Spectacular prehistoric depictions of animal and human figures created up to 6,000 years ago on Western Saharan rocks have been vandalised by United Nations peacekeepers, The Times has learnt.
Archaeological sites boasting ancient paintings and engravings of giraffes, buffalo and elephants have been defaced within the past two years by personnel attached to the UN mission, known by its French acronym, Minurso.
Graffiti, some of it more than a metre high and sprayed with paint meant for use for marking routes, now blights the rock art at Lajuad, an isolated site known as Devil Mountain, which is regarded by the local Sahrawi population as a mystical place of great cultural significance.
Many of the UN graffiti artists signed and dated their work, revealing their identities and where they are from. One Croatian peacekeeper scrawled Petar CroArmy across a rock face. Extensive traces of pigment from rock painting are visible underneath. Another left behind Cyrillic graffiti, and Evgeny from Russia scribbled AUI, the code for the Minurso base at Aguanit. Mahmoud from Egypt left his mark at Rekeiz Lemgasem, and Ibrahim wrote his name and number over a prehistoric painting of a giraffe. Issa, a Kenyan major who signed his name and wrote the date, had just completed a UN course, Ethics in Peacekeeping, documents show.
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HAMILTON, N.J. (AP) -- A civilian State Police employee was accused of sneaking into a church to look at pornography on a nun's computer. Police arrested Thomas G. Findler Wednesday and charged him with burglary and theft.
Authorities said Findler had been sneaking into Grace St. Paul Episcopal Church in the night over the last three weeks to look at pornography.
Wednesday morning, a church custodian found Findler, who worships at the church, on a nun's computer. The custodian chased him out, right into a police officer who happened to be nearby.
Findler works in a local office for the state police. Reached Thursday morning, Findler's father said his son was not home.
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A friend has optics labs, in a University that will remain nameless, and stuff was mussed every AM. More than mussed sometimes stuff was missing too.
University police were less than useless.
So...
He set up lots of cams with motion detectors..
Signs saying the same everywhere.
Next am.. video of a janitor visiting the Pr0n sites and hosing down the mice and keyboards.... eeeweew...
HR and Police were called. They didn't want to do anything until forced to watch the video.
Man was fired on the spot. A first for HR and the Union working together. Police still refused to do anything so he sent the tape to city and state police to watch the guy.....
The same day after the university admin were forced to view the tapes... instant order of new keyboards, mice, chairs and tables... Room was closed for 3 days of intensive cleaning....
HOUSTON - A woman accused of leaving eight children with little food and no money while she traveled to Africa to marry a man she met on the Internet has been arrested.
Shanell Monique Mosley, 33, was met by authorities as she got off a plane Monday. She was charged with child endangerment and child abandonment for leaving the children in squalid conditions. Her bail was set at $275,000. . . .
Prosecutor John Jordan said Mosleys six children, now in foster homes, were starving and her older children didnt know their own birth dates. Mosleys children are ages 1, 7, 8, 9, 15 and 16, Jordan said. The other two children found in the home were 3- and 4-year-olds the family cared for on behalf of a single father who worked, Jordan said.
The 9-year-old son told authorities he and the baby ate a still-frozen pizza for breakfast the morning they were discovered home alone. There were no diapers, baby food or formula for the infant, no sheets on beds and fruit was rotting in a basket, Jordan said. A Lone Star food card found in the home had no balance.
After the children were discovered alone in the home in early January, officials learned Mosley went to Nigeria to marry an Internet acquaintance. Something phishy about that tale.
When she left for Nigeria on Dec. 31, Mosley told her 15-year-old daughter she would return in a month, child welfare officials said. . . .
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A new study by scientists has suggested that zombie attacks might increase if the current projections of global warming are realized. If the earth gets warmer, it means longer springs, summers, and falls, and shorter winters, said John Carpenter-Romero, Ph.D., a zombie-ologist who co-authored the study. And shorter winters means more time for the undead to prey on the populace.
Dr. Harrister, the other co-author, and head of Zombie Robotics at Wayward Robot, Inc., explained that cold winters typically stalled the walking dead. It is well known that zombies cant operate in cold weather. It freezes their brains.
The pair calculated a 32.782412% increase in zombie attacks if CO2 increased to twice its pre-industrial rate. Clearly, this is a very troubling result, said Dr. Harrister, If we dont do something soon, the streets will be filled with blood.
