Question about genetics and pigmentation in humans?

I know a relative who as a baby was labelled with "mild albinism" by a doctor. He has pigmentation in his eyes and hair to quite a high degree, however, his skin produces little to no pigmentation. (he has actaully started producing more pigmentation over time as he grew up; but as a baby he had light hair and eyes as well). He looks just like everyone else now although he has light skin.

I asked my prof about this and she said he couldn't be classified as albino, b/c that's an all or nothing deal. There's one pigment in humans, therefore one enzyme, and a non-functioning/faulty enzyme means light/pinkish irises, whitish hair, and very pale skin.

We also studied the himalayan cats, and that they produce multiple pigments like some other animals (so I only heard of these mild or partial cases in animals)

So my question is, is this boy an albino? What's the genetic disorder, how does it work? Plz explain the gene interaction as well, b/c I want to understand it better. Thanks! =)

Question about genetics and pigmentation in humans?

Albinism is classified by the loss of melanin production. There are multiple genes in the pathway of this synthesis that can cause the loss of melanin production. There are multiple forms of this and varying degrees of pigmentation in the eyes and elsewhere. The fact that it showed up in your family would likely put your kids at risk for this. The kid is albino based on what you have said, even if pigmentation started happening later on, he still carries the recessive genes.

Question about genetics and pigmentation in humans?

You've asked a rather loaded question. Now, no one knows exactly what causes the genes to interact in a way that prevents the enzyme from producing pigmentation. Additionally because your relative has a child who was labeled with 'mild albinism' doesn't mean that you will have a child with the same condition. In any interaction between egg and sperm, there are genes that are active and genes that are recessive (meaning inactive). The genes that become predominant in your child may not be the same as the genes in your relative's child.

Look at a family of disimiliar siblings. You may have in a family with the same two people as parents children who have different hair color, eye color and in some instances skin color. Genetics is an area of science in which there is still a lot of work being done. However, one day I suppose will have all the answers.

Question about genetics and pigmentation in humans?

Your children will be albino. 100% chance. On the bright side, you can color them whatever colors you want. Genes are mythical.

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The Dragon of

Thunder

鈥淛aiden鈥?Jaiden鈥?鈥?Called Kenya Jaiden鈥檚 mother, Get up you have breakfast and it鈥檚 getting cold!鈥? Jaiden came down stairs looking half dead his hair was out of order and his sleepy face looked that of an old man around his sixties.

鈥淚 had the best dream it was about what I could do if I ever got super powers.鈥?Said Jaiden, 鈥淚 could be getting all the girls like a super model!鈥?br> Ha! Dream on鈥?Said Daniel, 鈥淭he day you get a girl friend is the day I grow wings and fly!鈥?br> Daniel was a light skinned girl who loved a good argument she also had brown eyes and black hair. Jaiden was a Brown skinned boy with black hair brown eyes and loved to play any thing for fun or a good laugh. Jaiden鈥檚 family was a traveling family they traveled all around the United States in a mobile home spending most of the time camping or exploring.

鈥淛aiden betcha can鈥檛 catch me!鈥?Daniel said while running into a near by patch of trees.

鈥淲ell you better run faster cause here I come!鈥?Yelled Jaiden while running after Daniel. They were in the forest when Jaiden saw a faint light from under some leaves and twigs.

鈥淒aniel look there鈥檚 something here.鈥?Called Jaiden, 鈥淚t looks cool I鈥檒l pick it up and show it to you.鈥?鈥淎AAAAAAH!鈥?Yelled Jaiden.

鈥淛aiden鈥?Jaiden where are you?鈥?Yelled Daniel nervously.

Daniel searched franticly until she found him laying on the ground. Jaiden managed to say 鈥渏鈥?just take me home I鈥檓

in gr鈥?great pain. He then fainted.

Chapter 2

The Power Of The Thunder Dragon

Jaiden awoke slowly but he felt normal

as if nothing had ever happened, but he knew that something about him was different. At breakfast he had gotten over excited because his mother prepared a special meal for him. He sat down and suddenly jolts of electricity whipped from all five of his fingers and had hit the table.

The table was shaking and began to burn. It

seemed like the more he concentrated on the table the bigger the electricity beam got.

He started to get scared and closed his eyes and thought stop. The electricity beam stopped. The second the electricity stopped he knew somehow he gained something powerful. His mother knew what he had was a result of the object he had picked up in the forest.

When she was a little girl she saw a comet that looked like a orb or ball of light she was hypnotizes by the weird light that it made.

