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When Will the First Human Space Colony Be Established? – Futurism

Posted: August 18, 2017 at 4:51 am

In BriefExperts predict that if we do not establish space coloniessoon, humanity could be wiped out by a single disaster perhaps inthe next 100 years. But will we board our rockets in time? Here's atimeline for when you can expect to see the first space settlementestablished, and perhaps become a colonist yourself. The Final Frontier

Our days on Earth may be numbered. Great minds have postulated that humanity must spread itself across multiple planets in order to avoid being entirely wiped out by one natural disaster. Physicist Stephen Hawking has gone so far as to predict such a catastrophe will occur on Earth in the next 100 years, which doesnt give us much time to pack our rocket ships.

Will humanity be ready to colonize space before doomsday? We asked Futurism readers when they thought humans will colonize off-planet, and the results revealed quite a consensus.More than 70 percent of people who took the poll thought acolony will be established during the first half of the 21st century, and the decade with the most votes a whopping 36 percent of participants was the 2030s.

Satish Varma, a software engineer, explained why he voted for this decade.Varma wrote in his response that our technological advances in spacecraft design, artificial intelligence (AI), and bionics will be the driving forces that finally propel us into space long term. Currently there are some promising advances in space exploration and artificial intelligence by companies like SpaceX, Google, and Tesla in a short time frame, Varma wrote.

Varmas observations are right on both SpaceX and Blue Origin have recently reached significant milestones in developing reusable rockets, which will be key in making space travel economically viable. Google has recently developed an AI that can learn almost as fast as we can, making the technology much more promising for real-world applications, like flying spaceships.

The technologies have enticed governments and companies around the world to take the idea of space colonization seriously. The two most popular targets for human occupation are currently Mars and the Moon. The Moon gets a little less attention these days, but scientists have estimated that we could build a colony there over the pan of six years and for as little as $10 billion. The Chinese and European space agencies are carefully examining the possibility of a Moon base, as such a resource would greatly reduce the cost of traveling to other planets including Mars.

On the Mars front,the United Arab Emirates (UAE) has announced its intention to establish a settlement on the Red Planet by2117. Other nations are likely to beat the UAE in reaching this goal, however, as the U.S. government has tasked NASA with getting humans on Mars by 2033, and China has set aneven more ambitions goal: by the end of the decade. These government efforts align with readers predictions.

But SpaceX CEO Elon Musk hopes to prove just how much more efficient private companies are thangovernment bureaucracies. His plan, too, is to sendhumans to Mars by 2020, but that isnt his only goal. He wants to make travel to the Red Planet affordable, setting the price cap at $200,000 in his new plan that focuses on establishing a self-sustaining space civilization rather than a simple exploratory expedition. Such an establishment will be paramount to the future of the human species, Musk said.

History suggests there will be some doomsday event, and I would hope you would agree that becoming a multi-planetary species would be the right way to go, Musk said at a press conference last year. I want to make Mars seem possible like something that we can do in our lifetimes.

With all these efforts to get humans off world over the course of the next few decades, it seems like a good bet a Martian colony is not only something this generation could see, but something it will.

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Cancer Genetics Expert Katherine L. Nathanson, MD, Named Deputy Director of Abramson Cancer Center – Newswise (press release)

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Newswise PHILADELPHIA Katherine L. Nathanson, MD, an internationally recognized expert in the field of cancer genetics, has been named deputy director of the Abramson Cancer Center of the University of Pennsylvania. Nathanson is a professor of Translational Medicine and Human Genetics in the Perelman School of Medicine, and the associate director for Population Sciences in the Abramson Cancer Center, co-leader of the Cancer Control Program, and Chief Oncogenomics Physician. She also serves as director of Genetics for the Basser Center for BRCA. She will begin her new role as deputy director immediately.

Dr. Nathanson is a distinguished physician-scientist and has long been a valued colleague and member of the cancer center, said Robert Vonderheide, MD, DPhil, the director of the ACC. Her clinical and research portfolio incorporates an impressive array of diseases. She has played a critical role in many of the ACCs most recent advancements and is well known as an international expert in somatic and germline cancer genetics. I am delighted she has accepted this new leadership role.

