Modern life had a single origin

If you’ve been reading the evolution websites, you’ll know about the in this week’s Nature by Douglas Theobald. (You may remember Theobald as the author of one of the greatest creationism-refuting websites of all:If you haven’t seen it, you should.) In the new paper, Theobald makes a few conservative assumptions to show that the probability that all living species descend from a universal common ancestor is infinitely higher than any other hypothesis, including those of multiple origins of the kingdoms (Bacteria, Eukarya, and Archaea) or of rampant horizontal gene transfer betweeen species that would, by mixing genomes, make life look as though it had a single origin when it didn’t.

Fortunately, I delayed posting on this long enough so that others did the job for me: these include It’s pretty airtight evidence for evolution, since the hypothesis that trumped all others is that of a single origin of life, with the proteins of existing species showing a pattern of similarity and divergence reflecting the branching bush of evolution.

I’m not sure how creationists will respond to this, but I suppose they could maintain that the data show only that God created life in this way because he needed to give similar proteins to similar species. That, of course, would require one to believe that those similarities just happen to mimic the similarities expected under evolution. Proteins group not by lifestyle, but by ancestry. Bats have proteins that resemble those of rats more than those of birds, and whales have mammal-like rather than fish-like proteins. A marsupial mole has virtually the same niche, and looks almost the same as, a placental mole, but its proteins are more similar to those of a kangaroo.

My Gypsy childhood life

I was 22 and had never spent a day in a classroom in my life; an alien concept for many people but common in Gypsy and Traveller families. There are more than 100,000 nomadic Travellers and Gypsies in the UK, and 200,000 who live in permanent housing. Many, like me, never attend school, while others are illiterate because formal education is not a priority in our culture.

My upbringing was unusual, but not unique. Until I was eight my family lived on the road, travelling around Ireland by horsedrawn wagon. I was one of six children, with three more half-sisters, and our family was considered small. Having 12 or 13 children was common among Travellers in Ireland.

Marrying first cousins is also common among Gypsies (and a potential genetic timebomb), my parents come from very different backgrounds. My mother was born into an upper-class American family. On her gap year she literally ran away with a Gypsy – my father, who bred horses. Both are extremely intelligent and open-minded people who wanted to bring us up in a stimulating, free and fulfilling environment.

Instead of going to school, my siblings and I, like many children from travelling families, were taught about the arts, music and dance. Our education was learning about wildlife and nature, how to cook and how to survive. I didn't know my times tables but I could milk a goat and ride a horse. I could identify ink caps, puff balls and field mushrooms and knew where to find wild watercress and sorrel. By the age of eight or nine I could light a fire, cook dinner for a family of 10 and knew how to bake bread on an open fire.

Michael Jackson' life

Michael Joseph Jackson (August 29, 1958 – June 25, 2009) was an American recording artist, entertainer, and philanthropist. Referred to as the King of Pop, Jackson is recognized as the most successful entertainer of all time by Guinness World Records. His contribution to music, dance and fashion, along with a much-publicized personal life, made him a global figure in popular culture for over four decades. The seventh child of the Jackson family, he debuted on the professional music scene alongside his brothers as a member of The Jackson 5 in the mid-1960s, and began his solo career in 1971.

In the early 1980s, Jackson became a dominant figure in popular music. The music videos for his songs, such as "Beat It", "Billie Jean" and "Thriller", were credited with transforming the medium into an art form and a promotional tool, and the popularity of these videos helped to bring the relatively new television channel MTV to fame. Videos such as "Black or White" and "Scream" made him a staple on MTV in the 1990s. Through stage performances and music videos, Jackson popularized a number of dance techniques, such as the robot and themoonwalk. His distinctive musical sound and vocal style have influenced numerous hip hop,pop, contemporary R&B and rock artists.