With the untimely demise of the Weekly World News, we must take our news where we can get it.
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The pair calculated a 32.782412% increase in zombie attacks if CO2 increased
Lotta researchers would round that off to 33%. The fact that they didn't here shows me these guys are serious, responsible, researchers. Any doubt of the methodology is gone, and I, for one, welcome our new Zombie overlords
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Damn - I guess White Zombie isn't reuniting after all...
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How could cold weather freeze their brains? I thought zombies didn't have brains - that's what they're trying to steal from the living. Some zombie experts...
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The theory this study is based upon is that zombies are not warm blooded and the colder weather causes issues with their mobility. Blood pools in the feet without a heart pumping it around and if that blood were to freeze, well you might not be able to walk around much with frozen stumps for feet.
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I showed this story to my wife, who used to be a bodyguard. Her take was either she fucked up or wasn't very good at it in the first place. First rule is know what's going on around you. She obviously didn't.
She also says it reads to her like she was actually running high class hookers fronting as bodyguards. Just her opinion.
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US Army-CIA-NSA have and had her file since the 1980's.
As someone whom knows her and her skills personally, SHE WAS TOO GOOD TO BE KILLED LIKE THAT. MY SUSPICION > Anna was covertly ASSASSINATED BY ORGANIZED GROUP AND HER DEATH MADE TO LOOK LIKE AN ORDINARY STREET = REVENGE CRIME.
She was a highly trained Soviet agent-oper, NOT UK's POSH SPICE. Loyal to her Commie USSR but wanted same + USA to be friends.
Warning to all those know-alls who shout at the television screen when contestants offer dumb answers to blindingly obvious questions -- one day that could be you. Yeah. After my Altzheimer's gets so bad I don't know my own name anymore and I vote Democratic.
From regional radio shows to "Who Wants To be a Millionaire?" and "University Challenge," people make fools of themselves -- as internet site www.jumpingjacksbar.com found in collating some of the worst howlers.
Here are leading contenders for the "Dumb Down" gold medal:
Presenter: What happened in Dallas on November 22,1963?
Contestant: I don't know, I wasn't watching it then I didn't know Dallas was running back then!
Presenter: Which American actor is married to Nicole Kidman?
Contestant: Forrest Gump
Presenter: In which country is Mount Everest?
Contestant: Er, it's not in Scotland is it?
Presenter: Name a film starring Bob Hoskins that is also the name of a famous painting by Leonardo da Vinci
Contestant: Who Framed Roger Rabbit?
Presenter: In which European city was the first opera house opened in 1637?
Contestant: Sydney
Presenter: How long did the Six-Day War between Egypt and Israel last?
Contestant: (after long pause) Fourteen days
Presenter: Where did the D-Day landings take place?
Contestant: (after pause) Pearl Harbor?
Presenter: What is the currency in India?
Contestant: Ramadan
Presenter: Johnny Weissmuller died on this day. Which jungle-swinging character clad only in a loin cloth did he play?
A fire at the Monte Carlo casino-hotel was caused by flying molten metal from a hand-held cutting torch used by workers who did not have proper permits, fire officials said Thursday. Workers were cutting corrugated steel to set up window-washing equipment Friday at the casino on the Las Vegas strip but did not use proper mats to protect the roof, the Clark County Fire Department said. The first 911 call came from a passer-by.
If the contracting company, Union Erectors LLC, had applied for a permit, it would have been advised how to perform the work safely and likely been approved in four to five weeks, said Deputy Fire Chief Girard Page. "It does take time and effort, but it's not that difficult," Page said.
Officials are reviewing whether to cite the contractor, which could result in fines of $1,000 and up to six months in jail per citation, a misdemeanor. An attempt to call Union Erectors' Las Vegas office was unsuccessful.
The melted steel started a fire on the southwest corner of the main facade of the roof of the 3,000-room, 32-story hotel-casino Friday morning. The flames spread quickly as they devoured a foam-like material on the facade. Thousands of guests and employees evacuated, but no serious injuries were reported. The fire was contained by about 120 fire personnel more than an hour after it began. Construction workers using four hand-held extinguishers failed to put the blaze out, fire officials said.
