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[VikLevaPatel]

I'm getting the dreaded "Your connection is not private" when trying to enter the Promethease website.

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I detest paying directly online and only use PayPal. This way I can also directly cancel unneeded, unwanted subscriptions! GEDmatch also does not accept PayPal so I'm reluctant to upgrade my membership and join Tier 1.

Let's see what can happen if you decide to pay directly online instead of using a PayPal account:

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Jennifer T. Campbell, ‎Mark Ciampa, ‎Barbara Clemens, Technology for Success: Computer Concepts, 2019, page 2-10:

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[VikLevaPatel]

How family tree DNA databases are helping to crack cold cases

WEEKEND AUSTRALIAN MAGAZINE

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

When Chelsea Rusted joined Ancestry.com and submitted a DNA sample to match with long lost relatives, little did she know it would help police solve a double murder. And she’s not alone.

Now, Rustad’s experience could be replicated in Australia. Federal and NSW police announced last October that they were assessing the technique of forensic genetic genealogy for its use here. Its potential to solve crimes is significant. So too, it seems, are the possible ramifications for the many Australians who have taken an at-home DNA test, available for less than $100 and commonly given as birthday gifts.

Worldwide, more than 40 million people have swabbed their mouth or sent off a sample of saliva to DNA companies to explore their ancestry, health and inherited traits. If police were able to tap into those results it would offer a new way to identify offenders who were never going to be found through traditional testing on limited government DNA databases.

In Australia, the National Criminal Investigation DNA Database has more than 1.2 million DNA profiles uploaded from convicted offenders, suspects, volunteers, missing persons, unknown deceased and crime scenes across the country. Searching separate, public databases opens up potential matching to a wider group of people: those who have done at-home consumer DNA tests and who may never have had a reason to end up on a government database. And by looking at a greater number of genetic markers, it allows matching to far more distant relatives.

There are some key limitations. The largest genealogy firms that offer at-home DNA tests still bar law enforcement from accessing their DNA databases. That leaves, primarily, two databases police can (and do) use. One is GEDmatch. The other is FamilyTreeDNA, a pioneer of consumer DNA testing that has more than a million genetic profiles; it allows police to search them unless customers opt out. Last year, along with parent company Gene by Gene, it merged with Australian genomics company myDNA.

GEDmatch, after fierce debates about privacy and ethics following the Golden State Killer arrest and the cases that followed, opted all of its users out of law enforcement searches; people must now opt in to make their profiles available to criminal investigations. It was bought by forensic genomics company Verogen in December 2019 and holds about 1.45 million DNA profiles.

Both GEDmatch and FamilyTreeDNA only allow law enforcement matching for violent crimes and to identify human remains, and police do not get the genetic information on the databases – all they can see is who the unknown suspect or deceased is related to, and how closely. It’s then a matter of using available records such as obituaries, newspaper archives and social media to build family trees. Most people on genealogy databases have European ancestry, making the technique less effective for people of other backgrounds. While some cases are solved quickly, such as the Cook and Van Cuylenborg murders, others take many months of painstaking research.

[VikLevaPatel]

How family tree DNA databases are helping to crack cold cases

WEEKEND AUSTRALIAN MAGAZINE

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

Now, Rustad’s experience could be replicated inAustralia. Federal and NSW police announced last October that they were assessing the technique of forensic genetic genealogy for its use here. Its potential to solve crimes is significant. So too, it seems, are the possible ramifications for the many Australians who have taken an at-home DNA test, available for less than $100 and commonly given as birthday gifts.

Worldwide, more than 40 million people have swabbed their mouth or sent off a sample of saliva to DNA companies to explore their ancestry, health and inherited traits. If police were able to tap into those results it would offer a new way to identify offenders who were never going to be found through traditional testing on limited government DNA databases.

In Australia, the National Criminal Investigation DNA Database has more than 1.2 million DNA profiles uploaded from convicted offenders, suspects, volunteers, missing persons, unknown deceased and crime scenes across the country. Searching separate, public databases opens up potential matching to a wider group of people: those who have done at-home consumer DNA tests and who may never have had a reason to end up on a government database. And by looking at a greater number of genetic markers, it allows matching to far more distant relatives.