As Deputy Director, Nathanson will oversee multiple aspects of the cancer centers scientific and clinical missions, including strategic planning, program development and evaluation, faculty recruitment, leadership appointments, and resource allocation.

Im honored to take on this new leadership role to advance the mission of the Abramson Cancer Center: to reduce the burden of cancer throughout the region, the nation, and the world by extending our integrated program of laboratory, clinical and population-based research, Nathanson said.

Nathanson received her bachelors degree from Haverford College and her MD from the University of Pennsylvania. She completed residencies in Internal Medicine at Beth Israel Hospital in Boston, as well as in Clinical genetics at the Childrens Hospital of Philadelphia and at Penn. She joined the Penn faculty in 2001, and since then, she has published more than 250 peer-reviewed articles in top journals, such as Nature, JAMA, Cancer Cell, and The New England Journal of Medicine. She has an extensive record of national service for multiple organizations including the American College of Medical Genetics and Genomics, where she serves as the Cancer Genetics editor for Genetics in Medicine, and the American Association for Cancer Research. Nathanson is also the chair of the Cancer Genetics study section for the National Institutes of Health and is an elected member of the American Society of Clinical Investigation and the American Association of Physicians.

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Penn Medicineis one of the world's leading academic medical centers, dedicated to the related missions of medical education, biomedical research, and excellence in patient care. Penn Medicine consists of theRaymond and Ruth Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania (founded in 1765 as the nation's first medical school) and theUniversity of Pennsylvania Health System, which together form a $6.7 billion enterprise.

The Perelman School of Medicine has been ranked among the top five medical schools in the United States for the past 20 years, according toU.S. News & World Report's survey of research-oriented medical schools. The School is consistently among the nation's top recipients of funding from the National Institutes of Health, with $392 million awarded in the 2016 fiscal year.

The University of Pennsylvania Health System's patient care facilities include: The Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania and Penn Presbyterian Medical Center -- which are recognized as one of the nation's top "Honor Roll" hospitals byU.S. News & World Report-- Chester County Hospital; Lancaster General Health; Penn Wissahickon Hospice; and Pennsylvania Hospital -- the nation's first hospital, founded in 1751. Additional affiliated inpatient care facilities and services throughout the Philadelphia region include Good Shepherd Penn Partners, a partnership between Good Shepherd Rehabilitation Network and Penn Medicine.

Penn Medicine is committed to improving lives and health through a variety of community-based programs and activities. In fiscal year 2016, Penn Medicine provided $393 million to benefit our community.

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Idaho dairy industry elevates worker safety, training – Capital Press

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Idahos dairy industry is taking a unique and proactive approach to improving worker safety with a statewide on-farm training program.

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David Douphrate, assistant professor of epidemiology, human genetics and environmental sciences at the University of Texas, answers questions during a panel on a new worker training program for Idahos dairy industry during the Idaho Milk Processors Association annual conference, while Robert Hagevoort, extension dairy specialist at New Mexico State University, looks on.

SUN VALLEY, Idaho Training a largely inexperienced, non-English-speaking workforce on Idahos dairies for the ultimate goal of worker safety has become a priority for both dairymen and the processors they supply.

Unfortunately, it took a fatality on a dairy to bring it to the table, Rick Naerebout, director of operations for the Idaho Dairymens Association, said during the Idaho Milk Processors Association annual conference last week.

That tragedy occurred in February 2016, when worker Ruperto Vazquez-Carrera, 37, drowned in a waste pond after mistakenly driving a feed truck into the pond in pre-dawn hours under flooded conditions.

IDFA quickly responded to prevent future tragedies by engaging with experts in worker safety and training to figure out how to get our arms around the issue of comprehensive training, Naerabout said.

We realized we have an opportunity to do more than check a box on safety and be proactive instead of reactive, he said.

