dealers colluded to manipulate benchmark rates. More than 30 people from 11 firms having been fired, suspended, taken leave of absence or retired since October, when regulators said they were investigating the market, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. No firms or individuals have been accused of wrongdoing by government authorities.
Citigroup has the most revenue at risk from trading currencies as officials investigate the allegations, according to Sanford C. Bernstein & Co. It gets roughly 4 percent to 5 percent of revenue from currency trading, according to a report yesterday from John McDonald, an analyst at Sanford Bernstein.
Mark Costiglio, a bank spokesman, declined to comment on the Bernstein report.
"The macro challenge is for FX market users to be confident that it is a legitimate, transparent and fair market to operate in," said James Wood-Collins, chief executive officer of U.K.-based currency manager Record Plc. "It's an exceptionally well-functioning market. It's particularly important our clients are aware of that and aren't put off sensible risk management or return-seeking activity."
Subdued price swings are starting to take their toll on bank earnings. Foreign-exchange revenue at Deutsche Bank dropped in the first quarter "due to lower client activity reflecting lower volatility and challenging trading environment," it said in its April 29 earnings statement.
JPMorgan Chase & Co.'s Group of Seven FX Volatility Index, a measure of currency fluctuations, touched 6.00 percent today, the least since 2007, and down from last year's peak of 11.96 percent set on June 24.
The top five banks are tightening their grip on the market, according to the Euromoney data. Their combined share accounted for 61 percent of trading, up from 57 percent in 2013, and exceeding 60 percent for the first time since 2009.
UBS was ranked fourth with a market share of 10.88 percent and HSBC Holdings Plc was fifth with 7.12 percent.
Barclays, which announced yesterday it would cut 7,000 jobs at its investment bank, said earlier this week a decline in revenue from trading bonds, currencies and commodities cut the division's earnings by 49 percent.
"In FX we've been through a couple of years of very fierce competition amongst the top three dealers," said Mike Bagguley, head of macro products at Barclays in London. "So you've had stagnant volumes, very low margins and very low volatility, which have clearly been disruptive for revenue. There's no way you're going to make a good return for your bank in this business unless you're a really efficient scale provider."


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Robinson backs Yarde for England
Jason Robinson believes new Harlequins signing Marland Yarde is in the perfect position to win the "shootout" for a place on the wing for England at Rugby World Cup 2015.
Robinson, who scored a try in the final as England won the World Cup in 2003, believes the two wing berths remain the most open selection challenges facing England boss Stuart Lancaster.
The former Sale flyer conceded there are still "question-marks" over England's best back-three line-up for next year's home World Cup.
Jason Robinson believes that Marland Yarde could play a major role at the World Cup
Mike Brown has nailed down the full-back berth, but Robinson believes Yarde and Chris Ashton still face fierce wing competition from Christian Wade, Jack Nowell, Jonny May and Anthony Watson.
"Wing is probably one of the most open positions," the 40-year-old told Press Association Sport.
"As an international wing finishing a try is a given, it's the other basics that count, and we still don't have as much experience as we would have liked there at this stage.
"There are still a lot of question-marks for Stuart Lancaster.
"We've certainly got some good wings, but we just need consistency.
"The autumn matches are really when you are judged I think as a player, because you are playing against the world's best.
"If you're playing well you'll get the headlines, you'll see who's on form and who's not.
"Stuart will have an idea of the six guys he's got his eyes on, and it's a shootout now frankly."
Yarde recovered from hip tendon trouble to tour New Zealand in the summer, scoring twice in England's three Test defeats.
The 22-year-old left boyhood club London Irish this summer for Aviva Premiership rivals Harlequins, with Robinson tipping that move to help cement his World Cup berth.
"Harlequins are a great team to watch, with guys like Mike Brown and a lot of other England players there," said Robinson, speaking at a Land Rover event.
"Quins like to play, and he should get a lot of opportunities at Quins, and he should be in the spotlight a lot more.
"I think it's a great move for him, he's now just got to really set the bar high and go all-out.
"He's great with ball in hand, he's one of the best attackers in the English game.
"If he can just work a little bit harder on his defence, I don't mean physically, sometimes positionally.
"Not many people will get round Marland Yarde because he's so quick, so you've got to get your positioning right.
"He's at a great place with some great coaches, and playing in that back-three will only bring his game on.
"And it's a great time for that to happen, leading into the World Cup year."
Robinson has teamed up with Land Rover to assist the Premiership Rugby HITZ programme, designed to help disadvantaged young people find routes back into education and employment.
Former British and Irish Lions wing Robinson believes England's stars will enter uncharted territory when the new Premiership season kicks off on Friday, September 5.
Robinson said the build-up campaign to a home World Cup will be like nothing that has gone before.
"For the young lads though there's never been a better time to do it," he said.
"If there's ever a time to get out and play your best rugby, it's in the build-up to a home World Cup - w hat an opportunity.
"To go into a World Cup on form and playing well, there's no better feeling.
"And to chase that prize at home, that's going to be incredible.
"As long as the players understand the effort that's going to take between now and World Cup time, that's what's going to count.
"This isn't a normal season: this will be like nothing that's gone before.
"Going back to 2003 we wanted to be the best prepared, the fittest, the strongest, the fastest, the smartest, and the guys have got to make so many sacrifices between now and the World Cup.
"I just hope that those guys can do it as well."
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Clint Christensen, 61, and Jamie Christensen, 33, died in the 3:53 a.m. blaze at 1950 Fairview Drive, Beloit.
Caren Christensen, 60, who escaped from a second-floor window, was in critical condition at an area hospital, Beloit police Capt. Bill Tyler said.
Clint and Caren were husband and wife, and Jamie was their daughter, Tyler said.
The state fire marshal has been asked to help investigate.
"We're still trying to determine origin and cause," Tyler said late Wednesday afternoon. "There's death, and there's serious injury, so we want to leverage every resource we can to determine the cause of the fire. There's no outward indication of foul play at this point.
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Investigators believe all three people were asleep when the fire started, Tyler said. They don't believe anybody else was in the home.
Firefighters encountered heavy fire and smoke when they arrived.
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A neighbor who heard cries for help arrived at the home before emergency responders and put a ladder up to a window, where Caren climbed out.
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Brain size=IQ level theory (Blacks vs Whites & Asians)
Human Anatomy, Physiology, and Medicine. Anything human!
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Nonsense! You chant a liberal mantra and claim it to be science? Wolves, coyotes, and dogs cam all breed and produce fertile offspring. You are aying that they are all the same. Turkeys, chickens, pheasants, and Pea fowl mixes can produce fertile offspring. An infant can tell significant differences between the various races. LOL! What happens to the minds of PC liberals that renders them unable to observe reality accurately? Too much chanting???
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Do you have anything besides yelling "liberal" at anyone who disagrees with you? Are you here to debate or to recite trite catch phrases you gleaned elsewhere on the Internet?