鈥淚t looks exactly the same.鈥?Whispered Kenya as if in a trance.

鈥淲hat?!鈥?asked Jaiden alarmed by his mom鈥檚 remark.

Kenya snapped out of the trance and told him about the comet she saw. Then told him something else something that made him excited and worried at the same time.

鈥淚 saw that comet and saw how it moved as if controlled by something.鈥?Said Jaiden鈥檚 mom, 鈥渢hat stream of electricity that came out of your hand gave out the same light as the comet. I know that I wasn鈥檛 the only person to see that comet people probably know more about it than me so I think we should find out more about your new鈥? Umm ability.鈥?br> 鈥淵ea maybe there is more to this power than we think.鈥?Said Daniel.

鈥淢aybe we should go to a library in the next town to look for more information.鈥?Said Jaiden.

When they arrived at the next town they went strait to the library. They looked every where they could think of until Daniel said, 鈥淵ou know something like this the government should have investigated.

Maybe we should look in the declassified section.鈥?br> 鈥淕ood idea!鈥?said Jaiden

They went to the declassified section and found a book that read, 鈥淪uspicious Comets鈥?in the book they found a great group of discredited myths about comets that is where they found the article about the Blue Star Comet or B.T.R. It read 鈥?This comet was believed to give special powers of electricity and the ability to transform into a normal sized dragon not much bigger than the human that transformed into it.

This article was written by Trayvone M Mathis he was believed to be the original Thunder Dragon until he died in 1984. It is also said that he formed all his powers into a comet and sent it around the world his powers would then land on earth near a person that was tough enough to fight evil but nice enough to help anybody in need.

Chapter 3: The Attack

鈥淲ow!鈥?Said Jaiden in surprise.

鈥?We have to train now!鈥?said Jaiden鈥檚 Mom

鈥淎 power like this couldn鈥檛 have just started on earth there has to be more than just humans tracking down this power.

Kenya didn鈥檛 know how right she was.

Five days from the discovery of the power

of the Thunder Dragon Jaiden had mastered shooting electric bolts but he didn鈥檛 know how to transform or do any heavy electric attacks. Kenya had almost finished making the training coarse when a strange red light came blasting toward her.

鈥淛aiden鈥?called Daniel, 鈥渃ome see this鈥?br> Jaiden came running out of the mobile home looking shocked at the red creature

walking toward her.

鈥淲here is the Thunder Dragon?鈥?Demanded the red creature.

鈥淲-what are you talking about鈥?said Kenya.

鈥淒on鈥檛 play dumb you ingrate Where is he!鈥?Said the red creature

鈥渓eave her alone!鈥?Said Jaiden,

鈥淚鈥檓 right here鈥?br> 鈥淪o you are the weakling that got the powers.鈥?Said the red creature, 鈥淚鈥檒l take care of you easy鈥?br> Jaiden swung at the creature but it dodged it and kicked Jaiden over Jaiden quickly remembered the power he had

and sent as many bolts of electricity towards the creature as he could. The bolts hit the creature and it suddenly started to shake but Jaiden could feel the bolts getting weaker, and concentrated hard on controlling the electricity. Suddenly the electricity shined blue than yellow and flew back at Jaiden. He felt his body change and thought, I transformed if I concentrate I can form the electricity into any form of power.

Jaiden then put his hands together and said, 鈥淒estruction blast鈥?a ball of electricity formed and he sent it toward the creature.

The creature was hit seconds before he said, 鈥淭his isn鈥檛 over there are many other aliens in the universe that are hunting for that power!鈥?br> 鈥淲-what just happened?鈥?asked Daniel

鈥淚 figured it out I can control it I can control it!鈥?Yelled Jaiden

鈥淒on鈥檛 get so happy you heard what that alien said.鈥?said Kenya.

鈥淲hy?鈥?said Jaiden

鈥淏ecause if what that alien said was true were in trouble.鈥?said Kenya

鈥淥kay okay so you鈥檙e saying that we are in danger of getting killed by some weird aliens!鈥?Said Daniel in surprise.

鈥淵es, and now we have to train no exceptions!鈥?said Kenya. Soon Kenya began to act like a drill sergeant making Jaiden practice his destructo-ball while she and Daniel learned how to handle spears and other common weapons. After a few days of training they were tiered and weak from constantly training.

