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Dma378
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Of course there are. How do you think evolution works?
CJNator
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Environmental influences over time altering genes.
Dma378
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...to the individual.
CJNator
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But the environment is usually influenced collectively.
Dma378
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Indeed
Aleksandar37
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Epigenetics
ax1
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Yes, I meant what you have collected as an individual that is what I mean by individual genetics. Then it's a crapshoot too. Environment factors can certainly also play a role.
ax1
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Parents on drugs, diet, vaccines, pollution etc.....
ax1
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Or by greedy corporations/governments.
CJNator
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What's the difference between modifying and altering genes?
Aleksandar37
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Those terms should be interchangeable. Where did you see them used differently?
Epigenetics isn't really about modifying or altering, but rather differences in what genes are expressed. It's still a relatively young field and has been misinterpreted by the media of course, but could cause individual differences. Think of inherited genes as a set of instructions. Epigenetics is what controls which instructions are carried out and which are not and that decision might be the result of environmental factors.
CJNator
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I get the gist of what you're talking about and it was made to be different in the definition of epigenetic.
Yea there are so many damn environmental factors, make you wonder how much it effects us and what specifically it does.
youngandfree
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Here are lazy selfish destructive marxists for you, this is just a start
Verizon — Verizon has pledged $10 million to Harvey relief efforts. The company said it is working with local and state government officials to identify four nonprofit agencies. It will share more details in the coming days.
Toyota — Toyota will provide more than $3 million to help. The company will donate money and match dealer donations to organizations such as the St. Bernard Project and the American Red Cross. It will also donate preowned Toyota and Lexus vehicles to help move people and property.
Carnival — Carnival Corporation has pledged at least $2 million to relief efforts. Carnival Cruise Line and the Carnival Foundation are each contributing $500,000. The cruise company's chairman, Micky Arison, and his wife, Madeleine, are matching the company's donation and are donating $1 million from their family foundation.
Apple — Apple has donated $2 million to the American Red Cross. The company will match employee donations 2-to-1 through the end of September. It has also started allowing people to make donations through iTunes.
Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo — The Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo is committing $2 million to relief efforts and will announce more details of its donation in the coming weeks.
Abbott — Abbott and its foundation are donating $1 million in grants, healthcare products and nutrition products. The Abbott Fund is giving a total of $900,000 in grants to the American Red Cross, Americares and Direct Relief. Abbott is donating $100,000 worth of healthcare and nutrition products.
Amazon and Whole Foods Market — Amazon and Whole Foods Market will match up to $1 million in donations made to the American Red Cross via Amazon. The website includes a link to make a donation as well as one to send essential items from the Red Cross' wish list.
Bank of America — The Bank of America Charitable Foundation has made a $1 million commitment to Harvey relief. The foundation will initially give $250,000 to the American Red Cross Disaster Relief Fund and will allocate the rest later once long-term recovery needs are identified. It will also match employee pledges.
Cheniere Energy — Cheniere will donate $1 million to the American Red Cross.
Chevron — Chevron Corporation is donating $1 million to the American Red Cross. The company will also match donations its employees and retirees make to relief efforts.
Coca-Cola — The Coca-Cola Foundation has pledged $1 million to the American Red Cross. The company is matching employee donations, up to $100,000, to the Coca-Cola Employee Disaster Relief Fund, which will go to company associates affected by the storm. The Coca-Cola system has also donated nearly 25,000 cases of water, milk, sports drinks and other beverages to people in the affected areas. The company said it expects to donate more in the coming days.
Comcast NBCUniversal — Comcast NBCUniversal has pledged more than $1 million to relief efforts. The contribution includes $500,000 in cash that will be shared between the Hurricane Harvey Relief Fund and the American Red Cross. The company will also donate advertising time to the organizations.
Dow Chemical Company — The Dow Chemical Company Foundation has pledged $1 million to relief efforts. It will donate $100,000 to the American Red Cross Disaster Relief Fund, $100,000 to Team Rubicon and $200,000 to other local nonprofit organizations. The foundation will match employee and retiree donations up to $100,000. It will use the remaining $500,000 to help long-term rebuilding efforts.
ExxonMobil — Exxon Mobil Corporation will give the United Way of Greater Houston $500,000 in addition to the $500,000 it gave the American Red Cross.
Facebook — Facebook will match up to $1 million raised on the social media site for the Center for Disaster Philanthropy's Hurricane Harvey Recovery Fund.
Google — Google will match up to $1 million in donations made to the American Red Cross. Google has already committed $750,000 to relief efforts through company and employee donations. In total, the company is pledging $2 million to relief efforts.