An infant can distinguish between people alright. It, for example, knows its mother from its father. It knows its fat aunt from its skinny aunt. What exactly is your point with respect to infants? In fact what is your point generally? Are you trying to imply a racial hierarchy in intelligence? If so, how do you account for all the black people that are smarter than you? In fact what about the black people that are smarter than you and anyone you know, have ever known or will ever know?
You dare to point toward "trite catch phrases"? Then you ignore completely my argument about species.
I do not believe that you are so ignorant that you do not know what an average IQ is and how Average IQs overlap. I have people in my family who have IQs lower than the average IQ of an American black, but that doesn't change the average IQ of American blacks. I, personally have a 25-30 point IQ over the average American black, but that has nothing to do with any races average IQ, and certainly, some blacks are more inteligent than I am. That does not affect any races average IQ. You cannot be so silly as to think that blacks average the same IQ as Whites, or Asians.....Or American Jews. I hope you aren't.
If all of the races had equal IQ averages the reigning PC Social Police woud have tesed us all and proven it in the 60s. Instead they seek refuge in shifting arguments about culture and environment and the unreliability of tests. The fact is that everyone is not equal, and no amount of social engineering can make them equal. Small minds crippled by the politically correct social sciences agendas have too much invested to embrace actual science, fact, and truth. My first degree was in Sociology in the 70's. I personally experienced the suppression of critical thought that created emotion based arguments like yours.
If we were all the same, this wouldn't happen.
" Yet by nine months, babies react more swiftly to their own race than others: they differentiate more readily between faces and match emotional sounds with facial expressions faster. A study from the University of Massachusetts Amherst, published in May in Developmental Science, showed that the younger infants use only the frontal part of the brain for the task. By nine months, babies also recruit the occipital-temporal region, where recognition happens in adults. "
http://www.scientificamerican.com/artic ... -see-race/
What about species? How is any of that relevant? How does it support your theories?
But blacks do average higher IQ's than whites and Asians according to "work" done by such luminaries of scientific racism as Richard Lynn. I suggest you take a look at the list of IQ by nation, which I'm sure you're familiar with:
http://www.photius.com/rankings/nationa ... ranks.html
Notice all the white and Asian countries whose IQ averages fall below the IQ average of black Americans. Countries such as India, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, Iran, Syria, Algeria, Pakistan, Morocco, etc., all score below black Americans. This wouldn't happen if your racial hierarchy in intelligence theories had any validity. As a matter of fact, adjusted for 400+ years of brutality and cultural ostracization black American IQ is actually significantly higher than white American IQ. So I don't know why you're pointing to the IQ average of blacks in America as proof of your pseudoscience. By every measure, black American IQ debunks your entire worldview.
Yeah, well I just proved that American blacks have higher IQ's than whites and Asians, even in spite of 400+ years of slavery and oppression.
Well, the tests have often proved to be unreliable if not outright fraudulent. Let me ask you a question, how would you score on an IQ test given in the Zulu language and steeped in Zulu cultural references? Would that be a reliable test from your perspective?
That's true on an individual level, regardless of race. And you should couch it that way rather than suggesting that entire races of people are inferior or superior.
Well, the problem is you people never have any science. It's all scientific racism and pseudoscience. Where is your science? I dare you here and now to provide your science. Show me. In fact you have no science, so stop claiming you do.
It's actually people like you who suppress speech. One of your pet tactics is to describe as a liberal anyone with a sensible, scientifically correct view of these matters. Or you'll claim there's a vast conspiracy driven by political correctness that keeps your laughable views from gaining currency. You're also the ones driven by emotion. Just read your posts. They're emotional rather than scientific appeals. Where's your science?
Babies react to familiar things. That means that a white baby raised around black people will react more swiftly to black people than to white people. My friend, look to your own IQ.
Re: Brain size=IQ level theory (Blacks vs Whites & Asians)
Anyone else notice that the people I'm debating never seem to come back to defend their so-called positions? That pretty much tells us all we need to know about the flimsiness of their entire ideology. An ideology that wilts under a little bit of opposition is definitely unsound to say the least.
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Seth 90210: you completely missed my point: I said just look around you with an open mind. If you do you will arrive at a conclusion befitting your own IQ and past experiences. I repeat-open mind. We all descended from the same line, then changed over the Eons, into different "races" because of geographic isolation. Humans are just one example. Just look at the geographic distribution of other native animals, even virus, such as that causing AIDS. (HIV). I also alluded to the frequency distribution curve. There are even a few Whites who can play football and box, just as there are some articulate Black men, like our Pres. Read your local newspaper. Notice any racial distribution of crime? Google Hartsville toddler death for an example!!! Dr. Jim.
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This is complete gibberish. Also, I find it odd that you're asking me to have an open mind when your mind is seemingly hermetically sealed. A bigot, by definition, is someone with a closed mind.
Yeah. So what?
Btw, it's obvious your "doctorate" is neither in anthropology nor genetics. You simply don't know what you're talking about. In terms of evolutionary time scales humans had been isolated a relatively short time. We're talking a few tens of thousands of years at most and even then there had been continuous gene flow between different populations of humans. This is certainly not enough time for discrete differentiation to have occurred in any complex trait like intelligence. If we look at Homo sapiens and Neanderthals we see the beginnings of a genetic split about a half million years ago after at least 1 million years of separation. So that gives us a sense of how long it takes for something dramatic to happen. In other words, a very long time -- much longer than the human experience.
But again, what is your point? We don't see any human population clusters with superior hearts or spleens, so why would any population of humans have superior brains? Can you identify a single credible neurologist or neurosurgeon who can even distinguish one human brain from another ethnically or racially? No, you cannot. Are you saying that isolation caused some human groups to be smarter than others? Well that's wrong too, given the tremendous inter-population overlap in intelligence. How do you account for the fact that genius and super-genius are found in every single population cluster? How do you account for the fact that any human, regardless of race or ethnicity, can adapt and assimilate any other human culture? Just look at the United States for proof. How do you account for the fact that all "races" of humans are sexually compatible and able to produce viable offspring? You see, these are the facts and then there are your delusions. But the world is governed by facts, not delusions.
Even other "races" of animals that had been isolated from each other much longer than humans show no appreciable variations in intelligence regardless of habitat or range. Snow leopards are not more intelligent than African leopards. Siberian tigers are not more intelligent than Bengal tigers and so on. Big hint: if it didn't happen in nature, it ain't gonna happen among humans.
This is totally irrelevant to the topic. Nobody's arguing that there aren't differences between human population groups. There are even differences between your family members. However, most of the differences between human "races" are expressed in the form of superficial variation, things like skin and hair color. Moreover, well over 90% of human genetic variation occurs within "races" or local population groups rather than between them. It is unimaginably daft to suggest that a complicated trait like intelligence is going to be addressed in the tiny .01% sliver of genetic divergence between human groupings. In fact science has demonstrated that intelligence is a polygenic trait and none of those genes appear to reside within the aforementioned .01%.