The Monte Carlo remained closed Thursday. Casino operator MGM Mirage Inc. acknowledged that the paperwork for the metal work that caused the fire "did not meet our corporate standards" and said in a statement that the situation was "being immediately addressed." In da old days, they'd be digging graves in the desert..
Union Erectors had only a permit from the county to install window-washing equipment at the hotel, but not to conduct work with torches. A complete report on the investigation was still being compiled.
It was the first of two roof fires within a week at U.S. gambling resorts. A blaze Tuesday at the Great Cedar Hotel at Foxwoods Resort Casino in Mashantucket, Conn., also injured no one but forced guests to evacuate. That fire was traced to a malfunctioning device meant to keep pipes from freezing.
The Monte Carlo, which opened in June 1996, is on the Las Vegas Strip not far from the scene of Nevada's deadliest fire, a Nov. 21, 1980, blaze that killed 87 people at the old MGM Grand hotel and led to strict fire codes in Las Vegas resorts.
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They picked these guys, probably, because they were the lowest bid, and walked past companies that knew what they were doing when they hired them.
The contractor, in its turn, probably walked past many welders who actually knew what they were doing to hire some idiot, maybe illegal, who's gonna bow to the "I don't want it done right, I want it done NOW!" dance.
There's NOTHING special about the United States, we can de-industrialize ourselves just like lots of other countries if we so choose.
This just ain't right. They could at least give the guy something else to do while he is looking for another job. Suppose they have their own self-funded insurance plan they are trying to protect?
Roman Catholic clergy in Columbus are asking Irish worshippers to refrain from celebrating St. Patrick's Day on March 17 this year.
Columbus Bishop Frederick Campbell has asked local pastors to celebrate the patron saint a week early instead. For the first time in 67 years, the holiday falls during the week before Easter, called Holy Week and considered the most sacred week on the Christian calendar.
"Wherever Holy Week happens to fall, any other feast days during that week are set aside," said Deacon Tom Berg Jr., vice chancellor of the Columbus Diocese.
The city's Shamrock Club said the downtown parade and Irish Family Reunion at Veterans Memorial will go on as planned. But the local division of the Ancient Order of Hibernians, a national Irish Catholic group, will not participate.
The Shamrock Club declined to cancel the event because the date is mandated by its bylaws. President Mark Dempsey, a Catholic, said many other cities have not canceled their parades.
"I understand this being Holy Week, but I don't know anyone else who shuts down during Holy Week," Dempsey said.
No Mass will be celebrated prior to the parade, Berg said.
The controversy has created a rift among Irish Catholics, said Monsignor John K. Cody, who serves as chaplain of both groups. Cody advised the Shamrock Club to move the parade, saying St. Patrick wouldn't "want to see people whooping it up in his honor during the most sacred week of the year."
Roman Catholic officials in Ireland, the country where the holiday originated, decided in July to shift its 2008 feast day for the national saint to March 15 -- the first time the date has been changed since 1940.
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"I understand this being Holy Week, but I don't know anyone else who shuts down during Ramadan Holy Week," Dempsey said.
Bullshit. Headline whore. etc etc which gets me banned. St. Columba would not agree. This is no longer a 'pc' movement but total agreeabel dismembership of all which is Christian and Western. Ever wonder the tune which Nero played, it sounds like this...
The controversy has created a rift among Irish Catholics, said Monsignor John K. Cody, who serves as chaplain of both groups. Cody advised the Shamrock Club to move the parade, saying St. Patrick wouldn't "want to see people whooping it up in his honor during the most sacred week of the year."
I doubt it did. Most likely that putz was laughed out the door, but he made the news. My guess is that he (St. Patrick) didn't anticipate or expect people to change their lives on his work; that is he was a humble chap.
Stand up folks! This, what we call out here, is BULLSHIT! The culture blitz must be stopped, if anything St. Thomas Aquinas would agree. Jesus may have been many things but he never rolled over to the 'correctness' of the times (in the temple).
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The "No Party" folks are correct. Per the Catechism, Holy Week overarches and subsumes all other memorials, feasts and solemneties for that week. Especially the Palm Sunday, Triduum (Holy Thurs, Good Fri, Holy Sat) and Easter Sunday. All other things become optional observances (lowest on the totem pole, and generally only mentioned in the Mass prayers of that day, no other special deeds done).
Sorry St Paddy, but them's the rules.