HCA Healthcare — HCA Healthcare will donate $1 million to the American Red Cross. It will also match up to $1 million in employee donations to the company's employee assistance nonprofit organization.
Hilton — Hilton has committed $500,000 to relief efforts, and the Conrad N. Hilton Foundation has pledged $500,000. The hotel chain is also giving Hilton Honors Members the chance to donate their reward points to the American Red Cross.
Home Depot — The Home Depot Foundation has pledged $1 million to organizations including the American Red Cross, Salvation Army, Convoy of Hope, Operation Blessing and Team Rubicon. The hardware store company will also send its Team Depot volunteers to help the cleanup effort and deliver supplies to the affected areas.
Intercontinental Exchange — Intercontinental Exchange is making a $1 million donation to the Red Cross. The company will also match employee donations to the organization.
Jefferies — Jefferies will donate $1 million to Hurricane Harvey relief efforts. It will also donate all net trading commissions on Wednesday from U.S., European and Asia equity, fixed income and foreign exchange trading. Employees have the opportunity to donate, too.
JPMorgan Chase — JPMorgan Chase will donate $1 million to the American Red Cross and other organizations who are working to help those affected.
Lennar — Lennar has pledged $1 million to the United Way of Greater Houston Flood Relief Fund. The homebuilding company will also match employee contributions.
Mattress Firm — Houston-based Mattress Firm is donating $1 million in products. The company will also use a percentage of every purchase made in-stores through Sept. 5 to donate an additional $1 million worth of pillows, blankets and mattresses. Customers at Mattress Firm stores can also donate to the American Red Cross Hurricane Harvey Relief Fund.
PepsiCo — PepsiCo and its foundation are providing more than $1 million in cash and products to the Red Cross.
United Airlines — United has donated $1.1 million between cash contributions, food and amenity donations and value of relief flights.
UnitedHealthcare — UnitedHealthcare, Optum and UnitedHealth Group will donate $1 million to relief efforts. The company is working to determine where the funds will be most effective. It will also match employee donations 2-to-1.
UPS — The UPS Foundation has pledged more than $1 million to organizations including the American Red Cross and The Salvation Army.
Wal-Mart — Wal-Mart and the company's foundation will provide cash and product donations of at least $1 million to organizations helping with relief, such as the American Red Cross, Salvation Army and Convoy of Hope.
Wells Fargo — Wells Fargo is donating $500,000 to the American Red Cross Disaster Relief Fund and $500,000 to local nonprofits. Wells Fargo customers can donate to the American Red Cross at ATMs nationwide.
These donations were all announced before the end of business on Wednesday.
— CNBC is a unit of Comcast NBCUniversal.
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President Trump is donating $1M of his own money.
Misfit28
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So now education is passed through genes? WTF?
ax1
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RRROOOFFFLLLLLLLLL!!!!!
CJNator
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No but if I understood the Flynn effect correctly then the type of education would determine overall how intelligent each of the ancestors become.
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ax1
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Whats crazy is it costs about a million of dollars just to fly there on Airforce one from DC to Houston and he is going there a second time. There there is all the security which usually costs the US taxpayer another 2 million dollars a day. If he just stayed home in the White House those costs could all go directly to helping people (in all sorts of ways, year round.) Even at a 20 trillion dollar deficit there is no stopping these crooks.
This system is so screwed up...and I gotta blame society too. If Dump doesnt go to Houston then people will condemn him for not doing anything, when all he really is accomplishing by going there is wasting millions of tax payer money for nothing that he cant do out of the Oval Office.
This isnt a knock on Dump, its like that for any Puppet in Chief, the rest of government and society as a whole for their irrational expectations.
I bet Dump has given ALOT more charity than the public will ever know about.
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Texans affected by Hurricane Harvey, including my family and me, appreciate the outpouring of support from across the country. President Donald Trump has even pledged to donate one million dollars to relief efforts. These private donations will be much more valuable than the as much as 100 billion dollars the federal government is expected to spend on relief and recovery. Federal disaster assistance hinders effective recovery efforts, while federal insurance subsidies increase the damage caused by natural disasters.
Federal disaster aid has existed since the early years of the republic. In fact, it was a payment to disaster victims that inspired Davy Crockett’s “Not Yours to Give” speech. However, the early federal role was largely limited to sending checks. The federal government did not become involved in managing disaster relief and recovery until the 20th century. America did not even have a federal agency dedicated solely to disaster relief until 1979, when President Jimmy Carter created the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) by executive order. Yet, Americans somehow managed to rebuild after natural disasters before 1979. For example, the people of Galveston, Texas successfully rebuilt the city following a major hurricane that destroyed the city in 1900.
