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Israel's massacre of Palestinians was by choice, not necessity

No Israelis were harmed in the making of this massacre
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14 May, 2018
Comment: This wasn't self defence; Israeli troops were compelled only by politics to kill protesting Palestinians, writes James Brownsell.
At least 52 protesters were killed, and 2,000 injured on Monday 14 May [AFP]
We're unlikely to know the full death count for days, but we know that dozens of ordinary people fighting for their rights were killed on this day by the Israeli military. Thousands more have been injured, and are fighting for their lives as you read this.

Protesters, medics, journalists - our brothers and sisters - were mown down in a hail of bullets as Jared Kushner was speaking at the opening of the US embassy in Jerusalem.

"The pursuit of peace is the noblest pursuit of humankind," he told his audience of clapping hypocrites, as the gunshots rang out and the unarmed fell. "I believe peace is within reach."

I find it easier to think of Kushner not as some chinless, duplicitous failed property tycoon slimeball, but as some kind of alien robot poured into an ill-fitting skin suit woven from lies and mendacity.

It's the only way I can begin to understand the coldness behind the eyes, the almost absent-minded indifference and inability to recognise the experiences (even existence) of fellow human beings.

His capacity for hypocrisy may well be limitless.

How can you speak of peace-building at the exact moment your allies, to whom you give billions of dollars of military aid, are gunning down unarmed protesters?

And let us be clear: these protests were, from their very inception months ago, non-violent. They were not organised by Hamas or any group with an armed wing.

Organisers were very clear that while political movements should be represented on organising committees, this was a demonstration rooted in civil society, born of ordinary people's daily frustrations. The only flags permitted by organisers were those of the United Nations and of Palestine.

And let us remind ourselves that the ultimate goal was a dignified march home; to return to the lands from which they and their families were forced to leave either by violence or by fear of violence during the creation of the state of Israel.

So many times have I heard the following argument from Western "leftist intellectuals": "The problem with Palestinians is that they're violent. They want to take back the land they perceive to be theirs by killing Israelis and driving them into the sea. What they need is a leader willing to embrace the spirit of non-violence, like Gandhi, to lead them in their thousands, unarmed, to the checkpoints. The army couldn't shoot them all, and they would win. Where is the Palestinian Gandhi?"

The answer is clear: the Palestinian Gandhi is dead

This line of reasoning, incidentally, is most prevalent among self-professed liberals who have shown a curious unwillingness to put their own lives on the line in joining any such protest. It is also a stunningly condescending way of telling Palestinians what they need from the safety of a dinner party in Islington or Park Slope - what if Palestinians don't want a Palestinian Gandhi? What if they want a Palestinian Malcolm X?

But all that is by the by - because the answer is clear: the Palestinian Gandhi is dead, killed by an Israeli sniper, killed by a bulldozer demolishing a family's home, killed by a decade of blockade, by seven decades of displacement.

Read more: The Nakba: A Palestinian inheritance of trauma and resilience

Today in Gaza wasn't a battle in a conventional war. There weren't two equally matched sides locked in combat. One side was marching, one side was massacring. The bloodshed was all on one side.

There have been reports that Israeli snipers were targeting protesters carrying bolt-cutters. Given the scale of the injuries (2,000+ in one day) and a lingering doubt over the number of bolt-cutters readily available across the embattled Gaza Strip, this doesn't provide a satisfactory explanation for the mass killings.

Even if the reports are correct, and some protesters did carry the tools to dismantle the border fence - what of it? What violence are you going to commit with bolt-cutters? You don't attack people with bolt-cutters, you dismantle obstacles with bolt-cutters. You can't be violent towards a fence - you can't violate property, you can only violate people. Protesters equipped with bolt-cutters to dismantle a fence in the name of a just cause remain non-violent actors, not legitimate military targets.

The ultimate weapon

If Palestinians had turned up with automatic weapons, an array of toxic gases, tanks and an air force to rival the world's fourth-largest military - then maybe it would be understandable that Israeli soldiers may have felt threatened enough to shoot to kill.

But Israeli soldiers weren't fighting today in self-defence, they were fighting in state-defence. Their lives were never at risk - but the continued existence of their country may have been.

