Beijing Closes Live Poultry Markets to Combat Bird Flu – All China Women’s Federation

Beijing has suspended the trading of live poultry in order to halt the spread of the H7N9 bird flu virus.

The city banned the trading in its main urban areas this week, according to local health department.

A man in Beijing has been confirmed to have contracted H7N9 bird flu, the first case reported in the city this year, authorities confirmed on January 24, 2014.

The city\’s disease control and prevention center said the man tested positive for H7N9 bird flu on Thursday night.

He is receiving treatment at Ditan Hospital.

The center said the patient had bought pigeons and ate them before being admitted to the hospital.

via Beijing Closes Live Poultry Markets to Combat Bird Flu – All China Women’s Federation.

David Cameron pledges to rip up green regulations | Politics | The Guardian

 

David Cameron pledges to rip up green regulations | Politics | The Guardian.

Never, never, never underestimate Cameron’s capacity to pimp to business that have no care for the future and pretend he is doing the right thing – when it is actually incredibly stupid and damaging.

Big Boy locomotive begins California farewell tour – Wire Nation/World – The Sacramento Bee

POMONA, Calif. — An enormous steam locomotive that has been entertaining train enthusiasts at a California museum for years began a trek of more than 1,200 miles on Sunday with the ultimate goal of putting the engine back on the nation\’s rails.

The 600-ton Big Boy locomotive left the Pomona fairgrounds on its way to a Union Pacific rail yard in Colton, about 60 miles away, where it will be available for two weekends of public viewing before moving on to Cheyenne, Wyo., for restoration work. The goal is to eventually get Engine 4014 back on the rails, said Union Pacific spokesman Aaron Hunt.

via Big Boy locomotive begins California farewell tour – Wire Nation/World – The Sacramento Bee.

Dark skin and blue eyes: How Europeans once looked | News , Science | THE DAILY STAR

The DNA of a hunter-gatherer who lived in Spain some 7,000 years ago suggests that Europeans were dark-skinned until much more recently than previously thought, researchers said Sunday.

Genetic material recovered from a tooth of La Brana 1, an ancient man whose skeleton was dug up in a deep cave system in Spain in 2006, revealed a strange combination of dark skin and blue eyes, according to a study in the journal Nature.

Europeans from the Mesolithic Period between 10,000 and 5,000 years ago, when La Brana lived, were thought to have already been fair-skinned due to low ultraviolet radiation levels at these high latitudes.

\”Until now, it was assumed that light skin colour evolved quite early in Europe, (during) the Upper Palaeolithic… But this is clearly not the case,\” study co-author Carles Lalueza-Fox from Spain\’s Evolutionary Biology Institute, told AFP.

\”This individual had the African variants for the pigmentation genes.\”

via Dark skin and blue eyes: How Europeans once looked | News , Science | THE DAILY STAR.

Mimi Writes…….: Mimi In A Minute #32 ~ I Blame It On The Polar Vortex

These things keep me up at night. They give me a headache.

I just need sixty seconds of your time to unclog my pencil brain so that I can get some sleep.

Do you mind?

I have a few things to say. This is Mimi unplugged.

Hide your children.

via Mimi Writes…….: Mimi In A Minute #32 ~ I Blame It On The Polar Vortex.

Ukraine: Activist Leader Missing | Human Rights Watch

Kill some – offer power “sharing” to some but not all to split opposition – all the usual steps by a wannabe dictator or shill for Russia.

(Kiev) – One of the leaders of Kiev’s protest movement has been missing since January 22, 2014. Dmitri Bulatov, 35, is the third protest activist who has disappeared in the past week. Human Rights Watch called on Ukrainian authorities to urgently undertake a thorough investigation to locate him and ensure his safety and well-being.

via Ukraine: Activist Leader Missing | Human Rights Watch.

Vitamin D fails in study – Life & Style – NZ Herald News

Vitamin D supplements provide little – if any – health benefits, a study shows.

The Auckland University report analysed multiple existing studies focused on the effects of vitamin D.

It found they failed to reduce the risk of heart attacks, strokes, cancer or bone fractures in the general population by more than 15 per cent.

Vitamin D supplements are commonly associated with better health and the prevention of various medical conditions. However, an emerging body of research is beginning to debunk these beliefs.

A study published last month in The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology journal concluded low levels of vitamin D were a result, rather than a cause, of ill-health.

The latest study, led by Dr Mark Bolland from the university\’s Department of Medicine, analysed comparisons of individuals who took calcium with their vitamin D supplements and those who didn\’t. Calcium is essential for healthy bones and teeth.

Some of Bolland\’s research indicates an increased risk of hip fractures with vitamin D supplementation.

It follows studies that showed vitamin D supplements made no difference in preventing osteoporosis in most healthy adults.

via Vitamin D fails in study – Life & Style – NZ Herald News.

“All It Takes Is One Good Man With A Gun……” – ‘There Has Been An Average Of One School Shooting Every Other School Day So Far This Year’

We are an effing dumb nation to be held hostage like this!

The Last Of The Millenniums

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‘Though the sample size is far too small to draw any definitive conclusions, 2014 is off to a deadly start’:

‘In the first 14 school days of the year, there have been at least 7 school shootings’.

‘For sake of comparison, there were 28 school shootings in all of 2013, according to gun violence prevention group Moms Demand Action’.

‘That number could have been even higher were it not for several near-misses’.

  • ‘An eighth grader was arrested in Georgia last week after he brought a gun to school on consecutive days and robbed a classmate’.
  • ‘On Tuesday, Portland police rushed to an area high school after a student was reportedly showing off his gun to a fellow classmate during lunch’.
  • ‘And early on Wednesday four teenagers were arrested after they were seen pointing a gun at a school bus in Norfolk, Virginia’.

From : http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2014/01/23/3192911/normal-school-shootings/

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