FEMA’s well-documented inefficiencies are the inevitable result of centralizing control over something as complex as disaster recovery in a federal bureaucracy. When I served in Congress, I regularly voted against federal disaster aid for my district. After the votes, I would hear from angry constituents, many of whom would later tell me that after dealing with FEMA they agreed that Texas would be better off without federal “help.”
Following natural disasters, individuals who attempt to return to their own property — much less try to repair the damage — without government permission can be arrested and thrown in jail. Federal, state, and local officials often hinder or even stop voluntary rescue and relief efforts.
FEMA is not the only counterproductive disaster assistance program. The National Flood Insurance Program was created to provide government-backed insurance for properties that could not obtain private insurance on their own. By overruling the market’s verdict that these properties should not be insured, federal flood insurance encourages construction in flood-prone areas, thus increasing the damage caused by flooding.
Just as payroll taxes are unable to fully fund Social Security and Medicare, flood insurance premiums are unable to fund the costs of flood insurance. Federal flood insurance was almost $25 billion in the red before Hurricane Harvey. Congress will no doubt appropriate funding to pay all flood insurance claims, thus increasing the national debt. This in turn will cause the Federal Reserve to print more money to monetize that debt, thus hastening the arrival of the fiscal hurricane that will devastate the US economy. Yet, there is little talk of offsetting any of the costs of hurricane relief with spending cuts!
Congress should start phasing out the federal flood insurance program by forbidding the issuance of new flood insurance policies. It should also begin reducing federal spending on disaster assistance. Instead, costs associated with disaster recovery should be made 100-percent tax-deductible. Those who suffered the worst should be completely exempted from all federal tax liability for at least two years. Tax-free savings accounts could also help individuals save money to help them bear the costs of a natural disaster.
The outpouring of private giving and volunteer relief efforts we have witnessed over the past week shows that the American people can effectively respond to natural disasters if the government would get out of their way.
Copyright © 2017 by RonPaul Institute. Permission to reprint in whole or in part is gladly granted, provided full credit and a live link are given.
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Monday September 4, 2017
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Texans affected by Hurricane Harvey, including my family and me, appreciate the outpouring of support from across the country. President Donald Trump has even pledged to donate one million dollars to relief efforts. These private donations will be much more valuable than the as much as 100 billion dollars the federal government is expected to spend on relief and recovery. Federal disaster assistance hinders effective recovery efforts, while federal insurance subsidies increase the damage caused by natural disasters.
Federal disaster aid has existed since the early years of the republic. In fact, it was a payment to disaster victims that inspired Davy Crockett’s “Not Yours to Give” speech. However, the early federal role was largely limited to sending checks. The federal government did not become involved in managing disaster relief and recovery until the 20th century. America did not even have a federal agency dedicated solely to disaster relief until 1979, when President Jimmy Carter created the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) by executive order. Yet, Americans somehow managed to rebuild after natural disasters before 1979. For example, the people of Galveston, Texas successfully rebuilt the city following a major hurricane that destroyed the city in 1900.
FEMA’s well-documented inefficiencies are the inevitable result of centralizing control over something as complex as disaster recovery in a federal bureaucracy. When I served in Congress, I regularly voted against federal disaster aid for my district. After the votes, I would hear from angry constituents, many of whom would later tell me that after dealing with FEMA they agreed that Texas would be better off without federal “help.”
Following natural disasters, individuals who attempt to return to their own property — much less try to repair the damage — without government permission can be arrested and thrown in jail. Federal, state, and local officials often hinder or even stop voluntary rescue and relief efforts.
FEMA is not the only counterproductive disaster assistance program. The National Flood Insurance Program was created to provide government-backed insurance for properties that could not obtain private insurance on their own. By overruling the market’s verdict that these properties should not be insured, federal flood insurance encourages construction in flood-prone areas, thus increasing the damage caused by flooding.
Just as payroll taxes are unable to fully fund Social Security and Medicare, flood insurance premiums are unable to fund the costs of flood insurance. Federal flood insurance was almost $25 billion in the red before Hurricane Harvey. Congress will no doubt appropriate funding to pay all flood insurance claims, thus increasing the national debt. This in turn will cause the Federal Reserve to print more money to monetize that debt, thus hastening the arrival of the fiscal hurricane that will devastate the US economy. Yet, there is little talk of offsetting any of the costs of hurricane relief with spending cuts!
Congress should start phasing out the federal flood insurance program by forbidding the issuance of new flood insurance policies. It should also begin reducing federal spending on disaster assistance. Instead, costs associated with disaster recovery should be made 100-percent tax-deductible. Those who suffered the worst should be completely exempted from all federal tax liability for at least two years. Tax-free savings accounts could also help individuals save money to help them bear the costs of a natural disaster.