Jackson's 1982 album Thriller is the best-selling album of all time. His other records, includingOff the Wall (1979), Bad (1987), Dangerous (1991) and HIStory (1995), also rank among the world's best-selling. Jackson is one of the few artists to have been inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame twice. His other achievements include multiple Guinness World Records; 13Grammy Awards (as well as the Grammy Legend Award and the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award); 26 American Music Awards (more than any other artist, including the "Artist of the Century"); 13 number-one singles in the United States in his solo career (more than any other male artist in the Hot 100 era); and the estimated sale of over 800 million records worldwide. Jackson won hundreds of awards, which have made him the most-awarded recording artist in the history of music. He was also a notable humanitarian and philanthropist, donating and raising hundreds of millions of dollars for beneficial causes and supporting more than 39 charities.

Origin of Life

For millennia, the Origin of Life was thought to be the result of Abiogenesis (also known as "Spontaneous Generation"). The doctrine of Spontaneous Generation holds that organic life could and does arise from inorganic matter. As late as the 17th century, there were recipes to "create" life. Take sweaty rags, wrap them around wheat, and set them in an open jar. In 21 days, you'll "create" mice. For rats, just throw garbage in the street. In a few days, rats will take the place of the garbage. All over the world, in Europe, Asia, Africa and the Americas, mankind was formulating recipes for "creating" bees, lice, scorpions, maggots, worms, frogs, etc. In 1668, Francesco Redi publicly opposed the idea of Spontaneous Generation. While it was generally accepted that rotting meat generated maggots, Redi disagreed. He maintained that maggots hatched from eggs laid by flies. To test his hypothesis, Redi performed one of the first known experiments to utilize a "control group." Thus began both the death of Spontaneous Generation and the birth of the modern era of scientific development. Redi placed meat in three flasks -- one open, one sealed and one covered with gauze. Maggots appeared in the open flask, as the flies were able to reach the meat. Maggots did not appear in the sealed flask or the flask covered by gauze. At the time, this experiment was not thought to disprove Spontaneous Generation. It merely proved that maggots did not come from meat

Young Generation Life

In a modern times there are more and more gigantic cities all around the globe. Even lot of suburb areas in a just few years became part of large cities or city affiliations. Globalization is constantly spreading and especially young people want to be a part of it. The easiest way is to live in modern cities where everything is avaliable in a few meters.
Also the easiest place to find a job is a city, because of large population and variety of interestes (jobs). There are much more connections between people and therefor more people that can help you in some way. Cities are very attractive to the young people because of it's urban lifestyle. For most of young people countrysides are too boring, they like to party all day long in disco and dance clubs. In cities everything is very dynamic, there is no time to sleep - and young people like that type of life.
On the other hand when that same young people get old, there are moving to the countryside because cities are for them now overcrowded. They are saturated of social, now they want to have peaceful family life. If they stayed in town, they wouldn't have opportunity to relax and enjoy in theirs oldness.
My opinion is that combination of city/urban life in young age and contryside/family life in old age is the best combination. I support the headline because I think that young people have much more opportunities they needed in city than in countryside. Countryside is reserved for healthy life in old ages.

Newar Culture in Nepali Society

Newars occupy a complex position in the Nepal nation, and in relation to academic scholarship on it. Though they comprise just one of the many ethnic peoples who make up the country today, Newars were once the independent rulers of the wealthy Kathmandu Valley, which is now the capital of modern Nepal. For many Western scholars and visitors, from the British Resident, Brian Hodgson, to the many tourists who visit Kathmandu each year, Newar culture is perceived to offer a precious glimpse into an archaic world that no longer exists outside of the remote Himalayas. With its many gods, goddesses, castes, and rituals, understanding the richly coherent aspects of Newar culture long proved a fascinating and rewarding task. But recent interest in the politics of representation, combined with increasing ethnic and political unrest in Nepal, have led to new moves to integrate this dominant trend in scholarship with critical questions about how these worlds have been constituted. The papers on this panel continue to draw on long-standing interests in Newar studies such as kingship, religion, ritual, and characteristically Newar guthi associations, but they are newly attuned to questions of power and historical agency, and to Newar life today as the product of a dialogue between inherited tradition and modern influences, local forms of order and the Nepal state. Together, they constitute an argument for bringing diachronic interests to the study of ritual, meaning and society in Nepal and offer a glimpse into recent scholarship on Newar culture.