Israel is a country built on a lie - that there were no indigenous people. It was, pre-state Zionist militants said, "a land without a people for a people without a land". To have that lie exposed - to lay bare the truth that hundreds of thousands of Arab people were displaced from their homes amid massacres and the razing of farmland by armed Jewish gangs - would be to unravel the entire "liberal, democratic" narrative thread from which the tapestry of the state was spun.

Because the ultimate weapon is no weapon, and non-violence remains the ultimate threat. If the thousands of protesters really were dedicated to destroying the fence and returning to the lands taken from their ancestors 70 years ago this week, what choice did Israel have?

The 'threat' posed by these unarmed protesters is not personal, but political - existential, maybe. And that is why they were killed

These protesters are no threat to Israelis, only to Israel - at least, to the rabidly right-wing, neo-messianic, apartheid-embracing, with-us-or-against-us vision of Israel that successive governments have corrupted the country into.

The "threat" posed by these unarmed protesters is not personal, but political - existential, maybe. And that is why they were killed. It is not possible to over-estimate the lengths to which the Israeli military and political establishment will go to keep hold of what they have built over the past 70 years of embracing the dispossession and displacement of Palestinians.

We have all known that this day would one day come; when a mass uprising of unarmed Palestinians would demand their freedom and the Israeli military would respond in the only way it knows. What we don't know is what will happen now - when the injured have been treated and the dead have been buried.

The more than 100 people killed by Israel since protests began at the end of March can not have made their sacrifices in vain. Their deaths have exposed the truth of the state of Israel; that it will murder on an industrial scale - not for the safety of its people, but to preserve its sickening colonialist ideology.

With the Trump family regime's zealous support for Binyamin Netanyahu's coterie of criminals, it is difficult to predict much in the way of global diplomatic outrage leading to any sustained pressure on Israel to stop the killings - let alone to end the occupation.

But today is a day beyond diplomacy, and we must demand today that Israel be held accountable and treated as the pariah state that this latest barbarism demands - until the occupation is ended and generations of refugees are finally allowed to return home.

James Brownsell is the Managing Editor of The New Arab. Follow him on Twitter: @JamesBrownsell

Opinions expressed in this article remain those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of The New Arab, al-Araby al-Jadeed, its editorial board or staff.


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With all the ups and downs we have seen and unfortunately felt this past year in Philadelphia sports. One thing we have been fortunate for is the hiring of new Phillies President, Dave Dombrowski. I’m sure working with John Middleton, trying to loosen the purse strings is no easy feat.

What we have seen so far has been nothing less than spectacular. Dave has already retooled a bullpen that was last season’s worst in the MLB. First, with a couple of low risk/high reward trades for a couple of righties, Jose Alvarado and Sam Coonrod. Next, with the signing of free agency’s top reliever, righty Archie Bradley. Ad

Dombrowski has even started to upgrade the farm system. Most recently acquiring infielder C.J. Chatham from the Boston Red Sox. C.J. ranked #14 in BoSox prospect ranks and hit .298 in 2019 for AA and AAA.

Retaining Talent

Dave and the Phillies have also avoided arbitration with a handful of talent that rounds out the roster like Rhys Hoskins, Zach Eflin, and Vince Velasquez.

Last, and certainly not least, we finally officially have a legit offer to the ‘BCIB’, JT Realmuto. Which at what one time looked like JT was all but gone to the highest bidder. Now, feels very real that we get our catcher back. There is a god!

Call Me crazy but I believe this is just the beginning of the magic Dave Dombrowski can pull off. He continues to make solid strategic moves to get this team back to its contender ways. I’m gonna bet we see a few more moves whether it be a trade or a significant free-agent signing outside of JT.

It is easy to see why Dombrowski has had such success with his other ballclubs. Luckily, he is now ours and they can’t have him back. I have high hopes the future of postseasons and rally towels are just around the corner. Keep doing what you’re doing, Dave.

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Weekend Writing Warriors: Sunday 3 March 2013 (Cleopatra’s Ironclads)

“Your administration was notable for crisis, and cool-headed management of same. Quite a performance for a mere chit of a girl.”