[VikLevaPatel]

Enough Said

"Plus, Gedmatch's admixture and oracle are very outdated, and were never very reliable to begin with" https://archive.ph/9Lr5E
"All of Gedmatch's admixture calculators are very outdated, and frankly, they were never very reliable to begin with. Their reference panels are very small, ..." https://archive.ph/XPcCW
"Stop using that GEDmatch oracle. It's outdated AF" https://archive.ph/4zyXq#selection-933.104-941.3
"Gedmatch is very outdated and was never very reliable to begin with." https://archive.ph/AsRqW

Over the past few years, the online DNA database GEDmatch has become a powerful tool for solving cold cases.

What are Archaic DNA Matches on Gedmatch?

My Archaic DNA Matches: https://i.ibb.co/q7wQz2K/archaic-WW8874646.gif, https://i.ibb.co/DYj04xw/app-gedmatch-f.png, https://i.ibb.co/hMbdrDS/archaic.gif, https://i.ibb.co/ZVMJZ0S/gedmatch-f.png, https://i.ibb.co/GChvZNs/archaic-YA7932873.gif

The Steppe and Euro_HG results are way off:

Steppe 1.16 https://i.ibb.co/WnXsKgV/steppe.png joker000:

Steppe 1.82 Pct https://i.ibb.co/Gc7RGqw/steppekit.png

Steppe 2.66 Pct https://i.ibb.co/C8RMc6s/gedmatch.png

European_HG 2.22 Pct https://i.ibb.co/RQW7yPt/euhg.png

European_HG 2.28 Pct https://i.ibb.co/Km6gj23/punt.png

European_HG 2.82 Pct https://ibb.co/09c0CHs

European_Hunters_Gatherers - https://i.ibb.co/VWCZV7G/gedmatch-a.png

And if that wasn't bad enough, MDLP K11 shows a result of 63.03 for ASI and MDLP K14 shows a result of 29.55 for ASI!

MDLP K14 (Genoplot):
ANI: 60.44
ASI: 29.55
East-Asian: 6.98
Subsaharian: 1.78
Papuan: 1.25
Mesolithic: 0
Amerindian: 0
Altaic: 0

https://i.ibb.co/mFXsPWV/mdlp.png
https://i.ibb.co/nsQ1KTS/genoplot-admix.png

MDLP K11:
EHG 28.64 Pct
ASI 63.03 Pct
WHG -

https://i.ibb.co/QXY5FvY/sc.png

My ancestry is basically a full quarter Yamnaya or "Steppe" (Genomelink, GenePlaza).

And around 11–12 percent European_HG according to the Illustrative DNA G25 admixture model.

European Bell Beakers 23.7%
Yamnaya 24.6%

https://i.ibb.co/K0CXhYN/bronze-age-gen.png

Genomelink treats the two terms "Yamnaya" and "Steppe pastoralists" as interchangeable.

Steppe pastoralists 23%

https://i.ibb.co/Lk692WZ/yamnaya.png

The G25 test from Eurogenes (from the creator of some of the calculators at gedmatch) and now only available at Illustrative DNA, is the ONLY test that you have to get after you get your raw data.

https://archive.ph/DZECK#selection-2397.0-2397.129

Illustrative DNA: https://i.ibb.co/BNJf6gS/lab-illustrati.png, https://i.ibb.co/dbc5w63/aasi.png, https://i.ibb.co/q1qJzD9/ivc.png,

European Hunter-Gatherer 11.4%: https://i.ibb.co/K9DYBvZ/eurohg.png

Apparently this percentage (European_HG 11.4%) is brahmin tier-level and is considered too high by Indian standards.

murali1003 4 mo. ago
Too high EHG, Are you Brahmin?

https://archive.ph/RDem1#selection-2399.0-2399.30
https://www.reddit.com/r/23andme/com...eb2x&context=3

This *may* be correct, at least for the WHG population:

Population
Ancestral_North_Eurasian 37.4 Pct
Ancestral_South_Eurasian 26.63 Pct
East_Asian 11.68 Pct
West_European_Hunter_Gartherer -
Natufian 23 Pct
Sub_Saharan 1.28 Pct

https://i.ibb.co/QkJZ3jq/hg.png

And possibly even this too:

Population
ANE 30.2 Pct
ASE 22.68 Pct
WHG-UHG -
East_Eurasian 6.57 Pct
West_African -
East_African 4.15 Pct
ENF 36.35 Pct

https://i.ibb.co/GxCnbW9/ane.png

https://i.ibb.co/df2DHNg/ged.png

FINAL WARNING - Deleting registration will remove everything

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[VikLevaPatel]

And if that wasn't bad enough, MDLP K11 shows a result of 63.03 for ASI and MDLP K14 shows a result of 29.55 for ASI!

The importance of an accurate result, one in which bias is removed as far as possible, cannot be over-emphasized. Two laboratories performing an analysis, for instance, may give significantly different results, indicating that one or the other, or both, may be biased.

So basically, what we see here are different calculators giving vastly different results, and that is precisely why they, the individual calculators, each considered singly by it self, are inconclusive and cannot have the final say. MDLP K11 is not available on Genoplot, but, in all fairness, none of them can be expected to give satisfactory results on their own. Perfect results or the best results are obtainable only when population categories are selected, and then followed by an across-the-board comparison of the selected category. (Comparing Apples with....Apples.) In other words, going through all of the Genoplot admixture calculators so as to arrive at an accurate conclusion (truth).

I stand corrected on this point. Genoplot is an excellent tool for making personal comparisons. That is, comparing your selected admixture results (such as your steppe admixture) with the findings from other genetic tests. In my particular case, Genoplot has been most useful for comparing results for the Euro Hunter-Gatherer, Western Hunter-Gatherer (WHG), Early European Farmer (EEF), Steppe Pastoralist (Yamnaya), and Sintashta populations with results particularly from FTDNA, Genomelink, GenePlaza, and Illustrative DNA (G25).

SO LONG AS you are comparing apples and apples and not apples against oranges.

GEDmatch on the other hand . . .

https://www.theapricity.com/forum/sh...59#post7494159

I Nuked My Gedmatch Account From Orbit

Numbskulls would have you believe that I (and for that matter, my caste and my lineage) only carry a measly 1-3 percent Steppe ancestry, when, in actual fact, the opposite is true.

The evolutionary history of human populations in Europe: https://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/1805/1805.01579.pdf

Sample report: https://i.ibb.co/MR3fCgM/screencapture-ass.png, https://assets.website-files.com/5cb...e%20Report.pdf

Early farmers from across Europe directly descended from Neolithic Aegeans: https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.1523951113

When the First Farmers Arrived in Europe, Inequality Evolved: https://www.scientificamerican.com/a...ality-evolved/

Ancient European Samples Point to Steppe Herder Migration with Potential Language Implications: https://www.genomeweb.com/sequencing...ntial-language

Populating Europe. aDNA research shows that present-day Europeans are the result of a mixture of different ancient populations (blue diamonds): (1) West hunter-gatherers who had inhabited Europe since Paleolithic times; (2) Early European farmers, who descended from Near Eastern farmers and entered Europe during the Early Neolithic; and (3) Steppe herders, who arrived in Europe during the Bronze Age. The steppe herders themselves were a mixture of eastern Eurasian hunter-gatherers (Eastern hunter-gatherers) and Near Easterners. Additionally, Europeans have ~2 % archaic ancestry from mixture with Neanderthals that arose ~50,000–60,000 ya, probably somewhere in the Near East (purple star). There is also evidence that admixture with Neanderthals occurred again in Europe (purple triangle), as evident from the DNA of a 37,000–42,000-year-old human from Romania. However, this population appears not to have contributed detectably to later humans in Europe. Grey arrows represent the model for populating Europe inferred from modern DNA analysis. aDNA research refined this model by adding several additional layers of information, including multiple migrations and mixtures leading to present-day Europeans (black arrows)

From: Ancient DNA and the rewriting of human history: be sparing with Occam’s razor

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[VikLevaPatel]

Gedmatch is now allowing a max upload size of five files before requiring the user to pay.