The worker training and safety program has been in development for more than a year, and IDFA has hired a full-time worker training and safety specialist to lead it. The program rolled out this week, starting at dairies owned by IDA board members.

Processors are collaborating in the program and sharing in the cost, said Daragh Maccabee, senior vice president of procurement and dairy economics for Glanbia Nutritionals.

Processors met with IDA in April 2016 to discuss a path forward, wanting to participate in a meaningful way, he said.

While there are already good practices in place, the event which drew the attention of OSHA, the United Farm Workers of American and the media highlighted a need for more structure. The primary objective of the program is to provide a safe work environment, he said.

People safety is our No.1 priority, and Glanbia wants to support the producer community in a real way, he said.

As an industry, we need to be able to show to the world we are responsible, he said.

IDFA contracted worker safety and training experts David Douphrate, assistant professor of epidemiology, human genetics and environmental sciences at the University of Texas, and Robert Hagevoort, extension dairy specialist with New Mexico State University to develop a program.

Hagevoort said the U.S. dairy industry is experiencing growing pains, with the number of operations decreasing and herd size increasing, driven by economies of scale. It is also moving to automation, with a need for high-skilled workers.

Employment on dairies is not based on skill but on willingness, resulting in a lot of foreign workers unfamiliar with large animals. And its a population challenged by reading comprehension and retention, he said.

Training has to be consistent, repetitive and comprehensive and include both classroom and live training with animals. In addition to the what, the why of safety issues and animal handling must be explained, he said.

Idahos consortium can be beneficial in developing and evaluating training materials and training the trainer to train employees, he said.

Douphrate agreed, saying the focus needs to be on safety leadership and management.

You cant be everywhere on the farm, you have to delegate and need to equip supervisors, he said.

They need to be able to effectively train workers and evaluate whether that training is being retained and workers are applying what they learned, he said.

We want a proactive approach to address injuries and fatalities before they happen, he said.

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Genetic Variance is Key to Individual Immune Response – Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News

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Ever wonder why your friend, co-worker, or partner doesnt get as sick as you, even though they caught the same bug you did? Maybe they made some Faustian bargain that affords them greater protection to infections, or perhaps they are part of some top-secret government experiment that injects them with an array of antigens isolated from an alien race living in Area 51. While both theories are potential explanations, it seems likely that differences in response to infection lie in something a bit more scientificlike genetics. Now, a collaborative team of investigators from the University of Bonn, Germany, and the New York Genome Center has just published findings that map several genetic variants that affect how much gene expression changes in response to an immune stimulus.

Results from the new studypublished in Nature Communications in an article entitled Genetic Regulatory Effects Modified by Immune Activation Contribute to Autoimmune Disease Associationsoffer novel insights into the genetic contribution to varying immune responses among individuals and its consequences on immune-mediated diseases.

Our defense mechanisms against microbial pathogens rely on white blood cells that are specialized to detect infection," explained co-senior study investigator Veit Hornung, Ph.D., chair of immunobiochemistry at the Ludwig-Maxmilians-Universitt in Munich. Upon encounter of microbes, these cells trigger cellular defense programs via activating and repressing the expression of hundreds of genes.

We wanted to understand how genetic differences between individuals affect this cellular response to infection," added co-senior study investigator Johannes Schumacher, Ph.D., a research scientist at the Institute of Human Genetics within the University of Bonn.

The human immune system plays a central role in autoimmune and inflammatory diseases, cancer, metabolism, and aging. The researchers discovered hundreds of genes where the response to immune stimulus depended on the genetic variants carried by the individual.

"These genes include many of the well-known genes of the human immune system, demonstrating that genetic variation has an important role in how the human immune system works," noted lead study investigator Sarah Kim-Hellmuth, Ph.D., a postdoctoral researcher at the New York Genome Center. "While earlier studies have mapped some of these effects, this study is particularly comprehensive, with three stimuli and two-time points analyzed."

In the current study, the research team captured genetic variants whose effects on gene regulation were different depending on the different infectious state of the cells. These included four associations to diseases such as cholesterol level and celiac disease. Moreover, the researchers discovered a trend of genetic risk for autoimmune diseases such as lupus and celiac disease to be enriched for gene regulatory effects modified by the immune state.