“I was apprenticed for the role,” she said without heat. “And I had history as a guide. Let the looters and the profiteers run rampant in greater Egypt, and there’s riot. Watch it play out a few dozens of times, and the lesson’s taken without having to suffer it oneself.” She looked at him from under the lowering brow of the great wig with its burden of crown. “If one has the Great Library at one’s disposal and still manages to be a fool, then one doesn’t deserve to rule.”

The first speaker is Julius Caesar. This is a lightly edited excerpt from Cleopatra’s Ironclads, my 2012 National Novel Writing Month project.

Weekend Writing Warriors offers eight-sentence excerpts from a variety of writers; see the other excerpts here.

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9 Responses to Weekend Writing Warriors: Sunday 3 March 2013 (Cleopatra’s Ironclads)

  1. Sue says:

    And the looters still run rampant in Egypt, but they have no history as their guide. The Library though is a most wondrous place where I could have spent many an hour.

  2. Jess Schira says:

    I would have loved to spend time in The Library. I do love the snarkiness of her last line. It sounds like something I would blurt out. Great snippet.

  3. Indeed not…I agree with her. Nice excerpt. 😊 Well done.

  4. daezarkian says:

    That’s a terrific last line!

  5. Nan says:

    Love the last line! And it takes great courage to write real people from history–kudos to you!

  6. I like the reference to the Library! Excellent excerpt!

  7. “Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it.”

  8. Kate Warren says:

    She can certainly hold her own with him! Nicely done!

  9. historysleuth1 says:

    I like the reference to history and libraries, and it is so true too. Good snippet.

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Abstract Most ultra-low temperature (below 1K) experiments at advanced neutron facilities are based on dilution and 3He refrigerator inserts used with Orange cryostats, or similar systems. However recent increases in liquid helium costs; caused by global helium supply problems, has raised significant concern about the affordability of such cryostats. Here we present the design and test results of a cryogen free top-loading cryostat which provides neutron scattering sample environment within the temperature range 1.25 – 300 K. The high cooling power of the cryostat 0.23 W at 1.9 K enables the operation of a dilution refrigerator insert in a continuous regime; which expands the low temperature margin of the temperature range to 35 mK. The cooling time of the dilution refrigerator insert is similar to one operated in an Orange cryostat. The main performance criteria such as base temperature, cooling power, and circulation rate are compatible with the technical specification of a standard dilution refrigerator. In fact the system offers operating parameters very similar to those of an Orange cryostat, but without the complication of cryogens. The first scientific results obtained in an ultra-low temperature neutron scattering experiment with this system are also going to be discussed.
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Fast and accurate site frequency spectrum estimation from low coverage sequence data.

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The distribution of allele frequencies across polymorphic sites, also known as the site frequency spectrum (SFS), is of primary interest in population genetics. It is a complete summary of sequence variation at unlinked sites and more generally, its shape reflects underlying population genetic processes. One practical challenge is that inferring the SFS from low coverage sequencing data in a straightforward manner by using genotype calls can lead to significant bias. To reduce bias, previous studies have used a statistical method that directly estimates the SFS from sequencing data by first computing site allele frequency (SAF) likelihood for each site (i.e. the likelihood a site has each possible allele frequency conditional on observed sequence reads) using a dynamic programming (DP) algorithm. Although this method produces an accurate SFS, computing the SAF likelihood is quadratic in the number of samples sequenced.

To overcome this computational challenge, we propose an algorithm, 'score-limited DP' algorithm, which is linear in the number of genomes to compute the SAF likelihood. This algorithm works because in a lower triangular matrix that arises in the DP algorithm, all non-negligible values of the SAF likelihood are concentrated on a few cells around the best-guess allele counts. We show that our score-limited DP algorithm has comparable accuracy but is faster than the original DP algorithm. This speed improvement makes SFS estimation practical when using low coverage NGS data from a large number of individuals.