Okay, I acknowledge differences. Now, what's your point? That some groups are smarter? Where's your evidence? And what about all the contradictory evidence? In fact why are you struggling so mightily? Shouldn't such racial hierarchies in intelligence be self-evident and glaringly obvious? I'm assuming you're white. Well, I'm black and I think it's pretty obvious that I'm smarter than you. Hate to break it to you.
Distribution curves don't reflect genetics. IQ can be learned. IQ scores are not frozen in time for all eternity. IQ rises and IQ gaps close. So, again, what is your point?
A lot more whites would play football and box if they chose those paths. You only need to look at the history of football and boxing for confirmation. You only need to look at present day Eastern European whites for confirmation that whites, indeed, can box and box very well. You do know that there are whites outside of the United States, correct? And blacks as well. Are you cognizant of this? And any person that wants to be articulate, whether they are black or white, simply needs to make the effort and educate himself. How is articulateness or lack of same a mark of racial genetic superiority or inferiority?
Only a complete imbecile would think that crime is somehow genetically determined. If you really think that blacks are more criminally predisposed than whites then you haven't known very many whites. Many people can argue very persuasively that whites are infinitely more criminally inclined than blacks. And they can provide proof to support that argument in the form of historical crimes, mass-scale crimes in which entire continents and millions of people were destroyed. Or present day financial and white collar crimes. Or crimes against children of a deviant sexual nature, here and abroad via child sex tourism. Or mass shootings and serial killings. Oh, you mean street crime? Watch old newsreels. All the muggers, burglars, robbers and killers are white. And presently in Eastern Europe they're all white. So it's really not about genes, is it?
You want me to Google a toddler death? Are you for real? What about all the white people who've killed their toddlers? What about the white women who drowned her kids in her car and then tried to blame it on a black man? And that's just the very tip of the iceberg.
Dr. Jim? LMAO. I want to know where you got that doctorate.
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Good point that I would like to add to! The average IQ should be affected by environment and genetics, and the international variations in IQ should reveal how strongly environment affects these averages. The more variation that is associated with environmental influences, the less accurately we can estimate the effect of any genetic differences.
The image depicts roughly what I am saying. As the variation associated with environment increases, the odds ratio approaches 1:1, a 50/50 split of probability regarding which group is overall genetically superior in terms of the predisposition toward intelligence.
Apparently the genetic influences on IQ are at least as strong as the environmental influences, but this psychologytoday article's mention of genetic "multipliers" challenged my previous understanding of genetic influences (denoted by A in the twin study ACE model). If skin color is a determiner of IQ and skin color is genetic, that would be counted as a genetic influence on IQ in a twin study.
No one doubts that genetics play a vital role in intelligence. But we're all creatures of genetics, aren't we. Unless you're suggesting that some "races" have better genetics than others. If that is indeed the case then the most likely candidates for that designation would be black Africans:
European-American populations are less genetically diverse and have more potentially harmful genetic variations than African-American populations, according to an international team of researchers.
The findings suggest that human migrations may have affected genetic diversity and that a population "bottleneck" may have been involved in the original settlement of Europe
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news ... ution.html
I wasn't suggesting that skin color directly effects intelligence. I was suggesting that because skin color, a largely genetic trait, affects how a person is treated, an environmental effect, it will be counted as a genetic influence under the ACE model even though melanin-depositing genes are only expressed as lower intelligence if the culture discriminates against people with more melanin. It is the interaction between genetics and environment that makes it so difficult to fully understand how they each contribute to who we are.
Alas, suffice it to say, this is controlled for if the non-identical twins are always the same skin color too, which is usually the case since people usually select mates of roughly the same color. There could however still be a small effect on the study results.
My post before the last post was somewhat superficial. The different averages would only suggest a greater probability of overall "worse" genetics if we had no further information. In this case, however, we have the further information that African-americans have been mistreated for a long time, which would lead to a lower average IQ regardless of their true genetic potential, nullifying the reasoning above.
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Allele frequencies vary between poopulations. The question is not whether there's a difference (in genetic IQ predisposition), but how large that difference is.
I think the adoption studies suggest that the difference is negligible, regardless which way it goes. The adopted black children had almost the same average, but the researchers couldn't control for differences during fetal development, and there's also the questino of statistical significance.
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Any SOLID arguments against evolution?
Discussion of everything related to the Theory of Evolution.
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Are you so offensive because I reffered to the designer as "s/he"? Well, I don't think that the identity matters at all. Nowadays, people are are trying to be that much gender correct, that referring to God or designer, if you will, just as he, seems a little incorrect.
But back to our topic. You probably misunderstood, hopefully miswillingly. I didn't say, that DNA is crap, I referred to crap DNA, as I forgot the correct vocabulary 'junk DNA'. And I'm not talking about introns as these are often involved in expression regulation through siRNA, but I'm talking about the repetitive sequences and retrotranspozones. Why did the creator give us the viruses and all this, for which we must waste energy during EVERY cell division? And we have billions of cells only in one human body...
Cis or trans? That's what matters.
oh, i seem to have misinterprited that whole crap DNA statement, sorry bout that...
but my point still stands, referring to something as pointless or useless simply becuase it is repetitive or becuase we cannot understand it means nothing, its simply conjecture.(nothing wrong with conjecture of course) I predict we will sooner rather then later find a function and i assume there are aready theories out there, my own guess is it could be backup, repeat sequences in codes of computers can be functions that are called again and again, or indeed it may have a totally different fucntion that is not even related soley to chemistry. Repetitive sequences such as we find in DNA aere literally crystalline, and IBM stored information in a hard drive made of crystal in the 90s so who knows what kind of information could be stored there. This is all speculation of course but i can only deduce from my reseach that we will indeed find a function.
Of course to assume that the creator(if there is one) gave us these viruses is just that, an assumption...
and if you are talking about the energy to get rid of viruses then it is surely not a waste...
its all about perspective, if there is design in the universe, then whos to say it a god, and even if it was, whos to assume he's flawless, after all we are said to be made in his image, and we are certainly flawed!
Re: Any SOLID arguments against evolution?
I am about to bring the wrath on myself, but…
Why do you think that evolution and creationism are mutually exclusive???
Below is my "theory". See if you can disprove it with your arguments!!!
- Once upon a time there was a being, let's call him/her "God". God was interested in genetic engineering and observing effects of evolution. His primary purpose of coming to Earth was to conduct a large scale experiment – create a race in his/her likeness but capable of surviving in the conditions present on this planet and observe evolution with his/her own eyes.