鈥淲e have to think of something that isn鈥檛 so tiring鈥? said Daniel

鈥淵ah鈥? said Jaiden

鈥淲ell okay I guess we could take a break from training for just a few days or maybe a week but remember the next time we face an alien there won鈥檛 be time to take a break.鈥?said Kenya

Chapter 4: The First heist

鈥淗ey, now that we鈥檙e finally leaving this hot

country side maybe I should have some fun with my powers.鈥?Said Jaiden

鈥淗old up I don鈥檛 think momma would let us do that.鈥?Said Daniel

鈥淵our such a kill joy I鈥檓 gonna go have some fun your either in or out?鈥?Said

Jaiden

鈥?ahh, Fine I鈥檓 in what are we gonna do though.鈥?Asked Daniel

鈥淲e are going to play with a few country side houses.鈥?Said Jaiden

Jaiden sneaked out of the Mobil Home and walked to a phone line he thought electric phone sure enough a string of energy went from his finger to the telephone

pole in front of him. He put his finger up to his ear he began to hear a conversation.

鈥淗old on now we can鈥檛 just rob the bank we have to have a plan鈥?br> 鈥渂ut, if we don鈥檛 get this done tomorrow

just think the boss will have are heads!鈥?br> 鈥淥kay then listen up here is the plan

we drive up to the bank at exactly 3:00 P.M.

I鈥檒l be in a red pick up truck just blink your light twice when you see me after that we both walk out of are cars and into the Bank.

After that just follow my lead. NO SCREW UPS!!鈥?br> Hold up what bank is it that we鈥檙e robbing.鈥?br> 鈥淗aven鈥檛 you been listening at all you numb scull it鈥檚 the only one in town on 1784

Piton St.

Click.

Hang up thought Jaiden 鈥淚-I can鈥檛 believe it they just gave me every little detail about their little heist I can鈥檛 wait to see their faces when I tell the cops, Wait why tell the cops when I can stop them myself yah all I gotta do is get my mom to go to the bank!鈥?br>What do you think I should do with this make sure you read it all?

i thought it was awesome publish it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!...

What do you think I should do with this make sure you read it all?

Burn it..egads that is boring

Like Ferraris?

Imagine you are tooling around town in your Ferrari. It閳ユ獨 your third car. You mostly take it out for Sunday drives. You are crossing some train tracks and the car dies. A train is coming towards you. You notice a switch that will send the train down another track. But seated on the other track is a house filled with starving African refugees. If you throw the switch the refugees will all, die. What do you do?? I would hope you let the train hit the car. But here is the rub. By choosing to buy the car and not using the money to make the world a better place are you not in effect killing the refugees anyway?

I have sent this story to hundreds of people. The response is almost always the same.

Actually the most common response is nothing. But those who do respond usually say I work hard, etcetera, etcetera, I deserve, etcetera, etcetera.

But if you own 3 Ferraris, or even one for that matter, it is as much about luck as it is about deserving. If your are Shaquille Oneal and you were lucky enough to get the genes you got you are just as lucky as the child born to poverty and oppression is unlucky. There is no harder work NO harder life than imposed poverty and NO ONE deserves that life.

Let閳ユ獨 look at it a different way. How much does that 5th Hummer increase the quality of your life? How much more happy are you with that car than you would be with out it? The difference is marginal at best. You probably would not even notice the difference if it was not in the garage. But you do have a 5 car garage and have to keep it filled. How much does it cost to fix a hair lip on a poor little girl in Bolivia, maybe $ 5,000? So instead of spending $ 50,000 on that car and making your life a tiny bit better, why not make 10 lives infinitely better?

I was having lunch with a friend and before we went to lunch we popped into a jewelry store. She has a friend who makes jewelry and she wanted to show it to me. We were looking and I recognized a belt that my friend wears. I asked how much for the belt. The salesperson said $ 5,000. My friend has a $ 5,000 belt!!!

So while we were having lunch I asked my friend how much different her life would be if she did not have the belt. 閳ユ罚ot much閳?she said. Then I asked. 閳ユ窔f your granddaughter had a hair lip and you had to sell the belt to fix it what would you do.閳? She said, 閳ユ凡ell I would just take the money out of the bank.閳? I pointed out that this was all fantasy/hypothesis and that we have to assume that selling the belt is the only way to repair her grand daughter閳ユ獨 hair lip. Then she said. 閳ユ伐f course I would sell the belt, she閳ユ獨 family.閳? I said. 閳ユ凡e are all family. All of us are one family, one human race. It is about compassion knowing that when you buy something extravagant and wasteful you are stealing bread from a starving child. I know it閳ユ獨 hard because we live in an extravagant country. But you have to know this grand and lavish American way of life is one of the main reasons why the rest of the world hates us. And, why they hijack airplanes and crash them into our sky scrapers.閳? She said, 閳ユ凡ell what am I supposed to do?閳? I wrote this down on a piece of paper and handed it to her. 閳ユ窡ive simply so that others may simply live.閳?br>