If you want to celebrate an excuse to get drunk and be a fake Irishman, then call it something else that day.
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The way people mark the holiday here would make the saint vomit. Politics over who gets to march in the parade, and binge drinking.
Back in my college days, a friend took me to Finn McCool's bar in Chicago for St. Patrick's Day. Turns out the party was an IRA fundraiser, and the band was singing such profound lyrics as "If you hate the queen of England, clap your hands." I looked at my friend, my friend looked at me, and we agreed to get out of there. Some drunken colleen didn't think I was enthusiastic enough in cheering along with the music. I looked at her blankly and answered her with a handy phrase in German. Made my exit.
Poor St. Patrick. He gently led thousands to abandon some sickening practices and find hope in the Lord. First the storytellers mingled some of Patrick's history with grim cautionary tales of his calling down judgment, stories of old druids renamed. Then in our day, it's a day to get schnackered.
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it's anothe night I won't go out late due to the drunks (Cinco De Mayo is another), but as long as they obey the laws with designated drivers or taxis, I don't give a rat's ass what they do. They are no more celebrating St. Patrick than St. Guiness. How many are Catholic? Let them answer to God, and worry about more important things, OldSpook?
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It's the bishop's job to remind his congregants what the rules are. It's the right of the parade organizers to do or not do as they choose, in this country at least. And I'm with mom (good rant!) and Frank -- I'll stay away from the drinkers and the drunks who think adding dye to beer makes it better.
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You nailed it - the bishops and priests must warn the congregants about the errors. What us Catholics do with the advice is up to us, and on our consciences.
As for me, New Years, Cinco and St Paddys are the 3 days where I get home early and do not go out again, in general. If my better half and I go out, its for the night with a hotel in walking distance (New Years).
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When St. Paddys fell on a weekday the Irish pub I used to work at was usually really busy the closest weekend before or after & moderately busy on the actual 17th. I have a lot of mick in my background and have always wondered why they can't schedule SPD the second Sat in March or whichever Sat wouldn't interfere w/easter etc.
BTW - the poll on that website has 66% of the respondents saying they will party on the 17th despite the church rule. 15% will follow the church rule and the other 19% don't celebrate SPD.
The survivors of a group of women who flew Spitfires in non-combat roles during the Second World War are expected to be honoured with a special badge.
The women of the Air Transport Auxiliary may not have taken part in the Battle of Britain but, without their flying skills and courage in delivering the aircraft to the RAF bases for their male counterparts to clear the skies of German bombers, the battle would never have got off the ground.
There are believed to be about 15 of the women pilots left, all in their eighties and nineties. They also flew Hurricanes, Lancasters, Mosquitoes and other wartime aircraft.
Now Gordon Brown has been approached to see whether they could be given formal recognition for the risks they took in ferrying Spitfires and other fighters and bombers from the manufacturers to airbases in Britain and France throughout the war.
Margaret Frost, now 87, who hated heights and was officially too small at just under 5ft 3in to become a Spitfire pilot, spent three years flying the aircraft, and welcomed the suggestion of a badge for her and her colleagues. But I dont think any of us is expecting it, she said.
Nigel Griffiths, Labour MP for Edinburgh South, who has taken up the womens cause and has already had encouraging responses from the Government, said: These are forgotten people and they deserve an honour.
He began campaigning for an honour for the survivors after reading Spitfire Women of World War II, a book by the Times journalist Giles Whittell. He referred to them as a unique sisterhood of flying addicts who came to England from five continents to ferry combat aircraft for the Air Transport Auxiliary in the war. They were the only women from among the Western Allies who flew in the war.
Mr Griffiths, whose father flew Mosquito fighter bombers in the war, had a meeting this week with Jim Fitzpatrick, Parliamentary UnderSecretary of State at the Department for Transport, and was given encouraging indications that the Prime Minister backed his campaign.
An honour for the Spitfire women would be in line with the announcement last year that the Land Girls of the Second World War were to receive a special badge.
Miss Frost, who lives in Mid Wales, said: I was 23 when I joined the ATA. I was 5ft 2Ÿ when the minimum height requirement was 5ft 4in, but I got through. You had to fly the Spitfires without any radio system, and the only way you knew you could land at an airbase was when someone stood on the runway with a green light rather than a red light.
She added: The Spitfire was lovely to fly. I was lucky because the weather was kind to me, but there were others [15] who lost their lives flying in bad weather.
