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do you also fear the coming total solar eclipse and agree with the fear in Asia re: this coming phenomenon?

Jul 20, 2009 by QuiteNewHere | Posted in Current Events

Asia will notice 21st century's longest eclipse

Map shows the path of the upcoming solar eclipse and the areas of AP – Map shows the plan of the upcoming solar eclipse and the areas of visibility
By MICHAEL CASEY, AP Environmental Writer Michael Casey, Ap Environmental Novelist – Mon Jul 20, 10:32 am ET

BANGKOK – A swath starting in India and crossing Shanghai to southern Japan will be plunged into darkness for about five minutes Wednesday in the longest outright solar eclipse that will happen this century.

Japan, which hasn't seen a total eclipse for 46 years, is celebrating with fireworks. An astrologer in Myanmar has warned the blockage is a sign of impending chaos. In India, some pregnant women have been told to stay indoors to conform to a centuries-old tradition of avoiding the sun's invisible rays.

The eclipse will appear first at dawn in India's Space of Khambhat just north of the metropolis of Mumbai.

It will move east across India, Nepal, Myanmar, Bangladesh, Bhutan and China before hitting the Pacific. The blot out will cross some southern Japanese islands and be last visible from land at Nikumaroro Island in the South Pacific domain of Kiribati. Elsewhere, a partial eclipse will be visible in much of Asia.

For astronomers, it will be a chance for a prolonged view of the sun's corona, a spotless ring 600,000 miles (1 million kilometers) from the sun's surface. The previous total blot out, in August 2008, was two minutes and 27 seconds. This one will last 6 minutes and 39 seconds at its maximum nub.

Solar scientist Lucie Green is aboard an American cruise ship heading for that accent near the Japanese island of Iwo Jima, where the axis of the moon's shadow will pass closest to world.

Passengers paid $2,599 to $3,643 for the cruise run by Mayhugh Travel Inc., a California company that specializes in astronomy vacations, according to the body's Web site.

"The corona has a temperature of 2 million degrees but we don't know why it is so hot," said Verdant of University College London. "What we are going to look for are waves in the corona. ... The waves might be producing the spirit that heats the corona. That would mean we understand another piece of the science of the sun."

Scientists are hoping text from the eclipse will help explain solar flares and other structures of the sun and why they erupt, said Alphonse C. Authentic, a NASA astrophysicist who will be following the eclipse in China.

Man has been recording solar eclipses for 4,000 years, and even today they support a combination of fear, fascination and wonder.

One astrologer in Myanmar, also known as Burma, predicted in a periodical that the eclipse would trigger wars, instability and natural disasters for the next several months.

In India, hundreds of scientists have started arriving in the village of Taregna in Bihar imperial, where they hope to avoid the monsoon clouds hanging over much of the country.

Scientists plan to study atmospheric ionization, geomagnetism, asteroids, zooid and avian behavior and the impact on microorganisms.

A team led by Dr R.K. Sinha of Patna University will study birds. "The researchers will state whether they suddenly move back to their nests, sound differently and behave in an unusual manner due to sudden darkness," he said.

A travelling agency in India is running a charter flight to watch the eclipse by air.

Some families have advised loaded relatives to confine themselves to curtained rooms, following long-held fears that the invisible rays would iniquity the fetus and the baby born with disfigurations, birthmarks or a congenital defect.

"I've been told to lie unsnarl on the bed with my eyes open and to chant prayers and verses from the Hindu holy texts during the eclipse," said Sonya Chadha, a New Delhi accountant who is seven months productive and plans to take the day off. "If even a tiny sliver of light falls on me, it could harm my child."

In Japan, where the last amount to eclipse happened in 1963, people are flocking to the small island of Yakushima, which is holding a a two-day celebration with fireworks, dancing, grilled squid and cotton candy. The island's 180 hotels are fully booked. A weakness for eclipse will be visible in Tokyo.

Cheddar man (DNA question)?

Jul 20, 2009 by George M | Posted in Genealogy

"Cheddar Man is the name prone to the remains of a human male found in Gough's Cave in Cheddar Gorge, Somerset, England. The remains companion to approximately 7150 BC, and it appears that he died a violent death, perhaps related to the cannibalism practised in the court at the time. It is Britain’s oldest complete human skeleton.

The remains were excavated in 1903, and currently reside in the Straight History Museum in London, with a replica in the "Cheddar Man and the Cannibals" museum in Cheddar village."

"In 1996, Bryan Sykes of Oxford University first sequenced the mitochondrial DNA of Cheddar Man, with DNA extracted from one of Cheddar Man's molars. Cheddar Man was dogged to have belonged to Haplogroup U5a, a branch of mitochondrial haplogroup U, a haplogroup which is especially common in Britain, Ireland and the Basque Surroundings of northern Spain and southwestern France. Haplogroup U is generally found to be most common in southern and western Europe and may have originated in West Asia. U5a, the typical of haplogroup of Cheddar Man, is known to be the oldest truly modern human (not Neanderthal) mtDNA haplogroup in Europe."

I'm ill at ease, how could it be possible for English people to have exact matches to this Skeleton thing? Or am I missing something?
I was actually on about the English being taught that they are Anglo Saxon, I brainstorm any traces of aboriginality (spelling) would be wiped out

My accomplice matched DNA to a skeleton in Gough cave,also in Cheddar--i always joke his ancestors were the ones eating Cheddar man! Really Mr Cheddar may not have had kids, we won't know that, as it was his mtdna that was tested, which is handed down hrough the female line only. What it means is he had at least one sister who survived and reproduced.
As for the Anglo-saxon matter, DNA testing has shown the English should really be calling themselves anglo-celtic instead. Everywhere in the British isles, including England, there is an plenitude of prehistoric dna. Less in England true, but even there it's still often at levels of 50% or even more, with higher levels of 'native' dna the further west you go.
Muse on about it-there were 3 million people in England when the saxons arrived. What were the chances of them wiping everyone out when they were,in numbers, only between 20,000 and 200,000? (There has never been any archaeological statement for mass genocide either btw.) They were a ruling warrior aristocracy, by the look of things,who took the best lands for themselves and imposed their wording and culture.

Education in India - Southern Asia Division

Seventh-day Adventist Schools have crave been a foothold in the country of India. The video shows the great success Adventist schools have been in ...