A couple of days later I was thinking about a singer I saw once. His name was T-Buck. He was talking between songs and he said. 閳ユ返ou know we worship all kinds of things, money, Jesus, cars, Buddha, Allah, but more than any of those things we should worship each other.閳? I recently went to the Philippines. It閳ユ獨 amazing what the internet can do. I googled Philippine surf camp, and a week later I was stepping off of a twin propeller, 12 seat airplane onto tiny island in the middle of nowhere, PI. This island is so remote that they can not get many types of heavy machinery there, so they can not make gravel with machines. Instead they use people. The human gravel makers squat on their heels, with hammers and chisels, and break up rocks. They do it 8 hours a day, 6 days a week, with no safety glasses, no protection on their hands, for 25 cents an hour, $ 2 a day. Even though I was half way around the world, on the very cusp of civilization The Catholic Church was everywhere. One evening began with the sound of church bells ringing, and a bit later I could hear the choir too. Then a few hours later a small stream of people trickled into the neighbors place, maybe 20 in all. They ate dinner and then began to sing and pray. As they were singing I was thinking about T-Buck. It suddenly occurred to me that more than anything the world needs 閳ユ翻he Church of Each Other閳?

So I say that if you have 100 pairs of shoes, $ 10,000 watches, 5 ferraris, etc., you are worshiping yourself, and you lack a certain type of compassion or maybe you just are just conveniently not paying attention. I am not advocating life in a tent. I am just saying to make conscious choices, and don閳ユ獩 be frivolous, and wasteful. You can still have a nice house, a nice car, etc., but just THINK. That閳ユ獨 all just THINK, and be aware that we all are one. And whatever you take for yourself that is more than you what NEED you are taking from someone else.

I would like to close with a quote from Bill Maher.

Women think about diamonds the way men think about sex, the way leeches think about blood," Bill Maher once remarked. "But diamonds have a lot of blood on them, even without the terrorist connection, because they can not be traced diamonds are used by terrorists, to launder and move money. Diamond mines in Africa are controlled by rebel armies, and the rebel armies control the territory and make the villagers mine the diamonds. The villagers are basically slaves and the Rebels control them through terror, through such lovely things as cutting off the arms of the little children - something you never see in the De Beers commercials. An amputation is forever.

Now, I told this to a woman recently, who was only about the nicest person I've ever met - but she is a woman. And I told her about Africa and the armies and the rebels and the terror and the cutting off the arms of the little children. And she looked up at me with a little sad face and said, Both arms?

Remember Beannie Babies??? Diamonds are pretty much the same thing. I used to be in the jewelry business. Jewelry is what is called a created market. The market is driven by perceived value. What that means is that really good marketers make really good ads and they make us gullible consumers think that diamonds, beanie babies, whatever are rare, valuable, and worth a lot of money. Diamonds are a dime a dozen, it just so happens that most of them come from Africa and not that many people mine them. SO, the diamond miners got together about 100 years ago and decided to limit the supply and they did a really great job of marketing. They used to pay MILLIONS of dollars to make movies with big movie stars just so they could have a scene where the Brad Pitt of the day would ask the Angelina Jollie of the day to marry her and he would give her a diamond ring. So now in today閳ユ獨 times Diamonds are Forever, Every Kiss Begins with Kay, and on and on. They do a GREAT JOB!!!! Those are great ads!!!! Have you noticed that the folks who run the Diamonds are Forever ads are the De Beers family. Those are the folks who mine the diamonds. They don閳ユ獩 care where you buy the diamonds, just as long as you buy them. So anyone reading this ever pay over $ 50 for a beanie baby??? Feel kind of silly? Maybe in a 100 years or so people will look back and say, those silly 20th century people used to pay large amount of money for bags of beans and shiny rocks.

And by the way those diamond miners, the De Beers and their friends are the same folks who brought us one hundred years of Apartheid and complete racial domination in South Africa. 100 years of white folks KICKING BLACK ***!!! I am serious, in the last 20 years literally Millions of people in countries like the Congo have been killed in power struggles over diamonds.

Anyway that閳ユ獨 about it

Looking forward to the responses!!!

