The dawn of the DNA test

Back in the 1700s, the best way to determine paternity was by a good hard look and the child, followed by a good hard look at the father. Enough coincidences and maybe a relationship could be proposed. A hundred years later, eye color was discovered to be a paternity identifier. This theory has had its flaws exposed because of recent DNA advances. We now know that eye color is determined by at least six alleles, or genetic markers. Paternity testing has become a lot easier and affordable over the past few years due to advances in DNA science. Although an estimated 200,000 DNA tests are conducted each year by states needing to sort child-support and welfare issues, few people are willing to conduct their own at-home paternity test. They don’t realize the simplicity and convenience of an at-home paternity test.

How does a home DNA test work?

Paternity testing requires a painless sample from both the child and possible father. Even without a sample from the mother, DNA paternity test results are up to 99.9999% accurate-that’s one-in-a-million odds your results are incorrect. Most companies provide a free home kit for you to provide the samples and require you to send the kit back to the laboratory with the accompanying fee.

Because many companies are aware of the discomfort of drawing blood from a child in order to get a sample, buccal (mouth) swabs are being accepted as an alternative. By gently massaging the inside of the child’s mouth, cheek cells are collected. These cells are then sent to the lab for testing. Labs analyze up to sixteen genetic markers of the child and match them against the markers of the alleged father. Because each of us receives half our genetic markers from each parent, the results of DNA paternity testing are still accurate without the DNA information of the mother. Most labs will have results in 10 days and charge about $290 for a basic paternity verification test.

What else can a DNA test do?

DNA kits can also be used to analyze siblingship, establish cousin or grandparent relationships, determine twin zygosity (i.e. whether twins are fraternal or identical), identify ancestral origin, verify Native American decent, assure parents they left the hospital with the right baby, and most important, provide legal evidence-be prepared to pay a bit more for legal tests. Legal tests can be used to settle adoption issues, settle child-support disputes, and provide information for immigration files.

How to choose a DNA laboratory

Enjoy piece of mind

Be confident that the questions you have can be answered. DNA testing is safe and stress-free. Find a free kit and an information packet and you’re on your way to getting the piece of mind that you deserve.

Peter McFraser is a marketing representative of DNA Bioscience and Sorenson Genomics. Recieve your own free home paternity test kit, or learn more about DNA paternity testing.

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While many people are already experiencing the joy and tribulation involved in running their own internet business, many others are considering going into business on the internet.

If you are considering starting your own internet business then you need to consider the good, the bad, and the ugly truths of ebusiness.

What is good about internet business? Probably the single greatest benefit of ebusiness can be summed up in one word — opportunity. There are numerous opportunities to start a business, buy a business,and grow a business on the internet. There are also many opportunities to learn everything you need about doing business on the internet from blogs and newsletters, articles, ebooks, and forums.

What is bad about internet business? The prevailing myth that you can get rich quick on the internet. Yes, there are many people making millions off their internet businesses and some people even manage those staggering sales numbers they use for their sales pitch. But the real, cold, hard truth is that it takes time to learn how to do business on the internet and it takes time to be a success on the internet. Once you have done your groundwork then you may well also achieve those amazing financial results, but many people give up long before and miss out on their opportunities.

What is ugly about internet business? The simple fact that scams abound. So many people buy into the myth of the internet get-rich-quick-scheme they are willing to put down hundreds, even thousands, of dollars to buy into the dream. Many of the people touting these “successful” programs are not actually rich or successful themselves. In fact, their only income is generated by scamming newcomers.

So how do you embrace the good, avoid the bad, and ignore the ugly?

First you must explore your opportunities. Remember that the internet really is the information superhighway. Study and learn and question — and continue to do all three even after you have started your own business and even after you have made your first million.

Second remind yourself, daily if necessary, that no one gets rich quick on the internet but that millions are there for the making if you only put in your time and learn. Doing business on the internet is much like the tortoise and the hare. Slow and steady wins the race every time.

Third do not sign up for any scheme, program, or partnership that involves sharing your credit card information until you have thoroughly studied the situation from all angles. There are reputable and worthy opportunities that might involve a fee, but if they are worthwhile and reputable then they will not expire in 24 hours, there will ample freely available material to study, and you will see evidence of the program’s success.

Don’t let all that is ugly and bad overshadow the true good that can be accomplished on the internet. You can start your own business, you can make it successful, and you can make it lucrative — and it doesn’t need to cost you anything but time and ingenuity. That is what is truly amazing about doing business on the internet.

Deanna Mascle shares her internet business experience in her blogs How To Start A Business and Answers About Ecommerce.

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TROJAN WORLD WAR: - Homer said there were nineteen battles and we know there was a 400 year dark age that followed this enigmatic period which has almost been immortalized in fairy tales about wooden horses and fair maidens. We have given evidences of white men in the Americas at places like Poverty Point and the mouth of the Amazon (there is much more in the ‘mysteries’ section) as well as allover the world. The victor of the battle in America for the gold or copper and other things like cocaine may well have been the people who stayed behind and decided to have nothing to do with their Empire-building aristocrats back home. Who actually won this war is beyond my ability to discern. It seems the Phoenicians and Berbers or ‘Sea People’ operated as pirates for many years to come. They had been trying to establish some kind of political stability to conduct reasonable business from the time of the Hyksos Kings in 1800 BC.

