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what caught my eye today
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| 1900. |
20 Dec 2008 Sat 11:27 pm |
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Severed cable disrupts net access
Internet and phone communications between Europe, the Middle East, and Asia have been seriously disrupted after submarine cables were severed.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7792688.stm
Happening twice in the year for same cables,and affecting almost same areas,i must agree its strange !
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| 1901. |
21 Dec 2008 Sun 12:36 am |
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EGYPT: 97% OF MARRIED WOMEN UNDERGO GENITAL MUTILATION
CAIRO, JUNE 27 - A total 97% of the married Egyptian women has suffered genital mutilation, and the area where this practice is most frequent (99%) is in the governorship of Qena, in the south of the country. In Matrouh, on the Mediterranean coast towards Libya, the lowest percentage (25%) is registered. According to the study ´National Project Against Female Circumcision´, held by the Minister of Health in cooperation with the United Nations DAG Programme, the percentage is lower in the urban centres (94.6%), higher in the country (98.8%), while in the Sinai it decreases to 37%, Egyptian independent daily ´Al Masri el Yom´ reports. Among uneducated women, 99.1% have suffered the circumcision; among educated women (secondary school or university), the percentage gets down to 94%. The percentage of women in favour of the circumcision is 85% in Upper Egypt compared to 50% in the North; 50% of the educated women and 87.5% of the uneducated women are also in favour. Two days ago the Chief Mufti of Egypt said that the "harmful tradition of the female circumcision is prohibited by Islam", after the death of an 11-year old girl following an excessive dose of anesthetic given during the operation. The wife of the Egiptian president, Suzanne Mubarak, who is in charge of the government´s consulting commission for Maternity and Childhood, launched today a "national campaign against female circumcision".
à doubt those figures.
The current generations in the Uni of women are almost the third generation where its almost the forth generation of male
The Cairo Uni is established in 1908
So i doubt that percentage between the educated women,and about other figures i dont know how did they get them
Personally no one has asked me about it,nor asked anyone that i know,and they wont dare to ask anyone in the country areas i believe.
So how did they get their figures?!
Still,we sure have a problem about it,and it wont end till people themselves stop believing in it
Law not allowing it,ministry of health not allowing it,Doctors who would do it would face punishment ,but still people who determine on doing it to their daughters find away,and we dont know about it till a tradedy happened !
à believe education is the main solution here with the other tracks efforts.
Wish it ends someday soon.
Ps: Femmeous can you provide a link to that post?
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| 1902. |
21 Dec 2008 Sun 12:44 am |
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Come back Lesluv 
+1
She will be missed
Now where will she go when she wants to escape works ?! 
 .....I couldn´t do it 
Welcome Dear
Ehhhmmm,errrrrmm,mmmm btw,was EA right ?!  lol
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21 Dec 2008 Sun 12:46 am |
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Welcome Dear
Ehhhmmm,errrrrmm,mmmm btw,was EA right ?!
as always.....but please don´t tell her .... she will start charging
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| 1904. |
21 Dec 2008 Sun 08:00 pm |
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EGYPT: 97% OF MARRIED WOMEN UNDERGO GENITAL MUTILATION
CAIRO, JUNE 27 - A total 97% of the married Egyptian women has suffered genital mutilation, and the area where this practice is most frequent (99%) is in the governorship of Qena, in the south of the country. In Matrouh, on the Mediterranean coast towards Libya, the lowest percentage (25%) is registered. According to the study ´National Project Against Female Circumcision´, held by the Minister of Health in cooperation with the United Nations DAG Programme, the percentage is lower in the urban centres (94.6%), higher in the country (98.8%), while in the Sinai it decreases to 37%, Egyptian independent daily ´Al Masri el Yom´ reports. Among uneducated women, 99.1% have suffered the circumcision; among educated women (secondary school or university), the percentage gets down to 94%. The percentage of women in favour of the circumcision is 85% in Upper Egypt compared to 50% in the North; 50% of the educated women and 87.5% of the uneducated women are also in favour. Two days ago the Chief Mufti of Egypt said that the "harmful tradition of the female circumcision is prohibited by Islam", after the death of an 11-year old girl following an excessive dose of anesthetic given during the operation. The wife of the Egiptian president, Suzanne Mubarak, who is in charge of the government´s consulting commission for Maternity and Childhood, launched today a "national campaign against female circumcision".
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21 Dec 2008 Sun 08:50 pm |
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Interesting....but I wonder about the acuracy of the statistics. It seems the problem is with uneducated, unskilled operation as to when it is called genital mutilation and when it´s called cosmetic surgery.
There seems to be a lot more genital modification in the "West" than many are aware of.
Plastic surgery below the belt
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| 1906. |
21 Dec 2008 Sun 09:06 pm |
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What do you think?
The Retail DNA test
"And yet while Wojcicki and Brin aren´t worried about genetic privacy, others are. In May, President George W. Bush signed a bill that makes it illegal for employers and insurers to discriminate on the basis of genetic information. California and New York tried to block the tests on the grounds that they were not properly licensed, but have so far been unsuccessful. Others worry about how sharing one´s genetic data might affect close relatives who would prefer not to let a family history of schizophrenia or Lou Gehrig´s disease become public. And what if a potential mate demands to see your genome before getting serious? Such hypotheticals are endless. And some researchers argue that the tests are flawed. "The uncertainty is too great," says Dr. Muin Khoury, director of the National Office of Public Health Genomics at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, who argues that it is wrong to charge people for access to such preliminary and incomplete data. Many diseases stem from several different genes and are triggered by environmental factors. Since less than a tenth of our 20,000 genes have been correlated with any condition, it´s impossible to nail down exactly what component is genetic. "A little knowledge is a dangerous thing," says Dr. Alan Guttmacher of the National Institutes of Health."
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21 Dec 2008 Sun 11:05 pm |
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Interesting....but I wonder about the acuracy of the statistics. It seems the problem is with uneducated, unskilled operation as to when it is called genital mutilation and when it´s called cosmetic surgery.
There seems to be a lot more genital modification in the "West" than many are aware of.
Plastic surgery below the belt
oh come on Alameda, how can you even compare these two...
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23 Dec 2008 Tue 12:04 am |
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New member ´LeWax´!  ........run thehairy......run and hide! 
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23 Dec 2008 Tue 12:06 am |
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New member ´LeWax´! ........run thehairy......run and hide!
Where is the head of the welcoming committee?
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| 1910. |
23 Dec 2008 Tue 12:15 am |
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Where is the head of the welcoming committee?
He´s a man....probably just started his Christmas shopping 
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