"Here, we isolate monocytes from 134 genotyped individuals, stimulate these cells with three defined microbe-associated molecular patterns (LPS, MDP, and 5-ppp-dsRNA) [lipopolysaccharide, muramyl dipeptide, and 5' triphosphate double-stranded RNA], and profile the transcriptomes at three-time points, the authors wrote. Mapping expression quantitative trait loci (eQTL), we identify 417 response eQTLs (reQTLs) with varying effects between conditions. We characterize the dynamics of genetic regulation on early and late immune response and observe an enrichment of reQTLs in distal cis-regulatory elements. In addition, reQTLs are enriched for recent positive selection with an evolutionary trend towards enhanced immune response. Finally, we uncover reQTL effects in multiple GWAS [genome-wide association study] loci and showed a stronger enrichment for response than constant eQTLs in GWAS signals of several autoimmune diseases.

Co-senior author Tuuli Lappalainen, Ph.D., assistant professor at Columbia University and core member of the New York Genome Center added that this data supports a paradigm where genetic disease risk is sometimes driven not by genetic variants causing constant cellular dysregulation, but by causing a failure to respond properly to environmental conditions such as infection."

Using the collected monocyte samples, the researchers treated the cells with three components that mimic infection with bacteria or a virus. They then analyzed how cells from different individuals respond to infection by measuring gene expression both during the early and late immune response. Integrating the gene expression profiles with genome-wide genetic data of each individual, they were able to map how genetic variants affect gene expression, and how this genetic effect changes with the immune stimulus.

Findings from this new study provide a highly robust and comprehensive dataset of innate immune responses and show wide variation among individuals exposed to diverse pathogens over multiple time points. The investigators identified population differences in immune response and demonstrated that immune response modifies genetic associations to disease. The research sheds light on the genomic elements underlying response to environmental stimuli and the dynamics and evolution of immune response.

"It's been known for a long time that most diseases have both genetic and environmental risk factors, concluded Dr. Lappalainen. But it's actually more complicated than that because genes and environment interact. As demonstrated in our study, a genetic risk factor may manifest only in certain environments. We are still in early stages of understanding the interplay of genetics and environment, but our results indicate that this is a key component of human biology and disease. The molecular approach that we took in our study can be a particularly powerful way for researchers to delve deeper into this question."

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White supremacists take DNA tests, find they’re not so white – CNET

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Technically Incorrect offers a slightly twisted take on the tech that's taken over our lives.

What is white? And why is it supreme?

Which of us is pure?

Pure of spirit, pure of thought and, well, pure of blood.

Surely not many.

Yet in our fractured times, some want to believe that they are superior because of their pure whiteness.

A few of these sorts featured in the Charlottesville, Virginia, marches last weekend.

It seems, though, that some white supremacists try to use science to confirm their superiority. So they turn to services such as Ancestry.com and 23andMe in order to take DNA tests.

A new study by UCLA sociologists Aaron Panofsky and Joan Donovan suggests that these results sometimes disturb the purists.

The researchers studied 3,070 postings on white nationalist forum Stormfront over a 10-year period. There, some who are shocked that they might have, say, African heritage share their results in an attempt to dispute the findings and confirm their purity.

The researchers say they saw evidence of posters using "the particular relationships made visible by GATs (genetic ancestry testing) to re-imagine the collective boundaries and constitution of white nationalism."

The pain of not being defined as white is so great that they desperate try to redefine what white really is.

Some of those upset with their results then insist that you should take what your grandparents told you more seriously than the science. There are claims that because testing companies are "quite liberal," they deliberately sprinkle in some non-white DNA into results to suit their political beliefs.

Others prefer to believe their mirrors. "I wouldn't worry about it," said one Stormfront poster cited in the study. "When you look in the mirror, do you see a jew? If not, you're good."

And then there are those who just prefer to think of their results as being subject to statistical error.

Do any of these people complain to the testing companies?