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Abstract Introduction AMP-activated protein kinase (AMPK) maintains cultured chondrocyte matrix homeostasis in response to inflammatory cytokines. AMPK activity is decreased in human knee osteoarthritis (OA) chondrocytes. Liver kinase B1 (LKB1) is one of the upstream activators of AMPK. Hence, we examined the relationship between LKB1 and AMPK activity in OA and aging cartilages, and in chondrocytes subjected to inflammatory cytokine treatment and biomechanical compression injury, and performed translational studies of AMPK pharmacologic activation. Methods We assessed activity (phosphorylation) of LKB1 and AMPKα in mouse knee OA cartilage, in aging mouse cartilage (6 to 24 months), and in chondrocytes after mechanical injury by dynamic compression, via immunohistochemistry or western blot. We knocked down LKB1 by siRNA transfection. Nitric oxide, matrix metalloproteinase (MMP)-3, and MMP-13 release were measured by Griess reaction and ELISA, respectively. Results Knockdown of LKB1 attenuated chondrocyte AMPK activity, and increased nitric oxide, MMP-3 and MMP-13 release (P <0.05) in response to IL-1β and TNFα. Both LKB1 and AMPK activity were decreased in mouse knee OA and aged knee cartilage, and in bovine chondrocytes after biomechanical injury. Pretreatment of bovine chondrocytes with AMPK activators AICAR and A-769662 inhibited both AMPKα dephosphorylation and catabolic responses after biomechanical injury. Conclusion LKB1 is required for chondrocyte AMPK activity, thereby inhibiting matrix catabolic responses to inflammatory cytokines. Concurrent loss of LKB1 and AMPK activity in articular chondrocytes is associated with OA, aging and biomechanical injury. Conversely, pharmacologic AMPK activation attenuates catabolic responses to biomechanical injury, suggesting a potentially novel approach to inhibit OA development and progression.

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Far-IR Measurements at Cerro Toco, Chile: FIRST, REFIR, and AERI

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In mid-2009, the Radiative Heating in the Underexplored Bands Campaign II (RHUBC-II) was conducted from Cerro Toco, Chile, a high, dry, remote mountain plateau, 23°S , 67.8°W at 5.4km, in the Atacama Desert of Northern Chile. From this site, dominant IR water vapor absorption bands and continuum, saturated when viewed from the surface at lower altitudes, or in less dry locales, were investigated in detail, elucidating infrared (IR) absorption and emission in the atmosphere. Three Fourier Transform InfraRed (FTIR) instruments were at the site, the Far-Infrared Spectroscopy of the Troposphere (FIRST), the Radiation Explorer in the Far Infrared (REFIR), and the Atmospheric Emitted Radiance Interferometer (AERI). In a side-by-side comparison, these measured atmospheric downwelling radiation, with overlapping spectral coverage from 5 to 100μm (2000 to 100cm-1), and instrument spectral resolutions from 0.5 to 0.643cm-1, unapodized. In addition to the FTIR and other ground-based IR and microwave instrumentation, pressure/temperature/relative humidity measuring sondes, for atmospheric profiles to 18km, were launched from the site several times a day. The derived water vapor profiles, determined at times matching the FTIR measurement times, were used to model atmospheric radiative transfer. Comparison of instrument data, all at the same spectral resolution, and model calculations, are presented along with a technique for determining adjustments to line-by-line calculation continuum models. This was a major objective of the campaign.

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Tuesday, May 8, 2012

A Novel Solution For Dating The Origin Of Language.

A paper published by C. Perreault and S. Mathew in PLOS ONE outlines a new method of dating the origin of language in Africa, and therefore the origin of language of all humans.

The method starts by first estimating a linear (r) and exponential (k) rate at which phonemic diversity increases with time using this formula:

Where t is the date of colonization and PB and PC are the current phonemic diversity of populations B and C, where such populations are hypothesized as follows:

"consider the hypothetical case of two small populations, B and C, that dispersed from the same parent population, A, t years ago (Figure 1). Suppose that B and C are similar in size so that they both experience approximately the same loss in phonemic diversity due to the founder effect. Now, suppose that population B colonizes a large continental territory and subsequently expands and diversifies linguistically [66,67]. In contrast, population C settles on a small island that does not allow for population expansion and language diversification. Because of the differences between the regions colonized by B and C, population B will accumulate phonemes at a faster rate than population C. Furthermore, if population C evolves on a sufficiently small island and remains isolated for most of its history, then the rate of phoneme accumulation in C will be low, and its phonemic diversity will remain approximately stable through time. Consequently, the present-day difference between the phonemic diversity of B and C can be attributed to the new phonemes accumulated within population B. Thus, the current phonemic diversity of population C has remained through time a good approximation of the original phonemic diversity of population B."