The outpouring of private giving and volunteer relief efforts we have witnessed over the past week shows that the American people can effectively respond to natural disasters if the government would get out of their way.
Copyright © 2017 by RonPaul Institute. Permission to reprint in whole or in part is gladly granted, provided full credit and a live link are given.
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DemntedCowboy
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Thats ridiculous. I would say I ain't paying sh*t take my A$$ to court.
thebigt
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that is a stupid law that needs to be changed.
CJNator
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Ain't nothing going to change without the right people in the right places. Out with the old and in with the new.
ax1
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I wish you the best, go get your waters and food ready I heard its selling out everywhere!!!
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Looking at hotels right now
Afi140
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Praying for safety for you and your fam
justhere4comm
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My man. Where you at? Southwest Florida here.
Same. Not good.
ax1
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Water from Amazon prime on your doorstep in 2 days if your staying.
Get buckets of tap so you can flush your toilet in case there are water plumbing issues I dunno
you can use to wash too.
Godstrength
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You staying or going bro?
justhere4comm
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Staying. My wife works at the hospital. Good ideas about buckets of water and Amazon.
DemntedCowboy
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Hope y'all the best stay safe down there. Hopefully she turns early
Godstrength
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Thank you brother... I booked a nice hotel in Alabama... Best case scenario I get some needed time away amd mini vacay, worst case scenario I save my family from suffering a bad storm... I been here 34 years and seen some big storms and some near misses. I will say this one has me on my toes. Its already a cat 5 and pretty big
ax1
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If your a Prime member try "Amazon Pantry" which is $5.99 flat rate per box (fill to 100% you will see) you cant fill it with too much.
I did a fast check and you can get this for example its just under 16% fill for the box per gallon at $1.93 per gallon. So 6 bottles and a little space for something else is less than $18 for 6 bottles if my math is right...reasonable under the circumstances but hurry!!!
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I buy liquids all the time on Pantry because Im lazy always carrying heavy stuff into my place lol
ax1
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I had hurricane sandy bring water up just within several feet of my building...I was on the second floor but it would have gave me problems. Out my windows I saw apartments from my complex 100% under water. We live next to a river but Sandy was just extreme. Later on a neighbor was laying out his life possessions, papers, pictures out in front of his apartment so it can dry under the sun. So sad.
DemntedCowboy
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I have been through a few myself. Left Louisiana in 2001 when I joined the Army. I think my last major one I was in was Andrew in '95. But I did catch some nice bass in my driveway that year ����
ax1
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Getting flashbacks now,
I remember after right after Sandy driving my regular routine into the next city over to run my regular errands and in the middle of nowhere in a small town seeing some 100+ cars (not including the already packed parking lot) are lined up on the shoulder of the road all waiting to get shelter at the towns recreational place. Its like a living nightmare but I had it good, I had all my stuff and place, these people have no place to go. Im driving by w/ mixed emotions like I wish I can trade places with some of them, but not really but yes and no and damn I need to remember to always at least give back to life just a little with whatever I can.
Jiigzz
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We've been lucky that we've had no big storms really hit NZ so far. Not in my time any way. A few cyclones here and there, but nothing so exceptional we've been in any real danger aside from roofs and trees coming down etc.
I visited Christchurch recently after they had a major earthquake there a few years ago. I had been there before the quakes but not since. The number of empty plots of land, and whole neighborhoods flattened (like only grass remains as the houses have all been removed) is something you can only see to believe. Entire neighborhoods just gone.
In some parts, empty plots of land sit next to untouched houses as one got wrecked in tne quake and the other right next to it untouched.
During the clean up, foreign aid workers from all over the world pitched in to help clean up. Japan sent people. Australia sent people. The US sent people. The UK sent people etc. The 'student army' made up of students from across Canterbury got together and spent weeks cleaning liquefaction from properties and helping those who had lost everything.
It's a sad, and happy reminder that even in the worst of times, you can bring out the best in people
I visited Christchurch recently after they had a major earthquake there a few years ago. I had been there before the quakes but not since. The number of empty plots of land, and whole neighborhoods flattened (like only grass remains as the houses have all been removed) is something you can only see to believe. Entire neighborhoods just gone.
In some parts, empty plots of land sit next to untouched houses as one got wrecked in tne quake and the other right next to it untouched.
During the clean up, foreign aid workers from all over the world pitched in to help clean up. Japan sent people. Australia sent people. The US sent people. The UK sent people etc. The 'student army' made up of students from across Canterbury got together and spent weeks cleaning liquefaction from properties and helping those who had lost everything.
It's a sad, and happy reminder that even in the worst of times, you can bring out the best in people