A 23andMe spokesman told me diplomatically: "With over 2 million customers, we do get the occasional complaint." He said the company's customer service then tries to help complainers understand how the results came about.

"The average 23andMe customer has DNA from at least five different regions from around the world," he told me.

As for Ancestry.com, its spokesman said he had no knowledge of specific white supremacist complaints. Instead, he said, the largest number of complaints come from people convinced they have some Native American in their blood.

Even though the results given are estimates of ethnicity, the spokesman said: "We are very confident in our science. This is well-established, recognized science that has been published in scientific journals."

Ancestry.com currently traces ethnicity across 26 different regions, as well as 334 genetic communities, which are more granular historical groups of people like "Ulster Irish," "Early Settlers of New York" or "Early Settlers of New Mexico."

"People looking to use our services to prove they are ethnically 'pure' are going to be deeply disappointed. We encourage them to take their business elsewhere," said the Ancestry.com spokesman.

Still, one can imagine the disappointment in discovering you're not who you really think you are.

Perhaps the most tragic postings featured in the research concern those who try to celebrate that they are, as in one case, a mere 61 percent European.

A Stormfront poster replied to one of these optimists: "I've prepared you a drink. It's 61percent pure water. The rest is potassium cyanide. I assume you have no objections to drinking it. (You might need to stir it first since anyone can see at a glance that it isn't pure water.) Cyanide isn't water, and YOU are not White."

I wonder in how many cases white supremacists actually reconsider not only themselves, but the world view they espouse.

Or would that be too painful?

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Kirk Frost Finally Takes DNA Test After Months Of Dodging Jasmine Washington: Why He Finally Agreed – Hollywood Life

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At last! Kirk Frost decided not to share his DNA test results on L&HH: Atlanta, but it looks like the truth may be revealed soon enough. Weve EXCLUSIVELY learned why Kirk finally agreed to take the paternity test!

Jasmine Washington, 27, shocked the world when she claimed that Kirk Frost, 48, fathered her child while he was still married. Even though he decided not to reveal his DNA test results on the Love & Hip Hop: Atlantareunion specials, the truth may come to light soon enough! Kirk continued to dodge the DNA test and refused to take it for as long as he could but it was court ordered, a source close to the case tells HollywoodLife.com EXCLUSIVELY. So Jasmines attorney filed a warrant application for Kirk to force him to take the court-ordered DNA test or go to jail. This scared Kirk enough to finally succumb to taking the test this week and the results of which, at last, are finally really truly on the way.

Months after arguing back and forth, Jasmine and Kirks paternity case was reportedly thrown out Aug. 16, after they both didnt show up to court. But it seems obvious to all those involved that Kirk is the father and this test will prove that, finally, once and for all, our insider revealed. Fans are wildly speculating what the reason behind this shocking development is. Did they possibly want to settle out of court? Jasmine sent fans into a frenzy during season six when she claimed that Kirk cheated on his loving wife Rasheeda Frostby hooking up with her. There [still] has not been a settlement. I can tell you that, Tony Mathis, Jasmines attorney tells us EXCLUSIVELY.

As we previously reported, Jasmine has no idea what she is going to do if Kirk is not the father of her baby, a source close to the reality star shares with HollywoodLife.com EXCLUSIVELY. She is trying to be patient and has waited a long time for the results of the DNA test to determine Kirks paternity status. She has no plan B and has no idea what she would do if Kirk is miraculously not named the father. Rasheeda previously revealed that if Kirk is the father, she would let his child get to know their kids as well.

HollywoodLifers, do you think the test results will ever be revealed? Tell us, below!

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Natalee Holloway’s Dad Having Human Remains Tested For DNA – HuffPost

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The father of missing Alabama teen Natalee Holloway says he is awaiting the results of DNA testing on bones found in Aruba.

When we determined these remains were human, I was shocked, he said.

In a follow-up interview with HuffPost, Dave Holloway said the remains have been brought to the United States for DNA testing.