Miss Frost said: I always hated heights but it was different being enclosed in the Spitfire. I never flew higher than 2,000ft. I have so many memories of that time, but reminiscing is tiring.
The most famous female member of the ATA was Amy Johnson, the first woman to fly solo from Britain to Australia in 1930, a journey of 11,000 miles. She joined the ATA in 1940 and was promoted to First Officer. In January 1941, while flying an Airspeed Oxford from Blackpool to RAF Kidlington in Oxfordshire, she was caught in poor weather and eventually the aircrafts two tanks ran out of fuel.
She clambered out on to the fuselage with her parachute and jumped, but landed in the Thames Estuary and drowned. A rescue attempt was made but her body was never recovered.
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...How wonderful that these ladies may finally be recognized. Read Spitfire: The Biography by Johnathan Glancey for more detail, especially on a lady named Diana Barnato.
Mike
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Read her story here:
http://www.raf.mod.uk/history_old/dianabw.html
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Somebody remind me > is there a NATIONAL MONUMENT in Washington to AMER WOMEN AUXILIARY PILOTS, "ROSIES/SALLIES", US CIVIE MERCHANT MARINERS, PHILIPPINE SCOUTS, INDIAN CODETALKERS, etc "ALSO-THERE"???
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Joe, I don't know about the monument, but the word on women who served is getting out. One of the American Girls stories honors the WASP pilots that helped the Army Air Corps, and a remarkable book about the Army nurses in North Africa, Italy, and France is out: Evelyn Monahan's "And If I Perish." I don't know if the oral history people are working on getting the women support staff stories as well as the soldiers.
Check your library or Amazon listings for histories.
One more note: I think women flew the black painted Mosquitoes called "Moon Planes" for the Secret Service on some missions. I don't think the Moon Plane that flew Niels Bohr out was one of these, though.
the one-hundred-and-five-story Ryugyong Hotel is hideous, dominating the Pyongyang skyline like some twisted North Korean version of Cinderella's castle. Not that you would be able to tell from the official government photos of the North Korean capital -- the hotel is such an eyesore, the Communist regime routinely covers it up, airbrushing it to make it look like it's open -- or Photoshopping or cropping it out of pictures completely.
Even by Communist standards, the 3,000-room hotel is hideously ugly, a series of three gray 328-foot long concrete wings shaped into a steep pyramid. With 75 degree sides that rise to an apex of 1,083 feet, the Hotel of Doom (also known as the Phantom Hotel and the Phantom Pyramid) isn't the just the worst designed building in the world -- it's the worst-built building, too. In 1987, Baikdoosan Architects and Engineers put its first shovel into the ground and more than twenty years later, after North Korea poured more than two percent of its gross domestic product to building this monster, the hotel remains unoccupied, unopened, and unfinished.
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Put a sh*tload of solid rocket boosters on each wing base (buttress?) and send 'er into orbit. Take videos, photoshop in some Godzilla animation later and you have a sci-fi movie with Juiche!
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Actually, AP, I think that's one of the videos.
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Icerigger---Lloyd's building looks like some kind of Bladerunner refinery.....
tu3031---my bad. Haven't seen too many Godzilla videos since my college days in the sixties. If you remember the sixties, you weren't there, they tell me.
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Could be Spot but have you seen the Lloyds of London building?
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Would make one heck of a pharaoh's tomb, if the Norks get my drift.
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Yes it is awful.
The ugliest building I've ever actually been in is the Robert C Weaver HUD building in Washington DC. It is only about 10 stories high and designed by an 'award winning architect' but we all refer to the style as either "neoStalinist" or 'early-Speer'.
"The Ryugyong Hotel looms over Pyongyang like some kind of slumbering bat. Something deep inside my brain tells me that the 75° angle of the hotels outer walls is exactly the wrong angle; it says sinister, it says creepy, it says get away."
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"It was considered ugly when it went up, but thanks to my vision the american dream it is now an icon of safe, effective, fermaLgahyde free emergency living for ALL INDIVIDUALS WANTING TO WORK!!!"
-HRC
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Well they are both Frank Gehry tossed pile of tinkertoy crap. I wonder just how long those buildings are supposed to last with all those lateral stresses.
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I HAS A NON-EUCLIDIAN GEOMETRY. LET ME SHOW YOU IT.