Have they heard that you can create Multiple Gmail Accounts

It's not like everyone is flocking to Gedmatch and just cant get enough of it!

"JUST CAN'T GET ENOUGH OF GEDMATCH" Said No One Ever

GEDmatch has been the main database used by police for genealogy.

No Warrant Required for Public Third-Party Sites

An estimated 1.3 million users have uploaded their DNA data onto it, without knowing it would be accessible by law enforcement.

A DNA Firm That Caters to Police Just Bought a Genealogy Site

In 2018, GEDmatch played a key role in reopening the 40-year-old Golden State Killer case. Now a company that serves law enforcement is gobbling it up.

How a Tiny Website Became the Police's Go-To Genealogy Database

Upload DNA To The Police's Go-To Genealogy Database GEDmatch? Ain't Nobody Got Time for That

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[Ragnarok]

I will try to cover the great issues of intellectual property and privacy and will try to address these issues in my research and in my next few posts.

I have some great stuff and ideas or compositions coming up.



There may be nothing new under the sun, but be sure to cite any passage or research data.

[Ragnarok]

I was looking for and I've been trying to find this particular part of this video, which I had watched in awe a couple of weeks ago. Or rather, heard. Online searches, indeed, can be very frustrating, and often feel like searching for a needle in a haystack, but once you find that needle, as Bell (2014) writes, everything becomes worthwhile. I remember distinctly the way her voice sounded, and it sounds distinctly African-American. Ethnolects are real phenomena, of course, as the Dialect Blog points out, but as far as Black people’s voices having a definite "blackness" to them, that may indeed be true, but it's not very fair to bring that up. I've noticed it when I watch the tarot readings on YouTube. This can be as confusing as trying to pick a needle out of a haystack, or if you're trying to find the proverbial needle in a thousand haystacks. In fact, it is more like looking for a needle in an entire field of hay. As Wingrove (2020) also notes, "One man searching Time, for a needle in a thousand billion haystacks." Now, says Rosenbaum (2011), try to find three related needles in a billion haystacks. If you think of those needles as words or ideas, forming a coherent sentence is flat out impossible. It's in just such situations that curation comes to the rescue. Related to this, Worstell et al (2016) observed that we design our concepts, in the form of ideas, and we clothe these ideas with our words. We express them by speaking our word, or writing our word. Moreover, a well-defined idea in the conscious mind is the father principle. A well-defined idea is planted in the subconscious, or the female portion of the mind, and then the son or the dream fulfilled is a result, or the offspring. It is worth noting in this regard that in DNA libraries, a cell that contains a particular DNA fragment of interest is, as stated by Starr et al. (2020), often mixed up with thousands or millions of others that do not—a needle in a genetic haystack. The cells divide repeatedly and form colonies—clusters of millions of genetically identical descendant cells. It is a type of molecular Xerox machine, Hansen (2016) says in the book "Discovering Your Divine Identity: DNA Plus Other Dynamic Topics Ancient Eastern Hebrews CHINA & All Asian People", that allows us to go in and isolate a small piece of DNA away from all of the other DNA that you have inside of yourself and amplify that up hundreds of thousands, even millions of times, so much that this little needle in a haystack now becomes 100 million needles in that haystack. In addition, the assays allow the picking out of a "needle from a haystack," where, Farkas (2012) explains, the "needle" is a gene or DNA sequence of interest and the haystack is a human genome's worth of DNA (or more correctly, a single piece of hay within the haystack). And it is certainly like trying to find a needle in a haystack when we step up our efforts and intensify them. Hamby (2014) notes that it is very difficult to predict rare events (the proverbial needle in a haystack), but, as Neuman (2022) observed, a needle in a haystack is not simply a rare event, and data science doesn't usually provide the silver bullet for a given problem. Analyzing data may expose temporal regularities, identify patterns, or provide a reasonable classification of objects; however, in itself, it does not provide the solution. And one doesn't, says Toranzos (1997), just look for the needle but amplifies the number of needles to end up with a pile larger than the haystack. Of course, some of the assumptions may prove false, but this, the Civilian Personnel Pamphlet (1943) noted, does not mean that they should not have been made. Seldom indeed are predictions completely wrong. Normally, we merely recognize the changed situation and modify our plans to fit it. Yet Bausell (2017) said in his aptly titled book "The Science of the Obvious: Education's Repetitive Search for What's Already Known" that in reviewing several dozen of these studies, he finds that their triviality was so overwhelming that this approach made the proverbial search for a needle in a haystack pale in comparison. In other words, nothing useful was found, although this could of course be due to sampling error.