God did not mean to create a person capable of complex thinking. Original "people" were a lot more like animals until one of them (Adam or Eve?) accidently made it into "employee only" section and drank (ate?) potion that activated/introduced genes for brain development (the famous apple of knowledge). After the accident God dumped all of his subjects on Earth in fear that next time someone will drink the potion that will introduce genes of longevity into population of his experimental subjects. If that happens, experiment will be ruined. God's lifespan was many times that of a person.
From time to time God or those of his/her race come to earth to pick up a few people, animals, plants and check progress of the experiment (UFOs/aliens). Sometimes he/she saved some of those subjects from being exterminated by others (see manna machine - http://www.thepansophical.com/node/117) .
Feel free to come up with the rest of the story!
It is known today that most of the lateral gene transfer and natural selection results in elimination of unwanted genes (loss of function in process of evolution). It is at least just as possible that apes and monkeys came from "human" as the other way around (proposed based on sequence similarity). Loss of a few genes that led to ape would be a lot easier to prove in the lab.
Have fun disproving it!!!
Re: Any SOLID arguments against evolution?
There is no need to disprove it. On the other hand if you want your little mind game to be of any interest you have to provide evidence that:
- It has some predictive value.
- It is based on evidence (presence of aliens or whatever)
- It makes sense
- It is useful (see first line)
Otherwise it is just a nocturnal emission of your brain and should be treated as such.
Science has proof without any certainty. Creationists have certainty without
any proof. (Ashley Montague)
Re: Any SOLID arguments against evolution?
- It has some predictive value.
Unite evolutionists and creationist.
- It is based on evidence (presence of aliens or whatever)
Scientific Facts:
Molecular evolution.
Viruses, UV, bacteria, etc. drive molecular evolution via natural genetic engineering.
No apes developed human like characteristics (as far as I know), but plenty of people with apelike characteristics.
Biblical Facts (if you will):
Bibles – all variations can be explained and combined together (from ancient Greek to the Christianity).
- It makes sense
"There is a grain of truth in every tale"
- It is useful (see first line)
It's just as useful as arguing against fact ("Any SOLID arguments against evolution?") .
Yes, Darwin - a great genius. Only if what is evolution? Darwin created the theory of the origin of species through natural selection. And the idea of "Evolution from simple replicators to thinking crown" - stick it to him from evil. It is a stabilizing natural selection has preserved the remains of reasonableness in this brainstem three-race kind of Homo Sapiens throughout more than half-billion years of the paleo-history of vertebrates - since the Middle Cambrian. It is only necessary to understand that no such "evolution", like, from simple replicators to the "crown of the evolutionary creation" was not. "Evolutionary Theory" - is a particular religion, created for the convenience of creationist critique of science. So, for science is complete bullshit. Really should be discussed Devolutionary theory with the main role of Darwin stabilizing selection, which has not yet been created.
(Now, try: http://translate.google.com/translate?h ... ge_id%3D82)
The first multicellular in the Proterozoic were far smarter and more perfect than us, they still knew how to sculpt a morphological, functional, genetically inherited invention, using a special interface peptide-nucleic technology of their ancestors
(http://translate.google.com/translate?h ... .agro.name) and created the so-called "Complex traits - vision, the brain.
But after a universal humanity Cambrian amphibious vertebrates and amphibious arthropods began to regress. Initially, the stem species of amphibians and ceased to be a metamorphosis began leaking in the egg or the placenta (in vertebrates) or in the egg or cocoon (arthropods). From the central stem of multiracial repeatedly adjourned degradanty blind species, which are very well specialized in their little niche, but it lost the remnants of intelligence and vast strata of the universal gene pool ... By the way, the mass of the genome of the ancient "fish" and the modern salamander is three times richer than human, we do not have the metabolic pathways "vitamins", "the essential amino acids, have no electric organs, can not hear and does not pronounce the ultrasound ...
So, even retaining the basic of race, people now have not one in the Cambrian ... Or in Wende! If it were not for "viral vector civilizations" would long ago have disintegrated into several dead-end specialized primatoids ...
(http://translate.google.com/translate?h ... ge_id%3D49)
But racism, monoregional theory of the origin considered very specifically lead to this collapse. That the owners of these tools to "divide and conquer" are the main customers of the "theory of evolution" and monoregional theory of races and species. This is it, incidentally, is extremely important to us foist idea that Neanderthal man was "another species of man" and did not interbreed with Cro-Magnon. So, apparently, go down and we are orderly rows along the path of arthropods - the ants and termites will become another relic of the collective ...
(http://translate.google.com/translate?j ... ge_id%3D32) - if fantastic ancestors aliens not warning in advance and not just settle us a couple of dozen Cambrian mermaids from the strategic reserves:
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Re: Any SOLID arguments against evolution?
Do you understand what predictive value means?
Because your answer is quite a massive failure to answer. One of the most interesting prediction that the evolution theory made was that if all life is related, all the underlying mechanism of genetics must be closely related and must have derived from a common ancestor. This is a conclusion that can be directly drawn from the basic of evolution long before anyone had any idea what those mechanism were. Yet the universality of said mechanism is now a fact commonly accepted.
And when you go in details, you can see plenty of other similar examples.
Neither the Biblical, nor any other creation myth can provide this kind of useful insight, hence their total useleness. And uniting rationality (science) and irrationality (faith) is as useful as a band aid on a prosthetic limb.
I wilfully ignore the rest of your answer considering that it failed at the first and most critical hurdle.
Science has proof without any certainty. Creationists have certainty without
any proof. (Ashley Montague)
I don't know what you are using, but I might be interested if you can ship it over the borders, it looks very potent. And startingly good at allowing to create hallucinations and maintain cognitive dissonance. Would you care to share?
Science has proof without any certainty. Creationists have certainty without
any proof. (Ashley Montague)
Re: Any SOLID arguments against evolution?
Chernobyl unit 4? It is very hard to make. Is that a diplomatic pouch. But this does not need it! Those articles can suffice. Are there any arguments. Especially about the viral vector of civilizations, they say, impressive!
Re: Any SOLID arguments against evolution?
Sorry Canalon, but you are off on the definition here. Predictive value means that you can predict something based on the said theory. In this particular case, neither theory of evolution nor bible has any predictive value.
I stated before that evolution is more of a fact than a theory. Here is why:
I am talking about molecular evolution, lateral gene transfer, and natural selection when I say evolution. I do not mean that people evolved from microbe. Please, read definition http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolution.
Here is why evolution has no predictive value:
From all observation in regards to natural selection, it follows that all evolutionary changes lead to adaptation to environment. The only problem is, you cannot predict what changes to expect due to a specific change in environment.
Also, according to most evolutionary trees we have prokaryote-> eukaryote-> asexual organisms -> unisex organisms -> sex-changing species -> male/female sex species (roughly).
The problem with that is the fact that Y chromosome is deteriorating in all species that have it. That means that males (as we know them) of all species are in process of being extinct. Sex-changing species are the closest ones in evolution. Doesn't it mean that we are heading in that direction via evolution?
