Roberta Estes, in her blog DNA Explained, has written an excellent overview of the current state of DNA testing in genealogy, discussing companies, products, present and potential. If you have done DNA testing to support your genealogy or are considering it, this should be considered a must read. She includes many links to supporting documents, this is a wonderful overview. Just click on the link below.

https://dna-explained.com/2019/12/31/2019-the-year-and-decade-of-change/

Have a great 2020! (Sometimes that number seems like sci-fi to me.)

Enjoy the search and save the world! Happy New Decade 🙂

Jim Robeson

Omg, the inventors of Google are retiring! ! The stock market should crash, temporarily, out of respect. Who knows what may come to pass now? Save the date, for the future will remember this as the beginning of the next epoch.

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/larry-page-steps-down-at-alphabet-sundar-pichai-to-lead-both-alphabet-google-as-ceo-213715829.html

See https://promethease.com/ondemandagreed

Now, a team of researchers – led by Professor Trey Ideker, a geneticist at the University of California, San Diego – has developed a more accurate method of calculating a dog’s age and translating it to human years.

it is easier to see it in a table

Apple is warning owners of older iPhones and iPads that if they don’t update their devices to the latest iOS software by Sunday, they won’t be able to connect to the internet.

IPhone and iPad products from 2012 and earlier will need the update before midnight UTC on November 3 in order to maintain accurate GPS location and continue using the App Store, iCloud, email and web browsing, according to Apple.

The worldwide GPS system uses a ten-bit parameter to count weeks. When the count gets to 1,024, the system “rolls over.” This roll-over will prevent the older Apple devices from connecting to the internet. You will need to update the older apple devices as follows:

• iOS 10.3.4: iPhone 5 and iPad (4th generation) Wi-Fi + Cellular
• iOS 9.3.6: iPhone 4s, iPad mini (1st generation) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad 2 Wi-Fi + Cellular (CDMA models only), iPad (3rd generation) Wi-Fi + Cellular

You can find the iOS software version used by your device by going to the Settings app and then opening the General section and looking further in the About subsection.

The other evening some friends and I got into a discussion about not voting when you disliked both options. I knew there was a logic issue at play here, but I couldn’t remember it during the heat of the battle. So I had to work it from scratch again and it took a while. We’ll save it here for quick reference in the future. Here is the logical reason to vote when there are two disliked options.

1. suppose A and B are up for election.
2. if you voted for B, you would help A be defeated.
3. if you voted for A, you would help B be defeated.
4. if you voted for no one, you would be helping the winner win.
5. suppose that both choices are bad, but all indications are that A is really the worst choice.
6. of the 3 options 2, 3, or 4, voting for B is the only way to help defeat A.

Fake news vs. Silly truth? Perhaps critical thinking needed? Then again, chocolate is not sugar. Humm….

For starters, how much is 5 kg?

California Gov. Gavin Newsom today (Thursday, Oct. 17) announced the debut of the nation’s first statewide earthquake early warning system that will deliver alerts to people’s cellphones through an app developed at the University of California, Berkeley.

https://truthout.org/articles/noam-chomsky-worship-of-markets-is-threatening-human-civilization/

George Washington had dentures made from Hippo ivory and possibly from his slaves teeth. All in history is not as we imagined it. Now we know why paintings of him in later life always have pursed lips!

Check it out here:

https://theconversation.com/george-washingtons-biggest-battle-with-his-dentures-made-from-hippo-ivory-and-maybe-slaves-teeth-119271

from Vala Afshar in Twitter

A healthy list:

1 Get more sleep

2 Make time to exercise

3 Drink more water

4 Eat less sugar

5 Stay teachable

6 Read and write more

7 Remove clutter

8 More random acts of kindness

9 Do not respond to negativity

10 Spend quality time with family

11 Show gratitude

12 Forgive first

Listen up Media Folks, we need more news about the Climate Crisis, every day.  There is nobody blinder than those who do not want to see. An antigovernment attitude currently runs our world. We need to regularly fight confusion about Climate Change fostered by those afraid of government by talking about it every day. Where better than in our newspapers? The human game is a team sport, help us all participate.

Help by sending a Tweet to your local TV news channels. Here is an example.

“Listen up Media Folks, we need more news about the Climate Crisis, every day. There are none so blind as those who will not see.”

Include addresses to your own channels in the Tweet:

@CBSNews @NBCNews @ABCNews @ksbw @KION546 @MontereyHerald

from The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/may/06/human-society-under-urgent-threat-loss-earth-natural-life-un-report?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other