As applied to gun control, Carter (2012) points out that the needle-in-thehaystack problem suggests that there are so many guns in the United States, and so few are used to commit crimes, that reducing the availability of firearms through broadly based gun regulation would not reduce criminals' access to guns and thus would not reduce gun violence. Now, what's more interesting is the fact that the stock of guns is now adequate to supply all criminals for the next century or even the next millennium, even if no new guns were manufactured. As pointed out by Gellert (2019), another reason why there are so many guns in America is the longevity of firearms. When properly maintained, most guns have a life expectancy of many decades, and many firearms used to commit crimes in the U.S. are several decades old. Gellert had actually noted back in 1997 that it is hard to imagine the development of the American nation without considering the role of firearms. Moreover, some would argue that the evolution of violence as an integral element in American culture. There is another interesting, and ultimately policy-relevant, empirical fact to note as far as gun ownership is concerned. Those making the needle-in-the-haystack argument assume that all privately owned firearms are potentially available for criminals. This is not the case, as noted by Schildkraut and ‎Carter (2022). Patterns of ownership are such that the vast majority of guns are just not available for use in crimes. Several startling truths, unique insights, or new solutions have been revealed. Thus, we have the state or situation which Stuckenberg (1888) described, that is, the problem has been made clearer; its depth and difficulties have been revealed; popular fallacies have been exposed; cherished methods of handling the problem have been proved false; and conditions for the solution have been made plainer. Indeed, the search for the highest intellectual attainments has led the mind into the sublimest regions of thought; and deep lessons, and numerous valuable discoveries and truths, lie all along the path of metaphysical inquiry. Beeghley (2004) notes that just as few of the huge number of guns in circulation are used in a crime, very few of those who own guns commit crimes. People keep them in their homes or cars or carry them on their persons, and nearly all are perfectly law abiding. And just as the police have found it difficult to bear down on the small number of people who commit most crimes, so too have gun-control advocates in trying to keep that tiny number of firearms out of criminal hands, as Gest (2003) rightly points out. In this sense, Mackey and Levan (2013) cited Lott to note that firearms serve as "the great equalizer" for those who cannot serve as their own capable guardian in preventing crime. Attention should indeed be focused on the criminal, not the gun, and compounding the problem in robberies and felony murders, as the United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary noted back in 1967, is the large number of firearms which are stolen annually, many by individuals who will later misuse them in some criminal act. The fact that criminals do steal firearms for use in crimes naturally reduces the anticipated effectiveness of existing firearms control laws.