Good family's life

Good family relationship is more than just than just enjoyable for their own sake.They make chidren feel secure and loved , and that helps in child's brain develop.And putting in time to improve the relationships you share with your child and other family members can help to overcome difficulties with eating,sleeping,learning and behaviour:
SPEND QUALITY TIME TOGETHER:
Use time together,such as meal times, to talk and share a laugh.
Have one-on-one chats with each family member to build and strengthen individual relationships.
Do fun things together as a family on a regular basis.
Make decisions together about what to do for a special events such as birthdays.
POSITIVE COMMUNICATION:
Talk about everything (even difficult things)
Listen with full attention with each other.
Make it OK to talk about feelings (even the bad ones).
Encourage each other with praise rather than being critical.
Work together to solve problems.
Disciple with love,patience,and understanding.
Show appreciation,love and encouragement through love and affectionate.
WORK TOGETHER AS A TEAM:
Include older children in decisions about things like household rules and family holidays.
Share household chores.
Think about everyone's need when planning family activities.
Let children make some of their own decisions.
Create rules around the house that apply to everyone.
APPRECIATE EACH OTHER:
Take an interest in each other's lives.
Include everyone in a conversation when talking about the day's event.
Support each other in important events such as sports days and school concerts.

Rich Life

My Father’s Story

My story begins with my father’s story because he kindled in

me the fire of his passions, his values, and his vision of life.

Innsbruck, Austria, 1917. My father was born with a

silver spoon in his mouth. Not literally, of course, but his

parents had achieved substantial financial and social status.

His father was a lawyer by education, a banker by profession,

and in his later career was transferred to Prague to

assume the duties of a bank president.

His mother became a paragon of Prague society who

devoted herself tirelessly to the artistic and cultural life of the

city. She loved nothing better than discovering emerging

artists; she would further their careers by her own financial

support and by introducing them to others who became their

patrons. She planned the frequent and lavish entertaining that

my grandfather’s position required, and she was noted as a

consummate hostess. And all the while, she kept track of the

many details of day-to-day life in her home, with a guiding

finger in every aspect of running a mansion with servants, a

butler, a chauffeur, and a governess. This was the milieu in

which my father and his three siblings lived as children.

My father always loved the outdoors, and in a decision

that was somewhat surprising for a young man raised in

such circumstances, he had decided by the age of sixteen

that he wanted to become a farmer. His family supported

his decision, and although his own father died that same

year, my father went off to agricultural school, and his

family invested in a large farm that was to become his

when he finished his studies.

Poor Life

It has repeatedly been said that number of poor people in India always remained on the higher side and that is the reason we have been recognized and known in the world that we are a country of beggars. The number of poor people is on he higher side which could clearly mean that the people come to seats of power are actually elected by them and they could get this opportunity to rule us only because of the votes of these poor people. But still it is on record that none is doing anything with which they could root out poverty from India. There is nothing hidden and we can notice poverty in India with bear eyes. The life of a poor person in India is like this:-
(1) He wears rags, is weak, no happiness on his face, he is sad, he is frustrated, he is dirty, his clothes are torn and therefore, from he very look on this person we can say that he is a poor man of India.
(2) He lives in a mud house, he lives in a hut, he is sleeping under the open skies, he is dumped in some small room, he has got no bath room therefore, he does not take his bath till some religious day comes when he is obliged to take his bath, he has got no privacy and therefore, he has to clear his inside in the open and that is the reason, people from abroad call India an open latrine.

how to understand life

We want everything...we see a sleek car tht we want to drive, wheneva' in the mall we see a shirt but can't buy it, we read bout a successful businessman n wanna b like him, we pass a beautiful girl n wish she were in our arms, walk through a posh area and pray to god tht he blesses us wid a big mansion.

we wait until something comes right. we wait to hav fun until high school is ova', we want to hav a apple i-phone n not quite happy wid the old version of i-pod, we wait to marry till we r well off earners, we put off the idea of buying expensive clothings till our salary increases, we wait to get happy until we get a US green card..

but we don't realise how much beautiful moments of our life we r wasting jus waitin or wishing for things. wat i say frens is that - the best time to enjoy is rite now(present) with wateva' u've got. get satisfied wid life n we can b de happiest person. let's live a happy life.