P.S. I like debate and reasoning outside the box. So, please, give your full criticism and let me know of any logical flaws you can find.
Hi Cat,
I have no problem defending my arguments
First I have to say that I could not agree more about the inability of the theory of evolution to predict anything about the evolutionary change that will happen in the future. For the exact same reason that you point out. However it allows scientists to make predictions about what is currently unknown based on what we know. For example whenever one isolate a new microorganism, it can be predicted that it will have a DNA, and a short analysis will allow to determine if it is eukaryote or prokaryote, and then use ribosomal genes to have an idea of where it goes in the tree of life. Or you can look at the thumb of a panda and describe how it evolved from the what is know about the ursine family.
And you can probably say safely that whatever will evolve in the future will be based on DNA (unless artificial life is successfuly created in the lab and is able to escape and survive) and work very simlarly to what we know know.
The theory of evolution is also important in understanding how some genes spread in population and are maintained even when the selective pressure is lifted. It might seem trivial, but it is quite useful when you consider things like the spread of antibiotice resistance in a microbial population.
So, in deed the theory of evolution is strongly contingent to historical facts (in a large sense) but it is still much better are predicting what to expect when we study a new organism, or to generalize what we know from one organism to the next. The Bible or any other religious text (including the FSM) do not provide allow any of this sort of insight.
Science has proof without any certainty. Creationists have certainty without
any proof. (Ashley Montague)
Re: Any SOLID arguments against evolution?
Hi Canalon,
What you say is all good and well and I will agree for most part. However, first part of your example "whenever one isolate a new microorganism, it can be predicted that it will have a DNA, and a short analysis will allow to determine if it is eukaryote or prokaryote"- has nothing to do with the theory of evolution.
The second part of the same argument:
"then use ribosomal genes to have an idea of where it goes in the tree of life. Or you can look at the thumb of a panda and describe how it evolved from the what is know about the ursine family,"
- stands completely on the ASSUMPTIONS that the "tree of life" is correct and that what you "KNOW about the ursine family," is in fact true. Remember that at some point we KNEW that the world is flat! Or take a less dramatic example: about 10 years ago almost every text book proclaimed that "ALL enzymes are proteins, but not all proteins are enzymes." This was the axiom that everyone "knew" to be the truth until the discovery of RNA enzymes…
I also would like to see your views on the Y chromosome problem I mentioned…
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Janesville School District apologizes for showing same-sex marriage video
JANESVILLE—The Janesville School District made a mistake by showing the video "Kids React to Gay Marriage" at Craig High School on April 11, Superintendent Karen Schulte said Tuesday.
"Once I viewed the video, I felt like it was biased to one side of the (same-sex marriage) issue," Schulte said. "It's not something we would typically do. When looking at controversial issues, we need to look at both sides."
The video on same-sex marriage was shown during advisory periods during a Day of Silence observance at the school, according to a news release by the district. The day was intended to be a call to action to protest the bullying and harassment of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender students and their supporters.
Students from the school's Gay/Straight Alliance Club selected the video, which was then approved by club advisers and the school's principal.
Three parents wrote letters complaining that students shouldn't have been shown the video, but the majority of parents didn't have an issue with it, Schulte said.
"It's part of my job to look at board policy and see if it's being upheld," Schulte said.
She said board policy 6021, which regulates controversial issues in the classroom, was not followed in this instance because both sides weren't presented. The video focused on same-sex marriage but didn't make a connection to harassment and bullying, Schulte said.
"The national website states that the purpose of the Day of Silence is to call attention to the harassment and discrimination faced by lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender youth," Schulte wrote in the news release. "In the School District of Janesville, the focus of the Day of Silence is also to eliminate bullying and harassment toward all students."
Schulte said the video "certainly didn't show support for the other side" that opposes same-sex marriage, but she believes the student group who chose the video was "well intentioned" and that this is a "teachable moment" for those students.
"We always try to find balance," Schulte said.
Board member Bill Sodemann said the district made an "obvious error" by showing the video but was pleased a public apology was issued.
"The video goes against our policies," Sodemann said. "We can't use the schools to promote political agendas."
Sodemann said the district showed transparency Tuesday by letting the public know it had made a mistake just as it does when it notifies the public of an accomplishment.
"It was supposed to be an anti-bullying message but didn't do anything but promote gay marriage," Sodemann said. "When dealing with these issues, you need to have balance and can't promote political issues."
Board President Greg Ardrey said the board wasn't aware of the video until May 6 and took appropriate action upon finding out from a parent. He said it is important for the district to acknowledge when it makes a mistake.
"The No. 1 piece is we recognized a violation in policy had occurred," Ardrey said. "In this case for certain, there weren't two sides of the video expressed."


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The debate over the impact of technology on the legal profession has been heightened since the ABA's groundbreaking announcement in 2012 regarding the interplay between competence and technology. Opining that a lawyer should understand "the benefits and risks associated with relevant technology" as part of its overall duty to "keep abreast of changes in the law and its practice," the ABA's position has caused many lawyers to re-think their approach toward advising clients on basic legal issues. Nowhere is this trend more obvious than in the manner in which in-house lawyers are addressing the impact of mobile devices on their corporate clients.
Mobile devices — especially smartphones and tablet computers — are at the forefront of today's cutting edge innovations. While these devices have revolutionized the way in which business is conducted, they have also introduced a range of security and e-discovery complications that in-house counsel must address for their clients.
Mobile device difficulties
In particular, mobile device use lessens the extent of corporate control over confidential business information. Whether that information consists of trade secrets, proprietary financial information or attorney-client privileged discussions, difficulties in policing mobile devices allow employees the opportunity to misappropriate data more easily. The commingling of personal and business information also leads to an environment in which employees may disclose sensitive and confidential information regardless of malicious intent. With a single touch of a smartphone screen, an employee can direct sensitive company data to personal cloud providers, social networking sites or WikiLeaks pages.
Such security threats are amplified when mobile devices go missing. Indeed, a recent industry survey confirmed that lost or stolen devices represented the most significant vulnerability associated with their use. This, according to the survey results, is because more companies are allowing confidential information to be stored on devices. This includes corporate email, customer data, and even network login credentials.
Enterprises have the additional challenge of preserving and producing relevant data stored on these devices for legal actions. Obtaining that information is no small task due to the substantial number of devices that are lost or stolen every day. Even if a device is recovered, the data previously stored on it may be lost forever given the increasing use of remote wiping tools designed to prevent misappropriation. Beyond this issue, the logistical problems of locating, retaining and turning over that data can be particularly complex in light of the legitimate privacy expectations that employees may have respecting the personally identifiable information (PII) stored on a device. All of which could be problematic for satisfying a company's e-discovery obligations, among many other things.