They then use the case of Southeast Asia (Pop B) and the Andaman Islands (Pop C) to estimate the linear and exponential phonemic diversity increase rates. The date of colonization, t, of these geographic zones is set between 45 -65 KYA, the phonemic diversity of Pop B and and Pop C were retrieved from the UCLA Phonological Segment Inventory Database (UPSID) and customized with the following assumptions:

"We estimate PB by taking the average phonemic inventory size of the languages in Mainland Southeast Asia. Assuming an eastward, coastal migration route, we have excluded the Asian languages that are located west of Andaman Islands (such as the languages from India and Nepal), as well as those spoken in Myanmar and the Malay Peninsula, because they could have served as departure points for the colonization of Andaman Islands (Figure 2). The 20 languages retained in our sample are thus those spoken in Cambodia, Vietnam, Laos and Southwest China (Table 1). The average phonemic diversity of the resulting sample is 41.21+2.74 (errors represent one standard error). Great Andamanese (ISO 639-2:apq) is the only Andamanese language to appear in UPSID. Its phonemic diversity, 24, serves as our estimate of PC."

Thus, with the above values the linear and exponential rate of phonemic diversity were estimated to be between 0.26-0.38 and 83.17-120.14 respectively for a date of colonization of between 45-65 KYA, where the lower rate of increase in phonemic diversity corresponds to the upper bound of the date of colonization and the higher rate corresponds to the lower bound of the date of colonization.

Next, they proceed to use the rates from above to estimate t0 or “the time it would take for a language to acquire the phonemic diversity observed today in African languages” using the following formula:

Where Pinitial is the number of phonemes that the first human languages started with, and assumed in one case to be 11, or the smallest phonemic inventory ever observed and for another case, 29, or just a median phonemic diversity. PAfrica is the average of the phonemic diversity of click speaking Africans, as they are the populations that are thought to have lost the least amount of phonemes due to founder effect, where as all the remaining macro language groups of Africa; Afroasiatic, Nhilo Sahran and Niger Kordofanian are known to have all undergone serious geographic expansions. The authors substantiate this assumption by stating:

"This idea is consistent with the fact that the average phonemic diversity of Afro-Asiatic, Niger-Congo and Nilo-Saharan languages is 36, 33, and 29 respectively, while the average phonemic diversity of African languages outside these families is 75."

Using a few other criteria they therefore estimate PAfrica to be 71.4

Thus with the above values, the results of t0 for the two different assumed values of Pinitial were calculated for the linear and exponential rate of phonemic diversity increase as follows:

The authors come to the following conclusion from their analysis:

"Our analysis suggests that language appears early in the history of our species. It does not support the idea that language is a recent adaptation that could have sparked the colonization of the globe by our species about 50 kya [1,91]. Rather, our result is consistent with the archaeological evidence suggesting that human behavior became increasingly complex during the Middle Stone Age (MSA) in Africa, sometime between 350– 150 kya [92–100]. However, we cannot rule out the possibility that other linguistic adaptations, that are independent of phonemic evolution, arose later and triggered the out-of-Africa expansion."

More details from the paper, which is open access, can be found here.

  1. The assumption that phonemic diversity changes in only one direction is pretty definitively known to be incorrect. On this faulty assumption, the entire tower of logic crumbles.

    1. When human populations left Africa, they went through a series of bottlenecks known as the serial founder effect, this is supported with genetic as well as phenotypic diversity decreasing the further modern human populations are found from Africa, phonemic diversity loss seems to be just another parameter that also played out with the serial founder effect phenomenon.

  2. The problem is that phonemic diversity loss isn't a secular trend. Phonemic diversity increases sometimes as well. For example, in the Americas, the languages of Mesoamerica that are heirs of the Mesoamerican Neolithic have more phonemes than the languages of the hunter-gathers surrounding them (and more grammatical complexity as well).