When did ‘Greek Fire’ actually become a useful weapon and how did oil become napalm? What science was lost during and after this apparently protracted period of war between ideologies? There is no clear nation or alliance of city-states that existed before or after this truly horrific period or centuries of warfare that began with the ouster of Ariadne from Crete, if not before. We think natural gas was used in conjunction with phosphorus and other chemicals known to the agents during this war but that it didn’t produce the kind of heat that vitrifies rock. I think the Biblical stories of bringing down the walls of Jericho may relate to ultrasound or ‘the lost chord’.

It is highly likely that allegiances shifted and new alliances or combatants came and went. The Kelts of the Danube area including the Amazons may even have separated from their Thracian neighbors and the Uighurs may have gained a lot by associating with the Semitic remnants of a previously Phoenician Anatolian group including Sargon and Hammurabi whose ethics clearly went against the women or egalitarian modes of previous island powers. The Milesians who went to Epirus and later Etruria (the Bruttii) clearly escaped according to the Trojan chronicle of Homer and their own historians. Pont and the Armenians would seem to be Hittites who were still known to have given women the right to own land like their brother Hurrians in the era 2000 BC. according to Agatha Christie and her archaeologist husband; but perhaps they agreed to fight despite this on behalf of their neighbors who were patristic. Maybe they remained neutral like Canada did in Viet Nam or as neutral as others who sell themselves to the highest bidder during protracted conflicts.

It is instructive to look at the aftermath and note the Greeks were allied with Phoenicians who gave them their language and (we showed) allowed them free access to their ports even if they took their wives and daughters. Some of these Greek states seem quite Phoenician at some times. But when the Greeks turned on their allies in Sicily at Syracuse much later were they getting back at their lords and masters? When Alexander expanded his Empire he made a pact with the Kelts, and this is well known history; but which Kelts? Was there a Druidic international council that could galvanize the Keltic clandoms in concerted war? No! But there was such an arrangement for many other things of culture and science or business, it appears. Maybe Alexander was a Kelt himself and he made deals with lots of other clandoms like the Galatians who ended up in what is now Turkey and was formerly Pont (another derived name from Phoenix/Phoenician/ Punt/Finias etc.).

Iberia became home to many Milesians and I believe these were Iberians from the Caspian Iberia which has a capital called Tiflis, now. Clearly many Kelts went back to Ireland and Britain from even before the Hyksos period as the Beaker people in 2200 BC. and it appears that many more came in 1500 BC. Was the Trojan War just an extension of the Hyksos wars? Troy III was called Aa-Mu and the Phoenician Brotherhood may well have included remnants of Harappa and Mu (SE Asia?). Pythagoras had a Phoenician parent, but by this time the Brotherhood seems to have been split into many factions. He went against the Sybarites as we know and they were allied with the Etruscans who were allied with Carthage against the Phocaean/Milesians or Iberians who seemed separate from their Venetii Keltic ‘brothers’. Yet the Venetii weren’t against the Kelts or Bruttii when they came to get rid of the Tarquin lineage of Etruscans and Rome became a reality. We will cover this a great deal more under the ‘mystery’ of the Battle of Alalia.

Numerous Greek states seem to have been allied at Naucratis as we showed and it would be logical to assume they were Hyksos/Phoenician a century before. Thus we end up with having to say there was no Greece and that historians are talking about a continuous or corporate entity that seldom (if ever) existed. Pythagoras seems to have had a strong spiritual leaning in his Crotonite followers that were allied with the syncretic hermetic cults, the Therapeutae of Jesus, Heliopolis and later Alexandria’s Gnostics. We would have to say the Cathar ecumenicism may have a root in these groups and that certain groups of Jews and Islamic people (Sufis) were still able to get along for centuries to come. In the final analysis (at this point) we should simply say the battle of ideas continued after the all out battles ended. The pirates and corporate enterprises were seeking marriages and elites became stronger from 2,000 BC. to the time of Jesus. Rather than covering these wars and empires from a Parthian or Hittite and Egyptian perspective we hope the business and theological associations are instructive. It is also necessary to understand the financial import of the American trade that Phoenicians seem to have maintained. Maybe a settlement of sorts was reached where certain enterprises in Greece and Anatolia left the Iberian-Punic interests to control the American trade and they took the Mediterranean in places where the Phoenicians could no longer exercise adequate control.

TROY: - There is good reason to believe this area and Smyrna was inhabited with advanced cultures as far back as 9,000 BC. and Catal Huyuk’s far less important but well preserved site makes one think it would have taken even longer to leave the coast and move inland to establish such an advanced culture in 7,500 BC. Clearly seacoasts had a lot of defensive and trading benefits and there would only be a need to move inland when all the land was spoken for on the rivers running to the Sea.

Troy VIIa seems to have been the site Schliemann claimed to have found all by himself. We will see he did play an important part in showing established archaeology should listen to legend but that he was not all he wanted us to believe either, in this brief forward by Mr. Fagan.

Author of Diverse Druids
Columnist for The ES Press Magazine
Guest ‘expert’ at World-Mysteries.com

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