Certainly, when there are more guns for Americans than there are jobs, we have to go to work. But America needs more than jobs to really work, as these public papers of the Presidents of the United States all point out one way or another. What is most significant is how few people commit all the violent crimes in America, as the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Crime and Criminal Justice noted back in 2008. The surprise is that as few as 6 percent of all the criminals are responsible for up to 70 percent of the serious crimes. They work at crime, they plan it, they sacrifice for it, and they are willing to suffer jail time for it. "It is, in fact, much more complicated" than looking for a needle in a haystack—for this metaphor also fails to capture the complexity of the task. Looking for a needle in a haystack, Behn (2014) observes, comes with three big advantages. You know exactly what you are looking for. You know what it looks like. And you know where to look. It is, in fact, one of the U.S. intelligence community's favorite metaphors. Carroll (2013) writes in the book titled "The Particle at the End of the Universe: How the Hunt for the Higgs Boson Leads Us to the Edge of a New World," that searching for the Higgs boson has frequently been compared to looking for a needle in a haystack, or for a needle in a large collection of many haystacks. And Goldstein (2008) wrote in the book "Jacob's Legacy" that if finding a disease gene is akin to looking for a needle in a haystack, using a genetically homogeneous population means searching through a much smaller haystack to find the odd-looking needle. Gleason (1964) noted in his book "The Search for God" that one thing has active influence over another, and this implies dependence of the one upon the other. What judges the inner sense? Obviously, there must be something above it. Deputy Attorney General James Cole once said that if you're looking for the needle in the haystack, you have to have the entire haystack to look through. "There is no actual haystack, but rather the haystack, as John Cheney-Lippold states in his book We Are Data, is the "observed activity" of the input graph, a technological construction according to the array of political decisions that determine what and whose activity is observed—and how that activity comes to be datafied. The human heart, as Maturin Murray Ballou noted way back in 1853, is indeed a strange thing. Life itself is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot, and Nico and Taru (2018) hypothesize that what is considered the "haystack" and the "needles" depends greatly on the scale of observation. On the whole, overall model tests are not particularly useful. But while it is easy when testing a large overall model to be in the position of losing a needle in a haystack, we also, in general, risk losing the needle, or the one good predictor, in a haystack of useless predictors, as said and shown in the book, titled "Data Analysis: A Model Comparison Approach To Regression, ANOVA, and Beyond," by Judd et al. (2017). The essence of the problem is that by throwing away parameters for useless predictors, we lose statistical power. A similar observation was also noted by Bollinger et al. (2015). It suffices to quote the relevant portion of the text from their book, Crafting the InfoSec Playbook: Security Monitoring and Incident Response Master Plan:

The limiting factor in any searching endeavor is the amount of useless information you have to search through before you find whatever you're looking for. In the needle-in-a-haystack problem, the useless content is the hay.

The Cocktail Party Effect shows that you can pick out a needle in a haystack of experience. This is because, as explained by Darby et al (2011), the mind isn't like a piece of wax, which sits passively while the world makes an imprint. Actually the mind is more like a heat-seeking missile. It homes in on the things that matter, whizzing right by all the rest. "If you want to find a needle in a haystack, you've got to be systematic about it," said Henry Mulligan in Boys' Life (1964). "Otherwise it's like looking for a needle in a haystack." But Howard (2013) will tell you that you can pick out a white woman who exclusively dates black men in a haystack. Jamal goes on to say: "You snow bunnies see all that chocolate and can't stay on task. You ever notice how the Mandingo lovers are skilled at cooking? They know what a brother likes and how the greens need to be seasoned! These white chicks have studied Paula Deen and have become soul food soldiers!" Though Rajen Persaud seems to be didactic, he is, in fact, asking relevant questions, affirming others, and adding pertinent information in the book titled "Why Black Men Love White Women: Going Beyond Sexual Politics to the Heart of the Matter". Why indeed do so many high-profile black men date and marry the most ordinary white women? Why do so many other black men desire and covet the company of white women? And why does this subject deeply touch so many people of both races? Are these provocative questions matters of love, sex, revenge, power, or politics? And Persaud (2009) cites the case of an eighteen-year-old Georgia high-school football player who was sentenced to ten years in prison in 2003 for having sex with a white girl who was two months from her seventeenth birthday. It was, he says, consensual, but when her father found out, he forced her to say it was rape. He also mentions the fact that black men treat their white girlfriends better than they would a black woman, and, moreover, that what Brothers will do for a white woman they will seldom do for a black one. There may, of course, be other factors and variables that can explain these findings. As Jet magazine noted back in 1992, increasing numbers of Blacks and Whites are opting to date people outside their race, in spite of the stares and whispers interracial couples get as they stroll down the street hand in hand, and despite what others say or think. But, why? Why indeed? It also noted, in 1996, that between 1970 and 1994, the number of interracial married couples increased from 310,000 to 1.3 million. Of the 1.3 million interracial married couples, 296,000 were Black/ White. What's the reason for the steady escalation? In the end, it may come down to a matter of choice. Everything, as The New York Times also noted, comes down to choices. For many people it's a way of not limiting your choices in mate selection. Moreover, more choices can also lead to a meaningful relationship. Ruminations on these and related questions appeared in the magazine in the 90s, and in an article titled "Why People Choose to Date Outside Their Race" (3 Feb 1992), the Jet magazine asked the following questions and offered the following explanation:

Is it the animal magnetism of the stereotypical "Black stud" portrayed in the hit film Jungle Fever? Or maybe it's, the ever-supportive White woman who indulges every whim of her Black man. Perhaps it is the status-conscious Black woman's quick-fix for upward mobility, or simply a desire to increase the available pool of suitable men. The allure of a different culture? Rebellion against racism? Availability? Opportunity? During a recent segment of the syndicated talk show "Donahue," a panel of guests discussed why they choose to date outside their own race. Opposites Attract founder Kymberly Jean dates White men exclusively because they treat her like a lady. "I prefer White men as a matter of preference," Kymberly Jean told a national viewing audience. Why she dates White men exclusively is quite simple: "Because they treat me like a lady." She explained, "I have a lot of respect for myself. And I have found personally that they treat me the way I like to be treated. They open car doors. They take me to places that I like to go. I like to be treated well. I treat myself well, so I'm exposed to these things and I like to have this done for me."

It may indeed be some good to look for a needle in a haystack, as noted in the Modern Language Forum (1939), but what's the good of pulling the haystack to pieces to look for something which may be a bit of hay itself? Taylor (1927) points out that sometimes, to be sure, the change is slight and does no more than reduce the saying to an allusion that proves its familiarity; thus: Needle in a haystack! the obvious comparison of the needle in the haystack; to inquire for those descriptions is, of course, the needle and the haystack; as completely lost as any needle in a haystack. At the same time, as noted by ‎Voice of America (1973), it may be fair to state that today we are beginning to know what kind of needle we should look for in a particular haystack. But this knowledge is, or should be, of value to us in another way as well.Nofsinger and Shank (2020) observe that picking a needle out of a larger haystack is more difficult than from a smaller one, and echo the sentiment in their illustrative example. Not surprisingly, every age group had more difficulty finding the optimal option when provided with more groups from which to choose. What can we conclude here? Can we here pick out that needle in the haystack? Needle in a haystack didn't even begin to describe the task. Indeed, they can sometimes be as confusing as they are enlightening. Let's listen to Monica Luve first, and then compare her voice with voices of women within the YouTube channels Yasmine Star, Jennifer Neville, Tiara's Tarot, The Femacy LightHouse Network, SOulFLY RaRaButterfLyy Reads, and HIGH VIBE HEALING. Even the Dialect Blog is forced to admit that one can sometimes deduce ethnicity by voice alone, and cites researchers from CUNY who in 2011 found that young New Yorkers could ascertain, from mere recordings, whether a speaker was East Asian, African-American, Latino or "White." But the real purpose of this post can be summed up by this YouTube video, "TAURUS "I JUST CAN'T STOP THINKING ABOUT YOU". Especially the salient part beginning at minute 20 30. To quote Yasmine Star:

Taurus someone is copying your intellectual property and they're watching it from the internet so make sure if you guys have a business please make sure uh what is it called uh you get that um trademarked is that what it is is it trademark right I don't know if you can do it for everything because some people can steal your okay and it's they and and not necessarily yours so just be careful with putting too much of your information out there because i am seeing it that some of you guys They're copying off of something that you're doing and they're going to claim it's that it's theirs that was the baic stuff that I heard.

I've been looking strenuously for this part of this video in the last two days, and I am glad to have found it at last. It speaks volumes. I am citing the work and ideas of other investigators and citing all important and influential papers that have contributed to the ideas and insights developed and presented here, so be sure to do the same if you're going to do that. It's never sufficient to just show a basic understanding of the field, but that almost goes without saying. The gist of this summing up, the key fact, that everyone must always remember is that we should not think and we cannot afford to think that it is not important or necessary to cite relevant works (and we may not think otherwise).

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Global Survey on Internet Privacy
and Freedom of Expression

Toby Mendel, ‎Andrew Puddephatt, ‎Ben Wagner · 2012

Three types of intermediaries arouse particular concerns – social networking sites, cloud computing capacities and search engines.