Addressing the problem with preventative measures
To address these problems, in-house counsel should collaborate with their IT and information security colleagues to develop manageable use policies. Such policies will need to clearly delineate how employees should handle company data on mobile devices. Without such policies, along with subsequent employee training and regular policy enforcement, companies will have little chance of addressing the increasing security threats posed by mobile devices to their information ecosystem.
The policies should also define the nature and extent of the enterprise's right to access data on the employee device, especially for use in legal matters. It is important for in-house counsel to determine — before a litigation event arises — whether an employee has a reasonable expectation of privacy in data stored on a device. One way to tackle this issue is to include a provision in the use policy that eliminates any notion that employees have a reasonable expectation of privacy in their mobile devices. While there is case authority suggesting that a company can successfully follow such a course, other court decisions have reached a contrary result. A better practice may be to secure the employee's assent on this issue through a separate written agreement, especially where that employee is using a personal device under a "bring your own device" (BYOD) policy.
In-house counsel should also work with their clients to explore the availability and feasibility of technologies to segregate and then isolate personal materials from company data. One way this can be done is by downloading software on to a device to separate and encrypt company information. Not only does this facilitate the retrieval of company data from a device, it could also serve to prevent unauthorized access to or misappropriation of company information by third parties.
Another, more comprehensive approach would involve the use of machine learning technology in connection with the company's information governance program. In this context, predictive machine learning tools can learn from initial human decisions about information to provide automated guidance about similar documents. Once appropriate calibrated, this technology can help identify and isolate employee PII from company materials throughout the enterprise. Such a strategy would have the advantage of keeping the most sensitive employee PII away from the discovery process and thereby eliminate the risk of producing it in litigation.
Though impossible to anticipate or address every legal risk associated with mobile device use, in-house counsel can nonetheless competently advise their clients on the key issues. To ensure that a company has a reasonable plan in place to tackle the security risks and e-discovery problems arising from those devices, in-house lawyers should work to develop a holistic response along the lines suggested in this article. By so doing, they can help their clients address these issues and also discharge their evolving digital age duty of competence.


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Death Notices for Feb. 13, 2014
Shirley A. Linn, 75, Twin Lakes, died Tuesday at home. Services will be at 3 p.m. Sunday at Haase-Lockwood & Associates Funeral Home, Twin Lakes. Visitation will be from noon until the time of services Sunday at the funeral home.
Barbara K. Petersen, 74, Janesville, died Wednesday at Mercy Hospital and Trauma Center, Janesville. Arrangements are pending at Whitcomb-Lynch Funeral Home & Cremation Services, Janesville.
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The general theory of origin of life
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The general theory of origin of life
How do you think, it is possible to create a "The general theory origin of life"?
Re: The general theory of origin of life
For that, comparative data would be useful. Once we've observed life that had its origins elsewhere, we'll be in a better position to formulate a general theory. For now I'm content to watch the proposal and vetting of theories presenting models of how life originated here.
Re: The general theory of origin of life
Now mankind has three main hypotheses for the origin of life:
1. Biogenesis. Extraterrestrial origin (panspermia)
2. Abiogenesis or spontaneous origin on Earth (self-replicating macromolecules under the influence of natural selection).
3. Special creation: religious explanations argue that life was created by God, or one of the intelligent Designer. wikibooks http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/General_Biology/Getting_Started/History_and_Origin_of_Life
In my opinion, mankind has enough knowledge to integrate them in "The general theory origin of life." And to make the clear and workable model.
Re: The general theory of origin of life
Absolutely. Even the word of God can only initiate the process. Need the scheme and a model for the transformation of matter from nonliving to the living (DNA or RNA). In 2013 I will present for discussing the universal structural-energetic model of matrix type. The place and time can be anything, the main thing - fulfillment of a number of necessary conditions. The model was called "Universal" on multiple grounds. Perhaps, will be the first attempt to show the process of "revitalization" of substance on the molecular-energetic level.
Re: The general theory of origin of life
Model has already been done. She is beautiful in itself, in the nude. To represent her in the royal splendor, I write popular science book. Published in the current year.
The book's title: "The origin of life and space. General theory and universal model." It shows where and how life begins.
Re: The general theory of origin of life
That's not how the theory of creationism works.
Anything we can make can also arise by accident when given enough "tries." Unlike us, God can do impossible things that would never happen by accident. No model needed.
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"All is God and God is in all" - this is the greatest philosophical concept, which was created by mankind. From it originate almost all religions, and the concepts of creationism. Since the essence of the deployment of the world does not change from the speed with which it occurs, the period for the birth and spread of life has no value. God paints a picture of the material world via the events using assistants - mathematics and geometry. To implement the Plan, a technologies are important , which must build on the basic, fundamental things and designs. Most of the physical constants have been found, but has not yet been allocated mathematical apparatus and the used base of numbers, which are involved in the process their of birth. Equally important is the model showing the scheme and sequence going through all stages from conception to development and distribution. Proposed model does not contradict to teleonomical (informational) creationism - a Plan (Design) and Purpose, and reveals the mechanism to implement them at the molecular level.
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Russell M. Steeber, Kellnersville (1927-2013)
June 18, 1927 - December 17, 2013
Russell M. Steeber age 86, of Kellnersville, passed away Tuesday, December 17, 2013 at the Manitowoc Health and Rehabilitation Center. He was born in Kellnersville on June 18, 1927 to the late Michael and Anna (Sladky) Steeber. He attended St. Joseph Catholic Grade & High School and graduated from Manitowoc Lincoln High School in 1945. Russ served in the Army/Air Force during World War II in the Philippines. After service he worked at Mercury and US Rubber in California. He then attended St. Norbert College, De Pere before partnering with his brother Richard and his wife Evie Steeber in Steeber's Store in 1951.
On May 14, 1955 he married Ione Bauer at St. Andrew's Catholic Church in Manitowoc. Russ and Ione and Dick and Evie co-owned and operated Steeber's Store in Kellnersville from 1955 to their retirement in 1992. He was also a Postal Clerk for 40 years and a Notary Public from 1963 to 2011. Russ was actively involved in the community, county and had a passion for preserving the history of Kellnersville. His activities included; Manitowoc County League baseball, Friends of the Branch River, Manitowoc Historical Society, Kubale-O'Connell VFW Post 6179 of Kellnersville where he served in the past as commander, American Legion Drews-Bleser Post #88 of Manitowoc, Old Timers Baseball League where he served as president in the past.
Russ was instrumental in starting the Kellnersville Betterment Association. He was Town of Franklin Clerk for 6 years and Town of Franklin Chairman for 6 years. He served with the Kellnersville Volunteer Fire Department for 40 years and held positions including Assistant Fire Chief and President. Russ served on the Manitowoc County Board for 13 years and held positions with the Law Enforcement committee, Highway commission, and Social Services committee. He served on the Board of Directors for United Grocers for 12 years and was a Board Member of Roundy's Milwaukee for 3 years. Russ was on the Board for Kellnersville Housing and started the Kellnersville Trailer Park. For many years Russ and his wife Ione hosted Santa for the children of Kellnersville and surrounding area.