    Claims of reduced phenotypic diversity also freuqently ignore the additional effective phenomes that result from having lexically tonal v. grammatically tonal v. atonal languages. The data is also corrupt. Different linguists looking at the same language after indepth study often reach different conclusions as to the number of phonemes in that language (with the more knowledgable linguist often producing the larger number).

    The evidence that phonemes are areal, rather than something related to linguistic origins is pretty good (phoneme isoglosses are not a good fit to language family isoglosses, for example, at the boundaries of African language families). And, there is some evidence that temperature and altitude and geographic context (mountains v. plains v. jungles) influence the phoneme structure of a language far more than its origins.

  3. Andrew, I suggest you read the following response by Atkinson to criticisms on the idea that Phonemic diversity loss has similar patterns with that of genetic diversity loss outside of Africa:

    Response to Comments on “Phonemic Diversity Supports a Serial Founder Effect Model of Language Expansion from Africa”

  4. Etyopis, you're a victim of stereotypes. Genetics hasn't furnished any direct evidence for a serial founder effect from Africa. It's a model based on "kitchen logic" that a migrant population is smaller than the parent population. Whether this single logic has governed human population history is unknown. It's unlikely so, as the recent, post-1492 colonization of the Americas demonstrates: the New World now has more genetic diversity than the Old World, but it's the most recently populated continent. This is because it has absorbed diversities from every corner of the globe and it's done it in the course of just 500 years. On the level of a single population we see a corroborating picture: e.g., U.S. Basques are no less, if not more diverse, than European Basques (https://springerlink3.metapress.com/content/j761t3751xj252hx/resource-secured/?target=fulltext.pdf&sid=nk5hmhnz0jyr0lk3g0kuc4bf&sh=www.springerlink.com), hence not every migration is accompanied by a founder effect in genetic terms.

    We simply don't know how migrations of ancient small-scale foragers impacted their diversities. It's likely that every migrant population sampled close to 100% of diversity of its parent population. If a bunch of migrant populations subsequently mixed with each other and/or expanded, while their parent populations remained stable and/or isolated, you would end up with more diversity in the target area than in the source area.

    On the linguistic front, Khoisans have an excess in click phonemes that sit on top of more "standard" phoneme inventory. But the population size of every African foraging group is much smaller than that of pastoralist or agriculturalist Nilo-Saharan or Niger-Congo population. Hence, the number of phonemes can be inversely related to population size. There are many more flaws with Atkinson's and other similar analyses.

    You silently assume that model equals fact and then follow Atkinson and others (who aren't even linguists) in using a genetic myth-model as a null hypothesis for the interpretation of phonetic data.

    For a more serious approach to modern human origins, see http://anthropogenesis.kinshipstudies.org/.

    1. German Dziebel, are you an American Indian?

    2. Ok, you don't have to answer, just curious as you seem to have a severe problem with the OOA theory and some how think that modern humans originated in the Americas, a place that has been proven several times to be a sink rather than a source for migrating humans.
      It is not just measures of genetic diversity showing a decrease from Africa to the corners of the world that show humans were conceived and born in Africa, but also the non recombining uniparental markers that show an unbroken link from Father to Son and Mother to daughter. The starburst genetic variance pattern that is especially seen by daughter clades of mtDNA marker L3 also show that the expansion was relatively rapid and swift, this is quite enough to show that populations outside of Africa are descended from a subset of people that once lived in Africa, and whose descendants still live in Africa. Note that I haven't even referenced any archaeological material, which is pretty much null and void outside Africa until about 50KYA.

      Consider also the fact that Khoisan people that now inhabit southern Africa show more nucleotide substitutions amongst each other on a full genome-wide basis than say for instance a randomly picked European and Chinese would.

      Really, there are mountains of evidence for OOA at the moment.......

  5. Please see www.anthropogenesis.kinshipstudies.org for my background.

    "there are mountains of evidence for OOA at the moment"

    The Bible, too, offers "mountains of evidence." To a believer.

    "Note that I haven't even referenced any archaeological material, which is pretty much null and void outside Africa until about 50KYA."