Like Ferraris?

what a story

Like Ferraris?

had 2 much 2 drink on new years eve, didn't ya...

Shades/sunglasses make people look better? True or false? Why or why not?

I've been wondering lately why shades make people look better. We all know that many people mess with natural selection by trying to make themselves look better than they naturally do (myself included). This includes gelling hair, curling/straightening hair, shaving, tanning purposely, wearing jewlery, taking steroids, plastic surgery, etc. Although I believe the strangest change in one's appearance is wearing shades. Gelling hair will make it look better, shaving will make you look less dirty, steroids will help make you stronger and bigger, and jewlery will give you a shine (and humans are known for liking shiny things), but what exactly do shades do? They tint/hide your eyes and some of the skin around it. What is it about the human mind that makes it seem like people look better with shades on?

Also, if you disagree and think it's totally dependant on the person, please answer with that.

Please don't answer saying something like, "It makes you look cool."

Thanks,

Gerard

Shades/sunglasses make people look better? True or false? Why or why not?

Shades or glasses highlight the shape of the face. A well suited shape of shades will highlight the shape of a face but a badly suited pair of glasses will really mess up your appearance. It gives character as well as mystery to the person wearing it.

Shades/sunglasses make people look better? True or false? Why or why not?

I think that people look better when you can see their eyes.

I will admit that some people do look good in shades but it's a barrier to seeing their mind at work as they speak.

Shades/sunglasses make people look better? True or false? Why or why not?

I am natural since I was born. Maybe I would look better with some gel and other things, but it wouldn't be me. I want that a girl likes me because of who I really am, with nothing else. I also like natural girls, we say "acqua e sapone", but I think it's up to our tastes. Generally it's not important for me how they look, but how they really are inside.

P.S.: Bedmechanic, I think so. I hate talking with people in front of me when I can't look at their eyes.

Why does everyone hate bees so much???

I can't believe how many people ask about getting rid of bees! Don't you all realize that bees are essential to our very survival? Bees.. honeybees polinate the vast majority of our food crops. Without them, eventually there will be no plant reproduction.. without plant reproduction, we'll have no other choice than to eat whatever's left.. each other. If you get rid of bees, develop a taste for Soylent Green, because that is the food of a future without bees.

If you don't want bees in your garden, don't plant flowers. The flowers are for the bees anyway.. you just get to look at them- for the bees, it's food.

my question is.. If you hate bees.. what are you doing in the garden? why do you wear perfume and hair products that smell like flowers? do you enjoy the concept of eating human flesh?

We.. the human race will follow bees into extinction.. think about it.. comment, if you wish.

Why does everyone hate bees so much???

i agree-- i read that many bees are going away because of cellular phone waves... there are entire forests that depend on certain bees for their existence. there are trees in brazil that rely on bees and over 2 million plant %26amp; animal species that depend on that exact tree for survival. no bees there= no trees which just goes down the line of destruction for too many. i agree that the bees are necessary and even nice to watch in the garden. pollinating and going from each flower. those who don't like bees in the fruit- there are special nets you can buy that go around fruits to protect them from insects. everyone else, the bees don't do anything to you. they are just there, near their food source. no different than bird feeders- food that attracts certain animals. just natural. and it's an interesting thing to watch.

Why does everyone hate bees so much???

I wish my lawn could be blacktop. I wish there were no flowers in 100 yds in all directions from my house because i loathe bees so much. I hate the sight of them just flying around lookin at you as if saying "oh yeah I see you, i'm just waiting for the right time to sting your ***." Report It

Why does everyone hate bees so much???

I dont hate them, but i wish they wouldnt take up residence inside my apples!...after a bird pokes a hole in an apple, the bees burrow up in there and turn it into a condo

Why does everyone hate bees so much???

I try to stay away from bees because I don't like the sting. They just show up uninvited.

Why does everyone hate bees so much???

I don't. I don't bother them and they have never bothered me. We understand eachother those bees and I.

Why does everyone hate bees so much???

What I hate even more than bees is poor grammar!

Why does everyone hate bees so much???

B/C it hurts like a beotch when they sting you ...and some people are allergic and can die if they get stung...it's a bug who cares...

Why does everyone hate bees so much???

yea thats true but many people are allergic thus they are scared and want the problem to dissapear. there are also other ways to pollinate flowers. wind flys so on... but your right... i think too that bees are beeing trained to help us in like a millitary field or something like that i can't remember

Why does everyone hate bees so much???

i guess when people think of bee's they think of being stung and lets face is no onle likes pain if there not gainig any thing from that pain menain like tatoos are pain but after the pain we have beatifull art etc... so its the thought of being stung is what frightens most

Why does everyone hate bees so much???

