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Nostradamus predicted the rise of three "anti-christs". The first was Napaulon Roy (Napoleon), the second was Hister (Hitler), and the third is referred to as Mabus. Century 2, Quatrain 62Mabus will soon die, then will come,A horrible undoing of people and animals,At once one will see vengeance,One hundred powers, thirst, famine, when the comet will pass.


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A meeting of civilisations: The mystery of China's celtic mummies
08/27/2006 Uyghur Related
A meeting of civilisations: The mystery of China's celtic mummies
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Independent News and Media Limited Published: 28 August 2006
The discovery of European corpses thousands of miles away suggests a hitherto unknown connection between East and West in the Bronze Age. Clifford Coonan reports from Urumqi Solid as a warrior of the Caledonii tribe, the man's hair is reddish brown flecked with grey, framing high cheekbones, a long nose, full lips and a ginger beard. When he lived three thousand years ago, he stood six feet tall, and was buried wearing a red twill tunic and tartan leggings. He looks like a Bronze Age European. In fact, he's every inch a Celt. Even his DNA says so.
But this is no early Celt from central Scotland. This is the mummified corpse of Cherchen Man, unearthed from the scorched sands of the Taklamakan Desert in the far-flung region of Xinjiang in western China, and now housed in a new museum in the provincial capital of Urumqi. In the language spoken by the local Uighur people in Xinjiang, "Taklamakan" means: "You come in and never come out."
The extraordinary thing is that Cherchen Man was found - with the mummies of three women and a baby - in a burial site thousands of miles to the east of where the Celts established their biggest settlements in France and the British Isles.
DNA testing confirms that he and hundreds of other mummies found in Xinjiang's Tarim Basin are of European origin. We don't know how he got there, what brought him there, or how long he and his kind lived there for. But, as the desert's name suggests, it is certain that he never came out.
His discovery provides an unexpected connection between east and west and some valuable clues to early European history.
One of the women who shared a tomb with Cherchen Man has light brown hair which looks as if it was brushed and braided for her funeral only yesterday. Her face is painted with curling designs, and her striking red burial gown has lost none of its lustre during the three millenniums that this tall, fine-featured woman has been lying beneath the sand of the Northern Silk Road.
The bodies are far better preserved than the Egyptian mummies, and it is sad to see the infants on display; to see how the baby was wrapped in a beautiful brown cloth tied with red and blue cord, then a blue stone placed on each eye. Beside it was a baby's milk bottle with a teat, made from a sheep's udder.
Based on the mummy, the museum has reconstructed what Cherchen Man would have looked like and how he lived. The similarities to the traditional Bronze Age Celts are uncanny, and analysis has shown that the weave of the cloth is the same as that of those found on the bodies of salt miners in Austria from 1300BC.
The burial sites of Cherchen Man and his fellow people were marked with stone structures that look like dolmens from Britain, ringed by round-faced, Celtic figures, or standing stones. Among their icons were figures reminiscent of the sheela-na-gigs, wild females who flaunted their bodies and can still be found in mediaeval churches in Britain. A female mummy wears a long, conical hat which has to be a witch or a wizard's hat. Or a druid's, perhaps? The wooden combs they used to fan their tresses are familiar to students of ancient Celtic art.
At their peak, around 300BC, the influence of the Celts stretched from Ireland in the west to the south of Spain and across to Italy's Po Valley, and probably extended to parts of Poland and Ukraine and the central plain of Turkey in the east. These mummies seem to suggest, however, that the Celts penetrated well into central Asia, nearly making it as far as Tibet.
The Celts gradually infiltrated Britain between about 500 and 100BC. There was probably never anything like an organised Celtic invasion: they arrived at different times, and are considered a group of peoples loosely connected by similar language, religion, and cultural expression.
The eastern Celts spoke a now-dead language called Tocharian, which is related to Celtic languages and part of the Indo-European group. They seem to have been a peaceful folk, as there are few weapons among the Cherchen find and there is little evidence of a caste system.
Even older than the Cherchen find is that of the 4,000-year-old Loulan Beauty, who has long flowing fair hair and is one of a number of mummies discovered near the town of Loulan. One of these mummies was an eight-year-old child wrapped in a piece of patterned wool cloth, closed with bone pegs.
The Loulan Beauty's features are Nordic. She was 45 when she died, and was buried with a basket of food for the next life, including domesticated wheat, combs and a feather.
The Taklamakan desert has given up hundreds of desiccated corpses in the past 25 years, and archaeologists say the discoveries in the Tarim Basin are some of the most significant finds in the past quarter of a century.
"From around 1800BC, the earliest mummies in the Tarim Basin were exclusively Caucausoid, or Europoid," says Professor Victor Mair of Pennsylvania University, who has been captivated by the mummies since he spotted them partially obscured in a back room in the old museum in 1988. "He looked like my brother Dave sleeping there, and that's what really got me. Lying there with his eyes closed," Professor Mair said.
It's a subject that exercises him and he has gone to extraordinary lengths, dodging difficult political issues, to gain further knowledge of these remarkable people.