    This is precisely when some strong signals of modern human behavior begin to appear in different parts of the world. And we're talking about the origins of modern - anatomically and behaviorally - humans, as all living humans are both and no modern human group is one or the other. Prior to 50K, modern human behavior is problematic everywhere (Neandertals and Middle Stone Age Africans show similar signs of "culture"), hence all those "anatomically modern humans" in Africa may not necessarily be our ancestors. We would need ancient DNA to ascertain their relevance, but we don't have and will unlikely get it anytime soon.

    "the non recombining uniparental markers that show an unbroken link from Father to Son and Mother to daughter."

    There are many ways in which mtDNA and Y-DNA genetic trees can be constructed. And if you look at X chromosome, you'll see that American Indians have basal lineages at worldwide highest frequencies. And B006 was ascertained in Neandertals. http://mbe.oxfordjournals.org/content/early/2011/01/25/molbev.msr024.short

    "Khoisan people that now inhabit southern Africa show more nucleotide substitutions amongst each other on a full genome-wide basis than say for instance a randomly picked European and Chinese would."

    So what? They maintained typical non-African alleles plus have begun to develop new ones missing from Europeans or Chinese. The opposite logic creates a bizarre situation in which the Khoisans split from the rest of humanity some 100,000 years prior to the emergence of modern human behavior in the archaeological record. But then the Khoisans are no less modern than other human populations. Does it mean they arrived at being behaviorally modern independently of other humans? Khoisans probably entered Africa as a small foraging group some 40,000 years ago and then began mutating at a faster rate due to local demographic/selective pressures. They added clicks to their phonemic inventory and some unique mutations to their genome.

  6. Onur, I don't know who you think you are, but you are not welcome to use colonial age craniofacial classifications to crudely identify populations (more especially in a genetics context) on this blog. Please find another place on the internet that will allow you to indulge in your Victorian age fetish, frock coats and top hats included, this is not a museum, so next time you decide to indulge in said fetishes on this blog, I will delete your messages with no warning.

    German Dziebel I will provide specific answers to your comments when I get a chance.


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Connecting the dots is really very apt once we’re speaking in regards to the blockchain platform Polkadot and its cryptocurrency DOT.

For those who’re a whole crypto beginner, likelihood is you’ve by no means heard about Polkadot—a quite spectacular blockchain platform that was designed to resolve among the longest-standing points within the crypto and blockchain trade, together with interoperability (the way in which blockchains communicate to each other) and scalability.

What is Polkadot?

Pissed off with the gradual growth of Ethereum, Dr Gavin Wooden, a co-founder of Ethereum and inventor of the programming language Solidity, left to start work on Polkadot.

Proper now, blockchains fall into certainly one of two main classes. They’re both purpose-built and designed for a really particular operate—like Bitcoin, which was particularly designed in its place fee system and retailer of worth.

Or they are often extra open and normal of their functioning and will be utilized to a variety of makes use of like Ethereum or Cardano, which can be utilized for constructing decentralised functions (dApps)—that are principally simply blockchain-based variations of standard apps, like those you get in your cellphone.

Then again, Polkadot is a blockchain that gives an atmosphere that different blockchains, referred to as “parachains”, can run on. It primarily gives the infrastructure that different blockchains can use to work together with each other securely.

Polkadot has been designed with one objective in thoughts, to unite a whole community of blockchains – from Bitcoin to Ethereum to all these different cryptocurrencies you’ve by no means heard of.

As issues stand, builders have to select which blockchain to construct their functions on. Every chain is distinctive and has its personal strengths and weaknesses that builders have to weigh up when deciding where to develop.

For instance, Ethereum has a big community that is strong and easy-to-use, however it’s comparatively gradual and costly to use. Whereas opponents, like Solana, have been constructed for the prioritisation of scalability.

The Downside: Blockchains Can’t Discuss to Every Different

For those who select to develop on Solana (one other prime 10 cryptocurrency related in construction to Ethereum), you received’t have the ability to work together with the Ethereum blockchain and thus lose the ecosystem Ethereum has to supply.