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The Stata Center reminds me of the Hundertwasser apartment building in the village we lived in in Germany. link
I was told there wasn't a proper right angle in the entire building, because the artist/architect finds such things stifling.
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Considering HOW TALL/HIGH + espec THIN some proposed skyscrapers in the ME + Asia are gonna be, MIGHT WANNA START [RE]LOVING THAT LOW + WIDE PYRAMID SHAPE.
Marriages between cousins is a major reason for around 44 percent thalassaemia children registered in the city, a study conducted by the University of Health Sciences (UHS) reveals.
Prof Dr Muhammad Aslam Khan, the head of the UHS Human Genetics and Biotechnology Department, conducted a study on cultural consanguinity in Punjab and highlighted the hazards of marriages between cousins and blood relatives.
Dr Khan told Daily Times that he had interviewed 206 families in Lahore and found that 89 percent parents were knotted in consanguinity marriages. He said he had found one or more thalassaemia cases in the families where cousin marriages were common. The 206 families had given birth to 720 children, out of which 318 children were inflicted with thalassaemia and 402 were found healthy. He said that out of those 318 thalassaemia patients, 174 were males and 144 were females. Out of the 420 healthy children, 209 were boys and 195 were girls, he added.
He said that during his study he had come across a fact that the parents who had thalassaemia children deliberately ignored the treatment of their female thalassaemia babies. There would have been more female thalassaemia patients, but most of the female patients had died before getting medical treatment due to the discriminate attitude of their parents, he added. He said Rs 1,800 were required for a weekly blood transfusion in a thalassaemia child. Poor parents could not afford the expenses and they preferred to give medical treatment only to their thalassaemia-effected male children, he added.
He said that in Pakistan about 82.5 percent parents are first cousins, 6.8 percent are blood relatives, 6.3 percent belong to a same caste and family, and only 4.4 percent are married out of their families.
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only 4.4 percent are married out of their families
I suppose they call these folks the perverts there?
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In France at least it is and AFAIK has been legal for many decades, perhaps since the Revolution, to marry a first cousin. You don't even need an authorization from ythe President like when marrying an uncle or aunt.
Simply in Christian countries even those who are now Protestant have been marked by Medieval Catholic Church's fight agsint conseguine marriages this has ever been rare and frowned upon. From memory the Church required at six or seven generations without common ancestry ie only 1/64th or 1/128th of common blood. At least between commoners. Kings were another matter.
The Church fight agsainst consaguine marriages was crucial on destroyiing tribalism in western societies.
Pakistani authorities confirm that a deadly strain of the bird flu virus has been detected near the southern city of Karachi. Authorities say the H5N1 virus has been found at a poultry farm on the outskirts of Pakistan's largest city.
The farm has been quarantined to prevent further spread of the virus. Health officials say they are monitoring farm workers, but so far there is no sign of human infection.
Pakistan recorded its first human death from bird flu in December.
A man who worked on a poultry farm in North West Frontier Province died. His brother had recently died as well, but was not tested for the virus. Bird flu can change the WoT equation overnight.
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Good news? It would be terrible if a deadly pandemic swept through Islamabad and Karachi and the tribal lands indiscriminately killing tens of millions of muslims made vulnerable by their dependence on 7th century medical technology.
Perhaps Tom Cruise could be sent in to help. He is the only person who can.
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I see this as proof Allah is displeased with you.
So Pray to Allah for a cure, and then die.
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It wouldn't be nearly as nice if a vacationing Pakistani got on an airplane to the U.S. carrying the infection... or to Mecca on haj. But a pandemic would, indeed, probably end the jihadi threat for generations, while having a much smaller impact in the West.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
HOUSTON - A woman accused of leaving eight children with little food and no money while she traveled to Africa to marry a man she met on the Internet has been arrested.
A new study by scientists has suggested that zombie attacks might increase if the current projections of global warming are realized. If the earth gets warmer, it means longer springs, summers, and falls, and shorter winters, said John Carpenter-Romero, Ph.D., a zombie-ologist who co-authored the study. And shorter winters means more time for the undead to prey on the populace.
Question: What was Gandhi's first name? 
Marriages between cousins is a major reason for around 44 percent thalassaemia children registered in the city, a study conducted by the University of Health Sciences (UHS) reveals. 