East Asian migrants arrived in the eastern portions of the Tarim Basin about 3,000 years ago, Professor Mair says, while the Uighur peoples arrived after the collapse of the Orkon Uighur Kingdom, based in modern-day Mongolia, around the year 842.
A believer in the "inter-relatedness of all human communities", Professor Mair resists attempts to impose a theory of a single people arriving in Xinjiang, and believes rather that the early Europeans headed in different directions, some travelling west to become the Celts in Britain and Ireland, others taking a northern route to become the Germanic tribes, and then another offshoot heading east and ending up in Xinjiang.This section of the ancient Silk Road is one of the world's most barren precincts. You are further away from the sea here than at any other place, and you can feel it. This where China tests its nuclear weapons. Labour camps are scattered all around - who would try to escape? But the remoteness has worked to the archaeologists' advantage. The ancient corpses have avoided decay because the Tarim Basin is so dry, with alkaline soils. Scientists have been able to glean information about many aspects of our Bronze Age forebears from the mummies, from their physical make-up to information about how they buried their dead, what tools they used and what clothes they wore.
In her book The Mummies of Urumchi, the textile expert Elizabeth Wayland Barber examines the tartan-style cloth, and reckons it can be traced back to Anatolia and the Caucasus, the steppe area north of the Black Sea. Her theory is that this group divided, starting in the Caucasus and then splitting, one group going west and another east.
Even though they have been dead for thousands of years, every perfectly preserved fibre of the mummies' make-up has been relentlessly politicised.
The received wisdom in China says that two hundred years before the birth of Christ, China's emperor Wu Di sent an ambassador to the west to establish an alliance against the marauding Huns, then based in Mongolia. The route across Asia that the emissary, Zhang Qian, took eventually became the Silk Road to Europe. Hundreds of years later Marco Polo came, and the opening up of China began.
The very thought that Caucasians were settled in a part of China thousands of years before Wu Di's early contacts with the west and Marco Polo's travels has enormous political ramifications. And that these Europeans should have been in restive Xinjiang hundreds of years before East Asians is explosive.
The Chinese historian Ji Xianlin, writing a preface to Ancient Corpses of Xinjiang by the Chinese archaeologist Wang Binghua, translated by Professor Mair, says China "supported and admired" research by foreign experts into the mummies. "However, within China a small group of ethnic separatists have taken advantage of this opportunity to stir up trouble and are acting like buffoons. Some of them have even styled themselves the descendants of these ancient 'white people' with the aim of dividing the motherland. But these perverse acts will not succeed," Ji wrote.
Many Uighurs consider the Han Chinese as invaders. The territory was annexed by China in 1955, and the Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region established, and there have been numerous incidents of unrest over the years. In 1997 in the northern city of Yining there were riots by Muslim separatists and Chinese security forces cracked down, with nine deaths. There are occasional outbursts, and the region remains very heavily policed.
Not surprisingly, the government has been slow to publicise these valuable historical finds for fear of fuelling separatist currents in Xinjiang.
The Loulan Beauty, for example, was claimed by the Uighurs as their symbol in song and image, although genetic testing now shows that she was in fact European.
Professor Mair acknowledges that the political dimension to all this has made his work difficult, but says that the research shows that the people of Xinjiang are a dizzying mixture. "They tend to mix as you enter the Han Dynasty. By that time the East Asian component is very noticeable," he says. "Modern DNA and ancient DNA show that Uighurs, Kazaks, Kyrgyzs, the peoples of central Asia are all mixed Caucasian and East Asian. The modern and ancient DNA tell the same story," he says.
Altogether there are 400 mummies in various degrees of desiccation and decomposition, including the prominent Han Chinese warrior Zhang Xiong and other Uighur mummies, and thousands of skulls. The mummies will keep the scientists busy for a long time. Only a handful of the better-preserved ones are on display in the impressive new Xinjiang museum. Work began in 1999, but was stopped in 2002 after a corruption scandal and the jailing of a former director for involvement in the theft of antiques.
The museum finally opened on the 50th anniversary of China's annexation of the restive region, and the mummies are housed in glass display cases (which were sealed with what looked like Sellotape) in a multi-media wing.
In the same room are the much more recent Han mummies - equally interesting, but rendering the display confusing, as it groups all the mummies closely together. Which makes sound political sense.
This political correctness continues in another section of the museum dedicated to the achievements of the Chinese revolution, and boasts artefacts from the Anti-Japanese War (1931-1945).
Best preserved of all the corpses is Yingpan Man, known as the Handsome Man, a 2,000-year-old Caucasian mummy discovered in 1995. He had a gold foil death mask - a Greek tradition - covering his blond, bearded face, and wore elaborate golden embroidered red and maroon wool garments with images of fighting Greeks or Romans. The hemp mask is painted with a soft smile and the thin moustache of a dandy. Currently on display at a museum in Tokyo, the handsome Yingpan man was two metres tall (six feet six inches), and pushing 30 when he died. His head rests on a pillow in the shape of a crowing cockerel.