I fear you may be getting a little hysterical over this to be perfectly honest.

People don't like bees because they may have been stung as children (or adults), and the threat of sting is just too great (especially since some can have major anaphalactic shocks from being stung by bees or wasps). Its the same as if you saw any stinging insect, or anything that could potentially hurt you in some way.

I do agree that without bees there would be no pollination of crops in a natural way, but that wont stop people being afraid of them, or wanting them to be somewhere else.

Oh and btw, you can happily fertilise crops without bees

Why does everyone hate bees so much???

I don't hate bees. I hate being stung by a bee, and being swollen and in pain for the rest of the week. Other than that I have nothing against them.

Nobody that I know would want them nesting inside their house.

Why does everyone hate bees so much???

Iam allergic to bees and I might possibily die however I learn bees dont bother you unless you bother them I leave them alone and the never sting me with a possible fatal blow.

I agree bees are essential nutrients like honey for a sour throat or honey for a face mask or honey for your imagination it important to preserve the honey bee's

God Bless Honey Bees!

Why does everyone hate bees so much???

I love em.

Why does everyone hate bees so much???

A big part of the problem is that the majority of the population will identity the shiny, yellow-and-black striped Yellow Jacket, as a "bee", instead of the agressive wasp that it is. (I've even shown pictures to people, trying to explain the difference, and they will swear, in the face of direct evidence, that Yellow Jackets are "bees")

They are afraid of those, and may have been stung by them, call them "bees", therefore they're afraid of "bees".

The majority of wasps, even, are beneficial, and want nothing to do with people. They paracitize the "bad" bugs in our garden, and generally are helpful.

But the few agressive, bad-tempered wasps spoil it for all the rest of them, as the uneducated cannot differeniate them.

Why does everyone hate bees so much???

I don't think it's hatred so much as it is fear of being stung. People fear spiders (perhaps even more than bees), but they keep the bug population down.

PS - Did you know that there's a mysterious honey bee disappearance going on right now?

Why does everyone hate bees so much???

A bee killed my mother.

Why does everyone hate bees so much???

I don't have a problem with bees. They help flowers and make honey. I just avoid them because I don't want to get stung. (the docs think I could have an allergic reaction to them since both my mom and grandma have this problem)

Why does everyone hate bees so much???

Coz they sting! Wasps are a helluva lot worse than poor bees. Wasps (I don't think) do anything useful and they can keep on stinging and stinging. Bees can only sting one time then it falls off.

Why does everyone hate bees so much???

I love bees, I hate wasps (because I'm allergic to wasp stings).

Every program I see on TV shows how important and intelegent bees are.

You are right on what you say though.

Why does everyone hate bees so much???

Bees will be Bees. I luv em.

I think manKIND(?) has divorced itself from the rest of Mother Nature, not realizing that we are just ONE SMALL part of this world and this universe.

Why does everyone hate bees so much???

you are quite right without Bees we will cease to exist.

we should do everything to encourage Bees,

the are necessary for us to survive

Why does everyone hate bees so much???

I don't mind bees because I know how important they are but some people are very allergic to bees and they can die from being stung. People are just scared of them and don't understand that they have an important role in our world.

Why does everyone hate bees so much???

Ever been stung by a bee?! I want to know if your love for bees will change one a bee stings you.

Why does everyone hate bees so much???

Bees are necessary to balance many, many ecosystems. Many people don't like them because of the possibility of getting stung, especially if they have allergies.

Why does everyone hate bees so much???

I think the only problem people have with bees is they sting you and it hurts.Most people dont realize how important bees are to our eco system.

Why does everyone hate bees so much???

Hey "I love bee's"!

What's all the "buzz" about, one of my best friends is a bee !

I have never met a bee that I didn't like.

"Except" if I get stung, then I'm not crazy about "that" particular bee. :) It's my fault if I get stung as I was probably trying to steal their honey they worked for, I am a common thief and deserve no less.

Bee's are intelligent too, every ones heard of a "spelling bee"

"Schools and our nation honor them" !

Besides their kind of cute !

Let's talk about "ants", did you know we wouldn't have soil that could sustain growth without our little friends the ants that cultivate and aerate our soil ?

And we just step on them and call them pests when in reality they save our lives !