They are in the testing process, he said, adding that it could take several weeks to get results. Its a reputable lab and thats all I can tell you at this point.

Dave Holloway said the bones were found while he and private investigator T.J. Ward were chasing leads during the filming of a new TV series on the Oxygen network called, The Disappearance of Natalee Holloway.

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Natalee Holloway, 18, from Mountain Brook, Alabama, disappeared on May 30, 2005, while on a trip to Aruba to celebrate her high school graduation. Her body has never been found.

Her classmates said they last saw her leaving an Oranjestad nightclub called Carlosn Charlies with Joran van der Sloot. At the time, he was a 17-year-old Dutch honors student living in Aruba.Police have repeatedly questioned him in connection with Natalee Holloways disappearance.

Van der Sloot is now behind bars in Peru, where he is serving a 28-year prison sentence for the 2010 murder of 21-year-old Peruvian business student Stephany Flores Ramrez.

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According to Ward, an individual living in Aruba who claims to have helped van der Sloot dispose of Natalee Holloways body, provided the leads that led to the discovery of the bones.

We did an 18-month undercover investigation and a lot of the information we had was confirmed and its viable information that led us to where we are today, Ward told HuffPost.

Dave Holloway said he was not present when the bones were found and that theres a good chance [the bones] belong to someone else.

I dont want to get my hopes up this is Natalee, he said.

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Wednesdays announcement comes just days before the Saturday premier of the Oxygen television series.

I cant get into any other details about it, said Dave Holloway. Youll see it on the show.

A spokesperson for the FBI told HuffPost they are looking into the claims. The U.S. Embassy in Caracas, Venezuela the U.S. office tasked with handling inquiries into the case Peru did not immediately return calls for comment from HuffPost.

David Lohr covers crime and missing persons. Tips? Feedback? Send anemailorfollow himon Twitter.

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Let’s enjoy the white supremacist freakout after DNA tests show they aren’t 100 percent white – Salon

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Statnews a digital news site that focuses on medicine and science published an articleon Wednesday about white supremacists taking genetic tests to measure their whiteness. Manyusers on the white nationalist website Stormfrontposted their results from genetic ancestry company 23andmeandwere unpleasantly surprised to discover that they werent as white as they thought. Their reactions, as it turnsout, are a thing of schadenfreudic beauty.

Heres one personworried that he or she might be a bit Jewish:

I got 100 percent European on mine, and Im from the US and so is my whole family. The thing that DID blow my mind is that I got 18percent Ashkenazic on the standard view and almost 21percent on the speculative view. (They count Ashkenazic as European.) Looks like one of my grandfathers was secretly Jewish. He always said he was Russian. Welp, I guess he meant THAT kind of Russian. Its caused me to have to reassess my self-image a whole lot.

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In onethread titled My 23andme genetic ancestry results, a user found that he was 99.25 percent European, 0.02 percentAfrican and 0.73percent Asian. In another post, a white supremacist had to reevaluate his or her skin color, asking, Am I whitenow?

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Such a small percentage of non-white really ticked off some of the white supremacists: EVERYsingle Americans results that I have seen ALWAYS have this 0.1% non-white garbage, and I literally mean every single one, and Ive viewed hundreds, wrote one user. This has led to a quest for what might be called alternative genetic facts, or as that user put it, results that are actually accurate and not rigged the way that 23andme is for the very reason and cause of trying to spread multiculturalism and make whites think that they are racially mixed.

While some on the sitewere fairly confident of 23andmes accuracy, others foundexcuses not to believe the results they found. Send your results to Dr. Mcdonald and he will give you your accurate results, saidone.

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Athread titled,Is 23andme legit? contained many users scapegoating one group for their ancestral flaws. One sustaining member of the racist site said that, of course, its all the Jews fault:

Theres Jews at the top, that said your results would likely show some non-White ancestry because of this. The Jews want us all to think weve got some non-White DNA so we are more likely to go along with their plan. They dont want us to resist genocide by assimilation.