Russ will be remembered for his hearty laugh and enjoyed being with people and always had a story or joke to tell. After retirement, he enjoyed collecting and compiling the history of Kellnersville.
Russ is survived by his wife: Ione, Kellnersville; and their 3 children: Beverly (Tim) Lewis, Waupaca; and their children: Jesse (Mary) Lewis of Milwaukee; and Taylor Lewis of La Crosse; Russell (Lauri) Steeber, Janesville; and their children: Bethany Steeber of Madison, Aimee (John Haney) Thomas of Janesville, great grandchildren: Carter & Grace, Molly (Chad) Ellerston of Kenosha, great grandson Kai and Sean Scannell of Madison; Scott Steeber, Janesville. He is further survived by his two sisters and one brother-in-law: Jeannette Zeman, Kellnersville and Carol Mae (Erv) Lambert, Mishicot; three sisters-in-law and two brothers-in-law: Millie Steeber, CO; Germaine Bauer, Manitowoc; Joe (Glenda) Bauer, ID; Pat (Stan) Hollen, Manitowoc, nieces, nephews, other relatives and friends survive. He was preceded in death by his parents: Michael and Anna Steeber; two brothers: Richard Steeber; Donald Steeber; three brothers-in-law and one sister-in-law: Frank Zeman; Richard Bauer; Mildred (Ralph) Bonin.
A Memorial Service will be held at 11:00 a.m. Saturday, December 21, 2013 at ST. JOSEPH CATHOLIC CHURCH in Kellnersville. The Rev. Ronald Colombo will officiate with entombment of his cremated remains to follow in the Calvary Mausoleum, Manitowoc. Relatives and friends may call at the church on Saturday from 9:00 a.m. until the time of services at 11:00 a.m. Kubale-O'Connell VFW Post #6179 of Kellnersville will accord military rites following the Memorial Service at the church. In lieu of flowers a memorial fund has been established in his name for the Kellnersville Betterment Association or the VNA Hospice. The Reinbold & Pfeffer Family Funeral Home of Kellnersville is serving the Steeber family. Online condolences may be expressed at www.jensreinboldandpfeffer.com
Russ's family would like to express a special thank you to the staff of the Manitowoc Health & Rehabilitation Center for their excellent care shown to our husband, father and grandfather for the past 14 months.


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Best of The Gazette, May 13: Moms, gambling and a local craftsman
The Gazette publishes a lot of news in a week. Combine that with all the distractions a weekend brings, and that means there's a good chance you might have missed some important stories. Here's a look at of some of The Gazette's best content from the last week or so:
Britney Cross' family, friends: Slain woman was peaceful, loving
Police found Britney Cross' body in Janesville last week. She was bludgeoned to death by her ex-boyfriend, they say. Family and friends described the 21-year-old woman as a steadfast friend who wore a peace-sign pendant and called people she loved "groovy." "I didn't know this would happen," said Tyler Cross, her younger brother. "If I did, I know what I'd have told her. I'd have said, 'I love you.'"
Mother of 17 fills her life with her kids
What's Mother's Day like for a woman with 17 children? Ask Janesville's Agnes Debroux. After bearing and rearing so many children, Agnes appears quite sane and centered, reporter Marcia Nelesen writes. She also has 35 grandchildren, 31 great-grandchildren and four great-great-grandchildren. Not surprisingly, she has no pets.
Motherly love: Craig's Alli Calkins shares unique bond with mother, Kathy
There is almost not a day that goes by in which Alli Calkins, a three-sport standout at Janesville Craig, stops in to see her mother, Kathy, who works as the athletic trainer at the high school. "We've had a few of those days where I choose not to stop down, but most days we're on good terms by 3:20," Alli said. "I think my close friends (think of her as a second mom). I joke that she's better friends with some of the senior class than I am."
Allen works to get his name called
Wisconsin's Beau Allen took it personally that he wasn't invited to the NFL's scouting combine in Indianapolis in February. "For me to see defensive linemen I know that I am better than at the combine was really insulting," said Allen. "Pro day was my shot, and I came out there and did everything I wanted to do. Not getting invited to the combine definitely gave me something to be angry about." But that snub didn't stop him from getting drafted.
Our Views: Drunken driving again an afterthought for spineless Wisconsin lawmakers
Wisconsin beefed up its drunken driving laws this year. Really. Gov. Scott Walker signed related legislation April 8. The bill was so weak, however, that it didn't even warrant mention in an Associated Press roundup hitting the highlights of the 62 he signed that day. To argue lawmakers didn't do enough to address the problem might be the year's biggest understatement, The Gazette Editorial Board writes.
State Views: When seniors fill their time with gambling
Seniors are less likely and less willing to seek help when gambling becomes a problem. There's a tendency for them to hide possible gambling issues because of embarrassment, so they are reluctant to reach out. And for seniors, particularly those on fixed incomes, the financial impact of a gambling problem can be quick and devastating, Rose Gruber of the Wisconsin Council on Problem Gambling writes.
Want craft beer? Try Madison's Side Door
Thirty-three craft beers on tap. For fans of the craft beer craze, that's about all you'd have to say to persuade them to check out the Side Door Grill and Tap. But there are reasons for folks who aren't microbrew aficionados to drop by for a visit as well, especially if you're on State Street and looking for upscale comfort food, restaurant reviewer Bill Livick writes.
Janesville summer musical lands award-winning actress
Organizers of the Janesville summer school musical scored a coup this year when director Jim Tropp persuaded Tony Award-winning actress Karen Olivo to lead a three-day workshop for students in this year's show, the American jukebox musical "All Shook Up." "I keep pinching myself," said Jan Knutson, a Parker High School music teacher who is co-directing the music with her husband, Brian. "We're just so thrilled about it."
Glen Loyd Videos: Bird babies from a different time
Video blogger Glen Loyd takes viewers on a trip back in time. Get ready for black-and-white footage, hand-powered movie cameras and skillful photography.
Ask a Poultry Farmer: Don't forget your exit strategy
Whether you're planning to start raising chickens for the first time, or just try a new breed of poultry, make sure you have an exit strategy set in place, community blogger Dale Wheelock writes. After a few months, you may realize raising poultry is not, ahem, all it's cracked up to be.
PHOTOS: Furniture maker has new showroom, workshop in downtown Edgerton
If everything were as clean and simple as Tad Smardo's table designs, he wouldn't have a care in the world. But Smardo must now worry about running his business, the new Tad's Tables and More in downtown Edgerton. "I'm not a fancy craftsman. I'm not Norm Abram from 'This Old House.' My stuff is pretty simple," Smardo said. "It's the type of thing that looks better once you swipe your hand over it and feel it. And it looks even better when it gets older. It's real wood."