Due to this fact many blockchains make totally different trade-offs to help particular options and use circumstances, and as blockchain specialisation will increase, the necessity to transact between them will solely improve over time.

This is where Polkadot steps in.

Polkadot allows these totally different blockchains to function seamlessly collectively at scale. This allows builders to customise the precise options they need, giving them flexibility to choose into these elements of the Polkadot community that swimsuit their mission and steer clear of these elements that don’t.

Moreover, it allows their mission to have the ability to function throughout a number of blockchains, subsequently not closing them off to simply the blockchain they’ve constructed their mission on.

Polkadot acts as a framework for all blockchains that opt-in, a bit like how the programming language HTML allows web sites, browsers, and servers to work together with one another.

The thought is to handle messy and expensive cryptocurrency mining processes (together with validation of transactions and safety protocols) and allow builders to give attention to creating blockchain-based apps.

Polkadot’s cryptocurrency, DOT, performs a key position in sustaining and working the Polkadot community.

What makes Polkadot distinctive?

1. Fixing for blockchain communication

Blockchains operate as separate islands of information with little method of leveraging the data the opposite networks possess. Polkadot eliminates these considerations by means of their “multi-chain” community, which allows data switch between blockchains.

This is a priceless operate that can be more and more utilized in the way forward for blockchain applied sciences.

2. Fixing scalability

Bitcoin solely processes 3-5 transactions per second, and Ethereum processes 10-15 transactions per second. For context, Visa processes 1 700 transactions per second. This means the scalability problem each these cryptocurrencies face. But, Polkadot is a winner when it comes to scalability. Polkadot ought to have the ability to course of up to 1 million transactions per second.

3. A simple method to construct customized blockchains

Polkadot allows customers to construct their very own blockchain from scratch utilizing their suite of functionalities whereas additionally providing you with the liberty to customise something you want.

Customized blockchains will be constructed inside minutes and offer you entry to their safety, scalability and interoperability.

You’re additionally not confined to write your blockchain logic in a Polkadot particular language, however quite it accepts a number of languages.

Polkadot’s Efficiency

Under we will see how Polkadot has outperformed many different funding property over the previous 12 months.

A R1 000 funding in Polkadot would have translated into +R3 748. This is substantial compared to many different investments. In truth, this return on funding is over 17x better than if you happen to had invested within the S&P 500 over the identical interval (+ R1 156).

Where do I buy Polkadot?

Cape City based mostly crypto funding platform Revix (, which is backed by JSE listed Sabvest, is including Polkadot to its crypto product providing on Friday, the third of September, with an attractive fee-free promotion.

Funding Promotion

Revix will supply zero shopping for charges on Polkadot purchases for one week, beginning on the third of September and ending on the ninth of September 2021.

By Revix, you may also achieve entry to their ready-made “Crypto Bundles”.

Their Bundles allow you to effortlessly personal an equally-weighted basket of the world’s largest and, by default, most profitable cryptocurrencies with out having to construct and handle a crypto portfolio your self.

They’re just like the JSE High 40 or S&P 500 however for crypto.

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In this paper, a simple and effective experimental approach has been used to extract the mechanical properties of suspended nanomechanical graphene devices using atomic force microscopy (AFM). The main objective of this work is to study the deflection behaviour of graphene devices as a function of layer number (1-5 layers) and anchor geometry which has not been widely investigated so far. Elastic and nonlinear responses of the devices were obtained using AFM nanoindentation. The estimated linear (2.5N m -1to 7.3N m -1), nonlinear spring constants (1×10 14N m -3to 15×10 14N m -3) and pretension (0.79N m -1to 2.3N m -1) for the monolayer (3.35 Å) to five layer (16.75 Å) graphene devices of diameter 3.8μm show an obvious increasing trend with increase in graphene thickness. The effect of anchor geometry on the force versus deflection behaviour of these devices has also been investigated. The Raman spectroscopy results confirm the absence of defects in the pristine and indented devices. Using the continuum mechanics model, the Young's modulus and 2D elastic modulus of a monolayer graphene device have been found to be 1.12 TPa and 375N m -1respectively. The high stiffness and low mass of these devices make them well suited for sensing applications.

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