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In the same thread, a member named headstar wrote:

The 23andMe forum is full of of retards:They think the Holohoax happened.It is full of both white and non-white hardcore nordicists.They think Spain is in Mexico and all those mixed race immigrants are Spanish. They stereotype Southern Europe and equate them to Arabs/Turks/non-Europeans.They refer to any white who isnt of 100% Anglo-Saxon/Northern European stock as a mutt.They like saying white in sarcastic quotation marks.

Some on the message boards like Segregationista did not get DNA testing, but they had advice for other white nationalists who found out they had Jewish ancestry:

Ive never had a DNA test, but I know where all my ancestors are from. I guess it could be amusing, though, having Jews tell me where I came from. I suppose I could use the the test results to become a citizen of Israel

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Looks like weve found the first victims of the white genocide.

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Ask Amy: DNA testing reveals family secret – The Denver Post

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Dear Amy: About a year ago, I used one of those genetic testing services. The website shows other users who share genetics with you, and allows everyone to contact each other.

Recently, I got a message from another user (a woman in her 60s in another state), that showed we were a very close genetic match.

She emailed me, saying she was looking for information on her father, whom she had never met. She said her mother had a very brief relationship with aU.S.marine during the Korean War. It turned out he had probably used a fake name. They had no photos, and they were never able to track him down. Her mother later moved to theU.S.

The woman, Janet, asked if it was possible if my grandfather (who is now dead) was her father. She knew very little except for what her mother (also now dead) had told her, including specific identifying physical characteristics. My grandfather was a Korean War veteran and had the exact characteristics she described (including a distinctive tattoo).

My grandfather wouldve been married to my grandmother (who is still alive) when Janet was been conceived. An uncle of mine was born a year before Janet.

I always saw my grandfather as a good, caring family man. I have not told anyone about this. I do not want to tarnish his memory, upset my grandmother, or change how my family views him, when hes not around to defend himself.

Janet would like to meet my aunts and uncles, but I have told her I am not comfortable giving her their contact information. She has recently started pleading with me, and I truly feel awful for not giving it to her.

What do I do here?

Torn

Dear Torn: One (perhaps unforeseen) aspect of using genetic testing is the way the results can open up confounding human dilemmas concerning long-buried family secrets. Recently, I was at a gathering where several people had used a genetic matching site and all of them noted shocking, unanticipated results, including being matched with (half) siblings they hadnt known about. And yet all reported that this ultimately was a positive experience.

In your case, Janet has already received useful genetic information. She now (quite understandably) wants more. You should at least answer any questions youre able to answer.

If you arent willing to even ask your aunts and uncles if they would be open to contact with her, then she will have to find another conduit to them.

It would be best if your family was open to the idea that people are complicated, and dont always do the right thing but this is the fullness of the human experience, and ultimately this is something to explore and embrace, rather than deny.

Dear Amy: My husband and I recently became friends with another couple. As a group, we get along famously.

However, lately I do not feel that my friend likes me. She makes remarks about how I dont exercise my dog, how I dont treat my husband right, how I treat my son, how they cant take me anywhere, and the list goes on.

I try not to trigger these comments and shrug them off, as they account for only a few unpleasant moments during several good hours spent together.

I like many other things about this person, but I do not like how she makes me feel when we are together. How do I let her know, without hurting her feelings, and how do I phrase asking her to stop throwing darts my way? Or am I just being too sensitive?

Had Enough

Dear Had Enough: I dont think its a lot to ask for someone to refrain from trashing you so no, you are not being too sensitive.

Tell your friend, I usually enjoy our time together. But you seem to find a lot wrong with me. Honestly, I dont like to be criticized, but especially in front of our husbands. Whats up with that?

She may say, as many do, Hey, I call em like I see em. Then you can tell her, Well, thats a trait that I dont appreciate. Its hurtful, and so I wish you would stop.

Dear Amy: Priority Parent described policing children on the playground. Is this priority parenting or helicopter parenting? Im quite sick of this sort of over-involvement.

Normal Parent

Dear Parent: This particular parent had a special-needs child. He is doing his job to pay close attention to potential dangers on the playground.

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