////////////////////ANTHROPOLOGY OF NOSE PICKING=Although he did not specifically correlate nose-picking with resource variation, Barnesdale concluded that the activity did serve a necessary purpose, and had been or still was adaptively advantageous. In one of his last letters before being arrested, he pointed out with a great deal of satisfaction, I believe, that Tanzanian chimpanzees spent more time picking their noses than did their Ugandan counterparts, and that group size at Gombe was invariably larger. Behavior studies of extant pongids over the past fifteen or so years, in addition to those from the earlier part of the 20th century, all agree on two things: great apes pick their noses, and when food resource species decline for any reason, nose-picking frequency increases. The enlarged nostril volume and lengthened phalanges of Pongo, Pan, and to a lesser extent, Gorilla, are obvious morphological adaptations for nose-picking. It seems clear that the pongids share with Homo the sivapithecine legacy of picking the nose, and thus when our mothers tell us not to pick our noses, they are denying the logic and rationale of evolutionary biology. Whether or not the current identification of the KRU-234 fossil from Kenya as Australopithecus nostrilis holds up, the questions remaining to be answered are fascinating ones, and deserving of further study. Regretfully, this researcher must leave these questions to others.



///////////////////Cranberry Juice Increases HDL
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A cup a day keeps the cardiologist away?
By DrRich
At least a handful of small studies have suggested that consuming cranberry juice can increase HDL levels by up to 10%.
Most recently, a study published in the British Journal of Nutrition described the effect of cranberry juice consumption on 30 overweight men with modestly elevated LDL cholesterol levels. For 16 weeks, the men drank increasing amounts of a low-calorie cranberry juice cocktail(up to about 2 cups per day). At the end of this period, these individuals were found to have significantly increased their HDL levels by about 8%.
Researchers attributed the elevation in HDL levels to the flavenoids found in cranberry juice.
DrRich Comments:
Since cranberry juice is harmless, drinking the stuff seems like a reasonable idea for anyone looking to raise their HDL levels.
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Updated: November 26, 2006



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///////////////How Spacesuits Work
by Craig C. Freudenrich, Ph.D.
Inside This Article
1.
Introduction to How Spacesuits Work
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What a Spacesuit Does
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Spacesuit History
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Project Apollo Spacesuit
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Modern Spacesuit: EMU
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Donning a Spacesuit
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Lots More Information
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See all Space articles
Think about how you suit up when you go outside on a cold winter's day. You have your shirt, pants, sweater, perhaps long underwear, jacket, gloves, hat or hood, scarf and boots. You put on quite a bit of clothing to protect you from the cold. Now, imagine what you would have to put on to protect you from outer space! Spacesuits must provide all of the comfort and support that the Earth or a spacecraft does, addressing issues like atmosphere, water and protection from radiation.
Spacesuit Image Gallery
Photo courtesy NASASpacesuits provide oxygen, temperature control and some protection from radiation. See more spacesuit pictures.
In this article, we will examine the problems of walking in outer space and how spacesuits are made to cope with them.
Outer space is an extremely hostile place. If you were to step outside a spacecraft such as the International Space Station, or onto a world with little or no atmosphere, such as the moon or Mars, and you were not wearing a spacesuit, the following things would happen:
You would become unconscious within 15 seconds because there is no oxygen.
Your blood and body fluids would "boil" and then freeze because there is little or no air pressure.
Your tissues (skin, heart, other internal organs) would expand because of the boiling fluids.
You would face extreme changes in temperature:
sunlight: 248 degrees Fahrenheit / 120 degrees Celsius
shade: -148 F / -100 C
You would be exposed to various types of radiation, such as cosmic rays, and charged particles emitted from the sun (solar wind).
You could be hit by small particles of dust or rock that move at high speeds (micrometeoroids) or orbiting debris from satellites or spacecraft.
Photo courtesy NASASo, to protect you from these dangers, a spacesuit must:
Have a pressurized atmosphere
Give you oxygen
Remove carbon dioxide
Maintain a comfortable temperature despite strenuous work and movement into and out of sunlit areas
Protect you from micrometeoroids
Protect you from radiation to some degree
Let you see clearly
Allow you to move your body easily inside the spacesuit
Let you talk with others (ground controllers, other astronauts)
Let you move around the outside of the spacecraft