PHOTOS: Revolutionary War re-enactors keep history alive
Bill and Marilyn Hess of Janesville have been Revolutionary War re-enactors since 1981. As members of the nonprofit North West Territory Alliance, they strive to duplicate the uniforms, weapons, battlefield tactics and camp life of the era as accurately as possible. "When you put on your period clothing, it brings it into perspective what these are all about," Bill said. "It isn't just about a bunch of guys shooting guns."


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Declaration YOUth Arts Fest: Through four evenings of spoken word, music, dance, and visual art, Chicago's teens will have a rare opportunity to celebrate the abundance of young talent within their city and within themselves. Suitable for teens ages 14 and up. FREE of charge to all who attend.On July 6, artists include Kuumba Lynx performing a tribute to hip hop artist and activist, John Vietnam Nguyen, and an opportunity to record wordsmith skills with the Chicago Park District's Inferno Mobile Recording Studio.


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two different color eyes
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two different color eyes
So right now im studying about patterns of heredity and human genetics along with recessive traits and dominant traits.
I have one blue eye and one green eye, no one else in my moms family history has had it, and my dads, well i never meet him, could someone explain to me if its a mutation, heredity, or something, anything!
Am I just a freak in nature?
So does anyone else here have two different color eyes?
We learned this in my biology class, and in no way am I qualified to to say anything firther than that I think it is called Heterochromia iridium, or so says my teacher. But I had looked this up earlier finding it interesting and found an internet site that I can actually understand.
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I have two different color eyes too. My right eye is blue and my left eye is green. My mom has bright blue eyes and my dad has green eyes. As far as I know, no one in my family history has had two different color eyes. From what I hear its a "genetic mutation." As a kid I used to get made fun of a lot for it, did you? I'm not ashamed of them or anything but sometimes I wish I just had the same color eyes. Anyway right now I love them. Their great conversation starters and my boyfriend loves them =]. Do you know how many other people have two different color eyes?
southernsweetheart - it is seems to me that color of your eyes is not result of mutation - becouse you parents have exactly thos colors. It is seems to me activation of different allels (from differerent chromosoms) at the your different eyes.
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Evolution will arrange everything
something like mitotic segregation?
"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
The most common reason for different color eyes is mosaicism (the "old" one, not the new one associated with chimeras), which might be the mitotic segregation mentioned above. What I'm about to describe is not the only explanation, but the most likely.
Basically, during development, dividing cells don't properly sort out their chromosomes - one daughter cell gets an extra, the other has one missing. All of their daughter cells (which usually form just a bit of the final baby) are genetically different in the same way. So one eye expresses three color alleles and the other only one. If you originally had a dominant (most darker colors) and recessive (the blue base color), one eye might have the chromosome carrying the blue, and the other the dominant. This also can produce patches in the eyes, on the skin, and other variants (I have a small patch of red hair on top of my brown-haired head).
It's a mutation, but localized on a person and not something that can be passed to offspring.
enjoy your eyes....
I have two different color eyes also..my left is brown and my right is blue. There are a few famous people that have two different color eyes too..David Bowie and Jane Seymore...I was made fun of a little bit in school, but most people think it is really cool....I have, for the most part hated it....now that I am older, I enjoy it...it's not "that' common..but, it is also not that "uncommon" that you are a freak of nature. Your genes were making your eyes one color...then they changed their mind... like someone who may have an extra toe...or more teeth than normal..or one foot bigger than the other..it just happens. Enjoy it..it makes you different and it makes you you. Your the girl that has "two different color eyes"...my high school had over 4,000 kids in it...I was the only one with two different color eyes....everyone remembers me. My Dad has green eyes, my Mom had blue. Nobody in my family has brown eyes. Two of my children have blue eyes and one has brown....all the same color. I have thought about getting contacts to make them the same color, just to see how it would be....maybe someday I will....but, I think...I wouldn't like it now. Have you ever gotten the line..."did you know your eyes are two different colors?" that's truly my favorite....... or,"are those contacts?"
I have two different coloured eyes as well (one blue one green). Most people don't notice right away but I love having it.. it definetely makes you unique. Anyways i was just wondering if anyone knew how common it was.. like are there any statistics on it?
and my favorite line is "do you see different colours out of each eye" lol
my 3 month old daughter's eyes are different colors, one is turning very blue and the other is brownish green.. i am wondering if they will stay this way..
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Snow causes numerous minor accidents
JANESVILLE—Janesville's biggest snowfall so far this season resulted in slippery, snow-covered roads that caused runoffs and numerous minor-injury crashes in Janesville and area communities just before noon Sunday.
Light snow began falling Sunday morning and continued into the night.
Around 2.75 inches of snow had fallen in Janesville by 8:30 p.m. Snow accumulations were forecast to end before midnight, said Sarah Marquardt, meteorologist at the National Weather Service in Sullivan.
But Monday's work commute won't be substantially better than travel conditions Sunday.
Weather conditions will not improve as winds pick up to 25 mph Monday, said Sgt. Shena Kohler, director of Rock County Emergency Management.
"The big problem we're going to have is drifting snow," she said.
The last measurable snow in Janesville fell Nov. 25 when the city received 1 inch. Only traces of snow were recorded earlier in November, according to Gazette records.
Minutes after first reports of slippery roads at 11:36 a.m. Sunday, there were more than a half-dozen crashes, with minor injuries. The accidents backed up nearly 30 vehicles on Interstate 90/39 causing the Wisconsin State Patrol to shut down southbound lanes.
Troopers, Rock County Sheriff's Office deputies, Janesville police and fire responded to the Interstate between Kennedy Road and the exit at Highway 14. At least nine wreckers were requested and eight used, said Sgt. Brian Vaughn of the Janesville Police Department.
Throughout the afternoon and evening Sunday, other crashes happened in the area, including vehicles that slid into traffic light and telephone poles plus traffic signs, knocking them down. City public works crews were called in to make repairs.
Emergency responders were so busy that by 12:13 p.m. a dispatcher at the Rock County Communications Center was heard on the scanner asking if there were any available units to respond to a crash where a vehicle was leaking fuel and antifreeze.
City and county public works crews were out treating roads in the afternoon and into the night, Kohler said.
"We'll have emergency crews—four plows overnight—with the primary responsibility of Interstate 90 and 43 in Rock County," she said.
The National Weather Service in Sullivan issued a winter weather advisory at 11:17 a.m. Sunday. It was to remain in effect until 6 a.m. Monday. The advisory for snow indicates periods of snow will cause travel difficulties with snow-covered, slippery roads and limited visibilities.
The city of Beloit declared at snow emergency for 9 p.m. to 6 a.m. Monday. At those times parking any vehicle on a city street is prohibited. To learn what parking lots have been designated as official areas for off-street parking for residents to park their personal vehicles during a snow emergency, visit www.ci.beloit.wi.us or call 608-364-2929.