Hooray for Bee's and Ant's !

Why does everyone hate bees so much???

i do hate them i do not plant flowers or wear perfume or hair products that smell like flowers i dont even wear yellow as i was told bees are attracted to that but i still get stung every single time im outside almost and i do nothing to them i dont wave my hand to swat them or nothing when they come around me i stand still but THEY STILL STING so what do you want me to say !

Why does everyone hate bees so much???

European honeybees in Australia are a major pest for hollow dependent fauna. Swarming bees will displace parrots, possums, owls, bats and many other types of native Australian fauna. For this they are not welcome. Bumblebees are also not native to Australia however have been introduced to Tasmania, either by horticulturists or after having been blown across the Tasman Sea from New Zealand (where they are also introduced). If Bumblebees come across to mainland Australia, many of the "sleeper" weeds that need the particular foraging actions of Bumblebees to reproduce effectively, will explode into another ecological problem. The stinging of bees is a pain (ha ha) but it goes away - this is good. The stinging and other effects of bees making the native Australian fauna go away is not quite so good.

Australia has native bees which for the most part are stingless and they are delightful little beasts, some of which also make harvestable amounts of honey.

All bees are useful for the pollination of plants, however the introduced species, whatever the country are a potential problem to the ecological balance of the native flora and fauna.

School Uniforms - Good or Bad?

Do you think it's a good idea for school uniforms? My daughter is starting high school and the kids all have to wear uniforms. Frankly I think it's a great thing because it puts everyone on an even keel--there's no issues of dress code (other than wearing the proper uniform and accessories) and the focus is taken off "individualism" as far as what's current and trendy on the designer scale and put on community as a school and teamwork and discipline and respect.

I think this will make the kids focus on one another as human beings rather than put the focus on one's makeup or hair do or other frivolous unimportant and insignificant issue that deters from their studies and comradery.

School Uniforms - Good or Bad?

School uniforms are great. As the parent of kids, some who wore uniforms, some who didn't, I really, really, really, really see the benefits.

I spent less money on clothing. Yeah, the uniformed kid still had "civvies" but there weren't as many clothes.

Uniforms the school chose were quality garments that lasted forever. The tee shirts were inexpensive ($5-$7).

Kid got dressed faster in the morning.

Fewer clothing arguments.

The local transit could identify who the hooligans were by their clothing. THe school got calls %26amp; kids told to smarten up.

Research has shown that Canadian schools see uniforms as a method of underscoring the importance of academics, as opposed to US where uniforms are seen as a way to reduce crime.

I wish all schools had uniforms. I'm tired of seeing girls in skanky, sleazy hooker outfits, and boys dressed like junior rappers gone bad.

One caution. If your kid is required to wear a uniform, the teaching staff should also be in a school uniform too. My kids school started off this way, and everyone supported the uniform policy. Change of administration, and staff no longer required to wear uniform, and kids felt this was unfair.

School Uniforms - Good or Bad?

thats not really true like they could still wear them in a diff way and whear there hair diffrent so Report It

School Uniforms - Good or Bad?

I THINK IT IS GOOD BECAUSE THEY ALL WERE THE SAME SO KNOW ONE PICKS ON THEM

School Uniforms - Good or Bad?

School Uniforms. No. I mean its highschool and she can't be her own person.

School Uniforms - Good or Bad?

I think it is a goof thing. The childern can know focus on education rather than the fashion show and who isn't wearing what.

School Uniforms - Good or Bad?

I wish all school systems had a uniform. Students focus should be on academics and not the newest sneakers.

School Uniforms - Good or Bad?

having been a senior a few years ago , our highschool had to wear uniforms, and people still got picked on becuase their uniform wasnt nambrand. oh yes, kids can be slick. then it was are your khakis made by a designer?the leather brown shoes that were mandatory, everyone wanted timberlands,or eastlands,or duckheads. and if your shoes werent name brand, you still got picked on. so i just think that enforcing the uniforms was a waste of time, because it seemed as if the fights and arguments still continued.

School Uniforms - Good or Bad?

It has good and bad sides.

Good-

Less likley to get picked on

Bad-

Kids might feel uncomfortable

Can't express personality

I personally don't agree with uniforms

School Uniforms - Good or Bad?

Great idea. You don't have to worry about what you're going to wear. It doesn't cost a month's pay to get the latest fad every two weeks. Your daughter doesn't go to school looking like a $lut because 'that's what Britney Spears is wearing'. Of course, some uniforms look better than others. :)

School Uniforms - Good or Bad?

good they should focus on grades not clothes

School Uniforms - Good or Bad?