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///////////////////FDA Report Questions Safety of Asthma Drug Serevent in Children
An FDA staff report concludes that the inhaled beta-2 agonist salmeterol (marketed as Serevent and, when combined with fluticasone, as Advair) "may have an unfavorable risk-benefit ratio" for children's asthma.
A review of the adverse event reporting system database found 9 cases, including 5 deaths, in children under age 16 years in the 13 months since Serevent was approved for use in children.
The adverse events included decreased therapeutic response, overdoses, dizziness and circulatory collapse. None of these are unique to children, the report noted. It recommends "a more thoroughgoing, formal risk-benefit analysis" of this agent's use for pediatric asthma.
An advisory panel of pediatricians is set to discuss the report and the safety of these drugs this week.



///////////////.////FDA Ponders Psychiatric Warning for Common Flu Drugs
An FDA staff report recommends adding label warnings about possible neuropsychiatric side effects in individuals taking the influenza drugs oseltamivir (Tamiflu) and zanamivir (Relenza).
The report was prepared for a meeting of the Pediatric Advisory Committee to take place this week. The FDA found 596 cases of neuropsychiatric events associated with oseltamivir and 115 with zanamivir. The cases, mostly in people age 21 or younger and mostly from Japan, included delirium, hallucinations, and impulsive behavior, including a desire to jump. Five fatalities were associated with oseltamivir use while none were associated with zanamvir.
The agency cautioned it could not rule out the possibility that the behavior was due to the illness rather than the treatment. However, the reports "raise the question" of whether the events result from the neuraminidase inhibitor class. It said "it seems prudent" for both drugs to carry label warnings of hallucinations, delirium, and abnormal behavior.
Glaxo and Roche, which make the two drugs, said label updates are unnecessary, because the events could have resulted from flu symptoms.



///////////////////Re: Long term survival
Posted by: "Thomas E Moore" thosem@gmail.com tearlm
Sun Nov 25, 2007 8:40 am (PST)
I haven't traced this back to the post from Brer, but this topic isfascinating, so I should. I would rate the survival of self-awarenessin the universe as being central to the "meaning of life." We spend a lot of effort looking for "meaning" in life, but we arebeing short sighted, in my view. In our religious traditions, we'repreoccupied with how to live our daily lives, survive our problems andour enemies, assure the future for our families, and to anembarrassing degree, survive our individual deaths. The time scaleaddressed by religion is a few human generations, until our bloodlinesget tangled, and then we get to the afterlife, for which no specificscan be given. But everything we have learned from science is telling us we are in aposition to serve as the (possibly sole) stewards of life in theuniverse. Our DNA is part of a bloodline with a 3.5 Billion yearhistory. Our star is evolving such that it will make Earthuninhabitable in about 1/7 of that amount of time. So in a geologicalsense, we aren't long for this world, and it is time to considerNoah's Ark problem. Our only hope for survival of natural forces is topropagate life elsewhere into the universe. We haven't quit looking,but so far there are no indicators of other life out there. And evenif we did find it, it would be so far away as to be irrelevant to ourresolve to propagate our own "lifeline" in this part of the universe. We might think that expending effort on planning for huge time scaleswill sap our will or energy to deal with the here and now, but Isubmit that a proper appreciation for what is known to be at stake inthe future is essential to effectively deal with our current problems.We cannot be too far-sighted about the future, or too prescient,although we could be wrong. But we are very sure about the evolutionof our star. This goes to the root of the problem of "meaning," whichmost of us sense to be so important that we will not elect a leaderwho fails to show proper respect for it. Seen in the light of thispotential pro-life human purpose in the cosmos, most if not all of themoral issues we face are illuminated and may be resolved. Should we risk self-annihilation by fighting for control of the thirdrock? Well, some of that may be necessary to assure our future vision,but the cost is high. And nuclear winter would be disastrous, not justto ourselves. Should we overpopulate the planet and ruin ourenvironment, since we will be escaping soon into space? Mass escape isimpractical, and it is more credible to attempt to seed lifeelsewhere and have it propagate. But we cannot undertake that if weare consumed with our own survival on Earth. Should we abort unwantedfetuses? In some circumstances, that may be defensible, but it isalways a setback relative to this goal. Is it our responsibility toassure that unpopulated planets remain pristine and free of aninvasive species such as our own? I don't think so! This is, afterall, ultimately a matter of survival. I guess I don't agree that "a reasonable hope that intelligence (theuniverse aware of itself) does or will exist elsewhere is enough."Tom MooreCrofton MD USA"A truly intelligent species will outlive its home star." -- Todd Brennan




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