I completely agree, I wish it had been that way when I was in school. Clothing and the way you dress and look takes such a toll on a teens self esteem. All schools should adopt uniforms.

School Uniforms - Good or Bad?

You will find that it is a moot point. It makes absolutely no difference in the upbringing of the individual. It is just another rule to follow, nothing more, nothing less. It is statistically meaningless.

School Uniforms - Good or Bad?

No. This is not a communist country. America prides itself on individuality. Why tell our kids 1 don't follow the crowd, 2 be your own person, 3 viva la differance and then say "Now dress like everyone else in the school"? My daughter went to a school with uniforms and the other kids still found things to tease her about... weight, glasses, shoes etc. Uniforms are a waste of money and time.

School Uniforms - Good or Bad?

uniformz r DISCUSTIN

School Uniforms - Good or Bad?

very good

School Uniforms - Good or Bad?

I do think it's a good thing... even if the uniform is just to say you have to wear a shirt with a collar and Khaki pants... It does put all the students on a level playing field instead of putting the lower income kids in a corner right off the bat... I used to really be against uniforms... using the self-expression argument, but all students can't be trusted to dress appropriately for school... Plus, it's the real world... I can't just dress how I want for work...It's good to instill some amount of responsibility in them....

School Uniforms - Good or Bad?

who cares

Madlyan Murry Ohair. Dis-owned her son?

she dis-owned her son for becoming a Christan?

If she thought what he belived was a lie why would it matter?

Why did she not have a heart to show him "true" human kindness?

check it out for yourself. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madalyn_Mur...

I'm not trying to bash or be smart I just don't understand how she could throw away her sons love or as she said

"One could call this a postnatal abortion on the part of a mother, I guess; I repudiate him entirely and completely for now and all times...He is beyond human forgiveness"

beyond human forgiveness?

Why so much hate if it's a fairy tale?

Madlyan Murry Ohair. Dis-owned her son?

It does seem pretty disgusting. But then, no one's perfect. As I hear it, she was more than slightly insane.

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TS...:

A fairly famous atheist. Pretty much was the one who introduced the general population to the term 'atheist'.

Unfortunately, and I'm an atheist so don't think I'm religiously biased on this, unfortunately, she was a crazy, filthy mouthed hate-filled wench who demanded everything her way or she threw horrible, vulgarity-laced temper tantrums.

Pretty much if there ever was such a thing as a fundamentalist atheist -- she was it. I wouldn't even be remotely interested in having tea with her to discuss our views on atheism. I'd be severely disinterested in even being in the same state as her.

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Wanzanna:

I agree with you. A lot of atheists, myself included more often than I like to admit, often operate from a siege mentality in the USA because we are a minority smaller than most other demographics, where a vast portion of the majority (I'm saying nothing of HOW vast in compare to the whole, just a large number) sincerely hate and despise atheists in contradiction of the teachings of their majority.

It really works both ways though -- sadly, we are ALL a bit prejudiced. We may go out of our way to integrate and accept all people, but it is a simple fact that the human mind is a generalization learning machine. Unfortunately, a large number of the Christians on this site are unkind and hate-filled people, and are becoming the overwhelming Christian generalization. Of course, the reverse applies to the atheists too.

It's a sad fact that sane, calm, and rational people tend to quietly go about their business, and only the insane, passionate, or irrational people scream their ideas from the top of the largest building in town for all to hear.

Memetic evolution sucks. Pity it's so dang true.

Madlyan Murry Ohair. Dis-owned her son?

Who cares? She was a bitter old hag. What's your point?

Madlyan Murry Ohair. Dis-owned her son?

She's been dead a long time. Let it rest.

Madlyan Murry Ohair. Dis-owned her son?

Read his book and you will understand. She was a true crazy.

Madlyan Murry Ohair. Dis-owned her son?

WHAT!? Madalyn Murry O'Hare *invented* disowning her son, you say? I did not know that. Thanks for the info.

Madlyan Murry Ohair. Dis-owned her son?

All I remember of her was that she was murdered by some of her closest associates. :)

Madlyan Murry Ohair. Dis-owned her son?

Who is this Madhyan Murry Ohair and what religion is she?

Oh I get it...

Madlyan Murry Ohair. Dis-owned her son?

She might have been looney but the Supreme Court listened to her

Madlyan Murry Ohair. Dis-owned her son?

A disgrace to atheism, indeed.